skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did try it, it works when there is a hard problem to be solved, but for day to day coding no effing way. I can see extroverts who need to communicate a lot enjoying it, but I find they're in the minority with programmers especially the more senior they become. There are instances like mentoring or solving a tough problem, but otherwise I think email and slack and such are good enough communication tools, it doesn't need to be forced.
There's nothing jumping out at me as original thinking in this article or the paper abstract that points to the paper being worth more study.

All of what has been mentioned has been conceived of, thought about and discussed before, and some years ago. I've seen more advanced thinking in some models used to make bets on football matches.

As a Man City fan, I'll try and make this sound less snarky than it will come across, but it's going to be snarky: it's good to see Liverpool are finally - with Deep Mind's help - catching up to where many other teams in the league were more than half a decade ago.

Most players and coaches are not particularly interested in these models and the most useful applications seem to be related to scouting and the transfer market - "I need a replacement for player X, but 10 years younger and with a better left foot", is the sort of problem that data science is already helping with - and the clubs themselves prefer to put their money onto the field of play rather than expensive and experimental ML training, so the market for this sort of work is limited.

The challenges in this field are not really about data, algorithms or computational capability of the hardware.

The main issues are of applicability, cultural fit and economics.

Finding methods for addressing _those_ issues might be more useful to mainstream AI adoption than the data, algorithm and hardware problems many seem to look at first.
Interesting years ago worked on using AI and body sensors to determine the health and the chance of concussions in football players. Awesome project.
Do you have kids born after ~2006?
The Beach Where Lego Keeps Washing Up – Tom Scott
Yep. This is the consequence of differential equation-like behavior of accumulating attention, popularity, power, virality, reach, wealth, big name publishers, etc.

The rate of change is roughly proportional to the amount present. The biggest gets even bigger, faster.
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Nice work, thanks for sharing. The ability to create visualizations is a great feature.
Sanderson got too big too fast to develop a relationship with an editor who could say "no" to him. He's built fascinating worlds and interesting characters, but his later writing is full of the kinds of tropes and flaws that an empowered editor would be pushing him hard to streamline:

- Dialogue from adults that has the emotional intelligence of a 12-year old

- Lots of telling, almost no showing. So much "X, the kind of person who takes no bullshit from anyone, says, 'hi'".

- Huge, dragging, Return-of-the-Jedi-style setpiece battles and fights that have no bearing on the plot outcome

- Plots that just repeat on a larger scale with every book in a series.

Dude needs someone who has the ability to say no to him. With the amount he writes though, I have to imagine it's basically a DDOS for anyone tasked with editing his work.
Burglary requires breaking and entering. I don't think Madoff did any B&E.

the act of breaking and entering a dwelling at night to commit a felony (such as theft)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burglary
I stand corrected... I no longer see any. For a while Scaleway and a few others were offering them but I checked and they're gone. They were too early IMHO.
No developer who has watched a WWDC demo since the first version of iOS supported the App Store in 2008 is unaware that some developers get prerelease versions of iOS so they have something to demo on stage.

No developer should be under the expectation that they are going to have the same level of access to Apple engineers as someone from Microsoft, Adobe, or Epic.
How would company A know you they wanna bid on the ad? How do they know this FLoC ID represents people with interest in their product?

I think I have an idea. So by visiting site A, A gets your cohort and now there is somewhere a "central store" or register. Using that A can now do ad bids for that entire cohort to reach others.

But where is that central store? Is Google running that?

Might also work fundamentally different.
Hi HN,

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I'm happy to answer your questions.

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> I do also think that the expectation/standard of a $100k/year salary is a bit high.

Agreed. Most writers do it because they love writing, not because they expect $100k/year. The money comes after the success. I wish her luck
There are "Light field cameras" that try to capture lightfields / light flux.
However, their ray angular resolution isn't anywhere enough to really do too much fun stuff.
Perhaps GP meant "online office suite"
I do both. And movies. If it’s not worth reading or watching a second or third time, it wasn’t worth it the first time. I read Hamlet every year or two. It gets me every time. I’ve seen the Maltese Falcon about five times, and it still amazes me with its perfection each time. I’ve seen the Pickle Rick episode of Rick and Morty three times, and I fully intend to watch it three more times. Pure genius. Anything good has layers and details that usually can not be fully appreciated the first time through. Do you only listen to a song you like once?
They are fine. They are 100% convenience and nothing more. The only thing is (much like a yubi key), you need the key, you can only access it during banking hours, and generally requires an ID. So I fail to see how this is bad. It's far cheaper and easier than buying a garbage $300 safe that someone can jack open with a crowbar.

The shittiest thing is if a teller messes up and just let's someone who stole your key from your box, you're SOL. It's like the scene in Casino where De Niro's wife is clearing out the box. The bank manager couldn't stop her cause legally he had to let her in.
And it would weigh a hell of a lot more than the safety margin on the "jet pack"
He's not wrong. I think eventually it all becomes government coin or outlawed and at that point the government gets to monitor everything you do with money and possibly more, it's a goddamn nightmare.
As an example of that middle ground mentioned in the article, I spent 2 weeks writing a short technical book about AWS, self-published it, and sold 6,587 copies and $133,030 in sales in 1.5 years.
How is your seating posture? Biggest factor for me.
> the 3-pointer by itself isn’t point-maximizing

Of course, but the reality is that analytics have proven that there are only really two shots worth taking in modern basketball: the 3 pointer and a shot near the rim. For anything in between the expected points for the shot is simply not worth it. Even an uncontested midrange shot is going to have similar or fewer expected points per shot than a contested 3-pointer or shot beneath the rim. And these two kinds of shots are spatially far from each other, so even if the opposing team knows this is your strategy, its still difficult to defend against. Teams and players that have tried to exploit the fact that modern basketball is fairly homogenous by taking relatively less defended midrange shots occasionally find streaks of success, but it hasn't proven sustainable, and certainly not enough to win a championship.

Basketball would probably benefit from either eliminating the 3 point shot, or, perhaps preferably, pushing the line back a few feet to even it out in terms of point expectations with midrange shots. Shots under the rim will still remain the most reliable point source, but teams won't have to divide as much attention on getting steam-rolled by three pointers. It will bring back scoring big men like a prime Shaq who have mostly disappeared from the game, still allow phenoms like Steph Curry to thrive (fewer players can match his ability to hit 3-pointers from further distance), and will make the midrange focused strategies more viable again.
With asyncio and multiple processes you can achieve more than just with multiple processes.

> "I want this to happen in the background without blocking"

That is not the problem the asyncio is solving.
That's fine by me, I like it when cops have to follow the same laws as the rest of us. If one of us wanted to fuck around with grenades, we'd have to do the paperwork for each one. Why should that rule be any different for the police?

I don't like it when police get exempted from these laws. Why are they allowed to buy post-86 machine guns? The rest of us have to buy machine guns registered prior to 1986 or get a machine gun manufacturing license. Pre-86 machine guns are very expensive at auctions, but since the police are exempt from this they are allowed to buy comparably dirt-cheap machine guns brand new. Make the same rules apply to them, and if that means they can no longer afford machine guns, so be it. And all the better if that excess paperwork stops them from using grenades too.
How did you get the 14kcal number? Are there devices that measure this?
I'm not sure I get what you're saying.
While climate change is a serious problem it’s nowhere near an extinction level event for humanity.

While not an excuse to fuck up the planet more than we have had, we can pretty much turn it into a wasteland and still survive with modern technology it won’t be fun and it would cost many lives but realistically if you are living in a western country today you are both unfortunately and fortunately going to be shielded from most of it.
Before OpenPOWER, IBM Power servers used a PowerPC-based don't-call-it-a-BMC. Either IBM decided not to release that chip to the outside or maybe Google didn't want it.
that sounds exhausting.. holy fk, i could pair maybe half of the day, and at most like 1-2 weeks at a time
I feel like the article glosses over a key point:

Even on the high end, there were only 11 books that sold more than 500,000 copies.

If I can spend two to three years writing a novel and my best case scenario is having it sell a couple hundred copies

Isn't the best case scenario here that you are the top-selling author, selling over a million copies? I feel like the author of this post is just assuming that they are not that great a writer, that they cannot reach the top 1% of their profession.

Writing books is like making video games. Many people dream of creating one, and the vast majority of them are pretty bad. Nevertheless, some incredible books and video games are created, and the stars make a lot of money. Writing books may not be a good idea if your plan is to write some average books and make an average amount of money, but if you think you can write an amazing book, then what else can really compare?
How about we disallow municipal police forces from owning fucking military-grade equipment instead?
I just now connected big league chew to tobacco, I use to buy it all the time from the tee ball concession stands. That's funny.
>Frankly too many (non fiction) books are essays spun out to book length.

I think by the time you took your scalpel to a typical business book, you might be left with 50-100 pages. The core idea is probably a magazine article but there are usually useful examples, context, etc.

The problem is that publishing industry economics demand something more like 250 to 300 pages (and truth be told a lot of readers would feel a bit ripped off if they paid a typical book price for a 75 page book).
Another point to consider is that many 4K 35mm movies, are actually upscaled from 1080p or 2K scans.

Here's a good list to check whether a film is real 4K or not.

https://www.digiraw.com/DVD-4K-Bluray-ripping-service/4K-UHD...

I've now remembered that the X-Men films from 20 years ago did look pretty good in 4K HDR. And apparently they are "real 4K". Also the 4K remaster of The Fifth Element.
I'm part-way through "By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia" [0] and it does a fantastic job of illustrating the significance of markets in the ancient world. One tidbit that struck me as particularly interesting was that the appearance of the earliest civilizations in the near east demanded resources from other areas, notably the caucuses and beyond, which caused the emergence of more advanced civilizations in those regions as well--and similarly, when a given near-east civilization declined or collapsed, the satellite civilization declined or collapsed as well. In general, I'm always surprised that enormous markets existed before nation states, animal husbandry, before metallurgy, and even before agriculture itself. People were trading obsidian or other resources back into the stone age. I guess I always thought of widespread trade networks as a later development--something that depended upon (not preceded) the existence of agriculture, metallurgy, or nation states.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Steppe-Desert-Ocean-Birth-Eurasia/dp/...
> Author claims it doesn't connect to internet even though it has full network access permission

Hi! Watomatic developer here. The newer version does access internet (Github API) for following reasons:
- To show release notes in the app
- (in works) To warn users about outdated versions. This is an issue esp in the non Google Play landscape.
- (in works) To show recent contributors list in the About section
...

Having access to internet made lots of things easy so thought that was a pragmatic choice :)
I had an even darker interpretation.

Because there is a non-zero probability that some civilizations are, or will become, hostile predators, the most effective survival strategy is to:

1) avoid detection at all costs, and

2) exterminate any civilisation you detect before they can invite the attention of these predators, or worse, evolve into one; meaning

3) become the predator
Well in this case as well as civil forfeiture, it seems they've got a point, wouldn't you agree?
McDonald's, McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut!
They can't legally print USD. That's a pretty good reason.
What is a shirt-tail relative? Edit: Sorry - forgot.

What is a shirt-tail relative? over.
Civil Asset forfeiture also includes things like when Bernie Madoffs assets were seized and sent back to the investors which was $1.7 billion listed in an article on another person's comment. So it's not 100% comprised of "honest" citizens just getting screwed.
I believe a consultancy model, where many companies fund the development by paying for specific need could work. It seems Igalia works this way and they are involved in the development of most mainstream browser engines. I don't know how that would scale.
Your fundamental flaw is my prized feature.

Metaprogramming/reflection would be impossible without treating code as content.
An old rule of thumb when it comes to image stabilization needs is that you should be able to hand-hold the lens at 1/focal length without too much loss.

That's 1/50 for a 50mm
1/200 for a 200mm, etc.

For everything else, there's a tripod.
Beware of Tight Feedback Loops
Vonnegut I remember writing somewhere that radio and especially TV had killed the market for short stories in magazines, which were a great way for authors to get started.

Here's some other things he said on making a living as a writer: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/vonnegut-writing-i...

Note that he got paid $750 for his first short story in 1949! I don't know how many places are paying first time authors that much today, and then you remember to calculate inflation.
> The fact that Bitcoins market cap is 2.2T makes it one of the most successful open source projects in the history of humanity.

First off, your figure is wrong, that is the "market cap" for all cryptos, BTC is closer to 1T. These figures are even misleading considering how many coins are lost or locked up, and how inflated the market currently is.

Dave Chappelle has great quote to the effect that "when the focus is on money, you miss the bigger picture"

The relentless focus on money (or profits) is resented by HN and applies to more than bitcoin. HN talks about this same idea w.r.t. big tech. Money tends to corrupt.

The crypto ecosystem has some interesting technical pieces, some only needed because of the desire for a public and permissionless system. It remains to be seen if society actually wants this after the gold rush is over... but I don't find it overly interesting once you realize bitcoin is essentially git+raft with waste for financial incentives.
This is an excellent interactive primer on basic lens design for anyone interested: https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/
John von Neumann definitely comes to mind. He was jokingly suspected to be an alien by his world-class intellectual peers.
At least part of those machines could be VMs running in CI/CD.

However, you are right that we shouldn't overestimate the client capabilities in the global scale. There's a huge market in developing countries, where every working computer is taken as a blessing.
A broken clock is still right twice a day.
So planes can't crash because I fly regularly and never crashed.
There are enough people whose new account got banned exactly because the tooks can't tell the difference. If they decide you're account is a bot or fake you are done.
It can happen to you anytime.
The main problem is that you lose access to paid software if they ban you.
Can someone explain the use case? Is it just to help soldiers board an aircraft quickly? With innovations in drone technology, I'd imagine it'd be more ideal to engage with the enemy with an autonomous or remote controlled drone. This would avoid putting a soldier flying's life in danger but maybe I'm missing something.
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It wouldn't surprise me if the other way around happens too. Quite a lot of people started off trusting their government by default; that's what public schools mostly teach after all. But when people witness these injustices again and again year after year, is it any wonder that some people will decide to throw the baby out with the bathwater?
Generally bosses have more control over their workers wages then the housing market. It is unrealistic to expect your bosses to provide cheaper housing. It is much easier to expect your bosses to pay you a living wage.

> And just how are we supposed vet and/or collect data on employee housing?

First step is to ask them. Second step is to go to your local government agency that collects data on housing prices and rent values. And third step is to check the prices your self by inspecting rent ads that disclose the price.

> I don't understand comments like this [...] If they're underpaying that's a good thing.

Only from the perspective of the boss. Put your self in the shoe of a worker and then perhaps you can begin to understand what the parent means. Workers also have bargaining power through collective bargaining. The longer bosses pay us lower then what we deserve, the more we will collectivize. A workers union will eventually form and you have to pay us a living wage anyway. In the meantime you must deal with us quitting, calling in sick, striking, advising your potential workers against working for you, etc.
Maybe I don't understand modern app development, but there's no way that 4% of iOS users are app testers, right? Roughly 1 out of every 25 iOS users is a tester?
A helicopter being stationary enough for people to fast rope out of it is also vulnerable. I don't see why they couldn't still have the helicopter providing fire support while they approach with the jetpacks.
I can see this going round in another circle.

The key skill for creatives (in any medium) will be marketing. Being good at the thing you do is table-stakes. Being good at marketing to create the audience will be the key divider between profitable artist/musician/writer/etc and aspiring amateur.

So there's an opportunity for a good marketer to find a great creative (or vice versa) and strike a deal that allows the creative to focus on creating.

This is basically what publishing houses & record labels do, but they're still so caught up in the actual physical production of stuff. Now everything is digital there's no actual need to make books or records.

There'll be a new set of "promoters" who handle the hottest new talent. Getting signed with one of them is the guarantee that you've "made it" and you might actually be able to make a living from this.

Then the promoters will be publishing their own collections of stuff, or creating their own subscription services, or finding some other way of cross-promoting their creatives to the audience of the other creatives they manage. Then it becomes a matter of choosing which promoter(s) you want to follow.

And then we're back to where we were, with gatekeepers for content.
I'll assume you mean streaming video game content. In that case, probably not - as in the probability of making a living level of income is not very probable. It is time-sensitive content, content that does better is timeless.

I would argue most video game content expires in a week to a couple months. The exception being content geared towards general strategies, building (e.g. minecraft) or complex content that requires sequences of activity, secrets, etc.

An example in the woodworking realm is the Shop Nation channel on YT. He detailed in one of his videos the income streams he has and I think he is in six figure territory for revenue. He has by-products of selling plans to build things, amazon links for tools, etc.

That is an example of timeless content. If you strike up the hobby and want to build shop cabinets, etc. you could find his videos 5 years from now and they would still be relevant.
Having spent a fair bit of time with them I think "Cistercians" is the term they prefer, at least in England, though the full OCSO is a bit of a mouthful.