skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming up with logical reasons for the behavior of social animals is I think wrong when you consider how evolution works.

Evolution doesn't do logical analysis.

I think there is also this trap that we want theories to be logically/mathematically complete without external side effects. If you're looking for that you want a neat tidy theory that explains why a humpback whale would save a seals bacon.

Evolution though doesn't care about that either.

And then there is a bias Westerners have towards zero sum analysis. (I think this is a legacy of the Victorian and Gilded Age) Reality is for an adult humpback whale messing with a killer whale costs him likely nothing.

If something has no cost evolution doesn't operate off it.

So you're just left with humpback whales like protecting their young, or anything else really. Especially from killer whales in particular.
Obligatory "Why We Sleep" link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06ZZ1YGJ5. Writing is ok, but content is great. In short, sleep impacts many more aspects of your health than most realize and is well understood in many aspects. For instance, I was surprised to learn that poor sleep the week after learning something can significantly reduce your recall of it. When slowly learning something over a few months, it's the difference between retaining it well or not at all. Overall, it motivated me to finally start taking sleep seriously -- going to sleep earlier, at consistent times, swapping out my blue tinted led's, etc. Its made a very large impact on my day to day well being, and I wish I'd started much sooner.
“Google Workers May Be Watching Your Home Footage Submitted to YouTube” - future Bloomberg article.

I always had a lot of sympathy for telemarketers as that seems like a soul deadening job that I lie to friends and family about doing just because I need a job and have bills to pay. I think if I had to write these articles, I would also be really sad and disappointed in myself.
This is all completely normal for a revolution in a region that wants to be independent. It's about time everyone recognized that that's what it is all about. Or did you truly believe that Hong Kong and everyone in it were okay ceasing to have freedom in 2047?
I wish that was the case, but the harsh winter and the 14km commute to work where I am make this roughly impossible several months per year.
Congrats, this was so impressive! Game graphics is an area I know nothing about. Everything just seemed magical.
I really enjoyed this write up. Thank you for putting it together. Even as a TF user, I feel it's a really fair assessment of TF vs PyTorch.

A quick observation that may not be 100% accurate but still worth mentioning: in some ways TF feels like it was written to solve large scale issues on day one. For example, when I started playing with the new TF 2.0 distribution strategies and dataset pipeline, I quickly got the sense that this thing was meant to move and ingest bucketloads of data across hundreds/thousands of vm instances. In a way, I suppose it's a reflection of Google culture where there's a strong emphasis on not doing things that don't scale to Google Scale.

As a result of this, I sort of feel that you should start with PyTorch and eventually graduate to TF if/when the scale requires it. This is sort of like starting with Rails/Django/Node, and migrating to a Go/JVM/[Insert Your Favorite Static Language Here] stack when the traffic load warrants it.
So you are saying that an organization that supports false accusations by others, but is not known to originate them, should be given the benefit of the doubt about assertions they originate.

Here is another model: an organization that supports falsehoods to placate someone powerful in a small matter, like hosting an app, can be trusted to placate the powerful in a more important matter.
“Lately though, I have noticed that we Linux types are insufferable in our own ways...”

Indeed, but this is the (sour) price of 'victory' too: it means Linux is going mainstream now. Hence, it's becoming more 'popular' with all that entails...

Linux is best 'lived' in professional circles nowadays, imho: specific blogs, forums and channels with solution-driven people. I find myself more and more attracted to the RHEL/CentOS/Fedora space for this reason, too.
A lot of the stuff mentioned in this article -- microsleeps, immune weakness, irrational thoughts and behavior -- sure rings a bell from my university days when I would, either for work or school "reasons," routinely pull all-nighters. Ended up with some very bad results.

Also: Schools in general in my area, including elementary, are starting waaaay earlier than they used to, and the kids aren't getting enough sleep, which leads to lethargy and bad behavior, etc etc. I oppose starting kids on the habit of academically-induced sleep deprivation early in life, but every time I complain about it to school officials, they have some clever comeback centered either on "studies" or the convenience of the parents who pay the taxes

Gets me furious
Hey mate, meta comment, sorry to not be responding directly to the content of your comment. I noticed that your post history is almost entirely pro-China posts on the more political submissions here. It could be seen like you’re participating on HN for a political or ideological reason, which really isn’t what this site is about. I’m not trying to call you a shill or anything, just wanted to point out that there might be other forums better designed for political discussion.
I'm not sure I follow you. I was just providing a data point that says some people don't care about the hardware - just like how I buy a car, I don't really care about the details and being able to 'drop in' a replacement HVAC or 'add on' features like neon lights/headers/whatever because those features are not important to me.
I expect seals and humpbacks enjoy interacting with each other and that supportive feelings accompany their relationship.
Humpbacks don't as individuals try to protect their babies in order to pass on their genes and survive as a species, they love them. Its only a tenuous academic exercise to suppose that they do not have a complex appreciation of their neighbors - as though they might be operating with little consciousness, like microbes. There is no great argument that we should reduce the appearance of friendliness between intelligent and emotional species, to clinical survival strategies. Its perhaps a trend left over from recent history when animal psychologists conducted cruel experiments in the name of science.
Does your website have a public repo?
Yeah, I'm not convinced at all. It's the same reason why Julia hasn't replaced Python for scientific computing either. There is wayyy too much infrastructure in Python for datascience / machine-learning to just up and switch to Swift. I get that he's excited about a new challenge, but I don't think it's going to be great for the Python library when Jeremey switches over to Swift.

As it is the API for FastAI is constantly changing and has hardly ever felt particularly stable. I don't see it ending up becoming this complete, stable, polished framework if they keep switching focus. I don't care one way or the other as I don't personally use it because it is way too complex to extend it to do anything simple if you just have your own networks and Dataset class that you want to plug into their infrastructure. Being familiar with Pytorch and Python, I've always found it much easier to just work with those 2 rather than trying to bend the fastai library to do things that don't fit perfectly into the applications they designed for.
Where did Tim Cook specifically say that?

Because in the vice interview you keep citing he specifically dances around answering that question.

The servers were nationalized and the TOS agreement was changed since that 9-to-5 article came out.

Maybe Apple isn't giving access, but forcing the users to move to data centers which are later nationalized, and Then forcing users to agree to give access to that same state-owned company doesn't sound like they are restricting access anymore.
Yes, but is the amount of methane released anywhere near the same as CO2? Hint: methane is measured in parts per billion, whereas co2 is measured in parts per million.
I was born with chronic insomnia and I'm now in my early 30s. I never feel sleepy and just this past Monday I went to work having not slept the night before. I'm healthy now and I guess my body is so used to the effects of sleep deprivation that I feel no side effects (such as headaches), but I wouldn't be surprised if I die very young.

If you have any questions feel free to ask them, just please don't suggest I try melatonin or marijuana.
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I don't. PRISM doesn't work how you described it, as far as I know... It is basically a backdoor to Apple for the NSA (so whatever Apple can see, the NSA can also see).
Ah, thanks. And very disappointing.
I'm in the same boat. Installed the betas on both iPad and MBP about a month ago. Turns out my 2015 pre-horrible-keyboard MBP is too old. And none of the published hacks around the restriction work nowadays.
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Huge supporter of USB-C, but the premise is a joke. Dual chargers are only just starting to trickle out! Few laptops have >2 ports. How many people even in the tech realm have any idea what USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 means? (dual 10Gbit connection)

The cost of implementation is really high & relies on way too many chips to achieve anything. Few SoC have USB-C built in.

It's gonna take a decade before this becomes at all regular. It'll be in products, but it's still exotic to work with, & only doable along very narrow paths. That's the pace we're running at.
> The "demonstrated ability to amass and manage resources" is mostly a matter of luck, with a small dash of willingness to exploit others

Citation very much needed. I'd say "luck given the presence of opportunity and ability", perhaps - but luck alone is certainly not enough. (Or else why do lottery winners do so poorly?)

As for "the willingness to exploit others", is this universally true? Are performers exploiting their audiences? Companies their customers? Their workers? Their vendors?

I think that would be trivially true for some definitions of "exploit", but that is not the definition of exploit that most people would tend to think of.
Really depends on your budget. The most effective way in the shortest possible time would be with AdWords. You can outbid buffer/others in your industry and your website will show up ahead of them. Keep in mind that you will need to bid more and will need a decent budget.

Organic marketing will take time. Take a look at companies like Intercom, they dont market their product but create great content around the target market. Intercom has actually published a great e-book on this. The other option is to build interactive pieces like calculators. This should be focused on what happens if the customer does not leverage your product and potential revenue/other metrics they could be missing out on.
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The way you wrote this was really fascinating an informative. Was disappointed not to see a link to a personal blog or anything on your profile. I could read a lot more of your stuff.
Curious if you've done in-lab sleep studies and if so, what the treatment has been like?
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It's only false equivalence to those zero familiarly of HKer/Mainlander dynamic. Which is the majority of western readers, hence their extreme susceptibility to biased reporting.

>If you’re going to end with this sort of false equivalence, it kind of colors the rest of your argument and makes me wonder if you are being disingenuous here.

The closest analogy to HK protestors are alt-right, they match all the hallmarks: disenfranchised, social media savvy, economically anxious youth who see their culture being displaced and their privileged being eroded by immigrant mainlanders. Rich ones come in to buy all the property, poor ones use up all the social services. These are common complaints to the mainland locust narrative - when the mainland sends their people, they're not sending their best.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/article/991355/anger-mainland-visitors-...

A row between Hongkongers and mainlanders is reaching boiling point after internet users raised more than HK$100,000 in less than a week to finance a full-page 'anti-locust' advertisement in a Chinese-language newspaper in the city.

...

Mainlanders have already crossed our bottom line,' said Yung Jhon, who refused to disclose his real name. 'Why are mainland mothers flooding in to take up resources in public hospitals, getting our benefits and social welfare? Why do mainlanders ... refuse to follow our rules and order? We can't accept that.

Sounds familiar?

30 years ago, common HKer could get a low-skill industry or service job and make a comfortable living based off mainland exploitation. Then China's manufacturing growth made HK Detroit. After handover, 1 million mainland immigrants entered HK on one-way permits under family reunification plan in the last 10 years. That's 15% of the city. This culture clash is the same script causing right wing nationalism everywhere in western liberal countries. But because it's HK, and the sufferage angle plays well to western MSM, people close their eyes, pretend HK is some woke utopia, and that all those Pepes memes are innocent, because English proficient HKers who use western internet are somehow just like us in the west but also that naive.

>I further note that you make a lot of assertions with no facts to substantiate them, and refer to news reports on Hong Kong as propaganda, so perhaps I don’t need to wonder anymore.

Propaganda via omission. How long did it take for western news media to finally acknowledge the frequent violence happening on the ground? The racially motivated on mainland citizens and mainland connected businesses. The doxxing of police families. Why don't you do some research yourself. The fact that people here, beneficiaries of a free 5th estate somehow reliably have their opinions shaped to reflect US foreign policy positions is... interesting. It's Manufacturing Consent, Iraq WMDs all over again.
I imagine that "full stack" in this context refers to the equivalent of a Hello World project wrapped around a CI/CD pipeline.
Maybe because the poster characterized the problem as: "So then, is the complaint simply that Cook is not providing direct evidence of these claims? Is that a reasonable expectation? What evidence could Cook provide that would directly tie violence (we know that Hong Kong protesters have committed violence) to this particular app?"

Whereas the article says: "The first allegation is that “the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence”. This makes no sense at all. The app does not show the locations of individual officers at all. It shows general concentrations of police units, with a significant lag. As the developer and @charlesmok, a Hong Kong legislator, have pointed out, the app aggregates reports from Telegram, Facebook and other sources. It beggars belief that a campaign to target individual officers would use a world-readable crowdsourcing format like this."

It could be incompetence, but it seems much more like clear disingenuousness, which is a pretty common thing nowadays.
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Ask HN: What's your ideal laptop display?
Came across some older IBM Thinkpads during house cleaning today and took a trip down memory lane. Sleek machines and a 4:3 display that was pretty well suited for development tasks. Made me start to think about what kind of display I would really like to see on laptop lineups, after having read articles on 16:9 vs 3:2 vs 4:3.

For me, I'm partial to a screen with 2560px width, and for a laptop 14" seems to be my sweet spot for a HiDPI screen. 15" can be a bit big and 13" is just too small. Did some calculations earlier and came up with this diagram to visualize the differences between the different ratios.

https://imgur.com/ejQVTUX.png

For a 14" diagonal, these would be the screen dimensions:

4:3 11.2" x 8.4"
3:2 11.65" x 7.77"
16:9 12.2" x 6.9"

Personally would go for 4:3, despite most media being developed against 16:9 resolutions. I work in the computer graphics industry, letterboxing doesn't bother me. A double check of my math wouldn't hurt ;)

Extras: 100% sRGB minimum, IPS, at least 350 nits and matte. Would be cool to see HDR as well if needed.
That might still result in a better mapping of resources to ability than dividing resources equally among the population, though.
Foreign nationals committing offense against the united states is fbi territory? Interdasting
Do you ever do strenuous exercise? If so, how does it affect your insomnia?
In case you feel sleep is a waste of time, it could actually be surprisingly productive to sleep. Once thing I noticed in grad school is that your sub-conscious is passively working on the problems you encountered even if you are not actively thinking about them. And often I would "dream" up a clever solution to a homework problem during my sleep.

J.P. Serre, one of the most brilliant mathematician still living today, purportedly "does all his best work in his sleep": https://tinyurl.com/y25q45ut

From what I learned in the wonderful Coursera course: "Learning How to Learn", these are manifestations of the unfocused or diffused mode of the mind, and play a critical role in learning and problem solving.

https://medium.com/learn-love-code/learnings-from-learning-h...
I will take the downvote without reply as a "no" to both my questions.

The interesting thing about such interactions is I suspect your mind remains as ever confident as before....you can't articulate a logical defense of your beliefs, yet this fact has absolutely no bearing on the strength of the belief.
I've gotten meta-shill accusations before. My answer as before, my interest in Chinese geopolitics, architecture, lifting and podcasts. I comment on those things when they (rarely) come up and have something novel to add. Sino-US topics are just all the rage recently and I think I have useful takes on the topic compared to the default tier of "I read Bloomberg and watch Serpentza".
> Lastly, Elon Musk didn't just get rich through selling things people want. No one believes that this works. Henry Ford even said as much: "If I had asked people what they wanted they would have asked for faster horses." Musk gained his power by being opportunistic. He jumped into opportunities at the right time, competitively fought to get the engineers he needed, and punched his way through almost every problem he faced. The product quality is a byproduct of his ruthlessness as a capitalist. Don't forget it.

I think you're horribly twisting the meaning of Ford's words there. It doesn't mean "ignore what people want", it means to figure out what they actually want. People didn't want faster horses, they wanted better transport - "faster horses" was just how they expressed that.
My experience with no sleep was about 10 years ago when I was working as a video editor for a photographer friend. In season, we used to pull 1 or 2 all nighters, n then sleep whole next day. Lots of coffee helped too.
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There seems to be quite a lot of information about why <7 hours sleep is bad for you, but I'm more interested in why sleep >=8 hours is associated with increased mortality.

See for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29790200 (an interesting study in itself).

I read "Why We Sleep" but unfortunately it didn't answer this question. The association could be correlational but it's been replicated too many times for me to believe that there's not something more fundamental. Perhaps there's a hormetic effect that's blunted by too much sleep similar to how HGH is bad for longevity?
And yet most of Apple's products are consistently best-in-class, so I guess it's working for them? And a bumper crop of bugs in a point zero macOS release doesn't count as a disaster. They've been shipping super buggy point zeros for two decades.
I've had the exact same thought. I expect it to happen eventually, or some other tech will render the issue moot.
That might be true, some apps just don't follow standards well (on MacOS too btw, there are old and ugly UIs from third-party vendors all over the place).

But when you're living between a terminal, editor and browser, and fonts are perfect on these 3 (or whatever else you use)... it's hard to justify using a lesser and more expensive platform, just to correct the 1% of the time some app doesn't look great.

In fact, if we speak 'consistency' in a functional way — not disturbing the user's "flow" while working — I'd argue that bad or extremely limited UX the likes of Windows and now sadly MacOS too (by comparison, and because it got worse in the last five years) is a much bigger problem than font rendering, for most workflows.

Case in point if you really care you can fix font rendering for pretty much every app (and select aliasing parameters like strength and RGB ordering to conform to your external displays panel type and pixels 'pitch'; whereas MacOS or Windows will be hit-or-miss with some models and you just can't help it). Haven't needed to on Ubuntu or Fedora, but I know as of 2017 Arch let you apply general font rendering settings over GTK and Qt, and you can use terminals like urxvt to fully control such things.
What's the point of protected memory, especially when using VM extensions, and particularly with regards to SGX, if the architecture is implemented in such a way that unprivileged software can read the entire contents of memory and there's no way for software, either the kernel or the processing software, to prevent it? You can make a tortured, pedantic argument defending Intel if we disregard VM-x and SGX, that memory protection was originally intended only to prevent data corruption, not confidentiality, but at the end of the day all such an argument does is emphasize the deliberate choices Intel made to sacrifice confidentiality for performance. And those choices are all the more unforgivable considering Intel's primary motivation for taking these performance short cuts were to expand into and secure their dominance of the VM and cloud hosting market; a market predicated on the ability of their architecture having the nominal capability to ensure data confidentiality.
I hope so, I don't know what the cause of the Siberian seep is. I hope that it's submerged permafrost. Appreciate your pointing that out.
Yeah, I’ve been trying to teach my organization that if the input to my team is crap, the chances of anything but crap coming out are fairly low.

Crap >> Team >> Crap

We’re front-end, and basically the lowest part of the pipeline, so literally everyones crap gets dumped on us.