skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying it is malicious. But it has a high potential for misuse.

Let's say this starts getting normal, because we've had it for 5-8 years. AI accelerators are in every device, making this functionality a non-issue in terms of battery life. It's then in TVs, in cars, in phones. It's just a toggle to turn it off, but it's software, it can turn itself on without notifying the user. Google won't do this.

How long has it taken Android to start notifying users that an app is accessing or has accessed the microphone? Notifying the user hasn't appeared to be some high priority thing.

The closed caption button in the virtual volume slider, I've played with it a couple of days ago. I was wondering what it was. Toggling it multiple times did nothing, no notification, nothing. I just got a bit annoyed that the state of the image when the diagonal line is missing appeared to leave some marks in the horizontal lines. Now I know that these are supposed to represent sentences. I thought it was just a buggy design and had no idea what this toggle was there for. Long-pressing it did not popup a tooltip indicating its function. I must have explicitly turned on that feature in the settings without remembering. But this is not the problem.

The thing that is concerning is simply that it is there, in common hardware, that there is a proof of concept that these devices are perfectly capable of doing this offline. Hardware manufacturers which tweak the UI can very well just pretend that the button is toggled off and not show the overlay, while the device is transcribing. Possibly only do it after a short FFT analysis has shown that there may be interesting content going on, like speech which doesn't come from a TV, but from a discussion among people. No detectable data stream will be noticeable over the WiFi connection.

It is in fact awesome that people with hearing problems have this solution at their disposal. I'd maybe even like to have it transcribe my phone conversations and store the text in the contacts app.
Cold water is just as effective as hot water for washing and will prevent your hands from drying out as easily
So you are assigned to write tests which you consider tedious, but you want to work on the main code base presumably on features. Here are my thoughts:

1. Always deliver the goods: Execute your assigned work to the highest quality. To help with mindset, instead of thinking of your work in terms of "effort", think in terms of "contribution". Great tests contribute substantially to the quality of the product and prevent future regression. Find ways to deliver some bonus improvements, for example: improving coverage, improving test speed. Demonstrate that you create value in the team beyond what is assigned. Again thinking in terms of your contribution helps ie. contribute above and beyond what is asked.

2. Document the value you add and highlight it to your team and manager. Don't be passive about it. Building a reputation of quality and reliability as an engineer will help you navigate this project and beyond.

3. Be direct and clear about asking for work that you are interested in. Don't be passive. Passive is weak. Top performers are not passive, they are clear about their goals and direction and go after it directly.

Hope this helps. Good luck!
I didn't say I'm the authority of what is useless in the entire world though. I added my perspective and agreed - hence the "just some perspective".
> NewBlue died because I quit Google. I started that project and was its main motive force.

Unclear why you're being downvoted here -- I seem to remember you, and I definitely remember hearing about NewBlue while we were working on Bluedroid. At the time it wasn't clear what happened. When did you leave?
> switching to Proof Of Stake would solve almost all bitcoin problems

This will also create a very severe problem: it makes it so the means of coin production exist solely in the hands of the coin owners today. Those coin owners won't ever sell you enough coins for you to be a competitive staker. At least with PoW, I can make more coins through extrinsic means -- i.e. better mining hardware.
"Computers have not become intelligent per se, but they have provided capabilities that augment human intelligence, he writes. Moreover, they have excelled at low-level pattern-recognition capabilities that could be performed in principle by humans but at great cost. "

It's odd how under-appreciated this is. There is no "intelligence" here as we know it, not even a hint. There are algorithms operating on data for very prescribed use cases. When you break it down its pretty primitive stuff really. Clever sure, but don't think we're building a mind here, that language just confuses things. So much of the public conversation around this stuff is polluted with this sort of sci fi nonsense claiming all sorts of properties for AI and implying some sort of singularity is around the corner. Pure fantasy.
I prefer to call AI “random number generators”
Different federal states have already made use of 75% (Mecklenburg) to 95% (Thuringia) of the doses delivered to them, with most states being in the range of 83-87%. A part of the remaining doses is reserved for second shots and the remaining unused doses really must be because of inefficiences of some sort. Claiming that the speed of roll-out is slow when most federal states have already used more than 6 out of 7 doses that were delivered to them so far is surprising.

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I find hope in the fact that a positive community seems to exist over at Reddit, here is an example. Up/down votes and moderation seem to be key.

https://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/
Every single thing you said applies to the greenback.

Therein lies your answer: if a large enough number of people place faith into something, it "takes".
Have a look at the courses offered by DeepLearning:

https://www.deeplearning.ai/

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning
> There is no BitGold network that, if it went under, would cause your gold to simply evaporate.

However, if a government does go down, then its currency evaporates.
Great tips.
You can't get rid of military unless you want to become completely defenseless and open to conquer.

Peace is a temporary equilibrium where nobody profits from starting hostilities. Nobody profits from starting hostilities because they know it is going to cost them.

If you are not being robbed or beaten or raped that is because there is police and government that can ensure anybody doing this faces good chance of paying high price for this.

Between governments this is done with a prospect of war but that prospect only exists if there is military to back it up.

Just go and ask China or Russia to reduce their military efforts. See what comes out of it.

You need to read some history, man.
It's hard to say. Obviously without any data at all none of those screens would be on.

I always find the discussion of marginal increases of energy tricky. If I buy a plane ticket on a half-empty flight, obviously that flight was going to take off anyway, so the marginal increase of my weight plus my luggage is fairly negligible in comparison, so I'm only to "blame" for a fraction of the fuel spent, right? But who else is there to blame except the passengers, without whom there would be (eventually) no flights? So shouldn't we all divide the blame evenly?
Has it helped with maintaining the health of your teeth?
This works, but depending on where you live you might be paying tons of unnecessary tax by doing it. Many states have "sin taxes" on alcohol- in WA, they amount to something like 60% of the sticker price! You're just burning that money if you're using it on hand sanitizer.
To extend the factual data, benzene costs about twice as much as ethanol does (to one sig fig) so its obviously a contamination or production mistake as opposed to a money saving opportunity. Wet ethanol is going to be a little bit cheaper to make than contaminated dry ethanol, so its a mistake or supply demand thing.

As such there is little point in the FDA doing a recall; I thought hand sanitizer went out of style around the time masks came into style. Use by the general public of both seems to have virtually no effect on long term population transmission rate. "Feel good" "keep them busy" activities.
Not really, but if you want read my post again and look at the examples to understand why.
I'm talking about a single commit PR in Github or Gitlab. If it's based on the latest version of the base branch, then amending it to include the PR number would allow Github to generate a link to the PR page associated with that commit. That would make the merge commit superfluous at that point.

So something like:

git commit --amend

and editing the commit message. This doesn't introduce any further change to the tree associated with the commit.
Very minor suggestion, but using bullets and numbering is a bit visually redundant. I would probably choose one or the other vs both.

Beyond that, really fun idea. It makes me happy to see an app idea with a more humanistic goal.
Google throws money at problems which don't generate revenue all the time. I feel like all it takes is someone inside Google with enough leverage to push it through without the thing having to make business sense
No argument there. But Sublime does support those languages. You just need to install the right plugin.

The question is whether this should be baked in, or whether it should be managed with plugins.

There are lots of features people might want. Including them all creates a bloated text editor at worse, and a mediocre (IMHO) IDE at worst. I maintain that Sublime isn't and shouldn't be an IDE.

So they're better off only including the features that are very widely needed for a text editor, and then supporting the rest as plugins.

After all, isn't the ability to extend Sublime with plugins one of the biggest selling points? By being lean, it wastes as little computing power as possible on stuff you don't need, while giving you the ability to include virtually any functionality you do need.

I get that sometimes plugins fall out of active development or are broken for unacceptably long periods of time. But if the feature is something that the Sublime dev team wanted to support, there's no reason they couldn't support it as a plugin. Baking it in doesn't solve this problem, but it does create bloat.

I guess what I'm saying is: Why does language server support deserve to be baked-in more than any other feature? I have plenty of mission-critical needs that are supported by plugins. I don't expect them to be baked in just because they're important to me. I accept that the plugin ecosystem is the solution for my needs.

What makes language server support -- or any other beloved functionality -- so special?
:(

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/10/25/20932250/...
> currency is a belief system backed by Joules.

That is a very insightful definition ...
The point is that NextJS does create a static site. And Vercel can be just a static CDN, as it was for this.
I'd rather that happen to my country's wealth than have it bombed out of existence.
Well, same reason you don't like Django, I just dislike Rails (ruby is aight).
I know the HN comments section is notorious for criticizing solutions they don't like because they seem too complex or unnecessary for them [1] but I'm honestly surprised that's happening with Next.js/Vercel here.

So many are saying that this could've been a static site distributed by a CDN. That's what a Next.js app on Vercel does by default! Unless you use `getServerSideProps`, Next.js will create a static site at build time and when deployed to Vercel it will be hosted on their CDN. Spending just a bit of time to understand why Next.js is so popular would've made that clear to most people here. But I guess that's not as easy as just criticizing it for bloat without knowing how it works and moving on?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
If curious, past threads:

“On teaching mathematics by” by V.I. Arnold - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353855 - Oct 2019 (1 comment)

On teaching mathematics by V.I. Arnold (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17209444 - June 2018 (21 comments)

On teaching mathematics, by V.I. Arnold (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994218 - Nov 2016 (14 comments)

V.I. Arnold, On teaching mathematics (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8441682 - Oct 2014 (9 comments)

V.I. Arnold: On teaching mathematics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=619346 - May 2009 (19 comments)

I feel like there has been at least one significant thread on the Arnold-Serre debate but I can't find it.
While this top-down approach (removing unnecessary parts of an organism and keeping the essential parts) is really impressive, I personally find the bottom-up approach more interesting: building an "artificial cell" by adding all the transcription and translation machinery into a lipid vesicle, allowing for this "artificial cell" to produce proteins to do various tasks. For example, people have developed "artificial /synthetic cells" that communicate with each other [1] and even bacteria [2]. There has also been some recent study on dividing cell-sized lipid vesicles with membrane proteins [3]. I know there were some comments about science has achieving a biological “Hello World”, and I think this sort of work is what is going to get us there.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v9/n5/abs/nchem.2644.ht...

[2]: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.8b10029

[3]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14696-0
Yeah, how dare anyone study the past and the present in order to consider the best path for the future. Real science is about accepting things at face value and never asking hard questions.
One of Modernas cofounders, MIT Prof Robert Langer, was profiled on 60 Minutes a few years back as MITs most prolific patent holder. He specialized in nanoparticle delivery systems to any desired internal tissue. One can deliver medicine, nutrients, diagnostics, etc where and when they want. Vaccines are just a small of subset of these applications.
That's happened:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/10/25/20932250/...
Confusing performance metrics and strategical objective is not a data problem, it is a human problem. It happens to a lot of people outside the usual Blair-WhiteNationalist-IQ crowd. I do not think that advanced technical knowledge in ML or stats is required to avoid this mistake ; it is the ability to perform valid counterfactuals statements.

A good example of what I mean can be found on wikipedia :

His instinctive preference for offensive movement was typified by an answer Patton gave to war correspondents in a 1944 press conference. In response to a question on whether the Third Army's rapid offensive across France should be slowed to reduce the number of U.S. casualties, Patton replied, "Whenever you slow anything down, you waste human lives."[103]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton

Here, US general Patton is not confounding a performance metric (number of casualities) with strategic goal (winning the war). His counterfactual statement could be that ''if we slow things down, you are simply delaying future battles and increase the total number of casualties in order to achieve victory''.

I'm not suprised at Blair decision. When we choose leaders, do we favor long term strategic thinkers, or opportunistic pretty faces?
I used to use Mullvad, but a lot of their servers were blocked for shows my wife wanted to watch and even on Netflix. I've had much better luck with ProtonVPN for that reason.
It's a reasonable world view. Our currency is backed by "Trust". Trust in what? A system that is reinforced by all of those things, for stability's sake.
Yes, but because it's centralized, there can be more USD printed and that's how destabilization works.

Let me give you an example. Chuck E. Cheese tokens are hardly worth anything. They're a terrible store of value. Why is this? Because Mr. Cheese can direct more to be minted at any time in an attempt to quantitatively ease the Chuck E. Cheese economy.

One day, Chuck E. Cheese will go out of business for good, and no more of his tokens will be minted. At that point the value will stabilize and, relative to depreciating assets like USD, stocks, bonds, or other things that aren't types of coin, it'll actually skyrocket. Limited supply equals stable or increasing value, forever.
Given that you have a PhD, I don't think the bootcamp will be a differentiator. It might even be a red flag for some employers. Unless you really don't feel ready and want to get up to speed with specific tools and get some interview prep - in that case the bootcamp might help but it won't be what gets you the interview.

You can probably do much better than you think.
Interesting to see the competitive analysis with Fivetran in the article but then see almost identical copies of infographics used between their site and Fivetran's.

Airbyte: https://airbyte.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Airbyte-Seed-D...

Fivetran: https://images.cms.fivetran.com/mgtdf72hs0mx/6qYtmEEotXqScar...
> But the competition is fiat; backed by fighter jets and nukes; literally.

I don't like this meme. Fiat currency is backed by an entire democracy that includes a military, but the key piece here isn't the military, it's the democracy. Despite all the problems in the US and our economic system, the folks in charge of the currency generally have the right mandate (stable employment and stable prices).
I am also not sure about the downvotes, but c'est la vie. I was dmitrygr@, i left apr 2019
Thanks for sharing that. I completely agree with your assessments. My motivation was similar, mainly fighting with Hibernate/JPQL and wanting something simpler that was structured the natural bottom-up way an SQL query would be written. Another thing that ORMs don't do well is avoiding N+1 queries when you're already starting with N of something that have associations. I started SafeQL to see where it could go but have yet to do any code generation which is what it needs to be usably convenient. Also haven't ventured much into complex UPDATEs or UPSERTs.
I think there's some "missing link" here, I think we'll have human brains merging with computers to create a symbiotic AI relationship that's less artificial but more "enhanced" for already existing "intelligence", this enhancing is probably the equivalent of the singularity, or pre-cursor to it, as we are able to research faster and faster with our computer-aided brains, we might get to AGI easier/quicker.

We're at least 30 years away from that though, if not 100. Immortality tech, may be easier to accomplish.
Like 90%.
Maybe we should also stop calling everything “tech”. Seems like every company that uses computers is a tech company.
Eh, I’m still having weird connection issues between my iPhone and OG AirPods. Less than with my old headphones, but more than I’d like
What something is has almost no relationship to what sales could be the most successful calling it. That's a consequence of the lamentable but maybe unavoidable fact that so rarely are customers experts in what they buy.
What does everyone else do?

https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/
Do you mean cryptography or cryptocurrency?
Unfortunately marketing is everything. Engineers like to build nice shiny things without much of an eye on how to sell it. If you can slap "AI" on it and make some $, then why not? The end customer may not really care. Its not exactly like calling an apple "organic". Theres no certification process or consensus on what AI actually is or means.
This is really cool!

I'm glad more people are breaking in to this space.

The founder of D&D Beyond is currently working on Demiplane.com, which has similar aims.

PlayRole.com is also doing some cool stuff that's similar.

Really glad to see more people trying to enable great gaming.
Decentralized exchanges and smart wallets are useful applications of smart contracts. A smart wallet could include multisig functionality, estate management functionality, etc. For example, a friend has a wallet that will automatically be released to heirs one year after his attorney releases it. Of course he is able to cancel the transfer at any time, if he's alive. Is that a perfect system? I dont know. But it does sound useful.

It's definitely true that many ridiculous and farfetched bad applications of smart contracts have been attempted or proposed. None of these have any bearing on the utility of smart contracts.
Fiat currency allows the government to make its citizens pay for its usurious debts, by printing more money. This is not possible with gold or bitcoin.
For those paywalled, here is the money paragraph

>NASA lets net users sign up to send their name to Mars on a future flight. Taiwan appears as an option on a “country” drop-down box. It’s unclear how long Taiwan has been called a country on the website, but more than 18 million people have registered.
The worst is when marketers and journalists talk about your own research.
There's no telling how much I miss that man ...
At least in hip hop, if you have a falling out with your ghost writers they'll make an effort to expose you.

For example Quentin Miller here wrote tons of songs for Drake.
https://genius.com/artists/Quentin-miller

Ghost producing is also a thing, I've heard stories of a producer getting $700 or $600 for fairly popular track because the the actual song is credited to someone else.

Hell, in hip hop it's not unheard of for bigger artist to outright steal ideas and concepts from underground artists. Then you can remake the song as your own, and if you decide to reach back and compensate the original artist that's okay but as far as I can tell you'll very rarely get into legal trouble.

Case in point

https://www.bet.com/music/2018/06/26/childish-gambino-this-i...

It's so easy to become successful if you just steal ideas from people
850k is worth moving to another state for a year, especially if this is not repeatable income, but that’s just me.
> Serious question, why doesn't Google build its own bluetooth & BLE chips?

There is a lot of overlap between WiFi and Bluetooth & BLE such that you just have a Wireless chip that does both. In fact I think with Bluetooth 4 the file transfer profile just establishes an adhoc WiFi network. You don't have separate Bluetooth and WiFi chips anymore.

Furthering that, in the mobile space the Wireless capabilities are usually integrated into the mobile SoC. So you don't even have separate chips for CPU and Wireless.

About the only time you see a separate Wireless chip is when a new technology is emerging like 5G and it's usually only an external chip for a generation or two until it can be integrated into the SoC.

So, if you were to design your own Bluetooth chip today you would also be designing a WiFi chip and then you'd probably just roll all that into a SoC with a CPU. No small feat.
You mean we have to go back to "Blockchain"?
good point.

I'm used to applying "pyramid scheme" to "i buy this thing not cause I want it but just hoping I can sell it to someone else for more money later, and they're going to be doing the same thing as me." Cause that is likely to leave someone holding the bag. But I guess that is an overlapping phenomenon that may not be the same as a pyramid scheme.

What do we call that phenomenon? Just "capitalism"?
The author of the above comment has a blog post on CLAs, which was submitted to HN a couple years ago and drew quite a bit of discussion. That discussion is here [1], in case anyone wants more detail on his position or wants to argue against it without just rehashing things already dealt with.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18148365
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