skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could somehow obscure your comment from everyone at Amazon.

I use an e-ink tablet, Android stock, due to eye strain. The kindle app is such a bloated pile of ad laden junk, it is barely usable.

Not only that, but it won't let me get rid of whitespacing around the text, and more, eating tonnes of real estate.

Meanwhile, every other app, eg moon reader, etc, is fast and slick.

Impressive, Amazon!

I buy what I can elsewhere, due to this, but sometimes have no choice... and I imagine losing a few sales is offset by more buy in due to the horrid ads?
>I do not believe this actually breaks any ACID properties.

You must send the write ACK after your transaction has been written, which could increase latency in the worst case but you will still have much higher throughput.
Even when open source is “attributed”, that is usually done in the laziest and bare-minimum way possible (like being buried multiple levels deep in some “Acknowledgements” item, that simply displays a 45 page text document with unzoomable and unsearchable text that casually lists the dozens of open source libraries used).

Unfortunately there are a lot of people who really will do the bare minimum and take everything they possibly can from projects and give absolutely nothing back.
It's an oversimplification to say AI will replace xyz job.

It seems more likely that AI will simply sift through the data more thuroughly and look holistically to catch things a radiologist might miss.

A radiologist, for example, might miss spotting a small tumor in an xray taking for an unrelated hip injury.

AI has a lot of complimentary value.
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These are great ideas. You should shoot the higher ups an email and a link to the thread.

Your suggestions seem like a win win for Github and the hardworking OSS maintainers.
What if the energy used to build and transport were to come from wind, solar and/or hydro? Does it stay stupid in your calculus?

Could you post some data and/or resources on where you’re getting your numbers? It sounds surprising and unlikely, because large wind turbines can generate a lot of energy over their lifetimes. Ivanpah solar generates about 850Gwh annually and has been running for 10 years, with many more on the horizon. You are sure 8500 Gwh is less that it took to construct? I’m curious about your claim and willing to hear the research. How are you calculating the energy inputs of manufacture? How are you calculating the lifetime outputs?

I tried to Google it and the very first result roundly and soundly counters your claims, and backs it up with real data. https://fullfact.org/online/wind-turbines-energy/

“A 2010 analysis of fifty separate studies found that the average wind turbine, over the course of its operational life, generated 20 times more energy than it took to produce. This level was “favourable” in comparison to fossil fuels, nuclear and solar power.”

And most importantly, is comparing energy in to energy out the right question to ask, and why? If energy in is renewable, then why would it matter how much it takes? With oil, return on investment isn’t even relevant to the question of whether it’s sustainable. We’re using up a non-renewable resource, and when it’s gone, it’s gone. The ratio of energy required to pull oil out of the ground compared to the energy it produces is a red herring.

Also what is the part about cat food about? Sorry I don’t get it. Are you suggesting everything needs to be accounted for up to and including cat food? Or is this a joke about over-accounting for things that aren’t directly related?
It's recently that these articles coming out. This one talks about exploiting others for their own benefit that leads to such a life. Otherwise there were too many as articles about working hard and hustle.
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"At some top companies, Asian Americans are overrepresented in midlevel roles and underrepresented in leadership."

The traits that are optimal or believed to be optimal for a midlevel role are intelligence, conscientiousness, and ability to fit in.

The traits that are optimal or believed to be optimal for leadership roles are the ability and willingness to play aggressively and intuitive or deep understanding of the behavior of other people.

Rather than this weird, face-blindness theory I would recommend taking a look at the intersection of culture, presentation, and stereotypes.
> Especially diagnostics.

I don't think so. Maybe I'm just too old, but I remember vividly that the same was said about expert systems back in the late 90s and early 2000s.

20 years later and no one is even considering expert systems for automated diagnosis anymore. The problem with current machine learning models is their blackbox character.

You cannot query the system for why a diagnosis was made and verify it's "reasoning". Tests rely on using the systems as oracles instead and in medical diagnosis, a patient's medical history is just as important as the latest lab results.

No amount of ML (in its current form) will be able to manage to interview patients accordingly. It might work as a tool for assisting professionals, but it's nowhere near in a state that warrant's its use for automated diagnosing of patients.
> You've changed the discussion from the intended simplicity of politics to an argument about who was allowed to vote.

I was disagreeing directly with your point that this was intended to be simple, or for "regular people". I contend that it wasn't any of this - it was intended to enrich a room-full of people with the support of wealthy elites. The immediate effect was to shift power only slightly, and not in the direction of regular people. How is that a strawman, please?

From Wikipedia: "The language of the concluding endorsement... was made intentionally ambiguous in hopes of winning over the votes of dissenting delegates" - the exact opposite of your claim.

> this type of strawman is similar to the types of arguments that create difficulties and barriers with present day politics.

Ironic.
A lot of businesses live entirely within major tech company walled gardens, from the iOS App Store to the Azure Marketplace, where vendors have zero control over the platform. A precarious position to be in, perhaps, but hardly unsustainable.
I use Seagate all the time, and while there are failures, I find the doom-saying about them to be greatly exaggerated. Moreover, because they are so much less expensive than the competition, and because I am using them in applications where redundancy is already a requirement, and because they have a warranty, everything has worked out.
> Remember, in that "other world", we would have to pay for each and every little proprietary piece of sh* code. The "new world" will not be built by profit-maximizing value-extractors, and if you think it will, then I wish you a happy burnout.

Yeah, I think there are a couple of problems with Open Source as it is done today.

One is that people are making things that are useful to profit-maximizing value-extractors. I don't know how much is because their "itch" is aligned with them, or because that's the way to get a top project on GitHub and make a name for yourself. But seriously: stop making things that are useful to profit-maximizing value extractors. Make software that is useless[1].

The second is that we really have no kind of license to discourage the use of useful software by profit-maximizing value-extractors. In large part, this is, IMO, because FLOSS licenses have prioritized the rights of the user (who may be a profit-maximizing value-extractor) over those of the author or the community. It is also in part because licenses seem to be the wrong kind of tool for controlling how our software is used. CopyFarleft and Ethical Source licenses are trying to tackle this, but not very successfully, I think.

[1]: https://ando.life/journal/the-useless-tree
Refurbished drives get their firmware and NVRAM overwritten. The subsequent units have different serial numbers and the labels get replaced.
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Slightly bloated from pictures shared a year or two ago maybe, but he still looks very healthy for a 57 year old.
RIP sir. Running a tank through an electric fence to free people is badass.
That's really because customers are demanding software now. They want auto steer, variable rate application, they want to mark their tile inlets or waterways on their fields before they upload into the tractor. They want their sprayer or planter to integrate and show them singulation and population or rates right there in the cab. Lots of famers are using iPads along with multiple in cab systems to manage all the technology and record additional data. I've see farmers planting with as many as 4 or 5 screens in their tractors and it's getting to where there's an aftermarket just for mounts to hold more screens and computers. Farmers aren't just accepting that, but they are buying additional systems that require more software all the time because at the end of the day, it's business.
I wonder how often these projects truly need someone with on the ground experience guiding it, as the textbook tasks as you say are easy for even the humans
This should be the top voted commen. This is similar to their claims about App Store security, on which they continuously fail to deliver. They want absolute control but don't give you absolute security and they are only ever liable if you take them to court personally (and who wants to take the worlds biggest company to court really?).
You don't even need to sink the ship doing the "trawler wars" of the 1970ies when British pirate trawlers were plying Icelandic water(with the protection of the royal navy) Iceland manage to destroy enough trawls by dragging wires though them that the Brit's eventually gave up trying to fish in Icelandic waters.

A few trawlers got boarded but no shots were fired.
> I'm reminded of a newspaper interview with a bank director here in Sweden a few years ago. She spoke at length about how we should accept that our children won't have regular jobs - they would have a few 'gig' employments: driving a cab a few days each week before stocking shelves in the evening and maybe working part-time at an old-people's home. The obvious implication to me was that it was other people's children she was talking about not her's. On the contrary, they would obviously be sitting in the back of the cab, on their way to their well-paid career in banking, just like their mother.

I sometimes question whether finance people (particularly those in intermediary institutions like banks) in general have the knowledge to understand how organizations actually operate. They seem to derive most beliefs about organizations from accounting statements, but don't seem to know much about "human resources," operations, organizational structure, management. Even areas like organizational strategy and legal compliance seem a bit out of reach. All of this is to say, from an accounting statement and naïve extrapolation point of view, maybe her prediction makes sense; when considering all of the other myriad factors that must be reckoned with across all organizations, I'm more skeptical.
This will shut Musk very big and fat mouth.

Musk will not be able to comment on space anymore without journalists and reply people on Twitter asking why doesn't he go to space too.

And no, 99% of people don't know the difference between higher orbit and what Bezos is doing.

This is really smart from Bezos, he's recapturing the narrative of space and sucking air out of Musk baloon

If he ups the dose of TRT/HGH he'd pretty soon mock Musk because he can't go due to him being obese.
Of technicians accessing a device that is that personal and many people consider secure due to Apple's own marketing?

Absolutely.
Why does it matter if she is a part of the privileged consumer class or not? It doesn't affect the quality of her arguments, does it?

I checked out her profile and one of her posts implies that she is a teacher: https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/nobody-will-ever-give-a-fl... I couldn't find much other information about her and Jessica Wildfire is obviously a pen name. I think you are quite incorrect in claiming that she is in the same class as people earning $70,000/month.
It makes me think that some truths may take years, decades to really come out. Things we read today in the news might only become clear in the future, specially politics and such.
Leaving aside your implied threat of violence, what on earth convinces you that “opportunities are finite”?

Human needs are infinite. Every solved problem creates a new class of problems that you can solve.

And that’s ignoring the many bad solutions we already live with that are ripe for replacement.
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Does anyone remember the DeskStar aka DeathStar drives? I had to look it up but apparently that was around 2001.

As I recall that pretty much killed the IBM brand when it came to hard drives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar
Worked fine for who? I enjoy Spotify so much more than the good ol' days of foobar2000 and then like.

- I can play any song or podcast that I want without ordering a CD (that I couldn't afford as a kid) or opening up a torrent client.

- Curation is taken care of. Every song I've ever "liked" or added to a playlist is available on any of my devices, without me having to worry about syncing.

- I can discover music similar to an artist or song with Song Radio. I have curated playlists created for me based on my tastes (Discover Weekly).

- I can cast to any other device, like a Sound bar.

- I can run this application on Mac, Linux and Windows and it works without a hitch on all 3. I remember back when native applications simply didn't appear on Linux. Skype was the dominant video calling service and it simply didn't work on Linux. Now you can choose the OS that you want knowing that all software will work, without mucking around with Wine.

There's two kinds of people - those that pretend that Spotify and others don't have any new features compared to Winamp 5.0. The second kind pretend that these features are useless or no one wants them. Nope, I like the status quo just fine. So do tens of millions of others.

All of that software is still available. Download Winamp (https://www.winamp.com) or whatever other "lightweight" players you want. Fact is, people voted with their wallets and they went with the streaming services that use electron for their clients.
These gig job workers are classified as contractors, not employees (except where a judge or a local law says they must be employees). I don't know how, or if, workers' comp applies to contractors, I suspect it doesn't apply at all.
By the option that suits people the most, I didn't mean "best".

The free market is actually a science, and the "invisible hand of the market" is formalized by game theory. And it often result in optimal solutions, but not always. The prisoner's dilemma is the best-known counter-example. There is mathematical proof that a free market is not perfect, but currently, in practice and when supplemented by relatively light regulation, that's the best we have.

As for the choice, you can't have good and cheap, it is not about being proud of something, it is just how things are. Legislation can just remove the choice. For example, you are not allowed to buy a car so cheap that it is going to kill you and the environment, which is a good thing. But because of that, you are forced to pay "twice the price", you just don't notice it because the cheap option is simply not available.
McDonald's probably can be automated enough to do without any burger flippers.
I agree. Can we stop with this type of talk? It's a huge turn off, and that is coming from someone who considers himself left of center.

Who do they think they are reaching with this rhetoric?
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You don't throw them. It's the threat of having to drink your tea (yes, coffee too) without a biccy that does the damage. Withholding tea is unthinkable.
A counter-argument to these ideas is that because it's open source, I'd just fork whatever I wanted to use and re-host somewhere else.

Maybe if it was an optional and project-oriented patreon-style?
Yes. So, remember when that was not the case?
Logging is not necessarily surveilance. It is about you seeing what they do with your phone.
I willing to give the benefit of the doubt on some of this, but PETA is a horrible organization of horrible people. As much as I love animals, PETA is not their friend.
Well, Richard Biener certainly count as a compiler person (they are heavily involved with the GCC middle end), and they seem to care, although not enough to fix it as the issue if fairly academical in this case.
I don’t follow, how does my claim imply that number of working hours would decrease or that conditions would increase? Those seem to be factors that fall outside of the specific forces we are discussing?
Advancements in Medicine happen in spurts because of the regulatory review process and the risk aversion.

The advance must either be VERY significantly better to warrant the approval process, OR an extremely low risk incremental change.

So what we end up with is this sputtering of tiny and big advances.
Dumb question, but how does this work? .cat isn't listed as a TLD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
Samsung's stretchable electronic 'skin' can detect and display your heartbeat
this is a stupid question. because else you would need to compare how much it would cost you to pay for visiting the site your going to and than calculating the energy costs of the transactions involved.
Where AI (doesn't) fit into healthcare
They get mad when you show up at the apple store for service having just reset the phone. “We take privacy seriously”, “you can trust us us”, blah blah blah. No. Always fully wipe before handing your phone or laptop over to anyone you don’t know and trust.
Why would those hackers not work on their own projects with that time? There is nothing wrong with people doing what they want with their own free time.

Making labor scarce so that workers are paid a larger share of the profits they are involved in creating, like they have in the recent past, is the point.
Anti-ecommerce? Seeking folks to co-found a company that discourages consumption
If you buy cheap, you buy twice. But what if you don't buy at all. Too many green companies focus on recycling ... are any thinking about the incentives to discourage consumption in the first place? I have been brainstorming startup ideas and would love to find likeminded folks who want to build something in the space.
You just need it to be at a point where the masses are satiated.

If we come to a point where the average person cannot afford a modest living (which we are pretty much on the brink of) then it doesn't matter what's logical or not. People are going to get upset and inevitably start breaking things.
I believe you can still do this with SeaMonkey. Or through a content blocker extension like uBlock Origin, on Firefox or Chrome.
True. I got it in my head to try to walk the Appalachian Trail after college (decided to wait until later in life). One of the things recommended to me in training was to camp in isolation for 4 or 5 days. By the last day, I was a little edgy and started imagining someone was in my campsite late at night. And that's with the safety net knowing I could just walk a couple miles out of the woods back to my car and civilization.
> It was written by an ambitious 20-something with a lot of dreams, idealism, and smarts

A generous assessment, I would describe the mindset as exploitative with the self-knowledge that he didn't have any of his own talent worth exploiting. TL;DR: hire other people to do the work for you and mark it up a lot. I binned it quickly. To this day I avoid the author's name without exception everywhere it appears, he's guest to a lot of podcasts. Unfair maybe, but that mindset at 20 is probably that mindset at 30, 40, but with a sophistication to sell it better.
It's not like you can't commit suicide.
The importance of identifying moments and insights from long form of Interviews
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This is a really good point and example. I spent 10 years in mammography software, and I saw first hand how many outside factors can impact a physician's decision to biopsy or not a given artifact on an image.

Things like family history, patient's history, cycle timing, age, weight, other risk factors all play a role in a smart radiologist making the right decision for that patient. And the pattern recognition on top of that is really hard - it's not just about the pattern you see at a particular spot in an image, it's the whole image in the context of what that looks like. Could ML get better over time with this? Sure...but they've been using CAD in mammography for decades and it still hasn't replaced radiologists at all.

Could a model be made to include those over variables? Sure...but again the complexity of that kind of decision making is something that requires a lot more "intelligence" than any AI or ML system exhibits today and in my mind in the foreseeable future. Just collecting that data in a structured, consistent way is more challenging than people realize.
Thank you. I have learned more about the word, tempt. It can be a verb with an object or a verb without an object. Therefore, either use is correct, but the meaning differs slightly betweem them. I can tempt you with cake, but in return you might not be tempted by the cake.
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