skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We built the first open-source feature store for ML, https://github.com/logicalclocks/hopsworks , when every existing proprietary feature store (Uber Michelangelo and Bighead at AirBnb) were shouting about how their DSL for feature engineering was the future.

Fast-forward 2 years and it is clear that Data Scientists want to work with Python, not with a DSL. We based our Feature Store on a Dataframe API for Python/PySpark. The DSL can never evolve at the same rate as libraries in a general-purpose programming language. So, your DSL is great for show-casing a Feature Store, but when you need to compute embeddings or train a GAN or done any type of feature engineering that is not a simple time-window aggregation, you pull out Python (or Scala/Java). I am old enough to have seen many DSLs in different domains (GUIs, aspect-oriented programming, feature engineering) have their day in the sun only to be replaced by general-purpose programming languages due to their unmatched utility.
Since central banks were created, there was no more a fully free market.
(this video explains it, subtitles recommmended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lljmiLNoEtw )
Apple mice have always sucked. The Magic Mouse is usable but before that you had their bizarre one button “unibrow mouse” dogma. It’s a case where they stuck to the guns and were wrong. Mice are useful with more buttons.

Their trackpads on the other hand are fantastic. I use a Magic Trackpad a my desk and have become totally accustomed to those instead of mice.
Well written. He had me at

> Wouldn't it be better if it had just been IPv4 with more address bits? But it's not, oh goodness, is it ever not.
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In Europe, most of the wealthy are descendants from 400 years ago. There's a paper that comes up in the US media regularly.

What's fascinating is that most of the German name-brand companies that thrived under the Nazis are still owned by the same families.
+1 Civil service.
There's also a similar project buku (https://github.com/jarun/buku). I've been using buku for a while given its mature ecosystem around decoupled search-and-viz server, fantastic browser extension, easy browser importing, rich meta-information management et al. The buku server ideally would make sense to be local, and there enters LinkAce.

Although I believe LinkAce has slightly different goals than buku, more around preservability and portability :)
The idea is that a menial job shouldn’t be seen as a prison sentence. The problem is that Americans (and their cultural sphere) seem to hate the working class, I don’t know when this happened but it drips from the tongues of so many people even while they bemoan the conditions they’re forced into. You really fucked up somewhere. Working class jobs are not bad if they pay well and have benefits and time off. Any job sucks if it doesn’t. You don’t pay people based on economic value, they get paid what they can negotiate. I see a lot of negotiating happening in the future.
Restyaboard has been a game-changer for us. It has helped us organize our employee's workflow and project management.
Under what circumstance do you end up with a negative array index? Eg. Why do you omit bound checks?
And should accessing any gap in an array result in error, and why are there gaps in the array?
I personally just think everything works better when the best people are in charge and rewarded for being the best. Yes, there's tons of luck, and it's not fair in any "everyone deserves a shot" sense. Still a better strategy, because most people are bad at most things. We should take care of them, but we should not pretend they're competent if they're not.
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A recent, complementary piece by the same author: OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25137235
Exactly. And people who want wealth inequalities to fade away, can they explain people who have better looks due to better genetics. Then they carry for their next generations. Maybe also force attractive people to mate with less attractive ones so these inequalities also go away? Sounds insane doesn't it? This is equally insane idea.

This is just unfair to everyone. It is wrong, immoral, unethical to tax the wealth of people, if you don't account for other inequalities in life. The inequalities will persist, just that when assets, money isn't that medium of storage, people will only value looks and other things even more, because that's how you'd effectively store your wealth, untaxable. The genes of the people become the platform for storing wealth in that kind of world. The only place where breaking or taxing people' wealth is agreeable is when they become too powerful and above governments. No other excuse.

This is something seriously overlooked.

Why do some guys get all the girls and some don't. Isn't it unfair to those guys that they have their needs emotionally met just like any other successful humans? If you are so fair, fix these problems. Everyone has feelings, and it's not their fault that they're bitter about it.

Is it those men's mistake that they were born in this world? And they couldn't even do anything to rectify that problem when the baseline is so high to reach?

Everyday I read about these people and it makes me sad. Thankfully I don't have any of those problems, but I can't overlook those who do have them. Atleast they'd have a chance in todays world had they pushed themselves and become wealthier.

This isn't only about men, but women too.

When you save money and forgo pleasures, you aren't supposed to be penalized.
With the words you’ve used, you sound threatening and extreme. What do you mean by someone trying to stop you “accumulating resources” for your child?
It's small relative to other industries but its still a multi-billion dollar industry. Each of the largest companies will have PR agencies, personal contacts within the FDA, revolving door of staff between the FDA and the corporates, positions on standards committees, board members who have spent a life time in food safety governance. I'm sure many of these manufacturers are the largest employers in some congressional districts so it wouldn't be a surprise if they managed to get a congressman to write the FDA to focus attention on this. The same complaint from a small company will never get the same attention.

My point is that their scale and resources gives them access. A competitor breached a pointless regulation [1] from the last century which has prevented their product from being sold for a year. If one of the large corporates breached that regulation, they would have been able to quickly agree corrective action with minimal supply chain disruption.

[1] Many of these food regs are designed to enrich staple foods that were the main source of nutrients for low income families. That's just not an issue anymore and just prevents (high quality) imports.
It's a shame you put that last paragraph, because that one is very much opinion, while the rest is a good explanation of why the GP is wrong
everything will be fine with maps.me.They try to add something new and they do it!
Lockdowns are a last measure only to apply if all others fail. If Germany was amongst the best performing countries that probably means their other measures were working and that there was no need for a lockdown.

The strongest evidence I've seen is China. It was the center of this pandemic and now the virus there is basically gone. Sure they lie about their numbers and there probably some community spread here and there but there's no way they are completely hiding a pandemic.
> As long as there is a hierarchy, you cannot really have equality, sorry. You make humans more economically equal and you create an even worse situation where human hierarchy is based on family name, connections, genetics or just plain violence and social mobility would be even worse than it is now, where it is dictated by income and wealth.

This sounds like a bit of a stretch. Let's try and make people a bit more equal first.
Indeed, Victoria was recording 700 cases per day in August. Lockdowns are painful, sure, but there can be no doubt they work. The more you lock down, the more painful it will be, but the quicker you'll slow the spread.

I'm in Sweden at the moment and I've essentially locked myself down, even though its not legally required.
Yes, I'm aware that are preparing a mini-revolution in the random number generation. But I was waiting for the interface to settle down a bit prior to including it. I didn't know they were officially deprecated though, thanks for the info! Actually, I don't believe they will ever remove those legacy functions, though, as matlab is still way more popular than numpy overall.
Not really, because as mentioned the mere fact that the children have access to their parent's wealth while they are growing up already confers significant advantage.
> It's always puzzled me that this idea of meritocracy, especially in tech (notably USA), is so pervasive,

This study looks at some of the poorest villages in Bangladesh with some additional data from other very poor countries.

Anyone who even has a shot at applying to a USA tech company is already wildly more wealthy than the type of poverty discussed in this study. In fact, they’d be firmly past the threshold the study identified as the minimum wealth necessary to engage with wealth-building jobs.

The conclusions don’t really apply at all to situations like a US tech company, unless you’re trying to understand why homeless people living on the streets aren’t able to get jobs at an Amazon warehouse or other entry-level jobs. Trying to project this on to hiring practices of educated candidates into high paying tech jobs is ignoring the core focus of the study.
"Outcry at home" is an overstatement. It takes having independent media to produce an "outcry". Everything in the Russian public space being it TV or Internet is what the government wants it to be, and ordinary people just ignore everything they are told, since time immemorial.
> it's unreasonable to think for example, that mark zuck literally does millions of time more work than say, a senior software dev at a middle size company

Careful not to confuse work and value. Sheer labor is worth minimum wage, the value of someone is far more than their hourly labor.

A well connected person can bring many many times the value to a company of someone without connections.

The right strong personality can be a performance amplifier for the rest of the company, Steve Jobs can be argued to be an example of that.

The long and short of it though is a person who makes the people beneath themselves work more valuable is worth that added value, and arguably deserves a proportional portion of said added value.
Also to change "no thanks" to "fuck off".
If you have a wegmans in your area, they might have it. I found some last night actually :)
Thank you for your kind words!

Dark mode is set using only CSS, by using prefers-color-scheme.[1] So if you've enabled dark mode on your computer/phone, the website should automatically turn dark.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
A security of what?
Just because it does hurt people doesn't make it inherently bad. If you could avoid being hurt maybe other can too and thous who did get hurt anyway took the risk on purpose. Noting wrong with that. The SEC should prevent people from misleading or fraudulent offerings not from anything that has a known high risk. Selling a random token is like printing my own money. The SEC would not prevent me form selling worthless piece of paper if I dont mislead buyers into thinking its some kind of ownership for something. There is a difference between preventing fraud and preventing stupidity.
But v6 works fine as a "v4 with more bits" - Maybe some of the new features are underused, but they don't get in the way either or hinder deployment.
I didn't feel any problems at all,as everything was fine, so everything remained
By "attach" you mean glue?
– (1) “Do you live in the UK?” / Alternative: “What is your occupation?”
– (2) “How long do you stay?”
– (3) “What do you do in the UK?”

These are the questions I always get every time I cross any border anywhere except the border (on the way in) of my own country. I don't get this bit.
(a) Allocating rewards irrespective of merit is a prerequisite for meritocracy, otherwise environments cannot be equalized; (b) allocating rewards according to merit is a prerequisite for meritocracy, otherwise people cannot be stratified by wealth and status; (c) therefore, a class-stratified meritocracy is impossible.

This is a disingenuous argument. (a) and (b) are not talking about the same kind of rewards:

(a) : when talking about the equalization of environments, the "rewards" are allocated to areas and groups of people, not to individuals.

(b) : the stratification of wealth is talking about "rewards" to individual people.

These two concepts are not the same, the mechanisms are not the same, and the justification for them is not the same. They're only grouped together as "rewards" so they lead to the false conclusion (c).
The main advantage 'the man' has is organization and unit cohesion.

Riots look fun on TV. and then you're in one. And you've only met these protesters casually a few times. Are you ready to take a beat down for them? And are you willing to fight hard against a tight unit like LEO or the military who have a lot more weapons to escalate with.
Now we have engines that ship for free all these techniques prepackaged. The whole ecosystem, hardware included, has been built to serve this way of rendering.

With general programming GPU, like CUDA, we can have the flexibility of software and the performance of traditional hardware pipelines.

Hopefully we will soon be able to add some neural networks in the rendering pipeline. Instead of computing expensive light effects, we could be faking them. For example the foliage could probably be handled better by just rendering a semantic mask indicating where the grass is, and let the neural network do some in-painting.

Neural rendering seems like a great way to get some speed-ups. On a powerful machine you render with High quality (eventually cinematographic quality), and you render the same scene with very low quality, and you train a neural network to convert the low quality into the high quality. At game
time, you render low-quality and predict with the neural network the high quality image. It's a trade-off of sacrificing accuracy to gain speed but because humans are bad at evaluating accuracy, it's poised to be worth it.

The additional advantage of using neural rendering is that you don't need to spend as much creating the assets. You can get rid of one of the biggest mistake in 3D history, the invention of the triangle mesh. Representing objects as a list of textured triangle is just a bad representation. The main reason they are bad is that they are 2D surfaces in a 3D world which introduce some geometrical constraints that need to be solved explicitly when you deform the object, or you will get some artifacts

Alternative representations like dense or sparse point-clouds either in feature-space or color-space, or implicit fields representation don't suffer from these. Their main issue was the need to be converted back to triangles for rendering. These representations are continuously deform-able, which means you can use machine learning to infer them.
Growing an organic skincare products line to $40k/mth
I interviewed Cassy Burnvoth, the Founder & CEO of FATCO, on her strategies in growing the business to $40k/mth
Bitcoin collectors are definitely showing off their "collections" to their family and friends. Verification is even better than any collectible, just show them a screen of your coinbase account.
In mobile games the motto seems to be "why make it fun when you can make it addicting instead".
And how do you prove the certificate is authentic?

You can prove any given bitcoin is yours just by transfering exactly the amount requested by the viewer from one address to another (also yours). It costs whatever single transaction costs and takes exactly as long. You can do it as many times as you need, and you don't need any third party, just a computer connected to the internet that is sufficiently secure for you.
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https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag Self-hostable PHP application allowing you to not miss any content anymore. Click, save and read it when you can. It extracts content so that you can read it when you have time.

ref: https://linuxfr.org/news/quatre-annees-de-wallabag-it
> we have enough resources for the population,

How is this calculated? Are there enough resources for 8B people go to Tahiti or equivalent destinations for their honeymoon?

Because that’s where the conflict comes in. There might be enough resources to feed everyone some basic meals everyday, but is there enough for everyone to have their own single family detached house with a yard and a couple personal vehicles? Is there enough to ensure everyone can fly around the world to see their relatives or vacation? Is there enough desirable land for people to move to from their currently undesirable land (due to weather/accessibility/availability of fruits and good food)?
That's a bit pedantic, the principle is exactly the same showing humans operate on the same principles regardless of geography. OP clearly discussed "the idea of meritocracy", not "the exact threshold" and the study just pinpointed a threshold while confirming the universality of the mechanism.

Whether it's $500 in Bangladesh where Google tells me the "typical" salary is ~$150-$300, or $500k in SV where the typical pay might be $150k-$300k the principle is still very much the same.

Everyone claims meritocracy but in the end it's proven it's not individual merit we're actually looking for. We're looking to maintain barriers around our layer of society and allow some form of real meritocracy only within a layer.
In the US: "graduate from high school; get a full-time job; don’t have a child before age 21 and get married before childbearing", this gives you %75 chance of being middle class, about %89 chance of not being poor. This isn't good enough, but seems possible!

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/24/9027195/haskins-sawhill-norms-...
I don't have an answer off the top of my head, but I did some searching for you.

A short article from inequality.org [1] suggests that most of the richest people in the world (Forbes 400) were born with significant financial advantages, if they weren't already wealthy.

Since there are many more rich people than the Forbes 400, that doesn't seem too representative of the usual rich person. It's hard to find anything conclusive - there are a few research memos put out by what seem to be wealth management firms claiming that most rich people are actually self-made. There's a clear conflict of interest here, so I'm not sure we can trust those results.

It seems understudied, and will take a lot more than 10 minutes of searching for relevant results.

1. https://inequality.org/research/selfmade-myth-hallucinating-...
I realize I wasn't the target market for these iMacs, but I had one, and I -hated it-.

I worked at a retail store and at the time, we got 25 iMacs in. Almost every single one of them came back. People just didn't know what to do with them.

I got one on discount, $699 I believe. Twice as much as the Celeron 300 eMachines that we had at the time.

It wasn't very fast. It didn't have any expandability. The screen was terrible. 14/15" and it had a horrible dot pitch. You could run 800x600 but it would give you a headache.

I returned it, and got the next hardware revision. It wasn't much better. It did, however, have a 6MB ATI video card in it so I could play some Quake.

The screen was so limiting when it came to real work. The keyboard was passable but the mouse was awful.

Later on, I stuck a pair of 128GB chips in it, and the biggest IDE HD I could find at the time (Maxtor 80GB?). It helped a little bit. But once I installed OS X, it was crippled. My friends PowerBook G3 Pismo was quite a bit faster but still too slow. It was a weird generation of Apple product where you got left behind almost as soon as it came out.

About 10 years later, in 2009, I got another iMac (the newest model at the time), and completely fell in love with it.
Before we start naming ways, are you somebody who thinks taxation is theft?
Am I alone in finding that these slides read like the ramblings of a looney?
These conclusions apply to the third world, not the rest of us. Here in Europe for example, anyone can study and become an entrepreneur (I did it, with pretty much 0 wealth in the family).
Can't think of a product they've fucked up more with every iteration than Maps. Could argue Search here but Maps has been absurd.

It started around the time they were pushing Material design and hasn't stopped since then.
While I agree with your general sentiment, your particular statement about Apple services in India wrt staingate is incorrect. I got the same problem with my 2015 MBP screen and got it replaced for "free" (had to pay Rs. 2500 service charges) in Mumbai. My speakers got busted[1] too after 4 years but so did my previous laptop's (Dell XPS 13 - 2011). While neither is acceptable, my point is that it is not unique to Apple.

However, I agree that Apple services are crap in India where they'll charge you Rs.2500 for even telling you what is wrong with your laptop and then maybe ask you to get the motherboard replaced for a minor repairable problem.

[1] It is fairly easy to repair them by using rubber cement but don't expect the original audio quality.
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”

― Joseph Heller
I think Germany and the Netherlands have some similar vehicles to the K-car, but not sure they are the same from a regulation point of view
These days I just mull over ideas long enough to see them built as opensource.

This one, is nice! Long live LinkAce.
That's kind of funny because communist revolutions start more or less from the same feeling: we work long hours and have nothing and there is not hope for my children.
Why is absolute equality a more desirable state than the merit-based system now in place?
I know, I was being sarcastic. This article should be flagged as it has no scientific meaning in the context of ... “European countries” as it ignores quite a chunk of data.
I completely agree with you on your point about climate change. I’m also not arguing for completely unregulated capitalism. I just think we need to be both smarter and more realistic about policy making. The 1% and corporations play both sides of the equation. At the same time, pulling down those who have been somewhat successful does nothing to fix poverty.
> Germany’s park visit data is further evidence that lockdown measures do not fully determine behaviour, and that people have their own motives.

I find the graphs without much meaning. I live in Germany and we didn't have a strict lockdown where you would get a fine for doing non-essential outside activity. In April cultural and fitness were closed. Therefore the only way to do something is to go outside.

The interesting thing would be to understand how many other people you were meeting with which I would think that data does not provide. I mean Google likely has that data but didn't anonymize it in order to release it.

Meeting more people than allowed and not covering your mouth and nose is something that was spot checked and still is.
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Fair point. Didn’t mean to imply that the rotors would meaningfully slow descent. Just meant to say that, parachute or not, the rotors could still be moving while unpowered. It’s more of a technicality since the slow rotation of the tiny blades would probably be towards the bottom of the list of safety concerns, parachute or not.
Nice, I'm a big fan of this. This certainly is for the ones who just want to lurk the best posts and not get caught up on the "what's hot now" every hour.