skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but then what's interesting is how much developer time is required to get there.

Yeah, good point. I read an old research where they tried to test the "productivity" offered by different languages, but then it became difficult to asses the experience of the different developers...
I've noticed that 'ax to grind' also tends to equate with a PR firm didn't write these articles.
Have you by any chance done this? Care to share the results?
Information withheld - https://www.reddit.com/r/k12sysadmin/comments/9qg2vw/google_...

System errors - https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/7nrx07/google_...

We're twenty years in so likely there are actually thousands of legitimate reasons, the problem is their system seems designed to dismiss any evidence to the contrary so a false positive is a lifetime ban too.
This tread got a bit out of hand, so I'll try to summarise my thoughts here:

I find computational photography incredibly exiting, but it's mostly taking place in smartphone space, with tiny sensors and lenses. Imagine what we could do with great glass and a huge honking sensor.
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I wonder if the development of thinner, flexible solar panels and batteries would make a lighter than air UAV a better choice for eternal flight. That way it only needs to power rotors for positioning instead of maintaining flight.
I disagree with this. The vision wasn't a simple economic statement on why "we should rent out our unused server capacity". It was vastly more complex than that. It included technical details on how it should be approached and how to leverage and scale their existing infrastructure. It also laid down the ground for EC2 and S3 as foundational services.

Perhaps my error was saying that Jassy isn't a technologist. He is 100% a technologist and has an incredible ability to absorb and understand very complex technical topics. He just isn't a technologist by training or by trade. He simply has an innate technical ability to such extent that his first job at Amazon was being a technical liaison to Jeff Bezos.
Is anyone going to actually pay $11,500 for a domain name this week?
I've had mixed results with more coarsely grained time tracking. On the one hand I'm more likely to actually do so when I don't have to clock in and out all the time. On the other hand, I kept forgetting to clock in or out because it wasn't 'regular' enough to do it automatically.

These days I use Emacs org-mode for todo items and time tracking (+ pretty much everything else), which makes it much easier to be extremely granular in my tracking without having to expend much effort. Since I have my todo list in front of me for any task anyways, starting the clock is just one keystroke away.

That said, I try to keep myself from calculating how much time I 'need' to save to offset the time it took me to get everything set up and to get comfortable with Emacs/Org-Mode ;).
You're right... there's no beating entropy. But the limiting case seems to be the battery charge/discharge cycles, which floats around the 500 range. So that's close to a year-and-a-half flight.

Other concepts are using tube-and-wing or flying wing embodiments. But long slender wings need more material to stiffen the slender structure. Just look at NASA/AeroVironment Helios, which ripped itself apart in a modest wind. Using centrifugal stiffening as a design element within the TURN concept eliminates the aerodynamic/structural tradeoff, and permits much better airfoils than standard practice will allow... nearly three times more efficient to be precise. By reducing that much structural material the TURN system carries much more battery mass. Most HALE aircraft cap out at about 20-25% battery mass, nearly 80% of the TURN vehicle weight is allocated for energy storage.
> Why would they need to buy a publisher?

If it is a subscription plus purchase games service, they need guarantee of games available to justify the subscription price; either buying or partnering with an existing publisher or distribution channel would be a way to do this (making a deal with Steam where you link your Steam Account and any games you have on Steam are streamable would probably be a bigger win than buying a publisher.)
$10 snips should be better than that!

I replaced them with $5 Stanley wire cutters that had 0 issue dealing with guitar strings.

So what happened is I was given a 10c piece of junk and paid $10 for the privilege of being ripped off.
This is a myth. Just as a starter, most low income people pay most of their taxes through sales, payroll and property tax (through rents and car registration). They pay a full share of both sales and property taxes and most of payroll taxes. Not only that, but about half of illegal immigrants pay income taxes [1].

One side is a bit worse, but the immigration policy debate is full of myths and wrong assumptions about basic facts.

Here's decent coverage of the more complex bits: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-30/immigr...

another:

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/how-do-undocumented-immigr...

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/4/13/17229018/undocumented-immigran...
You bring up a good point about changing the code. I wouldn't want the reviewer changing the code himself and not getting reviewed again. But even if it was reviewed again, I would still find it problematic as the reviewer might make changes that are unnecessary and detrimental to the code base based solely on his opinions. For example, he prefers to use front end templates vs. backend or prefers to break up classes that should stay together, etc. Most code review issues that come up are a matter of opinion and it should be up to the author to change or not to change the code. If the reviewer feels so strongly about a change, he should submit a different PR in addition and it should be evaluated separately. I can't think of anything more enraging than coming in and seeing your reviewer rewriting your perfectly good PR simply because he wants to do it his way. At that point, I wonder why I even wrote a PR in the first place. Why not have this asshole write all the code then?
To me it won't matter, if it gets shut down then I'd go to another provider. As long as they have data portability like GDPR specifies then there isn't a problem.
Culture Nearly Killed and Then Saved Our Company
Project Stream will probably allow those on Linux, macOS, and especially ChromeOS to play most games, including recent ones. Which may let people switch platform more easily and/or avoid dual-booting.
There has to be a limit somewhere though.

Say I booked the entirety of June off this year. Are they still cool with that? How about if I also decide I'd like July off too. That's an extreme I know but there's a limit somewhere.
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> At the least, social media trains us to stay within the lane of our “brand”.

Even with a very small following, I've noticed this on Instagram. Whenever I post something outside of my niche, my likes take a dive, even if I think it's a pretty nice picture. Though the more I think about it, it's only really training you to stay in your lane if maximum likes and follows are what you're after.
2.7M Recorded Calls to the 1177 Care Guide Completely Unprotected
Love to downvote anyone suggesting that technology has consequences
Why is the top answer to "how can I work more" always "work less"?

If you don't agree with that the poster is trying to do just don't answer instead of undermining their motivation.
Thank you, but there's also a large number of projects which many people use but that aren't that actively maintained. It's those projects that Code Shelter mostly aims to help with.
1. 1$ a year.
2. I accept that I lost a dollar
Yeah, but in their personal opinion, that stuff didn't belong on the front page. That's their right. That's my point. (And in fairness, there is a lot of political spam out there.)

Just upvote the submissions you want on the front page if you want to keep them there. In your personal opinion, the post does belong on the front page. That's your right. Which is also my point.

There's no need to get mad at each other for flagging or upvoting. We're all choosing to be a part of a community. And I think the current system efficiently manifests consensus in that community.

If you don't like the consensus view in many cases? Well, I mean, I don't really know what I can tell you?
You offer single player games.
Buddy, it ain't state censorship if YouTube isn't government owned. It's actually not even censorship at all when the videos in question can still be linked to or found via the search bar.

Removing a video from the "Recommended" sidebar does not represent a crisis of free expression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry

> The garden strawberry was first bred in Brittany, France, in the 1750s via a cross of Fragaria virginiana from eastern North America and Fragaria chiloensis, which was brought from Chile.
Interesting, because I've found imdb ratings to be the best because it's based on user votes.

Movie critics, on the other hand, seem to vote the complete opposite of regular viewers (and each other) to set themselves apart. Or voting some awful art house movie a 10/10 to signal that they, too, understood the high brow nuances that the groundlings could not. I end up agreeing with the user votes far more often than the critic scores on RT and Metacritic, and the user scores tend to line up with imdb anyways.
> Lascar stands for Ledger’s Advanced Side Channel Analysis Repository. Its goal is to gather and provide common tools and techniques used in the field of Side Channel Analysis, within an open, customizable library.

It's not an attack. It's just something that the Ledger security team has been working on.
So, if you actually read the 3-4 blog articles [1,2,3,4,5] on epigenetics that he's written, I don't interpret them as him suggesting epigenetic changes do not occur.

Rather, I think he is challenging the notion that epigenetic inheritance is the driver of / underlies behaviour change in mammals.

I disagree with your assertion that he is skeptical of epigenetic inheritance. I think he's skeptical that epigenetic inheritance can drive multi-generational neuro / psychiatric behaviour change, which is a far more nuanced position to take.

For instance, had you made the effort of actually checking his blog, [5] is a response to the article you linked / cited:

To quote him:

"So, in case I have come across as merely unpleasantly grumpy, let me spell out my general grounds for being skeptical of the claims of TGEI in mammals."

And further, in the context of behaviours and neuro disorders, and their inheritance in humans.

That's what he is commenting about. Not epigenetic inheritance in general. In as much as you didn't actually check his writings and painted his position with such a broad brush and value judgements, then yes. I would agree this was shameless and an ad-hominem attack indeed.

Now, I don't know this guy. But his arguments, especially the lots of different ways in which biologists mis-interpret and mis-apply statistics rings true. His arguments are cogent, and his analysis reasonable and conservative. Which, in science (the conservative interpretation) is an excellent thing, IMO. So yes, I do choose to consider his opinion carefully.

I think, in all this hype and buzz-wordy social media noise that appears to be driving everything including research and politics, it's important to identify and defend the voices that are saying, slow down, let's not read too much into these things yet; let's not get carried away.

Jill Escher, whose article you linked to, is a lawyer by training. This guy is a neuro-biologist and a professor at Trinity College, Dublin. Who do you think has more credibility here?

This suggests to me that you didn't even look the people you were citing up, or who you were criticising. Surely, you can do better?

[1] http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2013/01/the-trouble-with-epige...

[2] http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2013/01/the-trouble-with-epige...

[3] http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2014/04/the-trouble-with-epige...

[4] http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2018/05/grandmas-trauma-critic...

[5] http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2018/07/calibrating-scientific...

[Edit: added excerpt and replaced "crap" with "noise"]
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You'll be surprised, but yes - it can be measured. Not even on same computer, but across different computers on Internet, even with all the random latency in the middle.

The idea is that you don't measure only once. You measure thousands, tens of thousands of times and more. Then any difference however small it will be also multiplied thousand times and it will be possible to measure it. Even if you will have other random processes such as OS scheduler, network latency, etc - it will be pretty obvious after thousands of measurements which ones to ignore. For example, check the histogram graphs in this paper: https://mlq.me/download/netspectre.pdf
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A vote for the "Google user score" - I've found the Google user score to be most accurate, personally.
Yeah I agree the butterfly keyboard issue is more widespread but that is down to them trying a new and poor design. The only device I have owned with a butterfly keyboard is this 2018 MBP 15" and so far I haven't had an issue. My daughter has a 2018 MBA and hasn't mentioned any issues either. Not saying they have solved the problems as others have had issues but it hasn't been an issue for me personally. Yet (touch wood!).
I've played with it a bit over the last year, and I can't help but assume I'm doing something wrong, but I just can't get it to work reliably. I installed it on a Raspberry Pi 3B+, took a 7-mic ReSpeaker mic array, and it only recognizes the wake word around 10% of the time, and then only if I speak really slowly and enunciate as if I were talking to a small child. I tried just recording audio from the mic and playing back to see if that was the problem, but it sounds crystal clear.

In contrast, a Google Home (which I really want to replace with something I trust more) sitting in the same location recognizes its wake word nearly 100% of the time.
I'd encourage you to give Firefox a go if you haven't already. The new version is really good, and I personally trust Mozilla a lot more. :)
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Will anyone trust google after the number of projects they’ve dropped?
I've trashed a couple of pairs of nice wire cutters by using them on guitar strings; you really need a pair of hard wire cutters rated to cut 2mm piano wire. StewMac sell a perfectly satisfactory pair for $12, but I'd suggest a pair from Knipex or Xuron if you do a lot of string changes.

https://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/Types_of_Tools/Pliers_...

https://www.knipex.com/nc/en/products/?page=group_detail&par...

https://xuron.com/index.php/main/industrial_products/11/18
$10 is nothing compared to the cost of high end, quality hand tools that will last. In the case of a expecting to cut hardened wire, the cutter needs to be of a good alloy and hardened adequately to hold an edge. $10 doesn’t buy anything from the knipex catalog, for instance.
For simpler ones with markdown I found marp very easy to work with : https://github.com/yhatt/marp
A bit off-topic, but why Lebanon?
With the prevalence of counterfeits and their push to feature "Sponsored" products in SERPs, the case to ditch Amazon becomes easier every day.
What level of granularity are you required to track? I track how much time a spend working on a particular feature, regardless of the type of work being done. When I take a break or start working on a different feature I make a note of how long I worked since I started. It takes less time than writing a commit comment, which I usually do right before I jot down how long I worked on it.
But if you use cryptographic hash functions, then you can't do the timing attack described because any one character change changes the whole hash.
lol, everyone thinks they are hiring "the best in the industry". When in reality, they are not.
Could we get some sources for this theory? I'm definitely no military expert but having read it, I don't really see how it encourages a more predictable and exploitable style of warfare. Plus the fact that people read and praise it in the modern day suggest it is truly useful.
You're right about the surface area. Altitude is the limiting factor. In the stratosphere, the air is thin enough to warrant large wings, which have lots of area for solar cells. I attempted to design a system for the Air Force at 10-15k feet, but the wings are just to small to collect any meaningful solar energy. That's why we shifted to an internal combustion engine design for that mission.

You're also right about monitizing the business. The smallest scale system is a necessary prototyping step towards eternal flight, but it also offers a compelling competitive advantage over conventional fixed-wing drones. VTOL plus 5x the flight endurance?... who wouldn't want that.
I don't think it's crazy with some budgeting. These numbers seem pretty conservative for most parts of the country:

Monthly take-home income (after health insurance, taxes, and 10% retirement): $6000

Rent/mortgage: $1200

Car payments: $750

Student loan minimum payments: $750

Shopping: $600

Groceries: $500

Savings: $250

Transport/auto maintenance: $200

Restaurants/bars: $200

Utilities: $200

Subscriptions: $100

Other insurance: $100

Haircuts/cosmetics/etc: $75

Pet care: $50

That leaves ~$1000 for paying down debt, saving for things like vacations, furniture upgrades, etc. I'm probably missing some things, but I'm also being pretty conservative with most categories. Many things will also vary by region.

EDIT: Some updates to figures.
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I had not heard of Wheel theory, quite fascinating.

But eek! From the wikipedia article:

0x ≠ 0 in the general case
x − x ≠ 0 in the general case

Like, you get the ability to divide by zero, but at what cost? Multiplying by zero is also not zero! Seems bonkers.

Are there any practical uses for this kind of algebra?
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> 100% agreed. But if instead of “shit, I missed this shot” I could have 3 taken before I even pressed the shutter, and one of them is perfect, I'd take it in a blink. Besides all the pie in the sky stuff that I imagine could be done as well.

Sounds like what you might want is a 8K video camera with a ring buffer that gets flushed to storage whenever you press the shutter button :p
Possession is also illegal. At least in the US and many other countries.
Out of curiosity:

The extension makes API requests to http://www.omdbapi.com/ for its data.

The free API key only allows 1,000 req/day but you apparently only need to spend $10/mo for unlimited queries: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=5038490

I've never seen Patreon used as a storefront like this. Kinda interesting because Patreon also gives you a UI for capturing other types of sponsorships.
Relying on "self made person" as a model for success and economic mobility is very much like relying on "win a lottery" as a model for retirement planning. The fact you can find a few people for whom it worked is not a reflection on its viability in general.
Language is a product of time and place. What about text that wasn't "hateful" at the time it was written, but now is questionable?
I think there are more caveats than meet the eye. For example innovation on something massive like the nuke or original space flight took tens of thousands of people. But finding the best form on a phone is trivial enough that you need only a couple engineers designing but having many models around the world would be ideal for finding the best.
> the single largest predictor of future income is parental income.

I have seen this claim made many many times, but it isn't clear cut. Quite a bit of research points in other directions also (like intelligence), for example:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329142035.h...
> It’s not immediately clear how to make this use SIMD… unless you use gathers.

Gathers are slow.

With SSE2, you only need 2 instructions to check for duplicate indices. First _mm_shuffle_epi32 to “rotate” the triangle [a,b,c] into e.g. [b,c,a], second _mm_cmpeq_epi32 to do per-lane comparison between the original and rotated.

Similarly, with AVX2, same approach can be used to check 2 triangles at once.

For best result, unroll the loop into batches of 4 triangles (8 for AVX), and use 128/256 bit loads.
How do you feel about George Soros?
The idea that there is no problem because both McKinsey and the company want to make money seems... ludicrous to me, and completely misunderstands insider trading.

The problems would be:

1) McKinsey learns about non-public good things on the inside, and so buys even more stock than they otherwise would (pretty much the definition of insider trading) and/or sells competitors' stock

2) McKinsey learns about non-public bad things on the inside, and so sells stock they otherwise would have held and/or buys competitors' stock

I don't see how Matt Levine can possibly just brush that aside?
Loom is still WIP. Remains to be seen how easy / performant it is going to be adopt in practice with the existing ecosystem.
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It sounds like you're trying to deal with boredom rather than a need to work harder. Working from home only ~10 hrs/week, I could certainly see myself going a little stir-crazy.

Have you considered changing your routine a bit? Maybe try working from a coffee shop, or rent a co-working office for a couple of months.
> popular in defense
More like "Uranium 235 electric bugaloo"
SoundCloud Now Lets You Distribute Your Music to Spotify, Apple Music
The meaning of words changes all the time. I don't think this is a big issue. If Code Shelter does good work and establishes a positive reputation, the phrase will generally develop positive meaning.

The degree to which the word shelter has negative associations for some people is not something I would see as deal breaker territory.

I will add that there are far more uses for shelter than just homeless shelter or animal shelter. Just a few examples:

A book about a New York woman's house hunt was titled "Gimme Shelter." (Author: Mary Elizabeth Williams)

The basic essentials in life are typically listed as food, shelter and clothing.

Shelter from the storm is a well known positive expression for sanctuary during a crisis.

Shelter magazines is the umbrella term for magazines having anything to do with homes, such as home plans, bed and bath, kitchen makeovers etc.
Yeah, will buy premium if it comes to 1000 req/day
At my last employment they had a time tracking software that said that three tasks @ 20 minutes each are 0.99… hours.

Hmm. As a software developer you get really frustrated when you have to deal with this expensive piece of software.
Your castle is built on sand. What, then, is {}?
Why Tesla Is Going to Win in Autonomy
I believe a "Helsinki HN meetup" would be super crowded
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Amazon printed, packaged, sorted, shipped and charged the buyer for the book. And it wasn't even the first time. Who is this mysterious third party that should be responsible here?

Why would "we fully automated our counterfeiting process" be an excuse?
I've never heard of someone being charged with possession of antibiotics without a prescription. That happens with steroids.
I’d say you think you should want to work more but what you actually want is do the things that you do instead.

So I’d explore these thought patterns “I should work more” — maybe use Byron Katie’s “the work” process?
Hahah, that's funy. The cell phone is potentially the perfect battery drainer. Constantly screaming electromagnetic radiation in lot of frequencies, including through that huge screen, console level multicore CPU/GPU… and yet, they manage.

I don't follow Android's ecosystem much, but battery usage on iOS is pretty restricted and very much under control. It can be done.