skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to draw an analogy to slide rules. A typical slide rule has a precision of about 3 - 4 significant digits (it gets worse at the higher end of the scale, better at the lower end). To get another digit out of it, you need one 10 times long, or a way to make the markings 10 times more accurate. So effectively you have an intractable problem trying to build a slide rule that is precise to a large number of significant digits.

Is the issue with quantum computers somewhat similar? I know next to nothing about the mechanical aspects of them, but based on the what I've read it is considered a breakthrough whenever another qubit is added.
It's interesting to see FB migrating so much over to Oracle.

2 weeks ago was FB use of GraalVM (from Oracle). And now this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782475
Being indistinguishable from human is a high and low bar. Chat is just a medium and it's not usually the best medium (for me). When I use it, I expect speed and care less if it's a human or AI. For example, I had a billing issue with my electric company. I used chat because I didn't have a week to ping-pong emails back and forth (they might cut my power). I also didn't have time to call them and sit on the phone for 30+ minutes. I knew it was something a human would need to get involved with. So, it's really just chat that is helpful as a medium. The bot part almost always gets in the way of speed to answer/solution.

That my personal experience anyways, would love to hear more about how a chatbot was actually helpful to someone. Whenever I see those chat pop ups on a SaaS home page, it makes me think do people actually type "show me the pricing page please" instead of just clicking the link to the pricing page. It has to be just a friendlier nicer way to collect emails and phone #s for sales to follow up with (?). I totally don't get it.
There's a difference between saying "bah, it's all insecure, let's just give in to the surveillance", and recognising that there is nothing on the market that actually makes strides toward foolproof security. Remember, a smartphone running the Linux kernel doesn't automatically make it secure just because it's open source.
Cool story bro!

My hometown is notoriously supportive of cannabis consumption, and one of my high-schools has a well rated jazz programme.

Of my smoking buddies, one is a multimillionaire platinum artist, several are successful and sought-after session musicians, and those are just the music geeks. In general my social cohort have had successful lives, and cannabis doesn't strike me as a relevant variable in that success.

Some of them also fell off and had a hard life. Those tended to be the ones from single-family homes, living on government assistance. Even that wasn't a universal, but in terms of correlation it really stands out.
That's not the way the law works. She doesn't have to have evidence that someone else wrote it, the defendants have to have evidence they know she did. Because they doxxed her for it...which would appear to be something you do have sympathy for.
I know someone who went through the same thing... Now alcoholic and homeless.. Also around 20...
Tons of programming languages strip the types for runtime. Notably java.
It's probably not zero, but I imagine the effect on air quality is completely miniscule compared to things like millions of ICE cars driving around or the wildfires on the west coast. Additionally I think they burn up in the upper atmosphere, which makes it less likely for the particles to end up in your breathing air (compared to cars which emit their waste at ankle level right outside your doorstep)
The Case for Location-Independent Salaries
Or countermeasure going haywire.
Bezos isn't "paid" his net worth. His compensation was actually very low compared to his net worth, only $1.6 million in stock compensation in 2019 (and $82k cash). His net worth comes from his 10% stake in Amazon that he's pretty much had since he founded the company. So, he isn't paid 266,666 apples, he owns 10% of a giant apple farm that he founded.
You are probably technically correct, but most people don't need 24hr internet access, so that one 400 watt panel would provide high speed internet for let's say 12 hours a day and that's plenty for this odd scenario of living in a place with no power but still needing high speed internet.
OK but how is that possible? Before you sell a company there is a long due diligence process, where all papers and everything else is given to inspection, and I can imagine team of 10 people lawyers accountants and experts going to every, note, paper and even paperclip.

Also isn't rule of market capitalism, if I am the seller I can put any price in the product/service I own, if you do not like my price you do not have to buy?!
Who determines if you're a criminal?
His risk was the opportunity cost of not working a safe, guaranteed high paying job which he already held.
I think any article that starts from the premise that it was a sonic weapon is so deep into the land of speculation that I'd be shocked if they didn't contradict each other.

Kinda like asking why every bigfoot sighting is different from others.
No she's the current Home Secretary.

You could argue that she's the 'disgraced' Secretary of State for International Development if you wanted to.
My old-man brain still can't compute this statement: "MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle". I know this is now factually true, but late-90s me keeps looking over my shoulder and freaking out.
Real-time analyzer apps, which give the frequency breakdown of ambient noise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_analyzer

Previous thread about the use of these for debugging mystery sounds that not everyone can hear:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14981088
One of the recent developments:

"Havana Syndrome Task Force to Be Led by Veteran of Hunt for Bin Laden

CIA Director Burns turns to undercover agency veteran to track down cause of health incidents suffered by U.S. spies and diplomats"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/havana-syndrome-task-force-to-b... (https://archive.is/HlDZF) (July 21, 2021)
When I had more time (before having kids) i would print out a couple of articles every other day to read while commuting with public transport or during the evening. I became a bit obsessed with the optimal usage of paper space per article. So I wrote a HTML-to-LaTex converter as a golang learning project and applied the scientific paper style to the articles. I was quite happy with the results. Some HN classics can be found here:

https://github.com/frankMilde/interesting-reads
The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
https://archive.ph/SEFQz
One that I've been massively enjoying as an alternative to the Amplitude/Mixpanel/Fullstory stack recently is PostHog. You can write your own plugins in JS, which is great for automating things other platforms, and it offers a bunch of cool features which the others charge for as premium addons (backup to warehouse, CRM integration etc.)
I don’t doubt something will cause problems, given this is 1-20 megavolts at (for a gigawatt reactor) 50-1000 amps, but I’m not sure what issue you’re describing here. Can you elaborate?
The distance from London to Sydney is 17.000km. The current flight airspeed record is 3.500km/h. I would doubt that anything close to 8.500km/h is physically possible without using rockets. That's the speed of the fastest missile.
These satellites are low enough that they will deorbit themselves within 5 years without periodic boosting
Within the context of contemporary art, UI design and artists are at complete odds with each other.

Afaik, contemporary art deliberately rejects art as a tool for expression of traditional aesthetics, utilitarian maximization or broad appeal to the untested eye. Commentary, metaphor and art as a reaction to other art is the norm. None of these trainings lend themselves well to UI Design which is fundamentally about aesthetics facilitating function.

IMO, architects would make for great UI designers, as it is another profession that mandates a level of function from the art. They also tend to be quite comfortable with complex software work due to common architectural tools. (a couple of my friends did make the architecture -> UX design transition, and are quite happy)

Software engineers are famously stubborn when it comes to their aesthetics. One may say they're sensitive to aesthetics. But IMO, it is more that they're willing to put in a lot of time to learn abstruse interaction patterns and will defend them to death, irrespective of their general purpose appeal or intuitiveness. Git and Vim are amazing examples. Nothing against the tools. But if they needed widespread adoption from the populace then they'd be dead in the water on day 1. (They are amazing despite their terrible UX, not because of it)

I like to believe that I am quite sensitive to aesthetics and a well designed UI can elevate a mediocre tool to near unbeatable in their competition space. (The financial planning tool someone posted a few days ago on HN is a great example of UI/UX done right)

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On another note:

Being an artist is also about status and class. Tech is the Noveau-Riche of this half-century. It is the lowest status thing you can be.

We see it all the time. Tech bros are the butt of every joke and their hobbies/culture/lifestyles are widely mocked. You never see the same level of disdain towards lawyers in DC or finance bros in NYC as you see for tech people in places like Seattle. It doesn't help that the demographic is generally male, traditionally unattractive, nerdy and socially awkward. (This is slowly changing, but not quickly enough. The appeal of tech to a certain demographic also isn't necessarily a bad thing. I will concede that very likely other professions have occupied this same chair in different eras)

The only company that manages to look cool to artists is Apple, and they are very careful about hiding that they are a tech company first, rather preferring to highlight themselves as a fashion company. (The fictionalized steve jobs founding myth also helps a lot)

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I would love to see more artists come into tech with a mindset of cooperation and good faith towards the community than disdain and disruption. Maybe we'll see truly great UI design.
Seems likely. I had an issue with issue one of Serif magazine where I could not move the high resolution scans of some images from my computer to the service bureau that was generating the film for the printers. We ended up have to go old school for that and having the printers photograph those pages and strip the image into the film to make the plates. This was back in the days of uploading files to the service bureau on a 28K modem (maybe I had 56K?) and the files wouldn't fit on the Bernoulli drive I had for sneakernetting large files from one place to another.
But how people from HP they have not noticed fraud during due diligence process?
the version of firefox previous to Firefox 90.0.1 (90.0.0) worked with Google Meet and my company's firefox profile.
I was very excited about not needing to use Chrome anymore.

I'm using Firefox 90.0.1 now... I get no sound or video in Google Meet. I had the same problem with recent versions of firefox.

I have to use Chrome now for google meet.
It seems like people like writing emulators for fun, or to learn a particular architecture.
Yep, the actual problem is lies about service uptime in marketing content or during contract negotiations. "Well, all of our competitors claim five nines so we have to, too."
Self-fulfilling policy is the best policy.

Also: "...like tic[-tac-toe]
The Impacts of Amazon's Decentralization – A Two Sided Coin
Is there any research you know of on vaping of cannabis flower at sub-combustion temperatures in relation to popcorn lung (obliterative brochiolitis)?
'Modifying/removing/repermissioning "some file" is still possible even with openat() if you do it between the time you open("some path") and openat("some file").'

This is part of what I was trying to head off with my parenthetical. You still have to use it correctly to do secure things. But at least it's possible. This kind of security is basically impossible with pure path-based APIs. Plus, as mentioned elsewhere, there are some additional flags you can use for even more security that you can't get out of an API that is "open(filename)", simply because that API is mathematically incapable of carrying such flags (assuming you don't start trying to encode them in the filename itself, but that way lies madness).
can it do DDL commands in a transaction yet?
Or countermeasure going haywire. At any rate, not cicadas.
So, for those of us who think the last state of play was that they did not have approval, can you point us to something official?
And he violated Disqus' TOS to do it, not to mention basic responsibility not to abuse information access. Ah but maybe you've never had to protect sensitive information before, such that the responsibility itself is foreign.
Akamai is their own worst enemy most of the time. Their prices are the highest, they trail on features, their documentation opaque, it takes an hour to propagate changes, etc. Only a few years ago you could only use SSL if you purchased their ridiculously expensive pci-dss plan - I thought they would defend that to their grave.

Better alternatives are Cloudflare, Fastly, AWS CloudFront.

Google Cloud CDN always seems to have very good latency but a very bare bones feature set and no edge compute I can identify. Support is always a huge red mark for Google anything.
Yes, probably caused by those UFOs that everyone keeps talking about.

Much more plausibly, people in the US military and/or secret services are trying to invent trouble in the wake of recent relative peace.
What if the sandwich shop went from being worth $1M to being worthless instead? Should the workers bear the cost of any business debt and/or have their wages clawed back?
I'll throw another counter-example in the pot here: 'Literally' has come to mean (in modern parlance) both literally and figuratively. You can disagree and push back against the use and abuse of a word, but language and the use of language will continue to change with or without you.
I've worked at a couple small companies that strongly prefer self-hosting services that aren't core to their business. I'm at one now, in fact (though it's not nearly as bad as the first one). My conclusion from these experiences is that it's almost always a bad idea. It's a waste of money if you have people dedicated to managing them, and if you distribute the tasks to people who'd otherwise be working on your product(s)—even if their contributions to that would also look like sysadmin/ops work or whatever—then you're engaging in pointless distraction.

Some managers/owners seemingly don't mind spending $4,000+/m in payroll to chase $2,000/m savings in paid services, though, for whatever reason.

I say, just pay the $$-$$$/month for each thing, and be done with it. If paying for the service isn't worth it, paying someone to manage the tool internally almost certainly isn't, either, so prefer attempting to do without it over that option.

[EDIT] obviously, this can change with scale. If you're a huge company then putting an average of 1/4 of the hours for five sysadmins to managing a self-hosted chat tool can absolutely save you lots of money over paying for one—provided the reliability's at least as good. A small slip on that and you're back on the wrong side of things.
Or someone just had a bad headache. I don't think it's very likely that there's a secret energy weapon hidden in the bushes near the whitehouse.
California is failing because of every leader that has run the place since Reagan. Every terrible policy imaginable has been implemented and decimated the place. As someone who lives in California, the only way to move forward in life is to leave...and it's like that for everyone I talk to here. Nobody can afford to live here when houses that cost $1million here only costs $350k in other states.
I also do two, usually one fiction and one non-fiction.
If I were as interested in lying and as bad at it as you are I'd probably go out of my way for anonymity too.
It’s obvious that healthy people that live shorter are better for the ‘economy’ but clearly humanity doesn’t live to optimize for the economy. If we did, we would be fighting obesity with 10x the seriousness of how we fight COVID.
We can't explain consciousness in terms of physics YET. The entirety of human history is a march in which light has slowly pushed back darkness. If you haven't proved something unknownable and assert that it is your reader should rightly be incredulous.

There is no spirit realm for science to explore merely concepts that the ignorant suppose exist within such shadowed places.
One potential confounding factor is the massive drop in smoking rates, particularly among those in the prime age for schizophrenia onset.

The evidence seems to strongly indicate that nicotine is a powerful antipsychotic. When smoking was widespread it's possible that many schizophrenics were self-medicating in a basically effective way. The trend is probably particularly acute among cannabis users. 40 years, I'd expect that nearly all cannabis smokers were cigarette smokers. (Non-smoke consumption being essentially a rounding error back then.) Nowadays the sizable majority of cannabis users probably don't smoke cigarettes whatsoever.
Right, he owes his parents as established. They likely owe their parents, who owe their parents. And there were certainly others that contributed along the way may or may not have been compensated for that help. But none of these people had help from an amorphous group of "society", they had help from specific individuals.
>Musk, for all his flaws, started an actual rocket company with new and frankly insane tech.

Isn't is an amazing coincidence that Elon was able to find so many rocket engineers with ideas just as NASA was being starved of funding? Just lucky I guess! anotherwinformilos.gif

SpaceX is a privatization that enjoys plenty of easy funding from the government, it's just that spaceflight staff aren't paid via the federal HR department anymore.

Frankly, I don't see the benefit of Elon getting any of my tax dollars.
afaik one of the reasons it is considered a feature is memory safety. i agree a better selling point would be to say "written in a memory safe language".
Yes, once there was a time when C++ was an IDE-oriented language.

I don't know if it was because the good IDE sellers went bankrupt or if it's the change that caused their failure, but it isn't anymore.

About the dependency tracking, Windows isn't good for dealing with lots of files. It's performance isn't great (but improved a lot recently), it has locking and time based inconsistencies, and it brings a load of helper tools (like anti-virus) that will assist you in destroying your file hierarchy. The same applies for holding a VCS repository.

About stability, you are the first person ever that I see claiming to prefer Windows instead of Linux for it. It's such an alien idea that I wonder what non-usual stuff you do with your computers.
I think this needs a (2018) added to the title.
My problem is bad memory. I don't remember much of the books I read. Even recently.

So, I become very discouraged and see reading as waste of time as very little will stick and this I'll "grow" very little from time invested. Poor ROI.

I still read but mostly for eprmeral enntertainmen
A third way in which you are wrong is that AlphaFold derives a lot of its power by referring to previously-solved protein structures, or parts of them. It doesn't fold the proteins from scratch in an "alpha-zero" way.
Heh, if I don't trust the app then don't install it. Maybe offline VM/docker/etc as option.
It should be my primary although I've often seen it revert back after setting it. I did try setting it as my primary again but you know.
Australia's cockatoos are learning to dumpster dive from each other
The FDA recommended pausing J&J, not pulling it from the market. And they lifted that pause recommendation back in April.
MySQL 5.6 was released on 5 February 2013.

MySQL 8.0 was released on 19 April 2018.

>The 8.0 migration has taken a few years so far. We have converted many of our InnoDB replica sets to running entirely on 8.0.

At the scale of Facebook I wonder if they are the largest MySQL user on the planet.

And I take this opportunity to ask, does anyone know how does the MySQL roadmap works? What sort of features are coming or when is 9.0 expected to arrive.
https://learn.akamai.com/en-us/webhelp/adaptive-media-delive...

> AMD automatically strips these headers out of requests to support caching for faster delivery.

> I need the Vary HTTP headers: AMD can cache the associated object if the Vary HTTP header contains only "Accept-Encoding" and "Gzip" is present in the Content-Encoding header

(AMD in this case standing for Akamai Media Delivery)
I can only provide a single data point, but I used to smoke a lot of weed for a pretty long time, then stopped about 12 years ago, and one of the changes I noticed was that I became much more able to accept responsibility for my mistakes instead of blaming everything wrong with my life on others.

After I stopped smoking, I talked about this a friend who also quit weed around that time, and he said it was the same for him. (Okay, so it's two data points.)

Make of that what you want, but there is a correlation. That doesn't mean weed turns people into assholes necessarily, but it can certainly amplify preexisting tendencies in that direction. I'm pretty sure the same goes for various other drugs as well - I never spent time around cocaine or methamphetamine enthusiasts, but I've been told, some people have a tendency to become real assholes on cocaine. And of course there's alcohol, which definitely helps all kinds of unpleasant personality traits to float to the surface.
This comment comes across as quite condescending.

I mean, yeah I used to smoke a lot and produce a bit. I stopped after a while.

And yeah, I generally recommend that other folks try not smoking...

but it's not like you're getting "more" career than other folks have. It's just different.

Like good on you if that's what you want to do, but from where I sit I could say the same thing about career minded folks who substitute their work for an identity.

I get being terrified you're gonna get pushed out on the streets and all, but yeesh.

I don't wanna get up the corporate ladder. The people who arrange the work I do are nice and all, but it's not like the sales staff and the mild sociopathy they develop are living some sort of elevated life or something just because they make more money and have nicer cars.

Good on you for recognizing that you want something different and pursuing it, but not everyone agrees that "more career" is the same as more life.
That's typical Terminator FUD. That's not how AI works. That's not how any of this works.
basically anything that wasnt a long term compounding investment would be illegal... Obvious things like smoking and vaping, but maybe even time wasters like social media (you could be learning something...)

Luckily human life is more than just economy (as expressed in GDP) optimization.
Oracle has a very complete and much cheaper cloud solution relative to AWS. I've begun migrating my own projects over to their cloud. The savings on egress costs alone pays dividends.
Yes, that seems like an obvious dead end, if not decoy.
The example that fails in Jax would work fine in PyTorch. If you're working on purely training the model, TorchScript doesn't give many benefits, if any.
Snowden (and others like him) would get a free pass under this system? How would governments keep secrets if any ole person could just share them. I know hilarious/embarrassing secrets from old workplaces and the military. Should I just spill the beans in a blog post? That’s “journalism” …

There’s real human consequences in sharing secrets and the laws somewhat reflect that consequence. Can they be too harsh? yes. We should fight against that if they become too harsh, but I don’t think they should be turned off.