skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish that GDPR had gone a step further and imposed some requirements over the shape of the data that companies are required to expose. For domains like ecommerce, or banking, or social media, companies should be required to export their GDPR data in the same format as each other.

Bonus points if companies are also required to allow users to import data in those formats. That would make it easier to avoid being locked into a specific platform: export your data from the old one, import it into the new one.

Before you say that this is impractical -- Google requires that other companies submit data to it in very specific formats (eg, product listings), so I don't see why governments can't impose similar requirements on companies, too.

It probably wouldn't be applicable for companies with highly-specific data models, though.
More like parser jam
Can You Do Microblogging in hackernews
can you just asking
If that was true, Bezos would have sent someone else on the test of manned flight rather than risk his own ass.
“This tail risk event hasn’t happened yet, so it’s nothing to worry about.”
You don't own the database. You can't be sure it's not being tampered with, and joining any other users' data together still requires your own backend. You also can't promise data won't be lost.

As another reply said, this could be useful for data-intensive readonly applications.
Musk's motivation, which he has expressed repeatedly, is to make humanity resilient to an event that makes Earth uninhabitable.

Whatever that event might be (asteroid impact, nuclear war, environmental catastrophe, plague, whatever), I think the idea of having a second site of human habitation is not an unreasonable goal.

Which is not, as has sometimes been stated, "giving up on Earth and the rich moving to Mars" -- it's just an insurance policy.

The resources expended to achieve this are tiny. It's not a lot of money, and the consumables are ... literally drops in the ocean.

That's not to say that there aren't other problems that could be addressed using that money, but it's not really a question of either/or: humanity could very easily do both, should it choose to do so. It's just that Musk chooses to focus on this problem, and its solution. We're all certainly free to make a different choice ...
Megan Phelps-Roper on Why She Left the Westboro Baptist Church https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhR-gYhs6CI
Maybe I'm not reading correctly, but it seems the project is about making a language compiler and not a language itself?
These words aren't necessarily wrong, but quite irrelevant here, since Brexit can be called many things but 'cheap' isn't one of them.
Opticians are sales people, not techs or doctors. Relying on them is like asking a used car salesman if he's giving you s good price.
> Turns out you have to re-use a paper bag 43 times for the energy use to be the same as plastic grocery bags.

This sounds way too high. And indeed, this BBC article cites paper bags being just four times as energy intensive as plastic bags: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47027792

That's a difference of an order of magnitude. It would be very interesting to hear where you sourced that number from.

As others have pointed out, the whole equation involves also recyclablility. Plastic bags - unlike paper bags - are very hard to recycle, as this article demonstrates. Therefore efforts to reduce the amount of waste generated in the first place are preferable.

Before we can begin to solve plastic waste problem abroad we need to first develop lasting and scalable solutions at home. Caricaturizing the problem to encourage people to close their eyes of the issue might make you feel better but is entirely unhelpful.
No, after 8.6 the system featured a micro kernel on which the old OS ran atop. I think you could opt in for better stability, but I'm not sure. But most of the OS and apps still ran on the same shared memory space with cooperative multitasking, meaning a single app could (and did) bring the whole system down.

I think you can emulate 9.2 just fine, but it's been a while since I played with this things.
but sls is the program with the most funding currently right?
Navy Quietly Decommissions Littoral Combat Ship Independence
it's definitely an inside job tho'
Ask HN: What's the difference between CRDT vs. Eventual Consistency?
Hi HN,
I've seen several articles about CRDTs [1] lately and I don't fully understand how they're different from the concept of eventual consistency [2] in distributed computing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency
I hope you’re correct. All our domesticated animals have smaller brains than their wild cousins. If the phrenologists hadn’t been so focussed on proving their racist fantasies, would they have found our skulls a few marbles smaller than our ancient (modern human) ancestors?
If you get the vaccine and stay out of ICU, you’re doing it for others.
The EU, on the whole is pretty close to the US in terms of corruption, but it's not because your mic was shut off.

That's just some institution at a conference not wanting to be pestered, which is something else entirely.
I'm not talking about that; I'm talking about Congress, the guys with the checkbook. For them, it's a jobs program.

They're the next stop for Bezos, btw. This ain't over.
Was more directed at COVID pushing remote work, negating the need to shuffle bodies around via public transit to do knowledge work. I agree Brexit has been an expensive, unnecessary shit show.
Several Malicious Typosquatted Python Libraries Found on PyPI Repository
Has anyone here tried using one of these? On the surface they seem to be relatively reliable and safe. I am tempted to get try one out since their driver cam gives me confidence that I won't become complacent while using one of these self-driving systems.
Sure, if that probe's rather crude landing system is enough for you, suit yourself with Luna 9. However, the LM landed on its legs in one piece, just like DC-X, New Shepard, Grasshopper, and F9 first stage did later.
Why Do People Buy a Tesla? Not Because of Elon Musk, Survey Says
Ugh, this is fucked up. Hope he gets lots of money $(10)^N, N=8 to 9 is okay in my book.
Seems like it's yet another example of the node ecosystem being amateur hour, rather than a problem with HTTP.
>input latency feels high because redrawing the screen is slow (along with all the encryption, which is also slow)

Is modern encryption a challenge to those old machines? Is it because of specialized encryption hardware or sheer brute force?

Or is it just this implementation that's slow?

I used telnet back in the 68k days.
Its very possible the omelet contained more eggs, 4-5 would make some sort of sense for these prices.
the machine it's probably tested on: http://www.cy384.com/projects/centris-650.html
But it lacks gluten free vegan dishes, that can be eaten with a mask on.
I believe it says “plain omelette” which I read to mean at most they added cheese.
I don't think it's likely that the Kentuckians would help out if the tables were turned
Omelets take a fair bit more attention from the cook than doing a big batch of fried or boiled eggs all at once.
It's better than it used to be. The anti-littering "crying Indian" and "Give a Hoot" ad campaigns in the 1970s actually worked.

Perhaps things are trending the other way lately. I do seem to notice more litter now than I did when I was younger. But there are more people now also.
You seem to be directly contradicting your parent commenter about US releasing plastic into the sea. Even if it's growing, do you still agree that it's insignificant compared to less developed countries?

A lot of the arguments against plastic miss this anyway. They say "don't put it in the landfill" but the landfill is exactly where it's walled-off and safe. If it was about getting into waterways, it'd be "Put your plastic in the landfill instead of the street".

Why does it matter how long it takes to break down? As long as it's secure, it'll just sit there doing no harm. Is there any evidence that landfills will one-day release their contents on a large scale and cause an environmental problem? Presumably that will happen in some post-apocalyptic world where people no longer bother to maintain things and the apocalypse will be tolerable but not the plastic?
Maybe BO will one day actually do something noteworthy on their own, rather than trying to prevent SpaceX from moving ahead because they actually do things. Bezos also recently tried to block Starlink's modified expansion plans[1] saying it was unfair to his conceptual Project Kuiper (conceptual because it doesn't yet physically exist vs Starlink which is in beta service and expanding). Amazon isn't even using BO to launch their own Project Kuipers first satellites (they're going to use ULA)[2]. That says a lot.

> Amazon did not say when the first launch will occur, but the company said it had contracted with United Launch Alliance for nine launches to begin building out its constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit.

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/fcc-approves-spacex-starlink...

[2]https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/amazons-first-intern...
Joe Manchin Makes $500K a Year from One of Dirtiest Coal Plants in West Virginia
> It’s hard to predict timelines for this kind of thing, and people are notoriously bad at it. Few would have predicted the results we’re seeing today in 2010. What would you expect to see in the years leading up to AGI? Does what we’re seeing look like failure?

Few have predicted a reasonably-capable text-writing engine or automatic video face replacement, but many have predicted self-driving cars would have been readily available to consumers by now and semi-intelligent helper-robots being around.

Just because unforeseen advancements have been made, does not mean that foreseen advancements come true.
I’m generally not a fan of that kind of fig-leaf (say “we are not sharing weapons, just information” when encouraging people to print a gun-shaped bobby trap that is more likely to blow your hand than change anyone’s mind about gun control) but in this case, the veneer of technical engagement seems to filter for, or encourage people who are excited enough by self-driving that they actually pay attention and send feedback.
Come on, do you expect me to believe that this sort of activity would occur in a Facebook branded world? You’d be lucky to get anything done the rest of your life. Political arguments with 3 meter tall taking porpoises would occupy any time left as you dodge walking ads.
I laughed so hard when I watched it. So clichéd, especially the parts where the men barely managed to survive their encounter in the cave, and were the girls of the tribe comforted them as heros afterwards :-)
Usually this kind of thing seems to arise from a unit conversion by journalists working without an understanding of significant figures. The original report might have referred to "1000 cubic bloits" of nitrate, translating to 552 tonnes if you simply punch the numbers into a calculator.
? Productivity is to a great extent a measure of producer surplus.

If you can sell something at a higher prices, often that leads to 'greater productivity' when really it isn't.

So if consumers have more buying power, and we make the same amount and quality of stuff, but sell at lower prices, consumers are getting a better surplus i.e. 'consumer profit' ... then that's where productivity can 'disappear' to. Literally higher standard of living.

If we measured in some objective price - or - we just measured in terms of 'quality of things produced' we'd see that better.
This is actually correct. The facility has a maximum discharge power of 300 MW (and it stores 450 MWh of energy.)
I mean sociopath has a real definition you can't just call everyone you don't like sociopaths.
Also interesting is the idea that the appendix is a local optimisation. If a smaller appendix was more likely to get appendicitis, it might remain a vestigial organ rather disappearing completely, even it the organ has no function, because there is an evolutionary advantage to having the current rather than the smaller size
What value does Niokla have at this point and why?

Serious question. Been wondering it since the Hindenburg Research stuff last fall.
Wikipedia: "announced to the general public but is late or never actually manufactured nor officially cancelled"

Is official cancellation necessary?
Common sense would have it that if the virus was under attack from the moment it entered your body, it’s less likely to mutate, than if it’s lingering for weeks in an unvaccinated person doing its thing?
This is quite common with many seed stage startups. They'll call it hustling and say stuff about doing things that don't scale. I say this as a person who has been working and freelancing at various startups.

But it's harder than actual user acquisition. I don't think Tinder or any company with PMF actually does it. One of the definitions of PMF is when you're overwhelmed with trying to meet actual demand. There's little reason to make fake demand. If you've acquired 1k active users with 300 fake profiles, are you going to maintain 300k fake profiles to maintain 3m active users?

I can see why someone would do it to raise seed funding, though.
Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years
I've got a lot of book piles right now as I don't have enough shelves. I'd much rather have shelves.
The intrinsic value of gold is its usefulness in electronics and jewelry. The same for silver and other natural resources: the cost to dig them out of the ground or grow them, process them and bring them to where you want them to be is exceeded by their economic usefulness.

The intrinsic value of a bitcoin is zero, and the cost of production is about 1.7 megawatt-hours.
Even better solution. Charge $100 to go into the grocery store and that will greatly reduce people driving to stores, shopping and using single-use bags.
Oooohhhh no I haven’t read that - thanks for the link! I feel embarrassed to say this but I knew about Xi editor years ago but I totally forgot to go read & learn about your crdt implementation when I was learning about Yjs and automerge and others. I’ll have a read.

And thanks for writing such an in depth article. It’s really valuable going forward. Maybe it’s addressed in your write up but are there any plans for that code, or has everyone moved on? I’d love to have a zoom chat about it and hear about your experiences at some point if you’d be willing.
Kanye and the ontology of bleached T-shirts. A JavaScript implementation
Coal is a major industry in West Virginia, so Manchin is aligned with the economic interests of his constituents.
According to this article:
1. Amazon made no accommodation for this pregnant women after multiple requests
2. California law requires companies to make accommodations for pregnant employees unless the company can prove "undue hardship."

So it seems like a clear violation of California law. I'd sure like to know how this turns out.
Past performance is not indictative of future results across distinct domains.

Within a single problem space (or sub-space) past performance can generalise quite well.

There's a problem with scaling solutions and expecting performance to continue to increase in a continuous exponential manner: growth that we perceive as exponential is often only on a long-life S-Curve.

We've seen this in silicon, where what appears to the layman to have been exponential growth has in fact been a sequence of more limited growth spurts bound by the physical limits of scaling within whatever model of design was active at the time.

The question of where the bounds to the problem domains are, and when new ideas or paradigms are required is much more difficult in AI than it has been in microprocessors.

It's easy enough to formulate the question "how small can this be before the changes in physical characteristics at scale prevent it from working?", if rather more difficult to answer.

AI is so damned steeped in the vagaries of the unknown that I can't even think of the question.
>To me, "attempts at representation" are demeaning by definition. Giving someone a part because of their skin color or sex or sexual orientation is demeaning.

Aren't you moving the goalposts? I thought we were talking about characters, not actors. Two entirely different arguments, and I know a lot of LGBTQ+ people who would be offended at a straight person playing gay or transgender, and a lot of POC people who take issue with "whitewashing" in Hollywood. But the people who complain about the "agenda" behind non-straight, non-white characters don't tend to complain when non-white roles get cast by white actors.

Do you consider writing non-white, non-straight characters to be demeaning by definition?

Is a Muslim, Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel demeaning to Muslims and Pakistanis? In a field where Muslims and Middle-Easterners are rarely portrayed in a positive light, if at all? Even if Kamala Khan is written by a Pakistani Muslim, and based partly on her own lived experiences?

Is adding the possibility of gay romance or sex in a video game demeaning to gay people? If so, why isn't straight sex in a video game isn't demeaning to straight people?

>You have to cast an actor or write a part because you thought the actor was good or the part works, not as part of an "attempt at representation".

And what I'm saying is that's exactly what happens more often than you and many people seem willing to believe. It's just assumed that every non-white, non-straight character or role exists only for the sake of "diversity points."
Honest question: isn’t putting plastics in landfills the ultimate form of carbon capture? Or is there a version of doing this that is net negative carbon?
I can offer a slightly different reason for getting one (I preordered one): learning. I have published a few mobile apps, and have toyed with the idea of making a game but haven't felt quite "ready" for that yet. The extremely low barrier to entry on the PD ($180 gets the hardware, SDK is free, and the platform is open so you can distribute anyway you want) is the primary reason I am excited about it. the limitations of the platform just feel less daunting.

I have no idea what it would take to play a homemade game on a Switch or Xbox (the two consoles I own). As for Steam, I can probably make that work but at that point I'd just use the Mac App Store or my own site. In this regard the PD just feels more .... welcoming/simpler I suppose. So at least for me, $180 doesn't seem crazy.

I also give Panic a lot of "benefit of the doubt" as I have been using their software for two decades and know that they make quality things and care deeply about the overall experience and customer satisfaction and such; so the investment feels far less risky than if it was some random startup (I had never heard of Teenage Engineering before this product, so they were not a factor in this regard).

I don't think your take is wrong; just that this device doesn't strike your fancy and that is perfectly fine. But maybe my motivations behind buying one can reveal one possible reason for someone to willing choose it over (or in my case, in addition to) the other options.
The economy is growing slower as are living standards(at least in the US post 1973 or so) because productivity growth has been slower. Both are obviously advancing, but more slowly.
Yep! Our next meeting is in two Mondays from now on August 2nd, at 4:00pm Pacific Time. All are welcome: https://braid.org/meeting-16
They're no more egomaniacs than, say, whoever wins a gold medal at the Olympics. You've got to be an egomaniac to think one deserves to be the fastest runner in the world, a completely pointless honor, but we celebrate them anyway.

Pointless as in I, an old man and an uncoordinated complete failure at athletics, can ride my bike faster than any of them can run.
the "only" part before "an incentive" was important. They weren't saying because the fees are an incentive there is therefore trust, but rather, that one is trusting that, essentially, that this incentive will be enough.

Of course, the concern that some particular miner might just have it out for you to a degree that outweighs this incentive, or who has some other incentive to not include your transaction, is more mitigated when there are more separate/independent miners/pools .
huge fan of the CEO. inspired me to use vim 7 months ago and it increased my productivity
I think the legal issues with Tether could be a bigger risk to Bitcoin's heart going by the volume of trade it supports supposedly fraudulently (https://bitfinexed.medium.com/tether-is-setting-a-new-standa...)
People like to romanticize market competition as a epic battle of great minds and ideas that we all benefit from... but, in all honestly, it allows for comparative testing of diverse ideas while keeping pricing honest. Cooperation might lower the "cost" of producing similar products but, then we are producing similar products. A major goal of competition is to prevent us from putting all our eggs in one basket.

I mean what if all the space companies decided to use one company's rocket engine and they failed to delivery...
Building a WebApp from A-Z: The Caucus Tech Stack
Thanks for your reply. I suppose a quick way to summarize my criticism is that it reads to me like you've dismissed the strengths of ML on technical grounds, while you imply you don't have any real technical experience in the field. You make a superficial comparison between the compexity of biology and ML, without providing any real insight, just saying one has lots going on and the other is matrix multiplication.

If your conclusion is that current gradient based methods probably won't scale up to AGI, you're probably right. But if you want to get involved in the discussion of why this is true, what ML actually can and can't do, etc. I would encourage you to learn more about the subject and the current research areas, and draw on that for your discussion points.

Otherwise, it comes across as "I once saw a podcast that said..." type stuff that is hard to take seriously.

No doubt I come across as condescending, please take what I say with the usual weight you'd assign to the views of a random guy on the internet :)
How much of this is because nobody puts effort into these optimizations?

The Rust compiler has repeatedly found critical bugs in LLVM's restrict / noalias support, bugs that would impact C / C++ as well if any real-world C / C++ programs actually used it.

If compilers produce straight-up broken code in these situations, I can only imagine they're not putting a lot of effort into these optimization strategies.
Write a Forth. ;)
Do you like criminals? Say, armed robbers, murderers? If someone is on trial for stuff like that, and the evidence seems to support their guilt, wouldn't most people take a dislike to them?

You reasoning feels like having "equal rights under the law" mean that then you'd have to let them go free, because convicting them would be "just because you don't like them".
Humans already live in a collective hallucination known as social reality. It’s a distinct overlay, distinct from our physical contextual realities and the phenomena we derive our physical laws from etc. overlay of what? Don’t ask. Variously explained as wiggles or turtles all the way down, or so I was told.
I just wanted to point out that we flap our gums or thumbs a lot and ping concepts in each other’s minds via language, but speaking about stuff is not the same as the stuff itself.
I recently just used LibraryThing to catalog all of my books. The UPC camera/scanner was nice although I had to laugh when I saw a picture of a cue cat on the site! I’ve got all of my ebooks and audiobooks catalogued as well. Turns out I loved some books so much I bought them in 2 forms. Oops.
Apparently the fair value of gold when considering the manufacturing value is less than a hundred dollars an ounce. Other demand (store of value) drives the price up.