skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a stash of stolen goods to me. And that's actually a practical reason for going there. OTOH religion wants to be accessible to the people. They build temples and such to draw people in, not make them crawl into a deep scary hole where they have a pile of random stuff.
A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking
Oracle has always relied on bold ads with bold claims. Example:

https://regmedia.co.uk/2012/11/15/88_byte_oracle_large.jpg
"We randomly sampled swans in the data set, they are all white"

"Then explain this black swan"
Maybe those people who's job it is to addict you to a mindless mobile game will have to go and get a real job that actually contributes meaningfully to the economy instead of just redistributing consumer demand.
The Mother’s Smile: Integrative Beauty
What are you using in your projects?

Is TF the dominant tool in commercial or startup DNN projects?
I don't disagree, except the title of the blog post began with "Guess What?", kind of implying new information.
> the main piece of them criticism is that perhaps users shouldn't be trusted with a permission this broad (which had already been fixed 4 years earlier).

Agreed. This broad permission was also widely known well before CA. IMO the only reason the CA story blew up is that lots of people were upset about the 2016 election and wanted somebody to target their anger toward.
> Small projects should not shy from the monolithic design. It offers higher productivity for smaller teams.

Yes. In my next job search I'd like to find a way to feel out a team for whether they adopt new patterns reflexively and dogmatically vs. consciously and contextually.
Partial password usability sucks
> I just don’t see tracking online activity as more harmful than the benefit that people get from the service. (Not so much US users, but the benefits to people in very poor countries are very real, and wouldn’t exist if the service didn’t monetize so well)

Can't you elaborate on this? What's the difference between people in the US and poor countries? Why does tracking help the latter group?
It is because I didn't say it was "just fine" I said "can" as in "is possible" — which is objectively true.

...and even if I did say it was "just fine" it wouldn't be tantamount to terrorism because I was pointing out something that is very likely inevitable.

I'm not invoking 3 billion people by assuming one day they will exist.
Check out PX4/Avoidance on Github.
it's "War and Society", not "War and Peace"

ah, whatever.
Show HN: Tutorial how to send scheduled messages to Slack from any API
Great, maybe it will finally follow the order of operations.
This is incorrect. They are closing retail stores, but those are usually not the same as the service centers, even if they share a building. An analogy would be a dealership shuttering their sales department but keeping the service department.
I'm surprised it isn't 100% – it should have been so from the outset.

It's not like Microsoft really needs the revenue from the half-dozen apps available in their store right now. What they need is momentum.

If I were in charge of making this decision I would pull the levers on every incentive I can give developers, cause God knows most people don't even remember the MS Store exists...
(Full disclosure here: I worked with Andrew, the author's husband, at his day job for two and a half years before he moved on, and we remain in contact on Facebook... I don't know if we're close enough to be called friends, but he's someone who I get along with and whose company I enjoy. I admit that I am posting this article purely to signal-boost serious ethical issues that are affecting people I care about.)

For what it's worth, that whole scene wasn't the point of the article. That was just staging for the real meat of the story to illustrate how much the Space's culture had changed since Andrew and Cole were on the board: when the Makerspace's finance committee, of which Andrew is a member, discovered evidence of what looks like financial malfeasance to them, they asked the board about the provenance of these transactions, and the board immediately convened a secret meeting with no notice where they banned the entire finance committee, including both Andrew, who was one of the co-founders of the Space, and the Makerspace's Treasurer, Ken Purcell, in absentia. That's not right.
It's a bit of a low tech filter, but I intentionally selected a phone number with an unusual area code. It's an area code that I will most likely never travel to or do business with.

With the glut of spam calls that attempt to spoof local exchanges, whenever I see a phone call that uses my phone numbers area code and local exchange I know I can ignore it.

If I received a phone call from a geographically close region I can be relatively certain they have my phone number for a reason.
Exactly. FB has done some crappy things (changing default without clear communication of consequences being a major one http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/) that LEAD to CA being a problem. Im willing to bet 99% of people dont realize that WHEN they signed up for facebook changed the default settings, and that their defaults might be different than their friends. And letting developers have access to "public data" can be debated, especially when they are playing so fast and loose with what gets posted publicly by default.

BUT, the developer itself is the one that got people to fork over their friends info, and having friends that will give up their friends privacy to play a personality quiz speaks way more to the public than it does to facebook.
I worked on a win32 application for my first job out of college. My boss told me "want to learn win32 and c++, go program a windows calculator clone." It was a great project to get started and I did learn a lot. Now I have something to compare my work to ha
My depressing theory is that "actual science" aka the good stuff that moves the needle, can only be done by some small and fixed number of people, and they're being drowned out by not-so-good people who are just running a career algorithm. Aka, if someone bombed the Solvay conference humanity would have been set back by 50 years, but if someone nuked an APS meeting, humanity might not even notice, or worse, immediately start doing better at physics.
This line really resonated: being without culture is similar to being disembodied and being traumatized - one needs to reclaim a sense of belonging our background so that one can feel at peace and resolved. So powerful.

I do hear your fear of folks co-opting this human need for power. We definitely don't want that in our community.

We do want The Juggernaut share the best parts (and also call out where we need to improve) about South Asian heritage to a global audience.
ETL for very complex data structures maybe? Oh the irony. I've never seen the visitor pattern used in an ETL pipeline, which might be why they're always such God forsaken messes.
Ask HN: Game devs, what is the hardest part about designing an AI for your game?
I've been thinking a lot about different machine learning techniques applied to video game artificial intelligence. I'm wondering if any video game devs would like to share their experience about what parts of making a game AI are challenging, things that are difficult to get right, time consuming, or tedious.

Thanks!
As a person who has never had a Facebook account, can someone explain what societal good they've done? I see none.

I see espionage on a massive scale. I see democracies weakened for profit. I see self-obsessed shallow folks constantly taking selfies to post online. I see the degeneration of political discourse into pithy statements that can be 'liked'.

What good have they done, exactly? Helped people share photos and status updates?
https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator#data--telemetry

"This project collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. Telemetry is disabled in development builds by default, and can be enabled with the SEND_TELEMETRY build flag."

Even on a simple calculator.
There's been a considerable increase of "McMansions" built in the US.

These aren't good "starter homes".

This financing option seems very applicable to the overpriced/underutilized housing problem.
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I don't think I've ever seen an application where a working undo function was added in a posteriori. You either design it in from the start or you don't get a working one or you have to rewrite most of the application.
The damage done by that campaign is still ongoing. The Microsoft Store is flooded with copycat apps, web site shells, and rebranded versions of open-source software.

You can get a sense of the problem by browsing their "new and rising" feed:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/new-and-rising/apps/pc
Strangely, I've gone cold turkey off of SSRI's and with the exception of Paxil, have never experienced the Brain Zaps or extreme withdrawal symptoms others report. I wonder why it would vary?

Also, sample size=1, CBD oil for me appears to have many of the anti-anxiety affects that the other SSRI's have provided me, with much less side affects. Although, the dosing is all over the map and varies from manufacturer, so that's a challenge. But it does seem to provide me some relief. I just hope I’m not doing long term damage..
Any sound that starts or end very suddenly. Drums of any kind will sound kind of weird in MP3. Applause used to be the bane of MP3. Encoders got better at it, but it's apparently impossible to get rid of completely. As far as I understand it it's the accoustic equivalent of ringing artifacts that you can see in low quality JPEG's or old MPEG videos.
Seems like there might be more to it than that, since Slack is written in Electron and is in the Windows Store.
Betaflight is oriented towards racing drones, there are a whole slew of open source autopilot firwares available.

PX4

Ardupilot

Cleanflight

iNav

etc

Each is oriented towards different types of audiences based on features and license.
My Year of Living Like My Rich Friend
Not Instagram, but in the same vein I always wonder when Google Maps takes me through seemingly quiet/random streets --through a path probably determined by the algorithm to be fastest but which I otherwise would've never driven through--, I wonder how much that affects the street residents and whether it can ruin a stretch of town, just because it happens to be on the path to a popular destination.

Does anyone have anecdotes on this?
> If you don't live within the inner 1-2 city ring around Boston and you're not on the commuter rail, you have no choice but to drive.

Right, but how many people are driving who live within that ring? Just eliminating those commuters would likely solve the congestion issues...
Question: Is 192 kHz better when you want to slow down (or speed up) a track significantly while keeping pitches the same? Does it produce less noticeable artifacts?

When DJing, I often speed up or slow down a track I'm cueing in order to match the tempo of the playing song. So having 192 kHz tracks might be better (although usually you try not to change a song's tempo too far from the original anyway).
Let me disagree on this.

I think You joined Facebook, and they showed you the "Employee side" where everything is beautiful, with free food and free toys and you became convinced. Yes, they treat employees super well, nobody contradicts that. But how does it change anything related to how bad the product is (and all the bad things it does to people that use it a lot).

It is easy to let the beautiful inner side of Facebook take over the product side of Facebook that everyone else is seeing from the outside.
This is really cool! I thought the open sourcing of Winfile was cool too.

I hope they continue down this road. I doubt we'll see the NT Kernel on GitHub in my life time... but, one can dream.
Sentry launches new visibility features
> This argument sounds a lot like gaslighting.

That's just a matter of whether you think OP truly believes what they said.
“Value is tied to scarcity, and scarcity on social networks derives from proof of work," says Wei in his article. On Instgram, TikTok, etc, the status is earned through work IE posting a highly liked photo. TikTok dancing is hard, and people spend hours getting the perfect shot. That creates status, and it's broadcast globally.
Running water in a place like that makes me double nervous. A sudden shower breaks out while you're in the cave and a path like that can flood out in an instant.
Awesome seeing another component of Windows (albeit a small one) shifting to open source. My hope is that over time, more and more components will end up open source as they get updated and rewritten.
TF (or Keras via TF) is definitely the most popular framework for newer projects, although some argue PyTorch is holistically better.
Waymo Starts Selling Sensors to Lower Cost of Self-Driving Cars
A hover isn't as dynamic as forward flight. A fixed-wing aircraft like a glider can self-regulate using aerodynamic forces. For instance: If the nose tips up, the plane slows. The wings generate less lift and the nose tips back down. Plane then speeds up ... etc. But a hovering helicopter doesn't experience any significant airflow changes. If it's nose tips up it just keeps tipping up. The helo then starts sliding backwards until the tail catches the wind, spinning everything 180 like a weather vain and very quickly you aren't flying any more. The pilot/computer/gyro needs to keep ahead of these forces.
Let's be honest here and admit that that piece was probably tacked on just to make it sound better. Try again.
By the way, I pasted the article in Word. It's 74 pages.
Oakland Has Seen a Big Drop in Crime–Without More Police
The title of this article should rather be "How I approach project management as a PhD student in a computer science research group". In my experience, there is no silver bullet for PhD projects. It really depends on the field, the advisor and the student.
In this day and age of ruined lives and careers over a tweet, the need for anonymous speech is greater than it has been in a long time.
For the curious, all of this is powered by Clickhouse, which has been a phenomenal addition to Sentry's stack.
In case anyone is wondering what telemetry is collected: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/master/src/Calc...
When you should use microservices: when you have many independent two-pizza dev teams. (If you live in Pittsburgh, three-pizza teams...)
Do you think I should put one up?
If you want to put the Panama Canal through Boston it's going to cost astronomically more than $24bn — the logistics (not to mention the requirements and processes of the time period) are entirely different.
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As an anecdote, my wife and I bought a place with friends because we couldn't afford on our own. People told us we were crazy. We basically bought the worst place in the city even with both families having good incomes (Vancouver). We had a five year plan to renovate the house and sell it. My wife and I didn't have a kitchen for a year. We cooked on a hot plate and washed dishes in the tub. Every time one of the houses around us was torn down, the mice would flee to our house until we plugged all the holes. Weekends and evenings were spent working on the house. We were lucky that the market continued to go up and that both couples were on the same page about everything. The house turned out quite nice. We have since gone our separate ways and each have our own place.

I love where we are now but I could have continued to live in the situation we were in longer. It was like family. We did lots of things together socially and we supported each other. Financially, it was the best thing both couples have done in their lives (again lucky the market continued to go up).

That's my sample size of one.
I'm not sure if I should be disturbed or amused by Microsoft putting telemetry in (at this rate) literally every one of its products.

Like, what the hell do they even track? I guess the obvious ones are things like application crashes, but now I'm curious if they have the data on the most common calculations, folks' favorite numbers, etc.
Someone beat me to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321421
"Who would have thought to buy flood insurance four a house high upon a hillside?"

Anyone buying a underground house, I would guess.

"When we first moved in, we ran the electric system for two weeks, nearly froze off our tail feathers, and paid double what we had been paying for natural gas heat in our previous home of 1,000 sq. ft."

Gadzooks a 2,500 sq. ft home with 14 foot domed ceilings cost double to heat then a 1,000 sq. ft home... The horror!
As an American citizen, I wish the amount of surveillance done on me by the state security forces was as limited as this was.
I agree. I'm an avid language learner and I've always got nowhere trying to use duolingo.

If you want much better results, memrise and flash card apps are WAY better. Learn as much vocab, grammar, irregular verbs, etc. there.

You need to complete that with dialogues. On youtube you can often find these, either teaching videos which are great, or tv shows/movies with subs.
Maybe his father?
I've been thinking about this a lot, too!

Honestly, I think the most challenging factor is that when you are working on machine learning for your game.... you aren't really working on your game. i.e., you're not writing storylines, creating visuals, audio, programming general interaction, etc. Machine learning (if you don't have a ton of experience) can be super time consuming and unless your game is 100% based around the sole idea that it is ML.. all of that time is taken away from the rest of your game.
At a basic level it lets people stay in touch with family and friends they might not otherwise see. That's not a bad thing?
MS goes on to open source the famous and non interesting parts of its products.

What's next? Notepad, Ms Paint?

Shall we see anything bigger than VS Code?
I think if after two years of study you still have no ability to actually communicate in Japanese, then it has actually been shockingly ineffective.
Lyft IPO Prospectus and Profitability
When slowing down the track, you're changing the effective sampling rate (e.g. 192 kHz turns into 96 kHz at half the speed). This article is about regular playback, so in your case it might make sense to have a higher rate.
Edgy, but most jobs in a capitalistic, efficiency-obsessed marketplace involve redistributing consumer demand.
No. http://gramota.ru/lenta/news/8_784
This, unfortunately, occurs so infrequently that it can safely be ignored by 99.9% of the economy. Businesses have really enjoyed having their cake and eating it too with the transition away from a highly involved acquisition process that generally resulted in a tailored solution that the USG owned, to the present COTS policy that allows them to then go on to sell software to people that have already effectively paid for it through taxes. While there was an impressive amount of bureaucracy and an infinitely self referential system of standards in the old method, it did lead to some pretty interesting side effects: Ada[0], IDEF[1], MIL-STD-498[2], etc.

The most recent liberation of useful taxpayer funded software that I can think of was over ten years ago, when NIST released NFIS2 - the fingerprint software that the FBI relied on. They of course had to be crappy about it and wrap it in export controls that limited its utility, but it was interesting to see all the work that internal development had done - very polished, with man pages going back to '97. Ah the memories: software classified as munitions, the clipper chip...

[0] http://archive.adaic.com/pol-hist/policy/naig94-1.txt

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEF#The_IDEF_modeling_languag...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-498

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20041206072946/http://fingerprin...
People like that are the intellectual equivalent of people who think they can win at three-cars monte; a gift to crooks and a bane to the rest of us. The old saw about looking around the table for the sucker, not finding one, and realizing that you’re the sucker applies. We’re all the same species of primate, and only accepting that along with associated weaknesses puts us in a position to maybe overcome them to a degree.
I mean, I guess it would be cool to know what kind of operations people are doing most often? Maybe you send different ads to people who only use addition/subtraction than people who use sin / cos?
Lesser known fact: the original title of “War and Peace” was “War: what is it good for?”, but Tolstoy’s mistress forced him to change it to the one we know today. The original title was then used in the famous Edwin Starr song. Source: Seinfeld.
As someone who lives in the SF Bay Area I disagree wholeheartedly.
I personally read the article to be addressing 192 kHz as a consumer of the music, I have a feeling for those producing (or mixing, etc.) it's a bit different.

It's kinda like how there's advantages of recording at 8k, better cropping, supersampling, etc. But for the average consumer there's no perceivable difference between the pixel density of 8k footage and 1080p footage on their 7" screen anyway.
Sure. And sorry if I sounded rough in my comment... if you're happy with Duolingo it's fine. I put in an hour every day towards Japanese (with a full time job + life on top) so I know I'm in a privileged position when it comes to language learning.

I used the following:

- Genki I, II

The classic Japanese textbooks. They're pretty good and have tons of exercises. Do the exercises!

- Tae Kim's Guide

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar

Alternative guide written by one guy. Very good as reference or quick learning. Used it to review Genki material.

- Japanese: The Manga Way

I thought this would be stupid but in some ways I liked it more than the other resources. Every chapter goes through grammar/expressions and it uses real manga examples. Vocab is translated for you. Not necessary with the other two resources but if you like manga or want something different, it's fun.

- Japanese Ammo with Misa

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSyd8tXJoEJKIXfrwkPdbA

Long (20+ mins) lectures on grammar with a lot of examples. Goes on tangents often and some videos are too long but a great source of vocab, native expressions, etc.

- Anki

https://www.ankiapp.com/

You've probably heard of this. I currently use it for kanji but you can use it for whatever I prefer making my own flashcards but there's pre-made decks for vocab from Genki, Tae Kim, grammar etc. I'd link to some but they also include links to pirated PDFs so don't want to get the mods mad at me.

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With all of that said, the most helpful thing for me has been reading native content in Chrome with this extension -> https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/ if you don't read, write, etc. you will not retain stuff. You will start out not understanding anything but slowly you will start reading without even translating to English.

You will hit a wall with vocab without kanji study but you should be good to go for some time with this.
Faster than old milk poured on older fish.

If your business relationship requires friendship to begin, that friendship will be exhausted by the time it fails.

If you enter in to such an arrangement, you need to forget that your partners are your friends, and instead imagine that they are all either evil goblins trying to screw you and take your share, or evil faeries that will disappear on a whim to a land that you cannot reach.

A business relationship that still works between mortal enemies can certainly hold up when the partners have a relationship more cordial than constantly trying to kill each other.
Google & Netflix announced new AV1 video codec: the first webdev guide about AV1
Could also add gzip/deflate/base64 of the query parameter. For many JSON payloads the compression ratio can be 10:1. If it’s all happening client side then the processing cost is pushed to the browser so an added decompress wouldn’t change much.