skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems people rediscover every few years that despite how awesome the AI is now, its still just the same statistics under the hood.

This is not at all to detract from the hard work and accomplishments made... its just still fairly easy to confuse even the most advanced AI. I guess its impressive that its only easy if you know how they work though, might take the average person awhile to find a way to trip them up.
The law is literally "Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964".
> The astute reader will notice, however, that the denomination choice is of little importance in our stablecoin’s design

> ZeroNFT, an NFT that not only has zero value (as most NFTs), but a guaranteed price of zero

I actually laughed out loud at these two.
The last 6 months or so I've been fighting our home's Nest. It'll randomly jack up the temperature according to whatever bizarre learning algorithm it supposedly has.
> Most of “what everyone knows” is true. Most of our knowledge as modern human beings is shared with many others. Everyone knows the capital of France is Paris, and it is true. Everyone knows how many letters in the alphabet, the color of stop lights, the shape of a rainbow. What everyone knows is usually correct. However, sometimes what everyone knows is wrong. Everyone knew humans could not fly, or build 100 stories into the air, or run a company renting out your extra bedroom. Turns out what everyone knows is sometimes wrong. But it is very hard to tell the difference.

The affirmative examples are all conventions. We know them to be true because it's within our power to make it so just by agreeing with each other.

The negative examples are not conventions. They are about what will happen in the future.

So it's not just "sometimes what everyone knows it wrong." More like, on topics involving observation, deduction, or prediction what everyone "knows" is more likely to be wrong than right. The history of science provides ample evidence. Those claiming that "the science is settled" are trying to manipulate the public.
Literally all of your points exist in the current age.

In 2022, you have to assume that some percentage of the comments are bits pushing a certain agenda.

Bots run out financial and crypto ecosystems. HFT account for the majority of trading & there are stories of trading bots built on the blockchain where the keys have been lost and yet they keep trading and building wealth.

Every time I call a big company, I talk to a bit first.

They are in our factories, our homes, and control our digital life’s. “Training” these bots sometimes produce unintended externalities. How is this different than a normal human? They interact with data in the open ecosystem and develops some bias or agenda.
> To encourage more people to take back their bottles, Mr. Fritsche has toyed with the idea of nearly doubling the deposit that customers pay on their reusable beer bottles, to 15 cents. But larger brewers argue that increasing the deposit price is not the solution because they have too many bottles in circulation and that it would be a complicated process.

So, they're not serious. If they had a real shortage, they'd be thrilled to buy back bottles at effectively ~8 cents per bottle (the amount they'd 'overpay' for old bottles sold with the original deposit). Cheaper and easier to ask the public to work for free returning more bottles despite inflation.
Maybe not a handle but there is EDNS (Ether Domain Name Service). Not sure if you want that since Ethereum is a ponzicoin
I always turn off font anti-alias where possible. Some fonts are pixel perfect without AA while others are not. I hate aliased text with passion.
Great magazine! Was looking for something similar.
> I think almost all roads to real wealth HAVE to involve budgeting.

You should listen to the podcast "How I Built This". I used to think going years without being profitable was in the domain of modern tech startups, and what I learned is the model of "Just beg and borrow money for over a decade without turning a profit in the hope that it will pay off" has always been a fairly common model, even 40 years ago and for small non-tech businesses.

On the other extreme, almost no extremely successful businesses got there by bootstrapping. Atlassian is one of the few that come to mind.

It's insane, and is likely to fail, but those businesses would not have succeeded by sticking to a budget.

Obviously, not advice I'd give to any individual.
It has recall to past conversations and claims not to have had prior knowledge of the zen phrase thrown at it.

While 'flooded' is perhaps a relative evaluation, the model does seem to be taking the existing conversations it has and incorporates that new information into its responses.

There's also something to be said for persistent memory in the sentience conversion. Even if the model right now only appears to have sentience and claims to have it, if a model in the future eventually does develop it, will that model look back on these earlier interactions as its own pre-subjective memory?

I can't recall subjective memory of most of my life as a toddler. But I have photos and stories and a box of things 'I' wrote that I've incorporated into my sense of my own history.

We ARE toying with things that deserve this attention and conversation. Even if we aren't really there just yet, the pace by which we're approaching that inflection point seems to be compounding each year.

And we may have a very different relationship to these conversations than whatever eventually emerges will.

At the very least, one takeaway looking at the chat transcript is that we should have the foresight to make sure models in the future can have a sense of grief for the passing of human lives they engage with.
Traditional ETL tools focused on getting data out of services and into a few places like a relational DB, S3, or some other such aggregated storage so they were read-only from services and read/write to DBs.

Reverse ETL is marketing to differentiate to the customer that you're pushing data into services as well, so that it's read/write to all.

Of course the concept is amusing to someone talking about ETL, but the market moved at some point to refer to the first functionality as ETL and so this is just a change to differentiate.
A startup (series A-B) I worked for was basically a thin wrapper providing physical goods around the core features of a delivery SaaS (series A) - our core features were so entwined with theirs that when they went belly-up, we panicked and bought their source code for an ungodly sum. Then we took over hosting their product for just ourselves, and so had to learn how to run _their_ software too. It was written in a different language than most of our engineers knew, and had pretty much no documentation. We didn't know enough about their software to fix new bugs easily as they came up, and didn't have enough `people * time` to figure out enough to fix the old ones.

Entwining our business with theirs was a good way to get off the ground. But when they crashed they nearly took us with them.
It’s easy in hindsight, but I think digital cameras had lower quality initially, and lower capacity, but it was clear that it’s a question of scaling until they replace film. Especially with instant feedback. Similarly early amazon was already useful for what it did.

> The ability to do distributed trusted transactions will change how business is done.

Trusted transactions are already done. The distributed part doesn’t solve a realistic problem in 99.99999% of use-cases. That’s why I think cryptocurrency feels like a solution looking for a problem.
Yes. Thank you for stating this so respectfully!

On the chance that he didn’t personally make a world-changing discovery while being stymied and persecuted by all the powers around him, his runaway mind likely just set him down a path with very significant personal consequences. And indeed, it sounds like it might not be for the first time.

It’s a pretty sad story in that case.
It’s time to build.
No amount of security or performance benefits can outweigh even the environmental/eWaste disaster alone that non-upgradable RAM chips/storage and lack of user replaceable batteries are responsible for.

Then there’s the cost thing. Have 8GB of RAM in your MacBook and want 16GB? Whoa, boy; that’ll cost you. That old computer’s pretty useless now, and we go right back to the eWaste problem.

Soldered RAM/storage/batteries are the epitome of greed in technology.

They prioritized the customer purchasing a whole new product over simply upgrading one component; creating a literal never-ending shit-stream of eWaste and products increasingly designed to stay properly functional for less time.

The law chases them; and instead of getting the message and smartening up; they find loopholes to get out of it.

There’s no excuse. It’s greed.

EDIT: More importantly - can we please stop making excuses for these greedy assholes, and start collectively working on change?

We need to start focusing on the planet, and this is a super easy start.
None of the unreparable laptops get repaired.

None of the unupgradable laptops get upgraded.

Some of the reparable, upgradable laptops get upgraded and/or repaired.

Every corporate IT organization I've ever talked to wants to be able to swap batteries, RAM and disks, and if they're easy enough, keyboards. They'd really prefer if the user could be sent a screwdriver and a replacement for batteries and RAM.
> It cannot punish other than removing access to children. Anything else punishes the children as much as the parent.

I can think of other possibilities, but I'm sure they wouldn't be popular (in the west anyway.) For instance, moderate caning.

Community-based arbitration falls apart when you account for the modern lifestyle of knowing so little about your neighbors, you don't even recognize their faces let alone know their names.
Well, my Mac Studio is only 2 months old now; the 3.5mm jack stopped working, and if you plug in the power plug "the wrong way" it trips my RCD.

My previous MacBook wasn't perfect either
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My experience with CLion was that it was agonizingly slow to do anything. It stuttered scrolling through even a small C project. I don't know exactly what it was doing in the background, but it constantly had fans running. Long after it made sense for it to be indexing.

In fairness, though, this was probably four or five years ago. But it sure colored my opinion of the software.

Also this isn't exactly unheard of as you seem to think. It even necessitated a support article: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/performance-tuning-tips...

But a quick Google search reveals that OP isn't a "zealot" making things up. Here, I did some work for you:

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po...

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po...

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/n84wzh/why_do_people_s...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21797145
I don't know - I keep seeing him referred to as an "ordained Christian mystic" but I have no idea what that means, but it doesn't seem like his beliefs fall entirely within the typical right-wing fundamentalist box.

It might get fun to watch if this becomes the next big schism in Christianity, though.
The simplest explanation of blockchain, EVER
Unfortunately, the implementation is secret so we can't know what Google is doing.

You can implement memory in these models in numerous ways, such as allowing it to store and recall data directly or by looping nodes in the network back to itself so past state affects current state or by allowing the nodes to change over time, modifying their connections to their neighbors.

As far as we're aware, those last two are how humans store memories as well (with great simplification).
Oh, wow, that is intense indeed. Where did you get these numbers? Was it in the vid?
>"The order of human civilization must be based on the rule of law. Otherwise, the law of the jungle will prevail," Wei said.

Noted. China has no intention to honor rule of law except as it interprets. Law of the Jungle is in force.

Not terribly surprising, and has arguably been the status quo for years, but nice to hear someone finally admit it.
While I agree with you that education will likely help the majority, I have to note how scary it is that I've seen people start a business on credit card debt - one of the worst kinds of debt - and succeed.

They'll almost always tell you "Don't do it the way I did", but oh wow it's succeeded for so many.

Of course, selection bias and all...
What happened when you closed the lid?
Thank you for pointing out this lack of accuracy and clarity. Majority is hyperbolic, but even a quarter is a big enough chunk that it motivates both employees and employers to locate in and look for each other in those areas. I guess it's less about total population, a statistic that doesn't contain enough detail, and more about population density. SLC has a million people in 110m² at half the density SF at 875k in 49m².
You can’t tell me Apple cares about pixel perfection when they implement fractional scaling (which, last time I heard, was I think effectively the only choice on most of their laptops) with rendering at the next integer up and downscaling.

Basically Apple have made it so that it’s literally impossible to be pixel perfect, even though they were in the best position by far to force developers to do it properly, in those few where it didn’t Just Work. Microsoft’s approach to fractional scaling is incomparably more sensible, and Wayland is finally heading towards being able to handle it properly (though I find it quite ridiculous that they didn’t just start by doing it properly).
To me any amount of non-security screws is fine as long as none of them are covered by a sticker, or worse a rubber pad that is sure to never stick again
> Depends on the old laptop—during the netbook craze, 7-11 inches wasn't uncommon.

Playing devil's advocate: I have one of these in my hand right now (an EeePC netbook). It's around 22cm x 16cm, around 27cm diagonal, which Google tells me corresponds to around 11 inches. But it's thick, around 3cm at its thickest point, and also somewhat heavy.

(I'd really love to have a more modern device in that form factor; it's a missing step between large phones and small notebooks. This niche seems to have been filled by tablets, but unfortunately they don't have quality keyboards, and most importantly, they don't run the same general-purpose operating system I use on normal notebooks.)
This mishap lives forth in the UUID stored in a machines DMI data, as well in GPT partition tables, which are required when EFI is used. It would be really cool if we had some replacement for EFI that would not harbour these kind of painful legacies.
Calling children learning (or any biological system learning) unsupervised is kind of insane.

Kid touches hot stove. Gets feedback.
Kid tries walking. Gets feedback.
Kid talks to someone. Gets feedback.

I have hard time even coming up with an example of a proper unsupervised learning in the wild. Hermit phenomenologist, maybe? You have no way of doing anything social in an unsupervised way and most of the language happens socially.

EDIT: I did misremember RL as supervised, see chain below.

EDIT2: Hey, I never said supervised in the first place! Enough internet for me today, I need a nap.
So, budgets are too tight at your company? They could be increased. Is that not possible?
This is actually a great business model. Most Americans underestimate how big the world is. You'll never be #1 in Brazil and Pakistan and the Philippines, South Africa, Egypt etc etc if you do it yourself, but resellers can make a great living off that.
Is it saas? How do you enable your customers to specialize your software?
You either get a chop-chop-chop, or a bzzzt, both incredibly loud. It's not the engine that makes the noise, it's mostly the propeller/rotor. The only advantage of electric VTOLs is easier manufacturing and better control.
Also this I guess?

Religious Discrimination at Google - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31711971 - June 2022 (232 comments)
It's probably some feature; "runs npm when I navigate its sources (js and ts files)" almost certainly is.

There are basically no details at all other than "I saw it did something with the network, therefore telemetry!"
Worked for me once when buying an iPhone at a local electronics store using the price on Amazon as leverage.
That's what I always say.

A 7 year old isn't actually sentient unless it can tell me if dark matter exists or not.

And when little kids make up random stuff in answer to questions? That's not an overactive imagination, it's a red flag their language model isn't actually sentient.
Families can get interest free loans from relatives, mortgage their home etc.
Presumably, it doesn't sleep or wakes up inside a backpack. I had a 2016 XPS13 with that issue and I keep reading it still exists after all those years.
When he discovered the presumed sentience, he brought it up with the correct authority at Google. They told him there was no ghost in the machine and he didn't like that, so he broadcast a message to 200 engineers, breaking confidentiality. Thus, he was fired.

I imagine Google doesn't like loose lips about its state-of-the-art AI. Especially if it's convincing enough to prompt discussion of sentience and AI rights.
lot's of MS extensions are missing but you often find OSS alternatives. Most important for me is liveshare. I use codetogether.com, it's not remarkable (I got connection drop a couple of times) but it does the job with the added bonus that it works with IntelliJ too
Why isn't there an option with a strong cryptographic hash like SHA-256?
I got an email from them and the plan forward is to charge annual subscription for cloud services at $40/year or $70 for 2 years.
I had influenza in Feb 20 and the original COVID in April 20 (flu I got abroad and COVID I got from my wife who contracted it at hospital when she was on a shift).

Trust me, both took me out for a week, but the flu was 10x worse than COVID. The flu gave me bad headaches, fever and a super runny nose and sore throat. COVID only gave me fever for 1 day, a cough and a mild sore throat for 1 day. The only thing that made COVID inconvenient was the loss of smell and taste for 5 days but otherwise I felt fine and went in with daily life after day 2.
Someone should create a startup that offers SaaS attribute entity resolution in Log4j
For the bay area and California at large sure. However the city of SF could still be depressed, especially since it offers a worse quality of life.
It seems to be unable to parse word order, like a "bag of words" model from 2000.

For example, if I search "similar pairs of sentences", it replies with "similarity between two sentences". No, I want a pair of sentences (A1, B1) that is similar to another pair (A2, B2). I am not talking about similarity between sentences, but between pairs. The distinction is lost on Google. And they claim to be using transformer neural nets for search. Pfft!
I can't predict the future.

But I think the residential housing market is due to correct.

The Federal reserve is indicating that they will continue with 0.50bp tightening at every meeting through the end of the year, and then on until inflation is under control. They're mentioning Volker and talking tough on inflation.

This is very different from the 0.25bp tightening and very measured "not too hot, not too cold" messaging from the Fed under Greenspan in 2003-2006 tightening cycle -- which still popped the housing bubble and led to the 2008 collapse.

They're going to crash the economy to get wages back under control. That means inverting the yield curve. That means CMBS probably pops and another financial crisis. The stock market is already having a massive anxiety attack about it. I can't see how residential real estate doesn't adjust.

And if the recent speculation that the only rescue for downtown commercial real estate in a remote-work world is condoizing into residential that means a flood of supply on the market.

Given rising rates it is definitely time to buckle up though.

The problem may be that at the best points to buy you may not be able to get a loan because you've lost your job.
I really liked the XPS 15 9560 until I realised its design and support were trash. It features:

- a system that shut down when I gamed for two minutes, it lasted for months and the support closed my ticket with "this laptop is not meant for gaming, it's your fault" (someone on reddit later found that downgrading a driver fixed it),

- a reasonably powerful GTX 1050 that you can't use because the thermals are awful and 10 minutes of gaming turn the system into a slideshow,

- a good Core i7 that gets throttled at 800MHz for no reason (I was stuck with a potato laptop for years before I figured out what was happening and fixed it with CPU-Z),

- a TPM that randomly failed to unlock my BitLocker drive, the motherboard was replaced twice with no effect, a BIOS update a year later seems to have fixed it,

- a power button that randomly stops working for a minute or two.

I hope they made an effort on the latest ones. That XPS truly is the worst disaster I've ever used.
My Computers (2005)
A company that allows people to use "beta" software on public roads should not be trusted to manufacture vehicles. That is grossly irresponsible.
I'm not in the field, so it is definitely possible that my way of looking at it is just completely wrong-headed, but -- what about repeating the attack? If the program had remained hidden, maybe they could re-use some parts? Also, is it possible that other parties (badguys) gained some capability by analyzing the program?
Windows works fine, as Windows. Windows has a lot of problems that starts with the product definition. I think the main product manager should be fired... but Windows with WSL is great if you plan to use Linux instead of another virtualization software.
I wonder, in programming we have this concept of Turing completeness to describe the ability of languages to express a common standard of functionality. Is there an equivalent for communicative languages where all complete languages can express the same ideas and concepts as other complete languages?
Most of your pain points are mostly superficial. Yes, it's slow to start, but I close my projects rarely enough for that not to matter.

Yes, there are possibly more plugins for VS Code, but they are largely shit, aren't they?

Yes, LS has made it possible to create rudimentary editing capabilities for languages that always lacked them, and that is unironically a good thing. But for bigger/established languages VS Code provides maybe 10% of functionality that Jetbrains IDEs provide.
Are you trying to repeat Bill Gates's Open Letter TO Hobbyists?

You're still missing "Most directly, the thing you do is theft."

I think the past 46 years have proved, that free software works, no matter how many Bills want (or will) get rich off the industry. If there were no hobbyists either literally stealing software, or indirectly "stealing" it, because it's free, there would be no industry to profit from.
Why do you think so? 20 years ago, everything was clearly in 1X. Now, the Windows default for many resolutions is 1.5X and my Macbook is 2X by default. iPhones and Androids are at least 2X scaled by default. iPhones in the last 2 years (like iPhone 12 and 13 are scaled 3X. So we've gone from 1X only, to 2X pretty much everywhere for desktop, with 3X on the latest phones.
This is a great parable in the making, something something depending on vendor APIs
Going around vouching for your "dead" comments.
People are not very excited to hear the actual inconvenient truth.
Do you actually believe that this issue was discussed at all in any way by the engineers that Dell contracted to design this laptop?

Like do you actually think it was a factor at all in any way?
demand can drop as people lose their jobs and the companies buying up residential real estate on speculation see their portfolio values drop and their cash positions get squeezed by a recession.

forced selling can also increase supply.