skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a brief google, Uber's seed round is up 5000X so that beats my example. But Ethereum did pretty well; their equivalent of a seed round was in 2014, when one Bitcoin was worth $600, and as of today they're up 700X since then. That's down 85% from their peak of 4600X.

And I'm guessing the Uber seed round wasn't available to the average investor. If you just look at the public companies available to everyone, another quick google says the best in the last decade was Netflix at 40X gain.
I genuinely want to believe that these are alternatives to the shotfalls of capitalism, but I find the evidence pretty sparse. When you say this, what is the best example you are thinking of that makes you believe it can work? I'm not asking you to do research for me, but I am curious if others have clear examples in mind when they suggest these.
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Hardly unique to intel's cpus... they're just the biggest target.
> Four men and four women participated

Is all exercise science this weak?
I did not know that!

I guess having two existing words mashed together also cuts down on the pronunciation confession - although Serial season one still managed to mis-pronounce Mailchimp
I usually note that it matches up pretty favorably with Java 1.4, and now there are some ten-percent jokes to be made...
Surprised why so many people are surprised. Digital services and platforms are booming in this current climate. We have no choice but to be consuming content.

App downloads (30% thank you very much), Apple TV+ ($10 a month thank you very much), Apple Music...the list goes on. That list, apart from TV+ specials, is just revenue on the backs of other work. Others taking advantage of lockdown to product more content. Which makes these companies more and more without lifting a finger. And the Apple TV specials are short change. Just drive growth.

Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, remote tools like Mural and Zoom, all these digital platforms offering consumer and business services are king right now. Ad supported services are booming, the Facebooks, Googles, because we’re consuming more ads.

It’s the cash cow of the 2010s and 2020s. Corona is only accelerating that.
> No, we have always been able to edit communication until the internet, because conversations/everything has always been unrecorded or very hard to access the archives of.

Spoken, yes. Written, no. But sure, most communication is (and certainly was) spoken, I'll give you that.

> Have you never had an argument get to 'you said this', 'no I did not' ? We even edit our own messaging in our heads.

I'm afraid I have. They suck tremendously. Do you think these arguments are a good thing?

> We make mistakes, why can't we correct them?

We can. We post a correction. "Sorry, I meant to say this."

> (We are talking autocomplete of spelling and grammar here at the original level)

Unless you produce a magic AI that lets people fix only spelling mistakes and nothing else, we're not talking about just that.

> And since obviously your end can have a setting/hack/default to keep the original anyway I'm not sure what the fear is.

Most communication platforms these days are actually not controlled by the users, so no, I can't have a setting for it. And if I have a hack for it (which probably requires a tremendous amount of technical expertise, out of reach for most people), I'm almost certainly in violation of some EOL and may get banned. Heck, in some crazy jurisdictions I could even end up in trouble with the law.
100% this, the ultimate performance of a cooling solution is how fast you can move heat into the working fluid and how fast the radiator can move it out of the working fluid.

AIOs confer no particularly special advantage in either. The fact that the working fluid is water means nothing, heatpipes actually use water internally too. The difference is that heatpipes are actually evaporating the water so they can actually more more heat energy (due to enthalpy of evaporation) than AIOs.

AIOs actually tend to be louder for a given amount of cooling due to cheaper, louder fans and crappy noisy pumps. Custom loops don't really suffer that but they also cost 10x as much. They mitigate a lot of the downsides like pump noise by throwing expensive, high quality components at it. That's fine as far as it goes, but AIOs themselves are not an automatic win.

A large air cooler (eg Noctua NH-D15) is going to perform very similarly to a 240/280mm with identical fans (Noctua) at the same RPMs/noise levels. The difference is that most AIOs ship with very cheap fans that are just designed to spin fast and be loud, but that cools quite effectively. You can punch up the fans on a big air cooler and push a lot more heat through them. They just are optimized for silent performance out of the box.

Furthermore, most situations are currently limited by the IHS. AMD once pushed 500W through a 120mm radiator on their 295x2 card (OC'd), and temps would stay under 60C while doing it. The radiator size is not as big an impact as most people expect, moving heat out of the loop is not the bottleneck, it's how fast you can move heat into the loop that matters. GPUs do that very efficiently (bare die, dual chip on the 295x2). 5 GHz 14nm chips push an incredible amount of wattage, 7nm chips are so tiny that they result in very high thermal density, making both of them fairly prone to IHS thermal limitations. Colloquially: the heat just can't move out of the die into the IHS fast enough. The surface of the IHS is actually fairly cool, the liquid inside an AIO is barely above room temperature, but the heat just is not moving into the loop very well.

There is a resulting thing where people splurge on high-end gear, say a 280mm, and see high temps and tell themselves "wow, good thing I bought a 280mm, a 120mm would have been way hotter!". And no, not really, the amount of radiator fins isn't the limitation, it's how fast you can move heat into the loop. If you put a probe inside the reservoir to actually see the temperature of the fluid, it would barely be different between a 120mm and a 280mm.

And in fact the temperatures would probably be barely different than if you bought a NH-D15, or a Scythe Fuma, or other large multi-tower cooler. At the end of the day the working fluid doesn't matter, it's all fins and airflow.
Professor creates unanswerable exam question, posts “answer” on cheat site
Aren't we? How many people's primary computing devices are ARM-based devices at this point? I know plenty of people who rarely touch a laptop, yet alone a desktop. Expansion of the computing market is mostly happening in developing markets through predominantly ARM-based devices too.
Universities don't hike prices for the sake of extracting more money from students. They do so because it's the only way to make up for the enormous cuts in funding from states, which have historically provided the bulk of revenue that universities see.
> Therefore before 2005, banks that lent money for student loans did so without that particular extraordinary protection.

Most of the pre-2005 loans required a parental co-signer. And I know that I wasn't able to take out non-federal loans all by myself.
I used the Stylus browser extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...) to add this style to the page:

danluu.com – more-readable text

body {
max-width: 65ch;
line-height: 1.3;

/* center the body in the viewport, and then add padding to make up for the default margin we overwrote */
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding-left: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0.5em;
}

I’ve had that style on for so long I forgot about this site’s terrible defaults.
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Wouldn't the mega-wealthy be the ones who'd be least likely to need to sell anyway? Versus people with investments that they want to liquidate for a buffer after losing a job, or retirement?
Great idea but I think you should expose more search options to make this useful. Options like post, duration, etc would make this very very useful! Something like:

podcast:thedaily q:coronavirus testing

I can't remember the number of times I remember the podcast where I heard something but can't seem to recollect the episode.
I agree with you, this is the best almost no cost option as there is such a close detour route and there is so little traffic coming from the east. I'm surprised this wasn't offered as a solution, all it would take is a barricade.
Are there plans to allow users to pick their own podcast episodes?
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The government doesn't seem to be very good at long-term programs either.

One example is ITER. Fusion power would be a fantastic low-pollution energy source. It is something that seemed achievable with a long-term commitment to research and development. Governments have been doing that for 50 years, and appear to be getting nowhere.
The argument is that you are reversing the cause and effect.
Thanks, it’s a good commitment to representing your argument clearly and does you credit.
I mean NNs are still quite bad at low n tabular data (and they may always be), which is honestly how a lot of real life data is, so there is clearly a need for not a neural network.

I feel like I've seem more tree ensembles in the wild than SVMs, though.
The Shell managed PIP is entirely unique to UWP. In Win32 you can fake it with an always-on-top window, but you don't get the PIP window management gestures out of the box and some other things. From what I recall, where this particularly matters is touch gestures and HoloLens and Windows MR support where Win32 always-on-top is very different from Shell-managed PIP in three dimensions. (Also, Xbox doesn't support Win32 always-on-top.)

I think fullscreening also has some gestures the Shell manages, but I'm not as familiar with them. Similar too that the Shell does very different things in 3D.

There's also the Dual Screen support in CoreWindow that Microsoft has been talking up for Windows "10X".
Reducing the privacy impacts of surveillance during Covid-19
>decided in the end not to, for good reasons

Care to elucidate?
Did they have a shortage of products to sell? I think the impact of not selling in China may have been more important than the impact of not producing in China last quarter. And in any case the second quarter will probably be worse.
Did you come from the Nock 4K thing seen in https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/nock/definition/ but without the rest of the stuff on that page? It’s explained in words there:

> / (slot) is a tree addressing operator. The root of the tree is 1; the left child of any node n is 2n; the right child is 2n+1. /[x y] is the subtree of y at address x.

> For instance, /[1 [531 25 99]] is [531 25 99]; /[2 [531 25 99]] is 531; /[3 [531 25 99]] is [25 99]; /[6 [531 25 99]] is 25; /[12 [531 25 99]] crashes.

(edit: there’s also more at https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/nock/explanation/.)
Until you dig into deeper use cases, it's easy to get hung up on Vault as JUST a KV store. Honestly, if that's all you want, and you're on a cloud provider, using a combo of their storage + KMS or other services (i.e. SSM Parameter Store) is probably the more practical approach.

That said, the proposed drawbacks aren't necessarily ... drawbacks? Granted my perspective is from deploying Vault to the Cloud vs. on-prem.

1. Yeah, Vault needs a separate place to do its storage. However, that's a strength if you're following an immutable infrastructure pattern. You store the data in something like DynamoDB and still have the freedom of tearing down and re-creating the Vault servers themselves.

2. Vault may be more expensive right out of the gate, but if you're trying to cover ALL of its functionality with cloud services, it'll start saving you money eventually. Furthermore, many of the cloud alternatives have service limits and quotas. I mean geez, if you want an internal CA through AWS, you're paying a flat $400 a month + costs per certificate.

3. Vault has a learning curve, but it's not worse than having to memorize the buffet of CLI commands through your cloud provider. Yes, getting it set up for the first time can be a jigsaw puzzle, but when everything is up and running, it's smooth sailing. (Plug - I have a project that automates setting up Vault on AWS: https://github.com/jcolemorrison/vault-on-aws)

4. As for vulnerabilities of the "default implementation" - Yes, the public cloud presents more opportunities for exposure, but that's not limited to just Vault. Furthermore, if someone gets root access to your vault servers...that's not a vault thing. 80% of the 2019 massive cloud breaches are the result of misconfigurations and account compromises (source: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/research/unit42-c...).
I'm a physics grad student finishing up a PhD, would you have some time/be willing to chat about industry jobs? Email is in bio.
Use of SMR Technology in Toshiba Hard Drives
Hmm there are some reasons this isn't directly applicable. This mode of behavior is possible due to relying on payment processors ability to reliably transfer money, and the business's ability to verify that potential. I don't think Starbucks would with if they accepted hand written IOUs.

If you can't rely on an actors intent to such a degree, your actions need to also be less costly to be efficient.

Correlated Ids and idempotent end points with retry is pretty much a two phase commit. Something eventually checks and deals with exceptions.

Accounting for loss and developing ways to operate with it make a process viable.
The Fed is artificially keeping interest rates low allowing idiotic stock buybacks to continue for almost no cost, keeps the cost of investor speculation cheap and they are bailing out companies that have bad non-performing loans (banks included)...

The Fed's "Rube Goldberg activity" holds up the stock market...uuuuntil it doesn't.

Source: My black swan farm
I did not read the article in detail, but a keyword search and quick skim did not show anything about base load or peak load. I don't think you can really talk seriously about energy policy without mentioning those.

Solar doesn't produce energy at night, Wind doesn't produce energy when the wind doesn't blow.

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My personal opinion is that the grid will have to get a lot smarter to realize the benefits of cheap solar, and that home power distribution and appliances will have to get smarter.
I'd be willing to share potentially compromising information if I was willing to risk not getting the job and the hiring manager was convincing me that divulging information was advantageous.

For example, for jobs that require a security clearance, it's probably best to just divulge everything that won't get you arrested. At a job fair, I met a recruiter who hired for top secret clearance jobs. I asked him how they could possibly find people who had never had smoked weed, and he said they were primary concerned with recency and frequency.
> It's clear however that, for a lot of reasons, this system optimizes for short term rewards and not for long term planning.

This system optimizes for the aggregate weighted time preference of its participants.

To whatever extent its imputed time preference might be too high, this is almost entirely due to inefficiencies introduced by fiat money and loose monetary policy. If your annualized discount rate is 3% and the fed offers you a loan for 0.25%, you're going to take it and consume now. This increases the effective societal time preference.

Also, most people are probably a lot higher-time-preference than you are (inferring from the fact that you're on HN), so a lot of this is probably just you (and me) disagreeing with them.
Not sure about other FAANG companies, but Google claims that they do no discriminate against those with criminal records (I guess the thinking is, you did your time, i.e. have been punished already). I was a bit surprised having seen that so explicitly stated (having worked most recently in a more traditional enterprise which was more conservative).

Now Google writes that, no idea how it is actually handled.
Crisis-torn airlines scramble to convert empty cabins to cargo – Reuters
The power consumption isn't going up quite as quickly as we'd expect; we're seeing a return to high frequencies partly because we're seeing high-end CPUs manufactured on a vastly more mature process than we typically have part.
Well, it's Chromium, and that's the caveat: In the past, there has been at least one DRM-related issue[1], which needed to be resolved by - Google, because they own Widevine. So you need your competitor to be able to provide an adequate product. Let's say that's kind of subpar.

[1]: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/10449
In my view, this is a situation where technology changed our understanding of morality.

When Aquinas was alive, there was nothing remotely similar to modern banking. Money was lent at punitive rates of interest (20% or more/year), with very little regulation concerning what rights creditors had if debtors couldn't pay. As an example, look at mortgages today; in many states, these are non-recourse, meaning the law limits the borrower's liability to the mortgaged property (the house), and nothing more. People aren't sold into slavery, there are no debtors prisons, and we have a sophisticated system of personal bankruptcy that lets people start over.

In short, if you can't pay a loan, you aren't getting your kneecaps broken or getting sold into slavery. In my view, that's a game-changer.
> The reason they aren't dischargeable is because what bank in their right mind would give a loan to an 18 year old with no collateral?

Over 90% of loans are owned by and issued by the federal government. It's not banks Congress was protecting.
Agreed that’s the better metric, but there is a long lag before mortality statistics are complete in most places. Most jurisdictions report a lower number immediately, and then continue to revise it up for weeks or even months. If you don’t adjust for this it will look like the jurisdictions that complete their reporting most quickly are the hardest-hit.
Embraer and Boeing's $4.2B deal ruled out pandemic as pretext to cancel
Some scale is needed to see the true awesomeness of Borg, and you can't built a K8s cluster anywhere near as big as a Borg cell, but many of the same "Cool features" can be built on K8s as well as they can with borg. Things like rolling deploys and stateless, self-healing systems work at k8s scale.

I recently got back on a project that was on maintenance mode for a year - But because it had a nice K8s setup, it had more or less managed itself through OS upgrades and rebuilds with very little user intervention.
So you're saying the fund invested at all time highs into small cap shitcoins, or whats your point? FB is 10% off all time highs - Are all investors doing terrible?

Seems like you just have an axe to grind.
Sociopaths are not the only rational beings in economic theory. Leisure and social goods can be factors in economic calculations, and most (good) economists do take them into account.

Adam Smith wrote: "[m]an naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love".

Those who say that economics is based on the pocketbook are either posing a straw-man, or are very bad economists.
Consuming more ads only helps ad-servers when there are enough ads to serve. A lot of big advertising categories (travel, cars, restaurants) are having a tough time and will likely cut their ad spending.
The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis
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> ... The Fed hasn't bought a single share of stock.

1. This is actually currently being debated within the Fed.
2. I didn't say the Fed is buying stocks. They are buying the stable assets that the mega-wealthy have in their portfolio. Mega-wealthy don't have all their eggs in one basket. The Fed in solidifying a portion of their basket which allows mega-wealthy to retain the added risk in the markets.
An Elastic Private Cloud: OpenNebula’s Solution for OTT & Media Services
> Prediction is not that slow with linear SVMs especially not compared to something like K-NN.

Provided your structural dimensionality is below about 10 (ie. 10 dominant eigenvalues for your features), then KNN can be O(log(N)) for prediction via a well designed Kd-Tree.

KNN is also really simple to understand, and to design features for. It also never really tends to throw up surprises, which for production is the kind of thing you want. Most importantly, the failures tend to 'make sense' to humans, so you stay out of the uncanny valley.
You could still use Peltier thermoelectric cooling at the IHS and move the resulting excess heat via a heatpipe/AiO block.
It still doesn’t follow that the bet is bad for the student if it is bad for the bank. As the student you have some degree of control over the result. If you have reason to think you can make it work it might be a good bet. The bank OTOH only sees that X percent of students fail to pay back.
That's nitpicking semantics. They mean anything less than a quad core (excepting some hypothetical ultra high clocked single core cpu that doesn't exist) would heavily bottleneck most modern games to the extent that only pretty low end GPUs would even be worth using.

They said "require" as shorthand for that because they (apparently wrongly) expected people to follow the "strongest plausible interpretation" rule.
I feel the same way and part of this is the fact that I think the demographics of tech has changed. When I first entered SV around ~2006, I used to work with plenty of people who actually were interested in technology and were generally decent people. Fast forward today, everyone I work with are just savage try-hards who care only about money and fast advancement through the corporate ladder and they outcompete others using politics, backstabbing, and time. I think tech has just become a magnet for people trying to make $$$. Or maybe I'm just working at the wrong companies these days.
Rome has a subway that cost far less per mile.
This might be onto something!

Just listen to this from 30s: https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/pop-rock-in-the-6355437/...

Such coherent and pleasing melodic phrases in the style of Avril Lavigne. I thought it could be copying wholesale from a song unknown to me. Nope. Shazam doesn't get it.

This can revolutionize song writing/composition/production and soon music listening/consumption.
I worked at a private college called Expression right at the end of the first dot com bust.The founder wanted to turn the school into the "Julliard of the digital arts" - and keep the tuition as low as possible. For the first few years it was a really interesting and unique place. To make a long story short, the board of directors weeded the main founder out and moved the school through the accreditation hoops so that students could get massive loans. As a result, the school raised the tuition. The place exploded with students for x number of years. When Obama came to office new laws killed off the loans (and the school). Most of the original staff left and the whole thing was sold to a company named SAE. I always wondered what would have happened if they were never able to get accredited and were forced to stay a small trade school. The aftermath is documented in the eastbay express article below (2015). From reading current reviews, the place never recovered.

https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/sound-arts-fading-out...
The article was renamed "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" in the 1949 book of the same name, a small but significant title change after realizing the generality of this work.
Oil is energy dense. Nuclear moreso.

Normal folks want progress and prosperity instead of a cultish return to windmills and depopulation.