skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that idea as a separate program (or just in the VR app) but I think it would be confusing/misleading in Google Earth itself. At the very least there needs to be a clear user-facing indication as to which content is procedurally generated (ie fictional) versus photographed (ie real). Obviously there’s a grey area with image processing but I think there’s a real concern with prioritizing nice pictures over actual information.
Sometimes an experiment to see if you can go five minutes without eating the marshmallow is just an experiment to see if you can go five minutes without eating the marshmallow, and not a trick to see what happens if they give you three marshmallows after eating the first one.
It’s pretty much an import project and done. If not, then someone really fcked up that build file.
Pros and cons like anything but one big pro of corralling all the most productive and intelligent people together is the network effect that can have. Big things can happen when you get a bunch of really smart people together that wouldn’t have happened if they were all dispersed.
It's not clear that the overhead is due to Go itself producing bigger binaries over time though. If you recompiled all the different CockroachDB versions with Go 1.8 (if that was feasible), it's quite probable that the tables you would end up with would look fairly similar to the ones you're actually showing.

If there is superlinear growth in binary sizes as the project grows – for example, if some part is O(n^2) in the number of interfaces – then that's certainly interesting. If you demonstrated that such superlinear growth is happening, and wrote an article based on that, people wouldn't be so critical.

If Go binaries are getting bigger because Go produces bigger binaries for the same source code over time, then that's also interesting. If you demonstrated that Go binaries are getting more and more bloated over time for the same source code, and wrote an article based on that, people wouldn't be critical.

But as it is, you kind of just complained that CockroachDB is getting bigger, tried to blame it partly on the Go compiler producing more bloated code over time, partly on a mystical "dark area" which you don't understand, you mentioned superlinear growth only in the comment section, and you didn't actually gather data or do experiments to prove or disprove any of the things you're claiming as a cause. That's why people are complaining.
> great tooling

Something I underappreciated until I delved deeper into other languages is how much observability the JVM gives you into how an application is running. Something like VisualVM makes it incredibly easy to see what threads are running, in what state, etc.

There's a class of things where the overhead of a VM (like the JVM, not VMWare) doesn't make sense (kernels, drivers), and startup time can be an issue, but for code where pretty good performance is enough, running in a VM is an asset to me.
All non-Safari browsers on iOS use the Safari engine underneath, which doesn't currently support WebRTC. It's a pretty huge blocker for a lot of sites (video conferencing, etc) to have to throw up a "Please use Safari" banner for iOS users using anything other than Safari.
This is the best explanation for the phenomenon I've ever heard, thank you
Dark silicon is not used all the time - that's the key point.

In the same way, the functab data in Go is not used all the time either, only when generating stack traces.

Also since that original article from 2011 was published, the phrase "dark silicon" was extended to designate silicon IP which is not directly necessary for a given target application but is embedded for the occasional use by a niche in the same market.

In the same way, all languages (not just Go) embed constructs in generated code that are there only to handle edge cases in certain applications/deployments, and are inactive for 90%+ of executions.
By definition, you cannot have ID for anonymous accounts. Not without a third party (who I want nothing to do with anyway).
Accurate, but not set in stone. Google owns Chrome, so they could decide to make it opt-out in the future.
I would agree except for the fact that PV panels use rare earth metals and other natural resources
Slowness has nothing to do with popularity, besides pypi is the best package index, you can find packages for almost everything.
There is someone who’s working on a goodreads alternative at https://literal.club/
Banning sex work, abortion, alcohol/substances, books, free speech, and LGBT+ are just ways for the moralizers to control others with their Gilead, totalitarian aspirations.
Indeed. That's a legitimate, actionable concern.

I don't think this is something that is trivially solvable. I suspect (though don't know) that teachers are happier when they have gifted students than not. You'd feel like a success, even if you didn't really need to do much. I imagine teaching spots in honors courses would be coveted.
...and the US healthcare system.
and consequences!
I agree on both counts, but my point still stands that having a high level language with low power consumption would be great.

Don't ask me how to create one. But perhaps someone who sees this has some ideas that gets us started on this path. You never know.

Power consumption doesn't get enough attention from software developers.
> There is so much incompetency in governmental IT/software decisions and software it's actually sad.

Most likely because a company with lowest bid wins or a company that has connections with government, so they get selected based on friendships rather than competence.
Then such company typically sends least experienced developers working for pittance and they hope project will last long enough that it gets scrapped before it gets completed, so they will not be held accountable for anything.
Very reductionist. But to carry it forward, this is more about a man's failure to extract labor out of an octopus and instead being forced to exploit its screen appeal. Imagine the output of an 8 armed ipad assembler, ah what could have been!
Because it's genuinely unknown what those are, figuring out what these bytes are is just a deep dive into the opensource go compiler at worst or just asking around on some go channels for much less effort.
If you have a digital radio receiver in your car, this could be the radio switching between digital and analog.
> It would be nice if Mozilla were free to develop their own engine but that’s not without downside and the most likely outcome is an iOS dominated by Chrome and ad-tracking

The impacts go beyond iOS. The reality is that Safari is the only thing standing in the way of Google having IE-style dominance of browser usage share. As of now, Chromium has just under 80% usage share. If Chromium were as dominant as iOS as it is on desktop, it’s usage share would likely exceed 90%

Alternate engines are a fine idea in principle, but we need to consider whether a Chromium monopoly on the web is indeed an improvement from the status quo.
CopyQ 4.0
FYI, “knock offs” has the same meaning as counterfeit. Target sells “generics” under their Up+Up brands.
The alternative isn't avoiding fixing it. The alternative is a boring bug report on github with actual stakeholders discussing the best strategies and trade offs.

This is only on HN's homepage because of the langauge flame wars. It's a garbage post.
I'm really not on my high horse here, if you have a team working on a java project that's that hard to build, they're doing it wrong. Doesn't even matter what the language is really.

So "no offense", but shove it.
Kind of. Most simple models for continuous payoffs will assign a nonzero probability to losing all your wealth or your wealth going negative. The Kelly bet size for any thing with a nonzero chance of "ruin" is zero.
With a 60%-heads coin you can still get 10 straight heads. It’s just that over many many flips, the average will gradually tend towards 60%.

You can still have streaks of hundreds, thousands, millions of either heads or tails in a row.
In my experience, Goodreads loads slower on a phone than on a desktop browser (and it's only the initial load that I notice being slow). I've long suspected (without evidence) that this is intentional because they nerf the mobile web experience in an attempt to get you to use their app.
Spot on.

I kinda feel sorry for psychology and related social science fields. They have an immense hurdle to clear when designing experiments. Both protocol and statistical analysis.

50 or 100 years ago, a study participant might have gone in oblivious to the possibility of subterfuge. Totally unaware that the "taste test" they're participating in for the "marketing majors" was really a study on how political party affiliation affects choices between lemon cake and chocolate chip cookies. Or whatever.

But I have a feeling that college students are much more aware of how these things go today. The experiment is tainted from the get-go by all the participants looking for the "real" data being collected.

I know for damn sure that if I'm recruited for an experiment where I'm taking some sort of test, when a "fellow student" suggests we cheat, that this is an honesty test. Or maybe if the clock runs out before I'm done, I'm being watched for how I handle stress. Wait, is it kind of cold in here? Ah, they must be gauging performance as a function of comfort.

And of course, study participants are way too often 18-24 year olds who happen to go to college. Such a tiny slice of the general population.

So I could see myself placing bets on the "40%" outcome. I wonder if the coordinators straight up told the participants, "Look, we're really testing your betting decisions. This coin really has a 60/40 bias. This isn't a ruse. Please treat this info as true; we're not doing deception testing here" if that would eliminate the kind of second-guessing we're talking about. (I guess we need to study that:) But if that became a norm, then it would further highlight the deceptive tests when that statement is missing.

I feel sorry for social science experimenters.
DDT is not "obviously horrible for humans". That's dubious. It has not been proven to be carcinogenic and is only listed as "probable".
Thank you for that link. From the article, it seems there's also a longer-trend issue that is at play in my daughter's case. If more students are applying for the same 10 STEM majors, there's an additional selection bias against those.
Malaria is a completely different disease than Polio. Thanks.
You make broad pronouncements and avoid talking about specifics because your argument is incorrect and indefensible. You say a statement is true of most western countries but can't name one in which you would be willing to dig deeper. You use glib pronouncements to hide the fact that your words lack substance. It's not your time that is being wasted.
After sleeping on this and coming back, I can see where I may have gone a bit off the rails a bit. Though if you read threads from earlier, I was goaded on a bit (with someone mentioning I needed to calm down... Like yeah that's the last thing you want to say to someone you're having a discussion with)

Sometimes when the heat is cranked up, flamefesting can be inevitable. I'll try to take more frequent breaks.
I've been reading reports and analysis since the Kyoto Protocols. The most fascinating things since that time is that we (the US) were behind in those requirements but significantly ahead of everyone else. The Paris Agreement is roughly the same so far too.

In a situation where "we're behind" and "we're ahead" are both accurate statements point to a significant problem in the approach.

You choosing one of them exclusively means you're playing for "your team" instead of looking at reality of the situation which is neither useful nor honest.
Back in the day someone complained whether the Computer Graphic course is related to Machine Learning / AI topic at all. Now here's an answer.
HBS petitions Amazon to address racial and gender pay inequities
What they are doing sounds just like NYC Mesh, which has been offering low-cost internet access for years now but is not mentioned in the article.

Certainly the Spectrum workers would be aware of the NYC Mesh project. I wonder why they decided to start such a similar project.

NYC Mesh: https://www.nycmesh.net/

People's Choice: http://peopleschoice.coop/
Sure, but you had a good justification.
Pregnant women in UK told to have Pfizer or Moderna vaccines
I don't know if we have any Arab military veterans on HN, but if so and they felt comfortable commenting, I would be fascinated to hear their take on:

1) was this broadly accurate in 1999

2) is this broadly accurate in 2021
Routers need quite a bit of memory to handle IPv6.

Switches as an application of this makes sense.
I would say pure speculation is not based on tangible data.

Pure speculation:
I think consumer space travel will be popular in the future, let me buy some SpaceX shares.

Momentum:
SpaceX seems to be trading higher in pre-market, let me buy some SpaceX shares at market open.

Edit: I know SpaceX is not public, this is just an example.
Consignment is still a stocking risk. They are on the hook for holding costs.

Amazon doesn't do shit with marketplace inventory. Sellers are either stocking it themselves, or they are explicitly paying amazon to hold it in their inventory.

The difference matters because retail stores always have an incentive to sell the things they stock. Even pure consignment stores will refuse to consign items that they don't think they can sell. Amazon has zero incentive to sell marketplace merchant stock, as they bear zero cost to not sell it. So anytime they start to compete against their merchants, they can effectively hide competitors listings in a back room out of sight and never have to deal with the consequences of doing so.
Even he did add an age restriction, why wouldn't kids just put in a fake birthday?
Your T-shirt's a 3d structure with microfibers. I'm not surprised it was able to be more black than a hard surface: fabric's actually a really good way to make an intense black.

The Culture Hustle blacks are also matte, which is very much a limiting factor (and part of the concept). I find if you're willing to accept highlights, super gloss black is way better at being super black everywhere that isn't a highlight. At that point you're trying to get the most localized highlight as possible, to get it out of the way so everywhere else can look blacker.
20% or even 100% better UI/UX doesn't disrupt anything. Anyone can go to a popular service and nitpick on their UI and UX. But if someone wants to replace them, they'll have to be 10x better.
I consistently get recommendations for books in languages that I don't read. I wonder if that's because I have read books in languages other than English and recorded those editions on Goodreads. What's particularly aggravating is for the recommendation engine to surface a translated version of an English book to me. My general rule is that if I can read an untranslated version of a book, I'll read the untranslated version, so I'll prefer Cuentos de Eva Luna over Stories of Eva Luna but The Honorary Consul over El Consul Honorario. I still don't understand why Goodreads thinks I'd like to read Agatha Christie in Polish or Shakespeare in Arabic. Of course, I think the winner has to be https://www.dahosek.com/wait-what/
why call it Latino and not Spanish? Latino includes Portuguese, and this is Spanish.
I mean, that's fine, it's an anecdote. If you'd like, take a few dice and set up cameras and an automatic rolling mechanism and see if there are any improbable sequences like alternation between two or three number or a long run of a single number, or a long run without a particular number appearing. Over enough trials you are likely to encounter these kinds of events.
Isn't this kind of racist?
I thought for sure that someone would have posted a link to that xkcd comic by now. I only dabble with higher-level APIs, so I can't judge this on the merits. If NVIDIA really continues to back this, and follows through on wrapping other libraries like cuDNN, it could be a whole new level of vendor lock in as people start writing code that targets CUDA Python. I think the real test will be whether one of the big projects like PyTorch or TensorFlow gets on board.
Ok, but for the parents who are unable or who mismanage this, we all end up paying for this collectively as a society. No, things that harm people need to be kept a very close eye onto. Gambling is regulated to some extend and it still attracts the weak willed people but at least children are not allowed in. Instagram for kids is a similar thing, it captures all the attention of children for profit, it primes these kids to be superficial and instills a consumerist behavior creates only problems down the line, we can't ignore these things or we will live in a sicker society. It is never perfect but we should strive to at least head in that direction. This is my opinion at least.
Are you sure you want Google to have definitive answers for “Work” and “Home”? I know they already infer it by tracking overnight location; but

- When I type “Ho” in GMaps it will first suggest all businesses — “Ho... Home Depot? House Garden? Horror House (375km)?” then cities (“Ho... Chi Minh City, Vietnam?”) and, after many tries, “Home”, the real.

- I had Web Activity and Location History registered, in France but English with a address for “Home”,

- I was using it for every return trip; They could have suggested by default without typing anything; Clearly they optimize to promote businesses or other usecases first, not convenience.

- I ended up putting a Label “XKDJF” on my home, which is more convenient (until a city starts with “XK” – hoping Elon Musk will not name a city on Mars this year).
Why Do We Let Corporations Profit from Rape Videos?
I’m not super sure I understand your point, but I think you’re saying that it’s possible to run a good replication attempt on a good study and still have it not replicate. I agree with that. I’m not super sure how to correctly estimate the chance of that happening, but one dumb way I can think of is just using p value, so if it was .05 then you have a 1/20 chance of failing to replicate a study even if everything was done correctly.

However, when I said “doesn’t replicate” I didn’t have a single attempt with a 5% chance of failure in mind. I had a field’s aggregate attempt to confirm the result in mind, which would include multiple attempts and checking for statistical bullshit and all that.

Under those conditions the chances are vanishingly small of a whole field getting massively unlucky when trying to replicate a well-done study that theoretically should replicate.

That’s what I had in mind, and I still think it’s right.

—

Rereading what you wrote, a different interpretation of what you said is that the original investigators might have done everything perfectly, and nevertheless found a significant result that was spurious just because that stuff can happen by chance. If that’s what you meant, I don’t understand the disagreement, except maybe semantically. I would call a perfectly done study that shows a spurious result “nonsense,” and I would expect replication attempts to show the result is nonsense, even if the process that generated the nonsense was perfect. Maybe you’re just saying you wouldn’t call a perfectly done study “nonsense,” regardless of the outcome?
“How would you create a new maxim that preserves that general rule but also accommodates eliminating undesirable subspecies?”

“We are as gods and might as well get good at it,” Stewart Brand.
Dancing. I got into swing dancing in a big way (first Lindy Hop but nowadays only Balboa).

It was very good for me - great for my confidence. I was very shy, now I'm comfortable talking to a large audience.

I also ended up moving country and getting married as a side effect, so that was nice!

Obviously it being a social activity we haven't done much lately but my wife and I have been practicing once or twice a week. We're luckier than our single friends at least.

The dancing in turn got me into photography in a minor way, and the editing of photos is a nice non-social counterpoint to the frenzied socializing of an international dance weekender.

I wouldn't do either for a living. Full time dance teaching and full time photography both look like very hard work compared to a pleasant day of pushing buttons for a living!
But the swap is for free (+cost of shipping). So of no value to one of those kinds of entrepreneurs (unless maybe they find a way to arbitrage shipping costs).
Sometimes, but they have a habit of lying about the purpose.
I'm not sure if this is what you're asking about, but here's a Two Minute Papers (dear fellow scholars!) video about a deep learning paper for super sampling with some applications for games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzHenjHBBds
You can't force intimacy, but you can foster it by facilitating dating opportunities. I guess there could be subsidized RGFE sexual-emotional prostitution where someone visits and acts as therapist, companion, and such.

I wouldn't judge, moralize, or worry about what consenting adults choose to do. These sort of Big Mother vague concerns are often the slippery-slopes used to rationalize telling people what they can and can't do.
"free" like in the "regulations are harmful" way?
I think the important distinction between life and non-life is that life creates local reductions in entropy.

At a macro scale, both fire and life create net entropy. The difference is when you zoom in and see either created order or uniform destruction.
If the coin was made from a thin magnet, and being flipped onto a weak magnetic plate, couldn't you bias the result? If the landing pad was a strong magnet, then you could trivially make it a "100% heads" coin. Just weaken the magnetic field so it's not strong enough to flip a coin flat at rest, but has enough oomph to take a coin landing near its edge to the preferred result.
Nice false equivalency!

But you're right: flat earth society is real, so I guess they could elect a nutjob.

After 4 years of Trump, your "both sides are the same" bullshit is DOA.
https://xkcd.com/927/

https://xkcd.com/1987/
materials engineering is a fascinating and really underappreciated field. I love stuff like this
> practical, potentially accessible, inexpensive

Painting 1% of the world in white paint is everything but that.

It's a cool gadget that will be experimented in a few niche places and quickly and quietly abandoned when real life kicks in.

How often will it need to be cleaned ? repainted ? How much will it cost to paint your building's roof, is you building roof even paintable in the first place ? What is the paint made of exactly ? Is it going to leak in the environment ? How much energy/resources are needed to make/transport it ? What impacts does it have on a multi storey building ?

Time will tell but I bet it's going to end up in the same bin as the "massive lithium battery breakthrough" news. /reminder 10 years

They've been talking about this since at least 2005 by the way. Good old hype cycle in effect:

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10172670

https://www.bbc.com/news/10333304

http://archive.iwlearn.net/unep.org/paint4planet/default.htm

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jan/16/white-pa...
I didn't realize how incredible gwern's website is. Wow. Very information dense and well thought out.