skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a beautifully written post and definitely not a ramble, thanks for sharing this.

I would take this a bit further that being happy or feeling fulfilled is really the best way to have an open mind to do things differently. If you're stressed out from working all the time, you have little chance of appreciating "problems" as more than things that must be dealt with rather than as opportunities for learning.
Messi is 169, average height at the World Cup is 182.4, this is quiet a difference. In fact he is in the lowest percentiles. Ronaldo is 187, Neymar is 175.
I worked at edX for a few years as an engineer, but left 3.5 years ago.

There isn't much of a story here. Of the top 10 officers listed on page 7 of the 990, only two—Anant and Adam—work directly for edX. The directors are MIT or Harvard employees.

This transfer values edX, Inc. at $800M. Would anyone be complaining if the board and execs of a for-profit near-unicorn made $500K-$1M per year? I highly doubt it.
Thank you for the reminder. It's hard to see the reality with such clarity, sometimes. <3
For completeness, these are the interesting CM-Feynman threads - but let's keep this aspect off topic here since it's by far the better-covered.

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18987188 - Jan 2019 (33 comments)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762614 - March 2017 (61 comments)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283614 - Aug 2016 (32 comments)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681061 - Dec 2014 (23 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5660763 - May 2013 (11 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079473 - Jan 2011 (46 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1205500 - March 2010 (23 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723361 - July 2009 (10 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191212 - May 2008 (15 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834 - July 2007 (5 comments)
Google already learned that one. "There's only a tiny chance we may be copying some public code from Oracle." may not be a good explanation there.
>Keep in mind you have Fields Medalists taking a shot at it [...]

This is meaningless.
> On the other hand, Canadians are always complaining about not making enough money, getting taxed high and stuff. And many dream about going to the US where their money making potential is apparently higher.

I bet those Canadians are young and healthy, so they (think they) don't have to worry about healthcare costs. Those who suffer from chronic illnesses or are semi/retired aren't so hyped. In summary, what's good for a certain demography isn't necessarily good for the rest of the citizenry (like friends and family, who don't necessarily factor into the decision on where to work).
Perhaps he should go easy on the euphemisms then and show respect for the developers who wrote the corpus of software that this AI is being trained on (perhaps illegally).
Turbo has all the contrast, but none of the false contours of Jet: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/turbo-improved-rainbow-col...
And you're welcome for your welfare roads.
Installing the non-alpha upgrade will improve this experience how?

Things like this not being setup optimally on pre-built PCs is also not exactly unusual. Although I assume it'll mostly lead to people sticking with Win10 for longer.
Why would non techie people be building their own computers instead of buying from an OEM? Or installing an alpha OS that, on first release, didn't even tell you why it wasn't compatible?

> Do we even know if UEFI compatible hardware and SecureBoot is enabled by all OEMs by default?

If they have a Windows 8 sticker on them, or above, yes.
Reading this made me yearn for the days of IRQ conflicts.
You have to be willfully ignorant and a bootlicker to have a positive opinion of Musk or any of his ventures (and analogously, of Trump). Amusingly enough, it's two relatively different groups of people who worship the two guys.

Anyway, I'll let you get on with your circlejerk. I'm not going to sit here and compile a list of sources detailing all of the ways that Musk is garbage, those are easily available via searching for anyone actually still unaware and curious.
Ask HN: What difficult problems have you or your company solved using AI?
Over the past few years there’s been so much hype of AI taking over the world. From personal experience at our company R&D has over promised and under delivered. What are some example of problems you have solved that have been a huge success using AI.
Sounds like Firefox 1.0 has all the author needs, just disable iframes, hook in a modern JS engine and you're good to go.
But my point is, the equivalent today gets a lot better milage, and the reason why has lots to do with why it is not fixable.
This is the part I had trouble finding any quantification of (not that I looked properly).
It's sort of a historic adjusted return for annualized stock data. It also roughly matches a healthy 3% GDP growth of a "developed" country and still have some room for added risk.

If you want to sort of gross rank investments in terms of returns, I was taught in my econ classes, you first look at government bonds as the lowest risk, and expect to make less than 0.5% return after inflation. Next you look at the company bond market where you can expect to 0.5%-1.5% but take on considerably more risk. Then you look at company stock markets where you can expect to make 3-4% after inflation but at the cost of even more risk. After that you start getting into things like junk territory, where you can make a killing, but more likely you'll lose your investment.

These numbers may not hold in any given year, and certainly don't apply to markets that are able to sustain greater than 3% GDP growth for multiple decades in a row (usually because they are able to play "catch up" technologically). But once you're at the top of the S curve, competition sort of drives down the returns you can realistically get in investment markets.
> The restaurants that use this system also tend to push very hard for avoiding manual orders and payments.

This is the real issue I see with this system going forward. Becoming a second-class client simply because I don't have a cell-phone on me at all times is not going to be great.
It goes up/down
> re: your edits, the tangential bit from this paper about sars-cov-2 positive cases wasn't the main thrust and from the graphs it looks like their neutralizing antibody levels actually are multiple logs below mRNA vaccinated people at the same 15 week point. I'm not sure what all these citations about naturally infected people add to the topic being debated.

These are all real-world studies of actual duration of immunity. They trump any theoretical concerns based on lab measurements of neutralizing antibody levels.

Observing that the vaccines induce responses lasting as long as 15 weeks is completely unsurprising, based on what we already know from real-world observation of natural infection. Ignoring contextual evidence and concluding that this specific paper didn't provide reasonable evidence is losing the forest for the trees.

Could it be possible that the vaccines don't confer immunity lasting as long as what we're observing from natural infection? Sure, I guess.

Is it likely? No.
This almost makes me want to give up streaming services and go back to managing a music library! I would have loved to have had this ~10 years ago.

And if something like this exists for managing photos...it's a complete mess with Apple's file naming conventions when you a) switch to a new phone or b) have more than one phone (i.e. family members whose photos you manage). I'm sure I've lost a few photos over the years to an errant file clobber.
Remote coding interviews just got 100x easier.
Wow. I’m so sorry.
Prediction: TPM modules are going to be sold out everywhere

I have a motherboard released in 2020 (intel) and apparently I as a user need to go buy some piece of hardware that I had no idea existed for a feature I didn't ask for and plug it into the motherboard just to run Windows 11.

The fact that the TPM module goes from being an addon to mandatory hardware for running Windows seems like a recipe for shortage.

Think about IT departments everywhere who want to upgrade for compliance reasons all trying to buy these modules.
I wonder does Sam Altman also believe that you can measure programmer productivity by lines-of-code?
20k Years of the Earth's Temperature
You'd need a lot of shielding. A planet is about the right order of magnitude, though it's still not clear that a human could survive. You wouldn't die of acute radiation poisoning; a few thousand km of rock would be enough to absorb the gamma rays. At 400 AU, you wouldn't immediately boil to death, either. Part of the collision-facing surface of the planet would be converted into plasma and ablated into space, which would insulate the rest of the planet from the worst of the heat.

My guess is that you'd still die from shock waves propagating through either the atmosphere or the planet itself, but it's difficult to predict the exact effects.
this is far, far harder to do compared to DNS flag days.

changing the value to something else is futile. What needs to happen is people should allow ICMP into their networks and allow PMTUD to work correctly.
Path MTU discovery has solved this issue, but people keep dropping ALL icmp traffic.
Myers-Briggs, just a way to talk about yourself.

That's fine for self-exploration and games at the family table and such. When employers start using as a "tool" for discriminating against people, however...
You are still expected to tip the same as other states with the $2.13 minimum for tipped employees. In fact, you should be tipping more, so goes the rule of thumb, since cost of living is higher.
I own 7 laptops, and with the exception of a ~1995 ThinkPad, they all have webcams builtin.

None of these will ever run Windows 11 (or any other version), but of all the things I have heard so far about Windows 11, this is relatively low on my outrage list. (Okay, strictly speaking, the ancient ThinkPad runs Windows 95, but I don't actually use it, I just keep it because I like old hardware.)
> So if you’re going to give patients an mRNA injection and you don’t want to set off alarm bells in the innate immune system, you’re going to have to carefully engineer your sequences at the very least.

Isn't that what substituting uracil by pseudouridine solves?
Sounds like the author isn't a normal web user. Nobody is going to pour millions into a browser that the typical user doesn't want.
Used to perform live regularly in front of audiences of up to 100+ (piano). Never really got over it. In fact it got worse as I got older. The only thing that ever worked for me is have everything on muscle memory so I could basically plug my brain off. I heard people had good experience with beta blockers tho…
Can also confirm on Windows with Chromium-based browsers
I've been to plenty of small rural towns where cable TV and internet existed, was better than DSL, but worse than what Starlink will be offering. Their population density is low enough that Starlink could provide service to most if not all the residents.
In my state there was a ballot measure passed by a large margin (by voting standards, anyway). The legislature hated it (it had to do with making gerrymandering harder, among other things), so they introduced another ballot measure ASAP that read like did a couple very minor things that seem like good ideas, provided you don't think about them too much, and that was what the ballot measure highlighted—but also entirely undid the most important parts of the prior measure.

It passed by like 1%. They lied and got what they wanted. 0% chance a version of that with honest language would have passed.
Or The Expanse, if you want realistic space battles and what our potential future might look like if we do colonize the solar system.
I wonder if it has something to do with the life span of the satellites. Most big investments like this last decades, while the satellites are looking at 5 years. It's the downside for the upsides of low latency and not making a mess in space. They'll need a steady stream of launches to keep the network viable, and they'll need to do that until they have enough subscribers to cover the costs.
> because 'unlimited access to sex' isn't something that women see as priority

Because they get unlimited sex in the regular life too. It's thrown at them every day by random strangers.

> Men and women are different in many respects, and sex is one of them.

But we're discussing sex, read the thread again. You're trying to move the goal posts.

> Does that make her life easy and mens miserable? No.

Yes, it makes her life easier. She gets sex whenever she wants. Most men don't have that.

> If finding a new sexual partner in a bar every week was the most important thing in the world

Straw man. Nobody claimed it was.

You're jumping from one logical error to another. I think you're either arguing in bad faith or simply not thinking through what you type.
The Antitrust Case Against Facebook Is Much Alive
Unihertz still makes fun phones. I've been using a Jelly 2 [0] and I'm getting the Titan Pocket [1] in September (assuming it ships. They were right on schedule with the Jelly 2). I don't use my phone much outside of phone calls, text and casual browsing so I can't speak much to how well they work with more mainstream apps, but they work well for me.

[0] https://www.unihertz.com/jelly-2.html

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/titan-pocket...
https://github.com/juanfont/headscale replaces the tailscale control panel with something open source and self-hosted. However, it doesn't have all the features of the official tailscale control panel.
Outside of major urban areas, there is often no bullying required. It was not economical 20+ years ago for there to be more than one physical cable or telephone provider in an area. Moving away from dial-up and DSL (which sit on top of phone lines which anyone can buy access to) toward cable (and fiber in the past decade) has put the power on the cable companies who physically own and maintain the lines. Since, in contrast to phones, cable has not typically sold access other than direct-to-customer, they maintain that same model. They don't sell access for someone who buys a fast fiber connection to then connect to the cable network and then their cable customers "dial into" that person's box. Instead, you only get service through the cable company itself.

Because cable requires a massive financial outlay, we end up with regional monopolies unless cable companies are forced to open up their physical platform to others. Which is rare.
It doesn't make sense to just talk about insurance premiums if you are existing within a system also funded by tax dollars.

Phrases like "you don't need to pay anything for the state hospitals" just means you are ignoring tax contributions, which isn't going to lead to any sort of reasonable comparison with other systems.
Ok but how common is this? Can the average old developer expect to have "kept their skills up" to some arbitrary standard even though we know humans tend to calcify in their thinking, have lower risk appetite and worse memory as they get older? If my cohort consisted of John Carmack and Jeff Dean type outliers, I could also claim that they have no trouble getting jobs in their older age but it wouldn't be a particularly helpful observation for most developers. IMO it's a very realistic & plausible scenario for many to not have kept their skills up and end up unhireable as they get older.
Very true. There’s a fine line between having a chip on your shoulder and desperation on your forehead.
Adams’s Lead in Mayor’s Race Shrinks After First Ranked-Choice Tally
you don't have to clone it. cloning the object and putting it in Vuex will still result in it being reactive.

`Object.freeze` is what I used. This causes Vuex to not traverse the object for changes. in my case, the objects I was pushing into the Vuex state were essentially immutable once I pushed them in, so this did the ticket.

well, that, and only pushing partials of the entire state, so the object model didn't get too unwieldy. To get the total state, i just replayed the changes on top of the base state. base state was reset once the number of changes got to a certain size.
>In general I am of the opinion that fostering competition results in the best internet.

I wholeheartedly agree.

That said, I posit that municipal broadband, implemented as wired infrastructure to the premise, fosters competition rather than limits it.

IIUC, most planned/completed municipal broadband networks only provide last-mile connectivity, while internet connectivity is (or will be) provided by private ISPs.

This definitely fosters competition because a broader set of ISPs can service these customers since they don't actually have to run wires to each premise, rather they just need internet uplinks from the municipal broadband interchanges.

What's more, we can even have private or quasi-public[0] businesses/entities using ISP connection fees to manage and maintain the last-mile infrastructure. Quite possibly with a surplus for upgrades/support for other municipal programs.

That leads to more competition and not less.

I suppose it's possible that my analysis is flawed, but I'm not seeing how. If I missed/glossed over some stuff, I'd appreciate being corrected.

[0] Such as the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTA_Bridges_and_Tunnels )

Edit: Added cited reference.
How to plot survival curves with Plotly and Altair
Correct, Dell, Lenovo, HP even enable the basic EFI(bios) menu with Secureboot enabled, granted this is a bit disabled if you get an Ubuntu/XPS model but can be enabled easily for dual booting.

This is relatively a non-issue for most orgs, you should have an imaging solution in place, if not there is Windows Hello/Autopilot, not free but easy to deploy and helps you manage and orchestrate, which is what every corporation should do with owned devices.

Machines 5yrs+ support TPM 2.0 unless you bought absolutely bargain basement prices like Dell Inspirion models from Walmart instead of Dell.com and such, but even lately those also include TPM and Secure Boot as Microsoft demanded it from it's vendors.

Building your own PC, is something that, is kinda dead in todays times though.
I'm not sure; does that detect non-car objects reliably?
That’s a great observation.

An idea for curation:

Content evaluated by usefulness towards solving some problem. Perhaps measured by its usefulness towards training a very narrow AI. Like what if AlphaGo’s only inputs were web pages on the topic of Go, and there were hundreds of instances of it all trained on different combinations of web pages, and competing against each other.

Probably the data<>contest mapping is itself intractable until we have AGI, at which point the whole question might be moot. But what it?
Every sport has it’s Performance Enhancing Drugs. Even chess and eSports.
IRQ Conflicts and BSOD from using Windows 95/98 drivers on Windows ME days...
I would add Picard to this list which is also very helpful and has a nice gui: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

I ripped my ~1000 cd collection before I moved and downsized and between using EAC to extract the music and just mass dragging and dropping the files to Picard to fingerprint and rename to my specs was fantastic.
I'd pay just to get the old Google Books search back the way it used to be. I'd pay just for that.
Organizing an excellent event is hard. There's fundamental uncertainty about what each presenter will say, and what the audience needs to hear. The best you can do is try to think of a high quality theme, get good abstracts from your speakers, and cobble together an agenda tries to cater to your audience. From there, it's a crap shoot.

Don't beat yourself up. You were in a no-win scenario. Honestly, the best option might have been to go COMPLETELY off script. Admit to your audience that they know more than you about the core subject. Just give that to them. Then talk about why you find the subject interesting, and how it relates to your work. Maybe even open it up to a Q&A with the expectation that you'll look kinda dumb but learn a lot.

Of course, I've stayed far away from academia, so what do I know.
Heh. This is my friends blog.

Anyway, I’ll repeat here what I told him on IRC: you’ll have a hard time if you’re waiting for a memory safe web renderer. Servo is far from there.

I use qutebrowser (which uses QtWebEngine underneath, which uses Chromium even more underneath) and I love it to death (even though it consumes 24GiB of ram right now).

I even had a mini project to make qute backend onto Servo which _mostly_ was working until I gave up because even basic websites didn’t render correctly with Servo.

But otherwise I think Qute ticks all his boxes, because you can disable so much of what the engine is doing- but even though it’s python it depends, hard, on C++ components, like Qt and Chromiums renderer and… you can’t turn off subsets of the JavaScript language.
> Yes, if it's directional, and the directionality is pretty narrow if you want to get any reasonable performance. I don't think it's feasible for each town to have a dedicated antenna for each house within a 50 mile radius.

You're asking the wrong questions.

So lets say Starlink is 4000-customers per satellite (10x oversubscription of a 40Gbps underlying, 100Mbit per customer, seem fair to you?). It costs $1000 to $3000 for the Starlink Satellite dish right now.

The total costs of Starlink, per customer, is therefore 1/400th of a satellite launch + $1500 or so (depending on how cheaply the dish can get).

Can you run an antenna from a town center to a house 50-miles away for less than $1500 + SatelliteLaunch/4000 ??

EDIT: 4000, not 400.

I admit that I don't know how much a Satellite Launch costs, but Elon Musk is asking $30 Billion for a reason. I assume the satellite launches are a good chunk of those costs.
It’s already happened. They are being resold on EBay for 100+.
!= would be a simple non-regex replacement, right? Or are there parts to the exploit hostname that aren’t a literal match?
Has anyone actually transferred from a Micro-Master to a real masters at Harvard/MIT?
Assuming he's actually doing what he claims.. which we have no way to verify
What is not the case? 37% tax or weed being cheaper now that it is legalized? Because I can say with extreme confidence that both are true. I can also say that the quality has increased. You can easily fact check the tax rate too.

> They usually say that they hate the fact that most of the licenses have gone to rich old dudes

I'm not sure how this responds to anything I said. This is orthogonal and a completely different conversation. Have you also considered that your friends aren't the norm?

> But when you press them on it prices

So you confirm what I said above. I'll admit now this is a confusing conversation. You open by saying you _absolutely_ disagree with me and then confirm my statement. This has been one wild conversation.
Capitalist scumbag leverages capital to create a useful service that some people find useful. Wow!

By that metric, <Walmart ; McDonalds ; Nestle ; Activision ; Eli Lilly ; choose your favorite corporation> are a great boon to humanity and we would be so lost without them!