skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a historical artifact of how you used to buy it. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/use-spanner...
Not sure I'd say "no holes", but yes there are no islands, the entire mandelbrot set is connected. However that does not mean that parts of the display that's interesting doesn't cover part of the set, that's not visible in any individual pixel.

For those that want to fly around in the mandelbrot set, even a 2015 desktop can easily keep up, I suggest Xaos which I believe includes all the common mandelbrot optimizations at https://xaos-project.github.io/

There's even a web version at the above URL. It's in most linux repos I tried apt or yum. I couldn't find any docs for what optimizations Xaos uses, but it seems plenty fast for real time zooming, even on old hardware.
It is apparently Norwegian, not Danish.
While technically true, you might be interested in how Thiel has used his self directed Roth IRA.

As a VC, working with startup stage entrepreneurs, he is in exactly the right spot to make well informed early stage investments.
That actually seems like an awful lot...

A tesla model 3 is 250 wh/mile. so 56 cars energy = 1 trains energy.

The train has steel wheels (far lower rolling resistance) and a far more aerodynamic shape... But also has the downside of far more weight, probably less efficient motors and power electronics, limited regen ability, and faster speed (air losses are the third power of speed)
Optimization levels of many newer games are terrible.

Low-poly, visually simplistic games like Fortnite, Risk of Rain 2, Valheim, and Deep Rock Galactic barely run on a friend's computer (that was made only 5 years ago). Visually more complex games like League of Legends run buttery smooth on the exact same hardware.

(ironically, he says that Valorant, made by a non-Epic company, apparently runs significantly better than Fortnite, made by Epic - even though both are using the Epic-made Unreal Engine)
And more than 10 times cheaper.
I think you would need to do some kind of analysis. For example, if your prompt was "red ball on top of blue cube" and you want to know if the results come from chance you'd need to know the likelihood of the model putting the red ball on top of the blue cube by chance. There are maybe four relative positions for red ball to blue cube - beside, above, below, in, around. Are they each equally likely?

I would try to get a collection of prompts like "red ball and blue cube" or "an empty plane containing only a red ball and a blue cube" and so on - try to come up with 20 or 30 of these. Then, generate 100 images for each prompt. Next, see how likely it is for a red ball to randomly be on top of a blue cube when it was not directed to be.

After gathering some baseline data we could then test three prompts. "Red ball on top of blue cube" and "Red ball beside blue cube" and "Red ball below blue cube". Generate 100 or 1000 images for each of these prompts. Count respective orientations. Then, decide whether red ball being on top of blue cube is more likely than the baseline when the specific direction is given and whether it is less likely when contrary directions are given.
Smarttubenext. It's awesome and has everything you need for an enjoyable experience
> Planners are too smart for their own good.

I know what you mean, but I don't think that that quite captures it. It's more like this: planners are built on a set of assumptions that are often pretty far from robust, but nevertheless work adequately well in almost all cases. Including many cases where the assumptions haven't been met!

The best example is the standard assumption that multiple conditions/columns are independent of each other -- all optimizers make this assumption (some can be coxed into recognizing specific exceptions). This is obviously not true much of the time, even with a well normalized schema. Because: why would it be?

All kinds of correlations naturally appear in real data. It's just that it mostly doesn't cause huge problems most of the time, for messy reasons that can't quite be pinned down. You have to get unlucky; the correlations usually have to be very high, and the planner makes completely the wrong inference for the actual query that you ran (not some hypothetical other query). The planner only has to have approximately the right idea to discover the cheapest plan. And the planner doesn't have to discover the cheapest plan in many cases -- there may be quite a few adequate plans (it's really hard to generalize, but that's often true).

Overall, the fact that cost-based optimizers work as well as they do seems quite surprising to me.
Perhaps it’s fair to say we will have achieved AGI when we run out of goalposts.
As an ex-Adobe employee (not a fanboy, no inside information whatsover) and a Figma addicted I'm happy for Adobe and Figma.

I also believe this was a logical ending.
I was wondering and actively discussing what Figma means to Adobe and happy to be right on my expectation on the number. This is Adobe's largest aquisition (its Whatsapp moment).

Congrats to both. I wasn't the happiest employee, but I believe it's a great company for the creative kind and I wish both a good journey.
Not anymore. It used too every year, hardly ever now.
That's page 4 of the PPE powerpoint, and we're still struggling with page 2 :)
The core failure seems a lot more fundamental than that to me. The only things you can "digitally" possess are digital items. But people don't care about owning blockchain entries. They want to own paintings and houses. Property rights are a legal matter, however. The only way ownership of a blockchain entry can entail ownership of a physical good is if the law says so. And, at least for now, law is centralized. Only the state can make it and only the state can enforce it. If the entity that arbitrates and decides property claims is centralized, whether or not their ledger is also centralized makes no difference.
"Bluechip" NFTs like CryptoKitties become commodities that people trade day in and day out.
To echo the sibling comments, this is incorrect. NeXT lives on today in every Mac, iPhone, iPad, and every other Apple device. When Apple bought NeXT they used it as a foundation for OS X, which went on to power every device Apple makes or has made.
Yes. At an individual level, they ask the question: "Delay my deliverables a week or two in frustration as I retrain; or, pay $300". User by user, the decision is obvious: pay the ransom and move on with your life.
Great! Also, good insight for basing a search engine on RSS. It is naturally spam resistant: SEO people and other spammers don't like feeds because they cannot bring them clicks and ad views, so no incentive for spam.
And, thank you.
CryptoKitties is a lot of fun, for what it is. It's super deep and while it's more of a sandbox than a typical game, I became obsessed with it when it came out, though not for monetary reasons (if it has one huge drawback as a game, it's always been how much it costs IMO).

Became so obsessed that I ended up hired by Dapper Labs and working on the CryptoKitties team, later helped design and launch NBA Top Shot on Flow. Now that we have (the markedly cheaper and easier) Flow and lots and lots of lessons learned from building NFT products, I'm excited for us to bring the next generation of CryptoKitties to life.

If you want to check out a fun crypto game that just recently launched from another developer, I urge you to check out dimensionxnft.com with an open mind.
It's between 800GB and 1.2TB total, depending on whether you just need to validate future transactions or past txns as well.

Source:
https://etherscan.io/chartsync/chaindefault
No forms = no consent = unbroken Web.
When I hear people complain about the weather in SF now I always think "if only you knew...."
Sketch is ideal Fireworks replacement. I clinged to Fireworks for years after it was abandoned, and when I found Sketch, I never looked back. Every little thing that ever bothered me in Fireworks, they made just right.
Some companies are open about pay structure and others put a chill on such discussions as a tactic. Twilio seems to be flaunting labor law here anyway since:

The law makes it illegal for an employer to make any employment decision because of a person's race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices
You should check out the Zero Knowledge podcast (https://zeroknowledge.fm/)

It's a crypto/blockchain podcast, but very technical, it's focused around the advanced technology that makes up the ecosystem (zero-knowledge cryptography, multi-party computation, consensus algorithms, miner-extractable value, new blockchain programming languages, etc).

Very technical, almost nothing about investing. The downside, some episodes may be a bit hard to jump into due to the technical nature.
OK but WHAT IS THE GAME? What do you DO with CryptoKitties?
House prices would not be independent of interest rates if "interest rates represented market rates". House prices may be different but the math above still holds. If interest rates are 1%, house prices are "high", because people can "afford more house". If interest rates go to 20%, house prices drop (by about 20%) because more of their money goes to interest.

Your point that if the fed didn't control rates that somehow house prices would be independent of interest rates, but that's not how house prices work.

What are you seeing that I'm not?
Well that sounds like a personally sensible concern on their part.

I'm not sure going back to the office would be the end of the world for me, but I can see which way the wind's blowing - we're already in the process of downscaling the site because the demand just isn't there. I believe the most we've had onsite since this all began was approx 15%.

The position I'm in - my GF wants to eventually move back home, neither of us have family here, the wage is our only tie. So it's seeming completely logical to me, to use our new-found flexibility to ease that transition for both of us. We've always figured on retiring there, but a head-start on the language and the property ladder make sense to me, and being closer to her family for a third of the year instead of just christmas, is a huge win for her.

All the news seems to focus on people wanting to use this to live the high life. Just wanted to share my position to show there's some huge non-monetary value in this too.
AGI won't bother convincing us. We don't care what animals in the zoo think.
> For a 2-lane roundabout: Use right lane if you want to turn right. Use left lane if you want to turn left. Either lane is fine if you want to go straight.

This is simply not universally true. I've seen roundabouts with different lane routing assignments even within the same neighborhood. It's incredibly hostile to visitors.
The Economics of Missed Opportunities
AMEX used to have major issues with consumers trying to "pay" themselves — the Singapore version put me in financial review for a PayPal transaction that I had accidentally paid to the wrong address, and was subsequently cancelled and refunded — which to AMEX looked like I was trying to "pay" myself.

I don't know if that's still the case, but these days I'm wary about using AMEX on any sort of money transfer service.
I understand your point, though I have never done synthesis at that scale.

Still, with yosys, Verilator and other tools, you can have some form of CI. Using multiple simulators can reduce the number of bugs, and no one in their right mind would spend >100K for a tapeout without checking it with all available tools.

I can see day-to-day development being performed with yosys and others, with punctual verification (including the final one) on other simulators.

There's plenty of advantages: local/offline development environment, CI, multiple tools to help home in on issues, better perf in some cases, no fighting over license seats (heck, even one seat should be enough).

Now, if companies would donate a few percent of their license costs to FLOSS alternatives, the software landscape would be very different indeed.
Eat more fish: when switching to seafood helps – and when it doesn’t
https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/qg1tyr/adobe...
And from what I remember Skyline drive was the original way to go north and south on the peninsula (dirt road)
> meant to distinguish AI systems from human intelligence

> but then when somebody builds a system

I mean this is really it. You still have to have a human to build these systems that specialist in one thing. Once you create a system that can automatically create those systems and it doesn't need humans anymore to solve novel problems, then there will be no practical difference in kind between human and AI intelligence.
> drive the prices up

and who is receiving these 10-100x'd prices? The locals who are providing value to the purchaser. Higher selling prices are profits in some locals' pocket/bank account. Why does this side of the equation never get talked about?

Yes I may make the price of a taco go up 20c, but that's 20c more profit for every taco sold at that price. The workers, the business, the real estate value, the whole supply chain can all now command a better price because of my "wasteful" spending relative to the context.
Excellent piece. Definitely a better than average think piece site too. Cheers to exolymph.
He's not an AI expert, he's a hustler. Time spent on twitter is time not spent pestering people doing the actual work.
There's perhaps a difference between an original DaVinci and whatever the latest paint splatter on canvas modern art is, though.
You breed them. It reminded me of horse breeding games my girlfriend used to play. Kind of fun. Not worth the ongoing cost though.
Stripe has an office in San Francisco. I definitely don't recommend trying to go inside, but I really wish people would organize protests at these business locations. If hundreds of people protested outside stripe for canceling customers with zero communication, maybe the employees would notice.
ZODB is awesome and overlooked, IMHO. I'm biased I guess because I was involved in making Durus which is inspired by ZODB. The ZODB model is not appropriate for all applications (optimistic concurrency control) but for the applications it works for, it's great. Very easy to develop with (no relational-to-OO mismatch) and performance can be great if you design your model carefully. The client caching of data is great. It is a bit like memcache but the data is already there as objects in RAM. The database server will invalidate the cache for you, no manual invalidation needed.
Monotonicity intuitively seems like it would be desirable, but I'm struggling to see how the effect described in the video actually matters in practice. It seems vanishingly unlikely that candidates 2&3 would be eliminated in a tie (and you can just change the rules to force a re-vote/runoff in that case if you really think it's a bad outcome, similar to how you'd handle a tie in FPTP). And even then, the outcome of picking the first candidate when 2&3 are tied doesn't seem explicitly unfair. I'm sure there are other cases where this can show up too though, and maybe some of those do seem unfair.

I can see how ex post, one could say "if I had ranked my choice lower, they would have done better", but it's not clear to me that this property actually informs any real-world voting strategy ex ante.

Basically, this seems like a somewhat academic property that most voters probably wouldn't care about, so it's not clear that a lack of monotonicity would actually impede IRV from popular acceptance.
Jacksonville
If someone actually makes PS5 accept pirated games, I expect a boom to PS5 sales.

I believe a good reason why the PS2 was so dominant was because of how widespread PS2 piracy was.
It won't move, but the utilization will change to be minimize the cost.

I suspect that will be a net negative for anyone who needs to rent because they cannot afford a mortgage, maintenance cost, insurance, contribution to shared infrastructure like plumbing and electrical, and taxes together.

I considered renting an apartment in two different commune-owned buildings (I was a student, not looking to own). Both were just as expensive and in significantly worse condition than all of the neighboring housing options. I found w nice place, but would have been better off with a slumlord rent-seeker than either of those places.
The only reason to believe that a "cup" is more convenient than a deciliter, or a "mile" is more convenient than a kilometer, is that you grew up with those units.

16 cups in a gallon, 12 inches in a feet, 1760 yards in a mile. It's not humane that children should memorize these completely arbitrary scales and weird names.
> By your logic I should pay taxes to the country I go on holiday on the paycheck I get while being there.

No, because when your are on holiday it is not your place of employment.

All they want is if you are using somewhere as your place of employment, that you pay taxes that are due on earning that money in the country, the same as if your are employed locally. It's not unreasonable.

> Who do you think benefits from those taxes?

You can't pick and choose which taxes you want to pay and then say there is some 'benefit' for deigning to pay any at all.

Next time you stay in a hotel, try saying "I've shouldn't have to pay my bill, you should be grateful enough for the 'benefit' of the money I spent in the bar because I was staying here", and see how that works out.
I grewup in the bay area (peninsula) and was in SF a lot. It definitely rained a hell of a lot more. The weather now is practically like what people used to think of as Santa Monica weather half the year (or maybe Santa Barbara)
Facebook policy is to require a real name for every user. I'm struggling to see how that's relevant here.

If you want to tweet under an anonymous pseudonym -- great! We are talking about an optional verification feature for a subset of users who are at risk of impersonation. These people choose to participate in this program because they want their identity to be clear and legitimate.
It might also be worth pointing out that 'node' does not reference underlying server.

In a PG or similar architecture, node might be used to specify how many "nodes" are in a replicated setup for high availability purposes.

In Spanner, "Node" is a measure of compute capacity (as is the finer-grain processing units) allowing you to scale up/down without impacting an application's workload.

All instances get high availability regardless of number of nodes or processing units, and the specifics of this are handled by the configuration.
Population decline will be a problem in your lifetime. I’ve become disillusioned with the idea that hyper-automation is just around the corner. Observing a Chrysler assembly plant from almost a century ago, vs our current car assembly plants (wiring harnesses still very stubbornly manual), has tempered my expectations of automation progress, as has the slowing of Moore’s Law and the failure of self-driving-cars to materialize in the last few years.
Avoid Stripe at all costs.
Housing as a service has been around for 1000s of years
There's a deep and rich ecosystem of IT consultancies that sell, operate and maintain shrink-wrapped software and appliances from the likes of Microsoft, Cisco, VMWare, Citrix. These consultancies sell "SaaS" in the form of, like, we'll have a technician drive to your site, get the keys to the server closet, and spend N hours checking on and maintaining things every month. You can make a living as the SQL Server guy for Duluth or the Cisco phones guy for Milwaukee.

It's hilariously inefficient compared to cloud/SaaS, and no surprise that cloud and SaaS are eating this world's lunch.
Heroku has stagnated massively in the face of upstart competitors like Vercel, Fly and Render.

Even their new public roadmap shows little of significance, it might as well be in maintenance mode.
> If Flash was in capable hands, it would have become a major player in the game development space, which is where most of its strengths were.

I don't understand what you mean here. Flash WAS a major player in the game development space. Flash games were dominant on the web for something like a decade, and a large part of that was post-Adobe acquisition.

Yes, they missed the boat on mobile, but that was more a function of Jobs putting his foot down on anything vaguely Flash-related.
I was rudely woken by 2 loud back to back emergency broadcast from my phone at 3am without any prior warning or way to opt-out.

https://www.fcc.gov/fcc-sets-september-12-and-13-test-dates-...
SEC’s Gensler Signals Extra Scrutiny for Proof-of-Stake Cryptocurrencies: Report
And? Applications of research brings new insights into that thing.
I had to investigate a bit various options and settled on krakend mostly since it's simple and easy to write custom Middleware.
> They're widely used and quite crucial but development and support has basically stopped the maintainer has moved on with their lifes and have other things they want to do.

So, you've never had a commercial proprietary library your core product depends upon, being obsoleted and ceased support, without a license nor access to the code to keep maintaining it in-house? Because it happens, and I have.

And it's not just because the library was commercially inefficient, but because it got bought by a competing large corporation, who wanted to replace it in the market with their own solution, and wouldn't bother to support the library for its old users.

When this happens, at least the open source license allows you to keep supporting your use case by yourself, instead of being forced into the new solution being pushed by the vendor.
The live demo[1] is completely unusable for people relying on assistive technology like screen readers and speech recognition, plus anyone using alternative input modalities like the keyboard. Do you have accessibility on your roadmap, to ensure that you're not encouraging users of your library to exclude a large percentage of the world's population?

[1] https://www.dflex.dev/demo/lists/symmetric/
I had masks at home well before COVID stuck, mostly for protection against dust and whatnot. Saw how HongKong took desinfection quite seriously, saw how SARS went down.

And still, as long as we don't magically come up with a way to educate millions of people effectively about masks, mask mandates are a wash. (Their best benefit is that anyone who gives a shit does not look like an outlier.)
I'm pretty sure it's integral to convincing people that ~99% of the >$1,000,000 fine art is something people want enough to pay the 'going' price for.
Gambling and gaming are quite interconnected, maybe you can describe it as a spectrum between games and gambling. Free single player games are the 'purest' games, you're only betting that it's worth your time. Cheap single player games, you're still gambling in that you're 'betting' the game is worth your time and $5. Closer to the gambling side are things like Poker, CS Skins, the Diablo Auction House, Eve Online mining, etc. Probably the purest form of gambling is slot machines, since they are purely random chance.
How can we tell that the buyer and the seller are two different people in real life?
Got it! Thanks, much!
Yeah that is very old. i am wondering, if XaaS was so successful for software, why havent we seen other kinds of products turning to subscription-based. Some companies are trying to make car seats-as-a-service but that s just ridiculous
>it was really what brought down Jim Crow in the US

Interestingly enough, the Jim Crow laws (as awful as they were) were actually less racist than the outright race-based discrimination being used today, particularly against Asians. Jim Crow Laws were used against poor whites as well, something forgotten by many. Dr. Adolph Reed has made this point for years - https://goodbye.substack.com/p/adolph-reed-jr-jim-crow-racec.... His argument is that this is done to keep people's eyes off the prize in terms of class struggle, in order to make it all about identity.