skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice to see this on HN because someone commented that I should try Plum Mail on one of my tweets about email [1]. The service looks quite compelling. Kudos on the launch.

Regarding the video, may I suggest that you use the first 10-seconds as the “trailer” for the service. The trailer should cover the top-5 unique features —- your service’s USP —- and dive into each feature one by one for the rest of the video. This way, you’ve hooked users of all attention spans to view the rest of your video. This is similar to an executive summary, only in video form!

Good luck. I’ll sign up for an invite.

1. https://twitter.com/_adontai/status/1296512040442433538?s=21

Update: punctuation and minor clarification
> Each engineer is probably paid more per day than that.

Except for parts of the world where that's closer to a week or months worth of pay...
It’s telling that ancient philosophers didn’t include many of the things we value in our hyper-corporate society in their definitions of a good life. Leisure (N.B. not entertainment) is dead in America, and it has significant consequences. I wish it weren’t the case, but I really do find that I do my best thinking when I give myself time to do nothing or go for an aimless walk. Efficiency as a virtue should be reserved for machines, not human beings.
idk its easier than saying "thing that firms brag about during recruiting conversations in order to set themselves apart from other, similar companies"

What's a more human way?
With modern VR techniques (teleportation) and hardware (Vive/Rift hardware or later), this is no longer a problem.
That's a good point. I always considered this in the opposite direction though. Once you have a sufficient number of drones I don't think any conventional aircraft will have sufficient weaponry to deal with them effectively.

Use the Sidewinder missiles as an example. You're going to run out of munitions very quickly and be left with far poorer capabilities.
The headline and article content both say that it's been even, i.e. no real growth, but no backsliding either.

> For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades

and

> today’s real average wage (that is, the wage after accounting for inflation) has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago.
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Gosh I'm surprised (and rather pleased!) that anyone even remembers my old JavaScript stuff... :)
A wise man once said, "Don't play games, write them"
Apparently the sponsorship thing doesn't work anymore, but it looks like the merch store does.
I'm not disputing the notion that primary fighters might one day be completely autonomous. My point is that autonomous fighters won't lead to the end of the modern jet fighters as we know them. They'll still be the big expensive machines we know and love (fear?) because most of the factors driving that trend are unrelated to whether the pilot is a human or an algorithm.
I often sit and think about the Missoula Floods and struggle to fathom what these walls of water would have looked and felt like as an onlooker. When I was told about the flood (it was thought to be one big event when I was a kid) I thought people were pulling my leg. This is such a wild world be live on.

For those that are unfamiliar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
Ok, this is cool.

This touches on a cool problem I saw a talk about a few years ago.

The problem is this: Feynman diagrams are a fantastic notational tool for particle physics models. But the induced equation solving for the associated model is pretty monstrous if done naively. With some care, you can simplify having 100 integrals to calculate down to 10 or so. Roughly speaking.

It sounds like this series of works is about better algorithms for systematically and performantly doing these calculations/ solving the types of math problems that arise out of Feynman diagrams ?
"here Apple is forcing me to pay a 30% tax"

Well! Let's be clear, you mean "Apple Ireland" gets that cash?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_illegal_state_aid_case_agai...
I love that this is in Teen Vogue. It used to be that you'd only see this in Socialist Worker Daily or something.
This is great! Looking forward to trying it out. I explored it while back when I was looking for a deep learning library that can take a tabular data file and build a multitask predictive model involving different datatypes (for example, some columns may be be text). Uber's ludwig library does it. Would love to check it out.
This, but every time Bob and Steve slap one another, they end up backhanding one of their kids on the backswing. China's great firewall is to the detriment of their citizens, and retaliating in kind is to the detriment of ours.
I’m aware, but that’s pretty different from the purpose and structure of modern police departments.

Edit: After reading about the Romans a bit more, it does sound similar. I still hesitate to agree with the assertion that police predate democracy though.
No. If you want to submit color regardless of medium.
Besides, color printing isn't that costly compared to their high margins. It's in their favor too if people use color images, the age of simple scatterplots has passed for most fields.
Yeah, doesn't look like that works any more, sadly. The merch store does, though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
True, and admittedly I've only cast a cursory glance over Relay to keep track of where it is every now and again so maybe its unfair of me to write it off quite so quickly. But I think you're also right about the learning curve being made artificially steep by the poor docs, and when you're introducing this stuff to a team who are already new to GraphQL, adding another framework on top with even poorer docs than Apollo is a hard sell
Mozilla putting a hold on DevRel investment is an industry bellwether. I'd be concerned if I held that position in tech.
Really? I played both, and while I was a HUGE Last Of Us fan (multiple play throughs) I enjoyedd, and recommend Horizon Zero Dawn much more that LoU2.

HZD is a compelling, interesting, and challenging game.
Hi Jeremy, congratulations on the new releases and thank you.

I see that the original ML course[1] link has been removed from the home page. Does it mean it's been invalidated due to integration of ML lessons with the DL courses?

I was pointing those who wanted to learn ML but don't have good access to proper Internet to the old ML course with custom scripts to make installation of requirements for those course in inexpensive SBC like Jetson Nano or similar. I was planning to make those setup public, but should I refrain from doing that because of Fast.ai v2? If so, is the cloud compute de facto first class citizen now?

[1]http://course18.fast.ai/lessonsml1/lesson1.html
just for the record, went backpacking in the pecos wilderness for a few days ....
Yes. And you could feed in whatever surveillance footage you wanted. Some of the boxes have enclosure open switches though.
No, this was not the conclusion of the Bullet Cluster observation.

In the Bullet Cluster, the dark matter and the clumped baryonic matter (like stars, planets, and putative MACHOs) both pass through the collision, unaffected. (For the dark matter, it's because it's non-interacting. For the clumped baryonic matter, it's because there are no long-range forces and it's vanishingly rare for two stars or planets to hit each other.) It is only the plasma (which is baryonic but not clumped) that is slowed down by the collision, due to the long-range electromagnetic forces between charged particles. Since the plasma constituted the bulk of the baryonic matter in the collision by mass, outweighing the stars, this observation is thought to rule out theories that explain missing mass by modifying gravity at long distances (though this interpretation is disputed). The Bullet Cluster is not evidence against MACHOs because they would have followed the exact same trajectory as non-baryonic dark matter.

From the abstract:

> Due to the collision of two clusters, the dissipationless stellar component and the fluid-like X-ray emitting plasma are spatially segregated....we create gravitational lensing maps which show that the gravitational potential does not trace the plasma distribution, the dominant baryonic mass
component, but rather approximately traces the distribution of galaxies. [A] spatial offset of the center of the total mass from the center of the baryonic mass peaks cannot be explained with an alteration of the gravitational force law, and thus proves that the majority of the matter in
the system is unseen.

MACHOs are generally taken to be ruled out by gravitational microlensing results, not the gravitational (macro)lensing seen in the Bullet Cluster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object
There is always this disconnect when I read stuff like this

3 billion people is 30% or of 3 people. Ok, we go on OkCupid, we find the question "Do you enjoy playing video games" and we set that as a criteria for matches. Your matches will drop to > 1% of the population, at least as a male looking for female.

Checking another dating site that has things people like. The site claims 10 million users, only 200k have selected "like games" or 2%, vastly different than the article's claimed 30%

I get some of the reasons for the difference like not considering yourself a gamer yet plays Covet Fashion an hour a day.

Still, in daily life the number of people I meet who would claim to like games in any form doesn't match that 30% number.
Thank you. I don't understand the enlightened centrists on this issue. I can see the merits of the Apple approach and the criticisms of the Android one. But to say that Android is just as bad... Nah
There is also full speed-corrected colorized version:

https://youtu.be/EQs5VxNPhzk
I think the two are a bit orthogonal--but do have some overlap. I recently had a job where I helped out with a bunch of sysadmin stuff. A bunch of the computers had local users and dns entries set locally. The rest of the network used NIS. They also periodically rented computers and didn't have a formal install process or OS image. I also moved while working there and had to do a lot of this remotely.

Knowing how all the pieces fit together from doing LFS and how to bootstrap them was really helpful even though we never compiled anything. It also helped when things get wedged (won't boot or a GUI freezes) and you can fix it without having to power cycle the machine, losing work.

I haven't taken an OS class or messed around with xv6 (I'd like to), but I think that would help with a different set of things.
> If you take the vulnerable human body out of the equation I wonder if airframes strong enough to withstand that acceleration would actually be feasible.

Take the human body out, and the airframe is a (possibly, bus) missile.
Definitely agree on too-many-files. Documenting architecture is a whole 'nother art that's overlooked.
We diverge on locating errant code though, big time.

You'd trip at my code in the payments example because whatever is 3000 for you would easily be 5000 for me. Not only do I write comments before each line of verbose syntax, but I also add blank lines after braces and between logical "blocks" of operations.

However, that structure also gives me a mostly searchable index of every logical block of my code. That gives me a very straightforward way to bisect down to the problem, no matter how far away that code is linearly. It feels like lots of little sandwiches instead of a giant sandwich, and I'm looking for one bad slice of meat. I at least can quickly scan and jump to sandwiches containing meat when they are so explicitly separated and annotated.

I'd also argue that since good comments (written before syntax) can be read as their own document, I also have full coverage documentation by default. If I wanted to produce a crazy deep documentation page, I could actually just pull every line starting with // or /* (but really I just use Docstrings/JSDoc/etc on top of my inline comments).

I believe I've arrived on this out of practicality. I maintain 10+ codebases of differing platforms at any one time, and my most frequent problem in life is arriving at a codebase and thinking "Okay, what was going on here?". My approach now is just "read the green" (I color my comments slightly green gray) and within minutes, I can understand the entire functionality of that code and search for patterns I know will exist. I don't believe that's possible in equivalent time by executing the program line by line in your head.
Most likely pixel as those are the only ones with official support for graphene.
Presumably, these are comparably tuned.
Just looking at some .NET programs, they all use unsafe code, which is always faster than using garbage collected memory management, so the results aren't surprising.
"Just code up 6 these screens, we already have everything working in sketch - how long could it take"

Then you realize the "6 screens" actually turn in to a 50 step state machine that shares state between screens and changes screen logic conditionally on other screens, and the designer created sketches for the happy path.

And your "really simple straightforward state management" now has you going through 10 steps and 3 screens before you can arrive your state 11 which you are working on, you can't unit test the logic because your state is tightly coupled to UI and the HTTP stack, you can't reason about state updates because it's happening all over the place and is written by 3 other people concurrently, and coming to the project 6 months later makes you quit on the spot.

I've written plenty of WinForms to JQuery UI to know that "simple state management" is anything but.

Redux has initial overhead but down the line it pays for it self in these scenarios many times over. Going over requirements/flow with product owner and then writing tests for a reducer specifying the expected states is incredibly powerful in ironing out miscommunication in requirements and much faster than sending iterations of UI app to testing.

Like the parent said - the hairy part of the app ends up being dealing with the state machine - shuffling data over the HTTP is trivial, CSS/layout/animation are not that hard if you know what you're doing and don't need to support ancient browsers.
~3% plus some fixed transaction fee.

So for low dollar amount charges, like a $1.00 app purchase, the transaction fee can be > 30% (e.g. 2.9% + $0.30 on Stripe).
Not at all. Just explaining why there’d be a price difference. Apple has a good reason for not allowing weird prices like $3.61 but also excludes prices like $5. They also used to require that subscriptions outside the App Store match In-App Purchase prices, but dropped that requirement.

Pricing $5.99 in-app and $5 outside is a good strategy. It’s a nudge to get users to buy outside the app and save 15%, but if not they’re effectively splitting the Apple tax.
Definitely agree with commenting deviations. Although I also advocate comments for each "operation". No problem if 5 lines of the same operation go uncommented, but if you have 5 lines of map().reduce().filter(), save your friends time and just pop in a

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Suffering comments you already understand > running a VM in your head when you forgot
I wonder if Apple did start requiring the IAP price to be the same as the price everyone else pays - would that definitely be illegal?

I have a B2B app in the app-store which only has a login-screen on the app - so hopefully that won't attract Apple's attention, but if they do I was thinking about making our service-fee an Apple Pay ("real-life") purchase with lower fees where we'd mail the customer a brick with an activation code printed on... tempting...
It's different when the president does it.
Wow what a shitty thing to do.
> Now, in a legal setting, Epic can't point out how inconsistent Apple is with this policy.

Well, except they can point at Amazon, who only pays a 15% cut: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/20/21378156/apple-news-publi...
I don't mind complexity when it's necessary, but things like persistence and authentication are things that have long been table stakes for server-rendered apps.
Thanks. I'm well aware of how Skycop cameras appear, as well as their website address. The MPD has over 2,000 of them deployed.

Did you consider, if this camera box existed and was covert, how it was located immediately after it was placed? Who was it that climbed the pole to open a box that said, "High Voltage," and take pictures of the inside? If the actual box looked nothing like a Skycop deployment, why was the finger of blame pointed at MPD? There is more to this story than the blurb that was reported in this article.
There's the H-Bahn at the campus of the technical university of Dortmund: https://youtu.be/ObuNVqBD9jA

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-Bahn

Also I just learned that the same model is being used at the Düsseldorf airport
These are pretty hilarious.
The ball's in your court, Ubiquiti
I don't think you've spoken with actual police officers much, there is huge divide between state police and local police in the US.
Probably more addicted to all the compiling and stuff.

There is something about compiling non-trivial software, like the kernel, with all that text flashing by the screen, that is purely satisfying to watch.
The fact that it's Teen Vogue is 100% why I chose to link this and not any other article I could Google about cop unions.
This hasn't been true for a long time. It was true, but changed years ago.

You can offer purchases elsewhere at a cheaper price, you just can't push people toward that within the app, or even link directly to a website for it.
> I have never seen an add or a video on Google Play except a line of "Suggested for you" apps which I guess are paid for?

Yes, those are absolutely ads, they're explicitly labelled as such. And they're not very subtle, there's another double-tall row of them every other page when scrolling through the Play Store. There are also ads for other apps on every app page, and ads for search results. The search result ads are egregious - e.g. if I search for a major bank app, the first several results are for competing banks, they're barely differentiated from the legitimate results, and they're explicitly not what I'm looking for. I feel like I'm at an awful bazaar where I know what I want but slimy merchants keep yelling at me and getting in my way to shove their junk in my face.

I'd pay $10/m just to get rid of ads on the Play Store and Google Maps.

> The only videos are after clicking an app and then they have never ever started playing automatically.

There's a Play Store setting for controlling autoplay of videos.

> Neither my OnePlus or Google phones have it.

Play Store is a Google App, phone manufacturer has no impact.
The pendulum hasn't swung in that direction yet. I'd be concerned about both ends but the one we are in right now is the one to fear.
I don't think you've spoken with actual police officers much

I’m sorry you think that, you’d be wrong on the assumption though.
Nature scientific reports? A number of people have mixed feelings about the journal, but I think it does encourage people to publish work that is technically correct, but not exciting. I remember going through the pain of publishing a boring piece of work before that corrected a boring but incorrect study by someone else. It's tedious, but I try to think of it as community service.
For Quick Coronavirus Testing, Israel Turns to a Clever Algorithm
WaPo at it again... Rana Ayyub the paid news pro of India blatantly spreading fake news on India because she is opposed to the current govt.

In the previous govt these journos enjoyed the hospitality, handouts and junkets showered on them by the corrupt congress party... now that the official gravy train has ended for years, the Islamist and terror apologist Ms.Ayyub became more vicious every day.

Bezos is making a big blunder by nurturing such venomous snakes from India in his backyard.
>Our Co-Founder and CEO Mitchell Baker outlines the reasons why here.

Why is that lawyer still there after 20 years of terrible decisions?
Literature Is Stuck in the Past
The internet (and Facebook in particular — the search interface for people as opposed to things (Amazon) or facts (Google: NB, sprinkle with irony to taste)) is another phenomenon you can't leave out of a story without going seriously retro. In fact, the arrival of internet dating made a big impact on the contemporary romance sub-genre: a bunch of older how-do-you-meet-someone plots went out the window, but a whole bunch of new ones showed up.

But meanwhile the eminent mainstream literary faculty are still turning out deeply sensitive realist-mode explorations of the human condition that totally neglect the tech dimension. We live in a world with killer drones, state level actors gaslighting each others' electorates with bots and sock puppets and AI generated user icons, where the average TV viewer is ageing by more than 12 months per year as demographic shift kills the video star and moves everything online, where private space launch companies are listed on the stock market and cars park themselves. A realist-mode 21st century novel that ignores phenomena that were tropes in 20th century SF is a de-facto historical novel...
I just don't see a drone swarm sufficient to the task of taking down a single jet fighter in disputed territory as being economically feasible (for the reasons I outlined previously).

Maybe it could be done defensively over territory you controlled, but the 'drone swarm' in this instance really does just sound like a ground-to-air missile.
Chrome gets most of its numbers from mobile.
Yup. I try to use as little Google as possible. Maps does work without an account, and is preinstalled, so I can use it if I want. But I try to use duckduckgo maps as much as possible.

Photos works just fine without an account too.
I took a quick look at the code, it's nothing alike.

It seems they have people submit solutions to the problem and compare the fastest implementation for each.
The attention point is strong. However, I believe that it becomes a non issue if the concerns are well separated into the black boxes that they would be if drawn on a whiteboard. Fully disagree that whitespace is dangerous. It is only useless when misused.
> You lose your job if shown to be corrupt

This is not true in computer science. There have been no major oustings following the literal suicide of a PhD candidate who had directly witnessed the corruption for themselves.
Epic couldn't convince people to sign up outside Google Play and sideload, so they gave up and came back. Turns out Google was delivering value for their 30% after all.
The .net benchmarks use architecture-specific SIMD intrinsics. There's no equivalent on the JVM, though JEP 338 aims to add a vector API.
I do not believe that is true. So they pay hackers 400k so that they will not sell data to somebody offering 200k. Really? You believe that?
Exactly, the real problem with the US is that it cannot control China, like it does with other countries integrated to the US system. And they supported China as long as they had hope to control their political system.