skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd hope for more than just transparency.

Even public information about our military is not commonly known, so we don't have a well-informed citizenry.

How many Americans are aware of this, clearly public info because Al Jazeera has it?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-mili...
In fairness, Postgres seems to be the most "SQL" of the variants out there... at least in terms of my understanding of the common SQL dialect(s). So probably not a bad first choice.

By comparison, every single time I've touched MySQL/MariaDB I find at least one new thing that irks me to no end. UTF8 vs UTFMB4 or whatever it is for starters. Indexes on Binary data fields not being case insensitive (binary) by default, even if the default index for text is different is another. Not sure if it's still an issue, but that you can use ANSI quotes for everything but foreign key definitions was another I seem to remember. The fact that magic quotes could escape out of quoted strings another still.

And that's just off the top of my head, and doesn't get into some of the default data handling that's just bad. SQLite has some similar issues there, but imo it's far more forgivable given SQLite's footprint and embedded nature. I also really like(d) Firebird when I'd used it in the past, but it's not nearly as popular.
The slowdown here is going to be more about the increased context length than throttling.
Not sure about GP, but he's definitely in the conversation for me though I think Fischer and probably Kasparov would be slightly ahead of him.

I would happily have Morphy in the conversation too, because he was so far ahead it's simply mind-boggling. He made his opponents, often the strongest players of the time besides him, look like idiots.

If we're judging only by strength relative to contemporaries, I think Morphy would take it.

If we judge only by absolute strength Carlsen at his peak is probably it. For some mix of the two, all the ones mentioned are potentially valid picks, and I'd include Lasker in that group as well.

Tal probably would've been if he was a lot healthier, but he doesn't make the list in an unfair world, though I'd be amiss not to at least mention my favourite historical player :)
There's a lot of selection bias in collecting statistics with a package that'll only execute properly in the latest browsers and those running JS (as opposed to looking at webserver logs directly). I'll grant that vox probably only cares about serving content to people that can also see it's ads so it's a legitimate cut corner in this context. Their demographic is accessible eyes on ads and wallets, not people.

If you want to serve content to human people and not just to eyes or wallets then at least be aware that most modern browser share statistics collected with JS don't reflect the reality you'd see in your webserver logs.
> I see climate change propaganda almost every day, but pro fossil propaganda extremely rarely.

Ever heard of "the status quo"?

If my stuff is dominant, I either say nothing or make it so that any other proposal looks like it's new and risky or crazy. You know, FUD.

Propaganda has a lifecycle. Not every kind of propaganda is the same or as obvious.

And you're falling for the fossil fuel one, good job!
The applications of AR are obvious, but I don't think the technology to make it generally useful exists. You need a device which:

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1. Looks normal, or at least relatively normal. (I'm not actually convinced the "at least" part is sufficient.)

2. Is comfortable to wear for extended periods. (Not too heavy, not too much heat, etc.)

3. Has a battery which can last most of the day.

4. Has lenses which are transparent, but onto which images can be digitally superimposed.

5. Has enough computing power on-board to do the actual AR calculations and graphics rendering, or is able to wirelessly communicate with a phone with extremely low latency. (Note that for Meta specifically, the latter approach would still leave them reliant on Apple/Google.)

* Bonus points for handling prescription lenses somehow, lest you cut off a huge portion of the potential market!

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This is really hard! Modern computers are small, but they aren't nearly small enough to do #5 without ruining #1, much less #2. Nor are they power-efficient enough for #3.

It's great to want things, but outside of science fiction you need more than just a vision of how something could work, you need technology to make it happen.

Building a useful VR headset is not easy, but it is a lot easier. You don't need the battery to last all day (if you have any battery at all), and it's okay if the headset looks kind of stupid. You want the headset to be as comfortable as possible, but it's okay if it feels weighty after an hour or so. And because the headset can be bigger and heavier, you can also get away with shoving more computing power inside.

We'll see what Apple announces at WWDC, but I'm skeptical they will make more headway than Meta.
That's the problem. They were bulk collecting all data going in/out of data centers, not specific named accounts. No way for a company to say "Hey, that account is an American citizen" when they are collecting all data indiscriminately.

> The leaked information came after the revelation that the FISA Court had been ordering a subsidiary of telecommunications company Verizon Communications to turn over logs tracking all of its customers' telephone calls to the NSA.
> If I showed you a working holodeck today you would think it significant.

Would I? How would an empty small room with cool audio-visual-only illusions help me more than a computer and phone do today?
What printer do you use?
What other products do they have other than those they acquired? 98% of their revenue is from advertising on Facebook and Instagram (according to their financial reports).
Job interview ? Hiring based on skills ?
> I believe it is possible to implement effective and fundamentally sound functional programming without types.

I prefer working in statically typed languages, but I agree with you (though only if we use a colloquial definition of "sound").

And, what's more, I think the correspondent in the article would agree also. Michael Sperber is very familiar with Scheme, as evidenced by his publication history. I think your point actually connects with a line from the article:

> Components in functional programming are essentially just data types and functions, and these functions work without mutable state, [Sperber] said.

Even in a dynamically typed language, the data still "has a type" — but now we're talking about the "shape of the data" rather than a formal type system. Reasoning about data-shapes is perfectly valid, and still supports the style of code that Sperber talks about throughout the interview.

This also connects to the "Design Recipe" from the textbook How to Design Programs, which is an introductory CS text based on Racket, a derivative of Scheme. In the Design Recipe, students are told that they should write down the contract of their function before implementing the body of the function, and part of this is the specification of the "types" of the inputs and the output. Again, since the language is untyped, this has much more to do with conveying a sense of the "shape" of the data to the programmer, but it is still highly effective in guiding the design and implementation of a functioning software system.
If in personal debt proceedings unsecured debt is changed based on the inaction of the debtor (who very possibly cannot afford to take the required action) into a lien that can be used to garnish wages, how in your worldview has that not climbed the “capital stack”? Would a wage garnishment that is legally enforceable not be valued more highly than an equivalent amount of unsecured debt?

We shouldn’t care about the internal conventions of a bank more than the end result: a person who has lost everything and is unable to defend themselves suddenly forcibly having as much as 25% of whatever limited income they have removed from their paycheck to the profit of an attorney.
> Just one or two cycle hardware innovation may make VR successful.

How many decades and hardware cycles does it take for this prediction to go away? Billions has been poured into VR and it's still as much a novelty and fad as ever.
>First, she didn't reveal anything new. All the information that was produced was previously known

Just as a start, the Iraq War logs detailed fifteen thousand previously unknown civilian deaths.

While you can argue we knew our military was doing terrible stuff, without her leaks it wouldn't have been clear what terrible stuff they were doing.

>Second, she was releasing documents because she was angry that she was deployed

Source? While I'm not 100% clear what her motivations were, I've never heard that claim.

As for the third, it was clear what she released was being hidden. I can't imagine what the proper channel would be for something like the "collateral murder" video. "Hey you know that time you killed journalists and lied about it? Well there's evidence you lied about it."
I wonder how they are created
A lot of confidence in such predictions with zero precedence...

I think a lot of people will think AI is their meal ticket to pop stardom. I think they misunderstand how the music industry has operated: it's a club. There are hundreds of thousands of 'brands' and 'stars' out there with no dedicated following but enough money to pump themselves into the image of stardom.

There's a difference between looking like you're impacting lives, and actually impacting lives. Like there's a difference between a machine-generated image of a mountain on a computer screen, and standing in front of a mountain.
"About half" of Reality Labs spend is in AR R&D according to Bosworth. I'll be very interested to see what Apple brings to the table, but would not expect Meta to be playing catch up.
> [..] and non new supplies were found

What do you mean by “non new supplies” being found (or is that a typo)?
This style of hash function is used by zstd, lz4, and many other LZ algorithms in their hash tables as a fast hash with good enough quality
Yandex image search is irrationally good, I've yet to find an image search engine that works as well as it does. I have no idea why
What makes you think that they don't?

They surely would keep that capability secret.
Whistle blowing policies are not worth the paper on which it's written. Equally worth are HR grievance policies (of all kinds). The sure outcome of invoking either is that (1) you'll lose your job (2) you'll never find a job again.

One difference with blowing the whistle, though, is that it'll lead to your death: you'll be killed if you're lucky. If not, you'll lead a painful life of professional and social ostracization, which will eventually lead to suicide. So, choose your poison.
If you have to use the coercive power of the state to make people use X instead of Y, it means Y is better in more ways for more people. You're just being an authoritarian and crushing individual liberty. The justification (correct or incorrect) doesn't matter. If it were really better, people will gradually switch to electric cooking equipment on their own. Like how government never had to ban horse drawn carriages and force everyone to buy an automobile.
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> Now everyone is at least aware that digital activities are under surveillance including phone call metadata. We have made that trade off for some security. Thank you Snowden.

We've traded away privacy, but whether that increases security remains to be seen.

It certainly increases the money we spend on alleged security. And "creates jobs" or whatever other euphemism we have for pork barrel decision-making today.
I don't think distillation actually works for forever chemicals, as they may be miscible to a certain degree or also vaporize and condense. Don't have the source, but there was a story about PFAS in rain recently. Your best bet would be reverse osmosis, which is unfortunately a pretty big waste of water.
Don't forget the Philip Glass soundtrack!
Jim Morission accurately predicted "the machines" or "single person" in this context. I've also been reading more on Bob Moog, as one of those first engineers to birth the liminal device.

What Seth says here is a bit more dramatic, but its a natural evolution to information access, tech, and single author productions. In fact, really this is the next step, where the single person is no one, its scaled "nobody" based on mixed IP.
I totally get it, it’s a market segmentation problem where pirated software serves the bottom end of the market. If companies officially offered such discount prices then they’d be pressured by their regular customers for the same price. Segmenting based on willing to risk pirate software is a convenient workaround. Personally I’m still clinging on to old versions of perpetually licensed software. It makes little sense for me to pay a yearly subscription for something I use a few days a year. I’d much rather a day rate or hourly as I do a wide variety of things but only one thing at a time.
> Now, you can choose to be cynical about that but I think it genuinely did live up to the hype when I could remote in to a full infinite-screen workstation and interact much more freely with coworkers than a Zoom call.

How exactly did you interact more freely with co-workers? I fully agree that in-person meetings are more productive than Zoom calls, but true telepresence that would capture that requires far more than I've seen any VR setup come even close to provide. Especially since everyone is busy with the display, while the camera+microphone part is actually miles away.
A future where "everything that you care about is in VR" describes a hellish dystopia

Isn't that the way it is now? Used to be, you'd all get together at the town hall, to discuss problems with the city.

Now people use twitter and Facebook, and community involvement is at an all time low.

We're already in VR version 1. Nothing online is "real"!

In VR2 people will still go for walks in the park, but just as now, where everone is walking and staring at their phone, people will be in VR2 while walking their dog.
Cory Doctorow has talked about this problem in what is possibly the cheekiest choice of medium I've ever seen: https://www.amazon.com/Why-None-Books-Available-Audible/dp/B...
That's indeed what I meant.
How prevalent are these in water (vs other parts of the environment)? Are there some common places where a few well-placed filters could have an outsized impact in cleaningup our mess?
>Like the data is worth a few hundred bucks maybe, but its not worth a few thousand.

Then it is not worth the effort.

Finding a (serious) data recovery company is not at all easy and SSD recovery may vary a lot (depending on the specific make/model).

This (old) .pdf (which seems anyway like a promotional piece) gives out some ranges (which probably need to be updated):

http://www.entertainmentstorage.org/articles/SSD-Data-Recove...

The whole issue is that you have no way to know what the actual issue is, not how much work is needed to (hopefully) recover some data, but I doubt that anyone will ask you less than US$ 1,000 anyway.

Basically you send them your device and hope that they are both honest and competent, I have seen stories of people that were essentially blackmailed and as well reports about the device having been (accidentally) messed with and destroyed.

Websites are mostly looking similar, stating (incredible) high percentages of success, their "clean room" (hint: likely it is only a hood)[0], (stock) photos of people clad in white bunny suits or lab coats, etc.

There are a few very large firms and a myriad of small if not tiny ones, the first ones are (obviously) more reliable, but also - I believe - more expensive and there is always the risk that they have not all good engineers/labs, the small ones while guaranteeing that your device will be handled by the (only) laboratory chief, say nothing about their actual knowledge/capabilities.

It is a mess.

[0] only for the fun of it:

https://www.forensicfocus.com/forums/general/staged-photo-ok...
Maybe?

If guards never do their checks, an average prison camera fails once a month, and prisoners spend on average 1 night every 3 weeks without a cell mate, it puts the GPs facts in a certain light. If the base rates for those events are higher or lower, it puts in a different light.

The fact that Epstein was “high profile” is another fact to consider but I don’t see why it would obviate considering other data.
I don't understand what you're complaining about.

Staff does it for you but complains about those who don't and make the Staff’s lives harder. I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
"Let's try running the trial on a different network and see what happens."
Show HN: create-swift-package – an interactive alternative to Swift package init
Recently I've been working on a bunch of Swift packages, including those with mixed-language requirements.

Inspired by tools like create-next-app, create-swift-package is an interactive command-line utility to create Swift, C-family and mixed Swift packages and corresponding targets.

Excited to hear what people think!
This is an important lesson. Anytime you're onboarding a new user/employee, your documentation will benefit by getting that person's feedback. What's incorrect? Where there any steps that weren't clear? Or missing steps? Is there information that's outdated?

I've even gone as far as forcing the developers to answer questions by incorporating new information into the documentation. If you start having out-of-band communication (email, chats, in-person conversations) between the newbie and the team, there's a strong chance that extra information will never find its way back into the documentation.
To the defence of VR, most of the experiences encourage standing up and moving. Whereas laptops, desktop monitors, phones are back / neck / arm-killing machines, as ergonomics are the last thing companies are thinking about and customer does not really care until they start having health problems.

To be fair Meta's VR headsets are pretty heavy, which is also bad for the neck, but evolutional pressure will bring the futures headsets' weight down, as ergonomics is on a critical path for these devices adoption.
Much thanks for the good links! I hate trashy TV news videos.
In most US jurisdictions small claims court requires self-representation, so your landlord can’t out spend you on lawyers to win.

I thought what you said too before I filed the first time. It cost me $50 to file and I was able to do it by mail. It took forever to get the case heard because the landlord was a huge d-bag who intentionally dodged service for nearly two years, but I got my day in court and it took less than 20 minutes in front of a judge to be awarded my deposit back + interest + a penalty on the landlord. I showed up to court over my lunch break and was back to work before anyone knew I had left. No lawyers, just a single file folder of evidence, a $50 check, and one printed and mailed form to file.

It can sometimes be challenging to get paid, but many times it’s a manager acting improperly on behalf of a national corporate landlord and they will cut you a check immediately, they get sued so often it’s an expected business expense (says something about how scummy landlords are).
Think of the chess players as facing a gigantic search problem. They don't have time to search everything, so they have to use intuition to decide what lines to calculate. Their intuition is very good but not perfect. So sometimes you get in a situation where you have computed the wrong lines and see no solution. The solution might be obvious on another day where you randomly don't cull the right lines, and very hard to find on a day when you are culling the good lines.

Ding when he froze was for whatever reason missing the good move, so felt he was lost, searching and searching for some solution. It seems crazy only because the engine is there telling us it is drawn. But the human is culling the lines that work for some misguided reason.
The battery died very quickly so I was inspecting the "best by" date to see if I had a bad batch. I then compared it to some new batteries bought at a physical store. I noticed the font and some small details were subtly different. The base plate (opposite the terminals) was plastic with a fine texture on the real product, and simple black cardboard on the fake. The stamping and forming of the metal cover was more crude on the fake as well, and the trademark copper was duller.

However, there's no way I would have noticed any of these without a genuine comparison, especially if it was still in the wrapping.

This was for a smoke detector, so definitely a safety issue!
Does the world championship use any detectors to check if participants arent cheating? Via some communication device, sounds, lights etc. that would tell moves taken from a computer or a set of helpers?

Alternatively someone could put some device inside their body. Are the participants scanned somehow?
> Anyone who can rent can afford to own.

> How about a system that doesn’t primarily benefit property owners?

Why would anyone want to own their house in a system that does not benefit them?
Ah, I get it, they concede AI is successful in practical applications, but that doesn't mean it's intelligent because various reasons, mostly that we care more about "achievements" than "real" intelligence. What's the difference?

I expected the article to talk about the actual problems - hallucinations, information manipulation errors and limited ability for planning.
> Here's the thing, one of you is lying and it is clear which one it is.

Not helpful.
> frivolously marked "top secret" in order to increase the perceived importance of bureaucrats.

This is a real problem, but I suspect the reason is more laziness than increasing power. That's no score card on number of classified documents one has access to.

Rather, it is time consuming and risky to determine classification level. No one is going to get in trouble for mistakenly over classifying something, but theoretically risks jail and fines for under classifying a document, not to mention the real harm that could arise from such an error.
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I agree with boeingUH60 on the health example

> or that the defence ministry should be run by generals.

This is a weird exception to the rule. It's a case where there is a strong argument to be made for sacrificing competence in exchange for minimizing the risk of a coup by bringing in an outsider without close relationships with the people below him.

There is no other department where we have to worry in quite the same way that they might just choose to start ignoring the rule of law, courts, and congress, and that if they do there is nothing that could really be done about it.

You don't have to look very far to find examples of militaries seizing power. Meanwhile I'm reasonably confident in saying that no aircraft regulation agency has ever seized power in the history of the planet.
Some crypto folks have reached the "shooting into the vein in your ballsack" stage of hopium addiction.
This field is in crazy progress mode now. Not long ago it was rent cuda gpu only. Now this... AMD could easily chip away some part of the market, if they released a > 24 GB vram gpu now.
Is there a difference in practice? Don't a lot of celebrities get pictures of themselves "helping" people after a natural disaster or something when in reality they were there for not much more than the photo session?
Trump paid zero for years.

Privately, I know how to make investment income go to zero if you have enough of it. It’s all rather fascinating. Really, the top 5% of the top 1% could do it. But if you have less than $1m income (or cap gains), then it’s likely not worth it.
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