skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nostalgebraist is the name of a Tumblr user, whose blog tagline is "Trees are harlequins, words are harlequins" (A quote from a Nabokov novel.)

This gets automatically appended to the page title for anything that gets posted on their Tumblr, hence why it's showing up here.

As for the rest, this is explaining a recently popular neural network architecture known as the Transformer, responsible for advances in natural language processing like GPT-2.
Can you explain this a little more? I’ve always wondered about this question.
Aren't all search ads, essentially hijacked keyword driven as most users do not expect ads there when they look for information?
Is Bitcoin governed democratically?
I believe the parent may be suggesting that one drone could take out the microwave weapon at a considerable cost imbalance between the two.

The answer to why it makes sense in that case, is that there are so few other viable alternatives to deal with swarms of drones (none currently).
I also made a wind turbine (3d printed with ABS) on Prusa i3 MK3S
Doesn’t the Geneva Convention require that all prisoners of war be provided these basic staples?

At what point do we start asking when prosecutions should begin against this administration for crimes against humanity?
`.` is still needed if I'm pipeing in json--but only when I'm piping out. Otherwise help goes to stderr and nothing goes to stdout.

I do honestly think jq is a cool and powerful tool. I also appreciate little things like auto-color when appropriate--git also does this. Git also uses your pager, which might trivialize my personal use case.
Who knows what kind of math was written in the sand with sticks over the past 300k years?
I'm curious what kind of use case you have in mind for this OS you're envisioning. I'll admit I can't really figure out either what you're trying to describe.
It's calculating prime numbers which is why it's slow.

Now if only I was to work out which prime numbers it wants... :)
Countless is my guess.

How did the Polynesians find Tahiti? What did Aristotle write about in his lost book on economics? How did the Romans mix holographic glass at nano scales? How was the Amazon cultivated to have mostly edible plants? What was lost in the wake of every culture pillaged by the Mongols?

We’re advanced today because oil has given us the energy to build stuff. But we only know a sliver of the amazing things that have ever been learned.
I take it bookmakers don't just balance bets and take a slice, because it's more profitable to "bucket shop" (an old stock market crime term) and in effect, bet a little of their own money against their customers if they think the customers are wrong, using better models/predictive systems than their customers have to know when to do this. But the bookies don't take (so far, anyway!) reversion to the mean into account; therefore they don't partially discount their most extreme (compared to consensus) predictions, or not sufficiently. To profit from this error on their part you can find those edge cases and bet against the most extreme of the house's secret bets - which aren't really secret 'cause they skew they odds given (skew vs the odds created by bets actually received. But since the authors don't know those bets, they must be using consensus odds as a proxy, or comparing other betting services' odds.) Still thinking 'bout this though.
> “Whereas Nreal purported to develop its Nreal Light product in under two years, Magic Leap developed its technology after extensive investment of time (multiple years), money (hundreds of millions of dollars spent on research and development) and human resources (hundreds of engineers),” according to the complaint.

I have no real opinion on the allegations, and if true they are serious but...

...I find it a bit hilarious that Magic Leap, a company that has been widely criticised for over promising, under delivering, having extremely basic tech which is itself quite close to the tech of competitors, and which is well known for spending an eye watering amount of money and time in order to obtain very little results would offer this as a supporting argument.

Just because Magic Leap spent two billion and 7 years doesn't mean a competent engineering team couldn't do it a lot faster with a lot less money. :) (Especially with entirely legitimate access to Magic Leaps hardware, and with the benefit of years more published research across the industry.) I hope Magic Leap has some better arguments than they managed to get published in Bloomberg, because what's in the article is just hand wavy nonsense.
Celiac Disease is not an allergy.
That's certainly not true as a matter of law, and I don't think it's true in terms of any sort of moral or court of public opinion either.

Magic Leap, as with any accuser, faces the burden of proof, full stop. And offhand that looks like a pretty high barrier, given that the Nreal product is so different than Magic Leap's.
India to overtake China as the world's most populous country
I have made some research and problem with risks of feeding animals to other animals is a much different problem than prion diseases. Eating other animals is the key factor for transmission of prions, not producing them. Misfolded prion can be formed anywhere. Just not feeding animals to animals won't prevent it, it will reduce impact. But that was true for millions of years, whats different here?
Do scuba divers (or maybe even swimmers) get kidney stones? I'm thinking not, because the "stones" are barely precipitated, and so dissolve under even a little extra water pressure (which is why sonic pressure waves dissolve them (not crush.)
>> It harvests tens of thousands of organs from political prisoners.

> Is this actually proven?

Sadly yes.

At least it is proven behind all reasonable doubt that they are killing prisoners for organs (proven by the simple fact that there seemed to be an endless supply of matching organs with next to no waiting).

There's also eye witness testimony from at least one doctor as well as recordings where transplantation clinics go far in describing how they use the finest organs from people who have lived a very healthy life - and if I remember correctly - actually sometimes going as far as saying falun gong.

As scarmig I'm a little less convinced by the eyewitness testimony (hiring a few actors would be an excellent way to hurt your enemies && people might have other reasons for portraying the place they left behind as evil) but still, all taken together my guess is that is not what is happening here.

Especially considering they were running a transplant industry that was big enough to cover rich western people as well.

If you run the numbers it becomes very clear that something odd was/is(?) going on, and it is something that - for what I know - might easily compete with a number of genocides for a place on the top 20 most evil things that have happened the last 100 years.
Yes but the real question is what got her interested in it.
The best I've found is still matplotlib embedded into a PyQt widget. It works, but the interactive graphing takes quite a bit of work for anything beyond pan/zoom.
I like this a lot. I think it's on point and worth remembering. The more you let the busyness and stress take hold, the deeper that hole you're digging gets...
> They don't have to be exact copies to be stolen.

A font would be covered under copyright so....I mean....legally, they do have to be exact copies, yes. And this one is not, so the entire discussion of the font seem legally irrelevant.
For those who want to see it in action, there's actually a talk about kOS on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTrOg19gzP4.

The talk is by the fourth member, Geo, who also frequents HN (geocar).
For being based on a gimmick, I agree. The thing is you can only have one of these. Anything even vaguely similar will just a a knockoff. For a less memorable gimmick song, anyone remember Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex?

What impresses me is Billy Joel's range as a musician and song writer. Piano Man, Movin' Out, We Didn't Start the Fire, and Longest Time are all popular, but so different.
Having code be free and open is for all the reasons you mentioned. Additionally, my thinking is that if you want wider adoption you will need to be open. Building a community around a language or platform starts with the "hackers" who are curious about the code and want to contribute.

The guys who license kdb/q probably make more money today from service/consulting agreements and not the software licenses. So it's to their benefit to go open (a la MongoDB)

Also, if you're building a tech stack from scratch - you want it to be "clean". You don't want to muddy it with expensive/onerous software licenses.
I find that chatbots are great for doing a search for a user that didn't bother to actually do a search.

For example, my team at work used to own a webcomponents library, but it didn't seem like people were actually reading our documentation.

I created a simple lambda function that triggered on a webhook when someone messaged our channel, and my function would parse through the message for some mention of "help" or "didn't work" "how", and if they mentioned one of our components. It would create response thread to that message and just link them to the documentation page.

There was no machine learning involved... but there didn't need to be.
Except the chosen system seeks to avoid your "wasteful" scenarios. What you're describing is already in the status quo for a "normal" company.

From wikipedia, the company had a profit margin of ~15-20% in FY16 on 1.2 BUSD in revenues with ~4k employees. That's ~0.29 MUSD/employee in revenues, giving decent headroom to book rooms at $100/hr (Remember that these are quasi-dollars.)
Great, that's an honest response - an honest argument to be made.

A dishonest response is saying they should publish things that makes no business sense for them to publish, and the logistics of which really makes no sense for their business model, with the seeming purpose of upbraiding them when they fail to do this thing they would never do.
I swear, some companies go straight from intern to senior team lead.
I think he didn't mean that literally.

"Patent trolling" as in extorting someone who successfully implemented some idea just because I have some claim to comming up with vaguely similar idea first.
Ask HN: How to create a single email field like on basecamp.com
I tried to implement a single email field on my saas website for free trial signups. But I got bombarded by spam.
Using google invisible recaptcha make the user experience very bad. Is there are any other work around?
Given the spam rate I decided to remove it for now.
But I am curios about how basecamp is doing it. I have seen it on other websites as well but some of them do no post the data anywhere. They just capture the email and auto fill it in the final form. But basecamp is using the email to create a trial account right away.
Any help?
NAT has crippled the Internet. We are permanently dependent on public facing servers to route packets from one device to the other.

This service is absolutely not needed in a non-NAT world. And I strongly believe we have lost a lot by being completely dependent on client-server model of Internet.

I've written more about it here

https://www.ankshilp.in/post/the_broken_promise_of_internet/
How much does this type of training cost?
If that was true, it would be implemented quickly if carbon emissions weren’t free.

(I’m not a rabid greenie but it still boggles my mind that we let companies dump shit in the air for free.)
I think log scale or some different minimum/increment (start from the min instead of zero) would make the chart more informative.

'England's got a new Queen' really skews the precieved scale as most everything else is sub 500k, with it pulling ~1500k
Flask Dashboard Argon – From Zero to Full-Stack
I don’t find the comments complaining about older workers very helpful to be honest. Nor those complaining about younger ones either. Substitute white/black or rich/poor to highlight.
Not disagreening with you, but in addition to the more recent versions, I run an old version of k from around 2000, and it keeps running even with the latest kernels and hardware, thanks to availablity of legacy Debian libraries.
I can't see how the two things might be related. You still have to recompile everything when moving from x86 to Arm, and in general code that has issues moving from 32 bits to 64 it's because it's full of 32 bit assembly (which would be rewritten in order to move to Aarch64) or it does nasty stuff like storing pointers in 32 bit integers (instead of using uintptr_t and the like).

I can't really see any extra complexity arising from doing x86→Aarch64 instead of x86_64→Aarch64. I think they are doing step to force people to rebuild old apps, so that
1. They might consider providing Apple a Bitcode™ representation that they can use in the future when switching to Aarch64;
2. They get rid of all those old nasty Carbon apps;
3. They kill the viability of older third party tools, such as Wine on macOS (which will be either forced to switch back on using X11 + providing 32 bit Darwin libraries, or writing an insane amount of thunks), further pushing people towards either rewriting old apps with SwiftUI or Electron (both alternatives that would make the ARM switch quick and easy)
What if you could communicate via optical laser between two drones that could relay information across the swarm? Especially when flying in a formation.
But it's certainly not helping. It amplifies the derivative nature of the whole operation, right from the branding level to the product, regardless of exact legal implications.

This stuff matters in personal legacy, industry/media respect, and ultimately branding too. Unless they were purposefully going for the Chinese knock-off look.
Nope. Probably meant to say 30 years ago.
Monaco-React: Monaco Editor for React Wrapper for Integration Without Webpack
Laplace – Ticker Rate Prediction AI
Are you calling Math.random() on an array? I'm getting the same questions again and again.
Feed stocks for cows are also grown this way and cows eat a lot of food.

As an aside, elsewhere someone linked an article showing that the glyphosate in an impossible burger was on the order of 11ppb or 100x lower than is considered safe.
But who knows whether Magic Leap's claimed 'technology' is really there? I mean, they don't have any product yet?

Is idea copying a thing? I don't really know...
I wonder if Google will end up buying more of those $999 stands than any other individual customer.
This is in reference to the fact that the motto of Google used to be: Don't Be Evil.
How did you break video game addiction? Asking for a friend, while he excels technically in his line of work, he has issues socially which he escapes through video games.
As someone who had to develop a DOS application for a job within the last ten years, let me say emphatically, no, DOS is not even remotely suitable as a daily driver today.

If you want simple nowadays, boot a Linux kernel into busybox. It'll boot almost as fast as DOS but you'll have all the crazy modern amenities like 64 bit support and network drivers.

You don't even need a package manager. You could just unpack a GCC binary and compile all the junk you want yourself.
Bold Presidents can do a lot more than we assume; so much of their assumed limits on power are moderated by convention, reputation, and the willingness for opponents to use the courts.

If we take no other lesson from the past 2.5 years...
The meat of the complaint IMO is paragraph 22.

> The resulting product, as demonstrated at CES and on publicly available videos, bears a striking similarity to the Confidential Designs that Magic Leap had under development before and during the time that Mr. Xu worked at Magic Leap, but which were not ultimately commercialized or publicly released.
It is quite bad if changing the allocator made your program run at half speed. It doesn't matter if the library itself consumed more CPU or caused more wait (guessing that's the case here) due to concurrency or excessive syscalls.
Interested. I have been stumbling around on this for years. Old comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972431

I like your rule-of-thumb that you should not need a package manager.

Muratori has a theory that USB has made the OS scene complex (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk&t=1350s).

Two other things - the browser and TCP/IP.

Goal: a system where you can fit the whole stack in your head, yet participate in a networked world.

Approach A. Outline a reference hardware platform. Port NetBSD or minix3 or plan9. Then simplify. e.g if unix, get rid of users and groups, get rid of x, get rid of package mgmt, get rid of nfs. You could bootstrap this in qemu.

Approach B. Establish an alternate browser. Something like gopher, but with async events between the 'page' and the user. This allows for chat and form manipulation. You can send non textual content through this async link - video, audio. Codecs are a trap, they lead to pkg management and complexity. How to stop proliferation?
> In fact, Gates is still kicking himself for taking his eyes off the ball and allowing Google to develop Android, the “standard non-Apple phone form platform,” as he describes it. “That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win.”

That seems very out of touch, bordering on historic revisionism. Microsoft developed an OS for mobile devices and embedded use since around the mid 1990's, with a feverish desperation.

Mobile-Internet-capable devices running Windows CE already existed at the time Google was just starting up. I worked on these damn things that time, doing mobile networking!

Phones running Windows Mobile existed years before smartphones.

Microsoft had more than a decade head start over Google and arguably had their eyes squarely fixated on some sort of ball the whole time. It was perhaps the wrong ball.

The problem with the idea that it was "a natural thing for Microsoft to win" is that it basically means this: "Microsoft won the PC desktop with a garbage operating system, and so it is natural that Microsoft can go on to win in any area by flogging another garbage operating system".

As if it were a matter of something resembling imperial succession? The platform dominance throne "naturally" belongs to none other than the future progeny of Microsoft by divine birthright?

In reality, it's just luck, timing and various economic factors. Now Google dominates with their garbage platform.
FTA this company docks you currency for staying late.
Ethical OS – a dystopia avoidance toolkit
An incredibly easy way to use Firebase in React
Sure. I wonder if this will lead to the interesting question - is the use of trademarked words as keywords by the competition fair use? Or will trademarks be disallowed from such use in the future with only the trademark holder being permitted to use them.
The same useRef, but it will callback
Eating meat-fed cows is not natural. Eating trans fats is not natural. Eating GM foods is not natural. The first two proved to have catastrophic harm. Why are we confident GM foods are safe?

We’re treating no evidence of harm as evidence of no harm. And we’re doing it on a global scale.
I just saw a girlfriend review of Zelda Ocarina of time (another N64 game).

She was amazed by how many things are packed into this game and how each room or character feels way more unique than the last assassin creed game.

I would not say that all modern games suffer from this but I have come to deeply appreciate games that did the best with the limitation imposed by them by their tech.

In addition to N64 games, I have always been impressed by how Grim Fandango took a low poly graphical engine and turned it into an amazing art style.

Especially when I compare it to so many AAA games with huge budgets and a brown "photorealist" approach as interesting as a wet carrot and that look extremely dated 3 years later.
Facebook has vending machines for common hardware with the actual cost to the company listed. Everything is free, but it’s there to make you pause and reflect on whether you need it.
Limit orders certainly seem to make a lot more sense, less risk. Is there a use case for market orders that's Superior to limit orders?
I’m curious how economical this is: at a desk you can customize out door yourself, but if you’re sitting anywhere you might frequently end up in less-than-optimal situations…
Interesting, however I’d look at it this way. I don’t need obsolete tool knowledge anymore, true. But I waste a lot less time making stupid decisions, which I got out of my system using those tools. And many subjects, such as OS fundamentals, Unix tools and shells, and project management continue to pay dividends.
In 2 to 3 cycles the OS will disappear as a variable in the deployment target. You won't know about it, you won't care about it, it won't be a dimension you think about.
The raw storage density of a high-end sensing drone was approaching a petabyte even back then, so it is a plausible number if you have a large drone fleet. This roughly matches available COTS flash storage in ultra-dense form factors at the time. Live streams are likely going to be an extract of the captured data but you can always pull the storage array when it lands.
You don't want to be within the system which actively rejects you. Accept the gift of warning and walk away, search further.
Fortunately we're being uncrippled again by the continued deployment of IPv6 [0].

[0]: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
I don’t understand why this was marked dupe.

HN guidelines clearly say that the most original publication should be submitted.

In the comment below by headalgorithm , I have been directed towards a review of the original paper, only because it has spawned a discussion thread.
I like having my workstation, and i dislike working on laptop :/
How has uptake been thus far among developers looking for a job? You may want to experiment with the way you frame this. As Adam Gopnik suggests in a recent New Yorker article on aging, one bias that works against your site could come from an unexpected source: aging developers themselves.

> In other words, many older people would sooner thrash on the floor in distress than press a button — one that may summon assistance but whose real impact is to admit, I am old.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/can-we-live-lo...

He's talking about products designed for baby boomers, but I suppose the same "eternal truth" as he puts it (i.e. "identity matters to us far more than utility") could factor in here.

He offers this observation in the article:

> The most effective way of comforting the aged, the researchers there find, is through a kind of comical convergence of products designed by and supposedly for impatient millennials, which secretly better suit the needs of irascible boomers. The best hearing aids look the most like earbuds. The most effective PERS device is an iPhone or an Apple Watch app.

Good luck and keep us posted on how things work out.
> People really cut back on useless meetings

That's only good if they didn't also cut down on useful meetings.

Also, maybe people are just having meetings where it's cheaper: outside of the $100/hr conference rooms, or somewhere outside of the premises entirely. (Izakaya, ramen place, ...). Or in virtual space: by using video conferencing from their desks?

You can't reduce meetings by jacking up the cost of meeting places, if you have not cornered the meeting place market.

I think this idea works only to the extent that people hate meetings; it will certainly cut down on meetings which people don't want to attend in the first place. Problem is, sometimes you have to drag people into meetings in order to get information from them or other cooperation.
Fantastic. I always connected those songs in my head, I guess because they're both rapid-fire lists of vaguely-connected concepts. Glad someone agrees.
Weightlifting without a doubt increases your testosterone. After weight training consistently for about 8 months, there are definitely changes beyond muscle growth