skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to this, one of the parts that's counterintuitive is that in principle currencies are just accounting mechanisms, so you can achieve the same effects in a currency union. The problem is that it requires a lot more coordination. When you devalue a currency, a bunch of things in the country move together: wages go down in external terms (e.g. $ or € denominated terms), but housing costs, domestic service prices, etc., all move together, because they're denominated in the same local currency. So the currency has become worth fewer dollars or euros, but the ratio between wages and rents in local currency is unchanged, so people can still in the immediate future pay their rent out of their wages, the same as before.

To accomplish the same without an independent currency requires managing this movement in nominal terms. If the problem is that the country is basically broke or uncompetitive, and needs to solve this by "getting cheaper" compared to other countries, everything in the country has to get cheaper simultaneously. Wages have to go down in €, housing has to go down in €, etc., and this all has to happen in a coordinated way so everyone can still pay their now-lower rent with their now-lower wages, and so on. Economists call this "internal devaluation", i.e. achieving the same effects as a currency devaluation while not having a separate currency, by just lowering actual prices for everything.

The consensus seems to be that it's difficult to pull this off successfully, and really good positive examples are rare. It's complicated by just the general difficulty of coordination, as well as longer-term contracts (e.g. most people's rent and wages don't get renegotiated monthly). Greece has been sort of doing this through consistent single-digit deflation, but it draws it out over a long period. Many (though not all) economists think the result is worse than an all-at-once currency devaluation would've been.
It's only in the last couple of years that Notepad's been able read txt files from Unix properly...
What drugs are you talking about? The article opens up talking about MDMA, which is generally non-addictive and taken infrequently. Some governments tax the sale of cannabis, which is probably a lot more psychologically addictive than MDMA. And of course they tax the sale of alcohol and tobacco, which are both a lot more physiologically and psychologically addictive than MDMA. What are your thoughts on those substances, and the government's role?

I'm in favor of just legalizing/decriminalizing it all. For drugs that are highly addictive, like heroin and meth, instead of the government selling them or taxing them, taxes from the less addictive substances could be used in part to fund treatment and recovery programs.

MDMA does have a lot more potential for physiological harm (including brain damage and death) than cannabis despite being much less addictive, so that may need to be in an in-between category that's focused more on prosecuting people selling impure products, and education (imagine FDA warnings and advice on every MDMA tablet), without most of the addiction recovery aspects.
11,000 Scientists and Thanos.
Users Can Now Buy Bitcoin on DropBit Using Apple Pay or Google Pay
I vaguely remember reporting bugs to apple used to be easier.

I tried bugreporter.apple.com and you need to log in as a developer. Has that always been true?
But it should be possible to separately train a neural network on basic knowledge, so it can generate a stream of ideas. Then use GPT-2 to generate a sentence or paragraph, following those guidelines.

Just like we humans: we first think of what we want to say (a few points about X, first Y, don't forget Z). Then turn those rough ideas into fully-formed sentences.
“Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill” by Matthieu Ricard

Phenomenal book by a molecular biologist turned monk who talks about happiness being a skill that can be developed through practice. Powerful, well grounded in science, one of those books that can shift your worldview in a supremely positive way.

https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Guide-Developing-Lifes-Impo...
Surface X is a mirage for developers
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden.

I've followed his wild ride since the beginning and have always had mixed opinions about his motives, but this book is as craftily written as it is interesting/informative.

He quite purposefully and methodically shares many personal anecdotes and intimate details of his life that put a very human face onto his story. Whoever helped craft and edit this book (with Snowden) deserves much credit - if not second billing.

A worthy read as it fills in many of the missing details of when and how.
> Companies are not supposed to be a way by which you enforce your moral beliefs.

Moral beliefs would be a mockery if they were so strictly confined. The whole point of morality is that it's a set of rules on how to live your life by. They always apply, in every interaction with other humans.

Right now, for example, by attacking the OP as "toxic", you are applying your own moral beliefs to them.

And of course this is not "arm-twisting". Refusal to associate with somebody generally isn't - you are not owed anybody's company, labor, or their good disposition towards you.

> How would you like if businesses turn you away because of your unethical beliefs?

I'm perfectly fine with that.
Its unnecessary until the clause above it changes and the assumption no longer holds. That's how I fight my urge to go with the cast.
It reminds me of a time I saw an Olive Garden food truck offering unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks.... Do the people in line understand conservation of mass? What must be happening inside that truck to support “unlimited” food.

I think in this case, the offer is well understood. "Unlimited" means as much as you can consume during one seating, without limit. If you can eat 5 orders of pasta by yourself, they should serve you 5 orders, they shouldn't serve 3, then make you wait 30 minutes between orders after that. If you only get 2 orders of pasta before they run out, then you should expect a refund since that's not "unlimited". No one thinks that the single food truck can feed the entire world, but I do expect it to feed me as much as I can eat.

When a cellular company advertises "unlimited data", that's similarly understood to mean as much data as you can consume in one billing period, without limit or throttling. It doesn't mean that I should be able to run my server farm over it and transfer petabytes of data every month, but if I'm a heavy Netflix user and want to transfer 100GB or more of data, I should be able to, if you can't support that use, then don't sell an "unlimited" plan.
There need to be towns in picturesque locations (Been to western Wyoming, it's basically that non-stop) supported by industry other than agriculture.

The ability to remote work should draw a subset of developers and other workers into the area as long as the corresponding infrastructure has been met. Especially for self contracting / employed software engineers.
I completely agree that legalization and education is the only rational solution. In many countries people are already too confident in the legal system to make life choices for them, and they tell with a straight face that anything "is good for health because else why would it not be made illegal already?".
>And just like the black market for cocaine, what you get in that pill or powder could literally be anything, and there’s no guarantee of consistency between orders.

The same applies in any market - my last two orders from Amazon for something as simple as shampoo were counterfeit.
It would seem that the geometry of using bogeys/trucks under carriages/cars requires higher radii for wider gauges. But I haven't worked the math.
Can you spend “marketshare”? Can you sustain a business on “marketshare”?

A company can’t stay viable based on “marketshars”. Next am I arguing what’s “best”. Do you think Dell would rather be in Apple’s position with “market share” or Apple’s in Dell’s?

There are plenty of people whose only personal computing device is their phone either by choice or necessity. Heck I am a developer and the only thing I use my computer at home for is as a Plex server.

It’s on my list to get a powerful enough NAS to transcode movies and I won’t even use it for that. I’ll run Plex and bit torrent (to uhh download Linux ISO’s) and B2 backed cloud backup app directly on it.

My wife gave her computer to our son because she uses her iPad for everything including Office.

Now that Apple (finally) supports a mouse, I connect my same Bluetooth keyboard+mouse to my iPad that I use for my work computer when I bring it home.
So the point is that it wasn't something she sought out. I don't wish to continue down this, you obviously have a predetermined answer.
Requiring an account to report a bug is a bug.

Any barrier to bug reporting is a footshoot of the highest order.
C++ should adopt Rust-like approach on deprecating things faster and a tools like `cargo fix`/`cargo clippy --autofix` to automatically fix/suggest more modern alternative to the deprecated language constructions.
I did it first.
I submitted a SAR to eBay and they responded by posting me a copy of my data on a USB stick!
Bureaucrats are also human. This is hardly a random federal agency, it is the one specifically devoted to handling this sort of thing. It is not too much to ask that they actually do that.

Not every company who gets sued is going to have the resources to fight it. It's also not reasonable to expect consumers to police the morality of every company they do business with. This is literally the purpose of having a government, to offload the responsibility of policing to people dedicated to it.
This way of thinking would make sense if the only thing that mattered in life was money.
Late reply, I know but I was thinking about this some.

I always try hard to meet people where they are, if I am able. I am generally interested in their thoughts.

Getting at those is easiest when one sets other things aside. Spelling, grammar, style, etc...

An example might be little kids. Or someone foreign.

In both cases, the norms are borked up, lots of little, expected things, and sometimes bigger things do not play out by rule, or in unexpected ways.

Overexposure is one of those little things. I may not even notice when those thoughts are compelling.

How often have we, in general here as people, snuffed out a promising bud of thought or had an impression be discordant with the actual, flat out missed or botched an opportunity to benefit, perhaps mutually? Me? Many times to the point of just opening up some.

Fewer expectations and assumptions both tend to maximize communication potential. There are few downsides.

Like I said above, I don't mind. Have in the past. Do not now.

Maybe the one downside is I tend to not raise the bar when I probably should at times. Not sure it is worth it now however.

This does tend to be self selecting too. Sometimes it is just a lot of work to converse with people much more focused and demanding of these things.

Before doing it these days, I will qualify it more than I have in the past. At least the payoff is more consistent.
Recently my local library had a "banned books" display with a collection of the books available.... but I don't recall seeing Morton's book.
Guess what? Most people aren’t developers nor do they run After Effects. They do however run Office. Photoshop was also just introduced for mobile. Heck most people don’t do anything with their personal computers but “consumption” and even that has been moving to mobile
It is better for the purpose of allowing people to make their own free choices, and letting the market decide what's best.

The mere act of providing alternative options is a good thing.
>there is no incentive for it either, shareholders want returns NOW, and so they want CEOs to act in their interest NOW.

Many of the biggest shareholders are major pension funds with 30 to 50 year time horizons. They absolutely do NOT want "returns NOW" with the implicit assumption that future quarters don't matter.
Ha. Try Clojurescript. You'll be surprised.
At the same time the euro gives Germany a benefit much greater than inter-EU German transfer payments. By greatly weakening the euro, the zone's fiscally-challenged countries pull open the gates for German exports which roar out of the Europe with significantly lowered sticker prices in other currencies. It appears to be a massive benefit since one can easily imagine a uniquely German currency being 30% higher. Now that's a bargain.

What's more, Germany may even have a built-in advantage datinng back to the inception of the euro, when the Deutsche Mark was brought into the union at what many believe was about a 6% undervalued rate.
"Updated IMF data suggests that by 2017 the German pricing edge built into the euro had about doubled to over 12%."[1]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2018/01/23/the-ger...
>They're not required to choose a word already ubiquitous in their industry and trademark it.

That has nothing whatsoever to do with the comment you replied to.

>They're taking "defense" to a ridiculous, douchy extreme.

Unless they did not send letters prior to filing their cases (of which I am unaware and the article did not mention), then everything mentioned is neither ridiculous nor douchey except as far as trademark law in business always is. If the term actually does not indicate to consumers what company manufactured it due to its common usage, all that needs to happen is one of the challenged companies put up a defense claiming genericization or lack of validity of the original trademark (that one is probably more suitable in this case) and a court will decide if that's so. With trademark, as a company you do not get a choice.

If they choose not to fight a small business using the name, that is a 100% legitimate defense for Walmart to use when they release Walmart Backcountry Skis that have nothing whatsoever to do with Backcountry.com.

The EFF article provided by another commenter does not 'debunk' anything. We're not talking about a company suing people for talking about the company. We're talking about a company suing other companies for promoting products in the exact same space with the trademarked name. This is what trademark law was kind of created for in the first place. If you can convince a court that if you walked into a Walmart and saw Walmart Backcountry Skis on sale that it would never cross the mind of either you or any other consumers that the Backcountry company might have been involved in their production, that is your defense and the trademark will be nullified and the lawsuit will be won.
Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
Facebook says 100 app developers could've improperly accessed user data for mths
That's true for libc's naive rand() which is used by Python, JS, Ruby, PHP, etc.

But stock C++ has many options for the random number generation algorithm:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/random

As does Java and .NET. Without any dependencies and guaranteed to be portable.

> Note that number of dependencies doesn't mean anything. Some crates are split into tiny deps for each feature, so that you can reduce binary size and compile time if you disable optional features.

In theory I agree. It just seems like one of the persistent unsolved problems in software is dependency hell (spawning the whole containerization movement), so I'd like to avoid it if I could.
> If they want privacy, the answer is to not share information at all or share only with trustworthy people.

Living in the information age and not sharing information at all is like dancing in the rain and not getting wet. The cameras are always on and the gorgon always staring. It might be your friends post, their camera or a corporations.

It's worth considering that privacy wasn't guaranteed in the old days either, save for the laws people created to enabled it. In the past, if a tyrant wanted to find a thief, they'd search every home. This situation is unreasonable to a free people. So folks relied on laws then, as we must now, to ensure that a person's rights are protected.

If a companies tech is capable of tracking a person, selling it or making it available to the public unrestricted would violate their 4th amendment rights. Because government agents could also use the data unrestricted to peer into your life. All without having to break down the door to your home. So while it might be technically possible to know everything about a person in the information age, the right to that information belongs to the individual.
Well they stopped the analysis being public too.

Instead they release it to other groups who use it as a single combined with others for predictions.
I suspect a lot of down voters have got their nosed wedged firmly in the "VC backed attempt at a monopoly" business model money/equity trough...
Next FOMO bubble is going to be exciting: it's getting much easier to acquire Bitcoin, so the conditions seem ripe for the next bubble to be even wilder. Keep an eye out for next spring, when Bitcoin block reward halves again.

(don't invest more than you're willing to lose entirely it's very risky, but having skin in the game during a bubble is very fun in my experience and will quickly educate you in the emotionality of trading. Dollar cost averaging weekly seems like the best strategy: easy to feel dread at best entry points and greed at best sell points.)
Previous poster implied that all businesses are influenced by government so the non-profit status does not have additional bindings. I answered that if all businesses are regulated by government regardless, why collect taxes at all, since they are all extensions of government willpower.
Hi there! Our example on deduplication [1] takes the case of deduplicating of the Caltech256 [2] dataset for the purpose I think you're describing, which I interpreted as avoiding duplicates in a dataset so that you don't have images that end up in both your training and test sets. Even though the dataset contains >30K images, you can still do this in memory (and find a handful of duplicates!) because each category is relatively small and you probably don't need to deduplicate images of trains with images of dogs.

On the same page, we mention two tools (specifically, FAISS [3] and Annoy [4]) to help with doing approximate search for scales where computing the distance matrix is impractical.

[1] https://perception.thorn.engineering/en/latest/examples/dedu...

[2] https://authors.library.caltech.edu/7694/

[3] https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

[4] https://github.com/spotify/annoy
That’s totally fair. Admittedly in my situation I have high degree of control over the input so my constraints are probably a little looser.

At any rate, I’d appreciate the same thing you would in these cases.
Yet you have to have pay the taxes that go to benefits.
To answer your question, no it doesn't.

Generally it is never that simple and there are a variety of factors that go into this.

Let's assume the company gives Orion that offer, it could be that Orion's true market rate is 200% (or more) or it could be that Orion's market rate is really 160% but they value the employee and can't afford to lose them so they are trying to make it attractive.

Almost always Orion's accepting of the counter offer from the existing employer is a mistake. Many employers that make the counter offer will be less trusting of the employee in the long term and will be looking for a way to reduce the employee's value. There are exceptions on both sides of course, but rarely is accepting a counter offer from an existing employer a good idea. I had an employer offer me 1.5x one time to stay, I left for a job paying me only 1.3x. More money doesn't change the situation generally why you are leaving, and if an employer lets you get that far behind market they aren't valuing you properly and are just waiting for you to call them out.

What I usually suggest to people is they need to negotiate every year for more money as a matter of process. This reduces the need to get a competing offer to just get a raise. Then the only reason you leave generally is because you find at the first year the company is cheap or over time you just don't want to work there anymore because of whatever other issues. Employers see this method much differently than an employee that job shops and tries to bend them over a barrel with an ultimatum.
I'd battle against the government with this AI.
Tracking my mental health is something I've never consciously considered... But there are some things I guess do, which all improve my mental state:

- Improve physical health -> I walk the dog, run, kite surf. Exercise make you feel healthy and better.

- Expressing myself -> Participate in discussions (like this), talk about issues, explain problems to someone. Expressing yourself greatly improves your own mental state.

- Making Things -> creating things (programming, woodworking), work on many side projects, learn/refine skills.

- Trying Comedy -> Not standup, just trying to make people laugh in conversation is rewarding and improves your brain.

- Focusing on Relationships -> Friends, family, partners; can help you improve yourself and remind you your not alone.

Hmmm, it looks like all these concepts are entangled with each other anyway.... (Note to self: express yourself more clearly)
Chasing yields in the age of efficiency is going to lead to another global hangover that defies common finacial wisdom, guaranteed.

Business models that exploit consumers seem to be some of the only plays with any movement or staying power during the current innovation wave, but prosperity fueled by debt can only go so far.

We'll see how the "decade of sustainability" (2020-2030) pans out, but if greed turns to desperation, its definitely going to get messier/wreckless/more complicated.
AMP is dangerous precisely because it does solve problem. The catch is that the solution comes with strings attached, and those strings contribute to establishing Google as a web monoculture.
I withdrew all cash from Robinhood and urged everyone to do the same. Funds are not safe. Brokerage accounts are insured by SIPC (similar to FDIC), but you don't want to wait N months to get reimbursed after whatever lengthy court battles are about to go down.
Facebook says one hundred API users may have improperly accessed user data
How many of these same small towns that will gladly take government subsidies scream “socialism” anytime someone mentions government provided health care, increasing the earned income tax credit, education subsidies etc?
You're only incentivized not to unreasonably postpone a legal claim. Here, the company seems to exaggerate what a reasonable claim is in the first place.
I more mean if any big corp is offering “unlimited,” it’s a good indication of some version of a ripoff / unfair terms of use.

The added humor in the food truck case is that you can visually see both the extent of the physical supply and the queue of consumers rendering that physical supply incapable of supporting the “unlimited” offer all in one single field of view, leaving you to surmise the only possibility has to do with outrageous food engineering to reduce resource usage and leading to questionable end product (thus undermining the “unlimited” offer’s intended effect to draw customers).
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Sir Max Hastings

Great account of the history of the conflict in Vietnam up to and including the Vietnam War
I used to routinely get beaten up by the Principle of the schools, Jock son.

My self defense process was to laugh at him for it. "Just what do you think you're proving beating up a the class nerd?", Are you so insecure that you'd beat me up for talking to your girlfriend?" etc.
Probably made things worse for myself but its how i coped.

Jokes on him, he grew up to be academically successful (briefly) hit drugs hard then die in a fiery drug fueled car crash in his low 20's.

I'm mid 40's decent job, house 2 awesome kids and fantastic wife.