skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That was the reason for the past two AI "winters" and most likely will be the same reason for the upcoming AI winter.

If you follow the papers coming out, I'd say we're very far from any winter. Public perception may ebb and flow, but nothing can stop us now, research has gathered that critical mass and we're going nuclear on AI right as we speak.
> My understanding is that the vast majority of these M&A destroy capital.

The FAANG stocks have very high compound annual returns stretching over more than a decade. I don't think there's evidence that those returns would be higher without their many acquisitions or evidence of capital destroyed.

It can be argued that whether M&A on net is capital generative or destructive depends on the management team and their ability to successfully integrate the acquired company's team, products, and technologies. Which translates to bad management destroys capital, which is an obvious truism.
50G isn't loved? My guess is that the 50G will be the most loved over time. Really it is the end of the line and the pinnacle of a HP RPL calculator. It looks great (better then the 49g+), has a good keyboard and is very responsive.

On a side note James Donnelly's HP 48 Programmers Toolkit added CAR and CDR commands.
It seem that each time I read something about this claim it seems to distill down to a deterministic universe from a classical physics viewpoint. At the same time there are examples of non-deterministic classical physics described by various aspects of Chaos Theory and its "strange attractors" phenomena.

What strikes me is that the folks arguing "No Free Will" appear to ignore the non-deterministic parts of classical physics.

I do not know is whether this born out of ignorance or whether these folks have an agenda when it comes to trying to convince others that they do not actually have "free will."
Monitoring of an Underwater Drone
European Lisp Symposium 2021 videos
A well written SSD firmware simply slows down with age. It will never get to failure because the slowdown gets so extreme it becomes unusable. The drive also gets slightly smaller (by passing write failures to the OS to mark sectors bad).

Thats because a "worn out" flash sector is never fully worn out - it can still store some data, just less than the error correction can correct. It is possible to combine two sectors to have extra error correction data to still recover a sector. Now you have less than half the performance.

Worn out flash also doesn't hold data long - perhaps only a few hours before too many bits have flipped and it is unreadable. To fix that, you need to rewrite the data, which slows everything down more.

And now that you have a bunch of unreliable sectors, you also need "super-sectors" which can do sector-based hierarchical erasure coding to recover data from sectors where even the methods above have caused data to be lost. This slows down writes even more.

In the worst case, reading a single sector requires reading every sector on the drive to reconstruct. Clearly thats going to be slow enough the drive will have stopped being used long before that.

Sadly some drive firmware doesn't implement some or all of the above, so they appear to have "failed" and become unreadable, which IMO is inexcusable when it's very easy to design so that worn out drives become slow instead.
> pinkish crab stick

interesting, these are Japanese Surimi, no?
Honda, Subaru, Tesla to name some.
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> Just as most of the new income generated by later periods of economic liberalization go to the top 20%, so it is with the sexual market.

I don't even know what this means. What is "the new income" in "the sexual market"? What is "the top 20%" ? How does "income" "go to" any particular percentile in "the sexual market" ?
Well if we want to be all logical and science-y about this, we can't assume humans are rational beings. People obviously make bad decisions all the time.

Just because lots of people have kids, for example, doesn't mean that having kids makes people happier, and in fact studies seem to show the opposite to be true on average. That said, I'm not trying to say that having kids is always an irrational choice, and certainly it makes some people happier (or it might make people "unhappier" but lend them a greater sense of meaning and purpose that balances things out). But clearly you can't just say "well, correlation must imply causation because otherwise why would people do X if it makes them less happy?"
That's right. Then when someone mentions they'd rather have a product that can be bought because ads and trackers are the devil, OP suggests they'll remove ads if they pinky promise to to sponsor. Buying a product is different from being a sponsor.
Oh, sure, not to going to disagree! I don't think it's being sarky to compare the two (although NFTs have slightly different cultural precursors), no offence taken. I also think that in this case many commenters [being human] have equally subjective notions of value (edit: which are also correct in context, I'm not just having a pop) but would just like to pretend that they do not, that they are being "rational".
This sounds pretty ignorant and insensitive. What someone wants or needs to live a happy life cannot be generalised. While I don’t think people owe you more than some empathy and politeness, they shouldn’t also be allowed to make sweeping judgments about your character on the basis of what you hold valuable or not.
“I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new di-
rections, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of
computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I
hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is in-
telligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when
you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.”

— Alan J. Perlis

From the opening of SICP. I didn't think it was the most amazing quote when I read it but when I hear the frustration and cynicism of many devs on the state of computing it makes me wonder.
This is one of those things that I always assume other Python developers know about, but often don't.
Great Idea!

Also, it seems like this could have home/business security applications as well...
Progress so far is that GPT-1 could produce a coherent sentence but stopped making sense after a few lines.
GPT-2 could produce a coherent paragraph, but several paragraphs strung together made no sense. GPT-3 is coherent for about a page or screen, but not a chapter.

A page is good enough for the clickbait industry.
Well, at least that leaves Honda & Acura as well as Subaru and probably a bunch more regional brands I'm unaware of. Also I suppose Tesla...but we all know how much telemetry data those cars send back to base.
The only times I've seen "advanced classes" get abolished is when districts KEPT advanced classes in high schools, but got rid of "ability tracking" (read: high, middle, and low-performing tracks) in early grades (k-6 usually). This is because low-income and minority students are more likely to be tracked low performing in lower grades, thereby baking in the inequity in the system. Eliminating those tracking systems, while keeping AP and other TAG programs is actually a very good way to ensure equality in access with no promise of equality in outcome. . . .

Those headlines tend to get spun as "Chicago district eliminates advanced classes" or something to that effect, because it gets people riled (spelling?) up.

Please, point me to your sources if you are talking about something different.

EDIT: The tracking still occurs in early grades, the isolation grouping does not. Students are still tracked and tested for ability, deficiency, and performance. What they are not doing is grouping them exclusively into high, medium, and low, and letting those groups dictate resource access. They are grouping across abilities, allowing high performers to work with medium and low, thereby allowing them to take a leadership role while still providing the other two groups with valuable resources.
Right, but this is the statement that someone pointed out as a red flag, that you disagreed with

> I got absurdly lucky when I found my wife, but I spent every day without her more or less miserable. It’s arguable she’s the only reason I’m able to be happy.

Which is basically the exact definition of codependence.
> [obviously misguided] purity culture

As far as I understand it celibacy of men devoted to religion or spiritual endeavours is not about "purity" but total focus. And I don't think that is misguided. It's just very resolute.
> having a romantic and sexual relationship is not a requirement for a happy life.

This is a bit silly: either it's trivially true but irrelevant, if the claim is that there exist people who can live happy lives without (sexual) relationships; or it's flatly false, if the claim is that everyone can be equally happy without relationships as they would be with them.

Relationships bring significant happiness. People who are in relationships self-report more happiness. They're richer. They live longer lives. You might say that I'm mistaking cause and effect: maybe happier/richer/healthier people are more likely to enter into relationships? This is probably part of the effect, but not the majority of it. If someone randomly ends up a widower from their partner experiencing a sudden, tragic accident, their happiness doesn't remain level. In fact, it substantially decreases: widowers have some of the highest suicide rates of any demographic group.

Relationships aren't some crazy random idea that just happened to develop in 2020 USA. They exist universally, across all cultures and times. All of them consider a relationship as a good, important goal (even as the typical attributes of relationships do vary). It's hard to name any facet of culture as universal as that.
Author here.

I often wonder what it would take to create a “Big Tech” company.

Over the past month, I classified 600+ products and services from 20+ “Big Tech” companies across 60+ categories.

It really helped me appreciate the scope of their offering and confirmed that building a “Big Tech” company is a serious challenge.

I share my research with the hope that others will gain some insight. Comments are welcome.
Agreed, especially for high level languages and application level linked list usage. Worth mentioning I think the good linked list libs usually do this under the hood, and kernel & allocator level linked lists are always doing this. People implementing simple linked lists themselves, and/or copy-pasting the kind of code you get by searching for simple code examples (like the link in my sibling comment here), that's when they end up with very poor performing linked lists.

A closely related concept to what you're describing is internal storage linked lists [1], meaning the class/node contains the link(s) and is specialized for one particular kind of data, which often makes it more compact, and easier to allocate a block of nodes in a single call.

Anyway, I'd guess a big reason it's harder to find array backed lists when searching for linked list implementations is just because it's more advanced and may introduce memory management topics into articles and blog posts that the author doesn't want to cover. But I agree, once you use array-backed lists, the common examples of linked lists you can find online where new is used twice per node, once for a generic node, and once for the payload, seems ridiculously wasteful. This is the kind of thing I meant earlier - best practice would be to avoid a naive bad linked list even in code that isn't a hot spot. Time doesn't have to be spent optimizing it, and it doesn't need to appear as a hotspot, to know it should be avoided.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_list#Internal_and_exter...
I doubt this was implemented in assembler. It's not performance critical, and 32-bit ARM is a friendly enough target for a compiler that a human won't be able to improve upon the compiler's output anyway.
> You have no idea if that's true or not or the extent of his comments. You're going off of an unsubstantiated claim and treating it as fact.

I find the selective application of epistemic uncertainty fascinating. Why not treat his rebuttal to the article as completely unsubstantiated?

Or for that matter, why didn't he refute quoting Breitbart in the office, if it's not true? He was clearly given a chance to comment, the article includes his version of that meeting. Why are we forced to go into "nobody can possibly know" mode when there are three people saying he did that, and precisely nobody publicly denying it?

It's also not "unsubstantiated". You just don't seem to believe the people who are claiming it. That's very different.

> They didn't scrub history after this. They deleted those forums a week or two before all of this (according to the article), in an apparent attempt to stop the political chatter. It seems when that didn't work they came out with the no politics policy.

You're correct about the timing, my mistake. I do not buy their motivations one bit. Given how publicly political DHH has been, this strikes me much less of "no politics here anymore" and more of "no politics the moment it's critical of us".

> There is still zero evidence that any of this has to do with white supremacy

I don't see any evidence that anyone originally claimed that the list of names was white supremacist, only that it was a bit racist to mock Asian or African names. This is why they appeared to have been talking about implicit bias so much, which became such a hot button issue later. And I think it's perfectly fair to pull in a bit of implicit bias training in this context, as well as some customer data protection training as well.

Discussion of white supremacy cropped up when Ryan Singer allegedly said "I don't believe in a lot of the framing around implicit bias. I think a lot of this is actually racist", which appears to have made things spiral wildly out of control. I don't think it's a great idea to throw out the term white supremacist without a ton of evidence, but I can 100% see why someone would after having one of their executives effectively accusing everyone on the DEI committee of being racist against whites.

> so someone making that claim is ridiculous and is meant to stop all meaningful conversation.

Ryan tried to shut down discussion with this "Very often, if you express a dissenting view, you get called a Nazi". You don't get to complain about inflammatory, conversation ending rhetoric after coming out of the gate with that. Doubly so when you hold power in the company.

Oh, and all this happened after the company had deleted all the threads and publicly announced the policy change to the world first. Its not internally consistent to accuse the “left” of shutting down the conversation with heated rhetoric, given the timeline of DHH and Fried’s decision to ban previously allowed office speech.
I normally just tell them "it was a few weeks back". This gives a full year for them to forget about it and has a sufficiently vague period of time that they can't nail you next year should they remember.
> Yeah man I don't think I would classify a committed relationship where partners end up missing their partner when they're gone as "codependent".

> I spent every day without her more or less miserable

This is a bit more than "missing" them.
Used cars are already selling like hot cakes! now this!
I think it's fair to say his data shows a high percentage of "incels" are not the incels on the internet that are bad, but just guys who can't get women and they don't deserve our hatred. Similar to the Japanese phenomenon of "grass eaters"
Assembler? That seems very unlikely, as this was a DS game released in 2006. Ever since the Nintendo 64 and GameBoy Advance, compilers have been good enough and the hardware has been more than powerful enough that games have been typically implemented in C.
"My primary goal is to get hired as the product manager for this new business."

Pretty much the only ways this happens are:

A) Big company buys a startup that's already successful in some way, and the CEO of that startup becomes the Product Manager, or

B) Big company needs someone with deep expertise/knowledge in some domain/technology, because that person can execute better/faster on $initiative than anyone already at the company.

A couple of other thoughts:

- there is plenty of advice online and in books, about how to be a PM, and how to get a PM job at a FAANG company

- even if you were already a PM at a FAANG company, it might still be hard to both (i) take an idea that wasn't on anyone else's radar, and get enough buy-in to form a new team, and (ii) become the PM on that team. If you were at Google, the two most obvious routes would be (a) using 20% time to demonstrate some success, or (b) applying to their internal incubator (Area 120).
AFAIK this was done simply by assuming the change of the color, without taking into account the change of cloud coverage, and clouds have a huge effect. So it can go both ways depending on how exactly we will be changing the climate of Sahara.

And there are many possible ways to control the climate in a smart way instead of trying to simply remove CO2. One possibility is to use ocean thermal energy conversion plants [1], to cool down tropical region of northern hemisphere, artificially re-creating conditions that cause green Sahara periodically. Aubrey de Greys new moonshot https://viento.ai/ is working on similar ideas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversio...
If you accept that cause and effect holds in a closed system, then no, there is no possibility of free will. But within that viewpoint, everything we think of as making us human is dead. It's not just free will. Truth is dead. (You can't determine whether something is true, because you have no choice whether you believe it or not. All you can say is that you found the explanation convincing.) Morals are dead. (Both because you can't blame anyone for what they do, and because you have no ability to choose what you think is right or wrong.) Even love is dead, at least in the higher sense of choosing to do what's best for the other person, because you can't choose anything. And even in the lower sense of attraction, that's determined too.

The problem is, this view really doesn't match with our experience of what it means to live as human beings. We experience deciding. We become convinced that things are actually true. We love and are loved. We know, from direct experience of living as human beings, that this is not who we are.

This leaves a dilemma. Either our experience is wrong, or our initial starting point is wrong. Either the laws of physics are not what is "furthest back" (in Francis Schaeffer's term), or else we really are determined and our lived experience is an illusion.
> I think the critical part is the "only thing" in the quote

This is editorial added by the commenter, which is incidental to the point and does not purport to even hold the meaning of "she's the only thing that makes me happy". This is not literally meaning "the only happiness I feel". Ostensibly, the man still finds happiness in sleeping, eating, etc but a good partner fills a particular kind of happiness that is near impossible to replace.
From the article:

> Eric Raymond, the founder of the Open Source Initiative and one of the authors of the standard-bearing Open Source Definition, said Kyle’s decision violated the fifth clause of the definition, which prohibits discrimination against people or groups.
The article doesn't make it clear if (1) this is just a lone admin submitting a bad proposal that is ultimately dead on arrival or (2) this framework is seriously being consideration as policy. I won't hide my feelings that this is a bad idea--prodigies exist.
You can't really buy a "dumb" gas car anymore either. I'm holding onto my 2011 Nissan Versa to the bitter end.
NFTs will effectively do nothing in this case.

People are 'enthused' because they have a lottery ticket that could go to the moon and are want others in on the action.

The charity is trying to hop on the bandwagon of 'money appearing out of nowhere'.

We are clearly headed into a fairly inflationary situation, I'm curious as to how we will look at this time 20 or 40 years into the future.
And the ones you mentioned have major regulatory hurdles to expand internationally. In industries where a single player can dominate multiple markets we are down to 2-3 major competitors, worldwide. See airplane or train manufacturers, beer companies, computer chips...

This has all been financed by more than a decade of low interest rates which fuelled the M&A.
This was the best part of 30 years ago - they are still all in existence but I cannot comment on their detailed fundraising techniques :-(
Then don't cash out. But that's usually a fantasy. Nobody is really "passionate about enterprise saas" or whatever the marketing says.

Founders are interested in control and eventual (financial) freedom, and tend to like building an organization in general. An acquisition provides that freedom while allowing them to build something else in the future with even better circumstances.
Box pre-dates Dropbox by a couple of years.
awk is cool, and I use it from time-to-time but it is quite basic. I tend to prefer using Ruby (or Perl) instead.

For example I recently needed to check for log output where two columns differed. For a simple case like this awk would have probably done the job too but Ruby and Perl just have so many functions built in.

... | ruby -ne '$_.chomp =~ /^added (.*) ipfs\/([^\/]*)$/ and $1 != $2 and print'

Perl supports similar `-n` and `-e` flags. It even makes it a bit easy to do the regex filter and match (The argument is implicit IIUC) but I tend to prefer Ruby because Perl has too many sigils for a casual user to remember.
The idea is nice, but wow it's expensive for what you do get.

The CPU being a quad-core A53 architecture is basically Raspberry Pi - but the 3B rather than the 4; only 4GB RAM; only Full HD resolution. You pay $999 and that doesn't include any storage or even the wifi card.

The comparison with an entry-level MacBook Air is sort of horrifying. Same price but just a completely different league in almost every respect.
Which when translated from the progressive "your truth" to reality comes out as video and written evidence.
That's just one particular aspect. Even without that the core business model still has this fatal flaw (which is also a statutory requirement).
I'm an incel. It doesn't have to be sexist. I don't have any specific feelings towards women. I just know I don't get an ROI on investing in dating. So I just invest in my self for my self and allow myself one sexual interaction a month through paying for it like a service. I'm available for dating or relationships but have no expectations. It's healthy enough.
Forget Bitcoin – Digital Currencies Can Only Work with Government Backing
The issue of free will from a religious theological viewpoint is maybe what Fry is hinting at - Arminianism versus Calvinism ie. Free will v Pre-Destination.

A person can be redeemed and change their life or they are simply born bad and that is allotted at birth and no matter what choices they make that is set in stone.

Is a person born a psychopath, is it in the genes or is it nurture v nature?