skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this comment it was used relative to Google and Yahoo.

> Keep in mind that 99.9% of people in the US are also not really able to pursue VC effectively.

That's true, but to them it is a lot more accessible than it is for the rest of the planet.
Laziness has been the driver of mankind. But there's a problem
I've been a storage engineer since 2000. The industry rule of thumb for file systems is to give them ten years after mainline release to bake. And the longer I've done this, the more I trust it.
As I recall that was pretty much it. Directed speakers, careful control of volume, etc. Anything better than that gets super complex.
Anchor Steam had its place, 20+ years ago. It had a long-standing tradition of being a beer that stood the test of time, head and shoulders above the usuals of the time.

The problem is they failed to continue to keep up with the times as the proliferation of truly fantastic beers hit and later dominated the scene. Take a look through their flagships; they look more like what any new and likely-soon-to-close brewery will start with (a hazy, a west coast, a porter, a lager, and an ale) rather than a brewery steeped in 100+ years of history and brewing mastery.

Anchor Steam may have had the brand recognition necessary to survive in an overcrowded market say 10 years ago, but now people are flocking to the breweries themselves and are not as tied down into a single brand as they used to be.

It's sad but in the same way that any long-standing brand that couldn't keep up with the Joneses and went out of business is sad. Not really in any other way.
2% is an arbitrary number, yes. But the fact that there is a target, and that the target is credible is far more important than the actual value. If they changed the value now, nobody would trust the new value and it'd lose all meaning.

I agree that 2% is too low, but the only way to credibly change the number is prove they take the number seriously by getting back down to 2% before they increase it.
So only four decades to go before it’s fun again?

Works for long term planning. In the meantime it won’t be fun for locals.
Ok, so what? Server admins are just private people hosting their own thing. They can do whatever they want. It's honestly none of your business what they choose to do.
Honest question: how did this SF brewing company survive prohibition? If it really is 127 years old, it must have existed during prohibition. How was it not shut down then? I'm curious.
It is not.

It is a city that he lost 3/4 of its population, GDP and is still spiraling down.

It has huge abandoned districts. It is hyper-violent.

It has an urban revival that has failed in numbers by population and revenue.
But sure, for now it’s “fun”.
Why would this be a Google and Meta problem? The tax sites willingly shared the data they originally collected.
I have proof-of-concepted[1] building an entirely static website offering client-side semantic search using transformers.js[2] and Semantra*[3] with MiniLM-L12[4]. It's usable on fast connections and decent CPUs but is not delightfully fast and can't handle huge document loads. Still could be useful for some embedded documents! I hope to incorporate an auto-builder for these experiences in the next big release of Semantra.

[1] https://twitter.com/dylfreed/status/1651572024488218627

[2] https://xenova.github.io/transformers.js

[3] https://github.com/freedmand/semantra *(author of this tool)

[4] https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-...
Sounds like you got some beef with them. What do they have in your mind that is incomplete?
June Inflation Drops to 3%
While I think the people who think this is a good thing are out of their minds, Detroit had entirely different issues, and probably is not a good example for what could happen to SF in the worst case.
1. Detroit has none of the natural advantages SF does.
2. Detroit was hollowed out largely because of the white flight that drove the tax base to the suburbs.
3. Detroit was uniquely built as a highly car friendly city, which meant that once the jobs were gone, there was no good reason to be within Detroit itself.
4. Detroit had no political power at the state level, and if anything, was held up as a punching bag for the rest of the state. This is unlikely to be the case for SF, which is likely to have political support at all levels.

I'd say the worst case scenario for SF is probably a city like Philadelphia, which also went through bad years, but has rebounded and has become a pretty great city in many ways, even if it doesn't have the cachet of its past. And I'd imagine that would be the worst case scenario for SF, and the more likely case would be something much better than that, even if all the wealthiest people left SF.
I won't object to the "defragment" term, because in a way meditation is about alignment, and so is hard drive defragmentation. It puts like energy, data and entities to other like energy, data and entities, to achieve focus, locality and so on.

But I wish we delved more into why and how would this happen by "focusing on our breathing". I suppose being awake and doing nothing does give the mind a chance to run some "background optimization". But how is this different than when we're idle while we sleep (we only spend dreaming a small fraction of the time we're asleep).
And why would I want interoperable messenging apps? That will essentially place an upper bound on features. Interoperability on messaging, that includes ByteDance, is a ban on end to end encryption.
Thanks for clarifying. That’s a fair critique.
If you don't scare kids about nuclear war, you're going to get a nuclear war. Kids after 1989 didn't get any warnings, and now we're moronically running headlong into direct conflict with a nuclear power..
I don't know. How would you explain their action?
We were talking about German numbers in this branch.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
> In the above, there are zero POCOs or "messenger" types. Just a raw query right where it needs to be taken, without any extra ceremony or implications for other code sites.

This is a terrible idea IMO. Creating a POCO per view is not a big deal, you're already implicitly depending on a specific type contract in the view, except now it's implicit and dynamically typed and so subject to all of the problems that follow from that.
Exactly.

One of the cardinal sins in statistics is:

Self-reports are biased.

A corporation is telling you about that same corporation? You can expect some bias ;)

I find it quite telling this attitude of "If someone tells you something, it's got to be true! Especially if it's a corporation!!" quite telling, regarding those folks who are saying "Hey you can't criticize California! You conservative!"

It's like... Really? California is some gleaming pinnacle of perfection? It's with great hesitation that I say this: Californians... get out-- and ask people in other states how they feel about California & its citizens-- and then go right back and stay in your confinement zone lol (I kid! I kid! Dang plz don't ban me :))
Anchor steam on tap is very good IMO

In the bottle it seems to lose everything for some reason

I never buy it in the bottle, but I get it on tap

But I’ll admit there are a zillion options that are similar or better now. The market changed a lot
Who is the target market here? The members would all be people who own property near popular vacation sites, which presumably well-off people with disposable income. But those people are not looking to travel and then stay in their cars in a stranger's driveway. They can afford hotels and vacation house rentals.

This seems like the worst of both worlds. People who don't care about the price can afford better accommodations. People trying to travel on a budget won't have properties worth using as a host and can't even participate.

I would guess this maybe targets people wealthy enough to own both property near a popular vacation site and an RV, but who want to travel to other popular vacation sites that don't have nearby RV hookups.

It would arguably make sense as an AirBNB for driveways, as in let the hosts and the travelers be different people with very different demographics, but requiring all users to be both doesn't make any sense.
> Anchor was established in San Francisco in 1896 and was the country's first craft brewery.

So what definitions are being used here to claim this? Yuengling is quite a bit older, for example.
That's an avoidance maneuver by one of the sats almost every ~10 minutes on average.
Sure, but we're still talking about customized SoCs, with some additional silicon in there for extra audio and video DSPs. Also I'd bet that even on modern architectures most console games (or their base libraries) still require precise timing on the side of memory access, CPU stalls, instruction cycles, available bandwidth, etc.

Once you start requiring per-cycle emulation of any of those components we lose any advantages from having any kind of paravirtualization elsewhere.
Similar: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
(discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24389655)
Yeah, especially the "up to 20% of annual worldwide turnover" fine for repeated infringment will really make companies get off from the "fines are just a cost of business" mindset
When I worked on some of the bigger projects, I’d written some tooling that let multiple artists work together on a single shot.

It’s actually very interesting how the leads for the shot would have their style picked up by the other artists so it felt more cohesive. I assume because they communicated regularly and could see communal progression of the work.

But if a shot was originally done by one animator and then picked up by another (due to vacations, priorities etc) you could often see how the style would drift because they didn’t have the shared mindspace.

Big studios have “fix animators” who basically come in to shots after the main animator is done and do any touch up notes. But “touch up” can be quite extensive and if you know the people involved, you can see how the content drifts between two minds.
Yeah I have to agree. I really liked the idea of having some sort of common place book of files on my machine, but I never looked at them. I have a few todo/list files like you mentioned and aside from that, I dump old ticket and historical data from my day to day into dated files in case I need them. I rarely do, but it's easy to dump since they're fairly raw.
Sure. In a C++ program all races can cause anything physically possible to happen. So e.g. maybe the program is processing
Calendar data, but it's running as the GeneralHR service user on this machine which technically has access to the payroll database. So now Jimmy Smith's insane 4863 meetings which invite himself and a meeting room that hasn't existed for six years causes a data race and the description of a meeting ends up written over part of the stack, which explains why the meeting descriptions were gibberish, because now the machine connects to the payroll DB and sets Jimmy's monthly pay to eighty five thousand six hundred and fourteen bucks... Then it crashes. Oops, bug in the calendar app, well, it worked the next time, so, it's probably fine. Right?

It's not Good that the Java code has a bug you don't understand, but it's very unlikely to have completely wild outcomes like giving Jimmy a massive pay rise.

When they began this work, as I understand it the Java engineers imagined humans can successfully reason about the resulting bugs, but turns out that's not true. So this work might have been deemed unnecessary if they'd known that but obviously it's hard to know without trying.
Are you able to read and understand it though and is it the correct use of the principle of duality?
I'd be a lot more worried[0] if with that many satellites they were relying on "big sky, small satellite" as a collision avoidance system and never maneuvering. Their intentionally short lifespan combined with the move from xenon to krypton might just make maneuvering a kind of economic non-event.

I'd also be curious to see what percentage of those maneuvers were in response to their own satellites. Does anyone know if there is a raw data set for is available anywhere?

[0] and not _entirely_ surprised
fighting nature is like trying to win a battle knowing full well that you'll never win the war
Yeah, I’ve heard variations of that argument spoken non-ironically. Opens a whole can of worm. I’d rather assume, barring special circumstances, that anyone old enough is able to do politics (voting, being elected, being randomly drafted in a commission or jury…). With the right mechanisms groups are smarter than we give them credit for.
Companies that provide store fronts that law abiding customers living in those neighborhoods can't live without.
TBH, it does not look "less complex", not at all. :) install, install, ... but where to install and run all of this? The topic is "serverless". This means you do not need to run anything, just need two cloud APIs and a Lambda Script.
What's the context behind this? What junk have Panic produced before?
> I believe that any perceived immutable barriers or obstacles are almost entirely psychological.

Laws of physics are laws of physics. And biology is applied physics.

People in sport have known that for a long time. You can train as much as Usain Bolt, he still has a huge advantage.

Thinking the other human characteristics are not affected by this is weird. You will never be Von Neumann, no matter how much you spend in the class room.

It's not that training has no effect, it does, a lot. Yet this doesn't remove the fact we have a variability between individual.

And there is not a tipping point, it's a spectrum for each characteristic.

It turns out math exhibit some early barrier in that spectrum. There is nothing wrong with that.
> The slashed '0' is easy to tell apart from 'O' at small sizes

Funnily enough, viewing 27" at 140ppi from 1 meter, my brain mistook the slashed '0' for a 6 or 8 when looking at the headings.
Pretending horrible bastards aren't 'lobbying' isn't going to fix the problem.

The one-word problem here could be 'lobbyists' or 'lawmakers' or 'bribery' or 'exploitation'. It could even be just as the article said: 'relationships'... But it sure isn't this article, written after the fact, with no hint of actually condoning said behavior other than failing to pass moral judgment.

If you think about it some more, you might be glad that the author reminded us about this. Our lawmakers sell us out to fossil fuels, big banks, corporate media, telecomms, polluters, etc, and then tell us it's raining.
Do you ever challenge any evidence? Have you even tried to put information out there that is outside the norm? I have and can confirm that most places - eg HN - is an echo chamber. This specific environment is cultivated by the administrators. Now, I don't mind administration, but it is clear to me that on certain hot button topics there is only one direction of discussion allowed - it is a controlled conversation.

> which scientific institutions you think are trying to influence us in what way, and to what purpose

Its a bigger issue than a specific institution. When you think about science in the US - it is all funded by one of 2 (or 3) sources - government (military) and corporations. If you then consider that government and corporations are really the same overarching control structure (eg FDA officials will go to work for pharmaceuticals, corporate lobbyists write the legislation for government officials to approve) you can argue that, in a sense there is only 1 source of funding! Funding is centralised.

Say you then want to prove/'have it widely believed' that helium is beneficial (I'm making a ridiculous hypothesis up to show the methodology in play) and you undertake 10 studies. The results are that 2 studies are supportive, 6 are neutral, and 2 are against. If you then promote the 2 that are supportive in journals, and fund more similar studies, and repeat that process for a while, you will soon end up with reams of supportive evidence. I think this shows any agenda can be promoted by funding alone, regardless of the assumed good intentions of the scientists who receive the funding.

Does that method help understand truth? No. Will your agenda appear to be very well supported - yes.

Now think, if it is your business to administer people in general - isn't it better to have those people desire for themselves the solution that you already have in mind? That it is better to engineer people's consent? If so, why wouldn't you use science, history, academia or whatever to engineer people into wanting whatever you have to sell? Why not provide the studies that move the people in the direction you want them to move to? You could say the studies are to get the turkeys voting for Christmas.
Sure, to me it more of an extra item than the main one but it is one that you can readily verify because most of the other claims are far more vague. If they're willing to fudge on that one then I have much less confidence in the rest of their claims.
That safe layer around unsafe still has no way to validate the consistency of the data.
The state blocking freely agreed transactions because it would allow someone to create something larger and more coercive than the state seems like a good minimum.

We don't have to debate past and future hypotheticals - that's an invention of the "consumer welfare" theory of antitrust. The one that said it's entirely fine for, say, Apple to have a monopoly on iOS software as long as they have a prosocial justification for it. Apple's specific argument is that their monopoly protects from malware... or, in other words, they're big enough that they can make and enforce their own laws.

A better and simpler rule is this: being big is illegal, period. That's how antitrust used to work. If a business deal would give you the capability of becoming your own sovereign state, you don't get to execute that deal. If you knock out all your competition, we break you up into competing companies.

This is the sort of thing that triggers free market types, I know. My argument is specifically that large businesses get to write their own rules, and the only way to prevent them from doing that is to make them small enough that they cannot execute political power equivalent to that of a monarch. Right now, we live in this comedic parody of free market liberalism where the business owners have centralized power to themselves, turning themselves into de-facto states, and gotten the de-jure state drunk on surveillance tech to avoid scrutiny.
That seems to be assuming the speed prior (or perhaps memory-use prior, or some combination of the two). The Kolmogorov prior (i.e. the program length prior) doesn’t have that property.
> It seems like we have a name for such transaction. Where one party gives something to get something else from second party

We also have words for one party giving something that doesn't belong to them, or which they are not entitled to give. They're somewhere between embezzlement and theft.
JWST First Anniversary Image – Rho Ophiuchi Closest Star-Forming Region to Earth
Carbon lifeforms look back at their Nursery...
My favorite Fermi-friendly space opera setting would involve panspermia in the Sun's natal cluster. This would suppose origin of life in that cluster (not necessarily in our solar system), very soon after star formation, followed by seeding of the other star systems there. This would end up with about 10,000 lifebearing star systems, spread in roughly a half circle around the center of the Milky Way, with our solar system somewhere on that arc.
Governor offers $20 gift card to people donating $1 to his campaign
I'd say the main problem with the whole Oracle/ZFS situation: even if merging it is legally sound beyond a doubt, Oracle has the resources (and probably willingness) to make the lives of everyone involved absolutely miserable in the meantime and create legal pains for years and years over this until it gets finally confirmed in court.

I guess that alone could be enough to come to the conclusion that it is not worth the trouble.
I'd rather run ~10 lines of code locally than setup 3 cloud services and a lambda function, but to each their own...
Ah, just like I do when I press F12 over an operator.
Indeed. After all, this is an HN comment, not a white paper. It comes with the usual caveat.
Looks like a demo released on steam a few weeks ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141050/Nour_Play_with_Yo...
>Moving from an ownership model to a rental model is very anti-consumer.

In that case the consumers have worked against their best interests for decades in other mediums. You can even argue as such in the PC market where physical media has also lost.

>some people prefer to rent their couch. That's fine. You're effectively arguing that couch ownership should be forbidden.

in the same way in that you can still buy a CD or even record of a recent song, I'm sure you'll have physical media for quite a while.

But we should also face reality and realize that most people are fine renting media, so it should be no surprise if companies start to tailor towards the majority.

>You are going to have to provide a more compelling argument

sure: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/mobile-games-now-account-f...

>In the U.S., users generally have eight games installed per device; globally, we play an average of two to five games per month.

we should never discount the mobile market in these discussions. nor teenagers.
I also don't know. I'm not arguing with you, more like thinking out loud if this makes sense for OpenAI to do, and I'm not sure it makes sense TBH. But... this doesn't mean they're NOT doing it. People do stupid things sometimes.
> When you can't ask "Why?" anymore without it being silly, that's when it's time to run tests and propose solutions.

In the past year, I started a new role as a head of engineering for an existing team. I literally spent the first month asking "why" about nearly everything. The most common answers ended up being "I don't know, it's what we do", which was closely followed by some justification that boiled down to being a workaround for some anti-patterns. E.g. Q: "Why do we log this error at DEBUG level?" A: "It happens so often that it fills the logs when we log it at a higher level". Me: :(
San Francisco has been a boom and bust town since the beginning, with countless "doom loop" stories. The reality is that it's a desirable city. If we're in a true bust, prices will begin to drop--and those places are quickly filled up with people who can now afford to live here (again). We're not witnessing a drop in demand per se, we're witnessing a decreased demand at the high-end (this is a good thing! it's run out of control for the last decade.) combined with commercial real estate investment that won't lower leases because it devalues their properties and puts their RE investment underwater. (Ultimately, their hands will be forced, of course, which will lead to much lower cost commercial real estate in a highly desirable city with better affordability for homes... again, this is a good thing.)

The problem in Detroit was there was no price low enough to get people to live there when there were so many places with similar amenities and better quality of life nearby. In SF, the second housing prices fall, they're scooped up instantly. People move across the country/world to live in SF even when the job market has been terrible in the past. (There's a lot more to SF than a job.) I'm not saying San Francisco could never fall, but we're nowhere near that reality.
When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior (2011)
I would be curious to know what data they're sharing exactly.

Are they actually sharing any financial information, or are they just passing a counter back to Meta saying that person X filled out a form/visited a page.

Not to say any tracking is 'good' but this might not be quite so obviously bad.
never said that shader compilation is the only cause, but not wasting effort replying somebody calling BS without bothering to RTFM, so ya. nothing of value lost
Have you ever heard of linkers?