skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use both SpaCy and HuggingFace at work. Is there a comparison of this vs SpaCy's tokenizer[1]?

1. https://spacy.io/usage/linguistic-features#tokenization
Let's get concrete. Here's about as complex of a unit file as you will find for running a docker container:

[Unit]
Description=My Container
After=docker.service
Requires=docker.service

[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker start mycontainer
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop mycontainer

75% of this is boilerplate, but there's not a lot of repetition and most of it is relevant to the service itself. The remaining lines describes how you interact with Docker normally.

In comparison, here's a definition to set up the same container as a deployment in Kubernetes.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: mycontainer
labels:
app: myapp
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: myapp
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: myapp
spec:
containers:
- name: my-container
image: mycontainer

Almost 90% of this has meaning only to Kubernetes, not even to the people who will have to view this object later. There's a lot of repetition of content (namely labels and nested specs), and the "template" portion is not self-explanatory (what is it a template of? Why is it considered a "template"?)

This is not to say that these abstractions are useless, particularly when you have hundreds of nodes and thousands of pods. But for a one host node, it's a lot of extra conceptual work (not to mention googling) to avoid learning how to write unit files.
organically this is what happens to actually get things done. but mind you, these small work groups are successful despite the large standups. life finds a way...
That does not mean it isn't possible; the implementation simply has not occurred.
(I work at Stripe.) We've made sure the process is carbon-neutral from forest to page. (And the paper itself is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.)
You don't add up assets and debt. You add up equity and debt and make it match up to assets.
It’s no more a waste to write these than it’s a waste for servers to use disk space writing out logs.
I still want a slide out keyboard like my Nokia N900 had... and if you don't think $1000 is overpriced for an I-Phone, you probably haven't tried a $300 phone that has very similar capabilities...
Betteridge's law of headlines applies: The answer is probably 'no'.
"really modern and polished" strikes my tastes as corporate in the world of zines. Just my opinion tho, not trying to gatekeep.
I don't think those numbers really capture the full story since the majority of children rarely or never cycle on the road. I couldn't find a resource for the number of children who regularly cycle on roads, but one of the main reasons children might be doing this is going to and from school. Only 1% of children commute this way. There are certainly other reasons children might cycle on roads, for the sake of argument let's add another 1% for children who regularly ride on roads but do not ride to school. Using your estimate of 40 million children between the age of 5 and 14 that gives us just 800k regular cyclists and a 30.6 child pedestrian deaths per 100k.

https://www.saferoutespartnership.org/media/pressreleases/US...
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So you can create infinite value by borrowing more and more money.

I'd love to create lots of value for you by borrowing money from you. I would even consent to not destroy any of that value through making payments.

The bond is worth $300b to the bondholders, but only because it is expected to be paid back and is secured by the $300b assets. You can prove that by assuming those assets disappeared: how much is the bond (or the company) worth to the bondholders then?
Note that "cover up" in the case of flight IA 655 meant "making bullshit excuses". (The Navy immediately claimed to have shot down an Iranian military fighter, but on the same day announced that they were wrong and it was in fact the airliner) In the cases of MH 17 and the recent PS752 shoot downs, "cover up" means denying it and destroying the evidence.

Russia continues to deny shooting down MH17, while it took three days for Iran to admit it, presumably prompted by the cell phone footage. Who knows what would have happened if that footage never surfaced.

IMHO the title is misleading.
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> Finally, I’ve found that most of the time when founders call asking for vague help, what they are really asking for is emotional support from a friend. Invite them over to your house, make them tea or pour them a drink, and start listening to their struggles.

That's super true. In my experience, it's always difficult to see investors as peers sharing the struggle with you, but who more than them can do it?
It is primordial methane that is transformed into long chain hydrocarbons by pressure and heat, according to “The Deep, Hot Biosphere” by Thomas Gold.
Fair enough. They do appear to be very similar in structure and they do follow some logic in correlation to timestamp. However you seem to be more knowledgeable about it and so I will add this to my mental knowledge book.

Thank you
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Investors should allocate money to both, if possible.

I don't see discussion of VC as a distraction any more than discussing bonds would be a distraction.
Replace with whatever term you prefer; I think the message is still true regardless of the term lay people use.

I don't think anybody would complain if the CEO at the time was charged with 300+ crimes of some sort, manslaughter, gross negligence, murder, whatever. On a jury I'd be pretty lenient to the prosecution in this matter if they could find evidence that the CEO was aware of the calculus taking place, i.e. let's cut some corners with our regulatory capture so we can ship this plane more quickly and make more money, it is at that point that premeditation for me seems apt.
Useful feedback, thank you.
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There's more to pollution than just carbon, and that's an industry advocacy group's website.

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

> discarded paper and paperboard make up roughly 26% of solid municipal solid waste in landfill sites

> In the United States the pulp and paper industry released about 79, 000 tonnes or about 5% of all industrial pollutant releases in 2015...

> Worldwide, the pulp and paper industry is the fifth largest consumer of energy, accounting for four percent of all the world's energy use.

> Wastewater discharges for a pulp and paper mill contains solids, nutrients and dissolved organic matter such as lignin. It also contains alcohols, and chelating agents and inorganic materials like chlorates and transition metal compounds. Nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus can cause or exacerbate eutrophication of fresh water bodies such as lakes and rivers. Organic matter dissolved in fresh water, measured by biological oxygen demand (BOD), changes ecological characteristics. Wastewater may also be polluted with organochlorine compounds. Some of these are naturally occurring in the wood, but chlorine bleaching of the pulp produces far larger amounts.

> The pulp and paper industry is also associated with important emissions of heavy metals. In Canada, for example, this industry is the third source of lead (Pb) emissions to water[27] In the U.S., the pulp and paper industry is responsible for 9% of industrial releases to water.

and so on...

Even if the 1% number were fair/complete, combating climate change is likely going to involve a lot of small cuts rather than one or two big ones. Avoiding printing stuff we don't need to print is worthwhile.
Assange perverted the original intent of Wikileaks, and warped it into a tool to serve his own ego and personal vendettas. He absolutely got what he deserved. The quicker we move on from him and his personality cult, the quicker a replacement emerge that gets the job done better.
How on earth is a reasonable comparison Company A, whose _most expensive_ car _tops out_ at about $140K, and Company B, whose _least expensive_ car _starts_ at $335K.

These are not remotely comparable companies, regardless of how much "owner love" each may have.
I use closed captions because I can't understand Japanese.
My experience with Clojure was that you spend a lot of time looking at Java-level exceptions. It doesn't really hide the Java dependencies. It's an OK lisp if you want to combine it with Java, but if you don't... not so good.
Which network fabric do you use and how did you set up DNS/cert management? For me certificates has been one of the pain points - have been using cert-manager with LetsEncrypt for some time but it has been notoriously unstable and they have introduced plenty of breaking changes between releases. (That being said I haven't tried the more recent releases, maybe things have gotten more stable in the past couple of months)

Google recently release managed certs for those running on GKE, but those are limited to a single domain per cert.
Not a specific list for that, that I know of. I've seen a good number of such cases over the years in the news though, most often for drunk driving.

Wikipedia's article on diplomatic immunity has a variety of cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity#Vehicular_...

Some incidents end in waiving of immunity and prosecution in the receiving country. Some end in prosecution by the home country. Some end in the accused getting away with no legal consequences.

Some search engine digging finds other examples.
Maybe after Z it goes to 0 or 1?
They were announced within months of each other [1][2]. That means both companies were planning their stores at the same time. I find it hard to believe Discord did not have any idea about Epic's store, considering they were simultaneously raising a funding round and talking to VCs about their plans (who you would think would be aware of Epic's move). I suppose it's possible Epic played their cards close to the chest though.

[1] Discord Announcement https://blog.discordapp.com/the-discord-store-beta-9a35596fd...

[2] Epic Announcement https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/announcing-the-epic-...
And there's the local difference that makes or breaks this kind of calculation. For Germany these numbers currently are more like 0.3€/kWh and 1.2-1.3€/l.
Danbooru2019 is now officially released: https://www.gwern.net/Danbooru2019
Interesting, so it sounds like FEMA believes bankruptcy doesn’t prevent debt from being recovered, it just means you target the other creditors?

I didn’t realize that was an option?
All of the major device manufacturers fork Android so they could easily block that and make it impossible to uninstall certain apps. Google could potentially force it in the licensing terms, but that might run into antitrust concerns.
Oh, that is an interesting project. I've been tempted to do something similar with an older Miata, especially after seeing a pretty decent conversion of one using Leaf packs.

The RX-8 would be much more complex, IMO, but I bet it would be a lot of fun to drive as an electric.

Are you blogging about your efforts somewhere? I'd love to follow them.
Why wouldn't one argue against unnecessary landuse producing more pollution?
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Superconduction is still poorly understood. We don't have a good model that predicts what materials are superconductors.
> I can very easily hop between different clusters running completely different apps/topologies and have a good sense of what's going on. A mish-mash of custom solutions re-inventing these wheels is, in my opinion, far more confusing

Kinda like jumping between Rails projects (assuming those rails projects don't diverge heavily from the "convention") vs jumping around between custom PHP scripts ;)

Or for Java Dev... kinda like jumping between Maven (again, assuming mostly follow the Maven convention) vs random Ant scripts to build your Java-based systems.

There will always be naysayers no matter what because they're used to the previous tech.
Wouldn’t it be possible to send a stream cipher encrypted packet of audio to a hub server where the codec has a “progressive” decoding mode? If I’m not mistaken, Opus can already do something like this. That way a client could set their desired bitrate and the server would truncate the packets before passing them off and doesn’t need to be re-encoded. This only works with a stream cipher though.

Maybe an audio engineer or cryptographer could chime in?
Hmmm, looks useful. The list of dependencies is basically a who's who of doing various types of document parsing. Is this basically just a unified interface that wraps them all up into an API?
Ask HN: How do you manage risks in your agile software projects?
Even though using Agile methods reduces risks in the early phases of software development, I noticed that many teams benefit from using a more formalized risk management process. Especially in long / complex projects.

What are your thoughts on risk management? Do you do risk assessments?
Emergency healthcare prevents some causes of death - generally, those which can be fixed in an ER and allow the person to continue living a mostly normal life after. Take the example of a diabetic person, or a suicidally depressed person, as counter-examples which cannot be fixed in an A&E environment and will lead to death.
Yup this is my trick if I’m feeling a bit under motivated. I’ll leave myself some low hanging fruits for the morning and a todo list at my desk.
My guess is that they used this as a security through obscurity [0]. They hoped that nobody will be able to reverse back the alphabet if they don't get their hands on real IDs. Because we [1] crawl every video/audio site, we had all the links for vine. I just took 1,000 consequential IDs (based on creation time) and then worked backwards on the alphabet. Took maybe 10 minutes to write the code.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

[1] https://pex.com
> Once you have a pair of parenthesis, everything starts looking like a great idea
That is an interesting perception of history. What it looked like legally was p2p was working great and skype was massively rising in popularity. But the US federal government could not stand encrypted peer to peer communications. So they told their good friends over at eBay to buy the company. eBay messed it up and only bought the license for the name and not the actual code and p2p backend. Things continued working well for a while. But the feds still weren't happy. So they had their other friends at Microsoft actually purchase the technology and then immediately destroy it and switch to a centralized model.

You can read the story at: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/skype...

>For the second time, Zennström and Friis cashed in on selling Skype. That's because, instead of giving eBay the critical base technology that kept Skype going (the P2P system known as "Global Index"), Zennström's and Friis's company Joltid still owned it—they simply licensed it to Skype. The whole situation devolved into threats of litigation until a 2009 settlement gave Zennström and Friis a chunk of Skype ownership, which made them even more money when Microsoft bought the company.
Please keep it up. That book is a treasure. Do you have a draft copy?
There is no inputs and outputs example in the repo to allow you to see rapidly what is possible. We should definitively add them.

For a quick test you can either run the jupyter notebook

https://github.com/axa-group/Parsr/tree/master/demo/jupyter-...

or run the docker with the UI interface and just drag and drop documents / play with the configuration

docker run -t -p 8080:80 axarev/parsr-ui-localhost:latest
I see Kubernetes also being used for ML workflows, yes...while you haven't figured out how to run a ML pipeline yet, add K8s (KubeFlow recommendation) As a ML researcher solutions like KubeFlow has been very painful as I don't want to learn k8s, I need to continue focusing on ML work and figure out my pipeline before I deploy K8s
Another person in the comments linked to an article mentioning them turning down Russian government leaks: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
While that's most likely true, it only accounts for a very small amount of the gender imbalance. In reality, men simply choose to commit violent crimes, or get involved in violent criminal careers, far more often than women.
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I am gonna file this under wishful thinking.
It really wasn't that popular initially, at least nowhere near what it is today. There were only 1.5 million sales in 2007, and about 12 million in 2008. For comparison, there were over 210 million sold in 2018.
It's cheaper this way.

The suppliers are beholden to their master and can live or die on a whim. GM, et al know the cost of manufacturing down to a penny and control supplier margins very tightly. They also collude with other manufactures to suppress prices.
I feel like I live a pretty normal life. I have the most common mutation of the condition, which is typically results in the worst cases you hear about, but for whatever reason I've always had a mild case (I'm currently 42 years old, with 50-60% lung function). I grew up very poor and in a very immune-system challenging environment (in terms of cleanliness and I had parents who smoked indoors). I wasn't diagnosed until age 13 (most are at birth). I don't think I ever developed a sense of CF being the core of who I was, and I suspect that plays a role.

Day to day, I take a lot of medicine as second nature: breathing treatments, insulin pump, and pills to digest my food. I'm a smaller guy, and not very physically strong, and am just short of breath most of the time, so I limit anything that would be challenging like outdoor activity or manual labor. CF causes infertility in males, though my wife and I will do IVF. Like I said, I feel quite normal, though I suspect my chosen lifestyle is a product of CF, so of course it feels normal.

TBH Trikafta (and its predecessors) hasn't been a "game changer" as much as some incremental improvement, but others in CF groups I'm in have had greater improvements, so I suspect that's a result of where I started from.
The average American's total paper consumption accounts for less than 1% of their total carbon footprint. So in terms of impact, you would reduce your carbon footprint more by going vegetarian 2 days a week than you would by entirely eliminating your paper consumption.
> yard ... farmland

Those are two very different things.

Housing with yards, by and large, makes the city sprawl more, which takes away farmland.

If you want to dwell in a single family unit - that's great! You should absolutely be able to.

But other people ought to be able to be free to make different choices.
These theories have a very precise mathematical formulation and very weird unintuitive consequences. If you try to teach them without math, you only keep the weird unintuitive part and it's more unintelligible.

For quantum mechanics you have to know eigenvalues and eigenvectors. This is studies in the first years of the university in a technical career. I'm not sure if it can be teach much earlier.

For Special Relativity you have to know Minkowsky spaces. It's not so difficult, it can be moved to the first years of the university.

For General Relativity you have to know curved spaces. It's not imposible to learn, but you can get a Ph.D. in Math or Physics without studding curved spaces.
Really enjoyed reading this, thanks.

While I'm no way near mathematically capable (yet) of understanding the jargon the author uses later on in the post (e.g. "randomized singular value decomposition"), I'm glad he puts links to at least show he's not bluffing.

One quote that stood out to me was this one

> I appreciate that most of my writing is me, like an ant, simply following someone else’s trail.

I think you could apply that to most things in programming/computer science too
Looks like imperative/sequential lisp to me. Got those parenthesis, quoting and some light-weight nesting.

Anything in particular that sticks out to? Lack of recursion?
It appears extreme only when you think of Tesla as an alternative to one of those car companies. Tesla is as much a car as iPhone is a rotary phone.
Samsung doesn't want to be dependent on Google for a core business. They are hedging their bets by building out a parallel ecosystem to enable a future switch to another OS.
Apple is an exception, Android phone manufacturers don't have a monopoly to abuse.
Not in binary, right?
Automakers don't like gas/electric hybrids as they are more complex to design and manufacture than either gas or electric vehicles.

Fuel-cell/electric hybrids are a different value proposition and will keep going.

But they'll increasingly drop gas hybrids and jump to full electric, perhaps after the next generation of vehicles.
Don't know how long ago you worked in trading, but the changes, technically and culturally, have been coming hot and heavy since about 2010. First the technical: as the Bloomberg article points out, most traders today are also coders. Trading floors on the big equity exchanges are empty and quiet as most trades occur electronically. Many seven and eight figure/year NYSE specialists have had to find new careers or retire. You many remember the old NYSE DOT and super DOT program trading systems, both of which sent orders directly to the specialists on the floor, preserving their hold on the exchange-based trades. All of which has gone the way of the dinosaur. Along the way, low, low commissions, low-friction, low touch, low-latency trades are now the new normal.

On top of this, I started in this business almost 40 years ago, when guys were animals on the trading floor. When I think of the misbehavior from that era and the new ultra-PC, metoo social environment, I'm amazed the old culture has all but been erased from today's trading floors. I do miss the levity, the practical jokes and general yuks we had, but that's the price we pay.
> You're gonna be creating your own directories and mapping them into your docker-compose YAMLs or Docker CLI commands.

You don't have to create them, docker does that when you specify a volume path that doesn't exist. You do have to specify them as a -v. In comparison to a full 'volume' object in a pod spec.

> And if you have five running and you're ready to add your sixth, you're gonna be SSHing in to do it again

In comparison to sshing in to install kubernetes, and connect it to your existing cluster, ultimately creating unit files to execute docker container commands on the host (to run kubelet, specifically).

> apps conflicting with each other

The only real conflict would be with external ports, which you have to manage with Kubernetes as well. Remember, these are still running in containers.

> storing things in places you're not aware of, and missing important files in your backups.

Again, they are still containers, and you simply provide a -v instead of a 'volume' key in the pod spec.

> treat bare metal servers like dumb container farms

We're not talking about clusters though. The original post I was responding to was talking about 1 vm.

I will agree that, when you move to a cluster of machines and your VM count exceeds your replica count, Kubernetes really starts to shine.
The corruption of government starts with its secrets. A truly free people keep no secrets.
I wasn’t very convinced by the 2016 text either, but the point is more that she’s gone from that clearly stated position to mentioning the importance of ”philosophy of science” in her attacks on current practice without much evidence (that is, not writing about it) that there has been any shift of conviction.

It looks more like Hossenfelder found something discarded in the shed and temporarily use it as a club in want of something better. A slight intellectual dsihonesty.