skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice numbers but don't those Alexa enabled device bring in revenue offsetting the cost and limiting the loss? Or doesn't anyone have an Amazon premium account or buy anything with Alexa on Amazon?
His family should have monitored his online activity but failed horribly to do so.
Hah, this is hilarious. I just went through this 30 or so minutes ago. I explained to the CS person that I would in fact be saving money and carbon. “Nope”, he said, just go ahead and repurchase and return.

Insanity. It’s tripping over dollars to save pennies.
A bazillion comments from a discussion a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33658541
It’s football not soccer btw
Since I teach a fair amount of machine learning, I have been pondering on what a “minimal”, low-level implementation of a library would look like and got very excited hearing about LibNC. Sadly it seems like Bellard is keeping the source for this one: “The LibNC library is free to use as a binary shared library. Contact the author if access to its source code is required.” [1]. Not that you can every accuse the man of being greedy after all the code he has shared, but dang I wanted to read it. '^^

[1]: https://bellard.org/libnc/libnc.html#License
Is there a recommended dev platform to test this model? e.g. Google/Coral TPU, Nvidia Jetson Nano, Rockchip RK3568 NPU, iPhone/Android NPU, ..?
You're right lets go back using BASIC instead.
If the TLD didn’t already somewhat give it away, the fact that one of the panoramas is titled „Buero of David Sarif“ is just so very “German” – confidently using the entirely wrong expression.
I once debugged a kernel memory leak in an internal module that manifested after around 6 years of (physical) server uptime. There are surprises lurking very far down the road.
I know what you are trying to say but just a reminder that rain forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate. Logic doesn't add up. First you rely on experience to say work sucks but then turn around and pick ape life even though you only have the vaguest idea what's like to be one.
> What a horrible thing to do. His autism shouldn't give him a pass.

You do understand that he doesn't understand that this is a horrible thing to do?
He was the CTO of Zip2, a software company. He knows how software is built.

Sure he might not be a whiz with React like me or the OC, but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

With regard to him firing too many people, see my thoughts about what his mindset might be here[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703280
Truly incredible that such a small group of people could be so well represented in academia and media. My hat goes off to them!
Everything that is happening with Twitter proves Musk is yet another wealthy idiot who doenst know shit about shit, except how to blow his own horn. Musk is simlpy lucky that Twitter used to have such excellent engineers like this SRE so that the site isnt yet on fire.
Funny enough it would be hard to find anyone with more CEO experience than Musk. This doesn't mean he does all the management, often the work of these guys is to find the right people to do the management for them.
I think there is a lot of romanticism in computing because there is a
lot of irrationality. We don't like to admit that. We pretend to be
"scientists". Irrationality is as much the engine of progress as
reason. Both can be directed toward good or evil ends.

Ada Lovelace saw one romantic side of computing as the possibility of
machines writing poetry, music and song. Today as much fear, horror
and loathing as joy surrounds that idea - but that is also romantic in
Mary Shelley's sense. Big-R Romantic features are in both;
possibility, drama, tragedy, and rejection of reason according to a
counter-enlightenment embrace of emotivism.

Ours is the age of impossibility - the hopeless inevitability of the
status-quo, the lack of vision for alternative systems, amidst a
grinding project to render all human affairs predictable, legible,
identifiable, and controlled. Today "computer love" (the romance in
computing) derives from the struggle to overcome the ignorant,
cowering bureaucracy to which lesser men put machines in pursuit of
mediocrity and dull power.
I am somewhat of a Deus Ex fanatic (played through the original at least 50 times since it was released, the last playthrough was just a couple of months ago), and I probably wouldn't recommend it to those unfamiliar with it. The AI is too clunky, it feels like you're playing against toddlers: it quickly forgets about you if you stop moving, doesn't care about their comrades' bodies that have appeared out of nowhere (whom they had also been talking to just a minute before), and so on.

Although you could try the unofficial Revision remake (which is free), it has some very significant differences in level design, but the levels themselves are very nice and detailed, so it looks much better. The AI is still stupid by today's measures though.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/397550/Deus_Ex_Revision/
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> according to other articles online the guy would pretend to be the Parkland shooter and send messages to the victim's families

That’s mentioned in this article as well, and with some of the exact quotes you reported.

The article doesn’t say that what he did is not horrible, nor that autism should grant him a pass (in the sense of freedom from any consequence).
Keeping vertical scroll position stable while asynchronously loading lots of randomly-sized content is harder than it seems.
The Tokyo Sewerage Museum was worth going out of the way to visit.
You can do a credit card chargeback but large companies like to do the shady tactic of banning your account forever because some 'suspicious activity' has been detected by automated systems on their end. Of course that you can call your lawyer and sue them but they conveniently allow you to appeal: All you have to do is send a photo of your face, your documents, and a text describing why you think you should not have been banned, maybe a blood sacrifice if they feel like it. In exchange they give you the hope that one day someone will review these things and lift the ban, but right now you will have to wait a few weeks until you forget about it because their systems are overwhelmed (as they have always been) since they are a big company.

This didn't happen with Airbnb for me (it was another equally big company in different sector) but I did learn an interesting lesson about how big companies treat users who know they can chargeback when they get billed incorrectly. It might not even be evil but they will not waste extra resource on getting your problem solved because they will always have more important things to do.
Nope, quality. Including the very basic quality of being able to tell one apart from another:

(...) some wines would be presented to the panel three times, poured from the same bottle each time. The results would be compiled and analysed to see whether wine testing really is scientific. The first experiment took place in 2005. The last was in Sacramento earlier this month. Hodgson's findings have stunned the wine industry. Over the years he has shown again and again that even trained, professional palates are terrible at judging wine. "The results are disturbing," says Hodgson from the Fieldbrook Winery in Humboldt County, described by its owner as a rural paradise. "Only about 10% of judges are consistent and those judges who were consistent one year were ordinary the next year.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-wine-econ...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-wine-econ...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-wine-econ...

Heck, they can't even distinguish wine with artificial coloring from actual red wine:

http://www.daysyn.com/Morrot.pdf
Of course it's all subjective: you either like a wine or you don't.
In addition to what Markoff said, I recommend sticking with the original Bip or Bip Lite; nothing else, including other Bip models. Only those two give you access to [the world's largest library of watch faces](https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/bip/fresh).

I like Bip so much that when it failed (because of a design flaw fixed in Lite and later Bip models), I bought Bip Lite (since I never used Bip's GPS, always using the phone's instead).
This depends on use case. If you are doing a frontend layer on top of closed-open, then the frontend will have to handle the points the article is rambling about.

Users are used to selecting a daterange in closed closed format for example.
> It was pretty good but it was hard for me to remember where I was/had been.

Back in those ancient times you were supposed to have grid paper and pencil ready to draw the map yourself while exploring :)
I'd suspect Americans would best know him has the titular character of The Dictator. Ali G has gotta be a bit too British for that audience.
> Programming tasks are vast

But little languages could be a nice interface for the non- or semi-programming tasks. Do you really want your domain experts to fiddle with the core of your application or do you want your programmers to do that? A little language could be a great interface to encode specific business rules and domain logic.

The author gives SQL as an example of a little language and we do indeed already provide SQL interfaces to analysts and let them do their thing.
Imagine if we actually asked for evidence of those claims instead of accepting them at face value… geez, that’d be a completely different situation, wouldn’t it?
I read ~60% of your post, and noticed it repeats, so I stopped reading. Not sure if you are aware
> I'd imagine the resources they devote to it are quite limited

That's a problem inherent to AI or neural networks. We cannot spend our way out of these problems; they are underlying to the technology itself. Nobody knows what "doesn't work" when a neural network does something unexpected. AI is not a technology we have invented, it's a technology we've copied from nature. Nobody knows anything about what really goes on, this is why we're not getting anywhere.

Google could spend their entire budget on that smudge-bot, and it still wouldn't get any better using AI; they would have to go back to regular image analysis to make any improvements at this point. Google has trained it to be so good at finding faces; it started smudging faces on billboards/ads/shop-windows, but when these are flagged as errors, then it starts showing regular faces in shop windows un-smudged. The problem is that we have no idea of what's going on, so all we can do is to add new layers to the neural network, or give it more training data, neither of which gives an accurate result typically, making it impossible to use for self driving cars etc.
No problem, honestly I think for the price it's really hard to beat considering that you get unlimited (subject to fair use I'm guessing) traffic and backups included in the price. Also, supposedly v25 of NextCloud does offer big improvements (including for Photos) - Hetzner are yet to implement this.
This feels like a very biased position to take. Sure fossil fuels are bad. But, in a free world, Saudi Arabia or anyone for that matter is free to fund whatever research they want - including improving the efficiency of the ICE engines(how could that not be a better benefit for science?!). They are also free to set up lobbying groups to buy up as many congressmen as long as congressmen are up for sale and lobbying is legal in the USA. The root problem is the ability to lobby with huge sums of money legally not the ones doing it…

There was nothing in this article that proves what they are doing is illegal.. if anything, it only shows they are going at it the American way.. capitalism and protecting their interests.

If other countries are indeed smart, they should not fall for such schemes, and invest heavily in the infrastructure for renewable energy and get ahead in that arena which is where the future clearly lies.
Also, do that with a global emergency timescale..
but hairofadog needs a reason to be hysterical.
Maybe you do, but I don't need 20 years to figure out that 'crypto' can't succeed because of 1) limitations that are inherent to 'trustlessness', 2) isolation from and inability to deal with physical reality, 3) competitive disadvantage of distributed systems, and 4) lack of appeal to anyone who has normal, healthy relationships with other people (i.e. a social life).
The affluenza teen killed 4 people.
"Writing computer software is one of the purest creative activities in the history of the human race. Programmers aren't bound by practical limitations such as the laws of physics; we can create exciting virtual worlds with behaviors that could never exist in the real world. Programming doesn't require great physical skill or coordination, like ballet or basketball. All programming requires is a creative mind and the ability to organize your thoughts." John Ousterhout
You mention lack of meaningful work to be a cause of burnout.

Now this may be a difference between US and European definitions of ‘burnout’, but this doesn’t hold true for me.

I’m dealing with (the aftermath of) a burnout since 2016 after what at the time felt like the best half year of my life.

I did everything. A 40hr/week internship that was very fulfilling to me, social engagements on almost every week night, activities every weekend, and a romantic relationship I was trying—but failed—to make work.

It all felt great until I just couldn’t even pay attention to mental junk food anymore.

Now of course this is an anecdote. But I have been told burnout is first and foremost a deregulation of the stress (i.e. adrenaline/cortisol) system). This suits much better with my experience, since I love my work, but can’t do it 40hr/w anymore.
> We already have major headaches switching between JS, SQL, and {insert backend language here}.

I used to agree wholeheartedly with this, but now I pretty strongly disagree; in my decade or so of cumulative code-monkeying experience, having to understand the nuances of some "convert $BACKEND_LANGUAGE to JS and SQL" layer has been far more headache-prone than just, you know, writing JS and SQL. All about using the right tool for the job - and I know of very few languages that are the right tool for all three of those jobs (let alone the myriad other jobs that might pop up as soon as you expand beyond a simple CRUD app).
Slack space leads to innovations, like developing infrastructure automation and improving capacity planning. SRE as a practice needs slack space for operations teams to work on improvements and fixes in addition to BAU fault fixing, deployments and patching.
Musk might have been right about some things. There probably was some degree of bloat. But to say he's badly mishandled this whole saga is a gross understatement. It is very difficult to utterly kill a site like Twitter; the fact that we're even considering that as a realistic possibility shows just how badly.

I think Musk is used to Tesla and SpaceX, which are both companies that a lot of people are (or at least were) excited to work for because they believe in the mission and what's being created. Plus there aren't many alternatives if you want to do that work. Twitter really isn't like that for most people; a Twitter developer has many other options to do similar work. Add to that the fact that he's both cranked up the intensity of the abuse and that it's more visible to everyone, and you can't expect a lot of good people to stick around. And despite the fact that it might coast for quite a while on the back of excellent work in the past, eventually you do need good people to keep a business going. (This is leaving aside the direct impacts of his actions on users and advertisers!)
> Ok Google lock the device

>> I'm sorry I can't do that

> Ok Google clear notifications

>> Opens Bluetooth (!)

> Ok Google WhatsApp call xyz

>> I can't call with duo (!) yet

> Ok Google restart phone

>> To restart your phone <instructions>
Borat more so. Aside from the fact there was a sequel, Borat 2 exposed Rudy Giuliani in a very unflattering way that got a ton of coverage. Much more than The Dictator.
> It made a bit more sense when he heard Brandon’s account of what happened – his son admitted to almost everything straight away. Brandon told a federal investigator that he’d been inspired by an internet troll who went by the name of Lynn Ann. “Lynn Ann” was obsessed with one of the Columbine High School shooters, and achieved a small amount of fame online by posting messages on social media about how “ugly” the shooter’s victims had been. Brandon’s messages to the Parkland victims’ families had been “pure bullshit trolling” like Lynn Ann’s, he told the investigator. Brandon said he had become interested in internet trolls because they were “popular”.

> It was the same with “Shark Tale”. It made sense to Fleury that Brandon would mimic the language and behaviour of internet trolls without really understanding them. An expert on autism hired by the defence gave a similar assessment to the court.

> The prosecution pointed out that Brandon’s messages didn’t simply copy Lynn Ann’s phrases, but were crafted with specific information about the victims and made ongoing threats. Brandon maintained that he didn’t intend to hurt or scare people but to “annoy” them. When a psychiatrist hired by the prosecution asked if he was trying to cause the victims anguish, Brandon responded, “What’s anguish? It’s not something I know what it is.”

No one is denying that what he did is awful. The idea being discussed here is how to properly judge someone when they don't necessarily understand the wrong in what they are doing. You might want to believe or not that Brandon did it knowing the pain that it cause. But I have been around neurodiverse people in my life, and I saw how they where sometimes unable to understand that their behaviour could cause pain to other. The opposite was also true, where they could be deeply pained by what neurotypical people would consider a fairly normal behaviour.
Therefor, is it fair, is it just, to judge someone who doesn't understand the consequences of their action (or at least in the same proportion) in the same way that someone who does ? We already answered this a long time ago it seems, since the law for minor is usually different than for adult based on this exact principle. So how to we handle neurodiverse people has a modern society, it is an important question that bears asking.
Wow, what a bunch of fraudsters. Does chessbase have a lot of cachet in the chess community?
I mostly didn't care about games on physical media but recently I saw "collector's editions" steelbooks that have plastic inserts for disk but contain only download code. I mean, it is probably a natural step after "golden disk" is literally unplayable and downloads 30GB patch on day of release.
I work for a pretty sizeable corporation, a household name you have heard of or use products from. I don't want to dox myself too much but I can say we are not MS level of support of OEMs (because that's a quite ridiculous bar to cross, haha) but still we do have quite a few integrations across multiple consumer device types.
Can’t read the full article since it’s behind a paywall, but the intro text says they’re building a digital version of the island

Not sure why it matters where this digital version is located? Could be metaverse. Could be a mod for Skyrim. Could be its own separate Unreal app. Honestly you might get more users and attention if this was a Skyrim mod.

Absolutely insane a nation can see its end coming and knowing the vast majority of the world governments do not care the existential risk these people’s culture face.
I'm pretty sure one of the most complicated things is preventing automation of content - bots. which would be an arms race type condition. Bots you want to prevent - people not using twitter's api to do their bot stuff. Why would people not use twitter's api?

1. who would trust twitter not to change API and make code worthless

2. people who want to do stuff Twitter doesn't want you to do in an automated fashion.
Web3 hackathon winners share their tips
Web3 is coming at us at an increasing pace!

Hackathons are filled with more and more Web3 challenges based around decentralization, token economics and data ownership.

But how to beat these ambiguous challenges and bring home prizes?
Can someone explain why the App Store doesn't show the "Ask App Not To Track" dialog?

Why do 3rd party apps have to ask for permission to track, but Apple's apps do not?
Then this guardians are responsible for his actions and he needs his freedoms legally taken away.
The Los Angeles Angels baseball team is the same.
This is something like my third attempt to read the spanner paper - I get how it helps ordering of transactions but I am confused if it is used in making transactions atomic across machines ?
And vulnerabilities.
I don't remember WhatsApp being less stable before it was bought by Meta. And it was just as essential back then too.
Is the EU’s big bet on graphene about to pay out?
Google will let you download your entire voice activation history. That's always an interesting listen.
> All signs so far are pointing to, yes

which signs? They launched a new feature (blue checks for $8) and had to turn it off immediately because it was bleeding money and ruining the platform and they have less ad revenue booked for next year than they had at the same time last time.

I don't think one should judge the new twitter course yet, but "well, the site is still up" is a very bad measure of success.
> Coming from an entrepreneurial family, I always had that itch to become part of something bigger than yourself..

I don't get it. Entrepreneurs don't want to be a cog in somebody else's machine, they want to start their own thing.
> I played EotB about 2 years ago for the first time and stubbornly did it the old fashioned way with groh paper.

So it didn't add anything to the experience do it the hardcore way?
Yes. Every single serious chess master uses Chessbase as it has the largest database available out there even though the price is pretty obscene. The customer base is more dedicated than most and it's probably the single most important tool a chess pro can get outside of an engine itself.

Edit: It may not be the single largest database, I suspect that honor goes to Chess.com or Lichess, but it is certainly the largest curated one.
I hear you on this. As always, there is a tendency to view all crime and criminals as "not the fault of the perpetrator, they were just misunderstood".

However, I don't think this article was suggesting we give people a pass, more that we need to think about how we handle some people's actions in light of what we know about neurodiversity. If we are locking people up partly to punish them and partly to prevent both them and others repeating that behaviour, then the people concerned have to understand what they've done wrong.

Does Brandon understand that he's done the wrong thing here? Would other neurodivergent people understand? If not, what should we do differently?
Well I never! --I'd heard of 'Button Compasses' being used in wartime but always assumed the name just referred to the fact they were tiny and easily hidden. I've learned something new today.
It's all a PR campaign, an advertisement for the Qatar "brand".
So "without admitting any kind of guilt, I hereby return these pieces of real estate". Does that work?
Yes and no. I think we'd all agree that large tech companies have tons of really obvious staffing inefficiencies. There are many teams working on what are essentially vanity projects and many other teams have more staffing than they realistically need.

On the other hand the slash and burn Elon approach seems objectively terrible. Indiscriminately firing most of the company kills morale and is likely to send the company into a hiring death spiral where your good employees leave and you can't attract good talent. This won't automatically kill the product or the company but it's not going to lend itself to big positive successes in the future.