skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually one of the most frustrating parts about using python. You can’t write normal python code that performs well. Instead you have to use the numpy dsl, which I often find unintuitive and too often results in me needing to consult stack overflow. This is very frustrating because I know how I want to solve the problem, but the limitations of the language prevent me from taking the path of least resistance and just writing nested loops.
Also, even if the content itself is 100% public, there's no way site owners can be expected to assign someone to monitor every discussion in real-time. Even just investigating content flagged by other users can easily turn into a full-time job for a moderate-size service.
Just when I thought a "tiny house" was ridiculous - suprised again!
Taking this further, I suppose you could consider persistence of vision [1] as analogous to consciousness.

It's an artifact of the limitations of the system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision
Don't use Elm at your startup. It's been dead for a long time. Pick something that has a huge community behind it, like React.
Very impressed by the motion tracking!
I was able to track the head of the bunny with an object with 2 clicks and withing 20s.

Shared anim: https://madeitfor.fun/?data=eNq9XF2PVLkR%2FSutiVazq4Cxy3aVjc...
I'm a long time redditor, and that's why I said what I did. I felt the took was more for finding your niche community than finding an answer to a question. Different interpretations I guess.
> bioinformatics

The Honors Track of the UCSD series is really great.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics

It's super hard and as a side effect you learn a ton about very interesting, amazing, and useful algorithms that you'd never even hear about in a top notch CS program.
I think it's very likely that such EMF isn't harmful and the current body of evidence is correct, but "I was exposed and I seem fine" is always an argument people use for things like this. For one, even if that's true, that doesn't necessarily mean anything about others' specific situations (exposure, direction/angle, their genetics, etc.), but more importantly, it's very possible that one may not ever actually detect certain subtle harmful long-term changes.

Someone exposed to low levels of lead poisoning over many years may not notice anything's happening to them. If after 10 years their memory isn't quite what it used to be, yet it's still mostly fine, they'll likely just chalk it up to aging.
It also took four years after the Great Depression started for the Federal Government to pass the New Deal that helped pull the country out of the gutter. As much as I wish Congress had moved faster and done more with the CARES Act they’re still way ahead of their counterparts a century earlier.
A failing bank doesn't mean your money is gone. In the US, savings accounts are FDIC insured up to a maximum of $250K. If your bank fails, it's likely getting acquired by another bank anyway. Customers have value.
Oh I understand, I was more responding to your original statement "None of them use Python either. A lot just use MATLAB" which would be an unusual state of affairs in this day and age, though I have no doubt it is true in your specific situation. It's just that your experience seems circumscribed and uncommon in academia today (well insofar as I can tell -- I don't know the culture at every university).
I would personally love to see more video game inspired art, there are so many great styles we're yet to have applications for as we're still a relatively new site. We carefully consider all styles of art when artists apply.

If you are interested we have an artist on the site currently that is influenced by video games:
https://artinres.com/artists/lee-mora
Without Broadband Internet, Rural Towns Lack a Pandemic Lifeline
Do you (or anyone else) have any resources for a critique/comment of that report? I'm interested since I tried reading it and I think I lacked a finer understanding.
I just added Computers as Theatre to my reading list.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/genetics-evolution Beginners level.Dr. Noor is an excellent instructor.
Wait till you see that AirBnB has 14,000 employees. That's fourteen thousand! For a site that's barely a step up (in complexity) from Craigslist (which has .... 50 employees).
I think this depends on the tool. Certainly we could see the tool being a problem if it was a mini nuke or Anthrax (I don't for the record think encryption rises to this level).

I'm very concerned that technology will put something devastating (at scale) in people's pockets and then we're kind of screwed (do we choose big brother and all that entails, or indescribable mass destruction?). I don't have a solution but it keeps me up some nights.
"Any sufficiently complicated program in a garbage-collected language contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of malloc and free"?
A New Parser for CPython
That's what many people (myself included) have done. Unfortunately by not sharing our experiences, others will have to learn things the hard way.

If Evan is entitled to run Elm however he wants, Luke is entitled to post whatever criticism he wants on his own blog.

If nobody ever speaks up, do you think things will actually ever get better?
> Python has been the defacto standard in scientific/data/academic programming for decades

In my experience (Genomics) this is simply not true. Python has caught on over the last 5 or so years, but prior to that Perl was the defacto language for genetic analysis. Its still quite heavily used. Perl is not a paragon of simplicity and clarity.
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You forgot: 5) Rich nations hoovering up all coronavirus related supplies leaving poor nations precious little.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/world/coronavirus-equipme...

"Scientists in Africa and Latin America have been told by manufacturers that orders for vital testing kits cannot be filled for months, because the supply chain is in upheaval and almost everything they produce is going to America or Europe."
Coronavirus: People in tall buildings may be more at risk
I read the post and I don't see the same behaviour in the Go community (the core team banning people who express disagreement or fork the compiler).
Was there something in the article you found factually inaccurate?

The WHO put out several misleading statements, echoing uncritically the information put out the the CCP, even though the Chinese doctors on the ground were doing their level best to get the word out that there was a big problem.

Are you OK with that, or do you want throw around a bunch of off topic links to muddy the waters?
Please stop taking HN threads further into ideological and nationalistic flamewar. We already asked you this. It destroys what this site exists for, so we ban accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When touch typing fails, Simula has a mouse & keyboard view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5c3Hfp8Hcw Right now it's binded to `Super + w`.
Ignore neighboring comment; he likes picking on anons because he's proud of what he writes on this site.

The reason that this is probably somewhat conspiratorial, in the sense of being planned by a clandestine group, is because RT is well-known to be part of Russia's state propaganda machine [0]. Trusting RT either way, without examining their claims and sources carefully, is a bad idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Propaganda_cla...
In bioinformatics / computational biology, Python is absolutely ubiquitous.

Same for any other field that uses ML extensively.
I think only academics with a background in CS will typically be familiar with functional programming.

For everyone else, they will have used something simpler like Excel, C, R, Python.
>> no room for waste

Most sports teams rosters are restricted by league rules. However coaching staffs are not, and they have grown tremendously in recent years, as have college athletic department staffs. When someone actually does take a hard look, these staffs seem exceptionally bloated and wasteful.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2006-10-31-06103101...

When Vince Lombardi began coaching the Green Bay Packers in 1959, he had four assistants. This year, Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan has 21.

http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story/_/page/easterbrook%2F10...

Ohio State lists 458 people in its athletic department. There are 192 faculty members in Ohio State's English department, with a support staff of about 50.

https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/article16325...

One assistant coach is called the recruiting coordinator, but he’s backed by a Director of Player Personnel, an Assistant Director of Player Personnel, a Coordinator of On-Campus Recruiting and a Recruiting Assistant. There are three video coordinators.
Please, have curious conversation; don't cross-examine.
naasking, as I see it, Dennett (in Consciouness Explained) engages in a sleight of hand. He redefines consciouness as "a bunch of distinct phenomena that gets muddle together", but that doesn't touch the mystery of qualia, it tries to just deny that there is anything to explain, owing to the fact (Dennett claims) that the problem is mischaracterized from the start.
The fed has instituted infinite QE and we have a dollar short squeeze? Unlikely.
All: using HN for nationalistic flamewar is against the site rules. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We ban accounts that break them, regardless of country, politics, or ideology and regardless of how wrong some other commenter is or you feel they are.

HN is for curious conversation. The idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do. Specifically, if you can't respect the person you're talking to, do yourself and all of us a favor and don't reply. You'll only make the thread worse, and it's wretched enough already.

If you don't want to see nagging announcements like this at the top of a thread, I sympathize; I don't want to write them either. Unfortunately, if users don't contain themselves, we end up in hell: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22823753. Please contain yourselves.
There's a reason you see same companies going into bankruptcy every few years or so. It's relatively cheap to acquire a failed company and shore up their financials.

Once that's done, you can loan their stock back to them at an inflated price, then file for an IPO. Things are good for a few years, until they can no longer make their loan payments, then they go bankrupt again and the bondholders acquire the assets of the failed company, lather, rinse, repeat, until there's no longer a viable company left, and the brands & IP are liquidated by the court.
The latest version of ICQ was huge (think Windows XP skin), at this point I started using the QIP alternative client which was even more compact than the first version of the original client.
When everybody started using Miranda, Pidgin file transfer pretty much broke due to client incompatibility. That was a sad moment, they had a nice product but stopped listening to the users.
I've taken Chris Lattner / Jeremy Howard's lessons on Swift for TensorFlow [0][1]. I'll try to paraphrase their answers to your questions:

There aren't major benefits to using Swift4TensorFlow yet. But (most likely) there will be within the next year or two. You'll be able to do low level research (e.g. deformable convolutions) in a high level language (Swift), rather than needing to write CUDA, or waiting for PyTorch to write it for you.

[0] https://course.fast.ai/videos/?lesson=13
[1] https://course.fast.ai/videos/?lesson=14
If you put it behind locked glass, people are going to stop posting much of anything on that bulletin board. And dealing with the rest is going to take up too much of the librarian's time, distracting from other duties. It's a reasonable approach for official communications from the library, but not for a community forum.
take the age bias into account. 45 for Bergamo and 29.6 for the world.
We have shipped a fix for this now. Apologies for the frustration it caused.
Show HN: Site to help you determine if it's okay to go out during the pandemic
Then why has nobody done it?
My read is that velocity of money has decreased (leading to decreases in nominal prices), and they are printing money to increase M2 (sometimes described as the money supply). This will reduce/prevent immediate deflation, but could lead to inflation when the velocity increases again.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/m2.asp
It's not about recognition. It's about doing the right thing.

If the virus' impact in Puerto Rico was very different than it was in the rest of the United States, the WHO would note it publicly. But Taiwan't situation was actively suppressed by the WHO because of Beijing.
Just because RT news is state backed to the point of being an apparatus of the state, it doesn't make moot the same market incentives that drove readership to huffpost, buzzfeed or vice. RT news coverage is to draw in an english audience that is that is skeptical of, or contrarian, to mainstream anglo news reporting. 5G conspiracies likely drove traffic to the site.
They mean what they would mean in common english.

Specificity because "how specific is the test? Does it measure the true positives correctly without getting a whole heap of false positives as well?" You might ask someone to be "more specific" about something so they aren't including irrelevant things in their discussion.

Sensitivity because "how sensitive is the test? Does it detect the needle in the haystack you need to find? How many does it miss." In common english you might complain that your car brakes are too sensitive - they are too quick to register the pressure from your foot.

Don't forget these are actually strict mathematical concepts. Hope this helps clarify :)
There is absolutely no good reason to use this.
Can you elaborate what you mean by volumetric video and spatial navigation?
I think the Weather Channel does / did have an Instant App
We do internationalization at Cambiatus. Here's our front end code so you can take a look: https://github.com/cambiatus/frontend
I think one of the greatest mistakes made over and over by sociologists, futurists, and economists, is to assume that people are rational.
The relevant comparator is SaatchiArt online, which takes a 35% cut.
To be clear, I don't have a problem with Luke posting his experience, but there's a difference between reporting the news and reporting your feelings.

I think about half that article could be deleted, and it would still hold content of "why I'm leaving," but without building this huge drama oriented narrative.
As mentioned above, in another comment, a big tradeoff is potentially maintenance and operations work. It may not be a hard thing to maintain, but it's another dependency that's not core to Postgres.

I've done a lot of ops work in my dev career, and I'm always reluctant to add another dependency (JS, btw, makes me crazy with how little is included in the standard library, and NPM is required for everything). So, I might be tempted to follow the advice in the article, and avoid using PostGIS for the simple use cases provided in the article.

For reference, I've also helped with non-devs work on python code for GIS systems for daily delivery systems. So I would most definitely be tempted to try to utilize PostGIS if I was in the GIS world dealing with map updates, and daily starts and stops.

Side note. Having been a programmer for several decades, and professionally for a decade at the time, I had truly forgotten how bad novice programmers are. Nested loops on long running functions all over the place (calculating optimal routes is not cheap computationally). It felt good to get some perspective at the time by helping the GIS department with their code.
Nothing improves productivity more than vim³.
*nearly all messages

(not the E2E ones)
There is a whole bunch of stuff behind the scenes that you wouldn't be exposed to as a consumer, such as analytics data pipelines, ad sales interfaces, etc that in many ways are more complicated and do more than the consumer facing thing itself.

An old EHR system from years ago does none of those things, doesn't do engineering heavy things like live updates with thousands of A/B/C/D tests running simultaneously with multiple clients for multiple operating systems and so on.
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Hi. I'm the PM for a small fintech startup and the business team is constantly changing priorities based on new client requests, so the tech team cannot cope with all the new features and these end up suffering continuous delays.

Do you let new customers drive your product roadmap, or just decide your own roadmap and stick with it? Which approach works best in order to gain more product velocity?
Yes, it is obviously anecdata. N=1 and all that. But trust me, 1KW is nothing to sneeze at, the fluorescent tubes in the building I was in would light up spontaneously, as would those as far as I could see wherever the antenna would point. A couple of blocks at least. So if there was a direct effect and not just some very low statistical one you would expect to see a case like that register. This is not unlike smoking where chugging 4 packs per day tends to have consequences. And then of course, everybody has that great-uncle who did smoke 4 packs per day and still runs the half marathon at 85. Maybe I'm that guy, but I think that the whole EM->cell or DNA interaction is a load of bunk until you get into extreme power at very short range.

A KW of HF when you touch it or less than that at GHz+ ranges and you will do real damage to tissue, I have the scar to prove that one.

The induced power falls off very rapidly with distance, especially for omni-directional radiators. The 120' antennae that are common on cell phone installations have relatively low efficiency and 100W or so of radiated power per antenna, maybe 105W at the foot of the mast but unless there is some kind of giant impedance mismatch and if there is then you'll just fry an end stage.
The GOP does not run the Fed, and for the most part, Republicans are much more likely to be opposed to the Federal Reserve system: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/16/americans-v...
I was just looking into keybase, and.... deleted. Thanks for the heads up.
I think that may have been true at some point but they aren't really a distribution company, for almost a decade they've been a content publisher with their own distribution.
> localizing the manufacturing isn't a pancaea by any means as they also shut down during pandemics

But you eliminate other failure modes related to the pandemic that don't involve the plant physically not operating due to worker sickness or curve-flattening measures. If Canada produces their own masks then the US can't take them.
It really depends on the task - I (currently) have an OG Vive, and its absolutely fine for games with good anti-aliasing (no discomfort for me for basically any length of time, although I mainly play beatsaber and you don't really focus on the blocks beyond blinks of light and muscle memory), but it's hopeless if you want to watch a movie let alone program. The kind of programming I tend to do is generally fiddly enough that I've got a book open or some kind of datasheet etc. (I think - even good - VR would be a hindrance here)

I think the Index might be OK but I couldn't comment.
Thank you for this explanation. So much of what I’ve been reading about the fed / stimulus response has felt rotten to the core, but I’ve lacked a clear explanation for exactly why.

It’s impossibly l to know how this will all play out over the next several decades, but the house of cards is teetering dangerously and when it crashes, it will be a tremendous fall.
I acknowledged that in my previous comment. All the fake reviews were written by friends of the fired sales rep.

Basically, Louis got the rep fired, and the rep went haywire. This doesn't suggest Yelp has extortive sales practices. If anything, Yelp made the right decision to fire this sales rep who breached privacy protocol.
This is really awesome! Love browsing the artists and seeing their different styles.
Have you used it? That’s like saying the Chrome debugger or CPU call stacks are overrated. It’s a debug feature that any React+Redux app can use to trace back why something happened. I’ve used it a few times, and when you need it because you don’t understand why an action was triggered, it’s super convenient.
At this stage of the Art Market evolution, I applaud anything, that's not churning out pretty pictures from "art" farms in the third world (no offence here, pure economics, someone's just using low quality of life in these countries).
If EARN IT passes, and if Signal wimps out, something tougher will replace it.
Speaking from experience[1] I attribute this to the "empire-building" mindset that sets in once a company gets funding.

It begins innocuously enough. It takes just one or two mid-level manager empire-builders to join the company. Thanks to the funding, the product and business want growth at all cost which means everything needs to be built and launched yesterday. The engineering-managers say well sure, I need 100 engineers. And so the game begins; the early empire-builders get promoted to dizzy heights.

It doesn't take much time for others to take notice that they need to build an empire to get promoted and every mid-level manager is hiring like there's no tomorrow. In no time you have an incredibly bloated org. In this environment not building an empire is not an option; teams with fewer than 10 members don't get new-shiny projects and are brutally sidelined.

[1] I've been on both sides. The start-up I was working in got acquired by a behemoth that had skilled empire-builders. My team got massacred. In my next gig I had learned my lessons so hired like crazy and in no time had 40 engineers reporting (direct/indirectly) to me 15 of whom had any real work to do. The rest were building random CRUD apps. In the end, realized that empire-building is not for me; I enjoy running a small tight knight team producing high throughput and impactful work.
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Sorry I never noticed this!

More or less any source of noise that's loud enough and is coupled to the ground works. In fact, a lot of what winds up being a good source is actually things like ocean waves -- not just man-made noise.

Ideally, you want a clear "spike" of noise at a lot of locations and not necessarily a moving source. However, something like a truck/train hitting bumps at different locations along the road could definitely do a nice job of that.

At any rate, the basic idea is to look at cross correlations of the waveforms -- any noise that is clearly correlative at different seismic stations is used.

Take all of this with a grain of salt -- I work in an adjacent field and not exactly this one.
Pretty sure this would be enabled by an app's universal link. URLs already work with the QR code scanner today and invoke Safari. This would be under developer control. As usual, any attempt by Apple to live as an alternative to the open web is seen as an attack on it.
>This is just one giant misinformation campaign directed towards derailing informed consent and an informed electorate

alternative theory: they look for fringe topics trending and picked up the narrative to drive views.
God I hate the trend of using a prefix on its own as a stand in for '<prefix><thing>'. I think it's a symptom of politicians trying to sound stupid to avoid sounding elitist.

What do you think will have more impact on the economy, crypto or cyber?
I'm thinking more orientation / ratio - for example, right now the wall behind my couch in the living room is bare and I would love a landscape print for it. On VSUAL I have to manually scroll through to see the ones that have that orientation. This is something that Art in Res has on their search function.