skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmm this is important and deserves more clarity. Algorithmic computer science is used and taught widely, in a hundred programming languages. Machine Learning is a statistics-based group of techniques using data to guess reliably the values in new data. Machine Learning is often called a subset of AI, but there is no real definition of AI except "doing something with a computer that previously required a human"

So the change here is .. instead of pre-written rules to determine outcomes.. use a lot of data, read and build a model from that data, to predict with statistics what the new result should look like given similar inputs.

Machine Learning is data-driven to predict, while algorithms use math and loops to derive answers.
> "Smart" contracts are subject to applicable contract law, and are susceptible to all normal causes for invalidating or reverting a contract under such law. Try telling a judge in a contract dispute case that code is law and they have no authority to rule on the contract, maybe they'll thank you for the laugh.

Smart contracts are by default anonymous. Good luck taking an anonymous counterparty to court. That's the reason why smart contracts must be fully- or over-collateralized, because you can't rely on courts and contract law to back you up. Even if it's legally applicable, the actual ability to apply it may be difficult or impossible.

> You're missing the parent's point: smart contracts can't teleport objects to you, or compel people to perform services for you. If you pay for a good or service and it's not delivered or performed, or you believe it wasn't adequately delivered or performed in accordance with the contract terms, you would go to court to enforce the contract as with any other.

No I'm not, that's why I included discussion of the oracle problem. If you don't understand how oracles coordinate real-world delivery of a good or service to on-chain payment, then you need to go read up on this stuff some more. (I'm not advocating for oracles, I'm generally a skeptic, but any discussion of blockchain DvP must include them)
Logically no, when the overly optimized and less secured options are rewarded.

There's a story of a car company which calculate the cost needed to recall a defective model (safety-wise), versus the fines needed to pay times the possibility that the error may occur. There's cheaper on the later so they don't do the recall.

And the recent train derailments, many people said that if the fines are lower than the reduced cost they get for lowering the safety, they'll keep doing it again.
Yeah... That's called a "summary". But people made trouble by calling the table of contents a summary, and the name is now ambiguous.
I have some ebooks on may Mac, they are usually programming books which I read while learning programming.

The rest are in my phone.
control is all they have though. Big banks are behind the scene doing all the real work. All the people you talk to are doing is getting a contract signed. There are enough steps that this is valuable work that needs a lot of customer service (which is why big banks outsource it to 'independent' entities), but in the end nobody can actually give you a better rate/extra costs from the banks and credit unions already near you. The rate you care about is decided by your credit score and the current market. The closing costs are somewhat competitive, but they are in the end small.

I suppose if you have really bad credit these places might find someone willing to do a risky loans (at really bad interest rates) while the local banks and credit unions won't talk to you at all. However overall the places buying leads don't have anything to offer.
Legal liability is something to be decided by local laws? Would insuring the cars cheaper would be closer to "money where your mouth is". Anyone using this: is their insurance cheaper? https://www.tesla.com/insurance
I absolutely hate it when someone sits at my desk when I'm out of office and moves my chair, screen, etc. Bonus points for people pulling on cables and leaving a godawful mess behind. My favorite is when they unplug my computer (because no one has a power adapter anymore) and leave it off...

But most people I've seen don't give a crap about their working conditions. They'll put up a family picture or two and call it day. I've seen hardly anyone adjust the height of their chairs, let alone the desk (ours are adjustable, but it's more involved than the chair). Many will work hunched over their laptops when they have a perfectly usable screen right in front of them. Yes, there are cables, and yes, they're compatible with the PCs.

My company thinks a keyboard is a keyboard, so they figure the crappy basic HP with mushy keys you need to press exactly right and that have your wrists bent up are just fine, so I brought my own peripherals. I have also insisted on having an adequate screen, trading two crappy nonadjustable ones for an OK one that sits at the right height and has decent contrast. It also provides my laptop with power and cuts down on random cables hanging around. It's also cheaper than the standard two crappy screens + docking station, so it's clearly not an issue of spending money. Comfort is simply not a consideration. But no one else complains.

But the point is that, in my company, I'm pretty sure no one would bring up ergonomic considerations as an issue with hot desks. And I doubt it's any different in your average corp.
Looks great https://imgur.com/a/5zPQ09F
These CEO mandates are curiously similar, yet so ill-concieved.They sure feel more like political talking points.

Likely has more to do with the looming "debt spiral", and not productivity.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/global-real-est...
Maybe they banned it because Google pays webmasters for clicks on ads and that extension makes them waste money
>I have an EV with over 400 miles of range.

Which one? What is your actual overall average Wh/mile vs. your car’s rated efficiency?

I own a Model S Plaid. Its rated range is nominally 396 miles, but that’s never gonna happen in real life. (No one buys a Plaid to drive in Chill mode…)
> The first being that ideas of past philosophers can be relevant and useful in addressing contemporary issues.

True that the context might have been different, however if these ideas remain applicable to the society as a whole, one begins to wonder why they have not been addressed?

I am thinking here of Aristotle and his political views[1] whereby he points out that democracy is a degradation of a constitutional government. Why do we not apply those ideas to our current societies? Aren't their applicable? Was Aristotle wrong? Or what went wrong?

[1]=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_(Aristotle)
Over past 9 years dividend is only up 26%, yet the yield has more than doubled.

Do the math on what happened to this business...
It will help their competitors compete, which would presumably be the point of antitrust action.
The article provided a rubric for assessing the legitimacy of decision making algorithms. While it can be used to reject inferior algorithms, it can also be used to develop and have confidence in a decision making algorithm that meets all the conditions.

One can also use an explicit rubric to automate decision making with transparency.
Having building mats delivered frequently would be a good reason to have a work vehicle.

In walkable places, you can just walk down and get that day's groceries as needed, or maybe you do it on your way home from your walkable job, etc. It's more flexible, fresher, requires less mass consumption, less packaging, as well--lots of ancillary benefits.

More food for thought: I've heard a saying (attributed to Norwegian/Scandinavian folk wisdom) that goes like, "There is no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate clothing."
>many countries have no such restrictions and yet they don't seem to have a stabbing epidemic

Are you implying there's a stabbing epidemic in Britain? (apologies if I'm misunderstanding that)

Britain doesn't have a stabbing epidemic[1]. It's a meme

Media attention made the obsession, not whatever actually happens in the real world. Ah, if only people cared as much about heart and brain diseases :(

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-... (click on Rate per 100k on the last table)
> figure out a way to do upward movement that doesn’t require annoying special casing. If you figure it out, don’t tell me since it means I’ll have to make more levels.

Don't read this, then (from a 2048 game instead of Sokoban, but same principle): https://github.com/darius/cant/blob/master/examples/games/20...

As long as I'm commenting, here are some links to other Sokobans I thought were fun (listed in the source code to mine). The sed one is nuts -- I had no idea it could do that: https://github.com/darius/cant/blob/master/examples/games/so...
Incorrect; many human pleasures revolve around other humans, and those are (in all important regards) as much a part of our environment today as 100kya.

For the rest, I distain only those which violate my sense of empathy, which asks "would I be OK if the tables were turned?": that we enjoy games of skill involving throwing things is seldom important but morally neutral, that we act as though calories is scarce is bad on a personal level but again not a moral concern (I don't think hunger is generally caused by others overeating).
Oddly not paywalled for me but yes, the article is based on that preprint.
Many of the people who make those universities reputable are foreigners. If the UK goes down an extreme path, the ones who are there will start leaving and new ones will stop coming.
Look man, I grew up in a trailer park. Very few people live alongside highways or in places where it is not safe to play outside. Currently, I live in a low income apartment complex, and I still see kids playing outside. three years ago I lived on the most violent street in our town because rent was so cheap there, and I still saw kids riding around on scooters and playing ball. A lot of it is mentality, and what you view as an acceptable risk. Has very little to do with income.
Relevant article from The Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/2015/04/defender-of-the-crown/
We are already steeped in and grown from the inherent biases of our cultures and societies.
I've used many smartphones and never registered any of them.

When I say register, I meant sign up for the wireless service. I did not already have an account. I was on my wifi and browsed to the wireless provider to activate my sim card and get a phone number. I could have done this on my PC but doing that on my cell verified with the vendor that my phone was supported since I am using an off-brand device. It was easier to copy the IMEI that way.

For Googles app store I used a throw away Gmail address that is not used anywhere else. I would love to put a new image on the phone but AFAIK there are no custom roms for my make/model of device. I would love to install GrapheneOS but they have sadly limited device support to Pixel. I am learning more about using adb since this is my first smart phone and with time I will neuter Google without replacing the rom, hopefully. It's mostly harmless for now since I rarely have the phone on.
I was recently surprised to see CS 1.6 running in the browser: https://play-cs.com Makes it way to easy to get sucked into a game or two.
I’m recruiting engineers in LATAM right now.
>improve the lives of everyone

This is a really naive goal. It’s super trivial to twist almost anything into “improving the lives of everyone”.
Google Cloud unit to share desks and attend the office on alternate days
If every application is properly sandboxed, and the sandbox has zero holes, then it's fine. I don't believe either.
To me, it seems more like favoring composition of small parts over inheritance of everything.

That's what CSS is, a HUGE inheritance graph, just even more convoluted, because absolutely every "class" is part of the same graph.
This will be needed. In fact, I think education will place a higher emphasis on critical thinking skills in the near future because of AI.
It's also worth noting that unlike college fraternities in the US, which seem to be pretty ubiquituous, Burschenschaften in Germany are fairly niche and all veer to the right wing of the political spectrum: mostly Christian conservatism although there are widespread völkisch nationalist undertones. I'm not saying these are "nazi" groups but I've yet to encounter a Burschi who isn't at least to the right of the general public. As the StackExchange answer suggests, membership is also often tied to military service (which also is much less common than in the US) and the culture is strongly tied to aristocratic (or at least "old money") lineages and "mentorship" (some would say nepotism).

Basically the correct mental image is probably private societies in expensive English "public schools" (i.e. what most of the rest of the world would consider private schools: the kind you have to pay for), not US style "Greek houses".

It's worth noting that despite the similarities between völkisch nationalism and ethnonationalism, most Burschenschaften are explicitly opposed to the far right, at least in public statements. If you want to tie them to an anti-democratic movement it's probably more likely to be neo-feudalism (e.g. the Reichsbürger monarchists) than actual neo-nazis. There have been some instances of nazi chat groups within Burschenschaften being found out and members have been running for the far-right nationalist Alternative für Deutschland party however.

EDIT: Also, worth noting, schlagende Verbindungen, i.e. the ones engaging in ritualistic duels with sharp blades, are on the fringe of these groups and also veer to the right of those (I think most "moderate" Christian conservative ones are strongly opposed to the practice). So the entire dueling thing nowadays is a fringe of a fringe of a fringe and most Germans would feel very concerned if you tell them you engage in it.
None of these are reasons for an antitrust case
This misses the point. A breakup would put Prime Video / Music (are those two even allowed to be in the same company? Why? Who decides?) on the same footing as Hulu or Spotify. This would create independent third-tier players in both markets.

The consumer would likely end up paying more (because Prime Video / Music can't be run at zero or negative margins as part of a bundle; ditto for other media options like Spotify). Further, I'm not sure what goal would be served by doing all of this and increasing costs to the consumer.
Results are truncated for some reason.

One of the results

> remember that such activities can lead to
The confiscations hurt but the job cuts are also a future-looking statement: they think that Germany is a less useful place now for basing their production due to the higher energy costs. This trend is visible in many industries, but of course it's more pronounced in the energy intensive sectors.

> Hey, look, China! Let's invest another 10 billion there.

China is a rapidly growing economy. Where else should they invest? Also note, that unlike Russia even before the war, it's also the biggest trading partner of the USA. The USA was able to profit from the Ukraine war so much because they didn't have any relevant trading relationships with Russia, so it was easy for them to demand sanctions. But if there should ever be a time where China does something that requires sanctions, then the USA will feel it a lot. So it's a different situation here.

Ultimately, if there is trade then there is also a common benefit. Russia brought cheap gas to europe, which was really great for the european economy.
Try using the extension "I don't care about cookies"

It's excellent. I have needed to disable it occasionally to make basic site functionality work on some sites that I absolutely need to use, though I'm forgetting which ones.
Thank you for the recommendation, game changer
I fail to see how western Europe survives another 20 years. They don't have energy resources, they don't really produce industrial raw materials like iron and steel. They don't produce enough food for themselves. The engineering gap between them and the 3rd world is rapidly closing.
I just don't see this. Building what I am describing can be done in days sometimes hours. Where exactly is the time and complexity? I would be willing to bet given a true greenfield(e.g. I can't use an ansible script that stole from my last job) I can build an autoscaling flask app with CI/CD and local environment on ECS twice as fast as accomplishing a lesser facsimile with a bare metal server or a VPS. If I built on a VPS I would still have concerns like backups, High Availability, DNS, Networking, etc. etc. to deal with.

I consider the latter to be far more complex.
To be fair with them, cars do kill a fair bit more than guns in the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-da...
Peter Obi, security concerns, and setting the scene for future blockchain voting. Nigeria’s 2023 general elections are about to make history on February 25, 2023.
Google feels like an index engine of Reddit (and sometimes HN) to me.
Not to mention, these other comments are for Disney. However, Disney is propping their business up with lots of other businesses. If you are going to make Amazon less competitive, you can't leave the giant business next to it in a better position. Disney will just buy it then.
Keep close to you work friends, researchers say, for a long-term health boost
Ask HN: Looking for suggestion to keep team's documentation organised
Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a problem I've been facing at work and wanted to know your views regarding the same. At our company, we heavily use gsuite for all sorts of documentation like planning, design docs, and reviews. These documents are then shared through various communication channels like 1on1 chat, group chat, and email. However, I've noticed that at a later point, it becomes really hard to find a particular document I'm looking for. Additionally, I often miss out on important information because I can't keep track of all these docs (example, miss out on reading an important planning doc). Also, if I want to refer to some document sometime later in time, then it becomes quite a headache to find it if I don't know where exactly it was shared.

1. I'm curious to know if any of you also experience this issue in your workplace? If so, have you found a solution that works well for your team?

2. Have you had experience using google shared drive or microsoft Sharepoint or box or any other tool to organise information based on team or context? How was the experience like?

3. How do you enforce certain organisation standards among other member of teams? Or is it one person's responsibility to organise this information?

Thanks in advance!
Indeed the communication factor is critical. I've been around long enough to see plenty of good tech fail simply because backers are not very good communicators and I think the top level comment is a great example of this. I am just a lowly end user, I just want to be able to install and run the latest version of PrusaSlicer or Zoom on whatever Linux distribution I am using. I don't obviously see how to do that with nix and I don't really want to spend the time to figure it out, while the folks behind flatpak seem to have made it a trivial experience.
It is, because this used to apply to most conversations. Even when overheard, they would likely be forgotten by who heard them, not have heard everything, not known who was talking, etc. If the conversation became interesting for an investigation, simply finding a witness would take significant time from limited police officers, the witness may not wish to cooperate, their memory would be imperfect, and perhaps most importantly, it would quickly become common knowledge, via gossip, what the police is snooping for.

Now most conversations have moved online, and a secret record can be cheaply created of exactly who is talking to who, when, how often, and in the absence of encryption, even what they are saying. Phones we all carry, even without spyware apps, can be located through signal triangulation, before we even get to facial recognition and omnipresent cameras, smartphone or otherwise.

That, theoretically, we can recover some of the privacy we used to have (so long as we don't get targeted surveillance, which has become so effective defeating it is nearly hopeless), does not mean that, in practice, privacy has been massively eroded for the average person.
I wouldn't even mind ads in Windows, objectively speaking, if Microsoft were to just give it out for free (as in no activation required).

What sucks about Microsoft and ads right now is they sell you a product and then also drown you in ads. Either I pay cold hard cash or they give me ads, but not both; they shouldn't get to double dip.
Tunnels indeed would be good. But I understand there the problem is scale. It's not so easy to make a large amount of small tunnels for traffic? (They are possible for piping though for some reason). But easier to make one big tunnel.

For drones, it's the opposite, they are very well suited for very small point to point connection, there is basically no infrastructure needed between the points whatsoever?
The commentators point was that YouTube may not be as strong of a stand-alone company as the article believes if the COGS is inaccurate because YT gets tons of free resources via Google.
ADUs sound like a cop-out since the residents are so wealthy they can build them and not rent them out. So the housing gets built but so what..
They could maybe form a class action suit but those take ages too. The legal system isn't the solution here.
This seems somewhat more justified than the average tech company layoff: company turning cheap Russian gas into intermediate products hits economic difficulty as its raw material becomes dramatically harder to buy.
It's an acquired taste. Circuit boards, that is.
Is this going to be in the modern style, with lots of "Epic" shots, slow motion and explosions ?
Beware personal experience. When I was in my 20s and 30s your statement was true for me as well. Now in the second half of my 40s, my body compensates for arbitrary amounts of exercise (HIIT+hiking) by increasing my appetite and I reliably weigh 20-30 pounds more than I did when younger. I briefly tried one of the medications mentioned in this article and it wasn't magic: all it did is make my appetite and metabolism operate more like it did when I was 20s/30s.
I find it odd that violence, and not words or wit, was seen as the proper way for gentlemen and aristocrats to settle disputes. It's seen as barbaric now, and I think it's better this way.
they failed to answer the question, instead answering a different question, one that wasn't asked.

Politicians do this all the time. Constantly. They do it because the PR firms taught them to do this, and those same PR people work for tech companies now.

(It's awful that journalists these days let politicians get away with it. When I went to journalism school, we would get a failing grade if we allowed an interview subject to dodge a question like that, but that's a rant for another day.)
> Are you implying there's a stabbing epidemic in Britain?

No, my point is that the insane knife restrictions we have aren't actually necessary since many countries lack such restrictions and still don't end up with a stabbing epidemic as a result.
Thank you for your sacrifice.

(apropos: now there's an AI feature I can get behind. Automatic summarization of links, so we can filter the clickbait).
It's clear that the video maker had an agenda and this is more of an Elon hit piece than a factual mini-doc on Tesla.

He says the cybertruk is late but did clearly no research on why (battery/material/chip constraints, waiting on bespoke gigapress to even be produced for them) and their competitors have produced laughable numbers of trucks.