skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a silly remark, with that attitude you'd never start anything 'new'. Of course you do not need to 'replicate 23 years of experience ... in a few days' to run a mail server. There is plenty of information on the 'net on the subject of running one of these, it is far from rocket science and something which I assume the average HN reader can handle with ease. Don't take my word on it, just read around a bit and ignore those who decry the foolishness of doing something yourself when you can pay people to do it for you.
Does this mean you have to be on WiFi the first time you download it because it’s over 150MB?

Wouldn’t this potentially restrict themselves from anyone who’s phone is their primary computing device and don’t bother to have home internet?

Differential updates are pribsbly much smaller.
'Aspirin-a-day risky in old age' – major study
This is a complex question, and probably beyond my expertise to fully answer. So let me point you to a couple of decent overview articles.

TLDR; among other issues, a lot of the seeds for varieties we used to grow actually don't exist anywhere any more.

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/07/19/loss-of-gen...

https://www.croptrust.org/our-mission/crop-diversity-why-it-...
I switched back to Gmail a few months ago. Used boomerang for snoozing until Gmail added the feature itself. The biggest benefit for me is the auto filtering of primary/social/updates/forums. I've yet to find an alternative that does that. Otherwise I'd love to use something like FastMail. Not sure how I'd get through my inbox otherwise without this filtering.
The elite of china spend their time protecting their power from the people. That's why they can't really project outward as much.
This is pretty easy. Take the Google job and stay there 3-4 years and sock away $200k a year in savings. Then leave and go do a startup, there will still be plenty to choose from.
The article didn’t really help me out very much. It’s fraud from a Goldman Sachs Malaysian government fund? I still don’t know exactly what he did and how he got away with it for so long
These jacks come from, not the 20th century, but the 19th century! It boggles my mind how something we've have had since the 1880s is suddenly obsolete. There's a plethora of devices in existence manufactured over a span of decades that all interchangeably work together, and we toss it now out for what? Do we really believe that all devices for the next 130 years will work on the same bluetooth protocol?
Body Ritual among the Nacirema (1956)
Add to that the fact none of those are codecs I'm interested in. Give me flac/opus.
Sure, not disputing that. But our current telling of history emphasizes the misery of those in the GDR that disagreed with the doctrine, at the expense of millions of people who got by just fine. I'm seeing a lot of resentment in East Germans against elites as a result of that.
Like I said, access control does not require asymmetric crypto.
Bingo. I'm left-leaning in a left-leaning environment, but I avoid talking about politics, especially in writing, because it can only hurt me.
When they were building their taxonomy, why did not they name its level, that includes both what they now call "dinosaur" and pterosaurs "dinosaur", and come up with a different name for their "dinosaur", if it is a common conception?
I lived in both the Bay Area and Boston, two of most expensive areas in the US, a gallon of milk costs me less than $3. Trader Joe's is your friend. You can even get organic milk or non-dairy milk (soy, almond, coconut) for less than $6 a gallon.
I agree about those two specific circumstances. But just because you need no headphone port to be motivated to buy bluetooth headphones isn't justification. I have a long public transport commute where I don't want to use bluetooth headphones for many reasons. When I'm mowing or working out, I can use my bluetooth headphones. I get the choice.
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Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9049113
Fair point on confusing people with specifically intimate. Thanks.

But what if someone else didn't want their photos from their "glory days" to be available? Shouldn't they have the right just as much as you have the right to decide you do? Maybe they have a religious or spiritual objection to it...

I personally tend to favor control of duplication rights being under the control of the creator of the work. If I have a right to be forgotten while alive, I think I also have a right to be forgotten after my death.
I'm not a virologist, but my understanding is that the lifecycle of HIV makes that unlikely. An individual must be infected with the virus in order for drug resistance to emerge; using PReP prevents infection from happening in the first place by stopping viral replication. HIV is quite hard to transmit – someone who is not infected or who is on a stable treatment regime can't transmit the virus to anybody, so resistance isn't much of a concern there.

The bigger risk of drug-resistant strains emerging is due to poor adherence to medication regimes. Missing doses of antiretroviral therapy can cause drug resistance to emerge rapidly, as viral replication is no longer suppressed and HIV mutates like crazy.
I see your point but I still dont agree.

Everything seems obvious and easy in hindsight because we are viewing it with those intellectual tools deeply embedded into our understanding. They are all over our culture and we pick up bits of them as children through osmosis even before we study them formally.

I think getting an ancient Greek or Roman intellectual to understand a large integer factoring algorithm, a proof of work block chain, or an OS kernel would be pretty painful. It would take a lot of tutoring to first teach a lot of things that were not understood in that time at all.

You can sometimes see this today when you see older people in rapidly developing nations trying to learn advanced concepts. They can do it but it takes a while.

My point is that all this assumes a tutor who knows and can explain. For levels of understanding not yet reached by any human, there is no tutor to teach us how to think about the problem.
DiDi seems to demand always-on audio recording as a safety measure in its cars
Roundcube [1] does a good attempt of mimicking the likes of Thunderbird, Rainloop [2] has a more 'modern' look and might appeal more to those looking for such.

[1] https://roundcube.net/

[2] https://www.rainloop.net/
Here's the OG triplet metric learning paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6622
Their strategy is for labeled data; just take X and X' with the same labels, and Y from a different label.

And here's an example of unlabeled triplet learning:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02209
In this case, aug(X) might be a slightly time or pitch shifted example. So whatever the label is for X, it will be the same as the label for aug(X).

The advantage here is that as a framework it plays nicely with 'real' problems. Representation learning is rarely the actual problem; it's certainly not something an end-user cares about! If you are ultimately working on a classification problem and have a huge amount of unlabeled data and a tiny bit of labeled data, you can train the metric with both the Huff scheme (X and X' with same label) and the unsupervised scheme (X and aug(X)) simultaneously, and take advantage of the large dataset.

A more general argument for metric learning is that, again, reconstruction error proooobably isn't what you actually care about. (Sure, you're sharing encoder and decoder weights, but why do you even need to decode?! How many parameters are being wasted on the need for the weight matrices to support decoding?) If clustering is what you want, metric learning gets at things being close or far from one another more directly.
My personal choice, personal email hosted by a well-know provider (around 20 euro/years) sync-ed locally via mbsync and sync-ed to my desktops via muchsync (to sync tags&c). For webui Roundcube or Mailpile.

IMVHO the era of "free" mails is ended.
Yeaaaa I go once a week and this is not a thing. I think this place literally has it all.

- Never noticed chewing / drinking / glasses

- The lights under the table is so dull I honestly don't even know where it is or how they even see it. I've looked under the table and can't seem to find it

- This may just be me but their projectors are just fine
Layered security. If there's a vulnerability in your access control, the encryption prevents data from being accessed (decrypted). If there's a vulnerability in the encryption, the access control prevents the data from being read.
Ask HN: New & recently founded quantitative finance startups?
Just wondering, what are some of the quantitative hedge funds/prop shops that have been founded in the past (say) 3-5 years?
It's actually a little pricey. I'm in $CAD so $5/month/user would bite. I would like to have 4 for my family. Do I want to take on a recurring bill of $20 USD A month? Feels steep. I appreciate this stuff isn't free, but at scale it feels it could be cheaper. I guess not or they'd have rivals. I guess also this is the problem with "free" (you are the product).
I have to both agree and disagree here.

I love the idea of a language that has the absolute fewest number of decisions between "I need a little program" and being able to share the program with a friend. The current trend where there's a seemingly bazillion steps before you can write a trivial utility is unfortunate.

However, the microcomputer BASICs had big usability problems. Us modern programmers are so used to block oriented languages that we assume every language just had them. For example, in C you can replace any statement with a list of statements enclosed in { }. In Python where blocks are indented statements, or Pascal where you can make a block of statements with a BEGIN/END.

But many microcomputer BASICs don't have that at all. The IFs often don't have the concept of an ELSE, and often the only thing you can do from an IF is a GOTO.

The end result is a mess of jumps where the programmer is "emulating" real blocks with GOTOs. I've had the recent fun of transcribing programs from a bunch of different early BASIC languages. The complaint that BASIC leads to spaghetti code is real. There are bazillions of GOTOs, and it's a real drain on your mental processing to keep them all straight.
Danish probably isn't a huge priority for Google, unlike world languages like French or Spanish :-)
How about Canadian Citizens working remote with occasional on-site?
Economically Google, professionally a startup. Google seems to be evolved from a tech company to a bureaucratic one, so definitively not attractive except for salary reasons.
Power from peaker plants and pumped storage are more expensive than power from base load generators.

As solar gets cheaper and cheap that will obviously impact times when excess power is available (actually already is).
Considering that 1070 is struggling already with some 2016 games[1], I find the claim that it would be able to handle everything until next console gen comes out (2020 earliest?) very dubious.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1941
I think M,I,and E (hopefully not C) could also be considered motivations for convincing someone to change jobs?

(In my experience, recruiters from a well known FAANG company like to lean HEAVILY on E. Jokes on them, because the right answer is M!)
According to a study I read in the NY Times, I thought low dose aspirin was already shown to be useless, but regular aspirin was effective.
This sort non-evidence-based apocalypse talking, fear mongering isn't my favorite part of HN. I wish you could base your claims to some links, or books.
Not sure about best but there's this https://www.practicalai.io/using-scikit-learn-machine-learni...
Wow thank you for the long form answer, very helpful to read insights like this from someone in the industry!
Let me be the first of many many people who would vouch for 3Blue1Brown's Grant Sanderson - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

It's one of the best channels to learn math and his amazing style of explaining concepts in simple to put terms and visually appealing graphics is mindblowing. This is one channel that is worth supporting on Patreon for sure.
Can someone please justify this post on HN? Is HN becoming Reddit? I thought HN is for hacking/startup news.
> You can detach from the Tmux session and return to your normal shell by typing:

> Ctrl+a d

Looks like someone uses 'Ctrl+a' as his personal prefix and forgot to replace it in that part of the blog post ;-)

Background: I use 'Ctrl+a' myself (and hate it that tmux uses Ctrl+b by default).
I don't really see the point when there are entire SBCs (Orange Pi Zero, etc) with hundreds of megabytes for less than $10 which can then run regular node. If you really are constrained to 10 MB RAM or less then there are better alternatives than node. Even the reference lua interpreter is significantly smaller than this. The Lua interpreter built with all standard Lua libraries takes 247K and the Lua library takes 421K. (See https://www.lua.org/about.html#why "Lua is small") Compatibility with node packages isn't a benefit if the packages aren't designed for devices that have 10s of megabytes.
What tptacek says is pretty much the gist of things.

The issue for some is that because their order(s) are not reaching an actual exchange, the fill (price @ which the trade(s)) is/are executed may not be the best, and that meaningful price discovery is hampered.

Both may be correct, however, and I'm loath to say this, the average person lacks the capacity to really compete for the best fill price on a given trade. This is due to asymmetries (speed, data, etc.,). And so, generally, they are as tptacek says, "dumb money," who at best catch and ride a wave.

Anyway, you may want to take a look at the following TD Ameritrade sites on fills[1] and order execution[2]. They aren't deep dives, just a flavor...

[1] https://tickertape.tdameritrade.com/trading/stock-market-int...

[2] https://www.tdameritrade.com/trade/orderexecution/inc_faq.ht...
Go for the startup when you are young(<30)
Startup is your best crash course into the industry. It can force you learn lot of things in a short amount of time. Sure, it will be stressful, startup may fail but you got time at your hand and you can move on with your gained experience. If you got into google at this point, your chances of getting into google in the future is on the higher side(+experience from your startup).
The valley is a low bar though. Pho isn’t going to be better in SV for some reason, and a first tier has plenty of mid-high end Japanese options (eg Hatsune’s) that you won’t find in the valley without looking really hard. Even high-end hamburgers in China often taste better than the states because they are using Japanese and Australian recipes (beetroot and egg work on a burger).
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Ugh, no. Those considerations are fine for people who are like you.

Some of us have different considerations and we're sick of being run over by these convenience freaks

To all the downvoters, these are some reasons:

* Low latency applications

* Existing high-end hardware one may own (old Sennheisers mop the floor with a pair of "high end" Beats)

* same port in use everywhere for past 50 years, there are a ridiculous amount of products for it

* Ability to connect a non-USB headphone amp

* Everybody understands it

* No need to charge your headphones(!)

* No stupidly expensive tech to license to make something as simple and dumb as headphones

* No stupidly complicated tech to master to make something as simple and dumb as headphones

* WHY would you put logic and circuitry in a simple mechanical device?? Do manufacturers just LOVE skyrocketing costs?

* Do any of these guys value simplicity in design any more? Or is tech charging full-steam into unnecessary complexity?

And on the subject of wireless standards:

* Other 2.4ghz wireless standards have way better range. (I used to work in a large factory-type building with literally thousands of consumer printers all turned and broadcasting their individualized ad-hoc 802.11 signals. We would have chronic issues with the Wi-Fi (on account of thousands of networks) and I could be on the other side of the building with my headphones and still get clear audio. (Oftentimes it would cut out depending on location but the range I saw was a good 3x what I could get with bluetooth)

* * *

C'mon this is like 100-year-old tech that everyone understands and loves, EXCEPT for the cable. Way for the technology makers to throw out the baby with the bathwater, so that they can sell you their crap all over again.
I've been using tmux and vim since 2012 and haven't looked back. it's wonderful!
I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but I've seen a number of projects which have been started (and afaik abandoned as soon as the author saw that backup software isn't quite so simple to develop) specifically because asymmetric crypto was seen as a missing flagship feature.

What I'm saying here is, if you start a new backup software project today, there are more important things to consider and failings of existing software to address than not supporting asymmetric crypto.

Do the encryption right. Do proper access controls. Get concurrency right. Get deduplication right. Get your archive/snapshot format right. Get filesystem interaction and testing right.

Maybe you think existing software does all of that already; it doesn't. (Though I am actually convinced that you can't design a piece fulfilling these requirements without having a lot of prior experience developing backup software — conversely that's the reason why most backup software is so half-baked: they're all first designs, by the time a developer has the necessary experience to do a better second design, they're fed up with backup software and move on).
Sounds a bit like a children of screen and midnight commander ;-)
So what are you suggesting exactly, an end to vaccines? What makes HIV any different?
Good intentions are great, but if the startup fails, 6% of nothing is zero. That’s not including the difficult financial position you could find yourself in if something goes wrong while working for the startup.

Take the money, training, and network. You’ll be well positioned to join or found any number of interesting startups.

Go with Google.
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When you're comparing against Google, outside of Facebook/Netflix pretty much all companies offer less. There are certainly plenty of predatory startups out there that are exploiting labor with unrealistic promises of riches and cap tables that guarantee no such happy outcome for employees. As an employee you have to look out for yourself, but if you set Google as the standard then everyone else is going to look cheap. There are many companies out there who simply don't have the unit economics to compete with FAANG, but may be more attractive for other reasons.
Ids update policy still an issue, after "project Treble"?
> client can append backups only

You mention Restic but I don't see how it enforces append-only security. According to its S3 documentation[1], Restic requires PutObject, DeleteObject and ListBucket permissions.

[1] https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/080_examples.html#se...
I've done both and now work for Google. You should read dan luu's coverage of this:

https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
Do you have any reason to have that trust? Absent any evidence, I'm inclined to think that they do very little to protect my data. Had they any stringent controls in place, I feel like their PR or marketing would have communicated some of the specifics publicly.
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Some people love to use this information as a fallacious argument of futility against veganism, i.e. that suffering cannot be avoided because "plants suffer too!". But this misses the point. Plants can respond to stimuli, but it doesn't mean that they feel pain, suffer and have a consciousness and emotions like animals do.

> Plants have no eyes, no ears, no mouth and no hands. They do not have a brain or a nervous system.

That again, they respond to stimuli but don't feel pain like an animal.
If you have to ask the question, go with Google. If it's a decent engineering position, it's like having Harvard or Oxford/Cambridge on your résumé and will open doors in future.
Useless fact but since where talking about naming things. The word helicopter is a combination of helix and pteron (spiral wing). https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/helicopter
> It’s prohibitively expensive and simply out of reach for many (most?) people.

No it isn't. It's just that we have a huge country stretching from the western pacific ( guam, hawaii, etc ) to the arctic (alaska ) to the caribbean ( puerto rico ). We have a variety of cultures, regions, natural wonders and peoples than any country in the world.

Most americans can afford to travel overseas. But we have so many options within the US and its more convenient. Traveling from NYC to hawaii is far more impressive than traveling from NYC to London. And we have the grand canyon, mount denali, yosemite, yellowstone, florida, mount rushmore, new orleans, texas, chicago, endless list of places to visit. Most people, not just americans ) would explore their own nation first and then see the rest of the world.

It's generally europeans who brag about traveling and yet they mostly travel between tiny european countries. What's so impressive about someone in luxembourg traveling to france, germany and belgium in an afternoon? It isn't that impressive. But they could claim to have traveled to 3 countries even though those countries are pretty much the same as luxembourg.

To put this into perspective, the distance from moscow to berlin is 1100 miles. The distance from NYC to LA is 2700 miles. We just have a lot more land, lot more culture, lot more places to visit.
Anyone know how much Google would realistically offer someone with 4 years of presumably irrelevant rails and sql experience?(As in, NOT in ('c++','java','javascript','python')

I'm predicting not much - and I bet they believe a significant part of the "compensation" will be the "privilege" or working at google.
The trouble is that I use both the Ctrl-a (increment number under cursor) and Ctrl-b (scroll up) shortcuts in Vim pretty frequently. It gets annoying to remember to have to double-press that shortcut if and only if I happen to be using Vim inside Tmux.
Not my project, but why bother writing a whole client and maintaining it when all you want to do is build some better filters?

Get filtering happening on the server, then it works for everyone on that server regardless of whether they're using the default web app or an app on their phone.

Some Mastodon admins share their patches for things outside the scope of what gets approved by the project lead so if they decide it's a good thing then maybe they'll add this feature to their own instance; the 'source code' link at the bottom leads to the git repo that is presumably their live code.
if its that important of a part of your life, buy two pairs of wireless headphones. but given the ridiculously fast charge time of airpods, why worry? otherwise, I hope apple keeps tailoring the products to the normal use cases and not making weird compromises for pro audio users and those with extremely high usage times. that's speaking as a shareholder anyway...
The chanter would be under relatively constant pressure, and there could be a one-way valve to the drone bag.
The difference is that now you won't see DJs in front of crowds using Apple products. Apple has decided to trade measurable cost-cutting for non-measurable brand prestige, and in the next few years I expect Microsoft to launch a new mobile/desktop hybrid with an ad about how Apple is what your grandparents use, and cool young trendy people use Windows.
Show HN: Product market fit resources
Some of us don’t want extra radiation right next to our brains for the sake of convenience.