skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Earth is already inhabited by millions of species, and if it becomes even one percent less hospitable, that’s an existential crisis.

No, it's not. This is just the typical scaremongering and dramatisation I'm getting so tired of. Every populated region on Earth becomes much more than one percent less hospitable every winter and there is no crisis, especially not an existential one. We can cope very well with minor changes in weather and climate and we will. Stop obsessing about climate doom scenarios, it's silly.
> really don't understand why people put up with 4-5 interviews, homework, etc.

not everyone is negotiating from a position of strength.
Saying that the culture wants something is kind of a shorthand. It's more like a function of exactly what every individual in the population wants, how badly they want it, and how they go about ranking various things they want that sort of contradict each other.

I'm going to just skip tolerance here, because it's a complex idea not entirely related.

Let's use Democracy. There are definitely some people in China who want Democracy. There are everywhere. It's not remarkable that some people want it, but the numbers are the important part. If 2% of the people want it, then it's never going to happen. If 40% of the people want it, then it might move that way soon. Thing is, while 2% is a tiny minority, it's still objectively a lot of people. 2% can get you a bunch of activist groups and busy-looking protests and that sort of thing. It's much easier than you might think to look at a 2% movement that you personally agree with and believe that it's a mainstream view, the future of the country, etc, when it actually isn't.

Now that's just an example. Personally, I have no idea what the approval rating of Democratic ideas is in China. Tricky thing about totalitarian countries that practice censorship, it's hard to get an idea of what people really think. I'd like to think that it's a mainstream, growing idea. Clearly the Government is indeed afraid of it enough to go out of their way to censor it. But I worry that we may be fooling ourselves, and it has no real traction.

I would also point out that we don't have entirely clean hands either when it comes to tolerating 2%-size political movements advocating for radical changes to the structure of our government and society. Plenty of examples to pick from, no matter what your political persuasion is. I'm not saying we're as bad as them or anything - they're much, much further down that rabbit hole. I'm just saying that it's much easier than you think to ignore and excuse such abuses when they're against something that you don't like.
Trump’s Washing Machine Tariffs Stung Consumers While Lifting Corporate Profits
What does capitalism actually mean, though? Do you mean capitalism in the US, Canada, France, Germany, China? All have private property, profit oriented companies and markets... It’s such a broad term it’s probably completely useless and it leads you down a false dichotomy. There are significant differences between existing systems and many possible new approaches to taxation and social order in the pipeline. For example, have a look at the book radical markets by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl to get a taste of what is possible in terms of legislative innovations.

So, I am not against and all for personal change and growth but absolving the economic system from change doesn’t make this task any easier. Humans are to a huge extent a product of their environment and it is certainly in everyones best interest to design “humane” or “prosocial” systems which allow humans to thrive and cooperate.
No, an actual search index, offerring word-to-URL mappings, along with metadata: creation and revision dates, authors, titles, file and/or MIME types, URLs within the text, other attributes, etc, from which a search interface could query.

Page-ranking would remain an issue, likely outside this scope.

I'd like to see some sort of cache-and-forward structure.

And you'd be relying on good-faith actors, which means heavily penalising bad actors.
I run a popular weekly newsletter that makes fun of the tech industry. Think: The Onion meets TechCrunch.

Newsletters can generally charge a much higher CPM than a social media accounts or even podcasts in some cases. You can start making beer money with only a few thousand subscribers.

We’re also thinking of hosting a few live events as well once our audience is large enough.

(P.S. for the curious, the newsletter is called TechLoaf: https://techloaf.io)
If you're a solo business owner, do NOT forget about Form 5500. Your payroll company and 401k host will likely not tell you about it.
There always seems to be a pro-China backlash in the comments of HN articles critical of China. I'm slowly coming around to the idea that this looks like an organized effort to control the narrative. What gets me most is the universal weakness of the points made in the pro-China posts. You would not have had to think very long to realize this is a reasonable submission for this site, but here you are anyway.

It wouldn't stand out so much on reddit but here this stuff really sticks out like a sore thumb.

Everyone with an interest in technology and freedom would be wise to pay attention to what is going on in China right now. With the opportunities presented by our rapidly changing technology, they are pioneering new and disturbing means of oppression that should be of great concern to anyone accustomed to a free society.

I'm not assuming bad faith on your part, but I am asserting flatly that your post is indistinguishable from it. If you are not a part of a coordinated effort to minimize discussion of such things than I suggest you try harder to understand why other people care about them.
No, you wouldn't need a central authority, though various subject indices and/or search interfaces (divorced from the crawl/index) would supply rank and/or reputation scores.
To your credit, most people probably have an average brain (and roughly the same brain power) that is simply wired differently and focuses on different things. One person is more practical, another more aesthetic, another more mathematical, etc. However, the way you SPEND your brain power has an effect on the kinds of outcomes you get. If you spend all day thinking about cattle, you're not going to understand economics (much less why anyone would want to go to Mars). I'd like to say that's "obvious", but (sadly) to many people, it's not.

Also to your credit, the environment (you grow up in) does have an effect on you significantly, and it shapes what about you is drawn out as well as what information you have to begin with. Someone growing up in the ghetto isn't going to understand the life of the gentry in France. Someone with poor education isn't going to see why they need math for life (until maybe too late).

In short, we all start with a decent brain and a certain wiring. Environment draws out or suppresses who we are, but more importantly, gives us starting information to work with, and this shapes our views and ways of thinking.
you post a small comment sometimes that opens a random person's horizon. thank you
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Python is a fine, accessible language for small programs. ML applications need to be written by data scientists, who are often trained in statistics or math, not software development. For this reason Python is suitable. ML applications built using tensorflow and other ML libs tend to be small -- hundreds of lines, not tens of thousands.
If Leica wasn't run by a spineless board of directors then they would have the power to pursue principle instead of profit.
Money quote: "Which unit are you from?"
MB sales on Western markets didn't drop because of that, so could we say that was a rational business decision by MB.
Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India
It depends on the country. The study mentions Bangladesh and (American) rice based baby food.

Not sure about Bangladesh, but arsenic was commonly used as an insecticide in US rice fields in the south, so rice from that region still has some of the highest arsenic concentrations on earth.

In the US rice is less of a staple food (except for infants), so it matters less, I guess.
A significant problem with this is trust. You can't trust websites to reliably or accurately index their sites due to both incompetence and malice. I don't think there's any way around the malicious component. Formal or informal standards may take care of the competence factor with the feature being built into common publishing platforms.

XML sitemaps are a microcosm of putting the indexing onus on websites instead of the search engines - they are basically ignored by search engines because they have been abused and are not a useful signal. If pages aren't important enough to be linked to throughout your website then they aren't interpreted as being important enough to return to users. The optimistic case is that sitemaps/indices will send parallel signals to the search engines in which case they are redundant. The pessimistic case is that the sitemaps/indices will send signals orthogonal to the content provided to users in which case the website is either being deceitful or incompetent. In any case, the search engine will not want to use the sitemap/index as a signal as it either doesn't provide value or provides negative value.
Let's see.

Databases. (Isn't Terry Winograd's SHDRLU conversation that kind of conversation that you have with the SQL monitor?) Compilers. (e.g. programming languages use theories developed to understnad human languages) Business Rules Engines. SAT/SMT Solvers. Theorem proving.

There is sorta this unfair thing that once something becomes possible and practical it isn't called A.I. anymore.
Unit tests are not an adequate replacement for compile-time checks performed by a compiler. The former is lax and expensive, the latter is thorough and inexpensive.
Still selling that one book. Last time I posted this, someone bought 40 copies of it. 40! That was more than the lifetime sales of it! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1505357888/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_...
could you elaborate? I have heard of these invite-only HN groups, but I have a hard time believing people would care so much about some online forum.
I'm curious as to what percentage of the US vs Chinese populations know about their own governments horrors?

I mean, what percentage of US students would recognize the Tuskegee experiments continued until 1972? I've had many people straight up tell me that is a lie, or a 'conspiracy theory'. In fact, I think this post will get down voted, despite asking a perfectly valid question and having concrete factual examples.

Not saying it isn't appalling that Leica is apologizing. Thought it makes sense from a business perspective.

I'm just curious to know what is more effective: the soft censorship of the west created by unwritten social norms or the hard censorship of the east?
You're referring to (the now-defunct) DMOZ?

http://dmoz-odp.org

As opposed to Apple Open Directory?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Open_Directory
For some categories, it's probably harmless. I don't think we need to re-sort living arrangements until we have a proper diversity of sports fandom, for instance.

However, the most prominent understanding of "difference" in the western world is race. Racial hierarchies have led to unequal distribution of resources, unfairly balanced prospects for individuals and unequal representation in government. Arguably, race has been weaponized to disenfranchise a large number of human beings, only some of which are members of the "lesser" race. For instance, scholars have argued that racial hierarchies allowed landowners in the post-civil-war-south to avoid material compensation of their white workers because the workers were satisfied by the 'comparative gain' of being better off than working class african americans (who the same landowners paid even less).
Show HN: Your Face Is Your Mouse
Suggestions as to how?
Like neural nets managing symbolic systems managing neural nets, or something?
Those Bendpak Quick Jacks look pretty nice -- seems like you'd have good access to everything. Any drawbacks?
> The "Original M2" as most people know it

Hmm, you're right, I think that I lost my train of thought here. Let me start over.

I understand that the M2 that we all think about is an excellent design, but claiming that it was an ideal pattern from first conception is incorrect, and comparing it to the iphone of all things is asinine. I wouldn't have complained as much if it'd been compared to, say, a Pixel 1 or iPhone 6, since it is annoying that those stopped getting software updates after only 2 or 3 years when smartphones as a concept are only 12 or 13 years old. But comparing the M2 to a first-of-its-kind transformative revolution, then complaining that the revolutionary front-runner was obsoleted in a hurry? Duh. That's what happens when you find a new region of configuration space. The M2 was not in any way something you could hold up as an "original". It was not the first gun to use its action, it was not the first in its role, it was not the first in its class or type, it wasn't even the first to use its cartridge. It was the very end of a long process of refinement.

If you want to compare cell phones to firearms, you shouldn't be using guns from the 1930s as examples. You might as well compare it to the early telegraphs, which had one wire per letter, signaled by electrolyzing bubbles of hydrogen out of a vial of acid, and could barely go from one room to the next because they didn't have high-voltage sources or relays. You should be looking at firearms from the 1890s.

The Maxim gun came out in 1884 and revolutionized the concept of the firearm. It blew up. Everyone started trying to improve on it and refine it. And they did, in all sorts of crazy ways that were obsolete almost before they'd left the factory. We didn't start seeing solid designs until things like the luger in 1989 and the springfield in 1903. By the outbreak of WWI the Maxim gun was thoroughly obsolete, though it did have descendants. Not only are modern electronics more complex, with vast design spaces to explore and multiple orders of magnitude more room to improve into, we're barely 12 years past our Maxim gun equivalent. We'll remember the iphone forever, but it was no more timeless than the Maxim gun was, and I doubt we'll see a "timeless" cell phone for at least another decade. Maybe two. Or maybe the entire idea of the cell phone will turn out to be a an inefficient, clunky in-between that'll go the way of water-cooling.

> "those were junk, everyone knew they were junk, and it
> [took] twenty years for them to stop being junk".

Turns out I did misread something, sorry; I'd lost a comma on the wiki page and thought the air-cooled version hadn't been introduced until the start of WWII. Even using the 1933 version, though, it's still more than a decade from the first labeled pattern of the gun in 1921, which was... not great.
I've been reading books on philosophy, cognitive science and behavioural psychology for half a decade.

For ethnography I don't have any recommendations. I've read books largely to complement my thinking, phenomenology and existentialism. Here's what I've read (notable ones):

Being and Time – Martin Heidegger

The Principle of Reason – Martin Heidegger

Phenomenology of Perception – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time – Ernesto Laclau

Introduction to Metaphysics – Martin Heidegger

The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy) – Martin Heidegger

History of Western Philosophy – Bertrand Russell
I'm not arguing it, I'm just saying it's a fool's errand.

If you build your own chip, you have to build your own mobile stack, and then maintain it and enhance it with the newer technologies, so it becomes a mountain of technical debt while your competitors can take what Qualcomm gives them and roll out a phone.

This assumes that Apple will maintain it's location as the top of the phone line and won't get eaten by someone else, if they slip, that mobile stack becomes a liability.
How about 100k engineers? Amazon has more and it builds and deploys packages in a way not too dissimilar from Linux distros.
Wish I had access to 3B1B when I was just starting to learn this stuff.
His expository style and graphics are such great sources of intuition.
For your disaster scenario, I think it depends on how low the max is. If 1000 times the median per capita wealth still buys you a couple office buildings and a yacht to boot, the ceiling would still be high enough that the vast majority people wouldn't all resort to stealing (much less petty theft). However, it would still lead to shady business deals, high-dollar theft, and hidden assets (especially foreign). But that's a problem for the wealthy. In other words, the idea is that you can be rich, but not TOO rich.
> We even get visited by some beautiful red foxes from time to time

It's funny how urban adaptation affects perceptions of rarity. I live in fairly-central London and you can hardly set foot outside after dark without tripping over a red fox or three. Out in the countryside they're still pretty wary (with reason, since farmers will shoot them).

Are urban foxes a thing in the US too, or is this still a UK phenomenon?
No way they made fifty cents on that. They'd all be rich based on the volume of this stuff.
There is a proper explanation of why Swift makes sense for TensorFlow at https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
I lol'd really hard at your mention of "Spain", here.
Google, Amazon and Facebook pull it off without using the tools listed.
I just started but I'm trying to get into the bug bounty / hunting field. I spent 40 bucks on a web application hacking book so I'm currently in the negative.
What do you think about conceptual AI? AI models that are able to create, test, modify ideas/concepts on the fly. We need a breakthrough...
Language flamewars are silly.

Sometimes python is appropriate for production code, weak type system or no. Sometimes it isn't. As a project gets larger, more complex, and more interconnected with other things, static type systems become more useful.

End of story, surely? Didn't we all know that already?
We're in the financial services space. The data science team has access to a data warehouse that gets updated daily but no access to production data directly so we use this for development and experimentation.

The definition of production environment varies for us. Production could mean running scheduled batch jobs on a separate 'production' pipeline from the data warehouse and results can stored in a database. Naturally, all our data is in-house at the moment so we have had to set everything up ourselves.

We're working on an enterprise-wide deployment system that integrates with the build/testing infrastructure where all the data science teams across the financial institution can leverage for deploying models and monitoring performance.
My favorite Tetris port is the Gameboy version. I haven't played that in a long time!
if we are part of the sim, they are too
I have a few side projects, but the most recent is phosphorescent cosmetic mods for synthesizers.

https://graydonaudio.com
it just is way out of place compared to the frequency of the other acts of terrorism to the point of being silly to include. it's how people "both sides" things and it's dangerous to the focus of where we should be worrying.
Books, games, hardware etc are all sold for several years.

What you’re describing is just news on the latest updates representing a small slice of the market. Making the remander far from useless.
rust is still figuring out async, so it's not as good a fit as say go or elixir.

If you are specifically making a graphql backend, idk why you would anything but node, since it has the most mature ecosystem.
I thought the same thing! Long time hip fan but grew up south of the boarder :)
Not so much, I think. In the upper Midwest, it’s mostly squirrels and rabbits.
Do you need to find an administrator for the solo 401k? How does one set that up?
How do I develop my intuition regarding the low resistive impedance of such antennas? I understand the high capacitive reactance, but haven't got a grip on why the restive part is so low.

What is your general approach to matching these very short radiators?
It's hard to believe in the collective good when you haven't achieved basic economic security for yoursef. You see this everywhere - charity begins at home. And even "putting value in individual freedom", in a broadly political sense, is something that requires a sympathetic and collectively-minded outlook.
If you're living around too many people who look similar to you, you should be unhappy and move somewhere else?
> What really resonated is that some of the engineers you interviewed described experiencing inefficient situations as really troubling, like smelling something awful or tasting something gross.

Watching some people do their daily work so inefficiently makes me squirm - I look away.

However I've seen that drive for efficiency in a wide range of professions: it definitely isn't peculiar to engineers (e.g. the shortcuts a chef learns).

I also explicitly deoptimise some things so I can enjoy them more e.g. varying routes.
Here's an article from a few months back titled: Hospitals and Insurers Set to Resist Price Transparency Proposal.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-insurers-set-to-resis...
How many gates?
But with their own, older implementations of the same constructs, which inform the design of the listed tools.
Docker 101: Fundamentals and Practice
V2 has been a looooong time coming, kudos to the bepu team. For those wondering why C#, one word; monogame. (And previously, xna)
I negotiated with my current employer, sacrifice salary for time. I get a few extra hours each week. My full-time job doesn't demand a lot. I manage it quite well and get things done during business hours.

I manage my time quite well, I get eight hours of sleep everyday and the rest I try to be productive. I have a wife who understands what I'm trying to do and helps me out. Needless to say I work on weekends and holidays and gave up all hobbies.

It's not easy but it's a choice. This has helped me build habits and a discipline. I am mindful and try not to bite off more than I can chew i.e. understand my limits.

My side project has also changed the way I think about engineering problems and solutions. Since I work on the growth team its complementary rather than diverging.
When you start seeing comments like these, you know the whole static typing thing has gone peak cargo cult.