skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Already in use at major Chinese airports/ports of entry.
Starting? It's been known for many years, it's just that $$$ talks louder.
They might have to worry about the aspiring plans of that security army. It's always something.
The line is not between what is too racist (or whatever) and what is not. It's between people who are willing to entertain viewpoints different from their own yet held in good faith, and people who use personal attacks and identity-based gatekeeping criteria to shut down discussion, marginalizing their opponents, signaling their virtue to those aligned with them, and generally furthering their social goals.

Fundamentally, it's a question of motive and character. This applies as much to the right as it does to the left, etcetera.
There are many hard problems and some that can be addressed by algorithms/automation.

I think the best advice I can give is reaching out to a lab in your area that does cancer research. Most are happy to talk about what hurdles exist. We, for example, don't have the one true solution to cancer, but a whole lot of computational and algorithm needs that will improve our understanding of the disease.
The question of browsers is secondary. WebGPU goes way beyond the web. There are WebGPU implementations that you can use say for desktop games. It's a standard say for shaders and GPGPU programming. WebGPU supersedes all of CUDA, Vulkan, DirectX, OpenGL, Metal, OpenCL, WebGL. Maybe not all, but most of it.

For me, the browser is a nice to have, WebGPU is a good standard regardless.
There is a lot of data being produced in these studies and outside of them. There are so many areas that a software developer could really benefit these projects. For example, a lot of bioinformatic software that is released is designed poorly, non-functional or hard to adopt. I wish there was a better way to integrate bioinformatics research with better software development principles. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of motivation to make good software as the end-goal in most cases is to just get a publication and move on. There are examples of groups that really do put a lot of effort into quality software such as Seurat [1] or scanpy.

Another area is trying to manage and process the datasets in large studies -- especially meta studies. Even for some of my small projects I dedicate a huge amount of time trying to curate random tables from publications, convert gene identifiers etc.

[1] https://satijalab.org/seurat/
[2] https://icb-scanpy.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/stable/
This is much needed disruption in an inefficient market. Brokers have long gouged renters for the "service" they offer. This also provides an opportunity for new businesses to spring up that can undercut the traditional brokers and assist "small building owners" who are apparently incapable of "showing apartments and finding tenants" themselves.
Not too long ago I had to do some INF editing to get a driver installed on Win10, and the editing did invalidate the signature so it (silently!) refused to install, but booting with the "disable driver signature enforcement" option made it install, and it continued to load and work normally even after I booted back into normal mode. This was only a few months ago so unless something drastic has changed since then, maybe it's not that hard to install drivers with bad (or missing, but that's really the same if you just have an arbitrary signature) signatures. I thought I'd be out of luck and have to resort to something deeper and less reliable like kernel patching (tools exist to do that, but they get marked as malware, and you have to do it after every update...) but that was an unexpected surprising positive.
Lithium batteries already beat this on every metric and aren't exotic. http://www.tadiranbat.com/long-life-xol.html
Seems like folks should get to choose what experiments they participate in? Medical ethics 101.
Yeah, I want whatever->SPIR-V->platform language.
Why would you use WebGPU for desktop games vs Vulkan directly, or a wrapper like gfx-rs? It's a more comfortable level of abstraction? I don't see WebGPU superseding Vulkan really.
Is there some kind of infrared thermometer someone could buy for themselves and detect a sickness early and minimize the transmission by voluntarily isolate themselves for a moment?
How about we start with _any_? I won't believe an inflammatory claim based on heresay alone.

The claim in discussion was HiSilicon is "Huawei-owned", not "HiSilicon is Chineese." If the claimant meant something by "owned" other than it's dictionary denotation, he didn't say that. If the meaning of corporate ownership is undefined in China, the claim is not true because it is also undefined.

Edit: Ok, look. I think heinously insecure imported IoT stuff, which could possibly be meddled with by a foreign state is a very serious concern. If that's what you're driving at, I agree with you. But if we want people to take us seriously we need to be careful not to say stuff that isn't true, or go around accusing people of things if we can't back it up with evidence. This would undermine our goals.
Are you claiming that "enclosure" is a Marxist term, or that the notion that the historical process of enclosure involved a significant amount of violence is a Marxist notion?
I definitely agree with you there.
It's a simpler API. Vulkan takes maybe 3x as many lines of code to express the same thing. Also if you want to run on macOS or Windows, you will use the native platforms. You can also target the web from the same codebase.
What you seem to propose - calling/etc to establish that you want to cancel only if they do too - isn't a real mode of communication though. People are generally sufficiently polite that if you tell them that, they will cancel the plans even if they were looking forward to it.

I agree that an app to solve this seems a bit overblown, but it does address a real thing which regular communication cannot. Communication skills aren't the issue, base human politeness is.
Show HN: A Different (Code-First) Headless CMS for SPA’s Like Vue.js and React
We have this weird self-depreciating pride about losing the War, and like to talk it up a bit. It doesn't surprise me that a bunch of larrikans keep trying to put it back on the page. Pushing back against Wiki's uptight rules on seriousness like this is a great example of the subversive Aussie humour. Good on 'em!
> Buttigieg’s campaign was not an investor, and does not appear to have anything to do with the development of the app. Do you have any sources for your claim?

This was not my claim at all
wgpu/WebGPU is way less verbose. I don't want to write gfx-rs or Vulkan directly when experimenting with new techniques, unless I absolutely need maximum performance when testing. Only when I want to deploy something to production will I write in those low-level APIs.
There was a time before now where advertising was effective and didnt track you - it was the advent of targeted advertisement which really killed things off.

Can we go back to the days where an advert was was just an image and a hyperlink? Where advertisement paid by the pixel and location on the website? Where JavaScript was unused unless in some rare and warranted cases?

I still believe the web can be a free and open market place of ideas.
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Wouldn't this executive and Media companies will run afoul of the GDPR act. At least in EU they can be fined and may be prosecuted if they are repeat offenders.

It will be nice if all the EU residents in one go send a request to remove their information from all the US based media and technology giants who under the guise of changing the world are indeed working to sale more to consumers and make themselves rich.
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gfx-rs does that, or you can use still Vulkan and through the same gfx-rs compat or MoltenVK target MacOS too.

The only outlier is probably OrbisOS with its obscenely locked and NDA'ed GNM.
Last week I reverse engineered a new app called Byte and created an unofficial web app for it. Byte is basically Vine reborn and it's even from the same cofounder of Vine.

This is the story of how I reverse engineered Byte, ported its mobile app functionality to the web and unofficially implemented a missing feature that was heavily requested by its users.

The creator of Byte, Dom Hofmann actually noticed what I did, complimented me on my work, and didn't even ask for me to take it down, so if you want to check out what I built and explore bytes on the web, visit: https://www.byte.community/

The code is open source on GitHub: https://github.com/CaliAlec/Byte-Community

I wrote a Medium article explaining how I did it: https://medium.com/@calialec/how-i-reverse-engineered-byte-a...
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If it’s just for yourself, a regular thermometer will do, certainly?
If some people want to crop video to fit different screen aspect ratios, it would be nice for the frame to advertise its "center" so the playback device can apply the appropriate cropping and matting.

Maybe I have my player set to "3:2 full screen, up to 30% crop.". It's not something I would do personally, but it would be better than pan and scan being something implemented in the encode itself.
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> to simply not track your users' behaviour in detail

that's unpossible
Do you think there will be much to gain from using Vulkan as opposed to WebGPU?
That sounds reasonable. So you see WebGPU becoming the good general purpose higher level API built on top of good foundation (like Vulkan) that Khronos mentioned was missing in the Vulkan effort?
This is just a non starter and a pipe dream. It goes against the principles of capitalism and free enterprise.

You need to think about incentives. You have two tablets, identical in functionality and performance. But the one without the ads and surveillance features costs twenty percent more. Which one do you buy? Actually Kindle did this for a while (maybe they still do...). I ended up buying the cheaper one with the ads.
There is an instrument called an infrared thermometer. It measures the long-wave radiation emitted from a target object and computes it's temperature.

However that will only give you the measure of a single spot, which could be inaccurate due to thermal reflections, or noise, so ideally you'd want an infrared camera, which will provide a thermal image your target. They're a bit pricey though.

On the other hand, why not just use a regular thermometer?
I’m curious what they purport adds so much value to their kava in the OP comment.
Hi I am the co-founder of ContentBlocks. I had this idea of a code-first CMS after building a Vue.js app with a headless CMS (Contentful). The process felt really heavy, because I had to design all the schema up front in their editor, instead of being able to put it right in my code and page. But of course there are a lot of benefits of the headless CMS

It got me thinking and I came up with this idea that it could be a lot simpler. I was hoping to get some feedback (idea, pricing, do you need it?) on the idea. There is a demo, you can try out the editor. Within the demo is a link to the source code.

Let me know what you think or if you have any questions.
It almost kills me, just 10 years ago it was nearly six figures to get a RamSan that had 2TB storage and did 100k/25k r/w iops (https://www.networkworld.com/article/2268291/less-expensive-...)

Now a WD Blue NVMe does 95k/84k r/w iops at $215 and that's just off their website (https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-..., may be more depending on shipping method...)

That said, it's not a fair comparison and I wouldn't want to run a big service on a single sqlite/nvme setup for more reasons than are worth mentioning, but not prematurely optimizing can take you really far - scale and money - with good design.
I definitely do. Like you can get to 90% perf using a cross-platform API. And to fine tune, you can probably just contribute some perf improvements to the implementation instead of rewriting it.
VMWare developed the first useful virtualization software and had a monopoly for years because of this.

They still have some performance advantages over all competitors.

But if you are not enterprise, I see no point in paying their prices.

As you say, free products have caught up and are just good enough.
Probably highly workload dependent and impossible to answer in a general way.
Yeah this seems like a good job for AWS spot or the like. If it costs $.01/minute of video, probably worth it even if only a few hundred people watch the title.
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First time I'd seen it called the "lottery factor." I like that much more than the "hit by a bus factor."
gfx-rs is not an open standard. gfx-rs is a little too hairy, so is rendy.
educating is "this works like this and that, mind yourself"

fear mongering is "you're in danger, buy this for us to save yourself"

not exactly a thin line
Windows art apps often need hover support since they assume a Wacom, and the general windows interface definitely does. I guess you can simulate hover by holding a hot key or something while touching though.
While Erowid is great for obscure drugs, you'll get much better info from communities of thousands of active kava drinkers like /r/kava and kavaforums.com

That Erowid page is pretty useless since the vast majority of reports on there aren't about kava at all but about kavalactones extracted from kava root and put into capsules and tinctures. That's like a review page claiming to be about coffee but in fact filled with reports of people taking caffeine powder. This is a problem because just like caffeine doesn't have a long history of safe use (and in fact there have been recent fatalities from it) in comparison to coffee, kavalactone products have been blamed in a number of liver injury cases while kava has a long history of safe use.

Also, the Erowid page on the liver FUD is almost two decades out of date. The WHO report in 2016 pretty much cleared traditionally prepared noble kava. See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kava/wiki/does-kava-cause-liver-dam...

Kava is a beverage made from water and the root of the kava plant. This is so both in the traditional sense (what the word means in the Pacific Islands) as well as in legal sense (as it will soon be listed in the Codex Alimentarius). Pharma and nutraceutical firms trying to peddle kavalactone products while piggybacking on the long history of safe use of kava are doing the world a disservice.
I certainly hope so!
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It sounds like they made their account the day of the vote, how does 2 factor prevent someone from registering an account in your place?
For those who are interested in buying, look for "noble Hawaiian kava," preferably certified. The quality standards are way higher and you're less likely to get hit with an unpleasant feeling after drinking it.
>When the Soviet Union and China tried to undo "enclosure" and create communal farms, tens of millions of people died. To the extent these countries reduced inequality, they did it by making everyone poor.

This is a common trope, but is it really true? Regarding deaths: why do people count deaths in communist countries as stemming from the failure of communism, but do not apply the same criteria to deaths stemming from capitalism? Surely to be coherent, one must measure also deaths occurring from famines in capitalist countries, colonialism, slave trade, the dozens of US-installed dictatorships... See where that gets us?

Regarding "every one was equal because everyone was poor": Russia in 1917 was one of the most undeveloped places in the northern hemisphere, where all except a handful of landed aristocrats + imperial family lived in miserable, abject poverty. 40 years later the Soviet Union was the second largest economy in the world. Can we really say it was such a failure, from the economic point of view? Better yet: can we really say it made "everyone poor", a favourite trope of reaganites everywhere?
I disagree with LeCun but you have a good point. Telling you how much uncertainty there is in a result is a useful metric. But it is only part of what is required (by my definition of explainability).

My counterpoint is when a model trained on dog breeds misidentifies a breed with a high certainty factor, the model should be able to justify (explain) why it made that judgement.
I don't know that either of your statements encapsulates exactly how I think about my Wednesdays. It's not that I "don't feel like" going out, it's that I don't know whether or not I don't not want to not go out or not. Help?

I do get, you though. This isn't a tool that I'd want to put every single one of my calendar events into, but it's a tool I can see being useful for some class of events, with some other people.
Take a look here and get back to me: https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/returns

You don't need to go to a 25 year time horizon to have a very high chance of making money. By my count, the S&P only lost money in 20 out of the past 94 years. According to https://www.thebalance.com/rolling-index-returns-1973-mid-20..., there was no rolling 15 year period since 1973 where the index lost money. The index lost money in only 11 of 80 rolling 10 year periods from 1928-2008.
There are two issues behind this.

First, the fever and temperature increase come after 2 to 5 days of infection (14 at most). So you are effectively contagious before showing any symptoms. This is why most detection measures at airports are useless. It used to work for other outbreaks though (e.g. SARS/MERS).

Second, realistically most people would not want to isolate themselves. They will want to leave China and find a hospital in a neighboring country where they could be treated in better conditions (e.g less overcrowded hospitals, more staff). This is why a lot of Chinese people try to cross to Hong Kong or still attempt to fly to Europe even though they know they are sick.

Last, some people will just ignore the fever and hope for the best. We have seen people arriving in HK from China and straight refusing to be tested for the virus.

I’m not blaming anyone here of course. I don’t think this is intrinsic to the Chinese mentality, most humans would do the same in such conditions: unconsciously ignore the symptoms, refusing the rational solution and putting themselves before the risk to others; because faced with the probability of dying, your brain can make you believe anything, even that your fever will vanish.
Same reason a beer that's $8 at the bar costs $1-$2 if you buy it at the supermarket.
Just because more text is published about a work doesn't mean you have to read it...
Just a little anecdote. I've never purchased anything I've seen in an online ad except Facebook and Instagram.

Their targeting is so good that I almost don't mind seeing the ads.
I don't give WhatsApp access to my contacts. Few enough people in my life use it, and they all have different profile pictures.

I find it very weird to find, for example, my boss, or certain specific coworkers, on any social app. I don't want them to be able to find me either. This design decision of giving apps your entire contacts book by default has to die, and individual users need more choice instead.
Anyone curious about trying kava should check out /r/kava or kavaforums.com for advice on reputable vendors. This is especially important if you're in the US where dietary supplements are barely regulated.
>> How about no free stuff on the web? Charge for services and make it illegal to sell private information without the subject’s consent and remuneration.

> Making it illegal won't solve much. E.g. FB doesn't sell private information, they sell the ability to target demographics.

You just need to appropriately specify what's being made illegal. You're right that FB could weasel out of a law that outlawed selling private information. They couldn't weasel out of a law that outlawed monetizing personal data without user consent.
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So skip dinner out this weekend and use that $100 for the project ;)

Most software engineers make plenty to budget for infrastructure at a side project.
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Some comments seem to miss the point that reviews will be published without naming the reviewers (unless they want to), and then only for accepted papers. So for the reviewer this should not change things much.

Also, NeurIPS conference publishes reviews for a long time now. But I haven't heard of anyone talking about a review of a paper. And if you do look at these reviews, really many of them are of really dismal quality. Maybe things will be different for Nature, idk.
Everything is backwards in your argument.
Better equipped hospitals: more respirators, ecmo.

Or better yet distributed portable hospitals with icu beds at home with telemedicine.

Earlier Self driving cars moving people instead of mass infectious transit
And it is a much worse place to live.
While it did lose a decent chunk today, it is still up over 70% year to date. But certainly enjoy the Bloomberg article reminding Tesla of gravity:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/musk-lose...
Right, but was there an Iowa presidential caucus in 2019?
Too much to learn. Overwhelmed, incompetent, and behind
I'm looking for advice, commiseration, and perspective, if you have it.

I'm in my early 30s and an aspiring data scientist. I minored in CS in college, and was able to pick up a lot at jobs in my early 20s, including Python, R, and Oracle. I'm back in grad school now for a masters in statistics, and am hoping to transition away from Oracle programming (my last job) to data science.

I'm feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of technologies out there that I "should" learn: Python and R (and their libraries), Spark, Hadoop, TensorFlow, and pytorch. You also need to know how to productionalize things: Docker, AWS, distributed databases, the latest web stuff (sockets?), etc. I could spend all the time in the world learning the new tech, and by the time I'm done, it'll be outdated by the new stuff. It's exhausting, and I don't know if I have the drive (or mental health) to commit to a career where I could be replaced when I'm 50 by a young lion fresh out of college who knows the latest stuff and is willing to work for pennies on the dollar.

When I was 21 I felt confident in my abilities; 10 years later, I don't at all. I feel like an idiot for how short a distance I've gone in my career. At this point in my career, I've never made over $75k and I'm jealous of my peers who are making close to $200k, and of kids out of college making over $100k. I think I know less than the undergrads at my university, and I think I give up on things more quickly now than I used to. At my first job, when my peers started to move on to grad school or higher roles other companies, I admired what they were doing, but I was afraid of the unknown at the time, in a toxic relationship, and had some decision paralysis about whether this was the right career fro me. Now I feel light years behind them. They're all in "senior this" and "senior that" roles, getting very highly paid, and I'm nowhere.

I'm not sure where to go from here. 30s are old in tech, and I don't think I can catch up.
Prepping might become more popular, I think. Maybe supply chains become a bit more distributed, or less centralized. Skepticism of "official" narratives might grow, if the virus isn't sufficiently contained soon.
I agree that quality is not satisfactory, Im not convinced that it is the top problem to solve either. Let me explain: I read that video streaming was 50% of Internet's bandwidth, itself was about 3% of worldwide CO2 emissions. It's quite significant, and I would love quite the opposite of your reasoning: a lesser quality to leave us, engineers, time to find a sustainable way of watching videos online.