skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting anything is easy, it's the making something that's wanted and making it work successfully and profitably that's exceedingly hard. Most don't realize this until they've been punched in the face by the real world of startups (as yours truly has been).

Becoming your own boss is probably the worst reason to pursue entrepreneurship imho. Having a manager is wayyy easier, even if that means you have less control and autonomy.

But by all means, try...
Takaka or Motueka? I used to live in that area. Golden Bay has a pretty unique geographical layout!
> But the fundamental elements of all crypto, namely anonymous transactions over decentralized Blockchain, is the only element that is giving regulators heartburn.

No, it's not. See wave after wave of stories about people thinking that crypto was anonymous only to be arrested for drug crimes and tax evasion.

I think the thing that's giving the regulators heartburn is the fear that this is looking like a massive bubble.
“Falcon 9 upper stage may crash into the moon“
I don't particularly care for the remnant of Mozilla either, but it's not at all clear to me that Brave is a better option. It seems very much like they're trying to position themselves as a kinder, gentler flavor of adtech. I don't want that; I hate that the modern web has turned into an adtech ouroboros, and I want a browser whose mission is to gut the whole thing, not a browser with a new recipe for a more delicious tail.
The language reference worked out fine for me but the chasm between "basically running" and "knowing what I'm actually doing" has been substantially painful and I'm still not on the other side.

Though I say this while continuing to slog through said pain as I find time because once I've learned a particular thing it's always felt like it was worth the effort to get there.
You can't¹. There is a new browser called Orion² currently in private beta that uses the same engine as Safari, which you can use Firefox and Chrome extensions on. It works both on Mac, and surprisingly on iOS. I believe it's the only browser on iOS that allows you to use -some- desktop extensions. I use uBlock Origin with it on iOS and it works good enough.

¹ https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

² https://browser.kagi.com/
If you are going to call someone out, why not try to make it educational?
I feel that for there are three requirements for a NN-based AGI, inspired by biology:

a). an internal feedback loop that evaluates a possible output without actuating it, and self-modifies the parameters if the possible output is not what it's needed

b). the capability (based on a) to model own behaviours without acting on them, and to model other agents behaviours and incorporate that model into the feedback

c). the ability to switch between modelling own behaviour and other agents behaviour intentionally by the model itself - as part of the feedback loop

i.e. what I feel it's totally missing in the self-driving cars today is the capability to model OTHER traffic participants actions and intentions; an experienced and attentive human driver does this all the time, pays attention to the pedestrians on the side if they want to jump in front of the car, pays attention to where other cars are LIKELY to go, pays attention to how the bicyclist that's currently overtaken may fall, even pays attention to random soccer balls flying out of a courtyard because a kid may be chasing that. I am not seeing any driving car trying to model any agent outside its own.
Not all applications require a general intelligence.
Nearly half of new U.S. electric generating capacity will be solar in 2022
Yes every episode is worth listening to.

I like how they might be talking about a serious subject one minute, then crack a joke at just the right time.
They will never stop doing this. They have stopped relying on it as much (by changing how sites are scored based on perceived authority), but it just shifts the manipulation techniques accordingly.
Legacy is usually a family that donates or at least a well known family so admitting the family member for donations or clout seems to me like admitting a football player on scholarship who will win games but not good academically?

These situations are few and sort of cancel each other out- they don't matter... what matters is how the other people are let in.... and ivy league has a reputation of being very gifted minds (high IQ measured through SAT). Ultimately unis have discretion to some degree... but race happens to be protected. I think it's the large difference in scores by race that cause problems. And if you think it's unfair bc of upbringing.. how is putting them in with way more gifted students the answer--- unless ivy league is now just a signal and not a learning institution? If so it's time is limited.

I actually think these ivy leagues are just operating under woke capitalism- the more elite blacks (the best blacks with the highest SAT scores) they let in the better their clout right now- even if whites or asians have higher scores--- that is bc race is the only thing that matters right now. This transfers to hiring too- so the blacks that go to Harvard today are probably worth 100X any white or asian. At least politically... which is where power resides.

Perhaps that means that the issue is deeper. It isn't just okay to discriminate against whites and asians. Blacks are a rare commodity, at least ones that can succeed at Harvard and the ivy leagues want to make sure they get as many as they can. What though does that tell us of the importance of race and who is being worshiped just bc of their skin color?

Public vs private- I mean they both are tax exempt. One takes more in tax dollars.. so what? Do we have more control over the public school- not really.
Ask HN: How do you create a slack post for a keyword mention in a new HN article
Is there any automation available via IFTTT or zapier?
Is It OK to Listen to a Butt-Dial Message?
To me, this seem like a fine initiative, all things considered.

There's a bit of a false dichotomy in some comments, where Mozilla Rally is preventing or hampering Mozilla from improving Firefox. They can and should do both at the same time, especially if both are positive things.

It doesn't mean all their initiatives are equally good, and that we shouldn't still criticize the bad ones. But this seems benign at worst, and could possibly do some good. it's completely opt in, transparent, and with very strong user control over the data.

Instead of chastising them for all their other shortcomings yet again, I prefer to be happy that this might benefit ethical research.
No, I'm not. Clinically, severe disease is (and was known to be at the time of the study) a pre-requisite for death. We don't see people with mild covid dropping dead. The study saw only 2 severe cases among the vaccinated and 106 in the unvaccinated. Coupled with the rarity of negative reactions to the vaccine, the researchers were justified in saying that the study proved that the vaccine would prevent death. Experience has proven them correct, as death rates among the unvaccinated are much higher than the vaccinated.
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>Error establishing a database connection

Whew I wasn't ready for that hot take.
Indeed, the numbers in that table are small. I think a more pertinent objection to the OP is cherry picking a table with small numbers in the first place, instead of, say, Table S27 on the very next page that has Severe Covid-19 Starting 14 Days After Second Injection 118 (placebo) vs. 3 (vaccine).
Interesting idea. I like the idea of a short link for notes. Although I can see myself using it but then forgetting about the app and never using it again.

For stickiness, I’d consider turning it into something like Pocket so I can store lots of URLs there. I’m a big pocket user and can see it being beneficial to get a 4 digit short code that links to the content. I’d use those both on and offline.
I expect they'll gladly sign a support contract with Daniel.

As a commercial SaaS vendor we received these same emails from all of the major banks / insurance companies. It's interesting to see that we got some on the Monday after the issue was discovered and some a few weeks later, with some showing a clear understanding of the risk in the context of our product and some looking like a standard copy/paste. Gives you a rare behind-the-scenes view of the information security practices of these companies.
> Just to be clear, you're alleging a massive fraud by these people

I'm more familiar with the people behind Tether, where I'm fairly confident they are crooks. I know nothing specifically about USDC except that the issuance patterns look similar.

> You can get huge yields on stablecoins right now (like 40%+), so a lot of people are taking money they would normally put in the stock market and are farming yields with stablecoins instead. I'm sure you'll identify this as a big red flag for scam, but it's actually not.

If there is an investment sector that promises such a massively higher yield than the rest of the economy, there are really only two possible explanations: (1) a massively higher risk of loss or (2) a scam. I've yet to see an explanation for why there is an enterprise that (a) can generate a 40% return and (b) would take crypto loans at 40% instead of taking fiat loans at much lower rates and buying their own crypto.

I've also yet to see an explanation for where those massive DeFi returns are supposed to come from. There doesn't seem to be any underlying economic activity, just finance all the way down. That would make the only revenue source the influx of new investment money, which has not, historically, proven to be a sound business to be in.
agreed, and more importantly it's possible to implement these scenarios with cron if they're needed. i'll take a simple building block over bloat. where does the bloat stop? i can come up with tens more scenarios that timers doesn't cover.
> That's a quote by Dr. Peter Doshi, not the article.

Huh? It's a quote presented by the article as support for their assertion that vaccinated people die at similar rates as unvaccinated people. An assertion that's flat-out false, and that their own source refutes if you look at the original data from it, rather than relying on the misleadingly-cropped and blurred version presented in the article.
If (fuzzy) search is your primary use case, sure. But classification is also important for other use cases, like security ACLs, usage analytics, etc.
You aren't entirely wrong. In any hype cycle a lot of money gets thrown at buzzwords, some money "smarter" than others, and a lot of people do things with that money just because money "has to" be spent.

On the cynical flipside though, you can't entirely keep "buzzwords" off your resume simply because recruiters will always squint and "find them" because there's money involved if they do. You are almost always going to get recruiters for whatever the day's buzzword is.

I have a Masters degree and Python experience, and to most AI/ML recruiters that looks like "possible AI/ML researcher". They aren't entirely wrong, I did study AI/ML in grad school. They aren't very right either, because I learned enough to be "dangerous" and came out of grad school a massive AI/ML cynic. (That the field is mostly just Sparkling Statistics and people in general are bad at statistics and easily wowed by Sparkling Statistics. That this isn't the first hype cycle in the field, and it isn't likely to be the last either; we've not really improved on the research of the AI boom in the 1960s/1970s nor the other big AI boom of the late 1980s. They had chat bots then, they had most of the algorithms figured out, including their weaknesses. This boom we've just massively increased Garbage In, Garbage Out to those algorithms and given ourselves enough blinders to pretend that everything is still under control. We haven't solved their weaknesses. We haven't actually made major conceptual leaps. We just have a lot more data and a lot more speed. Which is something the 1960s researchers both predicted and warned us about.)

So yeah, your cynicism here is very valid, at least in my opinion. There's not a lot you can do about it, especially if your aim is to outright avoid recruiters chasing you for whatever VC money is getting thrown at them. I don't have a lot of other advice here other than the only thing you can really do with such cynicism is to apply it as best as you can to improving the things that you have the power to improve.

Ironically, the main project I work on today involves a lot of AI/ML and I'm known as a bit of a wet blanket on the team trying to temper expectations and trying to keep us from doing the worst mistakes ("confidence" values do not mean what people think they mean and showing them in any UI anywhere, especially under the name "confidence" is a massive mistake; machines don't have the "ego" for "confidence", it's a poorly applied statistical term of art that people use to badly anthropomorphize the statistical models). I don't win every battle and I do my best to make it clear I come from a point of pragmatism. It's a hard balance to keep.
This is fantastic. Also not sure how my browser is not crashing. Well done!
Sybase IQ allows you to use the column alias anywhere else in the query.
Honestly, this single GPU-based install is child's play compared to Google's multiple TPU exoflop supercomputers with hyper-cube optical interconnects. Google's ML setups allow synchronous weight update on thousand+ TPUs...
Indeed. The learning / training we do today for ANN's clearly isn't what humans do. So yeah, even if we had billion "neuron" ANN's that were more biologically plausible, we'd probably still have to figure out more about how human learning works, in order to come up with the right way to train the AI.
This thread is comic gold. Thank you
What did the “bang” sound like? Was it the sharp crack of thunder close by, the slower rumbling of distant thunder, the sound of fireworks exploding, or would some other description fit better?
Mine picked it up too - in Portugal.

Teeny little dip and crest, and I wasn’t sure until the meteorological station in a city 30km tweeted that they’d seen it too, and the times coincided (well, I was about a minute later) very neatly.
It's an interesting phenomenon that I've been watching over the past few years. I have my own opinions about what's going on, but I would say that I think generally, the "what positions do people in a political clique take" has changed tremendously over the past few years.

In the old days, the NY Times would have simply published an oped by William Buckley that would sum up the position of pro-freedom argument of the mainstream republican elite. and then the world would move on. Except that buckley wouldn't have done that, he would have been for mandates. Context: during the HIV/AIDS crises, Buckley proposed tattooing a big red A on the ass of every gay person with AIDS: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/07/16/s...
Since your finite-precision initial conditions are probably not on any stable orbits, I'm not sure how much that interferes with the truth of Ted's explanation.
Yup, I like a lot of things about the way this looks. In particular, I like how friendly this looks to be for things like auto complete (pretty annoying to need to practically type the entire sql query only to go back and fix up the columns in order to get autocomplete to work).

Specific things I'd like to see.

How do you handle column ambiguity. In the examples, they show a join of positions to employee on employee_id == id. But what happens when you have 2 columns with the same name that you are joining on? (like employee_id to employee_id in some mapping table).

Subqueries are pretty important in what I do, so what do those look like (perhaps covered by the "thinking about CTEs section").

How about opportunities for optimization hints? In T-SQL you can hint at which index the optimizer should prefer to a specific query.

Common SQL patterns would also be interesting. Like, how would you do keyset pagination?

Edit: Also, I'd like a discussion about null. SQL null handling rules are terrible. I understand them, I work with them, but at the same time, they are so different from other languages concept of "null" that they are easy to trip over.
Please don't mess with the back button
Ask HN: What's your startup's documentation stack?
Just curious what everyone uses for documentation and if it's fragmented.

Currently, the startup I work for has documentation in Google Drive, Confluence, Zendesk, and Slack. It's a mess.
The term "evil" came from some of the oldest written languages and was originally used in a religious/supernatural context, and almost always is used in a religious/supernatural context today. If you intend on using it without a supernatural context, you could say "bad".

"But, large non-bad companies do not exist." I hope this helps you realize how unbased in reality this statement is. Maybe you could give me some basis as to how you justify this opinion?
lol even better. I've just had it on so long I forgot. The BAT coins just automatically go out to the sites I spend time on.
Do you need to write things like "Russia thinks the West ..."?

By doing so it sounds as if you group the people living in Russia, together with Putin.

But this maybe-invasion would be the deed of a dictator and his men. Not Russia-the-people. The people suffer under Putin.
Loot boxes with special designs just for you, modeled, picked, designed and coloured after your taste.
>Compatible — PRQL transpiles to SQL, so it can be used with any database that uses SQL. Where possible PRQL can unify syntax across databases. PRQL should allow for a gradual onramp — it should be practical to mix SQL into a PRQL query where PRQL doesn't yet have an implementation.

Awesome.

I hate SQL so much, I know for personal projects this is gold. I imagine actually using it at work might draw some questions though
I mean your not wrong, the article is illustrating the mushroom cloud and ash cloud after 24 hours. So the explosive eruption its self is much smaller.
Snowflake lets you refer to column aliases, and it's great!

There's the slight issue of shadowing of table column names, which they resolve by preferring columns to aliases if both are named the same. So sometimes my aliases end up prefixed with underscores, but that's not a big deal.
This is the kind of things that a well crafted DSL can solve, if the language you use supports macros.

PRQL looks very similar to Ecto, the Elixir Query DSL

https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Query.html
Here's VAERS:

https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html

It comes with a giant disclaimer that you have to acknowledge.

I ran a search, Group Results by Symptoms, Vaccine Characteristics COVID Vaccine, with the default ("All") for all other options. I find 732,883 total events, with 3,145,843 symptoms (starting with "Abdomen crushing").

The 13 most common symptoms (I stopped at itchy skin) account for 944,617 of them and are basically the warnings that come on the tin: headache, fever, chills, fatigue, pain, etc. Death is listed as a symptom only 8,119 times.

COVID vaccines have become so politicized that I suspect everyone is creating a VAERS report about everything that happens after getting vaccinated.

According to the CDC, 251,000,000 people have received at least one dose (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-...). The vaccines have been available for approximately a year; in a normal year, about 3,400,000 people die in the US, or about 1,000 per 100,000 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm). Therefore, for a first-order, back of the envelope estimate, about 2,500,000 people have died after getting at least one vaccination. Maybe I'm wrong about the VAERS data---I would expect a lot more deaths in the VAERS data.
Not sure there will be a fireball if there is no fuel left nor atmosphere, maybe more like a dust cloud?
If the people I talked to in college for a science were any indicator, I'd still believe plenty of scientists are clueless about statistics.
I promise you archive.org deletes things. Child porn, copyright infringements, government secrets, etc. certainly aren't "immutably" stored.
You kinda have to. Assuming that you're using an ORM, you still need to understand how it translate to SQL, and help it do the translation correctly.

Personally I've seen developer use the Django ORM, and create application with terrible performance. Tweaking the queries, you can help guide the ORM to generate better SQL, which in turn will affect your performance greatly.

We're currently facing a problem with a custom who have an application with terrible performance/scaling issues. The entire thing is very database heavy, but interaction is done solely via Hibernate. I have nothing against Hibernate, it's a fine ORM, but you need to understand it well enough that you can guide it towards better queries (Which sometimes involve actually writing SQL). At some point you need to decide if your time isn't better spend learning SQL directly, as that via always provide you with better access to the functionality provided by the database.
Yes. At my university this course was called "Systems theory". Electrical networks, mechanical systems, hydraulic networks were shown to have laws that have the same shape. They also only gave the course after letting you struggle with electricity, mechanics, fuild mechanics, ... for a few years. I guess to make you appreciate it more (which I did!)
On my personal linux workstation I experienced multiple times that I couldn't ssh into it after the desktop froze, it was due to too small swap file.
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but the government already has this ability, whether you pay electronically or not. When you write a check, the money is in fact transferred electronically, just with a paper authorization as middleman. Do you know you can write any date whatsoever on the check and it doesn't matter? Also the amount can be completely illegible. Doesn't matter. Writing a check isn't any kind of "defense" against the thing you don't like. I don't believe the tax authorities accept cash, but I may be wrong. That would be your only way to limit their reach.

If "direct debit" incurs the fee, then yes, I too would write a check. Not sure from the description if that is functionally equivalent to e-check or ACH, or if it means the same as "debit card".

Avoiding the fee is useful, but avoiding the reach is impractical and not achieved with a check.
Can you elaborate? Since Facebook has built a large supercomputer, we should all expect to see more ads? I don't understand why the quantity of ads would increase...
To put it mildly, it's very hard to have a respectful professional relationship with someone who "should know better."

Then leave. That's your only recourse.

Even if you think all the people around you are fuddy-duddies and "should know better" - that's no need to resort to tones of exasperation and condescension. You probably figured out pretty early on what the environment was like -- and for whatever reason, you made an adult decision to stay in that environment. When someone around you doesn't understand something -- just explain it to them with respect. And yes, patience. You're there to help, after all.

Or maybe you're not. In which case you should just leave.
I get the general attitude/perspective and I'm largely in agreement.

I'll nit-pick on his point of buying experiences vs things.

Though I agree that instagrammable experiences don't have much meaningful value, I do value a lot experiences where I paid not an insignificant amount of money.

I'm assuming the author meant some balance but called something out based on his impression of an audience (maybe some projection on his part). But "paid experiences" can meaningfully lead to personal growth, perspective of other countries/peoples, deepening friendships.

That being said - you should have good long term finances to even make all that viable.