skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's pessimistic, more like cautionary. For a project like this it behooves them (IMO) to do a "related work" review, eh?
They are most likely also childless. When you have young children, your demand for fancy restaurants, artisanal coffee roasters and visiting local microbreweries diminishes, as there are now more things that occupy your time and attention, and are not very conducive for above-mentioned entertainment venues. The trend of delayed or foregone childbearing is also contributing to increase in interest in urban life.
For me, I have become happier in the moment via insight meditation, which focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without action or reaction.

Part of the wisdom of meditation lies in the following: There is baggage we all carry, the self, this belief we're the center of it all, the author of (and subservient to) our own thoughts. How do I stop doing what makes me unhappy, if that's "who I am"? But, in reality, I can abandon "who I am" and find new processes of living and new ways of thinking about the world.

In practice, this resetting of your mind is achieved without training by various psychdelic drugs, which peel back the layers of the onion in an effortless fashion. In meditation, you train your mind to actually pay close attention, eventually achieving an effortless open-ness that drugs achieve very simply. Once you're good at following your breath, you can turn to thoughts and feelings, recognizing them as mere arisings in consciousness.

Mere arisings in the mind do not require response: there's no need to act upon our desires, urges, distraction, and regular patterns, they are just heuristics or mental shortcuts the brain uses over and over to save time/effort of decision making. Do we have to respond to all our noticing sounds, light, smells? If not, why do we have to respond to negative thoughts?

Negative thoughts may become crystallized into negative actions. However, if you know what behaviors of your own contribute to unhappiness, you can always pause for 10-15 seconds, meditate briefly, drawing upon your training of the brain's meditative ability, and you will notice the actual feeling of the urge to behave, and not act upon it. It will disappear like very other appearance in consciousness.
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mindfullness sounds like new bullshit buzzword that does not mean anything.
Also confounding is that start ups usually offer equity which is an unknown variable.
Financial planning-wise it is geneally best to assume it is worth nothing but there is a small chance that it will utterly outstrip the certain compensation.
I think it definitely has its uses. Is it an effective drop in replacement for sensitive data in all scenarios? I never really got that impression. My biggest takeaway was that it is excellent for development and early refinement.

Having access to synthetic data like this would let you give lower level analysts or people with lower clearances data similar to the confidential data you're working with. That's a good way to reduce costs, while also developing skills that would have otherwise been difficult to develop without providing access to the data itself.

What I found is that it's a valuable tool for bringing something up to a state where it can be applied to real data, and refined further. So, long story short would be that I think it certainly has uses, however those uses eventually lead back to using real data.
Twitch Now Draws an Audience as Large as Network TV’s Most Popular Shows
I’d say the real problem is that social media platforms became the predominant publishing mechanism now. There was a time when millions of people had their own home pages, and now they’ve been replaced with templated social network posts.

Even tumblr and blogger were better in the sense that there was some diversity and of course GeoCities while centralized, allowed people much greater content control.

The Dark Ages are the fact that Twitter and public Facebook pages eT al, won’t be backed up by Archive.org and decades of human culture will vanish one day when these sites go the way of GeoCities.

The rising appification of everything behind app stores also mean the death of content preservation. I can still load the first Web page ever published, I can still run spacejam.com, but tens of thousands of 32bit apps have disappeared from app stores never to be runnable again.

I can run 8bit and 16bit apps on emulators from my childhood, but can’t run games I enjoyed on iOS just a few years ago. Death of culture.
I was assuming you'd already have an inverter for 120v AC. Wouldn't it be less loss to convert at 400v, step that down to both other voltages, and convert back to DC at 40v than to have a buck convertor for 40v and an inverter for 120v separately? Of course then you'd draw fewer amps to just go ahead and plug 120v tools in and not convert back.

If you're just skipping the NEMA wall outlet and going to 40v DC that's different. You might want too go with a non-isolated switched mode there for efficiency. Still, an inverter above 20kHz and transformer at high frequency in an RCC or resonant forward configuration shouldn't have terrible losses and the transformers at high frequencies can be small and multiple for different output voltages if necessary.

I think the design goals regarding space, weight, cost, flexibility, and reliability really come into play here.

About that buck convertor... I'm just a hobbyist when it comes to power supplies but since a buck convertor tends to use semiconductors I'm thinking a 400v input might be an unusual design. The highest input voltage rating I find for a "high voltage" DC buck convertor is around 140 volts. If you tap the battery a quarter of the way through you could do that, but then you're loading that portion of the cells more than the rest. I can find 700 volt "AC bucks", but there again you're talking AC power. Everything I can find that bills itself as a 400v capable down-stepping DC to DC buck convertor has an isolated portion labelled, which means it in fact has at least a 1:1 transformer somewhere connected to the buck. If you're talking about flipping mechanical relays quickly instead of transistors and diodes, you're going to have a lot of noise, slop, and reliability issues aren't you?
SF has seen its economy and population ebb and flow a lot over the last 50 years. The city in the 70's was full of empty buildings and houses. Then the Gay boom of the 80's changed the population and gentrified a lot of the dilapidated communities. Then the Savings and Loan crisis led to another slump... Fast forward to the late 90's and everything was booming. Real estate exploded with the Dot Com boom. And then....

If you were around SF in 1999-2001, you know how fast things can change. There was a mass exodus back to the east coast. Rentals that used to garner 40 applicants were vacant. Things were ugly until a few years later when the next boom hit.

Will this one be any different? Maybe. They built a lot of office space but SF is and will always be a highly desirable city. Santa Clara or Fremont? Not so much...
The author of this diatribe sounds like a bear, SAD. When will boomer investors realize the future is bankrupt, the future is hertz, it's all connected
Google still seems to be riding on their ad business. Their other products are very hit and miss. So yes, I think Google is a great example here.
In my first real dev job, we had a team of architects that were rockstar developers. One of their jobs was to write libraries for use throughout the enterprise. Their other job was to decide on technology used throughout the company. Those guys were great. They were smart, and good people skills were essential. This model worked well when it's a few expensive, good devs, and a lot of meh devs that were cheap and just generate code without question.

Over time, with Agile and I as I worked in smaller companies, I ran into fewer architects, and the people I did meet were basically senior-senior devs - People who had been at the company for a while. It was more of a reward and respect for them. Same as before though - really good devs.

This article is good at narrowing the requirements, but I think it's still a bit vague and abstract for this age. My last job, a large hospital, we had an architect that I constantly butted heads with. He hadn't coded in decades (not sure if ever) and was obsessed with picking technologies based on the wrong criteria. He thought of himself as this high level, European academic-type that was too busy with big issues. This style basically made him out of touch with anything going on in modern tech.

He had a knack for picking old, dying technologies. I got a particular kick out of sending former colleagues the post here on HN last month about Apache Drill, which he advocated for, being discontinued.

My argument to our CDO was that if he walked outside and yanked any senior engineer from Amazon, they could do a better job than this guy. His job, picking tech, is less important these days with Agile and modern applications, well, architecture. From what I've seen in my career, the expectations for an architect are far more "hands in the dirt" as time goes on.
Compiler Bomb: 29 Bytes of C code that takes 27 minutes to compile
Not in the geometric sense -- which is more like how people tend to think of these things, whether explicitly or not.

Suppose my wealth is $1 million, including my house.

Then Elon Musk's wealth is 50/0.001 = 50,000 times greater than mine.

But Jeff Bezos's wealth is just 165/50 = 3.3 times greater than Musk's.
Shouldn't state be:
type state bool?
Interesting the tie-in to real estate & mortgages - makes a lot of sense, thanks for elaborating.
Probably the most relevant comparison here would be a mix of wallclock-hours and FLOPS. The MoE may be inefficient on a parameter level, but it may be the most efficient way to convert FLOPS into model power (sort of like how you currently do better making models wider than deeper - experts are the ultimate 'width').
Terrible or not, it should be a stock response to these kinds of questions. It would not surprise me if HN turned out to have an abnormally high amount of people with GAD and/or undiagnosed anxieties, especially in the wake of COVID-19 which was just a shitshow of one doom porn article on another.

So yes, go see a therapist if you're having trouble coping with the situation. You can thank me later for my "terrible response".
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Have you found a buck convertor that takes 400v DC input that isn't actually paired to a transformer for isoolation?
this is exactly why Apple still rock at phones

you may choose Android for the specs, guess what, your phone will still get deprecated in 2 years
When I think of an application, I think of something used reasonably directly by an end-user. From the linked article, things like IntelliJ IDEA, the Maestro Mars Rover controller, Minecraft, Hadoop, etc. Admittedly, this is just my personal definition, "app" is a pretty loose term.

For, say, the "Google Sheets web app", I'd say the entire piece of technology, frontend and all backend services, combine together to provide an application. But if the Google Sheets web frontend depends on, say, 20 different backend services, I wouldn't say that any one of those services is an app on its own. Each service makes up a part of the backend of one-to-many apps. And, from what I know of Google's tech stack, different services might be written in different languages - primarily Java, C++, Python or Go.
The article goes through this. The claim is that RStudio knowingly pushed false information about the incident even after DaraCamp reached out to them to correct factual inaccuracies and false claims clears up by the independent third party investigation.

Reporting on an internal incident isn’t defamation in and of itself, but if you knowingly sprees lies about the incident to damage the reputation of a competitor, then it is.
Agree. I bought a house an hour (one way) from the city and I wouldn’t have if I didn’t know I could work 50-100% from home even if I switch jobs. That is - not all jobs allow that but enough of them do that I don’t need to worry about it.

If I work just every other day in the office then my commute time per day is 30 minutes one way effectively. In that sense, my suburb is moving closer to the city.

I also think there is a wider periodic trend of moving from cities and closer to nature and vice versa, which has (at least in Europe) been in the from-the-city phase for several years now.
I found it strange that there was not one mention of the ancient Stoics, who, disregarding their non-materialist viewpoints, came up with much of this philosophy. I'd argue they are a more accurate original source of these viewpoints on mindfulness and contentment than the Epicureans.
"Supersonic subatomic Java on Red Hat Linux?" Did somebody open a portal to the 1990's?
Sure, but that’s the point: a deep trouble for property owners is a boon for non-owners.
I wanted to go legit and get into real estate. About 3 before I would have been out I got caught.
Sure, and in those cases you could continue to return a tuple. In fact having those cases not return a Result<T, E> when everything else does would actually make it more discoverable; right now people assume err means failure.
Certainly and performance/$ is usually better too.
And they've been lulled into a false sense of security.
That’s basically ridiculous. Facebook is a corrupt organization. It was established to sexually harass young women. It was irredeemable from the beginning.
Even opening a file with a given path wasn't in the Pascal standard. Different implementations did this completely differently.
We're doing synthetic data generation to predict complex 3D character deformations—basically, a full anatomical bone/muscle/fat/skin simulation is computed in thousands of poses (each pose is determined by comparatively minuscule numbers of inputs), and then training on that data set so we can predict high-quality deformations in real-time from live mo-cap data.

Photo-real 3D worlds are particularly appropriate for generating high-quality synthetic ML training data sets—I know a bunch of autonomous driving companies are doing it with great success. (We also use Houdini to generate our 3D data sets.)[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKb8ZL3bUbw
If WFH becomes the new norm for a company, the concept of HQ would become irrelevant, companies I know are planning to fill physical work space with hotel seats, then you should be able to grow career via WFH no problem.
Normally I don't watch a movie and think the people on screen are actually being abused.

I feel like they raised the issues that sort of ask those questions.... did abuse happen?

Then yeah you kinda should explore that fact or not.
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But how does it look on Windows Wi-Fi selection popup?
What has he done that's good for society?

For example, He's built his business to be bigger while reducing the number of small businesses. Is that better for society? Why?
Fixed rate sales tax is regressive. A loaf of bread, a car, and a yacht should not be taxed at the same rate, and not only because of the demographic of the buyers, but also because of the introduced externalities.

Variable rate sales tax on the other hand is more progressive than any income tax.
My takeaway is that is exactly what this article is about - food is one category along with clothing, phones, material culture - and he is not arguing about what we pay. Rather, he is describing a facet of the structure of Western Civilization that requires a de-humanized constantly replenished underclass to provide us with the cheap good food we want. The fact is we cannot have this infinite growth within a finite biosphere and his article explores the relationship between the West and the so-called developing world and how, though we seem opposite we are the same now, because the neocropolitics we practice is now burgeoning within the West and the shape of starvation just has a different mask depending upon context. The book and the article use a genealogical methodology, which is what is the norm now is this work. (I am a Critical Theorist).
“...and nothing of value was lost.”
On mobile I struggle to remove the m. on every link.
The mobile version does not work well with the research feature, and I never took time to know where do you switch to another language.
It also is great if the tariffs get dropped, since you were going to invest in robots anyway and this just moves your R&D forward in time. Which is better, relocating your entire factory & supply chain permanently only for the tariffs to disappear and render the entire exercise moot, or prioritize robots (even more than you were before, given coronavirus) and then regardless of what happens, you still enjoy the benefits of the robots? This and coronavirus and the recession are playing their usual role of shocking entities out of local optima... in this case, towards more automation & remote working. It is deeply ironic that Trump is essentially gouging Americans' welfare by forcing jacked-up prices which will subsidize the very automation & trade dynamics the Rust Belt blames their woes on.
I’ve had those encounters, but I do not understand how many people don’t view privacy as a default to being human.
I'm from the EU and considering incorporating my next company in Estonia.

Anyone else in a similar situation has any recommendations or ideas about this?
#![feature(or_patterns)]

// Prompt the user whether they want to accept the match
pub fn check(x: i32) -> bool {
use std::io::{stdin};
println!("Checking this match: {}. Should we accept it? y/n", x);
let mut s = String::new();
stdin().read_line(&mut s).expect("Did not enter a correct string");
return s.trim() == "y"
}

pub fn main() {
match (1, 2) {
(x, _) | (_, x) if check(x) => {
println!(":)")
}
_ => {
println!(":(")
}
}
}

Reading this really hurts my head, it's so bizarre seeing x used twice, and the if expression called twice for each x. Even the author calls this weird, why would anyone want this?!

https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2535-or-patterns.html

Reading the RFC, it seems like didn't intend for the syntax to be abused like this, so perhaps it needs some refining. The RFC shows much more immediately understandable examples of or_patterns, which does look really nice.

pub fn is_green(self) -> bool {
match self {
| Tile::Suited(Suit::Souzu, 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8)
| Tile::Dragon(Dragon::Green) => true,
_ => false,
}
}
Can someone please point out the smoking gun in the EARN IT law that suggests that encryption is under threat?
I'm also interested in potentially looking at inversion problems using CNNs in coastal regions. Is there a way I could reach out to you and chat some time?
> With Go, everyone can feel free to use the entire language and every team's code ends up looking and feeling incredibly familiar, making it straightforward to contribute to most parts of any code base.

And it goes a step further. I read Go library code and it looks just like code I would have written. It's easy to understand and makes sense.
This is a much better articulation of the problem. From this my takeaway is that the definition of the word "bias" is overloaded here:

1) biased as in "the sample does not represent the population"
2) biased as in "the world is far from ideal"

And mixing the two definitions together is confusing: "Even if the data-set is not biased, biases still exist"
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This means that somewhere on the Azure cloud there is a resnet instance that only looks for confederate flags.

I am inspired to write it a haiku:

poor descent machine

seeking orange tradition

longs for better things
Most tech companies are allowing company-wide WFH for the rest of the year and in come cases permanently. That's tens of thousands of people who can be elsewhere for at least 6 months and possibly forever.
That seems like a change in the "physics" of the magnetism that has drawn people to SF and the bay area for decades. A lot of people who had to stay in the area due to work but who have been considering a move are taking the opportunity to relocate to places with lower cost of living.

Add that to the thousands of layoffs at startups over the last few months (and a presumed hiring slowdown), as well as thousands of H1B holders who are reassessing life choices. There could be a serious shift in housing supply and demand in the bay area.
Oh let's also not forget the huge impact the pandemic is having on the service and hospitality industries.

I think we could see a long-term reversal of the trend of 15% annual rent increase in SF.
Still waiting 7nm process...
Interesting that the Japanese rising sun flag is mentioned alongside the swastika and the stars and bars; the rising sun flag remains in contemporary use by the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force.
I have long regarded happiness in the same category as grace: it is an undeserved and unasked for free gift. An epiphenomena that is not a consequence of, but happens along with, other positive actions.

And for me that's living a less self-centered life.

I am happy when what I do with my life enriches the lives of others. But being transactional about this ruins the game. It is, among other things, the opposite of zero-sum. Do the thing for the exuberant joy of the thing itself, don't take yourself too seriously or try to carry too much weight, and act in the trust that, but do not demand as payment that this will lead to a happier place.
A more detailed introduction to the idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

A draft implementation plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilambda/Plan
I'm not trying to hate, and I know Martin Fowler is a great developer, but can anyone else not get past how dry his writing style is?

I read all kinds of long things on the internet, but I can never get through stuff he's written, despite his obvious brilliance, because of it. I feel like I'm missing out on the gems like the one you quoted.
I wonder if the AI team at Microsoft has built a Confederate Flag Detector. I'd be curious how they got the training data for that.
Seems like the systemic oppression cuts against racism, not in favor of it.
Honest question. For those of you happy that these censorship policies are being implemented by companies in reaction to pressure, do you believe that the ideal end-goal would be 'anti hate speech' laws like those of Germany?
I don't disagree but that isn't what was being discussed.
That's a great point, however, bars, restaurants, and artisanal coffee shops are the exact types of city amenities that are being devastated by the pandemic!

The current exodus is people realizing that they don't need to pay city prices if they're not able to benefit from city living.

If the virus ends up being an issue that can be resolved in months (Which I highly doubt), I could see a comeback relatively soon. But every month this drags on, more and more businesses that make city living great will go bankrupt, making city living less desirable, and it'll create a negative feedback loop that will take years to recover from.
Small nitpick here. For drugs, novel drugs in particular, 20 years is actually the required amount of time for the pharma companies to actually turn a profit. The patent applications are submitted as soon as a viable drug is discovered. After this, it requires 10-15 years of animal testing, clinical trials, etc with costs amounting to 100s of millions to billions of dollars before it can be brought to market.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.25.2.4...
Until the proles rise up and kill all the landlords.
/sarcasm