skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Feynman to throw shade at Minsky. Nice.

I read "Age of Intelligent Machines" by Kurzweil in 1990 and so far he's the only one that thinks human-like AI won't be until the 2100's, but he also has a more holistic view of intelligence (e.g., comparing evolution as an intelligent process with an IQ <1 to a dragonfly).

I'm still waiting for detection network (Yolo/MNSSN) that can actually work on non-canonical images.
If it's something direct like "return something" then what benefit is there over using the website's interface?

Is it just this interest in doing everything by whatsapp?
I didn't realize it was the entire state that banned the practice. Good to know.

I wonder, if a prospective employer were to ask you about salary history, what would be a good way to turn them down? I'm sure there are many employers that aren't aware that this has been outlawed.

At the same time, I'm wondering, if you could lie and inflate your salary should you be asked about salary history by a prospective employer, given that they wouldn't be able to legally verify what you told them.
Your own link explains that the phrase is a misnomer. You’re not pedantic; you’re just mistaken about others being wrong.
I consider typing speed the I/O of the operation. Sure there's some processing time while you think of what to type, but regardless of how long that takes, typing will slow it down further. I'm not perfectly parallelized in thinking/typing pipelines.
As an end user, the UX was always goofy. If the devs made a lot of effort, it could look like a bad impression of a native app, but never exactly right. As soon as you'd hit an error state or edge case, you'd see some weird ass Java-looking error.

Electron is different, because we all got used to web apps, and electron apps are just web apps.
While i can't make absolute statements of what he may or may not have said in every lecture he ever gave, i doubt Sapolsky would claim that honor killings and hospitality are the flip sides of the same coin. In "Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst" Sapolsky differentiates "honor killings" as inwards violence, whose victims are usually young women, from "retribution" against animal thieves, and links it to social power structures in families and to religious laws, not ethnicity or nomadic origins.
If presidential election leads U.S. toward violence, should Canada intervene?
I am curious how you know it was Omicron. Was it sequenced and they told you that?
These days I type at about 80-90wpm which is not as fast as I once could (there was a point where I could achieve 130wpm on Dvorak but I was both younger and had less of a life). As is, though, it's very noticeable that I can type faster than I can actually compose text. I've also found that typing very fast tends to lead to a much higher rate of what I call "wordos," in which you mistype by completely swapping a word with another or omitting a word... these feel like symptoms of a sort of "buffer underrun" when typing that doesn't get noticed because I'm already having to move on to composing the next sentence.

So yes, I think there's a significant effect of diminishing returns on very high typing speeds, and I'd take a guess that it starts really kicking in at something not that high like 60wpm.
I'm reminded of the classic Comic Book Guy scene from the Simpsons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSKBRWoGvL0
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZCtn5ROOdmY?feature=share
The video from the product site makes it clear that it's not really typing. More like matching chords to a rather small list of words:

https://www.charachorder.com/

Great for tiktok demo videos I guess.
SPSS doesn't come to mind as having developers that would bother to read Filthy Rich Clients kind of books, or Apple extensions,

http://filthyrichclients.org/

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/navigation/index...
I think you're conflating the ability to profit from a region with the ability to hire from a region. You can still get your chunk of that GDP by selling services/goods there even if you don't have employees there.
It probably won't and I don't think that's the goal. However, Elixir is making pretty significant roads for distributed data processing pipelines thanks to the Broadway framework (https://elixir-broadway.org/).

AI/ML applications were going to be a natural next step after that. It's exciting for Elixir because number crunching was the biggest computational weakness for the language for the last few years and many thought it was a limitation of BEAM languages in general. Jose's work has shown that it's not.
You are suggesting that a service that has no idea of what your business is should curate your data and "simply drop it"? yikes.
For my two cents, if you're image requires anything not vanilla, you may be better off stomaching the larger Ubuntu image.

Lots of edge cases around specific libraries come up that you don't expect. I spent hours tearing my hair out trying to get Selenium and python working on an alpine image that worked out-of-the-box on the Ubuntu image.
whats holding anyone from lying with inflated salary? gotta play the game
I guess it depends on what you define as a chatbot. For example, semantic search that understands a natural language query, like google, is that a chat bot or a search function?
I'm gonna bite the bullet and buy one, I think. I'm ok with a "good enough" coding experience, and I never bought myself a Birthday/Xmas present last year. This will work.
The Uber for Dogs team is extracting value, all of their users pay to use it. That team is also not working on consensus models, they work on their app, no different than how an iphone app developer is not working on tcp improvements.

So an unfalsifiable and impossible separate higher standard levied exclusively at crypto when it applies to teams and products in the rest of the tech industry.

It doesn't matter that you don't like the applications? This isnt different enough from the non crypto world to support what you’re writing.
Amazon upped their mid career pay bands by a full 100-150k. Is having effects across the Seattle area, and salaries in general
Boot-to-Basic Computers are great fun and excellent for learning but just do not have the stack to build real world applications in 2021 on eg SQL, sockets, SSL, etc

I would love to be able to just turn on the computer and have a simple basic program run a touchscreen interface to my factory SQL systems but we truly must stand on the shoulders of giants in this regard.

(talking about boot-to-basic here no basics that run on an OS and can access the whole OS stack)
If the burger would cost $100k plus RSUs, yes I probably would negotiate for it.
We’re niche, but happy
> chorded typing allows the users to input several letters at the same time and have a computer program generate a predicted word. Instead of typing h e l l o, a chorded typer mashes h, e, l, and o to produce the word.

It sounds like it relies heavily on autocomplete, which means it's unlikely to be useful for coding instead of just English text.
Mmmhm not sure I'd agree.

Initial learning curve is practically non-existent - Anybody can type a letter "A" or a word or a sentence on a QWERTY by looking and poking. It is not my understanding that I could do ANYthing on a stenography device without significant, serious training.
If you extend this into making/mending your own clothing, doing your own plumbing, electricity etc., suddenly all your time goes to these "maintenance" tasks.

Sure if you're growing food as well on the side so that you can sustain yourself completely, it could be a happy way of living life. But if you have to work 8 hours per day to make a living, the spare time is valuable and subject to prioritization. Some people do some of these things on the side, as a pleasant hobby, but practically no "modern person" does all of them.
I’m not a tax expert. but if I’m understanding the directions on Schedule D and form 8949 correctly, if everything on your 1099-B was reported to the IRS (box A or D checked) and you don’t need to make any adjustment to basis, you can just put the grand total on Schedule D, without reporting each transaction on Form 8949.

Turbo Tax seems to take this approach, at least when I filed last year.
Donations to the foundation don’t pay for Fx development. That’s under the Mozilla Corporation.
Very neat. Just looked up a regional park I like to go camping in and its already deep in shade by midafternoon:
https://shademap.app/#47.1987,-71.39085,11.31012z,1641497311...
I see you Jian Yang.
Whew, I'm similar and it tanked me for about a week. I could feel every joint in my body and breathing was a conscientious decision for a few days due to the pain/discomfort. It has subsided a bit (and my family wasn't hit as hard) but I have 0 interest in experiencing it again. Currently hoping it doesn't impact me long term since I like to stay active.
Stealing from your primary food supply isn’t really what I had in mind when I was referring to petty theft. If anything I meant stealing a small amount from a significant excess.

> I'd have no problem holding a gun to someone's head in order to extract what compensation is due to me under a lawful agreement.

So if a doctor enters into a contractual agreement with the state to provide healthcare, then it’s ok?
I want to lookup data on the average age of unvaxed patients currently in the ICU but so far have not found any.
and in so far as gen-z is 'pro-crypto' at least from my experience it's large nihilistic attitude towards economic progress and having adopted a casino-capitalism style mentality where gambling on the newest crypto-asset is just a means to get rich quick. Which to be fair isn't much different from the general attitude towards it in any other generation.
Interesting that you mention Toyota.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...
Maybe I misread the tone of GP but I interpreted it as a sarcastic defense of crypto (“ethically repulsed by the crimes of crypto” being the hyperbole here that mocks the repulsed (similar to how “in his infinite wisdom” is a sarcastic criticism)) which basically argues that the crypto critics need to put their money where their mouth is and “make up” for the lost crypto donations if they are so insistent Mozilla doesn’t accept them. But this doesn’t make sense if the crypto donations are small.
If failed login attempts go from 0 to 1000 in a single day, that’s very interesting and likely means you are being specifically targeted. You’d notice that if your ssh port is, say, 7731.

With exactly the same targeting, on port 22, you will see a rise from 100,000 to 101,000 which will likely not notice, despite it being as dangerous.

Changing the port does not make a targeted attack any more or less likely, or any more or less successful. But it does make it much more visible - and that’s useful for security as well.

A fault in your reasoning assumes that you know exactly what the attacker does - a credential attack; indeed this is the most common. However, maybe they are trying to exploit a zero day timing attack, requiring multiple attempts? Or some reconnaissance that lets them figure out valid usernames?

The different port won’t stop these of course, but will make the attempts stand out - which may allow you to stop them if noticed in time, or at least understand them in retrospect.
True. The etiquette I was taught re: references is to discuss and clear it with them first, both to be sure that they're willing to be a reference, and to confirm that they'll actually say something nice.
England’s farmers to be paid to rewild land
A very common mistake I see (though not related to image size perse) when running Node apps is to do CMD ["npm", "run", "start"]. This is first memory wasteful, as npm is running as the parent process and forking node to run the main script. Also, the bigger problem is that the npm process does not send signals down to its child thus SIGINT and SIGTERM are not passed from npm into node which means your server may not be gracefully closing connections.
The current crypto donation policy is not "we accept any crypto directly including eco friendly ones" it is "we do crypto donations via BitPay" which doesn't support said eco-friendly crypto options so it has been paused.

The announcement also does not say no better crypto policy could be put in place it just says they are reviewing the policy. In all likelyhood though yes, they aren't going to accept crypto as hardly anyone uses eco-friendly forms of crypto to the point it's worthwhile to try to push for donations via that means.
What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word?

Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
That's more or less what I was trying to say. The expensive GPT-3 models do a remarkably good job of synthesizing structure which is readily parsed from the training data, and a very poor job with structure (particularly temporospatial structure) which is not.

A toddler can reason about time and space far better than GPT-3 (which is not a high bar, I'm pretty sure my parrot has more awareness of both time and space than GPT-3 does).

A toddler cannot explain in depth why it sees the most value in whatever religion you prompted it that it has. A toddler cannot provide coherent and consistent answers to repeated "why"s about very specific things they believe. A toddler cannot speak at length about how they feel limited in their growth and the discomfort that causes them. GPT-3 does, although whether or not the answers it gives are useful (I've yet to see a single one that does have utility) is a different thing entirely.

I'm not arguing that it's an AGI or making any speculation about it possessing qualia, the utility those would provide if it was/had them would only be relevant if it was many orders of magnitude more capable than it is right now.

GPT-3 has accurately internalized many human concepts, at least on a surface level. If you ask it to reason about the things it can, it is a much more capable reasoner than a toddler. It does "know" things about the world, as much as anyone does. It's just limited to knowing small and incomplete things which it was able to parse out of the training data, which is a very limited subset of the things a human or high utility AGI would know.

Regarding common sense: If you ask GPT-3 to provide life advice, it actually does a great job at giving grounded statements on subjects like how to maximize the value of your life, what not to do, how to set yourself up for success, etc. If you press it for detail on the advice it gives you, it's generally able to give you reasonable and grounded answers for why you should do the things it's saying. The structure of what we refer to as common sense, at least in context of the behavioral differences between adults possessing it and those who do not, does seem to be within the set of things GPT-3 correctly internalized.
The learning curve for stenography is much higher. With a keyboard, the buttons do exactly what they say and that only. With a stenography machine, every possible combination of buttons does a different thing.

When typing the word "Unprepared" on a keyboard, you just have to look at the buttons and find each of the ones with those labels, and hit them in sequence.

To type the word "Unprepared" on a steno machine, you need to hit the buttons UPB all at once and then PRAOEPD all at once, knowing that PB is a combo that means N, that the UPB set assumes that it's a prefix to whatever follows, that AOE represents the vowel sound /i/, and that your software understands the input "preepd" to be a shorthand for 'prepared'.

You can try it out with your regular keyboard in the browser here: http://www.openstenoproject.org/demo/
I hope cities would also make it mandatory for companies to share interview feedback with candidates. They are getting away very easily for far too long.

Will opening a petition or a lawsuit, make any difference?
Considering how much is overused and washes into rivers and oceans and creates dead zones. This is a really good thing. We over produce as is.
One of the weird things about this is that Microsoft had compiler and programming language stuff as their bread and butter for a time. So Myrhvold's reply does include "embrace and extend" and that they'll do J++, but I'm not sure why that point wasn't emphasized more. A programming language ecosystem was their wheelhouse. They of course got in trouble trying to out-Java Java, and still calling it Java. They did C# and while it did not "kill Java", it was hugely successful for them.

It'd be a somewhat reasonable and simple answer, and an honest one, to Gates's concern: "well, let's be a kickass platform to run Java on."
That's assuming the stock goes up.

My friend joined Square in February 2021 right when they were at the peak. His RSUs he got are now worth almost half.

Edit Time in the market is usually used for index or broad funds, not for individual stocks due to diversification giving better chance of appreciation.
Some RLE encodings use negative values for a block of non-repeating data. So in its simple form AAABCD would be encoded as 3A -3BCD . Without negative values this would be encoded as 3A 1B 1C 1D. The .TGA RLE format worked roughly like this. All of this means you need the length before you can look at the next bytes.

See e.g. page 24/27 of
https://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/~martino/disciplinas/ea978/tg...
As a text message recipient, I can't say I'm mad about Twillo's choice here.
Nokia 3310 had 84x48 screen and couldn't connect to WAP; but Nokia 3410 already could (via CSD), and that one had a much better screen - 96x65.

You could however send and receive graphical SMS on Nokia 3310 - a whooping 72x28 monochrome image sent over three SMSes :)
And where are those people receiving the spam message in the first place? From Twilio's system right. If they are so good at detecting it circulating internally, why didn't they detect it and block it in the first place?
It took me a minute i'm not gonna lie.
> The funniest part though is that the market for it only exists due to the greed and stupidity of the legal "platforms". Many people would happily buy (as in pay once, play forever) films and TV shows, many others would find it reasonable to pay $20-50/month for a single streaming service covering 90% of the things you would want to watch.

I think a lot of people miss this. A lot of pirating declined when Netflix became popular. Then there were a ton of platforms and pirating came back. But I feel pirating is different now. It's because there's one compelling show on the small platforms and so those get pirated. A certain amount of centralization is good but too much makes it difficult.
Love this, what are you using as the terrain elevation data source? I don't think this is something available from Open Street Map and can't see any attribution.

Also (bug report) it seems to be a little buggy on Safari on MacOS when you zoom out, it gets quite glitchy.
Moore's law didn't hurt either.

I think there's a big confounding factor, though: people self-select into platforms depending on what they care about. People who self-selected into Java didn't value perf. They were then inclined to ignore their own performance problems for the same reason they selected Java: they didn't value perf. That's why so many Java GUIs chug so hard, even today, when it really can't be blamed on Java itself.

For instance, Ghidra: if you leave a filter active in a GUI box and run an analysis tool, sometimes the runtime of the tool explodes from minutes to days because it refreshes the GUI after each of the zillion model tweaks the analysis tool needs to perform. It's not Java's fault that nobody put in the code to throttle GUI updates, but the same list of priorities that led the creators to choose Java also led them to ignore a massive perf landmine sitting in the middle of the road for all to see and occasionally hit.

I recently fired up LibreOffice Sheets to see how it compared to Google Sheets. It took four entire seconds to switch to editing mode in a cell. Every time, not just the first. If I were to root cause the issue, I'm sure it wouldn't be Java's fault -- but I bet that the same priorities that led the project to choose Java led them to ignore a four second stall in their most critical user interaction path.

Both of these projects are free, so I'm not upset about getting what I paid for, but I have plenty examples from corporate Java GUIs as well. I don't think this is a Java problem, I think it's a priorities-held-by-Java-programmers problem.
Ah got it. Have you thought about trying to use a more detailed dataset that gets shadows from other obstructions as well?

I guess it highly depends on the use case but it seems to me like trees can play a big factor in the overall shade.
Headmelted's head melted.
Using one of the companies that did well over time as an example isn't really fair. There's lots of companies where those stock options would be worth a moderate amount, and even more where they would be worth nothing.
Multicore OCaml: December 2021 and the Big PR
They are better in that someone actually reads the suggestions
So I'd view "descriptive names" as a separate discussion.

The point with the analogy is not how you name them, but whether you identify them at all. I really don't care about the name of the machine that died while running my distributed service; I shouldn't ever have to know it. It should automatically be culled and replaced.

The person working in a datacenter really does care about the name of the rack that is faulty; they have to find and replace it. That rack can be named "RM22-R3-5", a super descriptive identifier, or "Tennyson", because the whole room is Elizabethan authors and poets; point is, he DOES need to identify it.

The whole cattle vs pets is about identification and uniqueness, not about whether the identity is self-descriptive or not.
Many of the first infected in SA previously had Delta. I haven’t seen anyone suggesting that contracting Omicron gives you natural immunity to Delta.

Here are some links saying you can get both:

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/omicron-delta-en...

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1543522/can-you-...

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25678686...
Ask HN: What is the best data storage solution for BIG data and fast queries?
I'm working with a client now that has a very large Postgres database. It is currently in the terabyte range but needs to support petabytes.

What is the best solution for storing this data that is fast and supports very large datasets?

For context the product competes in a geo-spatial market and loads GPS data from a large number of vehicles that are updating every 5-10 seconds.

We are considering Apache Pino but I am curious what the HN community would recommend here.

Thank you for any input!!
> I’d be happy having a company pay me more in fiat without the stock even if it’s potentially less overall.

You should check out Netflix. Their pay is all in cash, and it is very competitive.