skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla earnings Q2 report must be coming up... and yep, they're tomorrow.

Throw as much feces on the company quick! Keep that share price down!
There's a pretty simple reason: it's irrelevant to the subject of the article.
I think they are beneficial genes for society. I imagine much of the scientific and technological development of humanity was thanks to obsessive types.

Genes that make people form families rather than work in their craft are not exactly in a bad place, so excuse me for not being concerned about them.
I had never activated 2FA on Facebook for exactly that reason.
And later I had removed my Facebook account - that was 7 years ago.

Why would anyone had any relation to Facebook - them being such an unethical company?
Isn’t the recessive gene for cystic fibrosis also linked to malaria resistance?

Edit: apparently it might be linked to a resistance to cholera.
Quarterly report is tomorrow so it's time to start the FUD factory. Just flag the post and move on.
Now invest in cryptocurrency without wasting all your time looking at the charts
Anecdotally... I am, but I seem doomed.

I'm not really antisocial. In fact, I can become overtalkative at times when in a social setting. But, given the option, I never seem to want to 'get out' and socialize. Though, when I force myself to, I am in such a better mood for a few days. Then, back to normal, and avoiding social gatherings again until the next time.
>The misuse of the phone numbers was first identified in media reports and by academics this year.

Wasn't it in 2018?

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to...
Did you mean which automotive companies Tesla will be buying? Probably none, they might scrap a few factories for assembly lines.
I think Tesla is also unique in the extent to which Musk has pursued a high-visibility strategy. If you look at total sales, Tesla isn't even close to being in the top 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manufacturers_by_motor...

So it's unsurprising to me that people will write articles about pedestrians getting killed by a Tesla. I think that would happen even if Tesla hadn't been talking up "Autopilot", autonomous driving, etc. But with those being prominently discussed, it's guaranteed people will find Tesla crashes interesting.
Maybe so but cell service would still be nice.
I doubt you could build a public transit system without mortgaging the future. If the pollution externalities are priced in, people will buy electric cars.
Other way around. LIDAR doesn't work in fog, rain and snow.
I think you are confusing cash-based accounting (which this spreadsheet is about) from accrual-based accounting (which is what you have described).
The Mueller Report – With Linked Footnotes and Accessible
In terms of "canonical ways" and "community approved libraries" here is what the current state looks like to me:

- as a substitute to something as low-level as numpy it is superb

- for anything dealing with differential equations, the ecosystem is unsurpassed

- plotting is a bit chaotic (and the community has not settled on a "one true way to plot")

- a good dataframe implementation already exists

- serialization is a bit chaotic (plenty of ways to do it but no "one true way" yet)

- automatic differentiation is on the cusp of being unsurpassed, but a lot of the tools are still experimental (and the community still has not settled on the best way forward)

- the Juno IDE looks amazing

- the profiling toolkit is amazing

- it is ridiculously easy to use other languages from within Julia
>Please turn JavaScript on and reload the page.

No, thanks.
What did you learn today?
Yes, I've taken the Amtrak to MKE before. Amtrak doesn't own those tracks. Canadian Pacific does.
Dr. Pauling theory does focus on L-ascorbic acid, but his unified theory relies on L-Lysine as well.

Not one published study that claims to refute Dr. Pauling's unified theory ever used the amount of L-ascorbic acid he recommended, or included L-lysine as part of the study. Dr. Pauling's unified theory has specific guideline amounts, as MG per KG of body weight for both L-ascorbic acid and L-lysine. It would be trivial to actually test Dr. Pauling's theory, but so far everyone has felt the need to alter his recommendations and then test their alteration and then claim victory.

It's easy to knock down a straw man, and even easier to revel in the success.
Why bother with this?
Look up tax incidence and elasticity of supply / demand curves. Yes, it could definitely be reasonable to assume, from a modeling perspective, that companies currently charge the optimal price for maximizing profit. However, once you impose extra transaction costs on companies (like a tax), the equilibrium price will then change (previous equilibrium is no longer the equilibrium because external state has changed).

By your argument, taxing a transaction in a market would not ever raise the price charged to the demand side. It's pretty easy to see by reading a chapter about tax incidence (which is different from where the tax is legally placed) and elasticities of supply/demand curves that this is definitely false (not just in theory, but also in practice)
More like - how does Bloomberg know anything at all about Tesla's margins given that this would come out tomorrow?
Here is a pretty good explanation of why tabs are superior: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_t...
Anandtech and sites like it (including tech radar) are readable on a phone now that I have a pi hole set up. I should have done it a long time ago. I can't believe how little screen was left after all their junk in the way, I had to remember which sites to avoid.
First attempt at pushing the limits of Excel's visual design features
Reminds me of the time my aunt got an SMS saying reply 1 to post happy birthday to my dad's wall, she replied 1 and it posted 1 to his wall.

https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/2qbg9j/reply_1_to...
Google Offers Big Rewards for Bug Hunters
If I grabbed 50 friends and we all posted identical and untrue complaints on your website, stating that you randomly deleted our accounts, would you delete our accounts?
This is awesome. I have just started https://nixpulvis.com/math/10-overview as a way to index notation and LaTeX syntax for myself. I'll be sure to read though this from time to time. I was going to start adding D3 and all that, but now I'm wondering if I can just incorporate this. I too am using MathJax.
I use GitUp as my primary git client, but I switch to Fork to handle complicated rebasing. Fork’s “interactive rebase” tool is fantastic, if GitUp had it I’d never need to switch away. I actually registered a HN account just to say this about Fork, it’s that helpful to me.
Flaws in widely used corporate VPNs put company secrets at risk
What's wrong with parallelism in Go?
So you think it is harder for no CS degree people now?
Can you get unregistered sim cards in India, or does every sim card get registered?
Happy user of Fork here. I switched a few months ago from SourceTree, as it was getting laggy due to having a large number of repos.

Fork is a performant Git GUI client, well-designed with most practical features you could want. It's a native app written separately for macOS and Windows - though they might use their own cross-platform library, I seem to recall reading about it.

Anyway, it's excellent software, I'm willing to pay to support development.
xkcd #915 is titled “Connoisseur”:

https://www.xkcd.com/915/
To be fair, DeepMind is still fairly isolated from Google.
Neato. What are the copyright implications of commercializing this though?
Yes, see also "Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap" https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/5/232/htm

Figure 3 demonstrates the scale of corporate OSM edits.
> In Uganda, more than 40% of the population lives on less than $2 a day.

I could retire now!

In my alternative universe, all system administrators unite and take back all the stolen money from the poor. They are effectively the only people who can do this.
Well, personally I dislike Google because they suspended my account once and someone affiliated with Google insinuated the reason why on 4chan, and they later unblocked the account, which if it ever becomes publicly confirmed would flush any PR expenditures by Google down the toilet, but beyond that, yes, gross.
The dataset this is built from (https://www.gwern.net/Danbooru2018) is, simply put, copyright-infringing on a gross scale. The vast majority of the images uploaded to 'boorus' completely lack a compatible license or the artist's express consent. The redistribution via torrent of 2.5 TB of some 3 million images only compounds this problem. None of this is ameliorated by the $20 'generosity' of the dataset creator.

As a result, every single artist whose work was included in that dataset has a clear, meaningful claim that each and every 'waifu' sold ($20, if customized, or $5 if random) by Sizigi Studios is an infringing derivative work. Coupled with at least one of the project authors' ready admissions -- in this very comment section -- of scraping image sites himself, I would say that this team is playing with fire. Even in the case that an algorithm's output is somehow found to be 'creative' rather than mechanistic, AND this specific application is found to be in all cases substantially transformative, there's STILL the original massive 2.5 TB of copyright infringement up front to deal with.

All an enterprising lawyer would need to begin is to search the BigQuery metadata for the 'artist' and 'copyright' tags on these images. Note of course that the 'copyright' tag is widely misused on boorus and similar image repositories to refer to the inspiring franchise; 'trademark' would be much more accurate descriptor.

EDIT:
I do not mean to suggest that litigation from the use of the dataset in this ML (as opposed to the original, clearly infringing, download & redistribution) would in any way be an easy, one-sided case --- only that this scenario would represent nearly the worst possible test case imaginable for determining the future legality of ML, short of directly antagonizing the RIAA or MPAA.
I think this is common. In small/tribal communities, this is often mitigated by group events on a regular basis, as well as smaller circles that all check on each other.
Yeah, yeah, but what about the gender equality in tech?

I know this is a kind of joke in the men's club, but it's appalling that people somehow appreciate it publicly.
I guess it will be low on priority list unless you have somehow suffered the consequences of a non-inclusive workplace. Especially since a non-inclusive workplace in general mostly means that everything is fine as long as you are a man.
Question for Rust programmers, do you still use Rust for quick hacking and exploration/prototyping or reach for another tool?

Rust is getting more attractive everyday, I wonder if there is something about the language that highly influences lib authors to write quality stuff or if the community has a high ratio of experienced devs.
Should you buy or lease a new car?
"20" + 10 = "2010"

10 + "20" = 30
To be a bit cynical, Sam Altman and Anderssen make more money when more people work at startups.

If you compare someone who joined Uber in 2014 with someone who joined Facebook or Google in 2014, I'm honestly not sure who would have come out ahead. Probably Uber, but not by a whole lot.

And Uber is the best case scenario, practically speaking.
Documentation has been one of the pain points of my programming career. I've worked on some big projects with software that can't afford to fail and needs to meet a bunch of requirements. All of them only had user manuals and zero documentation.

A kind of documentation that I hate is documentation that just explains what a function does (adds x to y) instead of what business/real world reasons that logic exists (adds x to y because of "Z"). Explaining the why vs how is what documentation should be doing and I can understand why so many programmers shrug documentation when all they are doing is writing the how in non parse-able form instead of expressing why.
Every website hosted on tripod.com just vanished
One trans Atlantic flight can burn as much as fuel as typical person would burn on a car Inna year.

With so many pointless flights, I can't even wrap my head around his environment foot print.
Just downloaded it from the link on the website and the downloaded version was one release behind, which means an immediate ~50meg download again. Please be considerate of people on slow/remote/expensive connections.
What nonsense. Google's panoptic data collection is not excused by AOSP, side loading, or vendor shovelware, all of which are completely irrelevant. Google's detailed picture of the daily physical movements of everyone, cross referenced with their email, web searches, site visits, and who knows what else, is not somehow worse than Apple requiring a credit card to develop for the app store.

Apple Maps doesn't know who you are. Siri doesn't know who you are. iMessage is E2E encrypted. Locations are anonymous. If you actually cared about this stuff, you'd be applauding Apple.
If I ask airline personnel to book me an empty seat on my free ticket and they say ‘sure sir, no problem!’ what exactly am I supposed to think went wrong?
That works well when you only have to worry about one state with strong legal protections, like the US or Europe. An enormous part of China's economy is the manufacture of counterfeit goods and clones, due to lax enforcement. Patents are effectively meaningless there.
Agreed. They should probably dial down the marketing a bit and get their heads down on creating more amazing things and let that do the talking. At some point, it must be too distracting at all levels.
I'm not 100% sure if this is a good match for Hacker News but thought somebody here might appreciate it.

Obviously I don't encourage the use of Excel for most data analytics projects, but I get so many client requests for Excel dashboards that I thought I should just make a standalone toolkit I could send to them. It's basically just a big 35mb+ Excel file with a ton of copy-pasteable charts/elements, color palettes, tips/tricks and other goodies. There's enough there for most use cases and it's easy enough for anyone with basic Excel skills to use.

Feedback has been a funny mix of "holy moly is that really Excel, I want it!" and "this is too pretty and not practical".

I've seen enough 90s style, clip-art packed, badly-laid-out Excel workbooks that I think there's room for something a bit more visually engaging especially if it adheres to the basic principles of data visualization.
Interesting. How would you respond to an argument that the output of a ML model is transformative / fair use? Would your argument apply to this specific application, or to ML in general?
In this artistic style, any character appearance would get more child-like characteristics. It's more of a feature of the overall "childish" view of the world associated with this style rather than an attempt to picture actual children.

Of course, it's just my perception and your interpretation may be different.
Note that this isn't actual Japanese culture; it's made by an SF-based game studio [https://sizigistudios.com/] for an expo in LA [http://www.anime-expo.org/].
The ImageNet dataset, which is probably the most commonly used dataset (besides MNIST), is also "copyright-infringement on a gross scale". http://image-net.org/about-overview
Yep. Though I am gregarious, I grew up very isolated with very little interaction even with parents and my biggest problem as an adult is remembering to make time alone for myself because if I do not I grow less patient with people around me. But I also know that many people need to always be with people and I wonder: am I a result of a strange/bad upbringing? So I have committed to spending time with people but there is nothing I love more than a week totally alone and my happiest memories are months where I lived completely alone. One trick for balance: living in countries where I do not speak the language is an excellent way to be around people but have peace.
That's a neat little system.

It requires considerable installation, though. That's a big problem. The brochure says that you have to pay travel expenses if the site is more than 10 miles from their offices in Newark, NJ.

Nest struggles with this. Their thermostat gadgets would be much more useful if they had a power source and control over some dampers and windows. But that would require a force of skilled HVAC installers.
FWIW Danbooru complies with artists requests to remove all of their work.
During my many years in this community I don’t believe I have ever commented “this doesn’t belong here” because I understand that “anything that gratifies a hacker’s curiosity” is broad by design, and will lead to submissions that some find objectionable.

But this is perverted, misogynistic trash that doesn’t belong on HN front page.
I peekaboo my tasks and it helps my productivity
A pristine In-N-Out burger appeared on a New York street
My first boss started to respect me after we had a shouting negotiation with him over my work contract. The employer-employee relationship is weird and toxic as hell.

Work long hours? Develop additional tool during your free time? Help clients more than your job requires? You are a sucker.

Manage to shout enough to get a raise? Now you are a champion.
In the 19th century, a heart attack may have been recorded as "old age", "sudden death", "apoplexy", "stomach cramps", "spasms", or a lot of other things. As long there weren't any suspicious circumstances I don't think they usually looked into it that closely.
'nother article against red meat xD
meatheals.com if anyone suffers from an incurable disease, see if you can find your condition there
I had a bad experience with Lyft's previous self driving challenge - https://www.udacity.com/lyft-challenge

I unofficially got first place after finding a bug in their test set (allowing me to blow the competition away). I reported the problem directly - they decided not to fix it and asked me to take my submission down. They said they'd still offer an interview.

However - this interview wasn't even for their DL team. They offered an interview with the web tools support team because they felt I didn't have enough experience...

Reference -
https://github.com/bearpelican/lyft-perception-challenge
Quick point of feedback: the first two imperative (+=) statements presumably are being treated as independent, not part of the same sequence. I.e.:

"20" + 10 = "2010"

10 + "20" = 30

This was confusing, given that they are sequential statements listed without any clear separation.
> One trans Atlantic flight can burn as much as fuel as typical person would burn on a car Inna year.

Do you have a link on this? I've tried to look up numbers on this multiple times in the past, but reliable numbers have been hard to come by, especially for recent years. The ones I recall said that trans-continental flights in the US use something like 1/5 of a year's worth of car emissions, not a whole year's worth.
It's ironic that Americans are trying hard to bring down Facebook while flocking to services like TikTok and games released by Tencent, who use your data in numerous evil ways and are not planning to tell you any of that.
https://imgur.com/a/ZFrliiO Here's one that's somewhat "annoyed" but not quite "disgusted" hm.
Much more so after the mastery of bronze production for weapons and armor, and of horse-drawn chariots and/or mounted warriors.
Depending... if it's truly something quick I need to do, that is disposable, I use Ruby/shell script 9/10 times. This includes things like, restarting my computer, connecting to WiFi, checking the time in London, doing math, hitting an API.

Prototyping ideas is great in Rust, since it's compiler/type system are a nice pair of helping hands.

I will say, a proper first class REPL would be nice. Maybe some day.
Facebook user growth should be flat or negative - a bunch of people yelling at each other.
Ask HN: Do I “need” a custom domain email?
I've been using a custom domain email for the past year, and I've loved the experience.

I want to switch to Fastmail but I'm having trouble justifying it to myself.

Should I give up and move back to Gmail?
Do I want to pay Fastmail's $50/yr to have a "more professional" (custom domain) email?
Frankly, I refuse to believe so many people on HN have the kind of scruples about or lack of exposure to this part of AmerOtaku culture. As such, I believe many of the comments are simply 2nd-degree trolling.

Also, the post title is misspelled. It's "building", not "builing".
The model they use is simply a large matrix of numbers. What copyright infringement is there?
Why do people still use paper? Bum guns for the win.
GPU is the way to go these days to get most parallelism, and it is definitely the shared memory variety. Message passing is the go to when parallelism needs to cross machine boundaries.
If anime waifus were a cause of gender inequality, anime wouldn't have the huge female following that it has.
That's true. Reminds me of a story of a guy who would buy a first class ticket, go to the lounge and eat lunch, and then reschedule his ticket for the next day, every day... free lunch for a year[0].

0: https://nypost.com/2014/01/29/man-uses-first-class-plane-tic...
Patrick Reisert has been developing Rust support for WinRT and I've been trying to help lately:
https://github.com/contextfree/winrt-rust/

UI support is still quite awkward because we don't support inheritance (which in WinRT is only used in UI and composition classes). I'm working on a blog post with a sample of the current state of things, showing the extra boilerplate that's currently required, which I hope will serve as a starting point for improving the situation.
Obviously the question of whether an ML model is adequately transformative is an unanswered one, at least as far as I'm aware, in any jurisdiction.

However, in this specific case, I would expect most courts to place heavy weight on the clear, initial massive-scale infringment from the dataset alone to conclude that no good-faith effort (or, apparently, any effort at all) was made to avoid trampling these artists' rights. Such 'dirty hands' would potentially discredit any attempt to claim original creative expression, rather than commercialism, motivated the creation of this ML model.

This represent very nearly the worst possible case to serve as a potential test case for the legality of ML techniques.

Other datasets, like the Open Images Dataset (https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00982) explicitly recognize and address this concern in their curation of included images.
The frequency of earthquakes in this regions is remarkable. Here is a list of earthquakes of 3.0 magnitude or greater in the last 3 days.

MAP 3.7 2019/07/23 16:45:48 35.887N 117.720W 6.9 18 km (11 mi) ESE of Little Lake, CA
MAP 4.1 2019/07/23 00:45:02 35.626N 117.428W 5.2 16 km (10 mi) S of Searles Valley, CA
MAP 3.9 2019/07/22 18:36:18 35.743N 117.560W 3.0 14 km ( 9 mi) W of Searles Valley, CA
MAP 3.0 2019/07/22 13:12:27 35.643N 117.445W 2.9 14 km ( 9 mi) SSW of Searles Valley, CA
MAP 3.0 2019/07/22 11:31:20 35.852N 117.666W 3.6 24 km (15 mi) ESE of Little Lake, CA
MAP 4.2 2019/07/22 09:26:56 33.996N 116.044W 7.9 16 km (10 mi) S of Twentynine Palms, CA
MAP 3.1 2019/07/22 02:45:10 35.957N 117.714W 3.1 18 km (11 mi) E of Little Lake, CA
MAP 3.0 2019/07/21 10:09:22 35.699N 117.543W 10.1 15 km ( 9 mi) WSW of Searles Valley, CA
MAP 3.1 2019/07/21 04:56:11 35.656N 117.513W 10.0 15 km ( 9 mi) ENE of Ridgecrest, CA
MAP 3.1 2019/07/21 03:41:37 35.609N 117.475W 7.2 18 km (11 mi) E of Ridgecrest, CA
MAP 3.0 2019/07/21 00:36:57 35.778N 117.618W 7.7 18 km (11 mi) NNE of Ridgecrest, CA
I suppose... the fire would have to be pretty intense at that point to soften steel enough to slacken though. I'd have thought a fully engulfed house fire would be barely hot enough to do the trick, and by that point, nobody is putting anything out with a couple of buckets.