skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 35mm stills cameras normally use a 3:2 frame

Ah, indeed, I seem to be forgetting the days of film photography.
> But we should also have alternative ways for John Doe to get around without a car, and we don't.

taxi/uber or public transport where available.
Does this rule prohibit Uber from simply paying minimum wage for the duration and not allowing the driver to decline rides? Seems this would be a way of demonstrating how shifty the experience could/would be for traditional employment in this realm, especially if Uber just takes the additional revenue from "surge" prices and doesn't pass that on to the driver.
Apple negotiating settlement with Prepear after opposing its pear-shaped logo
Sorry, how does this work when drivers toggle between Uber & Lyft? Is that now officially disallowed? Literally every driver I've ever met contracts through both services, but obviously they can't both be paying the driver $30ish an hour at the same time. (With that being said- I'm definitely rooting for the driver who figures out how to hack the system and does exactly that....)
I mean, that's a nice story, but causality doesn't work like that... this is like a bully claiming someone "ran into their fist" :/.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/

> We believe Sun was aware when drafting CDDLv1 of the incompatibilities; in fact, our research into its history indicates the GPLv2-incompatibility was Sun's design choice. At the time, Sun's apparent goal was to draw developers away from GNU and Linux development into Solaris. Not only did Sun not want code from GNU and Linux in Solaris, more importantly, Sun did not want technological advantages from Solaris' kernel to appear in Linux.

Given Sun's goal, no matter what GPL said, I am sure that they would have figured out a cute way to engineer their license to be incompatible.
If you were confused about it, then it’s possible you were just a pawn in someone else’s game
Ormb: Docker for Your ML/DL Models Based on OCI Artifacts
Scott Manley Explains Synthetic Aperture Radar
Question:
>Apple accuse the company of replicating its classic logo which consists of a “minimalistic fruit design with a right-angled leaf.

Any “minimalistic fruit design with a right-angled leaf" is prohibited or subject to Apple approval ?!
IIRC one of Chrome's various selling points when it launched was that Flash was bundled in, so 1. you always had Flash and 2. the plugin was more likely to be properly compatible with the browser, and 3. because Chrome updated constantly, that means you got updated Flash, too. So they definitely were trying to address that glaring pain point you brought up.
http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Prepare_three_envelopes
I think this is a great idea. Did you ever do anything with it?
I've been part of 2 teams that used aws lambda for their APIs. One team decided that they wanted to use chalice and build custom bash scripts to deploy parts of the system out. (chalice would perform the deployment of apigateway, and get the required IAM policies built out. For all other resources they would use terraform, but they broke it down on a per-resource bases, rather than accepting changes to all the infra in 1 go, there would be a script that runs each resource type independently; buckets, tables, service-accounts, elasticsearch....

The current team does their deployments in 2 stages, first the use chalice to generate the correct terraform files for the 2 lambda's that are deployed one the indexer, the other the service api, then the generate all the other terraform json files using python. After this is complete the infra is deployed in 1 step.

The second team has way less errors on deployment, and managing the infra is way easier, esp if you need to nuke it all and rebuild an environment.

I would break out the terraform backend on a per-environment basis rather than clumping them into folder/bucket, that can be dangerous if the bucket gets emptied.
This is true but with the caveat that it's not contrived.

They both have 'natural born PR' instincts so it's both disingenuous and honest at the same time.

Patrick is open, and way over-intellectual in many circumstances, I see that quite a lot in the Valley where nobody respects anyone else unless they are sure if their IQ/chops. And so you see a lot of overt displays of slightly off topic, overly specific, quixotic communication style, like an professor thinking faster than they can speak. And it's on purpose.

His brother is a more natural corporate communicator.

I'm not saying anything against them, but they are definitely putting on a display.

Without knowing a single thing about their upbringing or personal heritage, I would wager that it's a learned trait ie 'it's their upbringing'.

17 year old kids don't sell their companies alone, usually, their parents are behind the scenes.

Microsoft's 1st important sale to IBM was related to the fact his mother was a colleague of IBM board members, i.e. 'elite networks'.
They really are supercomputers though. Do you know how much faster a modern PC is compared to say a Cray-1? Especially if it has a decent graphics card.
Yes, you're right. I hadn't all of the comments yet.
Why Serverless Is the Uber of Infrastructure
The FDA forced distilleries to add methanol to the hand sanitiser, despite that causing significantly higher costs and delays.

I'm not sure you could have have this story more backwards.
Response from distilleries should read as follows:

Dear FDA: We make alcohol legally. During the pandemic, we continued to make alcohol. We don't ask customers what sorts of cocktails they make when they buy it, but it now seems fashionable to include hand saturation of the product in the standard repertoire of mixologists and mixology enthusiasts. Aparantly a popular name for this cocktail is The Sanitizer. This does not reflect a change in our business model of making and selling alcohol. #crazycustomers #leavemealone
Yeah. Realistically, this is like trying to reprogram your opponents brain to prevent them from cheating at basketball... even if you make it work, it is morally untenable: you need a referee.
I get the feeling this is because nobody wants to be holding cash, stocks, or bonds right now. A lot of people who saved a ton of extra cash from not eating out are putting it into crypto and hoping for the best.

But maybe I’m totally wrong.
This is very true, and often forgotten.

Initially it was a strategy to reduce security incidents caused by out-of-date Flash plugins.
I've also found that reading news with images and color removed lessens the emotional reaction I have to the news (e.g. text.npr.org).
Proves again that "no good deed goes unpunished"
Another thing is, you have to lead other engineers. Not only you shouldn't need constant supervision, you are the supervisor in many cases.
I love this long shot from Andrei Tarkovsky's "The Mirror" starting at 0:32

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dA60D-j290
It's not a mystery, but after generations of lecturers teaching something they never learned themselves, physicists have forgotten the history of it.

Complex numbers turn up a lot because exp(2πiθ) is a convenient way to model any kind of rotation or cyclic process.

It turns out that there's lots of cyclic processes in physics, such as atomic orbitals or waves in fields.

Similarly, vector algebra is just terrible at modelling physical spaces, especially 2D or 4D. It just happens to work okay in 3D, and even there it has all sorts of sharp edges, such as gimbal-lock.

Geometric algebra is a lot better at modelling physical spaces of arbitrary dimension, and one of its strengths is the ability to take various interesting sub-spaces and use them without having to make changes to formulas.

Both the complex numbers and quarternions are such subspaces of matching geometric algebras, so it's no surprise that they "turn up" a lot in the algebras of geometric spaces.

Interestingly, some of the other subspaces of a GA are isomorphic to the various "complex valued matrices" used in Physics, such as the Pauli matrices and the Gell Mann matrices.

These matrices are introduced to students as essentially scalar-valued black boxes. "Don't worry about it, they just have the 'right' properties." is commonly heard in lectures.

This seems like mathematical magic, but no magic is necessary. A much more consistent and logical theory based around GA could have been used, but wasn't for merely historic reasons.

Unfortunately, lots of people will say that these alternative formulations are all isomorphic to each other, so who cares, just shut up and calculate. However one method yields an intuitive understanding, and the other one yields complex numbers all over the place with no clear picture of their origins...
>The purpose of buying organic is signalling your preferences for eating healthier food.

A tomato grown with organic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers has the same nutrition value as a tomato grown with synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.

A genetically modified tomato can more nutritious.
Like from that point alone your asking a large portion of people to trust something less capable than them-selves. We should be aiming for the higher/upper percentiles not the average. Especially, considering how fast a digital control system can operate, average is a horribly low bar.

-Edit-
If throw in the effect that a lot people over estimate their abilities your going to get even fewer people who trust a self driving car that is only as good as average.
Literally, the rest of the article contradicts your assertion. He’s talking about client relationships, specifically in financial services.

As a counterpoint to your cynical take on internal comms, at 54 I’ve found that treating everyone as a “client” and erring on the side of listening vs talking has paid huge dividends professionally.
Amazon buys Wondery to compete against Spotify for podcast domination
Given the salvage value of the espresso machine after five years, you are in personal shared valet territory. (It’s Uber, but for baristas!)
It would be easy to do a comparison with different ratios, though, so you shouldn't preemptively assume incompetence.

And it seems pretty unlikely that increasing the number of autonomous cars will make them signficantly less safe, and that's the only result that would be a problem. Mild fluctuations don't matter on a scale as coarse as "4-5x", and an improvement would be good.
Does R have robust CSV parsing? I remember using the default and it'd be extremely finicky about getting the header and index flags right and wouldn't typecast numeric columns properly (instead they'd end up as factors and not play nice)
You didn’t misspeak “slightly”. At least in intent, there’s a world of difference between a
vaccine study and bioweapon study.
No. And not to the parent comment. Senior enlisted schools are tactical and strategic and philosophical, with a heavy emphasis on ethics. Even technical schools have both tactical and strategic subject matter to provide the basis for reasons and rationale for systems specs and design.

For example, before they ever see a fleet unit, junior Marine officers have had 10 weeks of OCS (not for academy grads), 26 weeks of TBS, then they are sent to the school house for their specialties, which can be for a few months to over a year. OCS and TBS are essentially run by senior enlisted personnel.

And I sat in two schools where officers and enlisted go the the same school, and where NCOs were coveted by the officers' after-school study groups.

Guess again, Batman.
Makes you wonder if this sort of strategy should be legal.

Uber wants you to make decisions like choosing to live in a home away from public transportation because you know you can use Uber instead of the train. Once you've made that decision, your ability to walk Uber out of your life goes out the door, and you pretty much have to accept any changes that they make to the pricing.
Chinese propaganda claims 5000 years of unbroken history. One Han people. One language etc. They conveniently ignore when China was ruled by ethnic Khitan-Jurchen-Manchus. The Chinese literary classic On the Water Margin aka All Men Are Brothers is about local heroes of the Song rising up against a corrupt government which was completely ineffective against the Liao.
Appreciate the curiosity. In this small trivial case, yes that works. But what happens when something in the logic changes?

You wind up needing to know the order of calculations since things are no longer lazily evaluated via recursion. This is a problem when you have dozens of "columns" (i.e. recursive functions or arrays as you are suggesting). Often times, the value in the array is NULL (or worse, leftover from a previous calculation). You are left to manually try and re-order the calculations, which is not trivial when there are hundreds of functions.

Excel takes care of these details for you automatically. Users program functionally and recursively (fill-down) without even thinking about it. Excel reactively updates when dependent values change (re-evaluates as necessary).

If power, speed, and scale are necessary, there are purpose-built systems (with Domain Specific Languages) which specifically solve this problem in the insurance domain (e.g. FIS Prophet, Risk Agility, AXIS, etc).
That would put them instantly into regular employee territory, and that's ubers worst fear.
> In the case of a quantum computer you can start with a superposition of all of the 2^n states and evolve them simultaneously. This is called quantum parallelism.

This is a common misrepresentation of how quantum computers work. Because we can start in one state (e.g. |0^n>, the all-zero n-qubit state), and apply the Hadamard gate to each qubit. And now we are in the universal superposition state (measuring has an equal probability for each n-bit bitstring). Oh no! what happened?

If you are under the belief that quantum computation is 'like classical computation, but in parallel', going from one single state to a superposition is impossible. In other words, it doesn't accurately capture what quantum computation does.
suppose you get framed by having a vulnerability in your vehicle getting exploited
I have read (somewhere) that the single most important role of a leader is to create consensus. It is not your job as a leader, ideally, to make the decision, but to facilitate your team members coming to a consensus on the best decision. Sometimes, of course, you will have to make a decision, and that is where having a strong background in the area helps out, but that is when a consensus could not be reached or some other constraint got in the way of your team coming to the best conclusion themselves.

Also a Steve Jobs quote I always found informative on leadership, “You don’t hire smart people to tell them what to do; you hire smart people so that they can tell you what to do.”
The idea of someone with three jobs using Uber is ridiculous and wild.

He's public transit truly been destroyed like that in many American cities?
This. I don't understand why more people don't see this connection. It was obvious to me even at the time that Thoughts on Flash was more about driving traffic to iPhone and the App Store than about actual issues with Flash itself
I was driving on 280 once in clear weather and light traffic, and the car ahead of me suddenly swerved left, swerved right and went tumbling across all lanes and ended up upside down on the shoulder. It was a really bizarre thing to witness. And both people inside seemed mostly OK.
Amazon's 2020 was a banner year for profits and criticism
Boycots, largely, do not work: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/do-boycotts-work-a-new-frea...
Jack Dorsey and Matt Mullenweg
NewPipe can do this on Android. Search for your channels, click the subscribe button, then on the home screen of the app there's a tab with the chronological list of videos from your subscriptions. You can hide the YouTube trending tab from the home screen, and within videos you can swipe between comments & suggested/related videos, so you don't lose discovery of new content.
The math is wrong.
> But if you're on the lower income scale and you need Uber to help you get between your second and third job (because you can't afford a car and public transit is unreliable) or you need it to get to a doctor's appointment, this kind of change is a big deal.

Well, in this line of thinking, you should just tell people to quit their third job and go drive an Uber, I hear they'll be paying more as a minimum wage...

There's no excuse to keep people in poverty because other people are poor.
> Sure but this is a prisoner's dilemma situation.

Who is choosing to defect rather than cooperate in this scenario?

> This price increase allows drivers to earn a living wage which in turn decreases the number of people at the lower end of today's income scale.

This is unclear. If we find there are 5x low-income people who benefits from Uber for every Uber driver, and the increased Uber costs reduce the real income of those poor people by 25% per month, then it's making poor people quite a bit poorer. Adjust those variables and you might get different outcomes. Or maybe the demand for Uber rides is quite elastic, in which case Uber drivers will lose income because so many fewer people are riding that it doesn't offset the price.

You'd have to actually measure and find out. But overcoming deadweight loss problems due to artificial price increases is quite hard. I'd put money on this making low-income people worse off.

> Do this over and over, and ultimately, nobody's left at the bottom.

Sorry, this is abominable economics. If you "do this over and over" you're just transferring money around between groups in an extremely inefficient and arbitrary way. Also there will always be a bottom, unless we had exact equality of outcomes, which is for various reasons impossible (variation in life expectancy, for example, has all sorts of strange effects).

But let's assume that this means the people at the bottom still have a very comfortable lifestyle, which I think we all agree would be a desirable goal. The only way to actually produce that outcome is to produce more goods with fewer resources. Simply increasing prices here and there does none of that - it may actually produce less with the same amount of resources. In short, additional technology is required. Simply resorting to distributional tricks will not get you there, even first order. (Second-order and beyond effects would probably result in catastrophic economic damage, since many people would have strong incentives to produce less and no additional technology would exist that increases productivity. Again, the goal should be for people to produce more in less time and/or using fewer inputs.)
Is there a way to cache games?
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There are channels dedicated to most management/leadership topics you can think of.

0: https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/
Thanks.

That would make sense, if it was the 17th mutation that (possibly together with the rest of the mutations) gave it this advantage.
It isn't just a perception issue. It is going to depend on how we assign blame. Today if a human causes an accident that kills someone, the family can sue the human and get some from their insurance company, but most insurance policies have a relatively low limit on what they will pay. As far as the individual goes, the median net worth of someone in the US is less than $100,000. You can sue, but there really isn't that much money to get.

However, with self-driving vehicles, if you sue the manufacture of the vehicle, they have significantly deeper pockets. This is going to effectively keep us stuck in the place where no matter how good self driving cars become, the responsibility remains with the driver.
I'm going to go ahead and be the "crazy" person in this thread.

In my "bat-shit insane" worldview, wars (including recent ones such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya) are fought for power and control over resources and global policies. They are not fought for the reasons given such as deposing dictators because they are dictators.

So in this "insane" worldview, the activities of some states take on a less altruistic character and more a brutal practicality. In this worldview, the operating paradigm is not essentially civil. It is "might makes right".

Now if you go further and put the deployment of nuclear weapons into that context, you will have an even more "extreme" worldview.

So in this paradigm, China may, like other countries before it, seek to improve it's access to resources and general power. And like other countries before it, it would be operating in the "brutally practical" paradigm.

So if one was brave and "crazy" then one could speculate that the Covid-19 event may have been the Hiroshima of the bioweapon age. And even if it wasn't intentional, it could be said to serve that purpose.

Even "crazy" people hope that isn't truly part of the paradigm now. But some of the braver "crazies" might still be able to admit some slight possibility.
The amount of work is what keeps transactions secure. The difficulty of computation is directly proportional, but the power usage depends on the demand for mining.

Lighting attempts to decrease this load by effectively batching transactions, but its not a huge difference compared to the orders of magnitude differences that exist already.
Rather than following the data and logic, many twist themselves into pretzels trying to rationalize that it’s all natural. They’re doing Beijing’s propaganda work without even getting a paycheck.
I agree portability isn't the right word here. But dealing with libgmp's license was a pain in the ass for commercial development - theoretical possibility of doing commercial FOSS notwithstanding.
Thanks! Makes sense that it gets found in Britain. Still seems like a large number of mutations.
How does Oxford-AstraZeneca's vaccine compare with Pfizer-BioNTech?
What would it look like, if you were over-reacting? What facts would come to light that'd make you say, "Oops, my bad!"?

It's difficult for me to conceive of my reaction as an overreaction. I would like to explore that dialogue, but I can't get myself into a place to work from. I just can't do it.

Alternatively, if this is allowed to pass, what material differences will come into existence as a result? What predictions will you make about the lasting consequences of this specific action?

People won't know what general purpose computers are. They'll accept silly ideas like "Well, my computer just can't do that thing anymore." The full value that computers can bring to individuals and to society won't be realized.

General purpose computers are a unique invention in human history. I hold the value they bring to humanity in high esteem. I think their ability to affect positive change on the human condition is difficult to understate.

I perceive a systematic effort, and a manifest effect brought on by the marketplace, to eliminate access to general purpose computing for individuals and to replace computers with vaguely computer-shaped appliances.

We're racing headlong into a "The Right to Read" scenario. Feeling that it's normal to accept somebody altering your computer because you agreed to a vaguely-worded license agreement stilted heavily in the favor of the software developer isn't alright. The more people think that's alright the worse things are for everybody.
Thanks for posting our paper! If anyone has any questions, I'll stick around this thread for a bit.

There's a summary of our paper on twitter: https://twitter.com/OfirPress/status/1344387959563325442

And our code is on GitHub:
https://github.com/ofirpress/shortformer
My understanding from https://youtu.be/8Pj4_aK-j8I?t=73 (Dr. John Campbell) is that the first shot of the Oxford vaccine gives about 70% immunity after 3-4 weeks and in trials showed that people might get ill but not ill enough to need hospitalisation. If the goal is to keep people out of hospitals then speeding up the first shots makes sense.
I've never had my car intentionally try to kill me, but a horse has. :)