skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don’t have a good intuition for and understanding of the concepts, how can you know when it’s appropriate to cut corners / use various approximation techniques on messy data? Or how can you combine a bunch of techniques for real world applications without doing something nonsensical?

I don’t really understand this critique.
Funny, I've actually never seen it attributed before (to Einstein or anyone).

Besides being a shallow appeal to authority, it's just a very stupid thing to say. It's not just wrong, it's bad to believe in.
"Interoperability" was cool and all 20 years ago or so, but I do not understand how nowadays anybody really considers it a good idea tbh. It has pretty much obvious security risks (it need not have in theory, but in practice it certainly does). And it is not that we lack decent multiplatform, secure solutions that people can use independent of platform.
This will never happen as long as a tech has the capability to make one group very wealthy.
> Technology doesn't exist in the vacuum - it costs money, resources and labor to manufacture and support artifacts like cars or CD players or CDs themselves

Nobody is forcing anyone to buy vinyles or CDs, but enough people like them, so they aren't on their own: the market provides.

Everything has costs. My refusal to carry a cellphone has opportunity costs for me, but also opportunities like maybe a longer attention span?

> As a result, you have a moving island of "what's current" speeding on the vast ocean called "you're on your own, and shit out of luck".

You have the freedom to use any technology, and go to any technological island.

You don't have the freedom to force others to cater to your tastes, or to imprison them on your island if they prefer to be somewhere else.

I like sixels, but I know it's a niche preference so I don't expect other people will provide me the technology I want. Instead, I create it for my own use, but I also think it's genuinely nice tech that can grow and strive if it gains enough momentum.

If it's as good as I think it is, others will join me on this island and it will grow.

If not, then I'm wasting time and effort, and maybe it's a good thing that I'm on my own and sh*t out of luck, because eventually it'll make me stop.

What you see as negatives, I see as positives, a way to coordinate the large number of individual preferences in society: everyone can vote with their time, effort and money.
To be completely honest ChatGPT would probably generate fewer vulnerabilities per line of code than my colleagues. Sadly that's not my call, and at least I get paid well to clean up their messes and put out their fires.
I don't think I've ever heard of Golay codes. Could you elaborate on the secrets of the universe part?
Oh, yes of course -- thank you.
Thanks so much for posting those. The essays were great, but I didn't see them before.
Among the kinds of people who use HN, I am probably more selective than most about technology I allow into my home, but I think this philosophy is a bit broken. The idea that we should "keep the good tech" and "reject the bad tech" implies that we somehow know which technologies are good and bad before those technologies are deployed. Sometimes we can take a good guess, but other times we can't. Nobody has a crystal ball, and you can't put every genie back into its lamp.
I think it was just you. The bias I got was that of anti current contractors and pro SpaceX. I feel this way since he implied that complex operations, such as refuelling in space, were only planned because the SLS was not powerful enough, and starship will be.
Doctor Who specials linked to lower death rates
It's not unorthodox, it's just a nonsensical circular definition.
What the hell is going on with windows 11?

I can't believe there are so many issues and bad UI choices, I have zero intention to upgrade as of right now
I think actually you could say that virtually no Amish people truly choose their own lifestyle. If you are born into an Amish community, the Amish way of life is programmed into you. You don’t have a choice in that. When you grow up, all of your peers are programmed in the same way. And the programming specifies extremely strict conservatism with respect to the programming. The Overton window is super-tight. There’s not a lot that can be changed. And any substantial change must be made by some sort of committeee. So as an Amish person you are mostly just stuck with Amishness as it is, as it always was. You don’t get to choose what it is. You just carry it on your back and pass it on to the next generation, mostly unchanged. Where is the choice in that?

Edit: reworded.
I saw that the Blue Lagoon just reopened yesterday. Does the eruption mean that it will close again or does it mean they don't have to worry about it erupting right at the spa?
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Hum that seems low. Does it depend on the actual speed limit? Going 4mph over when the SL is 30 yeah I get being pulled over, but on a highway where the limit is 65? I think you can easily push to 70/75.
Remind me of an article about the opimization of matrix calculus with IA, that eventually shown better algorithm for specific size of matrix, than the one found decades ago and proven to be the best one.
Uber is fundamentally a technological way of circumventing labor protections.

Airbnb, same thing, but instead manipulating housing stock, causing affordability crises around the world.

Crypto is an attempt to take away monetary policy from democratically elected governments.

Twitter is a billionaire's tool to amplify far-right voices while censoring anti-billionaire sentiment.

These are just the most obvious examples.

But it's not only my personal opinions - Andreessen recently wrote a manifesto in which he cited the co-author of the fascist manifesto as one of his "patron saints".
That works until you have a popular project that needs to support all the compilers. Then you need you need to work around n sets of bugs and incompatibilities.
Germany's Sudden End to EV Subsidies Could Be a Disaster
I think there are many problems with the patent system but the way you are describing it is overly broad. There are lots of technical details in this patent that describe a way of doing that. Once the period of exclusivity is up anyone can use that technique freely - but for now other people would have to pay or use an inferior technique that doesn't violate the patent. Arguably there's not a lot of value in every device working as perfectly as possible, but there's a lot of value in giving inventors temporary monopolies on truly new things.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644608
Rapid Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens (2021) [pdf]
math requires an absurd amount of memorized techniques/patterns ... maybe that's what you mean by fluency?

of course these are rarely static (after all one can learn proofs of theorems without being able to solve any problem), hence the need for the "muscle memory" of how to apply these techniques to the particular patterns.
Maybe a column with a server id could work? Can you have a schema differing only in the default value for a server id column or would it be replicated as "insert default value"?
> It's only the part in parenthesis that disturbs people. If I told you that you can now search your drop box via open AI's integration, you wouldn't really care.

I would. I have had lawyers and real estate agents in the past who use Dropbox for sensitive and ID verification documents. I don't want that data going anywhere it wasn't explicitly sent to.

I can understand why some users might not care, but you can't generalize your own opinions/needs/requirements on the matter to everyone. That's the whole reason settings exist.
I guess the main difference with the 90s isn't really about screen count, it's about what you would see/do with these screens.
Generate an API key for premium users, add auth-only API to pull videos, user pastes key into their client of choice.

Even easier, one click oauth to automagically give the key to the client.

It's trivial.
It's pretty clear you want a moon base before estabilishing a mars base (seems common sense why).

The fallacy here is that you need a capitalist reason, and that is wrong from a multitude of aspects.
If you had read David Graeber's book on debt, you would have known that he literally suggests the same thing, to cancel debts. A debt jubilee.
Britain leaving the EU didn't result in a war so it kinda disproves your point. If some countries leave and later reunite on according to different set of principles, it doesn't necessarily mean there would be a war.
> work done with AI will not hold the same kind of value that is intrinsic to other form

It will hold a different kind of value. What that means to the individual is something they have to decide for themselves.

I for one love new things and progress, but I can also understand a more conservative mindset even if I feel differently.

I am also tired of people screeching „AI is not art!!1!“ and trying to deplatform and attack people who feel otherwise (not insinuating that you do this by the way).
The most common framework in ruby disagrees. It wiuld be 5 layers deep
Artificial General Intelligence Is Possible and Deadly
Can't be more specific without doxing myself, I'm afraid.

There are non language ways to make things safer, sure. Take C++, one can do things other than RAII to avoid resource leaks, and it'll be a good pattern. But RAII is right there.

In C++ one can be disciplined about object ownership. But I find that in Rust "doing the right thing" is not optional.

Static and strong typing have similar virtues.

You can write fine software in assembly. Steve Gibson apparently does.

I'm not saying there are any silver bullets. I do appreciate that five minutes spent now being forced to think about object ownership, can save a six month project down the line refactoring to remove all shared_ptrs.

Not accidentally creating copies, because RVO has many conditionals on when it happens.

No silver bullets. But in my opinion C is always worse than at least a C++ subset deliberately chosen. Plain C is because you enjoy the journey, not because you'll get there faster or better.

In C++ you can refactor to RAII encapsulate, when a resource is leaked. In C you can't.
Hey, I'm not going to argue it. I'll let the DOJ explain it: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-amazon-marketplace-selle...
He was just 18 years ahead of his time...smh. 2040 is when Tolkien is slated for public domain.
> The employees are sold shares in the business that they expect to accrue a certain amount of value and with scale get very serious multiples in a liquidity event.

Sounds a lot like a pyramid scheme
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Just want to thank the author for writing Python using snake_case, which is what a sensible, well-educated engineer should do.
Apple's literal marketing message is that they do all the processing on device. It's not a shift for Apple, as apple has never done this analysis in the past, and only started doing the analysis once it could do it locally.

The use cases we're talking about also don't work on a cloud based analysis, as you can't have text selection block on network uploads (generally slower than downloads), and it would require uploading every image you open to apple which would presumably be a lot of traffic, and an obvious privacy nightmare. It would also break for users who turn on the e2ee everything mode for iCloud.
Bjarne Stroustrup once wrote: "Software development is an iterative and incremental process. Each stage of the process is revisited repeatedly during the development, and each visit refines the end product of that stage. In general, the process has no beginning and no end."
Strange, history is littered with debt cancellations and yet here we are. A debt jubilee is like hitting the reset button. The modern financial system will still create debt as it must!
I’ve been waiting for a killer feature that will make it more than just an expensive fitbit for me. Every generation I say “surely the next gen will be it” but it never was (I guess I’m a laggard in ‘Crossing the Chasm’ parlance).

Personally I expect a Siri overhaul / replacement with an LLM. To me that would be a total game changer and I’d be first in line!
I used to be concerned with stuff like this, and then I almost died several times and it all seems so inane. Interestingly, now that I care less about what I should do and a lot more about what I want to do, those good achievements come a lot more often and with much less effort.
> I thought its "Emergency Library" was very clearly illegal and tactically very stupid.

I still don't get why people hate this so much.

The most important fair use factor is the effect on the market for the original work. Obviously if the "Emergency Library" was permanent it would have a major effect, because libraries could buy one copy of a book and lend it to everybody, instead of having to buy enough that everyone who wants to borrow one at once can have a separate copy. But it was never intended to be permanent, and as a consequence it wouldn't have materially affected the number of books that libraries buy.

As far as I know it hasn't even been established that the number of books they lent out was greater than the number locked away in closed libraries everywhere during COVID, and it seems intuitively likely that it wasn't (that's a lot of closed libraries). So the argument is that because it's an emergency and temporary, they can go on an approximation instead of having to do the exact accounting during the emergency situation.

Which doesn't seem that crazy.
I probably would have opened with that.
> the context of the show is that all of the characters are socially pathological

I have no idea of the context: I just watched this episode and I found it shocking enough to not bother trying more episodes.

> It would be fascinating if today's viewers might see it as an endorsement of those behaviours!

When watching, I didn't have enough context to say if it was an endorsement or not, but the body shaming and gay shaming were synchronized with a laugh track, so it's not just that it was considered to be ok for main characters to engage in such behaviors, it was intended as humor

I don't find that funny, but shocking and sad.
In October, FedWire moved $4.275 trillion USD per day on average.
Now that you've given me a bunch of homework (rather than an exchange rate derived from that research), I can spend a bunch of my time to measure the human misery inflicted by driving at all (and how much extra is inflicted using a gas-inefficient vehicle). Of course, presumably several people will have died as a result of the electricity and gas used to manufacture and move the food that I will have required to spend the time used for that research [that you have presumably already done? For the moment, I'll trust your numbers and your intent, if you're willing to share them to save a few lives].

I do have the following estimate range for the value of a statistical life in typical Western democracies -- "In Western countries and other liberal democracies, estimates for the value of a statistical life typically range from US$1 million—US$10 million; for example, the United States FEMA estimated the value of a statistical life at US$7.5 million in 2020".

Should we be applying this value for lives in autocratic gas dictatorships, or should we be using a smaller number? Again, since you've clearly spent the time on this already, I'll defer to your calculations if you're willing to share them.

Now all we need is a measure of the value of human kindness and what the appropriate discount rate is for local kindness vs exported kindness and present lives vs future lives, along with a measure of the inelasticity of demand for gasoline, to take into account the actual impact of us not making a purchase [since a gallon unconsumed by someone here does not equate to a gallon left in the ground or unconsumed].

Additionally, do these autocratic regimes kill fewer or more people when they are earning less and thus have a more tenuous hold on power? Presumably if we all reduced our gas consumption entirely, we might even be able to induce a violent revolution to overthrow them. Those are usually pretty bloodless, and I haven't ever heard of revolutionaries becoming the new autocratic regime before. You wouldn't happen to have any pointers on how to calculate any of the above, or even better, calculations you've already done yourself, would you?

Finally, for bonus points, would you care to share the number of statistical lives that you ruin per year to support you and your family's own personal transportation and living habits so that I can have an idea of your revealed preference for following through on your expressed beliefs and your own actual personal exchange rate on the value of your life and happiness vs strangers across the globe?

[ I should probably add, at this point, that I don't drive anywhere at all, and I take mass transportation when I do travel, which is very infrequently ]
> like having all resources

...

> AI in charge of many of our resources

> provided a capable AI arrives

Yes, this is actually coming closer to reality. Please be more specific and list one resource, how we arrive at AI that controls it and why we do it, if it's so capable - without oversight
Does this cause any kind of conflict with South Carolinians?
The article is about poor countries and their sovereign debt denominated in dollars. That's the debt that needs to be cancelled. In my opinion, all private debt would be good to cancel too. I'm not suggesting the treasury doesn't pay back their debts.
I've been using Astro (https://astro.build) for static site serving + PostgREST Htmx for just simple data-centric components.
Another option is an audit log that tracks all changes to a record.
Because they wanted to? Why should they have to justify providing free software?
You mean the 25% of orgs still bleeding from log4shell?

We all know it is statistically popular, but is it still relevant...

I wonder... =)
This might be the case if you paid a professional manager to actively manage a portfolio - but not when you are paying the manager to track an index.
> I’m saying that the work done with AI will not hold the same kind of value that is intrinsic to other forms.

The value is literally not intrinsic, it is extrinsic and specifically socially/culturally ascribed.

And, yes, that's also true of different forms of art; while all have value, the kind and degree of value in any particular society of sculpture vs. representational oil painting vs. abstract oil painting vs. photography vs. 3d-rendered digital art are all different (and the difference between them aren't constant between times and places where they are present, either.)

Yes, art produceed using, e.g., diffusion models will be different from all the others in this regard, but different in the same way that all the others already differ among themselves.
What selfhoster11 said is the principal reason. In practice, you take for granted that CDNs are generally more available because they’re bigger, but it also means they’re more likely to be blocked. As an example, sites that use CDNs don’t load well in China. Sites that don’t use CDNs generally work flawlessly.
Not OP, but the number of "documents" on the web that "require" programming/scripting that bring no value to those documents, is vast.

I'm not talking about documents/articles that have useful embedded video, or informative interactive graphs and things.

I'm talking about "documents" that require a multiple javascript libraries to load in order to inject a "<p>Hello, it's a nice day and I had waffles for breakfast" into a DOM.

There is no "graceful degredation" with these things anymore; it's either javascript on, or no content, which is baffling and frustrating. It's not just a "get off my lawn" thing, it has real implications on energy efficiency, bandwidth, and most of all accessibility: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
That's not exactly true, as a period of adolescent self-discovery and active choice in joining the faith/community are common in Amish communities; it's usually called rumspringa. The point could be made that the rate of exit is extremely low and therefore perhaps the youths are overly programmed, but that's not a given - they are raised in a tight-knit community which is a powerful motivation to stay and not something the majority of modern Westerners actually experience.
It can be unit wise less efficient while overall more efficient. It's on demand, meaning the system only moves a car when it is needed. It doesn't have to move larger cars on a schedule to ensure availability.

Another thing to consider is the context. Does Vegas need to invest in a large scale subway system? Do they have the demand for that? One of the big benefits they saw in Boring is that they could do it piecemeal and I don't think they are paying anything for the system, so the risk for them is quite low. Is there a company that would build and operate a subway system for a city at their own expense?
Ah, yes, sorry I meant to write police don't charge people they can't convict. Mostly saying that the crime data is generally not affected by conviction rate.
Sure let's chat about it in an issue thanks!
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It is most definitely closed. The only people in that area now are construction workers who are closing the gap between the two mountains Þorbjörn and Hagafell, in order to protect the power station.

Edit:
For context: https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/12/18/i_vidbragdssto...

They're closing the barricade where the road intersects it. The northern intersection seems to be a priority rather than the southern one, like I thought first.
If by normal you mean "part of the norm" I guess not, but so what?

People have hobbies, passions, etc.

What criteria are you using to be the judge of what is harmless or not? What Is reasonable and abnormal?
> I’m surprised break-up fees aren’t negotiated as an investment

That would be very awkward (and even dangerous) to have a competitor as an investor.
Santa Claus calls them reindeer, therefore Santa must be Eurasian. Everyone in Finland knows that he lives in Finland. Canadians, however...
I agree with all of your comments - this is why I asked initial question because literally all his initial comments seems perfectly valid. I appreciate the discourse, and I work on this stuff every day so I was just confused
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I added jemalloc to my rails server and it took avg process mem usage of 1-1.5gb down to 400mb.
You use shard-compatible ids like snowflake.
Here's a good 4-feed live multiview, with the submitted feed in it's lower-left quadrant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg

If you scrub back to 22:17:15 (on the embedded video clocks), you can see the initial eruption caught.

At a time like 00:12:26, you can see the camera with the best view rattle as if by a quake – which then appears in the quake log, lower-right.
I think I read somewhere that recent ICC is LLVM based, just not freely available because of course the LLVM licence doesn’t require that. Can’t remember the source though, so take it with a pinch of salt.
It's possible to do row deletions and an audit log table, but do you see a lot of people who do both? I haven't. It's easier to keep a FK to the mutable table.
Perl, if you are talking about stuff widely used in industry.
Nothing.

Unless you are VC-funded. Because VCs expect+need an exit for their LPs.
I don’t think the two pictures are isomorphic. The word “isomorphic” means that it is a bijection that preserves structure from one set to another, but I don’t really see that here beyond a superficial aesthetic similarity.

One thing that is isomorphic is mathematical proofs and well-typed computer programs. Without the “well typed” part, you are left with a proof that may or may not be correct and that may or may not make sense.
I'm always taken aback by the beauty and brightness of a lava flow. It's pitch black outside, but it's almost easy to forget that, given how brightly everything is lit up.