skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the ultimate example, and yet, most people never make the connection.
Because no one likes short and to the point answers. Big, longwinded answers are seen as better. See any interview ever and resumes by extent.
Ask HN: What search engines are you using?
Can you share your recent experience with different search engines?

I've tried brave, duduckgo, kagi, start page, qwant, you, searX. Relevance of results is average. I want more organic results, to text made for content (blogs), not text made for clickbait (publishing sites). Add "reddit" to search words to get more organic results is also wired phenomenon.

I just feel that those search engines are more for advertising than searching relevant results. How you deal with that?

For example teclis.com is good for science and academic articles, are there any other search engines more relevant in different subjects?
> I can imagine many levels of royal induced pressure being applied here.

The royals give zero fucks about SBF and crypto.
My colour vision is absolutely perfect, and I wouldn't want to have to distinguish between the first and last in isolation in difficult circumstances.
Nixtamal, I had no idea what it was so I looked it up. Then I learned I knew what it was but still had no idea what it was.

https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/what-is-nixtamal-arti...

Thank you!
> Hou and Luo’s work was suggestive, but not a true proof. That’s because it’s impossible for a computer to calculate infinite values. It can get very close to seeing a singularity, but it can’t actually reach it — meaning that the solution might be very accurate, but it’s still an approximation.

I feel certain that if you run a process that approaches infinity using ordinary floating-point numbers, you will actually reach infinity. This is a case ("can a calculation yield an infinite result?") where computers have less of a problem than people do.

You'd have to deal with the question of whether the infinite value accurately reflected an infinite limit of the process or whether it was spurious. But there's no difficulty in calculating infinite values.
Watch as SBF makes the sentence wraparound and gets zero years, because he's well connected through daddy and his donations.
>Indeed for her kind of data the rainbow palette works okay. But if you have to visualize more complex / denser data, beware of the pitfalls of the rainbow color palette. It is not always the best choice.

There is already a trap in this palette, the first color looks awfully like the last. It's fine if you just want a palette for a bunch of lines but using it for heatmap could be a bit misleading in edge cases
You could also argue how much is Elon Musk really an old school industrialist when many of his companies are very intertwined with the government. Tesla selling regulatory credits to other automakers, SpaceX with goverment contracts, ...

So I not sure if managerialism vs industrialist is the right divide here. But there is some divide that makes Elon owning Twitter more notable than Blackrock owning it for some reason.
Ultimately? Yeah. Overall, y'all spoiled.
Why do you say "late"? They're still around.
The Far Side is down
The Far Side comic strip site is down (NXDOMAIN).
That describes me.

I passed my test in a manual car in Britain, but I never bought a car. I've rented them when abroad, and have an account with the pay-per-minute electric cars, but at this point I don't want to drive a manual if there's an automatic available.
Show HN: A mesmerizing morphing spirograph using SDL2
- State Rural Fire Service App (showing maps, warnings, and alerts)

- App for our national airline

- EPG and remote recording app for cable company

- MacOCR command line app: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
What if China owns the sandbox?
> "I am devastated by my failings,” she said. “I have felt deep pain.."

I am. I have.

Still me me me. Narcissist.
Or they go back to country (If on an indentured servitude work visa and then get into unsexy jobs:( )
> unless an experiment kills them some other way they inevitably die of cancer.

Doesn’t this only apply to Lewis and Sprague Dawley rats? Edit: and DuPont’s OncoMouse
You sound both like a wonderful human being and a very annoying one at the same time. But I like it. I salute you for keeping your people connected. Wish I had someone like you in my life.
That's a good point. The piece fails to address the many ills of the entrepreneurial capitalism it describes, probably owing to Silicon Valley's tendency towards self flattery. It's remarkable how poorly the industry has fared now that the Fed has closed the spigot of free money.
Thank you for the link, this is interesting. It's nice Apple is apparently building support for custom crash reporting into the OS.

From a privacy perspective it sounds like it logs exactly the same info that I currently log with PLCrashReporter, except that it only works on macOS 12.
> Basically, first gear gives the Taycan more access to torque, allowing it to accelerate even quicker; second allows the motor spin at a lower speed while maintaining speed, thus improving efficiency.

That's what I never understood about EVs. Don't you gain some battery life (and thus range) by having a gearbox? Automatic or manual.
Can MailChannels be used for commercial purposes. Any limits? Can I create a "newsletter" SaaS, like MailChimp? Seems too good to be true.
Bahamas gov needs time to identify who owns what. They seized the assets for safekeeping and surely will collaborate with US Courts too.

Who would you rather have keeping your money? SBF with a warrant on his head and cash to disappear forever, or a national govermebt you can eventually sue if needed?
I realized I forgot to mention one more thing, vitamin D modulates certain relevant cytokine levels too, if I'm remembering right!
I think it's a cultural thing. We Europeans are just more used to driving manual transmission vehicles.
This class analysis seems overcomplicated. What makes Musk's leadership "entrepreneurial capitalism" as opposed to managerialism? Musk is a member of the PMC! You may consider him a more competent, assertive, and unorthodox manager, at best, but he is still a manager. And as his control solidifies, is he going to make all of the management decisions still? No, he will institute likely handpicked managers who he entrusts. Who are ultimately still members of the managerial class.

When HN preaches the benefits of founder-led companies, it does not claim that founders are a different class from other types of CEOs. More hands-on and with more personally invested, sure. But are all founders truly different from the managerial class? That seems to be more of a management style than anything. And founder-led companies are often less than successful- just ask Dorsey himself. Was he PMC? Was he not an entrepreneur capitalist when he was CEO of Twitter the second time around? This is all a lot of half-baked analysis to claim that one set of presumably more able management and an older ossified set of management are two entirely different classes of people.
This is so spot on. I feel like I am such a shitty friend especially after having witnessed my friends go above and beyond for when we needed their help without even being asked for it.
> Until relatively recently automatics were so rare you'd often see an actual sticker on the back of the car

How recent do you mean? I know you get manufacturer brands like "5.1 GTI Automatic" on the back, but I can't remember ever seeing a warning sticker.

> Currently, manual cars still account for 70 per cent of the 31.7 million cars on UK's roads [1]

so it must have been a fair while ago.

[1] https://www.directlinegroup.co.uk/en/news/brand-news/2022/th...
One of our engineers has a good writeup: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Apr/12/porting-vaccinateca-to...
FYI, federal judges are not elected by the public. Instead, POTUS picks up a judge, and the Senate has to approve. Prosecution asked for 15 years, the defense asked for home confinement or 18 months in prison.
Thanks for sharing! I was looking for a M1 solution weeks ago snd couldn‘t find any working one. Will try that one now! Looking around for servers with GPUs etc. resulted in stopping me at playing around with it as i got overwhelmed with options.
In 2019 - Built an App for Child Health & Growth Tracking.
Helped over 400,000 users & answered 7,00,000 Queries in their child growth & development tracking. So far, it is completely free. We were able to help parents from India, Bangladesh, Kenya & multiple countries who have limited access to child healthcare.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inikworld....

On commercial side, I have been part of founding team of a Sports Startup. This is an underdog team & with the tech product that team won a SuperBowl. Not sure, how impactful this is.
Not really, they are just similar if you put it next to eachother (both are essentially shades of purple/violet) and as they are at different ends of scale it could get confusing if used as heatmap
Artificial neural networks learn better when they spend time not learning at all
This week in KDE: less-rage-inducing error messages in Discover
I think the major problem a lot of people have with Elon's behaviour is not that he is behaving in an "entrepreneurial" way, but that he appears to be in the middle of a hypomanic episode and has nobody around him who has the ability or balls to tell him he's acting irrationally. And I say this as someone who is bipolar and has them on a regular basis. Most people (who manage their mental health conditions responsibly), have a group of people they trust to rein them in when they start going batshit. This usually involves things like taking away their bank cards so they don't spend all their money, dissuading them from making any major, life altering decisions, noting when you're lying to yourself and others, and attempting to point out that possibly behaving like a self aggrandising megalomaniac is not particularly healthy.

It's quite clear that Musk doesn't have anyone around who is willing or able to do that. Most of us when we go hypo will end up blasting through our savings, screwing around (literally) and generally pissing off all around us by behaving in a self centred and irrational way, but ultimately the damage we do is limited mostly to ourselves. Elon on the other hand has spent billions on a company, apparently on a whim, probably during another episode, that he later regretted and tried to get out of, again presumably when he came down, and now appears to be taking a series of increasingly irrational and destructive decisions that are affecting the lives of many. To be honest, I think it's kind of sad to watch.
Maintained/released the GNU coreutils for the last 10 years
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commits?author=pixelb

Designed/Built/Deployed Meta's backend operating system for the last 7 years
The government has always been a customer. Companies in many industries can compete for government contracts. Going back the to industrialist days the gov was providing subsidies as well, eg. for railroads
Not really. They've been complaining about shadow banning at the account level. Musk explicitly said it would be at the Tweet level.
I would actually disagree with that - call-by-name is very much an anti-feature, for example, as are goto-labels-as-function-arguments. And, at the same time, crucial features such as pointers were missing.

OTOH Algol 68 is a whole different story, and for all its weirdness (much of which is terminological - "transput" for I/O, "mode" for type etc), its extreme orthogonality and consistency is very elegant.
> There is undeniably an advantage (privilege) to bring a Turk in Turkey and not a Kurd.

Certainly. And there was undeniably an advantage to being white in America fifty years ago (and even twenty, probably). But we now live in a nation where the stated policy of many institutions is to favor non-whites. And in California, non-Hispanic whites aren't even the largest ethnic group.

The assumption that white people have never experienced "race-based disadvantage" seems to be likewise rather flimsy and unsupported by evidence.

As for SBF, I suspect that being wealthy and well-connected was far more helpful than being white. Indeed, if he had been black or Hispanic, he would have been celebrated for that reason alone, whereas, as we see in this article, being white is cause for opposition.
> the steering was very heavy (as in lifting weights heavy)

The 1310 didn't have power steering :)

But it can be worse. You could try driving a 2 ton Mercedes with non functional power steering. That's a sweat inducing task.

Anyway, with no power steering you have to keep the car moving at a snail's pace when turning the wheel. No adjusting wheels in place if you're not up to date with your weight lifting. This skill got lost before the skill to drive a manual.
A data dictionary of 200+ business metrics used in a large water utility company, listing clear explanations, pseudo SQL and source data lineage.

Before this there were 5 different ways to calculate specific things like “minimum night flow”.

Plus we then built the data product which calculates all that stuff and serves it to the business in a self-serve query interface.

But by far the most impactful was bringing together different teams to align on how actually to calculate core business terms.
Here's an even simpler method, that's actually more fair because it doesn't bias toward those with big pockets or much time or technical skill:

Open up for registration. Keep registration open until the date of the show. Registration costs the price of the ticket. As the show comes close, for as long as there are tickets not sold, randomly select some people every day who receive a ticket. On the day of the show, refund -- with interest -- the money of the people who were never offered a ticket.

I've never understood this obsession with first come, first served for extremely limited resources. Due to technical limitations it pretty much always turns out to be a lottery anyway, and we would save both customers and sysadmins trouble by explicitly turning it into one instead.

(Back in the days when it required camping outside the ticket office, it instead unfairly favoured those with lots of time on their hands, and/or lots of money.)

(I'm assuming "fair" here means that everyone has an equal chance, uncorrelated with any other aspect of their life. A random selection is the only method that can guarantee this property.)
Without speculating about his mental state, which doesn't only apply to him but to other polarizing public figures, it definitely seems like his actions are larger-than-life and controversial. I'd argue that a lot of it is probably carefully cultivated, but the monomaniacal, megalomaniacal style is just off-putting for the masses exhausted by celebrity spotlight chasing (even if it might serve to elide all sorts of decisions the public might not be looking at):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659992
This comment reads like it was written by a GPT
> When artificial neural networks learn sequentially, new information overwrites previous information, a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting // «In contrast, the human brain learns continuously and incorporates new data into existing knowledge... and it typically learns best when new training is interleaved with periods of sleep for memory consolidation» [Maxim Bazhenov, Ph.D., professor of medicine and a sleep researcher at Uni-SanDiego]

> [Bazhenov and colleagues] used spiking neural networks that artificially mimic natural neural systems: instead of information being communicated continuously, it is transmitted as discrete events (spikes) at certain time points // They found that when the spiking networks were trained on a new task, but with occasional off-line periods that mimicked sleep, catastrophic forgetting was mitigated

Original research article: Sleep prevents catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networks by forming a joint synaptic weight representation - https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010628

> [W]e used spiking network to study mechanisms behind catastrophic forgetting and the role of sleep in preventing it. The network could be trained to learn a complex foraging task but exhibited catastrophic forgetting when trained sequentially on different tasks. [...] Interleaving new task training with periods of off-line reactivation, mimicking biological sleep, mitigated catastrophic forgetting by constraining the network synaptic weight state to the previously learned manifold, while allowing the weight configuration to converge towards the intersection of the manifolds representing old and new tasks

--

Personally not sure, at this stage of reading, about what is the difference between the above sketched method and just training on a larger dataset made of the old and the new together (set0, set0+set1, set0+set1+set2 ... instead of set0, set1, set2. The point seems to be more about about information compression, clusterization, relation, virtuous strengthening (interdisciplinarity), capacity).
Do they look equal ? The colors in article look darker on ends than in middle

Here is one I use ( in Terminator)

palette = "#000000:#cc0000:#408600:#c4a000:#204a87:#75507b:#06839a:#d3d7cf:#555555:#ef2929:#8ae234:#fce94f:#729fcf:#ad7fa8:#34bae2:#eeeeec"
It's a good question, and it's frankly so complicated that I'm not sure I can explain it. Basically own capital is the operational capital that is on your company's books that your company can budget and spend. Investor money aren't.

This can play out in a lot of different ways, and many of them are probably a little different than what HN is used to, but in many cases, especially in investment banking, it's common for investors to buy into projects rather than into companies. Of course the projects are likely going to be multiple companies as legal entities, but basically, they are a lot like school projects in which one computer is great at doing the project and the other owns a computer to do the project on.

Let's say I'm really good at building offshore windmill farms. I'm also great at selling them for a nice profit once they are build, but a 40% profit on 10 is still just 14. You're rich on the other hand, but you're not really sure how to grow your fortune. Now if we pool my 10 and your 100 and the banks 100 together, then we can turn those 210 into almost 300 in the same amount of time that I could turn my 10 into 14. The 10 is own capital.

Even if you were to invest in my company directly, it would still make sense for you, and the other investors to keep some operational capital on the budgets. Both because it's healthy, and because it allows the company to move in on opportunities before they are sold to investors. Maybe there was an opportunity to turn the 210 into 1000, but you had to act NOW. I could put my own 100 up, and then slowly sell them to you, or other investors, over the following year.

And so on. It's much, much, more complicated than this, and then you also have to add the real complexity of all the bureaucratic "magic" that goes along with finances.
That's how Amiga OCS/ECS color palette works as well, 4 bits per primary.

For whatever reason my brain considers it important enough I still remember $dff180 is the first color palette entry address. :-)
Why unfortunate? Plant-based meat substitutes are exactly as unhealthy as one would assume from them being ultra-processed. They are made to taste good in the same way (adding lots of fats, sugars, salt, etc.).

Perhaps there are ultra-processed foods that are not unhealthy, but that does not include "Impossible Meat".
On my laptop and phone I can tell the two apart both together and with some distance between them when in relatively isolated blocks with similar surroundings. I might struggle if one were surrounded by brighter colours than the other, though human visual perception had trouble with that anyway (hence the "those two colours are actually the same" optical illusions).

The screen I code/write/read on mainly is setup differently to be easier on the eye for long periods but is not as true in colour output, I think (I'm away from it right now so can't check) they may look nearer identical on there.

I suspect people reporting difficulty seeing the difference will be a mix of differences in their eyes and differences in they screen configuration (or screen quality: some things can't be configured around).
Set up SOCKS5 proxy (e.g. github.com/rofl0r/microsocks) on the nearest router and configure router's firewall to drop all outgoing packets whose TTL is near 128 (Windows). Then configure FoxyProxy in Firefox or Chrome to use your SOCKS5 proxy. Windows will think it's offline, browser and other apps which are aware of your proxy will work fine.
The proof is not a social construct.

The truth is.

The proof is a mechanism to reach that consensus, by convincing other mathematicians of a specific truth. That is all it is.

There is a naive idea that a proof is a purely mechanical series of steps that provides access to truth. Last I checked, this isn't so for the vast majority of proofs in math. Such a proof would be way too tedious to construct or check by mathematicians. And if it isn't checkable, how do we know it is actually true?

Automated proofs are a subfield, and (again, last I checked) controversial because they can often not be checked by humans.

So for example, if the proof doesn't convince other mathematicians, then it's not a a proof.

Or it might convince other mathematicians and later turn out to be wrong after all.

For more on the practical aspects of math, I highly recommend The Mathematical Experience.

https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Experience-Phillip-J-Dav...

I read it in German:

https://www.amazon.com/Erfahrung-Mathematik-German-P-J-Davis...
No one’s said that it makes them Good Guy. Only Human.
Please stop posting fanfiction.
I observed the same thing. I wonder however, who should adapt? Because now we are referring to Indian colleagues. In todays work environments, it’s multi cultural. So we cant expect everyone to know the quirks of everybody else’s cultural edge cases.
I met an drunk ex navy guy at a bar about 15 years ago. He talked about how certain USA allies wouldn’t allow ships carrying nuclear weapons to dock in their ports. He said however their was no restriction on carrying the parts necessary to assemble nuclear weapons. So maybe they take out a screw on all of the warheads before sailing into port.
Sub millisecond timing is basically impossible with context switching involved. Even on a real time kernel config, the best you are going to get with a time slice is 1ms.

With busy waiting, you can achieve timings in the sub-microsecond range, depending on how heavy the loop is.
Not really a problem for terminal as long as it is legible
> Why can't she claim they made some dumb modification - and combined with using the Siemans machine out of spec - that it was the "Theranos Machine"?

Well, because we're talking about medical diagnosis, not a note-taking app. You don't get to just make claims, you need to prove them.
Pick one that scratches one of your itches, and get started. Release early, keep iterations small. It's easier to keep working on something you actively use.
I wonder how many others would answer "probably not".

To me, this isn't about liking me, who wouldn't!

It's more about being identical. Even if a friend shares the same likes, interests, hobbies, they have a different view on it. Their brain thinks via a different process.

I don't want a mirror as a friend.
The essential difference between PMC and Entrepreneur is skin in the game. Musk is the manage and primary equity owner, whereas the PMC is managerial only. Whether that's good, bad or indifferent is up to you, but the whole point of the article is this distinction.
Or halve or a third. Have you not been reading about FTX and Binance?
Most artists don’t want to charge $20, they want to charge $200 and blame it on someone else. That is a big part of the value proposition for ticket master. And they can allow ticket resale so the artist/promoter gets another cut, so shows sell out faster.