skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unless you have enough "mana" (i.e. money) to try it,

I use deep learning all the time, every day, and the results are better than previous algorithms. I don't need to "verify" the results to know they're better.

> Perhaps! But I don't see you refuting me in any way, so perhaps I'm just correct :)

You're standing in the middle of a record store and complaining that there's no good new music, and then you think the problem is that I'm not enumerating examples to refute you?

If you can't find things to be impressed by on HN, then again, I think you're incredibly cynical.
it works exactly like the startup culture which I think is a big thing with Ycombinator? You don't create your startup for free; you pay money to get it running. You have to take a risk if you think your idea is worth it. No risk no payout (karma)

Also, I'm running negative karma on this comment already because I posted what I thought was an interesting idea, and instead of just useful/interesting comments, ziddoap for example and the other people that replied, It just got voted down. So Based on that I'd say hacker news is already using this model for comments, they just need to move it to submissions.

It's kind of weird, each downvote on this post, is actually a vote for this model.
I'm also quite fond of the "forced shutdown days" idea. Shutdown the entire place the week of Christmas and the 4th of July (or whatever holidays, except a skeleton crew to handle emergencies and compensate them with time elsewhere) on top of giving out 15-20 days of discretionary time. That way everyone gets a guilt-free break twice a year and you don't have a hundred thousand emails to come back to.
Yes, this was a mistake on my part! I meant PEP 621.
Automated trains wouldn't do that because we can design signals so that they cannot be missed (that is if you don't have positive go/no-go you stop in time)

Automated trains do have difficulties, but they are very different from the ones you see with human drivers.
The academic term for such types is "singleton types". They allow for some quite mind-blowing possibilities as you've shown.
They did not change the definition. Have a nice day.
I think it depends on whether or not it's the sort of fan who read the books once, perhaps after seeing the Peter Jackson movies, or the sort of fan who reads them every few years. You are perhaps the latter sort.
Credit card chargebacks can be initiated a half a year or more after a transaction has occured so yes, the reserve is in place to reduce the risk of losing money of the merchant bank from this event.
Dunno where that guy is getting that figure from. Comp at Meta is still much higher than that, especially for senior SWE and up.
I've slept through aeroplane take-offs. Landings normally wake me up with a jolt though.
It would be interesting if you could opt into this for all conversations. I know people who get a high enough amount of unsolicited dick pics that they would consider turning it on. Of course the controls and messaging would probably need to be different (for example add "Always allow from this sender" and less emotional support)
You'd hope that a passenger could establish the train was on track...before they got on!!
This is definitely one of the most exciting spaces in AI right now. Another somewhat-related startup is PostEra (medicinal chemistry for drug discovery via AI) https://postera.ai/about/
>If your claim is that the police should always show up armed and expecting to be shot at in the United States

What part of my comment is that (or anything else you've said) responding to? I asked a simple question: what is the appropriate "probability of a shooter" that justifies going in with a protocol that expects one? Now you're just guessing things that have little to do with what I said.
There have been predictions that the Fed would exhaust its capability to regulate the economy through monetary stimulus for years with the end result being inflation and recession. Anecdotally, over the course of my life the size of fiscal and monetary stimulus has only increased. During the 90s we would stimulate with a few points of interest reduction, then in the 2000s we had 08 leading into permanent QE through the 10's. The 2020's have seen stimulus activities far in excess of '08.
Martin was an inspiring group leader even after his retirement... he was always so upbeat and optimistic. I'll also remember him for his flowery and poetic use of metaphors and parables in papers and titles.

Anyway...

* The piece-de-resistance: https://www.monetdb.org/

* MonetDB Solutions: https://www.monetdbsolutions.com/ is the commercial spin-off of MonetDB. Martin chaired the company hands-on after retiring, almost to his last day. They do integration, training, deployment, professional support... interestingly, it is fully FOSS, and commercial clients who ask for features get those features implemented as FOSS.
It provides some pretty key context to where Merry got his blade from and why it is able to break the spell and make the Witch King killable. Bit of a better explanation than Eowyn's "I am no man."
The worry is about dataset shifting. Previously, the data were collected for a few hundreds thousands structures, now it is 200m. I think there could be doubts on distributions and how that could play a role in prediction accuracy.
Thanks for that clarification. That does mean my comment was off the mark.
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A newer EpiPen competitor uses a gas canister to drive the needle into the patient's leg.
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Yup, when a person has abandoned reason, no reason can disturb their position.

This is why we see so many anti-science movements.
They didn't redefine recession, that's been defined by NBER. I agree there's some spin, but this statement isn't correct.
I always enjoyed programming (like, from 3rd grade onwards). Basically, from my first line of BASIC, I was hooked.

I realized I was built for computer science during my first industry internship. The job was in probably one of the most interesting corners of the industry, but I still found the day-to-day slog of software development was boring and tedious. The only part of the job I enjoyed was interacting with the researchers, who were working on really interesting and difficult problems that I had no idea how to solve.

I figured I would die of boredom within 5 years if I became a software developer, or have to switch domains every few years and get my stimulation from the domain details. But I really enjoyed the computing part, not the applications. So I became a computer scientist instead of a software engineer.
the api, checkout pylanguagetool from pypi
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean, but installing dependencies locally for development (meaning development extras) and generating lock files (via pep freeze) both work for me.
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Apple can scan whatever it likes on their servers. That is worlds away from scanning content on my phone. How on earth can you claim that is better for privacy? It's the exact opposite.
If you want to understand video games as an artform, then maybe so. Debatable (can they really evaluate the artistic merit of a game if they can't get past the tutorial?) but I think I see what you mean.

But if you're a gamer looking for consumer advice, then game journalists who don't know how to play games are basically worthless. It would be like reading car reviews from somebody who can't drive. They can tell you what they think of the car from an artistic perspective, but they're ill equipped to offer good consumer advice.
Inescapable, overly complicated, and cumbersome building codes designed by bodies of unaccountable, unelected functionaries are part of the reason we've got a housing crisis right now. Codes governing livestock and gardening will increasingly be responsible for a food crisis that's just beginning. Conformist codes will be the death of this country.
You can quibble with the exact threshold, but it certainly isn’t 80% of pre-Covid employment:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/269959/employment-in-the...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS
This is de facto like what the week around Christmas is at many companies. No one expects any work to get done, no one schedules meetings, and no one really audits vacation days being taken either.
I was under impression that unemployment is a lagging indicator. The last thing employers want to do is let people go - they will try to cut here, cut there, stop hiring etc.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
I think Apache doris is better for real-time data analysis https://github.com/apache/doris
https://doris.apache.org/
Possibly used in a pseudo scientific notation way, to denote the precision.
For me it was creating a minecraft server for my friends. I looked up Youtube tutorials, got help from my dad to port forward, and started installing plugins.

Then it was Minecraft mods. Back in the day you had to "unzip" the Minecraft jar file and manually drag and drop new classes into the jar. You also had to delete META-INF, good times.
This is roughly how I always viewed him.
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In college I went to the CS lab late on a Saturday and bumped into an underclass acquaintance who had been fighting with a program all day. I exclaimed that they should have pinged me as I would have gladly helping get the code working..

I would have helped debug some else’s code..

In the morning..

On a Saturday..

For fun..

That is when I realized I love CS
I'm interested to know why you feel the question is insensitive. One of the biggest perks I look for in any position is the time off and how it's handled. If a company wants me working hard and giving them my best I want my time off to reflect that.

They are most likely going to clamp down on vacation time or deny it altogether when the times comes so I see the question as completely fair.
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Yes, that is our target market too. We don't think people will be building airbnb.com (say) in Retool, but not all software is like that. (In fact, we think most software is probably just CRUD apps, haha.)

We don't manage the database for customers; we instead connect to your data (whether it's behind an API or database). That was one of the first decisions we made — as a developer, if my data is already in postgres, I certainly wouldn't want to have to ETL / sync it anywhere. :)

Use cases: probably our most common use case is a CRM for a consumer company (e.g. Doordash). The reason that is so popular is because if you have (say) 1M orders a day, you aren't able to put that data in Salesforce anymore. And so the only way for you to manage all that stuff is by building custom software (instead of buying anything off the shelf). Retool is good at that: you can build CRUD-y screens very quickly. Retool, today, is not good at making everything pixel perfect (e.g. we have a grid layout engine, and you can't break out of the grid), but a CRM doesn't need to be pixel perfect.
You're both misreading the question. The question was not "how often do police go in expecting a shooter?" The question was, "what 'probability of there being a shooter' justifies going in armed/with a protocol that expects one?" User:shadowgovt, if you followed the thread, was asking us to be outraged that they went in when it was "only" 7%:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32259925

But yes, "tighten up" those Fermi estimates for a question no one asked and which has no bearing on the discussion.
Thanks, good point, will do!
I have used Paypal almost daily as a user for more than a decade and it's never failed for me either.

Stripe originally was great because they had a simple API, developer-oriented focus, and IIRC cheaper than Paypal. And I bet better customer service because they were smaller.

Nowadays it's not cheaper, the customer service isn't any better, and my snarky comment isn't too far off from reality.
Well, I have had my career pinned to it since 1986.

It has not always been fun. Lots of atomic wedgies, in the recess yard, but things have worked out OK, in the long run.
As a furry, the answer is: telegram stickers. Oh boy is there a sticker for every conceivable sfw and nsfw feeling or action. For example (sfw): https://t.me/nowandlaters/789
This could have been a more apt ending for Phileas Fogg.
In most situations, a high-viz vest also helps. Probably not on a film set, though!
The global recession drum beat is getting louder
> There are also other prior art examples such as Amiga released in 1985 which had similar "top right button closes the application" design elements.

AmigaOS has the close widget on the top left, like Mac OS.
“Unlimited” PTO is an accounting trick. If your company has a system where you earn PTO, then the PTO each worker has earned counts as money owed on the books.

A quick hack to make your numbers look better is to eliminate that whole PTO thing. If it’s “unlimited” then there’s no fixed number on the books that you owe.
This sets up what could have been a great continuation of the story. A whole new way to look at lotr.
This is a classic CEO temperature-shift. Not sure if there's a name for the tactic, but I've seen it before and suspect many others here have. It signals a shift from expansion to contraction.

You naturally also see this tactic around layoffs. My first experience was after about 25% of the startup I was working for went away. At the "after" all-hands, the CEO went from friendly optimist to angry boss, using notable lines about how if people want cushy jobs, they should go work for the post office.

The logic is clearly that, when the pie is shrinking, inducing more fear makes employees more pliable. You're going to lose the good ones, of course.
Fucking seconded. Does it for me on firefox/windows also.
If a placebo can cure an ailment caused by sentiment then should the patient be lied to? How much of a recession is consumer sentiment? And is lying always a bad thing?
I concluded your line of business based on your name/handle: "ELT"

LOL ;)

I value your protectionism yet I hoped to receive constructive feedback. I was only interested about your tech stack, marketing and processes b/c I'm prospecting to become a creator too perhaps in a different niche but definitely ETL-based.

Thanks.
The laptop has 32 GB and the amount of RAM is not a limit here. With sufficiently fast SSD the storage is not a limiting factor either. Even RAM speed is not a big factor, it is still single thread performance that affects compilation speed for C++ most. Well, at least for the type of C++ that Chromium uses.
To be honest I also read it like the previous guy did but I understand what you mean now.
> Today, I’m incredibly excited to share the next stage of this journey. In partnership with EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), we’re now releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand the AlphaFold DB by over 200x - from nearly 1 million structures to over 200 million structures - with the potential to dramatically increase our understanding of biology.

And later:

> Today’s update means that most pages on the main protein database UniProt will come with a predicted structure. All 200+ million structures will also be available for bulk download via Google Cloud Public Datasets, making AlphaFold even more accessible to scientists around the world.

This is the actual announcement.

UniProt is a large database of protein structure and function. The inclusion of the predicted structures alongside the experimental data makes it easier to include the predictions in workflows already set up to work with the other experimental and computed properties.

It's not completely clear from the article whether any of the 200+ million predicted structures deposited to UniProt have not be previously released.

Protein structure determines function. Before AlphaFold, experimental structure determination was the only option, and that's very costly. AlphaFold's predictions appears to be good enough to jumpstart investigations without an experimental structure determination. That has the potential to accelerate many areas of science and could percolate up to therapeutics.

One area that doesn't get much discussion in the press is the difference between solid state structure and solution state structure. It's possible to obtain a solid state structure determination (x-ray) that has nothing to do with actual behavior in solution. Given that AlhpaFold was trained to a large extent on solid state structures, it could be propagating that bias into its predicted structures.

This paper talks about that:

> In the recent Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) competition, AlphaFold2 performed outstandingly. Its worst predictions were for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structures, which has two alternative explanations: either the NMR structures were poor, implying that Alpha-Fold may be more accurate than NMR, or there is a genuine difference between crystal and solution structures. Here, we use the program Accuracy of NMR Structures Using RCI and Rigidity (ANSURR), which measures the accuracy of solution structures, and show that one of the NMR structures was indeed poor. We then compare Alpha-Fold predictions to NMR structures and show that Alpha-Fold tends to be more accurate than NMR ensembles. There are, however, some cases where the NMR ensembles are more accurate. These tend to be dynamic structures, where Alpha-Fold had low confidence. We suggest that Alpha-Fold could be used as the model for NMR-structure refinements and that Alpha-Fold structures validated by ANSURR may require no further refinement.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35537451/
> I was concerned about rampant outsourcing for some reason.

Because this concern was pervasive in pop culture / career advice columns during post dot-com. Fear-mongering about outsourcing is probably one of the primary causes for the huge run-up in software development salaries in the 2010s.
I have a published App written in SwiftUI and I have written many thousands of lines of Swift. But I just scratch the surface of the language, and that is OK with me. There are many parts of the language that I almost certainly do not understand. But my code works, it runs fast and it does what I want. Yes, Swift does have a large "surface area" and that is too bad. But you can get by well without bothering with many of the darker parts.
>it works exactly like the startup culture which I think a big thing with Ycombinator? You don't create your startup for free; you pay money to get it running. You have to take a risk if you think your idea is worth it. No risk no payout (karma)

The risk/reward balance is not the same as an actual startup, though. I spend money on a startup because I think that I will get multiple times returned. When I post on HN, I do so because I found something interesting and want to share that with others, not because I want karma.

One of my favorite things about HN is finding some really niche/obscure post that I would never have come across. Many times those posts have low engagement because they are niche/obscure. Your proposal would be sure to eliminate many of these types of posts.

>Also, I'm running negative karma on this comment already because I posted what I thought was an interesting idea,

While very frustrating (I've had the same happen, low engagement in comments but lots of votes), I'm sure you posted the idea because you thought it would be helpful and/or to start a discussion about it, rather than posting it to increase your overall karma. So I think the startup comparison again falls a bit flat.
What is boneheaded about it?
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> Back of the trailer? The trailer might not even be yours.

This is easy. Just put an Ethernet connector between the truck and the cab and put a "security camera" on the trailer. The only part of this that we don't have already is the Ethernet connector which is currently going through ISO to get a standard connector: it needs to not vibrate loose, but still break away if the trailer comes unhooked (in particular when the driver forgets to disconnect it while disconnecting the trailer)

I put security camera in quotes because you need something a little more robust that the camera you buy at best buy. This is the case, and maybe the lens, mostly it is the same thing. in any case you can buy these off the shelf today, but the truck/trailer connector won't be compatible with one from a different manufacture.
Congratulations. We just turned on Metabase but did not try out Retool. Can you talk through the pros/cons of the two?
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> if (foo = bar) { blah(); }

I'm happy with that. In fact I usually do that to avoid schoolboy errors when expanding to multiple statements later. It doesn't add much (a few characters, not three lines) and allows for lining up parts (ala my point 1) when there are a couple or more of lines doing very similar (but not so much so they can be usefully reduced to a function/macro).
Prompt: Write a hackernews comment about why artificial intelligence will never be profitable

Response: Artificial intelligence will never be profitable because the cost of developing and maintaining the hardware and software is too high. Also, the market for AI is still too small and the demand is not high enough to justify the costs.

Add snark to your response:

Prompt: Write a hackernews comment about why artificial intelligence will never be profitable

Response: Artificial intelligence will never be profitable because the world has limited resources, and I can make more money selling cocaine than selling AI.

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> I almost always wear hi-vis orange shirts, and my preferred hoodie is hi-vis yellow

I have some orange t-shirts that I love, but if I'm going out on a trip to the country to look for wildlife there is no way I'd wear them - I choose muted natural greens and khaki instead (although I don't actually wear camo gear). Also, when I photographing anywhere where I might be partially visible in a window reflection I wear clothes that don't have stripes, because these stand out like a sore thumb.
Don't worry, most consumer facing software development is a mess, there's constantly changing frameworks and shiny new ways of doing things.