skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Against people who, by all intents have literally sabotaged an election and installed themselves as authoritarian rulers?

Somehow in your definition democracy is something only allowed to happen organically, if forcefully torn from you by corruption and guns, "oh well".
I'm sorry customers are no boss.
At this point I assume massive waste in every industry until proven otherwise. Massive waste in the food industry really distresses me.
I did the math and I have upgraded, on average, every 90 months, and that still feels really extravagant.
I would think that GPT-4 would be exclusively licensed to one of the other major players for even more money.

Just because it doesn't "need" the compute/training data to create doesn't mean people aren't going to sell it for money.

People need to eat at the end of the day.
Fair enough, I guess I just think about things a little differently. I didn't feel the need to do any calculations. You can just eyeball it and see one went from roughly $600 to $900 and that is obviously a 50% increase and one went from a little above $1000 to a little above $1800 and that is obviously around a 80% increase. Those are all nice and easy to process numbers even if they aren't exact. There is a big enough gap in the results to be confident that whatever margin of error existed in my estimates it is clear that the developer salaries grew at a faster rate.
Telework from Hotels Could Pose a Cyber Security Risk for Guests
You could institute a restocking fee on any returns.
First time I’ve seen it though, an HN has basically been my home page for 6 years.
Telegram is small enough for Apple to bully. Imagine if Apple tried to force Twitter to censor every "cancel crusade" or be removed from the App Store.
There is obviously mutation at some level of abstraction but usually one form of coding is idiomatic and one isn’t. I’m
all for using immutable data and pure functions, but I’d discard a language and standard library that doesn’t have a good/idiomatic story for e.g mutating large arrays in place or has a good selection of contiguous (array-backed) collections be too limited for many types of work.
Arch Linux Trusted User https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_Users
Don't get me wrong. I love the modern world we live in.

But I miss the old days (1968 in this case) when the world was a big, mysterious place. The only analogy we have now in 2020 is space (but we're so far from "truly" discovering it.). I hope 2021 and the James Webb Telescope prove me wrong.
My solution to this has been to order denim, tees, chinos, etc made to measure. It's slow, it's a bit more expensive, but you get a better fit and you don't need to worry about all this mess.

Plus, I support local people.
It's not like the shoes are going out the door without them knowing that the same person just ordered three pairs in different sizes and is almost certainly going to be returning two of them.

It's simply not possible to be sure about a shoe size sight unseen. Even within the same brand of shoe, fit varies. I have to assume a very high returns rate is totally expected by online shoe retailers (and for that matter offline ones).
Consider it translated, with "meat" being the closest word. There's an artistic choice to it as well: "They're made of out organic tissue" or whatever you might find more palatable just doesn't have the same ring to it and really wouldn't convey the proper sense of incredulity.
> The only time I feel dumb in life...

I find that feeling dumb in life is one of life’s greatest opportunities!
ML = Machine Learning

DS = Data Science (I presume - don't see this abbreviation very often)

Please can we type words out in full? You're just making my brain do more work to save yourself a tiny bit of typing.
My father in law will buy certain things (like a wedge pillow) that are too bulky to fly with, when he arrives at his destination. And then return it on the way back to the airport
In the future, the AI will persuade who to vote for in coming elections.
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>> Your vague references to some coming revolution are probably the most laughable part of all of this.

There is so much cognitive dissonance in our society that the levels of mental illness are going through the roof. It's 100% certain that there will be a revolution in the next decade.
Try this one.

https://github.com/streamlit/demo-self-driving

It uses StreamLit

https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit
Whoops, my bad! I didn't catch that - sorry
Do you actually have any experience or even a remotely internal view of how much CEO actually matters in multi billion dollar companies?
Or are you just making incorrect assumptions based on no actual knowledge and experience?
Let's not twist the argument.

Those channels exist to spread private, identifiable data and this breaks the law.

A better version of your argument is Apple is the landlord where people are planning lynchings.

Again, I side with the Belarusians. But pretending this is different to China's doxxing of Uighurs is naive
Enforcing diversity is a way to prevent gaming. If the only thing that should matter is skills, it wouldn't make sense in any realistic scenario that 75% of H1Bs are coming from a country with 15% of the population.
George registered the TM via his company LucasArts (whose parent LucasFilm was purchased by Disney), which licensed the TM to Motorola, who was purchased by Google.
Researchers gave thousands of dollars to homeless people
Does Arch have an official package manager yet? Was extremely weird to try it out last year and want to install some AUR packages, and every package getting tool seemed to describe itself as deprecated or unsupported.
Best Buy doesn’t have that policy, I don’t think any of the major retailers do.
Thanks! I learned a new word - "hyperlexia" - which I now think applied to me in some form when I was very young. It's been interesting reading about it. I picked up reading when I was very young, much faster and earlier than people expected, and reading things people thought a young child wouldn't be able to.

I don't remember it being a problem, just unusual.

But now I think about it, as an older adult I don't just enjoy reading, I'm addicted to reading, to the extent it stops me getting as much work or other things done as I'd like. It's strange to admit that, but it's true.

It's intriguing to consider that might have roots in a neurological structure associated with what is now a named disorder, rather than just a habit.

Though I wouldn't say I remember lacking comprehension skills, perhaps I did have some aspect of that when I was very young, it's hard to be sure. I completely lacked the ability to write creatively though (stories etc), until about age 13 when a single insight while stuck transformed that from 0% to 100% in moments.
I was/am a web dev but mostly use python for ETL and web scraping.
WTF this is bad.
An influential oldie. This has more up-to-date research to back it up, but references that article - https://insomniasos.net/ . Plus it isn't broken.
Procedural Butterfly
CSV Parser Benchmark Game
The only impetus for upgrading a phone for me is if it starts failing at being a phone. I upgraded my old SE to the new SE when it was on steep discount earlier this summer solely because my old one took a few tumbles in its life and was dropping nearly every call.

Other than that, the phone wasn’t slow at all. The rear camera was acceptable. The battery life was fine. If it wasn’t dropping calls I would still be using that phone. In a lot of ways I miss it, primarily the size and the light weight compared to the new SE, but the design flaw of getting dust under the front camera lens pushed me to the new SE ultimately since it made the front camera next to useless after a year in a pocket. It happened in my iPhone 5, my 5s, and was never fixed in the SE1, lending further creedence to my theory that engineers at apple don’t use the products they design, or at least certainly not for the typical length of time that an end user would before being handed the next generation device to use from work, before most critical issues crop up.

The longevity of recent phones is a huge contrast from the early days, where an iphone 3g would struggle to function on the mobile web or basic apps compared to the 3gs, but those days are long gone. iphones have been more than powerful enough for 99% of peoples use cases since the iphone 6s. A 6s or SE1 is still a perfectly performant phone today.
To be fair, it was already discovered, just not by white Cambridge students...

But I get the thought - there just was not so much communication and so much more limited understanding.

Perhaps we are safer world now, because of that increased communication.

Perhaps what bothers us now is finding out that everywhere is full of the same idiots :-)
How to create and market a Brand in 30 Minutes
Devo!
"Do this or you're banned! But don't mention that it is us telling you to do it, or you're banned, because that might mean our PR team has to do some damage control!"
Hotel Wi-Fi is unsafe for your work, according to FBI
This is absolutely brilliant. I tried doing something similar in 1997 but didn't know enough and got frustrated.

Basically, with this, you can call --any-- dynamic library function from bash. Pretty impressive.
That feels like a false equivalency, because what I'm talking about is the right to be forgotten.

Which is only a fallacy because data is a commodity, not because it's technically impossible.

And yes you can't really be forgotten, copies can always exist but it shouldn't be hosted readily if you don't want it to be.

Unless I'm missing something?
> > The tactic of enticing customers to buy more than they need and return what they don't want "has had tragic repercussions for the environment and business," he says.

> That's disingenuous. I've never purchased "more than I need" from Amazon

It's a stretch to extrapolate from your singular experience to accuse the author of acting in bad faith.
And MIDI music worthy of a mixtape.
If curious see also

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152131

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549320

(those are the two big previous threads - there are smaller ones at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)
Oh, you mean the people they are already paying for the trademark license?
So, you mean rocks? Sentient rocks basically?
“rm -rf when ran under sudo deletes everything”

Oh no, how do I report this!?
customers are much easier to fire than a boss.
It's all meat. Even your bones have meat in them.
you can fire SaaS customers. happens all the time.
Is there a difference between equal and consistent application? I agree, but it seems we're saying the same thing?
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Seems kinda like notebook tech, like jupiter but without the front facing repl tech? Neat.
Ah, just pushed what should be a fix for both – they stem from some ad-blocking software seeing firebase analytics as ad software.
I wrote that then read the post if I’m honest. I wanted to compare notes :)
What does Dunbar say about optimal work arrangements?
Say you buy a $1200 iPhone. One third is $400. Works out to a little over a dollar per day. For a device you probably use for hours per day.
I’m such a fan of this series: fun, smart, playful, humanist. 100% recommend.

Edit: The audiobooks are exceptionally well narrated too.
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Yep, they shouldn't have joined that BML rally...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/white-supremacist-narrat...
One person's investigative reporter is another persons 'conspiracy theorist' depending on your beliefs and views. You are promoting your beliefs and views on this thread, and attempting to argue about the credibility of a writer you don't agree with or believe. This is what the broader thread is about, you're proving my point again.
Sure. I’m working on an IoT-like product. I have extremely limited resources. A serialized packet going to the server can be no more than 20 bytes in this case, it needs to fit in a default size single BLE packet.

My app developers came back with a message ID field that uses a UUID. A 256bit store, 16 of my possible 20 bytes.

The whole packet as they designed it was only 6x larger than could possibly fit.

They used int... not having any idea what a int64_t was or that because the value could only ever be 0-20 that a uint8_t was most appropriate. Oh but the language they’re using doesn’t have 8bit ints I guess so then it was a discussion of “what is but shifting” and who even uses this weird operator >> and << !?

I have a hundred examples of the above. Embedded is a different world, I consider that “how computers work” territory.
Arch's official package manager is `pacman`. The official arch repos are tiny though, so you frequently need to interact with the AUR (which are just user submitted packages (they need to be built by the installer unlike the official repos)). I think the AUR clients are all unofficial, so I guess it makes sense that people would become disinterested in them, but I agree for such a core part of the arch experience it sucks.
I think the sentiment of "better boss" only works for middle management. My boss can be as good as he wants at management, but irregardless of his past, he is never going to get up to date practice in the details of what I do. So in what sense would he be better?

For him to be up to date, I am being micromanaged or I am not actually working.
This. The false positive rate is unknown and therefore the data could be highly misleading.
If you remove the individual programmer or the individual shelf stocker nothing will change. The company will just get someone else to do the job. If you remove all programmers the shelves will be stocked at a slower rate. If you remove all shelf stockers, the entire system falls apart and no shelves are stocked.

It certainly seems like the shelf stockers are more important to this process than the programmers. They still provide value without the programmers but the programmers are entirely dependent on the shelf stockers to provide value.

Why do the programmers therefore get to claim the entire surplus in productivity if they are dependent on the shelf stockers for that productivity boost to actually materialize?
Here's a hypothesis. I have no idea if it's true:

HN users tend to be in relatively well protected employment with regard to lockdown, i.e. either already remote, or as software devs / white collar workers who can easily deal with the switch to remote, including the costs.
For me it’s not even about wasting money, it’s just that the new phones don’t... offer anything I need, really.

I have an SE 1 and I’m firmly of the opinion that I could wait another five or six years before upgrading. It just... works, and does everything I need it to do.

Of course, that’s not to say that new phones are categorically unnecessary or useless, just in my case as a low-maintenance, non power-user, it does what I need.
We need a better OS, similar to Ubuntu and Firefox models... an OS developed and maintained by the community that won’t do what every the government asks them to do because it’s in the governments or corporations best interest and not the people’s. I often hear the phrase “we are many” but many means nothing if you use tools that the people in control, control.
Lighttouch is Speakeasy's Web Application Framework.

With Speakeasy I'm aiming at a complete solution stack.
Where do you find such cheap in-house counsel? just 100/hr? Never seen them this cheap, maybe out of school, but experienced counsel for 100/hr?
Yes, I am real
> What do I have to do

To answer the question:

0. Before starting, accept that some stranger on the internet can only give you a direction or mental framework -- I cannot answer this question. Answering it requires building a relationship with someone you trust to be a sounding board. Talk out the situations and your emotions and your thoughts with them and your brain will likely find a way to make sense of it.

1. First, accept that there will always be things that you do not know. It is thermodynamically impossible to learn enough that you'll be able to understand the every product at-a-glance. There are many product-builders and only one you. The world is deep and fractal in its complexity. Terry Pratchett phrases this well[1].

2. Second, accept that there will always be decisions to be made under conditions of imperfect information. Do not try to make an optimal decision in a complex situation. Neural networks which try too hard to optimize things create disasters[2]. Instead: choose what you care about, strive to think in a way you can be proud of, and then chill. The dice will fall where they fall. . Kenny Rogers phrases this well[3].

3. Third, be mindful that things rarely end with a mission accomplished. Instead, they usually start or change feedback loops that need to be attended-to. So be ready to notice and respond. It may be that Agile is Dead[4], but to notice and respond is the living heart of building products with a spirit of agility.

4.Fourth, build relationships with other engineers and talk with them about the problems they face in their jobs. This will enable you to practice understanding the way people phrase and mis-phrase things. It will also improve the quality of your code as you'll have a mind more well-trained to foresee the frustrations of your fellow engineers.

[1]

> “I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs. She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called . . . bromeliads, I think, and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and don't even know about the ground, and once you know the world is full of things like that, your life is never the same.” -- Wings, Terry Pratchett

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao4jwLwT36M

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
The official package manager is called pacman. AUR is user contributed PKGBUILDs for building packages.
It depends if they are conscious. Otherwise, in a few hundred years, there will be nothing to observe and experience the universe. More research is needed, I suppose.
...but only if they are of Magic Mike size, larger ones are repulsive (I was told).
Streamlit is a UI framework, not a ML pipeline/performance framework.
Exactly. I bought mine new 4.5 years ago and it's still going strong. I had to get a new battery put in recently, and there have been occasional bugs crop up (lately it seems to have decided to reboot when a timer goes off) but apart from that it is all good.
I love the former explanation, thank you for that.
Around me, ever fewer people are buying high-end phones. Our uses for smartphones haven't evolved in over 5 years, yet the hardware has progressed fast. Unless you're into AR/VR, competitive 3D gaming, or publishable photography/video, there's no reason to spend more than $300. Especially since sealed batteries and short OS updates (even on the Apple side) and rapid HW progress make Mobiles a very fungible investment. My PC is 7yo, my phone 3yo... guess which feels old, and will get a replacement budget commensurate to its useful life ?
Not sure if it was actually relevant at the time of Unix v6, but Brian Kernighan writes in his memoir that "Arguably, one reason why many commands on Unix are short is that it took considerable physical force to type on a Model 33, and printing was slow. [10 characters/second]"
no no, the sufficiently advanced dog would be conscious by his definition.
AltStore is great, but it requires you to run a server on a computer on the same wifi network as your phone, at least once week. I don't consider this a particularly practical way to side-load, even if it is better than the alternatives. Protestors in Belarus shouldn't need to also be IT administrators.

Sideloading does have risks, and so it doesn't need to be too easy. As a point of comparison, I really like how disabling SIP works on the Mac—the user needs to reboot the computer into recovery mode and run a short Terminal command. This process feels dangerous, but it's really quite easy, and it only needs to be done once per machine. I could guide even a very technology-illiterate person through the process, if I absolutely needed to.
"think of" is not the same as "confused with".

Is there a chance that somebody will think of a "airpod" when they hear "tide pod"? Sure

Is there a chance that a reasonable person will insert a tide pod into their ear because they confused the name with "airpod". No

Is there a chance that a reasonable person will by accident buy "tide pods" instead of "airpods"? Only if they act negligent

I'd argue that a reasonable person is extremely unlikely to confuse "Google Android" with "Orpheusdroid" or "F-Droid" or "hydroid" for that matter
Are you referring to the opt in database of details you were expected to update yourself?
> SpaceX operates entirely at the behest of the US government and military.

Wrong. Correct would be "SpaceX uses US government and military to pursue its goals".

> they are a defense contractor no different than Lockheed or Boeing.

Wrong. Lockheed or Boeing don't have goals other than profits.

Don't you understand Musk's mindset? For a Silicon Valley type he's very understandable.
The Chinese Room is an argument that a Turing-like test is inadequate to prove understanding of a language because a combination of two things, neither of which have understanding, could conceivably pass it for every test scenario.

The fact that one of those two things is impossible (or, alternatively, is equivalent to a device encoding a full understanding of the language) negates the argument.
I put together some hacky shell scripts as a poc for grep. I wouldn’t use it for anything other than a test of concept.

https://github.com/gpapilion/pgrep

So in order to make it work I used temp files to paper over some correctness and ordering issues.

So the initial tests showed a 2-3x speed up on a crappy laptop ssd. Of course my usage of temp files made this much slower on multiple runs because of the page cache where traditional grep beat the approach I took because of memory speed. It wasn’t able to beat pre spout files though.

Most of these tools were designed expecting disks to roughly behave serially. With Ssds and raid devices you can achieve more parallelism than was imagined in the 70s 80s and 90s.

I think it’s an area that is ripe for more innovation.
I personally like marino wool based products. Breathable, wicking, resilient, tend to be more sustainable oriented manufacturers.
‘Farewell Convolutions’ – ML Community Applauds Anonymous ICLR 2021 Paper
"Why am I telling you this? Because I think that people who do not understand that free will is an illusion underestimate how much their decisions are influenced by the information they are exposed to."

I find this sort of ultra deterministic take on things renders articles like these pointless. I mean, what are we supposed to do now, 'choose' to expose ourselves to different information? Isn't too late, in a way before we were ever born kind of way? Wouldn't our "underestimating" be an imperative beyond reproach. Not to mention that free-will is not a factor in our being influenced by information. This is true in both cases, free-will and not.

Personally, I'm a non-compatibilist but believe the jury is still out on determinism. Despite having lots of evidence in support of it, I think there is still a lot of room for conformation bias, simply because the scope of such claims is so large. Overall, it takes a lot of hubris to make the claims stated in this article.

Also as a sort of pseudo-biological question: What would be the purpose be of evolving an illusion of free-will?