skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really confused. When looking at artificial intelligence it seems that actually we have dominating corporate labs which through integrated services (such as compute and data), totally dominate academia.

It's coming to the point where researchers that want to make a difference are actively choosing corporate research labs over academic ones.
How did Bloomberg get into the primary this year, as opposed to say, you?
I recall reading about your triple redundancy with R-S codes, but it's good to restate it for each audience.

From the behavior of my RAID (which also uses Reed Solomon, doesn't it?) it feels like repairing an array takes time proportional to the size of the drive, not the size of the contents, and it feels like a waste. But it's possible that my comfort levels for available disk space are a lot more conservative than other people's, and so the difference is less pronounced in a 'normal' storage situation.

For instance, an array that's at 80% capacity takes 25% longer to rebuild than I wish it would, whereas an array that's at 66% capacity takes 50% longer.
Can you explain how any of this is relevant to the post? Because I'm not seeing it.
Ok so it's an explicit parameter, the function is just ~curried so you can just write it nicely.
> Bill Gates was born to a multi-millionaire.

Typical viewpoint on HN is that a $600k a year is average for someone in their early 30s, therefore there's nothing non-average about a multi-millionaire parent.
> As a CEO of a company that is being sold you can not make any binding statements about the future of the company you will no longer own.

That's objectively not true. There are countless stories of companies unwittingly buying liabilities and lawsuits that they didn't know about or fully appreciate.
We're going to have a demonstration of what happens if everyone just gets the predicted grades and 2020 becomes an outlier year, because the government did a u-turn and it happened. So far, top-tier universities don't have the space to admit everyone who meets their offer requirements, the lower-tier universities are likely to not have enough students to remain financially viable due to everyone going to the top-tier ones, it's likely that the former will be ameliorated somewhat by removing the cap on admissions but this will make the latter worse, and it's all a huge mess. Every part of this was predictable, but none of it was explained by the press - which had been pushing the idea that everyone should be able to get their predicted grades - until it actually happened, because they were more interested in blaming the Government than accurately describing the pros and cons of the different options. Now the BBC is pushing for an inquiry as their headline front-page story, as though there was some kind of secret malfeasance to be uncovered rather than a set of bad options with really obvious, unavoidable tradeoffs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53826305
You don't think that company culture is meaningful in retail?
>>you need people to decide who is eligible for welfare and who isn't.

>>In an UBI society, those people could do something else

I meant that the administrative layer could be used for other processes than managing welfare.

Why bother how many people don't work? There are 9 billions on this world. Even if 8 billions don't work, you can still run societies with 1 billion.

>we're not close,

Check how many people have to work on farms to create food. We are at a point where providing basic stuff is possible.

>unless you're talking about 4 square meters per person and 2500 calories of nutrious slime with no extras.

Why not? It doesn't have to be slime. Fast food, cereals, sweets, people actually crave cheap food. On the other hand, offering healthy cheap slime with all nutritions, if you look at soylent, that's something people are actually paying for.

Likewise, 50 square meters don't have to be expensive.

With UBI, you cannot make scarce resources affordable to everybody. On the other hand, you can make UBI affordable by reducing the costs of basic goods. If people can live on $100 a month, in a society with an average pre-tax income of $3000, then one working person can take care of 10 non-working citizens.

>Drop UBI and replace it with a job guarantee and you'll have my attention.

There is no way that a government can create meaningful jobs. How cruel is a society where 90% of people only earn the money to buy nutrious slime after having worked on a meaningless job for 8 hours? Allow those people to stay at home and come up with better ways to spend their time. Even if they just play video games, that's less corrupting for the entire society than forcing them to shovel gravel from one ditch into another. They are essentially prisoners and a society is best judged by the way it treats its prisoners.

Life will be better for everybody because the people who work, they know that it is their choice.
GraalVM 20.2.0
This. Nothing ever simply exists (entropy!).

Money in the bank changes in value. Investments in companies that go bang or bust. Ignoring a fruit plant that dies...

Change is the only constant in life.
I really feel that too many rules like this lead beginners astray and focus on issues that make very little difference in delivering a product.

If beginners see a list like this, and start re-factoring the code to remove "Boolean blindness", that's likely not the best way for them to spend their time and the code may become more verbose in the process.

I prefer not to dwell on negativity about code, as long as it does the job and is implemented in a reasonably simple manner. I think in the Haskell community sometimes there can be an unhealthy tendency to nitpick the implementation details.
Counterpoint: options are a game when the alternative is not shares, but more actual salary.
LOL good luck with that.
As a (non-PhD) researcher who works for one of the last traditional industrial research labs in Silicon Valley, I've noticed this trend for years. I've seen industrial research labs either close or become increasingly focused on short-term engineering goals. I also have noticed that newer Silicon Valley companies have adopted what Google calls a "hybrid approach" (https://research.google/pubs/pub38149/) where there are no divisions between research groups and product groups, and where researchers are expected to write production-quality code. I've noticed many of my PhD-holding peers taking software engineering positions when they finish their PhD programs, and I also noticed more people who were formerly employed as researchers at places like IBM Almaden and HP Labs switch to software engineering positions at FAANG or unicorn companies.

Unfortunately, as someone who is also working toward finishing a PhD, I've seen very little guides for CS PhD students that reflect this reality. To be honest, I love research and I'd love to stay a researcher throughout my career, but I don't have the same love for software engineering, though I am comfortable coding. Unfortunately with these trends, traditional research is now largely confined to academia, which is very competitive to enter and where COVID-19's effects on its future are uncertain at this time, and federal laboratories such as Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore. I fear losing my job (nothing lasts forever) and having to grind LeetCode since there are few other industrial research labs, though given the reality maybe I should start grinding LeetCode anyway.
Detroit ten years ago was famous for $1000 houses. But these houses were gutted, without wiring or plumbing or furnaces. In other words a shell, stripped by scrappers.

Most of those houses have been torn down. But the city has a program that rebuilds the salvageable houses to better than new then sells them at a bargain. The deal is you must live there as your primary residence for five years. These houses begin at $50,000.

https://buildingdetroit.org/rehabbed-ready/
It is possible to form Reg D 506 (d) or (b) syndicates with up to 35 non-accredited investors for example, but risks and costs pretty much steer most offerings towards only accredited investors. The costs of sustaining the deal flow and associated compliance to work with 100 non-accredited investors who stump up the same amount as 1-10 accredited investors, plus the increased legal risks, make it very financially unattractive to cater to non-accredited investors.

This is the "no one comes away happy" outcome of bad actors on both sides of the desk in the past.
It’s a variant of the suggestion often given in therapy and recently popularized by Jordan B Peterson I believe — and no matter what you may think of him as a person, it is a good strategy — “Treat yourself as someone worth taking care of”. Meaning: look at yourself as you would look at your own child, a pet, or anyone you would have the responsibility of looking after. It’s easy to miss meals, not dress yourself well and so on, but you might look at it differently if it was your kid or pet that was hungry. So take care of yourself as if you weren’t you!

The same thing goes with investments. To get over my own sometimes pathological cheapness (a combination of growing up poor and other stuff) I sometimes view myself as a corporation when making purchases: what do I need, are there goals I have that lack materials, what needs to be replaced — then I just sign a blank check to myself as it were and buy the things I need.

In a way, taking care of yourself does become easier when you pretend it isn’t you. Especially if you have issues with caring about “you” in the first place.
I was surprised to learn CNET still exists.
I’m no expert for sure. I’m surprised they can be as much as 70% efficient, I would have thought the heat losses would be much greater. But clearly it doesn’t work like that.
Pretty much all of psych constructs are ill-defined, from IQ to autism to schizophrenia. That's not to say intelligence or mental illness isn't real, only that psychologists have done a spectacularly bad job at accounting for it in a scientifically valid way.
So they are unable to lock people up in the US due to arms?
FHA Mortgage Delinquencies Hit a Record: Coronavirus Live Updates
>You should always value options at $0 even if they do give you information.

If the company has meaningful revenue and a solid margin AND they have already paid out to employees in previous liquidity events, it's pretty likely the options have value above zero.
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Keynote Day 2, Dan Belov of Deepmind
Oh my goodness, Mr. literal over here. There are currently 3 continents covered by Advisory Circular bots. There are actually more Australian cities than American cities covered.

You can see the complete list of bots here: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1263724487435890688/members
I think it's closer to 'What did the Romans do for us? Besides the roads, clean water, ...'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xad5Rl0N2E
> Driving a car may also lead to ego-death ...

Do you mean driving as a form of meditation or about having a fatal accident on the road?
Don't sell CODEX/PLAZA short - there are Steamworks and CreamAPI multiplayer fixes shipped sometimes, and sometimes Fitgirl will add them in with the repack.

(Anybody reading this - there are publicly available NFO files and posts from Fitgirl that indicate what is included in a release/repack. I would never advocate violating copyright, and I certainly do not do so in a personal capacity.)
Maybe this information is out of date, but these are the issues I was referencing:

Anchovies, sardines and other palm-sized, schooling fish are caught in the ocean and processed into fishmeal and oil to feed to other fishes and crustaceans that are raised in aquatic farms around the world.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/06/14/key-ocean-fish-ca...

Every year, millions of tons of wild fish, like sardines and anchovies, are caught and processed into fishmeal and fish oil, which is used to make feed for farm-raised species.

https://www.seafoodwatch.org/ocean-issues/aquaculture/wild-f...
Wealth can disappear, too. Look at the Hearst family. Large corporations routinely go bankrupt, which vaporizes all the value of the stock it had.
“Doctor, I’m not dead!”
> EDIT: By "money in politics" I mean big money that overwhelms small distributed money. (ie money that does not look democratic) . Obviously it's always going to _take_ money to run campaigns

in the UK political donations over £500 have to be registered and be by someone on the electoral role.

the Brexit Party was funded by millions of donations of £499 from Russia and US sources via paypal.
Self-made what? Politicians? Do you have the numbers? I expect the percentages to be more or less the same as for and other affluent profession
That's really cool. I had no idea the reMarkable was that kind of product.

Shows that user contribution to a platform can be part of its success.
> Co-routines or green threads combined with non blocking IO is much better and is also becoming common on the JVM where pretty much most modern frameworks support this.

Appreciate the insightful comment.

Basically, the ideal utilization of compute resource (cpu and ram) is engineering for both async I/O and and maximizing cpu threads, correct?

I agree, mostly.

I can't say I am very confident in understanding / implementing concurrent threading in any language. I am working on trying to get it, but sometimes I don't know if it is worth the mental over head or the added code complexity.

Single threaded async alone took me a while to grasp, and I am sure I still have gaps in my knowledge. But mentally modeling a single threaded execution is trivial.

I guess I try maximize for my own understanding and efficiency versus maximizing for performance.
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You're not alone -- it was quite surprising to a lot of people! What happened was the fifth option: move in with others, such as parents.

P.S. I just saw this article:

Mortgage Delinquencies Have Risen Fastest In US History

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/housing-crash-2-0-mortgage...
I wish pennies would listen to the market and just disappear in a poof of logic
dnsmasq is an incredible piece of software. I ended up giving it a try after struggling to set up ISC BIND and ISC DHCP to work in conjunction (e.g., to create reverse DNS entries when DHCP assigns an IP to a machine).

dnsmasq was such a breath of fresh air.

I thought about the time that I'd spent and how much time I didn't spend after giving dnsmasq a try and decided that now was as good a time as I could imagine to finally donate to a free software project, so I donated, I think £75 through the PayPal link on Simon's website.

I was really surprised to receive an very nice thank you letter from Simon, as if he had anything to thank me for—quite the opposite in fact.

If you're able, please donate to free software developers like Simon.
Almost none of the companies that IPO in the US today have even the remote possibility of yielding a 20X return, never mind 100X or more. At that stage, you'd usually rather want to go with an index fund.

Most of the allure of early- to mid-stage investments is that a small investment has a small chance of turning into a meaningful stake in a very influential company. So I don't think that the promise of buying a stake in a company that has most of its growth behind it would be very interesting to OP, unfortunately.
Matomo (former Piwik) is an alternative imho.
Isn't this a monospaced font?
It's pseudoscience and there are no degrees in it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
This is the first I've heard that the twitter list doesn't work. What's the issue?
Yeah, but so what? There are plenty of blacklists maintained for all sorts of things, and no metric is perfect. Some really rudimentary filtering or AI methods could get you pretty good data.
I am an accredited investor. It's the SEC rules that bother me. There are companies that have taken a lot of investors on but it's usually fairly onerous: https://safegraph.com/blog/safegraph-raises-16-million-serie...
Oh no! France lost Gerard Depardieu! Whatever will they do! /s

In seriousness, I did have a number of French clients fleeing to California after France proposed a wealth tax. One of them famously said (of California): "I love it here! Your taxes are so low!"

The downside of a wealth tax compared to other taxes is that it drains a corpus every year. It creates "financial anxiety" in the people it would target, similar to range anxiety in EVs. Even if the target could afford to pay the wealth tax and live comfortably for the rest of their lives of their children's lives, they are suddenly terrified that they will be taxed into the poorhouse if they misspend their money, and that anxiety drives them toward places without a wealth tax.

Switzerland isn't a good example of why a wealth tax would work, since it's openly acknowledged that nobody actually pays the correct tax on their wealth; it is the same reason that Swiss banks were the financial institutions of choice for criminals and dictators for decades. (If I was being too subtle: the Swiss are notorious for under-reporting financial assets, and their banks are even more notorious for hiding the assets of account holders.)
What if I want to sell them something back?
This line of thought needs to noticed be much more. While I was initially also very excited about distributed/decentralized processing/filesharing systems, this exact type of economic calculation seems to make the existence of many small, personal nodes in such networks unlikely. Even ignoring the electricity and network cost, if the setup and maintenance of such systems takes more than a few minutes per month, it just won't be worth it for the majority of potential providers. They would have to be zero-click installs, daemons in the background, unnoticeable, without requiring any attention from the user, despite issues like moderation.

Makes me wonder how the distribution on other filesharing/torrent networks looks like.

Another line of questioning I have is about the possible effects of this system should it become popular. Cryptocurrency mining caused huge spikes in graphics card prices - will the same apply to high-capacity harddisks, due to people trying to run mini-datacenters for profit?

How much storage will the Filecoin network be able to provide? How would a hypothetical large storage supply interact with pricing models of other providers? And on a more optimistic note, will it enable individuals to develop a new class of programs using lots of storage which aren't possible currently, technically or economically?
How would you overcome loopholes like the $1 Trillion+ that Apple stores in the Channel islands after funneling it through Ireland and the Netherlands?
Here's what has worked for me:

- Close the laptop, disconnect it from power supply, external monitor, etc., and put it out of the way. I'm sharing my big monitor with my work laptop and my personal desktop. After I shut down the laptop, I start up my desktop even if I don't plan to use it immediately, so I'm looking at my personal background, not my work one.
- Get out of the apartment and take a walk; to the mailbox, around the block, whatever. When I was working downtown, I almost always went out for lunch, and walked to a coffeeshop a couple blocks away to read. Now, I take this walk after work; anywhere from 15-30 minutes.
- Change clothes, as others have suggested. I'm much more casual now than I would be in the office, but I change into "workout" clothes before my walk.
>Paying a .1% weath tax on a billion dollars for 60 years is cheaper than paying a flat 100,000 per year for 60 years.

Do you mean 1,000,000 a year? Because:

60 * 100,000 = 6,000,000

1,000,000,000 - 1,000,000,000 * 0.999^60 = 58,263,738

Also, keep in mind that if you want to actually have the money, you will pay the income taxes on top of that.
Thankfully, not only do we have a modern replacement for X in Wayland, we also have a modern replacement for NeWS. It's called "the browser"/Electron.
Kent Beck on Remote Compensation and the “Devastated Wasteland” That Is Agile
The vast majority of those users likely also have a Facebook, Instagram, and/or Whatsapp account.

Without Facebook's funding, none of the recent advancements are likely to exist in the first place. Valve hasn't done it, HTC hasn't done it, Sony hasn't done it. Because it is hard, expensive, and a money losing endeavor (for the forseeable future).

To be clear, I am strongly against the requirement, but am glad the product exists.
Doge in Visual Studio Code
I can accept it if they don't want me. I can also accept me not wanting them. What I don't like so much is that we want each other but the government makes regulation too painful for us to cross the barrier.
> Again encryption is not the same as not having access at all to the data.

Yes, it is. If you delete the keys, nobody has access at all to the data. The ciphertext is irrelevant.
Amazon tried to unseat a couple Seattle City Council members in the last election. It backfired, and Amazon faces a Council that has voted a huge payroll tax onto Amazon in revenge.

So if Amazon can't even control local elections, I wonder where all this supposed political power is?

Also, AOC was instrumental in preventing Amazon from establishing a second headquarters in NY. As a freshman Congressman.
Middle class Texan here. I pay more to the government each year in wealth tax than I do in all other taxes combined including income tax. A lot of Americans do. It’s called a property tax, but since a lot of my wealth is in my home it’s actually a wealth tax.

So although I’m a libertarian, this makes it hard for me to get too worked up over Jeff Bezos or Musk getting taxed the same way.
Four digital-era marketing myths that are hurting your brand
"The idea is that society doesn't need billionaires"

so when was the vote to declare that the line in the sand? what about millionaires? Let me guess, there are enough millionaires now that it's too big of a group to make an enemy out of. You can't say society doesn't need millionaires because there's enough that maybe someone's friend or family is a millionaire and will think "..wait a minute, that doesn't seem right".

Flip it around and give the 0.01% poorest people the same treatment, society certainly doesn't need the poorest of the poor either. It makes about as much sense.
Why would you respect someone for sacrificing and fighting for what they think is just? Osama Bin Laden wasn't too different either. Many Islamic terrorists were engineers before sacrificing their careers and fighting for what they believed in. You're right that they are true inspirations to others, but you seem to imply that's a good thing. Gangsters are obviously also a true inspiration to others (hence glamorization of gangster life) but not really good for society.

I suspect that what you really mean is Guevara fought for what you think is just. But that's a weaker statement.
There are shortable futures contracts tied to US housing price indexes[1], but they're highly illiquid (rarely trade, and have wide bid/ask spreads). This is probably related to the difficulty of hedging, since as another poster points out housing is not fungible, and to the very high transaction costs involved in buying or selling the underlying.

[1] https://www.homepricefutures.com/
Show HN: A secret link only works once and then disappears forever
Spotify’s move into audiobooks is a seismic shift in the publishing landscape
Question: Is it possible to uninstall Safari on macOS? (without shell commands)
Cops are buying your social media location data without a warrant
That kills the possibility of selling your account.
That's exactly what happened here. The question is whether Oculus's customers will enforce the promises of never requiring a Facebook login.
Yeah, no, it's not. There's just a regulatory barrier that makes it hard for most organizations to release stock like this to the public. I want to lower that barrier for myself because I am willing to accept a higher scam rate.
I pick 2017.