skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I'm won't think of it as 'artificial intelligence' until an AI system can teach me to speak a human language as well as a native human speaker of that language could. Seems a long ways off.

All it appears to be now is a collection of very sophisticated pattern matching algorithms that build their own opaque internal sorting/matching/classification algorithms based on the data they're trained on, as I understand it. This is of course incredibly useful in some domains, but it's not really 'intelligence'.

And, they can't do math very well:

> "For example, Hendrycks and his colleagues trained an AI on hundreds of thousands of math problems with step-by-step solutions. However, when tested on 12,500 problems from high school math competitions, "it only got something like 5 percent accuracy," he says. In comparison, a three-time International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist attained 90 percent success on such problems."

1. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-failures
https://theprepared.org/newsletter-archive/2021-09-27

A post about cellophane would be perfect for this audience :)
WTF? Banning Ron Paul?
>The company owner « joking » about how our sales team used alcohol, parties and embarrassing photos to make their customer buy our software.

That was an episode in House of Lies where the consultants sell their idea only through blackmail.
We're already only a few months away from 2022, most (if not all) carmakers present on the EU market have included back-up cameras in their vehicles. I know that my brother's Dacia Logan built in 2019 already had one.
> My sales team keep asking me to add AI to X product. Doesn't matter if it's not required, or even makes sense they ask because the competition is doing it and they get asked by our clients/prospects in an expecting tone, if we offer some AI on our products.

It could be worse, they might be asking you to put it on a blockchain :P
At work, I've been using hundreds of the top of the line SSD drives from a certain S company. The drives are used 100% from the start in 1U servers. The failure rate for them is higher than HD imo. The more worrying thing is that none of the drivess' SMART hinted their imminent failure. The drive would just die one morning, taking all the data with it.

Thank god for their 10 years warranty. I guess people like me is the reason why the S company lowered the warranty to 5 years for their next generation product.
You could easily pick up an after market bluetooth-enabled product. A/C is definitely important however.
This is a fascinating word game!

He doesn’t actually think that in order to increase returns it’s a good idea to increase foreclosures and allow further spread of a pandemic. He doesn’t actually want or openly advocate for these measures. He’s just a big brained genius that’s doling out little gems of the future to us plebs out of the kindness of his heart, free of charge.

In order to maximize the philanthropic value of this stoic and unbiased gift to the reader (which I’m assuming is for a regular Joe who would never consider taking any of this as advice?), he’s chosen the notably objective and not-profit-driven community information sharing website, jpmorgan dot com
It sounds cheap, and it's probably a good deal if you ride long distances or frequently.

But when I recently planned a trip from Linz to Vienna for our family it would have cost around 120€ for the train (not including tickets for bus or subway to get to/from train station). Driving costs around 40€ for gas (not including parking fees).
Consider the input
a b

Awk will treat it as having two columns (by default), while cut will treat each space as it’s own column.

Awk is also a little nicer for whitespace; cut makes specifying the delimiter (with say “-d\ “) a little more vexing.
What community standards were violated?
"3. Draw the rest of the fucking owl"
Singular: guru; singular possessive: guru's; plural: gurus; plural possessive: gurus'.

(If the word ends with an 's' you can (or not) add only an apostrophe and omit the added 's', afaik it's down to style/how you'd pronounce it. 'Socrates' work' for example, because 'Socrates's' looks and sounds awkward.)
PostgreSQL itself makes for a perfectly fine graph database wrt. general-purpose usecases (the use cases Dgraph and Neo4j also focus on - not heavy-duty network analysis!). It's only the query language that's a bit unintuitive as such (though pgSQL 14 has added the standard SEARCH and CYCLE keywords for cte's, which help a little bit). But performance is competitive.
I really enjoy writing JS/TS - I find that eg arrow functions mixed with React allow for really concise and expressive solutions. You are correct about the ecosystem... maybe not per se, but that supply chain attacks are hopelessly intractable at the moment. How could you possibly go about writing a modern SPA that notionally cares about security when the third party software you must rely on is impossible to verify? I would love if browsers let you run JS in a sand boxed mode wherein you could just pass a bundle of vendored upstream software without the ability to touch the window, network, global state, etc.
It requires one for a US layout too (shift) if you match on the actual `?` character and not `/`
I find this fascinating. Could you lay out what that feature did, generally?
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdntHAhTv0 ("Florida Man" by the Blue Öyster Cult)
You can extract a lot of information by knowing how frequent an AirTag has been approached by random iPhones.

For instance, if I toss an AirTag into my neighbor's yard, I can get some idea on when they leave/return back to the house by monitoring the AirTag's update timestamps. I can later use this data to build their activity patterns and whatnot. I understand that Apple has some mechanism to mitigate this, like "reporting stranger's airtags in frequent accessed locations", but unless it is proven to be reliable, I can't trust it.
Agreed with pretty much everything here. It's a nice UI, looks good, is smooth, well done overall.

However, it doesn't fit how I read HN or Reddit - I tend to scan and be drawn to keywords and visually interesting parts of the thread. This type of UI turns the comments into a TODO list of indeterminate length.
I found that one can live without ESP.

> Buy a cheap Dacia and there won't be much else except electric windows.

As mandated by EU law the latest Dacia models already have most of those, they do have back up cameras, for example.
Can check these out as an alternative:

https://ultimate64.com/

The Ultimate 64 is the computer and the Ultimate II+ acts as a memory card reader for a Commodore 64 so you can mount different .d64 images to it.
I don't know where you are going with this. If your argument is that ad blocking is immoral then say it so you can be downvoted.
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I think that keyless systems came after few incidents of people's key chains being too heavy and accidentally turning the car off when hitting a bump on the highway.

Since most cars keys already, from the late 90s, had chips in them, to prevent theft. It was the next step to remove the superfluous metal part.
You're right, I agree with that. I think if I were to look at games side by side I'd notice the difference. I guess I more mean when playing a game, I rarely notice the added fidelity. Where as older generations, like Saturn -> Dreamcast or PS1 -> PS2 the jump was plain as day.
I want something (exactly) like a Ford Escort 1988 model with the 1.6 diesel (Ford LT "Dagenham") engine.

That thing would work long after a massive solar flare and nuclear apocalypse... If it wasn't rusted to shit.

So yeah, better alloy/treatment for the frame :D
Possibly but then why did they bother doing the 7-core GPU variant? The GPU section of the M1 isn't that much bigger than the firestorm CPU core section, and any one of those GPU cores is smaller than one of the firestorm CPU cores. Unless it's something weird like they just can't fuse off 1 or 2 of the big CPU cores?

But regardless Ampere, AMD, and Apple are all fab'd by TSMC, so they'd all be seeing similar enough yields.
I’m no fan but it’s reductive to call them rebadged Peugeots. Like just about any car you buy, including a Rolls Royce, they are built using a shared platform. In this case, it’s one of the Stellantis platforms.
Sure, but do they actually want that car, or is that just what they have and can afford?
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Windows went downhill fast since introduction of telemetry.
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I didn't say it's shit. The underlying technology is probably pretty nice, the fact it's done in Go and multi-platform is nice.

But they need to take some styling inspiration from, well, 2021. Even their icons on their website look old. That's a deal breaker for many. Why would you choose this over say, Flutter, when Flutter is also cross-platform and there's an obvious way to style Flutter apps? There's examples of good-looking Flutter apps...
Maybe we should amend/change those laws back.
That is a generic response. They never tell you, so you can never defend yourself, or even fix the problem.
> You just don't seem to understand the dynamics of this situation.

There we go again...

This online world. I'll tell you...
In the human environment water certainly is: after use, or after becoming runoff, it needs to be cleaned before being disposed of. And that rock in your backyard is unlikely to be reused in the next owners’ landscaping but rather scraped away with everything else and sent to the landfill.

I think the statement is sufficiently applicable that it’s easier to list what is a proportionately small number of exceptions rather than listing the things that match.

Even when we look up we need to clean the air.
This sounds really promising. Could this be extended to other kinds of optimizations, eg data layout for memory traffic reduction?
You can't possibly compare the USA's culture to Japan's. The USA is incredibly individualistic and many Americans hold deep-seated distrust of any government/societal institutions.

Japan's culture is entirely communal. You don't talk on a cellphone on the train because it may inconvenience other passengers. You wear a mask when you're sick so you don't inconvenience others. So much of Japan's culture is rooted in making sure you aren't disrupting the general flow of society.

You can talk about "improper messaging" in the USA, but that rests squarely with President Trump. The entire point of that position is to be the figurehead of America and a unifying presence when things go wrong. He did not, and it caused irreparable damage to the trust and cohesiveness of the public early on in the pandemic.
> scrum religion level

What a nice way of putting it! They should add this to Joel Test on scale of 0-10.
Opel used to be owned by GM since 1931.

From Wikipedia: "In the 1990s, Opel was considered to be GM's cash cow, with profit margins similar to that of Toyota. Opel's profit helped to offset GM's losses in North America and to fund GM's expansion into Asia"

The GM bankruptcy contributed to Opel downfall.

It makes PSA cars because PSA bought them in 2017.
> Why do you make such strong assertions/assumptions when you have no idea to whom I'm referring?

Because you could have already easily said "I know someone with 1st hand information from the place in question" but you didn't, so it seems strongly likely you don't.

What information would you actually be willing to consider to change your point of view? It seems unlikely at this point anything resembling an actual investigation will ever take place, so the best we have is a whistle blower.
MongoDB and Postgres are like apples and oranges tho.

I'm not gonna choose MongoDB if I need a relational model… even if it offers zero downtime upgrades out-of-the-box.
'miller' and 'xsv' are pretty good tools for wrangling CSV.
(And regexp is kind of a terrible tool for it, too many edge cases.)
Almost everything you have mentioned are expensive add-ons. Any budget base model car today comes only with stuff mandated by law and little else.
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> You cannot have one person do both of these things.

Isn't that basically what Apple does with their "DRI" concept? One individual directly responsible for the whole project, both for the technical implementation and the product/market fit. This avoids the lengthy back-and-forth negotiation between the tech owner and the product owner about what the user wants vs. what can be done, and also avoids the usual "Wait, I though you were the owner of that?" discussions that we've all seen happen when things get complex and ambiguous.

1: https://mentorphile.com/2019/03/05/fostering-apples-culture-...
There are still plenty of targets to hit with unitasking AI like we have that could each have their imagenet moment. But there is a shortage of domain experts who understand both those targets and AI.

That creates opportunity for domain experts who learn AI. Less so the other way around because these domains are generally more complicated than AI and lack the unending tsunami of online courses to learn the details.
Oh no. How will he ever communicate that to people?
The banning of politicians from any public platform raises questions about the level of influence these platforms hold and their impact on democracy. I'm not sure where things will land but this is a bold move by YouTube. I'm surprised they picked Ron Paul to test this on.
>Try running BigQuery on a (big) dataset stored in S3.

Seems like a pathological use case to run a query engine on one cloud provider datacenter (Google) against the disk storage at another cloud provider (Amazon).

Even if egress were $0, I still wouldn't want to do that. I want queries to run as fast as they can and the WAN link bandwidth is opposed to that.

Is there anything about BigQuery that would compel anyone to do that instead of just using AWS RedShift?
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Ask HN: Easiest way to surface a db query to web?
I have a database I maintain that gets maybe 1-10 new entries a day and there's a handful of people that might be interested in the results I'd like to share it with. What's the easiest way to surface the results of a db query to a website?

It's currently in a SQL Server db, but I'm happy to move off if there's a easier way to query a different db. Bonus points if it supports real time pushes :D
When debt service eventually becomes unmanageable the economic elites will most likely pick a technical default instead of inflation that wrecks confidence in the dollar. Essentially they'll force creditors to take a cram down by exchanging their current Treasury bonds at face value for new ones with longer maturities and lower interest rates.
I completely agree. However, Microsoft has demonstrated user-hostile tactics in the telemetry field so people don't feel inclined to trust them.
I’m sure there are real performance improvements by moving to C++, but at the same time, I cannot believe how long this list of differences is.

https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Official_pages/Parity_issu...

It also doesn’t help that the two versions are separate purchases.
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I would pay good money if someone figured out a way to get this thing to run on top of windows, while allowing me to run all my Windows programs anyway.

I assume this just isn't possible, but it would be so great. I ultimately love windows, but I definitely do miss the customization options Linux gives you.
Sadly these days the word for “program” is “AI”
True. Whoever made these choices then. Incompetent management. 100s of workers are losing their jobs because of them.
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So Ron Paul learned that YouTube is not radically libertarian.

I see appeal was received, funny thing he's saying out of nowhere, similar thing happened on Facebook.
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Yes. I also consume a lot of websites and block their ads at the same time. This is selfish, but it is the way I mitigate risks.
Can we use R2 for video? Workers KV prohibit use for video. Video streaming is the #1 growth area since the pandemic. Why is it that we can use it and Workers KV to store images but not video (chunked) ?
The future is littered with The Onion headlines.

"AI researchers drop silicon, turn to biological computers"

"AI researchers discover AI biological computers not so artificial after all"

"AI researchers to allow AI biological computers to grow neurons and grey matter"

"AI researchers realize AI biological computers need oxygen and organic nutrients, not electricity"

"Shortages of neurology textbooks as AI researchers switching careers to neurologists"

"AI researchers turn to live human farms to grow brains"

"AI researchers realize brains in a vat don't work, need sensory inputs, to farm human heads instead of just the brain"

"AI researchers realize heads in a vat don't work, need the rest of the body"

"'Why spend billions on cutting edge quantum processing units when a normal human will do the job?' asks machine learning pioneer"

"AI researchers give up, say human brains are better than supercomputers for a fraction of the cost"

"AI research community spent $635,920 billion and 537 years, has produced a human, says GoogleSoft-Zon report"

The end product of AI research will be Homo Sapiens.
I'd love a more lightweight replacement for Neo4j but I need something that has good cypher support. Options are pretty limited.
chiming in, I had a feeling that the article and the comments here would contain some jewels and both have exceeded expectations.
There is certainly controversy around RMS, as you say.

But I think more generally, wrt FSF there's not so much controversy [1] as disappointment in the FSF failing to stay relevant. Copyleft was a solution to the 80/90'ies software world. The FSF tried with the AGPL to answer the 'threat' of SaaS, but largely the world has shunned it except as a poison pill license to upsell a proprietary version. Similarly with the GPLv3 the FSF tried to answer to the threat of Tivoization, but again, largely failed to gain adherents in the low level components, like the Linux kernel, where this would have mattered.

[1] Well, the FSF taking RMS back on its board did produce a tsunami of corporate (financial) contributors leaving ship.
> they're not monetizing their players directly with it

How do you know? Did they pinkie swear on it? Did they add any kind of T&C around their use of Telemetry specifically?

Telemetry that can be used to identify frequently used game functionality could equally be used to identify game functionality that can be monetized. Identifying how a user dies is a fantastic way to identify items which can be sold to prevent those common deaths.
Hard disagree. Why would I consent to be recorded in the workplace? My job isn't to be recorded.
> I had to quit running because of my knees

I'm just now in this boat, so perhaps you can offer some advice. I have a bunch of running shoes, some brand new even. I'd hate for those to go to waste. Did you start walking in running shoes when you first transitioned? If so, were there any cons, where you wish you'd have just invested in walking shoes from the start?

(of course, I would donate the running shoes if I weren't going to use them, so they wouldn't truly go to waste, but I'd rather not have to shell out for new shoes if I don't have to)
Exactly this. Also, the other points in the list already follow this: "Research your keywords", "Do not pay for SEO courses", etc.
> I think the people who wrote freakonomics did adjust for gender pay gaps between men/women who have the same job and found that the gap is much smaller[0], and I understand how that is a problem if a man gets paid more than a woman for doing the same job.

Even here, "women make less than men within a given field, ergo discrimination" is the wrong takeaway. It's very likely that just like Goldin observed that different fields make different tradeoffs between flexibility and pay, so do different job postings within a field (however, her study isn't equipped to measure this). This means that within, say, software engineering, there are some postings that pay very well but require long, inflexible hours while others pay less well but are more accommodating. In all likelihood, women disproportionately self-select into these more accommodating jobs within the field, just like women disproportionately self-select into the more accommodating fields.
This is sad.

As much as I'm offended by many of the things Ron Paul does and stands for, I'm glad he's there. There's a lot of divergent thinking there. Outliers are good. I'd be terrified of a congress with a dozen Ron Pauls, but one is good to have around.

If I had my druthers, we'd have one of him in Congress. And one of each other extremist point of view, left-wing, right-wing, or just off in another direction.
You probably want ABS as well - and then everyone else will want their favorite feature - and pretty soon we'll be where we are.
And the stock price is currently a buying opportunity.
Modern rabies shots (post 1970’s) are no longer painful. Had them after our dog died of rabies. It is a horrible death.
This, by itself, should be damning:

> This suppression of dissent brings us to the matter of safety, which for many of us is the driving force for coming forward with this essay. At Blue Origin, a common question during high-level meetings was, “When will Elon or Branson fly?” Competing with other billionaires—and “making progress for Jeff”—seemed to take precedence over safety concerns that would have slowed down the schedule.

> In 2020, company leaders demonstrated increasing impatience with New Shepard’s schedule of a few flights per year; their goal, routinely communicated to operations and maintenance staff, was to scale to more than 40. Some of us felt that with the resources and staff available, leadership’s race to launch at such a breakneck speed was seriously compromising flight safety. When Challenger exploded, the government’s investigation determined that the push to keep to a schedule of 24 flights per year “directly contributed to unsafe launch operations.” Of note: the Challenger report also cited internal stifling of differences of opinion as one of the organizational issues that led to the disaster and loss of life.

Every organization/ecosystem that has wrestled with safety culture - whether it's NASA, or commercial air travel, or whatever - has reached as basically the primary conclusion that if the broader culture has a "Do what I say, because I'm in charge" norm, and you don't take very active steps to counteract that culture and prevent it, you will get into trouble. You can see plenty of stories of senior pilots making a mistake and not being called out on it by the others in the cockpit; you can also see those stories continue when the pilots were from some particular culture where outside of a cockpit it's socially unacceptable to question your superiors. That isn't the social/cultural issue expressed in this document, but there are other ones with the same effect. At the average company, they'd make for a bad place to work; at a company that's blasting people many miles into the air, they can kill.

And the second is like it: when nontechnical management starts overriding the safety concerns of engineering, you are also in trouble (cf. the NASA/Thiokol conference call that approved the Challenger launch).

If you want to "be careful with Jeff's money" as the article says employees are told to do, you can certainly do that. Launch less. Build slower.