skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really agree, and think the misnomer should be applied in the opposite direction: AI should be called 'adaptive algorithms' and it should be just another tool the box of CS people.

We're not doing anything that we were not before.

There is no new paradigm shift. There is no AI. There's just a slightly new approach to solving problems. That's it. There's somer really nice improvements in computer vision ... and a few other things ...

... but all this talk of 'intelligence' etc. should be brushed aside, it's misleading to everyone.

There will be no 'general AI' with our current approaches for a whole variety of reasons.

I'm embarrassed at how so many intelligent colleagues drink the kool-aid on this.

Take classical ML: it was hyped for a while, now it's not as exciting as 'Deep Learning'. Well, in few years, I think that DL will be there as well: just a tool in the toolbox.
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I remember him a year ago saying stuff that wasn't particularly mainstream, like warning about fast food cashiers being replaced by kiosks, malls closing due to competition with Amazon, call center workers being automated, etc.

These are all things that are coming, I have peers working on some of them, but they aren't particularly mainstream, even though the most accessible jobs in the economy fall under those categories.
I think that is unlikely. MCAS was not put in place to avoid training, it is there to fix what would otherwise be an unacceptable handling issue. It was attempting to add MCAS without training that led to all the problems (not mentioning it, using only a single sensor...), and if Boeing could have done without it, it would have done so.
Minor correction: Gödel's incompleteness theorem dates to 1931, not 1944.

That said, I agree that the later Russell's more popular writing has been given short shrift, and stands the test of time in many ways better than the earlier Russell's logicism.
I don't have any sympathy left for Sonos.

It used to be about a remote controllable midrange hifi that didn't stop playing when your phones battery died or your laptop turned off, a system "that just worked". Right now I have 5k in Sonos speakers littered around the house that I haven't bothered to setup after a bridge broke because I know that it's just gonna f* up again with the next forced update.

Their entire always online bulls*, their "recycling bricking", and their general consumer hostility pushed them from a company I wholeheartedly liked to "avoid like the plague" territory.
Relatedly, that is a part of why I love the term "cryptoarcheology" in general, as a reminder that digital spaces will need archeologists too.

There's it's somewhat shortened form "cryptarch", generally more used as a title ("cryptoarcheologist"), which was used in places in the Quantum Thief trilogy of books and is most probably already burned into your brain if you have played any of the Destiny series of videogames (and I presume was heavily influenced by Quantum Thief).
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You should take a look at Toptal, I use it for just this, working around 20 extra hours a week. Can't give out my rate there, but it's fair.

Easy to get gigs once your in, the clients I've worked with have been good. Very little mental overhead since they handle invoicing, getting customers etc.
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Oh look capital is eating another public service who'd've thunk
Perhaps that old saying "Could sell ice to the Eskimos" has been usurped. Which is probably a good thing.
Awesome internships wont be paying well and wont be at a FAANG hey will be places like tier one rnd, like NASSA JPL CERN etc.

And in no tech careers probably because daddy or mommy put in a god word
I am in no way affiliated with the company, I just started using it recently and I really like it! :) Basic plan is very cheap.
Not sure why they are asking this of Apple. Do they not know the fallout of this?
Good on Gary.

"I don't do non-union work" is a perfectly reasonable position to take.
Ok so you can't make bibles in USA. That doesn't mean you have to make bibles in China, though. There are other countries that have cheap labor who aren't the target of tariffs.
I've been reading Zero to One, and one of the ideas the book pitches is that monopoly and innovation are two sides of the same coin. Only monopoly-like companies have time and money to dump into innovative products (Bell, GE, IBM, Google). And people only invest in an idea if they think they can profit from it (look at how crucial a patent system was for the industrial revolution).

Competition is important, but to drive efficiency - weed out bad ideas and bring down costs of already created innovations. But the thing that usually drives monoliths out of business is... new monoliths.

The somewhat contrarian takeaway is that some (keyword) amount of consolidation is good.
> I hate being told what words I have to use.

I get that. That's the root of your discomfort here.

But the thing is, in society, we all have to work together. Getting along is important. Of course you're free to use the words you want. But then the rest of us are free to choose not to work with you and criticize your insensitivity.

I'm arguing that people ought to get along with each other. That involves having empathy for each other. Having human sensitivity.

You're arguing you should be able to do whatever you want, and if other people are bothered that it's their problem. You can call that many things, but you can't call it empathy. It's mainly called being selfish, not trying to get along.
>And, to the extent there are evolutions, it really does seem like the incumbents have insurmountable advantages...

By definition, doesn't it always seem like this?

Jim Barksdale (Netscape) said there are 2 ways to make money - bundling and unbundling. What can be unbundled from the incumbent bundles, in order to be offered in a more fit-for-purpose way, or with a better experience?

How might that answer change if the world's political structure changes? How might that answer change if processing, storage and networking continue their march towards ubiquitous availability?
We still have actual slavery and wage slavery isn't much better.
I made a bookmark for about:profiles so I can launch a different profile, but it is a bit more cumbersome than having it be part of the main interface.
Unions have both positives and negatives. The less your individual situation gets out of the positives, the more the more you see the negatives.
I gotta start doing this, and only once the projects are in a state I'm okay with, then buy a proper domain...
Surely if you control the whole toolchain, you can stick flags into the binaries/libraries and fail at link/load time.

The fact that default C ABI prefers to work without a condom here doesn't mean that Rust has to! This is one of the most avoidable forms of undefined behavior I'm aware of.
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My understanding is that startups never paid well. Sure, if you got lucky and were employee #7 at Facebook, it paid off great! But even during that time frame, working at startups instead of MS or Google was not a good proposition. And even during DotCom and the rise of Microsoft, it paid a lot better to work at IBM than these classes of startups.
It won't matter, demographics made boomers a permanent majority. They make my generation a permanent minority. I'll vote but may as well not.
It's a shame when management fails at understanding this aspect of the game because I feel like it's one of the simplest ones to understand.

Appeasing clients? Balancing profit/loss? Juggling fire-fighting and feature-shipping? Recruiting? Hiring?

Hard, hard, hard, hard, hard.

Listening to your developers, who generally just want to be productive and generally know more than anybody else about how they can be productive? (If not, why did you hire them, if they don't know how best to do their jobs?) Understanding that technical debt exists and exerts a massive drain on future productivity?

I feel like those are the easy parts of the job.

Of course, the onus is on developers to communicate these things well. Otherwise we can't blame management for not understanding them. But I have never seen process break down because developers weren't talking. It always seems to fail because management isn't listening.
it's a bedrock principle of our constitutional framework that we know who is exercising political power, to avoid corruption and tyranny. it's why we have 3 co-equal branches of government that must make their deliberations and decisions known to the public.

and scale matters. PACs with millions of dollars can exercise political power in a way that regular individuals cannot. the public needs to know who is exercising power (that it's in the form of spending money is incidental).

no one can (or should) protect you from all repercussions, and social pressure is better than (destabilizing) violence.
That will just drive more employers towards part time employees and outsourcing.

The latter, I agree with the former reforms.

You also aren't getting this sort of top down reform without obtaining more political power than the upper class. That's not going to happen without better organizing (Union, political movements, whatever).
To everyone downvoting: just open an incognito window and try to use Google Find My Phone. You will be asked to grant 2FA through the notification on your phone or Google Authenticator in order to log in.

Also see: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/63d9ml/google_find...
I guess the Fahrenheit 451 references are inevitable, so why not embrace the naming? :b
No, Satoshi is enjoying privacy right now. But everyone claiming to be Satoshi isn't looking for privacy. If they want to convince tech audiences, proving their claims is the easiest way forward.
some percentage of users will need a backup. While some technical users will configure something for themselves, for others it will be more convenient just to pay for backup from anytype
The same lesson that unions have learned about killing machine shops by locking down production and employee ownership to the point where no growth can happen. Unions tried to stop the progress of new technologies and save jobs and failed. Thousands of years worth.

Humble overlords are required, that doesn't make the entire industry necessary for unionization.
My understanding is that MCAS wasn't there to fix an unacceptable handling issue, but to make the 737 MAX have similar flight characteristics to previous 737 models. I didn't think there was anything about the plane itself that was fundamentally unstable or unsafe, it's just that a plane that flew with different flight characteristics wouldn't get grandfathered into the cert.
Don't agree, comparing histories is not a reliable way to predict the future, I think we'll see the growth of governance level disruption, a pushback that will encourage home grown solutions for countries that are not necessarily aligned with US interests. That field is wide open and growing!
Generally I agree, but I've found it hard to parse macro logic in projects that I am not familiar with.

I've written a project that uses macros heavily as well and it's hard to make it easy to understand.

It's a double-edged sword. Macros are nice and can simplify the top-level API significantly, but at the same time they add complexity under the hood.
Information is a log of the possibilities. Adding epigenetics and such will add to the number of bits, not multiply them. If I give you another decimal digit to stick on to a number, it may give you another factor of 10 to play with on its sum, but it'll still be just one more digit, not a factor of magnitude more digits.
Thanks. I might when my family can afford it again and not have to deal with usual healthcare fraud.
Actually what I read was that the MCAS system was there to make the MAX fly exactly light a non-MAX 747, and thus avoiding the need for any additional training.
Thank you, that's an excellent chart.
A marketing page at the number one spot on Hacker News, and only 35 minutes old. Hmm.
> The majority of bad sentiment has come in the past five years

Literally the first 3rd party gaming company was because workers were unsatisfied with Atari.
Honestly, OP's comments didn't come across as anti-union at all to me. They came across as not blindly pro-union (ie, they're always the right answer), but they also said that a union might be right for the game develop industry.
Nepotism isn't about only salary, it's also about power and prestige. Because for a billionaire family(1), that's what matters past the dollars and cents. Ivanka Trump can afford to forego her salary, but no amount of money can buy the résumé entry "Former Senior Advisor to the President" and that past will open doors for her the rest of her life.

(1) It's also possible that the Trump family isn't actually as wealthy as they claim to be on paper, in which case being in a position to actually directly influence executive regulatory policy can have significant direct financial impact on their enterprises that they have no opportunity to exploit otherwise. For example, they could have a hand in implementing tax programs while owning significant financial interest in companies regulated by those tax programs (https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/crew-files-c...).
"Right to work" is one of those legal principles that follows a dystopian naming scheme. It was lobbied for by the owner class because it allows freeloaders to benefit from collective bargaining without paying membership dues in the union representing them. This weakens the union, with the eventual goal of eliminating the union (and the benefits it negotiated for workers) altogether.
Was it really that hard to predict the Internet? SF authors picked up on it almost immediately.
I think population growth also factors in. Population is leveling off. In the past century, the global population has quadrupled, so there are four times as many people to invent things in raw numbers alone. But global population will increase no more than 50% in the next century, which means we aren't creating a lot more inventors than we are now.
Not buying it :-)

1. arrows are reusable. I've dabbled in archery.

2. arrows are a distance weapon. You can take out prey or enemy at a distance. Throwing an axe is very short range.

3. throwing an axe means you get one shot. Then you're weaponless.

4. throwing a metal axe is much more effective than a stone axe. I seriously doubt throwing a stone axe is very effective - you'd be better off just throwing a rock.
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So you're saying your friends are ugly losers?
Make sure the bounty is less than the cost of the drone...
Why presume that they wanted to develop civilization?

Early civilization was superior to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in only one aspect: how large of a population it could support. In nearly every other way, it provided a worse lifestyle.
>The vast amounts of cash Fortnite made for Epic is being poured back into buying up indie games and supplying a better store for game sales and creating a better game engine that anyone can pick up and use for 5% of sales.

For the sole reason of trying to replace Steam as the dominant store platform on PC. Epic isn't just doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. This will not continue once Epic achieves their goal of buying their way into being the middleman between developers and gamers.
> no mechanism for [blocking access to company X for the whole EU]

..they'll ask all the EU ISPs in each of 28 member states to block company X - nicely.

() "EU citizens" meaning potential customers of company X - the "enticement" for company X to pay the EU the fine.
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We can always go back to physically preventing scabs from working instead.

Personally I think we should just get rid of anti-union laws.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/12/18/the-good-book-... covers some aspects like price of production.

Note that is 2006, but does give you insight and with hindsight, a better idea how we got here today.
We don't need no illumination.
There are two types of drones > 0.55lbs Standard Remote Identification and Limited Remote Identification.

Limited Remote Identification will be the cheaper type and can not take off without an internet connection.

Standard Remote Identification will have equipment to radio broadcast location data and can take off without internet connection.

See table on page 98

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g...

Your other options are to fly < 0.55lbs or fly in specially designated areas, like model aircraft club airfields.
I never though that Samsung will jump on microled bandwagon.

Samsung for long been trying to make LEDs in-situ on backplane, and they had samples in labs at least 5 years ago.
Thanks for explaining my own comment to me.
White House releases set of binding AI principles for agency regulators
>The only differentiating factor is the ability to produce high quality batteries in massive volume.

Software. The differentiating factor is software. Batteries will soon commoditize. What will make cars unique is how effortless they are to interface with, and things like suspension tweaks in over the air updates. Much like the transition from N64 cartridges to DLC, they dont need to sell a finished product any longer, youre buying into an update stream. Buy from a vendor you trust to keep iterating in a way you like (increased features or increased stability.)
No thank you. I don't want a union "representing" me or seizing part of my paycheck. Furthermore, if you examine history, all this will do is send jobs and opportunities elsewhere.
Most people who use Unix directly build up some stuff in ~/bin (often a misnomer because it's shell scripts and not binaries, although mine is less of a misnomer than most because so much is in C rather than shell). The trick is to build them out of the standard portable components that exist everywhere. (This means, among other things, no #!/bin/bash.)
Spoken language is also used to spread knowledge from the wise to the young.

This is sometimes called culture.
Some places. At some times. It's not a hard and fast rule and there are plenty of spaces where controlled airspace extends to the ground.
I’m defiantly going to drop down. Right now I have a personal domain, my parents domain and a few other. High schooler me didn’t realize what I was signing myself up for when I started using a personal domain.
Most modern embedded devices are way more powerful than 60's mainframes where Lisp used to run, or Xerox PARC workstations, so I see it more as culture issue than anything else.

Heck, the ESP32 runs circles around the Amstrad that I used to play Defender of the Crown on.
How is this any different than what happens after every Apple product launch?
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a475971.pdf

Massive consolidation within the defense industry began after the end of the Cold War.
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the majority of the mergers occurred
between 1990 and 1998.
[...]
In 1993, then Deputy Secretary of Defense William Perry held a meeting with defense
industry leadership to inform them of drastic reductions in future defense expenditures
and to encourage them to consolidate. That meeting earned the sobriquet "the Last Supper."
[...]
The DoD had a policy that paid restructuring costs to consolidating companies, which
allowed government and the company to share in the savings realized to the government.
The policy gained congressional and public scrutiny because it seemed to reward contractors
for undergoing large-scale downsizing or streamlining of the workforce in the name of
cost savings (GAO, April 1996, 3). This procedure earned the stigmatizing label
"payoffs for layoffs" from the media.

That consolidation was their own doing.
Vesting period is meaningless, you get them as a part of a salary package. If I get shares vesting over 4 years then it just means that they are a part of my salary. If I leave after a year I didn't lose 3 years of shares, in the same way as I didn't lose 3 years of salary.

The only time shares are different is stock growth, and since stock on average grows the shares will on average be worth more in year 4 than year 1. And in some rare cases with huge stock growth you can see extremely large compensations as a result, but otherwise they are just like normal salary.
No worries. I don't think its fair to say I'm traumatized. Just standard immigrant stories. We weren't rich, or comfortable, but never skipped a meal. Therefore we were actually very fortunate.

My wife, on the other hand, is from an ex commie country. She could write a book of her insane stories.
One reason is that it is theoretically possible to use memory instead of computation to attack the combined hashes by pre-generating a large number of collisions under one algorithm and then simply checking those using the other one, which means you don't need to do both algorithms for every check. Can't say for sure if that works out cheaper in terms of money but if the memory is available it could definitely save a lot of time.

Another reason is that for any given hash its theoretical maximum strength against any attack will be less than or equal to its bit length, but the practical strength always trends lower over time as attacks are found, and having two algorithms to attack increases the chances of finding flaws.
Sigh. This is HN, not Anandtech, there are people here design SSD Controller and Firmware for a living.

>The idle power draw is also specified in the spec sheet. Its why I didn't bother with data.

Which is why you should check. I should also remind you Laptop SSD are tuned with energy usage in mind rather than performance.

A modern 970 EVO desktop NVMe drives idle at 0.03w. You are off by a factor of 10.

The same drives has a deep idle state of 0.005W. Your idle Power is off by 100x.

Let's Assume a Laptop HDD has a similar idle and standby power. ( Which they dont )

The same drive compared to HDD has a Seq Red 10x and Random Read of 1000x to 100,000x. Let pick a middle of the pack number as 100x.

Even if Active power of SSD were double of the HDD ( Which they dont ). In Mix workload SSD is faster than HDD by 20x, SSD would have saved 10x energy.

>NVME drives in laptops to hit the final nail in the coffin for nvme ssd power consumption compared to disks.

There is nothing final nails in the coffin. The difference is so drastic, and there is a reason why every laptop manufacturer jumped to SSD. Not because it was cheaper, but it saves huge amount of energy hence battery.
nanoc with asciidoctor filter. I've also used pelican and Jekyll in the past, and they worked pretty well too.