skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When a guest comes to visit and they are impressed by the interior, there are several things going on. First, you signal that you know what's the hot new thing, so you are socially connected, regularly visit similar homes. Second you signal loyalty to the tribe by being willing to adjust your living space (...)

Or perhaps your guests just genuinely like the décor, and aren't playing some 4D Slytherin chess game. Some people just don't play the social signalling game.
They are low key racist though (compared to the US). They are kinda racist to other Europeans. Eg Polish people and Southern Europeans would be looked down.
Have AWS / employees ever spoken about the stack they run for IAM? Sounds fascinating
Wat? We stopped routinely immunizing against small pox a long time ago.
Depends what you're comparing. Barebones Node with few dependencies is more like a Rack application. Rails is the other end of the spectrum.
As President?
First: the bigger point is that it will be systemic and collective actions which result in meaningful change. Individual mindfulness and advocacy help, but they're by no means sufficient.

On fossil-fuel consumption and carbon emissions:

Natural gas and coal combined exceed total petroleum usage (measured in quadrillion BTUs) for the United States. Much of the coal and gas is used in electrical generation, though also in industrial and commercial use.

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/images/energy/us/...

It looks as if transportation net carbon emissions are slightly less than 50%:

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/images/charts/Car...

It's close enough that this is something of a niggle, but in terms of accuracy, whilst it's fair to say that transport is a major source of CO2 emissions, it's not quite the majority contributor.
> Humans have a fixed decision budget, we can only handle so much complexity before our brain turns off. Do we want to spend that solving domain problems or on huge software stacks?

Bingo.

Sounds like we are fairly in agreement. Scientists sometimes have to write code, there's now way around it. But I wish there was more help for all the ancillary stuff.

I want scientists working on their simulation, not debugging why their docs build pipeline fails once in a while, or have to investigate some warnings about needing to upgrade their chosen distro in the CI pipeline.

> There is a lot of value in standardization and a reduced amount of choice.

The only issue here is today's standard is tomorrow's "old-fashioned way" - and I'm only half-serious about "tomorrow". So even if they get everything set up the standard way, they have to know enough at some point to migrate it. I still don't have a good answer for that.
Because even Saudi Arabia allows education for females. The Taliban does not (seriously, it’s a crime to teach women to read).
> 1. your company should actually do something important/valuable. Solve an important problem etc.

There are for sure examples of companies who are not 'solving an important problem' (at the time of the company being formed). It would be interesting for someone to compare funded companies that met this criteria that were successful (that would have to be defined as well) vs. not and 'pie in the sky maybe maybe if it works will hit it big'.

But right off the top Airbnb as envisioned and as it started was not solving any important problem or really doing anything valuable. At the start I mean (when pitched to investors note Fred Wilson famously passed on this after Paul Graham even pushed him to invest) not what airbnb became (which is what many investors go on).

The Automobile when it started to be popularized didn't solve an important problem that problem was already solved by horses and the early automobiles had to develop over many many years into a state where they became valuable. At the start they were not and investing on that basis would not have been wise (other than 'maybe they will end up allowing people to do this and that vs. using a horse').

Uber ditto (but less so) than Airbnb that problem was solved by cabs in most places. (Will agree this is a weaker point than Airbnb).

That said with respect to the above points 1 to 4 probably a fifth is needed. That would be being able to explain to an investor why your solutions works for a problem they don't even agree is a problem or understand. Once again using airbnb many investors (including Fred Wilson and for that matter myself) couldn't understand why in the world someone would let a stranger use their house makes no sense you have person items and what not just didn't seem to fly. However people of a different age group think differently so how do you explain to the investor (who is not the same peer) why the idea makes sense?
By my definition 10x/100x dev means a person who makes decision which require 100x less resources to execute to achieve the same goal.
For example, one can build clean, maintainable and monitored codebase/infra, which will support business goals and rapid evolution in long term, while some group of mediocre engineers can build overcomplicated system, over-polluted by bugs and technical debt, which will be significant liability rather than useful asset.
> Corruption is not a choice of the central government.

Often, it is.

> It is not like the central government can choose being corrupt or not.

Sure it is. It can also choose how much energy to devote to rooting out corruption at lower levels, but in many of the cases at issue it was the very top leaders that were deeply corrupt, so corruption was, in fact, a very direct choice of the central government.
This bizarre thing is from a health perspective bottled water is toxic for you.

Plastic, especially new plastic, actually leaches compounds into water. As plastic gets old, its leaching capacity goes down. Old plastic is safer than newer plastic. However, most plastic bottles, including BPA-free are estrogenic. They are bad for men and women causing a variety of problems which are still poorly understood.

The worse use-case is plastic filled bottles, like water, that have sat or have been transported in hot environments which is to say all of them. Ditto for hot takeout food served in plastic containers - soups, curries, etc.

People who buy bottled water are literally paying money to get poisoned for a teeny bit of convenience. I know most water fountains are not cleaned properly but that water is safer (by orders of magnitudes, but I have no data to cite) than bottled water.

A lot of this is problematic for the evidence driven folks. But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence but please use the precautionary principle.
Reading the wiki article seems to indicate this is a different issue though. It was a system bug that led to approximately 64 billion 2021 dollars erroneously being printed out as prizes in a single day. This was never factored in as a cost of doing business.

This wasn't the same thing as putting a prize in an ad that was never meant to be redeemed since this was a bug to begin with. The problem is that an advertising campaign that quintuples your market share to a quarter of the soft drink market in a matter of months must have tapped into an extremely strong set of emotions and those will turn into an absolute fury if your campaign backfires so spectacularly.
I should know better (I've got lots of RPis I installed myself) but in this case I really don't know: a friend of mine just dd'ed his working setup on to a memory card.
Big numbers. Are there any talks or papers out there about how IAM is implemented under the hood?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-11/saving-th...
Except when it was a campaign issue, he said Trump's timeline for troops out before Christmas, which generals delayed to troops out by May, were both too fast.

Now it looks like being out before the summer fighting season started would have been the right call.
> [The soviets] lost the most soldiers [...]

To be fair, the major reasons for this were that the Russian military leadership was utterly incompetent during the earlier stages of the war [1], and that they suffered from a serious lack of equipment and material. "Number of casualties" and "years spent fighting" aren't good indicators of military effectiveness.

[1] That's what happens when you liquidate your military elite or put them into gulags because they are on the wrong side of your class war.
Oh, this is exciting. The performance and latency is a huge variable though.

For a lot of these experimental hacker-friendly devices, I'm willing to tolerate a lot of compromises. Even here, the software, the out-of-the-box experience isn't really that important to me. Arguably, you can get away with even more compromise on a device like this than on something like the Pinephone. But it has to have amazing pen performance, or it's just not worth working with. Everything else except that is either fixable or something that probably isn't getting in the way of the core point of the device.

IMO Remarkable got this right -- their software support is by many metrics quite bad (although I guess it's slowly started to improve). Their device handles PDFs kind of poorly from what I can tell. It's expensive. The interface seems slower and more laggy than many other EReaders. But none of that really matters, what matters is they have arguably the best pen latency and physical texturing on the E-ink market, and that writing on the device feels good.

So the same thing applies here: the price seems completely reasonable to me, I have no issues with a $400 price tag. I'd pay $600, the price isn't the issue. But I need to see videos and testimonial that the pen latency isn't just "acceptable", but that it's really good. Otherwise it's not even worth $100.

Writing experience is one of those things where once you get used to a lack of latency/offset, and used to a more accurate feel, it gets progressively harder and harder to go back to anything that's worse.
Yes, the year 2021.
ClubHouse runs on AWS?
Why query planning for streaming systems is hard
Why this is downvoted?

US' withdrawal from China gave CCP and Mao an easy win. That already showcased the stupidity of a 4 year term presidency that lack the basic continuance in foreign policy.

Cannot US diplomat learn something about how to build a decent government?
ignoring most of the ignorance in your reply, that's what bankruptcy is for, especially if its a company holding.
After 9/11, all operations in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq are complete disaster. I wonder why all of them failed.
> Note the NYT's total absence of criticism of Biden for this disaster.

The disaster is of Bush’s making, Biden is just the one that stopped spending lives and treasure to kick the endgame down the road. Of the last four President, he is the least to blame (for exactly the reason that he will, in the immediate term, get the most blame, which is what the others were dodging without making positive progress toward a better result.
Rise of cryptocurrencies can be traced to Nixon abandoning gold in 1971
As far as I understand USA tried to build a second force in the place where the only force were the Taliban so it fights with Taliban instead of USA.

And they spectacularly failed. And people that never became the second force are just fleeing and surrendering because they don't want to be an army, they just want to be and their life free from Taliban wasn't all that better than under Taliban rule so they won't be defending it.

What I don't get is why USA didn't drone strike every last Taliban and whoever is in the blast radius (declaring those people enemy militants as they tend to do). After all Taliban are their enemy. What for was that song and dance about "freeing a nation" and "empowering local people" for?
I wonder if or how this (and potentially future discoveries) will change the major impact likelihood equations.
> free education

Many top universities release entire courses for free. YouTube is an incredible resource for learning. Khan academy, Wikipedia, sci-hub, library genesis, all free. I can confidently say I’ve learned more from the internet than I have from books and university combined.

> explosive creativity

The internet is nothing if not novel. That’s precisely why it holds our attention so well - it’s an endless source of creativity and new things.

> endless opportunity

Again, surely this has come to pass? My job certainly wouldn’t be possible without the internet. There are tens of not hundreds of millions who make a living purely online.

No doubt it has caused all the negative things in your comment too, but they’re in addition to the positives not instead of them.
There's tons of free education, creativity and opportunity on the internet alongside the darker stuff. Being pessimistic means only seeing the problems and not the progress.
The Rooms Where It Happened
Hm actually might be google based on what their traffic is going to (i only looked just now). Ok now it makes more sense why support wasn’t able to figure this out =)
If you’re delegating your load balancing to something else further up the stack and would prefer a simpler WSGI server than Gunicorn, Waitress is worth a look: https://github.com/pylons/waitress
To be fair most self made billionaires don't "deserve" that amount of money as well. Yes, they have done something great amassing that fortune and worked hard. But others also work hard everyday not getting a millionth of that in return.

I applaud her, Gates, etc. for trying to do good with their fortune. But that also leaves the choice of what to do to the very few, instead of the society deciding (if the fortunes were collected as tax instead)
That seems like unnecessary ragebait and opens up the metric to all kinds of manipulation. eg. is microsoft office better or worse libreoffice than once you factor in that bill gates' philanthropic activities?
Why are you comparing yourself to your friend? If you want to be happy, don't compare because there will always be people who are better off than you.

Congratulate him and make him a mentor :)

PS: Also, it is his "net worth". That term is very loaded. It means he is not actually big, but is being projected as big.
Is there a particular reason for that bleeding? I’m assuming that it’s different from a regular churn.
Why would you be a US ally after this? If I am Taiwan, I have zero faith the US will defend us.
Airtel mobile supports IPv6
Hell, if you zoom out from the Middle East, you can go all the way back to Vietnam. (I don't know much about Korea.) That's over six decades of being wrong--sixty years of belligerence with nothing to show for it but a horrific body count and whole generations turned against us.
Why is there a weird stigma about carrying around a reusable water bottle? I’ve experienced it myself when I was younger and in school. It’s something about preparing for the moment compared to just going with the flow of life. I remember being categorized, by a girl, as a pretentious nerd soley based off my water bottle choice.
I don’t think she particularly cares about measuring the effectiveness of her altruism.

> “What do we think they might do with more cash on hand than they expected?” Scott asked in her June blog post. “Hire a few extra team members they know they can pay for the next five years. Buy chairs for them. Stop having to work every weekend. Get some sleep.”

My wild ass guess is that she’s hoping her firehose of money will do more good in a shorter amount of time versus spending a lot of time fine tuning the giving.

I think a lot of billionaire philanthropists see their giving as almost like a kind of investment, and some of them want to see a return on that investment that is above the average return from the average non-billionaire giver. That in turn causes the recipient to spend at least some time thinking about how to make that billionaire feel like they got a good return.

It sounds like McKenzie-Scott’s idea of giving is more hands off, identifying teams that had a history of doing good work, and giving them both resources and mental space to execute.

Something for effective altruists to consider.
Some people gained tremendously from all that tax payer money though. That's why it's called the military industrial complex. Like it or not but it also employs millions (not thousands) of civilians directly or indirectly.

I can't even begin to imagine what would happen to the United States if they weren't constantly involved in some conflict somewhere around the world.
Thanks for clarifying. 700ms overhead is massive. It sounds like the approach is just deeply suboptimal for any sort of high performance and complicated 3d scenes. Perhaps that was not their objective...
Certainly it was a disaster for it ever to have begun. But that doesn't mean anyone subsequently responsible for managing it doesn't have responsibilities that can be executed competently or incompetently, subject to their own blame and criticism.
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I think you just follow orders as a cop, but then, I've never been one.

I would think that after you've built up a good reputation on the force (which might take years), you could volunteer for financial crimes. But whether that works or not, I have no idea.
What what the last success ?
I'm not sure if the withdrawal is the thing that matters most in a 20-year waste of time and money.

Unless the idea is to stay in Afganistan forever.
It is the job and responsibility of the listing agent to serve their client's interests. Assuming that sellers know this is happening, and further assuming that this practice of pocket listings serves them, I wonder HOW it does.
He'd need to get some new lawyers to sue the original lawyers! Lawyers all the way down...
You need to take into consideration the complexity. Counterstrike has very tiny set of possible actions you can take. Compare that to the space of things one can say.

A NN is going to fail on that at least as missereably as linear interpolation fails in CS.
I'm not a fan of this either but at least it doesn't call the police on me. It places a marker so that a human could track it back to be, sure, but that still requires me to actually try to do something illegal with something I've printed.

I still think it's BS that you can't scan money though and it very much an overreach. Your home printer isn't gonna make a convincing fake anyway.
How often do identities or access settings change? Not often, I guess. So it seems (to me) that they are accessing almost static data at a very high speed, which is not really a surprise. Am I missing something?
Suppose that for some reason tap water was actually completely neutral for the environment. It produced zero change in either direction.

They could have headlines reading "bottled water is over 3000 million billion trillion googol times worse for the environment than tap water".

They could then follow up with the same statement about cars, straws, recyclable straws, spinach, or anything with any non-zero effect at all.

"How many times worse" is a nonsense comparison meant for sensationalism.
I use Azure Logic Apps to replace a simple API mashup I would have previously used Pipes for. No complaints
I don't know Python or how complex their domain is but the number of workers suggests to me it is not that complex and their application spends most of its time switching contexts and in inefficient frameworks.

Per my experience most applications that mostly serve documents from databases should be able to take on at least 10k requests per second on a single node. this is 600k requests per minute on one node, compared to their 1M per 1000 nodes.

This is what I am typically getting from a simple setup with Java, WebFlux and MongoDB with a little bit of experience on what stupid things not to do but without spending much time fine tuning anything.

I think bragging about performance improvements when your design and architecture is already completely broken is at the very least embarrassing.

> poor hindsight from original developer (co-founder)

Well, you have a choice of technologies to write your application in, why chose one that sucks so much when there are so many others that suck less?

It is not poor choice, it is lack of competency.

You are co-founder and want your product to succeed? Don't do stupid shit like choosing stack that already makes reaching your goal very hard.
Perhaps the reason successful founders are optimists is that most founders are optimists. Unsuccessful founders are generally optimists too.
I live in a hundred-year-old apartment building that is not the best maintained. I have no idea about the condition of the pipes and I don’t know where my water is coming from. I can get a filter, but I feel like it’s similar to running my own email server. Sure, I could do it, but I’d rather put the burden of filtering (and quality control in general) on a 3rd party.

Hence I buy bottled water.
I have to wonder: Have we gone too far? Is TypeScript becoming more tedious than helpful? Has React lost its way in its blind zeal for pure functions?

...no, no, definitely not. Must've gone crazy for a second there.
> Building an audience with strong engagement is replacing the “seed” round so to speak.

For funded startups this is established area: buy online ads and receive views for your product. How solo can do it efficiently without significant monetary investment into digital marketing?
no offense but your friend sounds like kind of an ass

How did he respond to the "you don't and you don't think about it" bit?
Withdrawal happening vs how withdrawal is happening are two very different things.

Trump's plan was to be out by Christmas, which generals delayed to May. This is not Biden executing Trump's plan.
> Israel, WTF, Israel is the master nation of US...

Seriously please take this somewhere else.
I don’t personably agree judging by sentiment I’m seeing, but hopefully you’re right. The average person doesn’t seem to think of this as executing trump’s plan and fwiw I personably think that’s a cop out to blame it on a previous administration if you ultimately make the choice now.
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On the positive side the Taliban won't be able to sustain those American helicopters for more than a few flights before they run out of spare parts. Iranian revolutionaries were able to continue operating American aircraft for a while by fabricating their own parts but the Taliban lack that capability.
Nobody should work for the CIA. They ate criminals and terrorists.
>My parents live in a medium sized Texas city that has tap water that is typically brown, sometimes it comes out of the tap foamy

Source/pictures? I find it hard to believe such water would be allowed by the EPA. This is also strange, considering that I've been to countries without drinkable tap water (eg. you have to boil it), and the water doesn't look like that.
>I can't even begin to imagine what would happen to the United States if they weren't constantly involved in some conflict somewhere around the world.

That one old Simpsons joke comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2VxpTMAbas
Both of these things can be true. The USA has lost, and at the same time five more years wouldn't have made a difference.
Oh, I thought it'd be something like https://birdcams.live/
American Lend-Lease kept the Soviets afloat. Stalin couldn't even supply his own army with cars.
You get roughly the same number if you compare the cost of tap water and bottled water per gallon. Monetary cost is a pretty good rule-of-thumb when estimating environmental impact.

https://slate.com/business/2013/07/cost-of-bottled-water-vs-...