skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if we have no restrictions on time and resources, then restricting ourselves to preserve the current statu quo of engineering is the wrong problem to takle.

I'd, instead, follow the Alan Kay idea of antecipating 10 years in the future with some new hardware that allows a new computing platform and then see how I can capitalize in it in some kind of pure way (removing as much technicalities as possible, like Self, LISP or Smalltalk did).

For inspiration on what form it could take, I'd take a look at all Sci-Fi I can but pay special attention to Bret Victor's: Humane Representation of Thought https://vimeo.com/115154289
This comment fascinates me. I hope you don't mind a very candid reply: You already know exactly what you need to do. You need to get away from the screen that you're looking at right now. Disconnect. Get to where you can see the clouds in the sky, and see how they move - spontaneously. Try to do THAT with your life.
>I got in a boatload of trouble for other reasons but that's another story.

You cannot just drop that line and walk away. Storytime?
WARNING: clicking that link leads to a vortex of notification permission prompts.

Please remove the link from HN.
As I said elsewhere, if it's not getting updates, it's fucked anyways.

Support for Windows 7 can be purchased dates up to 2023... https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-offer-paid-window...
... based on false and unrealistic promises?

When did the discussion about “financing structure” become a discussion on ethics? Or are you already taking the “bullshit business hockeystick promises” as a “given in the industry”?

Why are fraudulent business practices the first thing that come to your mind?

If you told me about WACC and how equity is like actually really expensive way of financing: ok, I get it, some cool discussion on a provocative questionmark.

Kind a telling on the industry in a sense :-D
I don't agree without reservations but like how against the grain this currently is. Outsourcing everything does seem like a sign of immediate hyperoptimization and missing building a more lasting engineering value. Do as little as possible to extract some margin. There is business wisdom in this but indeed such companies would seem more brittle. Sometimes it's like there's an ecosystem of plumbing companies selling to other plumbing companies without much visible external cash intake.

That being said, I think most of the things she mentions are not customer facing but still pretty differentiating to the businesses.

Another perspective is that the first crop of truly successful Internet companies were in the position to solve the big backend problems with running big Internet companies in-house. Nowadays getting to the scale while building some fundamental in-house stuff makes less economic sense (you'd lose to someone who doesn't). It's probably better to have some unique technology but more closely related to the specific business.
I wish they would connect Colab under https://script.google.com so you can run a notebook at interval times, something akin to what https://github.com/TensorTom/colabctl does.
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Yes, that's a major part of the reason I wanted a tool like this for myself too. It's great to know it could be of use to others too!
I've been using Colab for over a year now. I train deep learning models on NLP and medical imaging datasets.

It's a great tool and it lets you focus on the code and the models, instead of the hardware and OS. But $9.99/month is a little expensive for my taste.

You can't customize it and if they change something you have to install software by hand sometimes. It should be $1.99/month, that's the kind of price I'd pay for this basic cloud computing service.

edit: I use Colab to play with ML models. I really don't think it's possible, for instance, to train a model on Imagenet using Colab. So Colab is similar to the microwave, if you want to cook a serious recipe you should use a real kitchen.
> they literally believe they are the only church that has authority to act for God on earth

Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, and I'm sure many others (especially Christian) believe the same. Seems like the one thing they have in common is their own narcissistic delusion about their importance. It also makes a great argument against the arrogance and stupidity of such teachings. After all, if only a subset of people of earth have access to god, that's the kind of god people with a brain will not want to get to know: a piece of shit asshole like the one from the Bible who favors certain people, gets angry, tortures and kills like some crazy lunatic. No thanks.
Maddoff only hurt his customers as well.
In Ann Arbor, you can order lunch and have it delivered by a robot
This is the doing of a company that gave us Internet Explorer 6 & Office Macros.

Microsoft prioritized user experience over security for the longest time of their existence and I think they had a little bit of success with it :)
You could already remove notepad if you really really wanted to.

Not in a supported fashion, and the OS would see it as corruption and automatically "repair" it by adding back the missing files.

I guess my point is that it is not purely positive, so listing a very tiny positive is not enough to make this a good feature.

Let's agree that whether it is positive or negative varies with the perspective and environment in which the system is used.

For me personally, this is a good thing no matter how I look at it.

Especially if you follow the rule of thumb that every feature starts at negative one hundred points, because extra complexity has to be earned.

The Features on Demand technology already existed, it's just now being used for more things.
I really wanted to go to my local 2600 meetup after talking to them on IRC but my introversion/social-anxiety got the better of me.
Intangible virtual items can be legal assets with ownership. This is not a new concept.

> "If a decision is made you can't trade in them"

Ok, but it hasn't been made. Ownership can be sold and transferred so that's what's happening.
For a while it was a complex fraud scheme against web authors, until they were busted on their "seek forgiveness" business plan. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...
2gb is for the gpu so it’s really 2gb verses 6gb
>I bet they run Java.
And maybe it runs on Windows CE device with anemic CPU..

On aside.. fuel pumps with embedded computers and payment terminals are US thing? There it is necessary to pay at the cashier after filling. (and it is most annoying part, because they try to upsell you hotdog/coffee, washer fluid and encourage to join loyalty program)
> Most companies operate under similar safeguards when it comes to data security and deletion requests (requiring some kind of procedure rather than hearing you just say the magic words "delete my account" and not even verifying your identity)

Under GDPR most companies have a button you can press. Sure, might stay cached for 90 days or whatever, but essentially you are just telling them. There are ones harder, where you have to email them (like going to a Bishop...). The worst are that you have to verify your identity with legal document.

And I'm not saying the church doesn't have to expunge all records of you existing within their institution. I just want something akin to a Do Not Call list. Right now I feel that the church respects me just as much as the telemarketer that I ask to take me off their list (they're legally required to btw, but they usually don't. I worked in one of these centers, they tell you to ignore "customers" like that).
Agriculture. We got calories (X) from grain without whatever Y was in other plants and animals. Perhaps that's why the keto diet and others like it are helping so many people with a variety of problems. Regardless of what we eat today, there is little physical effort (another Y) required to obtain it, just a credit card.
"To keep reading this story, create a free account."

Nah.

Depending on whether you really want to monetise or not, consider publishing your content on a better platform.
I think what makes this startup different is that they're using the road as opposed to using the sidewalk like most of the others that I've seen in this space.

While I wish East Lansing was their second city guess it's going to be Palo Alto so their VC's can have lunch delivered.
Effects of “The Work” meditation on symptoms and quality of life (2015)
Can anyone see a reason why they wouldn’t just allow you to provision (and pay for) a persistent Google Cloud VM instead?
(I currently do that manually and need port forwarding to a machine that runs Jupyter.)

It’s hard for me to understand why Colab would build such a vague pro tier instead of the simplest possible solution: let me pay for my compute.

There’s so much more potential, too; they could offer whole clusters on demand, with really simple Python integrations say using dask, or ray.
The Perl example sounds like someone incorrectly assuming that the output from `keys` be ordered, when it's explicitely not:

> Hash entries are returned in an apparently random order. The actual random order is specific to a given hash; the exact same series of operations on two hashes may result in a different order for each hash.

Applying a `sort` to the output of `keys` is second nature to me - I'm always aware that hash entries are unordered in Perl.
> Even if 99% are scams, the successes make up for the failures

If you think regulators will put up with any field that's 99% scams, you are deeply incorrect in your understanding of anything about the world of actual money.

I mean, seriously - you're going to go to the SEC and say "you should enable our fabulous investment field, it's only 99% crooks"? Not even Hester Peirce would give that one a pass.

Everything you listed there is to squeeze yet more of the increasingly rare actualdollars from the most degenerate of crypto day traders. It's a "use case" insofar as it addresses problems created by using crypto in the first place.
> programmers are fashion-driven to the point of absurdity.

On a certain level of abstraction, there is really no right or wrong, just different. And it becomes a matter of taste.

That and the limitations of the human brain. We cannot remember a billion assembly instructions, so we have to abstract, and create layers of abstractions in order to get to human level of tangibility. Only problem is that the more layers we pile on the more complex the stack becomes, and it get even more difficult to comprehend, so we get an exponential explosion of complexity. And the only thing limiting the complexity is hardware performance. So if computers keep getting faster we will be doomed.
Figure out how to make Linux code bases cross language callable, like .NET, so you could write packages in any language and call them from any other language.
>The child died of a seizure, not flu. Calling a given seizure "flu-related" is a stretch.

>There isn't even any data on whether the flu strain the child had was even one addressed by this year's vaccine.

That doesn't seem accurate. All reporting thus far points to the flu as being cause; the seizure likely stemming from fever.

https://www.kktv.com/content/news/2-pediatric-deaths-in-Colo...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-anti-vaxx...
Ha, I was in "Clube do CoCo" for TRS-80 Color in Porto Alegre / Brazil, in mid-80s.

Our main focus was CoCo, but a couple of folks had Apple II, and soon MSX started to show up.

(ps: good to see you here! Hope all is well)
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"embrace your suffering"

Sorry but I don't understand this.

The whole "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" meme is meaningless. Challenging one self to get pain and pretend you will feel better after is a pointless way to live life.

There is little point in climbing mount Everest. It's good for your health to practice physical activity and to occupy your mind and time. But this constant idea that we have to challenge ourselves, while we can't manage to fight inequality or climate change, shows that we're deluded.

Climate change will be the new equalizer. The right to emit co2 will be the new currency.
I don't see why those third parties wouldn't sue the owner that sold this domain to unknown parties fully aware of the security risk.
Registration information does not equal ownership. My phone number is assigned to my mobile provider account. I do not own my phone number, as it is not tangible property.
> As you can see in the above screenshot, a system reboot is required to uninstall Paint and WordPad.

This is spectacular, and I'm consumed with curiosity wrt what's going on under the hood when you remove these two programmes.

More than just changes to file associations, natch.

Along with:

> The size of Microsoft Paint is 6.68 MB and WordPad occupies 6.25 MB ...

... and my curiosity extends to what kind of non-enterprise user (ie. someone who has to attend to this step manually) would bother.
> the phosphorous that leeches into the runoff is huge

Can you please expand on this? Animal agriculture is the primary cause of ocean dead-zones (due to fertilizer + manure run-off).[0] Because you're still eating plants - it's just that you're filtering them through another animal, and thus removing the vast majority of the calories, protein, and other nutrients that you would have got if you'd directly consumed the plants.

I don't think there's any debate on the relative environmental impact of a plant-based diet versus one that includes meat and dairy. It wins in terms of pollution, land usage, water usage, and basically every other metric.[1][2][3]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/01/meat-ind...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

[2] https://waterfootprint.org/en/water-footprint/product-water-...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49238749
> As long as my critical infrastructure and tools depend on someone else's computer, I'm nothing more than a (potentially well-paid) sharecropper.

I heartily agree. There are so many new tools and things that are interesting concepts, that I don't try because there is no offline/self-hosted version available.

Current example (but can be replaced by a myriad of other tools, this is not specific to 'em): Notion. Apparently could be adopted into my personal knowledge management, has some interesting features most of the software I've seen so far does not, but why would I ever invest even a moment of time to pay the costs of using the system (let alone the membership fees etc.) if one day, poof, it's gone, like Frank Sinatra, like WiiWare, like Microsoft eBooks, like Google Reader.

> Returning the power to the end user, and keeping it there, should be the most important priority for software developers.

This is what we need to return to. Look at the open-source manifestos, FSF documents, heck even certain sections in the Windows 9x User interface guides and .NET Framework design guidelines indicate that the user should always be the focus, the user should be the one in control.
12 minutes is a bit fast from San Diego to Solana Beach--even at California freeway speeds that's a 20 mile drive.

Amtrak shows me 29-39 minutes from OLT (San Diego Old Town) to SOL (Solana Beach). I have never seen it that fast--I would estimate 40-60 minutes is the variance. Amtrak moves pathetically slowly until Solana Beach. Maybe something has changed recently, but I'm skeptical. I'm probably going to wind up on the train again this month, so I'll be able to check that.

It's kind of funny, because if I could originate at Solana Beach, the commute would be fine. The Amtrak flies north of Solana Beach (Amtrak shows about 65-75 minutes from Solana Beach to Irvine--and that's actually pretty accurate and just about as fast as driving). The problem is that in rush hour you can't get to Solana Beach--it's basically due north of some of the worst San Diego traffic chokepoints.

> How synchronized is local transit (MTS trolley or bus) with commuter rail (Amtrak)

There seems to be some synchronization, but the buses go preferentially to downtown and are very slow in other directions. Unfortunately, San Diego Downtown kinda ... sucks. If you want to go east on something like El Cajon Boulevard into interesting areas where your "environmentally conscious" folks probably want to live, the buses take forever--something like 40 minutes to go 8 miles.

Generally if I'm using Amtrak, I'm driving to the starting station and picking up my second car at the ending station. This, of course, means that I'm now an entitled car user complaining about lack of parking. :)
Ah, this makes sense. I deal with some data analysis that has times referenced to the GPS epoch, but also includes all the leap seconds added from the GPS epoch through September 19, 2013. So I've spent a fair amount of time dealing with this but haven't had to get as deep as you have. thanks for the detailed reply
$10/mo doesn't pay for much compute in Google Cloud. Colab Pro is offering GPUs and high memory instances, presumably under the assumption that interactive users will be mostly idle.
When I was an academic working in the bacterial virus (phage) field my lab used to find these viruses with no similarity to anything in the databases all the time. We would find virus after virus that had a totally unique genome. The only way we could identify the genes that encoded the structural proteins was to extract the virus proteins from purified viruses and get them mass speced.

The really amazing thing is if you looked at these viruses under an electron microscope they looked exactly like known viruses (most looked like a lambda phage [1]). There seems to almost an infinite number of ways of making viruses that look just like lambda.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_phage
A funny story with regards to the first point :

We have some legacy code at my work which is basically in "do not touch or it'll break" mode. Last year a senior developer who used to maintain it retired. Before he left, he copied the code into a PDF and annotated the PDF with his thoughts and advice. He didn't want to risk breaking the code on his last week by adding the comments directly to the code.
It also sounds like a really messy system working between the two, I guess it works for this guy, but no idea why HN is getting so doey eyed about this.
>Your statement is completely ridiculous.

Criticism of loose capitalism isn't automatically ridiculous.

>There's no requirement to "work" or provide benefit to society before you can sell something.

Well, obviously some people think that that is a problem with our current system of wealth distribution :)
Eh. The effect could be the same. I average less than 8 hour work days. But once every 2 months or so I throw myself at a problem at work I personally fee strongly about. This might spill into a late-night or weekend. But I like the rush of it and I get a lot of appreciation at work and it has materially benefited my career. Once I even got an on the spot bonus issues from the CTO for fixing a perf problem.
Are there other solutions that aim to disrupt middle management?

Colony seems to be trying to do too many things at the same time. It could be useful to traditional companies without any decentralization.
I also have the habit of always using -iname instead of -name to make case insensitive searches.
My Dad was (I was 6 and would tag along), in 1980-84 or so. It was a group of ~20 other guys, probably the only other Atari 800 owners in a 50-mile radius. They would get together once a month to show off new peripherals, pore over type-it-yourself BASIC programs from magazines, brag about high scores in Centipede, and of course, copy floppies. It was equal parts hobbyists club, amateur mutual tech support society, and den of piracy (though it wasn't called that yet).

Here's my story. There was one guy in the group, George, whose basement was entirely filled with cardboard banker boxes. Some of them were packed with 5 1/4 floppies, and many more were Xeroxed documentation (both for defeating "look up the thing on page X" anti-theft, and just being able to use the software). By '84 I would guess he had 50k-100k disks, which probably accounted for a good percentage of the total software an Atari could run.

The amazing thing about George was, he never actually used any of it. He disliked games, and didn't really need business apps. He would get disks in the mail (he used BBSes to meet other enthusiasts, but mostly traded via USPS), fire them up once to see if they worked, file them away alphabetically, and never touch them again except to make copies for others. He just liked collecting, or maybe hoarding is the right term.

Anyway, it's my private theory that the whole edifice of pre-internet piracy would've collapsed without people like George. Of course, people would've still copied games with each other, but the 'scene' where you could find almost anything, including older and less-popular wares, relied on completionists pirating for the sake of it.
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Seems to only be a bad word among the Woke. I'd love to be a colonizer of uncharted lands like Mars.
The Deep Learning VM (available as a native option when creating a new GCE VM) has a bunch of DL tools, and starts a JupyterLab instance on launch: https://cloud.google.com/deep-learning-vm

There is an easy native command for port forwarding to Jupyter: https://cloud.google.com/ai-platform/deep-learning-vm/docs/j...
Huh, neat, didn’t know you could do

grid-column: full;

And have it refer to the column contained by grid lines full-start and full-end.
Ask HN: Math subfields important to become a distributed systems researcher?
Hi,

I intend to start a master's degree in distributed systems(more specifically in permissionless distributed ledgers scalability) and would like to know which math subfields are important to develop meaningful work in this field.
I feel very much the same way. Working in an office is incredibly dull, society feels incredibly dull.

I romanticise primitive life, and people often rebut that you would die at 30. I would be ok with that though, trading some amount of life expectancy for increased excitement, purpose, and struggle. I do this in some ways through moderately dangerous activities, off roading (moto and Jeep) and snowboarding.

I do not think the incredibly comfortable and coddled bay area corporate life is for me. It is another matter to figure out what is, and what will be sustainable.
This is a pedantic argument that I suspect you know is completely irrelevant. The ownership is of the registration itself.

When you buy a share of a company, it's also just assigned to you. But you still own it.
They can only handle so many orders in a given hour. If too many people took advantage of this, then queues probably got longer, discouraging potential customers.
> What a persona this paints of the seller.

Yeah! How dare he care about his own livelihood rather than “security”?!? What an asshole!
The more comfortable life gets, the more knowledge people will receive. The more time they have, the more they think. If you combine these two, it's inevitable to start asking questions about your own existence. Because there are no logical answers to that, people retreat.

That's why you have so many depressed people. They might not know it though.

To move on, we, as society, will need to grow and change. When there's no need to fight for everyday survival - shelter, warmth, water, food- , we'll be free for the first time in the history of our species. That's when it gets interesting.
It works properly only with AMD video cards right?
Because they're trying to introduce a different paradigm for computing. Notebooks are portable, purpose-oriented, and allow Google to make decisions about the underlying implementation allowing for a $10 monthly price point and an incredible level of performance not unlike what they've done for BigQuery.