skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see auto translation being anything else but terrible, for many many years still. Possibly forever. I just don't see a machine being able to handle the culture, tradition or customs that are so ingrained in language.

English to danish translations are universally awful. Barely comprehensible gibberish(¤). So I use English operating systems with locale set to en_DK, so dates display as D-M-Y like God intended, but a surprisingly large amount of software somehow thinks it knows better, and displays its UI in danish anyway, so I get to have a brain aneurysm while trying to parse their danish translation for "anisotropic filtering".

(¤) Pre-emptive snarky comment: "Exactly like spoken danish, LOL".
GCP growth beat expectations in the recent quarterly earnings.
Some things were better before tech.

Back in the day you walked to the phone booth once a week to talk to family members that are far away. Nowadays they can contact you 24/7.
I can relate. If I were to imagine a perfect system for this it would be something that tracks whatever I subscribe and drops unused things, with some sensible safeguards not to drop something I don't actually want to drop.
Enablers vs. Growers – how companies can keep incentives aligned
One side effect of the traditional funding model is that it allows FAANG-scale companies to exist in perpetual monopoly, because it gives them the luxury of crushing, copying or acquiring any potential threats early on.

Both vision and basic research are basically neglected to the point it's laughable. Instead, what gets funded are half-baked ideas turned into MVPs by Ivy League CS grads with silver spoons hanging out of their mouths, whom unironically wear company hoodies (they didn't get the memo Mike Judge was making fun of them), and who hopped on the latest bandwagon for whatever trend, burning millions creating an acquisition target that adds no value to the world, at best.

Oh, and a cool 90% of the modern web development ecosystem probably shouldn't exist and is pretty much poorly-engineered trash.
Interviewing Tory Bruno, leading ULA who have launched every NASA Mars mission
Well, if you look the world through blue-tinted windows it doesn't make the world suddenly bluer though. I think the same kind-of applies here.
Yep.

Does anyone remember when this was called the Slashdot effect? Being Slashdotted.
I can maybe give some idea of what he's saying about containers. We do use Docker, and when I mentioned in my original comment that I aimed to lower the skill required to come onto a project, Docker is the primary vehicle for that effort. Here are my reasons:

1. Nobody has to install dependencies. Docker is the only dependency (with compose).

2. Everybody has the same configuration.

3. Software versions are (mostly) tightly controlled. This requires whoever sets up the dev environment to make sure they use specific versions, and not :latest.

4. Devs don't need to spend time worrying about how the dev
environment works, just the code.

This means that my README for a project usually has a section describing setup that just says:

1. run `dev/install` (any libraries from eg. NPM, go modules, etc.)

2. run `docker-compose up`

3. Check that the application is running on port XX.

This actually works great, and it does allow new devs to get to work quickly, and it does allow us to use devs that know very little about the underlying software that we're using, unless something doesn't work correctly. And that does happen, much more often than I would like. Then it takes my time and theirs to get up and running, and that was definitely not the goal.
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You do understand that this is a popular science article and that is reporting on this paper, right?

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1490

Did you conclude "we still don't know exactly why plants aren't all black" after reading the paper?
> they can buy land and new-build

And why would they sell you land for less if they know you have $40k more of income? Everyone can pay that extra money, if I am a seller I am raising my prices accordingly.
Google does that for some products for us swedes as well which is very annoying since most of us are fluent in english. Even if it was in a language I don't speak I rather have it the native language because translating it often makes little sense and I can translate stuff myself when I need it, which isn't that often.

Often, the translation suck as well and doesn't make sense. Especially on youtube. I had to change my country of origin to make it disappear. Like, what's the point in translating a youtube video title if the video itself still is in english?

Or translating movie titles, which creates enormous confusion imo since it's not named a swedish name, it's often in english.
==(Seattle, San Fransisco, Chicago), companies may be using this as an opportunity to hire 'cheaper' workers in markets where you don't need that type of income to pay rent.==

To clarify for those reading, rent in Chicago is about 50-60% cheaper than Seattle or San Francisco.
> Writing, like any other skill, takes time and practice to master. If you can't dedicate yourself full time you will not reach your highest potential.

The second sentence here doesn't really follow from the first. I mean, assuming that only time and practice are needed for mastery, then practicing less-than-full-time only makes it correspondingly longer to reach mastery - it doesn't make it impossible, like you claim.

In reality, time and practice are not the only factors, though. You have to account for talent, which not only sets the upper bound on the quality of your writing, but also influences the rate of improvement with practice. It's not exactly unheard of for a debutant's work to be "way better than the latest work of established master X", isn't it? Talent is hard to capture and define, but it's a real thing, especially in the arts, although it also plays a part in trades and crafts (that's where the "10x programmers" and similar concepts come from...)
Yeah, the Spotify model. Not the best thing if your main intention is supporting the creators you enjoy.
> also because there is a fixed amount of land (like literally the surface of the earth occupies a finite area at least on human time scales)

Not really. If the Earth's surface was populated at the same density as, say, Paris, that would be over 3 trillion people.

> and because building housing stock takes time

Not a whole lot of time actually with modern techniques. See the speed at which some of the Corona hospitals were built.

> and because of zoning restrictions and other institutional constraints

Which only apply to existing cities.

Right now there are houses in the middle of Iowa - or even Detroit - that cost a small fraction of what a house in a city with good job prospects costs. If UBI became a thing, people would be able to move to those places. Not everyone would want to, but some would, and that would be enough to move the prices.
Koda, who represents all danish music is negotiating a new contract with google. The old one expired this April, but is extended until a new contract is negotiated.

Google wants to pay only 30% of the old contract during negotiations and is now threatening to remove all danish music from YouTube.

Koda wants the new contract to have higher payments as Google is paying well below competitors.
The problem these attempts try to adress is that it's not a real choice: doing that would likely end your business, while boycotting would have little effect on google/Facebook. So it's a power struggle where one side doesn't really have a choice, because the other side has all the power.
I love those old mainframe screenshots! Wish there was more English information.
Since when does blender 3d offer consulting?
Arguably the most valuable pieces of Google are the YouTube content and GMail addresses.
Currently reading Philip K. Dick's "Exegisis," which are his letters and diary entries about his descent (ascent?) into something similar, before he died of a stroke.

I'm reading it because after reading about other great minds chased down a similar theme where they seemed to discover something later in life and retreated from the world to explore it. I wanted to see what a set of reference points might look like.

The end of this article references something called "wireheading," which seems to be a deeper explanation of why the article was written. https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/08/20/wireheading_done_righ...
The Kinesis Advantage is the gold standard here. Have been using Kinesis keyboards for many years.

Kinesis could of course have gone with an ortholinear layout but they didn't because the layout they chose much better maps to the actual geometry of the hand. Yes, it takes a few hours to learn to adapt, typically spread out over a couple days, but no that's not difficult and no it doesn't impact your ability to jump over to a normal keyboard.

100% stop to serious repetitive stress injury problems I had been experiencing with other keyboards, fully programmable layout, and a great high grade mechanical design that's lasted a decade or more without complaint.
Max Levchin's VC Firm Theses: Embedded Lending
Thoughts on monetizing a privacy focused search engine
Facebook says Apple’s iOS 14 changes could hurt its ad targeting
If the people you borrowed from say its OK after the fact then yes it is OK.

If I borrow a neighbours defibrillator, without asking, to save their child it would be insane for the manufacturer of the defibrillator to sue me for not buying my own defibrillator. While in theory the neighbour could object to me borrowing the defibrillator without permission, that does not appear to be what happened. Based on IA's statements it appears that libraries are saying after the fact that they were happy for their copies of books to be loaned by IA.

I would assume from their actions these publishers hoped to make a windfall on book sales when people were no longer able to access libraries and they saw IA's actions as attacking this potential profit. I can't think of any other reason why they would peruse their current course of action.
Is this due to the economic conditions? I feel as though companies might be holding off on hiring because the logistics of hiring & onboarding someone remotely is extremely difficult, doubly more so in tech.
Yeah, if I need a laptop, I want to put my hands on the keyboard. My biggest pet peeve is deck flex.

Agree about clothing, too.
For anyone else getting a 500 error:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200731131748/http://www.sfu.ca...

(Some images seem to be missing)
...Of (2019)

Only a matter before it gets worse as it is for everyone.
Looks like the server collapsed first.
Koda wants to have their cake and eat it too. Seems like Google is right in this case.
>There are thousands of people making content and publishing it to Instagram, YouTube, and various recipe websites and blogs every day.

I really don't think that it's possible given the engineering of those platforms. They are literally spending millions, if not billions, of dollars on addiction technology. To think that an individual can overcome that is naive and hubristic.
Bollocks. Ph.Ds don't mean much unless you want to do research and provide cheap labor for 5 years.

I'd say a Master's is the new BA/BS. With everyone getting an undergrad degree via online schools, or via 6+ years of undergrad college, it's ability to filter is weak. A brick-and-mortar Master's serves as a way to differentiate from that pack; I'm not sure what an online Master's equates to.
A job at Google? I've seen plenty of videos and articles with titles like: "Ex-googler explains the meaning of life".
I think it happens, but not because of price matching. It's more about merchandising, hitting a retail pricepoint, or keeping the model in play for some period of time.

For stuff like SanDisk sticks/sdcards you see multiple SKUs for the same product all of the time -- they may have a clamshell sku for merchandising on a shelf or clip, have a "bonus" storage case, etc.

Apple is different because they exert alot of brand control. But PC OEMs have many models of similar products, especially at retail where factors like how long a CPU will be available for restock may matter more. The shitty HP Model whatever laptop on the shelf at Walmart will usually not share a model number with the shitty laptop at Costco or Target. Sometimes retailers insert their own upsell in the packaging as well.
Are you saying there was no difference between you and your brothers until they started watching YouTube?

I find that hard to believe.
(For context, I'm not trying to be alarmist, merely observe something interesting that I acknowledge I may not fully understand that nobody else was talking about.)

Even that is pretty amazing on its own terms, essentially carving out the new's site on those platforms. Interestingly, I don't see it taking away control from the host, either, so either of them ought to be able to censor. It would be interesting to see a vigorously anti-Facebook article get posted on Facebook, with Facebook nuking everyone supportive of the article and the news site nuking everyone arguing against it. (And both of the nuking the "where are all the comments?" comments.)

Is there someone knowledgeable about Australian law that can explain how the "clarification" stands in relation to the actual law? In the US system, where AFAIK such clarifications would have low priority vs. the actual text of the law, I'd be nervous as a "digital platform provider" relying on the clarification to save me from the text of the law, which to my eyes do not contain that carveout, but under a different system these may be given higher priority.

(& with all due respect to the many fine Internet Lawyers (TM) on HN, International Internet Lawyers (TM) even, I am asking for people who actually know. I can provide myself with all the knowledge-free speculation I need already.)
Depends how you define 'manipulative power'. If you mean 'succeed in its human-defined objective of convincing people the output is generated by a human' I think it's evident that it is already often succeeding where other software fails. And certainly it can generate sentences based on any propaganda its curators care to stuff it with which are both reasonably coherent and sufficiently novel in terms of actual words used to pass plagiarism detectors. This would be a huge problem if people believed arguments stated by computers were more correct than those advanced by humans.

But we've got a lot more to fear from the sort of humans that would want to use GPT-3 to rehash their propaganda, because most of them are perfectly capable of stringing a sentence together themselves as well as defining their own goals and a sequence of actions to achieve that. And bribing, blackmailing and pointing guns
Well besides claims of restricting access to the tools they obviously need to further have restricted access to certain user accounts. We have support persons whose account support is locked from superior accounts or special users and this seems like something Twitter should be doing.

Perhaps have another layer where each use of specific functions require unlocking through an incident management tool?
Interesting research, but utterly impractical.
Are they proposing to harvest all the pine needles from all the forests in the Himalayas, convert them to charcoal and then use that to filter the Ganges? How much do they have to spend on this?

It's a fun mental exercise, but it's so far from realistic that it's funny.
>the cost to produce a glove is still very minor.

It's not about your individual glove. It's the 300million-ish people using 10 disposable gloves a day.

>And the way you solve pollution and microplastics from items in the trash can is by making sure that trash from cans is handled appropriately. Not by having consumers reduce their trash by a few percent.

How can you handle the level of trash we have responsibly? what's the plan? You seem to know, so please share it with the world so we can save the planet.
Oh, right! Why didn't they think of that? Why didn't they think of just magically fixing their situation?

Suffice to say, this is sarcasm. You are horrifically out of touch and painfully condescending.
what about google search& Android?
A lot of the world uses comma separators actually including basically all of Europe minus a few. The whole wikipedia article is kind of neat; never figured California would have a weird system for a while where decimal parts on signs were expressed as super scripts (eg 3^7 meant 3.7).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#/media/File:...
Unconditional cash transfer is the most efficient form of relief for the Poor; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiemgauer
I'm worried this will really damage tech workers in the USA. I'm in meetings with overseas clients most of the day and it's getting to the point that some are back in offices and we're still locked in our kitchens. Mental health seems to be crashing if you judge by Twitter peers. I'm in the same boat. I've been locked in an apartment alone for 6 months outside of grocery grabs and some outdoor hikes and it's starting to really affect me.

Its so embarrassing and I'm nowhere near as productive as I should be. Most of my EU peers are probably having to take up the slack.
Also, whereas Ada is perfectly fine with introducing runtime overhead, Rust takes a zero runtime cost approach when possible, otherwise it doesn't offer that feature as part of the language.
Yes, but at that time serving the Slashdot amount of traffic was actually a challenge when using standard setup. (Not impossible, you just needed to put in extra effort) These days unless you're doing something silly you should be able to handle HN front page from a raspberry pi at home.
Prosecutors: 27 Months in Prison for Former Waymo Engineer Anthony Levandowski
The ISS has human operators in real time, so it's just remote operation. And ISS work still requires human intervention (with hands) for most complicated things. The only things that are done without real-time control are things that were failure prone in the past but have be mastered over years. And even then, the Russian autonomous docking system recently had major issues.

The mention of self-driving cars, orbital speed, and the suggestion of sampling near the landing site all appears to be responding to an argument I didn't make.

Most importantly, you haven't addressed my point, widely appreciated in spaceflight, that novel untested mechanisms are always one of the primary sources of risk.
The article timestamp says 2017, not 2019.
Local governments can adopt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiemgauer
> "The end result of Microsoft wanting to dominate OS is equivalent to Google wanting to dominate communication; through monopoly of a resource they are able to charge a tax to all users of consumer technology."

I agree with you and the other Google employee who brought up EEE; Neither Google nor Microsoft is better than the other in that regard.

What I am saying is that Google's broad collection of personal data (over which the public has minimal visibility or control) and their focus on advertising (not really a societal good by any measure) adds on top of their desire for monopoly to clearly make Google the bigger problem.
Be careful using wrist rests. The pressure can cause the carpal tunnel on the underside of your wrist to compress, increasing the friction on the tendons running through the tunnel and exacerbating or causing carpal tunnel syndrome. It's much much better to train your muscles and posture to keep your wrists from resting on a surface while you type.
Very nice. Is the GitHub repo purposely empty?
Get yourself a restraining order.

And no, this is not an exageration.

Threaten her that she will never she her grandchildren again.

It's not your responsibility to try and help your mother.

The need/willingness for change has to come from her. If she won't even consider that it might be her fault and not yours she is a loss cause.

Until she realize this she is a lost cause and you are doing yourself a disfavor by guilt-tripping over her letting her upset your life.
Covid-19 hospital data is a hot mess after feds take control
Am I the only one who reads "aimed at bringing diversity" as "white males need not apply"?
I’ve long been a proponent—as both a user and an advocate of these companies’ interests—of paid premium (ad-free, tracker-free, priority support) tiers for the “Internet essentials,” i.e., Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. There is, I believe, a surprisingly sizable (and rapidly growing) contingent of these platforms’ respective user bases willing to pay for privacy and user experience, and by insisting so stubbornly on maintaining a uniformly ad-subsidized model, without so much as even experimenting with subscription tier offerings, these companies are leaving billions of dollars a year in additional revenue on the table.

Perhaps the increasing cost of supply-side content will finally spur a rethinking of these platforms’ fundamental business models. Here’s hoping…
Squarespace has “completely and arbitrarily shut down our website”
It's definitely not news media. I don't think it exists. :)
Related tangent:
Author Richard Powers (2019 Pulitzer winner for "Overstory", an amazing novel about trees) wrote an under-appreciated novel called "Generosity: An Enhancement", which centers on a young woman with extraordinary resilience and positive affect in the face of difficult circumstances. Highly recommended.
Well, that's good, and in that case, I agree with you. However, I guess I'm also just much more pragmatic than you, because from a purely utilitarian perspective, the government running various "charity" programs is much more efficient than private charities running them. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/republicans-give-more-to-char... The general attitude here in Europe also is a much more favorable outlook on taxes as well, and while it is true that people give less, overall, society is better, and people know and don't mind that their taxes are going to help those less fortunate. It's just that generally speaking, government run programs (when not being constantly tried to shut down) are able to provide an overall better service.

That's not to say we can't have differing opinions on where precisely to draw that line, I think debate on that is good and healthy, and it's important to strike a good balance between too much and too little social welfare. But it's also better to have a more efficient and effective solution than to have one that "feels" better.
I am surprised how many of these I laughed out loud at. Some of them took a bit of "creative interpretation", but I still felt like the joke was made by the machine rather than me.

When I look at some of the jokes I see all manner of styles. Absurdist. The predictive. Deadpan in-joke. "No Pants" jokes. Self-deprecating. And even British style dry humor (the one about telling the difference between genders felt very British to me, and hilarious).
a brilliant piece of legislation too by the looks of it, commendable job.
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