skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if I can have a chance of improving the life of one more person - You - I'll be happy :) Please do the experiment and come back here in 5 days.

Is it pleasurable in my head right now?
It really doesn’t have much to lose. None of the non-tech people I have spoken to think of this as a bad thing.
I guess that's right. I can't say I thought "interesting article", more that in writing it he condemns himself. "I can prove he's a traitor", followed by an argument that whose fundamental weakness becomes more apparent the longer it is reflected on, is not the noble exercise in patriotic duty he is trying to pass off his score settling as.

It's the curse of the social media age: people whose great virtues might in another time have led themselves to universal admiration, in the hustle of self promotion allow their ugly vices to be seen.
A federal check for a couple thousand bucks has been life-altering for millions. American poverty is real.
Natural boom-and-bust cycles are a huge risk to economies as well, despite the fact that they're natural and don't have anyone for which we can point a finger at.
The free market can do a lot when it has the basic requirements to operate, but the point is that government spending is the only solution when we end up with a chicken/egg problem as the OP pointed out.
If you break down what the US gov spends money on it is absolutely not those things. The US is mostly in the business of insurance (welfare, healthcare) and "education". Defense and infrastructure come some time after those.

Of the things they could fathom, they might have even been better at them. Certainly better per dollar spent.
Relevant: The Security Value of Inefficiency by Bruce Schneier

> This drive for efficiency leads to brittle systems that function properly when everything is normal but break under stress. And when they break, everyone suffers. The less fortunate suffer and die. The more fortunate are merely hurt, and perhaps lose their freedoms or their future. But even the extremely fortunate suffer — maybe not in the short term, but in the long term from the constriction of the rest of society.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/the_security_...
It's not. They aren't counting payroll taxes as federal income taxes.
> looking for the longest path

> "The Fox isn't trying to get 100 meters away - it's trying to get 100 triangles away."

Breadth-first search wouldn't be possible. If at each triangle the fox has ~2 options that's 2^100 to get to 100 triangles away

But if it did impossibly work out every journey, and then chose a random last node it would end up in camps more often.

Depth-first search shouldn't preference the camps, unless it gets dragged in from afar. But if it can only get dragged in really close to/in a camp, then it's about the same probability as the fox running past/through a camp anyway. And I would assume as a player you would see the fact it's pretty.
>Author here: I made it as a proof of concept, just because I could.

Sometimes those are the most satisfying and technologically interesting proof of concepts. Don't let any of the detractors here tell you you're wasting your time!
I don't see any connection here.
So the new car thief will yank the computer(s) out of newer cars, sell them on the black market.
Even if you don't have detectable levels of antibodies - if you've been previously infected or vaccinated - you will likely have robust and durable immunity that greatly reduces the risk of hospitalization and death [1][2][3].

[1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[2] Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

[3] Rapid induction of antigen-specific CD4+ T cells is associated with coordinated humoral and cellular immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination
https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(21)00308-3
Congratulations guys !
This is effectively arguing that because the eventual end state is the same, it doesn't matter what path we take to get there. But that's not true, it matters a lot, and there's a universe of externalities to what you suggest.

Deciding we're just not going to collect taxes anymore and that we'll pay off debts by printing out extra dollars would have enormous effects on bond prices, international trade, the US dollar benefiting from being the premiere currency of the world, etc.

Stupid idea.
Yes and those things are fantastic, as they provide the platform we all run on.
If your partner prefer his career over you, you should have serious talk about that.
We’ll see. The internet is or was different. It was passing bits around the globe. Making it into a turnpike would have stymied development.

Fragmentation seems to be emerging with some locales wanting or needing more local control of content. That will likely increase with the success of the GFC and its implementation in ex-USSR satellites as well as in Russia itself.
Several points:

* cheaper to acquire rights to build. Elon envisioned the tubes suspended on some pillars built on the median strip of existing highways. No need for eminent domain, or difficult land acquisition negotiations

* much lower air resistance: the pressure (and so density) of the air in the tube is supposed to be about 100 times lower than the atmospheric pressure. So the air resistance should also be 100 times lower for the same speed.

* lower track maintenance: high speed trains are supported by steel wheels getting in touch with steel rails on a tiny area. Therefore tremendous pressure and vibrations. The load of the hyperloop train is supported over a huge area via air pressure. The load felt by every single square inch of the tube should be thousands of times lower than the load felt by the train rails when the wheels pass over.

* potentially higher speed.
If you need open source control, use LinuxCNC. If you need open source designs a) why? b) download any of the many designs on the internet constructed out of 8020. If you need to budget less than 8020, use maker slide.

I've build multiple BIG cnc routers. One with 8020, one out of steel. The industrial design of the frames are not that hard, its more cable management, PLC stuff, sensor placement, and calibration that get you. Linear rails (e.g Hiwin rails) offer excellent linear motion and rigidity. Rolled ball screws also work great.

I've also converted some older manual mills to CNC, most recently a Bridgeport that is running a Masso G3 controller.

The reality is that the need for open source in this space is limited because most of the hardware that is available for Mach3, Mach 4, UCCNC, is highly versatile, and the "closed source" software still allows scripting, etc to modify buttons and routines to suit you. And again, if you really want to control everything, LinuxCNC works.

If you are new to this space, I recommend buying or building a gantry router. It gives you 3 axes of motion with a vertical spindle, and depending on the level of weight and rigidity you add will influence the hardness of the materials you can cut.
Of course not. Child Pr0N today, "hate speech" tomorrow.

For media, hate speech is anything that deviates from the propaganda of the day.

I'm amazed at how many people don't see the pattern, especially in our post 9/11 world. This stuff never stays contained to it's original purpose - it ALWAYS expands.

The only way to control it is not let it get established in the first place :p
Cloud providers are not required to scan for this content.

They are, however, required to disclose it if they find it.

That said, many cloud providers do in fact scan for this content. Apple was the odd one out.
They could comply with a nation state's demands to scan a billion iPhones for a politically dangerous photo.
It’s negative WRT the chip production rate.
Can only speak for myself of course, but I'm not a student, nor are my notes for work (I do take notes at work, but they really dont need anything resembling a system at all).

These are more so notes for personal projects, ideas I have, things I need to do/todo lists, that kind of thing.

The basic idea is to try not to hold everything in your head, because it limits your ability to think clearly if your stressing about not forgetting stuff. I don't know how true that is, but I can say that for me I'm less stressed about something if I know I have it written down somewhere, even if I never come back to it. Its almost like I make it future-me's problem, rather than something I need to deal with now.
Exactly! In my minds eye I imagined these 4 developers being interrogated in a dark room with a bright lamp shining on their face. “We know you something about the Fox AI! Admit it and this will end!”
Source? I agree the borders were a failure, but I can't find anything close to what you're saying in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement
I wonder if there will be a long term shift in supply chains toward less "asset light" and more vertically integrated operations with sourcing moved closer to end market demand.
absolutely no. government interventions rarely (if ever) are helpful in managing supply and demand.
Ritalin and similar medications cause brain to focus on benefits of work (2020)
I think maritime law and safety is a good example of my point: the path to maritime law is paved in centuries of blood.

And here's the kicker: this didn't even require global collective action. This required governments to police a narrow industry. That's so much easier and yet even then it took centuries.
My guess is the end result of all this "AI" assisted code-generation is that it will have the same impact on the software engineering industry as spreadsheets had on accounting. I also believe that this AI-powered stuff is a bit of a "two-steps forward, one step back" situation and the real innovation will begin when ideas from tools like Louise [1] are integrated into the approach taken in Codex.

When VisiCalc was released departments of 30 accountants were reduced to 5 accountants because of the improvement for individual worker efficiency, however accounting itself remains largely unchanged and accountants are still a respected profession who perform important functions. There's plenty of programming problems in the world that simply aren't being solved because we haven't figured out how to reduce the burden of producing the software; code generation will simply increase the output of an individual software developer.

The same forces behind "no-code" are at work here. In fact I see a future where these two solutions intermingle: where "no-code" becomes synonymous with prompt-driven development. As we all know, however, these solutions will only take you so far -- and essentially only allow you to express problems in domains that are already well-solved. We're just expressing a higher level of program abstraction; programs that generate programs. This is a good thing and it is not a threat to the existence of our industry. Even in Star Trek they still have engineers who fix their computers...

[1] - https://github.com/stassa/louise
I'm able to see it without being signed in, but here you go: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428008043556622336.html
Is Codex different from the regular code examples on OpenAI, e.g. https://beta.openai.com/examples/default-translate-code or https://beta.openai.com/examples/default-fix-python-bugs

I can do that now with my OpenAI account but Codex needs a specific invite. What's the difference?
People usually make a mistake of performing lossy re-encoding, seeing the file size drop, and concluding it's a success. That's meaningless for a format vs format comparison, because it doesn't control for equivalent quality. You can re-encode any lossy format, even back to itself, and always see significant file size reduction due to nearly-imperceptible quality loss (but that "nearly" matters a lot: see heap paradox).

Proper comparisons need to control for visual quality, but this very hard to do properly, because human range of "looks the same to me" is bigger than compression efficiency difference between WebP and JPEG. So you need either synthetic "objective" metrics that are not exactly human judgement (problematic, because e.g. PSNR likes blur more than people do), or test with lots of images and lots of people.

Anyway, WebP has also clear limitations compared to JPEG. For example 4:2:0 chroma subsampling of VP8 means it automatically loses whenever an image needs sharp colors, because it just can't do it, but JPEG can. VP8 also uses "studio range", so it has less than 8 bits of color precision (224 intensity levels instead of 255).
Now is the time to do something about it, but aiming at Apple is just an ineffective approach.

The only protection against future abuse, whether or not this mechanism is deployed, is a legal system that cares.
> Extra points by diversifying from China/Taiwan

Take a look on the linkedin jobs in Shenzhen.

The trend IS NOT towards diversification. In the last 5 years since Trump's election, US multinationals were increasing their presence in China, not decreasing.

Google for example said to open "a small representative office" in Shenzhen 2 years ago, now it's a full giant RnD centre in the Ping An Tower where they shipped all of Pixel's development.

Apple had RnD offices in China for more than a decade, but they barely acknowledged their existence. Their people in the Kerry Plaza were prohibited by their contract to even show their employment for Apple in their LinkedIn profiles. Their Shenzhen RnD centre is where AirPods were developed, along with many other iPad, and iPhone sub-assemblies. Apple's VR goggles project had its start in Shenzhen as well.

Amazon had no presence whatsoever in China besides a failed Chinese Amazon.com launch. They left China, and then returned to move the whole of their Kindle, and Echo device development to Shenzhen. Now they are working on something rather cryptic there. Some suggest VR goggles of their own design.

Facebook... absolutely bizarrely opened their RnD centre in Shenzhen amid the COVID, just a floor below Google I heard.

Dell, Microsoft, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Intel — all conventional hardware makers were here since nineties, but I think they really doubled down on China recently as well too, to one up the dotcom upstarts in hardware.
It just boggles my mind that people are OK with being treated as if they are a criminal by default.

I mean if I'm not a criminal, then why the need to sift through my stuff in the first place?
Having worked with "the main dev" I can't say I share this view. It has been very nice to be able to pick his brain and hear his thoughts. It can be exhausting, when you want to improve things now, but come up with a better long term plan. I guess that's a language designer thing.
This will be huge for remote team cohesion. It's really, really too bad that it's facebook. Not too jazzed to be tracked and datamined at home AND work.
> A lot of people want programs to be optimized instead of naively executing everything as it appears in the source code. Do you think that's acceptable?

Yeah, my problem isn't that optimization is changing the code per-se, it's that it is introducing a non-obvious bug by doing so. Ostensibly that loop either returns true or never returns. What if it were provided a number that would never return (assume this is possible given the algorithm provided), but because of the "optimization" now returns true? It literally gives us the wrong answer.
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I doubt that there are many credible pich for the hyperloop..

Especially when one of the selling point of the hyperloop was that they would use "air cushion" to float above the ground but then they switched to "magnetic levitation" so now it's a maglev train variant, an even more expensive one than the current maglev trains..
Ok but point to the part of that comment which was evidence?

Claiming that the results of ag subsidies have been "nightmarish" with no further elaboration or citation does nothing to advance the conversation, it's simply a strongly worded opinion.
Tax is the moral basis on which democracy is predicated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qsl6QUlWVc
> I want the real thing.

If you used iOS/iMessage, you have always trusted Apple. To be truly 'end to end' you would assume that there's no opportunity for another party to intercept your messages: the only trust would be in the keys you exchanged with your peer.

1. They are a trusted broker for iMessage key exchanges. You didn't do the key exchange, you assumed that when Apple did so on your behalf that you're really communicating with the peer you think you are.

2. They designed the iOS features that you trust keep iMessage data inaccessible to other untrusted software on your device.

3. They designed the secure enclave and make public statements that they won't compromise it for law enforcement. You trust that their deeds in private match their public statements.
Wonder how much of that is driven by people actually being home to answer the door when roofers knocked during Covid. Completely anecdotal but I got a new roof during the covid lock down and so did 3 of my neighbors and its mainly due to being home to answer the door and the roofer being able to get insurance to cover the cost.
DecisionOps: Effective Engineering Management
Thoughts on (software) engineering management.
All of those increase in cost much faster than inflation
Hard disagree. This entire process reveals systemic rot at Apple.

The engineers who built, the project managers who coordinated, and the executives who signed off on this smoothbrain idea need to be drummed out without ceremony.

No severance, no golden parachutes, no cushy board jobs etc.

People need to understand they risk their livelihoods building and deploying a surveillance system like this. In a just world they would face criminal charges.
I'm curious what you mean by "soundless inner monologue"? I don't really experience much imagery at all but my inner monologue feels very close to how talking to myself aloud feels, so I wouldn't describe it as soundless. The verbal vividness of my internal monologue is actually how I imagined people with good imagery skills "see".

On the note of advantages, I know I have something weird going on with the back right of my brain specifically (focal slowing on EEG among other things), which I am pretty certain connects to my favoring of verbal over visual thinking. So I guess it depends on the cause of a case of aphantasia, but to me it feels a little like how blind people end up with heightened hearing. I think I've really developed strong verbal skills because of it, and there are definitely advantages to having strong verbal skills.

I recall a professor showing us a study once where students performed better on an exam when they were allowed/encouraged to talk out loud to themselves while they were taking it. He was encouraging us to talk through stuff with ourselves, but at first I found the result weird because I assumed everybody was always talking to themselves in their head. That was the first time it really dawned on me there may be large individual differences in how we experience thoughts.
Word was not the first word processor. Everything you're angry at Word about now was also true of the popular word processors that preceded it.
Okay, but your device literally has to decrypt the message in order to show it to you. It then does other things that are vaguely "content analysis" like generating link previews and marking up the text to make dates clickable.

The iMessage feature is "it looks like someone has sent you a picture of their dick, are you sure you want to see that?" I know adults who'd like to turn that feature on.

Could it hypothetically be extended in the future? Sure. But arguing against this feature as-is is about the same as arguing against the feature that lets you search for "dog" in your photos.
C++ doing infinite loops in zero time!
I wonder what % of people don't file taxes. And what % of those, are owed a refund? That would skew these stats a lot if people aren't claiming what they're owed.
I think we are going to have to agree to disagree on this.

But FYI, VB6 isn’t .NET. You might be thinking of VB.NET. And if you were, your arguments would be correct. VB.NET is an utterly pointless language. But VB6 is a different beast entirely (and predates .NET by several years)
My Toyota Prius is still sitting around without a catalytic converter on it. Procrastinating because I'm not being called back to the office yet.
> Who writes and maintains the firmware the OS is running on

Both Librem 5 and Pinephone run FLOSS operating systems with software maintained by Purism and community. The latter smartphone has two firmware blobs in kernel for WiFi/Bluetooth AFAIK: https://www.pine64.org/2020/01/24/setting-the-record-straigh....

> Who writes and maintains the modem firmware and who can update it.

See my link above concerning the Pinephone modem. It's software can be updated by the OS. AFAIK it's the same for Librem 5.

> Who can update that firmware for the board the OS is running on.

See the first answer. Librem 5 is going to get FSF certification "Respects Your Freedom". Proprietary software only runs on the modem and WiFi card. See also: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurd....

> What level of trust has been inserted into the OS by kernel modules and who maintains those kernel modules.

I am not knowledgeable enough to answer that. Maybe the schematics linked above could help you.

> What control is given to the end user to see what those modules are doing and limit what they can do.

User has full control. This is a selling point of Purism the company: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
Excellent thank you so much!
(Author here.)

Perhaps, but I already know how to scrape HTML and I know the data I wanted to pull out was in there. I have no idea how to query wikidata and it could have ended up being a blind alley.

Also, it was only my reading your comment just now that told me wikidata was even a thing.
Definitely. There's even a public query service ( https://query.wikidata.org/ ) which can do a lot of this (though SQL is not good with searching for chains).
The Obsbot Tiny webcam also has some gesture control, but not quite as extensive as this. I love the tracking feature that lets me move around without having to about staying in the frame.
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So Apple customers go from paying for a status symbol luxury item to paying for the privilege of participating in this, at best, pointless exercise wherein they rely upon the goodwill and competence of Apple's employees to not get them swatted. The mental gymnastics needed in order to guard one's ego on this issue can't be healthy either.
That's one way to look at it. Another is that those are side effects of having stable and affordable food prices. The solution being talked about in this thread of simply raising prices would literally starve people to death if applied to that case.
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I recall an American military officer describing his trying to understand the local human conflicts and alliances while serving in Iraq. Region to region and even village to village (often right next to each other) he struggled to understand / balance it all.

People have their reasons, but ultimately they have to feel safe / want to work together too.

That's not a justification of any given military action but more about the complexities in some regions. We think in terms of nations, some places there are so many other layers... sometimes it's not even just nation vs nation politics playing out.