skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It terrifies me.

My Grandpa wasn't well with Alzheimers and vascular dementia for about a decade before he passed and whilst there was a lot of good in that time, there were some truly awful bits for everyone involved.

After he passed my Dad and I tried to avoid the conversation of "it runs in the family; this is going to happen to us" on a couple of occasions, and I don't know about yourself, but I've had that thought hanging over me ever since.

I was extremely lucky and the nursing home let me basically live there for the last week; I couldn't bare him being left alone. After a week of no sleep I found myself shuffling around the unit almost delirious at 4am and actually had a moment of "how do I know I'm the visitor and not the resident?" Would I actually know when it comes my turn - maybe it'd be better if I didn't.

I suppose it's almost analogous with "Did I ever come down after taking that drug?". I've broken plenty of bones and that really doesn't phase me, but the idea that I'd stop being able to reason my way through something terrifies me. I wish you absolutely all of the best.
Next.js is a work in progress.
Enterprise software companies sucks because most companies buy competitors to grow instead of doing R&D. It’s a reactionary process instead on a proactive one, especially for companies with other cash cows.

If they can’t or decide not to acquire a company they will slap together a product like teams hoping to kill slack or zoom. It’s still a reactionary approach instead of doing R&D.

It’s the same in the “Fintech” software world where the large players are merging and acquiring small companies to stave off Stipe, Square, and whatever else hasn’t been picked up yet.
Marketing at startups has been glorified. What they don't tell you
His YT channel is small....but he has ~1M Twitter followers. Put in context, that's 2x the followers of TYT's Cenk Uygur, 4x as many as Jimmy Diore, and just a few hundred k short of Steven Crowder. That is not indicative of a "marginalized" voice IMO, and your only defense of his position boils down to "Hey he's not advocating for genocide, just mass incarceration of our political opponents." That strikes me as a tone-deaf position to take on a social media site where hand-wringing over the fate of the Uighurs in China is so en vogue...
On the other hand, there are many Americans who don't wait for China to lead their way.
This Kerberos explanation does something similar at a high level through dialogue. Always did like it.

https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dialogue.html
Consider that trillions in new money were created out of thin air and that bond yields crashed. The discount rate for equities just got massively re-evaluated. Also, only select sectors that were already overweighted by indices are up significantly from pre-pandemic levels.
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That’s a stretch. If we fired everyone every time something like this happened, you would have nobody working in tech. This bug does not result in data leakage/disclosure, nor it put anyone’s business at significant risk. Lesson learned, let them fix it, and see what we can learn.
> dragging the Workbench screen down to show the ability to multitask

Not just multitask, but have different screen resolutions at the same time.
They could buy Vercel & Next with the intention of rolling their own React replacement to swap in later.
Inventing Paxos wasn't the hard part -- the hard part was proving it correct. There's a reason TLA+ exists and was invented by the same researcher!
For comparison, here’s a makefile for the trivial example (though you’ll have to fix the indentation):

all: $(patsubst ${things_to_convert},%.svg,%.pdf)

%.pdf: %.svg
inkscape $< --export-text-to-path --export-pdf=$@

${things_to_convert} is left undefined, as in the source article. It might be something like $(wildcard [STAR].svg) or $(shell find src -name '[STAR].svg'). [Turn each [STAR] into *; HN formatting idiosyncrasies are in play.]

I like makefiles in substantial part because there’s a very high probability of Make already being installed. I’m comfortable enough with them that I didn’t need to look anything up to write any of what I wrote above. It’s a bit of a pity about the sigils; though would people really find $first_prerequisite and $target better than $< and $@? No idea. Ninja uses $in and $out, but it’s simpler in a way that lets it reasonably get away with that. Make, on the other hand, is complex in a way that is pretty powerful if you know what you’re doing, but generally more manual (e.g. Ninja looks like it tracks dependencies roughly automatically, whereas dependencies are manual in Make, as many have found to their sorrow) and it makes it fairly easy to shoot yourself in the foot if you do the wrong thing, which is easy to do if you’re not expert, which not many are.
> consultation régulière de site terroristes

As far as I know, that was struck down in 2017 as unconstitutional though.
I guess I may be part of the exception. I had been handed so many terrible VB6 and VBA projects by that point, that I jumped into C# when it was released. Of course I also did a bunch of Java programming at the time as well, so the similarities were convenient and I found I had to think a lot less when switching between C# and Java versus VB and C#. At this point almost everything I do is in C#, except for one legacy application where they use VB as a scripting language under their forms UI. Thank goodness for C# to VB converters!
Not just during bankruptcy, but overall a 401(k) and similar retirement plans that fall under ERISA* rules are pretty heavily protected from creditors (besides the IRS).

Something to consider if you plan on going into a risky area of business in the future.

1. Retirement accounts that qualify under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) are generally protected from creditors, bankruptcy proceedings and civil lawsuits.
This is a normal Fxtec Pro1 with a ram/storage bump and a different color, so it seems more like XDA is just repackaging it to cash in on their brand.
Fired for laughing? You didn't work at the funeral home or anything... Geez. Glad I never subscribed to PC culture!
The “reply” feature is already implemented but it’s been sitting in an internal ring for forever!
3 next.js related posts bubbling up. Nice push guys...
That’s one way to not do responsible disclosure and give the company a chance to address/fix the issue. I guess clicks on the blog are more important.
I love how researchers try to understand why they were created: astrology, navigation, etc. Now we have this cat. Why do people post pictures of cats in the internet? No other reason than that people like cats.
I bet they just liked cats too.
From the GP:

>These merchants tend to just trust you when you pay and then show them the "paid" screen on your phone. You could fake it, but I guess in general people don't, and the "paid" screen does include the merchant's chosen profile image, so you would have to have done your homework to fake it.
>I think most really do want some level of curation. Do you want child porn on your feed? Endless ads for fake Viagra? Animal abuse?

>I cannot imagine a platform like Twitter being useful without some kind of curation. I realize that blocking the NYPost is an opinionated move in some ways.

Blocking NYPost is not curating the extreme content you state. Your argument is an attempt to imply that wanting the NYPost is akin to wanting the other.
But of course it does within its own horizon (e.g. token window).
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> George Hotz makes some good points about Waymo. At best it's a slower Uber (drives more timidly and slower) with the potential to be cheaper. So let's customers trade time for money. But uber pool already does that and accounts for about 10% of rides - in other words it's not a trade off the market demands.

I don't think that's the same thing. I don't like uber pool because it's very unpredictable, not just that it's slow. If it were predictably slow, I might use it more.
Xilinx Zynq and Ultrascale series are multiple Ghz ARM cores plus FPGA. They're incredibly useful for small volume niche use cases and to give an example from my industry, becoming popular in space applications. The reason is hardware qualification/verification is extremely expensive but a change to FPGA fabric is not.

My point is Xilinx have already proven ARM CPU+FPGA on one die and I think AMD CPU+FPGA is very likely to be a success.

Between this, ARM adoption, Apple Silicon and similar offerings (which kind of skipped ARM+FPGA for ARM+ASIC), RISC-V, it's like 1992 again with exciting architectures. Only this time software abstraction is much better so there is not a huge pressure to converge on only 1-2 architectures.
https://getpolarized.io/download.html

404 not found on download. Please fix. Is there homebrew formular ?
Unfortunately the economics don't work super favorably for Pool/Shared rides. The labor cost is still too high and the "match efficiency" (measure of how overlapping the routes are, how expensive the deviations are) has to be VERY high to get real profitable returns (see: airport rides departing from same or closeby doors/terminals)

I get that with Waymo you are trading labor for recouping R&D, maintenance etc. which might still be expensive but I don't think the market has had the opportunity to decide on this type of trade-off yet.
put options during that time had thousands percent ROI. then if you trusted that there will be a quick climb back you could make another crazy return with calls.

not recommended if you can't track prices at least hourly, though.
No I think my advice is don't code on your break because coding is boring, repetitive and the culture is shit and it took me too long to realize this.
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>Pensions were great, because you couldn't ransack them as a participant.

Yes, because they would already be ransacked by the board of trustees for the pension plan. Or future taxpayers would be ransacked by underfunding in the case of taxpayer funded pensions. The government tried to stop the ransacking with PPA 2006, and apparently a properly funded defined benefit pension plan is incredibly expensive (surprise), so of course companies would drop them.

There's no reason for me to give control of my savings to a third party, especially now that I can buy VOO or whatever index fund I want at almost no cost.
brew install polar-bookshelf

got it. Great open source project!
I find them useful. On this page, for example, they are the equivalent of SVG icons.

This allowed me to rapidly scroll to the bottom of the page and parse the topics instantly in my head. Especially since they had a "legend" at the beginning in the overview section.

It's not as if they add :) and :P everywhere. They simply made the choice to skip custom icons that every single sites out there use and instead use a common set of icons (emojis).

As more and more apps and service use those, this make parsing those page very quick. I know that if I see a "globe with meridians" emoji, it's going to be about the internet, etc. That way, you don't have to learn a new set of icons for every site you go to.
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I've been compiling some libraries and projects on my raspberry pi, and I've been having to invoke meson and ninja quite a bit. If nothing else, they've been getting it right on the first try more often than the cmake && make projects. That may be biased though, with newer/more active projects using newer build systems supporting newer hardware.

Anyways, it's been enough that I'm looking into it, but still working (hacking? copy/pasting?) in make
> 2-3x the time

Not just this; time varies wildly. Maybe it's 1.5x, maybe it's 3.5x. You can't really plan around it.
The act of paying indeed should involve pressing a button "pay $amount to $party", and the flow should go through a server verifying both parties.

I'd say that paying with a contactless card has a problem here, an NFC credit card lacks a confirmation button, and the one on the terminal is controlled by the receiving party.
Thanks.

Now I see @rfreytag's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24907760

EDIT: Yann's fb post:

Some people have completely unrealistic expectations about what large-scale language models such as GPT-3 can do.

This simple explanatory study by my friends at Nabla debunks some of those expectations for people who think massive language models can be used in healthcare.

GPT-3 is a language model, which means that you feed it a text and ask it to predict the continuation of the text, one word at a time. GPT-3 doesn't have any knowledge of how the world actually works. It only appears to have some level of background knowledge, to the extent that this knowledge is present in the statistics of text. But this knowledge is very shallow and disconnected from the underlying reality.

As a question-answering system, GPT-3 is not very good. Other approaches that are explicitly built to represent massive amount of knowledge in "neural" associative memories are better at it.

As a dialog system, it's not very good either. Again, other approaches that are explicitly trained to perform to interact with people are better at it.

It's entertaining, and perhaps mildly useful as a creative help. But trying to build intelligent machines by scaling up language models is like a high-altitude airplanes to go to the moon. You might beat altitude records, but going to the moon will require a completely different approach.

It's quite possible that some of the current approaches could be the basis of a good QA system for medical applicatioms. The system could be trained on the entire medical literature and answer questions from physicians.
But compiling massive amounts of operational knowledge from text is still very much a research topic.
This is its third delay I think. And AFTER announcing its gold status. This is so bizarre. And it's not even an amateur studio or a monumental project like Star Citizen. They delivered multiple projects that were at least of comparable size.

They released so many trailers in the last weeks and even days. This must be so expensive purely from a marketing perspective.

Also none of the reasons are news. Corona has been here for a long time now, and other teams deal with it, too. And I'm sure the release platforms have also been set in stone for a long time.

Also just Yesterday they posted this on twitter: https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/1320829781936640013
A different kind of regulation, but the FMCSA recently denied an autonomous trucking company's request to extend the amount of time their drivers could be on the road [1].

[1] https://www.truckinginfo.com/10126660/fmcsa-denies-request-f...
Since the comment above that line says this:

> # some for loop with every file I need to build

It's safe to say that it's not a complete example. That said, the indentation levels are not random. These are multiline strings.
Starlink is for those who continue to get spam mail and email and phone calls from their cable provider after cancelling all but internet.
What other proof would you like, other than an example of what I wanted to do and can't?

(https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ but for HN.)

For a more extensive rebuttal, I wrote one here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23346972 Though that was more a rebut of GPT in general as a path to AGI than metalearning in particular for generating memes.
> But uber pool already does that and accounts for about 10% of rides - in other words it's not a trade off the market demands.

How is that the same thing? Sharing a car with someone is definitely not the same as just being slower.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24905592
I have to disagree.

1. They are 10s of billions deep in a hole and make no profit (or revenue) and will not for multiple years. To ever pay back that investment they basically need to become Uber. And to get there, they need many more 10s of billions of capx. Uber is not even making a profit yet.

2. Waymo approach is the classic 'solve the easiest problem first' mistake. They started and have driven most of their miles, in literally the easiest place to do AV in the world. They have created incredibly complex high resolution maps on one small and simple region in Arizona where the streets are wide, the weather is always nice, and the general upkeep of the infrastructure is done very well.

3. Reliance on hd mapping for localization is fragile approach, and it essentially requires you to continuously map the whole global road system to have a real generalized driving solution. When will they have cars that can just drive on roads they have never seen before, something that human drivers often do. Seems to me this is the wrong approach to take.

4. Waymo still needs highly specialized vehicles, even with lidar becoming cheaper, their whole stack is still a very high cost low volume stack. How they will compete against an Uber driver in a cheap mass produced car anytime soon is totally dubious to me.

Tesla clearly does not want Lidar. Elon Musk even said he wouldn't use Lidar if it was free. What they are actually doing is using next generation radar and likely next generation sonar as well. See: https://electrek.co/2020/10/22/tesla-4d-radar-twice-range-se...
Maybe nobody recently, Comic Chat was epic (and certainly guilty of embrace and extend)
> All I'm saying is, Norvig should have been more humble and included a chapter or two about ANNs

No, that is not all you're saying. You opened with this:

"I personally think Norvig is an idiot with regards to Artificial Intelligence,"

Not only did you lob an ad hominem at one of the most respected members of the community simply for making an editorial decision 18 years ago that you happen not to agree with today, you did it from a newly created anonymous HN account, and then you tried to deny it. Your conduct here has been thoroughly dishonorable. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I think retiring Sapper was the right decision. I have a feeling Rollup will meet a similar end too.

They both seemed like fine pieces of software. They just don't seem offer separate much their counterparts nowadays that warrants continued feature development.
I talk about the universal law of chat client entropy. Chat peaked in 2000/2001 with AIM and Yahoo. Everything else get worse over time.

Chat isn’t a product that can stand alone, so it’s always attached to another agenda. Skype was an interoperable phone with chat attached. Teams is a SharePoint client that has chat.
Hahaha. Slack does something similar. My company set a policy to log everyone out of Slack every week. And it “works” except it’s enforced only by the client because you can go into Slack’s files and pull out your user-key which is a session token that never expires, is never rotated, and bypasses SSO and 2FA.

So everyone who doesn’t want to be logged out just extracted their key and uses it to stay logged in on their other clients.

(Also, if you run across some tool/bot that needs a Legacy Token you your user-key will work. When Slack stopped letting users generate them it didn't apply to Slack itself.)
Discord does not have a "reply to message" feature either, it just copies and pastes the message into your input field. You can freely edit the quoted message, and if the user you replied to edits his message, yours won't get updated.
Is there anything the community here can recommend besides Slack?
> I always see people recommending external pools like this here on HN. I'm wondering a bit about that as many frameworks/libraries that use Postgres already implement an internal connection pool. Is this recommendation generally assuming that multiple applications will access the server? Or are there other reasons to prefer an external pooler over internal pooling in your application?

It's pretty common to want both, particularly for larger installations. If you have more than one or two application servers the number of connections held by the "internal" pools can become pretty large. With naive configuration you often end up with each of the internal pools being substantially over-sized, due to handling some momentary imbalance between the application servers.

In particular if your workload allows to use transaction (or even statement) level pooling, you can get very large boosts by having those two levels of pooling. The application pools ensure the connection overhead is not incurred, the external pooler ensures the total number of connections is manageable.
I have an old laptop with a dead battery, and for a BIOS upgrade, it prevents me from updating without 50% battery.

I have to type "danger" to bypass this restriction, and I thought it was pretty cool.

Another good UI pattern is in Firefox, that it disables the Run button on downloads for a few seconds.
I too would appreciate such a review. I have a preorder for v2 but no experience with the first version of the device.

The customers at the top of the preorder queue for v2 got their tablets about a month ago[1] so the number of people able to write such a review will be limited for the next month or so.

Worth noting there is open source tooling for modding/ssh access to remarkable tablets[2].

[1] https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000264587...

[2] https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
Great news, can't wait to try it on some long running reports.
The primary instrument is probably a star tracker. It's possible to position yourself within the galaxy to a very high degree of accuracy by looking at changes in relative position of stars and planets which have a known "position" (really orbits).
This is an enterprise product. Enterprise customers are expecting at least decent security. How long has this been out? My son’s therapist uses Teams because she said it had better security.

This is 2020. Microsoft is 40 years old. How many times should we repeats the same dumb mistakes over and over again until we collectively learn as an industry. This should have been stopped at the initial design phase. Clearly those in charge can’t make simple design decisions or haven’t learned from decades of mistakes.

Also migrating from client side to server side means an entirely new version of APIs. It means clients being broken and migration issues for customers. New servers with old clients means backwards compatibility, etc. It will take years unless Microsoft kills the old version aggressively which they won’t because they’re Microsoft. This is a problem that will live on for 5 years at least.
Road work is typically scheduled during the night in at least my region of the US (Northeast). If you think normal roads are confusing for auto-pilot, wait until they try to navigate hastily setup detours for temporary construction.
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My understanding is that the project founder and/or leads are pursuing a campaign to pressure all instances to not peer with instances on their political blacklist, and adding those who refuse to their peering demands to the blacklist. In effect the “fediverse” that is claimed as a benefit is in name only. I’m not sure what benefit the project offers anymore over centralized platforms since it is becoming the same thing as a result.
I'm not sure if they are dogfooding their own framework, but it's annoying that the cards on the home page won't even let you select their content without going straight to a different page. It's a subtle breakage of `a href` behavior but I see that on a lot of sites where I'd like to copy a value and instead an action fires off when I don't want to.
Slack should take a note of this. Especially for rogue @here notifications