skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. If one definition of Brutalism is to be honest about materials - then Cybertruck nails that. Unpainted stainless steel is as brutalist as it gets.

We can argue about the design intent of the way it looks and whether that’s Brutalism. Aesthetics is only one aspect of Brutalism.

Another aspect of Brutalism is to expose innards without guilt - If Cybertruck doesn’t have non-structural decorations, farings, etc and it doesn’t attempt to cover things up, that’s pretty fucking Brutal.
>Also tor and tumblers are not necessarily fully anonymous

Money quote right there.

I'm not sure how many people consider using this sort of thing to skirt the law. But believing in the anonymity of anything on the internet while you're skirting the law has landed many a naive person in prison. Especially if that person was within the jurisdictional reach of the US government.
Ok - but what's the issue with that?

I don't think anyone is debating at this whether or not Google was in fact copying the genius lyrics, just whether or not that was in fact breach of contract or otherwise a violation of the law.

Changing fake apostrophes to real apostrophes after they found out their (in their mind legally acquired) data had them is just plain sensible, fake apostrophes break functionality like search for users (both ctrl-f and possibly more sophisticated search engines like google.com). They add edge cases to any software that wants to use them for text to speech or whatever. And so on. Literally the only use case fake apostrophes don't impact by at least adding an edge case is humans reading song lyrics that they have already found.
I feel this so much. Sometimes I'll look up objects I've bought in brick & mortar stores that I've been completely happy with, and find that they have dismal reviews. This is why for certain items I make a conscious effort to not bother looking at the reviews. Even if it were possible for me to find the best doormat, it simply wouldn't be worth the time, labor, and emotional energy of sifting through reviews and forums and blog posts, and discerning fake reviews and influencer marketing and people who have different requirements and expectations than me, and product SKUs that have changed since reviews/posts/whatever were written.

As an aside: I'd love to find the best cat wand toy. I've tried hundreds from pretty much all the major eCommerce sites and they all suck. If someone knows of one that won't break immediately I'd be willing to pay top dollar for it.

But yeah, unfortunately as other commenters have pointed out, in small towns and even where I am in Albuquerque, brick & mortar stores are either disappearing or aggressively shifting their business to the internet, so it's becoming more and more unavoidable to come into contact with reviews and whatnot even for relatively basic items.
I think your comment makes really excellent points. This line:

> The infinite variety of online shopping tells us to set our expectations higher than that.

made me think a bit -- that used to be true for me, but the effect is trending in the opposite direction now. I have learned that it's very nearly impossible to tell if a product being shown is actually any good or not unless I'm already familiar with that company's products, regardless of what the product listing or product reviews say.
This seems to be their latest work: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13830
Great, I like getting to sleep with background sounds. Plenty to explore here
For maps:

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A VAT used solely to pay for UBI is actually progressive, as the UBI can be considered for the purposes of this calculation as a refundable tax credit.

Low income household:
Income: $30K
Spending on taxable goods: $10K
VAT Paid: $1K
UBI Received: $12K
Total Paid: $ -11K (-37% of income)

Higher Income Household:
Income: $120K
Spending on taxable goods: $70K
VAT Paid: $7K
UBI Received: $12K
Total Paid: $ -3K (-2.5% of income)

Very high income household:
Income: $300K
Spending on taxable goods: $150K
VAT Paid: $15K
UBI Received: $12K
Total Paid: $3K (1% of income)

Lower income people (who spend less by necessity) end up profiting very nicely relative to their income. The rich, i.e. anyone who spends more than $120K on taxable goods, however, would end up spending more than they receive, and are actually the only people funding the UBI.
Bloomberg reported that super micro motherboards were compromised with a Chinese spy chip the size of a grain of rice. Every one refuted it, super micro's stock fell, no new information since.
The Age of Instagram Face
Potentially unpopular opinion: This is one of the reasons why we as a society can't afford to allow untraceable electronic money transactions.

Imagine the combination of perfectly untraceable money transactions with actual working low-cost swarms of facial recognition-based killbots/drones.

That's what, maybe 5-7 years away from now?

The risk here is that the cost of a hit could go down to very low costs, say between $1k to $10k per hit/murder. If it goes that low we're screwed as a society, especially if the transactions aren't traceable.
"And my axe", as PTG used to say. The redesign did nothing positive and the site has less and less interesting content every day. They say the action is in the subs, but I still can't find a decent way to discover which ones are worthwhile. I find I'm just hanging on to the few I settled on years ago, and as my interest wanes, I visit less frequently. The day they pull old.reddit.com, I won't bother with the site at all.
Yeah, I am quite OK with these numbers. The sessions-in-a-database-table is fast, simple, and accurate.
Regarding point 1, isn't that just due to the fact that baby boomers are entering retirement age, and retirees are living longer than ever before?

"Prime age participation" seems like what you would want to measure if you're trying to assess whether the robots are taking our jobs
As a person with personal interest in visual arts I never have seen the appeal of appearance of many popular "great looking" cars of today's variety. Even muscle cars and luxury models.

Cars up to 70's and 80's were really nice and aesthetically pleasing, and I find the Elon Musk's vision to be really nice and refreshing.

It might be that I'm partial to science fiction in general, but I really would like to see this vision developed further.
Mercy Ships is always looking for technical people. The job list is at https://apply.mercyships.org/CurrentOpportunities.aspx

Mercy Ships do free operations for people in Africa. The ship's crewed entirely by volunteers. If you're willing to give a chunk of time, it's both fun and rewarding.
I've started only buying things directly from brands that I trust and have legitimate warranties. I bought 5 pairs of swimming shorts on Amazon last year and all of them have completely fallen apart. I have a pair that I bought from Patagonia that look as good today as they did 6 years ago. I have a 10 year old puffer from them that has been so good to me. It's worth the extra money, if you can afford it, to just buy one nice thing and be done with it.
I wouldn't necessarily mind it being partisan, if not for the extremely low quality commenting standard. I'm sure there's a causal link: most of us are less likely to call out bullshit from our own team, and when there's nobody to call you out on your bullshit (so long as it's directed at the correct targets), it's tempting to go ever cheaper and ever dumber in search of easy approval. But it would at least be possible to have a forum where people had a lot of opinions in common, but still cared about truth and intellectual integrity and basic logic.
> Would it be ok to scrape google's results and distribute them, while saying you don't accept their TOS? It's a bit like not paying taxes and saying you didn't sign up for that.

When Google has the ability to levy taxes, things will be very different all over.
I think it should be obvious that current automation technology will wipe out a very large segment of jobs.

Here's where I think just about everyone is not seeing the full picture. You have all of the major tech companies and many universities and enthusiasts in a global race to create AI that has better abstraction abilities and understands the world better. We don't need to get to something that is exactly like a digital person in order to approach many of the highest level jobs. ML can already automatically create world models. We just need them to be more compositional and accurate. And yet everyone is acting as if this AI race is guaranteed to just sputter out.

The only way this is really about retail workers and truckers is if Bengio, Hinton, LeCun, Deep Mind, Tencent, Baidu, Google, Facebook, Open AI, Amazon, Nnaisence, many other companies, John Carmack, and thousands of independent geniuses all fail. It certainly is possible. But take a look at the papers coming out where they are hammering away at creating better disentangled models and such.

There is no way to predict the future but I think that people are a little too comfortable.

Basic income and the other radical ideas are going to be relevant for everyone. Everyone.
There is something a little antagonistic about an organization officially linked to the British government using the domain acropolis.org.uk.

(Edit to add: ... Especially using it to assert a license over what others can do with the artistic work that they have created.)
get in my van i have kocane we can smoke also i hav drugs and beer.
Remember that the author’s intended audience is developers who want to use JWTs specifically to avoid server side state in the authentication/authorization logic. The point is that, if you want to revoke the refresh token, you have to maintain a blacklist somewhere, and now you’ve contradicted your original goal of avoiding all state, which means that choosing JWT for this particular purpose was illogical, and probably warrants further thought. (TBC, in logic, if your hypothesis leads to a contradiction, then your hypothesis must be false, which is exactly what we’re seeing here in this scenario.)
> the degree of isolation between different mindsets and disagreement (that was typically very amicable if it was acknowledged at all) is emblematic of the culture of the company

A thoughtful perspective that is useful for my own understanding.

Thank you.
https://github.com/Tharun24/MACH/
Pedestrians have the right of way in the situations I mentioned, but not when "jaywalking."

You're not wrong about the system heavily favoring driver's convenience; and when drivers break the law (even if they injure someone) the punishments are light.
Hmm never had an issue with in memory caching and scalability (except in the old days of memcache). One can send a unique and hard to guess pair of identifiers and drop the lb stickiness. anyway depends on the use case, but i feel like given the symptoms you describe there are a few other ways of doing it without jwt.
I mean maybe, if you thought the hit was real and were disappointed when nothing happened you might go that route.
Super niche forums have existed for this need for many years and cover everything from multi-tools and flashlights to makeup and perfume. It's just that they require more effort to use and many are disappearing due to social media.
Developing Largest Contentful Paint
LMFTFY: Offering software for snooping to the oppressors [0], the rich [1], the law-breakers [2], the law-makers [3], the advertisers [4] is a booming business. The modern day tech seems like a curse and a cancer, despite its enormous potential for good.

/rant

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19109474

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336762

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16874999

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346307

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18082017

...ad infinitum
Consistent quality is the entire point of brands. Find a soap you like and you can mindlessly get the same thing for the next 20+ years. Which also generally means you can pick a random brand and not end up with junk as long as trust the supply chain.

The issue is when you want something different than the millions of other people out there. Sure, things change and the quality may slip, but there is only so much time in the world is comparison shopping really worth it to you?
> I think it’s hard to predict when advances will happen that will enable automation in healthcare and education.

It is a very credible threat facing Radiology residents at the moment.
Umm... Here's an obvious idea, what if you don't store the entire model in memory and use message passing architecture to distribute the model kinda like how HPC people have been doing this entire time? Non distributed models are a dead end anyway.
Was way to long to read to find the funny bits.
It can be both, but in the old world you couldn't just conjure up a whole newspaper with flattering content. The fact that costs have changed is significant in a qualitative way.
> When your client log-out you will need to keep the token in a blacklist and check all requests against it to make sure it is not reused until it expires.

Sounds like a great way to DOS a server by running out its disk or memory space. (unless there's some sort of rate limiting in place)
If you only want a PhD to get through job filters, you should be networking with people who work in those fields.
I agree with the points you're making, but I should mention that now that I clicked on your Amazon link, Amazon is recommending me nothing but Sovereign Citizen nonsense and anti-Semitic ramblings. Like, Amazon's recommendation system decided it was suddenly going to form a completely different opinion of the sorts of books I'm interested in.
Well not really. Storing session data in the db can hit your performance pretty bad. Storing them in mem is a better option.
Lil Dmd
this looks like little shit so jus 80s mother fucker
So if I say arbitrary stuff like what I was responding too but use enough words, it's all good? The "just make a company" is not just unsubstantive but also a completely fake idea :) it's comical propaganda dressed up in verbiage

Sounds like the issue isn't content but rather whether something is quippy or wordy.
It certainly keeps old security holes in play.
Imagine if Amazon bites the dust
You mean like Startpage.com does?
A lie is no more speech than a punch is a hand signal.
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What are you buying that quality and function don't matter? I expect quality and function even in something as basic as toilet paper. It used to be I could find a brand and type that I liked, and then order it over the internet, often in bulk since it stores without really going bad. But now, I can't be sure I'll even get the genuine product from ahemazon certain vendors.
It's kinda funny how some people think that this would be a performance problem, but it's something that computers and programming languages are specifically designed to do really well.
In my own entrepreneurial efforts, I've found it to be tremendously useful to test-market any product on a small scale before pouring a ton of time and money into it. Doing so can tell you lots of things that you might not know, such as what aspects of the product customers value the most, what desperately needs changing, whether it's priced too low or too high, or whether there's even really a useful amount of demand for it in the first place.

So, I would always recommend launching locally as a test. Gather data, do customer interviews, watch people using it in real life, and so forth. Then regroup and digest what you've learned, iterate your product based on that, and follow up with a larger scale launch.
ur accually dumb shit
Right - but it kills the brand.
VAT is the darling child of economic purists (consumption taxes are technically, on paper, the most efficient and least disruptive tax) and Europhiles.

I'm immediately suspicious of anybody proposing a VAT. Everything I've heard and read from Europeans is that the VAT system is quite complex. AFAIU, VAT evasion is a serious problem in Europe. The grey market in otherwise legal goods and services is orders of magnitude larger in Europe than in the U.S., and as far as I can tell part of that can be attributable to the complexity of VAT. The other part is the prevalence of organized crime in Europe, but the complexity of VAT in terms of both accounting and enforcement would seem to promote organized evasion.

The other problem is that VAT is regressive. You can mitigate that with exceptions on certain consumer goods and services, but that adds complexity. You can also provide direct transfer payments to offset the tax, but "welfare" payments are too politically contentious in the U.S. There's little reason to believe they can be enacted or sustained at an adequate level to realize the potential of a VAT. Ultimately I think it'd simply contribute to increased wealth inequality and cynical, nihilist anti-government sentiment.
Brutalist philosophy always sounds cool with its honesty and showing of how it works. But then you look at what it actually produces and it's usually, you know, brutal. If brutalist architects could just find it in their hearts to make their buildings have nice shapes along with all the other properties, maybe they wouldn't be so reviled.
Lets see:

1. You have the choice of getting any of the options you want, that are not available in store near you in 2 days sitting at home.
2. You can compare prices on each of those items and choose the price point that best suits you.
3. You have an option to get information from people who have previously owned that item and read their thoughts and reviews.
4. You can order as any many you want, and spend 5 mins preparing a return and 10 - 15 mins returning the item (or, just pay a small fee to get it collected back from your house)

Yet, you choose to drive down to a store, a store which probably doesn't have an online inventory index. Try to find an option you want, don't find it, and now you're mad?

Do you see the hypocrisy?
so it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, an walks like a duck, but isn't a duck, because whoever made it wasn't thinking about ducks at the time.

i disagree. it's brutalist. the article says so. it meets all the criteria, except: it's a truck.

c'mon. that's reductive pedantry at its worst.
Wil anything be done about it? Does any “world leaders” really care ?

We have all the technology available to solve this issue, will we be given the political support and permissions to use it ?
It doesn't. The comment you're replying to completely discounts the systemic power imbalance at play that unionization is meant to counteract.
But reddit is flawed in a different way - it's extremely biased towards the trendy and the fashionable.

For example if you search reddit for what computer mouse to buy, you'll be told that unless it weighs less than 70g and has holes, it's utter shit and not worth your money.
It's the Elgin domain name!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles
No, "an index fund that tracks the S&P 500" is more like cruise control.

Self-driving money would basically take all your income, and decide if it's best to invest in such index fund, or pay off your mortgage early.

I always pay off small, low-interest loans faster, because I get tired of juggling the money. If I had "self driving money," it would continue to "write the check" for me as long as it can find a better investment vehicle for my remaining money.
I think food is the scariest of these. A collapsed tunnel/bridge is a tragedy that will scar lots of people, but society as a whole keeps moving. And people can adapt to loss of electricity on its own. Yes there will be deaths from the elements, failed emergency systems, as well as an increase in crime. But food supplies totally disappearing is when the full chaos begins, especially someplace like NYC where people don't typically have space for a few weeks of canned food.
My point was Mike Bloomberg has pretty much always been thinking about running for president for at least the last twelve years.
What are your feelings on adding third-party PPAs?
Hi, Plaid engineer here (not the author, but I helped with the post).

I don't think we've tried to assert that the old system is perfect. We went into some detail in the post about why it took us this far. Certainly, the single request per container approach wouldn't scale if our unit economics were different. We didn't get into this too much in the post, but the Node service sits behind a couple of layers of Go services, so the we had more control over scaling API traffic than it might appear.

Likewise, I hope we didn't give the impression that the new system is perfect. We've explored other languages for integrations in the past (even Haskell, at one point), and are continuing to do so. A migration away from our years-old Node integrations codebase would be a massive undertaking at this point. Absent that, it doesn't seem consistent to say "you're incompetent for handling 1 request per container" and also "you're incompetent for writing this post" – if you believe the former then it makes sense to be an advocate for this project, at least until a language migration can be done.

I think the set of hoops we had to jump through in order to add concurrent requests without adding latency is a good demonstration of why we didn't do this sooner. It wasn't a massive undertaking by any means, but it wasn't trivial. At any rate, we're not really looking for a gold star here – just putting this out there and hoping this will be useful for others who are, as other commenters have put it, building their own "Frankensteins" :)
Me too :)

In that thread they talk not being able to install unsigned extensions in stock latest Firefox. That hasn't been the case for me. It might be because I'm on Linux, but I'm pretty sure that policy changed.

Overall, I have a lot of sympathy for Mozilla deciding not to spend their resources defending defeating paywalls.
Last year, a librarian reached out to me asking if I could run a program because they are getting alot of requests for tech education and they didn't have resources. That got me thinking... hey maybe its possible to help the library start a free coding bootcamp, open and accessible to all.

All it takes is to create a meetup account and schedule something! People will come.

The hardest part is to stick to a consistent schedule so people know when / how to find you for help. This usually means saying no to regular social events that your friends may invite you to.
Maybe they can offer a super wide selection available to see, since they don't need to carry stock. And perhaps you can order from them if you like it, and they run an online store where they ship it from, and you get your $10 back as a discount.
LastPass (like all other good online password managers) has a web UI.
On the contrary, if you find a company with a policy of gaining maximum market share through time on a break-even cost structure, and if the market is very big, you can essentially ride “at cost” through the entire growth/capture era.

If you notice, since inception AWS consistently returns its economies of scale as pricing drops to customers, allowing AWS to capture more market share.

They’re drinking the milkshake of incumbent IT, and you can benefit like a remora riding a shark.
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