skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self sufficient requires a manufacturing base to include everything needed to sustain it’s self, including redundancies. Going from zero humans on mars to 100’s of millions is a massive bootstrap problem with minimal incentive for the the people involved or the multiple years worth of earth’s GDP to get to that point.

It’s like the “self replicating” 3D printers where they can produce 98% of the structure by weight and approximately 0.001% by complexity. A base that’s producing it’s own food is doable, shipping machines to say build solar panels or a specific chip isn’t a problem.

However, even just the effort to figure out a minimal slice of earth’s technology to be self significant is hard. Aka building even a single type of LCD requires a massive number of different components, and the ability to build all the machines to make those components, and machines to make those machines, ... Now realize that’s just for an LCD, manufacturing every type of Medicine is a whole other list.

Finally you need to accept everyone on Mars living in relative poverty for generations due to the inefficiencies involved.
This is incredibly insightful commentary, and I think it confesses to what a lot of the people protesting these platforms are actually angry about.

It's unfortunate that humanity is addicted to a couple pairs of supra-governmental private entities, that governments are less important than these private properties, but I don't think their massive massive world dominating size entitles governments to come meddle with their affairs & poke & prod & demand they become certain specific forms of free speech vehicles. It's up to the company to decide what kind of platform they want to be.

And it's up to us to use these systems or not. This above statement works & holds, so long as it's only network effect & not technical barrier to generating our own speech systems. Which, thankfully, I feel like the internet readily supplies (at least for now!).
One way to think about this is that cash is plentiful in China, but a strong social/legal system that ensures long-term, low-risk investments is "plentiful" in Canada or the US.

In this sense, these foreign investors are taking advantage of a functional social/legal system that lowers risk, but in the cases documented nearby, they aren't giving back to ensure the longevity of the system. Indeed, their remotely-executed purchases increase its instability.
This is a dev board, not an end user product. As such it is reasonably priced.
Experimenting with Automatic Video Creation from a Web Page
Thanks, that makes sense. The computer terms helped :)
It may be time to reset expectations on when we'll get a Covid-19 vaccine
Affiliate links work the same way. Are those also fraud?
I guess you could run the preprocessor and then run tree-sitter-cpp / semgrep on the preprocessed output, but the problem would then be trying to tie any findings from that to the original source.

Do gcc/clang/any other preprocessor create "source maps" that could facilitate that? GCC looks like it has a `-fdebug-cpp` that "[...] dumps debugging information about location maps. Every token in the output is preceded by the dump of the map its location belongs to."
It doesn't need to be perfectly healthy to serve its purpose to me. It helps me avoid time-and-money-wasting bad meals.

If you are out somewhere busy, sometimes you just want to keep going but you are hungry. But all the food options might be overpriced junk food that you have to wait for. Drink a soylent and skip that meal. When you get home eat real food that you actually want to eat.

Soylent kills food cravings and keeps your mood even for hours.
> I’m bearish on crypto but ETH smart contracts seem really interesting.

and people really have a hard time understanding that it doesn't matter what the exchange rate is if your exposure to the exchange rate is brief or none at all
couldn't agree more!!! Crypto is a waste, got build something that has value for real human beings.
Yes - humans do it abductively, which isn't rigorous but serves our purpose most of the time. You can't trust a self driving system with abduction though - it's the style of reasoning that gave us rain dances and homeopathy.
Is this TEAM? There's a nasty issue with companies trying to emulate Google on "all the things" and it usually doesn't work, since often times these organizational structures are a natural evolution of where a company came from, but you aren't that company...

Best SRE/QE model I've experienced was with a couple of these guys being embedded into a dev team (reporting structure didn't really matter), such that they participated in the team meetings and rituals, becoming domain experts. One fellow eventually learned the SAML2.0 spec inside out and was invaluable for catching bugs.

I suppose being embedded but reporting up through a different org did have it's benefit: namely, the consistent dissemination of best practices across the company, but with a judicious eye to applicable context that the current do-it-all-swe cannot with the current SRE ivory tower model.

The do-it-all-swe model has yielded trash QE/observability in my experience.
I also know who Alex Jones is
FinTech Idea: Create a website whereby foreign capital can be sent to a local for the purchase of real estate. Maybe even allow said local to live inside of the dwelling provided they pay a small service fee of sorts.... /s

Perhaps though there is something here. If only there was a means of connecting these two groups, keeping in mind the additional parameters of those with the cash.

After all, nobody likes a haircut. I'm sure the 'big' boys are doing this - I'm really targeting the rich (not the RICH) supervisor that has enough to buy one to two properties. Might be after the fact - as others have pointed out, there are a number of additional controls in place.) Still...
That's the one https://www.amazon.com/Whetstone-Cutlery-Survival-Knife-Silv...
I think it's clear that humans at least try to pick out the causal factors, and reason causally about the outcomes of specific actions. Non human animals do too; they can learn to take specific actions for food rewards in a Skinner Box for example. Now I agree humans get it wrong a lot of the time, and other animals might get it wrong even more than we do.

I don't think our fallibility in causal reasoning makes it useless to pursue as a goal in artificially intelligent systems. It doesn't need to be perfect, just useful and better than not having it. Afterall, our perception systems are pretty fallible too, otherwise things like optical illusions wouldn't exist.
'I’d Like to See It for Myself' – Meet the Dark Tourists Booking Trips to Wuhan
You've just articulated the basic economic rational for professional guilds. What inference are we supposed to draw from that, in this specific case? That things are fine? Because "consumers" aren't getting access to anything, and that's kind of the core point.
What about the interests of the canadians that are selling their houses?
> But all the food options might be overpriced junk food...

Isn't the point of the article that Soylent is overpriced junk food?
Gotta start somewhere and this is much more reasonable than the FPGA version @ $1K!
The RIAA can't reach into everyone's mailbox to get the code (patches, etc) out. If everyone's commits are signed, you can rebuild the repo at anytime from anyone's mailbox contents. It's SMTP/IMAP/JMAP DHT/Bittorrent. Automating git pulls (cron or similar) accomplishes that same thing, but with more effort on everyone's part.
PediaLyte and Ensure had far more sugar pre-Soylent
or just say full stack. I hate buzz word, but sometimes it helps the manager to understand.
If you live in Georgia, USA, and you're 62 or older, you can attend college classes for free.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2016/01/04/senior-citize...
At 59 it gives me something to look forward to in a few years.
Back over a decade ago, I managed to get Yahoo! interested in me as a potential employee...

I would have never known if I hadn,t looked through my Spam on Gmail.

I didn,t get the job, but I got a nice aep to San Jose and back.

It was from a yahoo-inc.com address, probably not used for spam much.

Since then, never trusted it... I comb through all my spam every couple of days. Takes only couple of minutes to skim it 20 at a time.

Would recommend, technique has paid off.
[Copying from the other item on this where I was answering a comment about why this is more expensive than a Raspberry Pi]

You have to understand why the Raspberry Pi is priced the way it is: it's because it is a side effect of the massive production of Broadcom chips for tablets, phones, embedded, etc. Millions and millions are made. A relatively tiny number of these find their way into developer boards. The economies of scale mean they can be very cheap.

RISC-V doesn't have this ... yet ... but there are several Chinese manufacturers currently making millions of chips for consumer devices with those going through foundries right now. So sooner or later the economics will work out for a "RISC-V Pi". I'd be surprised if it doesn't exist by 2022.

For now this SiFive board is IMHO the best PC-like developer experience for RISC-V. [Disclaimer: Red Hat works with SiFive]
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A local who sold a home at an inflated price can often afford to buy another one at an inflated price.

And it also attracts other generally wealthy investors looking to get in on a hot market.
But anyone new who is trying to join won't have the messages unless you rebuild a new public archive/website/etc. At which point you can also presumably do daily backups of gitlab data to do basically the same thing.
Out of topic...

This book is really expensive as a hardcover! I had to look around to make sure it's not a glitch.

It goes for $180-$374 on amazon.com and $630-$1222. $800 on ebay.com even! Woah.

I'm guessing it's out of print and extremely popular?
Is Semmle, offering CodeQL language and LGTM service, and recently acquired by Github, doing a similar thing (https://semmle.com/)? If so, how does Semgrep compare to CodeQL?

Edit: There is a help entry: https://semgrep.dev/docs/faq/#how-is-semgrep-different-from-...
From anecdotal evidence it seems for some people the phytoestrogen still activates estrogen pathways. Probably has genetic variation on the effects.
I think it misrepresents Soylent to claim it’s essentially a repackaged Pedialyte/Ensure - it had a very, very different product development process and it ostensibly has different goals.
Greenwald co-founded it; how did it get out of his control and lead to this situation?
Title: "No, Soylent isn’t Healthy. Here’s Why."

Heading of the conclusion: "The Core Problem: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know"

Most sections could be summarized as "We don't know that Soylent is doing things right therefore it might be unhealthy." It's just a FUD piece.
Greenwald has really fascinated me the past decade. He was on track to being one of the most prolific reporters on the planet, and he has gone really down this weird victimhood "censorship" path.

Sometimes it’s legitimate censorship. Other times, your editor is just insisting you don’t spread misinformation.
I have to disagree that many of these programs are pursuing "knowledge" at all. They're pursuing a victim mentality and simply make up rationalizations as they go along and call it knowledge. And they're the ones filing into positions in the mainstream media and other circles (like social media gatekeepers) devoted to spreading misinformation.
It's fascinating that a species of spiders perform oral sex.
Uhhh.. PediaLyte and Ensure are vastly different products. Ensure is a weight gain meal replacement drink and PediaLyte is fancy gatorade.

Soylent is somewhere between Slimfast and Ensure. I'm not positive there's a quality calorically balanced meal replacement drink out there? Maybe there is, but whatever that is, Soylent is the branded version of that. Not PediaLyte or Ensure.
Media mastheads seem to have shorter and short shelf lives before they are consumed by editorial censorship and commercial issues.
Right now Taibbi on substack is terrific, his Rolling Stone articles a lot more constrained. I look forward to Greenwald being less restricted and to his Biden commentary and thoughts
"[this thinking] perpetuates the myth that, through technological developments, humans are destined to leave Earth and find a utopia elsewhere. After all, who cares about sustaining the planet when our destiny is to leave it?"

This is a straw man argument, and further more the OP makes the straw-man look like Trump, saying it's Trump's priority to do these things.

Step back, and we see spending money on space exploration and NASA has led to numerous innovations useful here on Earth. There's also the inspiration, the joy, the passion, that space exploration will bring. This should be a priority; definitely not the top priority, but we should spend more on space exploration than we do on baseball or cosmetics or rims for our cars.
Get it on kindle, I have it and it's brilliant.

Edit for typo
FPGA version was actually $3-4K. The previous $1K board was an ASIC produced in very small numbers.
That's not what is happening here.
Try carrying a couple of granola bars, dried fruit and nuts when you're out.
This point of view is moot. Private companies seem to be rapidly advancing in capability and in some cases have already surpassed the capabilities of nation states.

SpaceX seems to be the dominant player in the launch market with RocketLab quickly eating up the small satellite market. BlueOrigin is supplying the rocket engines for the NASA rocket to the moon. NASA is contracting private companies for the moon landing.

Unless this point of view advocates banning space colonization, private companies will take people to space, the Moon, and Mars. I wonder if this person’s position is really to ban colonization of other worlds and habitats in space.
Every time the computer is handing off control that’s a multi second process where it could have come to a complete stop instead. Essentially that’s the same thing as the vehicle stability assistance kicking in, which very much favors the machines.

Instead you need to count the number of times someone has actively taken control to avoid a collision, which is rare enough it’s hard to find examples.
Interesting that you mention a sci-fi book, because I was reminded of James Tiptree Jr's masterpiece "Love is the Plan the Plan is Death", which also tackles the subject of spider-like aliens and their strange lifecycles and mating rituals (it seems Tiptree -- aka Alice Sheldon -- actually knew her spiders, because her aliens perform some of the antics described in this article).
>Soylent kills food cravings and keeps your mood even for hours.

Why not eat an apple, a handful of almonds or a can of sardines? There are a multiple of convenient, healthy foods.
We are witnessing the biggest concerted censorship effort in the history of the USA.

One for the history books, depending on who gets to write it in the future.

Regardless of whether or not you believe on Tony Bubolinsky, you should at the very least have the opportunity to hear him and make up your own mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zLfBRgeFFo
I suffered from shyness and what's called introversion when I was young. I also got combative with people I worked with. In my early 20s I met a guy (at a seminar) who was outgoing, friendly, easy to be around. Somehow we hit it off. He got me to attend Toastmasters (to get over my fear of speaking to strangers, and speaking to groups) and gave me some advice that some people pay thousands of dollars in therapy for: smile, look people in the eye, listen. Talk to (at least) one stranger every day -- initiate a conversation rather than standing in the corner.

At first that all felt forced and artificial but before long it was second nature. That free advice helped me in my professional life more than any tech skill. People decide if they like you or not within seconds of meeting you, based on a variety of cues. If they don't like you then you will struggle to get a job or gig.

Programmers often complain that the extroverts get ahead even if their tech skills aren't great. That's human nature, so rather than complain and fight it you can try to change yourself. You don't have to be fake. I see people on HN and other forums all the time writing about "hacking" their lifespan, their diet/metabolism, their ergonomics, their productivity. You can "hack" your personality too. Stop calling yourself an introvert for a start, that's not something a person "is," it's a label you can change.
Yeah, you won't be able to distribute it, but running it should be fine (unless you want to consider copying it from disk to memory as copying, of course).
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>So: “Biden paid more and we don’t have enough info to say why, let alone whether this is somehow unfair.” Is that it?

It's basically this. Biden paid more in the past, but at some point in September things crossed and now Trump is paying more.

Audience targeting also seems to have a big impact on ad cost for FB, so the only real conclusion to be drawn is that the ad rates changed, possibly because of different targeting parameters. That feels very similar to comparing costs of televised ads while not knowing what time slots were involved.

That said, one ad marketplace is far more opaque, so it's hard for an outside observer to accurately gauge fairness.
"Soylent: because some of us really like people."
Clickhouse and Timescale are different types of databases -- Clickhouse is a columnar store and Timescale is a row-oriented store that is specialized for time series data with some benefits of columnar stores[0].

Something like InfluxDB is a better thing to compare to TimescaleDB (and TimescaleDB does very well, though the benchmark was a bit old[1] and influx might have improved in the meantime).

Database types aside, what really gets me excited about Timescale is that it's just another Postgres extension. If you're already running a Postgres cluster for your OLTP workloads (web-app-y workloads) and have just a bit of fast-moving time series data (ex. logs, audit logs, event streams, etc), Timescale is only an extension away. You get the usual time-tested battle hardened Postgres, with all it's features and also support for your time series workloads. Yeah you could set up declarative partitioning yourself (it is a postgres feature after all) but why bother when Timescale has done the heavy lifting?

[EDIT] - see the response below -- the benchmark is up to date, and Timescale does even better against the purpose-built tool that is InfluxDB.

> Note: This study was originally published in August 2018, updated in June 2019 and last updated on 3 August 2020.

[0]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compressio...

[1]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-influxdb-for-...
Anecdotal evidence? How does someone anecdotally detect that their estrogen pathway has been activated?
I agree, this should be the motto for every freelancer: "Overall be like you are wise, insightful, helpful, and understand engineering and businesses better than anyone they could hire normally, even if it's not really true."
No, but if you manage to identify all of these delivery people and refuse them service I bet that they unlist you.
As others have commented, this article is a little bit FUD-ish and doesn't back up all it's claims that much better than Soylent. But personally what I was attracted to in Soylent, I found in better in Huel. Real nutritionists, who share great content about their choices, etc. Very interesting to follow, and I'm a big fan of their powder for breakfast and their "Hot & Savory" for lunches.

My diet is now almost entirely plant-based, there are noticeable health improvements, and it's as cheap and efficient as Soylent.
$666 is an improvement over $1k.

It's still a core without V or B extensions, and still prohibitively expensive for anyone that doesn't need them.

Useful for those working on risc-v ports, and that's about it.
It's not just Nintendo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqwP6uuYOWo&t=3m26s
It's a different culture than the US. Not at all the same pressure to immediately go to university, many people get jobs and travel while feeling out what field they really want to enter. This is of course dependent on the current jobs market. Personally I had three years.

Then university has nothing of the general courses and only specialized following your program.

You have some statistics in page 7 here, for Sweden though. It is influenced by people taking single courses and masters programs instead of the first enrollment so keep that in mind.

https://www.uhr.se/globalassets/_uhr.se/publikationer/2020/s...
there's another assumption being made in this article, and that's the (all too common) assertion that stability is always a good thing.

consider the state of affairs; the mechanisms by which we enact and enforce public policy are largely anachronisms from an era when the most efficient method of information exchange was a printing press. we still vote with paper. mostly in a single day. this is not a situation that we would devise from scratch if called upon to create a solution today.

entrenched interests pose a fundamental barrier to social progress. those interests are demonstrably more efficient at gaming the system as it stands. introduction of chaos to such a system may provide the only opportunity for real, fundamental shift in sociopolitical system dynamics. this is a good thing - a forest needs the occasional fire.
This is an extremely poorly structured and stream-of-consciousness rant by the OP. They mention Trump, Heidegger, the Nazis, Flint Michigan, Seth Rogen, and all in just a short blog post. There's nothing good of substance to be found, just rambling opposition without solid logic.
And some areas will actually become more habitable - closer to the poles.