skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? I thought that was common knowledge. But regardless: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

"Beauty is only skin-deep, but the perceived absence of beauty may lead to damaging social bias. Compared to men, women may suffer more from social anxiety, prejudice, and inequality based on their appearance [1,2]. To comprehend beauty-related socio-cultural phenomena, many studies have examined the pursuit of beauty related to body image, body perception, a body-related self-concept, and body satisfaction [3–5]. These studies have clarified factors that impact and result in the pursuit of beauty. However, although numerous previous studies on these aspects of beauty have been conducted, there is still a considerable controversy about why women, in particular, are focused on with a beautiful appearance."
There is actually no way to go back to the Harrier. Production was shut down years ago, the industrial base is long gone, and the UK sold off everything they had. There are no other V/STOL tactical aircraft in the development pipeline. The F-35B will be the only available choice for decades to come.
Agreed, they'll definitely make some money with Apple Music and Apple News+
I have hundreds of pings running 24/7 from dozens of devices to machines on 6 continents monitoring for packet loss, never even considered the history of the command
So this is really interesting:

On Panopticlick with Firefox Mobile, with Ghostery plugin active in a normal tab I get 18 bits of info, in a private tab I get 17 bits, but the best is a private tab with Ghostery paused - then I get 16 bits, and equal results on the other parts.

Are privacy plugins really redundant in this day and age? Or is the test too incomplete to reflect their value?
To combine yours and GP's comments, furry fandom has had several popularity boosts over the past ~5 years akin to the Tiger Woods thing for golf. I go to one of the larger conventions yearly, and the general feel has changed significantly because of it.
As an egocentric self-righteous narcissist who spent their 20s making friends by being "right", I'm slowly starting to learn that isn't a fun way to live. I think it's the same thing as when someone you care about is "complaining", you don't always have to help them solve the problem, sometimes they just want to talk.
Invest in yourself how? Don’t just throw out empty rhetoric, lay out a plan about how you would spend that $2000 dollars to “get REAL attention”. Money isn’t a magical cure all.
Have you considered spending less on Apple stuff and more on planting trees (or otherwise advocating for reduced GHG emissions)?

(Serious and sincere question.)
A good self-rating strategy in an interview would be to try and percentile yourself among the people based on your knowledge and try to justify it with humility.
C++ is huge, I expect I know more than 80% of the people due to (years of experience, different kinds of projects, yada yada), but I feel i have only been able to explore like 50% of the language so far (concretely learn that is) and there’s more to learn like (1, 2, 3..) and probably more that I might have missed completely.
Micro services are a different kettle of fish though

Firstly, the benefits they offer have often little to do with the architecture itself, but with the bigger picture (separating teams, CIs, allowing different stacks, managing costs, scaling, etc).

Secondly, unlike microkernels, not all microservices have to talk to every single other microservice. If you have a service to send emails, say, there'll be a few services that interact with it, but the majority won't. The same for an image resizing service.

So what you say doesn't necessarily hold
I hope we'll see it soon.

Based on everything else they've done, I figure it will be $3500+ build though and push into the $5k range.
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Is that going to help me know when it will work or not? I doubt it. I shouldn't need to be spinning theories about how it works anyway.
I understand where you may be coming from but I disagree.

If you have an economic perspective for the hero, yes, most of the time heroic is dumb (standing up for what's right to your own economic detriment, fighting a patent troll in court, risking your life for a stranger, etc). But being heroic is not about economics. It's almost precisely the point.

Generally speaking, heroic is not dumb, but almost always requires a lot of risk. We consider people heros or heroines because they take on risk to do the right thing, which is often the thing the masses are unwilling to attempt and/or unable to accomplish.

It certainly helps to accomplish, but most people will consider heroic acts those that take on a lot of risk to do the right thing despite the outcome.
I was thinking about this the other day.

The reason to have separate branches of the military (if you can afford it) is to maintain organizational and doctrinal uniqueness.

Think about it in evolutionary terms. Any hierarchical organization trends towards uniformity, especially one where promotion is conservative. E.g. most pyramidal organizations.

The Marines fundamentally, organizationally, and tactically approach warfare different than the Army. The Army would have been incapable of fighting WWII in the Pacific. It's just not what it's designed to do.

By maintaining five combat branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard), you maintain five unique approaches to warfare.

Consequently, when the situation calls for it, you can apply any of those four unique approaches.

Whether or not that's worth the cost of distinct services is debatable, but it's certainly a benefit from the approach.
Well, the EOS R and RP are entry level cameras. They have yet to release a professional series mirrorless camera. Comparatively, the 1st gen Sony mirrorless systems were pretty bad. They had tiny bodies that overheated, had poor battery life, and had slow unreliable AF. Ofcource, The EOS R and RP won't be compared to Sony's 1st gen, which is very fair, but I don't think canon has failed in this market.
Wealthfront isn't a very large company so if you are telling the truth you have potentially given enough information about your friend for people there to identify him/her.
Sorry, to clarify - 300k is a pay rate so far beyond what most people make that I'd consider it to fall under my caveat. Any person who is making enough money to be replaced with a well compensated manager leading three entry or low mid-level pay (120k for the manager, 60k each for the team member) is... sort of astounding. I don't know what level of productivity you'd need to hit to rationally be compensated at that level while other people get so little.

And to clarify a bit more, 11k for a person making 300k a year is just a single week's take home, so maybe a more measured response is just that this is equivalent (for a person making 300k to a person making 60k) as blowing 1k at vegas on a weekend.
Do report back if you find it! I'll check it out.

Part of the premise of the Deus Ex games (thinking specifically of Mankind Divided) is "augmentations" that can make people better in all kinds of ways, but are generally only available to the wealthy elite which leads to all kinds of trouble. What happens when the "elite" don't just seem better - but objectively (and universally) _are_ by real measures. Longer and more accurate memories, longer life spans, more knowledge of their surroundings, better judges of character, stronger, faster, smarter - etc. Not necessarily "faking it" they really do remember more, but that's because they can store their memories in a chip in their head. All at a cost that prevents the 99% from having these advantages. (Though, the progress made by these folks can be broadly beneficial.)

Yes, yes, I know somebody is already itching to comment that this is present state - I'll leave you to it.
It's very easy to remap caps lock to escape.
Maybe they could actually have a chance if they took note of what the users really wanted. Magic Lantern was one of the main reasons many friends of mine got a Canon, and the only reason it could exist is because some old source code leaked. Why not provide an open interface for that kind of stuff? Or at least provide similar features.
In the case of iOS devices, Apple just released a series of patches for devices back to the iPhone 4s that was introduced in 2011.
If giving a bunch of academics vacations in La Jolla is so useful to the bottom line, maybe Google, Apple, or Walmart should buy their services instead.
Happy to talk more offline, my email is my profile. The short answer is no because there are more complexities involved - both related to our specific use cases but really natural language in general. If that were the case NLP would be solved and any company that could exist would already. From my experience, I'm not sure where the line is between choosing the right model vs having the right data solves most problems. There have been novel architecture developments like rnns and lstms that have shown well to support certain domains. New architecture are developing each year and the space moves very quickly. On the flip side, having pedabtyes of data (like BERT or OpenGPT) and simpler architectures is also powerful but prohibitive to everyone that is not Google or state government. The real answer is probably somewhere in between and whiles it's unsolved, there is work for me to do. That being said, our strategic philosophy is to make our AI a commodity so that we can differentiate ourselves on other features.

Most of our problem don't cleanly map to existing NLP tasks. State of the art often isn't as high as you think in many tasks. For example, the machine translation in relation to beta feature we're building that lets you ask the question of arbitrary single tables (kind of like wiki-tables) but we don't the know the schemas in advance or the questions the user may ask about. Outside of having the issue of having quality annotated data (which we often don't - cold start problem), we need to do more than simple model tuning. It requires building custom architectures.

But even when you consider known tasks, state of the art models do not often produce those same results on real-world data. If you put aside data quality issues (which is another huge challenge for us), in the context of question answering, the training data rarely captures the distribution of the natural language in the wild. People ask questions differently and use language that doesn't match the content in our knowledge base.

I could go on. But short answer, it's not as straightforward as you think. Even at google scale, machine learning is not solved. For everyone else with fewer data and domain-specific use cases, it's even harder.
Mobycast Microservices Miniseries
Organising apps by language seems weird...
That's always the argument from the business standpoint. How much of their ecosystem is on a foundation of professional Mac users? A majority of the professionals I know won't buy the current touchbar model MacBook Pro. Does that market even matter anymore?
Which still requires a backdoor or control agency which is insecure and can be exploited by anyone by grace of existing and given some time/effort.
TouchID improved over time/iterations, as will FaceID. Can't be stuck in the present.
Mobycast recently did a breakdown of sizing and organizing microservies, dismantling monoliths, and micro front-ends. The microservices stuff I was mostly familiar with, but the micro front-ends episode was pretty new and interesting.
I'm an engineer at Pivotal, having returned after a few years at startups, both practicing XP and not. The part about verbal-only requirements couldn't be more incorrect. Stories might start as a title and a sentence or two description, but more often than not here they get written up with gherkin-like Given/When/Then sets of acceptance criteria with additional details/considerations noted down.

Regardless of that issue, XP isn't for everyone, and there's nothing wrong with that. I like it though, that's why I'm back. :)

EDIT: Also, I don't know him, but our writer here seems to think a lot about how he interacts with his dev team, which I appreciate, but think maybe he got into his own head about it a little bit too much here. But I also don't really mind interruptions.
Great article! I always love hearing Stripe talking about their internals.

I've been using this practice and I agree that it's incredibly useful. I think because people tend to think in terms of "logs", they end up overlooking the much more useful construct of "canonical logs". Many fine-grained logs themselves are almost always less useful than the fewer fully-described canonical logs. Other observability tools often call these "events" instead of "logs" for that reason.

There's a tool call Honeycomb [1] that gives you exactly what this article's talking about in a really nicely designed package out of the box. And since it handles all of the ingestion and visualization, you don't have to worry about setting up Kafka, or the performance of logplexes, or teaching everyone SQL, or how to get nice graphs. I was a little skeptical at first, but after using it for over a year now I'm completely converted.

If you record fully-described "events" for each request, and you use sub-spans for the smaller segments of requests, you also get a waterfall-style trace visualization. Which eliminates the last need for fine-grained logs completely.

If this article seems interesting to you, I'd highly, highly recommend Honeycomb. (Completely unaffiliated, I just think it's a great product.)

[1]: https://www.honeycomb.io/
Really wish I could run it on my my laptop with a Radeon HD 6750M, though. Instead it's just a blank screen with a spinner for a cursor, which isn't the greatest experience.

Sure, the minimum requirements are "GCN 1st gen and up", which came out after the 6750M, but other apps with GPU acceleration work fine with it, and Blender 2.79 also worked fine, so it's kind of shitty to miss out on all the amazing new stuff that got added to 2.80 =(
> when you the word question like that and say the backdoor is to “monitor suspected terrorists” of course the average idiot will agree

And that's where democracy falls down
If you're doing a monorepo I think it's strongly implied that you'll
also use a build system (Blaze/Brazil/BuildXL etc) that has granular compilation units and output caching so build time doesn't scale linearly with the company's total codebase.

It's definitely important to consider before jumping in. Going from 5m to 50m compile times would be a major issue for me.
Veblen goods (which you good argue an iPhone is) are very sticky and very profitable. To say that veblen goods shouldn't exist is kind of missing the point.
Because they want you to buy their expensive, professional EOS Cinema products for video use which have all the features you need.
Wifi tethering is cumbersome to set up and is a janky experience.

I want to take a picture of someone at a party and share it with them in a few seconds like I can do on my phone.

It is the main reason I don't use a DSLR much at all anymore.
Actually, I have sometimes done what I think is my best work, in toxic work places. It was fleeting, but the mood at the time was "this place sucks, but boy, am I getting it on".

Overall I agree there is a pope/catholic tree/forest moment here, but this is bell-curve overlap venn diagram stuff, the outliers are amusing, but not informative of the trend.

tl;dr slacker finds life in toxic company can be fulfilling.
I'm confused, where did you get the impression that he only wants to read the cooking section and nothing from the regular newspaper?

Or do you want him to pay $200 for the general contents + $40 a year for recipes? Is it the same kind of deal for getting business breaking news or yoga tutorials? That seems crazy to me.
Those that are used to hiking the Himalayas could live on Mars with a little extra pressurization and some basic filtering. It doesn't seem that unfeasible.
If you were the leader of a country that would find itself in the crosshairs of another that was quite aggressive in the world stage, starting wars unilaterally, what would you do?

I would probably try and cosy up to my immediate neighbours, not antagonise them.
Have you considered that your question is a non-sequitur? Short of quitting my job and becoming a subsistence farmer, my company is going to supply me with a computer and a phone for the foreseeable future. The exact nature of those devices isn't really important. They're going to exist and they're going to cost the same order of magnitude as a Macbook Pro and an iPhone.
I think this article indirectly highlights why mob rule and direct democracies are so potentially dangerous: people need to feel accepted, and will take many ideas on faith, even dangerous ones, than to risk having an opinion that causes them to feel the scorn of their peers.
I'm fairly shocked to find that a community of seemingly technically competent people would forfeit their 4th amendment rights in order to save a few seconds keying in a passcode. This small detail feels like a microcosm of tech in general currently :/
What you said is true, lacking the mathematical intuition will limit you. But understanding the proof is not essential to implementing the approach.
> But the number of tech startups that go public is small. Only one YC backed company has ever gone public - Dropbox.

I think the real irony is that AirBnB is their biggest darling, and it's not a tech company. The history of that company is very interesting, going back to Paul Graham making a note of them being the first founders without a technical background to get into YC (the third cofounder who is technical was added to the roster later on, or at least given the title).

That said, I have high hopes for Stripe, Ginkgo Bioworks, Gusto, Docker, Gitlab, and some of their other companies (not that they'll necessarily go public, but that they'll become real companies - I'd argue this describes twitch).
Sure, provided you have enough data to feed a neutral net, and the problem is well suited to it and you don’t mind giving up huge chunks of explainability.

I recently replaced a classifier at work that was using a neural net with a decision tree and some hand chosen features. It performs a bit better, it takes way less time to train and it’s significantly more explainable: my teammates asked why it sometimes miss-classifies a certain edge case, and because the features and model properties were so easy to understand, fixing the issue was a couple of hours work and not a case of “who knows”.
Warehouse work sucks. Amazon's warehouse work is above average for warehouse work.
I can argue that in the last 10 years, the stock price for non-payers of dividends is no longer a function of KPIs. Take for example Pinterest. It was offloaded to the stock market when KPIs have been dropping for a very long time [1]. The company is likely doomed.
Yet the stock is above the IPO [2].

1. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...

2. https://robinhood.com/stocks/PINS [1Y]
Who needs AR glasses? I don't doubt some geeks want them, and they can be useful for some jobs, otherwise Google already has shown how it will go.
I supposed it's this one, but it's public domain and over the years has been forked many many times (far more than I ever expected).

http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=summary
Local governments, too.

In my neck of the woods, there are departments that have to make do with whole teams of low-skill employees because, while a more skilled person could do the work of at least four lower-skill workers, they would also require two lower-skill workers' worth of salary, and you just can't be paying any one person that much money because that would be Government Waste.
It's extra fun when touchbaragent hangs and you can't force quit anything
Apple baits Trump by saying it wants to keep making Mac Pro in the US
An obvious counter example is Aircraft carriers need to refuel for their aircraft regularly and can’t travel quickly during this process. Nor can they accelerate quickly if caught in such a situation.

Further, to be useful aircraft carriers need to stay near their targets and a few subs acting in concert can lie in it’s probable path. Think one sub every ~30 miles in a line sweeping slowly and they can close the trap.

On top of that subs can also launch missiles not just torpedo’s.
I wrote a blog post about this awhile back, when the UK government was talking about adding backdoors to encrypted messaging platforms, framed as an open letter to our PM. It's a basic introduction to cryptography (I'm no expert though).

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2017/06/11/dear-theresa/

Given that the maths is "out of the bag", any motivated criminal organisation or group that is intent on not being caught can quite easily encrypt their own communications. The only people who won't are the innocent public, who can be spied on with impunity.
Not everywhere. Just the US seems to be stuck in throttle limbo. And already Apple has a very large userbase outside of the US.
I bought my son a $200 Moto G. It was suppose to be one of the best midrange phones. It sucked in so many ways. He was glad to “upgrade” to my old iPhone 6s that was three years older. Even now, four years later, the 6s runs rings around newer midrange Android phones.
At the minimum I’d like to be able to disable the touch bar. I only ever activate it accidentally and there is zero feedback. I never look at my keys. I really like the fingerprint scanner but it’s not worth the disruption in productivity.
How are they put to shame by everyone else on AF? Could you be more specific?
$4 per article for a paper that's $2.50 on newsstands is not a reasonable price.

> But go ahead and move the goalposts again. We'll wait.

Stop that. The original goalpost clearly says $25-50.
Please show me where I said they shouldn't exist? There's definitely a market for them, so I think they should exist. It's just - if I'm being honest - you're either a fool, or very rich, to be buying some of these "veblen goods" (given the more than adequate alternatives)
Foxes are a better example. Took only 10 generations to domesticate, and the result wasn't just demeanor - physical, dog-like changes resulted as well: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/domesticated-foxes-gene...
FaceID fails when your face is not fully visible.

That would be nice and simple if it were true, but it's not. Sometimes it fails when my face is fully visible. Sometimes it works when my face is not fully visible. It can work or not work with the same pair of sunglasses depending on... who knows? Maybe I'm just not smart enough to figure out the exact meaning of "fully visible."
Apple attribute $10 ( or $20 I can't remember ) per Unit ( iPhone, iPad and Mac ) into Services for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Apple Map.

There is roughly $10 per user paid to Apple ( iPhone, iPad, Mac ) for using Google as default search engine. Last estimate were $9B. Before you ask the Active User and $9B don't align, Keep in mind this is users excluding China, where Google is not available.

And App Store purchase, that is the 30% cut Apple received.

These three item likely combined to be 80%+ of Apple Services Revenue. The rest are iCloud, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Card etc..
The Navy is under-equipped because the Oklahoma Republican operates under the delusion that taxes are unnecessary (Inhofe signed the Norquist pledge) and that in general, private enterprise is _always_ better at things than government enterprise.

This is not the military-industrial complex any more - this is the deliberate bleeding dry of government coffers by using the military as a money extraction machine. It's not feeding itself any more, at this point it's pure value extraction until things collapse.