skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One advantage of a kite sail is you have more surface area for solar panels and those panels are not going to shaded by the sail while underway.
Adjective, apparently: https://twitter.com/lego_group/status/842115345280294912
The current article is better than nothing, but it missed https://playwright.dev
Right, if your goal is to understand the broad field of artificial intelligence, AIMA is great. If your goal is to understand ML in particular, then there are a bunch of other more applicable books (Deep Learning, Learning From Data, probably a bunch of more recent ones that I don't know because I haven't kept up super recently)
If only there were 50 smaller units of analysis beside the District of Columbia to which to distribute political power!

Admittedly, this many years on, it's hard to introduce fresh concepts. The only way for such smaller units of analysis to achieve any gravitas would be to acquire the notoriety of the States. . .
They're doing both. They do some amazing UI design that's normie friendly but powerful, but also have weird things like couponing and Pinterest integrations. Not nearly enough basic privacy features, though. Lack of end to end encrypted sync is yikes.
Do you really think if those people had children they'd wish they had the posh apartment instead?
> First, [TikTok] runs videos through one of the most terrifying, vicious quality filters known to man: a panel of a few hundred largely Gen Z users.

I never thought of this and it's hilarious and insightful at the same time haha
Erm no. Not everything is racism.

Lack of caring for elemental things, including life, is a common trait of depression, not race.

But I did not say, depressed people should not have any clearance. I say, mentally not stable persons can simply not be trusted with every tasks. No generalisation. It depends on the task. So I doubt, you would offer the guarding of the red button for example, a suicidal person. And deep depression, is mostly combined with suicidal thoughts. There was a pilot some years ago, piloting a full plane to join him along his suicide. So much for extreme examples.

And as for the secret new release of the hot new game console x? I don't care about their security. But I see, that companies would want stable persons there, too.
Ask HN: Skeptical of crypto? Where is it in 10 years?
Just curious. I consider myself to be pretty skeptical of the long term "revolutionary" effects of cryptocurrencies (aka virtual currencies, digital assets, etc.) over the long haul; that said, I have difficulty imagining it disappearing entirely.

Even Beanie Babies still exist, they just aren't worth much.

So where do you see "crypto," to the extent that can be a monolithic term, in 10 years? 20? 50? I'll hazard some serious, but somewhat intentionally cheeky, predictions:

10: ETH has overtaken BTC, accounts for most of the market cap in crypto. Like IE 5.5.

20: Difficulty here, I want to say I imagine it is all gone entirely in favor of ... something else. There is a great exodus of money from crypto to that "something else" over a period of 5-7 years. Lots of stories about how "BTC has a market cap of just $1m now, at its peak it was $1t" etc.

50: LaserDisc era. There are enthusiasts still MLMing coins to each other. Most weren't alive during the BTC heyday and are essentially larping.
Thousands register for geophysicist’s lecture after MIT caved to ‘Twitter mob’
the twang is strong
https://www.frathwiki.com/Fith
Yes, a 45% tax on motorcycles (to save Harley Davidson[1]), a flat limit on the number of cars that could be imported to the United States, and later a 100% tariff on the Japanese electronics industry[2], among a few other things.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_motorcycle_tariff

[2]https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-28-mn-698-st...
Would you be kind enough to share more about your FreeBSD VPS ? What service / fees and are you happy with it ?
Half of all Americans are on at least 1 prescription narcotic...many are on 2. Wonder what would happen if availability of these crippling drugs went to zero...
Mysterious whale skeleton near “Vernadsky” station is from the 7th century
No no no. Consciousness requires an organic sensory system. Artifical Intelligence should be called Artifical Interpreters. We are Organic Interpreters. We are very similar but the consciousness isn't the interpretation of the reality we don't see (similar to common computers users not directly observing binary), consciousness is the ability to experience "reality" ( I prefer a redefined version of the word information, so here i use quotes to hint at what people would call maybe the basic foundation of a universe or the "binary" of the universe ) through organic senses. For now the A.I's sensory system is developed by humans. Of course machine learning has a potential for robots developing there own sensory systems, for now they are limited. Difference between inorganic and organic sensor systems are only marked by our development and knowledge of our own sensory systems. For example, we as a species developed eyes and hands and we didn't really have intentions on growing eyes and hands, evolution gave them to us. But once we became aware of our senses, we could begin to exploit them. This is what technology is. An exploitation of sensory systems. Glasses for exploiting vision, speakers exploiting our hearing ability, even things like oxygen tanks essentially are exploiting our knowledge of our own biological systems. Now that we are aware, we lose some of that authenticity that developed the eye. Its a new designer now. Nature doesn't sculpt the technological evolution as much as the biological one, unless you consider us nature, which id just change the wording from nature to something else so ill say nature here for now unless there's someone looking for me to define nature.

My definition of information is "that which can be interpreted"

Anything that can be intepreted, hand gestures, these words, language, morse code, binary, facial expressions, wind blowing in your hair at a certain speed and temperature. All of that can be interpreted, again just like these words here.
Comparing Node with Ruby and Python is still apples to oranges. The nearest equivalent would be comparing Node with Rack (Ruby) or WSGI (Python).
> For example, I wrote an iTunes-in-the-browser web app; I needed to know durations of songs to display them. MP3 doesn't include these in metadata IIRC, so I needed to pre-process them with ffmpeg just to have duration data.

This jogged my memory from (part of) the first thing I ever built in a general purpose programming language, all of probably 20 years ago! I was doing exactly this: using ffmpeg to get duration metadata from MP3s.

My memory was fuzzy so I looked it up, which (surprisingly!) confirmed what I remembered. MP3s may include metadata (ID3) which may include duration (or start/end times).

I knew my input source (it was me, my music, my MP3 conversions), so I was able to rely on the metadata directly. IIRC I even processed it on demand in my first naive version, which was “slow” but not nearly as slow as stuff I’d complain about today.
I suspect this is why starlink has some base station licenses in eastern parts of Newfoundland. It’s the closest you can get to London before swimming from Contiguous North America.
Thanks for that clarification. I think that’s a better distillation of what I was trying to say.

That said I do believe in changing my peer groups from time to time to get out of my comfort zone, reinvent myself and be confronted with new ideas. But that’s just because I’m in a growth phase. Not everyone needs to do this.

Also for me it helps to have friends who are writers and travelers. They may be the same people year after year but they constantly have new things to say about life or always have new observations/stories to share. I do think there’s a productive way to use Facebook. It’s just that that way only avails itself to certain groups of people like me and the kinds of friends I keep.
Lives of Squamish Nation members will certainly be bettered, which is why they agreed to the arrangement.
Fugue SQL extends standard SQL so you can use SQL-ish language end to end.

For example, let's assume you use duckdb or mysql or other standard sql for data processing, how do you deal with intermediate tables?

You may have to frequently use CREATE TABLE and INSERT or write gigantic WITH statement to avoid the hassle. I guess many people use both.

In Fugue SQL, you can use simple assignment to do the same thing (Fugue may translate the assignment to CREATE TABLE or do something more efficient)

-------

a = CONNECT duckdb SELECT * FROM table1

b = LOAD "/tmp/src.parquet"

c = SELECT * FROM a LEFT SEMI JOIN b ON a.key = b.key

OUTPUT c USING mysql_dumper(table_name="temp", mode="append")

d = SELECT * FROM b UNION SELECT * FROM c

SAVE d OVERWRITE "/tmp/tmp.parquet"

--------

Look at the above Fugue SQL example, it's self-explaining, but how much extra code you have to write to achieve the same semantic without Fugue SQL?

Fugue SQL can provide a unified and minimal way to express your logic in SQL-ish way, while the real executions are done but those wonderful database solutions you mentioned.
Yup and he was smart enough to get out sooner rather than later, and got a lot of hardcore experience along the way. Landing that first tech job is the hardest, after that, it's pretty gravy.
If you use anti-fouling bottom paint and either a) live in a region where it's pleasant to dive and scrub your hull, or b) can pay a service to do it for you, either way it's only a once a month thing, and a haul out ever couple of years. Although I can't speak to steel hulls, with fiberglass water can get into the fiberglass causing blisters that have to be ground out and epoxied in, which is precisely as annoying and expensive as it sounds.
Your sources are biased. Mainstream media is paid to promote the main narrative, this is simple facts. When was the last time they contradicted the government authorities? Furthermore, I could refute your points without needing those sources. We can just discuss them casually if we do so in good faith.

> If Ivermectin was effective for COVID-19, then medical staff would be administering safe doses.

They are doing that, you just don't hear about it for the reasons stated above.

> Fortunately there are are drugs arriving that have demonstrated effectiveness against COVID-19 (5), there is no need to cling to Ivermectin

If you just read the details of those new drugs, you can see it's mostly Ivermectin.

Admittedly I have no sources, but again, if you don't believe me, I would just say consider expanding your sources of information, what I'm saying isn't hard to find.
Seems related to Alan Kay calling it a "pop culture". Or perhaps even "punk", meaning it's not learnt from the classics, or some "Elements" text, you just do it.
I'm in the US and Amazon's Dublin office was trying to recruit me last year. I've turned down invitations to interview at Amazon about every other year throughout my career but this was the first time I'd been contacted by an overseas location. Their message even acknowledged that it would be a big move especially with the various travel restrictions in place at the time but they wanted me to interview anyway. Seems like they're running out of people everywhere and poaching each other's local labor markets.
"12. We must resist the temptation to belive that all thinking follows the computational model."

Hnnng. This is the whole thing. Turing machines are limited. Data (inputs from humans) have more power.
Some cryptocurrencies are more worthless than others.
In vernacular American speech (what a lot of us are doing here) the plural “Legos” is fine.
Current title ("Peter Norvig Leaves Google to Join Stanford HAI") seems to overstate slightly. According to Peter: "I still have my affiliation with Google, but will spend most of my time at Stanford."
So are you saying that the tooling needs to deploy to their datacenters or AWS, or just deploying to their own datacenters needs to be as simple as using AWS? If it’s both, use Kubernetes. If it’s deploying to their own datacenters, then maybe a new product could disrupt that space. You would still need to have a team competent in datacenter operations and hardware procurement though.
The almost total lack of large, accomplished companies in this list is the biggest red flag anyone needs.
Plenty of software engineers are being made to go on mandatory "retreats" regardless of whether they like it or not.
Meta: why are (almost) all comments by pizzazzaro dead within a few hours, apparently regardless of their content?
Influencer is just an entertainer, the platforms change, the purpose is the same, whether it is standup comedy, magician, theater/ movie actors, dancers, pop music artist or talk show hosts. They are all performing for y(our) entertainment.

I imagine some people found slapstick comedians from silent movie era to be poor form of expression compared to drama or comedy plays, live performances to recorded music or very recently Megan thee stallion's performance or whatever.

Every type of performance art has its own value and target audience, one form is not superior to another. [2]

In the context of the article's premise that last point is important. Indian art is filled with great content, however dominantly portrayed both within and externally are the traditionally upper caste forms (Carnatic music/Bhartanatyam etc) in public discourse. Historically it is projected to be superior/ culturally better etc. There is lot of folk and regional traditions which have not had the same patronage, while things are changing over the years more artists and art from such forms are getting better recognition non classical instruments get more limelight, the history of that is deeply linked to Indian caste system and social struggles.

The author's premise[1] is that TikTok was a better medium than Instagram for that expression and that is now lost. He indirectly is saying Modi's government ( an upper caste right wing nationalist government) was not just banning a Chinese app but an important avenue of expression for marginalized communities.

[1] I don't follow either platform to have an opinion on whether this is true.

[2] The discussion on whether any art is valuable or useful is different kind of discussion I am not getting into, the premise here is if some art is valuable , just because we don't like some other form shouldn't make it less valuable
I was joking, but it appears that StyleGAN3's new approach allowed it to develop unsupervised 3D maps of faces within the deeper layers, which might result in interesting things when hacked by researchers.
It is a civil issue rather than a criminal one, albeit still violation of law, which is why I used "crime" in the same way that the US government calls piracy and copyright infringement a crime despite it generally being a civil offense.
I live in Shanghai and yes this is a real problem, but it's not just problem with square dancing, but older generations in general here.

While there are of course lot of polite civilized old people, many of them have absolutely no respect for environment or rules.
You'll often see them throwing waste oil to the streets, littering, yelling/screaming in public for no reason, breaking every single traffic rule in existence, jumping the queue in supermarkets etc.

Lot of of younger and/or "less older" generations are also pissed off about this and local governments here in SH and elsewhere are trying to create new regulations to mitigate these issues:
https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2108183694/
I appreciate the section on "Synthetic image detection":

"While new generator approaches enable new media synthesis capabilities, they may also present a new challenge for AI forensics algorithms for detection and attribution of synthetic media. In collaboration with digital forensic researchers participating in DARPA's SemaFor program, we curated a synthetic image dataset that allowed the researchers to test and validate the performance of their image detectors in advance of the public release. Please see here for more details on detection" https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan3-detector

It's important to see this sort of thing happening more and more.
The article says several homegrown versions were attempted but none of them have gained much if any traction.
> but you're misrepresenting him by leaving the preceding two lines out.

That was the only place where he compared PAIP and AIMA. I guess he considers these books serving purposes different enough so comparisons in other areas have less sense. Back to where we started, PAIP isn't universally considered a better book, even though it's good.
Electron "runs like a dog" because Electron development is what you get when you let the dominant culture associated with NPM-and-GitHub-driven consensus take over. It's a culture that not just tolerates bad development practices but outright encourages them while discouraging good ones. (Hell, the majority of Electron/NodeJS programs are written in a style that struggles against the language and the bindings exposed by the host environment.)

If most Electron and NodeJS programmers wrote code the way that they'd be forced to write the same program in Java, or if they wrote code like the JS that was checked into the Mozilla source tree for Firefox's UI 15 years ago to run on sub-GHz machines (or that was powering Netscape's UI 5 years before that), then the impression that JS is "slow" relative to Java wouldn't exist. There is no shortage of abominable enterprise software of yesteryear written by mediocre Java programmers. It's just that their currentgen counterparts are mediocre programmers working with React/Electron/NodeJS instead.
There are complaints about renting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28831551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353718
May be more physical. Try working in a cafe, unconsciously adjusting to accommodate others in the space; or theatre sports, generally with a warm up to get you more attuned to your body's spontaneous reactions.
Germany is also the most populated country in the EU.
> If you look between the lines you'll find that the "security industry" is largely in favour of corporate-authoritarianism.

If you're looking for some unreasonably secure device, obviously you have to bake an apple pie from scratch in order to ensure no steps in your supply line are tampered with. Current system has plenty of problems with which that's being used as a defense though, and the fact that those systems are so closed is what allows zerodium to exist in the first place.
Of course. But to make a layoff announcement right after a record profits announcement is pretty poor taste.
Agreed. Just about any time I bring up natural alternatives to RX I get drowned in echo chambers and broken records. I suspect money heavily influences that behavior.
Wow, the title is so wrong...
TSMC has fabs in China (Nanjing and Shanghai), but at the much older 28nm node.

1. search for "Fab 16" and "Fab 10" on following page:

https://www.tsmc.com/english/aboutTSMC/TSMC_Fabs

2. search for "TSMC Nanjing node" and "TSMC Shanghai node" and you'll find articles mentioning 28nm
> This snippet has been constantly criticized and somehow it makes me think that the people who loudly complain about it have never worked in any kind of big company - which is fine but it shows a lack of empathy

If they hadn’t so egregiously failed as a technology company and betrayed their user’s trust then maybe people would have more empathy, but no, they pursued profits and ignored security and stability. I have no empathy for this.
Registration link (the topic is "Climate and the Potential for Life on Other Planets"): https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aBSONFUDTJGsxH...
Yes! I remember seeing that image so much during the mid 2000s but not for many years now.
To put it extremely, extremely politely this is a minority opinion in the economics profession. (More accurate would be to say no one thinks this.)

I don't do reduced-form causal inference work myself, but I recognize that it is widespread and extremely influential throughout the profession.

You can of course argue that someone else should have received the prize. My own preferred candidates did not win. But this work was going to win eventually for sure and to argue that there's a lot of work from the last decade which deserved to win is not credible.
Own This a Portfolio of Platform Cooperativism, in Progress [pdf]
> International competition is good

But is it really "International competition" if China has more restrictions on foreign companies?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/13/american-chamber-of-commerce...
It's a nice sentiment, and I'm not sure it really disagrees with what I was saying. What I said was that Americans and Indians should both be treated indistinguishably in both America and in India. That would agree with your sentiment, no?*

The novel idea was only to link openness to openness. Imagine the result of such a treaty: Assuming India would be happy to grant residency and work rights to all Americans, then all Indians would have those same rights in America. That would, in fact, be a radical elimination of the current restrictions!

In structure, it's actually a little like freedom of movement within the EU.

Put another way, the highway would become a lot wider -- but it'd have lanes in both directions.

This is a deal that the United States should offer not just to India, but to most countries.

The only "catch" is the two-way nature of it. But why would India have a problem with that? Many Indians want access to the US; India is a democracy; ergo it would happen, right? It would only not happen if Indians thought it more important to keep Americans out. But why would they do that?

* The only way to break the idea is to distinguish between each group of people and their government. And in fairness, I suppose many Americans would very much want to be distinguished from the Trump administration (and some now from Biden). And possibly some Indians from Modi? Thus, basing the decision about whether Person X should be allowed to immigrate to/from US/India on the basis of their Indian/US citizenship, rather than only on things entirely in Person X's control, does violate your principle somewhat, even if it does so in an equal/reciprocal way. E.g., there are people outside of either the US or India who would not benefit from the treaty.

Still, I like this idea of using the carrot of American citizenship to create similar and symmetrical benefits for Americans, in other countries. The unidirectional way we think about immigration only to America seems broken. The idea that Americans might want to go to India should also enter our imagination.

It's a little like "copyleft", in a way: You get access, and in exchange we get access. Optimistically, at some point everyone would enter this web of reciprocal arrangements. (Of course, "Brexit"s would still be possible...)

Well anyway, at least this creates a new direction outside of the standard, boring, "pro-" vs. "anti-" immigration debate. It's one that, in its way, is radically pro-immigration, but one which also insists that the process create more options for ordinary Americans (rather than only for American businesses).

I think this kind of quid pro quo might be capable of producing a nice equilibrium.
No. Lego bricks. We don't have to speak about everyday things in terms of trademarks.
gotcha, thank you for explaining this!
Possibly relevant: https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-to...
TX Gov Abbott Issues Executive Order Prohibiting Vaccine Mandates by Any Entity