skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "If you think more young people should be spending their time doing research and development and less people should be doing management consulting then the answer is simple. Subsidize it."

He is. Tyler Cowen lead the creation of Emergent Ventures. (https://www.mercatus.org/emergentventures)

From the opening of their application which he shared on his blog:

> "We want to jumpstart high-reward ideas—moonshots in many cases—that advance prosperity, opportunity, liberty, and well-being. We welcome the unusual and the unorthodox.

> Our goal is positive social change, but we do not mind if you make a profit from your project. (Indeed, a quick path to revenue self-sufficiency is a feature not a bug!)

> Projects will either be fellowships or grants: fellowships involve time in residence at the Mercatus Center in Northern Virginia; grants are one-time or slightly staggered payments to support a project.

> We encourage you to think big, but we also will consider very small grants or short fellowships if they might change the trajectory of your life. We encourage applications from all ages and all parts of the world."

Incredibly, they're taking no stake in successful ventures. They're just subsidizing high-reward ideas to encourage them.

If you read The Complacent Class and Stubborn Attachments—both highly recommended, you'll get a better idea of where Tyler is coming from and why this issue of decreasing dynamism is an issue he's so concerned about.
This is super frustrating.

I was using Mandrill which changed their pricing, so Sparkpost had a great offer for new users. Then they had such a terrible bait and switch [0].

I then did hours of research and switched to mailgun only to now need to find a new provider again. (I don't blame Mailgun here, it's not like they made an explicit promise "this won't ever go away").

I'm not opposed to paying for usage, but my app is entirely seasonal so I only send emails about 4 months out of the year, and I don't want to pay monthly when it's not in use.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/cdpjb5/sparkpost_pr...
That is true and when you are at big enough scale it probably works.

But when you have chosen a cool new microservice architecture for your team to implement and you grab that small user story that spans 3-4 different services things suddenly went from. "Hey, easy implementation and refactor and the compiler will tell me if I fucked up" to something much more time consuming and error prone.

In an ideal world that would not happen of course. Just like it in an ideal world a monolith is built correctly as well.
Microsoft’s New “Edgium” Chromium-Based Edge
I often agree with Kelsey Hightower, but there are so many things he doesn't mention here. For example, being able to independently deploy components frees up certain kinds of development worklows. Distributed components also scale and fail independently, and you can use nifty things like message queues between them to provide resilience and soak up load spikes. I'm sure the pattern has often been applied in the wrong use cases, and that many people have over-applied it, but "the monolith is the future" seems just as wrong as "microservices are the future." We are nowhere near the size of a large bank... or even a small bank, and yet we've benefited from a distributed set of independently deployable and scalable components. You can call them microservices, or not. I can think of ways we could restructure on a monolithic backend, but just noodling on the idea leaves me with more constraints than benefits. Idk, it's a thought-provoking statement at least, but I sort of wish we'd stop reacting to fads with anti-fads.
Google Analytics is associated with gleaning useful, actionable insights from your users' behavior on your web sites and in your apps, which was what the guy who sold you on the concept of a data lake was promising.
one of the ytt authors here.

looks like a very similar effort to ytt: https://get-ytt.io/

it seems like yaql is a different, potentially more limiting, scripting language, but otherwise similar efforts.
Yes, and the medical professionals dealing with this are getting statistics about diagnosis and recovery rates and times by analyzing case histories, not applying estimation formulas to totals.

Data gets aggregated and used in mathematical models that can predict outcomes in various hypothetical scenarios, but given that this is a real-world situation, the professionals are going to be looking at the actual data first to find out what’s happening. They can directly answer questions such as, of the patients diagnosed 1 week ago, what’s their status today?

Anyone looking at only total numbers of cases per day simply doesn’t have the data required to compute the things they’re trying to compute with much accuracy. It’s possible to produce estimates with confidence intervals based on sensitivity analysis, but nobody doing that with any care using aggregate data is going to come out with a number as high as 20% for a lower bound. Given that N=6 is a guess, the range reported should be bounded by plugging in plausible extreme values for your guess of N, not assuming your guess of N=6 is exactly correct.
They literally offered a free tier!

My original point was not even anything to do with cost but hassle!
I know someone personally who's company was hired as a subcontractor to one of the majors on the F-35 project. He was put in a room to do nothing. They forgot he was in a meeting once and he overheard them saying that they were just hiring the subcontractors to get the government schedule people off of their backs, they were not there to actually do anything.

So happy my tax dollars are going towards this rather than feeding the hungry or providing shelter to homeless kids.
The part of the brain that is your thoughts is the activity of a nuralnetwork.
It can manifest in a wide range of ways.

Using the narrative of the internal dialog is interesting way of conceptualising thoughts. And I suppose there might be benefits to those who use the concept of internal dialog to understand themselves.
I have learned to be cautious with two very different types of people (this is not a scientific exercise, take with a grain of salt):

- One is people who are constantly negative and cast stones everywhere, but offset that negativity with charm. They can accrue a network of Stockholm-esque followers that would say "he's not an asshole, he's actually a really sweet person." When they perceive a threat from you, or they find that you are indifferent to their charm-aura, you can get on their s*list pretty quickly. They can subtly isolate you from their followers, and be as useless as possible if you have to depend on them for anything. If they lash out at you, it's actually not out of character because they lash out at everything. They're just being themselves, right? Much of their venom is hidden behind sardonic humor, which gives them plausible deniability. They are not beholden to social norms, and everyone around you has accepted that. In lieu of social norms, they create impenetrable, arbitrary standards that only they and their followers can meet.

- Another type of person I'm initially careful of is someone who doesn't give any "tells." They always go with the flow, and laugh at everyone's jokes. The only overtly interesting thing about them is how social they are (they only open up in trivial ways). They listen very deeply, asking follow-up question after follow-up question, but they're likely to go and spill your secrets over drinks "I heard X said Y....ya I know, interesting." They don't waste an opportunity to gain social currency, spanning all social groups in order to trade between them. They rarely challenge people, and seem above the fray, but they're as political as anyone.
Assigning 50% chance of death to any patient remaining in the hospital when calculating mortality rate would be nuts, I can only thank the epidemiologists for not publishing the number.
They like living CA better than elsewhere, but don't want the economic profit to go to landlords who didn't create that value.
On the flip side, there are a lot of subjective connotations attached to the concept of God, which differ from person to person. An explanation which seeks to remain objective would do best to avoid concepts with such an enormous amount of subjective associations and meanings attached to it. The validity of your arguments would then depend on whether it plays into the preconceptions of each individual.
You’d be surprised at the diverse makeup of “do nothing” advocacy groups. Some don’t want the makeup of the neighborhood to change. Some don’t want a building style to be different. Some want their particular disenfranchised group to be represented before any permits are granted. There are many people up and down the spectrum who make up different shades of the NIMBY groups.

For example, look at the reaction to Uber building a new HQ in Oakland, which they ultimately abandoned[1]

> Residents were not as thrilled. After watching the rapid gentrification and rising real estate costs in neighboring San Francisco, many feared Uber would accelerate similar trends in Oakland. The area was already struggling to hold onto its own history as a diverse, working-class area known for activism while absorbing a wave of wealthy new residents.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/25/technology/business/uber-oa...
Can You Point to Ukraine?
> Another friend says that she literally sees the words in her head if she is trying to think about something.

What did she see before she could read and write, though ...
> it's so slow and frustrating that the melody in my head just disappears.

Use a microphone to record yourself humming the melody first, so you can get the original back if you forget it.

Separately, I'll mention that imitone (https://imitone.com) works surprisingly well. The transcriptions don't come out perfectly by any means, but they provide a base that you can then clean up.
So if the contractor runs out of money and goes bankrupt when the project is 90% complete, then what? Spend far more money with a different contractor to try to pick up the pieces?
I have a serious question to people here describing themselves (as I understand it) as thinking in words and whole sentences:

How can you think about concepts which cannot be put into words or for which no words exist?

Do you have to come up with elaborate verbal descriptions of abstract concepts in your head before you can think about them? If so, don't you think that any verbal description is essentially incomplete? Are you afraid that thinking in language categories prevents you from accessing deeper truths?
I wouldn't say it eliminates it. When you buy a property, you still pay taxes on whatever your purchase price is. Prop 13 just mediates the rate of increase, which is beneficial, but not immediately.
How simple (or difficult) is it to migrate from an x86-based instance to an Arm-based instance?
There have been so many opportunities for a grassroots pro-privacy movement to develop, and yet there isn't one. Devastating hacks (Target, Yahoo), election interference (CambridgeAnalytica), and yet nothing.

Acting as if people are unaware of data collection is disingenuous. If you told the average facebook user how much facebook and its third-party partners knew about them, I doubt many of them would stop using the platform.
> Prop 13 has a TON to do with high housing prices, because it eliminates the downside of high housing prices: higher property taxes.

> Once higher property taxes are out of the picture, higher property values are purely beneficial for homeowners, which means there's every incentive to vote for anti-housing policies to enrich themselves at the expense of transplants and immigrants.

I will agree that it will impact the absolute price of the housing.

When we talk about "housing prices", what we are really talking about is "monthly payments". Increasing the tax rate will just result in an exchange of dollars previously going to mortgages to dollars going to taxes. The monthly payment will remain the same, largely unaffordable, rate.

So, I disagree that it makes housing more affordable, because it has done nothing to change the supply or demand.

If you have some sort of refutation for the claim that supply and demand affect price, you should publish and collect your Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Clearcase was my first version control software. I don't think I'll ever experience such feelings of tranquil bliss and relief as when I learned and switched to git.
Pretty much describes The Last Psychiatrist's writings about Narcissism and The Matrix generation. "When the time comes the Universe will make it so I save everyone and know Kung-Fu, because I'm innately a hero so of course it will".

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/03/what_was_the_matrix....
Amazing how we always have money for the military industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry but never for new social programs.
> In a microservice architecture it's harder to pretend you're doing it right.

After seeing a few of them, I'd say: "it's less embarrassingly obvious that you're doing it wrong."

But dig into the code for a few endpoints and it usually don't take long to find the crazy spaghetti and the poorly-carved-out separation of responsibilities breaches.
No, we've created something far better. ~50% of the Spam that makes it to my inbox is sent via Amazon SES. Amazon does not give a fuck, I've reported it to abuse, they ignore it.

I can't just block Amazon SES though, because there's also a ton of legit services that use them for mail transport. We've really helped spammers evade blocking and decrease their infrastructure costs, and because there's so much "normal" traffic on SES, spammers will blend right in. And as long as they pay for services rendered, Amazon couldn't be happier.
The rates of those requiring ICU seem a lot higher for one.
I think it is about autonomy and planning as well. You own your API, you plan your features and your backlog will be filled and you will deliver it. You will sunset it and when you on-board new people into the team they only need to learn your part.

This requires quite a big application though for it to be worth it in my opinion.
> The problem with the A10 is if you don't expect soviet tanks to pour across Germany there's no point in a giant flying gun.

You should check out some videos on YouTube of the A-10 in action in Afghanistan and Iraq - particularly the ones from soldiers on the ground. It’s a devastating and effective weapon. The only thing that delivers comparable capabilities is the helicopters (and maybe the AC-130), but none of them have a gun like the A-10.

I’m not military, but know plenty of people who are (and I’ve read a lot about this). My understanding is that ground forces love the A-10 for what it can do for them. They can communicate with it and give the pilots precise instructions about where to deliver the rounds. Drones can’t do that.
These clients ARE paying me. I like them. They just have an overloaded plate of issues and it’s no fun having to tax them further when a third-party setup changes. Initial point wasn’t even about cost but hassle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_License

Because they would be legally obligated to when using OSM as a base for anything.

Also, because it would benefit society.
Intresting, do you mind me asking what age you are at that made you feel like you need that large of a bank roll first?
Proof that a TPUv2-8 can do 300GB of backprop: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1196183733755355138

Think of a TPU as a box with a CPU, RAM, and eight GPUs. In the same way that you can run code on either the GPUs or the CPU, you can run code on the TPU's CPU.

When you run code on the TPU's CPU, you have access to up to 300GB before OOMing. It's distinct from running on the TPU cores, which gives you only 8GB for TPUv2 and 16GB for TPUv3, as you say.

I use this technique regularly. All you have to do is tf.device(None): # ops go here

The TPU's CPU is pretty fast. Normally it's only used for input pipeline transformations. I have no idea why. We use it for actual backprop on massive models.

(I call this "coreless mode" because "TPU's CPU" is a confusing mouthful.)

For example, right now we're training GPT-2 117M with a 25k context window on 47 TPUv3-8's: https://tensorboard.dev/experiment/idXs4PGOTEe1Jl6g3tq4qA/

25k context window is far, far out of reach of any GPU for GPT-2.

You can verify this is true by fine-tuning GPT-2 1.5B on Colab using a TPUv2-8: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1BXry0kcm869-RVHHiY6...

If a TPUv2-8 only had access to 8GB, it would be impossible to train GPT-2 1.5B, let alone using Adam with a batch size > 1.

EDIT: Here's a simpler notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ohuxvB7nuvcjpLLIF1L...

!git clone https://github.com/shawwn/gpt-2 /content/gpt-2
%cd gpt-2
!pip3 install -r requirements.txt
!python3 download_model.py 1558M
!python3 train.py --dataset train.py --model_name 1558M --optimizer adam --batch_size 4

GPT-2 1.5B with Adam + batch size 4 works great on a TPUv2-8. https://i.imgur.com/w8T5CQI.png
They have a single-digit share of the market, though (lots of sources say that, but here's one: https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/cloud-market-share-q4-2018-... ).

As someone who was using them until recently, I think that they really bungled the Softlayer acquisition. They didn't invest in their product offerings for years while AWS pulled ahead - and while they have been investing pretty heavily more recently, they are so far behind it's a little sad.
I would imagine the answer would be; the same way you would talk about the concepts out loud to someone else.
>Truly mystifying indeed that people don't vote for the culture that holds this caricature of them.

You completely missed the point. This is ACTUALLY the type of e-mail the NRA sends out daily (actually sometimes four times a day). Misspelling Obama in a purposefully derogatory way, actually mentioning FEMA concentration camp conspiracy nuttery, actually saying that if you don't act now you are going to lose your guns. This is all real. Not a caricature at all.
People mostly prefer "their own kind", at least until they truly get to know you. Solving fatigue by being recluse starves crucial human contact. For many reasons there can remain barriers before getting meaningful contact. Your question itself points to this preference and yearning, and not indifference.

A different mode of mind will be received by others differently, as an experience. To get anywhere we must move, but to others this might be deemed too uncomfortable or even mistaken as implicit criticism.

As social creatures we must have/find support around us. This works as platform and mandate, so helps true leaders lead.
> Not lung cancer per se; the paper focuses only on reversal of tumor mutation burden of the cells that line the lungs and airways.

The main cause of lung cancer is precisely that mutation burden that the paper studies. From what I read, most lung cancers stem from mutations of bronchial epithelial cells instead of mutations in the alveoles or other parts of the lung.

The mutation burden is both the cause of lung cancer and can advance the disease by further mutations leading to accelerated growth/metasthazing behaviour/etc.
I've seen that done with DARPA contracts but I wonder if it just incentivizes contractors to back-load all the overages.
Yes, there's been technical benefits to this spending, but it is a corrupt and immoral practice (guns vs. butter).
Network effects I suppose. When this economy was based on land and natural resources it made sense to move (and subdue the native population) to open land and gain an advantage, with a service based economy it makes greater sense to cluster at population centers and leverage that. The rise of remote work will probably alleviate this a bit but education, health care, entertainment, hospitality (aka. the fastest growing sub sectors of our service economy) are more valuable when delivered in person. Not to mention fighting climate change (not to say that we're doing a particularly good job) encourages density.
I don't know what you are trying to say here. Just because fully-auto are already strictly controlled does not negate my point that DEMs are highly in favor of such strict control.
No, because not every company can invest like Amazon.

edit: Take for example McDonalds. What are they supposed to invest in? Its a mature business at this point, and over-investment in random things would just destroy shareholder value.
I'm pretty sure these numbers are LCAs : https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country&solar=false&rem...

Hydro, nuclear, wind turbines would all be 0g/kWh if it was only about fuel.
How much does a MB of L-n cache cost?

I don’t have the answer, but you would want to measure dollars to buy it, and nanoseconds to refill it.
Doesn't this info come from Waze?
I have a different take on this. Yes, you need to have some minimum savings/emergency fund. However, I would say that you should focus more on your "employability" factor. If you are really good at your job and can always find a job, then don't worry about failing in a startup. You can always go back to a gig.

I would say don't just calculate safety net based on savings but also on your employability. Good luck.
I'm happy to see this article on the front page it certainly resonates with my perspective - however I'm not sure it's really an either-or situation.

One thing I've noticed is that big tech is taking advantage of giant mono-repos, while everyone else is stuck with 10s-100s of git repositories haphazardly connected and managed. For example - most off-the-shelf CI systems and VCS platforms smaller organizations are using are per-repository (GH, GH Issues, CircleCI, etc).

Managing micro-services would be a far easier task when all of the services (and infrastructure as code) live in the same repository, changes can be staged across multiple services at once, and tests are automatically ran for only the necessary dependencies.

Are there solutions for effective mono-repo management outside of FAANG? Am I wrong? :)
It's very possible that it's not related. I frequent r/aphantasia on reddit and we're always asking the community if they have certain quirks to see if it's related and the results always end up mixed.
I feel like you just read the headline and not the email in the body. The email quoted is all about their pay-per-use model.
(San Francisco)
Capitalism is a nasty, amoral system by nature. Saying some companies are good and others are bad is just scapegoating.

Actually, this isn't the case. Not too long ago, orphan drugs were actually reasonably priced. Cuprimine went up from 500 USD to 24000 USD for a 30-day supply when Valeant bought the original manufacturer, and Daraprim went up from 13.50 USD/dose to 750 USD/dose thanks to Shkreli: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-senate-drug-price-stu...

Something changed, but I'm not sure what.
Right after flat files which are still in use on mainframes.
I don't know what you are trying to say here. Just because fully-auto are already strictly controlled does not negate my point that DEMs are highly in favor of such strict control. Who is ignorant or lying here? Do you honestly believe we should STOP regulating full-auto so strictly? Do you have a position on certain semi-auto mechanisms that are very easy for DIY self-convert to full-auto? Or are you just parroting the right-wing caricature that DEMs don't know anything about guns? I suspect that your comment is entirely in bad-faith.
What makes you think that people aren’t moving? Population isn’t decreasing if that’s what you mean, but the Bay Area is a revolving door. I own a condo in San Francisco, and I’ve had five different tenants in eight years.