skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now the real crux of it is that I do not have unlimited cash flow to pay peak rent.

Yeah. But you only look at it from the perspective at staying at one place.
What if you want or have to move somewhere else, but in the meantime your house lost its value ("marked crashed"). Now you have to pay both rent in the new place as well as your mortgage (that his now way to high for what you have).

In other words: you can't afford to move anywhere anymore, because of your high mortagage. If you had just rented, you would still be flexible and could move whereever your current pay allows.

Don't fall for survivorship bias. Prices rise for a longer time, but in the short times when they fall, they fall much faster.
> I don't know where they get this nonsense. Anyone who actually talks or works with gen z would know this.

Are you saying it's nonsense, or it's obvious?
There’s also a concept of dating the age of hedgerow by the diversity and randomness of plant species.
Yes - it boils down to “there are 10 cards. Pick some number of cards, give me the rest, and I’ll tell you how many you picked”. The addition of “more cards” very thinly disguises the basic fact that you are subtracting a number from 10. It’s not obvious to me how this could be done in a way that seems impressive.
You would never wish it for those that achieve growth or for the people suffering homelessness, debt, precariousness, etc?
My gut tells me we both have very different ideas on what ambition is/can be, what form of growth is valuable, and how economic liberalism weighs in.

Ethics aside, the taxes I've been paying out of my salary since I've been in the industry allows me today to benefit from an incredible financial safety net as I'm attempting to put together my own R&D software company.
My pleasure mate. I'd love to get back into model building too but don't for probably the same reasons as you. You didn't mention any of that either but I suspect ... 8)

If I ever get back into modelling I'll probably go back into radio controlled flying things. That said, there are a few diorama ideas I have bubbling away too.

Now, do I get a Pitts Special up and running ... (probably)
Not necessarily, you could have a bootstrap operation where pressing a reset button, allows you to pass a public key to the device, which it will use to send back an encrypted new random username/password combo, which you could then log in with.

A lot more convoluted, but you could make a nice CompanyNameDeviceSetup app, which could handle the minutiae.
JerryRigEverything is great, he's converting a Hummer to all electric now, great videos.
Surprisingly microkernels seem to be coming back. Google has Fuschia, Facebook has Reality OS.
Relying on google trends is the dumbest things I can think of

Almost everything declines over time on google trends

PostgreSQL is hotter than it's ever been, and is "declining"
For those who use Amazon and want cost perspective on particular items, Camelcamelcamel is a superpower (https://camelcamelcamel.com/)

I’m sure one day I’ll find out they make money in all sorts of sketchy ways, but in the mean time it’s a great free website, and I’m continually astounded to see how often retailers play around with the prices they post.
Yeah 10 years ago Boxing Day was all the hype in Canada. Most of classmates would stand in line at Best Buy or other retailers to buy some latest console or game disc. Times sure have changed.
Black Fraud-day has a pretty good ring to it
I have one of this toasters, it has a little knob to adjust how dark the toast needs to be.

I have also replaced the power cord.
https://archive.md/dqznW

http://web.archive.org/web/20211126003520/https://www.nytime...
Maybe it is, but assuming it's still there a comment saying "We aren't wearing masks in Miami anymore, good luck making us" or something to that effect seemed even more smug
Internally, Enums inherit a lot from classes.

I wrote an indepth article about this: https://php.watch/versions/8.1/enums#enum-exists

There is an `enum_exists` function that only returns true for Enums. It's fairly unintuitive to combine class_exists with enum_exists to filter out Enums, I agree.
Indeed, the following should work with upcoming fish 3.4:

echo "pwd: $(pwd)"

See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/8059
AMD's support - not just for new or old GPUs, but in terms of all sorts of compatibility changes, usability parity and regressions is staggeringly bad.

Given that compute is important, and many people use their GPUs for compute of some sort, I simply can not understand how that part is so poorly executed on the part of AMD that, in terms of actual application, you might call it entirely absent.

I mean, this is a company that produces compute cards, which supposedly someone in the world must buy and use... but who? Why?
I have never seen anyone, and for good reason. And it seems like AMD just... doesn't care?

Like, it's just not a part of their organizational strategy... Compute is on the powerpoint slides, but... no one (can) use it?

It's been going on for years now and I don't get it.
How much of a choice is it to be attracted to a given individual? Or to crave a certain kind of food? Or to be consumed with a specific kind of work? Or to care for your child?

I.e. I think we overestimate how much of a 'choice' certain outcomes are for most people.
A strange thing about your comment, beyond it making easily verifiable claims without substantiating them, is that you focus on the gender of the spectators. You could have focused on their age, their posture, that they look at only construction and not other forms of public labor, or that this has a name in Italy and not elsewhere. Why the fascination with gender?
Amazon/walmart/target are one and the same.
I think a singularity is now impossible... what we have to do is figure out how to avoid destroying humanity in the next century. Our political systems are imploding because of capture by the donor class. The emphasis on extracting profit at all costs has increase the fragility of our supply chain to the breaking point.

Physics and Biology have both sufficiently advanced to make an accidental destruction of the human race a non-zero probability.

I see a collapse type of singularity to be far more likely than any the rise of any AI powered superintelligence.

It appears I'm not the only one, judging by the other comments here.
My suggestion (and I strongly recommend nobody takes it) is to immediately go forward with no masking, no vaccination, special triage centers for people with COVID (so they aren't infecting people with comorbidities going to hospitals), accept the catastrophic loss of life, and then watch carefully over the next ten years. My belief is that if this happens, the entire global population will have enough natural immunity that this disease will become endemic.

As I said, nobody should follow my advice. it would be political suicide- in the same way that people who promote "death panels" (to allocate limited resources rationally) get shut down, even though it's the most rational approach that would maximize global health.

Further, everything I suggested above is merely intuition based on several decades of experience working in public health/medical biology, rather than hard epidemiological data. I could be completely wrong and my strategy could instead lead to a black death scenario or existential situation (death rates of 30+% due to virulent variants with high transmission rates and very long infectious periods). Again, I must say that nobody should follow my recommendation because it's based entirely on a lifetime of systems thinking and working with complex biological entities.
and bandwidth. and physical space, and the ability to stay isolated from physical conditions like floods (natural or plumbing-related) or power outages caused by somebody trying to plug in a kettle.

running a commercial VPS in a datacenter has a ton of advantages, but i'm guessing that the guy with a footer like this doesn't really care about them. running your website off a raspi in your living room is cool, wheher it's the most practical solution or not doesn't really matter.
My thought is slightly different. When you're a lawyer representing someone that does illegal things (ongoing, not in the past) sometimes the only thing you can ethically do is quit. You can't reveal what is illegal due to privilege.

Similarly here, they may not be able to reveal whatever is going wrong due to anti disparagement clause or threats of defamation. literally the only thing you can do is quit, which is what they did, which sends a very strong signal to outsiders.
I agree with you, completely. However, I'd love to hear your answer to the rebuttals "how is that different from regular stocks (sans dividends)?"
Ansible is a powertool for implementing idempotent configuration management. That pattern / paradigm is here to stay.
I was obsoleted out of a system administrator job. I later took up a job making gears, which was interesting, but a 50% cut in pay. It was clearly a mistake.
The RM Nimbus machines were vastly under-rated, I agree. I loved those machines.

They're really rare now, probably because most were network-boot and couldn't be used outside of a networked environment and I guess most schools just threw them in the bin.
Seems a lot of science around the world is controlled by the US GOP eh

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/09/15/natural-im...

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/natural-immunity-after...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02795-x

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/10/18/prior-c...

This is concluded in the most prestigious scientific journals including:

Nature

Cell

Science

Scientific American

and preprints on Medrhiv

When the LARGEST studies in Israel and UK bear this out — so what if the outcomes of the largest studies are a talking point for someone?
Yes, it's a Christmas-oriented holiday, but the timing is determined by Thanksgiving since the day after Thanksgiving is when everyone turns their attention to Christmas and starts buying gifts (traditionally).
I thought the visualization provided by NextStrain was fairly fascinating, not to mention it is used by the CDC an other organizations:

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global
How can MacBooks be so slim compared to others laptops
There are so many laptops out there - Thinkpad, SurfaceBooks, Dell Inspiron, etc. How come they are so bulkier compared to Macbooks? Macbooks are so slim and lightweight, while an Inspiron or Thinkpad is so bulky and thick. Which engineering aspect is superior in case of Macbooks that makes it slimmer and less bulkier compared to those? Is it the OS - the way it has been written, it requires less cooling and hence lesser bulk? Or is it something else?
> That large animals like humans seem to be able to develop sophisticated defenses against parasites that parasites can’t counter-adapt against, meaning that parasitism is way less of an issue for us than it is for smaller animals, which is good because parasites are bad.

The lack of parasites probably leads to most auto immune diseases in humans.
This is interesting/amusing because often these people who are obsessed with crypto and tech culture (seemingly a lot of GenZ - at least the ones that pop up on Twitter) aren't the computer scientists and engineers who actually understand the underlying technology. They can wax poetic about some high level decentralized utopia, but when pressed further you realize that they have no idea how computers and software work.
Went from finance to ML academia. Worked out reasonably well, was a breath of fresh air after a very corporate environment; but I might possibly go back again in one way or another.
SELinux has always been a reasonable option but it’s just scarier than people are used to. I used Fedora for a couple of years and was surprised by how straight forward it was once I understood it.
'... what do you do in the absence of data, or with only very preliminary data?'

Stop shoveling carbs at every meal. Lose 30 pounds. Start to exercise and increase cardio-pulmonary performance.
It appears most people in developed countries became couch potatoes and gained fat.
To each his own. My body, my choice. Your body, your choice.
It's not even currency speculation, because Crypto is not currency.

It's baseball card speculation, without the baseball card.
It's the defence team quit In the analogy due to their access to internal Communication which they cannot reveal. probably under threat of anti-disparagement or defamation. Cannot see it as not presenting their case, have to read between their lines.

Of course the Rust core team could be fully transparent and release everything to us outsiders to judge, but somehow I don’t think they will. Looks like they are figuring out how to bury it
It's a bit strange to see a suggestion like that accompanied by the disclaimer that it shouldn't be taken. What scenario would you suggest that is not accompanied by such a disclaimer? In other words, say we put you in charge of public policy tomorrow without the option to abdicate, what would you suggest we do, assuming it would actually be done as you advise?
A particular Samsung tablet I put in my Amazon list a while back now has a banner "Black Friday Deal" but the price hasn't changed.
Of course, the prices are higher.

Especially from customer perspective they have to be.
The difference is finally the price for a bundle of valuable services.

Boosting egos by making them think they're are smarter than they really are.

Entertainment.Price hunting as a game.
Without a gaming console!
See, they even saved you money on this!

Shopping as a social experience.
Everybody does it, and so do you.
You want to belong, don't ya?

Boast about it.
Your social environment will celebrate you.
Except the odd bastard, that spoils the mood, of course.

And since evereybody wants the candy now, the prices must be higher now.
Higher demand, higher prices.

They just look lower, because that is what you're buying.

The look.

They look good to let you let you look good.
That’s not quite accurate, they’re identified in GISAID [0] and other platforms, which is where scientists upload sampled genetic sequences. It’s also out in the open and free to access.

This GitHub repo is just about registering the Pango lineage, based on data already collected and published at other locations.

[0] https://www.gisaid.org/
It a lot about the control. Big companies have noticed that they can’t get everything they want into upstream.
You're calling a product (iOS app platform) a secondary market.
I'll just say this: there is a lot of obvious fraud in fusion energy. Cold or hot, a lot of nonsense gets billions in funding. I doubt steam pistons blasting liquid vortexes will yield anything other than an expensive mess. And I doubt anything that does not depend on magnetic fields far stronger than what we have now will ever lead to fusion energy being more economical than burning whale oil for steam powered electric plants.
I guess newer models are better, but for completeness.

I have a the B6 model, so roughly 5 years old now.

It has severe burn-in at this point. Everything in the middle of the screen has a green tint due to the lack of red pixels. Our brains are surprisingly adaptable though so I am actually way less annoyed about it than I I should be.

The thing that really annoys me though is that they have a feature, supposedly to avoid burn-in, where the screen dims automatically if it thinks the image is static.

For some reason it seems to think any scene, or game passage, where things are dark are static and thus automatically darkens it even further making it basically impossible to see what is happening.

Especially for an OLED this becomes rather problematic due to its capacity to resolve really really dark shares. Way beyond the capacity of any gamma standard (save perhaps Dolby Vision) followed by content creators. Thus a fair bit of really precise calibration may be required to find that sweet spot between that stunning sweet absolute black OLED are famous for, and being able to actually see shades of things with their intended gamma.
I have to imagine that every company will say that there is no plan to offer security patches and updates, for liability reasons, and that very few users will care. I personally think that botnets of IoT devices are terrible, and wish that I had a useful suggestion for getting rid of them, but it's tough to combat end-user apathy.
The video did not do a good job convincing me that hedges promote biodiversity. I’ve seen more than a badger, rabbit, fox, and mouse on the streets of Berlin in a single night.
They do money by adding their affiliate code to the links.

However the Amazon Affiliate TOS [0] say:

(y) Unless otherwise agreed by Amazon, your Site must not have price tracking and/or price alerting functionality.

I see many sites with this functionality. I don't know if they all got approved by Amazon or they are not enforcing this clause.

[0] https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies...
I guess we should have them write it on a stele next to its greek equivalent.
One day this totally common sense comment will be the norm.
> Yeah, reliable equipment probably is a bit of a nerdy preoccupation;

Maybe it's a cultural thing? My extended family (both biological and in-laws) across my two countries (AU/NZ) frequently discuss what items lasted and what did not. This has led to a surprising commonality in the brands we all end up buying, and it's usually because someone bought something and it lasted, so others have bought similar, and when something isn't as good as expected, that gets mentioned as well.

There's a pretty wide range of age, political opinions and incomes as well - but caring more about reliability and long term value for money over shiny features is pretty consistent.
The hierarchical transformers variants are uncovering some possible optimizations that are similar to the ideas of Thousand Brains - https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13711

The attention mechanisms, in conjunction with autoencoding, create a rough approximation of what grid cells accomplish, but transformers are still a feedforward architecture. Thanks to Moore's law, we can expand the scale of inputs to achieve human like performance, but until someone untangles the structure and devises a way of including recurrence, transformers won't be able to perform all of the functions assumed by Hawkins.

There are interesting lstm variations on transformers, but nothing public yet that really performs at the same level as the straight feedforward models. Combinatorial explosion is a bitch and lstm explodes the size and compute requirements. Hierarchical structures could constrain the requirements to something achievable.

With recurrence, you can begin to train models to perform things like discrete mathematics, as opposed to the relatively shallow semantic graphs in gpt-3 like models. The models right now don't have anything stateful that could be called memory, but with recurrence, model states will be dynamic encodings that can be processed over many cycles.
The reason for the UK approach (which includes a fuse in the plug and a switch on the socket) is the point-to-point system used after wwii to rapidly electrify the country while money and resources (like copper) were short. It’s complete overkill today but path dependence keeps it in place.
> And people do know the deal value, when they see it.

This is contrary to all of my experience with the sort of people for whom shopping is a hobby or who get excited about black friday. They all love to "save 50%" on some junk that was marked up 200% and will end up in the thrift store before the year is out.
If you click on blame, it shows that he wrote '43 years old' 3 years ago and hasn't edited that line since.

https://github.com/guettli/deadends-of-it/blame/master/READM...
The price.
You seem to be comparing MacBooks to cheaper laptops. "High end" laptops such as Lenovo X1 Carbon, are slimmer, and lighter than MacBooks.
Another reason however is thermal distribution. A MacBook shell acts as a heat sync, but a plastic shell does not. So MacBooks don't need as much airflow.
9M rows was big in the early 1980s. Now it's tiny.
Not to switch industries, but I once took ~10k cut to go to a company that offered more than double the PTO time, and it worked out great for me back then.

I don't think I'd take any kind of cut now, and I don't think I'd advise anybody to take a cut anymore, as things have gotten so volatile in the job world.

It all depends. If it's right for your life, it might be the right thing to do. If you've got family and bills and loans, maybe just tough it out.
The old people in my family usually get the shot. When I'm old, I might start to get it as well. Until then, I don't bother.
This is laughable. Do you post to r/sino?
班农被捕自保出卖幕后金主？瘟龟心慌 压倒骆驼最后稻草？
10月19日，全球各大主流媒体争相报道称，美国众议院当天全票通过逮捕拒不到庭接受调查、涉嫌刑事藐视国会的史蒂夫•班农的决议，特朗普前国师、瘟龟政治盟友班农因涉藐视法庭罪被逮捕。消息一出，穷途末路的瘟龟一时间变的惶惶不可终日，班农是否会出卖幕后金主郭瘟龟以求自保？这又能否成为压垮瘟龟的最后一根稻草？郭瘟龟、班农最后的人生归宿秒成各位吃瓜群众茶余饭后的谈资。
班农因2016年助选特朗普当选有功，任特朗普团队高级战略顾问。自持有功的班农，肆意发表各种匪夷所思的言论，也使得特朗普“引火烧身”。2017年8月，板凳还未坐热的班农便被特朗普逐出白宫。被逐出门户后的班农穷困潦倒、靠别人施舍、贩卖“冷战思维”度日，做着东山再起“入主”白宫的黄粱美梦。也许是因为物以类聚，机缘巧合下班军师迅速与潜逃美国的中国“红通逃犯”郭瘟龟一拍即合，组成一对狼狈为奸出卖灵魂的怪异组合。他们相互利用、相互算计，班农把文贵当作“提款机”，文贵把班农作为政治庇护的“救命稻草”。为了表示合作诚意，郭文贵特意购买特朗普私人俱乐部马阿拉歌庄园的会员资格，班农在郭媒体Gnews上开设班农战斗室频道，后班农与郭媒体Gnews签订年薪百万美元的合作协议。郭瘟龟为班农提供大量资金人所共知，2018年11月20日郭瘟龟成立法治基金后，班农更是担任基金会的首任主席。
通过班农的卖力宣传，郭瘟龟通过法制基金、GTV平台、兜售GTV原始股、G币等骗局成功私募融资5亿多美元，人气暴涨，人财双收。年薪百万美元，不仅解决了班农的衣食住行还有剩余，解除后顾之忧的班农班农充当起瘟龟的洋托、为瘟龟马首是瞻。新冠疫情爆发后，郭、班组合狼狈为奸，在郭媒体和班农的战情室相互吹捧、制造散布“中国病毒”、“武汉病毒”、“病毒是武汉P4实验室制造的生化武器”“美国大选舞弊论”等阴谋论，博取眼球，狂刷存在感，造谣、抹黑中国，掩盖特朗普政府防疫措施不力的罪责和干涉美国大选。班农与郭文贵一手策划抹黑拜登的“硬盘门”事件和1月6日国会山暴乱事件被众多媒体报道，证据确凿。在美国，干涉大选罪在不赦，面临数十年徒刑的刑事判罚。郭、班甩锅中国、肆意妄为的行径遭到全球医学专家、主流媒体的疯狂打脸，郭、班借尸还魂的黄粱美梦被彻底击碎，还落得一身骚。郭班的自作孽不可活。郭瘟龟到今天仍然没有获得其梦寐以求的美国政治庇护，反倒是迎来美国多个部门的司法围剿与各路债主的步步紧逼，压力山大的瘟龟惶恐不安度日如年；班农也好不到哪儿去，没有迎来其政治生命第二春，重获特朗普信任、再入白宫，迎接他是两次被捕入狱。真应了那句“人在做天在看”、“谋事在人成事在天”。“该来的迟早要来”。班农再次被捕就是对其肆意干涉大选、煽动国会山暴乱、拒不配合相关调查的报应。班农已经被捕入狱了，相信其同谋、幕后金主郭瘟龟被捕入狱也不会等太久。
玩弄生活的班农、文贵必然被生活玩弄，蔑视法律的他们也终将会被法律惩戒。“人不为己天诛地灭、”“大难来临各自飞”，一生精于投机钻营、算计的班农被捕后，为减轻其罪责定会供出其幕后金主、同谋郭瘟龟的，巨额罚款、班农被捕定会是压垮瘟龟的最后一根稻草，瘟龟到头来难免落得个人财皆空、露宿街头、身败名裂的可耻下场，必将被钉在历史耻辱柱上。
Nice try, still no way to compare with CUDA, Nvidia is so much ahead and it's hopeless to catch up.
For an impressive self working trick I can recommend this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW8w7uXkb1M .
I think that any device which has this problem is basically bricked, from the average user's point of view. Most IoT gear just isn't worth the effort to try to fix.

The only (partial) solution I can imagine is someone creating an open-source software for resetting the password to a non-standard setting, then evangelizing the standard. There are a few issues with this, and it would require adding some standard interface (USB or other) to every such device.
“Black Friday” = the day most realtors go from “in the red” to “in the black” financially for the year.

Been interesting watching it mutate from merely the day customers start buying gifts en masse in earnest, to a real discount & deals day, to a jack-and-drop fakeout.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211122214741/https://chalkdust... since it has the Hacker News hug of death.

This is such a ridiculously obvious trick I'm surprised any audience is impressed by it. But that happens for me with a lot of magic tricks... I guess a lot of people just choose to shut off basic thinking (and in this case don't have an intuitive understanding of conserved quantities).
Yep... "tech of the week has won", until next week, when "tech of that week has won", and most of the stuff declared 'dead' will still be working and in use pretty much everywhere.

C dead? XML dead? GUIs dead? Regex dead? .... yeah... no.
There are other benefits to your approach. Relatively little time is spent configuring software and it tends to be easier to copy over a handful of simple configuration files than to replicate a complex setup.