skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not how anything actually works in the real world though.

The arguments against libertarians are almost always some absolutist interpretation of some anarchist movie is world or worse Somalia which has tons of tribal systems, failed states (which includes a fair judicial system and enforcement of the law which markets absolutely depend on) and very little developed capitalist industries.

In reality most libertarians want a smaller government than is currently in place, they don’t want zero government. They most certainly don’t want an unstable state without centralize state run courts or law enforcement (outside of a very tiny extremist minority, a far smaller minority in the world than those who want actual vanguard communism again).

I’m a pragmatic libertarian leaning person which means that being realistic means compromise that some industry just simply makes more sense (as the amount of trouble it would cause to be market based via uncontrollable externalities). You could even factor in the amount of natural political meddling like we see in the US healthcare markets, which creates fake pseudo markets that provide few of the benefits of a real market where a single centralized public insurance option may actually be the least evil option, since the alternative has long ago become unrealistic. But that said I’d go as far as up to 50%+ up industry intervention and pro-social projects (ie helping the poor) are actually making things worse off overall had they not existed at all.

Thomas Sowell has written some great books documenting hundreds of cases of gov intervention coming with good intentions that have backfired (ie. rent control in Toronto and NYC in the 70s and 80s which dramatically reduced the supply of new low income development because no one wanted to build with rent control when they could build somewhere else).

I recommend “Wealth, Poverty, and Politics” by Sowell as a starter.

For other examples of failures of gov run central industry making them worse off than before I highly recommend reading the Venezuela economy Wikipedia about all the stuff they did after declaring capitalism is old and dead, creating mass starvation and unnecessary poverty in what could have been the most successful country in South America. Meanwhile countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong adopted markets after having large state run industry and dramatically increased the wealth of their entire country in a short few decades.
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This is a fascinating concept, but I wonder how it can impact the overall culture of a startup. More and more, I’m inclined to believe that the initial group (say, first 10-15 employees, including the founder) are the most important.

This, in turn, almost looks like a more specialized version of contractors. For those startups in the early incubation stage, I’m concerned this may actually hurt their chances of possibly—prolific development.

If carried out properly, however, I think this has really great potential; cash can often be a double-edged sword that also limits creativity and innovation. An effective “mentor” in this sense, will be way more beneficial than straight, cold, cash
Aha, that makes sense (the initialization and mutation, that is).

It probably won't surprise you to know that I would scribble a := there; `==` is one of my least favorite of the tokens we've inflicted upon ourselves as a profession. Certainly it's good to draw the distinction between initialization and mutation.

Although as an immutable initialization, `=` is correct as an equation as well... hmm.

I wasn't familiar with Alloy, but I'm about to be. I've clobbered a few things together with PlantUML, and don't have any use for a diagramming system that doesn't have a canonical textual representation, which it appears Alloy does... it appears Alloy does rather a lot, actually.

My goodness. This thing has a SAT solver strapped to the side of it. I did not see that coming.
It's not that Alan Turing was a 10x or 100x programmer (not that there were many others to compare him to at the time), but that he had a deep intuitive understanding of mathematics, which he could apply to many problems from different fields.
The US Navy has said that they are unable to identify the objects in those videos. Assuming they aren't lying I would be inclined to think that they would be better at identifying those objects than a retired video game developer (no disrespect to Mick intended). If he is right then it's a case of gross incompetence on the part of the military, which would be a huge concern in itself.
AWS ses has convinced me Amazon and Google have too much power.
1% "spam" = frozen account

Could be bounces, but mostly just users who literally signed up clearly for my email list with 0 deception marking spam.

It's actually cut my content production down because I'm afraid to email. From 50 articles per year to 12 to 4 to 2.
Evolution will not let you escape local minima, intrinsic/sprawling design decisions that cannot be evolved away from.

I am sitting on a codebase whose oldest line of code is about 20+ years old and has evolved successfully in that time such that product it was 20 years ago and todays product are unrecognizable from one another. Its database schema is even older, encoding decisions made 30 years ago. Reasonable decisions at the time, but no longer reasonable.

I am working on a major rewrite which will take a year. The nature of the changes required mean I cannot break it up into pieces and do it bit by bit as I have been for last couple of decades with major enhancements. A functioning product is all or nothing. As someone who is anti-rewrite, pro-evolve and accustomed to working on old codebases, and being my own business so its my own money on the line, the decision to embark on a 12 month rewrite is not taken lightly.
> Is it?

Yes.

Internal combustion engines require intense tolerances. If your cylinder head is 1mm out of spec you're going to have serious problems.

But if the wire winding bundle for the electric motor is 5mm out of spec? You'll be fine.

The areas in a Tesla where tolerances are actually important- the batteries and PCBs- are subject to completely different engineering practices. Nobody's going to get cross trained from fitting door panels to placing SMCs... which is done by a robot anyway.

Do you (literally) kick the tires of a car before you buy it?
I bought a 4K monitor a few years ago. It's beautiful when displaying 4K, but I'm still waiting for Linux to catch up. I used in on a desktop and that worked mostly ok, but on a laptop with different scalings on the internal and external monitors it is hopeless. I'm not even trying to use both monitors at once, I just want Firefox to be scaled from 2x to 1x when I disconnect the external monitor (and vice versa).

I recently bought a new monitor for my office and explicitly avoided a 4K monitor for this reason, it turns out there aren't that many 27" 1440p monitors nowadays. I ended up getting a Lenovo P27h (comes with USB-C) and it works great.
I once worked with a -2X engineer, whose code was so bad that it took twice as long for a 1X engineer to undo the damage he wrought.
Really interesting to read this now, almost 50 years later. So much has changed — and so little has changed.
Honestly, is there much difference between the GDC presentation and the final game?
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Why don't we have more cell phone videos of this stuff?
Preferably from multiple cell phones from different angles.

As for "lights in the sky", see [1]. It's getting way too easy to do this.

[1] https://youtu.be/KhDEEN4gcpI
Vorticity patterns are often treated as an additional set of 3 dimensions, because they require continuous differentiation. Modern weather forecasting software is a beast.
Sounds kind of like monopolistic behavior or something
What method do modern CPU's actually use?
> Why do you feel the need to write such a comment?

To learn and share obviously. (In fact, thanks to some of the other's who replied to my comment and explained their views, I am considering exploring the features of virtual desktop / spaces more now to see if it suits my workflow.)

As for you looking at my comment negatively, that can't be helped on the internet - we all have different personalities and different styles of communication, and everyone of us will, at some point, earn some supporters or piss of someone with what we are saying.

It's also harder to communicate in such a medium because of the lack of non-verbal cues that otherwise would help us better understand what the other person really means.
Ask HN: What is the role of economic advisors to a national leader?
Edit: obviously, I don't know how to get this to show up under 'Ask', or whether that is the most appropriate place for it.

I'd post this as a poll if I could, as that is essentially what I am getting at. I'm hoping for enough responses for a statistically valid sample of the responding population. A previous version of this on another site got one poll response.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are zero responses to the question no matter what I ask, but I'll try to ask a fair question that most accurately reflects the situation, without going into too much detail:

Suppose there was a way for a country to create a lot of jobs without additional government spending. Due to less need for welfare spending or things like the Works Progress Administration that created jobs in the US during the Great Depression, government spending could actually decrease.

However, if one country used the system, other countries would know of it as well, and if they used it, profits of companies selling luxury goods in the first country would decrease. The 'cultural influence' of the first country could also decrease — if the first country was the US, perhaps fewer people would be interested in learning English.

The question is, what role do economic advisors have in this situation? In the US, this is the Council of Economic Advisors: https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/

I will not quote it due to length. Other countries may have similar things. What best describes what advisors should do?

1) They SHOULD NOT do anything as a result of knowing about a system that does this.

2) They MAY or CAN share this system with the leader of their country.

3) They SHOULD share this system with the leader of their country.

4) They MUST share this system with the leader of their country.

I'd also ask, if economic advisors should not share this system, is there anyone who should? But I doubt I will get many responses even to the first question.
Saw this alternate entry device announced at CES:

https://www.charachorder.com/

SelfieType, using a camera to watch your fingers, looks even more futuristic:

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-selfie-type-demo-vi...
You're getting downvoted because you're wasting space with your melodrama. If you want to "cancel your subscription", just don't come to the site anymore. Or just avoid threads you know you won't like. Definitely stop whining.
There is a market for drugs, child porn, assassination too. Or for email spam, hacked accounts, stolen credit cards, money laundering.

If your conception of value to society is as simple as "people pay money for it", maybe you should reconsider what value means outside of a purely monetary lens.

So far, bitcoin is a much costlier way to transact compared to standard methods - both to the end user, and in terms of energy/resource costs of miners vs. a VISA server.

It probably has some value in a scenario where the government is an adversary. But the government can regulate and track Bitcoin just as well as dollars if they wish to, like they already do in the US by requiring BTC exchanges to collect users identity proofs.

The arguments about how bitcoin is the next big thing and we'll all look silly for laughing at it now are basically empty. I'm sure i will feel silly if it takes off somehow, but that tells me nothing about if/why it will take off. I'll look silly for laughing at ghosts or leprechauns if they turn out to be real too, so what?
This sounds like a very bad idea. I hardly believe any VC has any great builders just sitting around to jump on and off to the next thing. I'd also not feel trusted but more like watched all the time. I'm lucky that all the investors I had in the past always trusted my and the team's ability to build, grow and push things forward without suggesting putting their people in. I might be wrong, but it feels the only people that could think this is a great idea are coming from the venture side :) It just sounds very wrong to me tbh.
It is a great project for learning a new language. I used it to practice Rust.

You get to implement vectors, with basic operations on them, this gives you a chance to practice some abstractions. It's also good to create some unit tests to ensure your vector operations are correct. There's also good reason to parallelize your code and perform benchmarks. Abstractions, unit tests, parallelism, benchmarks, you have an excuse to try them all.
I agree that this is a common misconception people have about ML and how it fits into our world. If you want to see successful ML products, you don't have to find some AGI stealth mode startup—just look at your phone:

- Gmail's Smart Compose
- Netflix's Recommendation Engine
- Uber's ETA Prediction

ML functionality is becoming a standard feature in software, and in my opinion, that's the real "ML Revolution." As you mention, turnkey inference tools like Cortex (full disclosure/shameless plug: I'm a contributor) are making this accessible to virtually all eng teams.
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Is this company named RN?

You've described my experience exactly.
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> I can't think of a single time when I want a site to react to my attempt to copy text off if it.

I think it is needed for some complex web app to handle copying non-text content. Such as images in wysiwyg editor, Google Sheets/Slides...
In finance, the data is all public, and the algorithms are all secret. In oil, the data is all secret, and the algorithms are all public.
Evidently "Popular Mechanics is ripping open the U.S. government’s massive UFO problem" but not bothering to proofread.

Yes, it seems a bit immature and pedantic to bother over mechanical errors in the text. But such clear mistakes in the published text (e.g. "intuitive" when they meant "initiative") does not speak well to their credibility as a newsgathering organization.

Unfortunately it seems like there has been a general decay in how carefully published material is proofread, I find a surprising number of typos and mechanics problems in books as well. I've found Packt to be especially egregious in this regard, many of their books seem to have been written by a non-native speaker and then never proofread at all.

Edit: it also strikes me as a bit iffy to introduce George Knapp as a KLAS reporter without mentioning his extensive involvement in the UFO community including hosting Coast to Coast AM. Whether fair or not this would lead many people (including myself) to view his information as generally less credible.
Software that already is listening has more vectors of attack to put it simply. I'm not a fan of features that compromise privacy and security for the sake of convenience.
With a font size I'm comfortable reading, I can fit two 80-column sessions side-by-side on my 2560x1080 display.
For example the UK is not a nation-state because it’s one state but four nations.
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Holy smokes. See if you can get in touch with someone in the financial press (such as the Wall Street Journal).
I don't know - I'm just a Google user, and I haven't gotten my account banned. I presume it won't work ?
>why do you believe anything humans are capable of building can do what these objects are reported as doing?

I believe they exist because of the videos and statements. I believe they're man made for the reason I stated above.

>What's your guess on how the boys filled that gap?

That's a lot harder to answer. The short version is, I have no clue. We could speculate forever. We do know that stealth technology existed for years before the public was informed, as one example of many. And we know that agencies like DARPA and programs like Skunk Works exist and are extremely well funded specifically to develop new technologies for military use. I submit that we do not know about every technology these sorts of entities have created. How far those technologies go? Man, I'd really love to know! I'm hopeful these videos are a glimpse of that.
Thanks for the reference! I think you've reminded of the vocabulary needed to express my impression of the images.
IE, That's definitely how the images feel - just texture and composition.

The thing is that I think that art involves using texture to "say" something. The artist puts combines represent of the physical world with reference to previous artists and images with composition. Some artists stress one or the other of these things - so that, yeah, a pure composition painting can definitely be "good enough to be in a museum". But a stream of painting like this definitely doesn't feel a museum or art as a whole.
This says that Planet Labs has over 300 satellites: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/private-company-launches-la...
#1 isn’t saying that at all. Cloud bills are expensive for an early stage startup in the AI space. They later touch on the human angle in the post, but not fair to diminish their cloud bill point.

2. No, they don’t work in all cases. Think Tesla autopilot versus a Level 5 car without a steering wheel.

3. True. I wonder if more ai innovation will start happening behind close doors as a result?
How about a Chrome plugin to disable Chrome's _own_ what-you-see-is-not-what-you-get behavior?

I occasionally find it convenient to select hostnames out of a URL in the address bar and paste them into a terminal. Chrome "helpfully" prepends noise to the text you actually copied ("scheme://"), which makes this a PITA.
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It’s not unfounded, I’m neither speculating nor repeating news reporting.

Are you suggesting that it’s somehow a bad thing to hate the US and it’s war-loving people?
I'm disappointed by this article. There is an amazing story here, and the author missed it: a collection of UFO believers and pseudoscientific quacks manage to get $26 million in funding from the US government. They produce mostly nonsense, yet somehow the project runs for years. The author collected all the pieces to tell the story, but wrote yet another "well, I'll let you decide, but it seems there's something to it ;)" article.

I mean come on, look at the people involved! Look at the papers they've written and the views they've espoused! There's all sorts of nonsense: remote viewing, telekinesis, harnessing zero-point energy, anti-gravity. The guy who received most of the funds believes Skinwalker Ranch is some sort of nexus for paranormal activity!

This could have been a great story, but the author was just too damn credulous.
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I recommend using AWS Amplify if you need to stay within AWS.

The full product can be compared to Google Firebase but the Amplify Console specifically offers features similar to Netlify on top of standard AWS services (S3/CF/Codebuild).

I find it a much better experience than manually setting up S3/CF websites because of the out-of-the-box features that simply wouldn't happen otherwise for a static site like:

- instant cache invalidation

- branch deployments (with password protection & rollbacks)

- deployment process only deploys modified files

- simple custom headers

- simple redirects (redirecting individual assets in Cloudfront is not easy)
>> "rather simple NLP"

I'd like to have some of whatever you're smoking. NLP is one of the hardest areas of science with many problems that will not be conclusively solved in my lifetime, both technical and scientific.
I'm wondering what you mean by "Thunderbolt 3 will not be a permanent solution".

I had gotten the vague impression that Thunderbolt 3 is in line to be adopted more-or-less whole-cloth as USB4. Is that not accurate?
As they say, ML is written in python. AI is written in power point.
Even that won't totally save you. While you can't do exactly this, you can sure get the fun experience of the user getting text they didn't expect in the clipboard when copying without any JS at all.

Text is highlighted on the page based on the code order, not as it appears on-screen (at least in Firefox and Chrome). If you throw elements off-screen with some CSS, you can create a big disparity between what the user thinks they are selecting and what they get when they copy/paste.

e.g: https://jsfiddle.net/Lbc5gsjm/

Not quite as neat as you can't put it dynamically around exactly what you select, but my favourite example of where you could get pretty malicious with it is a “plain text” link that injects a suffix to the hostname when you copy it.
Yes, this is a memory leak.
It doesn't really happen to big companies because they have the power to sue.

Every individual I know who's run google ads has been banned right before a payout at some point. They generally all in the range of $3000-6000. It's an amount that's a decent sum, but only to people who don't have deep enough pockets to afford a lawyer to go against a megacorp.

I'm not convinced it's not intentional. The banned people probably aren't generating that much in profit for google, and seizing a few thousand dollars from a customer who's likely to just cancel services at some point probably has a better payoff after a certain threshold. No google employee will ever explain how it works and there's zero support, so I doubt my mind will ever be changed on this subject. One thing I do know is Google isn't a stupid company--just evil. The problem has been too consistently occurring and too consistently ignored that it can't just be incompetence. Say it's spam and show a couple suspicious figures if anyone really tries to investigate and you get off clean.
The AI companies the article is referencing are trying to provide those examples: smart compose, Netflix recommendation engines, etc. to customer companies without an army of PhD’s. However the article makes it clear that doing that in a general way is hard, much harder than a normal SaaS business.
Put another way, on a website like draw.io, you need to be able to hook into copy to allow lassoing and copying a set of shapes (and have them remain editable when pasted).

The entire ask (stopping the copyright, and allow clipboard integration) be achieved by allowing pages to augment the clipboard data, which can already be done, but not replace it. Pages would still need to be able to hook paste.
> it turns out there aren't that many 27" 1440p monitors nowadays.

Huh? 1440p is the third most popular resolution on the Steam hardware survey[1], after 1080p and 1366x768.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
> Mention of Skinwalker Ranch in Utah as a “possible laboratory for studying other intelligences and possible interdimensional phenomena.”

Using the word "interdimensional", rather than something more precise, smells like bullshit. Specifically, it sounds more like pop scifi than actual science. A "dimension" is an axis, not a universe, and I expect someone writing a serious document for the government about anything, much less ETI, to use the word correctly.Then again, I've been disappointed before. Anyway, I'm holding open the possibility that the whole BAASS thing is the biggest, most embarrassing contracting boondoggle of all time.
The presentation implies that you have to click the "share screen" button before your computer will try to detect the ultrasound signal.
I feel like I got a more practical education on transmission lines struggling with SCSI cables than taking electromagnetics courses.