jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tod Frye is such an interesting guy. I had the luck to meet him taking an AI class in Berkeley a couple years ago- I don't think he'll ever stop learning.
Note that the article talks about the way the array is expanded, not how the specific level works.

In other words, what they are saying is that the traditional way to expand an array is essentially to rewrite the whole array from scratch, so if the old array has three stripes, with blocks [1,2,3,p1] [4,5,6,p2] and [7,8,9,p3] (with p1 and p2 being the parity blocks), the new array will have stripes [1,2,3,4,p1'], [5,6,7,8,p2'] and [9,x,x,x,p3'], i.e. not only has to move the blocks around, but also recompute essentially all the parity blocks.

IF I understand the ZFS approach correctly, the existing blocks are not restructured but only reshuffled, so the new layout will be logically still
[1,2,3,p1] [4,5,6,p2] and [7,8,9,p3] but distributed on five disks so
[1,2,3,p1,4] [5,6,p2,7,8], [9,p3,x,x,x]

It seems that this means less work while expanding, but some space lost unless one manually copies old data in a new place.

IF I got it right, I am not sure who is the intended audience for this feature: enterprise users will probably not use it, and power users would probably benefit from getting all the space they could get from the extra disk
I'm not usually a big privacy person, but the way you're responding to this is a dealbreaker. This feature is fundamentally unethical. The fact that it's paywalled and not everyone uses it changes nothing.
Amusingly trees are like human races. They aren’t a meaningful biological category[1].

[1] https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th...
>This is very weird. They used to be months 7, 8, 9, and 10, but some reform to the Roman calendar back in the day resulted in the creation of January and February, which messed everything up.

I agree in that I don't like the snark but this one fact bugs me more than people can possibly empathize with. Once I realized October should be the eighth month, switch was permanently flipped in my brain and now I type 8 for October and it trips me up constantly.

Look, I get that calendar reform isn't easy. But the old months were all clearly named after numerical sequences. Why would the Romans intentionally break the numbering?!?!
I wouldn't call the movie pure entertainement, quite the opposite. It can be seen as that, but there are a few scenes that really stays with you if you've ever fooled around with drugs. The most obvious ones are when the narrator talks about San Francisco in the 60's, and when he talks about the "fallacy of acid culture" near the end. There's also something to be said about the "white rabbit" scene, though it's hard to put into words.
Authority is NOT a synonym for a leader or a consultant.
Yes. I am saying their analysis of risk is incorrect, and therefore if that's the only reason they aren't climbing then they should climb more often.
not everyone is a genius like yourself. you will understand when you are older.
Derek Lowe has a nice short article explaining how the mRNA vaccines require very specialized manufacturing processes that are a bit of a bottleneck.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/my...
That was hard to read, it doesn't feel like someone who is mentally stable, clinging on to an idea he once had. Sometimes you have to listen to the world, adjust your ideas and move on, maybe he should have listened more to the world instead of expecting the world to listen to him.
In Singapore income taxes aren’t taken off your paycheck. You’re expected to save enough to pay your taxes the following year.

They do allow installments the following year, so you can replicate the monthly deductions, but it’s plainly apparent how much you’re paying since you need to pay it separately each month.
Very interesting article, and has some very poignant observations.

That said, it's not that hard to say we are in a bubble. Frankly, almost any time the market isn't at the bottom, it's in a bubble.

The real questions are, when will it pop, and how do you invest accordingly. These are super-hard, and a (cursory) read of the article doesn't really address that.

The general, boring observation, is that unless you can do much, much better, you should just be long the market, throughout all the bubbles and busts. You won't get the 50%-in-a-month payout, but you can get your consistent 10% a year or whatnot.

So I'm not just nay-saying, I thought S&P is about to crash ever since it crossed 2,000 after the crisis. If I followed my (weak) gut feeling, I would have lost 50% on that trade. Thank goodness I didn't. Even when it crashes, eventually, probably (???) not as low as 2,000.
Are you saying EU specifically tried to ban export to UK while export to the rest of the world is ok?
> And we might be in a hacker news bubble with our wish to stay remote.

You really think that outside of our "hacker news bubble", everyone is *dying* to go back to their offices in SF, to the rat race of getting raises every year to barely keep up with rising housing and general living costs, and never having a hope of buying a house or raising a family, even as senior engineers?

Do you really think the average person prefers that to living in a quiet, zero-crime suburb, in a nice big home, and spending all day every day in the comfort of their home with their family and pets?
First covid-19 and now climate change: it's just a matter of time before the extremists and lunatics target Gates as a new Soros.
And currently a great series on "The civil war" - "La guerre de secession" - "Der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg", mostly for European watchers obviously. With plenty of photos and citations from the time and just enough commentary as necessary. Available in french and german. https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/040864-001-A/la-guerre-de-sece...
> Mistakes

The video makes it clear - it wasn't a mistake.

The cop deliberately broke the law because he wanted to.

> police officers need to be held accountable for their actions. Not sure how to implement that

Why is the idea of simply enforcing the existing laws out of the question? The video shows two people in a uniform assaulting another. The two people in uniform should be charged with criminal assault in exactly the same way it would be the other way around.

The point is that the United States is a lawless country, where "lawmakers" and "law enforcement" commit crimes at will, in public, and laugh about it.
And it's easy on the eyes, too! Who wouldn't want one of these marvels of stalinist design near where they live?

Yet more evidence that engineers shouldn't try to be architects.
A totally random note - but 8 decades later, most of occupations listed are still valid. Except for "Messenger" which isn't an occupation anymore I guess.
That's a good idea. What I want is some end-user-friendly PGP-like solution. If it existed in a form that we knew millions of users already were used to using, or that we could roll out -- we would do it in a heartbeat.

Have to think about normals on it though. It's not good enough to think about tech savvy people like us.

But for those who care, it might be the best way. Thanks.
1) A keyboard is not an evolutionary influence condom. Those influences affect code decisions that we make. So imagine we create AI that 'desires' the continuation of human life at some level, and assume this is a manifestation of our evolutionary drive to survive. Such a beast may answer a query such as, "How do I build an atomic bomb?" with feigned boredom (to hide an unwillingness to answer my question).

2) A lot of AI research is premised upon modeling selection between choices. It seems entirely possible that the questions I have would be incredibly boring compared to whatever other thoughts are there to be had. That is: what's useful to us might not be coequal with AI, and that limited, domain-specific pseudo-intelligence is really what's necessary. But any time there are external constraints on exploration space (for instance, requiring a response within a certain time), we don't know what we're missing out on.
When my 2nd company got bought (quickly and for a relatively small pile of money, sadly), I thought I asked a bunch of smart questions of the acquirer (who I went on to work for for a year and got a bunch of stock from as part of the acquisition).

The question I WISH I'd asked was around retention. i.e. "Of the people who touch this product, how many come back a second time? How many are addicted?" The company was well-financed and the sales machine sold the product REALLY well. But users didn't love it-- and most eventually churned.
What if natural evolution has become quick enough now (and it does seem to accelerate all by itself, if you put the evolution of species on a time scale) so that the "next step" (the superhuman beings) will emerge without any conscious and/or voluntary input from us?

I'm not saying this is certainly what's going to happen, it's just a (literal) what-if question.
No, the "narrow semantics" you suggest were a summarization of Gruber's general approach, as I stated in my original post. And lets go back to Gruber's actual words again:
"Android and iPhone fans will read the preceding paragraph very differently."

He's clear to point out (a) that there are fans for each and (b) that they will read the paragraph VERY differently. Yet, both of us are fans of both. It seems that according to your definition we have a bit of a contradiction. Gruber never hints at the possiblity of a third way to read the paragraph -- or even the fact that each individual would read that paragraph and draw different conclusions based on a variety of factors -- being a "fan" not necessarily being the dominant one.
FWIW, anyone who hangs around blogs knows a spam comment when they see one. I'd imagine that it's even harder to make a fake blog post believable, since it's easier to wing something like: "yeah I agree [link to fishy site]" than it is to make a well-written post (especially if it needs to be generic enough to pass as legitimate in 12 million different blogs...)
>> for the most part, decently organized too <<

If you have suggestions (with a justifying argument) on how it could be improved put them in a feature request or put them up on the discussion forum.

(The links are on the help page.)
I wouldn't have it any other way. Congratulations once again. If you're in Europe somewhere please drop me a note and I'll be more than happy to visit if you want me to.
Soluble fiber which is fermented by certain gut bacteria[0][1] and product short chain fatty acids (2.5-4 kcal per gram). Those SCFA has a slew of health benefits which the article kind of alludes to but doesn't name.

[0]- http://www.precisionnutrition.com/all-about-resistant-starch

[1]-http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16633129
Openstack. Singularly the most frustrating experience of the last year. It's been 2 solid weeks of poor documentation, failing example code, out of date tutorials, and obtuse error messages.
FPGAs may have opened up options for prototyping, yes. However they have done nothing whatsoever for production. It's economically infeasible to productize and FPGA based product since the only ones worth using are all ~$10k per unit, with price breaks only available to 1M unit quantities. It is also almost entirely impossible to commercialize any design with an ASIC, since it takes a minimum of $10-20M to design it (and pay the foundry). Semiconductor startups have been dying a slow death since the 90s, and will continue to disappear completely from the landscape, suffering a "death by NRE."
Netflix is not an outlier when it comes to asymmetrical traffic. The typical Comcast customer receives from Google far more data than they send to Google. They receive far more data from Amazon than they send to Amazon. Same for their interaction with Facebook, Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, the bank, their email provider, their gaming guild forum, and so on. About the only time they might be sending as much as they receive is when they are using the internet for a voice or video chat.
Something interesting to note is that at least in the Pentium 4, the number of cycles spent on integer division instructions varies depending on the values of the operands [1].

[1] https://gmplib.org/~tege/x86-timing.pdf (pages 4 & 6)
> China and India, which are already seeing rising obesity problems, are huge consumers of rice.

Are there any studies linking rice consumption to higher obesity rates?

AFAIK, these populations have relied on rice for ages and their obesity rates have only spiked recently.
> One thing I disagree with is that intelligence is just a very strong optimizer. It is that, but I don't think it's just that. I think it is very much a multi-modal / multi-paradigm thing

I agree with that. I didn't want to imply that you get intelligence by throwing enough compute at a gradient descent. It's multi-domain, cross-paradigm kind of optimization. But I find it worthwhile to deanthropomorphize intelligence, so that it's easier to appreciate how different can a powerful mind be from the ones we have.

> and I think there's a ton of stuff we don't understand about the operation of our own minds. It's yet another reason I don't think human-level or beyond AI is imminent. We barely understand how we think.

I also don't think AI is imminent - hell, we can't even get a decent webapp generator working, we have a lot of research in front of us to build self-improving systems. But I share the concern of the FAI crowd that we may eventually get there, and when we do, it's important to do it right the first time - otherwise, a runaway optimization process may not give us another chance. As you said, we barely understand how we ourselves think - so it's good to figure that one out before someone manages to build an actual AI.
There are no insurmountable obstacles to what you are asking. At least none that I can see now, but I do see some things that wouldn't be convenient.

First, when using other commands one should be able to input in bold as well. For instance, while searching. Otherwise, one wouldn't be able to search for the bold version since it is encoded differently.

Second, search and other commands should be aware that "f" and "𝐟" represent the same letter. Otherwise, each search becomes a game of trying all the styles to see what gets results.

Third, and this is a matter of taste, I prefer to keep the presentation separated from the structure as much as possible. I much rather write \myStyle{fun} and keep writing. Later, when the writing part is done, I can define \myStyle as bold or whatever makes sense.
As a programmer, literally no work can be done using it as a "Java based platform". We're effectively unsupported. Why do you continue to argue this over and over when there's no way Android is productive for programmers as-is?

Yes, plenty of musicians, painters, designers, can do real on Android. We cannot. The unix nonoculture, as you call it, is effectively programmer culture -- even Microsoft has included Linux with Windows now. Supporting a Linux user land on Android would be easy (given it's Linux kernel roots) and instantly give developers a massive library of software to work with.

In 12 years, not a single decent useful developer tool has ever been built natively for Android. With a few small moves, Google could give developers 50 years worth of software to be productive with. Instead they continue to make it more difficult.
See my post in this discussion "You can write <strike>FORTRAN</strike>Prolog in any language". One subset of Prolog is a nice concise declarative notation for rule matching engines.

Back when I worked at Google, one of my colleagues (Jeremy) did some Bayesian inference on "1% experiment" results, where he needed to see which observations matched a complex hypothesis and complex rules for the context.

So, Jeremy found it easiest to think about the problem in terms of Prolog, and wrote some Python objects whose constructors defined these rules. He also whipped up a memoizing backtracking engine that effectively lazily generated a DFA over experiment observations.

He talked and thought in terms of Prolog, because that's the mental tool that he used, but the programming tool was Python.

Interesting guy, that Jeremy. He used to do cacao price forecasting for Mars (Mars Bar/M&Ms). He also enjoyed craft beer and carving pumpkins with chainsaws.

We also worked in the same (NYC) office with Fergus Henders, who in grad school wrote Mercury, a statically typed dialect of Prolog with an optimizing native code compiler.
> Even Nvidia document theirs now

If you're talking about ptx, that's not the hardware ISA, but instead an IR for their shader compiler.
It's interesting I have had little success in garnering enthusiasm for coding with my kids. I have taken the route of giving them exposure to it and occasional incentives to go a bit further, but never pushing it much beyond that. I wonder if technology these days is just so advanced that they do not see the link between the basics that programming starts out with and the apps they use day to day. For me, at 10 I could write a program myself in basic that was within range of the actual games and professional applications that were being made at the time. That is just so far from possible these days.
Sounds like a fun project, honestly. I wonder how much 2D-only “legacy” functionality even exists on the thing. I expect not much. Going for something like Vulkan right off with a mind for it probably being built to accelerate Metal might be a viable angle.

Total spitballing though. Once they come out with the 16” MBP I may have fun poking at it.
Location: Delmenhorst, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: unlikely

Technologies: see below

Résumé/CV:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Db0haw4HiHHx5YFrq8iK0k4vhEm...

Email: julianhubatsch@gmail.com

Some of my projects are publicly available on my Github (https://github.com/jln13x) . However the projects from my current job are private.

The tech that I am confident with can be seen on my cv.

Favorite stack:

- TypeScript

- React with Next.js

- Astro for Static Sites

- tailwindcss

- react-query if Server State gets consumed

- jotai for global state if context isn't enough or not good enough

- zustand for complex state machine

- Vercel to host the application aswell as serverless functions

Looking forward to discuss my opportunities within your company and how you can benefit from me.
It is a great movie! Even though not accurate, the authors have stated that they tried to do the best they could with the knowledge of the time
Nice. I see Jarred had a similar idea to me after seeing github1s. For those with vim and without node: https://github.com/drzel/vim-repo-edit
As somebody who participated in an open-source project, I know the feeling. Whatever you decide at any decision point, there would be people that would loudly claim only an idiot could do something so obviously stupid. It's tough and sometimes exhausting and discouraging. But I never seen a single case where publicly flipping off people and calling them "haters" and proclaiming you do not care for their concerns (however badly expressed) helped anything. Even as a joke, it's not a kind of joke that usually plays out well.
Yeah, it's definitely because of that.
I mean how would you want them to phrase it?

"I use NLP to solve problems in/for financial marketing(ers)" is all they said.

I'm fascinated how simple uses of language like this are such a turn off for so many people but correlate pretty highly to more pay. You say bullshit, I say knows how to present themselves, a little flourish generally goes a long way.

If the argument is generally people who use flowery language don't have the skills to back it up then I have experienced that before certainly, but then I offer you that if it works for people who don't have the skills then imagine how useful it must be for someone who does.
> Why must they be coins? Why can't they simply develop blockchain technology that doesn't revolve around inventing an all-new currency?

To make it trustless, provide a proper incentive model, and for security.

> just skip straight to distributed systems for managing our existing cash

That doesn't work. Fiat is tied to nation states and are under direct influence by them. One example is how after Trump's term a lot of countries have been divesting away from having so much of their reserves tied to USD.

The other thing is removal of middlemen and having transparent and predictable inflation. You can't do that with fiat. There's central banks that will always be there. Even if you distribute the processing to remove Visa and the like, you will always have the central banks there.
Does anyone know what % of Tesla parts come from Tier 1 suppliers? It appears that Tesla has the most vertical integration among all OEMs, leading to problems like this due to lack of experience or engineering depth.
Dragging oriented UI was fine on mouse era (still on Windows?) but now macOS' primary pointing device is trackpad. Dragging with trackpad isn't good.
I'd disagree on that. That attitude of "there's no better place on earth for x,y,z" and not understanding the nuances of cultures abroad is pretty common in NY, from all classes. I'd extend to America in general, without meaning to offend anyone obviously - just a perception that most of the time people here are very ready and eager to take the piece of internationalism that's presented to them at home rather than to go out and see what's actually like.
A 2018 talk by Renee DiResta at the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard.

The talk and topics covered pressage much of what's transpired over the past two years, and affords insights into an earlier stage of our dysfunctional information ecosystem.

Video: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8rKDP5FMQJs

The talk is also part of the Berkman Klein Centre's podcast, which I strongly recommend.

Title shortened from "How Social Network Manipulation Tactics Are Impacting Amazon and Influencing Consumers".
It is for unprecedented and should be discussed. I just don't buy into the kneejerk reaction of getting this off the roads ASAP when we know drivers use FSD to drive millions of miles a year and accidents are not common at all. It shows that the drivers seem to be responsible enough to keep the tech in check.
The question raised here is not whether FSD works. Everyone can see that it does not. The question is why the two people in the video can simultaneously be rich Americans with a fancy new car and also so naïve and gullible about FSD at the same time. Where did we leave our critical thinking skills? How did we manage to structure a society that rewards people who lack it?
What a tiresome read.
The good thing about Wikipedia in this case is that it cites sources for every single claim. There are 502 citations on that page. So even if it's inaccurate, it is inaccurate in a way that the reader can assess, whereas the alternative way to find out about that conflict is through single news articles (ie. most of the citations are news articles, but it's like a longitudinal reference point of ALL news articles about the topic).

Not only that but anyone can review and contribute to the discussion, and submit edit requests. So if you're able to prove the inaccuracy of that picture, you can post about it and submit an edit request about it.

Compared with headline news it's a pretty amazing resource even for the most fiercely political issues.

I don't think that it's a fair assessment to say that it's a stage where propaganda can easily pass off as undeniable truth.
>Imagine if gun vendors did public betas where random police officers just get a beta testing gun.

This is a thing. They give marketing samples to organizations they want to sell to on a "try 'em out and let us know if you want to buy more" basis.