skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote some thoughts on why I think a traditional forum is better than other platforms for some things: https://webwide.io/threads/why-webwide.65/

I'm sure it won't be for everyone and that's fine. There is a super welcoming community already for anybody that would like to dive in.

Please feel free to AMA about it!
If you don't mind lots of cursing, I think I sum up IOTA pretty well here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6C5DJGg4Lg
This is a really good article. One company that I always think of when I think machine learning is the computer vision "startup" Clarifai. At one point in time they were cutting edge, filling the need for large scale image classification that enterprises had. This was when computer vision neural network architectures were rudimentary and hard to train (they still kind of are). Then in-house data science teams sprang up, tooling got better, better network architectures came out, and Clarifai essentially lost all of their edge over night. Machine Learning in itself is basically never the edge, it has to be a unique data set or sticky user base, something else that builds a moat.
Most of them are probably in sales.
Having more money doesn't make you less susceptible to fraud, but does make you less susceptible to ruin from big losses.
Ask HN: Will pay for embedded/firmware engineering career feedback
1.5 years experience, mostly embedded C on microcontrollers with industry toolchains (Eclipse IDEs, dev kits, etc). Limited experience with backend development (C#/.NET), x-platform mobile (C#/Xamarin).

I would like to:
Describe my workload/projects to a non-specific degree of detail.
Describe the skills and tasks I think are involved.
Describe where I feel I am falling short.
Describe the expectations I think I should be meeting.
Get your feedback and perspective on the above 4 items.*
(*I would be thankful if your experience tells you we should touch upon any other aspects.)

I would like to offer $20 for a 30-minute or $60 for a 60-minute phone call.

Logistics are flexible -- I can be available (unless already otherwise committed, etc) 6am--6pm Pacific Standard Time, all week. Happy to send you a web conference link, use Skype, Google Hangouts, or provide my personal cell, depending on your preference.

edit: added email to profile. Please contact via email, thank you.
Please dont say that, it's very, very easy to produce beautiful code that will never make any money!
The article says "easy sources of clean energy" : that doesn't actually fully equate to "renewable energy".

Assuming that "clean" really means "low carbon", then only majority nuclear/hydro/geothermal electricity grids can currently achieve that. Wind/solar on the other hand are intermittent, and always need to be complemented with "dispatchable" energy sources to handle the base load.

That can either be hydro/geothermal if you were blessed with the right geography (like Iceland or Sweden), nuclear if you weren't but are pragmatic about it (like France), or coal/gas if you got scared of nuclear but still have a large country to power (like Germany).

I'm stressing the latter because, even as Germany is rightfully praised as a renewables champion that invested billions to be 70% wind/solar powered on a very good day, that's all in vain when it comes to climate change : coal/gas is so bad that their average carbon intensity of electricity production is still mediocre (see http://electricitymap.org/)

So, renewables doesn't always mean low carbon. If that's the primary concern for the location, France is probably their best bet (nearly as low carbon intensity as Iceland, and much closer to the UK)
I mean, there's a reason why it's WONTFIX, down in the 4th comment: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504748#c4
Thanks so much for this! I've saved this analysis and will keep it in mind as we decide to move toward this direction. Agreed with all three of your points; we can definitely have better execution on all these fronts.
"Albedo" sounds like visible light. That's fine for those guys. Then there's x-ray and above, and infrared- and radio- below. Doubt they'll be able to make those sats soak up all EM radiation. And a few thousand of them will also be bouncing ground-based signals back down in all directions ... forget about isolation from earth-based sigs in basins.

I don't recall any beforehand news of this being publicly discussed.
as mentioned by others, on firefox you can set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false in about:config, which prevents sites from being notified when you tried to copy something.
I spent some time experimenting with https://github.com/facebookresearch/PyTorch-BigGraph and a few other libraries, I ran into some challenges given that my dataset was very large (O(100M) edges) and very sparse; and didn't pursue it further.

The papers you linked are very interesting, I will have to dig further! One more recent writeup: https://eng.uber.com/uber-eats-graph-learning/ -- a real production use case, seems promising to explore more.
The vision is definitely much broader :) The immediate steps are desktop and mobile.
For us plebes, the FOSS makes pd great. Backwards compatibility is nice, resurrecting 10 year old patches has never been a problem for me.

I suspect being successful musicians, cycling74 has an interest in getting their product into your rig. I bet Johnny Greenwood gets custom objects if he calls them up.
This happened to me recently and it was pretty embarassing - I copied a two paragraph snippet from a psychology paper and the website put an ad for CBD oil in my clipboard above the paragraphs.

The segment I copied was just long enough that it overflowed my chat window so I had no idea the insertion was even there and I sent it as-is.

The recipient called me about two minutes later and said "hey, I think you've been hacked - you just sent me a CBD oil advertisement."

So yeah, I'd love to see user agents address this. If I push a copy button (like github's clone repo button) then fine, I'm at the mercy of their javascript. But if I copy via ctrl-C or a right click menu, it should not not let the page interfere.
Using Graph Learning to Power Food Discovery with Uber Eats
The article touches on many factors that influence the cost of freight traffic by road and by rail, but it doesn't mention diesel taxes that help pay for road maintenance. Presumably electric trucks will eventually also have to pay some kind of similar toll or tax for the use of the roads.
Are we talking about a case where a given developer has re-written 100 lines of code, and added 1 line net?

Or do you mean that only 1 line was written or re-written? If so, what are people doing, having 7-hour meetings?
Ways to solve some of the issues mentioned:

1) Using containers, the SASS software can be downloaded to the client cluster and managed by Kubernetes operators. Hence the cost of training and storage will be bare by the clients themself and not by the SASS company.

2) Second, the use of AutoML should increase the productivity of the startup employees (especially with the ongoing retraining of models, deployment, monitoring, etc).

The one problem that will always be there is new data and edge cases in the data. I do believe that this would be the major obstacle for the next 5 years.

Also, I would expect to see the number of models actually explode (assuming that they are trained and deployed by AutoML). Case in point is Uber with models per city/ time of day (with 1000's of models in production).
This is such a closed minded western centered mindset.

The idea of paying for infrastructure projects (or helping fund them) in foreign nations that you might do business with is just not on the horizon.

The only option on the table is to build some technologically obscene infrastructure that only those who can afford can use, leaving the local population in poverty.
It's not just a browser thing. Apple Books does this with their e-books, which is infuriating if you're working with a coding book and just want to copy-paste stuff into your editor/terminal. You get something like:

“ghci> putStrLn (pretty 10 value)”

Excerpt From: Bryan O’Sullivan, John Goerzen, and Donald Bruce Stewart. “Real World Haskell.” Apple Books.

When you only copied:

ghci> putStrLn (pretty 10 value)

Note that the quotes around your actual selection aren't even the ASCII quote character; you get horrid unicode quotes that are easy to miss if you're just trying to run a bit of code in your REPL. This isn't even a DRM ebook, so it's not like Apple is being compelled by contract to insert a citation. It's awful, user-hostile behavior that removes one of the main advantages of digital-vs-hardcopy coding books (copy/paste), and AFAIK there's no config that lets you disable it.
Regardless of the success of git, it's novel branching tech was what set it apart. And he did beat entire teams of coders to that solution. Of course his name was what lent it so much credence, but a good solution tends to make waves in online communities. Best example? Bitcoin.
Related: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/australian-bushfir...
Thank you! Glad it's been helpful!
One possible theory is that they aren't massive objects at all but instead are some sort of 3D projection in the air, probably involving plasma produced with high powered lasers, RF beams or particle beams. That would require technology that isn't publicly known but probably doesn't violate any laws of physics. However if you believe the claims made in this article that high-ranking officials have excluded the possibility that the events were due to any US SAP then this possibility becomes more remote. I think if anyone on Earth has this technology it would be the US, simply because they spend so much more on defense than any other country.
I believe Apple arrived to the Prod Display resolution based on the Thunderbolt bandwidth! https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/729232-guide-to-display... it's 38.70 gbit/s which is suspiciously close to the bus bandwidth limit of 40 gbit/s
Our project was greenfield 2.5 years ago, and in evaluating the ecosystem we ran into the work going on w Habitat after trying to figure out if there was a VM-analog to the stuff going on with k8s and containers (which was a very scary prospect to dive into.) Habitat seems to be a good tech stack for solving a variety of operational problems that you typically pull different products off the shelf and duct tape together -- particularly if you are focused on VMs.

It was a bit of a bumpy ride but the product has stabilized enough we have confidence in it and it turns out to be quite a good fit for the self hosting use-case. Basically, it's an all-in-one solution for packaging, isolation, service discovery, configuration management, and deploys. So it was relatively easy to transition our production deployment bits to a packaged up deployed solution to 3rd party servers, with all of the bells and whistles.

Our setup is a fairly minimal custom AMI that just installs the basic package dependencies for Habitat and configures the supervisor. Everything else is bootstrapped within Habitat, including our own proprietary configuration management service which allows a nice web-based GUI for configuring the ring state. The user data script just does some basic UNIX setup and DNS initialization and then does a bunch of Habitat service loads. By abstracting over all configuration via Habitat, a unified interface exists for configuring all the services across all the machines, regardless of their underlying configuration management approach, programming language, conventions, etc.
Its not as hard as everyone makes it out to be. I ran one out of my house for 20 years. The biggest issue I had was webmail providers blacklisting entire IP ranges you were in. Especially hotmail but with a bit of communication you could get around that as well.
Ya know what, AI might be the most handy-wavy term ever adopted in the tech world (and this is compared to big data, IoT, blockchain, etc.)

No one really can really define what precisely AI is. Just in autonomous driving alone, there are 6 different "levels" of AI. If I write a decision tree algorithm, is that AI?

My point is, you can basically use the term AI to justify virtually anything when it comes to the value of software, which just makes articles like this not valuable at all. Why not just call it "this is what software is capable of doing for a business"?

One thing is for sure about "AI", and really just "advancements in software", is that repeatable human tasks are and will be replaced by automated systems. The only thing left for non-software business interaction will be to simply deal with other humans beings.
SpaceX should put some telescopes into orbit for public use as a goodwill gesture here.
Wonder if an author will rename themself sudo rm -rf / with the proper escape codes.
I used to do this 15 years ago, but it's 2020... rock solid hosting for small projects has been free for a long time and takes 0 maintenance time. Plus making it to the top of HN won't kill your site.

A true hacker way in 2020 would be using IPFS or Dat... =)
Bobby wants his tables back!
Can you walk me through how it ends in anything other than Gates having given his money away through the Gates foundation? Also, for what it's worth (and I don't think this is even essential to the point), the Gates Foundation has an explicit mandate to spend down all reserves within 20 years of their death:

> Also announced was the decision to spend all of the foundation's resources within 50 years after Bill's and Melinda's deaths.[177][178][179][180] This was later lowered to within 20 years of their death.[181][182] This would close the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and effectively end the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

(source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...)
It really can't get any dumber than that
What is wrong with Health.app on iOS 13?
Honest question cause nothing changed for me from iOS 12 (UI changes aside).
People in that twitter thread are talking about how they they removed the 'Steps' but it still shows up for me.
Meditation can reverse age-related deterioration of the brain
It's unlikely you read the first line of that document and no further.

As for whether they knew of it, it's impossible to prove without asking them, or maybe talking to their attorneys. There is only circumstantial evidence, some of it having to do with timing of events that there is no point in getting in to, since I know it won't make you share that idea. But consider these questions, which you probably have not asked or did not learn enough about those events to ask:

Why did Adam Lanza completely destroy his hard drive? He had a printed poster that had his "body counts and weapons used by mass shooting perpetrators" stuff, so it wasn't to hide that. I think he also had or used another computer, that he didn't bother to destroy. What would someone who expected to kill a bunch of children want to hide? And why did he kill himself despite having plenty of ammunition left?

Think of what you know of James Holmes. He shot up a movie theater, right? Why didn't he shoot some people he encountered as he was walking out (he answered this to a psychologist: it would be kind of personal to shoot someone you could see). How do any theories about why he shot up the theater fit with him rigging his apartment with various explosive and inflammatory substances, set to go off if someone opened the door in response to loud music, but not set to go off from a timer despite he reportedly even had a remote-control trigger as well and obviously was competent enough to be able to set a timer-based initiation?

At the start of the trial for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his most famous lawyer, a female, said that, not exact quote, "We know he did it. So why the trial? Because we want to know why." Did we learn why? If so, what was the reason? Does Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Twitter account provide any reasons why?
yes, it will increase supply, but it won’t bring down prices.

I literally don’t know one example in any overcrowded high density city that has affordable housing. Not in the whole world.

The demand spurs more building and there will never be any surplus stock that will devalue existing housing or bring down prices.

Let’s take tomatoes. Case 1. I grow 10 kilos of tomatoes for market from my 100 sq.ft vegetable plot. I sell it for $1/lb and make $10.

The next year, I grow tomatoes on steroid fertilizers and get 20lbs from same plot. I sell it for $1/lb but my neighbour is also at the market and same customers don’t want as much from me. I end up selling at 0.50/lb to get rid of all my stock. Because. Glut. More supply = lower prices.

Case 2. I take 10lbs of tomatoes to market. I make a deal with t the manager that only I can sell tomatoes and I don’t want any other competitors.

I promise that I can bring double the amount of tomatoes, but the manager must advertise for me. If he fulfills the lack of competition and advertises for me, I will give him 1/4 of my proceeds. He agrees.

He does a great job of advertising. First he lets everyone know that there will be no more tomatoes. Then he tells the customers that every other market is selling bad tomatoes and that his tomatoes are the very best. But too bad..it’s very Rare. There is literally no soil that can grow the kind of tomatoes that his market can bring. But best to wait..he will try to grab as many tomatoes as he can..but he can’t promise. The other market manager is threatening him.

Then other customers come by and take him aside.. pssstt, they say..I hear you have the best tomatoes and when they come..can you set aside some for us. Shoo away the old customers..we can pay double.

The market manager isn’t sure, but promises to try. But for his trouble, can he get a finders’ fee? Sure..the wealthy shoppers agree to the deal.

So I bring 20 kgs of tomatoes to the market. The manager gets his cut. The old customers are shoo’ed away. New ones pay more to buy all. Manager makes bank. Only one who profits for nothing.

It behooves him to keep increasing the prices and making my tomatoes more and more scarce. It profits me to grow mediocre tomatoes but increase volume. Maybe I can sell the squished ones..maybe I can paint eggplants red and sell them as tomatoes. Who cares..the crowd will buy 50 kilos if I can provide the tomatoes and I can even charge $5/kg.

Why on earth would I sell it for less? Even more importantly, why would I sell for less than the $1/kg that originally got for my tomatoes when there are suckers waiting to pay five times more because of their branding?

Case 2 isn’t about tomatoes. Here ends the stories.
I don't think so. It's at least conceivable that an induced plasma phenomenon could be visible to radar, IR and the human eye.
Great article, so... the opportunities for innovators and investors are:

- new OS paradigm: skunkworks in a garage somewhere in the world

- new hardware paradigm: skunkworks in a garage somewhere in the world

- new AI business: quietly disrupting a niche of a niche
Been hanging around since few months and it's a really nice community! <3
Exploring Monster Taming Mechanics in Final Fantasy XIII-2: Data Collection
I honestly don’t think svelte will ever become more than a niche framework/library, but the ideas it pushes will become mainstream.
The UI looks great and thanks for sharing the code. I would definitely look at the code to learn how you implemented. I too am a learner and have been doing Flutter UI challenges for couple of months now to gain comfortable knowledge about this amazing platform. One thing I addon is to write my experience in a blog post, it helps me grip my understanding of the concept.
Is it? Getting the spacing down so its not noticeable by humans is doing manufacturing and assembly with tolerances measured in whole millimeters. It’s easily the largest possible tolerances allowed within the manufacture and assembly of the car. It should be some of the easiest manufacturing and assembly to be done.

If they can’t manage tolerances measured in millimeters, how can they manage manufacturing and assembly tolerances measured in the thousandths of a millimeter?
People actually in the field don't trust the CPI number as gospel. We all know its shortcomings. However, the CPI print does move the market, so while it is good to keep track of the real inflation number by our own methodologies (which generally involves a different weighing scheme since the real CPI already accounts for most consumer products), you hardly trade on it.

For example, people have been shouting that inflation has already screamed past the Federal Reserve's target (of 2%) if the weight to medicare costs was increased to reflect the true spending of an average consumer(i.e. medicare is a bigger % of expenses of the avg consumer than reflected by the CPI weight). However, the fed refutes that argument and says that its current measure isn't perfect but neither is the solution proposed.

Currently they are looking at something called the Stock Watson model to see if it provides a better gauge. So by no means is it a settled science.
If you're really 10x and you're giving that 10x to some company and not getting 10x value, you're doing yourself a disservice! Either get fair value (probably won't happen) or give them less than that 10x and use your spare energy for other pursuits (relaxing, entrepreneurship, art, hobbies, etc)
> Good decision making frameworks are in tremendous need in the technology

Can you/anyone recommend any?
I'm not sure about typical, but I believe most high-end LED backlit displays use at least one of global or local dimming of the backlight depending on what's on the screen.

This means that the power use of this type of LED backlit display is also sensitive to what is being displayed (but at a coarser resolution to OLED).
As with real estate: Termination, Termination and ... Termination.
Colombia tells Facebook to boost security for users' data
Source for that? I think the general idea is not whether someone is susceptible to fraud, but rather higher likelihood that you have experience with making investments.

How much you wanna bet a white collar worker making $200k/year has made more investment-based decisions in their life than a a blue collar worker making $20/hr?

I don't necessarily agree with the tenants of the idea of an accredited investor, but it's definitely a way to parse out a large chunk of the population unexperienced with investing.
> In China, high-speed rail is all electric with externally supplied electricity. This isn’t hard, it’s just not the freight rail standard yet. The engines are all diesel electric hybrids as it is, so displacing the diesel part is relatively straightforward.

This is hilarious.
If you read any articles about VCs you'll note that most startups fail and even when they don't the multiple investment rounds dilute any stock you might have been granted. They don't call the rare exceptions "unicorns" for nothing.

Besides, it's not salary that is the trap, but Lifestyle. Most people's lifestyles expand to consume their increasing salaries, so taking even a reasonable pay-cut means big changes to lifestyle ... and the loss of bragging rights of working for one of the FAANGs.
This is just the consequence of tech monopolies.

It's easier for bad people to blackmail you since they only have a few distribution channels to game or abuse. If your business get banned in one of these channels, then your business is screwed.
As is par for pretty much all of these types of scams, the best solution is generally to ignore them entirely. They're all after the quick buck, and even if they could pull off an attack, it's easier to just move onto the next potential victim than bother with someone who may or may not even be paying attention.
It also is the equivalent PPI of the Apple Cinema Display (which was 2560x1440 27”), but 2x for “retina” monitors. I eagerly await DP 2.0 to become widespread so the rest of the world can catch up to the XDR and LG UltraFine 5K.
This is getting harder than it was even 5 years ago if you don't have decent mail volume
Video is really well done. Will be looking for the next one.