skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet the $10,000/car number is mini, tiny, little compared to the actual cost of climate change (e.g $119 billions won't be enough to protect NYC from sea level rise https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/nyregion/sea-wall-nyc.htm...). The global cost of climate change simply cannot be priced in $ when it isn't even sure mankind would survive +5°C.
I have not checked the links therein for quite some time, but here’s a list of lists on the subject.

https://gist.github.com/macintux/6227368
Author of the book here. Happy to answer questions about the book.
No law less than this would work, because Google is too powerful and adept at pressuring any other party it has to deal with to get its way. You can see this when a law similar to what you suggest was passed in Spain and Google shut down just Google News. Or when Germany passed a similar law, without a requirement to participate, and Google just made it clear if publishers didn't give Google a license for free they'd be booted off search.

Google is like the mob, in that you literally have to build a whole new law around dealing with it (RICO) that lets you come at the edge and use that to come at the head of the snake.
I still question the way in which the DTCC handled this.

Did they raise deposit requirements more then standard? 100% (the rumored requirement) seems extreme.

Did they straight up tell some brokers that they couldn't sell these securities, and not even give them the option to deposit more? That's what WeBull CEO said happened to them. Maybe that's just a PR move by the WeBull CEO, or maybe it is true. If true, how is that not the DTCC abusing it's monopoly?

Finally, is the DTCC not having the long side cover the risk on the short side? It seems to me, the vast majority of the risk is on the shorts. The short side seems to be made up of mostly large hedge funds, so if one goes down, it'll be extremely difficult for the DTCC to front the cash on all of their trades, and of course shorting has infinite risk. The long side is finite, is distributed among multiple brokers and then even more distributed among retail investors. It seems like the risk is low there.

I think an investigation needs to be done into the DTCC's decisions here and their handling of this, and maybe something needs to be done about their monopoly.
If you've had your fill of James Baldwin and are looking for more, similarly compassionate but impactful philosophical writings on race and justice, Cornel West is an excellent name to follow Baldwin up with.

https://hds.harvard.edu/people/cornel-r-west
Okey, then at least I understand the subtext of that comment.

Through, it does make me wonder. How likely were it that the oil price went into negative last summer? From someone who does not follow the raw material market, that event sounded more strange than a tulip mania.
ipobrief.email gives me an ssl error in android chrome. I could get to http://ipobrief.email in brave, but chrome always redirected to the broken https:// site
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IMHO you could just use

# Page title

# 1. First heading

and go from there. The format is meant to be human-understandable, not machine-readable.

But your point is a good one, and made me wonder how the documentation of Gemini itself handles the issue. And behold, the Gemini FAQ [0] itself has the first level 1 heading as

## 1. Overview

and the second one as

# 2. Protocol design

That's really disturbing once you notice, but I'd wager that hundreds of people have read the page and not noticed.

[0]: https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/doc...
Yes you can easily train with xlnet instead of roberta-base --- just write the different model name in the config file (or pass a different string value, if doing it from Python). You can find an example config file here: https://github.com/explosion/projects/blob/v3/benchmarks/ner...

I actually didn't see a performance improvement when using XLNet over roberta-base. I always wondered about this; ages ago I looked into it and I wasn't sure that the preprocessing details in the transformers version were entirely correct.

Given very similar accuracies from XLNet and RoBERTa, I preferred RoBERTa for the following reasons:

* I've never been able to understand the XLNet paper :(. I spent some time trying when it was released, but I just didn't really get it, not anything close to the level where I'd be able to implement it, anyway.

* Standardising on BERT architecture has some advantages. If we mostly use BERT, we have a better chance of using faster implementations. Mostly nobody is training new XLNet models, whereas many new BERT models are being trained.
> A quick internet search tells me that between 50 and 74% of adults (depending on the source) need some for of vision correction. That's very much not niche.

That's my point :)

> Also it's a pretty bad example because very rarely do you need to worry about "corrective lense accessibility", except maybe for things like VR helmets.

Ahh, but what corrective lesnses points to is degregation in eyesight. So ways to make viewing/experiencing content _without_ glasses is definitely a concern to between 50%-70% of adults.
I'm going to guess they are talking about different leadership from the one which started the Iraq war.
Indeed. Relatedly, here's Popular Science's list of articles in the category "Science Confirms The Obvious": https://www.popsci.com/tags/science-confirms-obvious/
I've been productive with Clojure for years and without needing anything from Java other than, say, a date library.
Is that a serious question?

Do you think everyone who was hurt by the 2008 financial crisis had a hand in creating the crisis?

Even asking that question seems a bit disingenuous to me.
Just because it isn't surprising doesn't mean it isn't interesting.
Author here,

It's my first launch - I have kept the site mostly clean, quick and would love to hear feedback. Built it using Laravel & TailwindCSS.
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No, they put you into a bubble and show you what you've already clicked just like youtube and google display ads.

I only get new music when I manually load a playlist.
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I for found the gender difference quite surprising. I would not have imagined at the bottom levels of an agrarian society that there was much difference in the risks men and women faced.
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That makes sense. But there would have to be much lower limits even on a weekly and monthly basis. How much lower is a bit subjective (even what seems like a small amount to one person may be a big amount for another). From reviews I’ve seen for some apps, it seems like users don’t even know how to approach Apple for refunds when the app is scammy or doesn’t work as promised. This latter part should also be made easier. All this will require additional staff, which Apple can surely afford without having a big dent in its margins.
> spaCy is a library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python and Cython.
How and why? I don't get the point about salesmen here.

Companies are not perfect optimizers. Arguably not even that strong. If someone in Purchasing is willing to reward their buddy instead of picking the best vendor for the job, well, that happens. It's noise. Doesn't change the overall behavior of the company. And it only happens within limits - do it too much, and the person in Purchasing will find themselves fired, maybe even charged with a crime. If they're too good, maybe they can kill their own company - much like a sickness can kill a human. Other companies will then be more vigilant.

Also worth noting that companies strive to improve their process and develop various means of ensuring and enforcing accountability - this, in essence, is trying to reduce the "noise" of individual humans within the larger AI of the company.
If they were serious about this, it would have had a Government Secrecy Order slapped on it using the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951. Given there were 5,915 such orders at the end of 2020 and they must be renewed each year, I don't think the US government is shy abut using them.

https://www.wired.com/2013/04/gov-secrecy-orders-on-patents/

https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/invention/
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If the first few satellites are flying in 2024, what technology do you have already? In other words, how are you able to provide a comparison shot vs status quo today if the satellites aren’t up yet?

On the timeline scale, if your satellites are only going up in 3 years, is there any reason to believe competitors won’t catch up to your imagery quality?

Btw congrats on trying to democratize access beyond complex sales processes. I hope it works out for you!
Please emphasize the "steal oil" part. Im pretty sure that the liberators became invaders once the local population figured out that OIL was the #1 target.
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Looks really cool! I love when new sensors appear!

Some (minor) questions:

> both visible and thermal imagery - at a resolution 9x higher than what is available today

This sentence is infuriatingly ambiguous. Does the 9x refer to only thermal, or also to visible? And what does 9x even mean? Today I can buy worldview3 data which is 30cm/pixel. Are you offering 3.33cm/pixel? I don't think that this is possible without a major, Nobel-prize deserving, breakthrough in optical imaging.

> Today, buying commercial satellite imagery involves a back-and-forth with a salesperson in a sometimes months-long process, with high prices that exclude all but the biggest companies.

This does not match with my personal experience. For many satellites, I can just click a region of interest on a map, and pay the satellite data using a credit card. It is much cheaper to get images from the archive than tasking, but apart from web-UX shenanigans the process is quite streamlined.

> The current climate crisis requires a diverse set of sensors in space to support emissions monitoring

What wavelengths are you aiming for? What spectral resolution? I'd say that most emissions detection happens at the near and short-wave infrared bands, far from the thermal. What climate-relevant emissions are you thinking about, specifically?

I love the contents of this message, but I would like to see it much more specific. This first paragraph it's ok but reads like marketing-speak, not a scientific language.

> While the use cases for satellite imagery are endless, adoption has been underwhelming

This sentence is comically false.
But how do you pronounce the name of your company? Al-bay-doh, Al-bee-doh? I must know!
I'm curious what the popular sentiment is about the military vs the civilian government of the last few years. Suu Kyi was seen as a Mandela figure in the Western media for a long time, but has since taken a ton of heat over her handling of the Rohingya genocide. I pretty much only know what I've read in the news.
this article from 4 months ago explains it.

https://slack.engineering/building-the-next-evolution-of-clo...
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> was crapware this bad before centralized app stores?

Yes, 100% yes. Back in the day, a Boomer web browser was a half a screen of installed toolbars.
Except countries don't share the same footprint per capital, at all. Simply compare the carbon footprint of a US inhabitant vs a Vietnamese.

We could be a handful of billions more on Earth and reduce the global footprint, so the size of the population not the issue but how we live (big house, big SUV, lots of meat, etc).

And of course, if the world's power continue to promote the American Way of Life as the way to go, all countries will look like the US and we'll destroy our habitat. But that's not a population problem but one of culture.
I actually thought something in AWS was a cause but did not know about these internal systems.
That was a bit of a rabbit hole. As it turns out, neither the ASCII nul character nor its Unicode equivalent have the semantic meaning "end of stream". ASCII does have control characters for "end of stream", in fact multiple: 0x03 End Of Text, 0x04 End Of Transmission, and 0x17 End Transmission Block. But 0x00 was never intended to be an end marker of any kind.

It's really only the C standard that (ab)uses NUL as an end-of-string marker. So yes, after consideration, I'm starting to agree with you. U+0000 is a valid character and should be allowed in text fields.
This looks really cool and congrats on the launch.

A few questions.

How big do you foresee your constellation being?

How fair is the comparison in your Google Photos link? The image on the right seems to have significant artifacting that looks more a side effect of compression.
But C# was literally Microsoft's Java implementation that they forked after they were sued by Sun, was it not? So it is quite appropriate.
What is the image latency? Can you live stream?

Use case: following a person in real-time
No idea how time value will trend, but I’m comfortable holding these contracts til expiration at which point I think the price will be sub 60. Could definitely be wrong - I just don’t see how! Investing isn’t my profession.
previous discussion on original repo/url:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18557861
You should check out Lambda GPU cloud. It's around 40% of the price of AWS/GCP/Azure. The default instance image uses the Lambda Stack repository which is designed for Deep Learning (PyTorch/TensorFlow/Caffe/Drivers pre-installed) saving you time upfront.

If you're still using EC2 you should just switch to us, your monthly bill will thank you.

https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud
> What are the main downsides to using Bedrock?

I address them in this FAQ entry [0]. In my experience providing support for Bedrock Linux users for over a decade, the most notable downside is the resulting complexity. This is a fundamental result of what Bedrock is trying to do. There is more to learn, more that could go wrong, and more to wrestle with if something does go wrong. It's perfectly manageable for adequately experienced Linux users, but not necessarily for everyone.

> I'm an avid NixOS user, and tend to supply PRs every now and then if I run into problems. If I hit a problem in Bedrock, can I easily do the same?

I see two ways to interpret this question:

If you are asking whether Bedrock is open to PRs, it certainly is. Bedrock is a _lot_ of work, and I'm always grateful for assistance. Historically, the PRs I've shot down have primarily either been attempts to pull the project in another direction, or ones which break existing functionality. Those which broaden the list of features [1] or distros [2] Bedrock supports, if clean enough, are usually accepted.

If you are asking whether Bedrock plays nicely with NixOS, sadly it does not currently do so [2]. I know at least one blocker for Bedrock with NixOS that I plan to resolve in the next major Bedrock release (0.8.0). However, I expect there to be many more. Once I have completed more pressing tasks - sadly, likely years from now - I plan to deep dive into how NixOS works with the aim of getting Bedrock to play more nicely with it. If any of the many apparently large number of NixOS users here find this problem space interesting and would like to work on it before I get to it, I would be delighted.

[0] https://bedrocklinux.org/faq.html#why-not-use-bedrock
[1] https://bedrocklinux.org/0.7/feature-compatibility.html
[2] https://bedrocklinux.org/0.7/distro-compatibility.html
A small selection of papers that I find useful (also check the Wikipedia articles for a quick overview):

Communicating Sequential Processes "CSP" by Tony Hoare[0] has a strong influence on Go and Clojure. He also published/contributed to other interesting and influential books and papers.

Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors by Joe Armstrong[1] (Erlang, BEAM). An implementation of the actor model and functional programming to optimize for reliability.

Conflict-free Replicated Data Types by Marc Shapiro, Nuno Preguiça, Carlos Baquero, Marek Zawirsk, "CRDTs" [2]. Enable strong eventual consistency, which is typically useful (and implemented) for databases, p2p (chat) applications and other distributed systems.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Hoare78.pdf

[1] https://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/coursework/cosc461/armstrong_thes...

[2] https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00932836/file/CRDTs_SSS-2011.pdf
15 dollars per square kilometer is quite affordable for this level of resolution! Is there any info about satellite coverage or plans that you can share?
I actually thought something in AWS was a cause but did not know anything about how TGW works internally.
What oil did the US steal from Iraq?

I've been asking that question for about 15 years now, when people casually toss such empty claims out there. I've never once received a facts-based answer (for obvious reasons).

Iraq was about Russia, not oil. The same thing Syria and Libya are about. Trying to limit or strip Russian influence out of the Middle East. It's two major powers going at eachother via proxy, the same thing that has been going on all around the world between the US and Russia since WW2. Vietnam also wasn't about oil. Afghanistan also wasn't about oil.

The US lost over a trillion dollars in Iraq trying to keep the two major factions from killing eachother. There is no amount of oil that could ever come out of Iraq for the US that will make up for that.
SpaCy and HuggingFace fulfill practically 99% of all our needs for NLP project at work. Really incredible bodies of work.

Also, my team chat is currently filled with people being extremely stoked about the SpaCy + FastAPI support! Really hope FastAPI replaces Flask sooner rather than later.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932015_Myanmar_po... is one of several articles demonstrating how the West was rebuilding its influence in Burma up until recently.
Sure, but the way the installer works has a lot in common with how malware works on Windows machines: Most IT protections are going to block it, so making Teams work in the workplace requires poking a lot of security holes.
They should rename the app to "Sheriff of Nottingham".
You gotta be as good as the scammers at advertisement-buying and other marketing. That is their real skill-set.
> but I do think that having its design and implementation centralized within Red Hat

oh don't be silly.

systemd's development is not centralized at all.

it's LGPL licensed and its developent happens on github at https://github.com/systemd/systemd -- anybody is free to fork it off to another project -- yet pretty much nobody does, how comes that?
You don't think it is relevant in a discussion about deceptive paid primetime television marketing, that the company in question has the highest documented rate of deceptive paid primetime marketing?
Nice work Michael, awesome to see such a big growth in your business this year.

Interesting that it came from a specific (but clearly very useful) physical product too, instead of a software based solution.
Almost the entirety of the Iraq war as well as all major decisions which affected the outcome were under the Bush administration. In 2008, the Bush administration agreed to withdraw all US troops from Iraq, and the Obama administration completed it. While US forces have returned to Iraq repeatedly since then to deal with various issues such as ISIS which are intimately linked to the mishandling of the Iraq war, there have been a number of other developments in the middle east such as the arab spring and the Saudi-Iranian cold war which are much more proximate to these separate conflicts.
I think this is only the case when the customer has sold something and immediately buys before clearance. I'm speaking about the standard case where you purchase stocks with funds in your account -- does that also require a deposit from the broker?
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Not everyone is writing toy personal projects.
you seem to be confusing "any" with "all".

it would be nice to have more accesible interfaces for everyone. helping one person doesn't mean you fail to help everyone, in fact, helping one person in terms of accessibility generally has the effect of helping everyone.

we're asking for some access. not all the access. scoped properly, it doesn't seem to be that insurmountable of a development goal, honestly.
>> Linux users do not refresh their hardware too frequently generally.

Linux users don't have to refresh hardware as often. Long-term support is a cornerstone of linux. Linux gamers may spend less per year on gaming hardware but they are not broke. Give them a reason and they will drop that banked cash on anything they can trust to play nice with linux.
In other words, people continue to conflate money and credit.
> I'd like for PMAlerts to become a decentralized, collectively owned, mostly-autonomous platform that generates democratically managed profit.

> Before developers can plug in....

Do you mean "Before develops can pay you $500/month...."

And by "indi hacker developer" do you mean social media hound?

I see nothing decentralized or democratized here. Looks like a platformm for social media managers, and is completely for the creators profit.
I couldn't agree with this more. Less App stores not more. Have people not learned their lesson?

You'd think stealing 30% of the profits and booting apps off the store for no good reason would be enough.
One of the best. I recommend it to people in any speciality of software engineering. (Although I believe the poster is currently reading this book)
It could also make it harder to attract talent if compensation includes stock options.
There are few standard compliant options, here's another one: https://www.morsemicro.com/ from Morse Micro.
I think the best way to think about such things is in terms of niches and ecosystem. The niche of functional and native is small and already well served by Haskell, Ocaml and even Rust to an extent.

The .net, python and JVM contain some of the largest ecosystems. Even if small relative to C#, the niche size and health of a functional language on .NET is much larger than if it were another native langauge. Speed, documentation and tooling might not exactly match C#, but are excellent in comparison to other functional languages.

In a similar vein, niche size for a transpiled functional language is much larger, more so if the language prioritizes playing well with its parent ecosystem. There is room enough for Fable, Clojurescript, elm, purescript and Reason to co-exist.
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Florence Nightingale used charts. See https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/aug/13/floren...
"Who monitors the monitors?"
80MB/sec is actually quite fine for most NAS applications.

Anyone trying to get 10G speeds out of a high end NAS won’t be looking to Raspberry Pi solutions right now, anyway.

The real advantage, IMO, is that this helps kick off the popularity of DIY NAS solutions based on ARM hardware. It’s not the first solution in this space, but Raspberry Pi is great for taking things mainstream.

I imagine that a few years from now we’ll have an even faster Raspberry Pi to build a NAS around. These current-gen solutions might be just what we need to get the software sorted out before the powerful hardware arrives.
That’s my definition of being “waited on”
Maybe not, but I'm willing to bet he won't lose ∞$ either.
I've learned distributed systems from Andrew S. Tanenbaum books [1]

Distributed Operating Systems
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum#Books
Agreed. To explain why this is the case, consider that table in the story that had 99% NULL values. If you were to try to run "SELECT FROM table WHERE column IS NULL", then Postgresql wouldn't use the index anyway, because it would be faster to just read sequentially through the entire table and filter out the 1% that don't match.
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