skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The UK’s largest supermarket will on Tuesday commit to boosting sales of meat alternatives by 300% within five years, by 2025. Over the past year, demand for chilled meat-free foods – the most popular line including burger, sausage and mince substitutes – has increased by almost 50%, the retailer said.

When the sales of this vegan category is $1 today the target will be reached by $3.

Ok could be sloppy reporting of the Guardian but also the press release of Tesco [0] doesn't mention amount of sales in a valuta. The Guardian almost did a one on one copy pasta here.

Meat replacers are much more expensive sometimes with a markup of 300% compared to meat. When measuring the environment effects of meat replacer sales, committing to a weight goal would even be more transparent so the public knows how much damage is prevented by Tesco.

[0] https://m.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/TESCO-PLC-4000540/n...
Why not an iframe with a meta refresh tag? That seems more standard than rendering text using a video stream. Sure, it's not "live" but an update every second or so would be good enough for this use case.
Remember Agile? Often we don't know what we've built until we've built it. Add in some ground-breaking work, and here we are.
> Another interview I had years ago, after telling them about my first book, the interviewer said "so you know the theory, but can you put it in practice?" The assumption being "those that can do, those that can't write books." I was in a worse position for letting them know about it.

I am routinely amazed at the arrogance shown by interviewers. Even people that are usual humble and great to work with get in that position of authority and judgment and suddenly act different. It's a very disappointing aspect of human nature.
Hi hackers,

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>I am not convinced that the majority of the advertising & marketing initiatives out there actually translate to more profit.

The big companies have people who check if the ads are working. Every have the clerk ask for your zip code? That is because they are checking if the ad sent to some zip codes worked. It is noisy data, but statistics is all about finding signal in noisy data.
Sure, they do need to know how to balance their account, even if their bank statement has a sum at the end.
who are some of the mentors of the bootcamp?
You create a system in which they can help themselves while the others have a vested interest in helping them raise. It’s called capitalism.
Actually it is more "Finally, a command line shell for the 80s".

"Xerox Alto"

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/3...

Having grown through the UNIX adoption in the enterprise, it kind of feels ironic that nowadays bash is kind of seen as the UNIX shell, and in those days it was just one among many possibilities to configure on /etc/passwd
Opindia is a fake news channel that created to incite communal violence.

https://thewire.in/communalism/bihar-opindia-khabartak-minor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpIndia

That you get your news from there, or if not, choose to paste links to their reporting tells a lot about your agenda here.

Swarajyamag is rightwing mouthpiece. Opinion of one person on the internet who happens to have a twitter account counts for very little.

Indian Express is reliable and all that report says that there are a lot of shady NGO's in India. That has no relevance on whether AI is shady or not.
Learning the hard way that psychedelic drug use can have long-term consequences
Ancient Democracy for an Online World
Similar experience here. We interviewed a guy who kept referring to his book on the subject, experience he gained during writing the book, and so on. We took the bait.

> He would tell people they couldn't do things they'd already done and then back-peddle that it wasn't possible when he'd written his book

This was the core problem: Modern technologies and frameworks move fast. His book was about the state of the art five years ago, but it was woefully out of date for what we were doing. That didn't stop him from trying to exert superiority over the more knowledgeable team members.

Some of us read his book. It wasn't even a great resource on the topic. Re-reading the Amazon reviews, I have to believe most of the positive reviews were bought or fabricated.

Since then, I'm cautious about hiring anyone who tries to portray themselves as an expert in the field. And if you're hiring an author, at least read part of their book during the interview phase.
Depends on how complicated you want things to be.

I recently bought a Sony TV, it's an amazing display but I have zero patience for their janky android flavoured UI.

I never setup wifi, I have 3x HDMI ports connected:

1x port for a cable set top box

1x port with a raspberry pi running OSMC

1x port with a google Chromecast

I will use the cable for local news or documentaries. For Youtube/Netflix/Spotify streaming, I will use the Chromecast dongle. I use the OSMC media center for torrents, internet radio and some live TV channels from my home country.

It sounds convoluted but I find it easier to just toogle HDMI ports and have a solution that is optimal for I want to do, rather than to try use any of the solutions out there that claim they can do everything but end up falling short.
Late update: it seems they've added a suitable category to their store now, but without any actual product(s) listed.

[1]: https://pine64.com/product-category/soldering-irons/
What do you think "duck typing" is? Historically, it feels like I've mostly heard the term applied to Python.

Edited to add: Please don't take my question as rhetorical attack - it was intended as inquiry. There may be different definitions floating around.
He's got some creds: http://www.brendangregg.com/
Or via Bass[1], for things that modify the environment.

[1] https://github.com/edc/bass
Well they use the variable valve timing to operate in a Atkinson cycle but can change valve timing back towards Otto.

Most still seem to refer to these engines as Atkinson cycle even Toyota themselves: "The Prius retains its 1.8-liter VVT-i equipped Atkinson cycle petrol engine (2ZR-FXE)"

https://global.toyota/en/detail/9827044

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_ZR_engine#2ZR-FXE
You seem to have skipped the entire context of the article and that point, which is having good acoustics, including “get away from other people” and “get a better microphone”. If you don’t have both of those, then the advice is manifestly inapplicable.
See man pages for mkfs.xfs, mkfs.ext4. On other Unix systems block size is/was more variable, but on Linux you can't exceed the 4kB memory page size. So it is not possible to match database block size (typically 16kB for InnoDB, 8kB for PostgreSQL). (Exception being ZFS which has a completely different architecture and can do atomic writes.) Note that I am not saying buffered IO would necessarily be atomic at that level on (say) ancestral SGI XFS or FreeBSD UFS with block size matching the database's (I don't know if it might it some circumstances split writes on sector boundaries for some reason)! Just that it's already a non starter when the block size is too small.
I had a thought today that entanglement between particles could be the result of strings wrapping around two quantum particles, and that pulling on the string would result in a motion on one quantum particle that is inversely enacted on the other.

The knot around each quantum particle would have to be an inverse of the other knot for this to work. In theory, this idea would also make the entanglement of N-particles possible. Although, it wouldn’t be obvious to determine since for every even number of entangled quantum particles it would look like log2(N) pairs of entangled quantum particles and with every odd number of entangled particles each odd set would look like an even set of entangled quantum particles with an additional particle reflecting some seemingly uncorrelated state.

I do not have a deep understanding of quantum mechanics but wanted to share because my ideas like this often die with the last thought. Although, I am doing an independent study on quantum computing this semester and have found it to be very stimulating.
I see. So they're just proxying the request for the image, instead of caching it. That prevents the tracking image from learning your IP, receiving cookies, etc. but still gives the tracker that binary "did they see it" signal.

I guess I'm disabling images in email. I thought email providers would have closed this obvious privacy disaster... but nope.
I'll go ahead and give a few ideas though of things we could start.

1. Build apartment style tiny houses which can be booked for a month at a time, for free, by people who are homeless. This would be basically like a tent-city except it's organized and maintained making it cleaner, safer, and healthier in general. We'd need quite a bit of funding to get this going anywhere. Would love to discuss ideas on how to get this implemented somewhere. Once the people have a safe place to live, we can focus on other things. That's first and foremost. You can't expect someone living under a bridge to be ready for employment. If we can't utilize motels/apartments that already exist, then we just have to build it from scratch. There's also the option of buying extremely cheap housing/property in poor neighborhoods and converting it to what we need. Check out the Catholic Workers for example.

2. Reach out to fast food chains in your area and ask them if they could sponsor free food giveaways. The more official/legitimate you can appear, the more likely this can happen. This method is interesting because it doesn't require you to have an official space or kitchen. If you do like cooking, Food not Bombs has tons of material on how to get the materials you need to make a TON of meals, for free or cheap. These methods could be used to provide meals to people living in the room-city explained above.

3. Contact universities and organizations in your area to find people willing to donate their time for free for things like therapy, counseling (mental well-being, job search, fighting addiction, etc). Tell them they can stick it on a resume (which they can). Then set up a scheduling system to where people can get sessions with these professionals. Honestly one person could in their spare time start a project like this and have GREAT impact. You just need a few hours a week to facilitate things.

4. Build a big network of people that work in the trades but also in low-skill occupations. If you have this network, then you could utilize it to help people find jobs.

Those are a few of my own ideas. I hope that helps.
Just take your last 20 responses and turn them into a post?
I too recall hearing this, but email tracking definitely still works in Gmail, and Google, being the advertising and marketing king, has no incentive to upset their actual customers by defeating email tracking. (In fact, AMP4Email, a.k.a. "Dynamic Email", will probably make this even worse.)

I suspect the thing we heard about means Gmail is messing up the IP address/location tracking aspect of a tracking pixel, but still loading it on email opens. The bargain of "we'll hide the user's IP, but still allow you to track their behavior" sounds like the devil's bargain I'm used to from them.
Accelerating Machine Learning with a Feature Store
… I believe your view is that ARanganathan72 is not a well known rightwing propaganda handle. OK, if you say so.
Fish Shell has a lot of cool feature but lack of `ctrl-r` functionality is preventing me from using it full time.
All the strategies don't work because they government won't let them. People can solve all the problems but one, you have to do what the people with the guns say. As long as the government will not let people do what they want to do to help their weaker members we will have the status quo. Make no mistake, it exists, as all things do in America, to enable the ruling class.
Agreed. I use the Jabra dongle and it's great, even switching machines via USB hub
Can only speak for Steam's streaming here, but your mileage will probably vary. Your system needs to be fairly beefy (you will get a bit of a performance hit from streaming games). I run a geforce 1060 and it'll stream any new games at 1080p / 60fps but I'd go beefier for 2K/4K streaming. I'm still on a dumb 1080p TV so that'll be more important if your TV is >1080p.

Biggest obstacle here was the wifi in this house is unreliable. We tried getting a wifi extender and even a new wireless router but we kept getting latency issues. We opted to get a powerline adapter for a stable connection. MOCA is also worth looking into if connectivity is a problem.

And finally, running to the other room to start games. Again, this is steam, but I'm guessing shield has the same limitation: if your system isn't logged in or the screen is locked, you will probably have problems starting games remotely in those cases. You'll want to setup remote desktop almost for sure (you can VNC or there's a way to logout of RDP too without locking the screen automatically). I also have a Wake on LAN shortcut setup to wake the PC up remotely.

Finally, sometimes games won't pipe audio remotely because they don't switch to the "virtual streaming audio device" these apps use properly. As far as I can tell this is on a game-by-game basis and depends how they coded it, but for that I have a pretty ridiculous work around (I remotely start a command line tool via openssh to force the audio device to "steam streaming speakers" then restart the game after that). The games with these problems seem pretty rare though, I'd say maybe 5% of the games I've tried.

Overall it's awesome and I glad I spent a day or two figuring it out. I don't get noticeable lag and I can stream pretty much any game to my living room on the TV now. Also got a "Couchmaster" for a kb/mouse setup. I can also emulate things like Wii U games and stream them remotely to the TV like having an actual system.

Hope this helps.
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...Assuming it displays anything at all without being able to phone home.

Chances are good the TVs of the future will just display full screen error messages if they haven’t been able to upload your content engagement metrics in the last 15 minutes.
This is legitimately scary to look at.
People are working on BitTorrent yes! libtorrents blog made a blog post quite recently (September 7th, 2020) - https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/
love & respect cloudflare but calling this 'web analytics' blurs meaning and it's hardly a threat to google.

It's web traffic stats, hit data they have lying around from ops they're running anyways, packaged in a nice interface. Same as any web stats package from 2001.

Google Analytics spins it out more into like 'business analytics' where ('privacy' aside) you can see how users are using your site and how you can improve things for them and work to do things like make conversions for whatever your goal is, selling or otherwise. As far as designing for web and experience, that is useful.
For the investors, I wrote a lazy portfolio rebalancing calculator using Vue.js
Wasted, it depends on the point of view. Self driving was a good story, costed 2.5B but attracted multiple time this amount in investors money, so it ends up being a good strategy.
That's what we were using before XHR in IE5 (it had another name but same stuff.)
Ah I wasn't sure your argument, thanks for clarifying. As a minority in America I fear it's all gone a little bit crazy.
Totally agree! I think 3090 could be a lot more cost effective for researchers to dabble with NLP. But it really grinds my gears when people post these misleading benchmarks... the 3090 is handicapped at half-rate tensor core performance while the Titan RTX is not.

So if you're someone who does their work mainly in FP32, you will see improved performance with the 3090. On the other hand, if you are an FP16 speed demon who needs to train GPT-3 over the weekend, stick with your Titans :)
Just enter "bash" when you need bash and exit it once you're done. Barely need this but sometimes it's useful.

Fish imho offers superb usability, wouldn't want to miss it.
I don't think conservatives/Republicans are strictly against helping anyone, they just disagree on the method. The historically conservative view has been to try and give them a job through which they can support themselves as opposed to a "handout" through a social program. On paper I think they would describe it as the equivalent of "teaching a man to fish" vs "giving a man a fish".

Obviously there is a lot of room for skepticism as to whether you think the approach works in practice, or if the approach is simply a front to enact changes that will nominally benefit the unempowered but in reality benefit the empowered. But I don't know of many who aren't in favor of something as vague as "helping people", and most genuinely believe they are doing so.
> It's a tremendous signal to have overcome the hurdles of getting a publisher to accept you and print your book with your name on it.

That would seem to depend on the publisher, and the business arrangement, as to whether it really signals anything (though I suspect that often hiring managers might not know enough to correctly interpret the signal.) Obviously, if the book is a success and widely-known for its technical merit, that's a positive signal, but that's different than just getting a book published.

Even where getting over the hurdles to get a book published signals something, there's a question of whether it signals something relevant to the job you are hiring for. The hurdles of getting a book published (where they exist at all, e.g., outside of what is essentially vanity publishing or a close approximation) aren't particularly similar hurdles to those encountered in most technical jobs even when the book is on a subject close to the job duties.
Or more specifically, pay for what you say you'd pay for in the contract. If it was a time and materials contract, pay the man for his T&M.

I've spent way too much of my career dealing with nasty clients who signed a T&M agreement and then stopped paying when they didn't get the next Facebook / Google / Amazon. Not my effing problem that their expectations weren't in the realm of reality and the contract was based on time units not their pie-in-the-sky dreams. If they'd wanted a contract based on their pipe dreams, chances are I wouldn't have signed it OR I would have put in verbiage to make sure they couldn't screw me in the end.
>We don’t want to have what they had in the old “second world” where the state could bend the will of the people because it held all the cards.

Isn't it apparent, though, that this type of leverage is inevitable in any societal structure? Some party will have a level of power where it can coerce many others to basically do their bidding at threat of witholding some essential sustenance. In the private sector, witholding employment means poverty and the resulting wretched consequences to health and status.

The proposition that government should be the only one with that leverage is the lesser of many evils, because at least there is electoral recourse against a government that abuses it.

This is opposed to leaving that leverage with the private sector, where there is no recourse, other that not participating, which is exactly their leverage in the first place, as you will be left with no income and in poverty.
It's not my area, but isn't forecasting financial time series stuff harder than forecasting for systems where the system components aren't actively trying to outsmart one another based on some of the same data? I.e. a method could be good enough to use in systems that aren't about the interaction of smart agents (e.g. what will my service's request volume look like next week), but fail to be useful in markets?
You can just type in anything you'd like as when using Ctrl+R and then just press the up arrow key to perform a fuzzy match in your history.
Given the frequency I see the meat alternatives in the discounted section in various supermarkets I've visited, I think they have some work on their hands.
Questions for the authors in this thread: If I'm thinking about writing a book, what stepping stones would you recommend? I'm thinking things like should I write a series of blog posts, do tech talks, etc.

What resources were most valuable for you in writing your book?
They probably made more than a billion USD in profit.
Just the cost of doing "business".
Hi!
Here are the speakers, they are all team members of TheVentureCity:

Katya Skorobogatova https://www.linkedin.com/in/skorobogatova/
David Smith
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dksmith01/
Andrés Fajardo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andresfajardo/
Victor Servin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorservin/
David Marcus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidamarcus/
Roberto Carlos Navas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcnavas/
Luis Guzmán
https://www.linkedin.com/in/guzmanluis/
Jimena Zubiria
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimenazubiria/
Andy Areitio
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyareitio/

The full agenda and speakers with link are also on our website: http://theventure.city/product-led-growth-week/
Browsers that supported srv dns records for http/s traffic would be a good start imo. That way you could 'roll your own' cdn without all this bgp/asn low level network switching. Would it be as good as what CloudFlare provides? Probably not, but for a lot of purists, it would certainly be a welcome compromise.
Take a look at the furry (porn) art community. Quite a bunch of them have separate portfolios and brands for "personal day job as a 3D artist" and "commissions open, $10 per extra inch of dick".
I agree. Or if you want to invest a bit more effort: surely there are patterns of problems you are seeing, each of which could be a blog post.
> You’d learn more about the humanities by traveling for a year

What exactly do you think "the humanities" are?
Or you simply put a comfortable range of temperatures in your smart thermostat.
Yes, but... unless you are hiring an absolute EXPERT on that topic and that was the purpose of hiring the person.. I bet that could turn out very poorly.

I mean it's in general like if you hire a PhD into a role that needs to cover a lot of areas, can't be super detailed in anything, and needs to get stuff done as opposed to pure research.. that can turn out poorly.
Yes, exactly that. I was in live production for some years, that's where I grew to like the simplicity / bullet proof nature of that style. It would be nice if a manufacturer would release a USB headset that allowed monitoring of ones own voice, and a hardware talk switch.
You can try https://cruip.com/
Thanks for the heads up, will certainly do!
> If your studies were negatively impacted by <whatever factor outside your control>, why would "lenient grading" be the right response?

I'm not necessarily saying it is, just that the issue covered in the article is only tangentially related to the "math is now racist" strawman. personally, I think no-penalty incomplete would be more fair, although I'm sure someone could find issues with that too.

my guess is "lenient grading" starts to seem more reasonable when you take into account what a lot of schools were already doing in response to covid and remote learning at this time. giving incompletes is a reasonable measure to take when you have a couple students with extenuating circumstances. but what do you do when almost all the students have been impacted by a sudden shift to remote learning? you can't just give the whole class an incomplete and delay everyone by some fraction of a semester.