skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t help but think this is a result of capitalism gone awry, the need to never let any time be wasted, to the point of scheduling time with ones kids. And I’m not far left of center, but yeesh. If you enjoy living life this way, more power to you. When I was younger I might have thought this sounded great. Now that I’m touching 40, it sounds like a self-made prison.
Texstudio with tikz for diagrams
I skimmed through the page. While Algo has many sane defaults for configuration as well as (VPS) destinations and an interactive mode, this one doesn’t have any interactive features. It doesn’t seem to have have specific defaults either.

I may be completely wrong here since I’ve used Algo only a few times, and that was quite sometime ago. One difference I see with this is the creation of new user profiles every time it’s run. Algo, in my limited use, seems to be geared for one user profile (or creating user profiles on setup and not later?).

It would be great to see this integrated with Algo.
While I agree, it's effectively what I was asking for OPs opinion on
I'm curious what kind of business model would incentivize providing accurate, balanced information over spectacle and divisiveness.
Read the books I have recommended, there are plenty of examples there, the authors put it much better than I ever could. This is a complex issue, and us debating it here will only scratch the surface.
Don’t be absurd. Of course there are costs and tradeoffs to guardrails, and you have to balance the tradeoffs based on your requirements.

This person had to publicly apologize to their customers. One or two low-cost guardrails could have prevented it and would probably have been worth the cost.
You can adapt the final layer of weights on edge tpu.

Training on a dev board should be a last resort.

Even hobbyists can afford to rent gpus for training on vast.ai or emrys
If you don’t like free speech or any of the other protected rights in the US Constitution, you can always go to a country that doesn’t have such things.

Why wouldn’t you want to? It seems getting rid of our rights is to make things better, right? So, why not go and see how awesome it is in such places?

France is doing great, I hear.
Yes, it can be productive (depends on exactly what you are doing). But I imagine you revise your work while sober before you deploy it.
At one point the article says it “generates about 125 percent as much” as normal cells, which would be just 1.25x. But I found the actual paper[0] and the title (“boosts” by 125% i.e. 2.25x) is in fact correct.

[0] https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica...
It would depend on recommendation algorithms actively promoting that balanced content.
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Edge tpu is 2 tflops at half precision, cloud tpu starts at 140 tflops single precision and scales further.

Also edge tpu is 2-5Watts. Supposedly cloud tpus are more power efficient than GPUs, and for eg the 14 tflops 2080 ran at 300 W regularly.
Eventually they should have enough data to stitch all different seasons together globally, no?
This is worse, this will present the subject as a stand alone manifestation, instead as a part of a continuum.
Unrelated to article. But in many countries in Europe, even if you live in cities, its fairly easy to find fresh milk from farmers. From there on butter is easy to make by yourself.
None. That's the problem. We've reached a point where the very engine of humanity's growth, capitalism, has revealed a huge vulnerability in its design.
I'd love that but am in the west coast. Do they have a brand, or are they OEM? :)
If it helps, I opted for the paperback. Looking forward to giving this one a read.

The caps point is interesting to me. I can't think of a good reason why caps should be shouting, but I definitely agree with it. Hilarious to remember back when mixed case was not the norm. (Also, awkward to work in languages where symbols are case sensitive. Worse when they are case significant.)

I'm curious on the tree representations you mean. Most make some use of whitespace, that I have seen. But they lose the portability of the representation that I have with easy copy/paste to other environments. (To and from chats, emails, etc.)
I don't think it's that you have a flawed business model. If you look at it, Softbank invests in monopoly-reliant businesses, usually at a later stage. For an investor, monopolies are good in the software space, but they turn sour once you go into the real world, where overheads and incumbent competition are much more significant.
I was trying to figure this out for a piece of non-fiction which isn’t technical. I wrote it in Emacs using markdown and it proved to be hard to collaborate and get feedback from non-technical people. I looked at Dropbox Paper and Notion since they also supported markdown and those were also hard to get suggested changes. I looked at Word and document sharing and although that was better it had a few problems with OneDrive file sync even though I really liked the Office app on the phone. Finally, I ended up in Google Docs. It is simple, I can collaborate and it syncs readily. Also, the sidebar table of contents is nice to jump to different parts of the book easily. Sure not markdown but for my current needs since I’m not putting any code in the doc it is totally fine. To be honest I don’t know why I went through all the hurdles. Once it is closer to done I may move it to a markdown file again.
Also a human should review every plan and confirm before applying, right?
I’m not going to read those books.
yeah, from 10 years ago:

> The laser detection is so precise that it can specify the species, and even the gender, of the mosquito being targeted. “The women are bigger. They beat at a lower frequencies,” Mr. Myhrvold said. Since it is only the female mosquitoes who bite humans, for the sake of efficiency, his system would leave the males alone.

-- https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/using-lasers-to-za...
I've never had problems with three.js, which is what most people use for WebGL-powered content.

Are you claiming that there's less effort in coding up a native graphics program that works across all platforms?

Certainly native has the edge on performance (WebGPU will shorten the gap a bit), but on ease of multi-device compatability? I could be convinced, but it seems hard to believe. The whole idea of the browser (these days) is to make cross-platform stuff easier to develop.
I agree 100%. I should have put "lower quality" in quotes because from an economic perspective it costs less. From an economic perspective, a "lower quality" alternative is one that costs less.
> Also you might want to look into VLIW and the history of Itanium for an answer to your other question.

There's only one question. What do you mean?

But Itanium wasn't out of order. How does that even come close to answering a question about exposed out-of-order machinery?
> The recent HN threads about excel made me think there's definitely room for a new kind of excel that works well for big data.

Check out Google Connected Sheets: https://cloudblog.withgoogle.com/products/g-suite/connected-...
Everything you said is 100% true.

Anyone who tries to take this right, or any other right, away from you is planning to, in the long run, kill you. History tells us this very clearly.
That flaw was apparent generations ago; yellow journalism isn't a product of the internet age.

Capitalism also isn't the fundamental engine of hunanity’s growth, just a fairly recent stage in the development of economic systems that is likely as transitional as all the past stages.
The point of a deep psychedelic experience seems to be that we are all living a lie, filtered by our ego alone.
Yup, 100% agree. It may be that you will eventually need an auto-scalable message queue and api gateway, but for most people a web server and csv will serve the first thousand customers
Agreed. Who snopes the snopes? Did you know Snopes has been shown to be biased since it is ran by people who lean one direction, who stops them from misinforming the public. What about when politicians are exposed and the media shields them are we just going to blindly trust a biased media source?

We need to allow the people to review all evidence and form conclusions from said evidence. I cant tell you how many times I have followed up on media articles only to find that the media just spat anything out for ads. Without all the facts it is bias and speculation.
The "Cleaning Services" people in the U.S. and I suspect Europe are either independent contractors or wage workers for an independent contractor. They don't do 8-plus hour shifts in your home, or even live in your own home in "servants' quarters" as is common in places like India, Brazil, etc.

In a "servant" relationship involving close physical proximity the servant almost is obliged to care for the emotional well-being of those whom they serve, or to at least feign that care. The contractor on the other hand is doing a job at your home in one of many such places and aren't expected to service the customer's emotional needs except as social nicety, and conceivably are raking in more cash per unit-time worked (for independents especially) than those who hire them.

The "Cleaning Services" aren't servants.

edit: emotional "connection", relative wages
I did the same thing once by accident and thankfully only lost 1 hour of data. The single lowest point of my career and thinking about the details of that day makes my stomach sink even now as I type this.

I ran a rake db schema dump command of some kind and instead of it returning the schema of the database, it decided to just completely nuke my entire database. Instantly. It's very easy to fuck up so cover your ass gents, and backup often and run your restores periodically to make you can actually do them in case of an emergency.
I don't know whether to thank you or curse you.
If people read more good books instead of engaging in fruitless discussions in the internet, they would be better informed.

Just have a look at Sputnik and RT.

Ok, tell me about Olgino and Uighur camps denial.
> IV is either a research institution or a patent troll or both, depending on your perspective, but either way, they don't generally commercialize the ideas they come up with, they just license them.

That’s not exactly accurate. IV creates spin-out companies that commercialize particular inventions created by IV inventors. Photonic Sentry is the commercialization vehicle for this mosquito zapper that was invented by IV inventors. Other examples are Kymeta, Terrapower and Echodyne.

IV does not typically commercialize inventions (patents) that it purchases — but the patent purchasing piece of the business is distinct from the invent and commercialize piece.
So... we should deploy "AI" tools from the author's CIA-backed startup [1] so that we can have an "effective campaign in pursuit of truth that requires a set of guiding principles to inform the types of speech that should be permitted in digital town squares?"

[1] https://primer.ai/
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of visiting a NASA lab building "bricks" of fungi that could be used to build structures on Mars. It's very cool to see similar technology spreading on Earth - another example of how space exploration tech can mesh with the real world.
Is there any evidence that the vast amounts of clicks and user interactions companies have been collecting are worth anything at all?

Let’s say I deleted every time series whose Y axis isn’t measuring US dollars in every tech company’s database everywhere. Maybe for all those time series you just store the most recent value. Describe to me what would be lost.

You’re onto something but you’re not going far enough! Most, if not all, historic metadata, analytics and behavioral data collection - when it is not measuring literal dollar amounts - is completely worthless.
May be as the time increases the threshold for being a RISC increases as the tech advances?
To expand further on the absurdity mentioned in my other comment: Before germ theory was known, maternity wards where baby deliveries were done by doctors had higher mortality rates for mothers and babies than wards where the deliveries were done by relatively "untrained" midwives (because doctors worked with cadavers and didn't wash hands).

However, from a certain economic standpoint, the midwife service would be considered "inferior" to the doctors service due to the difference in training and licenses.
You're correct. This is exactly what test drives are for. They usually also check your driver license and credit score when testing higher cost vehicles to make sure you're responsible and can even afford to buy it in the first place.

There are also dealerships that offer extended test drives for trusted customers where you can keep a car for a few days, however I'm not sure if Tesla does anything like this.
It's about Google Map, and maps in general being a false representation of the world.
Well usually those kinds of things would be not just how you worked but discussions had with the team about how work got done. More or less all of the environments I have been in how work was done was an open discussion with the team and management, not just something dictated to us.
I remember reading about Looker, before Google bought them out. I never used it myself, but it may have fit the description.
Please don't use csv. At the very least use SQLite. But hosted sqls are probably the smart thing to do.
Yea I've been wondering about charts I've seen comparing tpu model quality perf to gpu model quality like here [1], whether that could be due to error correction. At the same time training on gaming gpus like 1080 ti or 2080 ti is widely popular, though they lack the ECC memory of the "professional" quadro cards or V100. I did think conventional DL wisdom said "precision doesn't matter" and "small errors don't matter" though.

I've noticed this difference in quality perf in my own experiments tpu vs gaming gpu, but don't know for sure what the cause is. I never did notice a difference between gaming gpu trained models and quadro trained modela. Have more info/links?

1: https://github.com/tensorflow/gan/tree/master/tensorflow_gan...
thank you for your highly valued expert opinion.

edit: a stunning new record of bots flagging my post within 3 minutes. woo hoo...

never change hn.
It is beautiful how the study of the very small (cosmic ray interacting with nitrogen and oxygen) can add so much to the study of the very large (monsoons and the Bhutan Himalaya).
The dream of the Lisp machine is long dead. Our computers are now JavaScript machines.
> who are we to punish?

I didn't say "punish", I said "penalize". Responsible adults should not have to have their society ruined because irresponsible people are manipulating and other irresponsible people are being manipulated.

> it's only because of social media's leverage

But what causes the leverage? It isn't just social media; if a billion people read on Facebook that they should drink nail polish to immunize themselves against COVID-19 (to concoct a fictional, as far as I know, example), and they do it, they suffer the consequences, not me.

What causes the leverage is that we have continued to hand more and more power to governments in the name of "fixing" problems that governments cannot fix. The result is that capturing that government power is worth so much that nefarious people are willing to spend billions to do it. Social media gives those people more leverage, yes, but if that big gob of centralized power wasn't there in the first place, it wouldn't matter.

Your proposed solution doesn't fix that problem; it makes it worse, by giving government even more power. And that just means responsible people get more penalized for the behavior of irresponsible people, because you're giving the government more power to ban tools that responsible people can make responsible use of.

> the system is designed to maximize ordinary people's ability to create self-sustaining societal doom loops

No, the system is designed to maximize the amount of power that nefarious people can capture, by centralizing that power. The solution is to de-centralize that power so it isn't there to capture. Stop depending on government fiat to fix problems.
I was using a modem with the II or IIe in 1983 to dial into a BBS
This repo explains some of the bluetooth headset issues on Linux: https://github.com/pali/hsphfpd-prototype

> But because neither audio server is interested in implementing functions for embedded displays, neither power supply daemon is interested in implementing audio routing, encoding, decoding and playing functionality, neither input layer software is going to process battery and power relayed functionality and also it is not up to the modem software to register input devices into kernel and process button press events, the only reasonable solution for this problem is to provide another software which would own HSP/HFP AT modem connection for remote Bluetooth devices and would forward commands, signals and requests
to appropriate application.
If you want to be able to decode a bunch of instructions in parallel you really want it to be simple.

You don't have to make it self-synchronizing like utf-8, but a prefix length encoding is a real asset.
I think the underlying challenge here might be that the most "successful" businesses often make us the most addicted. I'm curious how many of the very large companies, if any, don't rely on a business model of (borderline) addiction to their products.
Any plans to distribute via f-droid?

https://f-droid.org/
Credit reports (in the US) only show the financing organization and the current balance, along with other details like loan length, payment history and current monthly payment amount.

They don't list what you actually bought. There's no way to know if you're underwater, and it doesn't matter because credit reports don't list your assets either.
> They will all lie and manipulate when it suits them.

Absolutely. At the same time I think it makes sense to single out Fox News at this current moment. For several years now they have they been a straight-up propaganda mouthpiece. They’re noticeably worse.

I’d call myself a Progressive, but FWIW as a habit I don’t watch any television news regularly - I read.

Point being I think it’s reasonable to say that you can’t say with a straight face that Fox News is - at this particular moment - equivalent to other networks.
Because certain businesses bleed oceans of cash before they turn a profit. That can be a sound investment because when they do turn a profit, it's torrential.

Take Facebook. How could anyone possibly bootstrap a social network circa-2006? You have no eyeballs, so you can't advertise (if the Social Network is anything to go by, they tried that unsuccessfully). You have no product, so you can't sell anything directly. At best, you could do software consulting work - but then someone who is well-funded overtakes you easily, and given the "winner takes all" nature of social networks, you're dead on the vine.

Likewise, even when they do take VC, the next stage isn't necessarily "profit". If you can spend $1 today to generate $1.50 in revenue tomorrow, versus spending $1 today to (maybe) generate $15 in 5 years' time, VCs will prefer the latter.

For all intents and purposes, VC-funded startups are in an different industry from your average IndieHackers project. The former are racing the VC clock, so a lot of their time is spent playing the valuation game. The latter has the luxury of focusing on customers and small, sustainable growth. But that also means you're unlikely to see the next search engine or social network on IndieHackers.
One of the most popular and fastest growing languages
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I came here to express the same sentiment, but you did it first and you did it better. Thank you.
You're thinking of "The Case of the Top Secret iPod" - https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ip... - discussed here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188791
Definitely, making a partner feel insecure is a cause for concern, but the amount it would be labelled a betrayal depends. Indeed, a friendly relationship with your romantic gender has a much higher chance of being seen the wrong way, and knowing how it would be perceived can certainly constitute betrayal
I'd love to use such. At the same time, I am uncomfortable with sharing clipboard access.
Interesting clip from the section about Warren Buffet.

> Buffett once attempted to win a game of dice with Bill Gates using nontransitive dice. "Buffett suggested that each of them choose one of the dice, then discard the other two. They would bet on who would roll the highest number most often. Buffett offered to let Gates pick his die first. This suggestion instantly aroused Gates's curiosity. He asked to examine the dice, after which he demanded that Buffett choose first."

This reminds me that Bill Gates actually is quite mathematically inclined and solved the best for the time approach in his first and only scientific research to a mathematical problem called the pancake problem [1].

[1]: https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/mathematics/bill-gat...
I'm talking about flu IFR not CFR though, even it is usually cited only of symptomatic infections and not counting fully asymptomatics.
It's long been maddening to me that the only place that doesn't have an option to paste plain text is the only place I need it - Gmail.
Lithobraking, I think? Cf aerobeaking :)
> Not looking forward to the same kind of rig being attached to high-power lasers, and pointed at civilians.

Already happening:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
So what's the next step? Elsewhere in this thread, picoseconds were mentioned and that seems plausibly useful, so that's 10 bits. And it would be nice to avoid "year xyz" problems, so maybe we could have a coding region of say 2 bits to encode 4 overlapping epochs to allow rolling updates. That seems to imply at least a 10-byte or 12-byte time.

I don't see any way in which that could easily fit with POSIX time types, unless you keep the existing 32-bit time_t and tv_nsecs fields and tack on two 16-bit fields for extending precision in either direction. But ISO C allows time_t to be a floating point number, which opens a few doors.

What about UTF-8 style variable length times? Would that be too messy?

Edit: looks like most 64-bit OSes are already or are switching to 64-bit time_t. So that solves half the problem, but no picoseconds just yet. I guess that's what int64 or float64/80 is for.
I worked in two kinds of places:

- In one, mentorship was deemed important and was part of the requirements of being a "senior" (or higher) in the tech track. Here, the connection with a mentor was sort of a "free for all" and one has to find a mentor and come to an agreement for a "project" or "goal" and one works towards that goal/project with the mentor's guidance. After that, the goal of that mentorship relationship is considered attained and you (could) start over.

- In another, there was no noise about mentorship. However, the way the reporting structure and work on projects was organised, it led to a phenomenon where everyone was working with someone their senior and someone who would be their senior's senior. So, "mentorship" just happened all the time in your work. You didn't have to look for it. It was just the way things were done.

The former, I found pretentious and absolutely useless. In the latter, I learnt so much and to this day, I have preserved some notes of things I have learnt from working with some people who are now considered industry leaders.

My suggestion is to seek out companies for whom technology is what drives their business and who work that way too. I'd also look for companies who don't make a lot of noise about these things and just structure work in such a way that you are always working with those who are keeping an eye on your work (and I don't mean looking over your shoulder) and can keep helping you grow as a natural part of work instead of having to seek this out outside of your regular work.