skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I sure wish a tech billionaire would do something about this

No need to single out one group of people. We vote for shitty politicians, we give money to shitty corporations, we form tribes of "us vs them", we put more children on this world condemning (putting a human on the planet is worst thing you can do to it in terms of pollution), we don't do our part "because corporations are the biggest polluters" and think that absolves us of any evil. We are inactive. We'd rather shift the blame than do anything. We are complacent. We are all complicit. We are all to blame.

If the world is full of non-evil people, then why aren't they keeping the evil people in check?
Autotools generate a Makefile project, and nothing but a Makefile project. All the buiding in the development cycle is done by typing "make". Autotools projects include a template makefile: Makefile.am. Make is not concealed in any way.

Also note that not all Autotools-based projects use Automake. Using only Autoconf, with a hand-maintained Makefile, is a thing.

The goal of Autotools is to produce a software distribution that doesn't require the end user to have Autotools. The end user has a shell to run the configure script, and that's it. If that works, they run "make".

About the most sophisticated generation the user will see is that some Makefile.in template is passed through sed to substitute @@XYZ@@ variables.
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It needs more granularity of OS versions and browser versions. Knowing which iOS version your users have is important to decide on what base level version you need for an iOS app, for example.
Agree this is a good idea.

To clarify: it'd be cool if language's supported multiple lexemes (?) for a single token. So -> and → (U-2192) are equivalent.
It's also possible that he took home some internal tools to use as well, which I can imagine would land him in hot water.
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So it's about the same as buying a plot of land (where you usally need to build something within a period of time).
€1 for a plot of land isn't terrible either.

There used to be seaside plots for €1 in northern Sweden, with the caveat that you need to live there permanently for 5 years.
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I learned I had a mild form when I was about 40, though I had symptoms dating back to college. Mine is sort of the inverse of yours: I will see someone, I know for certain that I’m supposed to know who they are, but draw a complete blank. Like the instant of recognition wipes my memory. Only happens with people who I encounter out of whatever the normal place would be. e.g. I ran into a former roommate at an airport. Knew I was supposed to know who she was but drew a complete blank (luckily, as a former roommate she knew I had this problem).
I don't know. It has 175 billion parameters, thus, about 500GiB for floating point parameters. If these are bfloat16, it is mere 300GiB. We know CPU is about 50 times slower than GPU for transformer models, hence, we are looking at 4 to 8 minutes per inference (parameter loading on demand from SSD takes 200 seconds or so, and probably the bottleneck here). If the parameters can be loaded into memory (seems you have to be on a >= 8-channel machine with unbuffered RAM or with buffered RAM), it will be probably 1 to 2 minutes per inference.

Still in the realm of doing inference in homelab territory (barely).
I get wanting to create valuable thought leadership content, but this is the worst example of Bad product marketing:

1- present a new concept to readers (shadow visitors)

2- show how this concept is scary and bad for your business (your analytics is off by 20%!!!)

3- present 2 options, which by the way are free, but immediately shit all over them (Server logs! But that’s hard and complicated! Edge logs! But getting these are hard!)

4- present your company’s product as option 3, which surprisingly, have no downsides and isnt shit upon

5- profit

What disingenuous garbage. You should be ashamed Parse.ly.

The right way to do this is do steps 1 and 2. Then show in detail step 3: how to solve the problem with easy options, ideally with free and open software. It’s ok to show edge cases, corner cases, or just shear scale issues that makes these options challenging.

The difference is that good product marketing pieces show people how to solve the problem and offer a solution to do that at scale or in a automated/hosted way so the customer doesn’t have to deal with it.

If your product marketing content’s message is “you are screwed unless you buy our product “ you are doing it wrong
Good thing the Reverb G2 is right around the corner!
Hey, did this guy just call me narrow minded, in that way people argue whether black lives or ALL lives matter?
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This is the best!
Since it only had two front-facing cameras, the Mirage Solo would have required extra hardware to track any controllers. Also I don't think there was ever an app for it that let you walk two steps away from the origin. The only truly room scale thing I saw was a demo written by some developers. They had to put the headset in dev mode and disable a bunch of safety mechanisms. I wonder if this limitation was imposed to minimize drift.
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Affordable disk shelves - something like the Netapp DS4243 - on the other hand tend to be reliable and give plenty of space for SAS and SATA drives. I bought a fully populated shelf (4 x powersupply (of which I'm only using 2, the rest are disconnected and meant as spares), 2 controllers and 24 15K SAS drives (mostly HGST, a few Seagate drives) for around €400. I'm currently running it with a number of those 15K drives but will eventually replace some of them with slower but bigger SAS or SATA drives, not so much to get more space but to save power. For now the thing runs fine, the error logs on the drives are mostly clean (2 drives with a few errors, mostly likely due to power glitches as they occurred a long time ago and have not recurred). If you want lots of space for drives with redundant power and cooling these shelves are a good value since there are plenty of them on the market which keeps prices down.

I'm using a combination of striping, RAID and mirroring depending on the content, using lvm and mdadm instead of ZFS for the increased flexibility. The server itself contains a HP R410i RAID card which drives 8 internal 2.5" SAS drives, the thing could be expanded for not that much money to a 16 x 2.5" array but I see no reason to do so given the higher prices for 2.5" drives and the abundance of capacity offered by the DS4243.
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Actually, it appears Luckey was never CEO; I guess I remembered that wrong. I'm sure you're right that Luckey was likely the biggest shareholder by a fair bit.

In any case, Luckey was a 20-year old kid who got some lenses to point in the right direction to give a decent FOV. He had a good Kickstarter, hired a CEO, and two years later he sold to Facebook for billions. Should he have made those promises? Probably not. Should any of us have taken his predictions seriously about what Facebook would do in 6 years, which is 50% longer than Luckey's adult life at that point? Also probably not.
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A great video on the different theories of the Lost Colony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTOKRWgjOlg
I've been considering this participatory economy for a long time (longer than I think the term has existed). What blows me away is how fast companies are cropping up to fill this space. There are a dozen startups in this post that I haven't heard of before today that have some significant VC backing. It does feel like this is a space that is ready to see some growth.
> If your point is that there is a trade-off to modularity, I'm not sure who it is in response to. It's obvious that modularity has a tradeoff. And I don't see any significant group in this conversation contending that. Nobody is asking for a user-replaceable RAM on an iPhone.

I've seen many people in "right to repair" discussions arguing for legal mandates that every device must have a replaceable battery, for instance. That goes beyond having the right to repair, and into restricting the manufacture of devices.

If we start legislating technical architecture, we limit the possibility of innovation and competition, and we drastically reduce the chances that anyone will ever dethrone any of the current market leaders by building something nobody saw coming.
Yes, I agree. It is just a mitigation. At least though it would not be actively available on the main network. The more I think about this, the more I think being able to have some sort of reputation system for node operators would be really valuable.
I got quite excited when I thought an article on Participatory Economics as proposed by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel has made the front page of HN.

Maybe someday...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics
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He was caught being old and under the influence of Steve’s original creative spirit. Apple is run by mobsters again (not talking about Tim Apple) —only thanks to Steve coming back, they have nearly unlimited capital and capacity. The joke is on them though because Tim is a hardliner who will fry their butts when the revenues begin to falter. It’s all bad anyway tho because Apple stock tanking is enough to make the market crash of 2000 look like a cakewalk.
sounds like the writer becoming the typist and the typist getting famous as writer.
Yeah--it's a different era. I know people who do research who have masters, but they are effectively grandfathered in.
It seems that none of the 6 scientists passed the notability criteria of Wikipedia?
I can't seem to find their Wikipedia page.

I would have made more sense to pick famous female scientists maybe?
You are missing an important they in the list of why these empty promises are made: keeping up the value of the property. There's an implicit, and often also an explicit (e.g. in the form of the founder becoming an employee) agreement that the seller won't talk down the value of what they just sold. Claiming that all will be well, despite Facebook, was very much in the interest of Facebook. Including the fact that the promise was made by someone who'd most likely be gone before the promise stopped being true.
The Netherlands too as far as I know?
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Do you have an example of state-wide passive population reduction that doesn't involve oppression?

Also, this is perhaps the more eloquent version of my answer.
He was lying then. He's lying now.
I very nearly bought an Oculus Quest recently due to some glowing reviews, despite my strong anti-FB feelings. So very glad I hesitated.
> atp-powered

I think GTP-powered file is possible, even the glucose metabolism produce one GTP (and many ATP). (Perhaps I'm missing something, Chemistry is not my main specialty). Perhaps it is even possible to have NADH-powered life, but it is more different so it may be impossible.

> ossified calcium-braced

Diatoms use silica, insects have a protein exoskeleton, and octopus are weird.

> oxygen-absorbing, [...] protein-enriched, [...] water blobs

I guess these three are safe bets (with a little different selection of amino acids).
Do any wealth taxes being seriously discussed not have floors/exemptions for primary residences/marginal rates/whatever?

Why is a wealth tax a bad tax? Why is it worse than income tax or a VAT or anything else we currently do? Many places currently have property taxes (a type of wealth tax) and they tend to work well.

You need to redo your math. If your net worth is $10+ million and isn't increasing by at least ~4% a year you're doing something very wrong. So ~1% of your wealth going to taxes is eminently affordable. No need to lose control.

Capital flight can be handled with exit taxes and restrictions on foreign ownership. Brain drain is usually high income (not high net worth) individuals leaving. The reason net-worth based taxation has been "falling out of favour" is because billionaires have an outsized impact on media and politics, and that very clearly suits their interests.

He could be - but if that was the case he'd have better arguments. Why didn't he talk about capital flight and brain drain, and how other taxes would be more appropriate? He's a skilled essayist; he chose his words carefully, and he used language around stocks, founders, and ownership specifically to appeal to tech geeks who expect to start successful companies.
One could perhaps argue that billionaires moving to other countries (and therefore taking their political lobbying that creates environments where becoming a billionaire is possible) might be a net gain for the country losing the billionaires. As other people have said in one form or another, becoming a millionaire is a reason for celebration, but billionaires are policy failures.
and what is the strategy for women? :)
What, exactly, used to be so difficult about this? Do new satellites take time to train their orbits, or test systems, or otherwise commission when they're in the air? What technological changes have happened recently to make this feasible?
> The use case drove the tech

Eh. The money drove the tech - Facebook can afford to dump money into Oculus despite there being very little use cases or consumer appetite for it.
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This is Capitalism. Let the government and educational institutions spend all of the money, do the real work and research, and then as a private company swoop in and reap all of the benefits.

A blatant example would be Gilead Truvada for PrEP. US Tax payer funded research and all profits go straight to Gilead.
It’s a tough situation, especially for non-PhD holders. Even with a PhD it’s possible for a researcher to enter a rough patch where a career change looks inevitable. The last time I was unemployed I started sending out my résumé to various community colleges and universities to enter their part-time/adjunct lecturer pools (I have a masters), but unfortunately my lay-off period didn’t match well with the academic hiring period. I managed to get a few interviews for software engineering positions, but the algorithms-based interviewing bar is very high these days for a software engineering job, and admittedly my software engineering chops degraded due to spending years in research. Ultimately I ended up finding an AI residency program at a research lab, which is how I ended up at my current position, but it required switching research areas and taking a minor salary drop.
you are literally posting on social media right now
Interesting. Just downloaded the app and the first thing it asks for is my number (which makes sense, I suppose). Without digging too deep -- is there cost associated here?
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I remember an interesting article (I can't find the reference) that made the claim that for a number of pharma labs, the advantage in hiring researchers is not that they are likely to make a great discovery--but rather that they will be up to date with the literature and be able to recognize a potentially great discovery and to productize it. This is not necessarily trivial as a number of things that work in an academic lab setting don't translate into actual usable drugs.
Advertised speed usually means it's technically possible, even if it doesn't happen in practice. It seems there is indeed 1Gb/s VSDL technology but at least Wikipedia doesn't list any such deployment in Italy. But even 100Mb/s is good enough connectivity in my experience with fiber and apparently that's common for FTTC deployments.
I don't think that is legally feasible but I don't have enough experience in this. He sold the company, aka shares. The contract should determine how the sale happen but afterward, it's afterward.

A contract needs to be legal, and legal means what the law allows in the context. Does the law allow putting such provisions? I've been burnt by this in a rental agreement. Think about it this way: if we have a contract between both of us, where you agree that I'm going to kill you, I'm still going to jail. Having a contract doesn't make killing legal. This also applies to the rest of contracts. The provisions need to respect the law.

But the guy didn't have a contract, sold a patent-heavy company for $3bn (probably an army of lawyers involved) that netted him around $700mn. I'd just call this saving face.
Avoiding boolean blindness is not just a Haskell concept.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FlagArgument.html

https://medium.com/@amlcurran/clean-code-the-curse-of-a-bool...
Perhaps the AI has a crush on Ryan Gosling
That's pretty cool. What kind of problems do you find yourself solving with your Agda code?
(Or, asked another way, what sort of stuff do your programs do?)
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It’s true, but it misses the point that they can be sued for age discrimination, violating their own governance policies, not properly training the worker, intentional infliction of abnormal stress, etc. BTW, I couldn’t downvote you if I wanted. Lots of Apple people involved in this site.
As of 2016 corporate R&D was at a record high.

https://www.aip.org/fyi/2016/us-rd-spending-all-time-high-fe...
This thread is from yesterday. The "ago" times are incorrect. What's going on?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=1-euro+houses says 19 hours ago, but as I write it says 12 hours ago on this page.
Both are true. It's a bonfire of money. And it gives us civilization. It's horribly inefficient and wasteful, and yet very few of us want to live without it. (But more efficiency would absolutely be welcome.)
Wow, that looks super exciting. Hope you’re having fun!
I've heard about miracle fruit. Specifically, I've heard that the reason it's not already commercialized is, as you say, that it converts sour flavors to sweet -- leading people to overconsume acid (the cause of sourness) and take physical damage from the acid exposure. Miracle fruit can make you believe drinking a bottle of vinegar is a good idea, but it won't make it actually a good idea.

Have you heard of this? What are your thoughts? This sounds like willpower would still be an issue, but if you mess up you scar your throat / dissolve your teeth instead of gaining weight.
> Jobs don't just grow out of thin air

Correct, they grow out of having a middle class with purchasing power, who can buy products and services, thus creating jobs for those who provide those things. But the middle class's effective purchasing has been going down for decades, while the wealth at the top has been increasing. So something needs to be done to balance these flows of capital - the current situation is not sustainable.
Completely agree. The only way to get power or money is to have the people who have power or money want give you some. The owner/leader of a company will only give power to others if it is necessary and they are sufficiently similar to themself.
I can not say it will be this or that but I do know for sure you will know what it would be when Apple releases it.
Of course, it was not this writer's intention to provide an introduction to René Girard. A lot of those are tendentious and dull, and this piece is witty and fun. He's discussing a new book instead.
"Congress re-adopted the [first modern] income tax in 1913, levying a 1% tax on net personal incomes above $3,000, with a 6% surtax on incomes above $500,000." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_Uni...

(1913 $3k -> roughly $80k 2020 in standard inflation adjustments. At a time when a recent-graduate civil engineer made ~$1k, or with 10 years experience in the low $2k's, according to https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages/1910-1919. A person making $3k was loaded.)
What font do you use for this? It looks weird with my defaults.

I once seriously considered trying to build something that included math symbols in the syntax. It's pretty cool to see that I don't have to.
> The reason wealth taxes have such dramatic effects is that they're applied over and over to the same money.

This seems in bad faith. A wealth tax is just an idea that wealth should be taxed. Paul is implying some concrete implementation of it that would have such behavior. But there could be many such schemes.

For example, you could deduct what you previously paid, and then it wouldn't double tax the same. Like if this year your wealth was 1 million and got taxed 1% at 10000$. Next year if your wealth was 2 million taxed at 1% thus 20000$ but with a 10k deduction from all prior paid wealth tax, thus you'd again just be taxed 10000$ on the difference.

Another scheme could be to deduct prior worth. So in this example it be the same outcome, but it's applied differently, in second year your wealth is 2 million, but last year it was 1 million, thus 2m - 1m = 1m and you are this year taxed 1% on that remaining 1 million.

And that's just what I came up with on the spot. I'm sure there's many other possible schemes.
"housing policy that enables massive amounts of new houses to be built"

I think you mean "new homes". I don't think there's anywhere in the US with a housing crisis is due to new houses not being allowed. It's usually due to the difficulty in tearing down houses (and low-density apartments) and building higher density apartments. This may seem pedantic, but in these discussions the distinction is important. In almost every housing-related thread on HN, I see people using them interchangeably, in ways that are confusing.
Quite a public relations campaign against Apple these days for doing no more than what every other business is doing. Don't sell to Apple customers if you don't want to pay Apple for their services.
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I think most people who pay a tithe base(d) it on income, not wealth, so it doesn't have the snowball effect that a wealth tax does. Islam's zakat is the only exception I know of, but IIUC even that is paid only on excess wealth.
There's a CUPS script here that lets you print to their cloud service, which auto-syncs to the tablet: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#cloud-tools - among other options in that list.
Same problem with Fitbit and Nest and Google :(
Quitting without a complete idea of what you'll do is typically a poor idea. Many recommend taking a stab on nights and weekends first at least. You could use some PTO to simulate it too.
Wealth tax proposals target only very high nw people. There is no inherent right to be very high net worth, if you are not productive with your wealth then it is more efficient for the society if that wealth is reallocated. This is what wealth tax does.
> When did we all decide that was ok?

When we went off the gold standard?
When people talk about the death of corporate research labs, they're largely talking about the death of fundamental research -- places like PARC, Bell Labs, etc. Corporate research to take fundamental discoveries and find better ways of productizing it is alive and well.
One big difference is that Matomo doesn’t support PostgreSQL and has said they don’t plan to.
If banks let real estate sit on their books, why did the real estate market crash? I remember seeing whole neighborhoods of new homes in Las Vegas going for $100K just to move them.
Can't wait until he hears about that time we had a marginal tax of over 90%.
> you'll notice when autocomplete works 100% of the time (IntelliJ), and 93% of the time (VSCode)

Exactly this. You notice the "smoothness" is off, which when accumulated burns your context faster and kills your flow.
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https://youtu.be/Sr1bLLvsbh0
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