skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I took my MSc. most of the subjects were things I was very familiar with already, and so most of the courses were paint by numbers.

There were exceptions that were worthwhile, but it was largely an exercise in documenting my existing knowledge. I couldn't test out of things, and most subject had compulsory exercises, so I spent a lot of time basically proving what I already knew rather than learning new stuff. It was clear to me in advance which courses I could have easily skipped, so from that perspective I would not have skipped useful knowledge.

That said, of course the problem is that to give me an actual degree the university needed to know I actually knew those things and verifying that only with tests is hard to get right.
The sarcasm is fine, but I have no sense of whether or not the point is even valid. Do you have any back of the napkin maths to illustrate how effective covering the Earth’s land masses in trees would be, even if we could terraform all the big deserts? Planting a load of trees is at least actionable, but I wonder if it’s also futile.
This makes zero sense. A gallon of gas is about $4.00, the idea that someone would spend all that gas money to avoid a tax of 1.75 cents/oz just doesn't pass the sniff test.
> Why not include the top x cities, instead of just one 200 miles away? Because it rains a lot in both?

You can find the source here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100856

To quote from it:

> Portland, OR, was selected as the comparison site for Seattle, WA, based on Mahalanobis distance matching to evaluate the four largest municipalities in each of Washington and Oregon as potential comparison sites [etc]

They had more of a reason and included the model they used to pick the city.

It's also quite beneficial to keep the areas somewhat near in that there will be less variance in the number of item codes between close locations (i.e. different drinks are sold on the east coast vs west coast since some brands are local)

From a different section:

> Custom-ordered data were provided from store outlets geocoded within the
boundaries of the taxing jurisdiction of Seattle, WA, the comparison site, Portland, OR

I suspect they didn't have enough funding to afford more geocoded scanner data given that it sounds like they had to pay for custom data at a rate per-geocoded location... or didn't have the funding to process that much more data.

It wasn't clear how much of the dataset labeling was manual, but it sounded like the study's authors may have had to sift through several thousand barcodes by hand.
Growing Food at Sea
Lol, that might be tough as Seattle is already ranked as one of the countries healthiest cities.
I think you're right. I'll follow your advice. Thank you so much.
The people of the USA. Apparently, the lab in Wuhan was performing gain of function research with funding from NIH. Now what is up for debate is if that specific research was what led to Covid-19.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-r...
The scale of Uber is a bit incredible. Savings 70 000 cpu cores is a lot for a taxi app.
Quote from start if thread said "total sugar sales are down by almost 20 percent, driven largely by falling soda purchases", so at least we know they didn't buy candy with the money.
How much are sodas taxed in Seattle? Maybe I missed something but I couldn't find it in the article.

Does the soda tax go towards increasing public health services in the region?
Can you share any resources for reading on this particular topic?
It would be interesting to see it implemented on an object database like Realm, rather than on being based on SQL. Seems like it would be a much better fit.
> It's not hijacking a protocol - it's hijacking a client for the protocol.

I don’t know what to make of your analogy, it’s one of those “if facts were different then thing would be different” sorts of things, so just go ahead and read your first sentence.

A literal reading reads as Apple hijacking software they wrote and own the source code to… to support an additional protocol. It’s now been just over 10 years since iMessages was released into the wild as a feature of the Messages app and society has pretty well gotten used to it. Would you be happier if they were two apps, one called Messages and with an inferior communications channel and the other with blue bubbles called iMessages supporting all the iMessage features of today? Android had that feature 10 years ago or more. It sucked before you could change the default SMS messenger to Hangouts or something else, and once you did, Hangouts experientially worked the same as Messages does post-iMessages.
We had to choose between Webkit and Gecko. For us it was primarily the license, which was GPL vs MIT. Gecko was a non starter.
Many Androids stop receiving updates after just two years. I don't know if it affects the browser :)

However, there are also many users who don't update either the OS or the apps (because they don't know what it is, afraid it will break, afraid it will change functionality etc. )
Hints at where the support for that ideology originates from.
Ask HN: How do you manage kids, IT job and relationship without going crazy?
> One way around this knotty issue is to take the money from this tax and use it for public services that disproportionally benefit the populations from whom it is generated. (I have no idea what the tax revenues in Seattle are used for.)

And now you've created a bureaucracy that can only maintain its existence if sugary drinks continue to sell well.
I wonder if database engines will ever have versioning, such that it would always be possible to see the database as it was at different points in time.
When my son was younger I got into a habit of going to sleep when he did, and then getting up a few hours later to do a few hours of work on side projects and then back to sleep. It worked quite well.

We'd also get into the habit of taking him to soft play centres (for those unaware: think warehouse full of padded climbing structures over multiple floors and a horde of kids running rampant through them; a total nightmare if your kid insists you join in, or quite relaxing when they run off by themselves) during the weekend so he could wear himself out totally and then go home and have a couple of hours nap when he did.

Until that horrible day when we got home from the soft play and he didn't go down for a nap... I can still remember the disappointment (we ended up still taking naps, but having to take turns)
The "Torygraph"? This newspaper has always been shrill semi-Fox News tripe.
We know they didn't buy only candy with the money.

Maybe they bought candy and cigarettes.
>See, unless my fellow countrymen have developed a way to do PCR tests 5 times faster than the fastest tests available in the (rest) of the world, this test in itself is a joke.

While I have no clue how they work in detail they offer 60 min express PCRs in Germany at least at my airport.
I might be an outlier, but I usually only add some milk. If not I take it black, no sugar.
Thanks, Jecel. Good to see you around.

It is indeed a natural fit to many core architectures. I frequently mused about giving every message process its own thread. I’ll read the papers you mentioned.
I see a nice niche market opening for devices that scramble this kind of spatial detection.

Co-founders are welcome to contact me.
You can add a 100 euro CO2 sensor to control your HVAC.

There isn't a use case for this that isn't abusive outside an industrial setting.

I think if ISPs push for these in routers we will see comeback of rewiring houses with ethernet points.
That's disappointing, sounds like they need competition.
How you were using the Internet in the 1991-1995 and 1995-2005?
Interestingly there was a (never finished) Node fork based off SpiderMonkey (https://github.com/mozilla/spidernode had to write a V8 shim on top of SpiderMonkey), and GNOME Shell and some GNOME apps are written on gjs which uses SpiderMonkey. I don't know if it's bad at embedding compared to V8, but it's definitely been done.
As a rough guess, I think it might be trained on the Danbooru archive dataset, since it's the largest anime picture dataset we can get today.

https://www.gwern.net/Danbooru2020
Some of the previously identified papers listing Peter Daszak as an author were already damning, as they explicitly describe creating infectious clones of SARS-like (SL) viruses that can spread easily (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936131/). The related grants are all still searchable and listed on the official government websites:

> Recently, another bat SL-CoV strain, SHC014, has been demonstrated to use human ACE2 by the construction of an infectious cDNA clone (12). Furthermore, animal infection experiments indicated that SL-CoV WIV1 and SHC014 could replicate efficiently and caused low pathogenesis in ACE2 transgenic mice (12, 13). The fact that the native bat SL-CoVs could use human ACE2 without any mutations indicates a high risk of interspecies transmission for these and similar coronaviruses that may exist in natural reservoirs.

I am not sure how Fauci has managed to avoid accountability so far - I guess his aggressive behavior at Senate hearings has worked. But this new leak suggests that another government agency (DARPA) also accused the NIH/NIAID of conducting gain of function research in violation of the law and in violation of basic ethics, all using taxpayer money. If true and not a plant, it might just be enough to break through the lack of attention around this.
While I don't know if there's much you can skip, if you're going for a degree at a typical US state school, I'd recommend taking as much of your general education/ non-major requirements at a community college. It's far cheaper and there is less bullshit, as the state schools will pack a hundred (or four hundred) kids in a single 101 level class ("survey of architecture" or "intro to chemistry" or whatever), and for some classes like the calculus series, they're often poorly taught with needless complexities to weed out the weaker engineering students. (This is also way cheaper.)

Then once you have all that out of the way, you can take the upper level classes in CS at the university instead of the community college.
Junior lawyer burnout: M&A boom accelerates exit from elite firms
We individually endanger lives, presumably the people who made your car have not added it to an army of self-endangering cars.

It's not like there's nothing between 0 safety features and FSD. We could just have passive safety features like AEB and LKA and get a ton of benefit over nothing...
No. No one drinks soda. Coca Cola Corporation’s revenue of 40 billion dollars a year is entirely fabricated. It is the next Enron. When you see a person drinking a soda, try touching them. They are a hologram, an attempt by a fading company to convince people of their relevance.

Having substituted all soda with clear water, humanity has entered a new era of peace and prosperity. War is a thing of the past now that Man is hydrated.

Peace reigns over the Earth as fusion powered reactionless spacecraft take to the skies. Our third space colony is prospering and we are on the brink of conquering Death itself.
> Cars only work if someone build infrastructure for them and land use pattern is built for them.

That's a fully general argument against everything. Buses and streetcars also work only if someone builds infrastructure and land use pattern is built for them.
>Microsoft has resources but no incentive to do this.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/what-is-maui
> Running CLIP even on 27 million frames (1 day of footage) is super expensive. We've built some infra that makes processing video efficient (forms of parallelization + filtering), without you having to think about it.

With your massive parallel infra you're still processing 27 millions frames, right?

> If you're looking at some generic things that are similar to what CLIP was trained on, this would work. Say you're interested in specific physical security metrics, or monitoring defective parts, or specific things about traffic, etc. CLIP might just say "people walking" or "car in intersection" or "part on conveyer belt" which isn't meaningful enough if all your images are exactly that, but with other small differences.

That's exactly transfer learning is for. I am saying to do it with because you automatically get a pretrained model which can do much more than that. Imagine doing a search "a person wearing red cap and yellow hand bag walking toward the exit" or "A person wearing a shirt with mark written on it". Can your system do it right now?
People grocery shop closer to their work (if it's outside of Seattle) if they can avoid these taxes.
Evidence?
I use sugar as an energy source. The more energy I use (or plan to use) the more sugar I need.
That's a biological necessity, not a craving.
Your work is not your god: welcome to the age of the burnout epidemic
You don't... for the next 15 or so years they manage you, if you can keep a lid on it.

I read a quote here a few months ago: you can do a good job on two of kids, relationship, job.
If your science says "something awful is going to happen if you don't stop it," and you believe it, what choice do you have but to try to get people to stop it?
Well, "passive cooling" means that it requires no external power to cool. Doesn't necessarily mean it's normally plumbed into the circuit. Most probably it would not normally be, as the passive cooling would definitely decrease the power output (it is, after all, what it is designed to do).

So there was probably one or more valves that did not get switched, as the system somehow didn't think they needed to, due to something not being configured as they should.
Honestly, in my case, every single place and project I've work at/on has been a trash fire. I've done my best to simplify and keep things as simple as possible but there is always one developer that you know if he touches the code, the mess will linger for 6 months.

At this point I'm considering only joining startups with greenfield projects so I can have more power to keep things simple. Joining projects that have been around for a while has become tiresome. It's always the same kind of messes too and they are always abandoned. I wish developers would stop building things and then running away. It's your mess, your name is on it, clean it up before you leave.
When you say "having a tendency to," how often exactly does that happen?

Have you been able to watch Twitter videos of all driving situations FSD is exposed to, or was your research biased to "videos that get a lot of views," itself a subset of "FSD driving that was caught on camera"?
It's actually also about the interpolation path as well. Creating gradients in 3 component colorspaces is totally analogous to creating interpolation splines in 3d euclidean coordinates.

The fixed points define only the end points of the splines. The space between the end points corresponds to the color value along the interpolation curve.

If we are in an rgb cube, we notice the "gray zone" is along the diagonal from (0,0,0 to 1,1,1).

If we take two colors opposite of this diagonal (say color_a={r=0.5, g=0.5, b=0.0} and color_b = {0.5,0.5,1
0} we notice if we linearly interpolate we go through gray (0.5,0.5,0.5) in the middle.

If in stead we move along a curved path that avoids the diagonal, trying to maintain the saturation we get a much nicer result.

This "curved path of roughly equal saturation" is easier to define in a colorspace such as HSV where the saturation is one of the spatial coordinates.

But as I always say, there is no theoretically "correct" way to define a gradient, only techniques optimized for some specific use case.

My personal opinion is that generally linear interpolation in RGB results in the least satisfying gradients but that is just my _taste_.
My parents would drive 30 extra minutes to save pennies on gas. I have no doubt they'd do the same to dodge a soda tax.

People don't think logically so long as they feel like they're saving money.
Surely you mean the Samsung/HTC/Motorola/Nokia/etc./etc. of the car world...

https://dontholditwrong.tumblr.com
I mean both Greece and Rome operated Egypt as a major part of their overall empire. So Egypt was, for hundreds of years, not an Egyptian Empire
I use both discord and slack in their website form. Am I missing anything by not downloading the electron apps?
Would installing chrome, firefox or some other browser through google play work here? It'd be a hack, having a special mobile browser for just that site, but still
Macron goes after online platforms, foreign ‘propaganda’ media
What percentage of cars is enough for you to say "mass public testing"?
That's a good point. Once the tooling is there for the manual workflow, I expect that an ML-driven approach will plug in to the same hooks without fuss.

But I don't think it changes the main problem to be solved, which is that it's data consumers who want the semantic web, but so far it's been up to data providers to implement it. We need to be able to create links between data with without the participation of whoever hosts it.
Does nuclear secrecy make us more secure? New book offers counterargument (2021)
I've long had an obsession with energy savings and heating, and I think the best way to save energy on heating is by heating people instead of building. With accurate person detection in a room, you could shine low intensity IR at their exact position to keep them warm without wasting energy on heating the rest of the room.

But yeah, I think we can all expect this will be used to monitor behaviour in stores, to spy on people in homes, to rob us and to throw more "relevant" advertising in our faces.
Soda is delicious for those of us that like sweet foods. It's certainly not for everyone, but I could honestly drink soda and eat cookies nonstop all day if I didn't limit myself to at most 1 can in a day and purposely don't purchase cookies to have in the house.
Then shouldn’t you be angry at the infrastructure services and not Twitter?
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/version:0.3.5%...

~40 Gbit/s of bandwidth for the network might get lost
The only ones who have the hard data are Tesla and you are expecting somebody else to provide it. Are you serious?
> Now my question would be why not WebKit, as that is also easy to embed. There are browsers that use WebKit, just not that many.

Wasn’t part of the WebKit/Blink split that Google cared about supporting non-Apple platforms and Apple didn’t want to anymore, (and the reverse on a number of Apple-priority features), and both sides purged their post-split engine codebases of the stuff they weren’t supporting, making post-split WebKit very much not suited to non-Apple platforms.
In other papers, perhaps, but the Telegraph famously hired (now PM) Boris Johnson who cut his teeth making up stories about the “evils” of the EU. I’m going to struggle to trust such an outlet.
Apparently he ran afoul of the Chinese government in 2017: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/bbc-crew-attac...

Fair to also entertain the possibility that they were tracking him because of his previous reporting on land reform in remote villages, when he travelled into remote areas again 4 years later. He had to sign a forced confession the first time and if they caught him interviewing disgruntled villagers again, I’m sure they were ready to ratchet up the punishment.

The 2021 Twitter story sounds very similar to the 2017 one: being followed and physically blocked by people.

> As they walked towards her house, a group of men blocked their way, pushed Sudworth and smashed and snatched the crew’s cameras.

> “As soon as we arrived in Yang Linghua’s village it was clear they were expecting us,” Sudworth wrote in his account, referring to the woman the BBC wanted to interview.

Could be the mines, or could be the Chinese government harassing a Western journalist they already had an issue with.
‘Congratulations, You Killed Osama Bin Laden’ (2021)
To be honest your post sounds like it's coming straight out of the sugar industry PR book.

1. Increase burden of scientific evidence/cast scientific evidence in doubt by saying it's not conclusive enough

2. Assert that reducing sugar is not working because people will just get their calorie input otherwise.

3. Blame fat/daemonize fat, that's what the sugar industry has done very successfully over the last decades.
> You can copy/remix previous art by feeding them into a ML model in training mode, and it will be massively utilized the same way ctrl-c ctrl-v is used,

Then you need attributions for said previous arts, all of it, at least going by texts of laws.
> Do you think web development is anywhere near what it was 20 years ago

why not compare web dev to where desktop was 20 years ago. The question from the user perspective is not whether this or that type of development is getting better, but whether software offers us new affordances today, which it does, but most of them rely on server-side processing and cloud data.

I think you bring up a great example. Which kind of application has gotten better than its past desktop counterparts because of the improvements in javascript? (counterexample: we lost Flash)
> Usually both sides of arguments both have truth to them and the way to objective truth exists via trying to understand why both sides believe what they do.

This is literally about two people arguing. It is actually very possible that one of them is right and other is wrong. Arguments are not just about abstract things.

> Denying the middle position as "non-truth" is only helpful if one's goals have less to do with depolarization.

Sure. Because "depolarization" while ignoring where it ends can end up in even worst place.

Plus, the "truth is in the middle" thing motivates actors on all sides to make up extreme lies. I don't mean just not caring about facts, but intentionally making them wrong. Because the more extremely I push, the more likely you will end up tilted toward my position.
No restrictions on game developers from a network perspective, and if someone is so up shit creek that they're on this page then go nuclear on the router settings to try to avoid a support call?
Some of the "Vaxxed and Done" voices that I hear on the WWW sounds like childfree adults telling parents that they should not worry. That is the perfect recipe for confrontation, even if unintentional! As a young adult, I would have happily tried to explain a rational, statistical/data-driven argument to parents. As a parent, I understand and accept a certain amount of irrational protectiveness/risk-aversion. It becomes very easy for us to talk past each other.
Of course there are all sorts of positive applications for the user. It's just their number is dwarfed by the real purpose of these things. We've known they've been coming for a while. Now they here and we'll have to fight it, then lose.
... because that was the request of the root comment? And also because Ganguro does not, in fact, represent races with darker skin tones so is a falsely equivalent set of data?
Yet we continue to face discussions about being unable to afford socially useful spending on health and housing.

MMT tells us there is no debt problem. It feels like the government only applies this logic when it's materiel.

We're going to need more C17s to move the tanks. And, spend on bridges and roads. I'm not 100% sure the threat modelling is selling this purchase to me right now any more than the nuclear subs story.
So there’s FUD about something we should already reasonably have FUD about?
Great to read about your experience and challenges. I'm currently doing a part-time Masters in Software Development while working. A lot of what you said resonates with me.
I wonder if they could open source this library?
They're talking about refined sugar, which your body does not "need", other carbohydrates can be turned into sugar by your body just fine.
That argument relies on the assumption that we only eat/consume if we need energy. Thank you you have just solved obesity, because nobody eats more than the energy they need!