skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was around during 2008, that's exactly the opposite of what will happen. Financing will dry up and the newcomers will find themselves in a highly competitive rental environment with inflated prices, while the banks and wealthy snap up SFH's for pennies on the dollar.
Have you seen Intel's underground facility for national security issues. Why do people trust on-chip cryptography?
https://cryptome.org/2013-info/11/intel-ug-lab/intel-ug-lab....
I do accordion + beatbox covers of pop songs.

Here's a cover of "I Believe I Can Fly" that I did with my kids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqLWMZDjeQ0

And here's a little snippet of Ariana Grande's "No Tears Left to Cry":

https://soundcloud.com/shaunpgallagher/no-tears-left-to-cry-...
Maybe a "mixed" solution with delegation or only on special issues or, heaven forbid, some form of AI-assisted delegated voting ...
I was mostly referring to integration tests. And yes, there are basics like fixtures which do get DRY'd out but they really need to be as unambiguous as possible in their mental model `insert(<table>,[<c:v>])` for a database entry, e.g.

I guess my point was not that you never DRY in tests, just that you should be very picky about when to DRY, more so than in code, and that is necessarily in opposition to the advice in OP.
Yeah to be honest this is just classic Amazon really. Even this new "Amazon Fresh" Go store in the UK is clearly unconnected from the original "Amazon Fresh" delivery service, and the "Amazon Fresh" non-Go stores in the US.

Similar problems of brand confusion existed between Amazon's Pantry, Fresh, Prime Now, Morrisons, restaurants, some wine thing, Prime Air etc etc. They did eventually clean it up into pretty much just one product, but they seem to make these messes pretty willingly
As Max Planck observed, science advances one funeral at a time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
I think we've discovered in this pandemic that a whole lot of other food actually delivers just fine and restaurants could have been doing it all along!
Are you guys familiar with Dr. Ellie Phillips? I'm definitely not a dental health expert, but she seems to be objective about how tooth decay occurs, see: https://drellie.com/2020/10/19/what-happens-to-teeth-when-yo...

I wonder if she'd have useful input on your product. Of course, she's trying to promote her own stuff (she sells Xylitol mints) but she also advocates for OTS treatments like Listerine.
> But, given some fixed priors and some fixed evidence, there should in principle be a well defined probability of such a crash.

:-)

How do you test this model?

It is easy to find things that fit one of the previous crashes.

Given that there is only one realization of history, the data we have is consistent with any model that puts a non-zero probability on a crash.
Agreed, it isn't easy. But things are changing. Balaji Srinivasan argues that's the future. Naval Ravikant says that innovation has been found in geographic centers like the Arabic world (middle ages) -> Rome (Renaissance) -> England (1800s) -> SF Bay area (since the 60s), but the next center will be geographically distributed but on gathered on the cloud through digital nomadism. See The Sovereign Individual as a book that predicts this.

There's a business here that helps managing citizenship: https://nomadcapitalist.com/

I don't know what the future holds. We shall see :)
HN likes to nitpick on everything but whenever someone brings this particular point up it's nothing but crickets. It's 2021 and for someone who has the audacity to selfhost ads, you would think he is also capable of adding a couple of CSS rules.
Tesla recently build a big battery like this in Adelaide (south australia) to much fanfare. A friend who works reasonably high up in electricity distribution engineering tells me that you open the doors on the tesla-emblazoned cabinets and it's simply all siemens (IIRC) gear inside. (Not to say that tesla isn't value-adding by organising the sale!)
> Hiring more black people

It's not like there's a large, untapped pool of talented black software engineers.

I'm at a large tech company. There was a team I worked with for a big with some really talented people, the sort of team where really smart domain experts go. There was a black guy on it who asked questions showing he wasn't an obviously talented domain expert. I found out he was recruited for coming from an unconventional background and was spending time with different teams.

Large tech companies are trying really hard to finds diamonds in the rough, and they're taking chances on people that aren't talented enough.

The other issue is blacks are only 13% of the American population. Seattle is only 7%. Now imagine you're an even smaller minority. It's about people not being assholes, not "hiring more x people" because that will always fall short for some group.
> in general there will be resources that aren't just memory that need to be released

Zig already handles this with its "defer" feature; as a resource goes out of scope, it can be released automatically. In the document example, that document's existence would likely be a running function, and as that function terminates, it would likely have "defer" statements kick in that free the document's chunk of memory and release any file descriptors and such.

> You probably don't want to allocate an actual "chunk of memory" either. That just creates unnecessary fragmentation.

If anything that should help reduce fragmentation, or at least help reduce its impacts, since you have better control over whether that allocation exists as a contiguous block.

> All you really need is accounting and the ability to report when you're consuming too much memory.

Which is trivial to do when you know for sure that a given component can only work with a given chunk of memory.

But yeah, nothing stopping anyone from implementing an allocator that cares nothing about where its bytes actually live, and just keeping a running tab of how much memory it's used. That is: using custom allocators is an elegant and simple way to implement that accounting, since that's basically what an allocator already is.

> But if you can plug in many devices that use the same driver, you'd want independent allocation accounting per device.

We're probably talking about the same thing here, then, but with slightly different terminology (and perhaps different structure); I'd be pushing for each device to be controlled by an instance of a driver (much like how an ordinary process is an instance of a program), and it would be those per-device instances that would each have their own allocator. Those instances are what I'm calling "drivers" in this context; they might share the same code, but they run independently (or at least they should run independently; a single malfunctioning disk shouldn't bring down all the other disks).
No. The date is correct (they were issued at the end of the month), but the price chosen is the best price for the grantee.

This is roughly theft from the other stockholders.
The most frustrating thing is that once upon a time, even local pizza places and Chinese restaurants had delivering food at max quality totally in hand. Heated bags, good delivery logistics, and well-planned menus meant that everything you could buy showed up on time, at the perfect temperature and correctly cooked. If there was an issue with delivery and you complained to the restaurant, they had a meaningful amount of control to provide that feedback to the deliverer.

In my area these days, most of them (other than perhaps the chains) have outsourced their delivery to one of the sites, using unaffiliated drivers with no interest in maintaining the reputation of the restaurant. What happens? Collapse in the quality of the delivery, along all axes.
I think tech events focused on specific groups can be great, but from my perspective:

- Better if it is not the corporation organizing it, but just sponsoring either trough financial contributions or things like providing space instead.

- Have interesting topics beyond just talking about group X.

- Don’t assume everyone within a group is the same.

- Actual hiring/evaluation process should be same for everyone, do as much blindly as you can.
Social Facilitation
Some toplined melodies - https://whatismusic.info/melodies/index.html
So what is "ISO", if not the sum of its "Technical Committees and Working Groups"?

If they write the text of the standard, that means ISO writes the text of the standard.
That's weird, I don't remember the book burning. I guess I must have missed it. I am sure it is totally impossible to get a copy of any of those books now that the publisher has decided to stop publishing them after 80 years.
Waymo uses sound to detect emergency vehicles: https://medium.com/waymo/recognizing-the-sights-and-sounds-o...
That is indeed interesting, worth a look ...

Also, the "central bank" aspect of it, re: actual digital coins ...
This is going to sound odd, but I am practically un-recorded. I'm a jazz bassist, and I find the recording process to be stressful and unrewarding, but love to perform for an audience. So my recordings are limited to cases where someone hired me to play bass for a demo, or something like that. Perhaps part of recording is a mental game, getting over being distracted by the thought that someone else is paying for my mistakes.

Also, maybe music is for me an escape from the tech world. So my utopia is still playing alcohol powered instruments with a bunch of kindred spirits.

But it's cool to see so many links.

During the lockdown, some friends and I have gotten together using Jamulus, just to be able to keep playing. I also tried a "round robin" recording, where each player lays down their part and passes it along to the next player, but the tune I chose was quite frankly over my head, so the final mix isn't really presentable. Also, I chose the tune in the first month of the lockdown, so it sounds really lonely and depressing.
I've done a little skimming of comments here and I don't want to reply to any specific comment. But some general thoughts:

Some conditions cause severe malabsorption and then doctors medically prescribe digestive enzymes. These enzymes can be effectively used to combat viral infections if you take them on an empty stomach between meals instead of with meals like they are supposed to be used.

Random spontaneous thought: Maybe this is one of the things fasting does that has an impact on health. When you don't eat, digestive enzymes in the body attack microbes. (And the gut is home to 70 to 80 percent of the immune cells in the body. There's a lot happening there.)

Also: one of the things that makes gut issues complicated is you need to keep the stomach sufficiently acid to do its job while trying to address chemical imbalances and other stuff. If your stomach gets to be too alkaline, you can outright start throwing up from inability to digest food at all.

Keep in mind that viruses are made of RNA and DNA is just two strands of RNA bolted together, basically. (Those are laymen's terms, because I'm a layman. If anyone knows the fancier, more accurate explanation, feel free to have at it.)

So there is research suggesting that viruses are actually a source of genetic material for humans.

It helps me to think of all this like some messy, organic soup of code. Or nanomachines exchanging code. Something like that.

DNA is the code that writes physical reality* and it's quite small and gets swapped out and we are only just beginning to understand all that.

(Edit: not all physical reality. Just the biology bits.)
That’s an interesting problem and it seems related to Googles issues. McDonalds wants to move in to a more automated, less staff system and you end up where no one at the store knows how to refund external purchases or prevent people from ordering things that are unavailable.
"mathematical modelling of nature"

My point is most real world problems people face (even most problems that data scientists face at work) shouldn't be modelled with formal math.

Basic reasoning, tinkering, plotting data and playing around with data in Excel or Python is usually sufficient to answer most questions, yet many will try to overcomplicate the issue with complex math or stats. Perhaps in an attempt to impress their peers, or perhaps because they've just come out of years of university that taught them to think theoretically.

I'm reminded of that meme going around.

70 IQ: plot data

100 IQ: support vector machines! deep Q-nets!

130 IQ: plot data
The logarithmic utility doesn’t fit observed behavior particularly well. But it does lead to growth optimization. If you think the problem call for the maximization of asymptotic growth use logarithmic utility. If you don’t, don’t. Again, it’s exactly the same assumption. Not more arbitrary.

EE tells you that using the logarithmic utility is equivalent. The article mentions “the correspondences between linear utility and additive dynamics; and between logarithmic utility and multiplicative dynamics”.
I'm a classical tenor (opera, art song, etc). I've been recording more in the last year, most of it is here: https://www.facebook.com/CaryLeeTenor/videos/
Is not the inability to think on your feet in a productive way in front of others - especially stakeholders - a gigantic red flag you want to catch?

Having reasonable social skills and the ability to not look like an idiot when you're on the spot are both super important to being a productive member of a business

Edit: someone has just downvoted every one of my comments in this thread and not left a response, why?
I do not believe the U.S.A.'s founding to be as noble as is commonly narrated.

The so celebrated “founding fathers” were rich, white, male slaveowners that tried their hardest to keep as much power for the rich, white, male, and slaveowner at the expense of all others and transparently founded an elitocracy that favored the big man over the little man, and certainly succeeded.

That the U.S.A. electoral system gives disproportionate power to the elite already in power is not a fluke, but a deliberate design choice.
Jellyfin 10.7 Released
Wow, that almost makes it sound like the original author was getting paid per line.
https://archive.vn/0xKpE
It seems like calling it a collection of dog whistles is directly addressed by this paragraph:

"The trouble is that Nazis are human beings, and they have many benign thoughts along with their antisemitism. So I might avoid repeating some ordinary, unthreatening statement uttered by someone with a Nazi reputation, lest you think that I sound like a Nazi. Soon only actual Nazis and a few weirdos who don’t care what other people think are willing to repeat these unthreatening statements — which now appear rather threatening. In this regime of self-censorship, even arguments defending academic freedom (which is not a traditional Nazi commitment!) or aesthetic judgment (a commitment shared by many people, including a few Nazis) can look like signs of crypto-Nazism. This increases the costs of honest discussion."
> I find with excel it takes just as much time to set up a spreadsheet to do what I want as it takes for me to do the same in R, usually a lot more time with Excel.

I mean, this is I reach for Pandas over Excel, but most people would be infinitely more comfortable with spreadsheets than specialized tools. Spreadsheets also happen to be useful enough for almost everybody.
>We're not as smart as we think we are.

We are, that's the problem. We find loopholes, we find edge cases, we bend rules to our benefit. Thus the bureaucracy must become ever more complicated to deal with our cleverness.
I agree with all of that, but there's also the idea that once the government decides you're guilty, they will find something. There's so many laws, and they are so complex, that's it's not hard for them to do so.

So I'd add a little more to your advice to resign if asked to do something illegal. If your company, or industry, seems to be the new whipping post for some Federal agency, consider a new place. Assuming you're in a spot that could be a scapegoat.
Yes, it's a Hollywood movie, about a very technical subject. I would not expect someone to come away with a strong working knowledge of how credit default swaps work, any more than I would expect someone to come away from watching the miniseries "Chernobyl" and understand what caused the reactor explosion.

The Jenga tower should really be inverted. The BBB tranche gets knocked off the tower to protect the AAA tranche at the base.

The ratings agency scenes are fictional in the sense that no conversation actually happened, to our knowledge, but it's 100% true that the ratings agencies played right along with the industry, and were incentivized to give higher ratings, just like the FAA was incentivized not to ground Boeing after the first 737 Max crash.
I make all the beats for my YouTube vlogs. I post the songs for others to use royalty free. Some have several thousand plays.

https://youtu.be/JhQpXwXUWok
There is always a morning somewhere!
My extension is intended to work from any site (Browser Routr). I could dynamically update the extension manifest from its complimentary native app, but that creates races with the extension update process. And for many extension the concerns are cross cutting. For example I want dark style overrides everywhere.
>The problem with a digital currency, of course, is that when you hand someone a sequence of bits, they don't go away from you, so you can hand that same sequence of bits to another
person.

I mean, you're not wrong, but this is where the cryptographic elements actually take place.
The one in which the author objects to disciplining professors for racist conduct and refuses to update his curriculum to include a diversity of viewpoints because "the only good reason to study a work of literature is that literature itself has value?"
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this! I used to use it in my M3 all the time a few years ago. Doesn't make sense because the sign detection etc has improved...
Same here in Iceland where we mine 11% of the btc Network.
Incubator and Accelerator Mastermind happening tomorrow, March 9th at 11 AM PST
That's funny because I just assumed Elon found another old and inefficient monopoly to disrupt.
The next "loongarch" generation was already announced to move away from mips as the underlying ISA but instead allow running mips, arm64, risc-v, and x86 code in hardware assisted emulation.
Do you get mad, if you look into a mirror?

There is no correct, unbiased way to rank images (or anything). There may be a "homogenizer" which reshuffles the ranking based on image features but you would have to introduce an artificial category, e.g. nationality.

But I doubt a "de-bias-reshuffler" is a clearly defined "thing" let alone something that is easy to explain to the algorithm-scared public.
'Predisposition' is not solely focused on your inclinations. It's absolutely absurd to say, for example, that a genetic predisposition towards cancer is desired by anyone.

What we *know* is that there is no aptitude problem preventing women from doing the job. We also know that many capable women choose not to, particularly in more equal societies.

Jumping from the above information to 'men are naturally more predisposed towards the sciences' is a massive and unsupportable reach, dependent on deliberately ignoring a host of factors and redefining words.
The article mentions that queries made in the country's native language tended to be less "racy", suggesting the later. More generally, it's the differences in the intent of the search that may be the cause, with those intents reflecting the beliefs of others about a country.
Disparate sources +napkin math.

There's a lot of analysis out there on Chinese food security, the TLDR is grain production is ~95%, but a lot of it goes towards animal feed. It's around 1000lbs per capita. In terms of crude, China only produces ~4M barrels per day, imports 10M. But the entire US military consumes 300k barrels per day for much broader portfolio. Other resources, only ~30% domestic self sufficiency in iron ore for steel production, but that's still ~300Mt which is ~60x total USN displacement. More or less everything else it stockpiles or can produce enough domestically for military needs, because relative to Chinese production the military doesn't actually use that much resources. All this is to say China is not Japan, it can't be "starved" into impotency, a blockaded China can not only sustain current military, but expand it by multiple folds on her own.
No, I don’t have FSD or the beta. I really do love my model 3, but charging for FSD that doesn’t yet exist is the closest thing to fraud I’ve ever seen so widely available.

The issues I have with AP have little to do with their object learning or need to gather more information (though I agree camera-only isn’t enough). The car knows where the lane boundaries are but doesn’t take advantage of the width. It knows accurately enough where other vehicles are that it could avoid staying in another driver’s blind spot indefinitely. Tesla is teaching their cars how to drive with terrible habits and not building defensive driving into their rule set.
> It's a collection of crypto-fascist dog whistles about race...

I must not be a dog, then, because I'm not hearing it. For those of us with less acute hearing, could you point out the dog whistles?

> ... it barely merits being called an opinion.

No, it has a definite opinion. You may not agree with it, you maybe would prefer to ignore it, but it is quite clearly there.
I'm really sorry about that. No offense taken.

In re: Cybernetics in general I always recommend "Introduction to Cybernetics" by W. Ross Ashby. It's a whole book but I find it to be the most direct and concrete exposition of Cybernetics.

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf

In re: paradigm shift, I don't really know of a single good source for that, but the works of Gregory Bateson, specifically "Steps to an Ecology of Mind" and "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity", were useful to me.

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

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

https://archive.org/details/mindnaturenecess00baterich
And everybody in the world is a student at some university?
Game platforms have been providing cross-game "unlocks" / achievements for years, and they're only moving more towards that (this is one of the whole reasons for Epic, Riot, etc. shipping their own launchers, it gives them a runtime on the client where they can securely share state between games).

It's going to be huge for VR in particular:

- https://www.roadtovr.com/getting-social-oculus-unifying-mult...

- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8845288
I think a lot of these problems come down to poor quality control, which may have roots in bad UX design and misplaced incentives. I've had food delivered to me which had someone else's name on it and completely the wrong number of items. Most of the problems I've seen have been of this variety - where the driver didn't take even the smallest amount of care.

How hard would it be for DoorDash to ask the driver to verify the number of items in the bag? If there are drinks, the driver should be forced to verify they have X number of beverages (since drinks are screwed up CONSTANTLY).

I think it's really because the delivery app companies don't care. They often use dark patterns to make it hard to complain about bad deliveries. If you can't figure out how to ask for a refund or tell them that they messed up, then you may forget about it the next time you order with them.