skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What people say" is itself quite nuanced. Words that two black might say to one another may be casual but appropriate and yet extremely offensive if said by a white person, or, presumably, an AI, in a different context.

What the AI should say is hard given that there is no one right answer to the question of what any individual should say. Different contexts change the equation completely. Seems like a nightmare to define the behavior or test it.

The right solution may involve training a model on everything we have access to and finetuning it based on the context you want to use the model in and the historical examples we will build up of mistakes previous models have made.
It's the wedding ring of interviews. You're supposed to show that you are invested.

The fact that the diamond in the wedding ring is worthless is actually a feature.
Thanks for the reply!

A while ago (2018), the people behind VIATRA performed a cross-technology benchmark where they compared their performance to 9 other incremental and non-incremental solutions (Neo4j, Drools, OCL, SQLite, MySQL, among others) [1]. Perhaps it could be interesting to rerun that benchmark while including Materialize?

This would give us a direct comparison between Materialize and other existing solutions. Their benchmark is however based on a kind of UX case, so the tests might be a bit biased towards that use case.

[1] The Train Benchmark: cross-technology performance evaluation of continuous model queries
We all know there's a zero percent chance of that happening. For many, many reasons.
This graph shows 357,335 excess US deaths from January 5 - October 25:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-cumulati...

There have been 2,000 - 3,000 known US Covid-19 deaths per day for the past few days. So, devastatingly, I think that number has gone up a lot since October 25.

https://www.google.com/search?q=us+covid+numbers
> Modern x86 PCs still can boot DOS, no?

Even if you assume it can boot DOS, it doesn't mean it can run DOS. No DOS has drivers for a lot of modern hardware, and they're never going to be written.

> (If not, sounds like a bug.)

BIOS is buggy? Say it ain't so! Say! It! Ain't! So!
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> That's the truly amazing thing: the net budget effect on federal and state funded interventions was probably better, and they STILL unwound the programmes.

> Collective failure of imagination.

> Homelessness exists because we let it.

You're listening to the words and not understanding the actual motivation. Budgets are a convenient objection but not actually important. Like you observe there are people who would gladly spend more money to make the problem worse.

What you unfortunately need to realize is that there are far too many people who need to know that there are others suffering "because they deserve it".

You will never understand the debate around homelessness[0] as long as you assume everyone agrees it should be solved or that people just haven't discovered the right way to allocate resources.

[0]: You can swap out homelessness with a few other political hotbutton issues as well. I'll leave those to your imagination.
Can you explain the interop a bit more? I’ve been looking into an F# job. Having a functional background, the language looks nice, but I’m wondering about the ecosystem. Can you not use .Net libraries as easily as you can from C#?
Web apps can now have an icon on the desktop, their own top level windows, etc. That's what PWAs are all about.

A few years ago I wrote a framework for daemon-based native/browser apps: https://github.com/jdarpinian/web-ui-skeleton. I used it for a benchmark that I wrote: https://google.github.io/latency-benchmark/ This approach is underused for sure.
Good work! I will recommend this app to our designers.

There is something I don’t understand, though.

The website says, “Download for macOS. Windows version coming soon!”. Why? The entire application is a website with an Electron wrapper. I thought Electron’s purpose was to allow web developers to seemingly build cross-platform (hybrid) web/desktop applications using web technologies. I do not understand why this is macOS only right now, especially considering that anyone can access the web application using this link [1].

[1] https://sad1mc4oiy5wegwo4aslk218.netlify.app
There is a so-called "no-go" theorem dealing with this.

To actually collect information, you need to transmit data via some classical method i.e. the hou-c always wins
Homelessness exists because the landlords and business people prefer it. Homelessness is a demonstrated threat of what not paying the rent and having a job will do to you. If you remove that dire threat, the housing market and job market becomes far more competitive for the workers and the owner class is disadvantaged.

In the US, we have many more vacant houses than we have homeless people. The market system is incapable of solving this very simple problem.
Hi dang,

I’ve recently noticed that this commonly occurs ie multiple relevant threads that make up the top 50 of HN over say a 72 hour period, all related or rifts on a similar discussion.

Wondering if there is a way to group them as part of the same topic/submission? (thus saving you the manual work of posts like this). I appreciate this would (i) require a code change and (ii) would shift the HN model from individual threads based on 1 URL submission, but just thought I’d suggest it to the HN brains trust.

In other news: Keep up the good work that you do on HN to give this online community ‘structure’.
Thanks for sharing you thoughts!

Your approach sounds very reasonable, especially when you start a new project and you are in charge to pick the tools.

In my experience things usually get more complicated for different reasons.

For example, you need to convince your upper management that your chosen tech stack is reasonable enough and visual comparison would help here.

Or you are in the process of migration a big application say from AngularJS to Vue and you can't use Vuex for state-management, because your data should be accessible from both frameworks at the same time. So you need to make a choice from a number of framework agnostic libs.

Or you'd like to switch a library (say from Enzyme to React testing library) and you need to convince other developers. In that case latest ThoughWorks Techradar could help if they put the already used library on Hold.

What also matters to me personally, among other things, is that the considered library should be actively maintained, preferably with a good number of contributors and frequent commits
That NYT article says:

In settling on terms favorable to two of the men, Google protected its own interests. The company avoided messy and costly legal fights, and kept them from working for rivals as part of the separation agreements.

Real life isn't a melodrama. I suspect there's plenty of nuance here.
See the other thread were one mentions that with reCaptcha Google learns that all cabs are yellow (and traffic lights hang over streets - they don't here). But I guess everyone only sees the blind spots of other people.
> Being on the periphery of groups you'd likely describe as "conspiracy theorists" (...)

There's no need for so many weasel words.

You are talking about a group which insists in spreading theories about how a phenomenon is supposed to be the result of a major conspiracy, and thus insist that the phenomenon does not exist at all.
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Do you think Clipper/xBase is a niche one could get into at this point in history? Or is that market already fully taken by old timers?
I’m having a hard time figuring out if you’re trying to paint a rosy or a bleak picture.
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I've talked to a couple of homeless people in a large city in Germany and the impression I seems to largely match your assertion. Most people I talked to who are homeless were from eastern Europe who tried to make a better living in Germany but failed. There were also some with drug or alcohol problems or had some sort of mental issues.

But there was also a man who was bullied out of the company where he had worked for 21 years. I guess he didn't see homelessness coming for him. Also there was an older woman who lived in her car because she was forced out of the apartment where she lived for her whole life and she refused to accept moving to a different apartment. She had a reputable job, it was after she retired that all these issues came up. So I guess that even here there is no absolute guarantee that one wouldn't end up homeless.
But you get blank page until js kicks in?
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Skip meals, live in a calorie deficit, take resveratrol, try to reduce inflammation, exercise, sort sleep, are the ones I can remember off my head. Also eat a massive amount of broccoli sprouts.
I guess some said same about buildings and bridges centuries ago.
I found it impossible to verify claims like this: https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1334995992102506498

All that seems reasonable to do is to wait for all court decisions.
People in rich countries are (mostly) very nativist, so I doubt this kind of think would be popular. For whatever reason, people tend to value the lives of those in their country many times more than those in other countries.

So unfortunately, buying their labor at cheap rates seems to be the best way to transfer wealth right now, at least a big scale [0].

[0] - On a smaller scale individuals can donate to charities like Against Malaria Foundation or GiveDirectly, which I highly recommend everyone does if they have excess wealth.
I made a framework for it a few years ago: https://github.com/jdarpinian/web-ui-skeleton

You do have to be careful to avoid security issues. XSRF could be a problem if your server exposes sensitive APIs. But XSRF is not unique to this approach, and the techniques for defending against it are well known. And Electron has security issues of its own which are probably more serious.

Overall I recommend the daemon + browser approach. The "benefit" to Electron of only having to support one browser is rarely realized in practice because you almost always want a hosted version of your app as well, and that needs to support all browsers anyway. For example Slack and VSCode both have web versions.
Both cars and electrical infrastructure have a ton of safety mechanisms built in to them to reduce the potential for harm, many required by law.

For cars we have seatbelts, airbags, traffic lights, speed limits, guard rails on mountain roads, and you have to undergo training or certification before you're allowed to get a license. All cars have numberplates for tracking, and identifying these in CCTV and dashcam footage can be useful in identifying those who have caused accidents or other damage. Vehicle manufactures have a lot of regulations that they have to comply with.

For electrical distribution networks and equipment there are also many safety mechanisms in place, such as insulation, circuit breakers, surge protectors, and lots of regulations covering the installation of electrical wiring in buildings. While growing up, everyone learns of the potential dangers of electricity, e.g. don't stick a fork in a socket and keep that hairdryer away from the bath tub. Similarly everyone knows the damage and trauma that can result from car accidents.

The same is not currently true of social media. I don't know what the right answer is regarding regulation - I'm wary of unforseen negative consequences it may have and the potential for it to be poorly thought out. But I think education on how to use social media responsibly is important. Things like be careful about how much information you share about yourself, don't believe everything you read (check to see if the source of news is reliable), learn how to identify fake news and propaganda, and even how to decide whether to opt out of using certain services altogether.

I agree with your main argument, but it's overly simplistic - we should think about how to achieve the benefits of new technologies while minimising the costs.
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I see. Yes, any norm or ideology can and often does grow cancerous and counterproductive. What I mean to do is cancel one implicature instantiated by that statement. It's not a reason to be a nihilist, or to stop holding things accountable in a normative sense, in this case as justification for giving Google unchecked free rein of AI development. That the Soviet Union preached and botched "equality for workers" doesn't make it any less important an issue, and indeed we could see every failure toward that end as progress, as in "finding 10000 ways that don't work".
I don't understand your confusion.

From day 1 it was always very clear that although protective measures such as facemasks do protect the individual from contracting the disease, their primary value is to prevent the mask wearer from spreading it.

We're talking about a disease which is known for having week-long periods where asymptomatic/presymptomatic carriers can unknowingly spread the disease.

Think about it: why do you believe surgeons wear face masks, latex gloves, wash their hands, wear lab coats, protective shoes, and do their surgeon things in sterilized rooms?
> My point is that I do not know whether this situation could have been handled better.

Let's follow the timeline and discover a root cause:

1. Anonymous feedback being given through HR about a
research paper in AI Ethics to be published in an
academic forum.

2. Manager schedules a meeting where: “it has been
decided that you need to retract this paper by next week..."
without context and without a chance to confront others.

3. She puts an ultimatum to her boss that she can't
continue to work there with conditions like that limit her
freedom to speak and research. Google decides to accept
her resignation.

This suggests that:

A. People can just go to HR with criticisms of a research paper
apparently with the intent to sabotage authors, and HR is
apparently fine with being used like this. Or possibly a manager
convinced HR that OKR's trump AI Ethics.

B. They wanted her to say certain things in an academic forum --
which didn't appear to be IP/Trade Secret related, but for
some other reason, which they refused to disclose. This is
in an environment of ethics where papers might become guidelines
for legislation.

C. They're not interested in fixing the issues she brought up,
because they allowed #1 and #2 to happen above.

It looks like the root cause was A above. Everything after that cascaded from there.

Should HR be involved in "fixing" a paper in AI ethics? Probably not. Just like you wouldn't take your car to HR to get it repaired. They simply don't have the knowledge to do so.

Then Jeff Dean probably has $20 to $30 million wrapped up in Google, so he's going to take their side on the matter publically, unfortunately. Privately he may have been cussing out HR because of forcing him into the situation. We don't know.
Alabama saw a similar increase in violent crime in the same period, sans legalization. I'm not seeing any evidence that this is more than a spurious correlation.

I'm also not seeing any significant increase in insurance rates after my state ended prohibition, and the traffic fatalities and collisions haven't been significantly impacted.

What explanation do you propose for why cannabis legalization would lead to an increase in violent crime?
It was published? Where?
>You can run people over with cars, electrocute them with electricity. This doesn't mean we should never have built cars or generators.

You should still think about how a car or a generator could hurt someone when you're building one, right? That's how we got crosswalks and fuses.
> if that 20-80% paid worker's wages, that was a good thing

That's actually not a good thing. Something is seriously wrong if we don't value efficiency. Having many separate retail shops creates massive inefficiencies, especially for commodity products.

Amazon can get most products to my house at near lowest market rates in a day or two. Sometimes the same day.

The problem isn't Amazon, it's our reaction to this newfound efficiency. We're eventually going to end up in a place where having humans doing most work is objectively worse than having robots do it.

What we're doing now can't sustain, but going back to a pre-Amazon model of retail is not a viable path forward.

Also, working retail sucks. We should be glad when it dies entirely.
How do you even make an account????
Aww. I was hoping for a new development haha.
Can you elaborate on what is so good about the old reddit layout, or bad about the new one (apart from performance)? The way I use reddit, what it does now actually works better for me (again, apart from how slow it is): I subscribe to a mix of subs with like 50% of image and video posts. Which I can now just see full size without clicking, and quickly scroll through if not interesting. With old.reddit and teddit, I have to look at a tiny thumbnail to decide whether I'd want to see the full version. Similar for text posts: being able to read the first couple of lines isn't that bad.
I mean, sure. I grew up poor and without much in the way of access to education, and the internet was really a saving grace for me, in terms of self-education, income, and simply finding community.

At the same time, do you think the average income of a given internet business--let alone the segment that are run by solo entrepreneurs in their basement with just a computer and a $5 droplet--compares positively to the salary of the average CS graduate? Because we're talking about inequality, not asking "can poor people possibly make money online?"

The fact that the internet has made things better does not mean the problem is solved.
Objective-collapse theory is a modification of QM, not merely an interpretation.

Superdeterminism on the other hand is not even a theory. It cannot be falsified by design.
Yeah all the time! It doesn't help that for certain technical books, they work much better on a tablet, phone or laptop. I wish e readers worked better for certain kinds of material.
People should speak with conviction. People who frequently remove/edit their comments have problems. Write the comment and be done with it.
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Then there's also the fact that the cliche "no shoes no shirt no service" never gathered much indignation from the same segment of society.
Compared to software creating a circuit design is a complete nightmare. With software you can get away with a lot of shady things but in EE every tiny detail can matter. You can do very simple PCBs as a hobbyist but it won't even compare to what the professionals are capable of doing. In software we have hobbyists creating extremely important libraries that are used by millions of people.
Vox are economically usually a lot more neoliberal than Piketty.
> reducing parameter sizes of big networks is the next big race

I think this race has been ongoing for a while now
Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web
> The change is necessary if the system unmaintainable, buggy, or can't be easily interfaced with other modern systems.

Unfortunately, all of these are frequently true of legacy systems. Only a small number are relatively bug free. Most are simply unmaintained. Few are easy to interface with.

I have no particular problem with old software and hardware. But the massive expenditure leading up to Y2K is demonstrative of the legacy problem. Let it rot until an impending crisis forces your hand, costing far more than if you had simply maintained it.
> "here is my experience, and my current theory about that experience, and what I'm trying to do to improve".

Indeed that's what I did for a few years. My ideas have shifted now, I stopped discussing much (life is short) instead you do stuff. And suddenly mediocre companies feel a lot more valuable because instead of talking theories they do stuff.

I guess I'm just rediscovering life... know how to gather a bunch of people and make something useful and enjoyable for many.
"They purchase software licenses like everyone else" no they don't, in countries where English is not common they favour software in their language, willing to give up a margin in software quality for it being localized. So they don't purchase "like everyone else".

I am not in China but in Japan, and I'm tired of seeing second-class clones of US companies that strongly win the local market just because they are localized.

Only with translating their websites, western companies would be able to win a lot of the market. And if they can also localize it, then it's a lot better. But if they do neither, as long as there is some sort of local alternative, your software is dead on the water.
But was the improvement on people's lives produced by the work of Gates or Musk alone? Or it required hundreds of people working to make it possible?
right, I meant "I" as in personally, I don't have the skills, knowledge, or time to do that.
You are already doing that to some extent and in my opinion it has the reverse effect. That money will go to the government which is quite corrupt in these countries and will stronghold more authoritarian regimes. Child-labor is bad but it helps some families make money, and many of them break the poverty chain this way. It's not the best/most ethical way to do it, but let's not pretend that a few random folks on HN have the solutions for these third-world countries.
Many 32-bit embedded systems aren't able to update their libc.