skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brandless makes no sense to me. They mostly buy from China and their products are more expensive than they should be (their product descriptions don't offer any arguments why, at least). They claim to be health and environmentally-conscious but there's no relevant information to read on the product pages.

Take this random Brandless product: https://brandless.com/products/stainless-steel-wooden-turner

Why on Earth would you buy it? How can you possibly tell that it's eco-friendly or not?
I have no idea how you would become that rich without awful exploitation of consumers or workers.
And if you really want the have a car payment and insurance payment and deal with parking and everything else so that you have a 2000lb box to store your cleats in and can avoid waiting five minutes for a car share, I won't stop you from doing that. I doubt anyone else is going to either.

The point is a lot of people are going to decide that maybe they can plan a little in advance on when they want to play ultimate frisbee if it helps them avoid the myriad hassles and expenses of owning a car and that's probably going to be good.
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Excellent resource. I actually these sounds in a browser synthesizer I made a while back. www.noisesculptor.com
IANAL, but here's a section from the relevant law:

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#117

Based on that, I don't think you would need to delete them.
This is an excellent post-mortem, thanks for posting it.
Author here.

The motivation behind this project is the need for 3D representation by doctors in Orthopedic assist diagnosis. However the limit on the amount of dose could be used for pediatric patients inhibit the amount of CT scans could be done. There are other systems on the market such EOS Imaging Flex Dose which is based on an atlas based registration method to reconstruct two 2D x-ray projections into 3D spinal representation. However such system is not only very expensive (selling in USA at $1M for one system) but also produce certain image artifacts due to the atlas is based on normal people. This work is to show the feasibility of deep learning could surpass performance of these other systems and achieve high resolution spinal 3D representations using 2D images.

Because X-ray is attenuation based. Or we can say image intensity of each pixel is I = I_0*exp(-ut). I_0 is the incoming X-ray fluence, u is the attenuation coefficient, t is the path length for the x-ray. So different contrast and also the contour of the features on the resulting image I bears information of features behind the front vertebrate. These info can be extracted using feature extraction of the deep learning network. With enough data training, these could be learned and this is the basis of this work.

In orthopedic, the spinal angle etc. info is more important than the detailed bone artifacts such as small fractures. By combining both AP and lateral x-rays, together with this generated 3D info, it should be sufficient for this kind of application.
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I'm no scientist but it seems to me that bullying a teenager on twitter will fix this right up.
As I understand it (usual disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer; if you want to be sure, ask someone who is):

- If you sell or give the CDs to someone else, you are legally obliged to delete the rips.

- But if you toss them in a landfill, you are free and clear.
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It's an interesting premise nonetheless. Perhaps another similar approach would be one from mathematical manifolds, where they have charts and atlases, and I believe they build the atlas by having overlapping charts.
And the original posting wasn't making any kind of political point then? Really.
I’ve found that writing starless services makes my life significantly easier. Also I may need to query several apis to render a single page. Each one needs to know who is calling it.
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background: i make my living putting together quantitative analysis to support / reject strategic decisions

I would not say a strategy alone achieves nothing - its actually quite the opposite the larger your "team" and scope of activity is. A lot of business decisions are not related to having a tactic but are a trade off between two important things (like cost and quality). Having a clear strategy allows people in your company to arrive at the same decision for which side of that trade-off to favor - which increases individual autonomy. For example, a high volume strategy leads to favoring low cost. A strategy to be scalable might favor higher upfront costs since cheap non-scalable options are removed from review. In both cases, when an option doesnt fit the strategy it is not considered an option. So your decision pool is reduced. Sometimes this reduction is enough that the choice is made for you. Especially when accounting for multiple strategies and company initiatives.

Tactics are a different beast. Sometimes a tactic involves going against the general strategy, but is approved because there is confident calculation behind it and the expected result is wanted. The most important thing here is the calculation. It takes time and energy to develop and communicate a tactic. Those things are limited, so you can only be working on so many tactics at once, and only so many people are qualified to be doing that work (because those job titles are expensive).

The critical factor here is that the volume of decisions that need to be made across an organization on a day-to-day basis are not bound by how much time you have to develop a tactic for each of them. So you have to trust the autonomy of your company hierarchy at each level to be able to make default decisions that dont interfere with company strategy. A strategy alone is enough to help keep a loose handle on things.. it goes a long way to preventing chaos.

You might end up with a cashier accepting a return on something that is obviously not a valid return, but the overall strategy of being return-friendly is maintained. You also dont end up with a fist-fight between your cashier and the customer (extreme alternative example). When you have time, you develop a tactic for validating returns with order#'s or receipts, etc. but maybe your tactic team is busy dealing with warehouse optimizations this month
I used to work for on of those "review" websites and it completely ruined my trust in most online product review sites. It's all just affiliate links, optimized for which offer pays out the highest conversion fee, with little to zero regard for the actual product.

I would pay a decent amount of money for a tool that just filtered out any sites in Google search that promote products using affiliate links.
This is what branding is all about: you can't really tell but you know brand 'B' hasn't let you down so just choose that again.

Of course then the tail began to wag the cow* and the brand became the point; product value became irrelevant. Still it's probably the least terrible way to choose. I want a USB power brick but brand 'N' doesn't sell something that meets my desires: I'll wait.

* chose cow rather than dog because I doubt farmers used to actually brand (German for "burn") their symbol on their dog.
According to the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking):

> Originally, the legal rule was that "all persons have an equal right in the highway, and that in exercising the right each shall take due care not to injure other users of the way".[8] In time, however, streets became the province of motorised traffic, both practically and legally. Automobile interests in the US took up the cause of labeling and scorning jaywalkers in the 1910s and early 1920s, by then the earlier term of "jay driver" was declining in use.[9][10] The earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary follows in 1917.

[8]: Miller McClintock for the Chicago Association of Commerce, "Report and Recommendations of the Metropolitan Street Traffic Survey", p. 133, quoted by Norton, Fighting Traffic, on p. 289.

[9]: Norton, Fighting Traffic, pp. 79-79.

[10]: Peter D. Norton, "Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street", Technology and Culture 48 (April 2007), 331-359 (342). doi:10.1353/tech.2007.0085
Not to mention a major motivation for electric vehicles is the public good and preservation of the public realm.
> Meanwhile the language whose motto is "there is more than one way to do it" has a standard, sane way to package things, with multiple tools that work together in a coherent way. Perl got this one right.

I was always impressed by CPAN compared to most other package managers I've used. And, yeah, between Python, Perl, Node, Ruby, and even PHP, Python is by far the most inscrutable and the most prone to giving me fits when existing Python apps like Lektor just... inexplicably break after one of the Homebrew versions of Python gets updated.
The context is multiple node processes running on a single box, so a shared cache across processes has value for some use cases. I don't think the cache module you suggested would work in that case.

I'm aware of the runtime model differences between node and PHP.
> pre-agricultural lifespans

Probably short. Putting aside predation, disease and starvation, there is evidence (see Pinker) that violent death was a common way to go in nomadic tribes.
I'm far from a power Pokemon Go player, and I live in a city that's likely to have very good map coverage, but those caveats asides I didn't know that this even happened.
> corporate systems do not integrate well with password managers, such as when first logging in to your system in the morning

Depends on the password manager. I use Keepass on my phone with the InputStick[0] plugin, for example, and that works great for Windows logins. Even have a macro set up so I can sign in to Windows with one tap.

[0]: http://www.inputstick.com/
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Water, no one is (well, some are) talking about water. I have worked in that part of the industry on the industrial controls side. I can tell you that the problems we are seeing with power are right in line with the issues we are seeing in water and sewer.

We really need to reinvest in public infrastructure.
Brutalist or not, it’s not real.

That car as shown will absolutely not pass crash testing, European homologation and pedestrian impact, both issues with it being 1/8” stainless steel panels (separate discussion how those make no damn sense!). It has no mirrors, or wipers.

What has been shown is a roughly drawn concept.

Anyone that thinks they’re going to get exactly that and exactly for $40,000 hasn’t been around the concept car scene.

I’ll engage discussions on this thing when it’s not just a PR move.

(Source: automotive engineer)
It seems a lot less curved than any other angular car I've seen, say an early Lotus Esprit.
Performance tuning in a garbage collected language is a slightly different skillset, but a lot of tools are the same (knowing how/when/why you allocate memory, the space complexity of your algorithms, etc). Sometimes it is easier, because generally a good GC wants to help, and isn't just an opaque black box but full of information about the memory usage of your app. There are fewer "knobs" to tweak in a GC language, but that doesn't mean "no knobs", and the focus on data structures, data usage, and (space complexity of) algorithms is a shared problem in the performance world, GC language or not. It seems well past time to stop thinking of GC languages as a "problem".
Yes, it’s a horrendously pathetic situation.

If anything makes me hopeful, it’s improved technology driving down the price of renewables. And carbon sequestration tech which is actually deployed, see Climeworks.

It’s certainly not Ronald McDonald in the Whitehouse.
I didn't use the term "investments"; I used the term "debt".

The debt itself is what's seen as adulthood.
You're assuming Harpers is optimizing for not nagging people. That is not the case at all. They are optimizing for collecting email addresses. If you do not want to enter an email address and bounce they lost nothing, you weren't going to provide an email anyway.

It is a dark pattern but it is not a mistake.
I'm not sure. Over 166 countries have VATs (not just Europe), also more commonly known as Goods and Services Tax (GST). The U.S. is actually one of the few notable exceptions -- preferring state/sales taxes instead.

A VAT like anything can be complicated but does not have to be -- it depends on the implementation. Many countries have figured it out without (many of) the downsides you mentioned. I'm from a country with a GST and it's mostly transparent.

Criticisms of a VAT can be found here [1] and they mirror your arguments, but they also provide additional context to guide one's judgment. If read carefully, it's clear the outcomes are varied and dependent on implementation, and does not uniformly result in ill-effects as many would initially suspect. It's actually a tried and true idea -- otherwise countries would be falling over themselves trying to repeal theirs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax#Criticisms
Right! So why should I pay for crap, or the other way around, why should I overpay for good quality, if I can get a solid substitute for less?

For example, I'm shopping for landscape lighting right now. You can spend a lot on landscape lighting. A nice bronze spotlight from a "good" brand like Kichler can run you $100+ ea.[1], and I need 8–10 of them.

Conversely, I can get an 6-pack of albeit-plastic spotlights off Amazon from a Chinese company for 40 bucks, with 4.5 stars and 252 reviews.[2]

I am getting ripped off with Kichler? I am getting crap from Zuckeo? Who knows!?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Kichler-16012BBR30-10-Degree-3000K-Br...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/ZUCKEO-Landscape-Spotlight-Decorative...
I agree with you mostly - slight contradiction you say "Unncessarily" and then talk about the functional use of those covers to prevent water and snow ingress. I think what I was alluding to is that a piece of cover for 100% decorative use - no safety, functional or any reason but to make things look nice. That is the "guilt". :)

Definitely agree, unpainted stainless steel is a brutalist trait.
Hi Mackenzie, interesting site. I spotted some typos: "This sections hues" -> "This section's hues", "adobe" -> "Adobe", "your designs colors" -> "your design's colors".
AM is around 1Mhz so that's a 300 meter wavelength. For a half wave dipole (basic high efficiency antenna) that's 150 meters of wire. A vertical antenna (like on your car) using a ground plane as the other end of the dipole would be 1/4 wave so 75 meters.

All this said, AM @ 1Mhz propagates very efficiently regionally and they broadcast at insane power levels so efficiency on your end isn't that big a concern if you're within a couple hundred miles of the transmitter. You can get away with a meter long antenna just fine.
No, I think it's Bing and their own index.
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I love this. There are obviously lots of color palette tools out there, but this one shows you the colors applied to a theme.

Good job.
1) Do you think it's possible that Cyc would lead to AGI?

2) Do you think it's possible that Cyc would lead to AI advances that are impressive to the layman like AlphaGo or GPT-2?
The strange world of GitHub repositories
its better to think of it more as public harm reduction than public "good"
Another approach is the manufacturer showroom. They don't care where you buy it so they just try to induce the demand.
Or we are going through a massive shift where tech is being deployed across the entire economy.
The Tories did change the law on early release, in 2012. They just didn't retroactively extend the sentences of prisoners who'd already been convicted and sentenced. Also, hiw whole complaint was that the Tories didn't publicize his comments and their correct, anti-Tory spin. Finally, the only evidence given of plagarism aside from the fact that both debunked the same claim is that they both linked to the same explanation of how parole worked for extended sentences - which is literally the first result when Googling for the topic. They weren't worded the same, weren't making the same argument otherwise, and the original blog post certainly didn't mention anywhere that Labour had made any of the claims it was debunking.
The entire purpose of ads is to psychologically manipulate people into taking actions against their own best interests. If you need a thing you will just go and buy it yourself after all.
Why wouldn't you buy it? It's a $4 kitchen spoon. What could you possibly want to know?

Edit: A bit of poking around suggests that Acacia is a fairly sustainable source of wood, so I would guess that's the thing that makes it eco-friendly. Some of their other acacia products do mention this, but the spoon doesn't for some reason.
If a company insists a class of workers wear uniforms and a huge primary cohort do not, then the hyperbole is grounded in a fundamental problem. The uniform exists to mark them out. The function of the uniform is not to their benefit, it's to their detriment. The origin of the yellow star was functionally identical: mark the tainted that the righteous shall know them.
> "the shared dignity of the public realm"

That is a peculiar way to describe what Brutalism projects. I've always thought that it projected the sinister power of bureaucracy, and that was why government officials fell for it as hard as they did.

(I know you're just quoting the author.)
I suspect you're paying more than what I pay for gigabit FTTH, $50.
Brotli support in API clients are quite low. I run a small API service, and you'd be lucky to see API clients even using gzip.
I mean, worker organization is never a bad thing. Just like democracy is good for decision-making in government, it's also good for decision-making in the institution that dominates most employees' lives: their employer.
My snap judgment of the Cybertruck is vaporwave rather than brutalist... but that might just be from the similarity to a DeLorean's style.
The comment didnt talk about memorizing passwords, it's more about storing password manager files offline for very valuable assets.

It would not be smart to store crypto currency private keys or recovery pass words on main computer for instance.
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It is the matter of convention.

When one needs to checkout and run setup.py, the packages are almost always nice -- they install packages and that's it. If the compiler is missing it fails. The worst I have seen is super confusing error message because of missing dependencies.

On the other side, I have seen `curl | sh` do completely insane things -- like install packages system-wide, mess with global PATH, create new users on the computers, remove random databases from localhost.

I suspect there are two reasons:

- checked out code can be inspected by random person just by clicking around on github site, every commit has a author name and a message. Feedback is simple and immediate -- there is the "create issue" button is right there.

- If someone tries to update my .bashrc from setup.py, it is pretty clearly a bug. It is unlikely to happen in the first place, and if it does happen, there will be plenty of users who can confirm it is a bad idea.

If someone tries to update my .bashrc from | curl site, it is not usually a bug. The maintainer will likely refuse to fix it, and claim something about user experience.
I don't think there would be many clients that would support that. The API clients are usually not browsers in their case.
tl;dr: The Cybertruck is not brutalist because it's designers do not promote the same politics as brutalist architects:

> But Banham and his fellow brutalists had a purpose behind their intense design, something more than just a building.

> And on this, Pasnik, argues, the two groups — Brutalists and Tesla designers — couldn’t be more different....

> “The truck is consumerist, whereas brutalism’s monumentality is civic. The truck’s boldness serves the bravado of an individual, whereas brutalism’s visual power was meant to project the shared dignity of the public realm.”
There is a Nathan for You episode of this that is quite brilliant.
I’m guessing, given that you said Blue Collar, that includes construction? What’s the number for the US?
I slightly disagree: Go Karts are not used for daily use. When coverings and such are meant for functional use, such as to prevent dust build up or water ingress, they are required and not purely decorative.

We may be mixing Brutalism with functionalism though. Brutalist architects did stuff to just be ugly - just google some Architecture. Besides leaving concrete unpainted, they made expensive choices to "uglify" and push a particular type of aesthetics.
Additionally at that site, organizations can sign up to then recruit volunteers.
It seems...not not accurate to me.

I mean, "brutal" and "raw" are related concepts. In fact I think the words are sometimes paired in English - i.e. "raw brutality".

You could argue that it's not brutalism if it's not concrete, but that seems unnecessarily narrow to me.

Is it unreasonable to look at a large construction of raw concrete and think of a host of related concepts, that it looks raw, hard, unforgiving, and stark?
This article does feel like an echo of Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy.

One problem that Rumelt raises is that of information. How do you come to know enough that you can reach a diagnosis?

If deciding on a strategy is the problem to be solved, then gathering the right information is the problem before the problem to be solved.

Secondly, if many people are familiar with these ideas, and their organizations are still not able to decide on an effective strategy, then there is a deeper and more interesting problem: how do you build groups of people that are able to reach good decisions together?

And it's not enough to simply encourage argument, as Dalio would suggest: https://hbr.org/2019/03/the-feedback-fallacy
Not a full time ML researcher, but I thought I understood that batching is already an extremely common practice. I don't see the novelty here.
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If ADSL is cheap I actually would prefer to have it for redundancy. Phone line and cable is generally the only lines that are routed to a home that can be used for Internet.