skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and it makes sense that I was thrown out. It's not like the security guard knows the talk is bullshit. He just saw a guy (me) yelling that, "all you employees of this guy should quit and find real jobs!" I think that was an appropriate response in the moment.

The true failure happened when Blackhat decided it was ok to accept money from a con man.
Tramiel had a habit of firing good engineers 3 months after product release. Either directly, or by screwing them by moving to useless positions or taking bonuses away until people 'got the message'. Those who didnt get what was going on or didnt care about money/dignity were the ones who stayed as long term employees. Jack had an eye for suckers and people putting passion before common sense and self respect.

Whole C64 design team was effed out of promised bonuses and fired/left. People like Bruce Crockett (manufacturing), Al Charpentier (VIC) and Robert Yannes (SID) went to start Ensoniq (later sold to Creative), Chuck Peddle went to Apple, Bill Mensch hung around for two years of abuse. Same with Amiga team (Jay,RJ,Needle).

Those two videos touch on the Commodore culture of curb stomping until only the weak and dumb survive:

Oral History of Chuck Peddle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHF9lMseP8

Oral History of William David "Bill" Mensch Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne1ApyqSvm0
> I see even now sometimes signs prohibiting entering underground parking with natural gas vehicle...

In Portugal that's by law. I had never heard of the VW explosions though and always assumed petrol lobbying was to blame. Either way the law was very effective at killing natural gas cars through mandatory labeling of cars (social stigma) and prohibition of parking in underground garages (big drawback).
Solution: Ignore VCs. They're incentivized for you to be Facebook size. Not the size of the business's opportunity * your execution strength, which is how you stay in business.
Dumb question incoming.

If your company is marginally profitable and stable, and you choose to ignore demands from an early minority stakeholder investor to spend more, what are the consequences? I get that they might stand in the way of future funding rounds, but what if you simply don't need future funding rounds? The VC likely has eight times as many bleeding startups as it has profitable, let alone growing startups. Would they ditch a profitable slow one?
If you put a scope on old commodore computer buses you will quickly realize the reason. You might expect digital signals with somewhat clean edges, in reality its all barely working analog mess with tons of "maybe if I put a resistor/cap/inductor here" hacks and production fixes.

Bil Herd talks about it sometimes when reviewing his old designs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPD5N43VIsk
Well said. We say natural and mean a state sans-man, but our effects are so widespread for so long, there is no way to be confident what such a state would be.
That’s why the rules state the size of your code is included in the calculations
There are custom made Cnc mills designed to make weapons that sell for less than a thousand bucks.
Really. So why do need FAANG bring any immigrants if there is so much talent and it’s just a question of money, which they have plenty of.
[Citation needed]

Call of duty and rainbow six and countless other FPS games sell big on console. Google says games sales are 35% PC.

Which again has nothing to do what I said. Stop turning this into a petty flames war.
YouTube.
This kind of attention is great for us, bad for him. Now there's a PC Mag, Vice, and Gizmodo article indexed high up on Google when you search Time AI that debunks him.
I mean, I live in the UK - there's always a pub round the corner. And yes, there are pubs which are essentially restaurants and everyone is keeping very low volume level - those are fine. But the types of pubs that all my friends/co-workers go to after work(filled to the brim with people, TV on, half of the people there are just there for pre-drinks before going on a night out) - nope, can't do those. And yet my friends can somehow easily sit there for 4 hours and talk about stuff while I'm just dumbfounded how anyone can understand a word unless it's literally shouted into my ear. Like, it's not just the venue choice - I can clearly see that other people are talking with each other.
When working late in DC - I recall looking across the street a parked car fire. The amazing thing was by 5 am ( fire started at 4am) there was virtually no sign of the fire... sharing this because I think it’s not too uncommon for parked ice cars to catch fire
A pro-church atheist is a great description for me too, it never occurred to me but that's a great phrase.

Yes, I'm definitely including megachurches (esp. nondenominational megachurches) as evangelicals, and I totally agree with the friendly small church vs dystopian megachurch experiences. Just about any TV pastor is an evangelical as well. For someone who's not a believer, I'm surprised at how sad this state of affairs can make me. Joel Osteen/Jim Bakker/Jerry Falwell Jr./Pat Robertson/etc. are just the worst.

If I could point at any one evangelical belief that for whatever reason offends this atheist, it's Prosperity Gospel. The idea that you should follow Christ so that material wealth will be drawn towards you, in correlation to how hardcore you are about Jesus. Of course this conveniently explains why the Joel Osteens of the world have mansions and private jets and so on- it's not a pyramid scheme, it's Christ's blessing magically seeping into their bank accounts on account of their innate holiness. But what's more depressing by far is that they've gotten so many people to actually believe that that's what's in the Bible.
Where did I make that argument?
Parked gasoline cars catching fire is very common. I know of two cases personally of well maintained, supposedly good quality cars that burned down after parking. There's a lot of heat left over in a car that's been running for a while.
Your sentence seems to insist on "billions", but it's not that much in regard to all the invested money in the world. According to UNESCO (http://uis.unesco.org/apps/visualisations/research-and-devel...), the world's spending on R&D (only) is estimated to be $1.7 trillions. Apple's R&D investment for 3rd quarter of 2019 is $4.2 billions. So, yes, billions are burned in the hope of finding things. Most probably, future generations will even burn hundred of trillions.
You just have to be picky when you choose cars; my twenty year old Land Cruiser came with twin batteries factory fitted - though rather than one for starting and one for all the thingamajigs, they went with two beefy ones in parallel - 2*105Ah makes sure it starts every time.

I have been contemplating using the second one as an auxiliary battery after installing a fridge in the boot, though. Basically a matter of fitting a voltage monitor and a hefty relay.
I’ll bite, I’m old and have teenagers. They often still play AoE2 and Half Life. There really hasn’t been a good replacement for AoE2. StarCraft is the closest, but we still like AoE2 better.

That said: Breath of the Wild exceeds everything else I’ve played sing Kings Quest 4.
Extending Bostrom's analysis, it would seem likely that there would have been millions of simulations before us. It seems statistically unlikely none of them would've discovered they were being simulated if we end up being able to discover it. So would they not have repaired the issue? Why waste the resources to conduct another simulation when you know there is a loophole in its detectability?
Decompressor size is included in the measurement rules.
Whose responsibility is it to filter content? It seems the Russian Federation wants Google to interpret the law instead of courts.
Synchronized Drawing Apps with Couchbase Mobile
Page/block size is not inode size. While filesystems very often work in chunks of 4KB, the normal inode size is 256 bytes on ext filesystems and 1KB on NTFS. They get packed together.
Are you running at the size and complexity of a FAANG? Do you need them? There are plenty of developers that would gladly take less than half of the salary of a FAANG to not have to move to the west coast.
I played varsity sports as a teenager, and the most helpful advice my coaches ever gave me was to control our inner voice to be positive. The best way to get out of a slump and back into "the zone" is to be positive and celebrate minor victories, since minor victories lead to more victories and eventually add up to major victories.

It sounds simple, but it's actually quite challenging to control inner discourse since you can't control your subconscious mind.
I like the idea of us finding bugs in the implementation of reality; it's a program that debugs itself!

For the same reason I don't think the creators would roll us back: memory of finding previous bugs would make us better at finding new bugs in the future.
He could have done the same with a regular capacity 30 round magazine. The 100 round mags are generally junk anyway.

Flash suppressors make shooting at the range more comfortable, and ar15s don’t have “1000 yards of range”, but hunting rifles often do.

And what business is it if anyone in a free country wants to own more guns than you feel happy for them to?
It was obvious then and should be even more obvious now that it was bs, just like saying reducing taxes gives the govt more tax over time because the economy grows. This is used as an excuse but it's been shown yet again this is not what happens in reality.
There’s a part of me that misses T9 texting on my cell phones. There was a time that I was very good at T9, and because it was deterministic (with auto complete off) you could text without looking and it’d text exactly what you meant. Definitely can’t do that now, and voice controls aren’t as good.
Right, but this means, for Canadians, dividends paid by non-Canadian corps are taxed as regular income. Stocks to do buybacks instead of dividends are more valuable to us.
Yep, videogames.
All something like GPT-2 is, is a text compressor, a model for an arithmetic encoder specifically. It predicts the probability of the next token conditional on a history. You can directly measure the 'bits per character'/'perplexity' as a measure of (compression) performance, and that is typically how these language models are evaluated: eg http://nlpprogress.com/english/language_modeling.html https://paperswithcode.com/task/language-modelling

The Hutter dataset is included, incidentally, and the top is a Transformer-XL (277M parameters) at 0.94 BPC. Does all of that seem 'very much not AGI'?
Just reference the relevant iso norms.
That's great that you don't do that.

Sorry if this is blunt:

Paying low 100s + de minimis equity for distributed systems and DSP engineers in a super high COL city like LA is going to be a hard sell for most. People with real experience in those fields will be older, can't reasonably support a family there on that salary, and have a lot of options. The type of inexperienced employee who could pick these things up quickly is already being courted by FANGs on campus, for more money.

To get someone to work for that salary, the equity needs to be meaningful, or the startup needs to be the next Facebook or Google, not a niche product. If I'm thinking of working for you, at the max equity you list, the rosiest picture I could paint myself is an exit 4 years from now for $500mm, after which I'd get $500k assuming no dilution = $125k a year. And that's assuming all the stars align to make that happen.

I don't think you should close, since you have a cool product, but maybe consider moving to a lower COL area? I'm sure you could find plenty of people in a place like Huntsville, AL. Lots of defense contractors have engineers with the skills you need and I bet working for a fun startup would be more exciting than what they're doing now.
It's in the interest of blue-collar workers to repeal all laws that empower unions by violating the contracting rights of employers because that will attract investment into the U.S. manufacturing sector. Outlawing all employment contracts except those that give enoemous power to the first crop of employees that votes to form an official union is a short-sighted strategy for improving worker welfare.

Wage growth in the US and Western Europe has been very stagnant over the last 40 years. Meanwhile wages have tripled over the last 20 years in China.

During the "Gilded Age", which unions and their activists regularly fearmonger about, wages grew at the fastest rate in US history. And unlike the post-war era, this wage growth didn't come at the expense of US industry, where unions extracted enormous unsustainable concessions that culminated in major US companies declining or going bankrupt. The wage growth in the late 19th and early 20th century accompanied massive US industrial growth.

The best way to help workers is to embrace Capital. The worse thing you can do is embrace an anti-capitalist ideology.
I can text without looking on iPhone 5/SE, but that went away with the 8
> - the above should be treated as impediments

Why do you say this? This only deflates the meaning of the word impediment. To me it would only create ambiguity when we start using the word impediment for things that are not impediments to the common goal. How would you differ between those?
Where does your brain get news from then? How does it get facts about what is happening in the world, that are more trustworthy than facts provided by any news organization? The facts must come from someplace prior to entering your brain, right?
Your explanation "he was prematurely let off suicide watch" requires an explanation. Why he was let off suicide watch? This is where many think that powers-that-be are involved.
The survival is dependent on it being in its dormant state, where it is solid and well protected from said extreme elements.

Although with water availability, presumably there is some time between the highest and lowest temperatures where the tardigrade could survive and proliferate. Of course, there needs to be some kind of food, as well.
On letting let people figure things out for themselves
Unfortunately this seems to be foreseen, the decompressor size is included in the measurement.
The emergency brake. I really need that to be a mechanical lever and not an electrical one. If something is going wrong on the road I need a backup brake that takes me under a second to activate while in a state of panic with my eyes glued to the road and it had better be functional.
not really. you are just too poor. if you had the means to create the right connections, you could be paid by the army, like blackwater.
Unpopular opinion, I just don't understand this whole reasoning and this whole startup mythology thing.

So what he said is that if its a viable, sustainable business that the founder wants to do, that adds value to society, but there is no exponential growth on the horizon, then it should be shut down.

Because (and he said it explicitly), the only thing that makes a startup truly a startup is the exponential growth and nothing more.

This is just crazy, exponential growth is extremely rare in business and only happens in situations like the way Facebook grew, by upon sign up getting the whole list of email contacts of the new user, and sending invitations to join Facebook to all of them.

Most of the times in business, linear growth is what happens. what's wrong with a 20 employee company that adds a ton of value to society, operates for 30 years and gives the founder and family a comfortable life, isn't that more than enough and worthwhile pursuing?

Exponential growth is impossible to predict and only comes by accident, it's like chasing the rainbow.

Just focus on building a real business that you really want to dedicate your life to, preferably borrowing as little money as possible if it all, how about that?
Why aren't you using a TN visa?
Anything that fixes the timezones on the list? Flat Earth?
You can't fail at meditating.

Just sit.

"thoughts intrude"

Just sit.

"angry at myself"

Just sit.

"I give up"

Just sit.

Breath.

Just sit.
btw i came a across a definition of `||` which wouldn't have the `5 + -5` problem, and thus would make it all work with integers:

x || y = x + y - xy
I put docs in vcs, it is convenient. But, binary formats are less useful.
Would you please review the site guidelines and stop breaking them? They include: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Also: "Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not just the military in wartime though. My father was in the US Army in the late 1950s after the Korean ceasefire was signed but when they were still drafting soldiers to be deployed there. It was the first time he had any major interaction with African-Americans as they were rare in the small Northern town he grew up in. Serving alongside them and realizing that they weren't much different from himself was a significant experience for him.
There's also no reason cap gains should be taxed less. It's just another way that wealthy have screwed the tax system. It's little different than allowing stock buybacks. Those actually used to be illegal - until 1982. https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-...
His comment is exactly accurate. The US didn’t have gun control until the democrats enacted Jim Crow laws throughout the south.

The entire purpose and history of gun control in the US was to keep black people from being able to defend themselves from the KKK.
>Feels too close to cultivating schizophrenia.

It seems like you don't really have an idea of what schizophrenia is and how it affects people who struggle with it.
Don't be deceived by the appearence of cash. IT is not paper money that makes goods and services exist: burning a bill of paper does not impoverish society, and neither does putting it under the mattress.
Yes, it does not at all seem like AGI! You’ve explained succinctly why the GPT2 result is maybe not on the road to AGI.
Wait. Let me get this straight.

Touchscreens, which are ideal for representing multiple user unterfaces in an intuitive way, but requiring constant visual contact are being replaced by a physical user interface that can be used by both touch, and memory?

Why was touchscreen ever even a consideration for controls you're not looking at?

Touchscreen is great for phones. It is awful for keyboards (see macbook pro). And if is even more awful for controls. Has nobody researched this before spending a few hundred million dollars?
I used to play this on my old P200 just fine. It was a great game and I loved the electronic soundtrack and artwork. It was very immersive.
Hey Andy, sorry I missed your startup. I've just added it to the list. =)
Quoting the abstract:

>Regenerative fields had 29% lower grain production but 78% higher profits over traditional corn production systems.

Lower yield and much more expensive for consumers is a difficult sell IMO.

There's some comments here on this study:

http://csanr.wsu.edu/regen-ag-solid-principles-extraordinary...
Not OP, but I’d imagine because there’s no path for greencard on TN
>Do you really consider kindle exclusivity a VIP experience?

What do you mean by Kindle exclusivity? Personally I purchase an ebook or physical book on Amazon just about every month. I read these on my iPad and sometimes on my iPhone if my iPad's battery is dead. I don't own a Kindle device and would never buy one because my 2018 iPad Pro is leaps and bounds better for my use cases vs. anything Amazon offers in the tablet space.

>Do you really consider replacing organic discovery with pay to play advertising a VIP experience?

Citation needed.

Look - if you despise Amazon, that's fine but at least post something with more substance.

Personally, I hate that there's so much Chinese knock off garbage on Amazon, and it's not clear to me which reviews are legit and which ones are fake. I've adjusted my consumer behavior so that most of my purchases end up being books or specific branded items "sold by Amazon" instead of Chinese sellers.
Apple raising prices on their phones so 1k was probably an irrational choice. It's amazing how they are repeating history of the first time jobs was ejected from apple and they reduced innovation and were on the way to death until he came back and saved them with nextstep.
Have you ever met a gun owner? Most do not want government overreach, hate facism(the real definition, not the “any Trump supporter” definition the left made up last year), and would outright revolt over a military dictatorship.
I'll have to give this a go. I'll probably fail miserably but it sounds like fun. Related: [1] Here is my (sophomoric) attempt at a compression algorithm, and [2] here is the blog post I wrote about it.

[1] https://github.com/zelon88/xPress

[2] https://www.honestrepair.net/index.php/2019/03/08/xpress-an-...
As with most maxims, the rule is simple, but subtle, and a naive interpretation ("do exactly what you'd prefer for yourself to others") quickly founders on shoals. Generally a small bit of life experience, intelligence, and empathy rapidly floats one over these reefs, however.

Used as a broader heuristic, the principle divides somewhat into "don't be a dick" (don't actively cause harm to others), and seek to understand their needs and wants, within reason, and if you're able to assist in securing those, again, within reason, try to do so. Most especially where reciprocated.

The devil resides in the usual places, and sorting those out becomes an interesting Lebenswerk.
People thinking that 1 GB of RAM is not much is one of the main problems in computing today. Please stop.
> Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions?

Because they are tracking clicks on each button that goes to an open page. It's not really over engineering, but side effect of good old tracking.
If the problem with Twitter/Facebook is that they have too much influence (a fair point IMO) and thus need regulation shouldn't we solve that monopoly problem rather than trying to remove the right of forums to choose what content they host?
Interesting! I’ve never seen anyone else do it either.

It’s similar to pain but it’s more like a sensory input at a level of intensity that is so overwhelming that it feels like it is or could cause permanent physical harm to whatever in my ear is receiving that input.

I guess I just described pain, but it feels a little different because the sensory input itself is the source of it, it’s not a side effect of anything else that’s happening, and it doesn’t really feel similar to any other kind of pain.

Fire alarms do this to me too. I lived in a building with false alarms every few weeks. I would like to have ignored them and continued working, but it is just impossible. I have to cover my ears and wait for the pauses between sounds to even do anything with my hands, like unplug a laptop or open a door.
You can apply for a Green Card on a TN visa you just can't renew your TN if you do.
I use Ansible scripts to automate the setup on my new Macs, so far so good
I'm having a bit of a hard time relating to the notion of a "voice in my head" being "vicious". I tend to think by "talking" to myself in my head, but it's more to formulate my thoughts in a format that is easier to examine. Sometimes it takes the form of a dialogue where I go through a conversation with opposing viewpoints. There's not really what I'd call a "voice" though, it's more like just the impression of words.

What I've noticed is that sometimes what I think "aloud" has little relation to what I actually do. I might acknowledge in my head that it would be logical or beneficial to take a certain action, but that very rarely translates into any increased motivation or desire to take that action.
I have this - and a set of NHS hearing aids help, but do not completely fix the problem. It's worse when tired.

As others have said, it's also a pub design issue. Modernist open bright bars are very noisy; traditional pubs with wood paneling, carpets and snugs are much better.
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