skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MORPHEUS: For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. But then I saw the fields with my own eyes, watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living -

NEO (politely): Excuse me, please.

MORPHEUS: Yes, Neo?

NEO: I've kept quiet for as long as I could, but I feel a certain need to speak up at this point. The human body is the most inefficient source of energy you could possibly imagine. The efficiency of a power plant at converting thermal energy into electricity decreases as you run the turbines at lower temperatures. If you had any sort of food humans could eat, it would be more efficient to burn it in a furnace than feed it to humans. And now you're telling me that their food is the bodies of the dead, fed to the living? Haven't you ever heard of the laws of thermodynamics?

MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo?

NEO: Anyone who's made it past one science class in high school ought to know about the laws of thermodynamics!

MORPHEUS: Where did you go to high school, Neo?

(Pause.)

NEO: ...in the Matrix.

MORPHEUS: The machines tell elegant lies.

(Pause.)

NEO (in a small voice): Could I please have a real physics textbook?

MORPHEUS: There is no such thing, Neo. The universe doesn't run on math.

- https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/64/Harry-Potter-and-the...
Nepotism Is the Currency of the Industry
If you don’t have any nepotism points™ to spend, then regardless of how clever your code is, how widely your product solves a solution, or how readily it fits into an ecosystem, without the nepotism points™, you will go nowhere.

A smug fool with a single nepotism point™ in his account is worth more than all the developers in the world.
High speed ultrafast laser anisotropic nanostructuring by energy deposition
Maybe we should just stop putting gross amounts of sugar in everything. People have no problems getting rid of beef or meats. We should be able to get rid of some of our worst industries.
Environmental case for this stuff is bad because of insane amount of chemicals necessary to grow unnattural (i.e. GMO) products. Those chemicals then run off and poison the environment. Then we need to add more chemicals, (i.e. flouride) to deal with consumption.
Economically sugar/corn-syrup receive an enormous amount of subsidies.
From a human rights perspective sugar farming is terrible (google Fanjuls to learn more).
Obesity was the greatest risk factor besides age for COVID-19, so if as a society we can start mandating the jab, we can mandate some people don't get their "treats".
>but it's not really the data itself degrading. Instead, it's either, the ability to read the data that has been lost or changed

That's what the "or become unusable" refers to.
Not part of the metaverse: https://simulavr.com
> Yep, the capital owning class just doesn't care if their businesses go into shock because they already have their cash in hand.

Billionaires have relatively very little cash in hand. Their billions typically are in form of business equity, and so they very much care of the businesses go into shock.
Completely agree. I wonder what it is about programming something from nothing that still makes people think it isn't a creative pursuit. The Venn diagram of writers, painters, guitarists and programmers needs to be more heavily advertised to get past this stigma of engineer meaning some boring old fart typing mindless code at a keyboard.
Does mDNS work across VPN tunnels? The main reason I delay IPv6 is because I access hosts across the VPN by their IPs, and I don't want to publish their DNS records.
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This thread went Meta and we are no longer talking about Facebook.

You just did the same thing.
This is just some dystopian sounding shit, innit? Meta(verse, data, etc.), humans have just sold themselves out.
AND Ryan's point about taxing unrealized capital gains was that it forces founders to divest over time. Which one is it?
No it isn't: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/sweden?countr...
There was a 4:1 split in July, 2020 so it's comparable to the $0.82 dividend Apple was issuing earlier in 2020.

https://investor.apple.com/dividend-history/default.aspx
When added, fluoride is generally adjusted to 0.5-1.5ppm, a bit less than ocean water. Depending where you live, your water supply probably has plenty of fluoride. (Perhaps you can consider it "pre-medicated").

Natural water sources vary widely. Above 2ppm it starts to become a problem. In Africa and China 60% of the population have these levels or higher in their drinking water.

Some of the initial studies in the early 1900s which identified fluoride as a factor in dental health were of children in Colorado with discolored, but very strong, teeth. Their water sources were up to 13ppm fluoride.
Stole or just copied, the 'idea' of a social network wasn't novel by the time fb came around. Credit where it's due, it was executed well in the early stages and had the unique twist of being college-only at the beginning. People don't remember that when fb started gaining traction, friendster was already very much a thing but was stumbling hard on execution. I remember the friendster site being just dog slow. Myspace and Hi5 were also in the mix before or right at the same time as fb. Really just the PR/marketing angle and the not screwing up on execution are fb's claim to fame.
- Sapiens
- Thinking in Systems
As someone with a naturophile mother who grew up drinking nothing but filtered water as a child, I was riddled with tooth decay. So many cavities and fillings that I lost count. Two crowns and one root canal all before my 13th birthday.

I believe we also used some kind of natural toothpaste that was probably fluoride free.

It's only recently that I connected the dots and realized that never drinking tap water is probably why my teeth are a mess. I'm almost certainly going to have to get implants much earlier in life than I should have.

It might be possible to avoid this with proper fluoride toothpaste or mouth wash, but you simply can't rely on most people knowing enough to care or understand the importance of it. For most people, if an issue hasn't personally affected them, they tend to not consider a risk that needs to be mitigated.
In a Wooooorld, where newer generation of developers does not grasp the concept of database indexes, and network latency is assumed to be zero, one man.....
Some VR looks pretty good, I think The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners looks great!

But of course, good proper unjank VR seemingly requires a 5x GPU power increase. You need 90+ FPS, two screens, high rez, and responsive. It's a pretty hard ask, so games need to take a big step down in quality in the name of performance. Even worse, a persons situational awareness and scale take a big leap up when compared to a flat screen, you notice flaws way easier.

Personally I was pretty lucky, VR doesn't seem to make me sick. And I use it frequently for lunch break exercise, I get to play games and get some physical activity in, which is a big win for a desk jockey. On that reason alone I don't think VR is going away. That's amazingly valuable.
What comes to mind is The Big Short. That is, following the herd - to the point of negligence - is an advantage, until it's not. Where and when did Wall Street and Finance get the reputation as geniuses? What's so genius about rubber stamping herd mentality ideas?

That aside, have there been any winners? Companies or industries that were less RoE driven? Or does the economy completely lack "bio" diversity?
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon? [pdf]
Gross margin on the the increase in services sales looks astonishing. Has there been a one off increase in eg fees for Google search in services revenue?
Containers vs. Pods – Taking a Deeper Look
That is what has always confused me about "prediction markets".

The reason why non-experts perform as well as experts is because there is a huge level of randomness in actual outcomes, and very little information that can help predict beyond randomness.

And prediction really isn't the goal in practice, but robustness. Even if you were a "superforecaster", you are still going to be wrong most of the time. So surely it is more important to be robust to outcomes and stop trying to predict something that can't be predicted.

(To compare this with large skill gaps to expertise...sports betting, these events are random, some are more random than others but the gap with expert knowledge exists because there is information that exists that will help you predict outcomes. That gap doesn't exist in politics because there is no real information that can help you...it is just totally different, it makes no sense to compare them imo).
That part of the Twitter thread actually made me laugh out loud. In the middle of talking about how modern finance is messed up he has a kind of unprompted little aside about how “taxes are bad!!!”

Dear lord the amount of smug “wE aRe ThE mOSt EfFicIEnt wAY Of AllOCaTinG CaPitAl” arguments from very wealthy founders that would prefer to become more wealthy is frankly ridiculous. I get it, you went to Stanford and they taught you some fancy words to trick people into giving you money instead of investing in public infrastructure and services.
How so? What would this change?
>Yep, the capital owning class just doesn't care if their businesses go into shock because they already have their cash in hand.

You do realize when we talk about jeff bezos being a billionaire, it doesn't mean he has his billions in gold/cash in a vault somewhere? The overwhelming majority of his wealth is tied in various financial assets (eg. equities) that certainly do get affected when "businesses go into shock". Sure, he'll be in a much better position to weather such "shocks", but it's still in his best interest to ensure that the economy doesn't crash.
Snowclones are all you need!
next up: custom FizzBuzz ASIC with 128 fizz and 128 buzz cores for maximum throughput.
If building Facebook isn't enough evidence of success for you, I don't know what is. Pretty sure most people with the same idea could not have turned it into what Facebook is today. Also, Facebook isn't just one idea - it's many ideas.
This is fantastic news.

I already blogged about it when it was announced on December last year [0]. Adding SQL Server compatibility opens Postgres to new users, use cases, markets. It makes one of the most general-purpose databases to reach even more "purposes".

I hope work and discussions to integrate this upstream will start soon and will be fruitful. It won't be easy, but I believe it would be definitely worth the effort.

[0]: https://www.ongres.com/blog/aws_announces_open_source_postgr...
The world's response to the pandemic undermined my belief that the human civilization can handle an existential crisis rationally and efficiently. Covid is of course nowhere near an existential crisis. But still, we so readily plunged ourselves into an irrational, politicized, polarized, radicalized, univariate, low-resolution mess, that if the real s*t hits the fan, I am not sure we stand a chance. I never lost so much trust in so many people, institutions, things and concepts at such a rapid pace. The fragility of our humanity became to me acutely apparent.
Two similarly sized cities, one stopped fluoridation, the other didn't, the study shows a 17.6% increase in cavities in grade 2 students[0]. So yes, there seems a benefit of fluoride to children's teeth. Although, better dental hygiene can also do this, and on average cavities have trended down around the world (fluoride in water or not).

But that's not what the article is about.. is fluoride dangerous for humans to ingest? (also yes) So given there are more direct ways to get fluoride to teeth (toothpaste - somewhat, varnishes, lacquers or rinses - good), should we continue to cause damage to all in the name of helping young children's teeth?

https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/news/calgary-childrens-dental-he...
His ability to hold on to pole position once he gets it is definitely unprecedented, especially in an industry that's known for it's volatility. But in terms of original creativity, he scores extremely low.
That's only half the story. The court based it on the following facts:

* The website was accessible from Germany

* The website was partly translated into German

* The website offered German-language content

* The explicitly offered worldwide service ("anyone anywhere")

* There was a disclaimer directed at people not located in the US
If you mean "unique personality" as in separate from your social media account, that was also announced in the video. Apparently users will be able to create Meta accounts that are not linked to a Facebook profile. They'll start with introducing work accounts and it will be generalized from there.
Dividends are not an efficient mechanism to return cash to investors. The recipient is forcefully taxed.

Share buybacks technically accomplish the same; the proportional increase in shareholder value should be the same. However, investors who do not want to recognize income that year do not have to; whereas investors who need the dividend income can sell a small number of appreciated shares.
So increasing our natural amounts is somehow ok?

MSG is in our system too, but people who eat food with it added in, often complain of headaches.
>> He's wrong to suggest that the billionaire class and founders will solve the problem if we only trust them and let them keep their money.

He didn't say they'd solve the problem. He said they're the only ones who can be resilient in hard times. OK I think he said the ARE resilient, I say "can be" because it's still a choice.

"I think economists call it rent-seeking." That's what the incumbents are after, and so are a lot of the startups - at least the startups seeking round after round of investment. If they're not seeking rent, they're trying to set up infrastructure (manufacturing or cloud this-or-that) and collecting returns (rent) on that investment. Nobody talks about profit on goods sold, they talk about return on capital (or RoE) and that seems a lot more like rent.
But Apple don’t need a portable cross platform API which they have limited control over and can’t accurately forecast functionality.
They need something they can tightly control which grows side-by-side with their hardware ambitions/product vision.
OpenGL did little to make the Mac easier to target, while supporting a standard that sunk into irrelevance, I’m sure they’re not keen to make that mistake twice.

The bonus of this approach is apple needed to directly sponsor+support blender to make it happen.
New users are also harmed by change. Our user manuals are the Google index, so change mean those manuals become outdated.

As in all things, it is a balancing act.
Ok. I thought your comments were even more patronising, since you repeatedly discounted the work of many thousands of cosmologists around the world who did not stop maths at 18, and was provoked by them.

A low math book I wholeheartedly recommend is A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime by Wheeler, which you can borrow from https://archive.org/details/journeyintogravi0000whee

(Apart from writing this neat book, Wheeler is also the coauthor of one of the standard graduate-level textbooks on General Relativity.)

Unfortunately the book is fairly rare, but there are usually purchase options and a public library might have a copy, or could get one via inter-library lending.

I cannot gauge your level of interest other than that you expressed some; I also did not know until now, in spite of your disclaimer about not being a physicist (and being "an armchair cosmologist"), how little maths you have.

I'll end with a Feynman quote that seems relevant when gauging one's own interest in and ability to talk about a topic that one does not know well: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
I worked at a company who made products on contract, but the contract stipulated the vendor we had to use to get the raw materials. The raw materials were just aluminum castings, but they were a custom shape specifically for this customer of ours. They could only be used for this one product.

I noticed that the inventory levels of our vendor were dropping, but we weren't buying. Meaning our customer was ordering the same product from a competitor.

I proposed that we spend the money to buy the rest of the material at the vendor. Basically denying our competitor the materials and forcing either them to come to us or the customer dropping the order and reordering through us. This would have been a risk because that's about a year supply of proprietary castings that we can't use for anything else, but I really thought it was a worthwhile opportunity. But it went against lean principles so we didn't do it.

Fast forward 6 months and our competitor basically did the same thing to us.
> Switzerfy the economy

Just off the top of my head, the Swiss:

don't make airplanes (no Boeing, Embraer)

don't make cars (no GM, Ford, Toyota, etc)

have big consolidated banks (UBS & CS)

have large trading firms (Glencore, Trafigura)

etc....

My point is not to nitpick (I actually agree with your post) , but to show that even in a tiny country like Switzerland (smaller than Chicago), it is hard to do that.
I agree, and I think it's somewhat generational. My dad is now on social security, but he will stop at any yard sale. Or talk for hours about trying to get some piece of furniture from an acquaintance. His house is full of cheap crap I'm going to have to haul away.
> but he's likely actually specifically referring to pressed fent (or fent analogue) pills that are made to look like real oxycodone pills

That sounds like a really, really bad idea. Wow.
You are reading words that nobody wrote. No-one claimed that they were redefining the ‘C spec’ by passing flags to their compiler - the standards board’s job is still safe!
I like the way how he explains how I still have more stuff available to me during a fucking global pandemic than my parents ever had in normal times, let alone the grands but it's still a troubling "supply chain bottleneck" that's about three letter acronyms something something.

I think it's a good test run for a time of war, or ultra serious pandemics. And we did fucking well. Also a good thing to bring up the next time some trashy moron talks about how on Twitter they read about oversupply of food in the West and how it's bad.
I'm suddenly teleported back to 2006 when people didn't take Facebook seriously at all.
I’m not the person you replied to but the Affordable Care Act implemented a requirement that health insurance plans offer optional pediatric dental coverage for anyone under 18 and IIRC it requires companies offering dental plans to employees to provide options for family coverage and not just individual plans.

I recently posted a similar comment in a thread about drug addiction but perhaps it’s not an increase in cavities so much as it’s an increase in access to affordable pediatric dental care.
> I wish you could disable cores dynamically...

Another comment says /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-n]/online doesn't work, but I think you can get pretty far by changing the CPU affinity at the cgroup or process levels (for userspace) and on /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity (for interrupts). There are likely some kernel threads that would still run on the other cores, but this is reasonably close.

In particular, looks like setting CPUAffinity= /etc/systemd/system.conf will set a default for all of userspace that you can override for particular things as desired.
Actually a laser or waterjet has to pierce all those arrays of holes and slots, which take time, which is what you charge for. Plus deburring and powdercoating. At only 1mm thick the pierces will go fast, but prices will not be cheap until you're punching out low thousands on a CNC turret punch. Source: I own and operate a waterjet and frequently design similar parts.
mindcandy's comment sums it up well, but I'll just add that the loot is worthless without the game now - that's the point of vendor lockin.

But if items and their properties are stored in a public-by-default way, then other games can incorporate those items in it (without Blizzard's permission). So if you get some loot in one game, it can become available in others.

The neat idea is that application data from different sources become composable by default.

Frankly, I'm not much of a gamer - but an open ledger is the only basis that I can see to avoid vendor lock-in for the increasingly nuanced virtual environments that we are building.
Hah, that was fun - 'blindly' picked my current font!
Even if you are right, what would be your solution?

I mean, the problem is not that we lack transparency, but that we have run out of options to fight the bottlenecks. Having some stockpiles as buffers would be one options to fight the problem.
> Do people still have LAN parties?

I averaged one or two a year through the 2010s, but my last one was in early 2020 for obvious reasons.

While most games can be played over the internet these days and voice/video chat is now accessible enough that the experience can be pretty close, in the end there's still nothing like being in the same room as your friends when you're either cooperating to take down a raid boss or taunting them after a headshot.
Remember when Google Glass was supposed to take over the world? Then Magic Leap. Then HoloLens. Then Oculus. And the countless online worlds since Second Life?

This entire industry has been a few years away from mainstream success for decades now. All of it is ultimately a tech showcase without a product use case.
I have a tidbit on the following:
>> we'd be looking 10-100x the casualties.

Viruses conform to the distribution of deadliness-vs-reproduction rate. For Sars 1 to spread widely, it has to be less deadly. There are limits to how a virus can both be deadly and contagious.

But just a tidbit on this statement.
> If Apple’s 30% is garbage, so is Google’s and every console makers.

I agree. We have to hold Apple accountable first though, because they're abusing it hardest.

> Do you support Android? Have you bought any game consoles.

I do support Android, through F-Droid, and while my app wouldn't benefit from existing on a console I've sideloaded several apps to my Xbox One without any problem. I played through Castlevania last week and it ran flawlessly, so it's mostly Sony and Nintendo who are holdouts at this point (and I say that as someone with a hacked Switch).

> Are you really unaware of all of the malware that is on computers because of no sandboxing?

I'm fully aware. I just don't think it matters when the iPhone has much more malicious attack vectors, like zero-click iMessage exploits that cut straight through BlastDoor like it didn't exist. Maybe once Apple fixes their more egregious security vulnerabilities and embraces transparency they'd have an argument: but right now it's a poorly-disguised and obvious excuse for lock-in.
I think our legislative has better things to do than to adopt US copyright law before 1978. Although it seems unpopular IMHO it would have caused project Gutenberg no harm to remove this few items until copyright is expired.

We are always complaining about China that they do not fully honor IP. I believe it is an ethical thing to do to honour the laws of the country were sth was originally created even if strictly legally speaking I can move around the world to circumvent unpleasant jurisdiction.
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