skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did love Biology and I always stopped to ponder how insane it is, just on my own. And I became a biologist. I can tell you it never stops to be amazing. For example after your jaw has dropped after you realized all cells have the same DNA, imagine where your jaw goes when you learn the implication of every cell having 2 meters of DNA! And the right parts are always accessible to the right cell at the right time. It's beautiful.

Over time I learned that if you can imagine some process, it's likely you'll find it somewhere in biology (keep the laws of physics in mind though ;)).
Also not a fan. I like the fact that pip is relatively "stupid". It means you can use pip-tools if you want proper to have a fully resolved graph, but pip should always do what you want.

Poetry is neat but the Unix philosophy wins, as usual. Each tool should do one thing and do it well. Pip was much better at doing what pip does than poetry is. Not any more.
I believe current vaccines are already dangerous in the long run. A lot of autoimmune diseases are caused by vaccines. Antibodies mutate and not always in your favor. I'm certain that mRNA vaccines will be even more dangerous because they introduce more layers where things can go wrong.

Viruses have been around for a long time. Coronaviruses predate humans or hominids. They're as old as mammals. Biology has had hundreds of millions of years to figure it out. If there was an easy solution (like produce more Vitamin D or create an antigen), it would have done so. The only reason it hasn't is because the solution is worse than the problem.
> Now we're veering into tin-foil hat territory.

Sure, keep making fun of people like us.

I was downvoted to hell when I pointed that that the changes made to Big Sur was specifically designed to CRIPPLE application firewalls that are also used to block Apple softwares from spying on its users. And that is exactly what has happened - application firewalls on Big Sur can no longer effectively block Apple services from connecting to the internet and sending consumer data to Apple.

The noose is tightening ever so slowly as we customers are deprived of our rights ... the frog is being slowly boiled while also being given Kool-aid to make them think everything's fine. /s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25137109
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Good. We can then live off their imports which they have to pay for by buying our exports because we have a floating rate exchange system, not a fixed one.

If the rest of the world want to send us stuff, that's a benefit not a loss.
From what I know of the Tories (since I've attended quite a few B&Ws) and even Labour (whose conventions are such a mind-numbing affair in comparison), they never touch donors. I found it quite funny that I could buy access to UK ministers for a pittance, while if I had to do the same in India, I would have had to consistently fork over a lot more and sell my kidney along with it. It's funny how you could get access to the PM for just 50k GBP a year, even less if it's a Labour PM, or how you can get access to Rishi for 25k GBP a year. It's also the reason why a lot of donors are Russian or Arab.
Thanks!

1/ Trial - React is currently opened and free for everyone.
Go to the "Developers" tab here to see how to use it: https://www.animaapp.com/resources/anima-101

2/ Both! The idea is that you'll get code that suits you. You can already decide on class/functional components. We'll add more conventions down the road.
Most FPS games were literally consolized. Until Halo came around, no one could make a FPS work because a controller was too slow and imprecise. Halo's trick was to sloooow the action down.

The chunky thing was why making levels for DooM was so easy. Prodeus (early access) also has easy to use level editor, but currently the game has some design problems - such as dumb and slow monsters. Those in DooM were also dumb, but their AI was functional. They could swarm and surround you well enough. I honestly think Prodeus looks better than Doom Eternal, the art direction especially. But I don't need as much ketchup.

I think games like these (Dusk, Graven, Ion Fury etc...) will sell in part because players' expectations have changed. Players have also realized that if they want action reminiscent of old FPS games, they can't look towards AAA games because no AAA game will imitate the experience. It's too much risk. You need to give smaller studios a chance, and the only way smaller studios can make it work is by limiting visual detail.
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The problem is that it’s called a recommendation, as if your close friend, who knows you, told Amazon, hey I think this person might also want to buy XYZ. Or a jazz connoisseur says you might like this album if you liked that one.

But it’s not, it’s a tractable similarity based solution to the question of, which of millions of ads to show, in order to increase CTR.

The biggest difference is motive: a good recommendation is made in good faith for the benefit of the recipient while ads are businesses trying to turn a profit. Maybe that’s why this meme never dies.
I was thinking similar thing while reading through the article. The school system does the selection of mindsets and sets the stage for whole discipline. The approach for intro classes seems to be absorbing textbook material, and not curious mind doing investigation. It may change later on, but the filtering of students is already done by that time.

I wouldn't say that biologists avoid math without some data to support that. Just that schooling system is doing huge disservice to biology field by ignoring scientific method in early education stages.
Disclaimer, I work for Google, but not on Tensorflow.

I agree that in TF 1.x the ergonomics are/were bad, but things improved considerably in TF 2.x. In the case you don't like that either, the tf.keras package offer another more friendlier option that integrates well with the other tf packages (e.g. tf.data, tf.estimators, ...).

Finally, I believe the decision also depends on your use case: If you are just experimenting, maybe PyTorch gets to your results faster. However, I also I think that being able to use TFX (https://www.tensorflow.org/tfx) seamlessly saves you a lot of time when you need to put your models in production.
>> I find the idea of a European army to be the stuff of fantasy.

You are not alone. That's why some EU countries prefer to buy US millitary equipment(often at inflated prices), support US's interests in the region and beyond(i.e Iraq invasion), accept US's interferences and be done with it. The EU army project is too risky politically and strategically. Things may change if US becomes too erratic(i.e think of a super Trump presidency)
I think this depends a bit on the area. I work in the field of metabolic engineering (i.e. engineering microbes to make new products). When I worked at a biotech company in the Bay Area, I had a pretty decent salary, while still a bit lower than software engineers. Right now, I live in the Netherlands and my guess is that the discrepancy is a big larger here.
> without any thought to the user experience those changes cause.

Sorry you get that impression. As one of the maintainers, my impression is that each decision happens in good faith, and usually follows a controversial discussion, which puts user experience on par with maintainers’s well-being.

Examples off the top of my head:

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9172#issuecomment-7299...

[2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177#issuecomment-72...

[3]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9099#issuecomment-72...

That’s not to say your feelings aren’t valid. I can see how some unpopular decisions may come across as rude, thoughtless or selfish. I’m aware that this is still a huge issue, and my feeling is that we still have a lot to learn in order to get better and more transparent at communicating.

I’m thankful for feedback like yours (even though I strongly disagree with the part that I’ve quoted). You can be sure any such feedback has a real, positive impact on where we’re heading as a project.
Yes. Companies can lie. But your point is buried in the false assumptions about me.

"Trusting something" !== "An almost blind and zealous and unquestioning faith"

Trusting the scientific process doesn't mean you shouldn't be skeptical. It means the opposite. If a company lies, we will find out eventually. You can look at the evidence. There will be independent data eventually. You don't need "faith".

Why you needed to involve Mengele to make an argument is beyond me. Invoking Godwin's law will never help you win a discussion.
> Apple has had plenty of opportunities over the years to take down the Hackintosh community and they never have.

Why would they bother with it when it doesn't effect their bottom line at all? In fact, it benefits them as these users may like the platform and migrate to it.
We already suffer the ads, why do we also have to internalize and normalize the business rationale?
Lack of trust in giant food corporations, who rarely focus on health benefits, and make decisions based on what reduces benefits. High fructose corn syrup anyone.
Having an NVidia GPU, or any other specific manufacturer's item, should not be a gatekeeping requirement to learning about and even doing meaningful ML work. Just how owning any own particular computer brand should not be a requirement for doing meaningful general programming.
Microsoft Torrent
You cannot disable the sending option, so your computer (windows) can be used as a server in any time.
Is the upgrade enough big to go major?
I've been looking for that for the last couple of days and couldn't find much. Great resources linked as comments.
I had found that one myself: https://github.com/mishig25/3d-posenet
I didn't try to say that these systems don't work at all. I meant to say that I don't believe they are cost effective. Let's say you can get that 0.1% CTR improvement by purchasing a typical AI recommendation cluster for $100mio + $3mio annually. There are only very few companies for which that 0.1% CTR will offset the costs and increase profits.
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There are a lot of moving parts. Sculpting, UV Mapping, Rigging, Skinning, Animation, LODs, Baking, Texturing, engine import, lighting, materials.

A lot of things can be done procedurally, but going from 2d concept to actual working 3D Character in video game is a long jump.

On top of that every game will have very different asset and gameplay requirements.
You don't have to trust a specific company to trust the scientific process. If they lie, we will find out. They don't have a lasting monopoly on that data.
To be sure there is no misunderstanding: MMS (also pictures, images, video) or SMS (only text)? I checked my Android phone and it probably sends a MMS of I attach a picture to a message in the Messages app. First time I even noticed the icons to attach multimedia content. Never received one.

I used to work in a mobile operator (not Sweden) and MMS didn't have any usage worth talking about.
A lot of AI/ML technology is (inherently?) self-reinforcing (think product recommendations), so your prediction is not wrong.
>It's not a bad battery. The degrading performance over time applies to every battery ever sold.

It's not a bad banana. Rotting after a while applies to every banana ever sold.

Yes it's a natural thing to happen, but it doesnt mean it's not bad.
"Russia is not USSR - a superpower with half of Europe under its wings -, and is not a threat to anyone"

Haven't we entered an age where 'non-eyeToEye-threats' can do enormous damage, even if by error (e.g. nuclear bombing the US)?
What about some MOOCS? There are plenty that will introduce you to this area.
Exactly this. As someone who experienced the unexpected shutdowns (described my experience elsewhere in these comments), the throttling fixed my issue until I ended up getting my battery replaced by a third party.

I think what a lot of people miss is that it was not just a restart, but a shutdown that would then require a charger be connected before the phone could be turned on again, even though it would then report similar charge to before the shutdown.

If you were out of the house and did not have a charger readily accessible, it was equivalent to the phone randomly turning into a brick for several hours at a time.
Thanks for the link. Interesting comment there, which somewhat reminds me of the current COVID-19 situation:

"The way the different countries failed to come together in the face of a world-wide catastrophe was plausible. The turn against science... while only briefly touched on, the way the angry masses turned on scientists was believable." by Clackamas in 2008.
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Your argument is that EU countries will not stand up to the US, because they are afraid of losing American protection.

However, in case of Germany you linked evidence that goes directly against your argument:

>German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called for creating a European Union army, stressing that Europeans can no longer merely rely on the U.S. for their security.

Given the context of the thread, this quote reads like the Germans want to build their own army to spite the US. For example, because the US spied on them.

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As far as Denmark goes, their feelings regarding the US are probably genuine, but I very much doubt that the Danes see Russia as an existential threat.

The last country to invade and occupy Denmark was Germany, not Russia. If you read between the lines you find that the main security benefit of US/NATO is keeping Europeans from fighting each other rather than defending them from some external threat.

I that sense, I completely agree that US and NATO are the cornerstone of European security. And that's why industrial espionage against them is a bad idea. It makes European countries suspicious of the US and suspicious of each other. The resulting fragmentation leads to insecurity and then we are back to 1939 eyeing each other as our next meal.
I it was anything like the SQLite push to adopt a CoC for a private project then at least some organized harassment on social media and the very real threat to cut various forms funding.
> Having lived through systems going backwards some 17 seconds due to a botched NTP-GPS appliance config

Well then, it really was botched. I was running an off-line hodge podge of 50 or so RH7.3 + Win2K systems back in 2002, where I had to manually fix the few second drift every couple of months, and the RH machines all slewed faster/slower to adapt, non ever went backward or jumped forward (Don't remember how the Win2K handled it; They weren't mission critical and I didn't care much).
Incredible Intel gets kicked in the balls so hard by a fanless design. I'm thinking because Apple probably eats a bit more of the cost than Intel can it might make sense to test against perhaps a $100+ more expensive Intel chip.
There have been a lot of stories lately about how responsible the biotech companies that use horseshoe crab blood are supposed to be, taking some blood and returning them to the sea.

Apparently that is PR fluff, and they mostly chop them up and sell them for bait.
Vienna – the most livable place for developers?
Yup. Kudos to the maintainers and volunteer contributors who continue to work on these tools.

As some of the other comments here show, it's a thankless task.
It was the cost. It drove people away from SMS to IP protocol messaging systems which also had a better UX. SMS used to cost quite a lot.
There's another approach that is more rooted into react paradigm - styled-components. I still don't understand what people see in tailwind as most of the arguments I see in this thread could also be applied to it, but you also get type-checking (typescript), theming, ecosystem of plugins and a lot of other cool things.
If you computer places artificial restrictions on what you can do with it, then it's company participates in the war against the general-purpose computing.

If it's a technical limitation, it's a totally different thing.

I'm sorry that you do not care about the freedom of users. Users who do not know about all these things suffer from unlimited power of developers [0] and cannot do anything to escape various walled gardens and traps of proprietary systems [1].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/important

[1] https://stallman.org/apple.html. Even if the wording there is not perfect, what is listed there is facts.
Yeah, evolution is pretty much a tautology.
Great article. It covers many grounds - failings of school system, great reading recommendations, glimpse of biologist methods and inspirations for future tools.

I thought the last part would resonate more with HN crowd. We have means and opportunity to build better tools for visualizing and communicating complex diagrams. Is anyone working on something similar?
Yep, and I have no idea why THIS isn't the subject of more scrutiny from developers.

Their hostility is pretty blatant.
Agreed. France alone probably has sufficient military power to balance Russia.

European countries can stand up to what is obviously unacceptable (industrial espionage conducted by US military intelligence). But Denmark in the later years have chosen not to.
By the practice of Siddhasana, Sirshasana, Sarvangasana, Mula Bandha, Uddiyana Bandha, Maha Mudra, Yoga Mudra, Nauli, etc., a Hatha Yogi transmutes his seminal energy into Ojas-Sakti. By the practice of Navavidha Bhakti (Sravana, Kirtana, Smarana, Padasevana, Archana, Vandana, Sakhya, Dasya, Atmanivedana) and Japa, a Bhakta destroys the impurity of his mind and fixes it on God.
Just in case anyone is wary and is tempted to write Dusk off as just a cheap cash-in on some recent retro/low-fi trend. It really isn't - it's a spectacularly fun and creative game with solid mechanics. If you prefer a little more colour you can also check out Amid Evil or Ion Fury

There's another upcoming game I'm keeping an eye on - Hrot. It's a solo-dev effort with a home-made engine written in Pascal (!) set in a pre-revolution Czechoslovak(-style?) state. I have no idea about the developer's track record in gaming and haven't played any of the early-access stuff, but it's got a good look and the tech demos show some fun stuff so I'm kinda curious how it will turn out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xovpHxsVRTQ
Little longer summary:

The ideas of APL and its successors, the array programming languages, were two generations ahead of their time. These languages are based on the notion that everything is a tensor, and all operations are rank-polymorphic: they extend automatically to tensors of any rank. These ideas are perfectly suited to an era of machine learning, large scale data, GPUs and other accelerators. Building on recent academic research, we are building ShapeRank, a new statically typed, purely functional language for industrial use, that extends rank-polymorphism to streams. We’ll introduce the key ideas and show how they are realized in ShapeRank.

https://2020.splashcon.org/details/splash-2020-rebase/26/A-R...
Don’t customers have a reasonable expectation of roughly consistent performance of their device?

And to your point, car companies don’t market their cars using ‘achieving 70mph’ as a feature. It’s just a reasonable expectation of performance. They might mention the top speed, but that’s more of a specification than a marketing feature in most cases.
Same problem would have occurred, just a few % later.
>you have to let the creative part of your brain do much more work to fill in the blanks,

x100 this. Quake 1 was terrifying for me even though the pixelated graphics are poor by todays standard because my imagination would fill in the blanks making things feel way more scary.

Just take a look at these pixelated creatures. Coupled with the soundtrack from NIN and Trent Reznor and the gothic atmosphere they feel way scarier to me than what came after like Doom 3 or even Dooms of this decade. I don't now why but the recent Doom games just look a bit too cartoonish for me and not scary at all.

http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-creatures-...
Hi Sriram! Nice job.
BTW, did you investigate what data the roborock vacuum actually send to its servers?
When I first read the DDD book almosty 15 years ago, I think it took me 2 or 3 reads to get it into my head. I really like the first half that can be used purely for a design perspective, and the second half for communicating with the business people to do business domain modelling .

Other books I really like are

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, it is a good read and lets you talk to a lot of UX'ers as I have found more than a few that have used this book for their thesis.

Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, which is old but in world of streaming procesing a lot of the patterns can be reused.

The Site Reliability Engineering books or their free counter parts found on https://landing.google.com/sre/books/

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> Until Halo came around

Goldeneye and Turok would like to have a word, if you have a moment.
Autocorrect must have got that.
I thought it was about getting land locked not so much having a NATO country on it border
The time to stop allowing yourself to be exploited is ever and always right now.

Last year might have been better, but a year from now you could think that again. Now is the best you can ever do.
Wouldn't Trump being diagnosed with Covid be more akin to the first (or second) 737 Max crashing and its effect on Boeing? This was not an expected outcome and would be likely to shift the entire distribution of outcomes. If you're going to argue that it truly kept outcomes identical, then I would likely just disagree with your forecast and call it a day.
I think the problem is that humans by default assume what they’re reading is true for social cohesion. Especially if you think of social media (or comment sections), I mean why would I ever bother interacting with others if I assume everything I’m being told is false?
It needs to be slightly accurate.

People aren't saying recommendations need to be good, but just they need to be better than they are right now. To justify the cost of investment in AI, AI hardware, and AI developers an AI recommendation system needs to be more accurate than the next best recommendation system. The real point here is that no matter how clever you think your AI system is the end user still thinks it's worse than a very simple system based on "people who bought X also bought Y".
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> Russia is not USSR - a superpower with half of Europe under its wings -, and is not a threat to anyone

Not by choice, Russians still think the collapse of USSR a tragic mistake, and Putin’s rhetoric ties directly back to it.

Russian “defence” spending is skyrocketing, Russia is holding frequent manoeuvres righ in NATO borders, keeps flying bombers ever-so-slightly into NATO country airspace’s... and most of all, Russia shows it is more than happy to apply brute force to achieve political goals. In Ukraine, Georgia, who’s next?

Denmark, Poland and Sweden, not to mention the Baltic states, are rightly concerned about Russia’s posturing. If it’s not meant to be intimidating and creating a low-level Cold War, then it’s a very odd way of showing neighbourly love.

I’m sure comparisons to American imperialism will follow, and maybe justifiably so. But crucially, US does not invade European countries, voila the pertinent difference.
The western one is being rushed through a lot quicker than usual. We can't possibly know about long term effects.