skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that an advisor is in a better position to determine "potentially interesting results" than a grad student is; science in the extreme should be ideally purely content-based (the proposal alone), but reality is that its not.

I imagine you're mostly funding humans (who have provided a rough, or even detailed plan; which will likely be subject to modification or analysis as the project evolves), in which case experience is a strong heuristic.

And presumably, if you can't convince any possible advisors that your research is "potentially interesting", it seems unlikely you'd convince the funding department, or even should be able to convince them (who presumably have limited knowledge of the precise area of focus -- I imagine they rely on the deeper specialist input).

Of course, if you can convince an advisor that its potentially interesting, there should ideally be nothing stopping further development (eg no one should be claiming that it originated from a student, so it can't possibly be valid -- it's been validated by the advisor, so that's the heuristic to now beat)
We Just Don't Know: Discussion of “The Idea of the Brain”
Did they start?
Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
This is a neat idea. Also, many apps don't need your EXACT location, just something like a zip code for convenience. AFAIK there is no mechanism for an App to request permissions to get a "rough" idea of where you are as opposed to a precise location
Correction: macOS is UNIX®
Photography is one of those areas where devices don't go obsolete very quickly. With a good lens from 50 years ago I can still take an excellent photo on a digital camera from 15 years ago. Sure you won't have all the bells and whistles of the latest cameras and you'll sacrifice a few stops of dynamic range but for the average hobby photographer that doesn't really matter. The only customers who will upgrade every few years are professionals and Olympus hasn't had a huge offering for professionals. The micro four thirds standard is a great compromise between size and picture quality but it isn't what most professionals are looking for. They can use a phone for most of the things that an Olympus camera is good for and everyone these days already has a phone on them.

One market that hasn't been explored by camera manufacturers is software upgrades. I would pay a fair bit of money to get some of the latest computational photography features on my 5 year old camera.
I stand corrected, didn't know that!
Wake me up when the first of these reaches the market that's not from Tesla (maybe I should say "or from rivian" but they aren't out yet). Too easy? I'll believe these companies will survive when they have made a 1,000.
On the flip side, I guess ARM Macs will now allow the use of hypervisors for Android simulators, instead of a full hardware virtualization.

... thus making Android development better on Macs?
How We Built a Startup Fundraising Network That Aims to Remove Bias
But I think the problem is that a lot of news publications have slowly become more and more biased, and they have cultivated specific audiences. Maybe because of the biases of their journalists, maybe because they are trying to cater to the outspoken, who might only be a small minority, maybe for some other reason. Thus the subscription model starts to fall apart when the people who want to support it shrinks, so you still might be engaged in clickbait and ragebait to try and grab people and bring them in to subscribe, or keep the people that like the type of clickbait and ragebait they publish. Unfortunately, you are likely getting more and more of one specific group.

I think this is a losing proposition because as you target a smaller and smaller part of the population, if you step out of line by publishing something that is against their world view, they will unsubscribe and take their money elsewhere. Look at what happened with the Tom Cotton oped in the NYT. The editor that approved that quit because of the outrage, and I wonder how many subscriptions they lost. If you think that oped was horrible, then why not post a rebuttal? Why is the mere act of publishing the opinion of a senator such a crime? I think this shows that the subscription model is not protecting against the degradation of the NYT in quality. If you had a wider user base, and appeal to a wide range of people, you could lose some subscriptions when putting out some controversial article, but it wouldn't cripple you.
> there is a noticable stigma in the professional community around equipment that isn't Canon. If you're not using L-glass, it feels like you get the same kind of judgement that Android users experience when they show up with green texts in iMessage.

Especially for Cameras and Lenses that's solely on user's mind.

Your photos speak for themselves. You absolutely don't need Canon or L glass.

BTW, maybe you are not up to date with the current developments, but Canon gets a lot of hate and is looked down because of their mirrorless systems.

The new king is Sony
Actually they often don't. In the US, we had the Rural Electrification Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act) that brought electricity into rural areas, but these places often still have wells, septic tanks, and gas tanks.
Oh man municipal fiber if successful is likely the only thing that can challenge the big telcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel
> 'd rather trust my distro's package maintainers to not let developers abuse their users, and have a look at the source if I'm in doubt about the upstream's intentions.

Trusting 3rd parties to decide what you can trust isn't ideal either. It's what Google and (especially) Apple have for mobile apps now. They decide what you can safely install and we're just supposed to trust them. That's clearly not working.

While you have the added benefit of being able to trawl over thousands of lines of code looking for something suspicious, that's not exactly scalable or even possible for the majority of users. In the end, what exactly are you looking for anyway if not signs that an application is making connections or accessing files that it shouldn't. In that respect, it's far better to have the OS just tell users when an application is doing those things (connecting to the internet, reading their personal files, or activating their cameras). The more transparency in what an app is doing the better because the reality is that we cannot trust every app we install. How could we possibly?
Going to be a little while before I have the time to sit down and go through the full text of the bill.

I see a couple of mentions of dig once requirements, no mentions of one touch make ready rules. References to municipal Internet that seem at glance to mostly be about allocating funds, but again, I haven't been able to read over the bill in detail, so I'm very likely missing details. I can't find much mentioning repeals other than what appears to be (again, just skimming) caps on the lifeline program.

For anyone who has spent more time reading, what are the big takeaways from this -- beyond just allocating money for infrastructure?

I'm pretty skeptical of a bill that just adds a few regulations around consumer costs and devotes money to building infrastructure, because what I've seen is that the big players like Comcast swoop in, take the money, and then don't build the infrastructure. And then nobody punishes them. I don't really get the point of throwing money at this problem when we've already seen that established players can just take the money and run.

What would make me excited is repeals of regulations surrounding municipal wifi, or tangible paths to stop new competitors from getting sued out of existence.

Should I be excited about anything in this bill?
You don't have to save all the user's location data to a central server for the local device to remember your common navigation request endpoints.

You don't have to send any data to a central server at all.
From fcc.gov site

> Q: Does the FCC regulate the rates charged by Internet Service Providers (ISPs)?

> A: No. ISPs are considered "enhanced service providers" under FCC rules. The FCC does not regulate the rates that enhanced service providers charge to their subscribers.

Moreover, even if they could, we would need leadership at the top of FCC who would care about consumers. Right now, Mr Pai is available to dance for the highest bidder [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tribune-media-m-a-sinclai...
You are probably observing the missing fundamental phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental
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I am not. But also, how many x86 processors are sold outside of the PC platform? They have a symbiotic relationship. The foundation of everything we have today.

> Software interchangeability is more of an operating systems issue than an architectural one.

Not if the architecture is designed around keeping others out. But just not telling anyone how to do it is enough in 99% of cases. Some hacker might post a buggy proof-of-concept for an obsolete device that no one will run.

> Server-class ARM hardware generally does use similar parts as x86 servers, including power supplies and PCIe peripherals.

Wanna place a bet on what apple is going to do?
I know quite a few banks that heavily invest in node.js. Velocity of full-stack JavaScript team is something that is hard to replicate. With node.js and Typescript you can get reasonable performance and decent safety/maintenance.

JavaScript's community is just bigger, there are people with different level of skill but as a whole it is more welcoming and progressive.
> BLEU and ROUGE scores are almost useless for what they are trying to do (measure how good translation or summarization systems are). The author shows a great example of an excellent translation getting a 0 score.

The author also (perhaps unintentionally) shows a great example of being unable to tell whether a translation is excellent or awful.

猫坐在垫子上 is not a great correspondence to either reference sentence. Going purely by grammar, the equivalent of "the cat is on the mat" would be 猫在垫子上 (note the missing 坐, which is the verb "to sit", not present in the english references), and "there is a cat on the mat" would be 垫子上有猫 [literally "the top of the mat has a cat"].

猫坐在垫子上 could be a good translation of "the cat is on the mat". But it could also be a good translation of "cats sit on mats". Those two sentences are radically different in English; to judge the translation, you need to be aware of whether e.g. someone just asked "where's the cat?" or "what do cats do?"
Hank Shaw’s recipe is supposed to be among the best:
https://honest-food.net/hare-stew-hard-times/
How useful would it be to target ads based on what you did 19+ months ago? If you ignore privacy, it seems like the model needs to be based more on a moving window of what's relevant to you now.
I think only Panasonic and Olympus make M43 bodies, so effectively yes, Panasonic is now the only one - though there are a few other companies making lenses still. The bodies are presumably going to be the more difficult thing to replace. I have a number of M43 lenses, and I'm concerned about how long I'll be able to use them for - it's not like the simple manual-focus lens days of old when you mostly just needed the right thread adapter.

I've owned three Olympus cameras. The first was a mju-1 compact camera in the early 90s (known as the Stylus in the US - the original one before they added a zoom). This was a remarkably good camera, with a great lens at a nice practical 35mm focal length (like the old Trip line, which I never got to use) in a really stylish body. I sold it a few years later when I really needed the money... The other two have been M43 digitals - an E-PL3 (now in use by my kids), and an E-M5 mark II, which has been my main camera for a few years and which I am very fond of.
This is what I mean, that the octave structure is preserved in equal temperament.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5230e9f8e4b06a...
Happens with different posts regarding Basecamp/dhh ... but who knows
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> their adjacent sides certainly aren't at right angles

They certainly are. Parallels and meridians always meet at 90 degrees.

https://www.geogebra.org/m/kNtNZzsS
Maybe the piece of software your friend worked on did nothing but flag the transactions. But I suspect a different piece of software (or manual process) prepared a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) and submitted it to the relevant regulator(s) (UKFIU in the UK, FinCEN in the US, ...).
Racial Diversity In Tech By The Numbers
How feasible would it be for a city to build publicly available wireless access points so that anybody who wanted to run a WISP can do so? I'd really like the option to walk away from a commercial ISP entirely if it's too painful. Right now I just cancel my Internet for a few months and go to the library before calling Comcast again, but with the current and possible future pandemics that might not be a viable option.

https://startyourownisp.com/
Are SSSE3 instructions faster than their AVX counterparts? It is my impression that AVX should be faster?
Leica is using Sony sensors, so them as a selection is mostly for the name and aesthetic. The UI is more limited and shooting RAW negates anything to do with “color science” selections for the default in-camera JPG encoders.
X250 is a 1366 x 768 screen right?

That's not comparable to a Macbook screen e.g. 3072×1920(!) on the latest 16 inch screen, and at 40% brightness you'd struggle out and about (which is where you need battery life, and again has no comparison to the macbook 500 nits)
> Only a particular part of the company ever saw phones that were in development and you needed special access to get into that part of the building.

Oh, I remember it was near impossible to get access to service manuals Level 1 & 2 (just for understand how to repair/replace few parts on my N82), and fully impossible get its Level 3 & 4.[0]

AIKON service centers had monopoly on repairing devices.

[0] http://www.s-manuals.com/phone/nokia_n82
I prefer Sanders’ proposal https://berniesanders.com/issues/high-speed-internet-all/
It doesn't need any python. Ansible opens a regular ssh session and can run anything from it - including python if available.
I have the exact same issue with joining a meeting. We use gsuite, so most meetings will have a zoom link in the subject or description. The order of operations for joining our daily standup is:

-> Click on link in calendar

-> Accept confirmation that the link is taking you offsite (Google's fault, admittedly)

-> Accept browser pop-up to allow me to open zoom app on MacOS

-> Then start with all of the other audio shenanigans listed at the start of the article.

Even with my zoom settings configured so that I don't need to confirm my audio settings every meeting, this is still far too many steps. There are likely ways to avoid the calendar-link steps by using the zoom desktop client's built-in scheduling calendar better, but I don't want to keep zoom running in the background all day (for a variety of reasons).
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I hadn't the right link at hand, but here we go: By Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian...

And an interview of the same Nils Melzer in a Swiss newspaper : https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...

Quote: ...A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden...

"Complete fabrication" seems fair enough to me.
Damn right... survival of the fittest.
I strongly agree. For laws to work effectively, there needs to be a critical mass of support for them in every group involved.
Maybe I'm weird, but when I bought my current laptop 2 years ago I specifically looked for one with a numpad, as I occasionally need to insert numbers into spreadsheets (working on replacing this workflow but I have a feeling it's still going to be manual number input overall, and some documents I extract numbers from are not copy-paste-able).

I found it convenient to have the numpad available at all times and the muscle memory I developed while typing on it makes the process less frustrating than looking all the time at the number row on the main keyboard body. As I understand it, the laptops with no numpad have a toggle that turns keys on the right side into a numpad, don't remember how exactly, might be vendor specific, some even have numeric markings on those keys, but the keys are laid out slanted, not in a square grid like the real numpad, so it's less precise that knowing you can feel the bump on the no. 5 key and to get to the others you just have to move straight up/down/left/right.

The fact that the touchpad is not centered never bothered me at all; I use a macbook for work, which is centered, and I felt no difference in hand position or comfort. In fact, the inverted position of CTRL and FN were (and still are) way more frustrating to deal with, even the switch to ISO keyboard from ANSI was less frustrating that that, but the off center touchpad/keys, never.
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I haven't looked in a while, but last I checked you could also still get to it via C:\PROGRA~1? (This was years ago, that might have been 'fixed'?)
Although full-frame DSLRs from Canon and Nikon are still the most versatile cameras for the widest range of shooting subjects and have the biggest systems, I'm not at all sure I'd get started with them today. I use my Fujifilm mirrorless far more because it's far more packable and it's at least "good enough" for most purposes. (And, to be honest, I spend more time shooting with my iPhone than either.)
Parallels already announced they’re going to have an option. TBD on what it looks like.

https://www.parallels.com/blogs/apple-silicon-wwdc/
Gear up landings are one of the most common insurance claims for aircraft. It’s more common than you might think, even with experienced pilots.
I never know if it's better to link to the webpage or the repository.

Source and more details are here: https://github.com/timshannon/threenamesinahat/
Is it worth it? Its always amazing to me the correlation between fiber and tech success. Eg SV doesn't have much fiber and lots of fiber rich cities and countries dont have much tech. Seems the best use for fiber is video streaming which isn't really that useful. I have 1 gig fiber and dont really notice the difference from 5/150 cable unless I'm uploading backups.
Android emulators on desktop generally run amd64 images of Android using existing virtualisation hardware and software.

At best, you can say that you can run ARM-only games at native speed now, but as a developer you won't really notice much different (assuming the processors aren't slower than Intel's)
I'd like to advocate for remote development environments. Most of my day is spent typing into a tmux session on a cloud-hosted box. (I picked up a Magic Keyboard for my 11" iPad Pro, and thanks to Blink it's a great glass terminal. It's not going to work if you're debugging let's say a React app, but I've been very happy on it the last several days churning out Golang.)

Running stuff on your laptop makes it run slow, get hot, and burn battery. I've considered getting a small x86 or ARM media appliance as a (physically local) remote server for when I can't count on an Internet connection. A media PC costs how much? The big holdup has been the tyranny of choice I'm confronted with. (Suggestions are welcome!)

I think very few people would be surprised if the coming of ARM Macs will, along with AWS's ARM moves (and Microsoft's), drive acceptance and adoption of ARM-based server computing. The mechanism won't be anything formal, just the vague pressure that comes from people wanting their programs and libraries to compile locally.
Substandard usage would be a huge problem in a hospital setting where you get extreme exposure and even a single-digit percentage loss in protection effectivity means sure infection. For day to day civilians however, even if they lose half the protection, if everybody has that other half it's almost enough to stop the wave.

Losing ten percent of three nines is huge, losing ten percent of coin flip reliability is negligible. (but a coin flip reduction in everyday infection rates would still be huge). I strongly believe that unnecessary fretting over clinical hygiene rules of mask handling is responsible for a massive adoption delay, or adoption gap even today.
Then there’s the occasional under-reliance on passports.

If you’re a “Permanent Resident” of Canada (basically a permit to live and work, but is only permanent if you meet the continuing requirements), you get a PR Card (which expires, but your status doesn’t mean your status has).

If you have one, Canada requires that you travel back to Canada with one (except on land borders). You’re not allowed to use your non-Canadian passport... because they know you should have a PR Card.

But what’s they point of requiring the card if they’re confident that you have PR status?

Oh, and the cards are now taking 300 days to renew. And they’re good for 5 years.
I don't think dynamic typing or static typing really applies.

In either case you have to compose functions With the correct types otherwise you hit an error. The difference with dynamic types and static types is when this error occurs. Run time for dynamic types and compilation time for static types. Either way some type of error will always occur regardless.

Though I agree with you if you have a limited number of types things become easier to deal with.
The Blade tops out at 16GB of ram and the XPS 13 only allows integrated graphics.

I've heard complaints on HN about S76's keyboard and display choices before but this categorical dismissal of them feels remarkably unfair and frankly, false.
Sourceful viewing figures are taken into account in Sourceful to sort "Hot" page but not displayed to users.

Outside of Sourceful, to see what is the most viewed document on the web, the best way is to use a tool like ahrefs. However, the quality of the doc does not seem to be strongly correlated to this number as the top docs are often clickbait/practically useless.
As much as I would love to see it, Starlink will not come close to competing with the majority of incumbent ISP networks as it is currently designed. High-density urban areas (where most of the US population lives) cannot be well-served by Starlink due to bandwidth/RF limitations on their current satellites. They will however totally rout the incumbent satellite ISPs in rural/semi-rural areas.

But yes, you might as well light the $100B on fire and get a good bonfire out of it... that money is headed nowhere useful.
But look how fast they released! /s
I believe this is the same reason why https://hey.com will win too.

Product engineering where the app/service is one big A/B test is how you truly figure out what your users want and need.
There's a double bass player trick for when you don't have a low C extension to play the low note up an octave plus the note a fourth below. This creates an illusion of the low note being present. It works best with a bow since it's hard to get the simultaneous sounding of the notes perfect pizzicato.
Being in the camera business is tough since recent mobile phones, they just don't compete anymore for most use case.
I had thought about switching to an Olympus micro from my Canon to save in size/weight. I am not a professional. Glad I didn't now.