skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So 90% of the data is unstructured, but 99% of the ML use cases are tabular (structured), where tree based approach can win against DL.

Also, 90% of the structured data is unlabeled. Hence, your calculation should be for "labeled" unstructured data, is this 90%?. I would argue that outside big tech, this is 0.1%.

You competition is not Databricks. Databricks main use case is tabular data (both in the delta lake and in ML). I.e. Databricks compete with snowflake. It tries to be a database. I.e. it tries to get out of the data lake.

I think that your competition is with S3 and R2 from the storage side, and with transformer based models (Hugging face). Correct me if I am wrong, but the whole idea with transformers models is that the training was already done , and you can use small amount of domain specific data? I.e. you do not need a lot of storage?
Interesting, this isn’t the first time I’ve encountered comments feigning ignorance of the meaning of “woke”.

In any case the surrounding threads have copious examples.
Staff engineer at apple discovers gzip
Back in my day, we were waited 15 years for more Star Wars content, then immediately regretted it and asked what we'd been doing with our lives.
non-Western fantasy has so much crossover potential - the mythological history of Africa, Asia, America is so different and so rich, yet untapped for the Western audience. Better extraction of these 'cultural resources' and their subsequent manufacture into high quality cultural products would greatly enrich our collective imaginations. On a diversity & inclusion angle, it would also solve our current challenges of getting better representation on screen, without jarring inconsistencies in the lore
Some day we will look back and marvel at Bitcoin becoming the largest wealth transfer mechanism in history, mostly from poor people to small number of already rich people.
Should we all just tell all platforms that we are under 13? Is that a new iOS setting to stop Meta and Google?
The truth is paywalled but the lies are free (2020)
> Scientists in academia have to write proper ideological statements about how "woke" they are in order to research fluid dynamics.

This isn't new you have always needed to give a good reason why your research should be funded. The funding should be used to progress human knowledge or contribute to your community, save lives etc.

The days of righting "fluid dynamics is cool $500k plz" aren't behind us they simply never existed.
Or just to people losing money who would have lost more had Alameda not bought from them on the way down.
I believe that founder leaving created a big missing out fear in founder and lowers value of shares automatically. When get all from first business it becomes part of you and your identity. You start asking yourself if you are able to come back to the same point with a different idea, if you will make any good at different path and if you not miss out on ability to forever improve product "only you know best in world". Nobody wants to resign from position of best in the world at something & it highjacks you mentally.

The most based thing to do would be leaving company, cashing out and building a better alternative.

But nobody that crazy except few guys like Nodejs, Whatsup guys(if not mistaken), lately Jack.
But sometimes it's forced by circumstances like founder(s) of vk & Telegram.
And you have these serial pump and leave schemes builders as the guy who built Bitshares, Steen, EOS.
It maybe shows that only keeping distance to own creation you keep ability to see it critically, notice flaws & point where you can't improve it without fundamentally redesigning it from scratch.
People are servants of their goal, if they can't imagine better extension or replacement of the goal they get stuck because only alternative is not having a good goal & being lost. People are scared if being lost more that of death. Maybe both cases are somehow similar.
While I question the leadership merits of slagging off your own product, he did not personally attack any team member as claimed by parent post.
In the context of automation, this recession is stressing me out
Automation of a lot of programming work seems inevitable over the next 5-10 years. The way these companies are reacting to the tightening money supply seems like a prelude to what's coming. The writing's on the wall and I'm seriously starting to wonder what's next.

Anyone else feeling or thinking about this? What are you doing to stay focused, open and grounded in light of the pending shifts?
Most people don't know TSMC or what they do or how chips get made or any of it. It's just to put it in context for a good chunk of the readers.

Put another way - you aren't the audience they have in mind when writing that headline.
A European climate tech company has launched a Shared Solar farm that lets people lease panels from them. With an integrated app, they can see the electricity generated, CO2 emissions reduced, and money earned from the electricity being sold at actual market prices: all in real time.
The 62.5 hack has been around for a decade before rem was even thought of. The fact that rem would be a better fit for it is irrelevant to the conversation.

I'm just saying that using em and rem for sizing isn't as useful as it once was.

My rule of thumb is to only use them for things directly related to text, like inline icons, text spacing and whatnot.
I tried to use PolyScale in the past but had issues with performance because updating a row would invalidate the entire cache. I wonder if that has improved?
Chamath Palihapitiya in Lex Fridman Podcast
A UK (Scottish) one - http://uwsradio.co.uk/ - University of the West of Scotland

Broadcasts online and in FM/DAB in the Ayrshire region of Scotland
> i think anyone that chooses to work for that [expletive] anytime soon is by definition not "good people"

Why not? Twitter is at an exciting turning point (that might end well or bad, but still exciting) and working on the solutions they implemented at scale is something that many engineers are interested in. Before the layoffs, a number of top engineers publicly announced they were leaving Twitter because they not comfortable working under Musk or returning to office, suggesting that there currently might be openings at a very senior level, which, again, is appealing. Musk himself is a controversial character (who I don't personally like), but he isn't a criminal or a dictator and I don't see pressing ethical arguments against working for a company he owns.

> and a platform that he's actively trying to modify to support racist, and anti-semetic speech

When did he say that he specifically wants to support racism or anti-semitism on Twitter?
Does it make it better to say "political"? I'm fairly sure that is the implication.

For anyone considering donating, read this first:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33611094
EDIT: Apparently the service didn't actually launch until today, despite Apple advertising it for several months. Keeping comment as originally posted for posterity. However, if this is as half-assed as Apple Crash Detection, expect it to work about 1/10th the time.

A few weeks ago had experience with this up in the Mt Baldy area of Los Angeles.

During inclement weather, a hiker in another group slipped on the Devil's Backbone and tried to use Apple's Emergency SOS because their phone did not have cell signal. It didn't work.

We ended up letting the Mt Baldy staff know about the hiker when we got to the Baldy Lodge. We asked them whether emergency services had received the SOS, and they said it hadn't. And they would know, since emergency services would have contacted them to conduct the rescue.

Long story short: Don't trust SOS. It doesn't work when you actually need it to work. And when it does work, you could have just called 911 directly.
> The great thing about Bitcoin is that it’s whatever the holder wants it to be, and nothing they don’t want it to be

If someone bought Bitcoin a year ago and wanted it to be a store of value, it is certainly not "whatever the holder wants it to be" for that person
The argument the poster is making isn’t that garbage implementations aren’t cheaper, it’s that their externalities are terrible.
Elon fixes my Twitter account
In reference to : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32419601 I noticed today that my account is once again usable. So Elon did one good thing so far at least.
Most bitcoin investors never move their coins off the exchange and thus don't have a distinct address on the blockchain, so your sampling technique is probably just as flawed as time of app download, if not more so.
>extreme environmentalists.

I'd be pissed if my $5 went to a Just Stop Oil kid throwing tomato soup on a Van Gogh. I'd call that kind of switcheroo nefarious.
It isn't an issue of a 'fractional amount'. According to their 2021 financial statements that vast majority of the money they raise goes to salaries and wages to run 'programs'- work activities separate from the maintainance and management of the website Wikipedia. Note that these salaries are entirely separate from general and administrative salaries and fundraising salaries that might be more directly related to the health of Wikipedia.

These salaries (which is where almost all the money wiki raises goes) are used to fund these kind of projects: https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/

I'm sure these projects are goodwork, but when people see a banner add on wikipedia, a plea from wikipedia to keep wikipedia alive, and then click the button to support wikipedia they aren't purposefully supporting writing software to detect harassment in online communities, increasing the diversity of the volunteer pool, suing the NSA to stop internet surveillance, etc etc...

Wikimedia has access to a pile of money and they're growing their mission to match the pile of money. Unfortunately the size of that mission will always outpace the size of the pile of money, and it's a never ending feedback loop. giant 'mega-corp' charities are rarely as useful as smaller, mission-focused ones. I don't want the EFF to fight child poverty - that's what UNICEF is for. If the EFF started to do that tomorrow I would have to question how well focused and effective their leadership was.

I have been a regular donator to Wikipedia but after the last round of HN articles prompted me to read their financial statements I regret to say that I won't be again until they sharpen their focus.

I suspect the average donator to Wikimedia and the HN audience are a pretty big overlap - I think wikimedia has a huge problem here, even if we assume that it's just one of perception. If they opened their books and were a little more transparent with how program funding at wikimedia works to demonstrate that this money is in fact pushing wikipedia forward I would consider restarting donations and I'm sure other people would as well.
This is why I use htmx for projects lately. No react, but react/flux type principles in the backend (php). It’s so nice to go back to just php and html that feels as fast as a react app.
Apple doesn’t generally enforce lower bounds on the supported OS or SDK built against unless there’s recently been a major transition (e.g. 32-bit support being dropped), which don’t happen too often. They will remove listings that have sat idle for too long though (4-5+ years I think, but don’t quote me on that). I’ve never dealt with it personally since the projects I’ve been responsible for have always been getting updates.
Examples of Websites Using Video Testimonials
The COO does the work so the CEO can be the mascot.
I understand the oil/gas industry produces hydrogen from methane. But why would nuclear care whether their electricity is used for electrolysis or battery EVs?
It sounds like the example was not of a car they were following, but one that pulled out infront of them and stopped in their lane. Just as you are referencing possible excuses for that driver, we could come up with possible excuses for the driver that pulled out (like pulling out suddenly without enough distance to react even if the other car was going under the speed limit).

We also need to understand that being at fault isn't 1-to-1 with who was being safe. Typically, if you pull out and get t-boned by someone who has the right of way and is generally following the law, the person being t-boned is at fault for failing to yield. Where a vehicle is impacted plays a huge role in investigators determining who is at fault. Now if you run into the back of the person in front of you, it's almost always your fault, unless the person in front was driving carelessly or recklessly (brake check, for example) but would still involve partial fault in many cases.

So really, we can't say either way without knowing a lot more.
For those that liked the Classic windows taskbar that has been removed in W11, I'd like to plug RetroBar - https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar
Global decline in sperm counts is accelerating, research finds
> Only a fool is using most currencies as an investment, except perhaps as part of some hedging scheme.

Only a fool uses a currency that's experienced 5000% deflation?

Bitcoin is a long failed currency, I can't believe there are people still trying to push that notion.

Volatility is one thing, but deflation to a nonsensical degree means that using it as a way to pay for goods and services is heavily discouraged because of things like... having your $20 pizza be worth $165,000 if you had just not bought it.
Competitor enthusiasts? I have two Toyotas and think TRD is a stupid badge.
What a neat little reference. I love finding out that someone, somewhere, has taken the time to put a little sticker on something and say "I think I'll call this idea X".
Assembly within BPF tail calls on x86 and ARM
Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station
it really is an amazing show. I hope it does very well. However I can forsee two groups; the first, who won't watch because "it's star wars and i'm not into star wars"; the second, "i like star wars but this show doesn't have any light sabers or jedis or the force - why would i watch it?? boring!"
Billing by the day is good advice, but

> Engineering is creative work, and you're paid to think - code is just the end product.

No you aren't. No one cares if you think. They care about what thinking is (supposed to be) getting them. It just so happens, though, that whatever that is requires thinking. So you do charge for that. But no one is paying you "to think".
Wikipedia is not a PAC, they are not NARAL or LPUS or YAF or Center for American Progress.

It isnt alarmist to notice that Nice, Professional, Educated people have been guiding institutions that are ostensibly neutral (Wikipedia, or at risk of being spicy, the ACLU) taking great pains to support a worldview that is popular with only 8% of the US population, let alone the population of the world (https://hiddentribes.us/). They are doing so at the expense of their stated mission, in Wikipedia's case - this means taking money that could be used for hosting endowments, translations, original research and using it to forward the worldview and cultural dominance of a very small group.
Exactly; car lengths vary by model, not by velocity.

I get it. You'd prefer to use the phrase "car length" to not literally mean "length of a car" in this context. Apologies if I seemed pedantic but, as evidenced by this thread, your use of car length is going against the grain.

Safe following distance is often expressed in multiples of car length. What car? Sure, good point. Pick one; it's close enough! (If you're actually thinking about following distance in any terms at all, even roughly estimated, you're ahead of the safety curve and you clearly are!)

Ideally, following distance could be accurately estimated in metres and adjusted continuously by velocity and driving conditions. AI can do that. People just kind of eye it and say, "it was raining and I followed about four car lengths behind him" or "we were inching along and I was half a car length behind him". Good enough for meat brains!

Safe driving!
When you say scalability, how much are we talking about here ? Can it handle around 50 gb or 100 gb datasets ?

Also, going through the docs it seems you support only csv data ingestion currently right ? Any plan on supporting json or parquet and other formats ?

Another thing, do you have support for any in built graph algorithms (like path finding, shortest path, centrality) ?
> It was a huge deal internally when "Custom" was added as a gender option in the sign-up flow, and even then, there's a nudge towards the binary to retain better ad targeting.

It's odd that advertisers would dislike that change for targeting -- surely the people who pick "custom" are sending a major signal that correlates with other preferences. It's a third grouping they can specifically target! If they split "male" into "HYPER-MASCULINE ALPHA MALE: CARS, GUNS, AND FOOTBALL FUCK YEAH!" and "I have a penis but I try not to let it make decisions for me", advertisers should presumably love that distinction too. Of course the reality is that their decades of research deciding what constitutes "male" and "female" has gotten them stuck in a shitty local minimum and they can no longer abandon this binary concept that they cling desperately to without admitting that they've never actually known what the fuck they're doing.
That's a common false sentiment. People driving slower, in a safer cars cause less accidents, less deaths, and they themself die less.

On the other hand a lot of "aggressive" drivers slip up earlier or later. The risk is too high.

Also, looking at a phone is entirely your choice, not a boredom/distraction moment. Listen to audiobooks if your mind needs to do something while driving.

>It wouldn't surprise me if these safety features end up increasing collisions because people start feeling safe that the blockchain ai machine learning sensors of the future will do all the work for them.

I'm all for them but properly tested and validated, not the tesla cowboy approach that musk espouses. I fear that he will discredit the idea before we have serious autonomous driving products.
I've honestly thought about recording my work sessions to do the same thing. RescueTime works _somewhat_ to track when I get distracted on something, but moreso I'm interested in identifying when I do something suboptimally and playing it back to identify why I went with that path and try to course-correct the next time around.
Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
Originally started as an extension to Mercurial, but grew into its own SCM with a cross-platform virtual filesystem in C++ and a distributed server in Rust.
> I wish they had a non-cost plan (or maybe $10/year) plus $5/text or something like that for use in an emergency.

Given that the outdoor SAR use case is probably the largest reason for people to get one of these devices in the first place, I doubt that such a model would be economically sustainable (unless subsidized by government agencies or possibly insurances saving money due to spending less on large-scale search operations).

Vendors could also bake a free SAR plan into the initial sales price, I suppose.
I'm not here to defend every occurrence of an automated system firing. I'm pointing out that people who think they are attentive and skilled enough to not need these aids are exactly the people who should be using them.
I like always visible top tabs but personally ctrl+tab has always been bs. Hitting it 10 times then ctrl+shift+tab once more because I miscalculated has never been faster than using the mouse
Latent Dirichlet Allocation [pdf]
They're not using discord, they're using slack.
Note that http://www.catskillmountaineer.com/reviews-winterhikingKM.ht... for example says Kate did not have a PLB, but only a SPOT (one of the many commercial products in this space)

PLBs are tested down to -40° so it might have stayed working for longer as the weather got worse. It is of course impossible to say if Kate might have survived under other circumstances except that (not very interestingly) if she's decided the weather was too awful and aborted she'd almost certainly live.
The biggest source of relief for oncall for me is that even though my "team" is 8 people. We work on larger systems. We have ~5 teams working on a single code base, so around 30 people. Its not really a microservice, but its not really a monolith (since we have many other, and larger codebases). On call is much more bearable when its once every 3-4 months than once a month.
In iOS, Settings->Display & Brightness->View can be changed to Zoomed. Does that help?

Android has its own mechanisms: https://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Screen-Resolution-on-Your...

Put another way, would it help to decrease the DPI rather than only adjusting text?
The hypercar segment figured out once the higher performance Teslas came on the market that an EV skateboard hypercar is much much much cheaper to trot out that a new custom engine/powertrain. And it accelerates much faster, and now apparently is nearly faster than ICE in top speed. Drivetrain is more reliable. Plus lower center of gravity, more internal space, yada yada yada.

This was plainly apparent to me 3-4 years ago and I'm a "jalopnik" level of automotive reader (as in idiot with keyboard level expertise)

So the hypercar people get to charge with a straight face a multi-million dollar car that's faster than their previous versions, but make wayyyyy more money. The Plaid Model S is a !!!150k!!! hypercar beater, and it's a sedan. If Elon wasn't a moron of marketing, that car would have been selling with many many many variants (see: BMW) each adding 50-100k to the price until you got up to the 500-700k range.
Unfortunately, I think charitable organizations with resources have this down to a science, and probably know that approach will get them more increased donations than it will lose them donations.

I think it's a science of manipulation, and would hope that eventually it will bite them... but these sciences of manipulation are very effective. And pioneered by the industries that many of us work in, with all the A/B testing and funnel management etc. So if we want to point the finger...

There are organizations that I like and appreicate, but stopped donating to after they started spamming with me with 5-10 emails a week asking for increased donations, when I was already donating to them! I stopped. Even though I like the organization and think they do good work. but I bet they have correct reason to believe this spam will net them increased donations over all.
But wait, I thought the new satellite SOS feature launched today? Was this during some kind of beta test?
Maybe I'm ignorant but I still don't really understand it. There is a picture of some protest with someone wielding an actual Nazi flag... Which is pretty fucked up, but it's also sort of hilarious to see it next to someone wearing a hippie straw hat, another person wearing a bicycle helmet and then, what I am assuming is another ultra right wing idiot with a viking shield.

I'm Danish, I wonder what that those people would do if they knew that the viking culture they are appropriating was actually pretty "liberal". Homosexuality wasn't an issue, neither were mixing races or religions. They just recently discovered an Islamic Viking lord in Sweden.

Anyway. If one side of the "culture war" is Nazis, then why is it a war?

Don't get me wrong. It's not like we didn't have our share of village idiots who thought Bill Gates put Microchips in the Covid vaccines and thought the Face Masks were the end of democracy here in Denmark, but the vast majority of people who thought that Face Masks were stupid still wore them with the reasoning that they wouldn't hurt, even if they didn't help, and basically everyone above 18 got vaccinated.

On a side note, I do wish our own village idiots would come up with their own conspiracies though. I mean, why couldn't our Queen be behind the Microchips instead of Bill Gates?
I drove a taco terd for awhile. Not a bad little truck.