skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone that actually used palantir, they don't do magick. Splunk beats them in every category for conventional data analysis.

They do however have an excellent grasp on ML. Let's say you have billions of images,document images and documents (of any kind) they will search it better than google can. They obviously do a lot more but the thing that makes them shine is the UX. If you're a cop for example you put in a license plate and it shows you all you need about the car,driver,history,correlations and analysis of all entities and much more without the user being expected to know anything technical at all(you can imagine what can be seen when someone puts in your IP or phone#). They do a good job at linking documents and data points. I'm afraid I don't know enough about off the shelf ML to make a good comparison.

I don't agree with Mr.Thiel but his logic is "if we don't do it,someone will". And that's the idea behind in-q-tel (I'm sure HNers and the VC scene know that name well).
Thiel was also wrong about Trump, things are now worse off foe everyone. America has just about lost her grasp on keeping the world order,many trust relationships that kept peace and order since ww2 have been ruined.

As far as their work, I don't think "someone else" would have done it,because even if they did the quality may have been poorer. But I do agree the problem is far more deep-rooted and sinister than it appears.

For a long time you could safely trust the IC to know and respect democracy and the rule of law. But in recent times, they have violated every core tenants of a legitimate rule of law and civil liberty. Keeping the nation secure is not an excuse, if it is then any coup or subversion of elections can be justified this way. Are they helping their country or hurting it?

The existence of palantir and in-q-tel is very natural. The problem is how the IC and LEO communities as a whole have collectively lost sense of how everything they do is by consent of the people. But moreover, they should be on the people's side protecting rights and liberties. They stand as enemies of our liberties, sophisticated stalkers that will break any law to stalk you and control you all for your own good.

I think Mr. Thiel will regret his place in history. But it's very hard to blame him or pala tir. It's like blaming the sharpness of a knife when someone stabs you.
AFAICT the POSIX behavior for MADV_DONTNEED is just a hint that the memory won't be accessed soon.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/po... says:

POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED
Specifies that the application expects that it will not access the specified
range in the near future.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=madvise&sektion=2 says:

MADV_DONTNEED Allows the VM system to decrease the in-memory priority
of pages in the specified address range. Consequently,
future references to this address range are more likely
to incur a page fault.

Neither of these suggest that the contents of the memory content can be discarded (as Linux does), only that it can be swapped out.

So it doesn't appear that this provides the "lazy unmap to avoid shootdown" behavior on any OS.
>rather having a large majority of other orders coming from these services.

DoorDash has managed to change my behavior to the point that it is where I do when I am hungry, so I can see that being viable for a portion of the population.
> The fact that Doordash scrapes prices, and apparently doesn't verify... how does this happen?

It kind of happens by default if your goal is "growth at any cost".

The video you mention is likely this one, and it's actually even more extreme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8

The fake restaurant in their garden shed, which never took customers or delivered any food, climbed up to #1 best restaurant in London (!) in TripAdvisor's rankings, purely on the strength of fake reviews and fake photos (artfully arranged closeups of bleach tablets etc). For kicks and video gold, they did open for their last night, serving 1-pound microwave meals from the supermarket.
You joke, but a while back there was a guy who had developed a new aluminum air battery technology.

"Jackson claims that if you replaced a Tesla Model S lithium-ion battery with one of his aluminum-air batteries of the same size, range would increase from 370 miles to 1,500 miles."

search for "jackson aluminum air battery"

There were articles where it was "a conspiracy" that he couldn't get funding for his breakthrough battery.

which leads to the downside: when the battery discharged, you had to recycle it and replace it with a new one.
Is it practical to target wine as an application platform? That will require building without vs. Or build on windows and test with wine. What are the apis one would need to avoid in order to ensure wine compatibility?
There are creepy amounts of guys who only host young, attractive women. It used to be more like hosting anyone - young, old, any gender, and sharing travel tales.
> I think the two are simply illusions

I've never understood this line of reasoning. If consciousness, in the sense of subjective experience ("qualia"), is an illusion, that what is being fooled? It seems to just push the question one level deeper without providing any insight.
I've thought about moving to a different company. My current company is in the top 20 best places to work in IT (computer world), although I don't know how much i trust that rating. They talk a lot about work-life balance. Do you have an example company to recommend?

I don't seek a high salary - just enough to live without fear and to someday retire. I hope to do interesting things, but I would be fine with boring tasks if I have a good work culture. It would be difficult to switch since my experience is in Neoxam and Filenet.

Thank you for your input.
Aha, show me how i can access low level TCP stuff from JS. Browsers could do this, but they would not.
Having kids (3 so far, 3, 5, and 7) helps me prioritize my time better. Before getting married and having kids, I was all over the place, had poor routines and probably some unhealthy habits in terms of diet and sleep. Having other people depend on you changes your priorities quickly.

Also, it's very difficult at times, but incredibly rewarding, more so than even the best programming highs I've had, when you can see a new thing one of your kids learned, and realize you were part of that.

Their imagination also keeps my brain a bit more flexible, especially as I try to join in their own crazy fun. And being able to act more like a kid with them also keeps me loose and a little crazy, which helps me to be more positive and, maybe, 'chipper', in my interactions with workmates. At least I think so.

Again, there are very difficult times as a parent. But the highs are so much higher when they come, and I would not trade it for being back in the bachelor mentality and spending more of my live donating overtime to a corporation (though there are some very positive things from that part of my life too, and I have some friends who would probably not thrive as parents!).
Efficiency. Cost if you are buying coffee. 200mg each. Split them as needed.
My kid is asleep :)
Was it from a unicorn?
It was, they use it to bankrupt another startup so they can acquire them (and their employees). I'm wondering now which one happened first...
First sentence of your article, emphasis added.

> With the advent of the so-called COVID-19 pandemic

Lol sure bud its "fullly sourced."

Edit

It was an intetesting read though. Crux of ths argument is that mask use reduces oxygen intake and increases strain lungs and that lower blood oxygen content can lower immune system function.

Neat find, but unfortunately the conclusion is bullshit.

You dont wear a mask to protect yourself, you wear it to protect others in case you are infected. You dont wear them all the time, obviously only when youre in public areas like a grocery store.

If your lung function is low to the point thay you cant wear a mask while grocery shopping then order your groceries online or send a friend.
What a vile question. Not that I'm suggesting malice on OP's part, but rather that this question is the manifestation of an all-too-common perverse mindset among many young adults in the West that disgusts me. They are victims of the relentless propaganda around empowerment and living one's 'best life' that inevitably leads to childless, lonely, bitter, empty, miserable 40-somethings with a gaping hole in their heart that the sleekest sports car, most extravagant holiday or any number of social media followers can never fill, in spite of their best efforts.

I'd sooner be stone broke, living in a tent and surviving on bugs and mildew with my family than to be one of these pitiful professionals who live for their career. I can barely hide my scorn when I see them.

What do these people even have to live for? They are, in the truly biological sense of the term, drones. They are drones, by choice. I don't understand why they even bother without love and laughter to look forward to at the end of the day.

HN: Is your career dragging down your family?
Full autonomy depends, among other things, on regulators. Could be years before the right people are convinced it should be road legal.

Hints I see re: Cybertruck point to new battery by end of 2021 (CT launch). Few/no regulators to persuade of exotic tech.
Singapore’s Temasek joins Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency effort
UW is a special case. By law they have to accept everyone in the state and medicare has special requirements for some medications. To avoid discrimination they have everyone take the same tests.
> you are punishing children that draw parents that don't care.

Worse: you are punishing poor children who don't draw parents who sacrifice everything until they rest in an early grave, while rich children who have parents who don't remember how many kids they have after a few drinks get every opportunity in the world.

This is a specifically middle-class moralization that defines merit as the product of the ability to suffer and "giftedness," and measures merit by looking at outcomes.
Well using the most optimistic numbers I could find the Model 3 LR does ~429km on 270 MJ battery pack.
Assuming efficiency of system remains the same for 1 million miles that is approximately 1x10^12J of energy, roughly 240T of TNT or around 30,000L of Jet A-1.
Yet heavens forbid if we spent a little more trying to fix healthcare. This all is thanks to mentality of fear which has deep roots in American consciousness. At the nation level - what if somebody attacks us to at the family level there all kinds of crazies here let’s not let our children play outdoors in the neighborhood without supervision- it’s a fear based society.
Calling the unemployment office right now is virtually impossible.

Conventional wisdom these days is that if you want to collect unemployment, you need to make filing a claim your full-time job. You start calling at 7am when they open, and keep re-dialing until you get through -- hopefully before they close at 4pm, and you have to start again the next day.

Also, don't call before Wednesday, if you don't absolutely need to. Monday/Tuesday are unofficially reserved for people who really need the money.

Of course, even if you get through to a person and get the right bit flipped in their database, there's no guarantees. I also hear lots of stories of people whose claims were approved 4 or 6 weeks ago and still haven't gotten a dime.
> But recognize quickly that your employment environment may be incompatible with family life, and so what's "slowing your career down" is your management... not your kids or your own performance.

Amen
I used to get really worked up early in my career trying to win the ratings game. When I got older I began to question the concept of the career, ironically when I finally started ‘winning’ at it.

1. Ratings and promotions within a job/company are boss personality and politically dependent and typically very unfair. Lots of hard work goes unrewarded.

2. Even if you do get lucky and get a promotion, your prize is 5-10% salary bump (maybe) and more work, stress and meetings (I don’t much enjoy meetings myself). Look closely at most big company executives and think if you really want the job for more than the social prestige/ego. They travel a ton and are always in meetings, it gets old.

3. So if the executive jobs are undesirable, then climb the ladder for money? It takes allot of money to make a difference, I.e you need $500k in the bank to ek out approx $1500 a month in cash flow at 4%. If you making $100k annually or $150k annually, $200k, or even $250 its still going to take over a decade to save a decent amount of money. The 5-10% salary bump doesn’t make much difference.

So why a career? There are likely more efficient ways to make money if that’s your goal. Starting a business, blogging, consulting, etc may have more risk but the ceiling is uncapped unlike a ‘career’.
So why sacrifice something wonderful like time with your child? Money? Ego? You want a great LinkedIn profile one day? If given the option tomorrow, I would max my parental leave unless it impacted teammates in a negative way.

I would genuinely be interested if this is a minority sentiment?
This quote summarizes it all for me: "Amazon just bailed on restaurant delivery in the U.S."

If amazon, a "real" business with a reputation built on ruthlessly cutting margin can't get it to work why would anyone else?
I think the best is a TS to binary right away :)
> But there's also the first sale doctrine--that after you sell your physical product, people can do with it as they please, including resell.

Yep! First sale doctrine applies to all transactions. This is why my gammy can resell her Oxy’s and it’s all nice and legal.
I thought you were suggesting that you would prefer to see Laotian despite OS/browser language settings, nvm
The idea that scribbles on a paper would be conscious is really hard to believe. It also sounds like it's own form of dualism that's functional instead of substance-based. I wouldn't consider it a good physical theory of consciousness.
>does anyone actually order franchise pizza on an app

I do. I find the app to be a much nicer experience. I see all the available coupons/deals in a list instead of the 1-2 deals the phone person wants to guide me towards. With an app I can start and order and my family/friends can have an extended conversation to figure out exactly what we want on our pizza, what sides/drinks/etc. And in a pinch, we can completely start the order over from scratch if we change our plan mid-way. It would be rude to hold someone on the phone for that. Plus the app gives better real-time update on the status of my order. I know when it leaves the oven, when it gets picked up by the driver, etc.
At least we now know that a moon rocket is even chemically possible
The problem is all these businesses (ride share, food delivery), have extremely low margins and the tech to spin up a competitor is extremely cheap and commodity.

Thus the “monopoly” you allegedly get later is deeply unsustainable at the profit level and scale required to recoup losses on any timescale that would work for investors, assuming you can even hold onto it in the face of constant reemergence of competitors.

This is what Naked Capitalism has been point out about Uber for years and years. Uber just keeps changing the story. First rideshare itself would be profitable. Then logistics and trucking would be a sexy new profitable area. Then self-driving cars, then food delivery.

It’s frankly just a Ponzi scheme at this point that was foisted onto unwitting retirement plan investors.

GrubHub / DoorDash / etc., are just more of the same.

You can’t take businesses like taxis or food delivery, with well understood economics, round trip costs, density requirements, low margins, etc., and just slap an app on top and make them somehow different than they really are.

Artificially increasing the supply of something that’s fundamentally not sustainable at that price just will not work.
The 2006 High-School Science Fair Origins of Social Distancing and Lockdown
That's because, for better or worse, there's usually no visible difference between a question asking "How do I do X?" from a kid at home making something for fun, and the same question from a professional on a mission-critical system.

The same question in different context may have completely different answers, yet StackOverflow is all about finding the "correct" answer, and closing "duplicate" questions.

As with nearly every other aspect of modern life, people are at the mercy of a system of rules whose rewards don't exactly align with the benefit of the people in it.
That's impressive. My company views success/dedication as hours spent instead of value delivered. I'm glad it's working for you.
My career has soared since I've had kids. I don't think it's because of that (and who knows, maybe it would have soared even more had I not had kids) but it also didn't drag me down in any way.
I mean I wasn't saying why you would want to. I was questioning why "we need to"
Think about the mule more like a drug mule. Someone who doesn’t have much to lose, is recruited by gangsters, work is ok as long as they do what they’re supposed to do, and they are beaten or killed if they go off script.
Dividing 1000000 miles by the up-to 390 mile range of the 100 kWh Model S indicates 256.4 megawatt hours for a million miles. That's about 221 tons of TNT equivalent.
Ask HN: Dilemma on raising the price of SAAS product later
We are a smart electricity meter company and planning to launch our SAAS platform.
One of the strategies for increasing early adoption would be to have a lower subscription price.
However, we are not sure if we could increase the price of subscription later? Although it is technically possible, is it practical? Or would it be better to have a higher price to begin with and reduce it later?
I would be glad to learn from the experiences of HN members.
Based on this[0] thread on the Tesla forum, I'll use 0.31 KWHr/mile. If that's the case, a million mile battery would be equivalent to 267 tons of TNT.

[0] https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/miles-kwh
[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%280.31+KWHr%2Fmile*1+...
just curious, what sort of distortions would you expect to see with a very high LVT?
It's 4 servers doing the same as 40. That is 10x throughput, and with lower tail latency.

Scylla is far more than a compaction strategy. If it was that simple, than Cassandra would already be able to do it.

It's an objectively faster database in every metric. Datastax's enterprise distribution has more functionality but core Cassandra is now entirely outclassed by Scylla in speed and features.
Works as long as you can stop by a suitably naive civilization every so often to strip-mine dilithium crystals for a few bottles of synthahol.
Ok so.. 100kwh = 350 miles ish

1,000,000 miles would need a capacity of 285mwh...

Or... 245 tons of TNT...

I don't want to be in the same zip code as that vehicle
Rural areas don't need the kinds of infrastructure that urban areas need, but they need some. They need schools, they need roads and maintenance. They'd love to have broadband. They may need drainage or water systems that serve undense communities. They need emergency services, courts, and a variety of other things that civilized people who live in communities find valuable. (My use of "civilized" is in no way a criticism.) We are social beings, and there are things that are more efficiently done by the community as a whole.

Earlier, someone referred to the Henry George Theorem. I think it holds in rural places, too. And unimproved land value seems to me to be the reasonable "tax base."
Consciouness is the observation of own states, nothing fancy about it. We humans have powerful machines to observe ourselves, our environment, and to "observe" their future states thru prediction. Observing our observability in a recursive way is what give us a feeling of "consciousness". Even some paradoxes, like Zeno's and Supertasks are simple observer's problems.
Leaving is not the only option.

He may not agree but decide to stay, learn from its errors and work to make it better..

If people that do not agree just left microsoft it would never have changed, because only the ones that agree with the status quo would be left.

Microsoft changed not because the people left but because the people choose to stay and work to change it.
I work at a company in the top 20 IT best places to work. Your statement sounds almost like their's. I feel like I can't switch due to lack of experience, and of course the current market downturn.
Lol so apparently this sounded like a good enough math problem to get a lot of people interested
I'm confused, what exactly is incorrect? I said if we don't have more realistic benchmarks then I wouldn't just assume it's faster. Now you're saying you did in fact do more realistic benchmarks, and you found lower entropy ones to exhibit the same performance (which is not faster). They all seem consistent with each other?

I also said that sorting is often more complicated than just comparing integers by their values, which you didn't really address except to mention doubles, which missed the point I was making (I was trying to say sorting often needs e.g. satellite information).

In any case though, if you've done other benchmarks, it'd be nice if you could post them on GitHub or something. Maybe I'm missing something.
I'm not sure if it's still the case, but I think CS was forced into a 'for-profit' designation for practical reasons:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9633122

... and it doesn't really represent the operation. At the end of the day, moderation and support for membership is needed, particularly for keeping predators out of the system, mechanisms for people who might have fallen prey to them. It is something that requires time and effort. Such operations need guaranteed vigilance on these issues, and aren't easily sustained by the whims of volunteer involvement.

It might be that many established members are okay with taking risks. I remember one host I stayed with that talked about hitch-hiking on trucks around Europe to save money, but also how she got drugged once and her money stolen and dumped in the middle of an autobahn, and then another time how she 'talked herself out of' being raped. This sort of risk might be okay for the seasoned couchsurfer, but this might not sit well for newcomers who don't know who they are staying with.

Not sure if the situation has changed with CS, and they've become profit-oriented, but it does take some money, from somewhere, to keep things to modern standards. Personally, I would prefer that CS was sustained by those who can afford to by donations, rather than subscription. And I may actually look to bewelcome, or hospitality club if that's still around. (I also used another called 'Trustroots', not sure if that still has a community.)

Edit: To that individual with the privilege to down-vote, could you please correct me where I'm wrong with an actual comment?
Freakonomics is an awful representation of economics. It's literally a collection of anecdotes and uncontrolled experiments.
Until the prices inevitably rise back up to the level they require to make up for the massive losses. Then that’ll just drive your behavior right back, probably much much faster than it took for DoorDash to establish this, meaning the “monopoly mode” profit time will be so short-lived as to recover next to nothing of the losses.
Wow, that's awesome if they follow it. I know my company doesn't.
kids are important not money / career. If you need more money to support family then live a simple life where you wouldn't do unwanted expenses. Food cloth shelter, other than these everything else is unwanted for your life and your family.