skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve worked professionally in quant finance, image processing, defense research, and several mid-to-large ecommerce and payment processor companies.

In all of them, data provenance has been a first class consideration of machine learning and data platform teams, like a day-to-day concern and baked in to architecture review guidelines and production checklists and whatnot for every ML project.

In many of these companies we had teams of 20-40 ML scientists, all of whom knew about data provenance as a first class consideration in their work, had experience with it from their past jobs and academic programs, and considered it on equal footing with any aspect of data curation, model selection, model training and model serving.
Most data in WHOIS is a dead end. Try looking up a few sites, apparently everyone lives in Panama now.
Same same guy
I've always kept both. For family members, they all use Macbook Airs. For me, I have the 2018 MacBook Pro. I also use a Lenovo Carbon X1 and a Dell XPS15. Apple kills the Dell in build quality. The X1C is a fantastic build quality, and the lightest of the 3. But, it does feel like a laptop from 10 years ago. The black with red highlights makes it feel like an AS/400. I can't knock the machine though. It's a solid performer.

All this said, I have no idea what the Windows experience is on any of these machines. I can't imagine I'd want to try it. ArchLinux with Gnome works well enough for me as a macOS replacement. I do most work in a Terminal and Web browser, so it feels like almost any environment would do.
Just two of those blows through the budget of 10k for 2 complete redundant sound system given as an example in the article.
This and also path based access (limiting access to certain directories/files within a branch).
You’re looking at around $150 for an 8-channel base node. The single channel at a time nodes (like the SX1276 in the one you linked) “work” but with significant limitations compared to the $150-500 8-channel gateways.
Samsung FRP Tool 2020 – FRP Unlock Tool Download for PC
If a person is incorrectly identified as the target of an open warrant, then as soon as he shows proof of ID, he's free to go and the system is corrected to flag him as a false positive, not only never bothering him again for this search, but probably making him less likely to ever be falsely picked up again. If we can't assume that any public system or institution is capable of functioning well or being corrected, we might as well have no law enforcement whatsoever.
Setting aside the discussion around the responses on twitter, I think his take on algorithmic bias is too simplistic.

> Credit-card scoring algorithms may reject more qualified applicants in order to ensure that the same number of women and men are accepted.

The entire discussion revolves around what defines "more qualified" and why it cannot simply be the output of an algorithm because it reflects biases in training data and even training methodologies. If you just skip past that entire discussion you may think that there is this nefarious worldview of "injecting bias" but that requires a false or at least simplified premise to begin with.

There is a lot of just-world fallacies behind this sort of thinking. The same that leads to suggest that if "X started a business and made a lot of money" X must be by-definition hard working or talented etc. ignoring aspects of generational wealth, opportunities, fallback options if they failed, etc.
Every templates are just black and white. Think of it as a wireframe. You customize it yourself. Add background colors, box shadows, gradients, etc. Play around, make it yours.
The upper layers of Venus' atmosphere are actually reasonably well suited for a floating colony. And as an energy source, fission is almost as good as fusion and we can do that very well.
Aging (decay) is not evolved, it's the default that needs to be fought.
Working flawlessly for me, no matter how many times I reload.

Ockham's razor encourages me to believe that this is just some minor technical issue on either side, rather than censorship.
I wonder if there is anything like this that is cross platform (e.g., Windows, Linux, MacOS), probably building on what Docker provides?

- Subuser - Securing the Linux desktop with Docker

- Flatpak - The Future of Apps on Linux

- snapd - Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for the operating systems that use the Linux kernel.
See e.g. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product...
That's the location/country, if I am not wrong.
"The application window to participate in the ‘90 Day Finn’ program opens November 4 and closes on December 10. Shortlisted applicants are then notified and interviewed, and 90-day visits for selected entrants are scheduled to start from in February 2021"

The 'thousands' seems a little exaggerated. It seems just like any other campaign by a company (a country here) to attract 'top' talent and not entirely attractive one either: "Participants are responsible for the living costs and all other personal expenses during their stay in Finland.
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Because it is broken. Merges and rebases rarely work without manual intervention, a patch-oriented tool that is almost as fast as a snapshot-oriented tool, git. Something like Pijul looks promising.
Maybe you could take a look at Calligra Plan, it is one of the only part of Calligra still actively maintained.

https://calligra.org/plan/
Not sure why you're being downvoted for good analysis.

The key is for your country to not have a significantly higher debt to GDP than competitors of similar economic development. The USA has further advantages in that much of its debt is owned by other Americans (who have strong vested interest in the ability for the USA to pay its debts).

That being said, we could have spent FAR MORE and increased debt FAR MORE in the USA without serious downsizes - even if COVID hadn't happened!

It turns out that "fiscal responsibility" literally does not matter and is in fact DETERMINTAL to the economy. The velocity of money is all that matters. This is why VCs who are never profitable are still a net positive for the economy, because they facilitate velocity. The US govt pumping money into the economy PREVENTED A FAR WORSE LIQUDITY CRISIS which we were at serious risk of earlier given that it looked like we'd be seeing DEFLATION rather than inflation earlier on...
Some terms of the Drake equation are probabilities. The product of those terms can be very much less than 1 and we can still exist. If you accept the weak anthropic principle all our existence says for sure is the product is not 0, which we already knew had to be the case for any such equation.
I would have bet the move would be towards Lenovo + Linux but no, it was a Lenovo running Windows.

Apple gear is nice, but you can't compare the price of a Lenovo having a fast Ryzen with the latest MBP. I bought the Lenovo at 1/3rd the price. Considering the difference I think the bumps I encountered are worth the $$$$ saved.
For anyone doing design work, even if adjacent, it's hard to impress upon how amazing Figma is as a tool. It excels not just as a design tool, but collaboration and prototyping as well.
Advantages of API integration over point-to-point integration
I think the amount of mass lost is small enough that extra provisions can be carried around. For anything else you just have to fight entropy. Given enough energy you can probably do that.
what if you are the 30th child?
All VR has a sweet spot with a distortion profile that slightly shifts as your eye looks around, which moves your pupil a bit in space, so it is a bit different than normal vision, unless using eye tracking to correct the shift in distortion. Something like that could have had an effect, rather than mental well-being.
I don't think the vaccines are really relevant if it genuinely is 1.7x more contagious. There's no way of getting enough vaccine supplies before we reach herd immunity through normal infection. Even with the current measures we're at ~R=1, so... At best we might have time to protect the oldest people and limit the number of deaths.
TreeSize is amazing. The free version doesn’t work on network shares, but that’s the only limitation I’ve found.
The argument that hunter-gathering is superior to farming is based on some quality-of-life comparisons, most notably the fact that modern hunter-gatherers spend a surprisingly little amount of their time actually acquiring food (something like 2-3 hours a day). Most anthropologists are extremely skeptical of comparing modern hunter-gatherers with Paleolithic hunter-gatherer cultures, particularly the ones that would develop into agricultural societies.

The main reason that farmers outcompete hunter-gatherers is that agriculture allows building larger societies than hunter-gathering can, and this extra population gives a decisive advantage in being able to prosecute wars for as long as is necessary to exterminate hunter-gatherers.
Oh come on, you're going to describe the forceful closure and subsequent self inflicted complete devastation of several industries (dining, entertainment) as "asking people to stay home"? That's pretty rich, especially if you realize that it's not just a matter of "more stimulus" because stimulus money has to come from taxing a working economy or it's printing money. Tell the people who've lost their livelihoods because of government shutdowns that they were not subject to an oppressive authoritarian decree.

I do wonder at the end of this which will cause more deaths: the disease itself, or deaths of despair and of avoiding treatment for other illnesses out of fear caused by mass media, and of economic distress caused not directly by the disease but by governments' reactions to it.
Personally, I think that git pull should not be a command that one can run in normal situations. The common expectation when one is making changes, is to commit and then push. So why shouldn't the same apply when getting changes from the remote. That is, fetch and then apply to the local work tree.
Finage Design Endpoint – Finage API
SC Satyr10 Web, from inspecting the page.

https://www.typesample.com/samples/sc_i34x1_2x
... IKEA furniture doesn't use German names.
I cant recall if it was released this year but Lamport's Intro to TLA+ (uploaded on youtube) stands out for me.
We are in a period of sustained low interest rates. It would be interesting to see if the percentage of people who own their home is going up as a result. I can anecdotally tell you that the interest rates being so low are motivating me to try to get a home loan ASAP despite the prospect of mortgage insurance because I personally do not believe that the interest rates will stay low forever...
The best news for me would be a service that would be okay with reporting "there was no important news", but that is not how the industry works. I'd be willing to pay for that if when news did happen, the reporting/analysis was exceptional.

Not sure where I read this idea first, may have been Taleb, but it's something I've seen pop up as wanted in this hyperactive news environment.
I'm not exactly sure how these sites work, but they're clearly doing something different from "regular" upscaling like what happens when you just make a picture larger and blurrier, it looks like some kind of semi-vector type conversion before the resizing, but it's never described beyond the regular AI/ML buzzwords.

The reason I ask is because it could be really useful for stuff like wallpaper resizing where the only thing you really want is for the larger size to look decent, not necessarily be exactly like the original.
If you are in the EU (resident or business), you can legally buy a country level TLD from any member state. I have a 4 letter domain I use specifically for this (for internal stuff, so I can get SSL certs).
Thousands of ocean fishing boats could be using forced labor
> It's been a weird year, wonder if there were still good tech talks in 2020.

If anything there are likely more than ever, because a lot of the ones that used to be delivered in person and not recorded may have been recorded this year.
If you’re afraid that your friend will share on social media your name and your state of happiness about your previous job, May be they aren’t great friends.
The first error I spotted was on line 9.
maps.me it will come back, fix all the errors and everything will be as before, perhaps even better than it was
Good looking GUI, too bad it requires "evolution-data-server" to build and run.
If the EU had not expanded eastwards we would have the same issues as we do now.

Only 1000km westwards.
WinMerge is the best diff tool I’ve found. I haven’t used it for merges, because I prefer four-pane merges (original, left, right, and final) and it doesn’t support that. For that I use kdiff3, though I’d love to find a replacement...

WinMerge is open source - maybe free software, I don’t know. Development halted for years but was picked back up. It’s so solid that I haven’t upgraded in a decade? or more.
When realistic distributions of uncertainty are applied to the Drake Equation, the paradox dissolves:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
Fair enough. Even a single peace deal would have been a huge accomplishment. The fact there’s multiple in one year is awesome.

Gives me hope than we’ll see a peace deal with the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the decade.
I second that! It's such a great talk because it showcases some powerful concepts while being very entertaining.

That's one of these talks you can watch with an interested layman as well, which I very much enjoy and find valuable.
Shenzhen I/O in Real Life
both <200€ raspberry pi solutions and the ~160€ Mikrotik one are not bound to TTN. What's substantially cheaper and TTN-only?
I have one of each (Windows, Linux, Mac). On the whole, I don't find any dramatically superior.

PC laptops do have a race-to-the-bottom. Even top-of-the-line laptops are luck-of-the-draw. Lenovo is far more scammy than IBM ThinkPads of the golden age. I think the idea is you need to be 5% better than the competition to control the high-end market, and they cut quality until they hit that. Apple quality is much more consistent.

But with PCs, although really good laptops don't exist, you can build a perfectly fine desktop.

Windows has become surprisingly usable with WSL. It's also actually more stable than Linux or MacOS now. MacOS periodically stalls out using all CPU until my mouse pointer locks up, for reasons I can't fathom. Linux runs into oddball issues with complex device setups. Windows just works for me.

On the other hand, Windows is trying to become a SaaS, and seems to collect a ton of data, do hostile updates, and really wants to show me ads. For now, I've disabled all of that, but it's gotten harder to do so. If it goes further that direction, it might stop to be usable.

Linux has been going down the tubes the past few decades, but isn't bad yet. Complexity has grown, and stability has fallen, but it's still simpler than MacOS or Windows. I can understand and tweak the system. I'd never e.g. run a server on MacOS or Windows. Too much stuff going on behind the scenes.

On the whole, I find myself gravitating towards:

* Linux for software engineering, math, servers, or similar -- places where I do things by hand and want a lot of control.

* Windows for video conferencing, video editing, graphic design, and similar (which is odd, since this is Mac's classic strength, but I'm finding Windows to work better now).

* MacOS for general-purpose computing (e.g. writing documents, making a presentation, or browsing the web). It excels at normal things.
I put this on my father's machine and he thinks it's magic because it finds his files instantly. He still comments on it every once in awhile.
Which war was ended by the signing of these peace deals?
The bug as pointed by the article would be here:

"Specifically, it fails if the sum of low and high is greater than the maximum positive int value (231 - 1). The sum overflows to a negative value, and the value stays negative when divided by two."
-https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
Of course. But even then I wouldn't want the session to end without confirmation. A prompt/reminder after six hours would make sense.
DM42 calculator from SwissMicros:

“The DM42, one of our line-up of flagship RPN calculators, is a true homage to the legendary HP-42S, widely regarded as the best calculator ever made. The DM42 is the most precise calculator on the worldwide market - second to none.”

I now favor that over my HP-35S.
Thank you for taking the time to take a look. It is a lengthily one but I do certainly recommend spending the time to listen, it is of course very UK-centric but a lot of the points he makes are valid globally.

I am not advocating some absolute zero-measure approach but I also don't agree with the lockdowns which have repeatedly failed to work on any kind of permanent basis and whose costs are entirely ignored.

The rational approach is a measured one taking into account all costs. Unfortunately politics, especially partisan ones don't work that way...
> And when will that be?

Right after the "stty" command is retired? :)
Think about who would actually take a designer’s problems seriously and solve them. It would be a designer that can also program, no one else is going to give a shit or even recognize what needs to be solved.

By sheer necessity, someone like this had to emerge.
If that study is to be believed, a child catching pokemon on their phone in the park is likely to develop better eye sight than a child reading a book at home. So I think the difference is pretty relevant, and the fact that outdoor activity is out-competed by screens would just be a confounding factor.
The layout (spacing of content relative to margin) is also pretty poor for reading on mobile phones, and those had existed for a couple of years by 2011.
I'm not going claim that the macOS is perfect or bug free. It does indeed have some weird issues. E.g. font smoothing in Big Sur is a train wreck and you have to disable it to not strain your eyes if you're using an external monitor.

My point is: I still can't get anything better. For all it's weirdness and bugs, I don't see an alternative. I am impressed by SuSE Linux running on my old ThinkPad and I could live with it, but it's still worse.
I have some rendering-issues: https://i.imgur.com/D0LW0r9.png
Some languages force you into better practices. The extra overhead that you may not want to deal with - and that learning curve - are the exact sorts of things you want to do if you want to write code that is of less questionable quality.

Good Python looks a lot like what you would get from a compiled language, and every researcher I work with looks at it and goes "holy shit this is so much extra work I don't wanna do it"

And like I said, that's fair. The code is not the point, it's just a tool to get the data - that's the point.

I equate it to the one time use jigs woodworkers use. Some can get pretty fancy and be awesome, but most are just slapped together and will probably get chucked in the bin. I don't mean to shame anyone - there's a reason for it, and it serves it's purpose.

It's when someone hands you that shitty-ass jig, from a language that lets you do some pretty heinous things by design, the frustration builds like crazy! I've seen some pretty gnarly Java and C# in my day too, and all I know is the worst Java still is an order of magnitude easier to handle than the worst Python I see on the regular, it's wild.
so reproducible on the metal or on a VM on the host OS? I have a very little skin in the game but always interested in other peoples takes

(I am trying to relaunch github.com/mikadosoftware/workstation - basically I want to get ssh -X working for wayland on fedora)
Is this gif using BlockySQL? Doesn't look like it though, since there are many more options available. And it looks more powerful than BlocklySQL.

Is the source available?
But the word subtractive doesn't make sense though unless you know exactly what the end product will be. And if you know exactly what the end product will be then designing the car is not fundamentally different from building it since in essence the car is already designed, you just hammer out the details. A programmer who just picks tasks from a kanban is not creative, he just adds code to do the thing the board requests. Doing more stuff from the board all else being the same is always better, he is an additive worker. If he does it faster but produce shoddy work it is the same as if a factory worker works faster but produce shoddy parts on the car, meaning he will get fired because he ruins it.
such a wide span of talent (I assume the electronics are not just drawing..)

also http://androidarts.com/Sony/Sony.htm

the dude is from 77 and he clearly digested and remembered the design spirit of the decades of his youth.
Thank you for this suggestion! Teaching is very challenging in of itself, remote makes things even more difficult. I hope to find some inspiration from this.
This is my go-to implementation, but I make one little tweak. It’s very unlikely that you will overflow a long, but you can you guarantee that you’ll avoid overflow like this:

mid = min + (max - min) / 2;
Thanks for this reminder, will do as well! Overwhelmingly I've actually been really impressed with the quality of the compiler diagnostics— 9 times out of 10 the prompt is telling me exactly what I need to do. I will try to do a better job of keeping track of the occasional bad/baffling ones.
It doesn't seem fundamentally harder than pretending all of the changes happened in a different directory, and then that directory got moved from being a sibling to a subdirectory of the nominal project root.
Annual Student StarCraft AI Tournament enters its round robin phase
But all that is just because computers are not designed for longevity, they are designed for capability. We could easily design them for longevity if we wanted to: lower the clock speed so that passive cooling is all that's needed. Make all the PC traces five times fatter than they need to be. Use non-electrolytic capacitors. The resulting computer would be big and slow but it would last forever.

In fact, it would not surprise me a bit if you could run a Raspberry Pi Zero for 100 years.
It’s highly improbable that telemetry slows Code down enough (or even by a perceptible amount) that a user would find it “slow” vs. VSCodium.
SSCAIT is one of a few major tournaments in the Star Craft: Brood War AI scene. It tends to be one the one that gets the most preparation and biggest releases, since it's the only tournament that broadcasts every single game live on Twitch. The round robin phase will take a few weeks, then it'll enter an elimination bracket.

Brood War bots are, roughly speaking, better than everyone who played the game casually, but not as good as someone who put in a few weeks of serious practice with modern strategies (The highest is roughly ICCUP rank C). They're capable of extremely high APM, and some have extremely impressive micro tricks. Bots tend to be weak by over-microing their units, having poor positional reasoning, and poor overall strategic sense. They all work using BWAPI, a program that snoops Brood War's memory for all the unit positions, censors the stuff a given player isn't supposed to know, and provides functions to issue orders.

A surprise new bot was released late this year - Monster, a Zerg bot that might win the tournament by virtue of just playing very solidly. This would end a few years of Protoss dominating the top ten.

This has been posted before (it's an annual event!) but HN has enjoyed it in previous years. I've also noticed that, when someone posts the tournament to places like HN, the SC AI scene is a lot more active for the following year. This is my nefarious motivation for posting it - I enjoy following the progress.
If you use a prosumer version of Win 10, debloating is maybe 10 clicks after a reinstall and a registry script if you want to get rid of telemetry altogether.
Nashville Car-Bomb Looks Intentional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE