skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does not work with math and engineering. I had a very difficult electrical engineering course and the final was solving a problem on a whiteboard in the teachers office.
> intrication of observer into observed system as part of the measurement process

That was already part of von Neumann’s model of measurement over 90 years ago.
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method
The killer feature of Ansible vs. Python code is, noting I have a ton of both here for infrastructure related tasks (as well as shell, why not), when you have it running for three years on some box somewhere and something breaks, you go look at it for the first time in three years and it makes sense. My Python infrastructure tools OTOH, while they are great, if something goes wrong with them I have to spend half a day reading the sourcecode and remembering what their particular architcture / conventions are.

it's like the dumbness of Ansible is really the main feature it has.
About 50% of the USA is on IPv6 which doesn't do NAT (unless you go out of your way to hack it back in).

Most customer IPv4 networks are probably behind NAT, although there are plenty of exceptions. For example, the university network I'm on has a publicly reachable IP address for every authenticated device with the most basic firewall and no NAT, just the way Internet was originally designed to be like.
I switched to "vscode-restclient" about a year ago and never looked back. It has variables, everything is saved as text, and I can commit my request suite to source control for collaboration's sake.

https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient
This leaves people exposed from the openings at the top and bottom. The one in Paris is completely closed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette#/media/File:Sanisett...).
So we end up with machines grading machines, while pupils and teachers are left doing... something. Isn't it known fact that one cannot fix society with technology?
> Why won't she be fooled?

Because she has complete knowledge of all physical facts. Dennett is a physicalist, and to a physicalist, perception and experience are physical processes. So Mary has complete knowledge of them. That includes complete knowledge of what she will experience in response to any physical stimulus.

> Is it because she already knows that a banana has a different color than the sky and she knows the sky is light blue?

That's one tiny piece of the physical facts that she knows, yes.
I'm so tired of this "well a real human can do it so it's okay for a machine under the control of a megacorporation to do something vaguely similar at a 1000000x larger scale!" non-argument.
I've noticed that for some interviewers, praise during the interview is inversely correlated with the rating they give (I did a lot of pair interviews, which have similar tradeoffs to pair programming).

Good candidates breeze through the main topic, get through some follow ups, and then we let them ask questions. Bad candidates have trouble with the material, so you might have to cut them off early to transition to their questions and some praise makes that feel smoother.
You feel uncertain about everything you make
Because the AI can’t produce a novel insight (yet?). Those 5 bullets are the main points, AI can expand those into an essay.

This idea comes from how you’d write any long essay, or a book. You start with an idea. Then you expand it into chapter/section titles. Then you expand into each of those into more sections. Then more. This gives you the full skeleton of what you’re trying to say and, really, already says the whole valuable part.

Then you fill the rest with relatable anecdotes and other salad to make a meal and drive the point home. AI would be great at that part.
Make Meetings Work
Ask HN: Can we name our company similar to a stock ticker?
For instance, Crox which is similar to the stock ticker of Crocs.

Really appreciate!
> 2. I have upped my nihilism lately

We've left future generations with a mountain of garbage to deal with, what's another paper cup thrown onto the pile?
Why a tech giant is embracing old-school magnetic tape storage
I do a lot of control systems migrations for brownfields, where we would be often partially migrating a system both hardware and software.

First rule of brownfields cutover - every interface is an opportunity to fail.
Absolutely perplexed by the other answers that think CSS grid is a hammer for every nail. In your example without a table, you can just drop `display grid` and set `div {min-height: 33vh}`.
Why does the word “save” need to be in a button? The claim that natural language is an inferior interface is up for debate.
I did, many years ago. The story is from about 1993.
There's a of work needed to put in public infrastructure, this seems like a non story.
And yet there are people who can trace their lineage back to Confucious (c.551 – c.479 BCE)

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk...!
Guaranteeing backwards compatibility at the level of a wide purpose language like python is how you end up with stagnation (see CPP).

For domain-specific languages like TF I guess they were motivated to commit to it to ensure adoption of the new versions.
It seems to me that the average person around me remembers more than the ancients had the ability to even know. To your point of "pointless essays teach children how to write to an audience", there are entire populations of people who, as a matter of survival, learn how to modulate their communication based on the recipient. Those children learn this skill well before they write any essays about "How X influenced 19th century England".
The TTL tweaking is also a thing with mobile providers banning tethering/mobile hotspots.
you're trying to derail this conversation with some whataboutism
And is this the process for other roles; marketing, sales, finance, etc, or is this a tech self-inflicted curse?
> Does the person who has read absolutely everything about love, know what it feels like to love?

No, but Mary knows much more than that. By hypothesis, Mary has complete knowledge of all physical facts. That is vastly more knowledge than a person can gain by reading "absolutely everything" about anything.

One big problem with the thought experiment is that the premise is so outlandish that almost nobody is willing to use it as given in their reasoning, including Jackson himself. Instead they substitute some vastly weaker premise and ignore the vast difference in implications.
I think many comments here are missing a bigger picture context of how this data is problematic. Not speaking law here, speaking my personal mental model of evaluating the risk/ethics of facial recognition in personal security devices.

Building a local profile of faces observed on a single person’s property isn’t problematic for me. In order for the police to search it, they have to issue a very specific warrant for a specific addresses’ surveillance data. Its also anonymous by default - while you have the face, the data is local and isn’t attached to any “network” of facial recognition software. Its not being used to track people moving from house to house, or business to business, to build a “model” of their behavior to manipulate them. It’s specifically “what footage do I have locally of this face?” which can be extremely helpful when securing a home.

This is in stark contrast to what I worry companies like Google do (Facebook has been caught doing it): building shadow profiles of non-users that track behaviors across all places their face shows up (surveillance footage, personal photos of other users, etc.). This is a network of information consolidated into a single point. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, but I do believe you should have a reasonable expectation that people aren’t stalking your every move across many properties and aggregating that data into a single source law enforcement can get access to with a single warrant.
Thank you. Will look into preventing the right click requirement and provide an alternative for that.

It should be saving your requests automatically. Maybe your browser is blocking IndexedDB somehow? That's what's used by the application to store the data locally. Also do make sure you're not in incognito mode, as changes will be lost once you're out of it.
How alive is Sandstorm these days? I loved the concept and was sad when the company died.
What if the server doesn't support version X? Then the client will try again with version X-1. This is a negotiation, it is just an inefficient one (client might have to try X-1, X-2, X-3 in turn if more versions are still co-existing; and contrarily, if client doesn't support any version the server does, you will not get a detailed error about the version mismatch, because they are entirely different protocols).
This is mixing apples & oranges: The new fabs aren't the latest & greatest tech (e.g. 2-5nm) but they're still going to be producing 25-40nm chips using 300mm wafers which is smaller than most automotive-using chips which are 40-90nm (with the majority still being 90nm).

The real problem though is that 300mm wafer size: A 40nm chip that was made for 200mm wafers still needs to be redesigned for 300mm wafers. It seems like that wouldn't be necessary--you'd think it would just mean you could cram more chips into a bigger space--but it's not so simple. It's not as difficult as designing for a completely new process (e.g. 5nm) but it's still a non-trivial change.
I’m an early adopter of things like this and I’ve been using Airbnb since about Day 1. There was so much promise early. One of my best AirBnB memories was staying at a startup hotel in SF through AirBnB, the hosts had purchased a Victorian house to turn into a boutique hotel, seemed young and optimistic, and it was a fun, quirky experience. There was still construction and things happening, apparently we were one of the first few people to ever stay there under its new ownership.

So I’ve been using Airbnb regularly, travel regularly, and in the last 2ish years have moved all my work travel to Marriott. For scale, checking my Marriott app right now, I’ve stayed 77 nights in Marriotts this year so far. This used to be all Airbnb stays, but as you mention the hosts have become so unpredictable and listings do not match up to the experience that it’s more hassle and actively hostile to stay in Airbnb in a new city to get to know some quirky neighborhood on a work trip. And the usual complaint of basically a chore list to do at the end combined with huge cleaning fees on top of the chore list.

Currently my only Airbnb exception is that my partner and I have two airbnbs that we know to be good in resort towns and when we’re going there we book those Airbnbs if available, because they have known good experiences and good hosts. Otherwise we don’t even look at other options, particularly because we use those during vacations where we want to relax, and instead just book Four Seasons or whatever nice hotel is there because the experience will be good and consistent.

I really yearn for the early Airbnb days though when listings were more accurate and high quality and one could explore a new neighborhood (perhaps one without traditional hotels one might never stay in without Airbnb).

As an aside, I started using UberEats since literal Day 1 when they were driving circles around the city with a fixed menu, you selected your meal, one of them would drop it off to you within minutes. It was amazing. But now of course the hordes have descended and it’s 90% ghost kitchens serving slop in my city.
My current understanding of recognition (I think it was pulled from a Kurzweil book I read recently, so grain of salt etc) is that humans have on average 150k recognizer circuits[1], which are long columns that permeate a few layers of our brain. Signals come in from various sensory inputs, and it lights up some subset of recognizer circuits, and that data is then passed on to other parts of the brain to analyze the context. Every letter of the alphabet, and every word you use regularly, and every object you see, has a handful of associated recognizer circuits which will trigger given the shape, smell, or the sound, etc. When one of these circuits goes unused for a while, it can be repurposed.

Personally, it kind of blows me away that we can function as well as we do while only being able to immediately recognize 150 thousand total concepts. It's such an easily comprehensible number, yet completely defines our perception of reality.

If Mary had never seen the color red, so no matter how hard she studies, her brain will not have the circuit capable of recognizing the color red, simply because that particular signal has never entered her brain. She might be able to acquire it later though. Colorblind people get the protein injection that allows them to see the third color, my understanding is that it takes a few months[2] for it to take effect, which lines up well with my understanding that it would need to rewire a bunch of recognizer circuits through repeated exposures.

[1] https://numenta.com/neuroscience-research/cortical-columns/

[2] https://www.npr.org/2009/09/17/112897277/thanks-to-gene-ther...
Whatsapp has this is online thing, can that be used by the attacker instead of message delivery?
Prior HN post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33280910
Putting this out there: like most machine generated "art" these days, the relative increase of output quality is in part marked by a decline in both mean human output quality and the mean ability of humans to perceive quality.
Why provide a prompt when you can supply both the book to write about and the assignment?
I thought the idea for GPS went back pretty much to Sputnik. People realized pretty quickly they could track it by timing its signals from a known location on Earth and then also quickly realized you could reverse that and figure out where on Earth you are once you have enough timing signals from known locations in space. It just took a bit for the computers to get small enough and for us to put up the satellites.
Yeah this is probably the biggest screw up Putin committed in terms of the rollout of the mobilization (from his own point of view). As soon as mobilization was announced, almost immediately very senior members of the government repeatedly stated that IT people would not fall under mobilization orders. And yet by now there are hundreds of stories of IT professionals being mobilized because the voenkomat (basically a recruitment place) has to hit a quota.

This is the 2nd big brain drain in the last 30 years(Crimea /Georgia didn't really cause anything noticeable) after the 90s, but ATM the numbers don't compare to what happened in the 90s. If they do though, (North) North Korea is the optimistic scenario.
You seem like you would be the perfect AirBnB customer.

Things don't work as expected, and you simply pay up?

Not sure about you, but if I was staying at a place for a length of time i would expect things like the toilet work properly. As someone paying for a place to stay, "filing a bucket with water" to flush the toilet isn't something i should be doing. Toilets are not expensive and easy to replace, it sounds like this one should have been replaced some time ago.
> Rarely, if ever, does any congress person have any insight or control into detrimental effects that would cause a market wide bear market or correction

Rarely like a once in a lifetime global pandemic?

Control like the ability to force shut downs of businesses across the country?
so happy for you ♥ and yeah such a weird feeling, reading this thread it seems like a real problem and i'm not exactly sure what the solution is, but I think unless other people are noticing that you are extremely anxious and are specifically recommending you see a doctor, I'm not sure it's possible to notice yourself unless you are in the habit of taking dsm tests for fun, and even then I'm not sure that would work b/c some of the questions are "how often do you get anxious" which presumes you know what the feeling of anxiety is vs the feeling of "not-anxiety"
> Most of human civilization has been a pattern of small communities where everyone knew everyone. The privacy granted implicitly by anonymity is relatively new

I find that hard to believe. Teotihuacan (first example that came to mind) already had 100,000+ inhabitants around 1 to 500 CE, and according to Wikipedia it was only the sixth largest city.

Regardless, I don't see why it's particularly important what cities were like during "most of human civilization" when discussing electronic suirveilance.
This is not a palindrome: "waS I taC a tI saW"

Whitespace and casing is significant.
I'm a supporter of women's beach-dress equality. Guys should totally cover up that pasty man flab.
The comments veered away from Tabitha Arnold's work which is quite good. Her post (OP) is full of examples from an artist with a distinct point of view and the ability to convey it clearly.
I am just not sure about this. There are more Millennials than Gen X, and Millennials are in their prime family-building and house-buying years. At the same time, in the aftermath of the Great Recession, not much new housing was built. The intersection of those two trends might mean demand exceeds supply purely mathematically. Especially if people who locked in mortgages at lower rates are reluctant to sell as a result, furthering lowering supply.

Certainly prices may come down in some locations as interest rates go up if there aren't enough cash buyers, but will it be enough to counteract the imbalance of demand and supply? I think it's an open question.
I really don't wish to belabour the primes vs. ASCII discussion because: it really is but a trivial implementation detail. You want to have a bijection between formulas and the natural numbers (such that certain operations on formulas, such as composition and extraction of subformulas can be computed). Primes do that, as do ASCII sequences.

> From that, Godel's theorem is an elementary proof by reductio: if arithmetic were decidable, you could solve the halting problem by translating the question of whether or not a program P halts into the question of whether a number N describes a program that halts.

I think you again misunderstand the full implications of Gödel's first theorem.

Gödel's first theorem:
> Any theory of arithmetic that is sufficiently strong and consistent is incomplete.

What you have just proven is a corollary of that theorem, but actually a weaker result:
> Arithmetic truth is not decidable

Gödel's theorem works even if PA is not sound, but merely consistent. And it also works for potential other, unsound theories of arithmetic, as long as they're strong enough and consistent.

Your proof via Turing machines does not: if PA is unsound, and if from PA you derive that the "impossible" program halts (or does not halt), it doesn't tell you anything, because the conclusions of PA can't be trusted. Therefore you can't derive the necessary contradiction.

Again, this matters not only philosophically, but also technically because "If PA is sound, it is incomplete* can't be written as a statement of arithmetic, but "If PA is consistent, it is incomplete" can, and this is the necessary link between the first and the second theorem.

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I think there's a consistent thread in your comments where you think things are "obvious" and "true" because we can observe them somehow physically (e.g. your assertion that the Halting Problem is "not grounded in axioms, but in physics" - to which I would again object, but let's not go into that), but this is not how mathematics (and logic) work.

It's fine if you don't care about it personally, but Gödel's theorems have deep mathematical and philosophical implications about systems of reasoning which are not dependent on our physical world.

But I don't think this discussion will go anywhere.
Apple Announces Upcoming Departure of Lead Product Designer Evans Hankey
Not handwritten cursive, kids can’t read or write that today.
Busywork in sports and nutrition are all in obvious service of a more important goal (increase performance in sports). There's a clear incentive and reward to your performance.

The same is not true for busywork in school. It is disconnected from life outside of school in a very fundamental way, in that there are no inherent rewards for being able to complete busywork--all of the rewards come from social cleverness, competitive instincts, networking, etc. If you behave like a good student in the professional world--keeping your head down, getting your work done on time, following all the rules--your friends who go out drinking with your boss will blow past you in your career, and you'll be pigeonholed as a drudge-work guy.

People treat school as if it's training for real life. But it is real life. Why is everyone so completely convinced that it's got to be boring, miserable, and institutionalized?
I was just reading this article when you posted the link. I found insights, as well as doubts.

> If the computer must be opened for any reason other than repair (for which our prospective user must be assumed incompetent) even at the dealer's, then it does not meet our requirements.

This is why we're no longer able to open up a Macbook and extend its memory or storage - or even repair anything ourselves.

It assumes the user is incompetent, and takes away all power except for the minimum necessary to operate the given appliance. I'd argue such a machine is not really a general-purpose personal computer at all.

> Seeing the guts is taboo. Things in sockets is taboo (unless to make servicing cheaper without imposing too large an initial cost).

Show me the guts, and let me put things in sockets, as Woz intended. (Maybe more true of Apple I/II than Macintosh.) Give me complete control of my computer, top to bottom.

> ..Large manuals, or many of them (large manuals are a sure sign of bad design) is taboo. Self-instructional programs are NOT taboo.

We should serve the full spectrum of users, from the non-technical beginner to the expert who will benefit from a large detailed manual.
Absolutely. The exception is when you're a large family, or even a not so large one. Most hotels have no good/affordable solution for parties larger than 2.

But when traveling as a couple, or alone as this lady is, there's no reason not to choose a hotel. Much better experience overall, and nowadays usually cheaper as well.
These issues with AI are arising faster than ever, but no one seems to stop an extrapolate the inevitable end result. What do you do when an AI can realistically handle your average college student's entire course load? Existentially, does it even matter? Yes people will be dumber on average, but will they care if they have the answer to all of life's questions in their pockets?

I'm old enough to remember people telling me I wouldn't always have a calculator handy, and obviously that didn't age very well.

It sounds unnecessarily pessimistic in the face of all the things AI will help us with, but given what we know about human nature, I do expect AI to make us a lot lazier and ... dumber.
I'm pretty confident that "save" is only one of many examples where this issue can happen.

>The claim that natural language is an inferior interface is up for debate.

They only said that it requires much more thought, not that the debate is finished with their comment.
This is good, because it shows what a cargo cult education and learning has been for the longest time. Critique in action.