skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the time any of this is viable commercially, I really wonder where commercial GPUs and accelerators will be.

And they're going to have the home team advantage when that happens. So that means that unless these things are as accessible to tensorflow/pytorch or whatever the heck the framework de jour is at that point (hopefully more like Jax but better), they will get no traction.

Evidence? Every single demonstrably superior CPU architecture that failed to dislodge x86 over the past 50 years. Sure, it's finally happening, but it's also 50 years later.
> It'd be like forcing you to use IE 6 to browse the modern web and then if you're not as efficient as someone on modern Chrome firing you.

I might have to use that analogy next time this comes up.
Clearly China wants to use other markets but tries to avoid becoming a market be it education or social platforms. Very clever strategy I'd say
Even an emergent intelligence is different from top down dictate.
You should take a look at the law in question here. It's not a good thing that we should be cheering on.
Author here! The open sourced code was rewritten from scratch, not least because the original version was in C# while the open source version is in JavaScript. So, the same idea, but an entirely new implementation.

I forget exactly what conversations I had, but it was also very clear that they had no problem with me doing so since it doesn't really have any connection with their core business. If I wanted to, I suspect I could have open sourced the original version so long as I stripped out the stuff that was specific to the company.
> I suspect you're right, this stuff isn't top-down.

But it is, thats where Bernays enters on the picture with Manufacture of Desire and Manufacture of Consent through Propaganda and Mass Media imprints

> “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
- Edward Bernays, Propaganda 1927

> “No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.”
- Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda 1927

> “Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.”
- Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda 1927
Gun ownership is one of the greatest features of America. The more people partaking, the less likely it will be taken away by the ignorant and uninitiated.
Fun (mildly related) story - a couple months ago I was pulled over for speeding. I had a very good reason to be doing so IMO (medical). The cop took my license and when he came back to the car said “Mr artificialLimbs, I can see that you don’t like cops. It says that when I pull up your records”.

1.)I have no idea why they think this, especially since I donate to the state troopers every year. I may cancel that subscription…

2.)WTF I live in the U.S. If this profiling doesn’t directly violate laws, it certainly violates the spirit of “All men are created equal”.

I am considering filing FOIA for video and all records pertaining to myself to find out exactly what he meant, and then writing congresscritters.

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I've seen more engineers completely disinterested in anything customer related (and even calling users stupid!) more than I've seen PMs isolating devs. Every time I ask a PM if I could interact with a customer (not asking for permission, but to hook me up) they were delighted. Every single time.

Another way to solve this problem is to have engineers on customer support rotation of some sort. This way, engineers get to see how their software is used in the wild and interact with customers, and PMs get to see how unrealistic expectations and deadlines comes back to bite you in the ass in a form of your engineers being busy fixing half assed crap.
You can't guarantee that. If that was the case the bourgeois revolution would have happened way before with all the surplus someone working every hour of sunlight would produce on a piece of land.
Water cooling systems typically use distilled water because seawater is too corrosive
For those who haven’t yet heard of this John Cage piece:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4′33″
> Part of me thinks the worst thing I ever learned about was market efficiency

I agree and I think it's partially a circular argument. In discussions of stocks, you'll hear that one 'cannot beat' 'the stock market' and you'll hear phrases like, "already priced in" "efficient market hypothesis" and so forth. Which is different than the sentiment that it's 'very hard' or even 'unlikely' to do something like that, which I sympathize with.
There are actual autonomous robot competitions. They don't tend to be as adrenaline-filled as the battlebots, they really don't make good TV, but they're fun. Some have quite low barriers to entry. If you want to dip your toe in you can put together a mini-sumo or maze-running entrant without a ton of time/materials investment.
This stuff probably gets easy once you have 20 years of experience you can show to potential clients like he does.

Once you have that, you can attract other senior people to your lifestyle business, which seems like what has happened: https://www.expatsoftware.com/services.html

Even with 6 years personally, going to clients on your own is intimidating
The us correctional police justice complex is a system that has reached a complicated equilibrium. This isn't the whole story but the easiest way to understand is that it pays a lot of salaries, gives a lot of people access to big budgets, and gives a lot of people political power. This accounts for 100s of thousands of people every one of which potentially adds resistance to systemic change.
Oh, I think i didn't understand your comment, sorry. In the scenario laid out by the article the Fed runs the same software as any other miner, they simply ignore transactions that are not depositing bitcoin into their wallet, they refuse to record those transactions in the blocks they mine.

This is completely compatible with the bitcoin network, any miner can do that today without forking the chain. However, if the Fed had say 85% of all hash power it would be extremely expensive for any other miner to mine a block, so the Fed would gain complete control over the network over time.
After switching to Cython, you can add Cython syntax, like type definitions, to gain big speed improvements.
I guess I can see why this would be surprising to most programmers. It doesn't surprise me at all. Why would the wishes of any profit-seeking enterprise, who serves a very select clientele, those willing to pay for what the business provides, have anywhere close to the impact of a software project chosen out of a random itch, taken to the point where others actually get interested in it, and use to build their side projects, each of which can provide their own impact?

Unless you're a big techco with worldwide reach, what could compete with that?
"of all time" is often too strong of a qualifier for me. I would say "talks that I want to rewatch the moment they come to mind."

Charlie Kaufman's Bafta Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfXcWT_oFs

Gabor Mate, Prisoners of Childhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9B5mYfBPlY

I consider Bret Victor's inventing on principle a non-technical talk, so yeah that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

Quel Solaar, on creativity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJmqaWq7PJY
But then it's a job and he/she probably won't like it anymore.
People have been pleasure seeking long before corporations existed, so I think the causal chains runs the other way: corporations exist because they cater to that. My life does not revolve around work, so that part isn't for me. I'd be happy not to work at all.
#1 it's still beta. The point is to show the progress is real

#2 see linked video, he sits in the backseat, there is no driver and no one to take control.
> You might get swept up in one just because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time or looked up the wrong search term

And who gets to decide what a 'wrong' search term is? What if I wanted to figure out how nitrate bombs were made just out of plain intellectual curiosity, and not for the purposes of harming others?

And for sensitive search terms, I use Tor+DuckDuckGo and call it a day. Now and then I do that if looking up sensitive topics / health information like `how to cure hemorrhoids` or sexual health issues like ED. I would never use Google for topics like that!
We're probably headed for a world in which everything is rendered to an image server-side. The HTML/CSS/Javascript mess has become so bloated and attack-ridden that sending images needs less bandwidth and is simpler.
So... you're curious if your phone has government sponsored malware on it... and the solution is to image the phone and copy everything over to a different computer?? Including the possible GOVERNMENT SPONSORED MALWARE??

Don't be dumb.
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Did it ever cross your mind that comments such as yours contribute to the rant you're complaining about?

It really is a self-feeding flame war, and I agree with you, it's kinda annoying.
It’s funny how many tech people are getting into trades or very manual hobbies. I keep ending up at the page for my local community college’s woodworking program. Most of my hobbies now are DIY projects.
Unfortunately I'm unable to browse this site with the HTTPS Everywhere plugin as I get stuck in an endless loop.
Correct perhaps I should have been clearer as monetary values that are auditable, and need to add up.
see, they didn’t say that canvas-based Google Docs will be accessible - all they promise here is that it will be “compatible”

“compatible” could just mean that assistive technology will work while browsing Google Docs and nothing beyond that

this is a textbook example deceptive corporate doublespeak
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Yup.

The other axis is "do they dogfood?" meaning "if I go to amazon.com is the service used?"

The services Amazon built for themselves - s3, rds, ec2, dynamo, ... are generally pretty good. Redshift and glue? Not so much.
This type of comment Is usually done for synthwave.
> Why is short-term pleasure wrong?

This is a great question, and firmly in the realm of philosophy, so there will never be a definitive answer, only ones which you might find useful.

I prefer the Stoic's attitude toward pleasure. To (very loosely) paraphrase Marcus Aurelius:

For each evil characteristic a man can have, the gods gave also a counteracting virtue. For dishonesty, honesty. For fear, courage, etc. To counteract pleasure-seeking, self-control. How can it be good if we are given a virtue counteracting it?
Two of those are not like the other. Having queues in your system is most of the time a good decision. Decoupling workloads, buffering jobs, distributing workload, all of those are great benefits and with queues you get them all with an extremely simple interface (put, get). There isn't a lot of gotchas (there are some as with any software system) but it's a completely different thing compared to lambdas or kinesis.
The book "How to Take Smart Notes" and YouTube productivity gurus, most likely. I like the method, it's a natural way to structure your notes and spend more time actually writing them than categorizing.
Market Efficiency is a convenient argument of faith which has a more nuanced rational basis, but absolutely in the general case is untrue.

In the long-term, markets are certainly efficient. However, the period of inefficiency is determined by the absolute quantity of profit dollars available in the market which in itself determines the competition. That is, the quantity of ticks (time) required for a dynamic optimization w.r.t. profit extraction is the measure of competition in some market, and thereby the degree of efficiency.

It is then true, that in the most competitive markets, the ones with the most capital, have a very small window of inefficiency, but they do exist. It requires a lot of capital to dynamically extract profit from those inefficiencies. An example of this would be the near hegemony of Citadel Securities in making markets. It is impossible for anyone today to compete in the market-making (an advanced arbitrage) industry without tons of capital.

However, we are time-bounded beings so there is always present an inefficient market. The challenge of the proprietor is then to determine that market which can provide a return to his constrained capital.

For instance, a restaurant can give a 15% annual ROI, which outperforms the S&P. The Citadel is not going to be interested in this inefficiency because that ROI is unavailable to the amount of capital they're trying to invest. So what we see is that the most competitive markets beget the most capital, because they have the most profit available to extract absolutely; then the most amount of resources, where capital is the analogue, are invested into those markets--so any inefficiency is quickly eroded.

This means that just like the restaurant, there are markets that remain untouched for long periods of time due to their inability to return large amounts of capital in absolute terms. These markets then have a great ROI in terms of percent. It is these markets that are available to the proprietor with low capital.

This is why the startup advice of finding a niche first is so salient, they are always necessarily underserved non-competitive markets. There's the other cycle from crossing-the-chasm which removes enterprises from this market who have the same idea as they scale, that's a separate explication, but this cycle allows the period of inefficiency to be maintained in those markets through that self-regulation.
If I buy someone else's soul, could that be resold?
> Also, the place that Jesus said people would go for this "eternal fire" was called "Gehenna"[2] (not Hell) which in those days was just a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem.

You are taking the use of Gehanna literally. How do we know that Gehanna is not being used metaphorically as a representation to provoke an emotional visualization of real conditions in an actual Hell?

How do you interpret

> Mar 9:48 - Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Other than that "the worm" the cause of death, decay, and suffering, never ending, and thus the suffering never ending?

A while back I looked into what the Bible really seems to say about Hell in the hopes that something so evil could not have been written there, but I think ultimately any interpretation that leads to the belief that the Bible doesn't describe a Hell as it's commonly understood is just wishful thinking.
For people who have worked on accessibility related stuff in production projects, how much more expensive is it vs just ignoring it?
This is likely an unpopular opinion, but cubicles are usually great only for folks who have never really experienced anything else.
The work involved in keeping up with a roadmap, convincing execs that the roadmap is worth investing in, communicating it with the marketing teams, content teams and support teams, tying it back with customer demands and needs, and all that really ends up taking most of your time as a tech lead, and you no longer have time to work on tech design, architecture, training, reviews, coding, testing, etc.

That's where you'd want a PM brought in, the tech lead ideally would work together with the PM on the roadmap, in that technology must be considered when designing a roadmap, feasibility, effort needed, technical complexities, needed tech dept pay backs, needed redesigns, infrastructure upgrades, security considerations, etc. As well as being consulted for what can tech realistically provide as means to solve problems, etc.

That's why I think a PM is needed, so the tech lead can focus on leading the technology, while the PM focuses on capturing requirements, getting funding, coordinating the launch, and all that.

Ideally, there's also a separate dev manager, so the tech lead doesn't have to worry about employee resourcing, project allocation, hiring, compensation, promotion, needs/wants, vacation time, performance, etc.

For all these things, the tech lead should be consulted and have a voice, but freeing them from all this work is definitely a plus, why have your most experienced developer do all this management work?
MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows
Isn’t the reason it is cheap is because they have really horrible living conditions? Organic meat where the animals are treated properly is expensive.
That wouldn't be so bad if the server sent down a tree of semantic UI elements, a.k.a. an accessibility tree, along with that image. That's basically what I advised Cloudflare to do ~18 months ago.
Does it matter? Tomorrow morning you can wake up needing those accessibility features.
That seems excessively strong. There's probably just an assumption about something somewhere I'm not getting because of different cultural context or the like.
I'm not advocating for the cessation of mortgage forbearance nor eviction moratoriums. All I'm saying is that they distort the labor markets and will continue to do so until we reach a new post-COVID steady state.

(Don't know why this triggers down votes.)
It's not an effective detterent becsuse the kid holding the weapon doesn't understand the consequences.

Edit: if you give a child the keys to your car and they hit someone with it, who is at fault?
>I like to see people working hard

That's the problem I have with neoliberals, they want to impose their ideology on the rest of us.
That’s the thing. It doesn’t have to be your home. You could be at the park or outdoor restaurant. If you’re lucky enough, it could be your backyard. The freedom to choose where you work is nice.
Mumbo jumbo? I’ve read the CPC’s latest five-year plan, and it seemed pretty clear and concrete to me. Anyone interested can do the same: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQEtwcbYa9hTqs7y...

Based on my research into China’s poverty alleviation program I can only say you’re completely misrepresenting it. It’s a wide-ranging effort that includes the CPC building infrastructure, hospitals, and schools in the far reaches of the country. Of course you’re right it’s something all Chinese people should be proud of.
But aren't there authoritarians in the gov't that want to confiscate your liberal friends guns?
Right. It's a thing where you have to guess a secret number, and the winner gets a prize, but it's definitely NOT a lottery.
Ask HN: Can you get into security research self taught?
The word “research” tends to evoke ideas of long, expensive academic careers you have to put in until you can be considered qualified for industrial R&D type roles. But security research seems to be orthogonal to many fields that tend to focus less on credentialism and more on proven past ability. It’s not uncommon software devs, other security roles, etc. to be able to break into to their respective fields self taught so is it possible for security research roles?

If so, how difficult is it to self teach this sort of stuff and how long would someone with a cursory understanding of exploits, security, etc. to be “ready” for a industrial role in this field. I get that’s a very open question, with widely varied answers based on individuals, but for comparison, it doesn’t seem to take software developers that show existing aptitude for the field very long to have the potential for productivity in a industrial setting. Hell there are entire industries around pumping out new programmers in 6mo-1y, and while they may not all be top of the line, if good at all, getting your foot into the door seems to be the biggest step into separating those who are and getting them into the right track.
I’m sorry but I find this incredibly vague. I’m not doing stuff because I fear the pain of success ? What pain??
Whose statutory responsibility is it to enforce accessibility? And by what methods?

I'm not encouraging folks to flout this, but one needs to be quite specific as to what is required where, and for whom.
We know what happens when research is founded by non-impartial entities. We've seen it in the context of the tobacco settlement.
> I need to use my hands and know that something is different tomorrow because I did this work today.

Mhm, in physical work, you always see a result -- even if it's a mess or failure. You get direct, no-bullshit feedback every single day. Mental work, in contrast, most typically ends in an abstraction: you work all day long and there is a result, but you can't always see it the way you see a planted tree in the forest.

Yup, I'm a primitive creature, devastatingly tied to the simplest of my senses: seeing, hearing, touching.
All nuts contain high levels of oxalates, an anti-nutrient.
That's okay, it doesn't need to be a full-time job, but more like a "4 hour work week" mini-job that pays the bills with minimal ongoing effort.

The rest of the time could be spent doing other more interesting things that just bring joy and/or benefit humankind.

They'll probably also have further potential for monetization, and so on, sustaining a life of leisure and doing meaningful work.
indeed, those bridges are great