skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my counter argument to that site. Big eCommerce sites will test and optimize every pixel and if something doesn't work, they'll replace it with something better. Now, go find a list of the top ten eCommerce sites and I'll bet at least 50% have a carousel on the home page.

Google's first search result gave me Amazon, eBay, Walmart Target, Etsy, Best Buy, Macys, The Home Depot,Wish and Craigslist. Only four don't have a carousel: Target,Etsy, Macys and Craigslist.

Lot's of cherry picking. The 1% nd.edu stat ignores the 8% clicks a similar carousel was getting on a different ND web property. For giggles, here's the home page at the time :
https://web.archive.org/web/20121214022552/www.nd.edu/

- The Neilson Norman Group sample size was ONE.

- If you read the all of the Weilder Fuller comment, he says "Now, I’ll preface the remarks below by saying that there are some excellent uses for a rotating gallery. "

- https://www.accessibilityoz.com/ - accessibility specialists have a carousel on their home page.

The Adam Fellows quote isn't from the page that's linked. It's from https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/10312/are-carousels-e... where he also says "“Of course in some situations a carousel is exactly the right means to deliver content and so we need to try and importantly test every situation.”
Thanks for the link! This is really useful for developing/testing out code optimizations for POWER-based systems (e.g. for low-level bits like hashing functions, crypto, and vector math).
TIL what lost+found is for. That was some quick thinking.
There’s no ROI on doing this stuff besides the intangibles. This is a startup news website, and you’re on here because you want, or were interested in, getting rich during the ages of 18-35.

Could just be me though.
We do weird forms of cash. My wife has a trove of $2 bills, Eisenhower dollars and other weird money denominations to give for some birthdays, etc.
AKA "Not including enough terms in a Taylor expansion leads to a worse approximation"
> Even if something is the truth you can still be sued.

and lose?
Palantir is just CGI or Accenture or Booz Allen or IBM, but focused on Defence, Security etc.. They have devs with 'clearance' and the 'vibe and BS' of a Silicon Valley firm.

So their BS is more focused than Accenture BS.

To be somewhat less cynical - almost all companies have difficulty with IT. I worked at a large handset maker that did some seriously important things, and our IT was delerious. It was as bad as a random cracker company. To do internal reporting, data warehousing, etc we were incompetent.

Even companies that are able to transition their core product offers to being more 'tech' still lack operational technical capability.

It's hard, and there's so much churn it's difficult to even tell 'who is good, who is not, how much it should really cost'.
Here's a few demos to actually see the product in action.

* This is Palantir Gotham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZug8kV28RU

* This is a more generic talk. Skip to the 22:00 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyDEHCcQ_bk

* Also gotham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q8bwhAW2Mg

* Using gotham to detect money laundering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCR_LBzur-k

I want to find a demo of metropolis but alas I can't seem to find one.
The Chinese military is historically beset by corruption and "leaks". The "Century of Humiliation" started when the Chinese navy was utterly destroyed by a newbie regional power Japan at the Battle of Yalu River partly because corruption had deprived the Chinese of enough ammunition for gunnery practices. Also, take any figures coming out of the current Chinese military with a grain of salt. The Chinese military budget is likely to be much, much bigger. Part of Xi's reform is to get rid of the fat in the Chinese military. It may be a while be China sees the fruits of those reforms.
My fingers are crossed for Steam on ARM and distributing ARM binaries for games that devs cross-compiled. Given Valve's support for Linux, if an ARM client ran on Android too and could finally access my library on my phone, I'd be a happy customer.
There is a long pattern of behavior, which to me is evidence. Reported in places such as:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-hardball-tru...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/trump-e...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-trump-says-blue-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/trump-e...

I believe there was even a Harvard public policy journal article that made this argument which I can't locate at the moment.
Apple should start investigating a transition to RISC-V IMHO
Hong Kong activists are holding up blank signs to dodge China security law
The luxury nuclear bunker protecting the mega-rich from the apocalypse
My experience job hunting as a precocious autodidact
The ethanol plants are already in the greenwashing business so it makes sense to go all-in. :)
Maybe I'm not explaining it very well. Look, so things have meaning deeper than their face value. To use a really basic example, The number 14 means nothing, it's a number. The number 88 means nothing. In the same context, they mean something not good.

There are English words that as pieces, they don't mean anything except their face value. I can string words together that mean bad things that are harmful to real humans.

Gradients are not racist by themselves, they're just math. It's like saying multiplication is racist.

But I can use multiplication as a tool in a chain to create weighted averages to create a naive Bayesean classifier to reject people for home loans.

And so too can I misapply gradient descent as a part of a larger ML model that is racially biased. For instance, I could choose a loss function that when minimized, gives biased output despite less biased input. Or, I could accidentally settle on a local minimum on the gradient in my model. There's many naive implementations of an algorithm that will just be biased no matter the unbiased inputs.

So in summary, a gradient is just math and is not racist by itself. It's being used in an algorithmic tool chain that researchers are frequently using which potentially will always produce biased output no matter the inputs (but more often than not also with biased input).
Yes it is very possible. It is very expensive to verify that you did it correctly and that it works as intended.

Genetics are not like code so unless you are copying previous work expect a very long road
These comments are a useful tool for confirming the dominant bias of the HN community. It is frustrating to see smart people downvoting intelligent observations because they would be miserable if the observations came to pass. The downvote button should not be an indicator of your personal annoyance.
Woah. Isn't apple only licencing the ARM instruction set? They're still very much physically making their own chips riight?

The A13 bionic wouldn't physically share any components built by ARM?

If that's the case, it's like saying AMD use Intel chips, but really they just licence the instruction set
I read that as Kanyesian.
That’s probably where I got the idea. Debian is usually one of the last distros to make a move like that too since they’re conservative.
>I don't like online grocery shopping and hope that it never fully replaces grocery stores.

Your opinion is the exact opposite of mine. While I think it won't replace grocery stores, I do think it has brought more flexibility to the process.

As for respect, I've never considered food production and distribution anything other than another business type.

Luckily, a local farmer's market has no contact pick up, so we've been able to use it.

During the pandemic we've had everything as a no contact pickup or delivery. We've saved a great deal of time and actually spend less on groceries per month than we did in the past.

The only issue we have is sometimes items are out of stock by the time the pick up or delivery happens. Well, that and we panic bought industrial size toilet rolls due to FOMO. At least we have TP for the next year.
This one looks like it makes money which is strange
You're welcome!

You definitely get bare metal on this. I really liked how much control I got working with this system.
This is true, and goes back to the settling of the Western territories.

Amusingly, many of them allied with Southern Democrats (this was in the 19th century before the party platform switch) in proclaiming their desire for independence from the oppressive government, while in reality their livelihoods were entirely dependent on the government paying out money (railroad subsidies, agricultural subsidies, homesteading programs, etc). It also had a lot to do with for the anti-black sentiment of the South aligning with the anti-native and anti-Chinese sentiment of the west.

This is also true in particular of the rise of California, which at one point accounted for nearly half of the country's military spending. If California were a startup, it's angel investors were the military and those seeking gold (or more precisely, those seeking to establish railheads to ship it back East).
Philosophers have regularly been persecuted by the ruling class, whether it's Socrates or Jesus. Most have an acute ability to convey a message that is often counter to popular narratives of the time.

The ability for people to organize and communicate ideas, whether through printing press or social media, can be very powerful indeed.
What's Behind “Tech” versus “Journalism”
NetBSD Internals
I agree with this so much. I’ve been doing grocery delivery this entire time and have revived my passion for cooking, but I am deeply frustrated by the process of selection.

To make good food you need good ingredients, and cost and brand are not valid proxies. I need to see, smell, touch to select and nothing has been able to replace that.

I’m hoping the disruption of supply chains will lead to a hyperlocal food revolution. I’ve been focused on eating local for a long time, but I’d love to see it spread. Part of that though is finding the producers and building relationships, being conscientious in how you source your ingredients. Buying online hides this all from you behind a narrative that may not match reality.

For those reasons, I really hope online doesn’t kill grocery. I’m lucky to have such a great local grocery chain, and I’m hoping they come out the other end of this strong.
It's curious how many British overseas territories got left over from the British Empire, simply because they are too small, or never wanted independence, or both. Among others: St Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic (where Napoleon was imprisoned and died), part of Cyprus, the immensely controversial Gibraltar, various Caribbean islands, the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, and the very remote Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific.

At its height the British Empire covered a quarter of the land on Earth and claimed dominion over a fifth of humanity; the saying was that the sun never set on the British Empire. Turns out, thanks to these various islands, it still doesn't: https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/
But is there real reform? I know they're "killing chickens to scare monkeys" (杀鸡儆猴), but the incentives for corruption remain unchanged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_chicken_to_scare_the_...
Say you have $100k in the bank and $100k due to staff and landlords in the next two months and then the government shuts you down for those two months. If the government then gives you $100k, you're not getting rich, you're breaking even.

Some companies are definitely up from the program, others are way down, depending on length of shutdown and how hard their industry was hit. But really, the intent of all the government interventions taken together seems to have been to bring everyone back to even. Obviously the speed of the whole thing did open up some areas of abuse though.
Ex-Palantir engineer here. What exactly do you think makes the company despicable, apart from them working with some entities you don’t like?

They don’t even source or store data themselves... they just provide a glorified federated search engine on top of data organizations already have, with fancy visuals and user interface on top.
Reminds me of someone who makes car scale models mainly out of silver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSS7uBzDOio
It's only doing pretty well compared to Venezuela if you consider inflation rates[1].

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG?most_rec...
I'm guessing the '99%' number is hyperbole, because that would roughly equal around 60K H1B active visa holders so far and it doesn't make sense at all.

Besides, most of the "legitimate" companies, pay good wages (this would be pretty much any company in the bay area). I'm not sure if you know this, but almost all H1Bs negotiate their offers in the valley (and in places like NYC/Chicago/Atlanta).

There's an additional overhead to the company hiring H1Bs as well, it's somewhat cost prohibitive in general.

Are you a software developer? Most people seem to underestimate the work software developers do, it's definitely not a simple "desk job".

That said, I've made my peace with this, if a majority of the people think that they don't want high skilled immigrants in the country (as opposed to say, low farm labor, which hires way more H-visas). I'm cool with it, I'm making my way to Canada anyway, and my current employer is ok with it.

The impression I get is that Americans don't want to do "dirty" jobs, like farm labor, clearly the latest Executive Order exempted them. Somehow, that it is morally acceptable to vie for the high paying jobs, while outsourcing the "dirty" jobs to immigrants.
Not a book or article, but Adam Savage's TED talk comes to mind. I can't remember if he touches on the same topics in his book, but he often refers to it as the creative obsessive.

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_savage_my_obsession_with_obje...
Sadly, most of the tests with fast results are highly inaccurate. Their false positive rate is way, way too high. You’d get way too many people who are tagged as being positive and kept from traveling (or whatever), which would create another crisis of its own.

Contact tracing only works for you if every person you’ve been in contact with is willing to participate. And that assumes you actually know all of the people you’ve spent enough time around to be considered to have contacted them.
The author seems to be talking about the carousals on the top of the homepage. Those thumbnails and photo preview is everywhere, from FB to any photo viewer app you find in the market.
Is plain win32 API supported on arm64/Windows? Is there a version of MSVC? Or does one use mingw?
> If you run their code on their data you haven't reproduced their result. You have merely copied it.

That's like saying you can't learn from exercises in the book if the answers are in the back.
Sealand: A Peculiar 'Nation' Off England's Coast
Things I Stole from People Smarter Than Me on the Way to 33
Maybe they can resurrect Midway from whatever circle of hell it is where you have to skin decades-old games with the latest branded content from your Hollywood/demon overlords
Last I checked, the single file executable produced by dotnet is a self-extracting zip file of the application and the required dotnet framework, which gets unpacked into a temp folder and run from there.

Go ACTUALLY produces single file executables.

The severity of this is up for debate, but I think Microsoft shouldn't be calling this a single file executable.

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotne...
and so far, the markets have overwhelmingly voted in favour of profit over ethics.
I reckon you could pull my project off with IFTTT. The big differentiator would ideally be the fact that this would be a product geared towards content consumption and that lifecycle (ingest, filter, consume), rather than just general purpose stuff that IFTTT does. I have a bunch of ideas in this regard, but it's very exploratory and not a short-term thing.
> Journalists and their allies rallied to Lorenz’s side, myself included — no journalist deserves to be harassed or threatened. Other investors and those sympathetic to Srinivasan’s anti-journalism threads joined in the shouting. From a distance, it seemed like little more than the latest salvo in a conflict between journalists and Silicon Valley that has escalated significantly this year.

> But what if you take the whole discussion of “tech versus journalism” and reframe it as “managers versus employees”? Then, I think, you get closer to the truth of what’s going on.
Around that same time, something like 80 percent of all federal jobs were at the Postal Service.
It's the logo too.
Huh? TV and movies are widely shot with 4K cameras these days.

What is 2K? I've never even heard of a "2K" camera. Where did you get the idea things are being filmed in "2K" and being scaled to 4K?

Genuinely curious where you're getting this information from. Or are you confused because 1080p refers to the vertical resolution while 4K refers to the horizontal resolution?
I'd love instructions on how to set this up for myself. I've ordered the reMarkable 2 and this is definitely the use-case I have in mind.
What do you mean it’s not robust to log transformations? A log transformation changes the inference to be about the conditional geometric mean, certainly (the log of an average of x is not equal to the average of a log(x)), but this is often quite sensible.
Progressive App Store
Wow, that's pretty despicable.
You could also give them money :)
This isn't exactly an alarmist title. There is no way to argue that it is even partially untrue or at all subjective.
ICE says international students must take in-person classes to remain in the US
I think eliminating indoor activities that involve being around a lot of other people in a confined space would be a profound change to society.

Some bar owners seem very upset, to the point where they are equating closing bars with denying their right to exist and make a living and suing the government.
Not Neo4J, so much as a relational database with user-defined schema. They actually build the relational semantics on top of cassandra so that it scales like a beast. And they open sourced it - https://github.com/palantir/atlasdb

Now take that, add a few more database technologies to do remote indexing and on the fly imports on federated databases, and some geospatial hotness, give it a swanky UI (now web based, not java), and that’s pretty much the platform, or at least was as of 2014 when I left.

And the thing is, they’re remarkably open about all of that... it’s just that people like the boogeyman narrative more, so all the openness about their tech is completely overshadowed, but there’s a reason it and Pinterest were the two hottest internships for college CS students in 2012/2013.
Carousals on Stories usually don't have actions. I simply swipe to the next photo/video if there's anything like "view post" or "swipe up for more" links. So I can agree 1% click rate might be close to accurate.
In terms of force capabilities, those are much more difficult to hide. The amount of say, aircraft carrier groups is always going to be public knowledge, they're too big to hide. But in the world of nuclear ICBMs, the strongest nation states don't ever fight each other directly outside the smallest skirmishes. So the military for China and the US is mostly used to ensure compliance and power within their sphere of influence.
Students on F-1, M-1 visas won't be able to remain in US if classes are online
Business could be a good market is they stress privacy and anonymity in the sense that they neither track searches nor extract information from searches (trends and such) which can expose company information (people in your company start searching for IPO, or they search for domain specific information which could leak data, etc.)

Also maybe they won't proactively tweak results to make political statements. At least in this regard Bing is better, but again they know what you search for.
As an American Id love to cut the defense budget by half and pull all our troops out of Europe. They can handle it themselves just fine. Some serious savings there.
> you should write comments such that if the code was removed, someone could use the comments to completely reconstruct it.

I understand that this is just a rule of thumb, but it's so far from anything I could expect to happen in reality that it serves as no justification at all. A codebase is a living entity that grows and changes over time. Without sound justification that butresses both when and when not to comment, advice like this can lead to exactly the brittle comments that disillusion people from commenting as a whole.

Comments are just a part of a healthy breakfast. You want the code to be as clear as possible, both in the small (algorithmically) and in the large (architecturally). When the code must necessarily fall short, comments must fill that gap -- and only that gap. (Other forms of documentation serve other needs.)

It's like unit tests and integration tests: you want as many unit tests as possible, to give you assurance that the pieces from which you assemble your system are correct. Where unit tests cannot speak, other kinds of tests fill the gaps. But if you try to build your test suite out of integration tests, you'll end up pretty miserable.
Just another massive wealth transfer
Why are you comparing defense spending to a pension fund (SS)? Hardly seems appropriate. Having a bunch of old people around is expensive. Are you suggesting that we should go back to letting them starve when they get too old to work or die young because they can't afford medical care?

Better comparisons are Police ($100B) and prisons ($80B) but really you should be looking at spending as a percent of GDP. Defense is about 3% of GDP.

So we spend (nominally) 7% of our GDP to take care of our elderly. We spend (nominally again) 3% to police the world. No other country comes close to us in military spending but we probably make more from our empire than it costs for us to maintain it. At least so long as we don't get into too many stupid wars (cough cough Iraq).

I can see what we get for SS and Medicare and I'm fine with the taxes to support it. I'd feel a lot better about the military spending if less went to crazy boondoggles like the F-22. It feels like a giant waste -- we shipped all our factories to China and none of this crazy fancy tech is going to help us if we get in a fight with them.

Palantir feels like it might be another boondoggle but I've seen a bit of it at a large company I work with and it actually solves some real problems. It appears to be a slick integration of Spark and Git. It has some potential to solve problems that they haven't been able to touch in the 10 years I've been contracting for them.
On the flip side, Social Security and Medicare have dedicated revenue streams which are meant to cover their costs. In the 1980s, a budget deal was arranged where Social Security would move from being a pay as you go arrangement to actually collecting more money than necessary with the deal being that the Federal government would borrow money from that SS surplus to cover, among other things, Reagan's tax cuts. Because of the way the accounting is done, the surplus from SS payroll taxes is then converted into Treasury bonds. A similar situation exists with Medicare. Because of this, an argument could be (and has been made), that SS/Medicare are not really a part of the Federal government.

The statement that defense is the largest discretionary part of the federal government is an indisputable fact.