skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclosure: The maintainer of TiDB here.

When we started to build the distributed database TiDB, we had the similar discussion - whether we need to provide a so strong consistence for the customers? Inspired by Google Spanner, we also wanted to let the application programmers to take easy and not struggle with the consistent problems in applications layer by themselves.

So we decided to provide the strong consistency. But unlike Google Spanner, we couldn’t use TureTime API, so we introduced a standalone timestamp service named TSO to allocate timestamp. Using TSO is simple to guarantee all transactions’ order, but this introduces another problem - if the TiDB is deployed crossing different regions, the transaction latency is high.

Another example for consistency is from our realtime analytical processing design. TiDB is a HTAP(hybrid transaction/analytical processing) database. It is normal to keep consistency in the TP part, but for the AP part, is it necessary to keep consistency? If there is an update in the table, does the customer really need to get the latest data from the AP part? Here we still choose “YES”, we want our customers to focus on their business and not worry whether the query data result is consistent of not.

Of course, keeping consistency in the database comes at a cost. Now we have been trying our best to optimize the latency and performance problems :sob:

IMO, we choose a right way. We now have supported strong consistency at first, and then we can provide a loose consistency for performance too, but on the other hand, if we only build a loose consistent database at first, it is hard to provide a strong consistency for the customers.
>Try that with 20yo code (python,c++ whatever)

I regularly compile 35 year old C code.

Standards are great like that.
Can you elaborate on why you chose SHA256 as the hash function?

Attackers aren't exactly limited to web apis, and SHA265 is known to be trivially parallelizable on a GPU. RandomX is one such example[0], which reminds me of a similar initiative called RPC-Pay.

[0]: https://github.com/tevador/RandomX
[1]: https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/RPC-Pay.html
The worst part is that the install base of Duo is, in my experience, fake.

Between the push for "identify yourself by your phone number! yeah, that's right, just pretend it's an unchanging identifier even though that's not even slightly realistic!" (which, IIRC, was mandatory to use it in the beginning, although apparently now you can use a Google Account intead). And the fact that they push people to use it by adding a "video call" option (which has actually never worked for me, maybe because the other party didn't have it installed yet? who knows) on the Android call screen. And the fact that they pre-install it on the phones of people who will never use it so that they can say it's installed on soooo many phones.

The only reason (I see) for them to combine Duo and Meet is because they want to be able to claim to have a decent market share (even though they have virtually no market share with either one, outside of perhaps Meet with Google Apps ^W^W G Suite ^W^W Google Workspace for Education).
What would a new geometric kernel consist of? I'm not a CAD expert.
Greta and many other environmental activists routinely turn down appearances that aren't accessible by train.
Certainly seems that way, but I didn't get to use DALL-E 2 because its a Closed-AI.
> White people as a group have not been systemically oppressed.

you are either very bad at history or you are racist if you think white have never been a victim.
Well half that is already done(the output!)
The argument is essentially that there are no qualia of Chinese comprehension in an automaton or in any system that uses an equivalent algorithm, whether or not run by a human.

It's a sound argument to the extent that qualia clearly exist, but no one has any idea what they are, and even less of an idea how to (dis)prove that they exist in external entities.

It's the materialists who are begging the question, because their approach to qualia is "Well obviously qualia are something that just happens and so what?"

Unfortunately arguments based on "Well obviously..." have a habit of being embarrassingly unscientific.

And besides - written language skills are a poor indicator of human sentience. Human sentience relies at least much on empathy; emotional reading of body language, expression, and linguistic subtexts; shared introspection; awareness of social relationships and behavioural codes; contextual cues from the physical and social environment which define and illuminate relationships; and all kinds of other skills which humans perform effortlessly and machines... don't.

Turing Tests and game AI are fundamentally a nerd's view of human intelligence and interaction. They're so impoverished they're not remotely plausible.

So as long as DALL-E has no obvious qualia, it cannot be described as sentient. It has no introspection and no emotional responses, no subjective internal state (as opposed to mechanical objective state), and no way to communicate that state even if it existed.

And it also has no clue about 3D geometry. It doesn't know what a sphere, only what sphere-like shading looks like. Generally it knows the texture of everything and the geometry of nothing.

Essentially it's a style transfer engine connected to an image search system which performs keyword searches and smushes them together - a nice enough thing, but still light years from AGI, never mind sentience.
imgur is providing a prompt before viewing this image "this image may contain erotic imagery, are you over 18, etc".

i certainly hope not...
I certainly notice this too. I remember searching for technical queries and would find many (not SEOsplurge) blog posts or random forums where the question is discussed. Now it is just the same stackoverflow answer replicated across multiple content farms.

Peculiarly, I have found the more 'genuine' websites by using image search. Perhaps because more things fit into a grid, and I can usually gauge whether the website is genuine or a botfarm from the images its author chose.
Don’t overthink it at first. Just slap a Google Adsense banner on it and build on it from there.
Often traffic spikes like this aren’t long lived.
> Even Microsoft had the decency to tack on "for business" when they were butchering Skype's branding!

1 Xbox (2001)
2 Xbox 360 (2005)
2.1 Xbox 360 S (2010)
2.2 Xbox 360 E (2013)
3 Xbox One (2013)
3.1 Xbox One S (2016)
3.2 Xbox One X (2017)
4 Xbox Series X | S (2020)

On a tangent, MS really screwed up Skype when they bought it (by removing p2p supernodes).
This is a clear demonstration of the user's expectation of search having exceeded what's possible today.

From the article:

> Lets look at some examples. One of my favorite places in the world is Koh Lanta, Thailand. When traveling, I’m always on the lookout for places that give off the Koh Lanta vibe. What does that mean? Hard to say, exactly, but having tourist amenities without being touristy. Charming, slow, cheap. I don’t know exactly; if I did, it’d be easier to find. Anyway, forgetting that Google is bad at long tails, I search for what is the koh lanta of croatia? and get:

This is a near impossible query for human beings, let alone for computer given the state of the AI at this point in time.
But they're the good guys(TM), so we probably won't see NYT hit pieces every other week.
>Now explain how that's different than anything you look at.

For starters you just don't look at things, you're embedded in the world. You have sensory input far beyond visual information, you also have something akin to cybernetic feedback in response to your mechanical actions in the world, and DALL-E has not.

In fact DALL-E doesn't even have access to visual information in the same sense you have, which is to a large extent biochemical and analog, not digital.
Great move in the article to show shifting distributions, not only a plot vs time of a shifting average etc.

Possible confound not discussed: Have there been any changes in market or transportation or harvesting-technology or labor factors which would affect decisions about "harvest date" ? Were any new varieties systematically planted with/after X apparent breakpoint? Have direct effects, if any, of increasing CO2 been removed?
I love pride month thanks for mentioning it
They're already proving your point by immediately removing 18+ items from the store https://www.rightstufanime.com/removed-items-faq
Google Hangouts got split apart[1] . For consumers, they created duo for video and Android Message (with RCS) for text (after briefly launching and deleting allo). For business, they created Hangouts Meet for video and Hangouts Chat for text, which rapidly got renamed to Meet and Chat.

In 2020/2021 Google Chat was been opened up to consumers [2]. Now Meet and Duo are converging, the last nail in the coffin for the separate consumer/business app idea.

[1] https://blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-allo-d...
[2] https://blog.google/products/workspace/latest-google-hangout...
It could be a situation where Google doesn't mean to do it, but also isn't incentivized to fix it. The people who make the most money off Google have the most time and motivation to find ways to manipulate it to protect and increase their profit. Anyone at Google who wants to fix it is incentivized to come up with new features for promotion rather than bugfix.
For the most part, we agree! Protobuf isn't perfect. gRPC is _definitely_ optimized for megacorporation-sized problems.

No matter who you are, though, it's not fun to hand-write boilerplate data types and fetch calls or quibble over which parameters should go in the path and which should be query params. Even when you're actually sending JSON on the wire and using regular HTTP/1.1 POSTs, Protobuf and connect-web make it easy to skip right to the interesting part of your code.
Nope, that was actually the Postmodern Generator.^[1] But nice try! ;)
[1]: https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
I am also confused how he became so popular, he seems pretty uninformed, my best guess is that his suit fools people into thinking that he must know what he is doing.
Nah, that's just a watermelon at a different stage of ripeness. (I eat like five or six watermelons a year) I've gotten one like that, it's rare because we know how to pick em these days.
Right, I would expect the rise of a bunch of domain-specific tools within the next few years.
I was an intern at Google right around the time where Google+ (long before it was known under that name) became a thing for Google engineers internally. I sat next to a team that was majorly impacted by that.

It's all subjective of course, but I could practically "feel" Google changing. Before I started my internship and still during it for the most time, Google was this incredible company that people, including me, were in awe about. All their products were so good. So technically refined, so methodical, you could really see that the people working on them were really smart, and really cared about it all.

And then it changed and became this "corporation", and nowadays it's sometimes seen as almost the opposite of what it was, working there being boring but stable. Part of that is probably just a normal consequence of the immense growth, but personally I can't shake the feeling that Google+ had a large part in it.
One of the great frustrations with Google is that they never ever face consequences for their gross mismanagement. They're Yahoo-level incompetent but without consequences as they simply continue to print money.
There was a thread on HN a week ago about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32250203
It would be nice to have a cut of these videos with only the guest talking, and with all the goofy philosophical cruft deleted.
> I'll add that super majority doesn't mean much in terms of "bi partisan support", when a single party (the republicans) nearly had a super majority of the house alone.

In 2002 the republicans has a 14 seat majority in the house, and no majority in the senate with only 49 seats. The history re-writing going on here is pretty extreme.
Yeah it drives me crazy and I'm unable to listen to them.

It's maybe mean to say, but I just don't think he's that smart and unfortunately it shows. It also doesn't help that he doesn't seem to be aware of it.

He does get great guests though.
> Most software we use at work exists in one of two categories:

> 1. It’s new and we love it for now.

> 2. It’s old but we have to use it and we hate it.

> [... Microsoft Excel] inhabits its own category: it’s old, but we love it

There's a fourth quadrant missing in that diagram: "It's new and we hate it", aka "the Microsoft Teams quadrant".
I fail to compile 1 year old code if I don’t have the exact compiler and library versions that the program required at the time of development.
I was wrong, the other one doesn't specify anything at all. So you have "Microsoft Teams" or "Microsoft Teams (work or school)".

And then the icons are barely different too.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/imag...

What a stupid branding mess.
Haha, so succinct. This is the answer.

War Is A Racket.
Physicists predict Earth will become a chaotic world, with dire consequences
Why is keeping land clear important? That's an ecosystem where numerous organisms live, its not like it's "unused"

See my other comment about bugs. Almost any option is better than a wasteful grass lawn
It was to keep Sundar Pichai and elevate him to the level of CEO of something.
Knotwords is a much better variation on this I believe: https://playknotwords.com/
First Screenshots of NSO’s Pegasus Interface
> Are you sure?

Considering Dall-e has problems painting "a red cube on top of a blue cube" [1] and all kind of simple spatial relations, I'd say it's a fair shot.

[1] As reported by OpenAI, but there are also some prompts by Gary Marcus et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13807) showing this, and it's trivially simple to find other very simple cases like these
If the grape plant changed over 650 years, wouldn't we see a drift in the graph over those 650 years? What we're seeing is a sudden burst of "evolution" since the 1950s.

Dunno, maybe it's the nuclear tests, but I'm a bit skeptical to that explanation.
Complaining about voting gets you downvoted, pretty reliably. It's also against the community guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

EDIT: plus, I guess your second comment is insinuating about brigading, which is also against said guidelines. :D
Mandatory "allow shorts at work" rule should be next.
Ok it's some strange art-deco Guinness glass. But the head is all wrong.
It was worded to be funny. He had had an affair with his now wife at a time when she was quasi? (Iirc) under him in the chain of command, which was against company policy, so yeah a firable offense, if, uh, a bit late.

I think that it is not unreasonable to speculate that was the reason they gave and not the "real" reason for firing.
Unrelated but this site says they charge 160 dollars for a 3 month subscription that seems insane for a newspaper
I'm willing to install a water cooling system if it means I can OC my brain.
Wouldn't a crime and court ruling need to occur before Visa is of "knowing" status?
I have noticed certain electronics are much cheaper on AliExpress, but you do have explicit shipping costs vs that being rolled up in prime membership costs.
Ultimately Google is an ad company. Owning Android is a distracting mistake.
I've worked in those roles for many years. I also busted my ass in dangerous blue collar under the table jobs for years before I got into software and my current position. My first software job was 80 hours a week at a startup for 35k a year, and I was happy to do it because it was on the books and I wasn't in danger of getting crushed by heavy machinery.

Did I say that a state issued id would be the only form of id required to reset your password? No. That's pretty idiotic, and you know it would never fly in the real world. Come on, let's try and be an adult and stop with the straw man arguments.

There's so many avenues of attack for the current password reset process (sim swapping, identity theft) that another layer would definitely improve security. Should we not do it because "oh no someone can forge an id"?

Grow up and drop the straw man arguments.
> but I quickly realized that I could spin up a whole CRUD webapp for this problem faster than I, someone who understands indexing and windowing and such, could build it in a spreadsheet.
What would you use to build a CRUD app faster than an excel app
Obviously it appeals to a lot of people, it wouldn't be so successful otherwise, and I'm not here to bash people's taste. It's just that for me personally I probably would not want to be reminded/wallowing in that in my entertainment if I was in the same situation, and as someone who not in that situation it just feels like looking at a train wreck. But I can totally understand how people feel differently and it allows them to relate and laugh about it.
I love the idea!

The pricing, not so much. When I think about what that money gets elsewhere (e.g. Pluralsight), IMHO your pricing is 2x what it needs to be.
The quote about Google reader really hit home but I had no idea they were still killing so many services: https://killedbygoogle.com/

Don't they want to be the biggest cloud provider by a specific year or something, why would anyone use this company for something as important as cloud infrastructure?
I see it the other way round.

The Chinese Room and the brain of a Chinese-speaking person are completely different physical processes. Looked at on an atomic level, they have almost nothing in common. Mind-body dualists may or may not agree that the room is not "conscious" in the way a human is, but if consciousness is purely a material process, I can't see how the materialist can possibly conclude all the relevant properties of the completely dissimilar room and person are the same.

Those that would argue the Chinese Room is "conscious" in the same way as the Chinese person are essentially arguing that the dissimilarity of the physical processes is irrelevant: the "consciousness" of the Chinese person doesn't arise from molecules bouncing around their brain in very specific ways, but exists at some higher level of abstraction shared with the constituent molecules of pieces of paper with instructions written in English and outputs written in Chinese.

The idea our consciousness exists in some abstract sense which transcends the physics of the brain is not a new one of course. Historically we called such abstractions souls...
Nope, literally SSH and bash scripts. We are fully open source (except for our security/operational code): https://github.com/bugout-dev
My problem with this decision is the wasted leaf-blower bodies when the batteries die and the user can't find a reasonably-priced replacement. The rest of the leaf-blower goes to the landfill and a new one is purchased, starting the cycle over again.

Meanwhile, a 2-stroke leaf blower will last for decades. (Well, probably a decade until the little squeeze bulb on the carburetor goes out. Replace that for $2 and you're good to go for another decade.)

If the leaf-blowers used a standardized battery so the implement isn't discarded with every other battery change I'd see it differently.
> I would say the choice of languages without memory safety is more based on legacy than some kind of insightful choice.

You say this as if legacy choices are not some of the most persistent choices that exist in technology. I don't disagree that 70% of CVEs is memory safety related, but still my previous point stands that none of the popular kernels or databases are written in Rust.

A new database developer with a bright idea is basically confronted with the choice to either:

1. Write it in C and get it merged into Postgres relatively quickly. (Within the year or so)

2. Write it in Rust and also have to implement the rest of a RDBMS, then have to find a user base.

When confronted with that kind of choice, most devs would choose option 1 every time and I can't blame them for that even though I love memory safety.
This particular case, due to its various aspects that are just off the rails, seems like a poor candidate to use as a representative example of anything in particular.

For that reason I'd be very careful drawing any kind of big-picture conclusions without a) using a group of cases, ideally randomly chosen b) building a model for determining changes in precedent or case-influence c) separating media influence or isolating it in some meaningfully objective way.

Otherwise it starts to look both hand-wavy and emotionally-invested which is a combination or at least a presentation style that I'd guess you'd want to avoid.
This is a great point for those worried about the impact on themselves.

Given the structure of the study I wonder whether the potential relationship between extroversion and loneliness as reported was explored. Ie do introverts report loneliness less in general?

In one example of extroverts, a person could be accustomed to interacting with important others socially and loses them. This loss of regular experience of memory recall generated by many social interactions could potentially lead to under practice of memory functions generally. It also might make it more likely they would report loneliness.

Some similar studies exist for removing elderly from their homes and/or purging them of their “unnecessary stuff.” Again here the memory function triggered by their regular visual stimulation of memories associated with their stuff may be sustaining those brain functions.

I think instead of trying to associate bad feelings with bad outcomes we should be asking what combinations of individual tendencies and situations produce those bad feelings, and how might those bad feelings be linked to very real experiential losses that might be sustained relatively easily.

One mitigation might be to record the elderly’s persons friends and/or house/belongings and make them available in VR.
> This is “Friends” summed up... the canned laughter

Are you not aware that the show was filmed before a live audience? Watch how the actors pause between lines - they're actually waiting for the crowd to finish laughing. And that's the case for most sitcoms from the previous century.

It might not be your kind of humor. But real audiences found the show funny enough to laugh so long and hard, when they were under no obligation to do so, that the actors had to have unnaturally long pauses between their lines.

Many modern internet commenters have a misguided tendency to automatically dismiss any show with a laugh track as inferior. FWIW I think Friends was a great show for most of its run, with top-notch comic writing, within the constraints of the medium at the time. Sitcoms were nearly always single-camera format, and shot in a studio with a live audience. The storylines had to be accessible to casual watchers. The shows lived and died by weekly ratings, and needed to have ad breaks at specific times, which also influenced the writing, casting, and pacing.

Just to show you that I'm not swayed by mere laugh tracks and longevity, let me also announce that anything made by Chuck Lorre is absolute drivel.
> Btw “demetrius”, my other pet peeve is Latin endings on Greek words and names.

You seem to choose pet peeves that are opposite to mine! I don't like Greek word declinations in Latin (why write Leopolin if you can write Leopolim?) and I like the i/j, v/u distinction in Latin.

> good to know I will be safe from bastardized Latin!

You should stay away from the house 1255 on rua de Constituição, then (it has this: https://imageup.ru/img91/3990079/porto.jpg — although it's the only text in Latin I've seen here so far)
Thanks for confirming.
>websites are penalized for even linking to low-ranking pages!

So the top hundred sites link to each other and everything else gets ignored.

This the equivalent of social media's echo chambers.