skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a scene in one of the Ironman movies. Tony Stark is at a party and his personal assistant is pointing out people for him. She is recognizing faces and telling him who is who before he talks to them. She is telling him their jobs and backgrounds. Just swap out the flesh-and-blood assistant for a service delivered to your phone. Why is the automated system so much more creepy?

(Such scenes are in probably 75% of all movies. It is an old device for introducing characters.)
2h sports and a 1h walk every day but that's it. I get motivated from failures because they're the default I expect from having taking actions. Also helps to lower your expectations from life and stay away from comparing your track record with those of others. You know, those 18y olds who flipped their newsletter for 20 millions.
If it is free how do they pay their staff, server bills, stuff like that?
Great point. I should've added a third restriction: the 'bot' should not be able to communicate with, or use the judgement of, humans once it's started.
There's something inherently satisfying anytime you take simple constructs and fashion them together to model complex systems cleanly.

From chaos, order emerges, and a well-designed language is the medium through which you draw out that order (of course, libraries, frameworks, DSLs also a part of that story, but the language is the "base", and thus the most impactful in doing so). Languages also have the most potential for a small simplification to produce massive results, as it cascades through the other semantics and into the libraries and ecosystem. Of course, language changes also have the most potential to fuck everything up, but that's why one should always strive to avoid putting it into production, or really ever just using it period, if you want to enjoy the making of the thing.
Coz, like, the world is full of good intentioned people, but there are some evil ones, but it’s ok, they def only work for the state?
Just to add to this, the reason these inference accelerators have become big recently (see also the "neural core" in Pixel phones) is because they help doing inference tasks in real time (lower model latency) with better power usage than a GPU.

As a concrete example, on a camera you might want to run a facial detector so the camera can automatically adjust its focus when it sees a human face. Or you might want a person detector that can detect the outline of the person in the shot, so that you can blur/change their background in something like a Zoom call. All of these applications are going to work better if you can run your model at, say, 60 HZ instead of 20 HZ. Optimizing hardware to do inference tasks like this as fast as possible with the least possible power usage it pretty different from optimizing for all the things a GPU needs to do, so you might end up with hardware that has both and uses them for different tasks.
For sure #1 is a big problem. But are OKRs causing this, or are the big companies that are using OKRs just fundamentally slow and inflexible? (In other words, are OKRs a symptom rather than a cause?) Thinking about how to coordinate 100k engineers, the trade-offs are pretty brutal. Startup-style “move fast, break stuff” simply doesn’t scale well.

I’d like to see some case studies here. Anyone got examples they like? I hear patio11 talking about Stripe a lot, and he says stuff like “could we deliver something faster?” which I think gets at an urgency for results, interested how they coordinate the layers and orgs.

I think it’s plausible that OKRs forestall agility and innovation as-used. But (at risk of invoking the “no true Scotsman” argument), maybe these companies are just doing OKRs wrong? OKRs are supposed to be abstract enough that you can change your plan if something better comes along. So if your KR is tightly coupled to a particular implementation then you can’t pivot in the face of new information. A quarter is a long planning horizon for small/medium sized companies! But if your KR is loosely-coupled, then it leaves room for new approaches. This balance is hard! The maximally-loose O/KR for many companies is just “succeed/increase share price by X% QoQ”. This doesn’t give you any direction.

I think at their best OKRs provide bi-directional information flow; both giving a way to make output from the lower levels more legible to the upper levels, while also making the objectives, desires, priorities of the upper levels more legible to the lower levels. I think any replacement has to achieve both of these things too.
I agree with you. Heroku PG was the driver for RDS PG from what I saw. People were using it without having any idea why, just because it was what Heroku had available.

At the same time, a lot of people kept trying to just use it as a dumb data store like MySQL without realizing exactly how much you could do with it. 90% of the time you don't need a dedicated search engine syncing and all the headaches that come with it, for example.
I can't wait to use random mystery USB-C cables that provide unknown features and charging speeds to my devices.
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He didn't, he just pretends he did. Same as how he LARPs as an engineer for SpaceX.
This is really cool. :) Hope this feedback helps:

- I almost gave up because I couldn't figure out how to connect nodes which meant I couldn't do anything interesting. I tried single clicking the input/output spots, dragging from them and SHIFT/CMD dragging from them but nothing changed.

- I persisted to find the "tutorial" menu option to see if it would tell me how to connect nodes but it only told me things I could figure out myself like the project menu.

- I started the "Node tutorial" and realised dragging from the output spots suddenly worked. The problem for me before seemed to be the size of the drag target is very small so I wasn't dragging close enough for it to work.

Some suggestions that would have helped me:

- Make the drag targets much bigger, and add a hover effect to make it clearer you can interact with them.

- Start with an example with more nodes and parameters so there's something to play with immediately. Perhaps add an unconnected node with some kind of hint of where you can connect it to help the user get started. I don't think I'd need a more complex tutorial than that beyond being able to explore more complex pre-made examples.
Right to Repair: Pricing, Welfare, and Environmental Implications
We agree on that. It subtracts and it adds other stuff too. Mac and cheese add pthalates in the cheese from the rubber used in the machinery. It could be as simple as the sugar, but have you controlled for any other variables as well?
the entire world was on lead, some places worse than the us, and it's been a commonly recurring thing in the past couple thousand years of human history due to its use

it seems to disagree with the microplastics that the kids are taking now
In a way that results in higher (or even similar?) exposure to lead compared to when everybody had cars running on it? For your average person? I'm gonna need hard numbers for that.

Okay, for the people who can't read between the lines and just resort to downvoting instead of actually being useful in a conversation.

1) The article is about childhood lead exposure on adult personalities.

2) He makes a comment about aviation and its current use of leaded gasoline ("contributes to higher than healthy lead in our environment") with the warning "this isn't a solved issue of the past".

3) This implies that the aviation industry and its use of leaded gas is in any way comparable to what we had before when everybody had daily contact with leaded gas.

4) Nobody has yet provided any evidence of the fact that aviation results in any appreciable exposure to lead for your average citizen.

5) This matters because the original article is not about environmental impact. It's about childhood exposure.

How is this so hard? I seriously question the ability of your average HNer to make logical deductions.
I believe this was called "FindFace" it became a mobile app and I remember reading this article about it at the time: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/14/russian-photog...
NREL Creates Highest Efficiency 1-Sun Solar Cell
> but they're already way ahead on energy efficiency

1) Nope. For neural network training not the case: https://tlkh.dev/benchmarking-the-apple-m1-max

And that's with the 3090 set at a very high 400W power limit, can get far more efficient when clocked lower.

(which is normal, because no dedicated matrix math accelerators on the GPU notably)

2) We'll see, hopefully Apple thinks that the market is worth bothering with... (which would be great)

3) Indeed, if you need a giant pool of VRAM above everything else at a relatively low price tag, Apple is indeed a quite enticing option. If you can stand Metal for your use case of course.
Thank you Anh-Tho for your response.

What is the mechanism for French government to subpoena a non-EU business to find this invoice? If the customer (instead of vendor) produced an invoice that matched their bank statements and non-conforming receipt, hypothetically, would anyone really know the difference?
So second hand at black market rates. Sounds like sanctions are working after all.
Just because 10000 companies are making some random webapps in python doesn't make the 10 local Python apps any less bothersome. This is literally what killed java for end-users.
https://www.fgemm.com, coming soon.
This is a fantastically clear outline of this topic. Thank you!

> The terms “factorization” and “decomposition” are synonymous and it is a matter of convention which is used. Our list comprises three factorization and three decompositions.

I can't tell if this is a joke: right after saying that these two words mean the same thing in this context, they are then used to categorize the methods.

Edit: This is the kind of content that proves the "dead internet theory" is wrong.
Google Russia forced to declare bankruptcy
Just a user of Neeva here but a happy one. Also very excited to hear about the work toward an independent stack! Enjoy the spaces and immersive search UIs for various types of searches. Neeva make search fun again. ;)
Inertial navigation systems [0] use integration to calculation position, so errors add up quickly. The first in car navigation system [1] used inertial navigation. I think it used places where it knew the vehicle would (should?) stop as waypoints where the velocity could be set to zero. For example, if we think we're near a stop sign, and our calculated velocity is zero-ish, make it zero.

Not quite. Etak had wheel sensors. The sensor package was two wheel sensors, a vertical reference using fluid in a cup sensed electrostatically, a 2-axis magnetometer, and a 2-axis rate gyro which used a spinning disc that deformed slightly when turning. I still have one, somewhere.

All those sensors were very noisy and inaccurate. What made Etak work was map matching of turns. It tried to match its estimate of the recent path to the map data. It could get lost, but usually could find itself again after a few turns. The main problem was in grid cities. If estimated position became off by one block, turns would not help to disambiguate the problem, and so it would remain lost.
That is massively different though, that is a subset of people that most likely were on an invite list before hand. Would be similar to social media recommending the friends you are already friends with in photos you upload. More of a convenience than anything else.

What you mention is any random person identifying any other random person (ignoring the creepiness of taking a picture of someone without their consent). And using that to track down identifying information about them.
This, but it's a good thing. Or rather, less bad than investing in planet destroying technology just for max marginal profit.
I don't think it is quibbling. It is a really important distinction. Salary is (mostly) guaranteed. Equity isn't guaranteed at all.
If they get the self driving cars working, they become a tech company.

Of course, then they won't be able to shift expenses to drivers.
“The Interpreter” Screws Up Market Research
>if you're skimming and not paying close attention

Also, if I'm drunk and reading nonsense I might not realize it.
That assumes people consider alternatives to Google viable.

Right now maximizing the number of searches people preform even if it degrades overall search quality is probably the goal.
Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty, etc) has some advice on this:

> Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit” and then take off your “bad writer” hat and replace it with a “petty critic” hat and go to town on that poor hack’s draft and that’s your second draft.

https://www.vulture.com/2016/11/read-dan-harmons-excellent-a...
I have a script which runs after login and after resume from sleep. It runs guvcview (Linux tool for managing webcams) and loads a saved profile that has my preferred zoom and focus settings.
Render will have these certifications late summer (we're currently being audited for both).
Don't spend time, effort and money on things that do not bring business value. Any time I see a company with engineers building something they could buy off the shelf [and the thing they're building is not the product] I know their priorities are whack. I've worked for several companies that had more money than brains. They'd spend years, and millions of dollars in salaries, to build shit they could have bought and implemented in two months. And not only that, but multiple iterations of failing to build said thing, by multiple teams.

Just because a tractor is used for farming doesn't mean a farmer should build her own tractor.
>why would people starting their programming careers 15+ years later than most people need to pick different tools? It makes no sense at all.

*One low barries to entry* Companies like Vanguard are desperate for Cobol engineers. They'll train just about anyone. I know quite a few financial analysts of all ages that made the leap to maintain their legacy systems and are doing quite well for themselves. There is little competition for this sort of job

*It might work out well for everyone* Not everyone is looking to do the latest, most marketable work. Imagine someone that is 57 and plans to retire in 5-10 years. This works out great for both them and the employer. The employer gets coverage on their legacy systems, springs free folks earlier in their career to build that sexy, next gen replacement, the employee gets a nice, cushy ride into the sunset. If its planned well the replacement system arrives right around retirement time. Migrate and move to Florida

*Some folks are not looking to ride the dragon* Some folks love the idea of a system that is completely understood and battle tested. Some of these legacy systems benefit from 30-40 years of hardening. Adding enhancements and such have clear, uniform processes honed over decades with very little in the way of surprises. For many folks the idea of come in at 9 and leave at 5 with little volatility is very appealing.

To each their own.
> "So maybe 'rems for body text, px for headings' is the way to go."

what's probably a little more useful is that headings scale up slower than body text, using different clamp() functions, e.g., https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/fluid-type-scale-...
> three web browsers installed

Well, if you are using browsers on EPD, one of the first points in the wishlist (or, "requirements unless desperate") is to have a high-contrast option.
They're trivial... when you make the same change to add something, remove it, add it, remove it and hear that it's all being done "because X" and "X" never stops, it's clearly not working and the changes are trivial.
>Here are a few good reasons to be on Twitter:

>>To stay informed about what's going on (in the world, in your country, in your industry, in your community, in the niche you're in).

>>To meet and connect with like-minded people, find new Twitter friends with common interests, and expand your social circle.

>>To promote your business or sell your products and services. Twitter is a great way to do it without being pushy.

>>To share your thoughts, feelings, and experiences with the world. Create serendipity around yourself!

>>To help people who are currently at the stages of their lives that you've already gone through. Share your lessons!

>See? This instantly makes Twitter more purposeful.

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compare and contrast with another outlook on twitter i found recently:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/16/23075683/jeff-bezos-twitt...

>I cannot believe I am about to explain Twitter, but for those of you who are not on the social media platform fondly referred to as “the hellsite” by its most committed users: the dumbest users and the smartest users post the exact same way. Sentence fragments, inconsistent punctuation, half-baked ideas, and a strong propensity for trolling are all among the power users’ most consistent traits.

>Trolling is crucial, actually. See, one of Twitter’s major engagement mechanisms is the quote-tweet dunk, where you post someone else’s tweet to make fun of it. This means that Twitter heavily incentivizes bad behavior. Sure, a good own will drive engagement, but so will an obviously stupid take that provides other users with an opening to dunk, thus spreading your original tweet further. There is no incentive to be reasonable. I’m going to say it again, because this is a fundamental law of Twitter: there is no incentive to be reasonable.
Luckily they hide the content behind a paywall.

Much like how i dream of web3, everything should be behind a paywall, god i admire them!
"There's a bathroom on the right"

"Wrapped up like a douche"

"When the rain washes you'll clean your nose"

The entertainment never ends!
Never heard about such things. There are public servants which inspect the state of the road.
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Moving your data out of US jurisdiction doesn't shield it from US warrantless surveillance, but rather maximizes its exposure. The USG ostensibly requires due process (a warrant, whatever) to obtain information from US servers. It does not require any due process to obtain data from foreign servers. Coercively obtaining data from foreign servers is literally the chartered job of the NSA (of all signals intelligence agencies around the world, really).

This is a super common misapprehension people have about data locality and surveillance, and it's no surprise that marketing plays off it ("keep your mail in Switzerland, so it's subject to Switzerland's strict privacy laws!").

There are other reasons to house things in Switzerland (or the Lesser Antilles or wherever). I'm not saying you should use GMail (unless security is a concern of yours, in which case you should use GMail).
Imo, a better way to present this is to draw a diagram where various decompositions are connected by arrows that explain how one decomposition can be turned into another.
The Wayland architecture was decided on because it offers performance and security in a way that mirrors how the graphics stack actually works. So says everyone with deep subject matter knowledge about the graphics stack.

The Wayland debate is like the global-warming debate: on one side are the experts, and on the other side are grognards and reactionaries.
> After 3-4 years in a staff role you can easily be making $1-2M/yr.

Refreshes exist but this is a total lie. I'm staff at Google. Nobody at L6 is making $1M in annual compensation, even if they have their sign-on equity and three refreshes. Let alone $2M.
> Nobody invests in tesla or index funds because of "ESG" scores

ESG is a box-checking party. But it's a multi-trillion dollar one [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/esg-assets-rising-to...
You keep bringing this up and it's simply not true. The EU has a single set of VAT invoice requirements that applies across the EU (the MOSS invoicing standard). Any VAT invoice that satisfies these rules is legal in all EU countries (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32..., article 226).

My company does plenty of business with EU businesses and we use a single standard EU VAT invoice without issue.
The neural engine is only exposed through a CoreML inference API.

You can't even poke the ANE hardware directly from a regular process. The interface for accessing the neural engine is not hardened (you can easily crash the machine from it).

So the matter is essentially moot in practice as you'd need your users to run with SIP off...
No, not even close. To portray otherwise is right up there with the people screeching about radiation exposure on the order of spending a day working outside.

The lead exposure as a result of stuff your daily life (which is mostly a reflection of the history of where you live and work) contributes far more than avgas in the atmosphere. Unless you live downwind of a busy GA airport and have managed to get all other
> City of Asylum provides safe haven to writers who have been persecuted for their literary work, so that they may live and write freely without censorship, risk of imprisonment, or threats against their lives.

> […] asylum fellows are hosted for at least two years; receives a $45,000 annual stipend, free housing, dedicated office space, legal support, and more.

I think this is a very cool idea, and pondered if there are more technology-adjacent forms of creativity that would benefit from a similar approach, but it is a bit difficult to imagine activist software developers that would benefit from this sort of patronage that would actually be safe from the Powers that Be in the United States or many of the countries in the US sphere of influence. Aaron Swartz comes to mind.

Where would the developers of something like Popcorn Time (or a generic torrent indexing and search engine, or projects analyzing various leaked or aggregated data in the public interest, or projects like SciHub or LibGen) find safe haven? Though I suppose the developers of more content-neutral projects like SecureDrop or Tor Browser may not have too much to worry about as long as the locus of annoying behavior isn't an app or service being run by the developers themselves.

Worth pondering further.
That is fascinating. Do you have an example of this which you can point to?
Another Neeva user here... yeah, the personal document indexing was far cooler than I expected. I held off doing it for it a while but glad I gave it go. Just the GitHub indexing alone is cool. Can do some fun hacks with that too. I think they need to surface these personal results even better in the web results than they do (and I hear that is in the works?? hope it is).
I did read the fine article, and this just jumped out at me as something that could be improved.
> The hybrid countries : Singapore , Monaco, UAE, Macao, Bahrain look incredibly appealing right now. Even though they are autocracies they are ruled by benevolent dictators

The problem with benevolent dictatorships is that the apex of the pyramid is incredibly attractive to intelligent psychopaths and other predators, and it typically only takes one of those making it to the top to strip away the benevolence. And intelligent psychopaths are also pretty good at rung-climbing.

In the US, that same segment is usually attracted to the private sector rather than public service, where there is at least no single apex (small comfort though that may be) so it forms an oligarchy, and the executive branch is tangled in various checks and balances (inadequate as those sometimes seem).
Luckily he wasn't interested in explosives. Ha
I thought that somehow an Android version of RTS game Supreme Commander allowed you to load APKs as mods. Woups!
It was a catastrophe. When you turn off the TV (or social media), people begin to think.