skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You know, in data science, you see people spending hours writing pandas scripts that replicate a few clicks in excel for a one of analysis

I mean, having an Excel doc at all usually implies hour(s) of work formatting the data in structured manner. Sometimes collective decades of work depending on how much heavy lifting your 15GB .xlsx is doing.
> I am not a psychologist, these are observations of a coder.

I am a PhD cognitive psychologist and a coder with 50+ year’s, and I’ve worked directly on the topic you’re writing about. There’s a LOT to say about your interesting piece. Way too much actually. We may have to take it offline. But I want to nod to this:

> In a parallel dimension ... computer hardware was based on SKI calculus. ... software has very few bugs, however, this universe has fewer programs, even fewer programmers, and the error messages suck.

This is perhaps the funniest hacker joke I’ve ever heard! (Although, the Lisp error messages are actually pretty great. But I get the joke regardless.)
I think it's important to distinguish between something that's a "dead end" in that it will take you nowhere interesting, and something that's a "dead end" in that it will, after a certain point, cease advancing.

The former would imply that there is no point using deep learning and other similar techniques at all, and is the common implication when people say something is a "dead end".

The latter is what I believe the current generation of machine learning to be: I do not believe it will lead to AGI, and I am skeptical that it can do a great deal more than what it has already done (it can continue to refine the types of things it already does, and I expect it to do so, but I don't think it will open up new categories of things it can do many more times). But despite that, it does do some very cool things now, and as they are refined, I think they can be commercially successful and generally beneficial tools.
> Users actually know their own email address

The amount of wrong emails I get to [myname]@[major email domain] is quite surprising. I don't know if someone with my name just doesn't know their email address, or the people who input it are careless.
I absolutely hate bio pages like that, at least ones about me. Call it imposter syndrome or whatever, but I seriously doubt anyone will ever be more endeared to anything I'm attached because they read something about me. I'm also in the weeds trying to work up the About page for a current project I'm involved and am heavily leaning on just not having one.

I admit, I'm super jaded, but I don't believe any quotes people use on websites like:
--"This product is amazing and saved my company 10% annually" - Tom M. Des Moines

At this point, I just assume all of those quotes/testimonials are just written by someone in the marketing department and the only place you'll find a picture of them is on thispersondoesnotexist.com
Disney, Tesla (parts of) and Databricks are Scala shops.
2 hours is ICE which isn't a "normal" train to me, but even with regional trains it should only be around 4 hours. I'm not sure if the OP took the scenic route.

200km was also a very optimistic guess, it's 300km. It looks close on the map but even in a car it will take you 3 hours. It's actually faster to go from Dresden.
Civilian drones can be jammed. Jammers are used to counter remotely detonated IEDs already.
The US has pretty terrible public transport even in dense areas.
The phrase "space leak" seemed unusual and a bit of a "tortured phrase", since I'm more familiar with this concept as "memory bloat" or just inefficiency in general. Upon a little more searching it appears to be mainly Haskell jargon.
>No, it appears the "technologists" here on HN (such as yourself) are now people who are techno-pessimists through and through, don't see the big deal in new breakthroughs

Yes, it's called experience. After one has seen all those "new breakthroughs" hyped to high heaven and amounting to nothing, they have learned not to take salesmen at face value.

Of course some people remain eternally starry eyed, as if they've just came down from a bus from Nebraska to L.A. to become movie stars. Sadly, they're still not the ones doing the real innovation. Just the ones taken for a ride by one hype after another.
I'd say the results are too consistently picturesque to be random.
I've seen this a lot this year.

Other red flags:

Resume says they live somewhere without large immigrant populations like some random town in the Midwest. Places that aren't really tech hubs so you wouldn't expect to find many immigrant tech workers there.

When you phone/video screen them. They are barely able to speak English to the point where you wonder how it's possible for them to survive in the area they claim to live in (again not areas known for large non-hispanic immigrant populations so you'd expect that a certain level of English competency is a required to function).

Sometimes they take the interview in what sounds like a noisy environment. Sounds a bit like a call center. You start to wonder if there are other "candidates" doing interviews for other companies in the same vicinity.

It's definitely been a time waster but I obviously will not filter resumes based on nationality which I think is morally reprehensible (not to mention the legalities that you mentioned).
Why does it need to be regulated?
How would we know? For the sake of the economy, more trips is typically better than less.

But at the end of the day, would you rather for the only choice to be cars or have a proper sustainable/scalable way of transport?
Music industry avoids legal battle with new streaming royalty deal
Dots are never ignored before the @, and also aren’t ignored after it, for that matter.

I guess this is another falsehood people believe about emails.

> Nobody else can register an email that is the same as yours but without a dot.

It used to be possible, then google decided to stop allowing that (guess why?)

And by the way, that’s an arbitrary decision.

I have run mail servers and it’s just and cam tell you… it’s an arbitrary decision.
>if this pessimism is the default attitude here on anything

Ah, if only that was the case... One can dream, however...

Mind you, when real hackers walked the earth (MIT, AT&T, Xerox, and so on), they weren't that hot about hypes either, and they couldn't be further from today's marketing types.

Those were hackers: programmers, scientists, enthusiasts, and so on.

Not today's used-car-salemen types touting AI, big data, VR, and the rest...
You might like insecam.org as well. Similar principle in the end, but sort of live. And morally a bit harder because it's essentially spying. But for the curious..
we levelled fallujah
Is there an insurance company that will pay out if the seal is broken? Probably not, since then the customers would break them themselves to claim theft.
DeSantis sues Biden administration over Canadian drug importation program
Good engineers write not just code, but good documentation and technical write-ups explaining decisions and the pros/cons of different choices (RFCs).

If your typing skills are sub-par, that’s just one more stumbling block.
Actually if you look closely at the repeated notes at the beginning of the song it can be read as morse code (without spaces) for YYZ [0]. The story goes while on the Toronto Airport Neil Peart overheard the airport identifier in morse code and so the intro was born.

But I'm not sure where he would have heard that other than over radio broadcast reserved for pilots and ATCs.

Instead I think he must have been aware of the obscure history of canadian airport identifiers when wondering about why they have no resemblance (like mostly in the rest of the world) with the letters of the respective cities/geographic area.

Canadian airport codes have their roots in the old telegraph stations operated by the railways. They were assigned two-letter identifiers so as to be easily tapped in Morse code. As radio communications evolved, these stations added beacons and specialized in weather reporting. In the 1930’s, a third letter was added to the classification [...] [1][2]

[0]https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/08/14/yyz/

[1]https://rwy23.com/en-de/pages/the-hidden-language-of-airport...

[2]https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/04/why-torontos-airport-cod...
I could grab a handful of leaves of a tree and shove it in my face hole for lunch. It would be cheaper, but I prefer a salad made of lettuce.
When an artist paints something awesome, do they give credit to the company that built the paintbrushes that they used? Or the company that made the canvas, or the paints? All of these are critically important and complex pieces of technology used by the painter, which has been honed over the course of thousands of years, but they're all just tools.
Politics broke the internet, and it can still break the blockchain
I think the US finally realized they can not compete in a globalized world and keep 8000m people obedient and dependent, so the push to partition the world to remain relevant and competitive has now come.

What's worse is that the US is fully aware this could result in another European war, and they coldly calculate that the US mainland would be entirely spared of damage, and that the US would be the single condition for the rebuilding of Europe with unpresedented control over politics, trade, and economy.
Don't know what's there not to get, the text I quoted states this explicitly:

"The licenses safeguarded Arm’s rights and expectations by prohibiting assignment without Arm’s consent, regardless of whether a contemplated assignee had its own Arm licenses."

ARM claims that they gave Nuvia a license with the condition to develop server-architecture, Qualcomm assumes that (the total sum of) their licenses allows them to use the architecture for whatever they want. ARM disagrees.
One potential side effect of AI? Human extinction
Have we ever found out, why did Mozilla actually remove PWA support from Firefox? Apart from the buzzwordey stuff like “focusing on delivering real value to our users” that the C-levels have been spouting. Between this and their abandonment of Servo, it really seems like they keep shooting themselves in the feet, which, considering their position on the market, just really baffles me.
In any field there are obvious mistakes that all the beginners make and are well understood. The message that beginners need to hear - "this is a common mistake, don't do it!" - can be farmed out to an adviser who doesn't understand the field.

In my experience, even having someone to repeat things I already know every so often can be a helpful form of advice.
Every site that complies with COPPA today.
Snakeoil seller, or, I don't believe selleress is a word?
practical or not, the size of a country (which, should that be reminded, is a man-made construct) should not have a say on whether or not some can be “pardoned” to fly.

If your country is poorly equipped in efficient rails, how would that give you the right to fly for convenience? This question comes from everyone in every other country.
This is just a repost of https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/universal-scene-descriptio....

USD has some major pain-points, the most important one being that unlike HTML, it has absolutely no specification for the file format. Everyone using it would have to go through the single USD library. See https://rystorm.com/blog/i-would-like-usd-to-succeed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32591840) for a more balanced view.
I've used to work with a guy who had... dyslexia, I think? Dysgraphia? Basically, he simply couldn't type without typos, although he seemed to do fine with reading. Well, he relied heavily on copy-pasting code snippets around, those sometimes being as small as a single keyword. Quite a sight to see, to be fair.

My point is, being able to type 100 WPM without typos is surely nice, and so is e.g. having good vision (or vision at all, for that matter), but it's not strictly necessary and can be worked around. Although, of course, if you can come into possession of those qualities reasonably cheaply then sure, go on and obtain them.
"taking over most of Europe as Celts used to live all over France and beyond."

If historically it had belonged to the Celts, and all the land had been called Ireland since antiquity, and was currently controlled by Ireland and all the citizens considered themselves Irish then yes, Ireland should control most of Europe.
Twitter Finally Gets an Edit Button
Yeah I mean, great for running inference (and obviously training smaller models). The problem is that Scaling Laws for Transformers show us that scaling model parameter count _up_, is a sure way to improve the model's performance over your task.

So when you're playing nation-state hard-ball, since the architectures are _somewhat_ trivially copied upon being published, that means the best checkpoint goes to the one with the fastest GPU's. If China wasn't behind in deep learning, they will be.
What's changed to increase the numbers of them?
Sounds to me that you are very much anti-Palestinian. When Zionists say the land of Israel is for Jews only that’s racist, especially since it’s built on confiscated Palestinian lands with a full blown military occupation that’s ongoing. When that’s justified by people such as yourself then it becomes a racist ideology.
Most of the developed world doesn't recognize Palestine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_t...
It's called diplomacy. He was engaged in peace negotiations when he called those people friends (he has since said that he probably shouldnt have said it).

It clearly wasnt racism that motivated him to say "friends" it was obviously a desire for peace. Most of his more intelligent detractors understood the context but were avowedly pro war - for them that actually made it worse.

Isaac Herzog's abhorrent views had no such excuse, he doubled down on them and yet British centrists demonstrate pretty much unconditional support for him.

A contingent from the UK Labour party even visited him to apologize in person for the other guy's "antisemitism". In the process of apologizing for somebody who wasnt a racist, they were sucking up to somebody who was. They werent looking for peace when they did that though, only approval.
The sort of surveillance and checkpoints China imposes on the Uyghurs in Xinjiang is abhorrent, and so is what Israel imposes on Palestinians.
It's around 100 light years away from Earth for anyone interested.
You’re still trying to force a generalization. If you don’t want to agree with your own statement, change your mind. You do believe that a government can jail a worker for refusing to work.

We’re stuck on this point because you’re afraid to state it as such. There’s nothing else you can offer this conversation.
Take Chinese announcements with a grain of salt. It’s the same as “IBM produced 0.1 nm transistor” stuff. It’s far from production.

They’ll get there eventually though.
I think you are misunderstanding their point. They want to ask for more than what they expect to get, because the "reasonable outcome" will be seen as somewhere between what ARM is asking for and what Qualcomm is asking for. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)
If you read her account on Medium, it's clear that she wasn't retaliated against. Google sided with her and determined her manager to be wrong for relocating her, so the subtext is that she manages to keep her position. However, she still considers it retaliation because Google didn't determine it to be retaliation.

If I were Google I'd fire her for abusing disability leave. She clearly was fit enough to keep up with and protest Google's development in Israel and appear on TV. Meanwhile, she didn't make a single effort to keep up with her team.

https://medium.com/@arielkoren/googles-complicity-in-israeli...
Go talk with your customer service. Oops, so much rotation nobody cares, everyone is cheating KPIs.
I've never understood what exactly the "open" in OpenAI is supposed to imply. They produce proprietary, gated models - not open in any meaningful sense.
It is effortless for me to keep my political opinions airgapped from my work environment. While I emphatically believe my political positions are correct, I know that plenty of people don't agree with me on contentious topics. To bring my politics to work, especially as a senior leader, borders on abuse of power, because my role in the organization would confer unearned authority to my political opinions.

I learned this early in my career when I discovered that my company's senior management were all members of an ultra-conservative Catholic sect. I remember censoring myself as a young person because I knew many of my opinions were not aligned with the values and culture of the management team. I"ll never forget how that made me feel, and I hope I never make a young colleague feel the way I did.
> The creation of the synthesizer didn't kill the guitar

That's a bad argument. First of all, it probably did replace guitar parts. Computers with plugins certainly did. Second, the argument was rather that it would replace musicians. And it did that too. Modern samplers replace entire orchestras. Not that it's a bad thing per se (after all, who can afford even a small string section?), but it did happen. Third, this doesn't take the same role in drawing a synthesizer takes in music production.

> I love that humanity has developed so many new highly advanced tools which allow greater artistic expression by a broader range of people.

In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister (It is in working within limits that the master reveals himself).
It's a slightly more complicated story than that:

Japanese manufacturers have unions.

Japanese manufacturers in the USA are often in states with anti-union rules.

Unionised American firms were competing with non-unionised Japanese plants.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-oe-cutler6-2008dec06-stor...
Tut tut, not all false statements of fact are protected, while some are. Your statement is overly broad as to be a false statement of fact.
The Blowback podcast is pretty good on this topic https://blowback.show/Season-1
I hope that since this is an issue both 'teams' agree on in this case, the discussion can be fruitful, and not devolve into partisan bickering.

I am especially curious why progress has been so glacial, given that both sides of the aisle, at least publicly, support this program.
Would be great if it’s Mexico too. A healthy economy in any of the three N.A. nations is good for all of them. Neighbors have an outsize influence on each other.
What's inside that function is Unicode case folding and non-deterministic collation, such as ICU, or its equivalent. See https://icu.unicode.org
I don't see how it can be termed a disaster if the end result is that infrastructure companies received more money and the population received a higher (if temporary) standard of living. This also increased the probability of decreased reliance on cars in the future and increased investment in such infrastructure, increased public support for those investments.

I mean, we might still die in the climate wars in twenty years, but the 9 euro tickets won't be among the reasons why.
> I expect the competition contains some rule along the lines of "entries must be the entrants own work" or similar.

What exactly counts as "own work" in the age of digital tools and AI? This was explicitly the digital works category, and even Photoshop makes use of AI.
They didn't. They support all the PWA APIs (ServiceWorkers, Manifests, Push, etc.), they just don't support having PWAs open without browser chrome on desktops only. On android they can be added to the homescreen and they open without browser chrome just like Chromium does.
What is quality? Is this “better” than a Rothko or a Mondrian or a Duchamp? We’re talking about art; it’s inherently subjective.
Why should Florida be able to take drugs from other countries? Yeah, capitalism, blah blah blah. Why not rather work with creating a less costly distribution scheme within the us? Ah yes, that would be socialism.
This is why I've adopted R and Python for the data work I do. I have a bunch of exported data (CSV files) that I use. Manipulating the structure and format is 90% of the work. I wrote the scripts once, now I can reuse that for everything instead of playing games getting those CSV files (dates in particular) to play nicely.

Even a one off analysis is actually FASTER in Pandas because I've done the work of farting around with the formatting. Now I can just write the necessary analysis code, rather than deal with the formatting.

That said, my data analytics work is seriously small potatoes compared to many. But I can write a quick pivot table using Dplyr faster than I can do it in Excel.
I think it's more like Databricks' photon.. a rewrite of the execution engine that can be plugged into existing spark deployments.
Yes, but now you need to have jammers everywhere you have troops.
What resources did you use to get into SELinux? I am an SELinux user, but it's more like "I can debug it and make it work without turning it off".
Ships are fairly obvious to spot, land bases are a different scenario.
This is a great list! I don't see anything in here that Payload doesn't handle. I'll try to address each.

> allow me to create a localized content (you seem to have this covered).

Localization can be done on any field(s), at any point in your content structure .

> a good story for blobs (images, video, PDFs, etc).

You can have as many upload collections and set mimetypes. Payload saves to a local directory in your Node app or you can use our cloud storage plugin for S3/Azure/GCP.

> integrated full text search (I do not want to set up elastic search when using a headless CMS saas).

Payload has a lot different querying options and you can get creative with relating content to one searchable collection, but we still recommend a proper search tool when you have complex filtering and searching requirements or massive collections which are better optimized elsewhere.

> fully spec'd API (when I have defined a content type, I need some API spec to be updated; openAPIv3 was good, GraphQL is better: so I can generate a client lib).

Along with REST endpoints, Payload opens up a full GraphQL implementation with complete schemas based on the config you provide for queries and mutations. It also can write these out to a graphql.schema file using a built-in command.

> some mechanism to know the API was updated (so I can show the "a new version is available, the version you run may no longer work in certain cases, please click here to use the newest version" message somewhere).

This would be up to your implementation of Payload and your frontend. You could make a field for publishDate or increment a version number to handle this scenario and query and compare based on that.

> a story on content blocks (say: text, image, text, quote, text, author card) vs embeddable content in text blocks (say: a text block with a way to embed images/etc into it); the latter is really hard to do right imho.

Payload's richtext field is capable of embedding relationships and file uploads so you can do the hard thing or you do predefined blocks for your content editors to use like you said too.

We really put in the work, I'd love to hear from you if you try it out.
I love PWAs, I use them a lot. Some PWAs I prefer over regular apps, Outlook, Teams (although that doesn't mean I like either app generally...).

But I feel like the only reason I know about PWAs is because I'm a developer, and I really don't think about providing them to customers / introducing them. Explaining a PWA, how to install it and all... it's not really apparent to end users what is going on / why they have to go through these steps.

I feel like PWAs are this wonderful little secret ... but have been for so long I wonder if non technical folks will adopt them.
Would you say the big data threshold moves every year?

That would explain why people think a <1TB is big data.
Can't wait to see equivalent NFC tricks misused at stores. Imagine doing an NFC which sends malicious instructions to your phone.