skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The benefit would be to early investors, and they get to be in the dirty world of adtech while engaging in some ethical duck and cover. It’s nice that the default blocks ads, but we all know how easy it is to flip that switch down the line. At its core, it presents itself as a kind of profit-sharing alt-ads cum adblocker, which is supposed to be a compromise between supporing the ad model of the internet and personal privacy. In practice it seems like an ethical black hole, but one with some big names invested in it, and loads of hype.

Personally I think compromises with the ad industry only end one way, and the addition of cryptocurrency into the mix should set of alarm bells.
> Was this something they were seriously expecting in the coming years?

I started high school a few months after the last time anyone walked on the moon. If you'd told me then that no-one would ever again walk on the moon in the following fifty years, I'd have told you you were nuts. The general mood in the 1970's was that humankind would start to inhabit space over the following decades, and space colonies like these would be orbiting the Earth. Instead, the only humans publicly known to be in space right now are the 3 aboard the International Space Station.
I grew up in the US, but my wife, inlaws did not. I have a daughter, who is only 2. Sams Club started offering juicing at the store last year. You see them fill up a machine w/ oranges and it cuts, grinds, and does whatever...and out comes fresh juice.

Maybe me having grown up on American sugary substance, my palate has gotten worse. But my wife, inlaws definitely prefer the fresh one when I do a blind taste test. Me...I'm just like meh, no difference, just get me the box one (which is like 1/3rd the cost). My 2 year old...that's the only one she'd drink. She did not touch the box juice before, and I was surprised she liked the fresh one, and asked for more.
I think sentient in this context means that it gives tactile feedback to the brain. It definitely won't do your math homework for you.
The pyramids were not made of concrete. They were built from sandstone blocks and clad in limestone. and the stones were cut using stone tools, not copper. Copper is too soft for stone working but quite a few rocks are harder than sandstone.
Interactive plotting and “notebook” capability isn’t a property of a language so it’s fallacious to ask if Swift has it. (Or Python, or Julia, or Wolfram, etc.)
Yeah, going through two screenfuls of text every time I want to upgrade is not "straightforward".
* http://www.govtech.com/data/People-Counting-Cameras-Are-Watc...
* https://www.fastcompany.com/3025926/one-company-is-trying-to...
* https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/new-ways-of-counting-pedest...
* https://www.eco-compteur.com/en/solutions/pedestrian-monitor...

Etc. It's either happening, or would like to happen, all over.

Why? You can't understand what you can't measure. From city planning to business locations to traffic signals to targeted law enforcement to... If you don't know where people are you can't do anything except guess what should be done.
I'm not one to complain about downvotes, but this entire episode seems to be due to science-by-press release.

Has anyone got a full report on the NHTSA study?
This may or may not matter to you, but there's a few startups/apps out there tackling public speaking improvement. Orai, for example. A friend of mine is in a similar space and discovers new competitors all the time.
My dad taught agriculture for like 30 years. My sister teaches it now.

I’m ashamed I didn’t think of this :(
Ubuntu is supported (see https://swift.org/download/), but Windows is pretty early I think.

See https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/Windows.md and https://forums.swift.org/t/windows-nightlies/19174 for more info.
Videos/interviews I agree 2x is fine. I'd think that movies would have a sense of artistic timing/pacing which speeding up the movie would ruin.
Not OP, but I have a similar feeling.

I was on my way starting masters on Mathematics when I discovered I would be a father, I had to find and start a career so that I could make ends meet.

From my perspective I am glad that happened, I was excessively ambitious, comparing myself with the great ones in the field, measured my self-worth on regard of my ability to solve problems.

Having to swallow my pride, learn to talk with other people as equals so that I could provide for my family made me a better person. I am not sure I would have done this breakthrough isolated on my intellectual bubble, not even talking about the difficulties of engaging with egos at the academia.

Sometimes I miss the excitement of learning something really difficult or solving some problem from a new perspective, but I am glad I am mentally healthier. I am not saying that it's not possible to be healthy and pursue a high level on Mathematics or other intellectually challenging field, but that can enable bad patterns for some people.
It’s a continual dilemma for me in my career now as I hit the big four-oh this year, and trying to figure if there is some way to be just a regular “software engineer” without taking a big pay-cut.

Not that I’m looking to leave the company I’m working for now anytime soon, but I’m in my mid 40s and I think whenever I do leave, this may be my last full time software development job unless I find another small company I like as much.

My next job will either be an overpriced “digital transformation consultant”/“cloud consultant” or just a W2/1099 contractor where I come to work get paid and move on when the contract is over.

Luckily, I never have to worry about health care coverage again in 6 years since my wife will have guaranteed life long health insurance with her job after 10 years.
The video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQiJPexEDM ) provides a bit clearer explanation of what's going on. They're actually sending signals directly through the percutaneous bone anchors, which is pretty rad in my book. Looks like the hand just snaps on to the anchors and you're ready to go, albeit with years of retraining the nerve endings for the new signals.
We need a lot of the features of a modern multi-user operating system to safely implement a modern JavaScript web browser, though. Perhaps so many that adding multi-user on later would not be much more work.
There's a startup, I believe it's in Japan, that is working on this. Basically you'd have generic looking prosthetic humans at popular tourist locations, and you could pay to rent them for a set amount of time, remotely controlling them with sensors attached to your body, and seeing through their eyes with a VR helmet.
Ideally yeah, that would be the best but the supply and demand might not always match up.
Maybe no advertiser is willing to spend some money on the content you're being served because it's very irrelevant to them or because there's simply no advertiser with enough budget to pick up the slack.

So you end up with highly valuable spots and then the rest which is at best barely enough to cover the costs of the publisher.

I'm not trying to blindly advocate for user targeted ads as the be all end all of online ads but the reality is that a huge swath of the publishers would probably disappear, consolidating the web even more.
I was once involved in a DARPA study that looked at this.

My takeaway: we have no idea whether the neurocontrol parts of the brain are this plastic. It might work great; it might totally fail. Nobody knows yet.
A modern take on the idea is the somewhat smaller Kalpana One:

https://space.nss.org/settlement/nasa/Kalpana/KalpanaOne.htm...

https://medium.com/space-anthropology/kalpana-one-318f4e3bef...
I feel like GraalVM has a chance to solve some of this at least. I wonder if anyone will make an Octave GraalVM frontend, they already have one for R.
The list might grow slowly, but the last item on it - ML - grows like crazy right now. It's not unreasonable to expect that in 20 years the vast majority of all computation (from tiniest IoT devices to largest supercomputers) will be running ML models (from simplest classifiers to whole brain simulations).
Oh man, I see so many resumes littered with these kinds of statements. I totally gloss over them as they generally read like BS, and are formulaic enough that they just represent another "how to sell yourself" job-hunting checkbox point. Lots of devs would love to have some way to quantify our impact in monetary terms but the reality is that "process/tooling change X -> $Y ARR" is basically always hand-wavy made up math.
>It definitely won't do your math homework for you.

Hook that prosthesis up to a phone and let's see how far we can get
I grew up reading kids sci-fi with those kinds of pictures... makes me nostalgic!
serving advertisements is unethical. i never consented to being attacked and constantly distracted by an endless ocean of ads, and yet that's what happens. there is no ad that is good. furthermore, advertisers do not have my interests at heart, and i do not want any of them to have even a single shred of information regarding my habits or qualities because it implies having power over me.

until ads become opt in, i will opt out of 100% of ads wherever possible. i'll also always run Ad Nauseum and try to ruin advertiser's profit margins and quality of information wherever legally possible and within my means and convenience.

if i'm "forced" to see an ad, i can always use a different product or service instead. or i could simply do without altogether instead -- like with TV.

just to drive this point home, i want to make it clear that i'm putting my money where my mouth is. i refuse to invest in companies that use ad-based revenue as their business model or develops ad tech for others to use. and i'm not alone.

in fact, i don't know any people in tech -- or outside of tech -- who don't try to block ads as often as they can.
I can't believe the down-voting for suggesting Google - clearly NOT a provider of essential infrastructure like phone lines or internet connectivity - NOT be classified a class II common carrier!

In what universe are companies like Google, Apple, ... classifiable as class II common carriers? On what grounds?
I'm a bit uneasy about the fact that they are punching through skin. This always bears a big risk of infections as the skin is the #1 protection from bacteria. Even prosthetics fully under the skin have this risk, and septic shock is a possibly lethal threat. And we humans love to put our hands to various sometimes more, sometimes less, dirty places.
Probably on your back, and have it lay flat when not in use. That way you could carry things in front of you, and use the third arm to carry additional stuff as a counterbalance.
> Where have you seen that?

Puppy Linux actually does that[0].

[0]: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Spot
> Sugar also contributes to fatty liver less than saturated fat

I’ve seen multiple studies suggesting otherwise, sugar being in general responsible for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

That assertion will also be difficult to swallow for anybody that ever attempted a Keto diet. I can talk from my own experience with Keto, when I binge ate butter on cheese (aka fat bombs). I did not lose any weight and yet my fatty liver was gone after the 3 months I was on it. Also all my liver’s ALT and AST levels are perfect. And I must insist on this point: no weight loss was involved.

Also note that the study you’re linking, with 38 subjects observed for 3 weeks, is statistically insignificant and probably flawed, as small studies tend to be. When changing somebody’s macros, there’s an adaptation period involved and 3 weeks is not enough.

The funny thing about all claims regarding the negative effects of saturated fats is that:

(1) saturated fat was a major caloric source throughout all of human history and yes, we know what humans ate in the Paleolithic

(2) human fat itself is saturated, you know, the one the body starts consuming when hungry

Humans are equipped to efficiently digest saturated fats and starchy plants rich in glucose. Well actually humans only need about 600 calories from carbs, any excess is converted to fat.

Fructose on the other hand is completely unnecessary, when digested it is converted to fat or glucose and it’s toxic in high doses. You can live your whole life without eating another gram of sugar. You can’t say that about saturated fat ;-)

Funny enough you can make the same argument about the other public enemy, salt. You will literally die without enough sodium in your diet and yet the healthcare industry is fixated on vilifying salt, but not sugar. A huge double standard that has no basis in actual science.
Compared to a software product, the scientists have build a product that contains many modules that all link together via complex maths.
What is still missing is refactoring: making things simple again and removing unnecessary parts.

While many of the modules have been tested separately, certain combinations may not work as proclaimed. I find this problem already with the physics of the sun. So many things are way off normal physics. I have seen models that do not exist anywhere else. Predicted values are 10^6 order off. These things need retesting and the modules likely need to be redesigned.

But just stating that something might be off, already triggers many scientists. They see it as an attack on "their" science. This is clearly an attack on the messenger. Usually mixed with logical fallacies. So there is a real problem with the involved scientists as well. They do not want to see errors in their system, as it hurts their status. And there is the real problem with science. The ones involved do not want to admit that there might be something wrong.

If I would tell programmers that something might be wrong with one combination of modules, they are (more) often happy to look into it. So scientists, be more like programmers.
I will say this in the risk of talking out of my ass as I have no experience in either language :). Having a statically typed language greatly simplifies the tooling because static analysis is much easier; graph program extraction involves one such analysis. When you have to deploy the trained model in production one would hope not to use Python or Julia.

I'd like to add that, with my limited experience in prototyping some of my ML models, having a static checker to check that your tensors have the right shape is much better than having to run your code.
Really? Nvidia is the dominant GPU hardware manufacturer, because of CUDA. You cannot do deep learning without CUDA (OpenCL is not nearly as productive for development). Without deep learning, you are out of the game in the most exciting fields of software engineering. So for many software engineering professionals, Nvidia is absolutely the only option, and it is everything else that has to adapt to it.

Thankfully, Nvidia makes Linux drivers, otherwise I would have to (gasp) use
Windows as my development machine. Unfortunately, Wayland doesn’t work. I love Wayland and its clean API, but I can’t use anything else except Nvidia, because there is no CUDA.
Probably not, unless those rotors we're spinning really slowly; you wouldn't need nearly as powerful a helicopter in such a weak gravity...
The problem is integrating it into the existing skeleton. Our arms are not just glued to the body, they integrate with the shoulder.
Scott mentions the Dexcom G5 in some older blog postings:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThePromisingStateOfDiabetesTe...
A simple 3D shooter from scratch in a weekend
It's not zero-sum, it's ultimately negative-sum. Ever increasing amount of resources are spent fighting over relatively fixed pie, ruining many lives and countless days in the process.

Advertising in practice does not converge to market efficiency; it overshoots and ultimately strip-mines people, by exploiting information asymmetry.
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It's also not even completely altruistic. The free accounts on Cloudflare serve as an incredibly diverse source of first party signal intelligence, which directly impacts the quality of the offering they're able to provide to paid accounts.

The fact that there's at least nominal value to Cloudflare in having me as a free customer gives me confidence and reassurance in using their product, as it lends credence to the long term availability of my free tier account and that I won't suddenly be the victim of a shift in their marketing and sales development budget.

I'm not sure what the right term for that type of incentive alignment is, but it reminds of me Geico auto insurance. As a business, their goal is to provide a long term and stable source of float to Berkshire Hathaway[1], not quarterly profits. To do that, they've optimized their business to capture and retain as much market share as reasonably feasible. Their rates are truly reflective of the actuarial expectations of insuring you - there's virtually no profit margin baked in because that could prevent marketshare growth, and you won't get bitten by shady exclusions buried in the fine print that you only find out about when you try to file a claim, and you won't get hit with an unexpectedly huge rate increase at renewal time due to a slightly worse than expected quarter and the need to engineer short term profits. The "gotcha" with Geico's pricing model is that they're using my business as leverage for other purposes (premiums as float to provide leverage to BH).

I do a lot of work in optimizing monetization strategies and developing/optimizing business processes, so I may be an atypical consumer. But I have far greater adoption of services when I understand the value drivers of the relationship. If you're not directly making profit off of me, I'm either a marketing expense in your acquisition process or you're using our relationship to derive profit elsewhere. If I'm a marketing expense I'll try to avoid building reliance on your product into my life because the stability of our relationship is unknown. And if you're deriving profit from our relationship and I don't understand how, I'll default to assuming an adversarial relationship where either "I'm the product" or there's a hidden catch coming in the future. Whereas if I know that you're not directly extracting profit from our relationship, and I understand how you're indirectly driving profit from our relationship, I'm far more likely to trust you and integrate your product into my life.
More to the point static typing is just not that important for data scientists. Arguably it's not that important for backends devs either (e.g. lisp, erlang).
The thing is GPUs achieve their performance by embracing certain realities that aren't likely to change any time soon. The classic model of memory reflected in conventional CPU architectures tries to keep up the pretense that all memory accesses are equally fast through lots of levels of caches. GPUs have a model that recognizes memory locality as fundamental and treats general memory access more like IO - something asynchronous that you want to issue a request for and then find other work to do while you wait for a response. Fine gained thread context switching with massive parallelism mostly hides that from the programmer and saves them having to write an await on every memory fetch.

CPUs also go to heroic lengths to try and make shared memory transparent with complex cache synchronization logic. GPUs allow you to do that to an extent with atomics but have a programming model that discourages it. That's a model that better aligns with the realities of hardware.

Moore's Law was always about number of transistors, not clock speed or single thread performance. GPUs have kept it fairly alive in that regard. Even CPUs continue to increase transistor counts quite effectively, they've just stalled out on clock speed increases and ways to use those transistors to increase single thread performance and a lot of software still can't scale well by just adding cores.
For me, it offers a faster browsing experience than Chrome, and privacy at least as good as Firefox.

I used to use both of these popular browsers, and now I'm all-in on Brave. Chrome is fast but has well-documented privacy issues. But even running various tracker blockers and a Pi-Hole, Chrome wasn't nearly as fast as Brave (without additional blockers or the Pi-Hole).

I like to support Mozilla/Firefox, and Firefox has been my daily driver for most of the last two decades. But it just isn't as fast as Chrome (let alone Brave). It has better privacy than Chrome, and the inimitable Tree Style Tabs, but it takes noticeably longer to open new tabs and load pages.

I moved over to Brave once they started supporting Chrome extensions. I have found that my MBP's fan kicks on much less often than before on Chrome/Firefox, and the battery lasts longer as well. While I miss the TST that I enjoyed on FF, I'm getting by with Sidewise. The inconvenience of having the tabs loaded in a separate window is massively outweighed by the speed/privacy benefits of Brave.

As for the ethics of ad-replacement, this is a bigger question. If the baseline were "everyone has ads everywhere", this could be seen as an unethical alternative. But the baseline is "many people (and presumably nearly everyone who is savvy enough to install Brave) use adblockers". So it's not like they're going from seeing ads to not seeing ads. They're going from blocking them with one system to blocking and replacing them with another system. And they can send the revenue from the replacement ads to the websites they spend time on.
I'm curious, which part needs remodeling? I live on the peninsula, and SJC is my preferred airport. I go through there at least once a year, and it's never felt particularly run-down to me.
I mean hey, maybe I’m wrong but I have a bachelors in physics and this is what I’m seeing ahead. Verifying the speed of light is easy; you just need a rotating mirror and a laser or bright light. Showing that electrons have a charge can be done with oil drops. But the Higgs boson took, let’s just say a bit more effort, and while I think it’s good that we are looking for new particles there is no practical application of the Higgs. Just saying. The low hanging fruit is gone and what’s left may or may not be useful.