skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, well said. And it's not like there are no alternatives. Even for "normies" there is /e/ OS (now Murena) where you can buy a ready made private (or at least mostly degoogled) phone. And for "techies" there is LineageOS, GrapheneOS,... maybe even Linux.
When Flexible Server was first announced, I’m sure I remember them stating it’ll use Private (VNet) networking by default. Seems strange they’ve changed tact there.

Either way, we migrated to Flexible Server on day one of GA purely for the performance benefits (Linux) over Single Server (Windows). While there has been some painful moments, also around High Availability, the service has been a huge leap forward.
yes that is possible and my tech stack allows that. What kind of metrics you wanted to embed in your site?
The link between monetary inflation and price inflation has been "demonstrated" by the Chicago Boys, with Milton Friedman as their guru. It led to the "monetarist" school of thought - which has been the reigning paradigm in economics since.

There is no such thing as "inflation" in general.

There are different types of inflation, such as the rise of the valuations of stocks, the rise of real estate price and day-to-day prices such as food. And monetary inflation.

QE has led to various effects in various countries at different times. There is no absolute correlation "always and everywhere".

The funny thing is that a rise in stock market is always interpreted as a positive thing - despite everybody knowing that bubbles happen very regularly.

Otherwise, inflation is seen as bad - which is ridiculous since the extraordinary low interest rates kept by the FED for years ("printing money") has sustained the economic growth and avoided recession.

Economists are historians of the economy. They are able to explain what happened - and if they agree on the general picture, they disagree on many points. Which is normal, that is a research field, so there are debates.

Some say lessons should be learned from History... well, for sure, all other things being equal, stuff tend to repeat, but as time goes by, the other things are not equal at all - or only to a certain point.

I majored in History but historians are not my first sources to predict the future. Despite having repeatedly failed at predicting anything, we can't help but ask economists to be oracles and ask them to set-up policies.
Perhaps, being pragmatic, tweaking existing designs was not going to put more money into the R&D of Yoyodyne [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyodyne
> Just try training a neural network to compute sin(x)!

This is also the classic demo case for LSTMs, I have a notebook open right now that as a LSTM learning the sine function quite well with 32 dimensional state vector.

However the authors point still stands. Neural Networks are not great at computing arbitrary functions where the output is an unbounded real number. The sine function is still limited to range that is bounded to [0,1].

A better example of where NNs really fail is when trying to learn tricky to implement the normal quantile function (inverse CDF).

This would be an excellent place for function approximation because

a.) generating training data is easy (just run random numbers into the CDF and reverse these arguments into a NN)

b.) manually writing the quantile function from scratch is a pain since it involves the inverse error function which is very annoying to implement from scratch.

You can learn the standard quantile function for mean=0, sd=1, however if you try to generalize this to taking not only the desired quantile but an arbitrary mean and standard deviation you will not learn anything useful.

It's a bit of a shame that neural networks are weak in this area because it would be incredible to have a good tool to approximate inverse functions in general. The fact that we almost never see neural networks being used as a tool for this type of work is evidence of this limitation.

In general if you're problem can't be modeled where the output is some vector of probabilities it's not a great fit for NNs.
... I'm not.
good thing you brought that up. I have not read the article, so not sure if I like it. However, a lot people read articles not for thee information, rather style or flavour. I guess this is one those for you. Most stuff online don't really have anything new to say, it is also mostly PR or marketing sometimes.
I'm kind of confused as to what it does. From the HN title I was expecting a way of mapping generic pictures to primes but it seems it generates the picture using the digits of the number.
Yeah, that's what I said, wine-blue.
Is the debate on censorship what you meant by “our issues”? I just think there’s much more important stuff going on. Maybe we disagree on this and that’s why your claim seemed ridiculous to me.
Not really. You probably suffer from aichmophobia.
Ah, misunderstood completely. Thank you for clarifying!
i'd recommend Plausible

personally using them as API to integrate analytics for my customer's sites

main reason i choose Plausible is because it is made by a EU-based company honouring EU privacy values, meaning no cookies, no personal data collection and easy data export

the team is very responsive and are happy to take feedback

they are sustainable and make money offering a hosted service

https://github.com/plausible/analytics
>Because what happened with Robinhood is they turned off the buy button, but still people could sell (which means there were buyers from other brokers or outside retail)

No, RH matched the sell order with an internal buy order and netted them out to reduce their collateral requirements over the T+2 settlement period. They didn't use cash to buy stock from other brokerages.
It’s the difference between defrauding people or not, among other things. Wow.

> when you have zero ability to act

You have hit another item (do I have the option to opt in?) on the “differences between social security and ponzi schemes” bullet list, but you are pretty aggressively missing the point, I think.
If I was a competitor, I would look for ways to sabotage the idea of electric vehicles. If I can think of it, I'm guessing other people are thinking it too. Maybe even doing it, like having buss batteries catch fire.
it's still too early to know for sure if nogil will become the primary path for python. but I can say, it's completely unsurprising that people doing parallel work that manages Python objects under the gil (even if all those objects are independent and don't cross-reference each other) will see speedups. Modern computers are massively multithreaded shared memory machines and the gil leaves much of their power on the table.
End-to-end encryption will make a big difference as people choose applications that offer a great experience while protecting their data from 3rd parties. WhatsApp, Signal, and Apple are all making big pushes in this area and working to inform people about why it is important for their privacy. When I explain e2ee to people and how it is used in my own app for contact info sharing, they immediately get it and want it as a feature.
yes you're right! I submitted days back but that doesn't get me anywhere. Also from this submission I gain lot of insights.
I disagree. I ended a relationship because i don't want to have children. A very good friend of mine ended two for the same reason. I don't know about others because it's really personnal and i wouldn't want to talk about it IRL with any friend, but i suspect another one of my friend to have done the same.

And we have way more capital and possibility to live a decent life than 90% of the people in my country.
Aside from the Janko keyboard, there are instruments with the ‘harmonic table’ layout—a honeycomb of hexagonal keys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_table_note_layout

The general principle is called ‘isomorphic keyboard’: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_keyboard
Spring Boot overhead would likely make that infeasible.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It is really appreciated. I'm glad to know that you can put a litter box under seats and get away with cats. Thank you so much.
What we know about Elon Musk’s ownership plan for Twitter
Got a point there, we as a species lived in 'caves' for a long time, it's only the past 2000 years or so we gave up our nice caves/mud houses. In my region in Europe people still lived in straw mudhuts/semi dug-in houses up until 100 years ago. Somehow that became uncool so we deal with modern people problems.
Verlan
>I’m coming to dislike this kind of content-less content - it’s a waste of time to produce and consume.

Ah just skim the article. The first time says that he is a VC. I think one ought to expect that much from VCs. As you can see emy expectations for VC is not very hight.
> And even more unclear on why you'd choose to insult my virtue rather than my many vices.

I like you for that.
What if maximizing revenue doesn’t relieve congestion? Raising money is not a goal of congestion pricing.
No, what I'm saying is that understanding peaceful movements separate from violent ones is missing the point. For example martin luther king jr's peaceful civil rights movement was effective in part because there was a credible threat of a violent movement on its wing. There was conflict and cooperation between these movements, they can't be cleanly separated. A lot of the reason white people came to the negotiating table at all was because of fear of what would happen instead if they didn't.

Whose minds do we need to change? Climate change is a major issue with massive popular support. There are relatively few people actually able to take action on it and they will not under the current circumstances. Specifically because there's no credible non-peaceful consequence they have to confront, they can ignore the demands of everyone else.

The actual historical effectiveness of terrorism alone is questionable. It's not a reliable or sustainable way to change the minds of a large mass of people. But that's not actually what we need to do here. Making a powerful few frightened enough to do what they ought may be sufficient.

And the effectiveness of the credible threat of violence, combined with a mass peaceful movement, is well attested.
I'm going to push back on the Lance Armstrong bit. As you point out, anyone who followed racing at the time knew that the top tier were all doping or at least some if you wanted to pretend your hero was clean. Here is a retrospective article about its pervasiveness [1]. But, it does not take much intelligence to figure out that a banned substance, EPO, that did not have a test until 2000 was being used in the 90s. The reason why Armstrong is much more infamous is because the scale of the operation the U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team was conducting and the leading role Armstrong played on the team and the success he had. That being said, putting ethics aside for a second, what they did is no different than the level of performance squeezing that teams like Ineos or Jumbo Visma do today. They weren't gaining by the lies themselves (like the person in the story) but to keep their methods hidden from other teams.

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/lance-armstrong-doping-tour-...
Ask HN: Show Git stats in a static page?
HN,

I have been working on displaying various stats about a git repo and associated CI jobs such as who is changing what, when jobs fail,etc... I don't mind doing this from scratch but I am surprised there isn't something out there that does this already.

Do you have any tips on how to do this? Would static site generators be useful? D3.js too much?
Either way, the name SQLite is not SQL-lite but SQL-ite (think graphite). SQLite is an element of SQLey stuff.

Source: https://youtu.be/Jib2AmRb_rk

I'd link the exact timestamp, but then you might watch less than the entire talk, which would be unfortunate.
Ethiopian drought leading to ‘dramatic’ increase in child marriage, Unicef warns
“Financial abortion” is a sensible solution.

Edit: but in general I care more about equality than about a particular solution. Either both men and women have a choice after sex, or neither. The current sexist solution is the worst.
Show HN: Elon Musk's Tweet Classifier
I can't understand what an organization could do to reduce yak shaving. If task X is required, and X is blocked by task Y, and Y is blocked by Z, then task Z is required too. That's yak shaving, and I don't know how a github organization could do anything to help.
Fixed it. Google not returning refresh_token on consecutive login. In my code I used profile.refresh_token = cred.refresh_token for every login and that's caused the error.
I'm a Christian, and in one sense, I agree.

The Bible says in Galatians 4:4, that "when the fullness of time had come, God sent His Son." Thus, when Jesus was born and what was going on was not happenstance. The point in history and the circumstances of when it happened (for example, the Romans being in power, and their use of crucifixion on wooden crosses) were foundational to Him accomplishing the work the Father sent Him to complete. He had to be raised up on a tree at His death in order to take the curse of the sin of His people upon Himself.
There are open and closed implementations.

Unfortunately the license on the ISA does not require implementations to be open.
From https://www.plai.org/

> PLAI is designed for upper-level courses that introduce the main ideas of programming languages. In the US, it is designed for students in their second- through fourth-years of college, as well as starting graduate students. However, PLAI has been used with students much younger, including in a few select high school classes.
There is archeological evidence that Saxons and other Germans had started settling in Britain well before the Romans officially left. They had almost successfully invaded Britain back in 367. And many had settled in Britain and seemed to be somewhat integrated into the local society, Germans served in the Roman army, their villages were in close proximity to Roman roads and settlements, indicating that that both groups managed to coexist at least somewhat peacefully of for a time.
Over time Saxons seemed to have displaced the local Romano-British elite. However this process probably took at least several generations and probably had little effect on the lifestyles of most ordinary people. While the disappearance of the Roman legions must had been a shock, the transition from mainly Christian Latin and Brythonic speakers to pagan Saxons was fairly slow and probably took several hundreds of years.

Also we don't really know Christian Britain was before the Saxon conquests, it's not unlikely that most British people outside of urban settlements were still pagan and only superficially Christianized. We also don't really know did the British people become culturally Saxon. According what was written down by the surviving members of the Romano-British elite it was a result of genocidal conquest. However the predominant view of modern historians seems to be that the process was much more peaceful and more akin to the Arabization of the Middle East and North Africa (i.e. the conquerors established a dual class system which incentivized the local population to adopt the Saxon language and culture because of the economic and social advantages. Also, unless the Saxons were significantly more brutal, oppressive and numerous than the Franks, Goths and other invaders this would imply that the local Britons weren't actually thoroughly Christianized since Christian populations were usually able to resist this type of Cultural conversion).
Well this is kind of funny and I mostly agree so TLDR:

> "I’m afraid all of this sounds rather negative. Well. There’s a reason I left particle physics. Particle physics has degenerated into a paper production enterprise that is of virtually no relevance for societal progress or for progress in any other discipline of science. The only reason we still hear so much about it is that a lot of funding goes into it and so a lot of people still work on it, most of them don’t like me. But the disciplines where the foundations of physics currently make progress are cosmology and astrophysics, and everything quantum, quantum information, quantum computing, quantum metrology, and so on, which is why that’s what I mostly talk about these days."

The popular science literature is also full of string theory this and god particle that, and it's really not very satisfying or illuminating. If people want to get into this general subject, I'd recommend instead Stephen Hawking's compendium of classic papers on quantum physics, with commentary, "The Dreams That Stuff is Made Of."
You are doing it wrong if you are still watching ads... or cable for that matter
Electric buses are around in many cities for 100 years, they usually do not catch fire.
I assure you, the same amount of money could have been spent. Just for far better results.
The Scandinavians are doing a good job of being ahead of us environmentally. Probably only behind China in electric bus adoption.
Cool thanks for the details!

How do you protect someone filing
fake requests to hide another person or personal business from being findable, to damage them? How do you prevent abuse?
Bikes are great for the last-10-mile problem, easily. I've got plenty of friends who cycle commute 15km+ each direction, each day, and are quite happy (and healthy) doing it.
Northern Europe complains of the heat in the summer - they have nice radiators for the 7-9 months that need heating, Southern Europe complains of the winter cold because of the lack of insulation and central heating.
The prediction is from a fine-tuned BERT. Please let me know if you have any comments. Thank you.
Works on MacOS too
You know why there are few articles about men not wanting to have children: because children follow nearly automatically from happy and stable unions, unless the women don’t want kids.

Men are irrelevant.

If a woman wants a child, she probably doesn’t stay with a man who doesn’t. And the men who never want kids therefore do little to suppress the birthrate.

If men could force women to have their children, only then would it be relevant to ask why they are opting not to.

I have one son. I don’t have more because my wife felt she couldn’t cope with more.
Disappointed. I was expecting a raspberrypi dangling on a helium baloon above everest, powered by wind and solar or something.
how does this work where there are heavy rains in that part of the world, each year? desert, sure..
This view is so wrong on the facts, it is dangerous in large numbers.
What percent was spent on capital budgets in 2001 vs 2021? The navy is currently undergoing building 4 or 5 major ship replacement cycles, replacing all of its aircraft (Top 10 airforce in the world), etc. My guess is that most of that budget is mandated by congress for that rather than for bottom paint on supply ships.
You might like the Linnstrument:

https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument

As a longtime guitarist myself, I found it quite easy to learn.

You can think of each row as a guitar string. In the default setup, each row is a perfect fourth above the row below. The green lights are the white keys on a piano; the unlighted keys are the black ones. The blue lights are C natural.

Skip a square diagonally up and to the right for an octave.

Chord shapes are uniform across the whole surface.

Keys are sensitive to pressure, left-right movement, and top-bottom movement. In the default configuration, rocking left and right yields vibrato and moving top-bottom controls some other MIDI parameter (usually filter cutoff, but it's configurable).

Sliding finger pressure to different keys to the right and left gives portamento. Sliding to the next row up or down gives legato.

Once you get used to these parameters, it becomes super expressive.

It's a MIDI controller, not a complete instrument, so you need a MIDI-controllable source of sounds. It's an MPE instrument, so, if you want the full experience, you want some kind of MPE-capable source of sounds (MPE is "MIDI Polyphonic Expression", and it means that multiple MIDI channels are dedicated to the instrument in order to give full, separate expression to each of several voices). MPE is a relatively new MIDI development that is not supported everywhere yet, so you have to pay attention to which sound devices support it if you want the full experience.

I have one; it's my favorite electronic instrument that I've ever tried. I also have an Eigenharp Pico, and I like it, but I like the Linnstrument better. (It doesn't look as cool as an Eigenharp, though :-).

When I decided to get one, I discovered that they're a bit hard to buy. Not very many places have them, and when I was looking, even Roger Linn didn't have any available. I eventually found one for list price at Detroit Modular (https://www.detroitmodular.com/).
Revenue maximisation in this case is not a great goal. The idea behind congestion pricing is to price-ration road-usage so that people make socially optimal use of roads (which in theory is achieved by setting prices at marginal social cost). Pricing should vary in line with road congestion so that people respond by altering their road usage patterns (e.g. shifting working hours so their commute is outside of peak times, make road deliveries in non-peak hours etc.)

If you go for revenue maximisation you won't be setting prices at the social welfare maximising level. Also, you'd probably want to charge higher prices for heavier vehicles as they cause more road damage per unit of distance travelled.
What problems related to distribution?
"uncool" !@!
The Accord in Perfumery
The problem is that people think there is a lack of proportionality until they discover that there reall isn't. That happend again and again. And this is the reason why an ecologically sensible society fights on all fronts. There are reaons why you are not allowed to flash anything down the toilet, there is ongoing research how to improve wastewater management, etc., etc.

To get back to the original issue: the OP told us that the dumping of Tritium does less harm than other discharge and thus we should look elsewhere for improvements. As I understand this sentence, he means we should not worry about it at all. This is out of proportion: he could have claimed that we should worry less about it, but it does not follow, that we should totally ignore it.
It’s almost as if heavily regulated and entrenched organizations with limited competition develop complacency.
Taking the internet off the hook
This is awesome and I like it already because it's developed using Python. One more thing you're calling all of the Google API in a single view and I believe that will take quite some time to load. I have used htmx to solve this. After the page loads htmx will fire the API call to fetch the template response.
Hey. I checked your site. It suggests Alaska Airlines, Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airlines and Air Canada. Do they allow cats under seats, or should cats go to a cargo room? It is huge difference. Thanks!
How so? Also is Zcash similar?
Even if we had more licensed physicians we would still have a large number of staff per doctor. A radiologist might be able to administer contrast to a patient, check their vital signs, transport them to the MRI machine, and run the scan but that's not a good use of a radiologist's time. Better to have nurses, orderlies, and technicians do all that so the radiologist can focus on reading the images.
And don't forget french as a verb! -said every high school guy ever
Apps that are simple enough to be taken apart and studied, while complete enough to be practical tools in day-to-day tasks? Obviously you can just use them as they are (many people value minimalism), but there's also huge educational value for aspiring developers, or as testbeds for other experiments (can you be productive with only basic tools, how does it impact your social life, etc).

I think there's a huge gap between what e.g. suckless.org produces, and what's usable by ordinary people, and it would be of tremendous value to society if we could push back on unnecessary software complexity.