skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think after 3 and 1/2 years, we'd all recognize by now that Trump more often than not says things just to stir up controversy. As others have said, this isn't newsworthy until he actually does something.
Instagram is slowly becoming a family of apps. I just wonder how many apps they would fit
https://voshart.com/BIO the artist appears to be pretty socially conscious based on his other work.

Your comment frustrates me greatly because you are correct that people may internalize ML-generated images, and that's a real risk. ML already propagates racial bias within our prison system, as I'm sure you're aware. But Voshart's model isn't making decisions about employment or imprisonment, no, he's literally making art.

Art needs to be allowed uncomfortable racial and ethnographic territory. If not art, what do you think should occupy that space? Art is supposed to be the domain where we get to try out all these ideas and give the public exposure to what things like ML-generated images can be.

If this art made you feel something racial, try to do something positive with that. Maybe get involved solving some of the real life ML deployments that are already causing problems: https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm...

But mostly, I hope when the author reads your comment, he doesn't feel discouraged that doing anything in public might risk his career. Or that someone thinking about publishing their own art doesn't look at it and go "hmm, too risky maybe, I better not". The chilling effects that comments like yours have is much more damaging than any racial bias you might be trying to raise awareness about.

I remember when the conscious thing to do was to uplift the art of the unseen people in our world. I wish we could go back to that.
Why would you use that as a source? It omits most countries.

A real ranking shows the US is doing far worse (orders of magnitude worse) than many countries[1].

One of the few countries doing worse is Sweden, which actively did nothing. They serve as a (flawed, but interesting) baseline.

Our own health officials are blowing whistles, criticizing the federal response in the press, and (universally) disagreeing with Trump's dismissals, false predictions, and insane medical advice.

To think the US is doing well is utter delusion. I don't know what else to call it.

1. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
I imagine a tribe, like 50 to 100 people, is more than enough.
My tired mind read this as Salvia-based Covid-19 test approved by FDA.
That would be some trip.
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I see. So they were aware of some data collection, because the court forced them to, but there was other collection going on they weren't aware of.
Sure, taxes are lower for the rich, environmental regulations pose much less hindrance to exploitative industries, there are more conservative judges, and at least 10s of millions of libs have been triggered.

Metrics aligned with the general welfare of the US, though? Not so much.
Thanks for the write up and git book.

Related question: I’m curious if any has game-ified algorithm learning, sort of like those old educational math games targeting certain grade levels.

Might be cool to make a point and click adventure centered around dynamic programming or greedy algorithms.
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He won't be winning many votes back, as those who like Snowden likely didn't vote for him, but he might be considering winning some votes "forward", as it's not likely Republicans would vote for Biden just to spite Trump for pardoning Snowden - who is increasingly irrelevant anyway, he did what he did and by now nobody cares about his personal destiny too much and it's not likely there's a chance to punish him anyway. But if he could win some independents who are on the fence - that would be nice.
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It's crazy to me that if I want to buy Ray Ban sunglasses off Amazon, I am routed by default to random third party sellers. I have purchased these once before and I'm almost positive that I received a fake product.

How can I know for sure though? How does Amazon know for sure? Since that experience I have looked at Amazon in a different light, and I've realized how difficult it is to source name brand products with confidence.

This is as good a time for blockchain as any. Register genuine products on a blockchain and have them scanned once they hit the Amazon warehouse to ensure they are authentic.
That doesn't look like a quote, that looks like an editorial opinion. Trump is usually pretty good on consistent messaging - I doubt he said he was worried about it costing him the reelection.

There are legitimate reasons to want a voting system to be hostile to to distance voting. The system moves from a place where anyone can verify that parts are working to one where expert specialists can - maybe - verify that parts of the system are working. It creates new points of failure where corruption can creep in. Voting systems are one of the best places to adopt a slow and conservative approach to change.
lmao this is how I initially read it. I was rather confused for a second.
Easy to forget this. Before Snowden, any claims I made to my family and non tech friends of government surveillance were met with incredulousness and had me branded as a conspiracy theorist.

Snowden vastly changed the conversation for everyday people. He's a hero.
i think so, largely yes. large industry immersion for a long time (still) lead to, in my view,teaching people wage work skills as opposed to, say, trade or craft skills if that makes sense.

i don't think they'd necessarily become OOP programmers if fp was the default, but i do think we would see a similar trend of fp becoming a distasteful term. all approaches have edge cases and pain points, all those edge cases and pain points get amplified very loudly when they're not accounted for. a lot of fp requires at least as much subtlety in this regard as anything else.

within the framings of software development, i think it is the maintaining of rotting systems that ultimately causes distaste. it is not hard to imagine someone only ever running into, eg, oop systems that are a mess because that's basically all there was for many companies building many things under burnout schedules with no one with more than 5 years of experience working on them.

the problems that fp makes go away easily, the big wins, particularly things like mutability, are things that just happen to fit very well in the problem spaces a lot of software in "the discourse" is written for. if and when those spaces change, so will favored approaches, whatever they end up being.

all that said, i do not think that everyone writing software needs to be a mega computing wizard. the industry is very broad in terms of what types of skillsets are wanted or needed where. i don't think we support this idea very well as a whole.
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I'm not missing it, I just think it's pointless jackassery.
They may have recieved a ballot for a different contest. Washington state recently had state wide primaries, other states may have primaries going on now, or whatever local elections are happening.
> Do we have to remember that the people we communicate with have different experiences of time?

This is already true on Earth. Different people process information at different speeds. Think about when you're talking to someone who is elderly. Do you slow down a bit so they have a chance to keep up?
Most states/counties/municipalities have electronic death registration systems. For the vast majority of deceased voters, the EDRS will have been correctly filed, and a death certificate issued. At least, this is how things are supposed to work... Anything at government scale is hard.
Yes, the same distribution centers and boxes is a huge distinction vs a say Ebay.
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Lol yeah "legacy ethernet cable" cracked me up, it's a phone jack :)
Very much this. Last time my dad visited he had 4 pill boxes: 7am,10am,2pm,6pm. We had to color code so he knew which ones at which hour. They had to be portable, at least 10 and 2 did. He had slight dementia so he would get confused about colors and sometimes the day. Even worse was trying to decipher the instructions for each medicine to refill the boxes especially after some would change doses after initial couple of weeks. Really hard to automate that correctly even if you had a sorting machine.
Poor print quality and materials, incorrect/missing pieces. I don't know if you've seen counterfeit DVDs before, but they often have badly printed (misaligned, pixelated, even watermarked) graphics and cheap packaging (a basic jewel case with a printed slip of paper vs. a cardboard fold-out, for instance). But at least the DVD itself stands a chance of being a good rip. For a board game, the print quality and materials are kind of what you're paying for.
I find it baffling that SoftBank isn’t simply taking ARM public. If ever there was a company that should be independent, it’s ARM. Is there a good explanation out there for why this isn’t the obvious choice?
Was when the covid lockdown started, but I had to resort to credit card chargeback with them after ordering, not getting the item after expected delivery period, and getting no response at all from customer service after calling them multiple times over multiple weeks.
The the insurers perform the due diligence and that liability cost should’ve been there from the start.
Hi Chris!

Thanks for your detailed feedback. You have a ton of great insights on bills that businesses pay. To answer your questions -

We started out, we intended to cover user's essential household bills only (rent, and utilities). But we had some early adopters add their business bills as well, and we decided we weren't going to turn them away. So as far as the bills fall in these categories - Rent, Electricity, Internet, Telecom, Water, Gas, Parking or HOA - we cover them both for businesses and consumers. We do not cover the type of B2B bills that businesses need an accounting software for. So we think, we can co-exist with the likes of QBO/Xero.

We don't think that the B2C side is not lucrative enough, given in the absence of fair lending products users resort to Payday or other high cost loans. In numbers, Payday Lending is a $90B industry and 70% of those funds are used to cover a recurring household bill such as rent or utilities. That being said, our current users are definitely not the ones who are desperate for cash or just bad with finances (people often think that we’d be competing with the likes of early-pay or cash advance apps). That’s not true. Our users are actually fairly responsible and tech savvy. They might or might not have been affected by the pandemic, and are actually using credit line at 0% APR to spread out their bill payments but also, benefit from bill consolidation and automatic payments. Solopreneurs, small business owners, white-collar workers are the ones who are using us currently.

How are you monetising this? You are shouldering such massive risk here, surely you will get masses of late payments & defaults ...
We plan to monetize from businesses. Mostly through partnerships or transaction fees on payments processed through our platform. The intent is to look for value add services for our users, for ex: some users want to know how their bill amounts compare to others in the same area/demographics and get better deals. By showing relevant deals and helping businesses gain customers, we can earn revenue. However, these are just some preliminary ideas, we’re exploring.

As for the risk, we’re thinking about it differently. Rather than profiling users as risky or not, we evaluate risk for transactions or payment types. Surely, essential bills are always top of mind for individuals, and likelihood on screwing those up is the least, even if you compare people across credit scores. That doesn’t mean that people will not default - there will be circumstances where people may not be able to pay even most essential ones, however, we are hoping that (most) people can recover from those circumstances. Our philosophy of avoiding interests and fees will keep overall debt levels lower, and hence, reduce time in which they can recover.

We really appreciate your kind words. And yes, we’re not out there to exploit people. We believe people are more good than evil, and wealth is not the best way to judge a person’s willingness or ability to pay back. We just want to build the right products and incentives to help them be more responsible.
How would he be a cost center?
The law, if complied, effectively means they forsake their US value.

Of cuz, these big corps already forsaken their US values in almost all aspects of their businesses, but they cannot put that under the focus light of China, the forbidden word...

Then there are Apple and Microsoft.

In the end, we get a living example of why GPT3 questions humans intelligence...
The LIGO experiment can measure the change in length of one arm compared to the other due to anisotropy in spacetime. I don't know how you could explain it without spacetime, so that sounds like non-interpreted.
TBH, I'm astounded. I always went off a discussion we had in a 100-level physics class that basically boiled down to "We're considering deregulating the electrical market here, but any claims of choosing your electrical supplier is nonsense-- if you wanted to get electricity from one state over, you'd need to buy 6 units to get 1 at the point of consumption." I suspect it may be a combination of figures off by a few orders of magnitude and a worst-case of sending power 500km instead of 50.

OTOH, I am still interested in the grid-fragility aspect-- if the main grid is only carrying relatively low peak power needs, instead of the entire base load, won't we be able to better handle failures? Wouldn't extra redundancy be cheaper and easier to build?
I suspect that you’re dramatically overestimating the show’s ability to influence people. I doubt that those people went from level-headed, rational thought to believing Alex Jones conspiracy theories; I’m sure Joe Rogan’s show already had a huge audience of people that already believe that shit, and you’re just seeing it come out.

The idea that all media should be paternalistic and “contextualize” and/or censor what people hear may be harmful in the long-term. I think it just adds fuel to conspiracies, since they legitimately become something the media “doesn’t want anyone to know”.

I definitely don’t think all media should be an open platform like this, but having a more unfiltered channel (including for influential nuts of all sorts) serves a useful purpose. I think any effort expended should be focused on teaching people critical thinking, and not reasoning about any “responsibility” Joe Rogan might have. People are going to get a feed of crazy shit whether his show exists or not.
This is a good thing, right? Polititians try to do the right things to win votes. This is how democracy works.
Yeah, sure, the economic math is the only math that matters in this context.

Must be nice to be a white male with a sure sense of your political voice mattering.
> into nothing more than a global system of surveillance, advertising, propaganda and skinnerboxing, far worse than any television ever was - forget about your "global library" dreams.

I don’t know, if you’re basically saying your stylized, hyperbolic, generalizing, imprecise, inaccurate discourse is better than theirs just because it’s negative and theirs is positive... I would rather have the positive?
Sorry, I meant the traditional definition of "conservative" with regard to media, which is to say ensuring that only unbiased facts are reported as best as possible.
Everything about git makes sense except the syntax and the fact it does not compose.
It is a common political trick to find a quote from somebody years ago and pretend that quote says it all about that person. It may even be effective at times. But if you actually believe that if Trump said something in 2013 that quote alone is his true lifetime conviction and he will never change it till he is alive (Trump, of all people!) then you're getting high on your own supply.
Please keep garbage off of HN. Thanks
Is it just me or does Augustus look a lot like Vladimir Putin?
> Long-term

Short term, it would be a good idea to fine Amazon $1,000,000 a day until the problem is fixed.

There's no way Bezos doesn't know how to fix this, he's a smart guy.
Yes. This is true. There are some people with strong opinions about what we do, but the interesting part is that none of these people were part of our group before, they just criticize what they think we do, as they cannot criticize what we really do.

Anyway, we respect different opinions, but we are really focused on hearing the opinions of the people we already have inside our group, because they are the ones that truly understand what’s going on.
Not sure honestly and I can't read that article (paywall). I recently (just a few days ago) read official acceptance of the debate committee schedule had only been completed by Biden campaign. So maybe Trump proposed 4 but then hasn't accepted the actual invite yet?
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The idea of a deep state is stupid.

It's just the state, it's fairly well documented at this stage what the NSA's capabilities look like. The idea that there is some kind of political conspiracy within that is totally unfounded.

The crossover between QAnon and Trump supporters is mighty convenient given trump's very real connections to the Maxwell's and decades worth of rape allegations - have you ever noticed that the national strategy of the Trump campaign is always to reflect accusations back at his opponents: Trump is accused of rape then a Biden accuser suddenly appears (with a very shaky story), Trump has extremely shady business dealings with Russia (and the Trump foundation was shut down for corruption) so crooked Hillary appears, Trump calls himself the smartest guy but speaks in 200 word run away sentences and mispronounces words and forgets people sat next to him ("Where's Rudy") but Joe Biden is a bad public speaker so suddenly sleepy Joe has dementia despite being noticeable sharper than the Donald.
> git revert [saved hash]

I see a future article forming:

"The Power of Unix Pipes Except for The Zillions of Times Per Day Developers Awkwardly Drag a Mouse Over a Human Unreadable String Just to Make Trivial Git Commands Work"
Apple is a hardware company that wants to ensure the best possible UX for their customers, and does so by vetting the software that gets installed on their hardware products.

What's Microsoft's parallel motivation in your analogy?
OCR of handwriting has come a long way, but it's a lot easier to do a good job when you have a database of every valid address and can bounce your OCR probabilities off that database to fuzzy match your way there.
Want to see those configs...
At 8% of c time dilation & length contraction are about 0.3%. That’s definitely measurable, but whoever wrote this article clearly calculated values for 80% of c rather than 8%.
I find it interesting how much some of them resemble current famous people (for example, Augustus who resembles Putin with more hair). I wonder how much of that has to do with celebrities possibly being more represented in the training data?
It's probably time for my annual attempt to convert over to using a mutt-based email workflow. I've always been happy with the mutt setup, but I think the majority of my problem is dealing with importing my existing Gmail and (work) Office 365 accounts. Sometimes I've synced the data to my laptop (last time I even had it all running in a container). But I still need to access enough of my email from my phone that I've found the mutt setup too cumbersome, even when using IMAP.

Does anyone have a good setup with multiple accounts or using both mutt with a mobile email client (iOS)?
What's it take, to implement it correctly? What are the most common implementation mistakes?
Correct according to 1 in 7 billion! Ok maybe a few more might agree but there’s no such thing as absolute correctness given the context

Economics are not laws of physics. As evidenced by constant “wasteful” spending and production. If they were laws of physics, nature wouldn’t allow us to behave that way. It would dial in the behavior like the color of hair.

You’re no sky wizard. Just a self aggrandizing ass like the rest of us.
I actually stopped using email for private communication. Most emails are just invoices, confirmations or license keys. Gave up on email few years ago.

Professional I use email for mostly the same and for official trace communication....
How is sorting into a bin that goes onto a truck not routing?

Presumably different bins are set to go onto different trucks, and if the important county elections official's barcode/zip+4 gets binned to alaska, that could cause confusion and delay. More nefarious (and also more unlikely) would be if ballots sent out to zip+4 with registered X party gets binned wrong, delaying receipt of ballots, perhaps.

Although, I would expect there's likely enough volume of returned ballots to fill their own bin, and whoever puts the bins on the truck is going to notice if they're on the wrong truck.
No! I love sleeping on hard flat surfaces!

Did you make your own bed?
However that doesn't require being faster than Usain Bolt and actually works because we are better at long distance running than short sprints.
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I've done that multiple times (~30 days), usually after I wrap up some demanding project where I couldn't keep my fitness 100%. If you are healthy and take electrolytes properly, it's usually fine. It's not one size fits all, but I find people that reject it without any evidence uninformed about how their body actually works.
This is known as Russell's conjugation in honor of Bertrand Russell's discussion of the topic on the BBC in 1948

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I also had that But the experience is way worse than reading email in html format. And these days, almost all emails are in html format with pretty basic text/plain in the form of multiformat.

That plain text doesn't have the intention of the composer, for instance, the inline image doesn't show inline and the email context says the figure above.

It is not that business form, but some ppl use colorful format to emphasize some text, which basically gives same text in the email, which makes the reader (in plain text) easily miss that part while skimming.
So you're saying that a software company that makes operating systems, and has the incentive to want programs that run well on the said OS, has no interest in wanting its users to be locked into the browser they also make?