skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said “parts of the recommender system code.”

This is the kind of highly emotional reaction that’s not helpful.

Yes, I am quite familiar with building ML models, both training and building my own for which I’ve been paid large sums of money, and I’m here to tell you that you don’t know what you’re taking about.

There’s so much more information about an ML system than just the trained model that is important for understanding the effects of the system on a society, and its legal, ethical, and social ramifications.

Just seeing the type of RS being used, the ranking approach, and the information on SimClusters is enough for RAI folks to start to understand the ecosystem effects and how that can show up downstream in social effects.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-sourc...
> You can't measure any productivity that has any cognitive component.
Older post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991121
> previous government insulation schemes were so sucessful that there were already very few homes left with no loft insulation by 2008

The UK government thinks that by 2020, there were still 8 million homes with lofts and no loft insulation:

> At the end of 2020, 14.3 million properties had cavity wall insulation (70 per cent of
properties with a cavity wall), 16.6 million had loft insulation (66 per cent of properties
with a loft) and 772,000 had solid wall insulation (nine per cent of properties with solid
walls).

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

edit: updated stats from 2022

> At the end of 2022, it is estimated that 14.8 million properties had cavity wall insulation (71 per cent of properties with a cavity wall), 17.0 million had loft insulation (67 per cent of properties with a loft) and 805,000 had solid wall insulation (nine per cent of properties with solid walls)
" it's you need to completely rebuild the city with 5-10x the population density."

Which..is exactly what is going to happen [1]?

[1] https://www.californiacitynews.org/2021/09/california-says-g...
I'll just augment this by saying: you have to push them, but learn to push properly. This means not being aggressive (yelling), or dismissive (even if you know medical research as well as the doctor), being patient, repetitive, and sometimes even play dumb.
i know how companies go bankrupt in general :)

In this specific case:
- is there customer demand? Yes. ppl want to move around cheaply, safely and efficiently
- is the technology capable? Yes. I've ridden in a waymo, it's great.
- what is the first principle cost of a ride? Lower than uber (which is a succesful business btw). Sure there is extra hardware but that goes down a lot at scale and you don't have to pay a driver which actually lowers your costs more than you think (no breaks, a lot less hardware in the car, etc)

I don't see anything structurally wrong with this business that makes me think it has a higher lilekihood of failure than any other random business. Sure a particular company may not execute well and go under, but I think there will be some sucesfful self driving companies in the future.
This totals only ~$310M for Q3:

Employee severance and related charges: $86 million

Real estate exit charges: $16 million

Accelerated rent and accelerated depreciation: $207 million

Looks like Google Brain/Deepmind accounts for most of the remaining $1B-plus.
Citation needed. When googling for traffic signal information, all I found was discussions about expanding right-on-red bans to more intersections, and traffic lights with LIDAR. https://www.sfmta.com/blog/smarter-traffic-signals-prioritiz...
The linked article says nothing about showing ads in "New Outlook." It certainly is not below MS to do so and I believe the submitter, but the linked article does not say a word about it.
Release of ClickHouse 23.9: Better compression, JSON and more
So walking 100-200 feet vs waiting longer, entering your destination, paying more even after checking multiple apps for pricing…

I am not in great shape but I know which I prefer.
Concentrating your attention (we here are all quite familiar with it) has a flipside. A vast blindness.

Because the degree to which you concentrate upon a thing (ex : a puzzle, thoughts about a puzzle, thoughts in general... to name some common ones) is the degree to which you ignore everything else.

And this state can be habitual.

Which is why brilliant, creative, industrious types are... well, you are familiar with the stereotype.
But what about all the small, independent forums in the internet? For them it would really be impossible to comply with monitoring every post. Often they are hobby projects.
Let's just agree to disagree. I grew up with Windows, learnt programming on it, was C++ proficient, COM, COM+, switched to C#, .NET, WinForms, WPF ... and that was when it got too much. If you know Windows, you probably can at least feel why. I earned quite a lot of money with Windows.

I had tons of apps on Windows, and all alternatives on Linux are better to me (IntelliJ vs. Visual Studio, VS Code the same, CodeLion). I had a MacOS stint in the middle of the transition, so maybe that's a difference.

But still: I'm not you, you are not me, and that's okay. I'm just proof that it is probably subjective, and not objective, what you describe.

And regarding the desktop OS experience: couldn't disagree more. But, as already said, probably taste :)
Sweden and Norway have about 50 Nobel Laureates between them out of 15M people.
Well, all of them really. Sure, no warrant you can make an attempt to drop evidence because of overzealous police/executive power if there was no consent but the idea is to require documentation and to make sure the state (in this case) crosses their T's and does their I's before they can engage in this sort of conversation. Many times, if the case is weak, or not enforceable, a judge will not sign to execute the warrant or said people that want to search will not try to get one (either knowing it wont be granted or it would be denied.)

With the warrant demand talk, I would also say that once you make the demand - you give an address where you recieve service and do not follow up or communicate anymore.
I live in the Bay Area and I largely agree with this, but I should also add that the design of most San Francisco streets is stupid, turn-only lanes sneak up on you without advance notice, there are too many individual garages and too few parking structures, there are homeless encampments everywhere, there is always the crazy-new-scooter-contraption-of-the-week being ridden everywhere, there are too many construction projects being taken up at once that never finish, instead of concentrating the entire Bay Area's construction forces to do 1 project start-to-finish in 1 day.

Cruise cars do not perform acceptably in SF but they probably would if they deployed in the bazillion mid-sized cities out there with wide streets and ample shoulder space.
Google is still the greatest business of all time.

Despite people thinking it was heading for a decline due to Bing, ChatGPT, AI ect. It just posted another quarter with all-time high revenue and this year will be its best year ever.

All sectors are growing and profit, minus other bets.

120B in cash.

25 years of growth without a single year of revenue decline is crazy at 300B yearly revenue.
Windows just keeps getting worse. 7 was pretty good, 10 is ok, 11 is trash.

Maybe 2024 will be the year of Linux on my desktop.
Because it's well documented that they're not doing it. They have had several whistleblowers around content moderation already. The whole of Africa's content moderation was basically being handled by a mid level employee.
I mean the same holds true for what people feel about what happens to them versus what happens to others. You are measured by your external actions not the internal "well maybe I shouldn't have murdered the world" voice the rest of us don't hear.
> I decided to try it out and during setup of the new free Outlook I got asked how I want to see my ads: As a banner above the mail window or in my inbox

It's absurd of them to even imply that anyone wants to see the ads at all. They clearly know that given the option, pretty much everyone would answer the question "where do you want to see your ads in your mail client" with "nowhere". There are certainly products where I grudgingly recognize that ads are the only way they're able to provide the product at all, but I can't see how they possibly could claim that here when they're literally going out of their way to move people towards using it.
With eInk, an advertiser can also change the ads based upon who is walking/driving down the street.
When I switched to Linux in university, it was as an idle curiosity and the pleasure of knowing my OS was FOSS. I knew I was sacrificing a bit of practicality, but like the person that works on their vintage motorcycle in the garage, the hassle was part of the fun.

I would often run Windows on a second machine or at work though, I felt equally productive in both Linux and Windows.

Fast-forward a decade and the Linux desktop situation has improved and the Windows situation has gotten worse, such that switching to Windows 11 is a total non-starter for me.

I dual-boot Windows 10 w/ Ubuntu because of the odd game or two that is beyond Proton's reach, but that happens less and less each day. I'd be willing to bet that I won't need that Windows partition at all soon.
To be fair to the NIMBYs - most public transit investments have been done wrong.

Transit often doesn't get people where they want to go, when they want to go, in a reasonable amount of time, for a reasonable price. If you are missing any of the above then you don't have a useful transit network and the car starts to look compelling. (cars are expensive, but the marginal cost of a trip is very low once you have one)

Worse, when transit improvements are done, often they are expensive and deliver very little useful changes.

With the above backdrop it isn't hard to see their point. That doesn't make them right, but it means if you want transit you have a lot of evils on your side to fight.
Right - my wording was confusing. I meant that I've tried other people's homemade lactic acid fermented food and didn't enjoy it very much so I haven't been inspired to try it myself.
Phrased differently: the free market will maximise the amount of unsafety.

Well, only in case safety is perceived as more expensive than unsafety.
> Talk to your local politicians about fixing service so that is an option.

Lots of people have been trying to get decent public transit in US cities for decades. There is so much resistance it often seems impossible.

So, yes, obviously public transit would be great. But right now, and for the foreseeable future, it's just not an option for most people. "Talk to your local politicians about fixing service" sounds delusional to be honest.
Which is further making my point. Most of tech should abandon the city...fast.
Someone else a while back commented he said he told Siri to “turn on the living room light” and it did so at his mom’s house instead.

Or the classic where you ask something simple and it looks the query up on the internet verbatim instead. Or completely bungles a clearly enunciated query.

“Hey Siri, what’s 3 * 9?” “Looking up ‘treehouse sign’ on the internet”
Cruise's valuation of $30 billion will get you 12 miles of subway in NYC [1], hardly the public transit revolution necessary to make autonomous driving redundant.

I don't hate public transit or anything, I cycle and subway in NYC all the time, but the level of investment the US needs in public transit is an order of magnitude above the amount that investors have spent on autonomous driving.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/in-nyc-su...
> and don't exist anymore because people used them negligently

Lawn darts don't exist because the FDA banned them. Without that happening, they'd still be sold today.

> Kids can hurt themselves with bicycles and archery and rifles, too. Why aren’t they included? I’d rather be hit by a lawn dart than by a horseshoe

-- R. B. Jarts, inventor of lawn darts.
Thank you! Including inline since I appreciate it so much

&type=story&type=comment

can be used to replace (the same, or most of the same functionality of)

&type=all

in the search area.
2 is not even remotely true. Read spec. Compare to MIPS. Remove delay slot. Compare now.
oh, social media, I thought it was about the internet.
SF politics are notoriously slow about a lot of things. There are actually new, significant lobbying efforts to tackle some issues: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/tech-rooted-groups...
The post isn’t about Instagram at the exclusion of the fashion ecosystem: it’s an argument that truncates research that does find that posts that the drop in self-esteem is directly related to seeing posts either from fashion professionals or peers trying to emulate those. You can’t read those studies and think that detail is not part of the key findings.

Those are not two similar but separate problems.

This is like saying that mail bombs are the problem of the post office and not people having access to explosives: the problem isn’t envelopes. It’s people with access to explosives, and FedEx would likely have the same issue—unless federal rules allow them to scan and to refuse to deliver explosives.

I’m not being crass with a bad metaphor: focusing on the support has been a key issue in the argument for a while. Fashion magazines used to be decried as “glossy paper,” but no one thought the difference between magazines sending problematic self-image and serious news was that newspapers came on broad sheets of mate paper. Still, it’s now how the problem is presented: without clear separation.

I did work at Meta on the team looking at Teenagers, and I did raise that point internally: should we look at gambling and alcohol and extend the same rules to fashion? Should we boost peers over brands to avoid problematic ideation?

Those conversations, without the shadow of fashion partners, were generally productive. It wasn’t perfect: the goal remained “engagement” but there were no sacred cows to avoid.

As soon as the findings about teenage body dysmorphia were put in the context of fashion (and presented to one particular executive who cared about advertising more than algorithmic boost), that question was buried. Several friends of mine got blackballed hard not for suggesting Instagram-specific treatment, but for instance, for asking Anna Wintour about the quip where she fat-shamed her best friend in _The September Issue_ (it’s a niche fashion reference, but it’s widely considered a smoking gun in the industry).

There are inherent biases to how Instagram and Facebook work: you post when you achieve something, and there’s a bias towards success, but the internal findings rarely found that those were crippling. Thinness, on the other hand, leads to clear, widespread medical issues. I remember asking if the issue became more prevalent because teenagers didn’t have access to that many magazines before but that the dose effect was comparable. I don’t think anyone has looked into that.

I’m not saying that to disengage Meta’s responsibility: I had argued for explicit filters, like giving teenage boys who know they can’t resist and will behave in a way they think is unhealthy, the ability to exclude scantly clad women in their feed. I used another example, naturally (more typical of internal debate). That idea could have had legs ten years ago; now, with the debate being a lot less constructive, I'm not sure.
In practice, reviewers are "nitpicking" on white space as well. Before passing my code to a reviewer, it helps to just show the changes of just that.
What an excellent reason to rip that app out using Win10Privacy, and run with something more privacy-friendly like Thunderbird.
Finally someone said the words! NestJs always seemed like pure architecture astronautics, managing to be at the same time completely over engineered, and a copy of concepts from 2005 Java systems, in the worst way.

I have absolutely no idea why anyone would use NestJS, short of being used to writing dumb enterprise Java for the past 20 years or not wanting to move forward from it.

What a relief, I’m not alone feeling this way
DTMF 2022 – the story up to now
Addicted to Scarcity–Book Publishing's Retail Price Problem
So what's the difference between nsjail[1] and bubblewrap[2]?

[1] https://github.com/google/nsjail
[2] https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap
Hey there! Dagger employee here. Congrats on the launch, it's grateful to see other people trying to collaborate on this space.

> Such as dependency management (in the case of python, the requirement of a python interpreter, and its package managers, etc). togomak is just a single statically-linked binary.

Not sure if you've been following the latest updates about Dagger, but since the latest 0.9 release we have a preview feature where all the SDK tooling runs within Dagger itself as a container so they're not required to be installed in the host machine anymore. We've also added support for Dagger Modules which allows you to package and distribute pipelines a-la terraform. Our docs are still not updated yet but if you join our Discord server, you can find all the information there.

Cheers!
Google’s cloud business fell short of Wall Street's estimates, topping out at $8.41 billion in the quarter versus expectations of $8.6 billion.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-q3-earnings-12311976...
Use recoll
Yuval Noah Harari backs critique of leftist 'indifference' to Hamas atrocities
Where you live is a compromise. Sometimes I wished I lived downtown - but there are enough things that make it unlivable that I instead choose something else. However many of the things I don't like about downtown would be easy to change.
Background music actually negatively effects cognitive performance. You enjoy the work more, though.

https://gwern.net/music-distraction
Also applicable for smaller scale HPC applications running on a single workstation, like an M2 Ultra.
Yeah I mean, I'll take your word for it, I guess.,..But I live in another country... and we did not have Trump... but the same crazy people emerged.

It's possible Trump influenced what happened here, but I suspect this is at least a bit of Americo-centrism on your part...
It depends as much on weather as on forage availability. If there's no nectar flow during the winter, then they'll just not spend so much effort on foraging, maybe? I'm not sure. Where I am it's hot much of the year, but winters are not a walk in the park for the bees, so they definitely hibernate. (They don't sleep all winter, just they don't go out on cold days, but since it's Texas there are sufficiently warm winter days they will go out on those days, mainly to poop.)
Yeah, sorry, I just got caught up in your wording. Since you asked: "Nango seems to have more integrations" feels disingenuous, when you're comparing 4 to 100+. You'll likely be asked to compare yourself with Nango a lot, so it's not a bad idea to know what you're up against.

In any case, I wish you the best of luck with the "one model per resource type" concept you're trying. It's a tricky one, since you're usually stuck with the lower common denominator.

I expect many, if not most users will need additional custom mapping (so if "field A" -> "field B" mapping is the only option for now, expect to run into lots of feature requests that need to pick from objects/compute multiple values into one field. DX around this will be important)
Obviously not. That's an absurd question that's not even remotely based on what I stated or implied anywhere, let alone the question you responded to. This feels more to me like it's directed at some sort insane strawman who lives in an imaginary world of binary thought where everything is either fully good or fully evil, but if I'm wrong and this question is in good faith, I would encourage you to read the existing sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38004007
Your assertion has two major issues.

First, you context switch a lot to and from the Linux kernel, so decreased cache pressure does matter.

Second, if you have proof that loops predominantly consist of 32-bit instructions, prove your case. To my mind, a loop is likely to use fewer registers and likely to have shorter branches and smaller immediate values. all of these seem to favor compressed instructions actually favoring working code even MORE than general code.
Explanation of the post above:

MBP = Mac Book Pro
For me on Linux the change made it _way_ faster, like 5x faster. The previous releases were systematically slowing down, but now it feels fast like around 5.0.
> Why? Then you have to open your browser.

To me, the question isn't "why use my browser", it's "why use something else when I already have a browser and it's always open"?
I say it in jest, but I am speaking to the experience of the JWST. Initial designs were proposed starting in 1996 and didn’t get completed until mid-2010s after many, many delays.

It would be no surprise to anyone to say the 2150 probes will have technologies that haven’t been invented yet, and won’t for some time.
> "Think of the children whose non-abusive parents send banal but confounding photos to each other, get hounded by CSAM allegations, and some fraction of whom get separated from their child."

How do you see a false positive progressing into child separation?

People who are actually convicted of possessing CSAM don't necessarily lose access to their children at the moment.
I've been out of the loop due to using Linux the last 20 years, but back when I was using Windows XP, the default mail client was also called Outlook (well, Outlook Express).

So apparently I missed some time period where it was called "Mail" instead. But now it'll be Outlook again. Full circle!
lol

So you're saying that if I throw a wikipedia filled USB at you and go "Ok, invent a CPU from scratch," You'll be able to do it?
The Promise: "Cars will get you from point A to B at 100kmph"

"I got in a car and said go. It didn't go."

"Did you try putting it into gear?"

"That wasn't the promise! I already understand my horse and it goes fast enough when I say go. Why should I now have to understand a car?"

Tools are tools! AI is not different. Like any tool, it will have limits, it will get better, it will keep having other limits.

Learn the new tool if you want to, don't learn the new tool if you don't want to. But it feels disingenuous, and your valid criticisms get lost, when you claim "The tool doesn't do what I want! and stop trying to teach me how to use it!".
Yes, but the vast majority of human drivers will stop when they hit somebody, and when there's screaming under their car.
I don't know the last time I've seen a driver do that. The closest I've seen is a school bus/van a few months back drive through a red light after the light had already been red for a number of seconds. (I already had a green for the left turn.)
Prototype poisoning (2019)
If that's true, then that's great!
This is such an odd take I don’t know if it’s trolling. Both can be measured against similar metrics (an AV model against the avg AV/avg human or vice versa.