skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>which is the big issue here

There are at least two issues, and both are worth discussing. Interestingly, if we prevent the surveillance problem we also prevent the racist surveillance problem, so in this way one could argue that (in this specific situation) the surveillance problem is more fundamental.
You're making pretty gross assumptions right now.
Part of that will be noise reduction, part of that is also high frequency response (depends on the tape speed).
Peter Thiel would have you believe that monopolies are the only places where truly creative innovation and invention can happen at the corporate level, because they no longer have to focus everything on staying afloat as a business in the first place.
>their website is almost nothing more than Ebay in some sense

I would argue that it's even worse. At least, IME, the ratings at E-bay for both sellers and products mean something. With Amazon, neither mean a damned thing anymore. It's just a crap shoot, unless you know exactly what you're already looking for.

Amazon used to be nice, because you could actually do product research. The worst thing, again in my opinion, they've done is ruin the ability to actually compare products due to sketchy reviews.
Yeah! I've actually wondered how far you can get doing this same project by adding digital control to an XR2206.
What does the language in this order actually accomplish?
Related Ampex patent from 1989 - https://patents.google.com/patent/US5236790A/en
Oof, I meant to write "numbers are fundamentally hard to reason about", not "numerals". Missed the edit window. The point I was trying to make is that numbers are very often fundamentally counterintuitive irrespective of notation. E.g., is the set of natural numbers larger than the set of decimal numbers? Or the other way around? Or equal? The complexities of time are almost exclusively inferring and converting between (often ambiguous) representations.
It's my computer, not yours. If you want to run software on it, I get to see the source code, that's the deal. We could agree that I can't use your software under these terms, but this would exploit those who don't understand the value of the source code. This is how spyware is born. If it runs on my machine, it's open source, or it's bunk.

And, once again, you can sell open source software.
I've always felt the same way about crowded sporting events. Intellectually, I understand that sports are rather... shallow?, but there's something that just seems magical about tens of thousands of people gathered in one place for a shared purpose and being so loud.
punchclockhero says*>"Could be a fluke on the level of curing OCD with a gunshot, but also an interesting possibility."<

No need to get so drastic: our OP should simply sign up for the military.

After several years of someone else telling him what to do in no uncertain terms, he will develop a clear direction of his own. Plus they'll train him in a skill! I suggest plumbing, b/c there are plenty of jobs and it pays well!8-))
Another red flag in regard to Zoom’s security.
I love this. I vastly prefer it to regular Reddit comments. That might mean it's inaccurate?
Google translates it that way because German nouns have grammatical gender, and doctors are grammatically male, while nurses are grammatically female. It has nothing to do with training ML models (except insofar as most training input is grammatically correct).

Of course, some people are unhappy about it and experimenting with gender stars and gender gaps and other creative orthography, but this is the status quo.

It's quite strange to demand that some ML model is more "progressive" than society and speakers themselves.
We Are in a New Danger Zone
Reading the example code in the documentation is very helpful with this.
If you post flamebait to HN like this again we will ban you. This thread was wretched enough without heading into this circle of hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I just subscribe to the local paper (LA times) and get my national coverage from their reporting. By the time you subscribe to the wapo, nyt, economist, wsj, atlantic, you are paying a huge sum a year on redundant coverage. Better to focus on local issues that are more likely to affect my life than the national soap opera anyway.
The truth hurts sometimes. Also, isn't GCP deprecated?
Learning outcomes or life outcomes?

For learning outcomes, I was behind for several years on the things I thought were boring (math), and spent lots of time reading about things that I was interested in (science, history, etc). In university once we got to the point where mastery involved understanding connected subjects, I was ahead.

I've been taught less about math than many of my peers, but recall a lot more of what I do know because I know why it matters. Which is why I work with data these days.
Flip a Coin – A Google Trick That You Must Try
Yes, you would have to ensure that everyone has a device of some kind.
I haven't found any. It's usually the search phrase specificity that gives me incorrect results. As a basic example, if I search 'lions mane', I'll get pictures of male lions with manes. If I added 'mushroom' to the end, then I will get the mushroom I'm looking for.

I think Google has an academic search type if you want true research results.
Could you compare Liftbridge to Akka with persistence module and or streams? I'm looking for a lightweight, embeddable Kafkasque thing (esp interested in exactly once delivery) that I can use to glue various services together.
Thanks!

Side note: I'd happily pay a monthly/annual fee for a family version like this. We already do for things like GSuite and 1Password.

I know y'all are free for orgs up to 10 users, and my family is never getting that big (shudder), but a "Jumpcloud for Families" you could easily get me to pay for if it's super easy to use.
Interesting list of goals, how it was implemented, how it is now illegal...

But nowhere on the page does anyone say "it worked!" or "it was a boondoggle!", let alone share a statistical analysis that says "rain changed by X sigma over normal". That's a bit disappointing.
> Putting numbers to things like this is a fuzzy business of course, but I'd be interested in comparing notes on some of them.

Me too. I'm especially surprised that Rust gets a 1.0 for size ("What’s the size impact of this language on the framework we would deliver for our customers?"). For comparison, C also got a 1.0 and Go got a 0.3. I _far_ prefer working in Rust to working in either Go or C, but my experience hasn't been that Rust binaries are anywhere near as small as equivalent C ones.
Then the dual income parents would have to find another place to put their kids in during the day.
Not sure whether I would agree that (1) and (3) aren’t hard. I recommend checking out LimeLM with the blogs and the (very informative!) forum.

Weirdly enough I would rank “make sure that the Antivirus software solutions do not go randomly crazy on your software protection” rather high (despite certificates and whitelisting). So I would wholeheartedly agree with your summary statement :-)
How does copy and paste work with this? On a mac
My understanding is that they already use AWS and Azure, so this probably isn't the case, but I wonder if the fact that the other major vendors have competing services influenced this decision.
This article is short on explaining the consequences. What steps will be taken to prevent virus from spreading at the facilities, people from getting sick and, as a result, ending up dead? I really hope that this doesn't boil down to "Trump ordering people to die for the meat industry".
I've been thinking this for years now, that the free-for-all for 3rd party sellers would eventually erode trust and make Amazon less appealing. But it hasn't collapsed yet and they still keep growing.

Now I really view Amazon as two separate products in one interface - there's the Ebay style bazaar, and then there's the first-party store. If I'm looking for a brand-name item, like an iPad or some other gadget, or some camera gear, I can often find it on Amazon and it'll be "shipped from and sold by Amazon", or there are a few other sellers whose names I recognize (like Apple or Adorama for the camera gear I was recently looking at) that I trust to buy from. More and more there's also the Amazon Basics brand covering everything from batteries and usb cables to snacks like trail mix, and I have come to trust their brand as well. These things will generally ship with prime shipping and arrive in 1 or 2 days, I get 5% cash back on my amazon card, and it's convenient to check out and I generally can trust I won't have any issues.

If I'm looking for something that's not brand-name, and I want to pay the cheapest price I can for something that gets the job done, I can venture into the bazaar land. I recently bought some patio furniture and a rug that were quite cheap, and they work pretty well and have been awesome for using my outdoor space during the lockdown. In this side of the platform I know I'm making sacrifices, I often don't get prime shipping, and I may even get counterfit items. I would never buy things like vitamins or lotion or make-up here in the seedy back alleys of the store. And often I do opt to use a different e-commerce site instead of Amazon, rather than risk it here. But I still buy from here occasionally.

I still think Amazon should do more to differentiate these two worlds, the high-trust vs low-trust platforms. But as a frequent user I now know what to look for and am mostly able to distinguish between the two, and I have to admit I do appreciate that the low-trust, 3rd party world exists. It gives me more choice as a consumer, and the alternative is that most of these items wouldn't be available on Amazon at all.
Looks like a pretty bad user experience. I understand why you'd want that many screens, so all the data is visible, but they all look like they are built by different companies and with different types of screens and different styles of interface. Surely it must be hard to use?
"Alphabet’s Google Cloud Platform" is GCP
... huh?

"Alphabet’s Google Cloud Platform" is GCP.
Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure
You're saying redistribution. Meaning taking money from people with more to give to people with less. (I assume youre not just talking about moving figures around but leaving everyone with the same amount in the end).

I'm saying there are not enough people with more than people less to provide that $12,000 transfer to each person in a way that benefits most people.
I'm a fan of Amazon.
I'm ashamed I'm finding out about this through an HN comment. Would you happen to have a good source to read?
HN gets millions of comments a year. You should expect to find all kinds of junk in any set of that size.

The problem is that people (all of us) are more likely to notice and remember the things they dislike. That basically causes everyone's image of the community to turn into a reflection of their own dislikes—and the more strongly you dislike something, the more vivid the image will be. It's a serious problem and I don't know what to do about it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

But it's definitely not the case that the HN readership generally supports a comment like the GP. Note that the comment was maximally downvoted.
At first :)
Internet availability is an issue, as is device availability. Even poor families who have a computer may only have 1 for the whole family.
They drive themselves. Tractors have been using autonomous guidance systems for a long time.
One variant how to do that involves something like UCC3750 (ie. telco ringer waveform generator), another is just using sufficiently high powered audio power amplifier.
It's free now, but it will cost you your soul.

Never buy Oracle.
Why? Is it because of cost? Perhaps nepotism? I don' see a reason why Amazon or Azure would be passed over in favour of Oracle. Why wasn't GCP a contender either? Something seems fishy... someone from Zoom care to chime in?

Maybe they are afraid that Amazon or Microsoft with their tradition of copying competition would pose a threat? Even then, Microsoft is already competing using Microsoft Teams and if Amazon wanted to it wouldn't be hard for them at all to come up with a product.
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A human talks to another human and they discuss the situation, figure out what documents or proofs they could provide and come to an agreement. Make those humans lawyers if you have to. It's not some unknown landscape of grey area in content moderation, it's a marketplace holding onto another businesses money unfairly. We can't treat it like a social network or other ephemeral software platform, this is real transactional commerce and Amazon should behave like it and provide support to resolve things like this quickly.
I don't have land-line internet available at my home in greater DC metro. We survive on LTE hotspots. Praying for the success of StarLink!
That is correct.

The limit of lim n->inf 10^-n is exactly 0, it is not 0.00...1.
I wonder if there are provisions against the seller adding a flyer to their sales packages pointing to their own website and including a link to a writeup on this?

While I can understand the need for this type of action on Amazon's part... I do not feel that taking nearly 2 weeks to resolve this kind of situation is appropriate. They should have at least a 72hr max turn around for requests from paid account reps.

I'm also not sure if Amazon is experiencing higher fraud rates than normal right now either... the silence is deafening.
Warm, trickle-down economics. The people clearly aren't bothered enough by losing their jobs or receiving pittance consolation prizes, or they would've revolted by now.
It does exist. The other poster just clearly showed that it exists by referring to it.

The problem is that if we include such a number in our formal system of math, we quickly find contradictions and the whole system falls apart. So such a number is incompatible with any formal system of math (though I guess you could start building one which does include such a number and see what properties it has).

Herein lies the problem, the people you are talking with do not use a form system. There system of math has something similar to the same flaw of their system of grouping of things, which would include the whole grouping that contains every grouping that doesn't contain itself. People rarely deal in formal systems and thus they can handle completely illogical statements fine as long they are protected from seeing the consequence of it.
Thanks, I’ll check it out
Government bailouts should come with very onerous conditions so they are used only as last resort. But I guess 2008 should have taught us that this is not going to happen.
Not very many people could put all this together in a couple months without any HW background.

You are correct! I'm a professional EE by trade during the day.

I've had a lot of fun on this first pass learning about direct digital synthesis, STM32 microcontrollers, and serial consoles. The next revision, which I'm just beginning to work on, will feature a whole nother batch of electronic concepts I'm interested in. Small sampling of what I expect to learn about next inlcudes: chebyshev filters, error budgets, and multistaged opamp design.
Ask HN: Would you chose Node.js, Golang, or Rust for a GraphQL pet project?
Hi HN,

I have ideas for a new pet project, nothing really important, and I think it's a great opportunity to learn a new stack. I want to use GraphQL and I hesitate between NodeJS, Golang, and Rust. If you have any other suggestions I would gladly hear them.

I'm not deploying on AWS or Azure so I don't really mind ram usage or cpu usage. The database will probably be PostGreSQL because I want a boring (in a good way) database on this project. I will also do some light crypto to play with Merkle trees, but I feel like all languages have acceptable crypto libraries nowadays.

Thanks !
Probably doing it for free and throwing an endless supply of Tier 1 headcount at the 'problem'.
The chosen example (printf) doesn't make D look very good compared to C. If I modify the example to include a simple type error:

printf("Hello %s", 123);

Then the D version will still happily compile without warnings and will segfault.

Compiling with GCC -Wall -Werror, the type error is easily caught by the compiler.
I think you might have misunderstood my argument. My main argument is that the money from selling proprietary licenses also pays lots of developers to work on important things, which they wouldn't (often couldn't) do if they weren't getting paid for it. So the users of the software are better off because the developers were able to do important work and get paid for it. And that was only possible because the vendor could be highly confident of getting enough return on its investment to justify paying those developers. And the vendor could only get such a return on its investment because it's selling proprietary licenses, as opposed to selling an auxiliary service (which often leads to misaligned incentives for end-user software) or begging for donations.
Somethings as fishy as Zoom's encryption here....
> telecoms only want to upgrade wireline infrastructure where it's profitable

true

> (so, more affluent areas)

no. criteria is population density, that's what makes it profitable.
Is Oracle cloud any good?
Is it like the other providers where you can take a credit card and use?

Or do you need to give your soul to oracle?
Something I've noticed recently as I'm watching all of these specials on TV with celebrities at home.

Almost every one of them is using an AirPod.

I was shocked at just how many celebrities are using AirPods for these (theoretically) high production shows.

I noticed that SNL seems to have switched from AirPods in week one to pro lav mics this week, but otherwise it seems like everyone already owned the AirPods.

It'll be interesting to see if Google can eat some of their market share.
I think the hiccup here is the notion that an open form expression doesn't have a closed form representation, which is not always the case. Closed forms exist for infinite series and vice versa.

1 - sum{k=1}^{\ifnty} 10^-k is one example.
Here's one stupid, simple proof that doesn't require any predefinition.

We do longhand division of 9 by 9, but start by putting a 0 in the first place.

0.99
9 | 9.0000
0
9 0
8 1
90

Hence, 9 / 9 = 0.999 = 1.
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Without using 9999..., please name any two real numbers that don't have a number in between.
Seems like this would be useful to organizations who use G suite for their accounts &authentication. That way each user can sign into their work machine using their Google account, instead of having a separate username/password.
After I discovered C, I never wrote another line of Pascal :-)
How to get rich:

Don't be a gold miner, sell the miners their shovels.
It depends on whether you judge degrees from a purely utilitaristic view, plus PhD is closer to working than studying. If you work 10 years in a company, and then you write a book, would you wonder what are you doing with the title you earned at your job?
True, but note that in many cases the goal is not absolute security but rather making it as inconvenient as possible for someone to circumvent the licensing.

In some cases the licensing security is even weak by design, e.g. Windows 95 or the early AutoCAD. This is desirable when the size of the userbase itself is of value (which is actually true for a lot of software!).
The disease spreads exponentially. Germany's low death rate is probably due primarily to slowing the spread earlier. You don't need to treat infected people better to have fewer total deaths if there are fewer infected people.

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...
Retired, yes, though from what I hear still a player in Nevada politics, and I assume has some sort of lobbying-related incoming. (I'm speculating, didn't run a search.)

But he's also really getting up there in years, and he has been agitating about UFOs for a while, so maybe he legitimately wants to know what is up.
Same, despite what people have been saying on gaming reviews, I found the best coverage through Europe in terms of local reviews for smaller places. There were even heated arguments with the owners on how a particular dish was mangled or not, and I took this to represent authenticity.
I agree with the sentiment, but at a more abstract level it is almost as shaky that an Egyptian citizen today is entitled to art from the pharaonic times more than a British citizen today.
It’s not in the submission title... that’s the point
Yeah the autonomous driving was the least interesting part to me. It was everything else that was running semi-autonomously that I found fascinating, and the fact that they aren't integrated. That every piece of equipment has it's own screen.
Nothing wrong with this if you want to use AWS and like using (or learning) associated technologies like Terraform.

And, the Jitsi Quick Start is also about five minutes and works on vanilla Ubuntu:

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/quick-in...
As we have no idea who you are don’t you think it makes sense we try to figure it out? How one answers the question will vary based on background.
Sorry, no.

There are TWO standard definitions of the real numbers. Namely Dedekind cuts and Cauchy sequences. (They are completely equivalent.) The usual decimal representation of a number turns out to be a Cauchy sequence.

The "simplest definition" that you provide turns out to be rather non-simple in practice. Try proving that multiplication is commutative to see the difficulty.

There are plenty of other number systems out there.
Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_number or the complex numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number
How many of the users pay the company $5,000/mo for an account manager?

That's my sticking point. If I pay a company to have a human advocate for me at the company, I should actually have a seat at the table instead of being subject to the machinations of a black-box system that nobody can seem to touch or do anything about unless someone high enough sees people on social media shaming them.
Gcp is listed in the article but not the title. Strange title selection but they were considered.
Standard Oil peak at 91% of US market for refined Oil products after 40 years, so there were competitors. Obviously there were far more competitors internationally and their international market share was far lower.
Correct. But we are entitled to the source code for programs which run on our computers, or is paid for by our taxes.
A drone is unlikely to be a threat to a carrier battle group. Drones are far too slow and munitions they carry are far too slow.

The only legitimate threats to carrier battle groups are supersonic Anti ship missiles (AShMs), such as the USSR P-800, the Brahmos 2, etc.

These come in low (under the CBGs radar horizon) and fast on final approach to ship and maneuver. They can be nuclear-tipped.

Right now the defense pattern is this:

* There is an AWACS plane off of the carrier providing over-the-horizon (OTH) radar coverage.

* Once it detects a missile, the info is data-linked to the AEGIS cruisers (carrier battle group / CBG) surrounding the carrier

* These fire anti-missile missiles (SM-6 and similar)

* If missiles get through, close range missiles, radar chaff is deployed, and CIWS miniguns spray the target (or chaff released by friendlies, and consequently the friendlies)

* As a last line of defense, the carrier itself has some CIWS

There has been no true demonstration of AshMs being stopped in any significant number.
It doesn't fix the problem, it just makes it no longer your own problem. Chrome is still one of the dominant browsers.