skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0% isn't a real probability: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QGkYCwyC7wTDyt3yT/0-and-1-ar...

The rest of the argument is fine in so far as it goes, but because we already see acute and chronic damage from COVID, the hypothetical undiscovered long term damage from any given vaccine (and there are many fundamentally different ones, they're not all mRNA) would have to be both surprisingly frequent and severe just to get up to a swings-and-roundabouts with the actual illness.
It appears to be a book.
> I always assumed that you priced a good based on what it cost to produce plus some reasonable amount of profit that would allow you a nice home and car.

That is completely reasonable if you own and run your own business.

But most businesses aren't owned by the people running them. The owner doesn't care what happens, they just have $X and want that money to grow a small % every year. The way that's gonna happen is if the business they bought with that money grows a small % every year.

The board, the CEO, the managers, the VPs, they all work to make that % increase happen, whatever it takes. If they can't make it happen, they get fired. If they need to increase prices for that, that's what's going to happen. If they need to milk people, cut corners, move manufacturing overseas, whatever it takes, they will do it. If they don't, someone else will.

The owner's money must grow. And "owner" doesn't have to be some fat cat evil billionaire. It's also the retiree living off their 401K savings. It's the 20-year-old starting their contributions. It's the employee pension fund that is there to protect employees.

P.S. I'm positive none of this is news to you or anyone reading it, but I love talking about this sort of thing.
The Most Popular Pokémon Around the World
Billion-dollar companies started as side projects
The NYC skyline was ruined by a couple more very tall buildings?

How exactly would you describe this “surrounding style”:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_side_of_Manhatt...
When going boldly requires shared resources and has knock-on effects for everyone, shouldn't we all have a say?
> “Influencers” are one of the great externalities of social media. The prospect of fame and wealth turns existing people’s narcissism and sociopathy up to 11 and the rest of us suffer.

True, although it should be noted that the world of "influencers" is starting to shape into an industry of its own, moving beyond individual egos.

There are, for example, companies such as The Social Chain[1] whose (almost) sole role in life is influencer management, content production, "social-first distribution" and podcasting.

I agree that neither "influencers" or the "industry" surrounding them are something that need to exist. I doubt anyone would miss them if they were not there.

[1]https://socialchain.com/en
> There's some "interesting" naming conventions, one being prefixing member variables names with "value" -- there's even a "valueValue". Very little consistency in general in this regard, a reflection of independence between teams working on different components.

Actually suffixing! i.e. objectsValue.
Becoming and keeping being a licensed medical practitioner is artificially made extremely hard. It doesn't have to be.
This may be true wrt. skeuomorphic Aqua-like designs, but pixel art with low native resolution and low color depth is the cheapest style of them all, only literal pencil drawings on the back of a napkin are cheaper. Look at SerenityOS for the kind of polished design that can be achieved with ease even by amateurs.
Hi everyone! Check out this project I've been working on

I've noticed that other people have had the same experience as I did, and have decided to make Android apps that leverage this. While I am happy with having easier access to this powerful tech on my phone, I have also noticed something that kindof irked me - whenever I wanted to use these apps, I was required to stop what I was doing, open the app, and interact with GPT from there. This may not sound like such a big deal, but it became increasingly annoying when I had to stop what I was doing to ask a question

To solve this problem, I made an app that pins the AI Assistant to your screen with a widget that you can move around as you choose. This way, you always have the power of GPT-3 at your fingertips, no matter what you do.
Why though? Aren't everyday users more interested in finished models themselves? Why would they want to make one, especially if they, in this example, don't really know how they work anyway? What is the value here?
For anyone interested in advanced Antenna Design check out the book:

"Frontiers in Antennas: Next Generation Design & Engineering"
by Frank Gross.

https://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/content/book/978007....

1 Ultra-Wideband Antenna Arrays
2 Smart Antennas
3 Vivaldi Antenna Arrays
4 Artificial Magnetic Conductors/High-Impedance Surfaces
5 Metamaterial Antennas
6 Biological Antenna Design Methods
7 Reconfigurable Antennas
8 Antennas in Medicine: Ingestible Capsule Antennas
9 Leaky-Wave Antennas
10 Plasma Antennas
11 Numerical Methods in Antenna Modeling

Plasma Antennas have their own book:

"Plasma Antennas" by Theodore [Ted] Anderson.

Get the second edition.

This is their website:

https://haleakala-research.com
I run with a custom domain and a catch-all email rule, so all inbound mail goes to the same inbox, so I can use whatever@domain.com. Maybe it's still trackable but at least helps identify leaks.
One option (almost certainly not practical) would be to have the building shaped like a giant vertical wing, and have it rotate into the wind. It could be tuned to be resistant to wind forces by directing it around, but the apartments may face a different way each day.
>b) People returning stuff after short-use is, like it or not, a fact of life in today's world. Ask anyone who sells fashion goods ... girls buy stuff for the Friday night party and return it on Monday. It happens and it's basically a cost of doing business. If the stock is any good, it will get sold anyway, just as nearly-new instead of new.

You get blacklisted very quickly if you do this.
I don't think so, because the music wants attention from you, and you stay more focused to the music itself. When combined with people into the music you're playing, it leads to nice discussions about photography or design of the cover, and these qualities fuel the social atmosphere in the room.

Having the same friends over with music playing over different mediums never resulted in the same vivid atmosphere for us.

Maybe this is because of us, but vinyl definitely has its own irreplaceable function for me and us (as friends), no it's not a gimmick.
Around thirty stories is the limit for concrete apartment buildings made with unskilled labor (usually Indian or Chinese), so those appear all over Asia and the Middle East where migrant labor is common.

It doesn’t really answer your question, but it’s an interesting reference point.
The conversation, on both sides, has progressed beyond this incredibly simplistic view.
He is using Python scientific libraries for his new work.

(ps: can't stand python anymore either)
> “AIX is what you’d get if aliens implemented a UNIX.”

The first version of AIX, for the IBM RT PC, actually ran on top of a microkernel written in PL/I, called VRM - how’s that for alien.

Subsequent versions moved closer to the Unix mainstream by dropping the PL/I microkernel.
Residencies are an artificial cap on healthcare workers. We could, and should, have more
Google's code bases (and Microsoft as well), are a good example of even ISO C++ members, major contributors to C++ compiler ecosystem and static analysis tooling, still fail to achieve the security standards that Bjarne Stroustrup and other security minded folks keep advocating for.

Mostly because in the end they aren't doing what gets preached in spite of the in-house experts.

So how much hope have the regular C++ devs that don't take part in ISO C++ and compiler development tasks?
>All those inspections, certifications, and other requirements exist for very good reasons

Nobody's debating that those processes work. People are questioning whether or to what degree this system should be subject to them. Just because something touches aviation somehow is not a blank ticket to pour red tape at it to satisfy some ideological lust for the "perfectly safe" system. For example, the facility lighting around an airport is just normal lighting used on any other large commercial facility, off the shelf sodium bulbs, LEDs, halogens in off the shelf fixtures, the kind of stuff you buy from all myriad of online supply houses and local suppliers. The runway lights are subject to much more specific requirements (but still very relaxed compared to the lighting on actual aircraft). Where do the traffic lights fall on that spectrum? IDK, but seeing as the system is never gonna leave the ground I'm pretty inclined to ignore whatever the people who think it needs to be designed like an aircraft have to say.

> Reasons that more likely than not cost us blood and tears to realize their need.

If/when they mandate a traffic light system at JFK will that rule be "written in blood" as you people often like to say?
> Large album covers printed with intricate detail,

just distribute CDs in vinyl-size containers

>the manual effort you give to cue in the vinyl and changing sides

this only happens if you also go with old school vinyl players and not the automated ones. also, lifting an arm to compensate for the lack of technology is not what I'd consider a meaningful experience

>Adding coffee, tea, a book or a couple of friends into the music itself

a vinyl is not a live concert, there is nothing in the tech that intrinsically lends itself more to those situations. I can have friends listen to a CD, I can drink a coffee or read a book listening a CD.

>It's as pointless as saying, eyes can see 60FPS at most anyway, so higher frame rates are useless.

We know how many frequencies our ears can perceive, and the Sampling Theorem doesn't lie

>Reducing music, listening and being an audiophile to numbers and formulae is great disservice to all.

vinyls only exist because of maths and physics, analog stuff is not voodoo magic. listening to a CD while forgetting the technical specifications is exactly the same as listening to the vinyl. as long as I know the CD is a >44.1KHz and was recorded and mixed properly by competent audio engineers I don't see how it could be any more "reductionist" than making sure your vinyls also were well recorded
Law.
To be fair, you have to remember that the calculator is called "calc.exe" to use this method. However, when parent said "you really wouldn’t want the II of that era back" I understood "you" as "HN reader", not as "regular user".

Also, there is also a "discoverable" way to launch programs keyboard-only: <Windows>, P, A, C (Programs - Accessories - Calculator).

I just really dislike the Windows 10 start menu search. It slows down on random occasions just often enough to be too annoying for me to use, at least on my machine.
Ask HN: When to make the jump to freelance/consultant?
I'm working full time as a data engineer/scientist but I also have one ongoing customer (a previous employer).

Another previous employer is launching a startup and has recently pinged me because they need to build a series of data pipelines and ML models for their product.

I've to talk to them about specifics but I don't see myselft having enough available time to make it work.

I've been thinking about starting my own data/ml services company for a while but I don't really know when to make the jump. I think (is a guess for the time being) that the income from this new job, in addition to the income of my current client, could be enough for my living expenses of this year, so I'm thinking if this is a good time to make the jump or not.

The problem that I see is that this new lead is from a previous partner of my current client, so both jobs are related to my previous employer, I don't have a pipeline of possible prospects for my service, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to generate a pool of prospects while doing the work for this customers.

My guess is that I should wait until there is a sign that I could probably get a stream of clients to keep the wheel going, and try to find the time to take this new job, maybe negotiating terms to make it possible.

What do you think?

Edit: I've savings already as I plan to buy a new home (I'm in Argentina, we buy it cash, no mortgage). I need three more months of salary to accomplish the home budget.
> Reducing music, listening and being an audiophile to numbers and formulae is great disservice to all. One may not like or prefer vinyl, this is OK, but calling it a gimmick, ah no.

Well it’s objectively a gimmick. You get poor quality and sometimes a better mastering which you could and should have on the digital file anyway. At this point what vinyl has for it is the “joy” of moving a large disc of plastic and a player arm. You are selling the format by the one minute of theatric at the beginning of a listening session. At this point, I’m personally convinced from what I have seen that most of the people who listen to vinyl do it for the snobbish pleasure of being vinyl listeners.
I think you're right. I've mostly stayed away from budgeting apps. I'm already quite busy with work and parenting two young kids, but it may be the best way to train the mind. Thank you
> It's easier to put my mp3s on there than it is to do that on a phone.
> No crappy software needed, it's just a USB drive as far as my computer is concerned.

I understand that apple device users live in their special world. But every android phone does this.
This is the "if you paid for a housekeeper and nanny it's the same as paying your wife but it does not show up in statistics "

Yes - but it still does not get closer to measuring productivity. I mean we are all pretty much unproductive sitting in a damp field. It's infrastructure, organisation, trade and then low down the lost, skills that matter.
It is a gimmick, and it seems like you bought it, hook, line and sinker...but it wasn't always a gimmick. At some point, vinyl was the standard. It has lost that position since, but to not admit that these record producers are capitalizing on nostalgia (both real and fabricated) is folly. You can easily have some 'me and my music' time with superior digital mediums without the need to get up every ~16 minutes and deal with a mechanical limitation that can break immersion. It's fine to like a gimmick, but don't dismiss a reasoned explanation of why vinyl is not superior just because you got sold on something the rest of us left behind.
I really don't understand this. I guess it's just nostalgia?

When I ran Windows XP it was commonplace to just nuke your entire OS and re-install it every 6 to 9 months because it would just become unworkable otherwise.

Then you have the Windows XP update which you had to run 5 times, each with a reboot before you had all updates.

The fact you required a paid anti-virus to keep your system somewhat safe.

Toolbars. Fucking toolbars everywhere.

And let's not forget to rate the forgotten child: Windows XP 64bit.

Yeah no for me Windows 10 is so much better than any Windows before. It's the first one I would rate as acceptable.
A million years from now the orginally human created Von Neumann probes are going to enter some alien solar system and ask about their cars extended warranty, then proceed to disassemble everything and move on to the next solar system to ask about theirs.
Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data content
Hey HN!

I’m excited to share sketch: a tool to help anyone who uses python and pandas quickly iterate and get to answers for their data questions.

Sketch installs as a pandas extension that offers utility functions that operate on natural language prompts. Using the `ask` interface you can get answers in natural language. Using the `howto` interface you can get get python and pandas code directly. The primary benefit of this over copilot and chatGPT is that this adds data-content based context so that the generated answers are much more accurate and relevant to the data problem at hand.

Check out the demo video[1] and try it out using the colab notebook (on github)!

[1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/916073/212602281-4...
linux didn't kill solaris, Oracle and its greedy execs did, stop trying to rewrite history
No comparison with uwsgi in the link.
Windows 2000 was the best MS OS IMHO. Looked just like win98, but was from their NT line.
A lot of people who are envious of WFH imagine it's lounging around watching Netflix, and likely would not be able to handle the actual work though.
No? I mean, if people who have money want to spend it on something like that, why should we have a say? It's their money, not ours.

EDIT: ah, the perennial game of rationalizing taking from others when they aren't doing what you want them to do.
I felt like the original email had some embedded screenshots, that are now missing. Switching from the website issue to the file system doesn’t make too much sense as written, but if you had a screenshot of the file explorer in—between the text makes some sense.
Am I missing something here? I understand the "The IAB loves tracking users." part of the title, but where is the part about "But it hates users tracking them."? Based on the title, I would have expected an exception in their standard for themselves, or a story about how their own user tracking technology was used against them.

However, there is none of that. Just that the IAB does not want to make it easier for users to escape their tracking (which, given their purpose, is unfortunately entirely expected). What justifies "But it hates users tracking them."?
I completely agree. I personally think at a certain point we need to start factoring age into our calculations on whether we provide expensive medical care for particular conditions.

At the moment, we sort of try to reduce medical care to elderly people by trying to get them and their family to agree it would be more humane to let them go naturally, but we still spend an extraordinary amount of money trying to slightly extend the life of nonagenarians, for example.

Unfortunately, something like this is bound to be extremely unpopular and controversial. I think most people probably agree that if you had two people with cancer and could only afford to treat one of them, it would be better to treat the 22 year old and not the 92 year old. However, when you scale that up to an entire country, abstract it all away behind insurance or tax, and it's YOUR grandmother on the line, things get more difficult to reason about in such a utilitarian fashion.

It's probably better for society to withdraw all non-palliative care from over-80s and spend all that money on teenage mental health, but I can't imagine any politician being willing to attack their voter base like that.
I like languages with strong static typeung too, but aren’t Python’s type hints enough for this purpose? Or are these libraries just untyped?
You don't need special standalone devices for that. Any Android phone has that. Is it impossible to listen to your own audio without internet on iPhones?
You would then have to add mechanical devices, which would likely be heavier (requiring even more support structure strength), that would have to move hundreds or thousands of tons of building mass, and with high precision, and then return it to the initial position, while canceling the inertial forces to prevent it from ping-ponging and making it worse. I only have basic engineering knowledge but I can almost hear one of my professors screaming, 34 years later. :)

Many tall buildings have a tuned mass damper near the top that helps to dampen oscillations. It doesn't require any active mechanical devices. Taipei 101 has it out in the open, you can easily find videos of it during earthquakes.
Ruby's Sequel ORM -

https://sequel.jeremyevans.net/
> I'd argue that most people that kept playing aoe2 online and kept it "alive" all care about that.

I didn't say they didn't?

> aoe2 already has randomised maps, I think that's why you actually get less strategy (in a sense). In games with fixed maps, you see much more interesting one-off strategies (people like to call it cheese[0]) because you can plan everything down to the second. You'd plan & practice strategies on specific maps in specific matchups against the "standard" build orders. AoE2 has these types of strategies too, but since the maps are always slightly different, you can't plan your building placement etc ahead of time. There's also MegaRandom [1] which takes the randomisation to the next level. But I'd argue micro matters significantly more in that map, since you can end up in "unfair" situations where you need to outplay with micro to stand a chance.

The random maps are random within a very narrow set of parameters. They don't change the strategy. Practicing standard build orders is what 99% of players will need to do. I agree, at the very top level there is a level of strategy again. But in that grind to the top, the way you do better is by simply narrowing the time to get your first rush online. There's very little chance to actually change your gameplan.

> That's how these games stay popular for 20 years. It's like complaining about strafe jumping in quake, it's what kept the game alive all this time.

These games have not stayed popular. RTS has not done very well as a genre. You've got Starcraft and AoE2. And that's kind of it. AoM, AoE3, the shittier spinoffs, and AoE4 haven't made particularly big splashes. Nor have other franchises.

The thing is, these games are really fun to play casually, or in single player. But playing competitively where people are going to do stuff that works is so different and not compatible with what people liked when they were introduced to the series.

Consider a comparison to fighting games, where it's also a hard requirement to be obsessively deep with the game to make any progress. Fighting games have still seen a ton of success with many popular new titles.

edit: I was super deep on the AoM scene and mildly deep on the AoE2 scene; dropping off well past the title's prime but sometime before AoE2:DE

edit edit: I can also recall that the majority of online players back in the day would like the setting but seem to lose interest in playing normal maps and eventually settle on silly scenarios. It's not surprising that MOBA games have really taken off as that's what a lot of these scenarios were in some form; but worse.
This is true. In the current scheme of things, you don't need to know any math to get things going. At some level, if you really need to write a custom model from scratch, probably you need to - but not really.

Now you have the likes of HuggingFace which is another abstraction on top of Pytorch. Heck you don't even need to code a transformer from scratch. They have done it for you.

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForMaskedLM
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")

I was like wow, this level of abstraction is totally breaking barriers to entry and we will see many many flavours of huggingface in the years to come.
Things like this being opt-out make my skin crawl.
>You get blacklisted very quickly if you do this.

Maybe maybe not, but then you end up returning to point a) ... along comes Amazon with Prime Try Before You Buy
That's the really nice part of Rust, actually. The compiler will always barf if you don't do the right thing in Safe Rust, even by mistake. And even common but logically error-prone patterns, such as shared mutability, are clearly marked by boilerplate.
Back then you had to pound on the keys, which made you develop strong hands, like a piano player.