skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the gap between executive pay and common employee has never been greater

This is by design. Meatpackers in America used to make the equivalent of $55/hour with benefits, putting the meatpacker, an otherwise unskilled worker who trained on the job, solidly in the middle class. Capitalists found this wage for unskilled labor to be too expensive and so they shamelessly used the rhetoric of both the Left (diversity!) and Right (free markets!) to their advantage, successfully lobbying to increase the supply of unskilled labor, increasing legal immigration limits and opposing measures that would limit illegal immigration.

To a lesser extent this has also happened with skilled labor via the H1-B visa program (among others) and attempts to raise the cap. Zuckerberg doesn't want a higher H1-B cap because he has a huge heart: he wants the increase to reduce his labor costs and thereby increase FB's operating margins.
Wondering if synthesizing a single instrument rather than an entire MIDI file might be better, as each note could be evaluated via finite differentials. Transformer would use as input a single note from say violin or guitar. And "translate" the pitch and envelope to the new sounds. The physical simulation of music, rather than notational logic. Problem of long range order in the composition still remains unsolved, unless the model accounts for the importance of transitions in music theory. In Neural Machine Translation, characters, words, even grammatical rules themselves can pre-define such an implicit structure.

Enjoyable to the trained mind to be sure. Especially as a moment in history. But the tunes themselves lack soul. And jarring for myself as the background music I had turned off to catch the tail end of MuseNet's performance, was of a particularly feverish level of human expressiveness ;)

Bad Brains - Live at the CBGB's 1982 (Full Concert)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pUlNfdnsAM
Probably. The only thing that's driven the economy since 2009 is the suppression of wages, technology-based productivity boosts, and the hindsight to know that the US Government is ready and willing to bail out any sufficiently large industry.
Anecdotally that's been fun to observe in the media. I remember at one point it was "Hours/day of engagement per user". At some point it became Active Users (at least once per day). Recently it's been Active Users (at least once per month).

I've never gone back to look at official filings or press releases from any company, but it feels like they're constantly redefining how widespread they are.
Cryptocurrency exchanges seem to be full of fraud and deception.
I used to really work 70-100 hours of week. You would see me responding to Nagios emails at 3am. Mind we didn’t use PagerDuty. I enjoyed it because I had nothing to do outside of work. After three years I ended up choosing a different job and have a better wlb.
Anybody who read about the connection between Tether and Bitfinex when the paradise papers came out saw this coming.
Maybe integrate with Braintree instead?
Lard is pretty easy to make, and homemade lard is _much_ better than the hydrogenated stuff you get in the grocery store. It's as simple as dicing up pork fat, covering with water, and simmering until what was left of the diced chunks starts to sizzle and brown a little (those chunks, btw, are incipient pork cracklins, which are their own reason to make lard).

A good reason to end up with a whole bunch of pork fat is to buy a whole skin-on pork shoulder, which also gives you the skin to cook with the fat and then fry.
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Since the actual data in this scenario would still be hosted by the individual companies, what guarantee is there that they’d correctly log all access into this shared ledger?
And yet the WinAPI is not actually preformant for types of apps that an ImGUI excels at

There's best case for Retained mode GUIs and best case for ImGUIs. ImGUIs excel when lots is changing. In a scrolling mobile app the entire page is being re-rendered constantly as the user moves the page up and down. GUI widgets get created and deleted, data gets marshalled in and out, various algorithms are applied to try to minimize re-creating stuff, all code that doesn't need to be executed in ImGUI mode code.

There are tons of cases where ImGUIs win in perf. In fact the reason they are so popular with for game dev is exactly because they vastly out perform retained mode guis. There's a reason there are 100s of books and 1000s of blog posts and articles trying to get retained mode guis to run smoothly. They almost always fail without lots and lots of specialized client side code to try to minimize GUI widget object creation/deletion, reuse objects, minimize state changes, etc, all that code disappears in an ImGUI and they run at 60fps where as all the retained mode guis struggle to get even 20fps consistently as they hiccup and sputter.
From the link:

> Investigators concluded that the risk of exposure to peanut on an airplane stems from potentially contaminated surfaces and not from airborne levels.

So the issue isn't not having exposure via air, but "not having touched" the peanuts themselves, but interacting with contaminated surfaces.
That is for a quarter, so $2 a month or $24 on the annual plan.

One day I'm going to build this premium Facebook clone that respects user privacy!

Come on Hacker News, make it so I don't have to!
Someone is working on a LineageOS-like project for KaiOS called GerdaOS, and there's code for the Jiophone 2 in the branch.

Not sure if it compiles yet for that particular phone but here's the repo if you're interested:
https://gitlab.com/project-pris/system
From looking around my city and noticing which grocery stores are thriving and which aren't, I've noticed a pattern. I readily admit that I am judging by how busy they are and have no insight as to their actual profitability. Also, my city seem unusual in that Whole Foods is not particularly popular here. People who would shop there have had better places along the same lines for years before Whole Foods came around, so there were already deeply entrenched shopping habits.

The very high-end grocery stores are doing about the same as they always have. The bulk/budget grocery stores are doing better than ever. It's the ones in the middle that seem to be dying.

I'm not sure how much of this can be placed at Amazon's feet. Amazon's grocery offerings seem to be geared toward the high-end.
Article title is "Archeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4,000-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt" - which I surmise due to some title restriction yielded the "4k" abbreviation. Let's remember - there are people who depend upon text to speech. Let's think of them when it comes to abbreviations and how they sound phonetically when used outside the AV domain.

4000 years ago is also around the earliest estimated age of the Llangernyw Yew tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangernyw_Yew
One subject in which the abvitiation of years is not recommended, for phonetics alone.
What about just using `docker-compose exec` to get into the running API container, and then executing the tests inside of that, against localhost?
Not as pretty as properly testing from an outside container, but seems by far the easiest way to solve this problem.
Don't you know, the government is no better than a drug dealer, we'd all be better off without them.
The Elon musk personality cult.
Why do you think people WANT to see Tesla fail?

I'll call out Musk as an unstable and (when it comes to things like the boring company) an ignorant idiot, and I'm absolutely amazed at the cult of personality surrounding him, and I think you'd have to be a fool to invest into tesla given his behaviour and all the financials/news about the company.

But I WANT solar panels and electric cars to take off in a massive big way, and i'd LOVE tesla to be able to provide an affordable electric car.

I think its everyone saying 'people WANT tesla to fail' who are exposing more of this personality cult, because the rest of us can separate the objective facts around the company and its leadership from our personal feelings towards its products and industry.
Also, the users that COULD pay (any price) are likely the PRECISE ones that are most lucrative to target.
Mozilla has always had trouble getting anything off the ground that isn't tied to Firefox being used by consumers.
Well, you should be able to escape: if you enter from and exit to the same direction, you have not moved through the gate
That is a really neat way of thinking of things. Thanks for sharing.

I listen to music a lot, but sometimes it's worth it to take my headphones off and listen - really listen to the world around me. It's strangely calming.
N5 is the current "flagship" device for the postmarketOS project, which does intend to package Plasma and other stuff as well. Though it doesn't actually support phonecalls or anything like that on the OS just yet...
You're moving the goalposts.

It was about the best AI chip in general not based on some arbitrary efficiency number.
Yes, it covers all "processing", meaning "any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction".

Applying some ML algorithm to personal data certainly fits.
Yep. I suspect we agree more than we disagree.

You are aware that every cable landing station has a classified area, right? And noone is allowed to visit a landing station w/out clearance from USG? And that the USG has a large data center near every cable landing station with rights to use the backhaul fiber from the landing station?

Ask Jay or Najam if they think the USG was tapping FB before they started encrypting everything.

There's on the order of 100 transoceanic cables terminating in the US with on the order of 80 lambdas per cables. That's 8k 100gs at $100k each, or $800M. That's less than 1% of NSA budget and about a tenth of 1% of the black budget. It's a relatively low cost to ensure "total information awareness" of comms in/out of the US.

I don't suggest that 100% of this being stored. It is a fairly trivial computer science problem w/ today's solutions to real time scan the words and pull out flagged data for analysis. That's the metadata you mention and I agree.
Anti-female bias could be even worse than feared, and harder to address
What if the tombs and mummification's where ancient attempts at doing something like current cryonics. And we are just going there, unearthing them, and not fulfilling our future part of the deal? :-p
That's only if our current economic model stays the same. At the moment most developed countries rely on immigration to create growth by adding more consumers.

However, it is changing, as the world develops, fewer people are born and within a century our population growth will flatten and our global population will even decline to the 2000's level.

Children should not be made just to keep society going. That's quite a selfish reason to have a child, to be honest.
Elon can be obnoxious- I cannot, you cannot, everyone you know should not. We all know obnoxious people and none of them currently are walking around landing rockets on earth are they? When they also do something as such, they can be obnoxious too. I think people being critical of Elon for being obnoxious - are actually obnoxious and are missing the big picture for personal traits of one of the greatest inventors of our lifetime. How about- Sit the fahk down and have popcorn while your car drives you to work while you (and everyone else) watch a falcon heavy auto-landing its boosters.
Your employer hires you to solve a problem, they don't get rights to unlimited productivity. You're held to a specific quality/output of work, and as long as that's satisfactory, you remain employed.

The game theory is to produce enough quality/output to remain employed. An employee increasing their productivity without increased compensation for said productivity is a bit of a sucker.
Firefox OS was pitched as a direct competitor to iOS and Android, which itself was a death sentence when you saw the kind of hardware it was launched on. "Severely underpowered" would be generous. Plus they launched at a time when mobile web (that FF OS depended on for app delivery) features were awful compared to native apps.

Their timing was poor too. The market was saturated with alternative OSes back then and not enough PR oxygen to go around.

- Nokia Meego OS

- Windows Phone

- Blackberry Playbook OS/BB10 OS

- Sailfish OS (ex-Nokia people)

- Ubuntu Touch OS
- WebOS
1. The primary suspicion about tether was lack of solvency, and the subpoena [edit: from CFTC] went out in late 2017. It would not have taken more than some weeks to determine if the assets were not present. Moreover, the NY AG would have hammered the point in the document if she knew.

2. It's hard to imagine bitfinex draining 100% of the tether reserves and thinking it wouldn't blow up. So I'd hazard a guess that they took only a fraction, with the expectation of replacement before getting caught. (Isn't that the embezzler's cliché?) Since that fraction amounted to $850M, it's probably not a bad guess that they were fully backed or at least pretty close, so that Tether could continue any redemption operations.
How does wage suppression drive the economy? If less people have money to spend wouldn't there be less economic activity?
I think the target market is a little larger than you think. The problem with Apple products is that they're a walled garden, and an expensive one to boot. My privacy isn't worth $4000 for a set of new computers, but it might be worth $100. I'd still probably end up using Linux for my day-to-day programming needs, because I find it easier to use.

While I suspect most of the target market could set up their own server (it's not rocket science-a smart 12 year-old could), a lot of us couldn't be bothered. A lot of people who buy hammers at the store probably could make their own hammer in their shop, but why would they?

Also, speaking of 12-year olds, I think this would be a great thing for kids to tinker with .. set up their own website and whatnot.
Regularly skipping breakfast linked to increased risk of heart disease
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CCTV is allowed if used exclusively for security purposes (Art. 6 (1) (f)). These devices are not equivalent.
Unfortunately, accountability and respect for privacy seem to be a meme these days
> When I was a youngin', our town didn't have any chain stores, just a dozen or so family markets.

Me too. I truly miss those days, and make it a point to shop at the few remaining such markets in my town.
Bitfinex Used Tether Reserves to Mask Missing $850M, Probe Finds
DeLorean was founded less than 60 years ago.
> For all the noise about Tether being insolvent, it turns out that it was completely solvent?

I don't think this says that; it says that the ~$2bn in tether had at least $700 million in actual backing, because at least that much was transferred out of it's backing.

It still could have been insufficiently backed to start with.
> In C++ you just do `auto a = b;`.

Sure, but does it do what you want? :) If that map contains pointers or other types with "interesting" assignment semantics, then your idea of a deep copy and that author of that type's idea may not be the same. Cloning is a surprisingly hard problem.

The two languages you compare to don't have GCs and prefer value semantics. But in most GC languages, everything is by reference and "copying the bits" isn't as meaningful of an operation.

I looked up how to deep clone maps in some other GC languages:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4157399/how-do-i-copy-a-...

Ruby: Top suggestion is to marhsall/unmarshall it.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5105517/deep-copy-of-a-d...

Python: Import a separate "copy" module. May have to implement some custom methods if you use user-defined objects in the map. The module isn't thread-safe. A comment recommends converting to JSON and back.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28288546/how-to-copy-has...

Java: No built in solution. Have to traverse the map yourself and do element-wise copies.
Unlikely. While you and I may comparison shop, most people aren't going to download a new app, enter their CC information, etc., just to skip a short surge period. I don't check Taxi prices when Uber has a high surge during a storm.

Additionally, many drivers who use both apps will simply stop driving, so Lyft is likely to see a surge as well.
NY Attorney General sues Bitfinex/Tether to unearth “fraud being carried out”
I see the applicability more for video games. There are a bunch of problems that don't exist in other forms of music, e.g. when you want to make the music adapt to user actions.

"The Double-Edged Nature of Video Game Music"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZB2_hlgKoA

Wouldn't solve all the problems, but I think there could be very interesting results if a composer provides skeletons of themes used, and "AI" adapts them to world and player state dynamically.
Lard is common in the preparation of many dishes of Mexican food (it is known as manteca de cerdo), but it is not as common as it used to be.
Fair enough. I was thinking that perhaps owners of desirable domain names (short, catchy, specific, etc) who also don't have the time for development could benefit.

But, I think you're right. There'd be a lot of not-so-desirable domains to sort through.
If I call it pull request it would be nice if the gitlab ui would have the same name. I see, you won't change, so maybe offer a config option for this name?
It must be tempting to transfer the assets to some account you control as there's almost no way to prove who did it or catch you.
Theranos was a poster child for what you describe, all the engineers/lab analysts who complained were systematically gotten rid of and threatened. People who invested in or made deals with the company did zero due diligence. They are either disconnected from reality, or they think it's one big game. Reading the book "Bad Blood" is so unnerving. And yes, you are absolutely right!
I don't remember them being particularly expensive (although they were never "budget" stores), but their quality was always above average and they were active members of the neighborhood rather than just stores that sold stuff.
Gitlab didn't have those extra features at early stages either (Gitea does have CI API BTW, if not a built-in CI). And Gitea doesn't have Gitlab's financial resources.

But the point being made is orthogonal to the feature set: Gitlab (mostly written in Ruby) isn't using hardware resources (memory, CPU cycles, parallelism) as efficiently as Gitea (written in Go) does.

This is well reflected to the minimal system requirements, even when you aren't using any of those additional features:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html whereas you can in principle use Gitea even on a Raspberry Pi Zero for a small group.

For example, disregarding parallelism and wasted CPU cycles and just looking at memory usage: I have a running instance and its using 30MBs of RAM at the moment (~10 users, ~100 repos). If I move all the repos, issues, PRs to a Gitlab instance, I would be looking at GBs according to their minimal requirements. This is related to the mindset in which memory and CPU are considered as infinite resources.
I did some profiling too--I shaved off 10-15s by using the C xorshift implementation instead of rand.Float32() (which spends a lot of time locking a mutex).
If they lost $850m they may have $1150m or so left in cash and can use that to support the tether price.
Or the outrage built into clickbait
The US leads the world in pharmaceutical innovation. Hepatitis C cure, for example. Treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (Enbrel), for another.

Socialist funded research is driven by politics, not maximizing the benefit to the maximum number of people.

Note that a lot of university research is funded by corporations.

I await your list of medical advances from the USSR.
Regarding referral fee arbitrage... An organization might want to stop that on ethics grounds: if the employee is making money by redirecting a referral through a recruiter, without disclosing that to the organization... then the employee might have two conflicts of interest:

* employee is disregarding an official process, to enrich themselves at a cost to the organization

* employee might be involved, officially or unofficially in deciding acceptance of the candidate, without the organization having an opportunity to manage that

Besides the immediate impact of each incident, this can lead to a culture in which such things are viewed as OK, which can then escalate to much worse incidents/scandals, bad morale, dysfunction.
Predictably, the BTC/USDT market (on Binance) is showing an inflated price for BTC as people try and bail out. Elsewhere the price of BTC is falling. It's impossible to tell the real price anymore because, for the moment, both actions are cancelling each other out.
Yeah, I would think that inventory would begin to show discrepancies in time. If records says you sold one thousand fish sandwiches but stock says you sold one hundred, and this keeps happening, there might be some questions asked.
There was a neat demo in the science museum in London in either the late 80’s or early 90’s - they had an industrial robot arm (wearing a beret, of course) hooked up to a video camera, and some variety of edge detection running - and it painted portraits of museum visitors in a sumi-e style, with a brush. I’ve still got mine, aged 7 or so, kicking around somewhere, and from what I recall it was a decent likeness.
"People who put change in meters likely do not include "the government" in their system of utility. In that frame of reference, a ticket being written is a net decrease in utility because the positive utility of government revenue doesn't matter."

I think I get what you are saying...for instance, arresting a serial killer would be a net decrease in utility, because the positive utility enjoyed by government workers being paid to prosecute, etc. doesn't matter when you don't consider the government as part of your logical system.

Are you sure you are using an orthodox style of reasoning?
Thermodynamics is defined in a deterministic universe. It's only through sheer amount of states any interesting system could be in that entropy arises. Chaotic systems (as studied in mathematics) are deterministic too. Conway's Game of Life is indeed an excellent illustration of the concept - of how chaotic and "surprising" behavior can arise in a fully deterministic system.

> Human minds are non-deterministic in many, many, many ways. Hand the same input to the same mind and you'll get a different output every single time

That's not non-deterministic. That's simply stateful. Most human-made systems you interact with daily are stateful, so it's not exactly surprising.

When I say "deterministic in practice" vs. "deterministic in theory" I mean this: a system is deterministic in practice if you can actually predict its outputs based on its inputs with reasonable amount of effort. A LED hooked up to a switch and a battery is deterministic in practice. So is a program computing GCD on 32-bit integers. A system is deterministic in theory if it's deterministic, but actually predicting its outputs requires absurd amount of computation. Lorenz system and weather are two examples. So is protein folding and turbulent flow. I see no reason why a fly brain, a mouse brain, or a human brain wouldn't be such systems either. The entire universe could be one, if you subscribe to many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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As someone who is a CEO of a medical blockchain startup which is trying to find actual meaningful use cases, I agree 100% with the conclusions of this post.

(finding actual convincing use cases in the medical space for this tech is hard)