skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like adequate IT staffing is a common thread/problem here. Companies need to staff their IT departments proportional to the number of users, devices, and applications supported. They need to staff their IT department proportional to the amount of organizational knowledge their company needs to store.

Also extra people are needed to manage change. Changing operating systems, new hardware, new policies, system updates, etc. If you can't change quickly enough, technical debt and costs pile up.
Their "legal" business model should already be illegal. They are just testing the system to see how far they can get away with stuff.

And even this I highly doubt anything will come out of it.
Very inspiring! I just started out to play around with the wave function collapse algorithm [1]. I'm in the middle of porting it to a cube based 3d grid. And now I'm wondering what a triangle based volume presentation would look like

[1] https://github.com/axelerator/wave-function-collapse-2d
The issue with links is that they break. Infodumping, by not specifying the exact location, may be more robust.
Very sweet of you to ask.

I'm starting to get a little concerned about how much personal information I've already divulged on this thread but if you reach out to me individually, I'd be happy to tell you my birthday and add you as a friend on the Pattern.

I'm a Pisces.

And great recommendations. I hadn't heard these before.
What you like or don't like isn't really the point. The point is that it isn't unimportant when judging how "good" a language is to take into account how many people are willing to use it. It is hard to argue that a language is "good" when a negligible fraction of developers are willing to use it.
Much of the general public genuinely believed that.

The picturesque London Taxi driver lives on even today.

Many of the 21st Century's worst attributes aren't due to society falling apart in the digital age.

Online life is exposing the seediness of society, which wasn't reported in old world media.

Lying on the internet is... difficult.
> All laws are inherently restrictive.

Repeals, franchises, permits, etc may include restrictions, but you might be able to imagine circumstances when laws are not uniformly restrictive.
The idea that the police will follow the letter of the law during an interaction seems naive given what we've seen of police behavior.
How Egypt is growing forests in middle of the desert (2020)
Of course there is a difference, but it's trivial and irrelevant.

Likewise for safety.

If a company/driver operates without a license then it is an issue for the enforcement authority, Uber or no Uber.

Again, ultimately the industry needed a kick in the butt and Uber provided it.
If they can be de-platformed, they have a boss. They just have flexible work hours.
> The interface is miles ahead of commercial competitors.

I much prefer the chess.com UI
For library code thiserror has been by far the best experience, sure I can write out the error code manually but why would I waste my time pumping out boiler plate.

The combination of thiserror and anyhow have been my go to for nearly 3 years without issue.
It would also reduce the efficiency of solar panels.
I also think schools are missing out massively, but not only by not teaching them at every chance, but because they do not combine these things. If I had been taught math and computer programming combined, implementing things one learns, damn, I would have been waaay more interested in math in later school years and that would probably have lead to me being much better at math later on at university too. It just gives you something practical to do and a feeling of success, when you make the computer do it for you, while at the same time you learn about computer programming.

I hope some day we see those 2 things married into one superb class at schools.
Retro-fitted rooftop solar is a small slice, compared with utility scale and commercial and going forward, rooftop solar will mostly be added at the same time as the roof (either original build or roof replacement), removing the extra rooftop visit.

For people still retro-fitting solar (which will grow in absolute terms), the increased efficiency means they get more power per trip to the roof than the past installs, further lowering the deaths per TWH generated (this also impacts mining related deaths as PV efficiency of manufacture has been increasing, getting more TWH per unit of material).
What I ultimately came to realize about all computer science is that all problems are basically figuring out how you will do 3 steps:

1. Organize data
2. Transform the data according to some input.
3. Output a result.

Once you’ve very clearly mapped out your data structures, everything else becomes fairly trivial. Functions are nothing more than turning data from one form into another. Outputs are just data in some new structure that can be easily consumed for some other purpose.

I challenge anyone to find a problem that doesn’t fit this formula.
Yep I remember the "Moonie" cult in the news from the 1970s. They seemed to fade out after a while, like most fads do. I had no idea they were still operating.
Yes. The system breaks down locally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill

- ed - d'oh, sorry - I have no idea how this works in the simulation, but I guess This. :)
Why is it still so hard to fix our stuff?
I installed a Fallout 4 VR mod pack using wabbajack and the experience was not great. Wabbajack had a lot of difficulty downloading certain files along with various other bugginess. Wabbajack wasn't able to automate much of the installation process so the mod pack had an installation instructions Google doc which was dozens of pages long. After spending a few hours following the installation instructions meticulously (twice), it didn't work. Weird bugs and game crashes. Couldn't get through character creation.

I would've much preferred if I could just download a single rar file containing every mod already installed patched and configured by the mod pack author in a known working state. Stick it on the nexus and have it automatically increment the download counts of the component mods by one or whatever.
Here is someone who should certainly know what they're talking about:

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, March 29, 2021:

"[O]ur data from the CDC today suggests, um, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real world data."

Video: https://tinyapps.org/screenshots/20220104-walensky.mp4
What does that have anything to do with Uber’s crimes
We're affecting it, yes. But we aren't controlling it. There are no intended effects and outcomes that satisfy those intentions. Quite the opposite, actually: We're trying to affect it less and finding it very difficult to do so.

> It’s not a question of whether we can significantly change the climate, we know we can, the question is how we should choose to do that going forwards

This I agree with. What the GP and I are trying to say is that, in our opinions at least, we should choose to do it by adopting practices that minimize how much we affect the climate.
Decentralization is Not Enough. Is decentralization a solution for all (2019)
> In fact, I would argue most companies go out of there way to not store PII.

email address and ip is pii. So basically everything uses pii even if it is only for bot and ddos protection
Funny enough my only bad grades in high school were with languages, I think your analogy is apt. I could understand bio and learn it but performing at the level needed to be a doctor was not going to happen. Although, I have no regrets very happy with where I ended up!
Not the same notion of ‘cell’, that was describing something more like a macro-shard.

Instead of sharding within a given DB, sharding all the things necessary to deliver a given user:

Cells - A cell is a self-contained installation that has all the data for a range of users. All the data necessary to render a user’s Dashboard is in the cell. Users are mapped into cells. Many cells exist per data center.
Because ICE and big homes are part of their identity. If it wasn’t, they’d be driving electric cars and live in a city.
Discussing Nim 2.0
I can tell you're very passionate about these issues. I think you're falling into a trap, however, that has basically consumed the U.S. and all but ensured its fall from grace. I live in the U.S., but spend a large amount of time in Canada (3 months of the year). Canada is a great country compared to the U.S. Income inequality is much lower than in the U.S., you have decent health care, a sizable "blue collar" industry, the social fabric is strong, the people are nice, the country is stable, the nature is beautiful, etc. etc. etc.

While Canada certainly has problems, I think it's important to remember that while things can certainly be better, that doesn't mean things are bad. The Rogers incident, for instance. It would be better if the incident didn't happen, but is really not worth being angry over. In the U.S., people seem to have forgotten this and began to get angry over why things weren't "better" even though things were really good. This divided the country, allowed a large percentage of the population to be controlled by outrage, and the aftermath is playing out right before our eyes. Before getting angry, try to identify all the things you have to be grateful for.
This seems to be very hard to pull off, though, given the way people regularly cite work in some scientific domains. For instance, unless specifically comparing to an approach, researchers in ML rarely endorse or disavow a specific approach (just my observation in graph learning).
Open-Source Simple-ViT Implementation
An open-source implementation of the Better plain ViT baselines for ImageNet-1k research paper in Google's JAX and Flax.

An update from some of the same authors of the original paper proposes simplifications to ViT that allows it to train faster and better.

Among these simplifications include 2d sinusoidal positional embedding, global average pooling (no CLS token), no dropout, batch sizes of 1024 rather than 4096, and use of RandAugment and MixUp augmentations. They also show that a simple linear at the end is not significantly worse than the original MLP head.

Simple ViT Research Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01580

Official Github repository: https://github.com/google-research/big_vision

Developer updates can be found on: https://twitter.com/EnricoShippole

In collaboration with Dr. Phil 'Lucid' Wang: https://github.com/lucidrains
Disclaimer: at Uber 2014-2018

Travis has not been CEO for 5 years. Based on this article, what do you want the people who actually presently work at Uber to do?
I've also had IT folks open a ticket for me on the spot. They know what minimal info to type to describe the problem, the longest part is telling them your name or employee ID number. They then close it immediately.
Apple launches Lockdown Mode to block spyware attacks on at-risk users
While I happily read the BBC quite often, I feel this report is a bit misguided when it suggests that Macron was doing anything wrong.

Uber and his ministry were looking at creating a regulatory framework for ride-sharing. The BBC frames this as Macron ignoring illegal activity. I think from Macron's perspective Uber's activity was "unregulated" not "illegal". That's a healthy approach towards change. Otherwise we can't renew our laws.

The BBC's view of how politicians and innovators should interact seems to be too narrow. I think Macron can be a role model actually.

also yes Travis was a controversial figure, that seems beside the point. Stuff he did elsewhere don't seem to matter here.
Don't understand why this keeps being downvoted. NLP is still in its infancy when it comes to detecting nuances of human communication. These are valid objections.
> I find that despite the fact VCs outperform the market on average, the returns are driven by the top half of the predicted quality distribution. By dropping the bottom half of investments and instead investing in the market, returns would have increased by 7 to 41 percentage points. This qualitative finding is robust to a set of outside options (stock market or bond market). Together the results suggest that there is significant room to improve how venture capitalists select into investments.

Assuming the trained model is actually correct, this aligns with my view of VC - sharp investments, padded out with a bunch of crap because investing in VC has become a status symbol and the capital has to go somewhere.
>deploying a mega-structure the size of Brazil in space

We’ll, the Great Wall of China was four times as long as the longest axis of Brazil. It would be a huge undertaking, but I wouldn’t completely discount it.
I don't see this as the same knee-jerk "the police are being shielded from having their misdeeds recorded" as other people are jumping to do.

If you look at some of the video of police trying to do their jobs and having screeching bystanders yelling at them, I am absolutely fine with this law being invoked to maintain police sanity and prevent things from escalating.
Pro athletes beget pro athletes All. The. Time.

Cherry picking some of the NBAs MVPs, you might not remember Dell Curry[0], but you probably know one or both(!) of his sons who play in the NBA. Or there's Joe Bryant[1] whose son eclipsed his career in the NBA.

Or, here's a fun sport switching family. Sometimes the athletic gene is so strong, four of the great-grandsons go pro.[2]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Curry
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bryant
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_Gronkowski
Speaking of family cronyism, cults and assassinations lets not forget SKorea Park Geun-hye and her father Park Chung-hee.
No, smart contracts are the realization of something just as revolutionary as Web1 and Web2 and just as likely to change the world, once people use them to help communities organize and coordinate their activities:

Smart contracts represent the first time in history when you can trust code to do what it says. The next best thing that even come close is Intel’s SGX extensions, where we trust Intel, or AWS key management service, where we trust Amazon.

The idea that everyone can custody their own private keys as they want AND no one can be “above the law” and circumvent the business logic, is really powerful. That assurance and level of trust in the code is what enables a whole slew of new applications that currently require human gatekeeper institutions, same as Web1 replaced radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, and centralized platforms like America Online, Compuserve and Minitel.

You just are myopically focused on the silly Web3 phase, same as people derided Web1 personal home pages with <blink> and <marquee> tags until the Web grew up.

For example https://intercoin.org/applications
The people who write the laws and control who's in government are corrupt as hell.
The concept is interesting, but the watch looks ugly and the dial is too small to be useful.
I was going to say, I hadn't had this term in quite some time! #nostalgia
The same arguments apply to HN comments. Up/down could profitably be replaced by a spectrum of adjectives mapped to floats, e.g. { worst: -1, best: 1, meh: 0, ok: 0.5 }, etc. ad infinitum. It would give us a nuanced way to express sentiments while retaining the value of aggregation.
No offense but telling someone to go check a discord server is like saying "go google it" but you can't even use a search engine. It's worse than useless it's actively harmful to informing people. Provide details or don't bother getting involved.
> we’re controlling it right now

Does it look like we have the climate under control? No, quite the opposite.
We're not controlling the climate, we're the climate equivalent of toddlers who just set the house on fire.
This is also a nice website that has DIY electronics:

https://simplifier.neocities.org/
Quoting someone else in this thread:

> Harvard’s course seems to be aimed at people who are coders or want to be better at coding, so you learn about different languages, algorithms/data structures, SQL and such.

CS50 is definitely somewhere between "comp sci course" and a "get coding quick" bootcamp.
Can you be more specific? What I meant is this: if we postulate that the brain really is just like an ANN, it would be more like an ANN with pre-trained weights, thanks to evolution. In contrast, an ANN is typically initialized with random weights. A pre-trained network learns a lot faster than a randomly initialized one.
Police can tell you to step away whether you are holding the camera or not. The thing this does is that people who are close to what is actually happening will be scared to take camera and start filming. And if they do, the cops will be able to harass them.
>Who pays volunteers on Wikipedia, Linux, BSD, Webkit, Chromium, PHP, Python

In order: Wikimedia Foundation, various companies, various companies, Apple, Google, various companies, various companies. Most of those developers are paid. The wikipedia editors are unpaid volunteers, but the IT staff isn't.
I would underestimate one critical advantage of your system: If the site changes their URL for some reason (depends on which components you use) you can just look up the old URL in your database. Without that, good luck figuring out that it was sea.customer-sso.auth.example.com/portal/login.jsp :)
At my last job they would just open the ticket for you after you left and immediately close it with a brief description. Walk up IT is fantastic when done right. At least they didn’t have to call a Dell or HP tech to come on site and install the screw.
Frankly most of Trudeau's initial cabinet picks were just Chretien era loyalists.
The loophole for the cops is that they can walk towards you and claim you are within 8 feet.
Pretty much this. Modern hearing aids have settings for different environments. But none of them are perfect, and nobody likes to be constantly switching programs.

Speech in Noise is the setting that probably fits for the most part. But it isn't pleasant in other environments, and horrendous around road noise. Mine really glom onto the sound of tires on the road if I forget to change the settings on the way out the door. It is funny sometimes that you'll catch snippets of female voices across the road or in passing cars so clearly they might as well be right behind you.

The settings for music are the best when it comes to full frequency representation, at the expense of everything else in the environment sounding too extreme. It does sound amazing when on a nature walk, except things like rippling water take on a movie audio quality where it sounds like it was overdubbed.

All shrill and hissy sounds (babies crying, sirens, etc) are overwhelming at any configuration. Although I shut mine off in transit if a baby is crying and sometimes joke "Baby, what baby?" (even though I can actually still hear it without my hearing aids)

Also, environments with heavy echo/reverb are seriously annoying. There are settings to cancel that out, too, but again, it's a setting you never want on all the time, because it affects far too many other sounds, too.
This also exposes the risk of hackers (state-sponsored or otherwise) to selectively or indiscriminately deny power to people just by flipping off their meter(s).
> All laws are inherently restrictive.

This isn't the case at all - law can be a precedent that something is permitted, for example.
I find what Volkswagen did worse. They polluted our air beyond the acceptable limit. On the other hand, Uber broke taxi laws that were anti-consumer anyway.
How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide (2017)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
A lot of job descriptions I see are looking for people who already have the scientific formal education background and expect them to do the software engineering aspect too. I haven't really seen generic Software Engineer job descriptions where a science background is the secondary requirement. If you have any pointers I would greatly appreciate them!
My guess is it’s overturned at some point, winds up in SCOTUS’s lap, and they bend over backwards to justify it’s legality. Probably with Thomas writing the majority opinion and Sotomayor writing a well-reasoned yet scathing dissent.
I don't see your argument. Everybody knows that we're not deploying carbon free technology sufficiently quickly. That's why we're reading these articles.
I found error handling in Rust to be an unergonomic nightmare and is one of the reasons I don't want to write it anymore. Usually people recommend crates designed to make the experience better but that's a failure in my opinion. Every project ends up doing it differently -- anything like that should be in the standard library. In Go, you can build massive projects without needing any dependencies to make error handling ergonomic.
It’s not that rare in for example more expensive Yamaha or Ensoniq instruments. I used an SY-85 to play an Oberheim Matrix 1000 and it was really mind blowing. I could hold a string chord for a minute without it getting boring, not even trying anything fancy just the natural varying pressure per finger when you hold a chord. Very organic. Sounded like a different instrument.
The instructor is definitely great. Me, however, I prefer to learn in a bit of a slower style, with less distracting acting/performing.
Personally I think it's a huge red flag when people talk about "criminals" as a noun. There is no Homo criminalis distinct from Homo sapiens. Most people should not be branded as such a category for the rest of their lives. Many people are also falsely accused, and the system in the United States is especially bad at that.
What is the point of this? That new companies should be even smarter than the stablished ones and therefore try to game the system even more? Or that we should learn from them and try to improve the situation and make all of them follow the rules?
I somehow have the feeling that trusting multiple smaller companies with the trip data is a lot better than having a central authority, which is also the government owning all that data in one place.
This assumes an infinite number or clients. I don't agree with this. If the marginal cost is zero, the proper price is definitely not zero.
I don't think this accurately represents Wikipedia's relationship with Google. Wikipedia is thrilled with the knowledge panels. It has dramatically cut Wikipedia's hosting costs and spread its reach. You're making it sound like Wikimedia and Google were antagonists over the knowledge panels, but as I understand things it was the opposite.
I’m sure the cab cartel was on life support and only tried to scam every tourist and sometimes even locals because they couldn’t make a profit otherwise.
It is not just a pledge as so far he has not broken it https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-prom...
FWIW, various open language models are available on https://huggingface.co

GPT3 isn't available; GPT2 is, as well as BLOOM which is (supposedly) as good.

You can try them online, and you can download them. Downloading them isn't as easy as downloading as app, though: the models are pretty large and need some expertise and lots of compute to run. Though Hugging Face does offer to set you up with cloud providers.

(I haven't actually try any of this, so I don't know how easy it is in practice. I've only tried the "playgrounds" that are available with some models)
It's decent, but can be cleaner! Better classnames, usage of the classnames library, and type-only imports, off the top of my head.