skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only follows if smart is confined to pure ideas and none to implementation. The relevant "stable" of smart in that context are ones who can implement ideas successfully.

Like the difference between trying to use a bunch of dutch style windmills, lodestones, and copper wire to try to generate baseload power as opposed to modern escalatingly large wind turbines.
They're probably talking about boards like this that also have megabytes of SDRAM. https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/32f429idiscovery.html
> Product searches are Google's money machine.

Google has something that Amazon doesn't, though: services search. You cannot go on Amazon to buy concert tickets, change phone contracts, or get to a social network.
There's a lot to hate about Covid-19 but the planet must be breathing a sigh of relief at the reduction in planes and cruise ships pumping carbon into the air.
This comment was not composed by GPT-3 but you probably couldn’t tell if it was...
Maybe you could put them up on bandcamp? A lot of ambient/soundscape composers use environmental sounds.
"no one... it's math."

Brains are structures in the physical world and you can model their behavior with math. ("Model" is not the same as "perfectly model." Imagine a three-body problem where you can come up with plausible solutions. That's not the same as an exact solution.)
If there ever is a universal economic constant then it is precisely the fact that rent always catches up to what people are making in that city.
Berkshire Hathaway is at almost $300k per stock.
Most companies will be small / medium. There isn't any shame in that. For many people the end goal of being employed / building a company is "keep a roof over my head and put food on the table". The desire to "change the world" is really pretty limited in the broader population.
Same here, I'd rather a phone that works so well it doesn't need a dedicated support agent app...
Yes, I know it and he seems to mostly ignore the fact that you can still fall back to manual typechecking in a statically typed language. That’s the part I don’t get. There’s nothing stopping you from manipulating JSON structurally in a static language.
A full time job is something you spend 40 hours a week at and your coworkers are human beings you spend a lot of time working together and very often you share similar goals.

You don't have to drink the Koolaid and all that, but if you can feel a sense of team and belonging from your job there is only positive effects, provided that you don't confuse that with blind loyalty.

At one point I've had 5 jobs in 7 years. But I still thoroughly enjoyed my time at those 5 companies and I made friends from all of them, many of whom I talk to until today. You would call me "pathological" but honestly I would absolutely hate to work anywhere with a bunch of people like you.

Just like a job isn't your whole life, but people also shouldn't be so vehemently against actually liking their job and their coworkers.
No. Is that where Ada is used?
Keeping rodents out of places isn't really all that easy.
Happy 5th Anniversary Ethereum – To the next 5 years
An explanation might be that its Store of Value proposition is gaining ground over the Currency one
It's worth noting that the author's company is in the private blockchain field, complete with a smart contract language under their belt, in Haskell.

Indeed, it's not the first time that a private blockchain partisan has attempted to tar all of "public" blockchain/crypto as a lawless amoral cesspool. R3 made similar claims in years past. In truth, there's been equal or more FUD thrown at private by public zealots too. But it's not confidence-inspiring to see this kind of tribalism, and it speaks to a conflict of interest (at least in R3's case, who were signalling to governments that "private is safer").

The broad brush is FUD. There are any number of crypto efforts that are not fraudulent. Grin and zcash come to mind. Ethereum itself is hardly a criminal effort. The claim that this technology has not advanced the field is simply laughable. Sure, there's a lot of technobabble and money being raised around nothing, what else is new.

Anybody in the fintech industry pointing fingers at crypto need to take a look in the mirror. Crypto is a tiny speck compared to the modern financial system. That's not to excuse fraud and shady stuff, but companies servicing hedge funds, private equity and megabanks have zero moral ground from which to point fingers.
I like this discussion a lot, because I agree that the regulations are pretty dumb, but I can't imagine a world without regulations that yields superior outcomes.

What kinds of improvements would improve the state of banking today that don't also throw the baby out with the bathwater?
Ignoring the fantasy b.s. in the second half of the article, the stuff at the top is exactly what I mean.

A mighty 400 GB/s: i.e. much less than the > 50 PB/day of logs the other person mentioned;

1600 hours of SD video per second: i.e. about 1-2 million concurrent HD streams, or much less than the amount actually served by YouTube.

IBM Summit "world's most powerful supercomputer": < 5000 nodes, i.e. much below the median cell size described in the 2015 Borg paper. Summit is a respectable computer but it would get lost in a corner of a FAANG datacenter.
> I wonder what the long term fallout of the current situation will be (will there be a large one?).

I'm thinking that the rest of our lives will basically be dealing with the fallout of these last six months in one way or another.
It just sounds like you have a bad job, and yes, in that case it is a feature, not a bug. Because any system that lets you stay far away from a bad job is good.

But there plenty of people who actually love the place they work and the people they work with and do it with healthy work/life balance without the stupid company shirts. Hard to imagine for you, just like it's hard to me to imagine caring about my local community.
School choice and school vouchers.

It's a moral right: parents (and children) should have the option to choose where they want to go to school, and the funding should follow the child. Now, if you want schools to reopen, you just send your child to one that is reopening. If you want to be cautious, you send your child to an online school or homeschool them with the help of the funding and online educational programs.
Especially pernicious is that many vulnerable people who previously would be unable to vote (no car, no real social contact, etc) now theoretically would be able to vote, which could be cut off.
I feel you. And even if you get everything to run well on a VPS or Netlify, opening it up to a big user base, limiting liability and generating income is another huge battle. I’m working on a side project I want to transform into an entire self-sustaining business at the moment. When I first had the idea, I got a prototype of the key parts up and running in less than a month. Now it’s been like a year and I spent my days optimizing webpack chunk sizes, trying different pwa cache busting techniques, reading Stripe-integration docs, studying international VAT schemes, legal requirements, ...
The step from zero to product is way smaller than the step from product to law-abiding, income-generating service-providing business.

Edit: For those of you looking for a way to get simple prototypes working without having to use opinionated frameworks like Laravel or going down the JS rabbit hole, try Flask (in combination with SQLAlchemy and Marshmellow if you also need a simple ORM). Full flexibility, can be learned in minutes and you have the whole freedom of Python to do what you want.
can you list any? I know about AI Dungeon, but are there any others? Do they all impose some type of filter (like AI Dungeon does) that shapes your input, or do any provide "raw" access?

I just want to get my hands on GPT-3 so bad...
Didn't take the time to read the article, but ~1 year ago Walmart added a system where all employees would earn a few days/year of time off that did not count against an attendance score, and could not be denied by management. You can still request time off and get it approved/denied, and you can still take time off without permission and accept the hit to your attendance, but there is this other way as well.
Buffett refuses to split BRKA so yes it's that much, but BRKB has split before and so is ~$200/share.
I just shipped my parents my 2016 iPad with cellular with my unlimited T-mobile data plan. I removed all of the unneeded apps, installed all of the streaming apps that either I had a log in to, they had a log in to with their cable subscription, and the free streaming apps. I put both of their email addresses in Mail. I also put Office 365. My mom already has one of my six accounts.

Since I can’t see them because of Covid, I can now Facetime them. It was frustrating talking to my dad since he is losing his hearing. He can understand me a lot better when he can see me and FaceTime audio is much clearer than phone calls.

I bought an iPad Air and a pencil to take notes.
When I was experimenting with threaded VM dispatch using computed gotos I discovered that GCC supports nested functions with __attribute__((constructor)). This hack allowed exporting computed goto addresses outside the execution loop function so that they'd be available when compiling bytecode.

This was useful because it meant your threaded jumps required fewer steps in the pipeline (compared to indexing a jump table), while also not needing any conditional for the threaded branch (e.g. not even checking for a NULL address before entering the loop, to initialize or substitute address placeholders).

The performance benefits of the constructor hack (low double digits, IIRC, maybe single digit, for a contrived test) were greater prior to Haswell (perhaps returning with Spectre mitigations?), but definitely not worth the headache of maintaining such non-portable, GCC-specific code. It did drive home, however, not only the usefulness of computed gotos (which are widely supported, excepting Visual Studio, and provide a far greater performance impact themselves), but the usefulness, in terms of design possibilities, of the ability to resolve computed goto addresses outside the function, which isn't supported anywhere except with that hack, AFAIK.
If I'm not mistaken, the current stack for a containerized multi-host environment could be roughly described as:

UNIX-like Linux kernel -> POSIX environment -> Kubernetes API -> Docker/CRI-O runtime -> POSIX environment -> Applications

From the developer perspective only the last POSIX layer is relevant, all the layers below are efforts to strong-arm old UNIX paradigms into 21st century compute/storage/network architecture. Could it be possible to replace this huge layered stack with something lighter that is better designed for the current compute/storage/networking paradigm in the cloud/data center and supports the POSIX compatibility layer for applications? For example:

Harvey OS -> orchestration API -> APEX -> Applications

Plan 9 -> orchestration API -> APE -> Applications

Clients could still rely on the desktop Linux distribution, Android or some other OSes.
Small Brother lasers
Yeah, but it’s running on system Z, and if they decide it needs beefier security at the interface, they can add it pretty easily. Just like you can put TLS on the boundary of a generally insecure local system.
That was really nice to watch and I think I could watch a whole series on this kind of source code analysis from the 16-bit era. I had the link opened next to a dozen tabs during the whole day and I kind of lost track where it came from so thanks for sharing it!
Germ theory really seems obvious after it was hammered into our collective skulls a thousand times. Yes, it does take a modern person, though not a scientist, to figure out not to let rats into the house.
Most engineers can clear the accredited investor rules in their 30's. A million isn't what it used to be in the 80's.
All the greatest writers, painters, composers, sculptors etc. dedicated themselves full time to their art. You just can't reach a comparable level of mastery by dabbling in your spare time.
Keeping the fleas out of those places isn't easy either. As far as I know that's the most commonly accepted theory as to where this came from and how it spread.
I must mirror what many other have said -- this is one of the more interesting and hopeful things I've read, not only on HN, but any place. Thank you for taking the time to share. And best wishes to you and your bird's offspring. You've done a good thing, worthy of celebration.
Facebook traffic is fairly low quality, one time type visits. Any publisher who built their business with a dependency on FB traffic was doomed to fail no matter what if they didn't convert those users to email registrations, subscribers etc..
So if you had a large number of people, you could support a lower cost. The software and game market survived selling games at retail only getting a 40% cut.

Apple customers are by definition not price sensitive. If they were they wouldn’t be Apple customers.
Centra – The e-commerce platform for global brands
I use Fi and the customer service is just OK, but the baseline comparison is Verizon where the customer service was easily reached but worse than terrible. More than once after talking to them I had seemingly compelling arbitrary fees added or removed, and once the caller ID entirely stop functioning on all phones on our family plan based on actions from CSRs.
Ask HN: Taking a sabbatical during a global pandemic?
I'm 27, with enough saved up for about 4-5 years of expenses at my current expenditure rate (8-10 years if I'm conservative enough). I'm considering taking a break from my job for a few months (maybe up to 1 year), and wondering how bad of an idea this is.

I've got a great job on paper. My boss is great — he's trying to help me grow and taking me under his wing a little. My pay is great and I get to work on stuff that impacts the world in a positive way, although only to a few users right now.

The problem is that I'm feeling very bored and unmotivated. I'm not sure if the career path I'm on is the right one for me long term. I think I might be suffering from burn-out and I'm not sure what to do about it. I'm worried that mentioning it to my boss would be basically saying that I can't handle my current responsibilities and that I should be given less of them.

My (probably naive) solution is to take a break from work after getting my bonus around November. I would like to use this time to learn, to workout, and to work on a non-profit project that I'm passionate about, but don't have the time for. I also just want to take a break from the corporate grind, and figure out what I want to do in the longer term.

Part of me feels like a fool for even thinking of this during a global pandemic. Another part of me, feels like I'm financially secure enough to take a break from the corporate world for at least a few months (accounting for ~3 months of job hunting).

How bad of an idea would it be to quit my job for a few months?

Are there any non-obvious risks I face other than just losing money and delaying career progression?
Same. But I got a glimpse when I spent some time working at an established east coast company how much Microsoft is used for absolutely everything. I hadn't even heard of SharePoint but it is a whole massive universe unto itself.
I'd love to see visualizations over time for the voting on comments. What I've seen often is as soon as I post something, it gets immediately downvoted, often multiple downvotes. Doesn't matter what I post. It could be pro-Company, anti-Company, pro-Language, anti-Language, right, left, doesn't matter. Immediately down. Then throughout the day, gradually the upvotes come (presumably from people who actually read the comment), and the comment long-term ends up around 1 or 2.

I've seen this initial drop followed by slow and steady upvotes over and over and over. The mods/admins must have tools to plot votes over time and I bet the visualizations are very interesting.
Breaking into automotive slightly I think too.
Panasonic aims to boost energy density in Tesla batteries by 20%
Yeah, openwrt doesn't have it, it only has busybox vi built in. Docker containers also often don't. But for most normal distributions it seems to be included these days.
Strong disagree; this is a repeated pattern with subsidies in regulated/controlled industries: subsidy increases demand, and supply doesn't automatically scale to meet the demand. When's the last time we added a new competitive 4-year university? Ave Maria?
Spotify doesn’t allow in app purchases. So Apple isn’t getting any cut.

Spotify complained that Apple wouldn’t allow them on the watch. But they still aren’t taking advantage of it even though Pandora has.
I said "could say" not "did say".
Airlines = 2% of global carbon emissions

Cruise ships = 0.2% of global emissions.

Stopping both will have a negligible effect on global carbon, probably near 0 since more people will drive as a result.

* https://www.atag.org/facts-figures.html

* https://www.tourismdashboard.org/explore-the-data/cruise-shi...
I think consciousness is something dynamic – constantly learning from and reacting to your environment, constantly changing your environment and being changed by it in turn. And that's what biological neural networks do. By contrast, systems like GPT-3 still have a hard boundary between two different modes of operation – learning and application of that learning – which makes them much more static. And that makes me doubt their consciousness.

I think, if some future system could get rid of the boundary between training and runtime, so that training happened continuously – then it would be closer to consciousness in my view. (It would also mean that different instances of the system would begin to diverge and become unique individuals, because even if the initial training was identical, the ongoing operation would be different, and the networks would diverge over time.)
Root CAs are treated as if they have no expiration period. This does not bode well for IoT devices, like mentioned in the article, internet-connected televisions. It is up to the manufacturer to embed the capability to perform the upgrades.

I'm not sure if I agree with the article's assertion to treat Root CA's as 'never' expiring. Sure, it's certainly the practical option, but if a Root CA is compromised, it's useless.
One thing nice about OpenResty (nginx) and their Lua support is that it plugs in at TLS negotiation. Does Envoy?
We do have some local patches as well (mostly for integration with out own infrastructure - stats collection, some RPC specific stuff). As SaveTheRbtz mentioned we encountered some issues with non-RFC clients, corner cases which were not exposed when envoy is used in "trusted" environment, etc., but all our fixes are now in upstream, so next migrations will be way easier both for us and for other envoy users.
You’re muddying the waters. Static and dynamic have a much clearer distinction between them than “strong” and “weak” typing do. These things aren’t binary but that doesn’t mean they are equally descriptive terms.

Java is a statically typed language with late binding implemented through subtype polymorphism and its type system has been explored pretty extensively in the literature.
It was a big argument for music funding when the band and orchestra parents were engaged in their annual battle to preserve funding for the school music program when I was a kid in the 70s/80s.
and then they can argue that a conduit, like an allegedly neutral platform, has no right banning people who didn't break any laws. much like a phone carrier can't drop my calls for saying I like unpopular person X
Patreon isn't winning this one man. Shouldn't have gotten involved in politics. Businesses outside of the web understand this well.

They set the rules in their ToS and then when users tried to utilise their rights under that agreement, patreon changed the terms to try and stop them, that's bullshit, patreon clearly deserved to lose.

If the judge is already willing to point out that patreon changed their terms of service retroactively after being informed by 70 people they intend to go to arbitration, which patreon's terms of service requires, and has now ruled in favor of these 70 individuals in part because of this, you can bet your ass their status as a platform and what it means to be a conduit will be discussed at length in arbitration. Assuming they even get to arbitration because patreon might have to admit they can't afford it if they don't have cash. I doubt things will go well for them from there.

Considering the fact that there's now a standing federal level executive order to enforce platform neutrality in essence, what do you think could happen if the people tasked with this goal notice this little saga, start collecting evidence/info on patreon and then send it off to the FCC for consideration for enforcement...

I remember when gawker thought it'd be a good idea to make flippant remarks about theoretically publishing explicit images and video of child sexual abuse in front of a jury, look at gawker now, they did that to themselves, they could have settled and still actually exist afterwards.

The ones who fall hardest are almost always huge smartasses and showboating right before it happens. Patreon's been proud of their bias for years. It's probably going to bite them in the ass one day soon.
Airbus says A350 loans now WTO compliant
They mentioned in the article that they are using SQL Servers clustered columnstore index. This is a poor name, as it's more than just an index. CCI in SQL Server is an on-disk storage format that is a highly compressed columnstore.
Sorry lots of folks use their own domain name with google, gmail.com is just some of the email.
> > Another method would be a standardised QR code so that you can make a transaction from your app by scanning the qr code.

> Wouldn't work in a lot of places where there's no LTE reception,

I happened to read about this recently (https://www.emvco.com/emv-technologies/qrcodes/), since it's going to be the base of Brazil's new instant payment system to be released later this year (PIX - https://www.bcb.gov.br/estabilidadefinanceira/forumpagamento...).

From what I understood, it does have a way to do offline transactions. There are two kinds of QR codes: one which is scanned by the app and used for both online and offline transactions, and a second kind used when offline which is presented by the app and scanned by the POS. This second QR code contains data similar to what a chip card would return to the reader during an offline transaction, so the transaction flow after that point is similar.
Clutterware
> huge tax cuts for not making money

Nobody pays income tax if they aren't making money. That's why they're called "income" taxes.
Just wanted to chime in that Google Maps was (is) huuuge. Instant access to such quality mas anywhere, anytime and even the street view project.
> For the majority of users (you don't fall into this category, fellow Hacker News reader), the capabilities of iPadOS are quickly approaching that of macOS.

Huh wow, I haven't thought about iPads for a while, but apparently they even added multiple windows (predictably, 5 years late). That's probably the biggest blocker I considered that made tablets a toy even for laymen users (you hardly need to be a leet haxorz to use multiple windows)
A great engineer in a small/medium company is not the same thing as a great engineer in a big company.
It’s not irrelevant, but it also isn’t a fair indicator of the total value of the company. Let’s say a company had 1000 shares outstanding at $1000 each. Just because one person would buy a share for $1k doesn’t mean that anyone would buy the whole company for $1mm.

If people started selling off their shares, the share price would drop, so maybe in the end this hypothetical company would end up worth $500k. I’m not the original commenter, but I assume that was their point.
The price is really insane for Nginx commercial.