skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting how many different directions people have gone in doing something along these lines...

Since 2014 I've been building a system with a similar objective, but focusing on 1) visualizing at (hopefully) the most useful level of abstraction 2) making the time-evolution of objects in memory clear and navigable.

Video and details here: http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd

My system works by monitoring/rendering explicitly defined data structures (something like `Lucidity.monitor(my_tree_data_structure)`), but more generally I think of the tool that we're missing as a kind of 'abstractoscope'--some means of automatically transforming the contents of a running program's representation in memory into something comprehensible by humans.

The problem feels to me sort of like needing a microscope--we need a relatively passive instrument in order to monitor the behavior of running programs (which are not visible to the naked eye). The problem in this case is that we have too much information instead of too little though, so our instrument needs to automatically discard irrelevant information (i.e. abstract) for us, rather than magnifying.
> The long term stability of those buybacks isn’t taken into account with valuation models.

Really? The money that can be made in finance results in billions of dollars of wages and you think the PHDs they can hire with that money cannot properly evaluate the effect of stock buybacks in their valuation models?

> Every new dollar put into index funds gets invested proportionally in each company to the market cap of SP 500. Microsoft gets bid nearly 4.5c on every dollar. The top 10 stocks combined get 25c on every dollar.

What's your point?
I personally wouldn’t consider a remote job. I’d say I’m far from alone. It may suit some people, but certainly not all.
Have you checked AT&T? I live in Santa Cruz (a small city) and was surprised to find that they wired my neighborhood for fiber last year. Price is competitive with Comcast and it’s been solid since I signed up a few months ago.
Oh. I admit to not have expected that answer ;)
I recognize that the problem outside of US Canada Western and Central Europe, etc is worse, but I live next to a creek in US, and I guarantee you that there is A LOT of junk getting into the water, and not just plastic.
I've been thinking about solving the same problem for myself personally (Even made an app here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prim-relationship-manager/id14...).

How are you avoiding manual data entry given social media's reluctance to release this information? Semi-related, how are you respecting user's data?
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This was said about recovering orbital rocket boosters, yet now SpaceX does it most of the time.

Doing that for fighter jets is actually much easier. The speeds are much slower and the distance is much lower.
With chrome extensions, unfortunately that's the only option for developers; read all urls/data or no access to urls/data
Unfortunately none of my projects are open source and all of the documentation is in a physical notebook in my desk drawer.

I’m just not a very good programmer so unless I explain to myself what this code does and why, I’m not likely to remember why I wrote it.
Could this be used by the military to lessen combat injuries?
This is a great change particularly with respect to guests being in other houses (visiting friends, Airbnb, ...)
Good connection. The world wars can also be perceived as points where humanity invented new, more “wholesale” ways of murdering ourselves. Their end is also punctuated with the creating of the atomic bomb. We’ve just started to uncover the ways to use the internet as a weapon and haven’t invented any real countervailing forces to it.
would you mind sourcing that info for me?
It's also not as if Homer's speech was portraying him (or white people) in the best light. Apu was a recognizable character because of the setting and the accent. People do have accents. The audience watching the show in the 90's could relate to that specific convenience store experience. So Apu isn't the best representative of people from India/Pakistan. Homer, Barney, and the rest aren't the best representation of people from America. Comedy/satire is a thing. About the only character who represents with sterility is Dr. Hibbert.
>I hope not, because I have been able to control the muscle voluntarily and it is still works after almost four decades.

Oh, is that how the brain rumblies thingy works? Huh, I never realized most people couldn't do that.
please be sarcasm
America has a history of defining "black" as being as little as 1/8 African blood. You can be 7/8 white European heritage and be "black" in America.

Historically, it was illegal in much of the US for a white person and black person to marry.

It's just a raft load of nonsense rooted in the detail that America imported slaves from Africa, then used skin color to distinguish free from slave. It hasn't really fully died. We are still living with a lot of those mental models in new guises.
I think I tend to agree with you. I think a lot of stock traders are generally men, which I think explains why the IPO was undervalued compared to the other stocks.
In the past I have owned a BMW 330i and M Roadster, both rear wheel drive. I have never had another vehicle as easy to control on packed snow than either of those.
Top 10 Biggest Risks in WeWork are Revealed https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/74504/top-10-biggest-risks...
You fundamentally misunderstand Section 230.

Also, as a private company, Google/Youtube should be free to moderate what content is on their platform, and I am free to use it or use a competitor. Freedom of speech includes freedom of association.
Scott here from ClearBrain - the ML engineer who built the underlying model behind our causal analytics platform.

We’re really excited to release this feature after months of R&D. Many of our customers want to understand the causal impact of their products, but are unable to iterate quickly enough running A/B tests. Rather than taking the easy path and serving correlation based insights, we took the harder approach of automating causal inference through what's known as an observational study, which can simulate A/B experiments on historical data and eliminate spurious effects. This involved a mix of linear regression, PCA, and large-scale custom Spark infra. Happy to share more about what we did behind the scenes!
Interesting analysis by SWFI guys, Top 10 Biggest Risks in WeWork are Revealed
https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/74504/top-10-biggest-risks...
”using the opensource equivilent of Content Aware Fill (is there an FOSS equal?)”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving#Implementations:

”Adobe Systems acquired a non-exclusive license to seam carving technology from MERL, and implemented it as a feature in Photoshop CS4, where it is called Content Aware Scaling. As the license is non-exclusive, other popular computer graphics applications, among which are GIMP, digiKam, ImageMagick, as well as some stand-alone programs, among which are iResizer, also have implementations of this technique, some of which are released as free and open source software”

Seam carving removes stuff, but the principle is the same. The Gimp plug-in is http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer, and apparently also can do the filling-in. I haven’t used it, so I don’t know how good it is.
I think there is still quite a bit of growth in trade work (building/construction, etc). It's not easily outsourced and pays pretty well. Outside of that, I think we'll reach a point where Software Development as a craft is pushed down in terms of skills for those that don't keep up with ever changing trends.

A lot of the middle class is being pushed out, and their pay will go down relatively speaking as "minimum wage" legislation pushes into law, while businesses have been relatively rapidly increasing prices outpacing any wage increases.

As to TFAs mention of housing, while the market crash was a disruptive event, it mostly caught those who over-spent. For those who bought planning to stay at least 5-10 years, it didn't change too much. Although when your mortgage is 2x your neighbor who bought at the bottom it may sting. But if you bought at what you could afford, you should be fine.

Investment is generally a risk. People tend to want guarantees and it doesn't ever really work that way.
All new residential construction is required to meet International Residential Code energy efficiency provisions. The State Energy Conservation Office provides funding opportunities to support efficiency programs and loans for public institution retrofitting projects. There are many programs requiring, subsidizing, and incentivizing energy efficiency: https://programs.dsireusa.org/system/program

What do you mean by it's Texas?
I've never seen a nest camera in the wild.

I do however have a little USB webcam with LEDs that cannot be disabled. I taped over them with black tape so as not to draw attention to the camera. The proper version of this would just be to like, desolder them or whatever.

Is there any reason this wouldn't work? Perhaps if the camera is forced to be displayed prominently like on a front door you'd see that it'd been obscured?
With the internet some uni student could build something and become rich. To just get started on space or medical stuff takes more money than most whole corporations have.
Elide -Open Source Java Library -Easily Stand Up JSON API or GraphQL Web Service
As a long time Tumblr user, it's sad to see it's downfall.

I had hope that Automattic would change the content policies that brought the site down, but it seems that won't be the case.

But the fun isn't over just yet. I've launched Libr (https://librapp.com) to replace Tumblr. It's an installable Progressive Web App, getting around app store rules (recall when the Apple app store banned Tumblr).

There's a few hundred users on there that have given me good feedback on improving Libr and it's starting to slowly take off, although I'm not in any hurry and I'm taking my time to make it awesome before turning on the floodgates.
Surely it is possible to figure out why Copenhagen can get a better, longer system than Maryland can get the same money, and see if those reasons apply to health care systems?
Which framework are you using for this?
This feels like a double edged sword. On one hand, yay, now I'll know for sure that the camera is on and I'm being watched.

On the other hand, we know that the light is obviously software controlled, so now we're going to get people used to the idea that "light on == camera on/ light off == camera off", and then when the camera gets inevitably hacked, people will be a lot less cautious if the light is off, assuming the camera is off.
You are right. I've done a lot of development in AIR myself and it is super impressive. Easy TypeScript like language. The Flex SDK is mature with all the standard stylable controls you need. Dedicated IDE that just works great. Easy deployment. I was able to build a cross platform (iOS/Android/Web/Desktop) video chat application with it and it looked and worked great everywhere. Someone dropped the ball somewhere with AIR.. I'm amazed they're still updating it.. that's something at least.

I guess it lives on here?
https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs
Still looks active..

Here's a demo https://royale.apache.org/tourdejewel
Everyone is susceptible to brainwashing. It's also called "indoctrination". Smarter people (or people with better critical thinking skills) are less susceptible. But no one is immune; if people hear the same thing over and over again, eventually it'll influence them.
Its pretty evident from things they said in this blog post that they want to stay firmly in mainstream. They mentioned C/C++ is the only compiler supported by both platform vendors, which is important due to a "whole host of other issues" that they didn't specify. So using a compiler developed by a company that doesn't even sell commercial support would be a non-starter. Still there are commercially supported platforms that are quite mature at this point, such as Xamarin.
Why do they want extended hospital stays? Is it to boost their success statistics or something?
The other ratios have inverted over the last 6 months, I think as early as the 5-1 ratio in January. The 10-2 is simply the more extreme indicator and the bigger signal that a recession will probably happen in the coming 12-24 months. I used 10-2 both as it is in the news this week and is the critical indicator that I studied in college. In January I was referencing the 5-1 as an early indicator that without correction would lead to the 10-2 inverting as well.
That's not the big deal, the big deal is that the CO2 acts as a primer to keep more H2O in the air, which is a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2; the warmer the air the more water it can hold.

Yes it rains out, from time to time and forms clouds which makes this all so very complex.

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/vapor_warming.htm...
No country in the world is self-sufficient; that's why we invented something called "trade" thousands of years ago. There's plenty of countries (small ones) that make almost nothing, and rely on a few key industries to hold up the economy, while getting the rest through trade.
Here's a closer analogy: We're on the Titanic. It's sinking, probably, but it's still mostly possible to ignore it. Some very smart people have calculated that the lifeboats cannot possibly hold the weight of everyone aboard; if we are going to save ourselves, either we have to start throwing some people overboard, or we all have to cut off a limb to meet the weight allowance.

Nobody is especially eager to do either of those things - the people who would have to be thrown overboard are especially not enthusiastic about it, and nobody's exactly enthused about the alternative solution of choosing our least favorite arms. So as long as it's possible to pretend that everything's going to be fine and we're not sinking and the hole isn't that big anyway and even if it was, we could always patch it eventually, and even if we can't, maybe rescue will get here in time ... we're not going to resort to that. Not until we absolutely, really have to.

By the time we're desperate enough to resort to such things, it will be too late and there will no longer be time to select who to throw overboard or conduct the necessary amputations.
It seems to me the question is whether the US market fuels investment in research in other countries.
> Telling other people they are wrong

So maybe she is an engineer... since she said there was no data breach.
The problem is that what we do have, we are restricted on negotiation. On the supply side its a bit borked too. I've repeated this a few times, imho what we need are as follows.

Non-profit insurance corporation that anyone can buy policies from. Shift existing medical systems over to the new one. Limit extension patents. Require dual-sourcing for FDA approval. Restrict charging more than 20% price difference between clients for the same medication/procedure. Require fiduciary efforts from insurance carriers in terms of negotiation.

It's a matter of a few legal shifts and some better policies allowing for more competition.
Pinterest was only discussed on HN as a dominant search leech. Now that google finally deplatformed that viral disease, there's no reason to talk about it.
In 2017, Tumblr had ~400 employees. If each employee had a modest $50k retention bonus, that’s at least an additional $20M. So I’m not sure the total cost for the purchase as $3M- maybe that was just for the corporate assets.
Wouldn't it be nice just to not use the stuff, anyway? Conserve our resources, etc. Plus foodstuffs in plastic ... what's the story there, anyway?

Less code is more. Less stuff is more.
You can't have it both ways; those 6 bankruptcies are just properties too.

So with your wording you should say Trump owned 500 properties and 6 of them lost money. And like any real estate investor, when the properties lost money, Trump gave those 6 properties to the creditors.

But I think my wording is more accurate. Your friend's rental properties may not be individual businesses, but Trump Tower or the Taj Mahal are.
Either way, that video is amazing, even if it makes Danny the “heel” of the call. Take 5 minutes and watch it—it’s an incredible window into how far things have changed in 40 years (especially because at the time, what’s in that video is Deep Magic). Thanks for finding that!
Saying things like "blind hatred for anything produced by Google" isn't accurate or productive.

Bing cares about control like Google, that's why they also implemented it. I stated this, you quoted this, and yet you're changing the argument to be about slow sites for some reason. They are not related. Users can get fast sites as a secondary benefit of more control by search engines through AMP.

Nobody is confused about RSS, but you brought it up first and said AMP was the same. However using RSS does not give you higher placement. Are you disagreeing with that?

As for the rest, I'll try one last time: Users want fast sites, and nobody said they didn't, but Google can influence this speed through rankings without AMP. Rank sites by speed and you get the same outcome with sites that are fast enough. Instant is not necessary and doesn't nearly outweigh the extra cost of implementation and maintenance. This has been the argument this whole time, one that you haven't provided any rebuttal against.
Read about 5 degree vs 1 degree spot. Also read about reflectivity of different colours. Lastly your in camera spot accuracy depends on the focal length of the lens sitting in front of the sensor. You will also benefit from Ansel Adams’s zone system. Read the book if you have time. I think you will like it.

This is why for challenging exposures, we use a hand held meter.

Good questions.
can you link that post you're referring to?
Steve Casner shows the video here in this talk, and provides some context: https://youtu.be/av4KF1j-wp4?t=3284
Bureaucracy and politics.
I shudder to think how many people will read this headline and immediately takeaway that React Native/Flutter/Electron are terrible cross platform solutions.
VMware says it’s in talks to acquire Pivotal Software
Right. I mean, could you just like, dab it with a black permanent marker? I don't know what this light looks like.
I have been following a youtube couple building a shipping container home. It isn't as simple or cheap as you think. You need to deal with rust, sealing floors that have chemicals, cutting out windows, etc... I wonder if they can do that only because they live somewhere with no building regulations.

In contrast to that, our local school additions were a snap. They were prefabs that just needed to be dropped onto slabs.

I think there is a definite hipster trendiness to some uses of containers. It's the typical hype, trough cycle where it's being used in novel ways but also not so good effective ways in other cases.

https://youtu.be/i8qtI15Ntws
> When the outcome of a process results in a disparity (along racial, gender, etc. lines), people generally agree that the process is discriminatory, regardless of whether there was an intent to discriminate.

No, people do not generally agree that a process with a clear cause resulting in an explainable distribution that doesn't reflect society at large is discriminatory. A very specific political view suggests that.

You don't see a lot of female construction workers. Sometimes only a specific group is willing to do, or capable of doing, a job for a perfectly acceptable reason.
This is not true in the United States[1]. Bottled water from municipal sources must be re-filtered by various means, eliminating chlorine, heavy minerals, and other contaminates beyond the acceptable levels for the municipal source alone.

[1]https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/bottled-water...
Exactly - Freedom of Association - its a private company, why should the government regulate that they need to be politically neutral.
Seems these activities were conducted without Huawei corporate being aware or involved. Still an embarrassing compliance failure on their part.
TLDR - it's too hard to find senior C++ mobile devs.

I'm more intrigued by AirBNB moving away from React Native - the linked article says "RN was too small a component to bother supporting, and the developer experience wasn't up to par", but I'd like more detail than that.

I've been working with Flutter for the past 6 months, and it would definitely be my "go-to" for any mobile application.

To be fair, I did spend 2 weeks going down a rabbit-hole to get Flutter talking to a .NET assembly by embedding Mono and invoking via JNI/Obj C, so I know the pain of native interop. If you're mostly doing work at the native platform level, then I can imagine why you'd stay away from a cross-platform VM.

In my case, I ended up with a brittle project that was clearly going to be a PITA to maintain & automate builds for, so I just rewrote the component in question in Dart.
> the amount of work that needs to be done (and hence CPU time that needs to be spent) when crossing the boundary from one to another and back again

That amount is really small for .NET. See this doc https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/dotnet/calling-native-f... it says “PInvoke has an overhead of between 10 and 30 x86 instructions per call.” That’s barely measurable. Close to the cost of a mispredicted branch. 4x cheaper than a single cache miss.

That’s if you do it correctly, i.e. only marshal value types or arrays/pointers of them, don’t use custom marshallers, etc. Also it’s important to specify correct attributes. To call `int func(const sStruct&)` C++ function, you should specify `[In] ref sStruct` in C#.
Curious about how well having that C++ core to share code has worked out for you in the past. Apart from low-level contained code that doesn't require access to too many OS interfaces (user I/O, network, threading, GPS etc) I can't imagine it would be easy or useful to have a C++ core.
Oddly all of my worst coworkers had degrees. The folks who would bullshit their way through life, never really do work, expect their coworkers would pickup the slack.

Most of the self-taught or folks with blue collar or military background have been the best. Hungry and resilient. Strange crowd at times, but great people.
I wonder what happened to the concept of the garage startup that Silicon Valley's foundation is famous for? Too much money from profits and not enough people or ideas to invest in?

Paying for an office space is an extremely inefficient use of resources, especially when plenty of cafe space - or just, you know, your living room, kitchen - or garage - are useful even for teams of 20+ because will be rare to need everyone in a single space at once, and then you can just rent something larger for that event.

I kind of have a challenge with myself to work towards launching the fastest growing projects/platforms using as few resources as possible. whether I'll reach that goal is moot, though - it's more or less a mantra for me to pay attention to whether I am rushing or not.
Fairly obvious from their pictures that they don’t hire minorities and their recruiting shows why.
Probably depends on the camera board, but mechanically disabling the LED is either going to mysteriously disable the entire device, or be undetected, or the designer specifically accounted for that and something else happens.

As long as you’ve got your iron hot, you could replace the LED with a D(iode):

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/111219/remov...
It's less subsidizing as what a controlled market allows. Dual sourcing requirements and limiting extension patents would go a long way. Combined with a fiduciary responsibility for insurance (and more so medicare) negotiations on behalf of clients.
I can't wait until there's an app to force this sound on via bluetooth on every benz you drive past on the interstate :)