skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Depending on the type of world we're in, it might also have freed people to pursue more fulfilling calls. On the flipside, it might have removed multiple jobs for people who may have had entirely satisfactory lives.

I feel like the fetishization of the "job" is detrimental to society and individuals. I've been in a situation where I could really quickly develop automation that would replace a team of 15 people hammering on spreadsheets all day. The project was canned because we didn't want to put 15 people out of work. The way I see it, there were some distinct outcomes for possible decisions:

1: The automation project is canned. Nothing changes.

2: I get the automation done, 15 people are out of jobs. They have to seek new employment, or otherwise find out what to do with their lives. They are displaced in an unpleasant way, and the lives of many of them may be heavily damaged for at least the short term. The company saves over a million dollars a year.

3: I get the automation done, the company re-tasks the workers to other parts of the company. They aren't out of jobs, but they have to adjust and re-train and learn new things. Some are happy, most are annoyed, but nobody is seriously hurt. Some people are unable to adjust and maybe eventually get let go.

4: The automation is done, and the company continues paying the employees who now are being paid to do nothing at all. They can relax, or work on hobbies, or whatever they like.

The interesting part for me is that 2 has the greatest advantage for the company, 3 is a good compromise, 4 is the best scenario for the employees without even harming the company more than the cost of my time (which isn't really all that expensive in the big term; less than a day's pay for all the employees together), and 1 is the worst case scenario for everybody, but they chose 1 because the "job" is sacred. 1 and 4 are nearly the same from the perspective of the company, so rather than improving anything, they choose to be inefficient, wasteful welfare.

People want welfare to exist, but they don't like the idea of "freeloaders", so they force people to do useless, Sisyphean work. It's extraordinarily wasteful.

Maybe life could be better for everybody if losing your job couldn't completely destroy your life. We could automate things and improve things faster without having to hold back progress because "people could lose their jobs", we could dismantle destructive industries that currently are kept afloat because "Hey, that's 80 thousand jobs!" People could leave jobs that they feel are ethically wrong, rather than being trapped into doing something they think is evil because they need to feed their families.
You joke but some of these parties really need the funding. I wouldn't mind a Goldman sachs sponsored 4k compo and whatever prods may result.
> "lets ignore the knowledge we've accumulated and start over afresh"

The idea of getting young physicists to do lots of research is not at all about ignoring the old knowledge. These young people will have gotten a PhD in physics. They will have absorbed a lot of the relevant old knowledge. The idea is that, because they came to this knowledge quite quickly, they have a fresh view on it.
You simply get a different view on knowledge you build over decades as opposed to knowledge you learnt in a few years. This different view could very well lead to new and valuable insights.

There is not a "cabbal of old researchers that have found a much better way to explore things but for political reasons is keeping it secret". But there is a "group of people who have been doing high energy physics that want to keep doing high energy physics". It makes sense that they want to keep doing it, even if other approaches would be more fruitful. They have invested lots of time into it, and they might not even know about the other approaches. And doing 'more of the old thing' is a safe bet.

It's just that by now 'more of the old thing' is getting really stupidly expensive. And it looks to be a lot more efficient to try a lot more new things. Give the people with a fresh look on it a change to come up with ideas.

> Why is it so impossible for you to believe that people have done honest attempts at finding new ways to do the fundamental physics they want to explore for decades and keep coming to the conclusion that they'll need big machines to do anything worthwhile on the timescale of a PhD position?

These people surely do exist. But there are plenty of others out there that have ideas for 10 million dollar machines rather than 100 billion dollar machines. Try some of the 10 million dollar machines rather than only the 100 billion dollar machines.

I think many of the 10 million dollar machines are currently not being funded because that level of funding requires clout, reputation, and political acumen to get. This currently lies with the people who like doing accelerators. They don't like building non-accelerators that cost 10 million dollars, so they don't help the 10 million dollar machines as much.

That is not malice, these people aren't evil. They just like a tool that is getting inefficient.
Oof, I really misread that one.
People who bought used are really going to feel the pain
> Micro-USB has been designed to make cables essentially disposable [..], because the more robust side of the connector is in the device's port, and the fragile side is in the cable.

In my experience, this wasn't true. I had both a tablet and a phone that had the charging port fail. If I didn't apply a constant sideways force on the cable, it wouldn't charge. Tried other cables to make sure it wasn't a bad cable, but still had the same problem.
Yeah it’s odd to read this.

Even $20 a month is not worth wasting time over. It is a margin of error compared to the salary of that user.

1Password for 10k users? What would that be, 80k/month? There are probably pretty big volume discounts too.

Payroll for 10k people is like $30m-70m.
But you can get an USB-C power supply and cable which can charge all of your USB-C devices.
If many drugs are cheaper... what's the complaint then? That it's not as much saving as they say? At the end of the day, the market will speak. If he's cheaper than the market and people start buying from him, then its a net positive for everyone.
Welcome to all of the problems that business continuity planners face.
I respectfully disagree. I think it's great to have on the landing page. "Better" is a pretty clearly subjective term so I immediately know it's somebody's opinion. The fact that you can directly compare them also makes it so you can decide for yourself within seconds.

The "8x cheaper than AWS" feels deceptive though. The pricing is not apples to apples so it's only 8x cheaper at the most favorable point in the graph (when spending $1,000 a month and using exactly the number of characters offered). For me that's outrageously more expensive than AWS. It's more like 8x more expensive than AWS rather than 8x cheaper, which is such a dramatic swing I wondered if I was misreading the pricing somehow. My usage on Polly last month was about $75 but the month before was $5 and this month will be closer to $20.

It's a real shame because after hearing the output I was ready to move everything over. I should have looked at pricing before getting excited, but I took the 8x claim at face value.

I use a lot of AWS Polly neural and have listened to a hundred or so hours of Polly output (building an MVP/prototype). The cost of AWS is high (for me as an independent dev) but I've tried several other services and none have been as good at making natural speech (the kind one could tolerate for an audiobook for example).

If this was cheaper or if I could buy a small time license and run it on my own hardware (which takes the heavy costs away from Unreal) I would totally do that. Alternatively, I'd be willing to pay close to AWS pricing for a pay as you go, with a one-at-a-time rate-limit in place (to avoid the scaling/provisioning challenges on the ops side). I know it's not likely to happen, but just wanted to throw it out there.
They look too similar to the Real bills in my opinion
Related (I think): I had a pest control salesman come to my door and explain, "We're different from your average company. Most companies just spray a little around your house to keep bugs from getting in, but we treat your entire yard."

I was floored.

When I explained, "We go out of our way to create insect habitat in our yard," his smile twitched and he realized he had no way of closing the sale.

But I'm simply amazed such practices are legal. "Hey! How about we spray a neurotoxin all over your yard? I'm sure that won't cause any unforeseen problems."
> used by right-wing extremists

You characterize anyone who uses the phrase "Trump Derangement Syndrome" / "TDS" as an extremist? I suppose most of my friends and family are extremists then, under your definition?

When you use language like this, it dilutes the meaning of the words.

Somewhere around half of the country generally vote for the "right". A significant portion of those folks have use the TDS phrase, to point out an observable phenomenon, of certain high profile people acting in abnormal ways when reacting to Trump.

You are labeling these people "extremists"?

How would you characterize militant racist militias that are (in relatively small numbers) scattered across the country?

Would you lump these people all together under the "extremist" banner?

Or maybe there's a less inflammatory approach?
wow, nostalgia hits hard. i started using this back in 2001. first as an isdn and later as dsl router. iirc with some pentium/ 4MB board.
Drug companies wouldn't be selling to other countries unless they made profits there. They just make absurd profits in the USA.
I wonder if anyone's built an API that handles this kind of thing yet - seems like the sort of thing a company similar to Infura would offer.
Again, a Linux/Unix admin is worth their weight in gold-press latinum.

Pop in a self-hosted GitLab install, configure SAML or AD auth for SSO. It's all GIT so importing all commits (and not losing history) isn't hard - just tedious.

For testing pipeline, use Selenium on a 32 core threadripper running linux, with 1/4 TB ram. You can get upwards of 400 headless chromes on that.

Throw in NodeRed for overall process automation (think: tying in disparate APIs with a low code environment).

I've done this, with exclusion of the selenium checks themselves (there was a qa team for that), in like 2 weeks.
Most semiconductor applications involve an understanding of QM. The transistor was invented in 1948. So not too long after.

Also, nuclear power...
Wow, it's still alive. I remember when, as a student, I ran the shared apartment's DSL Router with fli4l from a floppy disk in a Pentium 90 for a while. I think the Internet connection was 768kbit/s downlink and we considered it decently fast... 2003-ish.
> People who need more are likely to also want more in general, and the higher end options satisfy that.

I disagree. The topic comes up repeatedly whenever Apple Silicon is discussed. It’s my impression that for quite a lot of us the base M1 or M2 would be everything we wish for from a pure performance perspective. Yet the limited display output options are the only thing that force us towards the Pro and higher tiers.

It seems like a deliberate limitation and I don’t like this form of product segmentation.
The simple word is elitism: We'd all like to be part of some in-group that is automatically entitled to success with minimal effort. Broadly speaking, it's really just plain old immaturity that most programmers will outgrow if they aren't coddled.
People likely are saving a ton of money, but they were also probably not utilizing the most optimal solution out there previously (e.g. buying through their insurance vs. GoodRX).
How easy is it to attack this by cutting the specific part of the note that releases the key but making it look like it's whole? Couldn't I cut the note in half and tape it together again and fool someone who doesn't know much about it? Or couldn't I cut the specific bit with an Xacto knife, take the funds and still circulate the bill?
I just moved out of California because nothing I could make as a SWE would allow me to achieve my goal of owning a home there. When I left, home values for cheap junk real estate 30 miles from the nearest employer was pushing $350,000. Now they are half a million. Then in addition to that, the cost of living was nuts for stuff like food, gasoline, electricity, water, road tolls, bus fares, train tickets, sales tax, and state income tax.

The worst part of California is you pay the taxes of a European country without the European features. The middle class healthcare is abysmal. The roads are car centric and poorly maintained. What little pedestrian and cycle infrastructure mostly goes nowhere. There is very little public transit and what they have is infrequent and runs for limited times. The schools outside the most affluent areas are HORRIBLE. Child care is insanely expensive. The colleges are over subscribed and over priced. Traffic is terrifyingly bad.

There are some REALLY great parts about California though. The area is super diverse population wise so you can meet cool people. State parks are awesome. Beaches are great. Skiing and mountain biking are great. Tons of excellent national parks. Cheap but amazing wine. Extremely good food available all over the place from almost every country on earth. Great entertainment options. Concerts, music festivals, outdoor screenings, and musicals abound.

Edit: Just checked again and the area I was looking at originally is now around $600,000 to $700,000 for a 3BR 2BA. Yeesh!
2FA, especially hardware based 2FA protects you from scenarios that could involve leaking of your passwords (such as many common MITM attacks, phishing, spoofing) and makes cracking a DB incredibly hard for your average hacker if they somehow get their hands on it. And you would have to define a 'reasonable password' because I could guarantee what you consider reasonable is orders of magnitude easier to crack than a 2FA + password solution. It objectively reduces the amount of attack vectors to gain access to your accounts.

Calling it dogma when 2FA has known security advantages is just wrong.
At that point the select group will change. It eventually reaches a tipping point, but usually it starts with a small enough select group
We’ve done a lot to regulate banking and when we catch banks engaging in problematic behaviours there are hefty fines attached. We’ve seen huge numbers of crypto schemes without any real consequences to those involved or those knowingly profiting off a scam. If we should be regulating all illicit financial activity the largest gap exists in cryptocurrencies not traditional banking.
Conversely, it gets easier to write outside tools that interact with Python code by removing corner cases and simplifying the grammar.

> In the PEP itself, under "How To Teach This" it even says, "the average Python programmer is likely unaware that the current restriction even exists."

Yup, and that's terrible. It means people are likely to trip over it.
One of the only cars my local Toyota dealer has is a V6 CrewMax for.....$56k
> New Annex (Part I): It requires that mobiles phones and the similar radio devices, if they are capable to be recharged via wired charging, are equipped with the USB Type-C receptacle and, if they also require charging at voltages higher than 5 volts or currents higher than 3 amperes or powers higher than 15 watts , incorporate the USB Power Delivery charging communication protocol.

Nintendo will have to get its crap together and properly support Power Delivery, the burden is not on you.
We don't hold any Bitcoin key material; all of it lives on the note. One of the keys you contribute, the other one is encrypted by a key that we store (and release when the note is cut).

If the note expires then only the user key on the note can claim. However, this is an important risk to consider -- if you have notes on hand that have expired and you haven't re-keyed them, there will likely be a race at expiration to claim for anyone has encountered the note.

We recommend that if you don't plan on spending a note right away (as cash) that you re-key first to ensure that you're the only one who can claim at the point of expiration.
> we'll lose a lot of expertise, but that feels like a knee-jerk reaction from the community.

It's a valid concern that must always be considered. It's the kind of thing that's been biting Intel in the ass for the past 7 years. Even if your decision is "we'll lose a lot of expertise and that's okay", it needs to be a conscious, well-grounded decision, otherwise that is a knee-jerk reaction based on your own biases and assumptions that could have significant, even irrevocable, consequences for the future.
Is a DB that doesn't need indexes attractive to DBAs?
I have worked a few jobs that required some DB tuning in order to get queries to run faster. One of the first things to do is to create and maintain indexes on relational tables. You spend time analyzing queries to determine what columns need indexes and what kind of index each one needs. Once the queries get fast enough, someone comes up with a new query that is slow because it filters on a column without an index and your nose is right back at the grindstone.

I created a new DB architecture that is radically different than anything I have seen. It is a set of performant key-value stores that can be grouped together to form relational tables. The data within each store is optimized for search so you have just one copy of each data point (no separate indexes). It can handle large tables (100 million+ rows and 2000+ columns) and has a flexible schema so it can handle data like Json that includes arrays for each column. The system is in open beta at <www.Didgets.com> so anyone can download and try it.

Since I never liked the grunt work of creating and maintaining indexes (along with the performance hit they cause for inserts, updates, and deletes); I thought that other database experts would be really interested in a new system that does not require them. Queries on my system are faster than on other highly-tuned DBs. But so far I have gotten a collective yawn from many people I show it to.

Am I missing something? Do others really like creating and maintaining DB indexes, even though I did not?
I plugged my switch into my laptop and the switch started to charge my laptop. I thought it was funny.
I guess it would be a nice option, if I was trying to compress something that was already small, so the extra 2kb was significant.
My guess is that this is why the verification mobile app that scans the NFC code is going to be critically important.
Nikon and Canon, in that order. Neither has managed to produce EUV machines, but they were somewhat competitive at higher nodes.
They may be talking about political complications
The value of this is significant. Great work.

If authoritarian governments want to take away cash, this gives an
incentive and mechanism for privately minted cash that will change the
dynamic. I wonder though, how to mitigate against physical forgery. I
get the feeling that this could work out much more trustable than
even the best anti-counterfeit technologies presently used for cash
currency.
Will check it out now, thanks.
Not sure how image recognition rates (frames/sec?) translate into meters/sec.
Answer:

KeePass + FTP file + Local Backup + Google Drive backup. (Can be done automatically.)

KeePass file keeps backup codes for 2FA as well. Even if lose my laptop, house or any other digital media, I can still connect to my ftp or email.
Has anyone followed the install instructions successfully on an m1 mac?
This sounds almost like a parody of an uninformed rant against capitalism.

Stock buybacks are a simple standard way to distribute company profit to it's owners (alternative options are dividends, retaining the profits in the balance sheet, or reinvesting them). This is decided by Intel's management and overseen by the board who represent the interest of the stock owners (who are widely dispersed and include lots of pension funds of commoners, not just billionaire fatcats).

The EU by way of the European Commission appears to have decided that it's of strategic interest to subsidize Intel fabs as a way to induce them to build in Europe, as opposed to Asia (which according to Intel is 30%-40% cheaper). The European middle class is not "bailing out" anyone here.

If you want to rant, a better starting point IMO is to
1) contemplate whether the European Commission is acting in the interest of the German/European citizen (and if not, how to fix this democratic deficit)
2) check if Intel's claims are truthful, and if so, why Asia is so much cheaper and whether that is worth doing something about that

In any case, I don't see what Intel's stock buybacks has to do with European taxation and inflation in this case.
I’m not an expert on AI but I was under the impression that AI is just a fancy way to fit data with massive computative power. So if you wanted AI to do science for us it would basically just return the result we expected in a fancy and unexpected way, and even then we might be overfitting. If an AI would return new science we didn’t expect—I don’t see how but lets imagine—we would reject it as a miss.

Take the Event Horizon Telescope as an example here. It requires a massive amount of computational modeling to create those images from a huge dataset. Humans did their science to figure out how the supermassive black holes would look like and created their models (AI if you will) based on this knowledge. Even so they are not free from criticism that they might be overfitting onto a conformation bias and many scientists are waiting for an independent confirmatory observation before they believe the image. Now if you replace the humans in that equation with more models (AGI if you will) how do you even know what you are looking at is even sensical?

I’m not a fan of the LHC++ project either, but I think you might have too much faith in AI and AGI.
"for the crypto enthusiasts, the problem with the legacy financial markets wasn't that they were manipulated, it's that they weren't in on it." (reproduced here from memory)
If we ignore the value judgement and instead look at maintaining a sufficiently large codebase then, yes.

In the below paper an example given is migrating from one API to another. The paper describes a semantically-aware large-scale tool for refactoring a Google sized codebase using map-reduce.

Given the externally visible churn in Google products it isn't much of a stretch to imagine they have similar or worse internal churn. In fact I have heard from xooglers that it was common place to internally have competing systems in different states of development and adoption.

https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/41342.pdf
dereg, I actually saw the description. I’m still confused.

“Care provider” to me means a nurse or doctor. Whether in hospital or at home. But I’m struggling to to imagine that Apple sees that as a real use case for their controller? Is it often that an in home nurse for example would help an adult play video games?

The only other way the description makes some sense to me is if Apple are referring to parents but are shrouding their language in political correctness.

I can imagine a parent playing with a child with the buddy controller. Although I’d imagine the feature would be much more likely to be used by siblings.

I’m still genuinely confused who they built this feature for and why.

Your musings about my “consumption”, whatever that means, are completely off topic, low brow, and inappropriate.
Correct. It's not homomorphic encryption, but rather more like TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) except that MongoDB service isn't decrypting the data. This is essentially client-side encryption (at the driver) and without server-side decryption.
what if there are none that are really comparable? I don't think we can go back to those huge transistors