skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, had to respond on this one. I think we largely see it the same way, and did a little feeling around to center on the core concept.

Amazon did find a niche, the package movement, where everything aligns nicely in a fashion not too unlike the cars. IMHO, the big difference is more dynamic decisions are needed for the packages, where the cars require more complexity, but are very consistent otherwise. Software innovation got Amazon where they wanted to be, and it's a good, genuine innovation that did expand the automation space.

Similar levels of effort are necessary for all those basic labors. This is why I maintain we just won't be there for a considerable time, despite successes like Amazon out there. Scale, and dynamic locations, terrain and decisions are huge barriers to entry. So many cases... and mechanisms / processes that can address them, and or minimize them.

Costs on all that are off the charts, as is maintenance, simple acquisition of the machinery.

More people centric augmentation will happen sooner. Mostly, this will preserve people from wearing out and or increase their throughput more than anything else. It may be we extend capabilities in a more transparent way too. That's going on now, of course, but maybe some of that will scale, get cheap, someone finds another niche...

All good stuff really.

But, "the robots are coming" really does not apply for a solid majority of the basic labors out there we depend on. Of course, that doesn't mean we won't be automating. We will, and it's a good thing regardless of how we sort out the humans economically, which was your point, and one I agree with.

Cheers! Good discussion. Have a great week.
Sounds like a nightmare
> I’ve interviewed a couple hundred computer science graduates from top schools for jobs and the vast majority of them didn’t touch their first programming language until college

In the US?!
I blindly added Google Tag Manager to my sites. This article gave me a reason to remove it, thanks.
If you can afford it, the easiest way to start might be to buy a popular NAS. I would recommend Synology. The setup and interface are fairly intuitive, especially if you're technical. Then as part of your workflow, just make sure the completed videos are stored on the NAS as they are uploaded to YouTube.
Going analog is really more of an obscurity play than an anonymity one. In which case, you can go online and simply aim to be obscure, to never raise alarms, position oneself as a predatory target, or announce oneself as a threat. Explicit, true thoughts get pushed out to alt accounts, private diaries and the like. You may even allow some degree of linkage to take place, a "if you worked that hard to get here, you know exactly what you were doing" signal. I've done that for years.

I think this is the only way to feel truly at ease with the state of things, really. Keeping a whole self in public or in private is asking a bit much.
I don't think everyone will want to become a developer, and it's not a job just anyone wants to jump into. Compare this profession to say, the legal industry (the first example I could think of), where being a good lawyer/barrister is a high-paying profession. The law career may have a saturation point and regionally limited, but it still exists and pays well in certain situations.

I could see entry-level developer job salaries drop, but rise rapidly with experience. That would be my first indicator of a market correction.
Wait, Google wants to proxy the entire internet through Google servers? Just so ad tracking will work? This lets Google spy on the entire session in both directions, right?
Given the rare earth metals and countless other resources needed to run all the necessary technology, the two "real worlds" would not look the same. And that's not even factoring in the effect of having countless people checked out of real reality in the VR case, with correspondingly less desire to fix it.
Author seems to have a zero-sum world view, and think that everything that goes up must come down. I personally don't believe in either. Tech workers will continue to be in increasingly high demand, and automation, AI and "no-code" or "low-code" will only intensify that trend, not diminish it.
NAS + automated backups to BackBlaze (Amazon S3 compatible storage, but much cheaper).
Some of the actual drug lords did get arrested:

>Since 2009, the investigation has resulted in the arrest, extradition, and conviction of numerous individuals illegally using HSBC Mexico accounts in furtherance of BMPE activity.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/hsbc-holdings-plc-and-hsbc-ba...
i'm using firefox with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

it occasionally gets in the way, but does make things a bit more enjoyable (i can now happily click 'allow all tracking' on all the popups not blocked by ublock -- all that lasts until i close the tab).

ideally i should also use something to resist fingerprinting (i.e. randomising fingerprintable features).
why can't the metric eliminate outlier students? This is what they do in competitive sports that require judges like ice-skating or diving; you remove the top and bottom score, and average the rest.

A school should not be judged on the best students they have, nor the worst. They ought to be judged on the most prominent outcomes for students - the middle.

A school could get a higher score, even if they take in bad students or ESL students, or disabled students. The metric for measurement should remove those students' contributions (as they are likely the ones dragging down the metric), unless those students reach some middling score (in which case, they don't affect the over all metric much). Ditto with the super-genius students.
Increasingly, the only solution I see to this is Apple's Private Relay [1].

"When Private Relay is in use, the user’s device opens up a connection to the
first internet relay (also known as the “ingress proxy”).

As the user browses, their original IP address is visible to the first internet
relay and to the network they are connected to. However, the website names requested by the user are encrypted and cannot be seen by either party.

The second internet relay (also known as the “egress proxy”) has the role
of assigning the Relay IP address they’ll use for the session, decrypting the
website name the user has requested and completing the connection.

The second internet relay has no knowledge of the user’s original IP address and
receives only enough location information to assign them a Relay IP address
that maps to the region they are connecting from, conforming to the IP Address
Location preference they selected in Private Relay settings."

[1] https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...
I am a little sad that there's no conclusion after the introduction of the spectrum, which most people are already aware of.
You missed the same domain part. How are you going to block a request when you don't know the url?
Yes.. and how often do you think they should be doing it? And where should it sit in their list of priorities?
It's not all "black and white". But this suggests a very superficial reading of source material this is purportedly based on. It's saying "Hey that future looks kinda cool!!!" at a very superficial level without a deeper reading of how peoples' material conditions are affected.
For people that are entrenched in the industry, 10+ years of experience, specialized skill sets, etc. I really don’t think the genie will be put back in the bottle. The people that will be burned the worst are newcomers or people with narrow skillsets in areas that fall out of fashion.
A Server-Side GTM container compliments a client-side container, it does not fully replace it.

Some processing happens on the server, but event data must still be sent to the server-side container first. For now, the "standard" deployment of a server-side is that it receives hits directly from the browser, orchestrated by a traditional client-side container. So the client-side script is still there, just less bloated.

The server-side container has built-in facilities for serving up the client-side container script. Meaning that domain-name blocking will not prevent this. DNS-based also has some issues: Server-Side Containers run in App Engine, blocking them basically means blocking anything running on GCP.
Sorry, this is Poe's Law territory. I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic. A blockchain doesn't need some wasteful mechanism to be immutable. Boring old cryptographic signing does the same thing. But Bitcoin et al want their ludicrous "No one can be trusted! Except all the points of trust required to make the system works of course!" system.
More time to spend bikeshedding the ultimate grocery list productivity process and integrating a smart refrigerator!
From skimming the paper[1] they pulled that number from it seems... not the best metric. It looks like they are estimating the power consumption of the internet, then dividing that power usage by the amount of data transferred and claiming that is the cost per gigabyte.

But that's including a _lot_ energy cost that isn't related to _transferring_ the data, but storing/generating/running services to send that data etc

[1] https://www.emergeinteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02...
You can also block the clients for a brief period while you make routing changes, or wait for any other arbitrary event to complete. This is one way to achieve zero-downtime upgrades, even in situations where the service is running as a single binary on a single host.
So, sensor resolution is higher, there are multiple fields being integrated, in a massively-parallel spreading-activation Biological Neural Network, and that's how blank-slate creatures just know?

Is there enough information content - per the Shannon entropy definition or otherwise - in DNA and/or RNA to code for the survival-selected traits that

I'm not sure that the (Shannon entropy, MIC, Kolmogorov,) information content of the samples is the limit of any given network trained therefrom? Is there anything to be gained from upsampling and adding e.g. gaussian blur (noise)? Maybe it's feature engineering, maybe it's expert methods bias, maybe it's just sensor fusion; that's the magic noise.
And grafting a GNU userspace back on top does make the system lot more useful, but you're still undermined by the base operating being designed with user control as a non-goal. Heh, maybe "Freedom/Linux"?
Imagine if Google offered a retail solution advertised as “record who came in and out of your house”. They would offer a CCTV for free and run centralized face recognition on everybody visiting. They’d give you a bit of stats, but truly they would aggregate data on where people go and build shadow profiles (supposedly to facilitate ad targeting). And imagine 90% of households were using it.
Trivial to be top 5 percent of the general population at programming

Possible to be top 5 percent of the programmers

Very difficult to be in the top 5 percent of FANG programmers

Nearly impossible to be in the top 5 percent of Google Principal engineers
And also makes it harder for any alternative - you can’t use two different systems to proxy the same content at the same time, and you can’t expect one company to not “protect user privacy” by filtering competitors.

Honestly the only reason this is even an option for google is because a bunch of web admins said “I want to know who is browsing my site, and who cares if that lets google spy on every person who uses my site”, and now they’re just offering this “improvement” to spying.
Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator
What is a “mental motion”? Did the author mean “mental model”?
If abandoned netting is so common, wouldn't that mean they're not sensitive to replacement costs?
The big change they are suggesting is that the gtm code is no longer accessed via a predictable Google domain, rather it is requested through a subdomain of the parent site.
We humans ought to leave the oceans alone and stop fishing altogether.
Seems like it, even in the big papers/sites
Also known as a negative feedback loop?
To what is a VPN a solution? It prevents IP tracking, but that's it. The rest of what is described here still works.
I use brave which has a "Brave shield" that disables GTM from loading altogether by default. Would that solve this issue?
The bottom 75% of the IQ curve has been poisoned against the word “eugenics” to the point that they can’t even have a basic conversation about things as sane as “genetic screening for debilitating illness” without completely breaking down.

This is a really not good way to engage with this topic. I'm not happy seeing this kind of framing on HN of what is an extremely sensitive topic for many people and with good reason.
I don't really have a great knowledge of the Tor Network but is that not really similar to a Tor Relay?
You could have done this commercial very differently in a way that would have made it feel much less unsettling:

Garage band breaks up as members move away to start jobs/families. Band gets back together and plays in VR to large audiences.

The fact that no one at Meta recognized how deeply dystopian the commercial was, leads me to believe dystopian is part of the plan.
> It must be really off the wall for a studio to not invest in that.

Not necessarily, it's gotten much harder to produce projects that aren't commercially marketable IP like Marvel.

I listened to a Matt Damon interview recently and he basically wondered aloud if he could get a studio to make Good Will Hunting today, which made me sad to hear. Many of his early movies were low to mid-budget one-off dramas, which aren't really getting made anymore.

If you can't license your film's characters for games/toys/food/whatever, your project is a lot harder to pitch to execs in 2022.
I don't think big companies will ever allow it. They're floating on bliss from being able to push in federal laws that exclude programmers from overtime pay. Places like Google would pay trillions to keep that going and push down wages more and more.
>but I'm sure its not all over yet

given that the 7-day avg. death rate is right now higher than at any point safe for January last year that is an understatement
> A single marketplace providing an API for moving goods from point A to point B priced by weight, special requirements (refrigerated transport, etc), timeliness and the current state of the market (dynamic pricing) could work.

This is interesting but the debate between private/public services is political gridlock. Just like there's no single payer healthcare in the US because of insurance companies, this idea would be basically a nationalization of Amazon, Fedex, and UPS. I'm not sure how you'd pull that off.

I've thought about over-collateralized logistics smart contracts for something like this: post a request for transport with parcel details like size and speed desired then collect deposits from both shipper and carrier. I'm not sure people would want to deal with large deposit values to cover the potential for irresponsible carriers though.
>The CEO’s job is to make as much profit as possible

It doesn't have to be, especially if the company isn't public. Their job is to run the company successfully. Part of that is keeping their employees happy and retaining talent.

>If a new IDE shows up and they can deliver stuff 5% faster, that means you can have 5% less programmers!

That's never how it works though. As workers have become more efficient they have been required to output more and more.

Overall a lot of claims in this blog are unsubstantiated
>There's been multiple frontpage articles on HN alone

I was replying to your original comment, focusing on the real world around me.

You wrote "the physical world crumbling around us is something that we can all see with our present eyes"

And "Simple things like visiting a grocery store or driving down the streets of ones childhood home are extremely alienating things that generate nothing but loathing and regret"

I live on the edge of a small American city (roughly 1 million greater urban area) where it's only a few miles between downtown and the suburbs so I do errands anywhere in the vicinity.

Early in the pandemic, it was the suburban grocery stores that had significant numbers of people who seemed pushy, vaguely angry at the world, and maybe 1/4 of them not wearing masks.

I was more comfortable going to the inner city grocery store because everybody was wearing a mask and keeping their distance. Not that I was particularly paranoid about the virus, just because it felt less hostile and less crowded.

The scariest thing I've seen there was a pickup truck plastered Florida-style with graphics and lettering about somebody's paranoid fantasies, vendettas, and politics. It straight up looked like someone who might randomly murder you if they learned you worked for state government because they think the governor is some kind of evil dictator coming to take their guns.

I don't see my neighborhood crumbling. Haven't been to my "childhood home" but I don't think anything in particular has happened to the street it's on.
We should grow the good things and shrink the bad things.

That is very easy to say and hard to know how.

I do not think that our economic system depends on economic growth in reality. (It would be sick to depend on economic growth in PPP terms for economic justice) The entrenched power structure's path of least resistance for maintaining their position is economic growth. That is a different thing.
Can you still write a function that accept arrays of any size, then?
John Hudson on Twitter 45 minutes ago:

> The Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1495591855672729601
95% percentile is _way_ below professional-level. That's kinda the point: it's super attainable for anybody who works at it.
1) can be done trivially with first party cookies.

2) you can already tell what device someone is using. If you mean “I want to know if the same person is on different devices” get them to login, don’t try in effectively spy while also providing google etc with the ability to actually spy

3)you cannot know how to target ads on a per user basis unless you are spying on your users. You have no justification that supports a claim to such information.
And leave a webcam on the door of every single person I'm professionally engaged with, to record their visitors? Use it to understand where each of those persons spends all of their time, to the best of my capability? Learn who has what vices, and sell that information (or a service to employ it) to anyone who would take advantage?
It’s been 30 years since he saw commercial success with Bran Stoker’s Dracula, no one is lining up to invest given his more recent track record.

Still, he pulled off Apocalypse Now under similar terms and $120m is enough to do a great movie with great talent. IIRC his script is from the early 80’s at the end of his golden age. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
Most likely the federal government would step in and point out how stupid that law would be.
In addition companies outside if Colorado would stop doing business with people inside Colorado.
We have one at work. This came from a distrust of developers’ abilities to correctly configure Apache and NGINX and a desire for the ability to roll out company wide changes that affect reverse proxying or headers we always want to set or remove on each request cycle.
On a machine where opcodes were easily decodeable by just looking at their individual nybbles, calling the machine a “hex machine” would be relatively natural. Obviously the term is to be seen in context, and not (necessarily) the defining characteristic of the machine.
> How can adblockers react?

…

> Automatically detect these "1st party" calls to the "proxy" server via the URL parameters sent. Except that these URL parameters will change from one site to another, depending on the library used, the page viewed, etc

> Detect the javascript library responsible for calls to the "proxy" server to block its execution. Except that you should not simply detect the javascript library provided by Google, but potentially all the javascript tracking libraries, even home libraries.

Seems like this would be a great case for AI/ML. I say that in half jest.

> Block the IP addresses of these proxy servers.

This seems doable, even with the caveats included in it.

Even if these measures work on some sites and not others, they would be valuable.

Meanwhile, please get your non-tech circle to use ad blockers and/or browsers that support ad blockers on desktops, laptops and mobile. And instruct them that browsers that don’t support ad blockers are from a “be evil corporation”.
It's already being merged; PREEMPT_RT got merged last year. We're close to the endgame on that front.

There are some performance tradeoffs to using an RT kernel; you trade some throughput for determinism. That said, I've been running RT on my desktop most of the time for years and never had any issues.
I don't think this is a solution, since modern fingerprinting methods go far, far beyond IP address.
Does Jevons Paradox extend indefinitely?

What I mean is, e.g., when the cost of energy drops people's energy bills in general do not go down, the have warmer homes. That has been known for a while. But is it still true if everybody can keep their houses at 21 degrees permanently? At thatr point does a reduction in energy costs reduce their bills or do they find something else to spend the energy on?
I’m really curious about the fbi bit. Do you have any further reading?
Can you please point me to an under-performing school with that ratio? In my experience, the under-performing schools receive between 50% and 100% percent more funding than high performing schools and have very low teacher student ratios. Thanks.
Like y'all, I wanted to see how I could do. Of course, I didn't get all the way to tested code on a gameboy. But it does compress & decompress in Python.

I took the central idea of encoding deltas (or actually delta less 1, since the delta is always at least one; I'll just say delta below), but did it on the full five letter word. The largest delta was still less than 2*18 but bigger than 2*17. (I'm not sure why the blog mentions 20 bits as the biggest delta; I used the dataset from https://github.com/alex1770/wordle/commit/62520406365ca58a1a...)

I decided I wanted a variable length code in bits. Manually, I found the best break-points that I could:

breaks = [16, 128, 512, 2**12, 2**18]
bitprefixes = ['0', '10', '110', '1110', '1111']

So deltas 0..15 are encoded as '0' plus a 4-bit number, deltas 16..271(=16+256-1) as '10' plus a 7-bit number, etc.

Compressed like that, my dictionary runs to 14840 bytes.

1111000000000001010110 // aahed 4839 = 4839- 0
1110100001101100 // aalii 2813 = 7652- 4839
1110110100010010 // aargh 4003 = 11655- 7652
110011000010 // aarti 339 = 11994- 11655
1111000000001101110001 // abaca 5634 = 17628- 11994
00111 // abaci 8 = 17636- 17628
00001 // aback 2 = 17638- 17636
00111 // abacs 8 = 17646- 17638
100111110 // abaft 79 = 17725- 17646
...

However, a non byte aligned code isn't ideal, especially on the gameboy's CPU which doesn't have variable bit shifts as far as I recall. Still, over 3000 bytes beckoning to be re-used for some other purpose. Did they put in a soundtrack yet?

Compressor & decompressor: https://gist.github.com/jepler/d502965b57fd52df0838a6def2d32...
You shouldn’t be adding any google scripts to your site, u less you believe that you have the right to support spying on your users.

Google “analytics” is a spyware system that they bribed sites to include with the promise of “knowing your users”.
Honestly this is pretty akin to the "why do poor people have cellphones?" argument. We're way more likely to be able to give people Oculus Quest's then decent real estate or furnishings.
Don't forget both lawyers and doctors also pay huge liability insurance premiums to practice.

And the licensure bars and boards also ensure some level of customer safety by having an independent agency to turn to in malpractice cases.