skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BBN, Bolt, Beranek Newman the original ARPANET contractors started out in computational acoustics, tasked to build for the American people concert halls to rival those of Europe, witnessed and lamented simultaneously for the first time in the destruction of war. Chicago Philharmonic and many other orchestras gained concert halls absolutely unrivalled for the next fifty years and equalled only occasionally today. My late cofounder was much better known for managing a important 20th century British classical composer whose preference for the aforementioned hall (and incumbent conductor) was almost as much of a thorn in the side of European musical nobility as receiving his Order of Merit* from HM the Queen in his Nike sneakers. Deutsche Grammafon and the listening public concurred voting with their wallets, driving classical music sales of records beyond all expectations, thanks to the work of BBN and the American people who gave such incredible support for post war music when Europe was stumbling from the beginning of one recovery to the next.

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Overpriced houses make construction arbitrage easier. It's easier to build a new house than to buy an existing one.
Inflation the primary cause of wealth inequality? What is this nonsense?
> we can mine an exhaustless supply of minerals for instance

Humanity is headed towards shortages of many critical metals, such a copper, within this century, with consequences on price and availability already felt and predicted to be a major geo-political issue within a few decades
Perhaps you all should join forces
Is there a chance authorities could track down the scammers? I’m not familiar enough with this space to understand but I’ve seen that people making anonymous Bitcoin payments can be tracked down. What makes this different?
If one started at Amazon before 2016 or so, and put in a full 4 years to get 100% of their new hire stock vesting, they’d easily have more than $1 million just in stock. That plus all your other savings from the time you put in can make relaxing in a lower paid role for the next N years until you’re ready to retire an attractive proposition.
Tip: Run `sudo watch -d -t -n1 thermal levels`.

Throttling occurs when these values go over 100. Throttling is not directly linked to temperature. There is some kind back-off algorithm that means that even if you trip this thermal throttling threshold, it will take some time before throttling is disabled. Even if you CPU returns to a normal temperature.

Also, disable turbo boost.
I was doing research in a huge Texas oil company, amazed at some pronunciations. Schlumberger -> Slumber-jay, etc. There was a cute young female petroleum engineer (very rare back then), and I asked her to pronounce "c-e-m-e-n-t". She fired right back: "As a noun or a verb?" And that was my day as one in 10,000 to learn this rule... I wanted to ask her to have my baby.
So I've asked for an example of a community that is good. Can you give any?

Honestly I'd be really interested in knowing about it.

On Bitcoin, do you honestly not think there is no cult like behaviours with this movement? No shilling? No ignoring inconvenient facts?

I'm not an enermy. I'm happy to have an engaged discussion here.

The idea that hacker news is toxic does strike me as absurd. It's not perfect but it's well designed for polite engagement.

I'm more than happy to discuss bitcoin with you too. I feel like I've been straw manned.
Roland Barthes’ Contribution to Literary Criticism (2020)
I don't think the critique here is against those struggling to survive, and I don't think you're doing those folks any favors by cutting off conversations about the overfixation on money in American society.
Seems like a good way to prevent a lot of bad actors spamming. Google has a lot of problems with people automating free signups for computing and distribution resources... if you give someone any amount of free computing power, abusers will come.
Note that this is from a month ago. Some discussions about Rust in the Linux kernel from around that time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26831841 (292 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26812047 (262 comments)
"C++ is a horrible language. [...]" http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus So yes, Linus does really like C++ :)
The key is that machines (bulldozers, airplanes, websites etc.) multiply work to produce more wealth per unit of labor based on a productivity multiplier. Labor is a free market that can fail due to wages being insufficient or can be distorted by a minimum wage that may reduce demand for work to the point of significant unemployment. Need to model the whole system in detail to reach any conclusions. Single sentence observations are nearly always wrong in some respect.
C++ is like nuclear power. Very powerful but very dangerous if only used slightly wrong. It would have been a constant fight over which parts of C++ are off limits and which parts are good to use. In recent years the language has improved but it carries a lot of baggage. Also it's too close to C in some regards and invites C programmers who just don't know enough dark corners of C++ yet.

To me C++ is a language of last resort. It can do everything you need but you should not touch it if there is any other option.
there's a chance, but whose jurisdiction is it, and who is responsible for investigating the fraud?
This only shows that it goes both ways. Everyone does only know little about the live of others. I could easiely see a politican needing to spend more money to build and maintain their career. Similar it could be bullocks and the guy is just greedy. It's hard to understand from the outside.
Did freenode get renamed?
>The number of points a story has accumulated on Hacker News is a good indicator for how relevant and overall how good the story is.

Sorta. I think it is also demonstrative how much effort there is or how popular the subject is, but this does not mean it is good. If I could change things, it would be that some stories do not stay on the front page so long. Stories about apple news tend to get a lot of points but I don't think they are the most interesting, at least in my opinion. I think there are too many science stories, from maybe 3 science sources(quanta magazine, nautilus,and one other).
Linus explained his reasons for not wanting C++ specifically in the kernel. I observe that very few people correctly understood his reasons, and every time it comes up I am reminded of that. The reasons, as far as I understand Rust, do not apply to Rust, hence the different reaction.

Since I'm on mobile, here's a link to a previous explanation of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1422160 It is meant to be read in conjunction with the original post, addressing what I saw as the point most people were missing, not a complete restatement of his points.
How can inflation cause starvation, can you elaborate? This is novel idea in the field of economics.
It may be way more recent than that, more like 3000 years:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#TM...

- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040930122428.h...
Is this sarcasm/hyperbole? There’s nothing wrong with cryptography.
Which is what, exactly?
Thank you! This was a very interestring insight. The logistical challenge you mention sounds indeed quite formidable.
Greed is not new. You assume people are greedier now because you are alive now.
> High status professional are expected to drive nice cars and live in a big house. It's harder to be a millionaire if you're spending a lot of money.

> The authors were surprised to find that a lot of the Americans with a net worth over a million did not fit any of the "millionaire stereotypes" at all. They drive an old pickup truck and drink Bud Light.

So do you think people want the money, or do they want a big house and a fast car?
I mean, you could click through to the profile and find out that they work for Discord. Or you could ask politely.

As for purpose, there’s this blog post [0]:

> At this point, Discord is using Rust in many places across its software stack. We use it for the game SDK, video capturing and encoding for Go Live, Elixir NIFs, several backend services, and more.

[0]: https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
At least when I was growing up, it was taught to avoid hyphens because the standards at the time (or at least the teachers teaching them) strongly disliked hyphens because they were associated with mid-word line breaking.
This looks really cool. The screenshot is awesome. Though I'm a bit put off by the giant Facebook logo on the homepage. I find it odd for an OS like this to organize their community on Facebook.
That would be Citus: https://www.citusdata.com/
System76 offers complete repair guides and lets you buy parts. Lenovo lets you open most of their laptops for self-maintenance as well.
I can’t say that I’ve had any issues with Thunderbird, other than reconfiguring hotkeys is a pain.

There is a caldav addon that allows syncing with remote calendars. I use that to coordinate calendars on my computers and iphone.
Disable turbo boost. Throttling is not directly linked to any temperature sensor, and turbo boost almost instantly causes throttling, which then takes some time to return to normal because of a back-off algorithm.
> innate talent is strongly linked to genetics

I do not believe there is much of a spread in intelligence based on genetics. Short of disability, and given the same consistency, training, and opportunities I seriously doubt that anything even remotely close to a 10x gap would be seen.

I am certainly not keen on the science of the topic though, biology is certainly my worst subject. But I have heard of no research showing such a divide.
Another exciting feature in PG14 is the new JSONB syntax[0], which makes it easy to update deep JSON values -

UPDATE table SET some_jsonb_column['person']['bio']['age'] = '99';

[0] https://erthalion.info/2021/03/03/subscripting/
The article identifies this as a GPU driver bug, not an issue with CPU or CPU throttling.
It honestly sounds weird because it's not a word I use. I can't tell if 'rihcap' would sound right or not. "Review" is more in my purview.
There certainly is a place where working extremely hard pays off, John Carmack is an example of this, though he was a founder at the time.

So i wholly agree that the old adage "work smarter, not harder" applies here.

The fool is most likely yourself if you are available 24/7 and work long hours more often than not.
Tim Cook’s Fortnite Testimony was unexpectedly revealing
How can someone with 10k karma write such a statement? Were you trolling? Are you serious? 10TB of relational database can be definetly troublesome to manage and pose challenges to many organizations.
Looks like only one small past thread:

Freesound: A collaborative database of Creative Commons-licensed sounds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8858076 - Jan 2015 (6 comments)
>Unless you're being absurdly pedantic

lol
"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

We are currently in the second stage for Bitcoin. Based on the comments here, in social media and from news outlets, seems more time is needed before its better understood and appreciated broadly.

I and many others continue to believe a sound money settlement layer technology divorced from arbitrary government intervention is of enormous value to society. One need only look at wtfhappenedin1971.com to understand why. But until then, narratives that cherrypick data and paint Bitcoin in a negative light will continue to dominate.

Patience. HODL. And continue to hope for a better world on the other side of all of this.
My intuition is that in such a setup, the discriminator can only be as good as your generator. This work provides a nice general-purpose generator, but I'm not sure as to how far you can take this (especially since vision nets don't really operate like human vision)
I'm an enormous fan of Postgres, it's my default go-to RDBMS. But the memory expense of connections is a huge issue and this article doesn't convince me that it's solved.

The machine being used for this benchmark has 96 vCPUs, 192G of RAM, and costs $3k/mo.

My business runs just fine on a 3.75G, 1 vCPU instance. But idle connections eat up a huge amount of RAM and I sometimes find myself hitting the limits when a load spike spins up extra frontend instances.

Sure I could probably setup pgbouncer and some other tools but that's a lot of headache. I'm acutely aware that MySQL (which I dislike because no transactional DDL) does not suffer from this issue. I also don't see this being solved without a major rewrite, which seems unlikely.

So Postgres has at least one very serious fault that makes room in the marketplace. The poor replication story is another.
MySQL is for that aren't really DBAs and don't want to be (this doesn't mean DBAs don't use it). It's a lot easier to manage.
I don’t know the answer to this but most crypto related post on this site generate super low quality discussion. Mostly echoing points that are provably debunked or really don’t do anything other than echo the sentiment of HN from past threads.

For people on mobile does any way exist to filter out posts like this that we know will produce disappointing conversations. I like conversations opposing my view points but not when its uneducated or just pandering.
And for all I know, ex-fnstaffer is a tomaw alt. Do you not see the problem with all these anon new accounts that were apparently created for the express purpose of saying they don't like Andrew Lee? This reeks of astro-turfing, and for all I know it could be one person behind like 5 different accounts.
> Have you ever dreamed of a system that boots in less than few seconds from power-on to working GUI?

You mean every OS these days with a SSD?
I agree this is a great addition, but FWIW it isn't normal for ^C to not work in psql. Perhaps you are using some other client that doesn't support aborting queries properly, or have something on the network between you and the server behaving poorly and dropping connections?
Depending on where you live (and whether you own property) that may not be a lot if you are the only breadwinner with a family to raise.
Because we are humans, and the factors that drive humans who are capable of making widespread change that would make things fair steer them towards wealth and power instead. That's just reality.
What kind of argument is that? LGBT rights in Saudi Arabia is almost equally non-existent [1] yet US happily sells them arms used in a horrific war in Yemen. SA's prince can even get away from blatant murder.

Besides, it was ISIS throwing gay people off roofs and filming for propaganda. Iran has an authoritarian system with it's (many many) own sins, but it's no different than any other country in the Middle East. All are terrible, but some receive love from the west and some don't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia
Nah, it's not. Vegan food is a side dish, at best. It can be enjoyed on its own, but it isn't going to replace main meals. If it's your thing, go for it. Don't pretend the substitute is even a close approximation to the original though. The main issue is the attempt to mimic real food. Those pushing vegan diets would be much better off if they could come up with wonderful recipes that exploit the positive traits of the food. Until then, throw another steak on the grill, please.
You do a great job summarizing the problems that arise from greed, but I wonder if you recognize that there are countervailing benefits.

A lot of progress and innovation has been made by greedy individuals. I think much of this progress would be lost had they adopted more wholesome values, because greed is a superior motivator.

Greed is a superior motivator because it has no bounds. When someone is obsessed with accumulating wealth, it tends to be a never-ending pursuit. No matter how much wealth they accumulate, they're left wanting more. This is in stark contrast to more wholesome values, which tend to be more easily satiated.

I think another way to frame this is: the problem is not greed itself. Rather, the problem is that our current system of harnessing greed fails at controlling negative externalities. Without these negative externalities, greed would be a positive force.
I remember putting in a single floppy of QNX. That was awesome.
> my laptop feeling laggy overall

Run `sudo watch -d -t -n1 thermal levels`.

When levels are above 100, your laptop will throttle. Once they return to 100, throttling will cease. There is a back-off algorithm at play too, so its not good enough that your CPU returns to normal temperature, it must stay at normal temperature for a period of time before things stop lagging.

Also, disable turbo boost.
I end up having to block a lot of the crap that reaches the front page because it otherwise floods the comments link with low quality bickering when I’m trying to hunt for interesting threads.
So the OS doesn't have a login username/password? Seems like a non-starter for most. I'm using full-disk encryption on Linux using systemd-boot and my OS boots pretty much as fast as this too.
TLDR cost. Wood framing is cheaper and can be made reasonably safe (against fire and earthquakes). Big body buildings fit the most units on a lot. Codes have been getting updates to support this type of construction. Street level retail and/or underground parking and several floors of apartments above are a popular configuration. Concrete can be used on the “podium” (underground and street level) with wood above.
That is entirely dependent on where you live. Plenty of people live quite well on 60k (which is the median household income in the U.S.). Obviously not in San Francisco or New York.
>Soft deletes

This section is totally wrong IMO. What is the alternative? "Hard" deleting records from a table is usually a bad idea (unless it is for legal reasons), especially if that table's primary key is a foreign key in another table - imagine deleting a user and then having no idea who made an order. Setting a deleted/inactive flag is by far the least of two evils.

>when multiplied across all the analytics queries that you’ll run, this exclusion quickly starts to become a serious drag

I disagree, modern analytics databases filter cheaply and easily. I have scaled data orgs 10-50x and never seen this become an issue. And if this is really an issue, you can remove these records in a transform layer before it hits your analytics team, e.g. in your data warehouse.

>soft deletes introduce yet another place where different users can make different assumptions

Again, you can transform these records out.
Just in case someone’s reading this and isn’t also aware: Django Debug Toolbar offers somewhat interactive exploration of queries.

It can also be used with Django Rest Framework via the browsable api.

May be parent is looking for deeper insight than this but it is useful to do quick visual query inspection.
Why should leaders and team builders be more “equitable” than what is transactionally afforded by their diligent appreciation of their assets? How is the utility of money not best suited for those who created something from nothing versus those who entered into the tent after it was pitched? Aren’t there gradients of personal ambition being demonstrated between the two parties? If so, wouldn’t society be abler if the leaders were able to do more after having created the opportunity in the first place?

The generosity emerges out of the availability for lending the capital to strangers in society thanks to the successful investment realization.
I wonder if an expert could chime in on this. If someone tests negative for antibodies a few weeks after a vaccine, should that person get vaccinated again? Maybe with a different vaccine?
The problem with relying on interest rates is that cash provides a lower bound of 0%. It's simply impossible to go negative on deposits without at least abolishing cash. Relying on the federal government doesn't work because the republicans are uncooperative. So the only measure left is to just bypass everything and hand out money directly. I'm actually hoping that the pandemic raises the inflation rate to 2% over the long term and that no intervention becomes necessary in the future.

Given enough inflation, interest rates will go up and then we can start getting rid of zombie companies, increase productivity growth and have growing wages again.
Of course. So could a semi, a backhoe, and a dump truck do all these things. Point being, use the right tool for the job.

If you're using the pickup to haul to and from the jobsite 99% of the time, sure it doesn't make sense to buy something else to do errands around town on the weekends.

You'd be in the minority though.

Most household pickup owners in North America use them as a car. Here in Alberta there are more pickups sold every year than any other vehicle category. They are simply using the wrong tool for the job, and defend their 'fashion' choice by the once a year they throw in a bag of compost from home depot.

Furthermore, most North American households have 2+ vehicles, they do in fact have a choice as to which tool to use for groceries.
ironically google pay is competitively low when youre at that tier. having worked there and other places google pays the least out of top tier companies. (no im not considering amazon or msft as the same level)
I am fairly confident that neither side is intent on harvesting user data.
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How do you prevent someone from automating repeated "get new temp key"?
>Or worse job opportunities. Then people tell you to move where the jobs are. Which has really expensive housing.

This is not entirely true. I live in Baltimore City and there's cheap housing + access to the great tech market between baltimore and dc
I'm not trying to mediate a conversation I was never a part of, I am trying to mediate this conversation, right now. There are a lot of people in this thread who also don't have intimate knowledge of these goings on and yet are automatically taking one side's word for it with zero evidence. You don't see that as a problem?
This is the place I work at. The data model was designed with a narrow focus. When that turned out to not be viable, the company moved into an adjacent and much larger market. But the names never changed, and the subtle differences between the two worlds was never addressed. So now our application is full of terminology and restrictions that confuse our customers, and our database doesn’t match anyone’s mental model of what the application does. It’s all workable, but IMO we’ve paid (and pay) a not-insignificant price in productivity and complexity because we never took the time to fix these things.

At this point a ground-up rebuild is probably going to be no slower than trying to update the existing app. Neither will be cheap.
He settled with his responsibilities at OFTC, as far as I can tell.
Sadly it's becoming more the norm to rely on other services for social interaction. The last company I worked for completely ditched forums in favor of Facebook groups for community support.
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Technical issues derail Glastonbury live-stream
Does "6-fold lower level" mean "a sixth of the level"?