skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, my motivation to accept a job at GitLab didn't come from how much I could make relative to everyone else in the company, it came from how I could be doing the same work I was doing for a local company but from home. Salaries aren't the only thing that make one company more appealing than another.
Better to just switch to lithium-first gear in that kind of situation.

Why buck 3.7V to 1.5V only to buck/boost it again?
> and phones also don't suffer from sudden power outages

Perhaps you have never dropped your phone, but in my experience, on a dropped phone the battery cover and the battery often go flying.
The implication here is that a lot of value associated with 2019-era VC-funded startups is derived from the revenue they receive by selling to other VC-funded startups.
But in all those cases (I have used most of them), there was _some_ way a consumer could acquire hardware (and drivers) to use the tech. It might've been expensive, but I could go out and buy an SATA card, or SCSI 2, or whatever.

With A2, so far I have not seen any way any consumer (or anyone, really) could achieve 2000/4000 IOPS.

That would be like selling a SATA 2400 drive for 2x the cost of an SATA 600 drive... but not selling any kind of controller that could use more than SATA 600 bandwidth.
> Incremental rewrites (aka refactoring)

Refactoring is recoding a component while maintaining it's external interface so that external interactions with the component are unaffected.

Rewrites, incremental or otherwise, do not necessary preserve external interfaces (an incremental rewrite doesn't start clean slate, but instead progresses by gradual replacement of existing code.

The two ideas are not closely connected.
By "we are not even close to achieving insect-level intelligence" I think I meant that what we have now is not close in intelligence (whatever that means) to insects.

Some insects are pretty stupid! Fleas and ticks have a good and highly adapted repertoire of behaviors, but for the most part, as far as we know, most individual behaviors are fairly simple.

I mostly regret having chosen bikes rather than electric scooters for my original comment.

Here's where your analogy falls down. We don't even have working examples of a complete warp drive, or anything like it. On the other hand, we don't have any commercial airliner sized beamed-power electric jets, but we have smaller conceptual models of the involved devices which demonstrate the principles. This is why I'd say we're "close to close" to insect level intelligence. 10 years and $10B would get us to the flea level. I think that's "close" like airliner sized beamed-power electric jets is close.
You miss the point. Those 80% didn't just choose low cost optometrists. They don't need high-end optometrists. A specialist with all the qualifications to help the issues with your eyes is far and above what I need to fix the relatively minor flaws in mine.
The genius of LOP-G is that it can be converted back to an asteroid intercept platform (its original purpose) should the next president decide to change NASA's mission yet again.
You can set `QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2` (or whatever) as an environment variable and the entire UI will scale. But by default, it should be trying to use your desktop scaling and DPI settings -- you might want to try changing those, first.
I tried replying to your comment previously, but it seems you're unaware of it. Your e-mail address posted in another one of your comments isn't working, as well as the official "Contact us" e-mail address on the same website.
> AGI is possible because intelligence is possible (and common on earth) in nature.

But you haven't asked if we're capable of building it. While it might be technically possible are we capable of managing its construction?

All I see today is ways of making the process more opaque at the benefit of not having to provide the implementation. How does that technique even start to scale in terms of its construction? I worry about the exponentially increasing length of the "80% done" stage, and that's on the happy path.
your data.
Amazon Logistics is... special.

I regularly have packages “delivered”, but they mysteriously show up a day or two after the claimed delivery. I assume this is the logistics “contractors” missing their quota and making up for it later.
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In fact, Frontier charges more for the middle seat. I assume this is because middle-seaters are likely to be a couple/family wanting to sit together and forced to pay the premium. No solo traveler would willingly purchase a middle seat, so you don't need to optimize for pricing the middle seats for them.
Hopefully not humanity in this case.
Same here! I tried really really hard to make org mode work for me but never managed to get it to stick. I now use workflowy and I am not missing the extra features
Even if you avoid providing your DOB, you almost always have to put the year you graduated college, and that makes it pretty easy to ballpark age.
My example literally demonstrates just how cheap they can be???
It is also possible that the article mistook the cell discharge curve with their self discharge. Self discharge happens due to imperfect chemistry regardless of what is connected to the battery: you charge a cell at 100% then put it in a drawer, and after some time it falls below any usable current by itself. Usually it takes months but I had very poor cells self discharging in less than two weeks, although they could indeed deliver the advertised current in shorter times.

As you pointed out, NiMH cells have a much flatter curve than alkaline ones, but they also self discharge quicker than alkalines, so for example in very low power devices such as remote controls or clocks where one would expect long times between recharges, they aren't the best option because their self discharge time is much shorter than their use time.

In my kitchen I have an exception: an old electromechanical wall clock in which I swapped the alkaline cell with a NiMH one, but both use and self discharge are dealt with by a small solar panel connected in parallel with the cell, which in this case works as a voltage stabilizer too. So far about 4 years passed without changing or recharging anything, and it gets direct sunlight for a very short time every day.
> There is a non-zero chance that we are a few breakthroughs away from creating a technology that far surpasses the nuclear bomb in terms of destructive potential.

No, there is exactly zero chance that anyone is "a few breakthroughs away" from AGI.
Our son used to go to a HS in the east bay where foreign nationals would pay residents of the high school to essentially adopt their kid so they could enroll, take every AP and Honors class possible, and get into a UC campus.

It’s crazy. We actually hated the public schools and moved away.
Fully half of my current team at Google will be very surprised to hear that
I understand that many prefer this. My point wasn't really so much mine or your preference -- my point was that it is a question of stylistic preference, not about spaghetti vs not.

As you simply describe your own stylistic preference I am not sure if you agree with me about that or not?

If you actually write a seperate test for the function then you have two callsites and of course it must be a seperate function.
This is my experience. The only time I had an issue with corruption (using over 60 different microSD cards through 7 years and maybe 50 or so different Raspberry Pis) was when I used a little .5A microSD AC adapter that came with some cheap battery powered device that broke.

I have not had any problems when using a reliable power supply. I'm guessing the 'endurance' or 'industrial' cards some people claim are lifesavers are just doing something to guard against flaky power input when doing reads and writes, so it masks the issue.
> ... because all attempts to demonstrate the opposite philosophically are fraught with difficulty.

Can you give at least a rough sketch or gist of the argument you are referring to?
Why not compare with other remote companies, but with local ones?

Furthermore, I’d care a lot if I made a lot less than a colleague for the same type of work at the same company.

Living in a cheap area comes with drawbacks. It might be a good choice for some, but a necessity for others (maybe they have relatives to take care of). I don’t really see how my choice of location should affect my payment in a remote company at all. But then, maybe a company like Gitlab wouldn’t be the right place for me, because I don’t share their salary philosophy.
Of course it is trading one assumption for another.

It basically comes down to "absent other specifications, one state is as probable as another". As good Bayesians, we should reject this sentence: We always, always need a prior; and if the prior is too crazy (e.g. has zero probability mass on the correct hypothesis), then no amount of observation will ever help us.

Since we deal with a continuous system, this is also a nonsensical sentence on purely mathematical grounds: It could be "absent other specifications, one state has as large probability density as any other, measured relative to Liouville". An easy calculation shows that this state of affair (thermodynamic equilibrium) is preserved by the flow. Furthermore, "If any state has as large probability density as any other, measured to a small (absolutely continuous) distortion of Liouville, and you wait long enough, then it all evens out to Liouville", i.e. small distortions decay (mixing).

Large distortions do not need to decay. For example, you could single out one specific crazy periodic trajectory (there are many crazy periodic trajectories, but the set of crazy trajectories has small ordinary phase-space-volume), and our large distortion is "I am somewhere on this specific periodic trajectory". If we start on the periodic trajectory, then we stay on it; hence, this state of affairs is preserved as well.

In order to separate the two, we need an axiom, like "Liouville is a good prior". The equations of motion don't tell us that the first corresponds better to reality than the second! This is an empirical observation.

Now start with Liouville, but prescribe that our initial data are in a specific low-entropy macro-state. This means that we cut out some non-crazy region of phase space and say "start anywhere here, but then count all states as same probability". Then the second law holds (this is pseudo-theorem).

If we initially started with our crazy measure (concentrated on a single periodic trajectory), then the second law fails / is vacuous. If we permitted to cut out a crazy region of phase space, then it would also fail (crazy region: Take a sane region R0 at time T0 and a sane region R1 at time T1, and our crazy region consists of all points in R0 that will end up in R1 after time T1-T0. All these points will end up in R1, so no second law for you).

This general program is as strong as it gets, and all the "non-crazy" caveats are imo much less arbitrary than just adopting the second law directly. Of course this opens a giant can of worms: What exactly does non-crazy measure mean? What is a non-crazy way of slicing-and-dicing phase space into macro-states? For which systems of physical thermodynamic interest can we formally prove chaoticity / fast mixing?

Ok, I actually know the answer to the last question: Almost none. But I also know the answer to "for which such systems of interest does anyone seriously doubt that we have chaoticity / mixing": Almost none.
If you have a tolerance for video, I'd recommend the bootcamp [1]. Otherwise the tutorial [2].

I'm not familiar with all of the systems you mentioned, but I'd think of it more as a Spark or Dask or MPI competitor and less as a job scheduler. We have tasks, the runtime automatically identifies dependencies between tasks based on what data they use, and the support for describing different partitionings of data is very expressive.

[1]: https://legion.stanford.edu/bootcamp2017/ (updated source code here: https://github.com/elliottslaughter/regent-tutorial)

[2]: https://legion.stanford.edu/tutorial/ (there's also a parallel version in Regent which I think is easier to read, but has less descriptive text: http://regent-lang.org/tutorial/)
that's really bad for the locals

Exporting housing services is a great business and a tremendous opportunity that is too rarely framed as such. https://slate.com/business/2013/05/exporting-housing-service...
I'd agree that risk capacity (or element of ruin, as it's known in gambling circles) is a big factor in rising inequality. But there are many other advantages that the wealthy enjoy that may also explain the divergence. The wealthy can borrow money at much more favorable rates, they can meet minimum investment thresholds in ventures or funds that provide higher rates of return, they benefit from economies of scale in large businesses, the list goes on and on.

And just as there is no one major cause, there is no one major solution, like a wealth tax. Rather, we need to overhaul much of our financial and business regulation to favor decentralization. Limits on corporate and real estate ownership, corporate board participation, and business advertising would all go a long way toward reinvigorating small business and creating a healthier, less homogenized economy.
They don't pay income tax. In a country with free medicare and cheap post-secondary education, and many other low income benefits this is a massive problem.

"nine of 10 recent Chinese immigrants arrive in Metro Vancouver with enough money to immediately buy homes. But only half hold down jobs during their first five years in Canada, while four of 10 report they’re surviving on low incomes."

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-how...

Ritzy Richmond neighbourhood where many are ‘poor’

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Part+Ritzy+Richmond+nei...
Or you could change your screen resolution?
Do you know if the tip was for delivery or for the restaurant?
I don't think the Pi 4 supports netboot yet[1].

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
Why do I think that writing a script in Expect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect) would take as long as doing this and then you would be done?
You raise a good point. Sure, it can't match the scale. However, I think that if you can sway the intelligent and conscientious, you've won most of the battle. You don't need to (and really can't) counter every bad or false argument or idea. Maybe I'm too optimistic, though.

Trying to scale effective debate is a hard problem. I've run across a few entities that are trying to make civil, open discourse more commonplace. Unfortunately I forget the name… Anyone got examples?
Yeah my wife bought ‘tylenol’ that was a bunch of individually wrapped packs of two marked ‘not for resale’. I made her throw them out.
Mythical man month. I feel like you're seriously underestimating how hard this is. Its got to be one of the greatest engineering challenges of our species and to flaunt that its "near zero cost" is offensive.
True, but not blameless - he was the one to attempt to execute the plan that way.
I loved Detriot Funk too - introduced me to Urban Exploring - which I've never done enough of! https://detroitfunk.com/rear-view-mirror/
Going to infinity and beyond documentation with OpenAPI
We are using https://wp2static.com/
And putting result on s3 with cloudfront in front of it
It's for delivery.
You can always find an excuse.
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Yep, got a car seat cover that was supposedly new and had a broken zipper and someone else’s name written on the tag.
AGI in the sense of robots that can do the jobs people can, design better robots and so on would be a game changer in itself. You can leave to philosophers to argue if they have true feelings and that.
I wasted two years on emacs.

I write code, so I thought emacs would be the learn-once-editor-of-a-lifetime but it was just always an exercise in frustation and wrestling bad defaults.

If your using it to write code, emacs is, by default, worse than $IDE because its not built for the write, debug, run cycle an IDE excels at.

I only mention this because a lot of programmers and hackers seem to hold it up as a hallowed piece of technology and I the elitism makes you want to try it so you can be up there amoung the gods.

Everytime I wanted to write code, I would have to cobble together little scripts to shoe horn in build steps and it was always more work than VSCode would make me do. I want to write code, not make my editor work in a sane way.

Org mode is oft touted as the 'killer app' - its entirely unportable. Android and iOS don't have clients that are useable by modern standards. You will hear "oh but you can install this plugin and then it will automate converting your todo list to HTML and it can then run that on a serv...". No thanks, I just want to sign in once, and everything to be synced.

It doesn't have the idea of syncing and its totally uncollaborative. I can't share it in any meaningful, interactable way.

The world has moved on, emacs is a relic of the old world and I finally feel fine in saying that.
"maybe in the future" are four words I've learned to dread hearing from any developer. YAGNI goes much, much deeper than most people realize.
A Finnish company is making food out of thin air
I used webvan back in 1999, and it felt... ridiculous? Like they had to be spending a ton of money to bring me basic groceries? But 1999 was like that.

What I think they really missed is how much they were in the logistics business rather than the grocery business -- immediately. That's a seriously tough nut to crack and you have to be Amazon or Walmart or (now) Uber to really play in that space.
Does amazon canada have a counterfeit problem? To my knowledge I haven't received any and I'm wondering if the same comingling issues exist.

Or are counterfeits generally perfect visual frauds?
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Laws by definition mean it is not theft, but yes, this practice is widespread, legal and has been around far longer than the new tech-oriented contract workforce.
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That's a great way of hiring people who aren't good enough to get a remote job at SF wages. The problem is that it cuts off the ability to hire the top of the market. I currently live in Boulder, Co, but I never even considered working for a business that wasn't in (and paying like) NY or SF.

For top talent you're not competing with the local crappy .NET consulting shop paying $60k a year, you're competing with every SV startup that's open to going remote for the right hires.

All that said, lots of reasons other than comp to take a position, and it seems to be working just fine for GitLab!
If we only had a technology that could be used to build more housing units on a given plot of land, we could probably build as many housing units as people want to buy. Until such technologies emerge from the land of science fiction, we'll be stuck with shortages, because the problems are really technical, not legal.

https://www.vox.com/a/new-economy-future/urban-sprawl-housin...
>Unfortunately there are no FDA approved tests for the infection she suspects I have (bartonella,) and the tests that are available are only 80% accurate and cost $1000 (not covered by insurance.)

FWIW I tested positive for Bartonella via Igenix. IIRC this was treated with Rifampin (not fun) and Bactrim (fine). Unfortunately the side effects of being on these antibiotics long term are pretty real. When you kill all the good bacteria in your gut, the fungus grows wild, so make sure you're addressing that.
> If AGI is achievable

It almost certainly is. Humans make new intelligences all the time.

> and achieving it will have consequences that dwarf everything else

It probably won't, humans make new intelligences all the time. Hanging the technology base for that doesn't have any significant necessary consequences.

A revolution in our ability to understand and control other intelligences might have consequences that dwarf anything else, with or without AGI, but that's a different issue, and moreover one whose shape is basically impossible to even loosely estimate without some more idea of what the actual revolution itself would be.
I meant the transform orientation controls. I tend to switch transform orientation all the time.

Anyway, about the shift-tab thing - I mixed it up. It's ctrl-tab I meant.
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He's also a prick. The whole I'm not tame or PC, is a lame and tired excuse.

FWIW The linked tweet did make that claim, so hopefully I made that clear.
If there's one vendor I'd trust over any others it's Nootropics Depot. They do all their testing in-house, because it is much more reliable than 3rd party lab testing. The owner frequently gives extensive insight into how the supply chains and testing work. Recent example: https://old.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/cength/testing_...
I know videos do better in engagement than static content, but is there any evidence that screencasting a webpage gives you better engagement?
Truly, and I say that quite seriously, this is one of the great civil rights issues of our time.

Can we do something about it?

Boycott companies (and there are many) that apparently profit from all of this misery and exploitation? In addition to recruiting celebrities to start speaking up about the issue and all that obvious stuff (which sounds superficial, but seems to work in other contexts).
People also don't know that restaurants do this. People generally are not aware of, and do not care about, the specifics of labor practices outside of their own industry.
We had a 7-period system at my high school, but rather than shortening classes, or extending the length of the day, we continued to have 6-periods a day and then had a floating period that occurred at a different time each day. It was announced over the intercom so there wasn't much confusion about what class you were going to. For example:

Mon 1 2 3 4 5 6
Tue 7 2 3 4 5 6
Wed 1 7 3 4 5 6
Thu 1 2 7 4 5 6
Fri 1 2 3 7 5 6
Mon 1 2 3 4 7 6
Tue 1 2 3 4 5 7
Repeat

I loved it. Keeping classes the full duration was more efficient (especially for classes with fixed setup/cleanup time, like band or science labs). Since the floating period was always an elective, it felt you were getting a "break" when it landed on a class you didn't like.

But most importantly it gave you an extra elective. Over the years, as requirements have continued to increase the number of electives that students can take have declined significantly. I think this is a huge loss. We need to be doing more to help students figure out what they want to do when they graduate, and providing exposure to things beyond core curriculum is an essential part of that.
Whatever you do, no matter what field you specialize at, if you use a computer, you need to try to minimize the frustration. Frustration comes (mostly) from repetitive, mundane tasks. Whatever can be automated, should be automated.

And Emacs is an excellent tool to help you with that. Yes, it has a steep learning curve, just like any other professional tool.

Would you get into a cabin of an industrial excavator and complain about controls being un-intuitive? Or would you attempt to pilot a helicopter without proper training?

Why nobody ever said: "ah, the interface of an airliner is cumbersome, we need to make it intuitive for newbies"?

There is a strong correlation between the efficiency of a tool and the learning curve. The more efficient is a tool in the professional setting, the steeper is its learning curve.

Learn Emacs. But be prepared for a long (maybe a lifetime) journey. Be ready for challenges. I promise you - one day it will change your subjective view of the world.