skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's a bogus argument. People always try to justify misbehavior by saying that acting appropriately would create precedent, and applying that precedent to a totally different situation would lead bad results. This argument is bogus because you can just...not do the second part.

The actual slippery slope is that making excuses for companies that act inhuman just allows companies to act more and more inhuman.
I think the innovation is the perspective correction of the background depending on the camera. That could have been accomplished with rear projection in film if it had been necessary by having the camera follow a preset path, but I don't think even BTTF attempted that.
TOS likely also stipulate an NDA
> Why should I subsidize other people's bad decision making?

This is what you already do when you live in America. Other people made a bad decision to make healthcare a private industry, creating a billion dollar insurance business, and you are writing their paycheck out of yours.
Hi, sorry for the late response, I thought this thread was dead so I stopped checking.

There is no mining. The blockchain is a permissioned system that uses byzantine fault tolerance. So the current working idea is different regions would have their own server that participates in the network and facilitates the transactions.

As for why it uses the blockchain, the idea here is less about currency, and more about making a system that enforces the smart contract layer network-wide. A lot of the costing is based on what would be smart contracts (in ETH for example) so making sure these trnasactions, given the same inputs, will always have the same output no matter who's running them is much more natural on a blockchain than any other system.

The project originally started as a postgres-backed app, but once I started thinking about federation between regions, how to do this transparently, etc...blockchain was just a really natural fit.
these URLs should allow you to deep-link into a PDF from outside it, which hasn’t really been possible before

Chrome and other browsers with built-in PDF viewers have long supported the #page=XXX URL syntax, to go directly to a specific page of a PDF document.

This sometimes works only when the document is first loaded; if it’s already open in the window or tab, adding a #page fragment in the address bar won’t always turn the page.

See this Adobe document for other parameters, which aren’t as widely supported:

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdf...
Medicaid is not the same as Medicare. Medicaid is literally Free stuff so yea, it can be abused. Medicare is not free. People pay into it through taxes. 2 different things.
Not op, but you got me curious so I checked my W-2. $8,800 for me and I think mine is top notch (2,600 is my max out of pocket per year limit)
Yes! Perverse incentives are what is making it like this. And the incentives cross boundaries - relationships between providers, insurers, regulators, legislators, and consumers. There's no single guilty party that we can blame and fix. (Since insurance companies are such a target for blame, I've started to say blaming insurance is like yelling at the cashier.)
We are already there. Look at the headline of this post. That's exactly what the doomsday fear mongering is.
Poor quality American diet kills sperm count and lowers male testosterone
So many of my friends have been screwed over by the technical nuances of equity compensation.

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Is that when you omit infinity from the calculations in the US...?
I found this lecture about effective writing to be very useful:

LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively (Larry McEnerney, Director of the University of Chicago's Writing Program)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM
Except that here in Europe (Germany and Austria) in each election, saving money on social programs by cutting cost overhead as well as services is a big topic and parties arguing for those cuts regularly get around half of the votes.

The one candidate tries to buy votes by offering free stuff pairs by taxpayer money, the other one tries to buy votes by promising to stop giving out free and lowering taxes.
Bulgaria is the origin of the oldest, still-functioning satellite in earth orbit, the Bulgaria 1300. It will turn 40 next year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria_1300
Is profit the problem here? Not a horde of unnecessary make-work jobs and overpaid workers?
There’s a huge difference between downsizing caused by economic forces of the private sector and downsizing caused by outright elimination of an industry by elected officials.
I've been using Anki to memorize Chinese characters. It's near-ideal for the task. It's a pretty memory-hard task, and I find a sustainable average is only 2 - 3 new cards a day. I've done stretches where I've done 20 new characters and I pay for it in the reviews for weeks and weeks. It feels frustrating too since you keep reviewing the same 5 or 10 items that won't "stick".

I find SRS software like Anki is best taken with a "slow and steady wins the race" approach. I only do new cards when I start running out of daily reviews now, and I find it a lot less punishing.
No, but you should be a decent human being.

The guy got scammed thousands of dollars and you're "that guy" saying it's probably his fault with no evidence.

Just say, "sorry this happened to you, that sucks" or say nothing.
RTA > "To this day, I have no idea what he claimed was “missing” from the package. I even included all the original plastic wrap!"

He opened a factory box and unwrapped the product. How else would he photograph all the parts with the kit?
I too know a couple STEM PhD's who believe climate change is a hoax, possibly invented by the Chinese. To get the US to destroy their economy. Yes, these people are out there.
see pensions for municipal/state employees in the US.
Why does everyone act like sleeping at his factory was the epitome of dedication? I'm sure he was just fine, it was probably just the most convenient thing to do given the location.
It sucks if you want to work on new ideas, and not just be a cog in a giant machine, but don't have an idea of your own you think is worth founding. The money is the trade-off for the big corporate shenanigans and relative lack of intrinsically motivating work.
Canadian isn't much different really in practice, but there isn't an 83(b) equivalent iirc. The specific tax detail vary, but from 30,000 feet it looks pretty similar.

Overall it's pretty comparable to the non-SV US. There is less VC & PE money floating around (generally investment is more conservative). Common stock options or grants are going to be a gamble for the same reasons as in the US.

Tax wise, you capital rates rather than normal (i.e. 50% treated as regular income). You may get a gain/loss relative to FMV in year you exercise, same as US.

Most of the advice carries over directly, mutatis mutandis.
That growth only really benefits a tiny minority of the country though. There are far more people in a precarious position in the US than in Germany
3458 shares of VTSAX. Can't get any more passive than index funds.
From an engineering perspective it is hugely impressive that a 2020 AMD or Intel chip can run an x86 app compiled in '92 at something like 100 times the speed.
> because the electorate vote themselves benefits.

Doesn't this cut both ways? Rich people voting for austerity is equivalent to the wealthy voting themselves benefits. You won't find the right balance if you always demonize welfare in favor of tax cuts.
A mirror is here: http://archive.is/yEIJT
It's ironic that Woz especially wanted to bring computing to the masses, not lock it down. Apple is the antithesis of its own founders' vision.

Apple deserves to be disrupted.
Intel is not prestigious in the US software job market. Literally nobody I have interviewed with has ever asked me about my time at Intel.
I worked ops support at a local heath insurance group of maybe 250 people. We had an entire floor the building next to us dedicated to billing and 30-40 billers with some of the older employees making upwards of $75k a year not to mention the infrastructure and systems to support that department.

With a universal system, those costs (and jobs) would evaporate to the tune of millions per year in salaries alone.

For the employees, each of them could quickly retrain or just shift into other departments as needed as most staff did when the company was acquired and IT admins moved to PM or lead roles in other departments.

#2 exists and would have a huge impact not only on the industry but your time and mine. I've spent maybe 8 hours this year already just working with medical billing groups to pay up and already spent close to $2000 between my partner and I with an estimate $4-6000 before the end of the year without doing a sleep study which I greatly need.

Universal is definitely cheaper. All we have to do is compare ourselves to just about every other western democracy to see ow.
An easy one and something that would perhaps make a more interesting read (than Einstein being a "Czech" for a few months).
This is a browser extension, I think. No where does it actually say that.
Homeless people will spend a lot of it on booze and drugs instead.
People show up when the risk gets low enough.
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Lack of political will and discipline.

I know this area well and this group somewhat (no current affiliation with them anymore). I think we are entering the adaption phase where forecasts lose viability. Not because the science is wrong, but because the human element is unpredictable without defined geography.
No I think it's more your tone and your insinuations against the op that have nothing to do with the actual issue discussed in the op.
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As I think we have discussed before, it had difficulties at least as recently as 4.18 or 4.19 when you added or removed variables/members into classes or structs other than at the end, which is not totally unexpected. It does mean you have to restart the UE4 editor which can be slow. Also compiling UE4 C++ code in general can be extremely slow. Is is extremely tempting sometimes to prototype some new feature in Blueprint because of this, as a result you can end up with a lot of unwieldly Blueprint code that you never rewrite in C++.
And instead of a general VAT, which impacts all trade negatively. Make it a carbon tax, a consumption that actually needs to be more expensive.
Probably no employer sponsored healthcare for the most part. That money would go towards the Medicare coverage. There might be some supplemental plans for people who want to skip lines but most people will just use Medicare.
Yes but at least, Govt. is not looking to make record profits.
Why not? It's simply too valuable not to be collected.
It’s a complete scam run by insurance companies who operate with ostensibly a government mandate (although with seemingly zero oversight). I work for myself and and have historically been paying about 20k per year in premiums for my family with a family deductible which I’ve never gotten remotely close to hitting. I have an hsa which I use to pay for out of pocket expenses pre tax and there is a tax deduction for health care premiums. This year I decided to test the system.. and didn’t purchase health care for myself. It turns out that many of the services and drugs we all pay through the nose for are so much cheaper If you ‘self pay’. I spoke to admins at both my doctor and the affiliated hospital and they all have programs to help alleiviate payment hardship if you don’t have insurance (translation: you’ll just have to pay the actual cost of the procedure. Not the bullshit one that the insurance company tells you that you saved a bunch on by overpaying for their insurance). Ridiculous. Inevitably someone will figure out that it’s the insurance companies ripping everyone off and do something that removes their intermediation state-sponsored fleece-job. Ultimately you’re actually paying for catastrophic insurance, oh and Medicaid and long term elderly Medicare, but the rip off of your standard, healthy consumer is a travesty. Maybe someone should be reviewing the actuarial models (or whatever they are) to determine an apporopiate cost for someone who’s ‘heathy’. Me? I’ll just continue to pay like I’m poor... and save some cash.
Canada has no co-pays. The topic of payments never even comes up, unless you're not a resident. Prescription drugs and dental care are generally not covered, however.

In fact, I still struggle to understand the concept of a co-pay. Is it like a deductible for automobile insurance?
I had a math professor who told me that advanced math books are like Hoyle's Rules of Games. There are two ways you can use Hoyle's Rules of Games. You can memorize the rules of bridge and stop there, but then you will have a pretty dull experience. Or you can use the book as a tool to start playing bridge, and it will open you up to a rich and engaging activity.
Similar thing happened to me with PayPal, buyer got to keep the item, and got a refund (by doing a chargeback on their CC) and I got billed the amount + 15% of fees and punishment.
I provided exhausting proof of delivery and that there was no contact or complaints from the buyer, but they didn't care. They said, since it's a chargeback, they HAVE to give them their money back. The buyer was a client of Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Ironically, when I tried doing a chargeback on a transaction as a buyer, I got denied after waiting for 30 days for a reply, and had to pay a fee for an "untruthful claim". The bank is Erste Bank in Serbia. In my opinion my claim was valid, as the seller did not reply to me at all.
Ice making (someone else said refrigeration, but this is more specific).
I've done FBA for used books, not sure about cameras.
agreed, I was only speaking from an overclocker's perspective.
It seems to me that making the system be able to perform masking itself (instead of projecting a green screen) would reduce the ability to completely replace the scene easily, but the reflections already give you that problem. The advantage you would have is that the real elements in the scene would no longer need any feathering around the edges causing them to look hazy, because now you can take a few pixels of the projected background as a transition to the higher resolution render.
There is no perfect system that protects buyers and sellers. Change the rules and buyers will be complaining. The reason it is skewed towards buyers is:

1) who in there right mind would buy something online where there is no protection (sellers aren't the same as they have to sell somewhere to make a living).

2) most buyers are honest who just want their item. Profiting from fraud as a buyer is a lot more work as they need to resell the item to gain currency, which is risky (both from exposing themselves to stolen item investigations as well as being a victim of fraud themselves as a seller).

3) imagine if sellers could just ship rocks to buyers instead of cameras without consequence. Every scammer and his dog would be in on the gig without 5 seconds. (1) becomes even more bleak.

The general view is sellers need to take fraud into their overall operating expense budget, just like department stored do with shoplifting.
More productive than the day before they switched, not 25 years ago.
It gets even more notorious with time. I bought a new laptop recently and with Windows 10 Home instead of my Pro norm with it, and was very shocked to see how much control did I lose if were I a normal user. The mandatory and force restarting updates, web results in searches, king games, nag-ful notifications, edge self promotion, telemetry etc. I can't imagine what [profanity] that normal users had to live on with in most recent Windows. I'm waiting for the last straw that is gaming and am ready to ditch Windows completely.
This is often true from a raw compensation point of view, but it isn't as if the jobs are fungible.

Nothing wrong with deciding a startup is best for you, so long as you are going into eyes open and don't believe some nonsense like "the options will make up for the salary difference".
Yes, in the study. TLDR: extensive severance, retraining, relocation, and retirement programs for less than the amount of money saved.

"Improvements in system efficiency, such as reductions in billing tasks, will involve a contraction of the workforce. Although the country will benefit from lower costs, 936 000 administrative positions and 746 600 positions in the health-care insurance industry are estimated to become redundant. However, detailed transition plans have suggested either funding for early retirement options, extensive severance, retraining programmes, and relocation expenses for all workers in these sectors. Implementation of such a plan is estimated to cost $61·5 billion annually over 2 years, a sum which would be recouped within the first year by the health-care savings estimated here."
There's a history where people email Bezos and he'll forward that email along to someone responsible for that thing with a single '?'. [0]

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/5-years-later-jeff-bezos-...
You can usually get around paywalls using http://archive.is
“Sounds like one of those things that is meant to keep people in their place and/or make them feel less worthy or as a put down.”

I suppose it could be used that way, but I think of it more as something people should apply to themselves, not as a judgment against others. What “improves the silence” is obviously subjective and reasonable people will disagree about what does or doesn’t, but I imagine most of us have experienced the feeling that we should say something despite not really having anything to say in that particular moment. My point is just that it can be liberating to ignore that impulse to speak for the sake of speaking and wait until you have something you really want to say.

“ I can tell from your bio you are much younger than I am so I will offer this advice to you as 'an older guy' (note I did not say 'dude' either). Not only will you care less about that when you get older but you will find that people very generally will be drawn to you more if you don't appear to be concerned about what comes out of your mouth (within reason of course and depending on the precise circumstances meaning sure there are cases where you don't want to just say or do anything).”

I’m pretty old in internet years (34) and definitely care less what anyone thinks than I used to. And from what I can tell, a lot less that the average person. But I think almost everyone cares about approval to some extent and can feel uncomfortable socially if they go outside their comfort zone. So while I agree that people are of course attracted to confidence, sometimes you just don’t feel it, no matter who you are, and that’s fine. Trying to force it tends to be counterproductive.
This solution is so unrealistic I almost want to laugh. The local "police and government" barely have any funds to operate, potholes go unfixed for months, streetlights are switched off at night to save money, but yes, someone will keep an eye out to update a database for self driving cars. Yep, I'd predict the chances of that happening here are exactly zero.
We'll see. I've got enough money to survive single-payer, do you?
Yes, the author should have made it clear that the slow LEA caveat only applies to the indexed addressing case.

I probably misunderstood what you were saying here:

> Note "with three source operands" and "uses base and index" as in "both at the same time."

When you said "both" I thought you were referring to both clauses you mentioned ("3-arg" and "base and index"), but I see now you may have saying both base and index (it was the mention of 3-arg that threw me off).

Slow LEA is slower in a throughput sense too: half the throughput on modern mainstream Intel except Ice Lake.

> I didn't even address the topic that higher latency doesn't even have to mean that the throughput is reduced at all, when the rest of the code fits.

Agreed, but that's true of almost any fine-granied performance discussion ever. I think it's fine to say that a LEA with half the throughput and triple the latency is slower in a sense, even though "in-situ" there may be plenty of cases where it makes no measurable difference. The same is true of other slow stuff like muls, divs, branch mispredictions, atomic ops: there are cases where all of those don't matter (not just in an approximate sense, as in "the penalty is zero"). You are not wrong but always putting that caveat gets tiring, it would be nice if we could just assume it.

Beyond that, almost any use of a "slower" instruction can actually speed things up, e.g. due to an alignment or scheduling effect, but man I don't want to mention that every time either.

As a practical matter, few people have the capability to mentally simulate the pipeline to determine whether slow LEA is going to have an impact or not (and this is error prone and in any case not all the details are out there to do it totally accurately. So the problematic r13/rbp cases are mostly easy to avoid, just avoiding them seems like reasonable advice.
They might have falsified the statistics in order to boost people's morale, but they were also very serious about actually progressing.

Bulgaria was under USSR's wing when I was a kid, and I have first-hand experience about that.

There was this thing called "kruzhoks", (a Russian word, diminutive of "circle", like in "circle of friends"), which were after-school interest-based clubs, mainly about technical stuff.
Every other kid was a member of some kind of kruzhok.
Back then I didn't realize that, but the state must have had some sort of "master plan" to prepare as many kids as possible for technical careers when they grow up.

I also distinctly remember the exceptional quality of the textbooks (math, mechanics, electronics).
The content was presented in a pedagogical order, with increasing difficulty, and carefully selected exercises that helped the concepts sink in. I used Russian textbooks from the 60's and 70's up until I graduated the university in 2005. (I'm a mechanical engineer, physics hasn't changed much since then, heh.)
The typography was also excellent. When I first saw LaTeX output, the first thing that came to mind was Russian textbooks. I don't know how they did it back then.
I have heard many stories online where customers bought new graphic cards/cpus/camera gear from 'Sold by Amazon.com' but instead receive used ones. Or receive different cheaper (older generation) products.

It does not seem to be a good place to buy or sell expensive items.
Unfortunately, they can protest, lobby, and, shall we say, make unfortunate voting choices even after being unemployed, so it might be wise to rethink that opinion. Any changes that are made need to be gradual enough to allow them to transition to other careers or political instability will follow.
That's an interesting paper. For anyone on mobile who wants a PDF: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11...
Here's a fun thought experiment.

Let's just say we shifted our demand for lots of the climate change contributors. From what I can gather the top contributors would be liquid fuels, solid fuels, and gaseous fuels. Right off the bat we know we can cut coal and shift to other technologies. But in the case where we want to shift our liquid fuel consumption, things get tricky. For example, we might be able to move our entire car fleet to electric, but we're still way far off from doing that for planes. So at some point in the future, we'll still need jet fuel, but we'll have reduced our demand for gasoline tremendously. They come from the same source and happen as part of the same process.

So what happens when gasoline costs negative dollars?