skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many YC companies are "remote"? What is the optimal deal if the cost of Bay Area located startups is balanced with the cost of distributed startups?
Or how about stop putting cyanide mines in your own country?
For car sales it makes sense because with car sales, comes car repair and service. And this is where the dealers make money individual car sales are not that profitable.
Ah. Okay. That would be fair.
Thank you and my apologies. I should have read the pdf more carefully where the distinction between the training data and evaluation datasets is described

Our training set consists of a large set of high-resolution images collected from theInternet, which we downscale to a random size between 500 and 1000 pixels, and then randomlycrop to256×256. We evaluate on three diverse benchmark datasets collected independently ofour training set to demonstrate that our method generalizes beyond the training distribution: thewidely usedKodak[22] dataset (24 images), as well as theCLIC2020[43] testset (428 images), andDIV2K[2] validation set (100 images).
I’m not who you responded to, FYI.

That said, crimes are simply whatever those in power deem them to be. Not only does this imply an obvious disconnect between legality and morality, but for groups not adequately represented by those in power, it can make living within the law virtually impossible. Take the gay community, for example. It was only in 2003 that the US Supreme Court struck down state laws banning sex between same-sex partners. At the time, 14 states still had such laws on the books - 11 still do today (even though they’re now unenforceable, they’ve resulted in multiple arrests since the 2003 ruling).

A few decades earlier, gay sex was essentially illegal throughout the entire US. Do you have any interest in accommodating the viewpoint that gay Americans being gay Americans before the past 20-50 years (depending on the state they resides in) were morally acceptable, despite habitually engaging in criminal activity? Or would that be considered abhorrent?
That kind of rationalization can take you to literally any conclusion though. Especially with something as complex as climate change.
>small extra step of adding [...] an antenna

That's where the ducktape comes in I guess? (Just kidding)

I mean yeah GPS is ancient tech. But actually getting the required 24 or whatever satellites into orbit (or retrofitting) and getting the receiver tech into enough hands to get any kind of traction is still a sizable challenge.
> My first instinct was to say type safety, but you don't really get that with JS either way.
Correct, but the main experience we are supporting is TypeScript, which has a beautifully designed type system.

> Maybe it would be popular for new engineers that don't feel like learning SQL. Same reason why MongoDB got popular.

We have more and more senior engineers who want to use Prisma, as they just realized that writing SQL by hand is a waste of time.

Let's be honest - learning SQL is still a great skill. Data analytics etc - there are great use-cases.

But if you want to get stuff done and scale your team when building an _application_ - you should have a data layer.

That's what Facebook, Lyft, Airbnb etc did - they have a dedicated data layer and a team working on that.
Do you think an application engineer at Facebook writes SQL?
No. Of course not, it would be a total waste of time to let them touch such a low level. It would not allow facebook to scale to where they are, if everyone would write direct SQL.

Now the thing is, most small teams don't have the capacity to write a really performant awesome data layer with caching, deduping etc.

That's where Prisma comes into play - Prisma gives the weekend producthunt warriors, but also the enterprise teams (like Tryg) a way to abstract away the database.

But it's just a library you say?
That's true. So in that sense, Prisma is not really a "layer", a different component in your architecture that you can horizontally scale.

For that - stay tuned. The "client" part can already easily be separated from the "query engine" part (which btw is written in Rust) because they speak http. But step by step. For most people, being able to install an npm dependency is the most important part here.
But one thing you can already get used to - Prisma will stick around and _not_ just be a thing that new engineers who don't feel like SQL use.
Land Lines: Start with a line, let the planet complete the picture
Found this to be a pertinent article that shows the bytes vs atoms debacle going on.
As an existing Dropbox user, Firefox Send or WeTransfer is not as good a product for me. Because I already have the Dropbox client installed for file storage, I don't need to visit any websites to upload to Transfer. I can literally just right click on any file anywhere on my laptop and click "Transfer" -- then it automatically pops up, I can add more files into it, rename it, etc. and then just send an email or copy link. I screenshot how it looks here https://www.dropbox.com/t/jJNe5IBPrezaw7aE (and it's so easy I find myself just automatically use it). What I really like about it is that it sends a copy of the file and my grandma won't just delete my photos like the good ol' Dropbox links.
> The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau to the north have risen very rapidly. In just 50 million years, peaks such as Mt. Everest have risen to heights of more than 9 km. The impinging of the two landmasses has yet to end. The Himalayas continue to rise more than 1 cm a year -- a growth rate of 10 km in a million years! If that is so, why aren't the Himalayas even higher? Scientists believe that the Eurasian Plate may now be stretching out rather than thrusting up, and such stretching would result in some subsidence due to gravity.[1]

EDIT: Gravitational deformation creates a maximum bound near Himalayan height. But actual height below that is apparently a mix of tectonic support from the sides, above-snowline erosion, and boat floating on mantle.[2]

[1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/himalaya.html [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01601-4 Sci-hub doesn't have the underlying paper yet.
We graduate an order of magnitude more PhDs than anyone has a real use for.

Even ignoring arts and humanities PhDs which are obvious cases, in fields like biology a newly minted average PhD has roughly zero people competing for them. They’ll be lucky to find a job even close to their field. You have biology PhDs working as Clinical Research Associates, for heaven’s sake.
You would probably end up with something like this : https://miro.medium.com/max/2048/1*ZeyDyk8VYEY8-3Npb7Gw4w.jp...

They do have good service tho, not sure about the esthetics
> Sam Harris advocated for profiling and security expert was not.

I don't think "profiling" by itself quite captures what Harris was arguing for. He was arguing for profiling based on a characteristic--being a Muslim--that can't be directly observed. This was a key point of Schneier's rebuttal. So Harris's version of profiling isn't workable even if we admit that the characteristic in question does increase the probability of the person causing harm.

The profiling done by police does not have the same problem, because the characteristics involved are visible. However, visible characteristics are not limited to the ones you note: they also include behavior. So your statement that visible characteristics like age, gender, ethnicity are the ONLY ones available to the officer is not correct. The officer also sees what the people are doing and whether it looks suspicious, the people's body language, and so on. It is not unfair to single out people for their behavior.
It's all just cover for a financially necessary contraction in ad spend, which will inevitably lead to a contraction in revenues and profits.

FTA: We will maintain our total planned media investment in the U.S. by shifting to other media.

I understand the many legitimate reasons for using a throwaway HN account, but your opinion is built on a misrepresentation of fact. It's hard to understand how you could have missed this, which was included as a separate paragraph within a short and clearly written statement.
They graph control vs. productivity and then throw their solution way up near the top-right in the success quadrant, with a bunch of questionable "benefits" and very little justification.

It's not like I need to choose between an ORM, query builder and plain SQL either... Why can't I use any of them as the problem dictates?
For those interested, here's the longer podcast version: https://pca.st/2tg49vsr [1H 21M]
Hence "defund the police": they may not be able to fire the police chief, but they can give him an ultimatum to quit or have the budget from which his salary is paid reduced to zero.
Many people, including me, take simple English words rather literally. So the usage of "defund" is simply "prevent from continuing to receive funds". Thus, the entire movement is discredited in my mind as something insane.

It's unfortunate, but I will not start interpreting language "less accurately". I'll continue to agree that we need change, but I'm still more happy than unhappy with the basic existence of law enforcement.
I lean towards this too. Microsoft and iTunes can't seem to get package management right. Maybe now that they've dabbled in Linux they'll update their process.
Finally someone's instantiated something like Vernor Vinge's "evocation" idea, quoted here:

https://www.danvk.org/wp/2014-02-10/vernor-vinge-on-video-ca...
It's the culture – but that starts with the leadership. These videos are messages to the entire fleet from the head of all US Naval operations, three weeks ago and then yesterday. The first is a call to humbly listen, and the follow-up presents the voices of sailors, to be heard:

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/754884/cno-message-sailors-ju...

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/757420/starts-with-us

Have you seen anything like that from police officials?
> then it's fair to come to the conclusion that more policing may solve the very real issue of crime in black communities.

It depends upon what more policing means. I have been keeping a closer eye on what's happening in Canada, and it seems clear that the police are not trained or do not internalize training to handle certain situations particularly well. In extreme cases, this has resulted in situations being escalated and deadly force being used. Given complaints ranging from excessive force to racial profiling, it sounds like problem routinely plays itself out on a smaller scale. If a community is reluctant to trust the police, I doubt that they will see benefits from more traditional policing.

Some of the de-funding discussion has been about reducing police funding to allocate it to other social services, but I suppose that it could also be reallocated training officers who's primary purpose is community relations, responding to mental health issues, or handling criminal activity that is unlikely to require an armed response. This may make more sense than dumping responsibility onto social service agencies both due to the quality of training and the ability to immediately access police resources if escalation is inescapable.
i've said this everywhere... we all need to invest on wikipedia, to make it powerful, free and useful

it may not work as intented, if you are doing university research but ... for general purpose we must have a general encyclopedia that actually works
The NoClip Spelunky[1] documentary is also particularly good.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv434Xyybqc
I agree with you but my question is does increased police presence lead to a poor neighborhood. Take for example a middle class white neighborhood. If there was a sudden and very visible increased presence over years, arresting people for minor offences, watching everyone and questioning everyone, would that neighborhood become a poor neighborhood. I think it would. I think people who could would move out, property values would drop and the people who could not move out would have a higher predisposition to crime as they were worked into the system.
Great article and I think it talks about a lot of fundamental reasons, but not the primary "why". The way most police organizations are setup is already contentious with the population, where as the way that the military is setup is contentious with other countries and their militaries rather than the immediate population. That already means police are provided perverse incentives. How do you measure the success of a police department? It's a common issue in all security circles. Considering that most if not all police departments are usually receiving funding at a regional or local level, where the government can't just print money to keep their existence going, you now have an organization that needs to justify it's existence by making arrests, giving out tickets and essentially maintaining the reason for their existence. The military really doesn't have that problem. The strength of the military is usually directly tied to the existence of the established order. It is military's that over throw governments and bring in new ones.

The military also has little to no interactions with the population. They are almost entirely focused on foreign populations and enemies. When abu ghraib happened, the military acted swiftly. It was a major PR nightmare for the US. The government needed the population's support for the war. So they cleaned up.

And that is really what the major differences are.

TLDR;

Military -> little interaction with populace, existence tied to government, needs populations support to do War which is major measure of success

Police -> funded without unlimited money, needs to justify their existence, direct interaction with populace, naturally in contention with population
There was a study which was in the news cycle[1] a few years ago that claimed that Apple stores were the most profitable retail space by square foot.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/29/here-are-the-retailers-that-...
That does not sound like it will end well.

That said, LCC is only concerned in solving psychoacoustic playback issues for loudspeakers.
The difference between a report and a publicity stunt is the detailed discussion of sampling and category inference methodology contained in a report.
> in a state which mainly grows corn and racism.

He sounds like a condescending prick. He even admits as much. Why did he apply to work somewhere where he would be surrounded by people he considers so infinitely inferior to himself? One can say "I don't want to live there" without insulting everyone who does live there.

His work sounds immensely valuable, it's sad he hasn't internalized the fact that working with other people & in institutions requires patience and personal compromise. Or perhaps he has and that's why he's quitting. I'm sorry to say I predict he'll have a rude awakening when he learns that most of these compromises are neccesary in the private sector as well.

I understand his complaints & they seem legitimate, but buddy... "if you walk around running into assholes all day, perhaps you're the asshole." And his considering his condescending, archly superior tone towards those he considers beneath him, I'd wager you could lose the "perhaps."

EDIT: If you just read the bits between "Resistance / lack of options for the work I want to do" and "Conclusion" it's quite an interesting and informative blog post!
None of these products were for consumers.

Even on the business side, Microsoft never understood or cared about their users (besides maybe Word and Excel users), and marketed towards CEOs and COMPANIES.

see: Sharepoint which is the most financially successful Microsoft product ever, yet every end user despises it.

They never tried or cared to work backwards from a consumer user or what they wanted, they just started from "how do we make billions of dollars from licensing fees".
> No. Our conversation is a good example of that. The default is to state your business, not your sexual identity or race.

Is it? You started your conversation literally around identity, and claiming you chose to avoid people based on that identity. Regardless if they self-identify or not, you're the one that brought identity into this debate. The fact that you seem to choose to downplay sexual identity is rather funny, considering I'm willing to bet if you went out of your way to refer to a cisgender man or a woman as the opposite gender they would eventually get angry. So claiming it's not 'central' is bullshit.

> I say, craving validation is the connecting factor. If you have different experiences with that, so it be.

People want to be identified as who they are. Not sure how this is controversial. If you're talking to someone named John and you keep referring to him as Johnny when he says he doesn't want to be called Johnny, that's 'craving validation' by your argument. Remembering 'John wants to be called by John and not Johnny' is about as difficult as 'Remembering [Person] wants to be called by She and not He'.

> But in online communities around open source software, there are always a few black sheep that turn really emotional if you accidentally don't "respect their identity", and this includes alot of otherwise innocent behavior.

Yes, there are always a few assholes in open source development. This isn't exclusive to transgender people, I've met my fair share of cisgender people that turn emotional if you don't follow their rules. Does that mean I should start avoiding cisgender people all together?
> Sidecar shows up in System Preferences on an iMac14,2 even though it is not supported and does not work. Does that happen on any other computers?

Yep, that happens on my 2015 Macbook Air, which officially supports Big Sur but not Sidecar.
The funny thing about the origins of PredPol - a sitting councilman and a liaison with SCPD were both part of the early team at PredPol and those connections helped encourage Santa Cruz to adopt the technology.

SCPD, in general, is one of the more level headed and compassionate police departments I've known members on and they've had a history of lack of city support (it was better for a few years) over the last 3 decades.
The academy of the 1960s is dead. All of those things now exist in universities as well.
Trump admin to Facebook, Twitter: end calls to topple statues, do violent acts
This is new territory. This is actual censorship. Protests actions not otherwise illegal should be allowed on social media, in compliance with their TOS. This message from the administration is very close to a government official advocating for a third party to remove your free usage of a platform for allowed usage in ways the government may also disagree with. I expect the courts to frown on this for the same reasons that the courts decided against Trump banning people from his Twitter account which he uses for official government business.

I leave you with a poem.

The Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half-light;

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W. B. Yeats

Original title was too long. It was:

Trump administration tells Facebook, Twitter to take action against calls to topple statues, commit 'violent’ acts
As a native born floridian, the claim that southern republicans are not good at critical and analytical thinking seems true to me. Surely they're out there, but I haven't met them yet, and I've met plenty of conservative southerners.

If your voting base prefers the blood of christ over a facemask to protect from coronavirus, you probably aren't writing bills based on, uh, informed analysis of relevant data.
Thank you for the Hitchcock anecdote about creativity under pressure, that idea is new to me.

When it comes to the physical realm, perceived effort (or “rating of perceived exertion”) was shown to be as effective as heart rate for pacing interval training in this study and others it references:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296211/

From my layman’s perspective it makes sense that perceived effort would be a great guide to overexertion as those perceptions seem to be driven by the same system that prevents us from overreaching in general. Tim Noakes calls it the “central governor” that keeps us from doing harm to ourselves:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_governor

Perhaps the best way to set yourself up for success is to decide on an optimal threshold and try to stay within its bounds, no matter the endeavor. It seemed to work for Hitchcock’s creativity and we know it works in the physical realm as well.

Then you can stress the system to see if it’s beneficial or not. Maybe we should all be doing “creative interval training” to increase our capacity for creation, just like we would to increase our cycling capacity!
These systems are mostly pointless. If you really want to stop crimes, you have to get involved with the community and understand why they are happening.
To [1]: Totally abstracted from anything you said, a poll that people believe something does not in any way resemble evidence that it is true. For example, only 8% of Jehovas Witnesses[2] believe that humans evolved. Is that evidence that JWs didn't evolve? "If you don't believe this you're in the minority now" has never in history been a good argument for anything, even if you are using it to try and prove something true.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution
I don't understand - you can do thousands of jobs with a PhD.

You can be a high-school teacher in your subject for example.- I don't think we have a shortage of teachers! Or you can work in industry.

Not everyone does a PhD in order to get onto a tenure track at a college, which is what I think you meant.
What software engineers can bring to machine learning
Two things can be true:

1: People were hoarding because of the media hype

2: The supply chain was strained from a sudden and completely reasonable shift given the circumstances

Does your link address 2 or compare the impact?
Being a professor is more like being a business owner, than an employee. You are the master of your own, you get to have people working on your ideas, but granted you have to submit a lot of proposals to achieve so.

Definitely though you don’t have anybody over your neck dictating you what you should be doing day-in, day-out.
A bit OT: Back in the 70s/80s there was a national weekly radio show called Week Ending where anyone could turn up off the street in the writers' room and contribute. The results were a bit mixed, rather tame by today's standards, but it nurtured a lot of people who would go on to do great radio and TV comedy in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week_Ending
Americans: we don't trust authority, most of our Constitution deals with limitations to authorities and opens with a stern remainder that power comes from the will of people trough armed militias

also Americans: we need more authority to deal with the untrustworthy authorities
Does anyone know if there's a CLI tool to transfer files? Ideally I'd want to give it a file as an input and then have it return a shareable URL that transfers the file directly from my computer to whoever clicks the URL.
IIRC, oxygen concentration is theorized to be a factor in the large size of carboniferous insects only. Not relevant to e.g. large reptiles in later periods.
Yea but it doesn't seem like Firefox Send lets you right click on any file anywhere on my computer and just right click to Transfer. The uploading with Dropbox Transfer (through the desktop client) is super reliable too -- I have Time Warner internet and when it invariably craps out, my upload auto-resumes. Looks like this here: https://www.dropbox.com/t/jJNe5IBPrezaw7aE