skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting perspective for sure.

I'm in a country with a large population who cannot afford not stop work as there is no welfare for them.

I often watch those people need to go about their daily lives regardless of the Corona virus situation. Regardless of their age.

For them, getting on with it is the only option and so it does make me ask questions about the motivations behind the coverage it receives as opposed to other ongoing existential issues which have been largely put on the back burner, although they really can't afford to be.

I remember right before this kicked off, climate change truly took the center after the Australian bush fires was absolutely front and center.

Poverty dengue fever and malaria will have killed a huge amount of people this year and are hardly discussed.

Edit: I should add that it's interesting to see the difference in behavior between those from a privileged country against those who aren't in that situation. The people with money act as if this is the plague, the people without it, well they just take precautions and do their best.
It's nothing to be afraid of. It's like you don't walk out the door in a spacecraft of a space habitat without a space suit.
> When computerized management first came to the shop a half century ago, the limitations of memory were so severe that early bills of material could not be recorded as single data entities. The solution was to break them into component parts, such that each part or subassembly became an individual bill with an individual shop order. As the scale of these subassemblies grew, the shop was now relegated, in the words of Richard Lilly, to the “business of making parts instead of products.”

Can someone ELI5? Been a programmer and computer history dilettante for 35 years but don’t know what this lack of memory condition caused.
People, please! If encountering a 418, consider adhering to ISO 3103:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103
> but the cities can run a backhoe through your fiber uplink and then say "oops."

Would me demanding money from you and, if you don’t pay, punch myself and your neighbour in the face, make you more or less likely to pay me?

Netflix etc don’t own the last mile fiber. Cities taking out their own utilities impacts them, their residents, and the ISPs operating them. Hulu and Disney are none of those entities.
Just curious, what specific project do you compile so that you ran out of resources in that machine?
There are still young people that die from driving a car, or getting pneumonia. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here
I made this project back in high school, when I had just begun to learn web development. Honestly, it got me really excited when I first discovered that developers are making such beautiful webpages through code (contrary to my belief that all of this was done on Photoshop). So I also decided to learn this skill - made some webpages to begin with. But my creativity bulbs were sparkling and I thought of doing something different with what I had learnt so far. Also, at that time, new UI designs like Material UI, Metro UI, were just getting popular. Also, I had previously come across Windows 95 on browser. All that inspired me to do this project.

Back then, this was the best I could do. But now perhaps I would like to add more functionality to my Windows Web 8 and make it a better replica of an OS on browser.
"Sweden has one of the highest death rates per capita in Europe, and the absolute worse in nordic countries."

That is an incredibly misleading way of saying "Sweden is far better than Belgium, the UK and Spain in terms of death rate per 100k, and significantly better than Italy":

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

In fact, Sweden is ~mid pack for first-world countries. You really have to cherry pick the data to make it look bad. Yes, Finland is doing relatively well, but it is also beat out by world-renowned public health stalwarts like Afghanistan and Sudan, so...perhaps other factors are at play.
My favourite thing about obsidian is it made folders redundant. Now my notes structure is more like my thinking structure. Scattered but organised via bi-directional linking and tagging. It's a great way to discover new insights from your own thoughts.
Who exactly put you in charge of deciding what's funny?
I kind of agree. I remember having to deal with T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

Sure the solution is still one search away, but…
Not this again, why is it always broccoli that gets brought up in this argument? Nobody is eating kgs broccoli per day to get their calories. Compare industrial meat with beans or rice.
Alternative doesn't have to mean it offers exactly the same - for example a bike is an alternative travel option compared to a bus.
NHK in Japan has a similar scheme. If you have a TV you have to pay. If you have a phone that can receive TV signal, you have to pay. They'd even send people in person to "check if you have a TV". I believe they recently lost a court case on this.
Why would you turn them off? Just make their prices 5% higher than other regions.
> I’ll point out that the humble housefly has no problem understanding the concept of “shit in front of you; avoid,”

Surely in the case of the house fly, it would be more like 'dinner is served' than 'avoid'!

But in all seriousness, this is a good list to remind us how vastly far away from human-level AI we are.
Poor soul, but resigning later is good for the nation
Canceled Evernote a month ago. To many bugs. Using VIM at this point. Honestly thinking of going back to a notebook. Only issue is I cannot read my own handwriting sometimes ;)
They wouldn't be selling the hardware at a loss.
Last time I created a fresh account I got banned. Didn't use any VPN, my email was a fresh Gmail address and I didn't use any fake picture or send any friend request.
> Well, when two things are more similar, it takes longer to distinguish them.

But that's not the only thing that can slow perception down; e.g. it's also been shown that rotation slows down perception. This theory (that similarity slows down comparison) also doesn't have any implication about the locus of the delay: the interference in the comparison could come from anywhere in the visual system, so it would only support the hypothesis that the tilted coin looks more like an ellipse than a non-rotated coin.
This is a gem. I have been looking for this kind of clear and to the point explanations of common Haskell patterns for a long time.
I'm sure you can find people ranting about how their "xxx_windows.go" files got silently ignored by go build. Just like every part of Go, everything ugly is hidden and "just works" until it can't, and major WTF moments strikes after that.
Show HN: Story telling using Tableau: Flight delays Visualization
I don’t get this project. This is nothing special, you can very easily spot that every T is identical. You might as well just use a handwritten font.
Have you gotten tested for any possible heart damage? There are some reports of athletes being benched because of a heart condition caused by COVID that can cause sudden death during exercise.
I know that there's a lot of successful work in specific controlled environments (company X's factory floor), and that a lot of environment understanding/SLAM is broadly unsolved in arbitrary uncontrolled environments, but what about specific uncontrolled environments? What if i want a beer serving robot to learn a consistent, high-accuracy model of just my house, the way it is, and I'm willing to put in some technical work? Can i do any better than completely hand crafting a 3D object model or similar?
> It's really hard to get past the permanent aspect of pen and paper

As someone that grew up without any electronics except a TV, how the world has changed ... now if you could pretty please get of my lawn :)
I can recommend Sonoff switches and any bulb that runs ESP8266, you can usually easily flash those with open source firmware. I do it when I receive them, and they've been rock solid.
One problem I encountered while working on robotics is that many commonly used algorithms yield approximate solutions with no error bounds. They work 99.99‰ of the time. This is fine from a computer science or math point of view, but very scary from an engineering perspective, specifically when there are humans nearby. A big part of me struggles to accept the suitability of algorithms coming from gaming engines or machine learning etc for real world heavy duty robots. The lack of rigour in the field is astonishing.
This has given me about 1000 ideas, I think you’re right too! Thanks :-)
I feel so sorry for the sensible Americans who are trapped in America with all these idiots who want to argue about masks and downplay a disease that has already killed 175k of their compatriots in only 5 months.

Think about everything that came about because of 911 and that killed less than 3k.

Hopefully I'm just seeing an overrepresentation of the dumb ones in comments and in the media, and it's not so prevalent.
I hadn't heard of that, but there is the typewiz project - https://github.com/urish/typewiz
China Acts Against ‘Big Stomach’ Eating Shows over Food Waste – Pandaily
> the protection afforded by masks is very light

How can this still be a topic that's debated today? It's August now. We've known it for about half a year now, and with "it" I mean "surgical types of masks protect others, N95 type masks protect yourself." That's it. There is varying degrees of protection depending on exact circuumstances, and it's all a game of probabilities, meaning it reduces risk, so is mostly meaningful on the population level, and less on the individual level.

But come on, how can this still be a discussion? Even people in remote Peruvian or Himalayan villages know it by now, the HN crowd definitely does. There are more memes about it out there than contributions to this thread.
This can only be the first step. Since this is a political move, why not change the law and restructure taxes? It's difficult for cities to tax value creation if that value is created globally, in a data centre, somewhere on the planet.

Why should the city that just happens to host the data centre be able to tax the profits that are created in that data centre? Or worse, why should a company choose any city for its headquarters and pretend that the value is created there?

On a global scale, which society or political entity should have the right to tax profits that are created on the internet? How should cities be financed if most of the commerce in the city happens on the internet, outside of the city limits?
And this was how Bechtel managed to root out the notorious break room farter, with the Fart Detector 9000.
Honestly, late yesterday evening after work I was looking at floor full of toys that my little kids were playing with in yet another lockdown day thinking I wish there was a robot that I could build or buy to tidy this up.

Did some research found this research project, promising but from 2018 and looks like it didn't go anywhere.

https://youtu.be/geub-Nuu-Vw

So now I'm thinking what about the build option.
What programming contests resources would you suggest?
Alibaba Reports Their XT910 RISC-V Core to Be Faster Than an Arm Cortex-A73
That sounds an awful lot like a tax
Atlantic ocean plastic more than 10 times previous estimates
There are a few companies doing analog compute-in-memory for ML. Usually on flash processes.

Maybe cerebras could fit well for that.

As for the models of the future getting much bigger - is the GPT family representative ? Are we seeing the same growth is in other domains ? And isn't there a big niche for smaller than GPT models ?
It is a bad start of a bad trend, erecting statues in of non-notable living people in public spaces by a mob. Even if you ideologically align with this mob you should realise that this trend better stop here and be reversed or the next time you look those statues will be replaced with other ones by another mob which you do not ideologically align with. This will invariably be followed by mob A "defending their statue" against mob B which wants to replace it with "their statue". If this sounds like the sort of game you'd play in school - defend the crown, in Dutch "Levend Stratego", etc - you're right because that is more or less what it is.

Before you know it we'll all be living in Portland, OR. and that is not something you will like, not even if it happens to be your mob which took over the streets. Today, that is, they might be kicked out by another mob tomorrow.
>>That correlation is disputed, to say the least. Even if it weren't, economic growth rates, while important, are not the be-all and end-all of society being "better", especially when a large amount of the wealth is concentrated in a few hands.

The correlation is plainly evident in the datasets. It's a very strong correlation that has been widely observed and studied.

>>It seems probable that pg simply did not take interest into account.

It's possible he did. Regardless, PG clearly laid out why such taxes are absolutely disastrous for both the incentives to start companies and the expansion rate of existing companies. You can fiddle around with the numbers, and the basic conclusion wouldn't change.

>> Even if it weren't, economic growth rates, while important, are not the be-all and end-all of society being "better", especially when a large amount of the wealth is concentrated in a few hands.

Economic growth rates strongly correlate with improvements in overall socieconomic metrics. See my comment in the other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24207752

>>But the United States isn't necessarily at or even near that stage, considering that several large European countries have strong economies despite much higher government spending as a percentage of GDP.

The US and large European countries have all seen their economic and wage growth rates stagnate since 1970. This is disastrous for the objective of improving quality of life. Nothing has a larger long-term impact on quality of life than per capita GDP. Productivity growth is the basis of nearly every improvement in people's living conditions.

Of course, Western countries still have strong economies. Other countries cannot catch up to three centuries of superior industrial development in a single generation. But the rate of improvement has stagnated, and other less social democratic countries have closed their gap with the West, so there is absolutely no reason to assume the last 50 years' experiment in social democracy has been a success.
A great way to learn, I think, is trying to create a clone of an existing project.
Example: try to build a clone of hackernewsletter: it needs a database, it needs a backend and it needs a frontend. You will have to understand database concepts, authentication (you need to register and login to be able to post), authorization (you can edit you own posts only) ecc.
For me Word documents are the anti-thesis of plain ;-)
Actually, american income inequality is worse than the income equality right before the french revolution
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The academic and military labs were definitely big factors. There's also:

- California doesn't enforce non-competes - which allows people to leave and form new companies. The "traitorous eight" are as much part of the founding mythos of SV as the acadmic/military labs. That is a regulatory decision.

- Founders and early employees get paid largely in stock or stock options, which are taxed less than salary. This provides them with capital to become angel investors in new companies and provide not only funding, but mentorship and connections. That's partly a consequence of the way capital is taxed. If you start taxing capital so that founders aren't left with enough to become investors, you'll break that feedback loop.
In the area of Motion Planning (my own area of research), the most that can be said is that practical solutions exist for a tiny subset of cases, workable methods exist for a larger subset, expensive methods exist for a still larger subset, and everthing else might as well be impossible.

- If you've got a low-dimensional problem, say 2D or 3D, without uncertainty (or at least bounded enough to pad obstacles and ignore it), search-based planners like A* and its derivatives work. Add uncertainty, complex non-holonomic constraints, limited horizons, etc and it becomes much harder.

- If you've got a higher dimensional problem, say a 6/7-DoF arm, even multi-armed or humanoid robots, and you don't have uncertainty and dynamics (or can ignore them), sampling-based planners like RRTs and PRMs and their derivatives will often practically work. Actually useful guarantees of finding a solution or trying to find an optimal solution in useful time are still very much unsolved.

- If your problem is basically open, and something approximating the "straight-line" from A to B is in the same local minima as a solution, trajectory optimization will work for a lot of problems. Motion planning is very much non-convex, though, so it's very easy to go from a problem solvable with optimization to a problem that isn't.

- Planning with non-rigid objects, significant uncertainty (effectively continuous MDPs or POMDPs), and/or complex dynamics are all very unsolved problems.

For motion planning problems in the gray area of "practically solvable", the art is figuring out how to simplify the problem as much as possible to make it tractable - highly optimized collision checking (generally speaking the performance bottelneck), combining search/sampling-based + optimization methods to get an initial solution from a global method and then refining it towards a local minima with optimization, or using special hardware or sensors to bound dynamics and uncertainty so it can be ignored.
Real Covid-19 Case Numbers Derived from Death Data and T-Cell Misinformation
Terrifying. That brings back childhood memories of The Robot Spy. https://friday87central.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/robot-sp...
[ExporterHub] Awesome Prometheus Exporters
Because you guys keep yapping about how you love america, and that should include loving your fellow countrymen?
If you think that malfeasance at the federal level is bad (and it is at a historically bad level right now), the local stuff is a thousand times worse. A local Indiana city will absolutely be able to completely fuck with Netflix access of their residents. And the residents may have little recourse. After all they could just legally implement a 100% sales tax on streaming services sold to residents of their jurisdiction.
It seems like the much more likely and scary scenario for young people (myself included) is long term health problems that are difficult or impossible to treat and basically destroy your quality of life.

I was curious if you have done any research on that? I keep hoping to find something to put my mind at ease.
The original Ellis drainhole [1] has an attractive end and a repulsive end. They are both spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat, i.e. their gravitational effects fall off with distance like you'd expect, and it wouldn't be immediately obvious from gravity alone that there's anything unusual about the attractive end.

There is a limit case [2] of the drainhole which doesn't gravitate, in the sense that the "attractive" end has vanishing attraction and the "repulsive" end has vanishing repulsion. The wormhole in "Interstellar" was based on that solution [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_drainhole

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_wormhole

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.7170
Why not return instead/in addition reply with an actionable message in the body?
I don't think most people will notice an extra 48 cents on their bill every month.
I actually am unaware about taboos regarding birth names. Please let me know of my ignorance.
"yet it still seems to cause permanent lung damage a disturbing amount of the time."

Fact check: there is no evidence of this. Even otherwise reputable sources are trading in anecdotes, and relying heavily on "may" and "could" to spread fear:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

"While most people recover from pneumonia without any lasting lung damage, the pneumonia associated with COVID-19 MAY be severe."

Lots of illnesses can cause lung damage. The essential question is: at what rate?
You sure you don't have someone from India writing this out on a touchscreen when someone enters the text at the prompt?

(Just kidding)
There is no such thing as SaaS business/revenue model. SaaS is a software-based product delivery model. What the author of the linked post had in mind is subscription business/revenue model. Such confusion in terminology stems from the fact that the overwhelming majority of SaaS platforms use subscription business/revenue model. I thought that it is quite important to clarify this distinction.
Uh, what Netflix have you been using?
Is it like video watching tax? So what about people watching personal videos, and those shared through messaging apps or any video. The cities are looking for pathetic ways to tax its citizens, next what Anyone listening to music on radio or Spotify would be taxed?
Show HN: Neo.mjs, the webworkers driven UI framework just hit 1000 GitHub stars
Since when has art been judged on time to creation or volume or cost? This seems to be solving a problem sculpting doesn't have to begin with. I agree that this could be a boon to creation but I hardly see these samples as decent examples....
Hands-free driving could be on UK roads by spring
Postwoman API request builder is changing name
Postwoman is changing name.

Our new identity will aligns with our new focus — to provide the best open source testing suite in web.

Towards that goal, we're thrilled to announce that v2 will have a new name and domain.

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Context:
1. Similarity in name with "Postman" may introduce trademark violations in future.

2. We don't want to hurt any other project's goodwill.

3. Rather than being an "alternative to Postman", we focus to become the best available testing suite in web.

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We've decided to go with "Hoppscotch".

Web app: hoppscotch.io
GitHub: github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Special thanks to Ben (co-founder of Dev.to) for suggesting this unique name

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About this name: HoppScotch?
It's an alternate spelling of the game "hopscotch", and in my mind is a subtle nod to CS legend Grace Hopper, and implies "hopping" from one endpoint or web location to another.

https://dev.to/liyasthomas/postwoman-is-changing-name-igp
In many ways TikTok is the best example of a participatory network.
As noted by Eugene Wei, “The TikTok algorithm acts as a rapid, efficient market maker,
connecting videos with the audiences they’re destined to delight.
The algorithm allows this to happen without an explicit follower graph.”
The removal of a follower graph prioritizes creativity and talent over reach, democraitizing and unlocking participation.

I'm not sure about the effects of using a recommendation algorithm over using follower graphs.
Maybe it's backwards.
e.g. people dislike that Twitter shows them recommended stuff, because people (users?) prefer having control over who they follow, what they see.

This did make me wonder about what would happen if users could provide their own recommendation algorithm.
In Britain, the BBC uses vehicles fitted with equipment to detect TVs, though who knows how effective they are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van
by transistor count, by energy consumption and i'd expect by the price it is an equivalent of 3 x 16 V100 DGX/Lambdasystems. Can it beat such a minicluster? Vertical vs. horizontal scaling seems to be still an open question for DL. It looks like the horizontal - ie. V100 approach in this case - would naturally have advantage over the vertical when it comes to sheer scale, i.e. like the maximum possible size of model.
FYI masks are now mandatory in all public transport and even some busy outside areas in NL.
HN discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14987460

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15004907