skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I decided to fact-check one random thing while skimming the article, and of course the article got it wrong. Makes me wary of the whole thing.

> With the addition of multi -track recording, invented by jazz guitarist Les Paul, another golden age of recording began.

No he didn't. He was just the first person to buy a system capable of doing so [1], though he had some influence on the development of that particular system. In reality it was a lot of incremental work by many different people. There was also people experimenting with "homemade" stuff long before the first commercial system.

Giving all the credit to the one guy who was already famous, just because he happens to be a known figure, always irks me.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_multitrack_recordin...
MMT has been getting a lot of press lately. I wonder what submarine[1] is responsible?

Here's the thing: MMT isn't a policy position. It's simply an attempt to accurately describe how the monetary system actually works from an operational perspective[2]. It was a reaction against the Krugmanite nonsense that has no basis in reality and describes the activities of no market practioners. Anyone curious should read the linked primer, but the core principle of MMT is that Taxes drive the value of money. The sovereign's power to impose taxes that can only be paid in the sovereign's liabilities creates an intrinsic demand for those liabilities, which is to say money. Even the gold standard worked this way. The government used to print gold certificates and use those to buy bullion from miners! And of course gold certificates were accepted to extinguish tax liabilities.

That said, a number of MMT theorists are in fact politically liberal and believe that the government should use its monetary sovereignty to interfere more in the economy. It's valid to object to claims like "every dollar of spending has to be funded by a dollar of taxes" because they are observably false. But you could be a hard money conservative goldbug and MMT would STILL be a theoretically valid understanding of how money works. The theory correctly describes the consequences of using a currency the sovereign cannot issue, be it gold, or another sovereign's liabilities.

One area where MMT does hand-wave a bit is on the importance of business investment in creating additional demand for the sovereign's liabilities. While from an authoritarian perspective the power to tax and imprison suffices to create demand for sovereign liabilities, in terms of having a society that isn't awful to live in it's really nice to have lots of businesses doing interesting things that can be paid for with those sovereign liabilities too. I suspect this is partially why proponents of the theory are so bullish on the sovereign controlling more of the economy, they fail to adequately consider the indirect consequences. Or they simply don't care or even consider a command economy a feature rather than a bug. I don't know.

So, please, don't confuse the factual descriptive theory with the subjective policy recommendations some people attempt to justify with that theory. The theory can only describe what government CAN do. What government SHOULD do is not dictated by MMT.

Edit: I discovered MMT during the first Greek debt crisis when lots of economists were going on about how America was going to be the next Greece. Farcical, but I guess it got clicks? This[3] is a nice overview of why the USA isn't like Europe. Of course this isn't really news, since Wynne Godley described the problem in 1992[4].

[1]http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[2]http://neweconomicperspectives.org/modern-monetary-theory-pr...

[3]http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/09/mmp-blog-16-unusu...

[4]https://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-al...
Exactly. Not believing something for no reason. I see postulating that there is no hierarchically higher intelligence just as much as a believe system as postulating that there is. So far I couldn't find evidence pro or contrary either of these. Penrose, as I've written elsewhere, is IMO the closest to producing such evidence and I'll gladly revise my stance if/when that happens.
I disagree.

For one thing, this is an article written by a history professor who is pitching her book: " Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism"

The term "corporate imperialism" is your first clue. I spent some more time perusing her other writing and I'm not impressed. She's got an agenda here and that's to take a specific example of corporate power run amok and extend it to other areas. THAT is what I was pushing back against.

There are a litany of other examples that would have served this subject better (oil, sugar, hell, even bananas) because the connection between production of a commodity item and the effect on the economy and society would be much clearer.

In this example, she's focusing on cigarettes as the central player. The problem is that cigarettes aren't a commodity; they're branded. You could easily make the case that Heinz Ketchup doesn't deserve their position as market leader because they control so much of the market that nobody else stands a chance. That kind of backing into a theory of history is what I'm talking about when we discuss survivorship bias. If there hadn't been a monopoly, she'd have nothing to write about. Nothing in the article serves to identify how to prevent a monopoly from forming in the current day nor does she cite any examples of markets where it's nearly impossible (despite their best efforts) for someone to achieve and maintain a monopoly because the pace of innovation constantly forces an evolution of the market.

So, to sum up, I think she's reaching. I don't find her account useful as a prescriptive when trying to understand if monopolies are bad (however they are formed) or if there are ways to prevent a monopoly from forming when a competitor has a product so good that nobody else can come close.

As a book of the history of cigarettes and jazz, sure, whatever.
Thread for the person leading the project: https://twitter.com/kurtseifried/status/1103858442479910913

I couldn't even get most people to submit well formed CVE requests, let alone correct the badly formed ones, let alone actually help with CVE assignments. The market has spoken, nobody really cares about ensuring Open Source is broadly covered by CVE. 1/2

A few projects and vendors care about making sure what they ship or specifically research is covered (e.g. https://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html#cna_participants …) but nobody cares about Open Source in general, e.g. npm? 11 million developers. 73 CVEs...
Similar to Chicago's clay gas lines from the mid-1800s. Crazy to think that some of that infrastructure is still in place.
That's funny. But it took me a full minute to get it.
What's interesting re: getting better results is how much my own behavior has changed in response to how Google behaves now.

In 2006 I would never search "how do I ___", "what is ___", because "how", "what", etc. were just noise, and sites weren't formatted as a question/FAQ like that. I knew to use a series of keywords to find pages that contain the content I was looking for.

I wonder too how much the decline of personal homepages, blogs, random sites, etc. has to do with how much harder it has become to find them in Google.
Oh sure. Agreed.
I'm curious as to why the author chose "AI Gigapixel". What made it a better choice than say NNEDI3 or SuperRes or any other NN upscaler (there’s a bunch of them out there)?
Were others even considered?
Deploy a docker swarm cluster on scaleway with terraform
hilarious... and accurate.
I doubt paramounts hurting for money. Imagine they want to do a kickstarter and it's only 800 for the series.
E.U. Approves a Brexit Extension, but on New Terms
Kind of true, but it's like using checks because you don't like credit cards, eventually you may just be unable to function in society without it.
Your post is very puzzling. You, on one hand, sound exceptionally well educated but on the other hand describe a social circle that seems exceedingly ignorant or uninformed. Knowing the profound disconnect why would that make you embarrassed?
How do you "solve" a loved one dying or being diagnosed with terminal cancer, for example? Sometimes the issue is a fundamental fact of life that can't be "solved". Psychedelics can help you come to peace with these things and let you live a less painful life (obviously this isn't true for everyone but there are many studies that show it helps for a lot of people).

Alcohol does not make you come to peace with such things, it just makes you forget for a time. Then you eventually have to deal with it again.
Ads will exist until people start paying for the products they want and have methods of discoverability of their own interests.

The last decade or two has really cemented not paying for a product and society not realizing that means they ARE the product.
Not really true: Google bombing is almost as old as Google itself.
Thanks, I'm pretty comfortable with what this thread says about your argument and mine at this point.
The overlap in professions can illustrate a lot of what is wrong with this branch of medicine. If you see a psychologist they'll recommend more sessions, CBT, books etc. If you see a psychiatrist your're walking out with a prescription.

When you're a hammer, everything starts to look like nails.
Thank you so much for this. Not only did this description help me understand what this discovery actually meant, it clarified and tied together a lot of what I have been trying to learn through occasional reading and youtube videos on the subject. The table of particles and associated values and the description of the rules of decay bridged a huge gap I've had in understanding all of this for a really long time.

When you say "The fact that you need 4 particles total is part of why it takes a long time on the order of minutes...", does it take a long time because there are significantly fewer decays (described by Feynman diagrams?) from a lone neutron that result in a proton, anti-neutrino, and electron than there are decays that end up back at a neutron?
a loose federation of populations separated by distances barely-surmountable by technology

There is no obvious, analogous path to this happening with interstellar travel, even if you stipulate a civilization that has a strong interest and incentive in navigating and exploiting solar system space.
Oh, that’s funny. All this time commenting on my phone, I just realized I posted my OP as a top-level comment and not as a reply to gamblor956 as intended.

> But given the shitshow that is Tesla's logistics , that's extremely unlikely, as Tesla's logistics processes simply aren't valuable IP. Tesla has displayed a chronic inability to manage their own supply chain, especially during the period the employees were at Tesla. If anything, Zoox used the information allegedly taken from Tesla as an example of what not to do logistically, and trade secrets law doesn't let you sue for that.
The owners/operators of the TLD, e.g. for .com thats Verisign, for .uk thats Nominet, for .dev that's Google etc
Uber Picks New York Stock Exchange for Its Mega IPO
Ah. OK. Thanks.
60% of the city voted to throw more money at the problem hoping it'll go away, money that was easier to part with than certain zoning ordinances, prosecutorial rules, social programs, and other policy choices.

Do you work with the homeless? I have a family memory who does, busing to and from 6th & Howard every day. Do you know what's actually going on out there? A neighbor's daughters lives on the streets, willingly. Every affordance is continually made available to her, but she's incapable of pulling herself away and there are no longer any forms of legal coercion available. Shooting up on the streets everyday and literally, physically wasting away is not only acceptable to the community but justified. Real, immediate human suffering is excused in the name of abstract, perverted principles and self-serving indignation.

The city spends more than $40,000/yr per homeless person, a sum that has been rapidly increasing for a decade. No city spends more money on the homeless than SF. The reality is that if you're actually homeless and living on the streets you can and will get permanent housing in a matter of months if not weeks, provided you're willing to make an effort at rehab.

The intransigence of street homelessness is at this point a deeply structural issue--medically, legally, politically. It has almost nothing to do with money. The affordability crisis is largely borne by those struggling to get by, sharing accommodations or living in vehicles--nominally functional citizens who aren't shooting up and defecating in the streets. Because providing services to the street homeless and housed addicts is priority #1, #2, and #3 at City Hall, everybody else is effectively locked out of housing assistance. And while more money could help these people (and hopefully will), you'd have to actively direct it away from existing street homeless programs. Without reforms that permit and demand the community to coerce treatment for mental illness and drug addiction, no amount of additional funds for street homelessness is going to substantially change things.
And those solutions are not so great for quite a variety of artists, which is what this story is about. Network effects force everyone to deal with a small number of platform vendors who dominate their market.
I wonder if tickling them when they giggle-no might eventually teach them to give clear signals too.

I'd try with mine but he loooves tickling.
Saying there isn't a market for something is not the same as saying they aren't worthy of being paid.
Were I evil, I'd be looking at anyone who has upvoted or commented on such SO posts, and then looking at what companies they work for, and trying to run attacks against every site/repo/app they are linked to to see if they use this technique.

Or just, you know, looking in Github for anyone doing this and open sourcing their site.
The French government is very much for Articles 11 and 13, while the German govt ... can't make up their minds. One of the German coalition parties is against, including the justice minister, but she still voted in favour of it. Quoting this [1]:

> Wenn Barley im Kabinett nicht zugestimmt hätte, hätte sich Deutschland im Kreis der EU-Staaten enthalten müssen –- dann wäre die nötige Mehrheit nicht zustande gekommen.

Translated:

> If Barley had not agreed in the cabinet, Germany would have had to abstain in the circle of EU states -- then the necessary majority would not have been achieved.

The French government is so much for the directive that the French ambassador even tried to convince SPD party members... which is diplomatically very impolite, you don't just meddle with interior politics of another country [2].

[1]: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/EU-Copyright-Artikel...

[2]: https://netzpolitik.org/2019/frankreich-draengt-spd-abgeordn...
Trump orders colleges to back free speech or lose funding
Because Amazon spends a measurably significant amount of revenue on advertising. Recouping a fraction of that money is substantially more valuable than any hit to their reputation.
I wonder, what has happened to all his video game businesses?
A Hollywood caricature of martial arts might be useless. But my understanding of some martial arts is that they emphasize keeping a cool head, awareness of surroundings, deescalation and evasion over violent confrontation. Being even somewhat competent in those skills could prove valuable in an active shooter situation.
Does the code fixing this feel a little too innocuous to other people? Reading the code it seems really unlikely I'd see this and realize that deleting it would create a severe security vulnerability:

v = v.select do |format|
format.symbol || format.ref == "*/*"
end

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/efb706daad0e2e1039c6abb4...
Yes, I could have been clearer that I was talking about 'talk therapy' not medication.

Does the argument work as well for shamans? Maybe,except that I was kind of implying a materialist point of view behind psychology, which might not apply to shamans.

But who says that shamans might not 'cure you' of your depression just as well?
I have a few qualms with this app:
1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by using Dropbox.

2. It doesn't actually replace Dropbox.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

(Silly satire.)
while I can't disagree with your conclusions, I would add that some of those models were not necessarily built with HD in mind, and could look just as crummy as old CGI when viewed in very high definition. Not all, of course, but I imagine experienced directors and model-builders would have constructed it for the duties it was expected to perform on the media of the day and not build/shoot to perfection in the off chance it might be remastered someday in the future. Small imperfections accruing from time-constrained model-building would get dramatically amplified in HD.
I am viscerally repulsed by public music playing in places where I can't reasonably escape. The absolute worst that I'm frequently stuck with is busking in NYC subway cars/stations. The music is usually terrible, although sometimes good, and on rare occasions great, but I don't think it should be allowed at all.

I don't have as much of a problem with street-corner busking, in large part because it can be avoided, but even that drives me nuts when I can't get away from it (outside a place I work, for example).

I love music, and when I'm in the mood, I'll seek out a street performance. City parks are great for this, and I think they're an appropriate venue. A rail car is not even remotely appropriate, and a subway station during your unavoidable morning commute, with loud brass instruments and a shitty PA system, echoing off the walls, ought to be a crime.
IIRC, Birkenstock has evidence Amazon used the counterfeiters to force them to bring all (even new/brick & mortar only) Birkenstocks to Amazon. "Yes, we can solve your counterfeit problem, if you stop having special editions outside of Amazon".

Which puts the "they can't control" part in doubt :)
Yes, I meant Google Search itself (plus the broader AdWords partner network, YouTube, etc).

I'm on DDG for my primary search engine too, but

(a) I fall back to !G for at least 50% of my queries.
(b) You and I are a tiny, tiny minority. DDG users are not even a fraction of a rounding error in the global search userbase.

DDG is nowhere near being a serious threat to Google - it may well in future, but right now, Google still rules the roost (Facebook being the only other equal). You only need to look at their respective financials to confirm it.
To provide a correlary, I am sure Boeing didn't mention software and MACS as a risk until a month ago. Why would Amazon even acknowledge counterfeits to be an issue until it actually effects business?
> Just look at homicides. A dead body is somewhat impossible to hide from the statistics.

Actually it's been posited before that Japan reclassifies murders as suicides in order to skew the data, and some believe other countries are doing this as well. There is a correlation between countries with low murder rates and high suicide rates.

http://freakonomics.com/2009/10/29/fewer-murders-more-suicid...
I would certainly say they are dominating. Try comparing an apple store to a Microsoft or Linux store...oh wait, you can’t. Considering that they are selling a product that is very accessible online and at other retail locations...they ARE dominating that space.
You're talking to an audience that didn't see WWII, and mostly didn't see the Cold War.

The ugly truth is that there are plenty of bad guys or people who would be bad guys (some of them in the U.S. admittedly), and a lot of them won't stop without force or threat of force.

I know this isn't a universal opinion but I believe that smarter military technology has a better chance of ending/stopping/preventing war than starting it.
Beautiful, original work. Thanks for sharing.
I was waiting for this!
They are an artifact, a side effect, of the way human hearing works, they are not actually present on a recording medium (only the frequencies that produce the effect in the human ear are).
All things considered, Amsterdam is doing about as good a job at keeping the city affordable, accessible and diverse as is possible under these circumstances. Nobody wants it to become a rich people's ghetto, hence the big focus on rent-controlled housing and keeping speculators out.

It is certainly possible to get affordable housing that's not rent-controlled, but that's going to be either South-East, North or New West, which are fine places to live, but not as popular as the neighbourhoods closer to the center. The center itself and the older neighbourhoods around it are either rent-controlled with insane waiting lists, or simply too expensive.

Ultimately, there's simply a limit to the number of houses available here. There's not much room for the city to grow. Nobody wants it full of skyscrapers (and I've seen an argument that skyscrapers don't really help all that much anyway), nobody wants to tear down all the historic buildings. One of the most recent major expansions of the city, IJburg, doesn't seem to be terribly popular. The city is rapidly filling in all the gaps that can be filled with new houses without hurting living quality too much, but in the end, Amsterdam wants to stay a nice city to live in. That means a lot of people want to live here, but it also means not everybody can live here.

There's other nice cities here, though. Try Utrecht or Haarlem.
Eh, lots of projects are otherwise abandoned.
I watched the chemical imbalance theory absolutely gut the person who used to be my mother. Over a period of maybe 10 years and multiple medications I watched her gain weight, get grey hair far too early for her age, she had periods where she either couldn't stay awake past 9:00pm, or couldn't sleep at all, periods of near catatonia, periods where rest was impossible.

She was a guinea pig for decades and it became abundantly clear toward the end that none of these doctors had a god damn idea what they were doing.
Sometimes the aliens don't drop people off where they picked the up from.
I agree. It reminds me of those personality tests like the Myers-Briggs INTJ/ENFP/QR5X. Everyone has an idea of what kind of personality they want to have and answers the questions in a way so that the result is biased towards their desired personality.

Similarly, when your therapist asks you a question, your answer is skewed by what you want the answer to that question to be. Or what you want your therapists reaction to your response to be. Or any number of factors.

This idea has led me to start doubting my subjective experience of basically everything. Do I not like someone because of how they act or do I not like them because I don't want to like them? Did I study computer science because I enjoyed it or because I wanted to make a good salary? Not to mention that other peoples' subjective experiences are probably even less reliable.

I have no idea how to answer my therapists questions because I don't trust the answer in the first place.
The screen that says "run your repl to see output" never changes when I hit run. Anyone else never seeing any actual graphics? I'm using Firefox on OSX 10.12.6.
I was thinking that cache lookups were not their stronger side as they had fancy 4+ level cache. This is what I would've expected in a regular arm soc.

The more complex is the cache architecture, the more laggy your main ram should be to mandate that. That's what I thought.
I think you should have that connection checked. Besides, the page is running multiple embedded VNC clients some even running entire chrome instances and all you could measure was load times?
Already ready:

http://www.openminds.tv/hawaii-ufo-landing-pad/28480

Build it and they will come (?)