skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you accept Dreyfuss’ argument that a computer can’t acquire some kinds of knowledge without a body, there’s a fairly obvious workaround. Give it a robot body. And in fact, many research projects are doing this.

The Dreyfussians may retreat to their motte and say, well, a robot body can’t give it the experience of walking barefoot through the grass so it can’t be fully general because there’s something people know that it can’t.

But it’ll surely know things we can’t, and we’ll have to admit that humans don’t have fully general intelligence either. Wr just think we do because we can’t think of the ideas we can’t think.
Ask HN: Best new startup TLD, other than .com?
What do think is the best tld for a new b2b data analytic/tech start-up nowadays (.io, .co, .ai, etc)? And please don't just say .com instead; I genuinely would like to know what folks think is the best current alternative?
What could go wrong having a theocracy in NATO?
Some of the regen folks hate the chisel plow, think it causes most of the problems you then have to deal with.
None of those have the advantage of (for the end user) extremely obviously blocking light.
The difference is that a brain is provably capable of computation, while a brain is not provably capable of flapping its wings and migrating between Canada and Mexico every year (without the help of the meatsuit it's driving, at least).
You can set up a free account at a place like Charles Schwab and get pretty good data.
If you're really into technical analysis and charts you can download free software called thinkorswim from TD Ameritrade
A Month in the Country. A WW I vet takes a job in a small English village restoring an old mural in a church -- it has been covered with paint for 400 years. The mural itself plays a role in the story, but it's mostly about the vet meeting and getting to feel at home among the locals.
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I live in Washington, and I have been personally involved with encroachments on my property in two separate cases, and I personally know of others.

The various lawyers involved all said the same thing - if you don't put a stop to encroachments, you lose the property.

In one case that I knew about, the property owner moved the surveying monument 10 feet to increase the size of his lot. He built his house. 20 years later this was discovered, but oops, it was his land now. In another case, the neighbor did indeed build a garage on a friend of mine's land. My friend called the police, who told him it was a civil matter, not a police matter. So one day, he rented a bulldozer and demolished it. The neighbor called the police, but my friend showed the police the garage was on my friend's land, and that was the end of that. He figured the dozer was cheaper than a lawyer :-) and he was legally in the clear as long as he did it before adverse possession was claimed.

You might be surprised how often people lie and cheat about where the property lines are. It's worthwhile to have an official survey done for property you're considering buying - it can save you a lot of grief later.
What is your solution to the "stolen land" problem?

I am by no means an expert, but I think the recent SC case is probably the right approach. I don't see why the US government should not be held to the treaties they signed - I mean, the court still relies on law settled centuries ago.

And if the gov't can't hold up their end, then restitution is reasonable. However, I wouldn't restitute based on today's value just because the tribal land is Manhattan now. But it would seem fair to make them whole based on if the treaty had been fairly followed.
I am so curious what changed in the Gnome team between 2 and 3. The DE's seem diametrically opposed in philosophy, functionality and ergonomics. Was there a coup? Did the whole Gnome 2 team just stop and was the project taken over by some sort of other group?
Yeah unless it’s your teenage daughters Mac and they just took a picture of her changing and are going to blackmail her with it.
Internet Speed Detector Along with IP Address Viewer
Covers shouldn’t just be for musicians
Sync may not be working well if your phone is on power saving mode, so that's worth double-checking, but I've never had any issues with playback.

Have you considered filing a bug report?
They hand them out for free at my wife's work I think.
If a hacker can modify the firmware on your Macbook to somehow turn on a hardwired camera without turning on the LED you're so beyond screwed it's not worth mentioning. This means they already have full sudo access to your entire entire machine, all encryption keys, everything.
Dropbox had a great, gmail like onboarding process for free users. And they made graphics people happy with their sync tech.

Then they stopped and focused on segmentation to chisel more margin and missed the boat. It’s a shame.

The enterprise sales force that I dealt was a bunch of overpaid folks who didn’t seem motivated to sell. Microsoft and Google gobbled up the enterprise market. And eventually, Adobe will steal the creatives too.
Or, at the very least, that we can't artificially create a carbon-based machine capable of general intelligence?

Like, even if there's something magical about neurons that can't be replicated through conventional electronics, we could certainly put a bunch of actual neurons in chips and use those instead.
Note, is not in the the flagship journal, it's an affiliated journal under the Nature imprint.

Oh. Yes, there are lots of those. They publish too many overhyped battery technology articles. Don't know how bad it is in other fields.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

(I know, Gates never said it, but no one posted this yet and I felt it my duty.)
I've defaulted to making s3 buckets public for that.

Admittedly, the s3 console isn't the easiest thing to navigate if you aren't used to it, but I don't really need to do it very often.
It doesn't matter? Either get .com or get literally anything else.
Ok you found a negative to my law. That was too easy. Now look with more attention and tell me a positive. You can do it!
Sociopaths can pretend to be like normal people. An AI with non-human intelligence can do its own thing and just mimic human behavior with sufficient fidelity to fool us. Dumb machines can already employ usable conversational interfaces. In 100 years, less dumb machines will be far more convincing.
Floating solar powered server buoys, anyone?
To steal mercilessly from Wikipedia:

The most important difference between pelmeni, varenyky, and pierogi is the thickness of the dough shell—in pelmeni and vareniki this is as thin as possible, and the proportion of filling to dough is usually higher. Pelmeni are never served with a sweet filling, which distinguishes them from vareniki and Polish pierogi, which sometimes are. Also, the fillings in pelmeni are usually raw, while the fillings of vareniki and pierogi are typically precooked.

Those distinctions seem about right in my experience, and I eat all three fairly often, since I go to a lot of cultural festivals.
The status quo with race is like 300 years old, oppressive puritanism for a few years is not terrible. Don't forget that George floyd is dead. Over reacting cannot possibly be worse
I have read it and you’re not missing anything. One of the examples of tacit knowledge they give is walking and that therefore it is impossible to teach a computer to walk. They should watch one of the videos from Boston Dynamics.
Sometimes an IDE hover can be the best of both worlds - the information is there when you want it (and guaranteed to be accurate since it's using the language compiler's own type inference), but not taking up space when you don't want it.
and forbidding of sideloading and rooting.

Good luck with that, if users have root they already have full control (and can thus tell whatever app exactly what it is expecting.)
From people I know in healthcare it is very common for people to catch healthcare provider mistakes ranging from troubling to terrifying.

It absolutely needs to be a collaboration whenever possible.
> There, you'd be able to save your documents to the user's file system, just like a native app would

What could possibly go wrong with that?
Wow so a very large portion of their spend is on Cassandra. I bet it's heavily modified for their needs but I wonder if Scylladb would be able to replace some of those clusters for a considerable saving in maintenance time and money.
Also, I can't help but wonder if they would do better after some mergers, like with BackBlaze, Box, and some other smallish storage-focused companies.

If you're going to be a storage company, why not be the biggest you can...
> - Raspberry Pi is way underpowered to run any SaaS on.

Probably sufficient if it's written in Go or another compiled language. Obviously depends on how much revenue you're making per hit, but certainly within the realm of possibility.

> - Bitcoin's network is too congested for it to be used for trivial payments such as subscriptions for SaaS.

There are alternative coins that would work quite well, if fees/txn is the concern. Current fees seem to be about $1.15/txn, which is quite high if you're only charging $5-10.

> - A bitcoin node takes hundreds of GB of storage itself. Bandwidth costs will probably be significant too. This means the SaaS would probably have a hard time getting to break-even.

Few people run a full bitcoin node, so I think it would be sufficient for this use-case to send txns to the network via a third-party service.

> - It may be more profitable to climb up the tree and steal the pi and then take its bitcoin private key

Honestly the human factor involved in the whole scheme is probably the hardest thing to make happen. There's maintenance, h/w failure, the difficulty of finding trustworthy contractors who don't need human guidance, etc.
>My iOS device has never once shown me "this website requires Chrome."

Why would any PWA say that, if Safari had proper support for PWA?

>Instead it's web developers, who are just annoyed that they have to actually respect the conventions of the platform they're building for.

Say the developer is from a village in India or Nigeria who has just a Raspberry Pi to develop apps -

•What if the developer didn't have thousands of dollars to invest in new equipments just to develop for iOS?

•What if the developer wasn't able pay $99 every year for the Apple developer license?

•What if the just didn't want to give 30% cut to Apple from the revenue each time?

For all the times Apple uses 'Equality' in its marketing, the Apple platform & ecosystem restrictions clearly seems to be aimed at the privileged, pushing the agenda that 'Privileged is good' and 'Everyone should aim at being privileged'.

Less empathetic would respond, 'Well that's not Apple's fault that they aren't privileged'; Well then, we have to go back into colonial imperialism & American capitalism to prove why they aren't privileged in the first place and why Apple holds a responsibility every time it uses 'Equality, Human etc.' in it's marketing; which would be digressing from the topic.
How much change have you effected in all your time there that you did so well? How much power over projects you deemed immoral did you have? More or less than a random person on the street? Do you feel more responsibility for immoral projects that took place in this large company than for things going on within FB or GOOG?
That doesn't happen. There are a number of security measures including signature verification. There is little to no ballot fraud in Oregon.
Not to make excuses for the poor errors in the default language, but the "splain" plugin can help a lot, as can ctrl-shift-P in IntelliJ.
I think the wikipedia article for one of these "chemical sunscreens" sheds some light on the issue.[1]

These "chemical sunscreens" are also used in plastics to prevent UV damage. There is no "reaction with the skin" required - the molecule absorbs UV light all on it's own. And if the molecule "reacted" with the skin (i.e. create a chemical bond), that would likely alter it's UV absorption.

As per another reply, the only think I can think of is there is some "drying" of the sunscreen that prevents it from easily rubbing off. If you don't wait for it to dry, then the sunscreen won't perform as described.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxybenzone
If it didn't matter, than why would someone pay thousands of dollars (or more) to a squatter for the .com when the .co (or .whatever) was still available? Maybe it matters less for landing pages for phone apps, but otherwise it seems like it does matter for sites primarily accessed for usage via browser.
Arguably that reason makes less sense now, given that record keeping and accessibility is much better. It should now be relatively trivial to ensure you own any given land in the land registry.

The bigger argument for it now is making land use more efficient.
> While there are negatives, I appreciate how globalization of manufacturing helps lift poorer economies

Let's be real about those negatives.

It seems as though it's always just the next country in line taking it's turn to provide subsistence-wage labor. The likes of Steve Pinker may argue that living standards continue to trend upwards across the board, but it seems like people are just becoming more and more time-poor (happy to be proven wrong on this point).

If we follow this pattern, once every country has lifted itself up by the bootstraps, the end-game would not be some poorer nations providing the subsistence-wage labor, but the poor population of each country providing subsistence-wage labor. Their living standards might be much higher, but they will pay in hours, or having to give up freedoms, like living on-site at Foxxcon. Why? Because those holding power have the upper hand, and would hardly be motivated to cede their power. Replace power with capital if you want. The only possible countervailing force being collective action, say in the force of democratic institutions, and a socially-minded polity.

But eventually, automation will outcompete everyone... at this point we're then forced to resort to either welfare or artificial means of population control. It seems more humane to consider policy on population and welfare sooner rather than later, but that's just my humblest of opinions.

EDIT: Cowards who downvoted me, might you refute any of my points?
Making profit is like digging for water. Can use crystal ball or tarrot card or pair of sticks, as long as you are digging in the right spot where water is found - you'll make money.

Problem occurs when you dig wrong spot over and over.

For example, in Covid time I saw that people were printing face shields and other stuff, I quickly figured out that there will be major filament shortage in time to come and started creating filament:
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

I made €7000 in less than a month.
My comment was not directed at you, but more broadly what I read on HN. There is a very strong anti-gov't stance when it comes to privacy and surveillance, but a very strong pro-government stance when it comes to solving issues like healthcare, capitalism, R&D, housing, food, etc.

I don't see how those two can jive.
I think there's selection bias for success stories of both young and middle aged founders. For middle aged founders, I feel like the ones that you hear about, i.e. having worked in the industry for a number of years before spotting a good opportunity, also need to be fortunate enough to be in a position for all those things to line up as well. For me, I couldn't see that ever happening down my career if I stayed in my finance job, only being shackled to my job by the high pay. The opportunity cost of quitting gets worse as you become more senior. But who knows, I could be wrong. In my case it also made it easier that I didn't really like my job and that my boss was an idiot.
You're welcome and I agree, the lack of follow-up after being called out publicly like that is not a good look.
I’m using Zettlr. I’m liking it.
good point, if anything we need to inspire other countries about the benefits of democracy. A lot of my coworkers here in the US still think that China is doing good stuff.
Has John Cleese been canceled? Because, I mean, we're talking about him right now.He doesn't seem any more ignored or paid attention to than any other member of the Python gang.
Regarding (3). In addition to other comments, a vote buyer can demand that a voter affirm their ballot number before the results are published.
Because it's about the marketing and not the reality. Having a hardware switch undermines the message that their OS is secure.
Well, the ones who "now are called indigenous" actually do exist and are alive, contrary to popular belief and government intervention. And the point is that they do not own their land, settlers do at the moment, and that indigenous folks have a claim preceding Western style land ownership.
Actually I think, the most ideal countries to expand manufacturing to are African countries, they have some of the same advantages once china had.

1. Mineral Resources.
2. Cheap Labour.
3. High Density of Lanthanide and Actinide group minerals.

China also has a fourth advantage which is a good mix of Production, Manufacturing and Electronics Engineers. Which Africa doesn't have. On the other hand India doesn't have the raw mineral resources required to do long term manufacturing. For instance India doesn't have the ideal coal quality to produce steel, India imports 90% of its Anthracite from Australia.

So the ideal situation in my view would be to setup manufacturing hub in African countries. Hire Chinese/Indian/American/Russian manufacturing Engineers and the rich mineral resources in African countries. This would fuel the growth of the world for next few decades. Though one thing to notice African countries may or may not have the rare earth metals but the probability if explored is quite high.
[DISCLAIMER] I work at AWS, not speaking for my employer.

We really need some more details on your infrastructure, but I assume it's EC2 instance cost that skyrocketed?

A couple of pointers:

- Experiment with different GPU instance types.

- Try Inferentia [1], a dedicated ML chip. Most popular ML frameworks are supported by the Neuron compiler.

Assuming you manage your instances in an auto scaling group (ASG):

- Enable a target tracking scaling policy to reactively scale your fleet. The best scaling metric depends on your inference workload.

- If your workload is predictable (e.g. high traffic during the daytime, low traffic during nighttime), enable predictive scaling. [3]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-sca...

[3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/plans/userguide/how-...
low tech solution: use a post-it note as a camera cover.
Their body is their hardware, sensors, interfaces and means of changing the world through controlled devices which can include robot arms and legs or vehicles. Computers can learn and be trained to do things and get better at them, such as using genetic algorithms and machine learning. They’re rudimentary, but real.
How many beat cops do you think have been patrolling at night and come across some shady character casing the neighborhood? I'd bet every single one except for maybe the cops in Malibu.

Regardless, there are cops whose jobs are to identify people who may be planning a crime. So my question stands - any concerns with surveilling those people?
Write content people love and share it, consistently.
Some of those have been true for quite some time. I ran my own mail server back in the 2000s to early 2010s, and incoming mail was especially hellish (effective spam filtering was basically impossible).

These are really just variations on the theme of economies of scale, aren't they?
UI/UX isn't a software problem at all. It's a design problem, and designers solve it no matter the platform.
A quick Google search for GPU dedicated server is probably going to save you tens of thousands of dollars a year.
What Warren Buffett does is a worthless wash. If anything it's mind blowing Warren Buffett got so rich accomplishing so little.
Close a great venture capital round, suddenly you've got a big pile of money in the bank and your company's valuation is really high. That means you're successful!

Make a lot of money selling lifetime subscriptions, then have nowhere to go for cash next year: look at all that money! I'm very successful now!

If all you're measuring and optimizing for is "valuation" or "revenue" you're not automatically going to get a good product or happy customers...
You're very welcome. They really helped me. Ayishat Akanbi had a follow-up talk at Sydney's annual "All About Women" conference shortly after,[0] where she added that "intersectionality is seeing the importance of other people’s suffering. Being active on social media can simplify and minimize issues for the sake of being retweetable." The whole talk built well on top of the original video (though the Q&A was not as useful).

In addition, she used two more quotes that I wrote down: "If you understood everything I said, you’d be me," (Miles Davis) and "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." (F. Scott Fitzgerald). This is just the first half of what he said though, the rest being: "One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise." I think that's nice too.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sni7ghqHBJw
As we increase the offshore footprint for manufacturing of devices consumed by Americans, we set ourselves up for a future where our national interests are far away, hard to defend, and subject to the whims of foreign nations. This is a strategic error.

India seems like a good counterbalance to China -- it is, after all, an adversary of China in the region. But that could change in 10 years.

Geography is important. Instead of diversifying away from our own continent, we should use the power of our consumer demand to establish high-tech manufacturing facilities in the poorer/cheaper reaches of our own continent.

We already saw the dangers of offshore production when COVID-19 hit and we were unable to provide basic necessities like patient masks and protective gowns. The lesson there is that far-away manufacturing is problematic when the global market experiences heavy shocks.
You are correct. I don't know how I fabricated that idea.

In response to your second point, there seems to be strong opposition to open core from some key players in the community.
Fair, I know that US elections are more complicated because there's so many elected positions to make a choice for.

I'm all for technology to help create ballots. You can have a touch-screen system that walks a voter through all the choices and prints a correct ballot, as long as the voter then manually takes this piece of paper, verifies that it says what he thinks it should say, puts it in an envelope, and observers watch him place the envelope in an urn.

I'm all for OCR systems that can rapidly scan and count a large number of ballots, your voter ballot creator machine can put OCR codes that make it easier to count as well, I don't care. As long as there's no identifying info on the ballot, it is human readable, and as long as the preliminary vote count is done manually. Later on you can send all your ballots to a central counting facility and OCR the crap out of it for every single elected position, that's fine.
And you don't have to buy any of that. Stop concerning yourself with what others spend their money on.
And as soon as they got data involved, the plot quality decreased immensely. By season 3, most people had given up on the show already.