skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> want mail order rocket launchers delivered to my doorstep." The state should fear its people, not the other way around, and the best way to ensure that is to give the people the means to put a bullet (or several) into any would-be tyrants.

You should look into France and it's protest culture. When the people are unhappy with the government's action, they go out on the street and protest. Without any weapons, this being a civilized country where violence is only a last resort. And you know what? Governments listen and adapt, even without the fear of direct death.

So i find your premise wrong to begin with. There is no natural right to murder, so i disagree that owning a weapon is a natural right.

And i find it extremely funny that the country that is so proud in their "everyone should be armed so the government is afraid of the people" culture has such shitty dysfunctional governments that act against the people's interests extremely often. Where are the armed uprisings against the Patriot act, civil asset forfeiture, racist abuse, abortion restrictions, failures to combat climate change or wasting money in useless wars abroad? No? When then?
Suspicious Package an Application for Inspecting macOS Installer Packages
> to train a state of the art ASR AI, you need roughly 100x A100 for a month, 100,000+ hours of audio recordings, and math knowledge to find a maximum likelihood path through a logit matrix.

Do you think there is a distinction between the kinds of problems that take some kind of "raw" signal data (audio, images etc) as input, where deep learning approaches appear to be fruitfully applied, and other kinds of problems that appear in many places in business and the public sector where the input space is not some kind of raw signal data but instead tabular data.

I have heard some people argue that the latter kinds of tabular-data style problems can be effectively tackled with a variety of statistical methods, and that deep learning style approaches do not offer an advantage.

Maybe fast.ai is commenting on the latter class of problem.
I completely agree with you on this, my point in my original comment was that Mailchimp doesn't even have this ambiguous and very shifty pretext of it being difficult to handle customer service with a humen response when your users number in the billions. Google has no excuses either at its enormous size and scope, and with annual revenue of $258 billion for 2021 (and a very healthy percentage of that being profits) they could at least make a sincere effort. It is however even less justified in a company like Mailchimp, whose users actively pay for the expectation of decent service and number in the low millions instead of billions.
> It’s IT support for the people doing real work.

This is an appalling perspective. Good MLE skills seem a lot harder to find that good ML ones.
What was India and what has it become?
thanks, good advice, appreciate it.
The equivalent for sedate people like us might be a couple of squats or one push up. If you do it every 30 minutes it has to be maintainable. It could even be walk and get some water. (You get a free squat if you had to stand up, just sit down slowly when you get back)
A password is something you know, but password reset is a bypass for that factor. They could drop the option of password reset and thereby eliminate that vulnerability, but I presume they don't because that would inevitably result in people getting locked out of their accounts.

That's not something fundamental to passwords. It's just that the culture of security in the industry seems to be more willing to lock people out of their account when they lose the factor they have than when they lose the factor they know.
Great illustration of my point... Let's get informed on the choices. Where I live the choices are not binary like you've implied.
:-D OK, then, fair enough!

In which case, I'm impressed. Thanks for the additional context and info.
Well you know.. I guess I'm OG when it comes to naming.
The flaw in your reasoning is that Matrix is like the web, and Element is like a browser. Just as mainstream folks don’t say “go look at my Chrome site”, but are smart enough to say “go look at my website with your web browser”, the same goes for Matrix too.

The only reason this doesn’t happen yet is that Matrix clients like Element are still too geeky, and joe public doesn’t care about the advantages of open decentralised e2ee comms. Our plan to fix that is to transform Element’s UX; hide the decentralisation complexities, and let it punch its own weight againdt the centralised alternatives - https://matrix.org/blog/2022/08/15/the-matrix-summer-special... has more details.

The user would still need to understand it’s talking on an open network though, because that’s what it is. But they don’t need to care that much about it.
Feels like a missing optimization in the navigation software to me.

I'm assuming they already take account of predicted wind?
Entering the world of machine learning is quite the experience. And as any explorer is aware, a compass can occasionally be useful for determining whether you are traveling in the proper direction.

You should use this video's title as a compass even though it says "machine learning roadmap." Investigate it, follow your interest, pick up a new skill, and then put what you've learned to use when determining your next moves.
Investigate it, follow your interest, pick up a new skill, and then put what you've learned to use when determining your next moves.

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHiMN_gy9mk.
Interactive Machine Learning Roadmap - https://dbourke.link/mlmapttps://www.charliewalks.com to read it.
To explain the "copying down a number" reference for those who don't know: When ATC tells you to write down a number they'll give you a phone number you're supposed to call after touch down to explain what the heck you thought you were doing. Being asked down to write down a number means you messed up pretty good.
That means that the upper bound on doing nothing but compiling the stuff is 8s. to which make adds 14s of pure waste. That's a weird situation which seems like having a low probability of being broadly representative.
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Ask HN: Google won't fix my address in maps- I'm lost
First off, this is after trying to edit it in google maps, then when that didn't work, reaching out on maps communities who also couldn't help.

The crux of the issue is that I don't have a street number, but I do have a house name and number. My address is something like:
2 My House Name
My Street Name
Postal Code

That is what it says on the Royal Mail's address checker, the title deed and every other map, except google. The edit I submitted via google maps still says pending a couple of months later and the communities forum doesn't accept that I don't have a street number and so can't/won't help.

The effects of this is that nobody can find my house on google maps which I'm learning that quite a few delivery services use.

Anybody got any hints or suggestions?
appreciate this is good advice, although i think you're probably an outlier.

it's really demoralising to be totally ignored after carefully writing a cover letter.
Whoever wrote that blog post has probably long since moved on to other things....
1. select thing
2. press space
3. get preview of thing
4. come to hackernews
5. make a post complaining about lack of thing previews
6. ????
I suppose these numbers must converge for all three as number of files go up? (And compile time for each file is not negligible.)

I say this because in my use case ninja spends almost all of its time running compiler processes, not resolving deps.
Another day, another vulnerability! Remote attestation can be compromised if the EPID key has been extracted. Noted that all optimized side channel attacks targeting SGX requires root privileges on Linux host. Try VED community version if you intend to protect the Linux kernel:

https://github.com/hardenedvault/ved
With this i can produce beautifully typesetted latex PDF and publish a blogpost, right from my text editor.

https://rtnf.prose.sh/prose-sublime-text-integration

https://rtnf.prose.sh/pandoc-sublime-text-integration
My guess is they use both arms to lift. Perhaps that doesn’t count as enough stimulus to be recorded?
My personal opinion is that the ios-like gesture-based navigation is hands down the best UX I have ever used, so there is that.

Though I dislike the back gesture on android, ios has it better due to not having it in the first place.
thanks, i was thinking of getting into dev or engineering management, but all the positions i see require 5+ years of being an engineering manager.

so i'm a bit of a loss how to make that transition.
Many blackbox methods are made easier if you can make minor changes to the code and recompile.

Eg. Instrumenting memory allocations.
i totally agree with you, there is an increase of dogmatic naivety and a loss of experience and pragmatism in this industry for real.
What was bump.me? Photo sharing is why Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp is insanely popular. Sharing photos is just difficult.

I've had to resort in the past of putting a small web server on the phone, just to get files off it via WIFI. But of course that's clunky.

If peer to peer networking were easier, trustable etc, it could be a real life saver. There's some feature in Google Files that's WIFI sharing, but I haven't tried it.
This is talking about muscle building, but this is basically the same reasoning that is used to explain why gardening and a cycling are really good at extending longevity and increasing health (including mental health), it's something you can do fairly consistently year round and through the week.

So it might not help you have bulging biceps, but any kind of physical movement you can integrate into your daily life is valuable.
I am doing some body weight exercises like this daily. It is to combat chronic fatigue so I need to be very careful not to over do it. I am using a daily tick list and to get a tick for exercise I need to do 10 reps of something. If I am very ill it could be ten shrugs. If I feel super it might be 10 pushups, 20 squats and a pull up.

Following this Laissez faire system has increased my strength. Carrying a 10kg item in the shop feels quite light, and picking up my kid about 40kg is possible now. It is those things I am super happy about.

I am using TRX (aka some rope hanging from the ceiling) and the earths gravity, I don’t need any weights yet. But I have some dogs and kids if I need them :-).
thank you, appreciate the advice.
More important, Apple reviews all new apps going into the App Store. One of the rules is that you're not allowed to request more permissions that what the app actually needs. A loan app requesting all this info would never fly because it won't pass the human review. Also, it would be incredibly hard, if not impossible, to reupload an app that was banned under a different name - they have automated checks for this
And on a linux desktop, EVERY FILE you have is accessible, writeable, sendable over the internet.

Don’t get me wrong, these are very welcome capabilities, but phones are still eons ahead of desktop OSs.
'months' could mean a million months...

Also, Google could just offer a refund for the one customer who started the lawsuit.
Thanks for the clarification, I consider myself fairly well informed about server hardware and had no idea that there were transport methods for NVMe other than PCI Express.
VLC says India blocking site endangers its own citizens
A 3 minute interruption e.g. a phone call risks dropping the context. But if I just step out of my office chair and do some excercises I'm sure I could keep the context in my head while making a few pushups. Since I'm not really distracted perhaps the break can be a thinking break. Some times it's hard to avoid "thinking with your keyboard" and use your head. When I'm stuck on a really hard problem I go for a walk or take a shower or something. I think this could be the same thing.
Any weight you can do 10reps of is unlikely to be near your 1rm max. From my limited experience it's a out 15 percent off.
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For me, Gnome died at 12.
Hush, fair market price would mean that our wonderful brave green world would not be affordable even for richest of us.
Which entirely disqualifies the proposed explanation of the original comment, which considered household income. thus bundling the parents and children's income together.
Yes it is a no brain filter too. They have already rejected me so I don’t have to think about accepting them ;-)

Seriously though I hate shibboleth driven interviews.
Newer Link

https://pdfhost.io/v/y3Y7hzuOJ_stroma
50 times is a bit too much for me, and probably a lot of other people. It leads to mental or cardiovascular fatigue, which is not what I'm after when building muscle/strength. If you're an endurance athlete it would be more appropriate.

When training for muscle size the important thing is to fatigue the muscle itself, which is easier to do with 5-20 reps, maybe 30 at the most if exercising small muscles.

Regarding "low reps", that usually refers to sets of 1-3 reps very close to your maximum potential. Once you go above 5 reps or so, the risk of injury is much lower. There are lots of beginner programs using sets of 5 reps, and people aren't getting injured left and right on those.
Why does an export ban kill the tech?
I find it easier to go to the gym 7 days a week than 2-3 times a week -- there is no decision involved, and no chance to "oh I'll just do it tomorrow".

When I fall off the wagon I can skip a few weeks or months easily though.
I had a huge jolt away from the Bun hype-euphoria when I noticed it won't run Express.

That level of incompatibility is the banner headline not some minor footnote, which is effectively how the bun team decided to communicate that little detail.

If they're going to do things all-over-again...again in the
JS community couldn't they get it right this time and go with speed, stability, compatibility...

Instead of hype and cute mascots?
...what a trip down memory lane. I wrote a program like this in roundabout 2000 for my church when it needed one after replacing their overhead slide projector with a computer-based projector.

I was a high schooler back then. After that came 10 years of formal computer science education and another 12 years of a professional computer science career.

Ironically, out of all the software I wrote in those 22 years, this one might be the one that got the most use, as they held on to it for a very long time.

On one hand, it doesn't exactly speak to how stellar my career has been.

On the other, it shows how easy it was back then, compared to how hard it is now, to find profitable and unserved niche applications for computers. If I had dropped out of school and concentrated on improving and marketing my application back then, my career might have turned out very different. Lots of churches were rolling out computer-based projection screens for the first time back then, so there was a real market opportunity, and it was barely served by anyone.

When I graduated with a Ph.D. 10 years later, all that economic opportunity that motivated my getting into computer science in the first place was seemingly gone as I graduated right into a recession.

Today, I'd give my left nut to be able to carve out an existence reminiscent of a 90s-era indie software developer. Your choices today are pretty much limited to: (1) a pawn in digital platform serfdom (2) a support-function in a corporation (3) meat for the trivial innovation meat grinder.
true.
The reasoning was pomodoro technique to keep the mind/eyes fresh (20-30mins)
+
a time-frame that is enough for the body to restore all the necessary "ingredients
". (> 15-20mins)
> in fact no one does, and everyone really wants to go back to the office.

That's me. I did really want to go back and am back 5 days a week. It's great :)
Simple: because a single entity has responsibility for the entire product. PC's are built out of software from Microsoft, hardware from a random supplier (and probably a contractor who agreed to write a driver in a week), and a assembler/supplier like Dell or Lenovo who go for the lowest margin so can't and won't fix any of the mistakes of the other two parties.
This Bézier primer is really interesting too, one of the best resources if you need to implement anything related to Bézier curves.
https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
Birthday problem analogy comes up when trawling databases, not in single matches. Even in single matches you need to be careful not to apply the maths of combining independent probabilities on things that aren't really independent. As soon as someone starts quoting one-in-billions it is reasonable to fear that they might be trying to pull the "prosecutor's fallacy". Was the article I linked helpful?
It highly depends. I was hired for a small research group that didn't have a product in production. Got hired for programming, was on the table discussing and contributing to research within a couple months without any background in ML.
This has also been described as risk compensation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
> Why?

Because the technology is in good enough shape already to partially replace fossil-fuel-based production - at least in day-time. Some might even claim that it can replace fossil-fuel-based energy production in daytime entirely, and with existing storage tech, perhaps even mostly-replace it in night-time. But the first claim is sufficient and AFAICT pretty much in consensus.

> What do you think, expect or hope this will accomplish?

Significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by burning less coal and natural gas.

Secondary potential goals:

* A motivation to switch to synthesized car fuel / fuel cells / electric.

* Improvement in air quality around where coal-fired plants operate now.
> ... but Racket is dedicated to coding in a console and not to write in a text editor.

I am a bit surprised about this comment. Have you tried `racket-mode` in Emacs?

https://racket-mode.com/
Ask HN: How do I get started to game devevelopment/design?
Hello HN!

I have been a hobbyist programmer for the last 3 years or so, and along the way, I have always wanted to be a game developer/designer.

While I got some small success for myself, most of my games are terrible and not really fun, in terms of concept and gameplay. I don't consider myself a person that good at writing stories (or anything other than programming) and often find my games bland and boring pretty fast.

So, what I'm asking now is some advice. Any game devs here who has gained some success (whether veteran or not), what is your advice for starting game dev? What are your resources and books for learning about game dev and game design?
Someone who can engineer infrastructure, pipelines and fire fight production issues is hard to find, but that’s not the point I was making.

My apologies; It is real work; the point I was making is it’s not ML work, any more than writing a yaml file is ML work.

If you want to write yaml files, any number of possibilities exist.

If you want to work with machine learning, then don’t become a data engineer. The skills are, mostly, not related ML, and more closely aligned with SRE / devops.

It’s not infrastructure and helping build models as you mature and advance: it’s almost literally just infrastructure and fire fighting… in my, limited, 3 years of experience as such.
Permitting for solar has a primary objective of keeping solar expensive.

Solar installations, even when done badly, have an excellent safety record post-install.

And safety issues that they do have are typically related not to the installation but to the manufacturing of the equipment, which is something an inspector can't check anyway.
And that was a great user experience:

Note the scrollbars that indicate where you are in your document/file list. No guessing on how many pages (if any!) there are to go.

Note the edges of the windows that can be clicked on with a mouse with confidence. I don't need to be a 16 year old pro E-sports gamer to hit that 1 pixel edge as in current desktop environments.

Note the clear button UI. You know 1: what part of the UI is a button and 2: if a button is active.

Note the cohesive windows and colors. No mess of different UI toolkits, each with their own buttons, menubar layout and color space.

But then I am not the target audience anymore: The desktop power user is a dying breed. 95% ( * ) of the people in the world view "the internet" via a small screen on their phone and have no interest in running multiple programs at once, managing large amounts of data on file systems, or even running their own PC.

(*) random statistic that I made up.
Not a Linux user, but I heard about the problem OP describe with this usecase: identify a picture of your children in a camera dump with dozen of pictures where the filename are all dsc_1346.jpg. Don't use a dedicated software because it's only for quick sharing.
I migrated my main personal project (a programming language written in C) to Tup recently. So far I love it, it seems to 'just work'. Some highlights:

No need to map header (or other) files to C files. Tup detects when files are read and adds them as implicit dependencies.

Environment variables (that are used) are considered build inputs, so no need to `make clean` when you need a build with debug symbols.

---

Admittedly my project is quite straightforward, but I thoroughly recommend giving Tup a try.
Data Engineer is the outsourced part of what no ML researcher wants to do - a thankless, high-pressure, dead-end job which in no way leads to actually doing ML later - it would pigeon-hole the OP as unfit for real ML.

The best way is to take Stanford Deep Learning courses at SCPD, build a reputation, do real ML work (even if it's not a PhD, it's the same courses Stanford PhDs take).
Two other brilliant posts on Bézier curves (and other 2d/3d curve types):

- Curves and Surfaces by Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/ (His whole site is a treasure trove of incredible explanations!)

- Primer on Bézier Curves: https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
Some proposed changes to the OSM file format / data model, are very much needed IMO.

For discussion about these changes: https://github.com/osmlab/osm-data-model
If that’s ten days of fasting 30 days of substantial calorie deficit should do the same thing.
Fabimycin and Its Activity against Drug-Resistant Gram-Negative Pathogens
Sweden. I have tried both.

The best support i got was when the guy at the authorized service provider told me to take the business across the street since it was both faster and cheaper and the device was out of warranty anyway.
This seems to align a lot with the grease the groove concept (I heard it mentioned earliest by the kettlebell dude, Pavel Tsatsouline, but not sure if he's coined that phrase or not).
You mean to say you can't build a competitive web browser with ~$500 million/year income?

Give me the $500m a year and I'll give it a punt.
What a great resource. Thank you
Ask HN: Best (minimal) customer support software?
Hi HN,

Curious what people's opinions are here on best practices & tools to setup a simple, manageable email support channel (for a SaaS).

There seem to be a million options out there and a lot of bloated/complex software.

Looking to transition away from a simple email client but ideally to a minimal, works-out-of-the-box solution.

Thoughts/experiences?
I think the intent was to look business. If you want to see industrial check out the Panasonic toughbook and toughpad range.

Makes the apple gear look and behave like flowers.
This always happens for government incentives that require a certification of some kind.

Sometimes the workaround is to go on the two day course and get the certification yourself. That's even easier when the course is 'online' and you can just have the video call running while doing your day job.