skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the state of the art but I think that we can't even predict the static crystal structure of simple substances---e.g. when iron is BCC vs FCC. The first-principles simulation of dynamic properties of large quantum many body systems is just not feasible.
It is possible that this may change dramatically when quantum computers arrive---currently we describe quantum systems by modeling them with discrete, classical computers, and quantum computers might turn out to model the relevant quantum processes directly.
You can, but it is a mouthful. Especially if you want optional arguments.

foo::some_func(foo::SomeFuncArgs{
a: 8,
b: Some(false),
..Default::default()
})

Personally I would be really happy if `..` could default to `..Default::default()` which would make this a lot cleaner. But even then needing to name a type for the argument struct is noisy. Language-integrated keyword arguments would make this a lot cleaner:

foo::some_func(
a=8,
b=Some(false))
Reinforcement Learning for Beginners – Maze-Solving with Sarsa
This is absolutely ridiculous.

> Voxer's rights to features such as "find friends"

You mean like any random phpBB forum or the thousands of web dating sites that appeared between the 90s and today?

They don't say in the article what "live" features they are talking about but I guess it's just as ridiculous as this claim.

My Sony Ericsson had a push-to-talk as well as video call features in 2006 and there were internet video streaming apps for J2ME in 2008. Remember ICQ? Same thing.

Did Voxer invent WebRTC (or whatever they use - I bet they didn't even write their own code but used a lib) or any of the underlying internet protocols? Did they invent the concept of live video stream? I really don't think so.
Even if the opinion is highly invalid, wrong, maybe arguably dangerous; the key that there is a person behind it is quite important. It's very easy to forget online, where you often only encounter one aspect of the person in one area.
But Supersonic is indeed AN answer. Delhi-Dubai takes 4 hrs. and if Dubai to NY could be done in 4 hours, I would very much prefer to buy that ticket - even if the fare prices are twice that of normal business class. Dubai-NY is a crowded route and there are plenty of very rich professionals who can take it on a regular basis.

And even for personal flights - considering that I have to travel only once a year between India and the US, I would very much welcome this option.

The current 24 hour long journey is just too brutal, and often time constraints mean that I can't break the journey into small hops over 3-4 days. And I shudder taking my family with me on such trips, given how much of a stress it causes.
The Nordic Pile
Yep. Brought my 16GB Macbook Pro to a halt.
lol that would've been amazing haha
Lucene is fast, but probably can't handle analytical type questions on massive amounts of data as fast as a pure binary index can. I could be wrong about that though. I do know Solr has it because Lucene does...
> You put everything read only, and you give a 2 years notice before applying the sentence.

This is probably still a multi-billion dollar cost when spread across the economy. There are going to be tens of thousands of workers who now have to work on migrating off Gmail/GCP/GSuite rather than doing anything actually productive. A migration like that is usually a multi-year effort, involving huge man-hour expenditures.

We could just set a fine equal to their profit for X months and accomplish roughly the same thing without upending half the businesses in the world.

> What do you think inflation is ? Their externalities being taxed on the population. Since we have to pay no matter what, at least they should feel it too.

Inflation is a decrease in the value of currency, and the causes are not well-understood. Pinning it on Google is pretty spurious. We had low inflation through years of Google doing shady things. I can't ascribe a cause to inflation, but I can pretty confidently say that Google doing shady things isn't the major cause.
Google is anticompetive and Dolby is. Just like in Google v. Oracle there are no true good guys here, only outcomes that are better or worse for the general public that various corporate entities have aligned themselves to for some perceived short term benefit.

Open standards are good for the general public, as are allowing re-implementations of APIs. Taking a look at Google's anticompetive use of search combined with ads would be absolutely fantastic too, but I'm not going to gate other actions on it unless there's some semblance of a chance that the connections between the two actions are anything other than theoretical.
Anecdote: I've been using Starlink for about a year now, and I've had no trouble with Cloudflare.
Freedom of speech. All they do is pay people to speak for them. They have money to do that. Gifts and other tomfoolery is obviously no good but I'm not sure how you could gate this without running afoul of the first amendment.
No plans yet, but you can easily clone this repo and deploy your own version on platforms like Vercel.com, no docker containers required! :)
>I guess that's simply how it works nowadays in publishing: writing the book is work, but then you also need to spend quite some time promoting it, in the hopes not only that it boosts sales, but also that the boosted sales put the book in some bestseller lists, boosting sales even further.

PR Tours for Books have been around for decades. The format may have changed but the concept has been around for a long time.
how are they any better than url shorteners? Now I have to download a qr code reader, screen grab it, convert it with said app, and that opens in a browser
Isn't it distressing that it took Apple over a decade to realize Steve Job's vision of simple apps on the web? I wonder what's taking them so long...
It helps the understanding when it is recognized that Reddit, as with other, similar sites, is a propaganda/opinion-reinforcement platform and not primarily aimed at advertising or making money.
Disagreements between opposing sides regarding the appropriate pandemic response wouldn't have been resolved by focusing on what we know. Outside of a few fringe groups, most people agreed on what we knew. The disagreements stemmed more from differing values and priorities. And that's not even a problem which needs to be solved, it's just a reality of life in open societies.
Ask HN: Anybody hiring UX/UI designers?
My wife is looking for a UX/UI Designer job since the beginning August 2022. She has already tried applying for job on LinkedIn, Dice, CareerBuilder, Zip Recruiter and other platforms but without any luck. Let me know if you are hiring
The deal isn't just "all or none" on a single phone, it is all or none over the entire inventory. If you sell an android phone with the play store you are no longer allowed to sell any android devices without it.
In a later video he goes back and checks with a better sonar, and gets the same results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDskXBfyNes
It gets awkward really fast when you may need to set a value.

let mut foo = build_foo()
.with_a(8);

if need_to_set_b {
foo = foo.with_b(false);
}

let foo = foo.build();
I think the original claim is that "facebook is damaging to some users". You could say the same about salt. People still work in salt mines.
Time. People used to complain about Italian immigrants in the US. They seemed to have no interest in integrating, continued to speak Italian for generations, and were involved in criminal groups like the Mafia. But eventually they did integrate and nobody thinks US people of Italian ethnicity are a "problem" the way they did a hundred years ago.
Yes and yes.

Although honestly, it's always a nuanced thing.

But typically the idea is to use money and undercutting to force out competition, then when the competition dies quality goes to crap.
You have to make a connection to something to get anywhere, that's how the net works
> Amazon, Google and Facebook rose, proved critics wrong

I disagree, but it probably depends on what it is that you value in the internet. In my view Amazon, Google, and Facebook are all large factors in why the internet sucks more now than ever.
Over-classification is a free speech issue. There's a moral difference between information being classified to protect the country, and information being classified to protect inept politicians and government officials from having to face the accountability of the public.

For instance, the CIA spent the equivalent of several billion dollars trying to lift an obsolete Soviet submarine from the ocean floor, against the recommendations of the US Navy which thought they could recover the relevant materials using deep sea remote control 'drones' from a spy submarine, rather than using a surface ship to lift the whole sub, which they said would fail and risked discovery. Well it did fail, and they did get discovered and the US Government was forced to explain itself to the Soviet government. But in the aftermath of this boondoggle, the US government was more candid with the Soviets than with the American public. The rational for sharing information with the Soviets but not with the American public can only be to protect the CIA/etc from public accountability. They continue to use the ambiguity created by their secrecy to lead people to believe they were more successful than they actually were. The Soviets/Russians can get ground truth about this incident by sending their own drones down there to see what was left of the submarine. The CIA's classification of the incident serves to obscure the truth from the American public, not the Russians.
Does that sound healthy? Personally or socially? I'd worry about how that would affect my view of the real women around me and, in turn, my behaviors towards others.
As a manager of a large page (several million reach per day), I often feel uncomfortable. On the one hand, Facebook is the best platform to reach many people. On the other hand, I think it is unethical to encourage people to stay on the platform. I also think that if I were to close the page, the void would be filled by the next person.

My ego tells me that since I'm aware of these problems, I can do my best to keep my page from turning into a doomscrolling experience. Yet, once again, the algorithm doesn't display my posts in their natural order, only the controversial ones, so the doomscrolling happens anyway.

I often keep up at night to think about it and I feel like there is no good answer.
Even AIs which have existed for years and been "perfected" are very noticeably not-human. Though they do look believable from far away, up close they are still in the uncanny valley.

For instance Siri and Google Voice: they are clearly understandable but they sound noticeably different than real people.

Or Stable Diffusion which will supposedly put real artists out of business. It is definitely viable for stock photos, but I can usually tell when an image was made by Stable Diffusion (artifacts, incomplete objects, excessive patterns).

thispersondoesnotexist.com faces can also be spotted, though only if I look closely. If they are a profile pic I would probably gloss over them.

In fact, I bet you can make an ML model which very accurately detects whether something was made by another ML model. Actually that's a good area of research, because then you can make a deepfake model which tries to evade this model and it may get even more realistic outputs...

Ultimately I think we will see a lot more AI before we start seeing truly indistinguishable AI. It's still close enough that the ethical concerns are real, as people who don't really know AI can be fooled. But I predict it will take at least a while before a consensus of trained "AI experts" can't agree on authenticity.
> If I was working at Sketch, the news of Adobe buying Figma must have been the best of news, right?

I would be terrified if I were Sketch.

If Adobe really does leave Figma alone like they say they are AND Figma gets the immense distribution advantages of Adobe - it's a tough situation for Sketch. They'll get stomped more than they already are.

Everything I've heard says that Adobe is looking to Figma as their future rather than looking to swallow the company like a typical acquisition.
Wonder how well this will compare to Ambisonics?

That's supposed to be a "full sphere" surround sound format (developed ~50 years ago), but hasn't been picked up widely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics
firefox and brave both choked on it for me (while a bunch of el scripts are building in the background). that page killed my GUI responsiveness lol which was unencumbered before I went there (aka windows was doing fine with compiling in the background and letting me browse the web)
Literally none of those things are real as actually described in the novel.

Keeping a diary is punishable by death (that's the premise of the entire story), it's kind of silly to compare that with our lives today.
The Beef Tax
"Of course. It's their choice as a sovereign state to have any alliance with anyone"

Really? So Canada can become a close ally of China? Maybe invite Chinese military to train Canadian troops? Maybe even allow the Chinese Navy to use Canadian ports?

Is Canada "free" to do that?

And there is Iraq. They were invaded because they had WMDs. Oops sorry Iraq we were wrong. Oh right Blair got Bush to get UN approval so they had to fake WMD evidence. Just ask Colin Powell.

Cuban missile crisis ended Peacefully because both Kennedy and Khrushchev wouldn't listen to their respective War hawk cabinets.

Ukraine was a defacto NATO member before the invasion.
So, you're saying, the majority of all people.
Here we'd also have to go though a vendor review (security, legal, etc.)
In addition to the ones mentioned above we've also tried powdered milk (cribbed from Salt&Straw, a local favorite) and this thing called "Avacream Ice Cream Stabilizer". That product works great as well but not sure I can really tell the difference, maybe the xanthan/dried milk is a little less smooth.
Isn't that a whole other level though? Google is being asked to stop forcing distribution of their software so other Android software can compete.

Either way, you're still going to have 2 operating systems: Android and iOS.
Try workable.com
I have and it’s great! The one feature I wanted to add was a way to immediately search to see if the URL has been posted before. If I remember correctly I don’t think bookmarklet does that by default.
The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps
Just wanted to say: I think (unironically) this is a good idea
Definitely not. It actually scares me what future we are heading towards. Supernormal stimulus. Better than a human partner could ever be. Super addicting in a primordial way.
I got it working inside a docker container on my M1 MBP. FWIW, I'm having my $180 tinyminimicro PC run a translation task while my M1 MBP runs a transcription task with the same audio input. So far, the PC is actually outputting results a lot faster than the MBP. Interesting results.
yeah, I was just being sort of sarcastic to bring attention to the absurdity of this matter.
For me, it's those damned "shorts". I really wish I could just make those completely invisible.
Correct, I'm looking for a tool that manages a large list of individual hostnames, I do already extensively use my ssh config to automatically apply the right credentials etc. to the hosts once I have the hostname I want.
This is a tragedy of the commons situation because people cannot help themselves.

What we are actually seeing is users going to TikTok because it is even more engaging.

People may say they want to keep up with their friends, but they will choose the more engaging activity.

There is no regulating or out-competing it.

Governments should provide identification, communication, community, payments, etc platforms for their citizens, but entertainment is always going to look like this unless stoicism is somehow engrained into our culture.

Entertainment itself is measured by engagement, so it will end with unlimited personalized ai generated content that will be almost impossible to put down.
Whenever I see these posts from TimescaleDB, I always want to ask them how it compares in performance to alternative extensions that implement the same features, rather than just comparing TimescaleDB to vanilla PostgreSQL.

For example, they mention their automated data retention and how it's achieved with one SQL command, and how DELETEing records is a very costly operation, and how "even if you were using Postgres declarative partitioning you’d still need to automate the process yourself, wasting precious developer time, adding additional requirements, and implementing bespoke code that needs to be supported moving forward".

There's zero mention anywhere of pg_partman, which does all of these things for you equally as simply, and is a fully OSS free alternative [0].

I get that it's a PG extension that competes with their product. I know that TimescaleDB does a few other things that pg_partman does not. But I can't help but find its (seemingly) purposeful omission in these, otherwise very thorough blog posts, misleading.

[0] https://github.com/pgpartman/pg_partman/blob/master/doc/pg_p...
Appreciate the comment. Are you referring to the summaries at the bottom of the blog post? Happy to hear more (here or on enias@steamship.com) — if we drew an inaccurate excerpt we should fix it.
One of the questions I like to ask contractors before beginning work is "what changes would make this cheaper/easier for you?" Often simple things like moving a planned wall an inch or switching the location of something can make it vastly easier; or there will be things they can get preassembled or done for free.

And sometimes the factory building whatever has a giant machine that can easily do what would take you quite a long time to do by hand.
I bought them, and everyone I know bought them. So for what it's worth, you'll at least be in good company. It won't be some forgotten bin of a handful of people with no recourse.

It also maxes at $10k a year, so you're not likely to be bankrupting yourself.
I believe DNT was used for better browser fingerprinting.
Pretty sure that the CCP policy that there is one China including Taiwan goes back to the 1950s. Its ugly and complicated history but Taiwanese people today can look at what is happening to the Uighurs and see very good reasons not to be conquered by China.
>I decided to just ask 4 women colleagues and they all agreed unanimously that referring to women as female is weird. It's clinical

I actually already agree with your coworkers reactions but your survey isn't really what I was doing. In regular conversation, I don't call women "females" and don't know anybody who does. Yes, that would be clinical sounding and de-humanizing.

But in writing, when we wanted the text to refer to both F-gender-age-over-18=="women" plus F-gender-age-under-18=="girls" ... the elegant short phrase that covered both was "females". It's just a form of text compression.

And (some) women journalists still using "females" in 2022 means people are still using it innocuously. It's a shame that incels ruined it.
That's probably the goal, but Google is probably going to have anxiety about getting fined again if their compliance is not enough. Except in this case, the fines are so steep that it'd be very hard to over-spend on compliance. But it's just a race to the bottom in any case, Google only stands to make less and less money in the EU from now on.
How very brave of a Chinese-American, whose country or origin was 94% ethnically Han in 1953, and is still 91% Han in 2020 [1], to write a story where the evil whites in the US (87% in 1970, down to 61% a short 50 years later, and falling) [2] are culturally genociding her group.

Uncomfortably close to reality? It is reality - in China, for the Uyghurs.

Accuse your enemy of what you are doing. The more the US opens its borders, the more it is demonized.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#Ethnic_g...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
Although neither is scientific, as a framework for talking about relationships, love languages are far better than horoscopes because love languages are purely personal preferences and horoscopes are random based on birth date.
At a minimum, they should be disbarred and held personally liable for damages at an amount that ruins them. Incentives matter, as does sending a message to the next ethically challenged cohort considering such behavior.
Same. For the potential upsides ($10,000 x 9% is $900, and that assumes I will keep it in cash otherwise), the downside risk is too great. If I could just click a button in my brokerage account and buy them, I would.
The Case of the Disputed Lucian Freud
There are a bunch of people providing turnkey Matrix hosting - e.g. https://element.io/matrix-services from Element, or https://etke.cc/ and https://ungleich.ch/u/products/hosted-matrix-chat/.
Very unlikely - the EU has proven it cannot build a Google competitor worth a damn. Instead what would happen is that Google would have no corporate presence here but the website would still be accessible, and people would just continue using it as normal but with fewer local customizations and the only ads they'd see would be from American firms, or from European firms that buy ads via American subsidiaries / brokers.
Still no GAT
I assume thats because bitly has excellent blocking for known malware sites and techniques (rate limiting/etc) since they've been around for so long.
Yes. The limit is 10k per calendar year though in case anyone is wondering. Their website looks like it was built in 1995 and they make you type (edit: actual click on virtual buttons) the password (cannot copy/paste from password managers) because they have that "virtual keyboard" BS. But it did work ultimately.
C64 Fitness Watch
I think to OP's point, if we are worried about government wrongdoing we should pass laws against government wrongdoing. It really doesn't matter what the private industry does or doesn't do if the government still has the right to take it.

I am not afraid of my data being used against me to sell products. I am afraid of the government abusing their monopoly on violence. The first seems like misdirection.
Bear in mind a global company like Google would much rather operate in the EU in the red than pull out. Simply because Google only survives on being a monopoly, and leaving one of the biggest global markets makes too much room for a competitor to develop that can eventually challenge them across the world.
Dolt's new storage format is now live and 2x faster
Performance benchmarks can be found here: https://docs.dolthub.com/sql-reference/benchmarks/latency
If it takes a $4B fine to get Google to behave, then a $4B fine is the right amount, regardless of revenue. Revenue hints at the fine that would get their attention.

We charge people with a crime to see if their part in it can be proved. Second-guessing the court produces often bad results.
Heh, people have done it with NAS apparently https://superuser.com/a/861203
I encourage all those who care about this but do not work in medical research to join the government or get a PhD or MD and be prepared to solve the next problem that crops up. Then, you will have some more context on the challenges faced during public health emergencies.

In the meantime I'd love to see a truly non-partisan, fact based, recognizing limits of human knowledge postmortem of the US response and how it could have been improved, given the information that was available at the time. The vast majority of postmortems I read of COVID assume knowledge today was avaialble then, that the data is unambiguous, and the conclusions trivially follow from the data, and start with a conclusion, rather than starting with data and forming a collection of hypotheses, and attempting to produce reasonable estimates on the probabilities of those hypotheses. I don't know quite who would be capable of doing this.