skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it doesn't force restart your computer, right?
Founders may find & cluster in such spaces, themselves. Once upon a time, an SF high-rise got the nickname 'Yscraper' for all the YCers there:

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Justin-tv-to-get-boo...

And, there have been dorm-like living spaces throughout the Bay Area often favored by founders & young transplants. See, eg:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/dorm-living-gr...

I'd expect YC might informally be able to point out such places, or formally invest in some with the right vision, but would not necessarily get further into managing housing themselves. And, too much density/interaction with disparate teams might at some point become counterproductive, compared to the classic "intense founders of the same entity living together to the exclusion of other distractions" model, or the rising capabilities of mostly-remote teams.
> What happens in the case that a particular culture is more hateful? Do we just disregard any data that indicates socially unacceptable bias?

That's not what was happening. If you read the link, you'll see the problem is that the AI/ML system was mis-classifying non-hateful speech as hateful, just because of the dialect being used.

If it were the case that the culture was more hateful, then it wouldn't have been considered "mis-classification."

> You're completely missing my point.

I'm not missing your point; it's just not a well-reasoned or substantiated point. Here were your points:

> There's simply no indication that these aren't statistically valid priors.

We do have every indication that this wasn't what was happening in literally every single example I posted. You just have to read them.

> And we have mountains of scientific evidence to the contrary, but if dared post anything (cited, published literature) I'd be banned.

You say that, and yet you keep posting your point without any evidence whatsoever. Meanwhile, every single example I posted did cite peer-reviewed, published scientific evidence.

> This is all based on the unfounded conflation between equality of outcome and equality of opportunity, and the erasure of evidence of genes and culture playing a role in behavior and life outcomes.

Again, peer-reviewed published literature disagrees. Reading it explains why the point that it's all unfounded conflation is incorrect.
Did not find this article interesting. Very long, not insightful into the reasons behind the title.

It's mostly an intro into VC, YC, KP, and some of the other players and there's some human interest stuff in there along with a comparison to how little money other groups get.
> ... Well one of the reasons is that people working at this companies read and follow the precepts of Slate Star Codex. ...

This claim alone ought to suggest to you - given its obvious implausibility - that this person has a political axe to grind. (Same as the bunch of Twitter users who are now apparently gloating over the fact that Scott might soon get doxxed by the NYT - and who seemingly think "Orange site bad!" is a cogent argument. No, I won't be linking to them due to the obvious doxxing infohazard involved.)
I ride about 100 miles a week. The author either lost form trying too hard, or really wasn’t trying that hard.
Read all Twitter threads in one place
The problem is that you think the problem is "the ever more sensitive sensibilities of society" but the real problem is that you're unwilling to listen to other people and communicate with them effectively.

You can't control other people's sensibilities. If you find that your actions don't return responses that you want, you should consider adjusting your actions.

What's the saying? Doing the same thing expecting different results is the definition of crazy?
Small-town repair shops (that are part of the community) are indeed great. (Though even then, the friction of thinking you'll have to pay $50 just to diagnose a weird pop-up means people won't take very much advantage of them, whereas Microsoft's maintenance-presence on your computer can be near-constant. For most users, a local computer+repair shop selling them a support warranty/subscription, that they then take frequent advantage of, would probably be the optimal arrangement. Sort of like how people with insurance visit their doctor more frequently.)

On the other hand, bringing your computer to GeekSquad every three years, when staff turnover is such that you'll have about the same level of continuity-of-relationship as with a customer-support-hotline call center, gets you none of those benefits. And that's what most users in the "nothing" category do.

It's the GeekSquad paradigm that I think is very closely analogous to bringing yourself to a free clinic only for "sudden" (i.e. chronic, but got worse) health problems. As, if you come in once a year or less, you'll be seen each time by a different college med-student freshly on their practicum, with the one you saw last time having since graduated.

Of course, there's also always OEM support, ala Apple's AppleCare / Genius Bar. That's usually better than the GeekSquads of the world, and draws more people in than local no-name shops. But it's also, as you say, another megacorporation siphoning off local profits. (Though the store itself is at least employing locals.)
> They were fine, and apparently it was the second time they were struck

we usually don't notice how insulated we are from the dangers of the elements in our modern lives. We even use "struck by lightening" in many "what are the odds" type of comparisons. But risk/luck is all about positioning and exposing yourself to it[1]. What are the chances of getting killed in a plane crash? A lot higher if you're a pilot.

Last year I spent several months in the wilderness trekking the Alps. The number of times I was scared shitless was much higher than normal. With every bad weather I had to make a decision of whether to camp under trees (and get killed by a falling branch) or by camping in a clear field (and get struck by lightening). Lying there in my tent and thanking god (which I don't even believe in) for my apparent luck. I pondered this a lot and thought about Roy Sullivan[1] constantly (and airline employees too).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan
Facebook commits to flagging ‘newsworthy’ political speech that violates policy
Government dysfunction is a matter of perception. This defeatist attitude is toxic. Our government is functional. Your vote does count. You do have input, especially at a local level.
I'd love to see a more technical explanation of the method that is used!
The blase attitude towards influenza is more disturbing than SARS2. There is a reason we run a new vaccine every year and encourage people to take it.

Flu is dangerous
I wish we could eliminate worthless comments.
Of course, technically it is true.
But billions of decent human don't go around acting on that bias.
However, violently biased men and women in uniform with guns and alloted power need to be removed, arrested in uniform, and charged, jailed, for disgracing the profession.
My favorite analytics trick is to prove that every time a bug or complaint crops up, it only has a 1% chance of happening in any given month, and then slack off on fixing it

.. Woopsies, if there are 200 bugs that happen once a month, that means that there's only a 13% chance of making it through a month without experiencing at least one of those bugs..
Actually, we've been using Resonance Audio to convert fully spatialized sound in game engines to binaural and then pumping that through LCC. That seems to work well as a pipeline.
Botnets can attack directly, and don't need to spoof IPs. A couple thousand residential computers doing TLS handshakes can ruin anyone's day just as fast as a few computers in a datacenter spoofing udp chargen requests.
LaunchDarkly Now Serving over 2T Feature Flags a Day
Want us to be more tolerant of updates? Set things up with much better support for shutting programs down cleanly and ideally restarting them as they were. Add a Windows message that says "shut down for restart" and don't do a forced restart until every program has honored it. (Obviously, older programs won't support it.)
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commenta...
> Is there ever a reason not to use powershell?

No, you should always use it.

Its maybe a problem when ultimate performance is in question, but you can go long way with Powershell - I recently had a web service SOAP client implemented in it that did millions of requests in an hour using threads in less then 50 lines of code consuming less then 3% of server resources (running entire country in single day actually)

> I end up just using WSL ubuntu

You can have basiclly anthing working without WSL (except maybe docker correctly).

> Also I don't really know the commands so it feels crippled to me (no ssh (still? idk),

SSH is there. Learn commands along the way. You should def take a book like this one: https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-...

> not many tools,

All usual tools, linux and windows, can be used. You have majority of them hosted on chocolatey.
Great work. Thank you for making it so accessible online and sharing it on HN!

The first thought I had, after looking at some of the examples, is that it should be fairly trivial to train or finetune the compression network to hallucinate missing detail with "BPG-style" or "JPG-style" smoothing artifacts by feeding compressed images as "real" samples to the adversarial network during training/finetuning.

I wonder if doing that would make it possible to achieve even greater compression with loss of detail that is indistinguishable from traditional compression methods and therefore still acceptable to the human eye.
Sure, this is just rough description. Probably it's better to just send a different event, so conventional websites won't react to it, but you can handle it if you want.
Mesh networking is a great solution here.

NYC Mesh puts a fiber connected node with a laser receiver on a tall building. You install a laser receiver on top of your building. Anyone with line of sight to the node now has fast, affordable internet access. They don't have to deal with mega telecoms anymore.

[0] https://www.nycmesh.net/
Which startup business model do you have in mind, that would survive Uber entering the same market, selling the same product but losing money on every transaction for five years?
This is the first time that GANs have been used to obtain high-fidelity reconstructions at useful bitrates. We haven't tried extending it to video.
Because countries are monocultures, and all ex-colonies are identical?
Given the Wine project's official stance is that wine will not work on Catalina (https://wiki.winehq.org/MacOS)

I can at least confirm Linux support is better than that. These days the only thing I use wine for is as part of Proton for games though.
> polling gets accurate results with far less than 30-60% sampling, so that, in and of itself, is not necessarily a problem.

I'd like to refer you to the sentence after I quoted the article.

>> And getting down to it more: which 30-60% of people?

Polling works hard to ensure that their data set is a representative demographic. We don't know that here. Considering that there are socioeconomic correlations between race, it isn't out of the question that this data is not representative. You could have 60% but if your data set isn't representative, you aren't going to draw accurate conclusions.
There’s an industry that talks about ‘masters’ and ‘slaves.’ It needs to stop
>Microsoft did a really good job of hiring diverse talent, and every store-clerk I ever interacted with was smart, nice, and seemed to genuinely care about fixing your issue

This was my experience as well. As a bonus, my kiddo always wanted to stop into the Microsoft store. There was something warm and inviting about it, especially in comparison to the Apple store (we lived about 1/2 a block from each).
Show HN: Dino Run: NPM Edition
If police with guns disproportionately hurt minorities that doesn't mean no police should be allowed to carry guns. You can justify drastic restrictions, but banning a tool altogether is being unnecessarily technophobic.
Clicks through drop off really fast. I know I almost never do it. The tweet thread format is good for information in small bites. I know that each tweet has got to have more information and I can just stop at the first that is meh because it's written for insiders.

Articles on the other hand are written for an audience that usually likes more background etc. because that audience will complain if the background is absent.
The article also states that "People are also being charged more when getting picked up in areas with more expensive homes, according to the study."

It's likely an article focused on this correlation and headlined 'Rich people pay more for Uber rides' wouldn't get the same traction in the current US political context.
Don't switch to ubuntu, it tries to do similar stuff.
Years ago, I wrote something like you describe in the blog (regex to match ingredient lines, looking for imperative verbs, filling in the gaps). Recently I revisited the subject and learned that almost everybody has decent jsonld data now. Even paywalled stuff.

Now I've got tampermonkey watching over my shoulder and backing up everything I look at to a couchdb instance. (Still gotta write some UI and an agent to pull down images, but I've got other irons in the fire at the moment.)
you probably just haven't used up your free article count yet.
We've kept the partner-to-company ratio consistent as we've grown.
For the time, it was good, maybe better mechnisms available now, but darn - it was built to last and my 5MX still works. Though a lot of psions market was retail/stock warehous stuff, their handheld terminals had a huge market. So robust design was key. Only design issue on the 5MX that griped me was the stylus holder spring being not as industrial designed. Apart from that, all works well.

Since then, dreamed of some comparable device, basic linux, enough for vi and terminal stuff, wifi/bluetooth and well, happy with the screen. Alas all devoplment of anything close, tend to wack in CPU's that would be classed as a supercomputer of the 5MX time, power hogging colour screens and you end up with devices that will last a day perhaps, but not the month the 5mx would pull with comparable usage with the rs232 adapter.

Hence a cheap terminal, basic local editor wifi device in that form factor and if it could do bluetooth and double as a keyboard for a smartphone, well, a simple device like that would tick my boxes and maybe many others.
Generally when cooking you'll set your station (mise en place), placing all the ingredients in reach and preparing to cook.

Keeping ingredients listed separately from instructions dovetails into this practice.
Well, I meant prior to Catalina. :)
Can anyone give a simple explanation of why a lightning strike would travel so far laterally, rather than hitting the ground closer to wherever it started?
Breachers on a SWAT teams take their job into consideration when clipping their fingernails. Thousands of hours of intense training. Complete devotion or death. How many on your list take their job that seriously?

Also go across the southern border, where a police officer is murdered everyday. You contribute to that through drugs and human trafficking. If we do what you say, that gets worse, and that comes here.

"What explains these two armed forces’ divergent attitudes toward bad behavior?"

In war, the first lesson you learn is you are going to die here. It's quite a sobering attitude, like living in a hospice. Why beat someone up when you can just burn down their aircraft carrier with napalm, likely dying horribly or crippling or maiming yourself for life doing it.

Police, the only rule is just come home. Contain the violence, protect the public, don't escalate as you live there. People deserve the policing we get. No riots, no SWAT teams, not even locks on doors if people can lay off the elephant tranquilizer.
> Dynamically linking against something in the long tail is pretty pointless though.

I disagree. Dynamic linking, in the context of an OS which offers a curated list of packages in the form of an official package repository, means that a specialized third party is able to maintain a subcomponent of your system.

This means you and me and countless others are able to reap the benefit of bugfixes and security fixes provided by a third-party without being actively engaged in the process.

In the context of an OS where the DLL hell problem hasn't been addressed and all software packages are forced to ship all their libraries that are shared with no one at all, indeed its pretty pointless.
The HiFiC model we show is already the low model :) We show JPEG and BPG at the same rate to visualize how low the bitrate of our model actually is. And for JPEG and BPG we show 1x, 2x, and so on to visualize how many more bits the previous methods need to look similar visually.
That's exactly how it works? You show up, make a bunch of noise about what you want and eventually everyone can vote on it. The value of representative democracy is that you don't need to take the time to go to every meeting.
If Uber or Lyft wanted to help solve generational poverty they'd probably be better off donating cash to organisations like GiveDirectly instead of distorting the taxi market (which will always be less effective per $). Not that they could afford to do either. Last I heard they were both still losing money...
https://aiprobook.com/downloads/lafp-sample-vector-spaces-0....
The issue is profitability (similar to the post office problem) -- if your house is in a rural area with low density, it's not worth it for a private industry actor to bid on your linkage. In many parts of the US, the only ways to get mail is through USPS (FedEx & UPS just don't service unprofitable routes). However I think internet access is a human right and a public good no matter where you live or can afford to live (imagine raising children who would never have access to at least broadband-level speed -- how would they function in a 21st century economy?) - and the infrastructure can only be provided equitably if the government steps in and subsidizes away the profitability problem.
Funny how this argument on how SSC is a white supremacist reactionary blog does not show a single, you know, written word by him. At all.

He did criticize sometimes SJW, some feminist bloggers, as he also criticizes libertarians, reactionaries, communists. But, hell, since he does not subscribe to The One True And Moral Opiniom, he is a monster, definitely. And, God forbid him for not paying attention 24/7 in a subreddit that is not even his, just because he has a day job amd such.

Yes, I created this account just to answer this complete bullshit.
Former Marine here, and that's definitely true in this branch.

I'll say though, those who think it will be better out almost always get out when they can. The limitation of those so disenchanted with the Corps they think using the GI Bill or doing some other work will be better is the end of their current contract. It provides a sure out. You have to actively convince yourself it doesn't suck enough to be trapped another 2-6 years, while other jobs you need to take an active role in leaving. Those who stay in think the Corps is worth it.

I've been in a couple industries and never seen the same. People hate their job/occupation field/company, and stay in it for a million reasons. The military is nicely set up to spit out those who won't buy into the institution.

I would be curious to compare percentages within military and police forces of those who agree that "life would be better out, but I don't have a better opportunity out". I'd put money on that subsection of the population being much lower for military than police (and most to all other industries really).
It may be that causality on this works backwards, but I’ve also noticed that artists that perform concerts together (Spotify does keep track of concerts and who performs at them) tend to be very algorithmically associated. At the very least, I think it’s a huge factor in “Related Artists”.
Recently I started putting my recipes on my personal website in a minimalist way. No stories, no ads, no images.
There is a statistic somewhere (my googlefu can't find it at the moment), that shows that in less then 1% of the cases where police are called there is actually even the chance to intervene. In otherwords in 99% of the cases they come after the (possible) crime and are really just taking a statement. Still they walk into every situation with their hand on their gun.

Often enough situations escalate because of that. I believe many situations would be much saver if the officers would not carry guns. Call the armed units for cases where it's warrented, like e.g. in New Zealand.
$100B “universal fiber” plan proposed by Democrats in Congress
> bytes vs atoms

I really like this
What a refreshing read. We need more stories like these to ground the industry in reality. The investment machinery and the publication makes it such that we only hear about the “successful” ones. Then there are the “gurus” who amplify those rare successes to bait followers: “If xyz did it so can you if you just invoke the universe to assist you. Let success find you. Move fast and break things.”
I'm impressed it seems to grabbed all of the images on a very JS heavy site with a carousel I just tried it on. Nice work.

One tiny UX thing to consider, instead of validating the string is a url, just try to load the site and if it fails, error then. I typed in a valid url without the "http://" part and the validation complained. You need to handle the "wait this isn't a valid site" case anyway, might as well kill two birds with one stone.
Do they? What are these minor infractions that would get picked up on? Likely drug or gun charges. Most people don't own guns illegal or use illegal drugs. The only common infraction I can think of is speeding, but that's not what these criminals are being picked up for. Cops don't follow a single individual around waiting for them to go 5 over the speed limit.
You can host a mailserver, it comes with linux
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Government Watchdog Finds over 1M Coronavirus Checks Sent to Dead People
Maybe it is different in other areas of the country, but even in the nearby metro area, there are at most two or three "indie" stations (that is being generous, since I can only think of one) not counting the university stations that have virtually zero physical reach.

Streaming might not pay much, but at least it is possible to be heard at all I suppose.
Trefethen&Bau, Golub & Van Loan and Demmel's "Applied Numerical Linear Algebra" make up the holy trinity. I don't know what audience the OP book is supposed to serve, but it's evident on inspection; it ain't me.
I don't think stali has seen any activity in several years.

As far as I know, the only completely statically linked Linux distribution that is actively developed is my own project (inspired by stali), oasis:
https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis
I'm very curious how such thing could be standardized as an image format. With classic image formats there's an expectation one can write a spec and an independent implementation from scratch. "Take my X-MB large pre-trained model" is unprecedented.

Would it still be competitive with H.265 if the model was 10MB or 50MB in size? 0.7GB may be difficult for widespread adoption.
I think a more interesting analysis of "security vulnerability costs for static linking" would look not at just "how many bytes does the end user download" but "what are the overall costs to the distro to support a fully statically linked setup", looking at eg CPU costs of doing the rebuild or how much total-elapsed-time it would take to do a full rebuild of every affected package.
Nice. However, since yougov experiences sample bias due to their data collection method being only online participants, and the sample size of black people isn't anywhere near even 5% margin of error (meaning it could be completely wrong) this study is not usable to draw conclusions on its own.