skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The language Elixir, during its compilation phase, actually automatically removes these in the production environment. That is to say, it is a macro which behaves as expected in every environment but "prod", in which case it removes itself.

I mean, you can do this in C too. Make "debug" an #ifdef, and when it is defined to "false" the compiler will obviously optimize that out.
Very good work, as the last ones.

Have you read some of von Neumann's work on self-reproducing automata? Do you think it could have interesting applications in this area, perhaps some kind of neural reconfiguration into agents?

For example, what are the CA rules that spawn "life-like" creatures, that then are capable of performing certain actions, and eventually self-reproducing into other actors?

I've done some exploratory work on CAs and Life (unfortunately I couldn't get any academic positions so far). (My main area of interest right now is motivation design) Feel free to get in touch if interested.

(For example, I would be interested in even getting the lifeforms to act, and engineer motivation functions, getting them to be "ethical", "collaborative", (or selfish experimentally), "compliant" (to external requests), etc.)

Perhaps this kind of environment, with its inherent reliability, can prove a simpler, elegant building block for agents and environments.
What percent of businesses fail because the owners don't understand accounting? What percent fail because they don't put in the effort? Where did you find this data?
"Having the courage to live a life true to [oneself] instead of what was expected of [one]" by their society, partners, employees, contractors makes a fine definition of villainy.

No, don't buy the Woz trope.
Offline videos is a YouTube premium feature.
Homes in North America are not built with wood from Southeastern US. Wood from PNW and Canada is used. I believe this is why a lot of furniture, cardboard boxes and cabinetry is made in Southeast US.

Mills / lumber yards consolidated during 2008-2009 financial crisis.

In the years leading up to covid, Canada unintentionally lowered lumber prices by cutting down trees that were infested with a certain type of beatle. At the same time, Canada was reducing the number of (healthy) trees allowed to be harvested for wood every year.

Some have argued that wood prices have been too low, for to long. The industry has never recovered from 2008-2009, and has a conservative mindset.

There are definitely a lot of perspectives to hear in this equation.

I like a quote from this podcast; higher prices cure high prices.

Transcript: Stinson Dean On The Soaring Price Of Lumber ["https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-29/transcrip..."]
Higharc – The automated, all-in-one web platform for homebuilders
If your vector registers are only 128 bits long then it's probably ok to have one big pool of registers. But if your vector registers are 512 bits, 4096 bits, 65536 bits then it's an awful waste not not be able to use one of those just because you need another int or FP scalar value in your loop.
I don't know if this covers how people "feel" so much as how they justify how they act but it does cover something important.

The language of victimhood is standard amongst despots and fascists. The enemy is simultaneously weak and easily defeated, and an imminent threat to which we can never let our guard down.
Widespread death and destruction. Seriously, other than the houses on Cooper Mountain, I don't seriously expect anything to still be standing in the Tualatin Basin when the big one hits.
What do you have to do before you prescribe a drug? Make a diagnosis, which is what is taught in medical school and not in pharmacy school. Pharmacists are frequently embedded in care teams in hospitals and primary care clinics where they make medication recommendations and know how to get drugs approved by insurance companies (sad that this has to happen...).
No, the Rayleigh Criterion is still correct, you just have to consider the "aperture size" to be the size of the combined multi-telescope device (which would be the size of the Earth if the telescopes are on the opposite sides of the Earth). In practice to get the best quality image you need a telescope every X meters (I'm not sure the exact distance required) but even a 2x2 telescope array over a large distance would still give you significantly more resolving power than just a single telescope on it's own.
Standing their ground and refusing to succumb to blackmail is not the same as retaliation.
So people can get a $30 fee to tip $1?
No, they don't. Creative jobs have always been boom or bust, following a power law where ten people earn a living directly off of it and everyone else waits tables by day and hopes to someday catch a break. That was fine for centuries. The world didn't collapse prior to the invention of widescale cross-site tracking of user behavior to create intelligent targeted ads, and I'm not sure it was worse for "content creators," either. Maybe they're just being old and grumpy, but the actual most talented people in creative industries seem to yearn for yesteryear when they were allowed to actually be creative and all the major publishers and studios weren't in an unwinnable death race to the bottom with Netflix and Amazon seemingly generating true crime docs and superhero stories by algorithm.

As for quality, it's all opinion, I guess, but the only form that seems to have gotten better recently is prestige television, but even there I'd say it so far peaked around 2010. Film and pop music peaked in the 60s and 70s. Instrumental music, literature, and painting peaked centuries ago. Artists have created perfectly good art for as long as humans have existed without the need to track their consumers private behavior to develop targeted ad profiles.
how to make people even more angry with Twitter:
Allow us to tip the "Promoted" tweets so you don't see them again.

You're welcome (sorry)
In a "future without passwords" every signle web site will use their own app for 2FA, forcing you to install all of them. It should be possible to have one common open standard for "push" 2FA apps and let consumer chose which app to use. Like we have now with Google Authenticator, andOTP, DuoMobile, etc, but with unified "push" functionality.
They don't accept your birthdate without a credit card or ID? Wow.
US anti-trust law is the reason.
To me the article read like they were trying to justify working at Google to themself. It never explains why it's acceptable that ads target themselves at consumers in the first place when such a thing would have been considered dystopian fifty years ago (selling flower ads on a flower show is okay, but showing flower ads on a car show the next week because the consumer watched a flower show last week could have been the plot of a Twilight Zone episode), instead it just talks about how they're trying to protect privacy while using principally privacy-hostile ad targeting technology.
It has a 30-day trial and a really simple setup process, at least for macOS and Google. Should have time to play with it before trial runs out.
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The Senior Product Manager who wrote the post is a woman.
be aware of the conversations you have in a 24hr to 48hr period, see if "targeted" ads appear in your feed, which relate to things shared in those conversations.

I've seen things go from saying things in a conversation to targeted advert on Twitter, for example, in under 1hr routinely (although not always). Many of my peers have reported the same. While I've reproduced this on multiple devices (Android + iPhone) over many tests, I've been unable to isolate the app(s) doing this and how it works.

It's baffling how it's done and at scale, but somehow a few organizations seem to have extremely advanced adtech in production.
> U2F is a real pain because you can't make backup copies of the key

Dogma: If it isn't backed up then it doesn't exist.
Turning a Sphere Inside Out – early computer graphics doc (Nelson L. Max, 1976)
All completely irrelevant since they don't provide the official certifications which employers check.

Not to mention entirely dependent on the unsupported precept that traditional teaching structures were apparently worthless - but, it's cheap to put your money where your mouth is on this: are you going to save a lot of time and money and educate your children solely via these resources?
It's not just the cost in attention--those ads are produced with the price of our privacy included in the cost.
This speaks about standardizing contracts but neglects to mention that the competing proprietary electronic medical record standards also add cost, complexity, and increase medical errors.

And there are still about 14 other layers of the healthcare onion to peel.

Medical talent is kept artificially scarce thanks to the lobbying and control of licensing by the AMA. We should hand control of licensing over to the AARP and the March of Dimes instead.

Hospitals and insurance have perverse incentives because they are separate. But when insurance and provisioning is combined as with Kaiser Permanente, then incentives are aligned and bureaucracy can be streamlined.

Hospital consortiums currently carve up monopolies within a given piece of turf. We should break that up, and allow a proliferation of low-cost community clinics for less advanced procedures.

And this hasnt even covered obscene pharmaceutical costs, electronic medical device manufacturers, the diagnostic industry oligopoly, and so on.
30 S pieces and 1 | piece.

maybe "obviously irritating tetris" would be more appropriate name?
It seems like it, but eventually you'll get other pieces.
You could have made the same argument in 1908, telling people to self educate at their local library.

If everyone watched a 2007 youtube course on circuits at MIT and learned the material, the value of such a skillset would be equal to the value of flipping Burgers at Burger King.
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
We support both! A Splitgraph repository can "mount" an external data source, and we'll proxy queries to it using a system based on Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW). But a repository can also contain any number of "data images," which are versioned snapshots of data roughly inspired by Docker images. You can define them with a declarative, Dockerfile-like syntax called a Splitfile, and you can rebuild them against upstream sources with caching semantics similar to "docker build."

Our core philosophy has always been that it makes sense to start with data federation (live data), and then selectively warehouse/ingest only what you need (versioned data). We're shipping some upcoming features to support this workflow. You start by providing us (or your private deployment) a set of read-only credentials to any supported data source, which we then "mount" as a repository, making it discoverable in the catalog, and instantly queryable with all the other data on Splitgraph. If or when you decide that you want to warehouse this data, we'll make it easy for you to schedule a loading job to ingest it as a Splitgraph image. This way, you can query the live or versioned data in any repository, by simply changing the tag you use to address it.

You can do all this stuff locally, btw – a decentralized workflow is fully supported, and you can push data between peers. The public Splitgraph.com happens to be a "super peer" with a data catalog, scalability features, etc. But if you just want to experiment on your own, you can try it in five minutes!

I don't want to spam this thread too much, so I'll limit it to one link – maybe take a look at the Splitfile docs: https://www.splitgraph.com/docs/working-with-data/using-spli...
Apologies for posting this I wish I could delete it
While the agriculture sector would love cities to go into drought mode and cut back on water usage, let's review a fun fact: agriculture isn't even in the top ten of industries contributing to state GDP[1]. However, agriculture uses 80% of the state's water.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/304869/california-real-g...
>The time of getting an average job with an average pension, which lets you buy a reasonable price house is over.

Covid craziness aside, that's still true. You can't do it in California, or Seattle or NYC but outside of those areas it's easily obtainable.

Most of these "homes were so cheap" anecdotes neglect to mention that you might be paying 18% interest on your cheap houses. Or they are talking about a place like NYC in the 70s. Yeah you could have gotten a house for a song in a bankrupt city suffering through the crack epidemic.
Here's an honest question: Why should a search engine cost so much?

Look at Wikipedia - it's a search engine and content repository for all of the world's knowledge, and its operating expenses are around $100M / year.

The Internet Archive has an annual budget of $10M / year.

Google on the other hand, has annual revenues of $181B / year, or about 2000 times Wikipedia's spending.

Is the crawling part hard? The folks at Common Crawl (https://commoncrawl.org/) crawl the entire web every month and release it free of charge.

What about the search algorithms? Well, you can do a bunch with TFIDF and PageRank, for which patient protection has expired.

For the sake of argument, let's assume that the cost of hosting a ubiquitous search engine would be double Wikipedia's annual costs. Still about a thousand times less expensive than Google.

Ads don't pay for a search engine. They pay for vast amounts of excess.

What keeps such a solution from us? Here are a few of many reasons:

* Google pays billions of dollars a year to make it the default option on browsers.

* Exclusive deals with portals such as LinkedIn which exclude open engines such as Archive.org from their content.

* Limits on peer-to-peer connections perpetuated by IPv4 which prevent us from hosting a distributed engine ourselves.

Posing the problem as one of "there's no other way to pay for this expensive machine" is pretty lame isn't it?
B only had one type, "machine word", and a word could be interpreted as a pointer or an integer. The notion in C that an array is effectively a pointer to its first element is also in B.
Looking for a cofounder to built a Robinhood for soccer players
Trying to build a platform so people can invest in young players in exchange for a stake in their future. The benefit could part from a % of their monetary rights in a transfer or an ISA. Clubs and players interested but need a way to be compliance with fifa regulations. Looking for a cofounder passionated about soccer and investing in people. Here is a quick doc where i explain how it would work with the monetary rights. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hv7a1V6BGg9zwi4KTsdZs-YI...
Jean Luc Picard is a well-known name from fiction, too.
Open Book Publishers
Do you eat money?
> I will never be in a situation where I'm desperate to recover what's on a device.

... again.

I suspect by far the majority of people who know this, learned this the hard way. I know I did.

(And even _after_ learning that, I once left a backpack with my laptop at an outdoor table at a cafe. It also have both the USB drive with my primary backup and the iPod with my secondary backup. I was extremely fortunate that a friendly waitress grabbed it and told management it was mine, and I only spent one sleepless night before collecting it after calling up the next morning... In my defence, this was back before "cloud backup" and high bandwidth internet to make that practical was a thing here. )
> I wonder what IPA would look like if it were invented today? Probably not like this.

I agree! I’ve heard that IPA was optimised for movable type, a medium in which it was easy to reverse and flip letters — thus we get e.g. ʌ,ɐ,ə,ɘ,ɔ,ɟ etc. (This, incidentally, is why you can write text upside-down using Unicode.) This can be contrasted with e.g. Americanist notation, which was optimised for handwriting: š, ȼ, ƛ etc. are easier to write than the IPA equivalents ʃ, t͡s, t͡ɬ. I’m not sure what a phonetic alphabet invented today would look like though — probably it would look something like X-SAMPA [0], restricted to mostly ASCII characters and making heavy use of uppercase, punctuation and digraphs. (A_i j}:z It r\e:li:, ba_"t It lUks lA_ik DIs.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA
You surely don’t think that actual dollars settle every time you pay with a credit card, Venmo, or PayPal? You realize that settlement takes weeks?

Micro-paying with Bitcoin on a centralized platform like PayPal is essentially the same as dollars. Final settlement in BTC can come later when someone wants to withdraw their balance.
How do you define wealthy Walter? I’m 25 and “unremarkable” and my net worth is only a quarter million. I make about $200k at a company you’d probably consider unimpressive.

Not everyone can be remarkable enough to go to CalTech.
I don't care for Starbucks products, but if they do this, I'll stop by and purchase a pastry to show them my support.
The humblebrag about this individual's income and charitable giving at the top of this article is quite terrible. The depth of detail linked is irrelevant to his point (a simple, "I give a lot of my income to charity; the more I earn, the more I give" suffices) and, aside from that, isn't an argument in support of working on ads. He could earn a similar amount of money working at a business that doesn't have ads as a business model (I know this because I work at such a company).
When do you think Albedo will be available? IIRC, their satellite will not be in orbit till 2024. Did they change their business direction?
The United State's healthcare don't even appear in any "Top-10 global healthcare" rankings available anywhere, and are consistently overshadowed by many European countries, Singapore, Australia, Japan etc. I don't think you can use "extremely high standards restricting who can practice medicine" as reasoning when it doesn't appear to impact the quality of care at all.
Not sure I would call it fun. Combine this with rubik’s cube solver robot, AI, smart contracts, AR/VR, neuralink and this could be daily life for everyone in the year 2030.

Rubik’s cube solver robot:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZBP0n6yeQo
We can debate all day long about the merits of explaining systemic racism to young black kids vs keeping them ignorant about it. However the people ignoring the facts are the ones who deny systemic racism exists.

It may be better for children of color to be ignorant about it, but certainly not adults of any racial background.
Someday people will spell words phonetically. They will look back at our languages as primitive throwbacks, like hieroglyphics
> There's a reason the post you responded to says "coup attempt" which, as we all know, was unsuccessful.

Not to mention that the Feds infiltrated the groups involved & the "coup attempt" was staged, as known BLM-affiliated agitators & government informants with criminal records were outed as the inciters & leadership of the groups involved.

Has there been any public investigation into who is Q-anon? Surely the alphabet agencies with all of the glorious panopticon tech would know who Q is. Surely, with all of these agencies experiences with cults over the last few decades had an inkling what was going on. If there was a grass-roots insurrection, where was the chatter & why was it not stopped? Could it be because these agencies were involved?

In the meantime, there are riots, attacking of government officials, murdering & raping of the people, & destruction of government & private property among many cities around the country, yet these are labeled "peaceful protests". And Antifa is "just an idea" or a "myth" and multi-racial white supremacist neo nazis are literally everywhere. Up is down and down is up in this bizzaro narrative...

Martin Luther King & Malcolm X would both be rolling on their tears in their graves to see how their movements & names have been compromised & turned into a clown show mockery by the very same FBI that persecuted them & race-pimps who profiteered off of their messages...

Imagine hearing this today...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNciryImqg
Deleting code isn’t enough to make you compliant, you also have to hire specialists to carry out slow processes required by the GDPR.
There were people also defending Theranos and WeWork.

I take all articles and comments here with a huge grain of salt. Especially Paul Graham.

https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

Way back in 2005. Back when lemonodor was a thing.
Mmm yeah you’re missing a lot.

These are just collateralized loans that are automated. Nobody here would touch your businesses “in the real world” because it would take like 90 days to get any liquidity with those processes, compared to 15 seconds (1 block). There is nothing mysterious about a collateralized loan with a conservative loan to value ratio. The first thing you got wrong is that most services have a low LTV not 100%. Usually between 25-55%. Businesses in the real world do touch that.

The other thing you’re missing is who what and why. These aren't businesses these are basically self-replicating robot toll booths who are doing what lending businesses also try to do: pool liquidity and in some cases reinvest that greater liquidity.

When borrowers deposit collateral they are typically passing through a smart contract that then adds their deposit to a liquidity pool that the market can access. It requires confidence in these smart contracts that the collateral will remain available but that confidence is generally there. The market typically taps these liquidity pools for easier trading with lower spreads at larger amounts or for the repo market (flash loans). Lenders are repaid usually in the asset they lent, as well as a project’s token which amplifies yield. The risk isnt contigent on the projects token existing or going up, which I think you missed. For some platforms that is true but that is usually yield farming, but if you think a market need is unfulfilled just launch another version.

Typically earning or otherwise having enough of the project’s token allows people to vote on controlling some parameters, such as the interest rates provided or augmented by how much of the project token or the use of which liquidity pools or eligible assets in the system.

Back to the borrowers and lenders, yeah they can get and give personal loans for discretionary spending at market provided interest rates even in stablecoins.
> I wasn’t really aware of the IPA, is this mostly used for teaching purposes when learning a new language?

It’s mostly used for linguistic purposes — most often in grammatical descriptions of obscure languages, or for precisely specifying the pronunciation of a word (e.g. in my dialect ‘mutable’, say, is [mjʉːtˢə̆bu]). But I believe it gets used in language learning as well.