skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michael Nielson's book/site on Neural Networks helped me really grasp the topic.
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

H.L. Royden's Analysis was a book that made real analysis click when I read it on my own time in High School. It's simple enough so an intelligent kid can read it and think that simplicity can allow a solid understanding that some people can miss reading more sophisticated book.

It's also true that being forced to really work at a problem, whether by a class or a job, can also be invaluable way for concepts to click. Facing a problem that doesn't budge with your habitual approach forces you to try backing up and looking from a wider perspective as well as working at the problem with greater exactness and attention.
I googled for a picture: https://ia800305.us.archive.org/12/items/microsoft-bob-v1_00...
Why did this never make it to the front page of hackernews? I had to search it up to find it.
Hope springs eternal I guess.

Anyone who thinks speed traps, or limits, were put in place for safety, is forever hopeful.

The function very well for the purpose for which they were implemented, to raise revenue for the local administration.

It's like thinking a company's product price, or change in product price, has anything to do with costs. The price is what they can get people to pay.
Value to your life but a lot of pain to locals of tourist heavy towns who have been outpriced out of their town by Airbnb investors
People love to joke about Tesla and claim that 'they just threw cash at it' and the company was 'burning cash'.

Compare history of Tesla to that of Rivian and what kind financing and cash they operate with.
Yeah, I don't care what mobile phone it is, I don't trust it with respect to privacy.

I have to use a phone for apps like uber and I use one to browse random content like HN that has no privacy issue for me if the world saw most stuff I read but I have moved away all other use cases to a simpler harderned Linux laptop.

It feels a bit weird and more isolated with that plus no social media but I have seen improvments in my quality of life and I have confidence that the handful of privacy or securiry sensitive data or interactions I have are difficult to compromise.
Yes. The main culprit is bloat and the demise of shared libraries. Application devs are getting lazy. Everybody just packages up their whole dependency tree and slaps on a virtual machine with their own memory management. This would be fine if you had only one app ever running, just like those devs on their high-end maxhine. But no. Soon as you have multiple browser, electron and java apps running, snaps, rust, nodejs, you name it, each is gobbling up memory like crazy, and eve 32 GB are exhausted in no time.
In my experience, speed traps aren't catching dangerous people, just people that are unaware of the existence of the speed trap.

For example, where I am, there's a hill with a road that winds around it with a 50 MPH speed limit, except right before the bottom and around the turn, suddenly it's 35 MPH before becoming 45 MPH highway. A cop hides around the turn and pulls over people who don't know that their 50 MPH road will suddenly become 35 MPH before they've cleared the hill. Locals know to go slow enough down the hill, as in less than 50 MPH, in order to not get pulled over.
Are there any other projects that are using Graphene's Play Services? My ideal OS is basically Lineage with those patches applied.
Because the framework supposes that the claims of each religion are basically the same, and Roman Catholicism explicitly rejects this.
> arranged inside a square.

That is what we call a pixel: the smallest representation of a point of full color.

But, none of this matters for the point they were making.
While slogging through an economics course in college I was frustrated that there were not teaching me anything. Then I discovered Sowell and Friedman and started watching every video I could find. Such a relief.

I just did what they wanted me to do for the rest of the economics courses but basically just ignored it all. No one in academia or the media wants to hear what Sowell and Friedman have to say. I should have been made aware of these guys and been assigned books and videos from them on day one.
Virtual Crash Accident Reconstruction Software
A landing page with 1 link to a Google Docs document with links to other documents.

This is the ultimate no-code deployment.
It may be viable to run a small/medium website on ad revenue, because a small/medium website doesn't cost much at all.

Hacker News is famously run on 2 boxes. And that is without Cloudflare + CDNs to cache static requests: static websites are practically free. Domains are cheap as well, even a .com domain costs $20/yr and domains like .xyz cost <$5/yr. The cheapest linode cloud server costs $5/month. Idk how much ad revenue pays out but I imagine it can recover those costs.

However, you probably won't profit from ad revenue, and it definitely won't sustain a full income.
Geobiologists shine light on first known mass extinction 550M years ago
That's true in both directions.
Ah, the irony that this one interrupts you with a full-screen ad popup shilling the next "safe" crypto exchange ...
Yes, [sadly] deprecated by the Unicode Consortium in Unicode 5.2, and by the IETF in RFC 6082. Nor have they be undeprecated since them (see https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch05.pdf#G115...).

IMO we should have tried harder to make Unicode language tags useful and used. But it didn't happen, so they're a thing of the past. Of course, they're still there, and one could attempt to resurrect them, but most likely one would fail.

Choice quotes below:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6082

> RFC 2482, "Language Tagging in Unicode Plain
> Text" [RFC2482], describes a mechanism
> for using special Unicode language tag
> characters to identify languages when needed.
> It is an idea whose time never quite came.
> It has been superseded by whole-transaction
> language identification such as the MIME
> Content-language header [RFC3282] and more
> general markup mechanisms such as those
> provided by XML. The Unicode Consortium
> has deprecated the language tag character
> facility and strongly recommends against
> its use. RFC 2482 has been moved to
> Historic status to reduce the possibility
> that Internet implementers would consider
> that tagging system an appropriate mechanism
> for identifying languages.
>
> A discussion of the status of the language tag
> characters and their applicability appears
> in Section 16.9 of The Unicode Standard
> [Unicode52].

https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch16.pdf (section 9 of that chapter, 16)

> 16.9 Deprecated Tag Characters 519 The Unicode
> Standard, Version 5.2 Copyright © 1991–2009
> Unicode, Inc. for detailed recommendations
> on the use of U+FFFD as replacement for
> ill-formed sequences. See also Section 5.3,
> Unknown and Missing Characters for related
> topics. 16.9 Deprecated Tag Characters
> Deprecated Tag Characters: U+E0000–U+E007F
> The characters in this block provide a
> mechanism for language tagging in Unicode
> plain text. These characters are deprecated,
> and should not be used—particularly with any
> protocols that provide alternate means of
> language tagging. The Unicode Standard recom-
> mends the use of higher-level protocols, such as
> HTML or XML, which provide for language tagging
> via markup. See Unicode Technical Report #20,
> “Unicode in XML and Other Markup Languages.”
> The requirement for language information embedded
> in plain text data is often overstated, and
> markup or other rich text mechanisms constitute
> best current practice. See Section 5.10,
> Language Information in Plain Text for further
> discussion.

(Reformatting is mine.)
That's exactly the example I was thinking of.
> People with no experience running systems at scale often underestimate the amount of effort required.

A taxi app is basic in complexity. Now the feature creep around it, thats a different story. People without experience tend to overcomplicate things.
Ragamuffin Day – The Original Halloween
Great quote for this. And a lot of other situations software people find themselves in.
The word benefit here was in the larger social context. I believe that privacy is a legal right, and so I see the issue a bit differently. You're implying the data can be misused, my point is the data should not be collected to begin with.

I strongly believe that removing the apparatus itself is the best method to prevent misuse. The moment you have a data collection division - the very first thing they're going to want to do is self-preservation. And the best way to preserve a division and get raises is to show how valuable they are. The easiest way to do this is by linking it to revenue in some fashion. Its so very human.
Lol, right, because things like this have never happened before. In particular, the years 1998 - 2008 were devoid of financial crime, and are a decade of restrained, ethical capitalism that we should all aspire to. Gentlemen of Wall Street today are just trying to return us to that gilded age, and any suggestion to the contrary is conspiratorial madness I do say, good chap!

Thank you for pointing out my severe mental illness and inability to think clearly about such lofty matters. I'll go take my meds now.
This isn't a ton of miles for the period of time; the main complication is that he's doing it in rural areas, carrying a bunch of gear, in a foreign country. Given that scenario, bike tourers frequently opt for the equipment most likely to have replacement parts available. Which means boring, conventional stuff.
I'm saying that kids aren't going hungry at school in states other than California.

This assumes a great deal about the attitudes and competences of thousands of local administrations across a nation notable for its cruelty and incompetence. There certainly are public school boards who want poor kids to suffer, and there certainly are public school kitchens that can't provide every nutritious meal it is their duty to provide.
You don't get it: it's NOT a matter od "degree" and "resolution".

It's that the model will DIVERGE COMPLETELY in a way that you cannot predict because you can never fully take in account everything.

So a resolution increase of eg 100x will NOT help as the model will STILL DIVERGE.

Even if you take in account 100x more variables in a double pendulum or decrease the timestep by 1000x it will STILL DIVERGE sooner or later.
Musk fires Twitter Engineer for stating that Musk is wrong
"This seemed to be helpful, but then he told me that he was having the system send to me by email a password that I would have to relay back to him. This wouldn’t be a problem except he was sending it to an email address I haven’t used since the 1990s."

What in the world? If this is true GoDaddy is a joke. This is exactly what a scammer/phishing attempt would look like.
Offering drivers generous bonuses to sign-up, encouraging them to take on loans to buy cars (even extending credit - as they did here in India) - and then pulling it all away, leaving poorly educated drivers with loans they can’t service anymore - that’s the definition of recruitment.
And then Luna happened, sealing their fate
> similar to how we don't double space after period

What do you mean? Every sentence in this comment has two spaces after the punctuation. That one and this one. Just because browsers and html condense it all into one space doesn't make it right.
The internet says one can make $5-20 / 1000 views from adsense.

I'd like to hear specific cases if anyone wants to share
FTX’s Collapse Casts a Pall on a Philanthropy Movement
3.5 years at Jane Street Capital. No excuse really...
This is anecdotal, and I still plan to get the latest booster soon, but I have had pain in my left chest since the first covid vaccine. I went to a doctor who ran an EKG but they said everything was functioning correctly. Maybe someone knows if I should get a second opinion? I can no longer sleep on my left side since then as it causes the pain to increase, so I don't believe it is related to myocarditis.
Yep and there’s already a paid service offering hosted instances!

https://masto.host/

There’s also an open and active GitHub issue on mastodon discussing how to separate server hosting from domain name so you can point DNS at an existing instance and use it from that domain:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668

Many thanks to my friend on twitter for pointing me to both of these:
https://twitter.com/__jesse_li/status/1592006641897320448
Yeah. It's not a lot of miles per day "in civilization."
> Fraud, Risk, Safety, Insurance, Compliance, etc.

Should all be externalised. I mean what is uber processing payments itself too? A bit like stripe building its own taxi app for their own employees.
There are sources, I didn't go through them yet, but they are there. It's pages of unorganized links, but it's something.
There is no evidence-based clinical standard to determine what level of antibodies is "sufficient". Such tests are not useful for most patients and fail to account for cellular immunity. I am not discouraging anyone from getting a booster but the timing should be based on other criteria.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/
I agree he is anti-establishment. I absolutely love that these people exist. They may not always be 100% right, but they are brave enough to risk their career and rock the boat leading to people starting to think critically and potentially leading to new discoveries. Science is not concluded, it is an ever evolving process. If an industry has built a business around established science then it's time for them to go.

I would add that nearly every industry could benefit from fearless people willing to risk their careers to shake things up. On a related note there is a Netflix series called Ancient Apocalypse based on the research of Graham Hancock, another person entirely despised by academics and HN has many academics. As with most Netflix series they drag out each episode to be much longer than required to cover the subject material and it spends 60% of the time just watching him walk against different backgrounds, but the primary subject material is thought provoking.

But that is my own take and my own preference. I can see how it would make industries and investors fearful, as it should.
hello! the author here! the primary reason for going with this architecture is to make it scale well with off the shelf production ready tooling. RabbitMQ was chosen to provide a scalable durable queue for backpressure support and load balancing across runners, error handling etc. it adds onto the infra weight a bit but seems to be a simpler choice to program against and use libraries. The reasons for XTDB are mainly 2: it provides a temporal immutable store, hence the whole state of the CI system can immutably evolve like a git repo hence the whole thing can be inspected at a previous time. Bob treats time as a first class thing and not just build logs but you should be able to see the whole cluster at a past time and debug it fully as all of the state is the DB. The second reason is like @capableweb said, it decouples storage from compute so that we can have a pluggable storage and not a central point of compute.
It's a cultural thing. I've seen it in California companies, but not in Massachusetts companies. (In MA, people will talk about SOPs all the time.)

> In my specific case, I was having trouble getting good bug reports,

I just had to avoid the word "process."

What I've also observed is that some people in the startup scene think processes are restrictive. That's usually a sign of a company / leader that's too immature to effectively manage through high growth. (You can't have exponential startup growth without processes.)
Any time we figure out something new related to COVID19 it is used to justify everybody's political axe grinding and conspiracy theories. Science takes awhile and it will keep trudging on no matter what our cocksure overreactions are.
The vast majority of FTX Trading’s recorded assets are either illiquid venture capital investments [...] In all, the spreadsheet says FTX Trading’s assets were [...] $3.2bn of illiquid private equity investments.

Sounds like the VCs may have managed to recoup their investments using customer funds before the thing blew up.
But isn’t that basically the line of business of an exchange and a trading firm, supposedly one specializing in arbitrage? And despite its difficulty, which I can understand, it still seems like something that should be a bit more automated than the CEO typing them into a spreadsheet a week before the company collapses and warning readers of the “obvious” chance of typos.
>They aren't externalities and shouldn't be priced in.

If people in my city can't afford housing because of AirBnB, it has negative impacts on my city as a whole. This is an externality, which--by definition--is a thing that isn't priced in. An externality is defined as "a side effect or consequence of an industrial or commercial activity that affects other parties without this being reflected in the cost of the goods or services involved, such as the pollination of surrounding crops by bees kept for honey."

>Should the luddites have been compensated by those who operated mechanical looms?

UBI advocates might say yes; it's the whole idea that once some threshold of automation is passed, you won't have enough consumers to keep the economy running.
Migrating from GitHub to Sourcehut
People want to mindlessly scroll, a very low energy form of participation. At the end of the day, a very very small percentage of the users are creating content on a regular basis. You can't ignore the things that you give up by opting into a mass scale product, privacy, security, etc...

With a personal website, everything does become harder, but it ends up being your space and only your space. We've become accustomed to going viral and now no one can settle for having 50 consistent readers because that just seems so insignificant.
> On a spectrum of monolith to microservices, I suggest the following:

> Monolith > apps > services > microservices

While I can imagine the difference between a service and a microservice, what's the difference between apps and services?
Yep. Microservices were pushed hard by Martin Fowler who gives terrible programming advice that always yields extremely lucrative returns for cloud platforms.
Free speech absolutism has limits. It doesn't mean freely speaking your mind or making technical arguments or worse cracking unlabeled jokes.
Uber raised 25B in VC rounds, 8B in the IPO, iirc
Ukraine is not a member of the EU nor NATO, there were no obligations to intervene or introduce the self-destructive sanctions, etc.

We haven't intervened in Armenia or Ethiopia for example.
Author lacks imagination.
It was abuse at the first attempt.
Hey there! I plan to open source this soon so the source will be available and you can read it. It is really doing nothing but adding the emoji to GitHub.

But I understand that the shadiest people say they are legit, so I’ll prioritize open sourcing the extension so others can review it :) sounds good?
Don't. Working from home leads to nothing but work. Wake, eat, work, eat, work, eat, more computer, sleep.
That makes it even worse. They apparently do not even try to make it secure and willingly exclude some patches.
Reminds me of "security by management risk acceptance"
You're making a lot of assertions without any backup, and they don't make much sense.

> Caches, being cheap imitations of ACID 'compliant' databases

No they're not, not remotely.

> which themselves cheat all day every day

I don't believe a word of this, have you any actual evidence (other than I believe Oracle's serialisable is actually snapshot isolation IIRC)

> Half of a decision can be made with one version of a piece of data and the other half with another, resulting in undefined behavior. In a system that asserts that A = !B you can have an interaction that did some of the activities for A and some of the ones for B

And this just makes no sense, you're claiming that databases are not producing the results they should, if that's the case then I don't believe you understand transaction isolation levels or indeed how database queries work, in which case you have problems other than and larger than caching.

This whole thread s just getting weirder.
Did you even read the Twitter thread? The number (~20) was provided right there.
Depending on the exact claim it's often more like 12 months. A few even made it down to 6 months (affecting periods, for example) and I think one was as low as 2 months.
Marc Cohodes had spoken to Bloomberg Crypto staff about his suspicions of FTX - they were not interested in following. It had been months ago.
Great textbook, I learned all the topology I know from it. Previously, Category Theory was taught as a field that connects branches of math, and thus in terms of other concepts. But recently there's a movement to view Category Theory as the definitive underlying field of math (instead of set theory), and teach different fields of math in terms of Category Theory rather than vice versa (a new-new math in a sense). I learned Category Theory well before learning abstract algebra and topology, and the embedding of Topology in Category Theory was seamless and intuitive; I feel as though this book proves that this new CT-centric view of math education has merit.

One of the authors, Tai-Danae Bradley, also runs math3ma [1] and is a prominent figure in Applied Category Theory. I had the pleasure of hearing her talk, and her way of explaining abstractions is very easy to understand despite Category Theory being fairly obtuse at times (looking at you, Mac Lane!)

Also, an obligatory shilling of the Topos Institute [2]. They're a research institution based in Berkeley, and they have weekly talks on Category Theory that they release on youtube. If you're interested in the categorification of mathematics, you need to check them out.

[1] https://www.math3ma.com/

[2] https://topos.site/
This is a very interesting aspect of the very visible way that Musk has taken over Twitter. For example, not knowing his style, one would assume that decisions like making full self-driving use only camera sensors was discussed in depth and contrary points of view were carefully considered. That might have happened. But based on what we all now see, it also might not have happened at all. The same goes for Starship. Is it a breakthrough innovation? Or is it an idiosyncratic founder's Spruce Goose?
“Guix drops” part 1: package transformations
Apr for April :P
And how to change a dozens accounts on others services to a new email without old one?
A New Formula for Happiness
iirc it is just a mirror of libgen.
1) This is the technical answer: Cyanide binds fairly strongly to one of the molecular machines involved in cellular respiration, inactivating it.

The result of that inactivation is that your cell begins to have issues producing ATP, even when it has nutrients available. Without going too far into detail, ATP is essentially the cellular unit of energy that your cells run on. Without being able to make more, your cell will eventually run out of ATP and it will die. Enough cells die? You'll die.

2) The more important point here is that not only is your intuition uninformed, but you appear to be incredulous as well. Ask yourself why you react to unintuitive results in areas you're not familiar with in the way that you do.
The evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions
I’m not surprised by spreadsheets at all. They’re extremely powerful, and I know they’re used heavily. But this was clearly a document just basically made up by the CEO on the spot.
Yeah, I know. Just poking fun of their level of hype being such that they make it sound like you are one of a privileged few if they even take your call and allow you to buy this apparent masterpiece.
They hide that expenses in marketing.