skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sovereign nation should make us weep

Definitely. But the double standards is maddening. The Western public has ignored much much larger and more recent conflicts.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1078972
All they have to do is allow sorting by total cost. It shows it on the search results, but will not allow you to sort by it.
Never heard of Wizzair, but my experience in the US is that they book you on a new flight. If none of their options suffice, (I believe) they'll help you book on an alternative airline like when a computer outage happens and takes down their entire network. This seems to be the case even for our budget airlines like spirit.
Actually, what people can find is the author of Vlang has been shown to welcome constructive and helpful criticism versus outright trolling or blatant smearing. For example- "What don't you like about V / what would you like to be changed?" (https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610).
We call them "clé USB" (USB key) in french: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9_USB
If you think about it, that's more or less the original idea. Affordable accommodation for young solo travelers. People that do not have the time and energy to face the inconveniences of Airbnb's are better off in a hotel after all. When I book an airbnb I do not expect to get hotel like service.

Edit: maybe drop the "solo", it's probably not worth it if you don't travel in a group.
Unfortunately I used straight charge to my bank account, which limits the options in my jurisdiction.
Wow, that’s quite a take. How do you explain the effectiveness of measles and polio vaccines if they were not viral illnesses?
I also swore off Airbnb after a couple bad experiences. Then went back to hotels, which are better in their own way, but still couldn’t shake the feeling that I’m getting swindled every time I check into one, between resort fees, $30/day slow wifi, rooms that look nothing like the pics, etc.

Then I realized that the entire travel industry just tries to rip everyone off as much as possible since they know you’re probably only coming to that one destination one time anyway, so they might as well slaughter the cow instead of milking it.

Once the pandemic hit and I couldn’t travel, I realized how much I actually don’t need to travel to have a relaxing vacation. Between airlines packing you in like cattle (if you can even get on a flight on time that hasn’t been delayed/cancelled 7 times first), the TSA, being treated like a drug lord at every border crossing, tourist trap shitty restaurants and hotels manipulating their reviews and every other business in the tourism industry trying to swindle you as much as possible, no thank you. I would need to take additional time off just to recover from the stress of that “vacation.”

Now I just spend travel money on home projects to make my house so good I never want to leave, and couldn’t be happier.
Cosine features tend to measure if two things point in the same direction. Convolutional features tend to measure how much of a template was mixed into a signal. As such, one can expect cosine features to produce very similar results to a convolutional feature followed by a Sigmoid or Tanh. Remember what the first style transfer papers used for feature extraction? Conv+Tanh.

After that, cosine features have been used with great success for generating the attention masks in transformer architectures. If I remember correctly, the original Transformer paper also suggested to normalize the features and to pre-scale the result with sqrt(1/N).

So the new part in this formula is mostly the pow. The other parts (cosine distance & dividing by the norm) are already pretty much battle-tested in speech recognition. And the sign is just needed to restore what pow with an even exponent loses.

In short, this suggests that applying a gamma-like transform to features increases contrast.
You are assuming that we can alter our speed, which isn't true. Our speed through spacetime is c. If you are at a fixed point in X,Y,Z, then your velocity is c in the direction of time. You can change _direction_ in spacetime, but you can't change your speed.

If you set your velocity to [1,1,1,x], then x (your speed in time) MUST be sqrt(c^2-3). And still, once you've done that, you cannot "scale your velocity", because you cannot change your speed. We can only change direction.
Go Errors Are a Pain
When I first got this computer basically when it first came out there was a point during the initial setup or it was an update soon after I originally set it up where I had bluetooth enabled and then I rebooted and then Bluetooth wasn't enabled anymore. I think Apple got a lot of complaints about that and now they just want to make sure that it defaults to on no matter what just in case.
You sort of answer your own question but the fact you haven't caught it yet doesn't bode well for anybody trying to explain it to you.
Jobs don’t just exist to provide the best possible consumer experience. They are fundamental to individual feelings of self worth and societal stability. Unless you have a replacement for those things, endless automation may ultimately do much more harm than good - your inconvenience in Bulgaria not withstanding
In the given example they are not using the shared reference at all during the whole lifetime of the immutable reference and the operation on the immutable one does not change the object at all, so it would be actually safe. This is the situation where those two rules are a bit too strict and reject a valid program.
I fully expect us to find multiple time dimensions to actually exist.

But that is just a selfish hope for free will to exist.

think about it:

taps head

If it's a time 'line' then you don't get to pick your direction - no choice is no free will, only if a line exists in a plane does choice come into the picture. /s
You just gave three examples of people endangering their own lives only, not my family. I'm not "cool" with it, really, but it's a whole different discussion.
"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
People have no living memory of polio. Anyone who has been to or lived in a country with people who have been afflicted with polio would absolutely not have this attitude.

We need better education.

Public is becoming less and less informed.

It's heartbreaking seeing young people afflicted with polio. People who should be running around, having fun, dating, will never experience that. And I'm sure it will continue to impact them as they age.

Makes me sad to thinking about it.
Show HN: Zazow – Generative Art Toy (fractals, spirograph, satori, etc.)
Im finally ready to share a fun side project that I've been working on.

For 20 years, Ive been fascinated with Mandelbrot fractals. Back in the day, I made a MacOS9 app that rendered them, and I missed it. So, I decided to bring it up to the modern age and build a website to explore this and other similar fractals.

In the process, I discovered some other types of generative art that looked fun, so I made those too. One is a spirograph, another is similar to an old AfterDark screensaver called Satori (anyone remember that?). Others draw paint splatters and random squiggly lines. The user is given a bunch of interactive settings to control how the artwork is generated.

Im hoping to continue adding different styles of generative art to the website over time. Its a fun, relaxing project to work on and I hope other people enjoy using it to create pleasing images.
Here's my list: https://darekkay.com/personal-blogs/
The deeper problem is modeling goal setting. We know people will hurt themselves and to punish others and economics is stuck at thinking people only wish to maximize value. People are much more complex than that.
> Then the host will just not go through the cancellation process and solve it out of band to avoid the fee.

I've seen this happen in other service apps -- hailing a taxi via Uber/Lyft, and when the driver sees that I'm a little out of downtown, about 30% of the time I'll get a text message off-platform asking me to cancel the ride because "something happened to [their] car" in between them accepting the ride and them getting to my home. My only thought is that the heavy emphasis on driver/host ratings and penalty fees drives the providers off-platform, but that leaves their users stuck shouldering the burden and nobody happy.
Separating the pixels into separate pixels like this can be effectively like a tensor product. Many years ago, I had written a program to make the tensor product of two pictures.

ff-tensor <(echo ff0000ff 00ff00ff 0000ffff | ff-scanf 3 1 '%2x%2x%2x%2x' + | ff-enlarge 1 2)

(It also works if you write ff-enlarge outside of the parentheses instead, since it is also effectively a kind of tensor product, too, so it is associative)

If you make the tensor product in the reverse order (exchanging the two operands of the input pictures), then it will make the separations with the entire red picture on the left, the entire green picture in the middle, and the entire blue picture on the right, instead.
That's because it falls in the trap of trying to explain a rather large set of vague symptoms (not causes, mind you) which has been put under the label 'autism' with one single factor, which is not even properly defined. But hey, it has a fancy new word!
AirBNB is now almost as expensive as a hotel in the city centre. There are some very nice properties, but increasingly a lot of crappy properties - flats converted into multiple airbnb 'apartments', bare minimum furniture, often in dodgy areas, and your neighbours are also airbnb tenants so expect lots of noise.

For this reason I also have gone back to hotels unless I'm booking a place for more than 2 weeks. Airbnb often has a monthly discount so remains a decent place for long stays, although if you put in the work (and pay cash) you can usually find cheaper options.
> so clearly the matter wasn't urgent.

Again, you ignore the actual realities of politics. Obama promised to codify Roe v Wade his first day in office. He then refused to, since it was better for democrats to keep it on as a political bargaining chip.

Now, what are US liberals supposed to do? Not vote and lose? Vote for the Republicans and see abortion criminalized federally? No, they have to vote for the Democrats again and maybe hope they finally try to pass their agenda. There is a false choice presented. It was urgent to the voters, but not to the politicians.
This sounds like it's the same thing as the thermal pad mod for the M1 MacBook Air.

On the upside, you get better sustained performance and it lasts nearly just as long as the Pro, from what I recall. On the downside, it elevated the temperature of the backside aluminum to a high enough temperature to be able to cause burns (something like 80-90C). Not a huge issue if you always use it on a table or something, but if you truly use it as a 'lap' top, it'll be quite unpleasant.
Ukraine, Russia sign deal to reopen grain export ports as war rages on
I think you focus on the neighbors alone, in which case I can understand the "f you" point of view.

From my POV one reason to care about is because AirBnB is making it harder for the "have nots" to become "haves": those that could have afforded their starter house suddenly can't because available properties are now AirBnBs, and those that could have rented near their work must now live further away, taking hours off their free time. Meanwhile, the "haves" reap more cash with less effort.
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The sibling comment captured what I would have written, so I'll just note that this submission has ~10x more points/comments than the one about having a positive experience hiring an editor.
> Bridges and buildings from the 1970s (and much older) are still working fine today.

With modern earthquake straps added, and I bet the locks got replaced a few times over, also the building likely had its insulation improved, better venting added, a sprinkler system, fire exits, and a wheelchair ramp put in at some point.

Are there a few quaint stone bridges from 1700 still in use? Sure, going over the neighborhood creek. But all the bridges around me have undergone serious upgrades or retrofitting over the decades.
Many of these Macbook thermal mods use the case more aggressively as a heatsink, and can end up making the enclosure hot enough to burn you if used as a laptop.
i'd take that further a say never have a gun, concealed or not. the chances, even with great training, practice, and discipline, to use it in a way that harms only the perpetrator and no one else, especially not yourself, is fantastically small (much less than lightning strike chances).

my veteran friend who trains others on firearms and has a license to carry would say the same thing.
But this is true in relativity as well. In an appropriate coordinate system, you are also moving in only 1 of the 4 dimensions. If you are not accelerating, then this coordinate system is an inertial reference frame, and the fact that you appear to be a stationary object moving through time is not mere mathematical curiosity, but the core insight of relativity.
I'm about a little more than halfway through it right now and already it's one of the most beautiful works I've ever read.
USB flash drive or thumb drive
> I wonder what became of the cluster once it was decommissioned? Military surplus PS3s anyone?

If it touched at any time any kind of confidential data or algorithms it was probably shredded into tiny pieces.
It doesn't have to be baked into the daily rate. They could just show the total when searching.. but Airbnb doesn't do that because it would make people realize the poor deal they're really getting.
This article is not entirely bad, but I think it still overstates the distinction.

It is true that there's something of a divergence, where analytic philosophers are much more likely to read Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine and Lewis, while continental philosophers are more likely to read Heidegger or Derrida. There are accompanying differences in style and "feel". But it is extremely hard to generate robust generalizations about differences. For any high level philosophical position, you can find authors on both sides arguing for or against it.

Additionally, while early in the 20th century, you could try to argue that analytic philosophy had a core of logical analysis (in the sense of Russell/early Wittgenstein, Logical Positivism, Carnap) and ordinary language, starting in the 1960s, the field increasingly fragments, and becomes more varied in the topics it studies, the approaches it takes, and so on. By the present day, we have "analytic philosophers" like Kieran Setiya writing a book on Mid-Life Crises, or Laurie Paul writing about whether one can anticipate the experience of parenthood (https://lapaul.org/papers/whatCantExpect.pdf).

All in all, it's true that there are two relatively independent traditions, it's hard to say much more about them than "people tend to read different books, and that has some influence on how they approach matters."
Or just prohibit the host from offering it to new guest when they cancel. If I rent a place for a week and they cancel on me the day before, don't allow another rental through Airnbnb for that week.
> In the modern world, the demand seems to be that every tool be perfectly safe in every situation no matter what you do

The problem is that there is such a huge number of tools in widespread use that each one causing even a few security vulnerabilities means that the ecosystem overall is constantly vulnerable
I would classify what you experience as an instance of the Tetris effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
Nobody accesses that. Everybody goes to their .com domain name, everybody still refers to them as Google instead of Alphabet.
> He mentioned the head of the project doesn't know I exist - thinks my boss made the entire thing.

Who is he? Sounds like he is just gossiping to you and stirring the pot.

I would hold off on getting upset till you are there in person to say, "So I heard yall liked the app I built" and that will be that.

You are doing yourself no favors by working from Bali. It isn't your fault, but it sounds like the company isn't used to remote. They hear "our developer in bali" as "some $4 per hour dev code monkey" (doesn't matter what they are actually paying you). Of course you aren't getting actual credit with that bias.
Airbnb puts you in a local neighbourhood (not the city centre) and gives you a full apartment and a kitchen so your trip feels a bit more like living in the country. That's the reason I used it, anyway. There are definitely advantages to hotels too.
I think that's a strawman; AIUI the argument is that rather that being able to answer questions about a subject appears to be a poor way to ensure that one has mastered it, and that excessively focusing on tests appears to undermine actual learning. (And now I must point out that I disagree with both claims and personally think it's more like "bad tests are bad, but that doesn't make all tests bad".)
So you don't really disagree with the parent comment then. Unless you are denying French war crimes in Algeria and Africa
I wonder how much of an influence on Zippy was had.
Oh, similar experience here. We'd often download the episode and watch at work too.
my favorite people to talk to climb. often a lot.

maybe climbing indicates openness to challenging yourself mentally and physically. maybe it indicates the ability to focus on movement, to enjoy presence in nature. i've found enthusiasm for rock climbing to be surprisingly predictive.

the point is reading is not higher, special, or better. intelligence is not the only valuable Value
Trucker Blockade at Port of Oakland Continues Friday
I used to crash their (Roadrunner Team's) lunch-time Linux kernel study group.
So much fun.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/kSkyu
A lot of people are talking about the problem being that the people measure the wrong things, which I think is fair, but from my perspective sort of misses the point?

I would recommend anyone who hasn't to give a read through "Seeing Like a State
"[0].

You have to be incredibly careful when measuring things, it's tremendously easy for your measure to end up being a target in a way that gives you bad outcomes.

Doubly so if you are measuring something as part of a large organisation which may take your measurements as input to some process without any awareness of caveats they may have, or assumptions they were made under. Congratulations, you may now have a feedback loop.

Triply so if someone stands to benefit from your measurement, who will then have an incentive to distort the measure.

This isn't to say measurements aren't tremendously valuable or useful, they're a tool like any other.

- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
> there's two tail

My point about the sync part w/ the producers, the consumers won't be ready to read from the producers before it's ready. However another option would NOT using a contention point of a shared tail but marking each record as done - need write/write memory fence, so even if the consumers start reading, then can bail out if the write process has not committed.

> the buffer freely before that point, though, so in practice it's not a contention point.

Likely a false sharing between the producers, unless the impl. is careful enough to allocate cache-line sized records.
These are not $20k trash cans. The program is designing and producing prototypes. This is because various designs tried so far have had significant problems. How much mass produced final designs might cost is not yet known.
How do masks not help curb the spread of a virus? Do you have any supporting literature on that matter?
Most Airbnb's Ive been to require no communication with the host. I book the Airbnb, then I get a message that tells me the electronic door code, or the code for the key lockbox.

Usually I send a message that's says "thanks, I'm checking out" when I leave.

I usually stay at some of the cheapest places tho. If I'm going to be paying more than $120/night I'll just book a hotel.
The biggest problem we have facing businesses like restaurants is probably the price of labor, and that is out of whack because you can't live on the wages that restaurants can offer. A lot of that is likely due to things like health insurance, residential home prices and escalating college costs (which also lands on the price of eggs because the trucker who drives those to the supermarket needs health insurance as well). The restauranteur can't just raise prices and pay his workers more though because that "VAT" tax from stuff like health care is being taken out from every transaction in the economy. We're seeing the effects of the parasitism and rent seeking behavior where certain segments of the economy increase to squeeze and tax everyone else because their product is something nobody can do without. If it was just inflation that was happening, then everyone could raise prices and we'd eventually be back to normal (if the value if the dollar is sliced in half, but everyone doubles their prices and wages, nothing really changes). The secular problem we're seeing on the longer term (and the article addresses what has happened since he opened his business in 2001 so he's talking way beyond this latest spike) is more than just inflation.
Agreed, but that's an increase in scope of the requirements/desires.

I still think it'd be possible to build a neighborhood where the HOA bans driving cars. Yes, it'll still need roads for emergency access (which you'd want anyway, fire trucks and ambulances do need to get in when needed).

If there are minimum parking space rules in the area that's a bit annoying but shouldn't be a showstopper. Just because the parking needs to be present doesn't mean it needs to be used for that purpose, so the HOA can still ban cars. You can then use that driveway for projects, play space, etc.
For those commenting that this is only the migratory subspecies - yes, you are quite correct, but do note that this is the only subspecies you will see in the USA - except in the south of Florida. The non-migratory subspecies is found from southern Florida down through the Caribbean, Central America, and South America north of the Amazon Drainage.
The host had a family emergency and had to leave. Totally understandable, but Airbnb had no resolution for my friend.
If your face becomes your password, what happens if you are in an accident and get a broken nose, lose a couple of teeth, and get some stitches? Will you be locked out until you heal? If there’s permanent damage to your facial structure, how do you “reset your password”? (I will admit I have not done a thorough survey of the existing literature; I’m guessing others have thought of this problem and it has long since been solved.)
Speakers, stop doing these things
No that was definitely a thing. Less so these days, but it was everywhere for a few months.

I’m seeing lots of “r00d” these days
In my opinion, this looks promising:

https://github.com/stevenwalton/SCS-CCT

4% improvement over Compact Transformers, which is considered SOTA

EDIT: As meragrin_ pointed out, I read the graph the wrong way. It's actually 4% worse. Sorry.
Commit Messages Don’t Matter
That's one way to get a free lunch paid by the company.
I mean clearly HP craze has smashed Discworld in the end. But the first three HP books were released in the late 90s, whereas Pratchett wrote 16 novels through the decade (and something like 5-6 in the 80s). So he had volume on his side.
OpenWrt and how to create programs to run on it.

I'm trying to help a not for profit save some money managing weather stations
It's fine that you don't think so, but that's how it was worded.

"Casual" painkiller users tend to take what's on hand and aren't trying to build three medication stacks with caffeine.