skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like 95%+ of papers don't do anything besides tell you what happened and you're just supposed to believe them.

Honestly I think there's a big problem with page limits. My team recently had a pre-print that was well over 10 pages and we still didn't get everything and then when we submitted to NeurlIPS we had to reduce it to 9! This seems to be a common problem and why you should often check different versions on ArXiv. And we had more experiments and data we needed to convey since the pre-print. This problem is growing as we have to compare more things and tables can easily take up a single page. I think this causes an exaggeration of the problem that always exists of not explaining things in detail and expecting readers to be experts. Luckily most people share source code which helps show all the tricks authors used and blogging is becoming more common which further helps.

> I'd welcome someone who can actually prove the model just "memorized" every combo possible

Honestly this would be impressive in of itself.
In my recollection, github got popular fast because git was already the cool hype VCS. The kernel guys were the real trendsetters. It seemed like everybody and their mother was giving or attenting git presentations at work, college, LUGs, etc. Github rode that wave of hype at just the right time.
> Regardless of how you define the word 'society,' it’s falling apart now

Society has always been unequal and cruel. I don't think the piece makes a convincing argument for why this time is different.
Reminder that math still exists, and even if you taxed all of Jeff Bezos's $100B wealth you still wouldn't be able to pay for even a quarter of a single year of Social Security. The US government operates at a _staggering_ scale. And somehow you want to 3x Social Security?

You can't just tax and regulate your way out of people not being productive. The market _always_ wins in the end, even if it takes decades. See: European+Canadian brain drain due to high taxes and regulations, US college tuition and housing costs driven by government subsidized loans, the Soviet Union's trade deficits, mass withdrawal of kids to charter schools in areas where public schools suck, housing costs where minimum wage is high going up, CA Prop 13 skyrocketing housing prices, etc. In economics terms, no price floor and no price ceiling is perfect since there is always an imperfect substitute for what you're trying to regulate. Over the long term that destroys the effectiveness of any regulation attempt. The U.S. could regulate in the 60s because it was the dominant superpower and there was no substitute for U.S. labor. Now? China, India, and LatAm are rising fast and getting ever closer to being a good substitute.
Is it? Turn it around, if a newspaper in the US was asked to explain ties to Xi Jinping or Putin before a court would that be of note?

Because things like that do happen in US courts, and it would be very easy to go to jail if you had such associations and did things that would normally be protected, such as leaking national secrets or knowingly publishing false information, that would then be seen as national security infractions.

You can argue that it's a bad thing, but this isn't something unieq to HK. In pretty much all of the world coordinating with geopolitical enemies puts you in hot water.

Actually, coordinating with some Russian or Chinese officials is literally illegal in the US because of sanctions and may put you in jail, since it seems money was involved.
E we hee as t if. The hyperloop was slow but free.
Getting talent from external vendors is complicated. There are various factors. First consideration i’d have would be whether they are working remotely or from an office. How do they protect my information. If the contractor works remotely from home with minimum security controls, then that’s a red flag for me.

Managing vendors is time consuming activity, but every company must have a vendor management office.

http://www.vendormanagementoffice.net
I meant RFID keys. I never need to take mine out of my pocket. My door unlocks when I touch it. My car starts when I push the on button.
> But out of my perspective it's a feature and not a bug that unixy systems traditionally don't ask stupid questions after you told them to do something. It's an attitude of respect towards the operator: The system assumes that the operator knows what he is doing.

By the way, have you ever run across a situation where the standardized behaviour of rm without -f (to wit, check the permissions of each non-directory, and, if it's not writable, prompt if stdin is a terminal)?
Ah, squatting toilets...reminds me of my first time in Japan. Was waiting to land so I could uh, unload. Finally deplaned, and hurried to the restroom. Saw what looked like a urinal buried sideways into the floor. As a tall person with bad knees, I cried inside and scurried away. It's just not something a person thinks about or assumes, does this country have toilets like mine?

Oddly enough, by my second trip, that same bathroom(I assume, but can't be positive) had at least 2 functional western toilets, bidets and all. First time using one of those, and not what I'd describe as pleasant, but story for another time :).

On another note... in my wife's country many people actually do use western toilets as squatting toilets. People typically have just a typical western bowl, with no tank or seat.
That might have been a useful project back when we actually had interest rates :)
Thank you for the links. The closest I've seen to what I'm doing with SproutLife is an iteration of Langton's loops which were developed in 1984
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton%27s_loops#:~:text=Lang....

Here is a video where these loops compete - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGRPwuVvErs&list=LL&index=14...

SproutLife is a passion project for me. I would like to give attention to previous works, and more importantly highlight some kind of practical benefits that studying alife has. We are surrounded by living evolving structures, and having a better mathematical concept of this can be pretty useful which is essentially what alife give us.
No, but knowing a solution exists makes finding the solution orders of magnitude easier.
Vacuum at 70mph fir charging to location away from the loop
Amazon's culture is nothing compared to the stories I've heard about Microsoft's Mac software teams. I can't repeat them all but supposedly they weren't allowed to read any sample code including Stack Overflow questions.
I wear khakis and a dress shirt just to put me in the working mood.

No shoes or socks though.
> Skepticism is good

There's skepticism and then there's being a non-expert in a field and talking with high confidence. How do you differentiate these? Conspiracy theorists use the same logic. You're right that skepticism is good, but it is easy to go overboard.
> That is not how most end user installations are configured (aka, not as a virtual machine).

IIRC if virtualization is turned on in BIOS, the host Windows itself effectively runs as a hypervisor-backed machine. I still think the tests aren't really representative, though.
You cite no real evidence of 'big pharma' evil. What specifically is so 'evil' about an industry that saves the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year?

You will hate 'big pharma' until you get breast cancer...
> former "performance gains" were cheated

why would cache performance be considered a cheat?
Exactly correct. I’ve got a post in the works called “Elegy for Hadoop” that traces the history back to the early 2000s and arrives at the present day where you can easily get on-demand instances with 500Gb of RAM and use it for only your application’s lifetime. If you want 1000Gb instead of 500gb it does not cost 5x it costs 2x, significantly invalidating the “need to use excess commodity hardware” premise of the distributed map reduce architecture.

Edit: I don’t mean to suggest that there is no reason to use Spark, but ~95% of the usage in industry is unnecessary now and should be avoided.
Commenting on this subject will follow your account on HN forever. Random people comment in my posts to say that I didn't toe the official line on China every so often, and thankfully they're down voted.

I have a pseudonymous account, so I don't care so much. But if I had an account with my name on it, I certainly would consider making a throwaway. It's unlikely that this is a "CCP shill", rather it's very probably someone that doesn't want to face real life repercussions for their honestly held beliefs.
That is completely possible.
The sad fact of this incident in my life; I will never know if some behaviours are because of the tumor or not. It really is a Nurture vs Nature toss-up for me. =)
Disclosure: Heavy invested Apple user. A walled garden can indeed be a good thing, as long as it is tendered properly. Do we want the gardener always deciding which plants etc are allowed in? I'm in favour of curated experiences and strong security, but Apple has gone too far. 'Our' garden now has no gates and barbed wire on the walls :(
1. Radar isn't gold standard of object detection. LIDAR is.
2. From reports by owners of latest Teslas, that don't even have radar installed, they still have erroneous braking. Driving is hard.
Previously in Churchville, short stint in the 19th Ward, now near West Ridge in Greece.

Churchville is an idyllic little town, because it's far enough out that the inner-city problems don't reach it. I don't feel safe downtown, and I understand why CCW applications have skyrocketed.
Must have been a bad calculator. It claimed 1000L/s was 400W.
Extra power at night? Where's it coming from?
I was very ready to suggest this must be an old article, but no it really is only six hours old. I suppose doing good statistical work takes time, but this feels like the obvious truth that every single product manager has known since KPIs were invented for social media engagement - anger and fury are the best for engagement.

This isn't news either. Ryan Holliday's "Trust me, I'm lying" talks about this in depth and was published in 2012. I am quite sure folks before him discussed this as well.

We could fix social media tomorrow if we disabled resharing/retweeting/whatever and removed likes, make timelines/feeds strictly linear time based. You want to be an epic troll? Fine, copy and paste your content in. That's enough of a barrier that social media would go back to being reasonably decent.
Then do something and stop talking about "more discussions." Tax the crap out of empty investment housing. Give people homes.

I lived in vehicles for 9 years, so don't get self-righteous or white-knighting. It is cruel to criminalize poverty, and it is cruel to "benignly" neglect homeless people with a lack of services, treating them like criminals in the assistance programs, offer a troublesome patchwork of charity resources rather than integrated delivery, and give only a pittance of assistance instead of doing what is cost-effective and humane to get people into better situations holistically and comprehensively. Mental healthcare including psychiatry, social skills training, and therapy, substance treatment, nutrition, and good medical care are just some of the essential aspects of raising people up.

The US typically has an awful and abhorrent track-record when it comes to delivering necessary social services. For example, in Santa Clara County, an average homeless man without Social Security can expect to receive ~$149 in almost cash and ~$205 in SNAP (previously known as a "food stamps"). The ABAWD requirement comes-and-goes periodically with mandating work in order to receive benefits. (How can a homeless person hold a job if they don't have shoes or the resources to clean themselves?)

Healthcare is provided by substandard Medi-Cal (Medic-Aid) which now includes slightly less horrible dental services (Denti-Cal).

Cell phones are provided by the Lifeline service.
> The really easy to understand systems (such as cvs / svn) are too simple and can't do many important things, so those aren't suitable replacements.

SVN internals are more complex than Git. Also there is a branch/merge semantic in SVN/CVS that is a way harder to comprehend and to predict merge outcomes. I think it had a crucial role in Git's rising. Git has Branches like in SVN and painless merging.
When was last time you looked at LIDAR tech? It's already cheap enough that it can be easily deployed in millions of cars.
Honestly "GAN Theft Auto" is the obvious choice for the name of the project (your project).
They've already got tons of outlets telling the official news, so one more is probably of minimal worth.

However, it you continue to run it as a mostly unbiased/outsider publication, it'll be more credible when the occasional bit of propaganda is mixed in.

What's the alternative? Abrupt change that not only gives away it's new ideological slant, but also could serve as a rallying point?
Tesla Autopilot trains on 1.8 EFLOP Supercomputer
Modern vehicles have much safer crash characteristics than older cars. The average vehicle on the road in the US is 11 years old. Do you know how much crash characteristics of cars have improved in the last decade? The comparison needs to stay in the modern, $65k+ vehicle realm for it to be apples-to-apples. Otherwise, you're comparing a bunch of decade old rust buckets with heat-cycled rubber, no blind spot monitoring, and Takata airbags to modern vehicles and claiming victory. Come on.

The BMW F10 535i had ZERO FATALITIES over its entire life in the US. Zero. It had no "self-driving" capabilities. Just lane-departure warning, BLIS, and ACC.
Obviously if 100% of students were free loaders, they just wouldn't offer the class so it's not a real option. Even then, you wouldn't have the assignment, the dissertations, the feed-back and I doubt the teacher will be as available.

A big part of the cost of doing a degree is the opportunity cost of not working anyway. If your university fees are 10k per year (not unrealistic in Canada), but you could be working a 40k/year job instead, the real cost is 50k/year so you would only really be saving 20%... 20% for the privilege of an incomplete experience, no testing to verify you grasp the concepts, no possibility of doing a masters and no diploma to show for it.

Roaming classes is like buying a Mitsubishi mirage. Sure, it's a car... but you can have a car that's twice as good for 20% more.
Because it makes several of the isolation features the processor ships with useless, without documenting it?
Check out Frank McSherry’s COST (Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread) and see if you are just better off with a single fat machine[1].

1. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...
The time series feature (TSFeature) extraction module in Kats can produce 65 features with clear statistical definitions, which can be incorporated in most machine learning (ML) models...

I'd be curious about the performance of these. A time series featurization library I've liked the look of but haven't used for real is catch22: https://github.com/chlubba/catch22

In particular I like catch22's methodology:

catch22 is a collection of 22 time-series [that are] are a high-performing subset of the over 7000 features in hctsa. Features were selected based on their classification performance across a collection of 93 real-world time-series classification problems...
> He is using Linux. The problem is not with the machine.

I get it, I got so frustrated with Linux on laptops* -- one literally set my kitchen table on fire and melted the glass when the fan drivers didn't work -- but, to be fair, this thread IS "A good Linux laptop below 1000 euro".

I don't think there is going to be a perfect Linux on a laptop experience anywhere. The manufacturer-supported Linux variants might be better (dunno, never tried), or a Chromebook, but short of that it's mostly shared components by a few OEMs anyhow.

*Recently bought a Mac, reluctantly, after 30 years of Windows on the desktop and decades of Linux on the server. It's a godsend not having to deal with WSL/Multipass/Docker/Lando etc. just to do some quick dev work AND never having to worry about drivers. The UI is fine, if a bit keyboard-unfriendly compared to Linux and Windows. I don't like Apple as an evil monopolist company, but macOS is admittedly pretty darned nice.
It's exhausting to have to remind people in this thread that I'm talking about way more than the money maker sports.

There's not "far too much money" in professional swimming or track & field. Killing the college sports, subsidized by the money maker sports, may very well kill the professional leagues for many sports.

D1 basketball athletes be able to be paid. Absolutely. That doesn't change my opinion that college sports benefit society and are often worth the extra cost.
I clicked on the link with some excitement towards someone admitting that Murakami's books tend to lack serious thought, which is the conclusion I came to after reading a bunch of them and starting to get disturbed by the common and lazy tropes they use.

But no! Instead the point is that he's apparently the only human still able to concentrate properly. Oh well.
Eversince Windows 10 came out I don't think there'll be a back-to-generalized-efficiency-tool era for the masses.

At some point enterprise-grade companies that produce software get inefficient in terms of constant costs. They somehow need to make enough money for all the clutter on top that doesn't have anything to do with development/design of the product itself.

So, as long as a software producing company is a public company with shareholders and the market expansion isn't possible anymore...things necessarily _have_ to get crappier for the end users so that the company can keep producing more money out of nothing.

You can see that everywhere in enterprise level software companies. Microsoft, SAP, DATEV, just to name a few where they incrementally didn't make the software better - but instead artificially created lock-ins for their endusers so they aren't able to switch in future. Even when you argue that those companies have many market segments they deliver to, I'd go as far as adding all custom OEM Android apps to that list, as well as smart cameras, smart TVs, everything related to IoT etc.

Most of the smart devices are about removing control from the users and forcing them to pay more money for the same featureset later, gradually, without them noticing in the beginning.

Now with Google FLoC we basically will have the same thing applied to the web, and it won't turn back to the good old "just block cookies" ways. Google will persist in tracking everybody, and they got the leverage to do so.
Sounds like they hired Homer Simpson to operate the plant.
3. Branding

I think one of the big things as well that propelled Git to win was the fact that it was "made by the guy who does linux", easy to remember and later GitHub/GitLab reinforced that branding.

I was a huge mercurial fan, I was also a pretty heavy user of BitBucket (which at the time was only mercurial). It was always a mouthful to talk about mercurial or bazaar. Once people started jumping from google code in 2010-2012 to GitHub, the writing was on the wall for hg.
Oh, they finally got that done. That was supposed to be done back in 2019, before the next carrier in the Ford class (CVN-79, the Kennedy) was launched.

They're still having problems with the electromagnetic launch system. Not, apparently, in the catapult itself, but in the system that powers it. Which is a big flywheel/generator thing. Output is about a megawatt, comparable to the highest performance Tesla cars.

The thing was designed about 15 years ago, before high-power electric car technology was widely available, so it's all custom. The next generation of this will probably be built using off the shelf electric auto parts. Probably on the PLAN's Type 003 aircraft carrier, scheduled for launch next year.
I made fun of my friend for buying a 9600 baud modem. Because, _duh_: nobody can read faster than 600 baud.
Kind of. To locals, it's pretty clearly defined:

WNY is Utica westward, the Adirondacks are North of Utica, and we don't talk about the rest of it.

Yes, I'm speaking with tongue in cheek, but I'm representing the cultural lines as best I can.
Distributed Relational Database Market to Witness Growth by 2028
You can hold this opinion without indoctrination. If you believe that inequality in education is wrong you will likely feel this way as creating a private system without inequality seems very unlikely. Not to say that public systems are necessarily equal. Obviously they can fail here too.
Because the most common usage is to run it with no arguments.
Thanks! I wasn't sure I remembered correctly but didn't immediately see the answer in a quick google.
An unpatched data exfil against the OS with the largest install base in the world? It doesn't matter it's a byte at a time, cryptominers have done more with less. The question isn't if, the question is who and how many. The fallout from SMB2 is still ongoing, and it was patched 10 years ago. The idea of not patching EVER opens up harms for the next twenty years for everyone.
>if this is the state

I find git quite easy to use with egit. I've been using git for more than 10 years. There are two types of people I see struggle with git.

People moving from CVS/SVN to git would have a hard time because the terminology is the same, but means something conceptually different. A git commit is not the same as a commit in SVN.

The other group is people who don't understand version control very well with any system. This group existed before git and will always exist. I believe for these people, git undo or whatever other "easy mode" will simply muddy the water further for them. If you don't know the difference between a revert and a reset, you need to learn it, not try to paper over it with yet another command. undo will simply add to their confusion as they don't understand any of the nuance with git.
Oh, come on.

The person is doing the damage to themselves, not to others (in their own mind, which neither of us can really enter). This isn't a prison experiment.

Bonus, I don't think the parent comment was trying to represent his friend's actions as something to replicate.
I’m also a paying customer of Tower but I stopped as soon as they moved to an expensive subscription model. The last non-subscription version still works fine for me; if and when it fails I will switch to git-fork or whatever is available at the time.

I’ve only just heard about Sublime Merge today, I’m going to check it out now. [Update: I've checked out Sublime Merge. Looks very promising, and I heartily approve of the price and licensing approach. My only immediate concern is how it lists modified and untracked files. I'm so used to seeing my changes shown as a collapsible tree that I'm not sure I can handle this more basic list view.]
> I think Olympic athletes get government funding in the US as well.

This is incorrect.

"Unlike other national Olympic organizations, [Team USA] receives no government funds. It pays for its operations and helps fund athletes and the national governing bodies of its sports through the sale of media and sponsorship rights and some modest fund-raising." - NYT