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> improper terminology

But in English, there is no central authority for determining correctness. For the general public, the meaning of words and phrases is entirely determined by usage. In a lecture hall, courtroom, or research lab, definitions may be more precise.
> Are people on this site really convinced that an L3 Google engineer can flick the "Fix Google" switch on the search engine?

No, it's just when someone speaks on behalf of the company with the terms "we," they are typically addressed with "you." That doesn't mean we think they're the CEO. Are you unfamiliar with this concept? I can send you an SEO guide on it.
Student projects aiming to solve real-world problems with tech
Memfault (YC W19) Is Hiring a Data/Back End Engineer
Microgrids aren’t exactly new; essential campus type facilities (hospitals, universities, emergency services, military facilities, etc.) have often run their own grids. The major difference is that it is now starting to get affordable for residential.

The particular problem it solves is mostly the cascade. You can disconnect to insulate from cascading failure, you can probably restart a microgrid easier since it’s less things to sync, etc. And a cascade can happen for all sorts of reasons, whether that be operator error (2003 Northeast blackout), a natural disaster that hits the wrong way (hurricane/tornado/earthquake/tsunami) or intentional human disaster (Ukraine)
Putting your music on streaming services is marketing, because yes, streaming is where the audience is. You say 7 people bought your album, which is great (congrats!), but how did they find out your album existed in the first place?

As odd as it sounds, in music-as-a-business, the mentality needs to be that the music you're putting out is marketing for the actual product, which is the musician themselves. Because it's fans of the musician who do things like buy physical records, go to shows when they're on tour, or buy merchandise, which are the things that actually generate revenue.
That is essentially what embeddings do
That the curvatures are integers is proved (noticed by Soddy in 1936 as "a fairly straightforward consequence of Descartes’ equation", as the article mentions), and a lot more is also proved about the integers' distribution; the conjecture specifically is about whether every sufficiently large “admissible (passing local obstructions) integer is the curvature of some circle in the gasket” — see the second page of https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4416, or indeed the second page of the paper the article is about (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02749), which puts it even more concretely:

> Conjecture 1.1 ([GLM+03, FS11]). Let A be a primitive Apollonian circle packing containing curvatures equivalent to r (mod 24). The set of positive integers x ≡ r (mod 24) not occurring in A is finite.

which they disprove with:

> Theorem 1.3. There exist infinitely many primitive Apollonian circle packings for which the number of missing curvatures up to N is Ω(√N). In particular, the local-global conjecture is false for these packings.
We don't have a policy or any guidance saying to remove old content. That said, we absolutely recognize a responsibility to help creators understand how to succeed and what not to do in terms of Google Search. That's why we publish lots of information about this (none of which says "old content is bad." A good place to review the information we provide is from our Search Essentials page: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials
not a heavy :! user, what i used there worked, but afaik neovim recommends :te . that's one of the bigger differences. neovim was very proud to have a fully integrated terminal
I wonder what's the commercial price point. I wish it could be as low as 30k USD in 10 years so maybe I can do that too.
Promoting a SaaS
How can referral programs help digital and social media marketing agencies
Although, at least what works today works tomorrow on IRC. Same cannot be claimed from MS Teams or Discord ...
We moved to be closer to family - don't know how people do it without help. Those people must be mad

> I'm no longer sold on the nuclear (American) family — just mom and dad – raising children.

It's not tenable with the complexities and expenses of modern life. It may have been tenable in the 1950s-70s when US prosperity for the middle class was maybe at a global all time high
Vim Boss
> people still highly active on metaverse platforms including Roblox, Fortnite, Rec Room, VRChat, and Second Life

Does any massively multiplayer game count as "the metaverse" now?
At Macromedia, the codename for this project was "Keygrip".

Also, it was cross-platform for Mac and Windows.
It'd become much more sustainable to do what you're talking about if it was accompanied by energy saving measures. Do it well and you could easily aim for 5kWh per day per house by minimising heating and cooling choices.
Most investments have a "ratchet" provision, where they get at least 2-3x their investment in a sale. Most of it probably went to investors.
anker, being a Chinese manufacturer, doesn't have much chance to penetrate the western markets. even assuming they can develop a dependable product. but I wouldn't trust more than a headphone, or a wall charger from them.
> but how did they find out your album existed in the first place?

No idea. Should I care?

> As odd as it sounds, in music-as-a-business, the mentality needs to be that the music you're putting out is marketing for the actual product

I fundamentally disagree with this.
For what it's worth, the examples given on that page are either domestic instances or do not, as your parent comment describes, involve low profile individuals.
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We think it would also be a great fit for early stage companies as an alternative to everyone building out their own pricing page and stripe integration and has enough flexibility to grow with you when you try out new pricing strategies.

I'm especially proud of how quick the quoting and checkout is to setup as a seller and use as a customer. https://www.salesbricks.com/features/quoting-checkout

We'd love some feedback and to know more about your needs and pains when you go sell your products.
A suborbital flight is not exactly 'going to space' in any meaningful terms.

If lack of air qualifies as going to space, then the economy flight I was on last week got me four-fifths of the way to space.

Neither it, nor VG is anywhere close to capable of taking me into orbit, though.
This but unironically.

YC wants companies with huge upside that are of the size and timing they have experience and ability to assist in.

After that they pick founders and engineers that they deem to have a higher chance of success - which are usually FANNG engineers or tenured founders.

If you want to get in outside this clique you need to offer something compelling - and most applicants will not have something more compelling then FANNG experience.
Slightly off-topic, but the illustrations in this article are gorgeous!

I found the illustrator's website here: https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/
This is our guidance about how people should see themselves to create helpful content to succeed in Google Search:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creat...

That includes self-assessment questions, including this:

"Are you writing to a particular word count because you've heard or read that Google has a preferred word count? (No, we don't.)"

That's not telling people to write longer. Our systems are not designed to reward that. And we'll keep working to improve them.
OceanGate avoided certification. Virgin Galactic is licensed and certified by the FAA to do commercial passenger flights.
Yeah, I get it, it’s easy to poke at that phrasing.

There’s also a reading of that response where they mean “HN level” like “as confident as the replied-to comment author”. Could even be a bit sarcastic.
> Statistical learning can typically be phrased in terms of k nearest neighbours

We have suspected that neural nets are a kind of kNN. Here's a paper:

Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152
For anyone else not in the know, Twitter(X?) now limits your view to only the tweet a link points to, if you're not logged in.
Interesting convo, for now we haven't focused heavily on photos that are not AI-generated, because there are cases of intentional style changes (that are not true deformities or photo quality errors). I can definitely seeing some of the photos you've mentioned here being a bit confusing.
> it just gives a free pass to any behavior.

Totally disagree. I am not free from the consequences of my actions. I'm simply saying it's a waste of mental energy to drag yourself down based on events that happened in the past. You can learn from things you've done and if something was a mistake in hindsight, you can avoid those mistakes in the future.

But I try not regret making any mistakes I've made because there's no point. You can't objectively judge your decisions if they're clouded in an emotional haze
I mean, people are bad at editing. "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I've written a long letter instead." I don't think it's a conspiracy.

I definitely write super long things when I consciously make the decision to not spend much time on something. Meanwhile, I've been working on a blog post for the better part of 2 years because it's too long, but doesn't cover everything I want to discuss. If you want people to retain the content, you have to pare it down to the essentials! This is hard work.
MariaDB didn't "strangle off" MySQL. The latter is still significantly more popular (probably 10 times as much, if not more) if you look outside our HN/Linux bubble. It also had one of the best releases ever under Oracle's guidance back in 2018, many years after the split, when very few of the original developers were still at Oracle. Meanwhile, MariaDB development slowed down significantly over the past few years as they're having financial problems.

(You might counter that by saying that the last MySQL release was in 2018, but it's not really comparable: Oracle does all of its development behind closed doors and then does major code dumps when it's ready. MariaDB prefer shipping small releases every 6 months or so.)
> Ownership of wealth in America is relatively diffuse. The top 1% owns only 32% of the wealth.

"Relatively"? According to what metric? I think the US has one of the world's highest Gini coefficients, at least among Western countries.

"Only"? 1% owning about a third of all wealth seems remarkably skewed.
That was my thought. Bards are underrated!

Also, bards are probably the least likely to download it as they are busy making it.
US Dept. Of Energy Combined Heat and Power and Microgrid Installation Databases
The Microgrid Database is a data collection effort sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and maintained by ICF Inc. The database contains a comprehensive listing of microgrid installations throughout the country.
Is that how you do it?
Not all jobs require attitude, work ethic and problem solving ability. Some require skills like dress sense, eloquence, table manners, and a refined taste in fine wine and art.
> Especially important to communicate that in your case, on the off chance they want to hire a data recovery firm in some hope of saving wedding photos or something

I share any photos with them they might want, but I hopeful that Apple's security setup prevents any practical data recovery. I know my family too well, if I explicitly said "this is private" they'd be trying to get in the moment I was cold.

There's nothing bad on my devices, but there's lots they don't need to know about me.
As others have said, running a record label (in this day and age) is a labor of love. You do it because you love the music, you love the artists and you love the scene. I am friends with a few label owners and it's an absolute treat when their release breaks even. I don't think a whole lot more needs to be said really. You are approaching this with entirely the wrong motivations here. Start with a passion in music and the desire to give your friends band a platform to try and scrape together a barely sustainable living, or even just get their songs pressed on a physical medium. At least that will be spiritually profitable.
There is also networked geothermal

https://heet.org/geo/
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LangchainJs Real-World Examples
Your reaction to the parent was wondering at selection bias in schools, which was a nice context to me wondering at the selection bias you have in interviews. Thanks.
Yeah. Comcast is shorting me by a solid 50Mb/s and this is the reason it's annoying. On top of the fact that their garbage excuse for a website is literally completely broken. Every time I've tried to use it for the past year it just sticks me in a login loop. What a truly miserable company.
I haven't read the latest literature but my understanding is that "grokking" is the phase transition that occurs during the coalescing of islands of understanding (increasingly abstract features) that eventually form a pathway to generalization. And that this is something associated with over-parameterized models, which have the potential to learn multiple paths (explanations).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_theory

A relevant, recent paper I found from a quick search: The semantic landscape paradigm for neural networks
(https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09550)
but when the model trains on 13T tokens it is hard to be OOD
> Every item that someone owns is an item that they have to store, organize, clean, etc.

This right here is the crux of what defines hoarding, at least to me - when that work isn't being done.

I do many physical hobbies / DIY. So the characterization that keeping anything you don't have an immediate use for as hoarding doesn't ring true - some times you really will need that 1x2ft scrap of drywall in the future, or those bits of lumber or exact valued resistor/capacitor/etc. Or wanting to get all the materials for a project in order and ready to go even though you might not do it for a few months, which then turns into even longer.

But the stereotype of extreme hoarding with food wrappers and animals crapping in the piles doesn't ring true either. Because hoarding can exist long before that type of squalor, and long before the DSM would make a positive diagnosis.

So to me it's about whether one is doing the effort to organize/clean/use the stuff. It's ultimately about whether that complexity is being managed or being brushed aside. Like the part in the article about hoarders being more familiar with ad-hoc organization rather than categorization. That's a necessary skill, but it also creates a precarious situation that can fall apart when things change and that information gets flushed.
None. I learned the most from passionate and personable professors.
That was tongue in cheek/sarcasm. I think it's insane people are dying for this.
This is awesome, the ability to assess image composition according to photography 'rules' especially is super intriguing. Could you provide some examples of the specific rules your algorithm considers and how they contribute to the overall image quality evaluation? Do you guys see this feature being able to replace studio photographers?
None of those examples are GPT-4
I have never tried that, thanks!

Does it work for a variable list of things, or would supporting two different checked exceptions require two generic params? If it's one per param I think that's neat but probably limited in use to "your exception can contain a generic value", like `throw NewInsertFailedException(value)`.
No one has demonstrated that simply removing content that's "old" means we think a site is "fresh" and therefore should do better. There are people who perhaps updated older content reasonably to keep it up-to-date and find that making it more helpful that way can, in turn, do better in search. That's reasonable. And perhaps that's gotten confused with "remove old, rank better" which is a different thing. Hopefully, people may better understand the difference from some of this discussion.
If a manned spaceflight program proceeded to its first flight on time, the universe might just implode.
> Whether or not you want to communicate "in the clearest way possible" is a choice.

This is far from "clearest way possible", it's not even in the middle. This choice impedes communication which makes is less useful, by your definition.

> But only the author/designer can speak to whether the design was successful in it's aims

I find it difficult to believe that the author's aim was to share a story in such way that's unnecessarily harder to consume, by a large portion of people otherwise interested in their thoughts.
\\?\GLOBALROOT\ anyone? Now you're opening devices from the NT object namespace rather than files.

Bonus: You can create the file C:\con\con using NT Native API filesystem calls. Someone even made a video of installing Windows into C:\con\con, and the kernel-side stuff works beautifully, and the explorer shell side dies horribly.
Why is filtering applicants for people who accomplished at least something in any area of life (not even specifically software) being a jerk ?
That’s not exactly true, there doesn’t seem to be an upper bound (that we can reach) on storage capacity in the brain [0]. Instead, the brain actually works to actively distill knowledge that doesn’t need to be memorized verbatim into its essential components in order to achieve exactly this “generalized intuition and understanding” to avoid overfitting.

[0]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-estimate-boos...
This isn't what the rest of these comments would indicate (which say that people that get into top schools are fundamentally more qualified and intelligent than people that do not)
> for some of us it's about what's the most minimal setup required to use the tool.

That's was the case for me. When I moved from vi to vim 25 years ago, I devoted a lot of time to customizing it for maximum developer efficiency. Around that time, I got a job where I regularly used five different HP/UX machines, a couple of Solaris boxes, and a few other random machines. At the next job, it was HP/UX, AIX, and IRIX. Few of those machines had vim at all, let alone a version compatible with the setup I had on Linux.

I eventually stopped doing the fancy things and settled into using plain vanilla vi, knowing that it would at least work consistently on every machine I used.
There is an excellent NeoVIM extension that integrates NeoVIM into VS Code. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...

Best of both worlds.
Not so strange if you’ve met the kind of sysadmins that don’t enable EPEL.
Is this IBM|RedHat's Elasticsearch vs Opensearch moment?
Godel's incompleteness theorems say that all mathematics that is complicated enough to encode basic arithmetic must rely on unproven assumptions. Unproven assumptions are the basis of all mathematics. For example, even numbers rely on very unproven assumptions. We assume, for example, that there is always a number following another number, but it is not at all obvious what that means.
>The plane is the largest to fly powered in part by a hydrogen fuel cell, a significant step for zero-emissions flight.
I see a graphical visualization of latency with multiple points and error bars. Maybe "graph" isn't the right technical term?

Edit: It's a box and whisker plot: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/summ...
this has never been done for any sustained period in any society ever, despite incentives of all kinds that were tried in the past. All human experience so far has been: this trend is irreversible. But, you came up with this random idea that a little economic reshuffling will quickly fix things when needed. How do you know that? You also came up with the idea that it's really no big deal, even though the prime minister of Japan and other authorities publicly say that they are losing their ability to function as a society and this trend is hurting them very much already. So much for "not a huge problem" and "it's just silly fearmongering".
Thank you! Definitely a lot of problems to tackle for us. We are interested in possibly eventually expanding to generative video, and it'll give us a new world of problems to look at in that space too.
Spain is mountainous as hell; a chariout outside the Castille plains and Madrid would be scrap.

Get a height map of Spain and you can obviously see that a chariot trying to ride at Picos de Europa would be a nightmare.
Might need to have your ambitions, dreams, hopes, prayers, and goals, but life has a way of working itself out every time.
I'm sighted, but bought a used braille display for slightly less than $200 to learn braille for fun. It's pretty impressive to actuate hundreds of tiny dots at a time, for every sentence you need to read. Every once in a while one dot doesn't drop back when the display is refreshed, and since you're swiping your fingers across the display, feeling (or maybe I was seeing?) that one oddly placed dot is disorienting.

Maybe that feeling goes away with fluency, which I can't speak to, but I have a lot of respect for the engineering that goes into these displays. Granted, I'm not a hardware person.
Blockout was the first game we had on our 286. So many memories. Thanks.
Maybe humans are also failing a lot in out of distribution settings. It might be inherent.
I share your sentiment but rocket launch is not that massive right now actually.
> How is that relevant?

I keep reading and hearing folk claiming that X is faster, as in this thread. It would be nice to read some actual study showing this to be true, but it seems like it mostly ends up being strongly held opinions based on anecdotes.

You say it's easy to argue. Sure, it's easy to argue but that doesn't make it correct. I could argue in the other direction and then we end up wasting our time.
Okay but the Supreme Court has just one person who didn’t not Harvard or Yale. The majority of Biden’s cabinet went to Harvard or Yale. You might not believe that Harvard acts as a gatekeeper in practice, but it does.
What's great about writing is that readers can go at their own pace. When speaking, you have to optimize for your audience and you probably lose more people by being too fast vs. the people you lose by talking too slow. I have to say I appreciate YouTubers that go a million miles an hour (hi EEVBlog). As a native speaker of English, I can keep up. But you have to realize, most people in the world are not native speakers of English.

(The converse is; whenever I turn on a Hololive stream I'd say that I pick up 20% of what they're saying. If they talked slower, I would probably watch more than every 3 months. But, they rightfully don't feel the need to optimize for non-native speakers of Japanese.)
(388-178*y)*x

Where y is the ratchet rate, and x is the percent Portnoy owned.

He could have easily owned 20% of the company or less. Assuming no ratchet, that could still be well over $30M after taxes - but it's an order of magnitude away from $550M.

And assuming a ratchet rate close to 2 - that's almost nothing - even if he owned 80% of the company.