skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether 50s sci-fi imagined or implied other things is irrelevant to the question of whether or not the current capability described (point camera at sign, get translation) qualifies as AI.

The point is we have current things that are quite amazing, and would at one time have been considered to be the sort of thing that only an AI would be able to do, and yet we keep moving the goalposts. As if AI is defined as "that which humans can do but machines can't, done by machines".
AI is overhyped, but there is much promise.

maybe the best way to conceptualize this, inspired by @random_walker, is to compare AI in the 21st century to machines in the 20th century.

in the industrial age, machines automated rote physical tasks.

in the information age, AI could automate rote mental tasks.

the more objective and templatized the task, the more vulnerable it is to AI displacement. conversely, the more subjective and creative the task, the safer it is from AI displacement.
Nissan Email Trail Casts New Light on Takedown of Carlos Ghosn
It's all fun and games until you realize that the convention of White making the first move is very recent (mid-to-late 19th century) and was invented by white people.
A data scientist hacking OkCupid (2014)
> None of your examples involved going from a popular architecture with broad software support to a less-popular architecture.

Not sure how unique this architecture will be, but by device count, ARM architectures dwarf all others significantly. Calling it 'less-popular' is wrong.
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> uBlock Origin makes youtube videos stutter at about the 2 second mark on my Raspberry Pi 3's

If uBO is really responsible for this, you should probably check the box "Ignore generic cosmetic filters" in "Filter lists" pane. For instance, this is the default in Firefox for Android, I consider it's best for less powerful devices.
Aside from possibly Google, all of these products / services would have just as much, if not more, value without any AI beyond basic statistics.
I suspect ACID doesn't help either of them.
The browser knows that the cookie exists, but it has no way of knowing how the server is going to use it, or what the cookie is actually for. A single cookie might even be simultaneously both, and force the user to accept cross-site tracking in order for the site to work correctly.

I guess there's complication zero-knowledge proofs that could solve this problem, but they're too slow right now.
Quibi Falls Short of User Projections
Plastic rain in protected areas of the U.S.
> Sure, you know you’re down, you simply can’t do anything about it. Not so with your own hardware

I don't buy it. Everywhere I've worked that colo'd or owned their DC had wider-reaching outages (fewer than cloud, but affecting more systems). Usually to do with power delivery (turns out multi tiered backup power systems are hard to get right) or networking misconfiguration (crash carts and lights-out tools are great, but not if 400 systems need manual attention due to a horrible misconfiguration).

I think folks underestimate the non-core competencies of running a data center. Also often underestimated is the value of running in an environment designed to treat tenants as potential attackers; unlike AWS's fault isolation, when running your own gear it's really easy to accidentally make the whole system so interconnected as to be vulnerable--even if you make only good decisions while setting it up
It’s amazing how many peopled are triggered by square brackets.
I definitely disagree with some parts of the article, but his basic point on the futility of giving way too much power to harmless words is sound.

So much so that I don't understand why this got flagged (while, for instance, the one on github trying to change this wasn't).
There is likely to be yet more convergence towards iOS constraints. This seems inevitable, especially if Catalyst is central to how Apple carry out any ARM transition. It's very clear that Apple aren't catering to developers in macOS to the extent that drove OS X growth from 2004.

For a time, many developers couldn't find fault with OS X and Mac hardware. I wonder how much more correction we'll see from Apple, now that they've gone back on keyboards to a degree. I'm not counting on too much, I know a lot of people aren't as happy as they could be.
Erm, so you slagged an article that you actually didn't read?

This isn't Reddit, so please don't do things like that.
I'm facing a situation similar to yours: consulting space, working for a big-4 in Canada but WFH from South America, was just let go of a project.

While I think people need some sense of purpose for their jobs, it doesn't need to be a higher thing as long as work/life balance 'hygiene factors' stay in check. I think that was disrupted for a lot of us during the pandemic. For example, I'd offset my anal-retentive boss with socializing in the office or taking long walks, or if at home I'd do some reading, working out, etc.

It didn't help for me that everything seems so over-engineered nowadays, especially in the frontend space, so with all of that plus stuff life throws at you, eventually I just stopped caring about work.

Taking some time off helps, but if those feelings are still there, have a Plan B.
I did and now I can stay out of the industry for a while, hopefully coming back fresh-minded as I still like programming.

I really think programmers of the past had a blast when scratching their own itches, either solo or in close-knit teams, then turning ideas into entirely new product categories.
This is not what I signed up for.
FWIW, SpaceX has proven it can solve problems and make viable, honest business, and Elon's other company, Tesla, is known to repay government loans on time and with interest. So if anyone is to get a taxpayer-funded loan, SpaceX is one of the best bets.
OMG. Why have I been wading through the interweb of annoyance all this time?

It’s amazing how much of a difference this makes. I was starting to find the web so hostile. Every page an annoying battle with cookie pop ups.

I am so genuinely happy
Ground networks work… where someone bothers to deploy one.

The problem in rural areas is that no one does.
He recently did an interview with Lex Friedman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2P3MSZrBM) and it was pretty good. It's a bit long but worthwhile. Covers a bunch of topics about the philosophy of machine learning, models of thinking and consciousness, and some bits and pieces of future directions for AI.
CIA did horrible things, but that is now a long time ago.

The CIA is very much alive today. They are still very active in Latin America, in Europe and in Asia. If you believe they are no longer doing 'horrible things', we have lots and lots of bridges for you to buy.
"A close examination of wealth in the U.S. finds evidence of staggering racial disparities. At $171,000, the net worth of a typical white family is nearly ten times greater than that of a Black family ($17,150) in 2016."

Source: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining...

Of course not all black people are poor, but that's a very poor understanding of statistics. Just because a black man became President or there are millionaire black men, doesn't mean that institutional racism is suddenly over or economic equality has been established.
The software I use is, at its most basic, a text editor. In my case, Sublime text.

Everything else is a Python package with a CLI, dockerised for portability, and written entirely by me to support my workflow.

I am absolutely sympathetic to the "I want a tool not a hobby" idea of using prebuilt software, and indeed I have tried many of them (including every one I have seen linked on HN), however I have found that building my own automation has really helped me to think carefully about how I use my Zettelkasten and what it implies for my own thought process.

This reply probably falls into the category of "unhelpfully helpful advice", but that's what has worked for me personally.
Amazon retail is currently in the process of baking advanced deep learning models into every area of their retail process. Its all becoming automated. Just because its not talked about openly doesnt mean its not happening
Here's an idea about how to start with the mailbox sensor: https://www.twilio.com/blog/iot-mailbox-sensor-m2m-to-sms-fu.... This one sends an SMS when triggered, but you could certainly add it into Home Assistant too.
The Case for ARM-Based Macs
> After all, the law is but a contract between us and ourselves throught a governing body, nothing is fixed, and nothing is entirely objective.

Sure.

But the basic idea of law is that the contract between us now and us in the future is relatively fixed. Otherwise, there is no difference between a system of written law and judges deciding cases at their whims.

> But, more importantly, the characterization of libraries as something that actually hurts publishers and writers, as implied by writing that CDL would hurt publishers "no more" than ordinary lending, is something I feel compelled to oppose.

> ... [bunch of text that does not actually oppose the previous statement]

I think most reasonable people can recognize that:

1. Libraries are a good and useful component of modern society

2. Their lending may economically hurt authors and publishers
While I also live in Washington and would be fine with raising taxes to be more equitable, higher taxes here would certainly increase the relative attractiveness of California. I'm already right on the edge of deciding to move due to having lived most of my life in sunny regions and really disliking the gloomy weather here. I don't think that would be a typical response though as most people would still prefer the lower cost of living in WA.
Actually, it only impacted the part of the web that is trying to track it's users. Things that didn't have cookies aren't impacted.

The only world in which your statement makes sense in one where user tracking is assumed to be acceptable and something that must be done. Neither of those things are true.
It's astonishing how poorly the author understands his tools, both relationals databases in general and Postgres specifically. There are some "discoveries" here (both ones that he made and others that he needs to be told about, like how bad of an idea it is to use timestamp as a primary key) that would be in the first few chapters of a Postgres book.
USA: State-level R&D tax credits spur growth of new businesses as per new study
> posthumously patented

How, and why?
Using user terminals was as much of a thought experiment as anything. The graphs in the video show you can do pretty well just using a few well placed groundstations - you can shave another millisecond or three off with higher densities, but it's not a lot. The big advantage of higher densities is really that you can get better spatial reuse - with more possible choices you can use RF uplinks in places where the spectrum would otherwise go unused, whereas you've less freedom to choose if you've fewer groundstations.

Having said that, this kind of wide-area low-latency bounced routing is never going to be used for you or me to watch Netflix. It will be reserved for high paying customers who really really care about latency. For you and me, we'll be dumped into the terestrial network at the nearest possible location that isn't already saturated.

The second generation of satellites should have optical inter-satellite links, and then you would only use ground relays rarely.
Satchel: Make more informed decisions about SaaS
Amazon retail is currently in the process of baking advanced deep learning models into every area of their retail process. Its all becoming automated. Just because its not talked about openly doesnt mean its not happening.

These people at the economist are completely out of the loop.
There are people in rural areas with mile long driveways. Cost-per-mile makes a lot of rural places cost-prohibitive. Not just for fiber; lots of rural areas don’t have sewer or water coverage, either.
Everything in my intellectual life that I find interesting. I am an Applied Mathematician by education running an AI unit in industry, so there is a bit on that, but personally my intellectual life has always been defined by breadth, and my Zettelkasten is as broad, weird, and eclectic as I am.

And that, to my mind, is rather the point :-).
Until GPT-3 can write something meaningful, it's really just a showcase of the technology and a gimmick of a product.

Sure it's cool, but what problem is it solving? As far as I can tell the only useful function it has is polluting the internet with pseudo-intellectual comments to promote some agenda (likely political). So now that I think about it, it actually would be incredibly valuable for things like subverting democracy.

I'm still waiting for AI to figure out self-driving cars, natural language processing, and other "holy grail" problems that researchers have been chipping away at for decades but we are still a long way from having "solved" them.

Also in the case of self-driving cars, there is actually a very serious problem of it being difficult to guarantee safety. You can't tie every input to every output to demonstrate how it will behave (it is way, way, wayyyyyyyy too big for that), so you have to show statistically by driving so many miles that it's better. Which is still sound from an engineering perspective! But it leads to things like Teslas driving into trucks parked sideways across the road because the engineers simply never predicted it would ever happen. And now it's happened multiple times!
Perhaps SQlite or any SQL engine is not a good idea for application file format [1],[2], or is it just bad for web applications?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23517663

[2]https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/17537877?hl=en
I don't know why I never looked this up. Thanks!
They were referring to the real estate listing (the second URL I linked), which is located in Itoigawa. Admittedly Itoigawa is very rural (population 40,000 and on the decline) and wouldn't be my first choice of location. But on the other hand, it is a stop on the Hokuriku Shinkansen line which means you are within a couple hours at most of Tokyo, Takasaki, Nagano, Toyama, and Kanazawa. It also has good skiing an hour to the South in Hakuba (where they held the 1998 winter olympics) and hiking in the nearby mountains. For anyone interested in a self-sufficient lifestyle, you could also buy some inexpensive farmland and grow a lot of your own produce. It may not be for everyone, but I can think of worse places in the world to live.
This is such a wonderful little hack, I've placed it into my .bashrc. Thank you!

I did actually modify it a little bit, got rid of the two beginning %s in favor of ⏎. It's not a character I expect to really happen to end legitimate output of a program, so it seems more than good enough to keep it from being accidentally intended.
I only noticed my mind starting to jump around after I got addicted to Dexedrine... I do wonder if (in my case specifically, not other people) if it's a case of the drugs inducing the symptoms rather than the symptoms justifying the drugs...
Water. In a conventional CO2 electrolyzer (electricity + CO2 -> CO + O2) where CO2 is dissolved in water (plus salt) H2 is the standard byproduct per H2O + electricity -> H2 + O2. The concept of CO2+H2O directly into H2 + CO is neither novel nor useful, as dedicated green-H2 production is more efficient.

This is an example of 'meh' level work being puffed up.
> It also occurred to me that if the language could describe itself (i.e. if the language and metalanguage were one in the same), and if the compiler were written in its own language, then all I would have to do to change the language would be to change, the metalinguistic description and recompile the compiler three times and I would have a new compiler for the new language.

An epiphany for the author: can a compiler be self-compiled? Bootstrapping would later be implemented in the B5000 but it had actually been accomplished 3 years earlier by the Naval Electronics Laboratory in 1958 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)#Hist...
He started Barstool sports, a company now worth ~$0.5B. He's personally worth tens of millions as a result of this. He does a little more than eat pizza on the internet these days (though still does that too).
I think the engineers with access to their data know their job. Surely they run a/b tests and know for sure AI improves their metric of choice.
L1A is pretty much guaranteed a green card within a year(EB-1C), L1B is harder but also very much doable within the 5 years limit for B.

Overall if you come as an executive or managerial staff or are promoted to one within your employment you have a fairly easy green card to attain that H1B and many other visa holders don’t.

As for the rest don’t underestimate the value of local networking and recruitment.
I don't have a writeup, but I posted the following in a sibling comment [0].

> The software I use is, at its most basic, a text editor. In my case, Sublime text.

> Everything else is a Python package with a CLI, dockerised for portability, and written entirely by me to support my workflow.

> I am absolutely sympathetic to the "I want a tool not a hobby" idea of using prebuilt software, and indeed I have tried many of them (including every one I have seen linked on HN), however I have found that building my own automation has really helped me to think carefully about how I use my Zettelkasten and what it implies for my own thought process.

> This reply probably falls into the category of "unhelpfully helpful advice", but that's what has worked for me personally.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23522098
It would be nice if we could get back the hundreds of billions given to telecoms in the 90s so that they could wire the whole US instead
Ask HN: Could You Quit Amazon?
No Amazon shopping, no AWS or any of the multitude of Amazon-owned companies. Can you do it?
Man, product placement has really gone overboard this time.
Why the snarkiness from the FCC? They could have just said, "you can have the funding if you can show low latency, please prove it to us" -- end of story. It sort of reveals that they are already siding with / super-chummy with / in the pocket of the terrestrial ISPs, no?
Thank you for elaborating. I do not personally agree with it (as it feels like that you are re-defining the meaning of the word[note1] with one that is undermining what victims of rape went through by mixing it with less serious accusations) but I have to admit that it is consistent[note2].

[note1] Last time that I asked a similar question in HN I was told that even promising not to cheat and then cheating after the act would be considered as rape, meanwhile the people (outside of HN) that I asked and were unfamiliar with the Assange case seemed to think that neither were considered rape. When I checked at the laws of different countries it seemed that the few that considered it a crime classified it under other terms. (rape seems to imply violence or coercement)

[note2] If we ignore the edit that is. Not saying that the edit is not consistent but I will need your elaboration in order to be able to deduce it.

> Edit: this is not just academic. People make judgments not just about whether to have sex but about what kinds of safety considerations are necessary based on this kind of information. If someone is lying to you about having other sexual partners, you are not equipped to evaluate the risk of your own sexual encounter. They are putting your life at risk and eliminating your ability to choose whether that risk is acceptable.

Are you saying that it is fine as long as you are not put in risk? Because the previous example that I posted ("you can have sex with me but only if you are single") does not have any safety implications (someone can be single yet they could also had sex with someone else the previous day).
I use vimium[1] to close most pop-ups by typing "f" and then hitting the letter that pops up next to the close button.

If that doesn't work, I use a bookmarklet called "Remove Sticky"[2]. I type "bre" and hit enter when sticky things pop up to get them gone.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23446504
Yet, every "suggestion" is infinitely worse than "My List", that I curated for myself. Interface hiding the fact of dwindling library and quality of content. Chronology gets perverted with random posts that later can't be easily navigated or referenced. Menu-items unexpectedly fade in and out for unclear reasons and lack of anticipation. In many cases these improvements are to user's detriment and confusion, worsening interface, UX and value for money proposition. In too many areas, end user is themselves the target, for ads, manipulation, propaganda, manufactured outrage and lies.
Fixed wireless is that too.
Spin up instances of full-stack software to try it before installing it
Accurate N64 emulation gets resolution upscaling powered by Vulkan (RetroArch)
Once again re: "white good, black bad" - that's language differentiation issue that's talking about colour, not race. The solution is to help people heal from past and ongoing reasons why they may be unreasonable triggered by those terms, by fixing the actual fucking problem instead of quelling some emotion in a very shallow way.

Do we dumb down our language to appeal to every less capable person's abilities? How large or small of a group size to we appeal to? How do you determine that?

So let me get this straight, you're wanting to switch away from master-slave in the context of programming - and now you're wanting me or "us" to stop using the words coddling, triggering, and anger - arguably because you're creating a strawman argument to defend? Is instead that you're simply just not understanding fully what I am saying, like the people misassociating master-slave to human slavery, and so I need to arguably simplify my arguments simply because it "doesn't sit right" with you? Do you see the slippery slope insanity of your process yet?

What does "not sitting right with some people" mean to you? Are you suggesting that anything that "doesn't sit right with some people" we should just change? When do we stop, who's the arbiter of it - you? Or maybe instead we hold integrity for proper language use, people developing emotion regulation, and helping people heal past and ongoing trauma by fixing the structural-systemic sources of their trauma, fear-anger? Explaining to them "master-slave in programming isn't referring to human slavery, and X, Y, Z is what we're going to do to help fix up this fucked up system."

Do you see logical fallacy and potential irony in your statements? And maybe that "slave" in distributed systems always made you feel a certain way is you in fact not differentiating, wrongly connecting, the term to human slavery - attached to it? There are practices of mindfulness like meditation that can allow you sit with and analyze and differentiate by learning to detach to let those improper associations/attachments and the emotions they stir to settle, to not come up - so you don't react and then you refine and hone your sharpness of associations. Do you or have you ever had a mindfulness practice?
I feel a bit lost as to what we're looking at here.
So far, I have not been impressed by what Google/FB/Amazon/Microsoft/Apple have done with ML and the oceans of data they have.

Mostly boring statistical analysis wrapped in a very power inefficient way.
Trump signs executive order against social media companies
I have been using dark mode for years, usually green-on-black (though sometimes amber) for code editing and notes. Not all typefaces look good in dark mode however.

Maybe I prefer it because of retro-cool-nostalgia, but most of the time it just feels less stressful.

Dark mode also seems to be superior for phones and smartwatches in dark environments. One of these days I want to try red-on-black for reading and writing in a darkened room, as red light seems better for not interfering with night vision.