skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"land ownership"

A distracting thought: isn't it striking how "real property ownership" has returned as a marker of better societal status? A mere 50-60 years ago, even working class could own (arguably not very nice) dwellings in coastal California etc.

The same development can be seen in Europe.

If I had to choose, I'd rather be an owner of 3-4 nice pieces of real estate than a highly qualified professional. This is a certain return to feudalism, in a sense.

As for your original idea: going from 600 to 700 is not a big deal. But the intermediate phase is going to be a big challenge. The first generation that enjoys the possibility of life extension to, say, 120, is going occupy their positions of power for a disproportionately long time and will need to be persuaded to step away; possibly in exchange for a lot of money.
Ah this is interesting. Do you have any references on their migration to Spanner?
You kinda missed the TL;DR, no? He says because of that teenage culture, we now having teenage level thinking and behavior in what should have otherwise been mature adults, and with dire consequences.
I don't think you understand what I meant.

If you take AI to mean the technology we currently have, then there are plenty of times when optimizers will cheat at a game to achieve the best metrics. Just recently I read where a Tetris AI, tasked with making the game last as long as possible, just paused the game. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about: humans underspecifying goals, and a machine learning algorithm exploiting the specification to achieve the goal.
Cash-flow negative is a simple term. It means your cash out is more than your cash in.

You can't hand wave expenses and pretend you're cash-flow positive. You can do that with profitablity, though.

I did not forget inflation. I literally said a "a cash-flow negative house that does not appreciate and become even more cash-flow negative"!

You are taking appreciation for granted (which is fine, the Fed literally guarantees it now).
Fair points!

Yeah, I exclusively use the typing.NamedTuple declaration these days, because it's:

- less redundant
- easy to add a per-attribute comment if needed
- great when encapsulating disparate data to be able to have concrete types listed
Perhaps it's due to me being in the PostgreSQL camp, but what happened to MariaDB? I was convinced that's where MySQL developers went and that's where development proceeded, while MySQL was just half dead, because Oracle did not care about it.
That is about the age when schizophrenia hits, even in people who have never smoked.
I can see what you're saying but in reality we gamers paid for some of the coolest things we have today. Graphics cards and 3d engines don't exist because of games but we did pay for a lot of that progress.
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I think another lesson here is that the app was built to help people do something hard (build/change habits) and all the apps that are wildly successful are more oriented to reforcing easy, lazy, and bad behaviors (gossip, idle chatter, time-wasting, procrastination).

The people who really make up their minds to change habits don't need an app. They just do it.
Then they'd leverage social media oversharing to find more targets to litigate - it'd be a win-win! /s
You mean pretty much the whole company? /s
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dns, DNS, dns, dns. The start of every process, dns.

Love this.
I thought it was microwave-type weapons that people claimed were being used against them. Now its sound? I'm confused, are these the same events or different?
Oh, please. I took a greater risk driving to the grocery store this morning. Bezos's spaceship took 15 test flights before it got the all clear to carry human passengers. You know how they say that "there's no safer way to travel" than flying in an airplane? Well, now there is.

"After 15 successful unoccupied test flights to space since 2015, Bezos finally declared it was time to put people on board. The Federal Aviation Administration agreed last week, approving the commercial space license."

And when it comes to Blue Origin's success, the credit should be given to Bezos's existing fortune, not to his business prowess, as much as that played a role in the growth of Amazon.

"Bezos has said he finances the rocket company by selling $1 billion in Amazon stock each year."

https://apnews.com/article/jeff-bezos-space-e0afeaa813ff0bdf...
I also disagree with "violent anarchy." When calling something "violent," we usually refer to the whole thing. For example, if there is a murder in chicago, we don't say "violent residents of chicago cause another victim." In the same spirit, I don't think the violence was widespread enough to warrant that label.

EDIT: But violent here can be argued, I just think the common use is less in line with the literal "there was violence."
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I used to work at Oracle, and the penny pinching isn't any better on the inside.

It's a bit ridiculous when, being an Oracle employee and using Oracle products, there's only one member on our team with access to a product's support pages and you have to message him and ask for a PDF printout whenever you run into an obscure issue.
you're conflating two different disciplines: distributed protein folding studies the biophysical process of proteins folding over time, while protein structure prediction makes a static single predict of what is believed to be the final structure adopted by the protein in the folding process.

I think many people believe that given infinite computer time the protein folding simulations would produce the same output as the static prediction (modulo a number of complex details) but use far, far more computer time to get there.

The fundamental observation from the DM AF2 paper that I've been able to glean (which I kind of sort of already believed) is that careful multiple sequence alignments of 30-100 evolutionarily related proteins is enough to produce coarse distance constraints that can be used to guide a structure prediction to a good answer quickly. And that depended on new ML technology that didn't exist before.
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Exactly, or even the feedback on the comments tends to be congratulatory mostly.
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That scenario looks fishy to me, even when you buying second hand car you do bit of exploration and for buying something with price tag of £11,000,000,000 well you dig a bit deeper, and due diligence is not just going to your financial statements and what is usually accessibly in UK publicly.
During that process you dig trough everything, bank statements, expenses, salaries, earnings, revenue streams ... everything.

Personally, I think it is impossible HP has not seen something like that, or they have sent complete idiots to do due diligence.
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Fabulously lavish retirements?
> vs learning curve for contributors

Early on in my programming career, I implemented all sorts of beautiful magic, but I was alone. Later, I realized that beautiful magic was keeping me alone. Now, much later in my career, I program mostly like a novice. I don't write clever code, I unroll powerful one liners into boring for loops, and I use all sorts of temporary variables to make intent perfectly clear, because I want and need as much help as I can get. Confusing contributors for some wanky obsession with "terseness" or "elegance" is a good indication of either a great team, or someone that works alone.
The issue is not so much about many fonts, but about one big font. The first time a font is loaded it has to be analyzed and cached and for some fonts this leads to excessive resource usage. You can avoid that in recent versions by using a HarfBuzz based font-shaper instead of the Lua version: Replace `\setmainfont{Some name}` with `\setmainfont[Renderer=HarfBuzz]{Some name}`.
The first time a bug font is used you might still see a slight delay (~1 second?), but it's orders of magnitude faster and does not require so much resources.
That might help. Other things can trigger it, like going away to college, or a breakup with your first girl/boy friend.
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Location-independent salaries are actually a great deal for employers who are willing to go remote.

I hired several extremely talented developers with 8-15 years of experience in foreign countries with total comp in the $200K range. They were extremely grateful, very dedicated, and were always going the extra mile to do a professional job with their work. In many cases we were more than doubling their previous compensation and none of their local opportunities could compete, so they were very committed to doing their jobs well.

That same $200K total comp in an expensive location (basically San Francisco Bay Area) would often get us a less experienced person who saw our job as a stepping stone to FAANG. $200K sounds like a lot until you're opening levels.fyi and browsing Blind every morning while you eat breakfast, then it starts to look like you're leaving money on the table.

It's strange to see semi-disgruntled young people in one location getting $200K working side by side with more experienced, more professional, and frankly more friendly peers in another country producing better work for the same pay. Needless to say, we gradually did more hiring in foreign countries and low cost of living US locations.
the u.s. military already took credit for these weapons and their sales and mass production, literally, on live t.v., calling it a secret weapon

the issue with that was that the development of these weapons started in iran in the 80's

they're not a secret

and they can pilot people
Shift-Up / Shift-Down increases/decreases priority
Sorry, but the suggestion that marijuanna use leads to narcissistic personality disorder is absurd.
Yeah, I've heard people say that all my life. Some folks love to believe that. But there's nothing that really backs that up with solid proof. A lot of them whom I've heard say that were coke users, which to me would indicate a lack of intelligence.

Here's a couple studies that seem to disprove that myth about weed users but, like all of these studies, they really cannot claim to be conclusive. Still better than most I've seen though:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/marijuana-may-not...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/twins-study-finds-no...
Won't they? Won't your peers know what you've done?
I think "those people would be assasinated more frequently than they are today" is a much more plausible outcome than "subject all of humanity to debilitating degenerative diseases."

At the country-level scale, that certainly sounds better than everyone aging and dying.

But what would individuals do on a smaller scale? Would this also incentive a lot more violent death among the rest of the population too, to change things up in a world where probably everyone is their own long-lived dictator of some little domain they carved out. Sure, this would be illegal, but you can only catch and prosecute so much crime; what if it becomes unmanageable? Would people create unnatural death to serve the role natural death causes today? I think so. But I think this could still be potentially "better" than today in some measure - you're comparatively healthy and pain-free before your demise, instead of a slow painful decades-long decline.
I'd guess reading ebooks, even on tablets or phones, makes one-book-reading the path of least resistance. I mostly read multiple because I physically keep the (paper) books near where I read them. I'll read a different book in bed than at my desk than in the living room, because that's what's there. Some of those (the bedside one, especially) don't tend to travel with me. Others might. It's mostly a result of the physicality and locality of the actual books, as objects.

However, if I'm reading a book on my phone & tablet, I'll mostly stick to one until I'm done with it. They way they sync reading status and time-of-last-access across devices encourages it, even with multiple devices.
In the context of DD, it's possible that these items were disclosed to HP and HP simply didn't care/think through what was going on.

If the actions weren't criminal, but instead the result of a CEO/company not using accounting best practices/pushing too aggressively then HP may not have a civil or criminal case.

The time that Microsoft failed to acquire Skype's IP comes to mind.
It does seem likely that the sound being recorded was crickets. However, that doesn't really prove that sound of crickets was the thing causing problems if it's being replicated in washington.
That was a rather judgmental, presumptuous and a personal accusation, but why should we be doing only one and not the other, when like minded folks can and in my mind should do both.

Why do you feel the need to defend a company that is in breach of internationally accepted norms of legal behavior with such dual use weapon systems. Anything personal ?
the u.s. military already took credit for these weapons and their sales and mass production, literally, on live t.v., calling it a secret weapon

the issue with that was that the development of these weapons started in iran in the 80's

they're not a secret, and they have a lot of capabilities that people should not be messing with

i will kill them all
https://www.embl.org/news/science/alphafold-potential-impact...

> A discussion of the applications that AlphaFold DB may enable and the possible impact of the resource on science and society
and:

If a signal from that caliber jammer were to combine with a second ultrasonic source, audible by-products could result.
I work for a government agency in a rather poor flyover state. We ran Oracle databases and a few other products for multiple decades, until Oracle conducted an audit and decided to shake us down for everything we were worth. We migrated away from their products, but only after being forced into expensive multi-year subscriptions for products that we didn't need.

I will never forget the arrogance and greed of their legal/sales people. They are bloodsucking sociopaths.
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Lying in the title of your own company's blog about security vuln discovery. Immediately made me think they might be connected to NSO Group.
thanks for that explanation!
OP made none of the claims you stated. Only that THC/psilocybin had more in common with each other than THC/stimulants.
America shouldn't be allowed to extradite and prosecute people who have not committed crimes in America. They'd never allow it in reverse. Also the justice system there doesn't inspire confidence.
In the demo, you don't need the user to generate and paste a GitHub API key, because you can do that after getting access via OAuth. Will that be possible for all other taps, e.g. SendGrid, Zendesk, Close.com?
My suspicion is that space travel will become a necessity if we end aging. People will have to move to new worlds to escape the ossified social/economic hierarchies. Kinda like how in the Enders Shadow series they send all of the Battle School alumni to different planets cause Earth can’t handle all of these military geniuses.
Great write up!

I wrote a book on habit formation in apps. https://usetemper.com/digital-behavioral-design/

I run a sub-reddit that get's at least 1 post a month from someone launching a new habit tracking app. https://www.reddit.com/r/Habits/

My last company made SaaS to help app publishers understand and strengthen the habits in their app. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dopaminelabs

I'd add one item to your list: No one wants a habit tracking app. A lot of people could benefit from one, but when people have a problem in their life (sleep, diet, productivity) they almost never conceptualize it as a habits problem. They look for tools to "improve sleep," or "be more productive" but not a habit tracker.

My new company (https://usetemper.com/) is all about habits and behavior change, but that's mentioned almost no where on the website because that's not how our customers think about their problem.
You could certainly use Flannel in production (Canal = Flannel + Calico) but I like the features that Calico provides, in particular:

- network policy enforcement

- intra-node traffic encryption with wireguard

- calico does not use VXLAN (sends routes via BGP and does some gateway trickery[0]), so it has slightly less overhead

[0]: https://stardomsolutions.blogspot.com/2019/06/flannel-vs-cal...
it means a bad market will make even a good product unsuccesful, and a good market will make even a mediocre product successful. the quality of the market wins out over the quality of the product.
Zoom just works for me, but I use the desktop app. I don't mind that an additional window opens. After starting a meeting or joining one, I can close everything except the meeting window. If I want to leave a meeting, I just close the app. It does ask me to confirm if I want to leave, but I don't mind that either.

I do remember how unreliable WebEx was (dropped calls, bad audio, bad video, etc). That was also a desktop app experience, but it was a few years back.

I have used Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts recently as well, although only in the browser. They seemed clunkier to me, but it looks like Microsoft Teams has a desktop app, so maybe the experience of that is better.

I've also tried Discord video calls on their desktop app, but the audio and video quality just didn't compare to Zoom, but maybe it's better with a better plan. Slack calls seemed mostly OK but that was just for a 1 on 1 call, and overall I still preferred Zoom.

In my experience it also seems like Zoom handles low connectivity well, although sometimes it speeds voices up to catch up, but again, I don't mind and then I feel like at least I'm not missing what other folks are saying. Anyway, in general, the experience of Zoom for me has been better than anything other meeting software I've tried.
We really need to find a better name for GPUs to better communicate the idea that it's really just an SIMD accelerator.
I sometimes have similar thoughts, but then I wonder, if I were to live to 300, maybe some of the bullshit would go away some time in my 100s and everything might be more enjoyable?

Let's hope we don't need to deal with critical race theory / unconscious bias trainings at work and open derogatory statements against non-minorities for more than another 5-10 years, for example... I have to say it's making work a lot less pleasant than it used to be.

And maybe if we're extremely lucky some of the VC money will become more widely available to people based on competence rather than connections and personal wealth.
I had a professor that said the biggest driving forces of our industry are video games and porn.
Its true, it’s not a gaming GPU but you can run games on it, as far as I now, it still have cuda cores.
I heard this opinion so many times from new agey types who think they know so much wisdom about life. None of them are successful in any way or smoked weed in the same amounts as I or other stoner friends did.

On the hand every single person I know who abused weed (including me) by wake and baking themselves for years have stopped smoking basically because every time they smoked their heartbeat would go to 9000 and they just couldn’t feel good on it anymore (by good I mean just “not feeling like I am having a heart attack in purely physical way”)

Just to be clear it has nothing to do with paranoia, just physical effects - I don’t feel afraid, it’s just that there are no good effects anymore.

Weed never destroyed my life. I was a hugely high-functioning addict to be honest. But there’s no way I can smoke and not get my heartbeat to the moon.

So please, just stop this misinformation. You just never smoked enough of weed to get there.
Doesn't the P40 use the same chip as in the 1080 Ti? While the card may not strictly be a gaming GPU, it seems to be roughly equivalent in power to gaming GPUs from several generations ago.
Can the link be updated to the one below? The link above goes directly to the comments section and collapses the article, ?comments=1 is the culprit.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-pushed-a-one-...
Too late to edit, but forgot to mention the DT2000 also supports a read-only mode. So if desired, in regular usage for boot purposes, it's not writable. It then needs to explicitly be switched to read-write via the keypad when performing kernel/initrd updates, if configured as such.
Would you mind to elaborate on the VPN thing? We do work with journalists as well and we see private Wire Guard configuration as a better option, as nobody knows that’s a VPN a journalist connects to.
Given the bullshit unveiled this past half-year re: the behind-the-scenes trading and manipulation in the US market, I’d be hard-pressed to believe that the US market is anything less than gambling.
The AI winter of the 1980s destroyed quite a few careers. Many of the TAs when I was an undergrad graduated into that winter.
While "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is often a perfectly valid approach, there are going to be times when an upgrade can result in significant performance improvements or fewer admin headaches.
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As far as I can tell, Vitess still has trouble with cross-server transactions and distributed locking. Presumably something "vastly more scalable" could work around this.

The Spanner team noticeably put out https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/inside-clou... a few years back, which tl;drs that they managed to get a reliable enough network that partitions don't really happen anymore and so you can get both C _and_ A from the CAP theorem. I don't think that Vitess is quite at that level, especially since you can self-host it and thus the devs don't have such network-level uptime guarantees.
The linked abstract claims the opposite: "We show that a slowdown in aging that increases life expectancy by 1 year is worth US$38 trillion, and by 10 years, US$367 trillion." Is saying the opposite is just "obvious" enough of a rebuttal?
In Linux there's "PRoot" - used by Termux on Android to provide userspace chroot-like functionality (can run Debian, for instance).

https://proot-me.github.io/
Yeah it seems like the same thing as proposing we shorten today's average lifespan from 80 to 50 as a solution.
Imagine if we taxed the enormous wealth of billionaires and used it for the good of many in society instead of inflating the ego of a single person. Our society is sick and I don't think people will stand for this level of inequality much longer.
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I had the same reaction! I was like, “technically, yes, but…”

I haven’t thought about MySQL proper in years, but it is interesting Facebook is moving to MySQL 8 rather than going to MariaDB, which as far as I know, had MyRocks built-in.