skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant to link to the comparison of nasdaq vs goog. But the link didn’t come across with the way I cut and pasted. An error on my part.

If you click compare and put in goog, you’ll see two price lines.

The point of this comparison is that any random stock on nasdaq is likely to follow the index. So good managers should be able to outperform an index of similar stocks.

So, I as an investor am interested in companies that outperform their peers.

I think it would be better to compare goog to a better, more tech index but I don’t know one.

But this link answers “is google better to invest in than a random Nasdaq stock?” And infers that the stock performance is influenced by the CEO. So evaluating Goog’s CEO based on stock price seems to show that he didn’t do that well.
I have a switch and tried emulation with the same games, they seem to run better under the emulator than natively.
Accessing Porn in Utah Is Now Requires a Picture of Your Face
Such one citizen still earns like 1000 other citizens. Fairness is hard to establish in an highly skewed distribution.

Nevertheless, I genuinely think that modern governments need to shift taxation from earnings to wealth (especially regarding natural monopolies)
That is not really a difference, you may as well lease your server farm in the basement, practically the same cost as buying it, just as a monthly payment with the supposed "advantages" the business people might care about.
Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC
Phd needed to understand Asn.1 and … osi network stack. Good luck.
You can save QR code as a file and initialize as many devices with it as you want.

And by devices I mean proper smart cards personally, not old phones, but whatever floats your boat.

This https://developers.yubico.com/ykneo-oath/Releases installed on a java card (cheaper than a yubikey) is perfectly usable with Yubico Authenticator on a modern smartphone over contactless interface.
There are many more flags such as -ffast-math where the project will be better positioned to decide if they make sense than some random packager juggling hundreds of packages. Even for optimzation flags that don't change behavior there is no clear best set of flags that you should blindly apply to all projects.
The old "Download more RAM" meme is feeling less funny and more prophetic these days
So can you now just mine crypto in a pool by going to a site?
equal in cardinality, yes, thanks.
Generative Deep Learning (2nd edition)
I think the parent meant minimizing the aspects of the law that aren't written down with letters.

Such as the moral/ethical component, and so on.
Google is not an open company so it's impossible to conclude that your statements are accurate based on evidence.
I don't know rustler limitations.

Let me just tell you the limitations on Quickwit side: the framework is very bound to Quickwit code base right now and uses tokio runtimes to run the different kind of tasks.

We put the MIT licence so people can copy/paste pieces of code.
You can sell the servers and partially return the money.
Still flawed seeing as you can't disable Google Prompts (that I know of) which means any security key 2FA or Passkeys that you've set up can be bypassed if your phone is stolen as someone can simply click a prompt in the Gmail app.

I wish they gave the option to disable this.
Oh I'm in no way trying to imply that the legal system is unbiased or could be simply by juries approaching trials differently.

As far as I see it, laws are entirely based on moral opinion and that itself is always going to be biased. The best we could do is have a set of laws that represents the majority moral opinion for any topic codified into law (or don't have the law at all). History is is full of examples where the majority moral opinion was bigoted, unfortunately.
I would not extrapolate a trend into a permanent change. Trends have a way of being fads or reversed
I guess my question is: If you want `auto`, why put it in C instead of using C++ with no other C++ specific feature besides auto?

I get people don't like classes / templates / .. but there isn't any reason one has to use those.
"How do you xor two numbers in Julia?"

"a ⊻ b"

"... am I supposed to type (or copy paste) that symbol every time I want to xor two numbers? There must be a better way right?"

"Sorry, no."

I immediately gave up the language after this. Too bad, I really loved it and was looking forward to progress in DL stack in Julia at that time. Too math-y.
I suppose some of it mirrors the way «government testing» such as polygraphs, etc often are just designed to filter out non conforming personalities, even if the tests lack any scientific backing of their effectiveness
> I expect a real test would just dump data via a port like our cars’ diagnostic port and quickly run against a trained model for what is conformant behavior vs aberrant (of course testing for manipulation, deletion, or unusual data).

Replicants are not robots. They do not have ports.

> The movie seems like an artists attempt to write about robots without really thinking about how things would work.

Neither the source material or the movies are about robots in the mechanical sense. They are somewhat about the original meaning of the word though: https://www.npr.org/2011/04/22/135634400/science-diction-the...
Yeah and all the ICO's as well.

I'm not suggesting Government regulation, they move too slowly and barely understand technology. I think the leading AI firms would be best to create some standards body to come up with definitions and certifications about usage, ethics, etc. around the technology. Hire some lawyers and get independent trademarks or whatever that can only be granted by the standards body.
The point of that test was to evaluate the replicants in the axis of emotional awareness, to see if they are aware of all the things they are missing. This short video explains it better [1].

It really isn't easy for humans to fake such kind of tests, and if you know a person long enough, you can read their emotions, you can catch subtle changes in vocal tone, spacing between words, changes in the language they use, and even micro-expressions.

[1] https://youtu.be/6JP3Rv-x3uI?t=170
I'd posted about that scene here about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313963

And referred to an article on denofgeek.com that talks about the same scene:

"He [Gosling] came up with this process that actors use to learn Shakespeare, where you say a word, then they repeat the word, and then someone would ask a question about that word. It’s to induce specific memories linked with a word, so they remember the word forever. I transformed that process to make it intrusive, where instead of having someone repeating a long, long sentence, they will be more aggressive – they’re asking questions about specific words." - Denis Villeneuve, Director, talking about Gosling

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/blade-runner-2049-how-a-key...
Also Objective-C, although they could have done better than @ and[] all over the place.

And .NET/C#, as Java nemesis :)
I don't Mercerism is about androids at all. If you read enough PKD short stories, Mercerism is just another of these cool ideas that appear all over the place.
Right. It's visually jarring, kind of stressful. It's part of a long sequence of shots of crappy things the replicant has to deal with. It may not be a reasonable test, but it's meant to show submission and mental coherence in the face of all the horrible treatment he endures. Later, he doesn't do very well and we get to see Ryan act out some cognitive dissonance.
These are not really C++ features, it's just basic features included in most similar languages these days.
Speed? yes. Acceleration? Not so much.
This is a kernel of a good idea; it can be refined further by making the fine a percentage of the combined value of all taxable property registered to that person (otherwise the fine hits middle class drivers disproportionately).

Would probably need to leverage something like the interstate drivers license compact to synchronize that data across all states, and there'd need to be solutions for edge cases e.g for people who rent cars and homes rather than own them.
No because millionaire crime cases are open/shut.
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EARN IT Act undermines the privacy, security, and safety of law-abiding users
I feel you - I worked on a project with pdf generation and the tool to generate it was quite heavy.
I know the reality is more complicated, but it's always jarring to read a "company X had a great! quarter, is firing 20% of employees" headline. Very dystopian.

It seems like these two facts should at least go out in different press releases on different days.

For Shopify, does anyone know whether the 20% figure includes the people leaving with the sale of SFN to Flexport?

Edit: just heard in the earnings call that the 20% headcount reduction does _not_ include the logistics teams going to Flexport.
Yeah that's the same here, not sure if it's the case for parking fines though. It differs county by county, and private parking providers each have their own sets of rules I guess
Apple M2 is 190 ns/url for those interested
Do androids in the bladerunner universe even have "ports"? I thought the point was that they are essentially biological robots. If they weren't you wouldn't even need a voight campf test, the fact that they had a port would signify their inhumanity.
"Obviously" hilarious! :)
GCP support is absolutely disgusting. Even got $30 it is incredibly bad.
I have experimented with eye masks before, but found that they either made contact with my eyelids or caused me to sweat during sleep. However, I have now discovered that wearing a black t-shirt over my eyes works remarkably well. This allows for proper air flow and prevents sweating, while also avoiding any contact with my eyelids.
Replicants aren't robots. They are artificial humans.
> How is Google developing new products an effective use of resources?

Generally, new products means new revenue streams and new profit, preferably improved profit margins.

The complaint is that they can’t develop new products so are returning money to investors so investors can earn better returns. So that’s a sign of lack of innovation.

I’d expect a company with the “worlds best programmers and AI” to be able to innovate and create new products. Google is showing they are just the new IBM, or worse, clear channel or some advertising company.

Hopefully they can get leadership that has some new ideas other than giving their cash cow some vitamins.

Apple and Microsoft get mentioned frequently as tech behemoths. They aren’t the height of innovation but they are still able to grow markets (Apple with AirPods and stuff and Microsoft with azure). Google should be cranking out new billion dollar products and inventing markets.
I'm annoyed that they just call MOSFETs FETs. There are different types dammit!
Why do we believe replicants have a core of data that can be dumped? Or a debugging port?

Everything I've seen in the movies shows them to be bioengineered, not computer-based. Perhaps even then, reading out the contents of a mind is a destructive process.
The legal system itself doesn't have a spotless history.

I just don't see the point in a hurry trial if we aren't asking representatives of the community to weigh in on the law and punishment itself. If all we want is a system where legal statues are presented and evidence is compared against it, we really don't need a jury at all and might as well let the judge or OpenAI decide on what if basically boiled down to a mathematical equation.
Physical digital ones are a thing
Previous discussions on HN:

[1] Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0 (145 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30290225

[2] EdgeDB 2.0 (323 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267287
otherwise known as "customer feedback".
‘It’s spooky’: Half of America’s banks are already insolvent
> I guess my question is: If you want `auto`, why put it in C instead of using C++ with no other C++ specific feature besides auto?

Because they're orthogonal, and making function bodies less verbose with no loss of expressivity is nice, without needing to significantly alter the language?

Pretty much every C competitor has local type inference, and C actually needs more than most due to the `struct` namespace, typing `struct Foo` everywhere is annoying, and needing to typedef everything to avoid it is ugly.

Also C++ is missing convenient C features, like not needing to cast `void*` pointers, and designated initialisers were only added in C++20.
I'm confused, can't you use printf without -g?
People overestimate the self-presentation costs of deadline extension requests [pdf]
Poco X4 pro
Did someone have their foot on the accelerator?
I guess one possible reason is if there’s no C++ compiler for an obscure platform as it would be too much work, but there is an up-to-date C compiler
And it doesn't help that the vast majority of it seems to not even match the quality of the prequel films.
Doesn't seem all that preventative though.
Written 53 years ago, if only Shannon experimented predicting next word instead of next letter....
I grew up on Bladerunner, and the Vangelis score is like a part of my being.

I think 2049 was great. I cant say it's better or worse because it's different but it fits and was more than I hoped for. Of course it has problems but so did the first one, and nothing is perfect especially in sci-fi. The Hans Zimmer score is fantastic.
Just being "rich" isn't enough to get a citizenship in Monaco. You need to be either famous+rich or wealthy.

But that's how it goes and there are other countries you can use to evade taxes too.
Dutch companies have this culture. More than half of the population works part-time. You might have some luck there.
"Google needs to be innovative, build new products and invest in them."

What has Google really built? Seems to me they try, fail ,and then buy something when their attempts fail (when something is available to buy). Nest? Android? Google is not innovative and they never really were, nor are they actually capable of building any viable new products.
Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI is now open to everyone, with plug-ins coming soon
I wish the C Standard Committe stopped smearing all C++ bullshit in to C. Now that many of the C++ people who promoted those features are abandoning the ship.

It's what you get when your C compilers are implemented in C++.
Did no one ever do a performance benchmark to compare prior to this Amazon study?
C++ drags in a ton of other baggage that a large enough number of programmers don't want.
Everyone burned by everything that was touched by WinRT/UAP/UWP/WinAPPSDK migration, .NET Native deprecation, C++/CX deprecation, Xamarin to MAUI migration, .NET Framework to .NET Core migration,...doesn't feel like being in developer heaven.

Developer heaven on modern Microsoft is only anything that relates to Azure or XBox.
The recent incident involving a Chinese Spy Balloon in the United States has caused an understandable uproar. However, it is important to remember that the U.S. has also engaged in its fair share of covert spying operations throughout history.
Well yeah, cutting workforce seems like it only has upside to these companies. Expenses go down, profit margin and share price go up.

What're the workers gonna do? Protest? Strike? Hah. No, the remaining employees will pick up the extra responsibility and thank the employer for continuing to employ them.
Decision paralysis is a thing - while having digital multieffect might open you to near-unending combination of effects, exploring within limits of few single function (not neccesarily analog) pedals is less complex.

Also some say some quirks of analog designs are hard to replicate in simulation althought I haven't seen double blind tests of that so I'm mildly skeptical of that
What we need is a good old wave of deprecation. Re-simplify around a slightly more modern syntax.
> We legally need the work laptop back, but we’ll help pay for a new one to replace it.

What law? I’m not criticizing Spotify at all for this decision, I’m just genuinely curious. A few other companies recently are giving away the laptops so I’m wondering what is different here.
> it seems like the dumbest, most ineffective way of detecting if an android is off baseline. It would be simple for a trained android or human to fake the test just like a polygraph and seems easier for an android to control expression of emotion and just match the expectation.

This seems to me like a misunderstanding of the idea behind both films. The baseline test in this scene seems to be set up as a test of one's ability to control emotion.

> It would be simple for a trained android or human to fake the test just like a polygraph

IFF the android or human is organised/prepared/together/emotionally settled. i.e. "at baseline". Which is the whole point. The test is testing whether you're in the type of state of mind one would need to do things in a controlled & calculated manner: if you can fake it you're at baseline.

> seems easier for an android to control expression of emotion

And if you think this, you didn't get the general message behind the films*.

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* Fwiw I have not read Philip K. Dick so I can't say whether the same is true of Do Androids Dream...
Actually Microsoft has hired several Rust developers after Mozilla layoffs, so it has to do with them.

Also C++/WinRT team nowadays seems to have lost interest on it, and is having lots of fun in Rust/WinRT instead.
Makes it very much seem like you were only sorry you got caught — and were actually never sorry and didn’t learn from what should have been a teachable moment. Sad.
That kinda begs the question "why not watchdog?". Most MCUs have one
> Landlords, under this bill, would be banned from collecting biometric data on anyone unless they have “expressly consented” in writing or through a mobile app.

So old fashioned writing is ok, a mobile app is ok, but the in-the-middle technology of a website on a PC is not ok? Why does the form factor of the computing device matter here?

This also reads like landlords can still do it, they just have to require you to consent first to be able to enter the building.
I guess you mean this ? https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/02/21/result/ The type isn't described there as "Kroll result" perhaps out of modesty, but I also found no other reference to this type by that name, and it seems more like an unfinished thought than an actual type you'd use.

Rachel seems fixated on people learning a lesson from using it wrong, rather than shifting hard left like Rust's Result so that when you get this wrong your code doesn't compile the same as if you forget to quote strings, or you write the actual arithmetic product symbol instead of an asterisk. There is no need for this code to compile in order to "learn" something.

That's the same lesson which scraped into C++ 20 errata, to make std::format("{} {}", 5); into a compile error whereas previously it was ludicrously a runtime error. Maybe at runtime the literal 5 will be two values ? No. We don't need to execute this code to realise that it's wrong. Shift hard left.
Yeah, I’m not saying anything about his life looks innocent but rather than he had more opportunities to accumulate wealth than just Wexner. Some of those would have been perfect money laundering vehicles (e.g. I “invest” in your fund and don’t complain when the management fees are high) so it seems like there should still be an investigation into still living partners.

It’s entirely possible this is the more mundane “rich people taking care of their drinking buddy” corruption, too - there’s certainly tons of precedent for that.
Are you calling streaming media like Spotify a trend? What was the last time you bought an album?
Ask HN: Let's hang in Silicon Valley? (June 1-2)
I'll be in the SF bay area June 1-2!

(You can learn more about me and my projects at https://taylor.town/about and https://scrapscript.org)

I was thinking maybe we could get a group together at the Emporium or something Thursday or Friday night. Breakfast/brunch/coffee could also be fun.

I'm not super familiar with the area, so I'm also open to suggestions.

Would anybody like to meet up?
Online technically works on yuzu - it emulates the same capabilities as switches connected to each others locally. This doesn't mean there are no issues. A PC and a Steam Deck running Mario Kart will have desync issues due to the Deck not hitting 60fps 100% of the time resulting in a quick connection loss.
> Would you mind explaining mercerism?

Like a lot of PKD concepts, it defies a simple explanation (by design). It hits on many of his common themes: consciousness, what it means to be human, the shifting and blurry nature of reality, the merging and melding of different minds, etc.

On its surface, it's a religion based on the Messianic "Wilbur Mercer" character, and the shared vision of him that people can enter through the Empathy Box. But then the book explores whether Mercer, and that shared vision in the Empathy Box, is actually "real" or "fake", in a way that closely mirrors the exploration of androids vs humans.
> control layer/data layer separation principle

Could you explain or give references to what you exactly mean by this? I've heard of separation of concerns, but is this a specific realization of that principle?
I wear a Manta when I need an eye mask, which has cups around the eyes so your eyelids do not contact anything. Recommended if you'd rather have a proper solution.
shopify*
Revenue up, but it was barely profitable by share... So I think it is reasonable something is done.
They're likely speaking of their liability should a employee's laptop, containing sensitive information, ever be stolen or re-sold (or simply, left in the hands of an ex-employee with a grudge.)

It would be difficult for a IT department to guarantee, for sure without replacing the internals of the device, that the device doesn't contain sensitive information. Probably easier from an inventory and IT security perspective to just capture every device than try and coordinate with individuals to reformat, etc.

(for the same reason, some companies outright destroy old devices instead of reselling.)
All these new features, but still no arrays/strings that keep track of their length!
The problem isn't paying for cold start - the problem is they make the low ram lambdas very very niche by CPU scaling - you can have a 256 mb web server that talks to a database easily - and that's their supposed selling point - but having it served on ~300MHz CPU is really really limiting - and they should be upfront about that.

If you went to a car rental and they told you we have a cheap car that's slower when you add passengers - and then you drive it to pick up your wife and it turns out it only goes 20 km/h when your wife gets in - you would be rightfully mad. You could say "why didn't you ask for specifications" but you have certain expectations of what a car should behave like and what they gave you doesn't really qualify as a car no matter if their disclaimer was technically correct.
Creating Pathways That Invest in New Maintainers (2021)
It'd still be a Markov model so much more than generating regular grammars is out of the question.
And that you can also lease servers directly from vendors like OVH so you don't even need to bother with the "drive to datacenter and install it" part. It's more expensive but still far cheaper than cloud