skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA
Hi! This is Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi, the founders of Substack, with Sachin Monga, the head of product. Yesterday, we launched an iOS app for Substack, so you can read all your Substack subscriptions in one place, with no distractions.

Readers have been tweeting at us for years now to ask when we’d have an app. We’ve long wanted one too, and we suddenly got the manpower to be able to build a good one when we acquired Sachin’s company Cocoon (W19) last year.

Soon after starting Substack, we found it easiest to explain what we do as “We make it simple to start a paid newsletter.” Even then, a Substack was more than just an email newsletter: it was also a blog, and it could host embedded video and audio, and people could leave comments and participate in discussion threads. But the term “newsletter” was useful shorthand because everyone kind of got what that meant. All along, though, we’ve been quietly building the tools for what we call “personal media empires,” encompassing different media formats (natively) and community discussion (which we intend to make better and better).

By a similar token, right from the start we’ve been intending for the company to do more than just provide subscription publishing tools. We’re excited by the vision of Substack becoming a network, where writers and readers benefit from being part of a larger ecosystem. For writers, it means they can be discovered by readers who might not otherwise have found them. For readers, it means being able to connect directly with writers and other readers and to explore a universe of great work.

The app is a key part of the network vision. Nothing changes in terms of writers and readers being in control. The writers still own their mailing lists, content, and IP and can take it all with them anytime they want. Anyone who signs up to a Substack through the app still goes on to that mailing list. And readers still get to choose what appears in their “inbox,” with the power to subscribe and unsubscribe from whatever they want (you can also add any RSS feed into the app via reader.substack.com). But now we’ll have more and better ways to surface recommendations from writers and readers, to show people’s profiles, and to deliver notifications inside and outside of the app.

This is just a start for the Substack app. We want to keep improving it, so please give us feedback and ask us the hard questions. What do you think we’re doing wrong? What could be better? What could be great? What might we not have thought of?

We’re here for the next couple hours. Ask us anything.

https://on.substack.com/p/substackapp
"Gaul is a whole divided into three parts."
> your newly annexed ukraine is now... right on the edge of nato poland.

Why assume he planned to annex Ukraine? It seems more likely (at least to me) that he was planning on deposing the regime and installing a puppet president like the one in Belarus, or even leaving the regime in place but getting them to agree to permanent neutrality.
This is called "internal" vs. "external" storage, or sometimes an "intrusive linked list". Fewer allocations and better locality of reference for faster access are some of the biggest benefits. There's more discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_list#Internal_and_exter...
Lots of people transfer learn with transformers. ViT[0] originally did CIFAR with it. Then DeiT[1] introduced some knowledge transfer (note: their student is larger than the teacher). ViT pretrained on both ImageNet21k and JFT-300m.

CCT ([1] from above) was focused on training from scratch.

There's two paradigms to be aware of. ImageNet and pre-training can often be beneficial but it doesn't always help. It really depends on the problem you're trying to tackle and if there are similar features within the target dataset and the pre-trained dataset. If there is low similarity you might as well train from scratch. Also, you might not want as large of models (like ViT and DeiT have, which ViT's has more parameters than CIFAR-10 has features).

Disclosure: Author on CCT

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12877
I need to point something out to people doing that kind of thing to other people wesites/webapps/whatever:

Having done this multiple times be aware that you can break other people stuff by messing up requests. Most web APIs suck and some won't behave nicely on unexpected failures.

1. When trying to automate a process on an energy management platform I ended up creating resources under some kind of master account, some things broke and they had to manually clean the DB.

2. When trying to access an operation I couldn't do via the provided API I reverse engineered the API of their admin dashboard. It sucked really bad, with a lot of strange sync tokens that felt like going back to 20 years ago. Anyway my implementation wasn't perfect, it grinded their platform to a halt.

I could go on, so please just do stuff like that if you're in contact with the people on the other side. If you're not limit yourself to GETs.
Is that just Turo screwing you over?

In SoCal as long as you have a fastrack account associated with the vehicle/license plate even if you have no transponder your account still gets charged the normal fee + a small additional courtesy fee. I believe the additional fee might be 6$ which does not seem ridiculous (to me at least).

To me this more just sounds like the owner of that vehicle is an idiot and never registered the plate with fastrack.
I'm only familiar with Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany - there are basically zero toll roads here. The occasional bridge or tunnel is tolled, but they are very much the exception as opposed to the rule.
I replaced mainstream media with Breaking Points (https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints). I've found them to be far more reliable.
I'm not sure how canonically-correct the author is trying to be.... as much as they're just drawing comparison to transformers in general.
A large part of startup pitches boil down to "what if [thing already done well for decades in Asia and/or Europe], but worse, and expensive?" Ugly patches over the existing horror show might be the only option until there's a major cultural shift.
Worldle uses the same calculations, center to center, else Russia would be just a few miles from the U.S. e.g.
Ask HN: Are Gantt Charts Used in Industry
We have been using Gantt charts in my engineering class for the last 2 semesters and honestly I find it pointless. I’m really curious if they are used in industry. I find a lot of project management tools we have learned in this class to simply beat around the bush of actually getting things done.
type annotations would get removed during minification, downloads would be the same
Exactly. I was at one point an orgs "GDPR expert" which was fine work wise but not exactly what you want to be known for
There are some nice functional design elements (for instance, the back seats are truly fold flat which provides a surprising amount of storage). That said, I am honestly tempted by going up market to a GTI for a little more fun in a similar package.
ah ur right! thanks.
Does anyone know of a book wherein the last line is the same as the first? In the sense of making the book self-referencing?

Something along the lines of, “And so it is with you.”
And for a long time you'll be reading the rest of the book!

I started reading it in jail, after reading 1Q84 which had a line stating that the only place you'll ever get enough time to read that book is in prison.
On a pedantic level, saying NATO should impose a no-fly-zone is a call to violence. Did these platform ever forbid calls for State-sanctioned force? I would have assumed that these parts of the user terms were referring to unsanctioned, or otherwise criminal violence.
With no action from FED, high inflation is going to stay for years.
Om Malik: Peek into the Future
By choosing to only have an EC card you’re making a deliberate choice to make your life difficult by using an incredibly obscure method of payment, no?

You can hardly expect those to work even in other EU countries, much less with an US based online business.

Almost everybody else in the world has a visa or a mastercard (or unionpay)
"All hate is hate, but some hate is more hate than others."

-- Hypocrite Valley
If your board supports it, the Zephyr RTOS and build tools support building your firmware for a Linux binary target too :) even has a neat RPC protocol to test the firmware on your computer rather than on the board.

Probably too much for a Teensy tho, but it is supported:

https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/boards/arm/teensy4/doc...
Ukraine offers Taiwan a wake-up call, and lessons in resistance
Yes the usual war between xoroshiro and pcg haters/lovers.

You could also take the opposite takeaway: don't use any of those, stay on the Mersenne-Twister (the modern variants are very reasonable).
When a search provider decides to allow one side of a story to be presented but to remove sites that present the other side, that's pure bias. It may be justifiable bias; that's arguable. But you can't call that unbiased by any sensible definition.
Yandex was already my go to alternative to Google, this just reassured me in my choice
The Boeing 737 MAX crashes were caused by faulty AoA sensors. A rather classic measure by these so-called "professional" engineers: make a broken device and then pass the buck. Does their certification process teach this? In any case, happy to split the difference and call it even.

Okay, how about you build a list of software that directly killed people and I'll build a list of non-software that directly killed people in 2021. Then whoever finds more people killed gets $10k from the other? We can agree to terms of what it means for software to kill and non-software to kill. Therac-25 is obvious software, Florida condo collapse is obviously hardware.
If you are mathematically inclined like a lot of people in HN, the best way might be getting an app like MyFitnessPal to figure out the maximum amount of calories you need to each every day to lose X kg in Y days, and commit to logging every single food you eat.

This helps really well for having an intuition in how many calories something has (a chicken sandwhich with mayo might have more calories in the mayo than in the rest of the sandwhich), and for stopping cravings (if I eat this cupcake now I'll have 200 fewer calories for dinner and I cannot afford it).

This is stressful, difficult, and kinda ridiculous, but for me it's the only diet that actually works. It helps if you cook at home and can choose ingredients easily.
My guess is that high-PPI monitor panels have lower yield (more pixels per panel that can be damaged) and need dedicated production lines, so it requires some economics of scale to be viable, and it’s just not quite there for desktop monitors. Limitations on the bandwidth of integrated CPU graphics and connection standards may also play a role, although those are improving.

I’d love to have (say) a 30" 6480 x 4320 (~260 PPI), but that would be almost twice the pixels of 5K and over three times the pixels of 4K.
Excited for what's to come, best of success in your endeavor.

Looking at the comments they're a good insight into the challenges of what you're aiming to do. Don't get distracted by the criticism, you're solving for it.

"Just become vegan/vegetarian, don't waste your time creating new meat". If our civilization has the resources and talent to make what you're doing happen, then why not? It'll definitely help someone somewhere. Also, this could potentially have future applications in the biomedical industry. We should embrace tech R&D.

"The processes are currently expensive or use non-scalable elements (food/FBS)". Of course, this has to be solved. One step at a time, besides they're not the only startup working on an area of the cultivated meat value-chain.
"Importantly, the POSE program is not intended to fund the development of open-source research products, including tools and artifacts. The POSE program is also not intended to fund existing well-resourced open-source communities and ecosystems. Instead, the program aims to fund new managing organizations that catalyze community-driven development and growth of the subject OSEs."
> But it says "Russian disinformation" thus they are making it about politics

I don't follow. What specifically do you mean when you say the word "politics"? Do you mean that targeting a specific source of misinformation is political? That's literally all manual interventions, all of them target specific sources.

> However in this case, they are inferring a certain political view of the conflict, regardless of what your intent is

Well, or they're inferring that the information is factually wrong. Again, just very confused at what you mean by political here. When DuckDuckGo uses the word misinformation, what it means by that word is that DuckDuckGo thinks the information is factually incorrect, regardless of whether you are Russian or Chinese or American.

If the DOJ comes out against encryption and says that it has a special chip that's safe enough for everyone, and then a researcher says, "no, I have broken the chip" -- is that a political disagreement? If I block the DOJ source am I making a political statement, or am I saying that the DOJ's assertion in this case is factually wrong?

Of course, sorting facts often has political implications, and it is fair to ask about what the political implications and viewpoints are that DuckDuckGo has, and whether it has biases that prevent it from reacting as strongly to, just as an example, US propaganda about refugees or armed conflicts that it has initiated. However, once again, asking critical questions about bias is not the same thing as saying that there is a nebulous category called "politics" where a private company who's job it is to sort information should never sort information.

> No basis for inference can be established here. The only way this could work is by having a switch in the interface to turn such results off, so the user can opt in into it if they prefer to.

It's hard to argue about this because on one hand, having more user controls around search would genuinely be good. However, this is not really how search works right now outside of rare situations like safe-search and location, and to argue that DuckDuckGo shouldn't be making any editorial decisions about political topics until full user-transparent customization of search algorithms exist -- it's effectively the same thing as arguing that no editorial decisions should be made right now.

To me, this just kind of circles back around to what I was originally saying. Are you upset about a result-sorting business doing its job and sorting results, or are you upset with this very specific decision, or... is it possible you're just upset that we don't have a more competitive market for search engines?
I expect a lot of sanctions to backfire. Like Russia migrating from swift to the newish Chinese system and never coming back, Russia nationalizing foreign companies operating on their territory (as they already hinted with McDonald's)

Lot of these "second wave sanctions" sound like virtue signaling, these company probably would have had a greater impact by using Russian profits to fuel the Ukranian effort and/or help the refugees

I know we already shot ourself in the foot, a necessary evil, time will tell if we also shot the other one.
Niantic acquires web-based augmented reality platform 8th Wall
Enterprise: buying IBM meant (a) job security and (b) high cost. AWS is that today.

Consumer: the Sears catalog was known to be the most expansive catalog-of-items to buy from. Amazon.com is that today.

TL;DR - Amazon has won both the enterprise and consumer market.
I never see anyone mention this, but I don't buy the idea—perhaps based on a gut feeling versus reading any particular studies—that it's wise to just stick your cash into any asset vehicle because inflation is ever persistent.

Well it's ever persistent for everyone, and if everyone is buying, it's not impossible to purchase something beyond its fair value.

For instance, if you bought into US equities on Feb 10th, you would have lost over 24% by March 23rd. If you held it until now, you would have made back your losses... but if you bought broad equities on EOY 2021, you would have lost more than inflation up to this point in 2022.

Ray Dalio mentioned his confusion about markets not crashing when he was young because the dollar became untethered from gold a second time in U.S. history, and he later realized buying assets when central banks print was a "rhyme" in economics history--these events don't repeat perfectly, but similar situations occur over time. In his case, it was a repeat event.

But I hate with a passion when people talk about generally what you should do without ever talking about mechanical limits to that type of decision making.

It's so pervasive that you get studies put out by financial institutions saying you're better to always be fully invested, and to never set aside cash. Could you elaborate on that? Or is it because you're an institution getting paid on expense ratios based on AUM.

The whole attitude industry-wide is gross and conflicting to me.

If you refused to buy when general equities were historically high at any point in time and held on to cash while eating inflation, when market prices came down and you bought when valuations were fair value you would have made money, you didn't lose it simply because inflation was present. It always is. But you have a choice of whether you want to buy a dollar of assets for two, or if you want to buy a dollar of assets for 80 cents. That's NOT MARKET TIMING. That's refusing to buy something when it's overvalued, but people so grossly conflate the two that you can't have any reasonable discussion with a layperson about this concept because catch-all sayings predominantly reside in average investors' minds over studies and historic figures about asset management.

Buy low, sell high! Buy and hold forever! Yeah, but what is "high"? And why would you hold something that is dying?

I feel like the pop literature available to the public that is digestible covers some reasonable concepts but I think there are studies that either haven't been independently recreated to back simple common questions for the above average person, or they haven't been performed at all.
Peeked into the dark sea where the old ones reside...
Yes. Federal Office Building #3, Suitland, Maryland, sounds like an address from fiction. But it was quite real.[1][2] Built in 1941, looked like a reinforced concrete parking garage inside. Demolished some time around 2000. The computers were in the leftmost wing, as seen from the front.

[1] https://www.census.gov/history/www/census_then_now/suitland_...

[2] https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/un...
And get any problematic limbs amputated if necessary.
Out of curiosity, what are the reliable news outlets that you subscribe to?
It’s incredible the lengths to which the US will go to duct tape together their 1950’s era, individual-rider transportation system. The solution is mass transit, but this offends the entrenched industries (auto companies and adjacent) that control the government so you get nonsense like this.
"But the flip side of that is that the types of people who tend to gravitate toward those languages are often more interested in programming for it's own sake and not the domain they're working in. So you get things like people burning hours writing their own libraries and endless tinkering with programming minutiae instead of getting sh* done."

Don't agree with everything, but this part is a very good point.
Around 1990, I remember seeing a book in the cut-out bin of a bookstore about IBM and how it was an inevitable juggernaut that would consume the world. Wish I'd bought it :-)

All through the 1980s, I heard the same thing - IBM was an unstoppable monopoly. It's the exact same thing today, just the company is a different one. It changes every 10 or 20 years.

But the fall of the previous "unstoppable juggernauts" never deters pundits from anointing the current top dog as an unstoppable juggernaut.
As far as the terms of service go, I could see conflating a pyramid and a ponzi, but a pump and dump is pretty distantly related.

And saying they need to remove that part of the ToS to honestly accept any crypto business is silly.

You could make an argument against allowing entirely new coins, I guess, but that's more about the other ToS terms than 'pyramid scheme'.
most people don't version control the output of their compiled build though.
Great idea honestly. I really like the feature where I can register my car to my account (in case I do not have my transponder) vs the old way where you just got charged a massive penalty fee.

But using someone elses address is a huge security problem
YouTube censors Ukraine documentary featuring Oliver Stone
Yeah sorry you’re right - I should have read the rest of your post, which is excellent and describes precisely why the coordinates/transformations focused definition is bad for one’s intuition.
Wait, so the purported royalty benefit of wrapping this in a contract can be circumvented, but the NFT tech is still good because people who circumvent this kindly send the artist the royalty anyway? Would they not be able to send the same courtesy royalty if no NFTs were involved?
maybe it's time to pump the brakes a bit
Some of the features are philosophically conflicting. I.e. sometimes it is a feature of some language that it specifically doesn't have certain features.

For instance, you can't have functional purity and assignment to variables and mutable object fields; you have to pick one.
> Weight lifting sessions really aren't that productive as far as calorie burn is concerned.

That's kinda the point. Very few people do high intensity workout very often or very long. Most people who think they're "active" are actually not burning all that much. Weight lifting can be quite intensive. Mine usually are at substantially higher HR than 50% unless I'm going for a 1RM. E.g. I'd do power cleans into press for reps quite regularly, and that gets brutal. But for most people they're not because most people take their time and don't push themselves to progress very fast towards the limits of what they could lift. But even for someone who takes the lifts seriously, sure, it's not going to compete with someone who takes cycling seriously for calorie burn. But then again, most people don't push themselves with cardio either. The proportion who pushes the limits in pretty much any given exercise regime is tiny.

> I would be surprised if I averaged less than 2500, though I haven't tracked in a long time.

You're quite likely right you're above that if you do a lot of cycling.
The real point of it for me is the framing. It's the idea that any object, tangible or intangible, and be analyzed in this way because everything has multiple dimensions of relations linking it to every other thing eventually. It's the equivalent of being able to pick up the graph of human relations by a single point and letting all other relations branch from that point like a tree. There's obviously root nodes that are more interesting than others just as there are more spanning trees more interesting than all the others.
Mine beeps but it is an ancient model that is quite large (maybe 3 inches by 3 inches - square)
My personal observation. A large proportion of credit card payment were fraud, or flagged as such. It was such a huge number (% wise) that I (thought I) understood why stripe pulled the rug out. And in another project I observed a very large and sudden increase at attempted fraud right after elements of crypto were introduced (including attempts at impersonating me, and someone else involved).

But honestly, when it comes to the crypto world, I'm that guy who laughed at that other guy for buying bitcoin at 20 cents. There was a lesson there somewhere.