skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would speculate that the partial-clone implementation pulls down all the commits that touch any files that are required. Some of these commits would presumably include changes to other parts of the source tree. Perhaps `git grep` still matches on such commits?
I'm not saying otherwise.
The attitudes may be in the same direction, but they are far less extreme and taken far less seriously by others. People complain but at the end of the day buildings actually get built in Seattle.
You can’t trust the iOS Files app
This service seems to send a new ink cartridge when the current cartridge is running low. The monthly price depends on how much you print, and there is a free tier that allows for 15 pages/month but you will be charged $1/10 pages if you print more than 15 pages. It seems you need to provide a credit card even for the free tier.

https://instantink.hpconnected.com/

https://support.hp.com/nz-en/document/c03767640

They seem to brick your cartridge to prevent the plan being cancelled just after they send you a cartridge, which could be done on the free tier. I don't like it in theory but it makes sense they would disable it.
Video chat with eye-contact and body language. That's the missing part to create trust in remote work relationships.
Asked for an HTTPS one liner on stackoverflow a while back and got this answer:

ruby -r webrick/https -e '
WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(
Port: 8000, DocumentRoot: ".",
SSLEnable: true, SSLCertName: [%w[CN localhost]]).start'

https://stackoverflow.com/a/37986354/59325
epson ink printers have a cheap cost per color printed page since ink is sold in bottles
Alot of the cost in AI projects now are in training or education, but instead in problem solving and plumbing. AI/ML free projects using things like Kafka and Flink are not cheap.

Coding up a CNN or MLP is not a big deal, but it never really was - it was work to build a c back propagation implementation but if I did it in 1995 then anyone could. The question and real differentiator is in answering three problems :

- what's the problem?
- how can we get the data to the system?
- how do we frame the data and output in terms of (any) AI technology?

All of these steps are closely coupled and require expertise.

On the programmer less modelling; I still have not seen a tool that is better than code for expressing a model precisely and testably, and my experience is that until we have some running code we don't really know that we understand the system.
Unicode and its transformation formats (UTF-8, -16) were major "compat breaks", and to be honest, still are. We did not push for them for the emojis, but for the ability to be more precise and more expressive.

Mathematics has developed a very large alphabet for the very same reasons, and if it was constrained to ASCII, we'd be learning integrals today in the "Newtonian way".

If you don't see those properties as offering any benefits to a craft that is based on precision and that has new languages popping up regularly to cater to new expression forms, that's fine. I still believe it's an unexplored area, and we'll only see benefits once we start to make heavy use of the advances.
Good question; I don’t know. If it’s “half” it’s still worth it though.
> A lot of doctors need the ability to do documentation for reimbursement, and I don't really see any demonstration that this was taken seriously.

Not yet. I'm trying to find some paying customers before investing more.

> you're certainly then going to want to be able to integrate into major EHR vendors, and well they probably don't have any incentive to help.

Indeed. I was aiming to evolve into an EHR itself to overcome this.

> I'm not convinced that there's a significant marketshare

Since I have a hard time finding customers, this seems right. How would to recommend to proceed to carve out a niche in this market?
I don‘t understand why people keep buying these inkjet scam printers. It‘s been like this for almost 2 decades.

That‘s about the time I switched to laser printers. Currently I equipped myself and my family with a Brother HL 3152CDW. I got it for around 160-180€. The included toners print 1-2k pages. A new toner does 2-2,5k and costs around 60€ per color (genuine Brother) or around 50-60€ for a 4-color-toner set from noname brands. We have the printer since maybe 3-4 years and had to buy 1 black toner. I think I got a noname cartridge for around 25€.

If you want a smaller device and save a little money, get a b/w laser printer for less than 100€.

If I need to print photos, I go to a store with instant printing kiosks. It takes a few minutes to print dozens of photos and it‘s cheap, around 0,20-0,30€ per print (10x15cm).

I hope laser printers will never become such a scam product like inkjet...
That is exactly the point: These things have weight and meaning as a consequence of there being a country of laws that recognizes them. Without a political entity to recognize or enforce them, they are just words. They're not some inherent property of people or nature, but concepts created through law and enforcement of law.

As such how they are worded is no protection - only peoples willingness to resist changes is actual protection against rights being eroded.
Yes. This is how it works, this is what he clicked the button "I agree" for.

He could have chosen the old way and buying the cartridges himself on a regular basis, but he chose the subscription model and now he wines about it.

What you need to understand about the subscription model is that you DON'T own the cartridge and you DON'T pay for the cartridge. You pay for printed pages. If the ink runs out, the printer automatically orders a set of new ones, for no additional cost. You receive a package to your preferred postal address, that contains the new ink and a sealable, labeled, post-stamped bag in which you will put the old ones and send it back to HP.

I absolutely love this model. I pay the minimal 2USD for it (if I exceed the monthly printable 50 pages, I get another 10p/$1, or upgrade my subscription. Unused quota accumulates up to 100p), and I get a monthly email about the detailed pricing.

Also, this way the used cartridges (dangerous waste) are handled properly and an environmentally friendly way.
This 'scissor diagrams' are a gross misrepresentation of what is really going on in academia. It conveys the the misleading message that 'the pipeline' is only leaking for female STEM aspirants. In fact, if you start with 100 woman and 100 men, so 200 STEM students in total, only around 1-5 people will make it to the end of these scissor diagrams (professorship and alike). Let's assume a very strong imbalance, say we have 4 man and 1 woman making it (80/20). That means the drop out rate (or 'leakiness') is 96% for men and 99% for woman! So yes, in this case it is 4 times as likely for a man to become professor compared to a woman. However, it's still very unlikely (4%) for an individual man to succeed and hence the majority of men also drop out of STEM academia.
Well instant ink has a free tier. So I have bought an $80 inkjet and then payed a total of about $5 on ink since then when I went over the free limit.

Across about 3 years so far.

But HP spy on me via my printer.
Also, Google released the Reformer just 2 days ago, and they claim it can ingest orders of magnitude more data than the Transformer.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/reformer-efficient-transfo...

TPUv3 is estimated to be 12 or 16nm process node, so the performance of TPU's next versions could still double over the next years (if needed).

At that pace of model research and hardware improvement, I would say we are still in the AI spring.
That seems a bit crazy? When I married I also had the option of taking my wife’s (Japanese) name, so that would make me indistinguishable from a native.
Festival in Assam brings to the world an interesting indigenous tribe
There's no reason to be apologetic. The fact of the matter is that there are two types of employees, those who work and those who have a job. Employees who work are creating value, whereas employees who have a job are trading time for money.

When a company becomes a certain size, it's inevitable that you will hire people looking for a job.

Firing people sucks. Yes, it affects their livelihood, but having warm bodies on your roster affects your business.

The problem with people who have a job is that they affect company culture as they set the tone for acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in the workplace. It spreads like a disease and the effect can cripple those who show up to work.

Sometimes, this can lead to confusion as people who have a job might think, "I was doing what I was told. I don't understand why." Creating value is much more than simply following orders.
It's also remarkable that XScreensaver has one of the most stable DPMS implementations around.

Most screensavers and lockers lock-up the system while trying to switch the screen to low power mode on my PC but, XScreensaver works reliably. DisplayPort connection on nVidia cards is a pain point.
to your last point, top companies hire before PhDs even defend all the time. In fact it's nice when that happens because then you can go to your committee with the job offer and they will pass you without too much fuss or revisions, sometimes a year early. Post docs are pretty optional in the industry these days, and the prerequisites on job applications for phd science positions are going to be a bit fast and loose.

The trick is to angle your skillset to the industry skill set, network network network, even collaborations with the company directly can happen when you are a grad student. When you show up to the interview and are recommended by the people you networked with and understand their technology since you've been all over it in grad school and have some papers published to prove it, suddenly you are the top candidate in the pile. It's not impossible to do this if you angle your grad career from the start, and go to a school in an area with a lot of these companies and other good research schools nearby.
Other people have suggested noise cancelling may be a possible source of hearing damage...and I'm just some rando on the Internet, so I have no idea, but I do try and be aware of exposing myself to sustained loud noises.

All I've noticed is that I tend to have the volume at a lower setting with the AirPods Pro with noise cancelling when wearing them out and about. With AirPods I would occasionally max out the volume setting and sometimes wish it would go louder. I noticed similar things with previous, wired headphones. I tend to only use passthrough when I'm in a quiet environment, like at home, and listening for/to someone.

Apple Health shows audio exposure logging going back to Aug of last year. Back then I'm seeing 12-15hrs /wk of 90dB and a Loud! warning flagged (It says WHO recommends 4hrs/wk at 90dB). More recently (after buying the AirPods Pro) its logging 18-23hrs of 67-75dB (WHO recommends 40hrs at 80dB and 127hrs at 75dB). I tend to listen to podcasts. So it's talking instead of anything loud or sustained.
I recently thought “Uber for Backpacks” would be a boon to the homeless. They could leave it in storage until requested back, as opposed to A-to-B transport. Natural partnership here. Economics of having a storage locker or large van were problematic, this could help. Realistically a homeless person would pay a few dollars for this regularly, as they can afford to buy a few coffees from cafes they spend time in. Not being ID’d as homeless would be dignifying.
Thanks :)

> 1) I'm not seeing any mention of HIPAA (or other medical privacy laws) compliance. Lack of compliance would be a non-starter for basically all medical professionals.

Since this is bootstrapped, I was hoping to get some customers, to be able to invest in certification.
Would you see any path going forward without certification for now?

> 2) This is wildly cheap, when compared to other EHRs

I was hoping for this to be a differentiator, since this is at beginning. What would be a better alternative?
I agree with the biochar suggestion, but I'd also suggest to bury both biochar and syn-oil deep in the ground -- at least, in the first decades or so. That's because I don't believe the usual sales pitch for biochar actually works.

Biochar as a soil amendment is not a reliable means to increase yields. Depending on the produce and the soil, it decreases yields. Sometimes, it seem to have no effect, at all. So far, the most reliable results have been observed in tropical areas. People there don't have the money to invest in farm land, yet.

Refining syn-oil is hard, because its quality is low -- comparable to bunker oil. Tar is one of the few products that can be made out of it, successfully.

Therefore, burying both seem to be the best option. After all, there should be quite a few depleted oil fields and coal mines in the world, so space is not a problem.
You would face an uphill battle against culture, and people might honestly be uncomfortable working for you.

Maybe younger people?
Show HN: A VSCode snippet/extension to type arrow function in less than 1 second
the techcrunch article claims the quote was "not about liberty but taxes" and even links to the Franklin quote, which is , oddly , about liberty:

> "In fine, we have the most sensible concern for the poor distressed inhabitants of the frontiers. We have taken every step in our power, consistent with the just rights of the freemen of Pennsylvania, for their relief, and we have reason to believe, that in the midst of their distresses they themselves do not wish us to go farther. Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Such as were inclined to defend themselves, but unable to purchase arms and ammunition have, as we are informed, been supplied with both, ...

https://books.google.gr/books/content?id=HptPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA9...
I fail to understand the distinction in a way that would be generally applicable though.

I lack the cultural context for US but in many other cultures, expressing a valid rational position can be actively harmful to one.

At what point something becomes harassment? Can you give me more details?

Suppose I am actively promoting eating beef in public space near a very religious vegan settlement. Is that speech protected or not?

It is targetting people based on their belief but the whole spectrum of who it is not clear at all unless one intends to assume malice and fill in the gaps. All I would be doing is to promote eating beef because it's good and healthy.

Does placing restrictions on where you can talk violates your free speech despite it being public property? Say, a restraining order or something similar.
Yep. Looking at the device materials in the photos, it doesn't seem made of super sturdy materials.

With a small chisel + some practice someone could likely clear a cark park - or several streets - full of these within a few hours (overnight), and render the devices unusable until repaired.

Doesn't seem like a well thought out invention. :/
$64,000 question here is-why are you still using Inkjet Printer?
People doing PCR for 6 years are probably generating a pretty big dataset for analysis...

Bioinformatics is an entire field. The lines between molecular biology, genetics, physics, chemistry, statistics, and computer science are getting very blurry these days. Plenty of bio phds get hired for data scientist roles in industry.

No one is going to knock you for leaving for industry these days. Anyone who is a big deal enough in academia to have that kind of ego is already going to have started a company or three themselves on the side.
> disproportionately popular among armchair theorists compared to other fields like math or chemistry.

I’ve heard this before, but I wonder how true it is? I know my experiences are just anecdotes, but I knew a guy who was convinced the Hotel Room/Bellboy/Missing Dollar problem “broke maths”, and I’ve had countless frustrations with family members promoting homeopathy and acquaintances talking about chemical X being “one atom away from being bleach” like that doesn’t apply to water.

I’d be interested if anyone has done a real analysis of rates of armchair nonsense by sector.
Also, inflation. If the government does something that increases inflation (like printing money), then they're essentially taxing savings.
It's also interesting to consider other Boltzmann "objects" as well.

In theory, just as it can be argued that it'd be more thermodynamically probable that a single brain would occur than an entire universe - what about a single quantum computer running a simulation of such a universe?

But why even necessitate the physical at all?

Could there simply be a Boltzmann simulation - a collection of abstract information and rules representing a multi-dimensional physical universe? In particular, if it contained techniques internally similar to procedural generation, a great deal of abstracted information could be represented by a much more compact collection of algorithms and rules.

Of course, some might even take the concept further, reducing from a Boltzmann simulation to simply a Boltzmann architect - a purely information based intelligence capable of creating and sustaining such a simulation without the need of any physicality at all, and spawning off child threads to extend that property of "consciousness."

Such a foundational basis for existence (in either the ontological spontaneous simulation or intelligent designer cases) might both be argued to be more likely to occur than the massive physical universe itself.
The US left is about on par with European left. The US right is more right than the average European right, which shifts the average.
Fun fact: this is already happening due to ERISA, the law governing 401(k) and other retirement plans. The law says, in part, that you have to offer your tax-advantaged plan to everyone that qualifies as an employee. You do not have to make everyone who contributes to your business in any capacity an employee.

Google's 401(k) plan is pretty much the most generous you are allowed to give to employees. They contract out for every non-professional role and keep a sharp distinction between the "help" that cleans and cooks, and the employees that code and do business development etc.
Confirming this by me having a hard time finding customers...
Bosnia pledges not to occupy the Moon and other celestial bodies
Gemeindebau in Vienna Austria.
I'd arrange meetings with colleagues in other teams and departments to find out what problems they are working on and how you might help. If they have nothing, you could arrange to shadow them for a few hours or half a day. This way you'll find new things to work on, or have a greater understanding of the business and have a larger internal network. Alternatively, if there are ways the business could be improved, you could work on a proposal, and get buy-in and ideas from your colleagues and finally present it to your management.
Just spin off that part of the company into a separate company.
Permutation City, perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
Are you seriously suggesting that a charity kitchen dispensing pork should be illegal?
"2nd best" is rather ambitious, but I lived in LA for about a dozen years and I did see serious, sustained improvements to public transit. I'm pessimistic about any public transit project completing, let alone at the scale it was pitched at, but I think LA has some momentum.
No - what is going on is that feminists point to statistics of dads not staying home, then claim it is because dads "don't step up to help in the home". That's a feminist lie - several, actually. First lie: it is a burden to take care of your kids. Second lie: dads are lazy slobs oppressing the mothers to do all the awful work, while they chill in their comfy careers.

It's not even a question of "I can't help you with that because of your privilege", it is that the question is not even the question.

Of course there are dads who wouldn't like to stay at home, or who don't even consider it because of societal traditions. Likewise mothers who don't want to stay home (less often). Overall, it is a question of money (privilege), and a private matter between the parents.
Taxing savings encourages spending and helps the economy flow. When money is held outside of the economy it (say under your bed) it kills any benefit and creates depressions.

Taxing savings makes sense over income. Why tax someone producing, removing the tax encourages more work performed. We tax income because it is easier. We tax the estate in death because everything is collected and recorded. In Roman times they sent a tax collector who would go through the home to find valuable objects to pay taxes (tax on savings).

It is not as wierd as it sounds. It's impossible to implement in our society before death and taxing payrolls and self reported income is a lot easier.
Yeah, I hate to be that guy, but this author seems to fundamentally misunderstand a lot of 8 1/2 or criticize Fellini because of his inherent apoliticism. The New Yorker can't seem to write any sort of cultural commentary any more without injecting the supposed bogeyman of the day.

For instance: I'm not sure how one can interpret the 'harem' scene [1] as anything other than a critical take on the [universal and common] ego fantasy that all our former lovers will come back to us, apologetic and begging to be with us again.

> What’s going on here? Is Fellini paying lip service to a new moral dispensation that he doesn’t understand, or honestly chiding himself for former sins? Either way, the film is an ugly display, and...

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8cQ1x0aAk
Thanks Chris, appreciate your insight!

Besides the functionality suggestions that you listed, how would you advise finding some customers? There's only one customer now, a small psychology clinic. I aimed at finding more in psychology, but the problem isn't a pain.

May I ask for your contact info? Mine is marius@juvmed.com -- thanks!
Quite the contrary, UTF-8 is backward compatible to ASCII...it was a compat break from the local character encodings.

As to mathematics: do you imply that using a wider charset is akin to completely new mathematical methods? Or that a symbol needs to be one character? Both sounds implausible, I still must be misunderstanding...
Respond not at all please.
i think you and parent should create some kind of blog confirming all this. It makes a huge difference between having one guy ( tony heller ) blogging about this, and multiple independant people confirming the findings.

It also makes for different POV about the same issue ( data fixing methodology and code quality), and it’s always a good way to bring improved arguments in the debate.
There’s a phrase I haven’t heard in about forever unless I’m the one saying it: “passing a giggle test”. If you can’t describe the thing you did with a straight face, you should take it back and keep working in it until you can.

It’s so easy for things to get away from us by increments, and the longer we sit with something the harder a time we have predicting the reaction of people who have just seen it for the first time.
Wouldn't it be trivial for the company to track where the SIM is being used to find out who's done this?
> In a few years we will have an accurate digital twin of the world

No, you will not, unless you redefine what "accurate" means.
Me too. The recent change is really disappointing.
Looks like it's this system:

http://www.aveillant.com/products/gamekeeper-16u/
Crew Dragon Launch Escape Demonstration today 2020-01-18 13:00 UTC [pdf]
Yes. I would be in better health gardening all day and building things with my hands. Probably have better mental health too.
Actually I agree, I wasn't trying to emphasize their feelings as much as question if there is really such a thing as a friendly fork. In reality it shouldn't matter and the concept be void, if someone forks your project and it is successful you should be glad you don't have to anymore and can do something else, as well as benefit from the improved software.