skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool! I’ve complained recently to several people near me that it’s difficult for me to know whether the clothes I’m buying will last. It doesn’t seem like there’s much correlation between price and quality, so frustrating to spend more money and have something fall apart. Now I have a nice detailed guide.

> [...] almost every garment needs a little tailoring to make it fit the contours of our shape.

Honestly never thought about tailoring the clothes I buy in the mall, I always just thought of that as something you do with expensive suits and dresses. Now I have to start tinkering with my clothes...
What evidence is there that limiting government power would improve the average person's situation?

Moving from feudalism to democracy clearly improved life for the average person, I'm not sure it's clear after that fact.
Opposing view: If comingling means faster delivery then I'm all for it, just take care of counterfeiting separately.
I can't help but imagine Johnson Space Center with a giant Text Mode Mission Control.
> Yes, they are quite banal people, mostly.

Another subjective ad-hominem attack on people you don't really know much about.

> That means little - the worst political movements of the last century were full of very banal people, a certain Ms. Harendt even wrote a famous book about it.

Dropping names of someone that wrote a book isn't an argument. Doesn't address the actual tenor of what I was saying.

I notice that you haven't addressed the fact that you were completely incorrect about Farage and his policies. Let me remind you what your claim was, you said he had no policies. I showed you the Manifesto of 2015 (which is as substantive as their rivals).

> I was explaining why most people in these debates cannot be bothered to go into detail. If we had to explain every term in the book, we'd end up reciting the opus of Bertrand Russell at every meeting.

This is a ridiculous. You have spent more energy telling me why you won't do something than actually doing it.
Well, that's the problem. It does too much, poorly.
Everyone: AI will one day destroy the human race.

Microsoft: Let's invest $1 Billion in it.
The flip side of that was that we are left with nothing but fond memories. No space stations or moon bases. No legacy of Apollo-derived manned spacecraft. We're essentially picking up from where we left off in the 1970's...now.
Notice that I did never attacked you directly, but you keep making subtle personal attacks with snarky quotes and nitpicking. (Is it some kind of religious anger? Are we in a holy-war territory?).

Gimp is a classic old open source project in it's bad and good. It has a preset for toilet paper rolls, but it took it like a decade to support a single window mode, it has an option to rename a layer to switch to rgba mode but there is still no support for generic keyboard layouts from other software other than importing configs and resolving to third party tools (something that krita and most modern IDE routinely do)

Gimp is an emacs of photo editing that stuck in old conventions and never wants to really move forward, I could not use it a decade ago and still can't use nowadays.
I think their point of an MVP in a week is not that you will be able to get customers signed up on that product but that you will be able to demonstrate something to prospective customers and gain feedback. There is no way most worthwhile products could even be MVP'ed where a customer would use them within a week. I am sure there are some that have been, but my guess is they are the exception.

One thing I have noticed, and this isn't a YC thing, but across the board with most accelerators and VC's talking to young founders is they give unrealistic ideas to what is possible to make founders push themselves and to think "outside the box". I don't fault this at all, the reason is simple, most people do not know what they are really capable of doing until they are really put to the test and pushed to perform. So if they tell you a week and you do something that gets feedback from prospective clients and in 30-60 days you have something clients can actually use that is pretty damn awesome. If they told you 60 days to start for an MVP most people/teams would flail around for the first few weeks failing to do anything that would move the ball forward in a meaningful way. Not out of a lack of desire to succeed but just human nature, you start thinking about too many things and then everything gets delayed and seems harder than it really is. If they "force" you to just start and do something that is better than over thinking the problem and getting stuck in analysis paralysis.

Just my 2 cents.

#edit a word for clarity
To be fair, if you want it to be that pretty you will have to either reinvent two-thirds of a browser or half a game engine. There's a reason "rich UI"s are a pain to build compared to native GUIs (MSFT Xaml is more similar to a web browser than traditional winforms-style UI).

The best compromise right now is to aggressively build pretty, heavily themed prebaked designs. Think Material Design, Cupertino etc. so native UI is somewhat good looking too even though it may not be as "rich" as a React one with all the drag and drop animation and flashy trinkets. Feature wise of course there's only marginal improvement to old school Java Swing, but it's certainly easier on the eyes.
Nixon didn't run in 1964; Goldwater did.
Well, I can't help but think back to the recent post by Stephen Wolfram:

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-producti...
Interactive Pixellated Mirror Displays
Well, I disagree with your assessment that by taking my sick days I am hurting another employee. It's actually you, as the employer, who offered me 10 days of sick leave, and who knowingly understaffed your workplace assuming that I wouldn't use that time off, who is hurting your employees. Don't rationalize it by putting the responsibility on me. You're the one who told me I was allowed to do it. If you don't want to offer 10 days of paid sick leave then don't offer it, but don't punish me for using it, and don't try to guilt me out of using it by pretending that I'm the one creating the situation. It's your job to staff your workplace appropriately.
Please elaborate. What's wrong with RNNs and what should be used instead?
But surely Stephenson was thinking of the religious connotations...
It seems even basic clothes tinkering takes some skill. I had a pair of jeans with a hole, so I patched on a piece of an old pair whose legs were too long. Kept eventually coming off. Maybe a sewing machine was needed.
To say that risk capacity is the "real" source of inequality is simply incorrect.

There are plenty of people at or below poverty level who have little/no aversion to risk - it's just that the high-stakes gambles accessible to them are of a different nature than those accessible to a person of middle/upper class.

Risks with high rewards associated with impoverished people:

- Theft/robbery

- Scams/fraud

- Selling drugs/other illicit items

Risks with high rewards associated with the middle/upper class:

- Investing (stocks, crypto)

- Quitting your job to start a business

For the impoverished, the consequences and chances of things going awry are stronger than a person of middle/upper class, yet they do pursue those risks, likely at a higher rate than the upper/middle class pursues the risks listed for them.
Vim is not an editor. It's an idea. Incredible and awesome idea. And Emacs has one of the best implementations of that idea. Try Spacemacs and maybe you'd realize that Emacs can vim better than Vim and Neovim.
> That seems to be a result of scaling vertical with the existing product line, not horizontally with new better product categories.

Nothing wrong with that. It doesn't imply a lack of innovation as well. They provide a good enough improvement on all software, hardware and service fronts to keep customer buying year on year.

A lack of a new breakthrough product doesn't mean lack of innovation from Apple. In my opinion it only means two things:

- The technology is not there yet for a new "iPhone" type of breakthrough.

- The expectation of people on Apple is so high considering their success in the past decade.
First programmable memristor computer to bring AI processing down from the cloud
You come across as pretty radical. Short of starting a war I think the current U.S. administration is doing a much better job than previous ones at meeting the Chinese challenge head on.
The fast inverse square root calculation is computationally trivial (literally one line), but highly non-obvious.
Hox gene
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/introd...
About the Security Content of iOS 12.4
You know what would be an interesting service:

Chaos monkey/failure injection-as-a-service: in that you define the parameters by which you wanted to be assessed...

King of like pen test contractors...

So OK let me spin up an environ and attack the fuck out of it. Show me where im weak. So that in prod... im good.
Pen Refills Guide
(I work at Metabase, and am working on the joins feature as we speak)

As getsauce mentioned, we're adding joins to the next release, as well as essentially subqueries in what we're calling the "notebook". That should unlock a lot of power.

AMA.
IANAL but I think if there is a problem that you need to solve (which may be part of a separately patented process) and the solution to that problem is indistinguishable from the naive approach to solve that problem then the solution is clearly ineligible for patenting - the value the patent is intended to protect is the investment required to develop the solution, and I'd slightly amend that to be "the investment required to develop the solution beyond the trivial solution"... while also remaining strong on my stance that patenting software is pretty weird to begin with.
It isn't just about memory, though that's a big issue with Electron apps. It's still running probably a couple orders of magnitude more instructions per operation than an equivalent native application.
Nope, I like Expect, it's my friend and I'm able to make scripts with it. So, no anger.
Xray project is archived by GitHub
They keep claiming their stuff is more secure; is that wrong?

Being beholden to a desperate competitor isn't just marketing; it could be a matter of survival and a strategic response seems reasonable.
I ran across Brian's MK735 blog (via ixsystems) just a few days ago while looking for a server case. Have you actually gone to the 3dwebe website and read what is posted there? That "Cautions, Caveats and Considerations" section is posted by someone that looks like they know the possible issues, ACTUALLY CARES and disclosed those issues. This is not some "hobbyist" that just put a 3D printed server case together. 3D printing is absolutely a good prototyping tool. It's also a fantastic low cost, one-off manufacturing tool for some of us that cannot afford $10k in sheet metal design and setup costs to get what I want and not what someone else is offering.
That's sometimes a good strategy, but breaks when you do too much at once. See boeing's recent fiasco where they did basically just that with parts and a fuselage that weren't really compatible. Metaphor extends: try to replace too much in part and something will break.
But this is an adversarial use case. You're not trying to cause md5 hash collisions in your own static assets, but WeChat users might benefit from that. See my other comment above.
Thanks, hacker news! Maybe now I can stop buying all of my clothes from Uniqlo!

Edit: who am i kidding
"It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state..."

That was Milton Friedman's view.
> a notable example is the guards on the dam which can't see you until you approach their walkways and this is because the STANs at the top of the ladder can only see those at the bottom.

It's a credit to the game that I never noticed this and other AI shortfalls. Somehow the combination of fast paced action, tense stealth gameplay, level design, and good enough AI was enough to transcend any critical faculties I had. I guess the lesson there is whether it's CGI, VR, or game AI, when you understand your limitations and design to them, you can get the audience to do the rest of the work in their head completely unaware of the shortcomings that are not only hidden from them but that they may be compensating for.
Sounds like my path of learning javascript, except add 'no school'.

That said, I wish I would have spent my formative years in a school like this.
> Many safety-critical systems do not use encryption because it's one more component that can fail.

This is a good point but isn't some data still better than no data at all? If we decide not to collect encrypted data because encryption can break, then we have exactly no data if we lose the blackbox.
Are you actually free to say "Hey, I've decided this sucks, I'd like to head back home?" My understanding is that they aren't, and that to leave the detention center, they need to have their application for "voluntary departure" approved by an immigration judge and pay for their own transportation out of the country:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/immigrants-free-leave-dete...
I dont think this is true at all. I think that NLP models, especially the state of the art ones (in the coming years), will cost a few million to train. Massive volumes of data sucked up by a model.
"not only" --> "not even" ?
Seems like an entirely reasonable choice. He’s actively commercializing AI and doesn’t want any impression of conflict of interest. Especially as now OpenAI has some clear commercialization plans directly with Microsoft.

From the article:

> The most obvious way to cover costs is to build a product, but that would mean changing our focus. Instead, we intend to license some of our pre-AGI technologies, with Microsoft becoming our preferred partner for commercializing them.

Talent will be the hardest challenge for OpenAI in order to reach their goals.
https://www.masteringemacs.org is the best books on Emacs I have ever read. But truly, is just about doing things in Emacs. Start using Emacs and whenever you need to get something done, just google it. After a few days, you'd have sufficient vocabulary to navigate yourself around. Don't be obsessed with configuring and adjusting it to your needs at that point. Jump into that rabbit hole later, when you feel you know what you're doing.
> If you have a bug in the code related to that, then it's very easy to figure out where it is, because all of the logic is local.

More often than not I find this isn't the case. If we have an inheritance tree of (A -> B -> C) then you'll run into cases where the bug is in a object of type C but it's calling a method defined on type A, overridden in type C and accessing a variable in type B. So you have to look at why A and C diverged, where the value is set in B, what else calls the method on A, etc. You have to know the whole graph and the abstractions are trying to hide it from you.

This is particularly true the older code gets because all those little "just overload this function" adds up and it can't be refactored because it's impossible to understand.
I disagree with you. Weak baselines are inappropriate, especially when claiming 'state-of-the-art' results, which is very common in ML literature these days. If weak baselines are used as proof of superiority for a particular method, there are infinite other methods/minor adjustments which can be shown to be superior using the same logic.
Zynq MPSoc Book – With PNYQ and Machine Learning Applications
USP Florence ADMAX prisoners have slightly more space than Hong Kong residents
While certain Hong Kong residents have 10x6 (60 sq ft) of space to live in, the most hard core prisoners in the US have more: 7x12 (84 sq ft).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/22/world/asia/hong-kong-housing-inequality.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ADX.CELL.DESIGN.svg
> Emerging monopolies gain the power to warp regulations in their favor by virtue of the concentration of wealth and power.

Exactly. And no civilization on earth has yet solved the "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." problem at scale. In what society does power not exist in some form? In even the most primitive of human societies the first and best portion of the meal would be given to those who had the most political favor. We have control of a single vector in this equation, the size of the government. I see no other way.
Stop Confusing Habits for Routines: What You Need to Know
Gosh, its going to be so interesting to see a fabric of AI exist over the next decades across various cloud infra...

Will they fight?

Azure AI layers and say private company AIs like FBs (Ono Sendai), GCP, AWS, etc... where these AIs start learning how to protect themselves from attack....

Obv it super trivial for API mods to the FW/Access rules in all these systems... so it will be trvial for them to start shutting down access (we have had this for decades, but it will be interesting to see it at scale.)
There are two separate things. One is reporting certain things and not others or worse, trying to skew the gravity of various facts with tainted opinions from someone invested in the perception of them.

Then there is literally reporting things that aren't true and are made up. Various news sources indulge in the first two, but any news source with a shred of respectibility doesn't engage in actually reporting things that are false.
PEG

It will come back to you.
I'm of mixed feelings about this. Yes, it's great for the people of Saint Helena. But it would be nice if we could have a few remote places on Earth stay remote.

AT&T is lobbying the federal government for permission to put cell towers in Death Valley. Death Valley is fine without them. It doesn't need more tourist conveniences. It has"Death" in its name for a reason.

On the other hand, if this is something the people of Saint Helena voted for and approved, then it's up to them. I just hope it wasn't pushed on them by a bureaucrat.
The problem with bare 18650 cells is in their chemistry. A bad charger + good cell = nasty fire and a good charger + bad cell = the same. Considering the fact that every major online retailer including Amazon has trouble policing fake cells, the liability risks are fairly extreme. If there was a way to completely block all non-UL rated products as well as those with fake UL stickers, I'd say your idea has merit. Unfortunately, the near frictionless world of online markets allows for too much counterfeit risk to enter the picture for such an idea to be workable.
You mean like https://www.gremlin.com/ ?

One of the founders of Gremlin is an Engineer that worked in Netflix and probably worked on Chaos Monkey as well :)
GE Device That Revolutionized Electrical Machines Is Now an IEEE Milestone
I know someone who used to work on BMWs and he said when they first came out with the lan-based car wiring problems were almost impossible to diagnose. Basically the shops would just swap parts until something worked. I think it's gotten better now as things have matured.

I expect because tesla is doing it in SV, they have enough software guys available to figure things out (and maybe frontload the diagnostics to make servicing things easier).

That's how technology works - make cheaper and less sophisticated hardware do more and better.
Email requests such as this to hn@ycombinator.com
> they can meet minimum investment thresholds in ventures or funds that provide higher rates of return

On the other hand, anyone can invest in FAANG stocks and get a higher rate of return.
Depends on the market... Pacific coast is definitely skewed young. Phoenix, Houston, Austin and Atlanta will be a little older. Phoenix in particular leans a bit older, I'm 44 and average in the group I'm currently working with is within 5 years of my age.

A lot of the work is more boring business oriented work, and not a lot of startups. But it's steady, there's plenty of it and it pays relatively well compared to cost of living.

Start with Dive Into Python... then decide on something you want to make for yourself and work from there. Python is one of the better options to start from. JS is my personal favorite, second is now Rust, but they're harder to jump into as a beginner.
Do you live on Saint Helena or in Death Valley?
I always say that gimp is so shit it comes with toilet paper. -GIMP user since 2008
With $1B from Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain
hah! I made a microsite a few years ago. it was just a big button that would unfollow him on twitter. I guess that was a bad thing to post on HN.
I don’t see where I was crass. Nor do I think it’s especially low effort relative to the quality of the content. Much of the post is a recurring tactic of: stating a fairly tame conservative view, extrapolating that since liberals shut down some conservative views that they will shut down even the most nuanced ones, implying that therefore the ones trying to be reasonable are the conservatives.

It’s... bad.

I don’t know or care who Haidt is it what his rep is
This is awesome. I absolutely hate the 'fast fashion' trend of retailers like H&M and Forever21.

I try to find well-fitting, high quality clothes, but it's getting harder and harder. American Eagle is probably one of the better outfitters out there. I've been finding a lot of luck with online retailers from South Korea - the country has a great sense of style, even for men, and their population is generally slender build which leads to well-fitting shirts.
We really, really wanted to use and like Gitlab but after a few months trial found the UX very poor in comparison to the main competitor.

The icon heavy interface and general layout decisions made things hard/cumbersone to find, any plans to invest in an improved UX for the web UI?
Let's see if I have this straight... the US is increasing the precision of its nuclear weaponry to use against military targets, and that's as bad as Iran's program to acquire nuclear weaponry (in violation of the NPT) and long range rockets?
it's so hard to get a basic t-shirt right as well, so many people walking around with shriveled up neck piece.
That's kinda like noticing your house is on fire and thinking it's been a while since you had toasted marshmallows.
SpaceX and Amazon will provide global low latency internet pretty much everywhere. But don’t worry, each customer will vote with their wallet by buying it (or not)
Out of curiosity, why isn't the gateway being planned for the Earth/Moon L1 point?
It can't be the case that the "weird internet" went away because the "internet opened up to non weird people," because it opened up to everyone as soon as it was available outside of university research labs, and there are exponentially more weird people on the internet now than there ever were.

You seem to be mistaking the creation of layout with the creation of content and assuming, incorrectly, that one must be boring, uncreative or uninteresting to not want to put in the effort of manually creating an HTML page, maybe with a black starry background and some flames and a spinning skull gif. That because layouts have become homogeneous and centralized in services, content and the web itself must as well.

You don't think there's "weird" content on Youtube and Facebook? I would assert that there is more of it, and more of higher quality, than there ever was on the old web. Sure, there are real barriers preventing someone from creating their own website and hosting their own fan group or videos or whatever, but people don't do so because it's a waste of time when what they want to do is create content. Once making your own site no longer became necessary, it became a specialized interest.