skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any dimensionality reduction method (DL-based or otherwise) can be viewed as a form of compression. But, the end goal in data dimensionality reduction is usually quite different than with data compression.

Either way, this is much different than model compression/distillation, which is compression of the parametrized functional mapping itself. As a silly example, imagine you fit a 100-degree polynomial to noisy linear data using some proper regularization. You would find that can distill/compress your 100-degree polynomial model into a 1-degree model with comparable accuracy.
all the downvotes only show how much detached from reality the hn cohort has become.
> Even after explaining there is more to Android than just Samsung they don't seem to care because their view seems to be based on what advertisements they watch.

Fashionistas see you the same way when it comes to clothes. Car people see you this way about cars. Furniture people about furniture. Photography nuts about photo gear, knife people about kitchen knives, restaurant critics about restaurants, and the list goes on. Let’s not even get into what audiophiles think of most of our speaker and headphone choices ...

Life is too short to be an expert at everything. Too short to even care about most purchases when good enough is plenty.

Look up satisficing vs maximizing.
I believe cars are way less important than people think. Ride sharing and WFH goes a long way. The elephant in the room is Augmented Reality. We're not talking enough about the consequences of AR for the economy.

If I have a normal car, and I'm wearing AR, I can re-skin it with unreal engine. The most interesting technologies aren't about transportation -- they're about human augmentation, transhumanism. A car is just too big to be a great augment. If I were CEO of Apple I would take a hard pass on "Apple Car" project and focus the company on AR.

Plus, cars are expensive. Not always a great investment, or necessary
I've been using my Datasette tool, originally intended for exploring databases, to build full-blown websites and it's working surprisingly well. It supports Jinja templates and runs on SQLite databases so it's actually a good fit for semi-static sites.

Here's what Datasette looks like by default:

- https://latest.datasette.io

And here are three websites that are actually just Datasette with some custom templates and plugins:

- https://datasette.io (data: https://datasette.io/content code: https://github.com/simonw/datasette.io )

- https://til.simonwillison.net (data: https://til.simonwillison.net/tils code: https://github.com/simonw/til )

- https://www.niche-museums.com (data: https://www.niche-museums.com/browse code: https://github.com/simonw/museums )

They're all hosted on either Vercel or Google Cloud Run at the cost of no more than a few dollars a month.
It seems to me that the Taycan is competing quite favorably on performance and don’t see a reason to think that will go away by virtue of everyday $35K electrics having that same level of performance.
Just a little side rant on “soul” since you mentioned it in a negative sense for EVs.

The “soul” term is marketing BS like the soul patch mustang logo Ford decided to sticker on to the chin of its EV.

If you ever see one, look at the front. It’s totally got a soul patch. Eww.

As far as engine noise or rumble and that wonderful visceral feeling of the pistons and crankshaft throwing their weight around, I would agree there is something utterly cool about that. As there is of the clip-clop of a cantering horse as well. But again, calling it “soul” is just clever deceptive words that marketing came up with.

If any car has soul, it’s one where the founder poured his passion for years, nearly went bankrupt, persevered, redefined the limits, led a workforce that did the effort of a lifetime to help make the company survive and push out its most successful product that continues to be unmatched, all driven by a mission... now THAT is a story of soul.

The gas car companies want to claim the word for themselves though, just because they have a nice rumble and some fire and smoke, but more because they realize they are in trouble. Fire and smoke are romantic, no doubt, but you can’t replace that with a soul patch.
TV plays also used to be very common in the UK.
Why do you think the rest of the EU wouldn’t be on board? Nobody in the EU is happy with Ireland’s corp tax rate. China’s corp tax is 25%, India’s is complicated but around the same (in practice), PRC and India don’t want its rich people and global corps abusing tax shelters either.
Range could be less of an issue if charge speed is fast enough.
I've seen Backblaze Hard Drive Stat articles in the past, and they were a lot longer and had a lot of tables breaking things down by manufacturer. This has one chart and a lot of links, but the newest one is from January. So what is being shared here that's new?
Nobody in their right mind would ever create a company in that environment. No bank would lend you money. Nobody would invest. Would you invest your life savings in a company when a random jury could just take it away?
For those interested in this topic, I found "Enlightenment Now"[1] to be a great read (the audio book is good too). We take so much of our progress for granted and often look at progress from too short a time horizon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now
They've actually promised OxygenOS 11 all the way back to the 6. That said, rumors are that we won't get even a BETA until August meaning it will be more than a year after AOSP release and be out of date before it even ships :(
It shouldn't but it arguably has the diplomatic and economic power to do so.
Mathematicians Settle Erdős Coloring Conjecture
Although I'd argue The Economist, while not having that form of literary style, does favor wordplay of various types so it's not really a great "just the facts" example. (Not a criticism in that I like their style in general.)
I loved my OnePlus One. But then when I went to replace it years later they'd scraped the headphone jack.
S. and T., didn't take half a second's thought.

Being a showman doesn't mean that Feynman was only a showman. Indeed, one can hardly be an effective educator without a strong touch of showmanship in presenting ideas.
Write up here. Accidentally added the Facebook pixel to all pages instead of the marketing pages.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr...
I hope they have better luck with WaPo!
Manufacturers are converging and doing more platform sharing than ever, due to the massive and increasing costs of engineering a platform. So yes I think that in the future the difference between a lot of brands will be mostly be marketing.

What might be interesting is that currently new engines are a huge investment because of all the emissions compliance work, but that doesn’t seem to exist with electric drivetrains, so there might be a lot of interesting quick iteration there.
No, here dividends cannot be offset, but there used to be tax credits to improve the effective double taxation. However, I don't think this is a problem as the right way of getting money out of company should be a salary, not dividend.
Good luck with that. Not.
> implement async support

How can that be possible? The underlying API is blocking and the localStorage interface is not available in web-workers.

> But even if you wanted to store sensitive data, it wouldn’t be a far stretch to implement some kind of encryption.

Since any other JS runs in the same environment and thread with access to the same resources how would encryption help with the issues in the article?
It's funny, but have you ever checked what does "non-profit" company actually mean in the US? You would be surprised as it has nothing with an inability of gaining income. I don't remember that fact by heart, but it was something like - until a company doesn't spend more than 50% in total on wages or any benefits for internal team including founders and investors (like salary, bonuses, benefits all kind, dividends etc.) you can have any income and still be eligible for non-profit status.
He was definitely a showman, but Schwinger and Tomonaga were definitely not. Being a larger-than-life character type does not detract from his contributions.
We wouldn't want children to get the wrong idea about rich people!
beautiful solutions, thank you for ur work

Is there similar solution for manipulating tables and json? I am not a front-end developer, so when i am preparing a poc, it always takes me so long to parse data in a table. Someone must have done the same thing as htmx for tables, or i hope ...
I have a cloud key gen2 plus and do not have a UI.com account. I would classify getting the network controller setup without having one initially "mildly annoying but worth it".

I'm also floored at the number of people who are spinning the existence of a self-hosted controller as somehow a bad thing...?
I didn’t mean to say they are getting a direct cut as sibling commenters indicated, but Valve definitely is getting at least some kind of money indirectly out of them offering this.
Ask any of a thousand startups gone dark -- tons of people try. Many fail. You lose your time and your personal investment. Ask me how I know (hint: 3yr full time co-founder)

If you make it somehow, you have the benefit of deducting your R&D against profits, which seems fair to me...Except then people get upset (see comments on this page) that you "aren't paying your fair share of taxes."

This seems ludicrous given how many years startups spend burning their own money to hope to reach the point Netflix has reached. Good for Netflix.
If you need the data, it could very well be cheaper. AWS Glacier request costs are no joke.
This is cool. The node label should display the name of the table for some reason it seems to be missing.

Is this open source?
No-no doubts the incentive of rich people wanting to be richer but I don't see how greed answers the question. What would the incentive be to just let the money sit in the company forever? Greed would be to maximize the outtake.
And yet they don't disable cameras that you can use to secretly record someone...
How is the software though? I tried it years ago because of the audio quality and ended up going HTC 10 because the LG version of Android was horrendous. Less bloat than Samsung sure but still horrible
Why going that deep, if one can just 'get to the point' from the title alone?

I would not comment, if it were somewhat disrespectful to the source and context of the article. It's a journalism oriented blog, and in this case, its target audience is practicing or student journalists. So the story is painted to relate to that audience's concerns.

Also giving such a 'Pro tip' is equal to teaching HN readers how to use scrolling...
I have used PostGIS successfully for a charity project which helps avoiding food waste in the UK.
Site seems to be hugged to death. Backup link?
Also, a quarter of young adults have seriously considered suicide according to the CDC.

Now we know more than ever the various considerations that need to be balanced.

At a minimum, I think everyone agrees that since N95s can be stored for decades, it makes sense to be producing at scale and preparing for the next pandemic, just to help the future generations.
Because the NLRB isn't some opaque body; it's a public body accountable to voters, and as a voter it's impossible to know if their explanation is valid if the press doesn't accurately and fully report on why a particular decision was made.

Maybe after presenting all sides of the decision, an NYT reader might agree that the NLRB's decision was correct/valid; but with the way the article is written, it's impossible for that to happen.
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing! The unique ability to drill down into connected tables and visualize the relationships and data within is unique (for me at least). Are you building this as a personal tool or building it in a manner to apply on any database? Would love to know more
The intrinsic dimension paper indeed doesn't really show that big networks also search in small subspaces (and neither does it claim to), but this has already been shown in related papers like https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04754
100% Brilliant software.
Isn’t this a bit hasty. Backblaze fixed thr issue immediately, wrote a detailed blog posted and it was also found to have only been in a single webpage of theirs.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr...

Now while I certainly agree that I don’t like this info leaked, there was no mal-intent and they quickly took action once notified. I feel like their action is what makes me like them so much.
In my country (UK) it is legal, so there is no reason for them really to disable that.
Yeah I was going to ask a similar question, which is for the average family sedan, I wonder how much the average person cares about anything beyond creature comforts/saftey that would also be differentiable in an EV. I doubt families are making decisions around the powertrain beyond MPGs/efficiency, which would also be differentiable by way of range
Signal hasnt published any tax filings since 2018
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/463...

The financial state of the non profit is largely a mystery as of today. Similar to their server code based on the github check ins
The list of things that the Executive Assistant is doing makes me wonder what real work is left for the CEO.

I also doubt the EA is making 60% of what the CEO makes.

Something about how our work is structured is really screwed up
If you spent your 20s making money, little or no, you didn't have losses.

If you spent your 20s conducting losing trades in the stock market, you accumulate capital gains losses that you can only apply $3,000 per year against your regular income. If at age 30 you made $800,000 in capital gains you are able to apply all those unused losses against those gains.

So "human beings" aren't much different.
Let's remember though that Imagenet is not a good representation of reality.

See e.g. performance on OjectNet, https://objectnet.dev/, when trained on Imagenet. For the same classes, we see _dramatic_ drops in accuracy.
Just added a couple of MG07ACA14TA's to my NAS, as one of the two 8TB WD Reds I had started to fail after just 3 years of on time.

They're massive beasts, with 9 platters and 18 heads, but enabling acoustics and power saving really helped on the seeking noise level.

Not sure how much of a performance hit that leads to though, haven't had time to fully investigate.

They run significantly cooler than the 8TB Reds tho, from ~45C down to ~30C in the same bays.
I've heard some say that GM (Caddilac) supercruise is better than anything from Tesla, but it only works on interstates.

I don't think we'll ever get to fully autonomous travel in my lifetime, most likely on the interstates and in cities, but as soon as you leave the cities, there is way too much unpredictability for AI to handle IMO
Actors can indeed make caches super easy.

If your entries are simple enough (add/remove/update) and can be expressed as messages, wiring up a simple pub-sub cache is an afternoon project.
But the universe is constantly changing. So you will need to know the specific bits of the universe that your function depends on or you will never get a hit.
Coal country has a comparative advantage due to the already existing infrastructure and expertise that others would need to acquire from scratch.
end the fed.
s/descriptive/proscriptive/g I think. Descriptive doesn't attach value to the observations, while "hey that's wrong" definitely does.
It was in relation to widespread use and availability of pornography, like tobacco was in the 20th century. Or like obesity is now.

We had obese people since at least the first settled societies. But it was nothing like today, both in how widespread and how extreme is has become.

Same with drugs. An opioid epidemic pushed by mega pharma is nothing like a shaman serving ayahuasca.

A nude cave painting or a figurine is nothing like thousands of hours of streaming porn. Barely related.
This is actually a bit fascinating to me, so do people tend to buy much cheaper phones to begin with. I know in many parts of Eastern Europe iPhones aren't nearly as popular due to the expense.

I've had to replace a battery once ( on a Nexus 4)and I will never go through that again.
You have a point in that money does get taxed multiple times as it moves around. But I don’t believe that makes the term “double taxation” BS. It’s a useful term in a world where there are two structures for business entities (a) the “double taxation” corporate structure where lower corporate taxes allow increased investment at the expense of less efficient shareholder distributions or (b) the “single taxation” structure of partnership-type entities where earnings are only taxed once, but at the higher rate.

I don’t use the term “double taxation” to imply corporations are necessarily a worse structure compared to partnerships; that depends on context. But it’s a useful descriptive term.
If you want to nail a company to the cross for being in bed with Facebook... Backblaze probably shouldn't be at the top of your naughty list.

IMHO, over-ado about a small something.

"A new campaign was launched beginning on March 8, 2021 on the marketing web pages using Google Tag Manager which included the Facebook pixel. That new campaign resulted in the Facebook advertising pixel being accidentally configured in Google Tag Manager to run on all platform pages instead of just the marketing web pages."

"We’ve confirmed that there was only a single page (b2_browse_files2.htm) where the Facebook advertising pixel had the ability to access certain metadata. We tested this on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge. Our investigation determined that 9,245 users visited that page during the window when the Facebook campaign was active (March 8 at 12:39 p.m. Pacific time, through March 21st at 11:19 p.m. Pacific time when we removed the offending code)."

"If users were browsing their B2 Cloud Storage files on b2_browse_files2.htm during that period, AND clicked to preview file information, then the Facebook pixel pulled the following metadata: folder/file name, folder/file size, and the date the folder/file was uploaded. The folder/file metadata was limited to file information that was currently loaded in the browser.

No actual files or file contents were shared at any time. The data that was pulled did not include any user account information."
> This website really doesn't want you to stay

yes, I guess it is pushing you to the docs to try out how great it is :) (I agree that the web page could have been better)
“Asking someone experiencing cyber bullying to 'let it be' is such a dismissive take. Realistically, you can't scrub the internet of cyber bullying. I personally feel like the solution is that comments should be highly regulated. A formalized posting process, licensing, required staff to deal with these types of complaints. It should be impossible to comment referencing someone else without a signed waver from the participants. Sure, this might remove pure anonymity, but you can still have mechanisms in place to protect your identity if you want to post comments without divulging your identity to the public.”

This sound similar to any other regimes in recent memory? Porn isn’t the argument I’m responding to, it’s short sighted bandaid solutions which require ADDITIONAL regulation and government control. We all know these systems of regulation bleed into other parts of the internet. Are you willing to start this trend and put it into the hands of someone whom you disagree with?
Few people care about it, especially since the devices don't make noise about but just stop getting updates at some point. Apps tend to be conservative about axing support for old versions too, so little pressure from there.

(And given how little many people actually install new apps etc, I wonder how large the attack surface really is - but I have no data on that)
You can check for some signatures of over-fitting using the weightwatcher tool

https://calculatedcontent.com/2021/04/04/are-your-models-ove...

The tool identifies weight matrices that display atypical behavior, where the correlation is concentrated about unusually large matrix elements.

The idea comes from statistical mechanics of generalization, where it is known that neural networks that are over-fit are atypical and are in the spin glass phase of the learning phase space.
That user name certainly checks out.
Could you use a technique like this to do facade inspection as mandated in nyc?

I just happened to watch "how to with John Wilson" S01E02 which was talking about how scaffolding is put up everywhere in nyc because the facade needs to be inspected for loose bricks every 5 years
After Nokia, I doubt Microsoft is excited to try that again so soon.
ggl factor analysis

also: degree of freedom,
dimension
I am currently using a bunch of AWS technologies, e.g. AWS EBS, RDS etc. I am also thinking to consolidate all projects to a single AWS LightSail, which offers pretty cheap instances, e.g. 512 Mb, 1vCPU, 20Gb SSD for 3.5$/month.
The official response from Backblaze is here [0].

> We use Google Tag Manager to help deploy key third-party code in a streamlined fashion. The Google Tag Manager implementation includes a Facebook trigger. On March 8, 2021 at 12:39 p.m. Pacific time, a new Facebook campaign was created that started firing a Facebook advertising pixel, intended to only run on marketing web pages. However, it was inadvertently configured to run on signed-in pages.

[0] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr...
I don't expect LG to open something that doesn't belong to them and I'm pretty sure that no matter what some drivers will remain closed source. That's fine. But still a HUGE help will be releasing schematics, GPIO usage, kernel configuration files and so on... You don't need everything open sourced to keep maintaining support.

So I cross all my fingers for it to happen. :-)
I love it too and that's also the reason I am sticking with the S7. Its fast. It's popular enough so that if it ever becomes obsolete, I'll easily switch to LineageOS. And I never had to buy an expensive new phone, second hand cheap s7 are everywhere.

Disparition of physical buttons is a good example of "backwards progress" : another area where it drives me crazy is all those induction hobs that have touch buttons that never work properly when wet (which happens all the time it's a kitchen ffs). I get it, it's easy to clean, but it's a pitn to use.
Thanks for sharing this! The concept has been in my mind for well over a decade (initially with the decision to make https://trimage.org not have any settings) but it's really been taking shape the past few years.

We hire software to do jobs like how we hire people to do jobs. Both become better when they share their opinion and help us decide how to fix or approach issues.
What would prevent a bad actor from getting verified, and then uploading material that they don't have consent/license for?

What would prevent anybody from claiming they were the "talent" in the material and giving consent?

Where would the "verified individuals" and their verification even come from?
Not for Tourists: Attribution, Provenance and Harm Reduction
I just spent the last 12 hours migrating everything to B2. BB seems to be somewhat immature relative to the competitors, and the product certainly feels that way, but as long as they try and the data integrity is there, then I think I am okay with it.

The rest of my stuff is in S3 with Glacier auto archives.