skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing. I don't expect to convince you but I want to make my opposing view clear.

For me the most important benefit of a wealth tax is eroding the wealth of billionaires. This is important because having that much money gives you _power_ in our society comparable to elected officials, but without any comparable accountability. If you have a billion dollars, you can employ two hundred people from your _personal wealth_ at $100k for fifty years each. Or, if you prefer, 2500 people for a four-year term. (This ignores the resources you have influence in deploying in business, though at least in that case there are other stakeholders. It also ignores connections.) This is a great deal of power, comparable to being an elected official, all the more so because elected officials are often constrained by politics. In my view, the existence of such a powerful and unaccountable interest group can only be a threat to democracy. Other commenters have outlined particular ways that this class has achieved its political goals in the USA. The class of billionaires poses such a threat that I would seriously consider giving up the IT revolution of the last fifty years to be rid of it.
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Most Find... scripts are just hoping you have the dependency installed in some default location.
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Some time ago after realising how GraphQL (don't) use http code, I decided that I wouldn't use http code for business logic like everybody does, but let that responsibility only to the webserver (not auth 401, not found 404, exception 500, and few others). Is that absurd? Should I reconsider going back?
Some context: I started learning to code earlier this year and this is the first thing I've shipped. My husband helped with the back-end, and I worked on the front-end.
If you live with someone you love (so,dog,cat) it is easy to build patterns and enjoy their existence by stopping everything else and concentrating on them.
> I know it’s in jest but I absolutely hate to encounter this kind of thing in the wild. It’s a huge anti pattern and tax you put on other people who have to troubleshoot “impossible” scenarios.

These days, getting a phrase you can Google effectively is golden. I don't care if I'm pasting "Ream my holes with a bottle brush, Sir Clyde, for I am going to be late for tea!" as long as it gets me the information I need to fix the problem faster.

That said, maybe something in Latin would be more couth:

https://multicians.org/hodie-natus-est.html

> HODIE NATUS EST RADICI FRATER

Which means "today unto the Root a brother is born."
I moved my notes out of Apple Notes and into Markdown inside text files last year due to the bugs I encountered. This means I can sync them with whatever product I like (currently OneDrive) and open them on any system (currently macOS) with any app that can parse Markdown (currently iA Writer). It also means whenever any new app comes along, I can play around.

Usually what I want is something that loads very quickly and has a minimal UI that allows me to focus on writing, but also allows me to search all files quickly. iA Writer ticks all those boxes, and also has support for simple #hashtags so I can organise the notes.

Where things become more difficult is if the app adds a lot of custom functionality that is either specific to that app or adds lots of custom metadata to the files. Then you start to lose some of the above benefits, particularly cross-platform.

I looked at Obsidian but found the UI to be heavy and slow, and lots of extra functionality I wasn't interested in. I've tried a lot of apps[1] but always come back to iA Writer.

[1] https://davidmytton.blog/the-best-note-taking-apps-for-mac-m...
That sentence immediately reminded me of this: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/another-dull-quarantine-...

I wonder what share of cases have been spread by people "letting their guard down."
How much does it cost or rather how much does that entire rack with all the supporting systems cost?
As someone who has either written, or reviewed every single line of code in Buildkite, I can tell you that there is no backdoor. If anything, we are constantly asking ourselves “how can we protect the customer from us in the unlikely event we were compromised”. Also, with how modern software delivery works, it’s impossible for an employee to make a change without someone noticing.
>Rapidly has a distinct business model in which we have two streams of revenue: our SaaS subscription and our marketplace.
Then use Chromium without goggle: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Stop the madness
> There is no single standard physical interface I'm aware of for attaching a satellite (larger than cubesat size) to a payload adapter, while ensuring inherently safe behavior of the satellite, for the protection of ground crews.

From a purely technical standpoint, I see no reason why SpaceX or another organization couldn't provide a 'satellite skeleton' that people could add an array of standard modules to using an online configurator and click "build/deploy/launch". And have it go to a customer-specified orbit and orientation.

But it seems it would make more sense for that provider to just launch those satellites themselves and provide access to the data.

I'd imagine that adding any non-standard component so that your satellite has differential value-add vs. existing commodity satellites would add at least some fair bit of 'real' engineering. But likely a 'satellite skeleton' (framework, bare-bones satellite) could take a ton of work out of that endeavor.

But given that we're talking about people who say "I need my own satellite(s)" and specifically not "I need data from existing or soon-to-exist satellites"....I'd be surprised if people with those needs would care that much about the (seemingly?) relatively small savings from a pre-designed satellite structure, especially given how any design decisions for that barebones solution inherently implies genuine tradeoffs vs their own design.
What I am saying is not that that are not following current regulations. I am saying at the current regulations are too weak, which Naturvernforbundet agrees with.

They are _still_ using hydrogen peroxide to combat lice for example, despite it's effect on shrimp and plankton.

I am all for farming fish, but on land in closed systems.
How about something a bit different: a license that prevents Github hosting?

That should be easy.

You create two licenses for your software: a license for the code per se, and a separate one for your git repo of the software.

So that is to say, for instance, your program could be MIT licensed. But your git repository (all the Git objects and meta-data: commit messages, hashes, branches, tags, ...) could have a more restrictive license which asserts "this may not be mirrored on Github".

It's intriguing. If we regard the work you're creating to be your git repo, then that is not free. If we regard the work you're creating to be baselines of an artifact that you're committing to the git repo, then that is free.
To quote the ACCC chair: “We note that 88 smaller media businesses teamed up to submit a joint submission as part of the process of developing the code. Under our plan, these businesses could again work together to negotiate with the platforms over fair payment for their content.”'

You really are failing to understand this. You must try harder.
> For example while it talks about employee engagement it never defines the exact meaning. While it quotes some Gallup stats on how said engagement rose for companies initiating some measures it fails to exactly describe the change (before and after state).

I feel like this has less to do with this one article specifically and more that Gallup/HBR skew these studies towards kinds of work where these numbers easy to observe, or are at least amenable to some kind of measurement. The GE study article[1] seems to support it's claim with a performance/cost engineering outcome, some business process metric whose value is left unspecified, and some sort of vague organizational change.

I'm curious if there are more rigorous or at least modest methods behind these kinds of numbers. Obviously HBR isn't going to delve into the model for their casual article, but I assume that academics at Harvard Business School do?

[1] https://hbr.org/2015/08/ges-real-time-performance-developmen...
It would be nice if we somehow had one to convert typescript back into _idiomatic_ JavaScript.
I haven’t. I skipped my yearly physical in April. Not sure when I’ll get it rescheduled, but I’ll make a note to ask about this.
Did you remember when an old data set from AOL was released where the user id had been pseudonymised by some hashing?

The users could be re-identified just by their behavior.
What do you think the error bounds are for a human?

I know it sounds like a flippant question, but for certain applications, if we can get a model that's better than human, then it doesn't need to be perfect.

And they way we currently do this in all sorts of ways is to pair a human with a computer so that they each do what they're best at. It doesn't have to be about full automation.
Developing a online platform for the small scale shopkeepers
In which they can have put details about their products and can check every time the particular product in demand. The shopkeeper can use the platform irrespective of the type of shop. This is not enough the shopkeeper can also see the product count with name in chart representation which can help him in his business growth. Each and Every Product he/she is having in his/her shop can be listed in any language with their counts and then this data can be used as stock management for that particular shopkeeper. The data will not be shared only there will be a local database with every platform so that there is no fear from shopkeeper end that their data can be published and used against them.
Presumably only part of the issue was that he wasn't wearing a mask, while the bigger factor was that he was in an environment with lots of non-mask-wearing people in relatively close proximity.
> That you tried to do something so absurdly inappropriate that there isn't even a proper technical way to explain why it was wrong and why it could not work? Like, the server could not even begin to understand what you tried to accomplish with that request.

The "Blank Stare" response code. Or maybe the "Stunned Stare And Slowly Backing Away" response code.

Something at the other end:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

> 420 Enhance Your Calm (Twitter)

>> Returned by version 1 of the Twitter Search and Trends API when the client is being rate limited; versions 1.1 and later use the 429 Too Many Requests response code instead.[74] The phrase "Enhance your calm" comes from the 1993 movie Demolition Man, and its association with this number is likely a reference to cannabis.

Visually:

https://http.cat/420
Do you have any suggestions about how to find better content? I've used millionshort.com before, but for even moderately profitable search terms it tends to not cut out enough of the garbage to be useful.
Australians stranded overseas as airlines fly with four economy passengers
I do something like that using org mode in termux. It has really improved my note taking and personal information management. I do my workout logs, nutrition logs, language study, work task management, agenda, all in the same environment, and the format is open. Versioning and syncing is done with git.
Yeah, France has the "redevance télé". You have to explicitly refuse any cable service from your ISP in order not to pay it. Otherwise you're screwed. And its cost is significant, I will never pay for such thing.
Afaik there is some progress being done on motion planning and control parts with regards to that, mostly using reachability analysis for continuous systems or using things like control barrier functions.

I work in the perception/localization domain and I am not aware of any large developments in that direction. I do know that there are certain ML based perception systems that got some levels of ASIL certification.
What about "practical error bounds", i.e. testing the system through millions/billions of miles driven?
Or if you're more of a Dog person: https://httpstatusdogs.com/
That's the one.

In traditional BSD kernels, there is a portable layer and a machine dependent layer. The cpu MD layer for context switching was called cpu_switch(), usually written in assembler. It saved the current state and switched to another. When you regained control of the cpu, you returned from cpu_switch(). There was always somewhere to switch to.

When we added multiple threads per process (part of the KSE effort back in the day), a new low level construct was added - cpu_throw(). You switched somewhere else and threw away your context, didn't put the old thread in the run queue, and never returned. We used this for quickly disposing of threads.

This was all fine, thread implementations, process/thread schedulers, etc came and went.

Somewhere along the way, somebody reused the NetBSD MD/asm layer for one of the powerpc architectures. Of course, NetBSD didn't have cpu_throw(). It was #defined to cpu_switch() because it was close enough and worked.

Until somebody tried to use threading on this powerpc architecture. The fake cpu_throw() didn't prevent a return and the system got far enough to reach the upper machine independent layers and hit the panic.

This caused some amusement. Particularly as somebody had previously suggested that the panic was unnecessary as it cannot happen but I wanted to keep it anyway.
There are jailbreaks for the PS4, and it seems more likely than not that there will also be jailbreaks for the PS5. The barriers for actors who want to exploit console compute power are not significant. But they are significant for regular consumers.
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The objections to neural nets as the solution to all the problems on his list are the same as the old objections to neural nets as the solution to computer vision, speech recognition, translation, playing Go, etc. The objections will fall in the face of overwhelming evidence that neural nets simply work better than other approaches to these types of problems.

For a long time software was the reason robots didn't work, but that time is ending. Hardware will be the bottleneck soon if it isn't already. No general purpose robot will ever be successful in the mass market using electric motors and gearboxes at each joint. We need simpler, cheaper, lighter, more robust, more reliable, backdrivable, force-sensing actuators.
I hadn't heard of tulpas; what a fascinating strategy!

Bernard put on his new spectacles and sat in silent appreciation of his newfound visual acuity. He would need it in order to collect and parse as much extant academic research exists pertaining to something called a "tulpa."
Right now, CMake is being actively integrated into QtCreator and Visual Studio where they previously had their own bespoke defaults. It might be shit but it's also becoming more and more "standard" as one DSL you need for cross-platform builds, instead of fifteen xkcd-927 style.
Obsidian is basically a "markdown renderer + code coloring with some extra search and other features" too.

Notes in Obsidian are just regular markdown files that sit in a directory on your hard-drive. The notes can be version controlled with Git, synced with Dropbox, etc.
I tried Obsidian but prefer Foam[0], just because I enjoy using VSCode. Once it gets materialized backlinks I suppose it will be similar enough.

[0] https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
The parent comment should remind us that regular flu is already pretty bad in its symptoms and in the number who die from it each year. A “bad flu” can be very bad indeed: e.g., 1968, 1957, 1918. [1] Moreover, using excess deaths to quantify COVID-19 vs. regular flu, the numbers are concerning even with all our efforts to contain this coronavirus and avoid overwhelming hospitals. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Pandemics

[2]: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/15/tracking...

(The heat map in [2] titled “Weekly estimated excess deaths by age group” shows excess deaths in Europe this year vs. the past three years.)
> Without an error bound, ML can’t be in charge of anything that could put human lives at risk

Humans don't have "error bounds" either, and you trust them just fine.
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You assume a number that is too close to your floor. Duh, someone with $10.5 million would not care unless he expected his wealth to grow quickly, eh? My taxes under your scheme would be well into six figures, more than it takes to house and feed a upper middle-class family with room to spare. So yes, I'd leave for greener pastures, since my frugal lifestyle shouldn't be punished.

By the way, I already paid 25% capital gains tax when I sold my company I'd grown over the years, at the time it was easily 20% of my total wealth.
My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water activated gel cleanser. Then a honey almond body scrub. And on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.

There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me. Only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.
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Jobs also disappear when Amazon competes with other companies and wins which doesn't always leave heaps of choice in the labour market.
High GDP growth rate leads to high GDP down the road. How do you think the USA reached such a high standard of living.
Me too, kind of.

I have nginx reply with a 418 page to bad bots requests. Funny easter egg. As a bonus, that makes nginx avoid checking the filesystem for inexistent files, and makes filtering logs easier.

Nginx config snippet:

# Nothing to hack around here, I’m just a teapot:
location ~* \.(?:php|aspx?|jsp|dll|sql|bak)$ {
return 418;
}
error_page 418 /418.html;

Example: https://FreeSolitaire.win/wp-login.php
Ugh. This is making a hash of it.

What is true: The understanding of laymen about what robots can do is very much out of touch with reality. Making real world robots is very hard. I think it's movies which made people think that any 6 year old can just plop together a C-3PO.

What is the hash then? (I omit the points where I lack experience.)

1; Motion planning

"Even things like a model of where the robot is, with respect to the surroundings" That's not motion planing. Motion planing starts from when you have a model of yourself and your surrounding. There are theoretical challenges (imagine a flytrap, or maze) but the real world challenges in my experience come from that under the inaccuracies and glitchyness of perception you are expected to make okay-ish decisions.

3; SLAM

"there’s always going to be new obstacles (a pair of shoes, a book)"

SLAM is about localisation. It gives you a 6dof pose from some fixed coordinate system. It does not deal with tripping hazards. That's obstacle detection. It does indeed deal with "mapping" but only in as much as to get you that pose estimate.

"not turn-key to where there would be a SLAM module you can buy for your robot."

Sure you can. The "Intel Realsense t265" is for example one such a module.

The inside-out tracking of the Oculus Quest is an other (albeit one you will have hard time buying for your robot.)

6; Depth estimation.

That one is odd. True, getting full fidelity depth maps out of monocular images is a research problem. But if in reality you want to estimate the distance to your beer bottle you will use stereo images, or a Kinect like depth sensor. It is obviously a hard engineering challenge to make it four 9 robust, but not an unheard of challenge. If his definition of an "open problem" is that there are people writing research papers about it then it will remain an open problem for a while. But if he just wants to depth estimate stuff, then there are already working good ways. Maybe cost prohibitive, maybe not robust enough for his liking.

9; Scene understanding

Humanity made insane leaps and bounds on this one. Again there are engineering tradeoffs. How much accuracy you get for how much watts. What kind of training data you need, etc etc. Our systems are nowhere as good as a 5 year old human child, but I think we can handle that "beer bottle obscured by ketchup bottle" challenge if we try.
For comparison's sake, 15kw is enough power to heat a house in a moderate winter climate. Getting a furnance worth of power into and out of a chip without melting it is, indeed, very impressive.
If you just sit out a year and be more careful, you just might not die from something we all are aware of?

Also isn't also the problem, that people who have light symptoms and are very active are super spreaders?
They can continue to use the PlayStation store, continue to have exclusive games, and need not see any difference except by choice.

What is the downside?
And that’s one of the conditions that you have to fulfill to be sure the tax administration won’t classify you as professional investor.

https://www.taxadvisors.ch/media/6666/TaxBulletin_02_12_engl...
I don't understand why "faster than light" automatically implies "go back in time". If it takes me 10 seconds to travel 10 lightyears, then that means I should still be traveling forward in time (specifically by 10 seconds), no?

Say you had a faster than light transmitter that can send signals with (from your perspective) twice the speed of light (2c). If the receiver has no relative motion, everything seems to work fine. But if the receiver moves away from you fast enough (I think 0.5c should do it, but don't quote me on that one), then, from the receiver's perspective, the transmission will happen instantaneously. If the receiver moved even faster than that, the signal would seem to arrive before it had been sent(!), and if they had their own faster-than-light transmitter, they could relay the message back into the emitter's past.
Would be great to see official custom event tracking support in the future.