skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worthwhile to note that there are currently driverless metro lines in the world. We do seem to be moving in that direction for automation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_system... As always, the future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.
Oh man, nostalgia! That ran on our first home PC, and it was where at the age of 12 I learned what a cookie was. The days!
TIL: Two principal types of scaling of the decibel are in common use. When expressing a power ratio, it is defined as ten times the logarithm in base 10. That is, a change in power by a factor of 10 corresponds to a 10 dB change in level. When expressing root-power quantities, a change in amplitude by a factor of 10 corresponds to a 20 dB change in level. The decibel scales differ by a factor of two, so that the related power and root-power levels change by the same value in linear systems, where power is proportional to the square of amplitude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel
Probably. But I am afraid that losing valuable contributions from FB people leads to groupthink and ideological bubbles. I realize that I myself have a very negative opinion of FB the company, and I think this is mostly due to the stuff I read on HN. Most of my friends don't see the problem and consider Facebook as yet another big company, ruthless and profit-seeking maybe, but not more than the other ones, and that's probably true.

EDIT: typo
There will never be a utopia because when you eliminate one set of problems you reveal new ones. The fact that we are even discussing this is because we are not dying of cholera, starving, or being eaten by lions. The goal is to advance one step at a time.

Eliminating civilizational SPOFs would be a fairly large step.
For me, DDG results are even worse than Google. It's set as my default and I'd say at least half of my searches in DDG generate completely useless results...pages of obviously SEO'd garbage.

DDG also doesn't support showing a site's basic structure in the search results (ie, the card of a company's website with Products, Contact Us, Support, etc) and the preview text is garbo as well...it reminds me of 1990's era electronic card catalog search excerpts.

I look at the first page or two, give up, search google. While I have to hunt a bit in the results, I do eventually get what I wanted.
With a slightly fresher coat of paint this could be very popular. For example, no grey background.
“Assault rifle” lol.
"citing a court order against ISPs" would be sufficient, I think.
I would hesitate to post on a public forum where I work or any identifying personal information for obvious reasons.
Cloudflare functions kinda like a private security company. They don't go around blocking sites willy-nilly, site owners have to specifically choose to use their service (and maybe pay for it), configuring the bot blocking rules themselves.

That's not really Cloudflare's fault. Someone has to do it, whether it's them or a competitor or sys admins manually making firewall rules. Cloudflare just happens to be good enough and darned affordable, so many choose to use them.

Hosting costs for small site owners would be much more expensive without Cloudflare shielding and caching.
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In simpler terms, for any complaint you come up with, here's a regulation to fix it. Problem solved.

If the problem is a regulation, let's remove or modify that regulation. Problem solved.

If your problem is there are too many regulations, let's get rid of 20 of them and simplify down to just this one. Problem solved.

Oh, that simplification created its own problems? Let's create new regulations covering those three scenarios. Problem solved.

But if we are much slower at creating regulations than we are at creating new situations that require regulation, it creates the perception that regulations don't work, which leads to rapid de-regulation of everything. Our current legal and political framework simply wasn't designed for this. It was designed for 13 small colonies writing paper letters back and forth, where waiting 3 months for a court to make a decision or 1+ years for congress to pass a bill was considered quite timely and fine. We now live in a society where there is probably a need for 2-3 new regulations per day, and 1-2 adjustments to existing regulations, per day, and an AI chat bot that will tell you whether something is legal based on current regulations.
They do, just in other models. Look for 'Cyber Tool'.
Since Google is doing this voluntarily, many of the blocked results were legal to divulge but Google is choosing not to, which does make it ad hoc.
Your comment is a good one, and I don't have time for a long reply, but I'll point out that the motivation for my being a bit "overblown" is the unfortunate and very common tendency of many people to have a nonsensical "null hypothesis" that there's precisely zero effect of something on something else, as if it's at all sensible that there are zero connections. I work, for example, on microbiome research, and there's an unending stream of papers testing the "hypothesis" of "the gut microbiome affects X" rather than "what's the magnitude of the effect of the gut microbiome on X". I'm writing quickly, but hopefully this makes sense.

Glad you like the blog name, by the way!
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It's not CPU predictions, it means that it computes in parallel one result that is correct and one that is wrong, and picks the right one by swapping the two halves every now and then.
A one-room schoolhouse--what a concept. I leave this essay here, on a low-comment HN thread, a similar method by which I found it several years ago on another post about older schooling methods:

https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
Murders of crows are taking over the Bay Area
This guy of course talks from the comfort zone of being a beurocrat.

He doesn't have to deal with alienating all the crypto boys and girls.

And there are millions of them! Given that every election is won and lost by a couple of % points give or take...

What will happen is an implosion first and foremost, only once that happens the public will be calling for congressional hearings.

Get ready to see Saylor, Musk, Armstrong, Dorsey going to DC, but only after the bust. Not before.
I concur. I don’t believe corporations should have “personhood either” — I guess I should have added an /s tag,

If I run over you in my car, I go to prison, not the car. Yet if a corporation kills you, the person “driving” isn’t punished, it’s the company that pays the fine.

And for some reason it’s the company that has free speech rights. No river has those.
On average, middle class and below lives longer and more confortable than in the previous thousands of years.
> Also Solana

One financially questionable scheme at a time please.
Who's being protected if I'm fully aware of the risks? I feel like education is much more valuable than dictating what is "too risky" for an individual investor.

But agreed, what you've described is the most-likely outcome.
Except that the sentiment toward Facebook is considerably more negative than toward Google - at least that's my feeling, but I don't have data to back it up. Is there an opinion poll somewhere about "which one of the FAANG (or however they are called nowadays) companies do you hate the most"?
It is. The alternative is scooping everything and using algos to curate. That seems worse imo.
List of general malaises:

> Rich, powerful, greedy people and corporations just get richer, more powerful, and more greedy.

> The most reasonable daycare and public transit in the Bay Area is available only with your Big Tech Employee ID card.

Seriously? These problems are not remotely in the same ballpark.

I don't even know what is the point of this article. A handwavey call for better regulation of "Western society, economics, capitalism, finance, government, the tech sector, the cloud". Oh, and free daycare too. Gee thanks doc, I'll get right on it.
They're just variables like any other; {[x;y;z] x+yz} is almost exactly the same as {x+yz}
The internet itself is the biggest social network. To participate, make a own website. But that's only to make your work available to others, I understand that. Getting people to actually stumble across your work is the hard part here. Maybe treat your other accounts (Instagram, Facebook, DevianArt, Artstation, Twitter, Tumblr, ...) as secondary sites. Upload your stuff there and link your website. The question would be, why use the website when everything can be found on Insta? Maybe see the website as your whole internet presence and reduce different secondary sites to their medium. Twitter for text only, Insta for artworks only, Tumblr for photography only, ... and your own website would be the hub where everything can be found in one place. You would be independent from those sites while also participating there. Maybe one could introduce this form of usage with something like 'Instagram uses me and I use Instagram too' with a link to your webpage. I'm just rambling at this point, but truth be told, I don't think you'll be able to successfully avoid big platforms ... sadly. I guess we have to find a way to live with them without being contingent on them. And this is an approach that comes to my mind.
Submitted because I've been working on a site built using psycopg2. The need to never format queries with user input, and instead to use the builtin methods which perform the formatting safely on execution, is mentioned throughout the documentation. This change would allow one to write a function which actually enforces this requirement.
Benchmarking rendering software on Google Compute Engine
Ask HN: Google suggested for loging, my private accoun in my work laptop
I have never logged in to my google account in my work computer. In our work, we use google cloud and we log in to the cloud with our work email. But today when I was connecting to the cloud console from Chrome, chrome was suggesting my private account for login. I wonder how this info was there!! I couldn’t find any trace from history or cookies! Any idea how I can trace from where that recommendation came?
Have a look at gpt-3 if you want to see what the future dominant search engine will be. It will not find relevant results, it will write it on the fly customized for exactly what you want to read. (Maybe products will just ship to your door and be auto paid because the future ad targeting AIs will know you so well.)
Hakim did a very good short introduction [0] on defectors in general and how this term is used in our media. In the video, he also briefly brings up Yeonmi Pak's story and how it's changed over time as well as the conflicts of interest of speaking income. The video is more about defectors in general and how defectors are portrayed and presented to us, so he doesn't spend a lot of time on Yeonmi Pak's story.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwZjBMbsK0
They are applauding the pun, not the company the pun refers to.
Museum rivalry ‘could make Dutch Vermeer show last of its kind’
You're missing the distinction of power vs voltage. dB is defined in terms of power.

Power is proportional to voltage squared.

So a 10x increase in voltage == a 10^2 = 100x increase in power == a 20dB increase in power.
It's more interesting to me why we have a seemingly obvious belief that pump and dump schemes (which are effectively a sort of coordinated social phenomenon rather than a material movement) should be regulated. Begs the question: what is the "point" of the financial system, considered as a kind of bounded game, and why is that interesting to the state as an institution?
While you're not wrong about Russia, similar things can be said about the US and its allies (of which my own country is one).

True, the US typically attacks countries that are farther away, but their devastation of Irak and Afghanistan is much worse than Ukraine or Georgia (another victim of Russian aggression) have suffered in the last 20 years at least. And while Iraq and Afghanistan were by no means democratic regimes, we can see plenty of democratic governments toppled by American power and their allies - In Yemen in 2014 (mostly Saudi led, but with US arms and support), Haiti in 2004, Nicaragua and El Salvador in the late 1970s, Iran in 1953. There are also many other despotic regimes that the US successfully helped against revolutions that may have toppled them (most memorably, in South Vietnam, but also at various times in Iraq and much of South America).

Empires are always evil, and they are always seeking to spread their propaganda. The only way of getting a slightly clearer picture is to use sources from multiple such empires and try to build a more accurate picture than any one of them wants you to.

So yes, please use both Yandex and Google for search, read RT as well as the New York Times, Al Jazeera, AFP, etc.
If you have customers, does that mean the incremental gain from an improved index costs too much to store? Or are you talking about computational costs?
I’m not going to pretend I know the future or anything, but I will say that, while this is a common series of events, #4 can absolutely go two different ways. Everyone loves a good underdog story, but I also wouldn’t say that winning is the most common outcome.
I'm trying to encourage a discussion about what money itself should be. I think without this discussion it will be very hard to make effective regulations around money and the implications this has on the operations of the banking system. Once people are more informed about these topics better regulation will be possible. Frankly I don't see people talk about the fundamentals of money much, the current monetary system is convenient enough for most people such that they don't have to think about the details of how it works in their day to day lives.
NLP is very heavily integrated into search, so I don't think it's really possible to decouple them. But I agree the whole BonziBuddy thing they've got going now is annoying and it's especially unfortunate how it's replaced the search functionality. I'd have a lot more patience with it if I could choose this functionality when I wanted to ask a question.
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When people say that on HN I read it as: "as a young, healthy and well paid tech worker living in _tech hub of a western country_ life is really good and getting better". We have it really easy indeed, but you can't project that on "humanity"
The implication of your logic is that any mandate that saves even one life is worth it, no matter how onerous.

That's not the logical implication of my post at all. I'm not saying "lives are more important than everything else"; I'm saying "wearing masks isn't onerous, so how many people need to die before you'll wear one?" To suggest that we should totally change our way of life to save people, by giving up alcohol for example, is too much. To make a tiny change that has almost no impact on you to save lives isn't too much.
First, you need excellent network and hardware conditions, which you can control on your side, but not on their.

Of course, better software to worktogether, but that's a given. Bugs, misconfiguration, latency and ergonomics add up a lot.

But I think until you get a fantastic VR experience, it will still be subpart.

The human aspect of the training is hugely important, otherwise, a trainer has no added value over a youtube video. In fact, the video would be better, since you can pause.
I don’t, I type into the search bar and let my history do the work
My assumption is that Apple exposes an API or page that can validate a gift card. If someone physically sees that card at Target and is then able to poll Apple with the number, that could go a long way towards enabling a scam. All the scammer needs is some automated mechanism to test whether a card has been activated.

Could be as simple as a balance checking service that either gives a dollar amount or an error code indicating the card isn't active.
how recent are your results? 1-2h? 1 day?
What about a search engine that only indexed information and technology "alternative" sites, specifically to give you the results most likely to be purged or demoted from Google's results? Would be simple enough in scope and have a built in market and use.
China. Though I am no fan of the system, the trend line is clear. This author lumped their system in with central control and dismissed them in the service of making their point. I suggest they are not some outlier to be excluded from the dataset.
Because of the employee shaming.
It should be working now! Thanks for the heads up. There was a traffic issue.
Why don't you want personalized results? If I search for "subaru service" I want to find Austin Subaru, not Thorp Subaru in Cape Town.
All of the current histrionics that we hear from DeFi advocates regarding escaping the evil centralized Banks and Regulators and what not -- you know what they remind me of? They remind me of what I hear from junior developers when they're tasked with fixing an antiquated, broken software system. These developers typically lack the experience and the patience necessary to fix the system incrementally from within, so they usually propose a hard fork, or a rewrite in <new frontend framework>, or some other such shiny greenfield solution that promises eternal escape from the problems of the past.

It's strange to me that a lot of pragmatically-minded developers I know would point to the immediate problems with that kind of approach, but are nevertheless quick to embrace the equivalent approach when faced with society-scaled problems.

And I do think that there are equal parts incompetence and laziness at play. I myself am often tempted by the siren song of burning a legacy codebase to the ground and starting from scratch. I'm lazy and I know that it's going to suck to roll up my sleeves and do what's necessary. But I also know, from having done that enough times, that this impulse is often an abdication of my responsibility to actually fix what needs fixing instead of playing with new toys.
Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory
HN has a very clear anti-Facebook bias. It doesn’t matter what the news story is - If it has Facebook in the headline the comment section will be half low-effort comments from people bragging about quitting Facebook years ago or snide remarks about Zuckerberg. They rarely last long on the front page because they seem to trigger HN’s quality filters very quickly.

So why would any Facebook employees volunteer to be part of that? If you say anything neutral or even positive about Facebook as a non-employee your comment will attract rapid downvotes here. Imagine commenting as an employee on the inside of the company.

FWIW, I know several people at FB who also comment on HN. They have no interest in discussing FB on HN because we all know exactly how the discussion will go regardless of the veracity of any claims or content.
>This is a complete false dichotomy.

Her wealth makes her part of the elite. She is deciding by her own made up rules who deserves and who does not deserves her help and money. If that is not elitism what is it? Just because she chooses what are called "historically disenfranchised" does not make it fine. The elitism comes from her ruling from on high as she wishes without oversight. Which she is doing so it is elitism plain and simple.

Elitism. -Control, rule, or domination by the members of an elite.
The program itself is 100% C, but it spends 99.9999% of the time in assembly code that is generated at runtime.
Almost all of us on HN are here for ourselves as individuals and I don't think they should or have to identify with any of the workings of their employer.

Most of us come here for free spirited discussion and interaction of ideas, and ultimately to optionally contribute and mostly to learn.

On that note I have seen many identify where they see relevant that they work at Meta/FB just as much as any of the other FAANG participants.
There are a lot of reasons why that may not be a good idea. First off it’s his company, he bought it fair and square and invested literally everything he had in Tesla, bet it all on himself, in my book that means he gets to keep it.

Also then anyone could buy up his shares like a foreign government that doesn’t have our best interests at heart.

I think this stuff sounds nice but when you look at the implementation it doesn’t hold up.
The definition of trust that security professionals use is that A trusts B if B has some way to do something bad to A. A can stop trusting B by taking steps to eliminate the ability of B to harm A.

So, the statement "Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft" actually means "Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added ability for Microsoft to screw you over".
I was looking for this as well! I use it daily and have for years. Love it.
Pfft. No machine learning was used?
YT censorship is dumb and immoral. Having said that, how on earth do you stick a Nike or Apple commercial in a middle of a video criticising China?
I imagine that if you work at Facebook, then pretty much every Facebook story that comes up on Hacker News is going to offer you some awfully harsh cognitive dissonance if you're not absolutely Machiavellian about your employment.
How did you make the comparison?
Great, glad Google has its priorities straight. Nevermind the rampant fraud that exists on their search engine like fake locksmith scams that they've done absolutely nothing about for years.
I doubt teenager me would not have been happy to share a social media presence with my parents aside for superficial content. So every few generations we might gain another platform regardless of its quality. I assume that Tiktok will fall as well, I hear the first people calling it boring.
Is this comment somehow related to the one you replied to?
I think DuckDuckGo is closer to what you want. Same results for everyone, better privacy, and they're proactive about improving their results.

https://duckduckgo.com/

Part of the problem is that there's a lot more low-quality content to wade through now than there was in 2005. I think the Google of 2005 would have trouble delivering quality results today also.
Yeah. It's one of those things where it's invisible where it works and enraging when it doesn't. That's generally not a failure mode that's desirable. It at least should require extremely low failure rates to motivate.
I think it's purely that most kids writing school reports are more likely to be asked to write about "African-American inventors" than "America inventors" or "Chinese inventors" or any particular country, and SEO-optimized blogspam has adapted to that. I don't think it's political.

Bing Search, which has an independent web index from Google/Bing, has the same issue. It's interesting how search results can be biased without any malevolence or even any intervention by search engines.
A bunch of "myths" without any helpful advice for folks with back pain. In short, stretching won't help, lying in bed won't help, daily workouts won't (necessarily) help, yoga/pilates won't help, etc.

Super helpful.

TLDR:

- "Myth 1: Back pain is linked to having tight hamstrings"
- "Myth 2: Lying in bed is good for back pain"
- "Myth 3: My daily workouts at the gym will get rid of my back pain"
- "Myth 4: Yoga and Pilates are great ways to alleviate back pain"
- "Myth 5: Stronger muscles will cure my back pain"
- "Myth 6: Stretching is good for reducing back pain"
- "Myth 7: Having a powerful back is protective"
"Basic NLP can do that a lot faster without introducing a lot of problems."

This is called "stemming" and is not sensibly approached with machine learning.