skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ETA prediction

I think we are undervaluing basic statistics in this realm.

> (Uber, every delivery app you use)

If you treat these apps as logistics applications, AI still has a place handling optimization problems.

> Recommendation engines

A recommendation engine is by and large about telling you what you want to hear. How's that been working out for us?

We are going to have a very hard time separating them from the divisiveness and radicalization problems with social media now. This is quite likely an intractable problem. If we don't collectively draw a breath and back away from these strategies, things are going to get very, very bad.

> Fraud detection

The vast majority of the time I spend interacting with my bank is spent explaining to them that I'm not a monster for saving my money most of the time and making a big purchase/trip every couple of years. Stop blocking my fucking card every time I'm someplace nice. Unfortunately since these services tend to be centralized, switching banks likely punishes nobody but me.

The problem (advantage?) I think with your list in general is that with the exception of text-to-X, many of these solutions fade into the background, or are things that may be carved out of 'AI' to become their own thing as other domains have in the past.
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Oh yeah, that does look like a title.
Not everything is predictable/foreseeable prior to it happening even if in hindsight it looks dumb.
For a developer, I think multitasking between two tasks (a higher priority task and a lower priority task that can be worked on while the higher priority task is blocked or waiting or otherwise stuck) is manageable and can work well. Beyond two the task switching cost gets too high in a hurry. It's also not good if management/customers are insisting that both tasks are very high priority, it's too stressful to juggle them then.
The minimum scale for a fab these days is thousands of employees... so it’s not a simple matter of keeping a few years of college grads in the country.
From what I understand, the concept is as simple as "No packets out of order cross the border", and "Retransmit if your packets ain't legit". Will there be lag? Sure. But will it be faster 98% of the time than Paxos? Probably. (But I also could be reading it wrong)

> when your redundancy group is spread across different geographical locations

I think 99% of the time this is just a bad idea, unless the thing you're accessing is already strongly consistent somehow. If a service has to be accessible across regions, there's potentially a million reasons for the service to be loosely coupled across those regions besides the availability issues.
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>Huge corporations are harmful to society,

Can you tell me who kept your packets coming during the covid lockdowns?

Huge corporations are important. They possess the capital, logistics and capacity and institutional knowledge, as well as the resources to absorb shocks during crises. They are able to operate society at scale.

On average big business pays higher wages, provides better benefits, is more productive. Monopolistic competition is more dynamic and delivers better outcomes than highly competitive small-business.
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In the same way that it's not required to be rich to have a happy life. In theory, yes. In reality, many doors open or close (ESPECIALLY once you're 40+) based on your marital status. for a few of the many examples:

- Not having a spouse may be fine, but being excluded from social outings mostly from your friends who are married may start to affect your social circles.

- Not having a spouse may be fine, but paying higher taxes and more rent due to the rise of the housing market expecting two-incomes may in fact financially affect you.

- Not having a spouse may be fine, but receiving all your societal worldviews and mentalities from your same sex friends exclusively may lead you to have some problematic views in the long run.

It can affect a lot, and goes much deeper than sex. Even in some world where prostitution was not only legal but societally encouraged, these above issues from sexual intimacy wouldn't disappear overnight.
It's actually really good now. It used to be the epitome of FOSS "jank", but is as polished as any commercial offering in that space... well, that isn't hard when Sibelius is the market leader :) (incidentally, watch tantakrul's video on sibelius, it's hilarious)

I just finished digitising my late grandfather's 1600+ pages of sheet music, and while I did it all in Sibelius (with the help of some awesome upwork talent), I regretted not having gone with MuseScore, it's it's just easier and cleaner in every way. But I was already 300 pages into the project when I realised museScore would've been the better candidate, and I didn't want the hassle of having two different formats to deal with.
> the systems that were designed to take away the need for administrative assistants may once again require an assistant to navigate efficiently

This is something that I've lamented over too. Infrequent interactions and setups take so long to do, the people who do it every day don't see a problem because it's easy but it's not a core competency for the rest of us. We need a community liaison role in internal teams that we can reach out to for a guiding hand. No, our sales staff don't know how to fill out your form about getting a new mail subdomain set up, no matter how easy they'll get something wrong and waste your time anyway. Why not walk them through it?
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like I need to do some further research tonight.
There’s certainly no question that DOS can be exploited, on the other hand DOS has fewer moving parts. And the boot device is usually freshly imaged from the source.
How is this statement racist?
I think the type of people who have embraced and championed the new policy says a lot about who that type of policy helps, and who it hurts.
Summary: Nasdaq computers store stock prices as a 32-bit number representing the number of 1/100'ths of a penny, which means the highest dollar amount it can store is $429,496.7296 (2 ^ 32 / 10000).
True, but none of this is by mistake or accident.
I think the point is, it is suboptimal. You’d get better results if you minimised the contextual splits for natural moments of completion rather than unnatural moments of interrupt.

This holds true in computing theory, feeding 10 things to a single core in sequence is more efficient than feeding 10 things at once and having the CPU handle interrupts.
I wonder how much storage Youtube currently uses ???.
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I love the idea of some valley-esque tech nerd turning up in a hellhole African diamond mine and getting merc'd by child laborers over his iPhone.
Gatekeeping is relevant only when there is scarcity. If there is a pair of people (A, B) where A's desire for sex is three times bigger than B's, then although both A and B have full bodily autonomy (that nobody disputes), in practice only B would be a gatekeeper, as sex for A is scarce, while sex for B is plentiful (relative to their desires).

The same argument could be generalized to society. If one gender has on average much higher desire for sex, then the second gender would be considered gatekeepers in practice, as for members of the first the gate is much more selective that for the members of the second gender (due to scarcity difference). That is completely unrelated to equality or bodily autonomy, which is granted to both.
“Linyos Torovoltos” gives a pretty solid clue it was a satirical article :’)
Maybe they should just work around the problem and do a stock split. They probably should anyway.
>Bitcoin realistically isn't any more liquid than an ETF, you need to go through similar on/off ramps, and the tax considerations are also comparable.

The on and off ramps are heavily limited in ETFs. Bitcoin can be purchased/sold P2P without counterparty or exchange custody risk. Many ETFs regularly miss the inflation hurdle, all ETFs are not permissionless, and can go bankrupt. Also, have you ever tried selling an ETF at 2am on a Saturday?

>A company can grow and pay dividend. Real estate has people working to pay for its rent. Currency debasement affects all asset classes, including stock and real estate.

Real estate/company resale market isn't as liquid as bitcoin's and they are not immune from catastrophic failure, degradation over time, or agency related downside risks. Also, ever tried selling a $200M home/company on a Saturday at 2am?

For comparison, anyone can liquidate $200M of Bitcoin in 10-20 minutes and top exchange order books are thick enough to absorb that volume with little price slippage.

You are trying to separate the unique combination of properties bitcoin has and individually address them with an alternate asset. The real work you have to do is find an asset with all of the valuable properties mentioned, working in unison, that also wins the hardest money contest. Unfortunately, you can't and that's why bitcoin wins as a store of value, especially over a long time horizon.

TLDR Every asset is a shitcoin compared to "Energy Money" aka Bitcoin. Price action and growing depth of market proves that.
I'm not sure that's multitasking per se. That's just prioritizing or triage.

You're still working on a single thing at a time.
A lot of Flemish folks migrated to French speaking areas back in the days because of the mines. Belgian mines powered the industrial revolution, which explains a lot of the British involvement and Belgium's historically awkward international status.
How do you know it wasn't a good use of the money? The client's site has been up for a year since then without any issues for 1/4th of the cost. Their investment in this stack wasn't much. Hiring wasn't a BIG problem, but it did take time. We used that savings to find a dev to maintain the site.

By RAW numbers, GoLang or something else maybe faster, for sure, but it will definitely extend the time to develop something like Wordpress because its frameworks I've tried (Eg. Gorilla) need more effort compared to using something like Phoenix that I use. Plus, a lot of devs were already onto Ruby, it's easier to onboard them into Elixir than GoLang.

> Of course I don't have all the context, but, I cannot imagine any circumstance when rewriting some server side logic in elixir would be useful from a PoV of cost savings..

I think you may not have worked with a high traffic site, just by swapping languages alone you get insane cost savings for that scale because it quickly adds up. Even if your new language is just 0.1 second faster per user, for a million users, it adds up really fast. As I mentioned, just by this switch alone we brought down the cost to 1/4th.

I believe GoLang or something else may have drastically reduced further, but it has the same downsides of Elixir (Harder to find talent for, learning curve). I'm a pure Elixir consultant, so I chose it. My client is more than happy with this outcome.
tldr: Just In Time makes systems brittle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_manufacturing
No networking, no multitasking, nobody writing new malware for it.
Humans ⊂ Animals, after all.
Layer 2 is more complex (pretty much by definition) but has no countervailing benefits compared to a scalable layer 1 chain.
So someone thought it could get to 200k but not 460k? It was foreseeable. It's not a pandemic.
I wrote a brief handbook about starting startups. While not an "employee handbook," it does contain some info about coordinating, getting team buy-in on ideas/movements, and making time to create and brainstorm as well as a no-penalties time to discuss and vent gripes. Some of the insights may be of interest to you, although it is aimed more directly at the aspiring founder or team of founders.

The first few sections you can read for free here https://satisologie.substack.com/p/rocketshipping-book-excer...
I think the "Pyramid of Hate" illustration is really quite immaterial to it all, and overly focusing on it ignores the fact that the founders completely failed to understand their employees' subsequent concerns.

You might feel the illustration is incendiary, sure, but I think coming down as hard as they did on it to a pretty valid concern of "hey maybe no funny names list" did no favors to those concerned, and subsequently doubling and tripling down on it has really really not helped.
Let's not get too far away from my original point. When people say "sex is a basic physical need", they want to imply or paint the association that it's like water and air. It's not like that.
Oh, poor men explaining the obvious in loud authoritative voices, believing they’re experts on any topic after 5.3 seconds of consideration.

(I am a man)
> Taproot will enable better privacy on bitcoin and more efficient transactions. It will not enable an EVM-like smart contract system.

You can already price EVM transactions in Bcash: https://smartbch.org/

(Notably Bcash has chosen to do “Ethereum on Bitcoin” using a sidechain, rather ironic from a historical perspective)
I've been shooting for 10 years and didn't know this at all!! I just saw a photo of a lens mounted in reverse and my mind is blown. Time to go down a rabbit hole trying to understand why this works...
And then what? That person just gets another job? Or, they should never be hired by anybody ever again?
I think you're misconstruing the Zone with the Flow State. Note these are really just arbitrary terms with vague meanings, but I think it's still useful to have terms to root the discussion.

What they have in common is the aspect of no-self, where you lose your sense of self and become what you're doing. But I think how this manifests is different. In the Zone is where you have the full context of the problem in your head and are completely focused on it. You are the problem. Whereas in the Flow there is no conscious focus, you are the work, the muscle memory act. Maybe another way to put it, using your terms, is that when I'm coding, in the Zone, I have both the Flow Me and the Planning Me active at the same time but when I'm playing the piano I only have the Flow Me active.

I personally find both experiences very enjoyable but, at least in my case, the experience is different.
I agree. I think there's a long tail past a certain point, though. After a certain age, my preferences didn't really evolve much. Before that? Very rapidly, and much of it was just personal discovery.
Laughing at names did not lead to genocide and no one implied that. What someone did was share why it was important to treat this seriously and not let it slide... lest the offending behaviors continue to escalate. An example was shared from social science on a pyramid of normalization where such behavior eventually gets normalized.

Classic and indisputable example might be Germany in WW2. It wasn’t like citizens woke up and immediately decided that genocide was okay; they slowly were worked into finding it acceptable and palatable as a measure to endorse.

It is only meant to illustrate the classic slippery slope.
lmao buffet/munger are like pro gamers who are so good they overflowed the score field
Seems unnecessarily retaliatory, what would that improve?
I thought porn was supposed to make people into sexual deviants, which is it?
It's poorly received because it's not true. This "fact" of yours is just an unsupported opinion.

I think it would have been better received -- and possibly more true -- if you have said that many women seemingly aren't attracted to weak men.
A truly efficient process would be a bullet in the head at birth bypassing everything else. So yeah, goals aside from efficiency are important.

Now some efficiency expert is thinking about how we can skip the bullet to save money.
> I believe the push towards partnered life is a byproduct of capitalism, and has nothing to do with evolution or biology.

?? This is something that is observed across many cultures. Yes, attitudes of permanence are different, and the strength of prohibition against adultery is different, and you can find an outlier. But e.g. we have pre-capitalist Native Americans practicing marriage and stable coupling, and thousands of years of documented traditions within China, ancient Egypt, etc.

> This is the strawman that keeps getting thrown around in this comment section. Nobody is suggesting that finding happiness and fulfillment in a partner is unhealthy.

It's hardly a strawman when it occurred earlier in this thread (and still is there weakly even after edits).
Why doesn't Berkshire do stock splits to make the stock easier for retail investors to buy?
Save for a few adjustments, the linguistic border in that region has been basically fixed since the 8th c. Unsurprisingly enough, a lot of the work of the dynamics of the Romance-Germanic linguistic border comes from Belgium.
That statement is not jarring.

Employees calling the organization 'White Supremacist' is the thing that should be 'jarring' or at least controversial. There are arguments to be made, sure, but the language is fairly extremist.
I hope all the drawings are being logged so the followup can be "1000 attempts at the starbucks mermaid", kinda like the "draw me a sheep facing left" project: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/thesheepmarket/
Googles hterm also supports the iTerm2 protocol. Can be good for embedding a terminal in a slideshow presentation.

If your language has a REPL with appropriate control over the display of objects you can get a pretty great experience. I used it to get familiar with Haskell's diagrams and JuicyPixel libraries and it was great[0].

[0] https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/search?terms=iterm-show
It's common enough here that's it's a been verbed: A car is "bollarded" if a silly driver tries to tailgate another car into a secure area, causing the bollard to rise under their car which typically destroys the sump.
The current pandemic was predicted by many experts. Obama even set up a task force to prepare.

That didn't stop idiots ignoring expert predictions. One orange idiot in particular disbanded the task force to save millions of dollars, and cost the US economy billions because of the slow response to a highly predictable disaster.
How was that related to covid? (Risk for virus on the envelopes somehow? or too crowded over at the window?)
Munger told a story about a secretary they deeply loved and then she died. They thought she couldn't be replaced. Then they realized the new hire was better!
> When pressed on the issue, [Warren Buffet] has told shareholders that a lower price would bring unsophisticated short-term investors into the stock.

there's BRK.B for that. BRK.A is what, a vanity stock?

I've long had the idea that the reason to buy any BRK.A is because ownership of a single share allows you to go to the shareholders meeting in Omaha.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/021615/what-differe... doesn't mention the shareholders meeting, so maybe that's outdated or apocryphal.
I'm not sure what the "neutral strip" means, but if it's something like the sidewalk in front of a house, then the relevant US law would be that public property cannot be acquired through adverse possession, no matter how persistent the trespasser may be.
More qualified people join the organization.
Can I ask why? I mean it sucks if someone can't get laid without paying but isn't the alternative where they never get to have sex worse?
Remember that a lot of action on the stock market is built on speed. If they change the storage format to be 64-bit instead of a 32-bit number that would be a non-backwards compatible data format change. So the data format specification would need a new version, all the software that interacts with it would also need to be updated, and a lot of algorithms will get a bit slower since they now have to deal with a 64-bit number or some other representation.

There are probably some elegant ways to handle this, but again it would require that timing-sensitive software will need to do extra work to see if the value is in the extended format; or they would have to process twice as many bits if all data values are updated to the new format.

Also in in the past most stocks will split for many other reasons when the per share price gets above an easily to handle number. What wasn't predicted is that a company wants to avoid a stock split for whatever reasons they have.
> but it's a bit abstract

it's like the big picture VS the rest
Doesn't the indeterminate mean rely on the distribution including negative values? Sleep() requires a non-negative value.
Sounds like https://capnproto.org/
Ah yes, reddit, that great bastion of facts and well-sourced research.

If you're a man and you're with a woman who stops being attracted to you because you've cried in front of her, that's a great thing, because you've dodged a bullet, and found a strong signal that you should find a better girlfriend.
This article is surprisingly short on actual applications.

For some interesting applications one might look at the the Wikipedia article for the normalized compression distance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_compression_distanc...

This paper here shows some interesting applications - it is not the first one, but the first non-paywalled one that I found: https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0312044.pdf

There is also a book by Paul Vitanyi - it has been a while since I looked at it, but if I remember correctly it also discusses some of these applications: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Kolmogorov-Complexity-Ap...
Too bad it's destined to be abandonware. Just think of all that money and engineering time that could have been spent working on CPython upstream, rather than a fork that'll die when the company gets bored with it.

Aside from faster CPython, I'd love to see a PIP that standardizes module naming convention & inheriting+extending existing modules, rather than completely reinventing the wheel and making a totally new module just to add a single feature that some other module lacked. That plus the new regex extensions and Python will be almost as useful as Perl. :-)
You're probably right, too many beers perhaps!
Nim has long had the best of Python’s readability mixed with C’s performance and low-level constructs. I urge you to check it out.

https://nim-lang.org/
You can't predict when it will happen or how it will happen. Not quite the same as this problem Nasdaq is facing.
Counterpoint - why would they?

I mean this seriously, is there a benefit to the company to do this? It requires at least a little work on their part to do, why fix what isn't broke?
Here's some good documentation about v8's JIT: https://github.com/thlorenz/v8-perf/blob/master/compiler.md

Note: Never worked on v8, just liked the information here.
>Is it bad that women don't find some men attractive,

Not at all, especially because it's most likely that they can't help it. It'd be like asking me to find ugly girls sexually attractive. Even if I felt it would be the best the to do morally, I couldn't will myself to it: it's out of my control for the most part. And so it is with women: we really shouldn't hate someone for their innate preferences. (and especially we shouldn't hate a whole class of people -- 51% of them in fact!)

I think the primary problem here is that idealists have tried to force beliefs that they think are the "best" beliefs, but many of these don't match up with reality. When I finally learned how women work, I didn't become some bitter incel; rather, I met the woman of my dreams, and we've been happily married for almost 8 years. The relationship with her has been the only really successful relationship I've had, in my opinion. What changed? Well, it's too long to get into all the details here, but I started discarding nearly all of the dating advice I'd gotten from peers, TV, movies, etc.
Exactly! This is best achieved by keeping data on the stack and avoiding allocations as much as possible.