skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it being an afterthought is, imho, what makes it so excellent. the attitude of "we collected this data, might as well make it public" is exactly how governments should operate.
I wonder if it is kosher.
Its really weird how the "its just a flu, lol" crowd is totally okay with flu vaccines yearly but having more than 3 vaccines against a thing that has killed millions of people is JUST TOO MUCH. CAN'T HAVE THIS.
Guess it's time for regulation.
No, humans are omnivores, not carnivores. Our bodies are designed to function on a wide variety of food including fresh produce. To each their own, but consuming meat is a choice, not a necessity.
The hospital strain is caused by staffing shortages, not an overwhelming number of patients.

Those staffing shortages are in turn caused by strict quarantines for people who are asymptomatic but test positive.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/COVID-San-Francisco-s...
So happy they didn't go with the laziest name possible that has been beaten to death already.
I think you need to separate "tech" from "web". I don't mean that in the sense of the "every company is a tech company" now, but more along the lines of there being so many threads of tech.

I'm a believer in Web3, though I completely understand people who are not. We'll just have to see where that plays out.

Most of my time is spent in neurotech. Fascinating stuff, and opportunity to have a huge impact on the lives of billions of people. We're specifically focused on sleep.

Wearables and sensors is also a fascinating area.

AI isn't just used to server you better advertisements. There's AI in health tech improving patient diagnosis, and will bring the cost of health care down (except in the US). AI is also used in engineering and design to help reduce material use.

You say the quality of streaming content is going down, and I tend to agree, but I also think these things go in waves, so I don't think storytelling is broken forever. But on the other side of media creation, how about the incredible CGI we have and how that is becoming more accessible to more people.

I do like your examples of Social Media and Amazon. I am mostly post-consumerist, and only purchase kindle books from Amazon. I used to be a big fan of Facebook, but most people I know have stopped posting, so it wasn't interesting anymore.

We don't need more "things" from Amazon, I hope people move to having fewer, better things.

I think Social Media is an ongoing experiment. It will still exist in the future, but I'm not sure we'll recognize it as we do today. I see so many people moving to tiktok, which as far as I can tell is a different experience to our older social medias.

So, in general, you're right to be jaded about the things you mentioned, but I also think we'll look back at this time as the golden age.

Web2 was like early industrialization, we're learning the lessons from that, we still have lots of work to do.
Are people taking care that they are educated, stay informed, have an active interest in what's going on? Then it can work.

It's not an easy process, it is active work in fact, but it is possible.
And Redondo Beach!? I feel like they buried the lead here. Davis is nice and all but Redondo Beach is nearly twice the price per square foot since it's close to LA and ... on the beach!
I know, nothing does what OP recommends. And I'm with you that it's not a good idea at all.
Well... that sucks (finds the brand I've been wearing all this time).
>Well now I want to know what <niche domain> is!

Let's submit ideas! I'll start

He wanted to learn about using Machine Learning to predict how often his pet dog would need to go to the bathroom
> if I have to interact with someone only on Fridays

> I want to know what’s going on

Why are you restricted to interact ONLY on Fridays? What's going on with you?
Thanks, I fixed the url.
> Anything that humans create, live or dead, is fair game to be used for any purpose deemed desirable by the creator.

Does that same distinction apply to human children?

The objection to animal testing or consumption isn't about the source of the animals, it's about the ethical treatment of them. The potential suffering/emotional responses from the animal are the same regardless of the source.

I'm more sympathetic to the exact opposite argument: it's more humane to take wild game than farmed. At least then they've lived a life relatively free of suffering, to the extent nature allows. That seems preferable to me vs. the typical feedlot life.
But inventing a new problem is exactly what the author of this post is doing? This is not someone who is being marginalised because of their involuntary name, this is someone who is wilfully choosing to use a name that doesn't fit social expectations.
That's not too different than what I did. I left Google fall 2018, at the time thinking I'd write a video game. That morphed into doing research on 2D rendering, because building the infrastructure for that was more interesting and exciting than the actual game. For a while (not the whole time) it was pure unstructured time, no outside responsibilities. I rejoined Google a year ago with a research software engineer title, mostly because it was a better place to pursue this research than just continuing on my own.

Partly I'm posting this to support 'lapsedacademic's assertion, you can do good research in industry. It takes a certain element of luck to land a spot, but it also helps to be very passionate about the research itself.

I'm now writing a paper on an exciting GPU algorithm, but it's pure love, funding doesn't depend on it, it just makes a nice point on my list of accomplishments during perf time.
I misspoke and meant revenue, but alas I can’t edit the post anymore.
I would characterize all those things as stories which have no place on Hacker News.
This movie is basically a conmemorative sequel with pets and zombies. It feels like a wink to Disney.

I'd have peferred them to explain how Neo was able to use the "force" against the machines, see their energy while blind, and who's the Zero. Expected a replica of Neo to be used by the machines or something in the lines of "don't be evil" becomes evil, as a critique to modern tech.
Perhaps it plays a part on conditioning folks through generations on what is viewed as livestock. Dogs for a long time are not, except perhaps in China, which has only started looking into reclassifying dogs from "livestock" to "pets"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...

>even 1% of the anger is because the consumer has wasted resources on their food

Mao Zedong used that reasoning during China's cultural revolution for banning dog ownership
So I don't need the actual car keys to control someone else's Tesla remotely from anywhere in the world?

Is that why Tesla knows about this backdoor and can remotely access to your own car given the OTA updates and now this?

Oh dear.
Ontario Canada, here. MIs neighbour to the East.

My city has two persons in the cab, one is the driver, one is the spotter. The spotter really just calls audibles on the stuff they see.

It's cheaper to hire that spotter than pay the insurance for single operator scenarios.

We can get some heavy snow days, the kind that make everything come to a standstill until things are cleared by these hulking beasts (kudos for naming one plow "hulk"). Having access to this information would be awesome.

Not surprising the home of the motor city would (appear) have their road clearing under control.
I have a similar thought experiment but on “pets” —- What if an advanced civilization uses humans as pets
This is definitely the case. It's not like the guy doesn't know anyone in the industry. A few meetings with some of his buddies for rules of thumb with lighting placements and camera angles goes a long long way.

Since this is a tech site, it's probably akin to a programmer calling his infra buddy on the basics of setting up a semi pro home network. "Well you'll need a router, firewall, switch, NAS, and a server. Go for ESXi on your server, and don't worry about VLANs unless you want to set up a guest network. Gimme a call if you have any questions."

Nothing happens in a void. Bo did a great job, but he didn't just wing it. And that's ok.
Microsoft Power Automate – Automate your desktop
>You've made a good point about how some of the other posters are feeling. I have difficulty coming up with another word I could have used to communicate what I meant that could have had a different effect. Even without using a strong word, people can be eager and are sometimes trained to perceive the slightest denigration against their choices.

I don't think it's that hard.

"I can agree with the spirit in which the monk made his choice. Personally, going so far as to include parts from another species in a key location in my body: that would make me really strongly consider that my intended lifespan is at its end" --- or whatever thinks you capture the meaning better.

People still might want to argue with you about it, for various reasons. But it lacks that visceral judgment.

In turn, you've received a lot of thoughtful replies and a few pieces of visceral judgment in return (delusional, etc). I don't know if you'd have gotten the harsher judgments if you'd avoided the charged language yourself.

> Given that my faith is generally seen in the present context with a high degree of disdain and contempt, I've grown pretty callous to needing to endure being treated with uncivility, particularly online, in order to speak. The only remedy for it I find is to cultivate a forgiveness of other people for their speech, even if I feel a need to challenge their speech's contents.

I don't believe I've been uncivil-- and I don't see anything too untoward here. Some other people are out of line with the "delusional" comment.

But, you're the one taking the hard moral stance and using language that invalidates other choice.

> where we can see in front of ourselves only a few "meters"

Well, if we can only see in front of ourselves slightly, perhaps it's time to be a little more forgiving that other people may see it completely differently from you.
The solution really is simple: `preferred_name TEXT NOT NULL`

If it must match your given name, feel free to add `legal_name TEXT NOT NULL`, at the cost of some really awkward form filling for your users.
The pro move, at least with a similar law in Massachusetts, is for the developer to threaten a ridiculous skyscraper with 20% low income housing, and then negotiate with the town to instead, out of the grace of their heart, build a more reasonable all market rate building.
The point is the same: none of the things we've been told to do to conserve actually make a difference. They're just a relief valve so we can feel in control, so we can be blamed for individual failings when massive polluters, water users, plastic makers, etc can continue to create waste.
It's a combination of

1) the technology used to take the image (or video!)

2) the fashion of the subjects - Fashion includes more than just cloths.

3) the overall aesthetics of the scenery around the human subjects.
Easy.... congresspeople are public servants. As such make them be required to have a single bank account for their campaigns. This bank account has a $1 million limit.

Outlaw PACS/Super PACS.

Ban politicians from holding seats on corporate boards for 10 years following serving in any office, except they be returning to a board they already were on. (End revolving door/jobs).

Ban companies from donating at all to all elections.

Require news networks to supply free ads for candidates w/ equal airtime or ban all political ads period (I'd love this one). Let people get picked by merit of their debates alone.

I think the parties should also hold their primaries on the same day nationwide, so there's no 'game' or 'sport' it's just flat out - vote and be done with it, to the victor goes the spoils (the rest of the campaign$$ each candidate has amassed.

We also need ranked choice voting so that 3rd parties can have decent sway ...diluting the current duopoly and making it so interested parties and special interests if allowed would have to work harder and spend more to more parties to get their point across.

There's probably a slew of other things you could do. Of course this requires people in power to take away their own power...like that's gonna happen.
I teach at a college. I’m not in any way responsible for my students’ mental health or well being. That is far too much of a burden to have and I’m not paid nearly enough to take that on. Also, I have no training in mental health. The health care system is where one should go for mental health help.
I think that Google is optimizing for the "average user" to the detriment of power users such as the HN crowd. Most people treat Google as an internet oracle and send queries like "how do I do X" while power users will search for keywords. One example of this optimization is the automatic answer boxes that show up for certain questions, which are wrong disturbingly often or don't include important details.
> If you publish software you have responsibilities and no "provided as-is" clause can fully free you from it. Especially if you do so with the intention to cause harm.

Says who?

I can publish whatever the heck I want to my project and unless you and I have a contract that clearly defines expectations and resolutions, you're SOL.
So I am actually from Edina, I don’t currently live there but my parents do. The context of this is a string of robberies and crimes not normally seen in this suburb. Edina is generally seen as a safe suburb, and all of the recent crime came on very sudden.

I don’t agree with the program, but since I have some context around it, I thought I’d add to the conversation.

[0]: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/12/11/edina-pd-offers-5k...
People's styles changed, but cats still look the same!
I believe this is the authoritative reference on the subject

https://www.christopherpollard.com/2013/02/22/in-minnesota-i...
We eat them. We're simply hard wired to use them as a resource.
Dave Arnold tried to take euthanized research pigs to cook, back when he worked in, iirc, Dr. Oz's lab. No dice.
The problem is that, AIUI, each NPM package installs its own, isolated set of dependencies. It has facilities to manage versions down in the dep tree, but it’s not as simple as other managers which ultimately install a single set of packages that satisfy all version constraints.
> re: the accountant, I left. I wrote her an email explaining why I couldn't work with her. She apologized and said she didn't realize what it was, that it was a gift from her daughter, something about their Finnish heritage, and it was supposed to be horse heads. I found a nice Jewish guy to do my taxes.

For the curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in...
HBO Max is not a global service. There is a ton of money to be made selling the movie to other streaming services.
It seems safer to keep mechanical things running regularly…
What, corporate community guidelines aren't serving the purpose they're supposedly for? I'm shocked!
> That's the point I was making. The mere existence of a constraint that says "you have to define a first name and a last name" is not a traumatic constraint.

It can be, for me. It depends on my state of mind when I encounter it. Recall isn’t always traumatic for me, for which I’m grateful. Sometimes when I hear my family name or I’m compelled to say/write it, along comes a flood of other mental references. Many of which are traumatic. When I’m compelled to put name values in forms I… have trained my mind well to consider how deeply I’m going into that memory cave, but I’m already there before I’ve evaluated whether I think that form needs my information for valid reasons.

Your “point” that people can substitute names for convenience of data collection is not avoiding trauma, it’s avoiding you bothering to accommodate it.

Me faced with just the fact of the whole of my name, my family history, I’m looking at abuse and suicide and misery. Even if I ultimately write in “eat” for first name and “butts” for last.
// I'm so sorry...

A comment I left that I am sometimes reminded of by ex-coworkers still at that company.
Did anyone find any details/proof in the thread?
I agree with you, but I also wish more ML people knew more math. Though I think there's a difference between research and production (I'm in research).
A swiss army knife is designed to be used in many different ways. Just because you don't use all the ways doesn't mean it's not designed for it.

You are an omnivore and you are designed to eat meat. Additionally, you are not designed to eat cellulose which is a huge component of what it means to be a herbivore. You are designed to eat meat, and designed to eat certain types of veggies. Who's to say that the veggie part is just the back up mechanism?

Either way you ARE designed to eat veggies and MEAT, you can choose to eat veggies and deny half your nature, yes.. that is your choice.
I'm curious, what are your options for starting a company based on the research you're doing at Google? What kind of ownership do they get (I assume it's not nothing)?
Explained: Binding.pry vs. Byebug vs. Debugger
Don't do it!!!! Based on my personal experiences, you will regret this.

I was a tenure track faculty, got tenure, then I also go the industry itch. Fortunately was given the opportunity to to spend my sabbatical at Google Research, which was insightful, but I was very glad to return to academia knowing that I couldn't last a day longer in industry. Being stuck in a cubicle with 3 other engineers having to attend meeting after meeting working on things that did not interest me the least. 1.5 hours lunches while being stuck on that campus from like 7 to 7 and I was bored out of my skull. Academia offers unlimited freedom, a freedom that you will only value when being stuck working from 9-5 job on someone else's ideas instead of your own. For me, pursuing my own research at my own pace is the ultimate motivation and I simply can't be bothered working on projects whose only goal is to make money. Working with students and seeing them grown is also very rewarding. I will never leave academia.
What’s the best mask for not caring about Covid but wanting everyone to think that I do? Is there a perfect balance between “double masking” and “American Flag Print Bandana”? I don’t want to go medical grade but I need something surgical that really evokes me in the trenches risking my life shopping at TJs.
Eh, this is a pretty fundamental piece of theology. There doesn't seem to be a God that is meddling in everyday choices and outcomes. At least, really bad things seem to be happening that one hopes aren't God's will.

So, pretty much everyone who thinks about this and has a faith has to come up with some compromise. E.g. that there is a deity that has permitted humans free will to make their own decisions and that various bad things happen as a result of that free will / those choices.
> Dogs are carnivores.

Omnivores, not carnivores.

Ref: https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Canis_lupus_familiaris/
Last line could also be "now go to first line" or "restart at line one".
> It seems weird to me that Google would take "search quality" seriously for 15+ years (including nearly a decade as one of the biggest companies in the world) and then suddenly stop.

Is anybody claiming that it’s sudden? Everybody I’ve seen complain about Google search results has seemed to think that it’s been getting slowly worse over a long period of time.
> Does that same distinction apply to human children?

it would if it weren't for the universal application of human rights today. And it did apply in the past - a slave's children are also slaves. I'm sure one day humans will move past this idea, but it is not today.
It works like trash when searching for obscure technical problems, e.g. debugging some little used tool in linux. It seems more often than not the most important word in the search is omitted, making the results completely irrelevant.
From the title I thought someone managed to port Doom to a deep fryer.
I got involved with a local DJ event shortly before the pandemic doing lasershows, and we ended up having to go online immediately thereafter. I had some experience with OBS from using it to composite stuff for video calls (pre-pandemic), so I offered to help run an online version. And then I had to figure it all out.

The way we end up doing it, DJs run their own sets at home (from different countries), then stream to an RTMP server I run on GCloud. I pull those feeds from home and composite them with transitions to the next DJ, then stream to a single Twitch channel. I had to teach myself not just the tech part (which was okay, I'm used to tech), but also figure out how to coordinate DJ transitions in real time with them, while MCing introducing the next DJ and simultaneously crossfading the audio and triggering the video transition. There's a lot of "Okay, 5 minutes to go, you're live on the audio mix. Start when I'm halfway through your introduction text, since there's 2-3 seconds of latency. I'll give you a live monitor feed of the stream audio in real time via Discord, use that as your cue. <5 min later> <radio voice, reverb on> Aaand that was DJ foobar's amazing set! Coming up next we have <... moving faders at the same time...>" Sometimes it works better, sometimes it goes a bit wrong, and it's definitely not something I'd ever done before :-)

And DJs had to learn about cameras, compositing, audio capture and avoiding ground loops, etc, as well as the whole OBS side. I have a whole tech doc I send them with the OBS-related info, and we do test runs where I check that their audio/video is decent, their connection to the server is good, they have the A/V sync set properly, their audio level is good... Some other folks in this area have put together more general documentation on the audio setups and whatnot.

Also sent in a few patches to OBS, including one fixing a years-old unacknowledged bug that would silently kill audio in streams randomly after a few hours, depending on the exact setup. That one killed one of our shows 3 times and I vowed it'd never happen again. Turns out it was an infamous bug in the DJ restreaming community... that the OBS devs had always maintained was user error...

If anyone's interested in the details of running this kind of event, here's a presentation I gave with 3 other folks from the community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lHn73MsE7c
> to me this seems like the euphemism treadmill paired with academic/professional lingo seeping into the public.

I agree the euphemism treadmill is a thing, but based on events here in the U.S. over the last several years I think we could use much more "academic/professional lingo seeping into the public" if by 'lingo' we mean impartial, reasoned takes on things.
They contract it out, but Google Fiber had door to door sales people attempting to get people to switch to Google Fiber a few months ago. Several of my neighbors switched from these people reaching out.

There's a difference between temporary sales presence contracted out and a permanent retail presence, though, you're right.
The same thing will exist for people in 2010/2030 because of computational photography filters/algos.
Yes, companies aren't citizens.

Secondly, petitions are one thing, petitions with a hidden $1billion folded up in the middle is a bribe.

Bribes definitely should be illegal.

If I were to call up my senator, I should get the same 'attention' as Elon Musk would get if he were donating a Hospital to their hometown.
This seems accurate to me too. And it also seems the most likely - a profit maximizing corporation doing profit maximizing things? Not really a huge surprise.
Elizabeth Holmes, Daughter of Enron
And pilots getting regular practice.
Maybe Twitter shouldn't be requiring things like phone numbers to register accounts.