skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I agree with the author's argument that AI is bad only because people are bad. I'm aware that garbage in yields garbage out. But I also find myself squirming at the idea of accomplishing company goals by identifying nonlinear patterns in data with networks. Especially if those goals are modifying user behavior, a la watchtime.

Am I being a paranoid biophysicist? This isn't my field. If I use AI, am I not, by definition, ignoring responsibility? At least with a regular computer program, I understand every step of the algorithm, and can judge if its doing the right thing. But with neural networks I'm just feeding data into a black box and hoping the ends justify the means. I don't actually know what patterns it is finding and utilizing.
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I think you underestimate what the edge will become. There are already startups trying to store your data at your house, cellphone tower, isp, etc. In ways where there is no central store or in ways that everything is eventually consistent. Computing at the edge is a very interesting topic.
I mean, LinkedIn was always bad, but what changes were you talking about? I can't recall noticing anything different on the site in nearly a decade. Only thing I can think of is the ability to accept all invited.
Lots of reasons. I’m pretty comfortable with my nerd cred (was programming graphics algorithms in C in high school) but buying a windows laptop was a Byzantine experience for me. I need a good screen, good battery life, and good keyboard/touchpad. There are Windows laptops that have one or more, but it’s hard to find one that has all four, and even if you do, there is no guarantee that the same model will have the same qualities on the next iteration.

Because they are so cost sensitive, Windows laptop makers build SKUs based on the hardware that’s available and cheap. So maybe you get a great display, but there was a good deal on crappy touchpads. Or you get a lottery where the same laptop can come with screens of widely varying quality (Toms hardware just did a piece about this with respect to Lenovo).

My Windows laptop purchase recently went like this. I was looking for a replacement for my 2012 MacBook Pro Retina 15”. Dell was out because of coil whine (which has been a problem with Dell machines since I owned an XPS 15 17 years ago). I stare at text all day so a high-DPI display is clutch. But almost every PC vendor make you choose between 4K and 5 hours of battery life, or HD and 10 hours. No well balanced 3K display with 8-10 hours like Apple has. (Again, this is because they’re stuck with what the hardware manufacturers are offering, they don’t have the clout and margins to demand custom panels.) Same thing with Lenovo’s 15” laptop options (they do have a 3K 15” display but it’s quite dim). HP didn’t have Precision touchpads. The Surface machines I’ve owned have been a Q&A disaster (it took them how long to get connected standby working?) And the 15” Surface Book is too much fiddily convertible tablet shit I’d never use. I ended up with an X1 Carbon, which was a bit of a compromise because I wanted a 15” screen. But it ticked the boxes of good screen (WQHD), good battery life, etc. It took a lot more than 30 minutes, and in the end I didn’t get exactly what I was looking for.

Even then it wasn’t sunshine and rainbows. Lenovo has awful quality control. I had to reinstall the Os to get rid of Lenovo crap-ware (and gained 2 hours of battery life in the process). I got a few dead pixels within 6 months. They replaced the screen, but now the bezel is peeling (it is just a fucking sticker, on a laptop that’s $1,500 even heavily discounted). The fibocom WWAN module has never worked properly (like requires a reboot every day after getting disconnected). So the one paper advantage over an apple machine is a dud. (And again, it’s because Lenovo sources parts from whatever is on sale that day—the Sierra modules that come on other iterations of the X1C are great.)
Whenever i'm climbing outside i have a few lengths of dyneema or cordelette that i can rig into a prussick or kleinheist for self-rescue or for staying comfy at multipitch belays that don't have nice ledges.

I don't hangdog all that much, so i was actually unaware of this risk, but it's worth keeping in mind!
Before jumping into detailed discussion of the points raised in the publication here, including "trees leak methane in the Amazon" -- is it possible that this article is getting promoted because it feeds into a "they dont know what they are talking about" meme of anti-science know-nothing'ness ?

There appear to be several sets of weasel-words candidates .. Such as "many scientists applaud X but some urge caution" without naming either side's strengths and weaknesses, notable refutation on either side, or any raw counts of how many "some" are...

Recently it was discovered that USA oil and gas industry self-reporting of methane emissions on extraction in the Permian Basin might be five times less than actual numbers, and might have doubled in the last two years. This was detected by satellite sensors and NGO analysis.

http://www.edf.org/NewMexicoMethane
> You don't simplify something by adding complexity.

Yes, you do, it's called abstraction.

For example, C compiler adds complexity when compared with assembler, but that lets you significantly simplify your code.

And without abstraction, modern software development would not be possible.

Of course too much abstraction can be a problem (which is why some people still program in assembly), but that does not mean JVM will always be the wrong solution.
Turning 40 this year with my first kid expected on my birthday. I've progressively become "happier" with each decade (maybe half decade, actually). That's not solely because of this supposed wisdom that comes with age, but much more because I put a lot of time and effort into myself. The flip side of aging is that a lot of my friends never outgrew "bad habits" from younger years and now they are stuck with them. A lot of drinking, quite a bit of pill use, and a lack of purpose outside of work/hanging out/consuming entertainment. I also see older folks fall into the trappings of tying their "happiness" to things that can be purchased, which of course isn't actually happiness.
I have been using Windows and Mac for years now, and Ubuntu on servers. Yesterday I made a dual boot between Windows 10 and Ubuntu 19.04 and I have to say... It's been pretty awesome, almost everything was configured out of the box, I have 3 monitors and this works almost as good as W10 (Maybe the way to arrange windows could improve). For now I will use it as my main Desktop OS and I will just change to W10 for the games.

Very happy with it, good job Ubuntu and Linux teams! :D
That reminds me of SWIM [0] from the drugs forums back in the day

[0] Someone Who Isn't Me. I believe it was an attempt to avoid admitting to illegal things. It was mandatory to use SWIM instead of the first-person on some forums.
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yes but "sexual exploitation". If prostitution isn't legal in the state, all prostitution is sexual exploitation.
I'm always cautious about making assumptions of "intelligence" from the outside, for people who have expertise or experience that I don't have.

Back in the Reagan days, it came out that his presidential decision-making process for most things was to get it on a one-page memo with a yes/no checkbox. Boy howdy, did we have a lot of fun mocking that idiot who didn't know what he was signing! A lifetime later, I've come to realize that was a brilliant strategy on his part. He didn't waste time on deep study of every little thing that needed his decisions all the time. He surrounded himself with trusted advisors who could neatly sum up the pros and cons for him, so he could focus on the decision, not the analysis.

I thought Reagan was an idiot, because I was an idiot.
Thanks. I have thought about something like that, but I wouldn’t know what to write or blog.
Trees are batteries that store carbon. The carbon is restored into the atmosphere when a tree dies and decays, or is burnt.

A long time ago trees didn't decay because the Earth didn't have "fungus" that made them rot and decay. So they just piled on top of each other and turned into coal.

Plant more trees. https://onetreeplanted.org/
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Livestreamed sexual exploitation was undoubtedly included as a way to extend law enforcement a way to act on "distribution of an intimate image" as defined in 76-5b-203.

Abuse and exploitation do, in fact, have different legal definitions in Utah.

Livestreaming a sexual act without the consent of the 2nd party wouldn't be covered under sexual abuse, as the party is consenting to the sexual act. But, would be covered as exploitation, if the party doesn't consent to the distribution of their image [2].

I'm a huge critic of the church's influence on our legislature, but it's not an extension to porn and/or prostitution. If anything, it's a strengthening of privacy.

[Edit] spelling, sources, and clarification
[1] https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter5/76-5-S406.html
[2] https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter5B/C76-5b-P2_180001...
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Using for energy storage would be a big deal see superconductive storage rings. Potentially the holy grail of batteries.
As a user, Fastly is really, really good. Akamai is the only serious competitor, but they are a lot more traditional in their sales and configuration. (You can theoretically use Azure as a middleman as some have pointed out, but they don't support custom SSL, and configuration changes take literally hours-to-days to propagate.)

Cloudflare is fine but they are still an order of magnitude slower, which is why we switched. I just tested and Cloudflare is still taking 48ms their own DNS server to resolve our Cloudflare-hosted DNS, but only 14ms for Fastly to establish a connection and send the first byte.

That speed does make a difference. When we switched from Cloudflare to Fastly we had about a 7% increase in completed sales.

I think their ROI is still too low for most small businesses, the only way that actually makes sense for us is because it's free for open source/nonprofits. But I can imagine it's a big deal for larger ones.
So far, I'm intrigued. But I'm also conservative when it comes to money. None of these questions are specific to Mercury, they are general to any of the fintech startups that have been popping up lately. So:

- do people really use new banks like this?

- how worried is it reasonable to be that bugs in the platform will cause interruption of business/money loss for customers? (I'd be particularly worried that I wouldn't immediately catch an error in the bank's favor.)

- in general, is there ever a compelling reason to not wait a few years for the bank to smooth out its operations before getting on board?

All that said, I love to see innovation in the space and it looks like a refreshing start!
And now it's live on GitHub!

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It doesn't sound like you want a wireless mouse then. When the batteries die in mine it takes much longer than 2 minutes to change them out.
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I find the towers in a park type of neighborhoods detestable wherever I come across them. The space between the houses may look green and clean, but it's neither private nor public and nobody ever seems to enjoy it. Also, the reality is often closer to towers in a parking place...
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> Trees are batteries that store carbon. The carbon is restored into the atmosphere when a tree dies and decays, or is burnt.

By extension, wooden building materials are carbon batteries as well. Plant more trees and build more things out of wood.
You don’t have to apologize for generalizations, since they’re so obviously untrue.

Supporting a generalization by saying “there’s a spectrum” is an oxymoron, though.
Agreed. Between slack, skype and zoom. Zoom for video conferencing and sharing screens is so much better.
Like every mouse that uses changeable batteries? If you don't want the tradeoffs of a wireless mouse, do not use one.
Instagram is the only large social network that does not have a "reshare" FWIW.
Not the way Apple treats cords and plugs, anyway.

I am consistently annoyed when Apple, who has the magnetic charging plug patent until 2025, refuses to use it in exactly the applications where it would be most beneficial.
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Thanks, Those factors make sense.
I think these arguments usually come down to the domain of problems you work with. Some people simply don’t write code where it makes sense to have positional arguments. Some domains have arguments where positional arguments are more natural/self-documenting.

For example, concatenation, mathematical operations.
Second the fitbit tip! Aside from not dying prematurely, you'll also enjoy increased energy and focus (assuming you actually do get up and walk around every hour) and, at least in my experience, you'll feel better at the end of the day. Just the few minutes of walking every hour makes the difference between a sore and achy back and comfort. Sleeping is easier, too.
>Do you feel like the design of the 2nd generation Pencil for the 3rd generation iPad is _better_?

Yeah, very much so. Both the charging and also the better grip.

>Personally I don't like moving from Lightning to a more-proprietary non-standard magnetic interface.

That's a non issue with the Apple Pencil, because it's already a proprietary product itself, inherently tied to the iPad. It's not like it's a cross-product/cross-platform device, and needs a standard charging interface. You'll need an iPad to use it in the first place, so might as well charge it with one.
It's my opinion that there never should have been a loophole and that the 1970s SCOTUS cases ruled incorrectly about our expectations of privacy for the "third-party doctrine." So this law, in my view, simply restores the 4th amendment protections guaranteed by the US constitution. I'm glad they did it, but as noted in the article, Chief Justice Roberts had to take more complicated positions for Carpenter vs United States, a recent case about cell phone surveillance.

He said cell phone location information "does not fit neatly under existing precedents," but I think the court should just re-evaluate the 1970s cases and come to a place of consistent reasoning about our data, so everything can fit neatly under the protection of the 4th amendment. When we use products or buy things, we expect our data to be private. I don't expect my banker to give away my personal financial information. Nor do I expect my cell phone carrier to share my call history. We do have an expectation of privacy, and the 1970s rulings are hugely flawed, especially in light of today's digital world.
I think the term ai has been completely abused. In fact I try to avoid using the word ai if I can help it and use deep learning instead because that's really the whole crux of this new tech.

I think most people, definitely author of the piece, miss the whole core impact of ai. Ai is basically a new way to process and calculate data, a new type of algorithm.

We can now identify objects in pictures using computer vision with deep learning. This was NOT POSSIBLE with the tech before. A computer can now beat a team of human ai players in dota. This was definitely NOT POSSIBLE before.

At the end of the day this is the impact and its not a small impact. It opens a lot of possibilities to what can now be done. To me it's far more impactful blockchain will ever be. To some degree I'm actually quite happy with all the misleading hype because the people who understand and are capable of using the technology are quietly making real differences behind all the smoke and cloud
I don't understand why there's so much racism in that tiny nation. Almost every time I cross the border into Austria, the police flags me down and asks for my passport. I'm Austrian citizen, born and raised but a person of colour. Even though I speak German fluently, authorities always speak in English to me. It gave me so much anxiety that I moved to the UK and noticed that I'm treated with much more respect and opportunities.

Austria is a beautiful country and most people are nice but man..some people can be very small-minded there. The news would make you believe that the UK is this backwards right-wing nation because of Brexit but you'll never see a muslim of Pakistani descent as mayor in Vienna or people of colour in the Austrian parliament and that's honestly very depressing.
The narrative in stories like this is something like "this generation hates manual labor, they want soft office jobs, therefore construction companies can't fill all their positions." I'm suspicious of this narrative--how much are these jobs paying? If the market is so competitive, can't they raise the salary? The implication is that this new young generation is too... let's say too online to work construction, but that seems pat and shallow. Is it really a failure of character or morals, or is the unspoken second part of this "we can't find people to fill this position ~at this pay rate~"?
I enjoy thinking about the future of IF. I see it as a gaming/storytelling medium with a simultaneously huge potential but still vast chasms to cross before it gets there.

NLP etc. has great potential to improve the parsing capabilities, to be sure, but it's not obvious to me that that will dramatically improve the experience. Is `pick up the shiny brass thing` really better than `GET LAMP`? IMO, it might make IF more accessible to non-techy, non-text parser gamers, but that's about it.

I think the next leap for IF games will involve non-linear stories that are better suited to the medium. The success of games like "Papers, Please" in particular has sparked my imagination in this area.
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Good to see Stripe improving their service even more.
From about 7 years of troubleshooting mac problems, it's actually worse than Windows problems. First, you find people discussing the problem where everyone claims it doesn't exist and no solutions are found. Then you find the problem and solution for mac os from 2008, and that solution definitely doesn't work, but might also break things worse. Then you decide, it's best to just make sure your headphones aren't on when you start itunes in 2014, because there is a 10% chance of really loud static instead of music (mysteriously fixed in the next major release)
Souls are probably nonsense, but if there was some evidence we'd all like to see it. A feeling or experience someone has is not evidence. People used to claim all kinds of crazy things that we don't really accept anymore, because people have tested it. Astral travel, influencing people at a distance with their mind, along with the 100s of different religions that all claim their way is the way of god and the others are all just posers.

I'd love to think that my parents and grandparents aren't just gone when they died, that they are somewhere else, alive, functioning, happy. But all evidence points another way.
Is there any post-audit for appropriateness? It doesn’t even have to be for every request.

In my jurisdiction, the coroner gets called for every 10th expected death in a nursing home just to ensure some accountability.

Or is it a free for all with sealed records unless they get presented as evidence?
I never saw what doing that really solves because comments are still sorted by upvote (aside from the occasional new comment being placed at the top, I actually like that), how many isn't really that relevant. Reddit does the same thing and it didn't really solve anything either.
Writing this from a two month old MacBook Air with broken H key (at my desk with external keyboard!)
Didn't Liberace sue a newspaper for libel when they said he was gay... and then win.

I do not know why anyone gives this guy the time of day. There is a way to indisputably prove if he is satoshi and it is the one thing he will not do.

It is like if I start telling everyone the Lamborghini in the parking lot is mine, and they ask me to turn it on, and I spend the next 4 years arguing that it is mine instead of just turning it on.

Although maybe if I do turn it on I trigger a massive tax bill, in which case I should have never said it was mine in the first place.
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Compared to what? Very few languages compare well to the excellent support out there for Java.

IntelliJ’s Rust plugin is probably the best IDE experience with Rust, and now includes macro expansion. Personally, I still use the RLS with VSCode, mostly because I’m still enjoying the VSCode editor’s versatility when working with many different file types.
It's because her brain won't let her. She suffered from trauma as a child. I bet if you did a brain scan on her, she'd have an overdeveloped amygdala. She's in constant fight, flight or freeze mode. There are examples in the actual article demonstrating this.
The butterfly keyboards drive me crazy. They sound like a constant drove of woodpeckers going to town on a keyboard, and to me they just don’t feel right when traversing.

I own the full size wired aluminum keyboard and it’s honestly my favorite thing. It’s used on my Linux systems and Windows ones. Not a huge fan of mechanical keyboards and this one is thin, fast to traverse, and quiet to use. I was devastated when they ended support for it as they unveiled the iMac Pro.
Half of HN believes cryptocurrencies are a scam, so it's natural they don't track it as closely.
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I would love to see a full list that goes back the last 5 or so years.
Why first? It seems like more transparency is a step towards being held accountable.
How much of an ecosystem is there between Apple on the desktop vs mobile?

I have an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods and there is definitely a strong ecosystem there.

However, I ditched the MacBook (due to keyboard issues) and went with a ThinkPad and have been very happy. The ThinkPad has iTunes, so I dont lose my music. I supposed there is iCloud integration, but that seems like a small reason to remain on Apple desktops.

Side note: Other benefits of ThinkPad

- 64GB RAM! Can run multiple VMs easily
- NVIDIA GPU for those who do CUDA work.
Its interesting to me as a rock climber that I've never heard of this. Its not unusual for someone to hang in their harness at an anchor for quite a while while their partner is climbing the pitch before and after. Are climbing harnesses that much more comfortable than safety harnesses that its not a problem?