skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pre-trained on Google News Collection like most Transformer models are

BERT for example was trained on Wikipedia and Book corpora. Do you have a source for this claim?
That sounds awesome. I’d love to work in this field. Any tips on where you learn this stuff? Currently a software dev in crypto.
Ask HN: Is MS from States worth being an immigrant?
I am from India & make about $60k. It's a decent income w.r.t living cost.

Doing an MS will drain all of my savings and I will have to deal with risk of finding a job again. However almost all of friends / ex-colleagues have already moved to states and are pursing their education.

My strategy right now is become a much better engineer, be employed by a FAANG (currently interviewing) & then directly apply to States/UK/Canada. Is this flawed?

If this doesn't work out, I will be 27/28 already and would it be too late for MS? I've been worrying a little too much on it, especially since I feel like I am stuck in a limbo while everyone else is already living a much better and happier life.
Reading this while eating.
I think you've got a succinct explanation for what's been happening over the past few weeks.

This illusion has been sustaining a brand loyalty for several years while getting away with privacy contradicting moves, and always being defended by its loyalists. I say loyalists instead of customers to make a distinction.

What's happening now is the moves are becoming increasingly egregious, and what we're seeing is a slight awakening to the reality of the situation, that the 'stance' had been nothing more than a grab for user control (in turn to sustain profits)

At this point it's either abandon ship, or make petitions and opinion pieces such as TFA.
My God, I am thoroughly impressed. This is almost 1:1.
The fact that monads aren't technically required to perform IO at all but rather is an abstraction that meshes nicely with the Haskell way of doing things. If you don't want to use monads for IO you're certainly going to meet resistance in terms of library support.
ZERO-NINE! Good to see you're still hacking on stuff :)
lol more and more conspiracies are becoming more and more likely
Those jobs have other arbitrary barriers to entry and if they were more desirable than knowledge work, college grads would be doing them too.
I carry an iridium hotspot when away from civilization and I’d definitely use an eSIM in my iPhone to get access to LEO sms or voice calls in a pinch. One less device to carry.
> The vehicle had stopped at a T junction and was about to turn under manual control of the operator, who was using the vehicle's joystick control, when the vehicle hit the athlete going at around 1 or 2 kilometres an hour, Toyoda said.

So...this was not a self-driving accident? Seems like a pretty important detail to be buried halfway down the article.
Like automating the analysis of a recorded argument according to Gottman institute and other social heuristics for augmentation of marriage counseling services?

[edit: i.e. count positive and negative sentiment statements assigned to speakers and compare the per speaker ratio to the experimentally determined minimum "healthy" ratios not yet replicated]

You're right that there needs to be a tractable starting place. This is not lost on me. I may have used a flexible definition of "close to solving" but one's interpretation also fits into the scope of the effort. I'm at least 10% into it! ;P
Imagine how many more it might have been if she were vaccinated but a breakthrough case. Because the vaccine reduces severity but not viral load [1] it might have taken much longer to detect the problem. Vaccines are not a silver bullet. We pretend they are I’ve noticed (recall the cdc saying no more masks last June). We do so at our own peril.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1
15 billion a year is not enough for google to create a competing rival ?
Darklang's traces are not the same thing as a REPL. The user gets sent a normal 400 error, and the request trace is saved so that later, the developer can "replay" the request (on the live server, with full context).

While Dark does support the general idea of doing live code in production, it's not a Lisp dialect and is very much a functional language.
"Yet you almost never hear the financial experts recommending that you start a business."

And... many times when I do hear people recommend "start a business", it's "for the tax write-offs". Or at least that's the one bite-size thing some folks internalize. Have seen friends and neighbors get in to "business" - like various MLMs - and talk about "write offs". Naive at best, and dangerous at worst, I'm not surprised more people aren't specifically pointing out "start a business" to mass audiences - I'm not sure most people can do that responsibly. But most people can enroll in a company 401k and save a bit of money for later. The biggest damage they may do is lock up some money until they're 59. "Start a business" without much thought can lead to a lot more problems for folks.
I’d love for something like this to exist (a fast, clean, well-designed mobile and desktop app for backing up my photos with E2E), but I’d only switch from one of the big providers if it were FOSS and I can bring my own backend target (e.g. S3, SMB, FTP).

In a perfect scenario I could generate my own private key to plug into my client devices and just have everything push to private S3 (and then from there archive to the cheapest, coldest glacier tier after it’s been synced to my home storage).

This to me would not be that complicated to build, but would essentially provide E2E Photostream and a backup of last resort in the cloud.

Obviously (as is the problem with all FOSS) you have the dilemma of how do the developers get paid, which I’m sure is why you went down this yet-another-paid-cloud-provider route instead of what I’ve suggested above.

All that said - I like what you’re trying to build, I could see it being useful to some, but providing E2E photo storage as a direct-to-consumer service is IMHO just asking to be held liable later for what your users store there should you gain any considerable traction.
> it’s pathetic

No it isn't. But that is revealing the issue: you tend toward the irrational. In fact,

> How do I stop

By realizing that there is no need for that, rationally. You want to buy new X, but you do not need them: _see the fact_ - they are per se useless and replaceable for their improper purpose of emotional release: to have X is just petty if you want to fix your finance. You can replace the feeling of that X with something free. If there is one stroke of luck of living in these times, is that access to stimula has probably never been so rich in options and free in cost.

> trying to think of things to buy

Think instead of things to enjoy. They are really, mostly free nowadays (even our presence here at Dan's is). Be faster than the other habitual pattern and replace it - if you think of something to buy, realize you are doing it and think of something to enjoy. Replace the thought. You are used to collect items: collect experiences instead. Realize that you can replace items with experiences. For that, one laptop is enough, a basic car etc.

That thought habit is a mental pattern to replace, to replace with something that makes sense - the other does not, as you have to realize and in fact realize.

(And about Amzn, if other people were unable to read this, I would add: Bzos is bald. And you do not seem to have stopped to consider that. If you want to buy from him - who am I to convince you otherwise. But he is bald (you should see that - it should be a thought stopper, a doubt inducer). And possibly the last person in the world who needs your money. With your money you vote: is that what you want to promote? The very fact that you shop there raises the question: how long have you thought about your actions? The single ones, the generic ones. Some people think you are supposed to evaluate your actions before doing them. You take a step back, look at what you do, and what you have done and what you would do, and judge them as good ideas or bad ideas, for what they are. I am sure you know mathematics sufficiently. If I shop from somebody with those traits, I have deliberately deliberated it, it is a conscious choice. Read these paragraph carefully, and understand them. If you want clarifications, we are here.)
Probably assuming a yearly checkup.
What will they write about when the same happens to a mask-wearing vaccinated teacher?
Well considering that this behavior only appears in specific situations, I'm inclined to believe the bug claim.
I am the only one who thinks these bounties are ridiculously low? They should at least add a couple of zeroes to that one. Just wow.
Buran was intended to be a carbon copy of Shuttle, but Soviets weren't able to put engines there because of weight constraints and they had no solid boosters either do they had to improvise.
An internal London-to-London commute could well be like that. My Kennington to Goodge Street commute started with an empty train, while if you can flex your starting time to 10am you're going to have a pretty empty Tube on much of the network.
> Investing that $2.50 you spend every day on a latte in the stock market instead can lead to a life of riches. How’s that for putting a damper on one of the little joys in life?

Budgeting will let you realize there are essentially infinite ways to spend your money. You have to decide the best way to do that. If you're trying to make money, buying yourself a latte is not the best way to do it. If you're trying to enjoy the money you earned, buying a latte may be the best way (but probably not).

Budgeting helps you better understand the balance between spending and earning. When you start considering the best investment for the dollar you have earned, it makes a difference.
Sure, some of them. But usually have a pgbouncer in front.
when you're offering a service designed to expose a list of numbers, there's no way to design it in a way that doesn't expose that list of numbers. given enough time, a motivated person will extract all the data.

most likely, this page started out as a list of all 74k phone numbers, and at some point somebody built a lookup tool on top of it. there's no reason to assume that keeping the full list secret was ever a design goal.
The physics behind a water bear's lumbering gait
Wormholes aren't true FTL travel, they change the geometry of space such that there's a new shortest path for light to travel from A to B. Setting up a wormhole between two points requires slower than light travel to extend the wormhole ends. But after initial setup it would still be amazing :-)
BackBlaze because of their reputation.

Scaleway because of their cold storage offering in a fallout shelter underground that reduces the risk of natural disasters.
Are you alleging that most small business efforts fail before they make any profit -- as in +50%? That seems rather unlikely but if anyone has strong numbers on that I'd be very interested.
Ideally they should support reproducible builds so that anyone can confirm that the hash of the app corresponds to a specific tag on the source repository. Unfortunately app stores are making it harder to know what the hash of the app you are installing is, but for side-loading this should still be possible.

For web apps, the situation is even more difficult, but there is a technique called Secure Bookmarks which allows you to confirm that a specific bundle of JavaScript is running (at the expense of some usability):

https://coins.github.io/secure-bookmark/
I used to play GSGO. I noticed that using the youtube app on a certain iphone 4s would completely kill my latency, adding about 200 ms.
Sustainabilitist Hub: mini-lessons on self-sustainability
I agree that this approach is actually pretty reasonable for checking if a specific string is in a relatively small list of possible values that can't easily be expressed as a simple set of prefixes or whatever. It's must simpler and easier to maintain.

The bigger problem with this approach is that it exposes a canonical list of phone numbers that are guaranteed to not be flagged as fake by the tool itself. That isn't likely to be a _massive_ concern here specifically, since it will always be easy to find a valid customer service number without that access. But I'd expect a team looking at dealing with fraud or scams to be pretty conservative about information disclosure generally – it would be a good argument to implement this as a backend service.
Also, cost saving like this always had been normal with consoles. It goes back at least to PS2. This is just an expected news.
LeetCode – Merge Two Sorted Lists
Yes that’s possible, but it still doesn’t excuse idiots who get their health advice from YouTube, celebrities, or talk radio blowhards.

The vaccine reduces the odds of getting the virus (even without symptoms), and if there were no antivaxxers this thing might be almost dead. The fact that 40% of the population won’t vaccine because of quack nonsense is ludicrous.

I’m honestly not sure why anyone listens to celebrities about anything. Has a celebrity ever been right about anything but acting?
Web site building complexity, for now I started with a simple static site generator https://mkws.sh/. Right now, I'm not using any package manager, no config files, only one language for templates (sh), and obviously HTML, CSS, Js. I eventually plan to develop a simple CMS based on the same ideas. Ideas and code are welcome!
It is a level of shadow ban, because unless you enable show-dead you won't see anything.... but they have another level where you can;t unhide it
> there's a "dirty little secret" that this article doesn't mention: most of them never get paid a dime by their own business. They are spending their way through a business loan, or they have family money, or some other source

Over fifty percent of generic small businesses survive for more than five years, so it's unlikely that a majority of them are completely subsisting on government loans, investors, or family money.

The most common outcome (for the small businesses that last) is to turn into something that creates just enough revenue to support the owner and a handful of employees. The owner takes a small salary and uses the rest of the cash flow for float or reinvests it into the business.

However, depending on the country, tax laws can be fairly advantageous for small business owners (e.g., higher limits on tax-deferred retirement accounts). There's also the benefit of building net worth in the business, which isn't something that employees benefit from. So, while the owner may not be getting paid all that much, they still benefit in a bunch of other ways.
The reporting so far has been about making their devices work with existing satellite constellations.
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> It's not a guide on how to live your life, it has many flaws, questionable ethics and morality defined in the text, bringing God into it to make beyond contest.

Can you please elaborate.

>Before anyone questions my religion, I am Hindu from north India (Uttarakhand Purohit clan to be specific)

What Vedanta school of interpretation are you talking about.
The gold standard is Australian Ballot -- private voting, public counting -- cast at poll sites, immediately tabulated when polls close, then results posted publicly.

Just a TLDR. There is so much more. Election administration is pretty involved.

Electronic voting breaks the Austalian Ballot in two ways.

Whereas a ballot box protects voter privacy by being a secure one-way hash (physical shuffle), all electronic systems record the order ballots are issued then cast (necessary for auditing).

Electronic voting also obliterates the physical chain of custody.

FWIW, to protect privacy, postal ballot processing has to properly batch (by precinct) before opening. Your jurisdiction probably doesn't do this, due to cost and timeliness.
Oppenheimer’s quote is, while not quite a mistranslation, incomplete. The original quote would more properly translate as an incarnation of “time” rather than “death.”
Oh, nice!

They appear to have reused that footage in another episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgRom5gINtI
If a remote human controlled car accident causes them to end development of self driving, then they were looking to do that anyway.
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How decent is "decent"? 80sqm?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_finding

If you wanted to do it cheaply and crudely, you at least need a portable spectrum analyzer that covers the frequency range you're investigating and a rubber ducky antenna that covers the frequency range you're investigating and then drive around watching for where the signal strength increases. (Make sure the antenna is outside the car since the metal of the body will interfere with reception of signals.)

Professional spectrum analyzers used for engineering are quite expensive (I'm told that Rigol's SAs are good for the price) but you might be able to get away with less expensive instruments like the RF Explorer or even an RTL-SDR and one of the software spectrum analyzer packages out there, assuming they cover the frequency range you're interested in. By definition, jamming needs to be powerful enough to drown out any competing signals so it should be obvious if jamming is occurring even to relatively low sensitivity instruments.
Yeah, I'm literally saying you are deluded and imagining things. The post you replied to mentions multiple GC and non-GC languages. That you also have a bad opinion about unsafe isn't really important.
Assume we're starting with a 1% prior of some person being the the perpetrator of a crime.

Consider some completely static characteristic. If the suspect is the perpetrator then there's an 100% chance they still have this characteristic, whereas if the suspect is innocent then there's a 10% chance they have this characteristic just by coincidence. Therefore if the suspect turns out to have this characteristic, you should update your prior to (1*0.01)/0.1 = 10%.

Compare to some dynamic characteristic. If the suspect is the perpetrator then there's an 20% chance they still have this characteristic, whereas if the suspect is innocent then there's a 10% chance they have this characteristic just by coincidence. Therefore if the suspect turns out to have this characteristic, you should update your prior to (0.2*0.01)/0.1 = 2%.

At the extreme, a completely dynamic characteristic. If the suspect is the perpetrator then there's a 10% chance they still have this characteristic, whereas if the suspect is innocent then there's a 10% chance they have this characteristic just by coincidence. Clearly in this case you shouldn't update your prior at all.
5G from Space: An Overview of 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Networks

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.09156.pdf

I might as well submit that on HN.
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A fab at the expense of food security is not a good deal. When you can't feed your people, you are at the mercy of other nations, and that greatly harms national security. India used to once have frequent famines, and had to beg food from other countries. Today it can feed its billion+ population because it is the world leader in producing fruits, vegetables, grains, diary produce etc. A starving population doesn't care about CPU chips.
"small business" to national politicians typically means you employee under 500 people. Almost no one considers "self-employed" or "1-3 people" as "small business" when crafting tax legislation. I certainly consider "self-employed" and "I have a couple folks on payroll" to be "small business", but it's just not in the same league as the local brewery employing 85 people, for example.

Perhaps we need the term "micro business" to gain more traction? I suspect that's where more work is heading.
5G from Space: An Overview of 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Networks
> if your goal is to write a (say) safe implementation of the DOM that can render real-world web pages while efficiently using memory on a general-purpose computer, Ada is probably the wrong tool for the job.

Author here. Ada is actually perfect for the use case you listed. As a C++ programmer focusing on performance, the applicability of Ada to "modern problems" was one of the reasons I was playing around with it. Between customizable "storage pools" (Ada's allocators), the easy of interfacing with C, control of type alignment and layout, compiler intrinsics, built-in concurrency types (protected objects for coordinating access, and tasks for splitting work) and a bunch of other things, I have all the tools I need to do this. It's pretty close to the C++ feature set with the face of Pascal, and C++ programmers should feel comfortable working in Ada after only a few months.
What kind of private key is it, and can it be called _private_ key if it exists remotely?
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, visionary master of reggae, dies aged 85
When I lived in Bellevue, WA, the regular cops rode around on a bunch of three-wheeled segway equivalents.
Could be a safety problem with joystick control. If they deemed the manual control interface a safety risk it could require heavy redesign.
They are sold everywhere online, here is an example from a model similar to the article:

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Texin-phone-signal-sh...?
It is possible to condemn Apple without implicitly praising Google.
Points, though, as traditonally defined, are not infinitessimal. They are literally zero in extent, having only a defined location.
Is this the sort of thing that will see Oracle sending a cease and desist for them feeling infringed on their copyright and IP? They must not like their vendor lock in being affected and people discovering this better, more affordable alternative.
The first Xbox One was huge with a big fan. My guess was being absolutely sure the first revision did not have thermal issues, but I never asked.
$0.50/mile is likely the low end of what’s possible for the base vehicle costs. $0.50/mile + autonomous hardware costs/expected vehicle lifetime would be the total costs. 200k miles is generous for a Pacifica. I’ve read the autonomous hardware is $250k (could the hardware outlast a vehicle and be transferred?)

$0.50 + $250k/200k mi = $1.75/mi

$1.75/miles * 5.4 miles actually driven = $9.45, very close to what I paid.

If Google can get the autonomous hardware package down to $50k, then this trip would have been $4.05. At $5k (the absolute lowest possible?), the trip would cost $2.85. At that point, this becomes exciting.
It’s only 191 kB compressed, which seems like a reasonable thing to send over even a dodgy 3G connection. Not that I think it’s a good idea, but in terms of bank IT I’ve seen far worse.
The whole idea of a proof system is that there are some things you can't have without also having other things. The Banach-Tarski theorem is a consequence of things we want. You don't get to pick and choose everything at once.
As someone who has looked extensively into this for marine use I think it’s highly unlikely this is Iridium. Standard Iridium is 2400 baud (no I did not leave out any zeros). Their new Certus service is much faster but the cost is $1600/mo for 1gb of service.
Companies can have different values in a statistical sense, but I’m not sure that accepting money from Google is a user hostile move; the alternative big search provider would be Bing.

People here talk about DDG but the search quality has never been there for me.
A colleague 3D printed a stop light that showed red when Xcode was compiling and green when it was done.