skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"BY THE AGE of seven months, most children have learned that objects still exist even when they are out of sight
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It is also something that self-driving cars do not have. And that is a problem. Autonomous vehicles are getting better, but they still don’t understand the world in the way that a human being does. For a self-driving car, a bicycle that is momentarily hidden by a passing van is a bicycle that has ceased to exist."

Where is this assertion coming from? Self driving requires planning which requires forward prediction and continuous object tracking, I highly doubt this is at all true.

"Modern AI is based on the idea of machine learning."

sigh..... while it's true a lot of the most ground-breaking advancements in AI over the past decade has been due to ML, it's not like it's the only set of techniques that are worked on as part of AI. For instance, self driving is a case in which many techniques that are used (planning, sensor fusion, filtering, etc.) are not ML-based.
Very nice write up. For the story from 2010 to now, I would mention the emergence by MPP columnar processing systems like Vertica and in-memory distributed systems like MemSQL to the narrative. Of course Kylin, Clickhouse etc are great open-source contenders (although at the time I looked into them (~5-6 years ago), they were not mature enough).

In my experience, people often underestimate the continuous effort to maintain the the Kimball's "Enterprise Data Warehouse Bus Architecture" diagram, even with more powerful machines and modern distributed tooling.

In today's fast evolving Internet apps world, the data use cases and scenarios are very fast evolving. That brings its own set of challenges.

Having good usable tools for managing the lifecycle of entity or event definitions, their variants like emitted/logged vs cleaned/processed/synthesized, their data quality checks etc and ensuring they are easily discoverable and understandable by everyone in the org is super crucial and it is significantly under-appreciated.

Usually, strong systems engineers who are in charge of the data platform focus on building the data infra (job scheduling, data pipelines execution, storage etc) but the crucial work of defining the data dictionaries, event or entity models etc are left out. The data producers and data consumers who are spread out throughout the organization have to muddle through this on their own without any centralized tooling to support this activity. These make data use very difficult and siloed.

Usually, there would be a team of BI analysts who are tasked to get some answers out of the data for the questions asked of them by various data users. Funnily these analysts are also working in silos assigned to those different data users.
Inevitably, they become the super-inefficient intermediary between the data users and the data insights.

The pre-cooked data insights are presented in spreadsheets and slides in review meetings – where a narrative is already prepared by the analysts.

This robs the opportunity for the data users to explore and ask data questions on their own in a fast iteration cycle to improve their intuition and understanding of their product/business environment.

IMO, these challenges still remain largely unsolved even to this day across organizations of all size and scale.
I hope it is. I wouldn't trust a seven-month-old to drive my car.
> And yes, RMS did have many groupies in 1986 and long before, and he was quite well known even in the 70's

I stand corrected, then. Thanks.
Or perhaps, less indoctrinated minds...
Since houses don’t wear out or get used up, like clothes or food, and you can sell them when you’re done with them, they’re inherently an investment.
> I ask honestly as I find that my education may not have taught me everything

Side tangent: would you say your education overall gave you a good base to build on? If yes, what sort of curriculum were you taken through?
I used this a couple of years ago to create a script that automatically imports transactions from my bank account into my beancount ledger.

Unfortunately, only one of my banks provides OFX access at all (for a monthly fee), and I learned I’m not disciplined enough to keep up with the other banks manually.

Its annoying because I’m pretty sure the other banks do have OFX services somewhere, they just dont provide it to all customers, plus paying a monthly fee for the one bank that does just feels exploitative.

A less reliable, but more accessible solution might be to parse emailed bank statements, but those only go out once a month, whereas OFX can show new transactions within minutes/seconds.
yet in OPs example, the "surprise" consists of a threat not being enactioned, therefore it is an instrument of suspense
It's not a lot to be fair, and interest rates are below inflation.
the economist is dogwhistling again
Instead of banning, it's better to steer with taxation. Tax on empty houses (no permanent address) changes incentives.
smitty1e wrote:

> I'd always thought that stronger type systems had to do with performance and storage optimization, but TFA didn't delve into that.

I was also expecting/hoping to see this point addressed.
I mean so I can reproduce it in 10+ years where many git repos don’t exist anymore. Go can keep checksumed copies of any code it uses to compile. I’d like to see this in Nix as well.
Even better - ban profit on property sales.
Simple to do. RTFM.
No I don't think it's like that. We know that matter and vacuum clump together at a series of increasing scales: the solar system, our galaxy, the local cluster, some surrounding supercluster, maybe there is a superdupercluster level after that, but the theory being disputed is that the hierarchical clustering stops after those N levels, and after that, the superduperclusters (or whatever) are distributed randomly instead of grouping into even more enormous structures. The idea is that the universe started as a random fluctuation and that the clusters etc. came from a diffusion process, like stripes on a zebra. The stripes are locally correlated, but less so over longer distances.

Sabine H is saying that the clustering goes further than the theory can account for, and that the "local hole" is a feature of this bigger structure, not that it's something special.

Anyway, even if our part of the universe is special, there can be an anthropic explanation, like saying we live on the special part of the Earth that has a habitable climate and is not covered with water.
The readme says it uses kaptain. A tool to create qt-based GUIs for shell scripts.

https://github.com/mviereck/kaptain
Discussed yesterday under its old name¹.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28408682
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Contra:

> The Square Mile has the highest percentage of empty homes in the entire country, fresh data states.

> Some 42.4 properties per 1,000 sit unused in the City of London, leaving it top of the charts and the only London authority to feature in the nationwide top 10.

> Data compiled by insurer Admiral also shows that as many as 29,242 London homes have been unoccupied for at least six months, to a collective value of roughly £15 billion.

* https://www.citymatters.london/vacant-homes-city-london/
Science is based on these kind of assumptions. "Assume nothing."

It's a game of stepping stones. It does however say a lot about the state of today's science - that is - how far we've come. We haven't come very far.
I try to be careful with how I think about these things, so I don't go off the deep end. In my mind, investment is the adding of value while trading does not add value. Both are gambling on the outcome, but investment tries to direct the outcome while trading tries to predict the outcome.

In the context of housing, investment may look like a renovation to improve desirability or replacing a small number of units with a larger number of units. In contrast, trading would involve maintaining the status quo in hopes that the desirability of a neighbourhood or relative scarcity would increase the value of a property.

That being said, I don't know how you would create a system of investment that doesn't create an environment for speculative trading. In would be difficult to encourage the former without a means of selling off the investment at a later date. Reducing the frequency of trading wouldn't help in the case of housing since those are long term investments to start with.
Blaming outsiders - classic strategy, can’t go wrong!
From wikipedia:

“ Paul Pelliot saw that the tradition according to which Genghis was a blacksmith was unfounded though well established by the middle of the 13th century.[27]”

It seems at least the concept of blacksmiths was familiar to the Mongols before or around the time they went into china.

Thats why I explicitly stated “steelworking” instead of “ironworking”. Although they couldnt do it in large quantities the common European smith could use it to enhance his iron products[1]

Whereas even the quality of the steel used by the experts in China (even by the 1600s) is questionable. [2]

[1] https://the-orb.arlima.net/encyclop/culture/scitech/iron_ste...

[2] https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_a/advanced/aa...
This only solves the problem of trusting updates, not the initial installation. For new software, "curl | sh" is no different from installing a random deb package from GitHub.
> For investors who invest in biotech, they need to realize that open access is as important as open source is to software.

Open Source is important to software companies only because it lets them build new products cheaply. Most companies don't care, unless they can use it for cheap publicity, or to hurt their competition by making an open-source version of their proprietary product.

OSS definitely did shift the landscape - it almost killed desktop software! There's a reason why technology business love SaaS business model - it's not just the recurring revenue, it's also because it's immune from being killed by open source. You can create a free alternative to any software running on end user's machine, but you can't do that to proprietary code running on servers the service provider owns.

Open access doesn't bring such immediate, direct benefits to research companies - so investors will be less keen to sponsor it. There's just no business model here.
As far as I know the way Bluetooth is implemented in many devices prevents it from working if you change the MAC address all the time.

I've experienced this reliance on MAC addresses by trying to use Bluetooth headphones in a dual boot system. Every time I switch operating systems, I need to repair. Same with phones that have been factory reset. Peripherals seem to assume that a device (MAC address) uuniquely identifies the other end of the connection (which it actually is supposed to, so fair enough). You can probably use random addresses for scanning for new devices, but for any active use of the protocol you're going to need to stick to a given address. As long as you only use one device at a time, that address can probably be randomised for each device, but that's a hard sell that strongly limits how Bluetooth can be used.
Salman Rushdie is an example of a master writer who will eat this cake and still have it. He often states preety early in the book something like "this was Y, X's wife, who will later kill him in his sleep, in his room, with a bread knife", and when the time of killing comes he will still manage to surprise you.
> To avoid paying the LVT tenants are incentivized to own

LVT is paid by the owner of the land. That is the whole point of a LVT, that you cannot avoid it.
Investor or parasite?
A lot of old windows games do not run anymore on win 7 let alone 10.
Surely with this amount of money and some of the smartest people working on the tech it won't be naive. It is however naive to think that a technology that can play the go game (also a mixed tree search + ML system!) can also navigate in the real world while causing minimal damage to the objects around it.
So all the commenters are affluent? E.g surfing HackerNews = has enough money for body guards?
I encourage you to read the article (see link to full article below), or at least the first few paragraphs, and you'll notice that what you think you know from the headline is not what this article is about.
the links you want:
https://weizman.github.io/?javascript-anti-debugging-some-ne...
https://github.com/weizman/awesome-javascript-anti-debugging
>Gervais was probably wearing clothes made of materials coming from some Asian country from factories with even worse wages

Impressive, usually that type of "no u" argument needs a specific target; how much more useful it is when one can tar anyone wearing clothes with the easy certainty that somewhere in the supply chain substandard working conditions exist.

Even more impressive is the snuck premise that, since Gervais is implicitly OK with his clothes (probably) originating in some sweatshop, he should be OK with the state of modern electronics in both their manufacture and their role as panopticon.
> In the street I live in the capital of the northern province of Fryslân (Frisia) most homes are owned by their inhabitants, but in the past few years we've seen several houses being bought by small-time investors (who already own their own home of course, are financially well on their way, and are looking for ways to save their saving from low interest rates and inflation), who charge renters four times what my fellow homeowners and I pay for mortgage.

specifically the last part:

> small-time investors who charge renters four times what my fellow homeowners and I pay for mortgage

But what about maintenance costs though? Those costs are very high, definitely 4x the cost of the mortgage! /s
Yup, the only practical difference between the behavior of SQLite and other databases is whether you get an error if you try to insert values that can't be converted to the declared column type. You'll need application logic to handle such errors in any case, so in principle I tend to agree with the SQLite devs that more rigid type checkin doesn't really buy you much.

Though in practice I think the more lax behavior makes it easier to skip or defer error handling. Also, devs need more awareness of if these (differences in) behaviors. It seems an alarming number of them don't.
I don't know where you're trying to go with this comparison. Do you think those guards would have been persecuted if their cameras would have surveilled their photos? Or are you implying that people that oppose Apple's indiscriminate scanning of personal data are as bad as these Nazi murderers?

Child abuse happens within families in the majority of cases. People who commercialize child abuse will move to a different platform if they even

If you really want to enforce policies that protect children from abuse then you'll have to speak up for improved social work, professionalized points of contact for school children and so on and so on. I'm not a professional in this field but I'm sure there is a lot of literature on this.

The implication of what Apple does, on the other hand, is officially giving up on protecting their users' data. If people oppose this, they don't oppose protecting children. They oppose a policy that has no proven effectiveness against child abuse while having high potential to becoming a generalized surveillance tool.
They are second hand servers - if you want brand new servers you pay a setup fee, and more pr month. Once you upgrade, or cancel, that (once new) server goes into the auction at a lower price.
Yeah a lot are not residential, a lot of those that are are subdivided into flats, and a chunk of those that remain may just not be occupied outside term time or during a pandemic.

But mostly it's that they're not residential to begin with. Many more are linked to an embassy, restaurants, clubs, nurseries, storage, etc. than you'd realise from 'walking back to hotel at night'.
You should honestly look to monetize this. The MC server community is constantly plagued with hosts that will cram as many servers onto a box as possible, but they insist on the “always on” approach which IMO is pointless. Someone did an automated survey a year ago of all public Minecraft servers and found the number of servers exceeded the number of players.
Gold and guns
The primary driving force was nativism. Even right up to the end the UK wanted to remain in the common market, but part of being in the common market is freedom to migrate.

It also exposed the loss of influence the UK had in the EU. Many provisions were carved out for them in the 80s. But when it came to the EC the EU was not making any exceptions for them this time.
No, it was recovering the freedom that was getting eaten by Europe, and listening to the vote of the UK people again. Whether it ends up in “getting rid of foreigners” or anything else would only be a second-order result of listening to the Englishman’s vote, if that is what they still vote for in 10 years. The goal of Brexit was democracy, not particular measures left or right.
> the text seems to imply that there is something "special" about our location in the universe.

The counterpoint to the Copernican principle is the anthropic principle: we can only find ourselves in places which support the existence of beings like us.

I have no idea if the density variation even might be important for chances of industrial intelligence, but people have suggested galactic (not just stellar) Goldilocks zones as one requirement (and separately “having a very large moon”), so I also wouldn’t automatically dismiss anyone who said it was important.
That would be true if young scientists wouldn’t continuously make successful predictions based on cosmological principle among other observable effects of the general relativity and standard model.
Make observable prediction, coherent thesis, then we’ll talk. Of course our models are not perfect, but it is best we have. Physics so far never dealt in “fundamental truths”, just good enough models. So far, this is best we got.
Yes, everyone uses scihub (and author websites, etc) from time to time.

A related question is "who pays the per-paper fee". Well, not me, and none of my colleagues. However, I've learned that the fees do get paid, but not by individuals. Rather, it's libraries that are paying, to fulfil interlibrary loan requests for papers in journals with high subscription costs and low readerships. If the number of requests times the price per request is lower than the yearly subscription cost, this can be the only way to stay within budget.

Where I work, research grants let me cover journal "page charges", but they do not let me subscribe to journals, nor contribute to the library budget. This has always struck me as crazy, for the yearly cost of many journals is under the cost of publishing a single paper. Heck, we have researchers publishing in the journal of whatever, paying several tens of thousands of dollars per year ... and our library cannot afford to subscribe, so we can see our work.

Yes, you read that right: in many cases, authors have to pay to publish, and then pay again to read.

Some progress is being made, though. Many granting agencies now encourage researchers to publish in open-access mode. That would seem great, except that they did not increase grants to compensate for the extra cost. Money spent on those fees is money that cannot go to support graduate students.

As others have noted (here, and in dozens or hundreds of similar discussion threads), things are different from field to field. I work in a field where it's just as important to read old papers as new ones. That means that the solution of authors posting to their websites is not always viable. Probably a third of the papers I read (in support of teaching) are from people who died long before the web got started.
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When my dog was a puppy, he ran around my feet like crazy and I accidentally stepped on his paws a couple of times. He was not mad at me at all, he just learned to keep some distance when going for a walk.
But that's besides the point... you would never go into those places (i.e black townships) at night. That's when the murders happen. Lots of stabbings etc at shabeens. I assume that in Brazil and Mexico you have a high chance of being mugged on the street and such.
Erm, the three letter agencies target their exploits usually a bit deeper in the system - and these light anti debugging exploits are indeed for ransomware, trackers, adware and obfuscation, to protect IP and malicious behavior. Afaik in the realm of web, mainly to conceil shaddy behavior. Tracking, data mining, ...
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They're not really advice, so much as goals?

Also, CICO seems to be actually incorrect from what I read on it. Body's more like a thermostat than a steam engine and will work against you such as burning calories slower as you eat less.

If you really want to save money, then you need to think in terms of emotions and how to combat that rather than attempting to brute force it with willpower.
For a woman in the similar age, I would say she is more deserving of Nobel Peace Prize than Malala Yousafzai.

The risk that Malala takes in advocating for women right in Islamic countries is admirable, there is no denying in that. However, her impact are minuscule compared to Alexandra's in the big picture of progression as a human race. Malala's activism has not changed much on the course of women right in the countries where religion governs the lives from family to governance.
The same would apply to any country with a surveilance program.
This is all new to me. Who competes in this space? Or what are some good keywords to search with?
> Back in the '90s, "Object-Oriented" got redefined in popular imagination to "good". If your language or system was good, it was then by definition object-oriented. Anything good had therefore to be called OO. Saying something was not actually OO (e.g. this) was taken to mean it was not good, generating spurious conflict.

Excellent point, and I think in our contemporary age something similar is happening with "Agile". It has ceased to become a project management technique useful for a certain class of products. It has instead become redefined to mean "good" - for example, in popular imagination, if a team is not "Agile" then they are somehow backwards or out-of-the-loop. Now teams, products, and situations where Agile is not appropriate are finding themselves having it forced upon them, or spinning what they do as agile.
Unfortunately the wealthy tend not to want to be taxed and they're not averse to fighting back. They've learned that they need to lobby even small local tax-raising authorities to obstruct these kinds of actions. In Wales, local authorities are allowed to raise a local tax premium of up to 100% on holiday homes [1], but few, if any, charge a premium of more than 50%, even in affected areas considered to be in crisis. There's also a loophole that a second home can be declared as a holiday rental property business, without any real intention of letting it out. Welsh authorities work hard to police this by asking to review evidence of lettings (I know this as I own a legit holiday rental property in an affected area) but the enforcers need extra funding to police the tax dodgers.

I don't dispute your underlying point that punitive taxes are a big part of the solution, but I take issue that it's an easy or overnight fix unfortunately because of the interests aligned against imposing them.

[1] https://gov.wales/welsh-government-announces-three-pronged-a...