skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, "AI" as it exists today in the form of frameworks, libraries, APIs and the data behind it all, sit firmly inside products as features. Sure you can build a platform that is focused on making those features easier to build and implement into products - and sell that as a PaaS, but at the end of the day it will go into a product that people use.

Otherwise it's pure research and effectively a cost center. There is no standalone AI/ML etc... capability that makes money on it's own. It's all where it's integrated with existing consumer or enterprise products.

Understanding that, whomever builds and scales product adoption, are the ones who are really controlling the direction of AI. If you look at who are building and scaling consumer and enterprise products it's really only a handful of players.

So if you're a successful startup with a good product that uses AI driven features, you're either gonna get acquired or a major (FAANG etc...) will just copy and scale your product way faster than you can. So again, all roads lead to ii).
A thread from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2474175

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=602188
There is a lovely side narrative in the movie A Serious Man about this phenomenon. Although the characters in the movie were Korean, it is an excellent example of this phenomenon in Asian cultures.

What intrigues me the most is that it is sort of implicitly the de facto standard. Curious how cultural mores develop!
Ok, interesting. Our initial thoughts are to use Red Hat style pricing, so that Yazz Pilot open source version is free for both external and internal users to use the tool, and companies only pay if they want a support contract for help or urgent bugs, pretty much the same model as Red Hat
The feds were able to do police work just fine before everyone had a tracking device in their pocket. They'd do just fine if Google would stop storing this data and there was no way to get it.
Sorry, I’m not sure what you’re asking. Can you restate?

Regarding ancestry testing: it’s pretty valid, in general. DNA extracted from ancient human remains has completely revolutionized our understanding of recent, ancient, and extremely ancient human history. The online testing companies use the same methods and data sets. The way they present results boils a lot of different stuff down to a single number, so nuance and some fidelity is inevitably lost, but that’s always an issue when you try and make a nuanced subject understandable to laypeople. But, generally speaking, if an online test says that your DNA is 5% Neanderthal whereas someone else’s is 1%, or that you’re 20% Western European and 40% Eastern European, that is probably a valid way to present things.
Does VB.NET count? I code in that all the time but only because my employer makes me.

I still break out the QBasic once in a while. I have it in DosBox for when I get the itch. In AppleWin I toy with Applesoft Basic. I also play a bit with QB64 which is a modern QBasic clone.

Normally I write code in C# or Python though. C# is my main language and it's what puts food on my table.
Why would we want to switch to 128 bit addresses?

Do you know how much memory we can address with 64 bit?

(64 bit for addresses was arguably a mistake. 48 bit word size would probably have been better, but doesn't sound as cool.)

Having said that, 128 bit can make sense for certain calculations. So floating point calculations and GPUs support long registers for some of what they are doing.

(And having said that, Google figured out that they don't actually need all that precision when using GPUs for machine learning, and made TPUs with much smaller words.)
There is an argument that is sometimes made in this debate, and it concerns the gradual nature of the change to our privacy rights (or just privacy). It is an old argument. It took a number of years for me to convince myself that it was right. But it is a correct argument.

In a round about way, the argument ends up concluding that we are, in fact, on some version of a slippery slope. We can see that slope quite clearly in what you write:

"So many petty crimes (e.g. home burglaries, car breakins, etc) go unsolved because the police just don't have the tools and resources to go after all those crimes."

Even just ten years ago, a number of the ideas being batted around now about privacy would have seemed alien. I understand that attitudes can change, but do we have the right attitudes now? Are they good attitudes? The attitude that sees nothing wrong with seriously contemplating whether it's a net good to have the police sitting in a tiny camera outside your front door? Go back a couple decades and we would have been appalled at the notion.

Sometimes I surprise myself with how much ground I've given up already (even if just on a personal level).
In my case, there is no way there are going to be drivers available at 4am to take me 45 miles to the airport which is fairly typical of what I need. There are barely drivers available to do it during the day and cancelations for going into the city are not infrequent. I just use a private car service even though it's about 2x the price.
Yes, the markup is huge.

There's a local retailer that sells "natural" latex mattresses for about $2200.

You can find sites online where you can buy all the components and make your own latex mattress ("make" being stack the components in the outer shell and zip it closed) for under $500 shipped.
I signed up for the report and received an email with a download link. I downloaded the report with no problem.
The only time I failed to find a ride to airport on Uber/Lyft was in Singapore at 4am when Uber just started their operation there. Other than that, no matter how odd the hour is, I was able to find a ride, albeit sometimes with longer wait time (10 min-ish). I personally think the risk is negligible, unless drivers leave them en masse.
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Python today is what BASIC was in the 90's and earlier. Though, Python is obviously a lot more powerful but so are computers in general.
My favorite is the 425 area code skit, with a snobby lady (in character) complaining about Renton being in the same area code as Bellevue. No one outside of the Seattle area would ever get that joke, however.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9jlo4Ht2YA

Done in the same style as the WSU drinking ban...another later classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kozfrph9LU

Or Bill Nye as a street walking lawyer on Aurora avenue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgAgPnrJAuQ

They put everything on YouTube. No need for a dvd :)
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Very interesting in that SuperShuttle was sold to a PE firm specializing in distressed assets in September. This bankruptcy was likely already a given at that time.
You mean making it a function instead of a statement?
no, it doesn’t
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Previously on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20714571
An aside: that's often true in Google's data centres. So much, that someone wrote a system to sort-of swap out memory to other machines' RAM over the network (instead of to disk, which Google doesn't do in general).
china found a better solution for this problem.

businesses were required to use government issued software and receipt paper to print receipts. those receipts had a scratch area which would reveal a code that allowed the buyer to win something. that way the public was motivated to ask for that receipt, and because the receipt was printed with government software, the transaction could be reported directly.
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I went back and read the post, and I remembered it wrong. The effect is there for women with the same overall attractiveness rating, which is a stronger version than I originally posted.

> Another possibility is a more polarizing face makes some guys feel like they have a better chance.

This explains why guys would send messages, but not why they would rate pics highly. It’s a better fit for why guys would message girls with lower ratings, not girls with high ratings and high std. dev. The trick in their version is it’s not just “I think other guys aren’t into her”, it’s “I think other guys aren’t into her, but I am.”

But yeah, being a story that explains the data doesn’t make it true, and all sorts of stuff could be going on. And like the other poster pointed out their analysis is fun but not necessarily ironclad. For my part I figure there’s a ton of cultural signaling going on in dating pics that they can’t really account for.
Every browser has to act together, or the ones that don't will win due to better compatibility.

The obvious way to make that happen is a law. Just prohibit the user agent string from being sent, starting with browsers that are distributed after a certain date.

Perhaps a bit of voluntary cooperation is possible. It worked for webassembly.
I'm talking Sweden where it is next to impossible to pay with cash in most places. And impossible to find an ATM.
> Why would we want to switch to 128 bit addresses?

How else are you going to have more than 16 exabytes of RAM?
What I think is more interesting is that there appear to be distinct differences between Neanderthal-influenced European gene lines and Asian Denisovian-influenced gene lines, vs pure Cro-magnon gene lines. The whole thing is more complicated than the neat stories that we have been told.
So this means that when sending or receiving, if you have this 'update "turned on"' - the local cell tower gets my message, whatever phone companies that own the lines around there get my messages, att gets my messages, my cell phone provider gets my messages, my friend has the message recorded in reverse by his/her cell co, whatever company owns the tower that is local to them, and who ever runs the transit to / from there, and now ALSO google gets my messages?

So they can all read them, store them, give them / sell them to other people... I understand that the phone companies have certain, (imho not enough), regulatory issues with carrying data, but I'm not sure google's new intercept for spam and badge service does similarly..

I now also wonder, even though I denied the update, but what if the gf/bf accepted the update, that means google is getting a copy via their intercept right?

Can someone offer a rough calculation of how many people have easy access to all our text messages? (not including big DB hacks like the recent one from that B2B co) - just in general.

There are some things I liked about this rcs update, but at what cost.
If it's really a special case that sounds like something to tell the traffic judge to me.
Putting aside the quantum aspects of this article for a moment, (not that they aren't fascinating, but, ...well, one can only think so hard at the end of the day!)
I think this is a good place to link to Sean Carroll's post about the gravitational aspects of the general issue (for anyone who might not have seen it):
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-...
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Not much. Its attractiveness from a business perspective is that it’s an easy sell to heavily politicised companies where you won’t get budget to implement something unless your proposal is buzzword-laden.
I've lived in ID and MT (bordering BC and Alberta) for most of my life and people mostly say canadian geese even though I've heard that canada geese is preferred.
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The authors acknowledge that house “quality” could be encoding other biases such as race, religion or class. It would have been great if the authors explored this a bit more. How closely did insurance risk correlate with the demographics they mentioned?
Good paper, but it focuses on cancer applications but it would be a disservice to not point out the strides that HIFU is making in drug delivery[1], neurosurgery, and neuromodulation[3].

The (un)fortunate point of MRI thermometry is that is not only very effective at reading temperatures, but it can also produce thermal dosage maps that help in characterizing tissue leisioning (the exact response of HIFU ablated tissue is still be debated). On top of that you also get traditional MRI imaging essentially for free.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-25904-9

[2] https://www.fusfoundation.org/diseases-and-conditions/neurol...

[3] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8925600
Last car I owned in SF somebody broke a window and rifled through the inside. I didn't fix it, except to tape some plastic over the broken window. Shortly later, somebody broke another window (instead of just ripping off the tape, WTF!). Eventually sold the car and had to replace the windows, costing about $1000.
Though to get fast emulation, you can re-use techniques from virtual machines (and vice versa).

Btw, emulation is how you can, in principle, run Linux on an 80286. (Normally you'd need a 80386 at least to get memory protection.)

Of course, Linux on the 80286 is gonna be even slower than Linux in your browser. (https://bellard.org/jslinux/)

Using the emulation idea you can go almost arbitrarily primitive. But the 286 is a nice target, because it was a sometimes requested feature in Linux's past.
Ok, so dumb question. Why _wouldn't_ you optimize for conversions then? Unless you want some immeasurable branding value type lift.

Sorry for the dumb question but if you're implying one particular bidding mechanism benefits from FB algorithmic experience in a way that's meaningfully more accurate (serving the ad to the guy or girl with the condition), why would anyone do anything different?
Not to mention provisioned lambdas if you're on AWS.
Better link: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/12/12/microsoft-unveils-xbo...
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If they have it, they will hand it over to the police. Or it will get hacked.

We should try to limit the gathering of, because once they have it, it's over.
Class components are not going anywhere, so if hooks don’t fit your use case, choose the better tool to do it
On a Mac, Homebrew is the first thing I install. I then pull my dotfiles repo which has some scripts to get most of my dev tools installed.
This hypocrisy absolutely exists, and society does not seem likely to resolve it. But I think that most people would rather accept animal cruelty as okay, than to give up eating meat (if they were hypothetically forced to make a choice).

In other words, most people would resolve the contradiction in the opposite way that you are hoping for.
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It's hard to say since the tool was not only free, but didn't even require signing up (see for example comproi.com, its sister-site which is still free and no-sign-up). My estimate is about 200 free users, but could be off. We'll see how many they actually sign up now (so far about 50)
some references please
FWIW, there is a very wide variation in both the bicycle-worthiness of roads, and the bicycle-friendliness of drivers in the US. It really isn't possible to generalize any individual's experience to the whole country.
Excellent historical overview. However, I am astounded with this idea that human intelligence is explainable. It is not. We do not know why people decide how they decide. The explanation is always a narrative created subsequently.
https://overreacted.io/making-setinterval-declarative-with-r...
Squirrels make a beeline for the nearest vertical surface they can climb and hide behind. This is what makes them dangerous to bicycles because they will run through wheels on their mission to get to the tree.
Is there any way to ensure I have "location history" turned off?
This is indicative of the kind of world where we had to jump from Window 8 to Windows 10 because of shitty user-agent parsing .
I'm aware of the dot com bubble. My point wasn't that people weren't making money, my point is tech looked risky and new, especially the web based companies that dominate now. Microsoft, IBM, Oracle etc were stable jobs but they were for engineers/nerds. There was money to be made back then of course but money isn't the only thing that makes jobs attractive. Social and cultural status and stability are important as well. A doctor is a safe, high paying, high status job. Tech is only just now starting to look that way to mainstream people.
This is not the case due to the single definition rule.
Except it may or may not be a only little bit of friction, depending on the breakage, and it is not short-term if it happens regularly.
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Eh hem... One of those developers of constrained
"CAD programs, not practical graphic design tools"
chiming in: This is cool! Very nice work and beautiful presentation. It makes me pine to build an actual nice website explaining what I did for B-splines/could do for subdivision (so I assert). Or you know, a Rhino plugin, etc.
Combining trains of thought, wouldn't constraint programming for B-spline design be applicable to fonts? I do not know anything about fonts really; I just had this belief that font design was often done with splines of some sort.
Interesting perspective! Even graph analysis could be reduced to manipulating infinite tape in the end.
Unfortunately I am not familiar with that term. Sorry!
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Energy is a slippery concept. To Wikipedia it's a 'quantitive property' that 'must be transferred to an object.' A property. Good luck weighing that, or nailing it to a tree.

Consider the 'transformation of energy' ... from mechanical to electrical to acoustical to chemical to potential to kinetic to thermal (end of the line). What is the 'it' that's being transformed?

In one sense all things are 'energetic' so long as they have a velocity (relative to something else). We need to keep an eye on boulders up on hillsides. They're not moving right now ... but their potential energy might be transferred to us, thanks to the equally mysterious 'gravity'.

Yes, the math all seems to work. But we're not quite 'there' yet. Our position is uncertain.
I think somatypes like hardgainers have been debunked, the explanation being that predominantly, these folks are habituated to not eating enough, GOMAD etc. There's edge cases of medical conditions or training non-responders though.

My main point is that western aesthetic standard for muscular men is increasingly moving towards more mass to the point where most individuals are below the bell curve for what's attainable naturally even with consistent training. It's reaching a point where achieving these bodies require either both elite genetics and conscientiousness, or good genetics and conscientiousness and illegal drugs. It can't simply be bought by 30k worth of plastic surgeries.

Theoretically most men can diet themselves down to Brad Pit fight club, there's an attainable amount of muscle mass, the trick is mostly diet and fat loss, which may still be prohibitive for some. But much less men can be Chris Evans Captain America, or more obviously the Rock. At some point drugs enter the picture. There's also VFX that adds muscularity in these productions, so we're also dealing with filters at the end of the day, but most people do not know that muscularity is just as easily edited in live action as facial features or de-aging.
Besides, even for a single translation unit (such as a quick hello world) you could just #include the .c file to avoid setting up a makefile.
I disagree with your premise, but even then... Microsoft has discontinued lots of online services too! Almost 70:

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...

Big companies cancel things. Priorities change, opportunities shift. It happens.
This is interesting, I am building a few SaaS products, one has gotten around 4 paid customers. I was thinking to sell it, but maybe I should try to bring in more momentum.
This is more of an asking the assembled a question.. why should I use vivaldi?
That's insane to propose the government should regulate http headers. What happened to freedom of speech?
How has IPFS evolved lately?
What would cause this? Scraped the ice in Wisconsin for years and nothing steamed up. Only rain makes me steam up.

What if you open the driver's side window at first?
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If you're running a publicly facing service you should probably be competent enough to administer it yourself.
sadly, they are rare in my experience
Almost everyone who cares about performance does bid for conversions. Sometimes companies add extra layers of targeting on top of it though.
Up and Atom did an episode on Braess's paradox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cALezV_Fwi0
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