jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I try vouch for people who get hammered by fanboys and shills in submarine advertisement threads because that's something (I believe) that happens to me a lot and I hope they notice!
> $3k/year for each 1kg added to the plane

sorry, offtopic, but this is an interesting number. Do you have a source for more on this? Most of the search hits I can find are discussing economics of spaceflight.
I'd sure like more cathedrals in my life as an engineer. Whether we can build them is just a measure of our imagination, inspiration, wisdom, and ability to work together on a grand, well-conceived plan.
I don't see much difference between jewelry and any other business that's been disrupted by Internet commerce. Except maybe women have a stronger place in society now and they care less about jewelry for their self worth (pure conjecture)?

One jeweler interviewed for this article is surprised people would go online and buy diamonds site unseen from Blue Nile. Having just done this dance myself, walking around the diamond district LA (and getting referrals from friends) I would not trust most of the jewelers there further than I could throw them. I would be more inclined to trust publicly traded Blue Nile that I was getting what I paid for.
I was first intrigued, but when I saw the price I couldn't really see it being all that useful. It is possible to buy a 4K display with a similar 150dpi resolution for less.

So the only advantage I can see here is lower power consumption?
> hacked by a group claiming be aligned with the Islamic State extremist group

> hackers claiming to be similarly aligned with the Islamic State extremist group

This is either really dishonest or really stupid reporting. They're not actually aligning themselves with ISIS. They're just trolls trying to be edgy.
The reductionistic part is in the very belief that there's such a thing as a "finest component of information" in the first place.

>If you've got an example demonstrating your concern, that would be helpful.

What I say is that sufficiently rich theories such as those we have today don't have "finest components" in the sense of being parsable down to some kind of "atoms" that are independent of the overall structure.

The whole intelligence lies in the connections between the components, and verifying that them are individually "correct" doesn't say much.
Nice, a bit pricier than I would like but it certainly has appeal. I use tablets as off monitor reading stands for their high dpi screens. Personally I think a 300 ppi version of this screen would be just killer, even if it didn't do all the fancy scrolling and you just threw up pages on it which could stay there with no additional power applied.
23 bits and 61.7" to go then.
Just a conjecture, but, it may not always be possible/straightforward to map a set of CA rules meant for a rectangular grid to a hex grid.
"""

Conclusions

The brain is about as efficient as any conventional learning machine can be given:

1. An energy budget of 10W

2. A thermodynamic cooling constrained surface power density similar to that of earth's surface (1kW/m^2), and thus a 10cm radius.

3. A total training dataset of about 10 billion precepts or 'steps'

If we only knew the remaining secrets of the brain today, we could train a brain-sized model consisting of a small population of about 1000 agents/sims, running on about as many GPUs, in probably about a month or less, for about $1M. This would require only about 1kW per agent or less, and so if the world really desired it, we could support a population of billions of such agents without dramatically increasing total world power production.

Nvidia - the single company producing most of the relevant flops today - produced roughly 5e21 flops of GPU compute in 2021, or the equivalent of about 5 million brains, perhaps surpassing the compute of the 3.6 million humans born in the US. With 200% growth in net flops output per year from all sources it will take about a decade for net GPU compute to exceed net world brain compute.

Eventually advances in software and neuromorphic computing should reduce the energy requirement down to brain levels of 10W or so, allowing for up to a trillion brain-scale agents at near future world power supply, with at least a concomitant 100x increase in GDP. All of this without any exotic computing.

Achieving those levels of energy efficiency will probably require brain-like neuromorphic-ish hardware, circuits, and learned software via training/education. The future of AGI is to become more like the brain, not less.

"""
A pattern I've seen on a lot of the negative Mongo articles has been people using it for things they probably shouldn't.

I've yet to use it for any load, and am struggling to triangulate from all the articles I read on whether it does/doesn't scale efficiently.

All the issues I have hit so far have been self-inflicted, it is still one of the best new technologies I've used in years - but is has taken a while to stop thinking in SQL equivalents and start thinking natively.
Sure you can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act
Have you read Asimov recently?

In the cold light of adulthood it is unfortunately not as good as my inner child remembers. Nowhere near as bad as Rowling, who is an awful writer, but still pretty bad. To be fair to Rowling her first book actually introduced some good ideas, the rest were pretty much universally crap.

Some of Asimov's themes and ideas are also feeling very dated now too, he seemed to be heavily influenced by the US/Russia situation and early electronics and those inspirations have not stood the test of time.

A visionary in his time and for a generation afterwards, but I'm starting to doubt he'll be much read in 10 or 20 years time.
I had this happen back in my pokerstars days, a captcha pops up with a limited amount of time to complete it. However I was playing "only" 16 tables at the time.
Not sure how feasible or legal it is to do this, but a good strategy for a demonstration might be to hand out fliers to people waiting in the security line. On the fliers would be some information on the new security policy and body scanners and an example image of a body scan. Also attached would be a sticker that says "opt out".

That we people can make an informed and visible decision before they encounter the TSA pressure.
The TSA Radius is the distance below which you'd rather drive than fly. (I invented this term, but feel free to use it.) As far as I'm concerned, they've just increased the TSA Radius to infinity.
Is it multi-tenancy of various Joyent customers on the same hardware? So you get containers placed somewhere in their data center on shared hardware with other customers? Or do you already need to have dedicated hardware provisioned at Joyent to launch containers on? I'm still unclear on that point, which makes me question how it's saving the end user money.
Link to actual GitHub repo:

https://github.com/bloomberg/brisket

At a glance it looks unnecessarily heavy but nice to see more open sourcing.
Yeah, some people make art for money, but there are a lot of people who paint, dance, play music, etc. for fun.
Says right there:

Realm Inc. already generates revenue by selling additional enterprise products & services around the technology.
But they're already working on doing that.
I think consciously maintaining a collective categorization of entities, or independently maintaining a collective categorization of entities is radical. More people might discover abstract math on their own, simply because it hasn't been purified down to it's symbolic form. The relationships naturally arise out of our own decisions and plans in how we mentally construct relationships between entity forms, and notice the differences and variations between person to person.

I think tradition is important, but so is learning how to think totally differently in a fundamental way - and I think that's what these educators see in this specific case as radical. They see it as a creating a foundation of how to think first, then it is followed by lesson plans. It may affect the way people learn to organize and think about information, or it may not. Maybe people in the future will refine information down to essential subject form, because the chaos in connectivity between information forms has become too complex to reason about, and consequently becomes too complex to do anything with (aside from think). These things happen already. The difference is a magnitude of scale. Will an entire generation be raised with these characteristics?
A 100k Python project doesn't sound that bad, especially with a modular design and a great IDE (PyCharm). Good tools make reading and navigating the codebase easy. At that point, it matters a lot less how big it is, because you can trust that your tools enable you to find the answers you seek.

The project that I help maintain is a collection of Django apps totalling more than 700k lines. Thankfully I do not maintain all of it, but I am the primary maintainer for several sub-apps, totalling about 180k lines of Python. (This doesn't count the UI code, which is not in Python.)

I'm the sole author for about 12% of the part I maintain (since I wrote some of the individual sub-apps), and am familiar enough to describe probably half of the rest. There are still some parts that I really have to puzzle out ("What happens on the codepath to generate those reports?"), but that part shrinks over time.

The modular design that our original engineers used when they first built this system really helps, and the fantastic tooling in PyCharm is critical to my being able to navigate the codebase. Between grepping the python sources (thank god for shell aliases wrapping grep!) and my base familiarity with the system, I can start tracing with PyCharm's "find definition" to investigate things. Being able to run my own copy of the system, and put debugging breakpoints in (even in libraries!) is __amazing__.
>And why on earth would you want to screw with the restaurant profit margin? What possible gain is there in that for you?

I think the idea is that a consumer can get better value for money, and/or a better culinary experience by resisting those items that are heavily pushed. It assumes that restaurants employing these tactics seek to promote dishes with the most mark up on them.
JS is strongly typed, not sure about PHP but I don't think so. lisp is not a language, it's a family of languages
> is now a very niche market of 100% native mobile development.

Which just happens to be one of the biggest development niches in the world.
I know AWS lets you just deploy a docker container, so you can use whatever tools you want -- anyone know about Azure and Google cloud?
> Is this the future of retail trading? An expensive game of chicken?

Isn’t this how stock markets work? Actual company performance is just a relatively minor signal for the chicken.
It fundamentally can't be improved in a significant enough way and still be Python. The more realistic options are to be okay with Python's type system (I personally am) or to look at different languages if you really want something more robust.
> Birds will drop seeds, and those seeds will germinate beneath the pioneer canopy, letting the larger species come through and eventually replace the pioneer species.

FYI This can actually be a huge problem if you live in Washington State, because Himalayan Blackberry spreads through bird droppings. You have to aggressively weed it or it will choke out everything else in the area within a matter of years, including saplings, mature brush, grass, native blackberry, and other invasives like Scotch Broom.
Swift for TensorFlow was a nice idea on paper, but you need more than ideas to push a project forward. You need people who actually want to use your product.

For all the comments on HN about how great Swift was, there were hundreds if not thousands of ML engineer and research scientist who did not know it existed and frankly did not really care about it either.

Swift for Tensorflow was not addressing the issues of ML in productions and felt like "Just another framework" but with the added handicap of needing its users to learn an entirely new language which is not something most scientists want to do. One might argue that engineering might be more interested, but in a lot of cases the science team will push the models and then the engineering team will put them in production, leaving very little room to migrate from TF/Pytorch to Swift for TF.
Theoretical question. Why is voluntary segregation a bad thing? Consider seriously if we allowed everyone to create single race schools and neighborhoods. Let’s each choose how they want to live and govern. So long as they have equal access to resources, separation should not matter, only the actions of the separated people.
I will never use ubuntu again. There are plenty of other stable linux distros out there.
Of course, I'm defending HN's values and on occasion have also defended you when I noticed people posting unfair attacks (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494968).

I realize you're representing a minority viewpoint. The HN demographic is highly international, but also overwhelmingly Western, and that inevitably comes with certain biases. We can benefit from hearing perspectives outside those biases. But that only works if you don't break the rules yourself, and you haven't been keeping to that.

I get that it's not easy and not fair, but the truth is that the one who represents a minority or contrarian viewpoint has to hold themselves to a higher standard [1]. Otherwise you make it easy for people to point fingers at you when you break the rules and use that as an excuse to discredit you [2]—and then they also point fingers at us and demand to know why we aren't enforcing the rules in your case. That's a lose-lose situation: either we have to ban you and silence a minority voice, or we allow you to break rules that would get others banned, in which case people will rightly accuse us of double standards. We can't allow that; I have to be able to say "no, we don't do that" in good conscience.

In order to follow the rules we need you to specifically do three things: (1) stay respectful and neutral when arguing; (2) avoid flamewar (your comments in this thread were inflammatory and way over the line, especially because the topic involves multiple flamewar themes - not just China/West but sexual assault etc.); and (3) not use HN primarily to argue about political and national fights. I'm sure there are other things on HN that interest you as well. Good community members engage out of curiosity on a variety of subjects—not just pre-existing agendas on the single point or two that they feel most passionately about. All of this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
In your link, US is even lower. So if someone praises Canadian system in comparison to US one, it is still correct.

It is absurd to show link that ranks Canada higher then US despite having problems and then proceed to ... call US the best. Also, Americans near border travel to Canada to buy drugs pretty routinely despite it being illegal.
NO!

Letting yourself go just because you have access to bigger clothes isn't healthy.
It's perfectly possible for a team of 10 devs to run on self-hosted source-code control, run an in-house CI system, and run application hosting, with just one tech (and one backup) working part-time on maintaining the system. You need a VM host for the CI; now you have a VM host, you can build git servers and so on (bring the email inhouse, perhaps?).

As far as maintaining the system is concerned: setups that are hosted by 3rd-parties also need maintenance. Someone has to understand how it all fits together, and how to fix it when it goes wrong. So you still need a team-member working part-time on SCC, CI and deployment.
The rest of the developed world, especially Switzerland, also has to thank the US for single-handedly ensuring the profits for its pharmaceutical industry.
While I see where you're coming from, I don't really see how this could be addressed without very fat NDAs and a serious risk of leaking personal data. For comparison, you wouldn't expect say Apple to give researches access to their proprietary intellectual property. I very much agree with you that it could be very beneficial, I struggle to construct an argument for why Facebook should do this.
That's a sad take on programming language theory, yikes.
Thanks, it's on the list.
Ah yes, the Gruber-style humour - snarky, idiotic and completely devoid of any value. No wonder people are leaving HN.
There are also Henge Docks: http://hengedocks.com/
Feel bad for the guys the bought FaceMash.com
If they won't even tell you the # of fully diluted shares, I'd run away fast. Sounds like you made the right move.
It's a term of service (TOS) agrrement, not a professional SLA.

Most of us don't pay Linode anything important enough to warrant an SLA.

You don't get very strict 99.9% SLAs for $20 and $80 a month anyways...
> That sounds probable, but I don't think that's the whole story. First, every major IM provider is available on BlackBerrys

Other IMs are very, very crummy experiences compared to BBM between BB devices. Kik is the first one that may be able to compete with and replace BBM (if only because it took a lot of "inspiration" from BBM), which is a big danger for BB as BBM is the only strength they have in the consumer market (in the US a blackberry is a corp phone, but in Europe it's used a lot by high-texting-volume teenagers and young adults)
http://news.usethesource.com/rss
> It isn't illegal with "horrific penalties" - why would it be?

This whole discussion is about a company wiping an employee's personal phone, by accident and for no reason, including cutting off an active call and disrupting the navigation system they were using. Do you really not see why this behaviour is unacceptable?
Thought I'd share and maybe start a little discussion if anyone else is doing any kind of habit tracking.
Epic put a bunch of money into the company behind Houdini I believe. I'd wager that's the bigger reason for this happening.

I don't feel I fully understand what Houdini can do for me.
Its not the difficulty, but the scale.

Working on one bare metal system is relatively easy as long as you're willing to dive into drivers. Getting 1001 I2C drivers or maybe writing a drivers for tens of different types of flash devices is a different matter.

Your project will quickly become overrun with drivers for literally tens of thousands of devices... then comes maintenance.

Look at the Linux source tree... Good drivers are not trivial either. Simple ones are of course.

Basically, its a time-sink and it doesn't become useful for claiming "portability" until you're approaching the scale of something like Linux.
> error here is in treating all of Google and all of data as monoliths

I don't think that's an error. There is a material difference between me promising you "I won't eat your berries" and my neighbor eating your berries, and my making that promise and then eating them.

If Google is promising not to track you, Google shouldn't be tracking you. “We are bad at coördinating” isn’t a valid excuse. Coördination is the cost of the conglomerate.
In this case, wouldn't it be great if the big dogs picked up the tech and ran with it?
Thanks for the direct interaction.

I hate to hijack with an unrelated topic, but I wanted to know if the Chromecast API is is being updated/improved? It's VLC's killer feature for me, but I find it only works with about 80% of video files I try to use it with. In the other 20%, usually it just displays on the cast device as a black screen with a low opacity chromecast logo. I also have run into issues where the aspect ratio of the cast video is not properly adjusted to the target display. It would be great if you could adjust that via settings.

Thanks for making a great piece of software. I've used it happily for the past 15 years!
It doesn't help at all if they try to localize it because then it's just 11/3/2021 which is equally confusing and you have no idea if they're using your local format or theirs. Any what's your local format? The country you're in or the country you were in when you signed up for the service or the country your VPN server is in? Internet services really need to stop using these stupid mistake-inducing, time wasting date formats. People might have a sense of unfamiliarity seeing ISO8601 format but they can still understand it.

I use ISO8601 dates everywhere possible. Paper forms in the real world where people look at me strangely, invoices, file names which is really handy for sorting, my personal todo lists, everything.
Please don't post like this to HN. I'm not saying you owe FB better, but you certainly owe the community better if you're participating here. We want thoughtful, curious conversation that adds new information on interesting things. A comment that starts with "Lmao" and ends with "rot in hell" is not intersecting that space.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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By this measure, it's much easier to have a negative view of certain of Rand's followers.

I completely agree. I have generally had a fairly negative impression of the organizations that exist today to support her philosophy, but I read most of her books (fiction and nonfiction) and enjoyed them tremendously.
I'm glad to help. Just a random tidbit of advice if it helps: do something for your host that they value so much that they won't mind you staying there. One things that comes to mind is cooking. You could easily whip up something decent enough to thank your host when they get home or wake up or whatever. For inspiration and ideas, http://www.startcooking.com . Besides, I'm sure you could use some good food yourself.
Anyone know why NK keep letting these videos get made, even though it makes them look like total douche bags? Do they really believe something good would come out of it?
Well, her circle was pretty influential, so I think it's interesting from a sociological and political perspective. I'm not that interested in the who-Rand-slept-with aspects, but things like "Rand had a close inner circle that Alan Greenspan was once part of" are interesting/useful to know.
I recommend Programming in C by Stephen Kochan http://amzn.to/cXnEPp

I have also heard good things about Illustrating C
They can with an ankle monitor, the camera implies a more invasive privacy situation though.
Well, you're either employing tactical nihilism or you truly do need more tea. Cohen has shown himself to enjoy manipulating rubes in social contexts where the pressure to perform is present, not entirely dissimilar from how hypnotists work in crowd situations. Rather than letting it be all in good fun, though, Cohen has made people say offensive things, and then uses it to pretend it's what those people really think rather than admitting it's 99% social pressure.
But many of these products, if they were a company in themselves, would be out of business. So why should Google keep them alive?