skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be talking about dimensionality reduction, that's not what I was meant. Distillation is training a different model with a cheaper architecture (CNN, LSTM) on the outputs of an expensive teacher model like BERT. This has nothing to do with dimensions.
>To think with all that money we could build better infrastructure and denser housing.

Denser housing isn't built because our local land use policymaking paradigms give the power to block it to the people who don't want it, not because of a lack of federal subsidies.

If anything, the infrastructure built with that money would be road infrastructure to support further sprawl.
I don't think it says much about the tools themselves though, it just makes sense when you look at the author's GitHub and see a bunch of Rust projects.
Microsoft does this with Skype too. They say it's for detecting malicious links.
"UK homes are made of brick"

I've lived in 11 properties in the UK (owning 4 of them) and most of them were made of stone and were 150+ years old - only the first one (a 1950s council house) was brick.
I would also say that Rich people pave the way for adaption.

For example, look at prices of flights. Before there was no "first class" everything was first class, now there are cabin options.

While that example is a service, more proliferation of service == wider adaption == increased scale of economies == eventually prices come down for everyone.
Are there buses?
Napari: a fast n-dimensional image viewer in Python
I wouldnt say my homeland nasty. I love it but the opportunity, quality of life is lower comparing to Other countries.
Reframe that question: Why should poor people pay more because they’re not rich enough for the incentives?

OP is not saying rich people should pay more; He’s saying get rid of the tax incentives. Yes, they end up paying more, but then poor people are paying the same as the rich.
Daily Battles in the Life of a Creative Person
I guess the author was thinking of how cat's original purpose is to concatenate multiple files, not show just one file. (But I certainly don't think using cat in the latter way is a misuse.)

There's also a commonly noted "unnecessary use of cat" where people do this:

cat file.txt | grep foo

instead of this:

<file.txt grep.foo

but that's not relevant to bat (which can be used unnecessarily in the same way).
Some games manage to teach you most of what you need without an overt tutorial. See eg Hollow Knight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWiDS8SUvds&t=55s or the classic first level of Super Mario Bros.
The trouble is that you're necessarily picking winners and losers in order to design the incentive scheme.

It makes no sense to pay somebody $7500 to buy a new car to drive to work, but not to switch to cycling or telecommuting.

In this case, it's not necessarily clear that this is a product that needs to happen. Grid scale solar is significantly cheaper due to the economies of scale.

Were there a carbon tax, there'd be the same encouragement of environmental solutions while leaving the market some flexibility in achieving that goal.

With that said - I'll take the politically feasible solution rather than nothing.
Four Ways to Develop Your Soft Skills Through Meetings
Ops, posted link was broken, just fixed it
I clicked through a few of the Metro "crime" links - dear god, what an horrific world we live in.

I really would like a newspaper that had some kind of "sense of perspective" meter - where reading an article of "woman starved and mutilates her own child" also puts down "we estimate this sort of thing happens in one out of 100,000 households - and is out weighted by parents who gave up
drugs to look after children in 1 out of 30,000 households

But a daily diet of that shit unbalanced would certainly drive your world view and politics to demand "something must be done".
The Myth of the Startup COO
This effectively multiplies the amount of money invested in climate-friendly technology and infrastructure by a factor of 5 with 80% coming from rich people, while generating jobs and more taxes. I find the classist outrage detrimental and disappointing.
Yeah, for those interested in an honest take on the costs involved in EV manufacturing and how they have come down and will continue to take a look at this analysis from ARK Invest

https://ark-invest.com/research/wrights-law-predicts-teslas-...
Another great one is Bembo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bembo

I'm no expert but I've always loved my books set in them.
Yeah, also while in the past Fortnite might have been replaced by Counterstrike - that allowed players to run dedicated servers, it was itself a Half Life mod etc. so there was just more opportunities to learn technical skills.

Now it seems it's all about consuming services in walled gardens - no learning required, or even allowed.
You’re right. $8k is not a lot. But multiply that by the amount of people who received the incentive, and it adds up
Ask HN: Why can’t I follow or favorite a HN user?
Nice pun on execution :)

But I'm not sure being an incompetent hitman is a scam that really pays when you factor in the risks...
Came here to say this, but the 1927 experiment was only the first with electrons. The first experiment with light was in 1803 by Thomas Young. This was the foundation of the wave theory of light.

I stopped reading the article at this point.

http://www.cavendishscience.org/phys/tyoung/tyoung.htm
Does anyone have an alternative recommendation? I’ve been looking for a non- Kindle e-ink reader and can’t decide. Don’t want Kindle because so much of my life is already Amazon.
That use is the exact reason why LESSPIPE exists, check out man less & https://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html
The content is great.

The styling is, let’s say utilitarian. :)

Accessible in the dictionary sense of the word. Everyone can access the content. I am not sure about the handicap accessibility, however it would not surprise me if it was “accessible“ in that way given Sheldon’s attention to detail.

Though, the website seems to have been updated by other people since Sheldon died so I am not sure about its current “state”/quality.

Hopefully this clarifies my post.
Sidenote i wonder why FB doesnt launch a search engine since they crawl most of the web anyways
Lots of cool stuff in here. I’m going to have a long look at Restic and Syncthing.

I’d like to know why Skim instead of FZF. They are pretty similar but I’ve been using the latter for years and would like to know of any possible advantages to it.
I just use nano -v.
Freeze & thaw cycle plays hell on roofs in North America.
http://www.anthonyflood.com/rothbarddemocracy.htm might be worth a read.
The problem/mystery is more that the double-slit experiment and other quantum phenomena are always presented in a hand-wavy way where it's not clear how it derives from the mathematical formalisms.
That would be true if solar roofs were some novel technology that the rich would adopt first, and then the rest. This is a remix of existing technology, much like the iphone. The rich don't have roofs, they have domes or yachts. The poor don't own roofs. This is directed at the middle class squarely and only. To the extent that richer people adopt this, it's mostly for signaling reasons and not because it affords them some luxury they didn't have (like flights did).

Your analogy is more appropriate for space tourism.
> Menlo Park, an affluent, mostly white city of 35,000

According to their own source, Menlo Park is 70% white, but this includes Hispanics, who make up 18%. Assuming they were mostly counted under white, this leaves whites as barely over half of the residents - certainly less than the 61% non-Hispanic white of the US as a whole [1]. So why does Vice try to frame Menlo Park as some sort of white stronghold, when it's less white than the US on average?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...
Presumable it handles text that already has a comma separator OK, since there isn't a continuous group of >3 digits in '1,234'.

I suppose the same is true of continental Europe's '1.234', though it would be very cool if it could be determined that the '.' was a thousand separator and modified to ','.

What happens though if the text is using '.' separator and ',' decimal, such as (roughly 123 and a half) '123,456789', is it going to determine there's a missing ',' between '6' & '7' (making it roughly 123 and a half million)?
You are that VP in the article aren't you? IMO, both of you don't know too much about how startups work. Not bad, just reality that leads to unfortunate outcomes.
Well, I had many Sinclair's:

ZX80

ZX81

Spectrum (original)

QL <- the best less known computer of all times

Spectrum+ (first one broke and I still had a lot of small programs for it)

while living in Italy (please read as not UK, not Eastern Europe) and there were at the time lots of (italian) users besides magazines, clubs and what not about them.

The C64 came a little later than the spectrum (a question of months, but those were fast moving times about computers) in 1982, and everyone that already had a computer in 1981 were loosely divided in two:

1) those that had a ZX81 before all went for the spectrum sometimes even pre-ordering it or having it bought in the UK

2) a number of the VIC-20 users (that frankly was worse - keyboard aside - than the ZX81) went for the spectrum

There was also a huge difference pricewise, the Spectrum was around 400,000 the C64 was 973,500 Lire (think of 200 Euro vs. 500 Euro).
A black and white reader isn't going to be a good newspaper or magazine reader. There are better devices for that. He also wished for an app store and that starts to sound a lot like wishing it become an iPad.

That a Kindle is boring is a feature, not a problem. I don't pick up a Kindle for the Kindle-ness, it's for the books on it. With the right book, some days that boring Kindle is the device that I just can't put down.

Frankly, I wish Amazon would stop with stuff like Goodreads integrations. Take that out and focus relentlessly on the reading experience - better display, better battery life, better ergonomics, and most of all - better typography.
Tig: Text-Mode Interface for Git
Huh, but why?

I can totally understand scanning a PDF for links to look for malicious links to protect users.

But that wouldn't involve actual HTTP requests to them.

I'm struggling to imagine what purpose this could have.
Migrants from coalfields take DNA as well as talent with them
Maybe, but I already had pygmentize, I already had less, and this small function took me less than 10 seconds to type in and start using immediately (and I use a particular style that pygmentize provides so that is a plus). :P In any case, thanks for sharing.
If you don't mind this tangent question...

Is there a microkernel API that has more acceptance nowadays? In other words, where should anyone wanting to work on real world / enterprise systems based on microkernel look?
That would let people leave the Facebook platform and explore the open web.
Sounds like the accounts got reported for abusive language. But since the process is opaque, there's no way to know.
> “This replacement effort exponentially increased message storage capacity and operator response times for critical nuclear command and control message receipt and processing.”

Glad to know operator response times have exponentially increased!
It is very common in physics that the same phenomenon can be explained using different concepts. Treating particles hitting a regular structure as diffraction of de Broglie waves gives exactly the same results as the momentum transfer approach the author prefers. In fact, both can be derived from standard quantum mechanics and both are widely used, depending on which is easier in the particular case.

However, scattering particles off objects is only one of many experiments they can be done. For instance, one will have a hard time explaining how atoms work without using some kind of wavefunction description of the electrons. Furthermore, as other commenters have mentioned, there are more sophisticated versions of the double-slit experiment, such as the delayed-choice quantum eraser, where the "quantum weirdness" simply cannot be argued away.

Frankly, it is pretty insulting by the author to assume that physicists intentionally choose the "more complicated" explanation over the "simpler" one.
Indeed, a quick video from space time for those being first introduced. It’ll likely make you even more confused to the double slit experiment.

https://youtu.be/8ORLN_KwAgs
> Seems like you're looking at 80% of rated efficiency after 20 years

If you are living off grid, that might be an issue although it could be fixed by just getting some more solar panels later or oversupplying at first. However, for people still connected to the grid, they can just use a little more later on from the grid so I don't see what the big deal is.
This site is currently running a Kickstarter to launch a new programming magazine. If you'd like to see more content like this out there, consider taking a look:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pekalicious/human-reada...
How does the Remarkable store notes? Do you need to use their cloud service or can I use it as an offline notes/sketchpad then access the files via USB? And can I load ebooks directly via USB?

I’m happy to use the cloud service in general but I also am regularly in areas with absolutely no internet access and love that I can load ebooks directly onto my kindle via USB and that Highlights/notes in Kindle are a standard .txt file. I also want to be able to back up all my notes to my PC and access them there for safe keeping.

That’s the only thing holding me from buying a remarkable, a fear of lock-in.
One Man's Wild Quest to Reach the Bottom of Every Ocean
> I remember there was a company that sold laptops with hybrid screens - that could do e-ink when used outside - but I think the screen manufacturer folded.

Could you have been thinking of Pixel Qi and its LCD panel that could operate in transflective mode in daylight?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi
Unsolicited online surveys are always spam. I will always mark as spam with impunity.
> Hypervisors typically are microkernels.

Except they have vastly different histories (look up IBM's VM) and uses and underlying technologies.

Here's a good post on the difference:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/HypervisorVsMi...

> Microkernels are intended to create a minimal set of low-level operations that would be used to build an operating system. While it's popular to slap a monolithic kernel on top of your microkernel, this is not how microkernel based OSes are supposed to be; a real microkernel OS should have lots of separate pieces that used the microkernel services to work with each other. Using a microkernel as not much more than an overgrown MMU and task switching abstraction layer for someone's monolithic kernel is a cheap hack driven by the needs of academic research, not how they are supposed to be.

> (There have been a few real microkernel OSes, such as QNX; Tanenbaum's Minix is or was one as well.)

> By contrast, hypervisors virtualize and emulate hardware at various levels of abstraction. This involves providing some of the same things that microkernels do (eg memory isolation, scheduling), but people interact with hypervisors in very different ways than they interact with microkernels. Even with 'cooperative' hypervisors, where the guest OSes must be guest-aware and make explicit calls to the hypervisor, the guests are far more independent, self-contained, and isolated than they would be in a microkernel. With typical 'hardware emulating' hypervisors this is even more extremely so because much or all of the interaction with the hypervisor is indirect, done by manipulating emulated hardware and then having the hypervisor reverse engineer your manipulations. As a consequence, something like guest to guest communication delays are likely to be several orders of magnitude worse than IPC between processes in a microkernel.
The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2
A number of the utilities mentioned here (bat, fd, hexyl) are made by the same author, who makes a number of additional command line utilities in Rust. They're all rather easy to use and aesthetically pleasing, I'm a fan of their work: https://github.com/sharkdp
(2016) - this stuff has been a long time coming
If the POSIX committee couldn't deliver a solution that was modern and backwards compatible, what hope do we have that developers will selforganize and ever do that?
This claim came up a couple years ago, and it is only true when considering very expensive/fancy roof types. It isn't at all true compared to normal shingles.
In Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, “Fall; or Dodge in Hell”[0] the Internet degenerates to such an extent that even the least savvy user perceives online material via an “editor”, which is an entity (human or machine) tasked with presenting information to the client in a way that the client would find acceptable. Unsaid goes the implicit bias that would have to govern work products of such editors, which - I suppose - is part of the value prop. You choose the editor to whose methodology you subscribe.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell
in order to avoid having to unlearn commands like cat and ls, I use aliases to invoke bat and exa.

Here's a screenshot of my fish config: https://twitter.com/mxschumacher/status/1168993005744918528
I was thinking of mathematics more advanced than calculus, but it provides a good example. The IMO problems are designed to be done without it, but if I was programming a computer to solve IMO style inequality problems I would certainly want it to have the "Lagrange multiplier" method in its toolbox.
Having used gcc inline assembly a decent amount, I'd personally say it's not worth it. Almost every example and existing code out there is AT&T, so you're creating an extra step for yourself in converting to intel, and IMO AT&T syntax isn't that bad - it's not great by any means, but having started with intel syntax I didn't find AT&T that hard to pick up (Besides the source/dest thing, which is really annoying).

I think the big thing to note is that your inline assembly should really be as short as possible - larger sections are going to have more and more inputs/outputs/constraints, and those will prevent gcc from doing lots of optimizations with it since it doesn't understand and can't modify the assembly (I could go into more details on this if you'd like, if you're not already aware of this).

For most use-cases, your inline assembly should just be exposing things you can't do in C (Like exotic or CPU-specific instructions) for use in your C code. So at that point, most of your inline assembly just becomes one or two instructions long, and the syntax doesn't really matter as much. For larger blocks of assembly, you should just compile it separately (At which point you could use intel syntax if you like).
> who hires some college kids that actually do the job

Sounds about right, except that

> hitman number five was so incensed at how much the value of the contract had fallen, that he told the target to fake his own death

the job was actually not done, but faked.

The last developer from India that my company hired (2009 or so) left us with some sub par script, which had some 500+ lines of code for some data validation that was actually never executed.

We then switched to people from the Eastern Block, and we never looked back.
Well we already know, if you put the ideas of Galileo, Copernicus and Kepler next to those of the Church, and allow the people to figure things out for themselves, it takes a few hundred years. And most often those paths of learning, involve violence and domination by both sides.

Learning takes a long time. People are incompetent at doing it by themselves even with health, wealth and intelligence. They need Skilled Teachers, Coaches and Counselors to do it well, which is why we don't leave kids at the Library for 18 years but at Schools. And even then they take time to learn.

The News Industry never will play that role. But some of them pretend to do it and we can't let them.

I think the left/right debate hides the fact there are a class of people these days who have discovered they can pay their mortgages by pretending to "inform and educate".

They need to be filtered out irrespective of being on the left or right.
> Microsoft is afraid of entering new HW territories,

Correction: Nadella is afraid of entering new HW... He came on board with a chain saw and cut like crazy
The real irony is when people complain that sites monetize their personal data and then also complain about paywalled articles.

These sites have to make money somehow or they won’t exist for long.
So a system like Android's? Honest question, I don't know of that's a good model to exist in general purpose Linux systems. There's also Fuchsia but I'm not sure if it's POSIX.
The hallmark for any reinterpretation of QM in terms of more classical ideas would be that it explains Planck's constant in terms of other constants. If an explanation of a quantum phenomena succeeds to eliminate one of the fundamental constants, all physicists will provide a listening ear, no conspiracy involved...
And a history of difficult customer service
Well isn’t that the magic of software? The costs to run something flatten out as you increase usage, whereas the licensing costs increase linearly.
The original iPad UI would have been just a blown up iPhone UI without any accordances to the larger screen if Jobs had of had is way. There was push back from other developers at Apple. This came out in some of the Debug podcast’s interviews with former Apple employees.

Also don’t forget that all of the pre iCloud service disasters happen under SJ including MobileMe.

Apple moved away from “Pro users” under Jobs. It was clear that he even said before he came back to Apple that if he was in charge he would “milk the Mac for all its worth and move on to the next big thing”.
This is my exact complaint/wish. It just seems so obvious. My Kindle just displays photos of pencils and typewriters, why would I want that??
I really wanted to read this, but was a little disappointed by the exceptionally high level of the reporting...I mean, this would have been a nice intro several years ago...But now, i assumed this is somewhat common knowledge. But, perhaps i should not assume this. That being said, i am inspired by the numerous decentralization efforts - e.g. SOLID, fediverse/activityPub (pleroma, mastodon, pixelfed, etc.), scuttlebutt, matrix, and so on, and so on.
could you explain the link? In this situation they were apparently silencing anti government voices, which sounds like the opposite.
In some European countries, Kobo e-readers are quite popular.
Generally citizens doing things against other citizens doesn't seem to be dealt with all that harshly (as opposed to citizens doing things against the state, or - worse - encouraging other citizens to do so).

I've seen domestic violence dealt with in China by putting the victim and perpetrator in a jail cell together and telling them to talk it out.
>Grid scale solar is significantly cheaper due to the economies of scale.

Utility scale solar has met the same ardent opposition in land use decisionmaking fora as denser housing, including from 'environmental' organizations.

Some examples from around here:

https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/culpeper/culpeper-coun...

http://lakegastongazette-observer.com/news/article_8f621d6e-...

https://richmond.com/news/local/central-virginia/powhatan/po...

https://starexponent.com/news/county-committee-backs--acre-c...

https://www.pecva.org/library/documents/Our-Mission/Energy/E...
Well I don't know how it's pronounced in English, so I didn't know that, good to know though:)
Zeeka: A new approach to file sharing
Can you show any evidence for these claims?