skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet that the pagans did do a tree and gifts, probably did snowmen too (which is more of a winter thing than a Christmas thing anyway), and they probably did have an associated folk character of some sort, even though it probably wasn't Santa Claus.
There are both technology and social aspects.

The technology has to be at the point where you can casually wear fashionable glasses which overlay easily readable information.

And other people would need to be OK with the fact that people are wearing said glasses that put them on candid camera at all times.
How do you decide what qualifies?

I'm trying to build something like that. Take hacker news and let the community curate it into a weekly newsletter of just the important posts.

It's a work in progress and I'm a little starved for feedback.

https://efficientdemocracy.com
Even in high school robotics we built a main chassis and a 1:1 spare for testing and hot swapping parts.
WolframAlpha is behind a lot of Siri answers.
Bezos' spaceship is zero-carbon (as long as they use green hydrogen rather hydrogen steam reformed from natural gas) and Musk has promised to make his zero-carbon as well.
This is absurd. I just logged into the billing alerts console. I set up a total billing threshold in 90 seconds:

https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/budgets/overvi...

What on earth are you getting at?
> So, this is one of those areas I know way too much about and many of the comments seem wrong-headed. Makes me wonder how much faith I should put in comments on topics where I don't know as much.

Experiencing the Gell-Mann amnesia firsthand is always weird. In an expert in deep learning, a research topic that arguably is mich closer to HN's heart. Yet HN comments on the topic are usually a bit off the mark. They feel more like something people would say after taking a 101 undergrad class in the topic, rather than a truly informed discussion.
A lot of my PhD work revolved around computational biology. And while I don't work in the area anymore, i know enough about it to see that in sich a topic that's further from HNs core, comments are often not just "a bit" uninformed,but utterly so
"The Wolfram Cloud combines a state-of-the-art notebook interface with the world's most productive programming language"

Quite the statement there, does anyone here have more info on this claim?
Actually I have a question about this. What happens if it fails at L2? Is that position like occupied or more difficult to deal with from then on?
"As far as my wife and I are concerned, an atmosphere of parochialism hangs upon relentless adherence to CDC directives. By European standards, hand-wringing about masks in schools is as silly and absurdly risk-averse as the American medical establishment’s insistence that pregnant women not drink coffee or wine."

By which European standards? Last month we took a vacation to Italy (Naples and Rome), where pretty much everyone in stores wore masks and restaurants were rigorous about checking vaccination cards.
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Yes. Pollution. Destruction of land. Serious injury. Noise. Urban sprawl.

So many benefits.
Minor correction, Endrift is a woman
Interesting - I didn't realize that it was that important for computational physics. Very cool, I'll have to read up!
I can’t stop thinking of the Tom Toro cartoon[1]:

“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201112030542/https://i.etsysta...
I'd say the one that comes to mind most after Christmas is Halloween in America. It went from being All Hallows Eve, a time to celebrate the dead, especially saints past, to becoming a commercial holiday to sell costumes to kids and candy to parents.

I can't think of anyone I've ever met or heard of close to me celebrating the religious aspect of this day, just the "fun" part. Not nearly as big a deal as Christmas but still a religious festival that became highly commercial and secularized over time.
Tensorflow is just such a classic clusterfuck google project. V2 had huge breaking changes (reminiscent of angular) and tons of the apis are clunky and don’t work well together. There are like 3 different ways to save a model. It’s almost like a bunch of teams built features with no oversight.

I’m pretty sure tf is considered in maintenance mode within google as Brain and the tf creators themselves have moved to Jax. I do think Google learned a lot from tensorflow and am excited to see Jax pan out.

Pytorch is a pleasure to debug. I think pytorch jit could close the deployment gap.
> AWS doesn't benefit by providing excellent cost controls and visibility into spending.

Except you can create a budget that is based on individual services or usage instances. And you can view each service's cost in zoom-able billing statement.

What information are you unable to find about your bill?

(NOTE: I'm not an AWS shill. Every time I see AWS billing threads I'm concerned I'm missing something obvious and putting myself and my biz at risk, so I drill down on posts to make sure I know what I'm doing.)
It's true, cargo bikes are everywhere here now. But it's only practical if you have a garage or another ground level storing place which many people in cities don't have.
Taking google's answer for things they're calculating with math is probably safe, but if you get into the habit of reading google's answers to queries it will have you believing a lot of nonsense because many of the answers google offers are not calculated at all, but instead are regurgitated nonsense that google read on the internet and took at face value (example from Technology Connections: https://youtu.be/TbHBHhZOglw?t=58)
Not that I can tell (EDIT: They did, see comment further down) This seems to be research release by PR, not a published study. Although even if they adjusted for prior infections they should still be comparing comparable time periods. It is really odd if they didn't, and odd if they did do it but the results weren't included in the release. The initial 2020 wave is a reasonable baseline, but not a good measure of relative risk factors between variants right now especially because 2020 didn't include Delta.
> and the other side wants democracy

No they don't. They just happened to find a group of people who were likely to vote for them but couldn't. If they were likely to vote GOP (or Green, or Libertarian), they wouldn't be fighting this fight at all.

If you really want to see what someone believes, look at what they do when it isn't in their best interests.
Curious since I’ve been looking at this recently. What out of the box metrics would matter most to you? There are lots of libraries in the ecosystem for metrics but I’ve seen the request for built in metrics a few times now so it must be a clear need.
Yes

> For individuals who have had COVID-19 previously, the risk of reinfection with Omicron is significantly higher, relative to prior variants.
>I’m not very good at estimating timelines, so I gave a (very) rough estimate of 2 to 4 months. A reply affirming that that sounded reasonable, with an estimation of 300 to 400 hours of work, with a price tag of $10,000 was what I got back (assuming the project didn’t run seriously overtime).

The author of the article gave an estimate of hundreds of hours across 2 to 4 months and Analogue's valuation of that time was $10k - for an expert in the domain working in software. That number is an insult. Even doubled it's quite bad.
I've found PictureThis to be great for identifying plants. They claim to cover 100+ countries. There's a premium version but I just opt out by hitting the Cancel button at top right of the screen. It's been able to ID plants from photos other people have taken (pointing at their phone).
You both have a point, except yours is a narrow(er) engineering one. OP solved a real-world problem, and actually solved enough of it to be useful to many people, who were thrilled enough to become customers. That is impressive by itself, but what makes it even more impressive is that it is a new niche!

Would adding new features make it easier to create more complex pages? Yes. Would it improve the experience for the users? I doubt it. It's like adding full text editing mode to a chat - technically viable, but takes away the magic - just give me text and emojis and stop there.
I think the number analyzing actual mask usage is fewer than you’d think.
Cloth masks are somewhat effective at protecting those around you, but only slightly effective at protecting you; masks like the N95 do both quite effectively, if you wear them properly.
Would you mind commenting on Haiku vs Flax? I'm partial to Haiku because I'm a fan of Sonnet/DeepMind, but I've not looked into Flax much!
Just a personnel nit: I actually found altavista to be better then any current search engine in terms of query power - what it was missing was the huge index..

Things like the 'near' keyword were awesome: john near doe matched 'john doe', 'doe, john', etc. It REALLY let you craft a query to return just the results you wanted. Unfortunately, that probably made it harder for the hordes of new users getting on-line.

I'm soo tired of search engines just returning whatever they want, instead of what I asked for.
If you've never heard a wood thrush, you're missing out on something incredible. Its ethereal songs are so highly refined and wonderfully layered that they sound almost electronic. They are sublime. Of the wood thrush, America's favorite naturalist philosopher Henry Thoreau wrote, "This is the only bird whose note affects me like music. It lifts and exhilarates me. It is inspiring. It changes all hours to an eternal morning." Living in the woods, I'm fortunate to hear them often (though I almost never see one). Every time one sings nearby it stops me in my tracks.
Netherlands and Denmark have many more per capita and also much better infrastructure for cycling. I was in Germany this weekend and in some cities is quite a risk to ride a bike since there are definitely not enough bike lanes
Most people barely even experience seasonality now that nearly everything's available in the grocery store year-round (thanks to international shipping) and we have excellent central heating and cooling in our houses and offices. Plus extremely cheap lighting, for that matter, which strongly affects our experience of the Winter months. No smells of burning oil, no rationing the candles carefully, no fires to tend through the night.
I think GP was talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
This is still in peer-review
There's one approved drug that is probably effective against covid, Fluvoxamine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8633915/

Everyone knows Paxlovid is safe and effective too, but you aren't allowed to take it yet.
> $20,000 for 4 to 6 months of work for a software engineer is an insult.

In SV, the company is from HK. If that offer was ridiculous too, she should have said as much.

I’ve been offered flat 200$ for jobs that cost >10k$. Your clients might not know the price of your labor, it’s your job to inform them.
Do any JAX experts know if there is an equivalent to https://captum.ai/ - a model interpretability library for pytorch?

In particular i want to be able to measure feature importance on both inputs and internal layers on a sample by sample basis. This is the only thing currently holding me back from using JAX right now.

Alternatively a simle to read/understand/port implementation of DeepLIFT would work too.

thanks
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Urban roads don't last 30 years. Major roads with high traffic get repaved every few years, and even residential roads in urban areas need to be repaved every decade or so.
Have you seen any evidence that this may be likely?
> This gets to the other mistake Diehl makes in that article, which, ironically, echoes a similar mistake made by many crypto absolutists: there is no reason why the Metaverse, or any web application for that matter, will be built on the blockchain. Why would you use the world’s slowest database when a centralized one is far more scalable and performant? It is not as if WhatsApp or Signal are built on top of the plain old telephone service; they simply leverage the fact that phone numbers are unique and thus suitable as identifiers. This is the type of role blockchains will fill: provide uniqueness and portability where necessary, in a way that makes it possible to not just live your life entirely online, but as many lives simultaneously as your might wish, locked in nowhere.

Halfway through this paragraph I thought Ben was arguing that phone numbers are a centralized service that shows that blockchain isn't necessary. Instead, he's arguing that blockchain will create "unique portable identities." This is an old vision that many companies have been pushing for a long time - "log in with Facebook" "sign in with Apple" etc. Today, we've pretty much settled on phone numbers and email addresses as a unique, portable identifier (plus accounts from big tech companies). You can even easily create new email addresses if you want multiple identities. Why do we need the blockchain to solve this problem either?

Another example of the same thing: he says that it doesn't make sense to use LLCs, which are built for the physical world, in the digital world. He says that the digital world can use DAOs. But, of course, "Stratechery" isn't a DAO - it's an LLC. Meta is an LLC. LLCs are already non-physical, even if they're not purely digital. That's precisely why LLCs were invented - to decouple capital from physical ownership. Why do we need DAOs when we already have LLCs? Is it just that you don't need a lawyer to make a DAO?

Ben spends a lot of time in this article arguing that blockchain can be better than centralized services for some purposes - but then fails to argue what those purposes are, in my opinion.

To me, conflating the metaverse/VR - which I think is overhyped but has some obvious value - with blockchain - which is a lot harder for me to understand - is a mistake.
Yes - thinking about it, it's a market failure.

Basically small markets (internal IT) can't sustain the investment to support the requirements design time cost issue - while the public cloud folk can say "any colour you like so long as it's black" and there are enough takers to pay for it all.
Analogue has a history of being actual dicks and being unliked in the entire emulation industry. Not only are they constantly putting down software emulation (while then crawling to people like endrift to do the work for them, or attacking Near for their work on bsnes), they are now attempting to hold back emulation to make their product more attractive (as reported by endrift). Let's also not forget that they straight up trademarked the term "fpga" in an attempt to confuse people.

This is a case of "Analogue has a history of being shady", and their attempt to negotiate this on Discord while offering a miserable pay is one more proof of it. There's maybe 10 qualified people on earth to make a cycle-accurate GBA BIOS, and they offer 20k for exclusive work for 10 months ?
I have aphantasia...but I tried psilocybin mushrooms for the first time this year, and since then have had a few moments—I believe they are hypnagogic states, where I have actually for the first time in my life been able to see in my imagination. Truly wild experience.
Any other deployment issues for PyTorch you’re aware of that would help ‘close the gap’?
"-webkit-appearance: none" should fix this.
This comment adds nothing to the discussion and of course ignores important factors like:

* people with cancer or autoimmune diseases
* concerning early signals like drastically increased hospitalizations in the under-2 population
* unchecked spread allowing further mutations that could be worse

It also lacks human decency.
Everything else aside, let's pick a math and stick with it :).

The offer was not (as I understand it) $20k for 4 months of life, it was $20k for estimated 300-400hrs of work, freely estimated by the author themselves. Which comes out to $50-$65 USD/hr. Which is atrociously low for Silicon Valley consultant rates, and quite high in much of the world. So it may well not be worth author's time, but does not on its own indicate atrocious personal intentional malignant disrespect worthy of international outrage.

(everything else, I'm leaving intentionally aside - I understand a small snippet of one person's perspective about the issue, and nothing about the framework of hardware development, where I hear margins to be slimmer than slim, unlike in the wider world of purely-software development).
No idea how to respond in terms of personal finances other than investing 10k in I-Bonds and agitating for a raise.
There was. Sort of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN

In particular some of the manufacturing tooling for the mirrors were shared, leading to the HST mirror being downsized to 2.4 meters.
Analogue isn't an SV company, so why are you using SV rates?
Yes, the human time is an investment that pays back multiple times over. Why the core of a technology business would be in the hands of a 3rd party dismays me.
Of course, those 17 servers composed dev, staging, and live, plus fallbacks, ultimately composing quite a few APIs and related services. They were all used for high compute, where a task would floor 32 cores for 3.5 seconds, and that was essentially what the cluster was for, beyond the accounting and tracking of its use.
Start a rural Wireless ISP. That’s what I did. Network cables and chainsaws :-)
If you're a senior engineer and you're sort of wondering "what's beyond senior?", you might be interested in the book "Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track". I found it enlightening, and it's nice seeing companies embracing the whole "Staff plus"-track.
Also Feather: https://github.com/wesm/feather
I use it to do random calculations like how much something weighs/costs that is combining units in various fields and pulling data from static and dynamic sources for commodity materials, e.g. microns * inches * yards * density of iron * cost of iron
Necro-ing this post because I, too, was tempted to check this out. So I opened an Oracle Cloud account on the 10th, though I never created any instances. All I did was setup MFA on the account (which, BTW, was obscenely difficult to enable) and look around a bit. Oracle makes you add a credit card during account creation and they do a $1.00 temporary charge to make sure the card is valid.

Well, here we are 3 days later and I have 3 x $1.00 charges pending on my credit card from Oracle (2 on the 10th and 1 today). I don't know if these charges will actually post to my card or disappear like they're supposed to; but this doesn't look good.
Uhm yes, I (German) thought "How is it not the Netherlands?".
$10,000 was for moonlighting, not a full-time job.
It is misleading if you compare a country with 80% infection rate with countries with much fewer infections. If the milder cases are because of previous infections it could be a hard hit for unvaccinated first timers.
3rd trimester
Early adopters and enthusiasts always have different values. That's why we act differently toward technology in the first place.
The L2 point is unstable do energy needs to be expended to maintain position there.
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My definition is "Finds and creates the most valuable work for other engineers to do."

I really started to see the value once I moved from Principal to Manager. All of a sudden I was busy with boring manager stuff and needed an IC who could get deep into the details of our initiatives and make sure everyone's efforts were lining up. You don't need the title of Principal to do this role, of course, but ICs who see the big picture and understand what's important for the business are invaluable.

The other points in the article are on the money as well, especially around modeling and amplifying a good dev culture for the organization.
It's also about unreasonable productivity of APIs. EC2 (with autoscaling groups) + VPC + S3 + SQS + DynamoDB can blow the productivity of most IT department out of water. Let's face it: most of engineers have no clue or stamina to build something even remotely resembling S3 or SQS.
There's tons of talks on burn out, mental health, its a common problem. That said its less stressful for me now in some respects then when I was purely on the ops side.
> To Solana's credit, they opted to create their own smart contract VM based on Rust, rather than build an EVM-compatible VM. It will take them time to get developer mindshare, but there's a real possibility to build dApps on Solana that couldn't exist on Solana.

Good point. What are your thoughts on Cardano, Algorand and Tezos?

Interesting points about AVAX's C-chain and Fantom as well. I have a friend who did a project on Fantom due to lower gas fees and it also being EVM compatible, but yeah, it's using Solidity.

Also, just wondering, do you agree with this quote from the article?

> What most people don’t know is: Gas fees on Ethereum are supposed to be high. The goal for Etheruem is not to be the chain most consumers transact on. It’s to be the settlement layer for a number of other chains sitting on top of it, which can run much faster and much cheaper, because they’re backed by Ethereum’s security and infrastructure. In other words: the consensus layer for a variety of networks.

I'd also be curious to hear once you have time to look into zkRollup L2's.
I don't see the correlation between your two sentences. There is an existing group of young males that are insecure, may have anger and/or anxiety problems, spend too much time on 4chan/reddit/social media as a whole, and lacks physical connection. What makes you think that they aren't trying to establish a relationship? They certainly are failing, which is why this article and lots of other exists. There is a whole community of pick up artists trying to give advice to these people, though this is often dating/one night stand advice more than relationship advice. There are also feminists trying to teach these young males how to approach women, and talking about the subject. For example, here's a post from 2014 talking about this subject too, and quoting lots of people talking about this subject, for the same audience ("nerdy young males"): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-roman....
Do you realise that mutation is not something the species can consciously control?

How could the virus have mutated to become milder to suit the social response if the society, as it stands today, is continuing to do what they previously did..?
Landscape of Quantum Computing in 2021
Same - I find I typically use writing as a tool for thought moreso than a record that I will come back to, though I occasionally take a pass through old notes to see if I had any forgotten gems.
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> $10,000 for four months is the equivalent of a $30K/year salary.

I have a senior dev on my team at 35k€/year. Prices in SV != Prices in the rest of the world.
Realistically, this wont be a priority until Gartner has a category for this and places all these cloud players on a ranking scale. That sort of thing seems to really move the needle for execs.
Note he speculated about a 5.25" form factor drive. You're not going to fit 60 of those in something Backblaze-pod sized.
Yeah, since the release of TF2 in 2019 they're a lot more similar. PT is still more pythonic and easier to debug, but TF has a way better industry infrastructure. The documentation is comically similar though! lol

Have you checked out Google's Coral devices? DL has definitely been abused for marketing purposes, but I think the lack of delivery had more to do with the fact that DL was progressing far faster than the tools around them which make their intelligence actionable.

Part of this is because so many DL applications had to be delivered in a SaaS way, when local AI makes much more sense for a lot of applications. I think the TF -> TFLite -> Coral Device pipeline has the potential to revolutionize a LOT of industries.