skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still waiting for a neural net progress bar as a service that pipes in all available device data, measurable progress and a task id and spits out a prediction based on previous runs across _all_ previous tasks.

Should eventually figure out what tasks are IO bound, what are CPU bound, what are fixed time, etc. as well as what device configurations effect that. Could also predict a service is down given enough scale...
When Death and Dying Breach the Classroom Walls
And yet from the 1930s to the 1970s every decade had several major pieces of legislation. Laws with detailed provisions—-not just outlines to be filled in by the President. The last three major pieces of legislation were PPACA (2010), Dodd-Frank (2010, an outline not a law), and the Patriot Act (2001). Something has clearly changed from the era of the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act, and Clean Water Act.
Russia does not want and cannot invade (Western) Europe, and there is the slight issue of nuclear arsenals. I think the derision comes from that...
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You haven't really done anything here but ignorantly dismiss philosophy categorically (citing two relatively recent arguments made in the context of the modernist tradition). Frankly, I don't loose sleep over zombies personally because I don't find this to be a real problem. It is the result of modernist presuppositions. What I find rather philistine is the cockiness of science fetishists who fail to recognize their own metaphysical presuppositions, which typically seems to be, because of historical accident, preposterously crude like materialism or dualism.
We used it under DOS for our backoffice system - you talked to the "database" engine using an interrupt via loaded as a TSR utility.
I absolutely believe that happened.

OR is criminally underrated by businesses today, in favor of ML and AI hype. For proof, search for an OR-titled job and see how many come up, compared to ML-titled.

Lots of “ML” and “AI” is prettied up 50 year old OR techniques.
They have also always had unlimited uploads for free at lower quality.
50%? You don't mean 8%? Or 9%? Most recent five-year periods have seen inflation in the 8-9% range[0], but somehow we're going to spike to 50% in the next five years?

Do you hear yourself?

0. https://www.usinflationcalculator.com
On the contrary the price of up-keeping a household has increased dramatically.

30-40y ago it was not uncommon for a single pension to cover all expenses of:

- food

- car or two

- paying a mortage

- having 4 kids going to school

- other household expenses

- saving up money

/

Currently it is not possible. How in such a case do you still think we live in deflation times?

I would rather say that “some things” became cheaper due to technology advancements, but common things inflated so drastically, its literally impossible for young people to start families with sustainable life.
I don't think the paper implies what the title of this article says. If you want to post it, use something that doesn't lead into a specific conclusion unsuppoertd by the paper.
What is COGI?
I love the twitter account of Neuroskeptic. He makes fun of all the asinine stuff people say about the brain:

https://twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic
To be fair there are launch HN posts for hard tech companies too where you can't try the product yet!
A group of people were sent by the outgoing President to disrupt the process of counting electoral college votes and change the outcome of free and fair election. In other words, a coup. While it was a poorly attempted coup, it still was a coup.
Haskell Arrows Zoo
It seems like they plan to support migrating to other services at some point but not yet?

Considering the fourth word of the second paragraph is "initially," I think you're correct — this is a work in progress.

I hope that Apple will eventually allow bulk downloads of iCloud photos to the desktop. Right now you can only do 1,000 at a time, and it took me almost a week to make a local backup of my wife's iCloud photos.
It'll be countries where Apple is facing anti-trust complaints.
From my experience (not with amazon) these strange chunk sizes come from non-blocking IO. When a source gets some data and triggers select/poll/epoll/whatever, the callback (or equivalent) immediately writes it out as a chunk.

This works even better in HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 / QUIC. A Go server reading from a lot of microservices can produce pretty weird output on HTTP/2 because now not only is it in odd sizes determined by network timing, it doesn't even need to be in order.
> It doesn't take that much charity to interpret that what the original poster was saying as, "I reject the subset of philosophy that is not science, on the grounds that the subset which is science has all of the value,"

I think the original post has shown your reinterpretation is probably too charitable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26345215

It's a pretty classic case of celebrating science without really acknowledging or understanding its foundations and dependencies.
For those of you wanting a way to get your photos out of Google, I recommend https://takeout.google.com

I used it last week to migrate my Google photos to Nextcloud, it was pretty painless.
Conspicuous consumption and the obsession with corporate America
And lisp :-).
Exactly. When using Unity it feel like I get too much for what I want. For me Unity is in this weird spot were it's suited for AA mobile game and AA 3D games but not so much for AAA games or indies were Godot shine.
I would love that as I have to move my family from Google to iCloud.
Nice. I really like system and board
I'll start off by saying I don't like caps, I don't think they accurately solve the problem they're trying to solve. This is not to be construed in defense of caps, but only to acknowledge they do currently exist for many.

Lets say a provider sells all plans with a 1TB cap. I have an options of 1Mbit, 10Mbit, 100Mbit, and gigabit, I'll take the gigabit plan nearly every time assuming the price is fine. Because while I still only have a 1TB cap actually getting the data I want will be faster. Most consumers have extremely bursty throughput needs, having a faster plan still benefits them even if there's the same cap.

Why would you want a car capable of going 60 miles an hour when a car that only goes 10 miles an hour will still get you there? Because it saves you time.
And do you consider a complete ban of 100B+ advertising industry and complete ban of tracking (happily used by governments) a likely outcome?

Even the mighty Apple still tracks analytics data and separates that into a separate switch from the ones limiting non-Apple tracking.
Cool to see article by someone I know on here! Really liked this paper, something else I find tricky about them is how hard it often is to accurately measure/report/track progress when writing software. In my experience a lot of these bad behaviors in progress bars come from programmers not having good way to actually track the real progress and instead just have to aggregate or estimate progress from each "stage" or "step" or whatever your software abstraction for a unit or work ends up being
Because if the US adopted BTC, we wouldn't need an army at all? Is that the claim?
I've given a lot of thought to this. Here's a few points I think about:

0. Your own environmental impact is significantly reduced, so the baseline to "counteract" is lower than "Western society".

1. Change happens incrementally. Moving the needle in small ways slowly changes the big picture. Greta is moving the needle in big ways within her lifetime, but like you say, that's not the norm.

2. Raising awareness and leading by example can have an outsized impact in your community.

3. Voting and other political involvement (won't turn this political, but every vote matters, especially for local issues that might be decided by 50-100 votes).

4. Supporting companies that align with your values. Consider the total dollar spend of an individual over the course of their life.

5. Charitable giving. Tons of great work is being done around the world by non-profits. Even if you don't pursue a career in non-profit work, donating is tax deductible and goes a long way.

6. Raising your own children with a similar mindset.
Thought experiment: You print a trillion dollar bill and throw it in a underground vault. You look around. "Hey no inflation" so you print some more. You keep this up for a while. Years pass and someone finds the vault and begins to spend the money inside, what happens?

Right now much of that printed money is sitting in stocks and bonds, what happens when that is no longer a great place to be? What if those dollars decide they want to be used to buy say houses, instead of bonds?
Comcast not only has the man power but money to make this happen.
Almost Rich: North Korea Has $10T in Resources
Very sad to see this downvoted. I don't know how people can see things like "WTF Happened in 1971?" without realizing the date correlations to the 1968 Fair Housing Act and especially especially to the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968#Title...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act
Sort of. The Alinea folks also started Tock, which is a tech startup.
Think about how many engineers go to LinkedIn, Dice, etc. and search by language: python, java, etc. Sometimes recruiters and hiring managers are just doing marketing and SEO.
Very interesting. I think it makes C++ come across looking quite good. The committee has considered a case where C++ comparisons are lacking, and C++20 rectifies the situation by having more expressive comparisons with partial and total orderings. C++ may be slower than other languages in doing innovations, but they move relentlessly forward with trying to adopt a good way of accomplishing new features & rectifying mistakes from the past.
Ultimately people are the cause and our media is a symptom. Folks want to hear doom, outrage, oversimplified & radical takes, and the reinforcement of their beliefs. That sells. Supply and demand. So your outlet can play ball or get steamrolled by someone who will. I think mywittyname is right to focus on the people, not the media symptom.
What did you do when you realized a project will fail?
My experience comes from different video game companies, and most of the time it has come to a point, where I feel like there's no hope for success in the video game we are making.
It almost feels almost unhonest to keep working and pretending we can make it.
On otherhand, telling your manager to cancel the whole thing feels like lighting a fire under your own bottom.
Any advice or experiences on how you have dealt with such circumstances?
@author. Every time I click anything in the page the whole page flashes, assumedly React is re-rendering for some reason. As someone who highlights text as I read it was quite an interesting experience :)
This site is about anything that's intellectually stimulating, and isn't limited to startups or code(though such topics are always welcome).
Haskell Executable Sizes
Your neurons aren't doing anything except spiking in response to action potentials (among other physical processes). They're just producing outputs given some chain of inputs and have no semantic understanding either. Where does the understanding of Chinese (or English) come from then?

Also your assumption of the program not forming any conceptual content, will depend on what exactly the program is doing. The Chinese room says it's carrying out a conversation in a manner indistinguishable from a human, but that could mean anything from running a very fancy GPT-3 to running a whole-brain simulation of a Chinese person.

In either case, the human running the program is a distraction. You might as well ask if the pencil or the book he's using to compute the instructions understands Chinese. If the program was running on a CPU, it'd be the same thing - the CPU doesn't understand Chinese, the program does.
Takeout is table stakes for Google’s position in the market. They really need to better support 3rd parties making a Takeout request on behalf of a user, and those services then retrieving the Takeout bundle for ingestion.
I wonder if there is maybe less red tape in SA to roll out fiber?

Or a desire of the country to strengthen it's tech sector.
We're a film company with contractors, and I was raising money as we went. I also said that under slightly different circumstances (some last-minute investment) we could have been bankrupted by this.

Sorry you didn't like the tone of the article.
Good to see Chris Harrison doing good work after being fired from hosting the Bachelor.
Yeah, just a small fraction of countries, like the United States and the European Union. I'm sure nobody cares about those places.
Bundling a spreadsheet app with photo storage ought to be against some competition rule... Just like Amazon has taken over so many markets with Prime...
Will I be able to opt out from this?
People shouldn’t be made to feel like they would be or are bad parents if they put two kids in a room. Because I think the upshot to that is not going to be some workers’ movement that produces less inequality but instead fewer people that want kids having them due to fear of social stigma.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch20-00-final-project-a-web-s...

The Rust Book has an awesome "final project" where it walks you through building a multi-threaded web server. If you're a battle-hardened C/C++ dev looking for an inroad to Rust, this is a great place to start.
a PhD could write they are 'studying' something at uni... if their language is not native english etc... and mean they are working on a project etc..
> I think you know that there are people blocking highways for months blocking entrance to Capital.

It's the police that has barricaded the borders to stop them from entering Delhi. Protesting is not a crime. This is how we won our independence by peaceful protests and noncooperation movement. These are perfectly legitimate political actions.

By not calling it a toolkit you are playing semantic games. Disha's 'toolkit' was a document that instructed volunteers how to get more visibility and how to make #tags trend. It was a sketch of a plan for an entirely peaceful protest with absolutely 0 call for violence. This called for multiple arrests and many are still languishing in jail in spite of no shred of evidence linking them to violence.

On the other hand anyone can search for Kapil Mishra, and Ragini Tiwari on youtube to find recordings of their hate speech asking for killing and riots. Even inciting the rioters while they are rioting -- all captured on camera.

These people continue unarrested.

https://youtu.be/668EaVxdqwk?t=484

The following links will show more of the double standards used by the government.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVc51TFEsM&t=58s

https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/02/15/we-infiltrated-the-te...

As long as the hatred and call to arms is in line with BJP politics they see the other way.
Is this to avoid some sort of monopoly accusation or the result of new data protection rules?
Its a bit harder than that, I'd say. Imaging a progress bar showing progress of two consecutive operations eg. download and process. How should that progress bar be displayed? 50% for each? If download is 30 seconds and process is half an hour that is skewed.

I am having that exact problem in an application I am developing.
Living in a downtown area is pretty much guaranteed 1gbps fiber, outside of that is almost certainly garbage (cable/dsl/satellite) unless your neighborhood was built recently.
Hyperoptic cover an absolutely tiny part of the country though. For most people they are stuck with BT VDSL if they're lucky, ADSL if they are less.
$500 a month, no strings attached, to fight poverty worked
Yeah. Here 'without exploding' means 'until it was cool'.
I would consider underemployment to be a case where people are not making enough to live - food, health, shelter and clothes. Whether the area of work and their education qualification are a match, seems superfluous and an unwanted distraction from calculating labor participation and effective unemployment rate.
Why did Jack Dorsey buy Jay-Z’s failed music service?
Do you use Web Monetisation ( as in, pay)? If you don't, and don't want to be tracked for ads, how do you propose things work?
>Would you expect a paper on COVID mortality also discuss heart disease and ALS? Of course not.

Power consumption and power production are simply directly related. Your clumsy attempt at an analogy here really misses the mark.

The root cause of this issue is our power production isn't clean enough, and therefore consumption drives pollution. What do you address first - the demand or the supply?

It's quite simply amazing to see so little ability to grasp anything beyond immediate consequences of a problem, particularly on a site like this.
thank you for writing about what must be a difficult topic to discuss, for the benefit of others.
> Her argument against this myth seems tortured. Of course the brain is not a simple impulse/response machine, but it's still essentially taking in inputs and responding in various ways. It just has a mind-bogglingly complex internal state.

The author was dispelling the myth that a significant fraction (or all) of neural activity happens between the time of the stimulus and time of the response, which is probably a common misperception.
This is the hardware equivalent of pretending javascript is fine because having types won't stop all bugs.
My local area subreddit probably doesn't count. But that's the closest I can get.

/r/city

/r/state
I empathize with how hard it is for a female founder in particular and for a woman in general when it comes to mixing children with a career.

That said the advice to freeze your eggs (ie work now, live later) rubs me the wrong way. I wish we could live in a society where people would not have to work themselves to death and were able to... you know... enjoy life
IIRC, when you set up an Apple device you agree that you're basically leasing out the hardware or something like that, which is IMO a big wad of baloney.
For critical defense needs, likely. If you can't meet those needs you are beholden to the people who can, and they may not have your best interests in mind.
When a program could be written and be useable within hours.

Now it takes me days to install VM's and butchered/forked SDK's and cloud connectors and incant the various sacred undocumented mantras before I can actually open VSCode and start coding.
Electric cars increase electricity usage, but lower overall energy usage due to reduced gasoline demand.

In operation, the benefits are vast.

In production, less so, but still positive.
Intuit has so little real effect. However it makes for sensationalist reporting and attracts eyes and easily picks up people who want to believe tax law is all the result of corporate greed. Simply put, its too complex for one company to have a significant effect.

Nearly every bill out of Congress can effect tax law and this includes even special appropriation bills; all the covid bills have had tax law changes.

there are some three thousand pages comprising Federal tax law however much of this is additionally subject to various regulations that can affect when and when not a tax takes affect. then throw in every state, city, and more.

To be honest I don't know of a good fix. there are too many forms of income and taxation that Congress would have to reduce the number of definitions for what is income into much simpler categories, say employer paid income, interest, capital gains, money transfers from others, and such, and then macro the rest into miscellaneous subject to a permanent fixed rate.

As in, account for the most common forms of income at a lower rate and they get all those that don't fit that definition and charge it at a higher rate as likely none of these would ever be claimed by the average tax payer.

when it comes to deductions, simply do what the Trump tax change did in 2016 but do it again, raise the standard deduction so that if you are under 250k you never need to itemize.
Is Texas’s Affordable Housing Endangered?
Upload speeds can become a massive vector for de-cloudification of personal data
I did not comment on whether democracy or "democracy" is the best system for putting power at people's hands. That's another discussion.

My objections is whether we have actually been moving towards democracy or not. To just slap "democracy" or "republic" in the name of a state is not enough to make it so. It's how much autocratic the governors actually are and how much of the political decisions the population is actually able to define, that decides that.

In Greece, for example, government is in reality autocratic and people don't have much say. The only single check in place are the elections, but 1) You have to hope the other options are not just as bad as the current, which is unfortunately not the case, and 2) the established "aristocracy" has been doing a damn good job at managing people's opinions through the controlled media.
> Weren't all of those systems designed, implemented and enforced by individuals? Racist policy makers, racist voters... from a systems perspective, systemic racism is the function of individual racism aggregated over time.

No, that's not always the case. Take for instance, the racially biased outcome that webcams more easily recognise white than black faces. That probably happened because the webcam was built and tested primarily by white people. Is it an encoding of racist intent? No, but the outcome was racially biased. The intervention, instead of firing all the developers for being racist, would be to simply include more people of different ethnic backgrounds in testing.

The same can be true of more complex systems. A classic not-related-to-inequality case of backfiring being the Cobra effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect).

Obviously some factors in modern day racial inequality are caused by racist individuals, but that does not make a system of racial inequality - it makes bad people causing hostile interactions on an individual scale.

There are clearly instances where policy is wilfully racist - slavery, redlining, and so on. But even once the system is gone, the repercussions continue until corrective systems are put in place.

> If anything, it seems modern and not post-modern to extract racist individuals from systemic racism as they are part of and the origination of the systems themselves. It's treating humans as something outside of the system, which is a view I'd align more with modernism.

A large piece of the modernist narrative is that we are masters over reality - if I'm a governor and I want to stop burglary, I implement a "no burglary, burglary will be punished" rule and sit back, satisfied that I've done all that I can. Modernism ignores complex causality, which is the field of study of systems theory.

A systems-aware governor would be asking "why does the burglary occur in the first place?" and seek the root cause of the problem in order to redress the outcome. Of course this tends to cross jurisdictions, but the idea that we can draw jurisdictional distinctions and have the justice person fix crime while the economy person makes jobs is also a failure to act systemically and no real systems change will occur in that setup.

> It's treating humans as something outside of the system, which is a view I'd align more with modernism.

To this specifically I will point out that humans exist inside overlapping systems, not apart from them. You are a citizen, a family member, a human being, your job, a member of your communities. We serve many functions inside many systems, but changing systems happens from within them, ie grassroots politics.