skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting idea about a type of AI that we do not have yet.

Attributing magical pattern-finding expert-beating behaviour to AI is common among those who do not know much about it or how it works, or who haven't used it to solve problems. I don't want to guess at your experience using AI tools to solve problems (maybe you have tons!), but from my own modest experience, 'AI' is not very good at the things you are painting a picture about.

AI in most contexts today is not a way to replace a scarce expensive human expert with a cheap multipliable mechanical expert, let alone a cheap multipliable mechanical super-expert. It is a way to replace a scarce expensive human expert with a cheap multipliable mechanical 10 year old. Anyone can get AI can do what a thousand reasonably trained 10 year olds can do, but it can not out-see or out-intuition most experts at most tasks, especially many-factor soft tasks, because humans can quickly sort through what to pay attention to among many diverse signal types. An expert comedian is still a lot better at looking at, say, a tag cloud and coming up with a great joke than GPT-3 is.

In some tasks, like chess or go, AI can evaluate many many paths and store the results and train on the specific, measurable outcomes. This is valuable to it, and allows it to outpace experts in these domains. It may apply to many other domains in the future.

Is propaganda like those domains? Are exposed networks like those domains? Is trading bitcoin like those domains? I agree that it may be possible for AI to do very surprising, clever things in the future -- it maybe even is likely that it will. But today, and for the near future, what you're discussing is very far into the realm of fun science fiction.
Crazy that this work has been done by hand. I always assumed there would be an augur or something inside.
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Exactly. Documentation is expensive and time consuming and needs to be maintained. They're absolutely great to have and can be vital, but it's up to management/leads to prioritize it because, at the end of the day, they decide where the money and man hours go.
I'm in US. I have a few people that I send emails to, who's MX servers are in Russia. I would be extremely annoyed, if I suddenly couldn't contact those people... because Russian "sovereign internet" system blocks my MX.

I would also be annoyed, if my email provider provided access to my data for Russian special services.

All considered - I'd rather that they cut off Russian signups, than either of the other two options.
And yet they understand the law enough to block EU access? As "a local news website from Spokane Washington", why even bother? I think some scepticism is valid here.
https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/hazard...
> “After hearing some farmers talk about how they've lost a loved ones or how they themselves have gotten injured, I got really passionate about the project,” Zents says.
I'm glad Jellyfin served his purposes. As a user of both Plex and Emby, I will say that Jellyfin is still quite behind for my use cases (e.g. Live TV streaming and DVR).
How expensive/difficult would it be to create two irrigation canals: one from the Gulf of Calfornia, and one from Texas?

The Grand Canal in China is 1,100 miles long. Houston to Albuquerque is about 1,300. Puerto Peñasco is 250 miles to Phoenix. Add another 300 and you’re in Vegas.

Seems doable if drought will be a recurring concern. Obviously salinity would be an issue but I don’t know how difficult that would actually be to fix for agriculture.

Edit: now that I look at a map, the Red River in Texas seems fairly substantial and goes all the way into eastern New Mexico.
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Also TastyKake, which have since been bought by Bimbo and are now sold across the country.

I moved from PA to Colorado and my mom sent me a box of tasty kakes, all melted and pretty much destroyed and then I told her I can go to my local store and buy some. Her mind was blown, same thing with Amarosa rolls.
I use a MicroServer too (an older one). They have ECC memory, so you should indeed be fine on this point.
But price and electricity consumption are much higher than a RPi.

I agree that the CPU is the weak point (mine has a turion n40l which is slow as hell).
How can we quantify similarity between time series?
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Humans haven't had multiple generations of selective breeding to select for particular cognitive traits. We have, however, had:

• Sunburn / vitamin D deficiency

• Oxygen deprivation at high altitudes

• Free diving

which have had obvious effects on certain human populations. But mentally, we're all pretty much just human, same as any other; variation is massive, yes, but it can be pretty big between siblings. Seeing “sheep dog breeds have a herding instinct” doesn't tell you much about humans.

When people try to argue a “genetic basis” for a particular trait, they're usually just trying to justify racism.
> Does ICANN actually mandate that a 'click this link' be included in the email

Probably. It's been a while since I worked in that industry, but ICANN has always been pretty picky about the exact contents of emails.

Changing the user workflow in the way you're describing is out of the question. The entire purpose of clicking a link in the email is to confirm that the email was received at the domain's WHOIS contact address. Allowing a user to log in and click "confirm" without clicking a link in the email wouldn't confirm that.
This doesn't apply to javascript as much, but might again one day.

But yes, spending my weekends learning a new language and library is not a feature.

I'd much prefer to spend my off time learning more about my target users, how to better manage a team, or the legal regulations surrounding the domain I'm writing code in, or just hitting the gym...

Not to mention as soon as I add a new language to our project stack that means every current dev has to learn a new technology, our build pipeline becomes more complex, we need a second set of coding guidelines, and finding new devs becomes more difficult because they'll need to know 2 languages instead of one or we have to increase the onboarding time for every future dev who roles onto the project.

I think it's uncommon that it's worthwhile to invest in a second language/tech stack on a real project.
Wouldn’t these things, like quantum computers, be leased? The complexity is getting so high that you would need full time staff dedicated just to that hardware. At least if it goes belly up, you are not stuck with unsupported hardware.
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Your concern is actually (partially) adressed:

> If you’re adding campaign URLs to offline materials – like posters or leaflets – and don’t want to feature a long web link, I’ve got good news for you too. GDS provides the option to you to request a shortened version of a full GOV.UK URL.

I'm disappointed that they mentioned Google Analytics. People willingly using Twitter (or Instagram) is a thing, involuntary Google tracking is another.
Clearly some management is required somewhere in the chain, and if they're any good then they're important. But certain tiers of management seem to largely be pointless intermediaries; especially if they're not as technical as the developers.

I've stopped being skeptical of the general concept of management. I'm no fan of LinkedIn, but Reed Hoffman said something in a talk that instantly changed my entire opinion about the idea of a developer moving up in the hierarchy and no longer writing code. Paraphrased from memory: "You're still programming; just at a higher level of abstraction."
get rid of your biological form and become a robot. you'll be productive 100% of the days.

or, maybe just get enough rest every day, treat yourself well, don't work so hard.

y'know. both ways could work.
What does it mean for a dog to be herding sheep without a human indicating what to do?
Our dog often "sheep"-herds us - when we are walking - often going around us, trying to put us in a "circle". He's a shih-poo dog rescue (or that's what we've been told). When one of us goes astray, he stops and checks that we are all in form :) - lol
I didn't realize FLOC was already in use.

Looks like to disbable it in Chrome... you have to find a deeply nested config and then tell chrome you want to "disable privacy-preserving features". !?!?

I can do this. But of course nobody else is, it's telling you are disabling privacy-preserving features! Its' making me kind of livid.
I worked with an org that ran their own link shortener... and used it for confirmation links! I'm not even kidding, you'd go to reset you password and as expected the link would be something like:

ourapp.example.com/auth/reset?user=blah&token=1af17e73721dbe0c40011b82ed4bb1a7dbe3ce29eae4997c84600287f8866673d05fdaa1aa841a5a

and they they figured, oh man, those links are unsightly for email, we'd best turn that into something like:

ourapp.example.com/s/xO8pR

That looks way cleaner in an email.
Mostly because they're incompetent, not because they actually wanted those services to go under the radar.
Is there any phrase worse than "thought-leader"? Awful.

I liked the "extended-roadmap" suggestion. The planning process parallels code review in that often people will inject themselves unnecessarily into the workflow, so having ways to satisfy everyone's need to be involved without compromising the actual product is fantastic.
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Why is killing the dog necessary, rather than just spay/neuter and then letting it do something other than herd sheep?
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RAM BER is shockingly high, like several bits per GB per year. Dozens or hundreds of data corruptions per year does not meet my requirements for even a home NAS, even if most are transient.
"I'm not sure how folks use it"

Suggestion: have you considered running office hours and inviting your users to chat to you about what they're doing with it?

I've been doing that for six months for my Datasette project and I've had over 60 conversations now, it's been a revelation - it almost completely solved the "I don't know how people are using this" problem for me, and gave me a ton of ideas for future directions for the project.

I wrote more about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Feb/19/office-hours/
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Does AGI imply human-level intelligence, or would the intelligence of a housefly qualify?
On one end of that timeline people were buying buying barrels of whale oil, and on the other end they are subscribing to internet services!
Well, stop that then.
this legitimately makes me feel sad for you. i know that there are companies like this, but do you really want to work for them? i like this article and i feel like taking these initiatives would be greatly valued by my org and would lead to more respect, more responsibility, more visibility, and more pay.
Watching the story, they mention that social media is how the farm-owner discovered the dog that was bothering his sheep was the missing dog from the crash-story and was able to find the owners.

This could have happened without social media, but it was a significant facilitator in getting all parties in contact with each other.
The presentation with pigs was all about exporting the brain's representation for olfactory stimuli. They were not demonstrating learning to control cursors.

So now I understand why the quiproquo, sorry.

I agree with you that in this situation (cursor controlling) nothing is changed regarding the learning task for the brain.
Oh man, I did the Wilbur Chocolate tour a couple times as a kid, that place was great. Years later, I ordered some Wilbur Buds online and they sent me like 5x the amount I ordered, seemingly intentionally. Good people! Apparently the Lititz factory closed 5 years ago but they still kept the storefront and museum open.

I haven't ever done a Lebanon Bologna tour, but a couple decades ago I did attend a large electronic music event ("rave" but that term was unpopular in the scene) in Lebanon PA. Naturally the vast majority of the attendees were coming in from Philly and other spots 2+ hours away. The small local police caught wind of it a couple weeks ahead of time, and called in a huge state task force, even though the event was legal and licensed. The state cops' attempt to place undercover agents was pretty comical -- a bunch of older balding guys dressed like goths (completely wrong scene!) jumping up and down and asking everyone if they "had any X pills for sale". Definitely an experience.
> However, today, we have more economic activity than we have gold.

Don't want to engage in the broader debate, but you do realize that gold is fungible and able to broken down into very small pieces? Are you familiar with the term reserve banking? The gold standard doesn't mean you make transactions with actual physical pieces of gold. It means financial institutions have to hold physical gold reserves relative to the money they issue.
Also that the base money supply (MO) is a very small fraction of the money used in the economy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
It's a good observation. IME you can't be in all the meetings you need to be in to obtain alignment on complex problems in a changing environment AND be effective in writing code, very generally speaking. My most frustrating career points have been when I was a tech lead, doing a bit of both. Being more purely IC or purely managerial, it is much easier to get important work done.

Its also a grass is geener issue. Work is generally more enjoyable as an IC, you get to focus and write code. Until you end up having to build something really stupid, and you want more control over product direction. Then you end up as manager, and long for the simplicity of being able to focus and write code. At least that's how I've felt at times.
Let's talk about how California is holding cities accountable for housing
I think that there's should be an automatic tool for anything under .gov.uk and .nhs.uk, and then manual process for other links.
AMC sold what ~8.5m then 11m shares last week? GME only selling 5m isn't a huge deal. If there are 77 total shares of GME in the wild before this. And the shorts made up another 40%, that gives us 107 total shares. This isn't even statistically significant 4% and won't really help the shorters get out of their positions.
One of the things that is in shortage - ASICs for automotive industry. So it will help a little bit.
The US is spread out to an extent that people in Europe have a difficult time imagining. This tends to make people car dependent, which in turn impedes public transit even where it'd work well.

The US has good train infrastructure for freight (far better than Europe), but rail service is not great. There's no good train route from the SF Bay Area to Southern California. But even if there were, getting around in the LA area practically requires a car, so you'll be renting one at the end of a train journey anyways.

So, the options to get my family down there look like:

* $100 roundtrip flight * 5 of us = $500 plus the cost of renting a car. Annoying airport logistics and luggage, and a few hours of time saved

* ~$300 of wear on vehicle and gas round trip, plus having to drive for 6 hours.

A good train would be something inbetween-- perhaps $30-40/person, but still needing to rent a car. Somewhat easier logistics, but still annoying luggage, etc. Time between that of a flight, etc.

But a self-driving car would take the worst suck out of the driving trip.
Marine le Pen doesn't give a shit what language the EU uses, that claim is a distraction. Her and others like her think France needs to care about the EU a whole lot less, and the EU should be much less important in France, so she's really the last kind of person who would expend political capital on such a thing.

BTW the EU sucks at peace and settling disputes. If it was good at the whole "peace in Europe" thing it wouldn't be constantly rolling boulders down the hill at the UK and Switzerland but rather, find ways to work amicably with them as productively as possible. It doesn't of course, it just threatens them and tries to force them into the EU's power structures regardless of popularity or the creation of resentment, which is exactly why the "ultra-right" as you put it (lol) is constantly gaining ground. Someone has to care what voters think, after all.
> rarely should folks be held unaccountable for adjustments in the timeline

unaccountable? Was that a typo?
> If its because the US could just print its obligations, than Id argue that the Tbills are not risk free since one would only get the nominal value back

Depends. The US could honor the T-bills owners at the expense of currency holders.
These "AI processors" are just matrix-multiplication engines, often 8-bit or 16-bits. Maybe 4-bit in some cases.

16-bit (and smaller) just isn't enough for most compute problems. But emphasis on "most". Neural Nets clearly are fine with 16-bit, but some video game lighting effects can be calculated on 16-bit and look "good enough".

Maybe a certified Jewelry Appraiser can tell the difference between 1.3 refractive index vs 1.35, but the typical video game player (and dare I say, human) won't be able to tell the difference. If all the light bounces are just slightly off, as long as its "close enough", you probably have good-enough looking ray-tracing or whatever.

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I've also heard of "iterative solvers" being accelerated by 16-bit and 32-bit passes before doing a 64-bit pass. That's not applicable to all math problems of course, but that's still a methodology where your 16-bit performance accelerates your 64-bit ultimate answer.
Technology is deflationary, in general.
> Why would we ever expect qualia to be based on specific and static combinations of neurons?

I agree. In short, they've discovered that they're measuring the wrong thing. Since we don't understand a lot about the brain, that should be unsurprising.

The same thing happens in computers; in many systems, a specific memory cell at a low-level can be easily remapped to different uses over time.
I have no idea what you are talking about here. Cars sometimes lose features between model years, or even during mid year refreshes. Tesla is no pioneer there.
It's why I prefer desktop/local software whenever it's available and whenever it's something I need to be using often. Cloud software is usually noticeably slower.

Latency should be a UX priority.
There are augurs inside, but the grain doesn't always cooperate. Sometimes it clumps up or the augur creates a void, in which case a person has to go in and break up the clumps.
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Agriculture is an area still ripe for technological innovation. It looks less and less like it did a generation ago, but there are still many dangerous tasks, like this one, involved and, I believe, many that could be made much more efficient.

I love to see projects like this making a difference for people doing critical, and often dangerous, blue collar work.
> Since 2008, I've ripped every DVD and Blu-Ray I bought to my Mac

It's been years since I've ripped DVDs (I probably stopped when this guy started) but the last I remember getting around copy protection was ...tricky. I have an archive of DVD's I'd love to digitize - anyone have a good ripper recommendation (Windows)? To be clear, these are DVDs I legally purchased and own.
Dogs are very smart. The wild ones, even more so.

Some of us may remember this episode of Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0036vfk

The dogs look like a trained commando squad.

This gives you an idea why everyone on the savannah is scared of a Wild Dog pack.
Ha I thought exactly the same thing. 2.9% + $0.30 tax to be exact.
Again this does not conflict with being unbiased against the evidence.
Bonus points if you make the preferences page a dungeon that users have to navigate with twisted meanings and options that work counter to the user's actual preferences.
This is largely why I felt the need to share it. I've never posted to HackerNews but I didn't see this one anywhere on here and had to share.
I bet you would hate to spend 4+ hours per day in negotiation meetings, stacking up plans and writing reports, some days not even having time to start working on development tasks. You'd probably give all this to someone who wants and has experience to do it, someone like...a manager?

If your lead dev didn't have to spend that much then I'm afraid that experience does not extrapolate on what larger companies do; if they did then I think you're missing the elephant in the room that the lead dev was de-facto the manager at the expense of their direct duties.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments to HN, and please don't do name-calling or personal attacks. Those things are not what this site is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Printing money does not always cause inflation. The purpose of the Fed is to keep the dollar's value stable. If demand for the dollar rises, the Fed has to print money to avoid deflation.
The US could really use some national action on sales taxes.

I'd like to see Congress make it so a state can only require remote sellers with no physical presence in the state to collect tax for the state if:

1. Tax rates on remote sales are uniform within a zip code. No more having to deal with "123 Fake Street, Hooterville, 65026" having a different tax rate than "124 Fake Street, Hooterville, 65026". (Worse, I recall finding an example where a tax boundary apparently ran through an office building, so different offices on the same floor had different tax rates!).

2. They adopt a standard for tax classification that will be specified by the Federal government. They don't have to change the classifications used for taxing sellers with a presences in the state, but for remote sellers they have to use the Federal classifications.

3. Rates for remote sales can only change once per quarter, and the data for the quarter must be published one month before the start of the quarter. It must be published on the web, at a URL that requires no registration or fees, in a format specified by the Federal government. The Federal government would maintain a web page that contains links to the state data pages.

4. Sellers can report taxes using a uniform format defined by the Federal government. The format supports reports that cover the taxes for more than one state. The seller can file such a multi-state report with any state that requires remote sellers to collect tax that they owe tax to, and that state will forward the report to the other states it contains data for. The seller can also pay all the tax to that state, and it will transfer the appropriate amounts to the other states.

If Congress did this it would make dealing with remote sales tax so much easier.
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by disabling it you're giving more uniquely identifying info to the fingerprinting backend apps lol
That's great, we can bring back my hero, Stalin!
Love the Socialism!