skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Case in point is Uber with models per city/ time of day (with 1000's of models in production).

That is a good case-in-point, because one of the arguments in the article is that AI is expensive.

At what point does 40,000 compute-hours and a few million dollars spent on hundreds of city models become a better use of time and money than an afternoon noodling with ARIMA or some Fourier analysis on a $5,000 workstation?

Perhaps -- perhaps -- at Uber's scale, squeaking out a tenth of a percent is worth the time and money. But the rest of us schmoes can do pretty well with an SQL query, some R or Python or Julia and a generous dollop of good old-fashioned all-American hubris.
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This is what kicked me out of the UFO stuff. You'd see all of these amazing sounding stories, but with zero hard evidence to back them up and little to no attempt to figure out a non-alien explanation for the phenomenon. It's pure conspiracy thinking, not in the least bit useful for finding the truth. They'll take anything they hear at face value and repeat it. With little to no hard evidence to go on (most of hit "locked up by the government") all you have is anecdotes that trace back to lunatics attributed to third parties that never existed.
This doesn't really work as most AI Modeling is very resource intense (GPU / TPU etc.) that most business aren't going to have.
Ublock origin works on mobile, and you can reuse your settings from desktop.
Chef at least provides a partial approach here, where components essentially define an api that you can define mock and/or integration tests for.

Ansible is not as 'data-structure' oriented, so testing that is more difficult, but each element (modules, libraries, roles, playbooks) can be written to be fairly environment-neutral, which you could then use a test a fixture like BATS to easily check for regressions.

To answer your 'type-checking' expectation, its generally on the developer to implement those tests. In my experience, its rare that those are implemented in publicly available devops libraries, even though we have most of the tools to do so. It's definitely an area where the practice can improve.
Yup, this is what I use for editing. Vifm in whatever directory I'm working it but small and floating. Mod+Spc focuses my nav, Mod+Spc to focus the underlying windows.

Have it set up to spawn vim or VSCode instances using shared buffers and it's crazy handy. I can't go back to vimsplits!
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Yes, but you're already bandwidth constrained when getting grib files through a satphone which often means using coarser grids over a smaller area (constraining your options) less frequently. Not the largest limitation, but better bandwidth would be useful.

As you point out, it's largely a value judgement between worldwide fast internet and ground based optical astronomy and it's one I'm conflicted about. I comfort myself with the thought that because of the expense these constellations either will bring internet access to large numbers of people justifying continuing satellite replacement or they'll fail and the satellites will be gone sooner rather than later, but as I say, I'm conflicted.
Don't have sources at hand, but my impression from news articles over the last decade has been that recent archeological evidence has tended to indicate that aboriginal populations have been in australia for for quite a bit longer than the 50/60K years that was previously believed.

One example: I think there were some campfire remains and associated artifacts in Tasmania that were recently dated and turned out to be a lot older than than expected, like at least 80K years old.
May I ask how many plugins you run at any time on average?
You should report to proper authorities about the severity of the issue. Reach out to their security or technical higher up department of the bank.

In your case, they may or may not be storing the password in cleartext. They might be using the two way encryption instead of one-way hash. Passwords should be hashed (with salt) and it is irreversible.

For a financial institution, revealing your password by a customer service rep is a big red flag. I would reach out to concerned authorities and do a proper disclosure.
I wrote an article I published today about how AI is the biggest misnomer in tech history https://medium.com/@seibelj/the-artificial-intelligence-scam...

I wrote it to be tongue-in-cheek in a ranting style, but essentially "AI" businesses and the technology underpinning it are not the silver bullet the media and marketing hype has made it out to be. The linked a16z article shows how AI is the same story everywhere - enormous capital to get the data and engineers to automate, but even the "good" AI still gets it wrong much of the time, necessitating endless edge-cases, human intervention, and eventually it's a giant ball of poorly-understand and impossible to maintain pipelines that don't even provide a better result than a few humans with a spreadsheet.
I don't think there's any kind of contradiction. Getting fired is the natural result of not getting any credit.
You seem to have done some reading on this subject - care to recommend a few books that are well-researched and well-reasoned and not written by cranks?
Wow, I can't believe I went this long without realizing there were these characters specifically intended to be used in text based interfaces. It's funny, these are almost like the opposite of emojis, text trying to be graphics, rather than graphics trying to be text.
I can't imagine any founder with a few years of experience with VC would want a VC mole in their day to day business. This might work with early startups who don't know any better.

Also will other VCs invested in the same business benefit or lose out from a situation like this.
It can’t even do non-HDR uncompressed at 4K UHD 144 Hz. Max uncompressed is 120 Hz. That’s all DP 1.4 can do.
I don't even know if Hacker News provides a way to see people who reply to you or the chances of this conversation continuing. I'm a little confused. I can see two main claims in the argument:

1) If people did a certain thing, it would fix most problems.

2) Certain people knew of this solution but did not share it.

Which of these is the "very big claim"?

I may also be misinterpreting this:

>clear causal connection

Are you saying that if there was evidence that the listed individuals did know of it, that you would share it?

If one of them that's still alive told everyone about that idea, then you would see it as a reason to use that idea?

As for the "doing this would fix most problems", how much explanation would convince you to fix it? If it was (arbitrary units) 3 pages of text, that all made sense, would you share it? What if it was 15 pages of text, that you found to be consistent and logical after reading through it? Would you share it, and expect other people to share it?
As someone noted above, opening up accreditation to the whole population will do nothing to give those people access to the top performing investment vehicles, because the top performing investment vehicles are already getting their money from investors that they choose. So, all this will do is create more shady investment vehicles and those that can't afford to play with the bigger investments will continue to be sold on worse performing investment vehicles.
> questionably licensed

People don't want to pay for anything, therefore we get...

> barely maintained, obscure, ... have limited 3rd party compatibility

Building anything really polished that isn't those things is a huge undertaking that someone would have to pay for.

Electron piggybacks on the massive web ecosystem which is funded by SaaS, advertising, and surveillance so it lacks the abandonware problem. Unfortunately it's also not really built for the role of desktop or mobile UI layer and so you get a bloated, insecure, slow mess when you try to shoehorn it in there.

We don't get what we won't pay for.
I, for one, look forward to the part where Evan You begins to struggle with his newfound fame and industry glory, entering into a self-destructive spiral of booze, women, and drugs.

Like with a typical musical biopic.
They don't charge the ad buyer. My account was terminated 15+ years ago, still can't run ads under that account for some reason I do not know, but they were able to detect it and block it, whatever "it" was. So I'm punished forever for something forever unknown to me, despite not doing anything. I think the rule is unfair.
It also messes with dictionary lookup! It adds this nonsense if you select more than two Chinese characters, and so it makes it really hard to look up four-character Chinese idioms in my dictionary (which are, inexplicably, frequently missing from the built-in “lookup” dictionary).

Apple Books is so close to being a nice reading interface, but there are so many stupid little bugs. Highlighting is another horrid little bug that can easily wipe out a full chapter’s worth of highlights with one tap...
Yep. I would also hope if you're 'doing opsec' you would know how your tools work.
From my experience working for a company in the real estate investment industry, the biggest gap in investor understanding is in risk vs projected return rate. Almost everyone including accredited investors gravitate towards anything with the highest potential return rate, even when there's great big up-front warnings about a given investment having X, Y, and Z risk factors.

With that in mind, even just forcing investors to pass a simple test about risk in different areas of investment (bonds, index funds, major real estate types, etc) would go a long way.
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It feels like too much screen for me, I’m happy with a single 5K 27”. I could never get used to the unfocus or having multiple things on multiple screens all at once.
I work with Haskell, a language that some people call "pinnacle of type systems". Guess what would happen if I use `unsafeCoerce`? Exactly the same that would happen if I use `<any>` in Typescript. All the type guarantees go out of the window.

In your code, if someone throws a bad class into the mix, it will blow up both in Typescript and in Java/C# and in any other programming language. But, somehow, blowing up in Typescript is way worse that blowing up in Java/C#. Go and tell me that when I'm not allowed to put `nulls` anywhere neither in Java nor in C#, because that's something I can do in Typescript today.
I understand this, but it's suspicious when they manage to detect the fraud only when it's time to pay out the revenue to the site owner. It's also a little unfair to assume every detection of fraud is 100% purposeful action by the site owner and permanently terminating their account without even so much as a warning. In my case, I had ads running on my blog. It took 4 months to rack up $100. I think the chances I was purposefully defrauding them was low, given how long it took to get to the payout point.
I don't really understand the author's claims here.

const streamsBucket = new s3.Bucket(this, 'StreamsBucket', { websiteIndexDocument: 'index.html', removalPolicy: RemovalPolicy.DESTROY })
/* Create a cloudfront endpoint to make it publicly accessible */
const streamsDistributionOai = new cloudfront.OriginAccessIdentity(this, 'StreamsBucketOAI', {});
const streamsDistribution = new cloudfront.CloudFrontWebDistribution(this, 'StreamsDistribution', {
originConfigs: [
{
s3OriginSource: {
s3BucketSource: streamsBucket,
originAccessIdentity: streamsDistributionOai,
},
behaviors: [ {isDefaultBehavior: true} ],
}
]
});

Will create a bucket that will serve index.html from a non website bucket. Three lines of cdk code. If you need to populate the bucket, add another line to create a new BucketDeployment to populate the bucket.

All files are secured by OAI and not accessible over the public internet.
> you, me, or anyone else alive

One of these is not like the others.

Why do you think it's less plausible that humans have this technology than any other intelligent entity? There's no real reason to believe there's a sharp line between "human" and "other" capabilities. If the alternative is literally aliens, it's not a large stretch to imagine that once you've had the right insight, a Mach effect drive or something similar is possible.

The part of that story that's harder to believe is that we could have successfully kept it hidden this long.
> As a data scientist, this hints either (a) change of classification system that was not properly noted, or (b) that there's an underlying reason which causes infant death, which may manifest in different ways depending e.g. on whether the infant sleeps on their belly or their back.

As a data scientist, you should really consider more than these two causes. For example, perhaps some other cause of infant deaths was rising during that same period. Or, perhaps there is a change in classification, AND there has been a saturation point reached in terms of how the existing public health initiatives can affect population behaviors. You really just cannot reason from coarse, population level death rates like this to a specific condition or cause.

Also: https://www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm

The graph on that site very clearly shows that most of offsetting increase is caused by strangulation and suffocation, not an actual unexplained cause. It appears to be mostly a change in classification.

Finally, I really want to point out that we should not expect that a public information campaign would decrease SIDS rates to zero. After all, we can see in this thread that there are still plenty of parents who put their babies to sleep on their tummies. As far as most people know, the data could show that SIDS is 100% caused by prone sleeping and people would still doubt the evidence and put their child to sleep prone. SIDS rates would still not drop to zero, and that would not be evidence against the hypothetical cause.
Thank you very much for bringing this site to my (and other HN'ers) attention.

It looks like your comment got cut off mid-sentence. I would like to read more about what you were talking about. (And apologies if it didn't get cut off and it was just an issue of my reading skills not fully kicking in :))
> I can't think of a single time when I want a site to react to my attempt to copy text off if it

Perhaps in a rich text editor I want to copy as plain text; or perhaps I want to make a Markdown editor that you can select+copy the Markdown but then paste HTML. Just brainstorming.
In lieu of a plugin, I always paste into a plain text editor and copy the stuff I actually want from there. I've always done this, not because of dark-patterny stuff, but just fonts and having bad aim with my cursor when I copy.
Finding good experienced, talent/knowledge is difficult, so I'm on board with the idea here.

In place of cash seems backwards to me. Maybe if the companies that you invest into are great cash cows but need talent to accelerate? But if that was the case, you can usually afford talent.

A medium injection of cash + talent can go incredibly far in setting up your investment for success.
Or because the machine won't tell them why because privacy. (Although this applies less in the ad side of the business than consumer facing bits)
If your ml model is a magic black box and there's zero visibility into the system, even internally, as to the signals that resulted in a decision, you've hired a monkey that can run a tensorflow tutorial, not actually someone that understands machine learning.
The article says:

> Apparently some video cards that I currently run for 4K (which were all bought new within the last 2 years) are somewhere between a 2010 and 2013 level of technology.

Which I find unhelpful, because I can buy a new GeForce GT 710 circa 2014 from the local computer store today. (Dirt cheap, passively cooled, I assume that's the niche.) Buying new doesn't mean it's contemporary. A cursory Google suggests my old GeForce 960 (which first came out in 2015; also I'd consider it mid-range at best) supports HDMI 2.0.

Elsewhere it mentions a GT 630 which is ... from 2012. So yeah the 2012 era GPU bought two years ago is "somewhere between a 2010 and 2013 level of technology."
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it sounds like they aren't putting any skin in the game. The VC will benefit from all of the upside while literally taking none of the risk.

How could this possibly be good for entrepreneurs?

If someone approached me with this idea to help my startup, I would promptly move that email to my junk folder and stay focused on building a great product. If someone wants to invest money, sure I'd be happy to take it, but the last thing I need is more "advice" from armchair experts.
My prediction is that the first, really huge, AI breakout company will be the company that can figure out how to deploy AI to automate and scale data normalization/processing/integration pipelines and the resultant downstream features that drive value.
This is bad UX if nothing else.

For an example of what I think wad good UX: In Windows, it used to be that pasting into a text editor would give you the original text while pasting into OneNote would magically give you the text with a link back to the source below.

I used to love that and for what I know it still works, I just don't use Windows and OneNote that much anymore.
The "first nations" phrase is used frequently on aboriginal radio in perth (Noongar fm 100.9) At least half the people they talk to are from the eastern states, so I don't think that the phrase is unusual (at least among the sort of people who get interviewed on radio stations).
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Not necessarily any reason to have FreeSync or G-Sync. Just set the output refresh rate to the desired fixed value. Some media playback software can even be set to do this automatically. You’ll get a flash during the refresh rate switch, though.
God I am so tired of iOS Music constantly showing me ads for their streaming service. I've been paying them to ITunes Match my collection between my Mac and my phone/tablets for years and yet it keeps on trying to upsell me to their streaming thing. And sometimes it just brings up a blank screen over the music instead and hangs for a moment; sometimes that becomes a streaming service ad, sometimes it just hangs until I close the whole app.

I am betting that OSX Music will start doing that too if I upgrade to Catalina - one more reason to put that upgrade off until absolutely necessary.

Apple isn't alone in this though. I've been opening up the Kindle app a lot less lately ever since its home view changed from "here are all your books" to "here are some of your books and here are some books a lot of people are pre-ordering that we think you might wanna buy and here are some books we think you might wanna buy", especially since they launched that new view the same week a book with Trump's angry orange glare prominently featured on the cover got a shit-ton of pre-orders. Exactly what I wanna see when I'm looking for some relaxing bedtime reading, thanks Bezos.
On the other hand, it's nice to put a face behind the tools that we use everyday.

It also helps to recognize the "human factor" behind the decisions being made with these tools (although YMMV on whether this documentary will succeed in doing so).
YMMV as the old saying goes. I use my phone to listen to music, send & receive text messages, take pictures and videos, and record musical ideas. My iPhone lets me do these things without getting in my way and it's been doing it for years (I don't upgrade unless I have to and so far my iPhone SE has been doing the job for nearly four years now).
Lol "on financial steroids" you say that as if it sounds like a good thing.
But your human weaknesses are the same ones we all have. So if it confuses you or causes anxiety, that means it is error prone and inefficient for pretty much everybody.

In fact, by blaming yourself for these outcomes, you’re showing an unusually high level of conscientiousness, which means there’s a good change you’re more thorough than average.

Profit increases when the process is tweaked to mitigate exactly these kinds of issues.

You’d want to pitch your improvements in terms of decreasing costs by improving efficiency and reducing error rates. No need to tie it to alleged personal weaknesses... they want to hire cheaper people than you with even more weaknesses.
43in 4k monitor (Philips BDM4350UC). Not a particularly high dpi but LOTS of screen real estate, and not very expensive. You can have two documents open side by side plus stackoverflow and the rendering of your website. But it requires 60Hz, because otherwise moving the mouse over such a large surface feels laggy and uncomfortable.
Using the VanillaJS framework you can accurately estimate your target uncompressed package size after picking just the features you need. It has a handy estimation tool on their homepage - Give it a try! http://vanilla-js.com/
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What a surprise that Apple would do something user-hostile.
I'd agree with this general take on things, because while I've never actually built a 'real' compiler and probably never will, even a shallow level of lexing and tree-walking has been majorly useful several times in my career even working mostly in frontend web development, since it makes for highly efficient DSLs and configuration tree transformation.
There are basically two options:

1. Strangler pattern - which allows you to continually advance functionality, but will take longer and requires delicate care.

2. Complete rewrite - the only successful way to do this is to code freeze your legacy app. It's risky because it means keeping the product features stale for awhile, but less cumbersome to advance once it's done.

Either way is risky. Choose your poison.
>Why do people use CPI instead of labor

How would one differentiate real and nominal wage/salary increases?

>housing

Shelter expenditures presently constitute 33.2% of the CPI basket.

>housing or stock prices

Asset prices are only very loosely associated with inflation.

>On a similar note, why would anyone trust the federal reserve's numbers given how the federal reserve has lied in the past?

lol. (Also, BLS calculates CPI, not the Fed.)
Vendor lock-in is real - why not just generate an index.html file? Then you don't need to hack anything and your files are portable. index.html will work anywhere.
I’m a react dev, but svelte calls to me loudly and often, trying to lure me over. It’s an oh so alluring thing that one
It is said that the true definition of AI is: "Awaiting Implementation."
No. We had 31 million lines of code and it was so complex that even changing 1 line had massive implications. Definitely the worst code base I've ever worked on. I originally started working there as a contractor because they had single functions which had reached the file size limits for their build system and they didn't know what to do (you know... maybe split this function up into smaller functions... maybe...). There were people who were unrolling loops because they were unaware that the compiler would do it for them under the hood. And then somebody would modify one part of that loop, so you'd be looking for some strange behaviour and it would be buried in the middle of some code that was copy and pasted 100 times. Total nightmare. Don't even get me started on how they did their memory allocation.
I absolutely agree. I did not say 1000's of deep learning models.

There should always be a tradeoff between performance and cost.

But it is much better to give customer the option, instead of forcing her to the said SASS architecture.
Interesting video. I didn't get how the Ray casting process formulates the final picture in the eye.
Alerts do nothing to stop a huge bill.
I loved it when I used Windows and OneNote (it would add metadata when I pasted to OneNote but not otherwise.)
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