skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An anecdote from South Africa: SMS was charged per message at very high rates. MMS even higher. Mobile data, while expensive too, was much cheaper per message. Also, free wifi was quite common in many urban areas. All this at a time when WhatsApp was much much simpler and easier to use, with good UX. The person to person advertising for WhatsApp at the time was “it’s free”, which while not 100% true factoring in mobile bandwidth, it was effectively true since mobile data and WiFi was at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude cheaper than SMS or MMS.

That stayed true for a few years, and so WhatsApp became the de facto standard for messaging.

I can’t speak for other countries but in South Africa that’s why. And the rest is just networking effects.
marketplace is fine unless they start fulfillment service, isn't it? Just only buy from the shop, not from thirdparty shop.
Singapore sentences man to death via Zoom call
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Just like it does for the certificate store.... And not using proper UI toolkits...
Apple Doesn’t Care About Augmented Reality: Here’s Why
No, I think it is, in fact, somewhat interesting. I was at Uber until a couple of months ago and left for mostly unrelated reasons. A significant proportion of the people I worked with had 3-5 years of tenure at Uber, families, homes. Not people who could relocate easily, even if they wanted to.

There's an obvious and boring explanation for the prevalence of "willing to move" on this list, and that is if the layoffs mostly hit recent and more junior hires. Another company I worked for had a significantly younger and more mobile workforce, and it wasn't uncommon for new hires to move to the bay area from across the country, and then relocate to another regional office or even overseas just as easily.
In the last 6 months I have built a set of Python scripts around Beancounter, that import and categorize and archive various bank and CC statements into the ledger.

Paired with Fava budgeting capabilities, my personal finance tracking is almost frictionless. It takes literally 5 minutes to go through 5 accounts.

Since I live in Germany, I still have to use cash, which is a bit a pain to track.

For that, I use an Android app that writes data directly into the Beancount ledger.
I don’t think azure is relevant here. Standardizing SR-IOV would be much more helpful to everybody (but much more important to Azure/cloud platforms). Kvm setups can already pass through gpus just fine.

This is a way to lock developers who want to run Linux code for AI/ML onto their windows machines and to keep them from switching their desktop OS to Linux.

Edit: from the kernel mailing list

> There is a single usecase for this: WSL2 developer who wants to run
machine learning on his GPU. The developer is working on his laptop,
which is running Windows and that laptop has a single GPU that Windows
is using
> I think we just have to accept that UBI would give people that work undesirable/uninteresting jobs an off-ramp from the economy.

I think it just sets a floor on the wages of such undesirable jobs. And if the new wage to attract labor is higher than the marginal product of the worker, it’s likely that the job goes away rather than experiencing wage-driven inflation. In the worst case, this would simply lead to reduced output. In a best case the higher wage demanded would make capital investment more attractive, as it would improve the productivity of employees.
"each file is saved into a folder that corresponds to my account structure such as Asset:Current:Cash, Liability:Mortgage, Income:Salary, Expenses:Health:Dentist"

Beancount user here, even if you don't bother with any finance tracking, organizing financial documents following the folder structure is useful - see "Filing Dcouments" in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e4Vz3wZB_8-ZcAwIFde8X5Cj...

Shameless promos:

- People are starting to make Fava extensions for things like envelope budgeting, portfolio tracking, etc. Usually these are announced on the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/beancount

- The sublime plugin is great but I have a really useful improvement to search by org-mode headlines that never seemed to get merged - see https://github.com/norseghost/sublime-beancount/pull/14
> There are more than enough unemployed people to fill any gaps created.

Why would they want to fill gaps when the rent is paid, the fridge is stocked, and there are so many games to play and movies to watch? I can totally see the "gaps" in fun jobs being filled. But the "gaps" in garbage collection, sewer inspection and other dirty jobs? Let's not kid ourselves and pretend that "if only people wouldn't have to worry about rent, they'd gladly take these jobs".
"Employers would have increase wages significantly above the UBI level in order to attract workers, but that would either erode the UBI through inflation or cause an inflationary spiral if the UBI were indexed."

An analogous argument is always trotted out against minimum wage increases, and has been pretty thoroughly debunked.

I'm thoroughly convinced that economies do better when cash is distributed among more people. We currently have a situation where wealth is overly concentrated. The wealth looks for investments, and can't find much because the demand side is locked up: people are generally too poor and debt ridden to create new markets. OTOH, if wealth is widely distributed, everyone buys their needs, and there lots of economic growth, as we saw after ww2.

Another glass to see this through... In a capitalist society, if you have demands and no money, no one will care to solve your problems... And indeed, lots of people have problems and no money to pay to see them solved. Distribute the wealth and those problems suddenly have money behind them. Businesses pop up to help, employing people, etc.
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That's my point. Thanks, I didn't know dole meant a small part of benefits. I thought it just meant any kind of welfare.
I use Tiddlywiki. The good part is that, once you familiarize yourself with the internals, you can customize it any way you like.

https://tiddlywiki.com/
You don't get it. It is fine. Logic is hard sometimes.
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Yeah, it's pretty cool! On one hand you have knot traces, which are spaces that completely determine whether a knot is slice, and on the other you have the Rassmussen s-invariant, which can sometimes tell whether a knot isn't slice. It turns out that knot traces contain different information from the s-invariant.

One way sliceness is studied is through knot concordance, which is a certain restricted kind of deformation of a knot through 4-d space. All slice knots are concordant to each other. The Rasmussen s-invariant is invariant under concordance. So, the particular pair of knots C and K' cannot be concordant since they have different Rassmussen s-invariants. One consequence is that it's not true that knots with diffeomorphic knot traces are concordant in general.

Another interesting thing is that C and K' are related by positive mutation, which makes them topologically concordant (weaker than concordance). Since K' is slice, this implies C is topologically slice (weaker than sliceness), though this was already known by Freedman's work because the Alexander polynomial of C is 1.

Altogether, C is topologically slice but not slice (not the first example) while also being a positive mutant of a slice knot (which is what made the problem so difficult for so long).

The knot trace X(K) is a 4-dimensional manifold whose boundary is a 3-manifold called the 0-surgery of K. There was a conjecture that knots with diffeomorphic 0-surgeries are concordant (perhaps up to mirror images). While it was already disproved, this pair of knots gives another counterexample. In fact, she gives infinitely many pairs of counterexamples in an earlier paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03974
> There are more than enough unemployed people to fill any gaps created.

Except that isn't what actually happens. Even without basic income and in the depths of the recession, certain categories of jobs (especially in agriculture) could not be filled.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/West_Pa...
Isnt that worse? How did an iPhone recording end up at a third-party?
The best resource for a foreigner it would be to follow normal Venezuelans in Twitter (Twitter is huge in the country! I would even dare to say it is more influential than in the US, , that is another interesting topic for another day). There is a r/Vzla in reddit, but you will get there a very specific slice of the population (young,English-speaking, pro-US, etc).

The thing is everything is changing daily. For example, gas costs oficially less than 1 cent per liter, people usually left more in tips to the guy at the pump than the payment for a full SUV tank. But now, due to the huge crisis and sanctions gas is scarce(can you imagine?) so naturally there are lots of trouble at the gas stations and the government is sending the national guard (a branch of the military) to control the situation. The result? Those guys are charging undercover now up to 2 USD per liter!!, quasi-European prices. So a guy like that can get 2-3 desperate people, "earn" 100 USD in one afternoon and then spend them all in 1 jar of Nutella and 1 hour of "massage". Crazy, crazy all around.
Why is signal so eager to make changes. It has been pestering me to create profile names,I don't want that so I ignore it. That's just a small drop in the bucket but why fix it isn't broken? Why not make things optional.

This b.s. is starting to remind me of the systemd crap lin Linux. I am at a point where I prefere paid open source apps and services (with a free tier) so the devs have incentive to listen to users.

It worked well a year ago,now they are ruinig it. I constantly have problems with Signal where it takes hours at times to deliver the message and this translates to real world problems and misunderstandings with people for me. Just fix the bugs,make new features optional and opt-in unless you absolutley have no choice.
#boycottGoogle
I personally like the UX more, and it’s just a smoother experience for me than trello. Also what’s cool is we’ve divided up the Kanban boards so they’re separated by team, but they merge into a master board so we can see how everyone is doing at a glance. I also use it for tech designs writing documentation so, I need more than trello by default
Sounds like socialism.
I've never had an issue in 7 years while upgrading (unpack a tgz file and minor cleaning) so my experience is different. Backup is not an issue because all pages are just text files I can rsync anywhere. Plugins can be updated clicking a button in the admin panel and infrequent updates to the main wiki is a feature to me while all is working fine. In the end it depends of what you use it for and right now I trust this solution and I'm confident it will keep working in the future.

I've looked into wiki.js and its really nice but I doubt I could run it on my hardware and I'd have to install node and Postgres (docker is not my thing, I'm old school!). Anyway the real deal breaker to me is that mathjax support is not there yet and I need formulas.
That just means strawberries become a luxury fruit. That’s fine. Nobody needs strawberries. And it provides an incentive for automation.

I’m not sold on expansive UBI. (The EITC seems like a better middle step.) But I don’t buy this argument.
Latest versions of dd support the argument "status=progress" for displaying the average write speed while running.
I'm using Postgres, I managed to hack something to see yearly data, it works if it look at the full year, but it fails if I the zoom in graphana.
This is not an article about UBI. It’s interesting that all if the comments are about the usefulness of UBI, while this article is merely about the efficacy of delivering aid in kind vs in cash.
It is an inordinate amount of power relatively speaking and the transaction throughput is sad (though not sad enough to get people to use other versions that make different tradeoffs, apart from the obvious one of mainstream finance with Visa, Paypal, et al.) So what?

Waste? It's evidently not waste, because miners are compensated. Missed opportunities for that energy to have done work on something else, or at least done more efficiently so the surplus could do something else? Perhaps, but that can be said of anything. I'd instead criticize the far greater missed opportunities of not coating deserts with solar panels, not peppering the world with nuclear reactors, not having satellites beaming microwaves down, etc. etc. We'll never become a Type 1 civilization with attitudes suggesting we lower global energy consumption or try to allocate it only in approved ways.
> This is a good reminder that sometimes the plaintiff in a major decision like this often doesn’t have the strongest ideological link to the issue at hand ...

That's a misreading of TFA. It's not that she ever opposed abortion rights. TFA makes it clear that the just did it for the money.
TransformerTTS: A Text-to-Speech Transformer in TensorFlow 2
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That doesn't make functors and monads impossible to implement.
We've just open-sourced our implementation of TransformerTTS: a Text-to-Speech Transformer. It's based on a Microsoft paper: Neural Speech Synthesis with Transformer Network. It's written in TensorFlow 2 and uses all its cool features.

The best thing on our implementation though is that you can easily use the WaveRNN Vocoder to generate human-level synthesis. We also provide samples and a Colab notebook. Make sure to check it out and please star ⭐️ the repo and share it! We're already working on the Forward version of TransformerTTS and we'll release it soon as well.

- Samples: https://as-ideas.github.io/TransformerTTS/

- Github: https://github.com/as-ideas/TransformerTTS

- Colab notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/github/as-ideas/Transforme...
I never understood the complaint about generators. Languages can have both light-weight laziness (like generators) and more heavy abstractions (like scheme's srfi-41). The overhead of generators in, say, JavaScript is minimal. If you want odd lazy lists, generators is a great thing to use to build it. Generators and streams (as in scheme's SRFI 41) are not mutually exclusive.
I thought I read at some point that several decades in the past there was a period when you could opt out of Social Security and put retirement in one's own hands.

I always wanted to look up that history for when that forked path was allowed and when it was eliminated and why. The author of the piece I read mentioned how he earned much better returns with the money he otherwise would have had he put it into social security and was thankful he took the more "risky" route.
> Lists seems to compete in some ways with Trello and JIRA

Azure Boards (part of Azure DevOps) is the most equivalent. Despite the naming it doesn't require any use of Azure.
There's no language in which you would be able to write a function for arbitrary data structures using sum(), and get a reasonable outcome.

The problem with Python is that it doesn't have typing that can express "I can sum".
> It stands to reason that unrestricted welfare would reduce hours worked in developed countries.

Firstly, this probably isn't correct, see this recent report from Finland: https://twitter.com/rcbregman/status/1258336749828419584

I'd also point out that the current situation forces an "all or nothing" employment system. In Aus, if you're working part time you don't quality for any benefits, so the incentive to work while on unemployment is lowered.
However, with UBI, there _is_ incentive to work. You can double your income by taking up a part time job, instead of getting the same amount from working as you would from unemployment.

I'd also challenge you and say why do think reduced working hours is a bad thing?

Also, what about all the people with a lot of money who don't work?

All your arguments have been made before and discussed in depth.

> The problem being that our economy depends on these people performing such jobs.

The economy should serve the people. Shareholders may depend on it though :)

Your "inflationary spiral" theory is also unfounded, and has been shown previously.

> Why work overtime at McDonalds when your rent is already paid up for the month and there are so many fun video games to play?

This is a terrible strawman, but also maybe MCD should pay better or offer other incentives? They're not owed employees.
Generally I think the reason for you and others is that what you are interested in isn't advertising in their channel so it is always irrelevant.
This thread was at one point about Arabs and the scope of the Islamic Golden Age usually does not include the Turkic people who sacked Nalanda.
Not to oversimplify, but it's like a VPN that you have access to all the external ports on the IP?
I would wager that in a large percentage of cases you would see the same or larger gains as you see from going to different languages you would see by going for better algorithms. You example of scientific computing (and point of software engineering is well taken) is a good one, because in scientific computing people tend to research and use the fastest algorithms and once you do python (+numpy) is often fast enough.
If you've ever worked at a mcdonalds in the past ten years, you'll know that all the "work" is done by cooking machines and most of the humans are just packaging and assembling warmed up frozen food. There's a lot of admin, cleaning and customer facing that goes into it too.

I honestly believe if you wanted to, it is conceptually easy to fully automate mcdonalds, kfc & dominos (ect).
Is media the only thing worth consuming? We can participate in the economy by travelling, buying gadgets, cars, experiencing good food, etc. I do not believe that ones existence is fulfilled because they haven't finished their Netflix library.

If someone wants money to engage with society in a more meaningful way, there are always jobs to allow them to do so- even if they're dirty.
Yes, but then expand the strawberries issue to virtually all vegetables and fruit (except those harvested outside the country).

Making fruit and vegetables a luxury doesn't fit onto anyone's list of good public health outcomes.
I don't have deep knowledge of details of compute networks, there is a team of TSE who deal with network cases who know more than me. But the whole point of troubleshooting is not knowing what is wrong, but being able to find what is wrong. In order to do that you need good basis, and those you can make by studying how networks and linux systems work (someone here posted some titles) and with experience (I have some grey hair myself). But every time you troubleshoot something you end up touching something you don't know, and that's where you learn something new you might use next time. For example I didn't know about dropwatch, a colleague suggested it to me.

During the interview process at Google we don't expect candidates to be able to get to this level of depth, but we try to hire candidates that could, over time and depending on their skill set, potentially reach a similar level of depth and ability to troubleshoot cases.
Hi!

Don't you think the effort to achieve this would be absolutely massive? I don't know what kind of resources are thrown on this project, but I'd estimate minimum to be 3 dev teams for 2 years just to get a few variations of ResNet to work "as is". And that's just for regular models, that don't require quantization or (auto-)mixed precision for training.
This is not how it starts, it’s how it ends. Thousands, maybe millions, of accounts were banned by YouTube in the decade and a half preceding with this for harassing people, selling scams and spreading lies. It’s like the bare minimum a network can do to keep things civil.

The simple fact is that for almost no investment Alex Jones could have his own site serving just as many users per month. My guess is he probably does, and did, so the only thing he’s really missing out on is YouTube‘s free hosting, discovery and traffic and their generous ad revenue split.
It's created in iMovie :) Here is a better explainer than the one on the website: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alanhcraig_startups-productiv...
UBI is not luxury though. You'd still be incentived to do these jobs because they pay. Contrary to popular belief fear of death by being poor is not the only thing that motivates people.
Garbage collectors I've met are happy people and they get paid well for the job.
I've tried so many note/todo/productivity apps throughout the years and I always find myself coming back to one simple solution:

- keep your daily todo stuff on a sheet of paper in front of you, transfer the stuff from yesterday onto a fresh sheet before starting to work

- keep project specific tasks close to the project. If the project is physical stick a note onto it, if it is git managed code open a issue or add a todo inline, or add a todo.md in the project folder. Only put a vague line on your daily todo sheet: "work on project x" all the detailed stuff should be in the project

- if you have calls, meetings etc, just add them to your calendar with a reminder, no need to have them on the todo list
It appears that Microsoft has now initiated the "Extend" phase of their classic Embrace, Extend, Extinguish playbook. The key is that the proprietary Microsoft specific API added by this patch is only usable in a WSL environment as it relies on many pieces of proprietary closed source software that Microsoft is unwilling to open source. This patch does nothing but fragment the Linux ecosystem and encourage people to develop software that only works in WSL environments. With the "benefit" of forcing the Linux kernel developers to pay the maintenance costs of course.
Similar arguments have been for Trump as well
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Looks great! I just singed up for early access. I'm currently helping a company choose a CRM. We went with Salesforce but I'd love to find a cheaper alternative. However it doesn't seem you can create automation within your product. Unless I'm mistaken?
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You do say that, but you don't give an example with terminal commands, which fails to win me over your prescribed method to export to mht or web archive.
I'm using it regularly, it's great!

Only one thing that has room for improvement: if you download the .GPX, it always has the same name. It would be nice if it would indicate the date or destination.
If you ask, they'll give you access if you have a HS email... at least thats what I did sometime last year.
> That is, when the argument is "the others are getting cash", some will oppose it. But if it's "we all get cash", the opposition is less.

But it's a sleight of hand. It's "you'll get it too (but I will take the same amount out of your pockets by increasing your taxes, ha!)", and then hoping that people will not realize it. That's quite the bet.
Those cartoons remind me of the Persepolis animated film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_(film)
> You must be in the political camp That insists on ingesting Chlorine to fight COVID19.

You think wrong. I simply dislike this kind of behaviour. It kind of the reminds me of the whole "haha, you are wrong, BLOCKED" form twitter.

Good luck to you too.
Then those jobs won't be filled whether there is UBI or not anyway.