skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not doubt that deep learning can discover correlations that go unnoticed by humans, and if our failure to detect the level of language skills we possess in chimpanzees (and the failure of chimpanzees to detect those skills in humans!) is due to the sort of difficulties you raise, then I agree that machine learning could find the evidence that we have not. What I do doubt, however, is that these difficulties actually exist to the level required for us to miss what is going on.

I believe that the theory of evolution is correct, and therefore that the evolution of language confers a differential fitness, yet chimpanzees are clearly not behaving in a way that exploits anything like the full capabilities of a human-like language, either in interactions between the members of their own species, or with their adversaries such as leopards or humans. At any time in the past, a small cabal of language-wielding chimpanzees, who grasped something more of the capabilities of their language skills than did their neighbors, could have dominated the remainder, increasing both their fitness and that of their species. In practice, we do not even observe them chatting.

It was David Brin, I believe, who made the same point with respect to dolphins: if they have these language skills, how come the knowledge of the dangers presented by purse seine nets, and the means to avoid them, has not spread within those dolphin communities where these nets are a significant cause of mortality?

There are many cases in evolution where a feature evolved for one purpose but then served another (which is how, it is supposed, birds got their flight feathers) - but even if that was the case for chimpanzee language, what was that primary purpose and why have the abilities not been adopted for their secondary purpose - especially as, once you have that level of language skills, change occurs at the rate of meme spread, rather than that of genes.

In other words, the combination of human-like language skills and the chimpanzee lifestyle seems very far from equilibrium. Language, by its very nature, does not deliver its evolutionary benefits cryptically.
> Thomas justifies the court’s decision by arguing that a federal review imposes “significant costs” on state criminal justice systems that includes potentially overriding “the State’s sovereign power to enforce ‘societal norms through criminal law.’”

As I read it, this means, in effect, that if your state wants you to be guilty, you're guilty, federally-granted Constitutional rights be damned. The appeal being on the grounds of ineffective counsel, it's unclear why Thomas is even invoking criminal law at all, except to have some straws to grasp at to push forward this flagrant abuse of citizens' rights.
Non-asset holders (read: bottom ~70%) do not have money and cannot stomach inflation.

Unfortunately, the data shows that most Americans are not SWE's pulling $180k from the comfort of their newly renovated living room for the last two years.
It's a good thing evolution is a myth /s
Anyone knows how much storage each DB plan comes with?

e.g. "Linode 2GB" - I assume that means it has 2 GB of RAM, but how much storage does that entail

Can't find it on their page
Retiring in the US as a member of Gen X in the tech industry is quite achievable, if you can move out of high cost of living areas. Large parts of the South and Midwest are quite affordable, and there are still many manufacturing organizations with needs for in-house software and IT support (though often this is contracted out, you will usually move along with each contract though). In software/IT you can make 2-4x the median household income in areas of NC, GA, OH, IN, and others, if not more. Areas where buying a 1 acre or larger property with a 2000 sq foot or larger home was doable in the $150k-250k range throughout the 2010s. Harder now with pandemic price increases, but we'll see how the next 2-3 years play out on home prices.
A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS
Could be a good and sneaky way to obfuscate encrypted message transmissions?
Every team at MSFT does their own hiring, so experiences there won't be uniform.
what is the definition of productive? In 1985 I had a one month $1200 phone bill (well, the bill was to my dad) from calling my girlfriend on the other side of the country. I wrote letters to her on paper and sent them via snail mail.

Today I video chat and play network games with my friend's 7yr old son 8000 kilometers away.

In that same time I had an Atari 1200XL and it took several minutes to run the assembler to cross compile the C64 game I was working on. Today I can do far more impressive things from any browser just using jsfiddle/codepen and things run instantly.

Today I can make music in Garageband, Ableton, and all the alternatives in minutes. In the mid 80s my dad had to use a 4 track reel-to-reel with overdub and he had to be able to actually play all the instruments.

Today I can grab blender/resolve/fusion and compete with almost any TV show on quality and broadcast my stuff for free on youtube. Vs in the 80s/90s when that would have taking a huge team of people and $$$$$$$$ in equipment plus access to either retail and VHS copies or access to broadcast gate keepers.

Unreal/Unity have vastly increased productivity in games. Just go to any gamejam and look at how far people used to their tools can get in 2 days vs what they could make in the same amount of time in the mid-80s. Or look at the explosion of games on places like itch.io.

Even typing documents. Typing in this textarea in HN is way easier than typing was on my Atari 800 in Atariwriter and the moment I press "add comment" it's published for all to see. Same with twitter/facebook/google docs/blogger/wordpress. Consider how much work and how many people it would have taking to do anything similar in the 80s. Write document, typeset document, get printer to print 1000s of copies, mail them to people, have mail people carry and deliver them....

Contacting people in general and being able to send them documents, photos, videos, is free and trival today. Would have taken 10s of people and days to weeks just 40 yrs ago.

Maybe "jobs" in general have not but lots of things have gotten incredibly easy, raising what is possible to produce (in otherwords, be productive)
MySQL Shell for VSCode Preview
High Performance Personalization with Next.js Middleware
This is what I really expect. Just like the oil companies that jacked prices up and then claimed record profits lol.

Ultimately I think this might be an around-the-block way to cut fat, get rid of remote workers, and a desperate attempt to try and take control of the job market again.

If the big companies claim the sky is falling and start laying people off and cutting costs everywhere, then everyone else is going to follow.

The evidence will be in earnings reports later on. If a company's executive management is crying wolf and then reporting record profits, well.........
> The two most common ways are research into the ownership of the news outlet, and by provenance tracking stories from known Russian-owned sites to other outlets. That's combined with old-fashioned journalism, where people attempt to verify suspected propaganda stories by finding corroborating evidence. (Sometimes the Russian sites run true stories, after all.)

Who is it that performs this service? And do all search engines consume the same classifications?

Considering how much obvious propaganda from Western sources I consume on a daily basis, I'm more than a little skeptical that they can be trusted to label what is and is not true from geopolitical rivals.
> vulnerability of global supply chains

We are much better off with them than without them. Someone might say, when their car breaks down, 'being dependent on this car is causing me serious problems; I'm better off with a horse'.
Economists like to say "the cure for high prices is high prices." High prices should reduce demand and also increase supply. I don't see how this necessarily leads to a recession (a contraction in the economy) which is usually caused by fewer people working. We have record low unemployment. A lot of people are just parroting political talking points at this point about the inevitability of a recession, there is no indication yet of one AFAIK.
You can't do Rust without generics at all, they're utterly fundamental. Take the for loop. Rust's for loop is literally sugar for the infinite loop over an Iterator (a generic type) which emits an Option generic, with a break for None.

Rust calls such types "langitems" and they're required for the core Rust language. An allocator (for heap memory) isn't mandatory, fancy file I/O and networking aren't mandatory... But the langitems, and thus generic types, are mandatory.
Word Processing is maybe not the best example. Human needs in terms of writing documents have not changed significantly in the last 20-30 years. The mechanics are not the bottleneck. neither is application startup time. I know that it is something you can measure but I don't agree that it is a significant data point. I generally only start a word processor once per day and then it stays running as I move between writing tasks and other tasks. Startup is an insignificant part of that time.

Other tasks have become more efficient in that time period. Anything involving graphics has gotten much easier to do on computers than before and can be done by more people. Project Management tools are much faster and easier to use.

What I do see in a corporate world is an emphasis efficiency that requires spending a lot more time tasks and running alternate scenarios to be more efficient. This seems more doable now because some of these things are easier but its too easy to ignore the time spent doing more of this kind of thing.
I admire Peter Norvig's didactic and programming skills; but the poor typesetting makes this book harder to read than need be.
What an exciting time to be a developer!

I am so excited about the future. We are seeing a bunch of announcements from multiple companies that make it possible for a single developer or small team to fairly cheaply run a global service without spending a whole lot of time on ops.

I am excited to see what people will come up with.
There aren’t any because you signed the TOS. Many people have tried class actions about these things, but they never get anywhere meaningful. Europe is trying with GDPR to tip the balance back to the users, but the countries are stuck with massive backlogs that prevent progress.
Life of me I cannot remember. It was french, I believe something "bastards" when translated.

Remember the plot fully. The dad was dying of an inoperable cancer, his son enlists a junkie to help him score heroin to ease his suffering. With the time they have left the family tries to cope with everything the dad was and wasn't.

Two incredible scenes stick out. The first time he does heroin the junkie tells him "pay attention. This will be the best experience you will ever have. You will spend the rest of your life chasing this." - I get gut checked everytime I start a new experience with a reminder to take it all in this first time.

The second is the ending of the move which I will not spoil without request.
US economic growth is leveling off after the recovery in 2021. The opposition party wants to use it to retake power and is calling it a disaster to undermine optimism in the economy. Business owners fear a drop in demand and scale back hiring.
One of my favorite quotes concerning government and it's on point:

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

- William Blum, former U.S. state department employee
It's interesting to see the self-reinforcing aspect of this recession/downturn. Many companies have yet to see a material impact to their revenue or market conditions, but are tightening their belts in anticipation. I'm not saying that's a bad thing or the case here. The more a potential recession is discussed, the more fearful companies become, the more conservative they become in their actions and ultimately the recession will be worse due to that. Perhaps the contagion of fear is better in the long term as companies are forced to act more prudently.
Tesla is not a tech company. Other auto manufacturers are not getting hammered this hard.
How JUCE Components Work
Have K3, besides accidental backlight change, no issues at all. Small comfortable, multidevice support (always connected to my pc via cable, simple switch to BT connection to work Macbook).
Also not tried my self, but it looks like there is possible to reprogram backlight patterns with their software:
https://www.keychron.com/pages/how-to-program-the-backlight-...
I think Casadi is solid. Primarily, I'd say Casadi is more specialized towards optimal control. To my knowledge it's much easier in SymForce to formulate complex objectives (ex: involving 3D poses, camera projections, Lie group operations), and has a more flexible code generation system that can generate structured APIs in multiple languages.
Everyday I feel myself trying to avoid the pull of being

Hip

Cool

And 45.
The example he gives may just be a config file. XML was very popular for holding configuration, replacing the ancient property name/value pair system.
Great projects that work come from tinkering, not strategic or business analysis. With business analysis you get stuff like Meta.
Don't mistake me for a tether fan. I don't pretend to know if it will work or if it moral or if it's all a scam. I don't own any.

I'm just laying out the maths...

And to be clear, they only need to make 2% total to cover their crypto loses. If the average tether coin exists for 18 months before being redeemed, 1.5% per annum will net them 2.2% over that period and they're golden.

That extra 0.2%, for a $10bn withdrawal is 2million USD in profit right? Not bad split equally between 5 employees, for a month with massive crypto loses and 10bn in net withdrawals...
>That must be it then, I wasn't aware. Thanks for correcting me.

You weren't wrong. Try to get RT to show up without specifying "RT"/"Russia today"/etc. I can search RT article titles with quotes but the original RT link will be on the second page if at all.

Now repeat this experiment with the NYTimes and compare the outcome.

DDG may not delist RT but you would not be a fool to suspect DDG throttles the visibility.
Hi everyone! Author here. Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback.

I was inspired to write this post when exploring all the many different ways to do implement personalization, and realizing just how powerful Next.js middleware is. So I thought I'd share some of those learnings and a step-by-step guide on how to actually implement it. Totally changed the game for me, makes it so easy to make custom content for different segments while maintaining high performance for my site.
I believe the title of that song is "Having An Average Weekend".

Edit: Indeed. https://youtu.be/XSCYXfpcuSs
Forbes.com — I found a few pixels on the site not used for ads and experienced five seconds without a popup. Please have your “engineers” look at the site’s user experience.
https://youtu.be/7Dxk67d0aLc

Daddy drank...
Bitcoins aren't specifically designed the way I described. It's reasonable to invoke normal contracts and courts with bitcoin.

This is a situation specific to NFTs and people that are going super hard on smart contracts.

And even if I was a true believer in NFTs, yeah I'd probably ask the courts to do that, but doing so would be a betrayal of my beliefs and evidence that the foundation of NFTs is very shaky. The idea that I would do something hypocritical in such a hypothetical situation doesn't change the argument I made in my previous post.
Ah yes, the more verbose version of "IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS ON YOUR DAMN PHONE!"
Temporal sounds _very_ interesting, hadn't heard of it before..

Edit: It sounds like temporal supports CockroachDB
It hasn’t been updated since November 2020, and the mailing lists on the homepage link to nonexistent GNOME mailing lists. It’s still useful, but I’m inclined to say it’s dead.
> The world counts on the US to maintain the peace and status quo

ok
Auctions already exist. Time-locking your own money is a very niche case but I'm sure you could find a way to do it with regular dollars. You can buy other tokens with dollars. You can set up trust funds, corporations, and non-profits in dollars. Escrow exists. Loans exist.

The difference is the decentralization of it, but why is that an advantage? We've had hundreds/thousands of years working out the kinks of, say, how to operate an escrow provider. Replacing that all with "smart" contracts just opens you up to hacks of poorly written code, of which Ethereum itself is a prime example.
First comment: Don't say "get rekt" anywhere near managers, recruiters or founders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck

I always liked this IIHS crash test: 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu

It really shows the progress. Seatbelts, the "rigid cage" to protect the driver, air bags, etc. etc.

The 1959 Bel Air crash-dummy is clearly dead, bouncing around the cabin during the crash.

The 2009 Malibu crash-dummy has a sprained neck and the face hurts from hitting the air-bag, but clearly survives.
Any decent DevOps / SRE / cloud ops type person has been striving to build something like this for a long time and has been frustrated at the kind of experience developers get out of the investment they put into all these crazy tools.

The problems I’ve seen is that like most software in general there is no one size fits all approach to scaffolding and management infrastructure in AWS or any other cloud, especially when we add in the realities of business pivoting being likely.

On the other hand, there are offerings such as AWS Landing Zones that sorta help if you’re running a big ol’ sprawling company but it’s totally overkill and costs more than anyone really wants to pay for if they’re just getting started.

IMO, the AWS journey is probably better off for most folks using Lightsail and scaling with several of those instances making sure they can be containerized and have a brain dead easy deployment workflow that can withstand instance failures before getting more complicated. A lot of people are pushing serverless at first but it’s cumbersome enough for application developers that it’s distracting from the most important thing early on - building your dang product, silly.

Otherwise I’d suggest going hard into containers and using a PaaS until it really, really hurts to where you can afford to pay the eye watering compensation of most decent SREs (expect $15k+ USD / month total spend if you have few advantages in terms of access to the market).

I am not a fan of over-planning infrastructure at all but have also seen what happens when developers take too long to hire someone specialized in infrastructure and has seen the common mistakes that can gut company growth hard as they’re trying to scale up and out.
I would hope that a number of those companies are well embedded and experienced to weather a tech crash/recession. I mean I know MS has had to have seen their share.
As a founder in a competing company and someone that works from different devices and coffee shops, I'm very pumped for this!

The thing that people underestimate how incredibly freeing it is to work from any device and not have to worry about the setup.

Also hoping that Microsoft educates the market and the typical vendor lock-in bullshit pushes everyone to us
Now they've got my attention. This is incredibly difficult to execute on. Kudos to the team there who figured it out. If fly is or can become profitable then they've got a chance at being around for a long time. I can see them as the new cloudflare.
DBIR 2022: Ransomware surge increases global data breach woes
Correct, blockchain itself doesn't mess with ownership.

But NFTs and certain smart contracts are meticulously designing a custom form of ownership for themselves. That's what changes things. And this would be true even if they didn't use blockchains!

If you throw out all that custom ownership logic, you lose the core of what makes an NFT an NFT. Now it's just a few dozen bytes that anyone can mimic.
I watch these things and I begin to realize I'll never be as intelligent as someone like this. It's good to know no matter how much you're grown there is always a bigger fish.
> It’s not a perfect analogy but it’s the same reason we have laws that require seatbelts. In theory this impinges on the liberty of adults, but in practice the it obviously saves lives.

At the risk of going off-topic, I think that seatbelts isn't a good analogy because I don't think we require seat belts to protect people from themselves. It is to protect other people. When you are unbelted, it is far more difficult to maintain control of your vehicle when things start to get even a little bit exciting. You can't worry much about car control when you're getting tossed out of your seat.

I would say helmet laws are a closer analogy, because AFAICT that is almost entirely about protecting people from themselves.
Right on. The entitlement of some of the comments here is amazing.

Dude makes some android apps, decide to release them on Android for free, even sharing the code. Then he DARES to charge end users for downloading pro versions of the apps from the official Google Play store... while still making Available the functionality in the source code and in f-droid.

And people are complaining??

IMHO This is the best scenario a developer could provide with his software.
The state of Java’s type erasure makes me quite sad when I need the type information via introspection.

I’d say the best situation would be keep the type information at compile time but let the VM decide if multiple implementations are needed or not at runtime.
First one, then the other...
Another poster compared 1890 to 1950 - jumping from one to the other would be obviously shocking, from 1960 - 2020 perhaps less-so, physically.

Still, I find it amazing that in 2022, I:

- Work from home via the internet with people I've never met
- Visit places I've never been in simulated 3D to build familiarity
- Receive exact routes to virtually anywhere from a computer in my pocket
- Video call with my family in real-time literally from one side of the planet to another.
- Have Copilot autocompleting repetitive lines of code for me with (ok, 60% - 70% of the time..) incredible prescience
- Get real-time translation of foreign text from a printed page

Those are just some of the the most common examples from my daily life. The productivity gains are real, at least for me personally.
mind the gray goo please.
that sounds like a dope idea..
So, for crime? Like, what is the legitimate use-case where not needing permission is the defining requirement?
Flooring has changed too. Carpets are better looking and more resilient. Click vinyl is stronger, has good texture, easier to install, and is super durable.
Grief, I picked it up in a bargain bin. Lovely book, goes so deep so clearly.
Back in the day, VCRs were commonly used as tape backup devices for data.

Now studios are using motion-picture film to store data, since it's known to be stable for a century or more.
I have to make a reference to ointment- it is obligatory.
Formally Verifying an Auction Contract
"...this seems like something to send more paying customers to its network of YC backed businesses."

Is a baseless conspiracy. Back it up with facts! If you can, we're all here to listen. Accusing someone of being a simp because they think your argument is baseless and weak is not a great way to strengthen your argument.
The reason banks are regulated is the risk of contagion and the risk of short term drops in markets making them illiquid or shallow so banks can't meet their commitments.

But tether has no risk of contagion to a bank does it?

And markets have never been more stable or deep or liquid.

So the case for regulation here is weak.

Again. I don't actually know if tether is a giant fraud, or how much actual business case there is here for stable coins. I'm just saying, it's sort of easy to make a case at least that they're fine.