skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$2000 is a bit low for hardware, but if you're willing to contribute a bit more of your own money, you can get something cool.

* NUMA-capable CPU. $3000 budget for a lower-end NUMA-server (say, 2x Xeon Silver, or maybe 1x AMD EPYC) gets you the hardware needed to start playing with NUMA (non-uniform memory access). Or any other high-performance computing part really.

* GPUs -- GPUs are very expensive right now, but an NVidia T4 is a bit over $2000 right now. A decent option to get into CUDA on your work budget.

* Software -- A lot of professional software is somewhere from $500 to $4000 or so. Matlab, IDA, EagleCAD, VMWare, SQL Server, Oracle, etc. etc. Pick a tool, any tool, that might benefit you or your team, and use the training budget to get a personal license.

* Networking -- $2000 is enough to start playing with various networks. Buy a bunch of Fiber-optic stuff and connect them together, switches, PCIe ports (ConnectX PCIe cards), fiber lines, transducers. SFP+, or SFP28 (28Gbit networks), 40Gbps, 100Gbps. VLANs, Cisco iOS, etc. etc. So much to play with, plenty of skills you'll gain only with playtime.

* Various other technologies -- Dell iDRAC, SuperMicro IPMI, etc. etc. Have you learned how to use and install these features? If not, surely there's a $2000+ server from Dell, SuperMicro, HP (or other server provider) that is close to your budget?

* Get that Talos II POWER9 computer to play with PowerPC.

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A lot of the other discussion points about books and/or training are no where near $2000. ACM Membership is great but only $100 to $200 / year. IEEE Membership is similar. Unless you can find like 30 papers to download in the next 2 days, you're not reaching your $2000 budget.

Instead, the big-ticket items (obscure hardware, obscure software) easily gets you to $2000, $3000, or $4000 budgets in a single purchase. You should be aiming to blow-away your budget (and maybe spend a bit of your own money) and do something you normally wouldn't be able to do.

Err on the side of going way overbudget.
What if a startup working in that space couldn't compete on comp (yet), but offered 4 or 3 day work weeks. Would you be compelled by that?
"silly thing" in my comment is a euphemism. I agree it's not good to ban books frivolously. I said it in my original comment, so I think you should understand that I agree with this view.

What I'm questioning is whether the ever ratcheting level of outraged dialogue is the optimal response. We have been trying that for the last decade or two and it doesn't seem to be moving us in the right direction. Maybe it's time to try something else.
I don't know, when a conservative book is removed from libraries I read that "librarians are free to stock their shelves the way they want".

The word "ban" seems exaggerated here. It's not banned- as in sanctions if you get caught with it - it's just not in the library. Like thousands of other books.
I am very interested in this particular use case. What turned out to be annoying about it?
What economic freedoms does Texas have that California does not? Do you mean, like relaxed environmental regulations (note that California's strong constraints on the emissions of cars and trucks that came after dangerous pollution in LA, leading to policies that are now applied more widely)? Lower taxes? Easier opportunities (due to law or economic climate) to start businesses?
School ban literally always means that the book can not be present in school library and can not be talked about in the class.

It literally never ever means the student can't possess it.
I live in Texas. It's a whole goddamn thing here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/us/texas-critical-race-th...
> yeah it's unlikely, but it's not something you can "fact-check". it does violence to the meaning of the term.

One of the points of fact-checking is to point out to "yeah, it's unlikely" to people who would not otherwise know.

Lots of claims are made about stuff, in particular climate change and energy supplies, that completely fall into the "yeah, it's unlikely" zone, and yet most ordinary readers and viewers would not know this.

It's always going to be in the interest of someone to say "this might happen by the year XXXX". There's generally no shortage of black-swan boosterism. Having someone step who actually knows the field step in and point out that yes, it might happen but it almost certainly will not is of incredible value.

Your response reminds me of the situation in the current satirical movie "Don't Look Up", where because the probability of an asteroid colliding with earth is only 99.7%, not 100%, the fictional US president decides it's OK to "sit tight and assess". I mean, sure it could miss, and *"yeah, it's unlikely but...."
I second the Freedman, Pisani, Purves "statistics" recommendation.

This book explains the concepts without using mathematics, but even people with phDs in mathematics praise it as one of the best textbooks on statistics [1]

[1] https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/1666/18417
I'm not aware of support for those in LLVM, let alone rustc. Does GCC even have support?
>If you completely don't trust Apple, then you absolutely should not use their hardware at all. So some level "trust Apple" is simply a security axiom on this platform.

It is not about trusting Apple or any other company for that matter. It is about tendency and attempt to make it a norm/legalize to sell personal computers without respecting right of the owner to have a full control over their own computer. If owner cannot fully control own computer this computer cannot be called 'personal' anymore.

This practice needs a push back as it completely unacceptable. It should be made illegal to sell such devices if that is not already the case because you can be left without working computer just because link to the company isn't available for some reason.

Company goes away and you are left without a working computer. Internet isn't available and you have brick instead of your computer. This is crazy and even more crazy that there are bunch of people brainwashed enough to the level that they do not even perceive it as a problem. Probably because they can't think 3 steps forward.
Wait are you serious? 2/3rds of crypto already have a market cap of zero?

This industry is even scammier than I thought.
One of the reasons I laugh when people talk about "escaping" to TX.

We are basically burning books, controlling women's bodily autonomy, blame green energy for the failure of natural gas plants during cold snaps (and then make citizens foot the bill for the next 30 years while they made record profits).

And when a fertilizer plant exploded due to improper storage and lax regulations, the governor went on a publicity tour bragging about the lax regulations (15 people died, mostly first responders)

And this news report from 2006 is a real gem:
'Peggy Fruge told me she'd welcome blacks to her neighborhood. Then she said this:

"I don't mind being friends with them, talking and stuff like that, but as far as mingling and eating with them, all that kind of stuff, that's where I draw the line."'

We do need people to come to texas to flip it blue. Just know this is a backwards place in many ways.
They would. But a viable centrist party in the US would require an electoral college allocation system that rewards centrality, instead of 50%+1.
Out of curiosity, do you feel the same about email? When I look in my gmail spam bucket it's insane how much stuff I never see (thankfully!).
Nah.. all roads lead to Rome. This is all fake technical diversity. You just need to look at Meta's revenue model, consider it's not a non-profit and then realize that pretty much any piece of work ends up one way or another to Facebook.
Probably relevant to note that Minecraft stores the entire chunk once it's generated. (Of course it has to -- it's malleable.) And that's a lot more information than a height map and texture.

It looks like Star Citizen did something like procedural planet generation at different levels of detail depending on the camera. I'm assuming with a chosen, stable seed. And then a combination of randomly- and purposely-placed distribution of assets on the planet.
As was the joking response about not discussing IEEE implementations due to their ops sec :).
The legitimacy of a worldwide database can be solved if the UN decides to run a MySQL instance, creates APIs for transactions between individuals, and agrees on a worldwide legal framework for transactions. In the eyes of many this would look more legitimate than the "network of terrorists and CP". I don't think that argument is enough
Tool to Download Netflix in 4k
I too am interested in the Tab question
Covid-positive Vermonters with no symptoms clog up ERs
The iCloud 2TB plan is $120/yr in the US. Flickr is unlimited for $72/yr.

Does iCloud have an API for interacting with your images?
Both sides can be a fallacy--but it isn't always. But I think its very reasonable to conclude "both sides" are engaging in social media mobs, censorship, and cancel culture. Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird are on the list of most "challenged" books for 2020 because they upset liberal sensibilities. It's not just a right wing problem.
Death through association.
"Whatever makes all other sides equally angry, or at least disappointed."
why not sell an existing service as a new one by swapping the current database for a private centrally controlled blockchain? Think of all the cheddar.
One more for MS365 not requiring GoDaddy - my registrar is NameCheap and my DNS is CloudFlare, and switching to MS365 was really easy because they made the API calls to CloudFlare on my behalf once I authenticated.
> backed by coordinated dark money groups which are trying to take over school boards and harass / oust all educators who don't toe the current propaganda line

I believe this is what they call, "the iron law of woke projection".
none. I try to only believe in things that are demonstrable.
I know what you and tasogare refer to and I've seen it happen. I had to fight to change my thesis topic 3 times and also change advisors. Of course, it is not simple.

I wouldn't change anything from my initial comment though. Flexibility is not binary - it's a gray scale. If you have ZERO flexibility, you should accept the implication that such a Ph.D will be stripped of some valuable lessons. On the other hand, you can always decide to not do it and move to a different professor. You could also decide if the broad area is ok with you before you take an admission to a lab.
Let's say all crypto goes down in value 10% year after year in 2022 indefinitely.

This shouldn't necessarily affect the value or necessity (or lack thereof) of Web3. Can Web3 practically succeed under these conditions?

Unfortunately after engaging with many in person and on this forum, I've yet to hear a coherent strategy or purpose for Web3 that doesn't rely on centralized entities at any part of the chain, or rely on crypto going up.
Amazing! I’ve been looking for a way to put down my thoughts for a while, tried carrying a pocket notebook.. the notes app.. zen journal .. but writing is so much friction .. I used voice notes for a while but couldn’t search them for later so it was difficult.. I hope this is the one ^^
> why you’re obsessed with getting 100% nuclear.

This rolls back to here: “Each time you build a wind farm you hurt the viability of other electricity sources.”

If you say nuclear is a fine 70% solution, what’s the other 30%? If it’s wind then 70% nuclear is no longer viable because that was already the limit and it just became less viable. Thus the core problem, wind and solar cost less per kWh, but as you add them they push out nuclear. Essentially what mix actually works? If say 70% wind and solar 25% nuclear 5% hydro is economically cheapest nuclear needs a very special power purchase agreement designed to support it.

Which gets to the hart of the matter, much of the problem with the current grid is power purchase agreements. No utility wants to sign a power purchase agreement for the lifetime of a power plant which pays nuclear even when it’s off. Even 35 years after construction means the power plant needs to compete on the open market in ~40 years. Which means subsides.

PS: “France doesn’t subsidize” among other things it’s agreed to limit liability in the event of a major disaster. That’s incredibly valuable, suppose you wanted insurance for a 1 in X per year per 1GW reactor risk of a 500 billion dollar failure what does that cost? Well X becomes really important, we have had what 2 major disasters in what 441 current reactors * ~70 years of operation = 1 in 16,000ish. Now I think a reasonable argument can be made that French reactors are safer than that, but napkin math says even if it’s 1 in 50,000 per year you’re still looking at ~10 million per year per reactor * 56 reactors or 1/2 billion per year for insurance. Even if their 100x as safe as historic examples it’s still significant money.
I didn't say extreme positions since that is subjective. One side is using tactics like creating laws that let a state legislature overturn the Presidential vote; the other side is not doing that.
School districts curate the material in their libraries and curricula to make available the selections appropriate for the age of the students. Restricting inventory in the school library to appropriate material is not "banning" the material. It is well within the power of parents to complain to their school boards about inappropriate materials, and well within the school boards' power to decide the curricula and materials available to students on campus. There is nothing wrong with this and happens all over the country on a daily basis.

In this case, it is reasonable for parents to complain about a book containing descriptions of anal sex being in a library available to teenagers. One may disagree, but that is why the school board had a public meeting to debate this issue, and the school board properly decided. Describing this as some sort of book banning or book burning is misleading and should be avoided.
If accurate, that would mean that there was no constructive political discourse in Europe period prior to the 20th century and certainly never has been any in the US, South or Central America.

I disagree, so I think that's probably not the first thing to understand about US politics.

Oh, also, you're incorrect - according to Pew it's closer to 25%.
If I may, my conf https://github.com/Nathan-Furnal/dotemacs uses use-package quite extensively with lots of things I learned along the way. It's a bit large since I have anything from programming to writing in there but it's mine =)
I'd say more 'broken clock being right twice a day' than 'truly independent thinker' but sure.
I'd be interested in reading which of his peers in which fields have invalidated which of his ideas. Any links appreciated.

What's interesting about Taleb is that given his takes on GMOs and "naive interventionism" he seems to have been advocating quite strongly for COVID vaccination against people that have tried to use his ideas to argue against it.

It would have been so easy for him to use "antifragility" to follow so many other pubic intellectuals who saw an opportunity to promote their "heterodox" brand and gather followers advocating for natural immunity and other remedies.
The Cost of Automation
They did not "then tell the public" that "the one that convinced them" was this one study.

In communicating with the public, they happened to cite #21, because explaining all 21 would take too long and be confusing for you, and be distracting.

Refuting the specific evidence in #21 does not directly refute the other 20, and does not make the conclusion "Junk Science" as the headline apparently unintentionally implied. And the headline had no business saying "The study," when they have no idea how many studies the CDC internally considered.
Thanks! I haven’t ever heard of it before.

Could any cultist comment on if it has useful suggestions for maintaining said system?

I’ve got a cycle of organization/chaos, where I organize myself, but then over time start to lose the motivation to maintain it and it deteriorates into chaos…until I get fed up with the disorder and build up some method of organization.

It’s mostly adhd/o.d.d. fueled, and I’ve been struggling to find a sustainable way to find some sustainable quasi orderly middle ground
Annual bonus targets for staff and principal engineers are somewhere between 15% and 25% of their cash base which is somewhere between $200 and $300. So their annual bonus would be between $30K and $75K ordinarily.

Senior engineers less.

So yeah, double bonus basically.
Thank you for the suggestion, but I would file this under too bloated for the job in terms of features and size. I mean LiceCap is less than 1MB in size and it does a third of what's needed, Snagit is a 300Mb+ download!
Two party systems have really done their dash. But how would anyone change the US system?
Unless it was posted by the person who took the systems down. /s
> you can just consume your wealth instead of investing it

A rich person who does this quickly stops being rich. Few rational rich people will do that. Raising capital gains tax will have the opposite effect: rich peoples' income will go down and they will spend less.
I'm assuming we'll be able to produce gold in a thousand years with a children's chemistry set. It won't be more valuable than sand. That on its own makes the value of gold 0.
I don't think this is accurate. It appears that the phpBB instance performs a redirect to a SAML login, meaning the login page where you're being asked for your master password is the regular login page.

Now, the fact that they have a web-based vault access requiring entry of your master password? Pretty bad, considering you can't disable it, and it's automatically activated even when just using the browser extension (at least as of a few years back, when I asked them to fix that.)
> The sweet spot at this stage in the capitalist narrative arc is like a Series C/D startup that's found product-market fit and is rapidly growing. You'll get the same cash, and while there's a bit more risk, the equity could be dramatically more rewarding. Right on the knee of the curve.

Don't they use that spiel to get you to take less salary and a smaller cut of equity?
The premise given is that some other technology will displace Bitcoin. This is not implausible, but it also applies to fiat!

What is really not present in the paper is arguments that accommodate demographic change. Generational shifts - in population and asset distributions - are what mark corresponding shifts in currency, acting as an economic reset button. Taleb is looking just to the recent past to make arguments, while Bitcoiners would insist that one has to "zoom out" to see the potential longevity. In this respect they talk past each other. Currencies come and go throughout history. Nobody is particularly interested in the 1000-year outlook, or even the 100-year. Taleb made a "in the long run, we're all dead" argument.

Given the pace of the current trend, the market could irrationally center on Bitcoin for longer than anyone outside it stays solvent, in which case, it's game over: that's a win for Bitcoin even if it does get displaced later and falls to 0.
The importance of the pervasive use of stronger multi-factor authentication and a good patching policy to mitigate against the vast majority of current and emerging risks.
I bet he’s been waiting a few weeks for the right HN thread to share this new Emacs discovery. Seems only peripherally related to OP as “cool Emacs stuff” but I think he found the right audience. As a daily Vim user I’ll be pulling up Emacs again to give all of this a try.
It's a public institution. "Censorship" isn't likely the right word, but broad, public access to culture is exactly why libraries exist.

The entire "Rating" system for movies is absurd, inconsistent, and deeply flawed as it is.
How do you define leftist? I think I hear this complaint online about nearly every country. I think something about the population’s opinion would be how I would define it
Did you know that Flickr actually started out as an online multiplayer game, with file sharing as one if its features. The game flopped, but the file sharing bit was redeveloped into Flickr. Some of the files used to have .GNE in their url's, with GNE standing for 'Game Never Ending' which was the same of the game. See https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Neverending for reference.

Looks like the game is going to be ending soon though...just remembered I'm a paid member, better go cancel that.
Yes it can be, it depends of course on scale. If the Johnson family bans a book from their household, it's silly and turning a blind eye to it (i.e. just letting them run their house the way they want) is not silly.

If the US government bans a book, we should be (figuratively) marching in the street with pitch forks.
interesting, the morning coffee/covfefe and doughnut pool can addup to quite a lot of monetary equivalent in a years time
, especially if its a starbucks crowd
> Discord allows you to search all messages in a server and use filters too.

Which is an absolutely terrible experience if you've ever actually needed to.

> Discord servers can be configured to not require an account

Still requires Javascript, no SEO, popups and nagging dialogs, overall bad experience.
That's neat, I wonder how it compares to the big one with visible motors to turn the lens.
Seeing that both US parties are right wing according to most definitions in the world, a new US center party would be nice to the left of the democrats. Might not be a bad idea, as it might make the democrats more acceptable to republicans?
How did you differentiate a god talking to you, and you talking to you? What evidence to you have for that? How can others collaborate your story?
I see the "surgeons use masks in operating rooms, this proves public masking prevents the spread of COVID" argument nearly every time a mask debate appears on this site or others, and it just seems so...obviously fallacious and absurd to me on a dozen different levels, that I almost feel like I'm missing some fundamental point about it.
To start with, I’m carbon negative, so you can be assured I’m not some “fuck the environment” dude.

- Easier to build homes

- Faster to start businesses

- No societal veto on businesses; reliance on rules instead

California’s societal veto is a bad thing for people, in my opinion. The “do we need another ice cream shop?” question should be left unasked.
This is true for aarch64, but if you're not doing an embedded-linux style project, it's very likely you'll need nightly for inline assembly, though a significant chunk of that is being stabilized as we speak (though sadly not yet enough for my work...)
Thank you for the detailed reply and literature citations.

I intend to try Lithium Orotate and see how I feel, as it seems like a safe first step.
I was attempting to expand on "why" recycling is the last thing to do.
~1/4th to 1/40th the length of time where star formation will still be possible. Woefully insufficient.
I think it scared the hell out of me when it made a noise and smoked more than the jolt itself.
I wouldn't even call it a gaffe, merely poorly worded.

An X organization can be an organization to accomplish X, or it can be an organization to combat the problem of X. A reasonable person will look at whether X is generally considered positive or negative to decide between these, but a quote-miner won't care.
Thank you for this. This is a really thoughtful and nuanced comment and I'm grateful for it. Sorry for the reply with no substance, but I'm so rarely impressed by comments as much as this that I wanted to let you know.