skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or a mix of slow and fast. Like for voting I was thinking maybe give you an ID and passcode to vote online via a web form but then as well as an electronic tally "Joe Blogs is voter ID 12343473" is sent to a printer and "ID 12343473 voted Trump" to another printer with the results going in a big heap. That way people can't find what you voted without going through two huge stacks of paper which would presumably be guarded anyway but there is a paper record to audit / recount people worry the votes are wrong. Though I guess you still have the issue of people offering to buy your id+code.

I guess with a house owner token you could trade it electronically but have to go register the change and a government office within 30 days for something for it to be legally valid.
>You can change you server type or mongo version with zero downtime.

How so? All the documentation on upgrading say you need to shutdown each instance to then step up to the next minor level.

For instance 3.4 -> 3.6 -> 4.0 etc.

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/release-notes/4.0-upgrade-st...
I feel the author does not understand the meaning of 10x engineer. Fabrice Bellard is a 10x engineer. They are rare birds. Their output is undeniable super human. The idea that one can strive to be a 10x engineer is a fallacy. One can't, you have to be born that way, like a savant that can take one glance at a cityscape and then draw it from memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
Any mass, as currently defined, distorts space-time. Interestingly enough, velocity contributes to mass. That is to say, if we imagined two toy tops, one at rest and one spinning, the spinning top would have more mass due to its additional energy.

Gravity is something like 10^32 power smaller than the next meaningful force. The problem with gravity is this-- At that resolution, we can't distinguish between two theories-- that mass warps space-time, or that there is a particle that mediates the force of gravity (a "graviton"). That is to say, is gravity analog or is it digital? If gravity is digital, there is a particle that is extremely small that transmits its force. If gravity is analog, then it changes the space around us itself and acts exactly the same way.

So we have a question for the ages-- we have 17 to 25 quantum fields (depending on how you count) and, one, analog field, gravity. So, is gravity analog, or is it impossibly small digital field?

For gods sakes is there a physicist out there, please correct me if I'm wrong. :-)
Totally agree, the whole smart IoT stuff is just what Feynman described in his book when his engineering team switched to computers and punchcards instead of doing manual calculations: While the problems could be solved faster, the team started "playing" with that technology becoming fascinated, and in the end the net result was less throughput and problem solving than before.

I also had a guy once showing off his new Apple Watch, showing how he can now switch his lights on/off on the watch and would no longer have to get up to do this. Literally 2 minutes later he showed me how his "Health app" on the watch would remind him every hour to get up from sitting too much, to "improve his health". You just can't make that stuff up.
Neeva ask you to complete a very thorough questionnaire with 13 questions on signing up.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/neeva

That alone is not very comforting.
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Comes from 4chan slag. It's the opposite of cucked. Hence the term `based and redpilled` to `cringe and bluepilled`. It's also typically used to endorse extreme views ironically: "beating women is based" or endorsement to strange ideas "monarchism is based". A discussion above mentions some rapped coining the word, but often words occur spontaneously in multiple communities and both can claim invention of a term.
As an Elixir developer who uses Nim for love of the language this is very exciting!
Really you just cook to your taste. Cooking isn't a science experiment.

Like step 5 says, taste it and adjust. The foods already cooked by the time your adding the spices
Maybe I am missing something, but how could a quantum theory of gravity explain curvature of spacetime? If a photon follows a curve around a large mass, it does so because that curve is the shortest path through spacetime, if I am not mistaken.

But how would a theoretical graviton explain this effect? Would it interact with the photon to carry over a force? And if so, how would it "know" the direction of said force (wouldn't it be itself subject to gravity?). Or would it interact with space itself?
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I'm not sure why rare Earth minerals would be a bottleneck. They aren't rare in the element abundance sense, just uneconomical to extract, which is why they are being extracted in countries where human rights violations are happening all the time.
I would love to read the more fleshed out version of this claim.
I'm European. There is no issue here in what a teaspoon or a tablespoon is. A tablespoon is three times the size of a teaspoon and I have dedicate measuring spoons for each size.

The issue is what a "spoonful" constitutes. Check the link to the recipe.
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This is where semantic data would be really handy (admittedly, it's not a great example because the two movies are not linked at the moment):

- https://dbpedia.org/page/The_Game_(1997_film)

- https://dbpedia.org/page/Rebirth_(2016_film)
Same, but VPS server and Grafana+InfluxDB.
So do I get this right: this is not the first C compiler (since that one would be written in B) and the first C compiler written in C?
I got to deploy some PaaS stuff in Azure recently.

Azure SQL Database has a zone redundant mode, but not a zonal mode. This means the network performance will always be terrible, because the database will be in an unknown zone, so you can't put your app tier in the same zone.

Conversely, App Service has only a zonal configuration or nothing. No zone-redundant option! You'd think this "app+db" PaaS combination would be well designed and tested, but you'd be wrong...

The Azure SQL network performance has two modes: insecure and acceptable OR secure and horrendously slow. To get a private 10.0.0.0/8 address they tunnel(!) through a VPN gateway they manage and then proxy(!) the traffic again. I saw latencies as high as 13 milliseconds for "SELECT 1" within a region, which is just absurd.

PS: This is for the Business Critical elastic pool tier, which guarantees 1-2ms I/O latency, but you can't actually get transaction latencies this low because of the networking issues.

There's lots of little annoyances too, like: you can't copy databases across subscriptions. You can't create databases in an elastic pool in a different resource group. You can only have one "Azure AD administrator", because SQL Server doesn't really support IAM. (You can use a group, but not two groups.) Similarly, non-admin access is granted via SQL only, not Resource Manager, which makes it nigh impossible to automate some builds via ARM templates. The built-in firewall is a disaster: IPv4 only and no support for service tags. The SQL Elastic Jobs resource is incomplete and seems useless. Similarly, SQL Sync is a toy and was broken when I tried it.

Overall, it feels very immature and not suitable for any real enterprise use case. Small Wordpress sites? Sure. Infrequently used apps that don't need performance? Probably okay. Maybe.
I'm still profitable with a niche Facebook will never go after. Why reach for the stars when there's fruit in the trees?
My thought was "damn, I thought 2006 was recent". But I'm very happy to have seen the field grow so much. I hope my kids employ some of it in whatever field they eventually choose.
It's actually very similar to v4, just with more bits.

It has an identical network model to v4: routing and address assignment work the same way. It works over the same L2 links as v4, and L4 protocols like TCP and UDP all work the same. DNS is the same. The socket API is the same. Link-local addresses exist in v4 too, and v4 even had router advertisements already before v6 was even out.

If they intended v6 to be as different as possible to v4, they wouldn't have designed it to work mostly like v4 with bigger addresses. They could've given it variable length addresses, or a locator/identifier split, or any number of other useful features that would've made it different to v4... but they didn't.
I'm impressed about how much scientific rigor you have to ignore to claim what you're talking about.

We know the force-distance (field strength) curves of the "chemical bonding" forces[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force#Field_strength
Hmm, reads a bit like “why Indian cuisine is much better than European”.

I love them all, no need to poo-poo one with snobbery etc.
While this is an excellent project, it's unfortunate that licit online libraries (both public ones such as this, and even those accessible to university-affiliated individuals) in many cases do not match their illicit counterparts in terms of selection (due to copyright restrictions) and ease of use (due to janky interfaces, DRM on books and, especially off-campus, as everyone is these days, disjointed authentication). Our web technology --- even our web technology of fifteen to twenty years ago --- is perfectly capable of serving a modern academic Alexandria, but artificial barriers have gotten in the way. It's a shame that so much is done via ad-hoc PDF sharing and allusions to "the usual sources."

It's just a shame.

(Of course, I do not blame the archive.org staff for the limitations on what their tool can access --- I know they're excellent in pretty much every way. But things could be so much better for them.)
My way of putting it: "cooking" is what we call [chemical] process control when we don't give a damn about consistency of the outcome :).
I do research on FHE. On a high level querying works by evaluating an equivalence function between the encrypted query key and keys in the database such that the result is 1 if the key matches and 0 otherwise. You can then multiply this with the values and sum all of them together to get just the row that matches.

For write operations you could do a similar trick to select a new version of each value based on the query key matching. You are in effect writing all rows, but using the old value when you don't want to change it.

Now, due to some quirks of FHE you can only do this write operation a limited number of times before you have to perform a more expensive operation called bootstrapping to "refresh" ciphertexts. I find bootstrapping to be the coolest part of homomorphic encryption: you encrypt the secret key itself with homomorphic encryption and then use it to decrypt inside FHE. The result is still encrypted but closer to a freshly encrypted ciphertext.
Hmm.. the ex-Head of Ads providing an ad-free privacy-first search engine? Not sure I’d trust them...
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It's a false narrative to discount Covid because X kills more people because it's comparing apples and oranges. Both kill large numbers of people. One is directly preventable through active compliance measures, while the other is indirectly preventable with pollution controls.

PS: I too escaped the Bay Area for Austin.
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> AWS is surprisingly good at not dropping services or creating long-term deprecation plans.

Case in point; AWS SimpleDB. SimpleDB hasn't been available on the AWS console for years (since 2015?) but is still accessible through the SDKs and API calls. They don't promote it or even update it (AFAIK) but it's still there and you can still use it. Amazing!
We have recently finished planning a prefab home in Germany and hopefully soon the actual building process will start. Just a couple of insights:

* roughly a third of private homes are build like this

* prices are a little lower than custom build (although not as much as when you start the planning)

* very extensive customization is possible

* walls are high tech versions of a century old building technique (wooden frame with heat preserving insulation)

* energy efficiency (walls, heating system, solar) is brought to an extreme

* due to regulations and and extensive planning (Germany, right?) it takes 9-15 months

* The building itself only takes a couple of days

* Building brick by brick wasn't an option to us due to a current lack of qualified crafts men and women (you end up with 90%, waiting months for the rest to be finished)

My thoughts looking at the Japanese ones: Nice minimalistic architecture but some (already mentioned) things seem unhandy. Also doubt that they are as energy efficient as their german counterparts ;)
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All good questions. Fast answer: we have no clue.

Until we have a good quantum theory of gravity, we can't explain how it affects the curvature of spacetime at the quantum level.

All the current quantum gravity theories, i.e. loop quantum gravity, string theory, etc... work if you squint just right, otherwise they fall apart really fast. Spacetime has a bunch of episodes on going theories. A very large elephant in the room is, a lot of these ideas don't have a method of testing. And sure, a lot of theories start out without a practical method until decades later where technology can catch up, but we don't even have a theoretical test to start with!

Spacetime recently did an episode touching on some of your thoughts at the classical level and even then it's... relative[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHdV9aO6jaE
And the amount of spam in search results now is even more appalling. Pintrest + translated content is the first two things that comes to mind.
The UK commissioned Calder Hall in 1953 and connected it to the grid in 1956 (although energy production was its secondary purpose).

We could do it faster if we really wanted to.
Just move to the standrad time of the next timezone. Why make it so complicated by using this bastardized "Permanent DST"?

If your timezone is officially UTC-5+1 all year long, you might as well simplify to UTC-4...
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Oh .. that is good. Love it.
And a big company isn't going to pay for you to break the rules. Live frugally study what you think is important and build.
That tub has to be an architect's stunt, you couldn't possibly use it. Especially as the house doesn't seem to have curtains or blinds either.
Have you looked into price comparisons for homes in Japan vs Europe or the US? Something off-the-napkin such as "an average salary person would need 30 years to pay off an average unit" or the like?

One thing that turned me off property in Germany was the amount of regulation and inspections involved, which can also be a problem in US areas with aggressive localities bent on generating revenue from homeowners. This, in my estimates, increased prices and made home ownership less attractive (for me).

In my pedestrian look-up of prices for homes in Japan, when accounting for salaries, they were comparable in salary-life-years spent, or higher, to US or Europe. What is your experience?
At this stage, these threads are getting kind of boring, it's clear that almost all manufacturers are in a race to the bottom in terms of cost - and now the only way that they can compete on price is by bundling adverts into your internet connected set.

All talk of "voting with your wallet" doesn't work when there are literally no "smart" consumer sets that can compete on features and are without adverts.

If you really wish to have your smart TV connected to the internet - I've listed some of the adservers that you can block at : https://factory-reset.com/wiki/Smart_TV_Adverts - however this is also going to be a tiresome game, as manufacturers will just seek to find more creative ways to serve adverts.

The reality is though, if you want to avoid this behaviour - buy the set that has the screen that you want and only connect it to the internet if you wish to do a software update. Only software update if your set has a bug that the advertised firmware actually fixes, as newer updates tend to add more "features" - adverts, slower apps etc etc. Use something like and AppleTV or a Roku device connected via HDMI if you really need smart features - but be aware even the likes of Roku / Nvidia Shield / FireTV will at some point in the future also be serving you adverts.

I've also heard that some sets are trying to find open wifi networks - if you are really that worried, cut the traces on the wifi card inside the set and hope that manufacturers don't start to use ethernet over HDMI.
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I made something like this for my own use in previous company I am thinking may be i should opensource it.
I work for an e-commerce company and we've used something similar with clearbanc to pay for marketing spend - they hook into your stripe and use 'AI' to work out eligibility, then take a percentage of the sales made to repay the loan. It's been great, allowing us to pay for much more marketing than our funding rounds would have allowed without having to sacrifce as much equity. Essentially you get to elastically scale your variable costs with demand.
Certainly, professor Von Neumann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine

We are such machines, so we know they’re possible to make, even though we don’t yet know how to make one on Earth let alone in space.
Depending on how you're cutting it, you could also call it 1/1000000000000 of the way there.
Isn’t that just a difference in shape? I think either way it’s the same amount of butter.
I mean, counter argument is that nobody knows how shitty and toxic ads are as he does. Google was just a job and I doubt he was ever enthusiastic about ads.

It’d be like someone who worked at a meat packing factory going vegan.
>I mean, when Google started the internet was actually small enough that it could be indexed relatively cheaply.

Infrastructure is much cheaper today than it was in 1998. Anybody with the tech know-how can start a mini search engine from their bedroom today without breaking the bank.

I see Neeva as the search-equivalent of Hey. Both products compete against a free product that Google dominates in, with a subscription alternative. Time will tell if there really is a market for this model.
I don't think the phrase "conditional on individuals subscribing to them" is meant to be a probabilistic conditional. I think they are using "conditional on" solecistically to mean "unless".
I would consider this on an occasional basis (eg example 1 once a lifetime).

You could (for example) buy a house by using the money as a down payment. Useful if the timing of lease ending/buy opportunities don’t line up with savings schedule. Smaller opportunities for house renovations or remodels etc.

You could invest that cash flow up front. 2020 was a very profitable year in the stock market... especially if you invested after Feb 20th. You’d make more money than if you invested in 24 chunks bimonthly. So if you had this service you could make some money when you see an opportunity (also risky). “Time value of money”.

On the smaller scale, you could use a similar advance service to semi-monthly buy bulk food purchases if you typically don’t make enough to afford big shopping trips. Not everyone is wealthy, and being poor is expensive. Being able to buy food you know you use in bulk will be cheaper per meal, you just need enough in your checking account to afford that one big expense.
Credit card information is standard for fraud prevention.

It’s impossible to breakout of the free tier and get charged for something.
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One lesson I learned during my masters and my time n the solar sector was that, at scale, financials are all that matters now. During the cold war, nuclear had a huge political push. Espcially in countries building a nuclear strike capacity.

Now we reached a point were, during public bidding, solar and wind are cheaper per kWh than Hinkley C (that was already three years ago). If the CO2 certificates would just be more restricted, solar and wind would easily outbid coal as well. Last time I checked, which was a couple of years ago, in Germany CO2 certificates ahd the effect that they largely pushed out everything except coal and renewables from the market. Renewables had a marginal cost of zero, so they always got demand. And with CO2 certificates plenty, coal plants ended up the next cheapest power source with dirt cheap fuel. Cleaner and more flexible solutions were thus more often than not priced out, like gas and nuclear.

I hate nuclear, because when an accident happens it always carries the risk of being disastrous. But right now, i would make sense to keep alle xisting nuclear plant running and close down coal and oil plants. Sure, we have the risk of an accident, and we have the added nuclear waste to worry about. but we already ahve a lot of waste, adding some more doesn't change that much. And we would buy ourselves time to solve energy storage coming from renewables. And use flexible as plants to cover unexpected peak demand. Not sure if we will ever see that level of long term thinking anytime soon, so.
A few years ago this was attempted but as a paid Twitter. I dont think its around anymore.

As far as ads go I personally like the search ones. If I'm searching for BMW car service I want the local shop targeting me not 10 pages of dealers. With that said I wouldn't mind seeing search competition.
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> Microsoft’s WORD/DWORD are nearly as bad. Don’t call something a “word” if it doesn’t store characters.

"Word" as a term has been in the wide use since at least 50s-60s, you can't really blame MS for that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)
> So what's the problem, isn't this a legitimate business? On its face, yes - but it is value-destructive as hell. Generally speaking, the vast bulk of economic activity is value-creating.

Ehh.. how is it different from buying land ? Theres a limited ressource and it has a value.. of course some people are going to buy it.

You should be happy the whole concept of "renting" a domain name doesn't exist yet.
Put the toilet paper rolls off your eyes and go take a look at his other work, primarily his Youtube channel. Based is not a word that is owned and primarily used by white nationalists; it's used by many different people. It's undeniable that he has controversial and non-conformist opinions(which is what "being based" usually means), but none of them are based on or related to racial discrimination.
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And he was almost certainly using ed(1) as his editor and a mechanical teletype at 7.5 or 10.0 characters per second as his terminal...

The C language (and all of Unix) was designed to be very terse as a consequence.
I'm pretty sure "renting" a domain does exist - or at least it did years ago.
Surely how good it is for an experiment depends on the experiment? Microgravity effects on biology don’t need anything close to the same precision as the test in the link.