skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider that a 2D bitmap is just a function p(x, y) = (r(x, y), g(x, y), b(x, y)), that assigns colors to (x, y) coordinates.

If you have a parametric curve c(t) = (x(t), y(t)), it’s easy to see that for each parameter value t, the tangent of the curve is going to point towards dc/dt = (dx/dt, dy/dt). You can take a perpendicular vector to this tangent by rotating it 90 degrees, and the two vectors will form a so-called tangent frame at t.

If you want to bend your bitmap around this curve, the key idea is to transform the domain of the bitmap. That is, instead of putting your bitmap pixel at (x, y), you would put it at something like c(x) + (dc/dt)(y) (some scaling factors omitted for brevity).

(In practice, you would want to invert this mapping, and map the pixels around the curve back to the domain of the bitmap, to avoid holes, but that’s an implementation detail. The key idea is thinking in terms of warping the bitmap’s domain.)
Yes, it's continuously updated.

The source code is here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/github-explorer

This shell scripts updates it: https://github.com/ClickHouse/github-explorer/blob/main/upda...
I would feel grateful for this question. It would allow me to quickly reject this company and move on.
Maybe I’m 80% sure I’m gonna pass on this candidate because I’m not confident they’ll stick around, but it can still be worth my time to get on a screener call and at least ask. There can be many reasons why someone jumps around frequently and maybe after hearing their story Ill be convinced that it’s a true story and a reasonable situation for them to be moving so much.
> we still need to explain it one more time?.

Well, yes. Pretty much everybody who got vaccinated still got (and spread) Covid anyway, in many cases multiple times. So the mandate made no logical sense.
Hah. Yeah, I think that describes most people in the industry to a T. It's rare to get paid to do the fun stuff, where the hours just disappear. A guy can still dream, though.
Good question! On top of my head, this is what I plan to do

- Timebox some activities (e.g browsing Instagram/Reddit/HN to 10 min a day or so)

- Set a deadline for the activities I have been avoiding to do

- Do some activities not just by myself but also with some friends. e.g reading a book together.
I've laughed in potential employers' faces when they said they expect 50 to 60 hour weeks from their hires. It just reeks of entitlement.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacement...

Firefox removed support for RSS back in 2018. It would've been great to get first class support from the browser but I understand their motivations for deprecating support.
"I actually come prepared for this question, and have a line to explain each and every job I've departed in reverse chronological order. And I'd be happy to read them off if you'd like. You do? Okay...

- VCs merged us with a Chinese acquisition and sent our work overseas
- Manager ignored my memos for 5 years and then said "you have no new ideas" to my face in a review
- Sales team demanded an emergency prototype and then let a competitor steal the contract
- Company pivoted into a different tech stack overnight
- Google rewrote our code in a weekend and kicked us out of Android
- Owner wouldn't install health benefits (+$5K) but hired his daughter for the summer for busywork
- Company abandoned the market and went into Facebook games

Now hopefully none of these scenarios will ever happen here. Right? Glad to hear it."
> The study, which involved mice and people, found that after weight training, muscles create and release little bubbles of genetic material that can flow to fat cells, jump-starting processes there related to fat burning.

Can this (“miR-1”) be synthesized without the exercise?
No, not really. Individuals can deduct the depreciation of rental properties and reduce their taxable income.

I think the advantage of corporations over individuals is their ability to more easily raise capital.

If an individual is making high levels of income, it’s likely they are already deferring and rerouting income into tax advantaged mechanisms. Kind of like a partner in a high value partnership.

But I don’t imagine an individual directly funding a billion dollars through their income.

The issue with individuals is that they just aren’t likely to use earned income as the source for these investments.

If it were me and I wanted to say invest $1M in rental properties. I would form an LLC and take out a bit loan in the LLC’s name backed by my personal assets as collateral. Then I’d buy property using the loan and collect all income into the LLC to pay the loan and invest in new properties over time.

The taxes on my personal income don’t really factor into it.
It’s just more Russian copium, after all the good faith gestures and retreats over the past 10ish months it’s clear they have no idea what they are doing outside the realm of propaganda.
So I went to check SLSA

Version Controlled: On the maintainer side
Verified History: On the maintainer side
Retained Indefinitely: Can be both
Two Person Reviewed: On the maintainer side
Scripted Build: On the maintainer side, could be both but not the current model
Build Service: Both i suppose
Build as code: On the maintainer side
Ephemeral env: User side
Isolated: Both
Parameterless: Both
Hermetic: Both but mostly maintainer
Reproducible: Maintainer side
Available: Could be discussed but maintainer
Authenticated: Maintainer
Service Generated: Both
Non-Falsifiable: both
Dependencies complete: Both
Security: Maintainer side
Access: Not applicable
Superusers: Both

So SLSA mostly demand work from the maintainers, not the users.
That is embodied very well in the Fastnacht (Carneval), especially of the Mainz and southern German variants (Cologne is a little bit more "Kokelores"), with many acts with biting political satire and commentary.
Just like California doesn't have enough water to support its population so it is a massive water grifter from the Colorado River.

Theoretically, Colorado should charge massive amounts of money for that water.

Every state helps each other out because we're united and grateful for each other!
For me personally, I want to get more comfortable with k8s, so I'm deploying to k8s. Till now it has been docker with a reverse proxy, all the way down.
Certainly, if both parties worked with unions, labor would not be seen as a partisan topic. And perhaps the continued rise of inequality might have been stymied.

https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-decline-inequality-ri...

And again, the AMA is not a union, but a professional association.
it wasn't necessarily meant as criticism of US, but more trying to point to issues that are relevant in the EU as it is now, or as it will be.

it is true that 'does / doesn't work' is subjective.
It's fine not to be a supplier! I'm usually not. But in that case, why publish your code so that people will think you are a supplier? Better to publish it as a gist, a notebook, or some other way of sharing example code, not as a package where people who want to reuse code without adopting it will expect to find such things.
Companies are constantly testing to see what they can get away with. It's a race to the bottom to provide you as little as possible while charging you as much as possible.

If we're willing to keep paying for 2 day shipping when we actually get 5-14 day shipping they're perfectly happy to keep pocketing our money without doing what we pay them for. If complaints stop being effective, it's going to take canceling prime.
The main focus of HTTP 2 and 3 was apparently performance, and hardly any of the other fundamental issues of the protocol. It's nice to see that some work is put into something like QUERY as well, which improves HTTP as an API protocol (REST) - although the motivation appears to be performance again and I always have mixed feelings when I see the term "idempotent" in a context that likely involves database systems. Too often, such requests do have side effects of some kind and preventing request retries throughout the stack isn't easy.
This is a common misconceptiom.

"Derived work" does NOT mean "copyright of original does not apply".

It means "copyright of original DOES apply, in addition to
copyright on the modifications."
> "Signing commits means that no one can sneak malicious content into your repository

Signing commits does not mean that even when using cryptographically secure hash function. All it means is that you put your signature over a particular state of the repo (and, by extensions, its parent states). It has nothing to do with preventing "sneaking things in" - although it could be a (small) part of the whole set of measures taken to prevent someone from doing that.
Every moment is new. You an always begin again.
Out params are needed to ensure zero-copy in-place initialization of large objects, i.e. what C++ does with placement new. You can sort of fake it with MaybeUninit<> https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/union.MaybeUninit.html but it's quite fiddly, requires unsafe code, and has undesirable effects on the layout of containing objects.
These lack the artistry of the originals. They look awkward.
near as I can tell both of those don't follow gmt, only norwegian antarctric territories (Troll etc) do? but I may be wrong
But i did write in big, capital letter that i am not a supplier in the licence, in the repo.

See the last sentence.
That's a whole lot of shesaid without receipts.
Agreed. You changed twice last year and you have good reasons, fine. You changed every 6 months for the last 10 years and it is always the others fault? Either you've been really unlucky and I am sorry for you or the blame is not on the others and you may want to ask yourself some existential questions.

Interviews are here to determine if the place is a good fit, on both sides.
Startups will work you to death if they could. I have zero interest in repeating this again.
This was a good article. Also available in podcast form: https://overcast.fm/+G2W1mXPTY
maybe dentists wouldn't be lied to if they could actually tell if you floss or not. i always start flossing 2 weeks before my biannual cleaning and consistently receive glowing reviews from dentists on my dental hygiene.

feels like the whole thing is a racket
Honestly maybe getting Croatian borders dissolved will be enough because in-season traffic is just such a sad waste. I would guess that traffic on the new borders will not be as bad.
Questions like #5 are some of my least favorite. I don’t know if it’s only prevalent in the US, but can we stop throwing around phrases like “why are you the best” or “what is your super power”, etc. Not only this makes me cringe, it also leads to an uncomfortable moment since I always reply that I am not the best and don’t have super powers.
Very cool. I just played though the "World loops every 10 second" game, fun idea :)
> Anti globalism sentiments are in every country these days. I personally don't see euro countries giving any more power to the European Commission, and I see the project ultimately failing.

My personal experience is that after brexit a lot of people are more pro-eu than before. Of course it is just anecdata.
Once people are literally throwing billions of dollars at you, I have trouble imagining a person who is immune to having it warp their perception of what is normal and socially acceptable.
One of the most ridiculous questions I've encountered was asked by a manager on the Alexa team. First question in and this guy sneers at me and says tell me the smartest thing you've ever done. Hmmm... what?

To say this rubbed me the wrong way is an understatement. I knew immediately that I would loathe reporting to someone so egotistical, so it went downhill from there. I'm just never going humor to someone who starts a conversation with a pissing contest.
Children of the Omnissiah would be better if there were a percussion blob. https://youtu.be/fTuEjTuvd_Y
> Landlord costs aren't ordinarily passed onto tenants

I disagree. Costs are frequently passed on directly. For example, if utilities are included in the rent and the utility rates shift up, then the rent will increase due to that.

I think it’s common that there’s an expected rate of return that investors want in their rental property and they invest according to that.

It’s not that landlords charge what the tenant can bear as the tenant might be able to afford lots. The landlord charges what the market will bear. If the tenant makes $1M/year it won’t really affect what the landlord charges them.
What was surprising was how quiet L arginine's benefit to help fighting covid was kept, even after a study [1]

Ivermectin was said to need only approximately 100 times the normal dose per kilo to affect the covid virus ... a Canadian hospital would later calculate and publish their findings, that the application of a human version they used, it would only require roughly 55 times the normal rate to reach the required saturation rate.

Injectable Ivermectin was very much a big part of cheap heartworm treatment in dogs around my locale back in the late 80s. There was an awareness that for some dogs it did not agree with them in the least, some fatally. For a start some cause was directed to a miscalculation on the part of the person applying it. Slowly due to overdoses, it was clear even at normal rates some dogs did not cope well. (Having witnessed first hand the effects of using way too much - at a mere 6 times more dose per kilo, all the affected dogs developed the staggers and preferred to rest, clearly dopey and not at all listful.) Humans might do better with the blood brain barrier membrane, but given the similarities I doubt no test would be ever be approved to see if an otherwise healthy person could endure 25 times normal dosage.

Presently long covid is another new problem of the pandemic - and once more L arginine might be useful. [2]

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35868478/
Same strategy. I find ordering at Aliexpress like buying at Costco -- always in more quantity than necessary.
> I've laughed in potential employers' faces when they said they expect 50 to 60 hour weeks from their hires.

Quant finance companies expect employees to work 60-80 hours per week.

But then again, they pay 400-500K USD to 22 year old new grads.
Well, the first two /are/ Christmas movies.
I would note that the trusted actor did not went malicious. He did exactly what he was entitled to.

If we follow the rules, the people that went malicious are all the trusted users and package repository that broke his intent. He was totally in the limits of his rights and the social contract of the licencing for FOSS.

The fact we present these maintainers as "going malicious" is exactly what i am ranting against in this post.
I don't understand the animus against Fermi questions. I think they're quite indicative of a candidate's basic abilities, particularly for technical roles.
Yeah it's ridiculous to think it's a wrong question because you're in a resume competition and a peer is at 4 years per job average and you're at 1. Purely neutrally, for the hiring person, he s faced with a short term guy vs a medium term guy.

If the guy reply "why do you care", then it s def suspicious and the short term guy might be so incompetent he s pushed away and doesnt last more than a year. I d take the guy who seem to survive 4 years most jobs to be safe.
Something I find myself doing is saying, “the reason I’m asking X is because Y.” I aim for absolute transparency. This isn’t a game of subterfuge, I’ll leave that part to
HR…
> That's a whole lot of shesaid without receipts.

From the article

> Airbnb more or less admitted this four years earlier when it told Jay it had found her picture: How else would it have been unearthed?

> Airbnb’s open admission to Freya and her partner that their accounts were suspended as a result of Freya’s sex work suggests that Airbnb, which until recently denied targeting sex workers when not avoiding the question entirely, is confident in the surveillance technology it has been refining for years.
That suggests there is a problem with the local policies. I recall when the US had that baby formula crisis and people couldn't import the stuff because of local policies. Which is obviously stupid. There were starving babies. US babies aren't that different from EU, APAC, or South American babies.

The crisis was a self inflicted wound. And by far most of the time, the idea that a good is OK in one country but unacceptable in another is silly. It is quite rare that a good that can be sold somewhere needs to be restricted somewhere else. It happens in rare cases, but far less than most policies would have us believe.
Can you have the computer draw a red line in blue ink?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
While I agree all of these scenarios are good reasons to leave, I have a feeling (based on being an American for all 30 years of my life now), these answers would be classified as "TOO REAL" and as a result you might be filtered for "culture fit" aka manager doesn't think he/she can control you.
Happy new year~~
Tech That Died in 2022
Thanks! Just think, my voice is just one call away… so long as I’m not changing a diaper or cooking dinner.
> I handle 100% of my indie app's email

Same.

> Still, 50/1000 seems high to me

Same.
I read his paper in 2020 and it was not even wrong. Which for me put him into the 'lies about stuff' category. And when a when a source is known to lie you should weight everything they say with a weight of zero.

Their statement * 0 = nothing.

See the legal principal Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus (false in one thing, false in everything).
I actually used a .tk domain for a forum for some university friends when I was still busy with my studies.

It worked well enough and was free, however I was asked for money to renew the supposedly free domain. That's when I decided that it's easier for me to just manage my domains with NameCheap or another solution where I already had some other paid domains (maybe to just put the forum under a subdomain of one of those).

Apart from the .tk domains being free at the time, there was nothing else going for the platform in my eyes. Note that I did pay for a year for that particular domain because it was cheap, so the transition would be smoother - a redirect at the web server level, where is you open the site through the old domain, you're redirected to the new one.
Why not raise rents 8% and rent out all 4,000.

Rents aren’t chosen arbitrarily by the landlord. They can’t set to whatever they like, else they’d increase 100%.

This is different is a single landlord has a monopoly or there’s a cartel. But in a typical city there might be 500k units for rent. So if a landlord raises rent by 8% on their 4,000 units, then people will likely choose other units that didn’t go up.

Not to be dismissive, but this is basic econ101 and any intro text will have lots of examples and evidence of these principles at work.
Lol, after 3 small companies, I joined a large systemic bank. It's less exciting but I can see projects to their completion without being surrounded by bumbling idiots barely out of business school barking nonsensical orders.
I wonder if WeChat as a portal facilitates direct-from-manufacturer sales. Is Amazon a contender in China?
According to Wikipedia[0] these states supplied >1.5% of federal tax revenues in FY2019:

California-13%
New York-9%
Texas-8%
Florida-6%
Illinois-5%
Ohio-4%
Pennsylvania-4%
New Jersey-4%
Massachusetts-3%
Minnesota-3%
Washington-3%
Georgia-3%
North Carolina-2%
Virginia-2%
Michigan-2%
Maryland-2%
Tennessee-2%
Missouri-2%
Indiana-2%
Colorado-2%
Connecticut-2%

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state
For the hi-tech and finance to function, where the riches come from, there needs to be a whole bunch basic needs met. Without energy, farming, cattling, fishing, mining, timber, transportation, etc, which are seeming cheap in value, there're no hi-tech industry or finance industry. These industries build on top of the foundations.

Mississippi is home to and end of the most important river in the U.S. if not in the world. The Mississippi River is absolutely vital to U.S. economies in the past hundred years and of now. It provides cheap and energy efficient transportation that ships goods and material around the country and to the world. Shipping is the cheapest form of transportation. The River is one of the biggest competitive advantage the U.S. has.
Feel free to provide a substantive description of how it really works.

https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal...
Another take, one to be sure s/he is not one of the 5%
Interesting article, thanks for sharing.

Seth is a special case in his field. He works in a very creative discipline but frequently defers to logic. So I'm guessing there are many aspects of the average marketing day-to-day that would drive him absolutely nuts.

> Better to share our feelings than to pretend we have an argument to make.

Better to share? Is one even allowed to share these feeling things without some cover? Tech communities for example generally respond rather poorly to the sharing of feelings in isolation.

Feelings are thus typically voiceless by default in many tech communities. They happen behind the scenes via anonymous voting systems, off-channel community chat, etc.

Further, feelings don't really care what the definition of an argument really is. That's how they work. Feelings aren't the same as logic. But this doesn't mean that feelings are bad. In many cases, if not most cases, they are extremely useful to monitor.

Feelings also start arguments all the time--you can even say that part of the point of feelings is that they don't agree about what constitutes a proper argument, fair argument, etc.

IMO one of the best ways to get _more_ of the feelings you _don't_ want is to make logical arguments against them.

There are, however, extremely logical forms of feeling which can be used to deal with shallower and less appropriate forms of expression. Knowing & using such can be really wise.

And inappropriate expression is often what people really hate, when they feel hatred for feelings.

> An argument might be flawed because it relies on facts that aren’t in evidence.

And when someone hasn't developed the skill to perceive quality in logic at the level of other logical thinkers (regardless of the objective validity of their personal perceptions--this is important), they are often left with the impression that inappropriate expression is their only fallback.

This, conversely, can make an argument from logic completely unreliable, putting situations at loggerheads and supporting the perception of false dichotomies (feelings vs. logic).
I don't know that I've seen a paper that says this explicitly, I'm just saying it based on experience. You may have seen papers where they obscure parts of the image and find that the classifier is basing its decision on the background, I think that's well known. Likewise I can't cite a paper of the top of my head, but the usual augmentations like random cropping, flipping, color jitter, etc are pretty well known to practitioners as way of preventing oveffitting. I see additional prediction targets as an extension of that, because they likewise incentivise the model to learn the "right" features because they make it harder to latch on to some spurious pattern in the data. And I've had success with it practically, which is why I made my original comment. Ymmv of course
CDC reports a new strain of omicron taking over in the U.S.
True, the reductionism is no good. I guess to me I’m tired of discourse that leans towards “universities are places where we make you a complete human”. The real state of things is more what I describe, with a dash of making you deeper. Not vice versa.