skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're going to have to rewrite humanity from the ground up if we want to colonize space because these delicate eggshell bodies of ours are just not compatible with hard vacuum. Nor will they fare well in inhospitable planetary environments.

Which is why I roll my eyes realizing that none of that will happen for a very long time but if you could make 60-year-olds look like 30-year-olds with an mRNA treatment or something similar, you would make Bezos and Musk look like paupers. It wouldn't even have to make you young on the inside and you'd still die in a decade or two but at least you'd leave a beautiful corpse because that's all that matters in the end.
Yeah, this covers it for me. Maybe outdated isn't wrong so much as nothing more than a fun intellectual exercise and what if - there's no road map, there's no solid technological basis for reaching a singularity, imo there's not much theory to it outside speculation and some fairly specious projections.
My pair of Aeropex came with a pair of foam earplugs in the package for this exact reason. They're not meant to be musical headphones, but they are amazing for listening to podcasts while exercising or doing chores around the house. I should have bought a pair when they first came out instead of waiting until this year to do so.
> I still remember walking into Tower Records back in 1979 when CDs were just coming out and they only had a few dozen to choose from

What? Who is this guy, and how did facts not get checked?

CDs didn't exist till a few years later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc
How does this work? From the documentation it's clear that AWS credentials are required. Which permissions are necessary? This leads me to the assumption that the SpotML cli creates with boto3 the necessary resource (EBS Volume, spot instances, S3 bucket) on my AWS account. If this is the case, how does billing work if this is "just" a cli?
The really great victory of the rich is that they convinced half of the planet to defend them.
I was recently disappointed and frustrated to learn that GCC will be enabling vectorization at -O2 soon. The realization that you have to specify both -O3 AND an architecture to get it to use AVX basically invalidated a bunch of benchmarking and testing I had done.

What's the point of building with x86-64-v3 if all your code is built at -O2 without vectorization enabled? Doh!
> The numbers look big, but in terms of dollars per citizen, how much money are we really talking about?

I'm not sure what you intended with this, but it's a really good empirical question. Since we have no reason to believe any one of these "leaks" is exhaustive, we don't ever know the true denominator, so we can't estimate dollars-per-citizen with any confidence.

But we do know the realities of being poor. So if the true dollars-per-citizen-per-year figure turns out to be as little as, say a thousand dollars, I think a lot of people would be justified in eyeing their pitchforks. Hell, an extra fifty dollars a month in the developed world would make a massive difference for millions who struggle.

Personally, I believe that the true number is very plausibly in this range.
It would be interesting to know what errors we might get, but unit testing an error return branch doesn't tell us that. It tells us that any non-nil error will be returned.
Paradise Papers? I missed those, 2017 I guess.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/
Don't get me wrong I understand the population at large have a rebranded version a lot of these terms, and it is futile to try and take them back. However, a lot of academics and people subscribing to that idea aren't going to change. So understanding how different groups use the term and what concept they're trying to describe, helps with they are actually trying to say.

Personally I have been digging into the 'why' behind people still argue something that to my understanding has no rational basis, found these disconnects between the use and what it was supposed to mean very interesting. Really just has shown me all news media regardless of bias has created a problem having to water down or modify a concept/story to be entertaining or click-able has distorted so much information
> booze

YMMV, but I'm 2L deep on local beer and it's not making me trust The Man yet.
The idea that all nuclear reactors for all time will be expensive to build and maintain is exactly what newer reactors are trying to overcome.

Crazy how in the 60s reactors were build by small teams with low millions and today you need an army of people and 30 billion.

Nothing about a nuclear reactor in inherently expensive. The reason current PWR style reactors are expensive is because they require a gigantic civil engineering project, long term financing and very expensive costume steam turbines and costume reactor vessels.

We could live in world where conventional turbines from natural gas plants are used, a team of only a few people manage like 10 reactors at the same time and the capital build cost of the plant is less then that of a gas plant.

There is nothing based on first principle that prevents this. Sadly nuclear technology fell so out of favor, and at the same time the regulatory agency basically made progress on non PWR impossible that we are decades behind where we should be.

Thankfully Canada has realized this and has adopted a new framework for nuclear regulation. In the US FINALLY the DoE has admitted that their regulatory framework makes no sense and they are attempting to slowly change it as well.
I used to have so much faith (naively perhaps) in the major news networks. Maybe they used to be bastions of truth but I feel that is not the case. They are just a mouth piece of the elites at this point.

They have us divided and fighting each other so we're too busy to see the real cause of our discontent.

So much truth has been censored and replaced with lies in the last 2 years. But no one is calling them on it? There isn't even an apology or a retraction.

It's not news.

It's propaganda.
CA, like many concepts of analysis that have entered popular conciousness (structual racism, patriarchy, ...), have been vulgarized beyond making sense, yet people on both sides of the discussion act as though whatever these theories were reduced to are of actual interest.
Indeed, this was one of the things I considered (note I'm not OP), but then I didn't really want to rely on DNS. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=it's+always+DNS
You can use anyone's ideas you want and not be plagiarizing, as long as you give proper credit. But with cultural appropriation, you're not allowed to use anything from other cultures at all: the Twitter mobs will cancel you for it even if you do give credit.
I agree with the spirit, but I prefer to reject the natural/artificial distinction. Societal and biological evolution can be a very "arbitrary" processes. Sometimes something just happens, and is good enough, and sticks around. It's ultimately pretty subjective which things are "over-determined" and what wasn't (photosynthesis? agriculture? Something like eukaryotes from endo-symbiosis?), without being able to run a bunch of difficult experiments.

Government and money are two institutions who's origins are much debated, but I would be find replacing them with something else, "self-perpetuation" replaces "natural" for me.

I also so think this is dovetails with the best argument for reproducible bootstraps (as the follow up to reproducible builds). Without that, and like with our socials institutions, we have a a "historical bootstrap" we are constrained by. But by making an artificial bootstrap, we gain some freedom to tinker rather than being completely constrained by historical happenstance.

With software it is clear what this looks like. With something like governance and money it is less clear. Certainly it's hard to imagine the John Locke style arguments bootstrapping from "primitive man" working out, as children must be raised in a culture before they get the privileges of democracy, and are thus biased. But perhaps there are other more feasible ways.
Maybe that's a typo? 1989 sounds more accurate in the context.
Couple years ago I was trialing the big music streaming services. I cancelled Apple music after couple days, despite being 3 month trilal, because the ui was unusable in Windows. Graphic glitches, freezes, memory leaks.
Do Macs support Atmos over HDMI to a home theatre?
Good for Austria. From the article it seems they figured out a way to pay off rural voters (larger carbon dividend in areas with poor transit) and energy intensive industries (other tax cuts). I'd rather not see such provisions, but they're very pragmatic, and minor relative to the achievement. Copy round the world.
Exactly. GraphQL is merely REST 2.0. That's all it is. Whether it's even an improvement over REST 1.0 is debatable.
> but the point is that they’re not as successful as they could be if they were loosely federated, more focused, independent companies

I didn't see that point being made, I only saw it being affirmed without substantiated reasons.

Why do you believe they aren't as successful in their consolidated state as they would be in a seperated state? What data, annectodes, rationale, experiments, experiences, etc. lead you to believe this to be a generalized truth?

> but not of putting gov and corp on equal footing here

Same thing, I saw nothing to justify why whatever may be true of corporations somehow would similarly apply to a different context such as governments.

Why do you believe that what is generally true for a corporate model would be for a government? What data, annectodes, rationale, experiments, experiences, etc. lead you to believe this to be a generalized truth?

And in both cases, are there exceptions to these truths? Are their circumstances that are required for them to hold?

And if you're not going to walk me through the proof, at least make a case for why I should trust your assessment. Who are you and how much time and effort did you spend evaluating this? Did you do so in good faith? What did you do to make sure you challenged your pre-conceptions and didn't fall pray to bias? Did you have other people review your assessment? Were they themselves deep thinkers on the same topics? Do you have skin in the game? Did you test your theories in any way? Etc.
Agreed, I did the same! I do still get fatigued wearing them, but it takes a bit longer. I love it for city walks / cycling where it's important to be aware of my surroundings.
It's so interesting to see how, in modern left-wing movements, concern on behalf of groups like "black drag queens" has supplanted concern for working class people. I suppose it's because the former group is much more glamorous.
That's why you move it in weird ways. Like fine art and crypto.
I am a little confused. Which of the books are you and GP talking about that is so dark?
The r > g thing is cool in theory but it has an obvious flaw. As inequality rises returns go down. Interest rates have hit rock bottom rates.

You have to explain how returns can exceed economic growth. Your returns have to be earned through coercion basically, the other party can't refuse. Overpriced stocks just result in lower yields. I can only think of real estate as something that is earning a fixed return through coercion. The other thing would be money if the fed forcibly raised interest rates but interest is already zero.
> granted by a Jewish actor

He appropriated his own culture? Shall we then count everything inspired by other European cultures, that is present in pop culture, as "appropriated", regardless of who introduced it to pop culture?

I agree the idea of cultural appropriation is absurd, but so was his (and yours) example.
I'm wasn't arguing merely mentioning that we are both incorrectly using language. Didn't know that was marketing. Fair enough on Malcolm.

Still think it is not correct to oversimply massive worker movements that have toppled governments, the nazis, and the US military as merely college students.
I’m not sure about Macs, but AppleTV definitely does.
Much to the contrary, it is much much much harder than any system in fundamental physics. The economy (like the weather, or cells) is a much more complex system than a black hole or a hadron.

Furthermore, it actually has a peculiarity unique to studying systems of humans (as does psychology or sociology): predictions about the system affect the system, which makes it even more difficult to distinguish true predictions from self-fulfiling prophecies.
"Representative democracies" train people to be apathetic.

Since birth they are made to believe that the miraculous democratic republic they live in gives them agency, and that the reason they actually don't have agency is because their fellow citizens are stupid and can't vote for the right things.

The result is a feeling of justified helplessness. There's no feeling of outrage at the greedy tyrannical ruling class, because after all either you or your neighors "chose" them.

And if taxation laws are unjust, it's your neighbors' fault. They voted for red while blue would obviously have your best interests in mind. Nevermind the fact that both red and blue are part of the same wealth and social class, who benefit from the same laws.
They work for a very specific use case. And if you need to expand that use case, or address others, good luck. Relational database systems are complicated for good reasons. Schemas, which do cause problems, are there for good reasons, and the alternative problems obtained by going without schemas are just not worth it, nearly all the time.

I think a lot of the attraction of NoSQL databases is that they are seductive for people who don't know about the problems inherent in working with shared, persistent, long-lived data, (i.e. years). A NoSQL system lets such people get started easily. They start down the path, and then they run into dragons, and muggers, and hostile aliens. This is a really good description of what I mean: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never....
This is especially disappointing considering CBS owns what seems to be one of the more popular sports statistic suites: https://www.statcrew.com/
That's what charitable foundations/trusts are about.
>This method instead : you post some securities and you get a loan with no questions asked. It seems too good to be true or intentional from the financial institution side as it completely sidesteps the due diligence process.

It's not any different than going to a pawn shop and getting a loan, no questions asked. They don't ask any questions (aside from any mandatory AML/KYC ones) because they don't need to. The combination of easy to sell/liquid stock and the margin requirement makes it very unlikely that they'll lose their money. If you have $100k worth of stocks, SEC/FINRA regulations means that you can borrow up to $50k, and your portfolio can drop another $25k before they start liquidating your holdings. At that point you still have $75k worth of collateral for $50k worth of loans, so the chances of them losing money is slim.
> Isn’t it just as simple as [short paragraph].

The answer is going to be no x)
If the laborer is 2x as productive tomorrow then the value of your dollars is the same.
Go AST was never really designed for re-writing of the source. Comments are stored by their byte offset instead of attached to nodes, so re-arranging nodes breaks the output...

Check out my dst (decorated syntax tree) library: it allows you to manipulate Go source without breaking the comments and line-feeds:

https://github.com/dave/dst
If you like this stuff data oriented design[1] is a nice framework that isn't arch specific(but can be extended to be if you need to make more gains that are arch aware). Back when I worked in the PS3/X360 days engines written for PS3 had better cache locality(SPUs forced hard limits vs hitting a cache miss) and ran faster on the X360 as result well when ported.

You can do do fun things like using radix sort with bucket sizes that line up well with L2/L3 caches(saw a multi order of magnitude speedup for that one) and data aware layouts that net 10-30x speedups for the same data. Many RMDBs use similar approaches from what I understand as well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
Victor AD loses a hustle mate back then in Warri to death
> how small a dent it seems to make in the discourse

"The discourse" is increasingly unglued from any kind of ground truths. The pandemic has just made that far more obvious. It's just people refighting the same wars.

> Or, you know, riots.

The US had a huge number of riots over the last year, and violent (but as yet unarmed) protestors stormed the federal and some state capitols. (There was also armed but not violent protest, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52496514) Several cities briefly had "autonomous zones" and at least one police station burned down.
The saddest thing about those $46 billion is that this is by far enough money to develop new reactors that could reduce the waste by 99%.

But instead, idiotic politics has locked that money into an equally idiotic project called Yucca Mountain. In on of the most amazingly stupid sagas of stupidity in history.

You literally have the money sitting there to flat out solve the problem, but instead make a solution impossible trying to force something that makes non sense in the first place.

Its truly sad, like seriously, truley sad for the whole world.

The amount of nuclear advanced development one could make with $46 billion is insane.

Think about how NASA developed SpaceX with just a few billion. You could literally have commercial competition to develop next generation fast burners and thorium breeders.

The state of nuclear competency is one of the saddest things in the world today. We have the technology that could solve the majority of the world energy problems and essentially refuse to use it, all the way from popular to even technological elites (like HN).
And isn't that exactly thing that makes this 'unfair'? If this was a way that everyone could use to lower their taxes, I would have no issue with such practices.

But - as you rightly point out - if that was the case, these loopholes would be closed first thing in the morning. These are loopholes created by the extensive lobbying of an exclusive club of people that do not want this to be available for the common plebs, but exclusive to the rich boys (and gals) club.
See my reply to the other child of this comment, but basically I don't see a solid roadmap anymore from here to there - sure there's a a lot of progress and advances but taken as a whole, the singularity idea doesn't account for anything but technological advances as plotted on a curve. There are a ton of economic, social, and squishy human factors that aren't really taken into consideration. It's a fascinating idea, but I don't find it very realistic or practical, much like A.I., or self-driving cars, or casual human space travel.

If you had asked me 10-15 years ago, I would still be pretty sure it could happen, but the last decade or so of real-world technological advance has convinced me otherwise.
Maybe it wasn’t meant to be taken literally, but it’s difficult to believe he listened to tens of thousands of tracks, which would amount to almost 10 weeks of non-stop music on the conservative end of an estimate.
Yup. Survivorship bias. For every one of those there are 10 who were in a) The wrong industry, b) The wrong business model, c) The wrong product, d) The wrong collaborators (you know, the ones that cannot be easily removed even if you wanted to.) So much luck involved. I equate it to bands, for every Beatles there are 100s of unsuccessful solo artists who started out every bit as talented as Paul & John. Eventually the really good ones do make it I think, but not the way they expected, and not as one of these CEO sprinters.
Microphonics can be just as much of an issue with wireless headphones.
Android has had Dolby atmos for years as has tidal. If you’re an apple fanboi just start the article with that disclaimer so people can read the article through the appropriate lens. Almost all of the modern high-end “audiophile” gear runs Linux under the covers. This isn’t revolutionary, it’s apple joining the atmos party.
This assumes that the increase in traffic due to Google is beneficial, which it rarely is for personal diary sites.
Python3 is pretty close to Go in age and was a purposely compatibility breaking, so it could have easily changed things at that point and they definitely knew about the problem at that point.
A lot of schools offer credit by exam for the intro classes. Very few people take advantage of the opportunity so it's not highly known. You need to be enrolled and you need to look in the school's catalog to see what they offer. You can even take the exam in one school and transfer the credits to another school where you want to graduate. Look at junior colleges. They are easy to enroll in and you can transfers the credits to a four year university. Don't expect to get a degree by exam but you can get some of the intro and general education classes out of the way. Also there are so many schools doing remote that it's a very good time to enroll in a school and never have to go to a classroom. This expands your choices.
I can't get the humancetipede image out of my head with these gangs chainfucking eachother with revil being the last link in the chain
Offshore entities can own properties in most open economies. They don't typically get taxed where they own the property or good, but where a profit is realized or an action takes place.

For example, in TFA it's mentioned that the Blairs bought an offshore company that owned a building in London; they really bought the building, but doing it this way allowed them to avoid property taxes in the UK that relate to ownership transfers ("stamp duty"). They could then hire out offices, and if they do that through the offshore company that "taxable income" would similarly disappear. Her Majesty's Revenues & Customs might eventually object to the arrangement, but if the offshore owners are not known, what are they going to do, bulldoze a historical central London property? Obviously not.
This article is high on audiophile waffle and low on substance!

Atmos-for-the-home is a fad that's being heavily pushed by music studios. It makes total sense for movies (the concept of an object-based audio standard which gets rendered to however many speakers are in your theatre saves a huge amount of hassle on mixing and QCing dozens of mixes in LCR, 5.1, 7.1... 22.2, etc) but for most people who aren't sitting in a purpose-built listening room it has very limited utility.

If you've got a single "Atmos" speaker in the corner of your kitchen, should it really attempt to spatialise the audio coming from your shelf? Even if you put speakers all around your living room, unless there's a defined "centre" position it doesn't make much sense.

Headphones are even worse. Do you ignore head-tracking information (in which case the binaural downmix will almost certainly be worse than a properly rendered stereo mix - just switch from stereo to Atmos on Apple Music on headphones for an example - the stereo versions almost all sound better) or use head-tracking information in real time (in which case, turn a corner while you're walking and suddenly the lead vocal is coming from the left)?

Atmos/object-based mixing is a very sensible evolution in pro audio, for sure. But Atmos on an iPhone speaker is a weird bit of marketing that doesn't really make much sense...
This comment made me laugh. Kudos.