skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is better argument and it is surface natural resources.

We know, that before industry took off we had huge amount of natural resources almost lying on the ground. Now many of crucial resources have to be dug from huge depths or recovered from dilute sources.

I can't imagine a previous industrial civilization leaving huge amount of resources available on the surface. Almost by definition, industry is about scaling and efficiency and it always look to get to the results as quickly as possible.
Well it seems that's the reason why he's targeting the moonshots.

It isn't too hard (thankfully) to get finance for a moderately viable idea.
Seconded. It’s really quite impressive, and the music is updated all the time. I’ve been hearing newer stuff with guitars lately. You wouldn’t know it was computer generated if you weren’t told.
The author though raises concerns about both the availability (openness) of the model as well as the current ability to run it due to cost (equity / equality of access). Making the model available would still not make it equal access.

I’m not saying I agree or disagree with the openness argument, but the equality argument is separate.
> "Senior Developer" is a heavily diluted term at this point.

I think some companies are starting to call all graduates at least 'senior'. Like how almost everyone at a bank is called a Vice President.

My first job before I even graduated was 'senior'. Of course I wasn't really senior in any regard.
If I had to explicitly say "tree", I agree. But if what I was writing was in fact not a tree, I think it would be substantially more difficult.

Sound theoretical underpinnings are usually necessary for a coherent system that allows for good abstractions.

Note that in code while I don't say the word "tree" while writing it. I create a tree with my braces (C) or indentation levels (python) and file structure. The language designers created a syntax using a tree. And so on.

I guess what I'm saying is that while the tutorial should not say tree, and I should not be thinking about tree nodes and edges while writing it, I should be writing a tree (and in code I am).
To be fair, industrial-level civilization (engines, mass production, etc) doesn't actually require large, reinforced concrete structures[0].

That said, the answer to TFA's question is "almost certainly yes, unless they deliberately tried to conceal geological evidence of their existence, and probably even then".

0: nor vice versa, technically, though the logistics of using pre-industrial steel as building material would be prohibitive. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24591216
Pulchritude!? Boy, I had to look that one up!
This doesn't seem particularly helpful for the conversation here. Claiming something is self-aware because I say so or because I don't trust the state of research will hardly convince anyone. Random social media videos of animals exhibiting interesting behavior is not sufficient either, it is interesting but can be misattributed due to anthropomorphisation.

And if you want to preach about better communicating uncertainty and statistics then I am afraid you're preaching to the choir in a particularly ranty sermon.

Yes there are plenty of uncertainties, but those uncertainties cut both ways.
He is the CEO of Decode a large genetics testing company here which contributed a majority of the early testing to the populace before the National Health Service could catch up.
I use brain.fm, but I would not say "they boast a lot of actual research".

Their single "performance pilot" paper is mostly marketing, with a single trial on 12 people with no details on statistical significance. The effect could very well be no different from white noise.
Actually at least in France the cathedrals became taller and taller exactly for that reason.
The steel doesn't last too much, this link claims only 1200 years. https://www.quora.com/How-long-can-stainless-steel-last-for#....

I'm not sure about that number, but the ancient the bronze swords are better conserved than the steel ones.

Plastic will get washed away, and glass may get crunched and be difficult to find.

The rest of the concrete has a longer lifetime.
Why does it matter if few (or many, for that matter) ascribe them self awareness? Popularity is no measure of truth.

And who's to say what actions are "free will" (whatever that means) over instincts?
In this parable, I’ll let you guess which is the server-rendered HTML form and which is the Javascript single-page app.
Audio messages have their place but sometimes it's one of the worst ways to communicate.

The only way I would even consider working with someone sending audio files over email would be if it at least included an automated transcription.

I really don't want to listen to your 3 minute audio file when I could have read it in 30 seconds.
Just confirmed on Android that Firefox is not honoring block autoplay video and audio (Settings -> Site Permissions -> Autoplay). 81.1.1
Which culture are you talking about? Company culture or programming culture?

My understanding was the general bikeshedding around formatting was the reason gofmt won for golang. That seems to hint the problem is a programming wide culture. Just in the same historical context programmers have had around tabs vs spaces...
The European Union should devote some of the untold billions they rain on farming subsidies and bailouts, and provide a EU-wide venture fund. YC model, other alumni and successful tech leaders select the most promising startups in a competitive bid for a fixed share ratio. This would do more for EU tech innovation that any other bureaucratic and academically driven initiatives had thus far.
It shills a little hard for Salesforce IIRC but "Predictable Revenue" was very helpful for me.

"Never Split the Difference" is good even if it leans a little hard on a single rhetorical device, and it offers really easy to practice stuff in an ontology that makes sense to engineering brain for every day life.

"Barbarians at the Gate" is borderline academic but unbeatable for understanding how all deals, no matter how big, are shaped by personalities and emotions. Huge huge time investment but worth it if you have serious entrepreneurial ambition.
I love Digital Ocean, but this annoys me so much. If anyone from DO sees this, please fix this crap!
I agree and I wish YouTube videos stopped asking me to subscribe and click the notification bell.
I get the feeling that QAnon is pulling in people in the western world, that would have similarly been pulled in by ISIS. A grand narrative of global elites that are cheating you. Promise that there is a figure who is working to stop them and is executing a grand plan (Trump/Allah/whoever). And of course, the eventual call to violence.

I think the solution is likely education... Not just book smarts, though that probably helps. But being a person who understands how to search for evidence that would contradict their beliefs, and be able to weigh those facts fairly. - I think this point is often where people fall victim of conspiracies. They question truths, and leave falsehoods unquestioned. This makes it difficult for them to become grounded in reality.

Left wing politics isn't necessarily a cure, but it might provide some inoculation against violent systems.
It’s beyond absurd to build a model with public, user-created data, gathered and released for free by a nonprofit, and then claim “uh, the model’s too big and unwieldy, so we have to keep things under lock and key.”

I don’t doubt that they’ll profit handsomely from this approach, but it’s the height of cynicism to engage in this kind of stuff and their statements around the practice should be taken in kind.
I would guess that glaciers would encapsulate the skyscrapers and dislodge them from their foundation, and when they receded leaving a huge pile of steel and concrete. Even if that was later encapsulated by magma, future geologists would have to wonder about metal 'veins' that were so structured and why part of the rock was basalt and another part was an exceptionally hard and dense form of limestone.

Note to self. Don't speculate on HN. Got it. :-)
There will always be models and research that require proprietary hardware and resources and thus cannot be “democratized.” PageRank required a ton of hardware and an index. Non-industry researchers will always be priced out of something.

A key concern here with regards to the ethics-of-AI issue is that last year OpenAI refused to release GPT-2 because it was too ‘dangerous’. This year, GPT-3 is suddenly a revenue-generating Microsoft product. The Gradient article linked is one of the more diplomatic ways of calling BS on OpenAI’s strategy. Financial interests taint research in subtle ways, it has for decades, and OpenAI employees being paid $1m in cash salary need reminders of this fact.

https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/
off-topic, but he shared a picture of an A/B test result. I've used several SaaS A/B test products but am not satisfied with any (built for marketers, not engineers)

I just want a service where I can pipe all relevant live experiment data and it does the statistics to tell me the statistical significance and has some dashboarding. Anything like that exist? Self-hosted?

I don't need something that injects itself into my site or even sets up the experiment.
NewArch Project: Future-Generation Internet Architecture (2000)
The Authors seem to be saying a visit to a barren planet shouldn't be written off as "no life".

Evidence of civilization could be just below the surface.
Not the suit - the tie. I was always taught it was disrespectful to wear a black tie because it's reserved for people grieving. Different communities are different though I guess. And maybe he's grieving in some regard, I suppose.
EU is not a small market, but lack of unified culture/language is a bit of limitation.
Ask HN: Greek Genocide Discussion Shadowbanned?
The submission on the Greek genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1914-1922 that claimed 450k-750k lives [1,2] was placed ~34th on HN (7 votes in ~40 minutes). About ten minutes later it was gone, and couldn't be found among the first 300 submissions, despite the story not being flagged.

Since discussion of the 1921 Tulsa race riot that took place at the same time seems to have been allowed [3], I assumed this story was also within the rules. Is this not the case?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24600458

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22221180
Meant to link here: https://www.isi.edu/newarch/iDOCS/final.finalreport.pdf

However there's good links for context on that page.

https://www.isi.edu/newarch/ for more.
I think you just need to realize you should never believe anything a recruiter tells you that is not legally binding. They outright lie, embellish the truth and manipulate you. That's their job.
They have the very broad mission of "preventing anticompetitive, deceptive, and unfair business practices" which includes electronics but not a strong focus. Upon looking into it further, the few big cases I was remembering were privacy related rather than consumer electronics [1][2]. They also set energy standards and vet environmental marketing claims but that doesn't really match the approve/deny role that the FDA does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Sears_Holdings_Managemen....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Gateway_Learning_Corp.
I have astigmatism and have never experienced this pain.
What's a global software product?
Typical American viewpoint that is. In European markets it is probably the inverse, most sites need multi language support. For a content management system I find it pretty poor to be missing this.
It sounds like “gigantic steel, concrete, plastic and glass structures aren’t just going to dissolve” really depends on timescale, and geologic timescales are far beyond our typical experience.

From the Atlantic article by one of the authors: [1] [2]

When it comes to direct evidence of an industrial civilization—things like cities, factories, and roads—the geologic record doesn’t go back past what’s called the Quaternary period 2.6 million years ago. For example, the oldest large-scale stretch of ancient surface lies in the Negev Desert. It’s “just” 1.8 million years old—older surfaces are mostly visible in cross section via something like a cliff face or rock cuts. Go back much further than the Quaternary, and everything has been turned over and crushed to dust.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-e...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601382
“We all know that one of the greatest challenges is access to capital. And that is why I’m sharing today that I will devote €1bn of my personal resources to enable the ecosystem of builders”

He's made his billions on the backs of builders, the musicians who can record music all day long but will be lucky to receive pennies for a million listens. The 98.6% of artists outside of Spotify's top tier are making an average of $12 per month (https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/spotify-million-ar...).

Why can't Ek share his largesse with the builders who make it possible for his service to exist?
The dark side of eventual consistency and how to triumph over it
https://medium.com/swlh/handling-eventual-consistency-11324324aec4
Also can say something like "not looking for a new lead role, want to get hands dirty and grow in a new team environment".
It's sheer hypocrisy that makes you think you're in the right. The platform costs money to deliver content to you.

You could care less who hosts it yet you care to type YouTube.com into your address bar to find the content you want.

In any case, if you think the company doesn't deserve your money, simply don't consume videos via their platform.

If you really mean it, simply stop using the service because the more you use it, the more they retain market share and get to serve more ads to other users. So effectively, you're contributing to their growth.

Live by your word and don't use YouTube if you detest Google that much.

There's no dignity in double standards.
Yes, it's correct, it was possible to travel between EU countries during the whole summer without that much restrictions (some places required a quarantine of 14 days, but others didn't). The number of identified cases only started to rise again in central Europe around mid August.
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CYBERTEC also offers a more advanced Oracle to PostgreSQL migration product: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/de/produkte/cybertec-mig...
Here's a talk from two weeks ago by the CEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDRrlgnH7N8

Disclaimer: I work at CYBERTEC
This reminds me of a true story (yes, true not "true" I was there). I was a manager and representing my development area and my boss was there to greet the new client. We were a consulting firm, so of course we were paid to build things. The director of architecture was there, and he comes up with this plan to charge 100k for a solution of various needs. Surprisingly the client said no; they can't afford it, and we didn't get the business. The business was kind of shocked the company said no, then my boss sarcastically pointed out that everything they needed could be solved with Google Drive and 15 minutes on their phones to set it up.
The human mind is prone to certain types of errors, for sure. Pareidolia and apophenia are other interesting examples.
Consider asking the flip side of this question, "I wonder what kind of safety net I could create that would allow me to think like this?"

I can recommend the web site Mr Money Mustache[1] for some ideas along that line.

[1] https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
Are you sure about this?

I know linguee.fr has been criticised, but check out these two analogous pages found via a search for "electronics packaging" there:

https://schroff.nvent.com/en/schroff/about-us

"The brand Schroff, which belongs to the business unit of nVent Technical Solutions, has been a world leader in electronics packaging for over five decades."

https://schroff.nvent.com/fr/schroff/about-us

"La marque Schroff, qui appartient à l’entité légale nVent, est leader mondial dans le domaine de l’habillage électronique depuis plus de cinquante ans."

This makes it look extremely like habillage doesn't just mean what you claim it does "in this context."

Emballage was indeed my initial guess for the appropriate French word, but I, you know, did some research before jumping to a conclusion?
People might not be interested in it. If no one cares, and several downvote, then it's gone, probably.
Also sometimes what we "know" is in fact wrong.
This is a big advantage of LibreOffice / Collabora Online: the engine driving desktop and online is the same, so any missing functional is purely down to UX.

The disadvantage is that the hundreds of LibreOffice desktop features are already too numerous for the full desktop UI, and have no place in a browser.
> Windows was very good for desktop but had stability problems. Nowadays Windows is just awful for the desktop user, Microsoft is literally conducting a war against its own users.

I don't get this. I've been using *nix since PDP11 and VAX/Ultrix and I have no problems with Win10 at all, stability or otherwise - I'd much rather use it as a desktop dev environment than Linux. When it comes time to deploy something, sure it makes sense to run on Linux.
> What happened with Haxe, where did it fail?

Who says it failed? Haxe is alive and well, even if it isn't a mainstream programming language. Even the latest Pokemon game used Haxe!
Great! Especially thanks for provided AppImage-builds for Linux ;)
What you're showing is exactly a case that I think is okay as long as it's not spammed to the user. Any rating that's chosen through this will go directly to the App Store listing instead of being filtered out by redirecting the user to some feedback form.
Might have to pay "talent" more than $40k a year before aiming for the moon.
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And that's another thing the vast majority of folks this is for couldn't care less about. It's all the same "make it irrelevant, this is not something I should need to care about to do whatever I need WSL for".
https://archive.is/C2s4p
If people aren't interested, submissions slowly slide down the rankings - they don't suddenly disappear.
The EU fought hard to create a single market, but the language, cultural and market fragmentation is still strong. It exists to some degree in the US (see for example Tesla's plight with protectionist dealership laws). But at least you don't need completely separate marketing, product branding and distribution in each state. If support and language is an issue, the complexity of EU business explodes. The linguistic bureaucracy of the EU Parliament is a good example, it makes the whole process 4x more expensive and cumbersome.
Excellent article! While reading it I got the impression that some of the decisions made by the author were influenced by the limitations of Rust, so I wondered how you'd design a language to be ideally suited to express reactive UI? What would such a language look like, and what would the UI library look like.
If they released it, people would figure out a way to run it “equitably” within months, if not weeks.

The amount of cheap GPU access floating out there is nuts. You can spin up a GPU instance to do best-in-class ML stuff using Fast.Ai on services like Paperspace or Colab, right now, for free.
Catalina VM
Stuff like Gmail, Basecamp, Datadog, etc?
Yes: but don't you think that going to collect the weapon furthers the conspiracy to commit murder?

There'd inevitably be argument over whether it met the required standard, which differs by jurisdiction. e.g. did it advance the conspiracy substantially? did it take the conspiracy past the point of no return?
Policy makers are smart enough to not intentionally design welfare cliffs (usually). Most of the time it’s the result of complicated eligibility criteria, multiple benefits stacking together, and the program designers not anticipating large increases in the value of the benefit (e.g. housing subsidies).
The EU already grants a lot of money for research and innovation.

You have the horizon 2020 and horizon Europe programs for example. It's not perfect of course but it works.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_Programmes_for_Res...
Maybe he means he wants to pay for Boris Johnson’s coronavirus testing scheme?
We are for sure not gonna show ads. We are currently experimenting with different financing models, let's see. We actually want to become a developer platform which will include much more features than just Q&A.
Creative Cloud, 95% of social media, Google/Bing, Office, Autodesk stuff, Windows. The biggest European global(ly consumed) software is probably Spotify right?
Whaaat?! The man is not joking apparently:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haxe/comments/dwpvm7/pok%C3%A9mon_s...

This feels a bit like "Game studios HATE him! This ONE secret they don't want you to know, will make you 10x Game Dev!"

Crazy, and neat.
I'd argue you're not a true craftsman until you've started making your own tools, or at least tailoring generalized ones, to better suit your personal workflow.
Personally, I get around this by only using apps off F-Droid. I'm sure not everyone would be happy with that solution, but it works well for me.
Functional Reactive Programming (In Whiley)
It is assumed that any kind of ship like that would be assembled in space and if we can't do that we are most likely not ready yet.

Water would be a good candidate for both shield and jacket for the simple reason it is readily available in space in huge amounts and doesn't have to be lifted from Earth. What is necessary is a single remotely controlled ship that will go far enough from Sun to be able to capture and steer one of the watery asteroids. The further you go the slower the orbits the less energy you need to dramatically alter course of any astronomical body.

We don't even need to bring all that water to Earth. Instead, it might be cheaper to fly half-finished craft out, finish assembly by robotic means and then turn it into center of solar system. The craft could then gain velocity, use as many gravitational assists as possible on the way in and then back and pick up the crew before it leaves solar system for its journey.
If we had counterfeit ICs in the 1970s, how much earlier can we go back, and have widespread counterfeit electronic parts in the supply chain?

Since the number of devices from the 1970s which are still extant is small, finding even one, is analogous to finding a fossil: its indicative of a larger population, but without more, you can't tell at what relative scale (bearing in mind of course that fossil electronics, like fossils in real life are subject to bias effects such as what lasts and what is kept)
Are these products a thing in Asia?
Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, WhatsApp, WeChat...
"We all know that one of the greatest challenges is access to capital". I don't recognize this. If I look around, there's enough money looking for an investment. Being risk-averse, lots of regulations and fragmented market are way bigger issues.
Oracle: uses IS NULL to check for empty string

I don't know anything about Oracle, and I realize the semantics of "null" are subtle, but this seems like a peculiar design decision that conflates two different things. With Oracle, how would one represent the state of a text field we don't know anything about? An empty string implies "we know the value and it is <nothing>" versus "it could be anything; we just don't know".

[edit: reworded for clarity]
Well, I’d open the link if I weren’t actually using Safari!

Is it safe, and what’s it about?
Probably SAP
There is a certain level of “being trapped” into needing a higher income that happens as your responsibilities increase - children, needing to be in a “good” school district, maybe needing to take care of elderly parents etc.