skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The choice of activation function isn't entirely clear to me, but I think it's definitely possible to make a network that operates entirely in the frequency domain. It would probably be pretty easy to start experimenting with such a thing with the nice complex number and FFT support in PyTorch 1.8. :)

Like you said, there's already a significant connection between convolutional networks and the Fourier domain (the convolution theorem).

Tangentially, I've recently worked on a project that focused on implementing convolution in the Fourier domain, and how that allows one to control useful properties of convolutions (like "smoothness" and orthogonality).

I made a demonstration of convolution in the Fourier domain in PyTorch, which you might find interesting: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/locuslab/orthogonal-conv...

More generally, you could look here for more code and the corresponding paper: https://github.com/locuslab/orthogonal-convolutions
> so too has the sheer volume of rare, underground jewels

This. As for discovery, it's never been easier to find things by oneself. Bandcamp (nice place to bootstrap rabbit holes), Spotify artists playlists, Youtube channels, Subreddits...
I didn't even read the page ultimately, since I couldn't identify where to start reading.

Roughly every half screen of scrolling, the content formatting changes dramatically (and clearly some of it was subscription info, which is not how I want to start reading), and then I was at the end of the page... I'd failed to identify the "body" of the article and so closed that tab.
Actually, "learns" here means to fit reverse linear transformation a.k.a. inverse matrix. He defines reverse FT matrix and using gradient descent numerically converges to inverse matrix. Nothing more than inefficient way to solve system of linear equations.
Same - I use nano for quick edits on remote boxes or locally but for programming I use intellij.

I totally get why people use vim (and emacs) in fact I use vim for one specific thing I can not do in intellij (highlight closing parens in docblocks - intellij doesn't do it and if you are writing annotations it's a major pita that it doesnt).
We've considered JIT authorization workflows for some high-assurance high-risk customer cohorts, it'll be interesting to see whether we can figure out a Sym implementation or end up using something in-house instead.
Whilst I agree that email is the true universal standard I do not like how many mail providers and clients implement it badly. This then perpetuates issues with how people use it. I’m thinking things like to vs cc, reply all, etc. email etiquette, once gotten right is a great tool that helps both the sender and the receiver, without this email often has a lot of issues that can be frustrating to solve and lead to the rise in other tools (that are in themselves, silos).
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Long range model S actually has a range of 412 miles and several other EV’s are similar.

However, the long range Model 3 only does 353 miles without charging. But you’re adding ~175 miles in 15 minuets, which is where I was getting the 530 mile figure. Basically 400+ miles is where charging wait times become noticeable.

Of course numbers depend on driving habits etc, but that’s the rough ballpark.
Yes, wait until we have an opponent which requires advanced fighter jets, then order development to start. Only will take 2 decades to reach production. And hey, maybe we won't need them by the time it reaches production!
This is main reason I do not develop for mobile. I just can't stand someone else being in control of my products.

However for many applications it is possible to have browser as a deployment platform. So I am thinking of porting a couple. In this case Google / Apple can not do much.
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I work on a company that is squarely targeted at the market of people who don't have Internet. Nearly 10% of Americans don't have Internet, the vast majority are older. During COVID, at least in my family, it was pretty stark. My grandmother didn't see a video of my nephews for essentially a year, as she was quarantined and doesn't know how to use a smartphone or tablet. She also doesn't have WiFi, so 'smart frames' and the like aren't an option (nor is this device unfortunately). It's a real market of real people.
> Why shouldn't you discuss this with your colleagues?

If you believe that women might be less represented in tech because they opt for other careers when they have the chance, you might get fired. You better leave that part of your whole self at home.
Not sure what the case is overall, but apparently in North Dakota, where flu cases were 1/65 of what they were the year prior, flu vaccinations are only up 5%: https://kfgo.com/2021/04/29/319613/
And, reading between the lines, lots of fraudulent COVID-19 tests.

After requiring pre-flight COVID-19 tests on all incoming arrivals, Canada recently banned direct flights from India and Pakistan.

They didn’t ban people arriving from there. You can only come indirectly and your test must be done at your stopover location.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/flight-ban-india-1.5997880
> You realize those « deep cleans » are mostly comms operations for governments to look like they are doing stuff, right?

Yes, but it must have had some effect on fomite transmission of some viruses, right?
And the same can be done in the other direction. Are you worried about some rare disease or catastrophe? We have to determine where the line is and if the current laws are somehow not adequate to protect people's rights.

I'm not saying that issues do not exist (see my prior comment about very small minority). From what I've seen, including various statistics, it seems to me that gender discrimination is not common and the laws are already in place to deal with it.
This was not an easy question to answer :-)

I guess what I've noticed is that although if you pressed them, engineers (across a range of fields) understand that businesses need to generate a healthy profit to stay afloat, they still seem to be uncomfortable with the idea of "profit" at all. And they seem to be surprised when you bring up the question of "how will you make money from that?" Whereas the "general public" tends to think of it with an approach of "make as much money from it as you can because it might not last."

I know that's not a very good description but it's the best I can do at the moment.
Wow, what a cool idea!
Interesting idea, and having done some woodworking, I appreciate long boards without many knots, but the article didn't go into any detail about how it's done. "Bonsai techniques on trees" just isn't that descriptive.
Don’t forget ideology.

Clarence Thomas and other free thinking minorities are routinely attacked and dismissed.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/353035-justice-delayed...
Hi everyone,

we released this API because we saw many developers, indie hackers, students, data scientists, etc. willing to build something "cool" & non-commercial with news data.

So, we decided to make something you can actually rely on without thinking about how not to exceed the "trial" plan.
It's very unfortunate, and I don't know what I can do.

I love mobile app development, and I recently switched from web to mobile, and I must say that I prefer the apps I build natively.

The two most popular platforms are both, for all intents and purposes, closed. If I join as a developer, I could be subject to unfair treatment, and lose something I worked on for years.

These platforms are so powerful, the only way this will change is if either the EU or the USA decides to regulate this. A single country would be just deplatformed.

I'm not even sure if EU alone would be enough: if the USA treats it as attack on an American company, the EU won't get away with it. Also, when regulations go wrong, you get the cookie alerts, I don't know how they could mess this up, but maybe I'm just not imaginitive enough.
Telekom has been running a fun "Name that Techno Tune" series on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfRh37c5lvivabQPDnLGR...

It's pretty challenging to play along.

Edit: I'll just add that these histories are always subjective and regional. This one seems to focus on "pure" techno, but overlooks artists like Ken Ishii and skips over the first peak techno era with Eon, Lords of Acid, Bizarre Inc, etc.

Edit 2: and no mention of Phuture's Acid Tracks? A crime I say!!
> Danube to Mediterranean canal

For the curious, it'd follow a river in Serbia and connect to a river in North Macedonia. Approximately 100 kilometres apart, assuming a straight line. That means about half the length of Suez (193 kilometres) and slightly longer than the length of the Panama canal (82 kilometres), though I'm assuming riverbeds would have to be expanded in some places.
Should add "(2019)" to the title
Why did you kick the ball to the author, Google is on the monopoly side being too powerful and not caring. The author just voiced his concern but not a solution, what Google needs to do is to listen and come up a plan.
Flu - a coronavirus that has been wiped out because of social distance and masking and hygiene controls

Covid - a coronavirus that is absolutely rampant because insufficient masking, distancing, and hygiene controls

How you rationalize that hypocrisy so easily in your head is beyond me.
I think Ory Keto would be a better choice because it's easier to manage individual resources on an ad-hoc basis.
This gave me a thought just now. When future changes are needed to a piece of software, these are usually driven by the business side.

If the original developers have moved on, and the current developers do not have a good handle on the software, there could be some troubles making changes.

What if we approach the problem by structuring the code and choosing names to better reflect the business terminology. Make it such that a business person could understand the software at high level.

Then years later, it becomes much easier for a new set of developers work with the business side to make enhancements and changes.
When (as a subscriber) you make such a link, it says that if such links are "abused", the ability to make them may go away. Having the occasional article posted to HN seems to be OK with them (or they probably would have added a specific request not to post them to news aggregation sites). It's likely a wholesale "Free LWN for all" page with a weekly subscriber link to all the articles they're worried about.
I wonder when someone will fire off a class-action suit against Google (or Apple) about these sorts of things. I am, of course, assuming an individual suit is out of the question.
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But this is hardly the only argument against high capital-gains taxes. Capital gains taxes share the extreme inefficiency of capital taxation more generally (taxing "capital" just means double taxation of your already-taxed earnings - as long as you don't spend it, that is!), and place an especially unfair burden on risky assets that are linked to the highest economic growth. It's just a terrible idea. Say anything about the federal "FairTax", many people don't like that either but it would be a lot more sensible than this.
Yeah it's basically an Operating Systems book like Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems".
> states that had effectively no covid restrictions?

This isn't really true anywhere, some places had fewer state mandated restrictions, but effectively everywhere had significant changes in terms of breadth and depth of person-to-person contacts.
> I can't wrap my head around environmentalists. If they really understand that anything we do perturbs the environment--and it does--, why are they not openly advocating for

I think the reason you can't wrap your head around them is because, with possibly a few individual exceptions, 'any human effect on the environment at all' isn't actually what they're opposed to.
Looks like you have some good features. I noticed some typos on your landing page, you should run it through a spellchecker. Diposable was the one that stood out to me, but there could be others if that slipped through.
> Which is why I said "as a whole". You pointed out a single example of when humans did a good thing for the environment, but as a whole (meaning all humans for all of history) we have had a net negative impact on the planet.

Fair enough. (I'm usually the one pointing that out in these sorts of discussions. I just want to be clear that we can go the other way and foster life instead of just destroying it.)

> you can't just outright ban something without knowing the impact.

Why not?

I mean, setting aside the argument that we already know that the impact will be bad, let's pretend that the last few centuries of examples haven't given us enough information to make informed predictions about how bad the "impact" will be.

What are the consequences if we just banned marine mining?

- - - -

From my POV, you have to make the case that any mining on Earth at all makes economic sense, given that there is only one living planet in the solar system, and there are lots of things to mine in space (where there are no living things, yet), and we have already heavily "impacted" the existing global ecosystem with our mining and agriculture.

Look, if we're going to get through all this and become a successful space-faring species we have got to start taking the long view, and value things properly.
> human sexual attraction does not work that way.

Says who? Are you a psychologist? I don't think there is any research that supports that reading written stories about rape increases the likelihood that a person goes out and rapes a real person (and let's be clear: pedophilia isn't the part that is illegal; it's the rape).

Isn't this akin to the "playing violent videogames will make people into murderers" argument? Or with music, movies, and even comic-books before that?

I'm right there with everyone in saying no one should rape children, but at least according to US law, simulated text stories are not illegal due to first amendment rights. It would take quite a causal-link to convince scientists and the courts that something that is gross should actually be illegal.
Like many AI systems, GPT needs to be "massaged" a bit. You have to understand how your input is actually being fed to the system and how it processes it, and optimize toward that a little, rather than simple naively writing as though you're interacting with a human DM. Certain phrasings work better. Framing things with a bit of narrative works better. The output still isn't perfect, but if you work WITH GPT as a partner, rather than just expecting it to entertain you, you can get some amazing results.
side issue- the distortion of the spokes is screaming "rolling shutter effect", which tells me that the sensor was only read from one edge to another. If it was top-to-bottom, then the top pixels really could be older than the bottom ones, and vice versa for bottom-to-top scans. If it was left-to-right it's not clear to me whether that could cause false impressions, but it's certainly not a perfect representation of a discreet instant of reality.
Right, it's important that cities getting HSR stations are compelled to do some sort of metropolitan public transit and upzoning.

We should be very cleareyed that the sunbelt cities are built all wrong, but also underestanding that they can be fixed.
Just to be clear, I specifically mentioned public road.

Driving on a closed track is completely different business.

While definitely not as crazy dangerous as some people would paint it, I don't feel you can ever drive as a sport and be completely safe.

Driving as a sport is by definition pushing the boundary on how close you can get to crash so if you are good at driving it means you are getting closer and closer to the limit.

I think this is confirmed by how many professional drivers died in crashes. And it seems the better you are the higher the chance you will die in a crash.
For anyone who missed the original discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26956077
probably the school closings were the largest contributor
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When a state level attacker carries out a successful attack via the kernel, then the developer community will hide behind shocked_pikachu.jpeg and call for more social engineering and red team training for the Linux foundation. Until then, people are happy being complacent and any attempt to change the status quo will be met with hostility.
Very simple in design, neat, to the point. Does anyone know if there's a Jekyll template that generates such a neat/nostalgic output?
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We're SREs working on the rollout system used for vast majority of internal software. The component in quesiton collected enough tech debt to start showing "unfixable" defects, but still not enough to justify anything more than "make it retry harder". Any year now it will become worthwile to quantify the actual impact.
But they're not though, couldn't they just have a website?
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This was basically what Hipmunk did. Gather pricing data and make predictions on when it would be cheapest to buy. It happened to be hidden behind a beautiful interface.
I was estimating the floor in 99% of the country and not just the big cities because labor costs are very regional.
> you make a request (and let's assume it's just a packet count/timing analyzer) and 10 packets burst out of your device to Mighty, then 10 packets burst out from Mighty to the destination

By my understanding, the web browser runs at the Mighty server farm and it's streaming it to you using a RDP or Stadia style system. So, it's more like you send 10-ish packets containing input events (like mouse motion and click) using the Mighty client protocol, and as a result the Mighty service does 150 web requests that happen due to loading the new web page (probably around 10k packets). While the page is loading, the Mighty service sends you screen updates that are again much different than the packets the Mighty service is receiving in response to the web requests.

Yes, these can still be temporally correlated, even though the correspondence is much more distant than in the VPN case (where you can just observe the similar sized packets). But there's potential to fix it rather easily, by eg using chaff traffic to the client in idle periods, and/or by pulsing updates out to all users to the service in sync, etc.
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Just released this major update to pyinfra, which has been enjoying a growth in popularity and new contributions <3.
Ask HN: Nine years after, how much of this is still true about PHP?
Until a few days ago, I hadn't touched PHP for nearly 10 years. I was surprised to see so many new things. There is no doubt that its ecosystem is still massive and will continue to be so for decades ahead. What I am wondering though, is whether some of the old "ghosts" plaguing the language have been removed or replaced with something better.

Anyone experienced enough to comment on that?
Can’t forget jazz there either.

And I’d argue that blues and rock are separate, but that most rock until late 90s was heavily influenced by blues. But that’s all just fun trying to draw lines where there isn’t a clear difference sometimes.
We had one called "Systems Programming" that was a whirlwind intro to everything Unix (6 weeks on bash, 6 weeks on C, 6 weeks on Perl, a mishmash of SSH and everything-is-a-file and Unix-philosophy, etc)

We had another called "Operating Systems" that focused on things like concurrency, building a really basic memory pager, etc (mix of C and Java I think)

And we had one other called "Networking" that was sort of along the same lines as "Operating Systems" but focused on, well, networking. Mostly Java; we wrote our own application-layer protocols, that sort of thing

But yeah pretty much everything else - including the more "concrete" programming courses like Data Structures and Algorithms - was fairly abstracted away from any specific system
You don’t deserve the downvotes. There’s long been speculation that flu cases may be getting reported as COVID and vice-versa because of the symptom overlap.
> Most of the "open" states aren't any worse off than the ones who went lockdown crazy and in some cases they're actually better off when you look at spread and death.

This could also indicate that states where Covid-19 had a bigger impact responded by enacting stronger mitigations. What makes you prefer your interpretation?
Hah. Almost every other month, I come up with a brilliant idea and I write it down. Most of them come to me while I am working on my current SAAS business. Don't have time/focus to do any of those but i know almost all of those ideas are problems I would love to solve as I face them already.
Well, that makes me a tad less enthusiastic about Rust.
> Google owes them something

Google doesn't owe anyone anything. If people stopped acting like this, then we'd create things that don't require Google/Apple devices and we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with.

In any case, even if they hired more people - they could just deny any appeal. Then what?
Your comment will be downmodded because you mentioned it in advance and you haven’t actually stated why you think it was fine to abuse the open source maintainers other than “someone else can do it”.

“I beat my kids so some weirdo on the street doesn’t!”
They didn't do that in Germany, but the flu disappeared here, too.
Gears are expensive, why not figure out how to make them in quantity one with no setup costs, no need for an inventory of specialized cutting tool? No need to pay Gleason $500+ just to tell you how to set up your own machine?

Or... figure out a mechanism that allows power skivving of bevel gears?

Or at least an open source hardware project that allows people to make precision gears at home, so they don't have to pay $50 for something that should be possible for far less.
I keep wondering how Lice will be able to hang around much after last year's social distancing, especially among children.
and this new thing won't be?
The flu is global, yes? How many cities did your "deep cleaning" (I've heard it for the first time)? Out of a total of how many cities? I decline your notion on those grounds alone.
Why bother having apps at all if everything needs to be done with a website?
I truly think class-anxiety will make the freer kinds of WFH fairly uncommon over time, if it persists on a large scale at all, the more savvy managers get to it. I'm seeing non-programmer, bog-standard office drone friends get their work done in a couple hours and have the rest of the day basically to themselves (though no fault of their own, as they've sought more work in the past and found no-one to give it to them, and just happen to be way more efficient than some of their peers). They did the same in the office, but they weren't free there. I don't think managers will like mere office drones, or even huge numbers of programmers (just office drones they have to pay more, while resenting it every day, really), gaining those kinds of privileges, which ordinarily aren't available to such a degree even for middle managers.

I expect work spyware and spying services to be a booming market, even more than it has been. :-(
I recently discovered Boris Brejcha and can't recommend him enough. He has a great live set at Grand Palaris that's phenomenal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqz8c4ZP3Wg.

I find live performances quite nostalgic for obvious (pandemic) reasons. Along those same lines, Fatboy Slim at BA i360 in Brighton UK is worth experiencing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AvC05kXS9I.