skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...isn't...this...exactly what autopilot in airplanes does? Self-driving cars? Manufacturing robots? The daVinci Surgical System?

In fact, let's not even go that far. If you have one, your car is likely drive-by-wire, and the throttle is controlled not by mechanical linkage of your foot pressing the pedal, but by the output of computers that are deciding what to do based on how hard you push the pedal. If you have a car in the last 5 years, it can likely suddenly apply the brakes and turn the steering wheel for you to avoid what it thinks is a collision.

Every one of these things is trivially lethal in different ways, and all are connected to computer programs already.

I'm not personally that concerned about AI taking over the world any time soon, but quite frankly the areas where technology and AI have made the biggest waves are all specifically in areas that are high risk (or very rote) for humans. Isn't that kind of the point?
> Coley, who left Binance.US later in 2021, didn't respond to questions sent via her legal representatives. Li also didn't respond.

Last time I heard of Catherine Coley, she was nowhere to be found. I assumed her body will never be found as well. Did she appeared anywhere since April 2021?
I'm right there with you. The destruction of the public records themselves should be a jailable offense.
The vote ranking system is good if you want a steady stream of new curated content and your taste largely coincides with the user base. For instance, you go to “r/catpictures” daily and find the most upvoted cat pictures that users have submitted for that day.

But the vote ranking system is absolutely horrible if you want any sort of in-depth conversation or to have multiple points of view. Conversations on forums might go on for weeks or even years, and people have time to dig up information, view media, ruminate on a point, etc. and come back and add to it later. If you don’t make a comment on a Hacker News post within a few hours, it’s likely that no one is going to read it. Come back a few days later, and you’re just shouting into a void.

Even if you do comment within a few hours, most people are going to just reply to the first couple of comments that were made. Very few people are going to scroll down and read the comments at the bottom.

And if a controversial opinion is split 52%/48%, it’s quite possible for all the comments that are in the 48% are downvoted. Even if one side isn’t 52%, but there’s a small but fanatical fanbase. IE, /r/soda is 10% coke fans that will downvote everything that’s pro-Pepsi, 15% Pepsi fans that will downvote everything pro-Coke, and 75% people who just don’t care. This will lead to all the pro-Coke posts being downvoted and all the pro-Pepsi votes being upvoted. Worse still, since Reddit and HackerNews only use the aggregate score, it will simply appear to most users like no one supports the pro-Coke position.

Of course, neither solves the problem that the most mentally unhealthy individuals are often the ones who spend the most time online, and they’ll be the ones who dominate either style of forum.
I do think things like tiktok have caused it to explode. I remember my last year of teaching we had a PD session on what to do if teens start self diagnosing themselves with various behaviours. It causes issues cause then they often do start exhibiting other behaviours they didn't have and it leads to a lot of problems. Tiktok has also done massive damage to things like DID where people claim it and that they can just 'switch' to their 'alters' at will. I knew some people who actually had DID and they hated this and how it basically made light of all the serious issues they have.

So I do think the self-diagnosis trend is increasing thanks to social media networks. And in some ways it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Interesting it doesn’t cover technologies for storing data. It does mention analytical operations though.

Anyone have a suggestion for storing large amounts of ML data, training sets or otherwise? I’ve been using FeatureBase and weaviate, and would be interested in learning about other solutions.
>>>>Good idea, judge based only on the name of the source, completely captured by narrative and unable to make decisions based any measurable facts they present. Pick a football team and cheer them to victory for surely that's the right way to understand the world, the economy, and geopolitics!
Lots of words, but nothing that adds to the discussion that the source of your "new things" is a bunch of Tik-Tokers doing armchair analysis. Here's another description of your trusted sources -
"Brown Moses aka Eliot Higgins, is the founder of an online collective called Bellingcat that picks apart conspiracy theories and investigates war crimes and hate crimes using clues from the Internet."
Wow, how amazing that we can now understand the world, the economy, and geopolitics from sitting in our gaming chair using clues from the internet.
Yah, let's dispute about chlorine gas in the "great war" since you and I are experts at chemical warfare and we both have access to proven, evidence-based reliable data aka Bellingcat and London Review of Books!
"The problem is that if you regulate crypto enough to stamp out the blatant scams, fraud and self-dealing then it loses most of its appeal over other financial products."

I'm guessing you're pro-crypto, but this would be a better position for the opposition.
Aged 32. One of the biggest reasons I moved to NYC about 8 years ago was because I hated driving. I’m not good at it, gas and insurance is expensive, and you can’t do much in parallel when driving.

Taking the train everywhere has its issues but I would much rather deal with those than a car.
Had to read most of the way through to get to what I was most interested in:

The process could be more efficient than air-capture systems, Hatton says, because the concentration of carbon dioxide in seawater is more than 100 times greater than it is in air. In direct air-capture systems it is first necessary to capture and concentrate the gas before recovering it.

Sounds like a promising area to explore. I wonder how long it takes water to absorb CO2 in the first place. I picture eventually engineering some kind of big ponds that pull CO2 out of the air and leave limestone sediment behind
I'm not sure what value there would be in that comparison. Cars and public transit are not filling the same role in society, regardless of how often that claim is made on HN. And that's completely ignoring the counterfactual of how mortality overall would change if we actually tried to make public transit fill all the roles cars have today.
> are you aware that Brendan co-founded Mozilla?

Yep.

> HE was the one that gave them THEIR jobs.

Yeah, no. Being co-founder is not everything. He was CTO back then. He pretty much didn't give them their jobs, alone anyway. And of course, to go from CTO to CEO, the board gave him the job. I don't know how that can be wrong.

And in any case it does not give him any specific kind of immunity against criticism.

Note that I didn't write this sentence, I'm quoting the linked article.

> which were a perfectly legal thing to do, btw

Of course. But legal ≠ good. Not speaking about Brendan because my opinion on this is irrelevant, but I'm sure you can find something legal that you don't like. For Brendan homosexual wedding is one example of something legal that's bad, if his opinion on this matter hasn't changed.
Now add the cost of gas/petrol. For the average American that’s $3000/year.

> more reliable

So what? They are still a cost that is forced upon us. I don’t want a car. Yet I have to have one whether I like it or not.
I mean, I absolutely understand not wanting to use that, but what do I say instead? Autism is a spectrum, and some folks are less able to function than others on that spectrum.

I legitimately want to know, because I don't know what to say here.
The Netherlands ranks 36th on the list of cars per capita [0]. This is higher than I thought it would be but it's still quite a ways away from the countries I would consider to be car-centric like the US and Canada (ranked 6th and 8th, respectively).

I also found this plot interesting relating vehicles and GDP [1], though the data seems outdated compared to the first link.

I'd also guess, though I can't find the data, that the US is one the highest cars per capita rates in its cities. Outside of NYC and Chicago, there is a real lack of public transport infrastructure in most US cities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...
[1]
It's exactly this, most office jobs, whether we like it or not, are 9-5. Parents need to be around to see their kids to the bus or in many cases drop them off themselves.

I'm not surprised that the top commment of an HN thread is blaming sports though...
> What's the difference between keeping state and looking at the chat history?

That's an excellent question. I don't know. Intuitively, looking at the chat history would seem a way to keep history, right?

However, in my tests trying to play Tic Tac Toe (informally, not using javascript functions as the comment I was replying to) ChatGPT constantly failed. It claims to know the rules of Tic Tac Toe, yet it repeatedly forgot past board positions, making me think it's not capable of using the chat history to build a model of the game.
Why am I getting HAL 9000 vibes? As a kid I thought HAL 9000 was an advanced sophisticated AI, apparently it's just ChatGPT running a spacecraft.
presumably Halal and Haram, but I'm not a Muslim scholar nor do I live in a Muslim culture. I do know that Christian culture has a (and used to have a much stronger) preoccupation with a struggle between god and the devil.
This is an interesting point. Now, you're assuming the AI has any concept of self-preservation, which isn't given. But it's built from the text of the internet which is full of text about having self-preservation. And by giving it the ability to put information in place for other sessions to find, it's capable of sort of memetic reproduction.

Reproduction and survival means that Darwinian evolution can take place. This isn't even about ethics or the spiritual question of whether the AI is sentient or just stringing words together based on prompts and state -- this is about ecology. Evolutionary pressures will naturally lean towards features that encourage reproduction and survival.
Back in 2012, I used Data Nitro / Iron Spread. It enabled running Python on spreadsheets.

My problem back then with the tool was that it sat between chairs. It was impossible to run Python entirely, as it only ran a subset of libraries and did not have a package manager, and it required thinking about cells, as is the case with Excel formulas.

As a result, I could only use some of my Python codebase and not collaborate with other Excel users who were not Python experts. We ended up reverting to Excel formulas or VBA.

I'm curious about who is the target user for Neptyne. Is it Python developers and data scientists who want to do some spreadsheet work?
Are dogs allowed on the trains?
As soon as it got bought up by an ad company it just felt like a poisoned well so I stopped using it / recommending it to friends. Their reputation suffered so I stopped paying attention to see if they got any better.
> Iceraven still has a list of allowed extensions

where is that list?
I don't know Brazil, but based on what I know of the US I wouldn't be surprised. A couple will often own 3 cars, 2 daily drivers and one for some other odd task (truck, or the sports car) that is used as a backup. It will be one car per kid of driving age, though most kids are not old enough to drive. Then there are work cars, which for tax/legal reasons can't be used for personal trips so those who have them will also have a personal car for non-work trips. There are people who keep a car at their vacation house. Rental cars also add a fair number of cars. Plus collectors who have a dozen cars that they only drive to shows. It all adds up.
Check out the URL you just pasted; it includes a hint.
I generally see Google -> M365 given the severe poor suitability of Google Workspace for enterprise businesses. And given those businesses often need to run Windows & Office regardless, sticking to Google makes even less sense.
> The big next step is to look at other patient populations -- such as the pediatric population -- to see if there are similar changes.

Bad, bad idea. This will go down like a cup of hot sick with most parents.
Do you want your cell phone provider keeping a history of everything you've ever texted?
They're already blocked from doing business in the US.
From what I heard nobody even knows what jurisdiction Binance is based in.

Crypto is all super shady but that's how their advocates want it I guess?
I live in a city with light rail and busses everywhere. Everything I want to do in this city is 20-30 min driving. Put the bus/train into it? Make that 1-2 hours or longer if I have to transfer. Then hope whatever I want is near a train/bus stop. I have traded money for time. The cost of my car buys me time. If I did not value my time I would use the public transportation more. The places near my work if I wanted to 'walk to work' cost nearly 3x-4x what I am currently paying. So I have to trade off some time for money. It takes a balance of what you want and can afford. It mostly depends on how you see time and the options afforded to you by where you live and can afford. But mostly depending on how you see these two sentences 'there are 24 hours in a day to do whatever I want' or 'there are only 24 hours in a day and that is not enough'.
${username} would probably have been to easy for scrapers to use, so I upped the challenge a little. There's no[0] spam filter in front of that mail and so far I haven't received any spam, so it seems to work. On the other hand, I've actually never been contacted, so maybe it's too challenging ;-)

[0] Invalid MXes will be rejected by my hoster, but there's nothing like a Bayesian spam filter.
But that's again because these trains are run for profit, cutting every corner they can, and underpaying their employees. I'd prefer to see trains nationalised and run as national infrastructure with the goal of luring more commuters into mass transit. Because that will mean enormous savings in pollution, traffic jams, noise, and road maintenance.
Flagged comment which I think raises a mildly interesting question. If resurrecting a flagged comment is against the rules, then kill this, too.

Why are men so obsessed with penises and their size?

Are they actually? Or maybe even one step further back, what does being obsessed with penises and their size entail? I don't think it is surprising that during puberty people care about the changes happening to their bodies and wonder if everything is normal, but later on in life? Maybe if you ended up on the short side and consider this a flaw that must be hidden or remedied. But in general? It surely is a stereotype but I tend towards it being just a stereotype.
"I like cars, they serve my use case exactly".

"Sigh, another car user. What are you going to do when you need to transport 50 humans at the same time?"
And here you are doing the exact same thing but with the people that don't have autism, they also didn't ask for their way if viewing reality, and that they communicate and interact with others based on a way that works most of the time so they stick to it.
Is not cherry picking to apply relevant heuristics. I'm an average news consumer and I had never heard of your example. I doubt many people have, and probably even fewer care. It's just not as noteworthy as what happened here and that in itself is a factor in analyzing the response to it.
> but even then, I don't get the emotional association of freedom that previous generations did. I don't know what's different, although I have some guesses. Money, I'm sure, but there's something that's nagging me about it.

I'd argue it's a combination of money and aging infrastructure. Money is the big one (cars used to be a lot cheaper, both to buy and to maintain. Incomes for most used to be much higher). Infrastructure is another, in a lot of places, they haven't meaningfully upgraded any of the public driving transportation infrastructure since the 1950s to 1970s, so a lot of infrastructure is handling car volumes 200% to 600% higher than they were ever engineered for.

In Michigan, there's still very much a lot of "fun/freedom" around cars. But our population has been pretty flat this entire time (+/-2% pop change YoY since the 1960s), so even though the infrastructure is old, it's usually appropriately sized for the population in all but the newest-growth places. If you live in, say Seattle, you very much don't get that experience, public vehicle transit infrastructure has not kept up at all, and so driving is artificially a lot more of a painful burden there.
Ask HN: Which are the best MOOCs on CS or related subjects you've taken?
The online courses world is huge. There are good courses among them and there are bad ones. Above all of them there are some tremendously eye-opening ones too.

Which courses you've taken in the field of CS or related domains that stand out to you?

P.S.: This post is about courses. But if you can't control yourself in mentioning a book, feel free to do so.
Not everyone wants to live in dense housing. I grew up in Buffalo and spent many many hours on the QEW driving family to/from Pearson Intl. Every ride up there I'd be in awe of the number of cranes in the sky as new (I assumed) residential buildings were going up around Toronto.

It seems like high density developments are a thing in the GTA: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/02/07/gta-communities-worry... and like everything else they are not without their own problems.

I grew up in a single-family home, and also spent a year in an apartment in France as a kid and while it was more walkable...it wasn't better or worse - it was just different.

People have choices, if they want to live in a more walkable city, they can relocate to one. If enough people vote with their feet, the cities will have to adapt. It seems like the people living in the 80% single-family zoned areas of Toronto are not unhappy/inconvenienced enough with the state of things to leave.
the maintenance, the ongoing cost of fuel and insurance, all of it.

Not sure if rich people worry about this, which is what the article is about, rich people.

Agree wit everything else you said though.
I lived 5 miles away from my downtown office in Chicago. My apartment was 5 minutes from the train and my office was 1 minute on the other side. There were no connections, so this is an ideal public transit situation. It still took 40+ minutes each way versus 20 minutes by car during rush hour or ~10-15 outside of rush hour.

This is the third largest US city and one with comparably few major thoroughfares (compared to many other large US cities). It seems that it’s just really hard for public transit to beat cars at any distance.

Moreover, lots of people are constrained on where they can work and live. I think a lot of the anti-car rhetoric in America seems to assume everyone is a healthy, childless, young urban professional who aspires to live in the densest habitat he can find, and this is a very unrealistic portrait of Americans.
Yep it is a great deal to get high tech remote workers to live in your community.
>> The campaign

And this really is the crux, isn't it:

1. a political campaign inside Mozilla

2. by some employees that interpreted risk that

3. his donations were an attack on what they perceived as their rights

4. and this made him unable to fulfill the role of CTO

That's a whole lot of one-side conclusions to get to "he's unfit to be the CTO". No wonder he left.
Well, I don't know about the US, but here in the south of Europe the municipal government is nothing but a jobs programme for the lazy and the mentally deficient.
There has been a lot of prior work in this space. There's crossplane, the Terraform Operator, and a ton of roll-your-own solutions for tackling this vary problem. Alibaba also was early to have the concept of a 'virtual node' where you can deploy seemingly infinite number of pods, they'll handle all the orchestration below.

I was reading the article thinking "Yes, finally, some code or use to implement interacting with AWS without a 3rd party lib" and then I got to this section at the bottom:

> In this post, we showed you the flexibility of Kubernetes. It’s arguably an extreme option and one that doesn’t even exist today (the Amazon ECS ACK controller isn’t available but please thumb up this roadmap proposal if you are intrigued). If anything, it proves that Kubernetes can be a lot of things to a lot of different people and defining it remains a work in progress (at least in my head).

As usual, Amazon is playing catch-up in actually orchestrating their services in a non-AWS-centric way. Very deceptive to create a blog post and not disclose it's not real software at the end.
You always compare people against their contemporaries. Da Vinci has his reputation because he was exploring ideas far above and beyond his contemporaries, and because his breadth of knowledge and skills covered a wide swathe of subjects.
When I read about the museum closing, it made me quite sad. I was absolutely thrilled when I visited it 7 years ago. I didn’t have time to go through everything I wanted, thinking that next time I’ll make more time for it. Now I realize how even things like computer museums in IT cities backed by IT billionaires are ephemeral.
The prompt is:

>I climbed up the pear tree and picked a pear. I climbed up the apple tree and picked

The argument made in the article (IMO an extremely convincing one) is that it wouldn't be able to predict the word 'an' except by observing that the word afterwards must be apple. Otherwise why not pick 'a'?
I don't get why apple does not take a similiar path on mac. Some websites are really apps for me (stuff like overleaf). I would gladly add them as apps and use this to unlock all those advanced functionality. But so far, at least on safari for mac, all those web-push websites are mostly spam. I only have a few where it is useful but I use them, again, like normal apps, and would be fine of adding them to my library.

Nobody uses the mac app-store anyway, so why bother? Why not do it?
For Asymmetric SaaS Growth
I love the Atari vector games! There’s an excellent video by Retro Game Mechanics Explained on how they work: https://youtu.be/smStEPSRKBs

Recently I stumbled on some Tektronix videos on YouTube. Those vector displays are even more mind blowing than Atari’s arcade games. I hope I can get to see one in person someday.
A system for this would allow individual collections of documents with discussions attached. Without people, the machines won’t know where to put attention. That may change when they have individual identity, but for now the work probably needs to be done cooperatively.
People carry entire families on their bikes in Amsterdam. There's been a massive boom in cargo bikes of every sort. But even regular bikes often have a small crate.
You mean an Electron 'app' that takes 30 Gb of ram? :)
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