skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carriers have always been hard to defend in open total war. The fact that they are useful in relative peacetime has largely to do with nuclear deterrence, and the US's overwhelming naval and air superiority over most of its opponents.

If a serious opponent starts sinking US aircraft carriers, then the war is already escalating far beyond that level.
I wonder if the "Olympic Games" name is in reference to a USB-stick jumping the airgap by being handed off like the Olympic Torch Relay.
Well to be fair those training exercises are probably done in near ideal conditions of altitude, landing zone, forward airspeed, and you know it's coming have studied mentally ahead of time. It's one thing to pull it off during training and another when the engine fails at a random point during a flight in LA/SF/NYC.
Good points all, but the issues are real wrt interoperability. I switched from iPhone to pixel and it was a huge pain in the ass for my friends and family, 90% of whom are iPhone.
Like any permission request, if you ask when the user attempts something that requires it, they'll accept. If you ask when the page loads, they'll (rightly) deny it.

Stop asking for permissions before you need them
For sure. I cycled my ~16km return route to work almost every day (starting with a killer hill) ... tho must be said cycling in Sydney is not for the faint of heart.

That said, the particular generation of execs I was referring to largely exist in a culture devoid of bicycle commutes :)
You're talking about Musk becoming open about his backing for an authoritarian, cult-of-personality party? People have been plenty critical about Musk well before that, and about most of the same points.

Honestly, I think the causal arrow goes the other way. Musk has beclowned himself with the way he handled the Twitter deal, and Tesla's stock price has dropped accordingly. So a lot of the noise he has made since then can be seen as attempts to distract people with politics so they don't notice how his impressiveness is declining. This article makes a good case for that: https://twitter.com/BITech/status/1534939630809800706
Think more clearly by displaying each step in front of you. Try it out for yourself. Best way to see the whole picture!
Or the more likely explanation: a human did write it.
Same.

I also do this thing, where when I read about something that was some time ago with a specific year, I try to see it in the context of what I was doing back then, and what situation I was in. For example "ah, this was my last year of university, so I was living in that apartment, meeting so and so...".

Again all those things are "free floating" with no feeling of calendar in my mind, but factually knowing what I was doing during some time frame and using other specific "anchor dates" of important events in my life and the world, it's fun to read about something old and reconstructing it in the context of my life back then.

It does not work very well the other way around. There are a lot of memories similar to: "Oh, I remember that party... wonder when that was. I definitely was in university then, but that's not narrowing it down." (Especially because "pre-PhD" university studying lasted much longer in Germany back then than it is nowadays.) If I really wanted to know the exact year, it would be detective work.
When this article was first published I contacted the author and told him it was misleading; Scrum (or large portions of it, like time boxed iterations, daily stand ups, and sprint boards) is popular in a number of big tech firms (I’ve worked at 3 on teams that have used it).
There’s no need to take it as a criticism although I can see how in certain contexts you might. Here it’s meant just as a flat fact. I suppose the op was even aware of it, but if you don’t spell everything out on HN then commenters who miss the main point will jump in and object. I guess you can’t win either way though.
A philosopher's tools are paper and pencil. A mathematician's tools are paper, pencil, and wastebasket. There is no "philosophy" of linear algebra. A vector space is an abelian group with a scalar multiplication that satisfies distributive laws. Unlike most other mathematical objects, they can be classified by a single quantity: their dimension. Every vector space is isomorphic to the set of functions from S to F, F^S = {v:S -> F}, where S is a set and F is the underlying field. It's dimension is the cardinality of S. A linear transformation is a function preserving the linear structure. A matrix is a representation of a linear transformation using a particular basis. Matrix multiplication is composition of linear transformations.
As Whistler remarked when an aficionado said "There are two great painters in the world, you and Velazquez." His reply, "Why drag Velazquez into this?" Why drag philosophy into this? Just buckle down and learn the math, as everyone before you did as a matter of course.
Even if they did, it's futile. They can request mods to ban that account from being submitted, but otherwise there will always be someone who doesn't know about the request, and the threads are great tech content so they will surely be upvoted.
I had no idea, thank you! I've tried to make granular changes to some other apps that spam me with ads and assumed Uber was the same.
HK, Singapore: City states with (relatively) tiny populations. Acted as capitalist hubs/entry points to larger economies (PRC, Malayasia, SE Asia etc).

Japan, Korea, Taiwan: Massive financial aid from the west, favorable trade deals for being strategic allies of the west.

This isn’t to say that the people in these countries didn’t work to get where they are; they could have absolutely fucked it up. But it’s important to understand structural reasons for why some countries develop faster than the others.

Upto the late 18th century, South + East asia were absolutely the dominant economic powers of the world accounting for over 50% of the worlds GDP. Colonialism was a huge setback but both China and India (+ other South/East Asian nations like Bangladesh) are rapidly industrializing.
I get that. But you don’t get the weights. Which means they limit what you can and can’t generate.

A friend of mine was going to build a writing assistant on top of GPT-3. She got a lot of encouragement from them. Then one day the social media storm hit OpenAI, and suddenly safety became a non-negotiable feature of their api. And along with that came the restriction “absolutely no products that can generate unlimited amounts of text, even if you can pay for the credits.”

Poof, no more business.

Imagine buying a keyboard that restricted what you could type.

All of these problems go away when you have access to the weights.
To complement that: they are only viable because they are heavily subsidized by the suffering of city dwellers. If you placed the cost of air pollution on the bill, they'd be much more expensive.

Its not just unreasonable because the person flying gets less utility that is otherwise lost. It is also an unfair form of theft.
I care! I care about this kind of stuff. I would like DDG to be better...
Past performance is not an indicator of future performance?
This guy wants to act like he’s doing so much for the world. He literally made some guess and it paid of well yet, we’re trusting him like this century’s fucking Nostradamus?
It probably has as much effect on later adult quality of life as anything academic they could be doing, but yeah I suppose there are very different cultural views on this in different places. Where are you from btw?

I do think it’s a bit brutal and unnatural to make kids sit in classrooms all day in uncomfortable chairs under fluorescent lights with no time outside and no time for physical activity.

Afaik lots of schools in the US do facilitate physical exams by a doctor. I remember having one in middle school. It was the subject of much discussion among the boys in my class at the time since it involved a female doctor and a hernia check...
Clickbait headlines are an oppressive use of technology.
More than Apple (which prevented the feature from being available on iOS for 7+ years and still hasn't shipped it) you should probably thank the regulators who are investigating Apple's anti-competitive practices and the web developers who warned about them! This is the result of the pressure of the upcoming regulations around browser engines on iOS and the anticipated resulting competition for Safari.
Found it here: https://twitter.com/maxkreminski/status/1535850992620539904 (the documentcloud link gives me an error, not sure if it works, so linking the tweet)

Yeah, not sure if it's dishonest. By a lesser standard of sentience it certainly doesn't matter. My whole point really is that if he's going for the kind of argument I think he's going, this output doesn't matter all that much. If this line of reasoning is embraced, the same will be said about many AIs.
Ask HN: How to make use of Virtual Personal Assistance services?
Yesterday there was an interesting posting about 'Things you're allowed to do': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31705542

One point was that you can use personal assistant services.

A few weeks ago I actually signed up for virtual personal assistant (VPA) service because I had a specific problem: I needed to book an appointment through a company that had very long telephone queues, and they were only operating during my work hours were meetings would interfere with me sitting in the phone queue. I tasked an assistant to sit in the phone queue and book an appointment for me.

It worked out great! After just a day I got a message back from the VPA that they had booked me at a time when I had availability!

It felt like a huge load off my back to just have it done, after having tried several times and not managing to get through the queue before I needed to head for a work meeting.

After this, I'm excited about using the VPA to simplify my life even further.

However, I'm not sure what I can use it for. It seems really convenient for organizing travel, but I don't have any travel planned.

Do people of HN have experience simplifying their lives with virtual personal assistants?

What kind of things have you used virtual personal assistants for?

Have you tried integrating it in you jobs? I would love to use it for things such as booking meeting rooms at work, etc. But I think secrecy in our company (it's a biotech) would prevent this.
"You're just so backward, and it's just so IMPORTAAAANT that you do X."
Yes. YouTube educational videos are fun to watch because they surface “cult” or “not widely known” knowledge in a fun way.

But they are also availability machines usually not backed by domain knowledge or deep research. They’re designed to grab views. Wendover productions for instance has lots of great videos about transportation (especially aviation) which are mind blowing. The creator Sam is also just a college student in his 20s with no deep domain knowledge on any of the subjects he covers — his expertise is perhaps enthusiasm, knowing how to do research into trivia type knowledge, and making great videos about it.

Most Wendover videos are good, but there are some in which he is pretty wrong.
Won't happen, since the area is too desirable and building a high of farm there isn't economically viable unless you are just gonna do it make your point which would be an extremely rare event we shouldn't optimize for.
The UX is absolutely horrendous. Don’t even get me started about the 4096 character limit or the fact that URLs in code blocks breaks the code block.

How about not being able to sort the user list by whatever order you want or folding groups? What about it creating “Spaces” for chats with more than one contact and forcing you to “leave” if you want to hide it to keep your list clean?

Maybe we should talk about how they recently started capturing, poorly, formatted text when you paste, forcing a paste with match style to strip it and no way to remove that default.

Maybe we should talk about the horrendous fact that it’s a web app.

Maybe we could add in there’s no user configuration ability at all.

Fuck Google Chat. It’s a horrendous piece of shit and it needs to die, not third party support.
> Here "the alphabet" is assumed to mean the English alphabet.

OK:

1. Do we include the ampersand as last letter of the English alphabet? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&...

2. Do we include arachaic letters? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&...

3. Do we consider diacritic letters as own letters?

3a. Do we include diacritic letters that only appear in loanwords? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&...

3b. Do we include diacritic letters that were used in older English writings to indicate the syllables? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&...

3c. What about diacritics that appear in orthographies of regional dialects? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_terms_wit...

For 3, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_terms_wit...

4. What about ligatures that were in use in English until the 19th century, but are today much more rarely used? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&...
Rules for thee not for me.
Kind of off-topic but... I clicked the "Random sample text" button and was given this:

> OOPSIE WOOPSIE! Uwu. We made a fucky wucky! A wittle fucko boingo!

I was a bit taken aback because I'd never seen this meme before. So I looked it up and I found the origins of it pretty funny: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oopsie-woopsie

Also, hearing the voice of Spongebob saying that really brightened my day. Bravo, MIT.
I wish them the best of luck in this endeavour!
Are those numbers real? Or is this a late (early?) April Fools? I can't even tell anymore.
> I wish we could 3d print lenses.

We can today:

https://formlabs.com/blog/creating-camera-lenses-with-stereo...
Non pay-walled article at the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-en...

and the transcript of the interview:
https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...

I am deeply sceptical that we have anything approaching a sentient AI, but if that transcript is not just a complete fabrication, it's still really impressive.
Ultimately this is because steam engines are charismatic in a way diesel and electric trains are not (perhaps until you get to something as impressive as the Shinkansen or TGV). So the apparent technological "progress" is emotionally unsatisfying, and we wish to return to the older thing -- to "regress".
And there are projects that interest me where whatever they’re up to is all in a chat so the rest of the world never does know if/how things have been progressing.
Ok, but can we talk about the word “pellucidly” for a moment? Clearly (no pun intended) this isn’t in the common English vernacular. In fact, I’ve never once heard or read it before. May I ask where you found it?
It's unbelievable how frothy the chat market is when there hasn't been a substantive innovation since the 80s.
Good! I already get too many notifications that I don't want. If an app provides useful notifications, I'll grant permission :)
> That is quite the hyperbole.

It is really not. The topic is a legal change in california to change when school starts.

And to respond to this fairly minor topic by suggesting that cities be rebuilt is absurd.

I am going to say that there are more immediate solutions to kids getting enough sleep, due to school starting times, than "Well just redesign all our cities to be more like europe!"
I worked on a web app once where we used them to notify the user when a job they'd started was done. They've also been put to good use in email and calendar apps
Home assistant + zigbee/zwave stick has been amazing. Everything runs on its own VLAN so it’s super secure.
Very interesting. How does this thing work? TTS engine tuned with learning?
I'm definitely impressed by the sharp intellect of the original author!
We have environmental protection laws and safety regulations that will prevent you from supporting nuclear waste without massive precautions. Now, I'll concede that there is value in separating polluting industries from business and residential areas. In general, I think a system like Japan has that's much coarser and centrally administered to prevent kicking away the latter by wealthy home owners would be friendly desirable. The US zoning system is so fundamentally broken and full of overreach that no zoning would be a massive improvement.
The ownership counter has been never updated since circa 2008 [1], and there has been a 2-for-1 stock split in 2014 so they actually own (819 * 2) stocks * 2228.55 USD per stock ~= 3.65 million USD today.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080814021128/http://www.gwei.o...
How is he responsible for the hostage crisis?
Here's a recent mirror if the site's still getting hugged to death: https://web.archive.org/web/20220612225118/https://www.gwei....

The short description from the page itself is:

"We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end "we" own it!"
This is interesting as ~3 years ago, I made the switch to Apple Maps because Google Maps started becoming something like "Google Travel" instead.

As someone who enjoyed smaller screens, the app started getting cluttered with attractions, reviews, and various icons in way of UI and map elements.
wow...they are sure strict about confidentiality

Google suspended an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s confidentiality policy after it dismissed his claims.

I wonder if this is why there are so few tech engineers as podcast guests, compared to other professions, like health, nutrition, politics, law, or physics/math.

Too bad they cannot invent an AI smart enough to solve the YouTube crypto livestream scam problem.
I’ve adopted and dealt with foster kids.

Almost anything is better the removing them. We adopted a teen from foster care. Every single person she knew that ended up in the system is either in jail. On hard drugs. In Abusive relationships. Or have kids already taken away. Or all of the above.

Being bounced around from home to home just destroyed their sense of belonging.

We had a brutal number of years of lost health l destroyed finances and everything else before she finally knew we loved her and wanted her.
But I did get to finally walk her down the aisle and she is with a good man now.
My biggest fear, that’s already half realized, is that enough mapping companies go out of business that a ton of map building knowledge just vanishes and it takes decades to have decent solution rise again when Maps finally goes under.

I fear that in particular for local mapping, as right now outside of OSM the only companies putting serious effort in maps are US and China based (to my knowledge at least)
Are you implying that approximately one out of ten people who get covid will suffer debilitation from long Covid?
I think it's stupid it got reposted, but even in 2011 this was a poor take.

You don't use more capability than necessary to achieve a goal.
But were the Eagles immune to the lure of the power inherent in the ring itself?

The whole plot hinges on that a hobbit was the most resilient against the corruption of the Ring. The Eagles were proud and powerful creatures. A ring-wraith Eagle would have been quite the setback to Gandalfs' plans.
Whichever monitor's position is set to (0, 0) is the primary monitor. The following code assumes you have two monitors, and swaps the primary. Of course, to be more robust, you should not hard code the indices but do checking on the info types.

let mut num_paths = MaybeUninit::uninit();
let mut num_mode_infos = MaybeUninit::uninit();
GetDisplayConfigBufferSizes(QDC_ONLY_ACTIVE_PATHS, num_paths.as_mut_ptr(), num_mode_infos.as_mut_ptr());

let mut paths = vec![Default::default(); num_paths.assume_init() as _];
let mut mode_infos = vec![Default::default(); num_mode_infos.assume_init() as _];

QueryDisplayConfig(QDC_ONLY_ACTIVE_PATHS, num_paths.as_mut_ptr(), paths.as_mut_ptr(), num_mode_infos.as_mut_ptr(), mode_infos.as_mut_ptr(), null_mut());
(mode_infos[1].Anonymous.sourceMode.position, mode_infos[3].Anonymous.sourceMode.position) = (mode_infos[3].Anonymous.sourceMode.position, mode_infos[1].Anonymous.sourceMode.position);
SetDisplayConfig(&paths, &mode_infos, SDC_APPLY | SDC_USE_SUPPLIED_DISPLAY_CONFIG | SDC_ALLOW_CHANGES);
Destruction of the nuclear family is a “goal” of Marxism. They believe the only allegiance is to the state.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/blm-removes-website-language-b...
Autopilot is a distinct feature from full self driving. And TFA explicitly says it's investigating collisions due to autopilot.
As far as usability goes, Gmail was way ahead of everything else at the time when it came out.
This article mostly just says: "If your data is small, then 56 bits is fine". Which is true. But if you are at 56 bits in your UUID, then just use an integer PK with 64 bits and you'll be fine a good deal longer. If your data might get large, an extra 64 bits to get a full 128bit UUID isn't expensive, and encoding in Base36 still yields 25 character UUIDs, which are pretty manageable: "abcdef-01234-56789-ghi-jklmno" (6-5-5-3-6, or max of a u16 for digits). I'm honestly shocked no UUID library makes it easy to export in Base36 with that grouping, it's very neat and tidy and easy to remember.
> it could be more motivated by making sales through sensationalism than contributing to the record of knowledge through scholarship.

Unfortunately, you've also just described all* modern media/journalism outfits, too.

*All is not literal, but a close approximation when weighted by readership/viewership. I don't discount that real scholarship exists, but it only exists in small lagoons of the internet, and widespread attention seems to purge the serious scholarship away from previously good outlets.
From talking to people in more enterprise IT roles, the Latitudes are what you buy if you want Dell stuff that works properly.

I have an XPS 15 which I bought 3 years ago and it's one of the worst PCs I've ever owned. This is actually my third XPS - the first two were really awesome, but I'm massively disappointed in this latest one.

I've started buying Latitudes at work and they definitely seem like a big improvement but still checking them out.
when surmising that the only reason someone hasn't "admitted" they were wrong (and assuming you are right), is fear of the social costs, it's always good to take a step back and see if you are actually the one unable to admit being wrong, for the same reason
Safety can be solved with a parachute that lands the whole aircraft in the event of a catastrophic failure. These are already fitted to high end GA aircraft like Cirrus.
It's not true for everyone.
It's a logical conclusion. The answer is yes it's possible.

We have a math function that defines atoms. Atoms can be simulated. If all things are made of atoms then all things can be simulated. If all things can be simulated then YES all things can be defined by a mathematical function including the brain.

In fact, it's been done already. Researchers have already simulated part of a mouse brain. The reason why they can't do humans is only scale. Humans have far more neurons so it's harder to do a brute force copy and the computing budget is more larger. See the Blue brain project, it's actually old news.

https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/bluebrain/