skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand, but looking for one tiny irregularity for political goals is not the same as jailing a mafioso for it who is a money launderer and murderer on a huge scale.

I was arguing with the OP that Capone's sentence was not political but this thing is.
In Catholicism our consciousness comes from our souls which we inherited by being the literal descendants of Adam and Eve.

That would at least exclude sentient extra terrestrial life.
There was plenty of evidence that COVID was not as dangerous to children as it was to elderly and yet politicians kept schools locked down. This is why many parents took their kids out of public school and into private schools which re-opened, or at least families that could afford it did. There has been a massive impact to school-age children and the development loss is massive. See this article from 2021: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90658

Many of the studies referenced in that article are from 2020, yet schools had not re-opened.

In addition to that the teachers union in the US influenced guidance by the CDC on school openings: https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-wi...
Nonono. Use the Linux home (cd ~) instead of the Windows one in the simplest case.
> the damage control media outlets are attempting

That suggests intent. While I am as cynical as the next person I wouldn't make a claim like that without also citing evidence to back it up.
From memory, the “antiwoke media” I heard about the “one ethics thing” from is called “Hacker News”
95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority
> The kids met their Pixar heroes and had a lightsaber duel with Chewbacca. Meanwhile, I was riding high on my own personal “spy-versus-spy” adventure the whole day.

It's critical to always have a secret mission on these occasions. Great, fun read!
With Qubes OS I don't have to care what a video player does, since it's isolated in a hardware-virtualized VM.
For many searches it is quite good.

However once you look for very specific narrow results it attempts to outsmart you can be a real annoyance. When it decides to ignore some rare term and correcting your query while that rare term actually is the thing of highest significance.

So yeah, for 95% of the searches it is great, but on the 5% it feels like modern advances are in the way.
Aw man, if only Democrat super-majority California were not the absolute worst for construction permit hell, you’d have a point.
And the fact that it was "liked" by Chinese people silently used to imply that it's obviously evil. It may be that Chinese people are not stupid, and that the Chinese government has no desire to censor the smart things that Chinese people say that are also supportive of China.
Epstein Docs [pdf]
The lede is buried here in that the biggest problem is in defense procurement regulation and not really in technology or money. The other unspoken issue is labor and environmental regulation, which also influences the same problem, as does overall costs. If you think it's hard to build a condo, think about how hard it is to build all the foundries, chemical factories, and other similar heavy industries in the US. In the '70s-'80s, the US decided to "solve" its labor and environmental problems by sending heavy industry (with all of its attendant problems) elsewhere. This poses special problems for defense procurement because of the need to have trusted sources. There is no easy solution, so there will have to be catastrophe first before it starts to be addressed.
The craziness appears when you realize that US governments are no more accountable than US corporations. Nobody lost their job over 9/11, or the Afghanistan pullout, or any other debacle you can name from the past few decades. Charges were dropped against the low level jail guards who allowed Jeff Epstein to die; Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary only due to public outcry and 12 years later.

Responsibility is a quaint tradition of a lost America.
I think the question is whether things like ChatGPT really are “better”. How do we define “better”? Who defines “better”? Does everyone have a say in what the definition is? Is the profit motive fully responsible here versus the benefit of society? As I allude to in my original post, is the cost/benefit really there? I don’t think any of these questions are being addressed in a reasonable way at the moment. It should be clear that your “engineering good” mentality is completely insufficient considering the scope of the problems we face today.
> That and searching for product reviews usually just returns SEO'ed trash

I run into this for a lot of things beyond just product reviews, such as recipes or "what is X?" etc.

Granted I don't think that is entirely Google's fault.
I was confused why the title bar says Kanaries but the product name is RATH. As someone coming in via a deep link with no knowledge of this product or company, it was confusing to figure out what was the actual product was called. I also couldn’t easily find an explanation of what RATH stands for.
I don't think that's what he's saying - but rather that Chinese-controlled media is blowing this out of proportion to distract you from the chinese spy balloon story (reserving judgment whether this is actually the case - it's plausible, but would still be surprising - I just think that's what OP is trying to say, not that the balloon itself had anything to do with the derailment).
The US isn't on the other side of the planet to Russia. The missiles fly over the Arctic, and typically travel less than a quarter of the circumference of the planet.
I'm curious, what about their post indicates that status?
How many people and organizations online actually provide real filtered hands-on reviews of things these days? There are exceptions like Wirecutter and sites like Amazon provide some insight assuming you're willing to wade through all the fake reviews, But generally speaking, consumers aren't willing to pay the cost for in-depth reviews.

ADDED: There are individuals in some domain niches but you pretty much need to know who they are.
I hear this opinion every so often but I just don't think it's really the case. Many libraries out there expect you to use Monad transformers. You might try to keep MTL out of your own application code, but you'll find that the rest of the ecosystem favors it. You can still use these libraries without MTL, but it's often not ergonomic and therefore not really an option.
I've used it with Tokio to build out backend infra.
Maybe. Or, perhaps, was told an overly-optimistic story that changed as it floated up the hierarchy:

engineer: well, yeah, we've got something. It's OK. But it has limitations and needs to be used very carefully.

engineer's boss: we've got something. It's OK.

AVP: we've got something.

VP: We've got something!

SVP: We've got something. It's great!

CTO: We've got something. It's great! It's just what we need to counter the press noise!

CEO: Phew. Great. Get it out there.

None of which exonerates Pichai. Given the significance of the threat to the firm, the "code red", the knowledge that he's personally going to take heat, he should've been all over this. Imagine Steve Jobs in a similar situation. He'd have been over it like a rash.

So no: Pichai doesn't get away with blaming someone else. His job.
OSS BI like Redash, Superset, Metabase, etc.
Low code solutions like AppSmith.
maybe the metaverse they refer to is implemented with a blockchain, itself implemented in Rust, for maximal current events points.
> they need to change up how they measure success and who they reward

This is culture, and culture is one of the most important responsibilities of a CEO.
Yes, but those are legal measures affecting higher levels of the OSI model, not low-levels technical blocks as OP implied.

Technical measures such as "not letting CN/RU on the Internet", involve at least blocking their IP space at BGP level (null routing as in China's Great Firewall), or even reallocating their IP space.

The Internet might be more or less fragmented at a high-level due to bureaucracy (see GDPR and HTTP Error 451 Unavailable for legal reasons or DNS blacklists), but at least everyone can pretty much agree where a public IP address points to.

Breaking up the very foundation of the Internet... that could get really messy and complicated.
No it’s not? There’s one measly story way down past the fold on the NYT homepage.

It’s nowhere on the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or USA Today homepages (I cmd+F’d).

There’s a tiny clip on the left of the Fox News homepage that’s tangentially about it but really about Tomi Lahren bashing Pete Buttigieg.

The most prominent is the New York Post, which has a headline about it being “worse than feared” after a bunch of scrolling past stories about Kathy Hochul banning gas stoves and Emily Ratajkowski hanging out with Eric André.
Launching products without the full backing of the company sounds like a pretty large part of the mess.
The More You Look for Spy Balloons, the More UFOs You’ll Find
That is a false dilemma between 'a life in jail' and 'merely inconvenience'. For non-violent but severe crimes, single-digit years in jail seems to me as adequate punishment. Severe enough to blow away rational calculation, but not life-destroying.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/s...

> Vinyl chloride exposure is associated with an increased risk of a rare form of liver cancer (hepatic angiosarcoma), as well as primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), brain and lung cancers, lymphoma, and leukemia.

If there's some fact in the parent comment which is in dispute could you please be a bit more clear about what it is? This is a very unhelpful comment from you.
Can you please please please take a moment and really be honest with yourself and think about how you and the rest of the mainstream media would be responding to this if pete was a republican appointed by a republican president
Will we ever be able to predict earthquakes?
"Find the company that survived and got big, then carefully move the historical goalpost so it's first"
From the comments so far seems like nobody read the article. There is no "AI" or any involvement in the actual fighting. The start-up backed by Eric Schmidt is virtually testing component designs to search for faults, incompatibilities and such. It's a ML CI for CAD projects:

> Ishtari uses machine learning to virtually assemble and test war machines from computer models of individual components, such as the chassis and engines, that are usually marooned on separate digital drawing boards
Yes, these are unironically extremely difficult skills which were critical for a Google CEO over the last 10 years. Maybe the next 10 years will be different though.
If you're in the Ohio river basin, I recommend you install reverse osmosis and carbon filters on your tap water, which will effectively filter nearly all vinyl chloride. Ventilate rooms where you shower before / afterwords to ensure contaminated vapor doesn't stick around.
Ooof, an AMP link. Reminds me why avoid Google products.
Portugal. The Man's Quest to Make Concerts Accessible
That stuff is all driven from the top down. Who do you think let Google become a “DEI before tech” company in the first place? They need to change management before any of that other stuff has any chance of real change.
> not-very-intelligent, inscrutable bullshit generators running our lives

This is literally modern politics. Corporate media and our own government is constantly lying and manipulating us. They run our lives with far too little accountability.

Your fears are well founded, however. Alignment and AI safety is not even slightly solved yet, the worst case scenario is a world ending event, and we have no way to measure to likelihood of that happening. There have been coordinated efforts around this discussion for a long time, and especially so in the past decade.
How is Nadella an innovator? He's just been leveraging corporate dependencies on MS into cloud-world. MS's newer products suck. People only use them because they are bundled with Windows/Azure deals, and thus relatively cheap. MS-Teams is a lesson in How Not To Make A UI.
IT folks hated it? Or maybe just the bigwigs? You don’t say why but guessing because you innovated away their headcount.
> DuckDB Drawbacks

> It’s not all roses with DuckDB. The CLI is still relatively new and sometimes had glitches like the progress bar not completing or hangs or crashes. As mentioned above, more syntax is needed for some queries since Postgres has a richer built-in library of functions. Another column-store database like ClickHouse has over 1,000 built-in functions and would obviate the need to do array operations in many cases.
"AI" controlled hardware doesn't care about anything. A human is more likely to say "wait, this order doesn't make sense" or "what if those are just civilians?"
Sounds like Lee Pace
India and Pakistan are choking on each other’s pollution
Our fearless US press is too scared to have on-site staff to cover the largest ecological land-based disaster since Three Mile Island. Or they've been told by the regime it's a non-issue? Not sure which is worse, but the outcome is what you see before you; back page coverage a week after the incident. Barely a blurb.

Yes, these things take time to fully investigate. Where are the daily updates from the EPA though? Why aren't the major news outlets syndicating these daily EPA updates?

This is relevant to more Americans than the war in Ukraine, which many news outlets have a dedicated section for in the header section (Business, World, Sports, etc.)

I just checked US News & World Report and CNN front pages - not even listed.
Yes, badly. Nothing about Google stands out anymore and they've been rotting from multiple ends for a long time.

Search rarely returns credible results and I find myself adding 'site:reddit.com' frequently to at least get some organic discussions about things rather than articles which look like they were sponsored and artificially inflated to the top. They've turned into a joke about releasing something and killing it off a few years later. Android is a nightmare for developers (and users) with how they handle API changes and the Google Play store as a whole. Any kind of customer support is non-existent in basically any of their products. Their hardware is good but software gets worse over time and stagnates (their smart home ecosystem). I still don't trust them for a second with my data.

Gmail is fine, Maps are fine, YouTube is... well, we don't really have a competitor and nobody wants to switch because they wouldn't have access to a large audience. Whatever they release I have no faith in it, not with it keeping my data, not with its longevity, not in its reliability.
I'm finding it extremely hard to separate signal from noise in the social and legacy media spheres right now. I'm waiting for things to settle.
Not foolproof, there have been instances when people have been cropping in an image-editor and failed to realize that the thumbnail hadn't been updated and leaked information.
A big part of the problem in my opinion, is that people are generally not interested in investing (money, time, effort) in technology. They focus almost exclusively on products. The short term is always given a much higher priority than long term.

If someone invents a much better way (faster, easier, cheaper) to do some key part of a widely used product (operating system, database, file system, network protocol), they won't get any traction until they have built a competing product with all the bells and whistles around that technology.

That can be a formidable task to a startup founder with limited resources who has to try and compete with products that have huge budgets and decades of development behind them. Investors won't touch it until you have a completed and tested product with many customers already signed up. Customers won't touch it until it is a 'drop-in replacement' for their existing solution which requires resources to finish. Classic catch-22 or chicken-and-egg problem.

You can't just find a way to do something 10x faster and expect others to flock to it.
I think there's actually something in this. That's why I've created my own CRM/ERP system. All page loads that are slower than 100 ms is considered a bug and I'm usually on under 50 ms.

And of course I've a TUI version of it as well, with all data local (and synced to the cloud).

I really hope that once I'm ready to put it out there, I will find the right audience.
reference as in a style-guide? Or are you actually using the guidelines support library with things like gsl::index ? I've never seen it used in the wild
> The big schools have more funding and more spare cash.

There you go. Honest businesses don't make their prices with regards to how much "spare cash" their client might have.

> How do I put all that into a single price on the website?

You divide it into parts that can be priced. If there is a bespoke part you put an hourly rate for that implementation, or daily rate, or any way of counting the rate that suits you.

You can use the projects you have finished to publish examples for future potential clients, where they can compare a little bit and get a rough idea of what it would cost them.

Just getting any kind of price information out there is much better than nothing, because then a potential client knows if it's within their range. You also avoid people who cannot afford your product.
In general, it's probably true that the amount (and sophistication) of spam and spammish content has tended to overwhelm whatever technology improvements in search there have been.
You're completely right to feel this way.

Reading about your struggles made me reflect on my twenties in tech and what a day to day looked like. Most mornings would start on a tube commuting into central london, getting to see how people dress, was anyone attractive on my route? what music should I listen to on the way? Then getting into the office, I worked with with engineer that was a developer at roscosmos and escaped the soviet union. We would walk the streets of london and discuss what problems we were going to solve that day and have a morning espresso while doing it. The city was always buzzing with traders and office workers. Work was tough but I had a lunch outside to look forward to with my team. If it was thursday or friday most of us would head to a pub for a late boozy lunch or end up at bricklane for a curry and the night just went on and on.

Amazing time and when I compare that to the last few years of remote work it cant even come close to the interactions and experiences I gained during that time. My day to day has been wakeup, grab a coffee, walk into my office and start responding to emails. I then try to squeeze in time to walk my dog and then get back to continue more meetings and zoom calls. Once the day ends I'm pretty exhausted and try to get outside to ride my bike or go to the gym. I physically interact with less than 2 people a day. My wife and the barista at the local coffee shop.

I completely empathize with how you're feeling!
This promise of "a human in the loop" can be met simply by adjusting the timing. For example, authorizing action prior to launch or remotely prior to engagement. This is what they do to allow single seat fighters to drop nuclear weapons, for example.
That applying your program after it has been voted against is a lot more expensive than applying your program after it has been voted for?
> The IT folks at said multinationals hated our software

why?
They were but now they aren't.
Many times these kinds of attacks are buffer overflows, tricking the hardware/OS to execute code it wasn't intending. Its not just that the media player starts to behave strangely, often the attack corrupts code outside the media player. See the Android Mediaserver vulnerabilities, or many of the buffer overflow vulnerabilities in ffmpeg.

If an attack corrupts how the OS checks permissions, it doesn't matter if you've got some API framework for calls, it broke out of it.
Windows Phone had a market share so low (~3%) it just didn't make sense to keep pouring money into it when cheap Chinese Android phones were coming in troves and Apple/Samsung dominated the high-end segments.

The Xbox only true competitor is the PlayStation which is much more manageable. Even the first Xbox had a market share of 33% in the US. It's important not to mix up killing a product before its prime and pouring money into an established market for dominance. Windows Phone was the latter.

Cloud gaming (if we believe it will eventually catch on) does not have an established "winner" yet. Nvidia/Xbox/Luna (Amazon) are still trying to make it work and Google had a better approach than all of them with lower controller latency.
I'm still reading, but I just got to the part about flaky, and I got annoyed because there are clear use cases for flaky or pytest-retry.

If you have an integration test that relies on an unreliable system you do not control. Sure you can mock it out for a unit test, but if you want to make sure you catch breaking API changes, you need to hit the actual system. And if it works after retrying it a few times, then so be it. no need to throw shade.
It was horrible and so many people were forced to use it as some websites only worked with it. I remember doing IE 6.0 upgrades to get Y2K compliant.
I know it could seem this way. And now that's true. But when it first happened big media largely ignored it or parroted available talking points without any real attempt to do meaningful reporting. But I agree that the impact on people is more important than the media critique.
Exhibiting human-level intelligence does not imply exhibiting sentience or consciousness. This is not a Turing test. You could have an extremely intelligent AI, more intelligent than any human, which however doesn’t feel anything and doesn’t have any experience of self (i.e. consciousness). P-zombies refer to a simulation of humans, and I agree that those wouldn’t actually be zombies, and would have consciousness and sentience. An AGI, however, does not aim to be anything like a human, except for having a level of intelligence that is at least comparable.
The tech was the problem. I can spin up any cloud machine with moonlight and get better performance, play any game, and use any controller for the price of stadia and monthly fees.
I'm not aware of a generalized safe subset of C. There are lots of compiler extensions and model annotations that offer security improvements, but very few will claim to offer spatial and temporary memory safety in the way that safe programming languages can.

There are lots of specification driven C applications, which rely on (1) the specification being bug free, (2) the application of the specification being bug free, and (3) the model or proof assistant for the specification being sound and bug free. Getting all three of those is historically very difficult.
If we've got AI bots able to do that kind of stuff, why would an enemy care anymore about military aged males?
Yeah, but I think historically that's going to be an anomaly brought on by the unipolar moment of US/Western military dominance, not a moment of ethical enlightenment. The US and its allies were so dominant that they didn't really need landmines to win anymore, and landmines are one of the cheapest effective deterrents their potential enemies could use. So it became yet another requirement for acceptance into the "rules based order" that just coincidentally benefits those enforcing the rules over those who have a different ethical perspective.

I'm not saying we should bring landmines back, but "human in the loop" AI warfare will only work so long as our AI maintains the same relative military dominance we've enjoyed for the last few decades. The moment an AI squadron gets wiped out because the human approval couldn't come fast enough, it'll go right out the window.