skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is brilliant- he took the Abe Simpson "tell people stories that don't go anywhere" and ran with it.
Well for example we already discussed that black people have worse health outcomes, we could perhaps study why that is and focus on fixing those things, ex through outreach programs.

Assume we can fix poverty entirely. We already live in a world where, accounting for income, black people have worse health outcomes than whites. Why do you assume helping poor people will fix that? Wouldn't it be more reasonable to assume we'd now love in a world where no one is poor , and black people still are underserved by our healthcare system? How do you propose fixing it if we can't acknowledge the racial disparities?

> The focus on race breeds inaction because we insist something must be done before we have any idea how to solve it.

Bull. We aren't unable to implement programs help the poor because people dare mention race. Plenty of people are trying to push for programs to help the poor regardless of race. It's not the people who acknowledge that black people are more likely to be poor standing in the way.
The web browser is a native cross-platform GUI framework that works everywhere -- including on the web. It's the best and most used cross-platform GUI framework that has ever existed. Why should Microsoft roll their own solution? Nobody has ever been able to make this work outside of the web browser.
Any? No.

It's pretty comparable to Sublime on this machine. There are some operations where VSC is even clearly faster.
> Stream the response to the UI so users can monitor progress

This is a game changer to the UX
Canada’s bill C-18 and our search and news products
Water is incompressible and also attracted to higher gravity. Low gravity zones don’t pull in as much water towards them so the water level is lower near them.
I'm sorry, but this would be an entire paradigm shift of how we see ourselves as a species. To think people would show up to work on monday I think is uncertain. We would be going from a millenia of human primacy on this planet to having these unknown apex predators lurking with unknown intentions. It's so completely unprecedented that it would be hard to imagine there wouldn't be social unrest, and major dissatisfaction with governments that have chosen to lie to the people they allegedly serve and represent. You might start to question who really runs the world, if some secret cabal had been able to keep the greatest secret of all time a secret for decades, and make decisions for the entire planet independent of our supposed democratic process.
It's not too complicated. Get a round ball of some sort. When you draw on the surface, that's a "non-Euclidean space".

Take a straight line down from the "north pole" of your ball to its equator. Draw another straight line around a quarter of the equator. Draw a third line back to the pole. You've just drawn a triangle with 3 straight lines and the angles add to 270 degrees.

A non straight line is just not the shortest distance between two points on that surface.
The rare author whose all published work I’ve read - partly because he’s not very prolific. His careful approach to writing makes almost every story special, and there are very few of them I’d consider subpar.

He’s similarly thoughtful in his interviews, and provides much-needed nuance to the recent AI discourse here. Was pleasantly surprised to learn he’s skeptical of the singularity and ML hype.
Seems very pedantic considering that people have been saying jive since the 40s according to Merriam-Webster[1].

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/jive-jibe-gibe
Can it be called mild? Diet coke has a pH of 3, which is the same as vinegar
Famously this happens by good guys saying “there’s no problem here because good guys always win.”
I think it's more that admissions aren't actually optimizing for academic success. They're optimizing for career success. If you just look at academic signals you'll accept the most academically successful students but that's not the point. It's not unreasonable to punish applicants for spending more time studying because studying skews the metric they're using to predict career success.
Sure Europe was rebuilt by the Allies, but the wars cost the Germans dearly and most did not want the situation to repeat. And up until recently the economy was going quite well, gave people other things to focus on. Standard of living improved, lives were good, why not let the US keep the reigns.

With economic growth slowing since ~2005 and the popular parties losing ground to more nationalistic parties like the AfD, I think there will be a stronger sense of nationalism in Germany and imo Germany was one of the great moderators so far. With that also comes discontent with many US positions and many in Europe feel the US is unfairly pushing their policies and agendas (through, ironically, unfair international treaties, like those the last administration tore up).
Top NIH Official Advised Covid Scientists to Use Personal Email to Evade FOIA
Why go all the way back to fire when AI is dependent on electricity and microchips? Doubt a mechanical computer could have scaled up to run machine learning models.
My Pebble Steel was great. I've had an Apple Watch 5 for a few years now. It's comparable, except for the shorter battery life. I configured it for very limited notifications, and mostly use it for exercise tracking because it has the heart rate sensor.

I don't feel the need to upgrade to a newer version. The only motivator for me to upgrade an iPhone is usually the camera. I have the cell version of the watch, but have never used it because I have my phone with me.
By that definition, any roguelike should be banned. And, well, we're not seeing that.

I'll watch, but I disbelieve the reddit poster. Probably a CEO bot drumming up obvious bait comments over current computer events.
Eventually it's just going to be bots calling bots, wasting nothing but computing cycles. Who even answers calls from unknown numbers these days?
The gimbal video gets its name from the strange way the object appears to rotate in the footage, what some people have claimed is “the craft reconfiguring itself”.

Ive seen convincing analyses that this rotation effect is the objects infrared shadow changing shape as it moves relative to the observer. The shape change is almost exactly what we would expect if we were observing a two engine plane, and one engine became occluded behind the body of the plane, hiding its infrared signature from the observer.
It's not a local model. It queries some endpoint on someone else's computer.
What if I look at other people's art and learn from it? Seem unfair to pass that work off as my own. All artists should be banned from looking at copyrighted images, we can't risk them incorporating copyrighted elements into their own work. /s
Why does it need to be more complicated than investing more into underperforming areas? Money talks
You sound like a grad student or someone who identifies very strongly with their specific trauma by the amount of exclusionary gatekeeping you’re trying to do here.

What will you do with your identity after the next major revision of the DSM?
You're changing the definition of opportunity here to still mean outcome I think.

> <Outcome> is somewhat inherited, therefore there cannot be real equality of <outcome>.

The US used to be a land of 'opportunity' for poor immigrants. They came to the US and worked hard to overcome their circumstances and make a better life for themselves and their children.

It would be insulting and demoralizing to them to say that opportunity is impossible because they're poor, because their uncle doesn't own the bank down the street. The point of opportunity is that it's _possible_ to succeed, the scales are not unfairly weighed against you by law or societal prejudice.

Many things make achieving outcomes hard - poverty, mental health, bad luck - these are sometimes affected by the past too, but they don't necessarily take away opportunity in that the hope in success is still possible. This hope is important to the soul is it not? This is why opportunity is so important, it's essentially hope.
Agree in that “Startups” imply scale and that’s just race to the bottom clickbait with maybe a little real news on the side. However, one example here in Canada is “Canadaland”, which is profitable, funded partly by subscribers, and has investigated and broken real stories. The founder has made the point recently that journalism is not something that scales, but can be a successful business by serving an audience.
The way that grants and funding work right now, from what I've seen, is incompatible with this kind of thing. It's by definition a maintenance project. They do not want to fund maintenance projects that go past the timeline of the grant like five years or whatever. No PI is going to win the Nobel prize for making some kind of janitorial service for scientists. Also the project has zero chance of curing cancer by itself. Although the PI who eventually cures every cancer might use it, they will be PI on other grants not that grant.
Seeing VCs like a16z shift so quickly from crypto to AI has made me doubt how smart these guys really are. When I started my career I thought, wrongly, that VCs were the real smart guys in the room when startups were founded. They were already rich, they provided great advice to early companies, they could see the future and knew what direction tech was going, they were essential.

As I've progressed in my career my view of them has changed dramatically. They're the money men who in many cases got lucky a few times. Sometimes really just once.

Now I don't mean to completely diminish their role. I've pretty much only worked at VC funded startups in my career and so imo there's no underselling the importance of having some cash in the bank so you can work. But the people providing that cash are not visionaries. They are simple investors chasing returns. Whatever they think is the current thing that will generate returns that's what they want to talk about. Whether it's social media, new media, crypto currencies, or now AI they're all just chasing returns and trying to hype the space their portfolio companies are in. It doesn't really feel so visionary or special after all.
To have complete equality of outcome between ethnic groups would surely involve homogenisation of their cultures. That sounds totalitarian as hell if you ask me.
p25, p50, p75 wealth among Black and white families for starters.
Remote can go to work in Germany without traveling. Just have to compete in wages aka expected value of the endavour.
Ah, energy storage.

Fans of wind and solar paper over this like it is no big deal.

When exactly can we expect to see this cheap, ubiquitous energy storage that will solve all of our intermittent generation problems?
wow I dislike him more already
>I won't pretend that some people aren't racist, but no person can tell me with a straight face that the inner city culture and everything that comes with it isn't part of the reason we have the disparity in our country.

I'd posit that when the institutions of society disrespects, discriminates against, humiliates and murders members a group with impunity for generations, it's not very surprising when that group is disrespectful of society and its institutions is it?

And while, for the most part (leaving aside voter suppression, gerrymandering and other mechanisms that disadvantage/disenfranchise) the government mostly no longer murders/discriminates with impunity, there's plenty of anti-African American bigotry (I use that term instead of "racism" as there's only one human race, and we're all part of it) still around.

While I don't think it's constructive for those who have been/are being abused/discriminated against for nearly half a millenium to distrust the institutions that have done so, it's certainly understandable.
My guess would be that they're looking for parity with web apps. I have teams installed on my corporate desktop but I just use the web application any other time and it's... identical.

If you want an identical experience with identical code across the Web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux then there is only one solution.
Thanks for the resources, looking very interesting and will get into right after I sent out some patches via email ;)
It's still in pretty early development, but you may be interested in https://github.com/informalsystems/quint

> It combines the robust theoretical basis of the Temporal Logic of Actions (TLA) with state-of-the-art static analysis and development tooling.

And it is typed ;)
To ensure the stability of the platform you are (seemingly) sacrificing being well-paid to stay on.
I would like to be among the testers, please. I prefer Anime over Gsap for all my projects.
> Slavery was a huge part of the southern economy, it wasn't just a few individual slaveholders getting rich; it was embedded in the very way of life in the south.

The part you’re leaving out is that, as a direct consequence of this practice, the South was a backwards and impoverished part of the country for that entire period.

> America's implementation of chattel slavery was incredibly vast and was one of its major economies until the industrial revolution.

That Industrial Revolution started not too long after American independence, but it only happened in the North, not the impoverished slave economy of the South. That’s one of the fundamental reasons the North won the war. Slavery didn’t make America richer; it made America significantly poorer. And the Northern capitalists knew it at the time, which is why they were a major part of the antislavery coalition that ultimately formed the Republican Party.
They are likely adding new features, like copilot and not investing enough to site reliability.

No changes - relatively easy to keep stable, as long as bugfixing is done.

Changes - new features = new bugs, new workloads.
This happened at 3M? What are you referring to?
I would assume so, but I'm faaaar from an expert.

My amateur opinion is there's too much money to be made for this to be stopped forever (we SHOULD rework copyright but we'll probably just make some dumb rule when disney decides how they want to handle it), so epic might just say "the courts will side with us eventually and the benefits are waaay too high to ignore"
Two of the three so-called "Godfathers of AI," Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, as well as Sam Altman and Bill Gates, have signed the Statement on AI Risk.

https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk#open-letter
Yeah finally got why it makes sense to make an honest bid. Thanks
Frankly, she's getting precisely what she bargained for. And her ideas as seen in FT are predictably out of place for Twitter. These people deserve each other and the results they'll achieve.

For the record, Twitter is still losing a massive amount of money at the moment. Between 2-3 billion a year. A gap like this won't be closed with an increase in intrusive video ads.
Not local yet. Considering the LLM/generative AI velocity we’ve seen, it’s only a matter of time. It’s helpful to see what others build, providing signal it can be built.

If you’re not comfortable using it in your workflow, consider it a peek at what’s to come. Very exciting times. And it's open source.
Torture? More like 'returning the favor'.
Sucralose however seems to be stimulating some insulin secretion even though it has no real caloric value.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19352508/
Ooof, I felt that. My project management system logs me out a few times a year and each time it happens my heart rate elevates.
https://archive.is/oOoVD
The logical culmination is modern ML, where no engineering is involved. "If the thing fails on some case and kills somebody, train it more." This is voodoo, not engineering.
Thank you for the lesson in memory access times I actually know something about the subject already :-)

> But the O(n*log(n)) algorithm

I think you're badly missing out the "* log(n)" part. But on reflection, you have made your point, thank you.
Photons travel at the speed of light, and at that speed, any "subjective" time is zero. In Einstein's theory of special relativity, the faster you go, the slower your proper time appears to an external observer. At the speed of light, this effect reaches infinity.
I doubt their manual review actually does much of anything. There are already tons of "games" that don't actually function that are just pre-built engine assets shoved together.
Ask HN: How to switch software engineering domains
Hi!

I've been a Software Engineer at a medium sized Canadian company for almost 4 years now. It was my first job out of university. The work is backend application development for the company's platform. While the work can be interesting at times, I feel like I don't enjoy it anymore. I want to switch into a new software engineering domain that isn't as high-level. I'm fine with switching to any other field, I'm just don't know how to properly make that transition in a way that would allow me to get a job.

Currently, I've been doing some personal projects in computer graphics, and I've always enjoyed C programming (I was a TA for my systems programming course in undergrad). I also just completed my Masters in Computer Science.

Despite this, I'm having trouble applying for jobs. I usually don't meet any of the requirements, as I don't have actual work experience that the job description expects. And when I do apply, I get rejected before an interview.

For those who have switched domains, any advice on how to go about this transition?
I just heard him on Sam Harris' podcast. It was a weird experience because he spoke with the patience and respect of someone who is intellectually honest and quite articulate, but at the same time, his reasoning struck me as really naïve. Some of his arguments include "even if AI becomes super smart, it won't be a threat because the smarter humans aren't even in charge as it is", "We can talk to it (GPT-4), so we can just ask it what its intentions are", and my favourite: "Meh, the good guys always win anyway".

I think it's great to hear counter points to the dystopic fear mongering, in fact, I would love to hear more of it. But "It's not alive, it's like your toaster!" just isn't very convincing when talking about what is probably the most disruptive technology since fire, by his own words.
it applies to schools that receive public funding, like harvard
And yet it took 40+ years for its danger to be widely acknowledged. Forgive me but for thinking there is something suspicious going on... Frankly, the Big Aspartame should be the default explanation and any other explanation be under more scrutiny.
Ask HN: Do you like to get notified when someone replies on Hacker News?
I know push notifications can be intrusive. Emails too (especially if they are not batched together).

Don't you know think Hacker News needs some kind of indication to remind you that you have a new reply? Especially when we participate in lot of nested threads, we'll miss informative replies. Atleast in the form of a badge or something?

I've built something to solve this problem. Just wondering if others face the same issue here.
i really hope the US copies Japan's ruling on this kind of thing.
Well, it's an intersectional issue. You have to take into consideration that the academic successes or failures of an individual are going to be heavily impacted by the schools they had access to.

Which is directly tied to the above mentjoned issues.
Honestly I like it better. The entire industry pauses at the same time vs random people getting hit at random times. It is like when us-east-1 goes down. Everyone takes a break at the same time since we're all in the same boat, and we all have legitimate excuses to chill for a bit.
> In recent years, many prominent journalists have left their posts to start their own publications. That’s certainly exciting when it happens. But looking ahead, I'd love to see more journalists on the other side of the table, with the resources to help fund the next generation of new publications

Are many of these profitable? What would make them investable? This industry doesn’t exactly print money.
Suggested workaround https://tt-rss.org/

Most news outlets have rss feeds

https://www.thestar.com/about/rssfeeds.html

https://www.cbc.ca/rss/
"Sir, you should consider having a safety margin that's not a negative integer."
If you were on a boat at water level, there wouldn’t be any weight difference between the two points. The water level follows equipotential lines of gravity.
I saw the DuPont logo on the first image and I knew what was coming. This is not the first time they have contaminated natural resources with harmful forever chemicals. Their contamination of a site with PFOA in West Virginia, is covered in the movie Dark Waters.

They not only dumped tons of that chemical in a landfill, they also tried their best to cover it up and delay discovery when they were caught. During the entire time they were fully cognisant of the fact that the chemical is carcinogenic and fatal for livestock and humans.

The fact that these corporations are still solvent and allowed to operate near human settlements or wildlife is a failure of regulatory authorities.
I listened to this too, as Sam mentions during the introduction, Marc is on the board of Meta and that he is invested in AI startups, from that moment, his views make sense to me.

I thought he had very, very weak arguments and defenses, especially the "thermodynamic" argument he keeps going on with. It was a very, very stark contrast between his interview with Lex Fridman, who really didn't give him much else but a platform with zero push back. Sam made him work a lot harder to explain his often naive and overly optimistic views.

Side note: It actually made me think that Sam's podcast is probably worth paying for. Glad people like that exist.
>> Before the reliance on ad blockers, people turned to YouTube Vanced to enjoy a Premium-like experience for free. However, the service was shuttered in March last year due to legal pressure from Google. With ad blockers now seemingly on the way out, it looks like free users may only be left with the option of sitting through ads

That is simply not true. There are numerous alternatives to YouTube Vanced, including NewPipe, LibreTube or SkyTube. Only to name a couple. And then there still is invidious. So no, you don't have to sit through ads.
Unless the global economy doesn't rebase itself on something other than petrochemicals, what are individuals going to do?

As long as oil and emissions is what runs our society what are individuals going to be able to do about it?
Only just, and more because of their continued incompetence in that area with IE.

They were going to actually break the company apart into different divisions to stop the vertical monopoly, but instead that's just become standard.