skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And in-depth piece from businessinsider?

> In short, he's trying to save the world from apocalypse.

I would call that accurate in two senses. Thiel believes the world faces an existential threat and that the threat is non-fictional.

I wrote an essay with similar sentiments called "Peter & the Wolfe", where I described it as a future where the world has Alzheimers. In the fiction book 'The Book of the New Sun' there is a powerful and deeply convincing realization of what that is like. Unfortunately it is difficult to explain why without actually reading it. A more analytical understanding can be had from Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies.

If the West falls, it does not get replaced by a younger empire such as China. A power vacuum of this scale cannot be filled. What happens is that the whole world falls into universal stagnation and disrepair which takes down any incumbents with it. This is not Occidental bias, this has happened before. This is why the fate of the Roman Empire is so relevant today. When it fell, it was inhabited by Visgoths and others roleplaying as Romans. It didn't work. Unable to replicate.

People who claim a thousand years of darkness were anything but that are pulling the wool over your eyes in favour of faux sophistication. They're mistaking the periodic local maxima for global maxima because intellectuals enjoy contrarianism and poking the previous iteration of intellectuals. We cannot credibly think massive depopulations, people forgetting how to read and write, the culture retreating to more primitive forms of well, everything, is something like an alternative lifestyle choice.

I know a lot of people think this is just crazy. We have the Internet now. Surely we couldn't simply fall apart like that. But we can. The Roman Empire built an incredible network of roads and other infrastructure and they still fell prey to rot and decay. Stagnation is a very weird place to be because bits start falling off and nobody really knows why. And it always starts at the peripheral, not Washington, not New York, the provinces are the first to become dysfunctional, places in our world system like Venezuela or South Africa. They go from bad to very bad and we don't notice because we cannot tell the difference.
With async/await (currently available and pretty stable in node, you just need the --harmony flag. You can also compile to it pretty effortlessly) you basically get the exact same code style you get in Erlang/Haskell/Other threaded models but with delicious event loop goodness.
Supposing the AI winter never happened, what is your perception of where Lisp would be now? Dominant? Large niche? Small niche, but larger than present?
Yeah. Keyboard trays also tend to feel cramped once you add a mouse.

I wonder whether the desk height issue has to do with changes in work? It may be that when desk work mostly involved reading and writing papers (I sort of picture someone leaning over their desk to be closer to the paper), a higher surface was more ergonomic. And then nobody thought to change the default because the transition to computer dominated work was so gradual and unrelated to office furniture replacement cycles?
Try the tcl channel on freenode. Expect is a Tcl extension.
Yeah, this is much more likely to happen if there's actually some meat to take out of your side project, so most devs won't have to worry about it. Developers should understand ahead of time that asking for your boss's word isn't going to mean anything if the side project takes off (for multiple reasons).

However, in that case, a legal fight may be somewhat tenable (though it always sucks for everyone (except lawyers)). If you got them to sign a document releasing the project, you'll be able to win that much more easily.

If you can get the signature without too much hassle, it's worth it. If you can't, it's not worth ever mentioning it, IMO.
I'm not sure about this specific approach. As other comments note, this is somewhat complex. That said there may be a few gem ideas.

- Did my vote get counted? (can you prove it)

- Did it get counted correctly? (can you prove it)

- Can a vote be both traceable to the voter and anonymous publicly?

The parallel to blockchain is simple. I get a "vote coin" that I can spend at the election. You can then see who has the most votes. The challenge to overcome in any block-chain approach is how to prevent votes from being bought and sold.

If done correctly you don't have to trust the hardware to trust the election. If done correctly we could vote by phone.
Based on my experience as a patient (not at a UHS facility, as far as I can tell) I'm pretty confident that the stuff reported in this article is just the tip of the iceberg. These facilities are structured in a way that makes people doubt their own memories and feel powerless, even before the neuroleptics come out. Treatment "progress" is predicated on -- if not synonymous with -- submission. I was put on suicide watch after having a bad night's sleep and complaining that my experience had been harmful rather than helpful. I found out later that the psychiatrist had written in my file that I'd had psychotic episodes, which never happened (I'm torn on whether to attribute this to error or falsification). I've thought about challenging this, but I wouldn't even know where to begin, and I'm fairly certain it would just end up being my word against his and not actually doing any good. Basically, the playing field is heavily tilted against reporting misconduct. For every person Buzzfeed was able to find, there are probably ten who didn't feel like they could speak out about it, or convinced themselves that they were just being irrational since, after all, they were literally a mental patient.
RISC-V has some 128b word length support or at least has reserved space for it. Still, I doubt there will ever be a large enough demand/market for that to justify the development. Even applications like crypto would probably use ASICs+FPGAs rather than burden a general purpose CPU with all those extra wires.

Never. Is never soon enough?
I've never seen a contract that didn't stipulate the jurisdiction it would be enforced in. Maybe that doesn't matter, I know there's a lot of overreach in these things.
This Is Your Brain on War
A good write definitely and I have been cautious on those, i.e. if I want to make some real products I do not work for anyone in-between to stay clean. Side-project is too tricky for both sides.
By Carmina Burana, you mean the Carl Orff version? Because that's basically unrelated to the Medieval piece. Definitely "richly influenced by modern culture", compared to the original.

There's a ton of music actually written for the organ which is quite interesting, in a variety of styles.
>> It is hard to get resources to do things right sometimes, even in big companies. There are a lot of competing priorities.

AMD has the resources. The problem seems to be getting them allocated to this particular issue. I also find your phrasing interesting. Doing it "right" is always my top priority and every compromise from that is considered and balanced. In my experience, not doing it right is almost always more costly but sometime necessary to appease someone. It's interesting that Dave is standing his ground against a multi-billion dollar company for their own long-term good - or at least what he perceives it to be.
No need when you can pay cents a letter for someone to sign all day...

https://www.google.com/search?q=handwritten+letters+online&i...
Could you give some more detail on what the political/business challenges are?
Cop of 6 years here. One use of force incident (Crazy guy swung a stick at me, wrestled him to the ground without so much as punching him)

This cop needed to be fired. Human action is faster than reaction. A person holding an un-holstered weapon down at their side can draw, fire, and get 2-3 accurate shots off, before someone who is aiming down the sights, ready to fire, can recognize the movement and fire his own weapon.

Use of force is judged by what the officer knew at the time, and what a reasonable officer would have done with that experience. Dude has a gun, is raising the gun at you. Yeah, its probably a suicide by cop. If its not, or if hes tired of you not killing him, he will kill you before you can do anything about it. Now you have a dead police officer, and the murderer has an extra gun, extra ammo, etc.

This guy needed to be fired. Some of the best cops I have seen have been military/combat vets. Some of the worst have been as well. It is my understanding he had other issues than just this situation, but I can't cite that at the moment
That surprised me about the article: I regularly see stuff like this from recruiters but there's almost always a give-away unsubscribe link.
Breaking on every kernel upgrade is a configuration issue (and a result of Linux's driver model); the "quality" of the NVIDIA Linux driver being discussed is an issue of the actual performance, compliance, stability, and feature parity/freshness relative to others, once configured correctly.

Reconfiguration/rebuild on every kernel update is definitely a hassle, and the NVIDIA scripts which try to automate the process still occasionally fail (IME, generally due to conflicts with the system package manager constantly deciding it knows best and trying to displace them with its own versions). But that's essentially an unavoidable consequence of combining out-of-tree drivers Linux's extreme no-stable-driver-ABI-ever design which requires all drivers to be rebuilt directly against the exact current kernel source: you always have to rebuild the bindings on kernel upgrade. The bindings can still be maintained by the distro vendor and its package manager, so they're centrally rebuilt (and fixed if needed), and updated in lock step with the kernel. This works well in Ubuntu, at least, these days. But absent that, the Linux model fundamentally requires local rebuild automation (or full manual rebuilds), which is prone to breakage, like any other "just download and rebuild from scratch against a new version" you've ever done, kernel/driver or otherwise.
Something like this might be a deterrent for a company that would otherwise be interested in suing, but it's not going to stop a determined foe from really messing up your life. You'll win ... if you have the cash to fight them (which you don't, unless you're making enough money that a lawsuit is a total non-issue). In practice, you'll settle to stop the legal expenses, and they'll get at least a chunk of your project.

When you're successful you have to expect that some people you knew before you found success will get salty and think that you owe it all to them. A few of these people may be inclined to file a lawsuit, including your former employers. They see a pie and want to claim a piece of it.
Yes I was the only person who worked on this project minus a friend who designed the logo.
I work for a sales team that uses one of these tools. I think one part of the picture that you've left out is that (at least in our case, and I suspect in many other companies) it's actually the junior sales reps (SDR/BDR/etc) themselves who are using the tool to scale their own prospecting communication. So I don't think it's necessarily quite as malicious as OP believes; these are emails that the rep would be sending personally, but the tool allows them to automate parts of the process and scale up their volume by an order of magnitude.

Much of a BDR's job is to find an email template that works for a certain type of prospect, and then to find as many of that type of prospect as possible and send them that email. You can expand this to a 'cadence' of emails. But whether or not they are automating their work with this kind of tool, the prospect's experience wouldn't change much.

Edit: I should also add that (again – in our case) we push our BDRs to send one-off, personalized emails and get on the phone as much as possible. They're ultimately judged by the amount of business they generate, not how many prospects they blast emails to.
The oil and gas industry is ripe with potential start ups. Here are a few that come to mind:

1. A better system for automation and measurement. Current solutions aren't ideal when it comes to setting up new systems as well as updating and maintaining existing systems. We build several million dollar facilities a month and each one has automation and measurement equipment that has to be individually set up and programmed. Each technician does things a slightly different way, and the end result is a different set of automation and measurement logic at each facility.

2) Fiber optic DATS (distributed acoustic and temperature sensing) data handling and interpretation. This is a fairly new type of technology in which a fiber optic line is installed in the wellbore. The fiber optic line basically acts as a 15,000' strand of thermometers and microphones placed every 3'. The data from one installation is on the order of terabytes per hour. Oil and gas service companies that offer this service don't know how to handle this amount of data. The problem could probably be solved with S3 or something.

3) Drilling optimization. Create a software suite that utilizes ML/AI to help drilling engineers figure out the best way to drill a well is. It's a perfect ML/AI application. Lots and lots of training data available, easily defined input and output parameters, etc. Drilling engineering is full of hard, non-linear problems and humans are just really bad at it. The only way to be good at it is to drill lots and lots of wells and then listen to your gut.
I chose Flask because I had some familiarity with it before on a few other small projects I had built and I didn't really need a heavyweight framework (such as Django).
the biggest problem isn't buying and selling votes, its distribution of the votecoin.

if you can get votea into the hands of legitimate voters, the rest falls into place.
Gmail extracts data from emails with certain tags in it, microformats or one of those standars. I think OP is talking about something more flexible using nlp.
https://github.com/encharm/Font-Awesome-SVG-PNG

This converts the icons to either svg or png in whatever color you want, in any size you want.
This is being made a platform for external developers, unlike Google search for instance. So what makes more sense for users is only important on large averages and to the extent users don't get mad enough to abandon it.

What matters for action developers ?

Having people buy shit

Keeping people occupied longer (for commercials)

(for companies that do other things) Preventing people from trying to communicate with a real person
I have no idea, and it doesn't really matter because we can't go back. I really don't want to dwell on the past, except insofar as we can learn lessons that inform the future. The point I really want to make is that Lisp is still a viable option today (Common Lisp and Clojure in particular) and I would like to see people give it a fair shake going forward.
I was definitely NOt saying there is no need for consistency guarantees at all. I was saying that this is a much better way to do it.
Really hate this meme of "right brain is parallel processor, left brain is serial processor." Biologists cannot keep pretending that this is a valid comparison without any objective evidence. [1]

[1] Especially if they keep saying "we are energy beings." Please.
I get something you could consider worse: letters designed explicitly to look like communications from the DMV. I got an absolute DELUGE of these about a year ago from various companies wanting to sell me auto warranties. Phone calls too along the same lines: very official sounding, no company name given, just to contact some person.

The letters were downright devious. The company letterhead was designed specifically to look at a glace like the state official emblem, the contents were all white paper, no photoshopped images (cheaper to produce and more accurate to the real deal, win win I guess) and the marketing materials were designed to look like pre-filled official forms, except when you actually read it you realized it was application for that bloody warranty.

I can't fucking believe it's legal to send shit like that. You're two steps from impersonating the Government. I could totally see someone a little further on in years (or just not paying attention!) thinking they had to respond.
You would be dismayed to see https://www.google.com/search?q=handwritten+letters+online&i...
I really hope the tech talent talent doesn't help lawyers sue people more effiently. What a waste. If you do, I truly hope lawyers are your customers.
When I was there I submitted three, every time they came back and said that they wouldn't sign off because it was related. The last one was an iOS only kitchen timer application.

It was at that point I was was convinced that emailing legal to ask permission was a hack to get you to disclose early what you were working on so that when they sued you they already had some of the initial leg work done :-(.

I consulted with an attorney on this and they advised me that because I was working in California the burden of proof that it was related to Google's business was on Google. But that in his experience they were not above pushing the edge of the definition. The bigger point though was that people don't work at companies that are suing them and generally don't work at any company if they have a reputation (real or imagined) of doing work on their own time that is "against" their employers interest.

The summary of his advice was never, under any circumstances, work on any project you don't want to give Google ownership of while you are employed there. And when you have an idea that you want to develop, quit so that those parts of your employment agreement are nullified.

They can still come after you if they think you are using "proprietary or confidential" information in your new effort but that is less common and it makes them look like the bad guys not you.
Meh, I don't think it's time to look for a MBPr replacement yet. The 2015 model is still pretty decent.
Exactly this. I wouldn't code legal software for any amount of money.
Pen & Paper will always be more trustworthy, transparent, and safe than any blockchain-bs.

Part of the reason is that to compromise a paper ballot you need thousands of corrupt volunteers (and if you can find them, you have much bigger problems anyway).

The other part of the argument is that the security isn't enough for a voting system. You need /obvious/ security, and a mathematical proof just isn't obvious enough.

Also: ethereum. And your system probably suffers from allowing people to prove who they voted for.
I'm not extremely experienced, but it's hard not to agree here. I work with neural networks primarily, but I've had to start learning working with JS for interactive visualization. In short, compared to neural networks, it's a giant nightmare.
Eve's player-based economy is really badass, to the point that they have an economist on staff to generate reports like these.

I just read somewhere that their economist left in 2014.
funny, when I go to the grocery store, their oranges are way more expensive than the apples I bought a decade ago.
Jeff Hawkins' "On Intelligence" is a good attempt to answer this. In shorthe it proposes that thinking "is" prediction, and that prediction is the primary function of the neocortex. It's a good dense (not too fluffy popsci) book.

Eric Baum's "What is Thought?" Asks the same question, and I recall really enjoying it, but I don't think makes asense strong of an answer.
I wouldn't say that programming is primarily creative, at least not as an industry activity. Development overall can be creative, but the code itself is to a large extent utilitarian. I don't think the difference, as stated by the poster, is creativity, but workmanship. In that sense programming is more like a craft.
Depends on the state, but many assume you are competent to negotiate these issues before accepting employment.
You say "unfunded liability" like it's a bad thing, but it's perfectly normal for the government to promise to do things based on future tax revenue.

The choice here is (1) tax people ahead of time, invest in financial markets for X years, then pay it out, (2) wait until the money is needed and tax it then, (3) spend first, tax later (deficit spending).

In case (1) you'd have no government debt (no U.S. Treasury market) and the government owning a large part of the private sector. In (2) you'd have neither a treasury market nor assets. (This is sort of like how non-profits work.) For (3) you have what we have today, which is a huge number of treasuries available, which everyone depends on as a safe investment.

It's not clear that having $13.6 trillion in treasuries available for investors (including foreign governments) to own is actually a problem. Lots of investors like having a safe investment. There's sure to be some level that's too high, but it's unclear what it is.

> actual savings accounts

This is another way of increasing government intervention in the financial system via owning financial assets. (Presumably there would be rules about which investments are allowed and when they can be withdrawn, so the government would still have a lot of control over this money.)

> not inherent in the concept of a pension system

The difference is that individuals and private pension funds need assets because they don't have a guaranteed source of income and can actually run out of money. The main risk for the U.S. government is Congress deciding to start a financial crisis. But that's politics, not being unable to raise the money.

> legally impossible

It happens all the time. Look up open market operations. The Federal Reserve sent almost $100 billion to the U.S. Treasury last year. [1]

(That's just an aside. Compared to $3200 billion total revenue, it's not that much, and I agree that it would not scale to paying off government debt, or even paying the interest. Still, nothing to sneeze at.)

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/other/201601...
I so happy to know there are other people that experience this. When I try to explain to people that I can hear a CRT TV with with no sound/muted just because it's on they think I'm crazy.
> If you get one and want it to stop, either click the CAN-SPAM opt out or briskly respond accordingly

I think a major point of annoyance is that these emails often do not have opt-out links, to preserve the illusion that they are personal emails.
Giving credits for cost-saving isn't the problem. Companies do that with travel expenses. What you're describing is really the same as giving employees an annual discretionary travel budget.

Here's the problem: It sounds like Google didn't implement financial controls. The employees committed fraudulent transactions by booking travel from outlying years and get credits for use in the current year. That shouldn't have been allowed.

This was unclear in the original post and the commenter graciously clarified.
Anchoring the in-game currency is one of the main strategies for preventing in-game currency inflation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sumZLwFXJqE

Instead of paying player characters to grind, and therefore have players consume game content, why aren't we paying players to create game content?
I also stand on the kernel maintainer's side.

Kernel is not your AMD's kitchen-sink:) They are always fighting for any holes. The maintainers become the maintainers because the community think they has the qualified capabilities. The best way is to argue in technical side: for example, why you should have such complexities, how to control the complexities or something like. No technical response makes non-sense and low down your reputation in the community.
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