skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that naming conventions are generally an exercise in afterthought, coupled with a marketing campaign, which is supposedly expected to adhere to the underlying technical specifications. There are ample examples, where they seem to be deliberately tacked on, and named in a such a way, as to cause maximum confusion, and get progressively worse.

USB-IF elevated the haphazard standards, naming schemes and version numbers, beyond just mere confusion, annoyance or a nuisance; it even managed to blind side the Pi 4 design team for the first version. Nonetheless, it has provided the unscrupulous an opportunity to exploit the marketplace, where tolerances in power make it extremely important to pick the right cables and adapters.

They are not alone ─ SD Card Association have also sowed doubts in the minds of consumers, by splintering the naming convention. Although, HDMI is also playing a similar game, albeit it is slightly easier to follow. However, WiFi Alliance is making some efforts to help decipher basic capabilities of a device by a layperson via their certification. Then there is 3GPP..

https://www.sdcard.org/developers/sd-standard-overview/

https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi

https://hdmi.org/spec/hdmi2_1

https://www.usb.org/developers
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Smart PMs figure out value and pivot. Google uses trial and error.
So you want to tackle the mainframe?
This is a false dichotomy, DD can be done well by longs as well as shorts.
> Well, there are some things that need to be stopped like the endless wars on the other side of the world, the extrajudicial drone bombing of their own citizens, the lawless surveillance, militarized seat of government, ramming civilian cargo vessels with battleships, the list of things to stop goes in and on.

Of course an Adolph would try to distract focus from a oppressive unashamedly authoritarian regime towards smaller inward-focused issues.
This is excellent! Clicking on the snowflakes is a nice effect. Nicely done, thanks for posting.
Are you really suggesting that Churchill was the singular character who determined the outcome of the war, and without him fascist Europe would stand till this day?

>_Any criticism of Churchill’s historical significance really needs to consider the alternative outcome without him. I don’t think there is anyone who would want to take him out of history having acknowledged this. I think most criticism of him comes from ignorance to history._

My guess - another British PM would have made different choices, and perhaps the UK would have been overrun, or perhaps it would not. Perhaps the tide of war would have turned earlier, and the war ended in 1943, or perhaps in 1947. Perhaps it would have taken 2 or 3 British PMs to achieve it, or perhaps a better PM would have come along.

Honestly, the "Great Man" approach to history is overwrought. Here's a different take on the trajectory of the war: once set into motion, the worldwide war was a systemic entity, above and beyond the actions of any singular actor, no matter how powerful. Tactics help, but the outcomes of wars turn on systemic parameters - resources, populations, infrastructure, etc. If we could redo the war a million times and change tactics/leaders each time, the Axis powers would lose close to a million times - with individual battles changing outcomes, but not the war. Perhaps in some cases the war would fizzle out immediately, and in some cases the war would drag on for some years longer.
Knurden Style: Forests
amazing how he pretends to be for the little guy and then dumps worthless spacs on them leaving them to be bag holders in the long run

that being said, i wouldn’t short anything in this market. considering there are some outright frauds like gsx, nkla and btbt but nothing is happening
Debugging an issue between Snuffleupagus and Composer
> I had to set up Python projects for some machine learning classes in college and it was a complete mess.

"Machine learning" here is crucial I suppose. Sklearn, keras are big beasts.

Would you install something like django/flask site than I don't think you would had any problems.
which gets defined in Yet Another YAML Language
Probably not to a degree that would be satisfying to me as a random external stranger. Most work is very secret, to avoid conflicts of interest. I don't know what others work on. I know of a few high profile things lately that have had positive impact on the world, but it's all NDA'd as well.

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analyti...

I guess this group is a decent example of our public things, doing data science stuff to help human trafficking victims and what not. I don't have any experience with this group in particular and cannot speak to it. For my personal work space all I can say is that ~90% of my work felt morally neutral, and 10% felt morally positive.

One project was for a similar neutral task in an industry I think is detrimental to society so I declined to do it. That's also a thing which is encouraged and I think is nice. YMMV
But they built their moat and got lazy behind it. It should be even easier for the legacy manufacturers to innovate because they figured out the hard stuff in scaling already.
So, do something about it?

Take advice from Toyota, and stop your production lines when something's wrong. If the same thing is wrong again and again, fix it instead of just churning out terrible looking vehicles and hoping your customers don't care.

To quote my mom, "Whining about it won't fix it."
That is changing the problem definition, which may or may not be a feasible move.

"Double dispatch" is indeed a problem when the language you're allowed to use has to be taken as given, as it usually is.
The only training in the end is that everything is for sale if the price is high enough.
Anything other than an unsupported accusation. It could be a link a to Hindenberg being wrong in the past, for example.
If you didn't previously have a pc or a console, I think most would say you were not a "gamer."

Stadia has huge value to new gamers, but it hasn't done a good job appealing to them.
> a commandline length limit restriction that dates back to early DOS days which made it impossible to link.

MinGW's linker supports passing the list of objects as a file for this reason and CMake will use that by default.
I actually have a MeowTalk cat translator app installed on my phone...

Have never had a chance to try it as, of course, our cat refuses to say anything if a phone is pointed at him :-|
In this situation, as soon as Apple makes changes to any of their protocols, that would also be seen as anti-competitive behavior.

How would you propose to deal with API changes?
The article says this cable uses SDM (space division multiplexing). Which, for fiberoptics, means that you have multiple fibers. Of course they HAVE TO put many wavelengths on each fiber, each wavelength carrying a signal.

The "state-of-the-art" AFAIK is to use many wavelengths per fiber, each one carrying ~192 wavelengths each wavelength transporting at up to 100Gbps (this is known as DWDM).

So so with SDM, you just have more fibers? So what? It seems like I am missing something here? Why is "SDM" the key concept rather than "DWDM"? Why not just say DWDM with 12 fiber pairs?
Quirks in the Neo-Integralist Vision
It's above 250.000 now..

I don't have that much but mind you, even at a slight positive rate (like 0.1%) you're already losing money every year due to inflation!

It's really ridiculous.. My confidence in the banking system is super low. I feel like they're just screwing us with the ECB's blessing (who initiated the low interests).
Interesting. I was hoping for someone to do this with LoRa, which would allow you to find your cat in a bigger area.
Interesting that you think the two are mutually exclusive. Personally, I'd consider consulting advice to systematically hook an entire country onto opioids to be "useless BS" much in the same way I'd consider schemes to fix bread prices as "useless BS". Both are cases of rather obvious approaches that are not only legally and ethically bankrupt, but more importantly fundamentally unsound and unsustainable as growth strategies.
Depends on metrics you choose to evaluate. Tesla is leading on deaths occurring with FSD (many), Uber 1, Waymo 0.
I disagree.

If the R0 number is somewhere around 3 (and I think this is perhaps a rather conservative estimate), then you should expect the R number to approach near R0 again if we lift all the lockdown restrictions. If R is around 3 with nobody vaccinated, then the virus will grow if fewer than 2 in 3 people have antibodies (something like 90%+ of those who are vaccinated and an unknown proportion of those who have had the disease). If we declare the high risk demographic safe because they have all been vaccinated, and therefore we can go back to licking each others' eyeballs, then you would expect the entire population to become infected in a matter of a few months.

0.3% of the entire population is more people than have died in the UK so far from the virus.

But more importantly, a much greater proportion of people will require medical help, and then survive, when infected. If you allow the virus to run rampant, then you will end up with the health service overwhelmed with people who need help. Those poor health service workers need a break. If we overwhelmed them, then we might discover just what proportion of infected people die without medical intervention.

To stop the virus growing in the population, we need at least 2 in 3 people to have antibodies. In order for that to happen, we need to have about 75% of people vaccinated, in order to account for the small proportion of people who won't develop effective antibodies after vaccination. We can only lift all the restrictions once that has happened. That is the point at which the herd immunity prevents the virus from growing, and protects the unvaccinated.
Seems unlikely, since they are all from the same subnet: x.x.x.25, x.x.x.26, x.x.x.27
A ‘cat scan’?
Of all the stories posted today on HN, this is the only one I had any desire to click on.

Was more interesting than I expected too.

Thanks for posting.
I think the contention is that places that are shorting stock AND writing articles about how badly run the shorted company is have a conflict of interest which damages the credibility of their reporting. I think it's fair to say the same thing of overly positive reports about a specific company coming from an institution that holds normal stock in that same company.

It would probably be ideal if reports came from people who don't have a direct financial stake in the success or failure of the company they're writing about. However, I'll grant that the world doesn't often let us work with ideals for a lot of very valid reasons (retirement accounts, for instance).
> Forget I<Whatever>. It breaks sorting and it is allows people to avoid thinking if the interface is necessary or not.

100%. Any "structure definition" should be assumed to be an interface, and any explicit separation of definition and implmentation should be deferred until multiple variants are required. My Java projects and files were corked up with Ifiles that only ever had a single implementation.

Caveat: I've only worked on internal projects, explicit interfaces are much more useful for something widely shared. Don't use the I<Class> convention though.
Newsblur also has stories training functionality and it's cheaper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp6_3UQLi2Y

Steve said it best.
I think you may have mixed up Nautilus Quarterly (this site) with The Nautilus, a long defunct New Thought Movement magazine.
Just to update on this:

1. We have fixed the link for Go

2. We have added some rollover captions for the formats, and you can also see a full list here : https://help.cloudsmith.io/docs/supported-formats

3. we haven't yet approached Gradle, but it's absolutely something we will look at.

Thanks again. Very much taken on board.
I notice PHP compatibility conspicuously absent from so many libraries. Which is kind of amazing to me, since I "think" in PHP and MATLAB in a declarative and data-driven way. I do everything in sync blocking functional style and mostly just pipe data around. So I've found that the runners up (like Javascript, Python and Ruby) mostly just get in the way and force me to adopt their style. They're all roughly equivalent in power and expressivity, but nothing lets me go between a spreadsheet and the shell quite as easily as PHP.
Sigh... Removed because people don't seem to want to see it.

Not a big deal, but...sheesh. It's not like it was a troll comment; just a relatively lighthearted poke.
That would be awesome, thank you!
Anyone who has some clue wants to take a shot at what could be investment cost for such a cable?
All of those can be rendered server-side if needs be, and in my experience, can actually lead to a superior browsing experience compared to plain server-side served HTML. But it has to be done right.

Gatsby + Netlify with a CMS-as-a-service like Contentful or Prismic will lead you to a good result. We made e.g. https://fox-it.com/ using that, its back-end is Wordpress but it's drained empty to rebuild the website. Note how it works without JS, the dropdowns don't work but they fall back to full page navigation page. Note how with JS enabled, all the content shows up instantly. This is how it's supposed to be done.
Very cool and I know what I am building this weekend
What makes nautil.us a religious organisation?

And their submission history looks to me to be full of whiffs, rather than getting the frontpage with "unlikely regularity". The user could be a bot, but both of those sources are well in the curiosity-gratifying wheelhouse of the average HN reader.
If a consultant is being brought in to do a job you think you should be doing yourself, then who really has the bullshit job in this instance?
I find Medium to be the worst way to consume content. Page loads are really slow (regardless of internet speed). Most content publishers don't have a custom domain so it's difficult to differentiate levels of quality in search results. The constant requests to be tracked (i.e. sign in) are frustrating. I used to cave to the nagging and sign in but after so many times finding out someone was gaming the search engine results to post a mediocre or pointless article, I've given up and never sign in.

My muscle memory when I'm searching now includes -site: medium.com and I've found that helps bubble up more well thought out and detailed solutions to technical issues I'm investigating.

I really enjoy PragProg books, they switched their eBook catalog backend in recent memory (last year?). I don't remember exactly what my issue was but I recall having an experience that ultimately had me abandon my shopping cart. I find the Manning catalog and eBook ownership experience to be top-notch, I'm not sure why PragProg has struggled with this. It's as if they don't read their own books.
> I had to set up Python projects for some machine learning classes in college and it was a complete mess.

Did you use conda (anaconda/miniconda) or pip?
Interesting, but as there are other charges involved the negative interest rate is a marketing ploy. The examples given on Jyske bank's website involve repaying more than disbursed
https://www.jyskebank.dk/bolig/nyheder/realkredit-med-negati...
Indeed, California spent 20 times as much for a 3.5km bridge.
Neat! x86_64 has CMPXCHG16B. Learn something new every day.
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1. each case of the pattern matching is encoded by a lambda (the ones passed to "shape" in function "area")

2. each possible shape instance is a function that will accept these case lambdas, picking the one corresponding to it and passing its constructor arguments to it

3. the constructors ("Circle", "Rectangle") create the shape instances
Algorithmic mechanism design- an interview with U. Mass Prof Yair Zick
Heh baby steps maybe? The existing cables aren’t even short paths along great circles. The Oregon-Japan cable google owns is 12000 km along a 7500-km path.
Covid-19 Ended Flu Season Before It Started
This is interesting. I've been considering a similar project using computer vision, but I think I'd prefer to just set this up instead.
there's a bot resharing ffffound content on the fediverse.

https://fedi.absturztau.be/users/ffffound
I don't think CRA is particularly opinionated, at least for the common scenario of "I want to make a react website". It doesnt force you down many (if any) routes, or prevent you from using too many popular technologies.

Yes, 100%, if you have more exotic requirements from a bundler or build toolchain then you'll need to look elsewhere and probably have to start learning tools like Webpack in more detail. I try and avoid those requirements.
> In a room with six exits, it seems like the most logical course of action would be for the crowd to divide evenly among all six. Instead, we stampede to just one.

Something to watch out for if ever in that situation.
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> He doesn't care at all about the bad reputation or sanctions

Depends on which sanctions. Imagine everyone would stop producing electronics in China...
Curious why they regretted and how else would they have built the web app
I don't normally meta-comment on other comments, but this one is superb. It took me a moment to soak it in.
It might be a stretch , but isn't it kind of the same idea as why ECS is faster than OO in video games development ?
Excellent related Ars Technica article related to deep-sea cables if you want to learn more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-t...
Here's the entire directory of books https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/directory-of-pragma...
tldr: One doctor is defrauding thousands of people by charging $2000 for a test that costs him nothing, and presumably making millions doing so.
There's a working group for MIR optimization: https://rust-lang.github.io/compiler-team/working-groups/mir...
He gets flak for his occasional cavalier statements and mocking tone, which is just a realistic reaction to expect from humans. Sure, there are those who dislike him in the typical shallow context where people take on team-sports attitudes about business and society, and we may argue about which source of criticism is more prevalent, but it's too easy to say that it's because he's "candid", "honest", etc. Those are common fallacious defenses for antagonistic behavior (and fits into the team-sports portion of attitudes).
Oh, I forgot to mention, that "enzymes are proteins" is isomorphic (lol) to "procedures are list structures" (or "code is data") which explains the miracle of Lisp and it's macros and connects Lisp to life itself, and justifies why MIT folks ware so fascinated with it.
> It seems more likely that it’s a politically expedient way to get cover for a decision (in other words CYA insurance).

This guy consults
We're at http://www.tint.ai
IANAL but I think legally, if you put CC-BY on it, then just write in the comments that you can't use it commercially, that wouldn't stand. CC-BY-NC is available, and the author did not have to upload it as CC-BY in the first place.

To be clear, I still think this site has some problems, and author's wishes should be respected, but I think if the author wants you to not use it commercially, they should put the correct license on their work.
> Betsy DeVos and Rupert Murdoch lost their millions precisely because there was no mechanism to discover the "counterargument" against Theranos.

They lost money because they didn't do any diligence. Theranos pitched every major VC firm and all of them passed because when they researched the team and technology they realized it wasn't what they were claiming it was.
Very cool project! :D
oops! https://www.tint.ai
No I don't think so:

https://www.templeton.org/grant/nautilus-magazine
This is a video from google about how laying undersea cables works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9R4tznCNB0 I've always wanted to know! Super cool!
Sage wisdom
Ah, the American Health Care system. I think we are all starting to learn that indeed, capitalism is great, as long as agents have a choice. In healthcare there often isn't (drug or death is not really a choice, iPhone or Galaxy is). Not great to leave such a market free to optimize for profitability.
Localization is actually the common term, frequently used in robotics and autonomous vehicles. There's a really interesting field of research here [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...
NCS has some (very minimal) terms of use that you have to comply with: credit the artist. Creative Commons licensed work has no such requirement.
If somebody manages to build a reasonable-precision (tens of cm?) indoor location system with decent user experience (ie reasonably easy to set up, reliable, cheap, and stable), they have a massive hit on their hands. Never mind the cat, never lose a key or a remote ever again. Or your pills. Hugely valuable for the elderly.
Documenting the protocols would do little. You could have a completely documented protocol, as long as it requires some form of secret access key they won’t tell you there would be little you could do with it.