skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet service providers drop challenge of Maine's privacy law
Air BNB

Started as a tool for renting rooms in cities during conferences, where hosts were expected to provide no more than an air mattress.

Pivoted to full on house renting.

Chesky talks about it all here in the blitzscaling series, an interview series conducted by Reid Hoffman:

https://youtu.be/W608u6sBFpo
This is described later in the tutorial (ctrl-f "lisp heresy"). It's a macro that I wrote, not something built into Janet -- I'm sure I'm not the first person to do this, but I'm not aware of any lisps that have such a construct built-in.
It seems pretty clear to me that regarding the origin of the virus specifically, there has been bad-faith dismissal of the lab leak theory due to the politicization of GoF research.
Science is a deeply personal philosophy that guides how an individual interacts with the rest of society. Skepticism, reproducibility, and verification. It is fundamentally _not_ trust based. The body of scientific knowledge is distinct from other forms of knowledge in that it is documented in such a way that you are able to independently validate it to reach the same conclusions yourself. Anything short of that is not science. If you are not able to review the methodology and data yourself - it is not science from where you are standing. If you are not able to reproduce the results - it is not scientifically true from where you are standing.

What I perceived during the pandemic was a conflation of _trust_ with science. When a high ranking public official went on television and said "trust the science" - what they meant was "trust me when I say some people are following the philosophy of science, and that everyone along the chain of trust between me and those people have assured me that the conclusions they've reached are sound enough to base policy on. You should trust me, and by proxy everyone between me and those people practicing science."

What they were _not_ saying was "you should follow the philosophy of science yourself."

Science would require the data and methodology be published and readily available at the time of a press release encouraging independent verification from anyone and everyone. Folks who fail to generate the same results should be allowed to share those negative results for others to vet. Science would dictate that each individual person who receives the information start from a position of skepticism until the information has been vetted and validated on a personal level.

Some people - likely most people - will choose to substitute trust for science on a personal level; but anyone who dictates that decision for others is not practicing science.
If you add blank lines between you'll get them formatted more like what you probably want.

Zimride to Lyft isn't much of a pivot, they're basically kinda the same thing.
> I think the comparison to a "tree's worth of oxygen" is misleading, because trees overall produce very little of the Earth's oxygen

They produce quite a lot of oxygen. The main issue is that they don't produce much surplus oxygen as they consume it too. And make no oxygen when the sun goes down.

> Shipping tons of single-celled organisms to another planet (once we're sure it's devoid of life otherwise, a high bar, I suppose) is going to produce oxygen much more quickly if you can give them a good environment to do so.

Yes. But then, these are living organisms that need to be cared for and fed. If there's a malfunction that wipes out your oxygen producing organisms, you have a big problem. You need to give them light, control the temperature and keep it in a very narrow range, provide them with water, nutrients, shield them from radiation, avoid contamination by other organisms, etc. Water and nutrients are not easy to come by in Mars, at least not yet. At this point, they aren't very different from a machine, it's just going to be a large bioreactor.

At large scale, they are probably still the best bet. But it will take a while until we have the proper environment for them. The good news is that, once there's such an environment, we don't have to ship tons of them. Let them replicate.

MOXIE is nice as it's a machine. You can store it away, bring more capacity online, etc. It can be added to both bases and vehicles (potentially suits(?)).
What kind of imaginary universe would allow for converting downtown SF office space into residential, but not let you simply build new houses? Both are impossible for the same reason, doing just about anything in SF is impossible.
It’s 2022 and how come they don’t have GPT4 and some stable diffusion built in?
Another comment addressing pure tone, while never addressing content, unbelievable! People conducting science need to behave ethically, those are reasonable probing ethical questions. If the initial discussion related to origins of a bad pandemic can be quelled by a handful of science bureaucrats with conflicted interests then I think an interested journalist would ask the grand-OPs questions. The fact we don't have answers is because either the journalists aren't asking the questions (except the intercept) or the questions aren't getting answered. The normal format of journalistic curiosity is getting short circuited and so all you get to see is dickheads asking quesitons to the void on the internet. Perhaps you entirely disagree because you don't think those questions need to be answered. But we are stuck on tone of grand-OPs argument because why? Are you interested in the questions, I kind of think not.
The Stubborn Computing Manifesto
It is like that "Stallman was right" subreddit is getting righter and righter every day. Except that Stallman is under some kind of Cassandra Curse, so people ignore all the signs, even when they are repeated by persons more skilled in PR tactics.
Recently I had some USB enumeration loop (turned out to be the Index umbilical connector) that made me disconnect everything one by one. What a marathon. The USB hub dedicated to wireless dongles alone has a wireless keyboard/touchpad adaptor, the one of the Steam Controller and an ANT+ stick. Elsewhere the homebrew stick/rudder is linked up, the Nrf52 devkit, keyboard, mouse, another touchpad, the hub where I connect Android devices for development and occasionally a Garmin for some cIQ stuff. A modified webcam I used to use for infrared headtracking and that cheap portable usb audio with built in phantom power for a condenser mic headset (the firewire audio interface seems to be acting up). The old laser printer is permanently connected whereas the scanner is only plugged in on demand. Currently disconnected are the throttle quadrant, the trim box (with yet another touchpad, still ps/2) and the midi controller. Somewhere there's an arduino configured as an nrf52 programmer. Yes, I need a notebook computer free of most of that stuff to get actual work done.
I was bewildered at this because I couldn’t imagine anybody who would find 5 NVME SSDs and two PCIe cards more useful than the inverse

Never tried running a 4x2TB striped NVME PCIe 4.0 scratch disk? This stuff just lets you forget about what used to be a bottleneck. No need for RAM-drives.
> The US pays about twice per nurse or doctor in the system, and part of that is because the US pays nearly twice for most skilled work.

which is in turn because in the US an average GP comes out of medical school with $200k-300k of student debt that has to have interest serviced and paid off within some 10-20 year timespan. That cost ultimately ends up being borne by the patient and their insurance.

unfortunately the US is very resistant to the idea of education reform in general, very very resistant to student debt relief, and very very very resistant to student debt relief for "high earners" like doctors and lawyers, even when a huge chunk of that earn is going to debt service. But there is a shortage of doctors and we're doing everything in our power to make the path unattractive for new students. And this time the problem isn't even the AMA - the AMA agrees there is a problem and is onboard with expanding the pipeline... it's just not all that attractive a profession anymore when you can make equal/higher compensation (after considering the debt) in software or other fields.

doctors are still extremely well-paid professionals in other countries, but if we tackle the cost of education we can get our numbers down much closer to theirs. conversely if you push salaries too low then servicing $200-300k of student debt won't be realistic and the path becomes even less attractive.

medical care is probably the single most complex political problem in the US because it's basically at the nexus of every single social and political problem we have. doctors are too expensive... because they're trucking around a quarter million of student loan debt from our shitty education system. we spend way too much on end-of-life care and not enough on earlier care... because seniors vote. we have way too much overhead due to the multi-payer insurance system and the market-driven pricing system's overheads... and all those insurance companies are huge lobbyists too. Drug and device costs are out of control... because the US doesn't allow conditioning of regulatory approval on price negotiations, or reimportation from other countries, etc. It's just every single political problem in the US in a single field all at once and every hand is dipping into the till as much as they can get away with, and it's politically infeasible to slap the hands that are necessary to slap to actually get costs reduced.
Both but primarily the former.
In your opinion, what would be the lowest hanging fruit that could be changed to have the largest positive impact?
Paper Notes: Bigtable – A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Exxon? I think any company that employs a size-able number of service workers is almost certainly doing things more impermissible than FB/Meta.

Many of the critiques that people have of FB are just critiques of what happen when large groups of people communicate online. If that's what people have issue with, I wish they would flag it.
I hoped the “become useful enough to contribute towards its advancement” would give more context on the goal of the learning
why? how else do you designate binary prefixes?
>Somewhere your model of the code is broken, and you need to test find the breakage (model needs correction, or program needs correction).

Most of the harder bugs I run into fall into this category. Great list of techniques to use. For when I'm really stumped I go into a more formal scientific method to the splitting the problem space approach. Formulate a hypothesis that if answered will reduce the search space, either by ruling in or ruling out things. Write it down - this is the important part, test it, repeat.

It's slow but usually helps me keep forward momentum. Worst case it at least creates a list of things that need better logging to figure out what's going on
I'm not sure Microsoft had such a grand vision early on; they were late to the Internet after all. And their public cloud play came along later as well. Neither did Apple. And I'd say that Google went from organizing the world's information to mostly selling ads.
There was an incident years ago with a library offering wired Ethernet for laptops, and the sign said "wired wifi connection". I'm not sure it's really that common.
Didn't youtube start off as a dating website?
Image or video editing?
There is a microsoft garage project that helps you do it that way:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/advanced-for...
Cosmopolitan Supports Cross Platform GUI Sort Of. Good Progress so far.
> We need an Ammendment to provide a common media/site for all candidates, with caps on outside advertising, even for PACs

The fact that this isn't already the case is so weird. Probably due to the age of the constitution and legal system, its deification and the generic allergy to any evolution on that front.

Campaign regulations, including fairness in representation and budget limits are necessary for a healthy democracy, otherwise it's too susceptible to influence by rich people.

For instance, in Bulgaria that's taken to a somewhat extreme point - party/coalition lists running for election (it's a parliamentary democracy) get a fixed budget from the country if they fit the requirements (enough candidates, enough signatures) with a maximum allowance for donations and own funds to be used. Ads can't be just an attack on a rival, and have to include disclaimers who they're for, who they're paid for, and that buying and selling votes is a crime (an issue in Bulgarian elections, sadly). The system isn't perfect but IMHO it'd be far worse without those protections.
Sounds like an application for ML, to determine which codes frequently coincide per-patient at each provider and then assign those groupings to cross-provider "Treatment XYZ" buckets to enable apples-to-apples comparisons.
Is the data unique or has it been duplicated for multiple formats? In other words is there a CSV file right alongside a Json file and an XML file that contains the exact same data, just in different formats?

Is the data partitioned at all (e.g. by state) so that you can just download the data for California without downloading all the data; loading it into a huge database table; and then querying it (e.g. SELECT * from <table> WHERE state = 'California')?
I absolutely love that NASA is doing this AND encouraging the RISC-V ecosystem. Maybe it's impossible, I don't know, but if we have an open soruce alternative for hardware with the kind of reach that Linux has in software i think that's the best way forward.
Is there precedent for this type of removal? Even sites like the Daily Stormer still exist on Internet Archive, albeit with a login wall.
At least housing will be a target for startups (probably) going forward

What's the hacker relevance of this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32734522

And a thousand others like it?
> especially with NVMe, you don't have to read things sequentially

NVMe is actually not any better than SATA SSDs at random/low-queue-depth IO. The latency-per-request is about the same for the flash memory itself and that's really the dominant factor in purely random requests.

Of course pretty soon NVMe will be used for DirectStorage so it'll be preferable to have it in terms of CPU load/game smoothness, but just in terms of raw random access, SSDs really haven't improved in over a decade at this point. Which is what was so attractive about Optane/3D X-point... it was the first improvement in disk latency in a really long time, and that makes a huge difference in tons of workloads, especially consumer workloads. The 280/480GB Optane SSDs were great.

But yeah you're right that paging and compression and other tricks have let us get more out of the same amount of RAM. Browsers just need to keep one window and a couple tabs open, and they'll page out if they see you launch a game, etc, so as long as one single application doesn't need more than 16GB it's fine.

Also, games are really the most intensive single thing that anyone will do. Browsers are a bunch of granular tabs that can be paged out a piece at a time, where you can't really do that with a game. And games are limited by what's being done with consoles... consoles have stayed around the 16GB mark for total system RAM for a long time now too. So the "single largest task" hasn't increased much, and we're much better at doing paging for the granular stuff.
You are correct. Any excuse for exercise and dominance (sgt is always right) in basic training.

The "permission to speak" is to train discipline and to prevent chaos. After basic, it pretty much goes away except in outstanding circumstances (eg, addressing a very high ranking individual).
Can somebody explain the back story? What is Kiwi Farms?
I wonder if NASA has a clue that RISC-V's ISA is open-source but SiFive's designs certainly aren't.
My current assumption is that private healthcare/insurance is to blame, because countries without that or with less generally have better outcomes at less cost. Looking for evidence to the contrary
Postgres used QUEL in the early days, as did its predecessor Ingres. MRDS, the first commercially available relational database, used a language known as Linus. Alpha was the language originally envisioned by Codd to describe his relational model.
At the end of the day language is a carrier for meaning, that's all it is. Its history doesn't matter unless it confers meaning in some way (which it often does).

In my opinion saying 'architecting' is meaningfully different from 'designing'. If people don't generally do that, then their loss is the shade of meaning that that difference implies
>This sounds like new housing supply. I'm failing to see the problem

The problem is the new housing supply was always imminent - only now, it's windowless, all because developers can increase margins by 1.07% and shorten build times by a day.
Curious how we'll go about preventing the NYT from shaming the population with racism next time something starts to not add up: https://www.thewrap.com/new-york-times-covid-lab-leak-apoorv... . I really doubt we've learned anything at all, even with flaccid left-leaning icon Jon Stewart pointing out the absurdity of the situation.
DDR5 supports on-die ECC eg. https://v6m6x4a4.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SK_...

Not sure if it is a compulsory part of the spec, and irrelevant for most laptops since laptops generally wouldn’t use DDR5, but use low-power DDR instead.
Once your nation gets big enough, you can't supply frontier armies from the capital. You need to draw food from local sources. In territory you control, the peasants pay some of their food to the local fortress in taxes, and the fortress acts as a supply base for any army that needs to go through.

Once you get past border action and deep into enemy territory, the tyranny of the wagon equation means it's down to "forage" -- hunt / fish / gather resources from the wild, or steal food from the local population at swordpoint.

One option is to pause your campaign until you can consolidate your gains and build or take over supply bases in captured territory.

Another option is to change your tactics to recognize the limits of what a foraging army can achieve. E.g. avoiding sieges and terrorizing civilians / burning towns to try to force a surrender, or using a cavalry army or fast-moving elite infantry to launch a surprise attack in an unexpected location.
Clubs made out of animal bones were perfectly serviceable but look silly to us now.

Who's to say that this advanced alien race didn't have the same pains (or worse!) when they started their space program?

> There's no way this is scalable.

There is - we need to stop shipping devices from Earth's gravity well.
> To make it worse we also have laws preventing healthcare providers from providing prices upfront, out of a fear that people will forego necessary care they can't afford.

What are these laws? This seems so backwards - I know personally I have put off medical care in my past because I had high deductible insurance, and no guarantee that the bill I'd get wouldn't wipe me out, and no way to price shop. Paralysis of unknown.
> You're insane... Now we waste gas just to boil idiots because all of a sudden they feel entitled to be boiled, then we bankrupt nations to subsidise this because heaven forbid anyone have to put their jacket on.

You're doing a great job reinforcing my opposition to this regulation. Just thought I'd let you know.
Oh cool, that looks really nice! One of the fun things that our library does is that while it has built-in abstractions for SDFs, you can also just write pretty much whatever kind of shader (2D or anything) you want.
That may be the case but the question is, what big change to the end user could they pitch to justify such a leap in the requirements?
As long as they pay full cost that includes offsetting emissions, why not? How about offering them an affordable alternative to what’s considered luxury in many parts of the world?
Can I run CUDA in the guest OS (Windows)?
Nokia:

Toilet Paper -> Rubber Boots -> Electronics
Not really, all you need is a beefy PC or laptop. These guys aren't usually running Xeon or Threadripper
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Seeks New Trial, Citing Fresh Evidence
> lots of people in SF would rather live in an indoor box than an outdoor box.

Yes, and people voluntarily placed themselves under indentured servitude before it was made illegal.

If there's a housing shortage, the solution isn't to remove bare minimum housing standards for everyone.
They've been harassing people to the point, and with the intent of them committing suicide.
I love this project. So cool to see CL used not only to implement a statically typed functional programming language but also in research areas like quantum computing.
Internet is down! Umm no it’s fine. Shows me Facebook not working. Umm that’s just Facebook down. So the internet is down!

After a few rounds sure. The entire Internet is down. I’m going to go play an online game.
Obviously the person you’re responding to doesn’t think covid is conscious and has motivations…
My children complain the wifi is down when their ethernet cable is broken. They say that AFTER THEY TELL ME IT'S BROKEN. This is not just a meme, they should know better, and are very unhappy on WiFi, but still tend to call all internet Wi-Fi.
Web forum spun up to harass an intellectually disabled man into ruin (for those following along at home, objective: achieved), and then proceeded to attempt to ruin the lives of other people as well.
Problem is, there is a big divide in user base: For a normal user, 8 GB is mostly sufficient. If you have a lot of chrome tabs open, 16 GB makes your day. But, if you are any sort of a creator, you can not have enough ... my 256GB is barely enough.
I don't really view that as precisely the same thing as what we're talking about, though I might be taking the above poster too literally.

My interpretation was that the above poster was making more of a fairness argument. Like "why is Visa being singled out and not the ISP, the x, the y". To which the response is simply that nobody sued them. Like I said, I am probably taking them too literally.

I express no opinion on whether the ruling is good as a matter of law or policy.

Assuming this is a district court judge, btw, the judge may very well not be viewing their ruling as setting precedent. A lot of judges hew to the fiction that they're just deciding individual disputes in front of them, and not making law. While that may be plausible at the trial court level, it's obviously not true of most appellate courts. Yet, appellate judges often say the same thing. Just the other day I was reading a SCOTUS opinion by Rehnquist or Scalia and one of them said "yup, we just resolve individual controversies here, we don't make the law, we just apply it..."
In order to start doing this we need a standard to build on. The simplest thing should be the easiest thing to agree on and that has been the case so far in how math has moved forward (afaict) but sometimes local optimas get in the way of progress.
I have. Often. It's probably not common in tech circles but "desktop", "wallpaper", and "screen saver" are often used interchangeably.

"Menu bar", "dock", "toolbar", "menu", and other similar terms are used more or less at random.

It's simply not common for the average user to know the names of UI components.
> Housing cannot be affordable if it goes up in real terms though.

Yes it can. It just cannot be better than other comparable investments. If single family housing appreciated, on average, 0.25% per year in real terms, we'd likely be looking at an entirely different housing market.
Russia's war against Ukraine buries its reputation deep, deep into the ground. Putin completely destroys whatever reputation as a "great state" Russia may have had.
I read that Ghengis Khan did much better by making good use of grazing lands and timing the seasons.
The bigger story here is: checklists, checklists, checklists. They’re underrated!