skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the interview, it sounds a lot like he got them from his personal experience. He mentions percentages, but I see no references to any sources. It matters what those sources are (e.g. if they are from Purdue pharma or the sacklers, it's probably BS).
Legacy app support takes a huge amount of work. And probably doesn't have the profit margins MS likes to see, and/or enough of a market to impact their bottom line.

My guess would be they'll develop really tight integration with the Office suite, wrap a thin shim around Active Accessibility [0] / UI Automation (/ whatever they want to call it), and call it a day.

Also, there's a ton of Java stuff out there that gets very esoteric. And that doesn't seem like something MS is interested in expanding into.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Active_Accessibili...
> I am not sure what the government can do

Obviously a bunch of detail but broadly it doesn't seem that hard if govt bases off solutions that work in other countries. For example these 3 things could make a huge change for the positive;

1) Universal or similar health care like rest of Western world so this is not tied to a job.

2) Better minimum wage

3) Casual minimum wage loading at X% premium vs full time minimum wage so there is a business cost to flexible scheduling.

I think gig economy is the harder one to deal with going forward. You need some freedom for people to sideline in markets but not have companies abuse this. Maybe something is needed like if X amount of people do more than X hours in a month companies response are responsible to ensure their minimum wage. So a small gig environment can operate, but if.you have thousands of people doing 15+ hours a month the company needs to step up... there'd be lots of cracks in that though.
Unfortunately moving that bargaining to the individual level would also result in a lack of negotiating power. What with forced arbitration and restrictions on class action suits being a thing the legal system can't properly serve a large number of individual bargainers that all individually suffered small damages in a just manner.

Collective bargaining comes with a lot of benefits - doing it at the employer level is just extremely unfortunate for jobless persons.
You can schedule a class on their website *today*.

I'll grant that it's more likely a mistake than an outright lie.

I'd still recommend that you read what the thread author says with a grain of salt as they aren't corroborating the claims they're repeating.

If you dig into the sourcing if the Colorado Sun's article, it cites an Instagram post[1] as evidence the business is closing, but the post says no such thing.

[1]: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBotnpslXVj/
I don;t live in Atlanta. I've just worked in two separate companies that have an office in Atlanta. I've worked with the people in those offices and my experience so far has been, well, not a fun one. Not to say that everyone is bad, just like not to say everyone in the bay area is great, but the number of difficult situations you get put into, rise dramatically when you deal with offices outside the Bay Area.
Weird to downvote this. I know atleast 2 ppl in my group who have 2 tech jobs.
Of course it is, I even game examples of data being used in that way (Beacon and Cambridge Analytica). How can you possibly think I’m not aware of activities I cited examples of? That’s exactly the sort of thing we need to focus our efforts on stopping,
Right after it buys some mittens.
My theory is that social changes happen when things get really bad for enough people, so minorities are often excluded or it takes a lot of time for them to get their voice heard/change to happen.

Do you have a source on a country that legalized gay marriage without social networks? I’m not saying it can’t happen but that would put a dent in my theory. I think Taiwan had it happen before FB but they have what I would consider social networks before we did.
> doesn't hate you for liking SQL

This, just 100% this. I'm not a major fan of SQL or anything, however I get very hesitant to use any ORM that tries to imply that you don't need to understand how SQL or the underlying database actually works.

Any time I hear someone say that "SQL won't scale for my app", I assume that some rudimentary query analysis would solve 99% of problems.
Apple has a choice about whether or not backups are end-to-end encrypted, using keys unknown to Apple.

Apple, at the request of the FBI, chose to preserve this surveillance backdoor by not deploying their end-to-end encryption system for iCloud Backup, thus making everyone's data available to Apple and potentially responsive to FISA orders. Seriously, read the link:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

They absolutely had a choice.

If that backup data (which includes all your iMessages and attachments thereto) were end-to-end encrypted, which was Apple's original plan, then FISA orders, real warrants, and all the rest would be fruitless as Apple could not decrypt the data. They'd be turning over opaque encrypted data in response to FISA orders and real warrants.
Once people are comfortable again, they will be singing the praises of the republican party.
Clubhouse for Web (now I can only join and listen)
Waiting for the physicist in the room to point out: there is no such thing as simultaneity!

:)
I don't know why people are so surprised that scientific publishing costs money — good journals and conferences are more than a webpage to post content.
It's powered by plutonium.

Rovers with solar panels deal with the dust by waiting for a storm to blow it away.
I don’t see the early 19th century as a “mythical past”, nor did I say big changes were “just over the horizon.”

Space is quite literally limitless from a human perspective; to assume that somehow human beings will make zero progress on space travel 500 or 1,000 years from now seems naive to me.
Yep lot's of failure points due to the cold weather that affected a nuclear power plant (faulty sensors in the inflow tripped it into safe mode and took it off the grid) , the natural gas wells (water vapour in the gas freezes) and the infamous wind turbines (no heating/anti-freeze).

The problem was they could not import power from the Western grid (little interconnect capability for political reasons) and meanwhile El Paso and some border counties is humming right along because they are tied to the Western grid and not ERCOT.
If you want to know what a race to the bottom looks like in the US grocery biz, just ask Tesco.[0] At the end, they were practically giving food away with ridiculous coupons and it still wasn't enough to keep people coming to their "fresh & sleazy" stores.

[0]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-did-tesco-fail-in-the-us/
This reminds of the third party Reddit app that started life as "Reddit is Fun", which had to be re-branded to "RiF" once Reddit itself started developing its own app.

However apparently that was still unacceptable and it's currently named "rif is fun", and as much I like recursive acronyms it's a little ridiculous
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re...

You're overstating the cost of waste storage by two orders of magnitude. It's sealed into concrete cylinders. This doesn't look very haphazard to me: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Nuclear_...
I don't mean to speak for the parent but I'm pretty sure it's implied in this scenario that you'd move to universal health care.
Fab equipment is also massively back-ordered.
How do you imagine that would happen? Even if a rocket fails catastrophically, pulverizing the nuclear waste, distributing it evenly across earth, how do you imagine that would make the planet inhabitable? Is the planet inhabitable now, after all the atomic bombs that exploded and all the nuclear waste that went into the ocean?

And what do you think drives the latest Mars rover, Perseverance?
> they'll migrate the legacy chain to it and proof-of-work on Ethereum will end.

Likely closer to: they'll create a mirror on the new chain and a group of unknown size will keep ETH 1 fork alive.
Verse: Autoencoder Based Particle Model
Interest rates for savers are record low. That's the opportunity cost for the savers.

And a central bank of a sovereign country can arbitrarily increase liquidity, pushing down the non-risk part of the interest rate.

But interest rates for borrowers, as I said, can be high, depending upon the risk profile.
I’ve also had some pretty clear successes moving a ~2TB Postgres database into a 70GB Clickhouse instance, (though, in this case a good 2/3 of the issue was scheme design on the PG side, but there were still another order of magnitude compression to be had from clickhouse.)

Queries went from a 12 hour table scan to ~2 minutes, and production queries from 45 sec to 400ms.

This is without doing anything particularly tricky on the clickhouse side, nor even putting it on a particularly large machine. When benchmarking it, I put it on a 10yr old laptop, and I was seeing production queries in the seconds range,
The open source flight code that the NASA Mars drone is running
That wasn't the point but this is Reddit level snarky commenting so I'll be on my way.
At the scale hypothesized here (major substations, transmission lines), even in Texas.

Large equipment that's hard to replace was at one point designed and certified against IEEE and IEC standards applicable to the global industry, with high safety margin, modeling harsh (to a point, catastrophic) operating conditions. Far beyond the requirements of consumer electronics. And there is no reason to believe a manufacturer capable of this scale (think ABB) would design/build/test a substation transformer from a playbook intended for a global market, and then execute to a lower standard because the customer is in Texas.

For clarity, I am not referring to small stuff. Power pole transformers will occasionally blow up. But those get quickly replaced or bypassed without months-long outages.
> blackbody radiation, which some certainly is, but that is limited and isn't much.

Boltzman equation has temperature in the 4th power, so it is quickly becomes a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation

"Using the formulas below shows a human, having roughly 2 square meter in surface area, and a temperature of about 307 K, continuously radiates approximately 1000 watts."

At the temperature that you can keep your electronics at, say 60C, it would be 700W/m2. So, for example a GPU mining ethereum in space (where i think we're ultimately heading toward with the crypto) would need a heat radiator only 3-5 times the size of the GPU.
Said ugly culture is separately going away because of online delivery, which still requires an infrastructure of pavement on its own. The loud engine noise is also gone with EVs.

You mentioned safety. It's a matter of personal risk profile whether you consider cars to be dangerous, even at status quo (autonomous vehicles with coordinated motion planning have the chance to render accidents a thing of the past).

RE potential terrorism, should we consider banning airplanes and busses as well?
It's amazing to watch the national brouhaha over this situation while also being an affected resident of Texas. It's amazing how people have adopted passionate stances despite not living here or knowing anything about power grids. Heck, even friends of mine who are affected take whatever stance they already agree with. Deregulation is good! It's the GOP's fault! It's the windmills. No, its not the windmills!

I'm starting to internalize the idea that the news and the popular talk on social media is heavily distorted and based on what we are already biased to believe.
Here is the earliest snapshot on the Internet Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210217190305/https://arstechni...

It does indeed mention the names, even in this version from yesterday.
I don't have a problem I can stop whenever I want!

God this is so stupid. Please, stop amplifying this nonsense.
Redmine – Open source project management application
I'll just say that SQLAlchemy can also be used effectively as just a query builder in places that you need it.
What about growth stocks that don't pay a dividend. Not a productive asset?
I wonder how long this been in the works, and is this playing catch-up to ClickUp and Notion? I find Trello's UX much more responsive and their apps much more functional. However limiting the new features (timeline view with swim lanes!) to the paid plan might stifle growth.
My apologies, version 2 or 3 of your comment did say that. Thank you for removing the accusation.

With regards to the governor, Texas is a little different. The Governor serves year around, according to their term but mostly applies policy and sticks within the budget that the Legislature (only serves every other year) sets. In past terms, the Legislature have expanded renewables quite successfully (as noted above) and I hope that trend will continue.

Or you can focus on "omg a politician said something bad!" but I hope I don't need to convince you that what politicians say and the policies they implement are often unrelated.
Do you have a source on game studios using hashing for crowd AI?
The author seems to have a very clear understanding of how GPT-3 works and their down-to-Earth, plain language analysis is miles away from the wild flights of fancy we're used to reading about GPT-3.

As a for instance, they didn't even use the word "understand" once, to refer to what GPT-3 is doing.
Solar has hugely larger requirements than nuclear however you look at it, contrary to what was suggested above.
Came here to suggest The Order of Time by C Rovelli, which explains this in such a captivating way.
I think a more interesting question is: would it matter if it were?
I don't think so - the implication I read from "Pay me more and let me control my money." was an entirely private individual insurance market. If I misread the comment my apologies.
The worm seems to break the mobile view. There's probably some sort of comment on the incompatibility of the old and new there.
It's an interesting concept, but it doesn't give much information on how the display works. The display looks to be based on a dihedral corner reflector array. I found this image which shows it pretty well. [0]

[0] - https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Blurring-correction-fo...
I worked at a company where a remote worker tried this. It only lasted a few months because the decline in his performance was more obvious than he thought. He also suddenly become more difficult to schedule meetings around because he was pulled between two companies.

Corporate counsel said it wouldn't be worth pursuing anything against him. He won't get any positive references from anyone, because he tried to make the two-job situation work by shifting more work to his teammates and doing the bare minimum to not get fired.

The real risk is that the companies find out about each other and you lose both jobs. This is a real possibility if your new employer does a background check and calls the old employer to confirm start and end dates, which I suspect will become standard practice in any remote company going forward.

The only way the two-jobs scenario works out for anyone is if you can find two companies where both managers aren't good at managing performance. Either that, or if you're a superhuman developer who can actually put in the equivalent of two 40-hour workweeks with the same energy for both companies, in which case you're better off getting a single 40-hour FAANG job that pays as much as two normal jobs anyway.
> They also noted that multiple-job holding occurred at all levels of income

Ok, I LOL'd when I read this one. Of course it occurred at all levels of income, how else are some people going to pay for their second private jet if they aren't sitting in multiple boards of directors?
Is it just me or does the model naming seem misleading - 30HX has a hash rate of 26MH.
That's quite cool! Do you think it would be possible to do something really quite crazy, like eta reduction like in Haskell?
Depends...

Are we running in a simulation that has a specific FPS target cap, or is that the "hardware limit"? Maybe the universe will discretely lower the resolution of rocks on Mars to increase FPS for localized users on Earth that it knows are testing such theories.
I have serious doubts that this actually happened
Awesome achievement! What was the part of the mission you were most concerned about / most likely to go wrong?
Thank you for the explanation. That was highly interesting. Does anyone else know if the human eye does perceive color directly? Is this at all technically possible? And if yes, why aren't we doing it with cameras?
That's pretty much what I suspect from those numbers. Safari seems having constant memory usage no matter how many tabs you open.
Unless its unloading inactive tabs from ram, there is no way Safari can save ram by using almost 0MB for new tabs.
> This will take a long time, since you will be writing to basically this whole drive as part of distributing its spare space. (Plus probably shuffling chunks around between many other drives)

Yes. With the caveat that you'll be *reading* from all of the disks to satisfy those writes. In a traditional setup, you'd have multiple striped raidz{,2,3} vdevs. When you swap in a spare, you're only pulling reads from the disks in the same vdev. This will drive the performance from this vdev to the ground. In this draidz setup, you'll be pulling from all of the disks, so the entire pool is stressed at the same rate.

I think the way I'm starting to think about it is that each drive has X amount of spare capacity or buckets. But they are otherwise used. When a drive goes out, the primary data from that drive is distributed across the array to the already-in-place spare capacity. So, yes, after the primary data is mirrored out, the pool is no longer degraded. But, I think the point being made here is that you'll still want to replace the drive, which will still cause *that* drive to be fully written.
This is a terrible move.

This is also a fantastic move.

Personally I am very very VERY much okay with this. This will keep consumer cards in correct demand. And if miners want to throw away money for mining, they can.

People talking of modding, its a high effort and high risk. Again, I'm okay with that. The cost of modding will likely be the same as just buying a specialized card. Overall mining is a horrible environmental impact.
The neural network is just data, but if it's part of the executable you need to provide the raw data that is then linked into the executable.
It's too bad we can't hear from more Texans on this, right now. [edit: I am Texan; 28% of my city was still without power or water just earlier today]
he's not rationalizing the original post, he's rationalizing the thread parent's

> half the comments on the post, didn't question these _wildly_ different results though...
When I first played what is now called zork, it was called dungeon.
Amazon’s Great Labor Awakening
No one have said otherwise. The point still stands that landing on earth is not in the same universe as landing on Mars. Comparing is stupid.
Awesome stuff.

I couldn't help but wonder, while I watched the feed: What are the people in mission control doing during the landing?

Obviously they're monitoring telemetry - but what else? Presumably the time delay precludes them triggering anything critical manually, and making post-launch software changes would be frowned upon?
I was really only addressing the notion that vertical farming took up more land. If we have as much extra land as you say, the point is irrelevant anyway.

But you need to remember that there are real costs to industrial farming on land. The use of pesticides, fertilizers and topsoil loss. There are a lot of benefits to vertical farming if it can be made to work economically.
Most of these sort of attempts have been either poorly planned or deliberate shut down by nation states (like the ones near Italy and Thailand.)

I’d also imagine it’s far less exciting to live on a floating platform in the ocean than out in space. Certainly the marketing materials will be more appealing.
I've been bodybuilding for ten years, and I've never had a gym membership that has required a contract. They are not universal.
Just the fact that R.E.M came from there is enough for me.
The low resolution and fuzz is also because they still have the lens caps on - they are of course transparent lens caps in case the explosive bolts that will release them fail. Redundancy!
I was just about to say that they still sell the neo which runs opensource firmware. Seems like they don't though and have discontinued that line.

Still the idea of hardware tokes, u2f, WebAuthN is not at all tied to yubikeys and there are implementations of it that are software-opensource like solokeys.

I think the security of a yubikey is likely better than most alternatives even if it is not open to scrutiny anymore.

I'm also guessing this is the point where it would be good to mention that WebUSB was a vulnerability for u2f hardware tokens (if you gave sites permission to interact with USB devices): https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-yubikey-phishing-webusb/
It is a truth universally acknowledged
What would be the price of BTC if speculation and hoarding was removed?
This is precisely the story with the reporting software at the company my partner works for.

Everybody who was there when the software was created is long gone. It hasn’t been updated in decades. Nobody really knows how it works, and training is entirely folk wisdom and cargo cult practices handed down over generations.
https://twitter.com/SimianLogic/status/1361768051276992514

Kind of free? There was nothing in that space before.
I've wondered about how much of outsiders' responses have been driven by their own prejudice against Texas and our current political representatives.

Which really isn't fair since Texas has a massive number of democratic voters. We have multiple large metropolitan areas but we also have massive rural regions that tend to outweigh when it comes time to vote.
Collective bargaining is most useful when the 'little guy' has few options, or the switching costs are very high. Consumers seem to do well when purchasing other types of insurance, and I think they'd do well to get rid of the principal agent problem (if they can keep the tax benefits).

I think the biggest problems with employer-provided benefits come at the 'employment transients' (i.e. the time just after leaving jobs and while getting new ones).
Yes, that is worrying. But, they already have license in place to ensure no one uses their gaming GPUs in the cloud, where the big money is already. (And it worked, I cannot find any low-cost cloud providers with gaming GPUs for GPGPU computing).

I hope they don't, given that there is limited upside and a lot of push back from dev community.
Winds density is off the charts as you can use the ground around it for crops or even solar panels. https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/wind-turbines-corn-fields-ae...
> What you MEAN to say is that it is not zero sum when you look along the time variable (as in sum(t+1) != sum(t)),

I think they were saying that it's not zero-sum with respect to policy rather than time. Most ideas of wealth redistribution would have disastrous effects on the economy. There's a reason why even the most progressive countries primarily fund their social programs with income taxes and VATs rather than capital gains or wealth taxes.
This is called simulation theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis

AFAIK whether we are in a simulation is undecidable as long as the simulation rules are self consistent...

Philosophy had been dealing with similar problems for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism . The best they come up with is: "I think therefore I am."
Well, that GDP growth technically means you have a better opportunity to trade up in the USA than anywhere else in the world, if you apply yourself, get yourself trained, etc. you want to make people believe that these career choices are impossible to escape and they really aren’t.