skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"<...>a computer with the mass of the entire Earth operating at the Bremermann's limit could perform approximately 1075 mathematical computations per second.<...>"

Yeah, right, it's a number so large on a human scale that it's essentially incomprehensible. However, if you think about it for a moment you can begin to imagine the enormity of the complexity. Leaving aside how you'd calculate said figure or dream about how it could ever be implemented, just try to consider the humongous amount of information that's contained in just one gain of sand.

One must account for the amount of information contained within the configuration or quantum state of the trillions upon trillions of atoms and molecules along with all their constituent particles, electrons, protons, quarks—all of which contain information that's arisen from the quantum states of the various binding forces—the state of electromagnetic, strong and weak forces.

Then there's information generated by the couplings and various physical characteristics of all the crystal lattices including all geometric information contained in each crystal's facets to be considered, not to mention various charges/interconnecting effects involved with crystal binding such as van der Waals forces and other quantum effects/fluctuations. Then we've also to consider all information generated from the sand grain's thermodynamic state (and that alone would be enormous).

And that's not all, even information from phonon movement (noise) generated from within each crystal as well all noise coupled from external sources must be included. Vibrational/phonon energy, which in the real world is lossy, generates information from its dissipated thermal energy (even information is generated from the physical state/properties of matter that actually cause those losses).

Thus, the total amount of information in just one grain of sand alone is simply mind-boggling.

Now extrapolate all that to all those other grains of sand until we get to earth-size. And now also take into account the fact that when all those many grains are closely packed together, they generate even more information by virtue of their couplings (van der Waals forces now act between individual grains of sand, and so on and so on).

'Mind-boggling' doesn't come even close to describing the informational complexity!
I'm just confused. I thought they're the same thing.
Interesting and really cool...but...binary distribution via sourceforge is a no-go for me. Sourceforge has never recovered in my mind from the days of bundling spyware.
Singapore is a city-state on an island that is ~40x20 km in size. If you divided that rectangle evenly to a million plots, you'd end up squares that have ~30m sides. And that's before you consider that the island is not square, and that there are roads, airports, parks and things like that.

No, there are not anywhere near a million unique buildings. Instead, there are ~9000 high-rises.
Not really, because Spotify/Amazon/Netflix aren't giving you media, they only rent it out to you. They can and do retroactively take away access to any piece of content, while keeping the money.
> Why Japan joined WW2? Because they were playing catch up with European powers and doing what they did to Japan a some time earlier, and were trying to avoid the fate of China (see Opium wars)

That is not a very accurate take of Japanese involvement in WW2. Japan was planning several wars of naked territorial expansion during WW2, invading China twice in the 1930s, calling off an invasion of the Soviet Union after a border incident they started didn't go their way, demanding that Vichy France hand over French Indochina, and of course its very well-known invasion of US, British, and Dutch colonies to better secure needed supplies for its ongoing war with China. By WW2, Japan didn't see itself as playing "catch-up" (that period would have been the Meiji period, about 70 years prior to WW2), and instead saw itself as racially superior; nor did the European powers see Japan as an inferior power playing catch-up, but instead as a competitor and likely future adversary.

> Why Germany and Italy were heavily involved in both WW? Because they were the only European country with no colonies, in part due to their recent unification (specially Italy in this case), and the other European countries were screwing with them.

Italian Somaliland, Triplotania, Cyrenaica, Eritrea, German West Africa, German Southwest Africa, German East Africa, German New Guinea, German Samoa. (Germany was especially uninventive with its colony names). Italy was enticed into the war by promise of territory, but the promised territory was Sudtirol and the Dalmatian coast, which would be part of Italy proper and not any Italian colonies. Japan itself joined the war primarily to steal Germany's colonies in the Pacific, which they did.
This is no coincidence — it’s because 89=100-10-1, and the ordinary generating function for the Fibonacci sequence is 1/(1-x-x^2) (if you go to wolfram alpha and Taylor expand that expression, you’ll see its coefficients are the Fibonacci numbers).
Are you the owner of this site?

This is an English speaking forum and post in other languages are usually ignored of flagged. Do you have a version in English?

Some technical explanation can get more tractions. For example an explanation of the tech stack or if you have to adapt some part of the work to make more relevant to German. Are letters with umlaut like ä a problem? Is the usual list of colors different than an English version?
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The company doesn't explicitly block them, they use a product that does the blocking that includes torrentfreak in its "piracy" category.
In general you should not expect more than help getting the first interview from your network. With that being said, I have heard stories from older engineers in my large company that they skipped fizz buzz type questions for people with a strong internal reference.
Most recent tesla report has autopilot accident rate 10x below national average, 2x-4x below tesla owners not using it.

Selection bias in results but overall the implication is that autopilot is both safer and that their rollout is very conservative when measured by real world safety.

Would require some very different data to imply differently.
I’ve been told similar stories by real estate brokers in NYC.

Students in university cold calling brokers, looking to buy the “most expensive condo” in an agent’s book, sight unseen, and willing to pay in cash or wire transfer.

As a broker, it must be very hard to ignore those incentives. The commission on just one of those sales must be incredible.
Placing the interests of your homeland and neighbors first over foreigners is not xenophobia.
ah, with netflix i believe it _was_ going well... but we're getting to a point (with disney+, etc and moving content) where it's fragmenting again to the point where I don't want to pay $50 for 4-6 different services to watch whatever I want.

I think that'll be the return of either torrenting, or the casual pooling of subscription services between people.
There's a slight difference between paying government taxes for the land you've purchased and renting a book from a private corporation.

The government taxes pay for services which can directly and indirectly benefit you. For example, they pay for providing a force which will help against unlawful intruders, pay for the manpower who will help you should your house catch on fire, pay for the maintenance of roads, and so forth.

Amazon's revenue... lines the pockets of Amazon's investors.
What a mass of conflicting and unsupported assertions.
Wrong twice in one day, amazing.
Many spices and sauces are not good if you do this, I submit Fish Sauce for your consideration.
Yes. One has the identity:

1/(1 - x - x^2) = 1 + x + 2x^2 + 3x^3 + ...

where the Fibonacci numbers are the coefficients on the right. Try writing it out! The basic idea is that because F_n = F_{n - 1} + F_{n - 2}, everything will neatly cancel out.

This is an example of a "generating function". Anyway, plug in x = 0.1, and then divide by 100 to see the behavior described in the post.

One also gets

1/9899 = 0.00010102030508132134559046368320032326498...

1/998999 = 0.0000010010020030050080130210340550891442334...

and so on.
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the wiki page you linked says this probably didn't exist, at least not as a formal right.
Presumably in a different number base, the number would be different. Would it still be in the aeries?
I'm always curious about Feature Flags - I'd love to use them.

But they only seem to work if the interface doesn't change. From the example you gave:

function reticulateSplines(){
if( featureIsEnabled("use-new-SR-algorithm") ){
return enhancedSplineReticulation();
}else{
return oldFashionedSplineReticulation();
}
}

All well and good as long as the enhancedSplineReticulation returns the exact same structure that the old one did. If it doesn't, then a bunch of code that handles the new reticulated splines also needs to be behind a flag (because the structure changed). And that could mean a chunk of UI needs to be duplicated behind a flag because it changed, and so on.

How do you use feature flags when the features aren't just trivial changes to methodology, but affect multiple parts of the system?
Seems like an interesting strategy - because the only people that can buy those properties, are other rich people.

It's like with high culture and art; Lots of art is simply being passed around multi-millionaires and billionaires. Since there's such a limited pool of buyers, the price is essentially whatever the next buyer is willing to pay for it.

Same goes for buildings - If I decide to pay $5MM for a $1MM house, just to park my money in it, I better find some buyer whose willing to pay in the same price-range, or else it's gonna be a substantial loss. Driving up prices, and keeping them artificially high, is not sustainable - unless the area happens to see some major influx of people, and the demand starts to grow organically. Bonus points if it's a very difficult area to develop in, which limits new buildings / real-estate development.

But as for the reasons, who knows - could be:

- Tax evasion in their native country
- Ill-gotten gains they want to hide, or money laundering
- Alternative investments
>Clickbait headline. This is how it works with nearly all content you “buy”

Yeah...that's the entire point of the discussion being held.

When did it become a thing to call everything "clickbait"? The headline is literally a description of their argument, which is the point being discussed. Do you know what "clickbait" is?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clickbait

How does this qualify?
Depends on the community culture and what they perceive as outsider behaviour. e.g. A protestant might not be welcomed in a catholic neighborhood.
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New Yorker articles are nice, but "proved false" is strong for "we've still never seen it" (which is what the article actually says).
That's literally one of the two high-prominence rich people who does something useful with their money (other being Gates and his charity efforts).
It was the travel that killed it for me. I loved the work, especially the metal distance you can maintain from your clients. But the constant travel was draining.
Presumably in a different number base (base 12, eg) it would be a different number that had this reciprocal property. Would it still be in the fibonacci series in that base?
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10GB a month? Jeez what were you doing? Streaming videos all day!?
Buying your neighbor's surrounding houses for privacy...
Nice idea! I think this would be very useful for myself and other indiehacker types.

Is there a video of a demo of the product anywhere?

Also is there audio involved as well? How do you communicate when you're in a session with the user?
Imagine the real number line is a database that you can run SELECT queries against, and you don't have to worry about giving a computational procedure that produces the result, it just magically gets produced.

Now, imagine you write a query, like, say, "SELECT number WHERE number = .01 * FIB[1] + .001 * FIB[2] + .0001 * FIB[3]" and so on until you get what the article discusses.

It isn't necessarily that surprising that you might find something with an uncountably infinite numbers to pick from.

Now, consider all possible "interesting" queries you could run, along with all their results.

There result is an inconceivably large sea of queries. Most of them are, in fact, utterly pointless; SELECT statements that return no values, SELECT statements that return all values (equally pointless), SELECT statements that return complicated sets of values but have essentially no mathematical interest because there is no practical way to represent them as anything smaller or more interesting, etc.

In this massive sea of results, you should expect a lot of interesting things to exist. Finding them is tricky; in percentage terms they make up 0% of the results, but we have mechanisms for finding some of them.

Basically, there are so infinitely many mathematical statements that there can't help but be a large supply of "interesting" statements like this.

For an interesting view on that, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_coincidence . These are true statements or almost true statements (near equalities) about a wide variety of numbers that are essentially meaningless... it's just there's so many ways of putting things together that there are inevitably large numbers of these things (the wiki page is just a sampling).

You can even generate these mathematical coincidences yourself. Create a program that will systematically iterate over abstract syntax trees of mathematical expressions involving whatever combination of mathematical operators (+-×/, sqrt, log, sin, whatever) and numbers you like (the first ten integers, e, i, pi, whatever else you like), store up a table of results and emit any two expressions that are, say, within .01% of each other. You will rapidly find a ton of results, because it turns out that even with modest numbers of operators, there are far more mathematical expressions than there are small numbers for them to result in separated by more than .01%. If you think about it, this program can't help but emit a lot of results. Some of them will be humanly "interesting". A few of them will even be mathematically interesting (e.g., this procedure will generate the famous Euler identity relatively quickly if you included the relevant operators and numbers).

On a larger scale, this is also known as the Strong Law of Small Numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Law_of_Small_Numbers The previous paragraph is a very bite-sized example of why this holds that you can code up yourself if you are interested.
Is that considered a lot, especially for home internet? I was busting 3-5x that a couple years ago on mobile data alone.
Thanks! Never thought about this at all till now. Certainly illuminating.
The windows kernel is pretty good. However the rest of the windows ecosystem is a problem.
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This is a just a demo to show front end UI.
> If someone's threatening you or sexually assaulting you you're going to go the police, not report them for a code of conduct violation.

I think they're right on point with this. Law is incredibly complex and you're likely to end up with a very shitty sub-implementation of the law when building a code of conduct, be it in itself or the application & litigation procedure.

"Be nice to each other & follow the local official regulations" should probably be a valid c&c.
Decided to try Doom Emacs a few days ago as a long-time Vim user.

Man...

Any comparison between the two is completely besides the point. Vim is a great text editor that one can extend. Emacs is a computing environment that happens to revolve around text. The tools are simply in different categories altogether.
I'm an SRE at Google and when my friend asked what I do and I explained it to him he said

- "oh, so like QA in my company?"

I've asked what QA does at his company and well yeah, exactly. I've read the books and know about the SLA/SLO and honestly it doesn't make any sense for smaller companies with few services.

I code up alerts for various metrics, act upon said alerts, sometimes do the fixes my self if it's simple, otherwise just hand it off to devs by logging a bug. The remaining time I code tools for other SREs to use.
That's a dramatic jump in pricing from 0-5 GBs to > 5 GBs.

Is there a more flexible pricing plan in the works? A hobbyist app could still be storing a large amount of data but not charging much to justify a $300/m db bill.
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I have met many engineers who are around 50 years old, did not want to go into management, and they are fairly miserable.

Forcing yourself into a role you aren't really suited to is a recipe for becoming miserable.
The O&G company had no intention of doing this project, it was entirely fictional
those sound like managerial / organizational / social issues. technology isn't going to solve those without good guidance and controls for the overall system. building that up for a very large organization is extremely difficult, I'd not want to have to do that :).
> or else the latest SEO voodoo rumor suggests that this month 2k word articles are doing better than 3k word articles.

Is that really a thing? Sounds awful.
There was an episode on Simpsons where the smart people take over the town, with disastrous results.

"The Simpsons" S10 Ep. 22 - "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avgMk_w38g0
> Are you sure taxes are being paid in China before they take out the money?

I don't know either way, but China is more capable than most of handling that.

I just can't get behind this xenophobic idea that every foreign buyer is a "money laundering criminal", especially when foreigner is near synonymous with "Chinese".
I agree. Having the experience to spot common pitfalls or 'weak' looking stats is key. Like any craft, there is no easy way to learn this other than experience.

Whenever I'm advising rising data analysts/scientists, I tell them to understand three areas of background knowledge that will multiply their ability to pull out an insight. They'll help them connect disparate ideas together.

Stats is easy but connecting ideas is hard. That's where the real magic happens. Plus, computers have a hard time automating this, for now.

1) Product Knowledge - How well do you know the product? This is easy for a simple app, but for large enterprise apps there are many features to keep track of. If you don't know the full context of your product, how could you frame your analysis in a larger picture?

2) Stakeholder Empathy - Whether you like it or not, as a data person you're advancing a business cause/mission. This means you need to fully understand where the business has been and where it is going. The basic question is - what are your stakeholders priorities? Why do they matter?

3) Customer Empathy - Arguable the most important of them all, how well do you know the customer? I encourage data scientists to get away from the computer and in front of the customer. Hear user research calls and ask questions. Drive as a Lyft driver, deliver food [1], etc.

Unfortunately these three areas are soft skills and you won't know you've improved until you find yourself reciting a fact. Usually you'll think "well duh, because the customer thinks this." It'll seem obvious, but it is only because you went through the trenches to learn that fact.

[1] Tony Xu (DoorDash) delivering pizzas to understand product and customer - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/how-i-built-this/doorda...
> since when do you have to be vetted/credentialed to participate in a discussion here

Since they're using their credentials to try and lend credulity to their argument. Specifically, it's an "appeal to [their] authority" on the subject, but they don't have that requisite 'authority'.
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That’s just a silly premise. Vacancies are because landlords are seeking long term tenants, and the discounting is done in negotiations behind the scene.

Just because you don’t want Ed’s Thrift shop in your retail space on a cut rate month to month lease, doesn’t mean you fight desperately want a tenant. A multimillion dollar investment yielding negative cash flow over years is a disaster, be ye investor or launderer.
"A plausible explanation" - sorry, no. They offer a "just so" story. Science it ain't.
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Point being, gay meant happy/lighthearted way before it started to also mean homosexual: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay

Etymology excerpt: [Middle English gai, lighthearted, brightly colored, from Old French, possibly of Germanic origin.]
No, if you believe that winning the lottery is a good way to become rich, you're an idiot. If you actually do win, you're a lucky, rich idiot.

I'm not against playing the lottery, but it's objectively proven that it's not a good way to become rich, and a persons smartness has no bearing over whether they actually do win (maybe a negative one, smarter people will gamble less).
I'm so sorry I entirely forgot my pertinent point :

I am totally for the general public recapturing the word gay because of the positive effect this will transfer to historic derogation and separate identification of homosexual men as gay.

First, I think this is well appreciated now, different folk reappropriated the word gay from pejorative connotation.

But it only worked so far.

Gay was a prejorative quite without any sexual inflection or connotation. "Don't be gay man" criticising the way someone is digging a trench for the vegetable garden, is entirely valid and non assimilative of personal sexuality Derogation. That phrase is akin to "we're not digging up the begonia bed lad, this is our potatoes for the whole year and if you don't do that double trench properly the first frosts will have the lot ". I have obviously expanded and provided explanatory context. There's nothing gay about double trenching potatoes in late fall at the same londitude as Moscow.

If I had to define the derogatory use of gay, my own experience would make me place far more emphasis on the adduced insult to be ineffectual or unnecessarily fancy and therefore wasteful and inefficient. From there to get to mean not very manly seems to me a much easier etymological path.
Momentarily only.
Well I guess giving you a number may make a little more sense. The team is 4 65+ year olds, a 25 year old and me at 31 (there have been some younger interns too.) The 65+ crowd don't care to learn new things (ie git, using json with javascript, ORM frameworks, any type of bash commands) they're just skating into retirement copying/pasting the same train of thought for the past decade. At least the younger ones care a little more about self development.
Heads up, from July 2019.

Also, I wouldn’t call Peter Thiel an “expert” on this.
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Comment is getting downvotes but agree. If you do not band together with like-minded individuals for your common good you will be outcompeted by other people who do.
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