skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It should be stunningly obvious

> it should be equally obvious

Clearly it is not obvious, considering most people have never spent a significant amount of time thinking about how infectious diseases work.

> What's that? Do I hear the "There's no evidence for immunity to covid-19" crowd in the distance? I'm getting a bit tired of that line, but if someone wants me to dismantle that argument (again) I am happy to.

Why make a snarky, coy comment like this? If you have something to say about immunity then just say it. In fact the WHO are among those who make this claim[0], so "dismantle" away.

[0]: https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/immunity-p...
Are you telling me that a homeschooled kid will get exposed to more social situations than one in a public school where every race, ethnicity, and social strata are represented?
My other pet peeve is in-band communication without escape codes. Oh, the radio connected you so now you're talking to the other end. Oh, the link got dropped so now you're talking to the radio itself. What could have been a simple search-for-sequence filter now becomes a best-guess filter. Gaaaah makes my blood boil even 5 years later.

Honestly after my experience in firmware and manufacturing I'm amazed anything every works
As a former power user of Inbox, Gmail.

It has a ton of icons and labels and whatnot that for me provide only clutter. They never completely integrated the 'tasks' or 'notes' or whatever they used to call it either. It's also much slower to load.
When they say "running a datacenter" they almost certainly mean "buying servers to put into rented colocation space".

Just about anyone who has significant network connectivity has a footprint in an Equinix datacenter. In the Bay Area you want to be in Equinix SV1 or SV5, at 11, and 9 Great Oaks, San Jose.

If you're there, you can order a cross connect to basically any telco you can imagine, and any other large company. You can also get on the Equinix exchange and connect to many more.

But, Equinix charges you a huge premium for this, typically 2 - 3x other providers for space and power. Also they charge about $300 per month per cross connect.

So your network backbone tends to have a POP here, and maybe you put some CDN nodes here, but you don't build out significant compute. It's too expensive.

On the cheaper, but still highish quality end you have companies like CoreSite, and I'm pretty sure AWS has an entire building leased out at the CoreSite SantaClara campus for portions of us-west-1. (Pretty sure because people are always cagey about this kind of thing.)

I also know that Oracle cloud has been well know for taking lots of retail and wholesale datacenter space from the likes of CoreSite, and Digital Reality Trust, because it was faster to get to market. This is compared to purpose build datacenters, which is what the larger players typically do.

In the case of AWS, I know they generally do a leaseback, where they contract with another company who owns the building shell, and then AWS brings in all their own equipment.

But all these players are also going to have some footprint in various retail datacenters like Equinix and CoreSite for the connectivity, and some extra capacity.

Zoom is probably doing a mix of various colocation providers, and just getting the best deal / quality for the given local market they want to have a PoP in. Seems like they are also making Oracle Cloud part of that story.
You've brought up a lot of very interesting points that we're actually looking to solve regarding data distribution changes, data version control and reproducibility, privacy guards and bias detections with our startup Orchestra (https://orchestrahq.com).

Would love to chat if you have further thoughts around the subject - there's a ton of problems we're looking to tackle in the space and would be good to get input.
Schwab Bank started using voice recognition "passwords" as well. Luckily, it requires you to log into their website after talking through voice password tutorial to activate the voice password--which I refused to do at the time. Good to know I made a decent choice.
They use exclusive sections of an existing colo provider facilities, often called data suites or data halls at least in Australia, where the 3 AZs are split between numerous commercial colo facilities.

They get enough control through their contracts to make sure the hosting provider provides exactly what they need to spec.
I agree, but my point being the more tightly your infra is coupled with cloud services. The harder it gets to migrate. aws lambda would be a better example.
> if mice create a nest in the fuselage and urinate there, the aluminum corrosion can cause structural damage. ie. that plane will never fly again.

Reading that evokes a somber reminder of how quickly our civilization could turn into ruins if left unattended for a few years.
Just want to point out (because a lot of people seem confused) that laws requiring permission to use your likeness are not copyright. I believe they fall under the category of moral rights. Moral rights vary dramatically from country to country so it's always tricky to figure out what you are or are not allowed to do if you work internationally.
So, I normally don't use AIO desktop, which in general use soldered RAM/ disks in these days. Yes, you can get extra space on your desk but the handling of the errors are quite bothersome. For laptop, someone may use laptop as a main system, but for me it is substitute, so I don't bother whether it fails or not, and fortunately, I didn't see the failure on my rMBP, XPS, or even chromebook yet.
So your business model is built on the presumption of possessing an inviolable license to simulate the likeness of others?

I’m not so sure that’s a stable basis given a lot of laws celebrities have gotten passed protecting control of their likeness.

This is a bit of a “I’m doing it on a computer so it’s different!” kind of thing that won’t necessarily legally fly.

Challenging the idea that someone can’t control the reproduction of their likeness full stop is settled in the general sense in law. Context shifting how the reproduction happens isn’t really much a difference maker.
Reasons to never restore from backup. Keep your data in the cloud and reinstall OS’s from scratch.
They also picked javascript ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
updated it. Thanks!
Is that the small business program that The Lakers applied for and got? This program is being pillaged.
Hi, I'm one of the folks building CatalyzeX (https://www.catalyzex.com). It's intended primarily as a free resource for machine learning practitioners (research engineers, developers, students, and generally anyone interested in R&D) to discover interesting ML projects and papers, easily access the code and datasets, and communicate with the authors or other experts.

The link share here was likely with keeping the relevance of this project to HN in mind, and that easy access to the code and authors would be valuable for anyone here looking to take it further.

Thanks for clarifying the convention here on HN, being transparent, and for updating accordingly. Much appreciated.

Always open to feedback if you have any as well! :)
that sounds an awful lot like The Impotent Sea Snakes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impotent_Sea_Snakes
Interesting! Thanks for the info!
Yes. In fact it is precisely them who are qualified to make capital budgeting decisions. If shareholders didn't like it, they could vote the management team out.
Exactly! Frankly I see so many naive assumptions on quantitatively measuring user behavior (like CTR means success!). I wish more time was spent robustly understanding the users behavior rather than just jumping to optimizing one unquestioned metric with a model.

Optimizing a loss function is far far easier than finding the right loss function(s)
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Hah, yup, one minute everything's fine and the next minute your combine is jammed, a belt starts slipping, and then it all catches fire.

At least some of this fancy automation stuff helps catch problems like that before they get out of hand; now you just need a John Deere licensed technician to make a service call and reset the fault lockout...
Looked at the report from AMD (posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23011643), and it looks like this is just an error in the article.

Their computing and graphics segment is up 73% YoY.

> Computing and Graphics segment revenue was $1.44 billion, up 73 percent year-over-year and down
13 percent quarter-over-quarter

> Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom segment revenue was $348 million, down 21 percent yearover-year and 25 percent sequentially
also, doom.
Hadn't actually read these schedules, they seem great, especially the Maths first and done with "school" by 2pm bits.
Well educated, entrepreneurial with a deep understanding of economics, technology and capital planning? I'm scared to even consider it!
Ahh, if you're taking the microservice path then you're going to have to fight all of that complexity. So far we've stuck to the constraints that I set at the beginning of the project: vanilla Heroku web dynos; exactly one Heroku worker dyno (never 0 or 2); and Postgres is the only data store (no queues etc.)
Copyright for pre-1972 recordings was effectively extended in 2018 an additional 25 years, depending on your state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Modernization_Act#Title_...

State-based copyright for recordings in California, for example, was 70 years. The extension of federal copyright to cover pre-1972 recordings ensures a 95-year duration--longer for some earlier works.
They don't get any money if you take a gap year. And they know you will reapply anyways.
Yeah, you can see the Direct Connect locations here: https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/features/

Those mean AWS has networking gear in those locations. You order a cross connect and plug into one of their switches.

When you walk around in one of those places, you also typically see racks of AWS gear in a smallish cage with lots of hard drives. Typically a CDN pop.
He’s weeping so hard. Oh wait that’s champagne bubbles streaming down his cheeks.

“What’s that web chud? Can’t hear your impotent rage over my actually baller life!”
Wild but fun speculation: WFH decreases housing prices because people can disperse further. The higher the tenure & seniority within a company, the higher the likelihood of real estate ownership (both primary and rental properties). There is a conflict of interest in having more control on WFH policies and seeing your house not appreciating as much in value or not bringing as much rent. I wasn’t able to find data on this but it is hard to imagine any Bay Area exec not having real estate positions in the area.

More realistic reason: Middle management struggles with perceived lack of control and justifying their existence through wider WFH. Their business is their reports, and there is simply less control surface exposed through WFH to them. It is harder to carry out impression management from home. It is simply a higher friction, higher anxiety scenario. Ultimately they influence WFH adoption, whether at team-local levels or upward influence in company-wide decision making.
someone should send this article to our PM
If anyone is curious about how "unschooling" or "relaxed homeschooling" works, I've been writing a blog about my ongoing experience with it and our 12-year old.

https://medium.com/exploring-wisdom-unschooling-and-world-sc...
It looks relatively the same, can be similar (or more, or less) amount of screens. It all depends on what what model the tractor is (some only need one screen for control) and what attachments you have on. Some attachments have one or two screens, some have none. Even if you're in livestock, you have a screen for the tractor, likely screen for GPS guidance too. Perhaps a screen for stock management across fields etc.
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs is an alternative.
It's the same as shooting a wide aperture, the blurred background look has always been a thing.
I fear this is only just the beginning...
She has another video with soybeans and it's a pretty similar process. She said they adjusted a couple of things but were using the same tractor and seeder.
Yeah, this is correct. You usually buy these in minimum sizes of about 1MW.
That’s been the hardest part for us the last few weeks. The older 2 you can manage and get them to sit down to learn something, it’s the 1yo running around being distracting that makes it hard. 9, 6 and 1.5 = children with very different needs.
Too depressed and broken at this point.
> by which I mean Egyptian and Israeli governments, nobody else

Oh there a LOT of other players, most importantly the USA here. If you want to paint a 10000 ft picture of the last few decades, it's the USA stuffing the Israel with enough money so the real crazies can't raise to power. Unleashing the full military might of Israel in a traditional war again would be absolutely horrible: they have armed unmanned ground vehicles, main battle tanks which can intercept even the most advanced MANPADS and more.
What regulation? Colleges have always required that you request deferral. This was almost always granted, but was never guaranteed.
Apple sold a $399 iPhone SE in 2016. It’s not like the $399 iPhone SE is a lowend phone. It’s still faster than any Android phone sold today.

In the iPod era it sold millions of $70 iPod shuffle’s alongside $350 hard drive based iPods.

Apple has been selling the regular iPad for $329 for three or four years.

You’re also not taking into account the concept of the “attach rate”. Once you buy an iPhone, Apple can make money off of you via services - iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, iCloud, the App Store, iBooks, etc. Thats not even counting other hardware like AirPods and the AppleTV.

Cook admitted awhile back that the Apple Watch alone generates more revenue than peak iPod. Analyst think that the AirPods probably also make more than the iPods ever did.
> So Facebook and the government are secretly working together in a conspiracy to falsify court records while secretly they cooporate the whole time and the case was never actually tried? What planet are you on?

That's, ummm, not my point at all, and I honestly don't see how you took it from what I wrote.

What I meant was just that Snowden's revelations revealed a bunch of 'alternative' methods, beyond a court-ordered wiretap. Collusion, cable tapping, shipping intercepts ... all seem to have been on the table for the NSA and GCHQ.

My point was just that I'd be very surprised if this court result prevented the type of interception that was being requested.
This was approached all wrong. The first highly publicized demos of singing generated like this should have been of dead people - Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Elvis. First, it's not clear who has the right to sue, and in what jurisdiction. Rights associated with those people have been transferred and resold enough times that there's no clear claimant. Second, many people have impersonated those voices, so there's a strong argument that this is just automating a manual process. Someone could have probably gotten a few tracks out the door and onto airplay before the first litigation.

Going up against a living performer whose main asset is their vocal style makes a weaker case. Living people have stronger publicity rights than the estates of dead ones. This could result in a decision which expands the scope of copyright. One of those weird copyright decisions, like the one where Owens-Corning trademarked PINK, as a color, for insulation. Coloring insulation was so unusual that it was held to be a valid trademark. Now there are other copyright on colors. Bad cases make bad law.

This thing has been botched so badly that one wonders if it's a fake case from the music industry to get a losing decision.
I think it should become easier to do this once the Dart ffi module becomes stable. https://dart.dev/guides/libraries/c-interop
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As the spouse of a high school math teacher, I've seen how difficult it is for the last month. Getting kids internet service, a computer or tablet to work with, the software they need, and then just getting them to login and read or do the work. It's a real challenge.

We tweaked my wife's setup and it works pretty well now, though she is dreading if they choose to do live online learning in the fall, as that will be something completely new to tackle. Currently she uses Google Classroom, Desmos, and Kahn Academy for the teaching side. She plans and distributes lessons in Google, uses Desmos for some interactive activities where Desmos scripting allows her to check work and give feedback, and Kahn Academy as some supplemental teaching to her notes. In addition she has certain hours everyday for certain classes and uses an iPad + Google Meet to show notes to her students and work problems they may have an issue with. So far that's been working.

Live teaching would be a little more difficult with this setup but it could work.
(Not) to Do an Antibody Survey for SARS-CoV-2
Huge insight and definitely on point. Where I've worked, data science teams are focused on business impact. More responsibility requires larger budgets and at times, creates a burden. Plus I have a sense not a lot of senior executives know how to hire ML engineers in the first place as they come from a business background and would rather leave it to IT.
I've been on both sides of this insisting, if a company annoyed me too much (e.g. headhunters mailing too frequently) I'd drop the "data privacy laws" (nowadays GDPR) bomb and ask for my data to be deleted.

On the other side, a customer got really pissed off by an online shop we maintained for a client, and asked for his data to be annihilated, we thought "What a douche.".
رامز جلال 2020 – رامز مجنون رسمي في رمضان 2020
سنويا ينتظر الجمهور جديد الفنان رامز جلال، والفكرة التي يقرر اختيارها لتنفيذها ببرنامجه الذي يعرض في شهر رمضان عبر شاشة “MBC”، ويتصدر البرومو أكثر من 4 ونصف مليون مشاهدة منذ طرحه منذ الإثنين الماضي.

البرنامج الذي يحمل اسم “رامز مجنون رسمي” وعرض الإعلان الخاص به، والذي يظهر وقوع العديد من النجوم ضحايا لرامز جلال، أبرزهم غادة عادل ونبيلة عبيد وفيفي عبده وياسمين صبري واللاعب التونسي علي معلول وعدد كبير من نجوم الفن والرياضة بالوطن العربي.

يواجه جلال ضيوفه دون الاعتماد على وسيط، كما كان يحدث المواسم السابقة، ويوعد جمهوره هذا الموسم في مفاجآت غير مسبوقة، من أحداث ومن ضيوف جدد.
> Teachers may be doing their best but there's nothing wrong with stepping back and choosing to provide a different experience for your kid. Preparation for adulthood happens in different ways and parents should recognize that.

Would this statement sound as reasonable in non-pandemic times?

It feels like public schools would still be a better option if the choice were still available. It isn't, but as a result I feel like people who would have been able to go to school are missing out on something beneficial. Especially given how important expensive pieces of college-minted paper are for more and more careers, and how competitive it is to get a chance at earning one in public schools alone.

If I had children, which I do not, I would rather choose the teachers with the time available to prepare the in-depth curriculum specifically designed to earn the chance at the expensive piece of paper with some proven degree of success over what I could provide by myself, alongside what time it takes out of work and all that implies. That is assuming they have no difficulties in learning however. In that case the schools would likely be unprepared.

But of course nobody has that option now, so I would probably have much the same experience as the parents in the article. I'm not sure what else we can do in the short term.
Yeah the shopping "experience" on amazon is horrible.

However, I don't think I have used an amazon product where the UX wasn't a mess...
It's interesting that you bring this up, considering we've placed people into camps for far less (such as the crime of 'crossing the borders'), not to mention the hardline stance we've taken against MS-13 including things such as deporting teenagers whom gave us information on MS-13 and were undoubtedly marked for death.

Can you tell me what the difference is between a neo-nazi gang and MS-13 and why one gets crocodile tears while the other has the book thrown at them?
> At the same time I wonder if you would extend the same empathy towards a reformed jihadist?

I definitely would.

On that note, you'd might be surprised by the degree to which "jihadist" and "neo-Nazi" overlap, especially when the latter's of the Christian fundamentalist flavor; the Venn diagram more often than not ends up looking like a slightly-out-of-focus circle.
The many flavours of the arcane SQL MERGE statement
> Here is another video from Southern Saskatchewan

You know he's from Saskatchewan because he pronounces Bourgault correctly! Are you from around here? I'm in Regina with a family farm about an hour north of here.
Very underwhelming name for a company like Shopify. What happend to the bold, crazy & daring ideas?
Renaming your username to username-1000 has the exact same side effect though.
Wasn't that the premise behind Jimmy Wales' WT:Social [1]? I wonder how they're doing.

[1] https://wt.social/
Seems related - California floated the idea of starting next year early: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/28/newsom-school-may-sta...
Indeed. I'd personally rather reduce that number instead of increase it, though.
Good. A home is not a school.

That's not to say you can't do lots of learning at home, but the way that learning takes place will (and should) be completely different from how it is done at school.
There’s also perhaps a syndrome of not wanting to do the organizational work to do ML well. Instead of changing the whole org by integrating ML into every team, a data science team is hired doing god knows what. There’s status assigned to being the “data scientist” and they work away, siloed, on fun sounding deep learning models. In this mode, if they produce anything it’s impractical, divorced from the product realities, and rather hard for the main engineering/product org to maintain or implement.

The reality is there’s more work to embracing ML than hiring data scientists. Everyone needs to understand ML a little, and it needs to be OK to critically question data science work from product and engineering angles.
First poster implied Amazon does this to retain more cash. Second implied they do it to prevent fraud instead.
I got rejected at YCombinator 3 times in a row
I got rejected at ycombinator 3 times in a row.

Is that an indicator that I should shut down my startup?
Or that I should stop applying to ycombinator, because it won't generate any different results?
A potential confounding variable is that homeschooling doesn't happen without a good home environment with dedicated and involved parents, and that the student would be just as successful in a traditional schooling environment for those reasons alone.
Oracle and cheap.

Thanks for the laugh.
So you think Apple just decided to release a new iPhone SE even if it didn’t know the market?

Why would Apple - led by the supply chain master himself - admit during earnings that they miscalculated demand leading to lower sales if they were merely trying to spin a positive narrative? Why would it be a positive narrative that people wanted to spend less money and not more?
Classified Ad Real Soon Now: Farmers wanted, remote ok.

We are approaching the point at which people who like to play farming simulators can be charged a fee for the privilege of actually farming. Using the same app.

Even Tom Sawyer didn't dare to charge Ben Rogers to whitewash Aunt Polly's fence.