skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The closed end funds can be tricky if yields start to rise as the leverage they use gets more expensive. Frankly I am not much of a muni expert so hard for me to speak about munis specifically. In general though bond investors are worried about the binary default scenario, they are either getting paid over time or all the sudden not. However its important to keep in mind what kind of bond is being considered... an IG highly rated company has a large fixed income/duration component and then is at the mercy of the market pricing of the spread from government to corporate (widens when things look riskier, which means the bond price will fall). High Yield companies have less duration to worry about as a % of the return, its much more about the risk of the company (get paid for a while while the company is operating fine, but can get wiped out in a downturn).
No, that was not a requirement. This is not the database for the locations of cars, but the database with human defined geofences which probably only update a couple of times per day. The database is used to check e.g. if a customer is currently at an airport or not. That is a very normal and simple GIS workload.
The Morningstar fixed income style box considers risk along two axes, credit and interest rates. I'm curious if the authors considered misreporting of interest rate risk. It's interesting because the duration of the portfolio (the measure of exposure to interest rates) is not subject to the whims of ratings bureaus, and it is a straightforward calculation -- and yet Morningstar relies on a survey of the manager to get the portfolio duration.
I'm happy for them, but I'm worried about what this means for the product and its future. They now need to hit $1BB or die trying. And most of the time that means die.

Maybe they might have some life-changing enterprise thing up their sleeves. I don't know. We don't know. I'm wishing them well, I just am bracing for impact.
Yeah, good catch. Satisfying any of them seems reasonable. Satisfying all of them is definitely problematic.
Redis would be faster. In PG you can use UNLOGGED table which is basically a in-memory table.
> But the academic activity is focused around the kind of activities that Kuhn calls "Normal Science".

True, but even Kuhn would note that most paradigm shifts still come from within the field. You don't need complete outsiders and, as far as I know, outsiders revolutionizing a field are quite rare.

You need someone (a) who can think outside the box, but you also need (b) someone who has all of the relevant background to not just reinvent some ancient discarded bad idea. Outsiders are naturals at (a) but are at a distinct disadvantage for (b).

I think what's really happening in this thread is:

1. Carmack is a well-deserved, beloved genius in his field.

2. He's also a coder, so "one of us".

3. Thus we want him to be a successful genius in some other field because that indirectly makes us feel better about ourselves. "Look what this brilliant coder like me did!"

But the odds of him making some big leap in AGI are very slim. That's not to say he shouldn't give it a try! Society progresses on the back of risky bets that pay off.
With respect to async, I'm partial to trio [0], which is a spiritual successor to curio [1].

The model is similar to Golang in many ways, e.g. communication using channels [2] and cancellation [3] reminiscent of context.WithTimeout, except that in Golang you need to reify the context passing.

The author has written some insightful commentary on designing async runtimes [4] and is actively developing the library, so I'm optimistic about its future. There were plans to use it for requests v3 until the fundraiser fiasco [5].

[0] https://github.com/python-trio/trio

[1] https://vorpus.org/blog/announcing-trio/

[2] https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference-core.html#us...

[3] https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-core.html#ca...

[4] https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...

[5] https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kennet...
There are countless recitations of the common practice of tasting for diabetes, but I can't find any example of other urine taste tests despite many sources stating it was used for other diseases and that urology wheels[1] encoded tastes and smells in addition to appearances. Have you found any?

The closest I could find was mention of smelling urine to determine pregnancy, which apparently was/is rather reliable. The next best was mention of the surgeon John Hunter discussing the taste of semen, though the author "assumes... [Hunter] was tasting his own". (I wouldn't assume that considering his interests and research. Google Books texts of Hunter's publications contained page after page of discussion about the genital fluids of male cadavers, but after his brief mention of the taste of semen from a live donor he never quite goes where you're fearfully hoping! I didn't get there in my skimming--so much preamble for stuff everybody learns in Zoology and Physiology 101--but I presume he ended up reporting many important discoveries about male reproductive tissues and processes.)

I wish Google Books was as awesome today as it was 10 years ago. They expose only a tiny fraction of the material they once provided, even for pre-20th century material that couldn't possibly be under copyright. :(

[1] I wonder if they were inspiration, perhaps indirectly, for the wine aroma wheel created by the chemist Ann Noble at UC Davis.
As a member of a team hopefully nearing the end of the python3 migration, this is exactly correct.

The unicode switch is a nightmare in terms of having to go through and double/triple check everything and still get it wrong half the time. Particularly when it comes to moving data over the network.

The big selling point for Python3 finally came with the built-in async support, but we've been using Twisted for a decade, which works nearly identically, so even that wasn't a huge draw for us.

Further, many of our dependencies were python2-only up until the last year or two.

Really the only reason we're going through the effort right now is that Python2 is rapidly approaching End of life.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I definitely agree that it is not personal. I feel lucky for doing MS and not doing a PhD right off the bat which allowed me to find what works for me.
https://sandstrom.io solves this problem but I guess they had trouble with traction as they set out to build a two-sided marketplace for a market that wasn't ready. Selling to consumers and SMBs is a huge hurdle, as they'd settle for convenience and cheap when given the choice. And due to SaaS' economies of scale, a decentralised solution is never going to be able to compete with that.

I'm currently building a VPN mesh network for personal use, and the more time I spend thinking abt it, the more https://zerotier.com 's model makes sense. What if consumers, SMBs can create VxLANs over the internet and then host apps and services in that space (Sandstorm Oasis) that are completely private and only accessible to devices enrolled to participate in that VxLAN.
I think this is solve-able through user reputation.
> wasn't an alternative made anywhere else on the shelf

was it a needed thing or a wanted thing? if the former, consider making it yourself & selling it as a not-from-china product
One would think, no? Those pesky lawyers, IT governance people, and institutional inertia have a habit of spoiling everyone's fun.
The linked wiki page has nothing to do with the title.
The ratio of HW cost to energy use is different for each computing platform and depends on algorithm etc. For example, it seems Cuckoo Cycle PoW has somewhat higher capex/opex in ASICs because of the heavy memory use.

For photonics the ratio changes significantly due to fundamental physical properties of analog computation, photons vs. electrons and so on.

Anyhow the process of the Si Photonics (and memristors/other analog approaches to AI) maturing to the same degree as digital ASICs will likely be long and gradual so this isn't a practical issue for next decade.
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Where is this conspiracy theory-level kind of news coming from? And who is making this correlation?
> You can easily get these files on to your phone for passwords on the go.

Something like 80% of the value prop of my password manager use is one-tap login (with FaceID) on mobile.

Handwaving this away is failing to understand the product and market at a fundamental level.

edit: literally a paper notebook with my passwords written in it is a better solution in essentially every dimension than a non-syncing password manager.
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That is an important point, and true that a teen’s main work is learning. I guess that’s lost on them too often.
Enabling faster downloads and lower bandwidth costs with Mender delta updates
Not pay walled: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-secretly-exporting-...
Consoles determines how many cores game engines will be coded to use, and consoles are staying with 8C processors for another generation.
Even if management wanted porting, the python 2 -> 3 migration path is very painful in the details, while on the surface not having a lot to offer at the other end in terms of new capability.
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Cuz he's making, presumably, the same amount of money I am (or in the same ballpark). So either he got a raise, or he has an agenda...
In at least one of the various scripts (or treatments) I've seen, Gaff resents Deckard, believing that he should be given this particular replicant slaying job himself. Predisposed to dislike Deckard as he is, he criticises Deckard for not being able to understand and chooses not to make it easy for Deckard, and further insults him directly in Cityspeak.
Why not? Not everything have to be dumb proof/easy. For example, Suckless softwares like DWM (https://dwm.suckless.org/). Extract:

"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."

Sometimes we need to have expert/power user's tools. It's not specific to IT jobs. You can see it in many other jobs.
Which is weird because they have the performance.

Showing the perf of the processor does all the marketing it needs, no matter what clock it's running at, and with normal/turbo clocks customers don't even get it anymore anyway, so I don't understand why AMD is handicapping itself like this in the marketing department.
Intel is part of the deep state.
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To a certain degree, I agree. Once you've identified that there's a minimum radius you can safely take the screen through, the folded profile of the screen is obvious. That you then need a moving support structure behind it to be able to apply pressure to the screen is obvious too.

I don't want to denigrate the obviously detailed design work that went into producing the hinge itself, and those details will have been an absolute nightmare to get right, but I'm also not seeing anything immediately which makes it more than conventional mechanical design.
It might be sub-optimal for Uber but it's better for the industry as a whole to have many different implementations of the same type of solution.
Attempted to enter the dorms to arrest nobody in particular, without a warrant. After seeing the past few months' video evidence of police brutality, fear and resistance seem somewhat justified.

Personally I haven't yet imagined a way out that satisfies all sides. The fear of police seems deeply ingrained in the population and no current or former protester believes they would be treated fairly if the movement abandons any of the demands. The government, fearful of reprisal from the ruthless Beijing elite, are unwilling to grant any concessions to the protest demands. The police are also deeply fearful of an independent judicial investigation into their activities, and must maintain a state of disorder, increasing the government's dependence on police so that they will not launch an investigation. It seems like the situation has reached a Nash equilibrium and the whole ship is doomed to continue sinking.
The cost of a house has gone from $30k in 1940 to $220k today, inflation adjusted. I totally feel you on that and I'm dedicated to changing that. I'm designing my own house now with the idea to simplify and automate as much as possible. Minimum viable house.

I blame the banks to a large degree. 30% of income for 30 years is obscene cost for a house. I am committed to mortgage free living.

I'm sorry to hear about your struggles and very glad you are doing better.
Some articles (not in english)

https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%B8%AF%E8%AD%A6%E6%94%BB%E4%B8%...

https://www.epochtimes.jp/p/2019/11/48996.html
You're allowed to use more than one PostgreSQL instance for your queue if RDMS resources are precious <g>
> Python, unlike a C executable, could hypothetically stop working tomorrow.

No, it could not. Python itself is a C executable, which makes the distinction moot.

For some reason, a lot of people seem to be laboring under the impression that Python 2 code is just going to stop working in 2020. The only thing stopping is the Python core team's bug-fix releases. Python 2 itself will continue to exist. Existing installations will keep working. Linux distributions _can_ choose to keep Python 2 in their repositories and maintain it separately going forward, although they are not likely to. Ubuntu, Red Hat, and other OS providers all have operating systems which include Python 2 that they are contractually obligated to support and patch for years in the future. And of course, the source code for Python 2 will never just up and disappear within our lifetimes unless human civilization does as well.

As for businesses, if your application is mission-critical and you want to keep it going, then you get to decide whether to invest in keeping your application current with the state of the art, or invest in keeping the application's environment static. This means having a reliable source of the required hardware, archived copies of the OS, all dependencies and libraries, and the application itself. And presumably you still need someone knowledgeable enough to fix bugs in the stack from time to time.
I wrote an article about just the e-commerce aspect of this a few weeks back:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-death-of-the-mom-and-pop-...

There are fewer and fewer websites with things for sale. Everyone puts their stuff on an Amazon, eBay, Newegg, Etsy or Reverb store. The big carriers are the store-of-stores.

Some people setup a Shopify or other site as well, but it's usually secondary, or it's to sell merch for another thing like webcomic or blog.
We're still waiting for Maya to switch. It's still using Python 2, and Autodesk keeps putting off the transition, partially because it'll break the scripts of all their downstream users.
Py3 is for all practical purposes a language fork of Py2. So it doesn't really make sense to talk of a "migration". If Py2 becomes unworkable somehow then people will rewrite stuff. Some of it might even be in Py3.

Considering all the stuff that is written in Py2 I really don't see it being out and out abandoned. That wouldn't really make any sense. With computer languages stuff never goes away.
This makes zero sense. You don't want to store passwords in the cloud, but you store your passwords in the cloud anyway!
You will probably still see mostly intel in expensive (>1000€) gaming laptop but everything else the power consumption of AMD new chips alone should give them the reign until intel can react.
> but your average user wants Material Design

No, users most definitely do not care about Material Design. They only care about being able to quickly do the task the app or web site claims to allow them to do.
As currently constructed, BAT is designed to be used quickly. Nobody should hodl BAT at this point unless we see it gain value and become fully fleshed out.

Given that there’s no doubt there will be at least one financial crash with the dollar and other fiat currencies, there’s a more than decent chance BAT will outperform the dollar in the next 10 years, which frankly, wouldn't be too difficult.
Yes I look forward to the better cache system in the next generation!

Do remember that part of how AMD can get so much L3 on there, is due to the chiplet design, which also adds a LOT of latency to ram accesses. Almost all of the time, it seems to be a net win though, and with the next generation it will only get better.
Any non-trivial piece of code will probably be a pain in the ass to port for a more recent version of the language, and the level of PITA depends on the size of the project X size of the changes in the language.

Case in point, I worked in a project using Ruby. When we migrated from Ruby 2.4.0 to 2.4.6 (yeah, a minor upgrade), it broke spectacularly. Trying multiple Ruby versions, the change was actually introduced in Ruby 2.4.1. After some investigation, a change in Net::HTTP library from stdlib had a change that broke a dependency from a dependency. The fix was just a line of code (we just need to change the adapter used for HTTP communication), however it was two days of work for a minor upgrade.

My current job tried to migrate from Java 8 to Java 11. It also broke multiple services. This one is still in progress, months later.

Python 2 to Python 3 is bigger than both of those version changes (however it is equivalent to Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 changes), so yeah, it does take more time. And like some projects that are forever running Ruby 1.8 or Java 8 (or even worse, Java 6), we will have projects forever running Python 2 too.
How many birds is it worth sacrificing to build huge wind turbine farms instead of compact nuclear reactors? Is the worst case of a Chernobyl or Fukushima worse than the expected case from square miles of spinning blades?
I believe your are still liable for the year you renounce. I am not an expert of any type in this area, to be clear.
Due to their high bandwidth I think we should have standardized around display connectors. It actually looks like USB-C "gives up" and just pushes out DP on unused copper? So it's like some super high bandwdith negotiation layer that could just... not be there.

Or, it looks like thunderbolt would have been a good option. But it seems overengineered -- the transport layer doesn't need to know anything about the data.
It matters which correlating factors you choose. While the criteria you mentioned are merely correlated for a specific individual, on a macro level there are definite causative reasons why a lack of a support structure etc could lead someone to recidivism. A human is able to look at all of those and consider whether they are plausible causes and, importantly, test their assumptions.
The Energizer phone never released, it was cancelled.

My first smartphone was a Note 2. I put a 10 amp hour zero lemon battery on that, was great. I did the same thing with the Note 4. Nowadays everyone makes it ridiculous to swap a battery and I don't like the "wrap around style" but thankfully phones with 4-5 amp hour batteries with more efficient SoCs are available these days so it's not as bad.

I'd still love to see a large format phone with a 6-7 amp hour battery built in though. It would barely be any thicker and would mean once a week charge for me.
Strange. My buddies cat loves sweets. Especially pecan pie. I'm not sure if she's just trying to bond with him by eating the same food at the same time or she has a sweet tooth.
Doing one thing won't fix everything. Darn. Guess we shouldn't do anything
Thanks. I concur. I must point out that glass ceiling is also used to mean, a point after which you cannot go any further, usually in improving your position at work...
> "... if AGI is allowed to cause changes to its inputs."

Could you elaborate on this point ?

Do you mean that the AGI could change the source of inputs, or change the actual content of those inputs (e.g. filtering) or both?

And why do you think this is a critical piece ?
Very. The capacity won’t be enough, it will be very expensive and an eyesore with current technology.
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The Motel 6 Saga! (Sequel)

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In 1989, the PLA lost tanks to artillery fire in Bejing not because the populace had been stockpiling artillery, but because PLA units deserted when they learned that they were supposed to be fighting civilians. A one-sided gun fight is bound to turn into a two-sided gun fight as long as soldiers aren't 100% on board with the massacre. From that perspective, the development of separate national identities between Hong Kong and Mainland China is worrying, as it makes it easier for soldiers to emotionally distance themselves from what they're doing.
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It is suggested in the Hacker News guidelines that one does not editorialize the title of an article. The actual title of this Wikipedia article is "Hong Kong Internet Exchange."
Economy at scale and network effect. The marginal cost, eg the cost for github to host one more repo is very small. But for each new repo they host the value of the service grows.
No need to simulate any of the environment. You only need to record the neural inputs to a fly’s brain. Sure that’s also challenging, but nowhere as challenging as simulating the entire fly’s brain. My point is if you manage to accomplish the latter, the former would be a breeze.
It was good complement for light laptop.
"If the police seize control of the university, they can monitor / filter all traffic. The whole city can go dark."

I don't think that is true at all - at least not for the last 15 years.

Almost everyone co-located in HK is in a totally different physical location than the University (such as iAdvantage or HKCOLO, near LOHAS Park) and have independent connections outbound to the world.

We, for instance, are physically located inside HKCOLO and have a direct connection to he.net in Fremont, CA. If you traceroute rsync.net in Hong Kong, you typically don't leave he.net.

I'm not sure how seizure (or even shutdown) of the University would affect infrastructure at iAdvantage or HKCOLO or Dyxian, etc.
I agree, peaceful protest against an oppressor who has just won your land by violent conquest and who slaughters your people without fear of reprimand by third parties seems unlikely to be effective.
I think the clear answer to this is "no" on a couple of different levels. I don't think it's safe to trust that the actual communications are properly secured, and I don't think it's safe to trust the companies that these devices report to.
Biologically in the sense that we have affinities towards our own names or initials which studies have shown. Just a consequence of how our brains organize information.

Instead of someone drilling into your head that your initials = good, and others = bad via your environment, it happens through natural processes.

Most biases are just pattern matching which is necessary for efficient memory references and power quick on-the-spot judgements/decisions we need to make. People make too much of a big deal out of stereotypes like it's evil to hold them even though it's a basic function of the brain. It's entirely possible without constant vigilance to make misjudgements based on that but it will still happen to everyone, even the most socially aware people.
My god, what are we spreading here? This is pure conspiracy theory through "news" sources that have highly dubious credentials.

HN shouldn't be fueling this kind of unsubstantiated speculation.