skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you found yourself nodding along through Steps 1 to 5, you are now fully primed and will have no trouble believing Step 6: The stupid person is a threat to the Aryan race, and must be eliminated.

Congratulations. You nodded along right into a Hitler trap.

</godwin>
> we shouldn’t be carrying the burden of our own inferior versions of things that already exist

Why would people building software today need to do that? There are excellent, “batteries included” polished versions of plenty of the things we need to build software: package managers, developer tools, machine learning libraries with the latest algorithms, testing & CI/CD tooling, UI components, web servers, databases, etc. There’s even entire applications that are FOSS, if you want to build a new tool there’s nothing stopping you from adding whatever you want to a pre built FOSS application like LibreOffice, Calibre, etc.
> I think the unfortunate reality of this is that even if you don't take care of the physical and OS stuff yourself, it will still hurt you when it goes wrong. Abstracting it away doesn't really take care of it for you, at least not in the same way that someone who really knows how to deal with it AND knows your system well does

It's also really hard to fix things when they're surrounded by a black box operated by someone who doesn't care. I kind of enjoy doing it, but it would be a lot more productive if I was able to diagnose network link problems by checking the error counters on all the routers/switches rather than by sending pings that hash over the numerous lacp alternate routes between two servers to figure out how to get a traceroute that shows the issue so the network owner can look at counters and fix the underlying issue.
Houses in towns big enough for a McDonald's are $100,000.

Not suburbs, just towns, but there will be services and a hospital and so on.
> personally generated millions of dollars for the company

Yeah. Like I believe that. They use their connections and moxie to justify that at the expense of everyone else creating legitimate value like all the employees that have to support the crap they sell yet never see a nickle of those commissions.
Investors Are More Likely to Back Startups on Sunny Days, a Study Finds
"Prof. Dushnitsky and another researcher used data from 1,335 startups that graduated from European accelerators—mentor-type programs for early-stage companies. The researchers compared weather data from the location of each “demo day”—a showcase for entrepreneurs to meet investors—with data from the day prior. They controlled for a host of other factors, including the founders’ backgrounds, age and prior entrepreneurship experience.

The results: Entrepreneurs attending a meetup on a sunnier day received funding 22% of the time, compared with 15% for days that were less sunny than the day prior, according to the research, published in the Academy of Management Journal earlier this year."

The abstract is at https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amj.2019.0128
Jekyll [1] for static site generation. It's not really a library, more of a framework, but works very well for static sites and has a large ecosystem of plugins.

[1] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll
The real use of Kalman filter is model-data fusion. But to do model-data fusion, you need a model. In this blog post, they use

μₖ = μₖ₋₁

as the model. If your model assumes that the process just stays constant, then all you are left with is filtering the noise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
How to prepare your Web application for Web MIDI on Firefox
Asus Zenfone 9
Not to get you nervous, but the Russians run bombers to the airspace of Alaska all the time.

US jets intercept and turn them around.

It's the expensive version of the border crossings between India & Pakistan
I totally support that. There's a difference between "need a warrant" and "squirreled away where a warrant can't even get it". I think needing a warrant is a sane middle ground, but I also thinkg requiring things be accessible by warrant is also a sane middle ground.
A large phone makes consuming lots of content quite comfortable, from social media to general reading to watching videos. Which means you'll use it a lot. You'll normalize it and won't even bother to move to a larger screen.

Therefore, intentionally buy a sucky phone that adds friction. You'll use it less, in moderation, only for things of some importance. Plus it costs less. Big quality of life improvement.

Remove all non-essential apps to reduce reasons to use it even more. Next, physically detach from the object. Leave it in another room, forget all about it.

Unlearn what has become second nature.
I feel like just build/rum on your own hardware is the "I could build it in a weekend". It takes so much effort and you end up with a worse platform over time.
Nier Automata's secret: genius marketing, modding stunt, or total hoax?
The Pixel 4a is probably your best bet; that's what I use. Still getting updates and it's quite decent, though it's a couple years old now.
This can be used for values over £50000, though.
That and the tact switch was a common failure point.

I have the home button haptic set at 3 and unless i'm thinking about it, its good enough to trick my brain into the same feeling.
This blog details different techniques for filtering image data and explores what these filters actually do to an image as it passes through the layers of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).
The Atlantic has been 'over the top' for a long time now.

Like, 1984's Ghostbusters lampooned The Atlantic as overly pedantic worrywarts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwKR_y93izs&t=115s

They have consistently lived up to their billing for neigh 40 years. It's really quite the achievement from the print-digital changeover. If anything, I'm impressed.
> Why isn't anyone interested in exploring why native failed to offer what these people wanted?

I haven't looked into this in detail, but I did started out programming in QBasic, used Delphi for over 20 years on Windows, and done cross-platform (all three) with WxWidgets and Qt, and I have given this some idle thought over the last few years.

I'm sure the truth is multi-faceted, but I feel it's primarily a combination of smartphones, lack of good cross-platform UI toolkits with low barrier to entry and the rise of SaaS.

Existing programs were not a good fit for smartphones. You couldn't easily take your existing C++ product and just recompile it. Simultaneously, smartphones required drastically simpler UIs, simple enough that a web page could be sufficient.

While cross-platform applications were possible with toolkits like WxWidgets and Qt, for most non-trivial programs you'd still end up with a ton of special cases needing handling. In one project we had one developer tweaking the OSX build, changing fonts and layouts to make it look and behave "proper" on that platform. It was better with Qt, but not perfect.

Also, these toolkits require a lot of ceremony to get going. Making a basic web page and adding some rudimentary javascript is quite easy, it's interactive and it's visual, which is great for learning. It's way more exciting to program something visual than mess around on a command prompt. I know many who became programmers through this route, people who otherwise hadn't thought about becoming programmers. Many of these have not moved much beyond the frontend.

Most people though don't really want to deal with computers. They want to use them, but not have to mess with them. Figuring out how to install and maintain applications, keeping track of security updates and all that jazz. This goes for individuals as well as companies. Thus the rise of SaaS.

Now, where I currently work we provide a hybrid SaaS-ish model for a Win32 desktop application. Customers provide the metal or VM, and we install and maintain the server software and client applications. However most customers don't really want to host servers in-house, and for us it's a pain to deal with all the various IT departments and their peculiarities. So both want to move to a proper SaaS, where the servers are hosted by us. Customers also want to be able to use Mac's.

This means we need a proper frontend/backend split regardless. No more direct connection to the database server. With that in mind, if you have a not-too-complex application, maybe a web page frontend is easier for both developer and user?

Now for our case, we have a complex CRUD application, so it's not so clear-cut. But if you have a relatively simple application with a handful of controls, then the choice seems to be much easier to me.

Of course, I could be totally wrong...
Conceptually, every step of applying a Kalman filter in the simplest case is just updating a Gaussian prior representing position with a new datapoint sampled with (assumed) Gaussian error. The result is equivalent to convolving a Gaussian representing position with a Gaussian representing noise.

In the frequency domain, that's equivalent to multiplying one Gaussian by another one with zero mean, which will always put higher weight on low frequencies. No matter what the gain is in the Kalman filter, that'll still be true as far as I can tell. As the gain varies, the cutoff within the low-pass filter will change though.

It gets harder to analyze when you start using non-linear models to update position though. Generally, I think the same logic applies.
Obviously why it's only in the third ring.

The fourth ring or fifth ring is where it starts getting interesting.
Freedom of speech isnt freedom to make people listen. If I tell someone to stop calling me and they dont its harassment.
This looks amazing. I’ve been hoping for something like this to come out for awhile. With the recent wave of Python type hinting I always felt like it should be possible to compile type hinted Python
But still content keeps growing, and income per user won't. Doesn't that mean that at one point you're out of runway?
Am I cheap, poor, frugal or outdated to find it mildly funny US$400-450+tx are considered cheap phones nowadays?

Not that I mind as I'm able to find good value (in my opinion and for my needs) in second-hand markets for electronics (couldn't be more satisfied with my $100 Pixel 3a and aging T430s laptop), I just find it impressive how much price references have shifted over time as flagship phones ran from $400-500 well into the $1-1.5k range[0]. Maybe I wouldn't be so confused about it if I understood what use people have for their phones to hold so much compute. Aside from the undeniably sick cameras, it seems to me like most people have supercomputers to browse social medias as AAA-mobile-gaming doesn't seem prevalent at all here (AFAIK it is in Asia).

Millennial yelling at clouds, signing off.

0: https://fdn.gsmarena.com/imgroot/news/21/09/iphone-13-steve-...
I'm just some random guy who doesn't work in tech and even I know about this. I was hesitant to buy any SSDs when they were new because I was worried about drive failure.
There should be results. Tech giants are too big to fail, as are the big banks and insurers. If we break up the banks and insurers by product offerings, then why not break up big tech?

Each company gets split into 3 smaller firms, each with access to all the IP of the mothership. They get to fight for their customers, and barter over business assets, to figure out who owns what.
A fact? Really? What is the correct amount of meat that we should eat?
Only did a quick skim, but click bait-y title since it seems like they’re using a single input Kalman filter which then yeah…it’ll be a low pass filter. The article also doesn’t show any confidence bands which is a huge part of Kalman filters too. But the magic of a Kalman filter is multiple inputs. One thing that took a long time for me to click is multiple noisy measurements measured at the same time becomes one less noisy measurement thanks to the inherent nature of Bayesian statistics. That’s where the magic is and why Kalman filter are not low pass filters.
Ah Logisim, brings back fond memories of creating a RISC-V CPU for CS61C at UC Berkeley.
I think the contrast is between:

A: Cutting prices whenever costs go down

B: Cutting prices only when competitors do so
Good point, this is what I would also expect.

It's also quite telling how in most of these services, old content is very well hidden in the UI and sometimes near impossible to get to.
Stalin was responsible for at least 6 million non-combatant deaths, the majority of which were his own people. He purged society to keep his brand of communism pure.

> External forces destroyed the Soviet Union

The Soviet Union was stagnating from within. Moscow was losing control and the Baltic Republics, frustrated with the slow pace of reform, one by one seceded. I'm not sure how you're blaming that on external forces.

> if it had been left alone, it'd have fixed a lot of its problems and be a decent place to live by now.

Given the above, I highly doubt that.

I'm a bit incredulous that you're defending Stalinism.
They've got a lot of flash too. I think most of the small nodes are running from flash, and most of the databases too? There's a lot of longer term storage that's going to be rotational though, sure.
Thank you for City of Lost Children. Just ... thank you :)
There is iteration, but nothing like the scale and customer base which Apple can bring to the table.

I think Apple would just need to aim for a market that barely exists. Single person transport vehicles would be my guess. It would need a big name brand which emphasizes safety and privacy over noise and power.

There are gyroscope based motorcycles with roof shells which would be great for the average consumer which would be in line with their environmental goals. Combine that with a complete augmented reality surround experience and some sort of ridiculous safety features like multi-limb airbag deployment or emergency jet obstacle avoidance they are in a unique position to completely change personal transport.

Add in some alternate transport options which are not available at all which would require major corporation negotiating power. Short flights added in as an option dropping some wings to bypass traffic. Perhaps some sort of rail connection to hook into those single car tunnels or existing railway tracks. Open the railways for traffic each direction when not otherwise occupied. Perhaps an optional jet ski and snowmobile accessory. Make it buoyant so it never sinks like trashed scooters in the river.

I would imagine they would focus on ergonomics, smoothness of the ride and energy efficiency over power. All digital so lots of haptics. Light enough to take into an elevator to park in your apartment. Just flip a switch and the gyro makes it stand on one wheel to fit in an elevator. Imagine being disabled and it opens your front door and drops you off in your living room.

I should imagine they would combine some high resolution camera technology to easily snap photos in any direction of whatever is interesting, 5G cellular for live-streaming in vehicle with easy swapping between internal and external cameras, automated pickup so you could send your bike to the store for curbside pickup without going with it and taking control from home if necessary. Disable local control so can send it out to pick up the kids from school. Or send it to park when you have reached your destination and it pays for parking and comes back when you need it.

Perhaps OLED exterior so you can change the look on the fly. 360 degree camera coverage so you have no blind spots. Auto collision avoidance from any direction.

There is a huge wishlist out there and it is easy to brainstorm all sorts of things that small companies just could not pull off in any sort of scale. Production wise they already custom design all the phone manufacturing hardware which runs 24/7 and there is always the possibility of just acquiring what they need.
A paper I once found really illuminating on what a kalman filter was and how it related to a similar models is "A Unifying Review of Linear Gaussian Models", by Sam Roweis and Zoubin Ghahramani. It can be found here in pdf format: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~liam/teaching/neurostat-fall20...

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There is prior art for the "object relational" databases. Used WakandaDB (from the 4D creators) ~10+ years ago fairly heavily and in most ways it was way ahead of its time.

The UI editor was fantastic: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datamosaic/data-sutra-waka...

The query language was imperative in the "fluent" style:

var record = ds.Group.query("name = :1",group).first();

Really psyched about what EdgeDB is doing moving this space forward. The declarative composable query language is a paradigm shift imo — not just a better ORM.
If you account for IOPS and not just on Cost / GB. The pricing structure of HDD hasn't changed a bit in years. Especially when S3 ( Blue Spot ) used to be way above HDD Cost Per GB price.

So while I do agree with AWS pricing structure has changed in recent years. I dont see how the Data shown correlate to that conclusion.
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> The single camera, by the way, is very close to the main one on the top models. Apple’s marketing gives the impression that every year the new iPhone cameras leave the old ones in the dust. The truth is, I’m having a hard time distinguishing between the photos of the iPhone SE, those from my girlfriend’s iPhone 11 and my iPhone 8

Probably true, but the 11 is not exactly the newest iPhone out there. The 13 has noticeably better low-light performance, when I compare it to my old 11 Pro.
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Author here. Yes, if the system has a high-pass behaviour, then the corresponding Kalman filter will converge to a high-pass filter, and so on. Non-low-pass-like behaviour can emerge from the prediction step, if the model is not unitary. If there's interest, I might write a followup article where a Kalman filter takes on a bandpass nature.
Besides storage cost, S3 API access cost can also be high if frequently accessed. And latency is unpredictable.

You can use SeaweedFS Remote Object Store Gateway to cache S3 (or any S3 API compatible vendors) to local servers, and access them at local network speed, and asynchronously sync back to S3.

https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/wiki/Gateway-to-Remot...
There is such a thing. Like if it ain't broke don't fix it, compute costs aren't always that big, sometimes single-thread is enough even on Wall Street exchanges.

And like come on originally the alternative was hiring employees and managers for those employees and dealing with human error and deception overlapping with the guilt of exploiting them, the whole management game. Difficult to find true leadership, and a work-ethic shared between manager and employee. And the education I got in the nineties and noughts was made for desk jobs with stationary, not computers.

Sometimes automation alone is fine. Even on a computer that hasn't been reset in fifty years and is obsolete according to everyone else, hey if it does the trick. Make sure it stays powered. Cobol. Does the trick. Nuclear plants, they use really old software, one using very new software and connected to the internet was hit by the Morris Worm.

I literally picked up a 32 ounce rock on the street that was intended, judging by its shape and way it was cut out of cement and pebble composite, for stoning. Like for Biblical harlots. It was left behind right after a protest was cleared one Friday afternoon on Portugal and Alameda, Santiago Centro, Santiago Chile. Found it Friday like in April, at 22:16. I roam, I checked out the scene--as is my wont--to see what's up, different graffiti on the walls, and then whoops don't see a lot of pint-sized rocks on the sidewalk, somebody might trip, better clear it. Took it home. Realized I should have worn gloves. Next time I went to hang out in front of the police station I told them about it, hey you could do forensics I said, they're like uh no wrong station for forensics, uh...thanks for clearing it away, those are meant for cops.

I got stoned with similar rocks after watching cops on motorcycles retreat from a mob, didn't click that mob was throwing rocks, kind of aiming at whatever that moved, and fuck did I then move, I sprinted away to safety before the gates closed on me. Luckily I didn't take a direct hit, none nailed me.

But the moral of the story is this: nothing about being tens or hundreds or thousands or in this case millions of years old renders it ineffective as a weapon. Same laws of physics. Same gravity. Muscle equal strength. Rock is just as hard now as it was then. Harder than my skull. Death is bad. Bad then, and bad now.
Author here. A unitary model is still a model; I chose it mainly just to minimize the mental overhead for the reader. But even if you use a different model, the Kalman filter will still converge to a frequency-domain filter as long as the dynamics are not time-dependent (ie, constant measurement noise).
They are slowly arm-twisting those banks into reporting it.

Swiss banks ain't what they used to be. Cayman islands too.
A good example for pundit disproving is f(t) = exp(-t), the solution to the differential equation dx/dt = -x. So the continuous limit of something like "every year, 1% of the ice caps melt." Look, the volume of ice cap lost is decreasing year over year!
You mean people don't read webpages without a screen-reader? There's no such thing as Reader mode? Web developers don't read HTML and want to write it in an organized way?

Sure, there should be nothing outside of accessibility. /s

If you read the post (and I can't really blame you for not reading it all the way through), you'd see that the author is suggesting that there are reasons besides supporting accessibility features for using these semantic HTML tags. I just don't agree that they are objectively good reasons for why one "should" do so.

Oh yeah, and semantic HTML is by no means the only way to write pages that are accessible. Everything that a semantic tag can do, the role attribute can do, too. I never said to not care about accessibility.
But that chip is not as good as the apple one. In fact not even close.

The battery life on that one is atrocious compared to the apple one.
Unfortunately ObjectBox has a proprietary core, which is unfortunate as I'd love to modify it for experimental uses.
Literally literally means both literally and figuratively.
Yes, there are a ton of ways to die. Part of making an ascension kit is checking them off one by one. You can see that my wizard would have reflection, MR, grease to avoid mindflayers and drowning monsters (though blessed ?geno on LhV; makes life much easier), etc. Naturally I'd use that blessed magic marker to write every spellbook, the PYEC can recharge all the things and I take half damage. If I get Greswandir from sacrificing, I can get up to basic proficiency, otherwise I'd best stick with magicbane which is easy to get.

Get your levels up, your stats up, your resists covered and it's mostly just a slog at the end because turns take forever when 30 monsters want a piece of you.
Where did I put the $100k when I withdrew it from my account? Did I convert it to gold bars and stash it at my buddy Ricky's house? Did I deposit it into my brokerage account? Did I pay my lawyer with some of it and buy a car with the rest?

You would have to answer to that under oath. It's called a Debtor's Examination, assuming you lose, or fail to answer the lawsuit, or it does not get dismissed. A bank account statement showing a large withdrawal shortly after being served would be a major red flag. The idea behind asset protection is to move the assets to a secure place or set up protections before you get sued.
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