skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One very great place to start fixing this would be all "benefits" being public.

Public healthcare (as a baseline for any luxury private care to beat).

Public vacation / family leave (pooling the liability, seniority, and policies in to a common system).

In this way the funding for these benefits becomes taxes and their distribution disconnected from the employment at any particular business, as well as from the business paying any particular employee.
absolutely. its a wonderful thing for people getting in the biz/studying for CFA.
First of all thank you for all your hard work.

Major question:

Why isn’t Tesseract using neural networks. I know it just introduced LSTM based models but they suck.

Why is GCP vision text recognition API so much better than open source alternatives?!
I wouldn't go so far as to say it was expected, it was more of a placeholder. It was more: 'Well, something doesn't add up here, so the 'boson' should fill that gap. And people went and searched for it.

I feel something simular to what we see here, the problem is trying to tie everything else that we know back into it.. I say problem but I really mean excitement to understand a bit more!

Again, this could all be completely wrong and it could even draw down to a bad input along the chain, but the idea is definitely something worth investigating!

Remember, the Higgs Boson brought us the imagination of changing a light particle (photon) to a particle with mass.. It's a quite wacky idea if you look at it from a point we knew many moons ago!
Bandwidth and storage is likely still killing them. Should've put it in Backblaze B2 and paid Cloudflare for CDN.
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Apparently search isn't an exact science yet ;)
No, the Higgs was considered the most probable thing the LHC could find, including the null result of "nothing". People are always going to be skeptical of particular measurements because this stuff is so tricky and the incentives are huge for discoveries, but the prior of experts was that the Higgs would exist.
I'm convinced the whole point of capital gains tax is to give the government an advantage when borrowing since government bonds are tax free. The government bond market is trillions, so this is not small potatos.
You're almost certainly right, this is pretty compelling. It's not the way I work, but I'm sure lots of people really like their IDEs. Despite that, I recently changed one of my APIs from being:

result foo(bar b, other stuff)
result foo(baz b, other stuff)
result foo(bum b, other stuff)

To:

result r = bar.foo(other stuff)
result r = baz.foo(other stuff)
result r = bum.foo(other stuff)

Not because of the IDE, but because the compiler error messages are horrible for the ones above when you make a mistake. If you pass the type as the first argument, the compiler "helpfully" tells you 3 pages of information about all of the overloads. However, if you use method syntax, it only tells you overloads for the one object.

It's a little frustrating that the hammer is changing the shape of our hands, and not vice versa.
let me push you a little harder - why exactly do you feel you want it or need it? i bet i can find you replacements for each individual component.

if you aren't institutional, you dont need bloomberg.
There’s no, but there isn’t really a need. The R package mentioned in a comment in this thread achieves a similar effect using no additional data.

Ray tracing will suffice!
I wish Apple could just show Russian politicians that Crimea was theirs, but also all of NATO was as well!
I was surprised that this was included in the post. More often than not, it has broken installs for my relatives (which in turn I had to fix over the holiday).
Depends if you think "ruining someone's life", "separating children from their parents", "breaking up married couples", "destroying someone's legitimate business", "forcing someone to live in an alien place with a language and culture they have never known" or "abruptly terminating someone's life-critical healthcare" counts as costing lives.

I guess they usually don't die...
and if that 2.* header is stable enough brokers often drop it because they're lazy AF
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I love Lockhart's Lament! Poetically, it could be seen as a mourning over a case of Goodhart's Law...
To be fair “free forever” ceases to apply when the business is about to be taken out back and shot dead, and 1,000 photos still free is 1,000 more photos than a dead business. I’d also imagine probabilistic steps towards break even were considered before undertaking breathing new life into it.

Second, one can’t always know “if the math works” because untested models depend on people. While Yahoo/VZ could have run tests to predict uptake, in a transition like this, there may not be the luxury of that level of market research. Entrepreneurs are regularly called on to make calls absent enough data, and have the character to course correct with candor. I think we’re seeing that character play out here.

Last, much larger revenue Internet services than SmugMug/Flickr are all in on “notoriously expensive” AWS/S3 as well, some with budgets that start with a B. What do they know that readers here might be missing about the TCO of ‘things like static images’?

For one, “notoriously expensive for things like static images” may be misunderstanding the value of a single image to its owner. To them, that image may be “priceless”.

When dealing with a set of images as an emotion archive rather than as a static image CDN, losing any single image should not be an option.

Static “image hosting” services lose images on a regular basis. S3 by and large doesn’t lose objects. If I could only have a single copy of something in a single place, I’d want it on S3. In that “you had one job” category, S3 is a game changer at a remarkably reasonable price.

Regardless of one’s opinion of S3, comparing tables of features may be missing critical differences that don’t manifest in that feature table, differences well worth the expense relative to other costs or opportunity costs.
Late 2019 is right now, any time after now is really really late!
> Not that it is impossible to have a buggy compiler that at certain cases produces segfaults.

That's exactly what happened here, however. The instance check was missing from the interpreter.

Dependant types wouldn't have solved the underlying problem.
Oh yes, and Anandtech.com

It was the late 90s and early 00s. Those Pentium IIIs, Pentium 4s and AMD Athlon 64 reviews.

I am surprised how many knew El Reg and The Inquirer. I guess The internet was small then, I bet many under 30s may not have even heard of the two. We dont even do searching. We just go to Yahoo Directory and randomly click on some links. That was what Surfing the internet was really about. ( Might not have been the case if you are from US, from I have been told Surfing Internet was basically surfing AOL at the time)

I think Ars was in similar time frame, but they were not really daily news site, and focus more quality lengthy articles.

All these were before RSS was even a thing. I remember using a program called Website Monitor to check for changes to website. Thinking of it now make me realise how early it was my news addiction started.

Making a web page was basically GeoCities, doing anything serious on the web meant Perl / CGI-Bin, Front End was just simple ( in relative terms ) DHTML.

While we might have other communication and messaging platform ( IRC ) before, I believe ICQ was the first real "Instant Messenger". I remember my ICQ number being 6 digit only. That was pretty cool for its time as it meant you are early members.

Gosh this is bringing back lots of memories... While I dont read Inquirer any more, much like OP I moved on once Mike left the site. Somewhere on the back of my mind I know it is there, sometimes seeing links from Inquirer get posted on Reddit or HN, and put a smile on my face.

I guess I am old. Sad to see it go.
And then we have single Chinese painters painting 10,000 paintings per month.

https://www.instapainting.com/blog/company/2015/10/28/how-to...

Different forms of manufacturing have different constraints. Trying to generalize everything from a pin-factory (which initially wasn't even abstracted correctly) seems like navel gazing to me.

In the case of painting: it seems like creating a whole slew of blue-paint so that you can do stroke#465 on your 10,000 mass-produced oil paintings is more efficient than spurting out just a little bit of blue paint for stroke#465, then another paint for stroke #466, (etc. etc.)

Its more efficient to perform that individual stroke 10,000 in a row, more efficiently using your paintbrush, paint, and other tools, before moving on to stroke #466.

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Now I don't know much about 1700s based pin-making, but apparently Adam Smith didn't either. :-) I'm going to guess that every mass-production line is setup slightly differently, and will have slightly different "parallelization" mechanisms.
> maybe some sort of hidden cost that makes it too expensive

TLDR: Don't confuse investments with pocket money. The reason why there is some friction to selling stock is because the owner and buyer need to decide what the value of that stock is. A point-of-sale transaction is a poor place to determine the value of a stock.

(Long answer)

Because then the question is, who are they selling the stock to?

Many years ago, I interviewed with a company that described an elaborate scheme to reduce the cost of trading stock. Basically, if you're a website where people manage their stock portfolio, you can save on transaction fees by keeping as many trades as possible among your users. As far as the stock market is concerned, no sale occurred.

In this case, the only way to make it work is if the credit card has a whole bunch of buyers lined up for all of the various stocks that are sold whenever the card is used; AND is willing to float about 0.753782 shares of Tesla. This way they can let you sell 0.0001 share to pay for your stick of gum without them incurring the transaction cost of a share trade.

The problem is that, when you invest in something, you need to actively decide when to buy, hold, and sell. If you had such a system, you would need to tell it that you want to sell your Tesla when you buy coffee, but hold your Apple. (Otherwise, you'd want to back it by a mutual or index fund, or ETF.)

Or, another way to do it would be to have a card for each of your investments, and you actively choose which card you use at the point of sale.

(IMO, it's easier just to sell an investment when you pay your credit card bill.)
You seemed to take a pretty holistic, system-wide view of "critical path" which is fine. Do we know if the other person meant that?

Let's say I'm working front-end web development. My "critical path" might include: js bundler, some kind of application framework, various libs, etc. The scope of my work (and authority/responsibility) informs what I can reasonably have under my control.
Except cars do spontaneously light on fire sometimes: https://abcnews.go.com/US/bmw-recalls-million-vehicles-fire-...
Commercial pig farm in China jams drone signal to combat swine fever crooks
Visual Studio Code repository is open again
When I was messing around with ADS-B stuff for work I found this website to be very helpful with lots of ideas/links for projects:
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/
He ordered Bordeaux to take over steering the warship while another sailor controlled its speed. The idea was to avoid distractions by having each man focus on a single task in the heavy maritime traffic.

I've not controlled anything that floats bigger than a small fishing boat, and I realise the timescales of reaction here are much larger, but that just sounds wrong to me --- changes in speed can affect direction, and vice-versa. Splitting that to two separate brains that are communicating only via a low-bandwidth voice channel seems like a recipe for disaster.
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Here's a free fintech idea - a credit card that instead of 1-2% cashback, buys you 1-2% of your purchase's stock, i.e. a $5 Starbucks coffee gets you $0.10 worth of $SBUX stock. I'm really curious how a widespread use of this would influence stock prices.
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Being not from there I sort of thinking about perfect storm etc. They should have added the keywords intel.

Btw I remember every facts of this episode - the ram, the motherboard etc but never get a name for it. Now I have. Pointless I guess. Even bad PR need a name. If you can’t name it you lost.
Internet Explorer 6 was minimized then maximized.

Got a good chuckle out of this.
jupyter-notebook is not meant for that. It's meant for code and data exploration. If you dev something using the notebook, you are doing it wrong. That's what IDE are for.
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It’s because you’re coming off as clueless and tone deaf. Your post is argumentative just to make a point, and clearly demonstrates you don’t know much about the subject.

Who cares if the definition is slightly different? We’re talking about the same emergent phenomena and I think you realize that.

People upvote contributions not trolls.

Welcome to HN!
>It's a shocking example of the virulence of the culture of exploitation that pervaded the Americas at the time.

Well I think there were both good and bad intentions.

For example, you have Lincoln who of course most would consider an advocate of the abolition of the practice of slavery in the US. And Lincoln supported the American Colonization Society initially, even into the War, but eventually changed his position after speaking with African-American soldiers in his Army (imagine that a politician changing their position on a matter without being ridiculed as a flip-flopper).

On its face without knowing more I think one might think establishing a colony in Africa for freed slaves may have been a noble cause, like Lincoln did at one time, and its not like there weren't a few thousand who took the offer.

Now in practice of course the Whites from the American Colonization Society were the rulers and then the power shifted to the freed US slaves, but of course to the local population they weren't fans of their colonizers white or black.
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"Because someone might add bugs to the code, or do it wrong" isn't a reason not to take a particular approach.
I've recommended this to many people as a practical way to learn more about ELF, system calls, assembly, and various other things, quite aside from size optimization.
finally, an advantage for the near-blind
Instead of an incorrectly applied tapping head meme I would have used the Big Brain meme to sarcastically suggest that using a package’s reported version on the marketplace was smarter than a git SHA
Maybe we mean different things by self-sufficiency.

By self-sufficiency, I mean capable of doing well within the context of modern developed societies and their systems. Not ruggedly off-grid sufficient.

The markets don't work too well, even for individualism, when people cannot get what they need from those markets. People are often forced to conform to get what they need.
Fair.. Absolutely fair, personally I don't believe faster-than-light neutrinos exist.

It will be an incredible change, if something else happens: that's really all, I'm not pushing some agenda.
On a site called hacker news I'm being downvoted for advocating that people ignore authority in an informed and responsible way to further their understanding of technology...
This was the book that defined components https://smile.amazon.com/Component-Software-Beyond-Object-Or...
At the time components were going to be the next level above objects - they were the black box that contained a lot of objects and provided a nice programmer interface. Unfortunately the ideas seem to have disappeared, Delphi is an even better example of a component model than VB was imho.
Shape is important. I find that some lenses have a different look on-axis versus off-axis, either leading to ugly smearing, or pretty twirly bokeh.

The aesthetic also depends on image. Nice crisp circles of light are sometimes nicer than a Gaussian blur. As someone pointed out, mirror lenses have their uses too.

But there are lenses with just bad bokeh too.
> The paper also is riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes, and while that doesn't have anything to do with the science, it does say something about the sloppiness of the researcher, I think.

I have reviewed many papers that were originally quite badly written, but were not bad papers at all. Many non-native speakers are bad at English, so they rely on some external editing service, and they do not want to pay this service until the paper has been properly reviewed and they have made the proposed changes. Of course it does not send a good signal, but the content of the article should not be judged in basis to that.
If the new media is an inevitable byproduct of the digital era simply existing, which is how things look to me, it still makes sense to follow things back to the root cause. How many examples are there of successful media organizations that don't at some level run the same way as the one you're lambasting? Being owned and funded by a government or a multibillionaire to serve as their propaganda outlet are viable but have their own problems that might or might not be worse.
This article was clearly written by someone that has not been investing long enough to encounter a bear market.

"Why do people prefer to pay for things using stable instruments rather than volatile ones like Tesla shares? My guess is that it has something to do with FOMO."

Or maybe it's a terrible idea to have people paying for their groceries and rent with assets that have the possibility of tanking 50% in a matter of weeks. If this feature would have existed in 2008 there would surely be regulation in place to prevent it today.
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They could have stop updating news but kept the site alive. Maintenance cost should be negligible.
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Go and Rust OOP view of the world are also possible in C++, Java, Python, C#.

It is a matter of actually learning about OOP concepts in general, and Kant features in particular.

Swift's protocol oriented programming actually goes back to Objective-C protocols, Java's inspiration for interface types or Smalltalk traits (post-Smalltalk-80).
> The mean Facebook user doesn't care about latency.

They do, they just don't know it, yet. If you showed them two versions of Facebook, one which was their normal latent mess, and one which had half the latency, they'll take the less-latent version every single time.

Don't assume that people don't care - they definitely do, they just don't have a choice.
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The problem I see with this as with most other projects linked in this thread is that they aren't actually "solutions". They're just ideas. You need programming and/or sysadmin experience to even begin using these approaches. What I'm thinking of is more of a solution that people can just start using without any friction.
How is this Google tax different from other "sin" taxes like the ones placed on alcohol and tobacco? Considering the tech companies' products are likewise harmful to society, the only thing that doesn't make sense is why the US isn't imposing extra taxes on these companies that are wreaking havoc on our society. I hope the EU taxes them even more because whatever they are taxed at, it's not enough to make up for the damage to our society.
Jeremy Howard is a genius, do you have any release date for fastai v2?
You are being downvoted for some unknown reason. 8% is a high estimate and people simply averaging the past and coming up with that number as a reasonable predictor of the future are the ones slamming the downvote button in hopes that you are wrong.

1989-2019 with dividends reinvested and inflation controlled show a return of 7.3% in the S&P 500 index. But 1959-1989 with the same parameters shows a return of 4.96% by just moving the time period back 30 years.

Arbitrary endpoints can make you justify anything, including double digit returns. But people who are saving money in the equities market that gets ever more crowded with index funds and ever more efficient should probably not count on 7-8% returns as the canonical amount they're getting back. They should plan on 5% or lower and be happy with higher returns if they come.
> For background, the current server is an old ebay sourced 8x Xeon with 8GB RAM Dell. It’s actually pretty adequate, but OS upgrades require I put shoes on and walk across town to the data center.

I wonder why? Even the DELL CS24 had a remote console feature. Not saying it's not time to upgrade it of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtrkhIQXIp8
Exactly. Which is largely what makes twitter’s attempt to police/publicize this stuff absurd.
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If you have solid edges (e.g. hair pulled back or bald), and a fairly smooth background already... it looks acceptable.

But it's not a substitute for a really nice lens and sensor combo. Maybe someday.

I just wish the DSLR/mirrorless manufactuers would invest more in making their RAW files more intelligent. I don't want 'portrait mode' but I do want to be able to focus stack in one image (with originals preserved), do true adjustable HDR (combining exposures), etc.

Sony and Nikon have a couple hint at these capabilities, but the software is not easy to use, and don't get me started on moving pictures between camera bodies and wherever they need to be to do things with them (laptop, iPad, phone).
Show me where the certainty is, then! In all cases (being unhedged, hedging against rising, falling, stationary or volatile prices), the airline can still be adversely affected by the future oil price. Either directly, or through becoming unable to compete profitably with rivals who did not hedge.
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> Anything you use in a critical path you should control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here

?

> It's not a programming library where optimizations are created or we fixed a security vulnerability (though I suppose that can come up ).

But it's a service provided by a paid-for entity which has support which you pay for. If it doesn't work, you let support know....
This is so fucking sad...
I think the first lesson everyone learns is that marketing is less about knowing your product than knowing your customer. You have to understand what their problems are to come up with your value prop for them.

It’s also why I think a lot of people’s bootstrapped plays fall flat. If you don’t have some support already to help guide your tech to a market, you’re never going to get anywhere. The successes I’ve seen come from people who transition from being a customer with a problem that isn’t being solved to a salesperson with the solution.

Also if you do B2B, marketing to people without purchasing approval is a great way to light money on fire.