skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preface: I am not nor have I ever been diagnosed with any personality disorders or mental illnesses.

When I was a catholic, I prayed and read scripture daily, about 45mins to an hour, for ~10 years straight. Another 10 minutes for nightly prayers as well. Unfortunately all I can say is it honestly has transformed me into a schizoid. It has developed myself into being far more comfortable alone than with others. I've gone weeks without talking to people. I've learned solitary coping mechanisms. I've basically been able to perform therapy on myself and manipulate me individually in a way so that I can achieve desired results. I often feel like it's other people who bring about negative results in my life more than the other way around.

I also recognize I'm "wrong" socially in a way that's completely abnormal. But, having tried numerous times to be social, I always end up in the same scenario going back to what I know is tried and true. I'd be curious to know if anyone else has lived a similar way.
The reason why less than 1% of the population can work on agriculture is because the 1% that work on agriculture are supported by highly specialized individuals that provide advanced farming equipment, weather modeling, genetically engineered seeds, financial products that help forecast demand and supply capital, etc. In a world where only 1% work, the supply chains for those things fall apart, and it then takes more than 1% of the population to feed the rest.
I think OP is asking why it’s iconic.
AP: Tight supplies for virus gear cost US states billions
and at least 2-3 other attempts at cloning I know of including Linus's Transmeta and the one I worked on
> in a unified hospital system, a German city, a U.S. state, a panel of 15 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. as well as both Canada and the U.S. nationally. Each analysis demonstrated that, following directives from organizational and political leadership for universal masking, new infections fell significantly. Two of these studies and an additional analysis of data from 200 countries that included the U.S. also demonstrated reductions in mortality. An economic analysis using U.S. data found that, given these effects, increasing universal masking by 15% could prevent the need for lockdowns and reduce associated losses of up to $1 trillion or about 5% of gross domestic product.

All of these studies were conducted on data from the spring, when cases were declining across the northern hemisphere. How are these places doing now?

DC: up dramatically

https://covid-19.direct/metro/DC

Canada: all-time highs

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/

Germany: all-time highs

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/

US nationally: all-time highs

https://covid-19.direct/US

California: all-time highs

https://covid-19.direct/state/CA

New York: up dramatically

https://covid-19.direct/state/NY

Boston (where the "unified hospital system" was located): near all-time highs

https://covid-19.direct/metro/Boston

I could go on.

Anyone who attempted to conduct a similar analysis today would have to credibly conclude that masks have no protective effect whatsoever. But who knows...maybe they slightly alter the slope of the curve. It's impossible to tell without a controlled trial.

The german paper is particularly ironic, given that it was published approximately concurrently with a huge increase in diagnosed cases in the same city, which is now at all-time highs for the year:

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/12/02/2015954117

https://gesundheit.jena.de/en/coronavirus
I am trying to not delve into a 20 pages presentation, but I have gone though and through these themes for most of my professional life. The question whether we can really go to 100% of automation is moot if we can go to 99%. Either way it means that full employment is unnecessary and leads to the creation of bullshit jobs.

> I think the solution is for more people to learn how to set up their own automation and to automate things without making them too centralized.

That's my sad conclusion as well. We could get to an automated society with far less pain and much faster if it was decided collectively though.

Look at car automation: if a city wanted to make automated cars a reality in their streets, there are tons of accommodations they could do: from radio beacons to official maps, standards on how to signal construction work, purposefully designed roads...

Instead, we are trying to design automated cars with the assumption that zero efforts will be made to promote them. Worse: we assume they are going to be so criticized that they have to perform better by a magnitude on day 1. That's making us waste 40 years.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I actually quite like being able to sit alone with my thoughts. Sometimes the thoughts are not good, but most of the times its just about something that's been troubling me and I haven't figured out what the solution is. When I was in education I had to take a 1 hour bus each way for 8 years, before we had the whole internet in our pockets, so maybe thats why.

I do actually meditate as well, but the meditation I do is where you try to be thoughtless, not to ponder whatever thoughts are on your mind.
All down hill after Windows 2000
> the notion that unemployed people should starve because otherwise no one would work to produce food

I don't see where anyone is making an argument based on any such notion.

I think the reason most people are suspicious of those who don't work for a living is fairness: we all benefit from the many goods and services that our society produces, so we all should contribute our fair share to producing them.

I agree that the market for jobs in our society is very inefficient, which means that many people are unemployed not because they are unable or unwilling to do productive work but because of our inefficient process for matching people to jobs that will actually be meaningful for them. However, no one has any more efficient process for doing that; there are processes that lead to less unemployment in the sense of fewer people not having a "job" on paper, but those processes (as shown by the Soviet Union and China) don't care about the actual job satisfaction of individual people, so they don't solve the problem we are discussing here.

I also agree that industrialization created many "jobs" that actually aren't meaningful at all; the only reason people were used to do them is that nobody (yet) knew how to build machines that would do them. I agree that those jobs should be automated. What should happen as a result of such automation is that the necessities of life--food, clothing, shelter, basic transportation--should get cheaper over time. The main reason this hasn't actually happened in developed countries (or hasn't happened as much as it should--there are areas in which it has) is governments artificially keeping prices high to serve special interests (for example, the US government paying farmers not to grow crops). That is a political problem, not a technical problem.

Even if all the drudge work is automated, however, people will still need to design the machines, make sure they are doing what they're supposed to do, take care of any malfunctions, and update the designs as conditions change. Plus, there are many services that only humans can provide. So I don't think we are anywhere close to having a shortage of work that people will pay other people to do.
Pascal was tongue-in-cheek alluding to the ability to deeply analyze problems. In any case, solutions are often better with human interaction. I like to think of Bourbaki as an example.
For context. My first exposure to the cloud was at my last company of 100 employees. We aggregated publicly available (ie no PII) health care provider data from all 50 states and government agencies as well as various disease/health dictionaries and we combined it with data sent to us from large health systems.

These are the services we used.

Infrastructure

- Route 53 (DNS)

- SQS/SNS (messaging)

- Active Directory.

- Cognito (SAML/SSO for our customers)

- Parameter Store/DynamoDB (configuration)

- CloudWatch (logging, monitoring, alerts, scheduling)

- Step functions (orchestration)

- Kinesis (stream processing). We were just introducing this when I left. I’m not sure what they were using it for.

CI/CD

We used GitHub for source control.

- CodePipeline (CI/CD orchestration)

- CodeBuild (Serverless builds. It would spin up a Windows or Linux Docker container and basically run PowerShell or Bash commands)

- self hosted OctopusDeploy server.

Data Storage

- S3 (Object/File storage)

- Redshift (OLAP database)

- Aurora/MySqL (OLTP RDMS). When we had large indexing to do to ELasticSearch, Read Replicas would autoscale.

- ElasticSearch

- Redis

Data Processing

- Athena (Serverless Apache Presto processing against S3)

- Glue (Serverless PySpark environment)

Compute

- EC2 (Pet VMs and one autoscaling group of VMs to process data as it came in from clients. It ran a legacy Windows process)

- ECS/Fargate (Serverless Docker cluster)

- Lambda (for processes where we needed to scale from 0 to $alot for backend processes)

- Workspaces (Windows VMs hosted in the US as Dev machines for our Indian Developers who didn’t want to deal with the latency.)

- Level 7 load balancers

Front end

- S3 (hosted static assets like html, JS, CSS. You can serve S3 content as a website.)

- CloudFront (CDN)

- WAF (Web Application Firewall)

All of the above infrastructure was duplicated for five different environments (DEV, QAT, UAT, Stage, Prod). In Prod, where needed, infrastructure was duplicated in multiple available zones (not regions).

Where applicable, backups were automated.

We had two full time operations people. The rest was maintained by developers.
——- as far as the rest.

> [Procuring resources] is no different than it is locally.

I can go from no infrastructure to everything I just named in a matter of hours locally? I can set up a multi availability zone Mysql database with automated backups just by running a yaml file locally and then turn it off when not needed?
2020 United States Postal Service Crisis
darn. i did not notice that. thank you for the head's up.
Koka: A functional language with effect types and handlers
Most people sit all day looking at a screen, then they spend a large part of their free time also sitting to watch TV series (generally ~40 minutes long) and films (~90 to 120 minutes long) so spending 1 hr sitting without a distraction hardly seems extreme in comparison, though I wouldn't call it particularly useful. Like physical exercise, you'll probably get more benefit from many, smaller but intense reps than large one off attempts.
quite presumptuous, what if he meant the actual ability to sit in a room ?
Death is only scary if you believe in hell.
I agree. I also think the unified core complex means less cross ccx cache access routes.
> unified memory is being massively over hyped. There is a reason GPUs have their own memory bus -- contention. CPU/GPUs fighting over access to memory causes massive disruption to very parallel computation.

Not sure I totally agree with this.

Game console have unified memory architecture and it’s a beloved feature. It greatly simplifies things and allows the CPU to far more easily use results computed by the GPU with complicated sync commands or frame delays.

Maybe unified architecture is less valuable for non-interactive programs. I’m not sure. This is a fair bit outside of my wheelhouse.

Memory access is definitely one of the biggest bottlenecks. So I fully agree with the general concern. And you may even be right that the unified architecture isn’t that interesting. But I’m not so sure it’s the problem you think it is.
Well, flakey RAM causes loads of intermittent issues.
He took Oracle, HP, and Dropbox with him. But I'm sure Mathews will personally compensate for the tax deficit that results from all those jobs leaving.
RAM latency for one thing. Phones have a huge advantage in that area which translates very well to most tasks as long as they have enough memory. OS differences also favor phones in many ways.
You would think so, but as it turns out, it’s not. First world problems^2.
Reminds me of this classic letter to a post-doc:

http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2010/06/22/something-deeply-wr...
That has a range of 20 m and produces an image of an amorphous blob out of a stationary target. They also don't give the frequency or the power used. Doing this with a 100 kg satellite from 525 km away would be slightly more difficult.
The cloud has been a viable alternative for about a decade and still has only about 4% of enterprise spend combined. By the time the market is saturated and the only path to increased profitability is raising prices, most of us will be retired. Is that really the most pressing risk that most business have? In any of our lifetimes, when has the cost of technology ever increased- besides phones?
I agree that any sort of data loss is completely unacceptable, especially given the amount of force with which MS has been pushing automatic updates and making it difficult to completely disable.

The previous huge fuckup that caused data loss is still a fresh memory to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189139
The electromagnets are used as a solenoid, it seems.

So, the electromagnet ‘pulls’ the piece of steel into its inner cavity.

The wooden stick and bead seems to be arranged and mounted in a way that gravity will ‘pull’ the piece of steel away from the solenoid.

I think the solenoids are only strong enough to ‘swing’ the stick and bead toward the tube, but not hold it in place for a sustained period.

[update]

Totally wrong. Seems to be the opposite. The solenoid sucks in the piece of steel, moving the stick and bead away from the tube, but normally, at rest, the bead rests against the tube, because of the hinge and gravity.
You can build your own SAR system pretty easily, but of course the really cool stuff results from being able to fly a plane or in this case have some satellites. The PDF for Experiment 3 here https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-ll-003-build-a-small-radar... shows an example of using a weak 2.4 GHz system on the ground taking snapshots every two inches for 10 feet or so, facing down a road towards a warehouse. A visualization algorithm is overlayed on top of a satellite image to show that the system can at least detect front surfaces. The professor has also built other hobbyist high-frequency systems before, including demonstrating through-wall capabilities for some of them. This PDF (others on his site) has some good examples of what the environment looks like with a camera, and what you get when you process some SAR data with matlab into a 2D image: http://glcharvat.com/website%20pdfs/Charvat_MIT_Haystack_DIY...
> Split your codebase, split your teams, create a lot of opportunities for mediocre coders to grow into mediocre engineering managers, everybody was happy.

Too many companies have to hope of hiring the level of competence required to not suck. It's painful but true. AWS is cheap and serverless is popular when setting up a linux image security and correctly can take weeks or months.
Here's an amusing song about medieval food, at least is you might find it today at a reenactment [1].

[1] https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/2930843
As a Muslim, I pray five times a day, and of late I have begun to perform it "better", as in unshackling myself from worldly thoughts and other mental distractions. I attach zero importance to them and I remind myself that this صلاة (prayer) that I am doing alone deserves any importance, to the exclusion of all others. Thoughts used to come to me to try and induce panic in me, but overtime they have become so feeble that I am no longer aware of them.

And talking about the kings, one of the pious said : “If the kings and the children of the kings knew what [felicity] we are in, they would fight us over it with their swords.”
Imo foo[x][y] is better for many reasons:

- compiler can break it apart so foo[x] is evaluated once for many ys just like any other function

- you can make types that are unaware of their rank eg vector doesn’t know if it’s a 1D vector of int or a 2D vector of vectors

- “seamlessly” handles jagged arrays
> We have had the ability to automate most work for two decades. Food, clothes, furniture, electronic devices, all of these could be produced with close to zero human labor. Why don't we?

Because we actually can’t do those things?
I was looking at this quote for a long time. I forgot who it was from, and only remembered it paraphrased. Thank you.

To also contribute to the discussion. I often joke that it takes effort to mess things up. You could instead lay on the beach enjoy the evening breeze than putting in that effort. So before you delve into that process, take a step back and think carefully what you want out of it.

I like long walks accompanied by music (ambient music). Walking can be a deeply meditative experience, just pick terrain that won't give you trouble (no high traffic streets, no steep hills etc) and just go. Walk until your body starts doing it mechanically, and don't focus on the destination nor in search of stimuli.
Maybe because walking exerts energy, it can be more effective than just sitting or laying down - when you are really energetic and not tired. Maybe because the scenery changes and it acts as a context switch to our minds.

It has been both effective as a form of emotion regulation, coming up with novel solutions, and just feeling more in sync with myself.
Her twin is the one getting her real estate license. She is not trying to be a realtor.
On the dowel there are 5 steel nuts which are pulled towards the electromagnet. Gravity makes them return, but TBH it's not reliable enough. I'm working on a new version with small return springs and a wider swing for the striker.

The electromagnet is pulsed to control how hard to strike.
For me, OS stability, in decreasing order, has always been:

1. Linux

2. MacOS

10. Windows
It's always shocking to see how inefficiently some companies are operated.

The things you're describing should take a single individual a matter of seconds for a system which is already in operation, and a one-time cost of a few hours to set up at the outset (i.e. once or twice a decade). If it takes significantly longer to do locally than it takes to input into the cloud provider's interface, something's not right.

I can tell you where most companies go wrong here though. It's in excessive specialization. If you put separate people in charge of provisioning, networking, logging, etc. then you create a ton of friction to do anything because you need five different humans to touch it and they all have to coordinate. One person can do all of those things, as you've learned when one person does it interacting with the cloud providers. And when one person is doing all of it, it takes only seconds to do.
QAnon's Mysterious Leader 'Q' Is Multiple People
This is really interesting - really seems to be an argument in favor of all code being open, shared source - along with deterministic builds, it would be easy enough for any organization to build Orion themselves and verify they get the correct build hash. Or if there was a disagreement in hashes between SolarWinds and their imagined community, it would serve as a red flag.
Nitpicking but San Andreas does have AI where police chases work and NPC do not feel completely brainless, and cars do not only follow tracks, it does not feel empty and lifeless.
That's not an apt metaphor. I wasn't talking about it being unfair to those who paid off their debt already/got "killed by the trolley", but those who didn't go to college because it was too expensive, or lived at home, went to community college for two years, and then transferred to a state school so that they didn't have to take on debt. Now their tax dollars would go to help pay off the debts of everyone who went to expensive private colleges, many of whom come from much wealthier families.

Rather than forgiveness, we should make the debt dischargeable via bankruptcy. It should've never been made non-dischargeable (though it did help reduce interest rates, and enable more people to get them, that also upped the amount schools could charge, and made it so loan officers didn't have to consider the creditworthiness of the applicant, and their plan for repayment). It should be something that passes a need bar before essentially foisting the cost on society, and bankruptcy is a mechanism for doing exactly that.

Use the money toward making public universities free, and expand the public university system, as well as trade schools. That’s really how you save all those future people tied to those tracks.
Masks offer no protection. The covid-19 virus is engineered to be transmitted in aerosol form, too small to be stopped by ordinary masks. There is no science proving transmission by surface contact. Wake up people. You're supposed to be taught to think.
Hands-On GitOps with OneDev and Kubernetes
Email Sabbaticals
Conglomerate owner families tilt toward ‘inter-chaebol’ marriages
It's probably possible to chip yourself with a kind of dead-mans switch that releases poison if not acknowledged periodically.
My qualms are more with the demographic changes these massive migrations brought.

Just very greedy overly ambitious and pretentious people.

To me they make terrible neighbors and have zero regard for the land, nature or the people here.

Some I assume are good people but I haven't met any.
A textbook for an introductory course in Linear Physical Systems Analysis
Ancient people may have survived desert droughts by melting ice in lava tubes
Sorry for the late response. This thing took off without me realizing it.

Flurly doesn't add extra charges, it does basically the same charging scheme as gumroad but cheaper.

So if you sell a $10 item:

1%, or 10c goes to Flurly

2.9% + 30c or 59c goes to Stripe

$10 - 10c - 59c = $9.31 goes to the seller

There is no additional charge to the customer above $10.
Got it, yeah, I would definitely agree.
i would rather pay $85/month for a 2U box at a co-lo facility than pay amazon 1000 times that price for the same performance....
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There are very few details (and no DOI). Is it a continuous-waveform (carrier-only) ? "The signal bears no trace of modulation." What is the 'signal' to noise ratio? (Was it dug out of the noise?) At what rate is the frequency 'very slightly' climbing?

'Coming from a star very close to our own?' For sure? or just from that general direction?

At a 4 LY distance, given the loss in strength over that distance due to spread, the transmit power would have to be enormous. (Voyager 1 is about 10e-13 LY away, and our best scopes are needed to hear it.) If so, why invest so much energy in an un-modulated wave?

On the very slim chance it's not local (harmonic bouncing off - or eminated by our space junk), some FRB's have been observed in that range, changing (much faster) in frequency. (Possibly more scarce physics.)

The 'mysterious' lack of 'technology' details makes this sound like a PR 'result' for the BL project. (When Lorimer reported the first FRB, the details were there.)
This is one of my favorite paths forward for long term CO2 reduction.

About 360 million years ago, there was something called the Carboniferous Period[1]. This was the 60 million year period after wood had evolved, but before anything had figured out how to eat it. Trees just piled up and piled up over the millennia sucking out a ton of carbon from the air and leaving an insanely high oxygen ratio, which lead to the evolution of large, high energy creatures with crazy high metabolisms that wouldn't be sustainable with modern oxygen ratios.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

I love the idea of kicking off a second carboniferous period as we finally realize how to fully utilize the power of wood, and start treating it more like programmable diamond, sucking in the carbon from the air around it, and growing into incredibly strong shapes for any purpose.