skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main points:

"We have the following demands of Google Research leadership:

* We demand that Jeff Dean (Google Senior Fellow and Senior Vice-President of Research), Megan Kacholia (Vice-President of Engineering for the Google Brain organization), and those who were involved with the decision to censor Dr. Gebru’s paper meet with the Ethical AI team to explain the process by which the paper was unilaterally rejected by leadership.

* We demand transparency to the broader public, including Google users and our colleagues in the academic community, about Google leadership’s decision to order Dr. Gebru and her colleagues to withdraw their research on large-scale language models. This has become a matter of public concern, and there needs to be public accountability to ensure any trust in Google Research going forward.

* We demand that Google Research make an unequivocal commitment to research integrity and academic freedom, drastically strengthening the commitments made in Google’s Research Philosophy, and commit to supporting research that furthers the goals of Google’s AI Principles by providing clear guidelines on how research will be reviewed and how research integrity will be respected."
I was reading that the side effects of the Covid vaccine put some people in bed for a week and a half.

How much is your time worth?
No stuttering, no input lag, we must have had different machines. Native apps were super responsive.
But it is still the case? From my experencie most CS universities starts with Python nowadays.
I don't think commercial use is incompatible with an SA license.
Maybe it depends on how you define commercial use but if you define it as "any activity in which you use a product or service for financial gain",
there would be no problem putting one of these images on a product and sell the product and still give the consumers the freedom to use the images under the same license.
> Not only that but how many people can get into a doctor the same day for the note?

In Finland, where this same system exists, each urban neighborhood has its own local clinic that in large part exists just for this reason: someone feeling ill can call early in the morning, be seen a little later that morning, and get a note that they can show their employer the next day (or whenever they recover).
The block diagram here: https://blog.cloudkernels.net/static/vaccel_v2/vaccelrt.png#... should probably have some close variant on your home page, I've been around for 20 years and couldn't tell /at all/ what vAccel is.

My best guess was something to do with making VMs run faster
Many of them definitely won't, but daylight and the location of management's homes are still limiting factors to off-shoring. Synchronously managing people in distant time zones is no fun, and trying to do it asynchronously is really inefficient. There may be a solution to this 'problem', but until they come up with it, letting people work remotely from their homes in the same city isn't a slippery slope to all jobs being off-shored.

Or, probably more accurately, it is a slippery slope, but not a very steep one. I do believe that jobs (and wages) are going to get distributed differently in the future. But, I'm hopeful that it'll be an improvement over having every high-paying job be in the same 5 dystopian cities.
Several current Dell Precisions like the 7740 at least have the trackpoint nubs still. Almost all of the HP EliteBooks do as well -- the exceptions in both lines are the "thin and light" workstations. To your point, it looks like some Dell laptops have ditched the nubs in the 10th gen Intel ones, but up to at least the 9th gen Intel based ones still do, and HP doesn't seem to be giving up.
There's no recent official counts, but the latest data I could find looks like it's about 82,000, citywide[0]. That number is 10 years old, so there is definitely a little room for error. But if the estimated total of on street parking spaces in NYC is at 3M, that puts metered parking at just 2-3% of the total on street spaces citywide.

If you were to double or triple that number(which is unlikely), that still means the vast majority of parking in NYC is absolutely free of charge. That 3M number also doesn't take into account all of the 'No standing', 'No parking', sidewalks or bike lanes which have been repurposed into parking by people with parking placards, PBA cards, or whatever other miscellaneous artifacts allow drivers to leave their cars wherever they want with impunity[1].

What I find amazing is that people have an expectation of being able to bring a several thousand pound object that is bigger than many NYer's kitchens, into one of the densest parts of the country that is served 24/7 by public transit and for-hire vehicles, and store it for free. Even tourists with tiny suitcases have to pay to store their suitcase somewhere.

[0] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2011/03/22/new-york-has-81875-me...

[1] https://twitter.com/placardabuse
I think the vast majority of JVM users won't even need Loom. OS threads perform well enough for most use cases. You can go a very long way with just a ThreadPoolExecutor.
> Programmers who don’t code in their spare time for fun will never become as good as those that do.

I think this opinion is much misunderstood.

It should read: people who are not interested in what they are doing are unlikely to ever become very good at it.

People who are interested in a topic will have their brains work overtime at different times of day, will be picking up information even if they are not specifically looking for it, will be trying to understand stuff they are not specifically required to, and so on.

As pointed by some people (like David Allen) our brains have something called Reticular Activation System which, if programmed, brings to our conscious attention when something interesting happens. And then we will also have easier time keeping focus.

People who like coding will probably not see it as only work but also choose to do it in their own time and that usually results in private projects.

I do electronics at home and this usually includes some kind of microcontroller and coding, just because I like it. But I don't have public repositories and I don't do open source projects because I do my own fun projects at work and get directly rewarded for it.
You have misinterpreted that (which I understand if you're American, since the word personal have a different legal definition there).

Purely personal activities is not really interpreted as "I have a personal blog" sense, but in "I need to call my friends" sense. If you are indiscriminately processing data of possibly hundreds of people (note that at least on cases in Austria, it can be as low as 50 individuals), it is no longer purely personal and is now partially commercial, and unless you have other reasons to collect the data (research or you have actively obtained consent), you cannot simply do this.
To take this at face value -- the entire point of the quantum supremacy claim is not that these quantum computers are computing interesting problems that we can't solve with classical computers,

But instead what is being done is to construct a system where each of the components is simulateable on a classical computer -- we completely understand how they work. But when you put a number of the components together, the complexity of the classical program required to simulate the system becomes exponentially larger, rendering the classical simulating infeasible, while the complexity of the realized physical system increases only linearly.

Since molecules are a quantum computer in themselves, this would imply (if it were possible) that to simulate quantum effects on a classical computer for even a small number of molecules would require a quantum computer exponential in the number of molecules.

So to simulate one mole of air in its full complexity would require not just ~6e23 bits of computing power but instead 10^(10^23) bits of classical computing power.

By contrast, simulating a very long series of classical coupled pendulums, though very complex, is a problem that increases linearly (or sublinearly) with the number of pendulums. Even though this system has nonlinearities that make it nearly impossible to compute in closed form, and exhibit chaotic behavior, simulation can be done feasibly.
US, China and Space Exploration
Hi Troy, good point. So actually, when you visit a collection you can click on stuff and see info like pricing and dimensions on there. When you try to change something it prompts you to login. I suppose we could do that for the homepage as well. Try this link:
https://app.dabble.style/collection/i31m5vKYzdGmw7zm12cu
What are you personally doing to solve any these problems? Are you pressuring your representatives in any way?

Reading articles and posting scolding messages doesn't really accomplish anything. It just makes us feel like we did.
Thanks for doing the math.
I always thought JIT should be spelled JATWPT, for Just At The Worst Possible Time (when the user's waiting for the app to start up).
Doesn't let you be the same category of rich.
CopperheadOS for the Pixel 4/4a released
You’ve gotta think about the value you’re bringing to your customers. You’ve had 1 sale which is good, that shows it is something at least someone wants. But consider this: if you’re spending 1 day on building something, the barrier to someone else building it is very low.

Since this is HN, I’m assuming this is some sort of software. Building software is complicated and there is a reason most tools out there have lots of engineers working full time on it. You’re not going to retire off of a quick 24 hour build session. Nor even by building hundreds of little one day tools.

This practice could be good to find a market where there is clearly a need, but building a quality product, not a quick one, is where you’ll derive the most success.

Sure, sales and marketing can help you profit off of lower quality apps (not a judgment of your skill, but 24 hours isn’t enough time to build a quality app that has any level of complexity), but it will only get you so far.
Well said.

Difficulties are what they are. Part of why things are difficult is because perfect, mechanical solutions aren't feasible. If they were, the problem would be solveable, commoditized and something else would be difficult instead.

This article does a good job presenting difficulties, and they are all important areas where doing a good job is important.

Eg "Or the category thing - yes, it has circular references which breaks the nice theory behind it, but what practical issues to the readers or editors does this present?"

There probably isn't a good, legible solution that will "fix" this. It's an epistemological problem about knowledge itself. Wikipedia's approach is an approach. It isn't perfect because there are no perfect solutions to knowledge problems. It is however, a workable approach given the problem space.

None of these need 100% solutions. They just need workable solutions.
There is a JavaScript interpreter built in to Java (or more than one, in that you could choose at least one older one at the time I tried it). I used this for a fairly complex app and found it surprisingly easy to let it parse JavaScript and affect the Java program, moving data back and forth.
It used to mean something more than it does now. I noticed ex-Googlers were well above average in 2012, now they can be below avg. I have a colleague of mine at my current job that makes a point of being an ex-Googler but they only worked there for 6 months, so it is kind of meaningless.
>Because the returned payload isn't necessarily uniform

Wrong. Flipping a single plaintext bit flips all ciphertext bits with 50% probability.

>Because you aren't guaranteed uniqueness

Wrong. Encryption is bijective.

>And because the overhead for doing it that way may be too high

Wrong. Symmetric ciphers are extremely fast.
See my response below to polishdude20 for some advice.
1. I think if PG was being honest with himself, he'd admit that they spend only 10 minutes interviewing because he personally wouldn't want to be stuck in a room with someone he doesn't like for longer. That's a weakness of someone who clearly disdains anyone he views as a lesser mind (see: "culture fit").

Making snap judgments about people seems to be one of his major personality flaws. Steve Jobs had the same flaw, so it's clearly not professionally debilitating, but it is reprehensible nonetheless.

2. YC could make the process less fickle and far more objective by having each startup get interviewed for 10 minutes by each partner, rather than in a high pressure groupthink session. It would cost no more of their time.

And of course, they could also just increase the time and interview just as many startups as they want. YC partners could treat it like a real job with hard work, rather than act like lazy VCs.

Anyone who has interviewed people knows that first impressions are often wrong, and yet YC bases their decisions entirely on first impressions, which is both funny and sad.

3. It's likely that YC's success is based on their much-more objective application process, and the interview is random noise in the process. It is probably even worse than random noise and YC might be 2-10x more successful just by eliminating the interview stage.

4. PG has no true idea how other YC partners make their decisions, it's likely to be very far from his own process, making his advice inaccurate and harmful to founders.
Linear Algebra for Everyone
We have a government that has consistently told us that all news is fake, that elections are fake, that inconvenient reality is fake.

News organizations have intentionally blurred the lines between "news" and "entertainment" to the extent that many consumers can't tell the difference any more. Entertainers presenting as reporters tell us the lies they think their audiences will be receptive to and now we wonder why there are issues of trust.
Cool idea. What other products have the same requirement (as ubiquity needs to host controller) ?
CodeCraft – a new competition for AI developers
Yeah kill off the only good part of reddit and turn it into a TikTok clone. Of course I have no doubt most reddit leadership has this as goal #1.
Orders of magnitude less likely ime.
Balancing power over ever larger areas does run into problems with long distance inter-connectors and spare capacity in general though, so it's not like this is an easily solved problem. The UK is well connected to mainland Europe with many large interconnectors and has an enormous abundance of off shore wind power because it's an island, yet it still nearly had brown/blackouts due to low wind coinciding with normal maintenance. That suggests the UK is hitting the limits of what can be done with wind power despite having a lot of it. Even if interconnectors were upgraded, that doesn't help if other countries are already using all their wind power locally.
> It should be possible for any company to ban bots but then for a person with a account on the website to say: I am giving this tool my cloud power of attorney

That's basically what API keys are, aren't they?
This is a controversial opinion on HN only because of how many managers & product people there are here.

Of course engineering managers should be able to write code.
In the Frank Frazetta documentary, it was pointed out that the original Conan book covers were done in a Greek/Roman style, but then sold much better with Frazetta's leather loving barbarians on the front.
As a European I hate these types of EU initiatives. Why not let member states decide on this themselves?

When Sweden voted to join the EU there was a lot of talk about the subsidiary principle[0], but it seems almost completely forgotten now.

I guess one could argue that it affects the internal labour market in some way, but so could pretty much any issue. I would love to see more members of the EU parliament vote against proposals like this, but I guess it's hard to be on record as saying no to something you might be in favour of - if raised on another level.

[0] "Specifically, it is the principle whereby the EU does not take action (except in the areas that fall within its exclusive competence), unless it is more effective than action taken at national, regional or local level." (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/glossary/subsidiarity.html)
JavaScript perf is a GPU test? I guess I'm learning new things every day.

(The link I shared is all CPU leaning performance tests.)

Nanoreview? Really dude? In the "Pro" section for the 865+ it lists two more cores (factual but largely irrelevant) and in the "Pro" section of the A13 it lists "Compatible with the latest DirectX 12.1" (laughably hilariously untrue).

I love how nano review has become the Android fan bible, despite its very obvious flaws.
I have a script that functions very similarly, called `jot`[1].

I also have one for rapid steam-of-conscious thoughts[2] and organized journaling[3].

Personally, I'm a fan of the "plaintext files in a directory" pattern for notes, thoughts, and writing.

[1]: https://github.com/Pinjasaur/jot

[2]: https://github.com/Pinjasaur/jt

[3]: https://github.com/Pinjasaur/jrnl
Democrats Push 'Abolition Amendment'
Sadly, Vivaldi was sold a few years ago and no longer seems the ideal choice if you're focused on privacy and security.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/iq33nv/brave...

When it was launched a year or two ago, Brave didn't integrate with the Chrome extension web store, but now it does (just like Vivaldi). Of course, also like Vivaldi, you may not need another adblocker since Brave has "shields" which are very easy to enable/disable (but it works fine if you install ublock origin, privacy badger, quick JS switcher, etc.)
It would be good to put the width (total number of possible keys) in the README.

And what does it do for collisions, does it detect/recover?
Think Google would have done everyone a favor if they were honest with the "AI Ethics" team that they're supposed to be a PR department.
Oh, absolutely. It's clear in the books, and outside that he made it very explicit that he mourned what it was doing to the English countryside he loved.

I was just being pedantic about the events of the narrative, because it's close to my heart.
Good question! not OP but one of the projects here provides a full PG api if you are self-hosting. Presumably the plan is to provide a similar but secure API for supabase hosted instances in future?

https://github.com/supabase/pg-api
Is that the only issue there? Sounds like it's not worth going back to 1080p over.
Paypal is basically acting as a short-term lender in this case, which comes with all its own risks and costs. Sure Google could do the same but it's not worth it to them to get into this mess.

Paypal uses ACH under the hood (it's one of only two options, the other being wire transfers which are expensive and often even need to have humans in the loop). So they guarantee the payment to the seller, and then as the buyer your bank account gets charged up to a day later when the ACH batch processing goes through. If you don't have enough money in your bank when that happens, it gets rejected and Paypal takes on that loss unless they can recover it from you via collections system.

To limit their risk, Paypal even uses Plaid in some cases to check your bank account balance before deciding whether to allow your payment to go through! But even that isn't a guarantee, because you could always have made multiple ACH payments that day of which some might go through and some could fail due to lack of funds. It's like trying to prevent a race condition in a multithreaded program by just checking the value again closer to where the race occurs, it might make the issue happen a little bit less often but to actually solve the problem you need certain atomic primitives which the US bank transfer system completely lacks.
I really don't understand how companies get in the position where they think it is a good idea to have people who hardly know what a "library" is managing engineers.
Hypothetical question:

I have little money but I write an amazing book and it sells to millions. Each books takes, say, $5 to print, and yet I sell it for $15. Therefore I end up wealthy from this endeavor.

Did I exploit the people who chose to buy my book? The people who printed it?
Interesting, I might have to look into this more.
Have you seen this optical neural network technique? It seems like one way you could get fast (real-time) results from a complex neural network https://www.photonics.com/AMP/AMP_Article.aspx?AID=63751
It bothers me that he doesn't know "its" from "it's." It probably bothers others when he edits articles and spells it wrong.

I think the biggest problem he mentioned is the "exclusionists." There's no harm in including a page on every local elected official, every Nobel prize winner, even every band that has a reference or two somewhere. Most likely it will remain a little article, but so what? The history of small local bands, for example, would be very interesting 100, 200 years from now. (Wouldn't it be fun to read about some town's local musical groups in 18th century America?)
Eh, while D&D had many influences to its aesthetics, the only reason people spent so many years pretending Tolkien wasn't a major one was, lawsuits brought or threatened by the estate that resulted in them filing the serial numbers off enough to stop being sued while pretending they'd never heard of this guy Tolkien.
That's a good view on that opinion. I've kids and a wife that has a job, the spare time is taken up by them and the time I need to rest. I would if I had the time, but I'm interested in each and everything when working.
git commit -am "Synchronizing." && git push
> Sort of agree, it's enough if they could at some point

Managers are the last people I'd want to learn on the job this heavily - they can't start from not knowing coding if they want to manage engineers.
40 hours seems low to me if one wants to enter FAANG. Even if you’re familiar with the process and have prepped before. I’d expect 100 hours minimum for most candidates. Only exception would be those who interview regularly, do competitive programming regularly, and those who have to do algorithmic work regularly.

Most people I know spend nights and weekends prepping for at least a month to a quarter.
And you probably get paid 1/3 to 1/2 of what a developer in the US can make.

The reality of the world is that if you're the lead developer for some product you will have times that you need to work off hours. Like if production is down how can you say: "My 40 hours is up this week, I'll look at it on Monday".

It's a balance. You shouldn't routinely be working a ton of nights and weekends. But sometimes shit hits the fan at inconvenient hours and you need to respond. If not, you have to have routine 24/7 coverage which gets really expensive really fast ultimately leading to lower salaries for developers.
Unfortunately I think this is as good for the drug dealers as it is for addicts who it's designed to help. Dealers can assure potential customers there are no "legal" worries while not worrying about clients being forced to flip on them. It's an experiment we can watch and monitor results on though, which is probably better for the country as a whole than doing nothing across the board.
I've done something like this but not as the PK.

Left the PK as an int or UUID, but added another column, with a trigger to auto-populate, that created a base-64 kind of thing. The trigger also detected colisions and tried again, up to 3 times before giving up and erroring.

There's no rule that says what you expose to the public has to be the pk at all. It seemed to me a good idea for it to not be.
Java apps didn't integrate with regular HTML. They were more like Flash apps with all those downsides.

Even today JS is interpreted before compiling to bytecode because the startup latency is much lower (JIT only kicks in once the background parsing is complete). Back in those days, the extent of JS was a few click handlers or similar. The JS interpreter would be done long before the JVM was even loaded into memory.