skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an American, I'd say your statements have a grain of truth to them but you're probably not looking at the right demographic. The people with "massive salaries" barely make a dent in those statistics. Those numbers come from people in the middle and working class. I have a lot of sympathy for them, having been there myself a long time ago. It might not be their fault that their means are more limited, and being poor shouldn't have to mean a lifetime of unceasing self-denial. I don't begrudge anyone their occasional moment of (relative) luxury. On the other hand, going into massive persistent credit-card debt for the sake of having the latest phone or TV is just crazy and it's a common syndrome. There's something very sick about a society that pushes that lifestyle on people who never got a good enough education to realize that there are better alternatives. It's predatory. So your criticism (if it was even that) is justified, but IMO misses the real point of how we came to be that way.
Most likely candidate for increase in nearsightedness is decreased exposure to sunlight:

https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120
Unwittingly obfuscating the fact that you're not doing AI
Not disagreeing with you, but I don't actually know the answer to this question: what's the proportion of retirement savings that's in a 401k? I'd expect that someone with 108k in a 401k has a pretty substantial amount outside of it too, right?
What about LimeSDR?
Lemire has some great stuff. It looks like mostly self dicovery so some of his efforts have historical precendent.
So Apple has been surviving on brand only for 40+ years?

Anecdotally: I am looking at a 5K iMac - 6 Core I5 with 256GB SSD and 16GB of RAM for $2099. The only reputable company that I can find that sells a 5K display is LG and it’s $1300 by itself.

If I try to find an equivalent price Dell it doesn’t cost any less.
Figure 5(c) illustrates the shape of the projections for a random branching embedding of the correct tree structure. This roughly matches the ideal Pythagorean embedding, and also the BERT embedding. Keep in mind that BERT only sees word sequences, with no explicit notion of a tree structure. In theory, there are O(N^3) possible parse trees, which are not completely arbitrary graphs, but rather have have a context-free structure. Thus figure 5(d) is too weak, with embeddings are picked completely randomly, with no tree-based constructive process. I wish there were figure 5(e) showing random branching embedding of a random parse tree, to give a sense of how much randomly embedding the right parse tree vs. randomly embedding some random parse tree influences the final result. The hard problem in parsing in finding the right tree...
this was posted after the original article (if you make such a claim, get your facts straight)
I’d imagine there’s a lot of criteria being used. Maybe something like the age of the account, how often it’s used, of it was created from an often used IP address. Whatever it is, it’s probably not in Apple’s interest to disclose it.
In the long run, most book stores are doomed. There's no way around it no matter how nostalgic some are for physical books - the medium is an obsolete novelty with the advent of smartphones/tablets. Some book stores will remain but it'll be a niche thing like vinyl records and horseback riding.
No. 2 takes a while to setup IIRC. It isn't really click to run. Though once it's setup it's pretty straightforward to use. AppImage, snapcraft etc. would help a lot here.
I agree. Looks georgeous. Also looks believable.
The article is really long so I could easily pick advice that I was uninformed social commentary(the first couple), good but not novel(don't spend money), not actionable(8. Give Society What It Doesn’t Know How to Get), or I'm not convinced is right and I don't he think's he done any research on(equity is a better to pursue than money).

I thought "27. Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate" was particularly interesting, somewhat actionable, and I hadn't seen before.

But maybe it would easier if you told me the key insights you gleamed from the article that were novel(somewhat), actionable, and right.
Show HN: Duxtape – a Muxtape clone for sharing mixtapes on Dat
The pluralization does exist, as “those who have perceived” or “those which have been perceived”, but it is indeed a grammatical error in the article's usage. The ç is always correct, but accents are a common casualty of transliteration and informal writing.
It's been around for centuries, but if you're over 25, you were probably taught that it was wrong.
I don't think the poster you're replying to was serious, rather they were trying to make a joke (which I agree does not add anything to the conversation, however).
Did he have car nearby? It sounds like he got there via 4-wheeler.
If the claims about efficiency are correct, this aircraft has Prius-like levels of fuel efficiency. Incredible.

"The patent goes on to describe a notional aircraft that would cruise between 460 and 510 miles per hour at an altitude of up to 65,000 feet, yielding a fuel efficiency rate of between 30 and 42 miles per gallon. To put this in perspective, the Pilatus PC-12, a popular light, single-engine turboprop aircraft has a service ceiling of 30,000 feet, a cruising speed just under 330 miles per hour, and still burns, on average, 66 gallons of jet fuel per hour, for a fuel economy of roughly five miles to the gallon. Even going to a Learjet 70, which has similar speed performance to what's stated in the Celera patent documents, but still nowhere near as high a ceiling, we are talking about roughly three miles per gallon of gas at cruise."
> There needs to be some concept of a marketplace that doesn't have monopoly power

The Web?

I've seen reports that Apple is finally starting to fix issued related to adding PWAs to the home screen as well.
I've started saving my stashes to branches instead.. adding a _ on the front of the branch name to remind me to delete the branch at some point
$5000 for the iMac Pro isn’t bad if you need that kind of power - even though you could spec a regular 5K iMac that was close enough and save a grand.

The price of the Mac Pro + monitor wouldn’t even make me blink if I had a business that needed it.

But the stand is ridiculous even by Apple standards.
Who Owns the Airplane Armrest?
It's worth pointing out that airplane and satellite trails have long been a problem in astrophotography, and there's many techniques that exist to remove them in the stacking process.
Aircraft account for 12 percent of all U.S. transportation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and 3 percent of total U.S. GHG emissions.

And yet, no EPA emissions regulations exist for aircraft at all.

I am glad to see aircraft efficiency improve regardless.
If they just paid you a decent severance, I’m almost sure that you would have been more than willing to help them.

Nope. No severance. And as I mentioned, almost zero notice. Just "Turn in your badge," and my immediate boss telling me that the project was already outsourced a week earlier.

Something similar happened when I worked at a small town radio station in Wisconsin. This was back when computers were just coming to small business, and people set BIOS passwords and used those round keys to lock their computers. When I got shown the door, nobody asked me for the password or the key to my computer. They just said here's your last check, get out. I heard from one of the DJ's a few weeks later that they ended up chucking out the computer and buying a new one.
> It will be required as an option for users in apps that support third-party sign-in when it is commercially available later this year.

This is absolutely ridiculous. What about games that allow you to sign in with Facebook specifically for the purpose of tracking your progress relative to your friends? Sign in with Apple has precisely zero purpose in this scenario.

I can sort of understand making this a requirement if sign in is required to use the app at all. I really hope that exemptions will be allowed where Sign in with Apple is 100% pointless.
I have a really fond memory of Escape Velocity. My brother and I played it all summer one year. We daisy chained two apple keyboards so that he could fly and I could control escorts.

Then something incredible happened. I must have pressed a wrong key because we got a beep and a note, "you are too far away to board this ship." We looked at each other like we just discovered the map to the holy Grail. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN BOARD? YOU CAN BOARD SHIPS?"

Then later came discovering ResEdit (and creating my patented "Javelin Spray")

I still remember so much about that game. Like capturing Lightnings and selling them for a profit. Or how it takes exactly one torpedo to kill a Defender. Or how a bumper crop lowered the price of food on Levo. The forbidden planets were so mysterious. The Lethe/Cydonia war. The Mass Driver. Modifying an Argosy into a terrifying gunboat of proton turrets. Captain Hector. Aliens. Feuding couriers that eventually start killing each other. Having 6 Rebel Destroyers as escorts, the F key turning into "press for missile rain."

That game opened us up to a whole universe of what video games could be. We were maybe 8 and 10 years old.
Cryprocurrency Importance
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic ahem flamewar.
Zuckerberg also counts both of my cats as active Facebook users.
Looks super optimized for low induced drag with the high aspect straight wing. Bubble fuselage probably handles the stresses for high altitude better than a tube, reducing weight. Nice work. Reminds me of a student design with what you get by just following design equations and going for a crazy mission profile.
Sure, a blockchain provides cryptographic consensus about assets on the blockchain, but it can't control things that are not on the blockchain.

Things like legal contracts in a filing cabinet, bank databases, gold bars in a vault, or how many coins I say are in my pocket.

For all those things, the blockchain can act as a database, but you need to trust someone that the entries in the database correspond to these other things that the database is supposedly tracking.
If you really want a spiritual successor to Elite fit for the 21st century you should buy Elite: Dangerous, created by the original creator of Elite, David Braben. I don’t want to knock Oolite which is a great free software project.

But Elite: Dangerous is astoundingly good. You can, in theory, visit every star in our Milky Way galaxy (in addition to the old Elite star systems, tucked away in a corner). All in incredible 3D graphics, and even VR if you have a headset. Worth every penny.

(It’s got everything, too: the letterbox space station docking (except now you get to see the inside), Thargoids, refueling from stars, playing the Blue Danube waltz when you use the docking computer...)
It's bad when you can build a desktop with the same components for $2000 or less, without the Apple Tax. Trying to act as though they aren't marking everything up at least 100% is disingenuous, but extremely common for some reason.
There were 3 research papers that came out around 2012 (almost simultaneously) that looked at using accelerometers to infer what people were typing.

Here is one of them, I don't recall the other two.
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2162095
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Heh, at 19 she was the PL/1 expert for the Asia/Pacific region. Mum's a badass.
Apple Pay is a feature of the iOS SDK and Safari browser, not a feature of the login system. Which method you used to login doesn't change the friction of paying with it.
Pickles come in glass jars. so does salsa. So does some types of juice.

I'm not sure why you are concerned about this because it is obviously not a big problem.
I don't think that's quite true, based on my reading of it:

> Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, _to give any third party_, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange

The company accepts the licence by using the code (or don't accept it, in which case it's copyright infringement), so they must offer it to any one.
Walk door to door and sell life insurance?
in Keras I can't (easily) change the architecture of a learner after I defined it

I'm not sure what you mean here, because only PT lets you change architecture after you define it, while TF/Keras uses a static precompiled graph. Now that's changing with eager mode, but that used to be the main advantage of PT.
> Does this mean that any GPL project could reuse source code from this game, under the logic that it all inherently must be GPL licensed?

No, this only means that the game developers are violating the copyright of the copied code. The GPL is not "viral"; including code under the GPL in a project without following the GPL only means that the GPL doesn't apply to it anymore ("[...] and will automatically terminate your rights under this License"). Since there's no longer any license allowing it, the default restrictions of copyright apply, and the result cannot be distributed without the permission of whoever holds the copyright to that piece of code under the GPL.
Orania is managed as a private company, and the town council retains a tight grip on who can move in. Each prospective resident is carefully screened—not by race, the council claims, but by avowed devotion to Afrikaner culture. Either way, the end result is the same: All of the town’s 1,500 or so residents are white.

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challenging me to name a country where "blacks have gotten it right"

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There is a map of South Africa, with a magnifying glass hovering over Orania. The village is surrounded by spear-bearing Africans and huts emblazoned with ANC flags. The introduction reads: "The year is 2017 AD. South Africa is entirely occupied by the blacks. Well, not entirely … One small town of indomitable Afrikaners still holds out against the invaders."
> For extrajudicial killing, the US comes in a notorious third place, after Mexico and Brazil, particularly because of lethal force used by police against African Americans and other people of color.

Obviously, the US is not the 3rd worst country in the world for extrajudicial killings. What the author chooses to omit is that the report only includes data for 20 countries in this measurement.

https://data.humanrightsmeasurement.org/en/metric/extrajud-k...

Beyond that, the data used by the study is literally just a poll of non-academic human rights advocates.

https://humanrightsmeasurement.org/methodology/measuring-civ...

Personally, I'm angry as hell about a lot of things the US does civil rights wise, but the methodology and the article here are both garbage and I would be embarrassed to use either as support of an argument.
So try to configure an iMac Pro level desktop for $2000 less.

Don’t forget that the 5K monitor by itself is $1300.

Also try configuring a workstation for $3000 with the specs of the Mac Pro.

On the lower end, try configuring a desktop for much less than the $2100 iMac 5K.
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> This is only available on iOS

It is also available on the web (including on Android and Windows)
I don't think much of anyone makes stuff for old Chrome versions given how aggressive Chrome is about auto-updating. Chrome doesn't have any official options to disable auto-updating as far as I know.
Were you finally believed?
A huge question in NLP is how the discrete symbolic structures that we think characterize natural language can be embedded in high-dimensional continuous space. This paper proposes a solution that justifies some ad-hoc results from before and could form the basis for better means of embedding in the future.
You obviously provide an E-mail address in your user profile. You don't have to log in with it.

This "problem" has been routinely solved by free forum software and other systems for decades now.
Threads is still on a completely different level. It depicts a catastrophic event, not a tragedy of modest proportions like Chernobyl.
It depends on if and who pursues the violation. For example, apple is violating the GPL with bash by distributing a binary but not distributing all the source code used to compile it.

I believe there are also violations by vmware and lots of others (I believe ubiquiti?)

That said, there are legitimate ways to distribute GPL code, such as a dual license.

You could write code and license it to company A under one license, and release it under GPL to company B.

company A could have any rights or responsibilities you grant, while company B would have to comply with the distribution restrictions of the GPL.

It's also worth noting that the GPL does not restrict how anyone USES the software, it only restricts how the software is redistributed.
Yup, stick it in /usr/local and place that in your PATH and Python search path before other dependencies. If you want to be fancy, put it somewhere in your home directory so other users on your same machine cannot be affected.

It's really not hard. I do this with other compilers and don't really have issues, though I tend to package it up into a container if I'm going to ship it (e.g. build environment for a team, interpretor for a production service, etc).
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It says "slightly modernised to make the reading easier" - what exactly has been modernised?
Will there be any financial advantage to owning Libra coins (or whatever they’ll be called) early?
The actual values are in the S1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...

Under Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control.
probably spent $2 in gas too... but sometimes it's just principles.
Climax Lot Auction
It gives the following very basic pieces of equipment for doing hardware development. However this is quite low end and will have lots of limitations. A high end logic analyzer could be $50k for example.

USB Oscilloscope - observe an analog output waveform

Signal Generator - supply an input waveform

Power Supply - power the device

Logic Analyzer - observe digital signals

Multimeter - get average voltages
There are many sites that have quite accurate PII for large fractions of the American population. Think job boards for instance. One approach that I have seen used successfully is simply buying whatever data such companies are willing to sell.

I’m not necessarily talking about demographics, but rather clickstream data, and anything categorical that you can get your hands on. You join that to your CRM and build a model to predict buyers. A really good predictive dataset for marketing purposes is simply a list of time stamps and names of visited domains. With the right feature engineering, that becomes an excellent proxy for demographic data, current buying appetite, and a whole lot more.

At the end of the day, you don’t even necessarily need to know what the data means as long as it’s predictive. And there are plenty of brokers out there who will let you test their data for free with an agreement to pay if you end up using it at scale. All of this revolves on using PII for matching.

I’m sure what you’re saying is true for some marketers, but there are billions being made on PII keyed data.
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If a regular display breaks, you can replace it.

If the display in your iMac breaks, you have to spend $$$ to repair it. And maybe apple will tell you that it can't be repaired.

All-in-ones are fine as low end machines but I would never buy a premium one.
A page with other prototypes and builds from this company may be seen here:

https://hiddenpalace.org/Climax_lot

From the looks of it, Climax Group primarily developed licensed games and shovelware. Say what you will about the quality, but from the number of build dates for each game, they clearly had their shit together with respect to version control.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar.
Glass is heavy as shit and makes transportation require more energy.
> ... I simply cannot understand

If my parents had supported me indefinitely it would have extended my dependence and delayed my adulthood indefinitely. This is a moral hazard of too much welfare. You can agree that this hazard exists and still disagree about its relative danger and threshold. Your rural neighbors aren't moral monsters, they just have different risk assessments.

I think a lot of that is due to a more independent rural childhood from an earlier age. It creates a greater appreciation for antifragility. A kid released into the wild at age 6 has a different estimate of their own capacity than one supervised until 12. They project that estimate onto everyone else.
This is a classic Apple workaround to a problem THEY perpetuate.

Apple suddenly decided on the amateur-hour policy of forcing users to use an E-mail address as their user ID. And more recently they've doubled down on that stupidity by requiring that it be a WORKING E-mail address, giving you no way to specify (in your user profile) a real E-mail address at which you can be contacted.

The public at large isn't all that savvy about how this works; so when asked to set up an account with their E-mail address and password, what percentage would you guess assumes that they have to use the same password as their actual E-mail account?

I'm guessing that percentage is very high, maybe 50%.

When sites implement this asinine policy, they become responsible not just for the user's security on that one site, but the security of the user's E-mail account. Talk about a ripe opportunity for identity theft or more, if the site's database is hacked or stolen.

You don't see banks or brokerage houses forcing people to log in with an E-mail address. Apple's ignorance of online services continues...
Outrageously Large Neural Nets: Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer (2017)
Huge bummer, I loved it as a participant. Didn't realize it was a venture-backed business... for some reason I thought it was a nonprofit.
What's sad is that JavaScript isn't a very convenient language for this type of thing, but it's available (Math.pow(x, y) instead of x \\ y, limited integer accuracy, etc). I usually use the Python REPL, but occasionally I use the browser, it's just so ubiquitous.
Is QUCS the current best open source equivalent? I used to do hardware long time ago and might play around again as a side project.
There's something I don't quite get about the landing gear. The fuselage is about 10" - 12” off the ground (guessing by proximate shoes), unladen.
Coming in for a hard landing, wouldn't this low clearance potentially lead to gear down belly landings? They already look cambered and not even loaded and taking the impact of touching down.

I mean, I know they ordinarily touch down nose up, but still it looks like low clearance.