skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mlscraper: Scrape data from HTML pages automatically with Machine Learning
AIeyes: Neural network walking simulator (GAN/ pix2pix)
Case Against Splitting FAANG
Momentum is gathering to split FAANG. I am totally against the split.

In my opinion, the major technology companies in the US, i.e., Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Netflix, have a super dominance in one area of technology. They are using the money from that dominant business to the following.

Subsidize less profitable products. E.g., Google maps, Google translate Visual Studio Code, Whatsapp, YouTube, and Android, etc.
The companies pay their employees well above the median salary in the US and provide very generous perks.

I hypothesize that split will undermine future investments in products like Android and Google maps which required billions of dollars in focused investment without any guarantee of success. Can smaller companies that result from the split afford to invest in the products?

Consumers will be forced to pay for each small service, e.g., People are paying 99 $ and year for Grammarly, which needs much less investment than Google Maps. Why is Grammarly paid while Google Maps with navigation is free? Remember, AT&T's other carriers were was charging 9.99 per month before Google made Maps free. I would argue Grammarly is not free since no FAANG is offering it. Similarly, you are paying nothing today to host unlimited videos(a very expensive service to run). Why? Google is subsidizing YouTube with its monopolistic search revenue. No one is hosting free unlimited photos, but there is unlimited hosting for videos. Why? Because Google decided to make it free.

Also, the split will have a highly negative impact on software salaries as the smaller companies will not pay the employees the same. Overall, this will depress the US talent going into STEM in general and will be bad for the US.

Companies outside of the US will have to split, and that will give them a competitive advantage. In short, I think the FAANG split will be a bad idea; I am curious to know your thoughts.
I heard it put this way once: the US can’t stop a Chinese invasion of Taiwan any more than China could stop a hypothetical US invasion of Cuba.

In both cases it’s a battle right off the coast of a superpower with pretty massive home court advantage to the closer nation. Right off shore means no supply lines and the ability to just fire shit from shore at enemy ships and planes. The entire industrial output of the closer nation is right there.

Note that I am leaving thermonuclear escalation off the table. Nobody really wins that one. I’m imagining a scoped conventional conflict in the form of an intervention.
> Google got the file, analysed it, extracted knowledge out of it and potentially adjusted your profile and your employer's

How do you know this? It's against their stated privacy policy.

This is also a kind of strange position to be arguing when you just described snooping on people's secure communications. Why is that OK and what Gmail does isn't?
Caitlin Flanagan is one of the most entertaining writers around.
The captain is always in command and is responsible for the ship. The pilots assume command with the approval of the captain only. The captain can withdraw the approval at any time.

Holland America has an good FAQ on this topic: https://www.hollandamerica.com/blog/technical/what-does-the-...
Currently not. To add new devices we need to buy them or ask companies for some help with testing/implementation. Its the only showstopper to add support for more boards
> For example, GitHub license section D.4 specifically grants GitHub the right to display your content, analyze your content, and reproduce it in full to other users of the service. Yet no one seems particularly interested in discussing that here today, because it isn't compatible with the outrage that people are prioritizing on HN when discussion Copilot.

Well, Copilot isn't really an analaysis and display of the source code within the original meaning that people held. That was meant more to run codeql, github actions, and other analysis while presenting the results in a repository to people. People never anticipated that github would strip their licenses from files and present their source code inside of VSCode for people to use freely. It may be legal, but what we are seeing now is an abuse of the sentences you just quoted that goes outside what they were originally understood to mean.
I no longer want to take over the world.
Four day work week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland
Free music editor Audacity now collects and sends your personal data to Russia
You could use the API to get historical posts and comments and run the numbers to get a taste of the outcome instead of testing on the live site.
Speech synthesis on 1970s GI AY-3-8910 sound generator
The LIGO observatory, in the United States (Washington and Louisiana) was the first to make gravitational wave detection.

I agree that the US often lets itself fall behind in some areas (Superconducting Supercollider!), but gravitational wave astronomy is an area where the US is significantly participating at the forefront of research.

I hope we continue to invest further!
You aren’t missing any detail from what I understand. A core focus of US national security this decade is securing chip fabrication capability that is not endangered by global supply chain disruptions - or making the cost of the disruption unreasonably high to the disruptor.
At a personal perspective it is best to quit most social media channels including Twitter for a daily surfing craving because only a handful people whom you care & whom you matter the most would be there waiting on social media. Most of my closed people miss the personal touch, some free time jumping around to the ground and spending time at some pals place and hate to talk on Social media while we can do many more things out of the Internet box. It's what matters. History of our online usage can be used by advertisers but not by our loved ones.
i don’t know what you’re on but I want some.
Amazing how this was never an issue when other “AI” systems use other people’s data to learn how to drive cars/write text. But man you start messing with developer data and suddenly there are ethical issues! Amazing turnaround.

Face it - AI as we currently call it is just a very sophisticated data sorting algo in most cases (let’s ignore the AlphaZero non supervised learning type). Everyone was getting celebrating when Common Man was destroyed by devs commoditising their knowledge through data capture. But now suddenly it’s a problem! Mess with a man's pocket.
I think a good deal of engineers here should familiarize themselves with Julia Reda and her work and ask themselves if they have the legal knowledge to debate on this matter. Common knowledge is not acceptable to determine truth.

Would you really respect the opinion of some dude who's only used Excel about your profession?
The part that feels really obvious to me is that, if I made an AI that could generate music by looking through the entire (copyrighted) back catalog of the Beatles for example, and it would output music that I could control to be very much or even exactly like the original recordings, or I could accidentally do it, that it wouldn’t really be a way to launder the original licenses/copyright into the public domain.

Or maybe it is, but if so it essentially means the end of licensing because it would be trivial to make an AI that can take an input and produce the same output. Or maybe even cp is good enough to strip the source of its original license in that case.

Open source licenses are worth protecting or you break the cycle that helps more software be open.
Reproduction is enough to cover the first part of your use case. This is mentioned on Github's TOS.

For the latter you would need redistribution as it is going into a different product, for which you claim ownership, and with possible modifications/adaptations (this would depend on the rights granted by the license). Nowhere on Github's TOS is the word or concept of redistribution referenced.

So, the answer to your original question is "no".

Edit: leereeves modified its comment after I wrote this, so it may not make much sense but you can figure out the point. Best!
Designing a national booking service for Covid-19 vaccination appointments
The funny thing is that this is effectively a keylogger that does not run any code on the CPU while it is running.

I already knew it, but this just reinforced how terribly vulnerable pretty much every computer system is. Makes me think ransomware/hacks are going to get a lot worse, and I can’t see how the situation can be improved, at least for quite some time.
Recent and related:

Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736151 - July 2021 (70 comments)

Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27727150 - July 2021 (254 comments)

New [July 2, 2021] Audacity Data Collection Policy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27724389 - July 2021 (34 comments)
Choosing to believe is mainly suspending disbelief. Or patience with mystery. Forever. The more patience, the greater faith.

Liking a story is not sufficient to benefit significantly from it. In other words, to have skin in the game makes you gain more. The story you contribute to does not matter until you have faith. When you have faith, in any thing, you enjoy conviction, certainty. Conviction is intrinsically valuable.

What if I had the proof your life is very valuable to Humanity? Would you live differently?...

This is the sort of proof and subsequent gain faith gives.

While, sure you can gain something out of liking a story, but the gain is lesser, the lesser your faith in said story.

I choose Jesus' story because I chose him in the past and so far have been rewarded for my decision. I informed myself about other stories when I was openly atheist, out of curiosity. I did not think I could make a fully informed decision about this so I went with was closest.

Since learning more about it and other stories, I believe, this is the best non disproven story. So I sacrifice myself to it. It is a pro-humanity story. Integrity. Joy. Anti-mimesis (yes, René Girard is part of the picture). Those are very tangible gains.

It is not about being the greatest or being obedient. At its core, it is the story self-sacrifice/service for the benefit everyone, yourself included.

There is only one piece of advice I dare give atheists: intentionally have faith in something. See where that leads you. There is only so many stories that rings true to a human being throughout their whole life and that of their progeny, I believe Christianity is one of them if not the only one.
An iPhone is a better class of device than the typical Amazon/Google "Things" that are room mics with wifi. I don't know about Apple's version of that hardware in terms of security.

Modern iOS devices are fairly resistant to data extraction - secure enclaves and such, and I wasn't talking about them. I don't know the state of Android security at the hardware level these days. Some years back, it was quite poor.
Don't you just use a LaTeX template? I'm not really sure what typesetting there is to do beyond that?

Whenever I publish a paper, I just send them a finished PDF. There's nothing more done with it than that I believe.
Given some warning the US could actually stop a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The US Navy has the second most powerful air force in the world just behind the US Air Force. That’s the rather insane scale we’ve invested into the current military.

Cruse missiles are a different story, China could trivially destroy TSMC’s factories. That said, the US is hardly the only nation likely to react to such an invasion.
> It’s so sad because all JS related discourse moved to Twitter at some point so I keep trying to make it work, but have to keep quitting for my sanity’s sake.

Imo there haven't been any competing attempts. There's been nothing remotely as interesting or viable as a system for many broad discussions about JS to happen. The ability for someone to take an old post, staple a new opinion on top, & retweet it, and for anyone to engage with it as they like is pretty unsurpassed. Nothing remotely comes close. Everywhere else on the planet, once a thread is 2 months old it's dead, never to be seen again. Relying on individual people to be the relays, the beacons in the conversation was a huge plus, something exceedingly unique & powerful & special about Twitter that nothing else comes close to capturing.

I've been off twitter semi-involuntarily for a year now. I still think the network of people model is incredible. But also, JS Twitter had been in bad decay for a number of years. There's problems & problematic issues, but to me, the defining problem was that there was much less interesting stuff to talk about. We are way latter in the game, everyone seemingly works for gigantic humungo corporations closed-source systems. There's way way more stuff that just works, way more really good libraries. And there's way way less inter-action among the different tech-stacks. Where-as before JS Twitter made sense, now the massive audience is pretty heavily divided into various stack pieces. There are some general-JS tweetings that happen but the common thread is the slowest, least interesting part of JS & JS Twitter & what it was, which was more cross-ranging & examining of new ideas.

JS left college, got a job, got boring.
I'm personally having a bit of a crisis. I'm 33 and our first baby is due in a few months, and things that simply bothered me before about my own lack of achievement nearly send me in to a panic if I think about them now. This isn't because I fear I won't have enough time to work on things (although that doesn't help), but because I now have someone I need to provide for.

To sum of my life's story, I'm intelligent (like most on here) but suffered a concussion when I was 12 that made me ridiculously tired until I figured out how to treat it in my mid-twenties, though it still limits me in ways. My life's plan for the past 7 years to work around this was to do photography in the summer and my own coding projects in the winter. I haven't been especially successful at either.

On the coding side I developed a pixel art application for the Wii U which my publisher also ported over to the 3DS. It was definitely worth the time I put in to it, but at most I barely broke 6 figures. I wanted to make a quick sequel for the Switch but Nintendo has denied my request for a devkit without reason three separate times. I also developed some extensions for Photoshop which were not worth the time I put in to them, though I did get a job offer out of the deal which I turned down. I didn't think my programming skills would be up to the task and the timing was poor for me to be able to "catch up."

On the photography side...I'm more successful than most, but I'm nowhere near where I thought I would be at this point. I charge below $3,000 per wedding and only do about 17 a year. I'd love to expand my high school senior side of the business as it's what I enjoy doing the most. I think it's also my best work and by far better than anyone in my area - I think it stands up against some of the best in the country. No matter what I try I can't seem to expand that part of my business, and my biggest competitor in the area seems to do at least 10x the numbers that I do. This is hard to work on because any time I even think about it I spiral mentally downwards.

My immediate goals are to not let my depression over the above affect my pregnant wife too much. I've always dreamed of being an indie game developer and I've started and stopped developing a few games over the past few years because I realized I didn't have the time to work on them or lost the thread and my ambition after doing photography in the summer. I'm now developing a simple game that I'm sure won't sell well, but at this point I just want to make something.
Hahaha. I bet it was a shock to see your name pop up in GPT-3.

That feeling when you don't know whether you're famous enough that you were included in the training set and successfully influenced the bot, or the bot simply used a pretty common American name.
He sort of implies that “just better hardware” will peter out in the 2030s. I think he’s calling it at least 50 years too soon. Here’s why: (1) I think logic designers are still faffing about in term of optimizing their designs; and (2), I think there’s a lot of smart people thinking “incrementally” through what we’d consider paradigm shifts in HW implementation. That is, our fabs will just naturally segue into 3D, spintronics, etc. I think he even mentions 3D circuits? One thing a lot of people miss is that layout of the design is materially different in 3D vs 2D: in 2D layout is NP-hard (complete) without efficient polynomial approximations; in 3D layout is low-order polynomial. The reduction in layout complexity will allow us to design things that are unthinkable right now, due to layout constraints & wire congestion.
The problem is that you can follow lists of people related to, say, VueJS (how these lists are create I don't know, but they are more or less accurate), but you don't subscribe to their VueJs posts, you subscribe to their twitters.

Google Plus got this right in reverse, in that you could organize your people into circles based on your interests and then you could choose which circles to share any post with. If they had done it so that I could subscribe to you for either everything or just things about VueJS, than they would probably still be around.

In fact if somebody is trying to start a Twitter competitor, there is a space for a copy where you must select at least one tag for your posts and where I can then subscribe to intersections of tags and people.

It doesn't even have to be anything about politics, but Cpervia tweets about cryptography and FreeBSD. I have no interest in the latter, but I have to skip over the tweets that he makes because there is no good filter for them.

Now suppose It was somebody posting about compilers and upsetting pictures of aborted fetuses. In theory I could still skip those, but it would be far harder.
Ted Chiang wrote an excellent novelette about this, called "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (published in his book "Exhalation").
I don't think the author understands fractals well. I just skimmed the first part of the article and there are at least two really wrong ideas.

The Mandelbrot set is a set but the images are not generated by evaluating some function like a sine function that traces out the border of that set and then coloring the exterior with nice colors. Instead the colors represent the escape times of points and the trajectories of those obtained by iterated evaluation of the defining function are not actually visible. Buddhabrot [1] visualizes the trajectories to some extend but more for artistic beauty than clear visualization.

Secondly there is no third dimension that you access by zooming such that each image is just a slice through some three dimensional object. Yes, one can do this and look at the Mandelbrot set as a slice through a higher dimensional object but zooming into the Mandelbrot set in your standard fractal drawing app really just magnifies parts of it. Any three dimensional appearance is just an [intended] artifact of the color palette used.

EDIT: Maybe the app used treats the escape time as height coordinate turning the Mandelbrot set into a three dimensional landscape and that is what he is trying to say. While a common idea for visualizations it is not an intrinsic aspect of the Mandelbrot set.

EDIT: I just realized that the author also wrote the fractal visualizer used to make those images. Maybe I am just misunderstanding his words or he is not great at explaining what he means or he wrote the app without a good understanding what it actually does...I don't know. Especially given that he has seemingly worked in computer graphics for a long time according to Wikipedia [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Krause
Too much ill-will generated with this sudden takeover of audacity. Best to move on to alternatives and forks and forget about Audacity's new owners.

https://ardour.org/
Fair. When I wrote that, I was thinking "not published" as in server software.
Heh... Brazilian Portuguese is my favourite language I'll never learn :-)
I personally think the best way to rank posts is by simple activity myself, the system that DeviantArt uses, a simple recursive algorithm where the top post is the one that had a reply in one of it's children of the same level twice, but the tree is maintained.

So say we have a these posts:

A
- B
- C
- - D
E
- F
- - G
- H

Say that a new post, I, be made, which is a reply to H, then after that the tree would appear so:

E
- H
- - I
- F
- - G
A
- B
- C
- - D

By replying to H, I has now pushed H to be the top child of E, and also pushed E above A.

This results into posts whose children have the most activity statistically are more visible, but if an inactive post be replied to, it will briefly be at the top and more visible, and any new post will also start at the top.

Essentially, it is the treed evolution of the traditional linear thread system where threads are simply ranked based on most recent replied. DeviantArt uses this system and it's boards do not feel as though they be an echo-chamber and are full of people challenging each other's views and trees seem to be more balanced out rather than al replies being under the top post, which became the most visible due to upvotes such that others are ignored completely.
God know how nice explanations of ideas in ML would be useful.

But this is ML enforcement of made up "social values", like diversity and fairness
Could a device table [for on-chip peripherals] be put right on chip?
We're just problem solving here - the moral assessment of any given solution is each individual's choice to make, pal.
I've become more and more content/happy with not having any particular grand goals. Taking an extended career break right now (currently doing a six month US road trip) and not really sure exactly what I want to do when I'm done. But that's ok.
To be honest I haven't ever actually looked for a job, but if I happened to read that annonce, I would absolutely check out wtf is that tech that is a requirement to work at signal, out of pure curiosity.
Putting a target on your back for some lucre
Haha yeah, came up with the idea and went right ahead and implemented it. Probably should do a Show HN on April 1st though — just set a reminder for next year.
>for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator;

3D XPoint's future is not entirely certain. Intel with their new CEO has remained rather quiet on the subject. Micron are pulling the plug on it and sold the Fab to Texas Instrument. The problem is there isn't a clear path forward with the technology, it make some sense when NAND and DRAM price were high in 2016 - 2019. Once they dropped to a normal level with newer DDR5 and faster SLC NAND or ZNAND with lower latency than XPoint's cost benefits becomes unclear. I guess we will know once Intel's Optane P5800X [1] is out with review. It is quite a beast.

>Multi-Socket is Doomed

Are there really no use-case where 128 Core+ with NUMA offer some advantage?

>Slower Rotational

Seagate [2] is actually working on dual Actuator HDD, think of it as something like internal RAID 0. The rational being as HDD gets bigger the time to fill up those drive increases as well.

>ARM on Cloud

Marvell partly confirms all HyperScalers have intention to build their own ARM CPU. But Google just announced their Tau instances [3], effectively cutting their cost / pref by 50%. Where each vCPU is an entire physical CPU core rather than a x86 thread.

Not much mention on GPGPU.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16544/seagates-roadmap-120-tb...

[3] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-cloud-...