skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you made progress in trying to understand your customers and their problems?

You mentioned that 1 or more customers in the pilot are paid-customers. If someone is paying you, either they are forking out the money in the hope that you're going to solve a problem for them or they are forking over the money for other reasons (ex. as a favor to you or due to past relationship.)

Do you understand why the paid pilot customers were willing to pay you?
One thing I never quite understood was - are today's rock / pop music in any way related to the development of classical music or branched off from it? It seems like classical music keeps developing into the post modern era and is still being experimented and toyed with but without many new instruments added, while the other type of music can be lumped into "non-classical" and has their own separate branches of development. It's surprising to me that some form of music similar to art rock or pop was not developed in the 1400s, was it because the technologies to create some of the instruments weren't available?
> The languages spoken by today's ... are not systematically and fundamentally different ...

That is a meaningless statement, when there is no consensus on the fundamentals of language, and more so because the Languages of the world differ variously.

I'm not sure what you think how complexity of language is measured. Certainly, there are terms and expressions that had to be invented along with the concepts that they describe, which hunter gatherers don't know, and that's not limited to technology. Emotional content would be much more important on a human scale. I think the question would have to be, whether everyone was able to speak. Which term would the analogous to "literate"?
"Crime in the pursuit of drug addiction exists, meth- and cocaine-induced paranoia exists. There is a public health problem mixed in there."

Does that outweigh the whirlpool of violence that the War on Drugs has stirred up by its very existence? All the money funneled in to organized crime by the War on Drugs, enabling and incentivizing them to kill their rivals and corrupt the judicial and political system? All the people killed by police during drug raids? The decades of life wasted in prison by hundreds of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders where they are tortured, raped, killed, or groomed in to far more serious criminals? All the families broken up, devastating them emotionally and financially? All the children left to be raised by just one of the parents or made parentless when their parents are imprisoned or killed?

Crimes committed due to drug addiction are often committed in order to get money for the next fix. It's the illegality of drugs that keeps the prices so incredibly high that they're unaffordable to poor people. That need not be the case if they are made legal.

Cocaine paranoia is a medical issue, and it and other health issues related to drug use should be treated medically, not by throwing people in jail -- which doesn't work anyway. Drug use is rife in prison.

The War on Drugs is an abject failure that makes the failure of Prohibition pale in comparison.
Not everywhere. In Seattle, for instance, voting rights are restored after serving time and any probationary period.
Not Yogi Berra, nor any of the other celebrities quotes end up sticking to, but one Benjamin Brewster:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/04/14/theory/
Is a disembodied but conscious human brain a pig?
If so, suppose it is in pain? It certainly stands to reason that a brain without a body would be very confused. At the very least, fear would be a logical reaction.

None of this is certain, but I think little of this is very controversial.
I understand the benefits of a single numeric type, but a type that doesn't support full 64 bits is just painful. It makes documentation smaller and benchmarks look good but often becomes a problem in real usages.
The podcast Meet The Composer is also excellent.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/528124256/meet-the-composer
Posits are a hardware-friendly implementation of unums, a sort of halfway house on the road to Gusafson's full vision of unums. Posits have a fixed size and are meant to be a drop-in replacement for IEEE floats. They can and are being implemented in hardware.

Unums are more ambitious. They would have variable lengths, so implementing them would require more changes than just changing the way a fixed-length set of bits is interpreted.
That's because what you eat has nothing to do with the shape of your eyeball, and there's no scientific basis for bringing this up in the context of myopia
In addition, the whole "malls are failing" rhetoric is a bit distracting.

"Developer owned" malls are mostly failing.

Companies like WalMart, Target, CostCo, etc. discovered the same thing that McDonald's did--own the real estate under the building for maximum economic leverage. That will never happen in a downtown, so the big companies are simply not going to go there unless the economics really work out.
You can try watching the conductor, it's a kind of dance and may help you access what's going on and where the music is coming from.

These are fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0otfQGoU13U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP4kXJ92Qh4

And of course the great Bernstein:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjz2TvC2TT4
I enjoyed his previous videos where he customized a large part of his iPhone haha. It's insane how many parts you can buy in Shenzhen.
IBM couldn't run Australia's census despite a sizeable budget, and they certainly screwed up Canada's payroll project.

They don't seem to be able to manage any large project, even with an 'A-Team'.
It's strange to see this repeatedly presented as some recent Amazon or Bezos thing. It's been floating about since at least the 90s, often attributed to Intel/Grove.
The point is we don’t know what sort of horribly torturous experience it might be to be a conscious mind disconnected from all sensory input.
Tunngle is shutting down tomorrow due the new GDPR
How dangerous is it to breathe in particulate matter from peridotite? There's another approach to making sequestration within these rocks economical - we could use underground explosives to simultaneously disperse peridotite particles into the air and uncover formations that haven't been exposed to CO2 yet. This would drastically increase the surface area and hence absorptive power of the rocks.

Even if this could be done in a manner that keeps the air safe to continue breathing, the other problem from doing too much of this is that it could increase the Earth's albedo and have a global cooling effect (akin to when volcanic eruptions on earth have caused famines, skipped summers/growing seasons). But in some ways, that may make this the perfect worst-case-scenario solution to runaway global warming. We could periodically use "clean" nuclear detonations to put enough particulates in the air to reduce the global temperature and sequester carbon. Once the particulates settle, if there is still too much CO2, we could do another round of detonations, etc.
Which is why we need nuclear power.
Fortunately computing is not just MS. Actually, it is thanks to global efforts of the FLOSS community (or, several communities, to be more precise) that MS is in a weaker position and shows some flexibility in different areas.
Ex Amazon engineer here. The disagree and commit principle is a double edged sword.

The good: it's taken relatively seriously, it's not just some empty PR line. It allows you to prove to managers and colleagues that you know what you are doing instead of following the heard. It encourages people to prove their ideas with prototypes instead of talk and more talk. It discourage "design by committee" and blame shifting. It's refreshing to be able to disagree openly and challenge popular views.

The bad: It takes a lot of self confidence. Some people might feel insecure due to impostor syndrome, upbringing or belonging to minorities and this creates a disadvantage. Also, it's really exhausting in the long term.

Neutral: if you disagree, commit and fail it becomes a very public failure. On the bright side it teaches people not to disagree too lightheartedly.
This is true. The "mind" could very well exist outside of any organ system.
I assume you’re not talking about a really high end position. Even there, your network, accomplishments, and reputation will carry you much further than your resume.

My suggestion as a hiring manager is not to treat your resume like a fine jewel to be polished once and put on display for all to see. Instead, find out what the job requirements are and tailor your resume heavily to show that you are the person they’re looking for.

Know your audience. If your resume will have to get through a keyword screen, first improve your networking to get a recommendation from the inside. These always carry greater weight than a resume off the street. Then tailor your resume to pass the keyword filter. If they want Android, gradle, Java, and Maven, then make sure those keywords and variants (e.g., gradlew and mvn) are present.

Quantify! People can claim vague familiarity with lots of technologies, being results-oriented, and having “contributed to growth.” Big deal. Almost anyone can say that. Tell me the size of the code base, your commit rate, the size of the team, counts of passing tests by type, which deals you closed, proposals you wrote, and so on. Be specific because it looks less like weasel-worded BS and differentiates you from the crowd.
Spintronics.

It's possible to build compact neuromorphic devices using spintronics... Denser and more energy efficient.
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I'm assuming the more general case where they are not stupid enough to use someone else's SSN, and thus guaranteeing you'll get found out.
In post-FISA world where a campaign of a presidential candidate was wiretapped under false pretenses, this view of the world is criminally naive.
I do long for small local retail stores with good prices

Not going to happen. Typical markup at a small retail store: 50-100%. Markup at Costco: 15%.
Heathen!

What don't you like about emojis?
Finishing up a FreeBSD experiment
I don’t think that bad is bad at all.
> `results = [b for b in input_data...`

Did you mean `[b for a in...`?
Slightly OT, but I get annoyed when an idea is presented as "THE theory of ..." or "THE mathematics of ...", as opposed to "A theory/mathematics of ..."

As though that particularly bit of theoretical work is uniquely appropriate for the phenomenon it's meant to describe.

Am I alone in this?
Wren does support 64 bit floats. For 64 bit ints, I find it's most awkward for interop with other languages, such as when using protobufs. If you control both ends, you can avoid this.
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Thanks for the update. I know that this probably isn't the right place, but I'll go ahead and ask since you seem to be in the know. What languages are implemented for this spectrum? I know Assembly and Basic, but is there a C compiler? I think I saw Forth. I know the chip is really simple, so Assembly is probably 50x easier than x86, but I'd still like to use something higher level that isn't BASIC. I think Forth would work, but someone would have to really explain how it works from the ground up in a tutorial or blog post for me to use it. I think a compiler course would be really neat on the spectrum.
Thank you for this! Fascinating.

I’m curious ... 74000 years ago ... if we took a time machine and snatched a human child from that time and raised it today, would it be indistinguishable from a modern human? (Could I teach it - and it understand - functional programming?)
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I wonder if future archeologists will think "like" and "follow" and "subscribe" are some kind of (useless) currency.

21st century Tulip Mania.
Just curious are b-schools in the states still teaching with this ideology?

Here in South Africa this view is intially discussed but soon after the negative consequences of this view. Long term sustainability is a big focus area, specifically around the SDG.

Have posted another more detailed comment. Below
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No it can't.
A sophisticated approach to block compression would be to build a dictionary using something like zstandard's "training mode" and a random sample of data blocks, store it (versioned) in FDB as well and reference the dictionary version from compressed blocks. That would get better compression with the relatively small blocks.
What exactly does spending time with humans have to do with consciousness? Asking for a friend
Criticize actions, not the people making them.
Most accredited MBA programs do too. This quote about 23 year olds is attacking a straw man.
> you are wasting and in fact atrophying our ability to think on your feet

Most colleagues in Amazon agree that the company encourages quick thinking versus deep/long-term way too much.
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Sunglasses are something else to consider. There is zero scientific evidence sunglasses protect your vision in any way. (There is suspicion UV exposure can lead to some eye diseases, but it's not a proven link, nor are the mechanisms understood). If increased exposure to sunlight is correlated with better vision, we better revisit our completely non-scientific sunglasses dogma.
Why is it odd? Those are very different kinds of "torture". This is like saying that it's odd that people are against waterboarding, but are fine with keeping people locked in prisons, even when done for purely retributive reasons.

Vegans have this bizarre tendency of reducing human ethics to a bunch of incorrect generalizations (i.e. a dog is sort of like a cow, therefore it's "odd" that people eat cows but consider it wrong to eat dogs), and are then baffled that the world doesn't follow their artificial ethical formalism.
"The Queen's Highway" is an archaic a sounding but still valid way of referring to public roads ( and footpaths ) in the UK.

To be banned from driving on the highway is to be banished to private grounds.
The real risk is that whatever the key-holder thinks is air-gapped storage isn't and the whole lot is secretly lost to crackers, state sponsored or not... that's a lot harder to do with 1000 tons of paper.

The point is that even a dedicated party trying to keep the keys safe probably can't do it (for any length of time) on digital media.
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Reminds me somehow Walmart failed in Germany.
Most GMO products are altered to be resistant to powerful weedkillers, meaning farmers use loads more, which leaches off into rivers and destroys ecosystems. Using more of this sort of GMO is a terrible idea.
This is how apocalypse movies start.
Finding a good resume writing service is like finding a needle in a haystack - blind. You have to know how to write a good resume to tell a good service from a bad one. Don't do it.
Crime in the pursuit of cars, houses, and shoes also exists.
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> so that I'm in the right ballpark on consistency

You can get lack of consistency with an accurate scale, just always experiment, e.g. vary a weight. That way you know what you did also get _repeatability_ if you like the result.

> entirely (salt, baking soda, cinnamon, vanilla ...)

Sourdough bread famously has only 4 ingredients: flour, water, salt, yeast (starter). Though that's not the whole story, there is also seeds, and more than one kind of flour sometimes.

> pour what looks like an appropriate amount in my hand before dumping it in the mix. Fewer dishes to wash that way :-)

Measuring by weight is exactly the same, the mixing bowl is on the scale. pour in until the right weight is reached.
does "Driver assumed not to be in control of vehicle" count as an emergency?

(I'd agree with the general point though that a system that can't handle driving alone is also going to have difficulties to stop safely, which in many cases is probably the harder problem)
Seattle police have been fairly tolerant about marijuana over the years. In 2013 at Hempfest, an annual festival celebrating hemp (and its potent cousin), the police set up a booth handing out lunch box sized bags of Doritos with a sticker warning people not to smoke and drive, but otherwise enjoy the munchies. I-502 was the initiative that legalized pot stores and personal use.

http://cannabisdestiny.com/seattle-hempfest-doritos-priced-a...
Hey – I know you're being vague since it's a public forum, however my email is in my profile if you want someone to talk to.
Yeah, democracy may have a limited best case scenario compared to other forms of decision making, but in many senses it has one of the best worst case scenarios. More centralized power may be able to get more done, but historically we've seen it often results in decision making that is either just-plain-bad (when leadership is clueless) or which only benefits those in power, to the detriment of everyone else (when leadership is malevolent). Whereas democracy is slower and less efficient, but does ensure that most people are in support of the decisions being made
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World#Af...:

”After the game Kasparov shocked many people on the MSN forum, which was kept open after multiple requests, by announcing he had been reading the World Team strategy board during the game.”

⇒ one could argue this was “the World, including Kasparov versus the World, excluding Kasparov”
>Luckily I had enough time left in undergrad after this lecture to switch to studying computer science at the College of Engineering

Uh, so you did a double major with Business Administration in Haas and EECS in the CoE? I'm going to call BS here.
This is great and reminds me of an issue we ran into developing the numerical engine in circuit simulation software; user-specified values spanning many orders of magnitude mean you're likely to run into issues like this. In our case the answer was to go to 128-bit floating point operations inside our sparse matrix solvers, which we published here: https://www.edn.com/design/analog/4418707/1/Extended-precisi...
A Graal backend for AArch64 is currently under development. See for example these PRs at https://github.com/oracle/graal/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3A....
Twitter is more like a mouse clicking game with very little interaction per mouseclick.

They still haven't implemented threading and free third party native clients.
It isn't beyond our control if we actually baked in the cost of co2 emissions into the cost of the goods and services we use. That said, these things end up being very hard to calculate.
I'm not sure what you're arguing because we're not discussing probabilities or socially acceptable behavior. We're talking about cause and effect, of self control over actions and feelings. The standard is that you should have personal responsibility and control your emotions, the highest standard there is.

Yes, there are obviously certain patterns of behavior and you shouldn't punch people, however it is completely within their control what they feel and do about it. They can choose to hit back, or ignore you. Just because everyone reacts with anger to something does not mean you must. It only means that it's a common reaction, nothing more, and has nothing to do with control over that action itself. They choose to do something, you can choose differently, even if you're 1 in a million. What about that is confusing?

Either you believe you have the will to control your emotions and actions or you don't. And if think you don't and it's really that simple to affect your emotions without any mental control, then you must also accept that you can impart that same effect by just doing different actions and making yourself feel differently.
Well, I'm sure in a limited case it wouldn't be that dangerous. But yeah, regarding the nuclear detonations, that's why I think it would have to be a last resort. Like, last resort as in a situation where humanity is in danger of extinction or in making Earth mostly uninhabitable.
Whenever I use floating point for anything serious, I always feel tempted to use modules like decimal or bigfloat from the start, just to eliminate potential problems that can (and eventually will) crop up.
I don't think democracy is about increasing intelligence so much as resilience and escaping from failure modes. It provides a way to get rid of bad leadership, and it makes certain that huge issues are hard to ignore. In a pure autocracy a bad autocrat is fatal and there is no way to do anything about it but via extralegal means.
Exhausterbated

Is the perfect word for how a man or a woman feels after browsing Facebook/Twitter/Reddit!
> underdocumented 1960 noSQL database

Depends on what you mean by 'undocumented'.

The specsheets for the Fortran part of the stack at CommBank was 4000+ pages last I saw it. The COBOL side was 9000+.

Then there were a couple million test cases for both, and a running system with no real users that got tested before production.
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> One of the most interesting discussions around causes for myopia is centered on nutrition

Did you read the article? It asserts that the change in percentage of people who need glasses is startlingly fast. Much too fast to be explained by nutrition changes. It is time spent outdoors.
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But you are already distributing your comments for $0! How can selling them for any amount be harmful to your future goal of selling them, compared to that? And the same applies to MS, who distributes the CD images for free on their site.

PS: You are granted copyright over your comments, as per the Berne convention.
I think it makes more sense to put the cost on the emissions themselves (i.e. their production), not on the end-products. In a perfect world these two approaches would be equivalent, but since there are relatively few emission sources compared to end products, I think it would be easier to enforce.

The problem with mixing carbon taxes with global trade in general is that if some countries don't participate in carbon taxation, then carbon-intensive production will just shift to those countries. Game-theoretically, it's a relatively unstable equilibrium because if all countries are participating, then a country that suddenly refuses carbon taxation could stand to benefit enormously.
> For starter feeding, though, I'm with the GP post: measuring all the time is a PIA, and totally unnecessary.

If you use the same flour every time, and are aiming for the same consistency, then you will want roughly the same amount by weight of it each time. I get that you don't need to be that precise for the starter, but I don't find the weighing process at all hard.
I'm alright with emoji as ideograms. I'm not okay with it in communication though.
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Sure, but that clearly isn’t what’s actually happening here. Let’s not compare a circle jerk with a thought experiment.
I've seen family members commit slow-motion suicide with food -- overeating until they're morbidly obese, and suffering all sorts of horrible health issues as a result, up to and including death.

Yet there isn't the same moral stigma attached to overeating as there is to drug or alcohol addiction, and no one is suggesting throwing obese people in jail or raising the price of food so high that food addicts have to commit crimes in order to feed their addiction.

Obesity and alcoholism are seen as health issues, and treated accordingly. The same should be the case with drug addiction.
Einstellung effect
I saw some research into that back in ~2004 (?), where researchers put rat neurons in a petri dish that had an electrode array inside. Had great success, the neurons were able to drive a little rc car around and fly a jet simulator.

I've seen nothing about it since then. I like to imagine the scientists are working on Terminators for DARPA.

Edit: guess I should've read the link in the other reply. :)