skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the reason you want to use decimal arithmetic is not so that your rounding will be more correct, but so that it will be rounded off in the same way as your bank and your auditors round off; it would be very unfortunate if there was a one-penny discrepancy in half of a million transactions per day, especially if for some statistical reason there's a bias in that discrepancy
The video is about the LMS algorithm, which stands for the Least Mean Square algorithm. The algorithm is used to train adaptive neurons, specifically the Adaline neuron, which was developed by the speaker and his first doctoral student, Ted Hoff, in 1960. The Adaline neuron is manually trained using knobs and switches, and its objective is to minimize the error, which is the difference between the desired response and the actual response. The LMS algorithm updates the weight vector based on the error, with positive errors resulting in the addition of the input pattern to the weight vector, and negative errors resulting in the subtraction of the input pattern. The speaker demonstrates the use of the Adaline neuron using various input patterns and shows how the weights are adjusted to obtain the desired response. The speaker also introduces another version of the Adaline neuron, the MR Adaline, which uses electroplating to adjust the resistance of resistor elements and simulate the weights of the Adaline neuron.
It's diacetyl, which is produced in traditional butter production, but not in modern butter production. They're adding it back in to make it taste more like butter.
Yeah. Bitten me not-too-long-ago...
There are diminishing returns to exogeny, especially in species with a high degree of genetic redundancy (like dogs, cf https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17437958/), whereas with guided endogeny you can achieve better outcomes than you would via random cross-breeding (on task performance, health, or whatever else the breeders are optimizing for).
WinLibs: Standalone build of GCC and MinGW-w64 for Windows
Beyond that, boutique hotels are often substantially more expensive when you book directly. Which is weird, because you think it would be cheaper since they’re not paying the affiliate booking fees. But no, even if you call them directly or show up in person they generally refuse to match Expedia or booking.com. I am being overly general here, I’m sure there are exceptions, but this has been my experience repeatedly.

With restaurants I try to not use aggregators like doordash or Uber Eats and always make sure to call and order directly so they save on fees. But hotels seem like they would rather pay the fee rather than give a real customer the best available price and keep a larger portion of the profit.

There are many things I hate about Booking.com, but at least they do generally give the best price.
Good! YouTube and video in general sucks as a format for delivering general information. Finding out how to do things has become far more difficult since the idea of making money on videos has polluted all the content. It use to be very simple to find detailed tutorials with images and then many posts of relevant discussion on how to fix any part of a vehicle or many other tasks. The people doing them weren't doing it for money. When I could make my own or improve an existing tutorial I did so. Now everything is keyword spammed YouTube videos that are challenging to consume and rarely provided the needed granularity to actually complete a task. Then the most you can hope for in discussion is a bunch of unrelated or unreplied to comments.

Please bring on the death of micro-monetization.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Here Q, K, and V are trainable. d_k and d_v are selectable metaparameters(?) d_f - input vectors' size, N is their number, or window's size. Next time we usually process another non-overlapping set of input vectors.
The problem that prevented any solutions was the reinforced door. The security theatre was worse than theatre--it backfired.

At this point, the flight crews are a bigger threat to passengers than terrorists. Since passengers won't sit still for a hijacking anymore, terrorists effectively aren't a threat.

You don't need a heavily reinforced door. You only need one that prevents entry for a few seconds while the passengers figure out that they need to subdue the attacker.
No point with arguing with these people.

I have noticed that people love their operating systems, especially in the Mac camp, even if switching to a different operating system would make almost no actual day-to-day difference in experience to them because they would be using the same applications/visiting the same websites anyway. And they like to make false claims about the other operating systems that they don't use.
because they're not taking the same risks, but yeah, if there are banks that can take risks while someone else bailouts any losses from those decisions, then yeah, I get going with the latter.
You need to be good at school to be a doctor. And there's some overlap, but it's definitely not the same thing as being smart.
We should ‘lift heavy’ as we get older
The AI giant sent a cease and desist letter to the developer who runs a popular GitHub project that lets you get GPT4 into your bot for free. However, the project doesn't use OpenAI's APIs.
The biggest problem with any language, be it Ruby, Java, or C is founder code written by language ignorant coders who don't learn the language and relevant idioms.

The good thing is there's value delivered quickly essential to growing the company, but amounts to a lot tech debt and human scaling problems a few years later.
This reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35607574
Maybe videos just aren't the right format for some things
Linux, as should be most sensible people’s solution. Especially since 80% of PC users just use their operating system as bootloaders into a browser. 80% of that remaining 20% use PCs for gaming, and that is only getting better on Linux. Not to mention more adoption = better native ports. The final 4% of users are people who understand enough to choose their OS with a purpose in mind and/or use a specific OS for work purposes.
I bet he actually thinks this is what most of his employees do. Like huddling around a whiteboard connecting boxes with lines or some shit until they all solve the "problem" and then give each other big high fives. Absolute doofus running this company.
It’s like they wanted to say it’s just 3 days back. When really it’s 4 as who’s going to wfh Tuesday when they are working at the office on Mondays, weds, Thursday.
German Shepherds are defective animals consigned to a life of suffering by idiot breeders. They aren't a suitable representative yardstick.
The only thing keeping me on Windows is the sharing a PC with family kind of thing but now we have enough devices I might just reformat my laptop.
Great way to get kidney failure.
Wouldn't it be easier to install better range vents. Like the ones that actually blow stuff outside, not the ones built into the microwave that just 'move' air?

Second to that, I absolutely hate cooking on an old-style electric range. It's just too slow and you have no control.

Whereas with gas or induction it's much more instant.
Gas valve and igniter run on low voltage, I think the combustion blower runs on 120 VAC, the main blower that distributes the heat to the rest of the house is definitely 120 VAC. A small gas generator that can provide maybe a kW would probably be the most straightforward backup.
Windows ARM64 runs x86 binaries pretty well.

Well enough that it doesn't matter that much you don't have a native Google Chrome, for instance. AMD64/x86-64 version runs just fine.
sponsorship and unnecessarily long duration videos will remain same as earlier.
> So maybe key() and value() would be good, more descriptive names for them then.

My point is that they can be used in many different ways, and are, such that any mnemonic name would be misleading in some contexts.
if you have access to your phones files (or the phone backs up photos automatically ) you could try to use screenshots to guide you, or screenshare
The bit at the end with the old man is the most poignant.
It is complicated. I was working in a state psychiatric ward during university, and the ward psychiatrist had noted in the patient's chart that after meeting the patient's mother, he suspected a genetic etiology of the patient's condition. In other words, the patient's mother was also crazy. The patient's mother, having received legal access to the chart, read that, and was now suing the state. The earlier comments in the thread about the target audience was spot on. Radical record transparency may perhaps not always benefit health professionals, unless of course, some things are just not recorded - and that may not benefit the patient.
This is describing Remote Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition without mentioning the name?

RPCVD has been around since the late 70's. Bluglass (https://bluglass.com/) has spent the last decade developing this as a commercially viable process and can probably claim to be the leader in this space.
Feasibility and wisdom are unrelated.

I just saw an IG post from a collab between a prominently irreverent burger popup in my town, and one of the most progressive wine bars in the city. It had a security guard kicking out a rowdy woman from a bar.

The comments BLEW UP with people who had never had the burgers or been to the bar calling out the "cop culture" and the celebration of authoritarianism in the photo.

It's a joke at this point, how angry people get at things that have the barest tinge of something to be mad about.
That's either a product defect or a symptom of dust accumulating near the internal optical sensors. For the latter, turn the device upside down, pop out the trackball and use a small brush to remove visible dust.
It's a self-reinforcing cycle, people don't want to support small channels with sloppy editing or rough audio, so eventually those small channels grow large enough that they can hire people to handle aspects they cannot. This quality difference and quantity output increase tends to be favorable to them and YouTube so they get recommended more. In turn viewers also expect this absurd quality and quantity output from not only that channel but all others. Then suddenly they're at 64 people.

I think people would be shocked to find out how many channels are ran by teams of people. It's exceptionally common for people to have an editor or two to manage their social accounts or edit for their YouTube/TikTok due to the demand to have daily/weekly content is so high.
I think people who run businesses see this as a purity test of who is “really invested in the company”. But the reality is that your best employees know they can move on and do, and you’re left with the desperate. Terrible strategy for innovation, but maybe ok if your company doesn’t foresee any big changes coming.
I assume they are referring to research that suggests that heavy resistance training accomplishes everything you get from cardio, plus more.
Neither 24 GB nor 32 GB are base model specs; they're fairly expensive upgrades that you have to decide in advance because you can't modify the machine afterwards. You really need to know what your usage is going to be, otherwise you overpay for hardware you don't need or have to replace a machine because it's insufficient. If you have the money and inclination, max out the specs and be done with it. But, doing that because you're upset you're going to have to buy a new CPU doesn't make sense to me.
To be fair, this entirely depends on the breed in question. There are some breeds that are known to have weak bloodlines, and some breeds that are better.

It is also dependent on the breeder. Breeders that "cheap" out will be more likely to have inbred dogs since it can cost money for a good stud.
Got confused for a second thinking this would generate the videos that use to exist in old webpages
This is such a weird view of ad space. It's not some "drink verification can" nonsense, it's selling the space where prospective customers might see it. I'm not even involved in the transaction. People who dislike ads enough to install blockers aren't sealing any more than when I immediately pitch junk mail despite it being a major revenue source for the USPS. If the means by which ads are delivered drives everyone into using blockers and drives the value to zero that's an ad problem not a user problem. No one owes you valuable ad real estate, that is and will forever be a you problem.

The very idea of admonishing people for not subjecting themselves to time wasting corporate propaganda garbage is insane. How is this where we're at? People with billboard space are allowed to sell it to advertisers, but in no universe does that transaction mean that I or anyone else have to look at it. The fact that technology has allowed for ads that are harder to avoid compared to not looking at a sign in the window doesn't change the dynamic.
I don’t think women are typically signing up for sperm donors to be single mothers. You’re mixing up factors here. They’re overwhelmingly in relationships.

The single parent stuff is due to a variety of factors - women wanting to raise children all by themselves being an incredibly small percent. Almost no one wants to be a single parent - it just happens due to a series of events that are a mix of in your control and out of your control.
Would love to hear more.

Like you ate mostly just hot dogs and kimchi for six months? Did you do that on purpose to see what would happen or just kind of felt like doing it?
I made a simple crossword for back end developers. See if you get all of them
Any sources to back up the second statement? It doesn't match up with my experience.

FWIW, I've worked from home since 2020 for a company that is remote friendly. We've had employees that want to work from home but they don't do very much work when they do. Doesn't go for everyone but it's my anecdotal experience.
I really don’t see how its difficult to believe a multi-billion dollar company wouldn’t support both sides of an issue, then claim they were on the “right side” when the smoke clears. In fact that’s a standard strategy amongst political paypigs. Openly support one set of candidates then sneak equal funds to the other side, so regardless of what happens your interests are secured.
Possibly get a reasonable bid for a propane gas system?
To me, Lyft's entire brand is "not as good as Uber, but not as shitty to drivers as Uber". Maybe they've done something else innovative, but their PR is so vapid that I've never noticed. Your "maybe ok if your company doesn't foresee any big changes coming" is exactly what I expect of Lyft.
Would you withhold your medical information from your employer for hundreds of thousands of dollars? Because that’s what’s happening here. A pilot career can cost more than $100k in training and years of doing work for what basically amounts to minimum wage. At the end of it you end up with a skill set that is very valuable, but not very transferable to other careers.

So let’s reframe it as: should we expect people to tell the truth about things that mostly don’t matter at a personal cost of their entire career, and all training costs?

If you disclose, you are punished severely and may never go to work again with almost no recourse by a system which largely ignores medical science. If you withhold, as almost all pilots are advised by colleagues and the doctors themselves to do, nothing happens. (When I went for an aviation medical, the doctor said: I’m not your family doctor, only answer the question I asked. If I need more information I can ask for it)

When faced by a system so perverse is it really all that unethical.
At this point you can really just give a recipe for this type of article.

- business-brain CEO is flailing

- no better justification than "whiteboards" and "personal connection"

- leadership actually lied when they promised to support remote work

- trying to sell a hybrid setup as "balance" rather than half-assed and distracting

And the totally expected outcome which is of course that everyone ignores it, and a couple months later the CEO has to start counting to 3 in a parental tone for the umpteenth time.
I'm not sure it's a given that prep is an alternative to the hard work of becoming better. Imagine a hypothetical office job with bench press round. Improving your job skills wouldn't be the way to pass it, going to the gym would.

That's obviously an extreme hypothetical to illustrate the point, but it's along the same lines as common criticisms of e.g. leetcode and c-suite interview processes.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next decade. I don’t doubt that there are some people who are more productive in the office, but there are also a lot of people who are more productive from home as well. And there’s an undeniable competitive advantage when your company isn’t spending tens to hundreds of millions of dollars on Bay Area office real estate while your competitors are.

The incumbents have decided that RTO is a top priority, whether because the types of personalities that tend toward leadership positions like being at the office better (and are probably more extroverted if I had to guess), or perhaps RTO is a convenient alternative to layoffs. Whatever the reason, there are hundreds of new startups that began as remote companies during the pandemic and will continue working that way with remote work ingrained into the culture from the beginning, and I am very curious to see if there is any noteworthy difference in success outcomes based on this factor a few years from now.

My personal guess is that in the short-term remote work will start to disappear, but in the long-term it will make a strong and permanent comeback as a lot of these startups begin to displace the previous tech companies that once led the market.
When you have a high income - you have more to lose by having children. When you have a low to no income - you don’t lose as much.

It’s why poor people always seem to have more kids. There are other factors but it’s one of the large ones.
Even under an RTO mandate to a sinking ship, people will still go in. Who are are they going to run to? Nobody is hiring and paying the same rates unless your resume say AI.
I assume you do realize you can still do a clean install (on old CPUs, instead of hitting upgrade, because that's what OP meant.
Any important enough would be automatically tested daily, in a prod-like environment, and/or at release time, with humans on call
Did they do a lot of work when they came into the office?
I'm not going to claim that Kubernetes on bare-metal is easy, but it's certainly doable. And it's worth doing, because of all the ecosystem work that's been built up on Kubernetes over the last several years, everything from observability, to workload scaling, to database management, to multi-datacenter service networking. Switching to something new (MRSK), means throwing that out. How is MRSK 10x better to make it worth losing the ecosystem?

Of course you need full-time admins to babysit your bare-metal Kubernetes clusters. But if you're running bare metal, you made the financial decision that (cost of full-time InfraOps Engineers + cost of bare-metal servers <<< cost of IaaS cloud). So you're already paying for full-time InfraOpEng. In this day and age, is it really reasonable not to expect them to know Kubernetes cluster management as well?
I don't think writing SD prompts compounds like actually make art from scratch does. It's kind of inherent right? Because one is derivative (with a bunch of computer science) and one is from people. You can be cynical and say all art is derivative, I guess.
...I mean yeah, kinda? Reparability is a spectrum.
Screw these in-person bosses. If you didn't have culture before COVID you're not going to magically have it after coming back either. Employee gatherings need to be intentional & not stuffing people on the same floor & hoping to sneak in a conversation or two between back to back team calls with geographically spread out team members ironically
Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive (2017)
I’ve always appreciated Zapfhahn considering TAP is another widely used system.
The whole earth as Relief Map
Hi, I used SRTM Data to generate global relief maps. I extracted ALL SRTM tiles at 1-arcsecond resolution. The projection is WGS84 Mercator (the same like Google Maps / Google Earth). I used Java for my own version of hillshading and terrain mapping.
I remember seeing

> FATAL ERROR

and being like...uh...do I call the police?
Inflation is the most regressive form of taxation there is. I'm in favor of basic income, but if you try to just print it all, prices will increase to the point that there won't actually be a meaningful increase in purchasing power.

Imagine if the Fed just printed up 10 million dollars for everyone tomorrow. Do you think everyone would then be wealthy?
"...my own methane composting biogas bladder."

I heard President Biden wears one, at the request of his wife.
You can fully, legally use AGPL software as Amazon was doing as long as you follow the licensing terms.

Which doesn’t help the FOSS developers extract money out of the cloud users because they can just use the free (for whatever value of ‘free’ Amazon provides) bundled version without any support contacts or whatever.

If your entire business model is based on giving away the software you can see how this might be a problem, no?
If the standard for Linux scanner drivers was WASM, then companies who publish Linux drivers (such as Epson) would receive perfect forward compatibility for free.

If WASM driver support were to be included in Windows and/or macOS, similar to how macOS and Linux share CUPS, then Linux support would be more widespread because the vendor's driver could be reused as-is.

I think the thought process behind "supporting one unified platform-independent bytecode would be easier than compiling a .so that works with all GNU libc versions" is straightforward and self-evident. Do you disagree?
Don't worry, I have a fix just for you. Though it defaults to spacebar, so you would have to change the keysym yourself.

https://git.dawidpotocki.com/dawid/xkcd1172/about/

GH mirror: https://github.com/dawidpotocki/xkcd1172
No, this is a shot at apple.
That has everything to with the employees. WFH is just the excuse.

One thing about WFH is that it exposes such employees. In office, it's easy to look busy and blend in. In fact, you just realized this only now and not when they were in office tells all about it.
Ask HN: Anyone get a second masters to specialize?
Curious if anyone went back and got a masters or second masters in CS to specialize and enjoyed it?

I’m not interested in views of educational cost, etc. Justin curious to hear people that did this and why or why they didn’t get what they wanted.

I’m 28 with a CS masters that was honestly too generalized. Curious about going back in the next 5 years as the landscape changes. I work for a faang-like company already, but this “dream” is a grind.
There is well over $100b in enterprise value in remote first companies. Are they not productive? It seems like they very much are.

Examples (non exhaustive list in no particular order) that came to mind: AirBnB, Allstate Insurance (divested from their Chicago headquarters), Automattic, Dropbox, GitHub, Gitlab, Hashicorp, PagerDuty, Zapier

How much work someone accomplishes is a function of effective management and objective measurement, not where they sit. If you have to sit over someone’s shoulder for the work to get done, you’ve already failed. Your hiring system is optimizing for autonomous folks who can operate in unstructured work ideally. People who don’t want to work can do that equally well from both home or the office.

https://builtin.com/awards/fully-remote/2023/best-places-to-...

(remote for a decade as both IC and leadership of team of ~10, including a tenure at a fully remote org)