skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's terribly, terribly naïve. Most wealth was skimmed from other's work through manipulation of stock, bonuses, grants and other executive-suite routines. There's no longer any amount of skimming that's considered egregious. Its ramping up and up without limit.
This looks like a direct response to Google’s pricing and a lot better than the existing reserved instances pricing.
> responsible for writing Muyembe out of history

> my book was not an attempt to write the history of Ebola

Calling an accusation "fair" is not the same as admitting the accusation is correct.

It may be fair for the police to suspect you of a crime if you were in the area and match the description. But if you didn't commit the crime then the accusation is not correct.
Devil in Disguise: Jest Snapshot Testing
If we eradicate it in humans and also people stop eating bushmeat (or including chimpanzees or whatever in that category) then it seems to me like it would be unlikely to make the jump back to humans.

This actually raises an interesting question about potential diseases lurking in food sources. We now have 20/20 hindsight that eating an ape caused this and is therefore a bad idea. They obviously didn't know that when they chose to eat apes. There could be other such food sources that we don't know to be problematic yet. I am reminded of prions and mad cow, kind of a similar story.
It is sorta interesting though, your “it’s different, it’s ok if Americans do it” line is actually kinda anti-liberal. I mean, no borders, no one is illegal, Russian troll farmers get their vote too?
= is not an operator. It's part of the assignment statement[1] syntax.

Here's the full list of Python operators[2] as of 3.8:

+ - * ** / // % @
<< >> & | ^ ~ :=
< > <= >= == !=

The post is probably just trolling, but still.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#gramma...

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#op...
> You’re just describing what makes up that ~100x growth.

I don't think it's 100x; I think it's a lot more. I was giving reasons why I think that.

> the basket of goods created back then is less valuable than what we create today. But, that does not somehow mean the value created back then is meaningless.

I never said it was.

> combine harvesters are more efficient than hand tools, but they both end up harvesting gains.

Yes, but combine harvesters greatly multiply the productivity of a single human at harvesting grain, which frees up many more other humans to invent so many other things that didn't exist before.

Also, combine harvesters are only one of the things I mentioned.
>> Tomorrow the champion for human rights will be the Saudis

I thought you were serious if not for the closing line... :)
This article has several fatal flaws. The first one is that there is a loser in every transaction. Generally speaking, economic actors will only voluntarily engage in a mutually beneficial transaction. A person generally does not enter into a transaction where they are injured. To do so on a consistent basis is self-destructive. A shoe maker makes a shoe and sells it to me for a value greater than it costs to produce. I buy the shoe because the value of having my feet warm and protected is greater than the price of the shoe. We both win. The shoe maker would not sell a shoe for less than it costs to produce and stay a shoe maker for very long. I would not pay for a shoe that did not give me enough value.

The authors claim people make a "mistake". In a very small amount of transactions, this may be true, but you cannot base a model on every transaction containing a mistake. But let's look at the math. The authors use an example where every transaction that costs $1 nets either $1.2 or $.83. Over ten transactions, the net is less than $10. But this assumes that the person puts their whole net worth on every transaction. This is false. Each transaction costs a $1. So, the first one costs $1, and the second costs $1, etc. You cannot accumulate the past values of the previous transactions into the current one. This is the coin toss fallacy. If you flip a coin and get 99 heads in a row, the coin toss fallacy says the odds are greater the next flip will be tails. But, each flip is independent of the previous flips, so the 100th flip has a 50/50 chance of being tails, regardless of the results of the previous 99 tosses. So there is no "loser" in every transaction as the authors posit. Both parties win, or the transaction would not occur.

Their next claim is that becoming a billionaire is just "luck" and could happen randomly to anyone at any moment. Bill Gates is a billionaire because he created Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire because he created Facebook. John Smith a fast food worker in Hoboken, Nebraska doesn't just wake up a billionaire one day by luck.

And what is bad about being a billionaire. Gates and Musk are doing wonderful things with their money that disbursing it to a million people would not accomplish. The authors never give a reason why income equality is bad. In fact, inequality is the natural order. They never mention the Pareto Principle, popularly manifested as the Bell Curve, which is found everywhere in nature.

The authors claim income equality is destabilizing and must be corrected by redistributing all the wealth in equal amounts. However, as stated, income inequality is the stabilized form. It might be increasing slightly now due to faster movement of information, but class mobility is highly dynamic. Yesterday's billionaires are not today's, and today's billionaires might not be tomorrow's. Income inequality is the stable distribution of scarce assets in a free market economy.
A World We Built to Burn
A fingerprint is only going to stop a very opportunistic attacker. Someone who already has your desktop and app password and physical access to your desktop can probably get a fingerprint off a glass, cup or something else.

I don't think this product is as useful as it seems at first glance. Using stronger passwords is probably just as safe.

But I am no tptacek so I may be completely wrong :)
And yet, it doesn't. Try setting the word in plain Helvetica - it will have a much different look & expression
Can’t they discharge it for free? Why do they have to pay to send it into the grid?

The crypto one won’t work because there would only be free electricity half of the time, and the water idea is good but it takes immense capex and time to make
Right there with you :)
The History of the First Person Shooter
Backup/restore of audit data can make things complicated. eg the ability to overwrite incorrect/damaged audit data (etc)

So far, I've not yet come across a system where some level of direct admin access isn't needed for at least "last resort" situations. (obviously, only available to a very specific set of trusted people)
That's interesting. In South Africa, at the moment, they also don't have widely available ink tank printers. The two main ones sold at most shops are Epson and Canon, with Epson having the most aggressive marketing campaign of the two. The nice thing about Canon's offering is that they took some of their older designs (that people are used to) and stuck in the ink tank. Epson's offering is the cheapest, with an entry level but not bottom of the range costing about USD 140.

Edit: No document feeder on that HP! That's disappointing.
This article is from May and it doesn't mention 5 nm, 7nm plan was based on the Intel investor press, that was published on the same day from Intel PR.

10nm CPU Ships in June; 7nm Product in 2021

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/2019-intel-investor-meeting/...

And it's probably very optimistic about deadlines, since June is a while ago ;)

> Davis then noted the company expects to return to revenue growth and margin expansion in 2023 when it overcomes the late ramp to 10nm.

Intel isn't mentioning 7nm anywhere anymore. They are mentioning 10nm for 2021.

5nm was mentioned by Samsung for 2023, TSMC had 3nm planned for then.

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That means AMD still has > 3 years to capture significant market share. That's plenty of momentum. Worst case is at the current 5% they have now without Ryzen 3.

Q3 2016 was 9,1% share. Q3 2019 is 18%. And they have free play at least until 2023. As the 4th and 5th generation of Ryzen seems to be on schedule, according to AMD :) .

AMD is also not alone, they gain momentum thanks to TSMC and TSMC's clients ( nvidia, Apple, ...)

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Previously I thought 2021, but I'm adjusting it to 2023, as Intel doesn't seem to have a real competitor for AMD yet. Just a next iteration chipset.
They already do. Kindof. If you don’t put it in your listing, you can be banned. Or so I’ve heard.
I think so. GCP Committed Use Discounts allow you to commit in aggregate in terms of vCPU and Memory, but you are still constrained by region and the commits are bifurcated (gen 1, gen 2, custom, etc.). Savings Plans are dollar based so they automatically float to any region and instance. Way better than Committed Use Discounts imo.
While he has a dislike for Trump, it sounds as if between Warren and Trump he'd support Trump over lower taxes on the rich.
The grid needs to maintain supply within certain levels.

If you produce more than your share, someone else needs to shutdown.

Shutting down certain power sources (e.g. coal) comes at a non zero cost. Someone still has to pay the power plant that needs to shutdown or send people home unexpectedly. These plants might be have pre secured contracts to sell at a given price over a given time period further adding to the cost of shutting off their supply.

Some more info here:

https://www.epexspot.com/en/company-info/basics_of_the_power...
Oops! My apologies.

https://www.fiverr.com/share/zWzZbR
This is focused entirely on the technology though. What are the applications that make it useful? I already feel like my phone is giving me sensory overload - I really don't want anything remotely resembling a HUD while I walk around. I'm not convinced it would make for better videogames or regular day-to-day computing, either.

I am guessing there are uses for it in industry, although I'm not sure where it would find the best product-market fit.
Because that person’s work is probably scheduled and tracked to a higher degree than most software engineers, and if they’re seen to be slacking off they probably don’t get the excuse of “waiting for the test suite to finish”.
On the grid there are lots of different types of producers (solar, diesel, wind, nuclear, etc.). Each has its strengths/weaknesses. A big weakness of nuclear plants is that it's very expensive to turn them off. So much so that when electricity demand temporarily goes down (and with it prices), it is actually more profitable for them to continue keep the plant running but pay someone to offset their excess production.

There are people that arbitrage this--moving water up a hill is actually how many of them do it.

This stuff is really confusing. My brother trades electricity and has explained it to me numerous times and it's still a little fuzzy.
And Perl long before that.
Maybe also collect emails? I'd be happy to be notified when it launches
Ask HN: 120M rows Postgres – how can I speed up queries?
The table is flat (no related), but many queries we make (including aggregates) take hundreds of milliseconds.

Forgetting the specific queries for a moment (basically all queries in this table are relatively slow):

How would you handle such a scenario? Shard the database?
The grid has to finely balance supply and demand. You can't just dump power into the grid. If you did the grid frequency would increase out of spec and it could damage connected equipment and machinery.

Water storage would only work if there is a steep mountain or big hill nearby.

Another way to look at negitive pricing is the grid is paying industrial users to burn as much power as they can.
> Unrelated, but I saw Clayton Christensen speak at a conference years ago. He started out the talk by telling everyone that he had a stroke years earlier and after it, he couldn't speak clearly.

Business of Software in Boston, or San Francisco?
We've basically "known" for over a year that Google has given up on Daydream. The first indication was the 6-dof controllers for the Lenovo Mirage Solo never making it out of devkit status. The second indication was no other 6-dof Daydream headsets getting released. The near complete lack of any mention of VR at the 2018 I/O conference had all but confirmed it at that point, but the final nail in the coffin was probably when Samsung backpedaled on Daydream support with the S10 release, and Google sticking a Snapdragon 670 in the Pixel 3A, with the 835 being basically the "min spec" these days.

Now, the Pixel 4 doesn't have Daydream support at all, and it's got a beefy 855 in it.
The article mentions there are pumped hydro projects that could be used soon and others that are coming online. OTOH perhaps you are talking about smaller-scale pumped hydro on individual farms with access to enough water. I suppose the viability of that would depend on how easy it is for the farms to access real-time prices and turn on the pumps based on prices.
Well, hiring me again would be nice, but what I was imagining was that a team was way behind on maintaining their tests & I could get them caught up. After that it'd be easier to keep tests up to date & perhaps they'd find use of me again.
Sometimes I wonder if we were just a different type of people 100 years ago. People were standing in the balcony while it was being lifted? Going to work as normal!? Society would never tolerate such risk these days.
I frequently wonder why the cost of college is rising while the teaching / grading is relegated to teacher assistants, and now, AI.
Anything you could do it with it would have capital costs. Maybe it's transient enough that that money would be better invested elsewhere. Like, if you only run your cryptocurrency mining when the price is negative, your capital is stuck in an idle asset most of the time, and if you run it all the time, it's the average price you want to consider, not the minimum price (even if the minimum price is negative), and my guess is that Australian electricity isn't cheaper on average than other kinds of power other places (especially places with lax environmental regulation).

Another way to think about it: uses like those you propose that can soak up excess energy in the grid are exactly why energy markets are allowed to float, and even to go negative. If there's a surplus, they want you to use it, and if it were economical to store it and sell it back to the power company later, both they and you would benefit. That this isn't common suggests that it isn't economical.
Living standard certainly has gone up but I don't think that has really benefit kids in meaningful way for the past few decades. In fact, quality of life for kids have gone, I feel. Even for adults, I do wonder if it actually has had much impact on overall happiness and well being.
Does Automating the Metro Save Money? (2017)
Micree Zhan Claims He Was Removed from Bitmain Without Consent
Executive Summary (drastically oversimplified):

In a wholesale electricity market we have a market operator who estimates the demand for the near term future and opens the market up to bids for supply.

Suppliers bid a certain capacity for each period, with the operator typically accepting firm supply offers, contingency supply offers, and ancillary service offers in advance. Since some suppliers are “baseload” (ie: unable to adjust output to suit the current level of demand) they will typically bid low to always be paid for their supply. Everyone else will be affected by these bids because the “baseload” operators are typically not only inflexible but also have huge capacity.

In periods where total demand is low relative to total supply capacity, the wholesale bids will drop to low prices. For the baseload suppliers, they would prefer to pay for someone to use their excess power rather than damage their equipment by either turning it off or reducing output below certain minimums. A baseload supplier might, for example, be facing a maintenance cost of a million dollars versus paying the market a hundred thousand to create extra demand for surplus energy. So rather than turn off equipment they will bid negative prices on the wholesale market.

A second cause of negative wholesale prices is established players with large war chests waging economic war against new entrants. They know solar farms have razor thin margins, so it is worth spending a few tens of million dollars to drive the solar farm bankrupt. Enough negative pricing periods during peak solar capacity means the solar farm is not making any money. If the baseload operator knows roughly the breakeven point for the solar farm, they will know how much they have to spend in order to shut the solar farm out of the market and bankrupt them. There are no rules against this kind of activity in the Australian energy market.
Why stop there? Lets get it down to a 15 minute workday. Sure, you'll spend less time working, but you'll be so much more productive you'll actually get more done.
Savings Plans are way more flexible and will automatically float, so as long as you aren't overcommitted, you'll get a discount. One of the benefits of Standard EC2 RIs however is they can be disposed of via the RI Marketplace if you do actually need to reduce your commit. That of course is predicated on the RI Marketplace having liquidity, and if people are moving to Savings Plans instead, there may be no buyers. People may still want inflexible but shorter terms. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Small Business: Time to Pull-Up Your Socks
html has always been a part of markdown. It says right in the original spec

> Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of HTML tags. The idea is not to create a syntax that makes it easier to insert HTML tags. In my opinion, HTML tags are already easy to insert. The idea for Markdown is to make it easy to read, write, and edit prose. HTML is a publishing format; Markdown is a writing format. Thus, Markdown’s formatting syntax only addresses issues that can be conveyed in plain text.

> For any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself. There’s no need to preface it or delimit it to indicate that you’re switching from Markdown to HTML; you just use the tags.

and

> Span-level HTML tags — e.g. <span>, <cite>, or <del> — can be used anywhere in a Markdown paragraph, list item, or header.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html

The entire point is just to make most of the document easy to read. Not to replace nor forbid html.
The real spring water isn't clear, it is muddy. They have to filter it just like the drinking water. They add salt and minerals for taste.

I have been told it is better to use tap water with a filter like Zero Water or a reverse osmosis filter on the water pipes.
> Some people are bigger/stronger/faster than others.

Yes, and smarter/more driven/more socially adept too.

> They will naturally out-compete the others for resources

Only if they feel it is necessary to compete. A hungry animal will risk injury to for food. A sated animal rarely does.

> And once they have those resources, they will then use them to accumulate even more wealth, buy off politicians and institutions to siphon even more off

Only if their greed is boundless and unchecked.

I understand these cynical sentiments (having felt this way myself) but it is a product of the abnormal system we temporarily inhabit, not the inevitable or natural state of things.
Exactly! I have so many side projects I like to tinker with while I'm at home. I use them as a way to learn a new skill. Eventually those skills will come home to my employer, either with new ideas, frameworks, experience, etc. But for that to happen I need the time to self-explore and follow my own ideas.
I can see jaywalking becoming a thing of the past!
If the grid were smarter it could schedule demand for the excessive production times. It could be used, for example, in render farms or other non-time-critical high load batch operations.
In SA there are some pump-hydro storage projects in the pipeline which should smooth out some of these variations.
I didn't mean to imply that you did not read the article - it was clear to me that you did. To clarify: your point is valid and nuanced.

I have just noticed both here and elsewhere that it is very common for people to read the comments first and react there without reading the article. So I was picturing the scenario where one would open this discussion, see your top comment, and go off on speculative discussions that are already addressed by the article in question.
Might want to buy some of the Power Miners:

https://powerminingshop.com/

As chips reach the limits of the cutting edge tech, the only advantage will be how expensive your electricity is rather than replacing chips every 12 months
>You seem to be the only person making this claim here

There's an entire thread[1] up here where people from the UK are saying the same thing:

>>‘Jaywalkers’ is such an offensive concept

>> "jaywalking" as a negative term was promoted by auto interests in the US in the early 20th century

etc.

>and without any serious arguments.

My argument is simple: try translating "jaywalker" into literally any other language. You can't. "Jaywalker" as a concept only exists in the US.

In other places, the law varies, but you can't call someone a "jaywalker" because there's no concept for it.

And the law varies, too, but in most European countries it is not a thing; see Wikipedia[2].

As for the invention of the word and its usage to shift the blame to pedestrians: it's a well-known historical fact. See Wikipedia again on the origin and use of the word[2].

(To wit, in Russian, the best you could do for "jaywalker" would translate back as "a person who has crossed the street in a place not designated for it", which bring street into the debate: specifically, whether/why the point of crossing was not designated as such. There is no automatic negative connotation, because we all know how much streets layouts can suck.

On top of that, you literally can't label a person as a "jaywalker" in Russian. Mind-blowing, right? Languages are fun.

Even funner thing that it doesn't make sense in the UK English either, see the above thread[1].)

Really, do read[1] and tell me where I am wrong.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21459085

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
I don't understand... this seems so random. Why is there a wikipedia article about this? It doesn't appear to have some larger historical significance (like, say, the Zimmerman Telegram). It says it's known for its "coincidentally numbered" title, but doesn't explain the coincidence. Baffling...
YAML Support for the Go Language
Unless the job you get doesn't provide enough money to buy these tools, or there is a general lack of labor opportunities. This is a reality for a large portion of the current population.

So it's not an innate ability to create value really that matters, it's the ability to navigate a system with many gatekeepers who have entrenched interests, and where not everyone is starting from the same spot, but we should pretend they are, and pretend that all wealth accumulated is justified. Let's not question the means to that wealth or its ramifications on society as a whole.
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You're moving the goalposts on land area. We can increase available land area (in your extreme scenario) by 200% without leaving the planet, and we're a lot closer to colonizing Mars than doing this.

We're so far off using anywhere near all of even the easily available natural resources on Earth that considering it as a limited quantity is fatuous. By the time we legitimately run out of materials on Earth we'll be able to colonize other planets or just create whatever we need through fusion and chemical synthesis.

Desalination for potable water includes filtration which removes microplastics along with everything else.