skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A massive object flying at a substantial fraction of the speed of light would be better for communication over very long range. Sure, the overall latency would be greater, but a massive object doesn't suffer from the inverse-square law if you know where you want to send it, and doesn't need a larger antenna to make it more directional. If it's some kind of programmable or even intelligent machine, then it could adapt to the evolution of conditions at its destination upon arrival, and engage in many iterations of short distance communications before sending data homeward.

It's like why we sent human envoys during the era when communication speeds were limited by horses and ships.

ET has probably given up on long range radio for their local comms, just as we have. The bulk of our comms go through waveguides (electrical cables and optical fibers). Even our radio comms have relatively short range, and are designed to be virtually indistinguishable from noise. It's as if we've wrapped ourselves in a primitive Dyson sphere.
> I'm not exactly sure this is a valid concern for the vast majority of people

If people do not note the reason for concern in being dependent from third party infrastructure for having a purchased good in working state, their societies have immense problems.

> valid concern ... vast majority of people

Absurd. The concern is valid irregardless of the individual.
A First: An AI System Has Been Named an Inventor
Too much barriers to entry, not enough incentives.

Building a Chrome competing browser from scratch is probably as hard as building a production ready GUI OS, maybe harder.

It's hard to get money from it, look at Brave.
Depends on whether you use the traditional or vernacular definition of AI. Traditionally it was more about the how not the what. AI was an agent acting rationally in an environment. Pac-Man guided by Dijkstra? That's AI, there's an agent, an environment, and said agent is acting "rationally".

In modern vernacular it has become a synonym for machine learning or sometimes specifically neural networks.
Are you happy with Aurora Serverless so far? Is it really the "painless scaling" it's made out to be? I'm really hesitant to use anything other than self-hosted Postgres with full control, because I'm always afraid of running into situations like these and not being able do what I need to do, like have an offline analytical read replica. Also I imagine the cost is an order of magnitude more than a self-hosted instance.
The amount of VC funding you'll get.
Thank you!

what price do you think we're looking at for each of these? lowering the ceiling is a bit of a bummer from a looks perspective. underfloor heating sounds wonderful.
There are lots of incentives at play towards making ADHD as vague and broad as possible.
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Domestic police working with intelligence services is called secret police, e.g. the Gestapo.
> … "and have gone down the path of complicating the hell out of things instead of nailing down the primitives and onboarding to the field."

I've thought much this same thing myself for ages now.

Not just "complicating the hell out of things" either. Complicating the hell out of things that should be simple ( or at least should be simplified, or automated, or something ). I see a lot of tedious activities in modern computing that appear to exist purely for the sake of the tedium time-wastery factor.

The flip-side of the same coin is the over-simplifying or "dumbing down" of some things that really should stay "complicated" (and hidden behind an "expert mode" toggle) to the point of allowing willfully uneducated morons to repeatedly "shoot themselves in the foot" and justify blaming everyone and everything but themselves for their error.

That sort of "computers should be an appliance like a toaster" mentality has contributed to a culture which seems convinced they should be able to magically jump from zero to "Hacker-Man" with no effort or learning required, the very same day they decide to "learn" programming.
Honestly, that quote just sounds like Chamath being Chamath.
> My goal is to get FlexOS open sourced. - Does anyone know of a copy of the source code

That's not enough; you need to find who owns the copyright.
Without JS phoning home everywhere there's a 'share on Facebook' button, Facebook can only track your activity on their site.
A large proportion of autistics are non-verbal or have intellectual disability. They therefore may not be able to effectively communicate that they are in pain. GID may be misdiagnosed then as other externalizing affective behaviors.
>> You can fix this by adding an extra run level that uses RTCWake to sleep the phone when it's "locked" without missing notifications.

This should be part of the default configuration, because the battery life is way too short. Swapping batteries isn't a workable option for a daily driver, and besides the extra batteries have been out of stock for over a month.
Reviewers like a good comeback story. And intel is doing much better than it was doing before (I own machines with both types of CPUs). And intel did some different things with the new chips (2 different core types.), so interesting.

AMD hadn't released there new chips when some of that stuff was written. but its actually a little bit exciting that competition has returned and I suspect it will be good for consumers as long as both chip makers have competitive products.
If you want to compare humans moving through decision space to bacteria tumbling through physical space I suppose it's one way to think about how humans act but honestly that's a lot of text for a trivial kind of system that you can apply to almost anything. You can probably look at cars in traffic like this as well.

It's so vague and general of an idea that it's almost a truism. I don't think it provides anything meaningful in regards to figuring out the actual complexity of human behavior both individually or collectively.

And I think this kind of over-generalization that is a little bit vapid has been a trend because there's simply not been a lot of theoretical progress when it comes to the functioning of the human mind.

When people use this kind of thinking to apply it to artificial intelligence I always think, why not just ditch intelligence and build a physics simulator? Clearly intelligence is somewhere in the subspace of simulating the physical world, so why bother? It doesn't add much to understanding anything in particular.
IANAL, but corporations have been successfully charged and convicted of felonies in the US:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_convicted_...
> No weird javascript address validators (half of them think my address is malformed).

There's really no excuse for those- The USPS provides an address validation API that's easy to use, accurate, and free:

https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/

When you're literally the final word on what is, and is not, a deliverable address, you don't need a regex. You can just do a database lookup. Presumably they're also leveraging the same address matching technology they use with real mail in that API as well.
Using a server RDBMS it’s trivially easy to decouple schema and query evolution from application.

Curious, how do you decouple query evolution from the DB layer of your application?
Hereticon, Notes from the IRL
> at a national level the people have not chosen to elect representatives who have made this an important enough priority

> The point here is that if your favorite poll were accurate, and did indeed reflect the will of the people, they'd prioritize it highly enough to vote accordingly. However, it isn't important enough to supercede other issues, so it remains not the will of the people.

You're essentially falling back to a simple tautology, shoehorning the "will of the people" to simply mean how they voted, even though a vote is an extremely limiting expression of a voter's overall will. This is utterly useless when discussing the effectiveness of our specific voting/representational system.
True enough - that would be step two after finding the source code.
It's probably because you scored high on several factors.

Instead of one score, think of it like a cumulative score. You have, let's say, 7 factors all scored from 1 to 5. If the score for being diagnosed with Autism is 21, for example, there are many ways to achieve that. Three areas with a 5 and then a single 3 in any other area would have you diagnosed. Similarly if you score 3 across the board.

Basically, they're saying when you hit that minimum overall score, your factors put you that far divergent from most people that it's at least noticeable.
I've got an anecdote from a nurse that when autism was registered as a disability the diagnostic criterion were loose enough that it enabled practitioners to fudge the numbers in favor of the families enabling them access to the special needs care and support systems which would otherwise be crippling.

If this is true, I would expect it to function as an umbrella describing symptoms rather than pathology.

EDIT: I should clarify that I'd like SubiculumCode's input on this if they find it worthy of discussion.
Cornerstone, a photorealistic metaverse where land is auctioned off in NFTs
"can be" != "is"
I think there's a lot of history of using the term "spectrum" to mean a single dimension. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum for some examples and counterexamples.

I suspect it will create confusion to use the same word for a multi-dimensional meaning, especially when there is preexisting literature about the "autism spectrum" that used the single-dimensional meaning. I think it would be ideal to use another term.

It seems that the thing we're talking about is "a cluster of imperfectly correlated traits". Googling a bit, I see "syndrome" as one possibility (although it may carry the connotation of a disease, although that may be inevitable with autism). "Trait cluster"?

(If one wants to dig into the light metaphor: The thing you're looking at is a beam of light. You use a prism, and that splits the beam into its constituent frequencies. When you shine the light through a prism onto paper, the resulting image is a spectrum. But the original light beam itself is not a spectrum. Thus, the most appropriate way to use "spectrum" in connection with autism would be for someone to take a test that measures several different traits, and then the test results are the "spectrum". I'm not going to try to fight for that definition, though.)
I see. But because they're maintaining datacenters for PS3/PS4 streaming I think they have the potential to go hosted, at the end of the day multiplayer servers are developer-controlled and network servers (e.g.: PSN, Xbox Live) are mostly identity services and such. (Even matchmaking isn't the network's job anymore)
Chip manufacturing is even more prevalent. Why not ask a candidate about how silicon wafers are made?
I hear ya. I would definitely not disqualify someone for not knowing the answer.

In fact, someone who is able to sort of work through the problem on the spot may even be preferable to someone who just knows the answer because they happened to read Wikipedia the week before.
I think you're unfairly assuming something about how the question was used.

If the intent was to find out if people __knew__ how GPS worked when they didn't need it for the position, sure.

However I see two other possibilities:

- How does a candidate react when they don't know something? Do they try to bullshit their way through? Do they admit it and ask what you'd like them to do?

- Can a candidate, __with guidance__, come to a basic understanding of how GPS works and come up with a reasonable (note: not necessarily correct) suggestion for how to implement it?
I don't really know exactly what a 'full service car wash' means but I do know that car washes with optional polishing and interior cleaning are available here in Norway because I see signs for them in the next town to where I live. I imagine that they are much less common than in the US simply because wages here are high. But they do exist.

And of course we have the kind where you wash the car yourself using a high pressure water jet in addition to the drive through kind (both those with and without brushes).
Does anyone here on HN know someone at WindRiver who might know more about FlexOS?
It was not, no matter how the company tries to market itself to foreign clients. Israeli intel has more important work to do than develop software to spy on journalists and others persons of interest for big ego dictators.
There was a time just a year or so ago where I had Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all ready to roll because some bank-of-mine's website would break right at the crucial point (click to confirm bill pay, transfer, whatever). Maybe it was my ad blocker? Whatever, I had to switch to another browser to actually complete my transaction. And then, in two months, the fail behavior would appear on the browser du jour and I would switch back to another one of the three.

Not a problem lately, but I don't expect this to last forever, unfortunately.
"As a thank you to workers who have been putting in their hours and then some, MOM's introduced a $2 per hour bonus for all employees who complete their scheduled shifts within any pay period."

So they'll pay you an extra $2/hr to work sick? Nice.
Damn! They really are the vampire squid of technology sticking their money sucking tentacles into every little bubble of innovation, draining it of life and opportunity.

Thanks for sharing. I didn’t know about this. I’m going to create a profile there soon.
1. Driving is not a Constitutional right, unlike the right to keep and bear arms.

2. While the First Amendment does protect speech, the Supreme Court has held that time/place/manner restrictions on speech can be created by the Government as long as there is a rational basis for them. Compare against content-based restrictions, which will be strictly scrutinized by the courts.

Legal analysis is complicated and actions rarely fall into black-or-white categories. Even Second Amendment law has a large number of contours.
I don't recall what all they wanted, it went well beyond the death certificate, which I had already supplied them. I had no issue with that.

I went and talked to a lawyer about and even he was pissed off about such treatment. Alas the amount of money involved it wasn't worth bothering.

This is truly how PayPal makes there money, by taking it from people, even dead ones.

I'm hoping to find good alternatives in this tread...
Double stud construction with blown in cellulose is much cheaper than spray foam, and way better for the environment.

Also, if you want close to passive house, you'll need way more than R-21. I would say only use spray foam if your wall cavity is limited and you need the maximum R value.
You might have known that. I didn't.
Shouldn't the title be "Why are we so at the mercy of Google for web browsers?" since Google is the one that financially pays for Mozilla to develop Firefox? If Google were to pull their funding, Firefox would cease to exist.

Or maybe it should really be "Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Apple for web browsers?" Since Safari is really the only other mainstream browser that is not entirely under Google's thumb.
Nothing seems hard until you do it.
AutoInit Software for Model Initialization
AutoInit is a weight initialization method that automatically adapts to different neural network architectures. It tracks the mean and variance of signals as they propagate through the network and initializes the weights at each layer to avoid exploding or vanishing signals. AutoInit can be used to improve performance of feedforward, convolutional, and residual networks; configured with different activation function, dropout, weight decay, learning rate, and normalizer settings; and applied to vision, language, tabular, multi-task, and transfer learning domains. The software package provides a simple wrapper that makes it possible to apply AutoInit to existing TensorFlow models as-is. We invite you to try it out and see if it can improve the performance of your neural network models!

For further details, see
- GitHub repo: https://github.com/cognizant-ai-labs/autoinit
- arXiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08958

AutoInit is also available through the Cognizant AI Labs Software page, together with related software on estimating model uncertainty, multitasking, loss-function metalearning, decision making, and model management, at
- https://evolution.ml/software

-- Garrett Bingham & Risto Miikkulainen
> (and probably Lambda and DynamoDB)

Curious why would we assume it's running on Lambda & DynamoDB vs any other compute & storage? Previous known gov projects?
Very interesting! It looks like the paper examines characteristics mostly independently to form groupings. Have you considered examining all the characteristics at once using something like t-SNE to see if any new subgroups appear?
I'm probably in the minority in the HN audience that thinks this... but we are a long way off from fully self driving cars that can be used anywhere across the US. Be it Waymo, Tesla, or Cruise the problem is that these systems have way too many edge cases. For example, what happens when the sun is "blinding" you and prevents identification of the traffic light? What happens when there's construction and a construction worker gives confusing instructions to follow? This isn't unique to Tesla-- I've seen waymo cars nearly force a cyclist into a car door in broad daylight.

In Tesla's case they've also been particularly aggressive with releasing self-driving tech to the end user without much stipulation on how safe it really is. I wonder how many more easily preventable deaths will have to follow before people crack down on such lax rollout of autonomous vehicle tech.
So you're saying that you are mad that people who believe abortion is a question of bodily autonomy do not also believe that vaccination is a question of bodily autonomy.

Interestingly enough, you appear not to identify with the group that has historically supported the right to abortion as a personal decision, have I interpreted that correctly? And you do identify with the group that believes vaccination should be a personal decision?
> But do you want to work on projects that you already expect to fail? Money isn't everything, seeing your work in action and how it improved the organization or the life of others is much more rewarding imo.

100% this. Doing a career retrospective as a long time consultant was very sobering: lots of 404s.
It wasn't obvious from the title but this is about ad blocking being ruled a non-infringement. See also:

https://torrentfreak.com/adblocking-does-not-constitute-copy...

which made it near the top of Reddit r/news.
My mom does, but she's getting more and more frustrated with website incompatibilities. I think she knows the onus isn't on Apple, but she still thinks they need to invest more to keep up.
>> How are you quantifying this success?

By the lack of:

>> threat of abject poverty

>> Isn't this just communism

Where would a planned economy come in?

Surely UBI results in something more like an-cap? You collect your ubi payment in exchange for agreeing to live in the area serviced by the United States corporation.

UBI wouldn’t be a small tweak around the edges of the current system. It’d be fairly radical.
They still rely extremely heavily on Nvidias ability to create more and more powerful hardware. I recently found out that like 70% of the world's supercomputers are powered by nvidia GPU compute. People often talk about the tech power of different countries (personally I've heard a ton of people talk about China in this way), but at the end of the day they are still reliant on the hardware manufacturers. Who am I to say that China or X country doesn't secretly have something that far outclasses nvidia hardware, though?

Between gaming (the biggest form of media), supercomputers, science computation, crypto nonsense, etc. It's really looking to me like nvidia is actually one of the biggest power players across the globe. Makes me really wonder about the tech they aren't flashing to the public. I was personally astounded when I saw their announcement to purchase ARM. I've seen a few instances of people saying the dead acquisition is stifling innovation. Honestly I'm kind of happy it didn't go through. Probably just a lack of vision on my part, though.
Floaty Turtle: A Flappy Bird Clone Written in Logo
I think Thompson says this (while talking about a series of lackluster CEOs) and says the topic of the "split" is a consequence of that, which has to be fixed (and is merely one of the problems)
Firefox doesn't crash and pretty much works everywhere, and Safari doesn't crash (although it only works on Darwin); that doesn't sound like a differentiator.
Intel's (literally) doubling down on the Atom cores in Raptor Lake so they'll have to get it right for them to have a Zen 2-esque progression. CPU advances beyond the old +5% per generation are pretty exciting.
Deplatforming make userbase smaller but loyal members may return more galvanised
The issues are purely that of communication and not the lack of diagnostic tools?
It's more like police using Palantir or Clearview AI
Preschool can be funded at the state and local levels. There was never any need to make it a federal budget item. If voters want increased preschool subsidies (which I think is generally a good idea) then they should contact their state legislators.
I've used Aurora and the IO is much better there than on vanilla RDS. Postgres Aurora is basically a fork of postgres with a totally different storage system. Their are some neat re:Invent talks on it if you are interested.
Ask HN: How important are stacks and specialization?
Over the last year's I have worked in different roles and with different technologies. Python, Go, C, TS/React, domain specific languages and tooling, and played with frameworks like Elm and Svelte. Mainly in the areas of web, technical simulations, and DataScience.

I would argue that I am flexible but that comes at a cost, low specialization.

My question: To build a career, how much do tech stacks matter? Should I stick to one (React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL) or doesn't it really matter as long as I can ship something? Is it fine to use Svelte for a new project when breaking into the market or should I stick to React?

Note: I worked in different roles not described as SWE but in practice I am writing code full time for almost 3 years. Building a career refers to "becoming officially a SWE".
A guy named Matt Stoller focuses on this sort of thing. He's been saying that the right people have been appointed to the FTC, but it remains to be seen if this will produce any real, consumer-felt fruit. This is him, just 2 hours ago, at the time of this writing:

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/148348691488801996...

He is reporting that the chair of the FTC is begging for public comment on merger activity.

UPDATE

And just a few minutes ago, questioning whether this whole Microsoft/Activision will be stopped.

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/148353211536295117...
Not really. But it's mostly because the support for other features is basically non-existant. It also seems like all development is happening on Aurora Serverless v2 (which I think is in preview state?). The scaling also isn't seamless, it breaks your connections if you're using prepared statements - we have it pinned to a specific number of capacity units.

We'll probably move to plain Aurora at some point, as that supports all bells and whistles, but for now Aurora Serverless is good enough.
Microsoft releases emergency fixes for Windows Server, VPN bugs
Have you contacted Wind River Systems about it yet? You really need permission from them to make this happen.