skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AI boom is overstated.

There is not a single piece of technology, not a single 'problem solved' that necessarily requires Deep Learning this very day.

Some Voice and Translation apps are improved by it, but not by that much.

Yes, this will change over time, particularly as things like 'computer vision' are effectively more dependant on it - and -that tech will enable things like driverless cars ... but it's still overstated.

There is an ever growing army of AI researchers putting out stuff, and they will all improve our lives marginally, but I'm doubtful that AI in and of itself will be the thing that really creates change.

I suggest that the 'future robot that cleans your toilet and makes a ham sandwich' will be 10% AI and 90% advances in every other kind of technology. I'll bet that only isolated systems of such robots are primarily AI driven (i.e. vision, motor control for fluid movement etc.) and the rest is just plain old software.
For all the startup founders and VCs in this conversation, you are cheap motherf*ckers. When I read that engineers and employees prefer FAANG companies because they pay better, I want to remind you that it wasn't always like this. 10-15 years ago startups paid way better than big tech. Big Tech rewarded you by getting to specialize on problems and working at scale. The reason FB and Google pay well is because when they were startups, they were paying WELL!

Let me ask you all this, if you could make the same (or more) money working at a startup that you make working at a big tech company for 4 years, would you pick the startup? The answer should be based on what kind of working style and project you prefer, not finances.
Condor Emacs: Emacs distribution focused on C/C++
HyperbolaBSD Roadmap: hard fork of the OpenBSD kernel and userspace
I have a hard time not reading this as a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps".
Media businesses are eternally interesting and important.

Social media and communication will continue to be important and impactful especially as people look for alternatives to existing options.

There also seem to be interesting things happening in healthcare.
What new feature would you be willing to pay for?
Is there paid software you use, personally or professionally, that lacks a feature you need so badly that you'd be happy to pay more to get it?
About fucking time!

You don't get to preside over 346 deaths and get to keep your job. Sorry...
the R version of votebuilder sucks, but the larger for-profit data-warehousing model has been a big asset almost a decade before Ds caught on (and are still losing digital).

Rs have been leading here for a long time. Kochs funded for-profit i360 which seems to me to be the first, most successful model. They enabled programmatic access to voter data (and even as a D buyer I was able to execute against) while most D campaigns below presidential weren't even really buying programmatic.
Should be a relatively simple matter to cross-reference against other photographs (potentially from other observatories) to identify whether the same star appears multiple times.
Have you ever tried drinking bleach?
A few house plants have no meaningful impact on CO2 levels in an occupies room.
Net Worth of Oprah Winfrey
For those wondering about the mentioned couple off the coast of Thailand:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-seahome/thai-nav...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-libertarian-nirvana-at-sea-ru...
Year in Review: The Most Loved Docker Articles, Blogs and Tweets of 2019
Has anyone measured how big of an impact plants have on C02 levels in a room?

I’d imagine it wouldn’t do much, but perhaps large amounts of other biomass might help.
Train driver is one of the best jobs in the train business, one that takes 10+ years to step into (more demand than jobs.. goes up the union ladder). Complaints at that level will be rare and replacements can be found easily.
This future is dystopian (and likely). Sure, there might be a few libertarian or communitarian utopias out there, or maybe even a few safe haven colonies where persecuted groups or sects can live without fear of persecution.

But there will also be colonies that are absolute hell for their inhabitants: institutionalized chattel slavery, legalized pedophilia, animal torture, all manner of non-consensual sexual deviancy.

Just imagine if guys like Jeffrey Epstein could scurry off to their own solar system and build an entire society based on their wants and desires, far from the reach of international justice.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/17/claim-co2-makes-you-s...

It's hard to believe the Navy didn't study this topic as far back as the 1950s and conclude that there was no scientific meat on its bones. If they didn't, they certainly should have.

(Please consider reading the article, then moderating the comment. It's an interesting subject, one that I have basically no knowledge or opinions on myself. Reflexive downvoting makes it hard to pretend that you're not bringing your own preconceptions to the table.)
You will notice that I explicitly unpacked the generator object in the brackets below the generator function by prefixing it with an asterisk.
Is ok bud, if we all brought MSFT early we would have all been millionaires
Not sure I understand the point you're trying to make...

Money is a factor but it's not the thing that should draw you to a startup -- expected money is better at Big Tech. A startup is the right choice only once you start to consider non-money factors.
crossfit is dangerous enough that it probably shouldn't be casually recommended without appropriate oversight and working with legitimate experts about how to do it safely.
This won’t work if your goal is to lower CO2 levels to below outside levels.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865755
I agree that gradual adoption of new APIs is the way to go, but once you're doing that you no longer need an atomic commit across all projects.
This is a comparison of images, not just catalogs of sources in images. If you look at the image in the linked article, you can easily spot one of the stars that has "gone missing".

Looking at the brightness of the source that went missing, it is hard to suggest instrumental error - much fainter stars remain detectable in both epochs.

And fraud, really? Who would bother to fake stars in catalogs and plates in the 1950s, and why?
My understanding was their planes rode higher off the ground so the engines didn't need to be moved forward
https://www.stripes.com/news/navy-seal-dog-handler-how-a-fai...
This article escalated quickly from dots on a photograph to discussing the viability of Dyson spheres.
Twitter comment from Alex Goldmund:
https://twitter.com/AGoldmund/status/1209191026725982208
Well, 50% lower as measured by scores in the tests they used. And yes of course this might be mitigated by better ventilation, but you have to know or suspect there’s a problem first in order to effectively mitigate it. The fact that an effect can be countered isn’t a valid criticism of a study showing an effect.

So I do agree with the critical comments, to the extent that this isn’t enough proof and we need better studies, but the theory seems credible and worth further study. But the dismissive attitude makes no sense to me, and if increased CO2 levels do have a proven effect on cognition, and CO2 levels are actually on track to rise to levels with a significant effect, that’s a really big deal.
Improving Embedded Systems Code Quality Using Static Code Analysis
For those a little sceptical of traditional dyson spheres, like the linked article, there are many more ways to envision such a sphere. My personal favourite is a kind of computonium dust layered loosely around the star, like that found in Charles Stross' Accelerando.
Airbus equivalent plane is taller on wheels than the 737. Thus they could mount the engines without changing the center of gravity of the aircraft.
In totalitarian regimes, creativity have a complete different side. Just take Russian Authors like fyodor dostoevsky.

Creativity is not only in literature but also in other areas such as business models, Chinese Startups have most innovative business models.
Crystal uses llvm, and should be able to cross-compile to platforms llvm supports, presumably not without some trouble.
Could it be that there are more opportunities in the US for criminals to make money, hence a higher prison population? The US has the third largest population and highest GDP.
It depends on where in the AI lifecycle we are ... I believe we are still barely scratching the surface and mostly using it to solve old problems. This ‘race’ could just help improve the field enough that we can get to some real fun stuff!
> But if you read my post, I'm trying to point people to the fact that the deeper lesson is to be able to learn to ship to real customers quickly.

The video title is "My $200M mistake" and you spend 90% of it talking about the money. In what way is the point of this learning to ship to real customers quickly?
That’s also a good point. Both social and traditional media profit hugely from outrage and catastrophe. Fear mongering drives a huge amount of clicks...
Oh, those ones are horrible on Medium. They pop up exactly where the close button for a different banner shows up!
Do you know how many parts of an insect are in each jar? According to ­Scientific American, each of us eats about 0.5-1kg of flies, maggots and other bugs a year, hidden in the chocolate we eat, the grains we consume, the peanut butter we spread on toast. According to US regulations (which are easier to access than ­Australian data), 125g of pasta (a ­single portion) may contain an average of 125 insect fragments or more, and a cup of raisins can have a maximum of 33 fruit fly eggs. A kilogram of flour probably has 15g of animal product in it, from rodent excreta to weevils to cockroach legs.
good luck with getting into anything good with insane amounts of time & effort. capital is cheap.
Besides the main points raised (and debated here), there a few things that are off-putting to me:

1) This whole thing smells like a PR stunt to get his name out, starting with a click-bait highly attractive title "How I lost $200M".

2) The production value of his video to get the message out. Why? Why put so much effort into that video? You know, you could just write a blog post.

3) I am cynically presuming Garry wants his name to get out there as much as possible as a VC that he is today. Besides that, this whole thing smells of humble-brag.

Really off-putting approach. Sorry, Garry, but this is how I feel.
so the non-japanese are angry they are not japanese in Japan - a country for japanese?
can't they just be japanese?
Yeah this is right. Vox has a video on this exactly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2tuKiiznsY
If they are wrong, their reputation won't suffer that much. They can just say, "We based our story on the best information available to us as outsiders."

Which, to me at least, is a perfectly legitimate thing for a newspaper to do. Yes, they should check facts and vet sources, but their primary responsibility is to do the best they can and get the information out there for the public.
The survival bias is real.
Science Confirms That the Vagus Nerve Is Key to Well-Being
Wait, GP said 800-1000, you have it at 1300-1400... isn't 1000 like the headache line? Shouldn't it be around 400-600 in a healthy environment?

Edit: Looking it up, the Wikipedia article on CO2 has the following to say on the topic:

> A study of humans exposed in 2.5 hour sessions demonstrated significant negative effects on cognitive abilities at concentrations as low as 0.1% (1000ppm) CO2

> Another study observed a decline in basic activity level and information usage at 1000 ppm, when compared to 500 ppm.

So 1ppk is definitely bad. Another datapoint is from 5ppk:

> At [5000 ppm for an 8h period, the] International Space Station crew experienced headaches, lethargy, mental slowness, emotional irritation, and sleep disruption.
Eh. The same person can dig for oil in north dakota, or they can go dig for oil in nebraska. You'll get a lot more oil in dakota (big tech) than you would be getting at nebraska.

Go do the best thing you can do right now. Expenses don't matter, the total gross profit is what does.
You said;

> 'Disclaimer: I also don't like the idea of "safe spaces"...'

The article defines a safe space as "...an environment where difficult subjects can be discussed openly, without the risk of disrespect or harsh judgement."

I suppose I'm really asking you if you read TFA.
So they could identify who plagiarized their catalogs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
Well, with the citizens united decision, The country decided that buying a power is acceptable. Choosing whether this Bloomberg company upsets you or makes you happy is still just haggling over the price.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar. It leads to tedious, repetitive, and usually nasty discussions—see first reply below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm very enthusiastic about traveling by rail, yes! I have a relative near the end of her life who has been enjoying its comfort and accessibility to make final visits to our dispersed family, all while enjoying the natural beauty of the US as a free bonus.
Why is this guy trending on HackerNews? To boost his channel?
Personal attacks aren't ok regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Please edit such swipes out of your comments here. We've had to ask you this more than once before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Don't give them your page views. This article isn't worth your time.

Faux outrage at getting sent a USB drive with an audio file on it. Gods almighty.
Unfortunately in some cases - like this one - the original paper is highlighting the 'aliens' hypothesis, so the journalists can hardly be blamed for running with it.

From the abstract:

The implications of finding such objects extend from traditional astrophysics fields to the more exotic searches for evidence of technologically advanced civilizations

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab570f#...
What even is "Big Tech"? I feel like it's a buzzword coined by news outlets to vilify the tech industry. "Big Tech" companies like Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook are in entirely different industries: Electronic hardware products, online retail, video media, and social platforms. The article mentions how "Big Tech" is centered on advertising but only 1 out of those three derive their main source of revenue from advertising. Heck, depending on how you define "Big Tech" arguably the majority of "Big Tech" does not rely on advertising: Facebook and Google do while Microsoft (bing is trivial), Apple, Netflix, and Amazon do not.
I can't speak to regional banks or credit unions, in the US, but the major US national banks ALL have options to be able to be SMS'd, email'd or in-app instantly notified for a wide variety of events on or related to a card (auths, clears, bills due, bills paid, over a balance threshold, overdrawn, etc.) and the ability to freeze the card through the app or web until it is unfrozen. Capital One even has the ability to generate a one-time PAN to be used in Internet purchases.
Here at 63N that is a bit more challenging. Sunrise today was at 10:05, sunset at 15:05.

(In six months it rises at 03:40 and sets at 23:36)
What if these aren’t stars that are disappearing but instead the appearances and disappearances of wormholes that are either allowing us to see to another place in space where that star is or perhaps a wormhole blocking where that star previously was for us and we are now looking into another section of space where a star is not?
Sure. I'm not defending China or taking these numbers at face value.

But even if the 1.5m in Xinjiang is true, China is still significantly below the US in terms of incarceration rate. And it's sad that that's the comparison we're making.
thank you for sharing your story it sounds like quite a rough and difficult journey.
http://archive.md/zG5Zs
The pigeonhole principle establishes that you cannot fit n distinct messages into m spaces, where n>m

The Shannon coding limit defines the bounds on what subset of n can fit into a channel of capacity m, without excluding any of the others.

By drawing a fence around the possible, he fences out the impossible.

comp.compression has several longstanding bets that one particular high entropy input can not be represented by any decoder smaller than the difference in the input and output size, but I lack their confidence in the infallibility of their entropy source. It is possible someone will win that particular bet, but there will come a time where another similar bet will never be collected.
I sometimes browse with Dillo and there's what you might call the "Dillo-compatible" web, which is often IMO nicer than the "full" fancy web. I think they're working on adding JS, so it will probably all end in tears.

https://www.dillo.org/

FWIW, I think a web reboot with some sort of deliberately-constrained client and protocol(s) would be fun. (In the spirit of e.g. https://tildeverse.org/ )
For the voting machines you have to remember a large part of the US political class have coinciding interests with Russia here, they want those machines to be hacked.

If there was an actual cyber war I am confident the US can hold it's own if it wants to.
They are photographic plates, then vs. now. This cannot be dismissed as simple user error. Especially in 1950 where we did not have to contend with this massive population of artificial satellites. Other solutions must be sought.

What is not clear to me is whether one can find these missing stars on other plates taken at a later time. If so, then this lends credence to some sort of stellar phenomenon. The paper rules out asteroids due to the long exposure times of the images, which would have turned any objects moving in our solar system into a smear rather than a point source.
This article counts as "outrage"?
> Don’t work at startups to make $200M. Work at startups because you’ll work with people who have risk profiles that are much more likely to generate outsized returns as a group.

What's the point of that if those "group returns" are allocated almost entirely to the founders and the investors?

If you think it's not about the money, it's worth checking to see if you're being suckered by someone who realizes that it is about the money.
Yep, that's me. Hated physical activities since my childhood. I was naturally bad at it, so I was dead weight in any kind of competitive play which further increased my hate for any kind of sport. Still can't force myself to go outdoors and prefer to stay home for days, but that's really bad for health and for cognitive functions, so will have to find some way.
Yes, this talk is very good.
I see zero ads and content that covers most of the page. If you don't like it, Reader mode works perfectly well.
Dude we’re talking about identifying general criminal suspects with facial recognition. Either you’re trolling or you might actually be racist. Your answer does not “stand” up anything other than a point that black people per capita in the US commit more murders than white people—which nobody is disputing or even talking about. The facial recognition we are talking about is used to pick out general suspects from a “crowd” (which is why I used arrests). We are not trying to identify per-capita murder hotspots and we most certainly don’t need facial recognition to do so. Your argument is ultimately pointless which is why you’ve been venerably downvoted.
That's not what the problem in America is, we don't actually have first past the post voting for president. You need a majority in the electoral college to win. The issue that that people are given disproportionally more power based on where they live. People in California are worth far less by vote than people from say, Rhode island.
One of the things that keeps me away from startups is how disadvantaged employee equity is. Options become golden handcuffs when they have to be exercised to leave. Execs and investors are not in the same boat as employees due to preferred shares, liquidation preference, and other terms. None of these are disclosed to employees.

I've heard too many stories of start ups being sold where the founders cashed a big check and the employees didn't get anything.

To be clear, I'm not an expert in this, but the startup ecosystem needs to regain trust if it wants to hire more competitively.
Chinese CPUs Now Work on Domestically-Produced Operating System
Surprisingly, these sorts of people are both not that rare and relatively straightforward to connect with.

A year of low level engineer’s salary is, relatively speaking, not a lot of money in our industry/society, regardless of what that figure ultimately works out to as an integer.
I wasn't trying to antagonise nor dismiss you.

Read 5 pages again and see if it hooks you. If it does not, you probably won't like it.

I don't want to 'argue' with what you said because it won't help. You just read 500 pages and felt nothing. What magic of writing could I create to convince you otherwise in a paragraph?
These kind of projects exist at the intersection of so many different disciplines. And most of those disciplines are very narrow. Something that is obvious to one person will not enter into the thinking of another.
I think there were just waiting to fire him right before Christmas
https://www.vox.com/2014/9/14/6137473/venture-capital-return...

And related.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffe...
It will no longer be nearly as appealing to airlines.

Airlines are in a tough spot as the only competitors to the 737 are made by Airbus. Airbus is, of course, up to its ears in orders and slowly scaling up the ex-Bombardier lines.

They might actually be better off just axing the MAX entirely and continuing to produce the 737 NG.

NG production ended (not without its own issues), it's not coming back. There is nearly zero chance of the supply chain attempting to retool for the NG. If Boeing can get the 737 MAX certified it will sell.
I don't know why this was voted down. Obama had an excellent ground game and an excellent (for its time) Internet/social media game. They were quite public about it and everybody took notice. The GOP definitely upped its game and of course candidate T had been working the social media channels since the 80s.

As with advertising in general nobody really knows what works and what doesn't, but these national campaigns have the budget to just try it all.
This is cherry picking.

We all have heaps of extermely valuable opportunities: the trick is to pick the right one. He is using hindsight to pick the best. However we don’t have that future information when an opportunity passes us by.

Any longtime HN readers had the bitcoin opportunity pass us by. Much better since it doesn’t require hideous life-force investment (our own life time).

$200MM also includes an implicit lie that he would still own 1% after dilution. Garry: what equity were you offered?
This may help: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/11/01/nll-hard-errors.html
Overton Window successfully moved; mission accomplished.
Sometimes I experience that, but my moods can be cyclic in general.

This is one area where discipline and a routine really helps. Just force yourself out into the activity, it'll always feel better afterwards.
That shows the value of using existing skilled labor, not the value of the union. Your statement that this "helps show why the unions existed" remains completely unsupported.
Thanks! There are ways to work on ideas without sacrificing one's own life. And this can involve working in a small group that people will call a startup. There is no reason to enter into abusive relationships or sacrifice being paid, IMO. I also think though some tech salaries are really high and an ok salary from a startup that keeps you alive + lets you work on your own product vs. being told what to do is really nice. I mean if more people did that we may even have less of an income disparity between tech and all other jobs in any given geographical region.