skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I can't even begin to describe how absurd it is to argue anything else. It's like... saying with a straight face that software doesn't "really" follow the rules of boolean algebra if it has enough lines of code. That somehow once a program gets "big enough", it can transcend truth tables and somehow go analog or something.

It literally does sometimes, just ask anyone that's programmed software designed to be resistant to bit flips caused by cosmic radiation.
Ask HN: Do You Share Podcasts?
If you do, do you share entire episodes, links to the show, or certain pieces of an episode? What is your go to way to share them?

I'm a big fan of sharing using the Overcast app with timestamp feature, I have tried using clips but it takes a while to clip and then export.
Maybe we need a Global Seed Vault of certain key SO answers and GitHub projects :)
I would have expected a comparison to job postings in general: how do deep learning job postings compare to job postings for any kind of technical position?
Deep Learning has been so commoditized and compartmentize over the past 5 years, now I think average SDE with some basic understanding of it can do a reasonable job in application.
An app developer can implement copay feature on iOS using Apple pay without any issues right now.

But that is not the issue..

See I go to physical therapist for my shoulder pain and get home workout on my app. Apple is saying that you can't deliver home workout unless you add those home workouts are also available as an in-app purchase.
I think I recall there being a process for ICANN at least, when someone has squatted on a copyrighted identifier. I could be completely wrong, but my memory on this is foggy. There's pages on ICANN's site about it, iirc.

In America, if you had a copyright on the identifier, or maybe in this case, a small business with your name in it, I believe you could make a claim against the domain.

Edit: See https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/cybersquatting-2013-05...

For UK audiences, see https://www.csy-ip.com/cathy-ayers/when-is-cybersquatting-le...
Creating an executable paper is a journey through Open Science
But not Microsoft who still own 95% of the desktop market. I guess the others need to start funding more politicians.
Show HN: Assembler and Hardware Simulator
I agree that no one really knows. My reasons are a little different. Look at what happens when there is a run on a bank. If the bank is insured, then some other bigger entity says they will pay all the IOU's. Either they actually pay the IOU's off, or the panic stops, or some combination.

But what happens when there is a run on the central bank of a country? If another bigger country (example Germany) bails out a smaller country (example Greece), then the panic stops. If no other country steps in, the currency becomes worthless (example Zimbabwe).

But what happens when there is a run on the largest central bank in the world (United States)? A bank so big that no other country can possibly bail them out, even if they wanted to? What happens when there is a run on the reserve currency of the world?

No one knows. It never happened before.

Also, what set of conditions will cause this run on the reserve currency? People have a lot of educated guesses, but because it has never happened in the past, there is no scientific data available on what does and what doesn't cause it.

No one knows.
I link to episodes or specific things they said I found interesting as a note or link in my wiki.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/podcasts
Such is the price of confronting people with the truth. You only need a few hundred karma to avoid being completely unpersoned on HN, so a few thousand will buy you lots of truth.
That's almost a free bug report. That's a good thing. Investigate.
Online YouTube Video Cutter
Online Youtube video cutter
Simplifying Kubernetes Custom Resources
> even if they contain 'numbers'

Vectors don't 'contain' numbers, a vector is a multidimensional value. The fact that a C++ vector is conceptually a container for values more than anything else is a reason why 'vector' is a poor name for this component.
There was talk years ago about scavenged power to run physically embedded sensors intermittently.

For instance, absorbing vibrations in the superstructure of a building to run strain gauge or moisture sensor a couple times a day, per location.
I think it's more likely the combined factors of automotive industry lobbying and redlining/white flight that led to the level of urban sprawl you see in the US
Well, what would be the expected behavior of sorting an untyped array?
As someone who studied philosophy (among other things) I think that view is a little bit simplistic. Philosophy has given up the idea of the one universal truth out there that you just have to figure out for a reason. A lot of what surrounds us is a matter of perspective to such an degree that trying to figure out one objective (and maybe on top logically sound) truth behind everything is not just ridiculous, but potentially outright dangerous.

I'd be the last person to argue that there is a lot of trash in philosophy. Hermetic stuff that revolves around itself and simulates complexity of thought through choice of words. There are definitely many pearls as well.

90% of everything is trash, that's true nearly everywhere.
GPU accelerated AI workloads on Kubernetes
That depends on your definition of "tricky". If you mean something that requires human intelligence, I would say it's the complete opposite. More or less the first thing pilots start doing during an emergency is to follow lists, it's all very procedural and most failures have been predicted in advance, as well as what would need to be done to resolve them, or at least eliminate the immediate threat -- and if these procedures do not help, you are in a very bad place anyway. There are exceptions, of course.[1] I would say that the "tricky parts", as always, are very generally the situations that we did not predict and did not program for.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099cHWSbAL8
I was bummed to see the examples, which I reproduce here to highlight their obviousness (or their, uh, being noncontroversial):

1. Can a lawyer who suspects the opposing party of breaking an agreement engage in plain-clothes trickery to figure out if that's true? Yes.

2. Is a lawyer obligated to essentially testify [respond to a judge's inquiry] in a manner that incriminates their client based on private information? No, thought when they do respond to the inquiry they should be vague rather than affirmatively lying.

3. Do prosecutors need to drop charges if, after a plea deal is signed, information comes up that would inhibit prosecuting the case in the absence of a plea deal? No, but this feels scummy.
If you don’t want them to do that you should patent the technology.
Takeoff and landing in rough conditions are tricky.

Takeoff and landing when the weather is fine is already a solved problem. So is taxiing.

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/airbus-attol-autonomous-airlin...
There is also the risk of fire storms being started that destroy a wider area than the initial blast.
I do not agree with this. I work heavily with NLP models for production in the Legal domain (where my baseline is where a 8GB 1080 must predict more than 1000 words/sec).

What kind of network are you using? I can do near-SoTA multi-task syntax annotation [1] with ~4000 tokens/s (~225 sentences/s) on a CPU with 4 threads using a transformer. Predicting 1000 words/second on a reasonably modern a GPU is easy, even with a relatively deep transformer network.

[1] 8 tasks, including dependency parsing.
What’s the significance in that? I mean, why are beta particles less political than decay heat?
Autonomous flight is a great example of the 80/20 rule. We've basically had "self flying" airplanes for decades, but to get them to 100% autonomous we need to spend all of the extra engineering effort into covering the remaining edge-cases + landing.
That's what is funny
Consoles are a pretty terrible counter-example. An entire industry driven by "exclusive titles" is incredibly anti-consumer.
You might expect some difference, but I think people who take steroids for recreational or cosmetic purposes or to cheat at sports are a bit different; base jumpers would generally know and accept that base jumping is dangerous, but do it because they enjoy it, whereas steroid abusers are often self-deluding; they don't acknowledge that it's dangerous at all.
Why do you believe that water transportation would be harder to automate than air transportation?
I’d love to join as well. Email sent.
"so this doesn't seem to be a fake initiative to deflect criticism". It is along the lines of "what is the smallest change we can make that will satisfy the monopoly challenges". It may even be in good faith, but it is very low risk for them as they are still ultimately the decider of what changes they will make and the entire onus is on the developer to argue the case that a certain guideline should be changed. If developer feedback on guidelines is so important to them why they don't open new guidelines to developer feedback before implementing them?
Sorbet was developed before the details of the new Ruby type system were locked in. They’re working on providing some convergence in upcoming releases.
$1000 is practically cheap for a squatted domain. I’m looking at one that’s requesting $4000.

Frankly I think this is a little over the top. Yeah domain squatting sucks but to claim you have some sort of rights to the domain because it’s “connected to your name” is a bit ridiculous. That would lead to an absolute rat’s nest of litigation around rights to domain names.

These are just some of the issues inherent to the problem of readable, unique identifiers. Scarcity is unavoidable.

Projects like https://handshake.org may help alleviate this, but it depends on adoption which is always tough
I love his blogging and writing even if I don’t agree with most of his opinions.
Opacus: A library that enables training PyTorch models with differential privacy
No remote positions?
The currency is the pound, not the penny. It would be daft to think the basis of comparison was the penny and it would also be daft to lose money on each transaction because you couldn't receive all the change owed you, something more likely to happen when you have less factors available due to less subdivisions and/or a different choice of base.

It's also not going to matter only at the point a dozen eggs is a pound, but this is well off the original point and I'm not interested in a position that, strangely enough, means decimalisation has no impact. 240 pennies is 240 pennies, after all.
> It's also an assumption that everyone wants to begin and end every trip, no matter how trivial, with a parking spot. It's an assumption that people will want to drive in traffic for 20 minutes minimum to get to a supermarket, do anything with their kids, or anything outside their property line.

I wouldn't be surprised to find some suburbs with some of the traits you mention, but it hasn't been my experience with them. I've lived in about 5 different suburbs in my life and a supermarket has never been more than 2 miles away - certainly not a 20 minute drive and it's even within biking distance. Parks are by schools and there's usually an elementary school fairly close if you're looking to do something with your kid. Depending upon the suburb you can also play in the street, which I regularly did growing up.

The traits you are talking about sounds more like a rural area than a suburban one.
Stargate, zero point module.
Yes.

(a) that changes nothing about what I said, and...

(b) do you really, truly, honestly, believe that if America were behind in tech the first thing they'd do wouldn't be to send in the spies? Of course they would. I know because that's what I would do. As a leader my obligation is to my people at the end of the day -- and this is true -- who's going to stop me?

In what world would you sit back and say, well, I think it'd be better if we just figured it out on our own, fair and square lol.
DO uses a third party for invasive "antifraud" that does this at login/register/pay/etc points.
Not sure how helpful this is, but I know that Verizon requires some kind of special sauce that the other GSM carriers do not.

I got a Verizon SIM recently and it would not work in my iPhone 8, which I bought in Germany. Fortunately the salesperson thought to ask if it was a foreign phone! Turns out Apple only sells the Verizon-compatible phones in the US, but doesn't exactly broadcast that fact elsewhere.

The Android (or Linux) situation is probably different in the details, but not in principle.
Hmm, to me it seems that 'splitBy ","' should be a function that takes a string and returns a list of strings:

splitBy "," : String -> List String

so it seems "clear" that the separator should be the first argument. But maybe I've just programmed functionally for too long?

As an alternative, perhaps there's space to introduce types to make this something like

split : Pattern -> String -> List String
Because the propaganda machine serves the suckers' self-centric worldview first and foremost, "unites" them, galvanizes them, and exploits their selfishness and greed to weaponize them against "the other".

That's what is so insidious about it, and the only real defense for those of us who are "the other" is deplatforming and throwing a wrench into the propaganda machine.
Would you still love it if the price has to be raised 30% to cover the IAP fee?
Amazon says FAA has approved 'Prime Air' drone deliveries
see also the press release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24333420
Hollywood does this sort of thing. It's a complete and utter scam.

Films that bring in hundreds of millions of dollars from the box office consistently manage to post up zero-dollar profits. (Screwing anyone who lacks the leverage to have demanded a percentage of revenue, as opposed to a percentage of profits.)

And yet, somehow, the funders keep bankrolling 'profitless' sequels after sequels.

As bad as the 1/9/90 split of outcomes for startups is for employees (1% of a good exit, 9% of slight profit/break-even, 90% of a loss), transitioning to your model will destroy the upshot of the 1%, and make the 9% even more contingent on your employer and funders not engaging in Hollywood accounting.

What you propose creates a colossal incentives for investors to turn the 9% case into an (on paper) 90% case - because otherwise, they'd be on the hook for a very large number of backdated salaries - the obligations for whom magically disappear if you structure the 9% case as a profitless exit.
The invention of shoes doesn't really have anything to do with it, but vigesimal is a real thing, and does have the linguistic vestiges noted ("quatre vingts", "four score", et al.).

Furthermore: A Troy ounce was 20 pennyweights. There are 20 Gebinde in a Strang. There were 20 maunds in a candy. 20 lyspond in a schippond. And so on.

Enjoy https://archive.org/details/dictionnaireuni00dourgoog .
No one except the Soviet Union said the Chernobyl style plants were reasonable designs. That kind of design would have been illegal to build anywhere else in the world.

No one ever promised that there would never be a nuclear accident - that would be unrealistic for any power source. But historically nuclear power has been safer than all the alternatives that were available. (For example, nuclear power has saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives that would have been lost if coal plants had been built instead.)
Apple's policy on terminating entire developer accounts is consistent in that malicious violations of the guidelines will be considered breach of contract and warrant deletion of the account within 14 days.

Apple did indeed have to keep their Unreal Engine developer account open though thanks to a court order, so Epic can still develop UE - https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/apple-ordered-to-not-block...
Consumers are the discerning ones. Developers will put up with anything.
Vsauce has a great video on this concept. https://youtu.be/ACUuFg9Y9dY (Would Headlights Work at Light Speed?)

I recommend watching it!
Woah, motte, meet bailey! So by “selling dossiers” you actually meant “allows users to choose to share friends list for free”, a feature that does the same thing you can also do with your contacts list on iOS and Android? And you’re muddying the waters by bringing up a group of criminals that also used other, now defunct APIs?
Assume you get in early in a rapidly growing city and secure the best possible location for your mall. You build the worlds best mall, with great parking and mass transit options, very high security, constant maintenance and high quality construction, so that customers feel very comfortable shopping there.

And you don’t even charge monthly rent, instead you ask for a 30% share of sales. That never stopped any retailer, all the best sign up in droves. Your location/strategy is so successful you become the highest grossing mall in the country, and your retailers make substantially more in your mall than any other. Retailers grumble about the 30%, but still spend more building their stores in your mall than anywhere else and you have more tenants than any other mall. They very rarely leave because it’s so profitable being your tenant.

But after over a decade of being the best place in retail for retailers, you discover some of your retailers are taking customer orders in the mall, but delivering to their homes and billing online, so they don’t have to pay you 30%, or contribute anything for maintenance, security, or the value of being in your mall.

So you shut down anyone you catch, and kick them out. Now they claim that being held to their leases is “anti-competitive“, and demand a portion of the mall be set aside for direct sales with no revenue share to give customers a choice. Those direct sales will benefit from the experience you built, but again will contribute zero to maintain it. In fact they will bring in retailers that will actively undercut its security and make the purchasing experience worse.

So what aspects of this are truly anticompetitive?
I ran into some restrictions for newer accounts, apparently, but a moderator fixed it quickly. Should be all good now!
Blender 2.90
Technical SEO Tactics for 2020
> I removed my app from the Mac App Store the same day and haven’t been back.

This is the only winning move.
Avoiding icing situations (i.e. thunderstorms) is also important, so route planning and revision is too.
$27.8 trillion vs $20.3 trillion is not barely.
Wow, why is Intel supporting Zen kernels in MKL? That seems... really interesting. One of the few places where Intel still has a somewhat clear advantage is in high performance numerical code that can't be easily multiprocessed (e.g. off-the-shelf ML code) because MKL is much faster than AMD alternatives.

Also, does anyone know if one can use patchelf on e.g. Python (or the numpy compiled section?) to get MKL/Zen support? I don't have my Zen CPU on me to test.
Totally, 100% get it :)

Ah so, next is a way to make websites in general; the template linked is a good one for a blog though. I've had pretty positive experiences with next so far; I just re-did my blog in a hurry over the weekend for unrelated reasons, so it's pretty much just the template at the moment.
Imagine taking headlines as concrete facts. Oh....
Well, at a high level that's what's being done. Nuclear fuel is mined from underground and the spent fuel is put back underground.

But it's much better to put it in a known location where it's away from water sources. Naturally occurring uranium is actually a fairly common pollutant in drinking water, putting the uranium back where it came from isn't always a good choice when there are better alternatives.
Amazon's Prime Air can officially begin drone delivery trials in the US
Gotta have that good reviewing process: https://fnd.io/#/us/ios-universal-app/1528248331-fall-guys-k...

Obviously Jpseph Rader is a subsidiary of Mediatonic, not some random guy flagrantly stealing Mediatonic's IP!
> Clients are paying for a Ph.D. to solve problems in a Ph.D way.

Ideally, "in a PhD way" is with careful attention to problem framing, understanding prior art, and well-structured research roadmaps.

I worry about PhD graduates who seemingly never spent much time hanging out with postdocs. Advisors teach a lot, but some approach considerations can be gleaned more easily from postdocs gunning for academic posts.
Facebook, the PR Firm
"in deep sleep mode, ESP32’s current consumption is almost 150 uA"

Assuming a 3V power supply is needed, at 100uW, you only get ~30uA, so no.

However the "Hibernation" mode would work (however, this looses memory state):
"This Power mode of ESP32 consumes a minimum amount of current, which is around 5 uA."

But you'd not be able to wake up very often since the active mode power draw is very high (and even higher yet when connected to wifi).
You'd be much better off using a proper low-power microcontroller.
The fact that these mathematical problems can be solved by computer doesn't mean that any computer scientist or teenage hacker can go around solving math problems. The solution to these problems is more a matter of mathematical skill combined with some programming than a purely programming effort. So I don't think that mathematicians have any reason to fear for their jobs, they just have another tool to learn to be good at what they do.
I don’t really know how else to read “measurements the watch wasn’t designed to support” as “we can’t guarantee the measurements you’re taking are or will be accurate enough for what you’re trying to do.”

I mean this whole story is heresay. How do you know that the OPs interaction even happened?
What makes you think it's a myth? Myth is an extremely strong word that implies this is something that has been thoroughly debunked.

I would expect that would leave a trail in literature if it were the case.
For most companies ML is just part of the long term strategy, with covid priorities have shifted from long term R&D to short term survival, so I don't see anything out of the ordinary here
>it seems like this example relies on the image being a bitmap without even run-length compression

Correct. This isn't an example of any sort of practical attack. It is just a visual way to show that you can leak information when each unique block encrypts to the same value.
Thanks for the catch! Ugh those pesky $$s. Changed it now.

Looks like you found the repository. Do you think it would be enough to raise an issue there? (at https://github.com/dafriedman97/mlbook)? I'll look into linking directly from the book to the repo.

Thanks!
The money quote:

I read Facebook less as a tech company, but instead a communications one. Not a telecom communications, but more like a PR / marketing consultancy. There's nothing original about Facebook. It's a company that hires people to build others' ideas, and, more often than not, it does that better and faster than them too. And when it can't do that, it just buys them outright. There is a lot of building, but the ideas are outsourced. But what Facebook is really good at is actually doing all this while fighting what seems to be a never-ending, at least since 2016 or so, PR battle while not giving an inch.
Fwiw, it was a joke about parking.
Shout out SNA, which has a spectacular departure flight path to ensure compliance with back bay NIMBYS who showed up after the airport was already built.
Common misconception. A monopoly itself is not illegal. What is illegal is using that monopoly/market power to keep out competitors.

Windows, as a desktop OS, generally allows you to do whatever you want with it, and does not "abuse" its position to prevent competitors from being install on the computer, for example.

If windows only allowed you to buy from certain app stores, that would be illegal.
I'd actually prefer you use clear language than expect everyone to get or look up your metaphor.