skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. just did
For the US healthcare system you can add poor people without insurance using emergency rooms as their primary point of care. Emergency rooms are required to treat them, they can't pay, so those costs get shifted to other people. Worse, the care they receive is usually the bare minimum and there's a good chance they end up back there. Overall a horrifically inefficient way to socialize medical costs.
The notes that this app is playing, from lowest to highest, are:

B3 C#4 F#4 G#4 C#5 D#5 E5 G#6 B6 C#7 F#8 G#8

These notes are all diatonic, e.g. from the same key (unlike all the keys on a piano). That key is C# relative minor (or E major). In modal language, this is the C# Aeolian (or, when played from E to E, Ionian mode):

C# D# E F# G# A B C#

If you play notes restricted to a single key, it will come out sounding OK.
I can agree that anarchist can be a belief system or lifestyle that can be practiced without breaking the law. Anarchism as a belief, anarchist as a noun.

Insurrection, rioting and looting are actions that are breaking the law. How long should this behavior be tolerated? Perhaps it's just a phase the people need to go through in order to release pent up energy. The concern is, though, that each time a city is burned and looted and people are beaten and killed and the rest of the country sees no consequence to the rioters, looters and insurrectionists, it lowers the barrier to partaking.

By reporting only the mayhem, the press becomes the gateway drug to anarchy.
> Normalization layers and activation functions are critical components in deep neural networks that frequently co-locate with each other. Instead of designing them separately, we unify them into a single computation graph, and evolve its structure starting from low-level primitives. Our layer search algorithm leads to the discovery of EvoNorms, a set of new normalization-activation layers that go beyond existing design patterns. Several of these layers enjoy the property of being independent from the batch statistics. Our experiments show that EvoNorms not only work well on a variety of image classification models including ResNets, MobileNets and EfficientNets but also transfer well to Mask R-CNN, SpineNet for instance segmentation and BigGAN for image synthesis, significantly outperforming BatchNorm and GroupNorm based layers in many cases.

I recently was wondering why evolutionary tactics are not used to evolve neural network architectures and this paper answers that question. People are looking at evolving novel architectures using evolutionary tactics.
> The entire input stream must be available (multi-call/streaming mode are not supported)

> The entire output buffer must be allocated with a fixed size -- however, callers are able to query the required size

I have not seen a compression library ask for this before. Chunk-at-a-time is not supported? Whole file in RAM? So no-go for memory constrained environments or large files?

This is from the Windows Internals guy? His reputation is pretty good, maybe I am missing something here.

Edit: The code also keeps the input buffer in a global variable. Weird.

I am going to guess he has a very specific use case in mind for this library, like a bootloader or something, where memory management and multiple files are not as important because you decode once and throw out everything shortly after.
I think the real idea is that America is destroying itself. Not just on the surface, but it's like looking at a democratic will to self-un-democratize.
Work on this has been done. See Polymorphic Identifiers: Uniform Resource Access in Objective-Smalltalk [1].

1. https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/publications/media...
How strong is the IP position around the CMS?
It uses metal and apple uses amd do no.
Neatly done, feel like the lack of a simple, but focused native experience is what has stopped me from using other web / cross platform alternatives – they all fail to corner one group's narrow use case
SQLite notably is often used as a file format. For example, for browser cookie storage.

As you can see in the next sentence after your quote,

> Exploring only a few of the possibilities this presents we’ll pwn password stealer backends while they parse credentials files and achieve iOS persistency by replacing its Contacts database…

(The major browsers store passwords in SQLite databases, so password stealers upload those to a backend. iOS makes it hard to run code persistently (if you have a shell once, can you keep it after a reboot), so the Contacts database is a target for persistence.)
When I was reversing the XMDF E-Book format, I was surprised to find an embedded SQLite database... in an E-Book?? After reading this article, it makes more sense why someone would make that decision
> sqldiff

You just blew my mind. Thank you!

I can't believe the things I find out from random HN comments.
“Isn’t as easy as taking notes on Apple Note” YES that’s exactly why I built it. I love Apple notes but I can’t share them online or update my blog :)

Obsidian looks really nice, I think it’s similar to Roam. I wanted to make something simpler.
I do want to add local storage of notes for offline more.

PS: You can export all notes easily from the site at any time :)
Did anyone try this using AirPods Pro? On the iPhone’s speaker it sounds fine, on the AirPods I hear a lot of crackling noises between notes. Maybe the successive playback and stop of individual sounds messes up something in the compression used by the AirPods??
"maximize the value over the long term" isn't the same as "upend the company to pick up a couple dimes"
> This! There's a Korean grocery store chain around here (Zion) that brings in all kinds of produce and the majority of it is significantly less than anywhere else local. Some of it is near it's expiration date, so due diligence is required...

That's a workable model, provided very strict guidelines are put into place, temp controlled and freezing before expiration date etc... It just makes sense to do that than let it go to a dumpster and landfill given all the hidden costs it takes to raise animals for meat.

> but at other times I think stuff is incredibly affordable because it's in season and there's a ton of supply.

It is. That's the added benefit to seasonal menus in restaurants, it helps re-direct the supply to value added models, but also creates a direct benefit to the consumer.

> I've seen prices for some things hit ten cents a pound.

This is a bit hard to believe, nothing that requires any amount of labour to grow can realistically be sold that low and not be done at a loss for all involved.

I mean even growing herbs requires resources, labour, transport that require a higher price. Even if Ag went entirely automated I doubt we'd see that price for anything remotely called 'food.'

Perhaps a promotion to get people in the doors? That's typical in grocery stores business models.
I think you meant to post this as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23514055 ? Not sure though.
I dislike how much glass is used in many of these houses. I imagine they let a LOT of ambient noise and heat inside.
From the same organisation that published an op-ed from the Taliban.

The whole thing is absolutely bizarre
Toolchain masochism?
>It’s very clear to anyone reading Cottons article that the call is to deploy troops to subdue he largely peaceful protests

Is it? Because to me he very clearly and explicitly talks about people that are breaking the law - rioters and looters.

The opinion piece by Cotton literally says this:

>Those excuses are built on a revolting moral equivalence of rioters and looters to peaceful, law-abiding protesters. A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn’t be confused with bands of miscreants.

>But the rioting has nothing to do with George Floyd, whose bereaved relatives have condemned violence. On the contrary, nihilist criminals are simply out for loot and the thrill of destruction, with cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa infiltrating protest marches to exploit Floyd’s death for their own anarchic purposes.

How can you read these lines and say that it is very clear to anyone that he meant deploying troops against peaceful protesters?
That "log(e^i x pi) = i x pi" is not self-evident at all. The only reason you know it is because you attended a math class and your professor made you solve 60 problems from a $1,000 textbook until you memorized it.

I don't even know what "e^i x pi" means. How does that translate into C notation? Is it pow(e, i) * pi, or is it pow(e, i) * x * pi, or is it something else entirely?
The vast majority of politicians have been very careful to differentiate between peaceful protestors and rioters/looters specifically because they know people will have the same exact discussion we are having now. Competent politicians are very careful about their choice of language. They weren't born yesterday and neither was Tom Cotton.
On a side note, you would expect people to be super excited to explore possibilities of new infrastructure models. Instead, most posts related to lambda, etc... always come with this sort of reply.

For my use case (infrequent, easily separable jobs) FaaS stuff is a godsend. In the last year I've been doing things that would be orders of magnitude harder and more expensive thanks to it.
Much has been made in the media that he plead guilty so therefore there could be no possibility that his prosecution was unfair, unreasonable or political. But we know that many people plead guilty for reasons other than guilt. Facing a biased judge and prosecutors out for blood is certainly one of them. Fighting in such a case, even if you're right, is very risky.

You may gain a sense of schadenfreude that even one of the formerly powerful could be forced into that same grim calculus faced by a poor person railroaded by the system. But this is not justice in either case.
I believe that the most HW optimizations are made in MacOS on DWM level - window composition and animation.
Window surface is just a bitmap in RAM that needs to be populated by CoreGraphics/CPU.

In any case Acrylic/Vibrancy effects or "blur-behind background" (like on screenshots here: https://sciter.com/sciter-4-2-support-of-acrylic-theming/) are achievable only on GPU and on DWM level.
Could it be the audio stream stopping and starting in gaps, rather than playing silence, causing power saving to kick in and briefly stop the Bluetooth stream?
> Also worth noting that none of those impediments matter to a hungry consumer; if the farmer trucked the eggs in and sold them on the sidewalk there'd be buyers. It is entirely possible that the reason the commercial food chain has collapsed is it is straight-up illegal to sell the food directly to consumers, so it gets destroyed.

Not true, their are models that allow for that with many caveats (Rawsome in California comes to mind), but you can buy shares in a Farm via a CSA that entitles you to the harvest. Its just that most farms are so large and understaffed that his cannot be done. Moreover, they're incentivized not to do so (see below).

> Farmers are not the sort of people who encounter a minor difficulty then think "welp, I'm just gonna destroy my produce, that seems like the best option". If that is what they are doing then there are some mighty impediments in their path.

Having been a farmer myself, apprentice and then Manager, I agree with your sentiment. The problem you seem to be negating is that crop insurance and livestock insurance via Ag subsidies are masking these culling(s) that turn losses into compensated (albeit low) actions.

Its a horrible system that leads to these things, its baked into the system and its not just in the US and Europe, its everywhere. That's how this system is in just about every country with a semblance of a 'stable government' in the World, including the developed World.
The people behind this should serve prison time.
Usually those aren't built next to highways, train tracks, industrial zones, airports etc.

Do you have a problem with wind, water, and birds?
Ask HN: Did the Slashdot crowd from the late 90s and early 2000s migrate to HN?
Awesome! Added to bookmarks and will start reading tonight as it starts off strong.
I'm not sure if you're just using building codes as an analogy or if you're recommending them as a model, so take this for what it's worth.

I agree there should be some laws in place, but I think building codes would be a terrible model for software. If a building doesn't incorporate code changes until the owner modifies some system, the building doesn't become less safe. Fire doesn't look for ways to get around building codes. Largely, there aren't new threats, just new, better ways of dealing with those threats. The incentive is for building owners to not modify their buildings so they can put off and avoid those code change costs as long as possible. If the building was up to code when it was built/modified, and you get hurt, you might be out of luck.

Software is nearly the opposite and it's faster. I think that makes it a more difficult problem to solve. The last thing you want is to make the entire world work like tech in the medical field...
So by your logic nobody can trade stock with me before buying me a WSJ subscription?
Thanks for the kind words!

And yep! I need to make the language around the segment registers more precise: if I'm remembering right, the segment value itself gives you the GDT index (maybe only in 32-bit mode?), which you can then pull from.

For 64-bit modes I think those values essentially become nonsense because of the fsbase/gsbase MSRs, as you mentioned :-)
Why is Amazon promoting nazi supplies ahead of its own show about nazi hunters?
> I develop on a Windows laptop and deploy to Linux all of the time. I have some Python programs that have native dependencies. I still develop on Windows, push and the CI/CD pipeline runs on Linux and packages a Windows build.

Only peripherally related to your point, but I develop with Python on Windows and found that deploying to Linux, while in possible, can be a hassle in practice.

For instance, I use turbodbc on Windows to access SQL Server databases via ODBC. This works fine.

However, when I try to port the same code to ARM Linux (on Raspberry Pi), I learn that ODBC has dependency on the native ODBC driver which doesn't exist on the ARM platform. So I have to jump through all kinds of loops to compile FreeTDS and unixODBC, which aren't trivial. Not only that, I had to cross-compile on an x64-Linux VM to the ARM architecture because the Raspberry Pi itself didn't have enough disk space for gcc and such.

I think cross-architecture compilation isn't the issue -- it's cross-platform deployment, especially when there's no parity in dependency availability.
I like it.

Your video walkthrough is good.

Can I edit my notes / blog from a desktop?
Correct, I hit reply on his, but HN can be odd; I get random attachments to my comments to for no obvious reason.

But, yes, that was my intention.
Harvard geneticist's goal: protect humans from viruses, genetic diseases, aging
> "He stood up for his principles" is an incorrect abstraction of what happened.

Absolutely, my phrasing here actually reductive to the point where it doesn't tell us whether he had moral standing to do so - (and that's by design; I actually don't know enough from this article, or others to know whether I agree with his behaviour or not, so I haven't weighed in on that). I'd agree that "standing up for their principles" describes segregationists too- i don't think it tells us who has the right side of an issue.

Whether Dail is right or wrong here is actually irrelevant to my critique above: my intended point was supposed to be:

that the comparison between this person (whose activism at their workplace cost them their job), versus Obama's critique (of people issuing issuing barely-thought-through rebukes online that they aren't invested in), is a pretty unhelpful comparison.

People asserting changes to what is or isn't acceptable in their workplace are absolutely risking blowback for it, and I maintain that's not remotely the same thing as the online brigading / mob justice / cancel-culture conducted by people who can often be trigger-happy as they stand to face no adverse consequences if their critiques are rejected.

I apologise if my phrasing above made this less than clear. It looks to have been interpreted as clearly siding with Dail's position on matters.

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EDIT: Your choice of example is also interesting though: "Hey look everyone, Pryce refused wave the same flag as I do, get the pitchforks!" is a clever choice on a BLM-related issue; as regardless of what happens in Dails case, it actually quite well characterizes the President's position (and his support bases position) on kneeling in the NFL -and now other sports-, to the point where he has called for the firing of people who refuse to stand for the anthem (and/or) flag.
I think this sort of thing is the outcome of “engineer stockpiling” where companies insatiably hire engineers beyond what they need.

The company becomes a “a collector of fine engineers” like a gallery or museum or stable. And since such engineers get bored working on logging systems or whatever they do something more fun.
>In one case, there is a black man killing another black man. To me it seems highly unlikely that race was a motivating factor.

At the end of the day, you can't say that conclusively. However this kind of event is outside of the fetishsized view of racial oppression. In my view, this is a trope trotted out to wear compassion on a shirtsleeve. I see it as a reflection of their vanity.

If you want to throw in the institutional angle, perhaps you could conclude that perpetrators of these crimes are less likely to be prosecuted.

https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicagos-dismal-murder-solve-ra...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3202470

>If they were genuinely concerned, they wouldn't silence this man.

I stand by this statement. It doesn't matter if race is a motivating factor in this context. There's no reason to silence this man's views.

Canceling the journalist who reported it with cries of 'racist', because it doesn't fit the preconceived narrative is prejudicial. First they fetishsize to better self-aggrandize. Next they dispose of observations which do not fit their hypothesis. This man's concerns, the murder statistics and how that will impact real people, none of that matters. They're eager to skip all of that and jump to the conclusion where they prove their hypothesis. Throw in a few extra leaps to conflate the whole thing with an imagined moral high ground and partisan politics.

Hope this helps to clarify the lack of logical consistency I see here. Thanks.
Yes, the web interface is slick. Very cool.
And if I also disagree with some of what the other party is doing, then what? "Don't vote" seems to be the only option you have left. And I strongly disagree that that's the best option.
Not trying to equate pigs to humans people at all - however, see this as a parable:

If these were people being tortured to death, would you say that monetarily incentivizing torturers to move away from this model is the only real way?

It makes no sense to me. If it's not illegal, it should be. Soon.
It’s amazing that we think this is even possible to achieve — pick up a particular signal that’s been floating around since the beginning of the universe and get interesting info from it... would be so cool if they manage it!
Sorry dang. I'll try harder to do my part to keep HN civil instead of getting personal.
This wouldn't be a problem if Section 230 was repealed

https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/internet-speech/comm...
> So, is this a real thing that happens? Just curious.

It's a reference to a FB employee who got fired recently for doing exactly that. Publicly shaming a colleague who had elected not to become politically involved.
Here is a link to the op-ed for anyone following along who wants to read it: https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1375.

It is true that it does start of by talking about violence, rioters, and harm that's come to the police. But after that he explicitly says that these should not be confused by the protesters:

> Some elites have excused this orgy of violence in the spirit of radical chic, calling it an understandable response to the wrongful death of George Floyd. Those excuses are built on a revolting moral equivalence of rioters and looters to peaceful, law-abiding protesters. A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn't be confused with bands of miscreants.

The majority of the op-ed is a fairly straightforward argument for deploying federal resources to help police, how that might be done, and why it needs to be done.

This is the most controversial paragraph it would appear (following the above paragraph).

> One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers. But local law enforcement in some cities desperately needs backup, while delusional politicians in other cities refuse to do what's necessary to uphold the rule of law.

The op-ed doesn't seem particularly controversial to me. Whether or not a given city takes the action outlines in it -- yes, sure, that might be controversial. But this seems like the basic argument that is made by people in support of sending in troops to supplant police. I struggle to see why the views of a good chunk of the population should not have a public platform to be presented & discussed.
Not an expert by any stretch of the imagination (took higher math only as part of an undergraduate engineering curriculum), but as I understand, this still applies to Andrew Wiles proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem:

> A proof that only has many small steps but no global picture is hard to motivate.

Wiles' proof is considered a 'modern proof' in that some of the constructs he used int he proof (modular elliptic curves I believe) did not exist in the time of Fermat. A proof involving them while certainly not fitting the margins where Fermat scribbled his famous claim, would also not meet his criteria of 'elegant'.

I wonder the search for his version of the proof still continues?
This is very well done. I've taken BASB and this does a fantastic job covering all the main points.
He does make it explicit that rioter =/= protestor:

> Some elites have excused this orgy of violence in the spirit of radical chic, calling it an understandable response to the wrongful death of George Floyd. Those excuses are built on a revolting moral equivalence of rioters and looters to peaceful, law-abiding protesters. A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn't be confused with bands of miscreants.
Both points are true, but the author is talking about writing new software specifically for serverless compute.
It's always baffling to me to read about people who complain about their Facebook feed because their friends post shit, and because they like pages who post shit...

Facebook can't magically fix your feed for you, you have to curate it yourself, how come people don't understand that?
Money is objective while ethics are not
As someone from a low-tier country, I'd say I had very good success with American woman. Which was surprising given that I expected them to be unapproachable from what I read online. I think Americans might be more interested and willing to compromise with strangers than their own kind; for both sexes.