skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stop murdering or otherwise harassing black people...?

Quick question. How many black people did US police murder last year? Order of magnitude. How many would be few enough for you to say that the police have "stopped" - 100? 10? 1? 0?

My guess is that the actual number is a lot lower than you're thinking, even when counting unintentional things like "police officer made a mistake, shot innocent person" and "pig strangled someone a little too long". Not to say that that's excusable when it does occur, but...
Markdown tables are bad. Apart from that, maintaining/updating a textual description is way more easier. Because its text, you can have simple version control over it
the alternative is that I don't order from the restaurant at all. it's pretty simple
Idk where you are getting these prices from. You can get a used Xbox one for £150.
At this point lobbying for a set of laws like the car part and repair laws for appliances and electronics probably would be the best. Its a older generation in Congress so they understand those laws. You can also make some damn embarrassing commercials if you frame it that they want to make Jiffy Lube illegal then relate that to your appliances.
Show HN: Kretes – Build full-stack applications in TypeScript and PostgreSQL
Isn't that the beauty of OSS? People can fork projects for whatever reason they want to.

They are not at all hostile to GIMP--they encourage donating to the GIMP org--but I think their reasons for an alternative are sound:

Glimpse Image Editor is an optional alternative intended to assist users that are offended or made uncomfortable by the "gimp" name, and assist free software advocates that encounter barriers when they recommend the GNU Image Manipulation Program to friends, family, coworkers and employers.

However, Glimpse does have some other differences from GIMP which might interest you:

We also focus on making the software more "enterprise ready" so it is easier to modify and distribute for schools and workplaces. That means fewer "easter eggs", improved build and packaging tooling/documentation, backported fixes on a known-stable base we support for at least a year, and a more efficient Windows installer. We also plan to have a more predictable release cadence, as that will assist IT departments with their software deployment schedules.

https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse
I've been told that, and my router is pfSense, which claims that it is possible, but the documentation says something along the lines of "You can use NPT!" and then doesn't explain HOW.

I haven't figured it out yet.
The notable difference is that the base Huggingface library is open source, so you could in theory build something similar or more custom to the OpenAI API internally (which then falls into the typical cost/benefit analysis of doing so).
There has been at least a temporarily reprieve; thanks to Covid-19 in the summer, it's now socially acceptable to walk around town wearing a mask and sunglasses.
I guess when I stop to think about it, I do get a lot of use out of it.

I use LinkedIn to contact professional colleagues when I don't have their email addresses. I've met 95%+ of the people on my contact list at some point in my career, and it's easy to send them a message to catch up. That's especially useful if they've switched jobs and they lose their work emails.

I also sometimes search people I meet at events or job applicants to find out a bit more about their backgrounds and see if we're connected with anyone.

Sometimes when I'm researching a company or hedge fund for work I'll search LinkedIn to get some information about the firm below the senior-most executives.

It also lets me know when some of my colleagues are mentioned in the media or have TV/print interviews. I like following up with people about those.

I never post or like anything. My employer actually forbids it due to securities regulations. I had to give our Compliance Department access to my account through a special program so they can monitor & log everything.
Hey HN, author here. Kretes is a tool for building full-stack applications in TypeScript and PostgreSQL with a goal to provide an integrated, battery-included and open-source solution for web development. It combines a web framework - similar to Rails, Django or Laravel - with a UI being built on top of the VS Code editor. It comes with a (eventually large) standard library of built-in modules that are developed in a coherent way e.g. authentication, authorization, admin panel [1] etc.

This project explores the ideas introduced by the Self programming language and aims to bring them to the current age. The ultimate goal is to create a semi-visual tool for building web apps in a more intuitive way using just one programming language - TypeScript - on the client & on the server, and without the accidental complexity.

The project started as a way to arrange my knowledge around JavaScript. Inspired by the past, I decided to replicate to some extend what Sun Microsystems did in ’95 with the Self programming language (a project I find underrated and ahead of its time), but using modern, popular tools such as JavaScript/TypeScript, VS Code, WebAssembly, PostgreSQL, etc.

The project is in early alpha stage with the bus factor of (strong) 1. :)

Happy to answer any questions here or at oh@zaiste.net*

PS. I’m creating a todo app using Kretes on YouTube [2] to explain the bigger picture of building full-stack applications. IMHO it’s good to have a general understanding of how web applications work before* specializing in front-end or back-end - that’s the goal for this video series, and for Kretes.

[1] not yet public

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLAElFkRrWI&list=PLhXZp00uXB...
Compressing Synapse Database
Show HN: Zebrium – ML that catches software incidents and shows you root cause
Hey folks,

Larry, Ajay and Rod here!

We're excited to share Zebrium's autonomous incident detection software. Zebrium uses unsupervised machine learning to detect software incidents and show you root cause. It's built to catch even "Unknown Unknowns" (problems you don't have alert rules built for), the FIRST time you hit them. We believe autonomous incident detection is a important tool for defeating complexity and crushing resolution time.

* Get Started *

1) Go to our website and click "Get Started Free". Enter your name, email and set a password.
2) Install our collectors from a list of supported platforms. For K8s it's a one command install. Join the newly created private Slack channel for alerts (or add a webhook for your own)
3) That's it. Automatic incident detection starts within an hour and quickly gets good. You can drill down into logs & metrics for more context if needed.

Getting started takes less than 2 minutes. It's free for 30 days with larger limits and then free forever for up to 500MB/day.

* Here's what you WON'T have to do *

Manual training, code changes, connectors, parsers, configuration, waiting, hunting, searching, alert rules, etc! It works with any app or stack.

* How It Works *

We structure all the logs and metrics we collect in-line at ingest, leverage this structure to find normal and anomalous patterns of activity, then use a point process model to identify unusually correlated anomalies (across different data streams) to auto-detect incidents and find the relevant root-cause indicators. Experience with over a thousand real-world incidents across over a hundred stacks has confirmed that software behaves in certain fundamental ways when it breaks.

It turns out that we can detect important incidents automatically, with a root-cause indicator when the logs and metrics reflect it. Zebrium works well enough that our own team relies on it, and we believe you'll want to use it, too.
> the entire interior is expected to stay at a uniform temperature.

Surely this is as simple as adding a small fan so that air circulates inside?
Many things can happen, and it's hard to be exhaustive when the stories are so subjective and not a lot of research can be done on psychedelics yet.

First, for some people, psychedelics can trigger things they were not aware of (but likely in their family history or personal history) such as schizophrenia or episodes of past trauma. This is not really the norm, but is sometimes not mentioned by people who are afraid of the "demonization" of those drugs.

Depending on the dose, the drug, and the susceptibility of the person, one can also experience gaps in memory which create confusion in the moment (and in some cases after the trip), or a psychotic state (which can end up being manageable with knowledge and support for some, and a trip to sleep through the night in a hospital for others).

If we're not talking about these things, then bad trips can have physical components as well as psychological ones. For example: seeing horrific visions (when closing your eyes most often, sometimes even with eyes open), having a "body feeling" that just doesn't feel quite right (messed up proprioception, nausea), having thought patterns that take you down a negative spiral..

Examples of horrific visions: fractals of upsetting images that may or may not be related to experiences you've had (from past traumas to movies, or even random bits of your perception you weren't quite aware of).

Examples of body feeling issues: feeling like parts of the body aren't where they are ("my nose is a few centimeters off"), speech impediment/slurring, losing control of limbs temporarily (which can create a lot of fear and confusion)

Examples of thought patterns that create panic/anxiety/fear: thinking that the current state will last forever (forgetting that the psychedelic effect will wear off), feeling a lot of emotions without understanding the specific cause, perceiving some past trauma and not being resilient against it, heightened empathy being overwhelming, forgetting that perceptions are altered which affects behaviour ("I can't walk this path because it's too steep" on a flat path).

There's so much more to say about that, and also so much to say about proper preparation (set, setting, support) which can prevent almost all the problems listed, but it's important to remember that psychedelics are not a joke. Particularly so when getting into high doses, "research chemicals", or simply powerful ones (DMT comes to mind for intensity, or STP/DOM for length)
Interesting theory; from what I've seen though, it's fueled more by Adderral scrips.
Are their top execs Chinese Communist Part members?
I've definitely seen more LG and Samsung appliances than I did 20 years ago, and not just some off-brand in the back corner.
New Insight into the Great Dying
When the banner fills the screen, the 'X' is the unconditional opt out.
too many tools, too much politics!
like other animals we should have kept it simple, KISS.
Arguing in the other direction, it turned out to be very important that Floyd killing was captured on video and the killer identified.

Since that happened, there have been dozens (at least) of murders and vicious, life-changing assaults, most captured on video. I'd be very happy to see every one of the bad guys identified, and this seems like it would be effective toward that end.
Mute Buttons Are the Latest Discourse Markers
Maybe it would work better if you educate people instead of insisting on controlling them?
Differentiating through control flow has never made sense to me. What does it mean to differentiate the following function: "f(x) = x > 0 ? x : -x"? If you plot this function you get a sharp corner at 0 which means it's not differentiable there because the limit from the left is -1 and the limit from the right is 1. Since 1 =/= -1 the derivative does not exist at 0.

So how are AD libraries claiming to differentiate such functions? Is there an implicit assumption that the user knows the derivative does not make sense at 0?

Edit: I just tried this and it gives the wrong answer without any hint that it's incorrect:

"""

julia> f

f (generic function with 1 method)

julia> f(0), f'(0)

(0, -1)

julia> f'(1), f'(-1)

(1, -1)

"""
The fact that it even supports all that content is kind of silly. I don't think it was ever reasonable to expect it to actually be useful.

I would guess the reason it exists at all is that someone at LinkedIn figured out that, by its very nature, their site does not generate regular or frequent user engagement. What need is there to visit the site except to update your information occasionally or at select times when you want to make a change to your job situation?

But if you're LinkedIn, you don't want to run a site that people visit every now and then. You want users coming back all the time. More 30-day active users is better, right? So you try to create an artificial reason for them to do that. And it must be job-related, because that's what your site is about. So random user-generated job tips it is.
Rights are enforced through legislative processes. Legislative processes can grant privilege, entitlement, and protection, but not a right.
This is the most helpful comment here. I still don’t understand what the tool is for though. Up until now I assumed it would allow me to get automatic transcriptions, including breaking them down by speaker.
In the end, you will be disappointed with the latter if you love running your Electron apps + Firefox or Chromium on this device.
Some recruiters look at Github when they either search for candidates or want to assess a candidate. Not all recruiters are crappy. Some of them can give you interesting and lucrative offers. It takes maybe five minutes to write a presentation that clarifies your skills. So I don’t think it’s weird that some Github usera take that opportunity.
"You can either do something, or be someone" -- John Boyd
Feel free to shoot me an email: zohaib[at]resemble.ai

We also have an API that you might find useful for the soundboard project: https://app.resemble.ai/docs
When you're new to CS, you're excited and kind of have that Dunning Kruger effect of not knowing how much of a noob you really are. I think all of us who have gotten to the senior level were there at some point.

And when we see the same noobishness in young people just getting started, especially if they're making the assertion that they know much more than they actually do, you can't help but playfully put that attitude in check.

I've done/said similar things to junior members on my team, always in jest, but only because I know where their head is at and that I've been there too. I hire attitude and well, they're ready to go from day 1. And of course, the more they learn going forward, the more they realize the extent of their former bravado.

Hopefully the guy referring to you as the master was constructive and congenial overall.
Disband The Tone Police: The revolution will not be poll tested
MTM Wood is also exceptional, he's from Russia: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWBTyvNhUXq0ofu6ta1EAaQ
No worries. I understand what you mean. I have not seen high response times (3 secs u report on first request) for 404s yet via Pingdom but then again the site has only 3 or 4 pages so not worried about 404 performance.

Thanks!
GIMP is also extensible with Python, Perl or even Scheme[0].

[0] https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Scheme/
I work in pathological speech processing/synthesis so I'm unfortunately familiar with your father's position. It really sucks that these people didn't know that archiving their voice would've been useful. I hear snippets that people manage to glean from family videos right after listening to their current voices and it makes me really sad.

On the upside, your father can choose any celebrity he wants to voice him! Tons of celeb data is publicly available (VoxCeleb 1 & 2).
> Following someone around everywhere they go, waiting outside of their house, and writing down everything you see them doing is not.

So you are saying private investigator is an illegal occupation?
In the same way that the ReLU derivative is not defined at x=0. Most of the time, in practice, this all doesn't really matter and you can still get gradient descent to work in a useful way.
One man stands between Joe Biden and the US presidency – Mark Zuckerberg
True, when you stand at a cliff and look down, you feel the urge to step forward, my theory as a climber is:

Your eyes tell you it's flat so you can step forward...but your sense of balance tell's you something different..brain is confused, you never have that feeling when your IN the wall.
No pre-stain. However, I did sand them down quite a bit.
I think he was just going back to get his degree. I should say that it was just a shareware product he had developed that I was talking about. I don't remember what he had done for a living up to that point.
I really don't know much about the intersection of IP and legal entities, but in the worst case scenario would IA be able to move its web captured assets to a separate company instead of tanking the whole thing? In other words, just leave the "library" division to tank and take the heat while everything else remains safe elsewhere?
Yep.

This is also a big part of why 'Light guns' for video game consoles in the US looked more and more like a prop from Buck Rogers through the 90s
Photopea is absurdly advanced as a browser offering. Breath of fresh air after using bloated image editing software.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt

Such a good message. I stumbled upon that quote from Brene Brown's TED talk on shame [0], which I definitely recommend.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame
I decided that one criteria for expensive things I buy from now on is that unless it is inherent to the function of the object, I will not buy things that depend on the maker as an ongoing operation for functions I care about[1].

Cell phones are the hardest case there, and I'll probably break my rule in that case. But in general, I'm not paying rent on things I already bought, even if that tax is in the form of stupid ads.

[1] I'm also not going to play what-about-this-edge-case with quibblers.
The standard used for the sentence you quoted was "socially acceptable". Legally, private investigators operate in a grey area, and private investigators know this. Regardless, lone private investigators are nowhere near the level of scale where it is happening to everyone at once.
I wish social networks would not automatically follow people when I connect with people.
List of Countries and Dependencies by Number of Police Officers
Part of 'software engineering' is the wisdom of how to organize a large project. There are books on the subject, some of them good. One place I worked had a book club that met one lunch a week to talk about them and what we liked and discarded from each book. Ultimately I feel I've learned a lot by doing over my 20 year career; so, go for it, make it messy on the first draft, figure out how it would be better organized, make it better. I still do first-drafts all the time.
It's the asymmetric nature of these things that I'm against. If you followed the developers around with a notebook and telephoto camera documenting their every move, you'd probably get picked up for stalking.
This is a brilliant and mind bending point of view.
Upgrading the Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX to Latest Ubuntu Focal Fossa (20.04)
The upgrade path is only from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as far as I am aware. Microsoft extended licenses so that license for Windows 7 are valid for Windows 10 and vice versa. This might unfortunately have been after your story.

Windows XP never had an upgrade path (couldn't even change hardware like the motherboard safely) so it's progress in my mind. Windows 8 was a mess that was dropped shortly after release, I am sorry for all the souls who had to try it.

There is a very good backup tool embedded since Windows 7 that allows to snapshot and restore the system. Highly recommend to use.
I did weekly one-on-ones with a former gf. We'd just check in, see how the week went.. make sure everyone is feeling good and getting enough attention and whatnot.

I thought it was a good idea, and maybe it was. It felt fine at the time. Our lives took us in different directions and we parted ways after a couple years dating. I thought we left things amicably, but I got an email a few years later (after I had married someone else) that made it clear that my then-gf does indeed seem to hate my fucking guts now.

I don't do one-on-ones with my wife, but it still doesn't strike me as a bad idea.

It's entirely possible I'm an idiot.
That and more has been done at the recent protests.

Do you genuinely believe those drones flying over every major city taking high resolution photos of everyone within 30 miles are there for fun?
I suppose that is a third way to deal with automation.

I usually say, there are two ways to deal with productivity increases (from automation and industrialization): you can either attempt to do more as a civilization (build moon bases, increased consumer goods, etc) or you can have everyone work less (3 or 4 day work weeks, 5 hour work days, etc).

I guess you can also just create lots of bullshit jobs so everyone is still "working" 40+ hours a week without actually doing anything.
Whoa -- Speech to bash commands? That's a pretty novel idea to me with my limited awareness of NLP. I could see this same idea in a lot of technical applications -- Provisioning cloud infrastructure, creating a database query.. Very cool!
i just got smoked by that eyeballing game
Glimpse is what you get after you send the GIMP through the corporate product management department.
This is probably going to be tricky. I don't see how the 2 meter rule (or variant thereof) can be enforced on the underground trains at peak times. On a slight tangent, given that everyone will be required to wear a mask doesn't the risk of spreading/catching the virus diminish thereby eliminating the need for the distance rule?
Didn't expect this to be posted here. I've put up a FAQ now answering a lot of the questions in this thread and dispelling the rumours. Thank you!
This is important context to keep in mind. But, I work for a 20 person company, so only two reporting lines to choose from :\
They may be the best of the best. But when you see a guy with a youtube channel with it. It kind of defeats the whole deal of "i could do this too"

If it's the best of the best the average homeowner shouldn't own it. (It's not a good value for them)
Reduced heat might be the most likely explanation – https://www.renvu.com/Learn/How-Temperature-Affects-Solar-Pa...
> NVidia Shield

Have you seen all the ads on an Nvidia Shield? So now I have to also install LineageOS?
Yes, you can just consider it a piecewise differentiable function. That's not usually a problem in practice if you think of the derivatives more as heuristics in a search problem than absolute truth. Obviously how well your optimization works does depend on the differentiability attributes of your underlying function and how well your optimization scheme can handle it.
Precisely my point. If they could put a model as large as GPT-3 into production (at a reasonable price to the consumer), wouldn’t that be a 10x improvement?