skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People can enjoy the benefits of AI assistance without having their privacy violated. Running ML models on edge devices will become the norm whenever possible. Then we will allow such devices like Alexa to talk to web endpoints to get data, but not to submit any info the other way. I definitely can see a whole new niche of software called "privacy protection firewalls" that would sit on the network between "Alexa" and your wifi router (perhaps running on the router) and do smart filtering what "Alexa" and other devices alike are allowed to do.

We're not very far from being able to run pretty powerful AIs on edge devices. For one today's newest android phones all support vulkan and are equipped with GPUs that can run pretty sophisticated models. Also our better understanding of those models will lead to optimisations in their size.

So, let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. Let's not paint AI assistants watching over out sleep as something bad. It is not. It is bad only when we have no control over what it does with the data it collects.
The simplicity, love it!
SPAC liquidations top $12B as sponsors grapple with tough market
Agree with all this except my Garmin Venu only needs charged after 8 days so it's not very annoying!
Kind of defeats the purpose of studying it doesn't it? Presumably we do research to inform decision, usually about social policy. Social policy is, ostensibly, dictated by voters in democratic societies.

Might as well not do the research, and I don't mean that cynically. It might genuinely be for the best.
Aside from the dystopian undertone, if I was a betting man, I’d wager they’ll immediately spawn entire industries that disable these surveillance devices for a cost. At the cyberpunk end of dystopian, if I was selling the surveillance tech, I’d also dip into the counter industry and provide some low severity exploits for and play both sides.

I wonder if Neal Stephenson has written something of this sort. In Snow Crash, prisons were a per franchise affair iirc.
Spacy is much faster on the GPU. Many folks don't know that Cudf (a Pandas implementation for GPUs) parallelizes string operations (these are notoriously slow on Pandas)... shrug...
Ask HN: What's the most exciting startup you think is unknown to most readers?
(a startup, likely recent, or one that has flew under the radar of HN)
Mathematically, the universe looks a little bit like a black hole running backwards in time. But only a little bit.
>Igor Girkin, better known by his nom de guerre Igor Strelkov, was military leader of the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ (DNR) in 2014.

While Igor Plotnitsky was head of the ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’ (LNR) from 2014 to 2017.

Both men played a prominent role in the early politics of the two seperatist entities in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine,

which this year were recognised unilaterally as independent states by Moscow shortly before its full-scale invasion of the country.

Edit: add;

Mercenary Lawyers – Aggressive Legal War Shield Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group : https://theintercept.com/2022/10/19/russia-hack-wagner-group...
Amen, preach it! But I suppose that's true of any filing system that I didn't create.
Not Amazon referral links. More like Firefox Suggest or the like: Write eg. "Binance" in the URL bar, and one of the results in the dropdown menu is a sponsored link to "binance.us" who are partnered with Brave. The feature had a bug that caused complete, valid URLs (ie. you wrote "binance.us") to be shown the sponsored link as a primary completion option.

The issue persisted, as far as I know, one day. The response was to both fix the bug and make the feature be off by default.
Having worked on wikis that have made this same move before, good choice and good luck.
Thus ends my research into why genocide is usually committed by high achievers. /s
> So we developed a simple graphical interface to Git LFS for artists and client programmers, which finally made the switch viable...To be fair, some still complain and it is an ongoing challenge to maintain the interface though.

Wow. My experience is that it wasn't worth the hassle of trying to make this change. Actually the other way (standardizing on Perforce) would have been a major hassle too.

At a prior job where we confronted this we had Perforce (game and some other host code), git (various low level stuff like kernel) and whatever the cad guys used. And google docs which of course have a painful and vestigial versioning system. In that case we had bigger fish to fry than the data control systems.
GP is right imo. You can literally just walk straight into Aldi and ask for a quarter if you forgot one. They’ll give you one. Takes 2 seconds. Alternatively, as illustration not an accusation, If you’re walking around grocery store fuming about the time you lost thumbing a quarter into a shopping cart, that’s a personal problem.
Srsly do the "iPhones for idiots" books have this kind of information? I would read them if so.
"...principles of good design change much more slowly than computer technology does." Tell that to the UX people. New, refreshed, clean, round corners, and a bunch more buzzwords.
You are not alone. I hugely enjoyed my work at Microsoft years ago for all the same reasons you cite. Except Polyphia didn’t exist back then.
It also matters what type of conversation is being had.

I'm more of a waiter than interrupter, who lives with a strong interrupter. If we're having a debate or discussing the newest silly thing in the news or whatever, it's not a big deal -- the topic was never _that_ important that I care about getting interrupted.

However, I find it very rude and annoying to get interrupted while telling a story. Like, event XYZ happened on the drive home, or something that happened with others in our mutual friend group. It's only going to take a minute or two for me to tell the whole story, but 15 seconds in it's been hijacked and the interrupter is off on their own tangent.
FYI: Donbas Doubles – Search for Girkin and Plotnitsky Cover Identities : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33269520
It's perfectly normal to experience ebbs in motivation. As you age you can't handle burning the candle at both ends so much anymore. But you can more than make up for this with experience; prudent decision-making beats overactivity 9 times out of 10. Eating properly and exercise, combined with dropping stimulant use and sleeping properly will also make you feel better.

Generally, the best way to regain enthusiasm is timeout, perspective, and a change of environment. This has never been easier than today, with increased tolerance for remote work, many services facilitating remote offices and mail, and increasingly popular digital-first financial and government services.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams

... quote via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Being succinct goes a long way. I found that people rarely interrupts me because I try to convey my thought in a relatively dense manner. If asked one question, I answer that question in the first sentence, then the justifications and explanations. If I'm explaining something, I do the same thing with the abstract idea first, then detailing after that. I don't fear being interrupted, as that usually means I've been talking longer than needed.
You seem to think the “typical CEO” is running IBM or Oracle. I’ll bet the “typical CEO” is more like me - running a small business (single to double digit employees total) and paying themselves less than a senior developer would get.

I have no teams of advisors and I can ask people for advice but I’m the one who will actually be impacted (possibly life changing impact) by which (often contradictory) advice i choose to take!

The hard part is not “making a decision” in that sense, anyone could flip a coin and “make a decision”. It’s living with the stress of constant decision making and you and a bunch of other people having to live with the results of your decisions (which can easily end up costing you and them their jobs).
For irrational numbers, you mean? A rational number is one that can be perfectly represented by a fraction. I'm not sure I follow your use of big-O notation here, but are you saying that the bound of the error of a rational approximation of an irrational number is inversely proportional to the denominator?
Isn’t it weird that pirates are a kids thing? I wonder if 3 centuries in the future kids will watch narco cartoons.
I was reading Unrestricted Warfare, a book published by the PLA in the 90s about their thoughts and strategic considerations re 5th generation warfare. There was a lot of really interesting and insightful stuff in there, periodically interspersed with random Chinese numerology, e.g. how the Union won the American civil war due to an auspicious ratio of men to horses or something.
Neanderthal DNA reveals social organisation and family relationships in clan
> Hopefully no one is saying that we cannot possibly ever

The OP article might as well. The thrust of the article's argument is, "heaven forbid we add third parameter to MOND" meanwhile, draco, fornax, and Andromeda have wildly different dark matter densities so that's three parameters right there.
I love the comments on the page trying to find correlation between 355/113 and the Quran and Bible.

Hmm... well.

jccalhoun 5 minutes ago

'jccalhoun' has 9 characters, and is succeeded by 2 words ('minutes ago'), and 9 times 2 is 18. And 'jccalhoun' is followed by three non-whitespace tokens ('5 minutes ago' and 18 divided by 3 is 6. And 6 repeated three times is 666, so clearly we can conclude ... that numerology is bullshit?

Or 'jccalhouun' is actually SATAN?!?? Hmmm...
We manually migrated away over a period of time, letting new subscriptions and card updates happen on the new system, and letting Stripe slowly deplete. No bad experience for users and no loss on our end of revenue. In the end, whether it'
s Stripe or not running the credit payments isn't so important. But they take so much of a cut for 'added value' that it made sense eventually for us to move away.
Daniel McKenna files wrongful termination lawsuit against Peloton
Sure. In the codebase for an 8-bit embedded system: recursion is forbidden.
I do not disagree :)
Ok, I grant that going full on abusive is not helpful. Such that I apologize on jumping there immediately. :(

My concern is more in the ones that aren't quite as stark. Role play that you are talking to someone that doesn't feel safe enough to tell you that they don't feel perfectly safe. Now, how do you know this? If they felt safe, you could ask. But, we have established that they don't, per the role play.

And this is a large part of why the conversation around "privilege" is so tough. At large, what we call "privilege" can be easily recast to more subtle dynamics of folks that are allowed to give voice without as much interruptions. Note, not none. Just fewer. (Note that there are obviously other aspects to this that don't necessarily make the recasting.)
It's not for displaying a webpage but to power a separate application. Just because you can serve any kind of file over HTTP doesn't mean it's for serving a website. There's a reason Cloudflare doesn't allow large video files either - even though that probably counts even more as "web content".

This is a very straightforward interpretation of the terms and it's strange to see such pushback based on a pedantic technicality when it's clear what the file is being used for.

In fact, if this was the opposite situation and some automated rule was involved in isolating this file, I expect the same people would then want human intervention to clear up the difference based on the context.
This has to be wrong. What is the advantage of blocking firefox private mode and not blocking vivaldi/opera/brave/safari/chrome icongnito modes?
These differences are also regional & cultural. Here's a good intro from sociolinguist Deborah Tannen on how interrupting & overtalking as practiced cooperatively in New York (& related cultures) clashes with other American regional styles:

https://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/newyork...
> It's only going to take a minute or two for me to tell the whole story, but 15 seconds in it's been hijacked and the interrupter is off on their own tangent.

The interrupters can only be fought on their terms. Fight fire with fire. Interrupt back and just keep telling the story.
This is so interesting. At home, we absolutely have wait culture. My mother moderates informally using a round robin format.

Most places I have worked have had interrupt culture. I hated going to meetings, it felt like the people that spoke loudest “owned” the meeting. After a while I started taking notes, but never participating. It was easier to get answers afterwards by talking directly to the stakeholders once they were identified.

It is so interesting to me to hear the counter argument here, that some people actually prefer this method of communication, I’ll need to think about what my participation looks like in this culture.
I don't disagree with you exactly, but Webb is making some attempt at being aesthetically pleasing with these images and that work does seem to take them further from the Hubble look.

There was an article about the older Cosmic Cliffs image the other day which showed some in-progress images.[0]

Compare the final image after all editing: https://i.imgur.com/htJ25jw.jpg

With this version that's a pure stacking of colour layers: https://i.imgur.com/S1wkruc.jpg

The second one definitely has a more old-school 1990s Hubble look (and I kinda wish they'd release that version in high res).

[0] https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/10/16/james-webb-te...
Completely agree, and the Oct 2022 GCP decision to start charging "egress" fees for accessing multi-region storage buckets _within_ GCP was not much appreciated either!
> we are four dimensional beings living in a five dimensional universe

I think I prescribe to that theory. It feels like it's also a fancy way of saying we live in a simulation. Everything we experience is a puppet/shadow/extension of its true "full" self. Things could be connected in ways we can't measure in our traditional dimensions.
If you want to walk by on the sidewalk and snap a couple pictures of my house, or even take a little video, I agree that's totally fine. But a surveillance camera that's there 24/7, uploading everything to Amazon's cloud, doesn't seem like the same sort of thing to me. In theory at least that can mean Amazon knows when I arrive and leave, all the time.
The 17GenR Noise Generator (TV Static)
Likewise, the 'essentially the same' drand is a 2017 paper https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2017/papers/413.pdf and the league of entropy has been running since 2019, so hard to know exactly what the additional pioneering was in 2021.
The 2014 paper is just another theoretical analysis that gets a different answer. It's just one cute, provocative theory versus another.
> I may be misunderstanding but in what I describe in my post above, yields are the prevailing assumption: I describe them as a critical component that makes this kind of interrupting possible.

The distinction is that I prefer communicating when the yielding itself is the prevailing assumption, that it doesn’t need to be requested or accepted. That’s what the article describes too. Not yielding to interruption, yielding to other participants and their participation.

> I'm not sure what you mean by this. (This is a point where I would've attempted an "interrupt-request" to get clarification, if we were speaking in person.)

I mean that if a conversation already leaves places for people to enter and yield without interruption, interruption itself is a correction but one you don’t need often. And that’s my preference.

> It sounds like this may be central to why your preference is interrupt-averse: it sounds like your model of What Needs To Be Said is not updating in response to interruptions

I can see why you might think so, but it’s actually the opposite. It’s reacting to too many dangling threads which gets hard to track. Each thread produces a new subqueue of things which could have been addressed in turn if the conversation wasn’t a stack of competing What Needs To Be Said. Sometimes I had something to say that wasn’t readily discarded and sometimes the pile of interruption tangents produces more unsaid things which all could be addressed by just not being interrupted in the first place, or by having a fellow conversation partner inviting me to remain uninterrupted. Even the most cooperative interruption conversations I’ve had tend to pace ahead of that and create related tendrils of topic which can’t be connected at the same pace and produce fractals or misunderstanding.
Which means that the open source upstream awx does as well?
I'm sure some people would consider me a troll, while I think I'm just writing honestly when I see things I don't agree with. Yet reading what you just wrote makes me want to quit this site forever. On most sites we know not to reveal enough to get doxxed. Here we reveal a lot thinking we're dealing with serious people. Stupid mistake. Thanks for the warning about the stalkers.
“As of yet undiscovered”

Well by the author, maybe. [1]

I had to do some more digging on the sequence stated by the author of that post. The idea is to construct a continued fraction, always choosing the next largest denominator you can that doesn’t make the resulting partial evaluation larger than pi.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-is-355-113-so-close-to-pi/answer/T...
Huh, that's pretty interesting. It reminds me that I had a workplace experience related to this recently

I was working with a client based in another country (which made me a little less certain about customs/etiquette), and our relationship was a little similar to manager/subordinate (esp. because I had a peer in meetings which he would somewhat direct).

For the first several months we were actually pretty strictly non-interrupting in conversation, but there was a transition at some point because a lot needed to be communicated and everyone involved was very interested/engaged. I think he was a bit taken aback at my first interrupts (which were e.g. to let him know I'd already heard about something he was trying to tell me), but once he saw that I also very readily yielded if he ever wanted to interject, our style of speaking morphed so that cooperative interrupting became commonplace (and our conversations became more fun :).

I think in a situation like that it's inherently a bit risky because it can signal things about power dynamics, but if you actually play nicely with it, don't use it for your own benefit, just for efficiency, it can also be a way of upping trust level (specifically because it was something risky, they had to trust you some, but it turned out fine, you didn't take advantage).
As a contributor, I think it's interesting when comments focus on the language (Python vs Rust) vs the architecture (local vs remote). Inference is embarrassingly parallelizable, with Python Flask or Postgres replicas. I think the interesting thing is that data retrieval costs tend to dominate other costs, and yet are often ignored.

ML algorithms get a lot focus and hype. Data retrieval, not as much.
Yes, that's essentially the point being made here. It's a fair comparison if your intent is to run this kind of job as quickly as possible.
I don't see why you would implement google docs like multi person editing. There's a reason basically every VCS has discrete commits and anybody who has ever coded anything knows why.
> both were in the wrong

Alright, let's assume that's true for a moment, for sake of argument. One of the parties we're talking about has massively more power than the other, so I'm inclined to have higher standards for them than that of an intern.
I, too, have applied for, and then had revoked, access to dbGaP. In my case, I worked for a corporation that wanted to simplify the hosting of this data to appropriately credentialed researchers with the goal of making genomics look more like modern bigtech data processing.

We made friends with the various program managers, did all the necessary due diligence, applied, got approved, downloading hundreds of terabytes of data, and then received a stern note from the leadership at NIH that we had to delete everything. Apparently, some Very Important People at NCBI didn't like Google and really didn't like the idea that we'd have a copy of all this data, even though the intent (I can say authoritatively since I was the founder of the project) was to accelerate scientific research.

It's now hosted on AWS as a public/private dataset.

I try to avoid human genomics or really any controlled-access dataset now. The total value in the data is much smaller than generally claimed, and entrenched interests go out of their way to gatekeep and sort of maintain an "artisanal, bespoke" approach to data processing.

Now, if you want to use this data to make strong conclusions about the relationship between genotypes and human intelligence: best of luck to you, as you'll be grabbing the electrified third rail of American politics and science. Nearly every foray into this area generates controversy, and even intelligent, good-faith researchers end up in a trap of "appearing to be racist, or sexist". With career ending consequences.

I study tardigrades instead now.
people who get interrupted a lot often have very little to say

this in turn makes them monopolize the poor soul who doesn’t interrupt them
Why don't they buy Stadia?
Interestingly, Apple Watch was initially designed to compete with Rolex, but then Apple found out that folks who can afford Rolex don’t want to change it for anything else. Hence, the mass-market pivoted Watch was born.
It's not a burden of proof situation because your boss is paying the bill. But, if it was about who claimed what, the employees are the ones making the claim that "remote work is just as productive".
Are we related?
> It's for people who want to learn how to code or want to prototype something absolutely as quickly as possible with the minimal amount of tooling and experience

For sure. I'm just personally not sure that's a billion-dollar company idea myself, which if you've taken $100 million+ of funding, it will need to be. Definitely willing to eat my words though if they pull it off: anything that gets more people into programming and understanding how the devices they use work is a good thing in my opinion (which is worth about as much as you just paid for it!)
I work for selfish reasons.
Right? What really are Deepwater Horizon, Keystone XL, Cargill Amazonian Deforestation efforts, et al, if not giant, metaphorical soup cans? I do see what you’re doing here though, and you’re not wrong.
Is it easy to install on aws aurora postgresql?
If Tesla could make their service centers as robust as their superchargers, I might buy another Tesla from them. Until then, I'm shopping elsewhere.
>Note that none of the studies I am referring to include inquiries into race or sex differences. Apparently, NIH is clamping down on a broad range of attempts to explore the relationship between genetics and intelligence.

For those who don't click the link. This is getting to really dangerous territory. Political correctness wants to remove genetics altogether from the study of the human condition. Blank-slate cultists are scared of what research will find.
USSR had a lot of really, really bad sides. I just think we're talking about something different here. But overall I agree with you.
If ever there was a merger that needed to be blocked...