skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Niche market for audio enthusiasts is the same as dead next to the old market. I'll admit that the surface line up is closing the gap but they are still not there yet in terms of brand recognition. As for Samsung and the Chinese brand phones my old point still stands, they are not status symbols, the latest iPhone is.

I'm not a fanboy, I have plenty of qualms with Apple. For example they run their new MacBooks so hot that they are constantly throttling. The lack of 32 bit support on Catalina is a pain in the ass and Apple won't let anyone else repair their machines which is BS. I personally use an Android because iPhones are way overpriced but I have a MacBook because I need it for work (React Native). I'm not arguing that Apple is the best I'm arguing that they have a brand image that is well above the competition in a way that you don't see in other markets.
> UBI is an unproven pie-in-the-sky pipe dream with no strong evidence in its favor

The facts differ with your opinion [1].

> Anecdotal evidence is better than no evidence.

This attitude is likely what leads to mass adoption of conspiracy theories. Not all of which are false, but most are missing key facts and/or context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots#Madhya_Pra...
This is the most common question we homeschoolers receive.

1. Students and teachers are not always good role models and schools are not always a good environment for learning soft skills. Some schools are quite toxic. I'm sure many here can relate.

2. Who better to teach you social cues than your parents who love you and will be patient with you?

3. It depends on the child and the parents. Our oldest daughter is extremely introverted and was homeschooled yet has better social graces than her mother and I combined. Our middle daughter (extrovert) has a strong network of online/offline friends through various programs and activities. She will be starting a private school in the fall.

4. Homeschooled children get used to interacting with adults who are not in a school environment and tend to communicate in an adult like manner (IMHE).

5. The successful homeschoolers tend not to advertise it, yet they are everywhere. Unsuccessful home schoolers often become the subject click bait articles or books (ala Tara Westover's experience).

School for me was a horrible experience socially for me. I wish I'd been home schooled.
There are several systems that would allow users to essentially batch settle (ex: lightning network), at which point fees could presumably rise significantly.
Eight-year-old discovers iPhone Screen Time workaround to watch more YouTube
Typescript makes it convenient to roll your own type-

`let draft : Partial<Foo>;` says that 'draft' is shaped like a Foo, EXCEPT all of the fields are optional.

If you try to access a field on draft that doesn't exist on Foo, it's a ts error. If you try to pass draft to a function that takes a Foo, it's a type mismatch.
QE is not magically injecting trillions into the economy. Feds really don’t give a shit about the economy of dinners and rents of the little people. They care about macro employment rates. Shit, we could have a country 100% employment rate and people can’t pay rent, feds would still be patting themselves on the back for a job well done.
so, do you mind telling me, how I can get this fantastic video quality. Since we (university) don't want to share our whole desktop (and some are using Windows, so xephyr is out as well), a lot of people got OBS+some virtual webcam. Now, I spotlight my video, it's okish on my screen and the receivers get garbage with nonlegible text, doing a live-coding demo is basically impossible (the same with math-heavy slides). Works as expected in Jitsi though (but everyone needs chrome there for it to work - or the app. But who uses the jitsi-app...). So: can you tell me, what I'm doing wrong and how I can get this fantastic video quality of Zoom every shill is writing about?
I don’t know for the UK, but under the US and French law this has nothing to do with creativity, and 2D reproduction don’t grant you any new right.
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The editor of Taco Bell Quarterly explains how to make art out of a food brand
What I really think is your inability to follow and parse a conversation.
According to their 10-K filings, zoom has more than 700 heads in RnD in China, and about 5 subsidiaries in China IIRC, but none of those are listed as subprocessors of personal data, which I, personally, find somewhat hard to believe
For those that are paywalled, in New York the excess deaths of 6 times normal. You can't make that go away by claiming normal deaths are being misclassified.
You could fix almost everything with education as long as parents stepped in and were competent enough to do so.
oh. my. god.
This is about to change... a lot of things. Stop motion by clapping totally has me.
Thanks, that looks like an interesting approach. I may have missed this in the article, but let's say I have a SQL database with 600m records, and an ETL process does massive upserts (20m records) every day, with many UPDATEs on 1-2 fields.

Wouldn't discovering what those changes are still entail heavy database queries? Unless Dolt has a hook into most SQL databases' internal data structures? Or WALs?
Most metrics aren't really related to advertising or personal data collection, though. Things like monthly active users (part of the quarterly shareholder report), conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, feature usage, active minutes, and so on are all part of the usual development process.

These are used pretty heavily when launching new features or changes to existing features, in order to make sure that no key metrics are adversely impacted. For example, if one launches a new feature but users are confused by it, they might be less likely to succeed at completing a transaction, thus negatively impacting revenue. The change will then be re-evaluated or even rolled back.
Porsche's Tech Live Look augmented reality system helps during COVID distancing
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Any works you produce using the GPL'd asset must also be GPL'd. So I can put a price-tag on my movie, comic book, AI model, or tutorial, but anyone else can also copy and redistribute my work with no legal recourse from me. It's hard to see the feasibility of commercial use.
From the article comments:

> Many banks including TD Bank on the East Coast of The US, and throughout Canada are now using voice recognition technology for their telephone banking.

> You can only imagine how easily that is spoofed as well.

That's absolutely hilarious... because the technology that allows a person's voice to be recognized is the exact same technology that allows it to be imitated.
Software that can't access my resources is usually not going to be very useful. If it does get access, I have to trust it with my data, so it needs to be trustworthy. Sandboxing doesn't solve the problem.
Which helps out the documentation side, but destroys code readability. Particularly since rust users appear to really like creating long method call chains, frequently with a closure or two sprinkled in. Take this "example" https://github.com/diwic/dbus-rs#server. For a beginning user of the library that is nearly impenetrable without breaking each of those calls apart. Even if your pretty familiar with rust you still have to break it apart and explicitly place the types in the "Let" statements to know the intermediate types in order to look up the method documentation.

This style of coding is so bad, that it turns out the example has a syntax error. Good luck finding it without the compiler or a quality editor though. Worse, the example doesn't actually work due to further bugs.

Anyway, rust by itself may be ok. Some of the core concepts are good, but the way people are using it is leading to inpenteratble messes of code. Code like the above combined with what seems excessive/unnecessary use of generics create problems for more advanced usage when it comes to learning and modifying a piece of code. Some people have blamed this on the language's learning curve, but I'm not sure that is appropriate. By itself the language is fairly straightforward, the difficulties occur when people are working around the language and pile in masses of write only code.

That particular code block IMHO is why rust is going to have a hard time truly gaining widespread usage. Even as someone somewhat familiar with rust, moving the example into a program, and modifying it in fairly trivial ways took me the better part of a day.
Alternatively, perhaps Bitcoin is just another payments system with a different set of tradeoffs. Namely - it has a preset supply schedule that you can easily see, which won't be affected by political whims, or change at a moment's notice.
Its not trivial to create and manage Data Pipelines if you care about scale, serving a wide range of inputs and outputs, or making this data easy to surface and spread throughout your org (i.e. making it actually useful to regular people).

"Static ETL" like running the same database load every day at 1:00am isn't a super challenging problem.
Doing it across many tables with complex transformations and multiple steps easily can be. You really have to consider reliability, processing speed, failure methods and other problems that dont really arise until you hit a certain scale.

There's also the issue of what people want out of a Pipeline that's changing. If you want people to be ""data driven"", then that means they need easy access to potentially all of your company's data on an ad hoc basis. So now your boring ETL 1 am pipeline isnt really serving any of these new usecases.

How do you create flexible pipelines that can be created from any dataset on an ad hoc basis? This is where tools like Airflow or Prefect come in. Creating a platform that can create these types of Pipelines is a real problem.

And before you even ask yourself _how_ to process this data, you need to also ask _where_? If you want to do what I outlined above - making your data more accessible and easy to use - then you probably need to rework how you're storing your data. But Data Lakes (and others) are a whole topic in and of itself.
The school my children attend have been doing a great job with online learning. Teachers have been posting videos and worksheets on Google classroom, they have regular zoom meetings, and they have various online educational software the children can log into and learn things.

The problem is that my elementary school children (who are ADHD and on the autism spectrum) have a hard time sitting there all day on the computer by themselves and learning, so I have to break the day up into lesson time and fun time and regulate that because they're too young to regulate themselves yet. At school they have teachers and peers to interact with, which keeps them interested.

So while working full time from home, I have to also support them in their learning and keep them on task. I also have to help them login to various things, set up zoom meetings, help them out with their work when they get stuck, and get the computers set up for them to do their work. Juggling logins and zoom meeting links gets complicated and time consuming.

If that were my only job, it would be manageable, but trying to work on my work and manage them has proven to be quite a challenge. If they were at a point in their lives where they could manage this all themselves, that would be great, but they're not there yet.

So I think that some students can benefit greatly from online learning, but others struggle.

For my kids, at home online learning is not as good as being with their peers, but it's been a lot better than nothing at all.

I'm looking forward to summer when I don't have to balance both work and managing their school work, but I do plan to keep giving them things to read and math worksheets. Those are the things they can do well on their own.
HMD is hardly a European company, but you can replace Nokia with Xiaomi in my argument if you prefer.

Why should I care about how Google's hardware business operates? They sold their first Nexus phone 10 years ago, how many more decades will they need to learn?

> or they just don't care that much about their hardware businesses

Then they should just stop pretending. The Pixel branding and pricing is a joke. At least American customers can wait until the phones inevitably reach $400-450 six months after their launch.
The fortune 500 financial company I work for has 365 days of liquidity. They've committed to no layoffs and no pay cuts in 2020. It's a publicly traded company, so the investors must be ok with it.
It's about the craft, the engineering. He's a legend, but here he just plays around and has fun with his hobby project.

Typically he plays CDJ and before that vinyl with an additional tape reel if needed.
Ask HN: Ideas for fun remote activities with friends that don't require screens?
I already look at a screen all day for work and am looking for ideas for social activities I can do remotely with my friends in the evenings that don't involve a screen.

For example, everyone joins a conference call on their phone and then walk around with bluetooth headphones connected so we can talk to each other while using both hands to play a competitive or cooperative game that doesn't involve a screen.

I asked some of my friends in China for what they did while they were stuck at home and some ideas they came up with were curling with household objects, playing music together (requires instruments and talent), scavenger hunts (e.g. "I spy with my little eye", or House Hunt https://i.imgur.com/hJKJwAn.jpg), making crafts, and chess by mail/email (requires some use of a screen/post office).

I'm open to recommendations for either indoor or outdoor games/activities.
"Fridays
Friday was going down the pub at lunchtime. Having a pint and some bar snacks."

... It still is?

I mean, was. Before all this Coronavirus lockdown stuff.

I miss the pub. :(
Can someone explain how YouTube creators are saying their cut of revenue has been reduced by ~50% but YouTube is reporting record jump in revenue (up 33% Q1)? YouTube is just squeezing them for more profit?

Source: https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-ad-revenue-coronavirus/
CEO of Tecton here, and happy to give more context. Tecton is specifically focused on solving a few key data problems to make it easier to deploy and manage ML in production. e.g.:

- How can I deliver these features to my model in production?

- How do I make sure the data I'm serving to my model is similar to what is trained on?

- How can I construct my training data with point in time accuracy for every example?

- How can I reuse features that another DS on my team built?

We've found that there's a ton of complexity getting data right for real-time production use cases. These problems can be solved, but require a lot of care and are hard to get right. We're building production-ready feature infrastructure and managed workflows that "just work" for teams that can’t or don’t want to dedicate large engineering teams to these problems.

At the core of Tecton is a managed feature store, feature pipeline automation, and a feature server. We’re building the platform to integrate with existing tools in the ML ecosystem.

We’re going to share more about the platform in the next few months. Happy to answer any questions. I’d also love to hear what challenges folks on this thread have encountered when putting ML into production.
In general you don't want to delete absolutely everything. For example, usernames should not be reused, so you can't "delete" them -- you can tombstone them though, and you should. Besides tombstoning to prevent reuse, you can and should delete as much associated metadata as you're willing to / contractually or legally required, naturally.

Even what you can delete can (and will) survive in logs and backups, web archives, screenshots, etc. Deleting things on the Internet is just difficult.
Why bother with Leo? Jus build one on the moon (along w a moon base) The interferometry would be awesome when coordinated w a telescope in the atacama. And no worries about maintaining a spacecraft, no shuttle missions, no astronaut exposure to radiation. Compare the rate limiting factors of working on the ISS versus doing the same thing in the Atacama. Having a safe, protected environment with gravity allows a much more human friendly working situation. Space is for transiting, not living in. We need to be on planets.
I'm the CTO at a data science company, and this has been my experience too. I've been lucky enough to have quite a few engineers go from zero practical experience to being able to train and deploy complex ml solutions, and the most successful solutions have always involved a combination of just a couple of tools:
- airflow and/or celery for running data extraction and transformation jobs
- pandas and numpy for data wrangling
- sklearn, xgboost, lightgbm, pytorch or tensorflow for training/inference
- flask or Django to serve results

It's a handful of technologies, but they're (generally) mature, battle tested, and well documented.
Most students in public schools do not learn any meaningful amount of Shakespeare or trigonometry, regardless of whether it’s part of the curriculum.
Feels like a more accurate name would be "Freestanding D" but it's a cool idea.
I admit to not having read his book and I think his argument is technically "airtight". I will grant that. But the real problem, besides me strongly believing 1 and 2 are true, is that Bostrom (or more charitably, his fans) are conflating several concepts:

"a computer simulation"

"a universe simulation"

"an ancestor simulation in which the lived experience is indistinguishable from our current experience, which necessarily won't be able to simulate the entire universe nor anything at a high level of fidelity and so requires constant tricks to convince the inhabitants things are real"

The last one is required for this argument to work and I think that's what's being slipped in. Sure, everybody loves computer simulations. We run them all the time. Video games are computer simulations, so look at that. We all love them.

We're talking about a very, very specific type of simulation and the more specific you define it, the less likely it is anyone will ever build one.

"Sensory deprivation tank" isn't absurd. That seems to be what we're talking about here. I suppose I will have to read the book because the noise argument you are presenting seems bizarre to me. Do you think your lived experience can be characterized as sensory noise? I absolutely do not understand how you can just simulate minds without an environment unless we are talking about dreams or hallucination.

I don't think scaling down the fidelity in certain places works. Humans expect natural processes to occur even when they're not looking. The evidence will be there long afterwards. There is no particular place that we wouldn't look for such evidence.

>Furthermore, such an advanced simulation would have knowledge of what its simulated objects are, rather than the constitution of their matter requiring a simulation of its physics.

No I don't think so. The number of possible "simulated objects" is infinite. Even the most advanced simulation you imagine would not be written in such a way to account for them.

>Advanced humans with knowledge of what algorithms constitute a human mind would simply need to track the inferences minds make in order to avoid seeing through the simulation.

Not convinced on this point either, but anyway this would conflict with reality considering a great many people already believe with certainty that they are living in a simulation.
The variety of social situations in typical schools is narrow and artificial. Once you leave school, never again in your adult life will you be forced to endure such a stifling environment.

If a homeschooled child never leaves the house, then yeah I can see it being a problem. But if they are allowed to go out and experience the world with their parents then they learn social skills by interacting with people of all ages, but mostly with adults who (most importantly) are already socialized and therefore model proper behavior instead of the insanity that goes on in age-segregated classrooms.
Math education in the U.S. is notoriously behind the rest of the world. It's about time. Speaking as someone who barely passed undergrad calculus and still has nightmares from that 7 problem 4 hour final exam.
What he said.

The GPL, e.g., is not a contract. It says so right in it, for the benefit of those confused (including, as I noted, many lawyers and even judges).

A contract that has not been affirmed by exchange of consideration and at least implied consent is void. Licenses, as I have been told, may be entirely one-sided, and need not depend on explicit actions by either party. They are different, neither a superset nor a subset of contracts. There is, however, a bunch of cracked case law around licenses created by jurists confused about the topic.

I am no lawyer.
> I don't know if he's actually close to Zuckerberg, but the Banjo CEO has been telling many people in Utah that he and Mark Zuckerberg are close friends, at least as a recruiting hook.

...does that work for some people?
Whatever for? Just delete it. Keep the account tombstoned so its name can't be reused. Keep what content you can and want. Delete the PII and any metadata you're contractually and/or legally required to.
If education is a basic right/requirement, then so is internet access.
You should read http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html, particularly "The Pie Fallacy". Here's an excerpt:

> What leads people astray here is the abstraction of money. Money is not wealth. It's just something we use to move wealth around.
That seems like a nightmare job. I hope the rep gets paid well for their unnecessary misery.
I know your comment could be viewed as being flippant but none the less it made me chuckle.
I disagree. It’s not about getting the data where it needs to be. It’s about data version control at a very fine level with very large datasets (in a way that is efficient). It’s about detecting changes in model results base don changes in data. It’s about tracking provenance of data in the datasets. It’s about potentially controlled access to the data (eg allowing models to use health care data without actually knowing the underlying data). It’s about detecting bias in datasets over time.

It’s actually quite complex, which is why generally speaking very few people do anything like this. I am unaware of any general solution to this problem, either in industry or academia.
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> it also doesn’t support gallery view so groups larger than 2

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/22/21231294/google-meet-gall...

> You also do need gmail, an app, and to have it enabled.

What do you mean? Calls are had at meet.google.com, nothing to do with gmail?
Yes, its tough enough to get them to concentrate with all of the electronic stimulants available, and now we are forcing them to spend more time on these electronic platforms. For young people, we need to stimulate their curiosity. They need to see , touch, feel, and experience things in multiple dimensions. They have all this curiosity and energy and we squash it by expecting them to sit and listen to lectures and do worksheets. Experiential learning was falling by the wayside before this crisis, and now that is accelerating.

Living in the 3rd largest school district in America, I'm wondering if secretly ,the administrators are seeing this as an opportunity to get 1 step closer to automating away the teacher so that they can stay within budget constraints and serve more people.

Feels like it is all going the wrong way. We need to flip this narrative: massive federal funding for schools, more teachers, better pay for teachers, better facilities, more field trips, small student to teacher ratios, free tutoring.