skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes for sure.. I had a 75mhz machine in 1995-1996, got a 200mhz machine in 1997, and then built a 1Ghz machine in 1999.

It was an absolutely wild ride! Each machine back then was dramatically dramatically faster than the previous one. It wasn't like today where you'd need a stopwatch to tell. You went from being unable to do something to it being possible.

By 2000 we had most of what we have today other than tons of video available everywhere. In 1990 we were still using DOS and character cell graphics most places. No CD ROM, 10mhz machines, no connectivity other than modems. Lots of people still had monochrome displays in 1990, memory was 640k/1MB/2MB in the early 1990s, hard drives were < 100MB. My 2000 we had 1Ghz machines, DVD/Blu-Ray drives, 1GB of memory, drives were into > 100GB, etc.. 3D graphics was a thing, good video capabilities, high res desktops.
the answer is, as always, decentralization. The link between creator, consumer, and optionally, the sponsor aka advertiser, should not be in the hands of a single monopolist.
Great article. I never understand why "financial advisors", when making pitches for consumer frugality, invent a wildly optimistic interest rate (12%?!) and say things like "you could have had $X million dollars, IF ONLY. Well, sure... you could have. Or you could have had no dollars, and also no coffee, since return rates from the type of investments that have any chance of making 12% are anything but guaranteed.
Even if true, you need to make that inference explicit, because that's a confusing, non-standard usage of "flat tax" and "regressive" tax.

Second, can you show your basis for thinking that? I would think it's the opposite: the wealthy aren't using the public schools, free health care, etc.
Lets consider a game.
A coin will be flipped, and we can bet as much money as we want that either heads or tails will win.
You will win $100 if the price in this market stays >75% chance of heads for 7 days continuously.

So you keep buying up shares of heads, moving the price from 50 -> 60 -> 70 -> 80.
by the end you are betting $4 for the chance to win $1.

I know that the result is 50-50, so if I bet $1 against you, and have the chance to win $4, then that means my expected profit of taking this bet is %200.
Which makes this one of the best investments available on earth.
Which means many people will want to participate.

Every bet you make at the price 80-20 costs you $1, but is only worth $0.40. you are losing 60% of however much money you bet.
So if you bet $200, then your expected loss would be $120. which is even bigger than the $100 you could potentially win by manipulating the market.

It doesn't matter if I bribe a manipulator with $100, or with $1 billion. The same logic holds.
Having a vested interest in the outcome of a decision does not give you any ability to manipulate us into making that decision.

http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/biashelp.pdf
Why do you think backwards compatibility dropped? Just recently they decided to not build newer versions of .NET Framework on top of .NET Core (even though they have open sourced practically everything on .NET) to ensure that older programs built on .NET Framework will keep working and wont face issues from any incompatibility with .NET Core.

IMO they are making their life a lot harder by introducing all those frameworks and platforms every five years or so, but despite that they still make sure that stuff keeps working.
And tying this back to the journalist:

>as I look through her history I am mostly confused why she was chosen in the first place. She doesn't have any background in tech. She doesn't have any prior writing or research related to AI. No background in the other topics that come up - surveillance, data privacy, international security.

Is this true for any other board members? Have journalists been focusing only on Kay, or did they do due diligence into the others?
The way I would solve that is an event and a count of tasks. When the last thread to complete its job sees InterlockedDecrement(&ntasks) == 0, call SetEvent to wake up the waiting thread.
But in your comment, you just question everything without giving degree to which things are affected.

I believe these statement give better feeling about the proportionality of each media source:

Yes journalists are sometimes wrong, but most of the time they do their best to research a subject.

Don't go to comment section unless you want to loose your faith in humanity, there are some insights there sometimes but most of the time comment section is just full of angry people. (The Atlantic removed comment section altogether).

Social media (Facebook, twitter and the like) thrive on divisiveness, sensationalism and appealing to gut instinct rather then exploring any kind of intellectual idea. That is what platforms are made for, with the system of how things get promoted, shared and rewarded -- counting engagement instead of value to individuals and society.

Guess where all the advertising dollars go in this case, papers are loosing money because any kind of attempt to examine ideas is a lot less interesting for the advertisers because all they want pay money for is engagement.
Do they really 'demand a greater share' in proportion with how much more they contribute?
See "deception:" most people underestimate the cost of using their car as a taxi or delivery vehicle. This is also why Uber would be much less profitable if it deployed its own self-driving cars, and probably has to convince "independent contractors" to buy and maintain its fleet.
This is (one of several reasons) why I have no desire to ever live in a city. This is one the nice neighborhoods, and it's riddled with unbearable noise.

I am very happy in my noise-free suburb.
> It is outrageous that your ability to eat and pay rent can be taken away with zero notice in America.

Also your healthcare in most cases.
basically, sandy says that while elon's business antics are a separate thing, but from a purely manufacturing/engineering point of view, Tesla is miles ahead.

And with whatever cost savings they will make in china, this will make it all the worthwhile, especially since Elon Musk seems to be getting special treatment from the Chinese government, that even existing Chinese companies like NIO don't seem to be getting.

He says that his tesla model 3 report breakdown is selling as hot cakes, which means a lot of car companies want to copy Tesla's homework.

And while he still has a lot of criticisms for many of the manufacturing processes, he now thinks that perhaps tesla might not have been wrong by bring such obviously outsourced items such as seats.
I resisted spending any time on game development for a long time because I knew deep down how games are consumed extremely quickly. You can spend tons of effort to build a utility app that might prove its value every day for years and years, and may never lose all value. You can spend tons of time and effort developing a game that may become boring to players in a matter of weeks or months and never be used again.

Ultimately I decided that game development is useful for building certain programming skills as a hobby, regardless of the “value curve” of the product. And if you expect nothing (i.e. you’re competing in a huge field of millions of games, nothing is special anymore), you can focus on what you’ve gained, which may be primarily the experience.

I emphasize the hobby part; it’s useful to try it but it’s extremely backwards economically. I would always advise “other” programming jobs, with game dev. on the side.
Humans are not rational beings. A tremendous fraction of our thought processes arise from instinctual programming from survival in an era much different than our current environment. A fully rational being would look at a burning house and decide the 70 year old man is more worth saving thnn the five day old infant,but thinking like that isn't going to result in maximum reproductive success for your genes in the dangerous, resource - scarce environment we evolved in.
You know, that's probably debatable. The high wealthy also spend a lot on private services above and beyond what's publically available. Private security, planes, accountant and legal teams, private doctors, etc.
I would think that most public services, such as public schools or public transportation are consumed by lower and middle class people.

The upper class has their own private version of pretty much everything.
It seems like you're talking about the fact that they dropped 16-bit compatibility in 64-bit editions. XP was the first consumer version of Windows with 64-bit support so that timeline would fit. There were various significant technical challenges which caused them to drop 16-bit support in 64-bit Windows and I don't think it's fair to imply that they lost their focus on backwards compatibility just because of that one regression.
This seems counter intuitive to me but I’m not saying you’re wrong. Could you share more?
"The problem is that capitalists typically don't know how to divide the pie well and socialists typically don't know how to grow it well," Dalio wrote. He wants to avoid both the status quo and socialism, and he's hoping that the elections in both the US and Europe that happen over the next few years result in a reformed capitalism."

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I really don't see how this could happen, but even if there's some kind of accommodation, it's simply a band-aid to the underlying problem.

Which is that the 'means of production' needs to be OWNED by the people producing. Not a corporate owner (or even an 'entrepreneur'), and not 'the state', but the collective that actually does the work, commensurate with their overall contribution.

There's also a huge issue around land ownership, and the rents that derive from it. Currently, simply owning land in a fast-developing city gives you a share in the bounty that others are creating, and also taxes those generating it.

Land itself is a common inheritance. Should air or water also be subject to such 'ownership'?
The problem isn't technical debt. It's affording and attracting talent. Talent follows money. Even SJW's have to eat. The IRS doesn't have any money because the last time they devoted resources to understanding the tax landscape of the ultra-wealthy the ultra-wealthy lobbied to slash the IRS's budget. The IRS was purposely castrated by the very demographic it sought to understand.

This is, quite literally, a won battle at this point. The only way to fix it is for the ancient republican party to either collapse or iterate into something that serves America's interests instead of ultra-wealthy interests.
Snapchat Doubles Down on AR
Not a secret that largest military companies are actively investing into AI. Enormous opportunities and dangers. And it's not just computer vision and robotics - almost every aspect of modern warfare will be AI-extended.
We're all about mixed mode. Let's never pretend that we ought focus on a specific one and only business. Clients like Amazon, clients like Azure - clients then get forced by (say the BC Health Authority) to run on physical machines in a British Columbia hosted datacenter.

We help make that happen, and help folks manage the lifecycle associated with it.
The difference is that people loose their money if the policy doesn't have the effect they predicted.
Nina Zakharenko gives some great advice about giving tech talks.
We talk about a blog series that Nina wrote called "The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks".
This episode is full of great help and encouragement for your own public speaking adventures.

Some of what we discuss:

- overcoming the fear of public speaking
- breathing and pausing during talks
- planning your talk as well as planning your time to get ready for the talk
- writing proposals and getting feedback on proposals
- Nina's talk in PyCascades on programming Adafruit chips
- types of talks that are often rejected
- pre-recording demos to avoid live demo problems
- why you should speak, even if you are an introvert
- benefits of public speaking
Implicit Biases Toward Race and Sexuality Have Decreased
I have respect for successful managers like Dalio and Soros because you can’t reach their level of success while deluding yourself about how the world economy works. And anyone who has invested/speculated with a lot of their own money knows how emotionally hard it is to make the right decisions day in and day out. For that reason, when Dalio talks about the economy, it’s worth considering what he’s saying. Moreso than politicians or economists.
RADAR typically uses microwaves, non-ionizing. Over this area it's bound to be a terribly, terribly small amount of exposure.
> but also by virtue of being a powerful enough to tackle corruption.

After all, it was tax evasion of all things that brought down Al Capone.
If you reveal your class by your outrage at the very topic, you reveal it also by the way you define the thing that's outraging you. At the bottom, people tend to believe that class is defined by the amount of money you have. In the middle, people grant that money has something to do with it, but think education and the kind of work you do almost equally important. Nearer the top, people perceive that taste, values, ideas, style, and behavior are indispensable criteria of class, regardless of money or occupation or education. One woman interviewed by Studs Terkel for Division Street: America (1967) clearly revealed her class as middle both by her uneasiness about the subject's being introduced and by her instinctive recourse to occupation as the essential class criterion. "We have right on this street almost every class," she said. "But I shouldn't say class," she went on, "because we don't live in a nation of classes." Then, the occupational criterion: "But we have janitors living on the street, we have doctors, we have businessmen, CPAs"

[...]

Being told that there are no social classes in the place where the interviewee lives is an old experience for sociologists. "'We don't have classes in our town' almost invariably is the first remark recorded by the investigator," reports Leonard Reissman, author of Class in American Life (1959). "Once that has been uttered and is out of the way, the class divisions in the town can be recorded with what seems to be an amazing degree of agreement among the good citizens of the community."

[...]

The special hazards attending the class situation in America, where movement appears so fluid and where the prizes seem available to anyone who's lucky, are disappointment, and, following close on that, envy. Because the myth conveys the impression that you can readily earn your way upward, disillusion and bitterness are particularly strong when you find yourself trapped in a class system you've been half persuaded isn't important. When in middle life some people discover that certain limits have been placed on their capacity to ascend socially by such apparent irrelevancies as heredity, early environment, and the social class of their immediate forebears, they go into something like despair, which, if generally secret, is no less destructive.

-- from Paul Fussell's Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Chapter 1, "A Touchy Subject" (typed in from the book, any errors probably mine)
> "Look... We (ireland) manipulate our tax rules for all sorts of gain^. How can it be ok for the country but not U2?"

I'll answer that Bono - because no one in Ireland asked for us to be run by leprechaun economics; that decision was taken by blatantly corrupt political parties that form a golden circle fueled by brown envelopes, protected by even more blatantly by corrupt police and state / billionaire owned media.

Normal people in Ireland :pay their fucking taxes: and he should too.
To put the point user redwood made differently. There is a trend that certain questions have a "right answer" and if you don't believe the "right answer" it is okay to bar you from any and all discourse.

While you might think "Trans rights are worth the sacrifice" the general trend in tech is that there is a "right answer" to same-sex marriage (Brendan Eich), biological differences between gender (James Damore), politics (all the flake Peter Thiel got for supporting Trump) and now trans rights. This trend is worrying because it shuts down discussion.

It is also alienating because if you disagree with one of the "right answers" you can get fired for it, which seems kind of counter to the narrative of diversity and inclusion. This is why you sometimes hear people voice the criticism of "diversity in everything but thought"
192MB of RAM in 1998? Back then it cost a fortune, I had just 16MB.
Good? Consumption depletes the stock of resources. Someone who minimizes their consumption is doing everyone else a favor.
Tax reforms to tweak economic growth isn’t really the same thing as using loopholes in tax rules to avoid paying tax.

One serves to better the country by adapting to a changing economy, while the other serves a self interest and takes money out of the economy.

However if you’re talking about tax reforms lead by corrupt politicians and lobbyists - then that’s a different matter. But I’d argue that was another tangent entirely.
Good points. I think automating habit tracking as much as possible can help avoid the desire to recontextualize.

Keeping measurement as objective as possible as well. e.g. How many sentences did I write today?

I think you are describing something like this. In which there is less reliance on self-reporting.
Head of security intelligence at Namely on the human aspect of security
I think you misunderstand PassivHaus. Ventilation and air quality are a big part of it. If there are smells or high CO2 levels, it's not up to the standard.
I built a small tool called "Highlight One Thing".

It asks a simple question: what do you want the highlight of your day to be?
https://highlight-one-thing.glitch.me/

I built this for the Product Hunt Maker Festival using Coda and Glitch. This idea came to me after my 2nd gen iPad was crashing Nick Burka's One Big Thing app.

I remixed his app with John Zeratsky's and Jake Knapp's Highlight concept from their book, Make Time.

I organized my thoughts around highlights and my journey to focus in one piece. Read it here:
https://medium.com/@kunalslab/what-do-you-want-the-highlight...
>The author is a billionaire who is is proposing for the wealthy to be taxed more, how is he insulated by paying more taxes?

Is this a serious question?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers

Ray Dalio has taken his chunk, is retiring, but senses the social and political winds are changing. Being a billionaire is no longer something people "respect", and is very rarely "earned". I'm sure he doesn't want the Proletariat knocking on his door in his old age.
Biologists observe a lizard lay eggs and give birth to live young
Further shows that many environmentalists care more about controlling the economy than helping the environment. Being able to utilize fossil fuels without the carbon issues should be great news, but instead people are worried that it won't kill off our means of producing power fast enough.
Tokyo, unlike NYC, seems to have noise regulations for construction, apparently enforced by a decibel meter mounted to the construction site:
https://i.imgur.com/aOOBrIS.jpg
https://www.env.go.jp/en/laws/air/noise/ap.html

That probably has something to do with the healthier relationship there between the population & new construction.
So:

* Monolithic: expensive but very carefully crafted. Beautiful. Self-contained and self-supporting. There's enough for everyone, and you'll keep it around for years (ok you'll keep a piece in the freezer, the metaphor only goes so far...)

* Microservices: cheaper, easier, and more popular on social media. Leaves you feeling a bit unsatisfied, and with a tendency to drop crumbs all over the place as you try to access the contents. Stale and discarded after a day.

(I'm assuming the spiky-haired genius was speaking in favor of microservices and I wanted to have fun with the metaphor :)
Snapchat will power Stories and ads in other apps
EFI doesn't solve it directly, but GPT does. Regular MBR can't handle more than 2tb disks. Of course when running EFI you always want to use GPT. Linux might be able to handle >2tb MBR somehow, but in doing so it might be confusing your BIOS perhaps.
Well, the article mostly focused on game development rather than game journalism, but you're right, both fields have many of the same issues.

In fact, video game journalism may be the worst of both the game development and media worlds, since it's got all the downsides of both (low pay, long hours, unstable employment, companies struggling) plus an endless supply of newcomers who (like with game development) think it'll be their dream job.

Oh, and the basic skill requirements to get employed are really low too. So it's like a minimum wage career people are passionate about getting into where pretty much anyone can do the work.
Jason Schreier has never worked as developer or in the gaming industry. It's insane how so many people give these people so much credence and attention. The guy literally doesn't know what he is a talking about. Also 3d artists and game testers/QA/etc are transferable skills just like programmers.
Likely is there because it requires that AMD's partners release servers in this configuration, and those servers are unreleased. In theory, something during validation could prevent it or partners could decide not to release this configuration (which are unlikely but still possible.)
The problem isn’t the progressive tax system, the problem is the heaping pile of exceptions and special rules that take forever to wade through. All a flat tax would do is make it even easier for the ultra-wealthy to pay less.
But the “stupid first order” proposition is correct. If our policy was to brutally torture people for even the most minor infractions, and we enforced it very well, no one would ever commit a crime unless they were extremely confident that they could get away with it.

The problem is that this “cure” would be much worse than the disease.
I work as a freelance web dev and typically have a week (or even a month) between contracts to chase that indie game dev dream. It’s a tough juggling act, but it’s better than trying to moonlight
Correction to my comment above (too late to edit): "exist" should be "excuse".
Actually idempotent comes from algebra, in particular from ring theory. An ideal is idempotent if its generator, say it a, multiplied by itself n times, equals the ring identity.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotent_(ring_theory)

The definition of idempotent used in IT, assumes that n=2.

Another concept stolen from Mathematics and misused in IT is Topology.
Check the airspeed at the time they raised flaps. It was right at Vfe, and increasing.

I don't know the most likely consequence of flying with flaps 5 above Vfe. Maybe flaps would (asynchronously) depart the airplane, or induce flutter at a much lower than usual airspeed. Either of those is an extremely high risk of losing the aircraft.
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I think a difficult personality is a necessity for the role he is performing. While a difficult personality absolutely is not and must not be a reason to condemn someone, the good such people perform doesn’t mean anyone should have to put up with their antisocial behaviour, nor that he in particular gets a free pass from the court processes which caused him to end up in the embassy in the first place.

Same rules for everyone. None of us are pure saints, and even those of us who are pure evil [1] should only be prosecuted for acts which one can reasonably believe them to be guilty of before a trial actually demonstrates the quality of the evidence.

[1] by which I mean dark triad personalities, not religious/utilitarian/etc. ethics.