skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iOS and Android usually have perfect backwards compatibility, so there's no technical reason to require a new build. The apps work perfectly fine on new devices automatically.
Google seems like they have lost a lot of their Android enthusiasm. I could see them making a deal with Microsoft for Android.
What's the alternative, though? The leader of your country is terrorizing Europe in ways not seen in almost 80 years. We all know all-out war between nuclear states is not an option, so what should Western nations do? Just sit back and ignore the indiscriminate war crimes?

It's ironic to me, given how clearly Putin's worldview presumes that power is all matters, how quick Russia has been to cry foul over sanctions. If you want to live in a world where the one with the biggest stick gets to do whatever he wants to everybody else, you should probably at least make sure you have a big stick first.

I'm sorry that your local McDonald's closed, and I do have some sympathy for the Russian people, most of whom probably wanted nothing to do with this war. I have an enormous amount of sympathy for those brave enough to speak up in the face of frankly terrifying state oppression. But honestly, after enabling that maniac for 22 years, I do think Russian citizens bear a little bit of responsibility for this senseless war (not to mention all the other ones!). And if you think that's unfair, well, how about what's happening to the citizens of Ukraine? Is that fair?

It's in everyone's interest that we all learn to get along. Nobody wants the Russian people to suffer for no reason. I hope you guys eventually figure out how to stand up an honest and functioning democracy, for your sake as well as everyone else's. But we can't condone this senseless brutality, and if that makes you see us as your enemy, that's unfortunate, but hopefully temporary.
> AutoProfit is a reinforcement learning model that trains itself on a simulated trading environment. It is able to trade on its own and generate its own trading signals, outperforming a portfolio of human traders and making the most out of available information. AutoProfit is a model for trading stock, cryptocurrencies, and commodities in real time, generating trading strategies for itself. It uses an iterative training process, and has been tested on over 50 trading strategies.

Cool.
I'm not afraid of Google, but I'm afraid of inevitable monoculture and stagnation
> No.. I see IRC melting away, but it's still so much nicer.

IRC is not going anywhere.
That's the conventional wisdom.

The reality has largely been precisely the opposite: as transportation capabilities have increased, location matters more, and megacities rise in both absolute size and porportionate importance.

In a world in which it is difficult to transport physical goods more than a few miles, most production, consumption, and commerce is local. Where centres of production do emerge, it is precisely the insubstantiality of their output that leads to their concentration. Political, commercial, and educational centres were the first to emerge.

With industrialisation, we've seen centres of manufacturing production (usually dictated by transportation or availability of inputs), of banking, publishing, entertainment, cinema, and audio. "Washington, DC", "Wall Street", "Hollywood", "Silicon Valley", "Milan" (fashion), and London (politics, banking, fashion, publishing, art, ...) are all topnyms for products which are themselves largely ephemeral, but whose production becomes highly localised.

Why? becomes a very interesting question.

My sense is that it's analogue to Amdahl's law. In computing the limit of parallelisable processing is set by the nonparallisable component of a task. If half of operations cannot be parallelised, then the maximum possible speedup is 50%. If it's a quarter, the maximum speed-up is four times, if 10%, 10 times, etc. (The maximum is obtained only when there is infinite parallelisation, it represents a limit.)

For human activities, say, software production, the end result is something that can move around the world via digital communications largely seamlessly. But production requires computers, servers, training, support personnel, and the like. Yes, some of that can be distributed (as work-from-home has illustrated), but there remains some element of centralisation required. For the start-up community, that's often face-time with Sand Hill Road VC --- an artificial constraint, but a highly persistent one.

In banking, at least with high-speed trading, microseconds count. That's about 300 metres. The clock-tick time of an exchange literally defines the trading radius about it. (See the classic "500 mile email" story.)

It's highly counterintuitive, but friction decreases the significance of locations. Improved transportation increases it.
Thank you - that is most likely what I want to go with in most cases :)
Human Intelligence = Ability to navigate environments in conceptual space. An evolution from navigation in physical space.

Think about how when you start learning a new concept, you're like a person waking up in a new environment they've never seen before.

You look around for points of reference and start to build up a map of the environment.

Notice how we use the same words for understanding a concept as we use for physical navigation.

If you've ever tried the mind palace memorization technique, you may have wondered why things are easier to remember when you link them to a physical space, this is why.
> Doesn't the original, old app run unmodified on new devices anyway?

Only in an ugly fashion because of different aspect ratio & notch.

Apple required you to at least nominally support the iPhone X to push a new update to an app.
Mozilla doesn't directly offer a .deb file. They offer precompiled binary tarballs for Linux. Mozilla doesn't make distribution specific packages as far as I am aware and it was Canonical that was packaging it for all of their supported distributions. It's less work for Canonical now to package Firefox, and Mozilla has more control over pushing updates so it's mutually beneficial for them.
Not technical, but fairness is the opposite of "our algorithm is so complicated that we can't prevent it from penalizing you even if you are not at fault. Unless you reach the top of HN, in which case we will manually intervene to fix things."
Triangles are super easy to draw (ie see) and the math is usually very simple. If there's an associated formula, working with formula is also very possible without visual skills.

Trickier problems involving several shapes like a puzzle might be harder, though that's not usually curriculum.
> All three passes were written largely in Applesoft

Wouldn't this explain it?

But it seems odd that they wouldn't at least save a LUT relating the shortened and expanded variable name.
As a non-American, I’ll take American hegemony with all its faults six days a week and twice on Sundays over the alternative, thanks. Most of us have flourished under Pax Americana for nearly 8 decades - including China.

As is our human way, I suspect we’ll only really appreciate it once it’s gone.
Would you mind elaborating on what you mean? Why is that a bad take? What is culturally relevant about this? I’m not saying it isn’t, but I don’t know what it is, and tearing down others doesn’t help me.

John Cage didn’t intend this piece to last 639 years, right? What ideas of his are you referring to? This long running organ piece was conceived by someone in Germany and is intended to highlight the history of Halberstadt, right?

The question @TheOtherHobbes is raising seems relevant: how does this performance contribute to musical culture, or even to Cage’s work? It can’t be enjoyed as music, it’s more of a logistical piece intended to create a mythology. In that sense, this performance is, in a way, very much lauding a sort of skill over most other things about the music - the skill of pure perseverance. Like other conceptual art, it’s the story of this work that is interesting, but not really the work itself. You seem to suggest otherwise, would you mind coloring that in for me, so I can appreciate it more?
WhatsApp?

What is this, 2010? It's all about Discord now bb (who refused to be bought by Microsoft BD)
A contrast without equal. Superb in conveying the essential message.
> Promotions for example are always based on nebulous criteria that are often made up on the fly.

I think you’ve worked at some very toxic work environments, but it’s a mistake to suggest that your experience is the norm.

It’s funny to read HN comments about how all managers are terrible, devious people who are only out to abuse employees. Most of us managers started out as ICs. Do you really think we surrender our humanity and adopt evilness as our SOP on the day they give us our manager title? No, most of us enter management because we really like working with people and like helping people succeed. This idea that we only exist to spite employees is very childish.
Is the linked PPA [1] actually maintained by Mozilla or is it volunteers? I can't tell. The uploader looks like a freelancer and the PPA owner hasn't been active on Mozilla's Bugzilla in over a decade.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Which is crazy because Mozilla provides an official flatpak and Fedora has flatpak installed by default, but if Fedora developers want to be masochists they are free to do so.
I intentionally did not disambiguate to see the resulting variance and you totally lived up to it with your options for "the Enlightenment". Thank you for that :)
Also invest where you know/have an edge.

I've made judicious purchases in sealed Magic: The Gathering product. In just under 3 years, my initial 6-digit investment is up over 200%. Some purchases are wildly up and nothing so far has been a losing bet.

Other areas in collectibles I am also doing really well, like statues, classic cars, etc. Obviously a limiting factor is storage space.

I've lucked out due to some black swan type events but I can't see anywhere else where my investments are performing nearly as well.
Are you just severely confused? Do you think that Newtonian physics received its scrutiny through media advertising?
Same as I felt when the government said Microsoft had a browser monopoly.

They (Microsoft and Google) both got to this point fair and square by providing ease of use and quality of life to the consumer.

Monopolies happening due to competence, great execution or even luck are not a problem.

People should be not alarmed by corporate monopolies as long as Federal govt. retains monopoly of B2 bombers (and violence in general) the latter always retains the capability to disrupt a corporate monopoly.
Excuse me? I didn't claimed it did. Nor do I think it does.

Like what the actual fuck? I sincerely hope this was meant to be a reply to someone else, otherwise you need to drastically improve your reading comprehension.
I agree with you that the old corps in these industries are stagnant, but also recognize when there's a gap in the way new entrants approach safety-critical problems.

One example is the Uber incident that killed a person. If you read the NTSB report, it seems like they intentionally programmed a delay into a safety critical system in order avoid nuisance braking. From a safety-critical standpoint, deliberately slowing the action of a time-sensitive safety mitigation is big error in engineering judgement. Imagine if I reprogrammed your home smoke detectors to wait for an hour to determine if there's really a fire because you were annoyed that they went off every time your baked. My suspicion is they did this because their software wasn't really ready but they wanted to push it to market for testing.

Another example that has had some controversy in the industry is SpaceX using only touchscreens. I don't know where they settled, but a few years back they were adamant that they don't need physical controls. We've all probably experienced issues where a touchscreen doesn't respond as intended. Automotive manufacturers have walked back this idea on a lot of their models because they recognize all the additional failure modes that touchscreens introduce.

My worry is that sometimes "innovation" is really just forgetting (or not knowing) the lessons learned from the legacy players.

The traditional players like Boeing have had their own problems, but IMO they are more due to management than engineering. With the 737MAX, the engineering processes were in place. They had a hazard analysis that said MCAS shouldn't be a single-point failure; it seems they just didn't follow their own engineering processes due to budget and schedule pressures. That's a different animal than not having the safety-critical culture to define those processes in the first place (but not any less egregious).
My original comment was about Google's style guide for developers, which is not an optional set of suggestions. But as far as the linting tool, it is not something people are installing themselves who want to correct their grammar. It's a default-on layer over private writing in one of the most widely used pieces of writing software in the world. Its purpose is not to correct grammar or even to suggest stylistic improvements, but rather to nag people to make politically charged and slanted word choices, explicitly telling them that words like "mother" are politically incorrect.

A decade of social media has shown that small changes to UIs, news feeds, opt-out features and suggestion algorithms have radically changed human behavior. This is a dark pattern attempt to change human behavior. A neutral tool for typing documents has no business making this an opt-out feature. The aim of it is not to improve people's writing but to literally make people think twice about using certain words because someone, somewhere might be offended by them. The trouble is that when this becomes foremost in one's mind while writing, it absolutely warps the ability to speak honestly. It politicizes everything.

And these are not suggestions made by humans. They are being made by an opaque AI. If that AI decides that a word is politically incorrect, a nudge like this can effectively dampen the usage of that word in practice, without any sort of wider debate.

Consider how this will play out when China and Russia require Docs and other word processors to include "nudges" like this, for example about the Ukraine war, or Tibet. Of course, you can still type what you want to, but the chilling effect of seeing a warning pop up about a word you've just written is enough in many places to make you delete it. Just because it's being done first in the name of inclusivity or social justice and 'who could argue with that?' doesn't make it OK. It's a blatant attempt to control human behavior.
I still use Firefox primarily, and Brave on my phone, but I don't like the way things are headed. I don't know if "pushing" will change much. Firefox probably needs to be better on data security and adblocking in a way which Google is unwilling to match?
Technical debt has a cost. Raymond Chen has countless blog posts about what it takes keeping backwards compatibility working. For example, an update to some part that should not break anything actually ends up breaking an app because the developers decided to monkey patch based on a match of a byte string or whatever that ended up changed.

The only reason WINE works is because of a massive community effort to reimplement those bugs that Windows is forced to keep.
Or you know, maybe we can strive for less wars and all that. Because this also means space warfare is going to become an important component of every major military power's defense system, and that's not good.
This article is chock full of cynicism with no actual factual reasoning. Deeply reactionary and without any actual point. A polemic, at best. Need I count the number of references to tumblr, tiktok, social media memes, dyed-hair left-leaning millennials with quirky personalities? All that self-victimization, which is all for the purpose of, let me guess, attention? You're the one writing articles on the internet, my man.

The best evidence this article can come up with is equally polemic articles and a hand-picked troupe of social media teens. Selection bias at its finest.

Is this as tiring for anyone else as it is for me?

Note the top comments saying the same things about homosexuality and transgenderism, of course.
Doh. I read right over that.
How do you have this much visibility on the Russian Navy?
Russia stops publishing economic data
My experience with Snap pqckages hasn't been great. For example the Snap version of 1password couldn't find my Yubikey, but the deb worked just fine.
Thanks! Just in case it isn’t clear, geojson.io is from the same folks (okay, folk, me) as Placemark. My hope with Placemark is to keep maintaining it and improving it, while unfortunately geojson.io has been untouched for a few years.
Yeam, but there is also masive difference in wealth. And then you can't use size as enxcuse in a comparison with India
New Grad Job Search 3 options
Hello all, I am in an interesting position as a college senior graduating in a week and have to choose between 3 different job offers. Any advice is greatly appreciated bc I am torn between each one. For a bit of background I am a TS/SCI with FSP cleared person.

Job 1: EV company that I previously interned with. WLB is virtually nonexistent and I put in 70 hours/week pretty often during my internship. High growth company but my clearance would go inactive.

TC: 105k in a high cost of living area.

Job 2: Federal government Intelligence Agency. Pretty cool team with a very unique mission. WLB would be great but I am not sure about career progression.

TC: 94k and I could live at home with almost zero expenses.

Job 3: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. WLB would be good but I would be the sole engineer inside of a SCIF for 10 hour shifts. A SCIF is basically a cubicle where I cant even access the internet. Clearance would stay active.

TC: 175k in a medium COL area that is very up and coming.

I am the first person in my family to go to university and get an opportunity like this. Any advice/insight is appreciated.
The 13 pro iPhone line is 120hz
Three Key Facts
I can't see it as if it were a hologram in front of me, but I never had trouble conceptualizing. It's like I feel the shape as a sonar sense
unless you can reproduce this is not going to cut. I dont think this is going to help. It only creates more useless software jobs
Yes, of course. It talks ill of fascists.
Indeed. Such a writer may, however, have read up on studies on expected losses for the frequencies proposed for SPS. The book I mentioned covers a lot, but a paper I just googled is available on scihub at your discretion. Here's the abstract: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222739.1970.11...

The paper is published in the Journal of Microwave Power, proposes using a wavelength around 10 cm, and with a vertical beam calculates a loss of 1% in clear skies and up to 10% loss with rain.
Android phones seem to know when you're in an urgent situation.

Need a quick photo? Is maps giving you a direction? Oh let me freeze up! Let me hide the soft keyboard until you restart! Let me get into a bootloop!
In GR terms, Levi-Civita is more like "This is a major scale and you need to know it" than serialism.

Some subjects are just plain hard and only accessible to smart persistent people.

GR and QFT definitely qualify - but they seem to be warm up exercises compared to whatever Quantum Gravity will eventually become.
Hmm, seeing as even most desktop OSes out there aren't supported for much longer, i'm not sure whether things are terrible in that regard.

Debian's EOL comes to mind, even Ubuntu LTS isn't supported for much longer, CentOS was supposed to be the more stable option but that didn't work out either.

Though for some reason mobile devices are somewhat crippled in regards to upgrading to new OS releases versus their desktop counterparts: not being update from Android X to Android Y is the real terrible bit here.

Not sure why on earth that should be acceptable or why the drivers should be such an insurmountable problem, wherein using anything but flagship phones with third party ROMs is a total mess (i've personally had everything from the touch screen to radio, to even Wi-Fi stop working).
That fixed the formatting.

Next is fixing the printers.

And then, the users. Ugh.
I suspect this has something to do with which parts of your brain are wired into your short-term memory, and the ratio of connections to each. My conscious visual imagination can produce hallucinatory "front-buffer" effects - like a heads-up display in my central field of vision. I also have a severe deficit when it comes to sensing my emotional state or stress levels.

Short-term memory "size" seems fairly consistent between people. It wouldn't surprise me if those with aphantasia have a concomitant awareness of some other mental process that isn't normally consciously accessible. Appealing to evolutionary biology - since aphantasia appears to be a persistent trait in humans which would seem to have obvious costs, it's logical to assume there are benefits somewhere to make up the balance.
If Space-Based Solar becomes a thing and starts being used in war zones, then it seems almost inevitable that warfare will move in to space... and that could lead to a catastrophic chain reaction of exploding satellites (aka the Kessler syndrome[1]) leading to an impenetrable field of space junk around Earth, which will prevent or at least greatly delay further use/exploration of space.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Understood. It doesn't hurt to ask. I do agree. I'm just suspect of honest replies. They might not BS in the true sense. They just don't know what transparency and honesty is.

Full disclosure: I just left a marketing agency that wasn't 25% of what they said it was. I had asked questions and the answers didn't match what was actually happening. Nice people. I don't think it was intentional per se. But they were so not self-aware that they had little idea how far off they were.
Ask HN: Where to find open data sets to play around with to learn ML?
I'm learning ML and looking to find more open datasets that I can use, especially in the area of recommender/ranker systems.

I'm already familiar with Kaggle, but wondering what else there is out there?
Dumb people need to be handheld into understanding your precise meaning because you can't assume they'll attach correct qualifiers so that the sensible meaning is inferred. (And even then it probably won't work.) The purpose of your post was to communicate with dumb people.
The UK were so lucky with the Falklands war.. had the Argentines waited a year 3/4 of the UK military hardware used to retake the islands ( aircraft carriers, bombers, etc.) would have been decommissioned due cost cutting measures.
I think it's because of the pine phone
Carl von Clausewitz: On War
The problem is that those in power don't want most people to have a better understanding of technology.
Unbelievable. It makes one sad to hear that.
Arizona’s dry future begins as Colorado River shrinks
This deserves more attention as it does set a good precedent
My previous address was stuck at 8 mbps dowload and 0.25 mbps upload and it will not be upgraded anytime soon because every corner of that street is listed / protected. I literally moved just because of that. Not I won't rent anything without fiber.

We are still creating newbuilds in cities without fiber.
In other news, someone fucked up construction and left an entire complex of brand new apartment blocks with 7 mbps internet

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/03/mistake-leaves...
I mean yes, of course ground-based is cheaper if it's just part of a grid with lots of fossil power. I'm assuming we want to eliminate the fossil plants. For that, SPS at SpaceX Starship launch costs has a decent chance of being cheaper than ground-based solar plus the the various extra systems required to turn it into reliable power.