skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the fact that Beyer retired the Monsanto brand. It's a real bad sign when a company whose most famous product is Zyklon B tells you that your brand is toxic.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/04/monsanto-to...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B
Another divulgative article:

-- DeepMind AI learns physics by watching videos that don't make sense - An algorithm created by AI firm DeepMind can distinguish between videos in which objects obey the laws of physics and ones where they don't - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327766-deepmind-ai-lea...

> Luis Piloto at DeepMind and his colleagues have created an AI called Physics Learning through Auto-encoding and Tracking Objects (PLATO) that is designed to understand that the physical world is composed of objects that follow basic physical laws. // The researchers trained PLATO to identify objects and their interactions by using simulated videos of objects moving as we would expect [...] They also gave PLATO data showing exactly which pixels in every frame belonged to each object. To test PLATO’s ability to understand five physical concepts such as persistence..., solidity and unchangingness..., the researchers used another series of simulated videos. Some showed objects obeying the laws of physics, while others depicted nonsensical actions [with the latter, correctly the AI returned wrong predictions, showing an acquired intuition of physics]

From the submitted one:

> [Jeff Clune, Uni British Columbia, Vancouver: ]«[Comparing AI with how human infants learn is] an important research direction. That said, the paper does hand-design much of the prior knowledge that gives these AI models their advantage». // Clune and other researchers are working on approaches in which the program develops its own algorithms for understanding the physical world
That's what was so refreshing about Top Gun Maverick. It was mostly practical effects instead of CGI overload.
at some point e2e encrypted comms will be grounds for getting swatted

don't think this is a bridge too far, covering your face in the presence of public CCTV got you fined/arrested the week before covering your face with feel-good masks was compulsory

don't @ me telling me it's stupid, I know it is, but this govt doesn't believe in free and private communications and it's working hard in progressively eradicating what's already out there, with full support from the main opposition party
I think that's a bit unfair. I went for my honeymoon and found the people there more than welcoming to two very-basic-french-speaking Americans. We drove around and explored the island totally independently.
I have a couple (either 2 or three, i can't remember) from amazon that were under $100. Both have built in batteries, and one is designed to be charged and then placed in a greenhouse while you're working in it, another is designed to reference between two "rooms" or whatever.

None of them log to sd card. I'd fully expect a functional solution that does logging with all of the other features to cost more than $100, but if i can be proven wrong, i'd buy one, for sure.

For example, with an SD card we now also need a clock - which ideally would have a different power supply than the sensor suite, otherwise the timestamps will overwrite if the supply is lost, or otherwise be incorrect.
I've had those feelings before and here is what helps me.

Everyday I make a point of being thankful for something or someone. Maybe someone put extra effort in at work, maybe my kids were really well behaved, maybe I really enjoyed dinner, maybe my wife told me a really funny story. Whatever it is, big or small, I try to show my gratitude to people around me and to myself. At first I started by writing them down in a log, then at the end of the week I would look through them. This turned out to be really important to me, seeing the concrete instead of the abstract really changed my outlook.
Related:

An Investigation of Columbia's U.S. News Ranking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603287 - March 2022 (46 comments)
Updated! Thanks
> no franchise longs survives resort to time travel.

Time travel and multi-verses, at least for me, end up reducing the stakes of the movies and for me make them more cartoonish like Tom and Jerry. No matter what happens, you know Tom and Jerry will be back, good as new.
Assuming positive intent is the right (optimal) place to start.

Over time the bad actors inevitably expose themselves. They might not face negative repercussions from higher up, but at least you can then plan accordingly.
A really nice thing about this is there exists a continuous space-filling curve over a tetrahedron[1] where the end connects back to the start, like a Moore curve for squares. There's a clever way to use this curve to calculate the surface distance between two cells on the tetrahedron, and it works at arbitrary precision, requiring only 2-bits per granularity to identify cells. It's great for spatial indexing as you can use a quadtree.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw_50szQfA0
> Because classes with less than 30 students are ranked higher by US News, but they only take into consideration the fall semester. No one cares about class sizes in the spring.

What a bizarre and totally unnecessary restriction.
Potatoes have protein and fats. Enough protein and fats for fat-soluble vitamins and preventing dying of protein malnutrition. Potatoes are not just carbs.

No libido? I'd like to see the source of that claim.

The western world has become "addicted" to protein and the claims on how much is necessary and recommended are extremely exaggerated.
Great to know many peoples graduations were delayed so someone could game some numbers
I think the 16-bit computers could be understood as well---the original Mac, Atari ST, Amiga and IBM PC [1]. I have the IBM technical manuals for the IBM PC (XT I think? Maybe AT?) and the IBM PCjr and they are complete, with BIOS listings and schematics. I also have Amiga Reference manuals (three volumes, includes how to use, what to use, and hardware information).

I do agree however, that once you got past 1990 or so, things started getting way more complex.

[1] Even though the 8088 had an 8-bit bus, internally it was still 16 bits.
> obsession with taxonomy and categorization

Virtues of the bored

> grammar only really “clicked” with me when I was already in college

For me, it was when I took Spanish in high school. I finally had a reason to know the parts of speech.
> COVID and influenza are much easier, because the human immune system can fight off those viruses reasonably effectively and most people recover. A vaccine just has to replicate having had the disease and recovered.

Really?

Influenza mutates and mostly escapes natural immunity all the time. Essentially everyone has had the flu and recovered, and a lot of people (and almost all children?) have been vaccinated. Yet the flu still circulates. The whole point of this new vaccine candidate is to produce better protection than natural immunity or the current vaccine.

COVID is so new that the endgame isn’t really known, but reinfections with different variants seem to be fairly common. Certainly the other (non-COVID) human coronaviruses reinfect humans regularly. (They account for 1/3 of common colds by estimates I’ve seen, and there are only four of them. The average person gets many more than 12 colds in their life.)
The Loneliness of a pretty good developer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31438426
These rankings consistently tell people that Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc are the best schools in the country. Why would they boycott rankings that praise them?
Exactly what I was talking about:

"The prevailing atmosphere is it's never the injured person who is at fault, it's always somebody nearby who has money."

And the reason for this is money. You can't sue an employee for $200 million, because he doesn't have $200 million. So let's make the employer, who has $200 million, liable, even though the employer was not negligent and did not cause the accident.

This isn't justice.

Thank you, though, I did not know there was a specific term for this. "Vicarious" liability, indeed.
Joel’s definition works for me: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...

Somebody who understands the problem, sees the tasks and delivers. There are lower order attributes like field knowledge and the like, but the fundamental skills are like a session player. They come in, do what is required in a time fashion and thus make the project better.
“They limit damage from key compromise and miss-issuance. Stolen keys and miss-issued certificates are valid for a shorter period.”

I don’t buy this. Either it is secure day zero and day 10000000 or it is not secure. Why would I trust something day 730 and not day 731? That is basically a two-year period that someone can misuse something. Also, I would guess that more certs are compromised during changes than from actual installations.
Gaming and manipulation should absolutely be addressed, but it seems Columbia was just straight up lying about their numbers, not gaming them.
There's two parties to that: the uploader, and GitHub. I've already found one of them.
Prices are set by supply and demand.

Inflation refers to the price of goods increasing.

If supply reduces and/or demand increases, all else equal, prices increase. If supply increases and/or demand decreases, all else equal, prices decrease.
I don't disagree that schools are completely artificial environments. However what matters is that they're able to teach skills that are necessary in most real-world environments.
People get trained on what's supposed to be nice. There are people who will insist that anything less that 2K resolution on their computer monitor physically hurts their eyes and brain.
China's bank run victims planned to protest. Then their Covid codes turned red
Remembering and referencing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs just now ... this is the top of the pyramid - Self Actualization - achieving full potential including creative activities. Maybe this vision/desire becomes more prevalent in SW Engineers (in US at least) in their 30's or 40's because you've got the bottom tiers completed (I know its not like a video game skill tree) and possibly have Esteem met with being accomplished in comparison to many other careers. Tech is a sought after field, known to have high income and requires a certain mindset to be good at it. Being good, not even great, at Tech in the US gets you thru the bottom 4 pretty well.

If your job lacks any avenue towards creativity or path towards self-actualization professionally (like being "known" in tech, building a widely used thing, writing a tech book, etc.) then you seek out other avenues towards self-actualization.

My problem is having these ideas of things that I want to do, like an idea for a novel as an example, but not knowing how/where to start or just plain ignoring the sheer amount of work that is required and day-dreaming about it. That's not at the top of my list but that idea keeps percolating up at times. I like your approach about writing down a plan to fulfill those self-actualization types of things.

An example where I've realized its a lot more work is building a desk top out of walnut for a sit/stand desk. From roughly cut boards to a finished top looks easy on youtube videos. Squaring a board to join with other boards without pro tools is a lot of work. So much work, much more than I thought. Some of the work is part of the process of learning.
A perfectly fulfilling job will rarely lead to me completely fulfilling life.

A robust web of relationships at varying levels of intimacy certainly correlates with fulfillment.
That fits with my current understanding. Your body's hunger response (driven in part by hormones) is complicated, and for lack of a better word it can be "habituated" to a routine. But I believe there are still very real mechanisms (like said hormones) rather than being a psychological construct. I would be willing to bet if you had blood samples, you would see very real distinctions in blood markers associated with hunger as your response changed.
You said Europe (I think, can't read your comment anymore), and the UK is very much part of that.
Apple devices (and other goods prices in usd - such as most oil goods) will be a bit more expensive.
Yeah they should stick all the ivies, MIT, etc... in a top "non-rankable" rank. Like realistically a student will be happy to go to whichever one they get into, and if someone gets into multiple, they probably won't pick based on position in some list.
The analog nature of film and its degradation along with the imperfection of human memory mean we can't really know for sure exactly how, for example, Lawrence of Arabia looked on the big screen in its contemporary transfers.

It depends on the source material.

As luck would have it, I just recently got the 4K Blu-ray of Lawrence of Arabia, and it is very very grainy. Much more so than the 4K version of Rear Window, though that has a lot of noticeable grain.

Fortunately, some theaters still occasionally show classics like these, so when Lawrence comes around, we should find out. Hopefully. Assuming it comes in on big reels of film, and not over a digital link.
Europe doesn't just have an energy crisis though, if Russia decides to cut off the gas they straight up have insufficient energy to make it through the winter. The decline in the Euro is pricing in the risk of catastrophic shutdowns of industry across Europe.

All of it a result of moronic politics around nuclear and a failure to build out fossil fuel capacity while the green energy transition was still in progress.
This has been my understanding of the state of Postgres full-text search. It's great if your search requirements are fairly vanilla, but I haven't seen any solutions for more advanced search needs, such boosting, relevance, scoring, etc.
All poor countries in the EU are brain drained... more and more educating the population is benefiting rich western states, more than the ones that produced the human.

I've had many arguments with people where I can't get it across that it costs a lot to get a human being all grown up, socialized, educated and ready to work in high value industries. Then we get them swept away to the west (and for good reasons, more money, higher quality of life etc.) and end up with nothing for all our societal investment. If we're lucky, some of them come back with some know-how and create a viable business, but most don't bother.

3 / 4 of the people I went to school with (primary, secondary, high school and college) are now gone for good. Almost as many upcoming graduates (soon to be 18+) are planning to either study here and go, or just go.

This pains me as someone that decided to stay behind and try to change something. But I do understand their motivations.

Resources are nothing without people.
Gotta pay for another semester then, right?
The most meaningful thing I've found in the world is to help others. But I think good intentions are not enough - it is important to care about how effectively you help others. So I recommend Effective Altruism - a community of people working on making the world a better place while focusing on effectiveness of their actions.

https://www.effectivealtruism.org/

For over 10 years I've been giving at least 10% of my income to cost-effective charities (see GiveWell for recommendations https://www.givewell.org ). There are thousands of people doing the same, you should join in:

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

Finally, on the topic of happiness, read up on Positive Psychology to learn how to extract more enjoyment / eudaemonia out of life. Start by reading books by Ph.D. researchers (e.g. The How of Happiness, Stumbling on Happiness, etc).
> An Ivy League school does not need help from the rankings

I tend to agree, but why then did Columbia fudge the numbers?

I think there’s some envy from the “lesser ivys” that they wish they were Harvard or Princeton. A high USNews ranking proves little, but I guess Columbia wanted to be tied with Harvard.
cool, can you use this to characterize gene expression networks? is it any better than existing state of the art?
Yes, but not for any of the reasons that you have listed. The current problem with Marvel is that the overall universe is unfocused, even as the individual movies are on average still decent. I don't know what they are building to as a part of Phase 4 which is a huge departure from Phases 2 and 3.
Google straight-up ruined its brand new YouTube experience for older Chromecasts
The "intervention" here is setting up a murder-for-hire sting?
I cannot remember if it was covid or influenza (h5n1?) where in the initial 3 days after infection it "makes" one feel like they want to be more social - more social energy or something - so that when the contagiousness increases right before the bedridden part more people get infected.

Apologies, since i read a lot of studies and only remember to save a few, and even so i have no way to catalog/tag/review the studies i have read. I just know i read it in the last 2 years so it could have been SARS-NCoV-2 or flu.
I mean, no one cares if accessing mail is down, but it looks like their MX is down, the status page reports incoming mail has a ‘partial’ outage.

I don’t care if I can’t access my email for a while.

I very much care if email sent to me isn’t received. They should just be dumping all mail received at their MX’s to maildirs or something if it’s this bad and process them properly later. Losing data is not ok.
Interesting! But where can you implement the UNIQUE constraint for doc names under a given parent? I guess your application code would need to handle that
Somewhat related - How Northeastern Gamed the College Rankings

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeast...

There are probably some significant parallels to any executive who manages to game the compensation structure at any large corporation to their financial benefit.
> This is a temporary situation

You're quite optimistic. I fear this is a 1930 moment. By the end of the decade we might have a Nazi Russia, WW3, North Korea attacking the South, China taking advantage of the situation and invading Taiwan. Japan remilitarising and maybe becoming a nuclear power.
You will always have more Problems than Engineers
To Niche or Not to Niche: The Great Fear Holding You Back in Programming (2018)
What about CNY? China is world leader, surely its currency should be pretty stable. I, personally, started to invest my tiny savings into CNY.
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There's a very interesting article "How to Game the College Rankings" about how Northeastern University's president focused on improving the university's ranking. In 1996, it was a "third-tier, blue-collar, commuter-based university" rated #162. The new university president had a singleminded goal: to improve the ranking. He got the university into the top 100 in 2006 and into the top 50 by 2013.

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeast...
I think you are missing the point.

The hackability quotient of AllenNLP is way low.

I'll give you specific examples where AllenNLP overdid it, while HuggingFace was better just by keeping it simple.

Vocabulary class. HuggingFace just used a python dictionary. I can't think of one person who said they needed higher level abstraction. Turns out a python dictionary is pickle-able, saving to a text file is one line code, while the AbstractSinglettonProxyVocabulary is not and no one wants to care in the first place.

Tokenizer class. HuggingFace just used a python dictionary to return strings and integers. I can't think of one person frustrated by it. It's printable, picklable, and everything in between people can fiddle with. And boy where do I start about AllenNLP's overdoing of Tokenizers.

Trainer class. vs. HuggingFace example scripts. The scripts are just much more readable, tweakable, debuggable etc. HF didn't bother with AbstractBaseTrainer class bs.

It just shows they never understood the playing field.

- First, I don't think anyone thought AllenNLP was a good choice for high performance production systems. Again HuggingFace clearly understood the problem and built a fast tokenizer in Rust.

- A math, physics, linguistics, or even CS PhD student who know basics of coding would prefer bare bone scripts. They just want to hack it off and focus on research. Writing good code is not their objective.

Just my opinion.
> if someone gets into multiple, they probably won't pick based on position in some list

Not trying to be contrarian, but I had two friends literally pick between Ivies based on this very list (in 2015).

It’s generally accepted as “The List” by a lot of people. If you’re a parent with no other frame of reference, The List has a serious impact.
Ask HN: macOS – is there a multiple “workspace” solution?
Let's say I wear multiple hats in work. In some hours I have to focus on on-call and support; In some I need to develop new features; And in others I need to manage infra.

Each hat contains a separate "workspace" consisting of a set of Chrome tabs _IN TWO SCREENS_ as well as maybe a set of PyCharm/Datagrip projects.

I'd like to be able to switch between each workspace without much delay. For now I group different tabs in Chrome and use different windows but it's already a chore to find the correct window when there are 4~6. The perfect solution looks like this: I press a pre-set key, and suddenly 2 Chrome windows show up, one in left screen and one if right, also the right projects are opened in PyCharm/Datagrip - not only that, but the windows of other "workspaces" immediately hide themselves.

I think the minimum solution is for Chrome to display the name of a group instead of the activated tab when I right click the icon. I can live with opening different PyCharm/Datagrip projects once in a while.

What tools can I achieve this?
Ah, I misunderstood the parent comment to be referring to _money_ supply. Whoops!
Interestingly, Disney didn't have anything to do with the original Iron Man. I believe it was a Paramount picture[0]. Disney only bought Marvel at the end of 2009[1] after the second Incredible Hulk movie[2]. Otherwise, I think that I completely agree with your comment.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_(2008_film)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Studios#Disney_conglome...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_Marvel_Cinemati...
I say "lightweight" in terms of text and comprehension.

I say "fraught" because it imposes conditions on running this on the network. Perhaps fraught is too editorial. Regardless - in some environments, that "stickiness" of the GPL is a non-starter. One may say that "weeding out" those envs is part of the point. In my opinion though, for things like libraries or "lower level" software there seems to be a school of thought where "getting it out there" is more important than "saving it" from modifications.

I tend to think of GPL[2/3] as for end-user applications, like openoffice or ardour[0] (paging 'PaulDavisThe1st) and libraries and network services as mit/bsd/isc/lgpl so they can interact with Other Software without forcing anything on that Other Software.

I hesitated even posting my original comment, but don't mind getting a potentially new read on others devs point of view on this area.

Briefly, on "block[ing] companies ... that [don't] bring anything of value...", you also block orgs that would bring value, but might not want to be legislated to publish everything.

[0] https://ardour.org/
On the other hand, Coca-Cola spends 4 billion of dollars every year on advertising.