skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where I switched off...

> The government certainly has no place in this success story; if anything, government is the adversary, looking to stifle innovation at every turn with its dimwitted regulations and parasitical taxation.

The author would do well to study recent history from reputable sources. This smells of opinions formed via mainstream media or, more likely, their filter bubble of US Libertarian Facebook & Twitter posts.

"Capitalists" had little interest investing in a number of technologies we take for granted today. They wouldn't exist without government subsidizing them, and giving it away to industry. They've incorrectly labeled government the problem when it would be more accurate to blame partisan politicking.

US Libertarians can take a long walk off a short pier. Government is evil! Taxation is theft!

Well, give the general public all your tax subsidized wealth (especially if you're a Silicon Valley billionaire) back then. Oh, but that would be immoral too. Nice catch-22

And the whole US Libertarian notion, peddled by Thiel in numerous articles, that we all ought to sit back while the wealthy use their material wealth to dictate what we all work on is barbaric.

Musk & Thiel are hardly special humans. Neither have added truly novel information to human history. Not in the same way say Einstein or Darwin did. Leveraging great wealth, wealth that is backed by the majority "believing" in the system your wealth is created from, while peddling notions that the masses are just in the way (this is more Thiel than Musk) is self-aggrandizing.

If either of them drop dead tomorrow, nothing would change for the bulk of humanity. That's how important rich capitalists are. It's your capital people are interested in. Not you. It's like Marx said; We're at a point where we only view people in terms of their economic value. No one cares about Gates or Buffet. We only pay attention because of their wealth.
Nothing exists in total vacuum. Check out early 20th century Russian cosmism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism

>The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind—but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
I would be far more inclined to heed this advice if Cuban have any indication of understanding ML as anything more than a magic black box; fairy dust to be sprinkled into every pitch deck to solve any objection or solve difficult problems. The bandwagon is passing through folks, jump on board with Mark or you will have fewer buzzwords with which to craft your deck...
Span shouldn't be blocs! You are dreaming wrong! :)
I think you're talking past me in order to avoid an argument :)

"Higher consciousness" does not refer to one of your smarter friends or coworkers. Unless you're a Scientologist, I presume you don't view other humans as deities/gods of any kind.

> The idea that humans are the very apex and there is no further progress / evolution to be had is very much the required position of a theist

Nonsense. There is no conflict with evolution in a deliberately created world. It's no different from any other complex mechanism. Folks who say otherwise, religious or not, are manufacturing conflict.

Anyway, I'm not sure why you brought evolution into this. It has nothing to do with any of my arguments. By "apex" I'm referring to humanity's place as the highest most powerful consciousness. Again, a hierarchy in the sense that does not admit your smarter friends to a higher level than you.

> the history of this religion (and of course it's not unique in this regard) being plagued by logical incongruities & inconsistencies, ...

Yes, quite, completely agree, and the sordid history of religion has nothing to do with my nagging suspicion that you and I are not the highest representative type of consciousness in the universe.

I mean, damn man, look at yourself. Your passions, your force of will, your sense of humor. The sense of self, whatever it is, that makes you think there's a "you", which separates you from the apes that just look like us, and which compels you to discuss philosophy on Hacker News. You think that shit is accidental? Your brain and body, which provide the seat for consciousness and the machinery to navigate your environment -- those things don't demand an explanation beyond, "it just happened"? The existence of a mechanism that allows those things to have evolved from a primordial soup of small organic molecules... doesn't that make you the least bit suspicious that there is a higher intelligent creative force at work?

Or are you able to just say, "hey, it's just the multiverse, it was bound to happen"? Serious question. I'm not just being snarky.
Measuring time without a clock
Fixed, thanks again
> there is no feasible way to interpret TextMate grammars in the browser even today

That doesn't sound right... but then again I don't know enough about TextMate grammars to argue.
An interesting article. The most interesting point to me was the effect of global capital injections. I had assumed that the main reason why SV VC hasn't slowed down was because rates were still low, and the Great Capital Clog is still in place (see below). Because Trump appears to be trying to fix the economic problems of the heartland through trade and immigration policies, economists and the Fed don't expect to see the kind of growth that would lead to a need to raise rates, so the existing conditions remain in place.

By the "Great Capital Clog", I mean the systemic effects that cause the money injected into the economy by Fed policies to be allocated primarily to geographic regions with a strong financial industry. This has led to a divergence of macroeconomic conditions with easy-money inflation in some areas and deflationary effects in others. Normal macroeconomic theory says this clog should not exist. I'd love to find a good strategy for arbitraging the difference, because there is a lot of money to be made there.
I am a musician, and these may be of service as well:

https://archive.org/details/Actually

https://archive.org/details/myfreedownloads.info

Thanks in advance for listening!
Thank you. People like to hate on Kodi but really it's the add-ons. People love open software, but they hate on the devs of kodi even though they kick and scream about these add ons (and even added a toggle to not allow add ons by default.) My web browser can be used for piracy, but you don't see people hating Mozilla. It's silly.
> He's not making a humble, leftish point about our moral failures in foreign policy!

Morality doesn't exist along the left-right spectrum. Also, this is simply your perception.

> But unlike Russia, we are not at a point where our leaders simply "disappear" domestic political opponents and journalists.

No, they magically commit suicide, get killed in a car crash, or get murdered in a botched robbery.
Unfortunately, it tends to be _read_ as a how-to book rather than as a catalog of observations. I have actually heard from a professional software engineer, "We can't write the code this way because it's not using any known design pattern," said with a straight face. This is partially the mentality that gives us things like the classic AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean[1] class.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4549544
I think it's worth remembering/noting that Leary was heavily manipulated by the intelligence agencies, not just in their search for knowledge of mind control ala MKULTRA/ARTICHOKE/BLUEBIRD, but also as a general informant and counter-culture insider and influencer. For example, many of his space ideas were pushed through L-5 Society, but L-5 society was on the brink of collapse when rescued by huge donations from military intelligence people.

I don't necessarily think all the things they were aiming for were bad, even though I have major issues with the type of domestic experimentation they were (and probably still are) performing (Sirhan Sirhan anyone?), but in the case of the space focus, they were very much wanting to be on the edge of science for the betterment of humanity with a side effect of keeping American genuis at the head of the game for national pride reasons.

Just goes to show you that the motivations inside the dark recesses of the three letters can sometimes be at odds morally, but let's not paint people manipulated by that system with too white a brush, or forget their connections to the darkside.
See: Fred Turner (2006), From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3773600...
Hmm I'd quite like to try drugs and am also quite discontent with life.

To be frank, I think most people are discontent. It's the human condition. I see this on a personal level, but there seem to be some polls to back it up [0]. It seems like being discontent could have evolutionary benefit (always reaching for more rather than stagnating).

[0] http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3354524
wow, this book has the soaring rating on Amazon. I added to my "to read" list, 10x for suggestion
LE, I think, is optimistic and dismisses the issue of psychological buildup. It's good to have new people come along questioning the status quo and current belief systems. LE ignores to some great extent the role psychological blank slates provide to the progress of a population.

In other words we'll miss out on the intergenerational dynamics and tensions which lead to change and renewal. Old people seldom deconstruct and then rebuild their psychological profile.
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Funny, watched that video right after I posted the question.

I think the problem can be broken down into specific steps fairly easily.

Executing those steps is not easy though - it is rocket science after all.

YC doesn't seem to shy away from ideas that are really out there. I'm wondering if the lack of rocket "startups" is due to something from YC's end or if it's a matter of numbers.

That is, the number of people with skills to build a rocket ship startup is so small that there isn't a critical mass of founders starting these companies. As a result, people are not seeing enough of them to be accepted into YC.
This sounds like you're counting the 2h toward the length of the day?

I thought one generally doesn't include lunch in the day length. So an 8 hour 'day' with an hour lunch is 8-5, 8 hours working + 1 hour off-time.

When they say "6 hours" in this article, they're excluding lunch.
Piper is a reimplementation of Perforce, because they had an existing gigantic source repository in Perforce and needed something compatible. There was an earlier project to migrate to SVN but that failed.

I believe Git was never in contention due to the obvious scalability problems, but GVFS does seem like it might potentially be usable at Google.
191 ways to echo hello world on the command line
I didn't look at the details, but keep in mind that AF447 lost the airspeed measurement. I'd guess the pilot is probably looking at the instruments, with wrong speed values, instead of the lever that never moves anyway.
Join Google - it allows part time work (50%/60%/70%/80%/90%) and people do use it creatively to maximize their convenience. At or above 50%, you also get health insurance. Perks stay the same.
If he said "Sorry" the scumbags would say "See, he said 'Sorry', obviously he's guilty", if he does not say "Sorry", the remaining scumbags say "He did not even say 'Sorry', he needs to take responsibility"!

If you think people can't see through such antics as you're playing, you are really deluded & grossly underestimate the general intelligence of humans!
Why not do a binary search study and perform another with 7 hours instead! There must be some form of sweet spot!
> Workers aren't eager to fight for their rights at all right now, most unions in Sweden struggle just to maintain membership numbers.

Well, sounds like Swedish unions need to show what they're for and get more forward-thinking.
I see, if we're talking about apps somehow accumulating thousands of finalizer references, something seems very wrong, as we're talking about 10's of ms of work. I'm not sure how many references we typically hit in our apps, but I'm pushing the fresco team to A/B test with removing finalizers to actually see what impact we see in our apps: it'd be a good data point to have internally and externally about using finalizers. That being said, we're hoping to update the OSS RN version of fbjni which uses a PhantomReference queue, and Fresco has also been considering a PhantomReference queue. I'll try to keep you updated on the fresco task.
This is where a grammar enthusiast might extol the virtues of the em dash.

> ...while Venus is 460C (860F)--hotter than a reflow oven, to be sure.
To have more than one sample for every season?
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Yep. Not so much the act of coding but weird abstract concepts around code. To the point where once when I was working with Chrome and Firefox extensions and trying to get notifications to work just right, I woke up from deep sleep, and in a daze started shaking my wife saying that the notification were attacking us because I had made an error in a loop (she related this to me the next morning. I couldn't remember it :D ).
Ah, yep...that explains it then.
Perhaps I was being unclear- I don't doubt that they sold a ton of them. The length of time since the previous update alone would ensure pent-up demand.

What I don't think they did is sell many to developers or programmers. Although small in number compared to the overall size of the market, Apple's losses there are important. Mindshare matters when you're talking about the people you expect to build the software for the platform you sell.
> LE is a screwball project for people who secretly are afraid of a judeo-christian afterlife

Not meaning to be contentious but I don't recollect a judeo-christian afterlife being proven.
There is no practical way to do this. How can you assume any foreigner to have a facebook/twitter account? If they say they don't have any, how can you prove they are lying?

The only way is probably to check your phone or laptop, then there is easy way to bypass this.
It's not about being too low-level for developers, it's about it being too low-level for implementation. Vulkan is lower level than DX12 or Metal; you can't implement it on top of those platform APIs, like ANGLE runs OpenGL ES on top of a compatibility shim over DirectX or desktop OpenGL. A cross-platform graphics API in the browser needs to be high-enough level to abstract over all of Vulkan/DX12/Metal and provide a consistent interface so that developers don't have to know which one their application is running on.

Either that, or in addition to WebVulkan you need WebDX12 and WebMetal.
Why is it a problem? Are you getting enough rest/sleep? Do you have enough control over your day that you can rest when you need to? Are you effective in your work and personal life (controlling for OCD)?

If the answer to most of that is mostly yes, you're doing pretty well.
I wonder if you could also argue that it's against the TOS for the site? I highly doubt the officials would care, but I still wonder...
That's possibly how it will be presented, but I'd argue you're wrong.

The boxes are specifically marketed for copyright violation, sure. But Kodi is a general-purpose media player. It can manage your DVD tray and all that. Your home videos. Etc.

It's similar to bit-torrent in that it has plenty of legal uses (torrents are great for downloading linux distros).

In the example you're responding to, the computer could easily be marketed in the same way as these boxes, and then there would be little distinction beyond ease-of-use.
I wonder to what degree he means. Because if he means "really" learning it, this is akind to the "learn to program in a week" books. It takes much more than three years to learn well.
Each and every category, except the stock market which isn't a consumer good, that was mentioned is in fact measured quite carefully by US CPI measurements.

The poster just happened to cherry pick things that have increased faster than inflation: refined petroleum, coastal city housing, and health care.

As an aside, people's perception of health care increases are driven by factors somewhat decoupled from a reasonable measurement of actual cost increases:

- employers have steadily shifted a larger fraction of healthcare premiums onto employees

- older people's healthcare is dramatically more expensive than young people's (actuarially). The fact that everyone alive has aged 20 years means your perception of cost is dominated by the age curve, not the steady-age cost
Yes, only when I'm working on a project and spend significant time looking at code during the day.
in addition if you want a way to project new vectors into a reduced svd space:

l=2 # desired vector space dimension

U,d,Vt = linalg.svd(X,full_matrices=False)

P=(U*(1/d))[:,:l]

xnew = dot(x,P)
I didn't pay the bill but we arranged the lunch via FB MSN so easy to correlate I guess.

Haven't seen any alcohol related ads lately.
I don't think this really gets to the issue. The median one-bedroom apartment in SF has rent 5x the median for all rentals in Indianapolis. Paying $111,000 in the midwest beats $130,000 in the Valley because you'll come out ahead after housing and taxes.

So the problem is that two-fold: hard salary cutoffs translate poorly between locations, and $130k is enough to price out most parts of the country almost entirely.

Raising the salary cut-off to $130k would basically be urban protectionism: you could hire visa workers for well-paid but unexceptional tasks in NYC, SF, and Boston, but only for exceptional expertise everywhere else.
Any suggestions on where might be the best place to read more about this online?
This is precisely what we do on our cluster as well for the node-level daemons - kubelet and kube-proxy.

We use fleet to schedule the HA API server. You cannot use the Kubelet to schedule this, because you need an API server to schedule cluster-wide pods.

The only solution I can see is to have a config that launches a special 'master' node that runs the API server, but this is uncompelling to me. I'd rather have every single node be identical, and get the API server to pop up somewhere in the cluster using a master election process - which is precisely what fleet does.
It is not true that the map of freedom will be complete
with the erasure of the of the last invidious boarder
when it remains for us to chart the attractors of thunder
and delinate the arrhythmias of drought
to reveal the molecular dialects of forest and savana
as rich as a thousand human tongues
and to comprehend the deepest history of our passions
ancient beyond mythology's reach

So I declare that no corporation holds a monopoly on numbers
no patent can encompass zero and one
no nation has sovereignty over adenine and guanine
no empire rules the quantum waves

And there must be room for all at the celebration of
understanding
for there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold
imposed by force, resisted
or escaped

~~ Greg Egan, forward of the novel Distress
There is https://www.compose.com/rethinkdb
For some jobs, that might be the case. Other jobs... well, it doesn't matter if you work for 6 or 8 hours, you work just as hard. You don't get email breaks, just a couple 10-15 minute breaks (if you are lucky) plus a lunch, which can be as little as 30 minutes. Those two extra hours make a huge difference in energy levels. Cashier, nurse, CNA, janitorial work,factory workers and likely construction crews to a point. Teachers, in a way, have this as well, only theirs is counted in number of classes they teach and the amount of kids in the classroom. Teaching 6 periods of class is different from 7, for example.
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I have dreamed of code. There are times when it feels like I am patterning the dream space (each space has its own rules, plot, feel, etc).

When I was working with Kubernetes intensely, I was moving around abstract "lego blocks" representing concepts. The space was black, 3D, no gravity. (I remember someone coming into the space to visit and I told her I'm still working on it...)

There were times when I was trying to figure out something in the dream and a different mind-thread was hacking code that maps to the plot of the original mind-thread.

I have walked in dream spaces where I took a corner off the happy path and watched the world glitch for a moment and start procedurally generating.

There were dreams about startups, working in an office (I work remotely most of the time).

Lucidity and clarity varies. Sometimes it is very clear, the visuals and the coding concepts I am working with are sharp. Sometimes they are fuzzy. It is occasionally lucid (how aware I am that I am dreaming). That "semi-hypnotic" state seems like it is not high on the lucidity spectrum. That's pretty normal if you are coding in a semi-hypnotic state while coding during the day.

I usually meditate before falling asleep, try to offload things in my day's working memory. It's usually whatever I am binging on, whether it is coding, anime, or even martial arts or whatever. For example, there was a time when I binge watch My Little Ponies and saw the ponies cavorting in the phosphenes. I'm not surprise this happens with code.
It seems interesting to me, how often books about C++ are mentioned in there. 5 of 30 listed

I say that, because it seems like people like to talk bad about C++ as if it's terrible language (rather than just another tool in the toolbox).

I don't have an opinion either way. Just making an observation.
What about quality of life for "single" people? IN terms of activities etc. It is a huge factor for young people.
Level 3 is already ok. It means the car deals with anything that happens. It's level 2 that is the problem, and guess where most cars are now?
Most tech workers could easily work fewer hours for less money in second-year cities or take months-long sabbaticals but choose to do the opposite.

When given a choice between more money and more free time everyone around me chooses money and prestige.
Did you try this? If that's the case then would be a great post!
Isn't LE more about increasing longevity than increasing life expectancy? That is, we don't have people living to be 200 years old; people's maximum lifespan seems relatively unchanged from 100 years ago (or even several thousand years ago if you go by 120 year limit in the Bible)... we just have a higher percentage of people who reach old age.
Hey! When we (educated technologists) are talking about this, let's make sure to recognize that Kodi is just a media playing customized gnu/linux.

The problem is with piracy plugins.

Let's not besmirch Kodi, it's really a shining example of successful non-commercial open source.
Not too long ago, a key feature of being human was hunting large animals using wooden sticks. I'm pretty happy that we did away with that feature.

The main benefit of research into life extension is imho not the actual life extension, but the necessary health extension. Death is not the bad part, frailty, Alzheimer's and all the other atrocities of old age are.
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The article wastes too much time smugly dismissing Leary's views that it could have spent better summarizing them. It would have allowed for a more intellectually engaging attack.

Articles like this only play into the hand of those who would like to reaffirm Moldbug's view of journalism and academia. You're better off skipping the article and googling SMI2LE.
I think it depends on the trade. I'm in the process of leaving a IT job that forces you to take a unpaid "lunch" but expects you to be available to them during that time. Its a way to cheat and fill the schedule in some cases.
Using C++ objects in Delphi
Does live(ish) bittorrent streaming work?