skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we learn permutation matrices? Something like this but applied to learning order that maximizes some objective. Off the cuff it sounds like an NP problem but seems that people have tried before with some success. https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00242v1

It also reminds me of tuning random seeds (can't find the arxiv link)

Or things like this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06338

Overall this stuff seems highly intractable in today's world but the humans are trying to make headway. Such is research.
> Onion article

Remember ThinkGeek's SkyTag?

https://web.archive.org/web/20120218133853/http://www.thinkg...
How many people can you feed with one share of Amazon stock? Is it even edible?
You're off by an order of magnitude, but the point still stands. Assuming 2k hours a year, the pay would raise by about $0.11/hr per warehouse employee or about $223 per year per employee.
>> Yes coding is a different language than most people are used to speaking, but it isn't as difficult as some like to make it look.

I'm afraid that You are mistaken - literally no one tries to make the coding (or rather software development because coding is only one step of it) more difficult than it is.

The thing that You missing is that the language of coding is like no other because the receiver of ot is different. There is no human on the other side (lets ignore collaborative nature of bigger projects for the sake of simplicity). The computer will only do EXACTLY what You ask him to do. Nothing more and nothing less. And this is key to understanding where most of the complexitu comes from - most of us do not have to ability to speak precisly and completly. We are mostly able to bubble about the things that are somehow similar to things that we think we need.
I never understand the arguments against high pay for professional athletes. They are largely union organized labor. Their pays is directly tied to how much money their league is bringing in in revenue (mostly TV deals). If they don't get paid that money then that money goes to the already incredibly wealthy owners of the team. Does that make more sense?
SMTP doesn't really prevent end-to-end crypto for email. There's a lot of reasons why that's hard that have nothing to do with SMTP:

- multiple devices sharing a mailbox
- store in plaintext?
- if store in ciphertext, how to index, search?
- how to share decryption, signing keys among devices?
- how to enroll devices?
- how to exchange keys?

These problems are easier to solve for IM because it's interactive, not store-and-forward.
Note that gold can have long run negative returns if you count, storage costs, transportation costs, insurance costs etc. plus it's not very stable in the short run.
Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so (2020)
Of course. Bitcoin has first mover advantage, but its tech has remained fairly stagnant. First mover advantage goes a long way... until it doesn't.
3.-

I am most productive before the stand up. The stand up really burns my energy.
Using TD Ameritrade I can close out positions and get paid by EOD.

ETrade and other brokers are similar (though the first outbound payment may take extra time since they need to run KYC checks).
The $212 million is over 10 years, so there is your order of magnitude.
Google started publishing for several reasons but the primary one was recruitment (showing off was a secondary goal). The mapreduce, GFS, and bigtable papers played an important role in attracting an early generation of distributed computing/high performance computing people from around the valley and CMU/MIT, who helped build the second really successful versions of the web search engine (retrieval and ranking), ads serving (the auction, the logs joining pipeline), etc.

The other reason is that the leaders at Google at the time believed that we would achieve the singularity faster if Jeff Dean periodically sent ideas back 10 years in time to Doug Cutting.
According to the paper, it's the absolute temperature that matters. The desorption is optimal at about 60°C to 70°C, meaning the absorption-desoprition cycle wouldn't work anymore if the ambient temperature is too high. The absorption phase took place at 25°C ambient - the provided data suggests that the desorption would dominate over the absorption above about 50°C.

In conclusion, if the environment is 50°C or hotter, the sponge cannot absorb much water from the atmosphere, because the kinetics imply that the water would evaporate too quickly.
Is it unusual for a successful company like Stripe to take so long to go public? It seems like their house is in order, and they are profitable, but employees aren't liquid.
On the other hand, long-covid is estimated to be at ~7% of all infections, with 5.8% of infected being out of work for longer than 4 weeks [1]. That is a pretty massive amount, given how many people have been infected with covid in total. I personally know two people who have been impacted to the point they can't work even half a year post infection - this virus is nothing to sneeze at.

[1] https://www.rki.de/SharedDocs/FAQ/NCOV2019/FAQ_Liste_Gesundh...
The same team is now launching a phase II study to test Probucol:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35190446/

"recent studies suggest that increased plasma concentrations of lipoprotein-Aβ compromise the brain microvasculature, resulting in extravasation and retention of the lipoprotein-Aβ moiety. The latter results in an inflammatory response and neurodegeneration ensues. Probucol, a historic cholesterol-lowering drug, has been shown in murine models to suppress lipoprotein-Aβ secretion, concomitant with maintaining blood-brain-barrier function, suppressing neurovascular inflammation and supporting cognitive function."
> CEO does not do $500M worth of work

The decision to make AWS created 100s of billions of dollars of value. CEO decisions can make and break companies.

> If there were no employees other than the CEO then the $500M doesn't get made.

Right, and if Tom Brady doesn't have receivers to throw to he doesn't win any super bowls. It is the leadership that can create massive amounts of value.
I _really_ like that you can do light automations easily with ESPHome as well. For my cat feeder, it has some cron-like scheduling to go off ever so often and I do not want my cats to starve if my Home Assistant VM is down.
Nix package manager / Home manager + a Brewfile for some casks

Now that there are flakes (and the macOS installer is really good now), I can `git clone` my config and bootstrap a new machine with this

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
nix build .#homeConfigurations.{computer}.activationPackage --max-jobs auto --cores $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) && ./result/activate && rm -rf ./result
Proton is trying to become Google without your data
It is disabled in all consumer Alder lake (and I don't remember if there will be Xeon of that gen with P-core only -- IIRC Intel stop the AVX512 validation late on those cores, but it was still before it was formally finished, so probably not). At one point it worked with some Bios on P-core only chips or if you disabled E-core on hybrid ones, but with up-to-date Intel microcode it does not work anymore.
Ah, good point. Thanks for correcting
> High levels of education linked to heightened brain tumor risk

> Gliomas, in particular, more common among university-educated, large observational study shows

> Men with university level education, lasting at least three years, were 19% more likely to develop a glioma

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160620221757.h...

I believe, for a rare cancer, a 19% increased risk is not a very big deal. It's still low risk. (And of course, only the correlation is known.)
Show HN: Froebel–a strictly typed utility library for Deno, Node, and Browsers
The Definitive History of Screensavers – Part 1
Didn't realize Heegner was in that list.

To translate his result for people not familiar, unique factorization means that a number uniquely decomposes into primes. You almost certainly learned this happened in school for integers (Z), but it does not apply to all cases.

Quadratic Numbers in Algebraic Number Theory terms are Q[sqrt(-d)], that is, a+b\sqrt(-d) where a and b are rational numbers. d=5 is the first number we can pick where unique factorization does not hold.

In fact, the Stark-Heegner theorem tells us something even more powerful: if d is squarefree, the only imaginary quadratic fields containing unique factorization are when d=1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 19, 43, 67, and 163. Any other choice (or any choice containing a square of any prime, e.g. 4=2^2), and unique factorization will fail.

I've left out what a prime, or indeed an irreducible, mean in this case, but what's astounding at least to me is that there are only 9 such numbers where it works, and this is provable. Heegner did that aged 50+.
Um, they are going to call it Perl 7 at some future time. There are things they want in place first. But it is happening and it will be P7.
Everything I write in .NET eventually makes it to a Linux container, I'm not quite writing code in the same environment, but the only difference I've encountered so far is how DateTime works with UTC.
I work at Rescale https://rescale.com/company/careers/. The impact we are providing is one of the main reasons I work there.
What's the size of the final model? What was the dataset? Training source code?
Not sure this makes sense. I can exchange USD for my local currency, GBP (including physical notes) for significantly less in commission and bid/offer spread than crypto exchanges charge for crypto to USD.
As I read it, this is just a spectrogram-->pcm converter (in speech known as a vocoder), which you can do decently without a model, just pure optimization. The hard part is to generate the spectrogram, which I assume they will tackle next.
I'm fifty years old - surely a fellow oldster by now - and mouse+keyboard always feels incredibly awkward for any kind of fast action game. It's a matter of what you're used to; I've been doing most of my gaming on consoles since leaving my old Amiga for a Mac.

My husband used to be like you until they got into Nuclear Throne, now they're at home with a controller for games that work better that way. A twin-stick shooter is probably much better to learn a controller with than Elden Ring IMHO. Or a friendlier jumpy-adventurey-fighty game like Spyro or Sonic or Breath of the Wild that's built with the assumption they might be some kid's very first encounter with this style of game, and has appropriate amounts of training.

But really, there's only so much time in a life to play video games, and only so much time in a life for everything you enjoy doing. If don't wanna get used to a controller then, well, that's fine. You'd miss out on a ton of great games even if your day job was nothing but playing them.
It’s not much of an issue as long as you document your third party packages and versions.

It’s all going through an SA&A process that will check your c# framework as well as your random package downloaded from the interweb.

(based on the decent amount of audited government work done using tons of third party libraries. Just try doing anything in data science without third party packages)
Exactly. Deaths and years unlived aren't necessarily correlated.
I don't think it's feasible to build something as large as a new car manufacturer and not have issues. They're too huge. It's like trying to recreate a search engine from scratch and not have bugs while also having a limited runway to hit critical mass and not go bankrupt.
It's easier to list which ones don't at this point. The Go team ignored the last 50 years of improvements in type systems.
I find I get insights about the future by peering into the past, especially when it comes to slaying my enemies.
In the 70s it was arguably safer to do so in Afghanistan than the US.

Now it’s legal some places in the US and Afghanistan has a brutally repressive moralistic government.
35 minutes may seem like a long time when looking at this in hindsight but in an active situation that is not very long at all. It may be easy to say now that we know things after the fact the police should have stormed in and taking some action immediately. The problem is they didn't know that at the time.

When call to an active situation police have several responsibilities one of them is securing the scene to make sure that no one can leave unaccounted for. They also attempt to protect those who are not already in harm's way. They need to prevent others from interfering with the situation, such as parents attempting to enter the building themselves. Then finally they must assess the best way to deal with active hostilities without recklessly risking themselves or others.

I'm confident that there will be much examination of what was done and what the police procedures were and if those procedures need to be modified based upon things learned here. The thing is those are not quick knee-jerk lessons. It's very difficult to take a dispassionate and logical view of a situation that has caused the death of others. It's even harder if someone was directly affected by this to take a dispassionate and logical view.

Ultimately that is what's needed in order to ensure that proper actions are taken next time and proper preventative measures can be put in place. So if you ask how long should they wait to intervene in an active shooter situation my answer would be as long as necessary but no longer. That time frame is highly situationally dependent.

Because if we take a hypothetical rush in immediately situation. Not only could the police be rushing into the building parents may be rushing in as well attempting to save their children. Confusion could easily ensue police could accidentally shoot parents, the active shooter may be able to abandon his weapons and blend in with the crowd of parents and escape the situation. All kinds of other scenarios that end with even worse outcomes could happen and there are very few scenarios, outside of movies, where they rush in and they get the active shooter and everybody's happy.
Lol, did you use this for something practical and useful? I remember it being kind of mind blowing tech wise at the time, but past that I can’t remember getting a ton of use out of it? Remind me of the highlights?
Who is going to be liable for the flood of child pornography that comes out of that setup?
I still use https://github.com/nefarius/ScpToolkit to let me use my PS3 controller with my computer. It's the only way I've found but the driver has a bug that bluescreens my computer after it comes out of sleep, if the controller has been used before it went to sleep. If someone has an alternate driver please lmk!
Naw. Kernel version number increases. Can't be more than 255 in any field, except the EXTRAVERSION which is a string. Kernel version numbering is exposed in the userspace ABI, so changing it to have meaning would be a breaking change for no substantial benefit. This[1] LWN article is a good overview of the history. Effectively the major gets incremented when the minor gets to 20 and Linus runs out of fingers & toes to keep track.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/871989/
Very nice. If you draw a simple hourglass and color fill one triangle, both are filled. Is this the intended behavior?
Photos of fossils?
What kind of range are you getting? I have a model S and I'm looking to change it out soon.
I just had fun putting a pin into my hometown and discovering that it was at the equator at some point (300 mio years ago)!
I listed them in the defense category as it's not universally viewed as positive (though I think it very much is sadly necessary and positive), but in addition to that, Palantir works with tons of positive organizations including the NCMEC (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) on tracking and preventing child sex trafficking.
Of course, it’s an architecture decision. They do different things and different considerations may lead you to one or the other.
This is exactly why they prefer to stay private. Stock volatility would be wild. They will have access to liquidity and funding for a while as long as they are growing a good rate, which they seem to be.
I'd guess that it's also significantly harder to be top handegg player than a software firm ceo.
That's a ridiculous comment. I don't follow the new here in the United States and do just fine. I don't watch TV, I don't visit news websites, I don't use twitter, reddit, or Facebook. But I still hear about important news thru everyday conversation. 99% of the "news" is useless unimportant filler.
As someone currently looking exactly at this kind of provider, I’m curious about other Paddle competitors whose price model is only revenue based, without a fixed monthly fee.

Gumroad is another merchant of records, but developer documentation is worse, fees are higher and it seems to support only USD pricing.

Other alternatives requires a somewhat hefty monthly fee, which is a non starter for my use case.
I was very surprised when the product quality went up, for the Symantec software I use.
Try the same with the Brazilian Real or the Argentinian Peso.

Also, try doing that with more than 10k USD.

Also, try sending it to someone overseas.
> Your model would have to differentiate between birds and chicken

Sounds like a job for XKCD 1425.
>Or imagine this... they (athletes and CEOs) are ALL grossly overpaid.

No, athletes are paid what they deserve. That wasn't always the case, they got it through collective bargaining and it took strikes to make it happen.

The average warehouse worker does not have this option, and the entire government/media/corporate apparatus is designed to make collective bargaining as difficult as possible. The difference between a warehouse worker and an NFL player warming the bench is that one has a union, with teeth, that has fought for his fair share.
I mean if you are so sure about that the trade is pretty simple. You can trade USDT perpetual futures currently at 0.9989.

You are probably going to respond with the "markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" meme but I don't see any downside to this trade other than the opportunity cost of investing your dollars somewhere else. There is no scenario where USDT goes to $10 and you lose your money.
It may be my pure naivety about management software, but I assume it just consists of spreadsheets, forms, secure login, data storage, and simple queries. I cannot imagine anything with this combination that couldn't be implemented in Google Sheets (and workspaces, and a handful of other google cloud apis) for at most $20 a month per user.
For a more close to home focus, I do have to point to A Walk Across America from the same time period (I think the author wrote a sequel about more international stuff)
There is no bias here.

Any infection from meat would come from uncooked meat, or handling the infected meat before it was cooked as cooking would kill any germs in it.

Is there some reason to believe that the meat he ate was uncooked?

He said he "may" have eaten some "bush" meat, he didn't say he handled the uncooked meat or animal.
>Pay is a function of scarcity and value they bring.

Small nit pick, but it's a function of perceived economic value, which I think is where some of the outrage comes from.

For example, someone may provide a lot of unperceived economic value and not be paid accordingly or they may provide a high level of societal value, but relatively low economic value and not be paid well.
IPO right now is very difficult as the door is closing, and investors are wary about paying a premium like they have before. They delayed it too long and have missed the window, it is unlikely from a year from now they will be able to get any bids for the current market valuations.
I got a 404 but then found https://marilynburnsmath.com/can-1-3-1-3-2-6-it-seemed-so/
An isometric version would be neat, like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Isometri...
> But Nix and Guix are still very very new

Uhh nix has been around since 2003 [1]. I can definitely recommend taking a look at it if you are fine with running Arch.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_(package_manager)
The Addiction Economy
It matters because Microsoft uses its much larger paying installed based to support a slew of first party and third party companies to provide “enterprise support”. They have hundreds of people in sales that report back to MS what large enterprises want.

People on HN don’t grok “the enterprise”.

I mentioned in another post, that even though I work for $BigTech, I work in the cloud enterprise consulting space (not Azure). Dealing with the enterprise is a completely different beast than dealing with other tech companies. Microsoft has almost four decades of experience in the space.

Even on the personal side, I would much rather deal with MS for my one lonely 5 person Office365 subscription than Google support.
I take it all the way _down_ to the reduction basis, which is the only place where all of this matters.

When a biologist says that a bacterium exists, they are making a descriptive statement, not an ontological one. To say that a bacterium exists is just a convenient proxy to refer to a specific aggregate as a whole. A bacterium is always reducible to its constituents, therefore has no ontological status nor existence in and of itself: in other words, if the molecules which the bacterium is made of would relinquish their structural integrity, the bacterium would cease to "exist" too.

Therefore I would agree with you that it's totally legitimate for a scientist to claim that a bacterium exists, in so far as we understand this claim as a descriptive proxy. A shorthand, essentially, to cluster together specific configurations of the underlying, supposedly more real, "stuff". And this is needed, if we want to make any progress. We have to communicate, effectively and succinctly. Science is precisely about _descriptions_ and predictions of behavior. Same goes with the paleontologist example.

It's a completely different matter instead to claim ontological status, that is, to say that something exists in and of itself, irreducible to something else, as a building block of the universe. This is a philosophical stance per-force, since the scientific method cannot follow us there. It's meta-physics by definition, and there are different rules at play there. Not Popper's falsifiability, but empirical adequacy, internal consistency, explanatory power, etc.

So when scientists claim that the ontological primitive is, e.g., the quantum field, or "energy" or anything really, they are stepping soundly and firmly into philosophy. Which is totally fine to do. We just need to be aware of this, and start to apply different rules to evaluate the validity of the claims.

Edits are typos.
They tend to take a defensive approach to restrict outsiders, since most tech innovation isn't happening locally
It's a reference to the Author's past issues with the Stanford Administration described in this 2021 Medium post that they link to: https://erdorsey2.medium.com/persis-drell-should-resign-as-s...
I'll bite. So null is just a special value one can assign to a pointer, marking it not used. In Go this is nil. Void means "absence of type" and is related to pointers only marginally - void* is a pointer to something we don't know a type of. In Go, I guess a pointer to interface{} would be the same? (Not quite, but close)

As for wild and dangling pointers (I would argue the are the same - pointers that show somewhere they shouldn't), fair point. Of course one would expect this from a language so many decades younger.

But none of these are pointer "types" (far and near arguably are - iirc they determine the size of a pointer - but these four are not). I hope the question on the interviews are posed differently, I for one wouldn't know what you mean.