skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically and precisely how did you decide what data you are going to collect and keep on your users with the app? Of that, how much of it is only accessible with an app rather than providing the same thing through a web-browser?

edit: I think this is a very reasonable question to ask. I'm sorry it's making some uncomfortable but that discomfort really doesn't change the economic realities of competitive space in the industry.
> Are transformers competitive with (for example) CNNs on vision-related tasks when there's less data available?

They can be, there's current research into the tradeoffs between local inductive bias (information from local receptive fields: CNNs have strong local inductive bias) and global inductive bias (large receptive fields: i.e. attention). There's plenty of works that combine CNNs and Attention/Transformers. A handful of them focus on smaller datasets, but the majority are more interested in ImageNet. There's also work being done to change the receptive fields within attention mechanisms as a means to balance this.

> Are transformers ever used with that scale of data?

So there's a yes and no to your question. But definitely yes since people have done work on Flowers102 (6.5k training) and CIFAR10 (50k training). Keep in mind that not all these models are pure transformers. Some have early convolutions or intermediate ones. Some of these works even have a smaller number of parameters and better computational efficiency than CNNs.

But more importantly, I think the big question is about what type of data you have. If large receptive fields are helpful to your problem then transformers will work great. If you need local receptive fields then CNNs will tend to do better (or combinations of transformers and CNNs or reduced receptive fields on transformers). I doubt there will be a one size fits all architecture.

One thing to also keep in mind is that transformers typically like heavy amounts of augmentation. Not all data can be augmented significantly. There's also pre-training and knowledge transfer/distillation.
don't air tags use the same tech as Find My phone? Whether or not you have an air tag or are near one, I'd expect the same reduction if that feature is on.
This follow-up question is being down voted for the personal attack at the end, and rightly so, but I would still be curious to see a response to the larger point about that kind of content from someone at Substack.
If you were feeling particularly cynical, you might wonder whether this phenomenon has been incorporated into shipping products, such manufacturers would be assured that their goods would fail shortly after the warranty expired.
One possible explanation could be that the fallback for U1/UWB chips in devices without them sucks?

iPhones >=11 have UWB, iPads don't afaict.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec1e6108efd/...
You can disable the Find My network, which is a separate option/setting from Find My for your specific device(s).

It's found under your iCloud Settings > Find My

The only major caveat to disabling it on your devices is it removes the ability for those devices to be located when they're turned off.
Yes. Also, I didn't use the word "fair".
Yes. VP of Partnerships, VP of Communications, Head of Talent are all women at the top table.
Climate change is perhaps one of the many reasons both the Roman and Byzantine empires fell or lost ability to project power. The Byzantine conquest of Italy was finishing up when these plagues hit and they never recovered their original strength again.

One has to wonder whether modern agriculture is no longer as affected by these kinds of changes or whether the war in Ukraine is just a sign of things to come.
I don’t think government control is necessary. Much of what the OP is talking about can be undertaken by industry standards, or just by enough software engineers and software firms agreeing upon it, whether through a body like an IEEE or unofficially like how Agile spread in popularity.
Outside, I think the teslas are very interesting with respect to minmalism.

Nothing sticks out, they are completely smooth aerodynamically.

(I do think the aero model 3 wheels may be functional but are not attractive)

Inside the car, I think tesla's minimalism has gone too far.

The telsa model 3 without a dashboard in front of the driver is cheap, not minimal. They also reduced the stalks and overloaded the controls.

Then the recent model S/X changes went further to outright dangerous. There are no stalks at all on the steering column, and turn signals, horn and high beams are touch buttons in the middle of steering wheel. When you move, the car guesses which direction you want to go, there is no gearshift stalk. There are gearshift buttons at the bottom of the console, but no dedicated buttons for other critical functions like defrost. sigh.
> I wouldn't think Russian politicians called for hospitals and Ukrainian schools to be hit

Russia is admitting to intentionally attacking the hospital.

Their claim is that the hospital was long abandoned by patients and has been used by the Ukrainian military. Ukraine says the hospital was in use by patients and that 3 were killed and 17 were injured. There are photos of injured pregnant women walking away from the debris. Russia claims these photos are staged. Speculation from the West is that Russia is attacking civilians like this intentionally to break the Ukrainian people's spirit.

Now you know both sides. Do with it what you will.
> I don't think that Apple is likely to try to police that too heavily

As someone who uses and loves substack precisely because of its censorship resistance, this sounds like wishful thinking at best. Even if substack is primarily web based, introducing a dependency on the ever-changing Apple content policing system is a potential conflict of interest.

A cynical take is that smaller platforms compete early by allowing more speech, only to close it down when they become bigger and tied up in corporate relationships.

How do you remain independent as you grow?
Does having more airtags around cause the battery to drain faster? It would be absolutely hilarious to walk around with a pocket full of airtags and be a legit iphone energy vampire.
Except they did. Russian military can’t fight proper army, so they are killing civilians instead. It’s not an accident, it’s done on purpose.
Pre-war cyber aid to Ukraine
>"The only potential caveat is if Russia uses nukes. But that doesn't start World War III"

Of course not. It'll just vaporize millions of people. Pocket change.
Both would fall under Stripe's list of prohibited businesses.
“It began as a mistake.“

Post Office - Bukowski
Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
Thanks for the thorough answer.
I'm not, because of the object slicing problem. Value types and inheritance don't mix well, and the way Rust expresses inheritance with explicit "dyn" traits solves the problem neatly.
I believe it was a bug that was resolved in one of the latest iOS 15 point releases.
If China allows after 2026 Winter Olympics it will be the Kazakhstans turn.
A lot of that rings pretty true. Stephen Kotkin's own biography that I have been reading his some of the same points.

Because of the new archives you can really get an insight into the day to day operation of an empire that combined the power and function of New York, Washington, LA, Detroit and SF into one centrally run from an office. Its a a baffling process where Stalin moves between editing movies, deciding how many tanks to build and what kind, who would lead what part of the local bureaucracy and how to respond to an inquiry from a major foreign state and those meeting might be on the same day.

I highly recommend Kotkin two volumes on Stalin!

Being interested in WW1-WW2 timeframe what always struck me is the difference between Hitler and Stalin based on their basic outlook.

Hitler world-view was basically pessimistic, all races were in a global struggle for dominance, and its either win now or lose everything for ever. Low chance of success, no matter, its not or never. Germans were simply not close to the largest ethnic group.

Stalin on the other hand was fundamentally a Communist. Being in the end successful was not really a question, the global revolution was coming and they would win. Its really only a question of how long it would take. History would inevitably push in their direction.

Stalin foreign policy (not unlike Chamberlains) was to pull Germany to his side, because his fundamental Geo-strategic believe was that the global communist revolution would happen when the Capitalist were fighting in war against each other. But this time, the 'right reactionaries' would find the Red Army supporting the revolutionary.

German attack on France/Britain was everything Stalin had dreamed about for 2 decades. Decades of work leading him to the promised land, the Great Capitalistic War. And his plan very well might have worked, it was a decent strategy. Germans invaded with tanks using Soviet fuel and many other materials. But, French Army and Nation were not as they were in WW1 and they collapsed like a house of cards within weeks. Germany had landed into total continental power and most nations of Eastern Europe preferred them to the Soviets.

Stalin plan turned from mopping up weak regimes into being opposed by major very aggressive continental power. The Blowback of this strategy was gigantic, with 50+ million Soviets dying until it was over.

I despise Stalin and all the Bolsheviks, but Russian history is endlessly fascinating.
> inflation disproportionately harms people who can't easily adjust their income upwards

This was demonstrated quite well in a Twitter thread by Jack Monroe about food poverty in the UK - https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1483778776697909252 - and led to the Office For National Statistics looking into calculating the impact of inflation on different income groups - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/26/cost-of-liv...

She had initially named the idea the "Vimes Boot index" after the Terry Pratchett character: "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of okay for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/26/terry-pratchet...
I don't think familiarity with Wordle helps much. This UI is pretty damn confusing. You type in country names, and then a km value, arrow, and percentage value appears. I have no idea what these signify. Clicking on the boxes brings up a box that gives you information but I have no idea how that information is relevant.
It means nothing to keyboard warriors here.
It’s used to build pretty much every Docker image around us. Works extremely well as WSL. Super lightweight, performant, and the number of packages is growing strong.

Pair it with xcfe (or gnome or kde) and you have a super desktop, no more worries about RAM or background processes eating up CPU (looking at you Windows).

Yes, there’s a Blender package! and many other good stuff.

Alpine made Linux fresh again, and yes I have 32GB of RAM and a fast CPU and SSD, using Alpine will make sure it stays fast

It needs much less than that to run, of course, it’s brilliantly focused.
What would you direct searches for "strawman" to?
I've always wanted a website (I'd even pay for this) with condensed guidelines for interfaces based on existing research with citations. Say I was tasked with making a feed-based UI at work and wanted to quickly learn the best practices on how to do that with links to the "why", where would I even go today?

It feels like researchers do all this work and too often all folks end up doing in an office is "Go look at the market leaders and copy what they did." Even though the market leaders may not have always followed the research for any number of reasons, many of which may be product specific.

I did mocks for this at some point, just couldn't find time to do all the reading necessary to make the content (hence it probably needing to be a paid service).
Could somebody describe what upward mobility looks like in Russia? I have a really hard time understanding it when I hear terminology like “kleptocrats” or “oligarchs”. At best I can generalize that upward mobility sucks in Russia, but I’d really like to hear a few narratives of what this looks like from people who actually grew up in Russia.
Several of your questions can be answered here on the San Mateo county page:

https://ccag.ca.gov/us-101-express-lanes-project/

There's an effect called induced demand where adding more free lanes to a road actually increases congestion, not decrease. Traffic engineers in the bay area have studied this and found it would be the effect if they just opened the HOV lanes up to all traffic.

A toll expressway allows for relieving congestion on normal lanes without increasing road demand, and will pay for itself over time.
> Because cargo is so convenient to use, dependencies are completely out of control: adding a single crate can end up pulling in dozens of dependencies. In my case I ended up with ~150 for ~5 crates!

Being able to share code easily is a good thing, and it's one of the biggest draws of Rust compared to C++. You will see the same thing once C++ modules and package managers take off; in fact, if you don't, that means that C++ modules have failed.
Annualized returns for the S&P from 2013-2021 was ~15% per year. For 2019-2021 the average was 24% per year.

The idea is that future returns will be lower because those some of those expected future "real" gains (i.e. gains from growth and dividends) are already reflected in the current price (i.e. speculative gains). That these recent years of high returns are due to speculation is clear from the abnormally high PE ratio.

Of course, Bogle has been saying stuff like this for awhile, so who knows. He was saying that future gains would be lower back in '17, and look where we are now.
Oh gosh, I do the same and I hate it. Many times was thinking if there's a better approach. Then googled and came up with nothing going back to the same approach.
Wunderlist co-founder felt 'unhappy' after selling to Microsoft
I think this is a valuable contribution to this conversation. You have shown how drones are definitely being used in critical situations. I can't see why you're being downvoted. I always try to support comments that are being downvoted for the wrong reasons (in terms of the HN rules).
I'm reminded a bit of Marx's Eighteenth Bruminaire of Louis Bonaparte, where the line 'once as grand tragedy, and the second time as rotten farce' was coined, because just like Napoleon III to Napoleon I, compared to Stalin, Putin is a dwarf.

Sadly, I don't find the comparison particularly reassuring. Hilter, another 'moon-calf', with his 'first available dozen debt-encumbered lieutenants', did far more damage than Stalin ever did, and far more damage still than Bismark, who would be the 'big' Napoleon to Hitler's 'little'.

The amount of horror a head of state can spawn has little or no relation to their individual talents or lack thereof. I think Stalin is a bit of an outlier, in that he took a fairly sane if shaky revolutionary party, and turned it into a cannibalistic monster state, essentially through his own hard work and talent.
> Isn't the aim of sanctions to hurt Russians?

All Russians working in McDonalds or Coca Cola are probably not much pleased now.

And Kool Aid seems to be really popular in Russia currently.
The only reason NFTs sell for more is because of the hype and the likelihood of there being some bigger sucker to resell it to at an inflated price. This won't last forever and then you'll end up with the same same 30$ t-shirt-like prices but in NFT land. The "art" and "artist" involved is irrelevant here - what matters is that you have something that the current market has a lot of demand for.
>In the UK there are ANPR cameras everywhere. The police can and will pull your driving history (or at least when you passed the cameras), and if you are 'wanted' it will ping the local police force when you drive past one.

The systems exist to varying extent on a state by state basis, but they're mostly not used for mundane stuff because the American public even in the most boot-lickey states won't just roll over and take it when the .gov tries to use skynet to screw them out of extra money and the powers that be would rather use the systems sparingly than anger the public and get rules and laws that say they can't.
Why such a hostile response? I am trying to have a peaceful discussion. And all those rhetorical questions appear to be strawmaning what I am proposing.

Oxymorons are currently present in the way Apple does its PR - no problem with sweatshop labor in China, but they'll never miss a chance to have a political opinion about other things - diversity, BLM, Ukraine, etc. Whatever aligns with their audience.
I noticed some of the magic of Cocoon when I started up the Substack app. While I hate to see Cocoon get neglected (please keep it alive!), I do love to see the Substack app so well designed. It's a pleasure to use. Well done!

Have you ever considered offering subscription packages? I find it hard to justify making multiple paid subscriptions (they add up fast), but would love to be able to build a package of newsletters that I could subscribe to at a bundled rate of some sort. Something like a cable tv plan for Substack newsletters?
> In case someone hasn't noticed, there is a war going on in Eurasia.

I thought it was Eastasia.
2022 Crypto Job Report (analysis of 12,000 open crypto jobs)
Bellingcat Open-Source Intelligence: Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War
Thanks!

Our goal with the app is to give a seamless upgrade to the email experience -- which is why the home page works just like an inbox -- while having writers retain ownership of their list (which therefore gives them exit rights.)

We don't want to be a walled garden. We want to make a great reading experience, with porous boundaries. If you publish on Substack, it goes everywhere - email, the web, other networks, but as the writer you can pull your most valuable audience to the place that you own and can get paid from. If you read on Substack, you can read things on Substack, and then maybe things from other places, like RSS etc. I like the idea of having emails that you can get stuff delivered to.
Anecdotally, I've heard from many people that in pre-pandemic traffic on the peninsula, the occasional carpool ticket was worth it for the time savings they got from taking the carpool lane. Carpool lane violations don't accrue points, so there's no insurance hikes or potential to lose your license. Especially with things like Waze being available, in slow-moving traffic cops didn't change their positions often and so you could fairly reliably avoid being in violation when you were in sight of them.
I am shocked. I followed the link and thought I'd hit the Drudge Report, saw this link and had to double check. I am shocked.
I hope the app is using Ionic/capacitor so that it can reuse parts of the web frontend code.
Censorship happens when a writer is de-platformed, and has nowhere to turn to re-platform themselves. People on HN then give snarky, insincere advice about creating your own web hosting company or whatever. On the other hand, there are lots of platforms catering to nudity and sexual content, so I don't think this is going to be a problem there.

In a society where the government isn't allowed to censor, the greatest fear is that speech platforms will become few enough, or homogeneous enough, that particular kinds of legal speech have nowhere to go. Substack provides a home for some speakers who had nowhere else to go, and is therefore decreasing the total amount of censorship that happens in the US.

Some of your "racists and abusers" may be people that others want to read. If you don't like what they're saying, don't read them. If you're going to try to stop me from reading people I want to read, I'll financially support companies that don't let you do that.
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo."
What were some of the surprising technical challenges you faced developing the app?
What do you mean? Plenty of people are on 30Mbps connections and I have more than triple that in upload.
When I was auditioning different CAD programs a while ago, I tried a few different tutorials for FreeCAD and hit the hurdle that there were several different modules in which to start a sketch, but of which none offered a full set of functionality. Of course, the different tutorials used different starting points.

Was my impression correct; and is this something that is being addressed?
> They have the BRICS sphere of influence on their side.

So and so, my banks in BRICS countries are refusing to accept incoming transfers from Russian banks. At least in China, India and the UAE Russian money seems to be a no-go.

Pretty sure other BRICS countries are only providing moral support at this point.
What stagnant bureaucracy instituted Agile across the industry, or mandated the widespread adoption of Node, or React, or any hot trending technology of the decade? Ad hoc best practices or chosen tools get picked up all the time without a power structure demanding it.

Maybe the compromise isn’t to institute formal licensing, but rather pay more attention to and give more support to industry bodies such as the ACM/IEEE.
I shouldn’t get American disinformation, but your trusted sources are untouchable.
I can't seem to scroll the country list! Firefox 98 on macOS 12.2.
If someone is sending me 1Gbps at layer 3, doesn't that just saturate my link to my ISP (and therefore the open internet) anyway? Regardless of whether I block it with my router?
All wireless protocols can be fairly trivially DoS'ed, due to the nature of finite bandwidth and power limits.
At this point, any damage done to Russia is either morally good, or at least neutral. Literally anything. In the worst case it’s just collateral damage.
Iain Banks? Pretty sure it is, can’t remember the title…
so when Russia constantly says that the West is out to get them, they might actually be right? if FB is so blatant about supporting (yeah, in some countries) violence against Russians, I can't even imagine what goes on in secret.
Roundabouts are ubiquitous here in New Zealand, and have been for decades.

People still don't know how to use them.
The last two years have shown us that people will routinely and casually break the rules merely to avoid mild discomfort, even while lives are on the line and people are dying. I don’t see how these voluntary transponders are even remotely effective.
Thought experiment If you could go back in time and replace Brendon Eich when he first created JS what would you propose?
As Stalin said during WWII about working with the west: "You can walk with the devil to the end of the bridge."

But I think Schlock Mercenary has a better take on this: "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more; no less."