skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not alone. From my perspective, the value of google search results has been dropping for years. And the quality of their search results seems to be dropping in a way I suspect is profitable for google. Most of the results I get back from google these days are trying to sell me something I have no interest in buying.

For example, suppose I do a google image search for "pear", because I want images of pears obviously. The first result is indeed a pear, good job google! Except the first search result just happens to come from Amazon, and also happens to be a pretty shitty thumbnail quality photograph (355x336). It's a pear alright, but why is this particular image of a pear first? Google didn't try to give me the best image of a pear, they tried to give me the pear image they thought most likely to induce a financial transaction. Or alternatively, google let itself get cheaply manipulated by Amazon's SEO. Neither is a good look.

A much better pear image, 3758x3336 from wikipedia, is further down the search results. So it's not like google was unable to find good pictures of pears. And a non-image search for "pear" returns the wikipedia page first, so it's not like google failed to noticed the relevancy of the wikipedia article about pears. Yet the shitty amazon thumbnail of a pear shows up higher in the image search results than a high resolution photograph of a pear from wikipedia.
> Google should give away the fruits of that labor for free, plus invest in a reasonable API to download that index?

If you're not going to read the article why should anyone read your comment?
What does it matter whether it came from an assistant or not?

Natural language is likely the preferred search input method for kids under a certain age, who cannot yet type fluently. My kids formulate very long, complex queries verbally. The other day my son asked Alexa why the machine gun is such a deadly weapon. She replied with a snippet from Wikipedia that was surprisingly relevant.
1.3GBps is still super fast.

It wasn't that long ago that we were using 7200rpm HDs which capped at around 110MB/s for large files.
$1B for 20k Bay Area homes
Beware, the IRS is eyeing your inherited money
Not saying I agree or disagree with you, but the idea itself isn't anything radical. The US has had anti-trust since the late 1800s.
Counterpoint: people usually donate canned goods that they bought thinking they would consume it, but no longer want. Oftentimes, if you go to costco or other large warehouse store, you buy a box of cans, and then you may get tired of it. These unused cans accumulate, and there is zero marginal cost to donating them. Otherwise, they'd just be tossed.
Which really brings up the question of having a charity based social support structure instead of just delegating that to the government and letting a few hundred million required to run the entire thing be written off as a sig fig error of the military budget.
My understanding: You are containing the 'plan' or instructions to recreate or describe the system, but not the system itself. The system contains more information than what the plan can actually describe, even if you are storing duplicates in such a way as to 'reduce' it. Your plan won't be able to store, for example, the information conveyed to the nerves by touching the laptop, you may have a description, but it will only ever be a description.
Expatriation Tax
> To outfit a wagon to go West with all the supplies necessary cost the inflation adjusted equivalent of about $100K.

What deflator was used to make this calculation?
You need someone who can do this at the right time and about the right thing: https://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an...

The ability to see where you suck and see your opportunities and above all, fight hard to fix it, is rare. It is much more than making a decision based off of information collected by advisors - it is vision and wisdom and political sense and grit. This is no less true when the particular mission is reducing suffering than when it is making money. Solving hard problems is always hard, and there are never enough people around who can make it happen.
What do you dislike about it?

I haven't really noticed mine.
Exactly - that's where I've read about it.
Do hardware decoders for vp9 even exist?
This article reads like it was written by someone who's never tried to stop getting junk mail. I used to call the listed 1800 number on every piece of mail I got, return it with NATA written on it, etc... I never once got a single company to stop. There's literally nothing you can do to prevent it from coming at you, at least in my experience.
Wouldn't that be more like, infinitely advanced modeling is indistinguishable from reproduction?
Why is it people care so much about Google being in many different markets but I never see anyone calling for Samsung or Berkshire Hathaway to be broken up?

Just goes to show how easy populism is to push. Google and Facebook are in the news a lot and used by the average consumer, making them the perfect scapegoats.

Meanwhile, the average consumer just sees Samsung as the TV people (actual industries: apparel, automotive, chemicals, consumer electronics, electronic components, medical equipment, semiconductors, solid state drives, DRAM, ships, telecommunications equipment, home appliances) or Berkshire Hathaway as that old rich guy that drives a cheap car (actual industries (property & casualty insurance, Utilities, Restaurants, Food processing, Aerospace, Toys, Media, Automotive, Sporting goods, Consumer products, Internet, Real estate), so not a peep is made about them or every other horizontally distributed company in the world.
Link for the lazy: https://medium.com/darklang
>Maybe Toronto is way more expensive than Houston

It is.

>~800 sq ft 1 br 8 minutes from downtown in a nice neighborhood for $850

Lol.
Yeah, this is why I still use and like myactivity.google.com, as creepy as it is. It's helped me re-find so many interesting half-remembered sites and videos and songs I'd previously come across.
Who would you like to do business with?

country A that has the best tech, has a stable political climate, does not push too much, has a good price, or country B, who has inferior tech, a "maximum pressure" president and asks too much.

Turkey choose Russia for its S400 and the Philippines choose Huawei for its 5G for obvious reasons. If people in country B do not understand why this happens, they will fail again doing business.
I agree, it isn't a monoculture. But on some topics, HN seems to have a bit more uniform response than on others. I remember GDPR being highly polarized with both sides represented about 50/50, maybe slightly leaning towards anti-GDPR. On others, however, like investigating Google or SF housing crisis/zoning issues, the opinion breakdown seems to be much closer to at least 80/20.
Sometimes I wonder. I've definitely noticed packages sitting in the local post office for a day or two to simply get past that 2 day limit. There's even been times where I was able to call the post office and go pick it up, because they didn't send it out for delivery despite arriving the day before. Could be innocent, but it always struck me as suspicious.
Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale is a model of longform worldbuilding
So you're saying I could walk into Bank of America, say I wanted the current 50 pound British note in proof condition, pay the current exchange rate ($63.00 USD currently), and walk out with one that same day?

Doesn't seem possible.

I mean - could you potentially get 50 pounds worth of physical British currency at the current exchange rate from a US bank? Certainly - but it won't be proof condition - not by a longshot.

I think if you wanted proof condition (uncirculated) for any note, you have to contact the treasury of that country - which I believe (and correct me if I am wrong) for the 50 pound note, is going to be the Bank of England (I've linked to it above in another reply).

In the US, I believe you have to contact the US Treasury Department; but you could probably just go to a bank for such a note (or an entire filled band if you wanted it) - but for certain things you would likely need to contact them directly I think.

For instance, you used to be able to get uncut bills; IIRC, one of the Steves of Apple fame used to pay things as a joke with these, in the one dollar denomination - he would get the sheets, then have them professionally perforated, and then punched to put them in a binder, and when he'd pay for stuff, he'd open the binder, and tear out the money - it was perfectly legitimate cash, but it threw a lot of people for a loop - I believe it was Woz who did this; Jobs was a bit uptight for that kind of hack - which is what made them a perfect pair - it's just too bad that Woz didn't get to really share in the "fame" of Apple (I think that was his choice, though - from what I know of him, that's how he is mostly).

To get those uncut bills, though, I think you had to travel to the US Treasury and purchase/pick-up in person; it wasn't something you could just easily grab at your bank. Today, they don't sell them at all, probably due to counterfeiting (bleach the paper and re-print higher-denomination bills all at one shot).
Cargill: The Worst Company in the World
Yes, but that also means they drive up the price of tuition and the academic requirements of admission for American students just by existing as consumers of the "student slot at university" product.
This may sound crazy, but I love my Surface Pro 4 clone.

It has the same specs of a good laptop, the type cover is sturdy (but easily replaceable in the worst case), removable for tablet use and the screen doesn't wobble a bit.

I consider it a lot more flexible (and studry, since there is no hinge to break) than a traditional laptop.

Yes, the screen could be larger.
The $1K aluminum monitor stand is symbolic in that regard, even though it's not even hardware.
I do understand where the confusion is stemming from, but taking the time to properly learn the clash between Leibniz and Lagrange is very important. It makes a lot of sense to use one versus the other in specific cases. You might be able to protest by saying there are certain cases where the differential operator is treated like a fraction, but not only would I call this a rarity but also a cheat to what is really happening (the chain rule comes to mind). I do think it's cool to think of analogies that could include notation changes for students in early calculus classes though.
1. I can only learn by doing. If I can't turn it into a project, then I'll never internalize the details, and cannot really claim to have learned anything.
2. For it to be a project, there has to be a deliverable. Could be a repo on GitHub, a clock sitting in the living room, a blog article, or something repaired around the house. But there has to be an artifact I can point to when I say "I learned this."
3. Don't get stuck. If progress gets delayed on one part of the project and you have to wait for something - whether it's a part, or it's just going to take some time to figure something out - then work on another part of the project in the meantime. Keep moving forward, even if it's not the central thing in which you're interested, even if forward motion is slow.
I read that as solving a potential future issue, versus solving the issue that caused the crashes.

Here's a diagram of what the ADF "windows" are: https://images.app.goo.gl/3AUW6JsPV6tj39fq9
They should drop 1500 cats instead. Problem solved.
>Other bags, such as sturdier plastic bags designed for reuse were much better options, needing only a few uses to break even, environmentally speaking.

"a few uses" is only true when you're only considering climate change. it's 50+ when you consider all factors.

>Anyway, 50+ (or 100+) uses - a year or two of weekly shopping - does not seem unreasonable for a cotton bag.

The issue here is that at 1 shopping trip per week, it's a little under 2 years to break even with disposable bags plastic bags (assuming you reuse the disposable bag once). To actually make a 50% reduction, you'd need to use it for 4 years. That's a lot of hassle (remembering to bring along the bags, storing it, etc.) for very little benefit (in absolute terms), considering how little materials are in each plastic bag. For instance, according to the table on page 55, each bag has greenhouse effect equivalent to 0.11kg of co2. Over 400 uses with 50% savings, that's 22kg of co2 saved. With the current market price for carbon offset credits (quick search puts it at $25/ton), that's $0.55 saved over 4 years. You might be able to scale that out to 10 bags, but that's still pretty low.
Cool, finally people can utilize the statistical human average by automatically boiler-plating their code with what the average developer would produce.

Sounds like this has good chance of bringing the "human intelligence on deep-learning auto-pilot" into the world of developers. Don't think, just accept what the computer tells you. Over time, why think at all.

There is no bigger enemy to concise, clean code, than too much auto-completion. If it doesn't pain you to repeat patterns, then there is literally no incentive no to litter your code with anti-patterns and copy paste. Now it's even worse, because this copy paste gets "smart" enough to look alright, which is in itself the very definition of an anti-pattern.
Same!! Like with most tools, web scraping can be used for nefarious reasons very easily. I'm glad he provided that caveat. Signs of someone truly trying to create good work and not just clickbait.
Eh. It depends. Most nonprofits probably need money more than they need "show up with a pulse and do what you're told" type labor. However, donations of skilled labor and capital can often deliver more value than their cost because the organization receiving them could not go out and purchase equivalent goods/services for what it cost the person donating those goods/services to give them up. Most churches tend to use this model as much as they can and it works out quite well.
> Had they been better funded, they might have committed the error

You just described their contemporary competitor Samuel Pierpont Langley. This is great example to cite when someone complains they don’t have enough GPUs to compete with BigCos.
My (layman) analogy so far was to think of proteins as wires and transistors, cells as microcontrollers, DNA as the program of a single microcontroller and our body as the result of billions of microcontrollers which all run (mostly) the same program, interacting with each other.

At least, this gives some appreciation of the complexity of it all.
Considering companies will only hire an engineer from a top college, with top scores, with huge student loans the pay should have to match.
Much easier to recover from as well, and probably comparable or lower bird deaths.
You are missing at a minimum: debt payments, retirement savings, regular savings (e.g. emergency fund), any sort of vacation or holiday travel budget, insurance, basic dental care or things like eyeglasses if you need them. A realistic clothes budget. Realistic meals outside the home. Any entertainment. Any travel outside the metropass. Any household stuff.

$350/food isn't bad estimate for Toronto - it would be hard to get below $250, even being very careful. So there is maybe a little to claw back there, but you'll want at least $100 for food outside the home too.

Also the rent number is too low for Toronto, assuming you don't add a commute beyond your metropass.

So yeah, $500 doesn't look that practical.

This isn't a budget for sustainable living, it's a best an emergency budget you can survive on for a bit.
True, but then I bet those students are still more into studying STEM than their richer counterparts who are more likely studying liberal arts or biz subjects.
I'm looking forward to some data cleaning :)
Lots of people run things, and lots of them are really bad at it. I've known people who I would classify as way above average managers, and their success is not just due to having carte blanche access to internal state. It's due to being able to manage the goals and expectations and workflow of many groups of people, and being able to keep all of the different plates spinning. Ensuring that everything is moving in the right direction all the time in an organization bigger than a few people is not trivial, and if you think it is, perhaps you are not getting paid enough.

I also think if you can replace a given manager with anyone and the right information, then that manager is as worthless as you think they are. While that may be true of many managers, it's not at all true of good ones. I think there's the daily work of the business, and there's the managing of the daily work of the business, and while the skill-sets often overlap, they are not the same, especially as the business grows.

On the other hand, I find it hard to justify many (most?) of the highest end CEO salaries, but generally a competent manager at a company doing just several million dollars worth of business per year is worth at least several hundred thousand dollars per year (roughly how much someone who owns and runs a business with that much revenue would make).

At the end of the day, I'm going to have to take the cop out though and say that if you've never met a manager that can't be replaced by just anyone with the right information, you haven't met a good manager, because I definitely know at least a few people who can step into many roles, whether it's running a business, or coaching a youth sports team, or helping a local non-profit, where everything starts running better once they start providing direction and it's not because there was no one providing direction previously.
Chrome extension for speed reading on Kindle, Scribd, or Google books
Feral cats are profoundly destructive to bird populations.
Insane and smart at the same time. I like it.
(disclaimer: not the author)

One problem is that deploying GPU neural networks cross-platform is a huge pain. You basically have to get your users to install CUDA and figure out how to dynamically link against that on Windows and Linux, Mac users and people with AMD GPUs are out of luck of course.

The only way to do cross-platform GPU compute without your users installing a toolkit like CUDA is with Vulkan (and MoltenVk or gfx-rs). But then you don't have the super optimized GEMM kernels so your network might run slower than just using a super-optimized GEMM kernel on the CPU.
That will do wonders for the bird population they are trying to preserve.
Yes, I do know it to be true. I think people are thinking of some dedicated operation as opposed to operations run by churches or non-profits in the area. Frankly, they use money for other things like keeping the lights on and paying bills. The food (and other needs like children's items) is donated by the community.
I understood it to be a rhetorical question, apologies if I misunderstood.

Driving encompasses both mechanical and human risks. Here we are talking about just the mechanical, so I don't think the comparison is particularly fair.
I'm on a team at my current job with ~10 other engineers, and at my previous job I was on a team of ~12. With growth, retirements, and turnover at both jobs we are always hiring. My rough approximation from both jobs (spanning about 10 years) is that we're able to hire one person every 6 months. I'm not a hot tech geographic region, and the field I work in is somewhat niche, but there are many non-cynical reasons a job might be posted indefinitely.
> It would provide 7% of the city's electricity beginning in 2023.

This seems a bit slow to me. 5 years in California time usually ends up being at least 10 years if you are lucky. By then the 7% will probably be closer to 3-5%. I think California is going to have to be a lot more aggressive with Solar and battery if they are going to reach their climate goals...
Small Cars Are Being Driven Out of Existence
When writing a ratio that works like a ratio is too cumbersome, we
prefer simply avoiding the ratio notation altogether, to prevent
making unwarranted leaps based on notation that may mislead the intuition.

Yeah, would definitely be a shame if somebody misunderstood some notation and leapt into writing a paper about it.
Maybe there should be a contest to turn great first sentences into Lyton worthy bad sentences.

The man in Black ambulated with passion across the Desert, and the Gunslinger said I'm gonna do that too.
Ah, interesting, I did not realize there was a difference in protocol. I thought A1/A2 were just spec requirements.

I wonder if A2 support is something that could be added in newer kernels, or whether it requires hardware support.
I was really looking forward to getting IPv6 on my home network. It turns out my ISP are using DHCP-PD, which means the prefix I get assigned is dynamic, so essentially useless for hosting. I can't believe with such a large address space ISPs are still deciding use dynamic allocation.
There's accelerated decoding on at least some of the modern mobile platforms, and from all the major graphics providers on laptop/desktop.
What Can AlphaStar / Transformer Neural Networks Do?
Then someone needs to take the time to explain to people what the value of that position is and why it requires the amount of money it is being paid, because neither are at all obvious.
Using Brave or FF I can watch 4k no issues on my MacBook, though I wouldn't turn down lower power usage when doing so.
I'm impressed they knew that much detail.
How much role do CEOs have in directly determining their personal salary?
You're very rude.
> I know the rent is more expensive

Yes, the roughly equivalent 1br in Toronto is going to be about $2500 these days.

Also keep in mind Texas has no sales tax, Ontario does. And we are talking CDN not USD (hard to directly compare some things). It's in general a bit more expensive in Toronto, across the board (except health care, obviously).

Houston is one of the cheapest "proper" metros in USA and Canada.
If I recall correctly, the author explicitly states in the introduction that mathematicians will hate the book precisely because it skips over proofs and takes a pragmatic approach. If you're the kind of person who wants to understand the proofs before using them, you will need to supplement this book with other material.
Most people don’t know what RSS is. Hell, most developers I know barely know what it is.

As a podcaster myself I want to make it easy for people to subscribe and from statistics 95% use iTunes, Overcast or Spotify (I provide a RSS feed as well)
Indeed. The "big picture" is that regardless of how long it takes, be it twenty or fifty or a hundred years, eventually there won't be a technology gap between China and the United States. If we want the US to have any hope of competing against a country of 1.4 billion people we have to turn the borders into factories for making and integrating new Americans, and the sooner we do it the better. 1.4 billion vs 500 million is a better equation than 1.4 billion vs 327 million.
Scale and agility matter during emergencies, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes. In such circumstances, the smaller local organizations are affected by the same problem.
> Meanwhile, the average consumer just sees Samsung as the TV people (actual industries: apparel, automotive, chemicals, consumer electronics, electronic components, medical equipment, semiconductors, solid state drives, DRAM, ships, telecommunications equipment, home appliances)

Samsung was also building military jets and artillery pieces. Imagine the media response if Facebook went into weapons production :)
Prime Day: activists protest against Amazon in cities across US
I actually like the domes as they are. What I want is, somehow, to increase the spring tension after the dome collapses, so that I don't slam into the baseplate.
Ex-Googler here. This proposal makes no sense to me.

Anybody can write a web-crawler and get a searchable indexed snapshot of the web. What Google is good at, is ranking your search results based on relevance and quality so the best results are at the top and you never see the terrible results.