skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>He seemed to be pointing out risks of giving quite that additional power to a board, including the risk of it being abused to neutralize opposition -- only to have the existing power appear to be used to neutralize him.

I mean even though the board is not traditionally a boss in the sense of an open source project. But its still a kind of management/boss.

One of the most cornerstone laws of power is to never criticise a team member, even less so one's own boss(es) or their policies in public. Another law is to never make a team member apologise to you. It simply creates a rivalry on the longer run, and new enemies you don't want to fight. In fact you are better of not doing such things in gossip too. Powers always maintain spies, or just plain allies who give them information in return for favours. If you want to walk down this path, do ensure you have enough(minimum) support from a majority section of similar powers, then act. But even this is not recommended.

In this case whenever such policies are announced in public, these decisions have been made with enough support and votes, the announcement is just a public event of informing the larger masses. If you criticise these things in public, you won't change a thing. Instead the powers mark you up for elimination at the first chance. Like in this case.

If I was this person, I would abandon the project(not just the 3 month suspension) and probably convince other team members to do the same. Python is not the only decent open source game in town.

Its also pointless to contribute to a project whose sole purpose is to hurt the very people that make it happen.
I prefer the original ending, but I don't think it'll change your feelings.
He's making showing that the m'th derivative of p(x) = x^n (a-bx)^n / n! is an integer at 0 and pi for 0 <= m <= 2m way harder than it needs to be.

He notes that p(x) is a polynomial of degree 2n, and then applies that general formula for multiple derivatives of a product that he proves at the start of the video. That involves a bunch of fiddling with binomial coefficients. He does this so he can write down an exact equation for the polynomial and its derivatives as a sum of powers of x. Around 20% of the video is spend on proving that general derivative formula and later applying it.

That's overkill because we do not need to know the exact coefficient of each power of x.

Simpler is to note that since p(x) is a polynomial of degree 2n and the whole thing is divided by n! it is a sum of terms of the form Ci x^i / n! for i = 0...2n. Also note that because it has a factor of x^n, Ci = 0 for i < n.

Consider then some arbitrary term of the polynomial, Ci x^i / n!, i >= n.

When x = 0, that term is 0 because of x^i.

Differentiating lowers the exponent of x by 1, so the first i-1 derivates all still have a factor of x in them, so are all 0 at x = 0.

The i'th derivative finally gets rid of the x. In particular, the i'th derivative of x^i is i!, so the i'th derivative of the term is Ci i! / n!. Remember that i >= n, so i!/n! is an integer and so is Ci i! / n!.

Further derivatives of the term are all 0 because they are derivatives of a constant.

In summary, the polynomial is 0 at x = 0, because all terms have a factor of x in them. As you repeatedly differentiate the polynomial each individual term of the derivative is 0 at x = 0 until you've differentiated enough times to get rid of all its factors of x. At that point the term is a constant integer. Further derivatives of the term are derivatives of a constant which is 0.

To show that the polynomial and its derivatives are integers at pi note that f(x) = f(pi-x), and so f'(x) = - f'(pi-x), f''(x) = f''(pi-x), ..., f^(m)(x) = (-1)^m f^(m)(pi-x). The polynomial and all its derivatives at pi are either the same as they are at 0 or the negative of what they are at 0, and since they are all integers at 0 they are also all integers at pi.
When there are three books it's called a "trilogy".
The author's code is available in an archived repo so it should be possible to experiment with different colormaps.

https://github.com/vankessel/sandbox/tree/master
Cube Route
> Perhaps some of them might actually be inspiration for genuine breakthroughs. Perhaps.

Time is a four-sided cube, four simultaneous days.
> historically you could compile C with the C++ compiler.

not any C, only the C++-compatible subset.

int* foo = malloc(sizeof(int));

has never worked in C++ for instance while it's valid C. Code that worked is code that people actually did effort to express in a way compatible with a C++ compiler.
You're misunderstanding what I'm saying. How the language works is relatively simple. Understanding what's going on when problems arise isn't.

* "how is my Cobra command being registered when I'm not calling any code?" -> "oh, there's an init function that registers the command when imported"

* "why is this variable not working?" -> "oh, it's that for loop thing again"

* "why does the result of my unit tests depend on the order of test execution?" -> "oh, we have 150 Cobra commands in one package with variables shared between _all_ of those commands"

* "how is this variable being set?" -> "oh, we have to call go build with a monstrous ldflags argument

* "why is CI not passing for this oneliner when this looked fine locally?" -> "oh, it's a linux-only file so the IDE isn't even showing me simple syntax errors"
Did I read it wrong, or does the universe expand at 10% of speed of light!? Could that possible be why the measurements are off? A close object vs an object very far away might look like they are in different places relatively.
In either case it would prompt closer examination.

If the dev goofed, then good thing it got caught.

If the dev is not trustworthy, then you have evidence of such untrustworthiness.
Given what I've seen in audio ML research:

1) Tuning hyperparameters of your audio preprocessing is a pain if it's a preprocessed CPU step. You have to redo preprocessing every time you want to tune your audio feature hyperparams

2) It's quite common to use torchaudio spectrograms, etc. purely because they are faster (I can link to a handful of recent high-impact audio ML github repos if you like)

3) If you use nnAudio, you can actually backprop the STFT or mel filters and tune them if you like. With that said, this is not so commonplace.

4) Sometimes the audio is GENERATED by a GPU. For example, in a neural vocoder, you decode the audio from a mel to a waveform. Then, you compute the loss over the true versus predict audio mel spectrograms. You can't do this with these C++ features. (Again, I can link a handful of recent high-impact audio ML github repos if you like.)

Again, I just don't get it.
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Flatland by Edwin Abbott
> Knowledge is seeing a white pattern in visual field.

That definition classifies every dream I have dreamed, every video I've seen, every game I've played, as "knowledge".

If anything, it is an easier thing to dismiss than the examples you give as "beliefs".

See "naive realism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naïve_realism
PostgreSQL also supports Meson which requires no generated filed to be convenient.
I’ve never heard of such a thing. Thank you!
Congrats on launching! Wish we had this years ago at Flexport for our ops / science teams. Traditional ML approaches are expensive, and the idea of defining your final shape of data and automating the ETL process is the best abstraction out there.

Rooting for you guys!
> Sounds good on paper, but in reality you still need to pay the insane licensing fees if you need a usable product.

Can you clarify what you mean by this? I ran a hosted Gitlab instance for a previous company for years with SSO, actions, container registry, on Gitlab CE. I never felt like I was missing anything.

While I'd definitely reach for Gitea if I wanted to be a purist about open source I honestly can't think of a Gitea feature that's not in Gitlab CE.
Paul has a funny story about John trying to get by without his glasses.

https://www.today.com/video/paul-mccartney-says-john-lennon-...
description of one way to build a mechanical memristor : http://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/10356/156385/2/Mechanically%2...
> https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/climate-issues/d...

This page whole purpose is to explain why the Paris agreement decided to put a goal at 1.5°C and in this context, they list what could happen if this threshold is crossed.

>> "Six CTPs become likely (with a further four possible) within the Paris Agreement range of 1.5 to <2°C warming, including collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, die-off of low-latitude coral reefs, and widespread abrupt permafrost thaw."

Your own quote actually talks about what I'm saying from the start. It's a range with effects becoming more severe and likely as temperature increase hence the range of 1.5°C to 2°C. They talk about another one at 2.6°C a line latter. That goes directely against your claim that the focus is on 1.5°C as some kind of deadline.
Just did a mental test of this theory through past projects I’ve consulted for, and it seemed the opposite. I’ve seen hack jobs generating about $1M/day, as a second product of the company. And seen very mature serious applications barely breaking even.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234863
Angry upvote.

Maybe it's true failing though was stopping short of becoming the OS.
> Because Gothic is ancestral to what would become Old High German

That's just wrong. It was connected, but a dead offshoot; a vestigial limb.
> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
Some preliminary analysis suggests that if C is an integer greater than 1, C/C++ will always evaluate to 1 [0].

[0] https://www.programiz.com/online-compiler/9fkHTct0Mybpu
Congratulations on the launch. We've weighed up algolia, in house, type-sense etc and so I'd would have been very keen to know more, but asking for us to integrate before knowing the pricing is a tough sell.

Would highly recommend having at least an estimated pricing calculator so we can determine if its worth our time to install.
1/++
Discussion (394 points, 2 days ago, 349 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41217037
I'll grant that Adam Smith made a strong case that free trade makes people richer, that's one part of the story, but it's not the whole story. Note Wikipedia shies away from making a definition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#Definition

"There is no universally agreed upon definition of capitalism... some doubt that the term "capitalism" possesses valid scientific dignity, and it is generally not discussed in mainstream economics... understanding of the concept of capitalism tends to be heavily influenced by opponents of capitalism and by the followers and critics of Karl Marx."

I'd argue that the shareholder based ownership makes possible the vast expansion of scale which makes "modern" systems so productive. e.g. in "capitalism" somebody can accumulate capital and invest it.
Quick somebody add it to esolang before it escapes into the wild
My first law of robotics in production environments:

1. In order to effectively deploy real robots to solve real problems, you have to foresee and fix any problem that may occur in 99.5% of scenarios. As automation
is added in series, the higher that number must be to remain economically effective.

My second law of robotics:

2. Robots depreciate, which has tax advantages. Human wages do not.

---

Discussion:

A realistic scenario is an assembly plant that makes 1,000 widgets per day. Imagine cars, washing machines, etc.

Your widget plant has 10 footprints. Any robot stoppage takes at least 5 minutes to clear.

With a 99.5% success rate and one robot, you lose 25 minutes a day (1000*0.005 = 5 stoppages ) * 5 minutes.

If all 10 footprints have robots with a 99.5% success rate, you lose 250 minutes a day (naive model!). That's over 4 hours.

In reality, each station would have manual bypass procedures, or you would go bankrupt.
Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
Lots of software started this way: as a toy, a proof-of-concept, a learning opportunity for the programmers.
I really hope that they find interested people who join their experiments, and build something awesome and open together.
One of the most fundamental experiences I ever had was attempting a graduate level course at the end of a long series on compilers. You really get an eye opening view of how languages are translated into the language the machine understands. After going through a few toy languages and then finally tackling creating a simple JVM, here is the #1 thing I would go back to myself and scream until I was blue -

Make your initial grammar SUPER simple. Like, don't go guns blazing and try to add all these cool features you saw in another language or always thought about. Start stupid, stupid simple, get that working, then build on top of it.
Apple machines have optimized hardware software and batteries, and cost double the price for that reason. If you want that kind of battery life, optimization, lightness, plug and play, snappiness, beautiful look and such, I guess you should just spend the money and buy from Apple again, since you like it.
Me, myself, I choose something else because my priorities are others.
This being said, I really don't like the tone of the question. Every laptop "behaves as a laptop".
It's just like saying "I want a woman that behaves like a woman", imposing your way of seeing things onto others.
Okay. Ban farting. Ban acne. Ban sex. Go ahead. Even drugs are tough to ban, and we’re talking about natural emergent human behavior.

In polygamous countries, they are able to enforce laws against adultery, for example.

But they can’t change the 80/20 pareto distribution of 80 percent of the women being attracted to 20 percent of the men. They can’t change the fact that men can have multiple children at a time and repopulate after a war, while women cannot (I am not talking about triplets here).

Any society in history that tried to enforce equality for men and women in, say, the armed forces, would be weeded out through natural selection. Men are just more expendable, and also more polygamous etc. This is all due to evolutionary selection pressures on societies. And polygamous societies have more war because they have a lot more frustrated young men (literal not figurstive incels due to the law polygamy and anti adultery law enforcement, who then join some movement led by old men etc partly to get women).

Western liberal societies have decriminalized adultery and premarital sex. They unsqueezed the balloon in one area and so have less violence. But now the same pareto distribution plays out, just in the premarital years. 20% of the men sleep with 80% of the women, unofficially and hush hush. Then most people eventually pair off “having sown their wild oats” and raise children together for a while.

You can replace the war with business, brawn with money, but the natural results will still be there.

Banks will still lend easiest to those who need it the least.

Investors will still invest in startups because others do. Money won’t be allocated to the many startups that need it.

Try to ban it. See what happens.
The dot product! That's a good example, thank you.
I love my 13" Framework (12th Gen Intel) - Running Nix btw, but I am rarely on battery so can't comment there.

Over the years, I've also looked at the Dell XPS 13 developer edition and the Purism. There was a system 76 model I was looking at too, but went with the Framework

I had a 2012 retina MB pro and it was (so far) probably the best machine I've ever owned, but I use an m2 MB pro for work and I would not buy one for myself.
> I think cops (or at least their bosses) care about their arrests resulting in successful prosecutions.

A successful prosecution is measured by a guilty plea or a finding of guilt. It is not the same thing as justice or convicting the right person. There are mountains of cases where it is clear that prosecutors are playing with dirty tricks for a conviction of anyone, rather than seeking to convict the right person.
Our socialists are not extreme. They are fake. Half of them are trust fund kids from Little Ivies with permanent incomes from their dads' regional apartment empires.
It'd be cool if we launched several space telescopes on Voyager-like trajectories.

In 50-100 years they'd get a much better angular fix on stars that are too distant for Earth-orbit-sized angular measurements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_parallax
Have a go at it in the wilderness and you’ll realize really rather quickly how disconnected modern … durations have become.

But yeah, for some it’s definitely an escape. Particularly at work.
Release of X-Plane 12.1.2 (Beta)
OS/2 comes to mind. Version 1.x was already much more sophisticated than MS-DOS.
Yes. Default deny application firewalls are really powerful tool. It really can take the wind out of large classes of exploits. They can't phone home to exfil data or get follow up command.

It isn't something I'd recommend for everyone, because it is a lot of work and faffing around, but be extremely effective if you are willing to invest in managing it correctly.
The measurement for expansion is linear with distance, so two spots one Mpc from another moves away front each other at 67.4 km/s while two spots two Mpcs from each other moves at 134.8km/s. This means the expansion is accelerating and some parts of the now visible universe will eventually move away from us faster than the speed of light resulting in them disappearing from our view.

The distances, time and speeds are indeed very hard to comprehend from our usual references :)
Or even getting weaker slower than others
there is no "seems" with provable error bars
From this decision is it doubtful that a judge would grant the warrant under any circumstances -- the knowledge, for example, that there are only three results, is only available after the warrant is executed. Since no warrant would be so granted, the data that only three results are found would never be discovered.

A judge could always choose to grant the warrant, but with full knowledge that any evidence uncovered will likely be inadmissible. Even if a judge grants such a warrant, it would likely be contested by the service provider (Google), and another judge would need to sign off on it, and likely an appelate court would have to deny certiorari in order. And even if it was allowed, at trial all of this would again be litigated with a fresh set of judges, and once again have to navigate up the apellate courts, and would most likely impair or cripple the prosecution of a case where it was used.

There might be exigent circumstances where the public needs outweigh the prosecutorial damage -- preventing an imminent bombing or something, but for routine criminal matters the geofence warrant is all but dead.
The author would have done well to read "The Beginning of Infinity" by Deutsch which has well rounded discussion of different methods of epistemology espoused over time. The development past authority need not result in anarchy. Deutsch's view, embracing fallibility can achieve an advancement of human creativity and knowledge.
Case in point: hacker news is almost always working fast for me, no matter what crappy internet connection I’m on.
I am amazed what soft contacts can do. I have a myopia greater than -14 on each eye and the contacts I wear are as thin as any other regular set.

In comparison the glasses I have even with the most advanced glass is extremely thick and only a small area doesn't cause color shifting.
If you're interested in the addiction side of this, I write the substack that Scott links to in this post. Here's the article he links to:

https://recursiveadaptation.com/p/the-growing-scientific-cas...

I think that studies of GLP-1RAs for alcohol and opioid addiction are the biggest public health opportunities in the world right now, in terms of leverage and scale.
Raptor Lake microcode limits chips to 1.55 volts to prevent CPU destruction
He can get an M1 Air brand new from Walmart for $650, which would be an incredible upgrade from a 2014 Air.

Nothing beats the M1 Air for $650 in my opinion.
In this specific example it means the Dutch have built a considerable amount of homes in the past few years, but the number of homes the supply is short has increased, not decreased. Simply adding more houses alone is clearly not going to solve the problem.
People making cubesats? Sure. Companies that can build moonshot hardware, though, are far more scarce.
You are missing that this is just some salts dissolved in water, while the 18650 is a highly complex device.

How much does it cost to store 10m^3 of water? And hos much does it cost to store the same energy in 18650 batteries?

Also, the internal resistance depends entirely on how many cells you have. But a practical battery wouldn't use paper.
Was LASIK surgery experimental back then? Would have alleviated the issues John experienced on a frequent basis with those pesky rigid contact lens.

I think I had similar diagnosis of myopia and astigmatism as John and its worked wonderfully for me. Fortunately this was completely recently where the techniques have been perfected/improved with technology.
Which Russiagate Pulitzer are you referring to, the 1932 one?
Sure, but now you're not talking about something you install in a home.
Their actual mathematical conclusions are what matters, not the platitudes at the end for public consimption.

And even their platitudes just highlight that we don’t know how to eliminate it. Why do you take it for granted that this behavior should be punished, controlled? Why do you think punishment is the best way to address this phenomenon? It’s like the war on drugs and many other initiatives that the governments keep going despite no measurable improvement for decades. Why do the same thing over and over and expect a different result?
> so it now seems more likely that our model of the universe is wrong.

Whenever a scientist says that it's not possible that the model is wrong, then I just roll my eyes. Of course models can be wrong - and isn't that exciting? Good on them for making sure that there are no errors in the measurements - that's incredibly valuable and absolutely necessary - but I'm really excited to see creative models being thought up that are drastically different. My personal hell is the universe being consistent and boring.
> With 50 milliseconds of network latency, and 0-rtt support, that gives 50 milliseconds for server and client processing+rendering. Ought to be very do-able.

You're forgetting DNS lookup latency (could be several sequential lookups), and potential protocol switch from HTTP to HTTPS. Having 0-rtt support doesn't do you any good if you don't know which server to send to.
Yes, asdf just works for me. I can't recall a single issue in like 8 years of using it
This aligns with my thinking about people wanting exoskeletons as well.

Construction workers have all kinds of great speciality machines these days that let do everything from dig ditches to drive piles. The number of various attachments for Bobcat machines alone is crazy. None of them look like the exoskeletons I've seen in sci-fi, yet they're remarkably effective.
In that case, your update filters on the user_id.
And Xenix.
I phrased the question that way because I talk to a lot of people who run Linux on their laptops plugged into a monitor on their desks 90% of the time, using a mouse and an external power source. My use case is different, so I have different needs.

I ask the question because I would like to reduce my dependence on a mega-corp and support Linux and smaller manufacturers if possible.
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