skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote;

>their veracity cannot be taken on faith

If you think what he "claims" is evidence, i have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

I will place my decade and a half of working experience across half a dozen companies in the US over any anonymous person's "evidence".
The American public is underestimated way to often IMO.
Yes, or more precisely, scientific racism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism
Emacs! :)
Not sure it matters?

What matters, I think, is whether the top ~100 stay standing
> I believe jati and religion/theology are orthogonal. You can belong to caste x and any religion y in the sub-continent.

My comment was in response to the parent who brought in the word religion into the discussion, as some means of justification of inheriting the religion of their parent is the same as inheriting the caste. ...and now here you claim that they are orthogonal. How very convenient.

This is exactly the kind of deflection used to 'muddle' the conversation, as you put it.

If they are orthogonal, why does caste still even persist ? Why is the notion of caste still held on to ? If one can follow the hindu religion without identifying with caste why do Indian Hindus still hold on to their caste identity ?

It is easy to say the conversations get 'muddled' without bothering to learn why the thing under discussion even exists !!

None of this is new. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar wrote about this decades ago and yet, here we are, with google claiming the same thing you are -- that talking about caste somehow ends up being Hinduphobic.
Exactly as it would "just" solve the use case without getting into the castes system specific worry.
E.g:
Candidate selection should be based on the skillset and fitness of individuals for the scope of work/description, without discrimination attriuted to personal affiliation, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation, difference, + "group identity", . The employer would thus commit infringement if when faced with two somewhat equals in fitness candidates he folds some individual based on gender or whatever else that falls into personal, group identity factor or affiliation to a certain group. I think it covers the caste system issue we see at the workplace without having to talk about castes in the legislation, and the benefit is that it allows the text to cover other group identifications.

Btw we have other avenues, anti discrimination is one that covers shutting down labelled candidates. Nepotism is described as favoring relatives or friends, just add "or group identified with" to it and boom that covers the caste system issue (and beyond). I'm no legalist so of course I'm not drafting a clear definition of group identity but you get the idea, i hope.
I suspect we are stuck on this because on some side we have identity politics and quotas advocates wanting the legislation to accommodate their wishes, hence forbidding group identified favoritism in the law. This avenue is being at best ignored as a potential simple solution, at worst battled against with teeth and nails for other unrelated motives.
Yeah, there were many times I was programming TS, and was very surprised at what the type system permitted. I started to realize type safety was best effort, or at times even performative, but by no means something TS can guarantee.
I'd still rather support a project like (Neo)Vim or Emacs that isn't developed under the auspices of a corporation (whose mantra is embrace, extend, extinguish), and have proven staying power. We've seen IDEs and text editors come and go through the revolving door of public opinion for decades, but Vim and Emacs have both continued to hold strong as tools you can use over the course of your entire life, and they've continued to get better and better as technology has improved.
When I get asked my biggest weaknesses I just reply with brutal honesty. I say that sometimes I'm lazy to a fault, that I can't function in the morning at all and can be easily distracted during work so I need a quiet working environment (including no notifications). I think it lost me a potential job offer last week but I don't know if I'd like to work at a company with a toxic positivity problem.
Been running it for years with a mariadb database. It's rock solid and they keep up well with the mainline features.
Show HN: NiceOS – 6 months after public launch
Can you use it with the phone you're talking on ?
There's also data in another source: domain knowledge and physical laws. This is the core tenant of scientific machine learning techniques (SciML). I have a talk that walks through how you can go from something without domain knowledge (like a neural ODE) and how as you add more prior model knowledge to the system the extrapolation accuracy improves even for small amounts of data (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FihLyzdjN_8). People have used these techniques in all kinds of places, like extrapolating black hole trajectories and building earthquake-safe buildings, off of like 20-40 data points (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSeY4K4bITI). While there is a lot of work to be done in the domain still, there's a lot of empirical evidence that this approach does indeed decrease the data requirements (but is then no longer "pure" machine learning in some sense)
This is to some extent even already the case through GDPR in Europe.

I wonder if GDPR is applicable to realtime Di2 data that is not shared with a third party. See also https://medicaldeviceslegal.com/2016/12/19/privacy-by-design...
Aseprite recently added some truly unique features for creating tessellated tiles. I have always struggled with creating good looking tiles, and the process is much easier for me now.
The Big Lebowski’s one is clearly a guy in a frog costume… hilarious!
Nothing reproduces the original signal, it's distorted by the inertia and impedance of the microphone and amplifier that recorded it.

As you know it's then passed through an ADC and stored as a sine wave, cause no one is mastering inaudible square waves on a reel for kitsch value.
> These techniques almost always tell the researchers things that they already know.

Yes, but sometimes in surprising ways.

I build a simple decision-tree model for a medical study, looking at outcomes for acute pneumonia. Went with a single tree over a forest because the model had to be interpretable. Statistically it was almost as good as the forest; I built it using fields with high feature importance values. Thus there is a chance that any 'improvement' by the forest was overfitting. but I digress.

The tree said that blood CO2 levels were the most important factor. The doctors weren't surprised by this (though they had some internal debate if this was more or less important than some other factors). What did surprise them was the cutoff level.

They said they would be concerned if CO2 was above 7. My model had the cutoff at 9.5. Sorry, I forget the units.

Point is, it confirmed what they knew (CO2 levels matter when assessing lung function), but still surprised them (CO2 levels have to be much higher than normal before this becomes discriminant over other factors, such as age).
New York lawmakers pass a moratorium on Bitcoin mining
I think the larger and larger costs means they they don't want to take on unnecessary risks.
The expectation of return is higher than ever, thus, as VC managing other people's money, they have no choice but to comply. Fund what already has an a market and traction.

So, like you said, VC are digging their own grave, but I reckon they know it and can't do a damned thing about it.
You can rent one.
They can just as easily, just worse. The UIs are awful.
The JVM guys are working on that with Loom, and, because of its multi-language nature, that can be brought across to many other languages too. Including, oddly, Rust, because Rust compiles with LLVM and GraalVM has a Truffle interpreter for Rust. I doubt anyone would actually want to run an app that way today especially as it's kind of cutting edge stuff and the Rust ecosystem is forcing async anyway, but in principle you could run a non-async Rust server on the JVM with millions of lightweight threads. It'd preserve the safety properties of the language and even the memory layouts, because Truffle doesn't force GC or Java-style memory layouts on the languages it runs. You can even AOT compile stuff but that requires the enterprise edition.
The tl;dr seems to be “if you don’t like the King’s wars, don’t take the King’s shilling”.
Everything has to come down eventually, but all else being equal, exposed steel is better for ease of access and maintenance than steel buried in concrete.
> Whilst these are 'classified leaks' they are not exactly strategic leaks.

Just to expand on the multiple levels of classification a bit. In the UK we have multiple levels, as per the Govt's own open source description [0]: official, secret and top secret. Official is sometimes give the caveat 'sensitive' which corresponds to the old 'restricted'. The level 'confidential' isn't used officially now.

At the risk of massive over-simplification, the lowest levels of classification might be used to describe 'how' something works (so that it can be easily read by users in training), while higher levels might describe how well it works, vulnerabilities, etc.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-securi...
Anyone know how VSCodium is for remotely developing C++ and Python code on a Linux server?

Last I checked (a while ago), I think the remote-over-ssh package was only available in VSCode.
Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help system
My pandemic project was to find, restore and organize scattered and archived remnants of Palm/HP's mobile webOS platform to help keep these delightful little devices alive.
Sure, if all they care about is the GPU state of art in 2011, because WebGL 2.0 won't go further than a OpenGL ES 3.0 subset.

Also when WebGPU gets released later this year, it will be a subset of version 1.0 from Metal, Vulkan and DX 12.

If you want state of the art graphics on the Web, only via streaming like Unreal Pixel Streaming, GeForce Now or XBox Cloud.
Maybe I'm being a bit naive, but the telemetry is supposed to help the VSCode developers to improve the product, right?

It feels a bit strange when some of us want the benefits of what this telemetry may give (a better product, perhaps?) while not willing to conceive information to improve it.

Maybe it's similar to how ads work. I use an ad blocker, but because I feel ads make the product worse, not better.

I am not sure if my pov makes sense though.
This is a problem predominantly only in the US. It's simply not legal to sell above MSRP here, for example.
Mosh + tmux + Vim (or other TUI editor) should work just fine.
> Having a complex programming language which limits you and controls how you use it does not sound appealing to those who need a feature done, fast.

This sounds as insane to me as a carpenter who works with power tools saying. "Having safety measures which limits you and controls how you you have to do certain things does not sound appealing to those who need a house build, fast."
Sure, if you enjoy paying $80/TB-month (before replication or backups). If you're operating at a scale that justifies running a datacenter, EBS is basically a non-starter.
You are so deep in the Russian propaganda ass, that it is pathetic. You are about to relearn a lot about your perception of the reality. Let me prepare it for you.
No, I live in a democratic country, where politicians make empty promises and either accomplish nothing or just line up their pockets. Like most democratic countries.

I know that's cynical, but welcome to reality.

I have long been disillusioned by the fact that people can have an impact on their society by simply electing someone that will totally be fixing the issues that have been plaguing society for decades, for real this time, pinky swear.

But hey, again, if you live somewhere that actually happens let me know and I'll board the next rocket.
On the desktop Linux matters very little.
Di2 is mostly popular among the performance cycling set who likes to go fast. The ~5% drivetrain power loss you'd get from a dynamo isn't attractive in that market. Also, Di2 requires charging every couple of months. It just isn't worth it.

I have seen some randonneuring bikes with a dynamo with USB charging for topping up the bike computer and the like. Commuting and utility bikes tend to just use the dynamo for lights.
>professors are incredibly well paid in Germany and also enjoy high social status.

Around 80k €/year as W2 professor base salary

Post-tax 55k €

Guess that might be considered incredibly well paid in Germany
Mashed up with recruiting propaganda
Homechart dev here, Homechart is extremely similar to YNAB4 when it comes to finances [1]. One thing it has that YNAB4 does not is the idea of "Budget Goals"--you can set a budget amount for a certain date and Homechart will calculate backwards what you need to save for it. My family uses this for saving for vacations and property taxes, among other things.

While Homechart supports importing from CSVs and QFX files, I'm not sure when/if it will support automatic bank importing due to the costs/privacy/security associated with it.

Homechart is meant to be a "whole home data management" solution. Budgeting is a small part of its functionality and will expand in the futurel.

1 - https://homechart.app/budgeting/
For various levels of just fine, and cranky tooling.

It only took 20 years to have RenderDoc catch up to PIX, and still nothing comparable to DirectXTK or MetalKit in sight.

And in regards to game consoles even worse.
You can use an old style computer: speed, time, distance. No internet, nothing else. The ones with 7 segment LCD digits. They are cheap, battery lasts years and you still get the information that matters most.
What about ... Kermit in the Muppet Show?
Thanks for the links! The technique with gliders was used to rescue the survivors of the "Gremlin Special" crash, in what is now the Indonesian province of Papua, in 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_New_Guinea_Gremlin_Specia...

It is also how banner-towing aircraft pick up new banners. As it involves a sudden increase in weight and drag while flying near the stall and near the ground, it has its risks.
Telemetry is stupid for many reasons, a big one is that many of your users will block it so your data will be bad.
> how is it different from statistical forecasting

In statistical learning/forecasting, the researcher typically specifies the statistical model.

In machine learning, the statistical model is approximated by the algorithm.

Since a ML model needs to learn both the model form and the model parameters, it takes more data and also it does not allow for understanding (since it does not output the form of the model it learned).
I interviewed people who wanted to leave AWS.

Theme I picked up psychologically: "I would really like to leave, the work life balance sucks and it's long hours, but it pays really well."

Qualified, smart people interviewing around for better lives but similar pay.
Is leaving a job we're you're not a good fit not sincere and honest, as opposed to slacking until fired? Is accepting to leave your own job and source and revenue when you know it's necessary despite the difficulty it will create for you, especially when in a difficult situation like an ex con, not heroic?
Does that mean the developers put The Big Lebowski through the model during training? Where did they get all the movies and TV shows from? And does copying so directly from the source material open them and users up to copyright infringement liability?
To expand on the irony: All of the things you mentioned are deemed necessary, because the Internet is inherently open and decentralized. Email needs protection against spam and phishing, HTTPS protects against man in the middle attacks and eavesdropping, Cloudflare have services that protect against DDoS attacks and to provide read scale among other things.

I don't think the Internet was envisioned as a cyber war zone.
> I expected a much less savvy and less logical group of people

Why did you expect this?
It annoys you that Tim Horton’s is considered a Canadian institution?

I get that it’s mainly owned by a Brazilian company now, and quality has gone to all hell, but it will probably always be a part of Canadiana due to its history.
A slight majority of Europeans live in single family homes as well. It's not like single family homes are something that only exist in America and the entire rest of the car buying world is "wildly different".

I realize not every car buyer can have their own charger at home, that's obvious. But let's not act like it's a rare thing for people to have the ability to charge at home. Over half of all households in Europe and US can probably add home charging for little cost. That's a ton of EVs to sell, an absolutely massive market able to be addressed now.
>from a moral standpoint

I think you could more accurately call this a legal standpoint. I'm not convinced releasing closed source software is ever moral.
Showerthought: There should be a Folding@Home cryptocurrency where the proof of work is actually helping humanity.
You'll do whatever you can to maintain the fragile worldview that you haven't been the beneficiary of a class-based system that discriminates and gives you an unfair advantage.

The interesting thing here is the isomoprhism between your reaction and those of other privileged groups forced to examine their ill-gotten gains, but on the other hand maybe it's not surprising, we're just chimpanzees with tools after all
> It’s a lot of e.g. boring specs of things you wouldn’t care about if you saw it.

Boring to most, maybe. But understanding the design of a shell or understanding the capabilities of a tank turret can inform armor design and battlefield tactics respectively.
A personal anecdote without evidence is barely a valid anecdote, specially with such extraordinary claims. This person is accusing the staff of the university of very serious crimes but no evidence or more details are provided. I would never ever set foot in KSA due to my own principles, so I have no interest in defending them, but strong accusations require strong evidence.
I think this is still the case.
I'm pretty sure the risk in the latter is greater for everyone involved.
It becomes a bike if the battery runs out. If the electronics become inoperable, then it will likely never be ridden again. E bikes are getting bigger and heavier by the day, and physical effort is the reason why people don't ride conventional bikes.
NetGuard: A simple way to block access to the internet per app
I have found that as I gain experience with rust, I spend less and less time “upfront to compile and fix all warnings”. I think rust requires a different design philosophy. It just takes time to adopt it into your mind.
There have been a number of transformational things in the last 5-10 years that are far from gimmicks. Wider tires on road bikes. Disc brakes for cx and mtb. Dropper posts and 1x drive trains on mtb. Cycling is rife with orthodoxy that begs to be challenged.
It’s a musical genre, a sound, it has many definitions depending on context. It isn’t just a literal abbreviation of the word “popular”, not since about the 1950s anyway.
This is really neat and novel to me, thanks for sharing.
This is why I ride a brakeless track bike, everything else is just putting another level of annoying indirection between you and the thing you want to be doing.
I finished my game development graduation now in May. My graduation project was a pixel art based beat-em up as we used to have in the 80s and 90s (like double dragon and crime). I loved to work with pixel art and I feel that I can draw (and animate) pretty much everthing that I want/need.

However I would like to pursue any kind of graduation in that area, online for sure, but not certifications like udemy, coursera and etc, mainly because I like the loop: learn, homework, feedback, improve work, feedback and so on. I would like to learn "Art" but with Pixel art as main topic. There is such thing?
Sweet, perhaps they can fold the unending toddler laundry I have, thats some work.
Actually, you're wrong there - Germany uses a similar system on the first levels of the justice system [1]. However, we have crucial differences to the US:

- we don't have that ridiculous requirement of jurors having to lock themselves away for fear of getting a contaminated judgement [2]

- while we do allow participants to contest the jurors, it's rare for such motions to succeed, except if there is substantial evidence for bias

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ffe_(ehrenamtlicher_R...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_sequestration
> Rust advocates are in the losing battle of of forcing mainstream

Dunno what you mean. I like Rust. I think it’s by far the best language in its niche, which contains exactly two languages: Rust and C++.

If what you’re doing doesn’t fit into that niche, that’s fine! Don’t use Rust.

Who is forcing anyone to do anything?
The front derailleur stops working at a nominal 10% charge. You'll have plenty of rear shifting left on all but the longest rides.

That being said, it's really easy to avoid the battery getting that low. It lasts months under normal conditions. And your head unit will tell you when the battery gets low. Except Hammerhead units won't get that warning anymore? #thanksshimano.
For at least the last 25 years of operation, all of our phone booths only took smartcards that you could buy in basically any store or news stand.
Rust is supposed to be a better C++, and resoundingly succeeds at that goal.
A clarification, since this is a thing that frequently confuses people: the importance of correct rounding is that it is the easiest mechanism to unlock reproducibility. If I use library A, and you use library B, but both are correctly rounded, then we know that we get the same result.

When reproducibility doesn't matter, it's basically always better to use a not-necessarily-correctly-rounded implementation at somewhat higher precision, as this gets you smaller overall errors for less effort. But there are a lot of domains where reproducibility matters, and that's where correct rounding comes in.
Traits are the one part of Rust that should definitely not be given up. It is way better than the traditional OO model.
Thanks a lot for bringing it in. Fascinating story.
If 'Big Tech' Is an Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom? (2019)
I guess that SRAM can afford to buy a dozen of Shimano gear shifts, put them on a bench and measure any parameter they care even without accessing the software. Real world data could be interesting but are they really so useful?
I don’t see my old app in there but it was for a now defunct social network so not too surprising. Great work putting this all together. I still boot up my Palm Pre for some nostalgia kicks from time to time.
Not this again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM
I think a big factor that makes rust hard is the prevalence of special syntax everywhere. These are special character sequences that could have been expressed another (more verbose) way, that were introduced for dev convenience. It makes the code extremely hard to read for me.
I've also had to setup a minecraft server for me and my kids a while ago. For some time now, I wished the server would autostart when someone connects, to save on resources.

By pure coincidence, I stumbled upon a plugin for PaperMC [1] which together with a proxy server allows exactly that! Now my server stops when nobody is using it so I can save some RAM on my old machine.

I'm not sure how they did it, but it also allowed me to use the same minecraft account for me and my kids while the server is in online mode. This way we could enable our kids to play with their friends while they all share a single account.

[1]: https://github.com/oddlama/vane
One of my favorites is SpeQ Mathematics (Windows) [1]. It’s free (not OSS) and doesn’t seem to be active anymore, but it still works great. It’s like a scratchpad that can calculate, without trying to emulate a physical device.

[1] https://speqmath.com/
PocketPC.