skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reading that the design of this structure is not to require partners to make decisions in the interest of the mission, but to remove incentives for them to make decisions against the interest of the mission. With a cap on returns, there's a point at which it stops making sense to maximize short-term value or reduce expenses, and with the words about fiduciary duty, it becomes defensible to make decisions that don't obviously increase profit. That is, this structure seems much better than the traditional startup structure and I suspect many entities that are currently actual, normal startups would do more good for the world under a structure like this. (Or that many people who are bootstrapping because they have a vision and they don't want VCs to force them into short-term decisions could productively take some VC investment under this sort of model.)

I agree this isn't a non-profit any more. It seems like that's the goal: they want to raise money the way they'd be able to as a normal startup (notably, from Silicon Valley's gatekeepers who expect a return on investment), without quite turning into a normal startup. If the price for money from Silicon Valley's gatekeepers is a board seat, this is a safer sort of board seat than the normal one.

(Whether this is the only way to raise enough money for their project is an interesting question. So is whether it's a good idea to give even indirect, limited control of Friendly AI to Silicon Valley's gatekeepers - even if they're not motivated by profit and only influencing it with their long-term desires for the mission, it's still unclear that the coherent extrapolated volition of the Altmans and Khoslas of the world is aligned with the coherent extrapolated volition of humanity at large.)
One note is that PCA will give you the same results on any matrix as it will on its transpose. However, the running time can be very different in the two cases because if you have an MxN design matrix, the algorithm will try to generate an NxN matrix. If you have the correct transpose, this will be a nice 100x100 matrix, but if you have the wrong one this will be a 100Mx100M matrix.

Another trick for datasets with high dimensionality is that you can randomly project the data to a lower dimensional space using random Gaussian vectors. By the Jordan-Lindenstrauss lemma, the projected dataset will have statistically similar properties under PCA.
It may seem quaint now, but it cost many of us a great deal of time back then and was a huge PITA.

My favorite vulnerability is not often mentioned: The sendmail config file used to have a completely byzantine syntax. Consequently, there was a default wizard password that would grant total strangers access, with the understanding that these would be whitehat wizards breaking in to fix your braindamaged mail configuration.

The reason for the "whitehat" assumption was really that no one had seen any other color of hat (because why would you break in and do something malicious wtf haven't you got anything better to do?)

Simpler times.
No. I'm saying they're bullshitters (and ones with dishonest marketing, to boot--go look at the CosmicJS Show HN and tell me that it doesn't make the part of you that cares about honesty start itching).

You don't have to be running a scam to be a bullshitter. But you do have to have an undeserved and unwarranted sort of presentation, and you likely don't have much cattle to go with that hat.
But the variation between lowest and highest usage and cost for a TV or dishwasher is going to be far less than it is for the cost of fueling a car, there's a huge difference between someone who uses the car for a few short journeys a few times a week and someone who drives hundreds of miles almost every day for work.
I'm no expert, but it has been pretty successful in specific applications although it doesn't scale particularly well.
> Given my goal is to find the client who will pay the highest daily rate before the deadline...

Is that actually your goal though? Are you sure you wouldn't prefer a client who will offer repeat business at a decent but not maximal daily rate? How about a client who will offer a more interesting job, or one who will offer you the opportunity to learn something new?

In so many of these optimisation problems, the real difficulty is specifying exactly what you want to optimise (never mind making sure that the specification is tractable). In general the solution you get from your algorithm will depend sensitively on your objective: if you're not completely sure about the objective, you shouldn't be sure about the solution.
Wait, what?

Are you saying science created the problem of wanting to send humans to space? If yes, that's not a science problem.
Ah yes, including the ever-popular mythical 'teen' category, which strictly speaking limits your pornstars to women aged 18 and 19.

It must be hard for the actresses when they enter the gap between teen and milf porn age wise (unless you are Japanese according to that chart).
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Coincidence: Half an hour after reading this thread, a white Subaru with California tags stopped at the red light outside my office window. Big disco ball on a platform attached to the roof and "Apple Maps maps.apple.com" stenciled on the window.

I took a picture.

https://imgur.com/UwK2wYy
It was a Kobalt. I think it may have been their first battery powered model. The Honda mower will evidently need maintenance (outside of oil and air filters which I can do) at some point too, but the nice thing is Northern Tool and Equipment has a shop and they are a Honda dealer, so they can fix it and have the Honda supply chain.

Thing that sketched me out about the Kobalt is that once it fails or the battery is discontinued, you're on your own. I opened the battery up and it had 20x 4v cells but they were so tightly wired and glued that replacing all 20 would have been a pain in the ass, plus would've run around $80 for the cells.

Tillers are another beast, you don't drive them around the yard, they drive you. At least in the North Carolina clay...
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I think you mean a 1.5% failure rate, given that there were 133 successful missions.
OTOH, it is exciting to see people who are not google/facebook/uber going in the race for-profit. Perhaps they 'll feel some competition over real products now. (but the "100x cap" thing is just childish)
“I’d back [Elizabeth Holmes] as chief science officer, not CEO. Good question.”
1. Open link in private session
2. Get a Faustian option to "allow" data sent to Slate whatever they want. No "Deny" button.

..........

I give up.
In this case the person would communicate "I am not reserving time on a calendar this year", so you'd know that you needn't reserve time or prepare for the meeting, as the person has not agreed to it.
Thank you. I do have multiple different configurations (3 screens at home too but arranged differently) so that will come in handy
Didn't know this - thanks for clarifying. I will update my comment if it is picked on further
Sure, but as heuristics go, this one is pretty good.
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This website has orange in its color scheme. I suspect you mean a different one, however.
I'm also interested in how this corporate structure relates to a b-corp (or technically, a PBC)

> OpenAI LP’s primary fiduciary obligation is to advance the aims of the OpenAI Charter, and the company is controlled by OpenAI Nonprofit’s board. All investors and employees sign agreements that OpenAI LP’s obligation to the Charter always comes first, even at the expense of some or all of their financial stake.

One of the key reasons to incorporate as a PBC is to allow "maximizing shareholder value" to be defined in non-monetary terms (eg impact to community, environment, or workers).

How is this structure different from a PBC, or why didn't you go for a PBC?
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I don't think an office in Ghana would be employing very many African Americans (or, for that matter, very many Americans of any background).
"sh ver" works on a large swath of network gear, this is for familiarity reasons in that most are familiar with Cisco

also I would ask for a scope of how many devices you want to know about. if you have more than a few I would either script an expect with python netmiko to do the "sh ver" or do SNMPget in some kind of loop against the IPs
I'm in a situation similar to the one you describe. It's an interesting world us contract IT folks live in. I'm honest with people even if it could cost me the job, but they like having someone around in case something goes south. The beauty of this job is the sheer amount of undisturbed coding time I have to continue to automate things. One of the better jobs I've had.
You clearly have not experienced an actual winter, just some weak-sauce facsimile, the sort you might get in northern Virginia.

If I wanted to get potatoes right now from the back yard dirt I'd have to remove about two feet of hard-packed ice and snow, then chisel into dirt that may as well be concrete. At least solid ice and concrete respect a pick. Wet, frozen dirt just shrugs it off.

Let me remind you that this year in places like Minnesota it was -60°F outside. Good luck getting anything out of the ground in those conditions. Even a backhoe is going to have trouble. I'd suggest using dynamite, but at those temperatures even dynamite won't work without being heated up first.
Certainly there seem to be no black folks in the photo captioned "OpenAI team and their families at our November 2018 offsite."
Considering how many office networks use 192.168.. or 10..., I'm not sure that in practice you're REALLY* leaking all that much... I mean it's a little bit of a hint, but if you can control a bridged device with internal network access, you'll probably get the same info (roughly) from a port scan. The "breach of info" is overblown imho.
"He just an grumpy old guy who does not want to share his beach."

Not his beach. That's the point.
I kinda went the opposite path to the same end result. In my 20s I watched almost no porn. This was kinda crazy to most people.

When I did pick up the habit for a while after I had kids, I noticed a marked decline in my interest in putting out "effort" to have romance when a video would suffice.

I found porn made me lazy, not impotent. Anyway, cutting that out has been really good, it makes me have to work to maintain a healthy relationship with my wife.

This is obviously anecdotal, I went through a lot of changes in that time period as well, not working out as much, having kids, etc. But it's a little thing I can control to make life happier.
> "of course"?

You say this as if a foregone conclusion, a statement of fact.

There's zero wrong with considering what it means to be a man. Just because I don't address what it means to be a woman doesn't make me sexist. It's not toxic to consider who you are and what values you hold dear.

Perhaps the wince that's induced in you is projection on your part? It doesn't make me wince. Nor do I apologize for it. I don't look at this poem as sexist. It addresses who I want to be as a man, no more, no less. It has no bearing on my thoughts of women. I'm not a woman, therefore my thoughts and feelings about what women should be are largely irrelevant... at least as irrelevant as to Rudyard Kipling who didn't address this topic at all in the poem.
I'll take sifting through the weird stuff over the rape simulation and fake moans popular in commercial porn.
All airlines that fly into the US - including Ethiopian - follow FAA rules on maintenance and training. So the FAA already understands the Ethiopian standards well, since they set them.
It's amazing to think that the Voyager missions have been up there and producing science as long as I've been alive. It'll be a sad day when they sign off.
my current situation :)

I wish it was sarcastic
Grothendieck’s groundbreaking paper on homological algebra
Open source avatar generator (mix n match)
I thought a similar thing when I saw that pic: Not a single black male or female. And I'm all like, "Where am I?" LoL
Interesting, I'm super tempted to apply to that Mechanical Engineer opening. How exactly does OpenAI make money though? It is sponsored or is there external investment (Can you invest in a non-profit?)?
You also don't need to write test early on. Especially if you are still validating your product. For the first year or so of our service, we just manually tested the important features after every deploy.
The article says that OpenAI the registered non-profit now owns OpenAI LP. This isn't unprecedented: for instance, the Mozilla Foundation owns the Mozilla Corporation, and IKEA is owned by a non-profit. (I mention these two examples precisely because it's common to find Mozilla's corporate structure reasonable and IKEA's corporate structure unreasonable.)
Three good universities within <30 minutes drive of each other, each in a city of a different size and feel at each anchor point, with a business/job center smack dab in the middle in Research Triangle Park, which has plenty of room to grow. And still a great COL at the moment. I'd agree that we could/will be the next Austin (but I live here so of course my perspective is biased) as long as we don't self-sabotage, which is a real possibility. For example: Duke University just effectively killed the planned Light-Rail between Durham and Chapel Hill for some reason.
> all commits in the github repositories are made by AWS staff.

Given that it was just made public this morning, it would be surprising if it were otherwise. The real question is what the contribution model looks like going forward. The blog post says "Contributions are welcome, as are bug reports and feature requests"[1], but of course the devil is in the details.

1 - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elastic...
> Natutal selection is seemingly going in the opposite direction to were we want it.

You have to compare childhood mortality rates. Countries with high rates of childhood mortality see mothers having more children.

The cost of having a child also factors into it, in Western countries each child is really expensive. (30k for birth in the US! And that is just the cost to get started!)

Also you are making the implicit assumption that people in poorer countries are having "worse" babies than people in developed countries.

Off the top of my head, a few countries that used to be looked down upon by everyone else include England, Germany, Ireland, and the US. Also all of northern Europe, all of SW Asia, and all of East Asia. The fact that China thought the same thing about Europe that Europe thought about China is also a good indicator that "undeveloped" is a rather crude benchmark.

Every major study has shown that if you correct for environmental pollution, childhood nutrition, and childhood health care, IQs between regions of the world are all within spitting distance of each other, and human potential falls along a nice bell curve.

tl;dr clean up the air, feed the kids, get them to doctors, and everyone thrives. Also stable environments means there be less pressure to have lots of kids, so the population will stabilize than decline.
I wasn't actually the original poster :)

The thing is, we have studies that prove that mouse + keyboard interaction is faster than keyboard-only https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html - until you become super proficient with all the relevant the keyboard shortcuts.

So it's not about "inferior"/"superior", it's about your use case.
What is it with kdenlive crashing?

There's are so many other large, complex applications on Linux, but I've never in my life experienced or seen as many reports of crashes as I have with kdenlive.

Is stability just not a priority for its developers?
Doesn't the value of a house have less to do with how much it costs to build, but how much the land it sits on costs?

My understanding is that if you have a growing population whom all wish to live in a few major cities then simple supply and demand means house prices in cities will raise unless more supply is added to the equation. But then in a city like London or New York the only place you can build is up (or down in the case of London) so this isn't always feasible.

House prices in rural areas are fairly affordable.
She turns Elon Musk's bold space ideas into a business - Gwynne Shotwell
But what might be causing the decline in T? That's what the article is trying to address.

My bet, BTW, is with "multiple factors".
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IT is bottom-heavy, and seniors are leaving because they're either giving up or retiring. More problematic is that a lot of senior level people are either out of jobs, or can't move from the job they're in because the hiring focus seems to be on the under-30 crowd.
Question, can I checkout the code from Github and build it with ./gradlew assemble as Apache License 2 or do I need to delete some modules before doing that?
Can you point me to the recent license change you mentioned?
I would agree that this probably is a variable, but I wouldn't dismiss the effect of porn either.
For an infinite timeline, all cars will break down, therefore cars have a 100% failure rate.
Gatekeeping, intentionally mis-stating the opposing view and quick edits. This is a troll trifecta.
> A tiling window manager is not a good default for everyone or every device type or screen size.

I disagree on the point of screen size. On small screens I want every last pixel to count, and tiling and tabs work well for that. On large screens, I find tiling to be a more efficient option than dragging windows around.

That said, available input devices absolutely do make a difference, and that does correlate with screen size.
We needed to custom-write rules like:

- Fiduciary duty to the charter
- Capped returns
- Full control to OpenAI Nonprofit

LP's have much more flexibility to write these in an enforceable way.
It all depends on how many people work there. A job at a restaurant will be 10x more stressful and will face people issues than a job as a coder in downtown San Francisco. I think people need to adjust their expectations. All this bad press has not hurt people willing to work in Amazon's warehouses even in one of the best job markets so I think Amazon warehouses are at par with their industry standards compared to Walmart, Costco or Target.

I will trust market signals over journalists and experts any day.
Now lesbians, hentai and milfs are unlikely to feature in the average male's sex life

I've read that many prostitutes are single mothers. (I think such activities should be allowed between consenting adults, but please don't break the law in your jurisdiction.) Hentai can simply be downloaded and watched.
Startup Off-sites – Why They Matter And How I Run Them
KDE is working on a solution that we hope to learn from for a future sway release.
My point is making sometimes look good or to draw the eye of the user can be a big enough factor to use a pie chart. Maybe you're only showing two values and only need to convey if one value is larger or a lot larger than another for example.

Not every page is a scientific document.
Traduora is now open source
No, I get medication and you get unregulated death pills.

Mine cost more under your model than they do now because lower volumes will drive up prices. The market further segments, only the wealthy can afford real medicines and the poor, barely able to afford medicine in the US as is are forced to risk their lives on unregulated garbage snake oil. This is just a way to kick the poor harder but with extra steps.
Writing this comment on a 4K display on a mixed-DPI desktop. Works great!
I can't say I've seen that to be the case.
"It's literally just telling people to plan their lives around yours", I agree, but on the other hand why should people have the right to tell you to plan your life around theirs, isn't that arrogant of them?

Regarding this, and also not answering the phone, and turning off email, it depends on what sort of job you have.

For me this is all about: my best work comes from when I'm in the flow. So I'll do anything to avoid being taken out of it.

I am a software developer, freelance, mostly work from home. I have deadlines, and I mostly work in fixed-price projects so the longer it takes the less I earn per unit time. I can get high-quality work done the fastest when I'm in the flow.

Is it the right of the customer to call me and interrupt me from my flow? I've agreed to deliver the software by a certain time for a certain price, that's it. They might be my client, but I did not agree to be reachable at any time for any impromptu meeting on any topic of their choosing. I agreed to deliver software, not reachability.

It's literally a zero-sum game. They want help planning something, or they have a question, they're in the flow about that, they don't want to be taken out of that flow. On the other hand, I'm in the flow about my thing, and don't want to be taken out of it. It's perfect for the other people if I always do what they want, but sometimes you have to stick up for yourself and do what's best for you.

Calling them back a few hours later when I'm out of the flow, or emailing them back 6 hours later the same day, has always worked out well for me.

I understand that not all jobs are like that. What I mean to say, it's nevertheless wrong to assume that no jobs are like that. Mine is like that, and the approach to using the phone outlined in the article. is great advice.
i personally highly recommend using bitwig studio or renoise if you can get your hands on either. they run wonderfully well on Linux and are extremely powerful environments for music production. renoise is a tracker more so than a traditional daw and as such requires a bit of a shift in how you approach it but otherwise it's quite lovely and not super expensive. bitwig on the other hand is a more fully featured daw and as such carries a price tag to match but it's definitely worth checking out.

if price is a problem there are several other environments on Linux for composing and producing. even something as simple as lmms can be made very powerful. you can also build drum patterns with hydrogen. you can use stuff like openmuse to score music, you can download some decent soundfonts (fatboy is good, timbres of heaven is amazing) to get more juice out of your midi, etc. then if you're into generative music there's stuff like supercollider and puredata, or dsl's like sonic pi for ruby and overtone for clojure that can drive the supercollider synth. or there's even languages like chuck, all sorts of interesting possibilities for audio.

anyway i guess my thesis point is there is always a way to get it done, as long as you keep at it (which it seems like you indeed have been doing so ^5)