skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I assume he expected to stay a part of it and maybe things were different if he did. It's his fault, of course, but I think he was just naive.

You can be naive, but naive doesn't mean you go online and argue that people who know better are wrong, which is what he did.
How has it been made clear that housing won't be allowed to fall? The held-low interest rates?
True. It's all within your rights. I'm just trying to say they really don't like burners and won't make it easy to go that route. (If I had to guess)
Yep, I understand. I've worked for 5 startups in roughly 20 years. Only one had any real success, resulting in that "okay" outcome. I have more than enough capital to meet accredited investor status, and wouldn't invest in a private company again. (I have in the past and know I'll never see that money again.)
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PKD predicted this 50 years ago https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7444685-the-door-refused-to...
It definitely looks like it could be.
There was a joke about this in the show The Office, American version. I don’t remember the specifics, but Andy was auditioning for an a role and it required him to put his eyes in the emergency eye wash . He was deathly afraid of this, which was characteristic. So the advice given to him was to play a character auditioning for a role that wasn’t afraid of the eye wash.
This is very saddening.

The fact that Facebook had not made this move actually had a significant impact on me in assessing their overall "evil" factor for other services. Now that they have, I'm left owning a Quest and looking for another platform to move to over the next few years. I hope the competition steps up because the Quest has really nailed everything important about VR.
At best an attempt at saving face.
>Penalizing static value seems almost reasonable.

Ah yes, the economic argument of "punish savers and people refraining from consumption will lead us to our Centrally Planned Utopia"

>If you have a bucket of money that isn't doing anything, then what value does it actually bring to the economy?

Do you and I live in the same reality? When a global pandemic has shown almost every single person on earth that cash balances should have been higher -- enough to sustain unexpected periods of inactivity -- it seems a little tone deaf to say saving money is unproductive. There's already a tax on holding central-bank money -- it's called engineer inflation and it's what's exacerbated the economic repercussions. Your Central ~~Bankers~~ Planners convince you taxing fiat money holdings (price inflation) and artificially reducing the cost of bringing future production to the present (downward interest-rate manipulation) will lead us to utopia when it's actually cause over consumption, over production, and a planned economy on the precipice of collapse.

I'll keep the "unproductive" savings, thanks.
Let's not pretend we live in some Stone Age where only our hardlined desktops are able to access the internet.
True. Guess I just meant some folks are willing to trade one problem for another.
This really does not drive the conversation forwards. This isn't an intellectually honest look at wealth taxes as people like Warren are putting forth.
Melbourne-based CI/CD platform Buildkite gets $28M AUD Series A
Is it a backup if it can't be used like one?
> Fuck off dude.

You can't do that on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Perhaps you don't owe "dude" better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here.

I'm dismayed to see that you've been making a habit of posting like this, as well as unsubstantive comments generally. If you keep doing that we're going to have to ban you, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart?
I think it’s funny that people are surprised by this. It’s not new technology really, the defence sector has had taskable satellite imagery for decades, it’s just a matter of the cost coming down to the point where it’s feasible commercially. That is super cool though. There are a lot of applications for space based real-time imagery that could be tremendously more useful to the majority of society than tracking bad guys.
This is so simplistic. Favorably simplistic.

Think about it this way, in a very similar, live example:

It is common practice to pay a fee of 0.5-2% to a wealth manager. In practice for many people this fee is worthwhile and wonderful - the benefit is a safely managed and vigorously growing pool of assets.

Is a wealth tax as described by the author really so different? In one case you pay a fee to the manager, in the other case you pay the fee to a more abstract/distant manager (the social system). In both cases, that small fee (small if everyone is generally competent and the wealth grows) is what empowers further growth.

No sane, logical person complains about paying $0.20 when in return they get an extra $0.30 back. In this case, I suspect the author is trying to justify receiving that hypothetical $0.30 without having contributed their initial $0.20. Embarrassingly simplistic, selfish, and self-centered.

Reading that blog post, I’m reminded of the occasional, deluded person who believes that they alone are responsible for their successes and good fortune. In reality, all successes are collective accomplishments. This is a fundamental fact about human life.
Here is what you said:
"To be clear, the US is a constitutional republic and not a democracy, and the constant use of the word democracy dilutes this fact."

Here is what happens when you google democracy:
"a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy:
1a: government by the people
especially : rule of the majority
b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

dictionary.com:
government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
a state having such a form of government:
The United States and Canada are democracies.

You said the US is not a democracy, all definitions I can find says it is.
I host my blog using IPFS.
Server side tracking is useful for logging http requests.
Client side tracking is useful for logging user interactions.
Used to be there would be a small difference between server and client due to caches and user settings... but...
Modern apps (i.e. React, Vue, Angular) often only load one page, and then all interaction is managed by client side code, so often client side tracking is the only thing that works.
We can have both carbon taxes AND wealth taxes, of course. Carbon taxes seem to be an excellent way to curb carbon emissions, which is necessary, but they're also regressive, and unlikely to be sufficient to pay for the things we expect the government to provide.

PG may not be impacted by a California wealth tax, but that doesn't mean his opposition isn't self-interested. If it succeeds in California it could be taken up by other states, or the US as a whole - maybe wiser (in PG's view) to nip it in the bud.
I'm quitting Chrome. The amount of memory hogged is insane
https://ibb.co/WGgf0p8

I had two windows of chrome open and I was using mostly GitHub and email and a couple tabs for Grafana.

I noticed my entire computer would freeze up every now and then and when I looked at activity monitor I saw GBs of memory and 100% cpu usage from chrome.

I switched over to Safari and its been much better.
Its refreshing not to see chrome taking up the top 10 spots for memory usage in the activity monitor
Is that right?

Sweden -- along with virtually all European countries other than Switzerland, Norway and Luxembourg -- have much poorer middle classes than most US states.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/if-sweden-left-the-eu-and-joi...

https://mises.org/wire/if-sweden-and-germany-became-us-state...
Julia also allows Unicode characters, which I think is great for math-heavy programs. I love that about it. I always forget the keybindings for them though.
> Apple is demonstrating about as much bundled-product market control

I see this sort of sentiment everywhere. There seems to be a mass delusion occurring. The AppStore is not it's own economic market. It is just one member of many in the actual economic market.

The WalMart down the road from you is not an economic market. It is just a store, one implementation of the entity that is Walmart. But even taking every WalMart together, you do not have an economic market. It is just a store. One store. What economic market is WalMart in? This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_hypermark...

AppStore is just a store, one of many many implementations of a package management system, with retail sales and free apps. The economic market includes AppStore, Google Play Store, LG SmartWorld, Huawei App Store, Sony Apps, Amazon AppStore, Aptoide, F-Droid, GetJar, AC Market, SlideME, Uptodown Market, Itch.io, Cydia, neXva, Bemodi, AppBrain, 1Mobile, Appolicious, Kongregate, and AppLand collectively all together. And far more than that is included in the actual economic market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_manag...

Apple has many many competitors in both hardware and software. There is no such thing as "the Apple economic market," or "the AppStore economic market."
No, the report compares a H1-B salary to the same company the H1-B is employed at.
The other responses are also good but it can also take the form of a client advocate: taking the client's needs and making sure they get visibility to the developers and product teams.
a complementary reading piece should be sutton's "the bitter lesson", which more or less argues that ai methods/techniques that "leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin."

[0] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
I had heard in the past that if your numbers were not GA, then they did not put much weight into them. Since you can grant access to other people directly into GA, they can validate the data. Using awstats or other metrics were deemed less trustworthy since they required someone gathering the data (which allows for potential manipulation). Before the days of 3rd party advertising, people tried to sell local ads just like a news paper. The website with more visitors could charge more for the ad banner space. Some "little" blog would have to prove they received the amount of traffic.
Better to have a dumb TV with chromecast.
Different ways of improving CRC performance on Intel and AMD processors [pdf]
Reading through all of those signs makes it clear that most people who come to HN for civilized discussion also enjoy the opposite end of the spectrum in a different context.
I would say how do we help the poorest people in the world? How do we help homeless people in a holistic way and prevent homelessness. How do we counterbalance the power corporations have to sway governments to do things in their interest and against the public interest. All these things are probably connected. At the core how do we make society attitude more humanistic include myself.

The reason is well human decency for a start. And it is hypocritical to look down on people that harm other people if we are doing it systematically.
Hmm although I wouldn't recommend eating an entire lemon, lots of the foods that work well with miracle fruit you would already consume regularly - berries, greek yogurt, coffee, sauces, cocktails, etc. I use it everyday with greek yogurt mixed in with almond butter...very healthy but tastes sinfully like Reese's.

The main reason it hasn't been commercialized is that the fruit itself is very finicky. It took me a whole year to work out a procedure and formulation. Another company is working on bioengineering the active protein, and raised $6.9M 3 weeks ago so I wouldn't say all hope is lost in miracle fruit.

There is actually a really interesting conspiracy theory of how GD Searle broke into the offices and sabotaged the original company commercializing miracle fruit back in the 70's. You are right, they tried telling the FDA that miracle fruit would make kids drink battery acid, but that was all corporate BS because they were afraid of the competition it would bring - kids were enjoying miracle fruit sweetened popsicles more than regular popsicles.
wealth tax (like most taxes) == Robbery
It’s not like it’s a new across-the-board policy for them. They were just being cautious in this particular case because they were worried about social ramifications. Arguably some other research should have been made less readily available like this (think deepfakes for example).
Amazon's market has become a cesspool of many trash products with fly-by-night ALLCAPS Youtube-bro dropshipper "brands", if you can even call them that.

Amazon's fast and affordable shipping is addicting, but I've nonetheless steadily shifted my purchasing patterns away from Amazon.

Instead I tend to search Amazon (and Google, etc) to see what options are available, and buy them elsewhere if possible. Ideally directly from high-quality brands' websites, or alternately from smaller, specialized online retail outlets I trust more. Both tend to be more of a passion project and really care about what they're making and selling.

I may not receive the item as fast, but I've adjusted to that and realize in 99% of cases I don't really need that instant gratification.

In fact, fast shipping instant gratification seems more likely to tempt me into un-needed impulse purchases, and I'm better off without it. I make more planned and strategic purchases when I have to wait a little longer to receive them. Better for my personal financial planning and budgeting, and control of my lizard brain response.
Depends on what you mean by relevant information. GLA exposes the many compositional natures of linear transformations. The fact that there is a compact matrix representation is a wonderful treat.
Are you working for Amzn?
I'm curious, does this still work? Since GMail is likely the largest email provider in the world, I would have expected spammers to simply filter out the `+.*` by now.
Habits Which Will Change Your Life
Wealth tax doesn’t push people out of assets, it makes assets less valuable because of higher discount rate. Making housing cheaper sounds like a good thing.
Yep, I’ve had exactly the same thing happen to me. You might be able to delay it slightly if you use an email address they have in their records from other users (i.e. an email address some of your friends have stored for you in their contacts they’ve shared with Facebook). Set up a new gmail / Hotmail account they have no trace of existing before, the red flags go up and it will almost certainly get you to verify with some form of government ID, real phone number or possibly both.

I’ve supported Oculus since DK1 through every single iteration of hardware. This change by Facebook has just killed the brand entirely for me. I simply won’t sign up / back into Facebook (killed my account around 2011 as I found it overwhelmingly toxic and have never looked back) to use a piece of hardware I already purchased.
My dad does the same thing. "Bill" (his real name) hates social settings, yoga, and emotions. "Fred" (his alter ego) is more than happy to try out any of those things. Just don't ask John.

It certainly works pretty well for him. At the local gym he even had a Jake/John moment where everyone knew him as Fred and not Bill and got confused when my mom tried to reach them about something.
A random example of a useful application: realtime forest fire detection. In e.g. Sweden during the summer months people are still paid (well, compensated for their expenses) to fly around in Cessnas looking for smoke plumes.

Imagine being able to dispatch a helicopter to drown out a typical forest fire within 10 minutes of the fire starting while it's still small. That's a game changer.
> Even open source programs, like RawTherapee and Darktable, use entirely different and incompatible approaches, algorithms, and instructions.

`git checkout v3.0.2`

`./build.sh`

No idea what you're talking about. As long as you have your RAWs and your sidecar file you can trivially reproduce the picture, at least that's how it works in darktable.

Hell, the old code that is deprecated and "hidden" in the newest versions is actually all still there and if you import your stuff in the newest version it is practically guaranteed to look exactly the same. In fact there is a CI system that checks for delta-Es in each release.
Motion Smoothing Is an Abomination
Actually, not really. Inside out tracking runs on one core of my ancient AMD FX 6350 well enough. It was very doable.
Facebook is dangerously close to collapsing the whole VR industry with this.
Anyone familiar with Breaking Bad? Walter White goes under the alias of Heisenberg. When he’s Walter, he’s anxious and fearful. It’s such a contrast compared to the calm, calculated Heisenberg.

The writers did a phenomenal job of using an alter ego to slowly change the character from Mr. Chips to Scarface.
With Oculus soon requiring Facebook log-ins, VR pioneer warns: Use anything else
In reading this, I'm reminded of co-innovation platforms that rose up around 2007 and focused on R&D and product dev. As well as how companies like Threadless and Quirky used them to reward successful community creators. Throw in resellers and varying referral programs, and you've quite a spectrum of options for "community brands". It's neat to see more companies experimenting with business models where participants drive growth through financial and non-monetary incentives. It can certainly help drive "participant" acquisition and activation. Just try to keep these programs straightforward and they should be fine.
why would any money or time be spent on this type of analysis? Congressional speeches are pure theater watched by startlingly few people.
> Thereby reducing the scope of jobs for which they can hire to ones that return sufficient value for that, sure.

The fact that they are BILLIONAIRES seems to indicate there is a decent amount of headroom to their business model.

> This argument is equivalent to: “No one whose full time labor returns less value to the employer than would merit pay above the poverty line should be employed at all; nor should anyone whose half-time pay would leave them eligible for food stamps.”

No. My argument is: if your business model can't sustain people at a living wage, then YOUR BUSINESS SHOULD NOT EXIST. Remember that walmart put a lot of small shops out of businesses - many of those shops paid their employees enough to live without needing food stamps. They sucked up all the air, if they can't sustain their workers, they need to stop sucking up the air and make room for businesses that can.

edit: for details. 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. Why are we even arguing about this? Walmart would have made $8.6 billion and government would have at least 6.2 billion more for schools, PPE, covid relief, etc. nobody needs to lose their job, NOBODY EVEN NEEDS TO STOP BEING A BILLIONAIRE to at LEAST get people off food stamps.
>That can be kind of game changing from a geopolitical perspective.

Don't forget from a civil rights perspective. Remember this[1] from a few years ago, or this[2] a few weeks ago? Now imagine that the government can do the same thing, all over the us, 24/7, with zero marginal cost.

[1] https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/how-buzzfeed-news-revealed-hidd...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/y3zvwj/military-fbi-flyin...
When I was doing my PhD (CompSci) in the late 2000s I looked forward to join Microsoft Research because it seemed they were doing really cool stuff, even at a time when "corporate" Microsoft was the bad kid (me being very pro-Linux at the time).

One thing lead to another and I ended up going to another Research Assistant role and then getting fed up with research and going into industry.

But the idea of the Xero lab, Sun Microssystem and later Microsoft research was something I always really dreamt about. Nowadays I think startups doing autonomus vehicle technology is what looks similarly disrupting to me, but I am too much down into the SaaS rabbit hole.
Please feel welcome, GB, to post it wherever you think best, annotated as you see fit, with my blessing.
I knew this was true when google earth launched. Every conflict area (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) has very up-to-date images. I assumed these were military image-requests making their way into the commercial imagery catalogue.
I developed on it and the limitation was mostly self imposed for safety/perf reasons. Its much easier to draw a consistent roomscale boundary on the Quest with the 6DOF controller. Without that its a real UX problem. Even the Quest is constantly asking to redraw the boundary. It was one of two SOC generations (as well as VR SDK gens) earlier and it was quite hard to build out a full room without a lot of perspective tricks.

There was an experimental add on for 6DOF controllers
https://developers.google.com/vr/experimental/6dof-controlle...

It really wasn't a fundamental technical leap to go from the Mirage to a Quest. The Quest feels like a (well thought out) iteration instead of a revolution compared to the Mirage Solo.
Because the skill sets aren't the same. Research in of itself is a different skill set. Getting a PhD is more about learning how to take abstract and vague ideas and turning them into a reality. Making highly readable, robust, and secure code is a different skill set. Sure, you can have people that do both, but at that point you're often asking a painter to do sculpting. Skills do translate, but not well. They probably won't be interested in it either, so you're not using your workers efficiently either. Give the canvases to the people who love painting and give the marble to those that love sculpting. You'll probably get better art in the end.
Building a Better Machine for an AI World
Not sure I understand what you're getting at.
What do VPN help if you have Facebook firmware on your computer? You also need to never play with friends with the Rift online, or let them borrow your Wifi, etc. If you have Facebook apps or hardware you leak fingerprinting bits. The Rift has bluetooth for the controllers right? Better put it in a Farradays cage because your neighbors will rat on you to Zuckerberg.

There is no having a tiny bit of Facebook. If you give them a finger ...