stanfordkid

Sounds like the ideal type of trade to build a union for?

Just because an economist wrote a utilitarian calculus saying "this is what makes a city great" doesn't make it so. The logic they use to define "good" ultimately has, at it's deepest core a morality. The morality that "longevity is good" "per capita GDP good", "average happiness good" ... is not an objective fact and has no bearing on how human beings measure greatness. The anesthetized bug-brained western homo-economicus would probably be laughed at by a Spartan warrior ... is one objectively a "better" human than the other?

Yeah but cloud infra is a competitive market with multiple players, it's not like they're going to just buy a monthly AWS contract. They will probably have a cloud migration strategy, multiple year fixed contract, and multi-cloud support.

I'd be curious to understand why this is the case. It seems that businesses generally have highly network style data -- think of your average system for a "widget" business... it ranges from orders to suppliers to manufacturing processes, advertising, all the way to orders from customers. All stored in different systems with disparate join keys.

Most of the hard part of BI I have seen is joining these pieces of information together that are otherwise uncorrelated -- e.g which clicks corresponded to conversion is a tracking problem, then correlating them with actual business actions (e.g running a marketing campaign or improving a process)

It's more about data joining and data aggregation than "ML"

can't you just use soundflower with some scripting to capture the audio directly at the uncompressed audio card level? There is NO way for spotify to block that.

It's a biological reality that's gotten lost in our modern world. It's kind of funny no one seems to blink an eye that women and children are allowed to leave Ukraine but men have to stay and fight. The idpol segments seem to think that trans men shouldn't have to stay and fight and that is the true outrage. Personally I think men (or any human being that chooses) should be allowed to flee. Honor shouldn't be enforced by the state.

I mean... it is highly likely such events happened at much larger scale than the US public was made aware of in Iraq. How "precise" was shock and awe? I doubt the incentives are aligned for anyone to know.

Even Obama had several instances of drone killings inadvertently killing large groups of civilians -- for example: https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral...

You want a certain portion of capital going to waste... if it doesn't you're not taking big enough risks. A well functioning system will have failures.

How is it better than using a proxy server to access Google?

I think you're grossly underestimating how large of a hole this really is.

The author spends entire sections on things that are completely unimportant (e.g DNA error correction)... while leaving most of epigenetics and regulatory genomics completely out of the picture.

I think looking at DNA as "source code" that either gets "compiled" into proteins or "commented out" really betrays the way DNA actually works... making it a poor analogy.

DNA inside of cells has a 3 dimensional shape within the cell nucleus... The so called "Junk DNA" mentioned in the article can greatly modify the 3D geometry of the DNA and thus insertions or deletions of junk DNA can have large biological consequences (by influencing, for instance, the distance between an enhancer and promoter).

This video provides a nice visual representation of what DNA actually looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl44JjA--2k

Seems right out of the Google -> Alphabet playbook

Ha. $90 million?! Yeah I’ll pay the taxes. And please do doxx me.

If he thinks this would work then he’s either stupid or it went out in tiny chunks that are not “f** you” money.

pretty false... a lot may stay dependent, but all need to present plausible plans for generating revenue.

This is kind of a weird article to make frontpage of HN

I would love to see this on NBA2K21 ... seems like you have an ideal training set with recorded basketball games.

I don't know why recursive grammars would be considered abstruse on a forum populated by programmers.

The problem is our government. There is no shortage of STEM graduates -- we have the best and brightest. Our government has failed to set the right incentives for the private market to innovate on critical infrastructure... so naturally the smartest STEM grads end up building Netflix or Facebook.

The assertion of this idea is what got Larry Summers fired from Harvard.

I think there is room in the market for an Elon Musk style entrepreneur to completely re-define the industry as was done by Space-X. I think defense filters out a lot of potential founders due to it's inherently bloody nature -- at the end of the day these are machines are designed to kill people efficiently, whatever the reason may be.

Berlin is not that far from the port of Antwerp, one of the biggest shipping centers in the EU (and world) -- apparently you can get tons of cheap cocaine there that is really high quality.

Haha no one blows through $400k of cocaine in a month and survives. It's only $100 a bag (gram)! That would be 13 bags a day of coke.

Isn't the whole point of mmap to randomly access the data needed in memory? Did they think memcpy is a totally free operation or something, without any side effects?

It's a self fulfilling prophecy / feedback loop. Censorship creates fear of authoritarianism --> anti-government fears --> kooky crazies supporting trump --> censorship

There's something deeper at the core of his observation IMO -- that our consciousness has some connection / dependence to the universes overall notion of symmetry through it's biological make up. His theory of consciousness looks at these quantum microtubules that are found in proteins ... so what he's saying is that maybe there is some sort of computational power within "wet brains", in how those brains relate to the broader environment that is difficult to precisely characterize. Silicon AI is fundamentally incapable of tapping in to these forces due to the lack of such a connection.

The point is that the computational power of the brain may be non-local and non-constrained to the physical dimensions or neural capacity of the brain.

I wonder at what stage notions of metabolism will be baked directly into neural network operations -- e.g optimize not just for reducing some notion of error on a dataset, but also for the training efficiency itself.

Haha take your tinfoil hat off? No one is stating this is some sort of CIA operation. But the idea that all this stuff just sits collecting dust overlooked in a datacenter forever is naïve. Data is gold, and it's traded and monetized at an incredibly high frequency. Your statement that the data is only used in a static fashion for low impact implementation related functions belies the fact that in 2-3 years when the implementing company loses funding and becomes an asset heap some smart PE investor will connect the dots, get the right team together and extract value from the data and sell off the assets. You're either naïve or willfully ignorant if you think this is totally "okay".

Every time I deactivate facebook, using facebook login on spotify (which is how I setup my Spotify account years ago) re-activates my FB profile... ridiculous.

It seems like low birth rates are pretty correlated with wealth. It also seems like liberal states, which are generally wealthier, have much more stringent regulatory policies -- such as mandatory car seats.

How deeply do you understand these very clear confounding variables?

Steven Spielberg used an old 747 for War of the worlds and the set is still on the tram tour at Universal Studios.

Apparently the airplane itself was free, but it cost $250k to transport it to the location of filming!