skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> looks like it was designed in the 90s.

I think plenty of HNers will see that as a positive aspect.
This person seems to generate a lot of noise disproportional to his talent/skills. He has a pinned tweet that is absurdly positioning himself to the likes of Berkshire Hathaway: sort of a megalomaniac complex. Reading his Annual Letter (which directly quotes/'competes' with Warren buffett) gives me a cringe feeling.

He got out of FB claiming the company is shit ( no arguments). But his new ventures and Twitter commentary is at odds with his position: Social Capital seems like a farcical take compared with the likes of Gates, Buffett who have actually proven with their actions not empty egocentric Twitter threads.

Classic VC turned Savior mentality: except underneath it all these people are regular 'get lucky' hedge fund greedy hacks.
I dont think so
I'd not heard of this incident and found it interesting. Here's more context.

https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/1219/afish.html
One Liner GitLog
> You could charge per item, based on weight, like postal shipments.

I would say not exactly based on weight, but similar to that: total dimensions&weight converted to dollars + miles converted to dollars + hours converted to dollars.

> What about 100, 1-lb boxes vs 1, 100 lb box?

Nit: Very few services will allow you to send a 100 lb box. Anything over like 40 lbs is a hazard per OSHA and requires special treatment.

Anyway, besides that, delivering lots of small boxes isn't harder than delivering one giant box if the fulfillment side is doing its job.

> But then you also need to have accurate weights and dimensions.

Everything you buy from Target already has these.
If you per chance never read Dune (maybe everyone hasn't ...), and have a plan to do so; be warned that this post reveals several of the plot twists that made the book a memorable read.
As someone who needs some decent Mac firepower, it does concern me a bit that we don’t really know if Apple can make a good high TDP processor, and everything you need to support that, like a good GPU.

But…does that matter all that much to Apple? They seemingly have made a recommitment as of late to the pro and prosumer market (see: Mac Pro), but for a long time there, they sold laptop Macs, and begrudgingly sold desktop Macs because, I don’t know, education sales. If they nail MacBook Air-class power envelopes, which I have absolutely zero doubt they can, and they don’t knock a new iMac Pro out of the park…is that really going to hit their bottom line all that much?

(Yes, in some way, there’s a halo effect, and developers won’t be happy, nor will creative pros, but if they get great MacBook Airs with higher profit margins, then they probably consider that a win.)
$10-$15 p/h is minimum wage in a lot of states, and still isn't very much money regardless.
In Re Apple Inc. Device Performance Litigation
> I am pretty certain “Master” in Git is not derived from master/slave duality.

It apparently comes from copying bitkeeper, which uses master/slave, so it is, indirectly, derived from master/slave.

It's easy enough to interpret (and retain) in the artistic sense of a master copy (which usage is not derived from master/slave), so even with it's etymology it is far from the most problematic use of “master”, but the git usage is not historically unconnected to master/slave.
"Certainly" being 1%. We must have different opinions on certainty.
Once you finish those, there's loads more to find on archive.org of the previous two iterations of his blog. At least those are the ones I know about.
if there are any marketplaces for loaning your car out to 'gig' type workers to use as though it's theirs, then you could subtract the price of the car from the pay for the gig to arrive at the net pay to the worker. Are there any marketplaces like that?
We hacked a Tesla model 3 to all wheel drive and it’s fantastic
They do outsource to SE Asia and India. There is also a prison population that is compelled to work for free or barely any pay.
>"Science fiction is written by people embedded within a society with expectations and political assumptions that bias us towards looking at the shiny surface of new technologies rather than asking how human beings will use them, and to taking narratives of progress at face value rather than asking what hidden agenda they serve."

And be prepared for the most agenda ridden text you have read in a long time.
Do you actually lose sleep worrying about this sort of thing? Do you seriously think humans are so stupid that they cannot draw any lines?
There are advantages to not being close to a Tesla service center. It means that you're more likely to be serviced by a mobile technician, which is amazingly convenient. Just leave your car parked in your driveway and it gets fixed without any inconvenience to you. It would be more annoying for big things, but for little things it's awesome.
Every language that goes all-in on type safety (Haskell, OCaml, F#, Scala) ends up being too hard to actually use in day-to-day programming. But people publicly say that they prefer it so as to not signal that they themselves find it too difficult. In an ideal world, I'd be writing everything in Coq, but I still live on earth and have deadlines, so I'll "do that some other day". All the code ends up being in some practical language, but when I get a developer survey I'll say I love the type safe hippie language.
Why did his mother tweet "July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy"? Wikipedia lists the date of his death as January 11th 2013.
Part of the point is any of those metrics are the correct one if they model the discrepancy you want.

You pick the one that treats discrepancy the way that's appropriate.

E.g., using the mode is like saying "if you're not the right answer, you're all equally bad".

Using the median is like saying "if you're not the right answer, you're as wrong as however far off you are".

Using the mean is like saying "if you're not the right answer, you're more and more wrong the further away you are, and the amount you're penalized itself gets more and more, so you're really incentivized to be closer"

Which of these is appropriate depends on the real thing you care about in whatever your numbers actually signify.
Also remember the gold bonds. Before FDR, you could buy government gold bonds or government money bonds. The gold bonds were payable in gold, and with that extra reliability paid a lower interest rate.

From 1914 to 1929, the government inflated the money so the dollar was worth about half what the official exchange rate was. (I'm pretty sure this was the main cause of the bank runs as people suddenly rushed to convert their dollars to gold.) FDR decided to pay the gold bond holders in dollars instead of gold, effectively confiscating nearly half of the money.
Hi, also curious how you integrated WhatsApp messages to user for confirmation? Is it business api and is the pricing an issue? (I’m in India too and think WhatsApp api is a bit expensive especially for a use case where I initiated the messaging like in your case)
How Big Tech Makes Their Billions
A good ballpark number is the IFR being a tenth of the CFR. And for under 65 divide by hundred.
I meant the authorities and those in power - and I would even argue that regular people might.

You see it mostly not in what they say they want, but in what they say they don't want. As people constantly cry out, wondering why the government didn't get access to [priviledged information] or why Apple didn't hand over the information for those terrorists, then the media and the populus will often ask why not and want laws changed so that they can.

Very few people are really willing to say "privacy is more important, and I will tolerate murderers and terrorists getting away with bad things because my rights are more important"
I don't get it. The owner of the jacket is a jacket short, he finds out someone has it and that person doesn't give it back ? Not the first time to happen, laws have already dealt with things like that.

What I wrote is not up to debate, it's common in the law in the US and in most of Europe (AFAICT).

You can debate the finer points (that's why I wrote “actual wording and consequences may vary depending on where you live”) but the idea is still the same. Don't mess with stolen stuff.

Eg: In Scotland, when goods are stolen, the person who originally owned them is still the legal owner. If you discover you've bought stolen goods you should stop using them immediately. If you know who the legal owner of the goods is you should inform them that you have their goods and let them take them away. If you don’t give them back and the owner finds out you have them, the owner can apply for a court order to make you return the goods.

Verbatim: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/scotland/consumer/somethin...

We could debate the moral/ethical argument but I purposely didn't take that approach.

edit: ah, I see, I didn't understand why you used the phrasing “Yes, if you claim it was ‘stolen’,” and thought it was a universal “you” but you were talking about the very specifics of that case. I don't know why, I got on the macro level too soon.

Of course, I see, we now have to check what the law says or allows for that company about unclaimed luggage and the best efforts the company made to find the rightful owner before being granted ownership of the jacket.
Both are 'old', but one of them was a clean sheet design and the other was a stop-gap processor designed to sell a few units until their iAPX 432 was finished.

See "History of the 8086" from here: http://www.righto.com/2020/06/a-look-at-die-of-8086-processo...

See "History of the ARM chip" from here: http://www.righto.com/2015/12/reverse-engineering-arm1-ances...

It's depressing to think about how Intel was putting so much energy into a chip that never succeeded and succeeded with a chip that they never intended to keep around.
Widespread Underprovision on Reddit (2013) [pdf]
I assume this is due to the subtle semantic differences between "dinner" and "supper", particularly in the 1800s and early 1900s (up to about WWII).

"Dinner" at that time referred to the mid-day meal (often the largest meal of the day: laborers needed the food to get through the rest of the day, it's hard to have a big meal without good lighting), while "supper" is the evening meal.

Source/anecdata: my grandfather, who, born in 1916, referred to "dinner" as "supper" until his death in 2018.
It's what ropes are usually made of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jute
I think drivers know wear and tear and fuel and insurance costs $0.50+ per mile.

They just don’t have an option for better pay:quality of life at work ratio. Which generally applies to the work of 95% of the people in the world, they simply don’t have a better option.
I just had a sleep study, but because of snorting, not insomnia. I was playing around with one of the many snoring apps available now and was mortified at how I sound all night! They gave me a take-home apparatus to wear one night an then I had a call with a doctor who interpreted the results to me. He said I wasn't a horrible case but recommended I try a CPAP for a few months, which I'm now in the process of getting.
I didn't need to, but I wanted to....

That comment was buried in a thread...
That's not necessarily a bad thing; in fact, most works (and specifically blogs) online have an "agenda".
> Nobody in 2007 was expecting a Nazi revival in 2017, right?

Is that actually true? I seem to remember people predicting that usa has been edging towards facism for a while now, especially in the aftermath of 9/11.

For example here is an article from 2003 predicting usa is heading towards fasicism https://secularhumanism.org/2003/03/fascism-anyone/
It's an individual journey for everyone. For me it's:

* Regular exercise

* Earplugs (at night)

* Light control - dim lights and no computer use before bed.

* Schedule

Night is definitely better than day in all aspects, but the price of staying awake is too high. I can't stand noise-canceling headphones, but lucky enough regular over-the-ear headphones with Pink Floyd work well enough for me.

Modern offices suck big time (penny-wise pound-foolish), but it looks like in many cases office workers are going to be put out to work "from home". In OP's case specifically he works from home, so if worse comes to worse, at the end of the day he can move to quieter, more rural part of Netherlands.
For me this illustrates nicely why most discussions about AI and singularity are like counting how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

It's all like talking about nuclear weapons in 17th century. Sure you can but even if you reach some conclusions they most likely will be invalidated by first technical detail of the implementation of thing when it actually gets created.
Banker Pay Theory Gets Upended by a Harvard Expert
It looks to me like most Stross's predictions depend first on the event of the Brexit, which has not occurred yet as far as I know.

Here's a map the NY Times published on 6/15/2005:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/06/15/business/arm3...

It makes an implicit prediction about the then booming housing market and the sky above it.

On that date, the S&P 500 closed at 1,206.58.

Two years later, in 2007, the S&P 500 closed at 1,522.97.

To the extent that stock markets tell us where we stand as a nation or a society, I find this example instructive.

There's such a thing as the long view. It's hard to know how long it should be. Harder to know whether it will be proved out in the end until it is proved or disproved. Even then sometimes we miss the forest for the trees.

S&P Data: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/history?period1=1118...
Would you mind explaining what the agenda is?
TSMC will be setting up a 5nm fab in Arizona from this year - production starts next year.
Playing with Soviet Era Ferrite Core Memory Planes
Traffic in Manhattan would flow at least ten million times faster if the city would aggressively ticket and tow double parking. I routinely see streets that could accommodate 4 lanes of traffic on each side that are reduced to a single lane of flowing traffic.

They should also just outright ban, and enforce, no left turns. It sounds silly and stupid but it would help.

These 4 lane roads are typically: 1 lane parking, 1 lane double parking, 1 lane flowing, 1 lane someone sitting trying to turn left.

Not to mention all the bus lanes that are just constantly full of idling, double parked, cars.
By definition, most people work at the job that they determine to be their best option.
These things are decided on a case by case basis by the people who implement them and no one will force you to replace all use of the word white or black with different words. You cannot be serious if you think this will meaningfully affect your life in a harmful way.
> nastiest ideas in Presybterian Protestantism.

And if you follow Charlie's reasoning, that simpler parts, can't lead to a highly advanced intelligence, you come to conclusion intelligence is derived from a divine soul.

Intelligence isn't as uncommon as we think, but it takes long time to emerge.
Genuinely very cool. Nice work.
I am looking at it of the point of view of joe/jane developer that cannot tell head from tail regarding vector programming and doesn't even know what compiler intrinsics are for, and use languages that don't expose them anyway.
Yup. There's simply not enough money consumers are willing to pay anymore. VCs spent untold Billions distorting the worldwide taxi market.
This is why standardized testing works against improving aggregate intelligence. We probably have not seen anything close to what human minds are capable of if nurtured to express their differences.
"About -> Limitations: ASCII only because it works everywhere"

This should be in the features. It is the strongest selling point of the site as I see it.
>What we have seen with China is that if manufacturing leaves eventually R&D and design will start to leave too.

Yep, Apple et al. are reaping what they sow here. All their employees go find suppliers in Asia for their hardware. The travel schedules are so grueling that you basically have to be from the country/province where the supplier is located for it to be a tolerable job (free trips home!). So basically, we have Asian engineers seeking out Asian suppliers on behalf of an American company where only the top few levels are American. The chance those Asian engineers are going to cut out the American company in 10 years is high.
We are looking at selling our house and moving precisely because I do not have anywhere to have an office. I’ve been working from a chair in the corner of the living room (not even a table, laptop earning its name) for the past 3 months.
Modern monetary theory: the rise of economists who say government de (cont)
I would not use Silicon Valley technology to A/B test death rates by 'trying' arbitrary 'cool' things inside a fast moving metal torpedo. He can play with toys as he pleases but using real cars seems absolutely bonkers.
Their example employee was just odd, lost 30% of their wages and that was between $500 and $700 each week? A call center has better wages? Assuming 30% then we are talking about $1500+ a week which on a forty hour week is $37.50 and hour and now only down to $25 an hour. Pretty good pay a no skill job.

Now now this is my claiming this app isn't playing games here but some of that can come down to over paying to get people on board and then pulling back once they realized they started out far to rich to sustain.

We really need a better source of income that was being earned to give the article any credence.
scroll down and 7/11 is the anniversary of the grand jury indictment
Companies aren't required to employ people. More people want to work for Google than Google current needs to hire.

The inability of drivers to calculate depreciation prevents them from being able to assess whether or not the contract they're agreeing to is fair. If they actually knew how little they were being paid after depreciation they would probably sit at home and try to find a better job.

This is a market inefficiency in that the actual cost of delivery is not properly reflected in the primary market (between Target & customer) price and instead offloaded on another party. The delivery costs are being artificially lowered by Target taking advantage of workers with low financial acumen. If the cost of delivery as paid by Target to their delivery drivers was closer to the cost + wages it would most likely result in higher prices paid by the consumer. This would end up as less people using the service and getting off the couch and into Target. Or they wouldn't buy stuff.

If a product or service is only sustainable by exploiting people's ignorance and paying them below minimum wage then I don't think that product or service should exist.
In Linux yes, however Arduino, MBed, Android, iOS/macOS and Windows drivers tend to be written in a C++ subset, and Swift, Java and .NET are also an option for userspace drivers.

I got your point, and naturally we are in the context of Linux kernel, however I like to make a point that not every OS constrains themselves to C and having been embracing more productive options for a while now.
>They just don’t have an option for better pay:quality of life at work ratio.

In some sense that's a tautology. Everything that anybody is doing is because they've made the decision that that is the best thing for them at that time given their current circumstances. Outside of that I wouldn't label it this way. Driving Uber is not the only option in America.
I presume this has to do with support for ARM with the database software.

PostgreSQL appears to have had ARM support for sometime. Mysql only added it with 8.0. As far as the other database options are concerned, ARM isn't even supported yet.
It's definitely better than some of the egregious violations of road safety that I saw living in Florida. But the culture is different; most Japanese drivers, even the young ones, are damn diligent about maintenance.

There are still easy ways around the Shaken: typically swapping on your stock exhaust system for the inspection, and then taking it off immediately afterwards to install your straight pipe. You just re-attach the catalytic converter every 2 years. Or you can just pay for a "paper inspection", where a mechanic rubber-stamps your documentation. However, the police have been harshly cracking down on that the last few years. My Supra has a US-sourced custom single-piece driveshaft, which is apparently totally illegal, so I need to either cobble together a 2-piece shaft from OEM Toyota parts, or pay a shady shop. The Japanese police almost never do any sort of snap roadside inspection though, which is much better than the nightmare stories I hear from California.
why do i need to login to simply see the syllabus? I'm not opposed to eventually signing up, but forcing me to before i'm sold on the platform seems premature.
> Can other SIMD instructions (AVX2, say) do the same?

On Intel CPUs, yes. There's even a BIOS/UEFI setting to specify how much you want the clock frequency to drop when running AVX code called "AVX offset". AMD CPUs doesn't do that though as far as I know.

The thermal hit of using wider vectors decreases with every node shrink though, so expect the issue to become muted over time (which also explains why that doesn't apply to AMD - their only µarch with 256-bit execution units, Zen 2, is on a better node than Intel).
> used to solve hundreds and hundreds of classical mechanics problems for fun, in his spare time. [emphasis added]

You kind of missed your own (or possibly your professor's) point there: being great at something is a matter (in part) not just of putting in the work, but of having the inclination and motivation to put in so much work. If you think of it as "all the toil that gets you to that level", you're not the kind of person who is going to become great in that field.
This is just a puff piece ahead of the new movie. It is designed to get people talking. A big debate here about how they got X or Y wrong is playing into thier PR game.
He was also all over the place.

But interesting ideas and if he can connect the ideas in a better way in his book I wouldn’t mind reading it.
Identity can’t be “imposed,” come on. Personhood is continuous across time and space. All a system can influence is your ability to lie about this. Ability to deceive the state can protect your freedom but inability to trust others also has a cost, there has to be a balance.
We will also find papers telling people how to sterilize.
It seems Facebook mandates the use of the SDK if apps wish to provide 'Login with Facebook' functionality. My question is this - Why would any company include this SDK, which is basically spyware into their apps, simply in order to have a slightly easier login flow? Is implementing a user authentication system really so complicated, that you guys think it is okay to give away control of your users, and even your app's ability to even startup without crashing, to a third party company over whom you have no control, who has no obligation to not break your app at their whim?