skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fully Agree with this insight. Superior UI/UX will make a crappy model look like the magical future we imagine. When you flip on a snapchat face filter nobody thinks about the quality or accuracy of the object detection, facial landmark localization and the active shape model that's doing the lifting. I guess this is what they call the "AI effect."
I don't mind the useless life story that accompanies every recipe these days. It's easy enough to scroll to the bottom of the page. I virtually never make any given recipe as-is anyway, and if it's something I'm going to make repeatedly I have my own document template that I use to write up the recipe and save it locally.

I can't remember the last time I used a paper recipe, and I find it strange to attribute a preference to paper to an easily avoidable side-effect of internet recipe blogging.
There has been so much analysis of every step of the health care pipeline, and most of the meta-analyses I have read suggest that there is no silver bullet, only many, many, many things combined.

All nedical malpractice costs combined, insurance, actual payments, and legal combined, amount to 0.3% of the total cost of health care[0]. That's one-third of one percent. So its not nothing, but it's not the highest priority, either.

[0] https://truecostofhealthcare.org/malpractice/
Pretty cool that the leak was identified this way. Also, the title is a little misleading because there was a lot of work beforehand to isolate the leak to a particular section of an individual module of the ISS prior to the tea leaves. The article mentions this, but it isn't that they released tea leaves across the entire station and watched them.
> yeah, don't you just know tons of people who love to have no job security, don't know how much they'll make on any given day or whether they'll be unemployed in a month?

parent probably meant something like "consistent and mandatory" more than "uncertain.
> I could forsee apps going to random IPs for DNS and making it look like https, which will be hard to deal with.

DoH isn't really going to look like https, the requests and responses are going to be too small.

If you're serious about it, you don't allow any random IP connections, only allow connections to IPs that were received by DNS, and only return proxy addresses that you NAT to the real thing. It's more work, but it's still trivial.
100% Agreed! Defining logic in JS is quite clunky for these sorts of tools.

I'm biased[1], but for this reason we took the approach of creating a spreadsheet from scratch for the sole purpose of creating logic for apps (both internal tools & customer facing UX).

Would be curious to get the everyone's input on our spreadsheet-driven approach -- thoughts?

[1] I'm biased, because I'm the founder of:
https://mintdata.com

[2] But this example shows what I mean by the "a spreadsheet is better to define logic than JS" approach:

https://mintdata.com/showcase/photo-finder/
No, the fact that Linux is not currently a practical option for most users isn't proof that it can't be or never will be.

I am saying the lack of desktop adoption is indicative of the difficulties of doing so. There is a level-of-effort barrier and technical-knowledge barrier to it. 20 years of progress have lowered those barriers a lot, but even if something like Ubuntu will often be fully functional with a standard install, most users never have to install an OS. They can't walk into Best Buy and come out with a computer that runs desktop Linux.

I think the success of Chrome Books show that people would be receptive to alternative operating systems, but we don't have a retail or post-purchase support environment in place to facilitate it, and I don't see that coming on the horizon.
Anti-trust legislation is pointless. It's only enforced selectively and for political reasons. It would be FAR FAR FAR better to just enforce proper taxation policy so that companies like google actually pay taxes.

Right now FANG have completely unfair competitive advantages that they SHOULD NOT have.

WTF does Facebook get to build a campus TAX FREE just because they are Facebook.

If you tried to do a startup your company wouldn't get these advantages.
Can you expand on how one would educate themselves on this (besides getting a law degree), and how one would determine that they need legal counsel, besides having this vague feeling that they need it? Are there some rules of thumb that a normal, non-lawyer can follow to roughly gauge the seriousness of a written legal threat?
Don’t forget Microsoft.Net
I have recently been watching a documentary series by a Norwegian musician that grew up in the rustbelt in America in the 70'ies [0], but moved with his famliy to Norway in his youth. He has been going back, visiting family, friends and random people and interviewed them, and it is frankly heartbreaking to witness the struggle the the 'average joe' has to endure.

I'm living well below the poverty line here in Norway, but it is nothing compared to being poor in America. I do not need to worry about health care or expensive insurance. Me and my partner own an old but nice house with a big garden in a semi-rural community (15min from the nearest city), and can afford all the basic necessities by being frugal. In America, we would have lived in constant fear of becoming ill, seeing a doctor or going to the hospital. The idea that you have no real safety net to help you in tough times is terrifying. I can only begin to imagine the stress that goes with it.

I have great sympathy for regular people who are struggling, that voted for Trump. They have long been ignored, neglected and forgotten, and I am sure many voted for him either in desperation or to defy the system they rightly feel have left them behind. People in Norway couldn't imagine how the American people could vote for such an obvious clown and a demagogue, but we have not seen the extent of the suffering and hardship before recently. We see the Hollywood version of your culture for the most part, and are shocked when we find out that American women actually have to pay the hospital when giving birth ("wtf, it isn't covered by paying taxes?").

I really hope that it gets better, but am afraid it has to get worse first.

[0]: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/uxa-thomas-seltzers-amerika (Norwegian language, but many segments are in English)
This is just bunch of simulation, not a derivation.
Can someone tell me what the word is so I don't have to waste one of my paywall entries?
Materialize is a bit more of a lower-level technology, and less of a single "feature". I've included some example use cases built on top of Materialize in my other comment.

In addition, while Materialize does support connecting to other databases, to power "real-time materialized views", a common architecture we are used for is to present a SQL view on top of streaming systems (such as Kafka or Kinesis).

Here's an overview of Materialize that explains the relationship between Timely Dataflow, Differential Dataflow, and Materialize, starting at 23:20 -
https://materialize.io/blog-cmudb/
I would bet NAT and reclaiming of unused address space will keep the status quo going for another 20 years at least. Especially since computing is migrating to a few huge data centers where almost all the communication is over their internal private network.
Thus, you must think monopolies and price-fixing cartels and whatnot are fine; the only "sin" is tax evasion.
AWS SNS and SQS with practical example
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I thought only Liberals get triggered. At least that's what I get from conservatives on line.
Is the idea here that you can front-run all other VCs by collecting data about prospective investments as it's being formulated?

Do you sell user data, or analysis of that data, to VCs, investors, or other third parties?
This is easily handled by having initiation periods. For example a Canadian cannot just return to Canada, after not paying taxes for years, and get immediate free healthcare.
Hits the nail on the head for me.

I worked for a data analytics consultancy for about 6 months, filled with data scientist types - the statistics and decision trees type.

One of the bigger projects was looking at computer vision to get a robot to detect when a pipe was busted underwater.

I asked the CTO about it and they said they were going to do it by teaching a mini off the shelf robot to locate a beer bottle in the office and transfer learn from there. I mentioned that would be highly unlikely for several reasons and was quickly ushered away from their pet project.

Suffice to say they eventually had to negotiate the final project scope down just a bit to offline binary image classification (broken vs. not broken).

So even a company filled with so called data scientists can fall into the trap of believing the snake oil.

Addendum: not necessarily believing their own snake oil I suppose, totally possible that they were just naive about the capabilities after reading too many wired/ars articles.
> It's the combination of a really wide range of skill and a really big difficulty assessing that skill from just the resume.

If you know what skills you are looking for (hint: lots of companies and recruiters don't), this is not actually that hard.

For every skill, there are questions that should be really easy to answer for everybody with expertise, but are suprising/hard to answer for everybody who pretends to have knowledge.
This enables you to check quite quickly whether the claimed skills are actually there or not.

For example, the easier sections in

> https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython

might give you a hint for topics that most seasoned Python programmers should know blindfolded while they are probably rather surprising for anybody with shallow Python knowledge. Let the applicant explain how they came up with their solution for, say, some of the problems, and you will see rather fast whether the claimed skills are actually there or not.
How about that the format strongly encourages use of 2D representation even for fundamentally 1D data?
Because it would be 10x slower. And with exponential search costs even more. Prolog is optimized for a reason.
This is surely theatrics, given that Google has always been a quasi-governmental/military corporation:

"In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.[9] The shares were a result of Google's acquisition of Keyhole, Inc, the CIA-funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth.[10]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
Can you give an example of how one might make use of the last code point in a string?
That's a neat idea, and it might help - but it's not the kind of problem governments would chose to solve.

Or put another way, governments would chose to intervene by helping to create more 'competition' - which creates product variations approximating true market needs - as opposed to trying to 'legislate features'. 'Feature lists today' but something else tommorow. If the market is healthy, it will move in the direction of value, is the idea.

Governments can also help by promoting and supporting standards.
How did google get their own top level domain?
The issue with the US system is that 99% of local actions are unsustainable. Everything is federal or nothing, even at the state level you end up socialising losses and privatising gains. .
Show HN: Solar OS
> In other words, the delta between something getting really hot spending 14 days in direct sunlight with no convection to cool it down and then getting really cold spending 14 days in darkness.

Hmm. Could a buffer (e.g. water) be used? Basically... radiate heat out of the buffer when it's cold and move heat from the device into the buffer when it's warm?
It seems to me Prop22 is aiming to address the issue on the wrong policy.

To me the minimum wage policy should be updated to include healthcare insurance as compensation, and possibly raise the minimum wage as well.

That way those companies w/o health insurance have to pay more $$ per hour and those with health insurance are equally competitive to those who do not.
so has anyone tried making games with this yet or no
I always thought the main issue with a moon base is that the cost of rocket launches and fuel will be << the cost of maintaining a moon base, especially when the only way to get stuff on the moon is to fly it there, too.

What would really change things is if we found a way to make rocket fuel and rocket parts using resources extracted from the moon. Which is also quite expensive since you need to bootstrap the operation.

Also after reading recent accounts of how much damage lunar regolith did to all the Apollo equipment, I wonder what it would be like to have to have heavy industrial drilling equipment withstand the same kinds of conditions.

I'd imagine the closest analog you could find on Earth is trying to do stuff in obsidian that's been through a blender?

I'm super interested in space exploration and do wish there was a "one weird trick" solution to making it less hard, but man, without organic life to coat your planet in nice safe carbon gloop that conveniently turns into easily accessible combustable hydrocarbons if you leave it for a little while, it seems hard to build and maintain facilities in anything but earth and orbit.
Even today I would be very reluctant to use the term "multimedia" because it sounds very dusty and boring to me. I would use "audiovisual" or something else in its place.

A term from the 1990's sounds dusty compared to one from the 1950's? Interesting.
I do not feel I called him a name. I called out his pedantry, which I felt was an accurate use of the word given the wording he chose (specifically the "by hood or by crook").

He edited his post and added a lot of words that made it seem a lot less pedantic after the fact.

The original post I received was pretty bare bones originally and gave me a completely different impression than what is written now.

But I definitely overreacted to what was written, even originally.

--

"As bad as you make it sound, they are teaching kids stuff, even at less-than-wealthy school districts.

https://nces.ed.gov/datapoints/2019179.asp

By hood or by crook, or by underfunded inner-city/rural public school, we're teaching a hell of a lot of kids to read and write.

I attended elementary through middle-school at a district too poor to offer a high-school chemistry class, and still learned my times tables and how to write a paragraph."
Keybase doesn't work for that?
If your SaaS value proposition is compelling enough, the right person will be generous with their time and they will be passionate about the feedback that they give you. If you can't find a customer willing to do this, that's either telling you that you have the wrong customer or wrong product. Often the incentive for them is solving the pain itself. I had a few customers talk about how my SaaS was going to save their marriage. I would not skip this step - product discovery and validation is the core of what Marty preaches.
What does the slash mean in the article? Where it says “... in 2018 GE sells 3.0.0.0/8” what does the “/8” mean? I guess it indicates the range of addresses?
Mexican Drug War
The Music Industry Is Waking Up to Ethereum
I just followed your link, and had an interesting experience. Of all of the Apple Stores and Authorized Repair they do not appear to be accepting repairs. Everyone of them tell me:
"This location has no available reservations.
You can check another location now, or check this location again tomorrow."

Can't even get far enough to see if the repair would be covered. Good job Apple
I can anecdotally vouch for those 4TB HGST drives.

Bought about thirty H....4040ALE640 units several years back and they've had fantastic reliability. No failures, and IIRC only one's been replaced (as a precaution after its SMART Reallocated Sector Count ticked up). And no RAID hiccups whatsoever.
Each time you subnet you lose three or more IP's.

A /24 has:

- .0 - network address - can't be used

- .255 - broadcast

On top of that you generally need at least 1 more IP address that is the gateway for that network.

- .1 - Usually

If you have a network with fail-over gateways generally you need to assign them individual IP's, so you end up with:

- .1 - floating IP

- .2 - router 1

- .3 - router 2

If you end up subnetting down into small subnets to give customers only let's say 16 IP's, (so a /28 (32 bits - 4 bits)) customers can only use 13 of those addresses (network/broadcast/gateway are already taken).

This gets worse as you go smaller, because each time you subnet you end up losing more IP's to the network/broadcast/gateway.
I would assume Google just shows more ads on other sites to compensate for the fraudent clicks.
Why should they give you money back when they can just fulfill their side of the contract by showing ads to non fraudent users.
Please keep Poe's Law in mind.
Ask HN: Best practices for monitoring of 3rd party dependencies
Hello HN folks,

I would like to ask you for recommendations on software or solutions for monitoring 3rd party service dependencies in your applications.

Recently, I came across a problem when one of our service providers had constant issues with stability and we were unable to identify the problem due to a lack of monitoring and alerting. The outages impacted our users and I'm looking for a way how to automate the monitoring.

What are the best practices in this problem area?
CVE: Buffer overflow by FreeType can happen for some TTF files with PNG glyphs
BIG BUD 16V-747 Tractor Chisel Plowing [video]
Is the crack in hardware or software? Any links on it? I thought the iPhones at least could not be reset by thieves?
Monitoring Microservices Techniques
Sudan's removal from the terrorism list – what the different outlets are saying
It’s all about how proactive you want to be. Generally you can do it for free if you know where to remove data from. The people search engines make it intentionally complicated to find their removal links and they make it like an 18-step process unnecessarily. See https://www.removemyphone.com/learn/intelius-removal-guide for instance. That said, I wish some (not all, but some) European style personal data protection laws were on the table for discussion in the US. I’m not sure if the US can manage good privacy laws without benefiting big corporations over smaller social media upstarts, so I think we’re mostly stuck with this state of affairs here.
time for a cryptographically secure and open betting platform that probably already exists but nobody is using!
Apple's authoritarian control-freak mentality has been around since the original Macintosh of the 80s. It was only a coincidence that moving to x86 opened up some freedom. Now it's just moving in the same direction Apple always was.
In my, and many realities, the Democratic and Republican establishments are the same establishment.
The "key" is a total abuse of the term "AI". The dictionary definitions basically say "machines that appear intelligent", and "intelligence" is "ability to acquire knowledge [/skills through experience]". The bar is extremely low for what one can call AI. QuickSort qualifies. A* qualifies.
The author seems to have ended up in a silly debate when defending the use of SSE3 (and not SSE2).

"You are absolutely not going to 100% SSE2 out in the real world. In fact, you have many 16-bit x86 systems out there. There are people running companies on Apple II computers."

Right, "companies running business on Apple II computers" is a relevant argument for... absolutely nothing.
Then use Julia, that's great. My comment was that the SIMD support in Julia isn't sufficient for my problem, not that you can't do your GF256 linear alg on a GPU..?
I was surprised by this line of comments since I recall my feed having gun / hunting / shooting sports related content (including ads) so I looked into it.

Facebook has a policy banning private individuals from selling guns to each other on their platform - https://www.facebook.com/help/179037502478035 and "Armslist" appears to be a platform for doing just that: "Gun Classifieds, Guns for Sale, No Fees, 45000 guns for sale. The largest free gun classifieds on the web. Buy guns, sell guns, trade guns."

One could argue that the transaction isn't happening "on Facebook" since it's going through Armslist, but I don't find that convincing. If take payment via Venmo does that mean it's "not on Facebook" if everything else about the sale was?

Anyway, I fault Facebook for plenty and generally avoid it now, but I don't fault them for this policy. Private sales can get into sketchy territory really quick and I wouldn't want to mess with that on a public platform I created unless I was willing to invest in the nuance there which has basically no value proposition for Facebook.
They bought it. A TLD costs $200K or more.
I think that IP4 will see itself out when service degradation becomes generally noticeable. CGNAT is really painful to operate.

Remember the IE6 banners? There will be a time in ten years (haha it's always ten years!) when you'll see "Our site runs with degraded performance over IPv4. Please contact your administrator."
I'm 90% in favor of this; the 10% comes from the few times where I've wished that a particular field was exported, and I know it would be safe to access, but now I need to open an issue or submit a patch, wait for it to be merged upstream, update the dependency version...

Give that Zig is a low-level language where "unsafe escape hatches" are the norm, it wouldn't surprise me if this ended up being an optional compile-time check rather than a mandatory one (as a sibling comment suggested).
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing... for more info.
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> How can one argue with the claim that every construct has a valuable hidden purpose despite evidence to the contrary?

He doesn't claim that it has a valuable hidden purpose, he claims that it had (when it was constructed). :-)
https://www.calculator.net/ip-subnet-calculator.html

Checkout the table on the page (scroll down)
The extension Alternate Player for TwitchTV[0] I've found is pretty good performance wise. It adds an extra second or two of latency I've noticed when watching the same thing as friends, but otherwise it's pretty great.

0:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/twitch_5/?utm...