skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. That's fuuuuuuuuuuuucked up. "Sorry you were born more likely to suffer disease, which is unfortunately going to make your life much harder. We'd like to double down by making you pay more money too. Hope you are comfortable being both less wealthy and less healthy!"
Part of me can’t wait until you all are outsourced to a team in Lima for 25% of the cost. Everyone here seems to think they are so special. I am warning you, someone who is 75% as talented as you that will work for 50% the salary is a fucking miracle. Stop pretending you are special.. you aren’t!
aw no! Now I have to go update my LinkedIn profile!
Oh boy, I got sucked into those shorts real hard. How the hack (heck) does he guess the card those people on the street seemingly all by themselves picked?
I'm not the OP, but if I said that line, I'm 100% sure I am not being sponsored. It's just that good.
Software programs are not physical goods nor do they always work the same, by letting workers apply the same algorithms.

Programmers are not workers sitting on the belt and assembling the same software over and over, they are creative persons who have to take lots of decisions.
Isn't go statically compiled by default also..?
And some people want and need leaders. It's not a matter of "letting it happen", it's a ore function of humanity. And in the absence of formal hierarchy you get informal hierarchy which is much worse and more tyrannical.
HP Accidentally Uses macOS Screenshot in Ad for Windows Laptop
Does anyone have a good summary or book recommendation about non bullshit progress in the field?
You don't need those hops if you use Python either. Python runs inside Postgres.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpython.html

Naturally Rust or C functions will still be faster.
Huge fan of Pythonista. Hadn’t heard about play.js. I will check it out! Thanks.
your entire hypothetical is based on the idea that there are genetically stupid people suited for nothing but menial labor.

Reality is, this has been obvious for hundreds of years for anyone with two eyes to see.

Stupid people exist. Very stupid people exist. Intelligence has a genetic component.
> The 2013 Dell Venue 11 Pro is remarkably good a contender. It's been $300 for half a decade, has 8-9 hours battery life with the keyboard, isn't super light nor thin but is pretty good & very compact, has a decent front shooter & so so back shooter. Has a 4G option.

The Dell is slower than 2012 era iPhone 5

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/PhoneTablet14/937

> The whole 2-in-1 thing has gotten segmented into expensive fancy Surface competitors & ultra-low-end machines (which honestly with slightly better builds and much much better screens would be stunning devices)

“Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?”

> until Apples very recent speedy but oh-so-limited oh-so-walled-garden oh-so-controlled shorter-lifed iPads).

As of right now, the iPad Air 2 from 2014 supports the latest OS. Apple just released a security patch for the iPhone 5s from 2013 in June.
That's true if scientists are all good actors. But unfortunately, some scientists are bad actors.
I'm definitely an AI maximalist and worried about mass unemployment one day, but I think this article isn't right; it's too shallow and has some assumptions that aren't right. Chess isn't comparable to management because chess is ultimately based on simple rules. And I think we're already seeing automation and robots replacing hourly workers in a lot of interesting scenarios incl. self-checkouts and app-based automated checkouts in stores, robots that delivers your food in Asian restaurants etc. What I do think though is that wasteful administrative management (and non-management) work is slowly getting less (caveat: I work at Asana and it's our mission to make work coordination, tracking and reporting easier. Same with rostering tools like Deputy etc.) and so we're certainly minimising the "middle manager overhead" but to say that it's being replaced is a long stretch.
An argument could be made about setting an example, which US as the leading country still is in some ways for Russia and China, whether they want it or not, especially for the people if not the gov.
Something I only learned recently: Boeing 747's had a sextant port, for use in navigation. This is only one of several aircraft variants (including military aircraft) which used sextant navigation.

<https://virginflightdeck.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.htm...>

Mentioned at least once on HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5719703>

OK, rather more than once: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>
I would like to see Webb’s photo without so much lens flare on individual stars (not sure if that’s the right term). Just kind of toned down stars but the same level of detail.
Why Is This Flower on Wikipedia Suddenly Getting 90M Hits per Day? (2021)
I see a lot of controversial comments about race, etc. Well the big joke is is that there are huge ancestry biases in genetic databases. They are not representative of much of humanity.

The other thing I think people here are not considering is the issue of informed consent on the part of the patient. When patients agree to give biological samples, they generally do so with the understanding that that they will be used for a particular purpose or within some scope. It is unethical for researchers to use the bio samples or data outside the bounds of patient consent because it is disrespectful and violates their autonomy.

For example, if I tell you that I am going to use your DNA to cure cancer, and then turn around and give it to someone who wants to develop a bio weapon (or targeted ads), that is not cool. You would probably feel duped, and never would have agreed had you known it could be used for such purposes. This is kind of an extreme example, but hopefully it makes the issue clear.

My guess is that this is less about “censorship” and more about legal issues around patient consent.
I believe Ceres was originally developed for nonlinear least squares optimization, particularly in the context of structure from motion (as bundle adjustment) and related problems in computer vision and robotics (esp. SLAM). As such it has some features that are useful in that context, such as automatic differentiation and covariance estimation. I see that it also has more general nonlinear optimization feature, but even in that feature it seems like it assumes there will be at least first order gradients available (and again, for this the auto differentiation is handy).

On the other hand it seems like NLOPT is oriented towards implementing various more general "black box" optimization methods, only some of which need/support gradient information, and there's no auto differentiation.

So if I was working on some kind of SFM/SLAM problem, I'd probably use Ceres, but if I had a less structured optimization problem - and especially if I didn't have gradients - I'd try NLOPT.
> And no, I don't want yet another story about another Amber Alert in Oklahoma (I'm a thousand miles from Oklahoma) or a dismembered body found in a ditch (the headline didn't specify where).

I get the much more positive "a restaurant with food you would like opened" with "and it's somewhere you'll likely never be" revealed when I click on it.
Has anybody tried to apply the "Memory Palace" -technique to memorizing Pi? How might that work?
Sadly, despite my arguments in the same direction, Cloudflare refuses to host a base64 encoding of the new Flubber.
Lambda has been a thing since 2014 and more and more of it are “serverless” as the years go by.

EC2 was a necessary step and though and even that bought things like per second billing, autoscaling and infrastructure as code to the masses.
Chess is complicated. Running a business is complex.
There is indeed support for structural editing, but we start the environment from the viewing use case. There are many ways to view data (or programs) and these are much less expensive and approachable than editing. For example, the distribution alone comes with thousands of object views. These then enable us to answer questions about the system without reading code (which happens to be the single largest expense in software engineering today).
I think the broad consensus was AI would replace Manual, Knowledge and Creative workers in that order.

Seems to be trending the other way.

Recently seen more tele-operational solutions in robotics space to replace or compliment manual labour. There seems to be something to this where full automation is not feasible or where it fails and needs recovery.
Hello computer,

DROP TABLE humans;
No, it hasn't happened on multiple occasions. It happened one time thousands of years ago in one region of the Earth. I must remind you that the industrial revolution and the social ills it brought happened more recently. We aren't talking about the same thing.
Not sure this follows. Their designs might be bad(?), but certainly for any UI driven applications, they do do use the native and emulated devices.

What OP means is that you ssh into a cloud machine for development.
> "the grid" (?) will look dramatically different in 13 years

That feels dramatically optimistic.

The California Camp Fire was started by PG&E transmission lines about a 100 years old that were not being maintained. That is the rate of change and maintenance on the electrical infrastructure.

Now, sure, EVs are shaking up the electrical grid needs so perhaps the future will see faster evolution than a 100 year cycle. But dramatically different in 13 years? I don't think so.
Do most of you posting here code in Linux? Or is it just your desktop of choice. I’ve been on macOS for many years. Probably 30+ and I’ve dabbled in so many Linux distros. I do want to set up a system again that is minimal and quick. Any recommendations? Cheers!
Of course it is relevant to the topic.

You are agreeing that at least something has been learned.

That is a valuable point to make, in and of itself, that at least something has been learned.
I know very well what a hacker event is and how it unfolds. Been on stage on few, helped as volunteer on some. IMHO - Generally this all manifest in a very similar manner to some communist movement. I’m not saying that it is bad to contribute to some idea, not even saying communism is bad. I’m just saying that there’s certain amount of hypocrisy in this scenario, you can downvote me as much as u want, doesn’t change the fact.

It is one thing to throw a party for 20friends and another to have FOSDEM sized gig. Such events are not presented in open ground in some forest by people shouting loud (been to such also, although for music). So they have cost - for venue, internet, electricity, screens, typically some food, drinks etc. As a presenter I have a cost for flight, accommodation, food, etc.

Someone pays the bill. Not for profit still has bills to pay. If you don’t pay deeds with cash, there’s some other value exchanged.

So why not support these people who contribute? What’s wrong with that, sorry I’m not getting it. Besides students very often participate by moving boxes between rooms, because for jobs that require responsible actions one needs an expert. Being a student I’d rather want to participate in something that actually teaches me something, but at the end the best I can hope for is to get to know some famous folks. But I can also do it as a visitor, right?
Computer science has a racism problem: these researchers want to fix it
Input is a problem. Can’t imagine using mobile keyboard for anything more complex than texting. Curious whether Replit will integrate with voice coding solutions one day (like https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless).
Looks incredible, thanks for sharing! Hope they can remove stars from Webb’s Pillars of Creation at some point.
I believe that when the number of parameters isn't in the millions, as in deep networks, there's less of an advantage to using GPUs. But there is definitely research on using GPUs to solve nonlinear least squares optimization problems. Here's one I saw a few years ago: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3132188
Just a separate rules file that blocks .in and other popular domains for India will probably work just as well.
Ask HN: How to figure out profitable niche things to manufacture?
Do we have playbooks for manufacturing? From finding products to manufacture to setting up a factory?

Where should one start looking for things to manufacture?
Right, so what's the alternative? If you support democracy, then you must therefore support the right of people to vote for fascism. If you don't support the rise of fascism, or don't think people should be allowed to vote for fascism, then you're rejecting democracy, and therefore supporting authoritarianism (which is what fascism turns into).

I feel like this is a paradox.
> I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization.
we aren't early. others like Gumby here have made great posts about how the cloud has existed for decades. I don't like his silly broad ranging manifestations but okay. I've seen a lot of old shit, let's stroke off about them but it continues.
Sometimes I wish HN had a rule against posting things about mental health (perhaps with the exception of Ask HN threads).

At the very least, I'm curious what the statistics on references are compared to technical topics. There's always so much misinformation in ADHD threads. It's really exhausting.
Enjoy the time with your little one. They’ll soon grow up before you know it and then you’ll get time back for tinkering, but by then will miss the time you had with your first born.
That is neither artificial nor intelligence.
Certainly, however Europe won’t be able to fulfill all of its energy needs by local production. Hydrogen is too difficult to ship, so probably ammonia will get shipped instead.

Also you have the issue of ships that can’t get electrified yet. Green ammonia might be one way to replace fossil fuels.
Seconded.

There’s a REALLY obvious difference.

It’s visible as an effect in studies too. In various forms. At random, one paper of many which captures one aspect: https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1469-7610.2010.02333.x
Anything over 20x approaches the theoretical limit. And a services speed will only increase overall latency by the fraction it's used.
I don't think a type system will save you.

The problem is that, since the introduction of dependencies has become so easy, people have become dependency hogs.

Every time you introduce a dependency, you need to weigh the benefits against the cost. But to the person introducing a dependency, at that moment when they make that decision, the cost is just "pip install x". So they think the cost is negligible, but, of course, the true cost doesn't start to show until much later, when it's too late to undo the decision.

One slighly masochistic thing I've done for myself is that I don't allow myself to ever do "pip install x". I force myself to (1) download a source distribution for the package, or wheel if it's pure (2) cut the internet connection (3) do "pip install --no-deps" or "setup.py", building from source from the local package
(4) see if it works, or if the absence of dependencies causes actual breakage (5) if there's breakage, go to 1, repeating the process with the missing dependency -- when I've spent more time on this process than I think the package is worth, given the benefit it brings to my project, then stop the process and try to live without the dependency.

Interestingly: Forcing yourself to build everything from source also tells you a lot about the state of health of a package you're about to introduce as a dependency. Like: Does it depend on something that's just a wrapper around a perl module that hasn't been touched in 15 years; that kind of thing.
Excuse me sir, are you going to pay for those?
It is FPGA technology alongside analog blocks as well as other pre-defined peripherals available from the design tool. Most pin are unallocated and you drag and drop gates, ADCs counter etc etc and wire them up. If a block can be software controlled it is addressable via the ARM core and one can read hardware state in software.
Care more, but worry less.
For most HN submissions from paywalled sites, disabling javascript in your browser is a good-enough solution.
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I think you're missing the point. The goal is not to manipulate the player into learning information through gamification. Transmitting information is not the challenging part of education. Conceptual knowledge and engagement are. Unfortunately, most educational games are terrible. However, I think if done correctly, games can be a more efficient, engaging, and motivating method of understanding a concept. I wouldn't call it "adding sawdust to a cookie". I think you can have your cookie and eat it too.
I never claimed that "SO many" equaled a majority. 36% is more than one-third, which seems like a lot of people to me, and not really that far from a majority; it doesn't take that much to get (1/2 - 1/3) (one-sixth) to change their minds.
Given the descriptions here it would probably be nice to have verification on just about anything Casanova wrote before accepting it.
iOS autodetects and automatically switches languages as you described. The globe icon is just for switching key layouts. Language is independent of key layout.
hello as a captain of bullshit I am observing this.
Step 1: Put a stick in the ground.

Step 2: Look at the shadow.

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit!
To me, getting banned is when the provider locks out (or just deletes) your account and prevents you from using their service entirely.

CF didn't do this. They sent them an email telling them that what they were doing was a violation of their TOS and to cease doing it. They did not kill off their account. They still have the option to comply and continue with CF, which seems to be what they are going to do at the moment.

Hopefully, CF will grant them amnesty on this one. At the end of the day, an HTML file is just a text file, so I don't see why this would have even mattered to begin with.
My fave is former church is now a night club.

But former grocery store is now a church is kinda fun too
this should be blocked. I cannot imagine any consumer benefit
What’s the difference between giving people with poor impulse control unfettered access to stimulants and giving them a set of rules that provide structure?
It's such a challenging problem developing the elevator pitch.

For what it's worth (which is likely very little) the main takeaway I get from the above (in true HN style, without having read the article) is the call-out to knowledge management.

Perhaps because the other bits sound like cool tech you must have built in order to pursue other goals. Who wouldn't want a distributed engine you can debug remotely! I suppose I have some sales hat on. Who could I sell what to?
So I’m not saying that I agree that it’s AS difinitive as this guy makes it out to be; but as someone with diagnosed ADHD, I can 100% validate the experience of stimulants having the opposite effect on me vs my neurotypical close-contacts.

I can comfortably take a nap after popping 10mg of dexamphetamine, whereas most people would be atleast moderately buzzed. And this has been the case since day 1 (I was diagnosed at 26), so it’s not just a factor of tolerance.

Another great example is the fact that the single biggest benefit to ADHD meds for me has been a complete reversal of my life-long anxiety.

I’m now zen as f..k, whereas before being proscribed meds I was a very anxious, hyper-self critical person.
> vector with countably infinite dimension.

This is equally true for baryonic matter. You might counter that baryonic matter is easier to observe/constrain. I would point out that LCDM also has ways to observe and constrain DM, and the universe doesn't owe us perfect legibility. What is it you think you're proving?
Little functions in the void suck, because the void is crazy complicated and has all kinds of things you have to think about
I like the idea! There's some IP webcam apps. For some simpler needs, there's the Guardian Project's Haven[1].

Alas though, you'll still be stuck with a device that only lasts 3 years before it's insecure. I'm in the minority, but personally I'd rather a more open ended & flexible system like Linux, with more small-pieces-loosely-coupled possibilities in front of me, where-as with Android I'm going to have 2 or 3 different apps with pretty fixed/limited capabilities that I'll never be able to improve or adjust.

In some ways, the web is kind of the possible remedy here. If the phone runs a webpage that accesses the camera & webrtc & does the things, that'd kind of be ideal, because it's insta-deployable to any vaguely general-purpose hardware. Developing the webrtc chops though to be able to make use of this well though, that's a totally separate conversation.

[1] https://guardianproject.info/apps/org.havenapp.main/
I personally enjoy a lot more when things are manually customizable, but honestly I also don't think that I represent the majority of users ! So yeah, I think that the option to trigger a full manual ordering of the columns would be another great feature :)
What exactly in private mode is a problem for T-Mobile?
We've had this conversation before; you are just as capable of seeing the whole thread as I am, and I think you understand that I'm asking you to look at the patterns in it.

An obvious place to start would be deeply nested sub-threads with a low # of participants like this one, which was eventually pruned by being flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33225480

I don't feel you're 'against me', because I didn't have any participation in the thread at the time most of the discussion took place, and in any case it's been years since you shut down any of my comments.

What perplexes me is how a subthread like the one above (which got pretty snarky) was allowed to evolve without interference, whereas you acted quickly to chastise a person who made a single comment that didn't kick off a flamewar, and wasn't directed at any HN user or group of people.

Certainly nobody has the time, will, or desire to read every comment, but it's easy to observe the structure of a thread in diagrammatic form and see behavioral signals emerging before getting to any of the textual content.
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But similarly you can't be sure what you're buying in a market like that.
The problem is there is no way to measure intelligence objectively. Every intelligence test ever devised either measures something else unintentionally (usually prior knowledge/communication skills), or nothing at all. Your response that it _could_ be done doesn't actually refute that it hasn't. Sending a man to walk on the sun feels as impossible now as sending a man to walk the moon 100 years ago.

Do I think we're behind as a country because NASA isn't sending people to the sun now? No.

I'm universally fine with waiting until there's a theoretically viable approach before throwing random innocent lives at things which have no evidence of working even in theory.
250ms minimum latency (just for the speed of light), once you add switching that's going to be over 400ms. You have to be pretty apologetic to accept this.

I live in Australia (118ms round trip), and whenever I'm in SF, I'm amazed at the quality of life increase brought about by decreased latency. It feels like the whole net is on localhost.
What? Researchers have absolutely used data (or consent for one procedure) specifically to excuse eugenics, nonconsensual experimentation, and policy decisions that keep "undesirable" folks out. Science has a long and continued history of this. I'm not sure what you are even suggesting ...

Examples of things like the Tuskegee Experiments, the North Carolina Eugenics Board, hell, we're less than a decade past when hundreds of women were sterilized because they were thought to be "unfit" because of their prison sentences and race.
NixOS wouldn't be affected by that quota because it doesn't use GitHub Pages as far as I can tell.
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