skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could not disagree more.

Working with it was fraught with issues. Performance was mediocre at best, it was horribly expensive, Python and JS client libs had re-occurring issues with disconnecting and reconnecting. The advice given to us around scaling concurrent connections was bizarre at best. Teammates had numerous issues where it was clear corners had been cut in handling some edge cases around handling certain unicode characters. Their Snowpipe "streaming" implementation was...not good. The idea of having having compute workers that "spun up and down" sounded good in theory, but in practice lead to more bottlenecks and delays than anything else.

The AWS outage last year that prevented you from provisioning new instances essentially crippled our snowflake DB.

I almost go out of my way to recommend people _not_ use it. I keep seeing it pop up, but mostly because it seems they're doing what Mongo DB did in the early days and just throw marketing money to capture mindshare as opposed to being an actually good product.

We changed to ClickHouse and the difference was literally night-and-day. The performance especially was far superior.
FTA: "Note: This is written largely from the US perspective. Developments in other countries are not well covered here. Also, the chains of events are difficult to classify so the time linearity of the following is not perfect."

Perhaps you could write a similar page about European and Chinese development of nuclear power. Who knows, you might end up on the front page of HN as well!
I heartily disagree -- reproducible analysis is essential for the intercomparison of analyses between specialist research groups.

Here is my thesis work, minus the data, which is too large to store within a GitHub repo. By calling `make`, it goes from raw data to final document in a single shot. The entire workflow, warts and all, can be audited. If you see a bug or concern, please let me know: https://github.com/4kbt/PlateWash
The app is still in the store at the moment, which is even stranger.

I know it can sometimes take hours for an app to propagate in the App Store after it's been released by the developer. No idea how it works for Apple pulling an app though, if they did or will pull it.
How about the government stimulus has ended, the economy is in horrible shape, and people are just waiting for the economic crash...
I was mildly interested in the project when it appeared on HN/Boing Boing the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24237970 . That mild interest has now morphed into a glowing, white hot desire to give Goldbacks a very wide berth.
Having practiced law for a decade, I can assure you that many (though not most) attorneys would say this if even just 2 or 3 developers had stopped using Unreal since this fiasco started. Even if their departure had nothing to do with the current restrictions Apple has put in place. People are awful.
I don't think mines quality as "AI", unless you stretch the definition to just mean anything under the sun.
It feels very much like early MongoDB days, where they are attempting to capture mind/market share by aggressively marketing as opposed to competing on product quality and features.
The man that created 100 pointless inventions
I guess I can see it in that regard, and knowing the implementation of it is complete and robust helps a lot. And I can see how this is useful for interface design; most of the good IDE gui toolkits of the past preview live as well.

But I also think this lessens the requirement for a solid mind's eye and ability to visualize changes before you make them. Having come from desktop development (with "live" gui development kits like VB) into webdev I guess I got used to code-a-bunch-of-stuff-and-hit-reload pattern.

As long as it doesn't get in my way, I'm cool with it.
No. Thats just a forward operating base for launching explosive drone rockets =)
When I took physics in community college, we joked that we were getting a Caltech education for $13 per credit hour because the instructor would just show videos of some famous physicist lecturing there.
Seconding this. Far superior performance, far better features.
Really making your own case, huh?
You should be more shocked that everything else is so expensive.

The base costs for a lot of tech stuff (like bandwidth) are so cheap. But you would never know between these bullshit "what is it worth to you" pricing models and the number of middlemen trying to stick their hand into the pot. It's disgusting.
Cost vs effectiveness isn’t linear though. An air superiority jet that’s far more advanced and expensive isn’t just a bit more effective, it utterly dominates cheaper less effective opponents.

Also per unit costs are misleading. You can’t easily quadruple Or 10x your number of air bases, number of trained pilots and air crew, number of aircraft carriers to carry all your cheap and cheerful swarm fighters.

A lot of fast jet economics is driven by getting maximum utility out of deployment capacity and support infrastructure that is itself irreducibly expensive.
Haven't used MemSQL, but check out ClickHouse.
wait and hear, all the justifications around hn that they need 300 engineers. when their competitor basecamp has around 50 engineers. only difference is one is vc funded + dustin's fb funds, while basecamp is bootstrapped. and a lot of sv hype in terms of the tools they use to build asana. basecamp html + sprinkles of js. asana react + redux. on the backend asana 100s of microservices, basecamp 1 monolith. reading the comments, based on experience at fb | google they made their own language. if that's not peak sv shoot me!!
Quote about societal decay sounds like something from Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(Asimov_novel)
There are a few more coming, too.

My armchair guess would be, this is a win win market. Its booming, so you can ride it as it goes up. And if you don't do well, you can blame COVID. A lot of companies were on the cusp and this probably accelerates them all.
It was planned as a business from the start. I was running a different site that started as a hobby, and one of the affiliate links was performing well even though it wasn’t highly targeted to the audience. I knew there was a biz opportunity there.
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Yeah for ephemeral work or CI builds especially, that's the most annoying part (especially for orgs where you might not want to put your personal credentials in repo settings... but you also don't want or have the funding structure to pay the $5/month for unique credentials for that org).
I just spent some time looking at some old code, and it does seem like OTP 22 solved any of the issues that I had run into at the time. My mistake, sorry about that.

(Though I maintain that it's still opaque)
I love it and I'm sure there would be plenty of willing people. What I think is misguided is the assumption that the president would do the deed personally. "SGT Thompson, bring me the codes, I'll be in the next room" Still chilling, but not personally traumatic.
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I mean, this applies to many of the discussions on HN too. I've noticed that there's so many people getting the facts around the topic completely wrong, and quite a few will push some simplistic narrative or long-standing grievances, instead of the relevant point which often is subtle and nuanced. I suppose that's just being human.
My kind of AI drone~
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a29847417...
Neil would you be interested in turning this into some sort of service? I could help with that, shoot me an email (check profile).
What exactly has US accomplished in Afghanistan and Iraq.

George Bush in 2003 had the Mission Accomplished banner, if the mission was accomplished, what are US soldiers still doing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
> Facebook has agreed to pay the French government €106m (£95.7m) in back taxes to settle a dispute over revenues earned in the country.

>

> The payment covers the last decade of its French operations from 2009.

For the last 10 years
Somebody needs to expend a bunch of effort to provide identity. It doesn't have to be you (in a PKI the effort is expended by the Certificate Authorities and those overseeing them, not by Relying Parties) but it does have to be somebody you trust.

For personal identity the most plausible outside authority is government, and it's unlikely that people protesting a government would trust it to identify them - after all government counter-protest forces would presumably be able to make use of that against them.

So you're probably screwed in the larger sense. Is this tip that "There is a team with food and water on the North side of the bridge" from "Kirsty" real? Well you haven't the faintest idea who "Kirsty" is so even if you could magically be entirely confident the message is really from "Kirsty" that doesn't help you decide.

Signal does the absolute most it's practical to attempt here, you can choose to check that your friend Kirsty is actually your friend Kirsty by some trustworthy means (e.g. meeting up physically) and then Signal promises you'll know that future messages are really from Kirsty. But trust isn't transitive so PGP's apparently more powerful offering doesn't actually do anything except maybe give you a false sense of security.

Bridgefy doesn't offer even that very limited capability from Signal, but I'm dubious about the practical import for a live protest. I can buy that BLM or Extinction Rebellion which are long-term organisations with sustained buy-in from local organisers benefit from something like that (and indeed ER uses Signal) but individual protests or protesters I don't think so.
> Why is online conversation so special?

Because it has the potential to be asynchronous.

If I glance through a channel and see a bunch of questions then I can answer them in just the time it takes for me to write an answer. Whereas if I see "Hey can anyone help me?" then I need to ask "Possibly. What's the issue?" and wait for the asker to return, see my message, then formulate their question.

Note that this is assuming a programming chat room. "Asking to ask" makes slightly more sense in a 1-1 DM with someone.

> the norms and etiquettes of conversation pre-exist for a reason

Mostly for face-to-face conversations.
I think they just meant that the military long left the “kill/don’t kill” decision along the wayside despite the propaganda of saying we have someone in control of the kill vector.
He was insulating himself from criminal charges for abusing children. He raped children. He had children trafficked so that he could rape them, and then hand them off to his influential friends to rape again.
But AI's can qualify as mines. Sending out AI drones is like deploying mines that kill anything within a certain radius.
That may be a valid technical complaint, but the problem remains—we create devices that are designed to kill humans, autonomously, without human decision inputs.

From a different perspective you might think of guns and bombs as having similar problems—a human might decide to pull the trigger, but the human involved has limited control over who is killed and what is destroyed.
Soon, when QUIC is widely supported by the swarm (just needs updating to the current version), IPFS should be better than torrents for start-up delay, and much more importantly, it allows for sharing data across "torrents" when using content-defined chunking via rabin or buzhash.
This means that things like common larger binaries get shared between images that include them, which should greatly increase the average amount of seeders for the chunks that make up an image.
I'm not sure how foolproof the encryption is if I can know every word you have typed in each note. Sure I can't make sense of the full structure but I'll know exactly what you've written about, so I'm not sure that's any more effective.

The way I see it, if you want your notes to be encrypted while also cloud synced and searchable, there are only two options I can think of:

1. Store your notes in an encrypted file (sqlite) on the cloud and sync the entire file locally every time you login (and push updates somehow). Roam does this but wirhout encryption and it sucks so bad (opening the site takes tens of seconds if not more) because of that.

2. The product promises to store everything encrypted; data is instantly written to an encrypted personal sqlite db on the cloud (you alone have the decryption key, it's not saved in the server). Much more seamless experience.

Im _also_ trying to create my own notes app, because I'm convinced I can create an app that can support a thousand users for the same cloud cost as a single roam research subscription. Current immediate plan is not to encrypt the notes, but my eventual plan is to try 2. If there are any other workflows that don't degrade user experience that can still encrypt everything client side, I'm interested to know more!
This ISN'T a social-justice article.

Picking the top applicants backfires because people game it.

For example, consider Students A and B who're mostly identical except Student A likes to binge on Wikipedia while Student B spends every night doing SAT practice problems. Colleges that select only the top applicants get the B's of the world, who optimize their observables, while the A's seem somewhat less competitive on paper.

If you change the rules -- like you start focusing on clubs, volunteering, or even just skipping the Top-1% -- the gamers'll adjust their strategies, out-performing the non-gamers who develop actual talents. The top colleges end up getting flooded by gamers who're focused on looking good.

The pragmatic solution proposed in this article is to randomly select "good enough" applicants. This allows colleges to take in the top-performing non-gamers who have a wealth of actual skills (rather than gaming hacks) while also reducing the incentive for gamers to waste their time gaming the system.
Facebook seems to punch down. If you're an oppressed or persecuted minority, you are out of luck and subjected to hate and incitement. If you are in a politically favored group, or a threat to FB's bottom line, FB is ultra-sensitive.
There exists an even simpler AI program, wherein an edge is pressed against an object. If done so with sufficient force, the object is cut. This AI is called a knife.
Very instructing résumé for Unity platform. Thank you.

As for the 'going public' side, I am not sure it will improve the actuals problems of the product : in my experience, going public is only here to :
1) Cash out the actual investors (in french we say 'des cigares vont changer de bouches')

2) Give many of Unity main developers a lotery winning ticket. This is NOT going to stabilize the team, for sure. Even less the product.
Just curious, if you don't pay your taxes for 10 years as a citizen what happens? do you get arrested at some point?
Ask HN: How many dev candidates make it to the take-home challenge stage?
If you've ever hired developers, what percentage of those candidates were asked to complete a take-home challenge (if that was even a part of the hiring process)? Also, what was the process of keeping track of the candidates and reviewing their code?
The recommendation engine may not require ML. The recommendation can be based on statistics of customers browsing history.
I feel being a market leader in the gaming industry is good enough for now. There’s also still a lot of room for growth.
> Keep globally influential competitors from forming.

At the expense of US soldiers dying from the hands of AL Qaeda/ISIS and wasting trillions of dollars which could have been used to rebuild US infra and providing healthcare and other services to US citizens.

Didn't the US lose by that definition?
People try to classify everything around them in binary. As its easy to just label people.
But the fact they fail to understand is that no one is just "good" or "bad". You have to evaluate each of the actions and weigh it. This is tough and most don't do it.

No one is black or white, they are just shades of grey.
Not really.

It's both fluid and crystalized intelligence that are required.

The better you can pattern match the faster you will be able to acquire crystalized intelligence by being able to connect the dots and you'll likely be able to leverage superior pattern matching abilities to utilize less crystalized intelligence to draw the same conclusions in certain cases. But if you have no or very little crystalized intelligence in the domain you're trying to problem solve in then you aren't going to get very far.

It's very much a combination of the two.
FWIW, you've made me want to read the article (which may not happen, but thank you).
The version was useful when the browsers had incomplete support for CSS. It served as a milestone for browser makers to achieve. They could give a claim of their technological advantage, say 90% of the CSS3 features.

Now the CSS progress is more driven by the browsers than the W3C committee. Also, CSS does not affect the competition between browsers as much as before. So, as the flashy tech gets stable and boring, the need to give it marketable names goes away.
Well, at least you clicked the link... that's further than most people make it before posting inane commentary.
The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
Lots of people forget that until quite recently computing was an extremely diverse environment. Everything from home computing to mainframes had dozens of manufacturers, mostly incompatible not only with each other, but even between their own computers! Dozens of OSs, CPU architectures, graphics, and so on were everywhere.

Today's computing is pretty boring by comparison. It used to take work to keep up to date with what was going on just in consumer PCs, it seemed like an entirely new system architecture was being announced every few months. In the 80s and early 90s, specialized work for various business cases often even required entirely custom hardware. The average computer just wasn't versatile enough to cover all of the use-cases.

CC, by trying to cover a broad swatch of computing, inevitably spent lots of time in these interesting areas, even if they seem kind of niche these days.

Really fascinating is that their interview and showcase desk often features "titans" of industry like Jack Tramiel demoing something alongside a small company's disheveled software engineer. Even more interesting is how the industry has completely transformed such that the ratio of suited sales guys that used to be everywhere in the public face of computing like CC are mostly gone, and replaced by those same engineers.
I haven't investigated it in detail personally, but my understanding is that Intel has or had troll patents on the obvious (and therefore not legitimately patentable) way to go about implementing various x86 features. So if you reimplement it from scratch, the way you naturally go about implementing it will just happen to match 'Intel's' supposed 'inventions' which they have patents on. (Eg, I think they had a patent on register renaming at one point.)
Guy Is Suing the Patent Office for Deciding an AI Can't Invent Things
Believe me, changing / writing queries ("projections" in Asana parlance) at Asana took longer.
Thinking of reasons one would want to disable that caused me to do a Google search and find this:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Privacy_and...

I guess it can't be observed from a script? That would be a neat way to get potentially sensitive info.
I dunno, one of the big reasons to have employees in an office (in tech and knowledge work in particular) is for serendipitous interactions to spawn new ideas. A couple million a month in rent can be worth that next $100m idea.
You could have a college major in any possible area of academic inquiry, which means the number of potential college majors is unlimited. Each school can only have so many faculty and they have to balance various factors when deciding who to hire. More resources dedicated to offering new majors might mean less resources going to popular majors that are overenrolled.
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They all cost money, because it's expensive to ship bytes out of the cloud. Docker is likely going the way of the Dodo because they likely funded our free access with VC money.

They also probably made a bad assumption in that they could define the only container format before standards bodies got involved. Blitz Scaling was the mantra of the time, seems to have bitten those back who took a bite of that cake.
That's a good point. Any idea if there's a well spec'd JSON format around, for database data? eg something that handles binary data, trinary logic (eg null values), and hopefully referential integrity
You would think a developer accused of something as serious as _fraud_ would have their apps at least removed from the app store... this whole thing is a little odd.
A single data point certainly does not make a trend, but VW has actually tried to compete and had to change their tune rather quickly by admitting that Tesla has a sustainable lead in the EV space.
While that may be true, any such application requires dev costs and some non-zero amount of computation. How do you pay for it while giving it away in a B2B capacity?
Congrats to the team, looks very useful. I was an early customer of the Macaw App from the same creator(s?) and was excited for its development and had deeply integrated it into my projects but they got aquihired then all development stopped and bugs frozen in place... honestly didn't feel good and left me wary of new apps like these. Anyways, hopefully this one has a long bright future.
Well let me know when the mines are walking around and deploying themselves. In the meantime they're not AI.
Feels like the author is catching on to the realisations outlined here:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-...
Out of curiousity, have you used ClickHouse?

Because I had the opposite experience - you literally couldn't pay me to use Snowflake again.
Pinker didn’t do anything for Epstein in 2007. That’s a pretty horrible mischaracterization.
Facebook also plays the full amount it claims.

The issue is that there was an ambiguity in the law that was recently discussed and resolved.
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I can't help but think the top comment will always be the answers to the prompts.
Seems like the entire space has decided now is a good time to go public with Tesla at all time highs. Velodyne also went public recently under the symbol GRAF and has done well which is why Luminar quickly followed with a merger to go public. Seems like more of the electric vehicle startups like Fisker (symbol SPAQ) seem to be using Velodyne over Luminar.

Good to see a lot of enthusiasm for imaging and autonomous vehicles! I like the potential smart city applications
This still counts as a manifest pull for rate limiting purposes based on what i'm seeing in this thread.
Here's an interesting truth that many of you might not know. When you're a large multinational company or a very high net worth individual, then taxes aren't really an objective calculation.

The tax code in most countries, despite being tens of thousands of pages of legalese, are extremely subjective. This subjective and loose language allow for innumerable loopholes and tax dodges.

If you're using these creative methods, the chances are that you'll get audited every single year by the IRS or local equivalent. Trump famously gets audited every year. Your tax lawyers & accountants will then negotiate a tax payment with the tax office. I used the word negotiate because there is no one true formula for tax owed. It doesn't exist, especially not for corporations.

When you add in 'creative' intellectual property ownership and royalty payments, then the tax office basically has no idea where money is flowing. This is why EU countries commonly lob these huge penalties. Facebook tries to pay X in tax, and the tax office says they should pay X2, and then after negotiation they pay X1.5.