skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi everyone! My comrades and I have released the PyTorch-based library for representation learning named OpenMetricLearning. I kindly ask you to support them by putting a star on GitHub: https://github.com/OML-Team/open-metric-learning!

OML is a great choice when you want to extract features from the images for further clustering, searching and so on. OML provides a ready-to-use zoo of the models pre-trained in a Self-Supervised way (CLIP, DINO, MoCo) and the pipeline for training / finetuning models on your data.

The training part is built around different variations of triplet loss with various strategies of sampling batches, mining triplets and using memory banks. The validation part measures retrieval-like metrics when you use a subset of the data as the searching queries and the rest as a searching index (gallery).

You can use OML dealing with Python objects or as a non-code solution when you only prepare data in the needed format and write the config file.

We support multi-GPU setup, provide a set of examples on public datasets, well-made documentation and FAQ.
Somewhat related: one of my favorite anecdotes is that early V2-style rocket used a water/ethanol mix as fuel. Yep, these rockets ran on vodka, and as some point they had to put an additive to deter the crew from drinking the fuel.
> Eh. You might not fit it, but I really like that role. I don't want to be out of technical conversations and I don't love reports, but I do really like facilitating a path forward.

I'm not suggesting that the role isn't helpful or that some people wouldn't like it.

This is the problem:

> At the moment I'm working outside of an engineering function,

If the company needs a firefighting cross-team manager, get a firefighting cross-team manager and empower them accordingly.

But hiring Staff Engineers to combat management dysfunction is a misunderstanding of the Staff Engineer role.
BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy more safely
Employer pays into UI while you're employed, not after.
You guys talk about Biden like he's running the show. You've seen him lately, right?
Does it include the images or it’s just the text?
Hugely helpful. Thank you.
We (the Tories) also privatised North sea oil and gas, giving it away for peanuts, and that chicken has now come home to roost.
That oil and gas sector is still reliant on international gas prices, since it's a global market. I'm not sure if it's even possible for a single country to commandeer its fossil fuel production for own use without sparking a few international conflicts.
Looking at the new videos related to the upcoming Quest Pro that will be announced next week, the simulavr guys are dead wrong.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AR_MR_XR/comments/xwjzni/meta_quest...
I'm not sure if I'd name them "the politician", because I think they are not doing the harm consciously, but I've met several of them. Pair it with the "CV builder" ,that just throws new technologies at problems to add them to their CVs, and now your codebase is a minefield.
They're using Fibonacci versioning
>A typical nuclear power plant is built with a little over one square mile to operate to reduce radiation risk, with the core itself being 30 ft x 30 ft. Memmott’s molten salt nuclear reactor is 4 ft x 7ft, and because there is no risk of a meltdown there is no need for a similar large zone surrounding it. This small reactor can produce enough energy to power 1000 American homes. The research team said everything needed to run this reactor is designed to fit onto a 40-foot truck bed; meaning this reactor can make power accessible to even very remote places.

Sounds too good to be true! Wonderful news
Distributed client-side edge cache.
If he had invented sprints before inventing computing devices he would have been able to more readily deliver shareholder value.
Since we're being anecdotal: I think that claim is jaded and angry, and makes me wonder what kinds of companies people have worked at. Honestly, I've only encountered this once or twice, and I've been a career engineer since 1989 at places like IBM, Intel, and Microsoft. Dozens of positions and groups, and I've never had to play politics. Maybe I've just worked at "good" companies (irony noted), but in my experience it was less about politics and more about getting shit done, and if you failed to get shit done, you were alerted to that very quickly. If you did get shit done, and got it done well, you got promoted, and were given even more shit to get done. Upper management at those big three had their game tight.
My favorite part of this article is the liberal, and completely unironic scattering of the term 'OMG'.
Actually not for a while. But most people know. If you want to review. "Research" https://createtargetaudience.com/blog/
Tell me you've never functioned as a Staff Engineer without telling me...

More seriously, please listen to what every other prominent staff+ engineer here, in blogs, on Twitter, even within FB, etc. has to say about the job. There are a great many takes, but by far the most common thread is that the most important part of the role is almost never about code. Many complain about not having time/energy to code any more. The whole point of having this as a role/title is to give leverage to those who have proven they can use it for the good of the organization. That means maximizing the ratio of effect to code written, by themselves or anyone else, and there are a great many ways to do that. "Code is all" is the hallmark of the very junior engineer who hasn't finished climbing that first rung yet - a very important rung, yes, but still only one of many. TBH it comes across as something between sour grapes and Tall Poppy Syndrome.
Having access to a cluster certainly beats having a local workstation imo. Why settle for 1 node when you can have many?
National parks across the country, too.
We are building a new technology for SaaS businesses Hypergrowth.

It's a 2-in-1 solution for both sales & support.

We will eventually help you fix 2 major problems:

* High traffic with low conversion
* High customer churn

You will just have to embedd a live video chat widget on your website and get into live demos (with screen sharing) with your visitors through reactive or proactive calls based on your visitors highest intent to buy (visiting pricing page for example)

Sales will engage with visitors instead of making cold calls and they will turn MQL to SQL in minutes not days.

On the other hand, you can also use the video chat + cobrowsing capabilities to engage with your free users during onboarding and convert them to paid customers which will reduce your onboarding friction.

And finally support team will also have the possibility to provide instant live support with cobrowsing and session takeovers so you can reduce your churn.

In addition, we are also working on an AI Transcription feature so your agents can focus on their interlocutor, and get an automatic meeting report to integrate in their CRM or support software.

Finally, we will also make a feature for group live chat on websites and software, so that you can host live webinars with both your visitors and users.

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Still, it will set an example for the blue states to follow. That's something at least. Red states would probably be less likely to do this just based on where the example is coming from. It's progress of a sort in undoing a grave injustice.
Oh yes. When I was a kid, my dad did this to me constantly.

I’m neurodivergent and he was completely wrong most of the time. I did not have an ideal childhood.
This thread and memories made me tear up.

BBC micro and econet were amazingly hackable and still have fond memories.

Bruteus you in this thread? It’s Apollo here!

(Bruteus and Apollo fucking owned our econet. Until we got suspended and banned of course. Hard to emphasize how scared of computers and our superior ability with them our teachers were).
Would you encourage your children to go into a homebuilding trade? Which is the kind of question I think about when I wonder who is supposed to build all the houses.
"I'd rather we just not arrange valuable artwork like sculptures where tourists can easily damage or even touch them."

Interestingly, to quote the article itself:

"Mountain Butorac, who leads pilgrimages to the Vatican and who often visits the Museo Chiaramonti, said: 'One of the beautiful things is that it allows the visitors to get literally face to face with these ancient sculptures. My fear is that with behavior like this, barriers could be put in place.'"
No longer legally considered to have been convicted of a crime.
I saw that too. What’s the justification for such a carve out?
You could use ssh to connect to the workstation and do all your work there, preserving state.
Thanks nocoderefe3, you can follow me
*lives.
Light-Switch-AI: The world's most needlessly intelligent light switch
Anything like that is better than nothing, for sure. Personally, we already have various critical equipment on UPS.

Having to work out what is protected and for how long gets old pretty quickly, though. So do alarms going off in one room or another if the mains supply cuts out in the middle of the night, when everyone is (was) probably sleeping anyway. Or occasionally annoyances like waking up to find a big job scheduled to run overnight hasn’t actually run because the system that should have run it executed a controlled power-down after an earlier power outage instead.

In contrast, a relatively large but domestic-scale battery system can easily store 10kWh or more of usable energy these days and provide it to anywhere in the building. That’s enough to run most of our house for 24h, as long as we avoid using very high consumption devices for extended periods or running too many of them at once with peak consumption levels higher than the equipment supports — a huge upgrade compared to the small-scale alternatives.
And yet, nobody makes bare-copper ethernet cables...
0 discussion of decentralized digital identity or anything related to the article. Not even meaningful criticism.
It's not suspect, it's politics. Giving your constituents what they are asking for is the name of the game. Timing it to maximize your chances for re-election is good politics. Hard to imagine it could be any other way in our current system.
Rockwell peaked at a similar time frame & then exploded into a 1000 tiny pieces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_International#Apex_an...

Some are in fact successful companies to this day.
I was thinking the same thing.

If you're into this stuff I can highly recommend this book. Tons of fun anecdotes.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/348190.Red_Moon_Risin...
Mozilla had some interesting archetypes. I only recall two because I didn't work there, but they were Wizard and True Believer. They all seemed to be more apt archetypes than standard job progression ladders because they allowed for more diversity than just 'manager' and 'technical' paths. I applaud the attempts even if they do seem a tad cringy.
I think this is the important point: some criteria are more important than others in that the societal reactions when one or another criterion is violated are not equal and could engender different outcomes.

If approval voting reduces to bullet voting in heated contests, I don't see that as very bad: to put it crudely, it's just the cost of doing business with that particular voting method, but there's nothing to say the results are compromised as a result. What would be way, way more troubling for the general public is being able to say "but that candidate was the clear favorite, why did the runner-up get the seat?" after the votes are counted. RCV has real, provable problems that will (and have!) create social unrest and a skepticism of the election's results when something like the monotonicity criterion is violated, not to mention the spoiler effect is not completely eliminated under RCV.

Further I believe bounded rationality can be applied here and very many people would still take the approach of filling in more than one bubble even in "strategic" settings, because people aren't perfect rational utility-maximizing agents, and anyway I don't see an acute disadvantage of using approval voting if that's the biggest gripe people seem to have about it.

In short: think of elections in a more 21st-century-Nobel-winner sense, not in a rote 20th-century-econ-professor sense.
that was awesome
The paragraphs relevant to the title:

> But work on ‘Object D’ had been repeatedly delayed; as a result, the launch date had now slipped to April 1958. Fearing the Americans would soon launch again and steal the USSR’s glory, Korolev decided to push his luck: he ordered Object D, ready or not, delivered to his launch site immediately.

> That’s where our driver comes in. The Ministry of Defence Industry’s facility, glad to be rid of the bulky and troublesome package, assigned a truck driver to deliver it to the airport. Rocket engineer Boris Chertok recalls the drunken man driving “like a maniac”, unaware of the precision instruments aboard, and finally crashing into a tree.

> When Korolev finally laid his eyes on the bulky satellite, he was incandescent with rage. It was too big, too complicated and, now, too damaged. One of his engineers, Mikhail Tikhonravov, suggested they instead fly a radio beacon: a simpler, smaller package with just antennas and a transmitter, weighing much less. Then they could beat the Americans.

Who knows, maybe they were stuck in institutional thinking. The deliverable was stupid and not workable, but no one dared to say "We need to scrap this and start from the beginning.". Only when it was totally wrecked did they have a chance to do so.
That wouldn't be a big deal. Not as many people own iPhones outside the US.
small but important correction...

> However, when society industrialised, a rigid, five-day, 40-hour workweek arose in factory settings

ummm... no. More like the 6 day 16 hour per day work-week arose in factory settings.

The five-day, 40-hour workweek was fought and died for by the labor movement.
Can't speak about Apple devices but there's more than enough tinkering available on Android.
My god this is dumb. Seriously? Who believes this clickbait bs?
Yes, with images but only english

All possible dumps:
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/
This was a great read. I think there may be a 5th archetype for individuals who help enable others with “glue” work. This work can easily go unnoticed, but can have a dramatic impact on individual and team productivity.
AFAICT, the author nowhere advises anyone to call themselves by the archetype names, nor do I have reason to think that it was their intent for the reader to do so.
I looked into this a few years ago and it was pretty rough. There are free platforms like YouTube, then there are extremely expensive options. The least expensive of the expensive options I found was just digital ocean, but I found playback didn’t work under a vpn

Let us know what you find
Great, thanks. Are they open-source (or are you aware of anything open-source that does something similar)?
4% given a Fed prison pop of "151,283 at yearend 2020."

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/federal-prisoner-st...
Citizens and permanent residents. I wish this was extended to any person charged in the US (tourists, work permits etc).
The natives were NIMBYs too, but the YIYBY settlers were more numerous and better armed.
Even if it's pandering for midterms it's refreshing to get some bones thrown at us.
that’s one way, yes, but it relies on DNSLB, which necessitates shorter TTLs, which means more round trips to DNS.

the smooth way to do this (how Google and others do it, the big boys) is via Anycast routing, where you are IP-routed to the nearest available node (I.e. all nodes globally share an external IP identity and so DNS is not driving LB or routing).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast

edit: i should say, DNSLB needs shorter TTLs, lots of monitoring, and you're already in reactive mode, but otherwise it is a great solution.
I don't think this is reliable. I've only met a handful of people in my own life who are able to actually report their state of mind without mixing in judgements about why they feel a certain way. In other words, people who can resist the influence of their emotions long enough to describe them.

Most people I've met are always indicating in various ways the degree to which they are at the mercy of their own feelings.
We had the same reporting up here in Canada. The president doesn't have a power to pardon state offenders but he urged state governors to mirror the change alongside the formal pardon for federal prisoners.
Welcome to public transport just about everywhere. It's fine if you're a local or a frequent enough traveler to one of the cities where you have an app and/or a contactless card.

A first-time visitor who is jet-lagged and may not speak the language? Sorry you're not our priority--even at the airport.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. In a time when one political party's leading candidates deny we hold fair elections this is huge. Would said political party do even this much? Unlikely.
> How much more “productive” do you think they would be just by being able to import a module in any of the supported languages?

The same language? Maybe a few % considering a client is a small part of what you need to create. A different language? Depends on the comparison. I would be tens to hundreds % more efficient in Haskell then in Go or Python.

> I believe the list for GCP and Azure are about the same. What are the chances that your problem is such a special snowflake that it can’t be solved with one of those languages?

Of course it can be solved in those languages. I can also solve it in Assembly or brainfuck with enough elbow grease. What matters is speed of implementation and correctness. With the exception of Rust all these language have debilitating flaws.

> Which would have more assurances are designed correctly, the one from the vendor or yours? I was able to take advantage of new APIS for one of AWS services the day it was introduced, no need to waste cycles on creating my own wrapper. Creating a wrapper around my cloud providers APIS, “doesn’t make the beer taste better”

> AWS’s SDKs automatically take care of retries, exponential back offs, wrapping the APIs to be idiomatic including logical exceptions being thrown, any underlying changes, etc.

Did you ever try openapi generated clients? They can handle retries and exponential backoffs as well. There is no design to be done here. It just exposes the API as designed.
Slovenia.

I'm saying that stuff used to be eg. 7eur if you either picked it up or ate inside. Then wolt came, and due to wolts taking a percentage of the price, the price was 9 or even 10eur + delivery fee if you ordered on wolt, and because people complained (because the in-restaurant price was still 7eur), they raised the price to 10eur in the restaurant too.
No one is serving prison time for Federal marijuana possession charges. It is however a potential felony with all that entails (eg finding a job, renting a house, voting). So this is positive but there’s two things worth pointing out.

1. The core problem here is America’s scarlet letter system of being a felon. This forever makes you a second class citizen. This system needs to be reformed so that those who have served their time automatically get their record expunged; and

2. Let’s not forget that Biden was one of the chief architects of Bill Clinton’s 1994 crime bill that ushered in this era of mass incarceration and the disastrous “war on drugs”. The 1990s saw the Democratic Party hijacked by neoliberalism, which has been a disaster for working people.
We are happy to wire $1 million tomorrow. I think the scale that might make them care is 10-100x that, if it even is a scale thing.
It's legal, they just won't pay you subsidies for solar panels.
It can be useful in cases where you have Time of Use metering. You can charge your battery in the middle of the day when energy is cheap due to solar overproduction and then draw down the battery in the evening when power is expensive. If you have it tied to solar panels you can even charge the battery with solar and then sell it back to the grid in the evening. In a few places you can even do "peak shaving" where the power company will give you a pretty nice bonus for switching your battery into grid-feed mode when the demand is so high that they are considering turning on expensive peaker plants.

Most people unfortunately can't take advantage of this, but most battery packs are also suitable for off-grid use.
What exactly do you mean when you say it is 'explained by' income?

edit: added '?'
Or they can go to the source material for this clickbait article and read Rockets and People, by Chertok.
It does look like descheduling will be looked into, which would be fantastic
The article is missing lots of detail. They use antibodies to target receptors which are highly expressed by tumors, such as Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).

"Given that the EDV surface is coated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS), single-chain bispecific antibodies were attached to the EDV surface where one arm of the antibody is directed to the O-polysaccharide epitopes and the other arm is directed to a tumour cell surface receptor for example Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) which is found on the surface of over 70% of solid tumours"

and

"The EDVs being 400 nm rapidly fall out of these fenestrations and enter into the tumour microenvironment and since they carry the bispecific antibody on the EDV surface, the anti-EGFR component binds to EGFR on the tumour cell surface. This provokes macropinocytosis and the EDVs are taken into the early endosomes, followed by lysosomes and broken down in these organelles releasing the drug PNU-159682. The drug enters into the tumour cell cytoplasm and the nucleus and intercalates with the chromosomal DNA resulting in tumour cell apoptosis. In the event that a tumour type does not express EGFR for example liver cancer, which expresses asialoglycoprotein, then the bispecific antibody can be changed to anti-asialoglycoprotein while the anti-O-polysaccharide component remains constant. Similarly, HER-2 positive breast cancers can be targeted via anti-HER2/anti-O-polysaccharide bispecific antibody"

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.111...

I don't think this particular therapeutic automatically homes to all cancer cells. However, certain bacteria have been found to home to cancer cells, so maybe that helps too. https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cells-inside...
That was largely true everywhere. It is also still impossible to find a rental car.
It depends on what you are doing throughout the day.

I think you are right that people may likely spend more time working in the end.

We are all different, though.

My ideal situation is to do deep work for 4 hours everyday and focus on the marathon not the dash.
I made a similar thing for the Lex Friedman podcast. It transcribes the audio and runs it through a summarization model. You can then search the entire corpus to find relevant snippets from episodes:

http://lexicon.lol
It was a thing in VA for a while. I the governor had to sign 200k individual orders to restore voting rights to felons. Just a quirk of VA law, though

> McAuliffe, a man known for his irascibility, promised to find a way to restore voting rights anyway, using an autopen to sign individual orders for all 200,000 felons within two weeks.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/virgini...