skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Native, here; drained of progressive values after witnessing and living reality. Thefts got waay worst after lost of security then Covid lockdown. They had a security guard on a some sort of tricycle Segway before. Felt safer, seniors shopping no problem. Then security left and things worst. I remember the complaints from the long time long haired POC clerk BUT shelves were full. Then Covid. The last time I was there, I was shocked at the empty barren shelves. Franklin store also hit hard. And the poor clerk this time new face, probably temp, had the same sad, what can we do? Absolute impunity. Seniors and poor shoppers suffer; people discarded because they don't make the headlines. People who run the show or like to talk or shout BS, don't even visit the Tenderloin except probably for a PR shoot. As for the addicted, mentally ill and homeless, we see them suffer too, everyday. Well at least they can ride MUNI for free. Suffering all around, unless you're in a gated community or outer districts. Money won't solve the problem. Back in the day, we had 5150 at least. Can you imagine running a business now in this environment? Raising children? So much for the "radical change to how we envision justice" Gee I wonder why businesses board their shops with all this overflowing peace, love and compassion in the city? Well, at least not the tall multi million luxury condo skyscraper where the former Goodwill stood.
wrong. I have trained plenty of unsupervised models where the inferred results are purely for human consumption. In fact I believe unsupervised models more often require a human to analyze the results.
The real question is why are "me too"-systems a problem?

To which I would opine: because the contractors working on them, and the layers of management managing them, and the funders funding them are well aware they're "me too"-systems.

No offense intended to the people working very hard on Galileo (of whom there are no doubt many), but it's hard enough getting contractors to give a $&@+ about actually critical systems.

If you tip your hand and let them know it's not really super important, is anyone surprised you get half-hearted effort and slipshod results?
It’s because the ML solutions to optimization problems that are relevant to most businesses are garbage. Look at the attempts to solve the traveling salesman problem with just 100 nodes (a problem pretty much solved for the operations research community) with RL [1].

In other applications like forecasting, there is so much hype, and when you put the (non-interpretable) solutions to the test you end up disappointed (versus a pure stats approach).

There are of course fields where ML is pretty much the only viable solution, but trying to blame corporate bureaucracy to explain its failures in other fields does not help.

[1] https://research.google/pubs/pub45821/
MUCH prefer to see system calls since strace becomes actually useful and readable.

IIRC this is why plan9 is nice to work with. You can actually understand what a program is doing. On a typical Linux system, mmaps galore and you have no idea what's happening. Pretty awful situation.
Interesting! I did the calculation and it's actually worse than that...

Alpha Centauri is just 4.37ly away. With an acceleration of 0.00227g, mass of 1t, and max velocity of 0.1C (10% of C), it will take 86.33 years to reach Alpha Centauri for those on the spaceship, assuming you also want to stop at the destination. (Calculator: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/space-travel#space-tr...)
Yes, and you ALL missed the joke.
Perhaps you can split the blocks in two or four before rendering them to reduce the distortion.
> You cannot sell a defective thing

That's the flaw in your argument, they didn't sell anything... You are using a free product, which you are not obligated to use and didn't pay for.
Pretend it exists and try to sell it. Everything else is w/e
> we need companies worthy of our trust

Fundamentally, that's not a thing in the long term. Trust lasts until the next bad quarter if you're lucky, because ultimately a company will choose to abuse your trust rather than go under.

I don't want to come down too hard on companies here, they exist to make money, that's what they're for (and plenty of them provide very useful services).

But the concept of trust doesn't make a lot of sense here. The people that make up a company aren't constant, and if you do find a company with trustworthy employees, they won't take your data with them when they leave, they will leave it for the next person to abuse.

Trusting a company beyond what they explicitly promise (anything in a EULA-like document that says they can change things at any time doesn't count) is setting yourself up to be screwed down the road.
If they can circumvent system security for their own purposes (even though I’m sure it wasn’t planned to be that way), then they should be open to circumventing it for our country (by backdoor-ing their encryption), at least that is how I would imagine it will be referenced in the inevitable government lawsuit. What a major screw up Apple!
And then again, for databases trying to rely on mmap might lead you to poorer results - for example trying to do in-place update, ignoring compression, dealing with concurrency, etc. Without mmap, and by using append-only data, no updates on exising ones (except metadata), and the ability to do compression might give you a big edge over just trying to work it out through mmap.

Check WiredTiger's articles/videos on how they've found previous mmap approach for mongodb to be much slower (I'm not saying mmap is slower than os calls reads, I'm saying it leads to architectural decisions that might limit you later.)

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This actually presents it better than above - https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2019/slides/01-inmemo...
Thanks folks! So nice of you to share your feedback.

Sales isn’t magic. It’s just a new muscle, and anyone can learn it. Beware of the hand wavy gurus who try to make it sound mystical. It’s just a craft and you can learn it if you put in the work.
Any tips for digitizing old Sony Video 8 camcorder tapes? I have a whole stash but when I looked into paying to digitize them it was shockingly expensive.
Both funnily enough. ML has been around for years, the main reason it's getting better is that it's easier than ever to collect massive amounts of data to train good models.
Making the Case for Prediction over Explanation (2017)
There's no way that "some users" (implying a significant proportion) are clicking ads 50% of the time after they do a search. that would be a very rare duck indeed.
Given the time and emotional effort I've given to hear out some of my colleagues' strong opinions on computer programming in the past, reading this felt a little cathartic.
It's a rare moment of bipartisanship.
The point was to prove that I can pull the combinator out of your unsegregated code and moularize IO away from logic.

The other point of this was to improve code modularity in every corner of your code. Why is this good? If all your logic can be shifted around then that means that you can reuse code to anticipate future changes.

The most insidious form of technical debt is unanticipated technical debt. You encounter it when a new requirement makes you realize that you can't reuse segments of your code. You realize that you grouped things together incorrectly. You failed to have the foresight to make your code more modular.

It's a problem people think they can solve in hindsight but they can't in reality because they cannot predict the future so they will inevitably group code incorrectly. And therein lies the problem: grouping. Don't group your code. Make all your logic modular and just organize your code with superficial schemes like namespaces.

The problem with OOP is that the very nature of an object is a grouping. OOP is all about grouping the code around shared mutable variables within a context. You are forced to assume a grouping and you may be right in some cases (like cruisecontrol) but you will inevitably be mistaken in many other cases. This "mistake" is the origin of the most insidious form of technical debt.

The other problem with OOP is that they think that this style of programming is modular. They have no idea how un-modular it is. So they use it extensively with patterns thinking they're improving modularity.

The most modular primitive is the combinator. That is why to prevent technical debt as much as possible, the key is to move as much code as possible into the combinators.
Almost definitionally, yes.
I like that you can just go back out the entrance and walk around to the finish line
What are you talking about? The article is nearly the exact opposite of what you claim. It says:

> A vast amount of research offers a promise: you are much more likely to find the best candidate if you use this procedure than if you do what people normally do in such situations, which is to go into the interview unprepared and to make choices by an overall intuitive judgment such as "I looked into his eyes and liked what I saw."
That's a whole lot words that don't really address my point. It's a pretty universal human belief in "contributing to the common good". Even toddlers recognize fairness.

OP claimed it was some uniquely American belief. I haven't seen any evidence to support that.
Used to great effect in "For All Mankind"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)#So...
I know. What we're both saying is: if you have enough lines, you can find the params easily.
What is the govt's plan here? Is this just a way to win more progressive votes regardless of actual collateral damage to communities?

Are they showing that they will not prosecute crime because it was morally justified by an oppressed, impoverished population that only wants to feed itself? And is stealing from corporations is a valid form of restitution?
Thanks for the input. I had assumed they'd been working on this behind the scenes for awhile. I should have realized with the current administration one should never believe that best practices were being practiced.
Yup. Having a crazy long form to fill out is madness. Here is my resume. That's all you need. I already did all the work for you.

I have stopped applying to places that require any more than a resume submission. Its just not worth my time.
I'm not too concerned about privacy-focused apple doing this, but if apple can do it others could figure out how to do it too.

that completely breaks any network filtering and is not acceptable.
Does this mean it’ll be easy to do graph transitive closure computations in sqlite now?
Shouldn't that be the employee's choice, not yours?

You're still interfering with that unemployed person's job hunt.
It was just an example, the point is that these services have democratized access to information and have greatly helped bring up less wealthy people. Ad-based model has it's fair share of problems, but being able to give everyone, even the poor who wouldn't able to afford it, access to information that can help them improve their lives, is easily the best argument for that model.
I doubt it. The democrats want this too. However, Biden would have much more likely listened to his advisors rather than this case where no doubt Trump is throwing stuff at the wall hoping it sticks and helps him with the election. Most people are probably in favor of holding Google's feet to the fire.
> But along with the term of experience goes the breadth. You see, the person who learned reference counting in 1995 and thinks that you can only really understand programming if you manually type out your own reference-changing events, presumably didn’t go on to use garbage collection in Java in 1996.

I think that the article misses two points. In one side the more accessible writing code is, the better. To reduce the amount of knowledge and discipline that you need to code is good.

On the other side, discipline is still needed to design APIs, or just to maintain consistency between calculations and data as it moves thru your system, or keep technical debt in check.

> does that mean our tools should not let us write code for which there’s no test?

That depends on how your team/company wants to work. If you are doing Test Driven Development, it seems good that the tool forces you to do the test first. But, TDD is not the only or best way of developing software, so generic tools needs to support different paradigms.

I love code formarters for all this reasons. They relieve developers of the need to follow some basic code style guidelines, you use less self-discipline on writing good style and more on writing good APIs. But, to have a code formatter you need an agreed standard.

I try to make to write code easier for myself and other people, because implementing business requirements is already hard by itself. The more time you have to spend "coding" and the more you can spend thinking, the better.
Probably the bad combination of Xi and the coming of age for Chinese power.
But one of the things about Apple products that makes people okay with the exorbitant pricing is the resale value. I thought Apple themselves realized this?
Which was installed just in time for covid! Without it wfh would be dire
"full stack" is a pretentious term web devs made up for themselves.
People don't realize how many forum commenters literally don't know what "Dunning-Kruger" means.
Is there a way to trace page faults in a program?
I don't think People v. Network Associates (the McAfee case, 758 N.Y.S.2d 466 (2003)) is on point. That case involved a number of complex facts, like a difference between the license agreement (which did not contain the restrictive terms and contained an "entire agreement" clause) and the warning printed on the media; and whether consumers could be misled by the warning on the media.

The court did not hold that restrictions in license agreements were void due to public policy. Rather, it held that Network Associates could not bind customers to the language on the disks because the language deceived the customer.
the funny thing is that pg shouldn't need to do a detoasting to be able to query as long as it's jsonb, it's a pretty straightforward iteration - we do the same thing when converting from jsonb to v8 in plv8.
My problems with hiring:

1. Resume forms. Just accept a resume. I don't have time to fill out your form that requires exact months.
2. Not hearing back. Its not hard to send a response. The ones I really hate are "we get so many responses so we'll only contact you if we like you!" come one
3. Bad recruiters. The ones who just email and call about being an automotive technician when I'm an infrastructure engineer.
> History is horrifying.

History is not over, yet.
Sure. For which aspect? Video or Photo?
It's largely dependent on the task - you kinda have to balance speed/quality/postproductionrequirements.

For high-speed photos a popular choice is the Kodak Ps50/ps80 -but it was discontinued like 2 years ago so you have to get it second hand. TBH, I've used the Epson FastFoto series for fast scans at 600dpi (useful when you have literally thousands you want to get through - a shoebox will hold 1500+ photos) and it has great quality if you set it up right (read: turn off any image post-processing and do manual correction). But beware of a few caveats: the rollers are garbage once they heat up and glossy photos will 'stretch'. You can mod the rollers (kinda). The rolling action also causes some static buildup (thus: dust) and there's no Digital ICE (image correction/enhancement) to remove it.

For video, check the youtube video above for one option. I've found that you can get really good results with a Digital8 camcorder with a good Digital/Analog converter. They existed in this weird sweet spot of the transition of analogue to digital. They often have RCA/SVideo connections out to Firewire (yes.) Use it as a pass-through for a really good VCR (which are getting harder and harder to find).
That is the modus operandi of this entire Administration. Trump has fired advisors and cabinet over and over until almost all the current positions are filled with yes men and women or not filled at all and just have people holding the position and maintaining status quo.
Linus Torvalds said it best with an upraised finger a few years back.
How to Develop a Messaging App on Xamarin.Android by Huawei Push Kit
I agree. To say that a natually-occurring physical process or phenomenon was invented is nonsensical.

Electricity is not the same as electric power, just as nuclear fission is not the same as a nuclear weapon, just the same as fire is not the same as a coal fired power plant.

Electricity and nuclear fission were discovered, not invented.
I would suggest looking into MATE or XFCE if you haven't, or even a tiling window manager like i3.
It will work most likely. We aren't in 2000 any more and both parties are mad Big Tech. There will definitely be some heads rolling in FAANG in the next few years.
Little thing: pricing sliders not sliding on my iPhone.
To avoid quarantining students, school district moves them every 15 minutes
>is therefore a betrayal of users’ trust.

I would disagree with that statement. The user bought an Apple computer so they clearly trust Apple already. If anything, the new frameworks make the system more secure which strengthens that trust for users. The only people really affected by this change are users who want granular control over everything whether it comes from Apple or not.
I'm not going to weigh in on the side of Google here, but it is ironic how butthurt the capitalists got once a liberal tech giant made capitalism it's bitch.
The Deadliest Pandemics in History
Collecting disability doesn’t necessarily mean you’re incapacitated or can’t work at all. Depression is a common disability, for example. It’s very common for veterans who served more than 4 years to get some amount of disability if they are persistent, and often not for crippling injuries (sleep apnea is a popular one)
That's consulting/contracting.

Obviously no one wants to hire a long term full-time salaried employee on those terms.
Isn’t this just an easy and cheap way to wind down and have insurance pay for everything?

You don’t have to pay additional staff to be able to monitor a store. You don’t have to pay for additional security. And you don’t have to put in effort to sell your product.

Just let people steal stuff, and cover 60-70% in insurance quickly and easily, as opposed to spending weeks and months trying to offload product using massive discounts, which would probably negatively impact sales at other stores and online.
How to Improve Text Resolution Using ML Kit's Text Super-Resolution Capability
Have a look at some published nn architectures - you'll typically see a few nonlinear units/transforms and a LOT of ReLU ones.
I remember when AOL meant Arsehole OnLine ;-D
I'd use it. It's a chromium based browser by someone not being investigated for antitrust
I'm on Ubuntu and the sole purpose I'll be using this for is Netflix @ Ultra HD. Still baffles me why is Edge the only browser supporting it.
Yeah, without the ability to query a particular identity it's not clear (to say the least) how you would go about filtering out malicious identities.

To some extent, identity politics based on public associations is an unavoidable problem. Public data can be scraped so someone is probably going to aggregate and analyze it at some point.

That said, it seems important that a reputation system not facilitate making associations that otherwise wouldn't have been visible. To that end, it's important to take care not to accidentally incentivize community moderators to leak information that otherwise wouldn't have been discoverable by the general public.

In particular, it occurs to me that a naive reporting mechanism inherently reveals that the reported identity has associated with the reporting operator. I assume you've given this problem some thought - is there an obvious way around it? My concern would be that a more general use reputation system (ie one that goes beyond simple "illegal content" and "spam" event reports) would rapidly begin leaking association data on a broad scale, even from otherwise private communities.

I guess the goals here are at odds in a fundamental way. A server should be able to report scores for it's participants. Querying an identity should reveal it's various scores. Now repeat spammers (or those posting illegal content, or who are just generally assholes, or whatever) can be filtered out. But in being able to query scores for an identity I don't see how you can avoid revealing the entity that reported any given score. If a broad set of categories are being reported (consider, for example, the birthday cake example from the article) then the information leakage seems like it would end up being quite broad.
Exactly. Those companies are more of a "you buy things from them" than the "your knowledge and view of the world is filtered through it" of Google. Google yields tremendous power over people just by what results it shows them when they search for things.
We had this discussion ten years ago, that we "need companies worthy of our trust". It obviously didn't work out. Question is, what do we do now?
I used https://brandyourself.com/ a while ago when I was starting a new company...had a connection to the founder over there so decided to give it a shot. They seem to have added more functionality over the years, but I cannot speak to those. What I can say is it met my expectations at the time, and if they successfully developed what was on their road map its probably a decent place to start.

I also downloaded an email client that let me instantly unsubscribe from lists I was somehow on, use a VPN, DuckDuckGO even has an app...idk, I mean the list goes on...i found that in the end, it was up to me to make sure i was closing myself off intelligently while digitally engaged.
The allure of non-criminals voting for democrats escapes me.
Or MATE on an older laptop. Linux Mint is great!
I don't like to call these projects "me too", as it makes it sounds like the goal is only to brag about having one. It isn't. The goal is to guarantee independent access to a GNSS. It only needs to be good enough for US to lose the ability to use GPS access as leverage. I would refine that claim even further: it only needs to be good enough for Merkel, Macron, etc. to be able to confidently say "no" to a US demand made under threat of cutting GPS military access.

That said the Galileo project really looks like it is very badly managed, which is sadly rather common for European projects of this kind, especially on the military side of things. Even smaller projects with only a handful of countries tend to have so much overhead that it makes you wonder if going alone would not be cheaper...
You're right - a LOT of work goes into this (eg GANs) because these large nNets just start "remembering" the training data.
Nice. Do the scare crows do anything?
I hate these articles that feature a programmer who works within a certain domain and assume all programming tasks are similar.

Yes, it would appear there is an anti-pattern of programmers that feel like going lower level for certain things matters. It doesn’t always. Programming computers has multiple levels of abstraction for solving different problems.

But there’s also this idea that the magical compiler does good enough abd there’s no reason to challenge the assembler. But there are programming problems where that is in fact essential.

It’s not a kissing contest. Writing great asm or C is as challenging as writing great css. But to be sure, knowing what your code actually requires hardware to do is really valuable. It matters and we don’t have abstraction in many cases to abstract that away totally.

It doesn’t hurt to have a good idea on how the machine works.
wow. are you me ? :)
Role Models Without Regulation: Are Influencers Damaging for Children?
Yes!

We have been doing that for several years... nearly 13 million links fixed so far!