skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another translation layer called wgpu (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu) being developed as well. It's written in Rust and has bindings for C, Rust (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-rs), and some initial support for other languages (Python, Julia, Scopes, etc.).

Dawn and wgpu have also been collaborating to create a common set of WebGPU headers. The WIP headers are located at https://github.com/webgpu-native/webgpu-headers if you're interested in contributing or following.
Microsoft was slowly losing browser share with their own engine, felt they needed more web compatibility (including de facto via the WebKit lineage) and extensions sooner. They were not going to play a long game, even if they could afford it. Mozilla may have looked wobbly to them, too.
I've been using the Memos on iOS (https://memos.org) for searching. Memos additionally lets you copy the text and is on device.
I think that's unnecessarily harsh. RN is powerful and the dev still uses Native modules and views. The performance was probably good enough for this concept and he made a cool app with it.
Does this show me where the text is in the photo?

I’d like to be able to take a photo of my book shelf and have it show me where the book I want is... or to generate an index of my books, with links I can click that show me where they are.
> has a limit on attempts

This is potentially a quite difficult problem IMO
Awesome, I've been wanting something like this for a while now - any plans to get it working on Android?
I believe AirBnB and Groupon are off Rails ( And Ruby ).

So the big one for Rails are Shopify, Github, Cookpad, Gitlab. For Ruby ( Not Rails ) That would be Stripe.
Publishers also monetize attention. Scale is the only difference, the business models are the same regardless.
To be a scientist is not enough to use the scientific method in isolation. Because modern science is much bigger than anyone can understand as an individual, it is an imperative requirement that you also articulate your findings to the scientific community as a way to prove/disprove your personal conclusions. In other words, the requirement for proper use of the scientific method in a modern society can only been accomplished through the scientific community. Now, you could in theory do this without a PhD, but your chances are minimal of even being able to start the discussion, so if you're really willing to do science the first meta-step is to prove yourself going through a PhD program.
So should we not try any ideas like this? Just give up and burn it all down, point fingers and say, "I told you it was too late. Look how right I am." I see no solutions offered in any of your written paragraphs and I welcome any and all alternatives.
An internal policy for the list of candidates on their ballot, stating that every other candidate must be a woman.

This is not the same as the list of who eventually gets elected of course, as the probability of getting elected decreases the further down the list you go. Also the policy appears to apply per ballot, and since there are something like 30 regions with (possibly) independent ballots, there is still some room to stack one way or the other. In the event, last election they got a pretty even split: 48 vs 52.
Investing in WorkBoard
Yes. Moreover, if you backup the system great, you get peace of mind, but management hardly cares. If you BREAK the system while trying to establish a backup, management cares and it's "your fault."

You have exponentially more to lose than to gain by experimenting with this at all. In this situation you should convey the risks, let the stakeholders decide if/who is going to address this, as it's their risk to take.
Yeah, spiking neural networks are a tough nut to crack. Check out Nengo if you're interested in learning more
Maybe it’s worth asking what other types of “bs” training they received at work.

Maybe it’s one among many or maybe it’s the only one. We don’t know.

That said, most training is about absolving the company of responsibility and putting it on you (security training for example).

On the surface it would seem a good idea to train against harassment at work, but I’d be keen to know if it has an effect on behavior or is it the HR consequences that affect behavior more than the training, for example.
If I'm spending more than $500, I'd rather jump up to over $800 for 13.3" and an Android based ebook reader. 2200x1650

https://onyxboox.com/boox_max3

Edit: but maybe the Waveshare experience is better than this https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2019/09/30/onyx-boox-max3-...

Edit2: that Onyx video doesn't look so bad...
YC Bio Tour – 2020
The city of Amsterdam keeps track of the "sink rate" of fixed points on buildings.It's a good place to take a look if you ever plan on buying something in the city:

https://data.amsterdam.nl/data/?modus=kaart&center=52.366622...

note, in Dutch, but the color coding should make it clear.
> If I were writing a sophisticated user interface today—say, a programming language or a complex application—autocompletion is one of the primary constraints I would design it around.

Early php did something like that just not for the same reason. https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/70691
Firefox users don't cut checks, though. What Firefox needs is a much larger number of users. How wealthy they are isn't terribly relevant.
Personally, I hold the same view of climate change that I've had as long as I've been aware of it.

Humanity isn't yet advanced enough socially and in collective maturity to take the necessary actions to stop climate change.

We're still part animal, part sentient, and we don't know where that line lies, much less control which side we're on all the time.

All we can do is understand what the impact of climate change will be and plan to survive if we can find a way to do so.

Within the next century we are definitely going to have:

* Massive numbers of displaced people due to rising seas, excessive heat, lack of water, lack of food. The bulk of these people will die.

* Existing countries that do not or can not take steps necessary to safeguard their population sufficiently to maintain their economy, military strength, and the logistics that support it are going to undergo major changes, possibly including dissolution or massive shrinking of borders.

* The wealthy of the world will not lack anything, be it food, water, housing, cooling, military protection, etc. The weakening of governments across the world will allow these people more power and freedom than ever before. We may enter a new age of kings by other titles.

The world at the end of the next century is going to be vastly different from the present world. Humanity will survive, but that's setting the bar low. Many humans will die, many ideals will die, and we may not learn anything from all of it. In other words, humanity will be the same as it's been through all of recorded history.
I have not been led to the same conclusion (we can balance out workforce racial population) by my unconscious bias training, I have been led to conclusions that I find quite reasonable (watch for these thought patterns that indicate racial bias, such as if the person is X then the person is also Y, also be sure to keep questions to things that are essential to the job role). We might be taking different diversity training.
This article is a hack piece, in my opinion. First, formal qualifications do not a scientist make. Second, using phrases like this, with zero real evidence to support them:

>a distinction that even a someone who has studied a four-week course in the area will know is incorrect.

Regardless of the validity of the 'color' theories, this is not journalism. It is opinion presented as fact.

Full disclosure, I have never bought into colors theories, even though they are currently en vogue in my field. But we need scientific study, not more opinion nonsense.
Their poodle appears to have the same amount of inclination to use the scientific method, and the same level of experience in doing so.

One claiming to be a behavioural scientist should be able to demoinstrate a history of such, even if it's an unconventional history. There is none here.
Very reasonable concern. I like Go, but it's not sufficiently better than its competitors (Java/C#) to be professionally maintained or adopted. Then there's the huge chunk of people who use it just because of the Google halo effect. My guess, Go and its ecosystem would end up floundering like other ex-corporate languages like Object Pascal or Objective-C. Even more so if Google abandons Go because they made a brand new replacement.
Gary Starkweather, inventor of the laser printer, dies at 81
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/technology/gary-starkweather-dead.html
It's already happening in other places. Skiiing in Upstate NY and Vermont is a joke. In the early 90s, it wasn't the best ski experience, but it was there. The Ski club in my school had about 40% of the class in it.

Coffee would work the same way. We already have different strata of coffee. If supply tightens up, 80% of the market would turn into ersatz coffee with added caffeine, and whatever still was being produces would become a bigger luxury item.
Guilty. Convenience is much more important than security for me.
Aside from detecting any guidance signal the trajectory changing towards them is a giveaway that it is homing and not just a dumb projectile that they are in the path of.
Since when is Google a "trusted company" when it comes to user-generated content? Their business model is literally to gather as much data as possible from their users in order to manipulate their collective behavior to Google's financial benefit.
Chinese Software Wars: Microsoft Office vs. Kingsoft's Word Perfect
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/technology/gary-starkweat...
Yeah, and there's evidence everywhere that these shrines are active. They're taken care of, there's always offerings, old cemeteries centuries old are littered with recent wooden arches, ribbons, flowers, and other recent stuff, and bigger shrines with attendants have long lines to get red book stamps.
Rather reinforces my point. Headline: "global forest loss over past 35 years has been more than offset by new forest growth"

Replacing the carbon storage of a single 100 metre mature rain forest meranti, and the diverse ecosystem below it by new growth requires how many square miles? It's a net loss for a century, perhaps more. Overall it's a colossal loss.

I note that article accounts for area covered only. No mention of the human activity, of the clear burning, size of trees, amount of other growth under the canopy etc.
Well I totally agree with you and that's clearly my aim.
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Flaws are subjective depending on how a product doesn't match your needs. What would a company consider a flaw? The product is released as designed, with no obvious issues.

Again, the knowledge is them telling you about the product. They don't make you do anything other than provide information. You're entirely in control of your decisions.
I love bash and I know I'm not alone.

Sure, it's syntax is based on ideas from the 1960s[0] and it has a weird core library of functions[1]. Certainly writing code that is a blend of logic and managing other programs takes some getting used to. However, it is very well documented[2] and I've had great success with it over the past 20 years.

If one takes the time to get to know it, it is actually easy and fun to write scripts that are robust and easy to maintain.

I'd venture to say that bash is the putty in the little gaps of the internet. It is the fitting that glues programs to the various systems on which they run.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

2. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/

edit: formatting
The government is just trying to establish its preferred pecking order — government, oligarchs, then Soylent Green. Expect more High Publicity cases especially those involving child victims.
I'm not sure "chart our own engine course" necessarily means "roll our own engine".
I concur. I'm from "Savoie", FR Alps. I have filmed on Hi-8 the glaciers nearby where I lived as a kid. Some are just no longer visible from the valley.
If you’re really worried about albedo, perhaps start questions the impact of gigatons of soot flowing over the North Pole, blackening huge ice fields over the last few decades.

Such questions are not tolerated, so be warned.
The norm certainly seems to have drifted upwards over time. Way back when I agree it was something like 15% before tax. These days it seems to be more like 18-20% on the total.
Unexplained Gravitational Wave Burst Off the Shoulder of Orion Detected
>To put some numbers on it for perspective: Seattle is infamous for rain, but only averages 38 inches of rain per year.

I wonder if it has to do with duration vs. intensity. Long periods of drizzle might not be nearly as much total rainfall as short periods of downpour. From what I've seen of the PNW on my few trips there, it seems to drizzle a lot.
I agree that this was a terrible idea from day one and am glad it has been killed and will soon be buried.

But this: "typical Google cancelling a product" is still an important message.

Google routinely floats out APIs, services, and platforms and encourages their use despite fatal flaws that mean they are doomed from day one. And some developers fall for it and later have to pay the price. Hopefully, the repeated warning will minimize this. Think of the devs right now that are mistaking Flutter for a platform that will last.
> It is a symptom/emergent result of competition really and differentiating themselves. Not having competition would obviously lead to more stagnation which would lead to things being worse for consumers.

Right, but we don't have to accept that it has to be this way. If we're committing to the idea that competition is there to benefit consumers, we should cut out the parts of competition that clearly aren't beneficial to consumers.

There would still be competition if people got information about products from independent reviewers, it would just be competition based on the qualities of the products, rather than the advertising.
Honestly, do this with a backup. Don't interrupt functionality and lose your job without a very good reason.

You should have a staging environment. Toss a clone in there and have someone get to work in reverse engineering.
The Gig Economy is the concessionaire business model.

Concessions are pay to play, and the host grants you a meager allowance for the privilege of making them rich.

Say you run a hotdog stand in a stadium. You provide the capital. You pay rent. Aramark sells you the supplies (cups, buns, etc). Aramark provides the labor, that you pay for. You pay for any spoilage. You eat any losses to theft, returns, bad bookkeeping. There is no appeal. The host is the law, their word is final.

Not franchisees, not contracting, not share cropping, not debt bonded, not MLM, not small business owner. No, it's worse. None of these other arrangements fully capture the entirety of the power imbalance.

(I'm embarrassed it took me this long to correctly identify this pathology.)
Understanding the "scientific basis" of something unscientific is a ritual. It's 2+2=5, a test of your willingness to say things that are obviously false when that's asked of you by those above you.
Unless you're in a (big) library, isn't it faster just to.. look?
If it makes you feel any better, I had a similarly terrible experience with Tesseract. I spent days studying the docs and I failed to find a setup where it would produce anything useful even with the most perfect input.

I was also left with a feeling that I must have been missing some trick, because people on the web seem to be using it with good results.
Backlash over Meat Dietary Recommendations Raises Questions About Corporate Ties
I've seen studies[1][2] which indicate that unconscious racial bias training increases racist attitudes among those who are put through it. If that's true, unconscious bias training might be worse than bullshit, it might be actively harmful and counterproductive to its stated goals.

1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6524213/

2 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095001701771984...
Trees are the best tool modern technology offers to sequester carbon. As it stands, the largest "crop" we have in america is grass. Lawns, though better than nothing, are a poor substitute in terms of taking in carbon. This and all of our empty parking lots, roads, and other car-enabling infrastructure contribute to urban sprawl that takes land from forests. It's an uphill battle, but changing various zoning laws is a good step
This is not accurate in this case and feels like a response that is dismissive of but does not actually address the points made by the person you're responding to.
When a house is on fire, worry about the new extension after the fire is out. Otherwise it's Jevons' paradox writ large. We're still destroying and emitting at ever faster rate. Effort should be going into circular sustainable economies, decarbonising, achieving carbon neutrality, assisting the developing world to carbon neutrality too.
Right. Show me one of those.

More, show me one of those that will stay that way in the future, when they get an investor who presses them for more revenue.
No, ML works fine with large output spaces too.

The problem is that the solution space grows super exponentially, and if you need to find an exact one, then the number of samples too.
The contemporary NY economy is incredibly diverse and far more than its banks.

The dead civilians in the Middle East is terrible but all in all this is the most peaceful period of world history since civilization started. In most eras there’d be dead civilians in the vast majority of places instead of the minority.

Doesn’t make it right or good, but it’s not as bad as things past.

And lets not pretend companies not funded by SoftBank are paying their warehouse workers, janitors, caterer or content curators good money. Seems like SV in general is pretty good at cutting costs at the expense of workers.

But if your point is sweeping generalizations are generally pretty inept at painting a nuanced and detailed picture, I’d say I agree with that.
Nice idea, thanks!
For those of you that want to be horrified / amused by code, check out the materials and methods of the article itself. It contains a link to the full source code used to generate the modeling figures:

https://senselab.med.yale.edu/ModelDB/showmodel.cshtml?model...

The simulator used is called Neuron. Code for it is written in a custom language called Hoc and models are implemented in yet another domain specific language. Hardcoded parameters galore including whole sections of code that are prefaced with: this has been copied from this other publication.

https://senselab.med.yale.edu/ModelDB/showmodel.cshtml?model...

The dendritic tree geometry is specified as hardcoded set of point and branch declarations

https://senselab.med.yale.edu/ModelDB/showmodel.cshtml?model...

(apparently that morphology was reconstructed from imaging data?)
Yeah, diluting the product with ads and IAP is a really bullshit way of doing game. I think I just misunderstood the post because none of the answer I got goes in the direction of my post. IAP are fine, ads are fine, subs are fine, DLC are fine. Bullshit pattern aren't.
On a Chromebook ? The Android on ChromeOS stuff isn't as complete and has a hard time seeing e.g. USB peripherals.

I've reached out to the people I work with at Google to see what this will mean for my Chrome Application [0], which is a Certificate Provider [1] that talks to a Google provided ChromeOS Application [2]. Technically I can turn it into a Chrome extension now that there's built-in PIN prompting support, but the built-in SSH Agent will suffer as a result, since it will have no way to prompt for a PIN.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cackey/lpimdiknnpi...
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/certificateProvider
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smart-card-connect...
My father worked in a district heating plant. The control PC was 80286 and had uptime over 10 years. Though the plant in theory could be run without it with knobs and levers.

It was replaced by a Pentium with a virtualized MS-DOS due to y2k event, though I am quite sure nothing changed in the underlying MS-DOS program that was more or less time independent.
The only scientific personality scale, Big5, was not designed that way. It is pretty easy to figure out that workers with high conscientiousness and low neuroticism are preferable. Which makes sense, we didn't evolve to be corporate drones so not all personalities are equally fit for the role.
> I think more effort should be made to reduce usage of plastics and re-use where necessary.

More specifically we need to change the narrative away from recycling and disposal being the consumer's responsibility. The package choices are not the consumers and if manufacturers are unwilling to shift towards reusable or responsible packaging then we need legislation and regulation to force the issue.

> I have gone plastic-free this January and it has been far more challenging than I thought.

I would not think that's even possible without making significant lifestyle changes. There are just basic things (e.g. Toilet paper) that I'm not even aware you can purchase without plastic packaging. Good luck with your journey.
It is far simpler to just learn the POSIX shell first - much shorter man page. The the Bash stuff is then just a few additions if you ever need them (other shells are available).
Your #1 is not a fair generalization. Here in NYC there’s a consensus that building large amounts of dense housing is necessary to have a functioning city and society. So it happens. Apartments got way way more expensive but a lot of new buildings have started to push pricing back down.

California is different on this topic, and the Bay Area is positively pathological. It’s completely reasonable to call out SV specifically for that mindset.
This sounds like an app I’ve wanted forever! But as with all apps I’m particularly sensitive to giving bulk access to my photos (and other data).

The app description says “images are all processed on device and nothing is sent to any server” but the app’s privacy policy talks about first- and third-party collection of potentially PII.

> The app does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you.

> I want to inform you that whenever you use my Service, in a case of an error in the app I collect data [...]. This [data] may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, [...], the configuration of the app when utilizing my Service, [..], and other statistics.

Could an error log dump the strings it detected in my images and send them off to this third-party for instance?

I assume everything here exists with the best intentions, but I worry about using an app like this to scan and analyze all my images when there are a host of exceptions in the privacy policy.
> That's a negative experience for me.

Sure, I wasn't talking to you. I was referencing another user and a specific element of their comment. I also wasn't giving an exhaustive list of all the options available in modern autocomplete features.

> The best option is when you can invoke the autocomplete/docs on demand - using a convenient shortcut.

Autocomplete has that as well. Seems like people are assuming that there is only one way to do things, which is silly. Instance, delayed, and activated. These all exist.

So yes, you can customize things to fit your easily distracted nature.
I almost always turn off autocomplete

I treat it like eye candy: Just some fun, animated blandishment that makes me feel all 1337 while banging out code.

What would be nice is if the auto-complete window could be detached from the cursor and float in a corner of the editor, so I can look at it for those times when I have a brain fart and can't remember which parameter comes first in a function.