skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, came here to say this.

I dislike when companies do this; even more so when they say you need to pay - and even THEN they don't give a price:

"Pay once. No subscriptions"
> Without naming Apple specifically, Zuck managed to communicate an intense fear that Facebook would be locked out of Apple's upcoming AR platform.

We can sure hope.
I agree with the author that the real estate agent described something most people want, and not necessarily what the author himself wanted. I think it's unfortunate that the agent didn't hear what the author wanted and just pointed him to the general public's preference anyway.

However, I disagree with his take that America's housing development model is to develop into outskirt suburbs, let middle class move in, let it deteriorate in 30 years, and build more outskirts.

Now, maybe I live in California and things are different. In the bay area even old areas with very old houses rise in values, and in fact, they rise more than newer developments. Demand for housing everywhere in the bay area + surrounding areas are high regardless of how new they are and how deep in town or out in the outskirts they are. Areas developed 30+ years ago continue to have high demand from middle to wealthy families. These areas didn't just not deteriorate but have grown into larger and more modern areas and in some cases developed their own downtown.

Admittedly California and bay area specifically is probably a bubble and behaves differently than much of America. But I have a feeling more than a few popular cities are going through something similar. Appleton might not be, and maybe he's right that the new development outskirts will deteriorate in 30 years, but I doubt that'll be the case in new developments around Phoenix or Denver.
Index funds are so convenient but Facebook is in the top 10 holdings of Fidelity’s 500. It makes me very uneasy. Is there an index fund that one can opt out of certain companies.

And reading through the companies on several of the main fidelity index funds, there’s too many fissile fuel and tobacco companies for my taste.
Definitely not the ones with number 30 in the whole world.

Brazillian variant of vovid reinfects one in 6 people previously infected with earlier variant: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1353
If Google decides to make this available again and put it behind a paid subscription, I would still pay.

Fuck SEO spammer.
All I know is there are trivial AP classes like AP Government, AP Econ, AP Art, AP Computer Science, etc. at my school. Almost everyone got an A and a 4 or 5 on the test.
$50 a month is a lot of money for a lot of people with mental health issues. I get it's a lot cheaper then normal care by going to see a professional but I was expecting the student pricing I guess
This seems to be a survey of astronomers/geophysicists working in the UK and not a global survey of astronomers and geophysicists, so we can't compare or even establish a baseline for the profession(s).

It implies that the bullying comes from senior members/superiors, but doesn't give us a breakdown of who is bullying whom, using the same categories for the surveyed, so this is rather incomplete.
I own Kings Quest VI
Deleted my Facebook account along with Instagram early this year because of obvious reasons.

Won’t be a part of this metaverse and I’m very happy about that.
That’s interesting, how do you know other people think this?
The only way to make it part of the original requirements and not an afterthought is to start making it like in other industries.

Exemplary punishment for any security exploit gone wild.

Management will start getting the required resources to make it happen accordingly.
> A lot of them thought I was ignoring them, so I figured it was better to not have a presence there at all, to eliminate any possible misunderstanding.

This is how I feel about email. I’m not sure it’s possible to function in modern society without an email address though.
Telm.ai (YC S21) - Real-time data quality monitoring

Looks interesting! I worked on https://github.com/capitalone/DataProfiler

We are looking to monitor correlation changes over time, see if sensitive data gets entered, track schema changes, etc and see the impact of down stream modeling, etc

I'm curious how heavy the input is? because usually these systems take a lot of effort to setup. Any idea?
> But if someone said "95% of paint splatters OCR as Welsh words" and it turned out that's because the OCR is looking for words, it doesn't say much interesting about Welsh like the title implies.

I think it depends on the claim, right? IMO, a more analogous statement might be "95% of paint splatters OCR as grammatically-correct Welsh sentences." Unless the software is using something like GPT-3, that finding would be notable regardless of software tuning. Even if it tells us more about Welsh grammar than it does paint splatters.

> Look at the whole gallery though. Most of the OCR results are just a string of letters or a number. Those being valid is very mundane.

Yes, thanks, my mistake!
Weird. Maybe it's because I'm using Edge. I just hit another similar error on the "addition-subtraction" one. I can't get past it even by "Show Answer".

I'll switch to Chrome and see if it persists.

Edit: Tried it in Chrome and the error persists
I don't think they should remove it, but I also don't think it's that ridiculous. Apple has always been against tools that allow execution of arbitrary code. Which is fair; it gives applications on the App Store the ability to bypass review. At some point it's on you as the consumer to understand the limitations you're signing up for when you get an iPhone.
>Maybe FB will buy whatever replaces TikTok.

It's unlikely that the government would permit such a sale.
We already know what happened as 2021 data is out:

Applications: https://ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/co...

Admissions: https://ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/co...

System-wide, any demographic change looks insignificant. No change at Berkeley (which had already increased SES weighing in 2020). UCLA slightly boosted URG, but it looks like some of that might have been application demographic changes (which removing the SAT might have caused to some degree - a small number of students may be discouraged by it)
Game theory your boss with Prisoner's Dilemma non-zero-sum game (both can win)
Ahh yes, Facebook has finally ascended and become Zombo.com, their final form
one of the reasons I borderline hate google now is that the search results do not honor double quoted text, or subtract text like you mentioned. I have tried searched with -site: and google just ignores it and gives me results form there anyways
Deep Dive: Why NFTs Are the Keys to the Inevitable Metaverse
Agreed. Instantly stopped reading at this point, and came to find comments thinking the same.
Why do people have names instead of just being assigned IDs?

Perhaps it's time to reassess this tradition. "Hi, I'm US Citizen AXJ80182!"
Also, you need pilots. And never mind ping pong balls are highly flammable and thus dangerous goods. Maybe they want to burn down a 747?
I connect with a lot of people on social media that I wouldn’t connect with otherwise. Whether it’s worth the tradeoff is up for debate. Could I connect with them in some more deliberate manual way like directly emailing or calling them? Sure, but would I do it? Probably not.
You press random and taste, lets say it comes out pepsi. This means that this button has to be the pepsi button because if it was the random button then the label would be correct, like you mentioned. This settles the pepsi button.

Regarding the other two buttons, one is random and the other is coke but their labels are pepsi and coke, giving us only two possible (order-independent) states which I'll illustrate with the format drink(label)/drink(label):

Coke(Pepsi)/Random(coke)

Coke(Coke)/Random(Pepsi)

The second case is invalid because it would require for the coke label to be correct, leaving only one possible case: the button labeled pepsi would have to give out coke.
Note well that in the default config, syncthing grants remote code execution on your machine to the syncthing developers in the form of Solarwinds-style no interaction autoupdate.

A compromise of the centralized release process could steal all of your (and everyone else's!) files by updating to a malicious version automatically with zero interaction.

Set the syncthing binary's file ownership as root and run it as a normal user so it can't get overwritten, and set STNOUPGRADE=1 in the environment to disable this dangerous default behavior.
The goal of making man an "interplanetary species" comes from religion, specifically the religion of Transhumanism to which both Bezos and Musk subscribe.

There is nothing in our history or present day evolution that would suggest people can or should live on other planets. Absolutely nothing. We are not even remotely close to such a "goal" when today people live barely below the threshold of space (LEO) and not in space at all.

Religious goals and magical thinking have driven human society for hundreds of thousands of years (see the fascinating and recent post here on HN about The Origin of Consciousness in the Bicameral Mind). Jeff and Elon's fantasies about human habitation in space (or somehow improving life on this planet by leaving it) are more of the same.
Naive question, today can you work at microsoft as use a mac for development on the job? (non windows specific development of course)

I think about how if you work at apple, you're probably strongly pushed to not use an android phone (I'm sure some exist). Compared to google, you could probably use either android or ios (even with google "owning" android), or mac, windows, or their own flavor of ubuntu for development. Windows is less than stellar for development generally (ignoring .net/c# things), I'd be grumpy using windows for development even if they offered a zillion dollars. WSL probably makes it okish, but is still new
Not every problem, no. But I don’t see the invisible hand of the market fixing this one. I don’t think most users care about how open their technology is; the downsides are too nebulous and distant to drive consumer spending away from walled gardens.
I design instrumentation for telescopes, in which C code on an embedded processor peeks and pokes device registers on an nearby FPGA. This C code forms an interface between hardware and the network.

In this system, I write a given function in C and surround it with a macro wrapper. This wrapper generates a JSON-RPC equivalent of the C function using the Jansson JSON library [1], complete with argument typechecking and error management. My C code can call the function normally, and an embedded webserver [2] can export it across the network where it's used fairly transparently by a Python stack on a control PC.

All three of these "embedded software" elements (the embedded webserver, the JSON library, and the FPGA interface) are very well suited to C. I have recently dabbled in moving parts of it to C++, and have found a few surprising impedance mismatches. (As I mentioned above, C++ still lacks reflection.)

The macros, here, are not for "elegance" or any other abstract purpose. They have allowed a ~80% reduction in boilerplate and an equally impressive reduction in the bugs and hassles associated with this kind of low-density, high-sprawl code.

[1]: https://digip.org/jansson/

[2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd
ViaSat knows it can just build its own re-usable rockets to be able to price match SpaceX right?

There's no law against that.
Yeah, one has to think of the 'microphone budget.' For microphone arrays, I think it's probably better overall (from the ecosystem management angle) to cover a wider non-overlapping region than getting a more comprehensive picture of a single point...

The quality of the single-source classifier is the obvious scientific bottleneck, though; improve it, and everything else will work better. (We've also got plenty* of existing training data for this case.) So that's where we've been focusing most of the energy.

* - depending on species, of course. See also: xeno-canto.org
Not only that, it doesn't even keep track of the calculation graph, so it doesn't know what needs calculating, or in which order to calculate.
Pre-Corona, I'd spend approximately 2-3 hours after work online, mostly working on hobby projects or catching up with quick TV (40 minute shows feel like a waste of time, whereas 2x20 minute shows feel more productive...)

Nowadays, I have no need to leave the house. My meat-space activities are gone, so I poured myself into my hobby projects and learned that working on what you love more than 5-hours a day (out of genuine want!) quickly turns into a chore, and before you know it you're in a mindless spiral of ticking boxes that you arbitrarily set yourself to give the impression that the time spent on said hobby/chore is meaningful.

I cannot wait to get back to work. I miss my 2 hour biking commute, it was beautiful.
STB to Class I’s: Terminal Congestion, Demurrage Data, Please
The paperwork was lost under Ajit Pai's coffee mug.
Not just that.

> I’m now leading Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company

> After five and a half years developing our technology at X, we’re now ready to become an independent Alphabet company, leaving the moonshot factory’s rapid prototyping environment

If you don't know what "X" in Alphabet/Google is, then this announcement looks a little vague and confusing, not like the skunkworks unveil it is supposed to be.
I came across Duff's Device as a student and to this day it's one of my favourite pieces of code. It's practically a piece of art!
Totally understand, Will definitely be adding a pricing section to the landing page soon. Appreciate the feedback.
Nah that only applies to Europa. Attempt no landing there.
> long-term mission that is worthy of being pursued

Sure, it's worthy of being pursued, but Facebook doing it means that the end result is likely to be dystopian, not something that leads to a better future.
Isn't all of this orbital junk kind of dangerous for space missions and interferes with astronomical instruments here on earth?
We Need a New Term for Video Games
On such a technical question journalists can only report on what they hear from scientific sources, and when those sources are new to them they'll have to decide on the fly how much trust to put in them.
I feel "metaverse" is turning into a buzzword like "AI" or "Big Data".

To me the "metaverse" is always there at least since the introduction of affordable personal computer in the late 70s. In the 80s you already got a "metaverse" with the computer at center surrounded by BBS/FTP/etc.
You're missing a key variable here: time.

If you dumped that amount of rain water in one second, you'd have a Tsunami. Dump it over a 24 hour period, it might flow out smoothly out of a little stream. Dump it 10% in an hour, 50% in the next hour, 10% the next hour, 30% over the next 12? Um, that's harder.
JetBrains academy is good as well https://www.jetbrains.com/academy/
The problem is that it is impossible to give a good answer without context. Did it matter a 2% error? There are cost limits? Maybe you don't even need to know the number of ping pong balls but it would be faster to transport them by ship....
Amazon will investigate gender bias claims in its cloud division
How does this compare to using metadata (eBPF bases metrics).
I wonder if this would be easier today with conductive mylar.
Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
NewPipe is an excellent YouTube client. (Though you should add their repo instead of using the outdated version that comes with fdroid.)
Don’t blame business for cultivated meat’s cell line shortage
I wholeheartedly disagree with this. I would say a large percentage of people are incapable of judging the risk for themselves, which is why we get people going on ventilators begging to get the vaccine now.

I mean, the entire insurance industry is built around the idea that people are incapable of judging risk.
I think people are just bored and disgruntled now.
This is almost certainly the answer. They're round to fit the cylindrical holes they're covering, and those holes are round because they're made with drills, and they're made with drills because that's a lot faster and cheaper than digging.
> probably going to resemble some kind of a hybrid between the social platforms that we see today, but an environment where you’re embodied in it

Opensimulator (the open source version of second life server) already exists, it is decentralized, self-hosted, and a few thousands of people re already living in it : https://opensimworld.com/
> So, by using AAPI students as a proxy argument for their weird screed at the end while leaving off factors like what percentage of that UG population is in-state v. out-of-state v. international does a disservice to that over/under-represented claim; while also leaving them off of the earlier analysis pieces moves the slant of the article in a weird way.

UC reports international students separately. They also have dedicated reports for CA. Here's the CA admissions data: https://ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_f...

> For further reference; AAPI students are __NOT__ included in Underrepresented Minority (URM) calculations - even though in many cases a layperson __WOULD__ include them;

Not in higher ed.
It’s All Uphill from Here for Intel’s Datacenter Business
Would Rally Rd for people be legal?
Just playing around with whether or not this would actually be legal today or not (not looking to debate if its actually a good idea in principle).

Could you build a fractional shares platform like Rally Rd but rather than IPO'ing alternative assets the platform would IPO people. The key here is could you do this in a way where non-accredited investors could participate?

On Rally Rd you don't need to be accredited as long as you invest less than 10% of your net income. I'd imagine this would likely have some type of ISA agreement with the person/platform but maybe there is a different way to setup an agreement?

I know individuals have done this in the past (some pro athletes) but never seen infrastructure built around it.
A new section needs to be added to ant-trust laws outright banning "metaverses".
It's always worked for me. Would you happen to have an example query that doesn't respect those things?
This is an interesting instance in which to measure that. It's hard to tease out the cause-and-effect here. You get the same thing with politicians: are they saying something to convince their constituents, or are they saying it because their constituents are already saying it and they know it's what they want to hear?

My suspicion is that it's some of each, and I'd bet that the numbers in red districts will rise some, but not a lot. Proportional to the ~2 million Fox News viewers, out of ~80 million people who voted Republican last time. Not that all Fox News viewers will rush out to be vaccinated, but that [say] 25% of them will and influence an equivalent number of non-viewers.

Pulling those numbers out of my ass, of course.
A lot of subdivisions here build around these as green spaces. They have jogging trails, planted trees, and some of em they also stock and you can fish within your neighborhood. It’s pretty neat.
Sure, but there are a lot of subtle issues in both sorting and binary search. The simplest sorting routine is probably dumbsort:

void
dumbsort(int *p, int n)
{
for (int tmp, i = 1; i < n; i++) {
if (p[i] < p[i-1]) tmp = p[i], p[i] = p[i-1], p[i-1] = tmp, i = 0;
}
}

But it lives up to its name; I can't imagine any reason you should ever use this algorithm. It compiles to 16 instructions but it's O(N³). Insertion sort is more complicated—it compiles to 17 instructions—and is actually a reasonable thing to use in some circumstances:

void
isort(int *a, size_t n)
{
for (size_t i = 1; i < n; i++) {
for (size_t j = i; j > 0; j--) {
if (a[j-1] <= a[j]) break;
int tmp = a[j];
a[j] = a[j-1];
a[j-1] = tmp;
}
}
}

That's because it has the lowest constant factor of all the O(N²) comparison sorts on common machines, so it's the absolute fastest way to sort small arrays. (On my laptop it sorts N items in 0.34 ns × N² ± 2%.) And it's also very fast for large arrays of nearly-sorted data, so it's a reasonable way to finish up after a rough quicksort.

It took me about five minutes to write that, and it worked the first time I tested it. But that's in part because I find sort routines fascinating and I've been studying them, and programming in C, for almost 30 years. Even if it took you an hour or four hours and required a lot of debugging, you still might be a decent programmer. Especially for jobs where things are less well defined and you have to do a lot of debugging anyway!

(By contrast, I've actually spent most of the last hour trying to write a properly working quicksort, the variant that finishes up with a single call to insertion sort, using both notes and a compiler. Of course it produces correct results because of the final insertion sort but it's not as efficient as it should be and I can't figure out why. Apparently I can't brain today... good thing I'm not in a job interview!)
And when did they make that exception?
Yep, that's great news. Thanks!
Moths Are So Gorgeous They ‘Put Butterflies to Shame’
It gets plenty windy just a few miles out into the Pacific Ocean. Pay attention to the marine forecast for a few months and notice how often they include small craft advisories.
HK publishers arrested over ‘sheep village’ books
Tell that to European car manufacturers, almost no two cars are identical. I've heard that some models have more possible variations than there are v6 addresses.
It's amazing how many different cautionary tales were eventually adopted as how-to manuals.
If none of them are correct, then

- pepsi is coke or random

- coke is pepsi or random

- random is coke or pepsi

If you want Coke and you start with Pepsi, you'll get back Coke (1/2 + 1/2x1/2) or Pepsi (1/2x1/2). However, you could pick it and get back Pepsi 10 times in a row.

If you start by picking Random, you get back Coke (1/2) or Pepsi (1/2). If you get back Pepsi, you know

1. Random = Pepsi
2. Coke = Random (since it can no longer be Pepsi, since Random is)
3. Pepsi = Coke

So, you get back Coke on your first attempt (1/2),
or you get back Coke on your second attempt (1/1).

So picking random first, then the correct one, optimizes for lowest upper bound on the number of choices to get what you want. Which is _actually_ what I meant by "The least amount of money spent to guarantee getting your choice", but didn't actually express correctly.
If these updates are compelling, people will know. Outside of security updates, there’s not often a reason update unless there’s a née feature you require.

I swear it seems like there’s a whole generation that doesn’t understand that how to build software that isn’t always phoning home and requires a subscription fee.
Indeed. It doesn't take a billionaire to figure out that, the further away something is, the more it costs to get it to the customer.
Doesn't matter. They don't get a cut.
PoP!_OS would be worth trying, it's built for laptops, could probably do power management well on this one.
> competition drives advancement

Is this always true though? Space tech is highly specialized, if you can't hire enough people already, more competition just spreads the available talent thinner. I'd be curious if it's currently the case that SpaceX/NASA/BO's development is personnel constrained.

I've definitely heard of projects at FAANG companies being cancelled because they couldn't hire enough people for them, so I could see this also happening in other industries.