skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typing symbols is not really an issue. First off, you can configure your text editing environment to automatically replace digraphs with their associated symbols (e.g. when you type i. replace it with ⍳ automatically). But second of all, memorizing an alternate keyboard layout isn't that big of a deal. Is it really harder to remember that grade up is super+shift+4 (⍋) than that it's slash+shift+; (/:)?

I would argue that difficulty in reading code and knowing what symbols represent what operations is a much more pertinent consideration. And though neither is especially mnemonic (can you really have a mnemonic for something as abstract as 'sort'?), it's much clearer that single-character grade down (⍒) is the reverse of single-character grade up (⍋), than for digraphs (/: and \:). (It's also easier to parse symbols when they're only one character.) Not least because unqualified / and \ represent very different operations—the first is reduce, and the second is either scan or prefix—as do /. and \.; so there's no precedent for it.

And so, assuming you accept the obvious superiority of graphical/unicode representation of symbols, the digraph method for typing them becomes superfluous. You now have to associate the mental concept of grade with two completely separate representations: the graphical representation of the completed character (⍋) and the ascii representation which you type (/:). You can't escape the latter, because every time you type a grade, you'll see the '/' on screen for a moment before you type the ':' and the character gets digraphed.

I mentioned in the beginning that you can configure your editor (and repl) to automatically replace digraphs with their associated symbols (so /: automatically gets replaced with ⍋). On face, this seems functionally equivalent to the ligature suggestion, but it's not. Mainly, it affords flexibility. If you want to type digraphs in your environment, you can, all my criticisms aside. But I can configure my environment to use an alternate keyboard layout, avoid complicating my editor environment by introducing ligatures, and we can work together seamlessly. Doing it that way also adds flexibility to the language; if ⍋ is the single canonical representation of 'grade up', and / and : are separate symbols with their own unique semantics, then they can be freely juxtaposed. It'd also be somewhat of a pointless indirection, to have ascii digraphs underlying what are essentially unicode-pictorial representations.

(Note: I said only 'digraphs', for clarity, but everything I said applies also to trigraphs, of which j has a couple.)
Honestly, it might well be actionable for purchasers of existing hardware. They can legitimately point towards a public statement made by a company agent authorised by his employer and that they bought the device on that basis.

The problem is that if Facebook had to pay out $20 million to make this go away they'd consider that to be entirely a cost worth paying.
I simply argued that in a system where certain failure modes are ameliorated, a company that creates more value than it captures is a net benefit to society.

If I argued that strawberry cake was a net benefit to society, would you dismiss my views as "all that matters is strawberry cake and you can't contribute to society without making strawberry cake"? Of course not. So too for economics.
> Many places currently have property taxes (a type of wealth tax) and they tend to work well.

Don't forget inheritance tax/estate tax! It's a wealth tax, just applied after (or near to) death.
When I'm in the right mood, I use Comic Code[1] for my terminal, along with a different palette than my normal "working" environment. Even if it's just placebo, it helps me shake up my thinking a bit.

[1] https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-cod...
Cerebras Teases World's Largest Chip with 2.6T 7nm Transistors and 850k Cores
Debian's Qt Maintainers Stepping Down Ahead of Qt 6.0
At least from the pharmaceutical perspective, there has definitely been a shift away from basic research. Why? Well, in the past, it was drug companies that had the money to actually fund it. It wasn't a big deal to spend $1M on the latest lab equipment. We had university researchers asking for time on our equipment.

From talking to some of the old-timers, universities started to get better and better funding (NIH grants, royalties, etc) and eventually could buy the equipment they needed themselves, no need to rely on drug companies.

So it might be more accurate to say that basic research funding has grown and most of that growth happened on the university side. Pharma companies have either held steady or decreased their spend on basic research (it really depends on the company).
We should incentivize productivity (thus low income/gains taxes) but pay for goods and services (thus wealth and inheritance taxes). There is nothing beneficial for society if there are people with large amounts of poorly allocated wealth (ie not productive enough to grow faster than tax rate).
There could certainly be a way to provide Edge via the Store and not force it on users. Possibly the reason it's not done that way is because there appears to be hard links to it. Despite setting Firefox as the default things still open in Edge, like from the Search in the Start Menu and from Settings help pages etc. Maybe there's a way to fix this but it feels wrong to me. And it also doesn't need to keep pinning itself to the task bar either.
Do you know any good resources to learn the intricacies of Google Analytics and its related marketing concepts?
Sounds like "Jones in the Fast Lane" (1990) from Sierra. Here's a review and gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQ8LyOMl3E
> Logically, if objects that can survive a million encounter with stars exist, they would seem a million times more common than objects that could survive one.

That’s not how the statistics work.
I don't believe that we'd recognize computer-ish artificial life as life in the sense that we're discussing here.

ps. I have my Artificial Life III conference t-shirt from 1994 :)
Getting a satellite into the planned orbit is often takes quite a while, because every bit of onboard fuel either adds cost or reduces available instrument weight.

That is is becoming more commercially viable to begin operation immediately is exciting!
Your tweet indicates that you were stopped by the "government ID required" hoop. I've been there. I'm no graphics design wizard, but I foiled this by (1) taking a photograph of my actual government ID, (2) copying letters around to spell the name I'm known by, (3) applying some noise and blur filters (4) downsampling, and (5) redacting all PII except name & face. Compared to making an actual fake ID, I call this quite simple.

I imagine that you could use a plausible but fake name and a plausible but fake "random person" image, but I'm not interested in actually interacting with that website enough to try.

You might try a clean OS & browser install, to avoid trackers, and maybe if you've been banned a bunch already, use a VPN (or stop using a VPN) or use Starbucks wifi or something.
Yes. The point is exactly that globalization has made competing locally hard. That's the accepted fact. Globalization has increased, not decreased (as was the original hypothesis) the distance between the top and the average wealth holders in society.

The coalescing and hoarding of wealth results in the deterioration of the average value of a human life. This is bad for a western liberal society because it demonstrates that the values upon which the society operates do not yield positive outcomes for enough people to be satisfied and hopeful. If capitalism is to remain the dominant economic system, it either has to enslave the masses and oppress them into submission (which they are currently resisting), or it has to work to continually operate in a way such that the perception of wealth is maximally shared.

I agree inequality is inevitable. Everyone has different priorities, abilities, etc. But human rights must be preserved (globally) and access to opportunity and capital, hope, must be universally available. This is the only way to justify the inequality of outcomes.

To tax wealth is really to say that socially we don't want institutions to remain in comfortable positions of perceived power without continually demonstrating utility. You build up a large estate? Great. But you must continually demonstrate its utility by actively working to distribute the wealth, not just generate goods and services. Or, have it done for you.

It doesn't seem to me that it's a problem, per say, that wealth is not tangible. Money isn't really either. Cash is simply a tool that a capitalist society uses to encourage the exchange of goods and across markets where it wouldn't otherwise be obvious how to make an exchange. Having a lot of cash does not make one wealthy, and having wealth does not imply liquidity. At any moment one can become the other or simply evaporate altogether.

It seems that the point is really about how to mitigate the tendency for institutions that have extracted much wealth from society to deploy it in efforts of self preservation. In the current state, you need a revolution to tear down entrenched institutions. In this forum and generally in the valley where we have essentially arbitrary access to capital, we prefer (or have been trained) to be a little bit disruptive all the time rather than massively disruptive a little bit of the time. We've demonstrated that this model works. And fundamental to the model is essentially arbitrary access to capital.

So I guess my question is if as you suggest access to capital is more available than it's ever been, why isn't it being deployed? Perhaps globalization has driven the bastions of wealth to build such high walls that they find themselves among the clouds?
Anyone know how this compares to https://www.tonic.ai/? Tonic lets you generate data for safe local dev/testing, and they're also open source and have some big customers.
In the case of the smart tv it's actually because you didn't really pay the full price of the tv. The manufacturer counts on the revenue from those ads to boost the tv profit margin to an acceptable level, otherwise they would have to charge you more for the tv initially.

If you don't believe me, look up the price of a "commercial display" comparable to your tv. And before anyone asks, the majority of customers would rather have a cheaper tv with ads in the menus than a more expensive one without.
Promissory estoppel is a real thing and companies can be legally liable for promises that another party relies upon.
Is it more demanding than asking them to memorize a collection of (mostly arbitrary) ascii symbols and digraphs? If you learn apl, you have to remember that grade up is ⍋ (s-S-4); if you learn j, you have to remember that grade up is /:. The primary barrier to entry is remembering what operations you can do and how you can do them, not how to type them.
every single "dead" code is still in marketable and isn't accessible unless you try to import a sidecar from a previous version. LR might be shitty but the fact that the guy says darktable has this problem is just silly.
A better question: why does a VR headset require an account at all? Should my monitor require an account? Should my keyboard?

It's a peripheral, not a platform.
I mean "all else being equal", of course all else might not be equal. The thing is that I don't think objects need to be that durable to survive for a long time in space.
No they actually can’t in most cases. Without probable cause or permission, an officer is not allowed to execute a search. The dog is used to provide probable cause.

Also, it’s the same with letting an officer into your dwelling: Without a warrant, probable cause, or permission, they cannot legally enter.
SK Hynix Scores a World First: Unleashes a Consumer SSD with 128-Layer NAND
Fast AMF0 library written in pure TypeScript
Someone here gave a link to a masterful takedown of Girard's claims in The Scapegoat. Basically, in order to make his claims, he's just making stuff up - about Christianity, and about Oedipus, and about almost everything else he cites as historical evidence for his position. If you look at pretty much anything he cites, and get past his beautiful writing enough to actually think about his claims, you look at the claim, and the citation, and you find that there is no actual evidence for the claim in the citation. He's making up the evidence by reading it into places that don't give evidence for his position at all.

That is not an approach that commends his position to me.

Wish I had kept a link to the article. Does anyone here remember? Will the original poster of that link be kind and post it again?
TensorFlow Lite Now Supports Tapping OpenCL for Much Faster GPU Inference
I see exactly one merit in B-corporations: the status makes it legal for management to to decide in favor of conscience over greed. It doesn't force them to decide conscience over greed, they can be just as profit-oriented as a regular corporation, but they can. At least management won't be sued by shareholders for rejecting a an unethical but legal profit opportunity. It's not the big difference some may expect, but it can be an important difference nonetheless (just like it can be no difference at all)
Even Faster Mobile GPU Inference with OpenCL – The TensorFlow Blog
To the extent that Facebook made those promises to someone authorized to disseminate them, I wonder if they've opened themselves up to refund claims well beyond original purchase dates.

If anyone purchased the device relying upon Palmer Luckey's promises, that could be promissory estoppel.

(Not a lawyer, etc etc.)
That's literally the only reason people do leetcode, friend
> There is one way out of the housing price trap: telework plus ubiquitous broadband via things like 5G and Starlink.

I don’t buy that. People don’t like to live in cities primarily because of jobs, but because living in cities is fun.
People like to be close to other people, exchange with others and their community.

Living in a small town sounds depressing to me, no matter how fast the internet connection might be.

Maybe if you create your own commune, bring in a social circle from the city. But that has a tendency to fall apart.
You have some basic rights and an EULA, TOS or a contract cannot take those away (at least not in the EU). So no, that wouldn't cover a situation where a device is crippled later on. You'd have a right to get your money back.
You only mentioned the DOE national labs in passing-I encourage you to give them more thought. I’m currently a researcher at one of them, and if you land in the right group/application area it can be truly meaningful work.

If you’re in the bay I encourage a closer look at LBNL and LLNL, if you’re open to moving, NREL is in a great location too. Obviously Sandia, LANL, ORNL, and PNNL all do good applied CS work as well but the locations are a little more remote and options are better if you can get/hold a clearance.
Ah, yes, I think it was this. The startup I left had unfavorable liquidation preference seniority for employees (standard) but most of the investors had a liquidation multiplier.

https://angel.co/blog/liquidation-preference-your-equity-cou...
Yes, interesting. See a car speeding? The software knows where the car came from, will know where it is when "destinated".

I suppose license-plate readers do something similar, but this is space-based, blanket, all-seeing.

Brave new world....
If Russia can chop Crimea off of Ukraine just because Crimea's residents speak Russian, then maybe Chechnya whose residents speak their own native language deserves the independence from Russia that the Chechens have fought for for centuries.
The society at large was akin to natives of an undeveloped land being preyed upon by an advanced civilization. They were offered glass beads and trinkets, "a mirror to amuse yourself with, your highness!". And society at large behaved precisely as the historic natives.
so does someone dying from lung cancer caused by a lifetime of smoking. tears in the rain
> According to a Reuters poll from this beginning of this year a large majority of Democrats and a slim majority of Republicans support the idea of a wealth tax.

That's only because they haven't seen the specifics.
Don't forget that many of those images will be of cloud.
Implying research today is anywhere close to research of the past. The amount of capital and complexity to do fundamental research far eclipses what was required in the past.
Same here, 40 and not very information junky anymore. But it probably has to do with the fact that anything is nowadays searchable online and also that there is so much information (even here on HN) that if you save it even selectively it is a sea of information. I use the "one tab" plugin and rather than closing the tab I save it to the one tab archive. Most of the time I never look at it again
Knowing company helps people to give more accurate advice especially if they know how things works over there for a specific role. Same problem in different enviroment requires different solution imo.
Benchmarks: Amazon EC2 C5ad Instances Launch for AMD EPYC Rome with Local NVMe
This is sadly true, but we have to fix our libertine taxing authority and corporate law in any case. These are assets that are not adding to overall societal welfare, so I would rather criminalize and tax the thing society needs to change rather than the gains to productivity being taxed in the current system.
I knew this was coming eventually, but I am definitely selling my Rift after this announcement.
https://summitroute.com/downloads/aws_security_maturity_road...

Scott Piper is the definitive AWS security expert, and this is a guide he publishes and maintains. I'd also suggest following him on Twitter, I learn a lot just from his idle tweets.

https://twitter.com/0xdabbad00
Interesting idea! Who would take the other (long) side of the trade? Why would someone who thinks housing prices are going up not just buy a house outright?
> I am not a lawyer so I cannot say for sure what constitutes PII and what breaches GDPR

If you don't feel fit to judge whether something breaches GDPR, then maybe you shouldn't say "so it is GDPR and CCPA compliant".
Demand they supply you with a copy of your Death Certificate.
It must be getting pretty crowded up in LEO. How long before we get a Kessler Effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
The guys story is incomplete and without a decent set of information there is nothing useful to be speculated about.
Was expecting to read about Olivia de Havilland et al. Oh, you mean the old Hollywood of uh… five to ten years ago.
When the actor seems irrational, you should step back and ask "who is the actor and what are their motivations?"

This doesn't feel like an act of Facebook as a whole. They should be thinking long term, big picture. Zuckerberg seems to have an image of Neuromancer's Matrix in his head, and we ain't there yet. He'd definitely take this step but I wouldn't think he'd do it until he more solidly owns VR.

What I see here is a senior manager type, maybe a VP or a bit below it, who needs numbers that go dramatically up and to the right in the short term and is thinking about their own personal success. They'd be the ones to say "how do we turn this acquisition into Facebook-measurable success metrics so we can prove that we're worth all this spending? Ah, yes, mandate Facebook logins, great idea, do it."
ts-migrate: A Tool for Migrating to TypeScript at Scale
Sex Is Driven by the Impetus to Change – Issue 88: Love and Sex
Huh. That doesn't quite address my objection (CamelCase like EnglishEtРу́сская still un-works), but that's actually a good point in the overwhelming majority of cases. I'm not quite convinced this approach works in practice (I'm sticking with "A"="A"="A"), but I'd definitely like to see a more technically fleshed-out design.
Did you click "Agree" to the new ToS? We told you of the changes and you agreed. Go fly a kite!
--Facebook
Apple Is Apparently Threatening to Pull Epic’s Developer’s Accounts
Though modern "emoji pickers" have extended the range of IME and soft keyboard tools that regular users use (often daily). I've been joking that the next APL is probably made from emoji, but it's not entirely a joke: the Windows emoji keyboard (Win+. or Win+;) has a pretty full Unicode math symbol section (click the Omega top-level tab and then flip through the bottom level tabs), and while it is missing some of the nice search features of the more colorful emoji, gives relatively quick access to a lot of options.
An annual wealth tax of ~0.5% and a floor of ~$10million is very, very different than an inheritance tax of 30%, to the point that they're not even that comparable. So sure, I agree we shouldn't have a high inheritance tax.
You don't, but offline attacks tend to be relatively hard. 3DES is 25 years old now and not an easy target for a casual attacker.
Claudia de Rham Slayed Gravity’s Ghosts
File sharing/distributed hosting enthusiasts. You can spend plenty of time with IPFS without ever hearing of Filecoin.
Congrats on launching -- really impressive. One important issue that these self hosted analytics solve is ad blocking. Ad blocking by users really undermines the ability of a site or app to figure out what is working and not working. When you host your own analytics, you can get usability information for all of your users, not just those that don't block. That allows you to make a better product.

I have been working on something similar at https://argyle.cc -- we combine cloud analytics with a self-hosted analytics collector js. That gives you the best of both worlds: privacy focused, user respecting analytics, but full featured reporting in the cloud and ad-blocker resistance. It also allows event tracking to be done over js/web or in-line/server side.
I do think it's enough. My point was that excluding money from the question is not useful, because buying a yacht is explicitly an exchange of money for entertainment.
I've bought it before on Amazon for fun party tricks, bar conversation and office colleagues break ice moments.

That's cute that someone pushed it to a further commercialized product, but it doesn't last for an hour, or close to five.