skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... take 20 years ....

Stealth is overrated. It's been over-rated since the Serbs shot down an F117 twenty years ago.

AI can be good. But a man is better AI than AI itself. And generally it's a whole lot lighter in weight.

The F-35 is too heavy, and has too little range to be useful.

WW2 planes were simple and spartan. They were light in weight and more manoeuvrable because they were simple and spartan.

America relies too much on advanced weaponry. (Vietnam, Afghanistan... cough, cough) The Germans in WW2 had the most advanced weaponry. But the Allies and Soviets swamped those advanced weapons with sheer numbers of 'good enough' weapons.

It's no good having a weapon with a 100:1 kill-ratio if the enemy can throw 101 of his weapons at it.
> animal abuse can occur within the dairy industry, but I don't think that's inherent

There is no economical way to do it otherwise. I honestly don't care that much about animal abuse (I do think that animal agriculture is often environmentally unsustainable), but you can't really play pretend about "some milk not involving abuse"
*BSD, I suppose, but the idea is that the binary itself would be named httpd. Like "cp /usr/bin/perl ./httpd" first.
I've thought a bit about this problem. I definitely see the reasoning behind it, especially in industries like Healthcare, or anything public-health related (like self-driving cars) etc.

It doesn't seem like it's as big a problem as I originally thought. If I understand correctly: At least with models that categorize data, wouldn't the internals of these models be able to determine where the correlations are being formed between neurons? Based on these "strong links" a model should probably be able to hook in some "analysis system" which will take the LABELS of each of the original inputs and explain that the model finds that a correlation between X and Y tends to indicate a particular output. I'm over-simplifying a bit, but in general this seems like it could be converted to natural language relatively easily.

However, this over-simplification is perhaps the new problem in that the explanations could end up being extremely long depending on how complex the problem they're trying to solve is. Perhaps, instead, a side-by-side comparison of a "visual graph" of the model's "theoretical ideal representation" of an idea vs what particular inputs produced.

This idea could be explored further by allowing experts in a field to confirm if the correlations being represented in a model are in fact correlations that scientists also believe exist based on their own studies. In other words, model A says a correlation exists between the person's first name starting with 'X' and the amount of oxygen in that person's blood cells. Obviously this model would be abandoned pretty quickly :)

Also I was recently thinking about how a lot of times, since individual models will piece together different correlations at different strengths, by averaging the outputs of many models (ensemble learning), it's almost as if you're polling a quorum of individuals for their answers. Like that tv show "Who wants to be a millionaire" individuals within an audience may not know the answer, but overall the audience (as a whole) almost always gets the answer right. So the explanation would look more like "the majority of the models have concluded that a correlation exists between X and Y. The data in question exhibits this correlation".
It might be a matter of tradition/long-term contracts - Apple has used Broadcom for a long time.
This is a real testament to the failures of higher education.

The revenue-sharing once seemed "at least aligned" to me. But it's become clear that Lambda school is classic game theory at work, optimization without regard for process.

Because of this, I'm corned into thinking that education, like healthcare, is one of those things that should be off limits to profit seekers. And yes, that means having to do the hard work as a society and identifying how we can maximize education through common resources for a common good.
Ask HN: Favorite tools for building an aesthetic UI for a side project/MVP?
I've historically been more of a backend developer and my knack for building good looking UI's is just not there. I've read up on the basics of UI design and tried building out UI's using React + CSS, but it ends up being so time consuming for something that looks mediocre.

What are your favorite UI library or no/low code tool for building a good looking UI for side projects?
I've had vegan yogurt that is better than the alternative.

But cheese? Half the Miyoko's products taste like a finely ground nut paste mixed with mold and spoiled milk.
Facebook login wall, can't see it :c
Have you considered using extensions for editors and browsers that provide ViM like keybindings?
Yeah, maybe the ISA asks for too much. It is reasonable to find ways to align the incentives between students, schools, and employees. So in that way the ISA as a concept is plausible.
You must have a big product team, or hire barely any bootcamp grads.
Just curious, any reason for moving your kid from dairy to soy?
Yes, that is what I am saying. It is relatively easy to verify via LinkedIn
I would argue that in a lot of places, including most of the USA, lockdown didn't really happen. We had these lame, unenforced stay-at-home "orders" which people ignored, mask "mandates" that were openly disregarded and even publicly protested, business "closures" that were unevenly enforced. I think you'd have a hard time correlating anything that happened in the USA in 2020 with a lockdown, since nothing was really locked. It seems like a huge exaggeration to call what most of the world did a "lockdown".
Farecast, but yeah.

I think for a brief period it was integrated with Bing's flight search tool, and then killed.
I think most people who would be considering bootcamps are comparing it to a traditional 4-year college curriculum -- at least I did. I enrolled in the full-time web program a few years back and this was the back-of-the-napkin math I used to make my decision:

Total Hours of College:
4 years, of which 2 years are "core" coursework and 2 years are general education.

2 Years * 2 semesters per year * 15 weeks per semester * 15 credit hours per week = 900 hours for a degree.

Lambda School:
6 months * 4 weeks per month * 40 hours per week = 960.

Obviously this doesn't account for a number of variables such as 0-credit "mandatory" labs, out-of-class work/projects/studying, but a Lambda student who spends an extra 5-10 hours per week during the program would end up with 1000-1200 total hours.

But this still ignores the main advantage of a program like Lambda, which is the ISA. An education that would be inaccessible to students at the margin -- think people who can't afford to move to a university, qualify for loans, or take 2+ years off of work -- can get in if they're committed enough. Even if Lambda were a total scam, at worst you're out 6 months and $0. If Local State University doesn't get you a job, you're out 4 years and $50k+.
From the point of view of the rest of society, there is no difference at all. The coronavirus doesn't care if you believe in it or not, it only cares if you're vaccinated.
I _desperately_ want something like this, but in a 1U 4-drive form factor. If someone is working on something like this, _please_ let me know. It doesn't even have to be an RK3399 based system, just something that works with a mainline (or near-mainline) linux distro and will host an SMB server & DLNA server.
Hence the second half of the branch: "or a ban that applies only to the poor."
Along with a $180/yr service charge.
its not too bad provided you don't try to heat it.

vegan cheese just doesnt have the same fat and sugar properties that normal cheese does.
I don't see any attacking. Don't be hysterical. I see a plead to yield to facts and to treat other humans with respect because they're human and they deserve basic respect.
Yep, Scott Adams was one of them, and he further extrapolated that we’ll eventually say “orgasmsized”.
Meanwhile in the real world, medical malpractice remains one of the leading causes of death.
> The more countries trade with eachother, the less reason they have to fight wars with eachother.

WW1 pretty much proved that wrong.

Europe was trading a lot with each other. That didn't stop all the rivalries from starting up and causing the general "Great Game" feeling between powers.

For now, it seems like DEMOCRACY is the best thing to prevent wars. Democracies don't like fighting against other democracies: it seems like in most cases, convincing the other country through communication yields actual results.
Or their preference?
Recently, I came across some threads asking why data labeling is difficult. (I have my biases as engineer) In my opinion, it's because labeling it essentially determining truth. But, truth requires context, interpretation, and domain knowledge. Sometimes it's easy (with caveats like dataset bias, labeler bias, taxonomy bias). But, for more complex labels, truth is not easily abstractable nor tractable.
Lose your key? Lose your domain, forever, for everyone, irreversible by any legal intervention.

Yea, fuck that.

Also, as with 99% of "smart contracts". The main contract which allows for updating the smart contract, and thus is ultimately in control of everything, is controlled by 1 private key. Nice "trustless". Just gotta trust this one entity never to make a mistake.

Also, this has literally already been done at least 5 other times already before the "NFT" acronym was invented. Remember namecoin, anyone?
They provided a service that benefited franchisees and diners. They are entitled to charge for such a service. McDonald's corporation benefits when restaurants sell more ice cream. Taylor machines are more reliable. These third parties also seem to have benefited from Kytch's work, but for some reason they decided to interfere in Kytch's commercial relationships with lies and threats of legal action. IANAL, but that seems like tortious interference.
To be fair, the Japanese do the same with Western culture. You named France, here in Japan every cake shop is a "patisserie" or "boulangerie" covered in ridiculous amounts of French text. Heck, they even have this concept of the Paris syndrome for poeple who travel to France and experience extreme culture shock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
personally I have something like this:
ISP modem ---> Netgear (for guests) ---> pfSsense ---> My network with the VPN server for dialling in.

I would of added a second pfSense for the NAS and cloud but I thought it would be an overkill.
Cookies work when JavaScript is disabled or has failed to load (your basic functionality should work without it), localStorage doesn't. So unless we are talking about SPAs cookies are generally the better choice.
Yeah, you'll have a lot of fun with something like this: https://www.amazon.com/LILYGO-T-Display-Bluetooth-Developmen...
I react well to that approach if I'm really excited about the material, and usually do well in the coursework. It does take a few months for everything to "really" sink in though, and having a lot of friends or acquaintances from MIT and Stanford that did that I think it's rather the norm.

Approving coursework doesn't mean that the concepts sunk in. It just means you have new tools to further your understanding of everything, but it still takes a long time for it to sink in. During that time maybe you just need to do nothing, just let it sink in, but in my experience everyone ends up needing some time.
I have worked with and managed quite a few code school grads (in my city there are several). This matches my experience with them. You kind of just get force-fed a bunch of content, and if you're a person that does the (extra) work to retain that information, you have the opportunity to find success.

I have also observed that lots of code school grads move away from coding immediately on graduation. Lots of QA/PM types come from them (at least here). This is not necessarily a negative.
I don't really regret attending Lambda School because it gave me structure that I needed, but I just got super lucky. I joined right before they made a ton of terrible changes to the program. I would either attend a better/different bootcamp or self teach and start working on solo projects. I participated in a few different hackathons and learned a whole lot more than I did during my 9 months at Lambda School.
I use a pcengines APU2C4 (AMC x86 cpu SBC with integrated network switch) with VyOS as my external router.
This is an elegant solution that gives me what I like about Outline (the editor) without the parts I dislike (mandatory third-party auth for login. A good start on what will hopefully become a robust offering.
There is all kinds of marketing for every prop on the ballot. I just want people to have more options on the table. I don't assume people are helpless making these decisions on their own, which is patronizing IMHO. I'd rather give people more choices, then take them away.
All of this is well taken, but IME, when you read a "perfect" statement about layoffs, it was the result of a process meant to generate exactly that. Which isn't really any more human or personable. This reads like Austen wrote it personally. Is that better or worse than an artisanally crafted statement by a team of PR people? Or worse -- no statement at all?

I'd expect that all of the clarifying questions you're looking for answers to are covered in internal Q&A's, at least that's how it has been done at every startup I've ever worked at.
"which made the decision to make these changes very difficult"

Odd choice here. I think it's kind of textbook not to say that the decision to layoff people was hard on you.
Oh, you can bet your ass that prohibition of alcohol again is coming far sooner than 20-40 years from now. Newsflash, everybody dies! The government should have no rights to infringe on what people want to consume. This is a slippery slope. I am not pro-cigarette here but pro choice of drug consumption. That, and the distinguishing of cigars and pipe tobaccos from that of what a cigarette really is, which is not natural tobacco. Cigarettes are 50% "mother's liquor," which is ground up floor scrap and stem tobacco parts into a nice little puree with added re-uptake nicotine boosting agents. This is then dried into sheets and chopped up to look like ribbons of tobacco. It is not smoking tobacco naturally. Leave the natural cigars and pipe tobaccos in another category. The FDA is going to target all tobacco cleverly as if it's all the same when they know very well that it is not.

You think all these Addy popping, Vyvanse downing, benzo-calming programmers aren't dying way earlier? You are fooling yourselves so hard.
I don't share your optimism. If proprietary firmware and dkms blobs remain _de rigueur_, I can't see the situation on linux improving w.r.t. things like graphics cards and wifi chips.
Are there no environmental concerns here? I'm kind of confused why no one seems to mention anything about that.
> Flavors aren't effective at hooking young people, nicotine is.

Wrong. Flavors are simply really effective at hooking everybody.

I watched this with a friend of mine who absolutely thought the same way as you. We got him a couple different flavored ones to try--all non-nicotine.

His reaction: "Alright, you win. You have to physically take the strawberry ones away as I will absolutely drain them all."

The flavors allow the industry to find the one that you personally find agreeable. Add nicotine on top of that and you have a device for personalized maximal addiction.
> Federal government is backing almost all the student loans, but universities automatically increase their tuitions.

On the condition of getting the federal student loan is that the loan is exempts from bankruptcy. The loans follow us to the death or until it is paid off. It actively screws those naive students until to the point of no return. I have a friend who is still stuck paying the loan more than 15 years because the wage are not above the cost of living.

This is a huge legal binding part caused a lot of them instantly debts trap while the universities keep pushing the envelopes with the tuitions without oversight

Edit: But there are federal loan forgiveness programs. They have many of them. If your degree in your career and it end up into career ending situation, they have a program for this. However, I don't know if those program changed due to DeVos involved meddlings with various programs.
I use PyCharm's Juypter plugin and it's seemed far better for me. I work in Python everyday but I'm more on the data engineering and app security/architecture side of things than straight up Data Science. I don't use notebook's as often as I'd like but I live in PyCharm.
I use arch btw
If that were the case he would have simply said “don’t use it because you can’t trust that the Chinese government won’t do something nefarious” and I’d have no complaint. But instead he wrote this progression wherein apparently Polish people are a step down the ladder of enlightened peoples just above the Chinese.
> For me, anyone who eats pretend-meat or pretend-dairy is a pretend-vegan.

I love that you can get all the taste without the violence and suffering. Eating is not always a single-person activity, so having vegan substitutes for meat and cheese is great when eating together with non-vegans who may be wary of falafels.

There are very few vegans who are vegans because of taste. Many are worried about the environmental impacts of mass animal agriculture killing trillions of animals every year.

The most prominent and outspoken animal liberation advocates — Ali Tabrizi and Ed Winters come to mind — are strong proponents of vegan-dairy, vegan-seafood and vegan-meat. It really doesn't make sense to call those people "pretend vegans". Check their talks and films[0][1], they aren't "making a joke of the whole idea of being vegan".

I don't get why carnists place such importance on real suffering and real death. Is it not real Adidas shoes if it isn't made by slave labour or something? Is it not a real car if it's not guzzling diesel? Why not cut down on causing harm when it's so easy? I don't get it.

[0]: Earthling Ed vs Infowars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScbeMdYkKDc

[1]: Land of Hope and Glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF3VOpa3a7c
Not sure if you're aware of how many students commit to the Kernel in exactly the same way Aditya did, but it's a shitload. Other maintainers have pointed this out, the response is guidance, not insults and slander.
Could you expand more on how menthol cigarettes are targeted towards blacks? I have lived most of my life in "black culture" and anecdotally the targeting comes from the idea of "we smoke menthol" perpetuating culturally and generationally, not through external targeting or advertising. Maybe it was, once, and it continues as a result of that initial seed? I don't know, but I do know it is not a traditionally target ad campaign or similar. For the record, I also smoke menthols, partially because of that cultural influence.
> More than 3,000 boxes dropped into the sea last year, and more than 1,000 have fallen overboard so far in 2021.

A fascinating record we leave the next explorers.
It took me ~4 months. I interviewed with a handful of really great companies and made it to the final round with 4. Companies are definitely willing to interview/hire self taught developers. LS career services overall were pretty useless, but there were a few staff members who helped give guidance and I am really grateful for that. Try and find someone in the field who can help mentor you.
Margin is up too, not just revenue:

Operating margin Q1 2020: 5.3%, Q1 2021: 8.2%

Which is somewhat interesting. I wonder if there was a set of deliberate prices raise while they have this upper hand, or just economy of scale.
Another step in the endless cycle of configuration vs code.

It's not an accident that we are in a deep cycle of constrained configuration languages (yaml/json/etc etc). People chose to go there because before that we had a cycle of using programming languages and people hated it, for all sorts of good reasons.

Now I see we are on the way back into adding wrappers around the static config files, to turn them back into programming languages. This is happening all over the place - because guess what, it turns out, people hate static config files too, for all sorts of good reasons.

I am not sure if we will ever reach a compromise here or if we are just going to have to put up with endless change and churn because nobody is ever happy or at least willing to just settle for things that are "ok" but not "perfect".
It's strange that the author makes partisan shots, when everything the untethered wings of the body politic believe and act upon are direct antitheses to her written ethos.

Some quotes from Weil:

"The Great Beast^1 is the only object of idolatry, the only ersatz of God, the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

"It is impossible for me to take myself as an end or, in consequence, my fellow man as an end, since he is my fellow. Nor can I take a material thing, because matter is still less capable of having finality conferred upon it than human beings are.

"Only one thing can be taken as an end, for in relation to the human person it possesses a kind of transcendence: this is the collective."

"The power of the social element. Agreement between several men brings with it a feeling of reality. It brings with it also a sense of duty. Divergence, where this agreement is concerned, appears as a sin. Hence all returns to the fold are possible. The state of conformity is an imitation of grace."

"The social order is irreducibly that of the prince of this world. Our only duty with regard to the social is to try to limit the evil of it."

"The collective is the object of all idolatry, this it is which chains us to the earth. In the case of avarice: gold is of the social order. In the case of ambition: power is of the social order. Science and art are full of the social element also. And love? Love is more or less of an exception: that is why we can go to God through love, not through avarice and ambition."

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1 - The Great Beast is a reference to Plato's Republic, Book VI, establishing the epistemological problem of socially derived consensus reality:

"I might compare them to a man who should study the tempers and desires of a mighty strong beast who is fed by him--he would learn how to approach and handle him, also at what times and from what causes he is dangerous or the reverse, and what is the meaning of his several cries, and by what sounds, when another utters them, he is soothed or infuriated; and you may suppose further, that when, by continually attending upon him, he has become perfect in all this, he calls his knowledge wisdom, and makes of it a system or art, which he proceeds to teach, although he has no real notion of what he means by the principles or passions of which he is speaking, but calls this honourable and that dishonourable, or good or evil, or just or unjust, all in accordance with the tastes and tempers of the great brute. Good he pronounces to be that in which the beast delights and evil to be that which he dislikes [...]"
Ok, I can grant dairy should not be subsidized. It would make it more expensive but that would be fair, and eating cheese would be something a bit more special, as it should.
Fusion on Apple Silicon: Progress Update
Is VSCode's Jupyter extension much better than PyCharm's? Just curious, I prefer PyCharm over VSCode for normal python dev work. By a lot but I get it's personal preference, so I'm curious.
For me most imitation meats just don't hit the same notes. One of the mainstays of my childhood was a lamb and leek stew called cawl. I've tried different meat substitutes but none get the right flavour there. Ironically, the closest I've gotten is to skip meat replacements and just put some butter in, it produces the same creamy, fatty taste lamb meat does.
Not necessarily, we can't draw any conclusions from these numbers without knowing how many vaccines were administered and to whom.