skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's difficult for me to predict our response in every possible hypothetical circumstance, so I'm promising what I feel we can actually promise: a human who cares about your success will review the circumstances and make a judgment call.
I'm confused why you seem to so vehemently disagree with me but simultaneously will only speak in generalities.

Say for example I visit your house, and you notice many hours after I leave that a favorite ornament of yours is broken. How will you determine whether I broke it intentionally or not? If you watch me break it, you could make a reasonable judgement. If you only notice later, it's much harder. I don't understand what is controversial about this idea.
varchar(255) == varchar(2000000) in SQLite

The type system in SQLite is not as strict as it is in other RDBMS.
I just got $300 something in refunds from Amazon because the three automatic dropout handgun safes (with fingerprint sensor) I bought had a bullshit cylinder lock even a child could defeat.
That is kinda true, since the peers who would be rating your weekly progress update wouldn't necessarily be your target audience.

So, you'd have to optimize your products pitch to be appealing to your peers, that means spicing up your landing page, adding cool graphics etc. I even went as far as having an option of easily creating a test account to play with the product without needing to sign up and sadly no one used it. For the first 2 weeks, I was getting more downvotes than upvotes. After which, I focused more on sharing metrics (sign ups etc) rather than solely focusing on reporting the work I have done. This did have a material impact in the peer rating process. Once I made it to Top 50, my project was selected by one of their experts, quite fast.
Palm oil effectively replaced partially hydrogenated oils in various junk foods when we learned how unhealthy trans fats were. Fully hydrogenating these oils will not have exactly the same properties as partial hydrogenation, but for many purposes it will work ok in many of these junk food applications. Fully hydrogenated oils don't have the trans fat issue, but it will require consumer education to make this point clear.
says he who suggest no other...

then suggest another, right? obvious, no?
This comment makes no sense because it doesn't state how many people get electricity and how many people fly.

The carbon footprint of one transatlantic flight is on the same order of magnitude as one person's yearly electricity consumption.

People who fly every year can substantially reduce their carbon footprint by not flying, people who already don't fly every year (the majority of the population) can't.
Illl ignore the pedantic part since it was just an analogy, if it doesn't work for you there is little to talk about.

> Games have huge advantages of ....

I have thoughts like that but I consider them "making up excuses". You don't have to see it that way but I can't see someone fix a problem by making up excuses for it to exist. For me it is just like you can always come up with an excuse not to do something.

8 gigabytes of memory / 64 kilobytes of memory = 125 000 times as much memory.

14 gigahertz (4 cores x 3.5 GHz) / 1.023 MHz = 13 685 times as much processor power.

4108 gigahertz (2560 Cuda cores / 1605 MHz) / 2 MHz = 2 054 000 times as much video power.

Can I just call 2 Mhz memory bandwidth 16 Mbit/s?

If so, 500 Mbit / 16 Mbit = 31.25 fold the bandwidth

We are not rendering many layers of colorful animated game content. A map is just a bunch of boring lines. The modern screen however is a lot bigger. I see a glimmer of hope for an excuse!

320x200 px = 64000 px

1920x1080 px = 2073600 px

2073600 / 64000 = 32.4 times the screen size

meh?

We must applaud everyone involved in making all this hardware progress. It truly blows the mind and defies belief. No one could have imagined this.

Then came weee the software people and... and.....

I'm cringing to hard to continue writing this post.

The numbers don't lie, we suck. Lets leave it at that.
This President just learned he is immune to consequence. He’s not familiar with history.
What alternatives are there if we are to avoid palm oil? How are they more environmentally friendly?

With palm oil being used for biofuel, one way to cut back on it is cut back on energy consumption.

Promote passive solar design.

Promote walkable, transit oriented planning.

Develop better public transit.

Tax the absolute hell out of private vehicle ownership.

Etc.
I highly recommend PBS Digital's Space Time for a great overview (and deeper mathy dives) into modern physics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g

There are lots of videos about the various interpretations of quantum weirdness through a robust scientific lens, while still being entertaining enough to watch even if you don't grasp all the details.
https://www.nature.com/articles/35042510 argues they were aligned to the stars, using a method which co-incidentally aligned it best to the Earth's spin at the time the Great Pyramid was built:

> Here I use trends in the orientation of Old Kingdom pyramids to demonstrate that the Egyptians aligned them to north by using the simultaneous transit of two circumpolar stars. Modelling the precession of these stars yields a date for the start of construction of the Great Pyramid that is accurate to ±5 yr, thereby providing an anchor for the Old Kingdom chronologies.

or commentary from New Scientist, https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn174-pyramid-precision...

> Instead, the alignment of successive pyramids first steadily improved up to the building of the Great Pyramid, then later deteriorated. This makes perfect sense, she says, if the architects were measuring the alignment using not one star, but two: Mizar in Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) and Kochab in Ursa Minor (the Little Dipper).

Others have other ideas of how to do the alignment - https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologist-secret-why-the-gr... .
I haven't been very impressed with any fantasy novels except for the Game Of Thrones series, and even that series has started petering out.

Only other one which I liked was The Sundering series by Jacqueline Carey, and mainly for the dialogue between two of the characters.
Lack of big tech GDPR decisions looms large in EU watchdog’s annual report
I have a similar, possibly identical complaint about American Gods. Reading American Gods made it clear that Neil Gaiman is very clever (intelligent, tricky plotting) and, independently, a great writer (good with words).

But his tastes are different from mine. There are sections of American Gods that are much too vulgar/crass/obscene/whatever for my taste.

This is also why I never read the sequel to Lies of Locke Lamora.
Pilot wave theory isn't actually simpler because the pilot wave must travel throughout the entire universe instantaneously. According to the theory, classical information cannot be sent along the wave so it does not violate no-communication, however the prospect of having a wave that travels instantaneously and permeates the entire universe is still hard for many to accept.
Given a choice between the apple and the soft drink, I'd choose the raw apple every time. Human digestion can far more efficiently work with the apple than suga-cola. The "sugar" might be the same in terms of basic numbers, but the composition is very different.

I genuinely would like to see how strong the evidence actually is for someone getting diabetes from raw fruit[1]. Especially when compared to other sources such as sugary drinks etc. My uneducated guess is that we should be able to look at primates with high fruit consumption and we'd instantly see massive diabetes populations. I doubt this is true. It would be a stretch at best.

[1] I should at this stage assert the non-inclusion of anything processed either. I'm not counting fruit juice for example. Juicing is not the same as eating the actual fruit. Less effort so the digestion process changes. Commercial juices are even worse.
I just use brotli compression in fastify to stream JSON (or anything really) to the browser

This is an interesting spec though. Kinda weak they only have gzip and deflate that have been around for DECADES. At least support some newer specs like brotli that have better compression. It already exists in the browser goddamnit!

https://www.fastify.io/
https://morg.systems/

I'm trying my best :D
People don't.
Samsung accidentally sends 'Find My Mobile' notifications to Galaxy phones
End users happily chug along with 300MB Facebook Messenger on their phones.

On server I am deploying 250MB TensorFlow on a _free_ cloud tier.

Not sure what are you talking about.

I also bet Java or .NET would be speedier than Go after warmup.
This is about a serious question as asking 'why cars have engines'. You can refer to Wikipedia, or any other resource instead of couching excessive ignorance, borderline bigotry in the form of a supposedly innocent question.
I fail to see the insult.

LARP is a popular free time activity with nerds here in Germany. And people will fawn over kit and/or spend money on extravagant but useless equipment to earn social status inside the community.

So I thought that calling people LARPing was actually quite clever, because the reason why I would roll out buggy encrypted email would be the same as for why I'd walk around in a cow leather robe in a forest shouting like a madman. I have done both, btw.

And just like nobody would complain about me accidentally breaking character during LARP, nobody would complain if I accidentally break the encryption by replying the wrong way.

So as someone enjoying LARP and dabbling with encrypted emails, I didn't feel offended by his comparison.
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You’re not factoring in worldwide distribution - not everyone lives in the USA, and costs worldwide bandwidth costs vary a lot.

Also we don’t know the number of http cache check requests. I’m assuming they number is way, way higher than the number of fonts served? That can cost you 160 million alone, with no bandwidth.
People aren't fond of that explanation because it isn't an explanation.

"Why do some stars make loop-de-loops as they traverse the sky?"

"Because entities on the celestial scale don't behave in ways directly analogous to anything humans are intuitively familiar with."

"Oh..."
Very cool. I'm working on a service that add apps to my email inbox. Is there a way you think we could self host this and create accounts / link accounts automatically for our users? I'd love to have an irc client that can run in an iframe and I'd access it by clicking a tab.
I don't know. Imagine a virus that is 100% lethal to humans. The flu and other virii are in a sense a kind of living organism focused grey goo because there's nothing that stops a new virus from evolving and killing all living members of a species, what's left rots. There probably exists something that could kill all of us and we'd be rotten meat after we are dead. A virus uses our metabolic energy to make new copies of it and doesn't kill us immediately so that we can spread it.
Many cars now come with a database of speed limits and display it on the dashboard. Although this shouldn't be relied on for self driving, it could be used to double check. OSM data for types of roads and areas is pretty accurate too, so you could use that ('an 85mph speed limit for a single lane within a residential area doesn't sound correct'). This doesn't need AI, it just needs someone with common sense to come up with a few basic rules about speed limits. If there is some doubt you could prompt the driver to confirm the speed limit change, and use that to build up a database of real world data.

It sounds like the Tesla is just using what the camera sees - which is bad if true. Admittedly this was tested on a race track, so maybe there is no data saying otherwise (or even the opposite).
I appreciate the feedback! Luckily, that hasn’t been an issue and our users tell us they love the name :) Based on my experience, if management is focused on driving business value, then the name of a product or service isn’t really a factor. What matters is the value their teams and business get. And that’s what we’re focused on delivering to our users.
PayPal does not look so bad. Their API and documentation has also become pretty good.

Documentation has gone form terrible to bad. API has gone from always terrible to appearing OK but will periodically destroy your happiness and productivity for a week. I would never voluntarily work with PayPal tech.
You’ve noticed huh?

Politics lately seems to be:1) paint candidate in the best light, 2) paint opponent in the worst light.

Note: there is no requirement to have a consistent set of rules to do this.
It is potentially possible for the browser (or an extension) to support the user using play/pause/rewind/fast-forward with animated pictures. However, I do not recommend GIF; animated PNG is better.

(But, I would prefer text-based documentation. You can still have videos or animations too if wanted, though.)
Bootcamps are a kind of school. If we agree that schools can scale why should bootcamps specifically not be able to scale?

I mentioned two solutions, raising entry standards and providing greater support. There are people who can teach themselves. There are very few people who can teach themselves as fast and as well in a self-directed environment as they can learn with a real curriculum and some feedback on their work. If you are confident you can teach yourself in two years or reach the same level of employability after nine months of Lambda School the latter looks pretty good even at $30K once you get a job paying over $50K.
I released the app in April last year. It's been a side project for a while, and after a few updates I'm pretty keen to share it around :)
Maybe it’s a scientific research question. Maybe as everything pop / media was limited/produced/organized we as consumers could only be hit with heavy filtered (see nice and consumable from bigcorps) content ?
i mean... it's not a tax dodge, he would still own the stocks even if his salary wasn't $1.
I suppose that seems reasonable, although text-based documentation should probably be made available too.
This is disingenuous. My wife for example would be fired if she didn't encrypt medical records that she has no choice but to email as part of her job. There are thousands of people in just our US state that she might need to communicate protected health information with. Those thousands of people are not signaling. They would just prefer to keep their jobs.
Coca-Cola Uses Artificial Intelligence for Its Loyalty Campaign
https://floating-point-gui.de/formats/integer/
>What Lambda is doing is more like pooling of risk used in insurance: if you (as an investor) bet on ISA of a single student, you have a high-risk, binary outcome (loose all your money or get some reward).

>If you bet on 1000 students as a group, you significantly de-risk the whole thing while only reducing potential reward a little bit.

Risk is surely part of it, but I think cash flow is a big issue as well. Very hard to run a business where you provide a service now and get paid over a couple years starting ~6 months from now. Better the split the company into the entity that provides the service and another that provides the financing.
The ability to accurately map surroundings is a fundamental prerequisite to AGI but it's pretty much the whole meal for self driving.

From there the car needs to segment its interpreted reality and run path finding algorithms.

AGI needs to take that reality and seemingly consciously understand the many different ways that it can interact with it.

I'm oversimplifying the post mapping implementation of self driving - but not so as to remove an insurmountable problem.

Tesla's biggest fuck ups (such as driving under a truck) seem to me to be the consequences of initial mistakes in building a map of reality, rather than in what's being done with that map.

For self driving, as far as I can tell, the map of reality is the hard part.

For AGI, it gets you to the hard part.
> core of their business (taking the risk students don't pay off) to a 3rd party

The core of their business should be educating the students. The financing and loan servicing are secondary concerns that are probably better off done by a different entity.
Am I really getting old enough to where modern developers know nothing about the dot com crash?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com
US considers taking control of global chip exports
I would very much like this as well, but "kiosk" mode is currently not planned. Might start consider it again after https://github.com/Nordaaker/convos/issues/414 is closed... Please do open an issue where you describe what you think is required for Convos to work from within your email inbox, or join #convos on freenode and have a chat with us.
Not as explorable per se, but here’s an interactive explanation I made for my favorite (and widely useful) method in statistics:

https://www.jwilber.me/permutationtest/
You can pick the cheapest within a range, but not the cheapest overall.

E.g. I get relatively good bulbs by requiring CRI > 90. Or just requiring no flicker, as a feature. When the producer has more than one parameter to optimize, they seem to come up with more well-rounded designs. To say nothing of the useful features I mentioned.

Yes, I likely pay 2-4 times more for these bulbs. But they perform, and they stay for years of intense use. The cheapest overall bulbs are designed for other purposes.
Have you read the article?

The problem isn't just the metadata leak, far from it. Some problems mentioned:

1. PGP is old and broken and messages can potentially be decrypted without access to private key

2. Because email's default is plain-text, in real world conversations you end up with people replying in plain text with your whole message being quoted

3. Archived messages will leak. An e2e channel needs to have a way to inform receivers that messages should be deleted after some time

4. Private keys eventually leak, therefore it is important that when it happens, the system makes it hard to decrypt old messages (by combining it with ephemeral keys).

So if you have login credentials to send to someone, if you value that info and I assume you do, otherwise you wouldn't use PGP, then this is precisely the use case that encrypted email is terrible for.

PGP usage is also very user unfriendly so you’re not losing anything really,.
I think contrary to what people think, Supersonic jets is actually sustainable from a physics perspective. One of the things I'm most excited about is active flow controls on planes. The whole idea is to dynamically create laminar seperation at strategic locations. The effects of this is pretty astounding. It can drastically minimize the drag of the plane and can be also used as flight controls. I can't remember the exact year but NASA did a presentation about this and project the technology to become more prevalent by 2035. Another thing NASA is working on is to use the same jet technology to create perturbations in the wake of the plane to minimize the noise from the Sonic boom.
> There are over 100,000 flights daily. They account for about 2.5% of CO2 emissions yearly.

The generally accepted emissions weighting factor for aviation co2 emissions is ~2.6. So it's more like 6.5%, and growing fast.
That's their problem, not necessarily yours.
This is the sad truth. Try being a person who leans conservative, having the absolute racists of society be on your team. I imagine it's not much different than a liberal leaning person getting all the crazies on their side. I wish there were distinct parties for reasonable people...
yep. but they won’t. HN rules thee not for me. they do titles like this all the time.
The UK has had similar labelling for a while, as well as higher taxes on high sugar drinks. Has the same effect been seen there?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jun/19/traffic-ligh...
> Politics lately

Mark Twain: Running for Governor [Written about 1870]

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3189/3189-h/3189-h.htm#gover...
Norway, where I live, has enacted laws banning inaccessible websites (with the exception of websites made by individuals). https://medium.com/confrere/its-illegal-to-have-an-inaccessi...

The law has been well-received both by the public and by businesses, with very few actual fines being issued, but many bad pages have been soft-forced into improvement. So it's actually possible, but will probably be much harder in the US, in which business, government and taxpayers/customers seem less aligned.
My threat model is the one that I learned at a three letter agency when I was organizing their key signing party.
"Talent is global and evenly spread, but opportunities are not" <-- if I had to define Pioneer

Being part of Pioneer until now has been a great experience! We are in early stages of building https://www.kaapi.team/ (easy performance management for remote teams) and running in the Pioneer leaderboard was a huge factor of us being able to "ship" things like https://timewise.how/

1. Leaderboards can be gamified, yes, and I am sure some participants try to do so. But that froth gets cleared in final evaluation by experts. And you can fool a small percentage by showcasing vanity metrics, but I always climbed higher in the tournament when we got actual customers and product growth.

2. If you are not from the valley, getting access to a strong network of peers who help keep you accountable is great

3. Also, you get back what you put in. I feel as if I am yet to get the maximum "juice" from Pioneer, but that is on me. I haven't yet asked for enough intros and personal mentorship help from the Pioneer team. But since winning the tournament, and joining the camp, we have talked to 20 potential customers, and have beta customers lined up.

4. Personally for me, this is a refreshing way of going from idea to business. It's 2020 - geographical constraints of being in the valley shouldn't be a barrier!

5. I think it definitely has some kinks it needs to iron out in the tournament (e.g. advisors never replied, and the feature is now scraped). And also in the camp itself - but I love the fact that the Pioneer team is actively working on iterating itself like a startup!

PS
Yes, I know you don't always need accelerators or funding or mentorship to build a business. There is no one way of getting it right, and this is just one of them.

Your mileage may vary.
Hey it's nice to see this here, I just got in last week, I'm the one with the "remote adoption" (for pets!) platform, something I wanted to do for quite some time but never found the right motivation.

If Daniel or partners come here, I have a bit of (unsolicited) feedback:

When you join late it's easy to feel like no matter what you do you will not be able to reach the top 50% just because of first-mover advantage. Perhaps you could try a dynamic where even latecomers have a good chance as well.

Also, it would be good to be able to see all your historical activity within the site, as well as some kind of chart on how has your score been growing through time. I keep this in a notebook, but you could do it for all of us with a few lines of code ...

Last but not least, it would be very cool if you could show the complete leaderboard, not just the ones above/below you. This is the main criticism I've seen here and there directed towards the scores on the site being manipulated. If you make this transparent, the problem will go away.
Understanding Tensorflow 2.x in a Nutshell
I don't think this is the design for the next hundred years as the author claims. Instead, screw-in bulbs based on a form factor dictated by 19th century glass making techniques and incandescent lighting will probably die out.

They'll surely be available as a specialty item, but cramming a power supply, emitters, and heatsink into such a suboptimal package only makes sense for legacy compatibility.