skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Culture is not static. Yes, the clan rituals of all the mammoth families from 4,000 years ago are forgotten forever, but most, if not all, of it would have been lost by now anyways. Instead, new cultures develop and will develop if we release cloned mammoths in the arctic. It will take generations to return to a natural like state, but it could get there.

As for salmon, yes, the farmed salmon does not remember the stream it spawned. Nevertheless, you can take the progeny of those salmon and relocate them to a river that has been renaturalized, like it is happening in many places in Europe. Sure, the salmon will not be the same, but once the bears recognize it as a food source again, they will play the same role in the ecosystem as their distant relatives once did.
I agree. I like the idea of marriage. But in the US 1 party is given financial incentive to divorce and make the other person their indentured servant for life. That incentive may be a factor in the high divorce rate.
The hedge fund guys just went down to the basement to look for a box.
Check out Auth0's pricing page and it might start to make sense to you, they're outrageously expensive
And for those that aren't familiar with Caltrain, that train blasts its horn two or three times before each stop and the horn is so loud that you can hear it from a mile away. Living as close to the train as that house is would be miserable.
Cliqz? Wasn’t that the company behind that Firefox scandal with the Mr. Robot ads?
Apart from Google which has a complex answer. Most of the traffic from FAANG are now coming from Apps.

Facebook could have shut down their Website and it wouldn't even have a 10% revenue impact.
Ah yes, I get the gist - I didn't explain the rationale well!

Creating that toy environment on a single page would result in us engineering something totally new, just for demo purposes.

It's easier to just virtualise everything like browserstack. That way, we don't make anything new, we just virtualise what we've already built, and you can try it, instantly.

It's the same result, but in one case, we spend on engineering, but in the other, we spend on hosting.
I've often wondered about the 1/n strategy. It's simple enough: invest in n assets equally, and rebalance them regularly.

However, there are some questions: how does one know which n assets to pick? Should they be mostly decorrelated? How decorrelated? And shouldn't all n assets have > 50% probability of growth? And what should the number n be? These aren't always easy questions to answer. After all, you could pick n dud assets that are highly correlated, and the strategy would fail.

I'm curious: how do folks apply the 1/n strategy in practice?
I haven't read the paper or anything, but if the expected adaptation is to drop support for RSA; no reasonable amount of time will make it a seamless transition.

There are so many devices and pieces of software that are stuck on RSA, a headsup of say 5 years would still result in a clossal mess; may as well have the mess now.
The offer letters to key executives dated 2019 contain the following. Looks like they were doing flexible work long before COVID hit:

"We currently offer all salaried, SF-based employees to work from anywhere they want on Tuesday and Thursdays and do not need to be present in the office."
Worth keeping in mind lots of engineers in the bay area are working at startups for lower salaries (closer to median in this chart), bodyshops, and large companies that are not known for as good pay.

Also at higher levels it's not just the number of years you work. Average Joe with 9 years of experience is not going to be IC6 - the yoe:level relationship is also governed by pedigree, network, career history (where, what), projects led, previous roles, etc.
I did an integration with AWS Cognitio. It can only act as an oauth client, not a server.

So it can only let people log in with Google etc, not log in with <your app> on other apps
"Amazon Managed Blockchain ... automates Ethereum software upgrades"
It is absolutely standard practice for this to happen. At contract completion, the contractor must destroy or return all classified materials: these sorts of designs would certainly be included.

It's pretty interesting, but a lot of this stuff is structured specifically so that the contractor organization doesn't retain knowledge that it's "not supposed to have", as wasteful as that ends up being. Even stuff like a list of personnel who worked on a project or production line might be included... so that a few years after the project is completed, the management of the contractor might not even be able to figure out who to ask, because they've destroyed even their knowledge of the list of people who worked on the component's design and manufacturing.
There are already true open source alternatives on the horizon such as https://github.com/ory

It is about time for a new generation of identity systems in my opinion. This acquisition shows the risk of centralized, vendor locked-in services.
I see what you're saying now. So to answer your original question...

> You don't think it's easier to say...

No. I disagree, your way of thinking is harder for me to think. :-)

You're correct, but my mind didn't work like yours. But that's the beautiful thing about mathematics: we both are correct. We just had different viewpoints about how things work. Ultimately, it seems like we're both saying the same thing, although we tweaked the formulas to look like the simplest ways for our own brains.
It's probably median for households that pay any tax.
Hopefully IBM can offer consulting service for implementing apps built on top of this
The Hottest Amenity from Developers? A Power Plant Made of Batteries
You do realize it’s the price of a lot? That house is a teardown
Why does it seem to be that we always assume that our own government is incompetent and unable of forward thinking, but all other governments (China, etc.) are?
It's because the designs weren't made for mass production. The given tolerances were nominal and you were supposed to hand-fit parts together.

For mass production, they had to be re-tooled with larger tolerances which also allowed for interchangeable parts.
Stability and safety are both values that a lot of people would put before joy. But fundamentally we're approaching the penultimate "What is the meaning of life?" question - to which everyone has to find their own answers. I suspect hedonists would be inclined to agree with you.
Wow it never even occurred to me there would be a setting for that.

Thanks!!
Nope. I'll reply there.
> The reason the tax code is so complicated is BECAUSE OF TurboTax.

People have been arguing about unnecessary complexity in the tax code since before computers, let alone before TurboTax, so it can't be that simple.
That was because he trusted his engineers that believed in ideology rather than objective and rational evidence.

Wanting / Loving something to succeed is one thing. Whether it will actually work or succeed is an entirely different matter.
And write your shared business logic in what language? If it's a C library perhaps you could do this on iOS and Android, but how is that going to run in a browser?

I'm aware of things like the LLVM based C to JS compilers, but they're not really viable for anything non-trivial.

That's why a lot of shops are writing the same logic N times in N languages and frameworks. It can actually be easier than having to target something these wildly different platforms share.
> However, we would certainly love to learn more.

It's... It's very easy to learn more for yourself.

- Ask your company to provide you with a MacBook Air (not the M1, a regular one) or a mid-tier PC

- Use any browser other than Chrome (and other thank Blink-based browsers)

- Go and use the very same demos you so proudly present

Boom. Learning.
Oooff, the edges in that demo look terrible - particularly the grey boxes in perspective. The demo boasts that it isn't a video, but the interpolation looks as bad as one.

I hate to be critical - I'm sure a lot of work has gone into this - but there's still lots of room for improvement too.
Where in my post did I mention race?

Or "racist pseudoscience" is a newspeak for "I don't like what you're saying, but I cannot think of any reasonable objection"?
Fractional numbers make sense to me as an extension, but it also requires an intuition of division on the same lines.

Take number n and multiply it by number x/y. To do this, you have to split number n into y parts and take x number of them. So to multiply 8 by 3/4, you split 8 into 4 parts (2 + 2 + 2 + 2) and then take 3 of those parts. This ends up being 2 + 2 + 2 = 6.

For multiplying two fractions, you have to extend it to n/m * x/y. Since you can multiply the top and bottom of a fraction by the same number, you can write n/m as ny/my. Then you can have n/my be your “equal part”, and take x of them. So 1/2 * 1/2, you take 2/4 and split it into 1/4 + 1/4 and 1 of them, so the answer is 1/4.

To me at least, this makes sense as an extension of multiplication is repeated addition. It’s when you get to irrationals that it starts to fall apart, and even then the intuitions the above way of thinking led me to have served me well.
what i always wonder about this massive income inequality in silicon valley is, where are the non high paying people living?

you know, people who are not highly trained professionals with advanced degrees but who are still required to make up a community. (bakers, school teachers, nurses, technical craftsman, caretakers etc).

It is my understanding that those people make signficantly less money (more on the "standard" level most western-europeans make. say 30kEUR a year), But where do these people live?!
ECC is considered even less quantum resistant than RSA because the key lengths are so short.
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Apparently that is a Russian proverb: "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work."
I'm sure there's no ill will. But you are quite rude indeed, and so I chose not to explain myself to you and be on my way with light-hearted humour and a smile as it is my way. That said, there's a button to reject the cookies. I won't force them onto you. Have a good day.
No, my response is that your screen reader sucks. For example a bad screen reader might require that an image of an apple has to be labelled apple for it to work, but a good one could just see that image and recognize that it is a picture of an apple.
I don't subscribe to magazines because if I subscribe to one, suddenly I'll get dozens of ads to subscribe to different magazines in the mail.

I'm not ok with that data being sold at all. I'm not signing up to receive advertisements
> Access, ultimately, determine whether someone pirates.

Totally agree. Netflix’s streaming service is a great example of this. Initially, Netflix provided easy access, so most people I know stopped pirating films and shows. Mostly with the exception of new episodes of shows that aired in Australia weeks (or more) behind the US air date. Nobody wants to be weeks behind on GoT, not when the internet explodes as the episode airs.

Then Netflix’s Australian library was gradually gutted. VPNs were a pretty good way around the lacklustre Australian offerings. Then that became a tenuous workaround at best, especially as major studios split and made their own platforms, each at least $10 a month, with no guarantee that the things worth watching were available to Australians. So what do a bunch of people with VPNs do with nothing to watch? They pirate.

Sci-hub is unfortunately so necessary. The whole situation feels a bit like Spotify where the creators of the content that these journals/companies charge for don’t really get any of the money. What an ’innovation’ that is.
Yes, and I feel old now. But I admit their return policies and custom service are superior here to most other online shops. If it is available for a similar price in a suspicious online store, I prefer Amazon to avoid some risk.
> Reverse engineering seems like a good skillset for the DoD to nurture, anyway.

I though they already had enough practice reverse engineering the alien tech at Area 51?
Bring back the buffalo!
> If you disagree that that's "long"

I do. Some of the words might be changed, depending on what words have been used to describe the operation of addition and the set of counting numbers. But, as I think I've pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the very fact that the children know about addition and the counting numbers means they know what an operation is ("a thingie like addition") and what a set of numbers is ("a thingie like the counting numbers").

> you seem to reject the idea of giving the one caveat at the beginning of the course

I don't know where you're getting that from. I have already said the contrary--once you've said it, you don't need to repeat in every sentence.
On the contrary; thats usually what happens.
I'm not saying its _correct_ but the amount of cargo-culting I hear intermediate spaghetti-unicorn engineers repeat means they're actually inferring that it's a repeatable process.
As usual for Google products, this works fine in Chrome on a decently powerful desktop.

Not up to the speed of well-written Javascript, but definitely viable.

In contrast, this is completely unusable on other browsers or on lower powered devices.

On Firefox desktop, initial loading brings a "This page seems to be stuck" prompt. Once it finally loads, clicking the play button just does nothing.

Please note that for 80+% of websites/apps, Firefox is faster or on par with Chrome for me. Google products and some other exceptions are the only ones that are consistently slow on Firefox. Whether that's intentional or just a lack of testing, I can't say.

Similarly unusable on Safari.

On lower powered devices this just freezes Chrome for me.

As I mentioned in other comments, I like Flutter, but Flutter Web is not anywhere close to being viable for production use.
If you really think your paper destroys RSA, I think there are ethical questions the authors must decide before publishing it.

In particular, I think the right process would be:

1. Give some brief description of the result (eg factoring numbers in O(...)), and some proof (eg a factorisation of the next rsa semiprime, possibly more) that convinces people that your claims are true

2. Wait a while for people to have the chance to not be burned

3. Publish the paper

Instead, the authors seem to be going for:

1. Publish the paper with a provocative abstract.

2. Wait to see who implements the algorithm first.

It doesn’t seem the best idea to me, but what do I know?
ive been waiting for this since they first announced the iphone upgrade program, sign me up.
The claimed number of operations is low enough that demonstrating the algorithm in practice does not require a highly optimized implementation.
The argument is that the wooly mammoth actually helps counteract the release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere:

"When the herds of northern megaherbivores were killed off by humans ten millennia ago, Zimov says, the largest biome on earth, called the “mammoth steppe,” converted from grassland to boreal forest and tundra. In these days of global warming, thawing tundra is releasing greenhouse gases, whereas grassland fixes carbon." [0]

There is a really great documentary about Stewart Brand, We Are as Gods, that also covers this project. [1]

[0]https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_case_for_de-extinction_wh...
[1]https://www.weareasgods.film
The project didn't move forward because they didn't get enough funding ?
I can't believe that there aren't enough people interested in funding this.
Ireland is free to leave the EU and negotiate with the UK if it would like to start back up such free movement. Somehow I doubt they want to.
I suspect most of them are actually saying that relying on charity for some things is a bad idea, which isn't inherently anti-charity.
Sure did, figured it was open season :) Still got downvoted, oh well.
I've changed the URL from https://www.heise.de/news/Google-als-Sponsor-fuer-KI-Ethik-K... to which seems to be the main 3rd party article on this in English.

Submissions to HN need to be in English. We have deep respect for German and other languages, but HN is an English-language site. It's important that the community be able to read an article. When people can't read an article they react purely to the title, which leads to shallower discussion.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

I've also changed the title from "Google no longer wanted to sponsor the AI ethics conference", which unless my rudimentary German is betraying me, actually is not what the heise.de headline says. If I understand the story correctly, it's the conference that didn't want Google.
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You probably won't get this performance when webgpu is finalized. It has to add bounds and sanity checks. It's unclear how much worse the perf will be.
It's sort of the default state of assumption about the world in my opinion. "Everyone is an idiot except me" makes the world incredibly simple - frustrating, but simple. "Other people are incredibly bright and talented" is a scarier thought at a first look, plus it's vastly more complex because then the second question: "Why are there still problems in the world" arises instantly.

Personally I think it's wildly comforting and explanatory to assume other people (typically) know better than I do. Means I can focus on my little corner of the world and I don't need to tear it all down and rebuild it. Design, fashion, modern art; there are loads of domains engineers tend to assume are full of idiots - and yet we don't seem to dominate them like you'd assume we would if they were, indeed, full of idiots.
Good: excellently-designed landing page, clear proposal, interesting business model

Bad: bullshit marketing. Press releases claiming Twitter's consideration of a subscription model is motivated by PanQuake, ignoring the fact that Twitter forst floated that idea last July.

In general, businesses whose pitch is 'not like That Other Corp' immediately set a ceiling on their prospects by appealing to dissatisfied late adopters, whose demands are elastic. Still, if the goal is sustainability rather than growth this can pan out, as shown by communities like Metafilter (which also relies on a small one-time fee).
It's not just for the practical purpose. Jan Tschichold writes: "Two constants reign over the proportions of a well made book: the hand and the eye." Indeed, large margins give a feeling of quality, luxury, and openness. Compare older books with spacious margins to tight ones in modern books so as much text can be crammed to save on printing.

Here's another reference about page margins: https://practicaltypography.com/page-margins.html

"The pleasure of reading an effectively designed document will soon outweigh the unfamiliarity of extra white space around the edges."
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at the risk of wallowing in the meta, sometimes i fantasize about having a button that zaps away all the tropey, partisan, bigoted, and ideological comments (even ones i might nod along with) in one fell swoop, leaving just the ~10 genuinely interesting comments (which seems to be about the average on any given story, regardless of # of comments). can we get a button like that? #downvotingfatigue (i realize this is practically impossible)
Yeah it's unclear to me that having a list of all the pages you've visited (or similar) provides a strong enough signal that advertisers will bid higher or result in greater conversion. In some cases it surely will, but then it becomes a question of what proportion of Google's revenue is dependent on this scenario. If it's not a significant portion, Google might just say the potential regulatory and PR headache is not worth it.
The specifics matter. Like jurisdiction, what the app does, how much you charge, how the money is transferred from customers to you, etc.

Hire an attorney and accountant. They are experts.

If you cannot afford an attorney and accountant, then odds are that you don't have a viable business and it might be worth reconsidering.

Legal advice on the internet is free and worth less than double that price.
> edit: funny how I can discuss extremely controversial political topics here and never have any of my comments killed, but having a negative opinion about wasm and JS frameworks is just a step too far lol.

I'm not surprised. You probably happen to agree with the majority of HN on these topics so the upvotes outweigh the downvotes.
Nothing I can find - I wonder if there is a news-oriented variant of sci-hub for such paywalled sites though.
I wasn't making a statement on society, I was pointing out that Amazon has and can censor. There are many examples, going back to banning wikileaks that resulted in them having to accept bitcoin in donations — and now they never need donations again.

Bitcoin routed around Amazon’s censorship.

But historically, when you are supporting censorship, you’re not on the right side of history.

Bitcoin is fixing this.
There are also some frustrating bugs with USB-C / thunderbolt connections like the LG UltraFine 4K monitor that have been improved but not yet fully resolved. This isn't unique to M1, but does seem to be new to the more recent MacBook models (possibly related to the T2 chips).
Digital slumlords?
Project failures cannot be simply attributed to a workforce problem without a detailed analysis especially when the top example is a widely reported management failure.
Or the numbers in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26334736
for expensive purchases maybe that's important

for my weekly purchase of bread, bacon and ketchup it's definitely not
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This is true - in general each bit you add to a quantum computer means the noise floor needs to be twice as low, so difficulty scales exponentially. That is unless a threshold is reached where error correction scales faster.
at least in the first one didn't it require active sabotage of multiple systems (power security IT...) by a trusted insider with little to no supervision simultaneous with a freak storm for that to happen though? and as i recall there were few if any redundant systems you would expect along, the whole thing being run by a skeleton staff.

also at least based on the movies depiction its obvious no one involved ever studied zoo construction or best practices.
a power outage should never cause a zoo exhibit to fail open. a tree should not be were it will could fall and let a animal out. also every pin for anything that you wouldn't allow in a petting zoo should have not just had a electric fence (which should have each had a backup generator) but also a ditch, moat, and shear face far enough back to prevent escape by any animal making a running jump.

the whole park was pretty much as a death trap just based on the way it was built.

Hammond should have been convicted of criminal negligence.
Also any proprietary/ancient SSH implementation only supporting RSA that you'll find in all kinds of boxes.
I would be more worried about thick layer of diesel dust on all surfaces (including your lungs) but hey they are going electric in next 20 years for sure