skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having lived in a city that doesn't clear most of their side streets when it snows (and does a pretty shoddy job of clearing the major thoroughfares, too), I'm not sure cars are particularly practical in harsh winter conditions, either.

Cold is a problem, but with the right gear, you can stay plenty warm down to 0F. I'm sure we could use microcars (https://microlino-car.com/en/microlino) or some other variation on enclosed ebikes to share bicycle infrastructure safely with folks who can't use bikes when it's truly cold out. The same strategy could work for extreme heat and humidity.

The real problem is safety, rooted in snow clearing and ice buildup. Many cities refuse to maintain bike infrastructure at all during the winter, allowing snow and debris to build up on bike paths and lanes between Nov and April. This means that even when roads are clear, bikes aren't able to use dedicated bike infrastructure during much of the winter months, forcing bikes into car lanes. And my experience as a bike in those circumstances tells me that many drivers are NOT accommodating to bikes in that situation. This problem exists year-round, but snowy conditions make it even more obvious that cars, pedestrians, and bicycles don't mix well in our cities.

Nobody needs to drive around massive SUVs, pickup trucks, and semis around dense downtowns. Many European cities get by with cargo bicycles and minitrucks (https://minitrucks.net/pages/direct-import-mini-trucks) to move 99% of packages and large items in city centres. The USA needs to keep large vehicles out of dense urban centres and turn as much infrastructure as possible over to pedestrians, public transit, bicycles... and microcars and mini trucks for the niche situations where those other modes of transportation won't work.
How do you think the interview is going to go for that engineer for their next job?
Did you see how much we saved comparing to AWS? We could even hire an admin for each of 850 servers and would still have money left.
But we have only one person taking care of hardware replacements. That is enough for the whole setup.
My wild guess is that this is their way to operate in China. It'd be much harder for the GFW to block a decentralized app.
Kevin Roose made some version of it on the Hard Fork podcast.
I think I am getting old and cynical. These days whenever I read a blog claiming some approach has recently "exploded in popularity" and implying it's the 'ultimate solution' to whatever problem space, I mentally start counting the days until its inevitable replacement with the next fad...
the rendering, which could easily be tied into the game loop. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJRXJxsvj7Q
> There is no amount of 'media literacy' training (which, in practice, would have to be created and administered by public schools under the watchful eye of some of the selfsame disinformation purveyors, in some states) that will ever be up to the task.

Sometimes I feel that the skill level demanded for media literacy is set artificially high in order to force the conclusion that individuals are categorically incapable of judging their personal information environment. But that does not seem plausible to me.

I feel pretty savvy, and I wasn't trained in school. Almost no journalist or public figure has received formalized training in the way you describe.

And why would that be necessary, what would they teach beyond common sense? Do you have examples of large-scale disinformation campaigns that aren't sufficiently contextualized through regular mainstream media?
Not uncommon but still baffling
People will really try anything to make it seem like Cannabis is perfectly harmless even in the face of cold hard evidence, it's laughable.
They also pay better than Amazon and have (or had based on recent blind reviews) excellent WLB
I feel this is comparing apple and pears. For sure AWS is more expensive, however, you looking at a markup of 50%, at most 100%.
Your site is spewing an insane amount of confetti like 20 times on the first load of the page
Scrolling down... You weren't lying. I've recently been pondering more and more in how far governments use social media to manipulate our perception. The astroturfing has been pretty shamelessly obvious recently (in particular on sites like Reddit.)

On the other hand, since there seems to be so much going on, why aren't there any whistleblowers?
Direct-attach storage is a major improvement for things like databases, etc which you pretty much never have in the cloud, at least not in a persistent form.
I'm interested to hear why?
> if you are sacrificing yourself to compensate for your company's shortcomings, they will never get fixed.

My current director phrases that as "Externalize your pain."
Yes, that's the one. Very hard to read quickly, and an odd choice for a use case that I'd think would require absolute clarity and rapid recognition.
How are you being held hostage? I'm currently using React, but I've used a lot of other frameworks in the past, and expect I'll be using a lot more in the future (Svelte is currently topping my list of frameworks to check out).

I started out in these sort of frameworks doing Angular 1 in 2013. Did a lot more Angular 1 projects in those years, and really got to know the intricacies of the framework. Was ready to switch to Angular 2, but instead I ended up doing some native JS web components, a little React, then some Vue, and now some serious React.

I've got to say, I liked the little React a lot more than the serious React. All those useEffects everywhere don't make the code any more readable. There's layers upon layers upon layers of components and abstractions and layers in between. It comes across as less organised than my old Angular 1 or Vue code did, though that's probably also due to the size of the code.

Anyway, I'm not being held hostage by anyone. Next project I hope to be doing something in Svelte, but maybe I'll end up doing something completely different. Maybe some Kotlin? I still haven't used that.
Thank you for this excellent response!
I'm still not convinced, and I've definitely heard and examined the Karl Popper paradox you mentioned. There's some strong insinuations in your response, but the main point of contention I have is this notion that by merely letting an idea/stance exist there is culpability and support for 'eradication'.

>"That's fine - should you ever find yourself as part of a demographic that some other group wants eradicated."
How do you know I'm not?

>"In fact, just out of principle, make sure they have access to as many platforms as they want"
Just having a platform, or being on lots of platforms, does not guarantee an ideology will succeed or spread substantially.

>"Maybe even try to engage them in debate, despite the unequal power dynamic between truth and lies"
Refuting lies is difficult, but it is still worth doing. I think its better than giving up and using force.
Yea, give us your template antimius3000.
> E.g. this article is missing even basic stuff like the (prorated) salary costs of employees buying, installing and servicing the hardware.

You say that like you don't need a dedicated team to manage AWS.
Often many 2-factor setup screens will directly reference GAuthenticator, but it is just a TOTP app so you can use any TOTP app with a GAuthenticator qr code, and you can usually get the secret text for copy paste to a desktop TOTP in case you can't scan a qr code, but i have seen some apps that don't make that easy. There is desktop software that will read qr codes from the screen.

In Google's Workspace Admin just got to:

Security -> Authentication -> 2-step verification

Then choose "Any except verification codes via text, phone call". This allows them to use TOTP, a security key such as a usb key or if they have a phone like a Pixel or iPhone that has a security key built in, or TOTP. They can also approve logins from another device that is already logged in, and can generate long-lived backup codes.

You can also allow only a security key, no TOTP or prompts and if, you do that, you can disable backup codes as well.
Ah yes, the "actual" way to use cloud is to undergo a major re-write of your application such that it is inextricably tied into the proprietary PaaS options of your cloud provider.

Cloud is amazing for highly variable loads. I also see it as a bit of a luxury service for ops types (like me) - I don't have to go to a DC and manage hardware or deal with a DCops crew, so that's nice, but you probably wouldn't buy luxury cars if you were starting a courier business.
That's called Cursive. A an elegant style of handwriting from a more civilized age.
Coauthor here, while the migration hasn't been without its pain (it's a pretty big paradigm shift from what we were doing before), it's been a huge boon to our productivity. We went in fully aware of the drawbacks of SDUI and think we've come up with an approach that gives us all of the benefits and solutions to the drawbacks (semantic components and actions). It's made simple every day product changes SUPER easy, while not making more complex changes harder.
But you know that's where we're headed. Little fiefdoms. Starbucks will start buying apartment complexes. "If you don't join that union, we'll pay for your housing!" Then fill them up 4 to an apartment. Then you'll see deductions on your paycheck for electric and internet. Soon you'll barely be making enough to feed yourself, but at least you'll be dry.
A rant on web font licenses
That's interesting - how large is the city you're in that has an hour commute but little transit?

I don't understand the value of having a few smaller burb offices - does your entire team have to go to the one you're at (even if they are on opposite sides of the city, thus negating the advantage of it being close), or do they each go their own and then do remote calls to discuss things (thus negating the advantage of it being in office)?
You don't even need a dedicated fat tire bike if your city or town clears snow regularly. Studded tires can fit on just about any commuter bicycle!
I read a book that touched on this called "super forecasters". Apparently there was a push to reduce ambiguity in briefings. I can't remember if it was Obama or a different president (may have been as far back as Carter), but they were told something by an intelligence advisor and they asked for what is basically a confidence interval. The advisor went back and found out what they were conveying as a sure thing was basically like 50:50 chance. At some point they then decided to come up with a system to make this clearer.
I read them as puts on SVB, but he can't sell them because they halted trading on SVB.
but what if you actually do have a room-temperature superconductor, but the entire community is dead set against considering even the possibility?

we already have plenty of evidence that even science people (flawed humans, like us all) cannot "do proper science" because they are swayed by irrational arguments such as distaste, shame, appeals to tradition, conformism etc. etc.
>What you said seems extremely unfairly dismissive.

Did you even read those comments? The vast majority are actually addressed in the article. It doesn't engage with the Op-ed at all, just lists things he says and provides facile rebuts. You think some random poster saying that Chomsky is "this guy is completely out of his depth here?" The poster doesn't even understand what he's saying. Sorry it fooled you too!
I feel like you’ve used a dishonest interpretation of this comment to push back against it and flex that you know what this company does?

The only person ther said “just” is you. And “large Hadoop clusters” can be the most resource-intensive component of their infrastructure, but not necessarily the company’s value-add, or where most of their effort goes.

Stop being adversarial.
> The problem is there are no reports on what counter terrorism units achieved, how many potential attacks they thwarted because it would jepoardize their work,

I used to subscribe to this but then there was the governor's kidnapping plot in Minnesota that the FBI started blowing their own horn about and making such a big deal right up until it turned out that 6 of the 13 individuals involved were in fact members of the FBI. That kinda shook my trust in the whole "we can't talk about our success because it is top secret." Excuse
Problem is people have no idea what Facism and Nazism is.

You find people here in the west who hate Jews claiming to be anti-facists and people starting a massive invasion of a very peaceful central European country - all while repeating much of Hitlers playbook - while claiming they do it to crush the "Nazis" there.
More likely, TBH, in this case: Just one random person with a strong conviction and sub-par execution.

There is a meta-effect going on here: Your complaining about the now vastly downvoted comments is now filling the top of this topic.
No, I own put options on SIVB itself.

Trading was halted in premarket and has yet to reopen. Honestly, it's disgusting. The amount of profit I would have made would be more than life-changing at a time when I could really use the money.
> Imagine if all journalists had this level of depth in all of the topic they covered? I don't think that's possible though.

It helps a lot that Youtube seems to have become the home of long form video. Not really something that fits into traditional media. But for the people that really want to dive deep into a topic, it's great that there are now often high quality creators that cater to those tastes.
I used to be a model and I'm a tech founder, I see/personally know founders of businesses in this exact area and the market for it is very, very limited. AI and 3d rendering in general is extremely poor at rendering clothes. There's a segment of fashion where it doesn't matter that much, but generally speaking, it does for 90% of it. Not only high fashion brands, even fast fashion ones like COS, Zara, etc., won't accept a difference between tight fit & minimally loose fit of a t-shirt - the tiniest nuance makes the price $200 or $20. Those are two entirely different products aimed at two different demographics. So as long as this problem isn't solved, and my money is that it won't get solved well enough for a long, long time, there's nothing to talk about.
> I can believe people will be using this.

You should start believing people are using this.

People are comparing LLM hype to crypto and VR hype and that’s really not accurate. Those are both always in a state of “someone is using it now, and a ton of people will use it in the future”. ChatGPT is in a state of “a ton of people are using it now”.

It would remind me of the explosion of social networking, except it doesn’t have network effects! It’s crazy how much it’s getting used by all sorts of people not because they want to interact with their friends (messaging apps) but just because they want to use it.

I was a big AI and even just generally ML doubter until I started using it as part of my workflow and reading about how other people are, too. At that point, you kinda have to update your priors.
RPI is pretty legit. Or at least, it was back when I was in college
Agreed, the two are virtual opposites: no one is making money from AI (yet), but everyone is using it, while in crypto, a bunch of people were making money from it and no one was actually using it.
hint: every bank

Most banks dont have the same cash flow in/out profile that SVB are facing thus wont have the same issues.
Lora? That's ancient history. We use LoCons now.
> I think there's a ton of self deception when it comes to marijuana use.

Indeed, as is evidenced by the many comments in this very post claiming the study is bullshit or there's no proof of causality, or whatever else they can come up with.
I'm not trying to bother you. I'm genuinely curious about what makes people oppose AI safety research.

What makes you sure it's not going to be a problem?
No that’s the point. He’s just doing what those people have been doing since I was a kid and only once it goes the other way is it some horrible censorship. This is why he’s liked by so many, he’s effective at beating them at their own game.
that's great, I wish I had time to write some :)
That was my immediate thought.

1.Step: Write code to simulate freefall of an object

2.Step: Write code to negate freefall of an object
> I love Linux on the server side, but I just don't have time to deal with frustrating bullshit issues caused by this bazaar-engineering on the desktop side, even if it's FOSS. I'd rather pay and have something that works.

Which is fair. As an enthusiast that enjoys nitpicking my config files to make it all work perfectly, I've slowly come to understand people that don't want to do that. Sometimes you just want to get your work done, and it can definitely be frustrating when every utility has a different config file format, some don't even have config files but instead use gconf, some require a restart and some don't, some rely on new libraries that your distro doesn't have yet, every application has a different-looking UI... it can be a frustrating experience if you just want a MacOS or Windows-like experience. And unfortunately that level of simplicity isn't quite a thing yet in the Linux world.
I'm about as orange-pilled (NotJustBikes fan) as they get - to the point where my family are mostly trying to move to Utrecht if only to live in bloommerwede.nl/ - but that statistic is suspicious given that the US has roughly 40,000-50,000 road deaths per year. Maybe it's considering deaths from reduced pollution and other less direct effects of automobile use?
Saudi Arabia Seeks U.S. Security Pledges, Nuclear Help for Peace with Israel
To me, old-school is the approach of updating servers so they match the desired configuration, rather than wiping the servers and deploying new versions of your containers.
Author here. AWS is quite a bit more expensive than cloudflare, mostly because of egress charges from Cloudfront.

Cloudflare R2 latency is tricky to predict and can be anywhere from a few hundred milliseconds to 1s+ in my experience. This is for cache misses, only, of course; cache hits are comparable to AWS. Cloudflare really has every incentive to improve their product so I expect this to be much more competitive in the near future.
I get expression typing (which as you point out `declare` does very well). I just don't understand how you can either

1. Do static typing with manifest-typed values that can be assigned to arbitrary symbols, or
2. Do Lisp in any real sense without #1
If you have points, present /them/. If something is not clear, clarify it.

This is the second post in which you are presenting no content.

...And this whole branch started by you stating that an expression would be «[im]polite», and another acceptable, without the /content/, again, founding the statement. We are the ones trying to make some sense of your riddles (or stubs).
Did they even have that power in 2008? I remember they issued a statement about how they could have avoided losses for creditors, had they properly liquidated Lehman Brothers [1].

[1]: https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/reform/lehman.html
What really annoys me is that few if any clouds actually allow "dynamic scaling" of a single instance running operating system where you can hot-add more RAM or more CPU, with or without a restart.

Some can do it, some require you to basically image the entire machine onto a new one, some can't handle it at all.
I meant as opposed to a solvency problem (edited above.)
Maybe someone will enjoy this deep dive on the Roblox death sound https://youtu.be/0twDETh6QaI
A Brief History of All the Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize
Break-up is downplaying it, they've engaged in various proxy wars with each other for a few decades.

Lately Saudi Arabia has been cold with US relations, and Iran is supposedly on the verge of having nuclear weapons... so indeed it seems like a new chapter in the region.
I should elaborate a bit more, spring festival is based on a lunar calendar, so it's date in Gregorian calendar will float. Last year it was February 1 and in 2021 it was February 12.
https://archive.is/BP5Wm
Facts and myths about the warriors who raided Europe and explored the New World
Oh yes - you show them X and they make a model of X.

Show them enough pictures labelled "Van Gogh" and they get an idea of what "Van Gogh" looks like. They dp am awesome job of that.

The problem with the text ones is that people think that showing them words mean that they make a model of the thing the words are describing, rather than of how those words go together.
Sorry, that was in celebration of the launch. In fairness to me, I limit it to the first load and don’t run it if the user prefers-reduced-motion.
Siloing expenses into capex and opex gets a bit silly when the cost effectiveness of that opex becomes low enough. For some cloud services, one can replace it with on-prem or colo’d equipment and recover the capex in months.

Similarly, “easy” scalability doesn’t necessarily make up for COGS when scaling up. If I can flip the autoscale switch while I grow to $1bn ARR and pay $750M/yr to the cloud, I’m not doing nearly as well as if I hire ten FTEs and pay $150M in combined capex and opex over two years.

(And if my COGS is 75% of the list price, it’s hard to give discounts, pay for sales, etc)
This is pretty cool! Great brain break from work.
... and MS has still not opened the bing chat to chrome. I think they are keeping that as an Easter egg
Interesting...but very overblown, as stories about marine mammals tend to be.

Reasonable Assumption: The ancient myth of Romulus and Remus had some basis in known animal behaviors.
Extremely scammy company. Not surprised. They take credit card information first, then do a questionnaire, then tell you if services for you are available in your area. If they aren’t, you’re still charged and they make it extremely difficult to cancel or get a refund. Had them hang up on me twice. Eventually just did a chargeback.
The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair
This is in no way comparable.

There is a case to be made against rich people trying to hide their wealth in Switzerland, while they live in an EU country. They are also the majority doing it, as no average Joe can.

Weakening cryptography with the excuse of going after a minuscule percentage of the population, is about effectively considering any citizen a potential criminal.
I am so happy I don't have to touch front end code for my career
This ^. I bought puts yesterday at open, wanted to sell them today.
Writing with a fountain pen was expected of me from about age 8, although the enforcement decreased significantly from age 14 or so.

The notebooks / exercise books the school supplied could hardly be considered expensive, so you may just need to shop around. Or maybe downgrade to use cheap ink on a cheap notebook?
Lol you can't just end-run the conversation by calling what ChatGPT does learning and then just leaving it at that. It's not an argument, it's a tautology.

> ChatGPT can deduce things

No it can't because it doesn't understand anything about Chess, it's just determining the best response based upon the information fed into it. It's not discerning rules.

You are just fundamentally ignoring Chomsky's point as a means of trying to rebut him. It doesn't work like that. He gave a fairly explicit example of what intelligence is and why ChatGPT does not express it, and your response is basically "but ChatGPT is intelligent because it gave me an answer to something I asked it". These conversations would be so much better if it didn't constantly have to revolve around these sort of basic failure-to-launch in thinking through these problems.
It's funny, it's just font-style: italic

I've never seen that before.
They still all compile to some set bytecode version, right?
The FDIC isn't funded from general taxation, it's funded by a specific levy on banks.
Show HN: Compete against ChatGPT in the famous trivia game spinoff
Would be 1000% in our comparison