skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally want people to have an opinion, often a strong opinion; but here Ben is trying to amass a vast amount of information, history and context, filtering down to the essense and presenting all sides. So, in a way, Ben is a moderator of tech information. Ben if you're reading this, thank you; and I highly recommend the Stratechery subscription if you haven't gotten one yet.
DNA testing reveals virgin births in California condors
> Facebook has become Meta. No we have nothing to do (not affiliated in any way - ed.) with it XD[0]

META (https://meta.ua) is Ukrainian web-portal (web-search platform, e-mail service, news, etc.) founded on November 12, 1998.[1]

Here is META tech news[2] article[3] on Facebook rebranding to Meta.[4]

[0] https://www.facebook.com/meta.ua/posts/287570363373335?_fb_n...

[1] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/META

[2] https://twitter.com/meta_ua_tech

[3] https://meta.ua/uk/news/tech/29195-facebook-stal-meta/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29029317
A server only needs to support range requests to support seeking to parts of the video that haven't yet downloaded.
Using NAT doesn't force ULA. You can NAT any address you want on your gateway/router.
Touché, Amelia Bedelia ;) perhaps it’s not as obvious as I thought!
> Actually, I do; at least, I think that galaxies rotations are peculiar, but can be explained by the addition of unobserved matter.

That was the original hypothesis. It's literally the first thing the theorists came up with. There's an anomaly -- the simplest explanation is there's more ordinary matter there that we can't see. But why can't we see it? Well, we see stars because they emit light, we see gas clouds because the reflect light, so there's gotta be more matter there that doesn't give off light. What do we call it? Well, it's matter, and it's dark, so let's call it dark matter.

Hypothesis 1.0, there's additional ordinary matter that is unobserved, was invalidated. It's one of the things that we know for certain is false. At this point, honestly, additional unobserved ordinary matter theory is about as credible as luminiferous aether theory for explaining the propagation of light. It's not a dumb idea -- "There's more stuff" is the simplest explanation, as is "Waves travel through a medium, so there must be a medium". But after more and more observations start piling up that are incompatible with the hypothesis, it's time to move on. Ordinary matter as an explanation for galactic rotation curves has been dead for about 40 years.
I definitely have evidence that wolves are smarter than dogs. [1][2] You're welcome to nitpick but it's obvious that wolves are smarter than dogs.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soe-mONHGMc

2: https://www.studyfinds.org/wolves-smarter-dogs-logic/
China certainly has quality issues with construction. See "tofu-dreg project":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project
Because:

1. Often takes more than 5 seconds.

2. I often continue to receive newsletters after unsubscribing (not just for a few months, but forever - the unsubscribe feature doesn't work).

3. Why spend 5 seconds for each newsletter when I can use a solution that doesn't require any of my time?

4. This method has the benefit of killing spam pretty much instantly - not just newsletters. Why would I want to hunt for an unsubscribe link when I can kill two categories of problems with less effort than killing a few individual emails?
With all due respect, I have been hospitalized for nearly 2 months in a Covid ward since early last December. Actually I had a very bad road accident, but having tested positive when brought to the the ER (although I had symptomatic Covid a month earlier and was cured at home, until I tested negative) they were forced to keep me in the Covid ward, which meant no relatives visiting, everyone under suits+helmets, no contacts beyond the strict necessary, and the worst one: I had to get back surgery for a broken L4 vertebrae, but there was no surgeon willing to take the risk; they wanted me to become negative first, but I didn't, although 100% asymptomatic all swabs turned positive, so I had to wait about 10 days laying in bed with two wrists, one arm, one shoulder and one vertebrae broken, which ultimately damaged my spine so that now, although I can walk almost normally, I've lost sensitivity to some parts of both legs and some functionality of the right leg.
My condition aside, while I was there I've seen 5 people die of Covid, and 2 of them were next to my bed. Doctors and nurses were struggling to help everyone to the point that in some cases I had to keep my own shit for over 3 hours multiple times because there was no one around to help cleaning me: I was badly injured but wasn't in a life threatening condition, while many Covid patients were dying; ER and ICUs were full, so I was put behind in line. Couldn't complain about that.

By writing that nonsense you're shitting on the graves of everyone who lost their lives or those who lost their relatives and friends, just like the husband of a friend of mine who didn't get the vaccine in time and now is dead, and those who did their best to help others.

Please either stop or fuck off.
The problem isn't RoE itself, it's the focus on short-term RoE.

You can juice RoE in the short term by removing slack and shock absorbers, because increasing the brittleness of the supply chain probably won't show up in this quarter's returns.

The supply chain for fuel is brittle. There isn't sufficient inventory in tanks to buffer even short disruptions. A pipeline offline for a couple days is enough to make a crisis.

People catch wind of the crisis and start filling their tanks at three-quarters full instead of one-quarter full, and the brittle supply chain breaks with the accelerated demand.

Same thing we're seeing with the global supply chain which was already brittle, now individuals and companies are putting in bigger orders sooner to compensate, and it fails in the face of accelerated demand.
It would also mean Apple have to radically restructure the compensation of many of their corporate employees to remain competitive.
The transition to super labs, and away from small time Sudafed based meth production, happened prior to the release of Breaking Bad. They based their show on what was occurring in the real world.
This isn't about solving spam, it's about adding a toll booth to your email as LinkedIn does with its messaging service InMail.

I can't remember the last time I saw a spam email manage to get through my Gmail filter at home or my Outlook filter at work.
No it means keeping up with inflation but not substantially beating it.
Apologies; I confused BPC-157 with TB-500, and made a horrible amalgamation.

What do you want to know? Do you have some specific goal you want achieved or curiosity that you would like satisfied?

It's been a bit since I've been involved with these things. Most of it is underground, but I can give you a quick rundown.

BPC-157 and TB-500 are regenerative peptides. BPC-157 seems to be more "global" and neuro-involved throughout the body, while TB-500 is more local and structural (joints, tendons, etc.). BPC-157 also has a (prolonged) effect in some that negates the effects of amphetamines. Subcutaneous injections of BPC-157 have helped get rid of my recurring ganglion cysts and golfer's elbow.

Semax would fall under "slavic nootropics," along with Selank, and if I remember correctly Epithalon. All have "sub-versions" of varying efficacy. F.e. all have "N-Acetyl" and "N-Acetyl Amidate" versions. NASA would be the shortened version of "N-Acetyl Semax Amidate" -- which in my experience is the "strongest." With NASA, while I was injecting it subcutaneously it brought a sort of structure to my mind I hadn't had since I was a child. It's like feeling everything is falling into place, and a loss of the feeling of helplessness.

If you've ever used noopept, it's like that except with more real and long-lasting effects. I would liken it to bromantane, too.

If not, it's difficult to explain what they are, because they're such a different class of drugs that there's no reference point to base their effects off of. Imagine that you have a drug, but instead of giving you a few hours of a noticeable "high" or "low," instead you get a small, but perceptible shift in how you view the world, and how you filter all the information coming in. Like a micro-micro-micro dose of LSD. No high, no impairment, just a beneficial "shift" in your perception that lasts for an indeterminate, but long time.

A few of my friends were career-researchers and likened these effects to be genomic (subtly altering the expression of genes all around the body) rather than physical (that is, simple physical reactions like consuming more electrolytes would cause you to hold more water, and become bloated, because electrolytes attract and "hold" water; or how drunkenness is simply a temporary shift in the delicate GABA/glutamate balance in your brain). The purely "physical" drugs require constant re-dosing to be effective, while the more genomic ones (such as peptides) can have long-lasting effects even after they've been ceased.
You can use epicycles to draw the actual orbits of planets. That's what "epicycles" are, or were: a fairly accurate model of the observed orbits of planets relative to Earth built through a composition of circular motions.

One way to think about it is that you start by modeling the motion as a simple circular orbit. You then look at how the observed data differs from your circular model and add an epicycle whose parameters minimize the difference between your new model and your observations. Repeat this process until you get as close as you want to get.

The success of heliocentric elliptic-orbit model isn't that it's able to represent something impossible with epicycles, but that it's dramatically simpler. Kepler's three laws are:

1) The orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci.

2) A line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time.

3) The square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of the length of the semi-major axis of its orbit.

In contrast, the epicycle models had 40-80 cycles with parameters tuned to match the observed data.

I really like this video on how Fourier series work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sGWTCMz2k
You're the guru?
William Leonard Pickard and Owsley Stanley have interesting stories, some of which have been told.
The article mentions the inability to decide equality of functions. A paper [1] about proving properties of functional programs shows how to do that modulo halting theorem. E.g., if (\x -> f x == g x) halts we can decide whether f and g are equal.

[1] http://xenon.kiam.ru/~roman/doc/2009-Klyuchnikov_Romanenko--...

Basically, if supercompilation of the expression above results in a huge nested case that has either True as a result (termination) or an application of function (not terminated due to infinite data structures, for example), then functions are equivalent. Otherwise, if there is at least one False, they are not, the path to False provides a counterexample.
The thing that really disappoints me is that 418 I'm a Teapot isn’t registered—instead it’s reserved as “(Unused)”: https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-stat..., https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics.... As it stands, I suspect (as one that’s been involved in a couple and examined more back in 2013–2014) that most even vaguely recent HTTP libraries that have some kind of status code enum or constants defined take their data from the HTTP status codes registry, with a single exception for 418 I'm a Teapot.

As far as a 419 is concerned, I’d argue that 418 is already suitable anyway as a joke alternative to the more serious 429/503: “wp-admin.php? I’m not WordPress, I’m a teapot!” (Similar style to the joke about one cow warning another about the mad cow disease in the area, and the other responding that it’s not not worried because it’s a helicopter.)
The Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica depicted this somewhat believably, as being a kind of place where people could do really extreme things you could never possibly get away with in real life, i.e. gladiator battles, just getting murdered over and over, extreme sex and partying with no consequences. I don't think that's what Zuckerberg wants to sell as a vision, but that seemingly has to be what something like this would become.

Ironically, the creator of the technology in that show was a lot like Zuckerberg. He naively believed he was creating some transformative device to make people better but then they only wanted to use it for sex, violence, and escapism. And his daughter ends up becoming a terrorist radicalized by religious extremists after being appalled by the no ethics nihilism of her dad's world, whose digital avatar gains its own sentience and goes on to become the first Cylon, whose followers and descendents eventually end human civilization.

I wonder what will eventually become of Zuckerberg's daughters, what they'll think of him when they grow up.
Sorry, yes, I was only replying to the first part.
Only getting 7GiB/s on a Ryzen 7 1800X w/DDR4 3000. Zen 1 executes AVX2 instructions at half speed, but that doesn't account for all of the difference. I guess I need a new computer. To run FizzBuzz.
Not everyone has the same ability to utilize those hours. People have children and/or pets and/or loved ones to tend, different cognitive and physical limitations, different economic challenges, different social expectations, different living conditions which may impact all of the above.

Speaking for myself: between caring for a puppy, cognitive impairments from ADHD, sustained impact from burnout, and financial responsibilities for family… my ability to carve out free time for a very long list of things I’d like to do extracurricularly is limited to a few hours a week at most. Achieving a “months of work” project in my areas of interest and applicable talents is easily going to take 10x as long. And that also means being much more circumspect about where I choose to focus those interests.
You're an outlier, not the general population.

The general population tends towards hoarding, not away from it.

(or maybe, you're just digitally hoarding now)
Specifically in terms of being predictive you might be interested in reading Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock if you are not familiar with it already. He tried to empirically test experts political judgement and the main conclusion was pretty much everybody was bad. He now runs the good judgement project which trying to measure good forecasting skills to figure out who really is good at it. It was very eye opening to me at the time.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691178288/ex...
Well… I said it should, not that it would. ;-)
Using CockroachDB Kubernetes Operator with Azure AKS
Okay that makes sense, I was confused
But my point was that variable but decreasing costs seem to throw NIFO off too. Aircraft are the extreme example but I'm sure the first of Tesla's latest car model costs more to produce than the thousandth. Not even counting capital expenses but just by things running smoother with practice. NIFO seems to fall short here too.
I am thankful every day for the work of those who came before me. Their long hours toiling over hardware, assembly, compilers, protocol stacks, libraries, frameworks, etc let us focus on the bigger picture, how to write same-y CRUD apps for businesses :)
Crossing the Valley
I think an easy argument can be made that the standard home and car loans are the same. In spirit, payday loans are exactly the same.

Difference is just the volume of money and when the term is due.
As someone who has both struggled with having my various word usages defined recently as apocryphal or obsolete in dictionaries, and who may or may not have made wikipedia edits to direct my opponent to as a means resolve extremely trivial arguments, I don't treat dictionaries as reliable authorities. Nothing means anything anymore, caveat emptor.
Haha, no, but there may be some subconscious comfort in knowing the dogs have my back.
Just as anyone who has played Sim City 2000 knows that Los Angeles sprawl is far superior to living in a city 
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After hours trading is typically very low volume, so you can't conclude too many things from that result. It is one minor and very noisy indicator.
Seventeen thousand words, plus, and the author never develops his brexit take.

Take home message from this post: <quote> ..I found my position had become “both untenable professionally, and unbearable personally.” I believed I was being asked to tell “half-truths,” ... </quote>

The true calling of the author could be spellwright. Next time I want her take on Brexit.
That's 16 bytes per clock cycle, i.e. one avx register per clock cycle. As most intel CPUs can only do one store per clock cycle, that's also the theoretical limit with avx. I wonder if using non temporal stores would help make the code be cache size agnostic.

Note that the instruction latency is not important as long as you can pipeline the computation fully (which appear to be the case here!).

Edit: to go faster you would need to be able to use the bandwidth of more than one cpu. I wonder if you could precompute were the output will cross a page to be able to have distinct cores work on distinct pages... Hum I need a notepad.

Edit2: it is much simpler than that, you do not need to fill a page to vmsplice it. So in principle the code should parallelize quite trivially. Have each tread grab, say 1M numbers at a time, for example by atomically incrementing counter, serialize them to a bunch of pages, then grab the next batch. A simple queue will hold the ready batches that can be spliced as needed either by a service thread or opportunistically by the thread that has just finished the batch next in sequence.
If you post the part number someone might be able to help you.
After a point, that success tends to build on itself. Positive returns to scale, network effects, monopoly influence, corruption, strong-arm tactics.

I'd argue the 1st million users is much harder than the 3rd billion.
I don’t think that would be a bad description of the state of meth manufacturing in the Midwest during the 2000s and early 2010s. Users would source together (one person buys the Sudafed, another the chemicals, etc) to make meth and then they would trade with each other, etc. The rise of super labs and purity levels the average meth head couldn’t achieve basically killed the peer-to-peer meth business. At least this was my experience with my addicted cousins back home (in the Midwest.)
/s

Here! You forgot the sarcasm mark :)
"Modest improvements in communications"

You are using a platform that can distribute that sentence to a majority of the human population, at a marginal cost that rounds to 0, in less time than it would take a human to type it.

Another few days on the weather forecast for heavily populated areas that already have a team of forecasters on staff. For the rest of the earth, we have enabled forecasts to exist at all. in 1980, if I wanted the forecast for a remote spot on earth the answer was "hire a meteorologist". Now I can have a reasonably accurate forecast sent to me hourly via a satellite constellation for a single digit percentage of the cost of hiring a meteorologist. This has HUGE implications for logistics, agriculture scientific research, etc...

Surveillance and death from the sky? The west has had no problem spying on citizens since the 1930s, and randomly killing people in less developed civilizations is a centuries long tradition for the west. All technologies have their downsides. Much like computing, metallurgy is one of the core technologies behind warfare (modern guns don't exist without steel, planes without aluminum, etc...).

Niche artists and businesses can find an audience using the internet (using ad tech, I'll note). Lives are so routinely saved by cell phone technology, that we don't even bother noting the role that technology plays. I can use google translate to have a real time conversation with a stranger on the other side of the earth without having to worry about language. I taught myself how to design PCBs and had a prototype run made by a factory in a country that I've never been to, in less than a month.

The effects of computer technology are so ubiquitous that I think they are almost invisible
On a serious note, the G in FAANG is for Alphabet.
Perhaps they don't make their investor relations pages themselves? Not exactly core to their business.
It seems like the government agencies are more than comfortable ignoring it anyway, frankly.
What we can learn from GraphQLConf 2021
> Maybe for a serious job offer.

If I'm not looking, then I don't want to be contacted for job offers. Regardless, there are more appropriate channels like LinkedIn where I explicitly go regarding jobs.

> Somebody secretly in love with you.

Would you actually take such a person seriously? This is probably exactly who I want blocked as a phisher.

> Somebody admiring your content, and wanting to publish it in a book.

Good. Let them prove they want to invest in me by paying to contact me. That way I can trust a little more that they're not trying to con me.

I think it is also worth pointing out a couple solutions to these problems that Earn.com had:

> If you're a friend of mine, click below to request a spon on my whitelist. Your emails will get through as normal.

> If I don't know you, go ahead and send me a paid message. You'll only pay if you get a response.
It's not that IPv6 is bad. There are no other, more successful alternative proposals to grow the address space while maintaining end-to-end connectivity. It's just a difficult coordination problem. From a purely technical point of view IPv6 works, today. It's not hard to set up IPv6 networks and connect them together. But there is a lot of IPv4-only equipment, legacy applications, etc. in active use which would have problems with any new protocol.
None of us know anything, so why talk at all?
Keyence is not well known outside of the tech world.

Keyence sales team rocks! They bugged me, annoyed me, gave me tons of free information, free loaners of $100k equipment, persuaded me and we’ve become friends now after years of great engineer+sales relationship. Their purpose truly is to make you succeed as an engineer.
Words Used in Text-Mining Research Carry Bias, Study Finds
Even in a dystopia, an immersive metaverse is totally impractical without something like neural implants. I think even the guy who wrote Ready Player One understood this.
California has a nice climate, lots of free air, some freshwater, several easily navigable havens for bulk transport. The barrier of settling there near the shore is pretty low, even if you don't trade much and just self-sustain.

A more proper comparison would be Klondike. Inhospitable, barren Arctic land, rather hard to self-sustain, really easy to die. It was only interesting because of the rich gold deposits.

Compared to that, Moon is like 100x the hardships of Klondike, but without the gold, and a ship back to Earth is so expensive that any cargo costs more than gold by weight. Or, at least, so it is now.

There are no immediate economic incentives to settle on the Moon or Mars or even further away. But there are non-economic incentives, much like those which produced the Mayflower.
“Comedy” and “Free Speech” Are Not Moral Justifications for Bigotry
Yet even Apple is sliding into pay-and-ads with special placement for their own offerings.
I heard that. Interesting discussion.