skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100%!

The unit of tracking for how we think of things is some highly overloaded version of "project" which could mean project or team or org or repo or short lived event plan or anything else. Our terminology is probably wrong and it forces the way we think about the problem. It very much feels like a "everything is nail shaped" situation and we want everyone use the same model hammer. Jira, for all it's faults, does offer two or three different ways of doing work (with the recent addition of their DevSecOps thing that I haven't actually looked at).

Tasks != Bugs != Requests != Roadmaps
This might give a decent estimate of the entropy of the file, but it is a poor approximation of the Kolmogorov complexity in general.

All major compression libraries that I know of essentially work by "factoring out" statistical regularities in the input string--i.e. repeating patterns. But many strings have regularity that can't be captured statistically. For example, the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, ... has an entropy rate of 1, because all digits and all subsequences of digits occur with equal frequency, so most modern compression libraries are going to be unable to compress it to any significant degree [1]. However, it obviously has a very compact representation as a program in your favourite language.

If you want to go down a bit of a rabbit hole, this video from a researcher in this field gives an overview, as well as some proposed methods for approximating Kolmogorov Complexity in a reasonable way (even though in a technical sense approximating it with known, fixed bounds is I believe impossible): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXM3BUXsY4g. This paper also discusses a theory that decomposes KC into a statistical part (Shannon entropy) and a "computational part": https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/compmech/pubs/CalcEmergTitlePag....

[1]: Note that if you encode it as ASCII or even N-bit integers there will be significant redundancy in the encoding. To properly test it you'd have to encode the numbers in a packed binary encoding with no padding.
I did not see that bit. I came upon this many years ago. TED has changed its thought process and stances on multiple subjects since then. Adding such disclaimers is a new turn of editorialism.

If you want to go down the rabbit hole of research that both recognizes and refutes the assertions, you will find more opinions expressed than facts. But neither the facts nor opinions are interesting. It is the narratives and the lessons derived that hold more value. And that video expresses some of them.

There is a longer documentary style video on the same subject by the same speaker.

And my search turned up this bit: https://pornstudycritiques.com/gary-wilson-wins-second-legal...

There is a movement out there trying to crush this video.
Weirdly enough, mathematics is a very emotional subject for me. I never understood how it was taught in school, and had serious difficulty understanding it. As a result I just ignored it, believing that I didn't have the right brain for it.

Even though I taught myself how to code, I never went back and learned math, so my level of knowledge is at a basic high school level. It can be embarrassing at times, and every now and then I think about trying to learn it.
This looks great. Say I’m writing a script or Python program, is there a way for it to know that the input has type “json” (and still work if the user didn’t install Murex)?
1. Unlike Co-ops, what I am proposing [1] allows for companies to still sell part of themselves to investors to raise capital. There is just a proposed limit on this by law, so the capital owning class can't exploit workers. So, these companies can still raise medium amounts of money. Sure, this will limit growth in some ways, but in others it will improve things. Uber, would long ago be profitable and stable business than it is now, for instance in this world.

2. This has nothing to do with communism. Communism advocates for the collective ownership of the means of production, i.e. the entire society owns all means of production. Here, every company is still owned by a limited number of people, and there are markets and competition. People are free to join whichever company that will take them. I am simply proposing a fix to imho the worst feature of capitalism.

[1] inspired by anarcho-syndacalism
From the actual paper: “The shortest Earth–to–Mars flight times will be in 2030 and 2050, corresponding to periods of solar max. Current work shows that for the previous solar cycle, the smallest effective dose would have been accumulated for a flight starting in 2000, during solar max. For an optimal average shielding of 30g/cm², the effective dose would be 0.5 Sv after a 1.9-years flight and astronaut's career dose limit of 1 Sv would be accumulated after a 3.8-years flight.”

This is talking about the flight time to and from mars, not the time actually spent on mars.

Even ignoring that it's 4 years of flight time, “No one can survive longer than 4 years” is utterly ridiculous: an astronaut who exceeds his career dose limit does not suddenly drop dead of cancer.
Would you say the percentage of total forked repos that benefit from (or are even aware of) scheduled actions is less or more than 0.001%?
I used to feel this way but the cloud version seems to have gone the opposite direction in recent years. Don't get me wrong, there's still some complicated config you can do but my new gripe is that there are parts that are too limited.
I’m not sure that word means what you think it means, you’re just describing entrenched power, it’s always going to do that. No need to evoke the word elite like it’s a boogeyman
We cannot draw exact lines on what constitutes intelligence.
I’ve worked somewhere like that. Our baseline requirements for concurrent users were based on the numbers required for the product launch team to maximise their bonus.

We never saw anywhere near those numbers in production, but I don’t really blame them - it was a big company and you do what you can to get ahead. A lot of money was spent on infrastructure that wasn’t needed but nobody seemed to care.
If you're interested in exposing your Jellyfin instance over the internet, I put together a guide:

https://github.com/sam-6174/jellytin
The old scroll direction was tied to pushing the scroll bar button up to move the screen down. “Natural” scrolling ties the movement to the window content and makes much more sense once you get over the old habit. I took me about half a day to adjust.
Unless you really want it, it's usually better to skip v1 of anything, Apple or not.
Gladiatorial combat was used to help preserve the social order. Public executions were often just that but skipping the combat part, and people would often cheer them on like a football game.

You'd be surprised how little people care about innocence and justice. They care more about the entertainment value and reddit drama of discussing the convictions than actual justice or truth.

People want to hear that bad things are being done to "bad people", and won't interrogate that label too deeply.
It does. See my comments above about the pain though
In graph theory, trees are undirected. In computing, trees usually have two features that differentiate them from their more minimal graph theoretical cousins: they are (a) directed and (b) rooted (a particular vertex is designated as the root, and every vertex can be walked to from that vertex).

But yeah. Some graphs are trees. And you can construct trees within graphs for efficiently navigating connected graphs, which is done in various important and famous algorithms.
It's a powered ultralight aircraft, which is covered under part 103 of the FAA regulations.

There are no licensing, knowledge, age, experience, or medical requirements for pilots of ultralights.

For the aircraft itself there are no certification standards, other than it has to meet the definition of a powered ultralight. That is:

-only one seat
-is only used for recreational or sport flying
-does not have an airworthiness certificate
-weighs less that 254 pounds empty (not counting safety equipment and floats)
-has a maximum fuel capacity of 5 gallons
-does not exceed 63 mph in level flight at full power
-power off stall speed does not exceed 28 mph

Ultralights can only be flown between sunrise and sunset, unless they have an anti-collision light visible for 3 miles and are in uncontrolled airspace in which they can fly 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset.

They cannot be flown over any congested area or over an open air assembly of people.
150.000$ for a podcast app with zazzle shop and google ads integration?

That sounds really high to me.
I personally found 15k way too high already; guess it depends on the details/market/circumstances
For me this is most significant in the sense that I can use it at my workplace.
The comparison table is also just wrong, mullvad does have own servers, and mullvad also has RAM-only servers, and the price is also kind of misleading.

Mullvad is always €5, Azire is only €5 if you pay an entire year upfront.

This would make me not choose them.
Here's the thing. The most likely reason Mullvad got rid of fixed forwarded ports is that it could be used to de-anonymize their users.

TFA seems to offer a solution for that problem with "Experience uncompromising privacy with AzireVPN's Blind Operator! Your port stays confidential as we don't store or log assigned ports in any database. Thanks to our secure Blind Operator backend, your assigned port remains private."

Ultimately you have to take their word that it works as well as described.
Because even in death, the common people are not allowed to truly have their own agency. For example, I'd very much like to have my body's flesh directly go back to the earth shortly after I die. However, I doubt that's possible if I am not murdered somewhere, as there's not really a mechanism for that to be ensured. We are too attached to these bodies and identities that we temporarily inhabit, and the worst part of it is that many people are so attached to their own identity, that they would force others to be attached to theirs in the same way. It's right there in the way that nearly everyone talks about the ideas of heaven and hell - as if our current physical identity crosses that bridge with us. How could it? Let's presume for discussion that this idea of an afterlife is real, that there is a core consciousness inside piloting these meat mechs. That consciousness separates from our flesh, our interface to the world, our storage medium for memories, when we die. How in the world could this bare consciousness retain the identity it left behind? As well, why would that consciousness never have another life experience ever again?

Humanity's views on death have been skewed for hundreds if not thousands of years, ever since we stopped living from and nurturing the earth. We teach people that their individual identity has a much higher presence in this physical universe, than it actually can have. As a result, we have this weird quasi-preservation thing going on where even in death, we try to stave off the natural decay and decomposition of our useless flesh. Why? I understand for health reasons that we don't want to have thousands of bare, rotting human bodies laying everywhere, however I don't understand why humanity has not come up with a better system for end-of-life than "put my body in a padded box that's protected from the elements, so that it takes longer to decay". Senseless. We come from this earth in a physical context and we will go back to it no matter what we do.
I never said it was quiet. But I also don’t really see people doing things like chat on speaker in a coffee shop.
>My take is don't choose goals - don't try and decide on the destination of what you want. Instead, choose processes, choose a way of living that makes you happy, and make small changes right now.

Completely agree, though my 'word' differs - I use 'system'. I didn't set out to lose 6kg of myself - I decide to walk more and I bought a bicycle, and I use it. The weight fell off me because of the system...choose a system, not a goal.

you can't fail with a system, because it's not measureable as success or fail. Only lost 5kg in three months? Fail. Eating well and exercising will get you somewhere
If your app is a static binary, why use a container at all?
That’s why there are dozens of their-party apps to provide keyboard or drag methods to snap and size windows. Rectangle, Moom, BetterSnapTool, and others give you different ways to doing window management.
In the world of entrepreneurship, you mostly find the extremes.

Either you have the bootstrap founders that will trawl through fiverr to find the cheapest labor (the same types that will scoff and get insulted at anything over $10k), or you have the well-funded founders that will pay whatever it takes.

From experience: Cheapskates and low-ballers will never be happy. They always want something free, more haggle room, more discounts, and always have high demands and expectations. The best thing one can do is to price yourself away from them.
RIP, cameras – 92.5% of photos are now taken with smartphones
Skia based 2d graphics Vue rendering library based on Rust
The vue-skia is a skia based 2d graphics vue rendering library. It is based on Rust to implement software rasterization to perform rendering. It takes up less memory than the native canvas, however it is still a experiment project. And it's based entirely on vue syntax.
In the RC community, "drone" is the new word for "multirotor", "quadcopter" etc.

There was a push, years back, to not use the word, but eventually everyone caved.

This thing is just a beefcake of a quadcopter, sorta, so I'm not surprised to see that word thrown around.

Also, the company doesn't seem to use that word on the homepage, at least.
I think the move from project management to "product management" really exacerbated this. The type of people that gravitate towards "product" vs "project" management is one thing.

Further, project managers tend to focus on delivering the product stakeholders have asked for on time and on budget.

Product managers however I find are frequently searching for a new expanded scope of stakeholders to brag they're solutioneering to. I find them more often in the "solutions looking for problems" business than I find developers, or at least developers are only doing it on a micro-scale, while product managers will take an entire team/org on 6 month fruitless missions to build software destined for the dustbin.
We don’t have any specific genes to point to like with lactose tolerance but humans have definitely coevolved with dogs, especially pastoralists and hunters.

With dogs most of the obvious coevolution has just been cultural.
I've challenged tickets. Once the cop didn't show, twice he did. Of those latter, I won one and lost one.

They get paid for their time, so it's not as though it's volunteer work.
And the paid ones are cheap, not a significant source of revenue for Apple.
Mastadon is awful. The learning curve and personal commitment is far too high for it to be a viable alternative. The same argument is found in why people don't choose Linux over Windows. People, especially journalists, love Twitter because it's easy.
Nothing. Stop using social media.
The anguish in that piece is visceral but the writing itself is beautiful.
beyond, in fact, since they're lossy formats
But Jellyfin is open source and doesn't try to force you to open an account.

I'm at the point now where I will always choose open source if the product is "good enough" even if it is not the best. Jellyfin is "good enough" for my needs at least.
You certainly can, but if you're going to be published in The Atlantic, I'd like to see more. This could be personal (should partisans become less selective?) or societal (how could we reduce partisanship?). Even just asserting with evidence "nothing can be done, and here's what's in store for society" would be something.
i think you might be trying to solve the author's imaginary problems.

all the author needs is a wordpress site with a couple plugins and a few weeks of back and forth on the design work. if you can't make a good profit on that with a $15k invoice, you're doing something very wrong.
From what I can tell, hardcore audiphiles tend to stop at stereo, so there's that. But if you're going to match speakers, I would think you'd want to at least match by type: match your fronts to each other, match your surrounds to each other, match your heights to each other, match your subs to each other. Just having all of one type be the same model is probably good enough though.
Pardon me for asking what might be an obvious answer to some, but does increasing the parameters lead to a linear growth of the capability of the neural net, or is it different.

My knowledge of neural nets and AI is just lacking.
And thus we will see the rise of the software solopreneur.
My favorite is the "Save as MHTML" Chrome extension (the one with a check box).
> The real myth is the idea of a CISC/RISC dichotomy in the first place

The divergence was one of philosophy, and had unexpected implications.

CISC was a “business as usual” evolution of the 1960s view (exception: Seymour Cray) that you should make it easy to write assembly code so have lots of addressing modes and subroutines (string ops, BCD, etc) in the instruction set.

RISC was realizing that software was good enough that compilers could do the heavy lifting and without all that junk hardware designers could spend their transistor budget more usefully.

That’s all well and good (I was convinced at the time, anyway) but the results have been amusing. For example some RISC experiments turn out to have painted their designs into dead ends (delay slots, visible register windows, etc) while the looseness of the CISC approach allowed more optimization to be done in the micromachine. I did not see that coming!

Agree on the point that the cores themselves have found a common local maximum.
You hit the nail on the head. There are different motivations for different roles within the same company, sometimes those motivations clash internally, all the while each individual IS acting completely logically from their own unique perspectives.
For a different respective: some donors might be thieves or worse. Many and probably most aren't. I would gladly accept an anonymous donation. What to do if i learn it's ill gotten is a different discussion. I don't understand your money laundry hypothesis.
Ask HN: If Google Workspace/Gsuite disappeared tomorrow, where would you go?
Mainly asking for folks that run their business email through it.
Probably didn't read the title and article properly
> It should be noted that this issue isn’t unique to developers. Management, sales, HR, support, legal, and even accounting departments have their own unique ways of creating imaginary problems. They try to involve themselves too much in a decision, when their presence at a meeting is just a formality or wasn’t requested at all. They overemphasize a minute problem that is related to their role, or hire teams much larger than necessary to illustrate their importance.

I run into this more often than problems I imagine. A whole series of what ifs and folks imagining things. The worst part is the fixes to their imaginary problem are usually not well thought out and drive things towards worse choices.

I’m a big believer in getting version 1 out the door as problems people imagine often… are never relayed by the actual customer.

I often work with some routing software (let’s say routing packages). There is a simple mode that works great. Anyone can use it.

The issue is people want to establish say 20 rules about how / when / what is routed. Business folks insist that it be “easy” for “anyone to use” just like the existing easy mode.

This is doomed from the start. We can make it easier for sure, but if you have 20 rules with different weighted priorities:

1. It is complex for most people to think of. It will look complex because it is complex.

2. That’s ok because the guy with 20 rules probably has thought about them and understand they have 20 rules.

Then we give them UI to visualize it all and customer is happy.

But the business folks are upset because the visualization is complex… and there we are again.

For the record I usually get through this slog and everyone is happy in the end, but it is a slog due to imaginary problems.
Consider that one constituency might simply be way more quiet about it than the other.
Yup. I learned about it way after the fact, but you have the cracker scene, which crosses over with tracker enthusiasts and produces demoscene in the 80s/90s. Demoscene crosses over with a lot of early PC game dev, which loops us back around to crackers. The next gen picks up the echoes of this stuff through keygens and romhacks, and we eventually get stuff like Barkley Gaiden (whose theme song remixed the Space Jam theme with a mod from a tracker composer who went on to cofound Swedish House Mafia) and Undertale (which is the culmination of a stupidly-interesting chain of chiptune/indie game dev influences).
> MIPS and SPARC are both basically incompatible with modern high-performance CPU design techniques.

I don't see how that follows at all? MIPS in fact is about as pure a "RISC" implementation as is possible to conceive[1], and it shares all its core ideas with RISC-V. You absolutely could make a deeply pipelined superscalar multi-core MIPS chip. SPARC has the hardware stack engine to worry about, but then modern CPUs have all moved to behind-the-scenes stack virtualization anyway.

No, CPUs are CPUs. Instruction set architectures are a vanishingly tiny subset of the design of these things. They just don't matter. They only seem to matter to programmers like us, because it's the only part we see.

[1] Branch delay slots and integer multiply instruction notwithstanding I guess.
Mullvad has both rented and owned, same for RAM or storage. Azire went 100%, I think this is what they're trying to highlight.

However a downside is that they'll be quite limited in reacting quickly and ramping up their network, which may happen if they get a significant inflow of users.
The Evolution of Mathematical Software: Follow the Hardware (2022) [pdf]
Experiments in LLMs – Everything I've learned (so far) – Part One – Fine tuning
> I wish Discord was not mandatory to interact with the community (because I strongly believe in [1]).

While I understand this preference and am sympathetic to it, I hope this means that you're doing the (heavy, thankless) work to make IRC or mailing lists more reasonably usable for a modern audience on modern devices.

Email's problem is mostly just that email has been rendered almost useless by bad affordances across the board and the general disregard for signal-to-noise, but IRC manages to even be worse. I have a phone in my pocket; I expect continuous connection and history. No, I'm not going to start a bouncer. No, I'm not going to pay somebody else to do it. And no, I'm not going to start a history-archive bot so I can see what I missed.

People moved because these tools are inadequate. Maybe somebody wants to make those tools better, but I don't see it happening at the scales necessary to make these more than but-for complaints.
This is just cool. Thank you kind anon.
Good reputation?
> Anyone thinking about contributing to this project should keep in mind that it is under Reddits control. You will effectively be donating your time to a company that treats its users and partners very poorly.

This undermines the submission by reducing all tech to "Does Reddit control it? Then it's bad."
I dunno. To me it seems like if a web server can't deal with 700 simulatenous requests it should probably call it quits. They're of course within their rights to just block the connections but it certainly doesn't look like a denial of service attack to me. Submitting a link to HN probably causes even bigger traffic spikes.
> By 2050, the ambition is to be fully circular - relying only on used and recycled materials.

entropy would like a word…
I frequently refer to this as “It would be cool if” driven development.

Crucial to fight against this kind of stuff.