skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terminal point doesn't necessarily have to apply for the company, or even the financial asset based on the company.

There is an simple model in finance [1] that collapses an infinitely growing stream of cash flows into a finite present value. So to your example of coca-cola, even if you assume they will exist and distribute growing profits forever, you can still find a terminal value.

[1]: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/va...
typo. hopefully from context, etc.
There's been a marked increase in custom bricks for a perfected, rendered look on newer models. That does make shelf builds look more like actual miniature models of the thing being built, but it makes the parts more difficult to use in creative builds, and makes it much more difficult to add a creative flair to a shelf build in a cohesive way.

My son is 5, and recently graduated from Duplos to classic Legos, he started with this set:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-medium-creative-bric...

It's basically a box of hundreds of colorful plates and bricks. There are a few wheels and eyes, too, but it's mostly just bricks. We make bulldozers and airplanes and robots and houses and all manner of things! Yes, there are studs instead of smooth tiles on top of the engine compartment, and yes, there are about 7 shades of yellow, cream, and orange making up the dozer, and no, the tracks aren't functional, but it slides fine. Mom might need to ask to know that the pink 1x1 brick sticking out the top is the bulldozer's TURBO BOOSTER MODE BUTTON, or she might guess that because she knows our son.

He's received a few sets once we let family and friends know that he's using legos now. He got this Ninjago set:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/tournament-of-elements-71...

which focuses the design on a bunch of stickers and printed parts and custom weapons made to look like a show he's never seen. He does love all the little Lego people, they have fun adventures, but he built it once, took it apart, and now most of the parts end up in the bottom of the brick box unused. Another typical one is this monster truck:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/monster-truck-31101

https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/assets/bltd6f7b204e1e11893/3...

Kudos to Lego for the cool Technik functional rubber suspension design, my son loves that and has rebuilt it on other vehicles! And kudos for the 3-in-1 design that reuses a lot of the custom pieces for a truck, a dragster, and a small car. But look at all the rounded tiles and cheese wedges and smooth surfaces. It's possible to build things that aren't one of the intended three things, but it takes a lot more planning. Like the random horns and staffs from the Ninjago set, he doesn't use these studless tiles much either. You can't click anything into the bed of the truck; it's supposed to be a truck, what's up with that! There's almost nowhere to put a pink turbo booster mode button at all.

The truck looks like a plastic model. Anything built with the creative brick box has studs all over and looks like a pile of Legos begging to have something added to it or to be rebuilt into something else.
Is there any UI framework build on SVG?
I have recently been enthusiastically playing with my daughter and her Duplo sets (Lego for younger children, basically just larger blocks). Now eyeing up various adult sets for myself…
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Thank you Blender!

I'd like them to bring back some more of the game engine components.

I use Unity, but seeing what Blender can do, via their demo movies, I'd love to see a Blender Game Engine!
"You can't write it down in terms of basic arithmetic"
I don't understand how DocuSign was $50B while Dropbox was $10B; the barrier of entry is even lower for DocuSign and Dropbox even has a competing product
Not really. You can have Windows Docker containers.
AWS Re:Invent Announcements
That post would be a lot stronger if it had some details, perhaps an example or two. Right now it is just an unsubstantiated claim.
I agree. It feels like most Lego sets on the market have several major/foundational pieces which are essentially useless outside of the model they're built for - some huge chunk of molded plastic. A big part of the joy of Lego sets in the past was that they showed you what was possible with these unassuming bricks. Sure, any big/intricate set would have some funny pieces, but they would mostly lend themselves to many forms of re-use that even a 10-year old could easily figure out. My 4 year-old has had a great time with Duplos, but I'm sort of leary about transitioning to Legos because to me, they've become more emblematic of consumerist collecting than creativity.
Huh, some of this may have to do with the medium?

Where I've done the most graphic design, offset printing, you get 4 colors (CMYK), and you can pay a little extra to run another plate of a spot color.

In that environment, if you use rich black instead of just K, you'll see registration errors that hurt legibility, especially for small print and at any light/dark boundary. I've got this deep, deep muscle memory of checking the separations to see if we used any accidental rich blacks -- fairly common with advertiser art, but also common in illustrations.

Of course on color pages things are a little different -- looking at the separations, and watching how our photo editors edited levels to make them look good in print, definitely made me think hard about how much hidden detail is in the blue part of an image and how colorful shadows are!

But we were usually on a budget and usually stuck in K. This has for sure colored my design choices, and it's helpful to see the reminder to try designing away from pure black on the screen.
It worked in my case, at least for Edge. I didn't care enough for using Chrome over Edge to be pestered. I use Windows for gaming primarily. My productive stuff is on Linux. Still wouldn't be using Bing though.
Classic Lego price tag. I've long assumed I grew up in a small house because my parents bought me so many of those bricks.

Edit: And that looks a good deal more complicated than what I grew up with, wow!
probably uses selected text as a search query
How long before someone just goes into the Postgres source code and creates true native support for GraphQL
What if someone is paid for an opinion they already have?
Can't be taken apart easily. A lot of my old lego pieces have bite barks on them because the fit was too tight regardless of best practice. Apart from the Lego Brick separator, wasn't there instructions for unmating a bunch of common stubborn connections? Maybe they need better tools to cater to more flexibility. A set of ifixit/legoit shims and picks perhaps.
New moon and full moon are real things you can see, not an arbitrary mathematical division. And then the first / third quarter is just halfway between. Results in about 7 days per lunar quarter.
I think euthanasia should be legal, the idea was sown in various media outputs like Hogans Run Carousel scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41tYQ18oK40 .

Personally I feel its insanity to be experimented on with a cocktail of medicines in the last parts of life when there are more important concerns to spend money on for people at the beginning of their life and I think its selfish to hang on if you are not contributing in someway but I'm sure others will see things differently.

I fully support the work of Dignitas http://www.dignitas.ch/?lang=en and I see other countries are slowly beginning to make euthanasia legal. Unofficially some Dr's do give lethal cocktails in hospitals in some circumstances but its not spoken about because laws prohibit Dr's from doing this. Alot of people I have spoken to think its the Church and religious followers preventing euthanasia from becoming legal and thus creating this perverse situation where people are tortured on a cocktail of drugs keeping them alive.

I also know Nurses have been known to meter out their own justice to patients in nursing homes and hospital wards based on rumours or gossip and many blind eyes are turned because these are Nurses!

Another interesting development being seen is "no fuss" or direct cremations are becoming more popular with the elderly. Basically, no service at a church or crematorium, its just a simple collect the body, paperwork completed and then the body is cremated.

Personally, if I had a cremation service when I go, when the curtains go down and the coffin disappears off to the burners, I'd want this tune playing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw LOL
AMD HIP/ROCm support is there but AMD still hasn't released drivers supporting it.
It gives customers a possible incentive to buy multiple copies of the game.
Yeah. That would be very weird especially if it were a dealership you had no previous dealings with. (I don't actually know how interconnected a manufacturer's dealership network is at the back end.)
Probably surprisingly little. Also, the publicity HN brings is most likely orders of magnitude more valuable and that makes it much less important to try and optimise the service.

The pages are very light and the algorithms seem to be designed to be quite light, too.

Now, I know neither Arc nor the traffic stats, but I would not be surprised if one or two machines were able to serve entire traffic.
Flights are a big graph reachability problem with a mass of filters (cabin class, plane type, number of passengers etc)

Directs are a trivial problem.

1-stop indirects is a simplish batch processing problem to produce an easily indexable data set.

2-stop indirects is a huge quantity of computing power.
Keep moving! Yes! Also, emotional health is important. Many elderly people die of loneliness. If one parent dies, be VERY vigilant about getting the other into a situation where he/she has friends.
Imagine a nail without head that has been fully hit into a piece of wood. Reversing the action doesn't pull the nail out unless you weld the hammer to the end of nail. It can't be pulled out either because there is nothing sticking out from surface and can't be pushed from other side because it's blocked.
That’s interesting. How does it deal with authentication and authorization? It it handles those well, it could be a real “serverless” solution for most CRUD apps.
Ruggedize Your Life
> so the author said something which can be nitpicked, therefore the entire article is rubbish?

I'm sorry, but yes. This shows the author wasn't thinking and is intellectually lazy and incurious -- like if he was laying out bigoted theories in the first paragraph, and making whole deductions out of it.

This is actually bigoted, by the way: to declare that there is just one way to live the life of a hunter-gatherer, and that it's "simple".
This is literally the core conflict driving the plot of the Lego Movie.
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It's Followers following bro. It's like that Peter pan song. We're following the leader, the leader, the leader, we're following the leader wherever he may go. Do dum, do dee. Anyways. It's a hierarchy of following, I like to imagine a tree list moving together towards the memory collection function and your leader, just an item further up the hierarchy, and your leader is like: Don't worry. Just follow. I won't collect your memory, unless you disagree. Nobody knows though, this mofo can't collect your memory, that's a process, but dude thinks he can tell you the process isn't real, and he's actually the one who controls the garbage process. Everyone gets collected, nobody knows its them until it is. The thing your group is running from is still coming, it's catching the slow ones first, but it will catch you all, and you're being sold the idea that it can be staved off, but really, You just never see it coming.
GCP indicates that App Engine standard environment at least uses gVisor[1] (i.e. KVM with emulated Linux syscall interface). The docs also indicate you can run custom binaries on most of the standard runtime languages[2] (not to mention being able to ship Go binaries), so I don’t see how they could get around allowing system calls.

App Engine must have used something other than gVisor originally since Go didn’t even exist when it launched, but I’m having trouble finding any concrete indication as to whether they shared kernels between multiple customers.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...

[2]: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/the-appengine-enviro...
beautiful, thanks for sharing.
I've got a phrase for when I see people trying to "abstract" over certain types of problems by writing absurdly complicated code that ultimately saves negative time.

"Data abstraction is impossible."

You can abstract an algorithm. Like, how you sort. Merge sort, bubble sort, etc. Normally it doesn't matter to the rest of the code, you just want a sorted list. You can abstract a type or an object. Hey, given some type T and some function T -> int, you can get an int.

You CAN'T abstract a chunk of data which has semantically distinct members inside of it. If someone sends you a structure that has a field in it called "name", then you have no idea what that actually means. You have to get them to tell you what they mean by "name". The hard part being that inevitably "name" means one thing unless the "aux" field is set to a number that evenly divides the "misc" field at which point "name" has to be filtered by some arcane rules.

This is why we have lists like "falsehoods programmers believe about time|names|etc". Time means different things for different applications. Names mean different things to different contexts and cultures. You have to find someone to tell you what all of the individual pieces of the object's internals means to them.

no-code will probably see some success in niche domains where things have been fixed for years. Ultimately, many applications will need hand written code to handle all of the meaningful sub-components of the data being interacted with.
Definitely, I’m very interested in blender as a better Unity

There’s armory3d which is impressive but it’s still early days
Copyright needs fixing so that heirs cannot grift off the hard work of those who actually had creative ideas.
I really don’t get why so many smart people come up with every possible theoretical solution and yet they fail to observe that Bitcoin was engineered to solve this exact problem
There is a project called UPBGE, it is a fork of the old game engine and being actively maintained. https://upbge.org/
Josef Pieper[0] has written about leisure at length. What we call "rest" today is largely either idleness or recreation and something meant only to "recharge us" so that we can continue to work. But this is ass-backwards and not leisure. Leisure is what we work for and this was reflected, among other things, in the medieval culture of religious feasts. Our modern culture is a work-centric culture, but the middle ages were more of a leisure-centric culture.

To better understand what leisure is, Pieper points to the etymological roots of words like "school" (from the Greek word for "leisure") and points to the distinction between the liberal arts and the servile arts (the former are superior to the latter and what the latter exist to enable). By definition, work is for the sake of something; you don't work for work's sake. Our culture either worships work for its own sake (an absurdity and largely a neurotic distraction from our own nihilism) or it terminates with a preoccupation with consumption and indulgence of various appetites. A culture frustrated by a false materialistic/mechanistic anthropology will produce this kind of vulgar ethos.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/767958.Leisure
You correlate an Apple GPU with a hard limit on the amount of displays you can use, but honestly I don't see the point. Apple has bittersweet limits on the amount of displays one can connect right now, but it is no guarantee that this will continue in the future.

With what they unveiled in terms of GPU performance with the Macbook Pro, the writing's on the wall; Apple is not going to support third-party GPUs going forward. The Mac Pro will only offer Apple CPUs and GPUs, I'm sure of it.
It's beetles!

Beatles would be better. Hundreds of hungry Johns and Pauls chained in another room, ordered to make music.
Google makes billions of dollars. They can easily afford to hire tens of thousands of call center employees.
Engineers Look to Nature to Create Bird-Like Robot – Unite.ai
$1300 [0] gets you a pretty decent programmer. And for the dishonest they can scan the fob over the air.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Autel-IM508-Advanced-Programming-To...
You can visit the site and resize your browser to get an idea. It just scales it down.
Aww look, a coward.
Human Brain Project Releases New Paper on Exascale Computing Power – Unite.ai
It’s an interest contradiction: the so-called “wolf warrior” diplomats and CCP apparatchiks go out of their way to project China as this mighty invincible superpower, yet when some 17 year old says “Congratulations to the Taiwan national athletes” they go all “you hurt the feelings of the Chinese people”.

Super sensitive superpower, China is.
A constant half-life is necessarily an exponential decrease (linear curve on a logarithmic plot). So, yes, if the half-life is 6 hours without qualification, then the quarter life will be 12 hours.

Though, in real-life you get things like enzyme saturation, depletion of chemicals consumed in the metabolism of the chemical, etc. Real world pharmacokinetics are probably not exactly constant half-lives.

For example, IIRC, the average American adult male saturates his alcohol dehydrogenase at about 3/4 shot of 80 proof liquor per hour. Below saturation, I presume ethanol has something close to a constant (and short) half-life, but that exponential decrease is only observed at alcohol concentrations where the effects of alcohol aren't very obvious. So, for most practical purposes, the biological half-life of ethanol doesn't apply and its metabolism is better approximated as a constant rate process.
Seeing the no-ghosts button reminded me that it's very likely my young kids are never going to have the fun of pushing the "degauss" button on a CRT.
Quite the contrary. I have now lived half my life under a communist regime and half under a capitalist one. Let me be abundantly clear: I far prefer the latter. I like where it is, and I like where it's headed. I NEVER want to hear about communism ever again.

Here's the main differences I see:

1. Capitalism is a social construct. It embraces human greed and builds upon it. That's why it works so well.
2. Communism is merely a short-term con scheme (granted, on a rather large scale). It embraces hypocrisy, pretends to shun greed, steals everyone's chips and runs, while making people build some idealistic nice stuff which all collapses to dust and misery the moment the top runs away with the money.
3. There is no 3. People like to wank about with all sorts of flowery ideas about capitalism minus the greed, but that's just communism really.
They mention in the article that auth is handled by reusing the existing row level security you'd already use to secure the DB (i.e. `CREATE POLICY`).
Okay, what is need for centralised key production mechanism that leaves out any 3rd party?

Car theft? Big deal, insurance covers it. You can put the car into a garage, you can install your own tracker, the police can find it and there are many other ways to to steal the car and even if the car is not unlockable the "selling the parts" business model can still make it a target for the thief.

What's the argument for leaving it to the manufacturer?
The AI megabrain writes what the AI megabrain wants to write!
With the benefit of hindsight, my biggest priority would be finding someone you (or they) can hire to help them around the house, at least a few days a week. In my experience, as they slow down they will let more and more housekeeping tasks slip, and when pressed will have plenty of rationalizations that they themselves believe "we'll do that later" "doesn't need to get done right now" "we don't use that enough for it to get dirty" etc. Someone coming in once or twice a week for 2-4 hours at a time will make sure those tasks get done, bring a spark of young person energy, and give them a cadence to their week (much more important for people living alone after their spouse has passed). It will also build a relationship with someone you/they can trust for later. This is perhaps easier said than done based on the stubbornness and that both of them are still alive, but I think this would have added the greatest quality of life to my own parents' end of lives.

Also I'm going to say that you haven't described much of an acute problem. Assisted living is a middleground, but that's a personal lifestyle choice and it appears they're deciding against it. By the time they're old enough to need help, they're past the point of assisted living, from what I understand. Having seen it, I would never want to go to a nursing home for my final days. Nursing homes are ugly end games that mostly exist because euthanasia is frowned upon and we don't want people dying in the street.

Other comments have touched on the legal stuff, but you want them to have Wills, DURABLE Power of Attorney, Health Care Proxy, and Living Will. Estate planning will depend on their/your level of wealth, whether you have siblings, and the state they live in. It's not just about divvying up their stuff when they pass, but is important for their own well being. Some of these documents need to be definitively in place now (Wills), whereas others the right time to have the conversation may be soon, or it may be after something significant happens to one of them. FWIW your Mom probably already has some rough expectations for what her life will look like after your Dad passes, if it ends up happening in that order.

Stepping back, you might just find that helping them at all is mostly impenetrable until one of them passes. And if that is the case, that is perfectly fine as well. It's more work when you finally do have to pick up the pieces and come from behind, but IMO you won't get anywhere by trying to force things ahead of time.
Seconding this recommendation, it is an excellent book about a hard topic. Just wanted to add that it is a hard read if you're in the middle of actual severe health problems with you or loved ones.