skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I love this but watch out with this kind of stuff. And by stuff I mean training RNNs to do classification on very small (100s) sets of images. (Also you didn't mention your train/test split?). Which just means, get more data and make a smaller network by likely re-using a trained network.

I highly recommend the paper "Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03530), which shows how amazing some RNNs are at memorizing pure noise.

Would love to see different applications of DL on historical visual art: GANNs making new paintings in different styles, mapping meaning-space between artists, style transfer, "is this painting done by this artist?" ...
protecting those pearly whites ;)

it helps, whether good dental care or not, to find ways to prevent staining your teeth as part of regular, daily routine
Hi Tom. Dave here. I like a lot of the features in TOML, but I'm curious, can I have a pony?

(Folks downvoting, PLEASE JUST LET PEOPLE HAVE JOKES EVERY NOW AND THEN)
I don't see any clear path for Big Tech to be regulated like utilities. Certainly not in the US.

The internet itself is still not even close to being regulated as a utility, decades after it became indispensable for our lives. So Google or Amazon? How would that even work?

This is a tough problem, and I don't think it's going to be solved so easily.
Reserve an appropriate amount of profits to make things right for the transactions that do not go as expected. How much to reserve needs to be determined on an ongoing basis based on the split of good / bad transactions. I think AirBnb needs to bite the bullet and do their own insurance or find an insurance company that will give users the same kind of experience that AirBnb gives to its clients.
Japanese real estate has been in a rut for decades. I don't think Japan is the right country to compare the US to as a model to admire.
The advice isn't bad, it's just being interpreted badly.

You may find computer programming totally boring, and you may find environmental volunteering very fulfilling. But you're good at programming and it pays well. So take your passion, environmental volunteering, and work hard to get a programming job that is related to environmentalism. Now you're doing something boring, but in service of a cause that is meaningful to you.

> "How to cultivate a “growth” mind-set in the young, future-psychology-experiment subjects of America? If you’re a parent, you can avoid dropping new hobbies as soon as they become difficult. Beyond that, there’s not a clear way to develop a growth mind-set about interests"

...Or, don't tell your kids what they should do, don't prevent them from trying new things, and engage them in different subjects in a way that inspire wonder and instill a sense of possibility and accomplishment.
Hopefully it wont overheat like many of Blackmagic Design's products.
> Apple announced external GPU support at last year’s WWDC, finally rolling out support for the feature back in March.

I'm surprised. I guess I'd always assumed that they'd already implemented that for the trash-can Mac Pro. IIRC, one of the selling points was thunderbolt was so fast that card slots were obsolete, so if you needed to upgrade the GPU you could just use thunderbolt.
> power is being centralized in these large tech giants. It's not so much that they are inherently bad

As power becomes more concentrated, abuse of that power gets more likely.
There's no one clear place to point to about how the decision was made for Cargo, but some nuggets have been left by authors [1]. The gist seems to be that JSON (and YAML, per that comment) was considered a poor format to author and maintain a config file in, and YAML had no lib in Rust and there was no appetite for anyone to write one.

Pip's choice was made for them in the form of PEP 518 [2]. The authors of PEP 518 explain their rationale [2][3], which largely boils down to XML being too wordy and awkward to hand-edit, JSON awkward to hand-edit, various formats used by existing python tooling were underspecified and implementation-dependent, and YAML's python parsers being fairly complex and hard to vendor.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7938388 [2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/ [3] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/#other-file-formats
The linked law doesn’t apply to this situation. The banned person apparently wasn’t banned due to being a member of a protected class.
From a technical standpoint how would you create an Imgur-like site?
What I was thinking about with all the different options out there now what are the best ways to build a site for users to upload and consume images and gifs/webM? There's a lot of discussion online already about this but a lot of it seems to be several years old so I am wondering if there are better approaches than S3 and CloudFront which is typically given as an answer.

Best can be defined in a different ways of course, fastest to load for a user, cheapest to serve and host, etc.
Thanks for doing that. The UK (and Ireland for that matter) have turned in to little more than sponges soaked in pesticides and covered in monoculture agriculture or the odd green field to please the tourists. There's a lack of understanding that almost nothing "natural" remains.

Relevant:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/29/natura...

"... farmers have sent me images of verdant monocultures of perennial ryegrass, with the message: “Look at this and try telling me we don’t look after nature.” It’s green, but it’s about as ecologically rich as an airport runway..."
I have an idea for an alternative to plastic straws. Maybe someone can create a startup based on it? If you do, don't remember to throw me a bone in terms of money and stock.

There's a plant called "horsetail", which is one of the earliest plants that still happens to exist to this day.

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

Horsetails are very simplistic; basically, they're mostly hollow shoots. Very thin, but rigid and fairly durable. They can vary in size depending on species, but the ones I've seen growing in California happen to be straw-sized.

I imagine they can be easily reamed, dried on rods so that they keep their shape, and then cut and packaged.

Of course this is hypothetical, so I don't know if it would really work, but I also don't know if this has been tried.
I actually didn't know that either! I wonder if grep & ed actually predate C...It's also very possible that K&R might have thought about C as a toy or novelty at the time.
I think it's related to this [1]. The tone of the conversation is unbelievable, is it normal to have this kind of flame wars on kernel?

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935
The dwarves should be thankful. Many people would have this moment and not realize it has passed them by.
The bakery wasn't a monopoly. On the contrary, it was specifically sought out among many bakeries to make a point.

Also, the court decision was quite vague, tailored to a specific case and left future rulings open.
I don't think Anki supposed to be used that way. Each card should be recallable under 10 seconds. So it should be only few lines of content. More content you put in one Anki card, it will take you more time and eventually you will stop looking at the card. A failure scenario.
I have to admit I've gone through a few, but my daily driver can be found for ~ $30 online if you watch for it. I also spend good money on sharpeners, etc. Ironic? yes.

https://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Fibrox-Chefs-Knife-8-Inch/...
Glad you like them, we spent quite a bit of time getting them right! Datetimes are a horrible mess of complexity, but hopefully over time languages and tools around them can standardize on a set of common primitives to make all our lives a bit less horribly messy. =)
No, because for nuisance law you have to prove that failing to meet some standard is in fact causing interference with the use and enjoyment of your own property. "I don't like tall grass it looks ugly" is not a cognizable claim under nuisance law. Nor is "the tall grass might cause a rodent or insect problem that affects my property.* Under nuisance law you have to prove that actual harm exists, not merely the theoretical possibility.
You can control fan activation with power control utilities like powertop.

I don't know why you think Dell is "very low quality". I've seen Dell laptops last for years under heavy usage.
Or, write your journal entries to a file and commit that? That's what I do. Most of my personal projects have a "notes.txt" at the top level for this purpose. Sometimes I just need to write freeform about the problem I'm trying to solve, from different angles, to work out my strategy. Sometimes I just write the despair that I'll never figure something out.
I could never get into Taleb for some reason. Am I the only one who thinks his writing is extremely long winded?
D-Wave Demonstrates Large-Scale Programmable Quantum Simulation – InsideHPC
How so? The loss of rewards is the same reason I don't use Simple, even though from the outside looking in it appears to be one of the best modern banks.
Good luck convincing people they shouldn't use anything by Google.
Facial recognition: The need for public regulation and corporate responsibility
To be fair that actually might be an improvement for those two companies.
Surface Pro looks really cool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-hub...

Sometime ago I've read that its success was a surprise and the demand was greater than MS could produce. Is it really good?
Dhall – A Distributed, Safe Configuration Language
Brett Easton Ellis recommended Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, so I read it, just finished it -- devoured it, really -- and fully agree w/ his assessment [1].

[1] I just finished reading The House of Mirth, which I had tried reading as an eighteen- year-old college boy and just didn’t get. Now at fifty-four, it’s crushing. Absolutely crushing. And the writing is just stupendous. I also love Age of Innocence and The Custom of the County. Just going to Edith Wharton every morning was fantastic and blew away any television or movie that I could find online. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/bret-easton-ellis-...
In practice, whenever there is a special exemption for disabled people, it imposes costs on them. It's another obstacle to request accomodations, but also it incurs the risk of public shaming if someone decides that you don't deserve them: https://twitter.com/beth_vrabel/status/993691472766668801?la....

As with web accessibility, where possible, the best solution is to make the solution that is given to all the rest of us the same solution that disabled people are given. Sometimes we can't do that (e.g. special handicapped spots near the extrance to a building are valuable), but that shouldn't be our standard approach.
This doesn't make sense to me economically in the US, so I wonder how it's different elsewhere?

A decent used car is much cheaper than urban real estate in many US cities. Poor retirees often live in mobile home parks. And people who need to save money shop at Walmart, not a pricy convenience store.

Seems like a poor person living in a big city who isn't lucky enough to have a rent-controlled apartment is going to end up homeless?
> I'm very curious how this story develops. Usually, a tech company ending on the front page of HN for messing up is shamed into fixing the mistake, often quietly and without providing any explanation to the victim.

The company should better be shamed into dropping the Kafkaesque policy in their terms of service completely. Anything below means that such terms are actually acceptable.
> People absolutely want large detached houses, but housing developers want to build densely packed multi-family housing because they're more profitable.

They also cost less per unit, which is a thing people (i.e. new homeowners) like even more.

> - Property values start going down, along with tax revenue, the schools decline, $/student plummets, and all the people with the means move somewhere else.

This can be solved by adjusting the mil rate to generate the original amount of property tax revenue per unit against the lower housing prices.

I also don't see how the cycle is not self-defeating. If there are a hundred low density units and someone builds a hundred high density units near them so the original inhabitants leave and build a hundred new low density units somewhere else, now there are three hundred housing units available. The higher supply reduces the profit in building new condos anywhere in the region. If the cycle repeats then even more housing is constructed. At some point the profit in building new condos falls below the construction cost, because people don't want to live in a condo in the otherwise low density area more than they want to have a much smaller mortgage payment.
It's like walking home from work, seeing a house in flames, peeing into the fire and going home thinking "Today I did good".
"Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of the World" (by Haruki Murakami). I love every book I've read by Haruki Murakami, but I think this may be my favorite. I suspect that, for a work of literary surrealist/magical realism fiction, it will appeal to the HN crowd.
I've never done it in my 16+ year working life.

I used to design systems so this was possible, but eventually realised it just wasn't needed - I was adding more abstraction and complexity for no reason.
Cars and trucks, right? As much as us on HN don't like to admit it, regular users don't really care that the App Store is the only place to get apps.
Hi Dave! Ponies come standard in TOML, you just have to know where to look. =)
Nope. Mine developed a couple of years ago.
`lid`
They already have compostable "plastic" cups, I assume straws aren't that much harder to make.
I would never ban people without telling them why they were banned. That's just moronic.

I'd offer banned user contact information that goes directly to a human being which can be used to appeal if the user believes they did not violate said terms and conditions.

I'm neutral about how a company handles matters after the appeal--whether it focuses on protecting buyers over sellers. It's totally fine for the decision to be final after said appeal, but the company response had better show that the rep actually bothered to read the appeal message.

This doesn't seem like rocket science to me. Your customer service cost scales proportional to number of customers / revenue, which is reasonable. In terms of justifying capital spend... how much are you spending on marketing? Each customer you screw over is canceling a mountain of your outreach efforts via negative NPS.
Dapper is great IMHO. However, the Microsoft-recommended solution after Linq to SQL ended up being Entity Framework... which was an even heavier ORM.

My personal opinion is akin to the parent: the more you abstract away from thinking like your data store, the easier it is to write poorly performing code, because some of the fundamentals get lost in the process.

For instance, in EF and other ORMs, one classic pitfall is "N+1" queries. Even though it's a well known issue to avoid, I still run into poorly performing loops quite often. Here, I feel the abstraction is partially responsible. Most for loops run in code (in memory at least) very quickly, even against a lot of records. However, those who develop against SQL know that you avoid cursors etc. as much as possible, and that for loops / cursors against a SQL database will bite you the instance you are dealing with thousands of records to loop through. I don't think it's always "obvious" to, say, a relatively new C# developer with less experience writing SQL, that this for loop against a SQL database is going to literally translate into thousands of select statements that will perform poorly.

I think it's possible to use a heavy ORM like Entity Framework and write well performing code, but there has to be some awareness of when the task is too complex for the ORM to perform well, and you need to switch to a stored procedure. And there has to be at least a little bit of understanding on how to write well performing interactions with the DB.
* Leave work after 8 hours without making excuses

* Go to bed at the same time every night

* Get at least 7 hours of sleep. Try for 8.

* Stop drinking alcohol and using drugs

* Eat better. Cook your own meals. Do meal prep to make it easier.

* Start exercising. Start 3x per week, 15 min of HIIT per day.

* Drink a large glass of water when you wake up. Drink water throughout the day.

* Don't drink more than one cup of coffee per day

* Don't use sleeping pills

* Work hard during your 8 hours and let it go when you leave.

* Say "No" more at work. Do it with a smile.

* Do a few minutes of stretching and meditation every day.

* Start looking for another job. Put the feelers out. Set up notifications. Take it easy and schedule one or two phone calls per week. Think of it like fishing. You're just chilling out and casting your line and reeling it in. Sooner or later you'll hook something nice.

* Go for a 30-60min walk every day

* Get off of social media. Do more things in the real world.

* Spend more time at work conversing with people you like. Invite them to lunch. Go for walks with them. Go for drinks occasionally.

* Don't be in a rush to quit. Keep earning your good money until you catch the big fish.

* Eliminate all stress-inducing things and people in your life with extreme prejudice.

* When you feel fatigued, rest.

* Reconnect with true friends and family who lift you up. Disconnect with those that bring you down.

* Pick a hobby that makes you happy and do it at least 2x per week.

* Push back on everything possible at work. Does someone REALLY need "all the work [you] have to do" or are you taking it on unnecessarily. Again, say "No".

* Talk to your boss about taking a break or reducing workload. Let them know you're feeling overwhelmed. Ask for help and/or possibly a change.

* Reconsider meds from your therapist unless you have been diagnosed with an actual condition. Meds fix one thing and break several other things. Self-medicate with sleep, food and exercise but commit to not missing your "medication".
At least in my corner of the US, a huge majority of prospective home owners would consider a non detached house to be markedly less desirable.
Incineration releases all those chemicals into the environment immediately. Whereas in a landfill, decomposition can be minimised (for example by sealing all the waste in an oxygen free atmosphere)
Gore (the Gore-Tex Company) Thinks It Holds the Key to On-Skin Wearables
Oh man, I can't disagree more.

I loathe YAML for readability. When I'm 2 pages down on a yaml tree I have no clue how many indents exist before what I'm working on. Likewise, when I scroll up, I quickly lose track of what the actual parent to the data I was working on is. I've found it to be an absolute mess.

JSON doesn't even fit for me, because it's not human intended (imo). Being able to document (comments) configuration is a requirement for me on any config language.
Oh hey, neat.
IQ Screening Increases Minority Representation in Gifted and Talented Programs
You’d only need California to do it, due to their economy size and influence.

Disclaimer: I am an investor in an Airbnb compliance management startup
> attack on the pentagon

Wow that definitely sounds like a clickbait title.
I'm glad to know where the crossover point is, and yeah, hearing that it's around 10^15 tells me it's just a few orders of magnitude of improvement away from being a practical machine learning tool.
Yeah exactly. People love to compare zoning systems, but that's just a tiny slice of the picture. Among many, many other factors there is also the cultural attitude toward housing which is different from NA.
I'm not the original commenter, but I think it's fair to say that throwing compute at the problem is absurd from an academic point of view (where the goal is understanding), but not from a commercial point of view. Although there's still some academic value in throwing compute at a problem, just to see what's possible.
> The sci-fi book that anticipated what rouge blockchain like programs can do.

It would have to be a fantasy book to truly go rogue - if it was sci-fi it would get bogged down in network congestion or high transaction fees, or consume all of the planet's energy production, before it could do much damage.
A real problem is that public service is underpaid. I live in a state with a part time legislature that is paid $27k/year. I'm never going to run for office and derail my life by earning next to nothing and being co-mingled into a system I find full of corrupt and detestable people.

America has a perverse relationship with politics, politicians, and governance. Politicians do some of the most important work possible in our society, but by underpaying you only attract certain types of people. Either those just hungry for power, using office as a stepping stone to wealth. Or those already wealthy looking to maintain existing structures and protect their wealth.

I don't mean to sound flippant. Our system of government is an evolved process settled on over millennia. It's really close to some local maximum.

My gripes are mostly centered around complaining that we "all know" there are obvious problems with the system but there isn't some obvious "continuous" path of from here to a better system.

If I were benevolent dictator I'd like to see something like futarchy. And even while saying that I'm not sure if it just appeals to my hyper rationalism or if it's genuinely better. I assume current legislator suffer from this same bias on all kinds of issues.
But you can look at the individual services and tell them what alternatives there exist and what "dubious" terms of service these companies avoid.

It is not an all-or-nothing, but an "avoid, except for these two exotic use cases, for which there currently exists no alternative (and as soon as there exists one, drop also these)".
I didn't know about TOML until I started using Hugo. I've been using YAML and TOML and I find both have their merits, especially for their simplicity. TOML looks like the classic INI file, and is fairly easy to use/learn. I've been trying to move toward TOML for everything. YAML is nice, but I had to be careful about white-space significance and also translation of "YES","NO", etc.

https://arp242.net/weblog/yaml_probably_not_so_great_after_a...
Yep, I used their instructions for the hard drive replacement and then again for the CDROM swap out. I used to build my own machines so I was pretty confident going in, on my scale the HDD was about a 3 difficulty but the CDROM was maybe a 6.. you need to disconnect several tiny connectors to clear enough space which always makes me nervous about breaking one but it went fine in the end.
One hour commute each way? That would be terrible.
Homogenous arrays are partly to make implementations easier, and because if you really need that flexibility, you can always use an array of inline tables, which has the benefit of giving each sub-element a name, hopefully increasing the obviousness.

I'm not sure I understand your complaint, though, can you give me another example of how it's biting you in real life?
Beware of anything from that company. Their hardware build quality is notoriously shit. So much so that we've blacklisted their stuff from production, and I know we aren't the only ones.
Almost - I think it's like driving home from work, hearing about a house on fire on the radio news, then, when you get home, you pee and think "I'm doing my bit contributing to the water supply for the fire fighters."
That's a good point. Like another comment below regarding culture, it's a good PR campaign to raise awareness about plastic waste, which can help lead to better solutions (and better culture) down the road. Sometimes the cynic gets the best of me.