skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who used to work at one of these places: shocking.

It pretty much always is this way. They pretend it is AI, then when it comes out that it is pretty much all humans, they pivot to admitting it is "human-assisted".

The humans were truly creating data that was being fed back in, that wasn't a lie. Engineers would have to poke at the bot a bit to get it out of corners it would get itself into occasionally.

The big issue is the VC nature of the business. You are fighting a shot clock on an extremely hard problem. So you have to rush things out to get to the next step, then realize at the next step all of the data you collected, oops, can't be used because there was a small issue.

Or maybe they realize a model was inaccurate and has to be rebuilt.

I truly don't think a VC-funded true AI company is possible, especially for hard and fairly unbounded problems (speech is one thing, engineering is just... that's insane).

If someone made a sustainable AI company that could run infinitely, that company would have a huge shot due to that financial position.
Ask HN: How do you get feedback/iterate when your users speak a diff language?
I understand the problem faced by my customers well (my startup offers a credit card for the gig economy/taxi drivers/ delivery boys). 10%+ of uber drivers in Bangalore(India) are my customers already. but i don't speak the local language.

I often wish i could understand all the calls to our support and be able to just meet and talk to them better. i am picking it up better - but not as fast as i want to.

we have the ability to localize push notifications and content on our app - but still face delays in taking what is on my mind - and getting that live (especially when you have to deal with translations,fonts, etc)

ideas? do you know companies who have done this well? do you face this as well - and what has worked, what hasn't.
> That's what stocks are supposed to be

Says who?
Why the U.S. Has Long Resisted Universal Child Care
Also, shipping containers are like a soda can, they're built to be very strong, with as little material as possible. If you cut a hole in the side, it dramatically weakens it, so you need a lot of structural reinforcement.
Approved by whom? Someone might look at it after the fact, but nothing stops a company from buying or selling with its shareholders. (In fact it's quite common for private companies to pay owners for things like office space.) But yes, it should be at fair market value; you're not supposed to buy something for one price just to flip it to your company for a higher price (effectively taking compensation as a capital gain).
I recall seeing a comment of dang's wherein he mentions that this site regularly disabled paywalls for visitor coming from HN.
If Zoom is, then Slack must also be.
On geological timescales the Anthropocene is an event, not an epoch
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The whole point of the post here is that the theory doesn't apply very well to modern mobile development, and trying to share code effectively slowed them way down.
Already submitted to HN, which seems a better place for discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708064
I feel like tests have always been the best way for me to understand what's actually going on in the code. Seems like a great way to learn!
Good VCs almost never fund the idea, but the team.
So, if Atul Gawande comes up and ask that question, he most surely will get it
Great idea. We don't do reviews today but are considering integrations like Whistic, G2Crowd, and others. That would help stakeholders get evaluation information before they commit to buying.
coca-cola.dev is not owned by Coca-Cola, even if coca-cola.be, cocacola.be, cocacola.fr and coca-cola.fr is owned by Coca-Cola.

The same way with bosch.com and bosch.dev. One is a famous tools manufacturer, the other is a web developer.

It is impossible to guess the entity behind domain names by only the domain name.
I generally like Planet Money's style, in which the reporter/correspondent will do a majority of the narration, paraphrasing and interjecting when the original speaker isn't saying something particularly notable. Sometimes this is just necessary, interviewees don't always speak in complete and or/concise fashion, especially when doing boilerplate description.

In the example you give, I think the interjection is fine. Healy, the U.S. postal inspector, gives a vague description of Felipe – "a physically little guy" – and the reporter interjects with actual specifics. I don't think the flow would be noticeably better if this was the edited cut:

> HEALY: He's a physically little guy...And not overly muscular

> NPR: Felipe's actually 5-foot-4
"disgusting"? Really?
You run into evolutionary game theory issues. The reason the world is dominated by corporate states today is because the existence of corporations - formal organizations shielded from legal liability, able to take on projects riskier than any individual would - helped them conquer the rest of the world. Native American tribes didn't have corporations. Pre-colonial India didn't have corporations. Imperial China didn't have corporations. In all cases these civilizations were subjugated through direct corporate influence, oftentimes because the corporate veil allowed institutions like the British East India Corporation or the American Railroads to commit crimes (like genocide) that would've been thoroughly illegal if perpetrated from one individual to another within the society.

You'd likely end up with a temporary utopia within the society which gets shattered once another society (which embraces the competition, risk-taking, and technological progress afforded by corporations) decides that your utopia is looking awfully weak and has some nice goodies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708064 is the unpaywalled version.
their investors should have clarified what the "A" in AI stood for -- actual intelligence! :)
Sort of. I forget where I read it, but some rich guy wrote an article along the lines of "hey other rich guys, we gotta deal with this inequality thing, otherwise the pitchforks are coming for us"
Erm, for a JS project that uses NPM packages, that really is tiny.

IME it's not uncommon to see node_modules with thousands of packages.

Do keep in mind of course that these are dev-time dependencies, they don't go into production. IMO only 30MB of build deps is pretty damn good.
Then multiply that by how many actions you have per state. We'll suppose 9 because you can only change one tile at a time. Then multiply that by 4 bytes assuming we are using a float instead of a double and you get 4.8 gigs of memory for whatever this simple problem is.
I had to go through this last year with my previous company. Splunk's licensing is outrageous. They cap the data transfer on a PAID license arbitrarily. Even getting coordinated with their sales to just pay them was a chore. They do nothing to foster open development on their platform. IMO, the open offerings actually seem designed to make it impossible to improve/contribute/extend in a cost effective way. It is also ill equipped to deal with Kubernetes even though they did release a reasonable if Windows Guy bloated example of a k8s deployment at the beginning of this year. I was completely baffled when I found out it was a Django project. It feels like something from the depths of enterprise Java.

Elasticsearch (or ELK/EFK) is really eating their lunch but if you have any experience managing an Elasticsearch cluster at scale you might have some reservations about it. If you'd like to audit it I might suggest using a Helm chart like this one[0] to deploy a full stack to a Kubernetes cluster. Even if you aren't using k8s for production it's a fast way to get a handle on it. You can deploy a test cluster easy on GKE quick for nearly no money. If that seems too inaccessible, there are a few good docker-compose[1] implementations too that can get you going right away.

I don't think it's quite ready for production, but we were already using Prometheus and Grafana so I was auditing Loki[2] and was pleasantly surprised. Though at the time I determined it would not be a substitute at scale for Splunk or ELK but could be viable for many people and the project is moving fast to do cool stuff.

[0] https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/elastic-st...

[1] https://github.com/deviantony/docker-elk

[2] https://grafana.com/oss/loki
A scientist must go where the evidence leads
It looks nice, but I'd add to the comparison table that Erlang has both hot code reloading and no global state.
That's a pretty weak definition then. Might be your issue right there.
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I think the article misses the point: are we now in an era where you actually expect to get stock when you join a company?

As a former Toptal employee: IMHO the co-founder in question was widely regarded as a horrible manager, often pushing people to burnout and generally imposing a culture of secrecy and mistrust. The VPs they ousted were nothing better. I personally went through several burnouts while there, but also that was a springboard to a much better career afterwards. Yes, we've put in 9/9/6 for years in the founding years, but we were also compensated quite generously.
The difference is that Apple doesn't have its own search engine getting a free slot.

If Google handed administration of the auction over to an independent third party, who would accept all of the paid-in fees from the winners, thus bearing the same cost as everyone else, then it would be a lot harder to make a case against this arrangement.
DNS is far from centralized and DDoS protection is something that small websites would have no ability to do on their own. It isn't just a convenience thing, it's a literally-impossible-without-scale thing.
Haj subsidy is history. Why are you still harping on it? (And by the way, it went to Air India tickets at inflated prices). If this money actually gets spent on Muslim girls' education now like government claims I will feed Najma Heptulla and Modi laddus myself. I also agree that government should not take money from temples without temple boards' consent.
there's a third alternative: CEOs are currently priced by the market but were underpriced in 1978.

not sure I believe that, but it's a possibility.
Yes the state is the entirety of the boards configuration.
There are several different types each of which has its own testable predictions. I can’t play the linked video, but given this is Vernor Vinge, the prediction would be “a computer which is just as good at designing chips as a human, so when Moore’s law doubles its speed, it now takes half as long to reach the next double-performance design”.
Those other cases don't generally involve the person incentivizing the other person to engage in illegal behavior and when it does they generally already face penalties under law. While there are some problems with the purposed law, then needs to be penalties for creating the incentives.
360k Californians have unsafe drinking water. Are you one of them?
Hahaha, touché. I either missed or forgot that bit. Guess I fail the test :-)
No need to storm Area 51 to see this alien
Is there any particular reason why you don't have contact details in your profile?
This is precisely why I've lost interest in Rust. It feels limiting in the same way that fat frameworks do - it just becomes so much harder to express what I _really_ want to do sometimes, because I'm always working around the limits and requirements of the framework/abstractions which a lot of the time won't map very well to my solution.
>if the company was lying to VC's, is it possible for them to recoup their investments outside of a civil lawsuit?

It's all a game. The founders are friends with VCs, then when they fail out of the startups, they join the VCs.

From my perspective it is all a game against the foolish and greedy LPs.
A few comments:

1. I'm usually down on dark-mode but this looks clean as hell
2. The JupyterHub integration looks nice! It was mentioned in the article it was the "tip of the iceberg" I'm wondering how hard it would be to integrate with a tool like Observable.

Observable: https://observablehq.com/
Yes that would probably explain the negative correlation.

That said, if good CEOs actually controlled the direction of the company and were compensated higher to attract talent - I would expect that to override the negative effect for a net positive. Since that's not the case, I think as you suggest that CEOs are "without active influence on success"
> exposed MongoDB instance

> Choice Hotels says the database, while linked to the firm, was operated by a partner vendor and no internal Choice Hotels servers were accessed. "The vendor was working with the data as part of a proposal to provide a tool," a Choice Hotels spokesperson said.

> Due to the security lapse, the hotel franchise will not be working with the unnamed vendor in question.

I get the legal and business reasons not to name the vendor -- but at the same time, the only real punishment for this vendor is definitely not getting a contract with Choice Hotels.

(quotes from https://www.zdnet.com/article/700000-choice-hotels-records-l...)
Did you read the article? It's not saying that it's a soap opera because it's not a tech company, it's saying it because of the crazy family that runs it and the questionable financials around it.
The support for JupyterLab looks great and +1 for Dark Mode.
Mark Volkmann gave a great talk on Svelte[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_PTdJq-1rA
>Well you'd have to make that a constitutional amendment in the US at least since it'd run afoul of many basic guaranteed rights.

Not really. You make it a strict liability crime, so as long as you can proven the criminal behavior in court, the CEO is found guilty. Their state of mind is irrelevant. We already do this with some crimes and it hasn't face any constitutional challenge. It doesn't matter if you were tricked into the crime, lied about the crime, etc. If you did it, you go to prison.

3d printing gun guy was just convicted under such a law.
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Recent SIGGRAPH paper that does this using other frames "Video Extrapolation Using Neighboring Frames": https://vml.kaist.ac.kr/main/international/individual/157
s/or/and/

I got the impression it's both an ad and a poorly implemented game.
The same the other way. The day bin Laden died is notably "unhappy" because a lot of people said "dead" or "death" but I do not recall it being seen as a negative event at all.
> That being said, AI has become a catch all term for everything as simple as linear regressions, all the way through to neural networks.

And that's a problem. The problem is that this trend builds unrealistic expectations for pretty much anyone that doesn't know how the tech works.

Business people imagine some magic box that will just churn out stuff with (close to) zero workers involved.

Customers imagine the same magic box churning out tailored products built with AI fairy magic.

Then reality sets in, and people (investors included) start losing faith, and we're onto the next AI winter.
How do those systems and processes make the average persons life better? More red tape + reporting requirements + bureaucracy = ... Profit for the everyday worker and/or everyday consumer?
Aligarh has to abide by reservations and you're saying none of the minority institutions are touched?
Feels recognisable. We've outgrown Lambda and moved to Fargate. But now we're wondering whether we should dive into K8s. Worth the investment in your opinion?
"I don't know what you mean by that"

I was fully explaining my point of view, because I don't think it boils down to that.

I would argue that HN's voting system tends to encourage shorter comments. I personally find it annoying to write a well reasoned 10 point essay and get downvotes and no feedback, is there one particular point you're disagreeing with or what? So I would argue that long comments survive despite the voting system.

Could you suggest other differences in medium that you think make the difference? Moderation?
Agreed. But to say that there shouldn't be more mechanisms to disincentive this behavior because they will simply be skirted is self-defeating. Why have any regulations?
I agree, but the greater fool theory and financial engineering (ie buybacks) will lead to greater profits for stockholders in the long run.
If you email the mods about this comment at the Contact link in the HN footer they'll fix the link and the dupes, often in <5min during business hours. Posting about may eventually work but I see you posting this in multiple threads here, so FYI.
you mean I could copy a font as long as the resulting font file is different from the original one?
This is entirely the wrong product for that. The SoC on the Raspberry Pi is a somewhat high-powered graphics processor; if all you need is MP3 decoding, your needs will be much better met by a mid-range microcontroller. There's even ASICs (like the VS1011) that'll do most of the work for you.
Piloting helicopters is complicated. One of the features touted here is simplicity to learn. It's also a lot smaller than most helicopters.

But otherwise, yeah, that's a current use case of helicopters.
You could call it “artificial artificial intelligence”.
All correct as well. Hey, I own it.
> Questions like "Will the machines allow humans to live?" are ill-posed.

I don't think so. Even if the machine doesn't care about you (it may not even have a notion of what is a human), you are still made of atoms it could use for something else.
>I think the article misses the point: are we now in an era where you actually expect to get stock when you join a company?

If you join with the expectation of stock or are sold on stock as part of your package then yes. Based on the article, people were offered stock contingent on another funding round. That round never happened. If they were sold on promises of getting that stock and a round happening then they're right to be pissed.

This has, as I read it, nothing to do with a company that just decides to not give out promises of stock in any form.
So what can be done about China?

They are going the wrong way and account for a sizable percentage. All reductions done by the rest of world have been offset (and then some) by their grown
That is not what I was referring to. Your relationship (neuron) needs to have a gradient, i.e. it needs to be differentiable, in order for backprop to work.

There are many situations that are not differentiable. Images work well because adjusting color values during back prop can easily be done with a gradient. For example, during backprop it is feasible to increase the level of blue by 10% by increasing its RGB value. Likewise for 3%, 15%, -7%, etc.

For other types of data, a gradient may not exist.
Advocation of violence has been unprotected speech since 1940. Have we been living in a dystopia this whole time?

People who intentionally oversimplify free-speech endanger it, just like people who intentionally oversimplify capitalism endanger it. There is no hardline ideal, in any context, that works. Ideas must be flexible to the real world, or perish.
> JSX is JavaScript

JSX is decidedly not JavaScript, it is an extension to JavaScript.

> I do not have to learn a new language to iterate over an array.

Since you have to use map() and can't use a simple for-loop, not sure how knowing the language itself helps or not. Either way, loops and conditional are really the basics, you pick it up in a day or two for any template syntax.

> I can interact with it using whatever JS libraries I prefer.

Fair enough, but this prevents many optimizations because the render method can produce virtually anything.

> JSX components are functions or classes which are trivially composable.

This doesn't mean something else isn't as equally composable. Components are composable, doesn't mean they have to be classes or functions.

> I can type functions and classes with typescript unlike string templates.

What does this have to do with JSX ? I guess this is more valid claim for TSX. In any case, since svelte is a compiler, it should be possible to type-check components as well. And it doesn't even depend on typescript, so you can get the same static checks with vanilla javascript.
Microchips in obese people’s brains electroshock them when they think about food
All I see are bioengineering problems. Once we start hill-climbing this solution path all the problems will become shallower and shallower.
Whatever happened to common fucking sense?

If you use any kind of web service at all, any data you send to it that isn't specifically protected by law can and will be monitored and inspected by random employees and contractors who develop and maintain that service.

I would think that goes without saying, but there you go. Now you've been warned.
My family is Ahmedi. We left India in 1947. Pakistan stripped us of our right to vote in 1974-84. I guess we can't be oppressed there, chief. Congratulations on your airtight logic.
It's certainly possible, I guess the bigger question is whether people would be comfortable having a database do an automatic data transfer into a public tool. In the case of this Jupyter integration, it's a Docker image that's running next to the OmniSci database, so it's all within the same network
Buybacks are closer to a one-time dividend than they are "financial engineering."
I am a teenager, and know nothing of starting or running a company. That said, from what I have read, is it not true that investors who hold equity constantly apply pressure to maximise profits, often leading to companies doing... unethical things?

Whenever I've complained about a company being unethical or user-unfriendly, a friend of mine who lives in the US and knows more about this stuff always points out that because of pressure from investors, companies are often forced into such practices, and theorises that any company that takes outside investment in exchange for equity is always going to end up this way.
Agree. iOS has much better story than Android.

> Apple has been aggressively pursuing each avenue and closing them off.

That is key. It is all Apple.

VPNs can be a powerful mechanism too, and you can see third party VPNs come up with solutions that are way more aggressive at blocking trackers than Apple [0]. And from what I know, Apple makes it hard for such VPN apps to flourish. Not long ago, they kicked Adguard and Malwarebytes out [1] (though they now let them back in).

[0] https://guardianapp.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17667398
Great write-up on this topic. in the demo video near the bottom can you make the links to those each available. I tried to go to https://csswizardry.dev/typography.com/fixed.html and am getting a page that says "sneaky" I was hoping to run these demos locally to really see the magic firsthand.
If the majority of the state wants Sharia law, that will still not happen. India is a country of 1.3 billion with at least 10 different languages. There are so many sub cultures in India that the people of India do not think a few Kashmiri separatists deserve independence. It will never happen.

The state is called Jammu and Kashmir and it is part of India's cultural heritage. Integration efforts may take time, but the alternatives are not an option for India. There are many pockets of Muslim majority around India, Kashmir will be no different. Despite the border with Pakistan.
They're unfairly abusing their dominant market share (75%?) to harm competing search engines, which is not allowed in EU law.

Nothing crazy about it.
Being surprised about this is like playing with radioactive sludge and then being surprised when you get cancer.