skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? Your comments in this thread are standing out as particularly flamebaity. We're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AFAIK (but I'm no physicist), a black hole has a quantum number of every single kind predicted by the Standard Model. So they'll have a baryonic number that can be zero or negative just as well as positive.
tangent, but that 200M rated depth matters even if you don't go deep underwater because it's only rated for static pressure, i.e. when the device/water aren't moving. Thrashing your arm around underwater will create momentary pressures much greater than the static pressure of a few feet of water. The temporary pressure from a wave at the beach hitting you can easily ruin a 50M watch.
If the OP created the entire project, it is possible they chose the MIT license. There's the potential for the employer to claim bad faith. Particularly if the OP was not an agent of the company.

This is licenses and contracts, not theory. It's lawyers and cowboying up.
yes, "threatening" and even "forceful" are subject to interpretation.

suppose you see me walking around town with a rifle. is that threatening? maybe not if you're comfortable with open carry, but what if I do it on the sidewalk in front of your house?

is it a violation of NAP to not wear a mask during a pandemic? what if I've already tested positive for covid and am refusing to quarantine? or what if I know that I have a detectable viral load for HIV and have sex without informing my partner?

another interesting example: if you accept the claim that racist speech is an implicit threat of violence, you can use NAP to justify deplatforming.

you can make NAP imply almost any position you want, depending on how you interpret it. only a very specific and narrow interpretation implies the typical positions held by (US) libertarians.
As far as I'm concerned the Republicans signed their death warrant when they decided to respond to Obama's election by ginning up the narrative of a "cold civil war" and "grassroots" right-wing reactionary movements like the Tea Party, implying Obama was such a danger to the country that an uprising would be imminent if not inevitable, were he allowed to remain in power.

I believe what they wanted was to repeat the Southern Strategy by fanning the fuel of racism, xenophobia and right-wing hatred among their white base (an obvious tack to take with Obama) but the Republicans underestimated just how extreme that base had become since the Goldwater days and how unhinged the presence of a black "leftist" in the White House made them.

The Tea Party, being a Republican Party proxy movement, wasn't anywhere near as radical enough as its purpose was maintaining the Republican status quo, and for all the Tea Party's talk of "watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants" and such in their campaign ads, wasn't going to give the right the blood in the streets that they wanted.

Thus, we ended up with the reactionary movement against both the left and the mainstream right in Trumpist populism, the rise of the alt-right and embrace of QAnon and other conspiracy theories, and the start of open violence by right-wing militias against black and leftist "agitators."

Barring some effective, widespread counter-Conservative movement to return the party to sanity and core non-crazy-racist principles (which doesn't appear to exist) the Republicans have no alternative now but to ride the Trump train all the way to the end, or else split and form another party.
This! Even better would be an insert in the box saying "buy future Cheerios from Cheerios.com at 30% off".
“it would never be a device competing in the mobile app market”

This is false at face value.

If they put cellular functionality and an open app store on the device, it would be de-facto competing in the mobile app market.
Yes, if your vector represents indices into a tensor for example. I have written code that does exactly that in C++.
This is like claiming that you're glad when a TSA agent gropes you, because that keeps the savage terrorists out.

In both cases, it is a security theatre which is abused for reasons not related to security.
Why don't they just get together and make a phone?
I can try to address some of your arguments one by one:

> How would you gather labels for every possible board state? It would require 768 factorial labels to represent every possibility.

You don't need to represent every possibility. Just a sufficiently large dataset and a neural network with a sufficient amount of prior and size. Note that e.g. video continuation networks already exist and deals with comparable data sizes.

> But game of life is nothing like that. Every board is a valid board.

Yes, but given the previous board (or the board N steps ago) there is only one valid board. Hence, a supervised learning problem.

> Without self-play, your learned network will always overfit or underfit different scenarios.

This confuses me. Why do you think self-play avoids over- and underfitting? How could one approach even solve both over- and underfitting at the same time?

> Minesweeper is another example: it's possible to win every game using nothing but logic (disregarding tiebreakers), so therefore the solution is known. But I don't think it can be formulated as a supervised learning problem.

Sure it can. If the solution is known, just train a neural network to mimic the solution. That's what network distillation is all about.
> If my unit tests are testing all of my public interfaces with "Given input X, expect output Y" and they're all passing, that gives me pretty good confidence that the system is in good shape.

Unfortunately, in my experience, most production bugs look more like this:

Module A: Returns X + 1
Implementation
int A(int x) {
if (x == 11) crash();
return x + 1;
}
Unit test:
assert(A(1) == 2);
assert(A(5) == 6);

Production:
A(11);

The problem compounds as the parameter space of your system grows. Unless your unit tests exercise the power set of your parameters and results for each module, there is a likelihood of missing bugs like this.
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>Saving now for later assumes there is later, or even that well-being and health later are given.

My parents had close to zero savings because they didn't really have any money. A $100 purchase was something very carefully considered. While they were frugal, they didn't live a life of denial. My dad had a canoe & kayak, both purchased used. One thing they waited on, even though they could have made it work financially, was taking a trip to Europe together.

My dad passed away at 46. That trip to Europe will never happen. With almost no savings, the only thing that let my mom live with basic needs met was his life insurance policy.

I'm 45 now and that experience has shaped my approach to saving and spending. From day 1, I've contributed to my 401(k) and increased the percentage saved each year and now max it out. When my son was born, the 529 savings started immediately. Balancing that, I have no problem spending money on things that I find value in, whether other people find them frivolous or not. I do carefully evaluate whether I'm getting value from the money spent, and use that as a firmer guide than the actual amount of money involved.
Valve used to be a game publisher first and an app store owner second, too. I'm sure Epic's app store was in part inspired by looking at the immense pile of money Valve is now sitting on due to getting a 30% cut of most PC game money for most of the past two decades.
Playstation Network does store my credit card details on file for future purchases. It stores my personal data. It also has a web browser that could be used for pretty much anything.
There are always going to be crazy people. But what does it matter what they think? What matters is what the average rational adult who is a contributing member of society thinks.

What is the end goal? To make it impossible for crazy people to be heard online? Wouldn't a better goal be to educate ourselves on how to ignore the crazies and focus on reliable sources?
That's an easy opinion to have when it's not your livelihood.

Does consumer centric focus necessitate draconian developer policies?
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing. That's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Unless people have specific evidence, the overwhelming majority of the time, these perceptions turn out to be illusory. Other commenters having different views than one's own does not constitute specific evidence (or rather, it's evidence merely that a topic is divisive). Plenty of past explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
I never knew a partial mock was called a shunt.
> doesn't this question apply to every cheap Chinese product?

The question is always valid but the answer isn't always the same.

I'm thinking specifically of cheap eyeglasses.I've had nothing but good experiences buying glasses that cost 10-20% of what I would pay from a local store.
I lived in East Palo Alto for a few years during that time. I was able to save some money and pay off some student loans. It was doable, but it wasn't great. Parking, traffic, garbage, noise, theft, and fleas were a constant thing.
> So how did this mentality fuck us? Well, I've come up with a rather clever framework I'm calling:

oh god
I've been eating a small handful of gluten-free licorice daily for the last couple of months.. dang.
> to sense sound well enough

My understanding is that it's like a low-sighted person being able to see contrasts and outlines of things. It's enough to differentiate things, but significantly less than the detail of regular ability.
Anybody that continues to use Facebook is complicit in the downfall of democracy. That goes for Twitter and 24/7 news channels as well. Get off that crap, it’s rotting out minds.
Yeah, I think he is one of these activists that will call people out whatever side of the political spectrum and so spends his time oscillating between which side dislikes him most.
> As unethical as eating soy from a deforested area.

Not really, though - the GP link says it takes 50 calories of feed to make 1 calorie of Beef, so eating the feed directly would require 50 times less land.
Matter annihilation conserves the energy (and as consequence, the mass) of the particles that were destroyed.
I think it was more in response to, "I wish the author had dug a little deeper to see why this slowdown occurs."
I wouldn't say there's no market. There just haven't been new planes built for it in a while. 757s are old, relatively inefficient planes and Boeing just scrapped the NMA.
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I think it’s more than just making it addictive. It’s making choices that make the product more harmful in order to make it more addictive. Even that bar, though, hasn’t triggered action against food producers for sugaring things up. I think there also must be a critical mass of cultural anger.
By "server side magic" you mean routing requests to index.html?

AFAIK that's a very simple config in all static hosts.
The developers aren’t happy. No one forces a Fortnite player to buy skins or emotes, Apple forces developers to pay the fee.
I like that Apple forces app developers to use a system that is convenient and safe for me as the device owner. I don't think it would be a case of "ignore the alternatives", I expect many apps would abandon apple to save a few dollars and I would have to put my credit card into half the apps I currently use. I buy the phone and the apps for my benefit, not the benefit of Epic.

I have to be honest, I subscribe to a lot more services through Apple than I would outside because I trust their cancellation mechanism. Developers may lose 30% on my purchases but they might not get anything outside of the walled garden.

Also, I have a Sony Xperia running Sailfish, sat over there-->, for when I feel the need to tinker.
Well, many times the thing one addicted to is used to try to help manage negative feelings in other areas of life. So maybe it’s time to take stock of that?
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The most popular modern descendant of this benchmark suite is here: https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench
It doesn’t follow at all that a worse time for developers means worse apps or less-happy consumers. Any time Apple enforces any kind of standard it’s “worse for developers”. I’m sure lots of developers are annoyed with Apple’s approach to fine-grained and highly visible app permissions, and wish they could just have full access to the user’s device. Screwing those people over is obviously good.
> Fake accounts, especially for swaying public opinion are not that easy to spot.

If you don't know the account holder in person, or through word of mouth in a social context, don't follow them.
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In 12 minutes, we visit 9 different decentralization applications ("dapps"), to gain understanding of DeFi through experience and through doing.
> Please don't give me root access to my iPhone, I do not care about it, I have no need for it, and I do not want it

Then don't turn on root mode?

Nobody will force you to do anything, if I am given the option of easilu turning on root mode, and you can simply choose to not turn that on.
IANAL either. Licenses matter to the extent someone has the legal wherewithal to back up their interpretation. MIT is not going to pony up for the OP's legal bills for a claim based on the employment contract or a claim that the OP acted in bad faith while an employee or that the employee did not have authority to release the code under an MIT license.
It's one of two reasons I use a service that I otherwise despise. It's not just important, it's an overriding factor.
The page is blocked by this message...

> We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. By continuing to browse this site, you give consent for cookies to be used. For more details, please read our Cookie Policy.

...with the only option being “I accept” (and by the way, you’re not allowed to read the cookie policy without first accepting it. Christ).

Honestly, this thoroughly undermines the message about “consumer freedom”.
Where do you draw the line, though? PlayStation / Xbox are basically computers from a technical standpoint. They have hundreds of millions of users. They also store your personal data and credit card information should you provide it.
PostgreSQL team and community disserve a big thanks for the huge effort during the years.

One of the most amazing FLOSS databases with nothing to envy to others RDBMSs.
Tobacco use as a percentage of the population has consistently declined by .5% since data started to be gathered the 1960s [0].

The Master Settlement Agreement in 1998 [1] had no statistical impact on the rate reduction of smoking - the rate of decline of smokers is the same now as it was in 1965.

The tobacco industry is more profitable than ever and they are diversifying into nicotine delivery vehicles like vapes, gum [2]. So the underlying goal - increase nicotine dependence across the global population and capture the nicotine consumption market is still going strong.

Much like the desire to be intoxicated, the desire to influence people will never go away. It's baked into our biology. Everyone in this thread interacting with each other is trying to influence everyone else. Facebook etc... is just doing successfully what Bernays dreamed of.

You can beat these platforms all you want - just like the tobacco industry was beat. The problems will just surface elsewhere in a different form.

Attack the root issue - ban advertising. oh and do it in a way that allows for "free speech." The challenge of the century.

[0]https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco...

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

[2]https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-tobacco-industry-rebounds-f...
Because congress represents lobbyist interest and not the interests of their constituents. It's not a democracy, it's not a republic. It's an oligarchy or corporatocracy. That's the joke. It's just that the mob is the few people who have most of the money.
Previous discussions of this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535241 (535 points/220 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535903 (131 points/16 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24539132 (110 points/26 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24536630 (83 points)
I just got myself some Costco Signature hearing aids a month ago. Its $1499/pair. Its made by a major manufacturer named Phonak. The feature set is close to their top of the line model. Half the cost of the hearing aids in the US is actually the fitting by the audiologist and they have to pay for their expenses. You have to spend considerable time with the audiologist to measure, fit and calibrate the device to your needs. Costco is able to minimize the cost overhead since the office is inside a normal Costco store.

The hard part about hearing aids is making them work in noise. You don't want to just amplify everything or you just hear more noise. Also you need to tune it to your hearing loss otherwise you may damage your hearing. They do things like expanding the dynamics or compressing to prevent loud noises. They suppress wind noise. They can focus on the voice of someone in a group of people.

So the catch with the cheaper hearing aids is that may not help help your dad with understand speech as well as a better quality one.

I'd suggest you watch the videos of Dr Clif Aud on Youtube. He is very informative.
i can't edit my comment because HN won't let me... so many rules on this site, almost like kids designed it
I'm guessing that's because "viral pro Trump content" is very frequently xenophobic& racist content, includes calls to violence and is full of conspiracy theories. If a site doesn't moderate that sort of stuff, it frequently goes to shit, I know inadequate moderation on that front had made reddit much much worse.

Also this sort of stuff can lead to real world violence like when Facebook let violent vigilantes organize on their site it led to Kyle Rittenhouse killing two people.
You are talking about two very different things.

I am talking about our upbringing I am fairly sure most parents aren't prejudice against their children and I am pretty sure most kids aren't trans although it's certainly in vogue to call yourself to something of that effect in many youth circles.

So it's not a good example it's missing the point as most people we are talking about here aren't trans.
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Amazon introduces open source 'Distance Assistant'
They can certainly work as a proof, it's just one of the conditions on it being proof usually fail. Argument by metaphor says that A and B are isomorphic to one another and that since they are isomorphic, we can apply proofs from A to B (maybe with some modification). The problems come from either establishing the isomorphism or in mapping properties/predicates from one to the other.
> Livestock agriculture is the leading driver of climate change AND biodiversity loss.

I am pretty sure that's not correct, not even close [1]. Transportation is the main driver of gas emissions (28%) followed by electricity production (27%) and industry (22%). Agriculture (livestock and crop) is <10%.

In most countries, livestock can graze in areas where cultivations cannot happen (Australia is a good example iirc) and can help with soil health.

> Additionally, if we would let nature reclaim the land that's currently used for livestock agriculture, it has the potential to capture >100% of the CO2 emissions until 2050.

Most of the food livestock consume are leftovers of human-grade crops. So we would still "need to" have that cultivations going and throw the leftovers anyways. Or most likely some company would find a way to feed humans that.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
This can be (kinda) explained via the notion of space-time expansion. (This is an intrinsic phenomenon, having nothing to do with objects moving through space.) As the space-time expands, its density becomes lower. The (relative) change in density can be measured indirectly by measuring (the effects of) the expansion.

A technical explanation of the expansion involves the inflaton field.

(There's also energy density of the gravitational field.)
Two and a half years of building products
Anyone who's interested in this might also enjoy the podcast about the album [1] from The Current, the Minneapolis rock format public radio station.

[1]: https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2020/08/27/prince-the-sto...
Agreed!

We run several instances in production and have had zero problems. TimescaleDB engineers, if you are watching / reading. Thank you VERY MUCH! You totally rock!
It's silly no?

When a rocket ship explodes

But everybody still wants to fly?

This lyric has always stuck in my head, because it doesn't make any sense. The approach that Prince is tacitly advocating here to safety standards in space exploration is far too conservative. You don't give up on the whole programme just because of one very bad accident. You investigate, fix, improve and move on.

Edit: I hope it was obvious that this was tongue in cheek, but thanks for the actually quite interesting responses
The paper for the language is here https://pgm2020.cs.aau.dk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/tehrani... and the benefits over other PPLs are listed at a high level in the abstract.
I think it's getting obvious that the situation is untenable. If it's not the US courts, some other court will likely enact changes.

In the end it doesn't matter how Apple and Google got to this duopoly position of power, if it was fair or of they had to work hard. The fact that matters is where they are now.
To make the library analogy match how social media works, the book should be one you checked out because the library recommended it to you earlier based on books you had checked out earlier.
Stefan Heller from Stanford's lab had set a goal somewhere around in 2010 to cure hearing loss by 2020 by trying to convert stem cells to hair cells. I have never heard of any breakthrough. I hope this happens in 10 more years at least.
You sound like quite an unimaginative square. Your opinion on psychedelic use aside, his research is orders of magnitude ahead of anything the precious pharma and argitech are pumping out. Guess we should just stick to "experts" in our incredibly entrenched, monopolistic, sadistic industrial complexes to pump out the next forced animal tested drug which cures nothing and keeps you dependent.
I think "TOTALLY RIGHT" and "COMPLETELY WRONG" should be changed to "CONFIRMED" and "BUSTED".
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TablePlus is a great alternative for Postgres (and many other DBs) for that on Mac & Linux IMO: https://tableplus.com/
It's funny actually -- twice I've been at big investment banks, where a trader/analyst has come on from another place and brought screen shots with him from his old job. "This is what I want, and I assume you guys are competent to create it." I think it kind of skirts the line on IP, because none of the ideas are completely novel, and the implementation is from scratch. But sometimes knowing what to build is harder than knowing how to.
But that shouldn’t be an imposition on Apple to make an identical experience to what it’s replacing. It can be both a console and a replacement to a computer. The intended purpose of the two can be the same but have a different way of going about it.