skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SGI was building these enormous supercomputers with the NUMA architecture, kind of like a cluster of super fast units with fast interconnects and a OS and support software so you could actually use it. This is one of the less photogenic setups:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altix#/media/File%3AUs-nasa-co...

If you can make your problem fit the architecture you can work on enormous tasks. It wasn’t bad stuff at all but probably impossible to make money on. Commodity hardware improved so fast they couldn’t keep up.
But peer review works completely differently in math & physics than in psychology. In math and (theoretical) physics, practically all results (claims) can in principle be reproduced (tested) by other people. Sure reviewers are usually short on time and won't verify every single detail but at the same time – being experts in their fields – they tend to be extremely good at distinguishing the "easy" arguments from more intricate ones and can usually come up with rough arguments as to why (or why not) a given new result makes sense in light of existing results & literature.
The simplest answer would be medication. (The following is a vast oversimplification of the biology involved but essentially) the ADHD brain is starved for dopamine. When it finds something that's a reliable source of dopamine (like video game are designed to be), it latches on leading to hyperfocus. Stopping is especially difficult because there's a "dopamine cliff" (going from an extra rewarding activity to nothing).

Many ADHD drugs work by (more or less) increasing dopamine levels in the brain. This makes regular activity more rewarding, and lessens that steep "cliff" effect. For me at least, it allows me to indulge in activities like video games and other hobbies in moderation which was never possible before (in addition to a lot of other quality of life benefits).

Medication isn't the only answer of course. There are treatment and management strategies that don't involve drugs, and I often find that just understanding the mechanisms behind my behavior helps me come up with effective strategies to manage them.

(And of course, not all video game addictions are ADHD related, and I absolutely don't mean to suggest they are. But there are well documented links between ADHD and addictive behavior. And ADHD is widely misunderstood by the public, so many individuals that don't display classic hyperactive symptoms aren't diagnosed or are diagnosed late in life. So I thought it'd be worth mentioning as something to consider anyway)
I don't think companies buying up homes are acting in the public's best interests.
I think we should require companies like zillow to build the homes they sell. They shouldn't be allowed to buy existing homes unless it is to repair low income homes for low income buyers.
each time you are exposed via vaccine or getting infected, it builds immunity.

Getting exposed turns out to be similar to having gotten one shot, though Im sure the immune response has a wider antigen coverage.

Keep in mind that getting infected has a substantially higher risk of bad outcomes than getting the vaccine. Getting the vaccine substantially reduces the risk of bad outcomes.

Getting infected then getting the vaccine is not as good as getting vaccinated then getting infected.

Also getting infected likely makes you completely immune to that variant. But getting vaccines/boosters likely gives you stronger partial immunity to mutated variants.
Works out of the box on FF and netsurf on linux. Though netsurf on plan 9 needed the www prefix.
Is it comparable to Opal?
When I was younger I asked my parents to buy me the Play Station 2 and a couple of games and realized it actually wasn't as fun as I thought it would be. So I didn't buy another console ever again.

But this game hit something in my brain that made me so addicted to it. As I said, maybe the flow, maybe the competitiveness, the ladder, or a combination of them all.
I once worked with a CTO who decided to move from AWS to GCP (and also move from Spark to Hive and python to scala, at the same time). That guy was an idiot.

(At one point somebody accidentally spent £30,000 in data transfer costs with one key press.)

The project was never completed and the CTO just moved on to another fancy CTO position.
Lots of bigots have latched onto Vancouver housing issues as a way to further their anti-immigration views. It's gross.

This doesn't mean though that there haven't been real issues with the Vancouver market that involve foreign wealth.

Prior to the foreign buyers tax we were seeing condo developers explicitly opening up sales offices in foreign cities, explicitly marketing their condos as pied-a-terres. I understand why people didn't like that. That sort of thing really doesn't help the local buyer or renter.

I'm happy to see that while Canadian politicians have brought in these rules to deal with some distortions of the real estate market from foreign wealth, we really haven't our politicians embrace the bigoted anti-immigrant rhetoric around this topic of the sort that you occasionally see on twitter and reddit.
the CRT had no frequency limit ?
That's clinical depression. See a doctor.
The other part should be a supertax on properties which are empty for more than 6 months.
Very well-done. This should be the OP article.
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Cool article, have you done any other apps?

Ps OP your site is lacking https
You are a complete badass. That is one hell of an inspiring story. Congratulations.
Well, we can say 'an equivalence' (or adjoint) which would be accurate and still using natural language, no?

Onto my second point, you don't need an isomorphism, an equivalence works fine if you find that the axioms hold in both cases, no? So now you're not just working with a 'formalism' that has no basis in reality.

Otherwise, if reality wasn't constrained by axioms (or even meta axioms) we'd use it to do things we couldn't with our formalisms.
I’m 34, love gaming, and have been married for 12 years with 3 kids. “Healthy” amount of play is playing as much as you want as long as your on track in accomplishing your short and long term goals.

In addition, you need to make sure your wife’s expectations are being met daily. My wife lets me spend my time however I want as long as I’m clearly communicating my efforts in meeting her expectations, both in the short and long term.
Elden ring?
I have the same deal here.

Pre-COVID, they had a WeWork office, but some employees were remote around the USA. Once COVID hit, they left the WeWork and became fully remote. We don't have an office, and now have people from all over the world.

HR and the C-suite make a big point of advertising both internally and externally that we are a 100% remote company. They've also arranged full-company gatherings so we can meet each other and put an actual person behind the face we see in Zoom. A couple months ago, it was in Chamonix, France.
Aluminum-nickel molten salt battery for seasonal renewables storage
What happened to SGI?
When did he start?
When the potential downsides are greater than the upside, I would classify it as useless if not outright dangerous.
Was this not at-will employment?

While getting it in writing is good, it doesn't actually protect you. Vast majority of people are working at-will. Which means either party can change the terms of employment whenever. And if the other party disagrees then employment is terminated.

In this case meaning, if your contract says remote then they can change it to not remote at any time. That said, any company that will pull shenanigans like that you don't want to be working for anyhow as they don't respect you and that will impact you across all aspects of your work.
Stolen from people unable to buy homes? Someone else's house that you wish to own does not make it stolen property from you.

If you purchased a home that someone who had less money wanted is that stolen property?

Can I have your computer, phone and your car. I don't have any money but you having something I want means you stole it.
Well, on a rooted android device, specifically to combat mindless tapping games, tap titans / egg inc /etc, an auto-clicker program helped me break a multiweek long gaming cycle.
What games you play?
Russia's Military Continues to Prepare for a WMD Attack (2021)
For the technically inclined, try a partitioning strategy that involves multiple phone numbers. Cost: Asterisk server on Digital Ocean (or competitor) plus a very low monthly rate and per minute rates.

1. One can acquire US phone numbers for anywhere from as low as $0.06 per month, in the area code of your choice.

2. Acquire several numbers (several dozen, perhaps) and when you are using any services on the Internet that require a phone number, share an appropriate number for that partition.

3. Set up Asterisk or Freeswitch, or find some front-end if you don't like editing text files. Route your numbers through this.

4. Write a dialplan that has intelligent logic to properly route numbers from each partition. Give some partitions an audio captcha to solve to prevent automated bots before ringing your real number or device, send some straight to voicemail, etc. Use your imagination.

5. Use certain numbers for a particular purpose. LinkedIn? They should get one. LinkedIn MFA? Give them another, they're sell that out too in some countries. Facebook? Buying a new product? Have a large partition of numbers, and rotate through these plus your personal email domains. Maybe pick a nice vanity number and use this on your resume to track that.

It shouldn't have to be like this, but this keeps my phone calls to a minimum, and I can fairly reliably track the usage and sharing through variosu online services, and cut back on tracking and cross-service account associations using phone numbers as identifiers that the marketers love.
Windows has a long history of preinstalled games of various quality all the way back to Reversi in Windows 1.0. Solitaire, of course, was the third most popular application in Windows 3.1. But there hasn't been a single version of Windows that hasn't had games preinstalled.
that's easily fixed by googling "blah blah site:reddit.com"

The real problem is how to get better results now that reddit's site has changed. I often see posts from even 10 years show as having activity from within a few years or even days on google. The reddit redesign has been a horrible detriment to the website
Tables Are Hard, Part 3: Streaming Data
Most common scenario is to sell your Toronto home for 2m and retire to a 500k condo in Florida. And no, neither banks nor government would absorb the delta between mortgage value and current property evaluation. Banks are probably covered by some form of government insurance which people would have to pay up through taxes
The demand for the housing drives the price, modulo short-term speculation. The investor buys it with an eye towards the cash-flow from renting, and by definition, it's rented to someone living there.
Signing for my current job, I learned that there's a legal concept for "quitting with reason", which is essentially the inverse of "firing for cause". Among a few other things, if it procs (which is excessively unlikely), my stock grant is accelerated.

The concept amounts to "a material change in working conditions", and covers pay, work load and type, work location, and location in the hierarchy (aka demotions, even if the company doesn't call it one).

(It's also why I made sure my paperwork specified "remote" rather than "LA")
> However it is not correct that the path of the current is not important.

I never claimed this. I claimed that even with the "safest" path through your body, the chance of your heart stopping is still there.

My point is that it's never "safe" to do, and as a homeowner (and even for a vast majority of non-lineman electricians) you never have to do it.
> I do wonder why they didn't (couldn't?) update everything to the latest standard by now.

Many people has been asking this same question on this thread. The answer is simple: backwards compatibility. That begets tough trade-off decisions. Otherwise, no product designer loves inconsistency.

The other alternatives are either to never innovate, or to keep support timeframes short.

Windows 1.0 had 100% consistent UI.
>I wouldn't extend this to the President's cabinet, as these people aren't known to us when voting.

Which is the bigger point, since that is who makes up the government. Not just the cabinet heads, but all of the undersecretaries and department heads etc. There are hundreds (or more) of appointed positions in the Executive Branch. People like Fauci have never been elected to anything so I don't see how the comment I replied to can make that stance.
That's a fair way to view it, and my experience is also that a lot of that friction at its worst tends to accrete around bureaucratic barriers and fiefdoms. That also plays out in its own ways to the compiler warnings analogy: if there's a lot of friction touching a particular code for bureaucratic reasons, often the bureaucracy doesn't go away in the monorepo case it just disappears until it painfully shows back up later in the process. For instance, multi-repo may add a lot of friction to even finding/getting access to the repo in the first place but once you have access after bureaucratic red tape, PRs may be painless. Yet there are certainly all sorts of monorepo horror stories of making an "easy" PR and then finding that PR get bogged down in a lot of politics as bureaucrats crawl out of the woodwork from PR pings (sometimes pings they themselves set and the PR creator isn't ever aware of until the PR is sent). The bureaucracy is much the same in both cases, the pain is very similar, in one case it is just front loaded and obvious. (Everyone knows "Oh, Bob owns that repo. You need to fill out these forms, take it to the castle next door, and look for the ogre to give the forms to. That's Bob. Then you can make PRs to your hearts content if Bob likes you and doesn't eat you." versus a troll jumping out from under a bridge to completing a PR that you never expected and demanding a sacrifice of some goats before you may cross the bridge.)
How to write a Lisp interpreter in JavaScript
Obligatory Reddit scroller comment:
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(The best photo aggregator for reddit)
Browsers are good enough that if you're careful about it you can just use a WebWorker and write standard JS, no need to worry with the build/compilation/compatibility headaches adding a whole new language to your ecosystem entails. Nice part with this is you can even have a fallback routine that runs the WebWorker code in the main thread to support really old browsers.

I wouldn't recommend dropping to WASM until you've ironed out the ideal data structures/algorithms to use, and have spent some time in the devtools profiler. Hacking on ideas in JS is (IME) much faster than doing the same in a compiled language, and the built in profiling in browsers works far better for JS than any WASM (again IME). Only after you have an optimized algorithm, data structure, and implementation, and still find perf isn't where you want it would I recommend rewriting in a compiled language -- even then I'd wager having the optimized reference implementation around will make this much easier and faster than if you tried to start from 0 in the compiled language.

Bonus points if you can reuse tests and/or have a debug mode that runs both implementations in parallel and throws on any differences in output.
Living for yourself is also real. The point is that if one doesn’t feel meaning and purpose in one’s life due to existential awareness, then moving the focus to other people doesn’t help with that.
Degaussing. Most(all?) CRT monitors could do that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjO2vVaxIWM
You can submit your own for consideration if you have a custom one in mind that might be helpful to others:

https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
I don't think many people are really in favor of big investors getting into housing because no, it sure does not help, but the root cause is "not enough homes", and the solution is "build more homes of all shapes and sizes". That's also the solution to keeping big investors out! Big investors aren't piling into used cars despite the recent scarcity because they know that sooner or later the car companies are going to go back to churning out a bunch of new cars.

You're quite correct that more money chasing after the same limited number of homes is just going to drive up prices.
Is it so far fetched to assume some realtors may be juicing the bidding to...

Of course not, and I didn't say that I'm completely against reforming the real estate industry and the bidding process. But it won't fix expensive housing.

It's all bullsh*t if it doesn't address scarcity. In 2016 we had had 10 years of 2% population growth in Vancouver and 1.2% housing stock growth and we wanted to blame foreign investors, so we enacted the foreign-buyers tax. That was going to fix high housing prices.

In 2017 we all got angry about dirty money and our casinos being used as money-laundromats so we commissioned the German report to detail what was going on and surely that would show that real estate was expensive because of money-laundering. It said prices might have gone up by 6% because of money-laundering. So that's 6% of 400%.

In 2021 we started talking about investors driving up the cost of housing, ignoring the fact that investors typically become landlords and in cities with rental vacancy rates hovering around 1% (Vancouver's was 0.4% in 2017!!!), that sounds like a good thing.

It's all bullsh*t and it's all a distraction that let's us ignore scarcity. I've decided that no matter how justified that housing reform is (ie open-bidding), I refuse to support it before we deal with scarcity because we'll deal with open-bidding and then say, "Ok ... let's see where we are in 3 years time now that we've fixed that!"

Deal with scarcity or f*ck off with talk about housing prices. Don't expect me to validate your cognitive dissonance.
Going to a non-selective school isn't special, and neither is a selective one. For one, they can have the same difficulty and SELECTIVITY DOESN'T CONFER DIFFICULTY. You most definitely commented how you felt, including talking about how going from your non-selective school to selective school you felt the difficulty became higher as your peers were something like #1 from their previous less selective program/high-school and now they are just average.

Personally I think you just have a chip on your shoulder thinking a selective program is generally more difficult than a non-selective program. Elitist arrogance.

>Where the hell are you getting that 99.9% number? I would think someone who went to a good school wouldn't pull random numbers out of thin air.

I said could be, because you decoupled by saying now that it merely COULD be that a selectivity influences difficulty, before backtracking to play your devious and treacherous claim you were never talking about the school from which your anecdotes came. YOU pulled the figures like 25% and 50% out of a hat, which is fine because we acknowledged they weren't hard numbers. Don't be a hypocrite.

>Selectivity is causal to difficulty. Period

Selectivity doesn't confer difficulty. Period.

Edit: here's a comment from a student at one non-selective school

"This leads to <<school>> feeling very impersonal for Freshman and Sophmores while the university treats you more or less like an experiment to see if you can handle the pressure. This can lead to people that would normal be denied to being accepted and excelling, but it can also lead to other students who shouldn't have been placed in such rigorous programs having to drop out, transfer, or graduate late. This is from a personal observation and 2 good friends transferring schools and another friend who dropped out his Junior year."

they note the university "Put them in extremely tough classes go start with and weed out those who can't handle the pressure."

This is how it tends to work in non-selective schools. They hold students to the 'selective' school standard freshman/sophomore year until by junior year you're effectively in a cohort that looks like the cohort at the selective school. The difficulty is still there, although it's an independent variable from the selectivity.
Which worthwhile things?
The channel I/O format has conditional jumps in the command stream and lets you as the application programmer offload large parts of the filesystem or database directly onto the hard drive controller without main CPU intervention. It's closer to GPU command submissions than what you see out of NVMe/SCSI/ATA. So, for one example, telling the controller to "walk an index tree in this format and retrieve the block that matches this key" is something you can code yourself in the channel I/O command stream as it's own sort of ISA.
>Both countries agreed that land-based nuclear missiles aiming at Russia in Europe will be placed only in France and the UK, and not in Germany, for example

They also both agreed Ukraine would never try to join NATO, and yet...
> Can you not do this and also seek to identify hedge funds, private capital, REITs, and other entities which may be more difficult to regulate at a later time? Maybe this first piece of legislation is the quick win?

You can, and I specifically pointed out that I generally agree with what is being proposed, and certainly hope that it isn’t an attempt at diversion by throwing out the usual scapegoat.
It works fine w/ Firefox for me.
There is an interesting column in a Dutch newspaper were they interview 100 year old people about their life. It opens up a window to a time when the country wasn't obscenely wealthy. Hard work and poverty ruled the day.

Wasn't until the 1970s when living standards had finally caught up to the US.
Because I have more discipline and focus later in life, I'm able to learn much faster (and perform much faster) than I was in my 20s. Eventually I'm sure it will decline as I age, but I can code about 3x faster now than I could twenty years ago.
I like the conclusion, but I've created some elaborate financial models to compare buying versus renting (+ investing the difference in S&P500). And so have a few very intelligent friends.

It almost NEVER works out in favor of buying except for some crazy flukes like pandemic accelerating prices in Toronto.

I think it's largely cultural? Canadian's (more than any of my American friends) are fed the idea that owning a home is the best financial decision and the holy grail of life.
It may happen to be the best financial decision for them, but because they lack the information that it's not and wouldn't otherwise invest very well.

Even in spite of that information, I still want to spend money and buy a house. I've been asked for vacate my apt for property sale more than once, and faced +800/mo rent spike (NYC...), and I'm over it.
A Utopian Gets Real About the Limits of Schooling
Regarding tracking bad CL ranges: Ecosystems (outside Google) which use versioned packages have the same requirement. If some version of a package you depend on has a bug then you might detect it yourself if you're lucky but more likely you won't detect it, so you need to use tools to centrally track known-bad versions and check whether your systems are affected. Package repositories support removing versions that are known to be bad for the same reason. Most of the attention in these areas is on security related bugs right now, but that's really just a sub-category of the overall problem.

I don't think the bad-versions tracking outside Google is any less complicated than the bad-CL-ranges tracking inside Google.
IANAL or OP; I work in CA (which AFAIK is at-will) and I made sure the actual employment contract specified remote, and didn't consider myself as having a new job until I had that paperwork (aka - didn't quit existing job, literally or emotionally, or stop other job search prospects, etc)
> to a random foreign company

Fair enough, but I’m not sure Microsoft could be described as a ‘random company’
I heard that said of euler.
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