jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>especially that people are now looking to psilocybin as a means of treating depression

I might be wrong and please correct me if I am, but I'm interpreting you saying that as a bad thing. If you are saying that as if it's a bad, or perhaps 'crazy' thing, why? Why would turning to a natural compound that shows promise, be any different than a synthetic chemical cocktail that similarly interacts with the brain?

Yes I know, natural doesn't eman something is safe or good (I mean, all sorts of things are naturally fatal to humans) but I see this as an actual good thing. What limited exploration with such compounds as a means of treating (or curing) various mental issues looks promising and removing the legal barriers and stigmas associated with these 'drugs' to properly test them seems like a great thing
I'm inclined to participate, but then I realize it's just a rich asshole who's probably not even using the land for anything 99% of the time.
Because beaches are nice.

Same reason we value ice cream over poop.
I can walk or ride a bike to/in a lot of place. Most of them are not public.
There's a lot less of it than non beach front land for one.

It also has pretty universal recreational purposes. People love to go to beaches and swim, sunbathe, picnic, surf, play volleyball, etc. I'm surprised it's utility is even being questioned, this is a very strong cultural norm.
High Tech LARPing in 3...2.....1....
I actually just completed an iOS course. I think that it's good to know how things are done, and there are some things that you'll want to do completely native. (Such as complex graphics). But the iOS interface building tools are utter crap compared the JS/HTML ecosystem. I would say, build a few small apps completely native, just to see what you're not missing out on and be ready to write swift or objc to do really complex or performance critical things.
http://blog.samaltman.com/bubble-talk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9258798
Well I use a dev virtual server instead of a local vm. I enjoy working in a windows environment, but would rather not struggle with the discrepancies between running an app on windows with something like xampp vs apache on centos which are my web servers.

I use a sftp atom plugin to workin on/save to my dev server and just use ssh to do git/etc right on the server. I don't see how this workflow is very different than working locally and using a command prompt for all of your tools.
There's a god for that. [0] Although she would more likely be miffed that you offed one of her progeny.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_deities#Bast
Uh, JS has numbers, blocking IO, and easy integration.

What are you on about?
Yep, I start a "30 minute" recipe and 30 minutes later I've only now gotten the ingredients out of the fridge/spice drawer/cupboard and prepared as per the ingredients list.
The whole scenario plays out a lot like what led up to the Chernobyl explosion. Even after problems became evident there were several chances to shut down and avoid a catastrophe, but the safeguards, standard procedures, and warnings were ignored.
This is a very cool idea. I think it's actually more along the lines of nanite or fuzed (ironically) than mongrel1.

I think Zed's approach is clever... to create a middleware layer that can intelligently (and without adding tons of config complexity) let people build fast, complex apps that fulfill requests using a variety of backends.
What agenda is that? If this had been an ExxonMobil or Chevron rig, would the oil company be getting better treatment?
Just the fact VCs were in at the beginning is a differentiating factor now?

I haven't been to a YC event, but I am assuming they get as many if not many more investors to come check out the companies.

Seems like some really weak differentiation.
It may have originated with FSJ:

And you know what? There is something really evil about taking thousands
of the world’s smartest young people and using them to sell online text
ads more efficiently. Really. Think of all the really interesting and
important things that this pool of brainpower could be addressing.

April 2008: http://www.fakesteve.net/2008/04/google-putting-up-fence-and...
Honest question: how is that any different from firing up App Store and click on "Install"[1]? (Yes, I purchased this on iTunes.)

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/KAdEw.png
I’m always wary of arguments along the lines of “we weren’t successful because we were too awesome”, when there are alternative explanations. Could there possibly be any other reason?

I’ve found Ruby to be very easy to extend, and one complaint I’ve heard is that it’s so easy to write DSLs that everyone has their own incompatible languages. And yet, Ruby is successful. So, how come Ruby is more marketshare than, say, SML? Could it possibly be that most people just find it easier?

It implements most of the unique features of Haskell and OCaml. In some respects, Qi surpasses them. For instance, Qi's type inferencing engine is Turing complete. In a world where teams of talented academics were needed to write Haskell, one man, Dr. Tarver wrote Qi all by his lonesome.

Seriously? Qi is nice, and “better” than Haskell and Ocaml in some respects, but it’s also inferior in many other respects. To port all of Haskell's experimental features to Qi would require teams of people. There's nothing particular to Lisp that would make that orders of magnitude easier. Haskell just has a lot of features.
True, cheap is relative in this context. I was easily able to afford a generic 286 as a college student but not a state of the art PC.
Stopped ordering for a while. Nothing is that urgent my side so I’ll wait a bit
Agreed. Alibaba asks anyone who has meetings with them to install their proprietary meeting software which is only available on Mac/Win. No thanks.

Most non-tech people just blindly drink the poison and install it.
this is not about helping the stock market or even helping banks. it's about making sure corporations have enough liquidity to make payroll and basically function at all day-to-day, which depend on short-term lending markets that are now at risk of freezing.
Are you under the impression that airline companies wouldn’t do both at the same time if they can get away with it?
Whereby has come a long way, and I recently started using team.video as well. I like both because I can just send a link and have a meeting instantly.
"The first thing I expected the article to show: a correlation between welfare state strength and rate of entrepreneurship, with the counterintuitive result that there are numerous countries with higher rates than the US and weaker welfare states, but if there are, it didn't list them."

Here you go: http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/Micro...

The US is pretty low on that list.

"Then there's idle theorizing about how food stamps "must" embolden entrepreneurs because they know they can fall back on it if their venture fails. While it sounds superficially plausible, can anyone give a concrete example of the kind of hypercompetent person who launched a successful startup and who would also have needed food stamps if it didn't succeed? Bezos? Musk? Kalanick? Even Brin or Page?"

All of those people were already rich.
Actually, its pretty easy to get bandwidth-bottlenecked in GPU-compute.

I know video games don't really get bandwidth bottlenecked, but all you gotta do is perform a "Scan" or "Reduce" on the GPU and bam, you're PCIe bottlenecked. (I recommend NVidia CUB or AMD ROCprim for these kinds of operations)

CUB Device-reduce is extremely fast if the data is already on the GPU: https://nvlabs.github.io/cub/structcub_1_1_device_reduce.htm.... However, if the data is CPU / DDR4 RAM side, then the slow PCIe connection hampers you severely.

I pushed 1GB of data to device-side reduce the other day (just playing with ROCprim), and it took ~100ms to hipMemcpy the 1GB of data to the GPU, but only 5ms to actually execute the reduce. That's a PCIe-bottleneck for sure. (Numbers from memory... I don't quite remember them exactly but that was roughly the magnitudes we're talking about). That was over PCIe 3.0 x16, which seems to only push 10GBps one-way in practice. (15Gbps in theory, but practice is always lower than the specs)

Yeah, I know CPU / GPU have like 10us of latency, but you can easily write a "server" kind of CPU-master / GPU-slave scheduling algorithm to send these jobs down to the GPU. So you can write software to ignore the latency problem in many cases.

Software can't solve the bandwidth problem however. You gotta just buy a bigger pipe.
It is clear that many people know that many services they enjoy compromise their privacy. These stories have been covered by mainstream media ad nauseam. Jokes about privacy compromises are part of pop-culture at this point.

Most people, however, are not enthusiasts or activists who are wholly invested in these topics. Even being aware of the issue, most act based on their immediate needs. Immediacy is an extremely important factor in decision-making.

If we were to give this a utilitarian assessment formula:

[severity of problem] * [immediacy of problem] <||> [importance of need] * [immediacy of need]

Many people using social media to communicate with their family may evaluate that as:

[100] * [1] < [100] * [100]
As someone who never installs apps like this, I'm curious as to why you'd want an app for something like Amazon?
There is no router advertisement/NDP/SLAAC in IPv4, so that's not a fair comparison. NDP/SLAAC has a vastly different architecture and behavior than DHCP(v4), and also deprecates other hacked-on IPv4 features (like DHCPv4 link local addresses and ARP).
I don't like the architecture either, but this is one of the better sites using it that I've seen. It ran more smoothly than most non-interactive news sites, and the CPU usage was pretty much zero except when I was interacting with it.

What about your setup do you think might be causing this problem, given that very few other people are experiencing it?
It's been a while, so maybe I'll give that shot again. My experience with VNC is that it's just laggy and really doesn't like it when I connect to a multi-display desktop with a single display laptop. Windows Remote Desktop adapts beautifully with virtually no lag, so I was hoping Wayland adopted something similar.
Linear: having to do with lines, planes, etc.

This definition makes me worry that the book is going to operate entirely in R^n. Is there anything here about substantively different vector spaces?
I'm really curious about the machine it's running on. 896 physical cores is an odd number - 32 x 28, 16 x 56 or 8 x 112 are the likely combinations. The picture identifies it as a Xeon Platinum 8180 which is a 28C/56T CPU. Are there systems that support 32 Intel CPUs in one host? I thought quad socket was the practical limit these days.
I think The Register counts as part of “the media” https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_s...
There's a lot written about Ballmer's successes and failures and most focus on the tangibles - Like growing revenues by x and profits by Y and such and such product bombing or taking off.

IMHO his legacy though, is the culture he leaves behind. Its an intensely competitive internal culture that has

- employees jousting with each other in the rankings game

- pressure across the board for businesses and individuals to deliver "results" in time for each annual and half year review which limited experiments and blue sky endeavors.

- over the top status mails and visibility exercises to preserve and extends one's influence

Everything else is a symptom of that - products that are kinda incomplete, or only incrementally better than the previous ones because it insanely hard to get everyone on board and ship truly game changing products in a manner that fit into the appraisal cycles.

Note the incremental approach is extremely good for more risk averse sectors like enterprise software but not really for the wild west of consumer technologies.
> What about Stephen Elop?

How so? The guy is absolutely brilliant!

Of course, you must realize he actually works for Microsoft, not Nokia.
Miners don't necessarily need supercomputers to mine. Sure, perhaps miners who set up huge operations might be in trouble, but anyone with access to moderately strong computational power, including basic laptops or even cheap SoCs, can mine. It might be beneficial to have mining spread out among those running less powerful computers, assuming that the miners act independently, for then the risk of a single mining firm/group controlling a dangerously large percentage of computational power would decrease substantially.

The author also doesn't mention tipping, which will eventually be the dominant source of mining fees. In a drastic case, Bitcoin users could provide tips substantially larger than the current reward for block discovery/vetting. Should this be the case, the system could be self-correcting, and if the Bitcoin network is too dependent on large miners, the tipping system could act as a "bail out" in the near-term.
Several thousand in licensing fees might have been too much for 2_3 volunteers or people doing it as a hobby.

http://www.insideradio.com/free/fcc-approves-lower-annual-fe...
> we can still look at the overall population distribution and say something relevant about heritability since most people have pretty normal genes and environments

So if you had some groups with generally fairly different genes and environments both, this would ascribe any differences just to the genes and throw out the environment aspect?
I took a strong psychedelic once, and a high dose at that. I tripped for over 12 hours, and by the end of the trip I was seriously considering changing my life in significant ways. For days after the trip I was considering making these changes. My thought patterns and assumptions had made a complete jump from one train of thought to another.

This experience made me realize how much of our outlook on things is dominated by whatever mode of thinking we happen to be in, and that mode is more shaped by custom and habit than anything approaching logic and reason.
If you're a beginner in this thread focus on going to the gym/your favorite workout environment first. Don't listen to all the people giving rep counts. If you go everyday for a month and do 1 effortful rep its better than going 2 times a week--getting sore and forgetting about it after soreness goes away. Also listen to your body, we are all different. The similarities--id even suggest only focusing on body weight stuff for a year or two and the only weight you lift is a deadlift(just the bar--about 45lbs in most gyms) or air squat.
One way out is to realize that such a simulation doesn't really need that much fidelity. It just needs enough to seem like it does.

We've all had the experience of dreams that seemed very "realistic", only to awake and realize that they didn't really make that much sense.
Thanks for the recommendation. Seems like it renders a partially transparent overlay to simulate a lower brightness setting. The notification bar remains unaffected, but I guess it's better than nothing.
As a long-time BrickLink user/buyer I would welcome that kind of quality control.
Ok, but in the monkey-selfie case, the monkey was not considered to be a tool of the artist (the camera was, but as the artist wasn't operating the tool, that didn't matter).

I think the more important question is about ownership and society. If an AI can produce value, does that value accrue to the owner of the AI?

If yes, then we're in for another round of "let's sack all the workers and replace them with machines". Historically these haven't been fun, and have produced massive inequality, but eventually they produce richer, better-educated societies.

If no, and we say (for instance) that "all value produced by an AI is public property", then we'd head off the beaten track, and possibly to a more equitable society. Or somewhere different, at least.
Those themes you listed are all covered well (and clearly so) in his many short stories. The novels, on the other hand, are obscure and meandering with often too many characters who are lacking obvious relevance or role. Also, too many themes are often intermingled and often not expressed very clearly and only obscurely alluded to.

I am certainly not a critic of PKD’s themes – he is perhaps my favorite science fiction (depending on how you define it) author when it comes to short stories. I’m just saying his short stories works much, much better than what resulted when he tried to write longer works.

(This is unfortunate, since many people, when they hear about PKD, think “I’ll pick up one of his novels” and immediately get something like “Radio Free Albemuth”… and then never read something by him again. My aim with my comment was to get those people to try his short stories instead. PKD, unlike most authors, should not be considered a writer of novels, but of short stories.)
Point taken, but I am not sure about this scenario. You can always ask "What do these numbers mean?" You might look stupid, but I'm pretty used to that by now.

The original parent referred to "obvious mistakes" made by physicians, which I don't think your scenario encompasses.
I'm not in the freelance world, but I've heard good things about the "Freelancers' Show" from a friend who is - http://devchat.tv/freelancers
Yes, vim is amazing.

1. It's installed on basically every server you SSH into, which means you can edit text on remote servers instead of having to download, edit, and re-upload

2. Keyboard-only interface is big. Not only does it mean that you don't have to break flow with mouse usage, but it also means that you can record and play-back a series of edits and movements.

3. Vim is built on composition of count, action, and movement. This means that you can do lots of things with learning a few things. For example, you can diw to delete the word your cursor is inside, or di" to delete the text inside the pair of quotes, or di( to delete inside the parentheses. And when you learn daw to delete around a word, you get access to da" and da( for free.
I just did a project that implemented the same solution that author mentioned.

For those who need a web fron-tend implementation, I would like to recommend Moment Timezone (http://momentjs.com/timezone/).
unsurprising - most smart people are out there, being curious, asking lots of questions, trying to find or hire other smart + good performing people.

don't agree that WhatsApp and oculus rift have "changed the world" ...yet.
It's very advisable to get feedback from other YC companies. Regardless of whether they could be a customer. Almost all the applications I reviewed would fall into that bucket.
Also interesting: http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog...

They even have Google's CSS3 buttons in there.
It's actually somewhere between IE7 and IE8. Obviously still not good, but we're not talking about IE6 here.
I don't think so - in HN we create the content. If Time editors have a discussion about the magazine's choice for Man of the Year, it's different then when readers do. (BTW how many commenters here actually read Time?)
This happened to me when I went to Europe in 2005. I called AT&T and inquired about and then added their international thing (I think it was $10/mo at that time), and no one told me that calls would be billed at exorbitant rates. I forget the charge per minute, but $5 seems a little high, but not by that much. Why did they neglect to mention this? I have no idea.

I didn't make many calls while I was there, but still had a $500 phone bill. AT&T split the difference with me, but it was an infuriating experience, and I'll never go back to AT&T as a result.
What's wrong with spawning a separate process for the FSM? You will still typically have it linked in your supervisor hierarchy.
Yes, this is precisely what I thought. I have a gmail label, "bacon," for such cases. I filter bacon by applying the label and then skipping the inbox (archiving). So, for example, my Priceline junk mail doesn't appear in my inbox, but it's not lost if I ever do make a priceline request.
Am I the only one to find it funny that it's based on YUI grid? :)

Seriously though, thanks for sharing.
I wholeheartedly agree and share the frustration. This only detracts from web apps in favor of native apps.

At this point a solution (or a way to mitigate the problem) would be something like phonegap. You still have to endure the pain of deploying the app (app stores, customers that don't upgrade, etc.) but at least you have to only support the browser that phonegap integrates (webkit, if I recall).
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Sensible market release would cause markets to stagnate while new supply was introduced.

It would be impossible to build enough supply to overwhelm demand anyway if it is done realistically.
Somewhat related, do all registries support pushing multi arch builds? DockerHub works, but I can't get it to work with GitHub registries.
SpaceX is using first stages that have already flown - that someone else already paid full price for. Kerosine, lox, fairings and a second stage are a lot cheaper than launching from a comepletely new rocket.

Now the hat trick will be if SpaceX can piggyback starlink sats on regular customer launches...
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country, the Times is read by people who actually do run the country.
While this is very true of roguelikes it is not absent from other genres as well.

In MMOs it is common to deal with boss mechanics of increasing difficulty with a reset should the party wipe. Some MMO developers try to curb this somewhat by having the difficulty climax around the middle rather than the end.

Technical games often have this as well, with games like DDR and Guitar Hero having some sets of songs that have lengthy intros only to suddenly get hit with the difficult segment later. Think Freebird.

Nothing wrong with disliking the mechanic, though. It's a common-enough dislike that it's spawned the rogue-lite genre where you still need to go through "the slog" but you accrue things from all of your previous (mis)adventures over time such that the early bits often go by faster (or can be muted/ignored).
Turning off your own thoughts brings presence. From my own experience, there's not other way to achieve it than to deprioritize my own thoughts. It's not like I'm not myself again when I choose to start them back up.
What are you basing your statement on? Verizon and AT&T phones have been pegged at different minor versions of iOS many times.

People want to believe Apple is some magic company that can do no wrong, but that ignores the extensive amount of QA (both in house and at the telcos) that happens before any release like this (as a longish time OS X user, I should know.)
Even in the German country side, sometimes water is coming from your own well for ages. Usually houses are connected to electricity, phone and maybe TV. Waste water tends to be on site as well. My uncle is living between two farms, next to my late grandparents house, and that always has been their set up.

Edit: Heating used to be oil, replaced by wood pallets. Heat pumps are a nice alternative as well.

Today we can generate electricity on site, which leaves phone an internet.