skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't read the article, but I feel like we might rapidly get to the point where technology is magic. As arrogant as using "even" in this context sounds - EVEN people on here generally don't understand more than a few fields. For example, when it really comes down to it, the way pain meds work might as well be magic to me, though I could probably sputter some scientific-sounding explanation that I really don't understand. Same with modern computers - I can mumble about logic gates, but the reality is that my electronics knowledge stops at vacuum tubes, just because that's what's accessible without an EE/chemistry specialization.
> But isn't it exactly what Oracle offers? For the money, of course.

Right. What distinguishes Amazon's offering is that it has that kind of backing at zero cost.

With Oracle, you can have zero cost, or “production-ready” backing, but not both together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
There must be actual Chinese people here on HN. Can any weigh in on the reality of this? It’s a heavy charge to make against an entire population.
A scratch container doesn't even have busybox in it, does it? If not, this wouldn't be able to run npm, much less install anything which has bindings to other libraries.

Definitely a cute experiment, but probably of limited real-world use. I wonder what the smallest _practical_ node container would look like?
Would be a good idea to remove the google tracker in the github source code. I've created an issue. https://github.com/vasanthv/hello/issues/16
I wish these images were large enough to print quality life-sized posters. Only the smallest of them, such as the Great Wave at 10" x 14" would come close to being quality prints at the sizes I was seeing (Great Wave is 3000 pixels wide)
> podcasts being popular without Apple having to release an app for it.

Apple was arguably the MOST important distributor of podcasts, given that they had millions of devices (including iPods - you could download/sync podcasts onto the classic iPod) in the market.

I am also not picking up the "old media is better" vibe here. Non-fiction/investigative podcasts need quality control, editorial control etc. It's hardly a gatekeeper thing.
While I can appreciate the technical merits of this (and rauhl's valid criticism), Firefox Sync is simply something I don't want, no matter how securely it's implemented.

I don't want anything to carry over between browsing sessions. Nothing. Not cookies, not super-cookies, not browser cache, not fonts. (About all I'm ok with carrying over is my uBlock plugin. There may be some other things like DNS cache and HSTS... though they're deeper than my realm of knowledge. I reckon keeping those are an acceptable trade for security vs tracking.)

As much as possible, I want each browsing session to be fresh, as if I were starting the browser up in a VM, and then reverting state after closing. I reckon that makes it that much harder to track me across the internet.

Firefox Sync seems to be an antithesis to this. (And I'm not very trusting of it's password saving feature, either.)

However, given that YouTube's front page seems to be picking up on my interests, maybe my measures are ineffective. (No 3rd party cookies, clear everything after browser close.) Perhaps I should give up hope and just permanently stay logged in.

(As an aside, one thing I was very sad to find out... I VEHEMENTLY DESPISE Firefox restoring all my tabs after a crash. If something evil caused the crash, I don't want to give it a second shot! ((Or worse, opening a browser in front of a coworker or client, and it restoring tabs I wouldn't want them to see. There's no warning or consent obtained, just... "HEY! Here's all your old tabs!")) However, disabling this feature ALSO disables "open previously closed tab", which I'm OK with. It seems a bit strange that these features are linked, perhaps someone can explain it to me.)
Well, if they are willing to, then I'm certainly not seeing it. Wegmans prepared foods are insanely expensive. Like $12 for a cold chicken parm with some green beans. The price seems to go up a $1 every 6 months. The quality also isn't great. I haven't looked at their prepared kits, but just a bag of chopped up fruit is like 4x the price of just buying the fruit and cutting it yourself.
The filters aren't working in chrome. Cool Idea!
The person you're responding to is undoubtedly referring to the ability to link cause with effect. As such "cognitive manageability" doesn't mean simple. Relativity is far from simple, but it's cognitively manageable - as is the fundamental science and engineering knowledge used when designing and ultimately constructing skyscrapers.

To give an example of something that is not cognitively manageable, aside from climate, consider the stock market. We can create a million correlations to the stock market. And these correlations themselves all hold true. And there is an immense, literally unlimited, amount of profit to be made if somebody could combine these correlations into a way that could create meaningful predictive value. There's no doubt that billions, if not trillions, of dollars have been spent in pursuit of such. Yet prediction seems to remain impossible. And that's in a field with a fraction of the variables of climate change.
It also makes me think how were you hired but listen there are services like" daily coding problem" u can get it for free
and i believe it will help you a lot... try it...
You know, I'm going probably believe the guy that replaces blower motors day in and day out for a living as opposed to the group that sets up a "test box". Sorry.
I'm aware of the zoning history, I'm a former resident as well. Good counterpoints, all. I think "the perfect neighborhood for the city to grow into" is an optimistic and accurate description.

>It's the densest concentration of artists in the outer boroughs

Surely this crown belongs to Bushwick, but LIC is not entirely devoid of arts and culture (Flux Factory being an example of a repurposed warehouse you describe).
Remember when getting a "free" (as in libre) version of Flash was a high priority. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
So where does the 0.7 and 0.3 come from?
> Don't be ashamed only if you are good at it.

Not sure if intentional pun
Some. Not the physicists or astronomers, but some Americans who work with data from non-scientists regularly stay with the units in the data. Some engineers, those who are dealing with older equipment, stick with the units used when the equipment was built. US pilots and aerospace generally still talk in knots and feet of altitude.
Speculation: GPU-based text rendering is typically going to be done using two triangles per glyph. So what they are seeing is probably not the allocation of the underlying texture storage, but the transient vertex buffer that contains the information of which glyph to render and where to render them.
> The "manipulative" implications the author is making could be applied towards print journalism just as accurately.

Yes - and it does apply. Editorial control and fact-checking are the two MOST vital aspects of good journalism. Any idiot - I mean, any Fox news anchor - can make up facts and report them.
That was probably this: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2uzgpa/from_absolute...
>The person in question was always in a state of “lack[ing] any physical control of or, proximity to, the evidence”. They had no control of this in any way.

Well, if they arranged so they are always, from the start, in that position, with the intent to leverage that "lack of control" to not produce evidence (i.e. with doing some law breaking in mind), that could still be considering incriminating...

And that, in the end, is a lay person's judgement to make...
https://www.google.com/search?q=actual+scientific+Big+Bang+t... :D
It comes up as result #2 for me. Although all the “cards” push that towards the bottom of the page.
Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers – As Jupyter Notebook
Sure will do. Thanks for pointing out.
The link above loads more or less instantly for me. The AMP version shows nothing but white for awhile before showing the page.
i hope to god that this is just code you made up to be facetious.
My (alpine) ski racing coach used to refer to "training your instincts", by which he meant that we needed to train in the correct neuromuscular patterns so that those would emerge without thinking (which of course is too slow at 35-40 meters/second in a Downhill race, or even 1/3 of that in a Slalom).

I also used to notice brain states that I'd call "fast meditation", completely calm and meditative, almost just observing the body doing it's work, but at speed. Happens even more in sportscar racing, i think because there's more time to get into a "flow state". Turns out there's a connection -- meditating monks generally slow down their sympathetic ('flight-or-flight") system and the parasympathetic (slow maint) system becomes primary, except when they achieve an exceptional meditative state they seek for years, when both systems kick into high gear. I suspect the same thing is happening from the opposite direction.

It is endlessly amazing . . .
If it helps any, I’ve been one for 10, and I hadn’t seen any problem like it until I started applying to startups.

The crap I was asked was pretty insane to be honest.
And YC is invested in Helion Energy using pulsed inertial fusion. Though the tokamak seems closest to being functional. The MIT ARC design is theoretically supposed to be able to work, at least on paper:

>The ARC design aims to achieve an engineering gain of three (to produce three times the electricity required to operate the machine) while being about half the diameter of the ITER reactor and cheaper to construct. (Wikipedia)

It's not been built because of the $5bn or so cost, though given global warming / saving the planet type issues I'd be happy enough as a tax payer to have governments fund one and maybe knock 1% off the defence budget to counter that. It'd probably do more for world peace than churning out some more f35s.
> Debian has a relatively small set of trusted package maintainers and doesn't let just anyone put code in the official distribution

There are presently 2619 official Debian maintainer GPG keys[1].

Considering the scope, that's not ridiculous, but I wouldn't call it small.

[1] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-keyring/
Reminds me of the early days of Tinychat.
"Something I'd love to see as we move towards higher density urban living (in more US cities) is communal kitchens in apartments. On par with a gym."

There used to be something called a 'dining club' -in the Anglosphere it mostly descended from Oxbridge student dining clubs (some were regimental dining clubs). Various social clubs in the 1800s Anglosphere descended from these sorts of things. I used to belong to one; the Berkeley City Club. In addition to providing maybe hundreds of people with the services of a professional chef, it provides something not appreciated in the modern day, with people staring at their phones: an actual social circle, and a place to go after work that isn't a bar.

These sorts of things used to be quite common, and formed the nucleus of many political associations and movements, but they became less popular with the social atomization of the 1960s.
Yes. I've seen far too many people who don't really have a clue at how to actually make data anonymized and which have adversarial systems systems set up for reporting any issues that encourages ignoring the issue over fixing it.
JS is not without its problems, but it has attracted both a huge amount of mindshare and corporate investment over the last twenty years. Those both go a long way towards fixing many of the initial problems of the language.

While it isn't the language I'd have necessarily chosen to be as widespread as it it, the industry could have wound up making a far worse choice, and I'm grateful it didn't.
I have 2 of the $180 Coways and so far am pleased with them.

Once in a while, I will light a candle and when I blow it out, will hear the air purifier go on full-blast (Speed 3) to clear the air.

Interestingly, it sometimes turns to medium power (Speed 2) when I'm just shuffling around the room. I imagine its because I have a few rugs and its pushing up a lot of dust.
You say that like moving away from carburetors to complicated, error-prone computerized injection systems is a positive thing...
In some cities in the USA, Jay walking is also waking across a crosswalk when you don't have the walk signal. Is this a ticketable offense in the Netherlands?
Everyone I know that tried these (including myself) starts getting them piling up uncooked and rotting and cancels. A month or two of product testing would have told them this model can't succeed. After that, it was just how long can we fool the VCs?
>would start using practical/self-explanatory names for their products

So like "Java" and "Swing"?
That's a terrible example to illustrate it's "very hard" to really anonymize data. Date of birth is an obvious deanonymizer. Zip code should never be included in publicly released data; it's too granular when combined with race and approximate age.

Definitely thought needs to be put in, but I don't think "very hard" is right.
That's heavily overstated.
Or something as Simple as Amazon JDK.
Very nice - another bag that fits this mold: https://topodesigns.com/products/convertible-travel-bag-lapt...
People can still be taken advantage of with a mighty sum of money, surprise surprise. Money doesn't make everything right always. It's all about opportunity cost (how long does one's 20s and early 30s last?), the value this young fresh labor provides, how much life is sucked out of their enthusiasm in the process (i.e. jaded expectations carry on for a long time, emotionally), and the naivete combined with ample time to devote to the Bezos cult that's exploited with perks and status that amount to, sincerely, working for the man, in the clearest sense possible (I mean you could up that game with something like Palantir.)

If one's real happy working for Amazon though, I wish them luck and continued prosperity, and a bit of willful ignorance to carry on. For sure it looks real good on the resume for the next gig.
Well, for one it's not a service...
I had been told he bragged about it being "job security" since nobody could understand what he had written. I never spoke to him directly as I was his replacement...

The java mess was a pattern copied from within the company where it was used correctly. The main product of the company was built around some very complex scheduling software. It was a black box and communication was entirely through inter-server beans. This was copied to intra-server, which makes no sense at all, and it was used everywhere.
> Google isn't trying to control or limit what people think.

I think proactive censorship for authoritarian governments (e.g., China) falls into this category.
I live in Toronto and the pilot project remains a very controversial decision basically pitting the interests of commuters against car drivers in what is for all intents and purposes a zero-sum game.

The next question is whether there's a solution where everyone wins and the most immediate idea is a subway running down that corridor. Of course, the amount of disruption that would bring to businesses already crying foul over the pilot project is a tough pill for any politician to swallow. Ultimately this is a lesson in failed urban planning as a subway built there decades ago before all the condos went up in this city would have alleviated issues for everyone involved.
Unless JDK is trademarked to death by Oracle...
The paper is arguing FOR self-incrimination, not against it.
Note: Harley has used belt final drives since the 90s. There's nothing really wrong with chains except for maintenance and the belt fixes that at the cost of performance, which had never been Harley's forte.
I suppose you could apply the same builder/scrstch separation as this Dockerfile and install using npm/yarn/etc and copy over the result

It's certainly only practical when every byte matters. At that point it might also make sense to prebundle the dependencies and copy that over.

It'd be interesting to see whether this becomes relevant if serverless-like constraints suddenly apply to a Docker cloud service
Not the largest, but the most insane.

At an old employer there were 15,000 lines of batch script across 14 .bat files on a Windows laptop. Old director of IT used it to onboard new customers. It basically copied a DB and turned "CHANGE ME" in some columns to the client's name.

It had it all. 5k lines of date validation, 3k lines of "UI", 400 goto statements, hard-coded passwords, versioning by incrementing the file names (leading to a bunch of code that was never called), and to top it off a static IP granted to the laptop that used as a part of authentication.

Took me two weeks to unravel it and replace with ~20 lines of Ruby.

Later, all of my complaining on Facebook led an old professor to invite me back to give a talk on the importance of code quality!
" then why should the PE class beat the S&P"

It's a matter of perception. PE is generally viewed as advantageous because they have less strings attached, and do more, have the best teams in the business, huge political access (massive political figures on funds boards).

They do post higher returns. Most people think they do, and they charge higher fees.

But if you risk adjust those returns, they're not doing anything. Literally nothing if they can't beat the S&P consistently.

Here's the problem: the 2+20. If PE managers are getting 2% for managing and 20% of the upside, then, well, you might as well just stick your money in the S&P and save all that.

Given those higher management fees, PE is actually a money loser. Just hustlers.

It might very well be something else altogether once you look at the industry, it could be some funds are just crap, some are consistently great - and it boils down to the ability of fund sales people to make deals. So if there are a lot of crap funds with good sales staff ... this will drag the average down. Maybe the good PE firms are actually good :)
And obviously the standard CS books tell you little about numerical and stability issues you get to solve to have an actually really working and accurate Kalman filters.

It might be touched upon in doctoral or post-doc courses...

Whereas electrical engineer gets drilled about noise, stability and uncertainty all the time. Rarely even about mathematical chaos and chaotic systems.
it's not the worst comparison. Google search is removing our need, and thus ability to remember things
I think it's a bit strong to conclude that if a judge disagrees with you on this topic it is activism. This is relatively untested/uncharted legal territory and, at least in the US, it is complex. For places like Australia that have no guaranteed first amendment rights, I would agree that it is much more cut and dry because there are other laws already in place that can limit your speech through due process.

The same is true about due process in the US, but there are limitations on what it can apply to regarding speech. The US government can legally stop you from speaking on certain matters via court order. But speech is explicitly separated from lack of speech in the US and are treated as two totally separate things. There is legal standing that non-speech cannot be considered as speech - this goes hand in hand with the 5th amendment and how a person's refusal to speak and provide testimony against themselves cannot in of itself be considered evidence against them. So a lack of speech cannot be considered evidence of guilt.

Also, there is a substantial body of law protecting the people (even government employees) from being forced to say anything by government. So, for others here wondering if the US can require them to keep updating it - they almost certainly cannot. There may be a way around that because the US government does have a fairly broad ability to regulate businesses so they could, in theory, pass legislation requiring businesses update this...maybe. But I doubt such a law would pass challenges as it would be challenged on first amendment grounds and the idea that other compulsive speech requirements on businesses have generally been geared toward information sharing and notifications of legal rights and other things that protect consumers. This is something entirely different and doesn't fall in those categories. Those requirements are all structured around spreading truthful information to keep consumers informed where here the government would be requiring businesses to lie - something that could easily be argued is against consumer interest.
What happened to the policeman who did the actual killing?
Well, we want that for free, of course.
Scientists improve smart phone battery life by up to 60 percent
I found my current job (remote, full time) on https://weworkremotely.com/. It's been a little over two years so I'm not sure how the site is now, but at the time it seemed pretty decent. Maybe a little low traffic compared to non-remote boards, but I think that's to be expected.
Looks nice but I'm always very wary of sites that looks essentially like affiliate farms. If you recommends and review backpacks it's a different story but this feels like just rendering the data a little different from Amazon and only having a single category.

Unrelated (? Maybe): I'm looking for a new daily backpack. The one on my STM Evolution broke and I tied it back together which was working well until it wasn't and my laptop fell 3-4ft onto metal stairs (in the backpack still). It is fine but I'm not waiting for another drop before replacing it.

I carry a 15" MBP and considered getting another STM Evolution (no idea if it's even still for sale) but with all the advancements/changes since I bought it in like 2008 I thought I'd look around. I'd love a backpack with a heavy tech focus (maybe a battery pack built in, holes to run wires through for charging while in the bag, etc).

Let me know if you have any suggestions.
OpenStack: Beyond the cloud
Also that intersection is literally the border of Los Altos and mountain view, and is only "partially" managed by Caltrand. I dunno what that means, it's what the lady on the phone told me.
Being foreign born myself, I can see this pretty easily. When you have an external enemy outside of this country, the entire country will unite in that cause even in the endeavor to create very powerful weapons. (Think US affinity for nuclear proliferation during the cold war.) Few will pause to think that such weapons will be used against the best of our own people.

And that is the mentality difference between the US and China. US (having no real enemies) citizens see development of these weapons as potentially being used against its own citizens. Whereas Chinese citizens sees these weapons being to protect themselves from external threats.
You removed Netflix and kept Apple in the new one.
When you compare the rear suspension of modern mountain bikes to Harleys, it gets even worse. You get the overall impression that it is all about what is mechanically easy, not comfortable or performant.
> [data] "will never be linked or associated with Google accounts, products or services"

it doesn't say your google account or product. it is in general google products.

It seems to me that they are breaking this promise.
Intel Unveils the Intel Neural Compute Stick 2
May I ask what model it is, please?
to perhaps reinforce your point: I put a filter on the front (as in this video) and the fan died a few weeks later.
Pattern Matching Without Regex – Introducing the Rosie Pattern Language
Wouldn't that be similar to the sewing machine noise ofa BMW K-bike? :-)
The free-energy principle: a rough guide to the brain? [pdf]
America's Quovo Joins UK's Open Banking Regime