skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lesson here is that you shouldn't just join a FAANG company, you should aim for particular teams inside it. Any big company has a lot of operational needs, and not all of them are hard and exciting, on the contrary: most of those just aren't.
>The really funny thing is that no one reads the article

Not sure if you meant to reply to somebody else, but that has nothing to do with the discussion being had.
Skylight: Looking Back in Time at the Speed of Light
Vineyard 0.2.7: Airflow, Dask, and better ML experience
We previously have seen many possible scenarios that vineyard could be helpful in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25832831

After several months of development we are glad to announce our improvements that briging vineyard with the bigdata computing ecosystem, more specifically,

Vineyard v0.2.7 brings many new features into experimental stage, including

+ Airflow Integration with Vineyard: vineyard serves as a XCom backend for airflow to support the tasks in user-defined workflow shares large volume of intermediate data using vineyard, and enables more possibilities for orchestrating bigdata analytical workloads with Airflow. To try Airflow with vineyard, please refer to https://v6d.io/notes/airflow.html

+ Vineyard brings dask integration in this release, data in vineyard can be consumed and produced by dask procedures, and can be further shared by other compute engines that works on Vineyard. For a end-to-end demo, please refer to https://v6d.io/notes/dask.html

+ Vineyard now can serve as the data source for ML frameworks, e.g., tensorflow, pytorch and xgboost. (thanks @chaitravi-ce )

+ Vineyard Go SDK (thanks @linlih) and Java SDK (thanks @zhanglei1949) comes into a very preliminary stage.

Vineyard v0.2.7 will the last release of v0.2.x series and v0.3.0 will come next week!
Sorry, I can't find the one I read, but there are several good "explanations" in the IMDB review section. Actually, the story is pretty straightforward. I suppose that if you are a Lynch scholar already, the effect is not so great. The magic for me happened when I didn't get it in the first view and everything made sense in the second.

One big thing, that I realized later (and the GP comments on this too) is that Lynch has his owns symbols and language that clue the audience about what's going on (the red velvet curtain for the subconscious/dream world, for instance). If you are not aware of that, it's easy to get lost.
Maybe this is the solution to the Fermi paradox:
Advanced civilizations tend to create runaway space debris collisions, preventing them from leaving their home planets.
I've found the perfect notebooks for me are A5 spiral bound dot grids. Fairly compact size, unintrusive binding. The dot grid forces less structure than lined, but isn't the wild west of blank.

A few months ago I also looked into a bunch of note taking methods, even bought a similar A5, spiral bound, pre-formatted organizer and thought it'd be perfect for organizing my days. It remains unused except for a couple of lines where I began to note the days tasks, then crossed them out and tried to start again the next day.

But a dot grid purchased around the same time is filling up very quickly with odd chicken scratchings of work notes. The only hint of structure are dates scrawled wherever I happened to be starting from that day. Any very important things get circled or marked with an asterisk
Well, in some sense, black holes are the least interesting objects in the universe - they are entirely characterized by their mass and angular velocity (possibly charge as well?).
Not everybody in the list is on YouTube (e.g. Gabriel Gambetta).
I don't have a Google account, and I see no problem with the links in the comments.
However, those who do have a YouTube account may consider it.

The intent of this whole thing was to spread awareness that people such Jacob Sorber exist.
In a world of noise, it is not so easy to find signals. (That's why when I search for a topic, I very often find myself using HN's search function. Then, I might search via DuckDuckGo or some other search engine. If you use browser extensions such as "Content Farm Terminator", "Unhook YouTube", and "Clickbait Remover for YouTube" you get to have a more pleasant search.)

That's my personal opinion, you can disagree with me here, but I find it very problematic that people are out there who intentionally abuse your attention to make you consume their (mostly) futile content. They are also polluting the search space. (I am talking about clickbaiters, influencers and content farmers here.)
Anyhow, I am thankful that there are browser extensions for this, reducing or eliminating most of the noise (or abuse?) out there.
(Maybe the word "abuse" is too harsh here. Perhaps "psychological manipulation" is more fitting?)
I just wish search in general wouldn't be so polluted. It's so noisy out there.
Great, you've successfully diluted the statement with questions that are adjacent, if you squint.

Engineering work has an ethical element to it. I do not see how what you are your 'just asking questions' intersects with this.
If all Plaid's customers accounts were emptied in one go, I suspect banks would reverse those transactions and tell any counterparties that lost money to pound sand.

I believe the cool kids call it a "hard fork", as in, if you are the bank that received the stolen funds and let someone withdraw them, you get forked, hard.
> a lot less resources/waste and materials. The sun itself is actually very inefficient in producing energy.

Umm...

The sun is about 2×10^30 kilograms. The rest of the solar system is about 3×10^27 kilograms and we kind of need it to live on and make things with. Put in other words, the entire solar system including the Sun is 1.0014 Solar masses. Why not go with the process we have rather than fusing everything we have to do the same thing?

If you're saying that we don't need that much energy then I think that's pretty meaningless since we have no idea what we could get up to or need in the far future.
hey, lamp and jquery still works.

I've also built stuff on actionscript 3/flash right at the tail end of the flash era, it sucks to have the floor fall from under you like that but what can you do.

who knows, maybe in 10 years the web itself will be dead and all we'll have left are walled gardens (shudder). It's probably best to learn to embrace the change.
Btrees can be really simple, I've written a super simple understandable readable btree here in python.

https://github.com/samsquire/btree

It doesn't balance between neighbours on the left and right like some btrees do but it handles splits in a really simple way and balances otherwise.

I would recommend everybody write the core algorithm in a simple language like Python first to get the core algorithm understood before trying to implement in a low level language like C or Rust.
Building a Driver-Owned Alternative to Uber and Lyft
This seems to be a fluff piece based on a vague notion of the superiority of tribal wisdom over the scientific method with no real arguments. It reads like an article touting the benefits of "alternative" "medicine".
To assume it’s never reviewed manually is absolutely terrifying.
Frustrating for the tech user.
Very frustrating for the none tech user.

Probably intentional, as when someone does not understand something, there is a good chance it will be ignored.

I'm all for having the ability to make fine-tuned changes to settings, but these need to be under some kind of advanced dialog in my opinion.

This UI change shows no indication (for example) what a .svg file is, or what a .shtml file is.
How on earth can a none tech user know what these mean when by default file extensions are hidden on Windows.

I work with many people who simply do not know what file extensions are.
Have you tried Haskell? The challenge is not a matter of the programming, it’s a matter of formatting components of the answer in boxes. Without exposure to it, it’s nearly impossible to decipher. Which felt like half the point when I was doing it with my son.

Have you considered that different approaches to the same problem might indeed feel alien to you due to your lack of exposure, but aren't really that different?
Exactly, like I paraphrase it to "young colleagues":

Large companies / countries do not exist, they're made up out of small groups and picking the right group makes the difference between awesome and hell.

You will not find a large company with stellar players only.
I must have been lucky. I saw Dark City opening week and there was no explainer. I bought the DVD as soon as it came out, no explainer there either. I bought the Bluray later, no explainer there.

On the other hand I did see Blade Runner when it had the narration the first time I saw it. Luckily I've seen it without many times since.
> Although China has always enjoyed relatively warm relations with previous Afghan governments, so far the entire two-decade history of Chinese projects in the country has ended in failure.

That's because the Americans were in control and said 'no'.

I think the thing to monitor as a first step is any discussions between China and Afghanistan regarding Belt and Road. So far this has also stalled because of the American presence. I suppose that mining projects would benefit from infrastructure and possibly an extension of the link China is building from Kashgar in Xinjiang to Gwadar on the Pakistani coast.
>Edit: I guess that's actually the normal way of using GV! For weird personal reasons I'm using GV without a linked number, and I still receive SMSes at GV.

That's not weird at all. I've always used Google Voice on its own, without forwarding calls/messages to a "real" number. By abstracting my phone onto a web app, I had the benefits of Handoff years before Apple introduced it.
This device that I've cherished so long scares the hell out of me now!!!
The hearts also used to have conflicting descriptions, or at least confusing templates. The charming hairy heart from Android 4.4 was fun.

https://emojipedia.org/google/android-4.4/yellow-heart/
C is his hammer, but tenure is tenure.
Does anyone without autism play Minecraft?
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. The author seems to believe that what matters is the per-platform absolute amount of terrorists. Splitting platforms up makes that number go lower. But in exchange, banning terrorists becomes infinitely harder as the network fragments and people can't be tracked across large networks and banned simultaneously. The article is left wanting two directly contradictory things and as such sounds just like a slimy politician's incoherent rambling.
For me it was the earliest computer games (Adventure, Infocom Games, Wizardry). But having Basic (or was it always QBasic?) installed was also a fun reason to mess around with the computer. My Dad worked for IBM, and he brought home one of the earliest PCs I think in 1980 or 81.
I have read the book a long time ago (around 2005 I think) but I remember one of the 4 player types was griefer which he said was the only category that wasn't useful to the virtual world and should be dealt with.
More interestingly , if it doesn't know meters then how does it know density, why would it pick a more dense section of triangles.
>How does one navigate this website with a keyboard?

One doesn't.
Taking AI from the Bench to the Bedside: Why Does It Take So Long?
Yeah, it scans processes but seems to limit sharing what you are running to what it thinks are games unless you explicitly add the application. Still, anyone concerned about privacy should really sandbox these proprietary applications or just use the web version.
They’d be more useful as an energy source for ships than as a power plant. You would make them in a solar system where lots of energy is available and use them to power a ship going to a different star system, one with no infrastructure of its own. Once you’ve arrived, you colonize and eventually build your own Dyson swarm to harvest the energy to make them yourself.
Arrogant immigrants are arrogant, classic whataboutism as well. "Everything I have is built by slaves? Well everything you have is built by slaves too, slavery must not be a bad thing!"
We were considering using Nordingen but our main concern is that it seems that Nordingen is essentially able to MITM all calls on PSD2 endpoints, right? How do you establish trust, and how can you keep the service free?
Facebook is smart (and devious) enough to be "transparent" in a way that will not be truthful, since being truthful would confirm many of the beliefs that FB indeed shares vast amounts of misinformation while profiting from that sharing.

Maybe they are scrubbing data like AirBnB did for their New York reports, or more likely they are just controlling the metrics and scopes carefully to provide no useful, or at least no damaging, results.

They have been caught repeatedly publicly proclaiming one thing while internally discussing the exact opposite. It's like the tobacco industry all over again.
Personal control (illusory or not) is what separates humans from animals.

The world cannot sustain meat production at scale. If there is magic nutrients in meat that currently can’t be replicated by a vegan diet via supplements (I am not aware of any), we better figure it out soon.
an interesting take:

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/05/26/solving-space-junk...
Most container base images are often so barebone you can't really count on them containing anything. For instance, on an Alpine image you can't count on bash.
it sounds just like the plot to halt and catch fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series...
What backend has had the most surprising benefits by adding a SQL frontend to it?
Startups Should Invest in Automation
Makes sense. Since apple is allowed to disallow any other browser in ios, why should MS restrain itself? I'm sure if apple actually gets some anti-trust action, MS would go back on this.
The argument made is more about the infeasibility and uncompetitiveness of hyperloop as a system.

As for the "Any day now", it's been in development for centuries and the deadline moved from late 2010's to early 2020's and now it's once again in the late 2020's.
I'd like to see one of these with aluminum or steel framing.
It's true that people with JavaScript disabled won't be able to run any JavaScript, but once they turn it on it should have relatively good feature support -- I suspect the sort of people who know how to disable JavaScript aren't using software more than 5 years out of date.
This is known as the Kessler syndrome. And it is not a good solution to the Fermi paradox by itself. Because it would only require a very small fraction of civilizations to avoid it to spread.
Xiaomi became the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer
I challenged myself to build a product in less than a day.I made it
So, yesterday I was about to work on my micro SAAS and I saw that my family was going to be away probably the whole day, and that meant zero distractions.

- https://wickedpopups.com/

They Pop Ups are made for Tailwind CSS and are 100% free!

So I decided to challenge myself to build the product and this what I had to do:

- Design and build the popups.
- Design and build the website where this will be displayed.
- Design the logo.
- Design the open graph.
- Design and make favicons.
- Pack it up.
- Make store on Lemon Squeezey and all upload everything.
- Deploy on Netlify.
- Get domain and link it.
- Wait for propagation.

Optional.

- Tweet my progress during the day.

And then.

I tweeted around 9.44 about the idea, and around 10.30 - 11.00 I was already working on the popups. I had to do some dad and husband things after they came home and it took away time from the challenge.

I was done around 23.30

It was fun feel free to ask me here or on twitter:
- https://twitter.com/Mike_Andreuzza
I don't think that how efficient the production is really matters because stars do produce that energy anyway and for free as far as we are concerned. The question is one of efficiency and cost of collecting it.
A few of the consumer broker apps have a 'practice mode' with a few tens of thousand of virtual practice cash to use with the price reacting to real market data - you could do this in real time!
Why adding a road can increase traffic and other modelling delights
some banks blacklist voip #s (and hence google voice #s it seems) so 2FA notifications fail to go them. I wonder if people who have google fi have the same issue.
> Have they actually said they would do that?

In [1], "That includes a rule to only flag images found in multiple child safety databases with different government affiliations — theoretically stopping one country from adding non-CSAM content to the system."

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/13/22623859/apple-icloud-pho...
Uhm the 5G conspiracy theory is that it causes Covid. Not that the higher frequencies and smaller cell sizes allow better phone localisation, which is obvious and not a conspiracy theory.
While the project itself is interesting, the styling of the website is quite enchanting as well!
Yeah. All needed for interstellar travel for example. But for manufacturing planets?
Not quite. We've seen multiple attempts at the same non-capitalist system.

OTOH how many people are aware of Rojava or the Zapatistas, and their track record?
Since space debris doesn't factor into the Insurance Underwriting pricing decisions at all of the space underwriters that I know it seems hard to believe this is a real problem.
Nor with a trackpad apparently.
Highly recommend watching the explainer video. Very versatile tool!
I assume you mean Renaissance Technologies. I categorise it as pure HFT. They are not taking long-short technical or macro positions in their main fund -- that I know. (Others: Please correct me if they have other funds, or changed strategies in last few years.)

That said, RenTech was under intense scrutiny by SEC and IRS for their incredibly aggressive tax strategy. I did not follow it to the end.
Why would you want to manufacture a gravity well? There are plenty of them
I talk about this all the time. I find it simply insane that, out of the entire design space of possible mechanisms for computer-mediated communication, every major platform has somehow decided that typing comments into small boxes that are indented under other small boxes is the only solution. There are countless dimensions of design variables that haven't even been considered.
ML Metadata Store: What It Is and Why It Matters?
Most people who find this article want to improve their model-building process.

Others have already deployed the first models to production, but they don’t know how those models were created or which data was used.

Some people already have many models in production, but orchestrating model A/B testing, switching challengers and champions, or triggering, testing, and monitoring re-training pipelines is not great.

If you see yourself in one of those groups, or somewhere in between, I can tell you that ML metadata store can help with all of those things and then some others as well.

You may need to connect it to other MLOps tools or your CI/CD pipelines, but it will simplify managing models in most workflows.

…but so do experiment tracking, model registry, model store, model catalog, and other model-related animals.

So what is an ML metadata store exactly, how is it different from those other model things, and how can it help you build and deploy models with more confidence?

This is what this article is about.
Uber as a service is probably the future of transportation services. A huge company that covers the whole world, the Uber of today, will not work since it's hard to tailor it to the specific area. The Shopify model will ultimate work best. If people can create their own companies using a SaaS they can then tailor it to the specific needs to the area they serve and charge the appropriate fares.
It really depends on how exactly you decentralize. Decentralization doesn't necessarily mean complete independence of the fragments; they can still federate into larger entities, and those entities can enforce such things. The trick is to make the power flow from the bottom up, not from the top down.

Here's a real world contemporary attempt to implement some approximation to that. I'm not claiming that it's anywhere near perfect... but it seems to be working, so far:

https://pdfhost.io/v/Hrr2IgtuS_SocialContractoftheDemocratic...
If ring singularities exist then smushing two together at right angles could fling singularity droplets out.
How many earth sized planets do we have in our solar system?
and is pretty much unuseable in the traditional unix setting where you are supposed to vendor nothing and use all the libraries of the OS however broken they may be
Social Media Recruiting Strategies
You don’t have to “do this without JS” but you could have a fallback to tell JS-less users about it. As is they get a blank page and no idea what’s happening.
Every blog started with “just” a story
How can you verify what Apple does on its iPhones?
The omega 3 DHA/EPA in fish comes from algae and can be supplemented directly. ALA in canola oil, soybean oil, chia/flax seeds can be processed by the human body to make DHA/EPA.
What do you mean? Lathes have been used to do subtractive manufacturing with metal for thousands of years. Modern Lathes are CNC types and can build a lot of stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathe
Yes, but it happens on your iPhone. So what happens on your iPhone isn't staying on your iPhone like they said it would.
> with minimal shims, you should be able to use NetBSD hardware drivers on [...] HURD

The Hurd is already using rumpkernel for some servers, e.g. for audio and work is underway for disks.
Clear enough for me: “...1640s, from Late Latin indigenus "born in a country, native,"...”
It looks really nice but it's a usability nightmare in my opinion.
Swiping back with the touchpad doesn't work. Pinch to zoom doesn't work. Page up/down and home/end don't work. Most clickable elements are not focusable
I'm not trying to shit on the devs here. I just wish more developers were more mindful of usability/accessibility.
Bonus: Press tab a couple times to break the scrolling.
Yes I agree, plus China is interested in talk with Taliban in order to avoid that Uyghurs can escape to Afghanistan and maybe “build” a resistance/terrorist group (Afghanistan has a border of few 70-80km with China). So in the end China has a lot of interests now in Afghanistan (unfortunately).
> caniuse.com reports [0] 96% support for ES6 classes.

Class fields are later addition to classes. And completely unnecessary here, it looks. The class fields are just duplicates of the instance fields, which are always filled.

> The other 4% is divided between Internet Explorer, Opera Mini and obsolete versions of every other browser. So I'm trying to figure out what kind of people are using such ancient technology and why?

Unsupported device which can not have recent updates for one reason or an other?
Chinese web giant Tencent predicts Beijing has more internet regulations coming
That's why I said "if feels like".

But nonetheless even if regexps would not be able to validate syntax, it does not mean that the source-to-source transformation could not be (mostly) achieved using them, because the source and target language are quite similar.

Imagine a new language exactly like C but every semicolon is replaced by a duck "\_o<". You could not parse it using regexps, but regexp could mostly "compile" it to C as it only requires to look for all "\_o<" to replace them with ";".
They scan the images on the iPhone before they are in the cloud. That's the whole point of Apple's system.
It was reported this week that there was a catastrophic collision back in March,

https://www.space.com/space-junk-collision-chinese-satellite...
> Minecraft is from 2009.

Counterpoint: Minecraft got a major update last month and there's another one coming ~December. It might have been created many years ago but it's definitely not an "old game".

Don't play the other two but IIRC GTAV Online is still getting updates?