skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MacOS already bugs me about using Safari and other apps with periodic notification banners that cannot be disabled.

Oh, you can disable that crap for non apple apps. But Apple doesn't let you do it for theirs.
BlackRock partners with Coinbase to offer crypto for institutional investors
Ubiquity and Brian Krebs have settled
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63197557/17/ubiquiti-inc-v-krebs/

“Since the Court previously extended the time for Defendants to answer the complaint, the parties have executed a term sheet and are working to finalize a settlement agreement that will dispose of this litigation.”
Seems unlikely you would get to a million users without having multiple physical locations to start with. Or de minimis a location in a central place in a large city, which would necessitate multiple staff at that location anyway.
Hence my initial point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What does your wife say about how to improve ?
I agree. Django is the only framework that makes sense to me. I have been doing web programming full time since 2006, using only vanilla code ( there were no frameworks back then). Django is the only framework that tempts me.
California banned gas chainsaw sales last year IIRC. It was such a poorly worded law that firefighters and loggers have to go out of state to buy them, instead of it being a prohibition on suburban homeowners using them. The electric saws aren't practical in the woods at all because the battery and spares are so big and heavy. It's hard to beat the energy density of gasoline.

Also electric saws are a damn hazard compared to gas saws. They cut right through safety chaps, no problem.
Data Centers Are Facing a Climate Crisis
Anything that got a significant update in the past ten to twelve years will support TLS 1.2. The window of systems that would support 1.1 but not 1.2 is pretty small. You have to go all the way back to IE on Windows XP before a lack of 1.2 support becomes an issue.

So, yeah. You're absolutely right. In a lot of cases the loss of revenue from users with severely outdated software will be less than the cost decease of cutting spam and abuse.

This gets back to an old question - to what degree should legacy systems be supported and at what level of expense? There's no one easy answer that works for everyone.
Get good at quickly finding and reading technical documentation in your field. Many problems can be avoided or fixed by reading documentation efficiently.

Cooking is a pretty great hobby. It saves money, improves your health, and can help improve motivation by providing immediate reward for effort.
Building something that you don't believe in
I am an Software Engineer/Manager, How easy is it for you to work on a product which you don't believe in ? Just because you are getting paid.
My boss is a old man who has no experience building a product in last 35-40 years and wants to build something that makes no sense to the existing market.
The company does not understand the need to stabilize and modernize underlying tech. We are building product on top of the existing legacy code which has outage once a month.
As others have pointed out, the solution to this is not a ban but a carbon tax. All negative externalities should be taxed appropriately.

If someone still wants to have a private jet they can but must pay the full costs of it instead of offloading the pollution cost on society.
More geothermal: https://austinvernon.site/blog/geothermalnextsteps.html
Computer Vision Is Badly Defined
Developing Quality Technical Information is a very good foundation:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/developing-quality-tech...
Paul Sutter walks us through the future of climate change – things aren’t great
What do you mean by "is"? I've spent a fair amount of time with giraffes in real life. Does that mean I know what one is?
My trick is to have one field that should always be blank and one field that should always have an value, this stops all automated bots. No "CAPTCHA" needed.
It's taken from Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilités, not far from the subject at hand.
Maybe not, but the author is pointing at a much broader issue. Reseaerchers are pressured to do as much as possible with as little as possible. So you end up with salad bowl studies that are a mile wide and an inch deep, trying to do everything without even a pilot study to figure out what a minimum sample size might be.
That might be the case, but that doesn't mean the tax is primarily used to finance road construction. The availability of fuels with reduced taxes[1] (eg. for agricultural or domestic purposes) makes it obvious that it's not about carbon emissions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_dye
I don't disagree, but my point was that if Apple switches to ads and pushes all other adtech vendors out of the market, all you'd need to do is to switch to literally any other manufacturer than Apple. In a way they'd be doing you a favour by killing off this disgusting industry.
I was interviewing with people in Berlin who wanted to make trucks go in caravans to save on fuel. I don’t know if it went somewhere beyond idea.
Thanks for the explanation and I appreciate the candour. I am really surprised by what you say. I didn't expect that my comment would come across as arrogant and ignorant. I'm not an expert on physics, and I started my comment by saying "as far as I understand it". Reading it again I can't see that the language I used is particularly emotionally, or otherwise, charged.

I also absolutely did not try to claim that "CS is rigorous and quantum mechanics is not", as you took my comment to mean. The conversation here is not about rigour, or at least I didn't realise it was about rigour. Is the "shut up and calculate" dictum about rigour? In the context of the conversation and without looking it up I took it to mean that we should not try to understand and only try to calculate. I didn't put any more meaning on it.

I think you (I don't know about the other users who downvoted my comment) misunderstood both the meaning and the intent of my comment. May I suggest that clarifications should be sought, in the future?

Not that it will kill me to have my comments downvoted once in a while, it's just that this time I really didn't understand what I got so wrong.

EDIT:

>> There is a tendency of someone well learned in one subject (eg CS) deciding that makes them an expert on any subject they casually observe. This is very off-putting.

I'm with you on that, but I think if you look through my comments you'll see that I generally only discuss things I know. In particular with physics, I read but not comment on such conversations because I'm really not an expert.
The sanctions on Russia are certainly not helping on the fuel front (never mind the food/fertilizer front), and as bad as things were made by the handling of COVID, this additional blunder took things from limited options to no options.

Central banks can only do so much when governments are hell bent on setting fire to the whole system.
> It is wholly unconcerned with the actual objects rendered that are the ostensible focus of the prompt.

I disagree. To the extent that the training data are images of actual objects, recreating images of actual objects is the only thing DALL-E cares about.

If we define "caring" about something as changing behavior to cause that to happen, then a neural network doesn't "care" about inference at all, because inference never changes the network's behavior.

It also doesn't know or care about your approval. It only cares about minimizing the loss function.

(But now that you bring this up, I think it would be really interesting to create a network that, after training initially on training data, began interacting with people and continued training to maximize approval.)
This is great. I found it interesting that so most of the recommended albums aligning with a "positive" mood that I saw were by black artists in jazz and soul.
That's called creativity.
Reminds me of Hamachi VPN from ~15 years ago.

https://vpn.net/
I think it'll start by removing the need for editorial illustration and photography for a lot of blogs and websites, starting with the less reputable ones.

MidJourney is already good enough creating illustrations for articles, book covers, etc. Not something that The New Yorker will be interested in, but better than anything you can buy for a couple of dollars or small monthly subscription.
I ban IPs from small data centers all the time. For my purposes there is no need to support traffic from small hosting providers that are everywhere all over the world. I do not tend to ban the IPs of commercial ISPs that provide service to end users.
You can't upgrade your entry level road bike
No because man/woman is still useful identifying information for most people. Make an "other" option for people who have medical documentation to support a physical abnormality. Because losing that identifying information for the 99.9% of the population is harder.
Advertising itself is not necessarily bad, but it is how it is done. All FAANGs are growing their shares of the pie.

It is time for someone to do it right. Abusers have lived for too long, we need someone to beat them at their own game. Apple is rightly positioned to do so.
Jevon's paradox comes to mind here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox#:~:text=In%20ec....

(yes this is frequently brought up here on hn...)
Tim Cook emphasizes personal privacy in every interview I've seen with him, and he seems genuinely affected and passionate about it. He's also backed tough fights with the FBI and DoJ. I don't mean to reduce a gay person to their sexuality, and I'm no psychoanalyst, but every person I know who was a gay adult in the 80s and 90s has a very personal sense of how important privacy is and it has a very material color to it.
In my case I just use an ESP01 to add WiFi.
Unless you support the minority party in which case democracy is definitely not working and/or the voters for the majority party are deluded ;)
It obviously has it’s used, but I have never needed async in my 17 years as a web programmer…
NASA’s flying space bots work alongside astronauts
Treat it like any kind of traumatic event that causes grief, like divorce, death of a family member, etc: lean on your support system, talk to a therapist if you need additional help, focus on taking one single step at a time, and try to take care of yourself in terms of food and sleep.

Most of all, be kind to yourself. You’re suffering, and it’s hard, but you’re not alone. This is just part of being human, of having limitations and having things not go as we want. We all go through it, it’s just your turn right now. You’ll get through this too, just breathe and take one step at a time.

EDIT: oh, and in terms of actual resources, I’ve found meditation and breathwork to be fantastic. I currently use the Waking Up app and Wim Hof videos from YouTube, but I’ve also found that live group sessions are easier to stick to. There are online ones too.

There’s a book called “It’s Grief” by Edy Nathan that my therapist wrote that I found helpful when going through divorce.

And finally, lectures by the spiritual teacher Ram Dass have been life-changing to me. You can find them on Audible, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. I like “Experiments in Truth” and “Becoming Nobody” on Audible. When I was younger I dismissed this stuff as woo drivel, but as I’ve aged (and gone through more suffering), I’ve found much more wisdom in it.

This is just what’s been helpful for me, it may or may not be for you.
I wish I could tell them what I want to see.

Amazon thinks I’m a woman, and wants to sell me things I already bought / don’t want to buy anymore.

Google is convinced I’m a Cornhuskers super fan (I’m a fan of a rival team).

I got an ad once to “sign melania trump’s virtual birthday card”….
If you are in undergrad, I'd recommend something like,

Math or math-heavy science BS -> undergrad research -> computationally heavy PhD -> entry level DS or ML engineer job -> senior ML job (within a year or two)

If you are older and looking to pivot, I'd recommend,
Data engineer -> senior data engineer -> entry level DS -> senior DS
I did and now I'm trying to break out of it.
Cow farts affecting climate: solved.
Can freq. do that and improve as well?
These two -

1) The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875 (Not posted by myself :)

2) Podcast API - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25139833

I've been on Hacker News for over a decade. It's hacker news that made me decide to go down the join-a-startup path & later the start-my-own-company path, rather than the work-for-FAANG path (like what most of my graduate school classmates did back in 2010~2012).

I was inspired by posts like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
That's why you do carbon import taxes as well.

Plus, Europe has a carbon tax already, so there is already a chance to set up a transatlantic cooperation.
It would be the same as having Cheerios to pay more, thus Corn Flakes gets demoted to the lower rows, knie level.
How to extend GPT-3 for multi-modal/cross-modal applications?
Two stroke engines for new vehicles have already been effectively banned in the EU, and they are banned from the many ULEZ on the continent.
Bitsquatting Attacks and Exploitation with Rust
I'm going to implement a captcha that requires proof of life.

You need to send a severed finger by mail to pass it.
Have been really happy with Fork. I wish I could pay them more for updates (not a subscription though).
No problem. I'm happy I've had experience with all of this and learned it. I'm happier I don't have to deal with it on a daily basis anymore!
Mysterious deep-sea Arctic shark found in the Caribbean
It's better for the developers because they don't have to do a) or b) which involve work. Modern software development is thick with optimizing for developer convenience and externalising the cost of that to everyone else. Better for the company because they don't have to pay to develop or test or maintain a) or b), can release the simpler product sooner and move the developers onto new features which increase income.

You're unlikely to stop being a customer because an error said "Oops! Something went wrong" instead of "Error: {fb964102-bac4-4f9e-b671-62c047cb350e}".
There's no mention of it because the article seems to be focused on research, not necessarily on applied work (for which you don't necessarily need a PhD).
They plan to bring very stringent bill to takeaway alldemocracy and freedom from the net.
Apple’s Aggressive New Version of CarPlay Is Scaring the Car Industry
I think DALL-E is clearly just gluing things together that it found in a massive dataset, and doesn't have any understanding of the underlying concepts. I thought it was easy to see the signs of this in examining its output. Same for GPT-3.

However, what's amazing about DALL-E and these other statistical, generative models to me is that it's made me think about how much of my daily thought processes are actually just gluing things together from some kind of fuzzy statistical model in my head.

When I see an acquaintance on the street, I don't carefully consider and "think" about what to say to them. I just blurt something out from some database of stock greetings in my head - which are probably based on and weighted by how people have reacted in the past, what my own friends have used similar greetings, and what "cool" people say in TV and other media in similar circumstances. "Hey man how's it going?"

If I was asked to draw an airplane, I don't "think" about what an airplane looks like from first principles - I can just synthesize one in my head and start drawing. There are tons of daily activities like this that we do like this that don't involve anything I'd call "intelligent thought." I have several relatives that, in the realm of political thought, don't seem to have anything more in their head than a GPT-3 models trained on Fox News (that, just like GPT-3, can't detect any logical contradictions between sentences).

DALL-E has convinced me that even current deep learning models are probably very close to replicating the performance of a significant part of my brain. Not the most important part or the most "human" part, perhaps. But I don't see any major conceptual roadblock between that part and what we call conscious, intelligent thought. Just many more layers of connectivity, abstraction, and training data.

Before DALL-E I didn't believe that simply throwing more compute at the AGI problem would one day solve it. Now I do.
I mean, if it is "gliung things together" is doing it pretty well...
Well maybe Tim Cook could turn over a new leaf by refusing to help China hunt down ethnic and sexual minorities in their country. Maybe show a little backbone, if this is something he feels strongly about.
We can use electricity, hydrogen and CO2 from the air to make climante-neutral methane.

Methane can then replace natural gas. We already have huge storage infrastructure, power plants, and also cars and trucks that run on natural gas.
Our Roadmap for Nix
TANSTAAFL applies to batteries. There is no viable path known to produce multi-day batteries to cover everyone on the planet. Solar & wind is great. But we're not solving the climate crisis without baseload power generation and distribution. All hands on deck.
Consider the following theory:

> "There's an all-powerful, all-knowing entity watching everything you do and recording all your actions, and depending on that behavior you will be either rewarded with a post-life heavenly bliss, or a post-life eternal hellish punishment. A guaranteed way into heaven is absolute loyalty to your feudal lord and payment of a portion of your income to the church and its priests."

Yes, the original 'conspiracy theory' was religion. Just replace the supernatural entities with secret deep state cabals and black helicopters, or alien lizard-people and UFOs, it's basically the same kind of thinking.

Philosophically, there's no scientific way to disprove any of these theories, just as there's no way to disprove the notion that we're all living in a perfectly self-consistent VR simulation. Freedom of belief is also a human right, so whatever you want to imagine, go for it. (Note that believing that nothing exists until it is scientifically verified is also another of these belief systems, so don't start feeling superior, New Atheists).
It should be taught alongside, not in lieu of, other ways of establishing confidence in something.

Is a linear model 'better' than a regression developed using a tree method allowed to run over hundreds of parameters?

The amount of time I've been forced to take explaining random forest, and why we can trust it's R2 more than we can a linear regression is ridiculous.
Leaf blowers are useful for things other than literally blowing leaves. I use one to dust out my car, garage, and also clean vacuum filters. Very carefully used it can dust off old PCs and laptops as well
Ask HN: Have you authored a GitHub Repo?
I know a lot of members have contributed to repos but I'm wondering if this community authors many open source projects? (and would like to show it off)
AlphaFold can realize AI’s full potential in structural biology
There is a guide to the API here:
https://github.com/HackerNews/API
> Also C-u allows multiples of whatever you want. I can move say, 19 lines up with C-u C-u C-p C-u C-p C-n (move up 16 lines, move up 4 lines, move down one line)

Or, you know, one click with the mouse. Because sane people don't count lines and characters.
Toward a Better Music Theory (2013)
This title is pure clickbait. It's a cherrypicked line taken out of context.

For reference, this is the tweet in it's entirety:

"I agree with this person, along with many Rust community members. Rust is not a "safe language". It's a language that strongly encourages safety. Safety is a spectrum.

The people saying that safety is all or nothing are toxic and Rust community needs to stop turning a blind eye."
These folks can have multiple batteries. That's the real answer, imo. Greenwork's Pro backpack's runtime is 37 minutes at full power on their 60V 8Ah battery (~1/2kWh). Yeah, it's a $300 battery. But with a 4 year warranty, and much longer expected life-time, buying 3-6 for each blower you've got is scary upfront but a drop in the bucket over time.

There's some other sub-optimal options, but hopefully we don't see this energy-wasting noise-making cheapening out. They can charge them when they drive in most modern trucks (AC inverters are practically standard for work trucks). Worse, they start carrying around generators or idling their trucks; back to far more expensive (over time), polluting, and noisy. But both ought be better than a small screeching 2-stroke in terms of quality of life for the hundreds of people in the nearby area.

We're doing great. This is a huge improvement for quality of life for a huge huge number of people. For far more energy efficient & less costly over time systems, at modest investment cost. Particularly if you are a landscaper, having 6 sets of batteries that last 5+ years (and many many more if you're only cycling batteries once a day) seems like an incredibly minor investment cost.
The Origins of Covid-19 Are More Complicated Than Once Thought
> I trust Apple way more than Google

I hear this a lot but Google is probably one of the most trustworthy stewards of the most amount of private data in the history of mankind.
It helps if you have something else in your life you get meaning from. If you define yourself with your work, and your work sucks, that's when you're going to be unhappy. Try to focus on short-term work goals that you can take pride in, and celebrate the parts you deliver. The weak parts are someone else's problem. When this all collapses, you need to be emotionally ready to walk away (with a bundle of cash) even if you have nothing else to show for it.
Apple and MLB Announce September “Friday Night Baseball” Schedule
"in silicon valley, where majority of people on this site are at"

Do you have a source? I find it hard to believe that even 51% are in SV.

The second paragraph is a gross misrepresention of my position. And it seems you're implying that as more people wake up, this will somehow prove that the majority of HN users have made money on posts here... which isn't any different the (misrepresented) argument that you were just complaining about.

I'll wait for you to provide some actual evidence that 51% of users have directly or indirectly made money on posts here.
Is Taiwan’s Independence Worth War?
Such a good point. How do I calibrate to the all the advice out there? Find that hard - be it finance advice, health advice, hustle advice or anything else.

Like you say, most of us are average. There's rarely any content for a '46 year old married mother of 3' or any of the average folks. But a normal person's daily life goes for a toss when they hear advice on YT (or watch a Insta reel or a TikTok dance) they know they won't be able to do themselves but they think should be doing.
A Wide Reduction Trick
GPT/DALL-E/etc... All of these models are of course gluing things together in some manner, but who cares? That's the point right? The AI pill i've taken is that you don't need AGI in order to make things that are useful for people and business. If you've ever ran a business and had to dive into creatives for blogs, SEO content, social media posts, etc then you spent an inordinate amount of time creating it or outsourced it and in both cases the final copy is NOT going to get you a literary prize any time soon but it is absolutely enough to inform potential customers, start ranking on google and start gaining social media clout. GPT will also not garner you a literary award but can absolutely get you quality copy that users, customers, google, facebook users will not be the wiser that you generated it with AI instead of paid a third party to hack it together for you.

(https://neuralmates.com/ I recently started putting together a web app to MVP this, and I hope to be able to integrate DALLE-2 soon to be able to start generating images for folks as well.)