skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, it’s possible that some could pose a risk to mariners. “There’s a point when they’re shallow enough that they’re within the depth range of submarines,” says David Clague, a marine geologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, Calif., who was not involved in the research.

It would be interesting to see what proportion of these 20k deep-sea mountains were actually known to either the US or Soviets as part of their submarine support.

Knowing the location of these deep-sea mountains could be very valuable when you are engaged in submarine cat and mouse games with nuclear submarines.

My guess is that quite a few were known but classified as a national security matter.
Some cities come close to that, but most don't. Ignoring the fact that most cities in the US don't have expansive transit, even _getting a transit card_ can be a challenge in many cities.

* in Denver, CO - there is a custom app that works fairly well until your phone is dead. Couldn't find a place to purchase tap cards, but the paper ticket vending machines worked well enough.

* Seattle, WA - still working on mobile NFC tickets, and the current mobile ticketing system seems to only allow existing (> 1 year ago) customers to pay using a credit card. All new customers seem to only be allowed to use the app by filling up their balance using cash at a convenience store. Tap cards were an extremely rare find last summer. Only a select few buses seem to send their tracking data to Apple/Google maps, the OneBusAway app was really the only one that was close to accurate.

* Dallas, TX - yet another custom app implementation

* Austin, TX - _another_ custom app

* Portland, OR - can only buy tap cards at some retailers, BUT they accept contactless credit cards and have an app that integrates with mobile NFC

While I haven't been to NYC and a number of other cities with large transit systems, Portland OR and Washington DC had the best implementations, largely because they simply integrated with the native mobile NFC wallet. DC even lets you provision your card straight from the iOS Wallet app, though you can't use a standard contactless credit card.

IMO the solution isn't an app, but rather simplifying fares and accepting contactless credit cards for fares. In Portland you "earn" your passes by riding rather than needing to purchase in advance - once you have paid $100 in a month you're automatically exempted from fares for the rest of a month.
You may want to read what I wrote again. I did not "falsely portray trust in expertise and science" etc, not in any way; nor would I. It's rather aggressively wrong to attach such to my point (which you missed).

You seem to have jumped from me saying that some put too much stock in dogma and institutions, to believing that this was an attempt to attack expertise and science. There was nothing in my comment, even implicit, that would lead someone fair to this conclusion.

This assumptive leap typifies the 'with us or against us' thinking I'm talking about; tribal thinking which short-circuits reason, and harms genuine scientific thinking.

Even if you didn't mean to imply this, what you wrote has that effect; consider re-reading your own comment if you don't see that.
> I tried Julia which has nice support for shell but the JIT compilation was annoying so I dropped it.

This was a pain point for me too. With Julia 1.9 (now in release-candidate), the compilation results of every project is stored and reused, and I've heard that's making a lot of difference. If you're not changing the script too often, you should rarely see compilation latencies with 1.9+.
Ah, the good'ol Windows method of forcing updates. Rely on users saying no within X seconds, otherwise go for it regardless if they want to or not. Awesome when you didn't notice that an update happened because you were grabbing a coffee, or that the computer want to check a 2TB disk for errors upon reboot. Usually happens when you have much more important things to do at the moment.
150$ for a TB traffic?! Wtf
If you aren't aware that contra and covariance are typically taught under the banner of the "liskov substitution principle" rather than with the name variance you don't know OOP better than OOP programmers. You just convinced yourself you did because you use different terminology. I think maybe the guy you're responding to is correct.
We're heading back to company towns and [truck](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_wages)
The top 100 subs are controlled by a handful of mods who abuse their position. Reddit being a good place for discussion died a long time ago.
Yet another language learning app. The aim is to be the opposite of Duolingo, that is teaching the last 10% of a language. It's basically a glorified Anki Deck builder, which picks out vocabulary which user does not yet from texts/websites/song lyrics and then teaches then through spacial repetition.
I hate that he is pulled into these conversations, especially aligned with Snowden
Well people protested against 0-covid during a time that the media reported as "Xi wants to maintain 0-covid forever because he wants more control". Mere days later, 0-covid was lifted. Sounds like a prime example of "the expected dystopia never materializes" to me.
Totally agreed that words like “smart” and “intelligent” are loaded and poorly defined. Competence is a better term since it implies some sort of metric has been used to compare to humans.

However, even at human levels of competence a tool can be superior by being faster or more scalable than humans.
My father, an agricultural engineer who worked with herbicides and pesticides for some 30 years, passed away a few days ago from advanced Parkinson's at the age of 82. Now he wasn't exactly in his teens anymore but his 87 years old brother who was a teacher is in fairly good shape for his age while my father became a ghost of a man (in end stage you cannot even swallow anymore).
Quality quote:

"There's an ongoing trend pushing towards continuous consumption of shorter, mind-melting content. Have a few minutes? Stare at people putting on makeup on TikTok. Winding down for sleep? A perfect time to doomscroll 180-character hot takes on Twitter."
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One of the more exciting projects in this space is OrioleDB[0] (disclosure: supabase is an investor/sponsor).

In Postgres 14 their patchset was ~5,000 lines of code (representing the total number of changes required in their fork). In the upcoming Postgres 16 release, it is ~2,000 lines of code. That means that around 60% of the code is already committed to the Postgres core.

We're hopeful that these changes can provide the possibility of several new storage implementations for postgres, much like the MySQL ecosystem have with their pluggable storage

[0] https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb
Ahhh yes reduce everyone into indistinguishable blobs of society
Interesting, apparently this can be removed post install: https://i.imgur.com/gvbbU8F.jpg

why would that be?
> Outside Soviet Russia, there has to be an end consumer in there somewhere. There isn't such a thing as a truly "non-consumer business."

And I answered that. The ultimate consumers will be a group of wealthy people who control the productive resources using AI and use them to pursue their personal goals. There will be some B2B exchanges between those people, and perhaps a smallish cadre of employees who's labor is still useful to the wealthy, but most commerce as we know it will grind to a halt because the vast majority workers' labor won't be valuable to those who could pay them.
Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to buy some cheap land and throw up a yurt (or maybe a Quonset hut if you're more fancy), rather than take on a 30-year mortgage.
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> and get a signed agreement from them to buy your future product

Just make sure you are not captured by your first buyer. A product built for one customer often has little value.
"When it comes to learning and adapting to new environments, while we are lucky AI's aren't yet as smart as a mouse, they are uncomfortably close, and the pace of progress is unnerving. Hinton is right, we've got too far and we should grind all AI research to a halt via heavy global regulation."

What is the goal here? Creation of an all powerful God? Self-destruction as a species? I'm not up-to-date with the exact state of the AI research, or with various AI luminaries position nuances, but I can read a first-principles back-of-the-envelope chart. It doesn't look good, especially for a committed speciist like myself.

Edit. The signs are of a very serious situation. Experts are ringing the alarm of massive scale societal disruption and possibly destruction left and right. While we may not be able to do anything about it, perhaps we could act a little less callous about it.
Well, then I am going to jump in to say that insiders who jump in to assure us that due to their classified insider knowledge they can reassure us it's not like that at all... you realize this doesn't work, right? Not on anyone who doesn't already believe it. Even if you were right, you're simply not trustworthy.

There are two things I wish I could make you and your friends understand: one is how deep you've dug that credibility hole. There was a price to pay for all that secrecy.

The other is, when you're out here trying to manage the non-classified public's perceptions, why on earth would you trust that your bosses aren't managing yours? Why would you think you get to know what the long term plans are?
Because the EIS was skipped (creating threat of lawsuit to require EIS), is there increased incentive to also ignore other reasons to delay a launch?

(Say, some equipment anomaly was detected, which normally would mean delaying to de-risk a lot of time/money/PR. But in this case, delaying a few days might turn into a delay of months or years, due to lawsuit race condition. So someone brash demands an immediate launch anyway.)
Not sure if you wanted a laugh. But you got a laugh out of me.
I liked this short video from "Half as interesting" on Youtube on the railway itself if you're looking for a video on the subject.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1Oq3JLNbc
Disappointing. Yet another industry leader sewing public FUD for some reason. Why not bring rational discourse into the conversation around software safety and ethics.

Automation has been the driving force of industry since the industrial revolution itself. We're not new to automation, and we are certainly not new to safety of autonomous systems. AI is no different.
That's redefining what "centrally planned" means. Corporations are subject to competitive pressures: they rapidly lose their ability to "plan" when they stop "planning" well. There's no comparable mechanism when it comes to top-down government planning.
Ha! That's what I get for trying to write on my phone; I have a bad habit of omitting words when I do that.

First, I would like to say that, in my experience, academics aren't really any smarter than basically anyone with a desk job. It's not terribly hard to become an adjunct professor; depending on the state and/or school, you can become an adjunct with just a bachelors degree (though most require masters degrees or higher), and there are plenty of very dumb people who manage to get their BS or BA.

Second, the point I was trying to make was that I don't think that the parent that I was responding to was correct about this being an "abandonment of the American Dream". I think it should be encouraged to lower the educational bar for a lot of jobs.
A perennial. Here are the threads with comments (if anyone finds others, please let me know!):

You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31796353 - June 2022 (33 comments)

You and Your Research – Richard Hamming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27451360 - June 2021 (1 comment)

You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25242617 - Nov 2020 (1 comment)

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24171820 - Aug 2020 (1 comment)

You and Your Research – A talk by Richard W. Hamming [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23558974 - June 2020 (1 comment)

You and Your Research by Richard Hamming (1995) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18505884 - Nov 2018 (10 comments)

You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18014209 - Sept 2018 (10 comments)

You and your research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14179317 - April 2017 (1 comment)

You and Your Research, by Richard Hamming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10280198 - Sept 2015 (1 comment)

You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9279585 - March 2015 (1 comment)

Hamming, "You and Your Research" (1995) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7683711 - May 2014 (25 comments)

Video of Hamming's "You and Your Research" (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567448 - April 2013 (1 comment)

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626349 - Oct 2012 (27 comments)

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3142978 - Oct 2011 (7 comments)

You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=915515 - Nov 2009 (5 comments)

Richard Hamming - You and your research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=852405 - Sept 2009 (1 comment)

You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625857 - May 2009 (13 comments)

You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542023 - April 2009 (4 comments)

You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524856 - March 2009 (1 comment)

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=229067 - June 2008 (7 comments)

Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run? - "You and Your Research" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52337 - Sept 2007 (11 comments)

You and Your (Great) Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218 - April 2007 (6 comments)

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Note for anyone wondering: reposts are ok after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). I'll play the "or so" card and call this one ok. In addition to it being good for curiosity to revisit perennials sometimes (just not too often), HN is also a place for junior cohorts to have the pleasure of encountering the classics for the first time—an important function of the site!
Everything "crypto" has become a bit toxic during the past year.
You need to look at ratios. WW2 was such an unimaginably large scale war, that anecdotes don't really tell you anything. In WW2 the Allies lost 16,000,000 military and 45,000,000 civilians. The Axis powers lost 8,000,000 military and 4,000,000 civilians. Comparing this to e.g. Iraq is difficult due to a lack of reliable source of casualties, so we'll have to ballpark it. Leaked US figures (Iraq War documents) claim we killed 45,000 enemies, which is going to be a heavy overestimate. Civilian deaths in Iraq range from 110,000 to 1,0333,000. I'll pick a meet in the middle of 500,000. Using those figures we can measure this objectively:

Civilians deaths per combatant death:

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WW2 Allied Forces = 2.8

WW2 Axis Powers = 0.5

Iraq War Iraqis = 12.7

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Modern wars are smaller in scale (for now), but much worse on civilians as a ratio where they do happen. The reason is because of the nature of wars we get into. We invade countries which cannot competently defend themselves, and so it immediately transforms into an asymmetric Guerilla style defense against an occupying force. And in these scenarios its impossible for the invader to know who is an enemy and who is a civilian, so civilians suffer just terribly and over very long periods of time.

The final drone strike of Afghanistan [1] is quite a symbolic one that will certainly go down in history. The US military initially claimed they killed a group of Islamic State forces planning an attack on US forces, after observing an ISIS militant placing explosives in his trunk. In reality they killed 1 man, 2 adult members of his family, and 7 children from the local neighborhood (who ran out after he honked his horn when getting home). Those "explosives" were bottles of water, and the "ISIS militant" was a longterm humanitarian aid worker, who was working for a US NGO and applying for a US visa. If not for the excessive media attention on the final strike of the war, that would likely have just been marked up as another successful strike, with some unfortunate collateral damage. And that was one day in a 20 year occupation.

[1] - https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-strikes...
I'm working on a tool to automate 80% of my job as a software developer. It's too early to share but the basic idea is specification in, working code out.
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I got logged out and can't log in anymore. Seems to be widespread
Don't forget he accused a cave diver of raping children.[1] Lots of people who changed their mind about Musk say it was the start.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-thai-...
US Banks’ Unrealized Losses, Distressed Borrowing Point to Wider Problems
I'm with you on every crypto except Bitcoin, but nothing about bitcoin should make you nervous.

Its nice you live in a country with a stable currency that doesnt hyperinflate. Not everyone has this luxury. Zimbabwe and Venezuela come to mind.
True, but it's not wrong as claimed above.
Exactly, I find it funny that people will call themselves socialist, capitalist, communist... these are 19th century ideas or earlier. The reality is none of these ideologies are complete solutions, they are simply tools that can be used in certain cases. Yes it seems that capitalism/free markets works best most of the time (even China knows this) but there are many cases where it does not and something else has to happen (healthcare, housing etc.)
Instant Pot pressure cooker - Great for stews, can do big batches of beans and lentils, brown rice, chickpeas for hummus etc. You can save a lot of money and packaging buying dried beans and soaking them.

Air fryer - Handy for french fries, roasting a couple of peppers, reheating food like pizza slices turns out better than the microwave.
It's obviously possible in theory to centrally plan an economy in such a way that it's more efficient than a free market. In practice this is extremely hard and in the few cases where it was attempted it required a huge and extremely corrupt bureaucracy that didn't work.

However, we should keep in mind that this was tried in an age where that bureaucracy had to be operated using paper and typewriters. Whether or not you like the idea of a planned economy, you shouldn't ignore the possibility that it might actually be able to sustain itself once, e.g., mass electronic surveillance and AI enter the picture.
> thousands of people in the US sleeping on sidewalks
Somehow this is capitalism's fault and I don't understand how. I have been touring Europe over the past month and throughout the many major cities and small towns I have been in, the amount of homeless is exponentially less. Does Europe not practice capitalism? Or is it possible that our government and culture is to blame, and not our economic system?
No. It is anchored in the right to be forgotten and the right to claim your stored PII data regarding the DSGVO to protect companies from being flooded by requests from a malicious actor or even a competitor. Without that, a company could theoretically forced out of business by the work/cost the requests generate because not answering a request is by itself a violation.
If you haven't already, you should check to see if you have rot or some kind of insect infestation. Around here, at least, they typically only go after wood with bugs inside.
> Why can't they take responsibility for their own actions, and train themselves to use AI?

Maybe they can. But what are you going to do from your own position?

Can you help those people? Will you?

You might not feel responsible or accountable. But if everyone feels that way, then no one will do anything.

If you just read the above, thought that there is something you can do, but still won’t do it, then you made that decision.

Don’t blame anyone else for it. Don’t blame “unregulated market forces” for it.

You are free to do as you please. But don’t make up excuses about other people’s behavior of why you choose to act the way you do.

This applies to everything in our lives, not just our reactions to AI.

Love to you on your path.
The issue isn't even how rational people are. Even if our lack of rationality was no problem, it would still be impossible to get someone to reveal their true preferences without a system where they have to sacrifice value to obtain something. This idea that calculation is the problem with the economy is strange to me, as if there's some algorithm we know to maximize good, that just needs some inputs that people will provide by survey or something, and the only issue is that we can't scale up our computers enough to run the algorithm. What is this algorithm? The truth is that preferences are only revealed when individuals are forced to make difficult and uncomfortable decisions about what's important to them. People simply don't prioritize their needs until they have to. And the nature of humanity is that we are also prone to lying if overstating our preferences has a selfish benefit. Unless socialists seriously consider this, any algorithm is likely garbage-in, garbage-out.
Not sure why you restrict this observation to UK and commonwealth countries. This is reality for many of us in Europe. Legal documents in Norway also refer to the king as the one deciding stuff. But that doesn’t literally mean the king. It is more of the institution of monarchy and the ceremony in which the king signs government actions presented to him by “his” government.

But this is of little practical consequence. What I find more bizarre is how conservative the US is around its constitution and political system. Norway may be a Monarchy but has gone through far more modernization in terms of how the political system works, elections and government than the US for instance.

I look at how voting and representation works in the US today and it is basically Norway in the 1880s or something. Back when we also had a two party system of liberals and conservatives. When there was a winner take all system. Censuses had to be done semi regularly as citizens were not fully and completely registered and kept up to date on a continuous fashion.

I would bet Britain in quite a number of ways is more modern in its constitution than the US. E.g. they don’t have å gerrymandering problem. That got reformed and fixed long ago.
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Because public transport is owned by the public (or publicly owned entities) in many places outside the US. In Europe, it is the norm, not the exception, as is the case in many other places that have some sort of socialism/social democratic history.
As a side note/additional area to explore, some antibiotics do also have anti-inflammatory effects
> Does Europe not practice capitalism?

Depends on if you subscribe to the brain dead “socialism is when the government does stuff”
Slovak friends get no love ;)
avoid a lot of the damage by duration matching of assets and liabilities

Respectfully, you have misunderstood the situation.

This has almost nothing to do with duration matching assets and liabilities. That's how it works on the loan portfolio side of a bank. This has to do with how bonds work.

If you buy $10MM of a bond with a 3% coupon and rates for the same duration bond go to 5% then you have a significant capital loss. Depending on how you classified the investment under FASB 115 rules (HTM, AFS, Trading) you can telegraph to the market that your capital situation is dire which can then cause a run on the bank as we've seen multiple times in the last several weeks.