skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did my MS thesis around this exact topic, a VR simulation of Native Hawaiian Wayfinding: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/pres_a_0030...

It should be available for download sometime this year, currently working on the HTC Vive, being ported to the Oculus platform.

Also actively participating with the Polynesian Voyaging Society here in Honolulu to prep for participation in a Tahiti sail later this year.
its a shame that linq had the overhead it does when used with collections of objects. at work right now i am often having to de-linq things
Authorize.net is OLLLLLLLLD school. Its the primary merchant service that is recommended/resold by banks.

I ended up choosing stripe but only because Stripe has better branding and was 'cooler' to use.
Seatbelts reduced the death toll dramatically compared with no seatbelts. Airbags and seatbelts together reduce the death toll dramatically compared with just seatbelts.

In most of the world it's considered suicidal not to wear a seatbelt while in a moving vehicle.
Seneca On the Shortness of Life (49 AD)
ASK HN: How do you justify an iPad Pro?
I'm curious how people who don't fall into the obvious categories of visual artists, developers for iOS, and people who have extreme excesses of cash, effectively make use of it, such that it actually makes up for the price.
When you are as big and as powerful as Google, the more your every action will be scrutinized. Thats the way it should be, as any move an entity of their size makes will cause waves the world over. Is all the criticism justified? Maybe, maybe not. But the fact that people are criticising is only beneficial.
Wrote a little post some time ago on how to set it up on linux and use it on android. Super simple.

https://blog.oxplot.com/wireguard-vpn-on-android/
But Keras does not support PyTorch or MXNet. I think the design of Model, Block, and Layer like this is very intuitive and shared among several frameworks. I wish it could have multi-GPU/multi-node training capability (i.e. support horovod or gloo).
Do you set up nginx or haproxy as a reverse proxy to the wireguard network, or something else? Been wondering if there's an easy way to expose an internal service like that. TCP seems easy, but UDP seems much more problematic.
Even if you got his nationality correct, it'd be an absolutely absurd defense to not disclose because he knew he'd be penalized.
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Important to note that the initial voyage of the Hōkūleʻa in 1976 was specifically done to disprove the whole Kon-Tiki expedition.
I am not immune to misguided emotional responses, but I believe I can generally recognize them for what they are, and ignore them. Especially when criticism comes from somebody you care about, like a partner, the emotional response is the strongest. But this is also the time to analyse what they are saying rationally and establish whether there's any truth in it. The emotional response seems to me to be to mindlessly defend.
Surface Pro as of few years ago has a horrible jitter and much larger latency than iPad or Wacom tablets (search for Surface Pro jitter should yield plenty of examples). It has gotten better in the past few generations and with better stablization in software updates, but many artists I know still avoid N-Trig pen.

Wacom has MobileStudio that runs Windows, but it also come with heating issues.
Yep, Google has over delivered by giving two free games per months instead of the promised one. Yes, since they are more of a tech company and don't do crunches, updates can be a bit slower, but 4 weeks is nowhere close to "abandoning a product"...
Yes and no. The interactive version appears to be because it displays results as it goes. However for pure command line, it will be fast but not comparable to ripgrep/grep/silver server or others.

I want it fast, but absolute performance is not a goal as its a trade off with any ranking algorithm. Not really the same sort of tool.

Anyway here is a search over my projects directory which is about 5.7 GB of content https://github.com/boyter/cs/blob/master/large-search.gif

Feel free to try it out if you are able to build from source. It certainly has some bugs in there over large codebases in the UI which I am aware of but does work generally.
HN has always been an echo chamber but this time it seems like the Stadia community is the one that's having issues with Google.
In an encrypted volume using Veracrypt with a strong password. With this, where I store this encrypted file isn’t a huge concern from the privacy point of view, though I do store it online in a couple of places and have adequate backups.
Damn, SpaCy and FastAPI, not to mention Prodigy, make up a huge percentage of our teams development stack. It took us a while to even realize that tiangolo and syllogism work together, but there was definitely a moment of slack jawedness across the team when this became clear.

Having built SpaCy from source, Thinc was something I've dealt with in passing before. Needed to look over some of it's source for debugging briefly, but never paid a whole lot of attention to it. This is basically a complete overhaul and it's beautiful.

It blows my mind how productive this team is. ExplosionAI and the SpaCy compatible model implementations from HuggingFace are basically responsible for a _huge_ amount of practical progress in making modern NLP models quickly and easily accessible. Now a general development framework, that frankly makes TF Keras and PyTorch pale in comparison wrt simplicity, is absolutely astounding. Congrats everyone on the release!

Now I need to go back to packing up my apartment and ponder how I'll ever approach this velocity and quality.
My family couldn’t afford a PS2 or N64. I certainly can now - my library of games over the past few years has been all PS2, N64, and Dreamcast games. Aside from The Witcher 3, I have had a hard time finding great games in the newer generation of consoles and PC games. The older games have character, beautiful animations, tons of creativity. I’m sure not all new games are bad, but just doing a direct comparison I don’t see the creativity of the games in the previous generations. During the holidays, I spent some time playing Star Wars Knights of the old Republic. What a fantastic set of simple mechanisms and amazing story telling- I’m not even much of a Star Wars fan. But I don’t see these kind of games these days.
I'm working on aggregator editing software for the site I recently launched. This is a LAMP stack. If someone wants a source code, please contact me via email.

https://www.trumpsdaily.com/
Oh, absolutely. I guess I was wondering if accusations alone would serve to substantially inconvenience or embitter individual scientists, or decrease public trust in academic research and academicians in general. Not trying to suggest that this case specifically is some foreign plot.
>These grants require the disclosure of significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities

Meanwhile:

>paid up to $50,000 a month, in addition to $150,000 per year

Seems pretty straightforward.

He must be a smart guy, I wonder how he thought he would get away with it?

Even if he could hide the money run of the mill espionage could find it.

He was supposed to do research at Wuhan University and even file for parents for and sort of promote that school. Hard to imagine nobody would notice that.

I wonder if he kept taking the money after he told investigators that he wasn't a part of the program? He had to suspect they were on to him?
Well my motivation started when I found an uncoiled coat hanger on top of my car. So I bought two cameras (both with IR illumination) and pointed them to the two sides of my car. Even a casual observer will notice the two cameras (with 2 rings of glowing red lights) pointed at them when they enter my driveway. I figure it's a $120 worth of prevention... hopefully.

The cameras can read the license numbers of cars going up and down my dead end street, and have a NTP synced time stamp on them. So I have reported license plate numbers to the police a few times when various neighborhood issues have come up.

But no, I don't think it will magically arrest someone breaking into my house. But they are still pretty useful. Did someone leave a package on my front door? Is my kids friend's parent here for pickup/drop off? Did the garbage truck get here yet? WTF is that loud truck noise out front? Is that knock at the door someone with a clip board? Or someone trying to get me to believe in their god?

One thing it does help, is that at least in my area it's common for a thief to knock to see if anyone is home, then break down that door or force a rear door to enter the house is nobody answers. So being able to see and even respond to the knocker might well prevent a breakin, even if you aren't physically there.
> I was playing indoor soccer, and I noticed one of the opposing players had an apple watch on. I wanted to complain the ref about it (jewelry and wearables are not allowed during games), but then I realized that at least 1/3rd of the players had some kind of watch (including my teammates).

How terribly entitled. Presumably the rules against jewelry and wearables are meant to ensure safety in case of collisions!
Coronavirus: Australian scientists first to recreate virus outside China
To expand on the banking scenario: If you get a call about a stolen/lost credit card don't call the number back (or use a number the caller provides.)

Instead lookup the fraud/accounts contact number for the bank and call them yourself. - aka start the interaction with known good information
Do you really think any student gets near anything that could remotely impact national security without a background check?

This is Charles Lieber's latest paper: http://cml.harvard.edu/assets/Nanowire-probes-could-drive-hi...

It's a review article on nanowires, and in the acknowledgements an Air Force is listed, obviously because a student's salary is funded by the Air Force. The guy is stupider than the FBI permits but there is no reason to drift into xenophobia.
When Stadia was launched I was very hopeful that it might bring a lot of other innovations, like provide a training ground for future surgeons through interactive controls and gamified simulation of complex surgery. Might provide a large gamified solution to simulate outbreaks like happening now with Wuhan Virus. I hoped it will provide a cheaper alternative to global researchers the computing power and software infrastructure for large scale simulation, which at present is limited to some big university, corporations and large government organization.

But to do this google needs to first serve it's core community of Stadia which are gamers and so far I believe it failed there. It will abandoned Stadia if it can't generate enough revenue from advertising or services through it, as it has far fewer number of users than products Google abandon with millions of users.

Google is a for profit advertising company driven by technology and attracts guinea pigs for it's new service using its network due to search and other products.

This guinea pigs used by google comes at much cheaper costs than focus group and people recruited to test services. Google is an advertising company with search, android and all the other services supporting it. So given at root Google's main business is to attract eye-balls and attention from an organization perspective it might be right to abandon such business. But this is a great disservice to people who relied on a false implicit promise that the service will be supported and continue to stay even if its unprofitable.

I hope there is a real viable alternative open internet with distributed peer to peer network to break this monopoly of walled internet cornered by Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu.
Scroll launches subscription for ad-free access across 300 partner sites
The $35 I think is an activation fee. I do believe you might also have to pay sales tax which on a $1200 device might be $100.
Actually, real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand.
I just signed up for this and I'm excited. I've always felt a little guilty using an ad blocker on ad-supported sites. Now I'll do it with a clear conscience.

My only complaint is that it's too little money. I've already written them suggesting that they let me throw additional cash to the sites I'm reading.
You acknowledge it yourself. There’s “risk” to both complying and ignoring the call.

Anyway, risk tolerance isn’t the right lens to look at this. It’s about knowing whether that’s the way the government would actually issue demands and take payments. That requires some savvy and insight about the world. Some people have it and some people don’t. And relatedly, it’s about being skeptical vs. trusting in general.
It's still there, but only under the guise of various social "norms", like always marry up or across.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assortative_mating and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogamy_(sociology)
Nice! This scratches a bit of an itch I've had for wanting to track some simple datapoints / personal log.
Bonus fun fact: kumara is a loan word taken from kumar, which was it's native name in South America.
1.) A solver for the unstructured Euler equations. ...I was intending to volunteer time for an local university project investigating parallels between Holographic light with orbital angular momentum and hydrodynamics (in this case the Euler/Madelung equations). Not sure what happened as... volunteers get lost in the shuffle? Anyway, the solver is fun.

2.) Porting my Python code for nonlinear gradient driven optimization of parametric surfaces to C++. Includes a constraint (propagation) solver based on Minikanren extended with interval arithmetic for continuous data (interval branch and contract). This piece is a pre-processor, narrowing the design space to only feasible hyper-boxes before feeding design parameter sets (points in design space) to the (real valued) solver. Also it does automatic differentiation of control points (i.e. B-spline control points) so I can write an energy functional for a smooth surface, with Lagrange multipliers for constraints (B-spline properties). Then I get the gradient and Hessian without extra programming. This makes for plug and play shape control. I am looking to extend this to subdivision surfaces and/or to work it towards mesh deformation with discrete differential geometry so I've been baking with those things in separate mini-projects.

3.) Starting the Coursera discrete optimization course. This should help with, e.g. knapsack problems on Leetcode, some structural optimization things at work, and also it seems the job market for optimization is focused on discrete/integer/combinatorial stuff presently so this may help in ways I do not foresee.

4.) C++ expression template to CUDA for physical simulation: I am periodically whittling away at this.
How did the last Neanderthals live?
I am siding with Google on this one. Stadia is amazing. I play games with zero lag on both my TV and MBP when normally I would have to buy two copies. Reddit has been freaking out at every step to get more features for a platform they supposedly hate. Products over promise on timelines all the time. Chill.
I’ve heard very, very few worthy covers of it. The most recent is by Vomitron.
Microsoft lampoons Google ad, warns Chrome will track you everywhere (2013)
There are many examples of Neanderthal flint tools. With that in mind, I'm wondering if they didn't discover fire by hitting a flint with another rock with iron in it - producing sparks.
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Webhint, the hinting engine for web best practices
I like the sign up flow that simply uses a Google login, personally. And its going to need some way to keep track of a user so they can update on mobile and PC, etc.

Mostly I agree on hating things requiring a login but I'm okay with it in this case.
Some context:

Original charge: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/harvard-university-profes...

This one is safe at home: https://www.masslive.com/boston/2020/01/chinese-peoples-libe...
Blame the tax code for incentivizing buybacks over dividends.

These days, EPS contains a blend of past “dividends” payed out as buybacks.

The math works out so that when you buy the stock, you’re essentially paying the previous shareholder past dividends would have happend if they hadn’t been replaced with buybacks.

Anyway, none of that should change the way you reason about P/E. The main impact is that EPS trends over time aren’t comparable to net income trends, etc.
Nice! Any idea what the minimum system requirements are? I'm wondering how cheaply I could run this.
Did you have to escalate via twitter or did you try other options first?

I'm asking because if twitter was the first escalation and it worked, Great!

If twitter was another resort after unsuccessful support.... not so great.
Tell that to LibreOffice Writer which calls its files "text documents". The .ODT extension stands for "OpenDocument Text". Just because it's not plain text, doesn't mean it's not text.
Amazon engineer says Ring should be shut down immediately over privacy concerns
So far the number of recovered people is trailing deaths, if that holds then it's going to be pretty dire.
Apparently campaign workers for Michael Bloomberg are using some fancy Apple hardware, maybe you could become a door knocker for him and use it for signing up new party members?

https://nypost.com/2020/01/22/heres-how-mike-bloomberg-is-lu...
That program is available only in a limited number of countries (I’m guessing wherever Apple can make it an interest free loan). It may be the one triggering continuous upgrades in countries like the U.S. and adding to the volumes.
Paper in a safety deposit box at the bank going back seven years. It’s the only way to be sure.
Many mammals are delicious? Other than that, I like animals a lot.

Machines deserve no such empathy, just a flick of the power switch as required. And I watched Automata (2014) last night. Didn't feel a single thing for the robots, as much as the film tries to goad you into doing so.
Like I said, erudites in the 19th century all across Europe would be fluent in ancient Greek. As to read vs understand, that's the difference between alphabet and ideograms. But IIRC modern Greek speakers have an easy time making sense of ancient Greek.

Kings of Europe would claim their legitimacy comes from the Roman empire times. The pope would continue to crown people emperors of Rome, like Charlemagne (emperor of both Germany and France) Napoleon or the Habsburgs. And Roman empire was in the clear cultural continuity of ancient Greece.

We just don't do these claims (outside of some fringe far-right groups), because they are not really relevant to what our countries are today. Ancient Greeks were xenophobic, misogynistic, pedophiles, mostly authoritarian and militaristic. We are nothing like them, but most cultures have very ancient roots.

And I'll tell you why I react strongly with that. We used to have school programs teaching us similar bullshit. Mostly, the national narrative would be that we, French, are Celts, Franks, who were occupied by the Roman empire, which spawned the aristocracy, until we defeated it during the Revolution. That sense of belonging to a 3000 years old continuity served to foster nationalism and make sure that we don't feel too close to our neighbors.

It is an easy sale, you can write a history with that that is mostly correct. You have to ignore some facts, but for 100 years, "history was written that way" or at least, text books were.

China has decided on this nationalistic narrative that they are a very old consistent and coherent nation that has lasted 3000 years. Never mind the CCP coming to power by being pretty much the opposite of what the empire was or that China has been much smaller and much divided than it is today for most of its history [1]. What it says is that they want to use this history as the basis to legitimate their authoritarianism, "because that's how it always were". I am sure they will put far less emphasis on the periods when it was separated in several different kingdoms. Or on the fact that their unity is more of a successful Mongol enterprise than a local Chinese discovery of good government.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=zdHkY3XYHKA
C supports the following, which is short, correct, and easy to understand:

save_A = A;
save_B = B;
if (!A)
fix(A);
if (!B)
fix(B);
return (some_expression of save_A and save_B);
I'm building a tool that helps people scaffold React apps really quickly (everything from auth flow, payments, DB, form handling, etc, to an actual nice looking UI). It's at least interesting to me because I think a ton of time is wasted on all this and I'd like to help more people get their idea out there rather than reinvent the wheel. If you're interested in taking a look and giving feedback it's https://divjoy.com
Meanwhile on Switch eShop: 10 to 20 new games released every single week of the year (many of them mediocre, but still).

When you’re a massive global video game streaming service, you’re supposed to plan ahead a bit, don’t you think. This is not a mom and pop store.
Elavon for direct card (they supported 3DSecure early back in the day), PayPal, and Bitcoin. We used to support Western Union, but we got blocked after a random amount of funds was received, their support was not able to help.

Business is for digital goods.

Would like to support worldwide bank transfers if it can be safe and quick for both sender and receiver, anyone got any tips?
Property taxes in my smaller town in Texas are ~$3,700 for a $180,000 property
Because the time savings and utility value of using it as a primary (or at least primary for you individually and on the go) device far outweigh the cost.

E.g., have one big computer for the house, but let household members’ “personal computer” be an iPad Pro.

Or, have one big workstation on your office desk, but let your roaming computer be an iPad Pro.
You're conflating two different sides of the industry (as is the parent comment.) A game dev studio is not expected to have monthly updates for any but the largest games. A store or platform, on the other hand, lives and dies by its content.

Playstation Plus has a batch of free games each month for $5 a month, Xbox has something similar, Steam has sales and endless new content on the regular, Epic has given away several games a month for a couple years now. Once a month updates at a $10 subscription is table stakes here.
Clang's static analyzer and libfuzzer are fantastic, and the former has saved my bacon more than once. It also has lots of sanitizers (more than gcc) for run-time instrumentation, not that that would have helped in this case, but still.
it's working just fine, you can Google(tm) it
Misleading headline: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/emotional-support-pea...

> There is no federal ban. If Delta wants to allow a therapeutic wombat on board, Uncle Sam will not get in the way.

> If some airlines crack down, others can market themselves as pet-friendly. Rather than using the federal government to force airlines to allow these animals on board, we should trust airlines and passengers to find what works best through the marketplace.
Is Wuhan just a coincidence? The city is the center point for the corona virus and this crime. Seems strange for two headlines to come out of a random chinese city.