skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent read, I still remember a lot of it. There is also the accompanying Quakecon presentation where John Carmack talks at length about all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A
Same here.

If it's something I'm particularly interested in, I look for a cache, snapshot or whatever.

Edit: Or just read HN comments.
Interestingly, the GP is making that exact claim: that being conservative in SV is the equivalent of being gay in Moscow.

> Are you suggesting that being conservative in the United States is somehow equivalent to being gay in Russia?

>> Yep. Assuming you live in SV, would you like to disprove me by putting a TRUMP 2020 sign on your lawn?[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944526
This got me thinking. It’s at least 250 million a year for the (assuming) 7500-10k homeless people on the streets of San Francisco.

Would it be possible to build a new city with rehab for 1000 people for $250 million.

And then there is Proposition C for an additional 300 million dollars. The money isn’t 100% spent on the homeless but also on ‘other expenses’ ...like with the non profits we donate to, it gets distributed to staff along the way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_San_Fran...

[..]The Coalition on Homelessness advocates for Proposition C on the November 2018 ballot.[83] Proposition C would collect up to $300 million per year to fund services for the city's homeless individuals through taxes on San Francisco's biggest businesses. In November 2018, Proposition C was approved by 61% of San Francisco's voters; however, this proposition has been put on hold while the state debates whether a simple-majority is enough to pass the proposition or whether a two-thirds supermajority should be required.[..]

I am interested in the creation of new cities and envisioning them.

“Would it be possible?” question: For 250-300 million, one could build a new green city with amenities and give them a universal basic income.
You might be interested in etckeeper [1].

[1] https://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/
Given the claim that with Google, you (the user) are the product, your statement that, "Sorry Google, I feel 'icky & gross' when I use you", would be more accurately expressed as, "Sorry Google, I feel 'icky & gross' when I let you use me."

EDITED: re-phrased for clarification.
I wish the article was more in line with the title - the title comes up a little bit, but the article is mostly about white-Indian interaction, and not about Indian civilizations. Which makes sense, because the book this is excerpted from is subtitled "Native America from 1890 to present'.
eBay CEO Has a Stark Choice: Show Growth or Break Up Company
Aren't all civilizations far older and more complex than history can account for? We don't really know how the pyramids arrived, or a detailed history of England back very far -- who created Stonehenge?

It's interesting that the migration out of Africa and over to the Americas happened so much longer ago than previously thought, but it doesn't change what happened when the European settlers arrived. The author seems to be asserting that this gives the Native Americans more claim than they would otherwise have.

But I don't understand that logic; human history, known and unknown, is littered with people suffering under the hands of conquerors. The story is the same in Asia and Europe as it is in the Americas. The Natives themselves weren't always peaceful and conquered and claimed land from each other. Hopefully we can do better than this going forward, but the past is what it is, a harsh existence for victors and even more so for the vanquished.
Which player? I've followed SC2 for a while and never saw that.
> they work with the inbuilt drivers on every distro out of the box

No they don't work with any distro that uses linux-libre.
Back when I first started using Linux you could pipe random data to /dev/dsp and the speakers would emit various beeps. Used to be a pretty cool trick I think when ASLA came out it stopped working.
> The admin / oversight is hit or miss to the extreme.

Of course, there's no way they could formally audit every article. They're heavily reliant of some rando noticing something fishy in an obscure article and bringing it to their attention.
I think you're missing some of the point. Enthusiasts for this kind of thing are the same kind of people that inexplicably embed metal objects into their face just to feel different.
It's all about risk (and liability)
I highly recommend the book 1491, which goes pretty deeply into what we can infer about the pre-Columbian Americas.
New York City home equity is worth more than Alphabet's market cap
Two reasons why this is interesting:

1. 2+ million plays on spotify, and only 12K in royalties? That seems like a pittance.

2. Provides a good indication of popularity of various streaming services. Spotify has the clear edge, with only Pandora, and surprisingly Apple Music, able to shake a stick at them.

Ok, three reasons. Who the heck still uses Napster?
I'm not arguing with your point that Australia is a nanny state, but for clarification...

> We have lockout laws preventing us from entering drinking establishments after 1am

Currently for a large section of the Sydney CBD and inner suburbs encompassing Kings Cross new entrants to venues are blocked after 1:30am and last drinks are 3am. This does not apply to areas of the City of Sydney like Surry Hills or Newtown, which can remain open all night. I believe the trading hours for licensed premises have been recently relaxed by City of Sydney to areas including Glebe, however I'm not 100% on that.

Still, it's pretty sad as Sydney's nightlife, particularly in Kings Cross, was a big draw-card for younger visitors and residents alike.
Overfitting occurs when details are modeled that aren't justified by the data. i.e. not statistically significant.

Dropping nodes seems a roundabout way of addressing this, and you'd get a similar effect by training less.
Pros: The people born this way will lead happier, more fulfilling and productive lives.

Cons: Companies or powerful governments influenced the design and meaning of "happier, more fulfilling and productive lives" such that their own agenda is fulfilled.

Maybe that fate would not affect everyone, but what temptation there would be to make a designer workforce. The perfect employee. The perfect citizen. The perfect subordinate.
Wikipedia itself is of course just an iteration on Everything2.

https://everything2.com/
Yes, they have to comply with NSLs. Difference though is the level of data they harvest on you. Google's business model requires they harvest as much as possible and in a way they ensure they can read it. Further, the bigger risk to most users is not NSL's, it's having some dodgy ad-corp buy your data and sell it to even dodgier companies.
I am working on a nifty little app that shows you the top posts on indiehackers.com in your menubar.
Okay, let's get this silly sci-fi trope out the way. Genetics doesn't work like that.

We don't have a clue how to edit DNA to make people smarter or taller or stronger. And there's no sign that we're going to get to that knowledge sometime this century.

Furthermore, what we do know about our genome and our proteome strongly suggests that lots of stuff are doing double-duty. The gene that causes sickle cell anemia also provides antimalarial resistance. That makes the argument for changing DNA one way or the other much more difficult to make.

And, furthermore, even applying CRISPR to human cells is still not exactly successful yet. Of the two CRISPR babies, one was mosaic (i.e., the edits didn't reach all the cells) and the other was heterozygous (i.e., didn't reach both copies of DNA), and neither actually contained the desired deletion. So all the ethics violations were in pursuit of a project that would have scored at best a C (just to underscore how much of a monster He was).
We already commercialize children with all toys, private school, video games.
5-10 years for this stuff to pass FDA approval? Better luck with your grandkids instead.
I worked with a woman whose father owned the company and she openly bragged to us she was dating a guy a Glassdoor and had him remove all our company's negative reviews.
> This is wrong. Low view articles cost essentially nothing to host. The whole of wikipedia can be stored for about $1 per month if all you care about is storage. Also rejected articles don't get deleted from the system they just get moved to the draft section which is hidden from search results.

That's wrong. Low view articles still cost volunteer time to maintain, otherwise many would become home to malicious edits. That's a kind of hosting cost.

Also, deleted articles on Wikipedia are removed such that only admins can see them. I don't think it's common to remove them to the drafts area unless they're under construction and have some hope of meeting standards.
The TypeScript Tax: A Cost vs. Benefit Analysis
The Lyapunov time scale defines the time for any variation of position or momentum to be amplified by a factor of e. The exponential growth applies equally to a measurement error and a quantum event affecting the object's momentum. Quantum events such as alpha decay (shooting out a helium nucleus with momentum of about 1e-21 Ns) start off small but after 50 Lyapunov times can get huge.
Brain is lot more complex. Trying to equate Brain to machine learning or neural network is not correct. The key ingredient of the brain is the reptile brain which is based on fight or flight and highly optimized for survival. Everything uses this part. In order to build similar, we have to build a neural network based on this survival instinct.
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I think you are looking for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zubmkHMRP3U
I think Wine and Samba played a pivotal role in Linux adoption to those who are in someway tied to Windows land.

Of all the memories with Wine, the best one is still how Red Alert 2 worked flawlessly.
That's a brilliant and stunning way to think of it. I met 3 of my great grandparents but only knew one well. But because people are more likely to have kids later now, my own kids knew none of their great grandparents - that generation wasn't alive. The same is almost certain for the next generation of my family.
Be careful though, as they are not type safe in the sense the compiler completely trusts the type guard is implemented correctly.

In other words, TypeScript has no problem with this:

function isNumber(a: any): a is number {
return typeof a === 'string';
}

Type guards are usually simple functions, but I've gotten them wrong before and only found out with a runtime exception.
Ah yes, I used Firefox' reader mode, but some news sites now don't even properly support that. I may have to remind myself not to go on those sites anymore as well.
That's easily fixed: freeze your sperms. A bit pricey, but not nearly as much as a baby, CRISPR or otherwise.
U.S. Will Ask Canada to Extradite Huawei Executive
For the same reason you buy fire insurance even though your home has never burned down.
Founder of Snort, Marty Roesch Is Leaving Cisco
Kind of a dumb question: have any operating systems been formally verified? Unless you are running an embedded application, verifying your software seems kind of pointless if you are still at the mercy of "unverified" system calls, memory manager, scheduler, etc etc.
Linux Mint was breached some time ago: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994
This isn't enough info to tell if you were being ripped off. Normally, companies pay more in expensive areas, but not enough to make up the difference.

If the pay was half, we might expect the cost of living to be a third. Was it? (that is: by moving you doubled your salary and tripled your costs)
I'm using Firefox 60 in this Debian VM, and that site is definitely serving WEBP, which I can't view (on anything).
Time passes for us, but not for the photon traveling at lightspeed.
NaNiwa in the 2011 GSL Blizzard Cup https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/NaNiwa%27s_Blizzard_Cup_Co...
I‘ve been through this several times. While writing my thesis I drank 20-25 cups of instant coffee per day. After that, my highest consumption was around 7-8 strong cups. I went cold turkey several times, it works (2 weeks with headaches and fatigue usually), usually for months until I slowly start drinking 1-2 cups again. Also tried:

* more complicated coffee preparation, i.e. ditching the automatic coffee maker for an Italian machine with long warming-up times and manual bean grinding. Doesn‘t really work, I just made stronger, larger cups

* coffee that doesn‘t taste good - without sugar, mediocre brands, capsule machine - works somewhat to reduce consumption but requires discipline

* no coffee machine at home or at work - works well, though takeaway coffee can be very large/strong (300+ mg caffeine)

* caffeine pills - worked because the habit/taste is not a factor, so dosage was under control

What I haven’t tried but might work:

* have fixed times for coffee (e.g. 3 times a day, 8:00 11:00 15:00), if you’re the type of person with a very structured day

* decaf every other cup or similar

Good luck!
Frankly the technology is not 5-10 years away. Decades, plural. I'd be surprised if we saw it used as a reproductive aid to correct severe hereditary genetic disorders in the next 5-10 years, and we won't see it used for optional modifications until we have twenty or thirty years of experience from the "better than the alternatives" modifications that the techniques aren't just creating massive amounts of cancer.
Salary.

Remember, Comcast also has software developers.
disguting anti science rhetoric. Amazing this is on HN
On one hand, I kinda agree with you.

On the other hand, I usually stop and inspect myself whenever my reasoning that something is bad is not because it hurts me, but because I can't accept to see others improve.

Good rule of thumb is that people should have the freedom to do anything as long as it doesn't violate other people's right. How does a rich family violate poor family's right by making their rich baby better?
I think this is the core difference motivating this change: do extensions necessarily act on behalf of users? If that were true, there'd be no such thing as extension malware.
You could be right, but I think you're being a bit pessimistic. We're nowhere near fine-tuning complex traits like intelligence and strength, but I could see it happening within all of our lifetimes.
I’m currently reading it. It’s mind blowing to see that there were peoples in Americas further than 13k years ago.

For those looking to read it, make sure to get the 400-some page version of this book. There is a similarly named book aimed at grade school kids.

https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colu...

https://www.amazon.com/Before-Columbus-Americas-Charles-Mann...
This guy helped invent the FPS genre and all the technology it took to make it, back in the MSDOS days - which is pretty incredible if you knew what he had to work with in terms of CPU and memory back in those days. Like Dave Cutler, never a guy to toot his own horn much either. Well done John, thank you for all your contributions to the tech and the craft.
> Chrome has a responsibility not just to the end user but also to the website.

Chrome is the user agent. It acts purely on behalf of the user. Browsers aren't trojans built to exploit my eyeballs. This "virtual theft" talk is as silly as claiming that spam filters should be illegal - your server sent me some markup, and I'm free to preprocess it in any way I want.

> Simply blanket dismissing ads as "tenuous position" is nonsense.

Not really. Advertising has always been about manipulating people into doing things they otherwise wouldn't do - if all ads were purely informative it'd hardly be a multibillion dollar industry.
They just opened proton to non steam software in the latest beta. And from what people have been posting it works with a lot of windows applications.
All it takes is one "clear cookies" action to undo all of this. :\
<It was possible to spend more >than $100k for a Symbolics >Lisp Machine with accelerated >color graphics and HDTV >in/out.

Quantel Harry was the competition.

Link below, is for the 1981 Quantel Paintbox, the existence of which is responsible for the direction of my juvenile mind.

I should love to one day get together with like minded folk and assemble a complete ca. '89 broadcast graphics suite. I'm in advertising (London, independent, founder) and I'm not convinced that I couldn't work out the financial arithmetic favourably. I am persuaded by artist friends of the merit, tempered I expect by the reality of the working interfaces, if they actually used a 80s Quantel - we take instantaneous responsiveness for granted.. Time and place required, but I'm serious enough to have scouted premises and allocated budget.

I digress. Sorry.

I only have read about Pharo in the last couple of weeks, but I am taken by the sophistication of the ambitions and delivery thereof. I say this here, rather thanon a Pharo list, because I am unsure of what skills and specialities are required, but I have a professional itch to scratch, which is estimating the work of supporting a new language to the fullest extent possible, in Visual Studio. If this could be accomplished in under half a man year for a senior developer, I really want to know. (result to be released to community, purpose of exercise purely personal curiosity about what consequent effect is possible)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantel_Paintbox
It's a problem if students can't pay for their student loans. If nearly '40%' of borrowers are expected to default on their student loans, then there will be alot of universities shutting down in the near future and there will be ripple effects in the economy[0].

[0]:https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/13/twenty-two-percent-of-studen...
That's a fun set of examples. I think lie up is used naturally sometimes, but I may have just been thinking about it hard enough to fool myself.

"She had obviously not slept, the events of the previous day being so disturbing. 'You were lying up all night,' I said the next morning."
Sperm frozen in a foreign cryobank since 2017
OOOH! Miss Crabapple! Bart is chewing gum, in class !
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That's why he apologized when he won.
A lot of Google Assistant and Google search answers are from Wikipedia entries. So Us$3.1 million is very little investment for the returns they are getting.
Is there a chance that Google's changes here might disrupt Brave's integration into Chromium? I mean, they might be using this WebRequest API to do their built-in blocking.
How to find a co-founder for your startup
I agree, and I'd add that VII is probably going to be a lot better. There are some pretty big benefits to the open drivers as well (which can be used for OpenGL, even if you use the AMDGPU-PRO OpenCL, which is probably wise if OpenCL is what you want to do).

As one example, I have a recurring task that runs on my GPU in the background, and I sleep next to the computer that does that. Since I don't want it to be too noisy, and it is acceptable for it to take longer to run while I'm asleep, I have a cron job which changes the power cap through sysfs to a more reasonable 45W (and at those levels, it's much more efficient anyhow, especially with my tuned voltages) at night.

> I really wonder why video games FPS numbers are so much better on NVidia. The compute power is clearly there, but it just doesn't show in FPS tests.

Drivers are hard, and AMD has sorta just been getting around to doing them well. The Mesa OpenGL drivers are usually faster than AMDGPU-PRO at OpenGL, and RADV is often faster than AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan (and AMDVLK).

I've been hoping these last few years that AMD would try to ship Mesa on Windows (i.e., add a state tracker for the low level APIs underlying D3D), and save themselves the effort. As far as I can tell, there is no IP issue preventing them from doing that (including if they have to ship a proprietary version with some code they don't own). There still seems to be low-hanging fruit in Mesa, but the performance is already usually better.
So if you are on planet A and want to get to planet B that is 1 lightyear away. You have a magical space ship that can accelerate to c in one minute planet A relative time.

How long does it take to to planet A on the travelers watch. No copping out and saying they've been destroyed by inertia.

I am going to assume it takes one year and and one minute-ish compared to synced clocks in the AB pair.
You can do something like:
`Stdio stdout nextPutAll: 'Hello, World!'.`
If you actually succeed in doing that, those people will turn in their passports and go somewhere that doesn't.
Want to heal the internet? Ban all collection of user data
I wonder if a new version, new advancement would be a terror for everyone else. They'd drop a social step, can't do things, less needed, etc.

The movie Gattaca explored this a bit. People in the film are heavily defined by their engineering. They might not BE just engineered, but being superior, or inferior is all encompassing. It becomes all they are.

In the film it is a bit of a curse even for the best. Jerome failed (got a silver medal) at something and can't recover. His medal only turns to gold at the very end.
Yes! But none you want to use on a workstation. Honeywell and Burroughs both produced A1 verified operating systems—presumably there are successors there or at General Dynamics. There are some Russian attempts as well. Nobody else had the engineers, the mathematicians, and the money to build a verified system.

The standards there assume a TCB of about 10 kloc; 5kloc for the OS, 5kloc for each application. Separation is by static allocation—of disk space and memory usage, but also static time-domain multiplexing of CPU cores and IO lanes, with caches flushed on every context switch. They’re ferociously expensive to acquire in the first place, and then you take a huge operational penalty for running multiple applications.

There are very few problems for which this is a helpful solution—maybe not none, but very few when you could just buy several distinct computers, run them airgapped, and go about your business.
I used to like 'other thing', and one time 'other thing' changed.
It went bad so therefore 'thing you are talking about' could go bad too.
Other unrelated grouping is a small part of bigger, more important grouping.
There are many bad places that try to do many bad things and bigger, more important grouping will listen.
Therefore, existing and functional solution that is currently being broken here is irrelevant.

Do you even hear the completely irrelevant cynicism? let's all go jump off a building.
Ah, interesting. I may have heard it in that context before, hard to tell.
In this case everybody wins, including Windows users.

If one person or group wins, it doesn't mean any other has to lose. On the contrary - in a free market you can't lose because you can't be coerced.

I agree this situation is completely opposite from "sad".
Why would I want a single person on this planet to use the OS they don't like? So that grandparent can simplify their development, increase margins or whatever?
I asked a friend at Apple and there are apparently like 15 people working on it, which is a $2-3M contribution.
Of course this is not true. If paid channels didn't work, then companies wouldn't consistently deploy marketing budget into these channels.

I think what the author was trying to convey is that new companies have trouble coming with a paid acquisition strategy with a low cost/positve return over investment.