skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see how you can reasonably use this service

I won't. I've compiled 25k names in Ancestry and am fairly fastidious in my family building. The dopamine comes from finding people/relationships that everyone else missed.

But I won't submit DNA to hurry that along and I try to talk anyone out of it I can.

The interval between introduction of cheap DNA and misuse by LEO was about 5 minutes. We now have a situation where one person creates risk for many family members. There are some incomplete safeguards in place but they will erode eventually.

That was enough to put me off at first but then came reports of comparing results between the big 3 or 4 DNA analyzers, with little-to-no agreement on origin.

I will grudgingly admit there's value in helping people who don't know their blood relatives - especially groups with few/no ancestral records (eg:African-Americans).

I even gained a nephew who was put up for adoption. But I don't think that pays for the eventual moment when bad actors (LEO, corps, etc) are routinely able to leverage our DNA against us.
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In practice, the mean speed of a container on a ship is probably close to 10 knots. A freight car would be lucky to mean 5 km/h.
No one brought up aesthetics except for you.
All great points!

If anyone is interested in how things tend to work if you're trying to proactively sell a company (especially a profitable one), I put together a write up a while back: https://www.fivecastfinancial.com/guides/how-selling-a-compa...

(I used to be an M&A advisor - no longer!)
Every time you use innerHTML, a kitten dies. How dare you!?
Not to cast any shade on Daniel, but perhaps as a warning of sorts?

Actually reading through the emails was only sporadically fun — a lot of them are from people who seem like they need urgent help and obviously aren't getting it.

His "summary" is "somehow they help me remember that the world we live in is super complicated" and while true, it was more of testament how confused a lot of people are, how lost. And how privileged people who understand computers are, being able to avoid this confusion.
>It's unlikely for your partner to be your top choice. It's just a statistical given... But you can never reveal that.

Another possibility is to have a shared understanding of your relationship that isn't based on this deception/omission/pretense. I'd say that's the norm in stable long-term relationships, from those that I know.
> Any sailor would tell you, you don’t go above and below 55 degrees.

Elaborate? There are major ports north of 55° and the US, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, the UK etc.
> Suburbs

you were talking about rural areas not suburbs . Back to the topic you bought up

> strengthening rural areas

> build out public transport such as buses, trams or subways to replace individual transportation.

Explain how this would work.
there are 3rd party foss options (1):

1. ephemeral + zero implicit trust (2)
https://blog.openziti.io/my-intern-assignment-call-a-dark-we...

2. zero implicit trust:
https://github.com/openziti/ziti-webhook-action

(1) disclosure, maintainer
(2) zero implicit trust in this case = no open inbound ports on underlay; need to access via app-specific overlay which requires strong identity, authN, authZ
This is a bizarre framing to support the argument people don't like faster delivery of goods.

But in the spirit of good faith I will give some:

- Movement of fish/meat to markets before it spoils

- Delivery of military messages around the battlefield. Also supply trains for military expeditions

- Projects like the Grand Canal in China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(China)). Pretty much anywhere in history where people opted for using water transport of goods over land transport was done for speed/cost reasons.
You assume that the public has objective commitment to the scientific method. An example where this could be an issue is climate change. There is a significant portion of the public that is interested in showing that climate change is not really happening. I had a conversation just last week with someone who says that society should have more of a debate about climate change because he thinks that politicians are just making noise about it for personal political agendas and that reality is really still uncertain. He made it clear to me that his opinion was that climate change is absolutely not happening. We didn't get to the part where the debate for scientists is for the most part settled and reality is certain, and that conclusion just hasn't transferred over to public opinion for whatever reason.

If we get public interest to be a factor, we risk biased thinking to sway what gets funded based on biased opinion, rather than scientific interest and scientific method.
That line is quoted in the article (and in fact the comment cites the article)
What do you mean is not accurate?
It's ridiculous what people will do to keep using their car
Outlawing PE would be incredibly difficult. Instead we should focus on punishing individual executives, board members, and even share holders that cause harm from cutting costs. It could be a criminal case, or even a culture of directly naming, shaming, and tracking people so that they can't get involved in another company without the share price instantly tanking.
Possibly of getting mistakenly matched to a criminal in the database. These dna tests have 99.9% accuracy but in large enough #s the .1 comes to bite hard. Also any future children are at risk of becoming suspects. The criminal justice system is imperfect it gets false convictions all the time why risk it
Yeah regen breaking on the accelerator is so bad and unnecessary.

It makes sort of sense from a non-human what’s the motor doing now perspective if this was similar to a gas pedal and removing all gas/juice input. but has no meaningful technical reason to mimic that functionality of the gas pedal rather than the coasting functionality.

In fact, some EVs actually do instead mimic the coasting part rather than the remove all juice part. They mimic the function result rather than not the actual detailed process which doesn’t actually translate well.

The plug in Subaru crosstrek for example configured the thing super well. Let up on the gas pedal, the car coasts with similar slight slowing to a gas car. The brake pedal when starts in regen mode, the tachometer indicates regen. Press harder it transitions to both regen and actual brakes. It’s sensical and just seems so obvious that it should be that way.
They use freshwater from a man made lake, and over the decades, silt has reduced capacity and then they have been in a massive drought for years. they have no real reclamation from the locks back into the lake, so each trip wastes a ton of water. Really, they should just charge enough to reflect reality and then most ship with just go to the west coast
Funny that AMD would design a bespoke chip for Magic Leap that sold a tiny number of units, and Valve would ride on their coattails for a game console that undoubtedly sold way more. I wonder how much Magic Leap paid AMD for this design? Guess that explains where some of their billions went.
What happens if you send non-human DNA? e.g. a sample of your dog's saliva?
> ...for reasons?

Yes. When something's intellectually stimulating you work on it more, that's it.

Most game development is a grind. These huge distractions, like a scripting backend, well if you spend 100h working on the scripting engine only to spend 1h authoring actual scripts, you still spent 1h authoring scripts those 2 weeks instead of 0h. The game gets delivered sooner even if you spend 10x as long working on it.

It's a quintessential misunderstanding about indie game development. HN readers think Jonathan Blow is wasting his time writing a whole new programming language and engine, and that's why his games take 6 years to make. No: his games would take 20 years to make if they weren't intellectually engaging to make. They wouldn't be made at all!

It's the same energy as rewriting everything in another programming language.

I think this happens at giant companies too, all the time. So called Not Invented Here syndrome: it's as much about laundering open source code as it is about keeping things interesting enough to make the extreme boredom and grind worth it for otherwise smart and healthy people.
Okay, it's been awhile, but here's what I have:

1. Define intents, notate keywords for intents that consist of a couple of phrases.

2. Tokenize, handle stopwords, replace synonyms, run a spell checker algorithm (get the best match from a fuzzy comparison).

3. Extract intent, process it, get the best matching entity.

Some of the magic numbers had to be hand-cultivated by a suite of tests I used to derive them, but other than that, it feels pretty straightforward.

I don't know anything about ML or classifiers or intents, I'm just a software engineer that got the rough outline from GPT-4 and executed the task.

I also wrote a machine learning classifier, but I didn't like the results. I ended up going with nltk/fuzzywuzzy because I felt the performance was superior for my dataset. Perhaps this is where HA goes wrong.

Anyways, I use porcupine to listen, VAD to actively listen, and local whisper on a 24 core server to transcribe.
It's not a public facing product, but there was a talk from a team at Alibaba a couple of months ago during CMU's "ML⇄DB Seminar Series" [0] on how they augmented their NL2SQL transformer model with "Semantics Correction [...] a post-processing routine, which checks the initially generated SQL queries by applying rules to identify and correct semantic errors" [1]. It will be interesting to see whether VC-backed teams can keep up with the state of the art coming out of BigCorps.

[0] "Alibaba: Domain Knowledge Augmented AI for Databases (Jian Tan)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsgHthzROj4&list=PLSE8ODhjZX...

[1] "CatSQL: Towards Real World Natural Language to SQL
Applications" - https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p1534-fu.pdf
Idk why but android just does that for some reason
It's the IDF soldiers singing about genocide while they're committing ethnic cleansing, as high ranking officials condone genocide and/or ethnic cleansing, that is the issue.

80% of the currently catastrophic hungry in the world are in Gaza, right now. Every hour of time that can be played for causes death, predictably so. Those hospitals that haven't been damaged or destroyed have no fuel or electricity to operate. Just turning off water and enforcing mass starvation isn't "fighting Hamas". It's committing atrocities, if not genocide, while betting that people will simply shrug and blame it on Hamas after the people were murdered, directly or indirectly in even larger numbers. Calling that the playbook isn't just an idle accusation, this has predictive power, since every mention of Israeli crimes against civilians is hardly even looked at before deflecting at Hamas, time and time again.
We use it to do nightly sitemap generation of over 30 million links. Takes about 30 minutes, replaced a Ruby (Rails) process that took hours.
It seems like McDonnell Douglas thinks unions are the biggest threat to Boeing, not IP. Big parts of the 787 design did not require the ridiculous gantry crane to move and place.

I could see that the point of that was to be able to spin up new production sites effectively, and the main value in that was not building a million planes but leverage against the unions.

I think buying SC was crocodile tears at best.
The specs of the Magic Leap 2 say "14 core computer vision processing engine (CVIP)" which matches the 14 cores shown in the photos.
It took me 2 decades to get out of the Windows bubble.

I'll enjoy my time here when I can get it.
The original source[0] speculates they're computer vision DSPs, specifically Tensilica Vision DSPs from Cadence.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERm1StY-4uY
For me it's fan service, but there must be more to it that I'm missing. Apparently it made nearly half a billion dollars over a budget of 165 million, so it cannot be just hardcore sci-fi fans. Chances are it's simply not my cup of tea, or not the cup of tea of a few people who value other kinds of experience on movies. I have a cousin who loves the movie and he says that the cinema experience is amazing, the images and sounds and the whole thing kinda pulls you in. Maybe that's just it: technical quality.
I scrolled to the bottom to find his bottom line, which is that "you can't run an email server".

Which is interesting, since I do exactly that. I've been running from a low-cost VPS for 10-15 years, and have zero problems delivering emails.

But I'm also not trying to do any UCE, which may be the use model the author is speaking about.

Michael Lucas' "Run Your Own Mail Server" should be published soon; I'll be interested to read his experiences. And Steve Gibson runs his own email server from GRC.com (colo'd server), without any issues. And that's definitely a commercial use, since it supports his software products.
I’m sure data brokers are totally respecting that
My claim was that change on the electric grid is slow, moreso at the distribution level. No one is claiming that change doesn't happen so you are arguing against a strawman.

If there is a ten year pipeline, design decisions are made years in advance. Hence my claim that even a single street switching to EVs will cause havoc.
The rest of gen AI tools might prove that wrong- Need help with your homework? We have software that will only sometimes give you facts that are incorrect. The res of the time it does great!
Always a fun read -- I'm glad he still updates this.

Well, fun except for the super scary ones he received.
The Backwards Compatibility of Text
The Blue Boy at the Huntington was the artwork that really drove that point home for me. I had seen it only on computer screen before and that's even worse at color reproduction than print. That's all it took to ignite a life long appreciation of art and afterwards I was the ideal parental accessory at any museum.
Emphatically seconded. They also have great guests, like Scott Frank (recently discussed on HN from a New Yorker article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38812736). I started listening in 2020 and between workouts and long drives have made it through every single episode.
Thank you for the great, free resource. Do you have any advice for people who are not in a supported jurisdiction? eg. Have you heard of anyone having success for using GDPR as an excuse to be removed despite not living in the EU?
Core competency is a reminder, otherwise you start doing things like making your own chat system and word processing software when you should be just buying slack and google workspace while you are a B2B database company.
How do you know they won’t sell your info. They may have a side deal with life insurance companies for example
> You need to be so much more productive than the rest that

In my personal experience, one would be surprised about how little that (productivity) matters to people. In my experience, tools are often dictated by those less experienced or even unknowledgeable. Thus, their criterion is based upon what they've heard of and what they perceive their self and others being comfortable with.
Some of these emails are from disturbed and/or desperate people. [1] and [2] for example. I’m all for having a smirk at some clueless people now and again, but some of these strike a darker tone and it’s a bit unsettling.

At the end of the day it’s sort of his fault for having a domain called “haxx.se”, regardless of if that was his intention or not. Putting emails online of poor people who have found their way to emailing him, desperate to restore their accounts or begging him to not hack them again is… weird.

It’s beyond having a smirk, and putting these confused people’s troubles into some kind of GitHub zoo for us to laugh at feels wrong.

1. https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2023/2023-11-26.m...

2. https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2023/2023-07-16.m...
Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
Wait, it was mandatory, but you were allowed to quit?

Maybe it wasn’t that mandatory.
"Subject: Just wanted to say you...

I hope you have a really nice day and that nothing is going wrong in your
life. Just know that i don't know what you do or who you are and that I just
saw your email address and name somewhere"

https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2020/2020-03-21.m...

As someone who has to respond to emails from the public, this one kinda warmed my heart.
My fear with this approach is that the first implementation would be severely handicapped compared to SQL, amd it'd take years to support some one-off need for any organizational user, so it'd never be fully utilized.
I suspect this is “websites to find jobs” rather than locations of work.
Thing I learnt is that this person says he collates things he finds in RSS feeds but doesn't offer an RSS feed himself.
Kind of annoyed at React
I haven't read the original text, I just couldn't find anything interesting about it. I understand that there is a plot twist which I should've become interested in, and apparently some of the characters are supposed to have some kind of emotional depth, but it just totally missed me.
>registers are an array of register-sized integers

A "register file" is the name of such an array.
in other words, SQL is a shark, not a dinosaur
I don't share their circumstances because they're in finance whereas I'm the owner of a consulting business specializing in the facilitation of remote work for other companies (including some of theirs). So although my calendar is marked busy for months out I'm pretty free to determine what 'busy' means, and can spend time with my kids under terms I thus see fit. Still, daycare is indeed important for social development, commuting is not, and dead time in the car is a waste of both time and money.

On that note, per the other comment, the family I'm referring to all live in midtown manhattan where nannies and au pairs are the norm, and socialization amongst such families comes with the ecosystem. I assume people who have nannies in other built-up regions operate the same way, but maybe your mileage does vary.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229
Speaking for myself, utility plays a big role in how I perceive a tool in terms of aesthetics. It's not only about a language's grammar fitting in a business card and stuff like that.

Python and JavaScript are two languages that have been used for stuff they are obviously unsuitable for, at a vast scale.
> What is your take on inheritance? I understood that you think that it should not be allowed? You called a divine right! Should the gvmt have your assets? If not who?

I think that my inheritance should be a heavily progressively taxed, yes.
Divine right is part of it, but I of course acknowledge that people often have 'earnt' the inheritance they receive.

> If you like to pay takes and are looking forward to pay more, there's nothing i can add to convince you.

I don't like it :) But I think it's the right thing.
Although - Yes I completely agree that governments are wasteful, and I would endorse anyone that engages in tax evasion and gives the diff to 'charity'. I am also a conscientious observer and struggle with defence spending in particular. In my eye that's really a part of conservative-socialist positioning though, rather than where to get the tax revenue from.

> My original comment on this is related to punishing the savers that accumulated that capital, i can't fathom that.

Completely appreciate that issue yes - My argument essentially is incentivising people to spend their money before they die, and asking them to strike the exact right balance against retaining appropriate emergency funds until then.
(Partly why I say progressive tax rather than outright confiscation though, FWIW).

> I think that gvmt's are wasteful and i just don't like to pay high taxes because i had $0 20 years ago. In this particular situation its even worse because it's double taxation.

I would rather they took your money from your inheritance, than taking it from your weekly wages. I don't want you to be penalised for working and creating value. I would prefer $0 inheritance tax to $1 inheritance tax... But I would choose inheritance tax over income tax. <-- That's the crux of it really. I'm not pro inheritance tax. I just think it's the best place to take people's money from, the place that least penalises people for good deeds (other than tax revenue through fines. Then I would argue that sales taxes are a better revenue collection method than income tax partly for the same reason. But we still need all of these taxes in place, I would just rebalance to incentivise production amongst other things.).

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I appreciate you humouring me on this with the principle of charity and the spirit of debate here!
I can hire a DBA to tell me that my indexes aren't shit, no need for AI.
Is there a list of SQL generations to see how it performs? This is a list of SQL examples using GTP-4 and the DVDrental database sample.

[1]: https://www.sqlai.ai/sql-examples

[2]: https://www.postgresqltutorial.com/postgresql-getting-starte...
LED lighting and VFDs have reduced demand quite a bit, particularly the variable frequency drives since 50% of all electrical use is powering induction motors.
There’s less than a mile of wooded area from where you leave “Seattle” and run into Everett highway patrol speed traps. They’ve practically merged at this point. One more boom cycle.
well it's your choice to not read it, but the article is actually pretty good
> Russ Ackoff

Which book of his should I start with? Thanks for the reference.
>Roughly a quarter of the admissions advantage stems from athlete recruitment: Other studies reveal that athletes tend to hail from high-income families. Years of access to private lessons, club sports, better facilities, and niche teams (water polo, golf, squash, fencing) make a bigger difference than most people realize. The final 31 percent of the very-rich advantage comes from colleges judging these children to be stronger in nonacademic categories. That makes sense since they have greater access to extracurricular activities and leadership opportunities

On one hand using anything other than final, school leaving, standardized at country-level exams that are fair and transparent

feels like wanting to introduce shitton of bias and lack of fairness and transparency

but on the other hand pure academic capability/output isn't perfect proxy for success and it seems like fancy higher edu institutions want to 'create' successful people, right?

ehh, while im standing behind #1 option, then #2 aint stupid

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>Marie currently attends a university that did not make the U.S. News & World Report list of top-50 public schools. Amanda tells me, “She’s happy but often says, ‘Mom, I just wish I hadn’t studied. I would have gotten into the exact same schools.’” And Marie is probably right.

This is fucking sad, imo.

She didnt teach her the purpose of eduction, of studying, what the hell.

You don't study to get better grades, to get better scores, to get to better school.

That's just a means to an end
Google considers buying stake in Epic (2018)
> I do wonder if A1C remains a useful metric though, as perhaps it better captures the actual damage done by consistently high blood glucose.

Both metrics have their own use. Continuous glucose monitoring is better for measuring the short-term impact of interventions, but it's also more invasive (albeit less so than it used to be) and more expensive. HbA1C is still measured for diabetic patients who have continuous glucose monitoring.

One downside of A1C is that the baseline values actually vary, and it's known to be either downward biased or a particularly lagging indicator for certain groups that are predisposed to Type 2 diabetes (e.g. South Asians and people of African descent).
Only nasty to find diameter of general graphs, right? If you know you have a tree, just root it at a random vertex and recursively compute `max(largest diameter of children, sum of the two biggest heights of children)`