skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like where you are headed with this. I’ve put some thought into this recently and I’ll post the condensed form.

I believe you are correct, in a sense, that as long as there are minds there will be text. However, I believe it should be considered from a slightly different angle. As long as there are minds there will be language. Text is one representation of that and it is a representation we can manipulate easily computers. This makes text a powerful and simple medium that can be used pretty much everywhere (f.g. Unix-like systems; networking protocols; data storage).

Language is universal. Intelligent entities will create and use language to communicate with other entities or with themselves (i.e. sticky note). We have been proven capable of learning language even in some of the most input restrictive states, such as the case of Helen Keller. Language can be seen, heard, or felt. I wouldn’t be surprised if some creatives come up with a way to smell or taste it. Computers can be read, heard, or felt (f.g. Braille terminals). Text is a useful medium for storing the basic information that is then transformed into the output most suitable for the final representation given to the end user.

Let me bring this back around to your post. Because of the aforementioned reasoning, while I generally agree with your post I do disagree that text must be consumed visually or in blocks. The information contained in text should be transmitted in whatever way fits the user best. I realize this is vague, but I think this a starting point to thinking further on how to best get information to the user. Personally, I've come to the conclusion that a flexible core application should send and receive inputs and outputs to a seperate interface application. This may take the form of a typical client-server style system. This way, the interface can be more easily to the user's interfacing preferences and the core application only concerns itself with its task. Large blocks of text may not be well suited in certain instances, such as the case with screen readers or Braille terminals.

I'm trying not to be too general or vague here. I don't feel I've presented enough to really provide any actionable insight here. But I see this post is getting long, and I will leave it at this for now as potential food for thought for yourself or others. It's a concept I'm still thinking about how to best implement, and the details of implementation across various OS's and devices complicate matters.
The 1st generation units draw 23kW peak, so yeah, basically a computational space heater.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-...
You could always disrupt bullying when you see it. A lot of people would be grateful and you're less likely to go to jail.
There were reply tweets from the other guy in literally the same Twitter thread, so what "retelling of one side" are you talking about?
All this talk about tax lately is funny.

Our leaders sense we have had enough of their robbery and we have.

I DO NOT CONSENT to my hard earned money being spent on experimental drugs
The problem with tracking housing is that you end up with an index that may not reflect what people "feel".

If you own your house and aren't intending to sell, and house prices double but food and energy is down, you will feel things are cheaper even if the index shows it rising.

And in the case your house value halves but food and energy double, you'll feel things are more expensive even though the index shows it falling.

The indices are important, but people often misapply them.
The developer experience and ease and speed of integration are second to none. They managed to take a commodity service performed by many incumbents and make it so effortless that it blows away the competition.
Apple isn't alone is setting this price -- at the very least, Apple competes with Android for roughly half the smartphone market share. Making your app available in both ecosystems is not a requirement to run a successful business. As an example, consider the myriad apps that are available exclusively on iPhone, with no Android support.

The 30% in-app purchase tax can't be compared to a utility price because it isn't mandatory. As a business, if you don't want to pay it, you are free to target a different platform with a similar user base.

If high-quality apps stopped supporting iOS because of the high IaP fees, eventually Apple will be incentivized to reduce those fees. If apps elect to stay, the platform is clearly worth the cost.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/statue-liberty-france-us-t...
There's better info here: https://blog.inten.to/hardware-for-deep-learning-part-4-asic...

"The instruction set supports operations on INT16, FP16, and FP32 types. Floating-point adds, multiplies, and fused multiply-accumulate (or FMAC, with no rounding of the product prior to the add) can occur in a 4-way SIMD manner for 16-bit operands. The instruction set supports SIMD operations across subtensors of four-dimensional tensors, making use of tensor address generation hardware to efficiently access tensor data in memory."

The source appears to be this PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.03660.pdf
Terseness and composability.

Here: https://medium.com/@jansson.sebastian/apl-in-the-eyes-of-a-p...
This is really cool, except for not being available yet. The most interesting available in this category and price class I've been are otherwise Odroid HC4 (2xSATA + USB2.0 + microSD. I have one for backups) and RockPi's 2/4/5 SATA hats.

One step up in price and Kobol Helios64 looks really nice as well (also unavailable, though).
it would take me quite a few years to rack up 53000 miles so I'll take that 10k and invest it, thank you, and probably will still be ahead after 10 years
This program exists to get that level of access: https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-devic...
> Why link to that old issue instead of just the LICENSE file?

Because until linked issue thread was started there was NO branches with a source and `LICENSE` file — as on 2017 in add-on repo there was only one branch with a single file (`README.md`) without any metnions of GNU GPL licensing.

See this comment[0].

BTW, Only in early 2020 branches with a source and `LICENSE` file was added into repo.[1]

[0] https://github.com/vvoovv/blender-osm/issues/42#issuecomment...

[1] https://github.com/vvoovv/blender-osm/issues/42#issuecomment...
Just for the record, mobile XMPP clients pretty much all support push notifications these days. But you're right, this is possible because XMPP isn't pure p2p.

I'm similarly unconvinced of the suitability of pure p2p with (at least the current generation of) mobile devices. Maybe advances in bandwidth and battery technology in coming years will make such protocols more feasible for general use.
RL can provide amazing results (AlphaGo, AlphaStar (Starcraft 2 agent), etc) but it requires a well modeled world to work with.

Games like Go and Starcraft are well modeled worlds. If you want something akin to AGI to operate in the "real world" you will need a high quality data model of the real world for the RL system to work off of.
Purchasing power of one US dollar in every year from 1635 to 2020
Non-deterministic garbage collection applies to a tiny fraction of the state problem though - the memory part. It does not apply to other types of resources: file descriptors, sockets, database sessions, connections, threads, etc. - generally anything that needs proper disposal and is not (only) memory.

It is also worth noting you can perfectly have garbage collection in Rust - reference counted pointers or epoch GC. Refcounted pointers have the advantage of being deterministic.
The conflict of interest is that they have financial incentives for you to believe failure rates are worse than they are. Insurance may need accurate assessments for a sustainable business model, but their business model also relies on people assessing risk as higher than their assessment or at least that an accurate risk assessment + overhead fees to assess it is less than my own.

As a consumer, I only want insurance if I think they've assessed the value to be lower than what I'd pay out of pocket to 'self insure.' As an insurance company, I want people the opposite, that reality of risk lies lower than what you think it is, so I can make money. I want a bunch of worried low risk people to pay overhead and marginal fees so my margins are frothier.
This is where open source / third party addons come in and where "right to modify" is critical.
Don't mirror someone's words if you don't mean it. You're just being a disingenuous ass by doing that.
Perhaps I'm painting with too broad a brush, and if we want to get into a technical argument, I will concede your point; but when I see multiplier effect and savings glut, I don't really need to see much more. The thrust of this is the "market" has failed and more government intervention is the answer. This is the destructive ignorance I'm referring to.
I don't think it's an issue with my argument but I do think the difficulty of grasping the bigger picture is a major issue.

It can be reluctance to understand why you're doing what you're doing. It can also be because no one cares to explain it to you. Most of the time it's probably between those two extremes.

And yes some times it's bloat. But rarely all of it. I don't have a solution to this.
Software changes over spans of minutes to decades; genomes change over spans of millions of years. Software is written; genomes are not. The complexity of software is constrained by programmers' ability to comprehend it; the complexity of genomes is not. The environment in which software functions is determined by humans; the environment in which genomes function is not.
Fred Brooks had it right oh so many years ago. Communication is an exponential cost, so the more skills that you can give to a single person, the more they can do.

But it's even better than that, as every time communication occurs you are playing a game of telephone with translation errors. The essential complexity might be very easy, but when you need to translate that problem from users to project managers to architect to developer(and I'm sure many teams have many more layers than this) the complexity grows out of control.

I thought about this topic when the StackOverflow blog on Scrum ruining great engineers came out[0].

Imagine you have a chart where the x-axis is trust, and the y-axis is skill. x-axis at the far left is management focused. x-axis all the way to the right is developer focused. x-axis in the middle is mutual trust. bottom y-axis is no skill, top y-axis is extremely skilled.

Now let's look at some of the spaces this chart provides. If we start at the top right, we have Professors. They have a lot of skill and have tenure to be able to do what they want. On the bottom right, I imagine something like Adam Sandler's character from Billy Madison(1995), a son of a billionaire who wasted his life and had no productivity.

On the bottom left side we have government contractors or outsourced developers. They do the work they are told to do. In this spot Scrum can be a reasonable way to filter between the very least skilled workers and someone who is doing decent work. But by applying Scrum, you are naturally holding the management axis to the left.

The Top Left doesn't exist. The developer leaves for some place better.

So now we can talk about the middle. At the top of the middle we have Skunkworks projects. And as we can see, this balance between management and development can yield incredible results, if the developers have the skill to back it up.

So we can see there is a careful balance, most developers are probably somewhere in the middle "strike zone", and by applying Scrum to a developer who is highly skilled you are handi-capping them, and if you apply to much force they leave for better pastures.

When you have developers in this strike zone, give them advice, allow them to learn, but let them make their own decisions.[1]

[0]: https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/06/29/does-scrum-ruin-great-...

[1]: https://jessitron.com/2021/05/26/a-high-resilience-org-chart...
Linux War Story:

Back in ~1997/8 I was working at a software manufacturing company - we burned and printed and shipped all the Solaris Software for SUN....

We would receive EDI data from sun to burn to CDs then do the fullfillment shipping - so If you went to SUN.com and ordered Solaris, it was made and shipped by us...

We needed a better way to receive the files from SUN, and so we had a few FTP servers... We hired a group of dudes who knew linux and had them setup our FTP machines, chrooting users and various security measures...

So I, the IT manager, sat down with one of the consultants that we had hired and I told him "You know, If I were you - I would setup a Linux Support company and offer Linux support as a service"

A few weeks later Dave Sifry came back to me and said "Guess what we started, LinuxCare... to offer Linux support as a service"

He was later valued at ~$100 million and LinuxCare was a ~$1 Billion company...

Chris DiBona of google fame was on the team, and I can't recall the two other guys' names...

But yeah - that was when support for Linux was basically non-existent...

Oh yeah - I forgot; SUN wanted us to learn this new thing that they were using to create the EDI files... XML. So we had to accomodate XML when the only people that knew XML at the time were SUN employees...

And finally, I think that SUN had the best logo ever made. And the shittiest firewall, Checkpoint sucked. (sorry Checkpoint team - your lead developers on Checkpoint were friends of mine... but I hated that firewall)
I don't know if there's a named maxim for this phenomenon, but something I learned on Twitter is that everything you say can be interpreted in bad faith.

This can be done on purpose, or it just happens because there's not enough shared context to connect how you read something to what the other person was trying to say.

(Also, while a picture still says 1000 words, I've never had less faith in the veracity of those words.)

I've tried to be earnest on social media, for reasons like this. You see a photo of a guy with a typewriter, try to paint it in a good light for yourself.

I'm not sure how I would have reacted, but I had a short phase in college where I dredged up an old typewriter from a friend's garage and used it to type love letters to girls. So maybe I could have related a bit better!
well, not when the protection is against any form of DNA contamination and not specifically foreign DNA intrusion

the fact that random large mutations typically lead to an inviable zygote should be enough evolutionary pressure, it doesn't need to be specific protection against the entry of external DNA
I think the point generally is that you can't appreciably fix the problems we face with individual action.

Why do Americans use so much energy? Because it's cheap as a result of excluding the externality of pollution from the price.

Why do Americans generate so much waste? Because there's no reasonable way to avoid it other than to never purchase any goods that are:

- over-packaged

- packaged in non-sustainable packaging

- created/manufactured in wasteful processes

...because the externality of waste generation isn't factored into the price.

Why do Americans ship such a huge percentage of goods using fossil-fuel-fueled transportation? Because for years we didn't build rail in service of propping up the automobile industry, and because the externality of pollution from car exhaust isn't factored into the transportation price.

There are plenty of people who diligently split their trash, compost, glass, paper, plastics. There are plenty of communities that charge by the pound of unrecyclable waste. There are plenty of subsidies for installing solar panels, and energy companies giving credits for green energy generation (and other programs, like offering to provide only green energy for a premium). After years of this, we still have a huge problem. Individual action isn't the answer. It was always a smokescreen pushed on us by fossil fuel energy companies to avoid taking responsibility themselves.
You can cast it that way, or as an expert giving their opinion on a nonsensical investment in an effort to save others from financial ruin.
Yes, their PSD2/SCA roll out was disastrous. The documentation is marginally better now, and to their credit they've also produced a lot of example code repositories showing end-to-end implementations of various scenarios in various programming languages. But then, the epic scale of a full API integration and the moderate scale of even a Checkout integration today, as shown in those docs and sample repos, only highlight how painful the whole process has become. Then you look at the modern services that are going back to what early Stripe did so well, handling most of the pain of charging customers for you with very straightforward integration requirements, and the differences are stark.
Unmedicated ADHD :D I need a sink for that energy and writing seems to help a lot.
Funny how Instagram's Covid disclaimer can make memes look official
I'm not OP but it almost looks like they got the username and password fields mixed-up when they were creating their account.

For all we know, their password might be something like "remote_worker"!
I have not lived in Rural New York in over thirty years, but when I did, there were unzoned areas in the Southern Tier, and looking at what got built there, it was clear that it was unzoned. I am certain that many of the properties were uninsurable. I knew one resourceful individual that built his own house, basic carpentry, started with tar paper exterior over open stud frame, no windows, just one door, no interior walls. None. There was the kitchen sink, five feet away, there was the toilet and bathroom sink. The interior 'insulation' and walls were discarded carpets nailed to the wall studs. Power came into a fuse panel, that only had (first year) a single double plug outlet, and a single ceiling light. The next year, he picked up a dozen windows from the dump, someone else had upgraded, and installed windows, and sheet rocked the external walls. As he 'rocked', starting low and working up the walls, he filled the voids with crumbled newspapers (also from the dump) for insulation. Are we having fun yet? So at the end of year two, he had tar paper siding (and roof), newspaper insulated exterior walls, no interior walls, and an newspaper insulated sheetrock ceiling. He also installed plugs around the perimeter exterior walls, and added a couple more ceiling lights. Almost entirely from found and recycled material. That is what no zoning will get you. I moved away around then, and have not been back. I don't know anyone that lives in that particular county any longer.
> And even more surprisingly it seems most apps support this, instead of putting all notifications under one channel.

Maybe because developers want to do the Right Thing, and they can implement these notification groups with no effort and without the marketing department noticing it?
FLoC as a source of fingerprinting bits has been an issue in W3C discussions of the project.

https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/69

As a fingerprinting surface FLoC has similar properties to the Battery Status API -- not stable for the same user over long intervals, but can be used to help match pageviews from different domains that were close in time.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/11/firefox_remov...
I found business analysts and project managers to be wonderful.

Managers are just useless layers of bureaucracy and their job could easily be automated.

MBA programs are the easiest of all of the graduate degrees.

But because of good old boy networks, MBA program networking, and mangers hiring other managers the parasite continues to spread.
Very underrated comment. The more nepotisitic/tribal an org is, the worse this gets. Everyone's just pushing the problems below.

The only way around this for devs is to say No to solving their problems and letting management deal with the fallout (loss of customers/revenue)
Yeah, I'm guessing Hug of Death.
And air. That's what is crazy about plants, their carbon comes from the CO2 in the air.

Also if someone loses weight, most of the carbon that made up their fat leaves the body as breath.
Why would Visa/MC/Discover/AmEx or the banks issuing credit card accounts have to lower commissions? They can implement 2FA to reduce their fraud costs, but they can pocket the difference unless they feel competitive pressure. But if there exists enough savings from 2FA by preventing fraud such that they can offer more rewards to credit card users, then it would be a competitive advantage.
No, Vectron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icTrzUuWlHI
No. if you are poor, it is a real dynamic to get modestly frequent, but unreliable bumps in income. Of course these days there is no incentive to save that because of inflation, but if that weren't as much of a problem, you could consider saving up to buy a home, but you ABSOLUTELY cannot count on those sorts of things to sustain a mortgage payment, or land taxes. Like I said, you don't understand. Please, do not ever be in a place where you are making policy.
Heyy thanks dude!!
I see two futures here.

Future 1:

I'm working for a company and I buy the heated seats upgrade.

Eight months later I'm looking at moving to another company and I'll lose that value. Maybe that affects my decision.

So I'm paying for my own employer-lock-in loyalty perks? Am I a moron? No, so I negotiate away part of my salary, or my healthcare, to have the nicer car.

Future 2:

You get heated seats on certain luxury car brands as long as you have an American Express platinum. Just like airport lounge access.

I'd bet on Future 2.

They're both dystopian.
This looks like a good book but boy, is JavaScript convoluted. Not bashing it. Just read the chapters about shallow and deep copies.

https://exploringjs.com/deep-js/ch_copying-objects-and-array...
I see this back and forth, could you help me understand why these dollars shouldn't be considered "created"? My limited understanding is something like this: Congress/President decide US citizens need stim checks. They decide to issue $1T+ in stim checks. The Treasury doesn't have enough money from taxes so it issues debt notes / T-bills. A lot of these T-bills then get purchased by the Fed with dollars they printed out of thin air. So how is it that printed Fed dollars are not ending up in the hands of the average citizen and thus entering the economy?
This is even more interesting if you think of all human artifacts as being equivalent to anthills and beaver dams.

1) Trees are natural and trees create leaves with a solar efficiency of x

2) Humans are natural and we create solar panels with efficiency x + y
More boiled down, they want consulting services not product sales.

The OP’s decision is between product company and consulting firm.
What does the report actually say about P99 estimates?

That's an estimate of output that should be exceeded 99 percent of the time, so it should be a very cautious estimate.

But it seems weird to specify only P99. Does that mean all the other more ambitious estimates from the same system are fine? If not then why didn't they just say "PV isn't performing as well as predicted"?

I'm trying to figure how that would be mathematically possible but I'm mostly confusing myself.