skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I visited the Philippines, one thing that hit me was how many extra people they have standing around doing jobs that just don't exist back home. A man dedicated to a single door in a mall. Someone who calls a lift for me in the hotel. 4 workers in an empty store instead of just 1 here at home.

The low cost of labour must have an impact on creative solutions. You have little need for automation and AI when you can just throw more bodies and minds at it for a pittance.
Writing is a tool. Think of this article like a runway, and you the reader as an airplane trying to take off. Hyperbole can and did introduce a bit of turbulence to induce lift in your mind to get you out of follower mode and thinking critically whether you agree or disagree with the author. To complete the metaphor achieving lift off and thinking your own thoughts on the topic.

It's not dishonest because anybody can clearly reason the statement is tautologically false, there are no tricks like numbers or misleading statistics or anything explicitly duplicitous and dishonest.

You may dislike that the author effectively caused you to do this, thinking for yourself is dark and scary versus gently pulling you along for the ride but then would you have even read or commented? All I see is a skilled writer ruminating on an interesting topic. The comments on this thread already greatly outweigh the length of the piece, it's a pretty nice piece of writing.
The current administration put Verizon’s chief counsel into the position of FCC Chairman. I would not expect Verizon to answer to anyone.

Also, it is shame that the person in direct contact with Yahoo over this is sending angry emails in all caps. The Internet Archive deserves better.
> I'm genuinely curious from an ideological perspective, why archivists think all this material is worth saving?

It's easier to just save it all and let gawd sort it out.

You never know what some future person might find interesting. For example, my father took lots and lots of pictures, but they're all set in the living room and kitchen. No pictures of the rest of the house. I'm sure the thought of photographing other rooms simply never occurred to him as being interesting.

For another example, many people are interested in where/when/why certain words first appeared, like the origin of "OK". Massive archives of text that are searchable would help with this.
Magic Weasel Algorithm
Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups
The OP is referring to the Gadsden Flag which Zhukov has used in videos.
Mturk's turnaround for this stuff can't be fast enough to work would be my guess. I know jobs I put up there for transcription, despite a generous bonus, were always delayed for at the very least hours.
He was also frequently a short story reader on Public Radio's "Selected Shorts" program. I'll definitely miss his unforgettable voice there.
Unfortunately it doesn't offer a qemu-compatible image or an image that would work when converted, it's a shame and shooting itself in the foot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILuxlimdWoc this is a part of his interview called "there is no such thing as patriarchy". He says following things:

-- Jordan Peterson is essentially correct in most of things he says.

-- Current left wing is all about collective identity (such as "straight white man"), and there is no such thing as "collective identity".

-- This is absolutely unacceptable for me, and I do not believe in patriarchy at all.

Basically, he is your run of the mill right-winger with libertarian bent, nothing special about him, but his anti-feminist stance is pretty clear. I think that he and Ben Shapiro will find common ground in a minute.
I think this is a poor use of the Rashomon effect.. The CEO messed up and then reviewed the written trail to ultimately admit he messed up.

CEOs fire employees all the time, no one brings up the Rashomon effect then, they just say:

"Good riddance to the toxic guy, everyone knew he was trouble, can you believe it took so long?"
Here's the definition they're working with[0]:

>Ecocide is loss, damage or destruction of ecosystem(s) of a given territory(ies)… such that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants has been or will be severely diminished

– definition submitted by Polly Higgins to the UN Law Commission in 2010

0. https://ecocidelaw.com/ecocide-law-2/
Different cleaning mechanisms. Not sure what that would be but something that kills them via a different method. That kind of diversity is the ONLY way to deal with resistance.
Come on. If a comedian said on stage that there was a bomb in the building it would be pretty obvious whether or not the person was joking.

Clearly, my statements are self evident.
Wealth requires maintenance. Actual property taxes may be based on the idea of property being accessible to tax more than anything else, but in principle, all your property requires the apparatus of the state to preserve, so some percentage fee is appropriate.

That's separate from income taxes, because that can be justified by the principle that being part of civilization provides a multiplier.
In the script? the node-gpg package.
I completely forgot about Sandbox - fantastic idea!
It's also par for the course for Gessen. She's extremely biased, and she doesn't even try to hide it. There's no nuance whatsoever in what she writes, it's all black and white for her. I'm not sure why she still calls herself a "jornalist".

His statement, however, looks like something a US conservative would largely agree with: decries identity (in his words "atomization") politics (which Gessen largely supports), calls to strengthen traditional families (which Gessen opposes), calls for individual responsibility, etc. For the record: I don't know about his "anti-feminist" views, but I agree with what he says in that particular statement.

It's directly applicable to the US as well - people are pretty much at war with each other here, and at least half the population is quite willing to give up their liberty for taxpayer funded government handouts. Having grown up in the USSR, I know where this particular road ends.

There's one bit of context that people in the US will miss: the Soviet legacy. Back then people relied on the government for _everything_ and had little to no individual responsibility for anything. You worked for peanuts and by Western standards lived in poverty, but a lot of the stuff was "free" and you didn't have to worry about your future - it was largely predetermined.

A large, older chunk of Russian population still lives like that and has futile expectations that the government will solve whatever problems they might have. The government stopped doing that some 30 years ago, but they don't know any better. I think this, and the extreme level of corruption, is why the GDP of Russia is less than that of Texas. IMO for a country with such insane wealth of natural resources, and a pretty decent education system this is shameful.
> Still doesn't matter for the typical home user.

550km vs 1,150km might not matter, but it matters a ton vs 40,000km. Even without the bandwidth limits, I wouldn't be able to use geostationary internet for my normal usage.
So, just how mutable is the DNA? For the sake of the discussion, I don't know anything about DNA that I can say I didn't get from a sci-fi flick.
When you create the SPV in advance, it's very clear what part of the work done by the organization attaches to it (because the organization ensures that all its processes explicitly specify the legal compartment they're running under.)

When you create an SPV after-the-fact, you have to go back and reverse-engineer a separation of liabilities from documents that don't specify whether they're work done for the organization or the SPV (because the SPV didn't exist.)

It's like a divorce. (Or, for an even more on-the-nose analogy, it's like trying to use a condom after-the-fact by extracting any bodily contamination and putting it in the condom.)
One of the cornerstones of neoliberalism as practiced in the US in the Clinton-era and beyond has been predatory lending disguised in a facade of laissez-faire feel-good marketing. Drawing a line between Jack Ma’s new lending scheme and that is a pretty specific criticism, even if you don’t agree with it.
“Recently, people moved away from measuring simple power laws, which can pop out of random noise, and have started looking at something called the exponent relation.“

Sadly no further explanation of this. Exponent-relation sounds like a synonym for power, too.
This has already been tried by Luddites in 19th century, not a new idea.
FTA: "Borrowers don’t incur any interest unless they miss payment deadlines or sign up for installment plans."

So yes, this sounds exactly like a western style credit card, just with a micro-credit limit. You get X days of interest free credit, then pay interest if you take longer than that to pay (or set up a fixed payment plan, which some western cards also offer).
>My favorite example is Google Books.

It is sad that we could have millions of books searchable and publicly available, but it got shot down in publishers and authors guilds litigation crossfire :(

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...
Could?

More like definitely.
don't you just love when there's a cool story, except it's blocked by a subscription box?..thanks, murica...
glancing from comments tho, seems like a fine idea...
This definitely wasn't ruined (it's amateur video) but if anyone wants to see Starlink photobombing an astronomer, this amateur video of a recent meteor shower is an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHI8Z5qpd6I

(an astronomer friend thought I'd be able to identify the satellite amongst all the meteors, which was sweet... I think it's a bit after the 2 minute mark)
I thought it was still just a neat tool to automate clicks, but then I played Path of Exile for a bit and found POE Trade Macro. It stunned me what it could do. Hover over an item, hit a key, it performs an API call to lookup a price and display it in a popup window over the game.

At work we evaluated other solutions like Blue Prism for our internal apps but Auto Hot Key never got a mention. I wonder why.
Turns out even people who work for Russia Today tell the truth sometimes (if they were consistently lying they would be telling the truth after all:).

I have watched Zhukovs videos before he got arrested, he self identifies as a libertarian, supports Trump as a lesser evil compared to Sanders and Warren, and likes Jordan Peterson. Because of this Russian twitter was abuzz today with feminists arguing whether it was ok to support him. So the article indeed misrepresents his views.
This should be a direct link to: https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/m-ba120519.php
What about the financial costs to the patients? Are other countries able to get the same outcomes at lower costs to the patient?
Because the binary interfaces generated by C libraries are simple and therefore universally supported. It's just normal symbols and calling conventions. Conforming to this ABI benefits users of every other language, not just C++.

C++ ABIs are rather complex and much harder to interface with. The existence of concepts like virtual functions and exceptions significantly complicates the implementation of foreign language interfaces.

https://wiki.osdev.org/System_V_ABI
https://itanium-cxx-abi.github.io/cxx-abi/abi.html
To me that's not 'beautiful'. It's the same unpleasant monochrome concrete architecture I was stuck with in community college, just on a larger scale.
It sounds like there could be a 100x difference between a light guy on a light bike and a heavy guy on a heavy bike. Sounds hard to believe, so I'm intrigued too :).
Medicine: JAMA Network Articles of the Year 2019
> Page has even managed to keep the names of his two kids secret

That's an impressive feat in this day an age. I mean, birth certificates are public record. I'm surprised no one has looked it up and leaked it. Good for him for working hard to keep it a secret, so they can reveal themselves when/if they choose.

Ps. If you know his kid's names, please don't out them here.
It is far more. It is an indictment of Australia as an incurious (yet hardy) nation run by incurious people. It still adequately captures the state of our modern leadership.

"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."[1]

Edit: Also as an aside, the quote originally didn't have anything to do with resources, though in modern times it makes sense to make that link.

"When I invented the phrase in 1964 to describe Australia, I said: 'Australia is a lucky country run by second rate people who share its luck.' I didn't mean that it had a lot of material resources … I had in mind the idea of Australia as a [British] derived society whose prosperity in the great age of manufacturing came from the luck of its historical origins … In the lucky style we have never 'earned' our democracy. We simply went along with some British habits."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_Country
The density of sponsored pins in Google Maps varies widely by area. In most of the Bay Area it's fine and not noticeably intrusive.
Most of the comments I respond to I don't vote on, and most of the comments I vote on I don't respond to. I think it's generally a bad practice to assume that people who reply to your comments down voted you, but in this case I actually did. I did so because I believe you're spreading a misconception about the effects and aftermath of a drug that I'm pretty sure you're unfamiliar with and not well read on. Human experiences vary, and I would be open to the idea that somebody could come away from dropping MDMA without noticing lasting interpersonal bonds, but when I read a hypothetical description of a drug being used that doesn't match any of the accounts I've experienced, heard, or read, I'm skeptical that the source knows what they're taking about. This discussion seems like an inadvertent distraction from a serious suggestion.
20 VPS providers shut down this weekend, which brings the total to 68 in the past four months.

Pretty big deadpooling scam.
So long, Odo. You gave me some of the best times of my life watching DS9. Thank you forever for seeding my love of space, and belief in the future of humanity.

Here's to you, old friend.
This is an idea whose time is just around the corner.
Asking is free. I don’t mind making a hundred asks and looking silly if one turns out to be helpful.

If I have the opportunity, I’ll mention your suggestion.
I know this is an almost insane digression, but I found it quite interesting that the author theorized the net worth of King Lear.

Lear must have been worth a billion or two, in today’s dollars.

Far more, I would say! The way I see it, if you converted the wealth of medieval monarchs, relative to the world they lived in, into modern day terms, they would be the richest people alive. Lear was the king of Britain in an era where the king was an absolute ruler, and nominally owned the entire country. How much is Britain worth? Nowadays the GDP of the UK is over 2 trillion dollars a year.

https://www.google.com/search?q=britain+gdp

GDP isn't a great match to the wealth of an absolute monarch, but government spending in the UK is about a trillion dollars a year. How much of that is an obligation, and how much could be extracted to count as personal wealth? I estimate about half of it, for an income the modern equivalent of 500 billion dollars.

In terms of net worth, that income stream would be worth a present value maybe $5 trillion.

So, obviously this is just a back-of-the-envelope calculation of something that doesn't make all that much sense, but in relative terms I would argue those medieval absolute monarchs were far richer than any modern rich person.

In absolute terms, of course, it's a much different story.
The relevant free low-level library in this area is libxsmm, which drove MKL to improve for small matrix work by being faster a while ago. I don't know how it performs on AMD CPUs, or how much a priori detailed micro-architecture knowledge it requires, but I doubt the maintainer would refuse changes for AMD. It was referenced with no interest in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16600347

How specific to Intel CPUs is MKL-DNN (now renamed)? When I looked at it, the CPU code seemed fairly generic SIMD.
Yes, me too. It was an internet that only a relative handful of people produced content for because it was not worth the time for the vast majority of people.

It's easy to put the target on Google and ad-words and SEO but literally no one has ever scaled payment for internet content.

The countless people in India, Brazil etc who make livelihoods out of producing content make it out of Youtube ads, not Patreon.
Prolog (Datalog) has always been the gold standard for query languages. GraphQL is merely the latest attempt to reinvent it by people who obviously don't know what came before (or don't care). This might be because CS programs are no longer teaching Prolog, but I think it's more likely because one doesn't get career advancement points for using something "old" unless one reinvents it and renames it so it seems "new."
I feel like the true ugliness in that particular building is less about the material, more about how it looks unpleasantly like it started as a normal cuboid and then grew lopsided cysts to produce its current shape.
Hyperfiddle (my startup) is a datalog API experiment, wrapped up in a low-code tool. We vertically integrate Datomic, a datalog database for AWS. Can you imagine GraphQL ever being low-code?

http://www.hyperfiddle.net/

https://gist.github.com/dustingetz/654e502340070280ab9744723...
Credit cards give you a 30 day loan with no interest. Interest only starts on purchases after one bill cycle. What is the average duration of a microloan?
The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)
> "GraphQL doesn't make a ton of sense to me, unless you're expecting many clients with significantly different query pattern requirements and prefer to take on performance and (maybe) security uncertainty & complexity to accommodate that more easily."

My impression of it is that it's an "API" that's masquerading as a dumb relay, essentially giving almost datastore-level access to the frontend client (even though they don't market it that way). And this is done so that "Frontend devs" can just do "Frontend" things with access to all the data they might end up using. A bit snarky, but I do see it as a way to just "offload" the problem down the line, instead of thinking about the API-usage and what it means for potential frontend clients. That's the "old way" of doing things of course.

It fits in to the rest of the "movement" or trend currently happening: Thick (web) clients that do everything and the kitchen sink (including auth. See JWT in arb HTTP headers instead of cookies), SPAs so that there is no server side page rendering (this must all be done in the thick web client you see), document databases instead of SQL so the "frontend" devs don't have to worry about schemas, SPAs so that we break half the bloody internet because we now need to retrofit browser navigation using hashtags, everything has to be an "API" now because we can't convey data using server-rendering, etc.

Honestly, just that navigation thing alone is nuts and I can't believe we ever allowed it to be imposed on us. At this point, I'm afraid to touch those buttons on a new website without first trying them to learn their specific behavior on that site.
Fairly sure he'd change the last names or something to conceal who they are. Otherwise, they'd eventually be recognized.
Honestly, if our biggest barrier to healthy longevity has been reduced to automobile accidents, society is in pretty damn good shape considering how safe modern vehiclular travel is.
I might be strange with this opinion but I like paperbacks and the style of paper they're printed on in the UK. There's something about a well-worn book that I find quite appealing, with the folded corners or creased spine and the yellow-ish pages that are quite soft to the touch. A nice, dusty hardback comes close. They've been broken in already so you don't have as much trouble setting the book down without it closing back up on itself.

What I immensely dislike are the possible fake prints you get from Amazon. They're printed on bleach-white paper, same as you'd get for a textbook, sometimes even slightly glossy.
It's not 3000 hours of usage, it's 3000 cycles.
I checked on IRC. One person says they've been using it for hours on chromium without a problem. "I've been using Edge (Chromium) for past few hours, no issues. Could be unrelated, could be related. May help to use a standalone chromium build for this."
I've been using Edge (Chromium) for past few hours, no issues yet. Plugin could be unrelated to your crashing. May help to use a standalone Chromium build for this https://chromium.woolyss.com/
Oh I didn't mean it like that. I genuinely enjoyed the story. Your last sentence made me think that your friend worked on FC1, since you named the composer for FC2, that's why I pointed out that while the essay is called Far Cry, actually it's about Far Cry 2. But then I googled around that Hans Zimmerman wasn't the composer for FC2, so now I'm just confused.
Why do you keep speaking in generalities when I’ve given a concrete example? With flat fines for driving violations, we’ve created a framework for relatively rich people unburdened by ethics to ignore those laws. In what way is making fines proportional to one’s income less fair or more vulnerable to exploitation?
It depends on the size of the codebase and how shitty your programmers are, but if you aren't greedy or scared of over-litigation, it isn't hard at all.

I have written great contributions to a python API library that could be of benefit to the community around it. The code has nothing to do with my company's core competency, and the code is used for internal orchestration, so "exposing insecure code" is an unlikely concern.

It is easier for a lawyer, especially a luddite, to say "no" than to help their employees give back to the world.
Well, in the article, they did mention creating 600 hundred work from home jobs in 500 years. It did require effort though, not just the existence of good internet.

But it does seem possible to bring jobs to rural America.
Leaderboard: https://df58.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/yahoogroups/leaderboar...

Unfortunately doesn't seem to be updated very frequently.
Tuvalu has been trying to sue countries and corporations over their imagined doom for decades. This seems to be an attempt to lobby for similar ways to extort money from richer countries.
I spent a small part of my life studying Russian language and history, as other family members have done with other cultures (or lived in them, etc etc).

And regardless of where else we will agree or disagree, when anyone can sincerely talk like this young man did about love (meaning caring for others as much as for oneself) and personal responsibility (actually doing something about it, all of which I relate closely with honesty and the Golden Rule), I automatically think: "I would probably like knowing this person, and almost certainly we could enjoy working together on some worthwhile things."

That is a political (or whatever) "tribe", as some say, that I would like to belong to.
YouTube or PeerTube, which will it be
weak speculation gets downvotes m8
Speculating wildly is OK. Speculating wildly using definitive-sounding statements, particularly in a thread directed specifically towards employees of a company, is extremely misleading.

If you had started with “Not related to Verizon in any way, but IMO...” that would have been perfectly fine, but given where and how you made the statements it looks remarkably like you were claiming inside knowledge of the situation, and then feigning innocence when called out.
Extensive discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729619