skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If indeed is not do for food then I should think something should be done perhaps, although is not clear what to do. Other people know better and wrote some comments. Another comment says "cat owners should certainly be fined for allowing their cats outdoors on continents where cats are non-native"; perhaps in such continents, force to go inside if they killed too many birds (and if you don't want inside of your home, then it will be the cats jail, I suppose; or else, in the other continent, perhaps). Although, actually I don't really know, especially, since I have not observed it by myself and I have not counted.
Is sift still relevant today?
>Back to the computer science: 470,000+ features sounds nice at first, but is a recipe for overfitting when we only have 700 samples at our disposal.

Proceeds to use (1024^2 * 2 + 1024) parameters in the neural network.
>I read my own emails three or four times before sending them, to be sure they’re easy to understand. Yet when I read others’ emails, the mistakes present indicate they didn’t read their own email even once. This is indicative of a lack of desire to self-reflect.

I am glad I'm not the only person who does this, though in my case I think it turns out being a little bit of a hindrance. I have a post it note sticking to the bezel of my work monitor that says "STFE" -- (short for, 'send the fucking email') -- because I otherwise I end up with a draft box full of an entire day's emails.

I do, however, take 2 minutes to reduce the number of things I say in an email by answering these two questions in the first two sentences: "What does this person need to know and what decision do I need them to make based on this information?" The rest is basically CYA record keeping.
Sure but it looks like most states don't offer anything better. Most offer none.
> Scaling a static site is incredibly nice & cheap too :P

And secure. The only back end systems to attack are load balancers and web servers -- if you're self hosting those then just make the file systems read-only and now you're talking seriously tough security barriers between you and an attacker.
Are you saying that desire for honey is hard wired into us? I believe that's true for sugar, but not the additional flavors in honey.

Anyway, people buy fake honey simply because they think it is honey. So I don't think it is the specific taste that you can only get from actual honey.

Most people these days buy fake maple syrup (since real is so expensive), and tests have shown most can't tell the difference from real, and many prefer the fake.
So, don’t take too many carbs while your on the keto diet.

(Pretty sure everyone on the keto diet works this out pretty quickly after doing their first cheat meal)
Should meat consumers be held legally liable for the animal cruelty committed by the meat industry?

(I realize the effects of cats upon other animals, but your logic..)
I am not surprised by the traction, disappointing though.
The distance one has to scroll down to find a dissenting opinion is indeed disappointing.
Jesus, what's going on between -O3 and -O4? This type of a gain warrants investigation. Have you tried profiling both cases?
Even if you're in CA and your employment agreement has a permissive IP rights clause or no clause at all, the odds are pretty good that your employer has a good case for owning what you built, even if you did it on your own time and equipment. You'd be a fool to tell them about it.
Anyone creating a health related website of this sort: Please email me.

I'm working on a thing and would love to be able to include things like this.
Thanks for correcting me. I’ve reviewed the guidelines and will follow in the future.
I think that goes without saying and is the primary reason people should be concerned about slowing the spread irrespective of personal risk.

The elderly death rate is as expected though - the Chinese epidemiological numbers show a close to 15% CFR for 80yo+ - if you are older or have pre-existing conditions, it's even more important that you do your best to avoid catching this.
If you are stuck in a boring language and want something more concise, you don’t have to give up legibility by going to K. There are plenty of languages where you are not expected to use “for” loops.

Python/numpy is most accessible and probably closest to “instant gratification”. Mathematica is great for, you know, mathematics, but you’ll need a license. And there is always haskell.
Nope, Ethernet was originally broadcast on co-ax, multi-drop, similar to today's WiFi.

In the early days other architectures like token-ring were better in theory but not in practise. In the real world Ethernet won.
He did a few things to eliminate the pandemic response team in 2018. This was one of the things that happened:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

The US used to pay for this because the downsides of not doing it are higher than the cost. Also, initiatives like these increase the US’s political and economic power overseas.
The fear in the markets is due to the long systemic propping up of asset values. COVID19 is the pin pricking the balloon. Fundamentally, COVID isn't the problem, it's the Fed. My favorite analogy is forest fires: they're healthy for the environment on occasion. When you stop them from happening indefinitely, bad things happen. In terms of markets, that means people taking on debts when they should not do so. People getting funded for fundamentally unprofitable business ventures. It is healthy for an economy to clean house on economically inefficient ventures from time to time.
There's no reason you can't query a backend for the complexities and present those dynamically to the user. For instance, quite often an SPA might ping the backend for a list of states or provinces once you've selected a country.
Just use dropout, dropout prevents overfitting!

/s

/s for this post, I mean. I have had this very suggestion made to me non-sarcastically under similar circumstances.
>> because who wants to reload the page multiple times

> happily, please, yes.

A yes please from me, too. I like knowing, for a fact, that the input I gave your website made it to your server, your server processed it, and then I got back a response.

What I don't like is providing some data in a form, submitting it, being told, "Got it, buddy!", moving to another page on the site and then getting an error saying, "Acccctually something fell over. Sorry guy. Try again?"

Give me that slower but guaranteed feedback.
If it's a web-based user interface as this tax app sounds to be, it is arguably improved purely by being an SPA. Requiring full page reloads just to submit or change some tiny bit of data in a page is objectively bad UX.
Personally, I find the "infinite scroll" to be one of the most devious forms of control developers and product folks have leveraged against individuals. It's extremely manipulative and extremely easy to build.

It's just so incredibly asymmetric with who it benefits -- and it's clearly not the users.
Over the years I have used 20+ languages, starting with CobolC and Watfor, and now python is my daily driver.
Rebol is by far the most enjoyable language I have ever used, very similar to Smalltalk and Lisp. More productive than any other system out there and a very small footprint.
The language is unbelievably versatile as you can overload any word and create your own mezzanine functions super quickly.
The drawback are that you can really messup if you are not careful. Another thing is that compiling is out of the question as the self modifying code possibilities of this language make it truly dynamic.
Carl did a marvellous job on this language. The design is impeccable. If you like messaging then this is THE language.
You just need to learn the fundamentals of a few CSS techniques, like flexbox [1], [2]. Flexbox is honestly the last new CSS thing I really remember learning that was core to what I did, and I learned it before my last job (~4 years of React full time). New stuff comes out but the core stuff last long and serves you well, esp. now that the old old browsers have died.

[1]: https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/
[2]: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
That's a common misconception.

Yes, the theory only applies perfectly under those conditions, but real world experience is that the theories are quite robust even when all of those "perfect" preconditions are far from perfect.

This is what makes the theories so practically useful in the first place!

Studying how and when the theories break down when "perfection" diminishes is a very interesting part of Economics.
> Every year the flu kills 640,000 people world wide. Right now we are at 3648 from coronavirus.

Great. How many people will die if coronavirus infections spread as widely as flu infections?
What were the earliest PHP software applications (1995-1998)?
There are some scientists that have models like this, but keep in mind that a lot of the people that come up with these are not peer reviewed estimates, and some of them just want the publicity. The media obviously goes for it, because if it bleeds it leads.
Conjecture is accepted here on HN. Others can back it up with sources, or refute it with sources.
I agree with the sentiment that shutting down the entire Internet would cause potentially catastrophic damage to society, but I'm not sure that's the point. Take this quote:

>That means if a sitting president wants to shut down the Internet or selectively cut off a social media outlet or other service, all it takes is an opinion from his attorney general that Section 706 gives him the authority to do so.

Selectively cut off Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, news sites, blogs? Still damaging, but much more realistic than basically shutting off utilities. I think the author is right to point out that the President has an incredible amount of power over the Internet and that this arrangement should be reconsidered.
Interesting. How many family members?
At the risk of sounding worse, the younger folks who inherit that bequeathed wealth might actually spend it, rather than tying it up in markets. Putting the money to work in the "real economy".
Interesting, but strewn with potential challenges.

Over time, cell populations with BCR/TCR that recognize and bind such antigens will cease proliferation. Moreover, some cell populations will be localized to certain tissues and not in circulation.
If HN had content worth paying for they could charge for it.
One wonders if the problem of the MAX won't be effectively solved by the Covid-19 triggered recession. With people flying less, it's a pretty good reason to cut aircraft orders, no?

At some point the 737 gravy train was going to end. There's only so long you can maintain the same type rating on a traditional (ie not fly-by-wire) plane where you eventually want to change the handling (as the MAX did by putting on large engines and moving them to compensate).

So those who made the decision to go with the MAX rather than the engineer-favoured solution of a complete redesign (because the MAX was going to be ~2 years faster to market and have a captive market of 737 type rating airlines like Southwest) are ruing that decision. Or at least if they hadn't collected huge bonuses for years and were in any way held accountable for a bad call, which sadly they are not.
When flash was dying I said it was a bad thing because ads would no longer be contained in these tidy, controllable virtual machines sitting adjacent to the page content but instead would be redone in JavaScript in a huge soupy mess where the content is held hostage by ads that slide in and out of the screen and cover content, popping in and out of existence, reflowing the page, making the content jump around and disappear as terribly coded flash apps become terribly coded JavaScript modules slogging the whole browser along with it.

People thought I was wrong and insane. I wish I was. Realistic assessments are always less popular than hope and principles. Flash was the good times.
So in this scenario are we essentially reimplementing Apache Kafka? Producers who create events that are then read by consumers and persisted on a database layer. What am I missing?
Compiling is not entirely out of the question: Red (Rebol's descendant) handles static compilation where it can and delegates the rest to the interpreter.
Yes Spanish flu was just another flu but it came back after a few months and wiped out 5% of the world's population
This is a fun book to start with "Expert C Programming Pete van Linden"
https://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/d...
Buying and holding is "playing". It's the belief that markets fundamentally go up long term, which is a healthy and reasonable assumption, for if nobody could ever get a positive return, the rationale for the existence of markets ceases to exist.
How much money did the University of British Columbia actually earn from this patent?
"After review, it seems you are no longer eligible for our services. Have a refund"
Why is it so hard to think longer term? What's good for the world is often great for the United States. Catching and quarantining this in time would have saved us from lots of deaths and a almost certain recession coming up this year.
> And Korea now is effectively the lowest fatality rate for any of the effected countries which points to excellent surveillance and treatment. I darn well intent to keep pointing to this.

That's misleading. Korea has the highest active case ratio of any of the hardest hit countries. The flip side of the lowest CFR coin is that Korea also has by far the lowest recovery rate of any of those countries.

You need to wait for the active cases to turn into deaths or recoveries.

From JHU CSSE:

South Korea

Confirmed: 7,382

Deaths: 50

Recovered: 118

Existing: 7,214

If you're just looking at recovery rate (also misleading), Iran seems much better than Korea:

Iran

Confirmed: 6,566

Deaths: 194

Recovered: 2,134

Existing: 4,238
In the US, corruption is centralized and explicitly legal, so not labeled corruption. It's conducted wholesale, not retail as in less organized countries. Individual functionaries would be in competition, so any such activity is crushed ruthlessly where it appears. Meanwhile, bribing politicians pays 1000x+, and automated "trading" produces billionaires. The resentment that drove populism is well-founded, but (cleverly) misdirected.
Just earlier today I was reading through a lab available as part of the J programming language distribution covering fuzzy logic.

I'm sure I've read the Wikipedia page for fuzzy logic but the lab really helped to drive home some of the concepts. Additionally, it was a very cool application for J, which is often derided as being a strictly numerical tool. The lab describes itself as:

... how to create a linguistic inference system using fuzzy sets. Such systems of linguistic variables are referred to as fuzzy logic systems.

First we describe the concept of membership with nonfuzzy and fuzzy sets. Then we tackle fuzzy membership for scalar and array fuzzy sets, and later inference with array sets.

It really is better to work through the lab within the J system[0], but for those without it is browse-able in plain text online[1]

[0]: Help -> Studio -> Labs -> General Interest / Fuzzy Logic

[1]: https://github.com/jsoftware/labs_labs/blob/master/general/f...
I lived for 12 years as an adult without a car (with a career).

I've moved myself twice with bicycles, including heavy appliances and furniture, using large bicycle-towed trailers, and done the same for at least 2 other people. I've learned to use mass transit in at least 3 Texas metroplexes.

I've used rideshare apps and rented vehicles and worked locally and tried every single way around it I could possibly think of.

You can't be a fully-functioning adult in modern American society without a car. Outside certain well-supplied metroplexes.

And in Texas, you need a truck.
IIRC, newer wireless tech uses MIMO to work around the problem. Multiple radios operating on multiple wavelengths with devices taking turns round-robin style. Basically, and somewhat ironically, we've gone back full circle to time division multiplexing.
Gabriel Leung: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/coronavirus-ex...

Marc Lipsitch: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1228373884027592704.html?...
No one knows the "effect" of having a child because no one knows what that child is going to do in their life.

It's satanic to think that you can summarize a human being in terms of tons of carbon emitted in their lifetime. If human lives have intrinsic value then you can't do that. If you don't think that human lives have intrinsic value then who cares if the world ends?
Not really reimplementing, Kafka is a great example of a technology you can structure a DOA around.
When You Are Convinced of Your Artistic Talent and You Give Up
..and Rails, billed as the anti-enterprise framework in its early days, just added sharding support.
Speaking of the _t suffix. I think it's being largely abused: we say 'size_t' (instead of 'size') because it is not obvious whether 'size' is a type or not; on the other hand, in the case of, say, 'int32_t' it is clearly redundant and therefore has always looked kinda silly to me.
> $280 SPY puts

ayeee 2500 SPX puts here, brethren
Well, out of kindness here's why I downvoted it --

1. Rambly/poetic
2. Doesn't really cite any sources or provide new information
Source on vaccine timing? My understanding is anyone who claims a viable vaccine is trying to pump their favorite pharma.
Although the potential benefits of NPIs are supported by mathematical models, the historical evidence for the impact of such interventions in past pandemics has not been systematically examined.

My recollection:

There is a book called The Hot Zone that examines the successful containment of Ebola by "uneducated savages" in the jungles of Africa.

The village elders decided to barricade roads and stop letting in outsiders. They told their people "Don't go to the white man's hospital" because you would go with something fixable, like a broken leg, and die of Ebola, which was killing like 90 percent of people.

They quarantined you by insisting you stay home if you got sick. They would leave food on your doorstep for you. If the food sat there untouched for three days, they burned your hut down without going in to check if you were alive.

Obviously, I'm not advocating for burning people's houses down. But it's an interesting case study of successful containment using non-pharmaceutical interventions.

If you are willing to throw things out, disinfect like crazy, limit social contact, etc, there's a lot you can do without drugs to stop the spread. But it's damnably inconvenient and most modern people's seem to want to take a pill and carry on as usual. We seem extraordinarily averse to being inconvenienced.
I really don't understand what it is you're replying about since the first line of my comment was:

> Doesn't seem like something that should catch anyone by surprise.
I think what it means is that it could cause Type 2 diabetes. People are often told to avoid glucose to prevent diabetes, but too much prevention might also cause it.
The whole idea of the Internet (originally 'ARPANET' or 'DARPANET' -'Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network') was designed so that if whole areas were destroyed in a nuclear war, the system would rout around the 'dead area' and continue working.

Shut down the US networks - and the rest of the world would continue normally and disregard the US as a 'dead area'.
“Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (N.I.A.I.D.), spoke up. “A vaccine that you make and start testing in a year is not a vaccine that’s deployable,” he said. The earliest it would be deployable, Fauci added, is “in a year to a year and a half, no matter how fast you go.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-long-will-it-ta...
Far-reaching prediction: they're going to do facial prediction from blood samples as well. Law enforcement really wants to generate sketches from unknown DNA found at crime scenes.

That is, of course, in addition to the all-encompassing family trees we're providing them with 23andme.
Sorry, bad idea... conflict of interest minefield and very high risk of having your level of dedication to your employer being questioned...
There's a good paper on this:

https://demuc.de/papers/schoenberger2017comparative.pdf

"Our evaluation confirms that, as expected, learned descriptors often surpass SIFT on all evaluation metrics. However, we also observe that advanced versions of hand-crafted descriptors perform on par or better than the state-of-the-art learned feature descriptors, especially in the more complex SFM scenarios. As such, our paper demonstrates that there is still significant room for improvement for learning more powerful feature
descriptors."
originally. As I said, modern use of Ethernet has completely abandoned multiple machines in a collision domain, and for good reasons.
I am also a non-expert, and am sympathetic to your argument, but I don’t think there’s any reason to believe that whatever fix is proposed wouldn’t account for the type of risks you are concerned about. All of the risks/concerns you mention would be relevant to any sort of mechanical work on an aircraft, and that is a field of engineering that on the whole has an impeccable record of safety and rigor. Again, not an expert, but from what I understand the issues with the 737 max were software/design related.
Are you saying HN is all about people providing facts and referencing sources and not opinions?
Whether looking for a low or a high the underlying challenge is identical.
Some of the components are delightfully specific to the travel industry:

https://kiwicom.github.io/orbit-components/?path=/story/airp...

https://kiwicom.github.io/orbit-components/?path=/story/depr...
Yeah, and it would be impossible to determine the age with a resolution better than a decade (at best).
I agree with all of this, though I am also looking forward to understanding why I’m wrong.
Task Trackers Should Work Both Top-Down and Bottom-Up
The tech boss who lost more than a billion
Reddit discussion on this - https://www.reddit.com/r/computervision/comments/fednny/sift...
Hyperspace Might Exist [pdf]
Californias GDP compared to the rest of the world tells a different story than what you are telling here.

k8s came from where ?

Containers ( cgroups ) came from where ?

Hashicorp is the standard for devops

Elon and Tesla took a curve out of IT but guess where they started ?

Your few startups are nice but the technology they run on is built in SV and that continues to be the place of innovation regardless of VCs trying to spark it elsewhere.

Yes other areas are innovating but SV does remain one of the most innovative area if not the main one. Everything else pales in comparison
I feel like HN is something you age into.

I don't think it necessarily has an aging demographic.

When I was in college, the information on Reddit related to programming and computers was relevant. As I've gained experience, the information on Reddit has gradually become less and less useful. To the point that I don't even bother following tech-related subreddits anymore.
A user study for AI-generated fashion models. (answers after taken)
This is exactly why Ethernet behaved that way - Metcalfe credits the idea to ALOHA, an early wireless network protocol. However, that doesn't by any means make collision detection ideal. Collision avoidance is strictly better for performance, it was just judged infeasible for Ethernet at the time - this turned out to be a good call as Ethernet would almost certainly not be as popular as it was today had it used a collision avoidance scheme like most of its competition. However, times change, and Ethernet has been collision-free in the vast majority of applications for a couple of decades while wireless protocols are also gaining collision avoidance across the board.