skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most "deep" networks are organized into layers and information flows in a particular direction although it doesn't have to be that way. Hinton wasn't saying we shouldn't have layers but that we should train the layers together rather than as black boxes that work in isolation.

Also, when people talk about solving problems they talk about layers, layers play a big role in the conceptual models people have for how they do tasks even if they don't really do them that way.

For instance in that ambiguous sentence somebody might say it hinges on whether or not you think "bite" is a verb or a noun.

(Every concept in linguistics is suspect, if only because linguistics has proven to have little value for developing systems that understand language. For instance I'd say a "word" doesn't exist because there are subword objects that depend like a word "non-" and phrases that behave like a word (e.g. "dog bite" fills the same slot as "bite"))

Another ambiguous example is this notorious picture

https://www.livescience.com/63645-optical-illusion-young-old...

which most people experience as "flapping" between two states. Since you only see one at a time there is some kind of inhibition between the two states. Who knows how people really see things, but if I'm going to talk about features I'm going to say that one part is the nose of one of the ladies or the chin of the other lady.

Deep networks as we know it have nothing like that.
What a great point. I've been struggling with the epistemological implications of the copula for the last few months. The existence of the copula and its use seems to imply a shared objective reality, when it's perhaps more explainatory to label the copula as a reality constructing mechanism.

Either way it's use as a universal quantifier eschews nuance. Patterns like "A is B" necessarily lead to differences in reality that are easily resolved when phrased like "I percieve that A is B". Copula-induced fights are ubiquitous.
I agree, except that this is the logic of a prisoner.

"I cannot vote or express myself in my country, so this what I do to cope"
Inkscape is great, but it's almost unusably slow on macOS, especially Intel based Macs.
> Do you think a 15 year old Dell is going to match the performance of any new machine?

Well, yes? We aren't that much faster since 2010 if you had true top end then and true low end now.

But since talking Macs and Chromebooks, let pull up those:

- Geekbench MacBook Pro 2010 15": 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 (i7-620M): 457 single, 972 multi

- https://www.ebay.com/itm/304426589491?hash=item46e13d1d33:g:...

And a currently shipping Chromebook, when sorting price low to high:

- HP 4BS38UA HP Chromebook 14 IPS HD (1366x768) Intel Celeron N3350: 288 single, 523 multi

- https://www.amazon.com/HP-Chromebook-1366x768-Bluetooth-14-c...

In this case, the 2010 Mac smokes the Chromebook. To be fair, that model became available in 2018.

So, something current?

Acer Chromebooks w/ Intel Celeron N4020 have pretty bad benchmarks (~320-460 single, ~320-500 multi) but the CPU itself rates better:

- Celeron N4020 benchmark: 427 single, 750 multi

That's in currently shipping gear, like this HP introduced fall 2021:

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Chromebook-Micro-Edge-Portable-14a...

Given these scores are comparing 2010 laptops with 2021 laptops, and the 2010 laptop wins (and can be bought at around the same price!), certainly if comparing a 15 year old workstation with cheapest available machine today, yes, the 15 year old Dell will exceed the performance of at least some new machines.

Note:

- Xeon in Mac Pro in 2010 rated 611 single, 6280 multi

By comparison, in 2008 Mac Pro workstation:

- Intel Xeon E5462 2800 MHz (8 cores) rated 420 single and 2540 multi

Dell workstations at that time supported 5400 series Xeons.
Optical Tempest Sound Recovery via a Device’s Power Indicator LED (2021)
Last time I looked, you can't sign up and use Google and Google Voice without verifying that you're a real person via SMS.
I Prefer My Hogwarts Invitation by Mail (2021)
Hey Seth!

It's true! In the 2000s (when Seth and I first started at EFF), the general feeling in the community was that the triennial review process was far too weak for permanent, effective change -- for the reasons given above, and more. There was serious consideration given to boycotting the process entirely. But as digital technology spread, and more of the world fell under 1201 (from garage openers to tractors), it became clear that we had to do everything -- from pushing for exceptions, to advocating for changes in the law, to litigation and challenging 1201's restrictions on speech under the first amendment.

I hope I'm not sounding gloomy here -- there are still plenty of routes to reform 1201, but for now, direct repeal or revision of the language in the DMCA is going to be quickly overtaken by lobbyists trying to use it for even more pervasive digital copyright law, and to rewrite the intermediary liability/takedown language in the DMCA.
> The reality is that people buy the car they can afford rather than the super car they really want.
> ... pending 50K extra on a car you don't need with some ridiculously oversized battery for a journey you only do a few times per decade is completely irrational

You seem to assume people are thinking about cars _rationnaly_. I don't know about other countries, but at least in France, this is _not_ the case.

About 30 to 50% of the TV ad space is devoted to cars. The surge of SUVs in the last decade is caused by people buying _entirely irrational_ cars (way too big, way too heavy, with - sorry HN - way too much electronics.)

This is also the perfectly predictable result of marketing incentives (car dealers sell what they're told to sell.) EU has some regulations that _might_ make it unaffordable for car companies to keep the same incentives in the long run - but I don't expect them to play nice.

People will keep buying what their friends, car dealers, auto magazine, music videos, movies, and, mostly, TV ads tell them to buy.

We've been post-homo-economicus in this market for decades.

Now, the "second-hand" market is much more rational - but EVs are not there yet.
There is no such thing like an interpreted/compiled language - even with some kind of eval functionality. It's implementations that work as interpreters or compilers. Also, a compiler doesn't necessarily emit machine code. It could also emit byte code that is later on intepreted or compiled to something else.
It might also be that they have more sophisticated thinking, that still leads to the same conclusions? I see no inherent reason why more sophisticated thinking would always be more peaceful.
https://www.cameronsworld.net
my users will be if I want to let them use it. I guess it’s not for me then and that’s fine.
CI/CD and more broadly building abstraction layers and automation.
Article has spoilers for expanse, Star Trek discovery, for all mankind
I've bought laptops from XMG for the last 10 years (last one was an older version of https://www.xmg.gg/en/xmg-neo-15/). They last forever, have user replaceable parts, and while they are game oriented (I don't game), they even have mechanical keyboards (!). Plus having a strong GPU has advantages.
Adding cs and cstheory stackexchanges to the list.
That's could be part of it, but for AR, drawing or (hand) writing, reading long-form text, applications that involve putting your device where a piece of paper or a paper notebook might go (lecterns, music stands), anything that requires or is made better by orientation sensors and accelerometers, basically anything involving a camera that's not video conferencing, plus probably some other stuff I'm forgetting about, the format and hardware capabilities of an iPad make it significantly better than a laptop.

Laptops are better at some other things, but if you do very much of the above you're probably gonna have a tablet, too. If you don't do much of what laptops can do that iPads can't (mostly for software-limitations reasons), then replacing the laptop with your tablet might be a viable approach. You can't really do the reverse without a bunch of extra hardware (admittedly, you do need a keyboard and some kind of pointing device for the iPad-as-laptop-replacement thing, too) or just carrying two devices.
Can Elon and three of his "friends" own each 14.9999% of Twitter without triggering the poison pill, so getting to 59.999%?
There is nothing we have that they haven't got, or could get overwhelmingly more easily than getting it from here.
The fact that the load average also counts threads stuck on I/O happens to be Linux specific. On the BSDs it only measures CPU utilization.

So it may be the case that you showed people the door, simply because their experience was based on non-Linux operating systems.
The lowest performing member of your team could be negative. Or they could be twice as good as the lowest performing person on some other team, or they could be above the industry average, meaning a 10x programmer becomes a 5x or 20x when the team changes.

I’ve always internalized as a “typical, competent programmer” rather than team-specific anything (Peopleware’s definition notwithstanding).
what does it matter what its called though. why should i have to reveal my health conditions to my boss.
I think they were referring to their own startup ideas. (I was also momentarily confused because "downgrade" tends to be used in the context of investments.)
Ask HN: When to Buy a New Computer?
How often do you buy new hardware?
When should a computer be considered obsolete?
While this is a fair criticism of our federal tax system, it still wouldn't be simple for me to file my taxes even if the IRS filled out all of my federal forms. Many places in the US have state and local income taxes, so for some people, the IRS is only one of two or three agencies that they fill out tax forms for. There are hundreds of different governments that impose income taxes in the US.
I agree-most of my observations here do not apply broadly beyond the satellite imagery. One of my favorite resources for learning how "data as a service" businesses work (when they work) is the "World of DaaS" podcast that Auren Hoffman hosts: https://www.safegraph.com/podcasts
that's great! I'll drop you an email
How is it good public policy for contracts executed at gunpoint (for example, considering the duress case) to be considered good? Such contracts are not, to my knowledge, consider valid anywhere in the world and for obvious reason and need to be undone.

It doesn't matter whether the contract is unambiguously written if you sign it with a gun in your mouth.

There's no way to do this in code. You need a judicial system to make determinations on them based on facts. There is no "adjustment to the design" other than incorporating some kind of arbitrary undoing capability into smart contracts that defers to a legal oracle that consumes decisions of courts and applies them into the chain.
And then there's "Project K" where the Soviets EMP'd their own population for science.
The government's forcing them to give away their software and services for free. Why would they not fight against that?

Have the government give a $100 tax credit to all tax-paying citizens to pay for tax software. You keep competition and private industry and companies get paid for producing their products.
I know one 10x engineer. He doesn't work 10x harder. He's just wired to be very productive.
As I've said before, I just find it hard to believe that the very foreseeable problems lurking at the intersection of speculation, cache and protected mode were really such an unexpected shock to the industry https://youtu.be/kFT54hO1X8M?t=1195 . I have a jaded suspicion that in fact a fair few people had some idea, but they said nothing and didn't look closely because it would have been no fun, and in some cases not career-enhancing, to be the Jeremiah calling for major CPU deoptimisations. OTOH the very security-researcher heroes whose reputation is built on collecting trophies didn't seem to say much either, so maybe everyone really was completely blindsided?
OK, you can disagree with the assignment of responsibility from OP (I'm happy to blame the politicians), either way that's the alternative we don't have but most similar countries do.
Thanks, Terry
How about ancient Greece? Also Europe as something that has a cultural identity is relatively new, difinitley postdates Rome.
You seem to ignore the possibility that those 35.6% deserved those suspensions.
Well it depends on how much each of the slices is part of the overall basket.

As you probably seen from one of the references, if rent costs increased 40% in most US cities and that represent a major part of a household costs, the fact food
who is normally a small part of household cost "only" increased 8% is of little consolation.

Of course the comment was made without understanding the individual household scenario of xxpor. But the overall argument that, what would normally be considered a very high salary increase, means for some households nowadays,
a real loss of purchasing power, I would argue, it still stands.
That's a cool photo. Is there a similar comparison of that photo from the JWST to one done in visible light?
> I understand the high level reasoning is “government corruption”

Then you don't understand. I know a lot of (non-tech) liberals. If you polled them, most would probably support getting rid of the anti-circumvention provision, if you explained to them what it was actually about. Many probably wouldn't, though--they like Disney+, Netflix, etc. But not a single one would spend the smallest amount of political capital to change the law.

Talking about this in terms of "corruption" is not helpful to understanding. The fact is that when you have a highly technical issue like this, most politicians will only understand it deeply enough to slot it into one of their high-level mental buckets. In this case, it's probably something like the "whiney consumer organizations versus job creators" bucket.

That's why it's not just a money issue. In the 2020 election cycle, the MPAA spent $224,018 on campaign contributions, and about $3.3 million on lobbying. The latter is mostly paying lawyers to put together PowerPoint presentations to political staff members telling them how to vote on particular issues. An author on Kick Starter recently raised over $20 million for some Sci Fi books: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/04/brandon-sanderson-kickstarte.... You could outraise the MPAA easily. But you'd never persuade a politician to vote differently on the issue than the bucket they were going to vote for anyway.
I had no problem with the volume when viewing this on my Mac in Safari.

I too consider the use of the word `rape' unfortunate.
So what does lithium have that other elements don't, to be so populair with the battery crowd?
The rise of mental health chatbots in the US
A moderator would have the power to censor as some sort of final option when other moderation techniques failed. Generally we don't have instances where the moderator needs to use it.

So a moderator moderates, and extreme cases of moderation may censor. But there is still a distinction between censorship and moderation even if there are situations where one involves the other.
I’m not against having the option to sign in, but for simple use-cases like mine so far, there was no need to sign in. forcing it adds unnecessary friction. Anyway I think Rally suits my needs better and I wish you all the best with kukkee
I'll never forget having a negatively productive programmer on my team. If he spent an hour on a PR it would take 1.5+ hours of work to get the PR into shape to merge by other people because it took so much explaining for this guy. It was usually better to just scrap his code and start over. If code of his did slip through reviews often times there would be production defects that would then take more time to solve (tracking down the issue, figuring out where the code was, overhead of service tickets etc) than the original implementation. Just totally wild, he had somehow survived years in the org being shipped from team to team and being a nice pleasant guy to be around. How does one calculate the productiveness of someone on a team compared to that?
Cities have zoning mostly to figure out how to provision infrastructure for an area. Not to get people to move there involuntarily.
There are already affordable alternatives. The people still using turbotax are the same people that spend 0 time looking into alternatives or there is some import feature that an opensource platform realistically would not have the manpower to replicate. Freetaxusa is $15 at a minimum (state fee) and $50ish at the max if you opt into everything. UI isn't loaded with fake loading screens, and they only try to upsell maybe 2 or 3 times during the whole process. My parents complain about turbotax every year and every year I tell them about alternatives... But they still won't switch because 'its what they know'.
Twitter is very top heavy in regards to who posts and who gets followers / draws interest to the platform. You want Katy Perry & Co. owning Twitter? It wouldn't be an improvement, it would end in disaster. There's no scenario where you can distribute based on content creation and have it not end up like that, it'd be top heavy (relatively small group of outsized owners) in every outcome. When it comes to content, creators are a hyper minority in society (especially those that do it in a prolific manner), mimics and consumers are the extreme majority.
Story time: An engineer colleague of mine at Boeing working on flight controls always talked about how great Learjets were, and how he liked working on them. I finally asked him, "if you like Learjet so much, why are you here working for Boeing?"

He replied: "I told Bill Lear he was an asshole."
I have a dark parking lot at a church that needs at least some lighting - it's a serious safety issue as that congregation is heavily weighted with seniors. Traditional lighting is often overkill/way harsher than it needs to be. Love to see alternative tech like this at least starting.
Are “digital nomad visas” a thing yet?
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
1 point per ticket so you can see the jira metrics and try to break down tickets enough that everyone feels they have enough information to get started and understand why the work is valuable.

That's enough.
> It certainly did an enormous needless destruction of non-human (and human) habitat. This era only lasted a couple of decades and ended with a comprehensive test ban in the 1990s.

PTBT happened in the early 60s, so almost all surface tests were conducted within the first twenty years of developing nukes. I don't think making "craters" in desert mines really qualifies as enormous destruction of habitats.
There is no "gold standard" example of a social media platform, and never has been. They're all pretty crappy due to misaligned incentives between users and customers (advertisers). But despite that, some of them still manage to be useful and entertaining.
They literally shot politicals in GULAG for stepping out of a line. Nothing in the US even compared.
Your example of the IRS being evil is their director publicly apologizing for overstepping the line? Wow, I wonder what you think of the other 3 letter agencies then..
According to KBB a 2010 Toyota Prius (just selected as an example) only has a price estimate differential of $3000 between 100k miles and 400k miles. Even if you bump that up to 5k for a newer car, it's still insubstantial compared to the overall depreciation on the car from its new value of ~$25k to a 8-year used value of 3-6k. That 20k extra depreciation is not recognized by individuals but is by corporate owners.
Unless you're Wikimedia that is.
>You are free to not recognize the existence of negative rights but then how can you argue over the distinction between positive and negative in a good faith?

My "faith" doesn't matter. The logic of the argument matters. And frankly, you don't seem to be putting forward very logical arguments.

>> If someone else wants to put up dense housing on their parcels, their property, there is no negative-right violation against you.

> That's another POV you are entitled to but the courts found otherwise in the Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.

That's not what the court found in that case. In that case, the court found that zoning was a valid extension of the authority of local governments. Local governments do not create negative-rights claims. Indeed, the zoning ordinance in question didn't even purport to do so.

Now, I've never been arguing that local governments lack the authority to pass zoning restrictions, even if I think some zoning is bad substantively. I've been arguing that you, as a private individual, do not have a negative right to make up your own personal zoning code and enforce it on others, without the democratic authority of the local government.

My argument here is entirely consistent with Euclid vs Amber, and frankly, your reference to the ruling is a non-sequitur.
Tangent - what kind of "control engineering" are you using Matlab for? I call myself a "controls engineer" sometimes because I PID tune the occasional servo motor or write some PLC-like code but for the most part we use traditional coding (C#, C++ or similar) techniques.

Are you talking about much larger systems or more complex stuff that requires real controls theory?
Agile is assuredly garbage but having every development company use the exact same process and terminology is too valuable to give up. It reduces training times, increases tool familiarity, and gets the process out of the way of developers.
I'm confused what the author is trying to argue?

1. People don't want satellite data they want their problem to be solved

So a company like Planet shouldn't (just) get satellite data they should solve problems.

2. Companies can't do 2 things at once well

So Planet actually has to choose between solving problems or just getting satellite data

3. Companies like Arturo have good focus and solve the problem of climate risk for insurance

So Arturo should stay focused on that, but where do they get the data from? Planet right? So Planet does have a set of customers for its data?

--

Edit: I re-read the article and maybe I'm just confused on the wording. Is he saying that raw data is valuable and worthwhile for satellite companies to sell but they should not do anything to the data before try to sell it?
Proper maintenance and periodic inspections lead to the eventual replacement of all parts before their failure sans the airframe, when it is typically cheaper to buy a new aircraft.

You could be seeing such an airplane for sale.
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> If they were doing this then there wouldn't be any ports described as "USB 3.1" (see point 4). The version of the standard is not just irrelevant but actively misleading to use in marketing material.

That gets to the edit I made at the end. The USB-IF Marketing group has never suggested marketing ports/cables as "USB 3.1". They've always preferred the "SuperSpeed {Bandwidth}" branding over "USB {SpecNumber}". There's a chart here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB4#USB_3.x_.E2.80.93_4.x_dat...

(Admittedly, they are mixing messages by using "USB4 SuperSpeed {Bandwidth}" as marketing names for "SuperSpeed 20" and "SuperSpeed 40".)

But the fact that just about no one uses the USB-IF Marketing Names and instead reverts to easily confused "USB {SpecNumber}" branding is an interesting marketing failure by USB. (Not necessarily a technical failure of their specs.)

> On the port itself, sure, but if I'm buying a laptop online then it's pretty important what type of port it has, so saying "USB C T2" is a lot more useful than just "USB T2". How would I even know what silhuette the port has?

That's a slight goal post move from your previous comment about what to mark Ports/Cables. Sure, if you need to mark online materials you need to include port types. But it's still redundant on a physical port or cable to mark the port type when you are staring right at the port type.