skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
every executive simply must have their all-important tidbit at the top of the page

I run into this with the healthcare web sites I build, especially in the age of COVID. Every middle manager thinks that whatever they're doing is the most important thing that's ever happened.

It's very hard to make them understand that when everything looks urgent, nothing looks urgent.
Certainly the US government could make a logical case for that, couldn't they? If China controls the algorithms of TikTok, they can manipulate what messages or content gets amplified or suppressed, right? And that would present a risk for meddling or tampering in domestic politics by a foreign government, right?

I have no idea what legal mechanisms the US govt has to pursue something like this, nor am I a user of TikTok, so I may be speaking from a point of ignorance here.
There's an old adage about planting trees you know you won't live to sit in the shade of, but unfortunately it's not a popular sentiment these days.

Merely administering lab classes isn't even that risky. Doesn't even necessarily involve being in the same room at the same time. So yes, I'd show up and do what had to be done.
Slang term for an unreasonably nitpicky reviewer who will never be happy with the state of your paper. Here is an introduction to the stereotype: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/empirical-analysis-t...
Of course, but the article doesn't say which politicians (if any!) have called for a ban.
That’s not what that slide means.
Markets in-and-of themselves do not have ethics, but the outcomes of a market reflect the ethics of the consumers within it.
Ask HN: What ideas or mindset do you depend on to move forward?
I mean in your career or in your life, what ideas do you tell yourself often to keep moving forward?
I would think if you where buying the studio the big thing you would be buying it for would be the licences. Also one of the studios that Microsoft owns is Monjang the studio that makes Minecraft.
Shout-out to scambaiters like Kitboga, ScammerRevolts, Jim Browning and Lewis's Tech. you can find their videos on YouTube. jim browning recently closed down one of the scam call centers with the help of Karl Rock (popular vloger in India) and ofc Indian police. they also arrested the owner.
The US was clearly not the aggressor in WWII.
I've taken classes at community colleges and I have a degree from an Ivy League school. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the community college classes, and I learned a great deal from them. I don't know where you got the chip on your shoulder, but I hope no one reads your words and gets the mistaken impression that community college is somehow lesser.
Couldn't they retain 100% of the capability and lock everyone else out of it via signed software? For others that need to cooperate could they not hand out the capability to dozens of manufacturers without also providing that capability to millions of customers.
That's even worse. It's the Duck Duck Go model of reskinning Bing search, except now they're charging a subscription for service that's free elsewhere.
That's very common, not unique to WalMart.
The government can block payments and government employees can be blocked from installing it on their phone.
does that include the black/secret budget?
Wow! I like these chemical and biological processes which can alter the materials.

Guys! Can you suggest an easy way to convert PET plastic to PETG? Can we make bioengineered bacteria for this process.

I make 3d printing filament from plastic waste (currently using abs) and I can find lots of cheap PET plastic but it's not good for printing but PETG is.
> if DNSSEC wasn't such a mess

I hear this a lot, but in my experience (managing c. 1000 DNS zones all with DNSSEC enabled, using a strictly DNSSEC-validating resolver for >5 years, and having built DNSSEC infrastructure for DNS hosting providers), it is both reasonably well designed and generally quite well implemented. What is the mess that you perceive?
godamnit, another side project idea that I'll never find the time to finish!
I wish Intel or some other company would make a usb-c pc stick. So that I can plug it into a usb-c hub, do work, then later move to another usb-c hub and continue.
ADX Florence
Yeah I said IDE in the comment you're replying to. IDE or ATA is a subset of the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), but yeah you're right - I should have said IDE cable in OC. Forgive me, it's been a while.

I don't doubt there are specialized boards out there that have no modern functional equivalent (esp. industrial apps), but you CAN connect to stuff using GPIB (IEEE 488) with a Pi, so that's not one of them.

If legacy OS/app support is your issue I'm not sure it's going to give you much value booting your 486 with a linux distro today (what the post was about, and the context in which my comment was made about the Pi).

If you're locked into the 486-generation hardware interfaces and the Windows/DOS software platform, and CAN'T leverage hardware interface bridges and software emulators on modern systems with horsepower to spare, you're talking about the edge cases of the edge cases.

My point was never directed at the edge cases of the edge cases. I said "I see little advantage in keeping the old hardware around". The rare edge cases are represented by that "little advantage" I CAN see. But it's little, man. Most situations where a 486 would offer any utility today, particularly on Linux but not only that, a $50 3-watt Pi can do the job better, cheaper and cleaner.

Those things are the embodiment of "generally useful" - A low power, small form-factor, relatively high-power compute platform with an easy to use GPIO header and libraries for many languages, able to leverage most Debian packages (including DOS emulators). I admit it doesn't meet 100% of planetary need, but it's right up there with anti-lock brakes, microwavable meals, and stretchy pants in my book. Convince me otherwise.
isnt it the worst thing?
Would you be more in favor of the government shutting down privacy-averse social media companies or simply regulating them? In either case, why?
I think the right interpretation of this is that it's an attack on universities, not an attack on international students.

International students basically are not "stealing" Americans' jobs. They're creating them, in fact. They're high-dollar tourists, basically.
Install time limiting apps like Open Limit or Digital Wellbeing.
Followup nit: the read only system partition is named as such and pronounced as an acronym.
A piece of wisdom I decided to follow recently. If you are entering a new hobby, buy Japanese for the best value/price ratio.

Served me well when buying a guitar and amp.

Can anyone else support this? Does the type of manufacturing outlined above play an important role?
I try not to use GPL software out of principle, but it's hard not to use Linux and GNU coreutils. I wish OpenBSD was as popular as Linux.
I'm not sure if that was a design decision or just a natural artifact of using a carousel. They have a natural uncanny ability to rotate precisely when you don't want them to.
They are renting the access point for billions!
This complaint dates back to Socrates. Only, back then, writing was the scourge.

https://slate.com/technology/2010/02/a-history-of-media-tech...
Enough that Apple offered Cocoa bindings in it for a while!
There's already a ban on them for a large portion of the population.
Salt water is definitely cheaper than meat...
Is it possible to create engineered bacterias at home? Or it can only be done in advanced institutes with big machines which average Joe can't afford?
Yes. And the gifting party doesn't have to even bother pretending they care enough about said recipient to try and figure what that person would like / could like and don't know it yet.

I don't see how any of that is brilliant. Might as well write a check. Or just don't bother with a gift at all. It's what I do with most people I don't care enough about.
It kind of makes sense, $2 trillion of the stimulus wound up in commercial banks' deposit slips because people who didn't lose their jobs had nowhere to spend it. It's not surprising to me that people saw the markets tank, remembered '08, and thought "let me put my dollars to work a little bit more."

Now Robinhood rolled out fractional shares and anyone can invest in anything. Chaos, in aggregate.
She was a working model back then, not a supermodel. There are plenty of questions around how she qualified for it. Trump promised a press conference on it and of course it never happened.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/questions-linger-abo...
While it's a good angle for some investigative journalism, I'm not ready to reach that conclusion unless some evidence emerges that shows that the loan approval process was politically slanted.

What's even more striking in the statistics is that the loan granting rate in the south is significantly lower in many cases than the percentage of small business jobs saved. this seems to especially be the case in the poorest states in the South.
Having sadly worked with plenty of developers whose first reaction to an invalid certificate error is to Google how to disable the checking, I don't think you need to go back 10-15 years.
I don't know anything about the legitimacy of this IPO, but if they have a competent ML team, then what terrible things they can do with their data are [unfortunately] worth killing for if you're an authoritarian government.
I specifically haven't taken my loan yet because I do not need it. I have heard similar stories and it rubs me the wrong way to think of how many people are taking advantage of the system and displacing others who need it more.

To play devil's advocate, though, it is hard to watch corrupt institutions like American Airlines get billions in bailout money and not feel like you deserve to claw as hard as you can to get your own (dismal) slice of the pie.
At least from here tiktok.com servers are in the US and their CDN is Akamai. And I'm far far away from the US.

Also, take a look at their career page for engineering positions, most of them are in the US: https://careers.tiktok.com/position?category=670421586260315...

bytedance.com loads from China.
So Neo4J (I think that has versioning?) with AirFlow?

Seriously, I have never quite understood what all these unstructured data companies do. Autonomy had quite a big product...which, as far as I can tell, was largely about spending heavily on sales and trying to get companies to pay you for warehousing data (with very little of the AI wizardry they claimed to be selling).

I think there a publicly listed company that also does this kind of thing...I don't get it. I understand why you can charge an unsophisticated company to hoover up all their useless data, I am not sure how much actual tech is being deployed here beyond that database.

EDIT: I think I am recalling Elastic, which I think has an unstructured data business...maybe that is just my imagination.
Is that how the game starts? With the AI trying to infect your computer upon install? That's pretty meta.
don't get dragged into that false dichotomy. treating fairness as a merely technical problem is a cop out. in addition to looking at dataset and algo, look at the processes that generate data, how the data is collected/selected for the data set, and how the algo is deployed and to what end.
Policies like minimum amount before receipt don't make a whole lot of sense in a lot of cases, since they incentivize unethical people to run up the tab to the minimum as much as possible.

I've worked at both kinds of companies (receipt and reimbursement vs straight per diem based on location) and much preferred the one that handed me my per diem as cash in an envelope before the trip started. Less bookkeeping on the company's end, and if I decide to be frugal on the trip for whatever reason I've just rewarded myself with a small bonus. Seems like everyone's incentives are aligned in that case.
It seems that the military complex in the US is a country-wide employment program paid by taxes.
I find it weirdly infuriating. It feels like the whatever I just tried to focus on is being pulled away by someone being annoying.

That, in combination with the inevitable gimme-your-email and some other gate between me and whatever I tried to view is usually enough to make me leave the site and wish I could tag sites in my browser as "do not activate links to".
I don't know anything about this field. Are these distributed systems? A billion 1024 dimensional vectors sounds like a whole lot of memory (8 TB if each dimension is a double?).
The only barrier is making cafeterias safe with acrylic barriers and decentralizing them. Masking works.
I was a bit surprised the article didn't mention Windows on ARM at all. Following the Apple announcement, I managed to snag a Windows laptop that uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 ARM SoC for dramatically less than MSRP on eBay. (To be fair, they were selling it for parts since they couldn't figure out how to remove the password. Wiping the drive and reinstalling Windows was easy enough.) For the most part, it feels just like Windows. Every app I've downloaded has _just worked_. That being said, there's definitely at least one app that won't (Wireguard since it requires an ARM64 driver to work). I've actually been tracking which software provides an ARM64 version[1]. Sadly, it looks like virtually every toolchain still needs to update to support ARM64 on Windows. I'm tracking a handful of GitHub issues, and support is definitely in the pipeline, but it's slow going. For example, .NET _still_ doesn't support Windows on ARM, despite the fact it's the flagship way to build apps on Windows, and ARM64 Windows devices have been available for almost two years.

[1] https://iswindowsonarmready.netlify.app/
Money sharing with corp. decision makers.
im absolutely astounded by this thread. why are HNers so confident that we will have a democratic govt this november?

im not trying to be snarky but i genuinely want to know. ill bet every single dollar i have to my name that we are getting 4 more years.
Sounds like something better discussed on https://www.teamblind.com/
Just to throw another anecdote into the pile, a SaaS company I co-founded about a decade ago has about 50 customers with an average ARR per customer of $20k, billed/paid quarterly, with the average customer on a 2 year contract. So each month they typically are billing ~12 customers, who will write a check within 30 days. Receivables 30 days past due are essentially $0 going back for years. Each quarter typically there are 6 contracts up for renewal.

As of March 1 they had maybe $20k of accounts receivable and had renewed 4 contracts YTD, and signed 4 new ones. Not a single customer paid in March. 90% of customers did not pay in April. By May 1 they were looking at about $160k in accounts receivable, and had not closed or renewed a single deal in the last two months. Business had essentially flatlined.

Of course they didn't turn anyone off, because the marginal cost of keeping a customer live is basically zero, and these weren't businesses that were bankrupt, just everyone managing the heck out of their cashflow.

Fast forward to today and 80% of those customers have paid or at least started paying. They closed their first new contract since February two weeks ago, and have made a couple renewals.

Without PPP the company would probably not exist today. I think they got just under $100k in funds. Management is paid almost entirely through distributions, of which there will be none this year. Overall rough guess is that they'll have gone from a +30% trajectory to -30% YoY for 2020.
What does this have to do with bullshit jobs? If the company exists solely to repackage credit scores via marketing and some ui work, and everyone on pay role is doing something related to those tasks than none of them have bullshit jobs. They may have jobs that you don't like or understand the need for but that's not what a bullshit job is.
Because populist politics has little to do with operational politics, and operational bureaucracy.

The Tweeter in Chief (and his followers) has absolutely zero interest in any of the actual mechanics of government, and almost everything material flies completely under the radar of false Twitter wars is 'same old'.

The dynamics of awarding contracts likely has not changed, and frankly is probably more regional (i.e. we want that factory or HQ in our county!) than ideological.

Edit: By 'followers' I mean literally 'Twitter' followers. Not supporters in general.
> It also feels like you're happy to use some inconsistencies (real or imagined) as license to do whatever you feel like

Definitely not - my comment was written from a frustrated perspective. The mental exhaustion of keeping up with the latest guidelines, ingesting all these differing opinions and trying to work out what to do, is far more exhausting than reverting to our default state of not giving a fuck (or more accurately: hoping for the best).

It's _easier_ to stop caring, and given the virus isn't hurting young people as much, no wonder they're doing the calculus and choosing to go to the pub and get back to normal. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't tempting.
Memes often have at least a grain of truth to them and the US military budget is no exception. ~3.2% of US GDP is spent on the military compared to a worldwide average of ~2.1% [1] That means, even relative to other countries , the US is spending 50% more.

Anecdotally, you may have seen stories like the military paying 10k for a toilet cover.

It's accurate to say that the US has a overblown military budget. In my opinion, this money would be far better spent on universal healthcare like other reasonable countries do.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?most_...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/the-...
I meant more in the sense of their domestic clones of Google, Youtube, and Twitter than the "spyware app" part
Ok, so I am just trying to understand the basic concepts in the paper and put it in my own words:

It seems that the primary idea is that quantization precision is more important where there is a high density of neighbors.

I.e. at the edges the quantized sections (buckets) could be large since there are few items there, but at high density areas, the buckets should be much smaller in order to have an even distribution of objects per bucket as possible.

Therefore, the overall effectiveness of a Quantization loss function should not be evaluated on a sum of squared error (that assumes the vector space has consistent linear value), but should rather consider the densities of the vector space and use that as a weight of the errors at different regions.

To me it seems analogous to a hash set, where the goal would be to have even distribution (same number of items in every bucket).

We want to quantize space so that every position has about the same number of items.
What still escapes me, even after reading the article:

What dots do you need to connect to feel it is totally neccessary to buy gift-cards for the FBI?
At some point this starting sounding like a timeshare sales pitch.

"...And our more senior members find the hotter zones a very economical tradeoff..."
Actually, Zoom is not available in China for personal use.

The CEO of Zoom is from China and is an America citizen.
In part this is due to our very shit liable laws. Even if something is the truth you can still be sued.
Apple doesn’t really seem to like ceding that control to users that way. It’d be really nice if you could change the root of trust on your device, but with Macs it’s either Apple or nothing, and on iOS it’s just Apple.
Totally.

I caught a guy doing this, probably skimmed $400 a week for years. People do crazy stuff... One group of CEs I knew were renting apartments and AirBnbing themselves.
Now that most courses can be taught online I've always wondered why not more companies would offer certified examination.

I mean, you follow a course, you get graded in a certified grading facility; what else remains to justify those absurd tuition fees?
Why would a HN reader read a Psychology Today article? About half the articles in there look like they have to be wrong, and most of the remainder are unconvincing. The HN comments are not always faultless, but they are reliably redolent of authority. I'll always take the straight line path to the dopamine.
Can't they have it however they want as long as the vendors that matter go along with it? I feel like Ryan is sort of pointing that out, that an excuse of "oh well we needed to support vendor X" gives them carte blanche. It's not like customers are going to knock down their doors for not following BRs. At the end of the day, the biggest vendors are where their bread gets buttered.

If Mozilla isn't the majority browser vendor, who cares what they insist on? And if all the CAs band together and say, sorry losers, we're gonna keep doing things our way, what are the browsers gonna do? Cut all their users off from the internet "because principles"? Apple is playing a dangerous game that I don't think will work out in different circumstances. They can't hide behind "protecting users" if their users end up unable to access the internet securely.

We got into this mess because we wanted organizational independence and distributed trust, without considering what internal conflicts would mean to the end users. I'm going to call it and say that within a decade, you'll have to pick which CA you want to trust at browser install time (though you can guess which CA will be the default on which devices).
Thanks for sharing this,but I found there are only two episodes,did I have missed episode III?
Really don't think too much about it. It's just our implementation of a Keynesian stimulus.

It's almost too simple, but we're dealing with fire here and it's too dangerous to do anything less spectacular.
You're about 100 years too late.

Yes, I realize you're being sarcastic (at least I think you are), illustrating the point.

A government which bans things because they aren't deemed "healthy" (by said government) is not the right course of action (in my humble opinion). When it comes to something like alcohol, it's only "unhealthy" when its consumption is not moderated. Not to mention, what nutritionists recommend (and subsequently, what governments adopt) as health guidelines for food consumption is widely subject to change. The food pyramid that some of us were taught in the '90s is greatly recognized as being largely incorrect and is no longer taught.

Of course, the question becomes, where do we draw the line? Is it better for society for something like cocaine to be outright banned by the government or is it better for society that the government legally allows its distribution but regulates it similar to the way that it does tobacco and alcohol (effectively cutting out the market share and profits of the black market and cartels)? I don't have the answer to this question.
A vast majority of international students already admitted into the fall semester are already looking for alternatives because 1) coronavirus situation in the US and 2) US embassies being shut down in many affected countries.
Bit of interesting history, one of the earliest examples we have of Greek writing is an inscription on an 8th century BCE wine cup found in Pithekoussai, referred to as Nestor's Cup.

Some scholars think the inscription on it is the result of a drinking game where writers alternated writing verses.

For the curious, the inscription says:
Nestor’s cup, good to drink from.
Whoever drinks from this cup, him straightaway
the desire of beautiful-crowned Aphrodite will seize.
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