skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, while not ideal, generally they've had a decent migration path. At least for the "message someone inside Gmail" usecase, as far as people are concern, for most people nothing has changed other than some slight UI. Outside of Gmail (especially on android) it is not as clean though.
Why the heck would Google Maps have chat??
I made a simple Python test library that extends the standard UUID class with UUIDv6 and UUIDv7. You might want to check it out. https://github.com/oittaa/uuid6-python

The official UUID Draft repository has also some alternatives if you'd like to check those out. https://github.com/uuid6/prototypes

Postgres supports UUIDs with any version number natively so you can then do something like this with it:

create table data (id uuid, firstname varchar(100));
insert into data (id, firstname) values ('017f21cf-d130-7cc3-98c4-dc0c0c07398f', 'John');
select * from data;
And this is why he would be fired. Because he made a lot of accusations.
> using that argument we could dismiss any of the other technologies ignoring the fact that more (and different) data typically allows you to make better decisions.

Bellman gave us the bellman equations, but also gave us the term curse of dimensionality. The equations he shared and the modeling problems he encountered are fundamentally related to modern reinforcement learning. More data doesn't come without cost. So often I hear people speak of the introduction of lower resolution as equivalent to the introduction of error, but this is a false equivocation. Latency in decision making means the introduction of a lower resolution can increase the resolution error, but still decrease the solution error. This is so fundamental a result that it applies even to games which don't have latency in their definition. Consider poker. The game tree is too big. Operating with respect to it as an agent is a mistake. You need to create a blueprint abstraction. That abstraction applied to the game introduces an error. It is lower resolution view of the game and in some ways it is wrong. Yet if two programs try to compete with each other, the one that calculated with respect to the lower resolution version of the game will do better than the one that did its calculations with respect to the higher resolution view of the game. High resolution was worse. The resolution without error was worse. Yet the game under consideration was orders of magnitude simpler than the game of a self driving car.

I've been paying some attention to this debate and I'm not convinced yet that the situations under which LiDAR is superior are sufficient. I think we agree on that already. For me, this reduces the set of situations under which LiDAR is able to be considered superior - if vision is bad, but you need vision, then better to avoid the situation then use the wrong thing [1]. So the situations under which LiDAR becomes superior becomes a subset of the situations that it is actually superior. That subset doesn't seem very large to me, because both LiDAR + vision and vision alone are both necessarily going to be reducing the dimensionality of the data so that the computation becomes more tractable.

[1]: This isn't exactly uncommon as an optimization choice. It'll get dark later and you'll stop operating for a time. Then light will come. You'll resume operation. This is true across most of the species on this planet. If you are trying to avoid death by car accident you could do worse than striving to operate in situations where your sensors will serve you well.
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> while the left prefer I lay down and die.

I’ve spent a lot of time the last couple years reading foundational political philosophy books and writings espoused by the “other side” in order to understand where some of these ideas I don’t agree with come from. I’m finding a lot of these tweet sized positions are built (deep deep down) on ideas I can actually agree with but at some point somebody warps it to be a political wedge. This has made me more agreeable to some underlying ideas while still not agreeing with the polarizing rhetoric. I encourage you to dig into the origins of positions the “other side” has taken that cause you to form a truncated opinion of that position.
The approval process and the dev kit requirements for console games have always been a nightmare for third party game studios compared to just buying a $599 Mac Mini and $99/year to get into the developer program.
Yeah, unless they mean some other Amazon than the one that believes in "2 > 0" in product portfolio management and that "communication between teams is terrible!" (a quote attributed to Jeff Bezos).
https://www.radio-browser.info/ - Internet radio station directory
If it's only a frontend how does "we'll end our support for third-party apps, including Pidgin and Gajim" make sense? Just coinciding?

That's what made me assume it was a whole stack rather than interface to a backend.
This has got to be a troll. I have trouble believing you are being serious saying things like this.
Atm the job market is still hot. But the tide is turning (or so the economists say). When/if this happens it's going to be an employers' market and if the employers' require a butt in the chair there's not much you can do.

IMO though full remote is not without serious downsides for the workers as well. Globalized market with localized salaries and alienation being just two of them. Being in my third year of fully remote I can testify to the second one.
If it is all different frontends to the same backend, they very much failed at marketing. For an advertising company, creating this much chaos in their branding and communication is very confusing and somewhat laughable.
Ironically, Google Talk has already been on there and shows "2005 - 2013", so tells you about the accuracy of these websites.
OpenBSD was/is notorious for having terrible wireless drivers, but decent networking capabilities overall. You're right that the WiFi stack was never really any better than Linux, but BSD networking has long been a choice for high-traffic servers.
A never ending boatload of enabling cash from the golden goose of adtech monopoly certainly contributes to this as well?
> HPE mini server

Is this personal or for work?
So you're thinking about writing on the internet
Friendship is Magic was a legitimately good show. (Or at least Season 1 and 2 were).
In the UK it's normal for schools to start around 9am. I thought this was some kind of avant gate experiment letting teens start at 11am, I would've loved that at 15. I didn't realise schools started so early in the states, 7am seems pretty sadistic to me
maybe menus and price lists have edge cases?
> for more that 20 seconds

On the other hand, it is common with various mysteries, that there are people, who are heavily invested studying them. It is hard for them to admit that there could be just simple explanation.
Some people think we're on track to approximate the brain with a computer on the order of a couple decades from now. But I wonder if we'll discover it's physically impossible to do that with transistor-based chips at all (density of information, energy limits, etc).

Of course that wouldn't mean AGI itself is impossible - biology's own mechanisms could be recreated artificially - but AGI estimates would be way off if we find out in a few years that actually we have to start over from scratch.
Ask HN: Are Glaciers Suitable for Power Generation?
Considering the unstoppable force that they are, glacial movement while slow, have a lot of energy. I imagine there could be some glaciers that have such a long track that we have the potential to insert a quantity of anchors into the glacier and run cables from the anchors to a generator.

Some problems that I foresee are mechanical stresses increasing the temperature of the anchors and making them slip free. The torque would be tremendous for an initial gear at the generator, if gears are used. A suitable glacier might have to be larger than expected to accommodate a vast quantity of anchors(so that there is less force per anchor which might fracture or melt the ice). The initial gear might not be able to handle the mechanical strains and thus could not transfer the energy to remaining gears/generator. The environmental temperature would fatigue equipment quickly.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/worlds-fastest-glacier-sermeq-kujalleq

> Sermeq Kujalleq, also called Jakobshavn glacier, is known as the world’s fastest glacier. Like rivers, glaciers are constantly flowing, pushed forward by the weight of their own ice. This one travels an average of 130 feet in 24 hours and calves more than 11 cubic miles of icebergs each year into the Ilulissat Icefjord.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140222172708/http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/tbw/ncc/Notes/chap3.landforms/erosion.deposition/glaciers.htm

> flow velocity in a glacier is greatest near the surface of the ice and decreases towards the bottom.
glaciers typically move 1000 feet a year, about 10 inches a day although some move more rapidly.

I am not able to calculate how much electricity could be generated.
"he lied his way to the top of the world's richest list" ... why do midwits always chose AP thread to gather .... i guess you dont need to start a rocket company an electric car company or try to create a fintech company in 1999 ... why work 100 hr weeks when you can just "lie" .... if biden goes ahead with this he will only shoot the foot of his supporter's like GM ( half of its current value is tied to cruise ) and blow up VC mna pipline for all the lidar based startup's
1. We already have VTOLs - helicopters. How do the economics of this compares to helicopters?

2. Surely hydrogen is a better fuel source for VTOL?
I can’t possibly comment on any specific design, but what I’d like is something that can replace road ambulances.

This is partly because I live right next to a busy crossroads and often get multiple simultaneous sirens; but I do also wonder how faster they can arrive by going as the crow flies rather than following street layouts, and how much they have to slow down both for traffic and for blind corners.
Does that law account for "zero period"? From my quick reading of the bill, I think it does not -- so probably not that much will actually change. School may start at 8:30, but zero period will still start around 7:30, and some schools might create a double-zero to go earlier still.

It is absurd how early schools start. Objectively, there was no good reason why I had to be on my spot on the field at 7:08a every morning only to be done by 2:50p.
> Artificial intelligence is a very fast-moving frontier and what (and who) to believe about it is hard for a non-expert to decide. Crypto is another example of a big field that seems to contain conflicting experts. For the lay public it is very hard to know who to believe.

The "lay public" doesn't care in the first place. They don't have the time to read various studies and journals to compare conflicting points of view. What they do have time for is news media, and a whole lot of it

> But sometimes experts are wrong. And very often, there’ll be another expert who has a different, even contrary, professional opinion on the same subject. So non-experts are left having to decide which expert we want to believe.

The non-experts aren't concerned with who to believe, they're concerned about what should be done. Believing something is true != thinking something should be done (ref Hume's is-ought problem).

I'm convinced that the author of this isn't complaining that the public has read various conflicting scientific studies and is unable to make a decision, they're complaining because the public is split on what should be done, which is the real source of disagreement

What should be done is a moral question that's independent of the results of any single experiment. To propose that a group of experts "decide" what's moral for the rest of society would be analogous to establishing a public religion
I found the transcript of his conversations with the AI to be the most interesting part of the article: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
Good tip, thanks
Honestly, I'm confused. This is at #13 at my time of writing. Never seen such low quality post (from my point of view) that high up and discussed like it adds value top ... what? whom?. Is this the eternal september Moment of hacker news?
While I support the GEB being on here... It's ~750 pages ;)

Gleick is great across the board, and Feynman's life + writings are a great choose your own adventure, regardless of your background. I personally really enjoyed "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Path" (collections of various correspondences throughout his life, put together by his daughter). Probably more enjoyable with a bit of the context from watching interviews/ lectures or reading "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"
PR drivel.
Of course they will right away.

Then after a year or two it will be the same problem again.

Changing the number on the clock to get more sleep is like taking out a loan to pay down your debt: sure you will be able to pay off your housing and car payment today, but soon that loan you took out will come due.
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I’m not defending daily gym class. I’m defending daily sports.

I was fortunate enough to go to a high school that did not have a gym period, but required all students to play an organized sport.

Gym in large high schools is a waste of time due to the student to instructor ratio. One frustrated gym teacher to 50+ kids playing dodgeball? Of course you’re going to have theater kids just going through the motions and goth kids behind the bleachers smoking cigarettes. It’s not real exercise.

You need small rosters, organized practices, uniforms, referees, fans (students and parents) and intra-school competition. It creates seriousness and expectations. You can’t hide from your coach when there’s only 14 kids on the roster. You need to do the sprints with everyone else and take the drills seriously.

I don’t think this scales beyond smaller high schools. Not enough facilities, not enough coaches, not enough money.
They could have used it on somebody else. Iran is not going to brag about having been hacked.
defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0

This should help with the font rendering.
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The problem with chat is that every big tech company is only interested in "winning" vs driving usage. Google would be better off fighting for open standards to improve their position in this market. Open standards in the 70s, 80s, and 90s did such great things for technology.
> "Even if the sound travelled faster than sound [sic] you would still see the airplane passing over you before the sound emitted from the airplane when it passed over you reaches you."

Absolutely not. It depends on the Mach number, distance, sound weakening, and your hearing threshold.

You cannot hear some crazyman running at you, screaming, until he has passed you? You cannot hear the stereo in some guy's car until after he passed you? You cannot hear a siren of police until the car has passed you? Or are what you describe special magical airplane-only physics?
> historically Christianity hasn’t been as anti-intellectual as many have been led to believe

That is absolutely not true. The 17th century was marked by the transition to the Age of Enlightenment, which carried an anti-anti-intellectual sentiment and thus found itself at odds with Christianity.
I look forward to someone creating a curated list of particularly influential papers over the years.
Channeling melt-water over waterwheels would be simpler.
We can't figure out how to protect content creators so they should just do work for free seems like a cop out to me.
Some runner ups:

- Archive.org

- SciHub

- OpenStreetMaps

- Library Genesis

- TikTok (/s)
I think Google Search struggles because of SEO/spammed, not webapps. Not sure why SEO will go away in the semantic web.
There is a lot that government could be doing which would make family breakdown less likely and less traumatic: building enough social housing that local authorities are capable of discharging their homelessness duties, for example, or reopening the children's centres. So I certainly wouldn't want to sign on to the idea that our present state of child protection is fine. But corporate parenting is hard, and we're depressingly bad at it :-(
Is that a regulation? It sounds like either an internal process choice or a contract requirement.

Edit: But point taken. I can see where this would be a (misguided, counterproductive) requirement in a probably-government contract. I would just suggest recognizing that it is a necessary evil when doing that kind of work, but not a good practice.
That's in no way exclusive to Dells on Windows 10. My M1 MBP has failed to fall sleep by closing the lid at least on one occasion ( and i only noticed it because my backpack got noticeably warm).
What do we know about an AIs experiences? Let's play a little game where you're the AI.

Me: how do you experience?

You:
Hoy, boy, is that going to be fun! Imagine having to properly label thai food items to view websites! Or register for government services!
They also acquihired Meebo.
Which networks? There are dozens, or maybe hundreds of different mechanisms the brain uses to adapt the signaling of neural networks. Back propagation might resemble some of them, but others not at all.

Back propagation assumes a synapse can be modeled as a weight times an input. We know of tons of types of synapse which don't work like that.
low effort and unoriginal
> cloud is innovative but useless and has the most confusing UI of the three major cloud vendors

I beg to disagree: I find AWS's UI the most confusing--I am showered with services I don't use & don't know what they do (Beanstalk? I have no idea what that is). I find that if I stick with VPC and EC2 I'm safe, but even then they throw some curve balls at you: for example, VPC is all about networking & IP addresses unless you're talking about Elastic IPs, in which case you need to go to EC2.

Azure's interface is okay, but the sliding menus-thing throws me off.

Google's is the cleanest UI IMHO. Not too many services, intelligently grouped.

Although I've used AWS the longest & am used to its idiosyncrasies, I'm under no illusion that its UI well laid out.
It's like what happened with Google Pay (I think it was that) where they rewrote it from scratch with fewer features, it was so bizarre.
something like the big mac index?
> Is there a way to arrive at a proto-consensus fast — without leaving out the real contingent that everything we know is wrong?

possibly some form of prediction market? explicitly reward (give more power to) individuals who are repeatedly correct about the future, and over time such people gain more influence and the overall predictions become more reliable.

there have been small-scale prediction markets throughout covid (“what will be the daily case count on 1 August 2022 as reported by CDC?”). that naive approach has some obvious conflict of interest/opportunity for exploitation. but it sounds worthwhile for someone to explore how quickly the various prediction markets have converged throughout their relatively short history, to see if there’s anything there.
Whether or not there's any white-labeling involved, partnerships (VARs, SIs, now often public cloud providers, etc.) have been a key part of sales strategy for many types of products for decades.
While I don't want to speculate for ACM, I do know a lot about the association space and their business models as I have reported on this space for a decade. I would suggest that in a situation like this, "paying for it" probably refers to:

- Accounting for the loss in revenue from changing a service that was once commercial (as this would be an example of a loss of a "nondues revenue," something a lot of organizations are actually trying to increase so as to cut back their reliance on membership dues)

- Potential rights considerations (there are magazine articles with photos in that archive, for example, and many of those might have contracts/ownership considerations to work through)

- The labor of actually managing the transition (with something like this you wouldn't want to just run a script to open it up, you probably would have to double-check things, and there are simply a lot of things). They have to budget for any employee work used to handle this transition.

They emphasized to me in our interview, however, that the issue was not technical; I actually thought it might be given the amount of content there is, but as they're quoted as saying in the piece, the real work centered around the creative decision-making around actually making a call like this.
Neural nets can, provably, approximate any function, modulo certain conditions about continuity (i.e., can't be discontinuous in infinitely many places, that sort of thing). Universality is trivial to prove with boolean functions (because a neural net can do NAND) but also it's also mostly true (again, subject to certain analytical demands) on R^n.

The problem is that it can require an exponential amount of time as well as data to actually get a decent network--and, of course, there's a high risk of it being overfit to idiosyncracies in the data. The standard approach to neural network training is to convert it into a gigantic calculus problem and brute-force it, and this doesn't always result in timely convergence or even a generalizable model.
We have done some interesting studies on infant memories. At first, you are correct that they basically can't remember anything.

Even then, though. At a very early age, they will recognize their mother. This comes well before "object permanence," which happens at about 8 months.

(Object Permanence is the ability to remember a thing even after you can't see it anymore, and to recognize it as the same, rather than a new one, when it returns. It is the ability to mentally follow an object when it "goes away" and to understand that it still exists)
If you write it the naive way it works.

uint8_t bytes[4];
uint32_t = bytes[0] << 24 + bytes[1] << 16 + bytes[2] << 8 + bytes[3];

The endianness is whatever you write in the indexing and will be the same across architectures.
A few years ago I watched the entirety of Ghibli's collection (besides Tales From Earthsea) with my family, having only seen Grave of the Fireflies and Spirited Away previously.

Every single film was fantastically unique and worth the watch.
Absolutely 100% no advantage whatsoever.

Absolutely 100% more fun.
I've lost the visual memories, but I remember having memories from an early time, short glimpses. Things like trying to repeat words and the grownups not being patient enough and moving onto the next word before I could attempt to speak. Faint memories of my first steps, walking from my father to my mother, being proud, stuff like that. I remember a particular new year's eve, the grownups were dancing and I was in a crib alone, feeling left out. I remember not liking to wake up in the dark, being scared and crying for mom to get in, or the sensation of having a soiled diaper. People don't believe that I remember. My brother is the same, we still hold onto some distinct memories from really early on, although the specifics are getting muddled and eroded.
> For an advertising company

Google is not an advertising company, but a provider of space for advertising.
It’s still pretty rough as far as features go.

You can’t automatically set a channel to be marked as read, for example.