skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that's been my impression at a lot of hackathons, but I think it has be accepted at least to some extent, as just "good preparation" rather than cheating. In fact I'd recommend doing it (Pre-wrangle the dataset into the format you need. Test out some tools. Prepare some components to assemble). I've only been organised enough to do this on a couple of occasions, but this way I've enjoyed the event more. More likely to achieve satisfactory hack project, and/or more time to socialise at the event.
> Shouldn't Islamic countries at least do something?

Realistically they are much better off being China's friend which in China's view means not criticizing China for anything.

Pakistani PM said it best last month about Xinjiang:

"Because of our extreme proximity and relationship with China, we actually accept the Chinese version."

It's pretty sad, but you can't really blame him either, they can't really afford to lose all the deals and propping up they get from China.
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You’re comparing mismatched quantities. You should be comparing how many would have died and how much despair would be caused in the absence of the lockdown.

Consider this hypothetical: a pandemic solution which completely eliminates the disease while causing exactly 1 premature death. The death and despair from the solution far surpasses that of the disease itself, with infinity percent more death! This is clearly not a useful metric.

In the case of COVID, everywhere had some kind of pandemic response, but the least effective so far is Peru with 5982.3 deaths per million population, vs Australia’s 36 per million. Multiply by population, and the difference between the Peruvian and Australian fatality rate indicates Australia saved 152 thousand people. That’s the number of Australian residents you need to suspect have fatally missed a cancer screening.

Caveat: it ain’t over ‘till it’s over, and the Iron Pyrite medal for highest death toll can always change hands.

Edit: decimal point off by one
Have a culture which leave the least amount of power possible to the states, and prevents forming groups that are too large (be it monopolies of governments). But with US borrowing something like 1 trillion dollars per semester, it has good chances of overpowering everyone if it ever turns into an undesired form.
Brilliant. Address the problem by selling a dongle!
I think most Americans would have gave a similar response during WWII as well. It's only with time that opinion has shifted to it being something that we are shameful of.
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I think that's what was meant by "Middle Ages/ early Renaissance" in the comment above. In this time period, literacy was a rare advantage. For instance, in early modern England, literate people were not subject to ordinary criminal courts on a first offense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_of_clergy
So often I come to HN and just read random comments from random people with out realizing that I'm listening to ACTUAL experts. It is rather humbling to know I get to talk to awesome people.

Here is Walter's wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright

He went to Caltech, studied Aerospace Engineering, wrote many books, has given lots of presentations

For my own notoriety, I am a large clam that has slaved away at data for 10 years in Financial Services. I'm about to quit my job for a TOTALLY AWESOME job somewhere else
that's a common trope, though. Baxter did it the Xeelee Sequence: the monads selected our particular universe "seed" bc it was amicable to life, and the proto-Xeelee and others tweaked universal constants (via unexplained methods) in the first few millionths of a second after the Big Bang that allowed for, well, us. And there's too many to list of the whole "Ancients/Precursors" who basically made intelligent life or whatever.
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because you can control physical access to the hardware
Wrong prize...
Are you perhaps confusing the Nobel Prize with the Pulitzer Prize?
Why would you sit around doing nothing for months only waiting for 4 month (if you're lucky) season of skiing?

Also I completely disagree with skiing being way more fun. There are way more areas you can take your mountain bike.

Equipment wise you're not paying much more for a bike than you do for all that ski equipment and you don't need to pay outrageous lift fees.
corporate IT in the companies I am talking about is significantly more locked down, python is not install-able by going to https://www.python.org/ and downloading the binary there. Downloading executables is locked down.

Not really sure how this is a rebuttal, maybe what you say is true on a default windows installation, not on an IT-dept managed system.
Reminds me of when my friends and I used to have LAN parties in the 90s. Good times.

I like your idea of a hackathon. Might just arrange something like this post-Covid.
pertinent essay on blockchain from the security perspective
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2019/02/theres_no_g...
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I don’t understand how this is any better than flipping on email forwarding on most domain registrars. Or why you wouldn’t use plenty of other services for a few dollars a month
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I had a similar situation crossing the US border coming back from Toronto. I got flagged because I pulled past a yellow line during the wait. Incidentally, I just followed the pattern of the person in front of me who flew through.

The thing that resonated with me was the approach the officers used. These types of jobs attract people who like the power trip. You are considered guilty unless you can prove innocence. There was no probably cause, no need for a random search. I know people in LE and I can only imagine how these people would react to similar treatment if "flashing their badge" didn't get them a wave through. I think this is the thing that people don't fully get about the surveillance state and encryption back doors in addition to facial recognition. If there is ever a "hit" on any of these things, you are guilty. LE will stand on you to try to get you to crack because the tech can't be wrong. There are going to be so many innocent people in jail in the future dystopia.
This was the correct decision.

iPhone has squeeze your pocket to change the volume adjustments.

Apple Watch has volume control just using a crown.

AirPods Pro too small to handle a moment or twist.

AirPods Max trials on-head crown and whole better than other product physical controls, quality fine physical gradient control on even a large mounted device is tricky.
I'm not quite clear what you mean by "sharing a single queue between services". If you mean having multiple different services reading from the same queue then no, I wouldn't do that. If you mean having a sending service and a receiving service share the same queue (either directly or indirectly) in the sense that the sender sends a message and the receiver reads it then I can't see any alternative to doing that. If I've misunderstood then would you be able to share what you were thinking of?

I interpret arduinomancer's post above to mean that if the receiving service must action a single message once and only once (which is sometimes but not always necessary) then you need to give each SQS message a unique ID and that ID needs to be stored in as DB by the receiving service. I've used that pattern a few times and it works well (and doesn't result in unnecessary coupling between sender and receiver). In the past, I've used messaging systems that gave stronger transactional guarantees, but those systems were things like JMS or MQSeries and I don't really want to go back to those days.
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That's what I am on, too. The one thing the Redox does that irritates me is the 1.25u keys on the outside. It's gratuitous, and makes them less comfortable to type - I know that technically I only need to reach as far as I would for a 1u key, but the scoop of the keycap means that I naturally tend to reach further so that I can hit the lowest point of the key, which means a fair bit more pinky stretching. Also made finding an appropriate keycap set an unnecessary hassle.

I keep meaning to try swapping the 1u and 1.5u keycaps in the thumb cluster to see if that would make the upper two thumb keys more accessible. As it stands, they're annoying enough to hit that I'm happy to leave them on the default pu/pd/home/end simply because, as a Mac user, I never use those keys anyway. Which seems a bit of a waste of real estate.
Look at the context of this thread then and the comments upstream of mine. I was responding to someone who defended that, that ship sailed, you don't get to make this into something else now. It would be no use anyway, what I said doesn't just apply to that, it applies to any usage of AI by humans to make decisions on their behalf.
Could it be as simple as the system has trouble identifying male vs female faces, so this is workaround to make that explicit?
I've read like 3 explanations of why dB ratings are the way they are over the years and I still don't get it. Personally I think this is one instance where having a 0-100 linear scale is good UX for volume.
Mjburgess is referring to the failure of the logiscist program in research in the foundations of mathematics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logicism/

The article doesn't make it entirely clear that the program is widely considered to be a failure, but it is.

A better way to express the claim that you're making about mathematics would be to say that mathematical truths can be known a priori.
Other people have commented about the increasing blurriness of that distinction over the last couple of decades but also ask why you believe it matters. Yes, M1 can do more instructions per second but it also does quite well on almost all high-level benchmarks. If it was just the case that a bunch of simple instructions were juicing IPS counts, you’d see a big discrepancy between those two metrics like we used to in the 90s. It seems like the most likely explanation for it not being mentioned is that it doesn’t add much to the conversation.
Link please? I know they collect data, and have Windows backdoors.
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I'm not talking about the convenience of "the MP3 days", I'm talking about the convenience today. The example I provided was one-click downloading a music video. You countered this with the ability to... stream audio temporarily from Spotify? Not sure how that's relevant. Does Spotify allow you to download mp4 music videos?
We laugh, but in all seriousness, what evidence is there that Amazon is acting unethically with the Echo devices?
Don't forget that lithium batteries tend to burst into flames if you hit them hard enough. Dumping your batteries can too easily become a bombing run.

Also, Jet-A doesn't burst into flames like gasoline. Even if you soak an area with it, you don't have a firestorm just waiting to blow up.
I'm telling this from an American perspective. The Middle East is the poster child of the harms of religious nationalism; but that's not a uniquely Iranian problem. Nor does religious nationalism or fundamentalism uniquely imperil normalizing relations with a country - Saudi Arabia has an arguably stronger movement of fundamentalists and religions nationalists, and we still allied with them.

The grandparent asked for "Why does America support Saudi Arabia when Iran is more in line with American values", and in that particular case the answer is almost entirely "CIA Bad", possibly with a dash of "right wingers use other countries' right wingers as an excuse to hate those countries".
Theocracy and dictatorship go hand in hand by definition, that doesn't make the country any less Islamic so no need for the quotes as if it's meant ironically or superficially.
Just my observations, but some business entities run into legal challenges that vary greatly by industry. B2B customers have a contractual relationship with you, not your hosting provider. If your hosting provider has an "oops we leaked your data" they only breached the contract with their vendor, not themselves. The contract can specify how data is managed. Adding to this, some companies/banks legal controls are compatible with SOC2 controls of a 3rd party data processor being audited and some companies are not. Some companies can cite the 3rd parties audited certifications and some can not based on preexisting legal contractual agreements with their own customers. I am not a lawyer, but had to sit in many meetings with lawyers and businesses and this is a real issue they have to address. I have also worked for a large bank. Rules, regulations and contracts around 3rd party data processors and financial institutions can get very complicated. There are a myriad of additional complicating variables that go beyond regulations. Legal obligations also vary by relationship. If a bank has preexisting relationships with other banks, they may be obligated to get approval from the other banks to change how their data is managed. Amending contracts is non-trivial. This rabbit hole can get very deep.
What? No. I specifically referred to the Total War speech, not to election posters. You seem fixated on making your own point unrelated to what I was saying.
Great book! I highly recommend!
I don't know, but my city airport is small, so it's pretty much arriving and boarding. Now barajas is another history but I doub't ill be there for much more than 30 mins.
>Pi comes from logic, not nature.

Logic itself is a human construct that comes from observing nature - God's surely didn't hand it over to us. It is also not necessarily a singular thing (same way there are different logics as well as different geometries, and so on).

A universe with different natural laws might also obey a different logic.

In fact, even in this universe, even basic logic propositions are said to be uncertain/untrue under specific scales or physical environments (quantum micro scales, inside a singularity, and so on).

>It's actually not terribly easy to explain to them that they're supposed to understand the idealized entity

There's no singular "idealized entity". For example there are geometries where triangle angles add up to > 180 degrees.
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I have a USB speaker that apparently does some sort of volume mapping on the mixer level. Unfortunately my OS does the same thing and they get multiplied together, so the effect is volume level 0-97: complete silence. Level 98: loud. Level 99: deafening.
You don't have to go to war over this. If the west put the same sanctions on Chinas as it did on Iran China would be forced to step down.
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HN seems to be full of these whatabout-bots
When I was at Stevens everyone piled into CompEng and EE, kind of looking down on ME (and CS actually). To this day my ME friends are some of the smartest, coolest people I know.
Moar people need to be talking about this guys work, a buddy clued me in to it last year. Creating new species without any genetic changes... it's huge. Not only has he discovered a new communication control channel in biology, machine learning is unlocking the commands to intelligently manipulate that channel at will. It's many times deeper this too, this is incredible work.

Want those tree-grown steaks rather than a stew of muscle cells with no structure? This work is how you grow an intact cow muscle without the rest of the cow with ease. Want to tell those cancer cells using your body as a petrie dish to knock it off and to start working with the rest of your body again? This is a direct path towards that too.

Comparing his 2020 ALife talk to another one published in 2021 he's still making progress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-9rLlFgcm0

The mainstream of higher-ed biology is not yet fully on board and is still snickering at his work because he is an outsider, but his results are impressive enough that doubters will become irrelevant soon enough.
The police believe that the software match proves he is guilty from the jump. The rest is gathering "evidence" to prove it further. Without the software, he wouldn't have been arrested. Guilty until proven innocent. The police are lazy, why investigate when the software means you don't have to?
>don't plan for huge growth

imo it might make sense at that point to consider other options. AWS definitely isn't cheap and $50k/mon is a lot on infrastructure for "free" support. I don't think AWS Support makes sense at that price (unless you're going to heavily leverage it) but I'm also not sure running $50k infra on AWS makes a lot of sense either
There could be a universe where "thingness" doesn't work like in ours -- e.g. where things aren't portable, or where the natural world doesn't divide easily into things. Maybe quantity wouldn't mean anything in such a universe.

More concretely, there are lots of ways that the mathematics of a different universe could be so different from ours that π is at best a theoretical concept.

There could be a universe where spacetime is discrete, à la Conway's Game of Life. We might even live in such a universe, but the discretization in ours is too small to probe.

There could be a universe with a different distance metric, such as a L1 ("taxicab") or L∞ (max difference), so that "circles" look like squares.

Or spacetime, or even "thingness" could be modulo some number p -- if p=2, then 1+1 = 0. Space could still be infinite, though -- it could have more dimensions, or it could be based on (e.g.) a complete field of characteristic p.

Or the metric could be p-adic, where two numbers are close if their difference is divisible by many powers of p -- kind of like the US highway system, where highways 80 and 880 are nearby. These metrics have rules like the triangle equality: the longest two sides of a triangle are the same length.
FF 89 worked fine here (mac), either your FF version is old or it's some sort of FF/linux issue ?
Real-time collaborative notebooks to train, track, deploy, and monitor ML models
One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a founder is to go after enterprise B2B without understanding it. Companies in this space are usually not willing to buy a half-baked product. Corporate procurement doesn’t like buying from vendors without a track record. The hardest part is getting your first client — which is why SMB is the typical entry point.

The only companies I’ve seen be successful starting with the enterprise have older founders who have spent a decade or more working in the industry and already have the professional network and clout to reach their buyers. Without that professional network and a track record of delivering, you’re not going to make it past the front door.

And in these types of environments, consulting / maintenance absolutely must be part of the business model. Your customers will demand it (or at least demand you have SIs lined up as implementation partners).
You can definitely be anti-competitive as a market challenger. Uber (with their subsidised fairs) would the obvious example of that.
I would also be financing the rest of what they publish, so it’s a non-starter for me. This journalist should quit and go to Substack.
I've got an API where an event happens once a month (+/- 2 weeks) for a large percentage of our customers.
That’s not my experience with Homebrew at all. I use it on my work laptop on which I don’t have root access and Hombrew has been extremely easy to configure to install everything in a local folder.
Practically speaking, there's very little most governments can do to the most populous nation in the world with a military infrastructure rivaled by only a handful of other countries.

And even fewer things they could do that don't ultimately culminate in massive bloodshed.
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...Good! The "prompt" permission model is fundamentally broken, because all it does is train you to click through the prompt.

The "click the blocking button and turn it off" model is much better. It still trains you to turn off blocking when something is broken. However, crucially, that's only when it's broken. When it's not broken, you just use the site, instead of habitually clicking through the permission prompt that's just harvesting data, not actually needed to function.

And yes, malicious sites can of course display themselves as falsely broken until you grant the permissions. But this makes them more annoying to use, granting a UX edge to the honest sites which don't request unnecessary permissions. In other words, the incentives of sites and users are more aligned.
iko enables teams and individuals to Get Data Products Right. We initially started building iko for internal because our projects took a toll on us. We are a boutique conultancy that has profitably carried out machine learning projects in different sectors and industries for the past several years.

- No-setup, fresh, notebook environments with the most popular libraries pre-installed.

- Real-time collaborative notebooks to see your teammates' changes live. Pair program, troubleshoot, and prototype together.

- Mount external buckets

- Deploys your Streamlit application

- Multiple notebook versions

- Leverage GPUs and schedule long-running notebooks that survive closed browsers and network disruptions. Watch your notebook's output live from multiple devices.

- Automatic experiment tracking to detect your models, parameters, and metrics and saves them without you remembering to do so or pollute your notebook with tracking code. Know which parameters produced which model on which data.

- Easily deploy your model and get a "REST endpoint" so data scientists don't tap on anyone's shoulder to deploy their model, and developers can use the models without being dragged into the ML realm. You also can invoke it by entering data or uploading a CSV file.

- Build a Docker image for your model and push it to a registry (DockerHub or GitLab for now) to use it wherever you want

- Monitor your models' performance on a live dashboard and know if your model is losing its predictive power.

- Publish notebooks as AppBooks: automatically parametrize a notebook to enable clients to interact with it without being overwhelmed by code, or exporting as PDF, or building an application, or mutating the notebook.

More on our roadmap. We're only focusing on actual problems we have faced serving our clients, and problems we are facing now. This is not a "startup idea"; we're building what we need but we'd love to hear your thoughts and problems you have faced we may not be familiar with.
There's this Model F inspired model, if that's the sort of thing you're after: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UB40B5A
I doubt it. I have the latest version of Arch Linux.
That’s so high up the ISO stack it won’t fit on a T shirt.
Not really, I want to scrape a relationship from the current page into a table to be used in joins, etc, with tables from other pages I have previously scraped. The current page being CSV is only an example of a clear relational table.

One can do similar things ~manually popping data into the domains Key-value DBs while scraping, then injecting a GUI to work with all the data, but a tool for doing this with relational database primitives would be more powerful as jailer demonstrates.
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I just tried buying and didn't see an option beyond color and keycaps. I had even mailed them maybe a month ago just to double check, because for my ErgoDox EZ they were able to do a custom order with the lit keys but black keycaps. They had said they are still looking at doing an "all -" blank set, but didn't have it available yet.

How do you like the Moonlander? I really love my ErgoDox, but the Moonlander looks nice.