skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your youtube-dl example doesn't make sense because youtube-dl wasn't wiped from everyone's computer nor from package managers nor from the internet. So of course losing youtube-dl wasn't the concern.

The thing at threat was the thing the team was using to maintain it, so that's what people were concerned about.

You don't care more about your garage than your house just because you're crying about your garage when a tornado wrecks it but not your house.
Maybe to their in group. They're just as hostile to their outgroup/traitors, if not more so than what I've seen on the right.

Now, their means of attack are certainly different though.
You shouldn't be raising a family if you are doing bottomtier warehouse work.
By today’s standards, in a nation rich in high speed connections, perhaps.
A lot of people who take trips and meet friends and family (me included) instead of staying home, basically said that they will take the risk of being infected than losing part of life.
I'm not sure the second image directly answers my question though. It appears it shows a transfer of a 256MB file using different block sizes. Is this accurate? In my case, I'm transferring a 256KB file. And we want to know how much faster it is to transfer a 256KB file compared to transferring a 4KB file. Would it be the same as comparing how much faster it is to transfer a 256MB file than transferring a 4MB file on that plot? Because if so, there's no improvement shown. And it's clearly not the same as comparing the transfer of 256MB file using 256KB blocks vs 4KB blocks, because in both cases the block size is much smaller than the file size.
Parler financial backers oust founder and CEO Matze from company
The comment I was replying to was "React has too much configuration", which I disagree with because CRA and other low-effort build tooling exists.

I like CRA, it's my default go-to because i want to avoid maintaining a webpack configuration. If you have a solution that works for you, that's good too!
Even worse, what happens when they MITM all of the installs because the docker container has really bad security such as:

RUN wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.18.0.tar.gz

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/master/ng...

Installing via HTTP, with no verification of installer seems like a reallyyyyy bad idea.
IANAL, but I think by making the purchase on Amazon, you are consenting to the delivery methods in order to fulfill the contract you entered with Amazon to purchase and deliver the product.
The Facebook engineers who tweaked the news feed to change the ratio of positive to negative news absolutely are partly responsible for that.

Remember this one?

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...

> In an academic paper published in conjunction with two university researchers, the company reported that, for one week in January 2012, it had altered the number of positive and negative posts in the news feeds of 689,003 randomly selected users to see what effect the changes had on the tone of the posts the recipients then wrote.

> The researchers found that moods were contagious. The people who saw more positive posts responded by writing more positive posts. Similarly, seeing more negative content prompted the viewers to be more negative in their own posts.
Zero Trust in Time Series Data?
> You're welcome to either use such a decentralised service or fork signal and add decentralisation / federation.

It's called XMPP.
It predates Signal by ~15 years.
I think the point that Naur was trying to make is exactly that this process (unfortunately) doesn't scale.

That is my experience at least (even in very well documented projects).
So every shape now has to reference every other shape? If I want to add a new shape I not only have to define the shape function,

def Triangle(a,b,c):
return (lambda visitCircle, visitRectangle, visitTriangle : visitTriangle(a, b, c))

and update the area function, I also need to update every existing type like

def Rectangle(x, y, w, h):
return (lambda visitCircle, visitRectangle, visitTriangle : visitRectangle(x, y, w, h))

Am I understanding this correctly? How is this a win? What if I have a hundred different shapes, now every shape definition is just a list of a hundred parameters and hopefully I called the correct one in my copy&paste-fest.
I won't doubt your experience. I'm sure it has happened, but I've been in some pretty high up areas as well.

> My take is while not always the case, the higher level the committee approving the consulting spend (because even that choice/decision is diffused), the more frequently this is involved.

It sounds this has more to do with the clout of the individual than it does "oh well mckinsey said this."
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What do you mean? NixOS you basically can reboot in the latest working version, so the downtime is likely minutes at the worse. Also snapshots in Btrfs/ZFS are really fast to recover too, since they're basically a pointer (again, at worse you will have minutes of downtime).

I had updates in Windows take quite a long time to complete, even on SSDs, and in Windows you also can't update the system while running (it must be during reboot). And since you can't use the machine, this can be considered downtime too.
I think they're talking about damage from low speed hits. Older cars can take those without as much apparent damage because they have big heavy bumpers and aren't designed for occupant/pedestrian safety, but like you said they'll fold up like a tin can in higher speed crashes.
Thanks for sharing your illustrations but this site/page is an effing CPU/GPU HOG!!!!

https://imgur.com/9Pi1rBa
Very cool. My only niggle is that PCA doesn't 'feel like' Kolmogorov Complexity to me: it's much closer to Shannon information than Algorithmic information.

Shannon information depends on population statistics of messages, usually has a 'shallow' and domain-specific interpreter (to turn encodings back into messages, e.g. like a Huffman tree), and tries to minimise the average length of a set of encoded messages. In this case the NN is the interpreter, the length of the encoding is the number of deformation axes, and the population is the training data (which we hope is representative of the real data).

Algorithmic information is different. It depends on patterns within an individual message, rather than across a population. The interpreter is a Universal Turing Machine (or equivalent), which is general-purpose. Encodings are programs which output a message, and can be arbitrarily 'deep' by running for an arbitrary amount of time.

Another way to look at it is: using PCA to solve the problem of 'automatically decide which deformation axes to include' is slightly interesting; much more interesting is the problem of 'how can we automatically decide that this data should be modelled as a set of deformations along various axes?'. That's a much harder problem, and tends to require a lot of search through program-space (whether NNs or GOFAI).
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it's just a slightly more extreme form of the glove-and-hand principle (versus lock and key). Of course even this turns out to be a spectrum. there are enzymes/protein that are more lock-and-key, and proteins that interact very heavily. One extreme is insulin receptor (which totally mangles insulin out of shape on binding). IIRC, another interesting one is antibody evolution, as B cells mature they go from producing antibodies that are gloves-in-hand to antibodies that are lock-and-key, as measurable using IR spectroscopy: https://www.pnas.org/content/103/37/13722.short
>the many troubling associations McKinsey has had with shithole companies.

not only shithole companies. At the total service of shithole governments:

"McKinsey Bans Moscow Staff From Attending Pro-Navalny Protest

...

In line with policy, McKinsey employees must not support any political activity either publicly or privately. This ban does include posts in social media featuring your political views or your attitude to any action with a political flavour. This line of conduct is mandatory. "

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/23/mckinsey-bans-mosc...
Nice!

I did search for something like this, but I guess my Google-fu is not the best!
One of the companies that graduated from the Urban-X accelerator (BMW+VC firm) in my cohort was numina, they create a technology/dev tools for understanding how people use streets. I think it's an awesome company. Their blog has some interesting stuff and is worth digging through if you're interested in urban ecology: https://numina.co/blog/ (particularly interesting to the HN crew: https://numina.co/announcing-numina-api-sandbox/)
The VIP Party: Why the 1% Love ‘Ritualised Waste’
Vulnerability Reward Program: 2020 Year in Review
I know someone who worked for McKinsey for a few years, and some of the projects he described were straight up slimy. The one I recall right now was helping a big payday lender (read: large scale loan shark) figure out how to get their money back from people who were behind on their payments. The problem was that they can only attempt to withdraw so many times from someone's bank before they're banned, so the agreed solution was to estimate the best time of the month when the client had received their paycheck, but before they had used it to pay rent and other expenses.

This person is no longer working there, and I'm not surprised.
It's surprising how stuck in the house during the pandemic does to finishing side-projects or creativity! :)

Just read that bebo is potentially coming back: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-55912988
I'll speak for all the ten-year vets who know stripping a monolith for parts is often as time-consuming as writing from scratch, and always uglier. Software is not a car.
Why?

You're asking a farmer to be subsidized by everyone else, but you're not saying why we should. Because economically, it's great that the farmer can have a living - not so great for the poor family that can't afford his overpriced produce.
Yes. And that's not all that bad if you use them to go for a walk with the cat, like with a dog on a leash (but then a harness is better). But it's a real problem if the cat is alone. The veterinarian looked so damn sad when talking about how important those breakaway collars are...
My pet peeve is the Amazon Prime Video App. The UI is a mess, if I click on a recent tv show, it defaults to the latest season and it's very annoying to navigate back to the first season. They have great content but exploring the content available through the app is such a pain.
It depends on the situation. Documentation and in-person meetings aren't mutually exclusive. A meeting to go through the docs and update them is often very useful.

Not everything has to be "scalable". There are many parts of the code that only 1 or 3 people will ever work on. In fact in most places I'd say that's most of the code.
It just deleted all my sleeping tabs and they don't appear in my recent history... Is there any way to re-open these tabs?
So... federate but not really?

I'd heavily advise instead to run as many xmpp servers* as possible, and let people/friends use them.

*not matrix, unless one configures it to forget the data and only act as a message broker, like XMPP. For this specific use, it's better.
Do you have a right to everyone's IP who doesn't fit your expectations for reasonable access and price?
If Iran is blocking Signal but not other apps, namely Whatsapp, does this mean Iran has access to Whatsapp data?

I fully expect the US govt to have access to fb/whatsapp data (at least the metadata), but it's a bit surprising to me that Iran would too.
Unfortunately customers don't have direct insight into what goes on behind the scenes to make the supply chains more efficient. They are shielded from the exploitation that exists and for the most part don't care after the initial shock of learning about such exploitation.

My simple understanding of why this happens is: they move on to other things, convenience trumps everything else, there's so much bad stuff happening in the world that we don't really have the cognitive bandwidth to think about everything, a lot of times we can't really affect change so that doesn't help matters either.

Eg: Cloth factories in India/China/Bangladesh; Electronic manufacturing factories such as Foxconn, etc.
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> I also question the decisions to try to compete with them on a graphic fidelity level but it's probably a decent move for the long term.

I always understood this as Linietsky having some very interesting ideas about 3d engines that weren't seen in other ways, and the whole 3d thing being just his curiosity exploring those ideas. And it certainly looks impressive.

I used Godot 2.0 a few years back and madea few toy games. It was very fun to use, but since game dev is not my thing, I left it at the side. Nice to see they've been improving so many things and how it has changed in so many (better) ways!
I figure the hard engineering challenge is the repeaters. How do you build repeaters and power them, considering you can't really service or replace them ever over the lifespan of the cable (the deep ocean bits anyway)? A repeater every 80km is a whole lotta repeaters.
What makes your feel free about cancelling prime?
There's always Varnish.
Hi lwhsiao,

Raza here, author of the post.

My high-level answer is weak-labelling overcomes cold starts and active learning helps with the last mile.

More detail:

We see weak learning as very complementary to active learning. By using labelling functions, you can quickly overcome the cold start problem and also better leverage external resources like knowledge bases.

But most of the work in training ML systems often comes in getting the last few percentage points of performance. Going from good to good enough. This is where active learning can really shine because it guides you as to what data you really need to move model performance.

At Humanloop, we've started with active learning tools but are also doing a lot of work on weak labelling.
What makes me laugh about this is that the Amazon customer experience is degrading in so many other, more important (to me) ways.

* Reviews are no longer trustworthy - subject to spam, altered product listings, and "discounts" (read bribes) paid to purchasers for positive reviews.

* Counterfeits are still rampant.

* Products regularly arrive damaged because they're not packaged well (usually tossed in an envelope).

* Amazon Prime cancellation process is becoming Kafkaesque.

Given the above, even if Amazon could do 1-hour delivery, I don't want to buy anything from them. Maybe they should focus more on some of these other problems instead of running their warehouse staff into the ground.
I can't help but feel like this is overthinking the reasons behind the actions. Human beings need variety in their life, fresh stimulus. Walking to the store taking different paths every now and then is a great way to do this. If anything, I think it would be more useful to measure undesirable streets — places people avoid on purpose. In my personal opinion, those would be ones by busy roadways, bad infrastructure etc. As shown by car-free regions in Madrid and other cities, people like being out and about even in the city, so long as it isn't made too uncomfortable by the man-made nuisances.
there are public and private bridges.
Alternative point of view: they are a mitigation for the fact that many people cannot be trusted to behave sensibly (in terms of protecting society at large from this pandemic) if large numbers of people are out and about at night, and it is not feasible to check each individual's activities to assess whether they're "improper".
Building the interface itself is the trivial part of this exercise. How are you going to source the database of metadata of every media item produced in the last century?
Hi nikunjverma, it can definitely be done. For instance, a marketplace that connects software developers/designers with companies could offer professional liability as part of the offering.

Can you think of other ideas?
Iran's been having a tough time shutting down illicit satellite receivers.

> One woman in the Iranian capital, whose satellite dish was demolished by the police several months ago, told "Persian Letters" that the first thing she did the day after her apartment complex was raided was order a new dish and receiver.

> "That's the only fun we have here. There's nothing worth watching on [state television]," she said. "They can come and take my dish away. I will get a new one."

https://www.rferl.org/a/persian_letters_satellite_dishes_ira...
And games.
Guys - you can get all 161 episodes (6.23GB and v.slow download) here:

https://archive.org/details/126BuddiesThickerThanWater1962/

Enjoy!
Early on it was buggy on Roku, but I haven't had crashes in a while. However, the UI is really sluggish and painful to use. Have a Roku Ultra.
Show HN: Urlcast.io – The URL scheduler, hide an url as long as you want
Die Zeit: "In the dispute over the delivery delay of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the EU Commission is currently making the best advertisement for Brexit: It is acting slowly, bureaucratically, and protectionist. And if something goes wrong, it’s everyone else’s fault. This is how many Britons see the EU, and so the prejudices were confirmed at the beginning of the week"

https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2021-01/astrazeneca-eu-k...

MSN Money: "Bild tore apart Von Der Leyen's explanation of the vaccine delays and threat to stop supplies heading to the UK line by line, accusing her of placing 'junk' orders for vaccines three months behind Britain. 'She says: "We know that there is no time to lose in a pandemic," but what she means is: "We may have wasted time. But we will NEVER admit that",' the newspaper wrote. Meanwhile 'Brexit Brits continue to receive full supplies,' the paper added.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/german-media-savages-e...

New York Times: "E.U. Makes a Sudden and Embarrassing U-Turn on Vaccines"

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/world/europe/covid-vaccin...

The Telegraph: De Standaard, a Belgian newspaper, said the success of the Prime Minister’s move was a source of great frustration to the French, in particular, who are lagging far behind in their vaccine programme. It suggested that Brexiteers would take heart from that because Paris had regularly taken a hardline stance in the Brexit negotiations. The Flemish newspaper said that Mr Johnson liked to take risks and in this case, as opposed to in Brexit, the gambit had worked.

An El Mundo editorial accused the EU of a "failure" on vaccine procurement, citing a "lack of coordination between member states to articulate a homogeneous process" which is "ruining the prospect of achieving herd immunity after the summer"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/28/best-advertiseme...

Daniel Stelter, Manager Magazin: It is dawning on the German and European population that the political class has failed across the board in meeting the enormous economic and social challenges of the Corona crisis. It marks the accelerating decline of the EU. Everybody in the economic sphere now knows that whenever there is a problem at a production site in the EU, there is a risk of being hit with an export ban: vaccines today, biotech tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow what? This destruction of trust in the EU as a place of business (Standort EU) is all of a piece with its tendency towards over-regulation and planned-economy control. The gap between wish and reality in the EU is greater than ever. By failing to procure vaccines, the EU has validated Brexit and given all EU citizens an objective reason for euroscepticism.

https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/autoindustrie/exp...

But yeah sure, it's a clown and everyone is laughing ... all the stuff I just quoted is fiction only happening in a political thriller.
+1 I have long been saying that part of why American jobs are so bad is because people keep taking them. Of course, this does ignore the realities of why they keep taking them.

Getting people to a place where they can say "No" to a bad deal should be a major goal for progressives and conservatives alike because it fits their model of how the world works -- progressives want people to have the stability of life and "good jobs" and conservatives like it when market forces are reasonably at play (enough workers are saying "no" to bad jobs and "yes" to good jobs)
Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
This cable is not just to be used by Google right? Or am I misunderstanding something? Fundamentally, infrastructure should be publicly owned and then rented by companies to use it, in this case it seems like Google physically owns the cables and infrastructure which would be a massive waste.
Interesting article... it does make me wonder if they're missing some key ingredient.

One example for me personally is the level of aggression in the locals. There are certain streets I avoid due to this aggressive behavior, and something like that wasn't even mentioned.

Perhaps there are other missing variables too.

edit: in case anyone was wondering, no, I'm not implying some kind of racist undertone here. I've walked through many diverse neighborhoods in many cities without any problem whatsoever.

By "aggression" I mean panhandling and other interruptions by people undergoing obvious psychosis with no sense of social norms.

The reason I stated this oddly is because there's a large tangent of people on HN who will attack you for inferring that some homeless people (yes, these psychotic people are generally homeless) are psychotic and aggressive. Perhaps they live in gated communities?

No matter what I do, these people are allowed to exist where I live, but I don't consider them part of my community at all.
ORLY?

Sauce?

I have worked in Management Consulting, not with MK, but I have worked with MK alumni and in engagements where MK was there before us.

TL;DR: I respect their work, take the price tag away since it's meaningless. Running a business is hard, Management Consulting is also hard. Unbeknown to most people, Consulting companies also - often - execute, and there's something to be said about an outsider doing the heavy lifting, dirty work, and be the garbage person.

If that comes with a fancy label, well.. there's a price for that too.

Amen.
Was this a modern machine-based test where testing for one disease is just as easy as testing for 20 at a time? There's been a lot of false information and insurance screwups in the news about such tests. A single lab test that the machine vendor charges $200 for, and thus costs the hospital probably $50 or less if they own the machine, gets coded by insurance as 20 separate tests.

We 100% should be using these kinds of tests way more often. If this was such a rapid multi-test, the villain here is the billing department and insurance.
Sadly the Gehl institute shut down it's public life/how cities work initiatives with the departure of Shin-pei Tsay.