skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> an exclusive contract never hurts

Thats why this is unfair. The health industry incentivizes (and often mandates) open publishing of scientific results, but patient data is reserved with gold chains for the exclusive use of google
Because rule based software is now a commodity, and therefore has lower margin. ML is more risky to achieve, may not work on a given dataset, and requires scarce specialized thinking, therefore is worth betting capital on. ML is the new stock while software is the new bond.
Still over-paid, imo.
Theverge = satanist commies.
Wait, stop, there's been a mistake! This means PHP will live on for another 1000 years!
"Unionization for programmers is about MORE money, LESS work, and LESS accountability."

Correct, and it is certainly your right to wish for less money and more work, even if that is an unorthodox position to take. Perhaps unfair to advocate on behalf of your coworkers for, in your own words, less money and more work, however.
If an AI assisted doctor is 125% more efficient than a non assisted doctor, you only only need 80 doctors where you'd otherwise need 100. That's 20 doctors that have effectively been replaced

Then consider the amount of not-doctor roles in medicine which can be automated/assisted
Would be interesting to have a community where people looking to be comforted by their loved one's voice would post whatever snippet of recording they have, then others would listen and see if they know someone who has a similar voice and have them record a message.
A game, heavily modded, like Cities: Skylines might do it for you. You can mod away most of the management minutae and just focus on the infrastructure, transit, and building. It's not hard to basically turn the game into a virtual model builder.

Here's some examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/doxh7h/50_i...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/bvxh5i/urba...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/busrvi/topv...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/boxbp2/expr...
Its about economics, with creating their own currency they have full control over the system and also get all the transaction/service/etc fees.
Sorry, this must be very basic but I've never been able to make sense of one thing about Brave's model. You say that users can get paid in BAT to watch ads. But Brave is open-source. So is there anything preventing me to fork the browser to pretend to display the ads and reap the rewards without actually displaying them? Doesn't this break the whole system?
No, by "if you're serious" I mean about having an answer. Sometimes people ask questions on a whim and, after an hour or two, don't really care. But sometimes people really want an answer, so they are serious about finding out.

Equally: "... would a collision with something really big, like the moon, or a dwarf planet, do it?"

As always, it depends on the speed and direction, as much as the mass. But if it happened, I suspect we'd have bigger problems to worry about than what out new orbit would be.

Or no problems at all.
How can we say "the industry has moved on" when the second piece of media on the linked announcement page has someone doing music production with a visible USB-C -> USB-A dongle connecting some rack-eared music gear. There's even a second dongle on their left that I don't recognize. I long for the C-only future, but we're not there yet. Apple's decision to go C-only always seemed to be an aesthetic one to me.
First, who writes checks any more? Second, who the hell wants Google monitoring their financial transactions [more than they do already]?

This just seems monumentally misguided.
> I'm having a go at the idea that it's constructive to even point out how a piece of hardware doesn't solve a problem for you

I'm going to have to disagree, the lack of USB ports doesn't solve a problem. It's just a limitation that doesn't affect you, but certainly affects other professionals and their ability to do their jobs efficiently.
He didn't say they wouldn't be used, quite the opposite. He said there was certainty that if they were used, your opponent would respond with more of the same. This led to the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction from the Cold War.

Stated another way: if we use them we know they will be used on us, so we'd better not use them.

OP's point was the there is no similar guaranteed retaliation that might motivate restraint in the use of surveillance.
"...and it felt perfect; beautiful, yes, but brittle and prone to breaking tragically."

I'm sorry, but as a fan of mechanical keyboards it felt like garbage to me. Just one step up from typing on a tablet screen.
Pythons, Perl, and gcc are commonly part of Linux distros. C compilers have been part of Unix since K&R. They are necessary to install the system.

Hell, noobs rPi’s come with the Wolfram language too.
So it seems that "white supremacy" is a catchall
term for anything that argues a biological basis
for group differences.

(I think you're being disingenuous but I'll play along!)

No, not quite.

It's just that their history is inextricably linked.

We can all agree that there is certainly much valid research to be done here. For example, why is sickle-cell anemia so much more prevalent in African-Americans? What biological adaptations allow some populations (Nepalese, etc) to thrive at high altitudes? Nobody finds that sort of thing objectionable.

However, things get ugly fast when we start talking about the study of why one group is best suited for one task or another, or which group is superior in general.

There is a long and sordid history of biological arguments in favor of the superiority of certain groups of people, typically white European males. It should not surprise you to learn that these arguments come from white European males.

Not all studies of "group differences" have anything to do with white supremacy, but every white supremacy movement that has ever existed has claimed a biological basis for their views.

We sort of fought a world war over this (among other reasons) and a lot of people died. These sorts of arguments have also been used to justify slave ownership (a rather large war was fought over this as well) and the oppression of women.
We could still have a 'Year of the Linux desktop'
Interesting to note that the T2 chip in the new MBP supposedly contains the HD/Flash controller that used to be a separate IC -- according to the specs page. As it's a pretty fully featured SOC in its own right, that might make it easier to get to the HD in case of main CPU/RAM failures.
I liked charging and connecting displays from both sides.

What I didn’t like was that over three or four of the Apple USB-C to hdmi/usb-a/whatever the last one was (thunderbolt?) and one third party adapter I never found one that wasn’t super choppy with my input.

So my Webcam would stutter, and my keyboard would suddenly repeating the same key 12 times (admittedly making for a pretty exciting experience with ViM).

Very frustrating. It may have been my computer. Don’t think I’d heard of others with the same issues in my workplace. But really made working a PITA sometimes for me.

Meanwhile my 2015 MBP did just fine with the same hub through switch setup, so it was most likely the USB C hardware driver in the Apple Laptop.
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You can still buy Nike from Amazon just like you could have done before Nike started selling to Amazon.

There's lots of sellers who buy from Nike outlet stores and resell it on Amazon.
IPC is from design not from transistor density. Clock speed is what can't be divorced from process. IPC can be. More transistors could enable new designs not previously feasible, but we've loooong since past that point (hence why most new transistors are just being dumped into L3 cache)
It would make sense to have another word that indicates it is genuinely you and you are genuinely speaking freely.
You can do that on Linux too:

modprobe v4l2loopback
gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f v4l2 /dev/video0
Lots of editor use the tab key to autocomplete. It's often called "tab completion."
This actually anecdotally confirms the thread from Alex Stamos I posted about in reply:

> There are a couple of big differences between Uber and FB that make whistleblowing less likely, namely 1) a much stronger HR culture and 2) the fact that even internal critics see external criticism as often unfair or incorrect.

> [...]

> On 2), there is a lot written about FB that is seen as directionally correct but unfair or incorrect in the details. This reduces the trust internal critics have in the external press; nobody wants to leak and have their statements twisted to fit the media's narrative.

> Even to internal Cassandras, it is clear that there is a moral panic around Facebook that reduces the pressure in the media to get the story straight. As a result, 20-70% of the details in any story are wrong and that is clear to most employees.

> For example, the NY Times has done a number of privacy stories that are directionally correct, in that the proliferation of partnerships and APIs creates a real data protection challenge.

> However, sloppy details like the idea that Netflix is reading your Messenger messages or the mixing of real data-sharing with APIs that allow for 3rd-party clients makes it clear to employees that the story is getting mangled.

> Likewise, the discussion of Myanmar. This is a spectacularly complicated situation that a lot of Facebook employees feel sick to their stomachs about. But there isn't a clean issue to blow the whistle on nor does the external discussion encourage FBers to participate.

> [...]

> The media portrayal of the situation as simple or FB as not caring does not match up to the experience of the hundreds of people working on this problem, which makes it much less likely that they will talk to the press.

> This doesn't mean the media should go easy on FB, but if you portray mistakes as intentional decisions made for the most venal of reasons, then don't be surprised when the actual people working on these problems don't DM you for your Signal.

[1]: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1185954967086981125
The interesting thing is that the hypothetical "publishes views about how X are inferior" is considered OK if "X" is "male" or "white", say.

I understand the arguments from a structural racism/sexism standpoint for treating those situations differently from the ones you describe, but the specific test you propose seems to fail just as much: can you trust someone who thinks men are inferior in a job where they might have to interact with men?

(I will note that your use of the male pronoun in describing the untrustworthy employee is itself interesting; not sure whether that's meant to be a gender-neutral "he" or whether you actually believe that only males can hold "undesirable" views.)
I find this is true on questions with the Go tag. They can't seem to let a question languish at zero. Or just downvote it once to -1, they have to hammer it. Upvotes are rare, so on balance the entire page of go questions frequently has a negative balance.

For a great many tags, it seems like there is a sport to show that a question doesn't apply to a specific tag, that it is a duplicate, or that the user should be doing something a different way than what they are asking for. There seems to be so much effort put into deliberately not answering the question that trying to participate is truly deflating.
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>If it's BAT that I trade for my content..

This is just pushing the problem one step removed.

Is it not only relevant what you trade for your groceries?

If you can find someone to take BAT for that, in stable exchange rates, then your point stands.

If you have to acquire $ then what the exchange rate is for $ to BAT comes back into relevance.

Again, perpetually trading BAT back and forth for showing ads/watching ads is restating my premise about holding BAT.

Whether people will be willing to do so greatly depends on exchange rates and volatility.
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How else am I going to get my photos off my iPhone without uploading them to Apple's cloud service? Even their KB tells you to connect it via USB: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201302#importmac
I appreciate the pun with the Tau neutrino. I'm sure that someone could make a joke, or a trick question for a quiz, out of the homophony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_neutrino
This is sadly not true in North America. If a jewellery store wants to stay GIA certified and get all the paperwork about being conflict-free, they need to buy their diamonds at a much higher price.
Google has a market cap of 894.52B at this point in time. For instance.
It is one of the two obvious economies of scale for pure software companies (along with network effects). I can't think of a company that should not have ML in their long-term plan.

Some people probably talk about it without truly understanding it (it can take years before you have enough data to build good ML models, particularly if there are seasonal trends), but I certainly wouldn't judge a company poorly for seeing ML as an important long-term moat. I would judge a young company that sees it as a short-term moat - if you can acquire valuable data quickly, so can your competitors and it's not really an economy of scale that gives you defensibility.
i think most ml jobs are for finding/cleaning data anyway . I suppose an "ebay of data" might be successful
Feel free to argue your case.
> No. A person who wakes up 4:00am to make it to San Marco at dawn to see San Marco alone has accomplished something (albeit small). A person who goes to Venice and doesn't go to Piazza San Marco, but instead spends the whole time alleys long forgotten by the hoard has accomplished something.

They’ve accomplished nothing the person who went to Disneyland didn’t accomplish. There is no value in doing something just because it’s different from what “the hoard” is doing. (Indeed, if you’re going one way while everyone else is going the other way, you’re probably the one who is lost.)
Did this really require a throwaway? I thought it was funny.
Oh yes, you're completely right. I oversimplified :)

And, to nitpick back: the logarithm of stock return is normally distributed under B-S.
Nike will no longer sell its shoes and apparel on Amazon
Now that you mention this I vaguely recall receiving an email from them a long time ago that they were going to purge my keys. Wow so much of this is beginning to make sense. Why would they remove keys that people unknowingly may be relying on as the only way to gain access to their account?
In my senior year of high school I was heavily involved in my school newspaper. I and put more effort into that then I did 90% of my other classes and some of my best memories from high school are because of that class. My teacher would bring in local reporters in every so often to talk to us about the field and answer our questions, and there was a very common theme of 'landing lob in this field is hard, the work will always be hard, and you won't get paid very well' among most of the speakers.

Luckily for me I was also learning how to program in C++ in my spare time and decided to take some computer science classes my freshman year of college to see what the field had to offer.
Very interesting. Knew of his sons’ condition, but did not know of the connection to the modeling. Thanks!
What is wrong with downvotes? Without downvotes upvotes loose their meaning. The number of upvotes would turn into a proxy for the number of people who looked at the question.

From my experience - big part of new users asking questions do not even care if they get any upvotes or downvotes, or if someone is friendly. They don't even bother to accept/upvote the answer when it's given. They simply want to get their question answered and then move on, forget their username and create a new account for the new question next time.

A better system is surely possible. But my main message would be - please spend some time doing it all: 1) asking questions; 2) answering questions; 3) volunteering for moderation; before starting to think about how to change the site.
Pretty cool. So if the eigenvalues aren't repeated, you get a formula for the eigenvectors of a matrix in term of its eigenvalues and the eigenvalues of its submatrices. It doesn't seem computationally useful, but its theoretical value is up there with Cramer's rule.

As an side, it's kind of funny to hear the physicist accent in this linear algebra paper.
> I think what bankers do is equivalent to piling layers of duct tape/javascript. It takes a lot of time to go through it and see what it actually means.

So basically it's not smart because it's work, and anyone that can find a lazy shortcut is a genius?

Ultimately what matters is whether or not it worked. The bankers got rich and faced no jail time, despite being under scrutiny by investors, regulators, and occasionally the public. The academics committed fraud and hopefully have their careers and reputations permanently blemished as a result, not to mention undoing all of the publications they need redacted directly as a result of the act you are calling "genius."

I really think what you call genius I call laziness, and your celebration of it represents a lot of what I think is wrong with the world today.
> Parsing the 2nd Amendment, the US Supreme Court wrote that "the adjective “well-regulated” implies nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training":

The military calls rules that impose proper discipline and training "regulations". Such as Army Regulation 670-1, which states “While in uniform, personnel will not place their hands in their pockets, except momentarily to place or retrieve objects.”

The word "regulation" is perfectly compatible with the "well-regulated" idiom.
Ugh. Maybe I'm in a different world by now, but I dislike such statements on multiple levels.

> This typically comes with assertions such as "data is the new oil" and "once we have our dataset and models the Big Tech shops will have no choice but to acquire us".

Maybe it's me, but I dislike the attitude to work to be acquired. Interestingly, this is a rift I see quite a bit if I interview more development oriented guys, or more infrastructure oriented guys. Tell me I'm wrong, but development oriented guys tend to be more fast paced and care less about long-term impacts. Infra inclined guys tend to be slower paced, but longer-term oriented. Build something to last and generate value for a long time.

> 2. Is it reasonable to be highly skeptical of startups that make these claims, seeing it as a sign they have no real vision for their product?

From my B2B experience over the last few years, and working towards a stable business relationship with large European enterprises, yes. My current workplace is moving into the position of becoming a cutting edge provider in our place of the world. This is a point where machine learning and AI becomes interesting.

However, we didn't get here by fancy models and AI. We got here by providing good customer support, rock-solid SaaS operation, delivering the right features, strong professional services, and none of those features were AI. It's been good, reliable grunt work.

Different forms of AI are currently becoming relevant to our customers, because we have customers that handle 5k tickets per day with our systems and they have 3-4 people just classifying tickets non-stop. We have customers with 30k - 40k articles in their knowledge base, partially redundant, partially conflicting.

This is why we entered a relationship with a university researching natural language processing among other - and they will provide us with a big selling point in the future. And they are profiting from this relationship as well, because they are getting large, real world data sets they couldn't access otherwise. Even with a good amount of pre-processing by the different product teams.

But as I maintain, nothing of that form has brought us where we are.
Journalism has never paid great. And a lot of jobs for those who weren't at the top of the heap weren't that great in other ways as well.

The stark contrast is with software jobs at a few companies in a few locales. But, in general, it's hardly surprising that journalists often end up in other, sometimes adjacent, jobs that value being able to deliver quality prose quickly.

I know a lot of people who have worked as journalists who work for tech companies in various roles.
Eventually, we plan to redirect godoc.org requests to the equivalent pkg.go.dev URL. We will make sure not to break godoc.org links!
It’s basically just trolling, which HN usually frowns on. No useful discussion is gonna come from this snark.
This is a waste. Few people upvote questions because they are well-written; by and large it is that they had the same question and you asked it before they had to do so themselves. This heavily biases upvotes on extremely novice questions from 8 years ago (before they were all asked), and gives new question askers a bad example of what a good question is ("I just did the same thing this person did, and they got 200 upvotes, and my question was closed in 2 minutes!").

Question askers get the reward of having their question answered. I think votes on questions should be done away with entirely. Questions that should be exemplified can have some other metric (stars for "this is well written and generalizes easily for other users"), and low-quality questions should be flagged or closed, which at least gives some sort of reason. Downvotes aren't useful to askers because they have no idea what they're doing wrong when they receive them.
This is weird. Why should every programmer know the round trip time of a packet from California to the Netherlands?
The elephant in the room with doctors is that there are many countries where the supply is constrained by some sort of guild system and only very clever people do well.

If AI can lower the bar to the point where Ned the Nitwit can type in the symptoms, read the screen and get a reasonable diagnosis then 'doctors' are going to be a completely different class of people even if they share the same title.
Yep, the question was "package it as what?", and the answer was rarely ever "a statically linked linux executable."

This created the need for piles of configuration management or machine build scripts to deploy the app.
I can't think of a company that wouldn't have valuable data. A core use of ML is reducing costs by making better spending decisions/reducing waste and that is relevant to almost every company I think.
There are 16 countries rated higher on the "human freedom index":
https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-i...

I assume you won't travel to Sweden, they have the same score as the US :)

Don't get me wrong, I also frustrated the US doesn't so better -- not because the US is that bad, but because it would be so easy for the US to do better.

And for some reason I emphasize with the Americans :)
(I live in Denmark, but I'm not scared of traveling to neither Sweden or the US -- but I've never been to a non-democratic country, no plans to either).
Yes, the salaries for journalists are low but another factor is that even those poorly paid full-time staff positions are hard to get.

For CS students about to graduate, there are recruiters competing with each other at campus actively looking to hire you. On the other hand, the newly minted Journalism/English/Communications majors often struggle with freelance gigs with low rates[0]. They hope to impress editors and get their "foot in the door" to a salaried writing job.

[0] https://contently.net/rates-database/rates/
Do they really alter the images "on the fly" when traffic is flowing? Or do they have some situation where it's OK to stop traffic on their network interface for a short while?
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