skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I must sadly conclude that there is no significant economic benefit to these ideas

Halfway through the movie Ray, about Ray Charles (a blind musician), I closed my eyes and watched the rest of the movie "blind" to ... try to empathize with the antagonist. It was a good theater, good sound system. The audio in the movie really helps. I remember a scene near the beginning with a cricket or grasshopper he was listening to as a child and the location of the sounds drew my eyes right to that spot on the screen.

There was a school for blind children near where I grew up and I had been to that school as a child, not because I'm blind, but for other reasons. After watching Ray, I was inspired to help the students there and developed a piece of software that blind people could use to "hear" things on the screen as they moved their mouse around.

I used it on sighted people. They could tell vaguely what was behind the blanked out screen with only sounds playing to indicate something was behind or under the mouse. "It's a tree!" they would say, when it was a cross, for example. I thought, "It works!"

So I took the software to the blind school and showed it to the administrators.

They sat back in their chairs.

"This is nice. I appreciate the effort you spent, but there's no aptitude in the students here for something like this, they couldn't learn to use this." One of them said.

I said, "Can we try? Can you give it to one of the kids with some aptitude and see if it'll help? I can make it better. I can work with them one-on-one and see if we can make it work!"

He kinda shook his head, "No... no I don't think so, but hey I've been wanting someone to help me with my website can you help me with that?"

So, there you have it.

I was so sad. So disappointed that I was shut down like that.

Brings a tear to my eyes just typing this out right now...

I guess my point is that ... who cares about economic benefit? Why is the world like that? I cared enough. I had no economic incentive. I just wanted to help people use computers better. Get access to things. Have a new way to perceive the world.

Why isn't that good enough? I had that inspiration and went out and did something to make the world better and the people in power, those in charge, shut me down.

Why on earth would he do that?
There is no reason given to think that anyone is ignoring the total cost of training and not factoring this in when comparing models.

Do you think Google is funding all this research and just forgetting to consider the cost of training BERT? Do you think any researchers are ignoring the cost of renting GPUs or their university overhead? AI researchers talk all the time about costs! They're positively obsessed with it, in a way you don't see in any other area. (When was the last time you saw someone snicker about a CRISPR paper, 'yeah, nice results, but you know those reagents cost thousands of dollars, right?' Or covered in said paper?)

It's quite a double standard. Someone wants to spend >$20 billion on ITER (which doesn't work), you never hear about it; someone sketches out that the most inefficient way to train a neural net model (using on-demand cloud GPUs) costs $1m, suddenly it's a huge deal, a boondoggle, researchers should be ashamed of themselves, it's a threat to research, and we need 'green AI'.
Tesla is heading that direction too with Model Y coming out next year and the truck they are expected to announce in November.
This will be interesting to watch.
>> I am from a poorer European country, and I've never noticed that.

I am too. My distant acquaintance does business with a large retailer in the UK where they would buy returned products off the retailer at a much cheaper price (e.g. defects) and resell them in the Baltics.
I’m jealous. I’ve lived in California oregon and Washington my whole life. You basically can’t walk to most nearby locations because of freeways, interstates, etc. In my current city there’s only two stores I can walk to because I’m walled in by major streets/freeways
The "uritrottoirs" do seem a bit crazy:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/europe/paris-urinal-intl/inde...

Only 4 of them at the time of this article though.
Now, you are asking for subscription-based, but have you considered that it is perfectly possible to host on your own hardware at home perfectly fine for experimental/personal stuff? Just buy the cheapest Raspberry Pi (or a clone or whatever) and hook it up at home, that's certainly going to be cheaper than any of the cloud providers being thrown around here, only the cheapest lowendtalk offers might be cheaper still.
Bitwarden. You can self-host the bitwarden_rs backend and basically get premium features for free as well.
I would argue that software devs should be restricted to older equipment- I develop on an older ThinkPad with 8GB & dual core. I think the devs who manage to create things like Slack & the new Gmail interface should try using their products on something other than the newest gen hardware. I've noticed the same tendency myself--when I was developing on my (overpowered) desktop I didn't have to pay any attention to performance and the quality of my work suffered.
The option is documented at https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/axes/cartesian/time.html... but the performance implications aren't. I'll work on adding something there.
That's great to hear! And, acknowledged on the activitypub likely taking a bit of time to roll out. That area is still new enough for many people. But again good to hear you're heading in the right direction! Cheers!
It's so annoying when they use latin for the sake of latin. My brain automatically translates "inter alia" to "among other things", but why not just say "among other things"?

I get it if there just isn't an English equivalent for a phrase, but when there is, and it fits 100%, it should be unacceptable to use anything else.
I've really enjoyed weekly writer's meetups. They come in different flavors, but essentially, writers get together in a coffee shop, chat for 5 minutes, and then write for an hour or two in silence. Helps make writing a little more fun than sitting in a cave by yourself, and it's nice to connect with fellow writers.
I'd love to discuss this more, however I can't find any contact information in your profile.
Paris too hot in the summer? C'mon, the average high is like 25C. Too cold in the winter? Oulu, Finland would like a word.

As Germans would say, there is no bad weather, only bad clothing. Or in this case, probably bad infrastructure. Only visited once, but Paris didn't seem to have all that many protected bike lanes and paths compared to even Munich -- which definitely still favors cars over bikes -- let alone compared to Dutch cities.
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Bitwarden.
I really enjoyed this article. It's still as applicable today as when it was written. Not everything needs to be a SaaS.
There's lies, damn lies and statistics.

Yes, Model X (at 192) is second highest in its class.

It's also better than any passenger car in top 10 (lowest at 204) and better than any pickup truck in top 10 (lowest at 205).

So if we care about fire safety, we should replace every passenger car and pick up with the "terrible" Model X.

Also worth noting that, to my knowledge, there wasn't a single non-crash fire in Model 3, which points to a dramatic improvement in battery safety from Model S/X to Model 3, even from the baseline of "much better than most passenger cars and pick up trucks".
Yeah way more expensive - a license is like 5k.

It's free for non-commercial use though

Anyway - the space does need some competition so good luck with your project!
An Expectation of Gatitude
Thanks for this reminder! And the more options that exist in this area the better. Also I like your idea of leveraging writefreely and Able, etc. Thanks for sharing!
It doesn't seem your oscillators are behaving correctly when you vary their frequency input. You seem to be doing something like phase = freq * time, which will break horribly when freq changes. Instead, you need to accumulate the phase over time based on whatever freq happens to be, like phase += freq * timeOfSingleSample.
> The article is mixing a few different points in a strange way. Paris has an excellent subway system with about 350 stations, everywhere you want to go there is a subway station less than 500 meters away, sometimes you have 2-3 stations in this range. There is also the RER that connects to surrounding cities and villages. Driving is Paris does not make too much sense to me. But building lots of bicycle lanes is not making any significant difference, as a person that used to use the bicycle to commute to the office I can tell I had just 6-7 months when I was able to do that - in hot summer and in the middle of the winter it is simply too unpleasant to use the bicycle.

It is okay-ish when you live in Paris and go work in Paris. When, like most people, you have to live outside Paris and go work there or worse: go work on some other side of Paris the public transportation system is shit.
> "Improve stuff" is extremely subjective

well breathing clean air and not cooking the planet is about as non-subjective as it gets. We're not really talking about sophisticated moral quandaries here, the bar for improvement in our societies is actually surprisingly low.

Not having everyone of the billions of people living in our cities carry around two tons of steel wherever they go ought to appeal to anyone who can do a bit of napkin math about energy consumption.

Elected officials doing whatever people tell them like a sort of walking strawpoll is a nice fiction but at the end of the day letting the inmates run the asylum is a bad idea. If we want to make necessary improvements it's going to come at the cost of going against the often short-sighted interests of citizens.
I did this same experiment in September of last year. (just checked my orgmode notes)

My conclusion then was that the speedometer 2.0 benchmark is dominated by page load, because it does that a zillion times as it goes through all the different todomvc implementations.

The lastpass performance tax shows up mostly during page load.

The question is, how representative is the speedometer benchark of normal use?
It may sound silly, but learn to maintain a fountain pen.

If you stop writing, the ink dries out. So write a page every day. Yes, you'll be writing about the pen and paper a bit. But your brain will be rewired to move your hand.

You'll need to learn the ritual of cleaning the pen with cool water (preferably distilled). You'll love the ritual of carefully opening the bottle of ink, and filling the converter (I recommend a blunt syringe). The bottle is very often beautiful in and of itself. Once you have refilled the pen (and cleaned it off), it begs to be used again.

Get good paper, or at least paper able to stand up to proper liquid ink.

Eventually, you will find that you're not writing about how well the ink is flowing, or whether the nib is scratchy. You'll be writing out your thoughts on the use of narrative for propaganda, or the challenges of raising children, or the sadness you feel at the change of season. Or you'll write about the pen.

You'll get in the habit, though. It will clarify your thoughts. One last recommendation: put the date on each entry. You'll find it interesting later.

Fountain pens 101 [1] is a good set of videos for learning about fountain pens.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AEFDC6AC935BAFC
Yep. I've used Macs since Apple's first Intel release because they were good, hackable x86 machines.

That's no longer the case, and I already use Ubuntu. The switch will be easy, and as an added bonus, it will be cheaper.
Just so every one isn't confused, this is a spec only. It has not been written. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of it, but it has been a spec for a while and no progress yet, so don't be surprised when you can't find the github.

That said, I think it's excellent that they guys behind this are taking the time to think it out and design it well before they start slinging code. I believe a much better end result will be achieved because of it.
Pretty much same, though I've been in analytics and PM at a few "unicorns" over the last 6 years.

For me the disillusion has more to do with feeling like working at a "unicorn" tech co is no different than any other corporate environment, where you have people who are optimizing for titles and influence doing anything to achieve those things, and feeling like playing those games is just not compatible with my personality.

The other part of it was the cognitive dissonance I got between hearing "this is changing the world" and thinking to myself "is this really that innovative and is this a net benefit to the world?"

I guess 6 years in tech is about the time when both you've saved enough and seen enough to decide you want to not do anything for a bit anymore...haha.
I would encourage you to release this under a free software license like GPL. People are increasingly skeptical of "platforms" and proprietary licensing.
>Better title: "Why are drivers killing more pedestrians?"

I disagree. That title lacks information and might lead to some people to think drivers are beating the pedestrians to death or maybe they're more prone to gun violence against pedestrians.

Maybe, a better title could be: "Why are drivers who are currently driving a car, pedestrians currently walking on the street, by running them over with said car"
Goto.com did keyword ads well before Google. I think you are just forgetting history to make Google seem super unique.
If you're behind the wheel there is no reason to be on the phone whatsoever. If it's that important you can pull off to the side and face/touch/swipe away.
When I do frontend work I always work in Firefox [0]. I think once we caught something that didn’t work in other browsers.

That happens all the time it seems with those who work in a certain other browser. Why? I can’t say for certain, I guess it is because that other browser doesn’t care as muvh about web standards but there might also be some part that has to do with most users of that other browser not caring too much about the web ecosystem.

[0]: I always do that anyway hehe, it is my not-so-secret research tool ;-)
That's a nice way to put it. Once you have a toddler and you're walking around on a street with them, you realize that cars represent DRASTICALLY more imminent, lethal danger to your kid than basically anything else around.
But you can compare to, say, Baltimore, where there's barely any surface parking around the convention center there, despite the fact that it's right next to a major sports stadium.
FWIW those people are poorly served indeed by a car-only city when they are no longer fit to drive & lose their license.
There's an option that'll increase the resolution...

options: { devicePixelRatio: 2 }
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> wind and solar panels are space-inefficient

Wind does not take up much space. You can place them in agricultural areas, at seas or even in mountain highlands.

Solar placed on roofs or over parking spaces does not compete with anything for space either. Even installing it on grasslands is less terrible than it seems, it does not create deserts because enough sunlight gets through between the panels to let planets grow in the shade.
OVH, Hetzner, and the whole Low End family

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https://www.lowendtalk.com/

https://lowendbox.com/

But nowadays you can get servers for free. AWS, Google, and even Oracle have free triers:

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https://cloud.google.com/free/

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This is incredibly idiotic. I support societal change to reduce the impact of climate change, however, what this article argues is not part of the solution and just stymies efforts that actually have potential to make change happen.
Both of these look like they are aimed at IT and data science professionals.
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> to overfit some dataset that excel at some completely artificial leaderboard metric.

This comment exemplifies the myopic narrowminded focus on costs and being dismissive of the benefits of greater resource investments which I am criticizing here. Said 'completely artificial' tasks like ImageNet actually turn out to transfer really well to the real world and are why AI is becoming so useful, and also spurred the research into how to create efficient NNs via distillation and compression which still cannot be done without training the large models first. You need to invest if you want efficiency. Performance precedes it, it doesn't follow it. As the programming saying goes: get it correct, then get it fast.
All I am hearing from you is "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded!"
http://gooyadaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/f1-3.jpg

and they're "eco friendly" because you then have government employees take out a small sized box fit for a few uses and put it into compost ... because apparently human pee is so rich in nutrients that the net benefit out-weights employing additional people to do such work.

But you know, French millennials are crazy about composting so having that scores some solid political popularity points.

Here: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/CCF1/production/...

You can see the boxes are leaking, but instead of hidden corner you now have the liquids right next to building's entry.

And let's not forget the highly frequented areas: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/08/30/13/4F867576000...
haha, i used to think so, but the application of pure mathematics(software) via the manipulation of an electric charge in a PCB is technology too.
I have a late-2013 as well, but was advised by a Genius that as of this month, the machines will be classified vintage (though not yet reflected on their vintage products list). Moving forward, official repairs will be next to impossible. This came about as I noticed minor warping of the bottom case, which is likely from the battery beginning to swell, meaning that a battery replacement automatically gets a topcover replacement. Because of the swelling, the Genius said that a depot repair was not possible and would have to be done in-store.

I authorized the repair, and the Genius placed an order for the new part, but with no guarantee of availability. This was several weeks ago, and never got a call back. So I'm on my own.

Currently, the machine nets $360 on Apple's trade-in site, but am loathing getting a new one with a subpar keyboard and poor thermals. I may just get the iFixit battery kit ($100) and try to replace it myself.
The article is about automating away that change to the point where you don't have control over the order of operations, or the intermediate state(s) of the system.
If we want women to persist in computing, teach them programming – at any age
> So your post felt like a (small) attack too.

Certainly not my intent. I come across stuff like GGP and I have a gut reaction "Oh! I know a thing! Here, see what I know?! I am helpful!"

I do this occasionally at work, too: where I explain something fundamental to people who have been doing the work for 20+ years.

Part of it is that I'm reinforcing my mental model, and part is I'm trying to be helpful. I suppose this can come across as patronizing or insulting. That's never my intent. I try not to assume what people do or don't know, because I don't know quite a lot and the asides that people make are super helpful to me (especially in fields that I know nothing about).
And, as I already pointed out, none of their suggests cost metrics are even close to a total cost, and many of them are seriously misleading, and they use them in misleading rhetorical ways (as I noted about their bogus estimates of CO2 emissions). Everything about this paper, from the name 'green AI' on down, is framed to put sole attention on a narrow arbitrary section of costs of political relevance, at the cost of a holistic evaluation. A single vague clause about 'other measures' doesn't change that, no matter how you italicize it. Motte-and-bailey.
Counterpoint, as a Model 3 owner.

The lack of tactile controls for things like climate controls, sound system, etc., is very frustrating. I find myself having to mess around with the touchscreen much more than I'd like while driving. You get used to the central screen in lieu of a traditional dashboard pretty quickly, but I'd prefer more traditional dashboard functions to be aligned to display(s) on the driver's side.

I despise the lack of a traditional keyfob or non-phone means of locking/unlocking the car other than the awkward keycard (only useful through the driver's side).

It represents an extremely opinionated way of doing things. If you love life with your iPhone and Apple's extremely opinionated way about how it should work and how you should work with it, the Model 3 gives you something approaching that. Smartphones have their utility, but I'm not the kind of person that lives my digital life through one. I therefore have no love for the idea of my car as a roadgoing smartphone. I also couldn't possibly give less of a shit over Autopilot as we are so far away from that technology being rigorous.

Interior materials, particularly the carpet, are cheap.

There are also significant privacy implications associated with the connectivity, which Tesla does not do enough to address.

Things I do enjoy: the refreshing minimalism, the styling (though body panel alignment still has room to improve), and the energy & drivetrain technology. It is definitely enjoyable to drive. Driving our other combustion engine hybrid is a steep step backward into a cruder era.

Bottom line: Tesla's energy & drivetrain technology are years ahead of other manufacturers; if that matters to you, there is no current package like Tesla's. I look forward to the time when more traditional auto manufacturers catch up and I have well-engineered choices that don't require me to live with Tesla/Elon's opinions on how an EV should work.
Sounds like it mostly just needs better public transit. More bike lanes would also likely come in handy; bikes and scooters, whether owned or rented, can be very useful as complements to transit to take you that last mile.

I have a folding scooter that I take with me on buses and trains here in Munich, and while it's certainly dorky, it's also super useful.
That’s the average but what’s the median? The long tail on new car prices crosses multiple orders of magnitude.
So you think the oscillators should essentially be stateful? That might explain why I can't seem to implement 303-style slide correctly.
long time Windows RCE guy here, i agree that this PID "issue" is nonsense. no serious person anywhere has ever secured something with just a PID. that's ridiculous.
To make this type of search higher precision&recall you would have to focus especially on the indexing part (e.g. improve NLU of concepts in the pages), right?
The training of such ML models could be federated across the nodes in a private way.
I suspect the real motivation is ... and classicism (only the rich drive cars in NYC)

Well, then banning cars is certainly one way to get the rich to care about making transit better...
You mean like in Go?

func add(x int, y int) int {
return x + y
}

I doubt this is more readable, but everyone has their own taste.
Anecdotally, thousands of Norwegians have a Tesla as their only car. The Supercharger network makes long trips completely painless, practically equivalent with an ICE vehicle.
When I tried to learn Haskell, I tried doing the kind of stuff I usually do in Ruby: parsing log files, converting text formats, etc. It seemed hopeless. I'm curious to hear about the experience of someone who uses Haskell for everyday tasks. Does anyone do that?