skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commerce Department Petitions FCC to Outline Restrictions of Online Censorship
Out of curiosity, what's your total return with this approach if, at expiry, the stock price matches the strike price? In other words, how much are you making with the premiums you collect?

I guess one issue with this approach is that it somewhat assumes a period of low-inflation between now and option expiry (unless you're factoring that into the 15% expected return).
Interesting, thanks! May I ask you what's your field of research? Or is just personal, general web research?
I think this can happen indirectly and unintentionally as people increasingly segregate into tribes.
yep, I see this feature being actively used on many of the channels i follow and I see it being appreciated frequently (and asked for when not enabled). This is a good example of inclusiveness in action; many people are able to appreciate content that otherwise may not be compelling to them due to language and ability differences. really sad to see it scrapped
MIT Professor Marvin Minsky accused of sex with minor
Or anyone who expects the default browser to just work
I'm still not convinced that consciousness is something that actually exists.
I think it's acceptable to elevate Black people to be on the same level as other races in America as opposed to disadvantaged. I actually think Black America is owed a lot more than what Google is doing here after centuries of legalized racism and being shut out of building wealth, but that's the US government that owes them.
6 feet is 72 inches though. So this is insufficient.
Maybe you didn't notice. I've purchased many products from Amazon that were fakes. The worst was a SanDisk SD card that died with my honeymoon pictures on it. Turns out it was a knock-off, missing some SanDisk factory hot stamps. It came in full retail packaging, with user manual - it looked completely correct if you didn't know to look for the hot stamp on the back. By the time I figured it out that vendor was gone from Amazon.
Not sure what you’re trying to say or being sarcastic or what. I know the Model 3 used the new 2170 cells instead of the 18650‘s. The article itself mentions the improvements are going into the 2170 cells.
I haven't looked too closely, but I've bought Duracell / Energizer batteries from Amazon and I suspect they're counterfeit because they die suspiciously quickly. I thought my hardware was broken, but Amazon's batteries seem to work well.
If the business owners choose to broadcast that label then it’s fine.

The only thing I don’t like about this social pattern is that it can over time lead to people becoming more prejudiced. Filter by white-owned, Chinese owned, etc. The worst version of it was when Germany labeled Jewish owned businesses.

The best way to deal with a bug is to not design a system where the bug could appear.
> If you have an enterprise, paid version of your OSS product it has to be impossible for an enterprise to use it for free.

Why? Most enterprises, especially ones that aren't tech firms, are going to shell out for enterprise support even if there are no additional features. Crippling the community version doesn't necessarily help enterprise sales, it can reduce overall mindshare reducing enterprise traction or, worse yet, mean that a third-party downstream edition with richer open-source features becomes dominant and it's creator gets “your” enterprise support contracts.
Back in the day the internet for normal people was 3 bucks a hour over a 14,400 modem. I didn't consider myself a "creator" for posting my recipes for making mashed potatoes in a crock pot. I just wanted to make the world have better mashed potatoes. I did it for free. There was no "like" button or comments or monetization. Just this nerd and a crock pot and a gross amount of butter. That is not a joke. I had a crock pot cooking site. I didn't have a counter or anything. Maybe it was popular.. I will never know.

The internet was pretty great when it was just people sharing info without looking for a advertising partnership with Land 'O Lakes.
I thought Brave was going to go a different direction, closer to what Apple music streaming does, where they look at your traffic over the month and divvy up your subscription between them.

Or even: these are all of the things you support: which ones did you enjoy this month?
Tailors Know New Yorkers’ Pandemic Secret: ‘Everybody Got Fat ’
You don't have to. I think it's only the Government that should have to provide economic remedies like reparations to close the racial wealth gap/legacy of centuries of legalized racism in the America. I will do my part to support Black Americans as a private individual, but really it's going to take Government action to close the racial wealth gap.
Hey, I am really sorry, it sounds terrible!

I just fixed the 404 issue for the feedback tool. For the Github popup, I can see new users signed up via Github with no issue.

May I know what browser are you using? Is the popup blocked by the browser somehow? Thanks!
The problem with recirculation is not that it makes through the filter (although that'd be part of the issue, if it did), the problem is that air is blown throughout the cabin, and those droplets travel quite a bit _before_ they reach the filter. Someone sneezes 3-4 rows away from you, and you could inhale whatever they expelled.
Bad idea. Just like it is/was stupid for them to surface the neo nazi content I've been shown in the last few years, eg. in Google News.
I usually expect more from this company. Has Google gone hopelessly corporate?
I think Reddit could throw away all of the new stuff and be better off.

Everything they’ve done after maybe 2010 could just be thrown away.

An enormous waste of programmer effort and time for something that is a lot worse than what they started with.
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Home Depot is good for brand name items. But I started noticing a few years back that a substantial number of the cheap crappy tools I saw at Harbor Freight were showing up Home Depot under another random name, but otherwise identical. Totally fine as long as you know what you're getting into, but many people know to expect that when they shop at HF but not at HD.
Ben Eater is amazing... Thanks for sharing!
Actually, that is 100% the natural conclusion of capitalism. It doesn’t care about states or boundaries, all you really need is the ability to control capital.
This is getting really frustrating. How many tech company equity-based judgement calls are we going to be subjected to, that will not be extended to other groups that aren't the popular favorites of the moment?

How about tags for restaurants owned by poor immigrants? Or how about veterans? Or people who are their family's first people to go to college?

When are we done with this moment, or when does the equity get extended to other equity-worthy groups?
The white racists are going to avoid the black-owned businesses, and vice-versa, encouraging further self-segregation.
>That kind of illustrates the point that these companies just might be too big

While these companies are big in every sense, they are not load bearing structures of the economy.

What I mean is that they are big, but say Google fails overnight. None of the phones work, none of their services work. There will be short term pain, losses and perhaps some economic impact too. However, the world will move on relatively quickly. There will be another tech company, or a bunch of companies to replace it. There will be new areas of economy opening up to competing products and services. Youtubers will move to platforms like Twitch, email gets moved to Hey (perhaps?), communication moves to platforms like Zoom and what not.

In a few months or perhaps a year, hardware makers will pivot to a new OS, new services, new products. Business will go on, with or without whatsapp / gmail / what not. Credit flow will not stop, businesses will not stop producing goods and services. If a business depends on Google for distribution of it's services, it will eventually find other ways to do it, perhaps through twitter, or email marketing or SMS or what not.

Coming to data collected over the years. Lets say all the data google ever collected gets deleted this instant. The most hurt people are the advertisers, who will start buying generic, non targeted ads for some time and then slowly move to other platforms.

However on the flip side, a company like Google has very real power to influence public thought, manufacture consent, hide facism, nudge elections, lobby congress for unfair playing grounds, etc.

Companies like Google, Facebook & Apple are big, but in a lopsided way. Too much power to do harm, but not really a 'catastrophic' effect on daily lives of people, in the long term. They are important, but not structural. They provide jobs, but are not irreplaceable. Their power to do good is substantial, but their goal to increase shareholder value comes first.

In my view, big tech companies ought to be churned, by force if necessary, to prevent monopolistic or oligopolistic entities.

Imagine what havoc Facebook can wreak with society, if it actively starts promoting one political spectrum, and suppresses the other. The sad part is, it may already be doing that and we just can't damn know.
Alignment as a Bottleneck to Usefulness of GPT-3
I should think, perhaps by helping individual people instead. If someone is poor then someone might help them, I suppose. Then it won't be racist, it will be individualistic, it would seem.

Hiring someone for the job should be decided on if they are competent at that job, not on other criteria such as black, white, men, women, taller, religious, etc, unless that is relevant for this kind of job (such as acting in a movie, perhaps).
Managing Predictive Systems During an Unpredictable Pandemic
100% this. So much environment complexity these days before you get to Hello World. Command line, install this and that, mess with configuration files and on and on.

Like you, the last quick prototype I did was all html and js uploaded to a shared hosting (https://arcadejack.com). I would like to get back to building simple apps, but the barriers are higher than 20 yrs ago. For my current side project I'm using PHP and hired a developer online to help me with initial boilerplates.
> You grab a .dll file with a library you like, or a .so, and you commit it into git. Voila! This happens all the time.

This would also violate Google's source code policies. So yes, the policies are remarkably consistent here.

> No, you're incorrect about everything so far. I gave a correct explanation of how damages are calculated in this thread:

Yes, and then you later gave an incorrect (overly limited one)one.

> Profit is the DIFFERENCE in how much Google made with the AGPL code compared to if didn't have that code (so loss in profit from a bit less functionality in Gmail/Youtube/Ads, cost of licensing the functionality elsewhere, or cost of developing similar functionality)

Note I said "potential". I agree that for an accidental temporary misuse, use the value wouldn't be astronomical. But for long term use it would be. As is evidenced by the current Oracle litigation.

But note what this means: Google can't intentionally use any AGPL software in any of its products on purpose, because that opens them up to legitimately huge damages. So there's basically no legitimate business reason to import them. Accidental misuse is also potentially bad, though yes only hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars bad, not billions. But there's no upside. You can't use the software for legitimate business purposes.

So banning it is completely rational, and banning it on the reasons stated is also completely rational, because there is only downside.
I had the thought, "why doesn't PBS or a PBS-like organization do stuff like this?"

PBS doesn't exist without the local affiliates, though, and chasing after web content too vigorously would betray that relationship, if you didn't handle it very, very carefully.
Same here. Bought some fridge water filters, but they made otherwise perfectly good tap water taste like it had been chlorinated. I have no idea what nastiness was inside. Now I just suck it up and pay full price at HD.
Most of what we do drains the earths resources. If a large portion of the population takes the easy route, they'll end up consuming less. Less consumption means longer lasting resources.

Part of the reason we're tapping out the earth is trying to keep up with everybody around us. If people can choose to live simply, they'll normalize a less consumer-driven lifestyle
effect of being vc funded. the engineers hired later on, only care about engineering problems also company nametag & money, not user level problems. you would think, dropbox would be concerned with providing best value for the buck but nah. plenty of other examples fb, google - google software quality sucks for a place that employs 100s of engineers.
which is great if you want a book published post 2000, but horrible for the rest of the catalog
For some applications you also have to replicate the propagation delay accurately. A general purpose brute force rig would be useful though.
I completely agree. The approach of hiring young and training them is particularly overlooked these days but is the best approach as you end up with a blend of experience over time.
Meaningless spam, advertises as a guide to PhD and gives a few meme images. Academia is very political, I saw senior folk looking down on writing actual code while glorifying corruption and the publishing of fraudulent or meaningless papers. These are closer to the realities you have to deal with getting a "PhD", even in computer science.
You are just testing willingness to jump through hoops in order to get the job (and, hopefully, to keep it). Which could be all that is needed for a megacorp job. In a workplace where you are very likely have more than enough brainpower to solve any problem just because of its size, teamwork and loyalty are much more important than expertise.

In a smaller company this is not true though. If you only have 10 engineers there is a good chance that none of them is qualified enough to solve the current problem so even if they all are extremely loyal and cooperative - the problem will remain unsolved. Even with a 100 you might end with just ~10 experts who are going to be overextended, burn out and quit. So, while loyalty and teamwork are still important, you really, really want to test for the actual expertise in a small-medium company. Unless you don't foresee any hard problems, then hiring for loyalty is the best you can do.
So Google went accidentally racist again?

Because the moment you treat someone different because of things like skin color it's racist, you know.

Doesn't matter if it's a preferred or discriminatory treatment because any preferable treatment for one group of people based on race is a discrimination against all other.
That’s a glib interpretation. And you’re pushing the same anti- affirmative action viewpoint that has maintained racial inequities.
I made this because I kept stumbling upon resources and thought "more people should know this exists". So, I tried to make a central directory of important resources, whether it be places to access important data, job openings and trackers, tools for people or businesses trying to access funding, and of course, resources for people currently with the virus.
I guess that’s an advantage of buying Amazon branded merchandise? It’s the only brand you know won’t be counterfeited since no other seller has it in their stock.
Well, it might be unintentional. Hiding those labels by default will make it better to avoid such an unintentional bias, I think. I don't care if they are black or not, but I don't want to be unintentionally biased.
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Hey! To be fair, we don't criticize it (blog post author here), nor do we discourage such training, of course. It is perfectly valid and could be a good ROI, as you mentioned. What we found out is that using algorithmic knowledge as a metric for hiring was suboptimal. As other people mentioned, there's plenty of people w/o formal CS background who can deliver, and there's plenty of people who know algorithms by heart but have trouble shipping things. There's some correlation, of course, but I would say those are different dimensions.

And then it looks like this: when hiring someone, the company measures them by one dimension and then expects them to perform on another one. I did get some backlash for comparing engineers to cooks, heh, but the main point is and always was about choosing the right metric.
>I would say that Apple has to work harder to get users to willingly depart with their cash.

Actually, it's often the opposite. In the Boston area, the Apple Stores are always packed while the Microsoft Store (now closed) was usually mostly empty in the high-end mall across the street from the stand-alone Boylston Street Apple Store.

Price isn't the primary factor for many people, especially younger people.

First, there's no real price difference between high-end Android phones—the newest Samsung, for example—and similar iPhones.

A Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G 128GB list price is $1399; the iPhone 11 Pro Max with 256GB (double the storage) is $1249. That's $52.04/month.

I worked with 24 public high school kids last summer. Most of them were from 1st or 2nd generation immigrant families and would qualify for free or reduced lunch at school. Every one of them had a newer model iPhone than my 6s at the time.

Zero Android devices.

Which confirmed something I learned from market analysis years ago regarding Apple: people with limited funds can't afford to make a mistake when spending their limited money, which is why they tend to gravitate to higher quality, better made products.

Yes, there was the typical desire for teens to have the right sneakers, t-shirt, jeans, etc. The iPhone is definitely in that category, with 85% of them either owning or intending to buy an iPhone: https://www.phonearena.com/news/teens-love-apple_id123682.
The structure of GPT-3 makes this a bit hard right now - most people don't have access and even then it is limited, making feeding the articles and other comments in is difficult. This isn't a fundamental difficulty though, so I expect that we'll see it in the near future.
I think since America's centuries of legalized racism affects every Black American living today, every Black American deserves some form of remedy. I also think it's best for America long term (in terms of stability and growth) to make things right with Black America including economically. It's not good for America's stability to let the racial wealth gap stay the same as it was in the 1950s days of legal racism.
If you travel internationally a lot - then Google Fi is absolute wonder!
I think you might have missed the point of the parent comment.

They agreed with you, that if BB has the exact same item as Amazon, they would match the price. It would work for "unique" products that aren't just very generic, easily replaceable, and don't have a significant variation, where a customer would prefer a very specific model of the item (like headphones, videogames, movies, tvs, monitors, etc.). If you want to buy Die Hard trilogy on Blu Ray, you probably won't be satisfied with buying Rambo trilogy on Blu Ray, despite them being somewhat similar. You care about the exact model of the item here.

But if you just want to buy something generic, like a USB-C to USB-C cable, it isn't something that people have brand loyalty towards, it is something very generic and easily replaceable. You don't care about the brand, you just want a USB-C cable that supports Thunderbolt 3 spec and is at least 6ft long. On Amazon, you will have bajillion choices from different brands across all price ranges. At BB, you will have a couple of brands that are probably not even on Amazon for various reasons (e.g., it could be a BB exclusive version of that item) and are significantly overpriced. And you cannot just price match any USB-C cable to any USB-C cable that meets the same spec and is the same length, it has to be that exact same model.

So, for example, if the "premium" brand version on Amazon costs $20, cheap one costs $8, and the only version from a completely different brand available at Best Buy is barely even the same quality as the "cheap" one from Amazon but costs $40, it makes no sense to buy it from BB.
That was kind of done in Mexico with the CoDi system.

But yeah ACH is so old and crappy that nothing can fix it.
I’d suggest most of you read this as a longer form examination of policies like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Be_an_Antiracist

Rather than trying to make tired points in 140 characters.
> Am I now supposed to consider the skin color of the business owner before shopping there?

Yes! You’re getting it!
The Achilles heel of Google is stricter privacy laws. Every other threat pales in comparison.

Apple can survive, and in fact thrives in an environment where privacy takes paramount importance.

Google cannot. Even FB may swim through, as it is driven by user actions. People post on it, share articles, chat on it, etc.

Google has a big moat now, and that moat will vanish if people start getting serious about privacy.
I've been using iPhones since the 3GS, then 4S the SE, and now an iPhone 7.

Every single one of them, out of the box, has had terrible battery life.

The iPhone 7 has a 1960mAh, that's just insufficient. Full. Stop. No matter how you slice it, a 2000mAh batter is never going to get you through a day on an iPhone if you actually use it.

I've recently seen Android 10 phones available with 10,000mAh batteries. That sounds like it might at least get me through till lunch time.
Not so much any more, especially if you get a keyboard and mouse.
The fact that you're getting voted like a rollercoaster shows just how controversial things like this are. There are people who want to force their entirely absurd notions of "equality" upon the world, and those who realise that this is a very dangerous and destructive line of thought.
This article is very believable. These are basically the things I noticed about our local Best Buy. First, the associates got less pushy and more personable. And second, they'll price match Amazon. It's not really fair that they must compete with Amazon, they should cost a little more for the showrooming privilege, but I can totally see how that was the only real answer. Now I buy things from them that I would otherwise wait two days to get from Amazon.

Also, Amazon is making it more appealing since their own product quality is in the tank. I've said it before, I'll say it again, if Amazon doesn't figure out how to have a "Ships from and Sold By Amazon" option that guarantees no counterfeits, and no intermixing with 3rd party products, they're going to steadily lose customers. And once you lose the trust of those customers, good luck earning it back easily.
Copy paste into email, send to yourself.
How about the time Rhode Island issued municipal bonds to finance a video game company founded by a major league baseball pitcher (Curt Schilling) that hadn't even ever released a game? And then they defaulted and everyone sued, of course...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_Studios

https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-37.html
Can you clarify what "elevating" looks like from your perspective?

And considering how many immigrants there starting out with literally nothing (one example) how we should pick one race to help but not all terribly disadvantaged people?