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There is a non-trivial amount of work being done at university research labs that has yet to feel the effects of the machine learning revolution because PIs aren’t investing (or cannot afford) programmers, and scientific equipment is manufactured by a small handful of companies who have little incentive to innovate.

Please note that n=2, but both myself and a friend of met have met people working in life science labs that were assigning research assistants to manually count cells in images, and manually sweeping through images to find stills that were in focus.
No export to Anki, but the web app is mobile responsive, and I'm working on native mobile apps at the moment.
Hey, thanks for asking! My interests in it are primarily for quota management -- in my experience, this is inevitably a hierarchical concern, in that you frequently run into the case of wanting to allot a certain cluster-wide quota to a large organizational unit, and similarly subdivide that quota between smaller organizational subunits. Being able to model that hierarchy with namespaces localizes changes more effectively: if you want to increase the larger unit's quota in a flat namespace world, for example, there's no way to talk about that unit's quota except as the sum of all of its constituent namespace quotas.
With increasing automation less people can do more work and therefore earn more money, this is already causing some of the unemployment issues we see today.
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I'm pretty sure that those that DID consider the clip a problem for hiring the OP didn't share any of that with them. But I'm happy to see that others were more rational about it.
There definitely is, as academics life work and achievements are often tied to specific concepts and therefore they resist new ideas.

See what happened with Alzheimers, where as specific theory that is probably wrong dominated for years and received most funding, sending a cure back years as well.

https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte...
This has absolutely nothing to do with "flat" design. BMW historically had a flat shaded logo [1]. The current logo is just supposed to be the flat shaded badge that goes on the cars, but rendered as if it's actually being lit.

The problem is just that they removed the black ring that is key to the logo and the brand. Add that back, and it's virtually identical to the logo they had for whole second half of the 20th century.

The removal of the black ring is unequivocally not a consequence of flat design.

[1] https://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/https-_s3...
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Yes, but signing can't be defeated unless you modify the IC itself.
Just curious, how can one distinguish original content from a full-res re-encode without access to the actual bits of the original file?
Graeber himself acknowledged that most of those job roles were actually well paying and high status. UBI ain't going to disrupt that too much. Also, having read his book, I am highly sceptical of the claims made in it. I believe that there is a certain portion of many jobs that are bullshit but the proportion of fully bullshit jobs is much less than as claimed in the book.
The required tax rates would still be unbelievably high though. Way higher than any other developed nation (some of whom already have >50% tax rates).
Always be challenges.
There are two versions of the proposal. UBI as a replacement for social programs is fantasy. The UBI cheque would have to be insanely fat to replace the welfare/medicare/housing/food all the other forms of assistance that disadvantaged people need.
I know a lot of libertarians support it because it is essentially a round about way of cutting social benefits.

And hypothetically speaking, say the government is spending $10k/year on assistance to a disabled individual. If you instead give $10k/year to that individual in cash he would not be able to buy the same level of care for the same price on the private market. He'd get massively short changed. Welfare is far more efficient, financially speaking, than handing out cash to people and letting them fend for themselves.
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Doesn't higher output per an employee lead to a change for demand of that type of employee, lowering pay?

It always seemed to me the value an employee brings is the upper bound on pay (demand drops near 0 over that), but the pay is determined by supply and demand for that labor.
Point taken, I was wrong.
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slack abuse is definitely my favorite working in SV in the 2010s trend...
The content is watermarked by the time it is available on HDMI. The guy who re-encoded it would get a knock on the door.
not really trivially, you need to drill tiny (sub micron sized) holes with lasers down to the appropriate wires then insert probes (either using FIBs or directly) to pick up signals (we do this to debug bugs in chips)

Smart designers will put wires with useful information under many other layers which if broken will disable them.

So yes it's doable, you'll likely damage the chip in the process, it's certainly neither easy nor trivial
Off topic: The giant double kidney grills on their new models look as horrible as their new logo.
> The VM will even connect to full-speed pre-Tor Internet by default

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
We already know that social security greatly reduces poverty https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/social-securit...

It's just hard to maintain from a balanced budget perspective.

> One wonders how different this would be than a minimum security prison....

The difference is that hopefully you could leave anytime and go to the facility across the street if it has better perks.
I'm a consultant and work in AI and cloud stuff - do these lab instruments have cameras or ways to feed the images into an ai model? I can see about creating something basic for you.
Totally, but it gives small companies room to breath. Much easier to spend a few hundred bucks/month on a communication tool / management software / aws vm, etc. than pay the entry fee to a high cost self hosted service that might not even make sense in a few months.

Problem is that most companies consider IT (and tooling) a cost , not an asset (that needs to be taken care of, tended and re-evaluated every once in a while), then suddenly you're stuck with a midsized frankenstein blob of services that takes half your budget but is so damn complicated to untangle that it's cheaper to eat the cost. Middle management hell in one paragraph.
That chapter was dumb even when it came out. X is awesome and it's amazing how well it has stood the test of time. I am not looking forward to the day when I won't be able to do half the things I do today with my EXWM setup because we needed to have "every frame perfect".
As I was reading this, I thought to myself "How does this scale" and then I re-read the parent comment that said "If you don't have high scalability requirements, virtually anything will work."

The fact of the matter is that Kubernetes solves certain problems well but also presents other problems/challenges. For some organizations, the problems K8s solves is bigger than the problems/challenges it creates. It's all about trade offs.

Some people do want to hop on the next big thing in order to keep their imposter syndrome in check. Others know a certain technology and stick with it.

Sorry, I'm just ranting.
I'm Canadian, it's not nearly as good as paid healthcare in the US (especially high end paid healthcare). Giant wait times for things you can pay to do in the US.
Double-mapping memory is almost always the wrong choice, since TLB entries are a critical resource for software performance. The only time it makes sense to double-map is when your are trying to make the CPU blind to what you are sharing, as seen in some high-performance ring buffer implementations. But this is double-black-diamond stuff, not something that has wide applicability.
This is incredible. The Pepsi Ratio vs the golden Ratio.
> Applications on remote machines can download their own special JavaScript

Depending on what era we imagine writing this, this could be a Java applet or a Flash application or an ActiveX component.
Yes, because of an unpatchable boot rom exploit.
That's the exact thought that has crossed my mind a few weeks ago. I was more focused on the specific of advertising / marketing given the amount of open source solutions available nowadays.

The second benefit being that they'd own the underlying data rather than yet another tech giant. So hopefully better for privacy.
I know there are lots of players in the field but I know a few lawyers and the software the work with on a daily basis is terrible!
I know you are trying to be snarky but Valve has accomplished a hell of a lot more than most startups ever will. They are far from perfect (hell, they’re known for bugs and their famously poor timelines, and I heard their game Artifact was not good,) but it’s pretty bizarre to suggest they do nothing. Maintaining Steam alone is huge. It’s hard to find a platform with more vigorous fanboys for good reason.

But that all aside... I mean they have a new Half Life game on the near term horizon (later this month apparently) and they have done a ton of work on VR and Linux support.
Interesting problem. If that sort of thing is able to be solved with a few raspis, open mpi, and some ML libraries then cool. But if it's more complex than that, basically it's an MA thesis in itself :)
And how much would it cost to get the equivalent functionality with non-saas solutions?
On the other side of that equation, what you would hope is that your $50/month is buying you a subscription to steadily increased functionality over time. That's something your $1000 up-front payment wouldn't get you, and it helps offset the initial on-boarding costs. It's also probably true that once your one employee has gone through the selection, learning, and purchasing process, getting subsequent users on-boarded is much quicker, because there's someone sat next to them to say "just do it this way".
This “necessity of work” is an evil that we must get rid of. So many jobs are absolutely useless and degrading from a societal and human perspective. If basic income enables one to stop doing these jobs, humanity as a whole is better for it.
The point of Anki is to learn while making the cards, because making them takes mental effort and requires enough comprehension of the concepts. It would be harder and less motivating to use something premade, that maybe gives priority to concepts that don't really interest you.
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We currently have intense income inequality in the world - pretty sure we can shave some off the top and the middle to help everyone live a healthier life.
It seems that the underlying assumption here is that people who are highly educated and work in "clinical child development or similar" are superior at giving advice. Is this actually true? I'm also skeptical of the idea that support is best given as advice as opposed to something tangible.

If you indeed have a way to give superior advice to parents and result in presumably superior outcomes for parents and their children compared to the default, which is a parent who uses their own resources wouldn't it be more profitable to just open up a daycare?

In any case, I wish the Trustle team good luck, but I'm very skeptical that this is superior to just talking to people who have kids already. Kids are unique, but what constitutes a good environment isn't as broad as the landing page and marketing make it sound. Furthermore, if one does believe kids are unique that is with odds with the technology aspect of this business. Either kids are so unique that technology can't really be used to make things more efficient, or kids can be roughly grouped into categories, in which case - surely said information about children is already out there?

Finally - if blogs and content out of the web cannot be trusted, why should your experts' advice be? There are very smart people out there who have written books and blog posts. What's the value add beyond that? Since you're only paired with a single person, what if there is contradictory advice between your experts? Would you not simply be back at square one then?
One thing that threw me off is upserts with NULL in Postgres. NULL != NULL so it will continually create new rows.
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That thread is gold. Thanks.
Opaque billing and lack of customer oversight/clue are powerful components of this. Shit gets bought and then sits unused a lot of times. I've worked for a company about 10 years ago which got sold IBM DB2 at a cost of $2M/yr. The company had no use whatsoever for DB2, but paid for a few years of that until they hired people (me) who convinced them they don't need it. It was replaced with a MS SQL subscription which cost a "mere" $150K/yr at the time, and _was_ actually used. Some companies just have way too much money and no clue.
Maybe OP only reads books that he wants to remember, so doing that for every book is valid. On the other way around, maybe some people wouldn't be able to relate to reading a lot of books when you don't want to commit what you learned to memory
There is an abundance of evidence that HN was one of the most anti cryptocurrency sites. It was/is surprisingly bizarre, given the expectation that the posters would be more knowledgeable of future tech than other sites. History has now shown that it way too high of an expectation.
“Forcing the issue” is an interesting perspective, thank you.
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Sounds like the participants knew the study was temporary and invested the money in a job they knew they’d need after the study.
The other gain you get from having the employee build the tool is that now the employee is better at building these tools, so you fundamentally have a better employee than the one that had to spend the time learning the non-transferable one-off tool.
"SaaS just more popular/lucrative/financially gamable"

Piracy definitely killed the ownership model. After Napster and prolific piracy of music for 10+ years, the value of music plummeted to almost nothing.

Piracy is closer to counterfeiting than stealing, because the actual value of the pirated good approaches $0 as more and more people have the idea that they can get it for free.

This won't happen to any automotive company if you steal a car. This is why I always thought those ads about piracy/stealing were silly.

SaaS for the music industry might have happened without piracy, but piracy was definitely the catalyst for the services we see today.
Hard to find for sure. There was a time though when we didn't pay CEO's & professional managers 500x as much as the lowest paid employee. When we did that we still managed to go to the moon, split the atom, develop computers, create antibiotics, and lots of other neat things.
Compare the lettering on the two versions. The use of 3D-ish black and fake embossing on the original makes the letters pop.

The lack of both on the new version makes the letters look like they've been crammed into a tiny space at the top of a big empty ring.

This might have worked with new lettering with different proportions. But it's literally just a flat copy of the original letter shapes, without any of the original context.

The 3D effect on the original print/blueprint/engineering marker/quadrant feels dynamic. The impression changes as you move your eye over it. It conveys movement and substance. It works with the black to suggest a car tire, but also a sophisticated (black...) crafted object.

The new version looks like a printer reference mark. It's just... there. It doesn't do anything.

The grey is meaningless and neutral. Again, it's just there. It fills a space, and that's all. The transparent version doesn't even do that. There's literally nothing there.

Removing the 3D creates a uniform space inside the ring, which is why the letters now look as if they're squashed up at the top for no reason. There's poor alignment, and no metaphorical or literal highlight.

Overall it suggests that management don't care about engineering or about appearances.
Jack has discussed this. It won't happen. Even in 5 minutes a tweet can reach MANY people, and then it would be able to be changed entirely?

Twitter won't get an edit feature, it just doesn't work for the platform. The only way I see it happening is as an 'undo' send feature like Gmail has. You can see the tweet for 15 seconds before it actually goes out. This has also been discussed as an issue since Twitter is supposed to be real-time, but maybe certain people wouldn't care and enable the feature
I hope you guys are recording the mentoring sessions. Developing a bespoke roadmap for a child will show the efficacy of the development plan when compared to metrics and complication rates over an entire cohort. (background: parent and physician scientist)
In Sales you would have SFDC plus some kind of enablement tool like Salesloft/Outreach plus a prospecting tool like Sales Navigator or DiscoverOrg plus enterprise Gmail plus a communication tool like Zoom; and then there's the analytics stuff, the HR/finance parts, etc...10k is probably way too high an estimate but 5k is believable for a B2B startup with a scaling sales team.
In my opinion, critical code like this must be formally verified.
Why don't you fuck off and take your PC bullshit elsewhere?
I have yet to encounter a manager who motivates me to get up and find a way to eat that day.

Just because they are there doesn’t mean the achievements are due to them.

There have been a number of attempts, tens of millions of dollars spent on one study alone, trying to quantify what technologies and people generate value.

The meta-conclusion considering all the studies I know of (traveling and not looking them up), is the math becomes so Byzantine it’s a pointless measure and we should just stick with ideology to avoid blowing up society in people’s minds (an idea that was peddled for thousands of years already, reaffirmed by math, glad we spent the time on it.)

Just because we’ve emotionally conditioned ourselves to engage our mechanical agency towards these ends does not imply it’s because of management.

Manufactured consent is a thing.
Because you would cut programs all social programs like medicaid, ssi, section 8 and etc. How would these people live going forward?
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> Most employees' salaries are not 100k

I'd hypothesis that most employees on whom companies spend $10k for cloud software are making $100k+.
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Canada has a tax rate that tops out at 50% (mostly), the US caps out at 37%[1]. I think we'd all be better off if the tax brackets went a lot higher. Rich folks tend to have a lot of inactive money that's just sitting around doing nothing - we can put it to more productive uses.

1. Please note, these numbers are off of raw income tax - both Canada and the US have other employment related taxes that I'm not counting here (like payroll) since their proportional contribution is pretty minimal.
Here's the MDN page some of the sibling comments might want to see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...
Age often (but not always) translates into knowledge, and sometimes translates into wisdom.

Look at those running for president this year. Biden, Sanders, Warren, and Trump are all old. I'm pretty sure that almost everyone will say that at least one of those candidates does not display wisdom. (Which one may vary, but nobody thinks that they all are wise.)