skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're ever in south bay area and want to meet up at a coffee shop, let's :)

For what it's worth, I would be very interested in chatting about this too, as this is my area right now. I'm working on what will hopefully become the Firefox OS compositor integration library, with an eye toward optimum power consumption, and am knee-deep in details of cross-platform composition. It's a very interesting topic.
Pics or it didn't happen. That's an impressive amount of dynamic range you are talking about.
I'm skeptical of IQ enhancing drugs ever coming about. Intelligence is so complex even the actual definition is a controversial topic.

So far we can show that intelligent enhancement can be predicated on exercise, outside of that there are temporary drugs (e.g. coffee) that "boost" intelligence but in actuality boost attention.
The recent roguelite hit Slay the Spire (over a million copies sold on Steam) is also made in Java.
The average American has only one close friend
It's probably the only thing that causes your blood to turn blue, usually from numbing medication haha. Skin looks blue too, but patients are generally totally fine.
Great analysis. Thanks for that. I admit I'm totally just an armchair observer here.

There are the market fundamentals, and there's the reality of irrational exuberance and whatever is likely to happen in the market regardless. So I still think they'll IPO at many tens of billions and mint as many millionaires as Facebook before any potential market realities set in.
There are a lot of issues with Stallman, but when it comes to software freedom, the guy has been more right, more consistently, than anyone else.

The fact that he advocated for "GPL Vx, or any later version" shows how much foresight he had; he even realized that he probably hadn't foreseen every issue, and included a mechanism for fixing it, and rolling out that patch more or less automatically.
It's definitely more applicable. The simulacrum literally starts off as a chat bot.
Depends on motivation and power structure I would think.

These are incredibly productive institutions and under normal operation can build enough resources to weather any storm, plus this kind of thing is what's mainly insured when a storm does hit.

In response to a gradual rise in sea level, they would be expected to adapt at a glacier's pace but anything is possible. For example the island of Galveston was largely raised 8 feet after the disaster of 1900 as the preferred approach to future mitigation, and that foresight turns out to be about as good as you can get so far when it comes to coping with unforseen sea level rise.

You just need to have foresight good enough to forsee the unforseen.

Eventually working in industrial environments like Galveston or Texas City will not be that much different than working offshore in the Gulf. Heck, some operators justify working offshore now because it's not much worse than working in a mainland oil field or refinery anyway.

Besides traditional businesses of Texas, in South Florida probably agriculture and real estate would suffer first, but I imagine tourism would hold out as long as it could and smuggling would not want to go anywhere either, with their multi-century tradition.
Just be careful not to smother your family with your interest in them. I've met some parents with broken relationships with their kids because they failed to recognize that they needed some space as they got older.
I think you can look at FAANG almost as the commercial arm of open source, it's not necessarily bad that they are the best at monetizing open source and increasingly specialized in doing so. It's only bad when they are greedy and keep all of that money, dodge taxes globally and strip benefits from all the employees they can.

This is like the "billionaires can be philanthropists" problem... they overwhelmingly prefer not to so it is vastly less efficient to rely on their philanthropy individually vs a tax collected from all of them.

FAANG have the funds and the expertise monetizing open source to carry the entire open source community many times over, but they will hit a combined trillion dollars in savings before that happens. They will dodge hundreds of billions more in taxes before fueling the open source fire that furthers technology and feeds them recruits, ideas and software.

I've heard it argued that they do pay it forward through their own open source contributions. I think this is more accurately called paying it sideways if anything. They get legal tender fit for any purpose, and what proportionately little code they give back is not legal tender for any purpose.
Free42: An HP-42S Calculator Simulator (2005)
People seem to forget that a lot: losing your shareholder's money isn't a business.
Thanks. I was trying to research this idea at the back of my mind, but I didn’t even know what to search for. I didn’t know the term “program synthesis” existed.
The answer to your question can be found here (needs no introduction, possibly one of his best essays of all): http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
I compared them here, if it helps any:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/05/sony-and-remarkables-dueli...
Acknowledging a real problem facing men is not the same as claiming "being a man is so difficult," and you immediately jumping to that conclusion makes me question your motives.
One could take lots of videos of a person, get a large corpus of their phrases, sentences, behaviors, use deepfakes to generate videos, profit
I wonder how easy and cheap it would be to build a comparable analog computer using modern ICs. I also wonder if analog computers could make a comeback. Training a neural net seems very much like an analog computation to me...
Yes, I exercised regularly so my tax bill was manageable.

The company's trajectory looked more like a hockey stick, so my taxes were negligible until later years — and by then my original grants were exercised, leaving only my relatively expensive refreshers with a lower delta to fair market value
> but I just have no interest in making or maintaining friendships.

There's a possibility that bowling alone often becomes so common that its hard to imagine bowling with others.
Postgres is a long-term support stack at this point, like the JVM. Too many people rely on it. You need a very good reason to pick anything else.
I mean, I wasn’t expecting original research in the article. So I learned a lot reading it...
Yep. That's the conundrum. If the company is doing so obviously well that the shares are likely to be worth something in the future, then they are almost certainly already valued high and have a huge potential tax hit. In hindsight, most hugely successful starts were still a big gamble in their early days when the share price was low and it wasn't the smartest thing to throw thousands, tens of thousands, or even more of your own cash at them.
I was of the type that didn't put myself out there. Certainly I had to get over that first. I have male friends who are lonely, and I keep saying that you do need to get outside your comfort zone.
If nothing else, I respect the grift. He’s already cashed out hundreds of millions and now he’s going to miss out on all the “fun” of this company attempting to go public.
It sounds like you’ve already made up your mind. I haven’t read the suggested book, not Ecclesiastes not Seneca, but I can tell you that there is a way to find peace and happiness without ignoring reality / distraction from a nihilistic truth.

You can be on the boat, day after day, and enjoy the feeling of wind in your hair, feel childlike irritation and curiosity at the sunburn forming, jump in the cool water before climbing back in, all without losing sight of the inevitable.
Same for all of the GNU software distribution, Sun Microsystems’ products, and SGI’s. Even MSDN has had pretty good documentation.

I miss the days when I could understand how something worked just by reading the official documentation first.

To this day, in my open source projects, I do not accept contributions that lack either documentation updates or test cases.
I would argue that in many cases, they aren't even making money off of open source directly. Like, people aren't paying Amazon for MongoDB, they're paying someone for the infrastructure necessary to run MongoDB.
It is all open source.

The only thing that isn't is the very old puppet script that managed the deploy as it was rather bespoke for our setup.

To my own regret I focused far too much on making it an effective platform rather than an easy install, so that bit might feel gnarly but at least the errors are sane and guide you.

The Go API and PostgreSQL schemas: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm

The Django frontend (the client is nothing but a thin client over the API) https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb

The Bootstrap derived theme for the Django fronted https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb-bootstrap

And then other miscellaneous things:

The Go HTML sanitizer for user generated content https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday

Our legal policies for forums on this platform (expensive to produce, but perfectly fitting a forum platform with minimal exposure for the platform owner/admin and minimal but some liability for a forum owner) https://github.com/microcosm-cc/legal

There is also a newer thing, I was (/am?) intending to replace the Django layer with a Go frontend and templating, and then moving the API into this, such that the forum could become a single binary install and thus gain a new lease of life: https://github.com/buro9/microcosm . Once in a while I chip away on that.
>especially if you happen to go trough a divorce when suddenly more than half (if not more) of your friends get to “choose” the other side. Yeah, you get to ask your friends back from high-school or college out for a beer but chances are they’re also in a middle of a divorce

That's really interesting, because so few of my friends are even married at that age. But a lot of that may be where you're from.
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Sorry, I know this will trigger some folks, but this is exactly why I never understood the backlash against "toxic masculinity" that I see from (male) friends whenever the term comes up. Who said it's supposed to be toxic only for others?

Being a stereotypically "manly" man would prevent me in particular from expressing some of the things that make me feel the least lonely, from simple things like cooking and being proud of having made some simple art or handicraft, to hugging friends when I feel down, or being able to vent frustration, fear and other negative feelings in a non-violent way. And I'm not even marginalized by any means. Straight white European tech bro, really.
In essence, if I felt bound to any common stereotype of "Man: as seen on TV" I'd be barred from having meaningful connections with those I call friends.
Didn't the two head honchos already redirect some cashflow to their accounts? I think they and their grandchildren will be fine... Softbank on the other hand...
Yeah, and that’s why most of the modern rural Russia reminds everyone of the 1920s southern states in America.

It was eye-opening to end up at a photography exhibition by a guy who did government-backed photography in the south in 20s and see the same house my babushka used to live in.

But frankly, it doesn’t mean these were _good_ houses.
blaming "short sellers" is a slightly more sophisticated sounding "haters gonna hate" in most situations, but in reality its equally as dumb.
> Mr. Neumann still has allies among the directors and the ability to fire the entire board thanks to shares he controls that carry extra votes.

It defies imagination that a fund would put 10B into a company whose CEO is accountable to no one. I think we may also see new leadership in SoftBank, or at least their next fund.
As someone who is working with X11, I strongly disagree. It really needs replacing badly. It doesn't even work; only a few code paths even get tested on for example GLX, which is why complex X11 apps like browsers need blacklists.

> There is a reason why Intel still stuffs the i368 instruction set in their processors

If you want a CPU analogy, Wayland is more like ARMv8, which was mostly a clean break in terms of the AArch64 ISA, but which still supports 32-bit at the process level. 32-bit and 64-bit code cannot be intermixed in the same address space, but you can run 32-bit and 64-bit apps simultaneously on the same OS, analogously to the way you can run X11 and Wayland apps on the same Wayland desktop using Xwayland. This actually worked out beautifully, and I would have preferred that x86 had followed the same trajectory.
Neither of my grandparents "escaped" (by which I assume you mean divorce), yet it still ended, and my grandmother lived over 30 years alone.
Is it implied anywhere that an increase in IQ corelates with a decrease in EQ?
I don't have a problem with accents at all.

I think, at first, I thought he was faking or exaggerating his accent for effect. Then I realized I wasn't familiar with the Chicago accent enough to know what was real or exaggerated. Then I decided to just listen to the guy and forget about the accent. All this happened within about 10-15 seconds.

In retrospect, I am super familiar with and rather fond of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Boston accents; maybe for me the Chicago accent falls into a kind of uncanny valley where it's close to those other accents to sound almost the same, but different enough to sound "weird" and "fake".

But, the more I watch these videos, the more his accent will be familiar to me.
Former developer at software company deletes his code to protest its ties to ICE
Training a neural net with analog circuitry would mean an extra challenge in the reproducibility of results.

That's currently already a challenge, tiny changes have large differences in performance of the network.
If true, that is a vicious circle as less intelligence means less able to fix the reason you are in the said situation in the first place and so on.

On a theoretical level, the universal basic income should help with this but it failed in this case here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/finland-univ...
I think that making the husband socially dependent on the wife is bad for the same reasons making the wife financially dependent on the husband is. You can say that it goes against the spirit of marriage, but I'd say that those things makes people stay in unhealthy relationships.
Yeah, don't borrow in someone else's currency is a pretty important point, the 10 year Danish Krone Bond is at a -0.48%. If you have to borrow in someone else's currency then you are absolutely /not/ the same position that Denmark is right now.
Imagine trying so hard to build a company and getting to the 11th hour before the IPO and being stymied by something as simple as basic corporate governance.

That’s like trying to launch a tech company but “forgetting” to set up the servers and hoping if you talk about your vision and say “We” enough no one will notice/mind.
Wayland's latency was improved a few years ago to about half a frame, there's probably more room for improvement, but I think just getting a 240hz monitor is better investment of resources: https://ppaalanen.blogspot.com/2015/02/weston-repaint-schedu...

The only applications strongly sensitive to latency are video games or similar, and they take a special low-latency path through the graphics stack, exclusive full-screen mode. Monitor, graphics card, and game engine developers are all doing interesting things with scheduling there, but the main function of the OS / compositor is to get out of the way.

Beyond that there's video playback, but 60fps video is rare, videos have (relatively) huge buffers of decoded video, and dropped frames are easy to overlook, so I don't think it's much of a priority for the OS. Nobody will notice the window manager adding an extra 10ms delay to the video.

Businesses don't care about visual fidelity at all, the most common monitor size is still 1366 x 768. So there's no big push commercially, besides the aforementioned VR/AR.
Not guilty for lost productivity, but for having to fake emotions, showing interest in conversations which I have no real interest and most of all feeling powerless to cure problems of people when they tell about it.
Considering he has the votes to fire the entire board, I'd be shocked if this happens.

Softbank is completely fucked.
I did, but for most of my tenure the company’s valuation was pretty low, meaning my original grants were pennies and the company’s fair market value was depressed, so taxes were manageable.

The way I thought of it when exercising was who cares if I lost a few thousand buying lotto tickets.

Some of my former coworkers didn’t exercise regularly and are now semi golden handcuffed*

*The company extended the exercise period to 10y shortly after I left.
I'm not familiar with travel times in the US at all, but aren't there any trips outside of the North-East area (I don't know, North to South California?) that would make sense by train and that are long enough that this small meeting room concept would make sense?
"In the first test, conducted in Northern California in the late 1960s, a researcher named Calvin Edlund selected 79 children between the ages of 5 and 7, all from “low-middle class and lower-class homes.” The children were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group. First, they all took a standard version of the Stanford-Binet IQ test. Seven weeks later, they took a similar test, but this time the kids in the experimental group were given one M&M for each correct answer. On the first test, the two groups were evenly matched on IQ. On the second test, the IQ of the M&M group went up an average of 12 points—a huge leap."

From Paul Tough's book "how children succeed"
It's not so much the 'core' as the memory. For example it looks like the RTL8367 has 16KB of program memory, 32KB of data memory, 256bytes of SRAM and a 12KB nic buffer. These memory cells will make up the bulk of the transistors in the 8051 part of the chip and tend to be points of manufacturing failure. In many cases the chip would be designed with more memory than it needs under the assumption there will always be a few failures. So if you need 16KB, you design in 18KB and turn off the rows/banks that fail or test as the worst. If too many fail you sell it as next memory size down, or in this case you zap a couple fuses and sell it as the part without an MCU on board. Of course this doesn't always work, sometimes you need more of the non-perfect parts than you have to fill orders so you just zap the fuses anyway.
My wife, when we first met in the mid-90s, used to get DVDs at Blockbuster and always returned them late and paid the late fees with no complaints, which were huge. The first time I went with her to return some they took her money and then told her she was no longer allowed to rent them there anymore.

She was pretty bummed out about that but I was shocked by how much their late fees were and explained to the manager that my wife was paying them way more than their customers who returned them on time and they may want to reconsider. Her response was about as snotty as can be. She said something like "We need them back on time for our good customers". We left laughing because that just seemed crazy and we knew she'd be saving literally $100s per month.

But I was puzzled about why they'd do that. It made no sense at all to me. She was giving them a lot more money each month than their "good customers" which I thought should have put her at the top of that list. And the manager, who was so rude, clearly got a sadistic joy out of telling people "No more DVDs for you!" like the "Soup Nazi" on Seinfield.

Before we'd met I'd never even been in a Blockbuster so that was my only real experience with them and I remember well thinking their customers would flee like rats from a sinking ship when a viable alternative came out.

As soon as I heard of it we bought a Roku and ditched our "Dish" satellite service and after using it I knew Blockbuster was going to take a big hit from that little black box. It was just a few years later I read they were going out of business. By then I'd seen people lined up at "Redbox" dispensers and the Blockbuster where we lived had already closed up.

I have to admit that seeing Blockbuster die like that warmed my soul like a bowl of good hot soup
I’m in my 40s also and I find most of my social needs are met by my wife. She has two groups of friends that she likes to spend time with but I’m okay spending time alone when she is out with her friends.

I have a couple of friends that we force ourselves to get together at least once every other month to at least have lunch but we are all in the same boat - married, jobs, hobbies, side projects or studying so we have to explicitly schedule it on our calendars.

I don’t think it is healthy to depend on only one person for your emotional support and my wife isn’t interested in hearing about the latest geeky stuff that we talk about it. I have another friend who is across the country but we try to catch up once a month.
This is true of many large companies today, though. Facebook comes to mind.
Not a coffee drinker, eh?
Saw them for the first time at the same park about four years ago. One of the trippiest sober experiences of my life. They seem alien.
Very nice! The fact you mentioned Tinder's T+C on Twitter got my attention.
Someone wrote this and had deleted their comment when I went to reply to them, but I thought it was on point, so now I'm saying it:

Curious, why you took offense to OPs post? If you are enjoying not having close friends, then good for you, really. This thread doesn't apply to you.

You remind me of Ricky Gervais' Guitar Lessons bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3dxMGzt5mU

In summary, it's like calling up a guitar teacher and telling them you don't want to learn guitar. Why call?
> 2. Is it possible to build a hybrid database schema? For example, SQLite+JSON?

Postgres and MySQL both have JSON support that can do fancy things which includes indexes, but it's extra work and I don't think it actually gains you anything. I'd recommend using regular old columns for anything you ever plan to want a query on. But if you have other stuff, it's perfectly reasonable to dump a bunch of random garbage into a JSON column. People use this for things like user settings, and are generally happy with it.

> 4. Is it possible to build a custom file format based on SQLite or hybrid one based on SQLite+JSON?

SQLite is already basically a file format. You can store JSON blobs in strings somewhere inside it if that's convenient.
This is great, I've been wanting to do a project like this for a while.

Would be great to get some insight into your data collection/labeling and model design process.
For simple adder/multiplier type circuits analog computers are inferior to digital ones for most uses because of the additive error factor that accumulates over every iteration of a loop.

I imagine that there are some analog circuits that would directly solve complex polynomials or perhaps differential equations without iteration, which would not suffer the error amplification problem. I don't know how common the equations or systems that those circuits solve for are in most scientific or other application use.
Similar doings at TopTal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20707548
Anyone interested in fiction, Stephenson's new book "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" explores this concept and computational power needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell
I also have one of these and price aside it's amazing. It's not android which I think is a positive as it aids the "get out of my way and let me read/write" ethos. It's expensive and it has had some really basic bugs, but if they make a version 2 I'll buy it in a heartbeat.