skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any kind of research or experimental work, I cannot imagine using anything other than PyTorch, with the caveat that I do think JAX is extremely impressive and I've been meaning to learn more about it for a while.

Even though I've been working with Tensorflow for a few years now and I feel like I do understand the API pretty well, to some extent that just means I'm _really_ good at navigating the documentation, because there's no way to intuit the way things work. And I still run into bizarre performance issues when profiling graphs pretty much all the time. Some ops are just inefficient - oh but it was fixed in 2.x.yy! Oh but then it broke again in 2.x.yy+1! Sigh.

However - and I know this is a bit of a tired trope, but any kind of industrial deployment is just vastly, vastly easier with Tensorflow. I'm currently working with ultra-low-latency model development targeting a Tensorflow-Lite inference engine (C-API, wrapped via Rust) and it's just incredibly easy. With some elbow grease and willingness to dive into low level TF-Lite optimisations, one can see end to end model inference times in the order of 10-100us for simple models (say, a fully connected dnn with a few million parameters), and between 100us-1ms for fairly complex models utilising contemporary architectures in computer vision or NLP. Memory overhead and control over inference computation semantics are easy.

As a nice cherry on top, we can take the same Tensorflow SavedModels that get compiled to TF-Lite files and instead compile them to tensorflow-js for easy web deployment, which is a great portability upside.

However, I know there's some incredible progress being made on what one might call 'environmental agnostic computational graph ILs' (on second thought, let's not keep that name) which should open up more options for inference engines and graph optimisations (operator fusion, rollups, hardware dependant stuff, etc).

Overall I feel like things have been continuously getting better for the last 5 years or so. I'm pleased to see so many more options.
It's a need born of our tooling. The only way to stay sane is to operate extremely simple services, or to put every service in its own container (or VM) that can be torn down and re-created automatically. The result is a need for one or both of: excellent container deployment tools; fast & easy ways to spin up "a new machine" (a VM) on demand.
Amusingly, this is a recent development.

Once upon a time there were programmers.

Then there were systems programmers and application programmers. Systems programmers wrote operating systems and utilities for them. App programmers wrote apps. There was a lot of crossover.

Then there were operators, systems programmers and application programmers. Operator was a junior position who did physical things (mount tapes, plug in cables) and ran commands to do things on the systems. They usually moved up to being…

Systems administrators, who did some programming in service to the systems, but not too much. The more senior a sysadmin was, the more time they spent programming and the less time they spent doing physical things… unless they wanted to do that.

Sysadmins started to specialize. People who configured switches and routers and talked to telephone companies became “network engineers”. People who spent time working on firewalls and security policies and thinking about that became “security engineers”. Junior people who read scripts to end users became the helpdesk. And so forth.

Then we noticed that a bunch of people were doing things manually when they should be automated. This was especially bad in places where there were no senior sysadmins or systems programmers. But we did have the internet, and senior sysadmins got together and started writing tools to make their lives easier: infrastructure automation.

Remind me, which kind of engineer?
>A company that's willing to double your salary when you point out the offer is low sounds pretty great to me.

Yeah, a $1 to $2 raise, how generous. What I got out of this article is that the author knows the value of their time. $20,000 for 4 to 6 months of work for a software engineer is an insult. They might as well ask him to work for free.
The change really should be view on a 2 year basis as 2020 was an aberration in the other direction. However, exactly what part is here for good and what is transitory is next to impossible to guess.

Are food prices up because of increase in cost of production? Drought? Transport costs? Will trucking companies be able to hire new workers to replace the long cycle of retirement? Will ports and other hubs stop being bottlenecks so that companies do not hoard/excessively preorder? How much is from reduced competition as companies finally make use of the scale from the merger frenzy of the past decade? No simple, single explanation.
From the article:

> Look, we will never get the web of old back. Let’s be honest, it wasn’t perfect either. The web of today is more accessible, more dynamic and pretty much a cornerstone of our society.
Found the original post where this feature was announced: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-m...

Note that it was not even on the "..." menu (it didn't exist at the time), it was a naked button under every result, reading "Block all example.com results".

Chuck another feature into the pile of "look how far we've regressed".
Just wear a mask in indoor public places until the pandemic is over.
I’ve adopted one or another approach in different projects and teams, it depends. Sometimes the team lacks someone to “push” the project in the bold, but ultimately right direction, and the only thing stopping is inertia/fear/politics. Other times it’s not clear what the “right” direction is and you need to discover together.

I guess it takes some calibration to know when it’s the time to be the jerk, but there are times it’s definitely necessary.
I'm great at paper folding visualization. I know this because I was given tests like that (by professionals) twice in my life (99th percentile =).

For reference, that particular cube folding question is easier than others because you can take the "shortcut" and just pay attention to the orientation of the numbers. The ones that I have to stop and think about the most are the ones with nothing but colors or (minor) shading. For whatever reason I find sides with shapes the easiest to visualize... Even if the shape is the same no matter the orientation (e.g. a circle).

Interesting tidbit: I love 3D puzzles and I always try to visualize what it looks like inside (if it's the type where you can't see the inner workings) while I'm figuring it out. I'm almost always way off with what I thought the inside would look like. Different kind of visualization I think. Probably has something to do with the ability to turn physical sensations (i.e. "what you feel") into a mental image.
and what happens when your new overlords decide that your version OS of choice is now EOL?
hardly. the US dollar gained a lot this year.
Only one side picked up torches and marched for white supremecy, and had an entire news network support them.

This is why all these articles on "why can't we just get along" are almost impossible to take seriously.

If you look at the situation, the left is finally admitting that it is tired of trying to "get along," and it is hard to blame them.
the web would unfuck itself in, like, a few mouse clicks if you could unfuck its economics and its politics
> It's a VR browser instead of a web browser

Does this actually exist? My impression is that the Met*verse is just a marketing term for something that doesn't exist yet
A Retroid Pocket or an Anerbnic seem like more all-purpose devices for cheaper with a better form factor. I'll wait to see how people feel about it after the hype goes away.
I find the Anbernic RG351P is excellent and it is not a 500W PC, nor does it have a bad battery life.
Hopefully you are hourly at least and make up with sweet overtime. I apologize deeply if you are salaried.
There are plenty of scientific studies showing that masks work.
> I wonder what's the likelihood of something more severe / extremely severe appearing in the next few years

We already know one such thing - bird flu (H5N1 - 50% mortality). Luckily it doesn't pass from one human to another. But scientists already built a version that presumably can (gain-of-function):

> (2019) Controversial lab studies that modify bird flu viruses in ways that could make them more risky to humans will soon resume after being on hold for more than 4 years. ScienceInsider has learned that last year, a U.S. government review panel quietly approved experiments proposed by two labs that were previously considered so dangerous that federal officials had imposed an unusual top-down moratorium on such research.

https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-controvers...
"Back in my day," we had to look for fun compared to the expectation that fun will be delivered to you at your beck and call. How times have changed. When you grow up with something, it's just accepted as normal. You have to have known a time without it to truly get the difference.
Post doesn't talk about the actual libraries, just the ecosystems surrounding them.

TF has more layer types, parallelizes better, is easier to assemble w keras, and you don't have to recreate the optimizer when loading from disk. pytorch doesn't have metrics out of the box. TF all the way.

github.com/aiqc/aiqc
Yes, there is a manual door lock button-thing on the door next to the door latch. Though honestly I don't know if that works when the power is dead. As cars move to "fly by wire" this becomes a larger concern - less mechanical linkages, more buttons/switches + wires.

For example to open the back you push a button on tailgate and then pull to open. That button is definitely not a mechanical latch, so if the battery is dead then you're not opening the tailgate.

This would be an interesting experience - go to an auto dealer and ask them to disconnect the battery, then see what still functions.
Back in the day, a lot of content that we take for granted today didn't even exist online (e.g. wikipedia, webmd, heck even mundane things like maps)

As someone who got into the web industry through discovering content for a niche topic, search engines have always been only a superficial helper in finding content, with most content discovery happening through finding niche, relevant, obscure long tail keywords via deep diving, then unearthing more content via deep diving into searches based on these new keywords, rinse and repeat.
> It is hard for me to understand the demonisation of air travel.

Because domestic air travel is one of the worst pollutants?

https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint

> Cars are rarely advertised as "less contaminant", and I would say that most people buying an electric car nowadays don't care that much about emissions, as they do about efficiency or simply the "cool factor".

In Europe they list the emissions along with the mpg.

> and I would say that most people buying an electric car nowadays don't care

Many care.

> but decreasing air travel and/or increasing rates would penalise those who live far away from their families, and they are many.

I live across the country from my family, we know the environmental cost of visits and minimize as a result. I wish this cost was just explicit instead so everyone could recognize it.
This is why I love using emacs. The extensibility is endless, which is of course both a benefit and a liability sometimes.

I've tinkered with my own customizations of course, but can someone recommend a good methodical approach for learning elisp and emacs internals?
Australia has good consumer-protection laws for advertising. In theory. In practice, smaller players ignore these with impunity, and even larger players can casually play around the edges of legality and strategically ignore them completely from time to time, managing it so that in the unlikely event of them actually getting fined they probably still come out ahead.

I know of one Clevo laptop manufacturer (frankly that’s enough to find them, but I’m not mentioning their name) that has perpetual discounts, never less than 20% off, mostly 30–40% off, half of the time in extensions of the offer. They do shuffle around which particular components have a discount at the current time, which I presume is a sneaky way of trying to satisfy the two-price advertising laws, but in years of monitoring them I have never seen them advertise any units at the nominal full price. What they’re doing is clearly against the spirit of the law, though that component pricing rotation might satisfy the letter of the law, though I doubt it. I complained to them once and was brushed off.

I know of an outdoors solar/battery/&c. manufacturer that has been advertising their own line of 12V/100Ah LiFePO₄ at $489–469 every time I’ve looked since last July (eleven occasions), on an alleged RRP of $1,299, more recently $899. Such a permanent “markdown” is categorically illegal. But I don’t even feel it worth complaining to them or ACCC because I know nothing will come of it.

And probably the biggest name in that style of solar/battery stuff has through almost all that time maintained a struck-out price for their 12V/100Ah LiFePO₄ battery of $900, but I’ve seen them selling it at a wide variety of prices in the range $630–830, and only once at $900, perhaps to maintain the validity of the magnitude of the “discount”.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, and lies are even more sustainable than that. No end of terrible products have remained on the market for a long, long time because they can keep getting new customers that don’t yet know that they’re lying. And if people catch on, just rebrand. Building on lies you won’t be the much-beloved-but-potentially-niche brand, but you’ll make plenty of money so long as you’re actually good at lying.

Your position that lies are unsustainable is, in the business world at large, naive and quite wrong. Only in very small markets do lies become unsustainable.
It is not either or. I went from not never imagining things in visual way to having images popping up in my head by themselves. The brain started to visualize things, after I started to learn to draw. I knew absolutely nothing about drawing and used draw-a-box and youtube tutorials to learn.

I never felt like missing something and those images dont add much to my life now when they show up. They dont add that much to drawing either at my level. Imo, hacker news makes absurdly big deal about "aphantasia" and it pops up here absurdly often.

I don't know whether it is more normal to have visual images in your head or whether it is more normal to not have them. But from my experience, visualization is learnable. I dont know whether it is function of drawing in general or was related to specific exercises I did. Btw, there were other improvements I noticed too - I became better at estimating relative sizes of things and much better at noticing properties of objects around me.
Large amounts of gratuitous lolicon.

The story is about girls who are born with a mutation that causes telekinetic powers and sociopathic impulses, and the shadowy organization trying to contain and control them... and a teenaged orphan boy who has multiple stay at his house, including one prolific serial killer recovering from a massive concussion, as an ultra-dark subversion of the harem anime template.

The premise is ruined by a grotesque amount of lolicon.
We are living in interesting times. Customers openly admit they prefer speculation over content.

From my view, this is all downstream from our monetary environment. If central banks can print trillions, why shouldn't private actors value and issue monopoly money? From there it descends into different preferences, variations and subgeneres of the same theme. Choose a token or NFT you identify with. Maybe you'd prefer something a bit more self ironic? Buy a "Yacht Club" NFT and maybe your lambo dreams will come true?
The problem is that nuance gets emotional. Then whoever has a better (or sadder) story to tell, wins. Yet pollution is pollution.
Very neat and fun, well done!
Remote probably hurts in a log4j situation. There's no separation between work and home. You are expected to be ready at the drop of a hat.
Yesterday someone posted a review of the Analogue Pocket (only got 3 upvotes), and the review was very favorable.

I like the idea of updated hardware and features in that form-factor, but was put off by the negatives. I would definitely buy a revision if they make one though.

The author's treatment was not great though, so I hope the company does better in the future.

Edit: here is the review: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29541242
There are similar experiences reported by many, many people. Check out /r/aphantasia, it's full of people saying variations on "omg my whole life I didn't realize 'mental images' weren't metaphorical!!!" Example:

https://teddit.net/r/Aphantasia/comments/qurw0k/what_sayingp...

>Police sketches. I never realised other people could remember those kinds of details (e.g., particular facial features) because they can ‘see’ the person’s face in their memory.

Film, TV, books etc have an arsenal of narrative shorthands and contrivances to depict people's thoughts, because the mind is so difficult to describe objectively. People don't really have thought bubbles, their mental narration isn't usually in complete sentences, their dreams aren't real-life-except-foggy-and-white-tinted, they don't literally imagine a lightbulb activating when they have an idea. And then there are figures of speech: "train of thought", "memory lane", "brain fog". We take for granted that these are just metaphors and don't ask whether there is literally a train or a lane or a fog inside someone's head. So for someone who doesn't have mental imagery, all the talk of that subject would just be rationalized as yet another colourful metaphor.

And then you have people like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29366734 who just flat-out deny that mental imagery exists and that we're all lying or deluded.
Like If I send millions of buddhist people to a Muslim country.

The buddhist will become Muslim?

Is that how it works?
I love the comment about the "real world" being the physical world and the digital world combined. I go back to some of the old computer games I have played, and they seem like real places to me, where I have memories and feel a certain nostalgia. They were certainly a "real experience", even though they were digital.

One theory of consciousness is that it is a series of experiences. In that respect digital experiences are real.
It never went away if you were a non-exempt employee.
Also the 20% increase in child hospitalizations is no joke.
VVIQ covers low and high ability.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vividness_of_Visual_Imagery_Qu...
Blockchain I suspect will have a similar future and history to portable document format (PDF), an important facet of a much larger world, a solution that was originally looking for a problem slotted into an evolving world.

Regarding online 'chat' clients, Bloomberg terminals have almost literally been the tool used to run the financial world(s) for decades. Different speeds, different needs...
https://web.archive.org/web/20171121144509/https://www.nytim...

A number of other people went to jail among the "Russiagate" investigation. It is true that none of this has ever quite reached Trump himself.
I'll buy FB stock once they release news of a neural implant plug into the matrix kind of technology.
I know.

So let's assume (as a good faith actor would) that the counter party doesn't know what this undertaking really entails. It's a lot of work - so a better response might be something like "the amount of work we are talking about would take a good engineer approximately 4 months. let's start the negotation there"

Maybe the author is new to business, but there's a lot to be desired in their communication. The screenshots of their communications only emphasize my take on it.
It helped me learn calculus in university. It could take a given integration or derivation question and show the path to the solution in steps with plain English explaining what was done to achieve each. I like learning via examples and got a lot out of being able to consult more examples than our textbooks provided.
I'm still waiting for that 360TB 5D Optical Data Storage ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage ) promised many years ago, albeit not by WD.
I’ve been using anki flash cards to learn birds in my local area. It works really well, in a few weeks I could identify a few score different birds.

I’ve also used Anki to learn some plants and insects.

Also, if you Reddit, subscribe to r/whatisthisbird (along with whatisthisbug and r/birding), and every day you’ll learn birds and bugs. I also do this with artwork as my random desktop background. I see it every day, so I can now recognize some paintings. I put no effort into learning, they’re just there and I pick it up passively! Should work with pics of birds.
There wasn't much in that rant. But it does stroke our nostalgia zones.

You know something is not quite right, and can moan about it, without having a solution to the problem.

Considering many people have drifted away from some of the big socials. Niche sites, and communities may and no doubt have sprung up elsewhere. Newsnet and PhpBB rooms of old have been replaced by other forums.

In the UK, the web was the preserve of the well-to-do for a long time. Ubiquitous smart phones have put the web in almost every man's pocket these days. And the initial lavish jump on and novelty will wear off. Everyone's a troll and photographer for 5 minutes, or some such.

My Mum has only just really discovered the web in the last year, via Youtube. She still doesn't really get the web, but gets that website (ish). It's still fresh for many.

It's probably just easier to poke at a thing.

Web rings still exist. My partner has a hobby, which is shared on a forum and via Youtube, and they are all very good at supporting and bigging up each other across those boundaries. It's a very vibrant community. And the technology is just backgrounded.
This post makes a long case for why air travel isn't _so_ bad, but totally fails to establish why it's 'good and we should want more of it'.

In any case, in a world with free and non-greenhouse-emitting energy it won't be particularly hard to decarbonize air travel. You can manufacture hydrocarbons from CO2 in the air and energy if you have enough of it.
You linked to one specific comment. If you zoom out and view the entire thread, starting with the first comment on that story, you’ll find plenty of comments defending the current state of USB.
Agreed. I don't think switching the framework from Artist/Soldier to Revolutionary/Evolutionary detracts from the malleability.
If only a nation could manufacture things locally and not be required to get them from Asia...
They test for particular fragments, not the whole thin. 3 fragments usually in the UK.
Swift Concurrency can now be backdeployed to iOS 13 and macOS 10.15
Presumably they pay those gas taxes too. They're just very rich, so they don't care. Maybe your issue is with wealth inequality rather than with carbon taxes per se?
Scott Manley did a video looking at this, it’s a good and informative watch:

https://youtu.be/nxeMoaxUpWk

The gist is that is actually doable at the same(ish) scale as the ISS. Bigger is better but we can do it at a radius as little at 40m.
I watched the DF video. I don't watch LTT because, while the topics are often interesting and the resources and effort is usually there, the technical chops are not. Linus never developed a culture of putting heads down and making sure it's right with a thorough technical understanding. There are too many options for me to waste time on creators not creating well enough.
I am browsing the web in search for NLP resources as I consider a pivot into this new area (I already have a few years in data science and image processing) and finding this post on HN is a bless! I will be going through the course for sure!