skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kevin here, Tecton's CTO. Great question:

With Tecton, transformations are an optional component of the system. Similar to Feast, you can bypass the Transform component to ingest data directly from external pipelines. You typically do this when you have existing data pipelines and you want to make the values available in a Feature Store.
However, if you don't have an existing stream / batch data pipeline infrastructure that your data scientists / data engineers can easily contribute to, a Feature Store's Transform component is an easy way for them to be fully self-sufficient. Tecton makes it easy to express feature transformations using Spark's native DataFrame API, Python, SQL or Tecton's DSL.

Besides the self-sufficiency, there are a few other advantages you get from having a feature store manage your feature transformations:

- Feature Versioning: If you change a feature transformation, the Feature Store will know to increment the version of that feature and ensure that you don't accidentally mix features that were computed using two different implementations

- End-to-end lineage tracking and reproducibility: If a feature store manages your transformation, it can tie exact feature definitions all the way through a training data set and a model that's used in production. So, if years later you want to reproduce a model of a certain time in the past, a Feature Store that supports transformations would be able to recreate that model as long as the raw data still exists

- Trust: It's more likely that a data scientist will trust and then reuse another user's feature, if they can peek under the hood and see how the feature is actually calculated

- On-Demand Features: These transformations cannot be executed by existing data processing pipelines because they have to be computed in real-time when the prediction is made — which happens in the operational environment.

In reality, you will frequently see multi-stage data processing workflows in an organization: You will have a lot of data cleaning and preprocessing happening in an organization's standard and ML-independent data processing infrastructure. Afterwards, a Feature Store will pick up and transform that preprocessed data and turn it into feature values.
Anecdotal, but I wouldn't expect it to count against you. I live in a traditionally lefty city (one of those "anarchist jurisdictions", heh), company culture skews left, etc., and I haven't observed any animus towards my ex-military coworkers, nor do they act like they expect any. Being in the military isn't in itself political. Your haircut or your accent will probably get you more unconscious biases (positive or negative, who knows) than that.
Not me, I love YAML. I even write my content like blogs and such in raw YAML!
People would be horrified what doctors will do with twilight anesthesia or even just local anesthesia.
Disgusting how Republicans cried bias and got Facebook to become biased in their favour. Spineless.
A reserved gateway address space?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT64
> If there’s a standard, Chrome follows it.

That happens to not be true all the time. Some examples off the top of my head:

* https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102719... points to various places where Chrome's security checks don't match the spec and therefore can allow things that other browsers and the spec don't.

* https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=878491 -- non-spec implemetation of document.close (shared with WebKit)

* https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=100027... -- broken .complete attribute behavior, broken since forking from WebKit.

Those were all found due to sites coding to Chrome instead of the standard and therefore not working correctly in Firefox.

If you want something more long-standing, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=286670 is a clear bug in selector-matching optimization that leads to incorrect behavior and just turned 7 years old.

Or you could look at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=340414

Or https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=352144

There have also been multiple cases in which everyone just gave up, and changed the standard and all other browsers to match Chrome's behavior in cases where it was causing serious compat problems for everyone else.
Even ignoring the energy savings, methane is a potent greenhouse gas so you'd much rather it be burned than just released.

Though I wonder if there isn't an opportunity to sequester a lot of carbon being missed by digesting sludge instead of ... say, dumping it into a deep injection well.
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> If to follow the logic then Finland or Norway are closer to Russia (have common borders) so they shall increase its spending 10 times more.

Finland probably already has higher spending than Sweden, at least that is my guess based on talking to Finnish friends.

Norway should IMO increase its spending to avoid repeating the blunders from 1930ies.
As one person team, C++ was quite good to avoid touching C as much as possible, while being able to use the safety and abstractions I enjoyed so much from Turbo Pascal.

Rust isn't eating any small-scale niche of GUIs and shipping binary libraries any time soon.
I'm a firm believer that, sometimes, chemicals are the right answer.
Sounds very frustrating.

I don't use Windows on any of the computers I own. I prefer to have more control over my computer so I use Linux.

I still have to use Windows at work, but I don't admin those machines so I don't have a lot of control / choice in the matter.

Food for thought about who controls your computer: https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57
when it costs almost nothing (remember, majority is loan here) to them why they need to charge. They take your data (totally unregulated) which is far more worth than the data ppl use. as an ISP, new apps, almost every industry under their control they got everyone's balls
As a playwright, Chekhov is second only to Shakespeare.

And you get get through his 4 major plays in only a few days. There are even great adaptations on YouTube in English or Russian (with subtitles). Highly recommended.
Hulu somehow manages to get people to pay and still view ads.
I disagree. Katzenberg is who he is because of what he did for Disney Animation. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Lion King.

Yes, he did well with dreamworks animation but that was much more a Hollywood studio focused on content than a technology product. It just happened to require a lot of good tech.

He’s a creative producer of long form content with a ton of Hollywood cachet that is the opposite of what upstart mobile video is today.

The other letters in SKG, Spielberg and Geffen seem to know better than to wade into tech.

Only time software or app appears on their Wikipedia entries is a 1989 collaboration and an article about Geffen blocking public beach access.

I get why a mogul like Katzenberg would want to try at the app game, others have before him. But I am not surprised he’d fail to be successful with this company.

If anyone is interested in learning about Katzenberg and some of the insane power politics from his time at Disney, I recommend The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood.
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Sure, I use Firefox for Android as well. The "no one" was for ease of illustration; the general point is that Firefox market share on mobile is different from desktop and that this affects per-view share more than per-user share. Of course, to the extent that someone only uses a mobile device to access the web, per-user share is affected too.
Second this. There is evidence that anesthesia causes brain damage. This shows up in the data most for babies and small children, and the elderly, where you can see it on IQ tests and chance of dementia. It's more pronounced with multiple surgeries. It may be that it's damaging everyone's brains, but it's just not as noticeable for adults. One study with twins showed about a 1.5 point IQ loss from a major surgery.

Of course, 1.5 IQ points is not likely to dramatically change the course of your life, but I would absolutely not get it if the procedure could be done under sedation.
Nope, Windows is not the only OS without packing management, and good luck actually using pkg-config on any POSIX platform that isn't a BSD or Linux distribution.

Also good luck using it on platforms where using multiple commercial C or C++ compilers, each with its own ABI is current practice.
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My claim there was only that it was reified in memory, not that in the case of loading x, you had to use it. Though it is worth noting that you dont.

In general the point stands, the reason for slowness is indirection & reification. (Not sure why i'm downvoted).
Out here in los angeles, most doctors won't even let you in the room unless you're knocked out on propofol.
Do you have a citation for your statement that economists opposed deregulation? That doesn’t sound like the default economics position — nor does not realizing that technology can transform poverty.

I’m not challenging you randomly here — usually the criticism of mainstream Western economists (especially those working with development) is that they overprescribe deregulation and underestimate the benefits of maintaining government revenue.
I use the SessionBox extension and let chrome remove all cookies at shutdown.
I believe I’ve heard that a lot of plants only bother recycling heat from Material streams that are above 600F.

There are so many things you could run off of even 200F, like drying systems or counterflow heat exchangers. It may be that materials and handling limitations as you go up in temps outweighs the effort to extract.
If Bulbasaur is on Wikipedia, then Owlbear should be also. ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owlbear
Yes I always wonder why keepassxc does not get mentioned more when password managers come up. It's really an excellent piece of software. Some of the features that are crucial for me:
1. ssh-agent support
2. Browser plugins
3. Can provide secret service (i.e. be a substitute for gnome-keyring and kwallet)
4. Excellent oss android client
5. Absolutely snappy, starts in an instant, compared to electron apps it's like day and night

It also has yubikey support or can support other key files, which is good if you don't trust your cloud sync for example
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Super neat, checking this out now and hoping it's not just it's tutorials with their API.
Fuchsia has an Android runtime, FWIW.
Yeah? You sure about that? What you will end up with is more propaganda, war glorification, and more targeting of teenagers.
Try having the fun to install something on e.g. Aix.
Non-mobile link: https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/10/we-were-builders...
Not all economic output can be used by the military, right?
Thanks for the ideas, they seem reasonable.

In passing, I'd note that I don't think cell technology would work without LoS; also, there's no atmosphere to reflect off of.

I guess if they're just thinking of some comm system for the moon, it might as well be 4G. (I guess? I'm not qualified to answer this.)
I disagree, though im not surprised to see this sentiment iterated here on HN.

I think we've already started to see the beginning of diminishing returns on our software investments. I agree that we haven't in any way reached peak deployment of productive, intelligent software in the world, but even once we get there the robots still need to actuate in the physical world. Jointly, I think the sheer amount of investment thrown at pure software ventures in the past 20 years has certainly colored our perception of their potential agency, since financial output is only a fuzzy indicator of economic good.

If general AI was on the horizon, I might be able to give this attitude the benefit of the doubt, but we cant even rigorously prove that it's possible at this juncture. The largest deployments of the latest generation of software acumen are probably social media, and I hope we've learned that that's anything but a panacea.
Feel like I need a diagram to truly understand this
I got mine done three years back at 36 (I've had gastric issues, and my mom has colorectal cancer) - didn't use sedatives or anesthesia. Pain tolerance is relative, so my own experience wouldn't carry over.

I can understand if some people want sedatives, but anesthesia is pretty high risk like you were saying.
You can only afford to do that if you manage to improve the efficiencies of those plants, which means scavenging or reusing BTUs that escape out the back end.
I think 8note is referring to the native people who were being forcibly displaced
I love vcpkg, specially since it is written in C++, a package manager should use the language it serves.
I cant recall who but some ingenious game developer wrote an article arguing that a design with land tax makes people (players) do interesting thing with land. Without it the game world just ends up owned and stale. I see a parallel with [insane] real estate prices but also with taking land from one person and giving it to another.
Thanks. Amended my comment there, knew something about it felt off. Mostly just wanted to point out a cool and important tank :)
It happens in the Android App.
Yes.No, it does not break anything for me, and I browse a ton of websites.
It happens in the Android App. Desktop apps and extensions are OK.
> The latter in particular means that if there's a thing you wish the software did and it doesn't you can fix that.

Yeah, that's not really relevant to me... Along with ~99.5% of people out there, I will not be fucking around making customizations to my password manager. There are things you tinker with, and then there are things that hold passwords to your financial and professional life. I have not yet and will not anytime soon be rolling out my own crypto or my own password manager and trusting it with real-life credentials.
Sort of the opposite, is there a way to train perfect pitch? I know it isn't supposed to be trainable, but I've dabbled in guitar for 10+ years and singing for 5+, and I'm at a point where I'll randomly hear a chord--nothing fancy, just a triad--and I suddenly place it in song with the same chord in the same key. I'm not sure if I'm actually matching pitch, or if I'm picking up on timbre differences.
Plenty of people work hard. Most of them do it for peanuts. I guarantee plenty of people at eBay worked harder than Whitman, for example; that place was an exploitative sweatshop in her era. I expect her maids worker harder than her, too.

Sure, she was good at working the system that her elite upbringing put her on track for. Among the managerial caste, she was unusually good at ladder-climbing. And she was certainly lucky to join a dot-com success story at the right moment. But being good at managerialist skills and selling one's self aren't all that it takes to succeed at business. Indeed, that can be a real handicap, because being good at working other Harvard MBAs doesn't mean a thing when it comes to pleasing people you want to pay $4.99 a month.
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What are the technical innovations that enabled them to do this? In general how would you build this type of system in 2020?
Or Russisn troops trampled Swedish soil
There are plenty of manufacturers behind the curve that will be buying credits for the foreseeable future.
There is no substance here at all.
Making software is still very much a desk job and author only mentions "ergonomics of thinking" without giving any concrete ideas at all.
If it is news to you that making software requires thinking then I am very worried what you have had delivered before this.
As others have mentioned the reason why developers optimize for ergonomics of coding instead of thinking is because that is what can do. Even if you do your best thinking in a lazy boy while smoking hash that is probably not optimal state for developing software.
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Isn't there a theory that native speakers of tonal languages are better at music because they're better at recognizing tones?
> Quibi was streaming video targeted at people on the bus/train or sitting behind a register with nobody in line.

Sorry that seems to be the most pointless niche I think someone tried to focus on
No, obviously. But everything can be commandeered and coordinated by defense during a war effort.
Well, Pikachu has been a highly influential Pokémon for nearly 30 years.
> If isolation with a net connection for a few months dropped multiple IQ points, then all the shut-ins who do nothing but hang around on the Internet all day would be losing multiple tens of IQ points a year and would be functionally disabled by now.

You're assuming the effect is both permanent and cumulative.

An analogous effect: Clinical depression is also known to lower IQ in a subset of sufferers (for some oddballs, it's actually their main symptom). But the effect is neither permanent, nor cumulative. When the depression lifts, so does IQ (usually with a bit of delay).

So I would surmise that the same may be true of IQ deficits caused by prolonged isolation.
27 at the moment and reading this thread has gotten me worried as I have a family history of colon cancer. Both of my parents get checked regularly and have had polyps removed. I wonder if I should just go or if it isn’t realistic to worry about it at my age yet.
We need both to function. Downward-mobility sounds fantastic to me. All we have of the kind are fines and prison.
This is exactly where I'm getting the delays. Which is indicative of another problem: in several websites I have to search for the login manually because Bitwarden doesn't find the credentials (according to the Android Firefox/Chrome extensions). This never happened with 1Password.
Same here. TT at 32 last week. Also got a colonoscopy about 5 years ago for (unrelated?) GI issues. What are you looking at for screening going forward?

I'm hoping the median synthroid dose im on ends up working out, but I still have to wait for pathology and RAI.

Edit: if it makes you feel any better all the docs/surgeons ive talked to have expressed that if they had to choose a cancer to get, it'd be thyroid.
"We gave up being builders in favor of increasing productivity". Ah, what an ironic statement. Not building increases productivity? What ends up happening is that if you allow that just the leaves of an administrative tree are builders, then the administration grows at r^2 whereas the workers only grow at r. You can visualize this if you lay out the tree with the root at the center of the circle. Even if 80% of administrative work is mechanical and could be done by a computer (which I think is reasonable), automation still provides only a constant factor which only delays the time at which the worker/admin ratio falls to 0, but does not avoid it. I would guess that the optimum human society capable of mutual defense (IOW, a nation) is something like OOM 1M, in proximity to enough land and water to sustain itself, divided into ~50 institutions of ~10k each. And I would imagine it would be best if there was a council in charge of each institution, effectively in charge of 2nd order issues regarding the programming, and overriding, of computer mediation and management.

That describes a society where only a very small fraction of the work is what we would call white collar administration. Consider all the jobs who's net effect on the world is to slightly change the paperwork in 1 or 2 files in an office somewhere, and all the secondary, tertiary jobs that exist to support that goal! That is white collar work too, but I'd not call it an improvement to productivity, but rather an unfortunate side-effect of moribund information systems that people dare not streamline.
Her tenderness didn't stop her from exploiting peasants like every other noble at the time. Let's not forget the situation.
Edge has better tools too.
I knew someone once who loved music - we met through dancing, actually - and would sing aloud any time music was on in the car, even with other people present.

She was also, from my perspective, the most tone-deaf person I've ever met. Every single note she sang was horribly irrelevant to the song that was playing. But she belted it out anyway.

I'm curious where she would fit in this model
If anyone is fighting CRC or is a caregiver, I highly recommend The Colon Club boards (https://coloncancersupport.colonclub.com/index.php). I was on the forum to discuss my mom's CRC, and there's a lot you can learn from there (such as side-effects, experiences, trials, insurance etc). Not to mention the emotional support and inspiring stories.

For trials, there's also https://trialfinder.fightcrc.org/ - created by Dr. Tom Marsilje (a cancer researcher) - who had an inspiring journey both as a patient and researcher.
What led to the Fukushima reactors failing the way they did was that their emergency generators were situated in low-lying, tsunami-reachable areas. Simply relocating/elevating them, and the whole mess wouldn't have happened.

https://news.usc.edu/86362/fukushima-disaster-was-preventabl...

(There's more to it than this, of course, but it's an accurate first-pass summary.)
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I don't think you understand the situation. Sweden has a population of 10M. Finland, next to Russia, 5M. Russia - 150M. The power imbalance is so large that the only way of making a credible defence strategy is by having the capability to mobilize a significant portion of the population for professional quality defence.

This is simply not feasible without a conscription.

No, I did not like my conscription (Finland) two decades ago - but I completely understand why it's necessary.
As you expected, you probably shouldn't read to much into these calculations. ;-)

The Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem guarantees that we (as in the DAC in your computer) can perfectly reconstruct the analogue signal for any discretised signal that is bandlimited to frequencies below Nyquist, i.e., 24 kHz for a 48 kHz sample rate. No matter how crooked the sample points may look to you. And 440 Hz is way below the 24 kHz limit.

Sure, this doesn't take quantisation into account, but 16 bit is sufficient to encode the difference in amplitude at the individual sample points between 440 and 440.8175 Hz with plenty of headroom (about 210 digital steps at 109 samples). Indeed, the smallest frequency difference that would have a zero difference after 109 samples due to quantisation is about 0.001 Hz (modulo mistakes in my hasty calculations). And this doesn't take dithering into account. Dithering essentially gives you an infinite dynamic range (depending on your definition of dynamic range) at the exchange of a higher noise floor. Of course your signal is likely also longer than 109 samples.

See this excellent video [1] by Xiph.Org's Chris Montgomery
for a whirlwind overview of digital signal processing.

[1] https://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
I would expect some treaties should still apply unless they have been officially dissolved by congress.
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Yeah, the wording is a bit sensationalist. The expansion has never been this quick, but we spent more than 3% of GDP in the 70s.

https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/om-forsvarsmakten/darfor-fi...
When I read that I had a suspicion that it was going to be electron. It takes some gall to write that heading.

Disappointing, 1Password!
It's not like the war machine will stop feeding more propaganda and glorifying war, just because they get to take a year or two out of every citizen. After all, you want these soldiers to be ready to fight and think dying for the country is the greatest possible honor. Under conscription, that would be everyone.