skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your argument exactly, that we should not give job to workers in poorer countries? So that they don't have any money?
Seeing the download attribute mentionend felt weirdly nostalgic. I wrote a short blog post about that attribute which shot up to the number one spot here on HN when I submitted it back in 2013[0].

In the nine years since that post, I have not once used it in a real project.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5594791
You might want to back this up somewhere, will be brigaded into deletion in minutes.
"I bought some dongles on eBay after zero research, and they don't have specs I dreamed up". lol

Even if you bought USB 3.0 ones, to get raw YUV or RGB data, you specifically have to buy ones that support that. (and your desired frame rate, because you can easily buy dongles that only support 60FPS and not 50FPS your camera may output)

Don't buy from Chinese vendors that don't provide detailed specs.
Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech
"Here's the good news: you already have all the willpower you need. You simply don't know how to use it yet." from "Training The Will"

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/tag/will
"Logistically speaking, this is the biggest achievement I've seen in my life. Adding an area under attack, larger than TX, w 45m people, to someone else's power grid, producing electricity for more than 1000 miles away, all into the same system. In 2 weeks." - https://twitter.com/PeterZeihan/status/1510732246705061892

Here's some more details: https://fortune.com/2022/04/02/ukraine-connect-europe-energy...

They were prepping for years, but they turned a 3 day test into a full integration. Super impressive.
Tech companies are offering spiritual care to make employees more productive
Oh look a social media platform with declining earnings and user base... buy stock just cause elon did? I think not.
These are some pretty harsh restrictions. No using the internet for more than 20 minutes a day unless it's work related? Only playing video games for an hour or two per week? This feels like it'd set OP up to burn out...You can't even have a meaningful conversation with someone in 20 minutes. It may work for you but it's not going to work for everyone. Besides, sometimes when you're sad or tired or just need a break, you just want to relax and do something more mindless. And even video games aren't just "mindless" entertainment. What if you want to take a break in between work?
"If it happened there" AKA how the media would cover this happening in another country:

> Powerful oligarch announces bid to gain control of influential media platform
Kind of a rip-off, was hoping for an unassisted walking technique. One could also strap on balloons to lift some of one's weight, and use a giant fan, also held buoyant from balloons, pull forward to assist in walking. Or, one could use a bus, which at 50mph could pull you up a hill by the time you walked from the back of the bus to the front. Where are my research grants?
> Software is almost always licensed, not sold/owned.

Everything comes with software or anti-consumer legalese these days, and I could argue that one should be allowed to modify a local copy of one's software despite a license, but you know what? I don't care. These practices are a direct attack on consumer control and autonomy, and the legal fig-leaf of "licensed" doesn't change this.

You can let them keep chipping away at what rights we have left, or you can fight back. But don't use mere legality as some kind of justification for these practices, or, worse, as a reason to not resist them.
And yet, the Euros didn't bother.

You remember the Euros. They're constantly telling anyone who will listen that they (the Euros) have the world's largest economy (which is true by some measures, but seems to be irrelevant outside of the EU) and that soft power is more important, decisive even, in a modern world.

And yet, Euros don't seem to be willing to actually use soft power, at least not when they're paying.

Of course, I probably got this wrong, which is to be expected because I'm an American.

What's the reason this time (there's always an excuse):
[1] The US stopped Euros from using soft-power.
[2] The US kept said soft-power from working.
[3] The US wouldn't pay its share.

Yes, the good cop receives the results in good-cop/bad-cop, but that doesn't imply that the bad-cop was irrelevant.
Eigen is a great library.

A similar one to consider that can at times be slightly easier to use coming from a python background is armadillo:
http://arma.sourceforge.net/
I really don't care about speeders. Following Distance is what actually matters about 98% of the time.
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I would add to your list: Following Distance
i really dislike clickhouse for anything less than rudimentary analysis, but appreciate that it’s fast for that.
this blow up at /r/wallstreetbets/
Yeah, and some people will decline. I'd rather be harassed than tracked.
> we wait on an admin to write and test the IaC to change a server

This is more about company culture, not IAC. I write IAC, not a sysadmin. They don't even test it, that's what our test environment is for. There's a few things they don't let us touch, and a few enforced best practices but those are handled in code, and I can incorporate those checks as part of my usual unit test cycle.

> And there are very few turn-key solutions, so we're left to keep rebuilding the same things and running into the same problems.

That's what IAC can do for us. IAC is, at it's heart, providing a desired state, which Terraform (ansible, etc) checks to see if the environment state matches what I requested, and if the answer is no, changes it to match the provided state.

If I was writing code to do this myself, it would do the exact same thing.

> We need GUIs that allow anyone to safely make changes without being an expert.

Amazon has a GUI that, for most operations, is perfectly acceptable. And I'd still rather use IAC than make changes via a GUI in production. And the reason is simple: I'll make mistakes. I'll forget or fat-finger one of dozens of required options for setting up a secure S3 bucket.

If everyone uses IAC against production, then it will work most of the time (the exceptions that I've run up against are very rare).
Nice work with the write up and thank you for sharing this. The post is interesting, but I think the problem with the YCRank approach currently is that the labelling appears to be subjective opinion, at least if I understand correctly.

Based on the post, you've trained the classifier by labelling a couple of examples of company descriptions you liked better than each other, based on subjective assessments like "harder to execute" or revenue growth that aren't part of the data you're running the classifier against.

If so, you've done a nice job of training a classifier to predict which companies you personally are more likely to be interested in. To improve this, you could use past YC batch company descriptions and success data to have more useful examples and labels for training the classifier based on past data, and which isn't so subjective. That might produce some interesting predictions that are more generalizable (although I think you may need more data points than the description and basic metadata).

If I've misunderstood, it would be interesting to know a little more detail about how the data was labelled.

I've based this on the following: "To investigate this, I made a neural network, YCRank, trained it on a handful of hand-labeled pairwise comparisons, and then used the learned comparator to sort the companies in the most recent W’22 batch."

And then: "I biased my ranking towards what was “harder to execute” on" and "I also tended to rank favorably companies that were already making monthly recurring revenue with double-digit growth rates".

Those may or may not be good criteria.

Based on that, this is essentially what you could call a "DudeRank Classifier" because as The Dude in the Big Lebowski says, "Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man" :)

As I suggested above, it might be more interesting to label the example pairs and train the classifier based on the original company descriptions of known past successful and unsuccessful YC companies.

Possibly there is some signal in the company descriptions and limited metadata from Demo Day alone sufficient to predict successful companies from a batch.

Good luck!

Disclaimer: I am in the W22 batch. Our startup (Andi) ranks pretty well here. And this also is just, like, my opinion :)

[Edit: You could also test the classifier against historical batches to improve it then also!]
I love these features, but am absolutely flabbergasted that Apple removed the ability to turn off the music that plays when you view the memory slideshow! It's not on-device music, it's not any sort of music that I chose, it's just some Apple-chosen soundtrack that I absolutely do not want, yet the only option is to turn my volume all the way down. I would label it hostile design.
> expanding from the presence of some far-right militia activity in some places

Note: smaller than that of the same ideological but different geopolitical alignment that Russia has been sponsoring for years (Azov exists, but it's smaller than Sparta) in the same conflict.
I didn't mean to imply that land area was the constraint - the constraint is energy/fuel use, traffic, and other symptoms of inefficient resource use.

We should be aiming to design houses so that minimal HVAC is necessary to maintain comfortable conditions, not building ramshackle houses in the desert and patching the inefficiencies with massively energy-consuming devices.

The broader point I'm trying to make is that we should be aiming for effective improvements in living standards - and there are two components in effectiveness, correct orientation and efficiency. American suburbs are pretty backwards in terms of cost/benefit: they're expensive to maintain infrastructure-wise, they isolate people from each other, and you have to drive for an hour to get to anything leading to even more expensive car-centric infrastructure. We should be aiming to fulfil human needs on a planetary scale, which means efficient use of resources.
They still provide no details whatsoever about their alleged breakthrough.
Not sure if you've read this but the Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule essay by PG has some nice notes about focus on a tactical level.

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
Free speech is fine - it's slander that is problematic.
Reader mode works great on mobile Safari.
ACARS is something else, it's like SMS for aircraft. Also interesting data.

But this thread is about location: ADS-B (dependent broadcast) and to a lesser degree MLAT (secondary radar interrogation response), both of which primarily operate on 1090MHz.

With an unmodified RTL-SDR you can receive both, not at the same time and you'll want to swap antennas since the ranges are so different, but still :).

PS. The RTL-SDRs used for ADS-B often feature a modification: an analog filter centered at 1090MHz, which removes all other data but makes the 1090MHz reception better. You shouldn't have the filter if you want to play around on other frequencies with the same device.
Motivation is key. When and if you are motivated enough, focus comes as a side effect of it (personal experience).

Having prioritised list helps to deal with multiple projects. Here, it is important not to fall into switching to a lower priority project if struggling with the other one, although context switch also advantageous when not obused.

Limiting number of WIP projects was a delight to me. When one finished, feel free to switch to another one. Different time and place for different projects also another technique to be aware of.
> People on their phones not paying attention while driving.

I urge you all to watch "From One Second To The Next" by Werner Herzog
then come back with a good argument for why being caught using a phone
at the wheel shouldn't mean an instant lifetime driving ban.

edit: (authoritarian dystopia afterthought) - of course, for those of
you who love locked-down stuff, you could obviously build self
denouncement )or at least deactivation) right into the phone itself
through context awareness.
If anybody is interested in tracking their own location with a sure way of it not ending up on a remote server somewhere: you can buy a number of GPS/GNSS data loggers, e.g. "Columbus GPS" with their V990-Mk2 or P-10 Pro are good. They store it on a MicroSD card as GPX tracks. Battery life is decent at >24h.

There's some info in the OpenStreetMap community and the "quantified self" communities.
you should be concerned yes:

https://rumble.com/vzj5jh-ukraine-mariupol-residents-speak-a...
I've had this (perhaps strange) thought where I am able to see my entire life traced out as my wanderings in two dimensions across the surface of this planet. Others too, for example co-workers I would come to know, girlfriends (ex-girlfriends as well as the one that would become my wife) and friends, relatives too would be traced — synchronized in time.

Watching the whole thing sped up and perhaps you begin to see life, or parts of your life anyway, as the humdrum of commuting, daily to and from the same job, same grocery stores, etc. — back and forth. Then punctuated occasionally, briefly, by a road trip, a trip abroad, or a permanent move to a new city (and new routines, cycles).

And then you get to see if there were ever tiny instants where you crossed paths, unknowingly, with a future wife/lover/coworker. Relatives who die: their traces drop off....

I know, I'm on a tangent here and this app was probably not designed as a tool for some sort of avant-garde pipe dream. But when you asked about why I would be interested in location data, that's what crosses my mind. :-)
In a country with 20-40% of ethnic Russians, and ~10% other non-Ukranians (anything from greeks to tatars), I'd say odds are far from zero some of those people are definitely not Ukranian.

You could tell a Russian from a Ukrainian in that video? I can't tell them apart even in person.
you can admired a person. you don't have to idolize him like he is a second coming of Jesus
Making Great Platforms
In the 90s, there was more of a technical barrier to publishing things on the web.

Today, there is no technical barrier to publishing things on the web, which has been facilitated in part by corporations like Twitter.

I think the second is a lot more what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned, as the "read-write" web [1].

However I also think much of the second is awful.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4132752.stm
pass/gopass is basically the same.
Decline might mean you can opt-out and use the service or it might mean access is denied.

There are many different legal definitions of "privacy", one of them is "the right to be left alone", from that viewpoint widespread harassment might be worse than accumulating dossiers that are used tactfully.

The Soviet Union tried towards the end, but having 50 people assigned to track and harass somebody like Andrei Sakharov is no way to run a civilization, never mind promote full employment. If a society is accumulating dossiers that it can't take real action on that's different from having that system coupled to a harassment machine which is orders of magnitude more expensive than dossier building.
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> slightly more complicated data layout traded in for much more efficient reads.

Depending on read patterns. The classic example is address. Sure, you can store an address as column. Name here, city there, street 1 there, street 2 there. How useful is 1/5th of an address, and how often are you pulling it like that? For something like address that you generally read all or none, you generally are better served by a row oriented database.

You also have FKs to kind of do this in a row oriented database. If some part of the data is not read nearly as much as another, it can be a foreign key sitting in another table.
It is worth at least reading through the Wikipedia entries on Linguistic Relativity and Linguistic Determinism if this topic interests you. There is a longstanding debate among linguists on this topic, but there are certain areas of the debate which are generally considered to have been settled by empirical evidence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
The "summary" in the example reports smells like someone has an agenda:

> Compared to the legal limit of 30 mph, a typical vehicle driving at 36.1 mph takes an extra 8.0 metres to stop, is 2.2 times more likely to kill a pedestrian on impact, generates 14.6% more CO2, 55.4% more NOx and produces 1.7 BA more noise. [emphasis mine]

The stopping distance and likelihood to kill (though the not sure whether said likelihood is properly calculated as it's not a linear scale) is the only thing that should be relevant from a safety point of view which is the purported reason behind speed limits & their enforcement.

The extra information seems like an attempt to sway the decision against the driver and further some environmentalist agenda.
What could go wrong with the richest many in the world now owning an influencing stake in one of the main communication platforms in the world? He made his first billions on financial surveillance and then moved onto selling Iphones on wheels and satellite based surveillance technology. I will stay on HN and Mastodon.
> Soft power failed to stop Putin from invading Ukraine, twice.

No, just once with an escalation at 8 years in.
There's a good argument to be made that almost all urban speed limits are too high. Below 20 mph a collision with a pedestrian might cause injury but is unlikely to be fatal. Above that, the fatality rate increases dramatically.

Sweden has a policy that all roads shared with pedestrians and cyclists have a maximum speed of 20mph, and have spent a lot of money on infrastructure to separate roads so that cars aren't completely inconvenienced by the rules.

https://visionzeronetwork.org/about/what-is-vision-zero/
As someone running 29.0, Emacs development pace is amazing, if not little breakneck.

27.1 was a pretty big step-up, 28.1 is even larger. Native-compilation being the biggest improvement in probably a decade.

And yet, I find myself compiling latest master, even with occasional breakage, because it provides even bigger jump, with correct font weight selection, Pure-Gtk support, smooth-scrolling, Haiku port and more.

Being an Emacs user has probably never been more awesome.
I don't care about people consistently going a higher speed than what is posted.

What I care is about the person with a 20 to 30 mph variance in speed on an empty road. The person who can't choose a lane and instead straddles both with a little wiggle so you can't tell where they're going. The person who uses the entire turning lane to actually merge into the turning lane, slowing down the whole time. People who don't understand 4 way stops. 4 way stops in general because they're always clusterfucks due to the fact no one understands them. People who don't turn on their blinker until they are stopped for their turn. People who attempt to jump the line in the turn lane by going around the people waiting for the turn lane and then stopping in the lane of traffic waiting for the turn lane (this one is really local).

And a whole host of other bad driving behavior that basically boils down to "the driver doesn't seem to know what they want to do".
the economy is not a binary choice between "pay people subsistence wages" and "don't pay them at all". We could pay people better, invest in the development of underdeveloped countries that we exploit (no, IMF loans do not count). We could focus on helping people instead of exploiting them for profit. Many options are available.
> the name change to "Meta" is a big mistake

I think it's too soon to tell. Facebook has really negative brand recognition (from my POV), and who knows, maybe "metaverse" style online interaction is the future. (For the record I'm anti-web3 and indifferent on metaverse communities)
It's you who claimed that nothing happens at your other accounts and that has to be "proof" of anything.
“You Piss on Your Robot“ – Recycling Ourselves to Hack Death
Interestingly, this site fails ungracefully (HTTP error code 500) when I try to visit from NordVPN, even after cycling through a few IP addresses. I’m noticing more and more sites block all VPN track. I get why, but it’s not good.
No, it's not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
One of my favorite rap lyrics is "Ya nervous, because you lack a purpose" https://genius.com/837334

I'm usually a terrible speaker, but when I was running a startup I really believed in, I made great presentations and was very extroverted. Find a purpose and the rest takes care of itself.
Thanks for writing this post. I had these same feelings after reading the original post so it was good to see someone bring up the issues with it.