skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anybody else skim the headlines and wonder if a board of trustees had really been replaced by a NAS?
Inflation-adjusted views of the US minimum wage are similarly interesting: https://theintercept.com/2021/03/05/minimum-wage-raise-15/

Just the chart/image: https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2021/03/mi...
The keystone XL received investment and loan guarantees from government.

Beyond that there's a lot of goverment effort that's needs to happen to "allow" it to be built. Securing right of ways or emininent domain on land it passes through.
'High Performance Devs' I've found tend to build the things they want to build.

I've yet to meet the kind of superstar dev who is also superstar market and customer oriented.

That can be challenging as a lot of important innovation doesn't come from customer feedback and you need talented people to do those things as well.
That's just the ops side of the fence being talked about here. The other side is having endless gating, change advisory boards, batching up work, gruesome change approval processes etc. that the ops protect themselves with against development, which now grinds to a halt. This will not only make the business slow to a halt, ironically it will also produce more errors.

The really productive companies that deliver fast, are also way more robust.
I read this without paying any attention to who the author was, then read Blindsight a few years later, then saw this again a few months ago, noticed who the author was, and was like "oh, of course that was Peter Watts, that makes complete sense".
Is that legally binding somewhere? If they completely miss out that we were meant to collect X% for a municipality, will they be covering that out of their pocket?
Well, a pretty good reason is that C# is statically typed, which a lot of developers prefer. It's arguably a much more powerful language than JavaScript too.

Personally, I work with both C# and JavaScript, and I'd happily use the C# version of Playwright to write and run UI tests.
> I wouldn't be so confident 100% ("steering-wheel-less") L5 self-driving is possible.

I’m not, you didn’t read what I wrote. I specifically predicated my theory on if it was possible, and indicated my reservations there.
Agree on this. We delivered new versions to customers once a week, but every new version should not have been noticed by a customer at all.

The roll out of feature flags is a separate process.
I don't really think you're paying for accountability. That would involve some serious risk taking on Stripe side. I see no mention of this in the marketing material.
Ask HN: How do you do home security?
There's some weird happenings on my block lately and I wanted to be more proactive about the security of my house. However, I don't quite trust Nest or the other top brands of video monitoring. Looking for options that people trust. What has worked for you?
FireFly – a multiparty system for enterprise data flows
Are you sure?

Having one foreign sequence which have some specific features (to keep the originating organism viable) could have a chance of never being compatible with the target organism.

Having a completely random sequence by definition have some chance of being compatible.

The question is which scenario has a higher chance of success.
>An App button on your home screen is zillion times better for 95% of user than a web address.

I can create a button on my home screen that will take me right to a web page with one click (on android, I'm assuming you can also do this on ios)
I would take that as an argument that we should have better 'cash' that has lower costs to use.
I like to think the ones that are left prefer to remain unseen. And to me those are the best kind of spiders.
You know there's more to the equation than that.
APL is not unreadable any more than mathematical or musical notation are. Sure, to someone who doesn’t know the notation it looks like an incomprehensible mess. So does math, music, greek, chinese, arabic, hebrew, etc.

I used APL professionally every day for ten years. I can read it. I can touch-type it. And I don’t need a specially-labelled keyboard (even thirty years later).

This should not be surprising at all. A pianist does not need labeled keys and people familiar enough with the above-listed spoken languages can touch-type them without much effort.

While, sadly, APL has no practical application in modern software engineering (it stagnated and became irrelevant and impractical) it is wrong to look at the brilliant use of notation as a tool for the concise communication and expression of ideas and list it as a negative. Not being able to speak, read or write Chinese does not make it a bad language.
Agreed, and that brings up a very interesting discussion of prejudice in modeling the world. Everyone views the world differently and it seems to me of vital importance that any attempts to model the real world for RL are as unbiased as possible. Or more realistically, incorporate as many different biases as possible.
TLDR: Representation of the world doesn't seem to be locked to specific neurons or groups of neurons; over time, they drift around to completely different groups of neurons.

Someone here likened it to how programs can move around in computer memory. If neurons are the "silicon of the brain" or the "PHY" layer, the biggest problem in neuroscience IMHO is that we have virtually no understanding of what is the next layer up, (i.e. the "logical layer"). What is the equivalent of program counters, CPU instructions, etc. in the brain?

The brain is a nonlinear recurrent dynamical system and we are really in the dark as to how to break the dynamics down into understandable subcomponents.

To get an idea of the complexity, this paper by Randall Beer analyzes the possible behaviours of 1 and 2 neuron circuits:

Beer, R. D. (1995). On the Dynamics of Small Continuous-Time Recurrent Neural Networks. Adaptive Behavior, 3(4), 469–509. doi:10.1177/105971239500300405

Obviously this kind of analysis doesn't scale to 10^10 neurons.
Very interesting. We were curious about the data prep for CUP99. Since one might actually expect "normal" traffic to be more heterogeneous than attack traffic (which must actually implement an attack), switching the classes like this might actually overreport accuracy. Further, one could imagine a network where the majority of traffic is "anomalous", such as a DDoS where only the time-series data would be sufficient to detect the anomaly. Since CUP99 does not contain time-series data could you explain how you would learn concept drift on this dataset?
It's an interesting question. I bought the car. Ownership transferred to me. What if I decide to rewire some of the electronics and unlock heated seats or some other paid extra?
PCR tests are more likely to give you a false negative than a false positive.
But the article is not about renting cars. It's about buying a car, and then paying extra per hour for the autonomous driving feature.
For this type of application, check out used HP t5xx or t6xx thin clients. They are great little boxes that usually have 2 M2 slots and USB3.

Usually they are <$100 and better all around than a Pi like device for this application.
Bitcoin is now a legal currency in El Salvador
I’ll give it a go thanks.
Some of these suggestions seem great, this "time well spent" popup would be infuriating in use. As is, I hate the way apps, websites and others bombard me with constant requests for reviews, feedback, ratings etc.

When I use my coffee grinder it doesn't ask how I liked my grind (thumbs up/thumbs down/Marks out of 5/rating from "Absolutely satisfied" to "terminal ennui"). I press the button and it grings coffee exactly how I ask it to every time. I want other things to be the same. Just do the thing and stop wasting my time being so needy just because you want to feel good about your analytics.
I keep hoping some day the drives will have their own networking built in. Kioxia, a Toshiba spin off, announced a network-attached NVMe-oF drive last September[1], and I seem to recall one of the major drive players had similar intents a bit back... ah yes, the Seagate Kinetic drives with dual 1Gbit[2] & an object storage OS built in to the drive. These days Seagate seems to be pushing a software platform CORTX[3], which I hope some day perhaps has hardware products too (but right now seems to be for classic linux-based network appliances)

Ideally we start using 5 or 10Gbit ethernet for these cases. We could continue to treat these drives like they are direct attached, even though they are network attached, and either have one computer running RAID, or have Ceph and a bunch of computers running it's distributed system to tap the drives.

Ideally though, we need new clustered file-systems, where any computer can read the drives. That is, I'd guess, a long way off. Legacy devices (home media players) would need to go through some kind of legacy gateway.

[1] https://business.kioxia.com/en-us/news/2020/ssd-20200922-2.h...

[2] https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/MayurShelty_Seagate...

[3] https://github.com/Seagate/cortx
FWIW all of these differences still feel extremely surface level. I'm no expert but I certainly am, so far, aware of everything you've said with regards to how they differ - I'm kinda hoping for more, given the strong assertion you made that one can not relate the two without being fundamentally ignorant of either topic.

I also think it's somewhat ironic that you're accusing them of only being here to say "you're wrong" but that's what you've done in this thread? I only bring this up because I think we're all after the same thing here - to understand an incredibly interesting topic.

I suspect most of us are really here to learn and discuss. You seem like you have a background in the area, I'm sure we would all benefit from learning about the differences.

If it's the case that the similar is that DNA and code both encode information, and the differences are based on how they do so, it's hard to see why you think they can't be related at all. You've been relating the two.
The following skills are worth having and are portable between jobs.

DevSecOps - Notice the 'Sec' very important. Focus on github actions.

Kubernetes - Be able to deploy containers you created with your DevSecOps pipeline.

Infra structure as Code - In particular Pulumi. Works well with Kubernetes.

Rust - Makes you a better programmer.
This points to the cultural of the community within the company. Culture is difficult to create, maintain, and explain to others who are new.

I've had the good fortune of working with two groups of people who valued the idea of public documentation on an internal wiki. While some of the documentation was not rigorous in terms of requirements, functions, and detailed development, but it was enough to scope the issue. Each project had an operational section within the wiki which became the living maintenance plan for that part of our services. It was wonderful.

Upon selling my last company, the acquirer didn't get the concept of the Wiki and that everything was in there. Eventually one of my employees printed the wiki and created eight copies of a 4" thick binder and sent it to their office. Ten years later I'm told that their engineers love the binder and call it the "tome." My teammates and I chuckle about that, but at least it's being read.
Because it's nice to have all tests in a single view and a single language, both unit, integration and end to end.

Also regardless of keeping it in a _single_ language or tool, one might prefer to write tests in a .net language instead of js or python.
Lots of these don't allow the use of VOIP-like numbers.
I've heard that R is an array language. Can it compare with the likes of APL?
What I like about this, and what I like about existence in general is: While we continue to learn new things sometimes rapidly sometimes slowly, there is so much we truly don't know and it's both frightening and exciting. Constantly updating our priors.

What I don't like: so many humans think they know everything or at least position themselves that way. FYI this isn't an attack on experts.
One of the effects of a truly feature-complete notification center would be that messenger/social media user may lose any incentive to open that app.

Which I personally would be fine with; but which goes somewhat counter to the currently-mainstream model of “free” ad-supported social media and messaging platforms.

This ties into my long-standing argument that we should normalize paid social. We should be allowed to pay a fee just for the pipe. A paid platform would be incentivized to provide its users with all the flexibility, APIs and integrations, including third-party GUIs such as OS’s built-in notification center.
So true! I had an experience after which I sort of emotionally divorced from my company (but not the friends I made working there!) and it left me more relaxed, more balsy and with an attitude like “They are lucky they have me, and if they don’t think so? Fine, bye!” I ask less for permission, take ownership more, am less afraid to get fired. And it is very much appreciated!

Moreover, the occasional job interview I go to (because why not) taught me a lot and sometimes almost led to new and valuable collaborations.
Preprint Paper on SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit
In JavaScript, classes are mostly just a slightly weird way of setting up prototype chains.

Diagrams help me understand how this works. At the following link, you can see the source code of a simple class and a diagram (section 29.2.2) that shows how all involved objects are connected: https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/ch_proto-chains-classes...
Agreed about C-level execs, of course.

Another poster said it's a $300 one-time payment. So you're losing that when you leave. Figure on a bunch of options and it's a lot of money.

I'd want it tied to me, not the vehicle. I paid for heated seats on my last BMW. You're charging me again? For DLC?

If I could pay for heated seats forever I could see it. It's just software, you're putting the same seats in every car, now we have a value.

So of course that will never happen.
Gotcha. My products were addressing the global market from day 1 so the ability to automatically send an invoice with a correctly calculated sales tax to buyers from any country on the planet seemed vital. Let's also not forget about collecting and remitting said tax to correct tax authorities...
Not a replacement, but for anyone who doesn’t know about it: you can configure Instagram notification types even in the iOS app. Surprisingly good system.

Would be great if iOS copied Android and had systemwide channels.
I regret that I have but one upvote to give to this comment.
That used to be the law, but is no longer as of 2018:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.
I'm not sure what the problem is.
Isn't extracting more money the point of basically every company?

Over the course of last 7 years living in NY I paid for rentals + uber + taxis way more than if I just bought a car in the beginning.
Yet I'm going to buy a car anyway, it's simply too much hassle.
Cloud is still a thing.
This looks bad but a while back I read that if you put your dollars in t-bills, you actually came out slightly ahead in real terms over the past century. (I think it was in one of William Bernstein's books.)

T-bills of course are risk-free and arguably just another form of dollars. So don't hold your dollars long-term in the form that's intended for short-term spending.
Even ignoring smokers - second hand smoking kills more than cars

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
It's only confusing because you interpret notBefore and notAfter as one-second time intervals when they really should be instants at the start of that second.
Calling R from Julia
> You're comparing _continuous_ operation with the aggregate of the average human's bouts of driving.

I don't understand what you mean. I'm comparing actual time behind the wheel - hours of correct driving vs hours (well minutes) of incorrect driving.

Do the math yourself, take total hours behind the wheel and divide by the accident rate, like I did. You'll get the same results. Depending on your assumptions anywhere from 99.999 to 99.99999% correct driving by humans.

> Even robotaxis aren't going to run constantly.

Again, I'm not comparing constantly, I'm comparing actual hours behind the wheel.
Thanks for sharing!

Was the beta channel that you had in the pipeline for prod? i.e. prod would have no chance of getting ahead of beta because prod was always deployed based on what was last on the beta release?

Hot or bug fixing is an interesting topic because you could end up with diverging histories if you're not careful. Did you try to maintain `master` as the single source of truth or did you make separate release and deploy branches for each environment?
You're talking about FLoC as an alternative to third party cookies, but major browsers had already done away with those before the rollout of FLoC. If getting rid of third party cookies was two steps forward, FLoC is one step back. We're technically further ahead than where we started, but that certainly wasn't thanks to FLoC. Without it we'd be even further ahead, so that's what we should be advocating for.
This is very true. Most shops have an R&D team for long term innovation and other devs like myself who love customer feedback and want to deliver solutions now.
AI Predicts Brain Age from EEG Signals Recorded During Sleep
Talking about things you don't understand is no problem by me! What I'm trying to point to here is the hazard of making assumptions about something one doesn't understand, and then trying to reason about the thing based on those assumptions.
For anyone else facing a website crash error message: I had to turn off “Reader Mode” on Safari iOS to be able to view the DQLite website
Just to avoid misunderstandings, I don't think anyone in this conversation said bitcoin was a store of energy. UncleMeat and I certainly didn't.
My first questions would be (1) how big is/was the team? (2) how experienced? (3) how fast were you growing/changing? (4) without any sort of process or documentation how did you handle performance reviews (good and bad), promotions, growth? I'd also bet that your lead was (a) really good and (b) doing 2 jobs.

IME smaller organizations with experienced & stable teams can do fine without formal management, especially if the system is small enough to fit entirely in you head. Beyond that you need some form of management.

Aside: you come off at best somewhat ignorant or less charitable as kind of a jerk; there's a lot more to running a software company than writing code by yourself. We get it; you think all managers are useless MBA suits, but some of us actually still self-identify as devs that just want to improve the systems that build software. You can only get so far focusing solely on individual improvement.
For other projects doing something similar, the Rust project has Crater (https://crater.rust-lang.org), which I believe is automatically run on betas, and can be run explicitly on PRs. But is not by default. Because it builds tens of thousands of crates using the specified compiler, and takes 3 days to complete a run.
Higher rates primarily happen during full employment. I'd want to be poor with a job, rather than poor without.
Yeah, I agree. Coming from a country with a lot of inflation, it doesn't make sense if you don't show salaries as well. It's true, a US dollar could buy more things in the past, but salaries weren't as high as now. A better relationship would be what could you buy with a average salary, for example, or how many salaries you needed to buy a house back then.
I haven't used Android in a while. What stops a developer from not categorizing notifications and effectively saying "oh they're all General notifications, ha ha ha, you can't get the thing you want without all the slop"?
RCMP's use of facial recognition tech violated privacy laws, investigation finds
I'm not arguing Netflix, its mostly your attitude towards management and engineering culture. Basically your reply to the user "q3k". "Extrinsic motivators like 'we will give you a bonus' or 'we will fire you' are surprisingly bad at getting people to not fuck things up". You don't fire people just because they made a mistake. You find out what caused it, how to prevent it in the future, and you move on. That's what blameless post-mortems are about. No one is perfect and if you really are a manager that expects perfection, you really just suck as a person.

But now getting back to Netflix, they have post-mortems and they don't fire people willy-nilly over mistakes. Sure it's not hugops (a term I don't care for either), but they don't just up and fire people over a mistake. I never said anything about netflix going up or down on that day, but they also have problems just like everyone else. Their SLA is not 100% uptime and neither is Fastly.

In closing, you are being a pedantic little bitch who wants to argue minutia and I'm done with your trolling. I'm done responding to you, feel free to have the last reply as I really don't care anymore.
> As for whether it's "real" AGI or just acts like it, doesn't really matter.

Absolutely. The term "AGI" came about specifically to avoid existing philosophical arguments about "strong AI", "real AI", "synthetic intelligence", etc. Those wanting to discuss "true intelligence", etc. should use those other terms, or define new ones, rather than misuse the term AGI.

AGI requires nothing more (or less!) than a widely-applicable optimisation algorithm. For example, it's easy to argue that a paperclip maximiser isn't "truly intelligent", but that won't stop it smelting your haemoglobin into more paperclips!
On the upside look at how much money you'd be making now as opposed to in the past!
Oh sure, yeah I mean it's all in good fun. I wouldn't try to actually establish any serious thought other than "this is wild".
Utility companies are also doing hinky things where they don't correctly credit kilowatts that are put back on the grid from residential solar.
> since it will be directly tied to risk, computers already drive better than humans

They do not! Are you comparing computer driving in "easy" situations with human driving in all situations?
> When converted to the value of one US dollar in 2020, goods and services that cost one dollar in 1700 would cost just over 63 dollars in 2020, this means that one dollar in 1700 was worth approximately 63 times more than it is today.

Does anyone know what they mean by saying that the U.S. Dollar was worth X in 1700 (much less 1635) when it didn't even exist until 1792? Are they implicitly converting to the Spanish Dollar, or are they just saying that this is what the dollar would be worth if it were around back then? If the latter, how would you go about calculating this?

They attribute the data before 1913 to Dr. Robert Sahr of Oregon State, but I can only find him going back to 1774 [0].

[0] https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/spp/polisci/research/inf...
That's really the only answer. Do the research and the math for your own business/use and see if AWS is a better value than colo or your own hardware.
Not to claim any are better than Dyalog, but there are options: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/List_of_open-source_array_languages . I think dzaima/APL and April are both all right. Personally, I think GNU is not a good design: for example it has no lexical scoping or even control structures, essentially requiring you to use goto for program control. BQN is my own effort and I would say it has more serious ambitions than these. If you're not attached to the APL language specifically, I'd take a look.
I know that it says the values prior to 1913 were estimated, but how can it be possible for the dollar to have any purchasing power before the country even existed? Shouldn't it be a constant 0 until at least 1776?