skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In any reasonable discussion about economics, I would assume that "until they're gone" means "no longer profitable to exploit" as we're all aware that short of extinct species that are beyond our technological capability to recover, nothing is truly "gone" as long as there is someone capable of expending gargantuan amounts of money and tangible resources flying to another solar system (or galaxy or galactic supercluster) where those elements are still easily available. Really, then, it's a function of universal state.

Regardless, here on Earth, eventually we will either reach a point where growth in energy production is practically infinite or we will be faced with the rather herculean task of converting all of our waste back into usable material, ad inifintum, with less energy available than was put into the system to create that usable material to begin with. At that point entropy comes knocking on the door.
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Storage is definitely the wise answer here, as the article mentions.

The fun answer here is giant crypto farm.
Overloading the grid isn't a good idea, generally speaking
Well, you correctly describe the current state of affairs. Certainly building cities for cars benefited the people who built them, as well as the automobile manufacturers.

And while we can't make everyone "happy", we definitely can definitely improve on things like, dunno, needlessly killing people.

OK, I guess trying to spin "hey, maybe we could care just a tiny bit" about other people isn't going to work here, so how about this:

The less people drive, the better it is for the drivers. Where I live, the 23-minute drive on Hwy 101 becomes up to a 1hr45m drive in the morning hours. Making the area pedestrian- and transit-friendly would likely cut down the peak commute time by half, saving car commuters a spare hour or two each day, judging by the experience in LA[1].

PS: "Adapt or die" is a shitty attitude to have, my friend.

A good friend of mine and I were living on Long Island, NY. We were students, and couldn't afford to have a car. Insurance in NY is hella expensive.

I moved out to grad school in TX, and "adapted": got a car and a license. It was cheap to live there, I could afford it.

My friend didn't get the chance. He couldn't afford a car on a grad student stipend in NY. One day, he got hit by a car and died.

I hold the Suffolk County - and people who say words like "adapt or die" regarding pedestrian deaths - personally responsible for the death of my friend, a PhD student who could have been working on self-driving cars now.

You must be young to hold this attitude, and I sincerely hope you change it. There's always a bigger fish. "Adapt or die" is great when it doesn't concern you.

[1]https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2013/04/public-transp...
I used to do that with success but lately my company has tightened up deadlines more and more so it’s hard to get everything done even within 40 weeks. Problem is that more things actually get done but this comes at the expense of burning out people because they don’t get to breathe anymore. I strongly believe that development is not just continuous production but more of a creative process where you need room for inspiration to do things that don’t directly benefit immediate business needs.
I am still not super sold on the ActivityPub format as being better than RSS, any dissenters want to change my mind?
Let me know when telemetry in Windows can meaningfully be turned off fully, and permanently.

Everything else they've done is pretty much PR management.
flat-screen AR on phones and tablets, absolutely. It's just about impossible to design a good experience that takes advantage of the technology without too much compromise.

Headsets, I think the current devices are just a preview. I'm skeptical that transparent displays are strictly necessary for AR headsets, and I have seen some industry speculation that the HoloLens 2 is probably at the limit of what can be done with waveguide displays. Unfortunately, waveguide displays are just about the best sort of transparent display tech available for this particular use case, so we need to either shift to pass-through-camera displays or invent a whole new display technology.

I'm betting more on pass-through. I think the tech is already available, what is at issue is decades of software cruft in modern operating systems making low latency through put too difficult to achieve.
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There have been many threads on reddit about this. There aren't that many VR information sources out there so that's where I used to get VR info.

Examples:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/PSVR/comments/...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/oculus/comment...
> > With the caveat that, for a very very small number of people (like, literally one in a million or fewer), a little experience with drug trips can be educational. But the odds are you're not one of them.

> Unless I'm misunderstanding, are you saying only one in a million or fewer can experience an educational effect (or, any benefits/insights whatsoever) from drugs?

In the most general sense, no, of course not. You can learn a lot on drugs, including "don't do drugs". You can also blast your mind and ruin your life, as at least two of my friends have done.

In the context of a mindfulness meditation retreat, though, yes, it's counterproductive to get high while meditating. The vast majority of people who are trying to "find themselves" or heal or figure out "the meaning of it all" or whatever, should stick to prayer and/or meditation with an experienced teacher and leave drugs alone.

> If so, is this based on studies of some kind?

You mean formal scientific studies? No, but then I've never looked. Science hasn't had a good track record for studying the inner world.

It's hardly a secret that responsible teachers of meditation are united in decrying the use of drugs, eh?

> > Simple muscular relaxation is about 90% of the profundity most folk experience with meditation.

> Same question.

Same answer.

The vast majority of people spend the vast majority of their time in chronic tension, the patterns of which encode their problems and neuroses. Typically this is accompanied by numbness or localized physical amnesia. People literally are unaware of their tension patterns. In this context, anything that gets a body to relax and pay attention to themself will have a dramatic psychological effect.

In a very real sense, meditation can only begin after the "kinks" have been worked out (like how R. A. Wilson recommended a full course of psychotherapy was before attempting the "work" of the O.T.O.) which is why it traditionally takes so long.
All breakthrough psychedelic experiences are serious psychotic events. Experienced psychonauts not only understand that psychosis can happen to anyone - regardless of history - but know how valuable it can be.

Psychosis valuable? The difference between clinical psychosis and a psychedelic breakthrough experience is that the latter is integrated. The Psychonaut finds a way to make it part of his psyche and thus neutralize the dissonance.

Those who talk about predisposition really have no clue regarding proper psychedelic use. Psychosis is the whole point. But, taking place inside a framework that allows for integration. There is a reason shamans have rituals.
The internet is now so ingrained in our lives, we can't really function without it. We use for bills, timetables, weather and we're so used to having info at our fingertips that we start to get anxious when we can't find something out. 25 years ago if you didn't know something you'd just forget about it most of the time, but now you start worrying and have to know something. Then there's social media, the parasites of the internet, sucking our lives and sanity into a great gaping maw of nothingness. Social media is addictive, seriously addictive, the hit, the reward, the lack of confidence when your standing goes down, hmmm classic signs of an addictive "substance". Back away from it, use it every couple of days but don't get sucked in.
It's difficult to acquire wealth without creating it. The most obvious way is inheritance / gifts, or else crime (fraud, theft). Most wealth is created though, not inherited. E.g., most notable American billionaires (Gates, Buffet, Bezos, ...) of today created most of their wealth. Down the ranks from billionaires we might find more inheritance / less wealth creation, but I suspect that in general you'll find that in mature, open, liberal market economies, wealth is mostly created, not "acquired".

EDIT: Ah yes, rent-seeking is a problem. That was identified by Adam Smith, and it's a problem that's as yet unsolved.
How successful companies do ads: ONLY invest in the ad if you have at least 3X ROI to cut out all the "bullshit tiny 1% improvement" ideas, and you don't run into any problems the article mentions.

eBay ran into millions of problems, because they focussed on "how could we improve sales by 0.0001%" and is the ROI of this ad 0.001% or 0.002%?
Didn't C have syntax holes like this?

like c=+1 --> c = +1 or c =+ 1
Afaik that's where most folks suffer extreme motion sickness.
This illustrates one of the truism's in semi-conductors which is that you need to hold an advantage for 18 months before you have enough momentum to actually move the needle. If I were AMD's marketing team I would start hammering on ECC memory in the desktop and on laptops. Anything with 16GB or more of main memory. Intel has held that as a Xeon differentiator for a long time and it adds something like 20% margin to the part. That AMD can push PCIe 4.0 and ECC at 'desktop' prices is pretty neat.
Depends if you're talking from the perspective of the hardware/OS developer, or the application software developer. For the system, AR is definitely harder. For the software developer, AR is "easier", if you're like most developers and are only treating an AR headset as a bad VR headset and just plunking 3D content down in some random place on the user's floor. You don't have to create the environment--the user supplies that. And you user's input modalities are so limited that you don't really have a lot of options on what sort of interactions you can design. For smartphone AR apps, you're basically just making a standard smartphone app that happens to have a 3D view in it. For headset AR apps, you're basically just making the "hunt-and-peck" version of what you could make on modern VR systems with much higher fidelity control systems.
I think another consideration that might not be an obvious risk is your use of two factor auth.

It’s important for critical services, yet if you lose your 2FA device, like a phone, you will be locked out for a while. Like many things, it will happen at a bad time.
I disagree. The logical operation is "delete", and "mark deleted" is a perfectly fine concrete implementation of "logical delete".
> Pretty much nobody at Google has that kind of access.

Sounds like you'd be surprised at what storage, and backup engineers have access to.
> Who does this work for? It doesn't for people with spouses and children. I can't be removed from the real world when my child wants my attention.

Couldn't you make the same argument against headphones in general? Those seem popular enough. I've even known people who used sleep masks and ear plugs when going to bed. Realistically, VR doesn't actually take you anywhere. You're still standing right there, and if a child or spouse needs your attention they can still raise their voice or even just grab you to get it. I don't think the immersiveness itself is much of a problem for most people, although there are certainly times and situations where you wouldn't want that because you need to be more aware of your surroundings.
Intel plans to start shipping 7nm in 2021, and 5nm would be coming online perhaps 2023. See https://www.anandtech.com/show/14312/intel-process-technolog... as a source.
You never want to be able to retrieve a password after hashing and storing it in a DB. You _do_ want to be able to retrieve text content after possibly encrypting and storing it, otherwise it's useless.
I wonder if this type of content makes it to a library like the rest of newspaper content does, for archival and reference purposes.
>Surely if the pedestrian does not walk at inappropriate place, less likely they would be dying.

Who gets to define what is an "inappropriate place"?

Pretty much anywhere in the word crossing the road like that woman did would be "appropriate".

You just want to define traffic laws to your maximum convenience, all else be damned.

Clearly, you see nothing wrong with that: bringing harm to people if you can get away with that.

Something tells me you won't think it's fair if someone else gets to decide rules in a way that benefits them at your expense.
An explanation of the mechanics of how I'd have to pay somebody else to take my electricity (e.g., a negative rate) would be helpful.

As prices approaches 0, I could take the excess electricity and say, mine cryptocurrency. Is nobody considering the arbitrage opportunities here? Take the 0-cost electricity, move water up a hill, and convert it back to electric when it's needed, etc.
Reads like a mediocre passage from the Blueprints for a Sparkling Tomorrow... at least no dead horses were beaten
Frequently bought together section on Amazon is probably exactly what you wanted ^^
The problem with this mentality is that it leads to ageism and encourages companies to hire 20 something's who they expect can bend to their schedule. They are going to assume anyone in their late 30s or older has kids or wants kids, so won't be able to be flexible enough for the role.

Even though CVs don't (at least in my country) have DoB you can infer it from years in education. You might not even get a chance for an interview to say "I never want kids, I just want to work hard".

Let's pretend all jobs are like this, where flexibility pays more, if you do ever plan on having kids, could you afford and would you be willing to take a big pay cut so you can spend time with them?
The compute plan is a big deal (meaning important not cost break although that too). The inflexibility of RIs really hurts and makes it hard to actually benefit from the savings. This doesn't quite match Google's approach but it is much simpler to understand.
San Fransisco in general like in Craigslist and not AirBnB has plenty of listings of apartments where a dining room + living room where they added a flimsy partition to separate the two and advertise as a bedroom. I guess no one complains tho since you just choose not to rent since renting long term is usually a look before signing proposition where as AirBnB you pay before you go and it needs to be correct site unseen
Oh, /r/Vive and /r/oculus are dumpster fires. I don't know /r/PSVR, but considering what I know of reddit and what passes for "culture" amongst gamers, I expect it's much the same.

Very, very few actual developers in those boards.
I agree mostly, the world, or most of it, is infinitely better than 1914, 1929 or 1944.

For some specific countries on the brink of ecological disaster, this might not be true.
How I is it less flexible? The compute plan is certainly more flexible as it can be used on any region and any instance type, right?
Gmail. That alone is a pretty consequential product of the ethos.
You also reclaim space if you have multiple copies of a work and the demand for the title in your collection is limited. So even if you've received a copy that was formerly from some library they may have kept a copy or two if they used to have a dozen in circulation.
> By that definition you won’t find many non tech companies.

You will. It's easy. There are thousands of non-tech companies around you. Your local grocery store, laundries, car services, barbershops, etc. They do not hire software engineers, they do not build internal tools. Some of them do rely on third party software, but it's different.

Pretty much every bank is a tech company nowadays. Insurances? Same thing. If Oscar or Chase fires all of its engineers, the business is dead. By my definition, a tech company is a company whose business won't sustain long without its engineering team.
Yeah I had thought surely they can find a use for free electricity rather than just turning it off
> Or it may aid in processing traumas that were blockades to meditation, with a net result of it being easier to do meditation practice afterwards even without psychedelics. It's all speculation until further research is done into how all this works exactly, no?

Undoubtedly true, but there are several therapeutic approaches to trauma which are much better understood. We should do more research into psilocybin but it seems to me like the better understood therapies should be tried first.
Originally, in version 0. It was quickly changed to c += 1 to fix that.
They got there because every crash is a worldwide public tragedy that leads to government regulators grounding planes until fixed... Putting the economic knife to throats.
I did and this article is somewhat balanced. However, one can ask - Why didn't the author try to figure out how the original research was done instead of putting in so much effort in to figuring out how Carmack used the research. Why ask the question, how impressive is Carmack for using cutting edge research in a game - Einstein VS Simpson scale, instead of asking a similar question about the inventors of the data structure.

From the pov of computer history, is it more important to document Carmacks use of an algorithm or the invention of the algorithm itself? Would this article have made it to the front page if Carmacks name wasn't attached?
This is the most important comment in this thread. For more, read this excellent article:

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Getting a way out by selling your RIs was important due to there inflexibility. I think those who feel they may want that could opt for the compute plan which is useful as long as you use EC2 in any form.
How is this different from this project?
https://www.gutenberg.org/

It seems books that are so old they enter the public domain end up at Gutenberg in eBook format.

I had a friend of mine, Mike Crawford, who died. He refused to put his works in a book and put it up on websites. Well nobody can maintain his website but if he did a book and submitted it to Gutenberg under creative commons his work would live on past him. Many books are on websites for free with advertising or donations to keep them running.
Those large tech companies probably had a team or teams of people whose job is to look after the backups for production servers.

Backups generally have "god mode" access (best description) as they need to backup and restore not just filesystem data, but the audit log data as well.

Most (corp) places I worked, the developers and SysAdmin's working on production servers gave little thought to the backup component apart from making sure the software is installs and runs. ;)
Yes, but aren't a lot of those pollutants localized? I was just at a national park which called out how air pollution was affecting lichens and other sensitive life in the area, but...the part of the park with informational hikes bordered a highway where huge trucks passed by every few minutes.

We forbid offroad vehicles from driving through wetlands for this sort of reason; those environments are very sensitive to the pollution, noise, erosion, etc. But we put freeways damned near everywhere.

I dunno. I agree, it doesn't seem like enough, but what can we do? Tear up all our roads and rebuild them on a carefully-planned "pollution grid"? And even then, the BLM allows grazing and hunting on most of their lands which is another deeply-ingrained tragedy of the commons. Good luck getting rid of those methane-rich cow farts in the area when everyone feeds their herds off of the 'free' land. And good luck keeping 4x4s away when hunting is allowed.
That's a big assumption. I'm a designer, not too much of the distanced & "cold rational" guy, and to me a lot of that brand reasoning is cringy at best.

Of course typography expresses character, tonality, emotion. The shapes used evoke openness, are humanistic & soft - lots of human traits you can associate with them.

But in the end it's about describing expression. Calling a certain curvature "empathic" on the other hand is a whole load of marketing bs.
I'm in SA and I'm currently looking at getting solar panels and maybe a battery because we have the highest cost of electricity in the country. I'd like to know why we have the highest when the price seems to be going negative every other day?
why would they pay for someone else to use their energy? It just eats into their profits and means that their normal customers have to pay more for the solar energy.
Because real life and philosophy are often in conflict with each other. On top of that, cultural values change and fluctuate with time.

> Stop swinging, start living.

Swinging is living. Life is constantly changing, or "swinging". It is inevitable.
50 years away as usual.
Iirc, all AMD CPUs support ECC- but motherboard support is flaky.
>Dependency on magic mushrooms to shortcut through the path violates the spirit of Buddhism.

I wouldn't call it a short cut. I hope I didn't accidentally imply it is. Wisdom is built up through experience, be it meditative experience, social experiences (like dispelling ill-will), or written experiences (like suttas). When there is enough wisdom from awareness the fetter of ignorance breaks. There is no short cut when it comes to dispelling ignorance and misunderstanding.

>However, the hermeneutical understanding of that precept is it applies to any mind-altering substance. Why? Because losing control of yourself can trigger violating other precepts. For example intoxicants could lead to sexual misconduct which can lead to lying, and so on.

I would say losing control of yourself is heedlessness. There isn't a loss of control when it comes to magic mushrooms. However, you could argue magic mushrooms causes heedlessness because you can't control how long the meditative-like state is, which could be a reason to ban it. What magic mushrooms do is increase awareness.

Buddhist tradition does it's best to not offend. Because Buddhism tries not to offend, the general rule of thumb is: if it's illegal in that part of the world, Buddhism does not encourage law breaking behavior. Where I live, for example, magic mushrooms are legal. There are many places in the world where they are unregulated. Likewise, in many circles in the west, over 50% of new practitioners came from psychedelics often having seen a glimpse of nirvana and are looking for that. Some come from yoga too. The idea is to let those people know there is more out there, so they don't get stuck.

I'm not trying to take sides here or say it's right or wrong. I'm just trying to help.
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Free electricity that turns off half the time and run basically randomly for the other half? Without a battery it’s useless, and you have to pay for that battery. Treating the electric grid as a battery shouldn’t be free. It’s just in this case they found the cost of battery to be greater than the value of the electricity they’re creating.
AWS soft launched Savings Plans in the AWS Console earlier today. We played with it, made purchases, read the docs, and wrote up our thoughts here - https://www.prosperops.com/blog/aws-savings-plans/
just guessing that the difference is short term vs long term rental. A falsely advertised long term apartment is something that people visit before renting so if it doesn't match the description they just don't rent and don't feel too annoyed. AirBnB tho people show up with suitcases and so it's very annoying but of course fixing it at the moment is a huge inconvenience
They should accelerate a particle with it.

EDIT: Whip it around in circles with giant electromagnets.
Code supports markdown files natively:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/markdown

I use this extension which I like a lot:

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