skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple thoughts...

First, having 'infinite compute' is a way for researchers to be sure that compute isn't the thing holding back their method. So, DeepMind made a protein folder using all the compute they had available; later others managed to greatly reduce the amount of compute needed to get equivalent results, by re-implementing and innovating on DeepMind's initial write-up.

Second, I think there's a lot of interesting ground to explore in hybridizing ML with more classical algorithms. The end-to-end deep learning approach gives us models that get the best scores on imagenet classification, but are extremely prone to domain shift problems. An alternative approach is to take a 'classical' algorithm and swap out certain parts of the algorithm with a deep network. Then you should often get something more explainable: The network is explicitly filling in a specific parameter estimation, and the rest of the algorithm gives you some quality guarantees based on the quality of that parameter estimator. I saw some nice work along these lines in sparse coding a couple years ago, for example...
100% agree with this. Running docker images on serverless is really great and allows you to deploy your environment to any provider with minimal effort. would be cool if they can add something like this, even if it does not provide 0s startup time..
Not disputing the dangers of CO2 in an enclosed space, but I'm going through my memory* of USPS/UPS delivery trucks, and not one of them have been enclosed. Sliding doors are always open. Semi-trucks are enclosed, yes, but humans are not in the enclosed areas.

*ymmv on your area
I have a feature request. Can you make this optionally integrate into Cockpit as a plugin? For those using Cockpit to remotely manage a machine this would be very nice.
Well I think this is just a case of easy Software Engineering
vs hard Software Engineering where the requirements are hard to satisfy.

Most of the industry does easy Engineering and that's what we talk about for the most part. The part of the industry that does hard engineering (the largest orgs, developers of mission critical systems like weapons) keep mostly quiet about how they solve their problems because that's a trade secret or highly classified.
"Exactly, it's so sad hearing someone not realize that their hiring process is basically discriminatory in nature."

Yep. I've seen this so much in my company for performance review. It's completely subjective and managers dont even realize when they are discriminating or violating company policies (or laws!).
A recent or pre-print study attempts to quantify the effect of vaccination on transmission. There appears to be some reduction (subject to multiple confounding factors) but transmission by vaccinated individuals is still common.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264260v...

So it's important to get vaccinated to protect yourself. Just don't expect it to reliably prevent you from infecting others.
Interstate 76 was such a great game. One of the discs was an honest-to-goodness funk CD that I'd listen to all the time. I still have it somewhere.
There must have been consequences from the Microsoft side of things. This issue essentially killed the main candidate in their quantum computing program.
I am a new-ish employee of Pointr, my job is explain how Pointr works.

Made this post here because I wanted to, it is a technology that is fun to talk about. As such whatever I say here is not the official views of my employer yaddayadda.
To add to that, until now there is the ÖBB Österreichcard which allows infinite train rides on all ÖBB trains. It's about 2000€.
Now it will be replaced by this Klimaticket.
I, too, would like to hear stories about cellophane manufacturing.

Mike, you should hook up with The Prepared email newsletter and ask to be a guest author some week. They would be super excited to have you participate. :)
Ask HN: Can someone tell me why my post got flagged?
Hi all,
A post of mine got “flagged”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28706378

The string ‘[flagged]’ got added to the title.

The link is to a free tool which can be used by anyone to generate youtube name ideas, so not particular the reason for getting it flagged
This study doesn't say anything about that, and I haven't seen any studies that look at that question specifically. I have seen studies that look at people who get vaccinated after having recovered from COVID, and they do tend to have the strongest antibodies. But nothing about antibodies from an infection after being vaccinated. I think that would be interesting to see.
Ok you guys, I didn't think the title was so bad, but I've put "in sync" up there to accommodate you. Let's discuss the more interesting stuff now?
This seems like a nothing-burger. If you put your email address publicly on the Internet, you'll get spam. Git inherently doesn't let you remove your email address from past commits without rewriting history and all the problems that causes. And I have no idea why this suggests a bunch of GitHub alternatives that all have the same "problem".
Holy shit that’s cheap. The same thing in the Netherlands costs me €4500. And that’s a much smaller country.
Yes indeed. In the spirit of “know your enemy” (the elite class) I joined The World Economic Forum about a year ago - lots of interesting material!

Just my little opinion, but the economic elites either eventually need to run up inflation or crash global currencies. There seem to be logical reasons for both approaches, so to me it is a coin toss what they will do.
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I'm old, have two kids, have other time consuming commitments and I get things done.

Part of being smart and getting things done is properly managing work/life balance.
Most people unlock their phones using a deep learning model based facial recognition system, they talk to their devices thanks to deep learning, they translate documents with transformers, even google maps uses GNNs for ETA estimates and routing (https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11482).

The cameras on mobile phones got so much better thanks to deep learning, snapchat filters, zoom backgrounds, etc all use CNNs.
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Compliance and risk - small organizations don’t even know all the laws/regulations they’re breaking, or in many cases the risks they are taking on. And if they screw something up, it could put them out of business, but it won’t cost 20x what was invested (which could be the case in a large organization)
You can also pay 12 euros per month and don’t have any ads.
Just finished it yesterday by coincidence. Amazing book though Some of the violence was a bit too detailed for my liking
How about biofeedback for developing (and training) connection between people? I'd give that a try for sure.
Here’s a meta question to the author: Having been around the circuit once, do they at least feel a little more humble about their opinions this time around, or are they just as strong but only in a different direction? :-)

IMHO, while the author has undoubtedly grown wiser, I think there’s just as much truth to their earlier opinions as the later ones; the value lies in being able to disambiguate the context in which each is valuable — not so much in trading one set of opinions for another. That humility, to me, is the bigger takeaway.
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What game is this? I'm not familiar with it
> “These are price-distorting entities,” Vishal Garg, the founder and CEO of Better.com, a digital homeownership company, told Motherboard. “They harm our customers.”

WTF kind of marketing BS is a “digital homeownership conpany”? Better.com is a mortgage lender.
There’s also air, sea, and rail transport to consider.
> as long as the journal is peer reviewed, publishes high quality research, and has a reasonable impact factor, tenure committees being biased against them is irrational

I agree. And stronger than that, recently some funding agencies (e.g. the Dutch NWO) favor/require open access for works that come out of projects they fund, and they have budget set aside for that. The trend is hopefully changing, but it takes time.
I'd bet people outside the field are going to be disillusioned before long as the marketing BS falls apart. Even years ago, I was already getting questions from friends that surprised me in how detached their perceptions are from the reality of state of the art ML. Eventually, they'll realize that no, we're not building superhuman AI today or soon.

However, there's a ton of cool shit happening and tons of stuff already powering industry $$$. Some of this works because of mismatched expectations, like companies who are trying to sell magic. They will fail as their customers stop buying their products that fail spectacularly 2% of the time, but really can't fail 2% of the time.

But there's tons of room in the market for stuff that fails spectacularly 2% of the time. For that reason, I don't see a "real" reckoning coming. People's expectations are too high, sure. But the reality is still Good Enough™ for a lot of problems and getting better.
> why do you want to limit the usage of public transport?
> If people don't take public, they will take
> private transport (cars, etc)

This ignores two elements:

- congestion differs by time of day, and

- capacity is constrained differently by mode

In London:

- it's cheaper to take a bus than to take an underground train, and

- there are ticket types that are only valid after the morning rush hour

Both of these decrease peak congestion on the transport system.

The differential pricing would not push people to private transport, but might push them to buses (whose capacity can more easily be increased) or to postpone their journey to later in the day.

You know what might push people to private transport? Severe congestion on the underground. If you are not fit and aggressive, then trying to get on a Central Line train in the morning might mean waiting for 2-3 full trains to pass before you can get on one.
Which underscores the importance of continuing masking, social distancing, and other positive steps toward preventing disease transmission by everyone (regardless of vaccination status) while simultaneously continuing vaccination initiatives to reduce the heavy load on the healthcare system, etc.
*The biggest idiots I've encountered are brilliant people within their knowledge domain.

Exhibit A: me writing ;p
It's absolutely an evil business decision, and all the clouds are playing this game. Don't ever use a hosted database solution if you're thinking about storing any significant amount of data. You will not be able to get it out without downtime.
You were probably downvoted because the “theory” is just wrong according to every piece of data we have.

How did you even come up with this theory? Was it based on some evidence or just something that felt right to you?
Well, a very large number of people got infected before they were even eligible to be vaccinated. So it is what it is.

I have also heard that the severity of infection could determine the strength of immunity, but the studies done since then haven't found that to be the case. It may become more clear on a longer timeframe, but as of now who knows.
Here is the link: https://www.teamates.io
I wonder how does MS SQL work differently.
I recently saw a stackexchange post on if a buyer's interests are aligned with the agent's, and the short answer is "no." The most obvious example is there isn't even an incentive to get buyers the best price.
Bangle.js 2 is a Hackable, open-source Smartwatch
CFR : Case fatality rate. People dead/people diagnosed as infected.
"Conditional on infection" - thanks for demonstrating the error.

https://drrollergator.substack.com/p/damned-lies-and-vaccine...
> you're taking a tree-like thing and first extracting it to another tree structure just to do basic tree operations,

Why would you do that? The whole point of libraries of generic operations is that you can apply them to thing you have without copying.
Yes, if we had 100% vaccination rate then 100% of covid infections would be due to vaccinated individuals
Came here to say this. Glad to see /bin getting respect.

To anyone processing huge quantities of text and text files, someone very likely had the same problem you faced back in the 1980's and there's a Unix/GNU tool for it already.
Pfizer data

https://drrollergator.substack.com/p/damned-lies-and-vaccine...
Reading Code from Top to Bottom
Elon Musk CodeCon 2021 Interview
> This paper advocates for using masks instead

That is absolutely false.

The paper clearly advocates for using masks and testing in addition to vaccination.
Ask HN: Are AWS Certifications worth it?
I'm a junior software developer looking to move into devOps and I'm wondering if anyone thinks that AWS Certifications are worth it. Specifically the 'Foundational' certificate, the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner [1].

The sample questions [2] for the certification seem too easy for the certificate to be meaningful (you can get 100% by picking the name of the service that seems vaguely connected) but sometimes certifications are valued just to show that you're actually interested in an area.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-cloud-practitioner/

[2] https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-cloud-practitioner/AWS-Certified-Cloud-Practitioner_Sample-Questions.pdf
Refusing to do something purely because somebody is trying to make you do it still means you're letting other people control your actions. That's not liberty either.
Because programmers make them without designers.
maybe you have to do a 'Show HN:...'?

prob read the faq and see what is says about advertising/self-promotion?
> but in any event you don't know what his motivation was for saying what he said when he said it

He literally explained his reasons for lying.

Fauci admits to lying about masks and explains why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLXttHlUgK8

Fauci admits to moving the goalposts on vaccination rates and explains it's because of his "gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...

> It's clear that what he and other scientists said about masks early in the pandemic certainly changed over time.

This isn't about that, this is about literal deception from a public health figure about public health.
Do Tesla FSD Beta Releases Violate Public Road Testing Regulations?
Ok, but isn't the gold thing also essentially destroyed in the process? As far as I understand, for it to work,it has to be supremely smooth, or ot fails to generate the required patterns. Can it be re-used for a second pulse, after it is exposed to the thermal stress of the millions of kelvins and the mechanical stress of the explosion?
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Looking at the struggles of Pinephone and Librem 5 and the various Linux flavours available for them it seems to be a really difficult problem to get something that has a good UI, a good feature set, is fast, stable and has good power management.
My son flies cargo for FedEx in a smallish (Cessna Caravan) regional plane. It's pretty enclosed.
The interesting thing here is that Red is a brilliant brilliant album. An absolute banger.

And so is Discipline, but people realized that only later and hated it at first. It is totally different from Red.
> Because implementing low level algorithms like that is almost never an issue for application programming in modern languages

Except it is. You spend a lot of time traversing nested tree-structured data, validating it, sorting it, filtering it. If you can't do the simple inversion operation you have no hope with the more complicated stuff.
> There is something to be said about the value of human intuition,

IMO, the something to be said about it is that people have a good intuition about people who remind them of their family, friends, and celebrities they admire; and a bad intuition about people who don't, and remind them of people seen as criminals or bad guys.

Obliquely related: http://www.skinema.com/evil/
I have been considering doing it myself using iFixit or cheaper alternative. I am in Canada so after taxes and CAD, it comes close to $90 I think.
Thanks for joining us for the ride!
Every once in a while that profit will come at a large opportunity cost - so you can't commit freely to every such offering... but yea if you find yourself frequently turning down opportunities like this then you need to examine why your business direction doesn't seem to match customer needs.
No, there are a few well understood approaches to physically creating a QC, each of which are seeing incremental progress every year. That's not to say there's a clear path from here to there, but it's a lot closer to clear than fusion. Fusion is still (to my understanding) closer to a research topic without a clear cut approach.

That's also not to say that these roles will not reverse in the future. Perhaps some fundamental problem is found with the existing QC approaches, and someone discovers a fusion approach that is straightforward and just requires a big engineering effort. But right now to me it seems like fusion is closer to a Majorana-based QC (though Majorana is slightly more nebulous since even the theory isn't completely there) than it is to QC in general.
In Berlin, they usually enter the train in groups of 3-4, so they are able to check every person in one wagon in between two stops. You also see them pretty often at a station collecting the details of someone who didn't have a ticket.

I think both of those factors push most people in Berlin to buy a ticket. With a fine of 60 EUR the staff already pays for itself if they pick up ~2 people/hour, which sounds very realistic. If they then on top also have the effect of increasing the percentage of paying riders by a tiny amount, the whole program is quickly turning a profit.
So you have now expanded your criteria. I'm guessing it will never stop expanding. Smoking kills 30k or so from second hand smoke alone each year. Why are all smoking company's not banned. Heart disease is the leading cause of all death in the US, why are sugar companies or site normalizing being obese not banned? Medical malpractice is believed to kill over 200k a year, why are doctors not banned?

You are happy anything you disagree with gets banned. What happens when your side loses power and the opposition decides to ban you as they deem you dangerous and damaging. I would assume you are going to turn yourself in to be disposed of?

Edit: You claim doing science is dangerous and damaging and will kill 10s of thousands of people. So how did the vaccine get made? Magic?
I really like the diff function to generate migrations. Make changes to your model and generate a sql file that syncs your database to the model.
Yikes! I've been waiting for this, but 793€!

I understand the reasons. Quality parts, small run, etc. But then I wonder: suppose I am so crazy to buy one. Extremely cool, certainly.

But then?

I stopped writing C64 software 27 years ago. Fondly remembering POKE 53280 is one thing, but doing that again...?
> This correlation of heart rates, described this month in Cell Reports, could one day lead to new tools for measuring attentiveness, both in the classroom and the clinic.

Shame such interesting science inspires such dystopian machinations.

"People synchronize their bodies when absorbed in attention." --> "How can schools use this to make sure students are paying attention?"

Please don't.
Wow, it's like what I wanted the PineTime to be. Wonder if the software could port?
You're safe here :) - if anything like this comes up (unlikely) I'll email you.
Just to be clear, I am not vaccine hesitant, or whatever they want to be called, in the slightest.

94% and growing is not true, it is quite the opposite that the data is showing that vaccine efficacy is growing. Lots of good data shows that the efficacy of the vaccine is lower with delta and as we get further from when the vaccine was administered the efficacy drops significantly. This is the reason we need boosters, but their effectiveness will also wane over time.

Even if the vaccine were 99% effective, if 5,000 vaccinated people were to die from Covid every year, the data suggests that the vast majority of them (if not all) are a result of those who are choosing not to be vaccinated. So it is not a stretch at all to say that the unvaccinated are killing the vaccinated.

I don't think that overstating the positive effect of the vaccine is a good strategy. Yes they are effective, yes everyone who can should get one, but that doesn't mean that the unvaccinated are't responsible when someone who is vaccinated gets sick.

Pointing out that the unvaccinated are responsible for getting the vaccinated sick, in addition to all of the strains they are putting on our society (economy, public health, etc), is a good argument in favor of mandates. I for one am glad Biden and other leaders pushing mandates are making this argument.
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> awk+xargs can replace hours of work

Including machine hours of work.

Wasn't there a famous story of replacing a Hadoop cluster with an awk script (which was a couple orders of magnitude faster)?

Oh yes, there was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17135841
Relatively recently there has been a ton of funding pouring into PsiQuantum ($650M, a bunch of it from Microsoft, perhaps reallocating their Majorana investment), which is building a photonic QC. There may be something there, or it could be another Magic Leap...
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Laws follow public opinion though.

The flaw is not the lack of laws about what's punishable, it's the lack of a law to require a standard before firing someone.

What if we ask all the other people who work with that people, if they're fine working with a racist, or a plague spreader?
All of their arguments for why deep learning is reaching its limits seem to me to be arguments for why its future is bright. The fact that we have no even halfway plausible theory of why deep models generalize well, or why training them via sgd works, or even what the effect of depth is in a neural network, is exciting, not discouraging. I do not believe these are impossible problems to solve (well maybe the generalization one, but even there surely more can be said than the current state of knowledge which is basically a shrug). And even partial solutions should yield big practical steps forward.
This seems wrong, if there's two models that could be consistent with immunization it's:

- Immunization reduces infection risk and severity of breakthrough

- Immunization reduces infection risk but, once infected, severity risk is the same as an unvaccinated person

Both mean you should get vaccinated but the latter means you should be more risk-on if you are vaccinated. The people downvoting me and arguing with me in this thread don't realize that the latter theory, if true, is actually one which leads to more conservative risk taking.
"If you know the volume of a toilet bowl 1.3 gallons, how many radii of the earth's rotation would fill the visible universe" - Google interviewer
Can you give an example (non-code related, if you have one) of the first bullet?
This has been a major one i've wanted for a long time too, but sadly it's initial implementation will be too simple to allow me to migrate any of my use cases to use it.
Linux embedded. (Pis mostly)
I'm a very (small "o") orthodox Christian and consequently I don't think that God wonders why He exists, but I do think that is a very insightful question!
The keyboard assembly is really cool and I personally appreciate the effort, but I bet all that custom plastic really adds onto the price. Custom double shot keycaps are not cheap. I wonder if there could be a much cheaper option with a simpler case and a PS/2 keyboard adapter instead. Perhaps even USB could work, but that feels wrong for this project.