skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please write up your experiences! What works? What doesn't work? How are you structuring the program? Your idea is fantastic and I think documentation would useful for others that might want to implement something similar.
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Don’t see the word “refresh” in there. Guessing they are assuming you use JWT identically to how you might use a session cookie, which is not how I’ve ever seen it used, personally.
I don't think it's overstating it too much. Even with the restrictions, the bots are still performing well above the capabilities of the vast majority of human players. The restriction on illusions and summons was also for the benefit of the players; the OpenAI team didn't want the bots to win through flawless micro skills. For point 3, even though the players didn't get to train against bots, they have the advantage of being able to learn and react accordingly. Since the bots can only learn when their models are being trained, they're trivial to beat if you use a novel technique that they haven't seen before.
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As an aside, the attitude of GP is very common for people with only one or a couple dependents, or else a solid support network, and no experience of ever being without a safety net. It really is terrifying to be poor, and this further exacerbates the issues when you are forced to make consequential decisions under that constant low-burning stress response.
Fewer than 10% of Americans are buying $1k smartphones, report says
Your analysis of Cyc is insightful and resonates with my own experiences.

Two general questions, if you don't mind:

1. How would you characterize the relationship between the politics and structure in your company?

2. Do feel that the layer of people actively isolating the top embodied the company's culture?
Any "Reddit alternative" will have a hard time gathering users as long as Reddit exists (and doesn't alienate a critical mass of their users ala Digg). Dan Olson of the YouTube channel Folding Ideas made a very insightful video about the problem of setting up "alternatives" to popular social media platforms (having lived through several painful platform transitions himself): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3snVCRo_bI

The tl;dw is that if your "alternative" platform doesn't launch with unique and valuable features of its own to attract users away from the original platform then you will only attract toxic people who get kicked off the original platform as the first users of your "alternative" platform (because they are the only ones really in need of an "alternative"). This creates a self-reinforcing pattern where non-toxic users are repulsed from your alternative platform by the toxic users so growth only comes from more toxic users. You can clearly see this in the dynamic between Reddit and Voat.
expecting anyone to get in trouble... LOL
> As an example, you could organise an LGBT group, print out stickers and t-shirts, dance at the local Pride, take a few photos, and you'll get a pat on the back from HR. But if you asked for health benefits for your same-sex partner, that would be at least frowned upon.

Awhile back people did ask for it and did secure said benefits, prior to the national legalization of gay marriage even.

So, in this case, organizing around and asking for those benefits did work.
Show HN: Realty Voice – Use Alexa when looking at homes to buy
I agree, this would make much more sense in areas with high labor costs, something like sea side resorts where you can produce many similar buildings with high building density.
So basically... let an algorithm make financial decisions for yourself and all problems are solved?
But if it wasn't regulated by laws, would the same thing apply? People should just leave if they don't like it and don't try and rock the boat?
What's an example of something that feels just out of reach? What's the simplest thing that feels impossibly far away?
The "Managing Cash" section was the most (maybe only) interesting section here for me. Most of the other "self-driving" examples are just about automated alerts and recommendations; I don't consider a car "self-driving" because it beeps at me when it's low on gas.

I agree personal finance is really not that hard at the basic level. The main issue is that our economy is driven by an advertising industry that depends on making sure most people never learn the basics.
Your math is off.

The difference between $10/hr and $12/hr isn't $2. It's less because of taxes.

It comes out to roughly $2900 gross.

You also figure that if you're living paycheck to paycheck then you've met all of your needs. That's not necessarily true. The person making $10/hr could be skipping meals to last through the pay period.

They could also be skipping on preventative healthcare. Or some other thing.

And it also matters when you were making that $28K/yr. A dollar today is worth less than a dollar yesterday.
Of course we’ll hit a wall at some point, but when this repo dropped the other night and I saw the rotating faces in the video, it made me realize that in the future, VR experiences might be generated with nets rather than modeled with traditional CG.
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I think you missed GP's point. They aren't telling us how much their business makes, they are replying to the posts saying "that wasn't worth it" -> "maybe it was worth it because it was probably ~8k" with "even if it was 2k it was worth it".
There's https://en.liberapay.com/, https://ko-fi.com/ and https://www.buymeacoffee.com/, just from the top of my head. And https://en.tipeee.com/, which I just found.
It shouldn't be more. Heck, your local tax dollars probably paid to lay the cables anyway. It should probably be 1/4th of what you're paying
There are always things under the average so it is not surprising that some co pilot has less experience then US average or minimal, Your argument sounds like this

Say my Ford brakes stop working while I am speeding, then we find that there was a software bug but we blame the driver because if he would have driven with 10 km less speed maybe he would have survived and if he would have been above average the diver would have known how the transmission works under the hood and in an instant would have executed an engine brake by shifting the transmission into lower gear (thing that was not learned in driving school and tested for)

Basically the airplane should never had placed the pilots in the situation they were in.

Because some super hero american pilot could have saved the plane does not excuse the fact that every pilots that is given a license should be able to safely operate it.
I've had this same thought about cloud storage.

I had an older family member ask me "are you sure it won't go anywhere?" while I was encouraging them to use cloud storage such as Dropbox or Google Drive rather than a flash drive.

While I had naively never given it that much thought before, I wasn't sure the answer was "yes"— specifically that, if Dropbox or Google Drive were to shut down, they would give users the opportunity to take their files out.

I tried searching through their ToS but couldn't find any guarantees.
The article was quite clear on this in multiple places, there were guarantees that you still owned the media and that it would be returned.

The problem is, who guarantees the guarantors?
I'm a mechanical engineer and I have worked in a foundry and in CNC machines, so I think I'm right here. The machining time in CNCs determine the product's price. You have to compare the iphone 11 with all its incredible amounts of tech at 1000$ and this angled aluminium mount costs the same! This is a clear example of "we priced it so much because we can"
For what it's worth, Talks at Google talks are often enough not posted online. This definitely wouldn't have been the first, or unprecedented. For example, I saw an in-person Talks at Google with Doug Stanhope where he said a lot of offensive shit, swore a lot, and made the audience feel uncomfortable. That one was never posted online.
I see a very different explanation which could also explain this pattern. Employee activism doesn't make the news that often, but it's actually pretty common - as long as the activism doesn't challenge any core element of the business.

If you want your call center to be more ecofriendly or your consulting firm to support Fight For $15, you may or may not get support but you probably won't see consequences. In tech itself, I've watched plenty of people push for green policies, or organize donations to support immigrants, or even recruit for the DSA with no issues at all. But they were recruiting for border reforms and political groups, not workplace unions and H-1B liberalization - and certainly not user privacy. When it comes to the Kickstarter union or Wayfair stopping sales to the CBP, the accommodation dries up fast.

That doesn't mean the activism is insincere, or even about not making waves: there's also a powerful selection effect invovled. If you're passionate about the environment, you probably don't take a job at Shell, or you quit in protest. But if you're passionate about LGBT issues, there's much more reason to be optimistic about workplace activism, and it's mcuh easier to reconcile keeping your job while you do it.

So what's up with Google? They used to do one thing in one way, then branched out rapidly, so they have lots of employees who bypassed the normal selection effects. And now they do everything, so every issue is simultaneously non-central to Alphabet as a whole and a direct challenge to some component of it. We haven't heard much about Google employees protesting search ranking algorithms or advocating for GDPR, because that's been selected against from the beginning. But AI, military work, internal transparency, and even corporate hierarchy are comparatively new issues for Google. The people who object aren't gone yet, and nobody can tell what's fundamental and what's safe to challenge.
I just went through this and more than half of the team has quit since.
Technically, that applies to everyone of us, and every product---or service---we use...
I think the real benefit of vagrant is that you don’t need to all use the same hypervisor.

Maybe some little tweaks here and there to target specific ones in the vagrantfile, but otherwise I’ve found it to be largely a non issue to have different hypervisors, so long as you have a base box that supports all the ones you want to use (which is part of why my company builds base boxes - to have something reliable for client projects - either used as is, or where appropriate building on top of our box setup process to make customised boxes)
It's important to keep in mind that efficiency isn't usually particularly important for a startup. I'm sure they knew when they initially set up this system that it wasn't performant...but it was nice and quick and easy and gets the feature out the door. Why should they worry about $100k or whatever when they're funded for > $350M? Their bottleneck is engineer hours, not dollars.

Instead the rational thing to do is build something quick and dirty and optimize later, and that's exactly what they've done.
I mean, that's always the thing, isn't it? If a company publishes about the problems it has, the question is whether other companies have the same problems and just hide it, or whether this company is actually worse. This comes up a lot with gitlab, for instance; remember the time they discovered they had no backups? At most companies, customers would never find out about that, so I'm not sure that them telling us about it usefully informs my view of their competence. Similarly, here, the only way we'd know about this if they didn't say anything would be poor performance, which would be... less than surprising, on a financial website, in my experience. So maybe they suck, or maybe they're equal with others but a little more open; I don't know how to tell.
If you're located in Chicago, I enjoyed volunteering for CodePlatoon as a TA. It's not a huge commitment and it's a lot of fun.
The assertions like GP are laughable every time they come up. Having no liquidity is not the same as living paycheck-to-paycheck. LP2P means not being able to scrounge up any money for vital necessities until the next pay period. Most doctors (and for that matter, most people who complain about high COL lifestyles while working in tech) can obviously pull a bit of cash from their investment accounts if need be. Yes there are fees attached but you can handle those. LP2P means you're living in your car if you can't get the money in the next 4 weeks.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781562 and marked it off-topic.
In my opinion it's not simpler, primes are a difficult concept. Tripling and halving is simpler.
JSON existed before protobufs is really it. When I left the node world 3 years ago, protobufs were the new hot thing. Any new project should start with them over JSON imho.

There is some friction to them though, and I think a lot of it is that most tutorials and beginner books like to keep things as simple as possible, and people start their little project, it gets traction, and then they figure out they need protobufs but now its hard to introduce. In most projects, even today, it seems that its the version 2.0 that gets protobufs, v1.0 keeps JSON for simplicity, unless you have a bunch of seasoned devs involved.
FWIW, they show the mesh in the first few seconds of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCzS2FZoB-I

Personally I think they should emphasize the manual labor requirements. One of the strongest criticisms of 3D-printed and prefab housing technology is that it reduces demand for low-skilled labor. For the past 80 years home construction has been a major pillar of the American labor economy; likewise for China and many other countries. Free or reduced cost housing is great, but to the extent it comes at the expense of a sustainable labor economy, then it's problematic.
As South Park pointed out, some ads don’t even know they’re ads.
That's only important if future assassins know if past assassins are mistreated.
The paper mentions not using illusions and summons because of the added technical complexity required to make them work:

"We removed these to avoid the added technical complexity of enabling the agent to control multiple units."

So maybe it could be to their advantage, but it's also not something that could be easily technically accomplished at this time?
It's interesting that it seems that some very short propositions require very long proofs.

Are there any results on the length (or maybe Kolmogorov complexity) of the shortest proof for provable propositions of length N? (in a specific logic system, I suppose)

I.e. how hard to prove is the hardest proposition of length of N and how does it grow with N? how about the average random provable proposition?
Painful lessons, yes. Instant gratification versus long-term planning. I think this applies to more than just software.
This seems incredibly disingenuous. Unless the founders have a history of fraud, your comment is way out of line.

And yea it is cool, this overriding principle defies any predefined business model or use case. Novel things come from
new things not incremental improvements like “Apple Pay”. Which those are explicable money making scams and schemes to control people’s banking info and insert yet another middle man to profit off the mere act of transacting.
The point is that nobody is going to drive a hundred miles out of their way to pick apples.
If you want the bot to avoid winning by micro, you add delays, cooldowns on interactions, imperfection on clicking, misclicks, etc. on the level of a human pro.

In any case, simplifying the game is usually done to make training far cheaper.
Ok, we've added that decaying bit to the title above. Thanks!
So your hypothesis is that all of this `overhead` (mental space/time) would be removed or at least reduced if men only worked with other men and women only worked with other women? I guess the first thought is that this only considers heterosexuality. Then there's the fact that these are generalizations, and so the premises don't apply to everybody. Do you put more effort into your appearance just because there will be men there or because it's a work environment and you want to be professionally presentable?

I guess the traditional thinking is that we want to have different thought processes and mental modes all working and collaborating together as much as possible. Wouldn't it be limiting to a lot of people to cut off interaction just because of their sex? Is there really a certain way that only men think and a different certain way that only women think?

I'm trying to think of my own work environment where I, as a man, am actually in the minority on my team. I just can't think of a project where I think that gender or sex made any difference to anything. Maybe since we're programmers and not dealing with lifting heavy things it's different? We also have a good mix in the leaders. I've had both female and male project managers, tech leads, team members, etc. I've seen all kinds of mixes of personalities between the genders too. I guess, only in my experience, I can't find a time where I feel a team of only men or only women would have done something better.
Exactly my point. With deposits, you have FDIC insurance.

With this, you have nothing.
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* housing, employment, and credit Ads

I think the easiest solution would be to disallow ads of those categories on their platform. I'd think the risk of "facebook/instagram is racist" damaging their brand and the cost of federal discrimination lawsuits would outweigh whatever revenue they project.

As an aside, I know it's faux pas to bring up any observed (and/or presumed) differences between the protected classes - but maybe (just maybe) Facebook's targeting is smart enough to correlate "most likely to care" about things that tend to have skewed demographics without looking at the demographic data itself. Like the example in of truck driver ads targeting men, what is Facebook using to determine who they target? And do those data points line up with demographics?

I don't know, but these kinds of systems are tough to introspect from the outside.
... ok so assuming you then don’t have a HA environment (Really!?) if the server is down the sessions and the tokens are irrelevant because there’s nothing being served and nothing to use/check them and provide back resources.
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21773562
http://archive.is/gfZ9s
> In order for them to be trusted with full control of your money, they would have to be satisfied with growing their profit simply by increased customer base and not want to increase profit per customer.

> It is just a matter of time until someone at robo-advisors says "we can make more money if we add this fee".

There are a number of options beyond fees that keep incentives aligned between advisor and client. For example:

1. The advisor grows the client's assets by investing them well (because the advisor's revenue is a portion of assets under management).

2. The advisor encourages the client to invest more. This could either be moving more of their portfolio to the advisor, or encouraging regular deposits (which is a valid investing strategy.)
All great ideas.

Another suggestion:

Terminate somewhere else.

If you fit inside of the CloudFlare T&Cs, you can probably save a much larger amount terminating there and having them peer with you using the same TLS every time, or failing that, try someone like BunnyCDN.

I've found that while AWS CloudFront is easy to instrument, it's neither very performant (lots of cache misses even when well configured), or cost effective (very high per byte cost).
I hear you. I have old friends, who I really love dearly, yet I haven't seen them at all this year.

I'm kinda fortunate in that I am a passionate kayaker, and having your life be dependent on each other really helps create bonds quickly.
I was wondering when our cars would become our wallets. Guess I'll have to wait for the answer.
So the day of disposal is the 31st? Let's a get a uhual and go to Wisconsin for new years.

I'd love to open a media store in Nashville, and with this failed business, people paid money to store their things that may have been for sale, hmm.

Of course the business part would depend on other things for making money - but having lots of vintage media around would add to the allure, and possibly add to some occasional sales.
Any other cities besides NYC and LA that aren't "cultural backwaters"? Or just 2?
> That is why I think the central issue is not a violation of airworthiness standards regulations. If that were true, it seems like that would be known already, and there'd be hell to pay. Clear cut and dried.

The airworthiness regulations are tested in flight, so if Boeing flight tested a 737 MAX with MCAS active and it passed, there would be no violation. The regulations do not say the airplane has to pass the flight test with no automated compensation systems active.

> it's a more complicated matter when it comes to type certifications

Yes, the judgment of when a new variant is different enough that it requires a new type certification is not cut and dried. That might come into play if the FAA's judgment of whether the 737 MAX with MCAS should have required a new type certification were the question; but it isn't. The question is what it would take to make the 737 MAX without MCAS qualify to fly. At this point I don't think anyone believes that will happen without a new type certification for the 737 MAX; the question is whether even with a new type certification it will be possible to convince the FAA that the plane qualifies to fly.
> Afterward, articles about him began to appear on websites that are designed to look like independent news outlets but are not. Most contained flattering information about Mr. Gottlieb, praising his investment acumen and philanthropy, and came up high in recent Google searches. Google featured some of the articles on Google News.

So there's a startup right here in the US doing exactly what we accused a foreign government of doing during the 2016 election. Setting up fake new websites to generate content for clients to drown out real stores characterizing their misdeeds. All for just a few thousand per month.

This is unbelievable, and yet completely believable at the same time.
This is great breakdown. I think doing an entropy test would be a great idea for a followup blog post.

I don't know how to run an entropy test. Do you know how I could do that?
Right, but the place for the honest feedback is the exit interview. Spare your co-workers your grievances; they probably already know why anyway.
You pay a small monetary amount for now.

Most of these companies are super powers with blatant disregard for humanity. When it comes to the good in your life, the things around you; opportunities, options, community health... they are slowly but surely drinking your milkshake.
This exactly describes the two major schools of thought in economics:

-stay and fight to fix

Vs.

-vote with your feet and compete

Each of these have positives and negatives :)
Is it possible For a non-academic to get a ResearchCyc license? I’ve used OpenCyc in the past; now that I’m retired I’d like to look deeper into Cyc.