skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so tired of this boring old fairy tale where mythical "job creators" will the entirety of civilization into existence like gods raising the earth from the ocean with a touch of their spear, or Athena leaping fully formed from the head of Zeus. Frankly, the mythologizing serves to justify a level of deference to the ultra-rich that they simply have not earned.

In order for the "wealth creators" to work, they need a stable legal system and a currency just to start. Those things aren't free. And if they wanted to create, as a completely random example, a company that sells and delivers books, they might find it convenient for there to already be a well-developed trans-continental transportation infrastructure (and traffic laws, vehicle safety standards, air-traffic controllers, publicly-funded universities training students in logistics and supply-chain management), ports to receive goods from overseas (and trade agreements with other countries, and a navy to protect shipping lanes, and internationally standardized shipping crate sizes), a fire department to come rescue your investment when a warehouse full of books is burning, and perhaps a revolutionary global telecommunications system to let customers buy books with the click of a button (and a government research agency to invent it).

"Wealth creators" exist as a part of the system - not apart from it. Their attempts to create new and better products should be encouraged and even celebrated. But we should never forget that those opportunities only arose because of a collective investment by all of America, funded by American tax dollars. No investment - no Amazon, which is why Jeff Bezos doesn't live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. So when "wealth creators" refuse to contribute to that investment, they are stifling the innovation and creative potential of the next generation of dreamers and inventors.

And as an aside, property rights are a social fiction. They exist only as long as it serves the collective interest of society. You "own" a particular piece of land because you happened to see it first, just as much as you "own" the front seat because you called shotgun. If you believe otherwise, you should immediately return your land to the native people it was stolen from.
Education - how can we innovate so that kids get the best education tailored to their learning style and interests?
Oh! Thank you so much for that, my mind figuratively went Ding!

While I mentioned "primordial ooze" I was thinking of ooze as a random assortment of elements we may or may not know much about as my "keep your mind open to possibilities" attitude left it vague.

But by defining the Ooze(especially with probabilities of elements in the universe) you define the requirements - mainly liquid water.

And then conditions by which you have to keep a blob of water together and liquid in the harshness of space are more apparent.

As you say, in theory you could come up with weird physical structures to keep water liquid and together; or some other chemistry to fulfill the same roles.

But in practice, probability says "Liquid Water + Gravity".
As I recall the first two books are pretty good, after that the novel series kind of goes off the rails.
The value of hard assets like real estate has to be tied to the money supply to some extent.

I can understand that CPI inflation is not directly tied to money printing, partly because both the velocity of money and the demand for consumption items are dropping right now, but simple accounting would dictate that this money still end up somewhere. I can only see it bidding up hard assets, again because TINA, and because money tends to flow upward rather than trickle down if left to itself.
NLP is not my main field but still relevant to my work because I often use models and resources from NLP as tools. I'm also personally interested in Linguistics and Languages so I follow related news, sometimes attend NLP conferences and follow people in those fields on Social Media.

It is very concerning how few thought is usually put into linguistic or language characteristics when dealing with these topics. I also rarely see cultural considerations etc. Basically everything is considered as "machine learning will hopefully get this right if having enough data" which is unfortunate (ML is a great tool but the conferences are about language processing).

Another big issue I noticed is that a majority of research only targets or evaluates English texts. In many cases the language is not even specified (although it is clear they use English from figures or examples). I even heard people complaining that work on non-English data is treated as too minor by many reviewers so stuff like that often just gets rejected.

I think this is a really weird development for a field which centers around natural languages.
I was perturbed by the offhand way he linked to a climate-change denialist website (as part of his assertion that "before 10k temperatures changed a lot more").

I don't think you get to call yourself a rationalist if you ignore the overwhelming scientific consensus in favor of a blog run by right-wingers.
His parents weren’t billionaires. There’s a big difference between being born poor lowering risk of success and 99.999% being born non-aristocracy preventing success.
> An even bigger problem seems to be producing the wormhole in the first place. It would be interesting to understand whether they can be produced in the RS model. Since they require topology change, this seems difficult.

Has there been any serious (or at least semi-serious) thought given to this? I've perused some literature on wormholes, and it seems like even if you can somehow handwave away the GR energy conditions, the causality violations, etc., when talking about wormholes, everyone's always stuck on the issue of getting one to begin with. Do we know anything about whether the topology of spacetime can be changed?
I solved it. The audio for a banner ad is some how getting around my ad blocker.
I think it's hilarious that you're disgusted. How awful would it be if, when you purchased a computer, you were entitled to all of the code that comes with the computer, and full documentation and toolchains? How much worse would your life really get?

Edit: Please, use your words and not your downvote. Your downvotes just mean that you agree with me: Your disgust is an ironic expression of a crab mentality where you regret that other people might be able to have nice things due to us working together as a society.
Let’s start at higher than 3x the flu. And a lower average age than 78-years-old.
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Honestly, I think the next step is people put the phone down. It'll be there in the background like cars are today. However, many will try to just leave it at home/work whenever they can.
That’s true for the flu, as well. Can you name all of the long-term complications of the flu without looking them up?
Apple told Epic they will lose access to "all Apple developer tools" https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/12954667012204666...
> Now this browser has been opened. I can close it before the page loads and before I have read anything I really don't care about.

... and if you're worried about not being fast enough, you could also add (to your firewall) an outbound "block everything" rule for the .exe.

Alternatively, configure it to always use a specific proxy server which doesn't exist.
> I'm sure he's a nice guy and great person

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/19/15366500/palmer-luckey-tr...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/how-your-oculus-...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/palmer-luckey-aundur...

Does that change your opinion?
The point was that businesses actually have followed through on those threats to move away from countries with things like "workers rights" and "unions" and "8 hour workdays" - it just took a few years. The fact that all the major new businesses in the US are software and other 0-marginal-cost products should be a big warning sign.

As always, if you "tax" something (or otherwise make it more expensive), you will have less of it.
I feel sure this technology will have a real world impact. Maybe not on your front door, but many valuable secrets and resources lie behind physical locks. As with 0-days, the owners of the technology (say a three-letter agency) may not want to use it so widely they raise awareness.

With more research the designers can certainly overcome the problems other commenters have posted here regarding noise, or more challenging lock design. Lock makers could build effective countermeasures. But there are so many locks that never will be upgraded.
i suspect that people not so much don't want the browser. they could ignore it if that were the case, but that they are annoyed by its invasive behavior.

if microsoft would just stop to shove the browser into peoples face after they have already said that they prefer another, then there wouldn't be so many complaints
I love how this is a national survey, and none of the first three threads even acknowledge that it was about anything but San Francisco. Very HN of you all.
Rent seeking is defined as having a controlled, fixed size market and extracting as much as possible from it.

Google created its market and it is still expanding. Same for Apple, Facebook, etc.

Monopoly or market dominance != rent seeking.
I split my comment into two parts, since this one is more my personal opinion, and I don't want it to colour an otherwise straightforward request for sources.

From noyb's fight against Facebook (https://noyb.eu/en/open-letter), to me it is very clear that Facebook does not intend to comply with GDPR. They are actively trying to find loopholes, and according to noyd, also working with the Irish DPO to find and exploit loopholes. It is also worth noting that the total fines Google has faced from GDPR enforcement come to just under EUR 58 Mn (http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/GDPR-2020-Where-C...). 58 Mn is chump change compared to Google's total revenue, and unless the threat of the full 4% turnover fine becomes credible, I doubt it will lead to any better action.
Initial conditions.

Edited to add: and in case you continue to misconstrue my point, New York has _tons_ of overcrowded housing. I am by no means using density/crowding argument to wave away NY's problems. They have a severe housing crisis there.
You’re right, but many people are too emotional right now to have a reasoned discussion. They read fear-porn all day about COVID-19, thinking that it’s super-aids + cancer combined. What they often don’t know is the death rate is only 3x that of the flu (since treatments have improved) and the average age at death is 78 years old.
I think this is the contest in reference - https://innovate.mygov.in/swadeshi-microprocessor-challenge/

To provide further impetus to the strong ecosystem of start-ups, innovators & researchers in the country, MeitY announces Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge made available by IIT Madras (शक्ति processors) and C-DAC (वेगा processors), powered by FPGA Boards of XILINX which is supported by CoreEL Technologies, to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship by taking up complex designs in the country and innovate frugal solutions around home-grown processor ecosystem, catering to both global and domestic requirements.The incubation support to the winning teams will be provided by an Incubator located at their geographical proximity coordinated by Maker Village.
Except we have a mathematical theory of information, and memory being information we know that it must exists within the bounds of that theory. Hence, memory is compression.
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GA's paradigm is based on the Acquisition/Behavior/Conversion model championed by Avinash Kashik. His blog and Google's own courses are great starting points.

https://www.kaushik.net/avinash/

https://www.kaushik.net/avinash/digital-marketing-and-measur...

https://analytics.google.com/analytics/academy/
If each FAANG released backend code:

* Facebook: We'd learn what sorts of data collection and aggregation they do, and how metrics are planned and gamed.

* Apple: We'd learn something about the App Store rejection policy, and we'd also get to jailbreak and repair our phones.

* Amazon: We'd find out how their billing and egress policies really work. We'd also get to see how customers are tracked.

* Netflix: Oh look, tracking of customers, something we'd learn.

* Google: Customers, tracking, etc. But also they know stuff about their long-term hardware vendor partners.

How would this not make the world a better place? It's clearly in line with both the copyleft programme of ending copyright protections on source code, and also more general anti-corporate and anti-surveillance ideologies.
This headline doesn't jive with my experience having worked with lots of folks in corporate R&D at big tech. After looking at the data in the paper I think it's far too soon to talk about the "death of corporate research labs".

> These examples are backed by systematic evidence...The figure also shows that the absolute amount of research in industry, after increasing over the 1980s, barely grew over the 20 year period between 1990 to 2010. Other data show the same decline

That seems like a cherry-pick. In that very same figure, you can see that 2015 is about 300% of 1990.

So from 1990 to 2015 corporate research spending grew 5% on average annually. I'm not sure how you could refer to that as "dying". Of course, the paper doesn't use that term, just the parent blog post.

I have no sense of non-tech research labs, and maybe if you exclude those corporate research labs are indeed dying, but the headline is click baity.
This is the biggest factor. It will be very interesting to see what happens starting next month if the ban is not extended.
Nice video. But one can have almost the same by installing

[1] http://stellarium.org/

fiddling with the settings for activating the satellite tracking plugin and TLE-data import, and maybe even import ones own horizon panoramic silouette for perfection.

Stellarium is a really very good program!
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Fuck. You.
It's easy to dream up scenarios that prove your point. How about this one:

Company has a bad year. Dividends are cut to zero. Founder reduces salary to bare minimum required for her expenses. On paper, she still has $50 million net worth of illiquid non-public stock. Government demands $200,000 wealth tax. How does that play out?
yep, and measuring something far more interesting than radiation levels.
> From what I can tell, NYC has lots of millionaires primarily because rich people like to live there, so rich and talented people move to NYC from all over the US.

I couldn't find any data on this with a quick search, but my instinct is that NYC probably generates more millionaires than it acquires. You can move to the city straight out of college and become a millionaire in relatively short order if you land the right job; it's a much more circuitous path to get rich by starting, like, a construction company in rural Nebraska and then move to NYC.

The same seems (broadly) true of other financial or tech capitals. It's easier to build wealth in cities than outside of them.
I would never use any software with that license. I rarely have software I only want to use for non-commercial use.

Even simple stuff like note taking where it’s 95% personal, I still want to use at work.

I’d rather seek out an open source tool.

I’m not sure what the motivation is to prevent FAANG’s use. All of those companies contribute lots of open source.

Would you rather be back in the 90s where the giant tech companies kept everything proprietary and didn’t contribute anything back. Early 90s Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Sun sucked and I’d rather have FAANG contributing their open source stuff nowadays than make them pay for projects and stop contributing.
As stated in the post, I learned that the university system is not able to facilitate or nurture mathematical exploration and discovery for me.
Nah, this is how laws are made. Someone keeps pushing the limits of what they can do to other people, then enough people have enough of it and push back, companies are fined, legislation is created, bs stops happening for a while. Same shit, different day (at least until we change the shit out of the climate/environment, heh).
You like that? Personally I prefer 399 USD == 304.50 GBP
This license doesn't require them to share the source though, just limit who is allowed to use it. Is that reading of the license wrong, is my question. They specifically mention not caring if source code is shared but if the companies that utilize software licensed with this license are worker collectives or not.

Which is why I feel it would be better to advocate for the [A]GPL as that would result in the situation you describe.
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A few results from a quick search on changing the topology of spacetime. There was a bunch more. It seems to be an area of research anyway.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3000

https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9311186

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1997BASI...25..571B
This paper demonstrates the principle. You start with the easier cases, then introduce the complexities. You don't have to wait until you've licked every problem to publish. And when you eventually do solve the problem in the presence of noise and varying insertion speed, you may not publish.
The Fed is working quite hard to make sure this isn't deflationary.
Video game consoles are not general computing devices. Their controlled and curated walled gardens are part of the consumer appeal, and the absence of those would make consoles no different than PCs. If consumers wanted that they'd be buying PCs only.
> In a free market, if a company acts inadequately, you stop any interaction with it, you stop providing service to its customers

No, actually. Those customers should have the right to deal with whoever they want. That is how free markets work. They work by not having the government go after people.

> and go to its competitor or create your own competing platform

Or, instead of that, those customers, who own their own devices, should be allowed to do whatever they want with things that they own. That is a free market. Get government out of the way, and don't allow Apple's lawsuits against people.

> that you have no other choice but to demand the government to take an action

It is not me who wants the government to do something. Instead, that is Apple. Apple is the one who is using the government to engage in physical coercion against people.

I want Apple to not have the right to sue people. Government needs to get out of the way, and Apple needs to stop using to government to fight against free markets.

A free market would be the government ignoring Apple's lawsuits against other people.

> And if you appeal to the government's monopoly on physical coercion

Lets get rid of that government monopoly and coercion by removing Apple's ability to sue these people then!

I agree. Lets not use physical coercion. And the way that we do that, is to not allow Apple to use the government to go after people.

> Free market has never meant "expect a fair play from everyone"

I don't want fair play from Apple. Instead, I just want them to not have the ability to use physical coercion against others, by them using government backed forced against others, through their lawsuits.

> it hurts the free market that you seem to care about.

You are the one who is trying very hard to ignore the real physical coercion that Apple is using against others, through their government backed, and government supported lawsuits.

Lets get rid of that. All of the lawsuit and physical coercion that Apple is using against other people should be thrown out, and the lawsuits that Apple is using should be completely ignored by the government.
Pre-1950 may have been different. The NYS Department of Health Lab developed antitoxins for diseases like anthrax and antifungals (ie NYstatin) in that era.
Airflow is still a very good option, though there are more competitors on the market. Two options are:

Prefect - https://www.prefect.io/

Flyte - https://flyte.org/
As I recall, the original novel is vintage Clarke of the better kind, and then the rest are [co-]authored by some entity named Gentry Lee and basically unreadable.
> Also, I like IntelliJ's perpetual fallback license policy. Feels very fair to me.

That's nothing. You should have been here when they used to let us buy the tools :-)
Wouldn't Los Altos Hills be more desirable than Mountain View? Regardless of COVID or not. It's still centrally located, larger homes, larger lots, etc.
Having a home in foreclosures is better than homelessness.
Anything over 5 stories gets expensive per sq ft quick.
You can use it for at least two years if you create an oculus account before October, according to the linked statement.
I'm from Kolkata, India. I started from college in 2006, got into open source, got well known in multiple circles, including Drupal.

Slowly I started getting contracts. Then I started building products and services business. I had opportunities come my way that people can't believe in my city.

The main issues I had for years was price. I didn't know to price myself out how to focus on money. But anyone can build an online presence and build a career. I've done that.
Why cut that check to the Feds? They have destroyed schools. Look at the American placement in international tests since the Feds took over in the 1970s. Downhill.

Why have them control health? They've shown they are incompetent with Medicare (look at the waste, fraud, abuse, and anger by doctors due to red tape).

Why not have the States set the wealth tax? Be like Switzerland. The cantons and municipals set the wealth tax.

Ultimately, for me, this entire topic throws into stark relief the fact that the Federal government needs to be brought to heel. It is too large. Too incompetent. Too impossible. Look at the EU (the closest thing in the West to the US by population and economic scope). The EU doesn't set an EU wealth tax. They do not set an EU health service. They set regulatory requirements that the individual countries (from a GDP perspective equal to US States) implement.
Ah, that makes sense. Maybe I've just suffered abuse from projects that can't be built anywhere for so long that it seems normal--I remember a particular team I worked on where the project needed to be spread across the X:, Y:, and Z: drives with bind mounts.
>Same with the "techies are all leaving SF" stories; I'll wait for actual data before listening to the narrative that serves the interests of a huge factional divide in SF.

Anecdotally, I know a good number of people who've left the Bay Area to be closer to family for at least the duration. So it's not purely a press narrative.
This was a fascinating, but also disturbing, read; it does sound like your solution (quasi legal as it might be) is the one that makes the most sense if you do this professionally
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Thank you.

> The National Science Foundation estimates that U.S. R&D funding reached an all-time high of $499 billion in 2015. Of that total, the federally sponsored share fell to a record-low 23 percent while the business sector’s share rose to a record-high 69 percent.

This jives more with what I've personally experienced. Also looking at the data in the paper mentioned in the OP I see a ~5% growth in corporate research spending annually since 1953.

So I don't think the data supports the OP's narrative.
The Fed is paralyzed in both directions though. They can't really lower the rates much either. Obviously the fact that you hold a lot of gold and I hold little gold tells a lot about which direction we think is going to matter, at least in the medium term.
The "Common Law" section of your link explains why liquidated damages are often not enforceable.