skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With optimization functions, the general process is pick a point, iterate until a local maximum, pick a new point, iterate until a local maximum, and repeat until you have an answer you're comfortable with. You might run out of time, or evaluate enough of the space that you're confident you've found an anawer.

When you apply the same idea to iterating on a product, or an engineering problem, the end result of your iteration depends on you choosing a good starting point. that's where experience comes in - you don't start all the way at the beginning, you start at the place where you know you can iterate to higher maximum. You've already had those repeat failures in the past.

A slightly silly but less abstract example. Let's say im brought in to a company to help solve the problem that the developers can't work on the project together because they can't share code.

_A_ starting point is a network drive, and you can iterate on that with file locks and faster networks, but you hit a local maximum. You then decide to use a database or something, and eventually you reinvent CVS.

Meanwhile, an experienced developer will skip all of that and start with git, and iterate on things like code review, merge pipelines.

Iteration is still key.
You can pick and choose what you use amplify for. I use it for all the front-end CI/CD tasks and API Gateway/Lambda/etc. however I want for the backend. Use it for what it’s good for without getting locked in.
From my own experience I believe the issue is that when these modules start to go bad they fail to turn off and stay awake indefinitely.
How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition well (2020)
The new Edge browser is basically a revamped Chromium, so that'd be a pretty dumb move.
Should note this only applies to AUR packages and `-git` mostly because of missing archive hashes.

AUR packages pinned to mutable tags are easiest to hijack.
Is your beef the serifs, or browser's justification doing a number on the word spacing? I find it easier to read with the justification removed.
Your points are theoretically correct, and probably the reason why many statisticians still regard p-values and HNST favorably.

But looking at the practical application, in particular the replication crisis, specification curve analysis, de facto power of published studies and many more, we see that there is an immense practical problem and p-values are not making it better.

We need to criticize p-values and NHST hard, not because they cannot be used correctly, but because they are not used correctly (and are arguably hard to use right, see the Gigerenzer paper I linked).
Interesting to note that the idea of the "Big Bounce" has been around a long time. Penrose's claim seems to be that there may be evidence of it in cosmic background radiation hotspots.

This was Nietzsche in 1885, musing on how developments in thermodynamics had complicated the mechanistic picture of the universe:

> And do you know what "the world" is to me? Shall I show it to you in my mirror? This world: a monster of energy, without beginning, without end; a firm, iron magnitude of force that does not grow bigger or smaller, that does not expend itself but only transforms itself; as a whole, of unalterable size, a household without expenses or losses, but likewise without increase or income; enclosed by "nothingness" as by a boundary; not something blurry or wasted, not something endlessly extended, but set in a definite space as a definite force, and not a space that might be "empty" here or there, but rather as force throughout, as a play of forces and waves of forces, at the same time one and many, increasing here and at the same time decreasing there; a sea of forces flowing and rushing together, eternally changing, eternally flooding back, with tremendous years of recurrence, with an ebb and a flood of its forms; out of the simplest forms striving toward the most complex, out of the stillest, most rigid, coldest forms toward the hottest, most turbulent, most self-contradictory, and then again returning home to the simple out of this abundance, out of the play of contradictions back to the joy of concord, still affirming itself in this uniformity of its courses and its years, blessing itself as that which must return eternally, as a becoming that knows no satiety, no disgust, no weariness: this, my Dionysian world of the eternally self-creating, the eternally self-destroying, this mystery world of the twofold voluptuous delight, my "beyond good and evil," without goal, unless the joy of the circle is itself a goal; without will, unless a ring feels good will toward itself-do you want a name for this world? A solution for all its riddles? A light for you, too, you best-concealed, strongest, most intrepid, most midnightly men?- This world is the will to power-and nothing besides! And you yourselves are also this will to power-and nothing besides!
They're all/mostly websites about the state of the Rust language ecosystem. For example, can you write games in Rust (https://arewegameyet.rs/) or what's the state of the async (https://areweasyncyet.rs/)
Get back to me when Agent 47 writes his book.
I haven't used the Image component but I've hosted a Next.js project. leerob's comment said "To clarify again, you do not need to use Vercel for optimizing images. It works using next start or any loader of your choice.". This implies that it would still work in SSR using any hosting method, it doesn't mean you're forced to use Vercel's hosting services.

There should be a warning that it won't work with SSG and is only for SSR, but there are also many features on next.js that are SSR only.
It is fantastic that a company operating with such horrific practices is dead. While we are at it, when can we fix similar issues below with mainstream financial systems that millions of people are still using?

- Social security numbers are used as a secret for identification, despite being in plaintext and having so low entropy as to be guessable, and originally issued on a card literally saying "Not for Identification".

- Every bank check lists the bank account number, which serves as the only information needed for a party to issue a request to withdraw money from that account.

- Credit card numbers are similarly a private number used as a public number, and printed on plaintext on the card.

Is there any effort working on bringing asymmetric encryption to these systems or to replace them that has a reasonable chance of working?
> Measuring voltage drop would work but only for fairly high loads.

Yah, that doesn't really make sense for small parasitic loads.

> Ammeter is not safe as general advice as a typical one won’t be anywhere near large enough capacity for working with a car battery

It should be fine with the car not "on", but the general level of danger of doing anything near a car battery requires caution.
I wonder if this reaction is so strong because the readership here are generally more knowledgeable on software and software security than banking. If there was a Hacker News for banking experts, they probably had this reaction to the "accounting" spreadsheet SBF released previously.
I once had a car where I had to disconnect the battery to clear the check-engine light so it would pass a state inspection.
Heh, it's funny as your link encourages wider tracking so I guess it is the serifs.
I have bruxism myself... What's the link with sleep apnea exactly? The jaw's position pushing the tongue back?
Only at the beginner levels. Once you get beyond beginner you realize that many words have 20 different definitions, and each definition maps to a different word in the other language - and the problem happens when you reverse as well.
Not a big deal. The paper on RNNs is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping someone would bring up here. Thank you!
On M-: -- My typical approach is to use the scratch buffer, where I can evaluate multiple things and remember the outcomes, macroexpand etc. So, M-: isn't the only alternative to IELM, but there are also things that scratch doesn't work well with, especially when it comes to figuring out what current buffer is, saving point position, debugging, probably more. So, yeah, for more serious stuff, IELM is better.
This post is amazing.

When I see a post "P < 0.05 Considered Harmful" I think OK now they are going to talk about maybe Bonferroni vs. other multiple hypothesis corrections if they are a frequentist or otherwise they are going to try to explain Bayesian things.

But no, this one isn't from a frequentist, or from a Bayesian. It's from a techbro whose solution isn't any kind of multiple hypothesis correction or getting Bayes-pilled, it's to say "Why not just admit you want something akin to p = 0.25 in the first place?" for 'ship criteria' in the only stats context he appears to know which is A/B testing, talking about Maslow hierarchy and namedropping Hula and Netflix. It's seriously like some Silicon Valley parody. Wait is it actually a satire blog?
That would have been a killer feature for me. Instead of reading about GSIs, LSIs, and even going so far as having to create a dummy field to do sorting properly[1], it would be pretty nice if you could somehow input the queries you want to do, and have Dynamo make suggestions.

1 - In a collection, I could find no way to easily do 'give me the latest record.', which is super easy in rdb. I ended up creating a key something static like 'x', with date as the range key to accomplish this. If anyone has a cleaner way, please share.
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but --

> Otherwise, since rent is still pretty affordable in predominantly black neighborhoods you would think they (white people) would choose to live there

This is almost the definition of gentrification, which is pretty common where I live (Boston area).
Haha, you should enable it with exclusions. It's the best AV out there that isn't an EDR. I disable it in labs but I can't imagine running windows in prod with defender enabled. Don't use windows like it's Linux.
Nothing you can do. It is a smear that can not be proven or disproven without access to the admin logs and IP addresses.

I once used sockpuppets when I was younger and more foolish. Not anymore.
Yeah, would be better to look at units shipped rather than revenue.

However, most of the inflation during that period came from housing, energy, vehicles, food, not consumer electronics.
My ditch was 8 ft. which I believe would be considered overkill. I'm also not worried about freezing at all (GA, USA). My system does more work in the summer than the winter.
I know at least XCOM 2 does on certain difficulties. The aim assist values are directly in the INI files (it fudges the numbers in your favor for lower difficulties). Here are instructions on how to remove the aim assists:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=61799...
He should move to San José.
How should the keys be stored? Not excusing them, but this isn't as straightforward to resolve as people think. That being said, not having any access controls is cringe. Really?
Postgres does no query planning caching outside of per prepared statement. From the docs:

A prepared statement can be executed with either a generic plan or a custom plan. A generic plan is the same across all executions, while a custom plan is generated for a specific execution using the parameter values given in that call. Use of a generic plan avoids planning overhead, but in some situations a custom plan will be much more efficient to execute because the planner can make use of knowledge of the parameter values. (Of course, if the prepared statement has no parameters, then this is moot and a generic plan is always used.)

By default (that is, when plan_cache_mode is set to auto), the server will automatically choose whether to use a generic or custom plan for a prepared statement that has parameters. The current rule for this is that the first five executions are done with custom plans and the average estimated cost of those plans is calculated. Then a generic plan is created and its estimated cost is compared to the average custom-plan cost. Subsequent executions use the generic plan if its cost is not so much higher than the average custom-plan cost as to make repeated replanning seem preferable.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-prepare.html
As someone who recently had a heat pump installed, your expectations for minimum wage workers is rather unrealistic. We asked for one, they estimated the cost and installed it, and we paid the bill.

It was their second installation, ever. Red state with lots of gas installations and all that.

The onus of understanding that it wouldn’t work under a certain temperature, and would get lower in efficiency the lower the temperature, was on me.

It wasn’t that hard to understand, either.
Sorry, I just didn't like the comparison between saying GPT is a markov chain and computers are a markov chain. Really learned something from the actual colab. Thank you, appreciated. Nobody likes a sad karpathy.
Decks were mostly LC problems - anytime Anki told me to review it, I would spend 5min or so trying to remember the general outline. If I forgot, I would put it back into the To Study again queue (essentially it would show up sooner again)
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> "Why not just admit you want something akin to p = 0.25 in the first place?" for 'ship criteria'

That's culture shock for me - I guess this is why I don't work at startups.
Twitter allows “GovernmentRequested” classifications of “misinformation”
Other software which have nailed spaced repetition (and a much better UI than Anki):

- https://www.duolingo.com/ (language learninig)

- https://www.chessable.com/ (chess)

- https://readwise.io/ (book highlights)

- https://examarly.com/ (test prep)

- https://app.bestudious.io/login (certifications - CFA)

- https://magoosh.com/ (vocabulary)
Yep, just LC problems - helps a lot with identifying patterns
I specifically meant rapidly sampling the touch screen N times between frames rather than 1 time between frames. Depending on the characteristics of the EMI, it seems like that could work just as well.
>One other problem I've seen with some of the most outspoken atheists is that they fundamentally seem to misunderstand the role that religion plays in many people's lives.

One interpretation of this apparent misunderstanding, is that it is simply easier and more profitable to create humorous or rage-baiting content around obviously absurd claims that cater to a pre-existing views, than it is to watch an extensive lecture going over particular arguments.
One way to look at FTX is as a horse race between multiple catastrophic failure modes. In this case the financial malfeasance "won". Maybe in another universe where interest rates stayed low for another year we'd see FTX go down to a hack instead.
Podcasts for Supervillains Who Are Also Database Professionals
> Canada and the US allow trophy hunting within their borders; there’s a famous picture of “Kid Rock” and Ted Nugent with a killed mountain lion, ironically a true symbol of the americas they claim to represent. And so called canned hunts happen in Texas.

Mountain lions, also called Cougars, are the exact opposite of endangered.

Is it stupid to go hunting one? Sure, I guess. Given that cougars can be found walking down the streets in suburbs outside of Seattle, (also I think you can find them walking around some of the larger parks in Seattle!) I would hardly be impressed if someone told me they killed one.

"Oh wow you killed a large cat that eats small dogs and also drinks out my bird feeder".
Yeah the Leaf ~2011 is infamous as an earlier "bad" battery design so I wouldn't extrapolate too much from it. The reality is also that as battery capacity increases, people simply won't notice 10-15% degradation of the pack because their commute is so much shorter than the vehicule's range.
Storing your keys in plain text is hardly software engineering. Plenty of people who don't know the first thing about coding do it all the time.

This is a failure of security and risk management. Making a guild or licensing requirements for software engineers may or may not be a good idea, but it wouldn't have addressed this problem.

But even if it would have in the abstract, FTX played fast and loose with so many other rules, I wouldn't expect them to abide by those either.
The problem with specializing in these issues is that most customers will be dissatisfied when you charge them thousands of dollars to reset a minor module on their car.

How many hours of shop time are you willing to pay for with no guarantee of a solution, and very few (if any) parts replaced?
> then everything in existence is discovered rather than manufactured

The first time this is true. But the second time it's a known process with a known outcome (and if it isn't, then you've just discovered something else). The first time is always science. The second time is usually technology.
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I don’t think any self driving cars have been trained for snow yet, but it does rain (sometimes pretty hard) in SF, and because we have wet/dry seasons rains are more hazardous in some cases due to months of oils all being disrupted at once. It can also be quite windy in SF, it’s common for gusts to reach >20mph on random sunny days, especially this time of year. So aside from snow and ice( big exceptions, for sure) I think they can handle Boston weather.
Show HN: Botsh gives GPT a containerized scratch space to apt-install any tool
That is because scientific community and sceptics are two different groups. There is some overlap, but there is also huge overlap between scientists and christians. Many scientists are religious, actually.
The items you listed are certainly problems, but p-values don't have much to do with them, as far as I can see. Poor power is an experimental design problem, not a problem with the analysis technique. Not reporting all analyses is a data censoring problem (this is what I understand "specification curve analysis" to mean, based on some Googling - let me know if I misinterpreted). Again, this can't really be fixed at the analysis stage (at least without strong assumptions on the form of the censoring). The replication crisis is a combination of these these two things, and other design issues.
“Eras” of Transformers - Transformers X Numerai
Transformers X Numerai datasets. Processing an entire Numerai era at once with Transformers. Allows for much complex loss functions for better predictions on stock market.
Does anyone know of a good alternative? I have been using HN Notify heavily since it was released.
I don't know, I use lead-free solder with a resin core and my joint looks much cleaner than most I see on /r/ErgoMechKeyboards , where people generally apply liberal amounts of flux.
If you can identify the fuse for the unit, it might be less annoying to pull it when parking rather than hooking up a charger.
Stupid & Evil are best friends - if you're looking for one, the other is often nearby. There's going to be a mix of incredibly stupid and incredibly crooked behavior all through this. It's not a surprise that this "genius" is a delusional, pathetic dolt who couldn't operate a frozen banana stand properly, much less a multi-million dollar company. It's also not a surprise that he truly thinks he's innocent on all charges, because he's that much of an idiot.

Crooks typically believe and disbelieve their own bullshit simultaneously, which is even more nonsensical, but that's just criminal thinking at work. None of this is particularly confusing to criminal prosecutors, just the same ol' same ol'. SBF is going to jail, and if he doesn't switch his plea soon he's really going to jail...
I concur, a great manager gets out if your way as you do your job well and understands his job only exists to manage other people doing profit generating/risk-reducing work.

This is the type of boss that will take credits for your work so he feels like the main character.
Years of study are definitely not required to get up and running! I attended a 3 day workshop for TLA+ and spent ~2 weeks modeling a new project that my team was working on. I found lots of potential edge cases that would result in data inconsistencies without even having to write tests or think about how to articulate the issue in the first place, as the model checker is able to output the exact program flow that results in the error.

You still need to make sure your implementation matches the spec, but that’s an easier task than squashing concurrency bugs, let alone figuring out how to repro in the first place! The hope is that by writing the spec you avoid a good chunk of errors from the start instead of encountering them one by one.
Because the chance of random mutation to increase an IQ (or improve anything whatsoever) is far smaller than to lower it (or degrade anything).

Change randomly a random line of code in any source code, and tell me how often it happens to work better than before.
All versions of Windows use the monolithic NT kernel for backwards compat. It is the only software I can think of that stands the test of time and does 'one thing well' as per the UNIX Philosophy[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
They will be the same people in the blink of an eye. It's almost a certainty.
I think that is what is so hilarious about the situation. The US is forever creating situations where companies want to be first in and fastest scaling at any cost, offering free everything to begin.

If they were a bank they would realize their growth is beyond their competence and bring in boring big bank security experts with some of the huge profits on the even more massive holdings.. But there were no legal profits on holding all these assets because they promised to be something better than a bank, making its money from risking your assets, so that was just done illegally leaving no above the table accounts for legitimate operation costs. (A friend of SBF with an illegal loan will obviously keep your keys safe.)

How could an honest company that takes negligence seriously compete? It is like the opposite of regulations as barrier to entry. How do you sell things for less than the Mafia's laundering operation?
AWS Amplify is the worst AWS service I have used, by far. The console was constantly broken in chrome, their reverse proxy is slow, the pre-baked auth components with Cognito were pretty useless, and so much more..

It feels like the team is trying to do way too much, all at once, and none of it well.
Also, banking is dealing with massive legacy codebases.

You get to write your own new stuff in crypto, there aren't excuses for fucking up on best practices
I have been continuously employed in tech for 31 years, and have just experienced my first time ever being "between jobs" after having been laid off on March 17. The one thing I have noticed since then; is how much I really don't miss working in tech. No stand ups, no CI/CD pipelines, no tickets, no story points, no cloud nothing... it has been beautiful. I know that I will be back at it here soon, because it is all I know; I just dread sitting in front of a computer all day.
I was thinking the same thing. The car on the tarm/light-rail track clearly don't have any concept of being in the way. It seems to be the same case with the car blocking the bus in the first example. Neither of those systems seem to have a notion of reversing or pulling over to make space.

The ability to "read the road" seem to leave a lot to be desired.
I vote for 2-stroke. We certainly burn oil.
Qualifications are not the same as roles. A manager may or may not be qualified to provide IC mentorship. A more senior IC should be, but good mentorship does not automatically flow from being a good engineer, and there can be a fine line between micro-managing a junior engineer and mentoring them towards meeting their full potential. At the end of the day, it's on the manager to understand the dynamics at play and figure out the right way to maximize the team (whether that be development oriented or results oriented).