skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently was working with a quantum startup where the founder was so jealous of me he came up with a new lie about his history and accomplishments multiple times a day. It was endless, and nearly nothing he said had any basis in reality.

I totally gave up on him when his lies became so audacious he got mad at me twice for casually dismissing his claims of being the real Satoshi and that Rigetti totally stole his ideas, forcing him to play catch up. He managed to get in a story about strangling a person to death and the Canadian Armed Forces covering it up because it was a "ptsd-related blackout," and that the RCMP would put out a kill order if anyone without top secret clearance entered his commercial "lab".

Why he couldn't figure out why I was so disinterested in these stories is beyond me... I think he was just looking for a buddy with similar professional interests that he could brag to, and couldn't figure out how to keep me interested in his otherwise woefully lacking / plagiarized code base that didn't do nearly half of what he claimed it did.

Originally I was trying to help him get his head on straight, but within a day of his total meltdown at my expense, I was over that, and have zero sympathy for what his investors are soon to learn.

Ironically, in all his fantasy wisdom and military-strength security, even after supposedly having his ideas stolen from him, he never got me to sign a non-disclosure agreement, even when I brought it up multiple times with both him and his primary investor.

It really looks like self-sabotage to me. Baffling.
> Some people see the problem in the fact that Americans are and have historically been very comfortable benefiting from injustice and from things that are enforced 'on other people'.

The vast majority of people do not have trouble generally abiding by the provisions of the Controlled Substances Act; and while that doesn't mean it's just, but it does mean it's not crazy for ordinary people to think that others could abide by it as well.

Very few people are even familiar with the concept of the prison industrial complex, let alone explicitly motivated to vote by it.

> Middle class young hippies were shocked when the system showed its teeth and banned a substance so that the movement could be targeted by the repression systems put in place... while that was the norm done toward people in bad neighborhoods.

Just as gun control is no longer typically motivated by racism, the war on drugs is not today typically motivated (to the ordinary person) by a prejudice against hippies or hispanics.

If you argue against a point nobody is defending, you'll change nothing.
It is solving some problems, not everything. It is much more than what the rest of the world is NOT doing.
Can we have one Indian space related thread without the discussion of poverty? From neither Indians nor others?

Lately, there will be one random idiot saying something about hygiene. But then every single comment that follows will be about, how no one has the right to say that.

How about you guys don't react to that crap for once?
The author ends by saying you need five users from each distinct type of user, with the example of parent and child.

Unfortunately the author neglected to mention that the vast majority of projects already have multiple distinct groups- abled people, blind people, deaf people, and are just a start. In many places these are legally required considerations.
I understand it's something beyond a language. But surely it has to make some assumptions about the stack it relies on? If such a tool existed but required you to switch to a whole new language, would that be acceptable? What if you had to switch to a whole new programming model? What if you couldn't benefit from any of the software written by others in mainstream platforms?

In any case, I think you'll enjoy hanging out at https://futureofcoding.org/slack-readme where people often chat about different parts of this (huge) open problem. I do.
If all old episodes are actually kept in the RSS feed, there are scripts for this.

Here's one: https://gist.github.com/Wowfunhappy/e042b04a34b25bfe25d04b28...

You could also run the script automatically every week to download and backup new episodes—no need for a dedicated podcast phone.
If I could upvote you more than once ...
Sorry for hijack,

May I ask about the sources you would propose to go through for someone starting out with Kubernetes ?

I was able to (with examples) create a simple K8s cluster with dashboard and Im learning now about external dns. What else would be good to get to after ?
In my state, they keep trying to ban 'assault style weapons' even though almost all gun crime and suicides are handguns... The last time they tried to define what an assault style weapon was, my Ruger 10/22 would have counted as one...
They should specify what benchmarks and input sets were used and the benchmarking methodology. It'd be nice to also see the standard deviation plotted on these bars.
I have a lot of reasons to suspect "colonize other planets" or any such things won't happen in less than a lifetime. Unlike computing, physical challenge is daunting, and economic challenge is more so. As saying goes, if we would colonize Mars, why aren't we colonizing Antarctica, which is infinitely easier?
What a pompous lie.

The state happened when people get fed up of being trodden on by tyrants, warlords and robber barons and decide to implement concepts like law, order and justice.

That it's not perfect doesn't mean it should be reduced to a trite, intellectually bankrupt, soundbite.
Huh. At this point, after all the recent scandals - I'm wary of Intel CPUs.
Really appreciate the feedback - that's on our backlog!
Lol dude, "just" $100k. Barriers to entry? Totally honest: I'm an investor and I wouldn't invest $100k in you with a mentality like that. We're all in this to make money.

What you need is to prove your idea. No one is going to put $100k (or $100 million for that matter) in an untested idea, unless you have a relationship with an investor. And investing is a relationship business.

If a friend whom I trust and I know is a talented chef comes to me with a restaurant idea, I'll consider investing. If a random person comes to me, there is <10% chance (unless his food is absolutely amazing in every regard) that I will consider investing.

I'm happy to invest in a good tech business. But most things that I see just aren't great businesses.

You're likely in the US, but many EU countries have investment entities (generally funded by EU funds) that "give out" loans at 3% APR. If you want it, you can get it done. But there are very few barriers to entry. A good idea in need of funding will find funding.
The free version supports 4K (Ultra HD) but not 4K (DCI), which seems a reasonable cutoff point to me - amateur 4K yes, professional 4K please pay.
Not really: Portugal's history, culture and population has no relationship to drug use. There is no history of drug addictions, no culture about it (not even Woodstock), people are similar to other Latin countries in Europe, nothing there to say Portugal is an exception and their solution will not work for others.
> Outrage is profitable.

What will it take to make this statement false? Ban online advertising? Any less drastic options?
That is not what the blog is saying. The blog post does not consider cost - it simply shows that a TPU v3 Pod is twice as fast as the largest DGX-2h cluster.
Space is pragmatic and cost-effective compared to traveling to the Earth's core.
Organised Apple Promotional Material Archive
Does anyone have a system they would recommend for organizing physical notes that backs them up in the cloud?

I take a lot of notes the old fashioned way because I find it helps my retention, but they can pile up fast when I'm particularly busy.
Kolmogorov complexity is not computable – root cause and an example
Is it an advantage that the 9989XE has more cores and threads even if, according to the article, the Ryzen still wins in overall multithreaded performance?
Agriculture is pretty much the dumbest thing you can do to land (other than simply poisoning it.) It's a process of converting ecosystems into people (and, since the invention of artificial nitrogen fertilizer, converting oil into people.)

Ecosystems are more productive, so if we imitate Nature with "applied ecology" (such as Permaculture), we can actually create a new kind of civilization. One that generates more healthy soil than it loses.

Toby Hemenway (RIP) gave a talk, "Redesigning Civilization -- with Permaculture"

> Modern agriculture, industry and finance all extract more than they give back, and the Earth is starting to show the strain. How did we get in this mess and what can we do to help our culture get back on track? The ecological design approach known as permaculture offers powerful tools for the design of regenerative, fair ways to provide food, energy, livelihood, and other needs while letting humans share the planet with the rest of nature. This presentation will give you insight into why our culture has become fundamentally unsustainable, and offers ecologically based solutions that can help create a just and sustainable society. This is the sequel to Toby's popular talk, "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and The Planet, but not Civilization."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b7zJ-hx_c
How Are Words Represented in Machine Learning?
To be honest, even as an American who grew up around lots of adults that carried: yes policemen (and anyone else) open carrying is scary and I personally dislike it.
There’s absolutely a market for data analysis on a contract basis. For instance: a startup that doesn’t have enough work for a full time analyst indefinitely but needs to pull together a whole bunch of reports over a month or two to support an effort to raise funding.
>However, very little energy was spent on questioning whether spending in space was right thing to do.

There was considerable energy spent questioning it and the project was almost scrapped numerous times. It also never had the support of the majority of Americans at any point until the actual launch itself:

https://www.academia.edu/179045/_Public_Opinion_Polls_and_Pe...
Menara, the world’s new tallest tropical tree
There's a link to the generated machine code in a footnote (for a variant returning a bool rather than calling assert!).

It's literally just

xor eax, eax
ret
I guess they want to maximize market share, consumer trust and brand awareness for the best long term gains. Hard to tell from my non existing experience, if someone with real world experience could chime in and give an educated guess.
This is actually not accurate, there are some simple task that are actually very hard to do because of the borrow checked that are trivial to implement in a GC language.
No, I was just supporting my original point. I think that for the most part, people do things because they are incentivized to do them. What is Alcor's incentive to wake me up 500 years in the future?

Contractual obligation? I find it very unlikely that legal systems and national organizations will still be around 500 years from now to make it necessary for Alcor to honor it's agreement with me.

Market forces? I doubt it. Say Alcor is still in business - their business model will have to be very different, given the change in technology we can expect in 500 years. Since they will be selling something very different, will anyone care that they dumped those 500 year old bodies? Probably not. They will just announce on a Friday before labor day weekend that they had an anomaly and lost cooling, and by Monday everyone will have forgotten.

Familial connections? Why would my ancestors want to bring me back to life? Would you want to bring your 80 year old great great great great great aunt back to life right now, and give her antibiotics for the pneumonia she died of, and then care for her? Remember, she has never seen a telephone or a computer or a tanning salon, so it is going to take a lot of work on your part just to get her comfortable with living in the modern world. If you want to bring more people into the world, why not make or adopt a baby? Why pick an old person to bring into the world?

Moral obligation? Ha.

I just don't see any reason for me to be brought back to life. The only way I see it working is if I somehow created a financial reward for whoever brought me back to life. That seems almost impossible to pull off though.
And i was thinking about [fedora's koji](https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/), which is not that far off.
Which only applies to America and not the rest of the progressive democracies which tend to lack these actors.

So why not in Germany, the UK, France, Sweden, Italy? Why just Portugal? That is the question.

Less US-centric thinking!
> Most countries not in the resource curse (and even many with it) have continued to grow.

Britain has seen zero net economic growth since 2006 (that's before any inflation adjustment). That's true of most of developed Europe. France's GDP is not much higher than it was in 2007, without an inflation adjustment (in real terms they've seen at least 20% contraction, plausibly worse given the currency debasement that has gone on since then).

Finland and Denmark, two of the nicest, most highly educated countries in world history, have seen zero net economic expansion since 2008. Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands also fall into that box (the Netherlands economy is smaller in nominal terms than it was in 2008; in real terms it's at least 20-25% smaller).

Germany, the engine of Europe, has seen somewhere between very little and zero real net economic expansion since 2008 ($3.75t economy in 2008, $4t economy in 2018).

Japan has seen zero net economic growth since 1994, a quarter century. Japan is a highly advanced, low crime, high education, high standard of living, high skill nation.

Indonesia was a boom economy and is generally consider a high growth potential economy. Yet their economy is not much larger today than it was in 2011 (~$900b in 2011, $1t today). With even a small inflation adjustment it has seen close to zero net growth.

Russia has seen zero net economic growth for a decade. The same is true for Belarus.

Many other middle income countries in Europe, like Czech or Hungary, have seen close to zero net economic growth for a decade.

The Greek economy has been reset back to where it was around 2003.

Ukraine has seen zero net economic growth since ~1989 approximately.

Egypt's economy is approximately where it was in 2011.

Nigeria's economy hasn't net expanded since 2011 ($411b in 2011, $397b in 2018; and it has considerably contracted since 2014; they partially fall under resource curse though).

Brazil has seen zero net economic growth since 2009-2010.

Mexico has seen almost zero net economic growth since 2007 (all population expansion, zero per capita growth); on an inflation adjusted basis, it is zero or negative.

Turkey has seen zero net economic growth since 2007 ($764b economy in 2007; $766b in 2018).

South Africa has seen zero net economic growth since 2010.

Growth is anything but a given.
What sort of pipeline? Biological?
Honest question: why are you wary of non-Intel CPUs?
ah, I missed that. That is a good cutoff, I think. The free version doesn't appear to support GPU-accelerated h.264 encoding, though, which is a pretty big loss.
TIL that one of the drugs mentioned in the article has a side effect of rupturing tendons. [1]

[1] https://www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/news/20080708/fda-warni...
Amazon Prime isn't worth 2 cups of coffee per month.
> This is driven by programmers' insatiable thirst for performance. Compiler writers are constantly judged on benchmarks, and the only way to squeeze that last flop out of a piece of code is to take the specification to its extreme.

Really? I've seen people switch between competing compilers for licensing reasons, platform support, features---but benchmark performance? Maybe blog posts suggesting that a new compiler wasn't ready.

Compiler writers judge themselves on benchmarks.
Anybody who studied a bit of probability theory knows that this is both false and wrong.
Statistically significant sampling can't be done with only five users.
Confidence will only be reasonably sufficient for a population of 5 (at most). This is like if you addressed your product to 5 people (I don't believe it to be likely, you probably have way more than 5 users).

See this page for assistance with computing sample size function of population and confidence https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/sample-size-calculator/

This article probably keeps being reposted because some people try to save money on user testing

...and that's probably why we keep having sh*tty products out in the wild.
I don't think it is a no-brainer even in retrospect. Much of it was cold war idiocy.
No, but I am a bit perplexed by what that value entails. It looks like it is based on the Cinebench results, which, for the Intel chip, is “simulated.” There are probably also some workloads that behave differently than Cinebench.

On the other hand, I suspect the Ryzen 3950X should be a really good match when that arrives later this year.
You can have as many type ratings as will fit on your certificate. Company policies limit pilots to one or two types at a time, depending on the company.
You would or would not have thought? I suspect you forgot a negation.
Because you get the benefits of space exploration and the secondary benefits as well. For those that support space exploration that's enough. For those that view space exploration as a fetishistic waste of money I don't know what could possibly convince them otherwise. It'd be interesting to know.
To be fair, AWS still has first mover advantage. And Azure has lock-in advantages because of existing enterprise relationships. From anecdotal evidence I know that that base products are largely the same, as is top tier support. If anything GCP seems to have great documentation, may be a shade cheaper and devs seem to like it.

Then everyone has their strengths. If you want to run a lot of containers or ML for example, GCP seems a save bet.
AMD need to price competitively to gain market and thought share back e.g. (I'm guessing) Most data centres will be thinking of buying intel by default, then AMD just due to past experience.
Alloy as well, if you are just trying to reduce search spaces.
For what it's worth, I grew up in Pennsylvania, and when visiting home, I found the keystone shaped state route number signs irrationally relaxing. I'd guess the reason is, you remember the smell from your childhood.
> Would any of you refuse to fly in a 737 max once it returns?

I won't fly on it myself.
That's an interesting question. Why aren't we? I figure we basically already have technology-wise so there's not any research left to do and we have no reason to actually move there yet.
Outrage fatigue, combined with better filtering? There is plenty of stuff that friends share that you don't necessarily want to see.
No, it's evidence contrary to your implication that being forced to move out of a city center isn't a bad thing.
Sure, that's how a lot of professional workflows go: edit in Premiere or Media Composer, then color-grade the final shots in DR. There are a bunch of high-end hardware desks and controllers for Resolve that make it especially good for professional grading work.
I was very surprised as well. It’s pretty awesome isn’t it?
Notably missing:

APL (Dyalog), J, Prolog, Rebol (Red is on the list), PicoLisp, Racket, Factor, 8th (Reva was mentioned and that was the creator's prior project), and Haskell.

Maybe most of the above are too mainstream for the list.
Of course I've heard of it. Unfortunately, you're doing this thing where you state a bunch of at a glance, unrelated facts and leave me to fill in the details. It's the same way people talk about conspiracy theories, and it's an infuriating rhetorical tactic to deal with. So some questions:

Do you think that high speed internet is going to be so wildly profitable to cause a clear diversification in Google's profit? My understanding is that it already doesn't have great margins, and google moving in would increase competition, reducing those margins.

Do you really believe that google plans to diversify by moving into a complelety non software business like internet utilities?

If Google's ad business can be so easily disrupted, why haven't ad blockers noticably done so in the past two decades? Or if they have, why hasn't that impacted Google's profit? If your argument is that it did, but only recently (the TAC stuff), what changed recently to cause that?

Do you think that enterprise offerings like cloud aren't diversification?
No, I'm familiar with the concept but the OP was specifically talking about plant toxins.

I don't know if the idea of extreme dilution and water memory have always been a part of homeopathy. I don't believe those ideas have any merit. They seem like a perversion of legitimate herbal medicine. Perhaps I should have lead with that...
> Ban online advertising?

Would this even change anything? I don't think "profitable" is the right word here. Outrage gets attention, and people want that for many reasons, it just happens to align with the ad business model. I'm not even sure it's the most significant factor though.
> At the end of the day, assembly code is going to execute, and that assembly code is going to (despite the authors protestations to the contrary) have well defined memory of one value or another.

The point is that you may not get the assembly you assume you’re going to get. Like the example shows, it may never even generate something that accesses the value at all.
Salt is. In my grandma's village we have both natural salt rocks and also salt springs people use for cooking, conserving white cheese or preparing pickles. And that village is not an exception in my country, it is the rule in all mountain areas.
It’s bad when they bring it into real life. I know people who I’ve always thought “must get high on getting angry” and they’re some of the most unpleasant people to be around.
Author here. I would like to address some of your questions:

1) The web is decentralized by design - we only need to 'upgrade it'

2) We need to create tools that empower people to leverage decentralized capabilities of the web (so that there would be no need for aunt to run the node)

3) I imagine we should not think about DWeb as some sort of FB replacement but more of an ecosystem where people feel that they have a choice and don't need to give away their content to facebook and other centralized platforms.

It is not clear how this has to be implemented but I feel that some more privacy oriented and data-ownership oriented platforms will emerge in the next five years.
I doubt crashing had anything to do with lisp -- the site crashes hard at least once every week.

It was all about logistics. YC had two competing companies. They pushed them together. The lisp team could get up to speed on python faster than the python team could on common lisp.
You need to pay for the life insurance, not the membership dues. The beneficiary can simply be switched to the next group should Alcor go under, but you need a working life insurance policy in the first place.
> My main idea is that as a programmer what I do is constantly reducing the set of all programs to a particular program which satisfies the specification.

An alternate point of view is to start with the specification, interpreted as a generally nondeterministic program, and then refine it using logically sound optimizations to render it executable. This is roughly the approach of Fiat: http://adam.chlipala.net/papers/FiatSNAPL17/

They’ve used it to generate crypto primitives that are in use: http://adam.chlipala.net/papers/FiatCryptoSP19/