skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought I read it uses word2vec?
I’ll add to this that a system designed to stabilize around units of “two-earners” can be expected to find a number of single earners struggling, especially if you self select your analysis to be discussing single earners from the bottom quintile. It would be a shock if that cohort did not have significant issues existing within the current system.

Walmart employees, making minimum wage or close to, are expected to be a cohort from the bottom quintile before accounting for partner income.
Looks like this is the first time anyone has ever posted a comment in response, too.
Intelligence is not well-defined even for humans, and we have little understanding of what goes on in an animal's "mind", yet people like you use terms like IQ for cats like they're established facts. For all we know, it could be that some animals/cats just don't "care" as much about interacting with humans. Just like some humans do.
Tone is just as much a part of language and there’s a good chance when teaching language you ended up teaching the tone pattern better than the phonemes. It’sa much better pattern March until you have a large vocabulary.
Right, the fact that they would lose control over the distribution channel has nothing to do with it. It is only because they are oh-so concerned with "money laundering".
i do think this trend is happening and will unlock some use cases. Not sure about P2P though. One reason I switched to home 5G is because i can get 40 mbps up for $25, where I needed to pay $100 to comcast for similar up speed. My main use case is streaming my playstation 4 remotely so I can play on the go.
When you are running a successful restaurant that is always full, the last thing you want is for people to sit around having conversations. You want them to quickly eat and drink their fill and get out so another customer can take their place. On the other hand, when your place is half empty, either because it is not so popular or because it is not busy time, you want to keep present customers there as long as you can. Even if their are sitting there nursing the one beer, there is always a chance they will order another one or get a snack or a coffee. Your solution is obviously going to bad unpopular places, or going at times when not too many people eat.

Joking aside, it is possible that this has recently gotten worse due to reduced capacity associated with social distancing.
> It was a gamble. Would Ukraine fold, or not?

It doesn't matter if Ukraine folded. Why? Because what happens next?

If Russia installs a puppet regime and leaves, how long does that puppet regime last?

If Russia stays and maintains a military occupation, it faces the prospect of a decades-long counter-insurgency from a geographically large country with 44 million potential insurgents who are really unified by their hatred of Russians. Post-WW2 insurgencies have had an incredibly high chance of success against even far more numerous and technologically superior occupying forces. It's a bad bet.
It doesn't seem to require anything too exotic, but it does require very high heat. This isn't something you can stick in a factory stack to make energy from leftover heat.

Their target is thermal batteries for long-term energy storage, such as a pile of molten salt. That can scale, but only with substantial effort, and with a bunch of unknowns.
> Such people almost always use the git tools provided in IntelliJ.

OTOH, IntelliJ’s "Magic wand" is totally worth the hassle.
I really love seeing the cyberdeck posts recently. It's always been an area that I've wanted to get into, but don't really have a need (nor the time or the money). Instead, I get my kicks vicariously through things like this article.
A good family friend is a manager of a Safeway. It's surprisingly hard work. You spend 55+ hours a week on your feet, you have to sub in for any job in the store at a moment's notice, you deal with the worst customers on an hourly basis, and you still have to know all the ins-and-outs of running an incredibly low margin business. And all for less money than a junior software dev might make.
from the article > Walmart last year dropped the dollar-per-day fee employees paid to participate in the company’s subsidized university degree program, a move that boosted participation by 44%

Apparently it had a significant difference.
It happens for almost all practitioners, one problem is that the secular practise doesn’t offer the “save all suffering beings in the cosmos” narrative that Buddhism does, and so it cannot offer a way forward beyond the insight and into compassion. It usually doesn’t even try to.
Not usually. A well-written application that cares about your data should be written in a way to survive sudden power loss, and to such an application, a file-system-level snapshot taken at an arbitrary point in time looks basically the same as sudden power loss.

Now, that being said, if you have the ability to set up backups where you can minimize the file system activity, you might be slightly better off doing it, but the ROI is probably fairly low unless it's extremely trivial to set that up for everything that's running.
> People get along fine without this feature, therefore there’s no sense in implementing it.

As someone whose job is to add new features to a programming language, that's never been my argument.

> But it cuts the other way, or we’d all still be using assembly

High-level languages were satisfactorily shown to be more productive than Assembly. I don't claim that no innovation works, just that not all do, and certainly not to the same degree. That feature X is helpful is certainly no evidence that feature Y is helpful, and that Python is more productive than Assembly does not support the claim that programs in OCaml are more correct than programs in Clojure.

Also, my argument isn't "we got by without it" or that no idea could ever work. It's that a specific claim was tested and unconfirmed.

> Was the superiority of structured programming and avoiding GOTO ever empirically proven, or did we all just collectively realize it was a good idea?

I don't know about the former, but the latter is certainly true, and until we actually reach concensus you can't claim we have.

BTW, I certainly don't claim that types aren't useful or even that they're not better in some ways (I believe that they help a lot with tooling and organisation), but the particular claim that they universally help with correctness, and do so better than other approaches, was studied, and simply not confirmed. You can't come up with a claim, try and fail to support it time and again, and keep asserting it as if it's obviously true, despite the evidence.
Yes, but you can still build a static site reading the content from a SQLite file instead of a directory of HTML files. That’s the beauty of SQLite: this is “just” a database library and file format.
Except it's my belief that Apple is doing this so that THEY are the ones collecting and using this data, under the guises of privacy.

See also getting into Ads after kneecapping the competition.
Gold can be used for corrosion-resistant electrical contacts, infrared reflectors for space telescopes, decoration in gaudy penthouses, and more even if everyone decided it was useless as a currency.

An antique desk that loses all value in the open market can still be used as a desk or at least firewood.

A rare car can still be used to transport yourself, as a prop in a movie, or scrap for other projects.

A "worthless" painting can still inspire, liven up a room, or gifted as a gag.

Crypto that loses its value has no other underlying utility over and above the output of /dev/random. That's a MASSIVE difference and more clearly demarcates BTC as a money laundering/Ponzi scheme rather than "digital gold" or a viable currency.
>First, rich people own. Salaries don’t make people rich nearly as often as equity does.

>Second, rich people tend to own unsexy businesses. These include auto repair shops, gas stations and business equipment contractors.

>The third important factor in gaining wealth is some way to avoid ruthless price competition, to build a local monopoly. Auto dealerships have legal protections.

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>My data-driven advice for getting rich for someone with good analytical skills and deep experience in a field is to start a market research business. Use your specialized knowledge in the field to write up reports; sell them widely and charge a fortune to your contacts in the field. I have estimated that more than 10 percent of owners of market research businesses are in the top 0.1 percent.

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>In the end, Dr. Killingsworth found, the effects of money level off: You need to keep doubling your income to get the same happiness boost.

>The activities that make people happiest include sex, exercise and gardening. Weather plays only a small role in happiness. People are consistently happier when they are out in nature.

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>Sometimes, big data reveals a shocking secret. At other times, big data tells us that there is no secret. And that’s the case with happiness.

>The data-driven answer to life is as follows: Be with your love, on an 80-degree and sunny day, overlooking a beautiful body of water, having sex.

>It’s a lot easier than owning an auto dealership.
> protect end user freedom over reducing intermediate developer & corporation hassle

Actually it also reduces intermediate developer hassle: it's better if I don't have to rely on closed source firmware, firmware updaters, drivers, SDKs, proprietary tools.

It create openness in the whole software stack.
We have a code base already written in Ruby.
Researchers devise iPhone malware that runs even when device is turned off
I assumed that someone would, at the very minimum, notice that my account went from 150 to 1,000,000 followers in less than a month, and then ban the bogus followers, as they are fairly easy to identify. That didn't happen
I think I responded to your other comment, but I don’t think this is true. Do you have any further reading?

A currency is not backed by land value. It’s usually “backed” by a combination of sovereign debt obligations and its status as legal tender.
RiscVivid – An educational RISC-V simulator
"costs so much to transfer btc"

That's not true. The typical credit card processing fee ranges from about 1.3% to 3.5%. Average international remittance fees are about 7%. For comparison the average Bitcoin fee is about $1 right now, so 1% on a $100 transaction. So Bitcoin compares favorably to its competitors.
They can code working security models for other features so fingerprinting isn't a good reason.

Firefox is actually looking at WebMidi now so they've clearly had a change of heart. Apple will never do it because it means you can make hardware devices that interact with iPhones without going through the App Store.
> then had someone come in for a 1-2 hour long interview with some live programming. The point of the exercises in the interview was to see someone's thought process, not if they could actually "complete" the exercises.

I don't know much about industry and interviews yet. Do you think this is the case for most interviews? That they care about your thought process, not just if you can complete the problem? Is it necessary to learn/memorize all algorithms and data structures, or is it better to practice and focus on improving my problem solving skills and thought process?
I'm using Oracle Cloud always free tier, and I've got 4x VMs each with 1 Arm CPU, 6gb memory and 50gb disk. Free forever. You get a small amount of object storage and some free database (nosql/sql) but I'm mainly here for the 4 VMs to run a completely free k0s Kubernetes cluster.
I think a lot migrated to second level domains. I don’t remember exactly how it worked, but third level domain owners got the first chance at the matching second level domains. There are still some on third level domains, but mostly to avoid collisions I think.
Yes, this was for our prototype and not the actual chassis. We have had conversations about building additional T41 prototypes for the pilot program and or selling them. It's something we will revisit in the future.
I read someone else's analysis of the agreement: it bizarrely sets the cap for any damages that can be sued in court to $1B - same as the breakup fee. This obviously gives Elon an incentive to not pay breakup fee, but go to court first instead. At worst, he'd pay a billion, and best, whatever the court says thats less than a billion + legal fees
You need way more evidence to really claim that, though. Would be like claiming weed causes laziness in people. I've seen just as much evidence that lazy people are drawn to it. Such that it is a classic selection bias problem.
My Experiences with Julia
> A computation is just an implementation of a function `f: {0,1}^N-> {0,1}^M`... if not, what is the meaning of the word at all?

Sure, that's a definition. It happens to be mathematically equivalent to the calculation of any observable signal in the real world, because there exist isomorphisms between {0,1}^N and the set of functions of maximum frequency f over time t, for example.

> All these phrases "manipulates data", "computation", and so on... they dont mean anything

They are certainly meaningful.

> A kettle "manipulates data".

Yes, it does, but in a very trivial and uninteresting way. Crucially, it does more than just manipulate data, but manipulating data is one of the things a kettle can do.

> You think you're saying something empirically significant about the brain using this language, but this language has no empirical content. It is a language of pure mathematics.

We certainly can say empirically significant things about the brain, since facts about the way in which it performs computations can be inferred, and from this we can infer information about how the brain must be structured. Trivially for example, we can infer that the brain must be able to have a minimum amount of outgoing total neuronal bandwidth by analyzing the makeup of outputs in can compute, and indeed we can do more.

> All of these claims are true of any system.

Of course, they are. But for some systems they can provide more insight than for others. The computation a kettle can do is insignificant and largely irrelevant to what interests us kettle-wise, so we don't really care. However, the way in which the brain manipulates data is much more interesting and intricate (and we can of course place lower and upper bounds on how intricate it is), and correspondingly we can learn much more.

> If you can provide a logical model of the algorithm the brain is performing, and a model of how the brain implements it, then we learn something.

I don't need to provide a model of the algorithm the brain is performing nor of how it is implemented to learn things. Thanks to various interesting results in computer science (in conjunction with results in the hard sciences), we can learn things about the brain without needing at all to know which algorithm it is implementing, and without knowing much of how it is implemented. At the extreme of knowing little about the implementation, we have physical lower bounds of physically possible implementations of any given computation, regardless of the algorithm.

CS theory allows us to infer facts about algorithms by knowing the computation.

For example, if I have a black box that inputs a list and outputs a sorted list, since I know that it is impossible to sort a list in the general case faster than n log n, and since it is impossible to know the original list from the sorted list, knowing the Landauer limit, I can infer for example a minimum power consumption. I don't need to know anything about the implementation or algorithm.
For the longest time I had this crappy serving spoon that I got in college. It was flimsy and would bend almost to the point of breaking every time you used it. It made it difficult to use it for its one job of scooping food out of large containers into smaller containers, but still I put up with it for years.

I don’t know why it took me so long to realize I could just, you know, buy another one. Eventually I did, and it’s much more pleasant to use.

I don’t see any particular virtue in burying yourself in daily annoyances out of…what exactly? So you can pretend you’re better than other people because you “don’t care” about material things? So you can play at being a fun-loving free spirit who stomps on their flatware during an impromptu dance party?

You can buy decent stuff and still not need to feel owned by it. That’s an issue that’s all in your head. Pay $50 for a fork but also let it go that your friend might ding it up.
Companies should be more worried about injections than infringement. Sure they might pay court fines, but courts can also order them to stop infringing immediately. Continuing to infringe after a court order is a very different issue, and isn't about copyright law it anymore.
even with file system snapshots, your backup can be corrupt.

the example of the browser profile is a classic case.

imagine multiple writes occur and all of them have to occur for the profile to be correct (either multiple files are being written or firefox will write multiple blocks to the file). if the snapshot operation occurs in the middle, then the snapshot will be "corrupt".

I believe this is actually the entire point of Windows' volume shadow service (which is sort of poo-pooed in the article), to enable applications to tell the snapshot mechanism "wait, I'm in the middle of a file system transaction" and then to pause writes until the snapshot operation occurs after they finish the in process transaction.

without such a mechanism, you are always going to be at risk with snapshots.

In https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/pubs/sosp2007_dejaview.pdf we avoided this problem by combining 2 mechanisms without having modifying applications with such a service

1) we used a log structured file system (that was inherently a snapshot, every log entry was individually mountable) and 2) we used a checkpoint/restart mechanism that saved process state and enabled us to restart the processes combined with the file system state as it was at checkpoint time. (Checkpoint would also sync all dirty pages to disk and that fs state after the sync is what we tied to the checkpoint state).

So when a process would be resumed, the file system would look exactly as the process expected it, even if the process was in the middle of what can be referred to a transaction. But that only worked because the processes were restored along with file system, if we only restored the file system, it could be inconsistent.
Q1 2022 Reflections
References about the Canada story:

https://gizmodo.com/that-time-a-canadian-town-derailed-a-die...

https://steemit.com/history/@kiligirl/remembering-canada-s-w...
Oh, thanks for letting me know, we'll look into it!
Someone with enough knowledge to provide the proof would still need to be involved, but it doesn't have to be the original developer(s).
I think you want `fzf`?
"There is huge genetic IQ gaps, lol. Some cats are so smart they blow your mind, others are mouth breathers. The normal distribution is real."

I'm very curious about how well someone with a "lot of experience in digital advertising" is positioned to define "genetic IQ gaps", "smart", etc. as it applies to cats & others. Perhaps instead of throwing these terms around like they're candy, you should submit your findings to an scientific journal (and get rejected :) ).
that's not really true. there's a reason VSS exists on windows.
It's somewhat similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking that's featured in Cryptonomicon.
Curlconverter-VSCode
Beyond Compare is significantly better.
Meh. Own what you want. I get personal satisfaction out of having all of my items be high quality. The hand feel, the weight, the craftsmanship. I feel comforted and at home when surrounded by "the best."

Just because I own nice things doesn't mean that they are the "focus of my life," but rather that I simply appreciate owning nice things.
Anyone knows if the pf syncookie made it to 13.1?

https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Por...
The example above has an operation that might fail between the Open and the return. Leaving that out of course makes the example useless, but if you keep that part in, you can't use go's simple defer pattern to help you close the file if that intermediate operation fails.
> Does an internal tool in a company still count?

I would think so, yes. If I take a piece of information and do something to it inside my house, that's my business. If I show it to my friend, it's between him and me. If it let my coworkers see it so that they can only see it within the office, it's between them and me. And so on. The only issue would arise if an employee asked to see the source of such an internal tool and was denied.
Now though this extra work (the thing I got has to have deferred work done when I don't need it any more) is given to your caller.

For a File Handle this might feel natural, but what about if I hand you a... 3D printer? a Bank Account? a Youtube Video? a Package Delivery? Which of these need some sort of "deferred close" action ? You probably need to read the docs and arrange to close or not close things accordingly right?

You're going to be Wrong by Default again.
Same. Ours was so bad we ended up unintentionally starving both of them trying to breastfeed (we only realized that's what happened to our son AFTER we had our daughter). My wife stayed at home and pumped DILIGENTLY for hours on end every day to make sure she had enough to feed our kids breast milk--of which she was BARELY able to do.

While it SUCKED to have a single income and two kids, we made it work; a lot of others simply CANNOT do that and formula is necessary. Anyone being a Karen about it needs to shut the fuck up and mind their own damn business.

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I have no commentary on the medical benefits or not; we just decided it was what we thought was best and went with it.
Some of the practices aren't even bad. Adding an underscore or two as a bad practice? One is well-known convention for stuff you don't want touched and even JS itself uses double underscores for some stuff.
I worked at Staples around the same time period, 2008-2009, and while it was mind-numbing work, I learned a good portion of the skills I needed for the corporate world. Things like: showing up on time even when you don't want to, knowing how and when to escalate to management, how to communicate with customers, executing business processes like opening, closing, stocking shelves, etc. The pay was only $8/hr. but the experience was easily worth 10 times that. At the time I was in college and living with my parents with free tuition from the Pell Grant; a few hundred bucks every two weeks was actually a decent amount of money for food, gas for the car, whatever. I feel for people who have to make a living in that environment but it's not meant for that, it's meant to be a learning and growth environment.
There is an extremely important difference between "every woman has fewer children than her mother" and "on average a woman has fewer children than her mother".

You can see that in the first scenario the human race dies out in about 12 generations as the maximum possible number of children any woman can have decreases by 1 each generation.

The second scenario is easily compatible with sustained long-term population growth. For example each woman initially has four kids, two of whom are childless and two of whom have four kids, etc. This doubles the population each generation but on average a woman has half as many children as her mother (two fewer).
50k is not the number of unique words that GPT-3 supports, and perhaps you're referring to the BPE tokens. The input to GPT-3 is not tokenized by splitting on spaces, and is based on byte-pair encoding tokens. You can play with it here: https://beta.openai.com/tokenizer.

A rare word like blithe is tokenized into two BPE tokens: bl and ithe, whereas common words like the get their own token.