skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this would be _extremely funny_, and a massive footgun even by Naughty Old Mr Car standards, I do think Betteridge's Law probably applies here.
>> But maybe worse, is that it is status quo to tune hyper-parameters on test data results[0] (instead of validation), which causes information leakage and helps support overfitting.

This is extremely hard to convince people about. I'm starting to doubt that even veteran researchers realise how unreliable their error estimates become if they're tuning their models on the test set, which, like you say, is standard practice. And yet, people will stand on that rotten practice and talk about the amazing generalisation ability of neural nets, and how over-parameterising and over-training defies statistical learning theory. That's why we have such gems as this paper:

The unreasonable effectiveness of deep learning in artificial intelligence

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1907373117

Or "the grokking paper" and so on. Machine learning is starting to look more and more like the social sciences, where people simply pick and choose results from the (mostly non-peer reviewed) literature, just because they like the claim in a paper (or because it has a catchy title, or it went viral on twitter), and not because they make any serious attempt to check the results themselves.

P.S. Sorry about your review. It's a good idea to avoid any discussion that goes beyond the central claim of a paper. It can only cause reviewers confusion and distract them from the meat and potatoes of the work. Unfortunately, sticking to that advice makes for dry and boring to read papers, which also reduces the chances of acceptance.
Glad it's not the case but that could have worked out very differently for him and all the users of that project.
One sitting is a lot for a project you've forgotten about, lost context on, and are no longer excited by, especially assuming you have a lot of other stuff going on in your life. And then ya, everything else you said. And there are no tests.
We (me and co-authors) recently published a study in which we found some examples of real-world harm in user reviews of IoT devices (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157411922...).

These devices are supposed to be extremely pervasive in the future, hence we need to do better to ensure their safety.
> Ideological purity is the point.

Can a person be ideologically pure and not be an asshole? Or do the two go together (as is alleged with Stallman)?
This person has the more believable PhD.

One of the requirements to getting a PhD is the knowledge that a PhD is not the proof of intelligence you thought it would be when you started. It is better a proof of resilience, patience, and being dead inside.
A few people who use screen readers will disable JS because even if a site makes its dynamic content accessible it can still be annoying to deal with as a screen reader user.

People who are very security / privacy conscious often disable JS too.

It's a losing battle though unfortunately. A lot of sites require JS these days and even the accessibility standards no longer hold the position that a site should cater for users who might disable JS for accessibility reasons.
You can only replace an addiction with another (healthier) one.

For instance: intense outdoor activity, time spent working in a farm, etc.

The tech we’ve built is insanely addictive.
The author of that comment is one of the people who basically founded the "drama spectacle" in the Rust community.
Assuming Moore's law continues, the answer is probably yes. At some point, you'll have more computing power in your pocket.

For example, "ASCI Red" was the #1 in the TOP500 supercomputers list in the year 2000 with about 2 teraflops... roughly the same[1] as an iPhone Pro 14.

The #1 from June 2003 -- almost exactly two decades ago -- is about the same speed as a modern NVIDIA desktop GPU.

As recently as 2014 there were still "supercomputers" near the bottom of the TOP500 list that are about equivalent to 2x RTX 4090 GPUs. That's a rare but readily available configuration for a gaming enthusiast.

So it's about 20-25 years until a supercomputer fits in your pocket, and as little as a decade until you can have one under your desk heating your room.

[1] Most supercomputers measure 64-bit ops, whereas these days people focus on 32-bit ops, but whatever. It's just a factor of two.
OK, but given the behaviour you describe, why do you miss them, then? Sounds like these people dont add anything to your life, or at least dont really want to add something, which is also reason enough to not care.
Tech workers are sick of the grind. Some are on the search for low-stress jobs
This has to be one of the worst landing pages ever. Why explain properly what you even do when you can build a faux macOS in the browser
If there's writing going on, you're not using static files.
I think it is somewhat nuanced.
In principle you are right, I would even go so far as to say: You cannot confirm a theory with experiment. But every test build to "confirm" a theory, is always also an experiment to falsify every other theory with a different prediction.

Look at the Higgs discovery. The experiments were clearly designed to measure the Higgs and confirm the prediction. But you can state it as "they were designed to falsify the (at that time SM) theory that there is no Higgs".

What is important to remember that a) you cannot absolutely confirm a theory (as in: rule out all others) with a finite series of experiments b) correlation doesn't mean causation c) causation doesn't mean correlation.
Hm, challenge accepted: It uses a fan and a hose to suck up dust. You use it to get rid of dirt in your home. The dirt ends up in a bag. Now and then you must get a new bag, when the old one is full. If you have some tiny item or two that lies in the way of the dust, you will want to put that away, or else it can get lost in the bag.
It's still not clear to me why it's harder. Any give page is some series of components. Those have (I presume) a min width and likely a max width as well. With Tailwind and React being all the rage isn't such component-specific styling what's being invested in currently?

Those (by definition) dumb and interchangeable components then exist within a layout. And with flexbox and/or grid you can define "flow" of the components. (Note: I realize I'm over-simplifying but for the sake of discussion I want to be brief.)

Perhaps there should be (another) CSS framework to support this idea? Perhaps then it would be easier then? But conceptually, given the unprecedented powers of grid and flexbox this make better sense than the old static breakpoint model. Given the grid and flex box superpowers there's got to be a way to unlock a better way.
> do you think it's ok for a company to deny another company access to a big chunk of the financial system for entirely legal activities

A vegan credit card that only works at vegan companies should not be illegal.

> to a big chunk of the financial system

Here's the actual problem! We have a handful of giant payment processors that make up a near monopoly. That's the problem you want to fix. More competition and more choices (e.g. vegan credit card) means you'll for sure find a way to pay for your vegan porn.

> That person could be working at Payments R Us

I'm not talking about employees making a decision. I'm talking about the owners of a payment processing company being able to decide on a policy that is applied to all customers.
The Wall of DST Hell
32-bit Arm is not being removed. There's the modern 32-bit only Cortex-A32 "AArch32 for full backward compatibility with Arm v7" [1]. Also expect 32-bit code compatibility to exist for a long time on Arm embedded cores for code size reasons.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/Processors/Cortex-A32
I've seen this backfire when someone breaks the configuration of the cache key. All of a sudden people start getting back usernames and personal information of random users.
Which is easy with FFT.
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What about all the people who love the job? Isn’t it good for them?
It'd all work the same provided crablang made additive changes to the syntax.
I would've agreed some time ago.

Today I think it's okay to not optimize everything for efficiency and it's also okay to waste some time on mindless things.
I don't think they really did much for their parent project though? They're just forks that are more successful than the parent, but that's a different thing. My point was mostly that forking doesn't need to be a zero-sum game and that everyone can benefit from it.
You're claiming that something I dont care about is affecting my life in subtle ways I dont realize. When I ask you to back that up, you effectively say I am too stupid to get it on my own. Well, my point stands: You are claiming things and have nothing to back that up, and expect to be taken seriously?
> invite selling/trading is a big problem in the tracker world and tracker staff often force people to use their home IP to register for this reason.

It really isn't that much of a problem. Hell even ratio cheats aren't actually a problem. If you have a ratio based torrent site fundamentally someone has to have negative ratio for the site to function. Ratio cheats basically add download to others because they download. I'm of the opinion a lot of tracker staff are just nerds who power trip. And honestly, from my experience it's largely true. Simply, torrent sites have gotten away with power tripping and creating this image that people who buy and trade torrent accounts are a problem when you can literally talk you way up the chain within 6-12 months. It's really not that hard if someone wanted to infriate them, just say you're willing to code for them and boom you got yourself a staff position with access to the database and servers. Do that well, you'll get yourself a few more, you'll get friendly with staff at other trackers they'll invite you. Literally, it would be the easiest uncover role within the cyber world. And there probably aren't that many that are easier overall.

> Anyway, if you value your anonymity this much, maybe private trackers aren't for you.

This is sure a valid point. Your data 100% is not save with private trackers. Nothing is safe with then. They act all high and mighty but holy shit will they share you data like no ones business and publically out you, steal money from the "server fund" (personally I never had a problem with it but it was always drama ScT's exit was funny), etc.
I don't see this as a real fork, the same way CentOS isn't (or wasn't) a real fork for RedHat, or Iceweasel wasn't a real fork of Firefox. This seems only meant to be work around the trademark. If all this does is to establish an other, non-trademark encumbered name you can use to refer to the language and the compiler than that could be good.
Okay, but Stallman's non-purity related bad qualities are a problem for his own mission.

Eg, Stallman is reported as creeping women out in the link above. That has nothing to do with his uncompromising ideals regarding software.

So maybe Stallman could quietly retire to some sort of metaphorical ivory tower, and keep producing uncompromising ideology, which could be then evangelized by somebody less creepy. There's no need for compromise even. The same ideology just has to be delivered by somebody with better people skills.

I think that'd be a win/win.
World Cup security guards still jailed in Qatar after dispute over unpaid wages
Nuclear physicist here, but HEP and NP have large overlap in the non-physics output.
Have you been to a doctor lately? Pretty much all imaging technology is HEP/NP based (except sonogram). Proton therapy. Heavy ion radiation therapy.
> The other thing GnuCash doesn't do is be a multiuser web app.

Businesses large enough to hire one full time accountant will struggle to use GnuCash, and management (i.e., the owner) isn't going to re-organize all business systems around using an executable. They are going to migrate to Quickbooks.

(Note, however, it doesn't require a "web app" as it could just be a locally hosted database, but GnuCash does not support this feature.)

I have always found this frustrating because Quickbooks ~2005 has pretty much every feature a business actually uses, so it is at least theoretical that a "feature complete" open source small business accounting software could be realized.

Most of the discussions I see in forums here and elsewhere seem to revolve around web-based or technology-based businesses, but the bulk of the Quickbooks small business customers aren't any of these, and I would consider them as the target customer.

(GunCash is great for independent contractors and personal finance, so I'm not knocking it.)
What did I just watch?

Someone recorded a computer screen with their phone. But that's not enough, it's recorded in vertical…

I'm really speechless seeing this level of IT illiteracy.

The completely messed up "captcha" fades away given that video…

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaN2Y8GjIqA
I'm not interacting with him, I was talking about him in a HackerNews comment. And this is not an otaku/furry/animewaifu/whatever forum, where the pecularities of these subcultures are expected to be followed. End of discussion from me.
ERPNEXT have accounting module package as standalone books
https://github.com/frappe/books
Very accessible article. I love it when someone can take a highly technical topic and explain it simply.
Shuffle your app icons to different locations on the the home screen. Added bonus to folders.

Because all apps are in the same locations your muscles memory kicks in. If you shift your apps regularly, you actually have to hunt for the app disrupting the psychological behaviour conditioning.

It also gives you a mini panic attack but allows you to break free of the whole close app, reopen same app syndrome.
yeah. bing announced a long time ago they dropped support for things like exclusion (-)

it's mostly garbage now for complex queries. still use ddg tho.
Perhaps the "focus mode" different home screens feature could do the trick?
Ask HN: How to Make Brain Work?
Today I woke up and my brain isn't engaging. This probably happens once a month or so. I slept well and caffeinated upon awaking but things are hazy today. Speech is slow, reasoning is impaired, ability to concentrate is non-existent – yet, I need to work.

Assuming this is normal, has anyone found a good way to deal with this?
Don't think GP equated employees to lower class servants in their comment?
> Attacking a significant part of someone's ability to function in society

I never said to attack the ability of someone to function in society. That's a side effect of a near monopoly. The actual problem is that a handful of companies control payment processing so it's easy for them to act together. The fix is more freedom not less freedom: far more companies that process payments and more choice. This allows companies to choose who they do business with and customers to find a payment processor who allows the types of purchases they like to make.

I don't think it's unreasonable for a payment processor to refuse to allow gun purchases. Or that it should be illegal to start a vegan credit card. Likewise it's not unreasonable for a payment processor to accept even very high risk businesses and make that their claim to fame. The fix in this case is to break up the monopoly and reintroduce competition.
While in this case the particular 3 questions do not help, it's nice that these links regularly pop up on HN, at which point I notice that I have been abusing it again...
You can apply this to anything, though. I hope you don't drive a car because that's cheating yourself out of the reality of walking and carrying your own load. Walkers frown at cyclists. Cyclists frown at drivers. There's no doubt someone out there who is disappointed that you don't do your own plumbing. Hiring a plumber is cheating yourself out of reality.

It's not that I don't agree with it being lame, but chasing some kind of "reality" is just as lame too. Should you summit without oxygen too? Without a map? On your own? At what point does it become "real"?
I didn't realise the star wars theme was public domain
also pushed for binance to support lightning network, which brings greater adoption of that tech
Yes, one of them should have the right to use that logo and name for VoIP, absolutely.

There are plenty of names everyone can pick that don't namesquat on an existing project. I find it especially nasty if it's a FOSS project that gets its name abused.
Then do the calculation with energy instead of money. At some point you are better off putting the rocket fuel into a ground power station.
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I agree with you that application is not necessarily the point (one of my mentors would always answer this questions with "what's a baby for?")

But in materials science / physics this has been a long standing puzzle: we know that hard polygons vibrating thermally should have a global entropy maximum (ground state) equal to their closest packing configuration. Can this ground state configuration be aperiodic?

So far, all quasicrystals discovered are either not in stable equilibrium or are in equilibrium at that pressure and temperature, but are not the ground state of the material (i.e. at infinite pressure, that QC would be unstable). The discovery of an aperiodic single tile shape means that, in equilibrium, this polygon should have a ground truth that is aperiodic. That basically settles this long-standing question.
This article uses a bad definition of deck randomization. Instead of basing on entropy/statistics, it asks whether any "two cards have remained in the same relative positions", this definition's utility is not clear (and it is unrelated to randomness / the measure of success of subsequent guessing of cards). Also it states that a dealing method A, B, C, C, B, A, ... gives "improved randomization" compared to the dealing method A, B, C, A, B, C, ... (which is just false since both are deterministic permutations).
I think it probably took an awkward misfit to create the GNU propject and the GPL in the first place. I am reminded of "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (Maxims for Revolutionists by George Bernard Shaw)
KDE is better of course. This coming from someone that once upon a time did Gtkmm advocacy.

http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/cccuj2000.html#Pinto:20...
My personal rule is that you get commit access after some number of good PRs, depending on the project. Has worked out quite well:

- instar. I had two guys basically rewrite the entire thing and make it WAY better. I had a good vision for the API but my implementation was pretty bad.

- mutmut. I would never have gotten windows support going without help. (Although I am thinking of abandoning windows anyway soon...)

- iommi. This project is much more complex and has a certain philosophy, but we gave commit access to one developer pretty fast as it was super obvious from the first PR what kind of deep thinking he did.

All in all, great success.
It is not the addition, that is hard for computers. What is quite hard for computer vision algorithms is to count the number of dots on dices in an image.
Hmm, for NP and I think also for HEP, it's essentially only two: NSF and DOE. That's not so different from Germany, where it's BMBF and DFG. That's at least for the main stream grants. There is little money from private foundations (Moore foundation for example).
As far as I understand, Linus doesn’t write code. He reviews code other people have written, and even other deputies review the code before it gets to him.

Additionally, many people are paid to work on his project by other companies. Linus doesn’t pay them, yet he’s their boss.

All of this is to say that Linus is very insulated from externalities. He can insist on his platonic ideal of a commit and SCM, if it makes his life easier. He’s like the editor at a publishing house, rejecting countless manuscripts yet never writing a word himself. And that’s fine.

However, most people do not use an SCM like Linus does. If you’re maintaining an open source project on GitHub you’re probably working for free, as are the people submitting PRs. The more difficult you make their lives, the fewer people will be willing to submit PRs and the more work you’ll have to do eventually.
> In many jurisdictions, the electric utility is a private corporation. Is it ok for the power company to turn off power for a business they think is immoral, like, say, a strip club? Obviously it's not; laws prevent that sort of thing

This is due to a physical limitation. Payment processors have no such physical limitation.

> I would argue that payment processors are approaching utility-like levels of essential use in our society,

Correct. And the problem is not that they are utility-like essential. But that they are a near monopoly. There is zero reason for payment processors to be a near monopoly and that's the actual problem that needs fixing.
> get out of jail free card

I wouldn't be so sure. Just because your phone is clean doesn't mean you're going to be set free from jail.
Racy Novel by France’s Finance Minister Has Even the French Blushing
I have developed an app that uploads a certain number of mystery puzzles every day. Take a break here and relax!
Jazzband was mostly a graveyard though. And like you said, it's pretty much dead too. So seems like it would be bad to give something quite alive like Django to an org that died.
Machine Makes You Hallucinate
https://archive.is/VUBv4
Altitude changes and general health of the climber will also determine if they get up the mountain... or back down the mountain. Money doesn't guarantee a successful ascent/descent.
The real question is if these fibers are sufficiently better to be worth making an industrial scale fiber factory in space...
Actually D-BUS and DCOP are much better than COM, if Microsoft ever looked into COM like tooling in other platforms, instead they keep rebooting the ATL like experience while ignoring how others have improved upon COM.

XPC and Android Binder are also two other examples of better tooling in this area.
There's a reason why most been around the block companies don't offer people leadership positions to technical experts.
It appears this was already brewing since (before) April 14th:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230414111812/https://crablang....