jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> For over 90% of workloads kubernetes is an overkill. Only when company is reaching google scale kubernetes make sense.

I hear people repeating this truism all day, but from practical experience, it doesn't seem to be the case - Kubernetes is paying dividends even in small single-node setups.
The project I work on switched from Puppeteer to Playwright in order to increase our browser coverage for visual output tests about a year ago and we've been very happy with it.
Most places did not shut businesses down for longer than a few weeks last April, so naturally they're able to sustain.
I'm a novice game dev and I'm currently using Godot so i'd like to use Bevy but i'm waiting for an editor UI. What's the roadmap looking like for that?
What happened to Brazil from being 1/4 of the BRICs countries a couple of decades back. I know Bolsonaro does not have cred in American media but was the system just a house of cards?
0! = 1 is not hard to accept, since it follows a rule. You just need to look at it backwards. To get the previous factorial (Ni-1)! you need to divide the N! by N

4! = 24 ;; 24 / 4 = 6

3! = 6 ;; 6 / 3 = 2

2! = 2 ;; 2 / 2 = 1

1!= 1 ;; 1 / 1 = 1

0! = 1
I’ve used that database and it’s dirty AF.
Energy.

I’ve seen a couple ugly conversations where someone didn’t understand why an engineer couldn’t do 2 tasks that take half a day/week/sprint in the same time interval, and it comes down to both of those tasks being very high maintenance, or requiring a high degree of concentration. It may only take 20 hours to complete but it sucks up 30 hours worth of energy. You need something brainless for the other 20 hours, not a second task of that ilk.
I disagree. The farmer mentioned above is Gabe Brown and he operates over 5000 acres and operates a closed loop. He grazes the fields which he plants crops in which he feeds to grain based animals such as pigs and chickens.

Hardly a home gardner.
There used to be a time when everyone received a book full of everyone's phone number, name and address... Crazy!
From an interview with William O'Neal:

> INTERVIEWER: Tell me a little bit about how you felt about working for the FBI. What motivated you and what you thought you were, what ends you thought you were serving?

> WILLIAM O'NEAL: Well, in my community, the policemen were, I mean, it was the quickest way to gain respect. I mean, I think I grew up wanting to be a policeman, admiring and respecting policemen, although I always thought it was outside of my reach. I, my neighborhood was not unlike most people that grew up in Chicago, most young people, we were very mischievous and did a lot of juvenile-type, petty, criminal-type things, but stealing a car and all of a sudden having the FBI, having a case with the FBI, the thought of be--having, really going to jail got my attention. And, so when he asked me to join the Black Panther Party, and he used terms, he never used the word informant. He always said, "You're working for me," and I associated him as the FBI. So all of a sudden I was working for the FBI, which, in my mind, at that point, I associated with being an FBI agent. So I felt good about it. I felt like I was working undercover for the FBI doing something good for the finest police organization in America. And so I was pretty proud.

http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eii/eiiweb/one5427.1047.125willia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O%27Neal_(informant)
Don't forget about when IM networks actually used open standards instead of closed proprietary protocols. Managing all of my accounts through pidgin was a breeze, and didn't leave me swapping between half a dozen different programs trying to remember which networks somebody would typically use.
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How many are caused by Windows? :-)
This is a really bad suggestion; if the decision-maker is zoned out, the project is going to stop being low-effort very quickly. (Also you're unlikely to get that position without a lot of effort in the first place.)
Can you explain exactly how capitalism is at fault here, and contrast it with other economic systems which you think would have had a different result?
anecdotally, I felt like my only option was to throw the baby out with the bathwater. It was too hard to avoid the outrage. Everybody has that childhood friend who won't stop posting BS conspiracy theories or that aunt who thinks the world is ending. Do I unfollow these people? if so, what's the point of it all?

I only ever posted positive things like videos of me playing piano and only tried to interact with others in a positive way but I found myself becoming more and more angry over time so I just quit the whole thing and never looked back.
I'd be much happier about (properly implemented) ads, than about this move.
Jab 'em all. Opening up society is much more important to the general well-being of the people than saving a handful of people from blood clots, which hasn't even been confirmed.
It would, but it would not be entirely implausible in this case. Greenland has self-rule on internal matters, but foreign policy and defence costs Denmark money. It implicitly accepted Greenland is headed for eventual independence, but it needs to be economically viable first. If Greenland turns down revenue from mining and in doing so drives up defence costs for Denmark, it's not inconceivable some people will decide they can't have it both ways.

That said, I don't think it's likely.
I scored a 40, function in what I would call a normal way (normal job, normal pay, normal ... I guess) should I have reason for concern? should I see a doc?
As the scoring currently stands, it doesn't seem to count shift presses. It does count escapes though.
You could quite easily 'pre-load' the volume button before taking the photo by holding it down partially without actually engaging it. This would make the amount of remaining force necessary to actually snap the shot roughly comparable to that required for engaging a touch screen button.

Sure, maybe your average user may not do this, but it would make the hardware shutter button a useful feature for the rest of us.
Monopoles.
But what public good, in this instance, was served by depriving the writer of their anonymity? It was a puerile attempt at harming someone they disagreed with.

If it had been someone who was already a public figure or someone who was leveraging their writing into something beyond the ideas presented, it would have been newsworthy.

The infantilization of the NYT from its glory years continues apace.
Tech giants can’t force anything on anyone without being enabled by the local government. If Facebook does not follow German law, Germany will ban it and seize its German assets to pay the fines it owes.
Like utf8... which mDNS supports: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762#appendix-F

I’d personally love to see a proposal to drop puny-code and adopt utf8.
It's interesting to read about the response to the vaccine in the UK, as I live in the United States. I believe that an even higher percentage of people in the US will become complacent once they are vaccinated, but hopefully, there will be an end to all this soon.
I've got a 3rd generation apple TV, which is EOL and apps are being slowly discontinued (no disney, youtube is going soon)

However I can still watch Disney on it using airplay from my OG iphone SE (2016). As far as consumer electronics go, apple is well ahead of the pack.
Because the company follows the law?

(To be clear, I'm not suggesting China is righteous, just that Apple still has to follow laws, even if it doesn't like them)
It’s Denmark, and that was actually the cheapest offer. Half the cost is labour, but we opted for the cheaper cemet tiles, the alternative would have been clay tiles, like bricks, but for the roof.

It’s honestly a pretty good deal. Oh and we have a 25% VAT on everything, so your price is basically just what I have to pay in VAT.
Unless the phone already has a facebook and an amazon app, in which case the browser drops to 15th most used.
Of course they teach those things in "music class". They teach them in music theory class at university level for a start. You're creating a strawman.

Just look at the Wikipedia entry on tuning, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning

Do you think that was all created by non-musicians while 'most of the finest musicians in history' cowered in the corner afraid of the magic being broken?
With GAE would you suggest I use a web framework like webapp or the built in Django?
PDF version:

http://applicative-errors-scala.googlecode.com/svn/artifacts...
The second use case makes me a bit nervous.

Why: many services that require an email confirmation from you typically allow to do the password reset via the same email address. So, unless the user is signing up for a throwaway service, they put their account with that service at risk.

But from the UI point of view the minimalism is awesome.
I was surprised how good the video passthrough on the Oculus Quest is.
I think business doesn't actually want Email, it wants NNTP. The semantics are different enough that both models have a reason to exist and complement each other:

- With email you write to a specific address. With NNTP you write to a group. In a business you almost always want to target multiple people, because activity is interesting (and relevant) to many people.

- To solve that we have a hack that is mailing lists; they work, but still only allow people to receive content _if they were in the recipient list from the beginning_. With NNTP the actual users are abstracted from the recipient, which allows people to read content in a group _even in the past_, or unsubscribe from a group and not bo bothered by new content

- Because it is ingrained in the protocol, creating/modifying/removing groups is easy to do, contrary to mailing lists. You don't need a special team to do that. Many times there is some content that needs to include multiple lists, but not everyone in those groups is relevant to the discussion... but you still include the different maliing lists because "that's the people who _might_ be interested". No more CC forwarding ad nauseam.

- Side-effect of having well-defined groups: because groups are more fluid they match better to actual people, and so the groups becomes a good denominator of what the "mail" might be about and whether it is important or not (compared to a sender and 189 random recipients)

Just look at the way the latest business IMs like Teams are working. They might not be perfect but they map much more to NNTP semantics, and have become the preferred way to communicate, even in long-ish form, rather than email.

(They do have one big advantage over NNTP though: message editing)

At this point, if a new software is needed anyway, we might as well ditch email and use a better protocol (even if it is not NNTP)
Just sounds like bad parenting to me
> 8.7x faster to train

This is an achievement but it would be helpful to have put "to train" in the title as this is quite different from efficiency at inference time, which is what often actually matters in deployed applications.

From Table 3 on Page 7 it appears to me that NFNet is significantly heavier in the number of parameters than EfficientNet for similar accuracies. For example EffNet-B5 achieves 83.7% with 30M params and 9.9B FLOPs on Top-1 while NFNet-F0 achieves 83.6% with 71.5M params and 12.38B FLOPs on Top-1.

It appears to me at first glance that NFNet has not achieved SOTA at inference.
> Octave but with nice string concatenation

As a heavy octave user, I never felt a need to concatenate strings in any way. But I'd be happy if julia was an Octave but with fast loops, which it sort of is; but still not really there.
I was skeptical of the 83%-whatever top-1 accuracy on Imagenet. But someone pointed out that the accuracy increases when the model is pretrained on JFT, google's proprietary 100-million image dataset, the model's accuracy increases to 87%-whatever.

That's pretty interesting. It implies that the original accuracy rating might be legit. The concern is that we're chasing the imagenet benchmark as if it's the holy grail, when in fact it's a very narrow slice of what we normally care about as ML researchers. However, the fact that pretraining on JFT increases the accuracy means that the model is generalizing, which is very interesting; it implies that models might be "just that good now."

Or more succinctly, if the result was bogus, you'd expect JFT pretraining to have no effect whatsoever (or a negative effect). But it has a positive result.

The other thing worth mentioning is that AJMooch seems to have killed batch normalization dead, which is very strange to think about. BN has had a long reign of some ~4 years, but the drawbacks are significant: you have to maintain counters yourself, for example, which was quite annoying.

It always seemed like a neural net ought to be able to learn what BN forces you to keep track of. And AJMooch et al seem to prove this is true. I recommend giving evonorm-s a try; it worked perfectly for us the first time, with no loss in generality, and it's basically a copy-paste replacement.

(Our BigGAN-Deep model is so good that I doubt you can tell the difference vs the official model. It uses AJMooch's evonorm-s rather than batchnorm: [1] https://i.imgur.com/sfGVbuq.png [2] https://i.imgur.com/JMJ1Ll0.png and lol at the fake speedometer.)
The way Tcl/Tk dealt with this was nice: You could watch the value in a variable, getting notified when the variable changed. GUI controls could therefore exactly reflect the content of variables. Of course this comes with a certain hidden overhead.

This complete example will toggle the checkbox every second (1000ms), or the user can click to update the variable. The checkbox watches variable "v".

#!/usr/bin/wish

checkbutton .button -variable v -text "Click me"
pack .button

proc run {} {
global v
after 1000 run
set v [expr !$v]
}
run
The argument from the employers point of view is: we are forcing you to live in SF in order to work, thus we will pay you a premium to accept our choices.

If an employer has nothing to do with your lifestyle choices, then they won't pay for them. For a truly remote position, they won't pay extra if you life in NY/SF vs Nebraska.

However, I think the world hasn't adapted to that market economics yet, so in this time of transition people talk about location-based pay as a stopgap measure. Software development doesn't benefit from a centralized location, so in the future developers won't naturally live in big expensive cities and employers won't pay them wages that permit them to do so.

To be honest, I think the best thing would be for SW Devs to have a guild that aids in collective bargaining. Otherwise, the power balance will gradually tilt too far towards employers. Other professional jobs (e.g. medicine, law) have similar arrangements, and that's the only reason why pay can remain high in them.
Can you give me an example? The only world power I can think of with high levels of poverty is the US, but I live here so I don’t have experience in other world power countries.
Please don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about or that the idea that Brave is 'scammy' is anything new - Brave is very controversial and its ethical lapses have been discussed extensively including here on HN.

You went thru various dubious business models before you even got to your current incarnation.

But the most current of your controversies is covered here:
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-we...

And discussed here on HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027

That alone is enough for me to call Brave 'scammy'.
Seems overly complicated. I installed Docker CE right from docker.com in Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2 with only 2 'issues' both due to lack of systemd:

1.) Missing cgroups under /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd
mount -t cgroup -o none,name=systemd cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd

2.) No launch at 'startup'
put the docker start in your .bashrd

Also, 'Kind'(1) works really well for setting up K8s envs in WSL2

1)https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/
Here's an approach being tried for desktop apps: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2015/02/17/first-fully-sandbox...
somebody sent me a post about the lumbersexual thing ( I think it was this one : http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/6235-the-lumbersexual-... ). Sort of bugs me that some basic clothing that's good for outdoors and daily life in the northwest gets co-opted into a fashion thing
I agree, GNU Screen is great... but try tmux, I do prefer this one because of the ease of splitting horizontally and vertically without the need of a patch. If you want to stick with Screen... try Byobu
When going out to eat in a group pay a bit more than you owe. A few extra dollars to have the meal end in peace is always worth it.
I'll probably get downvoted for this, but I'm curious when the "Apple is a dictatorship and I'm taking my toys and going home" blog posts will stop making it to the top of HN. Isn't this storyline getting a little monotonous?
Totally agree, it's almost as if the HP, Dell and Sony websites are intentionally designed to drive any potential customers to Apple.
That and the whole design issue.

I want to buy a laptop that looks nice, so sue me. Actually I had a discussion about this very topic today with someone.

Any non-Apple laptop suggestions that don't look ugly and will run some *nix variation?
I don't use my mobile phone because phones are banned from my bedroom and switched to silent at night. I don't want to be disturbed.
I don't think the number of "conservative views" on HN is particularly high. There is an exceptional number of semi-libertarians. Hayek is of particular interest because he is one of the few economists to be at least well-respected thinker by the left and the right. I posted the link because I thought it was a very interesting development, not because I found it self-gratifying. I'd be equally curious if Das Kapital showed up as #1. (It ceased to be interesting once it was pointed out that it was bumped due to Beck.)
Apple offers a rather limited range of laptops. Other manufacturers are attempting to offer a greater range of options for all consumers (and consider for companies like HP and Dell, their largest customers are corporations). The codes allow for easier differentiation in a given product line.

That said, Dell seems to have the sanest conventions, with HP/Compaq offer nothing more than product codes.
Is there a book of impractical Ruby recipes?
An unsavoury attempt at demonising Edward Snowden and those associated with him (Glenn Greenwald) based on false information, with a view to achieving public rationalisation of the actions of the government in the destruction of Guardian data and the detention of David Miranda, hence rationalising the reduction of civil liberties, increased surveillance and enforcement of "law" in the name of protecting the public from terrorism.

[Edit: Removed some emotive exaggeration]
Yeah, they would normally have a pop at those papers.

So, with in the world of my theory, I'd say this is a Tory paper echoing the "good spying" line.
I use this and it's not ideal, let's just say that. Lot of edge cases that you have no way of fixing without messing with library code itself
Not pay-walled:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-fires-four-employees-c...
"you can choose not to own slaves under slavery, but you can't choose to own slaves without it"
Stripe's product is for developers. I highly doubt there are developers using IE9. It's an audience Stripe can comfortably choose to ignore.
>You can't get the nuanced expressiveness in a crystal lattice that you can in the free space of a vacuum.

Cute, but at the end of the day it's just different nonlinearities in the transfer function. If you like how ancient technology sounds, that's fine, no need to ascribe mystical properties to it.
> ...in case 2 I can compute the gradient numerically, it just takes a bit longer.

Yep, true, might just take a while. On the other hand, even a very noisy estimate of the gradient might suffice, which could be faster to obtain. Perhaps someone will do that experiment soon. Maybe you could convince one of those students of yours to do this for extra credit?? ;).

> Likewise, I was not very surprised that you can produce fooling images, but it is surprising and concerning that they generalize across models.

Ditto x2.

> It seems that there are entire, huge fooling subspaces of the input space, not just fooling images as points. And that these subspaces overlap a lot from one net to another, likely since they share similar training data (?) unclear.

Yeah. I wonder if the subspaces found using non-gradient based exploration end up being either larger or overlapping more between networks than those found (more easily) with the gradient. Would be another interesting followup experiment.
So people only care about syntax? No wonder there is so much buggy software out there.
I think there are two separate viewpoints, both useful, neither true, that can be used to understand the structuring of stories. The viewpoint espoused in this article is that there exist certain timeless structures, imposed by the form that inextricably results in a type of output. And that the job of a writer is to discover these forms and work within them.

There's another line of argument, made by Steven Johnson in Everything Bad is Good for You, where viewers are trained by the media to read texts in a more sophisticated fashion. As viewers become more media savvy, the desire for surprise causes a constant creative arms race as structures that were once avant garde becomes commonplace, then tired, then old fashioned.

The A/B plot mentioned in the article is only about 40 years old (starting with Hill St Blues in 1981). Prior to that, television comedy followed a strict single line for fear of confusing the audience. Nowadays, it's not uncommon to see a sitcom go up to E plots. What's allowed them to do that is that television has developed increasingly dense visual shorthand that allows them to speed through a plot even faster, allowing for more story to fit into those 22 minutes.

Previous constraints on syndication meant that characters were required to remain in a stasis throughout the entire run but season long and series long arcs are now becoming the norm with even relatively retrograde sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory engaging in long term plotting.

If you look towards the cutting edge, you start to see people playing around with the traditional three act structure in interesting ways to keep the form fresh. How I Met Your Mother plays around with time and memory, sometimes establishing the conclusion at the front of the episode and then uses flashbacks to flesh out the central conflict in reverse. Louie routinely fits 2 or 3 stories into a single episode or stretches a single story across multiple episodes. Arrested Development S4 was an overly ambitious attempt to build a single, series long story, told and retold from multiple perspectives. And one of Girls' most polarizing episodes, One Man's Treasure (the bottle episode where Hannah has a tryst with the rich doctor) was hated by some precisely because it rejected the standard formula and resolutely avoided going for a climax and resolution.

Such techniques follow the standard adoption cycle, first appearing in cutting edge, low rated comedies aimed at early adopters before eventually gaining widespread appeal and mainstream success before becoming hacky and relegated to shows for children and old people.
> "Statistics show otherwise."

Which statistics? At least for my employer, it was reported that productivity dropped across the board and I certainly feel that's true for me personally.
It turns out that people value independence from banks far less than "massive asset price inflation" for assets that they happen to hold.