skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Purdue is only worth a bit more than $2 billion if liquidated. The company values a proposal to settle litigation, which includes providing addiction treatment and overdose-reversing drugs, at more than $10 billion. The Sacklers would contribute $3 billion and cede control of Purdue, with the company becoming a trust run on behalf of plaintiffs.

>Those financial realities underscore that Purdue does not have enough money to satisfy the myriad claims against it.
HIPPA authorities are going to fine them into oblivion right? Right?
Wafer scale has existed since the 1980s. It's literally Concorde-era technology.
That is not an apt analogy because the switching costs for grocery stores is no where near as high with iOS. If you want the full argument I highly recommend reading the full legal filing.[1]

[1] https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complaint-734589783.pdf
While Epic can be accused of starting this intentionally to prove a point, this just goes into the territory of chilling effect now. I have always been wary of their power over iPhone/iOS ecosystem, but if they are going to use a mistake and their power there into a largely different ecosystem MacOS, that is beyond scary. Consider that the same company has many other ecosystems like TV, speakers too.

Apple is too scary at this point for big developers like Epic who are well diversified on other platforms. Imagine the fate of small/upcoming developers who might start with Apple's products itself.

Apple needs to be really reined in either by regulation or customers, latter being way harder because it is harder to convince people of long term detrimental effects. I stopped using iPhone long time back, but now I will make a conscious effort to not even live in the MacOS ecosystem.
I really doubt the Elgin marbles would disappear from Greece
Skillset -- reading other people's code - especially if you can get to the point where you understand it well enough to fix bugs in it - is a great way to work on building your skillset.

Time -- yes.
Why even declare such an outlandish number?

What’s the difference between saying 2.2T or a gajillion bazillion?
Can't say I particularly agree with you. Things like an "[inclusive] approach to history and politics", and everything that implies, are a large part of why we pulled our kids out of public schools.

I fully respect other adults' right to hold their own opinions. I am not a fan of high-jacking education of children as a way to push those views, which has unfortunately become common place from both ends of the political spectrum.
We are talking about startups though? Should Ycombinator be teaching people that 5g doesn't spread corona-virus?

Or maybe these people shouldn't be in control of such companies.
They gave 2 options the original through apple and then via tem. How is paying them different from when i pay uber or lyft through an app? Apple doesnt get 30% in that case.
If a business partner is acting in bad faith (violating terms) I think it’s fair for the impact to spread across the organization.
They might be interesting to use for authentication and maybe even cashless payments. Everything in my wallet - cards, identification, licenses, should be set into a smart watch. Bonus points if I can get driving directions on it.
There was a Russian travel-photoblogger obsessed with street signs and fire hydrants whose blog I read a lot of a few years back, out of whose very extensive travels a few patterns and interesting observations emerged, one of which was: planned cities are almost always eerily empty, with streets way too wide and not enough in between them, and are typically just about the dullest cities to visit.

[EDIT] and no, I don't have a link, I lost the URL years back and have repeatedly tried to find it again, failing every time.
It’s my understanding that you can go to jail for HIPAA related breaches.
The Right-to-Control Public Manifesto (Rtcpm)
Well if this goes through they are definitely bankrupt.
What on earth are you talking about?

My response was based on the OP suggesting the account closure was based purely on the App Store policy violation. I’m pretty sure it’s based on more than that, such as the fact that Epic is suing them in bad faith.

There’s probably a million app developers which have violated the policies in some manner at some point and yet very few get blacklisted by Apple.
Jail is on the table for HIPAA violations. I am always afraid to mess with medical data.
Maybe they know who their voters are better than you do?
I didnt have the same experience. I repaired a few Iphones at an indy repair shop and the repair was solid and way cheaper than with apple.
I wonder what it will take for data security to ever be taken seriously.
Popularity != sanity, and popularity != value, and popularity != efficiency.

See: beanie babies, furbies, tulips, leaded gasoline, leaded paint, the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1900s and so on. A lot of people using something doesn’t make it at all valuable, efficient, effective or good — anything, really. It has to do that on its own merits.

You can’t escape the fundamental economics here. It’s bad. Rather it’s great at separating people from their money, and allowing the trafficking of illicit narcotics and money laundering.

[edit] let’s look at it the other way. Why isn’t the popularity of the dollar enough to convince you the dollar is better? Who would have to adopt the dollar to change your mind?
> Well, you're missing the part where many acres of vegetable crops are inputs into that single acre of pork

What do you mean by vegetable? It is a rather loaded term. Culinary vegetables are definitely not fed to pigs in any meaningful quantities. They are much too inefficient to even consider. If by vegetable you mean any kind of edible plant, then yes, pigs are fed mostly very-efficient-to-produce corn and soybeans.

Based on the numbers before, when you feed pigs 15 million calories of corn (1 acre), they give back 3.5 million calories of pork. If you fed pigs 2 million calories of broccoli (1 acre) then they would likely only give back 0.4 million calories of pork. But that's a really big reason why you don't normally feed pigs broccoli.

> Animal meat is nowhere near as efficient as eating vegetable crops directly

Agreed, if you are talking about the specific vegetable the animal is eating. However, vegetative efficiency varies greatly from crop to crop. If you feed animals the most efficient plants, then they can still be more efficient overall than the less efficient vegetables are alone. As before, the food the animals eat is, for all intents and purposes, not the same food that you eat. Plants that are intended to be fed to humans are generally less efficient to produce, for various reasons.
My small family fled NYC and have landed in a part of coastal New England that was last trendy with your parents and/or grandparents, especially if your ancestors came over on the Mayflower.

Not as wildly affordable as other options but a solid mix of access to nature, good schools, and educated, sometimes eccentric retirees who hold the city government to a high standard.
4.) Born rich and with connections

(which seems to be how all my b school classmates who made it into VC did it)
I assume to set the stage for negotiation - presumably significant costs for dealing with the destruction Purdue caused, and also wanting ongoing recovery support from them.
Bruh 5.2 percent what are you doing giving investment advice lmao
"the more cars you add, the more road you need, the more spaced out everything gets, ..."

Disregards the promise of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) technology.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209575641....
Enforcement of monetary penalties.
> What tells you those records aren't in a superposition?

This! Now substitute the record taking device and record keeping substrate with a human brain and this stays true. To rephrase your question:

"What tells you the state of your brain isn't in superposition?"

A human in the loop is not the end of the story, it's just yet another interaction in the quantum system.

When we experience decoherence of a quantum system, we interpret it as if something happened to the thing we observe, yet what actually happens is that something happened to us (and in turn to every system that observes us, and so on).

This is all utterly unintuitive for us, who experience the world through those brains, who feel being there, conscious in the moment. That feeling is one of our strongest direct perceptions of the world, and yet it's affected by the mechanisms of the physical reality. It's hard to accept though; it runs counter to many deep intuitions we have about ourselves, our inner lives, our identity, our values, our belief systems.
Maybe it's like 1000-year prison terms. It does not make practical sense, but if that is how much harm the company has caused, that is how much the lawsuit would be for.
We can debate about the validity of Apple's concerns on iOS, but since Epic violated terms of iOS, for now Apple is within its right to take action there.

If they had stopped with just suspending their iOS publishing powers, it could have been understandable. Taking action on all platforms just seems like abuse, it is not like Epic was doing something like distributing malware, they broke the payment terms of iOS.
A 9.5 foot cube
It talks about how you can go from a language model that simply generates text to an agent that is capable of performing actions in the real world

Essentially, the missing pieces in the picture come down to input and output modules. "How do you formulate any given problem into a form that a language model can answer?".
Hey, I just wanted to thank you for your reply covering the two semesters of stochastics in a condensed reply nearly 11 months ago in a different thread. I got too distracted reading up on it I forgot to reply. I cant tell you how much that helped with putting it all together conceptually. Given there is no way to reply to it now or dm you I figured this was the next best thing. Also anyway to get in contact with you with any future questions outside of here? especially since you mentioned you were previously working on an AI project. Any thoughts on High-Dimensional Statistics: A Non-Asymptotic Viewpoint by A. Martin Wainwright? It's currently what I'm trudging along through. You wouldn't happen to have a graycatmathhelp@email would you? thanks again
So let's hear your argument on why Nintendo should allow you to run any software on their switch.

And even if you do think that, let's see some evidence of you arguing that case as passionately as you argue this one.
> And then someone will mess up the repair and blame Apple for a malfunctioning device or demand they fix it for free.

I call this bs. Apple doesn’t want devices repaired because they are too greedy. Their own repairs in store are sometimes more expensive than buying new. Guess why that is? Pure greed.
We need criminal indictments, where are the prosecutors
What makes you think it's outlandish? It's certainly possible that it's a approximate monetary evaluation of the harm caused.
The Sacklers paying $3 billion is a joke. They have a net worth of $13 billion, most of which is proceeds from ostensibly an illegal drug trafficking operation targeting poor communities.

There's enough evidence of criminal behaviour by the Sackler family personally to warrant piercing the corporate veil and going after Sackler family assets.

They should be in jail. They have killed substantially more people than COVID.
The Sackler family should be completely liquidated. They acted with complete disregard and caused an unbelievable amount of pain. To think, there are people in prison for marijuana charges and these people still walk free. It's an absurd injustice.
> Fundamentally one wants something that easily fits in a pocket

I don't think we really do. Constantly pulling your phone out of a pocket is unnecessary friction, and just as pocket watches gave way to wrist watches, I think phones will become something you wear, not carry.
“Conspiracy in restraint of trade” would fit perfectly what Apple/Google are doing.

The average American spends some what, 4-5 hours a day on their phone? Is there any even remotely comparable precedent for a company to control all trade through everything? The best I can think of is cable, imagine if there were only two cable companies and they not only had unilateral ability to control which channels appear, but also charged 30% to every channels profit.

Further, how many different commercial activities do people do every single day on their devices? This is a far, far bigger thing than any platform before it. And it’s dominated by only two companies with a history of collusion. These platforms are nothing at all like “a market” and trying to argue from narrow historical frames is poor form.

They are far bigger things. It’s more akin to a world, people use them for literally every part of their lives. I don’t think narrow precedent should ever rule our thinking and especially when it’s clear there is no historical precedent here. We need to be “courageous” enough to use moral and logical thinking and not legalistic weaseling, we need to legislate them as new types of markets far bigger and more important to every persons life than any that’s ever existed.
It's NPM that's the problem, not node.
Best DNS server on the planet. My largest deployment was a ~700 client network with absolutely minimal system resources. Replication provided by simple Unix resources and file watchers.
You can buy a Dotcom call sign subscription and fly your flights (including ADS-B ID) under a randomly assigned Dotcom callsign.

So, instead of being trackable N123AB, I could fly as DCM965. You could still potentially trace approximately where the aircraft flew (because there aren’t quite enough DCM flights for real anonymity), but it’s more work.

https://flttrack.fltplan.com/FltPlanInfo/DCMCallSigns.htm
> Humidity inside is running about 50% at the moment.

Drop that by 10-15% with a dehumidifier and you’ll feel a heck of a lot cooler despite temperature being the same.
If Google removes all news links from their services (assuming that would allow them to avoid this tax), and remains profitable in Aus, please remember to update your beliefs on this subject. I will do the same if Google's removal of news links causes a material decline in profitability or allows for the creation of a profitable upstart that deals with the Aus news media on these terms.
The issue with such highly sensitive data is that it's just data. Probably a few GB. Many AAA game downloads nowadays are much bigger than that. Even if they protected their database (article says they didn't), it's easy to break into a place that has all the data collected compared to collecting it yourself from doctors all over the country. There's an easy solution to this: don't concentrate highly sensitive data.

With nuclear material, the IAEA has set up a sophisticated surveillance regime to make sure that countries use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. Everything that contains nuclear material is video surveilled. They collect probes and check composition to prevent someone taking, say 1%, replacing it with filler material, and then mixing it again.

If we concentrate data, we should employ such surveillance regimes for highly enriched sensitive data as well.
Not for any single user or connection. High capacity doesn't equal low latency, and scalability to many users doesn't necessarily help one user get better performance!

Very often, you'll see n-tier applications where for some reason (typically load-balancers), the requests are muxed into a single TCP stream. In the past, this improved efficiency by eliminating the per-connection overhead.

Now, with high core counts and high bandwidths, some parallelism is absolutely required to even begin to approach the performance ceiling. If the application is naturally single-threaded, such as some ETL jobs, these single-stream bottlenecks are very difficult to overcome.

In the field, I very often see 8-core VMs with a "suspicious" utilisation graph flatlining at 12.5% because of issues like this. It boils my blood when people say that this is perfectly fine, because clearly the server has "adequate capacity". In reality, there's a problem, and the server is at 100% of its capacity an the other 7 cores are just heating the data centre air.
I didn't mind - just wanted to clarify that I did try to make this work :) . Thanks for clarifying your intent. Edit: you lucked out that your eBay battery was good - mine was unfortunately a total dud even though it claimed to be OEM (and had labeling on the battery to match) but caused the machine to shutdown randomly. Edit2: I was also responding to a thread on how Apple treats its certified shops, which is why I left out the details on my endeavors to replace the battery after my attempts to get it done properly failed. Edit3: all of the procedures I saw (iFixit, Youtube) showed a fairly complicated procedure with that nasty glue removal so I am surprised your battery came off easily - perhaps it was previously replaced?
That can lead to a full on 'only replace' strategy, as you can see with canon's consumer printers.
Could easily be gamma or x-ray - those, if short enough wavelength, could go through the iPod case.

Talk about a cool story.
A 12" cheese pizza has about 2000 calories.

A 6' tall 160 lb man who does vigorous exercise 5+ times a week needs 2500-3000 calories per day to maintain weight.

So if you're still hungry it's because you didn't eat much else all day. Or you're training like an Olympian. Or you're on your way to getting fat. Or European pizzas are low in calories.
Dazzle arguably made incidence range finders more effective, providing more edges to align.
> Boring tech tends to be reliable. Things like PHP, Rails, Django, etc.

Django will break backwards compatibility with every new minor version. You'll either spend a lot of time porting your code base, or stick with an old and vulnerable version.
> This database was set to open and visible in any browser (publicly accessible) and anyone could edit, download, or even delete data without administrative credentials.

> there were multiple references to an artificial intelligence company called Cense. The records were labeled as staging data and we can only speculate that this was a storage repository intended to hold the data temporarily while it is loaded into the AI Bot or Cense’s management system.
> (e.g. Python or Go)

golang is quite notorious for its dependencies pulling in tens or even hundreds of other dependencies
All of this is true, but it ignores the fact that the two major parties pretty much agree on many important issues (such as government monitoring of internet traffic).

Also the fact that (especially with a hung parliament which we've had for years) independents get an outsized voice is a bit of a two-edged sword. It's far more luck than anything else that determines who's in that vote-tipping seat and sometimes they demand all sorts of special-interest stuff in order to let things through.
It’s closer to 25% than 100% for ADS-B out equipage in the DoD fleet.

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/08/19/military-2936-aircr...
ah the efficiency of capitalism
I think you are missing the point that there is a lot of free land. My question was why someone would bring up moving to rural montana, when most major cities are surrounded by uninhabited land.

California is a state. You might be thinking of Marin county, which surrounds only about 12 miles of the 101 freeway, so this is nonsense from multiple angles.
tl;dr Language models like GPT-3 include incorporate some model of the world. That's why they can generate plausible-sounding text. Future language models will be larger, more powerful, and have more complete models of the world. So we will be able to ask the language model questions, like 'what will happen if we do X?'. By compiling the answers to many such questions, we can figure out the best[0] thing to do.

[0] Assuming you have some utility function you can maximize.
As of this writing, their Website is still broken. Try to pull up any stock or ETF and it's stuck infinitely loading. But if you log out, they work.

Compare this logged in, vs logged out.

https://imgur.com/tLztAxa

https://robinhood.com/stocks/SPY
What's wrong with many worlds?
Understand, it just adds a sense of unrealism to that case for me.

Everything else looks solid, then after seeing that number, it changes how I see the whole thing.
This is wildly naive.
I generally have the feeling that hot months are moving forward since a few years, while the summer has become more intense much earlier. When I was a kid (~20 years ago) it was normal for me in southern Germany to have enough snow in December to build snow men. In the last 10 years this has barely ever been the case. Instead, February and even March became much colder than previously. But all in all the winter shortened, in my personal perception. By now we have really dry and hot June months which I did not experience before.
Ah, I see. If it involves Roundup, then axiomatically it must be wrong. Glad to see dogma is triumphing once again.
For those on mobile, the https://m.xkcd.com url's provide a tappable alt-text link that shows these tidbits https://m.xkcd.com/2347/
If you're looking for open source, self-hosted ELT, I suggest you check out Meltano (https://meltano.com), which we've been working on at GitLab since 2018!

We've decided to focus primarily on the CLI for the moment, which you can see showcased through the example code on the homepage: https://meltano.com, but we're working on a UI as well, as evidenced by today's release blog post: https://meltano.com/blog/2020/08/17/now-available-meltano-v1...

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Meltano uses open source Singer taps and targets (https://singer.io) as its extractors and loaders, so to put together something similar to DropBase (which looks amazing, by the way), you could use:

- tap-spreadsheets-anywhere (https://github.com/ets/tap-spreadsheets-anywhere, https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/merge_requests/1813), which supports CSV and XLS over S3, HTTP(S), (S)FTP (etc),

along with:

- target-postgres (https://github.com/meltano/target-postgres, https://meltano.com/plugins/loaders/postgres.html),

- target-jsonl (https://github.com/andyh1203/target-jsonl, https://meltano.com/plugins/loaders/jsonl.html), or

- any of the others you find on https://meltano.com/plugins/extractors/, https://meltano.com/plugins/loaders/, or https://www.singer.io/.

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For transformation, Meltano currently supports only dbt (https://www.getdbt.com/), which means that unlike DropBase, it's built for ELT rather than ETL, since transformation takes place inside the loading database, rather than in between the E and L steps.

I'm very interested in exploring the ETL direction more, though, because as DropBase clearly shows, there are still a lot of companies and people who may not be experts on SQL, but would benefit tremendously from sturdy ETL with an accessible interface and flexible integration points.

As I just wrote on our Slack workspace (there's a link on https://meltano.com):

> I’d love to see Meltano UI develop into that direction for simple transformations over Singer tap stream/entity schema and record JSON, so that we can do ETL as well as dbt-backed ELT.

> We’d probably start with a way of specifying transformations in `meltano.yml`, similar in spirit to the `select`, `schema`, and `metadata` extra’s (https://meltano.com/docs/command-line-interface.html#extract...), and/or by pointing at a Python file that can process each Singer message. Building a DropBase-style UI over that would be on the horizon too, once we’ve brought the Entity Selection interface back (https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2002) and add interfaces for metadata rules and schema overrides.

I'll create some more issues around this potential direction tomorrow :-)

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If you or anyone else interested in open source, self-hosted ETL/ELT end up giving it a try, I'd love to hear what you think, so that we can figure out how to build it into this direction together!