skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They said "MS bashing" not C# bashing. In other words, using anything MS was once considered uncool. There's still a number of people who are waiting to catch MS pull a Embrace... stunt.

I've not seen any thread on HN bashing MS without reason. However, the only guys who claim to use C# either work with big companies or freelance.
Analysis: “The Era of Deep Learning Is Coming to an End”
Also encountered in West African communities in the UK:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/female-genital-mutilation-fgm/

It's prevalent enough that there are several high profile NGOs running education campaigns against it.
It's open source, but does it comply with the four freedoms to make it FOSS? Why does mono still exist then?

inb4 "but EEE was only the 90s!"
Any chapters done yet, that we could read?
I don’t think your analogy is very good. Boots are useful besides driving nails. What is async/await useful for except concurrency?
Some well considered advice: drop TensorFlow and go with PyTorch. Spend your effort where it will make a difference: on deep learning, rather than on fighting with the framework.

People just keep using TF because it was the first full-fledged Python framework for this, not because it has any technical merit anymore. In PyTorch you will make twice as much progress in half the time.
First of all, there's a difference between imposing a quota on the number of H-1Bs and raising the bar for applications to be approved. I'm in favor of the latter, and the former makes no sense. If the U.S. needs more skilled labor than it can provide, then it should allow as many immigrants as needed to come over to fill the gap. I hope that strikes you as a pretty obvious argument

Second, inequality in the U.S. has nothing to do with an abundance of cheap labor. It has to do with macro trends in globalization and cheap jobs being outsourced to (mostly) Asia.
I presume the parent generalized their experience with the BOOM and Rocket implementations of RISC-V, which do use Chisel, to the entire architecture.
You're still giving all of that information out. Or your device is, but that's still under your control and thus you're the one giving it out.

>It's being referred to as spyware because most users aren't aware that Facebook does this, and wouldn't have agreed to it had they been offered a choice.

Then they need to control their data better. Facebook is an easy target because they do all of this in the open. There are probably untold number of bots online that vacuum up this information and you'll never ever know about it and legislation will never stop it because it's running on some server in China or something.
I suspect a lot of these things happened when Bob Mansfield retired the first time...
Ask HN: Refactoring tools
Hey HN,

In a large project of mine, I regularly have code wrapped across multiple lines that could be expressed more succinctly using a different series of calls.

My initial stab at how to refactor this is to create a small parser that iterates through these files and refactors as appropriate. Is this overkill? Doesn't seem quite right for sed, but awk might work. Any other tools I'm missing?
It makes sense for them to do this, from a selfish perspective, but this is an iconic example of why we can’t have good things. If more shippers do this, handlers will just ignore the caution signs.
I agree that a 100% renewable grid is not economical at this time. Nor is 90%, nor 80%. The question is where the threshold lies for the maximum amount of renewable generation we can accommodate while maintaining reliability and delivering power at an economical price for consumers.

That number is going to vary in different grid systems based on the size of the balancing area, the strength and resiliency of the transmission system and amount of storage available. Balancing areas with large amounts of hydro-storage will be able to accommodate more renewables, as will those that connect 10s of thousands of MW or more.

This isn't about physics and math. It's about SA being a very small grid where contingencies (both transmission and unit trip) dominate reliability planning. There are grids operating with the same level of renewable penetration as SA or more that have never experienced load shedding.

SA could accommodate perhaps one large nuclear power plant. And then the entire system design would be dictated by unit tripping contingencies. The cost of planning the system to prevent load-shedding when a 500+ MW unit trips at that plant would be massive. Nuclear is not a panacea for system security.

Please don't generalize the problems of a very unique and small system to the rest of the world. SA has unique challenges as a vast and sparsely populated region that don't exist in Europe, Asia or even most of North America. ERCOT has run with 40% wind penetration on a 44 GW system, and they've done it cheaper than anyone can build nuclear today.
That's vandalism. Two wrongs don't make a right.
What's next? Shit stains?
Does the AI take a video input or is the AI still operating through a direct API into the game? If so, it's a bit like cheating. Pure data access and no visual noise to filter through is a huge advantage for it but still impressive.
A Tom Lehrer fan, I see
Like the theoretical super-cheap batteries needed to make renewables actually practical as a comprehensive replacement for fossil fuel energy?
+1 for this one!
The whole point is, you don't know how devilish the random one is. As bad as global warming will be, we know the risks and we can prepare for them. Whether we'll actually do that is another matter..
Was society really conned with Facebook? I can understand if you are talking about MySpace, but it was very obvious what Facebook's monetization model was going to be ever since they opened up globally. This is why I never signed up and was confused when so many people freely joined and gave up all of that information.

The other part is that if Facebook doesn't monetize things in a rather shady manner then we probably wouldn't have Facebook at this point or it would be operating at a loss like many of the other social media sites, eg reddit.
I thought we only had 12 years
Care to share a reference to them no longer being lightweight?
Parking violations usually don't require proof of intent. So unless you believe people never make mistakes and are always fully knowledgeable about parking rules, then tickets are sometimes random (or at least capricious) and accidental.
Moon rock recovered by astronauts likely originated on Earth
My problem is that activists and certain politicians want to make these decisions for me. GDPR already has done so to my detriment and the detriment of the online EU sector.
> The concept of "intelligence" is entirely subjective and intrinsically human.

...and the concept of “flying” is intrinsically avian.
"You may as well decry the budgeting for legal as saying the company wants to break the law."

Why? Doing everything correctly and within the law costs money.
It's more than just frequency response, though. After reading some of the event reports from South Australia, some of them are caused by a simple lack of generation adequacy (demand exceeded capacity for a sustained period due to generation unplanned outages) and others by transmission contingencies (cascading failure caused by a transmission line going out of service). These aren't problems that batteries solve per se but yes, the future definitely has more batteries in it.
Fun fact: Slotting fees for end-caps are largely waived at EDLP retailers (a business model much of the industry is moving towards, compared to the more traditional "Hi-Lo" pricing strategy) in favor of better pricing from suppliers. End cap placement is largely driven by the agenda of category managers, which depends on the metric du jour of the directors of grocery merchandising/VP. If promoting a product in the circular or putting it on an end-cap will increase units or gross for the category overall, that decision will be made whether or not there is some sort of supplier concession.
I believe the state of the art is bazel and similar systems. Bazel supports C++, Python, Java, and Go well that I know of, maybe more too. It's also extensible, and people have rolled their own support for various languages. You can find some custom bazel rules on GitHub.
I believe if you give access to "Photos" on the device, they can. Otherwise by giving GPS/Location permission - no. They are two separate things.
The other angle, besides just personal abuse (Ala loversgate), that far too many people fail to consider is this:

If the executive branch has such ubiquitous surveillance powers, given their history of manual blackmail and compromise operations, they are highly likely to seek to expand those blackmail style ops to a level heretofor impossible, essentially removing some of the last vestiges of the already under attack principle of seperation of powers and the checks and balances system which is a foundational part of the intended American political structure.
Please don't hijack my browser's back-button to inflate your viewing stats.
If you're going to go that route using Pidgin with OTR would make more sense.
People conflate data scientists, data engineers, and software engineers. Although there is strong overlap between all 3 disciplines, and it benefits to know all 3 disciplines, the day to day responsibilities of all 3 are very different.

Startups try to hire people with double/triple disciplines to reduce costs though.
"If you're using a wireless hotspot then your location is correlated to anyone who also used it while sharing GPS data."

That's a clever one I hadn't thought about. I guess for a service like Facebook/Instagram/Google it can work decently well given the scale/adoption.
Don't the parking tickets have to be paid by the driver though, and not the company? FedEx doesn't even own their delivery trucks, the drivers do.
Is there any way to use a pytorch model in Mobile and in a website without a server API? For me 5hose are two good reasons to keep using TensorFlow.
I don't see a way to configure the saturation, I think right now it is a bit too bright for coffee stains.
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Everybody always told me I’d always make a good private investigator - thanks for selling me on data science!
Are there any meaningful uses of that term? It's a fairly reliable indicator of cluelessness when followed by "encryption."
Very interesting, thanks. I too would like to see "utility-scale photovoltaics". So...what is the limiting factor in producing new solar panels? A raw material, or well-lit land near population centers, or political will, or what?
In Stewart Brand’s book “Whole Earth Discipline” he says that a person’s entire lifetime worth of nuclear waste would fit in a can of soda.

And from my understanding, that spent fuel can be reused after a certain amount of time.

Yucca Mountain is a good solution if they can ever figure out the local politics.
"data engineer" is often considered a lower prestige title than data scientist. "Data scientist" is a title recently thrown around a lot for positions that used to be called "data analyst", with no strong ML or SWE ability required. Amazon's title for scientists with strong ML engineering ability is called "Applied Scientist" and it's paid significantly higher than SWE
Were You Laid Off by Tesla? So Was I
As a temporary measure, why don't we use renewables with a fallback to fossil fuels? During the day, solar could meet demand and at night, we use coal/gas/whatever.
True for cold start, but gas plants can ramp in the 5 minute window if they are already running. But the market conditions would have to such that it makes economic sense for them to be in that operating condition.
Show HN: The Wu Programming Language
> Since RISC-V uses Chisel instead of Verilog

How can an ISA ‘use Chisel’? It’s a spec not an implementation.
For one thing, a near-total lack of appreciation of the damage done by fossil fuels.
Some JetBrains IDEs such as PyCharm have refactoring tools built in.
Just in a poorly formatted word doc currently. I'd be happy to contact you when its closer. Thanks for asking!
We may have advanced the technologies since Chernobyl but we haven't even come close to dealing with that yet. We just built a multi billion dollar dome for that will possibly last 100 years, provided we keep up with the active measures to extend the life of it. That region will be fucked up for over 10,000 years. How long will Fukushima need the ice wall?

I have yet to hear about a comprehensive plan or set of designs that is meltdown proof and doesn’t have a waste problem. It’s a conceptually simple way to make a lot of cleanish energy, and it works now and it works on cloudy days but there are still giant externalities that just haven’t been solved. We can’t even out the waste in deep underground mines in the desert, we haven’t had the political will to do that.
There are not so many type of problems for such a complex tool. Your problem usually fits in one category among classification, prediction, clustering, generation or control. Then you have different domains as images, video, audio, text, etc. With a combination or type of problem and domain you sure can have a roadmap, but you probably will need to read papers to solve your problem if it is not something some has done before.
I found a VR video (which needs dragging around quite a bit on my computer to find the desired angle): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIaxPa2aUDI that showed the car being put into its slot. Looks pretty neat.
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The truth is MS never fixed itself, it just got too fat and lazy for any of us to care anymore.
These robots and electric car chargers could solve the daily game of musical chairs in corporate parking lots. A single human attendant could handle the "last inch" problem.
https://caffe2.ai/docs/AI-Camera-demo-android.html?

Not something I've used myself, but supposedly yes.
Going back up after this article
> MS could pull the rug out at any time.

What you mean? C# is open source. And, here is the location - https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang
University of the Third Age
Yeah, I get really tired of this crap from US CEOs.

The fact that the skills aren't there is because your company doesn't pay for them.

Even worse, it's an outright lie and people like Cook know it because they put their money behind it. Haas Automation has an entire line IN THE US producing CNC machines that get shipped to China solely for Apple. Gee, if China was so much better at those skills, why don't you buy the machines there from Chinese suppliers? Hmmmmmm?
I couldn't agree more, although I'd take a step further and extend it to way more stuff: options, features, libraries, and even applications. Building up an index of knowledge generally help in deciding what tool or technique to reach for.

I'll often look at stuff and wonder: what is your purpose? In my experience, explanations without context aren't generally very useful. It's much easier to incorporate knowledge when you're first presented with a concrete example of a problem along with its solution, and then you're presented with the abstraction.

One of the most notorious examples I can think of is when someone tries to explain monads. For some reason people often start by providing a long mathematical definition, which is completely useless if you don't even understand the weird words being used. It's worth learning Haskell just for all the new concepts and ideas it'll expose you to, even though the syntax looks very unfamiliar at first.
I moved from C# to Java world - similar but very different. Java has way more libraries and frameworks which is great, but it almost makes the complexity worse as there are n different Javas.

The biggest thing is memory management. I never had trouble with GC in dotnet, Java locks up with full GCs WTF.
I've given up being able to receive certain items via mail where I live in NYC. Amazon only ships via UPS. They smashed two $300 humidifiers in a row by bouncing them around on their sides despite the box clearly labeled to only move while upright. I'm still waiting to get a refund on one of them weeks later. They managed to break both tripods I ordered as well. I kept the second as gluing the broken bit is easier than dealing with yet another return.
Venues are fluid for pianists. It's extremely difficult to move a piano vs another instrument, obviously.

I highly doubt Chopin only intended his music for a specific space. Chopin's music translates to large concert halls (with proper concert grands, of course) quite well. Every great pianist will adjust for the room.

Of course this will always be a debate. Some believe Bach's WTC should only be played on keyboards from Bach's era (ignoring the piano.) What a shame that would be to us all.
There exists (or DID exist, before Google snatched up Marc Levoy and made the Pixel cams) open source cameras.

Levoy called the academic exercise he pursued the Frankencamera. (Look it up, a big thing at Stanford). Nokia took him up on it and produced an OTC "smartphone" ... before the iPhone.

i still have a N900 and it works: replaceable batteries do wonders!-) Runs unix etc. Open source camera software.

http://u.tgu.ca/Levoy_cam2

http://u.tgu.ca/fcam_api

http://u.tgu.ca/FCam_Maemo

http://u.tgu.ca/Frankencamera_lite
> Why? If you don’t park illegally you don’t get tickets.

Incorrect; if you don't park illegally, you are less likely to be ticketed each time you park.

On an individual scale, this might result in never getting a ticket, on a large delivery company’s scale, it's pretty much guaranteed not to.
What you're saying is very hard to accept, which is not to say it's wrong. We have access to an absurd amount of power, and it's safe if we do it right, but we're not currently mature enough to reliably do it right, so we should refrain.

Or more specifically, and even harder to accept: We know perfectly well how to do it right, but the danger of someone selling out public safety is high enough that we should refrain from advocating for an entire field of progress, at least presently.
TL;DR HTTP over QUIC is now HTTP/3. "HTTP/3 is just a new HTTP syntax that works on IETF QUIC, a UDP-based multiplexed and secure transport"
"Someone" put this up on HN 2 years ago....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12572465
Thanks. I always forgot about caffe2 when talking about pytorch. I couldn't anything for JavaScript and mobile seems not as good supported as TF but for sure they will improve.
Off topic but thanks for that. :) I didn't know David Mitchell made youtube content. He's one of my favourite british TV personas! Love him on Would I Lie To You.
The biggest misconception about content delivery networks
Wester Digital if you are reading this!

Pleeeeze I want to have access as an end user. I'd like to do a predicate push down and be able to write into the DRAM buffer and the flush a commit. Or pin certain blocks directly into DRAM. Pleeeeze!
Ok - see my about page for how
In Manhattan every UPS driver gets tickets except when buildings have commercial parking. Nobody cares. They hire a law firm to settle on $0.25/$1 and it’s done. Meter maid makes quota, lawyers paid, city gets money.
> Riding a bicycle on the sidewalk is illegal in almost every state

It's illegal in 8 states; unclear in 18; even if it was illegal in all of those it would be a slim majority, not “almost every state”.

https://bikeleague.org/content/bike-law-university-sidewalk-...
And software architect
I can corroborate most of this. Basically it's a stressful job, with low pay, weird hours, and very high turnover. Some people handle the stress better than others. Generally when people leave, it's because they burn out, or reach some kind of "last straw" moment, or get physically injured (often the back, from lifting improperly and/or too fast). The company doesn't care, they're just using you up and they'll hire a new one when you leave.

"Fragile" and other special instructions printed on the box are kind of insulting if you think about it. On the one hand, I'm a "professional" doing this for a living, so it's not like I need instruction from your I've-never-loaded-a-truck ass. And on the other hand, do I look like I have time to give your precious package special attention and follow your additional instructions for how it should be handled? It will be handled like all the rest. Maybe worse now that you pissed me off.

My pet peeve was the packing. If you've done a proper job of packing, i.e. fulfilling your responsibility to secure your stuff, you quickly find you don't need to proclaim "Fragile" on the outside. But if you don't pack well, and then write "Fragile" on it, you're kind of trying to transfer your responsibilities to me, and deserve a lesson.

This was judgmental young me talking, by the way. It's been a while since I did this. But speaking of judgment I also should mention the ultimate worthlessness of most of what people went to the trouble to ship. I handled a lot of B2B stuff, such as a region's worth of cigarette advertising for all the (insert name of convenience store chain here) in that region. Invariably marked "Fragile."
Parking tickets are against the registered owner. Moving violations are against the driver.
Awesome comment from the FAQ:

Which version pays you the most?

First of all, thank you for caring about this! Since I self-published, I set the prices so that the royalties are about the same for each format. (I also get the lion’s share of the money since there’s no publisher taking a cut.)

Buy the format you want and I’ll get paid pretty much the same either way. If you want to give me money, but don’t actually want a physical book, consider giving it to a friend or your local library. I get money, you feel good, and someone gets a free book!
Yeah, something is wrong with their methodology.

I absolutely do NOT believe that a Prius makes that list.

The first 5-door liftback Prius (what everybody recognizes as a Prius) is barely 15 years old. And, during that time, there were some really amazing incentives from dealers to turn in your old Prius and buy a new one. And big chunks of the early Prii will have batteries that gave out. And a Prius tends to have really expensive repairs after a collision. etc.
Duke Grad program director step down after warning students not to speak Chinese
Why would an agent be afraid of dine & dash?
No, it's 0.9% of value beyond $100, not $9.
Ask HN: How to change the Ed Biz. Classrooms without annual grades or curriculum
Currently, it is grade school and then college..specializing in a discipline.

In school: multi age group children in one room schoolhouse. The older children teach the younger ones and they teach or mentor the youngest ones.

Armed with a tablet, they pick up any subject they deem interesting. They only learn what they find interesting. Older kids help them if they get stuck. At the end of every year, a review of what they are good at steers them towards getting deeper into any subject.

Maybe there are a set of subjects that are mandatory learning but it’s not to be ‘graded’ within one school year but 3-5 years.

This way, the easier subjects can be easily absorbed by the students and they can take their own sweet time with the more difficult ones.

What I think doesn’t work: Forcing children of the same age to learn at the same pre determined pace. Cramming subjects within one school year. And expecting every child deliver the same result.
Have you actually used TFLite? It's slow as molasses. Deploying on mobile is a bit of a shitshow across the board right now, from what I undertand. Not all models are supported out of the box (especially with ONNX), and the ones that are supported aren't guaranteed to have acceptable performance with off-the-shelf frameworks. Documentation is very sparse as well, especially for the quantized stuff.
Just scrolling on that site destroyed my browser history (Chrome), the back button was filled with 30+ links to the same page. Not sure who codes a website like that...
this is so cool!