skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure and I agree with you, except base 16 is binary reducible all the way down which isn't a small thing.

The Imperial or US standard systems of measure rounded the horses on halving in an awkward way because halving is intuitive. 1/2, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 of an inch etc. and it's proven very useful. Splitting a meter into ten is less useful than splitting it in half and that half into half.

Base ten doesn't half indefinitely across units bases.
1000cm, 500cm, 125cm, 62.5cm, 31.25, 15.625, 7.8125, 3.90625, 1.953125, 0.9765625...

4096cm, 2048cm, 1024cm, 512cm, 256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1 (which of course looks a lot better in base 16 notation)

1000, 800, 400, 200, 100, 80, 40, 20, 10, 8, 4, 2, 1

We could have had the best of both worlds. When SI was getting standardized there was a proposal for extra glyphs for base 12 and 16 that would have obviated our overloading of A-F too. Measuring in 1/256 of an inch would have been crazy simple while also getting the other metric goodies, IMO.
I think the biggest thing killing malls is parking requirements. When there's a quarter mile of parking lots in all directions from the main building, it makes it impossible to connect to the rest of the city without a bus system.
Medical journals broaden inquiry into potential heart research misconduct
> If you sit on knowledge we do not have I suggest you share it.

There's a reason that Swedish study is unknown outside of antivaxxer circles and it's largely to do with it being scientifically incompetent and published in a journal with zero standards. Best of luck to you in whatever it is you think you're doing though!
I suspect this project is not quite as cool as sex on the beach.
Are entirely sure you think it's okay to "march a bunch of military-state personnel into multiple public spaces across the country [edit: multiple countries], under the protection of the police and with the consent of multiple international media outlets"?

To be frank, it seems the onus is on you to explain your position. My explanation here and in other comments seems fairly clear: I find bald-faced elitism supported by the state, church, government and opposition, police, and media to be worrying. You may say that's just my "opinion", but I have explained my position.
I have several 'home-cooked' apps. One is our shopping list. I have a Pi with a touchscreen in the kitchen running it, and it's easy for us both to add to from there. I also built in functionality so that if we're using a recipe from the web, we can share it to the screen, which is neat.

We can also access the shopping list on our phones while shopping. I built a feature that sorts the products by aisle (specific to our local supermarket), making it easier to do the shop easily/quickly.

I'm sure there are commercial (not even paid neccessarily) apps that do all this, but this one is used only by us and it's built to perfectly interact with our lives and circumstances:

* Things are hard-coded that would make no sense in a publicly available app, or would be very difficult to build customisation for. Hardcoding things is easy, building UI is hard. We're so used to building things in the commercial space for scale we forget how easy it is to build small things that will never need to scale beyond a userbase of 1-2.

* It has remained almost entirely unchanged in UI and features for ~10 years now. Can you say that of any other piece of software you use on a daily basis?
I'll take your bet.

First of all, the difference between threads is not nearly as severe as the difference between (remote) machines. There is an analogy to be made, but that's all it is - an analogy. Most applications don't care about nitty gritty thread-management performance.

Second, people said all that shit about network calls and yet... here we live in the age of distributed computing and it keeps getting more distributed. It's rapidly getting to the point where remote boundaries are something you consider as an optimization step. Most boring old business applications are "fast enough" even though the XyzService lives on another machine.
> Please don't tell me there are political camps in FP now.

Nope. Well, politics is pervasive because politics is just the word we have to describe how people in groups interact. I'll summarize the situation:

There's a very small minority of prominent Scala people that are fine giving space and a platform in the community to people that are known white supremacists. [1] It's unfortunate that they're decided to inject their brand of politics into the Scala community. The community has had to respond by adopting codes of conduct that compel members to act with basic decency and morality.

[1] http://meta.plasm.us/posts/2020/07/25/response-to-john-de-go...
My impression was that MLID does a pretty good job of vetting his leaks.

That said, yesterday I came across some subreddit where the consensus was that MLID is very unreliable. So I guess I'll just need to see how this plays out.

Still, I notice that Raja's tweeted response doesn't clearly reject the rumor. That seems suspicious to me.
> Such an obvious difference can only not be self-evident to someone who is incapable of understanding that things can vary by degree instead of by category.

I'm sorry, but I'm asking how and why the number of people suddenly flips the switch to propaganda and all I'm seeing is a flippant dismissal from you.

It's my stance that it is not the number of people who see it that dictates that it's propaganda, and that the definition supplied fails to meet any real criteria for propaganda.

This isn't a binary bias, I'm not asking "is it or is it not?" I'm asking someone _why_ they think it's propaganda.

I find your response reductionist, and the appeal for downvotes snarky. I'll let citations of your own comments stand on its own merit.
That's more of an american thing than a western thing.
The money quote from the article - and it is so well put - is :

"Over time, the total number of floppy users has gone down. However, the number of people who provided the product went down even faster. If you look at those two curves, you see that there is a growing market share for the last man standing in the business, and that man is me."

My floppy story is: In the late 90s 3.5" floppies were ubiquitous and the Zip disk was the new kid on the block. 5.25" was a thing of the past and I'd never ever seen a 8" floppy and I did not expect to see one either.

This was until I interned at a Siemens research lab where they still had 8" floppies. Why? Because the room-sized, several floors below ground housed electron microscopes used them.
Targeting a compiler with poor language support?
...and, OT(?), your sleep quality will be really, really fucked up. Same with lights.
I was hired by Amazon (2008)
It is about as specific as the product.
We made a search to discover the best of anything
Hi HN!

My name is Tyler, and I'm the founder of Bestlist.com. We're building a search engine that is focused on helping you find the best of anything.

For each search, we crawl the web and collect data, we measure sentiment from social media, and analyze various ratings, before compiling our list of results.

We're still in the early stages, and our results are not perfect, but we think things are looking promising.

In the future, we hope to personalize results for our users based on their search history. For example, if I search for "best gluten free beer" and "best gluten free pizza", and then turn around and search "best restaurants near me," it would make sense to show restaurants with gluten free options, right? This is a longer term goal and we know it's not going to be easy to get right, but we think it can be an amazing feature.

We'd love to hear your feedback.

Thanks so much,
Tyler
I don't know much about both, but xplane is developed by private developer, he even made video how he fought against patent trolls: https://youtu.be/sG9UMMq2dz4
Oh damn, I used to love Tap Tap Revenge. In fact, I still keep an old iPhone around to play it and a few other games from back then.
I work at a company where all of our services have stupid Greek code names. It adds a layer of obscurity, increases the cost of onboarding devs and context switching, etc. It's a goddamn stupid idea.

The author here is equivocating opaque code names with multi-use repos. They're saying "see!? some repos on github do things in addition to their literal name."

That has nothing to do with the fact that obscure code names are a stupid anti-pattern.
The government will do something as soon as the members of government are satisfied and done with growing their factory... Any day now...
Mass DNA Collection in the Tibet Autonomous Region from 2016–2022
The difference between 10 years of experience and 1 year of experience 10 times
Minecraft is slower on the switch than an android device though its most noticeable when on the market place once the game is loaded its not much different
On personal computer:
One window with Youtube for entertainment.
One window with a different youtube account for serious research (Different account as to not poision the recommendation feeds to much with cross polination)
One Window with Imgur, Hackernews, Digg, and a few news aggregation sites.
One Window with Discord,

On Work Computer
Then one Work window with documentation.
And one Work window for Case management.
One Work window for internal techtools.
And one window for hacker news and digg.
Idk - it was absurd when he used twitter so much, it was absurd when Tesla started trading like a penny stock with 50bn market cap moves in hours, there’s been a lot of absurdities that are just outside of the hard fast rules that this would fit a pattern
Those sorts of java runtime errors largely depend on programmers' insistence on doing things via reflection, and it will be the same in any programming language: Like most drugs, at first reflection seems you've opened a new door into enlightenment, until eventually you find yourself sleeping in a gutter with half your teeth missing and wondering why it didn't work out as expected. A lot of Java open source is addicted to this stuff.

Scala just adds more drugs to the cocktail.
It's really not hard to find evidence of twitter security fuck ups. Multiple Saudi nationals have given up dissident information to the saudi government because of their access to twitter's internal geolocation tools. One of them fled the country after twitter told him the FBI was investigating him. Twitter practically forced everyone to give them their phone number and then leaked the numbers. The list goes on.
I'm not going to try to explain why developing and maintaining tooling takes resources.

However, a few things:

- Lightbend isn't involved in Scala 3.

- Martin Odersky has taught students for decades and knows how to make Scala more accessible. He wasn't afraid of stirring controversy with new keywords and the brace-free syntax. He also has enough industry experience and connections to realize what matters for the ecosystem in the long run. Server middleware and big data frameworks are the perfect fit for Scala on the JVM. There's no evidence for some kind of missed opportunity between Android and Scala.

- Scala's standard library is rich, heavy, focused on immutability, and not always interoperable with Java's. Kotlin's standard library is very small and heavily inlined in comparison. On a mobile platform, this matters.
I miss the tingle felt in the elbow when inserting a floppy in Amiga 500.

Or who am I kidding, I still use my A500 so I can't really say I miss it.
Those aren’t nouns, are they? It is that a gap in my English?
SCO Xenix was every bit as bad, and yes, I did the Slackware "download floppy images, make a stack of floppies, spend hours installing" dance as well. I remember being very relieved by the rise of CD-ROM and CD-R.
Show HN: Ratus – RESTful asynchronous task queue server
Another common reason is when you get new manager(s) and they don't respect the insight which "All the superstars at my current company have been here for a while" have.

Often the superstars are just normal people who really knows the business well and therefore what makes sense to implement and what should be skipped.

When you earn enough money for a decent lifestyle, then I think this becomes the major reason for a lot of people to jump ship: you join a company but leave a manager. https://getlighthouse.com/blog/people-leave-managers-not-com...
Hey sorry, it running poorly is the only way I wont get addicted to this. Is there any chance you could edit your comment and lie for me?
Python is also an easy to learn language, and you'll likely make correct programs quickly. Idiomatic Python, though, is a longer road. You won't feel confident to open source your code for months.
Because politicians care about farmers.

It's a perfect proxy to fight for software freedom and Right-to-repair, because it mobilizes legislators from nebraska and other non-technical folks to speak up about issues that us programmers and techies have been harping about for decades.
> there would have to be some kind of structural equivalence in their most basic parts.

Of course there doesn't have to be such an equivalence and I didn't whatn to imply one.
What I did what to imply though was that unless there is some relationship between NNs and the brain there is no meaningful way to translate results from one to the other.
And currently, AFAIK, we do not have a good "dictionary" for that. Something like what RandomBK has mentioned is still missing.

That being said I would also like to see more NN/brain relationship discusssions.
Currently the discussions are really at a super basic level, there were a number of papers out there whether "the brain" does backpropoagation, which was pretty useless science because, again, the brain was modelled in a pretty crudenway.
(The literature is huge and I don't claim being omniscient, so perhaps there is something out already there.)
You can setup the tailwind config to use CSS variables. That way you can have “text-primary” use a CSS variable that can be easily changed.
Ask HN: ML-Experts) How Did Transformers Improve Your Computer Vision Task
Hi all, I try to keep up to date with all the ML/ANN tech and of course Transformers/Attention as we know had a HUGE (from what I can tell) impact on language and (other seq2seq task ?)

I see such great use/papers like FXNET using Fourier transform and other MLP mixer techniques to improve vision task. It would be super interesting to hear from say "Tesla" or other leading self-driving tech companies, how much have Transformers/Attention improve your stack/solution ?

from a layman
I've had to jump into projects with unfamiliar setups and even unfamiliar languages more than a few times, and after a certain point it's all just problem solving. Like I had to fix critical bugs in an orphan rails project with next to no experience with Ruby and it worked somehow.

Are you going to write elegant, idiomatic code in the first week? Of course not. But give the task "make the system do X", 90% of coding is knowing how computers work, and the other 10% is knowing how to search on stack overflow to be able to translate what you want to do into the desired syntax.
Being not hosted on my same tech is one thing, still being self hosted so I can externalize it for a federal implementation is another. Definitely needs to be self hosted for ALL components. :)
Commercial software is mostly to solve real world problems. Real world problems can change very quickly and as such, software changes too.

Sure constantly changing in the complete opposite direction is probably a sign of something wrong, but changes are inevitable and we can’t expect to reinvent the wheel or start a new project as you say when you can potentially reuse what you already have.
masks work, but their end-to-end efficacy is very low, because people would have to wear them perfectly.

there's no point to wearing masks if you go to places where you take it off. people did exactly that and everyone was pikachu surprised that the pandemic was still alive and well.
I'm guessing something to do with Murphy's law
We started to figure this out 12,000+ years ago at the dawn of civilization, when specializations finally show up in the archeological records.

If you want to build a cart you need a woodworker and a couple of blacksmiths feeding your cartwright the proper materials. You’re right that five blacksmiths won’t get the cart built faster, but there’s a whole world of items, including in software, that are composites of anywhere from a handful to a hundred specialties.

I don’t feel like you’ve countered my theory about the need for higher order creation. Someone somewhere had to look at how many musical instruments there were in the world and think, “composer” and “conductor”, which not only gave you a job but suddenly put a bunch of musicians to work.
My interpretation of that clause is it applies to distributing code over a network. The most common example of this is serving javascript to a web browser. I'm pretty sure putting an API in front of a server that happens to run open source software doesn't count as "distribution", which is what we're talking about here with SAAS providers and Akka. If it does, then every site that is backed by servers running linux and not distributing their GPL license to clients is also in violation.
> If they aren't better, why would a farmer care if they're for sale? They could just use the older varieties and not suffer any penalty.

Many farmers use Monsanto out of fear for being sued. Monsanto has license agreements in place that permit them to sue farmers that use their seeds without permission. This means that if your neighboring farmer uses Monsanto seeds and some of the seeds blow onto your land and cross-pollinate, you're now violating Monsanto's patents. They've sued farmers for millions over this[0].

> Oh, and why are terminator seeds (which Monsanto never sold) any worse than hybrid seeds, which don't breed true and effectively can't be replanted?

Like I said, Monsanto couldn't prove that terminator seeds wouldn't cross-pollinate with other varieties, which could've triggered a mass-starvation event unlike anything we've ever seen. It's crazy to see people defending this kind of behavior.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto...
What about "quiet firing" - when a company only pays you what they are contracted to pay you and no more? Why isn't this a bigger thing? /s But seriously, if a company wants more work, they should pay more. Employees shouldn't go above and beyond unless their company is doing the same for them.
My mom has many boxes from her long career programming for mainframes. She uses them for todo lists... for herself now, not a computer.
https://www.jasper.ai/ Will generate text based on a prompt (think blog posts, articles).
Same story. I guess it's pretty common.

What's odd is I used DD floppies, not HD floppies, because my only computer at home was an Amiga.
Highly recommend checking out KEDA (https://keda.sh/) which leverages HPAs under the hood.

If you need to scale based on some internal data like database records, Redis queues, Kafka topics, etc. KEDA scalers are incredibly easy to hook up to do that. You could even write your own custom scaler if there is no existing one for your type of event data source.
If Ben Franklin decided that he didn't want to spend his ink publishing someone's newspaper column, who would have forced him to reverse his ban?
> brainstorm how better to monetize loot boxes.

(some exec) I know! NFTs and the blockchain!
The person you asked is probably going to reply with a comment about the frequency of mutations being so high that no two variants are the same and so there would be no immunity between them, in the same way you can get the flu twice.

The problem with this argument is that it applies equally to a vaccine that targets a single variant of the disease (never mind one that isn't even circulating anymore).
I noticed that performance issues arise from having large groups of biters attacking. Something with the pathing for the enemies uses a huge about of CPU
15 months seems pretty dire imo. The CTO should probably be spending time figuring out what's going wrong. Recruiting with only 15 months of runway feels like they're trying to distract themselves from other fires. This is especially true given the other details provided (not actually hiring, no position).
The point is that politicians shouldn’t be posting their important messages on Twitter, but an official government channel. This was discussed in 2016
If NATO doesn't need nuclear weapons, one more reason to get rid of them. The truth is number of states that endorse nuclear weapons expands as NATO expands, and I see that as a security risk.
Isn't that what you were insinuating?

In any case, I agree with you that FB is in cahoots with the FBI. FB has a ton of juicy information that the FBI would love to get their hands on. But getting back to the topic at hand, this looks like a case of "you scratch our back I'll scratch yours," not government censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story which the FBI would have no incentive to do, especially under Trump. FB wants to remove disinformation from their platform (or at least appear like they're making an effort), and the FBI wants a friendly relationship with FB so they can lean on them for whatever data they need.

I really don't get the arguments that there is government censorship going on when the Hunter Biden laptop story was one of the most widely publicized stories of 2020 available on pretty much every news outlet nationwide.
Seniors are overrated. Principles is where it's at now.
The EE transformer was one of a few devices when it was created. It was not part of a field that had already hundreds of concepts with that same name, including a concept that describes everything that looks like a ML transformer.
Love your Twitter Rules, thanks for sharing. It would be a much more pleasant place if more people followed them. Copying here:

> First: Lift people up. When someone does something even remotely cool, it takes almost no effort to respond (or quote-tweet!) and say as much.
> Second: Stay positive. Nobody is drawn to negative vibes on Twitter.
> Third: Share what you’re doing because people are drawn to other people in motion. They’ll either relate or be inspired.
When I opened it today I felt like I was having a stroke.
I liked the old design - a banner on top with featured articles and a chronic stream of all articles below.
I understand they want to pivot from a news site to a content platform, but I wish there was still at least a way to access their editorial content only in a chronic stream. Because honestly thats the only thing I really wanna read on there. I don't need embedded tweets.
China surpasses U.S. in life expectancy
17 vs 21 in a study of 40K is not statistically significant.
What would the obvious practical value be? It's not so obvious to me, I would rather say "limited practical value"
What kills me is IJ underlines all my sbt files in red.
The context is UPI ... has reached volumes of 10 lakh crore rupees per month

1,000,000 * 10,000,000 => 1E13/mo rupees => $125,000,000,000/mo

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Walmart are all shareholders in the parent company that runs UPI along with some 19 other Indian banks.
My impression of that bit was that the author was saying it may look like a senior engineer is a wizard, but actually it's just experience and it's not magic.
I suspect he learned it in the future.
Yes. I have had edits stay for months.
Well yeah. The vaccine is an inanimate object. I blame my state government and family
Switch to "dark-mode" for everything /s
I find that hilarious because that used to be such a well understood phenomenon that I can't believe no one told him about it.

OTOH, sometimes the best teacher is experience.