skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They seem to be adjusting lr between epochs as well when the loss explodes, not just runs. But I haven't read through the whole thing yet, maybe they trained the whole thing properly from start to finish at the end. Otherwise that would be extremely hacky and irreproducible
> MX itself is an aggregator of aggregators

Aggregators all the way down...

The US really needs its own PSD2.
I doubt there will be a native GUI renaissance, look at the mac app store, it's not making a dent in the global direction and it's available since years. Ok it's only for a single platform, it's even worse on the windows app store!
I think there is no way back for desktop apps. Browser is the best sandbox available.
seriously though?
I'm not keep up on these things much anymore but around maybe...4-5 months ago Clubhouse seemed to be the new hotness. What happened?
Never worked at Google but I have seen exactly this happening at other OKR-based companies. Ultimately whether missing your OKRs is framed as valiant struggle or disappointing failure does absolutely depend on external perception.
SpaceX did bid fixed-price for HLS, the moon lander they're working on. That project will required developing refueling from an on-orbit propellant depot to succeed.

The thing with SLS is it was supposed to be low-risk, based on Space Shuttle heritage - it doesn't do much that's new. Despite that, it's on a cost plus contract that's ballooned.
The thing people care about is the AFR over time: like actuarial life tables. These updates always make it a bit hard to figure that one out: the tables show "average life" and AFR; it makes no sense to compare drives of different ages.

The "Age vs AFR" plot is getting there but it should be flipped and is hard to read; error bars would also help.

Also percentiles would be useful: people want to minimize the probability of failure.
The shift to dependency on federal funding happened during and after the second world war. The federal government discovered they could speed up research by pouring money into universities, but never accounted for how this would change incentive structures, and eventually warp the universities.
Nitpick: 100 years ago was 1922 - when a lot of this stuff already existed and some of it was even quite common (even if only just). Maybe its time to find a new colloquial phrase for "before modern society".
Try it - it won't arc.

Also an arc with little current behind it (because of the light bulb inline with the circuit), isn't going to get very hot.
My anecdotal experience: I didn't care for the first book, then my kid was doing a school report on a Hawaiian bird and asked if I can use that bird on a cover. I asked O'Reilly and they said yes, the animal wasn't taken. I guess chances are higher when the animal is more obscure.
> It reduced the bias in the system from ICs writing up their own packets, which disadvantaged poor writers and poor self-promoters less.

It could be a blessing and a curse. Sometimes managers are rotated right before the next round of appraisals, and the new manager knows nothing about you or your contributions.
> I thought customers were complainingly loudly against ...

No, you confuse "customers" with a vocal minority.
They verify using CrunchBase but lots of companies don’t put their vcs on their CrunchBase
What matters is whether they fought it in court, or just folded.

If they fought it and lost, they could pledge her legal services. They can trivially afford it, so should.
> In Go there is less noise, but also there no way to interrupt Go's time.Sleep.

You can do so in one of two ways using the context API (https://go.dev/blog/context) while keeping the code synchronous and idiomatic:

package main

import (
"context"
"fmt"
"time"
)

func say(ctx context.Context, s string) {
for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
select {
case <-time.After(100 * time.Millisecond):
fmt.Println(s)
case <-ctx.Done():
return // Operation canceled or timed out.
}
}
}

func main() {
ctx := context.Background() // Use context cancellation semantics.
go say(ctx, "world")
say(ctx, "hello")
}

If the code is reasonably performance sensitive AND there's a high degree of likelihood the context is canceled before the operation completes, you can use a time.Timer similar to what follows:

for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
func(i int) { // Wrap in closure expressly to support defer statement.
t := time.NewTimer(100 * time.Millisecond)
defer t.Stop()
select {
case <-t.C:
fmt.Println(s)
case <-ctx.Done():
return // Operation canceled or timed out.
}
}(i)
}
Nextcloud, I don’t want to be dependent on a third party for storage anymore. I don’t want to fear them going out of business, raising their prices or banning me because I store a file they don’t like.

Of course I also like messing with that kind of thing and being in control but those are not the main reason.

edit oh and I’m 100% through someone else hosting and messing with my calendar and contacts, which Nextcloud does fine for me.
> Yes, but agricultural footprint is the dominating factor.

Perhaps, but you also need to consider:

- transport to work / school / hospitals / entertainment

- food distribution

- sewage

- electricity

- emergency services coverage

- etc…

I don’t have any hard stats for you but my background reading has suggested these are significant.

> Nature, to my point. Recall that you're the one arguing that suburbs rather than agriculture is threatening nature

Yes, because we could be rewilding, creating new national parks etc. but instead are building suburbs. We can also replace existing suburbs on longer time-scales.
Writing my personal home page
I really like LTSV. (That stands for labeled tab-separated values.)

LTSV is basically equivalent to a JSON object per line. You have columns consisting of a label, a colon, then a value. The columns are then separated by tabs. The value can be quoted. If you need a tab in the value, it goes inside the quotes.

As the http://ltsv.org/ suggests, I use it for logging, too, so that a log line is easily parseable and a log file is basically a table. Notice there are parsers for many languages, and there are several tools supporting it including fluentd.
Contractors will be extreme sticklers about their requirements on a project. So that if anything starts look off-plan or may impact something like a schedule delay they will say "nope, that's outside of our scope of work we need an extension/additional funding".

Yup, change orders are how deal with these issues when it comes to fixed-costs contacts. For better or worse, its almost impossible for a project to be perfectly specced out ahead of time. And anything that even comes close to looking like it conflicts with the spec becomes a change order.
Well, there are 300 million of us. With $3 each, we could do what this guy did. So, fine, I'll have a friend give $5 on my behalf to a 2nd tier school. Your turn.

https://imgur.com/a/H6vEUsY

Post here when each of you who are concerned have shown your concern through your own action.
Is this logic right or wrong: All of these fintech companies allow for more convenient movement of money and integration with applications etc however they are adding additional costs to all transactions. I.e. were trading convenience for cost?
This is one people get a bit confused about:

1) In 2021, the United States imported about 8.47 million barrels per day (b/d) of petroleum from 73 countries. (EIA)

2) In 2021, the United States exported about 8.63 million b/d of petroleum to 176 countries and 4 U.S. territories.

The reasons you can't just say, halt exports and halt imports and be 'energy independent' are varied: there's regional demand (oil produced in the Dakotas can't easily get to Los Angeles, etc.) and there's the fact that refineries are built to distill specific grades of crude, you can't just mix-and-match.

Nevertheless, the fact that Obama & Biden, with Republican support, lifted the 1970s era ban on crude oil exports from the USA in 2015 is certainly a major factor in the gas price inflation, a fact neither party nor industry likes to see discussed in the corporate media.

Real 'energy independence' would come from using sunlight and wind, which cannot be embargoed or manipulated by OPEC etc, as the primary energy source.
Why not http://ltsv.org/ ???
Perl has "contexts" as its type system. Sigils are a part of that.

There's a lesson here somewhere that most people don't generally want to understand stuff. So stuff that's the least bit different don't tend to go mainstream, things like Haskell have a hard time. Perl was a bit different but just happened to go mainstream anyway, and that probably coloured people's feelings for it, for better and for worse.
Go's generic are not type erasure.
Why exactly does it seem worse? Last year I switched from a FAANG to a Series B startup that does experience-based levels, and in my observation it's just better in every way.

Here's a blog post explaining their approach:

https://www.daily.co/blog/rethinking-levels-promotions-and-s...

Maybe it's not possible to switch from a cutthroat promotion-oriented environment to this, but it's worth thinking about for anyone building up a software engineering workplace.
Multipass 1.9.0 Released
The Prismatic Astrolabe (1915) [pdf]
My smart switches have a little light on them that shows whether they're on or off. The actual light they control is also a pretty good indicator of the switch's state.
The pkg_* suite it's written in Perl.
I was talking about cryptocurrency specifically. Though I do not think any argument against blockchains can be so easily reduced to an argument against cryptography in general.
> The UX of a physical switch whose position always accurately reflects the state of the circuit is hard to beat

True, but modern houses commonly have a ton of 3-way switches with multiple switches for each light, so they rarely reflect state anyway. At least my Lutron switches and dimmers can show me status with the tiny LEDs...
In theory the regulating agency overseeing the cost plus contract is supposed to scrutinize the expenses of the overseen entity to prevent this. In practice just form a matter of program complexity this is hard to do. When you bring in politics it gets even worse, "You don't want to endanger our pilots by giving them any less than the most gold plated fighter jets, do you?" argue the defense lobbyists.

The worst example I can think of would probably be the nuclear industry where operators providing grid power on cost plus contracts teamed up with environmentalists after Three Mile Island to get laws passed insisting that nuclear power had to be as safe as possible regardless of cost, which turned into essentially a license to print money.
I'm doing both.

- I published my first book after 8 months of intense writing and editing. I wrote everything from scratch. For the format, I first started with markdown and converted to pdf. I later realized the latex formula is not well supported so I rewrote in Latex. I outsourced other tasks on fiverr: proofreading & grammar checking and editing (about $180), latex touch-up and restructure about $100, book cover $100. I self-published on Amazon and got 60% royalty. It's too early to say but I wouldn't be surprised if I can get 12k for the first year. In terms of time spent, I would probably better off do something else for better ROI.

- I'm working on another book with Packt. They contacted me and the royalty is slightly higher (16%). They tend to push authors to meet deadlines etc. I still have no idea who the editors are and their background.

So if you're passionate about something and you already have followers, you'd be better off with self-publishing.

And here is the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YQWX59Z
It’s basically cargo cult engineering. There’s the appearance of engineering and sophistication but the actual substance is hollow.
If this makes you think mechanical watches are cool but you don't really want to wear one.. you can go the other direction. Ebay is full of old mechanical driven (be it pendulum or wound springs) wall clocks that are looking for new owners.
who hasn't had a shower in years

lol, this is a creative solution. Thanks for the chuckle.
Assuming you're not joking, how does one live in a city without showering for years?
Honest answer is to find a tutor and take private lessons. Books and videos can't show you how to correct bad technique and habits, and it's hard to follow the right pedagogy without someone to guide you.
I haven't published with O'Reilly but I have published a couple editions of a book with Apress. Yeah, you don't write a technical book (or tech-adjacent) book for the money. But my observation is that a lot of people seem to be more impressed by a book for a known publisher than something you do through Kindle Direct Publishing.

I'm not sure that attitude is deserved. There are pros and cons with going through a publisher and am very unlikely to do it again. (Reputational benefits are pretty irrelevant to me at this point.) But no one should go in thinking it's about the money.)
I can tell you that at least as of late last year, the OpenShift install docs omitted key details for setting it up.

We were unable to do so until contacting RH and getting additional instructions - I forget the all the details, part of it involved creating DNS records mentioned nowhere in the docs.
I don't think there are any smart switches that don't also have physical, local control.
Discs vs. data: Are we helping the environment by streaming?
yes, the problem is that if you turn the switch off, you cannot turn it back on without physically flipping the switch
Content quality << Amount of people. Couldn't sustain itself. One giant spam fest.

Would for sure want some clubhouse swag though .. anyone got any?
I think this is a topic about which people can reasonably disagree :-)

I'll just add that my complaint about inability to upgrade does not just apply to laptops. It's the whole product line (other than the Pro) including the Mini and the iMac. If I have an iMac and I need more RAM, I have to throw out a perfectly good SSD, processor, and display. There is just no excuse for that. I have a NUC that is essentially a hardware equivalent of a (pre-M1) Mini. The NUC is both smaller than a Mini and upgradable so I know it's possible.
The original question was 'inspiration'. The URLs provided are all hacker-written clients with a lite focus in active or recent development. I think they're a good place to look for inspiration because of the relative heterogeneity they represent across time, space, use case and architectural conception (some are layered or adjunct UXs, not monolithic integrated clients per-se). It is true that you could just as easily include WIMP GUI, private-hostable or cloud web UIs in there, but I would not anticipate such heterogeneity in those client categories save gimmicky minor feature improvements brought about by or serving edge cases like translation, mail(spam) merge, weird corporate office uses for email (like printing and file transfer), etc. You could also broaden the scope to general UX principals and metrics, ML applied to UX, mail-related service providers and tangential services such as hosting, address validation, identity verification, on-disk formats, non-SMTP store-and-forward messaging systems and their general evolution, non-store-and-forward messaging systems, and either oddball (printer touchscreen), arguably dominant (mobile phone) or upcoming UX formats (watches, AR/VR, OSX-style OS-managed merged notification stream systems). But the question implied a traditional computer and email UI.

I personally dislike the basic assumptions made by email clients such as assuming we want to organize inbox by date. This leads to vicious responses like inbox zero because the psychological effect and UX utility of an ever-growing list is basically negative. When considered temporally it is actually amazing how long it took major email UX to begin to fix this, and it's still basically broken. That's largely an artifact of the fact the specification is SMTP (T for Transfer) and thus the UX for end-user use case was never considered during protocol design. Today we would seek a more holistic design process. IMHO a strong novel UX would include integration support for digital forms of communication segregated from email such as file transfer, video conferencing, hosted issue systems, payment, etc. while recognizing the critical challenges of such an approach from a security perspective. You ideally need a walled garden, in other words, with OS level controls. I am skeptical a pure browser experience can deliver this. You really need an OSX-like Unix with user focus tracking, security guarantees and a managed notification stream or better.
Useful listing of the scumbags responsible: https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1521581893438754817

Also - is it just me, or did this one never got to the front page despite quite some upvotes?
> If you are a developer who just implements what the PMs tell you to (more or less) then I agree that you shouldn't get extra credit when the project is a massive success. If the product earns a billion or loses millions you didn't have anything to do with that - you just implemented the designs of other people.

Actually I think you should be rewarded, just with money rather than a title.
Yes, we moved from California to Arizona. One of the best decisions we ever made.
> If it's a color change bulb it restarts as a white light.

That's actually configurable, since a 100% bright white light isn't always what you want.
It maybe unethical but not illegal. Plaid CEO just got played haha!
That sounds nice, but I've got enough circuits with two or more switches on them, you quickly learn to just toggle the switch to toggle the circuit. Maybe if I had fancy switches, you could just press up to turn on and down to turn off and that would help the couple times where two people toggle their nearest switch around the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

The visibility section of the wiki link suggests that they may be resilient. They are printed using a low visibility color (light shade of yellow) which can be made visible via post processing. While they do note using a high resolution scanner, I suspect that could be made less important by building redundancy into the MIC, a la how QR codes can function well despite having portions be damaged or missing.
One simple way is to pay a fixed sum as profit, not a percentage of costs.
It's true. Windows is essentially a museum of sorts
Book-binding... I have been wanting to do this so I could bind my own books, mostly for fun and "wow" factor, if nothing else. But it either got pushed out due to something (seemingly) more important/immediate or I didn't go that extra mile!
Watched several videos on the inter-tubes, but nothing clicked... Didn't ever explore the option of bookbinding-workshop!! Care to share some details about this workshop (location, what to look for, pitfalls, etc.)!!
TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states
I think one problem is that it's difficult to make videos easy for anyone to edit, the way a wiki text page is.

- The skills to edit video are more difficult to acquire, in part because
- The hardware and software requirements can be expensive, and are not universally available
- Once you've made a video, not everyone has the bandwidth to view it in high quality (certainly the first step to editing it)

Wikimedia could hire people to make videos, but they could also hire people to write articles, and (generally?) don't because that's not how they roll.

A Wikipedia-like platform for video would be fascinating, and worth pursuing, but a significant technological and social challenge.
I don't have to prove you wrong, I'm not making an assertion. It's on you to prove that your assertion is correct, and you have nothing more than your opinion backing you up.
Bill Gates says “real invention” needed to stop “misinformation”
If it doesn't impact the bottom line then business folks need to do a better job of capturing the value you could provide.
A problem I have seen working at lots of start ups is that some people are just horrible people and are toxic to the culture. I referring to the "Jeanie Beuler" types who insist that nobody have a good time while also getting the job done.
Is did not suppose to be a practical advice but more a suggestion to help the project develop.
Nobody in their right minds would have touched SLS with a fixed-price contract; NASA is too involved in the design, construction, and testing.
Companies receiving these contracts (either fixed-price or cost-plus) will be incentivized to maximize profit and the expense of the shareholder. I don't think it's possible to remove this incentive. Instead, the government should be more careful with whom receives the contracts. For instance, SpaceX seems dedicated to doing a good job and driving costs down. Therefore, right now, SpaceX should receive more contracts. SpaceX's focus may change in the future, and it's the government's responsibility to pay attention to those changes and change contractors if SpaceX starts leeching off of government funds. Adequate competition for contracts will align incentives more than the structure of any particular contract. Everyone here saying that Lockheed turns a 10B problem into 20B of work due to cost-plus might be correct. But why can't the government find someone to do the work for 10B? With proper competition, incentives will align.
> your land lord reaches into your account using your bank account number and debits it, without you having to approve.

This is how many people pay for rent in Germany (and I strongly suspect elsewhere) as well.

If they take too much, you can get it back with a single click in your bank account.
you basically get NIH grants from socializing with the people who give NIH grants

just ask any NIH grant receiving professors
I've heard of that book before, it sounds really interesting too! Creating your own mechanism sounds extremely complex, is that what you're doing?
In R&D, incentivizing a private enterprise to spend more could be beneficial. Assuming the client (NASA) has some oversight this leads to more engineering freedom and an exploration of a larger design space, whereas fixed cost would incentivize racing towards the best solution as fast as possible.

Depending on program goals, both approaches have their place. However for projects like Artemis which tried to minimize R&D cost and save time through component re-use, the latter approach would clearly be better.
Seems like a cool project. However, what I definitely would need is to set dates to be within a specified time frame. Sometimes I write till like 3 am in the morning, and I would like to hide that. So like a hook, that makes some linear rescaling to a previously defined time frame like 8 am to 8 pm would be really nice.
> given the political situation in the US, and specifically the deadlock in the US Senate (filibuster), the philanthropy of billionaires seems like one of the most viable ways towards making progress at this point

For anyone wondering, this is not an accident. Billionaires greatly prefer it when they are seen by the public as the only viable solution to progress.
> The problem is, not every go developer is you.

This is pretty common sentiment, the borrow checker is hard, you will be slowed down by it
I don't think anyone argued there aren't poor people in El Salvador. I'm sure remittances and guest working out of country make up for some of the things not included in GDP, and average 'income' can definitely exceed average GDP if you add in remittances (for which El Salvador is known), but you're right that there are poor people in El Salvador. Has anyone ever disputed that?

Bringing up GDP as it pertains to the $30 wasn't even introduced by me, it was introduced by the person I responded to. I think you're replying to the wrong person if you have some issue with the GDP as it pertains to this topic. In fact I was on your side, explaining the issues with going off of the official GDP.