skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an insane move, there's no doubt here. The question is: how did they came to that point? What are they trying to achieve? Is it about their HR brand, or just a pipedream of some C-level executive or even someone from the ranks below? What was the mindset behind this decision? Lots of questions, no answers yet.
Here's a video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySzmo_sScQk The message was that yes, city cyclists are inhaling polluted air. But the benefits from the exercise cycling gives you far outweighs the negatives.
See also Amdahl's Law for the trade-off between speed and parallelism in massive multicore architectures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Awesome project! Would it be possible to add a filter for wheelchair accessible routes (given that this info is provided)?
I remember going to Sunnyvale’s store in January 1990. It was really, really awesome back then.
I’m glad to hear electric lawn care equipment is becoming more viable.

i've got a strong hatred for the loud, smelly 2 stroke engines that wake me when trying to rest, and then the fumes... ugh.

im sure the anti-gov regulations people will disagree but, i cant wait for 2 stroke lawn equipment to be banned. there’s no way commercial gardeners will willingly switch to something more expensive with a shorter runtime unless forced to.
When my sister visited she needed a USB cable so we went to Frys in Burbank . I also remember it being very dark and it sort of had an Eastern German feeling to it. Big store with only a few items in it.
Most Japanese electronics stores including Yodobashi Camera have point-based discount systems. If you have a membership card, you get 10% of your purchase back in points, which can be used on the next purchase. Of course, prices can still be high.

And yes, you can often negotiate with salespeople, particularly on higher priced items. At a store like Yodobashi Camera, I think it's possible to negotiate for more points on your point card.

At smaller electronics stores, particularly out of the city, negotiating price is more common. I was once looking at a TV at a store (I think K's Denki) towards closing time and the salesman walked over with a calculator and gave me 20% off without me even initiating the negotiation.
Not to mention the ease that that feature can be abused. What’s to stop the opposing team from just vote kicking the top players on your team?

I spent my entire middle school life playing Starcraft. When SC2 came out the same rush tactics I learned in SC1 worked. I was often accused of hacking simply because I had years of experience tweaking the fastest build method.
I like Lenovo, personally.
A non prescription alternative I use is Berberine. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Same family of flower and same p53 modification, anti-tumor. Same AMPK increase and mTorc1 dampening. Only downside is that it is not covered by insurance. Used in China for about 3000 years to treat gut infections; but by happy coincidence, also lowers blood glucose.

As a side note, I also use 2 of Rhonda's favorite compounds, Sulforaphane and Myrosinase, as well as Trans-Resveratrol. I have reversed many chronic issues related to damaged cells.

[1] - https://examine.com/supplements/berberine/

[2] - https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(1...

[3] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5810236/

[4] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2171032/

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What do these GitHub protesters imagine is the end-game? ICE goes to GitLab?
Fwiw the author Liu Cixin has said the Dark Forest is deliberately the worst case scenario interpretation of galactic civilization. Odds are it's not the actual one.
Despite the vail of Wikipedia, your source is The Onion.

Does the onion’s satirical joke take into account all the places there are no guns but this does still happens?

Paris France, and Norway, have both had worse mass and school shootings than any in the USA ever.
Dude, the new self checkouts at Home Depot are the bee's knees. Huge, bright and very responsive display. And best part is they actually let you hold a barcode wand so you can scan all your stuff while it is still in the cart! Makes it much, much faster to use because you aren't getting constantly blocked on the machine between each item you ring up.

Unlike every other self checkout, I actually had fun using it!
Can You Recognize These Famous Brands by Their Former Names?
Ah miss that Palo Alto Fry's. 2011 or early 2012 was the time when I got my TV and bunch of other stuffs from Fry's. Not a big TV buff, so the old one still runs well.

+1 to Best Buy as well, they always surprise me with great customer experience.
> JSON logs with a timestamp + a bunch of fields then search them

There is S3+Athena for this with AWS and Google can store/query JSON with BigQuery. The nice little UI doesn't come with it, but at least you don't have to spin up an Elastic cluster.
I've been in tons of agile places that do pair programming.
This is why starting with low or no code is a great idea. He would have saved a lot of money if he went around to potential customers and seen if they would have paid for such a product. Or fake a product with fake data and demo it to see if there's anyone that would pay for the real thing.
Not necessarily. Here are some of the past ones:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Diversity+Scholarship+Series...
Some businesses targeting the mainstream market seem to actively sabotage users on minority platforms. I wonder how much they get paid by Microsoft.
I'd love to see this applied to all the known popular languages, just to immediately know their drawbacks without having to commit to all the research.
Microsoft's Surface has the perfect aspect ratio for screens (3:2), imo. Wide screen devices just look wrong. 16:10 is fine, but it still isn't quite right (this is also what Apple uses.)
> Reading this was like watching someone you don't politically agree with doing comedy. You know they're trying to be funny, but you also know they're missing the whole point and aren't self-aware.

are you not supposed to laugh at the jokes of someone you disagree with politically? is it possible someone could be "self-aware" and still disagree with you?
> Allow users to votekick and voteban. Provide the server software for players to host their own servers and provide their own solutions to these problems.

If you want to see a game where that effort fails, one needs not look further than Mordhau. It's an incredibly awful community where players will initiate votekicks simply for getting killed, and cause players to get kicked/banned because the community finds overabusing the feature to be funny.
I think the OP knows about Amdahl's Law, but even Ahmdahl's law only talks about fixed-sized problem spaces. The solution to that is to increase the size of the problem space, which is covered by Gustafson's Law. [0]

So, basically, any particular problem will only go n-times faster thanks to Ahmdahl's law, but with the advent of more CPUs, we feel less restricted in our problems, and as a result work on bigger data sets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson's_law
> if you don't fit their narrative, for example you have large service revenue or you have only few enterprise clients, then you are out of luck

Can you clarify this? What do you mean by "large service revenue" and why does that mean the founders are out of luck?
To add context to your downvotes, it is clear that the author you cite used "market share" in an unusual way (possibly due to a language barrier), since there are certainly more than ~503,000 bicycles in the whole country of Belgium.
Softbank is not trying to be your local Savings and Loan. They want to be something entirely different. Maybe that's a good idea, maybe it's a bad idea. But they intend to find out.

So why does anyone think they will throw in the towel so long as they have even 1 backer or yen left?!
I think Cliff click of Java on 1000 cores might disagree.

https://youtu.be/5uljtqyBLxI
I use the Greenworks line of tools. It's about as powerful as the gas Stihl I've used previously. The key was to use the larger battery that the lawnmower uses instead of the smaller one. It's a little heavier, but lasts quite a while. The only challenge is the recharge time is not as fast as topping up the tank.
Last I checked, cars do not require any licensing to own. They require special licensing and often times yearly taxes to operate on public roads (but merely possessing them on public roads does not).
Even if open source was committed to “inverting existing power structures” (I don’t think it ever was), the only power structures it would ever be able to influence would be profit-driven corporations: with open source equivalents to commercial software, corporations have to work harder to compete and commit to more transparency. Being able to see and modify software source code is completely unrelated to government functions.
Does any Dell employee lurking have info about why I should consider waiting for the developers edition rather than just load up my favorite distro on the consumer hardware?
This is the idea for the 'epochs' proposal https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/fixing_cpp_with_epochs...
And even then, your odds of handling scaling issues with things you're familiar with are a lot better than with new things.
I wrote random numbers for the sake of narrating a scenario but yeah I suppose you could do Supervisor Present Y/N for 180 frame chunks @30fps and pick up the value per minute
They have no choice but to be ruthless & calculating because it takes far longer to communicate (multiple round trips @ light speed) and establish what kind of relationship you're going to have with that other civilization, rather than sending a photoid/foil over. This is why the early history of the universe was described as "Edenic", because communication then would have been nearly instantaneous and Dark Forest may not have applied then.
Most AI stuff is just horribly over-hyped, so the sad truth might be that what you are seeing is the state of the art and nobody else has found a better way yet.

As a practical example, figuring out where a given pixel moves from one video frame to the next one, when working on real-world videos, the best known algorithms get about 50% of the pixels correct. With clever filtering, you can maybe bump that to 60 or 70%, but in any case you will be left with a 30%+ error rate.

NVIDIA / Google / Microsoft / Amazon will tell you that you need to buy or rent more GPUs or Cloud GPU servers and do more training with more data. And there's plenty of companies in cheap labor countries offering to do your data annotation at a very reasonable rate. But both of them are just trying to sell to you. They don't care if it will solve your problem, as long as you're feeling hopeful enough to buy their stuff.

Judging from the bad results that even Google / Facebook / NVIDIA show at benchmarks, having a near-unlimited budget is still not enough to make ML work nicely.

Oh and for these image classification networks like YOLO, they have their own flavor of problems: https://www.inverse.com/article/56914-a-google-algorithm-was...
Amazon is still good for comparison and reviews, sort of. Hard time filtering the real ones from paid ones. It's no fun buying top line electronics from a 1D scrolling list.
I mean, that product is called LogDNA.

But Elasticsearch has evolved into a whole bunch of things to meet everyone's needs. There's a way to do what you want and simply, but you have to find the simple path in the middle of the big product.
Have you tried fast.ai's Practical Deep Learning For Coders? https://course.fast.ai/ I think it's great for answering many of the exact questions you have.

I was able to answer my own versions of many of those questions after the first few video lessons. It demonstrated to us that our data is a great fit for machine learning. I didn't feel comfortable turning my experiments into something production-worthy but I feel confident enough to at least have conversations about it and sketch out a possible plan for what a contractor could work on this year.
You need to start from what sort of accuracy do you need for the task from a business perspective (including what is acceptable in terms of false positives and false negatives). Just back of the envelope stuff. You have a rough idea of the "I copied stuff other people has done rate" and the "I spent few a days mucking about rate". This stuff always follows a logistic curve with time, starting at your first rate and asymptotically going to high 90%. Use this to get a ball park estimate of how long it will take / cost. If the accuracy required is close to 100% you can probably give up straight away. For things like this that I have done in the past, a good mental model has been if it isn't worth "manually automating" the task (i.e. paying someone somewhere to watch a webcam and send the email so you always have the end product and you eventually get labeled data as a byproduct) it might not be worth trying to automate it.
Looks nice, I'm torn about what my next laptop should be, but at this point whoever can offer me the most for 1k and I want 16GB of RAM minimum, if that's not possible, I'm holding back. I'm sick of paying ridiculous money for basically the same maximum RAM we've been able to buy for a decade (A 2010 MBP could hold 16GB of RAM, sure it's not DDR4 or better, but it's still useful and runs just fine).
Predicting that a company will grow at 10% a year forever (never flat, never down) when their growth has been steadily falling their entire history is particularly presumptuous.
- Level 4/5 self driving cars will not happen. Investments will dry out pretty much in the next few years and the scope will be limited to freeway lane assists and adaptive cruise after a few accidents caused by software bugs becomes media fodder.

- Climate change activism gains more prominence as school aged teens who are already politically active join the workforce. It'll be one of the biggest talking points in the 2028 election if US economy continues to grow. If US/world economy falters, climate change will continue to be considered a first-world-coastal-elite-problem and will be ignored for a long time.

- Loneliness and social awkwardness becomes the norm as face to face interaction is no longer required for most real world tasks.

- Marijuana doesn't gain widespread usage like cigarettes did in the past. Legalization doesn't change its usage pattern. Stocks of marijuana companies die out.

- People start caring more for others' welfare, and healthcare in US is funded fully by taxpayers dollars
Looks really nice and I really like the name!!

I’m not sure I share as many concerns as the other commenter here. For example I thought the Thailand postcard example actually made sense.

I have a question though: would text in other languages work? Eg Japanese or Hebrew? (Both for the address and the postcard text itself).

A suggestion: make it clear from the App Store description that you can send to any destination worldwide.
I don't think jailbreaking is necessarily legal. There is a lot of conflicting case law. I don't know if there have been any iOS jailbreak related cases but the Sony, geohot thing comes to mind. And cracking drm, even for backup purposes seems to be against the dmca.
Let's do this again. Predictions for the 2020s
Since recently my post from 2010 was shared asking for predictions for the upcoming decade[1], it made sense to go around one more time. This time let's do a little more structure.

1. What do you think were the three biggest changes in the 2010s (Events or inventions)?
2. What do you think will be three things of significance that happen over the next decade?
3. If you played last time, how would you score yourself? If you made mistakes, why do you think that is? Any lessons you picked up from reading your previous post and comparing what actually happened?

1. Elon Musk and truly reusable rockets, technology shown to be a much more dangerous thing than we believed (social media, surveillance state, addictive gaming), and exoplanet discoveries

2. disaggregated groups of people radicalizing one another and the fallout from that, human lifespan lengthened through medication (aging treated as a disease), and fusion finally

3. I made three predictions. The last one, that flat panel displays would never truly approach wallpaper sizes for the home, was right. The second one, ubiquitous computing finally arrives, I'm going to score half-right. We didn't get RFID chips and walk-up computing, but we do have computers and net access with everything from our TVs to sous vide machines. The first one, that Iran would see some sort of drastic change? Blew that one completely. They look today about the same as they did then, on the razors edge of disaster.

To me the most interesting part of this comparison is how incremental the 2010s were. Current trends in 2010 tended to continue along. I blew it when I thought "this trend cannot continue". Turns out it did. This is a humbling lesson.

I am also happy that my stretch goal, finding earth-like exoplanets, was reached (mostly). I did not realize that this exoplanet story is likely one to span several generations. Damn, science moves slowly at times.

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681
> there are ultra marathons where people walk 5000 km and [...] the world walking record is 175 km in 24 hours.

Is that right? That's 685 days of continuous walking at the world record speed.
Ask HN: What would you like to understand more deeply?
I agree that’s bad.

I think the only thing worse than lying about incidents to improve your statistics, is ignoring reality in arguing for policies and regulations that further instead of solve the problem.
There's also a YouTube recording of a talk with similar content by the same author from EuroPython 2014. Helped me out when I was adopting ES at scale in that time period. (And the principles are pretty timeless to modern ES, too.)

https://youtu.be/PpX7J-G2PEo

If you like this, you might also enjoy my deep dive on Lucene (the indexing technology underneath Elasticsearch) in "Lucene: The Good Parts":

https://blog.parse.ly/post/1691/lucene/?utm_source=hn
> If this project fails it'll probably be concurrent with a SV collapse in which case does it even matter?

If I invest $100 in MSFT and you invest your entire life savings in MSFT when the share price goes down it kind of does matter.

>If you're gonna take risks that involve catastrophic failure anyway you might as well bet big on upside

Or, to put it more reasonably, if you're going to take high risk opportunities do it with a chunk of investment you're able to lose, don't risk your entire company on it - which Softbank seem to do. Does it not concern you that Softbank almost managed to bring their entire business into jeopary because of a single failed investment?
To make a screen with any ratios other than 16:9 seems to be very expensive nowadays though. I personally would rather a laptop be cheaper than to have a 16:10 or 3:2 monitor.

Then again, it would probably be only visible in greater margin for the manufacturer :/.
Low code means low expectations. Coding is not the hard part, but to satisfy the end-user or regulatory needs with the positive (or at least minimal negative) impact on the user experience. Complications arise when you think on "what can go wrong" (e.g. you lost a webhook going to your CRM and you want to understand why it happened, how it impacted the user, how can you recover automatically) and start mitigating them.
I still have no idea what apocalypse you're planning for - it's something that you don't have water for, but you do have reliable power, or a generator you'll trust to function after whatever happens. Or you don't plan for any of that, but just assume you can do whatever you need at any time, like a Bear Grylls James Bond.

Understanding how a cell phone works won't help you if you're reduced to stone age tech. Even "iron" would have a hard step to get to with nothing. Stone age man didn't have cell phones not just because they didn't know how to build one, there's layers and layers of society that are relied on in order to work towards modern society.

> And if you understand the complete technology stack, you'll reconsider living in a metropolitan centre.

Only if I assume some survivalist power fantasy fiction will come to pass.
Show HN: Dark Mode Hacker News Reader That Shows Top Comment
Killer features:

* It shows the top comment (It's a bad habit of mine - just reading the comments - so maybe I'll be more likely to click the story instead of the comments)

* Dark mode! Or light mode! Depending on your system settings.

* Easily switch between Top and New stories.

* No JS libraries! (Fast?)

If you’re on an iPhone iOS 13, add it to your home screen. It will open in its own window, not in Safari, so it will maintain scroll state. It also works as a Windows 10 app. Haven't tested on Android...

It's just a 24-hour project I wanted to do over break but I will likely keep it as my main reader, so I might add more features over time.
Yes - so if you put 1000 cores with 1000 caches on a chip you could run 1000 vm's - more or less, perhaps 10000 in fact? Why aren't there chips like this... I think because it would blow apart the server manufacturers business models, and Intel's business model as well.
GPUs are SIMD
"Dell estimates that this model will get up to 19 hours of battery life when configured with an FHD+ display."

I like this trend.
What I find interesting is the implicit assumption that the underlying function being learned is differentiable or continuous to begin with. That's not always the case; for example, we often work with "categorically labeled" discrete binning problems.
Is that not a reasonable end game for them? Some folks want to be able to say, "My work doesn't support ICE". If ICE has to move to an alternative, then those devs can continue to build and not support ICE.
Well, muons are made by getting electrons or other particles up to high speeds and then crashing them into stationary targets or counterrotating beams. But you have to create muon-antimuon pairs, so that requires at least 212 MeV in theory and much more in practice because of energy lost to heat, etc. https://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/SpecialROW032808MERIT.html
None are lazy, however.
Many threads:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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