skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rules for society and commutative living is understandable, as the rights of a collective should be as equal or bigger than the rights of a individual.

This line of thinking doesnt apply in the relationship between Apple, its developers and its consumers.

Its a direct relationship and we are trying to understand here what rights Apple have vs. the rigths their developers and consumers have.

> Following your analogy if you've bought a flat, nobody is obliged to deliver food to you, especially when some food vendors do not comply with delivery's rules.

What you are lacking here is that theres a conflict of interest going on.
The better scenario would be "Apple Homes Inc" also owning a fast-food chain, having the power to define, the food delivery you have access to.

The key thing here, is that they do it before you are even aware you are lacking options. So you wont feel as freedom of choice is being taken from you, because when you look at the "food store", you have options. And having options make you feel that you have choices and freedom, while you actually dont.

Some people like you, could be fine with it. But my main point is that its breaking foundamentals laws our societies are built on. Freedom, property, etc..

There is no specific law yet, because its unregulated. But im pretty sure that once law experts decide to really tackle this issue, some of those things will get much clearer.

A company like Apple or Google have too much power with this, and you can imagine the mess if somehow the powerful of the world get their hands on this powerful pipelines that can control the lifes of so many..

Without good and effective laws to really regulate them, we can be in a mess real quick.

(And im not even debating the rights of people who create apps and are dumped with clients wanting their products but not being able to reach them, because Apple forbid them with bogus reasons)
XPRA sounds like screen for X? Plus maybe a betterish protocol, but also maybe a bit more fiddly?
> that it converts sour flavors to sweet

Does it? My experience tasting it, seemed more like a sour inhibitor. The sweet you tasted was what was left when the sour was removed. Turns out lemons are indeed sweet.

But that was merely my non-scientific, anecdotal impression.
The Mars panspermia theory mentioned in the original article simply moves the "randomness" to a primordial soup 83 million km away during the same time frame, and adds the exceptionally strong claim that Mars was so much more conducive to spontaneous formation of organisms capable of surviving on earth that it is more probable life emerged there and made an unexplained interplanetary journey than it emerged on the planet it currently [exclusively] lives on.

Considering the best evidence of Mars being conducive to earthly life formation is the likelihood of it more closely resembling earth's conditions in the past, it doesn't seem like the sort of claim likely to resolve issues with earthly primordial soup hypotheses...
This is really sweet.

Not much to say... Life is meant to be lived. Don't forget to live it.
Life Could Continue to Evolve – Issue 88: Love and Sex
You say that it doesn't have an aftertaste, but sound proud that it will impact your sense of taste for 30-60 minutes. That's worse, IMO. I like sour, tart and bitter flavors, and would be quite annoyed by this.

Also, many toxic products contain Bitrex as a safety measure. Brush it off now, but if your product ends up in foods marketed to kids, get ready for a shitstorm.
What's interesting is that they pour money into these alternatives, or worse, refurbish nuclear power plants at a huge cost instead of buying their neighbor's surplus of clean energy. Must be politically motivated!

[0] https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/01/15/news/critics-say...

[1] https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/door-closed-on-hydro-sales-to-on...
JP did a great job of packaging self-care and advice for disaffected young men, it's unfortunate he was put into a coma attempting to treat his addiction to benzodiazepines for 8 days in Russia. :(

I also struggled to buy nice things for myself, especially clothing I wore the same converse for like 6 years until they fell apart. Definitely something growing up poor did to me.

EDIT: Whoops I completely messed up the time period he was in a coma.
Reasons Bootstrappers Procrastinate and How to Overcome [Summary]
This is a great resource.

Only annoying thing is the constant prompt to login with your social accounts.
It's an interesting choice.

Which do you prefer?

I'd prefer having an impact on the company versus an impact on a large number of users, because I would experience the impact on the company every day, but at the big company, the feeling of satisfaction from running into random people who have used what I made would still be somewhat infrequent.
That depends on what you mean by biology-based tech, afterall, we're also a civilization deeply rooted in biology-based tech.

It's not necessarily the case that all organic materials are ephemeral over these timespans. Assuming that a tool-using civilization would have needs covering a wide range of material properties, including high corrosion resistance, there is no reason why even biologically-grown building materials would automatically be less durable than, say, concrete. Not to mention the tools and trinkets of everyday life. The assumption is that a large population always has a large footprint regarding the traces it leaves behind, even if that footprint is very different from ours. We found this to be true in fossils that have been left behind even by exceptionally fragile creatures.

Once we're talking advanced biology-based tech, this becomes even more pronounced. Outright genetic engineering in Earth's past would be bound to leave very curious traces in lifeforms that are around today. In fact, if I wanted to leave a message behind for a hypothetical civilization located on this planet a million years into the future, leaving it in DNA would be one of the very few viable choices.

I would posit that even DRMed biotech designed to turn every single piece of a civilization into mud once the license runs out would leave behind very detectable traces in the form of strange geological deposits and individual artifacts that survived against all odds.
Last I tried (1-3yrs ago? don't quite remember), no. They needed a phone number, so I added a VOIP phone number and was informed that I needed a phone number tied to a real phone. I went out and bought a cheap phone so I could make the bloody account, and while I could make and receive calls just fine Facebook still treated it as if it weren't a "real" phone. Long story short, I never made that account, I briefly enjoyed the perks of a burner phone, and I turned the phone into a small web server.
Well, but the topic seems to be "how can we avoid that the maritime ecosystem collapse, so we still can eat seafish?" and not "animal welfare".

I support both.
I believe that is angle Graham was coming from. At a certain point you wouldn't be able to afford to control your own company. You would HAVE to sell your shares to cover the costs of the tax.
I firmly believe what OpenAI is actually doing is building a dataset.
I’ll be implementing something similar soon, and don’t want to overengineer it. Could you please list the top options and their pros and cons? Thank you in advance!
No offense toward your product (good luck!), but one of my pet peeves is marketing “NATURAL ingredients” like it’s automatically good for you. A lot of natural ingredients can kill you or make you very sick. I mean, tobacco is a NATURAL ingredient, too.
But there are already pinning services, conventionally paid by the person wanting to have something pinned.

Of course you can build something super distributed and fractional on top of that. Maybe d.tube and lbry are such things, but the more venture capital is involved the less I tend to trust such efforts.
Obfuscating Your Email on the Web
That mindset is fairly exclusive to DnD which is centered around 10, scaling to 20, and mostly not making much sense because they're thematically exponential gains but practically and mechanically linear (heck, there is no difference between any even number, and that number plus 1, in terms of rolling). In most game contexts, min maxing simply means dumping all your gains into one thing over time, with the "min" being things that just stay at the point where they began. Min maxing on that end makes plenty of sense, especially given people don't really have much agency in their irl "build". Being really good at one thing is really good as Hawking may demonstrate.
I've listened to a podcast interview with a lawyer specializing in EU privacy laws and he said that it does not matter if the personal data is hashed or encrypted. It's still personal data. This was about data stored in a database tough, but browser local storage is a database.

This was mentioned when the guest spoke about right to be forgotten. The law is really weird, because you need to delete user's data from your database, but it's OK to keep backups.

> It is the same data that is found in server log files. In the strictest interpretation of GDPR, I don't think any analytics product can exist.

It can exists as long as user agrees to be tracked. There is a category of "metrics" "cookies" user needs to agree on before you can track him for metrics. That's the whole point of the law. You need user's permission.
FYI, Valve publishes the hardware survey and updates it monthly https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

The rest of your post stands, just thought you might be interested
by API we mean pretty UI? if not, huggingface/transformers is a pretty good API for the Google-brand transformers.
I'm pretty opposed to estate taxes, they tend to penalize sudden deaths really heavily and place unfair stress and complication on widows/widowers. Plus the rates are sometimes high enough that they can lead to asset liquidation, selling of companies, etc. which I'm not a huge fan of. An annual wealth tax is much more sustainable for an individual or business.
AmiCygnix is a Unix environment for AmigaOS 4
Glad I bought my HTC Vive Cosmos. I was going to wait for the Oculus to be back in stock, but I didn't. I gave up FB 6 years ago.
Well it better have a commensurate committee process that is as convoluted and bureaucratic as developing anything non-trivial in Rust is.
Yes. All of the above.
It does. If you really want something to change in the government, voting is pretty close to the bottom of the list of things you can do that might make a difference, statistically speaking. You still might as well vote, of course, but the chances of your one vote making an impact are extremely low.

That said, influencing the votes of other people can make a huge difference.
Ooh, I have been eyeing reMarkable. Do you have any comments on your experience?
Fair. I think the main thing I'm trying to emphasize here is that this crazy thing is found in nature not some chemical shit made in a lab. Also a lot of my competitors put chemicals in their products for flavor and consistency and I tried really hard to keep it natural.
Is this the fruit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
Corporate research is still going to somewhat be at the whimsy of what's bleeding edge AND has some applicable value; the idea of it just is a little different with things like the 10% or 20% "constructive free-time" model. Each engineer in FAANG-like companies just get a 10-20% salary allotment instead of the equivalent expense of researcher headcount. The idea of "constructive free time" for work is just the "agile" iteration of the research lab.
Some people say that all kinds of real estate speculation should be put to an end ...
> MITM TLS (which Google technically does with Chrome)

Google does not (need to) do this. Download a program like Fiddler and check for yourself.
Even though it's based on the Miracle Fruit, the name/domain "Miracle Nutrition made me immediately and strongly suspect this was a scam.

The Wordpress site with a fairly mediocre design and then the shop having the text "This is where you can add new products to your store." doesn't help either.
I worded it badly - I mean that the paying of taxes will always lower someone's standard of living, but we should minimize that as much as possible - basically that progressive taxation is clearly the better way.
In the old days most of the corporate research was in the physical sciences because the products, large "mainframe" computers and their peripherals, were very mechanical and cast in hardware. The advances of the next generation of product were driven by faster chips, more dense storage, printers that handled more complex print streams, faster networks, better user interfaces, etc.. Now that software and interoperability standards have eaten the world and made IT hardware a commodity, the competitive advantage rarely comes from physical science advancement. Relatively few companies now need physical hardware improvements to drive the next gen product. Intel, AMD, 3M, storage vendors, maybe a few more. The barriers to entry in a software world are so low that buying startups is more cost effective than investing in your own people. There's a survivors bias (I think,) in looking at what startups get acquired. For every one that gets acquired there are probably 10+ that don't. Why would a corporate CEO to invest in 11 research projects knowing only one might pan out if he could just wait and pick a winner from 100 startups?
The USA does not. The NRO does not operate large fleets of small satellites. They have just a few big ones. The optics are way better though.
Well depending what the fine is for, absolute values might make more sense.

Eg for people overusing water during a drought, if you can fine them enough to build a water recycling plant that recovers the water they wasted, that essentially undoes the harm they caused. Why fine poor people less if they aren't doing less harm?
Didn't they get, like, sued for this once upon a time?
Big pharma still has research labs. Or else, where do all their patents come from?
I see what you did there.

Poor Woz, rofl
In case anyone is curious, hydro is the general term for electrical power from a utility, at least in the part of Canada where I grew up.
Haskell's GHC compiler has a tiny UnicodeSyntax extension and some packages that explore the idea further.

UnicodeSyntax: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...

Base Library Symbols: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-unicode-symbols

Containers Library Symbols: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers-unicode-symbol...
Do we expect Joey Beercan to know who the explicit owner of any company selling us a product? Is it their fault for not knowing? Is that really fair if that is the expectation?

The parent's downvotes makes it seem like HN expects the purchaser to know about the FB affiliation
As someone who used to practice law, any discussion about contractual obligations is nothing more than speculation until you have read the specific contract in question.
Uh...except that one time in 1985 ROFLMAO
In everyday colloquial use, the term "spy" applies to what you are calling "embedded assets", whereas the term "trained spy" isn't used professionally at all. A "handler of assets" is a case officer. An intelligence agency employee who "does intel work" in the field might be a paramilitary officer, or some other name depending on the agency.

In the context of this thread, Alexander Yuk Chung is definitely not what you are calling "a trained spy", but an asset that was recruited by Chinese intelligence almost 20 years after joining the CIA. Like I said - there is no reason to believe that most of those would be have any sort of training relevant to passing polygraph tests.
Or, if you bought it with a credit card, you can request a charge back. Depending on the card, doing that even 12 months after purchase is possible.
I was compiling emacs with mingw and its Makefiles broke with spaces in the path. So while Make can, it seems that few people can get it right.
First they came for Jeff Bezos, and I did not speak out...
My knowledge is limited when it comes to USA school system, but is it very uncommon there?

"Here", you can study at weekends (4 or 8 days a month system) and it costs you like (ofc it's degree dependent, but we're talking about CS) like 10 minimal wages for 7 semesters and that's where people with jobs/kids/married go

Of course you can also choose that path when you're 20, so this way you can have 3.5 years of experience at the moment of graduation
Even adding thousands more satellites the chance that any will hit each other is incredibly small, and even if they hit it's probably not going to cascade. The Kessler effect only becomes a real possibility once we start purposefully blowing up many satellites.
If this product is everything you say, is there a reason you are selling this directly to consumers for $20 a pop instead of talking to the PepsiCos and Kraft Foods of the world?
How does it compare in aftertaste and smell to Erythritol and Sucralose?

What is the GI value of this?

What are the temperature limits for consumption without messing up with flavors and your health?

I've been using Sucralose for years and I'm quite happy with it and it's cheap, sweet and taste great enough for me to consider changing sweetener in my keto diet. Why do you think I should change it to this product?
If there are remains of a civilization from, say, 15000 years ago, very few are looking for it. In the Americas it is very hard to get permission even to continue digging below the Clovis layer.

Furthermore, it is just as likely to be under 60+ ft of water. We don't need to find the water for a worldwide flood -- it's all still there, since the ice melted, right there in the sea. Literally tens (or hundreds, going back a little farther) of thousands of square miles of what was very recently dry land is now underwater, more than enough room for some regional empires.

People who lived on those square miles had to pick up and move uphill, and leave their ancestral homes behind. (That, as anyway, is pure fact.) Australians have oral history of the conflicts that move caused, because other people already lived uphill.

It's not an extraordinary claim. Nothing makes it prima facie unlikely. It just takes looking for evidence in places no one has chosen to look, yet.

We do know that a sophisticated civilization (tree-)farmed the whole Amazon basin, right up until they were wiped out by smallpox 500 years ago. LIDAR reveals many, many miles of huge earthworks. No one suspected, only a few years ago. We still know hardly anything about them. So, no, lost civilizations are not an extraordinary claim.

Lack of lost civilizations, where they ought to have arisen, needs explanation.
> Flip it around and give the 0.01% poorest people the same treatment, society certainly doesn't need the poorest of the poor either. It makes about as much sense.

Again, that's the goal.

There was no vote to declare a line at 1 billion, because nobody cares about the exact number. The goal of measures like this is to reduce inequality.
I haven't heard of Oberon and Modula-2 in a very long time. C, however, is what I use every day.

This article reminds me of the BYTE issue in the mid-90s asking "Is UNIX dead?".

Nope. Various flavours of UNIX/Linux are still going from strength-to-strength. BYTE however died badly only a few years after that issue was printed.

"Pride Goeth Before A Fall." Or perhaps "Whistling Past The Graveyard" springs to mind.
> We know CPU is about 50 times slower than GPU for transformer models

Where's this heuristic from? Seems handy if true.
> The fact that they are BILLIONAIRES seems to indicate there is a decent amount of headroom to their business model.

Does it? If you multiply a small per-labor-hour surplus by 1000+ hours per worker per year and lots of workers, you can accumulate lots of money per year and become a billionaire, but that doesn't mean you have lots of headroom, just lots of scale.

> No. My argument is: if your business model can't sustain people at a living wage, then YOUR BUSINESS SHOULD NOT EXIST.

Sure, and when you kill all the businesses that can't pay every entry level employee enough for a comfortable independent life, who is going to pay the additional public benefit costs to give even minimum poverty support to the much wider pool of unemployed and unemployable? Your plan is lose (for the people who would be employed but now won't)-lose (for the people unemployed in either case for whom there is now less revenue to provide support)-lose (for the capital owners who are now prohibited from employing people whom they otherwise could, mutually profitably). Taxing capital gains fairly and using the proceeds to provide better universal support while reducing employment friction is win-win-mixed for the same groups.

> the article I linked suggested that walmart employees receive $6.2 billion in gov assistance (2014) - wikipedia suggests that walmart made $14.8 billion (2020). Seems like they DEFINITELY have the headroom to pay their employees that difference.

Their 2020 net income was more than double their 2019 net income, of $6.67 billion. Tax net capital income more, and you don't ever switch a profitable business into a losing one by your policy, increase employment costs and you make profitable decisions to employ people into unprofitable ones.
Currently my programs parse text. I have a JSON formatter, a lisp formatter. I'm also writing an Agda preprocessor in Agda i.e. parse Agda-like code, process it, print valid Agda code. I use them in my other projects as tooling.

Using Sized Types you can do pretty much anything in Agda though. It's not technically Turing complete since all programs are proved to terminate but you can go very far with it. I really like it because it gives very robust guarantees which makes it very easy think about the state of your program.
Lost Colony of Roanoke, in present-day North Carolina.

Terrible title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony
This is a really good article. I will include it in my reading materials at the end of the post :)
Not nearly crowded enough.

Picture the ocean. Can we agree that it's immense? How many ships can we launch until it becomes too crowded?

Now imagine the Earth has no land masses and oceans cover all of it. How many more ships can we add?

Now imagine that the Earth is bigger than what it is. A few hundred KM larger in radius. Your oceans have become so much bigger now as they have a larger area. And now imagine your ships are not only on the surface, but they could be submarines, or they could be planes, all crossing one another without ever touching.

This is what space looks like. It's ridiculously big. The only issue is that some orbits are way more useful than others, so they get more use. We can fit a crapton of stuff there, provided that we stop doing dumb things (like blowing up satellites).

LEO also has plenty of drag, so they decay. Higher orbits are more problematic.
It is. But how? Where'd you buy a dumb TV?
This looks like a cool project! I really like the extensions they’ve implemented for things like recursive macros, certainly an interesting space to experiment in.

It isn’t quite as standard-compliant as advertised though, for anyone who might be interested. It looks like it gets hung up on the same case that Boost.Wave has trouble with: macro expansions resulting in partial macro expansions, like getting “MY_MACRO (“ out of an expansion. So far GCC has the only preprocessor I’ve seen to get that bit right.
That's possible, but your previous comment is still incorrect.
Wealth tax me brohe, I dare you. I'll just send all of my money overseas instead of the vast majority of it. :^)