skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps nothing, the major way health insurance is required today is by number of hours (30 per week). To avoid this cost companies reduce hours.

Overtime hours apply only to hourly and non-exempt employees today and only for hours over 40.
Thus a change to the work week might start with a cap on salaried employees hours and required overtime for hours over 40. With fewer exceptions would a 4 day work week might result from working 4 10's first. If overtime is set at 32 hours as well this would push down hours per day.
I can't foresee a cap on hours per day so this could be instituted by companies requiring 4 days in office.

If the U.S. with a mine to universal healthcare I'm worried the wage decline would happen naturally anyway. However that may lead to more flexibility in hours with companies opting to allow more control over number of hours as extra costs more scale more slowly
I am trying to understand how CRDT compares to Lamport timestamps or vector clocks. Couldn't you achieve most of the same objectives using these abstractions as well?
I think we can argue about whether or not it's fair to you that this happened when you didn't necessarily want the value to double. But you really do have double the wealth, there's no two ways about it.

Another analogy, is imagine you paint for a hobby. If the price of paint doubles it's not going to double the value of your paintings, you don't realize any of thos gains. You could argue that it's unfair, you didn't ask for the price to increase, you should be able to go to the store with the same amount of money as you used to and buy the paints. But that would be silly, it's not how the world works.

In general people understand that it's not owed to them that everything will continue to work the same way it used to. But for some reason when it comes to home ownership, people think they are buying the right to keep everything about their home and neighborhood exactly the same, even the things that are not just affecting them individually but have a big impact on the rest of the community (like who else can live nearby, how much property tax they should pay, etc.)
Uber's researchers make very confident presentations about the very advanced ideas that are ostensibly implemented in their cars. How does this square with the apparently very primitive system that's described in the NHTSA report?

Example:

Jeff Schneider: Self Driving Cars and AI https://youtu.be/jTio_MPQRYc

Or:

https://eng.uber.com/research/predicting-motion-of-vulnerabl...

Predicting Motion of Vulnerable Road Usersusing High-Definition Maps and Efficient ConvNets

Following detection and tracking of traffic actors, prediction of their future motion is the next critical component of a self-driving vehicle (SDV), allowing the SDV to move safely and efficiently in its environment. This is particularly important when it comes to vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians and bicyclists. We present a deep learning method for predicting VRU movement where we rasterize high-definition maps and actor’s surroundings into bird’s-eye view image used as input to convolutional networks. In addition, we propose a fast architecture suitable for real-time inference, and present an ablation study of rasterization choices.
That number happens to be remarkably accurate. More accurate than required by law in fact. It also happens to accurately predict changes in a person's weight if you know everything they're eating.
This is borderline criminal negligence.

I don't think there is much border.
The clickbait headline absolutely ignores the following from the article itself:

> Don't confuse the term "trademark" with ownership of color though. Trademarking a color simply allows a company to use a particular combination and shade of color in its own industry.

> Target can't sue Coca-Cola for using a similar red, because they are not selling competing products.
The US government would never do this, because they can just send a National Security Letter directly to corporate to get private user info.
Not quite.

One tool with FB lift tests is to make a lookalike audience. FB will then split that audience in two for you so you have a test and control group.

The original test required two ad accounts and keeping your overall advertising static (not changing anything) for the duration. Today it is much easier and has a lot more features.

Google does a search lift test with YouTube as well. You can run a large set of ads against an audience in YT and google will either suppress them for a subset. Then you can see your overall organic lift based on your video ads.
I literally just tried to order some pants on the internet, and I couldn't because the retailer's site broke when interacting with my ad blocker.

I don't care what conditions someone wants to put on using their website, per se, and agree they have the right. The problem is, that I can't easily selectively interact with the part of the internet that isn't polluted by unreasonable advertising.

The evil part is the mixing of the unwanted or dangerous ads with the general internet. If it was segregated so you could choose which area you wanted to be in, then it would be genuinely voluntary.
There are tons of comments blaming Saudi government / MBS.
Fun fact, our DNA contains lots of ancient virus DNA. Some of it can make proteins that resemble HIV components.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus

So where did HIV come from? Who knows. It( not the current version of HIV, something similar) has been with us for millions of years in 1 form or another. Enough to leave a large mark on what makes us, us, our DNA.
Not gathering any data on the people that view or click these ads. The only data gathered will be "someone clicked this."
Oh, neat! I’d already been utilizing this and it being FOSS means only even more control.
I think it's about the sense of personal meaning and importance one gets: if God personally crafted you down to the tips of your toes, that makes you feel more important and like your life is more meaningful than if God created some system (evolution) which just happened to eventually result in you at the current point in time.
There is a difference between hobbies/sports and work.

We still have horse riding, but FedEx doesn't evaluate horse riding ability before hiring delivery drivers.
I'll agree with your basic point that reduction of poverty is, in some sense, the correct measure to look at. However, the problem with applying your stated attitude to shaping policy is that society has a limited ability to innovate or grow productivity on a finite timescale. In other words, it makes some sense to think of economic productivity as relatively constant (it's unlikely, e.g., that someone will figure out how to conjure up calories and end world hunger next year).

On the other side, people are suffering right now. If we agree that reducing this suffering is the correct measure, then we must ask ourselves what steps can be taken right now to lessen it.

If we were in an intellectual vacuum, then we could argue all day about the pros and cons of wealth redistribution (and whether or not it is theft to apply such a tool). But what many (including myself) feel to be true, is that now more than ever, a lot of the productive capacity of money is being needlessly accrued by relatively few people who, on average, don't possess the the knowledge or will to apply that capacity to society's problems. Under those conditions, the potential for growth and productivity in the future is needlessly limited.

It is one thing to say that the gatekeepers of society's wealth function as a storehouse of capital for future contingencies, but this largely ignores that our global monetary system is primarily a fiat one, and as such, the integrity of the society itself and peoples' trust in the system is of paramount concern.

TL;DR The productivity of today's capital is being hindered by accumulation because the long-term benefits of more equitable distribution are philosophically real, but hard to understand.
I suppose it depends what you call an ad. I've definitely bought products based on 'independent' youtube reviewers who received free products to review.

From a sidebar ad though? Of course not, and I never will. They do get accidental clicks from me sometimes though.
What about HTTP/3 for your second point?
That’s the thing - you run these test with individual campaigns in many channels. Digital gives you the ability to test this at scale as you grow your advertising, thus you can gauge with high confidence exactly what advertising is scaling with positive ROI.

Incrementality testing isn’t limited to your advertising as a whole - you can get down to very fine detail as long as your experiment is correctly designed and you wait for stat-sig results.
Peter Thiel Ended Gawker. The Media Hated Him. Like Batman, Is He a Dark Knight?
For what it is, Cardboard is pretty cool technology that opens up the VR world to a lot of people that would never be able to afford the high end equipment needed for real VR. I had a couple of cheap Cardboard viewers and then upgraded to the Samsung VR goggles which are also surprisingly good for the money.The Samsung/Oculus partnership seems to still be strong, for now at least.
That's a terrible example in the context of economic growth over millenia for the simple reason that anything resembling modern healthcare basically didn't exist as recently as a hundred years ago.
Emphasis on "currently".
https://www.apollographql.com/docs/ios/fetching-queries/#usi...

I use this in prod, and the only downside I'm aware of is the length limit on the query string. (Haven't hit it though)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2659952/maximum-length-o...
Exactly, it would be like colleges grading on the ability to add up long columns of numbers and complaining about spreadsheets.

At one time, being able to add up long columns of number accurately using only a pencil and paper was a valuable business skill, now not so much.
>more people

Really? Are you talking about India? If so, I'm not sure what percentage of people have english as their mother tongue - I think it would be quite small. Also, I think indian english is about as dissimilar to british english as american english is.
See my comment above, but in response to this, doesn't "relative deprivation"=="inequality"?
Overall market sales are still small but it's a very compelling product. It is absolutely dead simple to use (literally had age 5 to 75 pick it right up). It's very flexible with floor space and boundary size, so if you're in a small apartment it's still usable. Games work well and are optimized for it, solid tracking, etc.

The kicker of course: it's an untethered system (which is great but sacrifices some visual quality). But even if that's an issue to you, shortly Oculus Connect will be available and you can use it as a viewer connected to your gaming PC.
Limited resources require prioritization when allocating resources. Batteries are proven (there are GWs of utility battery storage provisioned and operating as expected), fusion is not.
Your bar is too low if you think that things are okay because "you can always become a starving artist".
Doesn’t like /every/ good job require something along the lines of “Excellent Oral and Written communication”? Essays aren’t a proxy for anything, they are an end of itself. Just because this test essay can be written by an algorithm doesn’t mean that an algorithm can create actual original content you’d be expected to put out at a job.
Is there a service that limits to a single key? I've never encountered one.
> usually get access through a bastion that anonymizes data and logs access

I think this may be something that is unique to a certain size tech company that simply isn't the case at 99.99% of companies with user data in their possession.
Am a university professor who frequently assigns essays, so this is something I've been thinking a lot about. The problem is not that AI can successfully write a college-level essay (maybe someday, but certainly GPT-2 isn't even close to that level yet). It's that something along the lines of GPT-2 can emulate the superficial appearance of an essay. The actual facts, quotes, and references it generates are generally nonsensical, but the structure, grammar and language seem authentic at first glance. Unfortunately, a lot of essays in university lecture courses are graded by underpaid TAs who are skimming quickly, and who might be inclined to give an AI-written essay a D or a C- for effort rather than recognizing it as fraud.

The issue isn't so much that AI has replaced essay writing. It's that it has the potential to create convincing (but fundamentally nonsensical/illogical) replicas of academic essays, which have the potential to make an already difficult job of assessment even harder (somewhat analogous to the problem of deepfakes).

By the way, I'm currently thinking about writing something on this topic; if anyone has any thoughts please get in touch. Contact info in my profile.
In general the outcome seems fair because Gawker sucked and they’re gone.

Still, what does it say about the legal system when a famous millionaire needs a billionaire to fight for them in court?
One wonders why crypto-exchanges that operate off the blockchain do not use tamper-evident record keeping of their back office operations.

They especially need to convince holders of hosted wallets that operations are correct, pristine and archived.
> It's great that these folks didn't get thrown in jail but their approach is almost criminally ignorant. The epistemology or metaphysics informing the experiment is so... i don't know, 18th century? Did we learn nothing from the 60's?

This seems like a reasonable criticism.

> I did it, and it didn't completely not-work for me, but from my POV, it's irresponsible.

Also fair.

> With the caveat that, for a very very small number of people (like, literally one in a million or fewer), a little experience with drug trips can be educational. But the odds are you're not one of them.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, are you saying only one in a million or fewer can experience an educational effect (or, any benefits/insights whatsoever) from drugs?

If so, is this based on studies of some kind?

> Simple muscular relaxation is about 90% of the profundity most folk experience with meditation.

Same question.
If you read Isaacson's biography, it's hard to come away without feeling like Einstein's insights were a product of his time, that he was in some sense no more a vessel than each of us, and that vessel was continuously exchanging contents with others: his father, the family's weekly dinner guest (a local student), the classmates he cribbed notes from, the professors who found him frustrating, the playboy he tutored (and learned to smoke cigars from), his wife, the patent applications on time-keeping devices he read as a Swiss patent clerk (and his train-time-keeping metaphor), his many collaborators (Lorenz perhaps most of all), the early conferences in Paris, etc.

I am no Einstein, to be sure, but I do particularly recognize the experience he had as a teen, learning the math and engineering of his father from his father. His father and uncle, it's worth noting, built electric power generators. Mentally building an effective model of fields was surely something Einstein had to learn early, and perhaps without the math first.
Shh shh shh you're giving away the game.
True. I agree, and indeed hope that today's giants will be disrupted. The only thing worse than a monopoly is an eternal one.

My point was more of a warning to startup founders and investors. They should not assume that Google and the others will be too slow to respond to a competitive threat that a startup poses or a big opportunity that a startup creates. They will pounce aggressively, and either acquire or kill the startup. Complacency about FAANG is very very dangerous to the health of a startup.
There was some web comic - my google-fu is failing me - that had a time traveler going back to kill Hitler. Hitler's guards intervene and stop the assassination.

The last couple of panels have them saying something like "
It's an OK job but what's the deal with all these time travelers coming to kill the guy we're guarding - this is the third one this week!"
Needs citation. I was in the very earliest crop of ZFS users (ca. 2003), and then went on to build a storage product based on ZFS (ca. 2006) and then a cloud based on ZFS (ca. 2010) and an object storage system based on ZFS (ca. 2012) -- and ran it all up until essentially present day. I have plenty of ZFS scars -- but none of them involve lost data, even from the earliest days...
That's the subject of a research project I don't have time for, but some ideas:

1.) automatically defining SoA/AoS transformations for data types in the language, and

2.) automatic profiling of code execution counts & array lengths to determine when inserting such a transformation would save more time than the transformation costs.

3.) native SIMD primitive types

4.) GPU backend a la Futhark

5.) native syntax for parallel execution, where the compiler enforces no data sharing (or read-only shared data) between executions.

6.) [more speculative] pluggable backend for this syntax so that you could run these concurrent executions sequentially, using SIMD instructions on the same thread, in multiple threads, on the GPU, or spread across multiple machines in a cluster without altering the code. That'd let you scale up from a few K to a few T without altering your code.

7.) I/O mechanisms that default to mmap, 0-copy vectored I/O, or RDMA as appropriate.

8.) An unfold primitive in either the language or standard library that lets you compute multiple values with a single traversal over a list, ideally while still keeping each individual computation isolated and modular. I find this is a really common pattern in my Kotlin code, and the biggest culprit for still writing manual accumulator loops.

9.) Support for multi-pass initialization in data structures, where you can hold some fields as uninitialized for a later computation, but mark the whole structure as immutable once every field has been computed.

10.) A standard library that uses these parallelization techniques under the hood so you get really good speed for common operations but it just works. For example, Boyer-Moore can be done on the GPU. Many common regexps can be reduced to string search on a common left prefix + a DFA on potential matches, where the prefix search can be done with Boyer-Moore. That opens the possibility of blazingly fast search over gigabytes of data for common regexps like /<a href=["']?([^"'\s])["']?>(.+?)<\/a>/. Many times the algorithms you'd use when your haystack is ~1G are very different from the algorithms you'd use when your haystack is ~1K, which goes back to the utility of an integrated profiler.

It occurs to me that a lot of these boil down to the inefficiency of doing lots of traversals of arrays in a world where touching memory is usually the critical path. So for example, this is slow but modular:

val high = oneBillionFloats.max()
val low = oneBillionFloats.min()
val total = oneBillionFloats.sum()
val average = oneBillionFloats.sum() / oneBillionFloats.size()

This is fast but coupled:

var high = Float.MIN_VALUE
var low = Float.MAX_VALUE
var total = 0
var count = 0
oneBillionFloats.forEach {
high = maxOf(high, it)
low = minOf(low, it)
total += it
++count
}
val average = total / count

Wouldn't it be nice if you could write your code like the first example but it would generate a single loop that's parallelized onto the GPU? Even moreso if oneBillionFloats isn't an array of a billion primitives, but rather a gig full of deeply nested structs, where each loop pulls out a particular field and does some arithmetic operations to it?
Hmm. Does anyone know how Xavier NX compares to regular CPU or GPU tasks in ML?

I’m curious to know if it might be useful or interesting to have one of these as an adjunct to a SFF computer that I might have in my server closet, e.g., an Intel NUC or a Mac Mini.

Or is this a device that is meant to be pushed further to the edge, like attached to each of the cameras I have?
I don't have a strong preference between different brands of water, or between Pepsi and Coke. But that doesn't mean I can't taste the difference. Dasani is almost as distinctive a taste as Coke.
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Yeah, I wouldn't even think it's weird in APL areas. But when someone says "let's take one of the most beginner-accessible languages and add a required symbol which is not on the keyboard", that's... something else.
> Why should real estate wealth be treated different than other forms of wealth?

Because you can't make more land. You can easily make more paintings.
Can someone some up the advantages of this app over Medis (https://github.com/luin/medis) ?
How would printing money improve the GDP anymore than just lying about the figures? And since no one is suggesting that, I think it's kind of a straw-man.

But surely these can't seriously be the best rebuttals to the paper: that straw-man, anecdotal opinion about college campuses and physics professors and a statistics joke about, but certainly not refuting, the elephant curve. I really can't tell if these arguments are genuinely considered valid or is this just a semi-polite troll technique to shout down unpleasant information.
> If you've ever driven behind a Waymo vehicle, they're annoyingly strict when it comes to following posted speed limits, stopping for obstacles, and reacting/erring on the side of caution. It's an infuriating exercise in patience but I hope that it will pay off in the long term.

I've noticed when I am riding with a good (human) driver who obeys pretty much all rules of the road and drives slower than the posted speed limit (at a speed they are comfortable driving) that there are always a few drivers behind us who will honk their horns, flash their lights, or even pass into the next lane just to pass back a little too close for comfort. I don't know if they are always horrible humans but that's besides the point.

How would a self-driving car react in such a situation? Would human drivers be better behaved around a Waymo vehicle because the Waymo car has a lot of cameras and sensors and can pretty much show a clear cut case of road rage?
Cool, so tear down American civic architecture to its bedrock and rebuild it from scratch.

Not impossible, but less than likely in the short horizon. We'll probably get working SDCs sooner.
Or an insider at Apple.

Please refer to the recent issue regarding Saudis and Twitter.

You can argue that that was a state level adversary, but the people who accessed data could as well may have done that of their own volition.
I suspect that beliefs are also distributed non-uniformly, and 1-2 beliefs dominate the discourse, while the widely varied rest is seen as minority / fringe.
In SF I have even seen motorcycles on the sidewalk. Not scooters, full-sized bikes. There is no technical cure for a social ill.
Of course I was just riffing on the typical in-flight safety language, but I appreciate learning a bit more about the 787. I guess I never noticed this, but I imagine the safety video doesn't show (or mention) the bags?
I found it helpful. In a world where a million distracting influences are promising cheats, shortcuts, and easy ways to get to the goal, a single true statement to focus attention and wipe away the bullshit is incredibly useful.
Without inequality we would not have airplanes, transatlantic cables, jet engines, electric cars, SpaceX, cloud computing, radar, internet phones, steel, automobiles, the textile industry, fuel, plentiful food, fresh fruit year round, etc.
The vast majority of the people killed there were not rich.

Killing millions of people who have a different way of thinking about things than you is not the answer. All it does is kill people and break things. It doesn't fix anything.