skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes a lot of sense to me, so I'm curious why you lobbed the theory over the wall at a public forum with no intention of defending it.

Would you believe me if I told you "we live in the greatest age of free speech in human history - our societies are more tolerant than ever before?" No? Well, I've given as much argument as you, so I suppose we are at an impasse.
They’ve already announced a change to CockroachHTTP
How's Mercury doing these days?
another good reason is that he sexually harassed a lot of women and is a bad role model in at least that one very important way, so it should be read pretty critically.
It's also pretty expensive to live there these days - It's coastal with easy access to the countryside, but (on a fair day, with a following wind) commutable for London.

They don't call it London-by-Sea for nothing!
CONVOY!!
That's not how HSMs work or they would be totally useless.

Short of a hidden vulnerability or a manufacturing defect there's no "official" way to physically access data from the device without destroying it. And accessing the data the normal way still requires access the cloud provider doesn't have (a certificate password for example).

If we're talking hackers that could successfully hack an HSM, they don't really care about laws. And if we're talking about acting under some law, that law has to compel the owner of the password to give it up. Not the cloud provider.
Out of curiosity, what would a nihilist with a cause look like?
How do we overcome existential nihilism?
In my opinion, Facebook is trying to maintain the illusion that this kind of content isn't being posted at all, that they present a "safe" environment for their customers. If people started to see this kind of content, they might be motivated to stop using Facebook all together. It might also prevent de-friending; I strongly suspect that Facebook doesn't want people to "de-friend" each other. Note how many alternatives they provide to actually "de-friending" (i.e. the "snooze" option).
> We could use the UNIX epoch!

Vernor Vinge got there way ahead of you, If you haven't read his books and given the way this community slants you are missing out.

> Take the Traders' method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex - and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.
And then there is Virding's First Rule of Programming:

Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.
It makes sense in corporate reptiloid sort of way. If you don't discuss this with people outside of the system, nobody would tell you "Dude, you are being abused! It's not worth it! Look at what this job is doing to you - and for what, for minimal wage?" If you can only discuss it only with people in the same boat, it looks like it's a normal situation, acceptable - everybody has it the same way, so it must be just how the things work, nothing to be done about it, no use to try and improve it or look for something better.
If only there was a program with YouTube where you could advertise against preferred content...

https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/products/google-preferred/
I tend to agree, I don't think VR is addressing the major problems - it's simply adding a layer on top of something that is still fundamentally not as frictionless as meeting in person. VR simply adds another input layer and more hardware to go wrong.

Land-lines may have lacked fidelity but they were near enough to 100% reliable and simple enough for a child to use which is quite an achievement. In the world of consumer teleconferencing we are not even close to that experience.
This reminds me of a John Carmack quote: "Everything that is syntactically legal, that the compiler will accept, will eventually wind up in your code base."
Are any of the ones that are better than Reed-Solomon either open-source or otherwise out of patent protection yet? A library I could play with, perhaps? (would love to get my hands on a Raptor or Turbo implementation)
The UK tax burden is set to reach a 40 year high by 2025. It's currently at ~37% of GDP, which hasn't been seen in the past 30 years.
Excellent diving in! I believe you are accusing me of hypocrisy - could you expand on this? I'm very interested if I can be caught out in fallacy, given how ardently I challenge fallacy when I find it.

To note - literally, I did not use the word "tolerant" in the previous post, and someone made an argument based off a strange assumption that I did.

I don't believe racism should be tolerated. Does that thus mean we live in an intolerant society? If I claimed my opinion set the cultural Zeitgeist, would you not accuse me of great arrogance?
Question: is there a legal prerogative for Facebook to proactively moderate content in the US?

Not that I'm aware of, but there's a commercial one because advertisers don't want to be associated with certain kinds of content and FB is a public company. Usenet worked great as a distributed social communication protocol, but fell apart under commercial pressure, and it's not obvious how to compete with the huge infrastructural advantages of commercial platforms using voluntary protocols.

It seems that the result would be relatively small cesspools of highly antisocial behavior. Cesspools which will continue to exist regardless of any moderating effort.

One approach is to monitor the cesspools and discriminate against content matchable to those originating points.
It was previously based on rotation of the earth. It was converted to atomic analysis of the caesium atom in 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...
The Economics of Software Engineers
Appreciate the response. I wish I had some great ideas here, but I don't. Maybe allow a discussion area, but only from those willing to go through some kind of accreditation process?

The blog post that you link (https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods) is a great follow-up. But it looks like there is no connection to it from the source page (https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...), nor the source charts. Perhaps simply figuring out a way to connect your own commentary to the data it is commenting on would be a place to start.
Perhaps we can have jobs in smaller mid-size cities instead of only in big heavily populated (5+ million) metro areas.
OWC sells the 'Aura Legacy' PATA SSD (macsales.com)
"Joe's Truck Parts dot com" is probably not the best example of navigation or search. http://www.joestruckparts.com/

But you might be surprised to know that many sites for automotive parts are actually operated by the same company. They have different domains, UI skins and marketing campaigns, but they're the same under the hood (so to speak).

For example, compare https://www.carparts.com/ and https://www.usautoparts.net/
He did write something that amounts to that, just with more words.
>If I had my way we'd have taken the much simpler approach of declaring that for any meeting with one remote participant, everyone connects by video

I've tried that in the past, but sadly even good office networks often get pretty choppy when you have 4 or 5 people all video calling from the same connection independently.

The best solution I've found for that case is to invest in good video conference hardware for meeting rooms. Get a couple of area mics, and a big TV with a camera on it that can see the whole table.
It's not like he were the only billionaire to bid for influence.
Yeah it's rather large. https://www.google.com/maps/place/1669+Garrott+Ave,+Moncks+C...
Personally, I found the implication that performing this job was actually making the contractors "stronger" to be stomach churning. I certainly wouldn't want to approach Logan for help with my own mental health.
agreed. part of breaking from the legacy and tradition of massive sexism and misogyny is critically evaluating things that subtly reinforce it (like Feynman's book).

but tech culture is pretty averse to doing that and will insist that it doesn't matter and we can ignore the sexism which is safely "in the past" (as if).
Could it be that he never really was the richest, or far from it?
Hah, the other day I spelled it correctly for the first time in my life. I was so excited I yelled and my co-workers all thought I was crazy. :)
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This is exactly right, and is the correct answer whenever the free speech argument comes up.

If people see offensive content on Facebook, but not on a competitor, then both the users and the advertisers are going to abandon Facebook for the competitor. Every company tries to give their customers what they think the customers want.
I agree it could have been a licensing thing. ASCAP representatives have been well known to send shakedown letters to businesses that haven't paid their BMI/ASCAP dues, and lawsuits can be very very expensive.
Proper time is an invariant that could be used for this... still corrections apply (as you suggest, for the two observers).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_time
Pacifists can exist because someone has fought for their right to be a pacifist.
I don't think the relativistic effects would be a problem in practice. You can synchronize clocks on other planets to the UTC or TAI reference time, which are already specified in terms of the Earth's reference frame.

Because of relativity, clocks on other planets would very slowly drift relative to UTC on Earth. But the drift is on the order of a few parts per billion (see e.g. [1]) which is comparable to what you'd expect anyway, even from a very high-quality temperature-controlled crystal oscillator. So it doesn't add any new clock synchronization difficulties that you wouldn't have anyway.

For the most demanding applications -- the ones that require atomic clocks -- you would still need to take relativity into account. You can either measure time passing at the local rate (in cases where you need to know locally elapsed time to high precision) or you can measure UTC, which allows you to assign a consistent ordering to events on different planets. But for most ordinary purposes, the distinction is irrelevant.

[1]: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/33590/time-dilatio...
There are serious questions as to whether DNSSEC is worth pursuing at this time. Large banks haven't rolled it out. Tax authorities generally haven't either. I think the post begs the question...
> Didn't lots of SQL databases' CHAR(n) type used to be space-padded instead of null-padded too? If I had to guess, DOS simply copied that idea

DOS couldn't have copied what lots of SQL databases did, since DOS was being written around the same time as the first SQL databases.

My guess would be that, like the three character extension itself, this came from CP/M, not SQL.
Yes, it's an area of research, https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...

But in the end you should code against what posix guarantees, not what particular filesystems happen to do, because the next filesystem might use some other leeway the spec provides.
I am always surprised how small the microSD cards are. It gets even more extreme when you have a 10 year old harddisk next to it. At the same time it can hold most of my data.
I would argue that it's not authoritative. Nothing guarantees that the records in the db match that schema; the closest you get to a guarantee is your diligence to 1) run a job mutating all records every time you change your in-code schema and 2) ensure that nothing but your latest application code can write to the db.

OTOH, `\d users` in PostgreSQL is authoritative; there cannot be a row that does not conform to the fields, types, and constraints listed there.
Nice! I may try that next year. I could be amusing to do that around our village.
I know that system clock drift can be bounded to milliseconds using an atomic clock or GPS receiver, but I didn't know whether we could overcome synchronization difficulties when speed-of-light differences are significant. I thought we could package some coordinate reference system, directional travel metadata (I'm traveling 0.000002c this way), and current system clock time, and synchronize that way.

Fantasy use case: Asteroid mining and traffic control. If you want to boost prepared asteroids to an orbit closer to Mars and you had a space station / spaceships to watch out for, different mining companies might want a clock protocol, a request buffer, and a map instead of synchronously planning, timing, and verifying each and every asteroid orbit change in a central location ("What do you mean you were using Earth time and not correcting for relativity??").
So your threat model includes the cloud provider?
The parent company is in way too much trouble to have any lasting faith in their very much declining product...
Now that you've pointed out that this process exists, I'm super intrigued to hear the playlists of different stores and compare that with the brand image of said stores.

Maybe if I like 'x' brand, I'll also enjoy their store playlist... could be the key to finding lots of great music.
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I have to do bureau-cracy every time. But only after my brain tries to freehand it wrong. Usually twice. Maybe that’s the real reason I hate bureaucracies.

Beurau... no that’s not right what is it again? Buer... fuck.
> it's still physics all the way down

The existence of physics doesn't demonstrate that dualism is wrong.
Please, please do not call activation functions neurons! A neuron is a name for a type of cell in animal brains which has several variants, many modalities of behaviour (chemical, electrical, temporal) and which we are making many new discoveries about as our technology advances.
Everything but freezing rents!

Freezing rents literally destroyed Portuguese city fabric and renting market during that time: landlords didn't want to rent more houses neither repair the rented ones. Until recently wasn't uncommon to have old people renting a flat in Lisbon city center for 20€.
That's actually not true if you're using SI units for seconds.

"The SI unit of time is the second (s): The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."

I'm not a physicist, but I think that's a universal definition - the rate of the periods should be constant everywhere in the universe.

So universal seconds are actually very easy to nail down. Dates are always a little more troublesome. Perhaps seconds since the start of the big bang would be a possibility.
California protections against balance/surprise medical billing are not enforceable when an employee is covered by a "self-insured" or "self-funded" employer plan. California doesn't regulate that plan, and also cannot intervene in the billing between the provider, patient and insurance. Most medium to large employers are using such plans which means that employees are not protected from such billing.

http://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/110-health/60-resou...

"Does the New Law Apply to Everyone? The new law applies to people with health insurance policies or plans regulated by the California Department of Insurance or the California Department Managed Health Care that were issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2017. It does not apply to Medi-Cal plans, Medicare plans or “self-insured plans.”"
Do POWER1 cpus dream of martian electronic sheep?
They're much faster. 50-60% on the single core stuff and 300% faster on multi-core tests.

Not to mention they cruise along on things that use the newer extensions for things like video playback, plus the integrated graphics hardware is much much faster
Honestly a big feature is the removable battery too. People who live in cities can't just plug in their car/scooter when they get home because they don't have garages. Being able to pull the battery pack out and charge it in your apartment radically changes the logistics of charging for the better.
The selective service certainly recognizes conscientious objectors! They mark them for "special attention" [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali#Vietnam_War_and_r...
> what stops a program from adapting? It becomes "ossified." Because the code organization isn't up to the challenge

Usually it has nothing whatsoever to do with the code organization. The most common cause is lack of active developers to make the adaptation - company dies, developers die or change jobs or lose interest. That's why "rot" is an apt metaphor, like a house slowly falling apart due to lack of maintenance.

> If all of the environmental variables remain the same
> I can deal with idioms. If 1) the idioms are very consistent and 2) you have a reliable syntax driven code rewrite tool,

Would you like a pony too? The environmental variables don't remain the same. The tools aren't smart enough to catch every subtle variation of an idiom repeated hundreds of times across a large codebase. Yes, you can automate away the easy cases, but that's not even half the battle. That's why people hire maintenance programmers like you.
I'm sure it's designed to manipulate, but the photography is beautiful.

The last photo of the bus is absolutely gorgeous, almost looks like an oil painting.
> AI is an area where improving algorithm/learning efficiency is infinitely more valuable than figuring out how to throw more hardware at the problem

Improving algorithm/learning efficiency gets much easier when you can iterate faster.
Did you read the other comments? I misread GP and the coating I talked about is for UVA radiation.
Yes, actually. I tend to mix the thought process involved with programming into other artistic pursuits. I feel it gives me different perspective.
On Amazon, I'm seeing 'Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame' from 2003 and 'Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha' from 2004. Is the newer edition much different, apart from a presumably more fashionable subtitle?
Btw that VES/BTC chart isn’t adjusted for the 10,000,000% (by next year) inflation rate, so in constant dollar terms I’d wager that BTC/VES volume went down over the period highlighted.
Most likely by declaring a standard reference frame and encoding standards for indicating amount of drift from it, tolerance of drift, and standards for how to update against it. A particularly forward-looking standard would encode information about the standard frame used within it, so we could switch from Sol-standard to galactic standard to cluster standard.

Universal time is, of course, impossible in a relativistic universe, but (no sarcasm) that doesn't prevent us from trying, and getting to "close enough to work with for reasonable amounts of effort". Just as only a small portion of the world works on UTC directly right now, this time standard would be something computers would translate for people. Traveling at 80% the speed of light away from Earth in Earth's frame means you wouldn't want to directly use the resulting definition of a Standard Second for human time, but computers would be able to work with it.
No, America cannot.

I visited Hoover Dam a few years ago. It is impossible for me to imagine a project like that happening now. It was a massive project. The government saw the need, put out the project for bids. The project was completed ahead of time and under budget. It was a spectacular success.

During the tour, we walked through some of the offices -- clean, gleaming corrdiors.

Now there were fewer regulations way back when the project was initiated. But even ignoring slowdowns due to environmental concerns (for example), we all know what would happen now. Democrats would be for it. Republicans would try to block it (except for those whose districts would benefit directly.) If the project were approved, it would be very late and way over budget. Hell, this government can't even approve badly needed and overdue infrastructure maintenance, (even though that would provide many of the jobs they are always going on about).

My opinion, as a 62-year old American, is that this country is in an irreversible decline.
I'm not saying I think it was the BMGF in the AMA, but you think a publicist wouldn't say this? "Client watches X show and plays Y sport" would be a typical line to make someone appear more relatable. Politicians say these things all the time. It is not surprising that a publicist would try and make their client/employer seem normal.
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Once squashed, how do you go back to the dev commits?
Trump climate advisory panel structured to avoid public records
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This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igGcWRYhr1Y&index=14&list=RD...

But yeah, I feel for the retail employees in Japan. Several of the franchises and chains jingles really get to you after a while. I think Don Quixote and Lawson are worse, because they actually have vocals.

It's just on a completely different level. The same 45-something-seconds jingle on loop, perpetually 24/7, interspersed with ads.
IAmA mod here - we have a bot that updates it every time a guest schedules a new AMA, so it should always be up to date. We also manually add events in as they come from other sources.

Bill likes to do his AmA's as "surprises", though, so we don't usually schedule those!
Is this sort of thing news to people in the US? Brighton and Bristol are places people go to drop out (a little), and spend their youth getting involved in fringe politics.

I'm sure there are cities in the US with that sort of scene too.

The irony is that both of these cities have also gentrified, massively, over the last ten or so years. He is now railing at having trouble making ends meet when working a bar kitchen, in about the lowest-end of chain pub we have in the UK, and one of the most expensive towns (outside London). Not that there is anything wrong with Wetherspoons, and everyone should have somewhere decent to live. But...
Please don't spread out. Leave the forests and grasslands alone and don't just keep adding subdivisions just so people can have manicured lawns.

Its fair to say that the jobs could move to other city centers, but the solution isn't suburbia.

What would it take for America to have 20 New Yorks, instead of 50 Atlantas [1]

[1]: https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/04/ranking-most-sprawling-...
Silicon is inferior to chemical energy. Human is upwards of thousands of orders of magnitude more efficient than today's best GPU's. However, speed != efficiency. Classifying imageNet with a human would take 1000 hours.
"Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault. The team is continuing to listen for the rover over a broad range of times, frequencies and polarizations using the Deep Space Network (DSN) Radio Science Receiver. The team has begun mission clock fault recovery commanding 'in the blind,' in the hopes of catching the rover during an awake period, as their strategy of last resort."

Source: NASA mission update for sols 5340-5346 (Jan. 31-Feb. 6, 2019) https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/rover-status/opportunity/r...
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>Bill Gates writing billion dollar checks is not exactly micro

US GDP was $19.39 trillion in 2017. 0.01% is micro on any scale. He could write those checks again and again and it would never solve systemic problems.