skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought along similar lines a lot recently, and I think you end up wanting something like WASM, but without all the design-by-committee that comes with that. Specifically, ditch the parametric instructions, add arbitrary bit-width ints, multiple memories, a way to allocate and free memories, and hints[0]; and make the binary format simpler to parse by removing the completely unnecessary integer compression.

[0] by which I mean the ability to tag functions and variables with an indication of what they're used for so the interpreter/jit is able to replace them with an efficient implementation if one is known to it. For instance, you possibly don't even need float types, just have routines for doing soft-float arithmetic tagged such that the interpreter knows they implement IEEE floating point operations that the processor may be able to handle on its own.
Blog Interview: Uncharted Territories with Tomás Pueyo
Handwavey "proprietary methodology" using data from "millions of Internet users using one of many different browser extensions" and "direct sources in the form of sites that have chosen to install the Alexa script."[0]

Translation: trust us

[0] https://www.alexa.com/about
I'd look at Plugable, they tend to do quality accessories. (And US-based, and technically savvy - they actually provide firmware updates for their USB docks.)
Green Key Partners | Senior Software Developer | Full-time | In-person (NYC)

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We are looking for a software engineer to support our high-frequency trading operations in digital assets. Day-to-day, this role will involve developing and refining the trading, reporting and operational infrastructure that allows our traders to execute strategies across cryptocurrency exchanges. Aspects of the role will also involve constructing and maintaining data pipelines and optimizing the firm’s data architecture.

The following skills and experience will be required for all applicants:
- Strong proficiency/fluency in C++ and/or Rust
- Strong Python skills
- Experience developing and working with databases
- Basic shell scripting and familiarity with Unix system

The following skills would be very helpful, and would help a candidate grow the role going forward:
- Experience interacting with Ethereum (or other Layer 1s), or DeFi platforms generally
- Experience writing smart contracts
- Proficiency building low-latency execution software
- Experience working with financial data

Apply by sending resume (and, if under 5 years' experience, most recent/relevant transcript) to contact@greenkeypartners.io; any questions can be directed to the same address.
Slavery Among Native Americans in the United States
Cool, makes sense. Here's a tool you can use to verify that it's not your system that's stopping the request https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/
what do you think about react native? i hear a lot of bad things
Well, so he claims. Is that actually true? But regardless; even if he had reason to dislike certain regulators - that makes for a really poor reason to argue to remove yourself from the equation when it comes to influence over those regulations. If anything, if indeed the rule-making process was corrupt, that argues against Brexit, not for it (from the perspective of business primarily involved in selling goods affected by those regulations).

In fact, it sounds like those regulations hurt his competitors at least as much as Dyson: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/21/anger-as-eu-ba... - "Dyson vacuum cleaners score highly in the ratings. However, the manufacturer has many concerns about flaws in the system that will ultimately be unhelpful for consumers."

Notably, Dyson "won" in that review; it only lost the case for hundreds of millions in damages.
Thanks but I'd meant in terms of having their own macro systems. Using vim macros from VSCode still requies you to 'get into vim', after all.
Apple paid protection money. Pretty simple, no need to sugar coat it
What's your point? People do things they like. You can't stop them.
I remember the early days of supporting both Linux and Microsoft, Linux quietly went about serving mail or whatever it was configured to do but Microsoft constantly needed rebooting or reinstalling and generally not doing.
So Microsoft was famous and Linux was unknown.
TBH I didn't read the article but the headline made me smile.
Likely these more tightly coupled drivers won't be the first target for Rust ports, but it's worth noting that Rust <-> C FFI is well supported and not as painful as you might expect.
IMHO (as a AI researcher) 'multi-modality, multi-task, multi-language, multi-memory' may take longer than you think. Doing multi modal learning is quite hard due to lack of labeled data, a lot of tasks either don't offer clean plentiful datasets or require RL / human in the loop learning and not just supervised or self supervised learning, and on and on. Certainly a lot of progress will be made and partial automation is likely to speed up (as has happened with Copilot), but full automation seems to be a good while away.

Plug - I expand on this a bit in this blog post 'The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3' (which was on front page of HN a few weeks back and led to a good deal of discussion ) https://lastweekin.ai/p/the-inherent-limitations-of-gpt-3
Thanks to you, and others, for sharing. I hadn't yet resorted to looking in the consumer space. In research (and presumably clinical)-land, the costs are substantially higher.

I'll be looking into it further to figure out whether there is some tradeoff here, or if it is just typical cost bloat for medicine/academia.
Put it in github.

Add a github action that pushes the file updates to production.

If you are using something like AWS S3 this is very simple but very neat.

I have a tiny S3/github based CMS for my static content and the workflow is simple:

Edit page(s) and update images, css files, javascript stuff.

Test locally. I have a python script that acts like a web server so i can verify the changes. I have a few other scripts that update menus and other housekeeping items as well. Python is great for that kind of stuff.

Once verified, push to the production branch.

Pushing there fires off the github action that syncs the files with S3 in my AWS account.

Now you have a complete history of all edits to the content system.
Would you happen to have some links about Linus hating Ada? While his stance on C++ is well-known, this is the first time that I hear he has public opinions about Ada. Thank you
I think the argument is less for rebuilding existing sites, and more for paying some mind to efficiency when a site is first being developed and during rewrites brought on for other reasons. A good deal of waste reduction is possible with relatively little effort if it’s done at the right time.
This is exactly the promise of SpaceX Starship.
> speedup we need for ML to be truly accessible for the average developer. 50x? 100x?

The data scale (and access) is often more important than the modelling, and that doesn't have a technological fix, or at least not a purely technological fix.
Omicron: The response is making it worse
I did once for what would have been a very nice job opportunity.

> Hi Saket and Rajat,

> I appreciate Rajat reaching out to me and offering me this interviewing opportunity. However, I cannot morally use filtered.ai's service. You might not be aware of this, but filtered.ai sends the recorded video questions to "Vempathy", which uses facial recognition software to judge a candidate's "emotional state" using AI.

> Right now, AI facial detection technology cannot be responsibly used for hiring decisions. It's not robust enough to provide reliable data on all candidates, and will likely be discriminatory to wide portions of the population.

> I have no issue completing online interview coding tests or in-person whiteboard interviews. But I cannot allow facial-encoding AI to guide hiring decisions in this field, or truthfully, any field.

> I notice you are based in Plymouth, MI. This is where my father grew up. I was raised in Ann Arbor. I would be happy to connect you with leading AI/ML experts at the University of Michigan who can help illuminate the problems with this technology as applied to hiring decisions.

> Respectfully,
[Redacted]

For context, I am a conventionally attractive white male...I suspect that current AI analysis would work in my favor.
Initially, it was mostly by monitoring the traffic of users of the alexa toolbar, https://www.alexa.com/toolbar

I think they moved on to more broad data sources, possibly purchasing data from ISPs.
LLVM is the real bottleneck here. I've worked with a platform that would have been easy to build a custom rust for (even if it wasn't officially supported), but was held up by the lack of LLVM support.
Honest question: is enough known about this Satoshi to understand how he would behave? What are you basing your understanding of his behavior on?
Monkey Island Collectors Edition re-release sells $1m+ (7000) copies
The next logical step would be to create 3d models with interferometry triangulation. My question is: are these developments better or worse for physical space privacy vs optical/infrared recognition?
Are you doing heroin right now?
Privacy vs. “I have nothing to hide”
> as far as I can tell, it doesn't affect scroll wheel scrolling for me

Nor scroll to top/bottom via the Home/End keys. In Firefox (or Chrome for that matter) it's quick enough that I don't mind the smooth scrolling, but in Edge it's comparatively and disconcertingly slow.
This is definitely not suitable for any sort of serious gaming, unfortunately
you'd catch and handle the exception at the adequate point inside your subsystem.

The same argument could be made with return values: what happens if you don't handle them and just panic on them.
The whole Hubble mirror fiasco was fascinating. The before and after images of the galaxy M100 in the following link outlines the extent of the error:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/hubbles-mirror-flaw

One may assume that maybe the error was simply too big and that's why the aberration. Here's the root cause and the magnitude of the error would be dismissed as nothing by most people on this planet but ultimately turned out to be huge!

"Ultimately the problem was traced to miscalibrated equipment during the mirror's manufacture. The result was a mirror with an aberration one-50th the thickness of a human hair, in the grinding of the mirror."
This would all be so much easier if Twitter and other social media companies were actually transparent and explicit about the specific reasons an account was banned. Instead, you are just generically told that you are in violation of the Terms of Service and MAYBE if you're lucky, linked to a certain section of the ToS which might theoretically be relevant to your case. The specific rule that was broken, and examples of behavior which broke that rule are never given.

Whatever the reasoning behind not going into more detail may be is irrelevant. The fact that none is given feeds directly into the narrative that Big Tech is unjustly censoring The Truth That They Don't Want You To Know and only exacerbates the current environment of distrust and disinformation. I feel like this is something that is going to have to change to have any hope of ever returning to some sort of consensus on what constitutes objective reality.
Big Changes Ahead for Inside Auto Cabins
I can definitely see your argument, but there are some downsides to deploying ASAP:

* Long term, the reputational damage to self driving cars might be significant if one is released that is only slightly better than a drunk driver. If this hinders uptake later, when self-driving cars are completely superior to normal humans, we've possibly produced a net negative.

* While a self driving car should be safer than a drunk driver, the best option would be to call a cab or have a designated driver. It seems morally fraught to provide a solution that is more dangerous than existing ones, even if the less dangerous solutions have less than 100% uptake.

* Related, there may be some people who will instead of viewing a self-driving car as some sort of emergency option to avoid putting another drunk driver on the road, see it as a more convenient option to inviting a designated driver.

* Issues around who is responsible when a self driving car which is known to be worse than a typical human is deployed, fails, and someone is hurt.
It's both. On the one hand, I hate the fuckers who don't give a shit, I've met way too many of them.

On the other hand, too many times they are overworked and/or underpaid. At some point anyone will stop giving
a fuck.

Surgeons, dentists, EMTs deserve respect though. Yeah they fuck up, but nowhere near as often or bad as those responsible for gatekeeping useful medicine.
It might also be that we're both interpreting "internet addiction" with different severities, which would lead to different suggestions.
That doesn't matter. Landlords would under no circumstances accept those people as tenants for the same reasons that the government renting hotels for the homeless has been so unsuccessful in the past. Namely the perception that the homeless will destroy their property. This isn't necessarily true but all it takes is a handful of bad examples and suddenly landlords are sceptical at best if not outright refusing.

Homelessness is a symptom of systemic issues, it's not the cause. Fixing those systemic issues will cost significantly more than 11B annually.

Don't get me wrong, I think we should be making those a first priority but scientific projects are not who we should be targetting for poor spending. The research this project will do and the research that most of these space oriented science projects do have the potential to significantly shape our understanding not just of space but of how the world works which has direct quantifiable benefits for industry.

If you want to pick an expenditure to be upset about instead, be upset about how much the US spends on the military. Alternatively be upset about the inefficiencies of the US medical system or the lack of taxes paid by large corporations or any of the other inefficiencies and failures of the US government and economic environment. Any of those could have their efforts redirected towards improving the issues that lead to homelessness and wealth inequality.

TLDR: Scientific research on average pays back many multiples of the original investment and 11B isn't remotely close to enough to even impact the root causes of homelessness. Pick your battles and focus on actual inefficiencies in the US that are worsening the homelessness issue or actual opportunities to increase tax revenue/reuse actually corrupt/wasteful spending.
I thought it was pretty opsec-poor myself but I wasn't going to get involved haha
>All of Linux security is a shit show.

What would you recommend instead?
Context - The all time great, and UNFINISHED trilogy got a collectors edition recently - https://limitedrungames.com/products/monkey-island-30th-anni...
It's about money and they just want to get rid of you, because they are understaffed, overworked and not happy people.
That’s what all government is: a racket.
I have to wonder, though, if it's human prescribed antibiotics that source these super-bugs.

It's pretty common practice in the cattle industry, for example, to just pump cows with antibiotics because studies have shown cows constantly on antibiotics grow fatter than cows not on antibiotics. (Likely, because they don't ever really get sick). [1]

That makes me wonder how many of our super bugs have origins in the livestock industries where common practice is literally a recipe to bread superbugs.

[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/report-s...
Kickstarter to Start Blockchain-Based Crowdfunding Project
I have started to wonder, will it ever be possible to 'see' the big bang? How close can we get to measuring that far back? From what I've seen JWST will be able to peer back to just a few hundred million years after the big bang. What are the limit to seeing even further back? Is it a matter of telescope size, will an even larger telescope by definition be able to see even further back? What is the limit?
I don't have the citation handy but the Institute of Medicine researched this and found it takes about 17 years in average to get all physicians to adopt new clinical practice guidelines. For physicians with a wide scope of practice it's just tough to keep up with all the chances. There might be some opportunities to use technology in clinical decision support systems that warn about potentially inappropriate treatments, but those have to be handled carefully so as to not slow down patient care unnecessarily.
Coming from India, it's crazy what you can get over the counter. I think that medicine should be more available and cheaper but the fact that you can get so many antibiotics without a prescription is definitely a contributing factor.
Mind you, I'm not arguing for or against the boycott.

But these laws would seem unconstitutional on the basis of the first amendment and precedent: (e.g. In NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. (1982).)

And the boycott movement is not about targeting individuals or classes of individuals. BDS encourages supporters to select targets based on their complicity in Israel's human rights violations, potential for cross-movement solidarity, media appeal, and likelihood of success.

In 1966 African Americans in Clairborne County, Mississippi, participated in a sustained boycott of white-owned businesses to put pressure on local government and business leaders to meet their 19 “Demands for Racial Justice.” The document, drafted by the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), laid out specific measures to advance the civil rights of African Americans, from desegregation of bus stations to asking that blacks be addressed as “Mr.” and “Mrs.” rather than derogatory terms such as “boy.”

Three years later, a group of white business owners sued the NAACP and its leaders, who had organized and enforced the boycott, for the economic damages they had suffered.

The Supreme Court ruled that the NAACP’s boycott was composed of elements protected by the First Amendment: speech, assembly, and petition. The Court also paid particular attention to the end goal of the boycotters.

In that case, Justice John Paul Stevens compared the NAACP boycott campaign with the railroad association’s public relations campaign in Noerr and concluded that the boycott was entitled to even greater protection.
A huge piece of the internet is going away: back in the early 2000s I would use Alexa a lot it was a gold mine of information - to the point where some people bragged about their rank on Alexa - that was hilarious, like the modern "twitter followers" / "github stars"
You can check out the contract for the Big Ape Yacht Club NFTs, for yourself[1]

If you go to Contract and then Read, there's a function you can execute towards the end which gets you the URI for a token. If you grab a token ID[2] and enter it in, you'll get back an IPFS address. Should be more permanent than a random image hosting site, but it's certainly not the same as storing the image on the blockchain.

[1] https://etherscan.io/address/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118...
[2] https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclub
Grandparent said.

> > Money is the medium of transaction of human needs and desires. Profit causes global warming only in so much as it fulfills human needs and desires for light, heat, transportation, industry, and energy in general.

Vs.

> My argument is with profits and not with human nature because human nature is malleable. People can change their eating habits, they can change their transportation habits

To the extent that people change to not demand things that cause global warming, providers of such things will not be rewarded with profits. So, I don't understand the gymnastics to point at a "profit" motive rather than intrinsic motivations from this "human nature".
So if I'm understanding this correctly: Apple still refuse to implement this PushManager interface in Safari, but because they don't have a public bug tracker, the WebKit Bugzilla is where the iOS PWA devs go to vent?
Not sure why the downvotes.

Addiction to ignoring destructive externalities should be a concern.

Industrial behavior is requiring more air conditioning which is requiring more industrial behavior.

We tend to think in loops but interlocking rings of an infinite number of loops (functions) is a far more interesting visual to me.

One little loop over on the bottom may not broadcast info such that it reaches a little loop up top after pivoting 90 degrees. There’s a lot of information noise in between.

Put a different energy source in that bottom loops coordinates though.

Physics beats social ideology every time. The free market is being used to destroy the species, and many people in charge believe in the right to force their human death cult on us.

Freedom from is being set aside for freedom to.

Eventually the masses will accept moral relativism as they have in the past if the options remain constrained to “what a minority of wealth holders say.” A whole lot of folks still live in “story mode” out there.
The nice thing about "OK Google" was that it sounded a lot like "Cocaine Poodle", so you could imagine your personal assistant was a hyperactive creature of limited intelligence. Which honestly, sets expectations appropriately.
They also have a company called ThirdAI to commercialize SLIDE
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. I'm not saying you're wrong, but these lead to reliably repetitive and tedious discussion, which is not on topic for a site focused on intellectual curiosity.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Separately—but related—please don't take HN threads into flamewar. You can make your substantive points without snark, swipes, or flamebait; on HN, please do so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: also, please don't cross into personal attack. You did that repeatedly in the thread below.
They used to have its own toolbar that tracked which websites users visit.

After that, they've paid other browser add-ons to add their script and some websites voluntarily gave them their data by adding their tracker.

It says so right on the about page (warning: unusable on mobile): https://www.alexa.com/about
The tap water pH in my town is 9.3. This seems extreme until you realize the lead risk with anything lower.

https://www.belmont-ma.gov/dpw-water-division/faq/what-is-th...
Cross compilation is actually much easier with Rust than it is with gcc. Every Rust compiler is a cross-compiler for all architectures that Rust supports; all you need is the rest of the toolchain like linker and libraries. rustup handles installing the libraries, and as lld (the LLVM linker) adds support for more platforms it can also be used as a cross linker, rather than a linker per target as in the older toolchains.
The quipu conventions used by the quipucamayocs, the Incan IRS, are still lost.

The Qhapaq Simi language used by the Inca nobility is lost forever too.
Buf raises $93M to deprecate REST/JSON