skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be time to cultivate a source of meaning in life that has nothing to do with your work. Volunteering and religion are two timeless sources for this.
Ok, but they are necessary implementation details... if you want to stream music on a voice controlled device, it is going to have to send your request to the streaming service

It doesn't have to be Amazon, but it has to be someone... and it makes sense the Amazon device communicates with Amazon services
I don't remember it that way. I remember being told to make your own or buy cloth masks, and leave the N95 masks for the hospitals.

But this is too contentious an issue. I shouldn't have commented.
Where does it say she admitted he did it?
Isn't CPI politicized and doesn't accurately account for real cost of living changes?

Why do you think CPI is a better measure?
> You don't really explain why the S&P rising slower than M3

Why do you think a constant fraction of every dollar the Fed creates should go into the S&P 500? Private markets, debt markets and bank reserves have soared since 2008, for example.

This chart is the financial equivalent of "a series of tubes."
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Money supply cuts through this obscurantist / disingenuous bullshit. It's an objective metric.
> I believe that is only for criminal trials

I looked it up and you are correct. There were some additional details about some circumstances where it could apply even then. But like I said, I’m not a lawyer :p
you as well understand at a deeper level
"just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu".

Well, it's now orders of magnitude bigger than gnu, definitely not a hobby for neither Linus nor plenty of other people, and we're still waiting for the Hurd.
There were a bunch of early videotape systems. I once came across a device in a surplus store which was a cassette rewinder for a large, strange cassette. It had a key lock and a counter. The idea was that video stores would rent out cassettes you could only watch once, because the player lacked a rewind mechanism. Then you had to return the video. The store would rewind it, an event counted by the counter. The store would be billed accordingly, by the movie distributor.

Fortunately this approach did not catch on.
True fact. I'd call the medium "email" though.
I've never understood your position. Even if I don't like/agree with a system, I can still use it, because it would be illogical to do otherwise.

Also a major assumption you have is that any crypto holder must hold the same views as the early bitcoin adopters.
you understand the concept in a practical form
Correct. Some would argue that CPI is specifically engineered to mislead.
> there is no reason to think that there is fundamental limit in how many processor you could connect

Square-cube law. As the number of processors grow how do you hook them together? If you want to minimize latency you end up with a solid packed sphere. O(cube root) latency. In that situation, heat dissipation only scales with the surface area of that sphere. So there is a limit to the scale. If you choose a topology that permits cooling, then you accept ever increasing inter-processor latency which eventually bottlenecks your computation.

Computers are not magic. They exist in a physical reality and have to deal with thermodynamics and the speed of light. Just because we feel like we have a lot of them doesn't mean we have enough for "magical super AI" to work.
I just use a single static HTML file that lets me organize my notes and TODOs in five big buckets of life and track high level goals. All manually entered and data is only ever stored in the browser's localStorage so it remains completely private.

https://learnawesome.org/life.html
> In a society without governments...

But haven't you just described governments? Your "protection service" is our "sovereign state". Your agreements between protection services are our international treaties (in particular ones that cede jurisdiction, such as the ECHR). Your "thieves not protected by any third party protection service" are our pirates in international waters.

The only difference is that I think you're imagining a free market where people can choose their "protection service" without physically moving into a specific area protected exclusively by them, and consequently there's an assumption that people can choose to be stateless. I'm not sure how you propose that land ownership would be mediated except by force by the protection services, which is exactly how sovereign states work anyway. And then people can't ever be stateless in practice because they'll always occupy land claimed by one of your protection services.
You have to do a 4 year apprenticeship, during which time you won't make great money.

Then you work for someone else and probably make $80k or $90k, then you start your own business.

In terms of supply/demand Australians are extremely house proud and spend an insane amount of money on renovations, upgrades, etc, so all the trades are always slammed. Have been for 20 years.
Thanks Louis!
CPI includes housing and M3 is effectively never a good measure of inflation. People have this misconception that the supply of money is directly inversely proportional to the value of one unit of that currency. That is not how that works at all. Inflation is demand driven. When demand falls off a cliff you can have periods of deflation during which money supply increased significantly.
It's only 1% of the total spend here, so I'd say it clearly is peanuts to Google. Spending 1% of a project's budget on a marketing initiative is not particularly exceptional.
Nothing contradictory here honestly. Obviously stealing should be prosecuted. We just don't want to be surveilled, have our money inflated to valuelessness, etc.
Thanks, yes I remember that page.
It's probably a mix of both. I think it'd probably either be too cynical or too naive to think it's entirely one or the other.

(I realize my post is a wishy-washy nothing-statement that could mean anything, so to make it a little more concrete: I'd roughly guess like 70/30 self-interest/PR:altruism/"herd security".)
Fun fact: As Linux turns 30, it also recently reached 1 Million git commits.

I took these 1M commits, indexed them in Typesense, and built a search experience around it a couple of months ago: https://linux-commits-search.typesense.org/

Has some interesting nuggets in there.
On linux, I think the XFT parcels are a requirement for legible text on VW Smalltalk.
Bugs are kinda slippery slope arguments as well, since they are impossible to prevent or measure with 100% accuracy. These are stopped in human review. (Hopefully)

It seems that this system might be extremly resistant for collision to prevent them ending up to human review.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28305946

> It wastes your CPU resources and network resources to do something that only benefits apple

Okay, how practical is this problem? iCloud already scans your files to know whether they are need to be synced.
And this scan applies lesser times, only once before upload per file.

Encryption does not mess with the filesize, so we are talking about few bytes of extra metadata per image here.
Regular image with raw format is tens of megabytes.
One of the last sentences in the article:

> Of course, since these packages are built automatically without human supervision it’s likely that some of them will have bugs in them that would otherwise have been caught by the maintainer.
That's one interpretation but it's kind of shaky without a theory of infinitesimals, and when you do work with a theory of infinitesimals it turns out not to be all that much better than working with the more traditional delta/epsilon approach, which is really quite rigorous and can be explained without the use of any infinities.
Misaligned factory robot may have sparked Chevy Bolt battery fires
It seems an obvious answer would be that there has been a lot of growth outside of the 500 large companies picked to comprise the s&p 500.

The s&p 500 is not an index of all corporate growth.
The head of podcasting for Spotify published a medium article[0] earlier this year. If you read it you'll see every drawback of rss he lists is actually power in the hands on the consumer. They are actively opposed to openness and most certainly don't want to "improve that state for consumers."

0. https://mignano.medium.com/podcasting-rss-openness-and-choic...
> Isn't CPI politicized and doesn't accurately account for real cost of living changes?

CPI ain't perfect. Anyone can argue about the compensation of the basket and make points that it might understate some portions of household spending. And then there's confounds in the opposite direction: it doesn't take into account hedonics at all really. But it's not terrible, either: it's the best measure we have.

> Why do you think CPI is a better measure?

See sibling comments. If CPI doesn't quite accurately report purchasing power... M3 is nowhere close as a metric.
> Money supply cuts through this obscurantist / disingenuous bullshit. It's an objective metric.

Solar luminosity is an object metric. That doesn't make it useful for pricing the S&P 500.

Price levels are a function of money supply and velocity. Ignoring the latter throws out a deep body of empirical evidence.
"objective" is not the same as "meaningful"
They did in fact have a DVD by mail service. It came out a year or two after Netflix ate their lunch. You could also return the disks at your local Blockbuster for a quicker turnaround. It was too little to late to save the company.
CPI covers Food energy housing etc because people aren’t just buying any one thing. We could argue about the correct mix to use, but M3 alone ignores population and economic growth etc making it a vastly worse measure of inflation.

This becomes really obvious if you look at M3 vs prices over long periods. If you have say 2x as many people and M3 is 2x the size then a 1$ candy bar that’s still 1$ somehow demonstrates inflation and increases in productivity. Except productivity per worker was unchanged only total economic output which is irrelevant to individuals.
Discussed at the time:

Perceptual Illusions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307428 - Oct 2018 (24 comments)
One option I my take advantage of when my current Apple Care plan expires is to switch it to a monthly plan. You can then get indefinite support, for a cost of course. But at least accidental damage would be covered as well, so it's a sort of insurance policy.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210580
In the wild west, there were guns and rifles. Often disputes were settled with gunshots rather than court battles.

Bitcoin has no threat of violence when wrong doing happens.
By that logic, he's a gateway to the entire political spectrum based on thousands of episodes over a decade.

There are plenty of people who are exposed to (far)left perspectives from his show - do you take issue with that?
Flys reproduce until they are at the carrying capacity, and their environment does not have the resources to support more. This is not the case for humans, which are nowhere near their carrying capacity.

The average income in the US is 68K and the average woman has 1.7 children. The average income in Niger is $1k (adjusted for local costs), and the average woman has 6.8 children. Women in the US could have dozens of children, and none of them would starve (literally) due to social safety.

Even if you assumed families are limited by their ability to feed their children, one person not having kid doesn't mean some other family now has more money.

I see no reason why one person not having a child would mean another has more, as resources are not shared, and if they were, most people aren't bound by resources anyways
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Im not sure I follow the question?
They are going right ahead with this and there is no stopping it. And, if history is any indication, we’re going to hear more of this when needed…

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con...
Yeah, so did I. I use them for sanding and sweeping.

But early in 2020, they disappeared off the shelves. Amazon, in particular, only sold them to medical professionals. Same thing, if you went directly to 3M.

I was able to buy a few more at about ten times the usual price.

A few are available at reasonable prices now, but it's still very limited. When I wear a mask, it's an N95. You can dry them out and reuse them - SARS2 is very fragile.
Got a copy of that book, I love it!
> Do I want to work until I'm 65

What else are you going to do? If every form of “work” you encounter is just a means to an end, then I guess I can understand. But don’t underestimate how much you might change personally in 10-15 years, and how much enjoyment you might find in the future forms of work you engage with.
The last line of the article is the most important:

"If the goal is to prevent infection, then boosting will need to be done after 6 to 18 months depending on the immune status of the individual. If the goal is to prevent serious disease boosting may not be necessary for years."

This is a very important distinction. The media mostly gets this wrong, and CDC has been badly negligent in helping the public understand it.

Vaccines are generally not expected to prevent infection. The only common vaccine that is known to prevent infection is HPV. All other vaccines allow some degree if infection, and thus some continued spread of the target pathogen. Vaccines are designed and tested to prevent serious disease due to infection. That's it.

Likewise, these new vaccines are designed and tested to prevent the disease of covid, not infection by the virus called sars-cov2. The extent to which they do prevent infection, and the resulting effect on R0, is yet to be determined, but it is fully expected that the virus will continue to spread, even as hospitalizations and deaths eventually drop.
> but do you have a better idea?

Of course; don't do them. They are worse than nothing.
> Isn't CPI politicized and doesn't accurately account for real cost of living changes?

There isn't a single CPI. Headline CPI is widely reported because it's approximately right for most people.

If you're doing inflation-sensitive planning, you should be using a more fine-grained metric. Predicting your personal cost of living changes using national core CPI is like aiming a gun with a compass. (That said, most people--when discussing inflation--aren't doing anything practical with it. For conversational purposes, headline is fine.)
Yes. Ads good, privacy bad. Keep working at Google.

By the way, I may or may not have placed a bunch of hidden cameras in your house. What's that, antisocial? No, no. I swear it's going to be convenient for you. You may get a disturbing email from a company I sell the footage to at some point, by the way. Just don't read that email, ok?
The carnivore diet was a thing for the Comanche people for centuries until they were massacred and confined to reservations. We obviously don't have data on their rates of heart disease but overall they were healthier than others living at the same time.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010529071125.h...

(I'm not recommending that anyone eat a carnivore diet, just pointing out that it's hardly novel.)
Ah, this is on point. I've been struggling with this for years after having put so much energy in to try and put good work into a major website, only to be totally fucked over by ignorant managers and subsequently internalize this feeling of "why would I ever fucking put extra energy into any work again"

People who haven't experienced this are just lucky. They've been rewarded well for their energy, or they had an early stake, or they just never put much energy in because they were in a space where they could be productive. They've never been fired on their way up. They've never had to rely on savings for an entire year and have to battle algo challenges just to get a phone call while dealing with zero motivation for even writing code.
As a senior engineer, I think you can learn the basics of these topics well enough to interview within a few weekends. Seriously. And you may know the internals better than people who "have 5 years experience with them."

Study 2-3 of these and make some toy projects, then throw them under your skills section on your resume. You will be fine!

P.S. Email in bio if I can help more!
DW the internets got you.

https://github.com/iamadamdev by pass paywalls :)
Yeah, I've already lost so much stuff due to this happening to a couple email accounts over the years. Or, I mean, entire services just shut down (Geocities, Yahoo Groups, etc.)
> If I was dealing with tens of thousands, I would not have been so foolish to try and transfer the bitcoin without expert help.

How do you identify expert help that you can trust, if you're not qualified to assess expertise?
Previous iterations heated up the processor and forced it to clock down because Intel was stuck on the 14nm process.

Intel developed the instruction set and expected to rapidly shrink the die to 10nm and then 7nm, which would have fixed the power draw issues. The shrink never happened, and this then made AVX-512 look bad.

It's not AVX-512 that's at fault, it's the manufacturing process. Fix the process, and the instruction set can shine.

Many people writing vector code by hand say that they much prefer AVX-512 over its predecessors because it is complete, flexible, and powerful.

The only reason Intel didn't lose every benchmark against AMD recently is because for some workloads AVX-512 doubles throughput despite being hamstrung by the power draw and overheating problems.

A 5nm chip using AVX-512 might only need to clock down 10-20%, or not at all. Or just use turbo for a shorter period.
So civilized experts are infallible? Please.

“Mind opening leads to compassion.”
-Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching, 16

“The sage deters those who know too much from going too far.”
-ibid, 3
Given the problematic aspects of a "globally" available datasets and given that in many countries people are more stuck up about such thinks I highly doubt that this dataset contained a "representative proportion" given that you are more open about such thinks and take picture (in general).

I.e. there can be a massive difference between a probability "over all humans" and a probability "over people of a given culture" as long as either the given culture is in a minority or underrepresented in given data.

Given that people normally don't (knowingly) give out their private family photos when they know they culture is seen as "bad" by some people and this picture might be abused I think we can at least assume such culture(s) are underrepresented.

Through we can't say how much that changes the probability.
This is true for like everything. Watch people talk about gun control or 2fa or any topic of discourse. Everyone thinks the other side is dumb and can’t see why the other side believes the way they do no matter what.

It’s a sign of lack of experience, but you also can’t experience even 1% of everything so are you just need to learn that when a lot of people are doing something that doesn’t make sense to you and it makes you think they’re dumb, it just means that you just don’t have the tools to figure out why yet. Of course, it also doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re right either.
What a shame. Not really. The man did a thing that was entertaining, but it hasn't been worth the flirtation with evil and the dancing around with absurd, vapid "ideas".
It makes no sense. Rentals are already time limited so making them unable to be rewound is just plain consumer hostile. It’s not hard to see why the format died so quickly.

Even if it had caught on there would no doubt be a grey market for those red tape rewinders.
You responded with a reasonable response to the parent comment.

Don't take the downvotes personally my friend. But I think the downvoters sure took your comment personally.
same here. It's a flaw inherent in the battery chemistry. Apple knows it happens, they should make it easy to swap batteries out when they expire.
Since I assume you did not accept. Care to tell us what company :) ?
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I think there is a lot of potential crossover in many of the anecdotes described in comments that correlate with clinical depression.
Yeah, that was the obvious one. I was hoping for something that would indicate something other than security guard or cop.
The only thing keeping me on a Mac is some of my work which is iOS/macOS development. Unfortunately I haven't found a good workaround for this.
Older people as a group require more care when they get sick. Additionally, elderly group living was being hit the hardest by the pandemic, especially early on.

It wasn't about saving the most lives per se. It was about reducing the load on the medical system. I suspect those outcomes are strongly correlated.
You should risk it because the risk really is minimal and the greater benefit for society is enormous. I don't think people have cognitive bias. There are plenty of arguments in favor of getting it.
I agree!

But consider a different, entirely valid context of "almost all":

"Almost all natural numbers are greater than 10."

"Almost all prime numbers are odd."

If we wanted to extend this intuitively, we might want to support the statement that "almost all positive reals are greater than 10". One option of doing that is by using the nonstandard definition of "everywhere but on a finite-measure set".
It's not a tools problem, it's a people problem. Use whatever tools your team is used to, and build culture on top of that.
Do you support development work without looking into what it would do to a local ecosystem? That part seems worthwhile to prevent destroying sensitive habitats, etc.
I don't think I actually trust most lowest bidder ranges you find in your average modern apartment to successfully self-clean without damaging either itself or it's surroundings. The top of mine gets hot enough to be uncomfortable just from normal 400 temperatures, and that's after passing through a hollow cavity where my eternally soiled and flammable grease traps sit.
Unfortunately this is only available in a very small subset of countries.
By the standards of most of the world, no, he's firmly right wing, along with basically every other politician in the US.

By US standards, he's a moderate. So no, still not left. And that's why he got elected.
> The idea of "differently sized infinities" has always felt like a mathematical game to me.

It's a hack. Mathematicians can come up with hacks too.
Very nice article.

FYI - The author of the article has also written a longer book expanding on the above theme named Electromagnetics Explained: A Handbook for Wireless/ RF, EMC, and High-Speed Electronics.
There's an effect to that effect called Gell-Mann amnesia. Nutshell by Michael Crichton:

> “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”