skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

I do assume that the data format is different (alas I also assume that they are all some sort of a text file with known fields and types).

But after you setup the dataset definition and defined the schema, the rest can be based on neural search?

Moreover, isn't there a state of the art architecture for each of the task. E.g. Seq2Seq for machine translation. Can you just use that as a base line, and let the NAS engine search hyper param, etc?
A two-generation-old DSLR is still a really, really good camera and will still absolutely trounce the performance of any reasonably fast 35mm film. Sigma and Tamron are now making affordable glass that goes toe-to-toe with Canon L; there are a lot of good, cheap DSLR lenses hitting the used market right now thanks to the move to mirrorless.

If you can avoid getting swept up with the idea that you need the latest and greatest, it's a really great time to get back into photography. eBay is full of fantastic kit at yard sale prices.
Is the monorepo/multirepo choice really the most important thing to consider?

Branching: monorepo or not, if a feature-incomplete development branch for one of the supported targets can "hold the entire organization as a hostage" then the SCM people, and/or persons responsible of the SCM policy, should do some introspection...

Why are deliveries done from a branch which is obviously still in development? Why does code-to-be-released need to depend on incomplete work? Why aren't something like "topic branches" used?

Modularity: monorepo or not, problems will certainly appear when the complexity of implementation outpaces the capacity created by the design. To get modularity, one needs actual modules with properly designed (=not brittle, DRY, KISS, YAGNI, SOLID, etc. etc.) interfaces between the modules. Now, does monorepo/multirepo really play a role here at all? If everyday changes are constantly modifying the module interfaces in incompatible ways which breaks existing code, this speaks something about the design, or rather the insufficiency of it.

Of course, every project and team is different. However, even if a locally optimal choice for the monorepo vs. multirepo question is found, problems existing regardless of monorepo/multirepo will still be there.
That's sad. It's independent creators, charities, and people whose blogs need to be heard that are getting hurt here.
I have a brother-in-law who's been dyeing his hair, and wears a toupee (a very poorly fitting one) - for whenever he's at some kind of formal function or whatnot.

This is a guy who drives dump trucks and excavators, and could crush you with one hand - I swear to $DEITY. He's not a bad guy - actually a very nice man. But if you got on his bad side, watch out. I once saw him lift a full large wheeled garbage bin up and over his head and shake it out like it was nothing - like it was kitchen garbage can. Not someone to mess with.

He normally - in everyday life - doesn't care what he looks like, smells like, etc - he'll go right into a grocery store covered in oil and grease from working on his backhoe in the middle of summer, buy a soda and walk out, and he'll smile and wave, call ya "hon" and "boss" - pet the dog on the way out, ya know.

But clean him up and put him in a suit - all of a sudden he's embarrassed that his hair is thin and gray, etc. I've told him that he should shave himself bald, because he's got that classic "Mr. Clean" head shape that would make it look good. Few people can rock bald, but he won't do it.

Instead, he just puts a ball cap on if he's out in the sun, and ignores it I guess.
I am C++ developer by career and I am pretty much bashing the language all the time. To preserve my sanity I like to use C in after-hours. However looking up C++20 and the direction whole language is going I see there are things I would really like to see in C, while preserving C simplicity. Standardized attributes like [[fallthrough]] and others for functions seem nice. Anonymous functions are nice. They look a bit ugly, but function pointers already look even worse. It would not hurt to have modules and consteval functions in C, but then one still needs templates to really ditch the preprocessor and that's a tough one to solve.

Having said all that C++ is really in a need of a clean cut between legacy features and the blessed way. Backwards compatibility is a noble cause, but there is also the whole weight it pulls around. Maybe something like [[deprecated]] attribute could be extended to handle more cases. Maybe C++ needs it's own "unsafe" block, something like

[[unsafe]] {
*((void*)0) = 0xDEAD;
}

Essentially having an ability to clearly mark all those different styles of different versions of C++ really. So that compiler could help you to control it and in case of a green field project totally guide you to use only the most modern idioms with an escape hatch. Of course the problem is that to help with the complexity more complexity would have to be added.

I am a bit on the crossroads. From one side I start to see, that there is some hope for C++. But on the other I feel like running away, especially since I'm looking for a job. In no particular order: C, Rust, Java, Kotlin, Scheme, Julia, Go, OCaml, Free Pascal, Swift, TypeScript, Lua/Terra, Zig.

I had a funny thing with C++. One project I worked on was used in the debug version all the time, to be able to drop to debugger when needed. At that point I started to wonder why not just use Java already, instead of trying to do a manual Java and fail at it.
This all seems fine to me, then. They can't get the bombs to the planes, but that's fine because the planes can't take off, which is fine because they couldn't land anyway.
Can the people who take photography seriously sustain Canon's camera business on their own? That's the main problem.
Yeah but I still bring my personal tracking device to the bathroom. How else am I supposed to read memes?

Which brings us to an interesting point. We all want immediate privacy right? Close the door when watching porn, make sure your webcam isn't turned on, close the bathroom when pooping etc.

But having a VPN when watching porn or banning phones from the restroom, that's not something many (most?) people do. How come? What's the difference?
Maybe absent the purpose, we don't need quite this much military. Its a rather frightening prospect, the other way round.
I'm fairly certain that Hilbert would disagree with you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalism_(philosophy_of_mathe...

In particular, most modern mathematics can be formalized within first-order logic with the ZFA axioms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order_logic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_t...

As a concrete example, the metamath project has formalized (and formally verified) huge chunks of mathematics:

http://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmset.html

Certainly there are aspects of mathematics which are not formal (beauty, parsimony, elegance, clarity, geometric intuition, etc.) but saying math isn't a formal language is like saying chess doesn't have rules.
OK. In your mind, what's the ethically correct way to do security research into major company's products and disclose what you might find?
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Some antialiasing wouldn't go amiss, either...
It depends where you are, and what sort of porn you watch. In some places, any porn could mean prison or worse. In more places, it could mean losing a job, divorce, etc.
The last guy that tried this was murdered by Sadaam.

Most people underestimate the speed required to obtain a reasonable orbit, and the amount of tube required to accelerate an object to that speed.
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Maybe with good emulation and VR we can preserve them digitally.
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The US has done more or less the same.
My first employer still has a Win 95 machine running for some very specific EE CAD software, for no other reason that it still does the job, the company that made it closed shop years ago, and he's very productive with it.

I suspect it's gonna be there 'til the day he closes shop, or he runs out of parts for the computer.
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Overpriced weapon system syndrome predates 9/11 by quite a lot.

IMHO it's a peacetime problem. There's no enemy to fight today, so the motivation to finish the system ASAP and start pumping copies out the door goes away. In fact these protracted construction delays can be seen as a minor cost savings, since if they actually delivered what they promised the military would have to maintain hundreds of vehicles that are really only useful in a war that is not likely to happen soon.

People say the US is fighting the last war, and that's maybe more true than they think. The Cold War was won mostly by convincing the Soviets to outspend on military hardware by spending huge sums on our own military hardware. But then the Soviet Union collapsed and the US failed to draw down production to true peacetime levels and we're stuck with a military that is way too big and too expensive to just keep the peace.
I think you stumbled exactly into why people say that (including myself) - proofs.

With AI, ML, and Data Science becoming hotter and hotter topics, a lot of the material is still VERY mathematical proof heavy. This [1] is an example of understanding the Lagrange multipliers for SVMs. This is not a worked example, but a repetition of the mathematics. If you are shaky on what dL/db means, then you're lost. It doesn't help that the only other options are import sklearn tutorials, so you only get a slight understanding of the inner workings of something like SVM. You still can't do it by hand, if say for example, you were given a toy problem with like 10 items.

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-support-vector-...
There are only 11 stars within 10 light years. None of the exoplanets yet discovered around them are expected to be more habitable than Mars.

This puts a hard lower boundary of 10 years for travel to an earth-like exoplanet. If we limit the craft's acceleration to 1g, add a couple of extra years (about a year to hit 0.9c at 1g acceleration, and then the same amount of time to slow down on the other end).
Give it a couple of years. As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, mirrorless is already starting to displace mid- to mid-high-range DSLRs into the used market, and by then it should be displacing the high-end stuff too.

(And I feel you about the UI issues. Part of the reason I switched from a D5300 to a D500 was because the prosumer bodies are really designed to be shot in program auto, and you just don't have enough direct control of basic parameters - you need to be in the 7xxx range even to have an aperture dial! I'm waiting for D850s to start hitting the used market in numbers for precisely that reason - 45MP full-frame is just about ideal for the macro work I do, despite the relative DoF loss, and the UI commonality between that and the D500 means I won't have to worry about missing the perfect shot of a wasp or whatever because my hands got confused about how to operate the camera.)
It's about an Arduino with a 10x slower clock.
Also worth noting: both ShotCut and KDEnlive have been receiving a steady stream of updates in the last couple of months. Lots of bugfixes and other little improvements.
There are cameras and ALPR readers. And there is data sharing with the Mexican federal police as well.
Curious as to why you love asking this question? I wonder what data you are trying to glean from this question. It's a very subjective question and wouldn't surprise me at all if the number of years experience a candidate has in that language is inversely proportional to the answer you're given.

I often get this question from recruiters hiring front end developers: From 1 to 10, how well do you know Javascript? I've given 8 for as long as I remember but often I think to myself if the people who wrote the V8 engine are 10 by default, there is no way in hell I'm even close to an 8.
Link from yesterday shows some good examples of the "algo" (seam carving):

https://avikdas.com/2019/07/29/improved-seam-carving-with-fo...
Same, but for three accounts so far. :eyes:
This is to be expected. It would be strange if Facebook DID NOT explore brain control.
This is mostly because of a long history of crummy graphics drivers on Windows led to countless bluescreens. In the past, if your Windows machine bluescreened, it was a safe bet that the graphics driver was the cause.

Microsoft had enough telemetry telling them this that they spent a large effort restructuring the graphics driver subsystem so that it could crash and burn and be restarted without affecting the rest of the system.

Although Linux already has the isolation, it doesn't have the clean recovery. Since the year of the Linux desktop hasn't arrived yet, Linux is yet to make this journey.
You're right. Air is a terrible way to move tanks around because you have to do it one at a time. Being able to do it in a pinch is very important. It won't be cheap or without risk (which you care about for exercises) but when there's T72s pouring through the Fulda gap you pull out all the stops because you don't get a do-over.
If you are into opengl guis, you can check ImGui, it is a joy to work with it. although it doesn't have any fancy font stuff afaik.
Also there is UE4 slate, which has a funny way of doing stuff.
> Memory usage and speeding up firefox have nothing to do with keeping the browser patched

yeah? they are tangential goals but that's the problem. in moving away from browser extensions to webextensions you have a completely diverging codebase that's almost impossible to keep patched because the architecture is fundamentally incompatible and the patches will not be able to be applied in all but the most trivial of cases.
> Right now, those tools let you download data directly to your hard drive, but the hope is that the project’s code could allow the data to be ported directly to another service.

Anyone think that we may eventually not find a big “allow me to download/export my data” button?
It seems like she had mental problems. Hopefully she gets help instead of the gov't seeking retribution.
Still clicking along?
> But...the product team at Doritos does the same thing.

This is a good comparison because we know it's a public health disaster. Unfortunately he junk food industry was powerful enough to repeal this kind of rules in their domain, and I'd actually be surprised if this one was enacted.
True, but some of those old machines could do amazing stuff with ~huge datasets. Basically by just doing one ~simple operation per data pass. Read, do something simple, write. Then repeat that as many times as needed, with a different operation. Sort of like executing a program one line at a time.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the decrease of blue collar skilled labor. Many skilled trade labor has decreased especially in VA.

https://www.dailypress.com/business/newport-news-shipyard/dp...

https://www.dailypress.com/business/newport-news-shipyard/dp...
Once your hands are on the keys, you don't actually need to see them. So the real question is, how do you find your keyboard in VR?

I think the Index's cameras would be sufficient. Alternately, you could place tracking pucks (or just controllers) on either side.
The hardcopy print edition is available from Amazon or directly from O'Reilly, if that's what you mean. There's a link to the Amazon listing at the URL I gave you.

As far as I know, there's only one type of printing, and that's a lay-flat softcover.
1. Already mentioned Benedict's Newsletter (https://www.ben-evans.com/newsletter)

2. James Clear's (https://jamesclear.com/newsletter), author of the Atomic Habits, which is a fantastic book about... habits (https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits)

Both are no-bullshit and consistently provide value.
It should also be mentioned that the quickest and cheapest way to sequester carbon is not burning most forms of it in the first place.
Seems like a pretty decent take on an MVP to me. Ship it.
Rainbow Forth is an implementation of the colorForth dialect of the Forth
programming language designed to run under Linux or Windows.
https://github.com/flagxor/rainbowforth
I suppose the question is if Adobe's choices are the optimal ones, or if there's other defensible choices.

I'm an occasional Photoshop and Illustrator user (longtime Fireworks diehard, though, RIP) and while some conventions make sense to me, there's plenty of things that I have to look up tutorials for, even if I've learned them before.

Sometimes different software is different.
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> "Neuroethical design is one of our program’s key pillars — we want to be transparent about what we’re working on so that people can tell us their concerns about this technology."

And what will they do with said concerns? Ultimately it's not some researcher that will call the shots when everyone cries foul... Zuckerberg will green light and that's it. It's not like FB actually ever pays attention to criticism from an ethics perspective, only MAU and revenue metrics.
The purpose is jobs. Well functioning results aren't a requirement.
> In such an equilibrium the system state effectively becomes a standing wave so you risk measuring an effect that was actually a result of a previous cycle and mistakenly interpret it as being a result of the current cycle

I don't know where you're getting this from, but it doesn't describe quantum systems on which Bell inequality violations have been experimentally confirmed (such as photon pairs from parametric down conversion).

The only "loophole" that has not been completely closed at this point is that we don't have 100% efficient detectors, but we have detectors that are well over 90% efficient so the claim that somehow all the stuff that will "fix" the Bell inequality violations is hiding in the small percentage of photons not being detected isn't very compelling.
"But what does generating new forms of life entail? Many biologists agree that generating a new shape of protein is the essence of it."

No, that's not what many biologists agree.
Yeah a 6D Mark I (7yo model) would cover anything I am and am likely to be interested in. It's popular in the astrophotography world for it's superb low light performance out of the box. It's on the "better days" shopping list. Hoping EF L glass fades in price as well as people gravitate to R mount as options increase, and don't want to bother with converters.
This might be one of the failure modes of the current incarnation of capitalism. My Canon cameras last me forever and that's why I like them. I consider them a blazing technical and scientific success.

If under the current mode of capitalism they want to "succeed" financially they might need to make crappier cameras on purpose so that people replace them every year.

Crocs are also amazing. I bought a pair and never needed to buy another pair. Bad for their balance sheet, but they are an amazing success in terms of sustainability and not creating trash.
If you are a parent, track how many times you say “no” or “don’t do that” or something similar to your child. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone always said “yes”? I think that is why imaginary friends come about the most.
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While you watch Netflix, you don't watch a competitor. In a way, this autoplay feature removes a friction for the customer that doesn't have to decide what to watch next. This removes the "danger" that the customer think about that cool show that is not provided by Netflix.

At the end of the month, the customer may think about how much they use a TV provider and not the other, and decide to keep Netflix and ditch any other subscription they may have.

It's true that it burns through Netflix content but they made 1,500 hours of original content in 2018, content that they have to create anyway for other reasons, so a lot of your free time is already covered.
On a VAX no less! Can't imagine there's an HFT arbitrage opportunity for such "slow" tech.
Is this whataboutism? I don't understand your point. The GP said "I wonder how much of China's arming is as a result of concern of the absurdly oversized US military machine."
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I had a similar disconnect coming from 3D Max and Adobe. I couldn't get Blender to do anything as the user model seemed so different. I watched a few video tutorials and spent 1 hour a day for about three weeks and the light finally came on and now it is comfortable enough that I am able to translate my past 3D Max (and distant past Softimage and Vertigo) experiences within Blender 2.79. Still hunt around a bit.
VAX systems are still around and openVMS is used to port old software and keep it running.

Can confirm, I had a job that was essentially get legacy code working on new systems. There were guys there that had been around since the inception of the thing and kept things running smoothly. The downside is they were always opposed to any sort of refactoring or rewrite, even if that made sense.
Don't forget long-range wake-following torpedoes:

https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsub/20161019.aspx
Robots do not come to mind when you are producing custom pieces.
This stuff seems to attract a lot more attention when it's about porn. Who knows, maybe people in general will care more about their privacy once they realize just who knows all about their kinks.

Privacy is important. What you masturbate to really shouldn't be all that important. But if that's what it takes to wake people up, I'm glad the porn industry is leaking all this data.
It's really hard to conceive of any disaster which would leave Earth less habitable than Mars.
I don't think understanding proofs is essential to understanding AI papers.

A lot of papers are "dressed up" with proofs, many of them bad. But it doesn't matter if the technique can be effective.
The quote seems to be from Chapter 5, "A brief treatise on the moral grounds of economic relations", page 96. It comes at the end of a paragraph giving examples of how almost everyone follows the principle of "from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs" if they are collaborating on some common project.

Just before the Apple Computers example, Graeber writes "The greater the need to improvise, the more democratic the cooperation tends to become. Inventors have always understood this, start-up capitalists frequently figure it out, and computer engineers have recently rediscovered the principle: not only with things like freeware, which everyone talks about, but even in the organization of their businesses."
I can't think of a single situation where autoplay is remotely acceptable for anything but opt in.

I guess endless scrolling doesn't have to be bad. But I've yet to experience an implementation that isn't awful.

I don't think legislation is a good way to make developers behave. But I also don't know how to break the mess we are in.
I see that, in a related article, they missed a nice in-joke:

> A gentle introduction to multithreading — Approaching the world of concurrency, two steps at a time.

(I wonder if "multiple steps at a time" sounds better)

:-)
This is downright fake news bullshit.

This tech doesn't exist. Why does HN eat this up. No one here uses tech?

The photo is two actresses.

Does BBC fact check at all, or is it all bullshit.

Video on how it is possible in an artificial way. Which I suspect kicked this fake story off, with a little acting on the Chinese end.

https://youtu.be/kcA1nebGzgg
>bad fork

How is this an argument? You merge the unforked projects and its the equivalent to multirepo. I don't follow the argument at all.

...I started writing rebuttals to the others but I guess when your argument is "yeah you can do it right but you _could_ do it wrong and I have defined the question in such a way that we err on success for multi-repo and err on failure on mono-repo" I can't really fight that.