skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our team's been waiting on this for a year to start moving larger sites to Gatsby. Can't wait to try it.
I see where you are coming from and I get that your argument is that new ideas are (?often) extension of existing ones but I think this is a bit of an oversimplification. It seems like everything can be described as an abstraction of something else on a larger/smaller scale. Which philosophically would mean that the universe as a whole has the same value as any atom or quarks within it.

But even if we ignore the philosophical aspect of it, it seems a bit like Duell's "Everything that can be invented has been invented" statement from late 19-th/early 20-th century. A statement which hasn't aged too well for better or worse.
Why do you think speeding and drunk driving is illegal? There's a risk/benefit threshold and society has decided that regular driving is below that threshold but drunk and reckless driving is above it. When a pandemic is in effect some of the activities that would be acceptably low-risk in a normal context suddenly become unacceptably high risk.
I believe the inequality is that the more wealthy purchase better care, or conditions, at the hospital. Therefor not everyone gets the same care.

I’m not sure how that’s different from today, other than the exorbitant costs that exist today.
Which could be said about any newly fashionable language. Or any niche language. And in the case of COBOL, it's not even true. Here's a little hint: just because you don't know any COBOL programmers, doesn't mean they don't exist. My own company has a couple of hundred, and we have an outsourcing partner that has a several thousand. We are not unique.
Few ideas:

Many personal robots and services - we'll do almost nothing. So we'll have more time for hobbies, which will need more tools etc
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Building a green economy.

Higher quality food more often.

More healthcare, with aging etc. And maybe more emphasis on selling care.

The real problem is this: why hire humans do all those jobs, when machines could do(or create substitutes) for most of those new jobs ?
If the people who were around when those shows and films came out had that same mentality, then they never would've seen them.
Not sure about usefulness but it's worth mentioning that he has been hinting at running for President in a lot of his recent TV appearances.
I transcribed the clip, and I don't see where he's "dragging people down". My guess is that you're reacting to "as a white male in society I'm given a lot of privilege that I didn't earn" and "I think it's really important those kids learn how to read just as well as I had the opportunity to learn how to read." It sounds to me exactly like he's trying to "elevate people", but you're reading it as "drag people down". Why? This is confusing to me.

First person) Every teacher who's using it basically is saying this is inspiring a closer and more engaged student body. So the people that are actually using it like it. And again in terms of the local control, you still have local control. So if you want higher standards, if that's really, if that is your genuine point, then you can go ahead and do it. You can do the higher standard. And the process was indeed totally transparent. And when [garbled] we'll move on to David and Bill.

Second person) Um, I'm not paid to be here either. I'm just an interested teacher who helped write the standards. And the reason why I helped write the standards and the reason why I am here today is that as a white male in society I'm given a lot of privilege that I didn't earn. And as a result ... [scattered boos from the audience] ... I think it's really important that all kids have an equal opportunity to learn how to read. I think I had a set of advantages as a result of who I was, not ???. And when I walk into places like Roberto Clemente high school on ??? side of Chicago, I think it's really important those kids learn how to read just as well as I had the opportunity to learn how to read. And ??? created an equitable education opportunity for all kids. I think this is actually the greatest lesson we can teach our kids.
Sure, you might be interested in the research in loop nest scheduling I gathered here: https://github.com/numforge/laser/blob/master/research/autom...

The most promising here being the Halide and Tiramisu compiler. Halide uses machine learning to discover scheduling and Tiramisu uses a polyhedral approach.

Also I didn't add them yet but Stanford Legion https://legion.stanford.edu/ and ETH Zurich DaCe http://spcl.inf.ethz.ch/Research/DAPP/ are more focused on memory locality and are obtaining excellent results as well.
> There's a long history of technology being absolutely amazing the first time you use it and then not mattering at all.

Most of these, certainly including Segway and Magic Leap, fall apart as soon as you ask ten random non-tech people if they'd actually buy one though.
AudioGridder – DSP servers using general purpose networks and computers
It's not explained well but this allows you to own the "original" photo/painting/document, etc. in a provable way.
An artist could offer a limited edition digital "print" and you could collect it, exhibit it and resell it because your ownership is certifiably authentic.

If you don't think that's valuable, consider the value that humans put on first edition books, signed original works, ownership of exclusive editions, etc. Everyone can own a copy of "To Kill a Mockingbird" or "Dune" for a few dollars but signed, first editions goes for thousands of dollars.
Once you have the source code, how easy is it to "build" the game?

Using this code could I edit the character models so that certain characters looked like Sesame Street characters and then publish that game to my personal PC for my kids to have fun with?
“ The Amish have had a life expectancy in the low 70s since colonial times, when the rest of us were dying at 40 or 50. Since then, Amish life expectancy has stayed the same, and English life expectancy has improved to the high 70s.”
Yet most strong top leaders I can name have (a) gained power during some sort of crisis, and (b) turned out to be on the wrong side of history.
U.K. Parliament votes to continue democracy by Zoom
I don't know what OP of this comment (dilippkumar) thinks of Manu Pillai's various books but he is another author/historian whose book I would recommend - I got the same feeling of awe reading his books that I got from dilippkumar's comment here.
Since solar energy doesn't happen after sunset, the idea can still work even just assuming power is cheaper during daylight.
I don't think CD4 cells are the same as antibodies, right? I assume that when we test for antibodies, we're not testing for CD4 reactivity...
Here's a gameplay video which I assume is from this leak on account of the upload date:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HboQWe3FYbg
Do you mean the literal salt, or the destruction?

I've often wonder about the salt. The salt ritual (or figure of speech) originates in the eastern Mediterranean, which is why it features in the bible. Being Israeli, I always figured the dead sea inspired the idea. I think you'd need a lot of salt to do it literally though.

I wonder how the expression got to Rome? Punic culture & language came from Lebanon, and was similar to biblical Hebrew. It makes sense they used the same metaphors & rituals. Rome though? Was Scipio using a Carthaginian expression? Did he do their own ancient victory ritual to them?
It's amazing how our bloated financial industry doesn't even come close to its supposed goal of efficient capital and risk allocation, but it is instead a huge source of unnecessary risk through nonsense like this. However, it makes a few people a lot of money, which is all that matters.
I saw the magic leap demo in person at their Florida office. It was quite something.

Imagine minecraft, but in real life. They had blocks you could put on walls, dinosaurs roaming around on the ground, knights fighting the dinosaurs, and all of it was controllable.

It was in a small-ish room, roughly ... 15x15 feet? a few meters by a few meters.

It had couches in the room, and pictures on the walls. It didn't look special. But in retrospect the room may have been part of the demo in some way.

(I went through their interview process, and one of the benefits was getting to see the ML in action. Supposedly they also had an "AI assistant" demo or something like that – Cortana? – but it wasn't available on that day.)

If I were an investor, I would probably invest based on the strength of that demo. It was enough to make you question the reason we're all staring at laptop screens. The device was comfortable, and I could imagine myself sitting at a desk typing into thin air (because goggles) rather than typing into a computer screen.

Of course, it looks like I would have lost my money if I were an investor. But how could we know it would play out this way? All they had to do was build a strong developer ecosystem. The lame demo-style apps we see are a direct result of inconvenient APIs and SDKs.

In fact, they were actively hostile to developers. I remember getting a C&D just for publishing their SDK's manual on a personal website. No idea how they even found the link.

The premise is real – in the same way the Vive was in many ways superior to Oculus, I think the next "Magic Leap" will be superior and more affordable than what we see here. If you are looking for an investment opportunity, the AR scene is still a strong bet over the next decade or so.

(If that seems unlikely, think about how many major advances worked out after seeming so unlikely: deep learning in AI; consumer-grade VR; voice controlled devices; the list goes on and on.)
Magic Leap made one of the classic mistakes that other before-their-time products make: they tried to create a general purpose product because they didn't have a killer app that could focus their efforts.

When you're building a product without a focused use case, you are pulled in a ton of different directions. In AR, this means focusing on fidelity, embodied in high resolution, wide field of view visuals, powerful processing, and compelling input methods.

The real question in AR is what use cases can you hit without great fidelity? What sort of value can you unlock with a low-res postage stamp overlay and slow processor instead of full FOV? That's where the go-to market effort needs to be placed.

A similar example of this overreach was in multifunction pen devices of the 90s (General Magic, Newton, EO Personal communicator). A great counter example is Apple Watch, which didn't chase the 'smartphone on your wrist' everything device, and instead picked a few key use cases, established a beachhead, and slowly added capabilities as the technology allowed.

When a category-defining product has yet to emerge on the market, there are going to be a lot of people making predictable mistakes like this - mistiming ideas, scoping the wrong set of features, getting too excited about the wrong technologies, not leveraging their assets.

If you're a product person interested in understanding more about these factors, I wrote an essay on the subject recently: https://nickpunt.com/blog/category-defining-products/
Seriously "Moloch", was Lucifer or Satan taken already?

Edit: And the logo is an owl lmao hard pass - what can they gain from this?
This ignores hospital capacity, which is the most important consideration when projecting out fatality rates. Lockdowns are not just about buying time for additional mitigations.
Given that Scientific consensus has limitations, what do you propose is better in situations where data is scarce?

How does a strong leader mitigate this danger? Is the leader making choices by following their intuition? Does the leader make choices based on public sentiment?
How do you solve for 'work for 5 years on open source project, get it to some degree of popularity, watch AWS making a service out of your code without paying you a dime'?
Yeah, I've heard a few people (more common around the debut) say "the iPad is Jony Ive's Apple Newton"

I always reply "As it happens, the Apple Newton was Jony Ive's Apple Newton..."

It was his first product for Apple, the Bondi Blue iMac was just his first successful product.
He'd be better than someone with Dementia. So at least he's got that going for him.
The same in Fiji.

We have universal health care, but anyone is of course free to forego that and pay (or use their private insurance) for a private room rather than a ward, or just go to a private hospital instead.

I don't understand the debate about this in the US. It's as if the rich assume that things will change for the worse for them if universal health care is enacted.
> The government has the ability to send funds directly to people obviously...that’s how they are sending the stimulus checks and send tax refunds.

Actually a major issue with the stimulus is that the government does not have this ability, which is why it will takes months for some people to get their checks. Many people don't have to file income taxes, so the government doesn't have their info.
There have been several stories, including one just yesterday where one of the main hospital groups in the state (Unity Point Health) is laying off / furloughing employees.

Here is a story directly related to it though [1].

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"The loss of revenue over the last few weeks due to the inability to provide non-emergency care is destabilizing core health services in rural America," the NRHA said.

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[1] https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/small-town-hospitals-ar...

Edit:

Here [2] is a link to a "live blog" post, so it's sort of a moving target, but under "11:00 am Tuesday" there is this headline:

"UnityPoint Health announces cuts to staff hours and pay"

[2] https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/liveblog-tyson-foods-su...
What if we decided all resources and land were co-owned by Americans. If it is the ground or comes out of the ground. Land/oil specifically and minerals. Mining companies would still make bulk profit but there'd be taxes that are paid out in UBI.

All land for skyscrapers, office buildings, etc -- all land would be taxed at a specific value, and that would also go into UBI.

Then we could also have a VAT instead of income taxes so all Americans are also tax payers but UBI puts everyone above poverty so no biggie if we all pay tax on our purchases.
The thing that really worries me when I'm writing SQL is the possibility that the query planner will get frisky and choose some disastrously slow join order, but only once in a while. I've run into way too many hard-to-reproduce performance issues like this.

Having the database automatically figure out how to run a query is a great feature, but most of the time I'd happily just write explicit nested loops for the sake of predictability.
Two bad signs:

1. They were founded by a well-connected VC-type, in a hyped new industry. These companies always raise a lot of money (because of the connections and the hype) but rarely (never?) work out well. (See also 21.co for “blockchain”.)

2. A few years ago they contracted with my friend’s company to make some swag, it was a chromed 3D paperweight of their logo guy. I saw a prototype of it, and it was really nice and pretty cool. Then I heard magic leap had rejected it because they didn’t like some way the chrome plating came together at the point it was dipped or something? It was insane to me, that thing was pretty cool and totally professional, and I knew if that was emblematic of how they did business they were screwed..
>How do the Amish keep costs so low? R&D (plus a few other sources) identify some key strategies.

>...the Amish are honorable customers. This separates them from insurance companies, who are constantly trying to scam providers however they can. Much of the increase in health care costs is “administrative expenses”, and much of these administrative expenses is hiring an army of lawyers, clerks, and billing professionals to thwart insurance companies’ attempts to cheat their way out of paying. If you are an honorable Amish person and the hospital knows you will pay your bill on time with zero fuss, they can waive all this.

Imagine how many social problems would disappear if people had more integrity and stronger morals. Literally every aspect of life would improve. But instead, we have to bulletproof everything (largely without success) from people who scheme and scam their way through life. We sink enormous costs into this, and it slows the progress and complicates life for everyone else.

I'm not a religious person, but the thing that the anti-religion movements have failed spectacularly at is providing a universal, teachable framework for basic morality. Religions, for all their faults, and for all of their misguided morality, at least had morality frameworks that were more or less unified and teachable. What do we have now in their place?
It's amazing how much power one man would wield.
That restaurant owner who closed two days earlier than he needed out of the goodness of his heart? Yeah, the reason for that was there was a snowfall in Portland that kept people home earlier than the order would require. So yeah, he just avoided being open, paying staff for a day when nobody was going to be coming in anyway.
I just made a more expensive Android phone in my head, now this article is invalid. It's $100,000,000 if anyone wants to buy it.

Samsung is the Apple of Android. Big marketing budget and bright screens to make you THINK quality.
To add to that, the only goal of TreeKEM is to avoid latency/complexity when adding and removing group member frequently/quickly. Which is really not the use-case of most groups (so not sure why they're doing this).
Venture Returns of AngelList – Kauffman Fellows
> "a good man who did a stupid thing"

Amazing that changing bits in some databases can change one's life dramatically.
Dialyzer via Dialyxir also helps as well
You could already do that even easier with the modding tools available for TF2
> The banking industry is the arbiter and credit in our society and decides where money get allocated.

Thanks for your comment. In my experience this is the most misunderstood aspect about money. Your comment explained it really well. I wish this was more widely understood and talked about.

I do not think the original commenter understands the monopolistic as well as parasitical nature of today's money, as they write:

> - Part of it is deciding who to lend money to. Makes sense for the bank to decide this with its own money.

...which is wrong. Banks do not have their 'own money'. They create money out of nothing. They get a license to create debt out of nothing (fiat). Many times today they do not even have to have the fractional reserves for any of it.

If anyone has any doubts please check out Anthropologist David Graeber's book 'Debt: The First 5,000 Years' as well as his explanation of the money system in this article:

"In other words, everything we know is not just wrong – it's backwards. When banks make loans, they create money. This is because money is really just an IOU. The role of the central bank is to preside over a legal order that effectively grants banks the exclusive right to create IOUs of a certain kind, ones that the government will recognise as legal tender by its willingness to accept them in payment of taxes. There's really no limit on how much banks could create, provided they can find someone willing to borrow it. They will never get caught short, for the simple reason that borrowers do not, generally speaking, take the cash and put it under their mattresses; ultimately, any money a bank loans out will just end up back in some bank again. So for the banking system as a whole, every loan just becomes another deposit. What's more, insofar as banks do need to acquire funds from the central bank, they can borrow as much as they like; all the latter really does is set the rate of interest, the cost of money, not its quantity.

What this means is that the real limit on the amount of money in circulation is not how much the central bank is willing to lend, but how much government, firms, and ordinary citizens, are willing to borrow. Government spending is the main driver in all this (and the paper does admit, if you read it carefully, that the central bank does fund the government after all). So there's no question of public spending "crowding out" private investment. It's exactly the opposite."[1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/18/truth-...
Email Addresses and Passwords from WHO, NIH, Wuhan Lab, and Gates Foundation
What about middle class people who can't afford private care but fear that the socialized healthcare system will be of worse quality than what they currently have?
We've all woken up the next morning and gone, "oh fuck what did I do last night!"

This takes it to a whole new level!
I’m Depressed about My Lack of Progress. What Should I Do?
Tell me when it can use that powerful processor to run an engine other than webkit
As long as the logs are kept private.

Making them public without the permission of all the participants has both ethical and legal implications.
Forget large scale deploy test blah, outfit one car and drive it 1000kms, charge, got another 1000kms, video it, put on youtube, then we're onboard.
Ah, so now the "attacks" are "unjust". Feel free to bring evidence to this discussion; as far as I can tell, your position is that because you haven't been hurt, therefore nobody is getting hurt.

Lambda damages the folks that they sucker into being students. Since they have a non-zero number of students, there are some folks who have been damaged. [0] is a writeup of some of their stories.

Lambda is not a net benefit to society. Even if such utilitarian thinking were valid, then no, by the broken window fallacy [1], Lambda is still slurping time out of the hands of folks who could have spent it on other things.

Finally, while I'm loathe to call you a liar, you claim that you got your CS education for free. Does that include your PhD [2] and associated academic career? Congratulations if so, but it is not the typical experience of PhD candidates to get their education for free.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/11/21131848/lambda-school-co...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

[2] https://chrisseaton.com/phd/
> to save innocent people from bad people and not idiots from themselves.

But you are also saving the idiots fellow passenger from the idiot when the idiot becomes a human missile in an accident.

There are SO many scenarios we don't think about when we go about our daily lives that others happen so see on a daily basis.
I ended up going to a seatbelt class because I got such a ticket once. It was led by a nurse who got involved because she was sick and tired of having people come into the emergency room absolutely destroyed.
Disbelief might be a stretch, but he is clearly extremely excited about the recent advancements and proud of what the team has been able to accomplish.

I agree that it's fun to witness that level of passion and it makes me happy that Chris is so amped about this.
Not only that, but VIEWs can have INSTEAD OF triggers, which then lets you build powerful abstractions in SQL.
Future Salesforce wanted: Elevator attendant, level 3 biohazard training, must provide own space suit

These tech building vanity projects might as well join the pyramids.
The Making of Prince of Persia
Huh, they’re still claiming Android phone screens are better because of bigger numbers. How quaint.

https://youtu.be/dcFXEXJicgc
Yeah… Conversely, amazing how such very important things are encoded as voltage levels in some dumb little circuit.
I don't understand how you make the leap from knowledge being equated to the field being dead? Taxonomy provides a foundation for others to learn about something.
Doesn't seem like it would work in a RAID1 setup: a rebuild typically requires reading the entire source drive and writing it to the other drive in the mirror. Some filesystems like ZFS might understand where the used blocks are and only copy them, but others where RAID is a layer above the filesystem (Linux mdadm) will have to copy the whole drive, even if it's empty.