skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no matter what you may think of him as a person, it is a good strategy

The thing about Jordan Peterson's book is that the chapter titles are usually _great advice_, but the content always tends to slide into his strange, mediocrely researched conservative ramblings and sometime worse, at one point he just about admitts that he blames one of his women patients for her own rape, at others he veers right into granddad style rants about young people and their "progressive politics" ruining the world.

Honestly it's a bad book and people would be better off literally just reading the Quora question and answer that inspired it.
That's curiosity traffic. People who experiment with new exciting tech as it comes out. When new tech is announced, they move on.

This is a good indicator of a technology's novelty, but it has zero correlation with the product/market fit.
Also, being able to buy a house while you have an income in case you are predicting an increased chance of being terminated in the future.

Once you’re in a house, being removed from it due to missing mortgage payments is much less stressful than trying to secure housing when you have unstable income.
I suppose that could be an argument for microservices; use 'boring' tech in the places that necessitate it.
Lots of verbiage easily refuted by a simple statistic: NYC has C19 death rate of 2279 per million. 19K people died out of 8.337M. In comparison, NY state, as of today, has a death rate of 1693 per million, and it'd have a much lower death rate if NYC was excluded (1253 per million), and lower still if you only consider rural areas.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
Huge amounts of economic data come from inherently boring, unbiased sources (employment records, tax records, exports, manufacturing output, etc...). What data do you think is being falsified? You seem to be referring to survey-type data.
I bought eggs today. There's a 1200% flood of new eggs in my fridge!

Some might consider it relevant that I had two eggs before that.
This seems to work on only the most basic of locks, and doesn't seem to address "Security Pins" or false pins (pins if you move, will seize the keyway), which will cause false sets, clicks, partial keyway turns, etc.

They can be really nasty for an experienced lockpicker to navigate, and will make all the same sounds and feel of picking a real pin. Most semi-advanced locks will have one or more of these anti-picking countermeasures in place.

As it is, it would be far faster to actually pick this lock instead of trying to reproduce the key.
If you look at Redfin, the majority of the increase in inventory is downtown. Everyone who owns a smallish condo, is selling it, or attempting to right now.

Look at the places sold last month downtown, you'll see prices go under asking, or well below what they would have been at 6 months ago.

This is in stark contrast to the rest of San Francisco where inventory looks normal, but prices are 10-20% higher than they would have been 6 months ago.

What this tells me is this, people have more purchasing power because of lower interest rates and are selling their downtown condos to move out to the spacious parts of the city. (or moving further south)
This is the APL version. I still have one of the original printed books dating back to the early 80's.

https://aplwiki.com/wiki/FinnAPL_idiom_library
I accomplish this with Emacs + Org-roam. And it's a 'forever' file system, all text.
https://www.orgroam.com/
No, a small noose is just a pull handle that the knotter decided to create in a noose shape.

A real "threat or a sick joke" would surely have used a human-sized noose hung somewhere else, as opposed to a hand-sized knot quite appropriate for its role as a pull handle for a garage door.
so is this the start of virtual world deeply integration to facebook society?
Yes, their rooftop solar program initially paid 80 cents/kwh under 20 year contracts.

http://www.yourturn.ca/solar/microfit/what-is-the-microfit-p...

Not sure if it counts as innovation when one buys something for far more than it's resold for at a mass-scale.
> Amazon aren't obligated to continue to store my data. If I drop off the grid for an extended holiday, that could be a real risk. To my knowledge, Amazon offer no means of prepaying.

Another option I've been meaning to set-up is two-way Synology sync between sites. My parents have a Synology box and now that they have a decent internet connection (DOCSIS, not ADSL's 768kbps upstream) we could backup each others' data on each other's Synology boxes. I just need to figure it out...
HP Reverb G2 seems the be the most competitive so far. It's still in pre-order so its not battle-tested yet, but its 600$ and has comparable hardware to the valve index ($1000). Still 200$ more than oculus headsets, but that gap is much better than the 600$ from oculus to valve headset
> Preventing people using your software on other hardware is not anti-competitive. ... It doesn’t do anything to prevent others from developing their own hardware or software.

Actually, since they also provide the hardware, in the truest sense of the word, it is. They are preventing alternative hardware for their software (they've sued over this), and preventing alternative software on their hardware. No competition is allowed in these areas, to compete you have to replace both.

If you then consider that they lock down what apps can run on their software, that extends the link to software able to run on the device. That means to actually compete on an App level with an Apple app on iOS, you need to not just write a better app, but provide an OS of comparable quality and hardware of comparable quality means they have artificially prevented competition at those levels, since there's no reason that they have to be linked. It provides some small benefits, but there's a large difference between not supporting their OS on other hardware and actively preventing it from running on it, and not providing any softawre except their own for their hardware, and locking it down so no other software will boot. That difference is why those actions are anti-competitive.

> I do not believe that you can create such an ecosystem by forcing Apple to open certain arbitrarily selected parts of their system.

And yet the only reason we don't have that competition is because Apple has closed certain non-arbitrary selected parts of their system/platform. I'm not sure why preventing them from closing those to competition wouldn't help spur more competition in them.

> If anything, I think this would prevent the emergence of a new model indefinitely.

I'm not even sure "model" means in this context. What do you suspect preventing arbitrary removal of competition, which is what Apple does, would somehow prevent a new model?

> $200B seems like a reasonable hedge against needing to rebuild their supply chains without Chinese cooperation.

Having a few full years worth of profit stacked away so they can replicate their entire manufacturing infrastructure needs of a nation that specializes in manufacturing is ridiculous. The comparison to Japanese Zaibatsu was apt before, but you're actually saying it's a good idea if some conditions are met here. Those are known to have outsize negative effects on economies.

> If your argument is that Apple should be funding its competitors

No, my argument is that they have too much control over their platform, with allows them to be anti-competitive. This makes them more money, but at the expense of their users (who do not benefit from that competition), and most likely some ceompetitors, unless you believe Apple would still provide a much better solution, in which case it's just he users that win.

> The part we agree on is that someone should be funding serious competition against Apple.

The fact that you think VC is the answer is part of the problem. Right now VC is the answer, because it's almost impossible for anyone to compete without huge amounts of money, but that's because of Apple's arbitrary barriers to compete.
Interesting, what was the motivation for this?
Agreed. I’ve been lucky to work with great co-workers that I’m still friends with even after leaving. I think a mix of WFH plus going into the office 3 or 4
times per week would be ideal.
1) Framing it as "winners" and "losers" is entirely the problem. It's a pretty poor mindset when you equate getting rich with "winning" while ignoring everything else, including factors that lead to people getting rich in the first place.

2) A footrace (and sports in general) is a really poor metaphor for economics & tax policy. A better metaphor is pruning trees in a forest so that smaller ones actually get enough light to grow instead of withering away on the floor.
No I don't. I'm genuinely curious how they might be saving money.
To be fair, "senior" doesn't seem to be particularly high up the ladder of job titles at tech companies these days. You get titles like "lead", "principle", and "staff", which are all considered more senior than senior.

At the end of the day, job titles are mostly for getting past recruiters. Interviewers (if they're any good) will judge you on your actual experience and capabilities.
Smart Cow Collars
I implemented fullscreen OpenGL in my 3D engine a few years ago and this was kind of an interesting part. It was one of the hardest to get right, especially if you want to avoid dictating sort of WM your users will have to use (which IMO is one of X11 strengths over pretty much any other desktop GUI).

Some window managers treat any window that covers the entire screen as being fine to bypass composition. Other window managers need hints - which will be ignored by some other window managers. And a few compositors simply seem to ignore any hint or window state, but they will disable composition for fullscreen windows that also bypass window management (which in general is kind of a "nuclear option" for fullscreen modes since it also bypasses other window manager functionality like alt-tab, etc). Also as a cherry on top, i had a window manager which refused to treat the window as a fullscreen window (added borders, etc) unless i set up things in a very specific order (which i found out via trial and error because normally it shouldn't be an issue - and wasn't in every other window manager i tried).

(that last part was kinda interesting because i downloaded every window manager i could find on Debian and after i tested my code and debugged it with everything i could get my hands on, i sent it to a friend of mine to try it out and he immediately told me that in his computer he got borders :-P)

Should be noted that neither SDL1 nor SDL2 (which are pretty much recommended by people who haven't bothered to create their own engines as "obvious" solutions to not have to bother with OS-specific stuff) handled all the above (SDL1 always bypasses the window manager, which in general works but disables alt-tabbing and other WM functionality whereas SDL2 assumes all window managers support the fullscreen hint, which is certainly not the case - especially with more minimalistic window managers - while compositor support is hit and miss).
Civilization is being created by the creators of wealth. Before you can distribute anything, that anything has to be created. Once it's been created, it belongs to its creator by the unalienable right of property, the right that made the Civilization that you are currently living in possible. If you believe otherwise, you should sell, let's say, 95% of your total assets immediately and distribute that wealth among memebers of your local community to make it a slightly better part of the civilization you want to live in.
You point towards regulation as the culprit of innovation being killed; I wonder how you are not aware most people live pay-check to pay-check, and therefore can not adopt the risk necessary to be entrepreneurial?

We all, live in an extremely divided economic landscape - the _most_ divided in modern history.

I do not understand how this is not a focus of your argument.
With this in mind, if our government offers support to the individual; we can innovate freely without imposing further employer regulation on private businesses. In a globalist society, where jobs are exported to the most exploitative country, this seems to be a promising solution.
> how many satellites could we fit on that monstrosity?

Depends what size of course, SpaceX are claiming 400 Starlink satellites per launch vs 60 on a Falcon 9, and for a lower price.
Danger! Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the entire time you are dying:

https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/output/2020...

My partner's coworker had this up in his office. They're in health and safety.
> If startups gave employees shares, then employees would have to pay taxes on those shares, even though they're illiquid - so you're paying taxes on something you can't even sell!

Executives get gross-ups, so the tax thing is basically a smokescreen.
Sure, but deriding one without suggesting there is a better alternative is unproductive. And capitalism just implies that people are allowed to own property and engage in business freely. Obviously there are still laws under capitalism; for example, laws against murder. So I think for most reasonable and informed people, it comes down to how you want to define what legal business should be.

For example, activities that cause pollution produce an externality on society, as do many other things, and in my ideal society such things are penalized. However, I don't consider these added complexities to make society any less capitalist. It still is a system built on free commerce and private property; it just has laws to capture externalities. In order for a society to not be capitalist in the strictest sense, a lot of freedoms would need to be taken away (at least one of the two core tenets: ability to own things and the ability to choose your career). So when anti-capitalists like the OP start tooting their horn, I want to make it clear what that implies. Which of those core tenets is the root of all evil, which you want to take away?
Society may make wealth in general grow faster, there is no guarantee that it will help your specific wealth grow faster. You pay a wealth manager because they manage your wealth, specifically. They examine what opportunities are suitable for you based on your goals and risk profile and seek those out. "Society" doesn't do anything like that.

Let alone the fact that you are already paying taxes: income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, payroll taxes, etc. etc. to pay for all of the benefits that society provides. If the wealth tax is going to replace some of those, then sure maybe we can talk about whether it's more efficient or effective than any of those. If we're just going to keep piling on tax after tax "because society" maybe we should ask if society needs to get its act together and use the tax revenue it already gets more efficiently.
It is possible, but it is becoming progressively more difficult.
> An annual wealth tax of ~0.5% and a floor of ~$10million

... is pointless, as it will just drive wealthy people away, into tax evasion schemes etc. while providing only tax income from the stupid. I'm in that bracket and if my country decided to introduce such a tax, I'd be somewhere else in the EU in no time.

(still expecting a haircut-like single tax grab of 10% or more from our idiot government because of their ruinous Covid-19 politics though)
Yah, guess i'm going to be selling my rift, or at least re-purposing it. Not that it matters much, i'm already unsupported as I refused to upgrade to win10 on the machine it was attached to.

PS, oculus has been the only piece of hardware I've purchased in the past few years where the drivers caused a blue screen. Thats ignoring all the other bullshit problems with the driver stack they have that can't even consistently enable a pile of USB devices.
Disposing of the brine is a bit complicated when you have nothing but freshwater lakes around :)

I'm guessing they're planning on using the existing caverns from mining.

Unsure if they plan on expanding.
How do you do this? I'm interested in mirroring my own sites to IPFS.
If your data is so important that it needs to be protected from future theoretical attacks.... what the heck are you doing uploading it to a globally distributed and decentralized platform?!

Said another way: you are trying to fit a centralized-shaped peg into a decentralized-shaped hole... wrong tool for the job.

If your use case does involve this situation somehow (?) then the only real solution is to encrypt it, as others in this thread have pointed out. There is simply no other option in an open-membership P2P network... otherwise the RIAA and MPAA would have long ago crushed BitTorrent.
What I described is more of an internal monologue thing, not even at linguistic level but as an attitude and stance towards stress with anxiety. Should have phrased it better.
> If I allow my payment card to expire, Amazon aren't obligated to continue to store my data.

Business idea: cloud archive storage where you pay when you upload data and optionally pay a modest monthly fee for real-time access to stored data, but they'll guarantee to keep your data for you if you stop paying: you'll just need to pay to retrieve that data.

As the long-term archival data wouldn't need to be stored in a data-center: just a commodity tape-library box in a basement in a farm somewhere near a freeway I imagine it would be kinda cheap to run as a business. You could set-up a Foundation or other entity to ensure long-term continuity of operations and have it self-sufficient through an endowment. E.g. a $1m endowment would easily pay for something like this into perpetuity.
Last month Jordan Peterson and his daughter Mikhaila appeared on her podcast to talk about how he got out of treatment. https://youtu.be/HLWgVpmo1e0
The person who I replied to made a personal challenge to try creating a fake account, so I responded with my personal experience doing just that.

I was not making any claims about the likelihood of an account being banned.
Have smart watches really improved daily life for the masses? I really don't think they have.

We need real technology that saves labour, like washing machines, dishwashers, sewage processing, electricity grids.

I think satellites can provide services that join that club, by allowing decentralization through ubiquitous access to medium speed internet.

Smart watches tend to provide information that really doesn't matter, like number of steps in a day. Yes there is the example of the heartbeat, but for most that is just informational also, plus other dedicated devices already existed.

I think too much of new tech are just toys, hopefully this is just an interim stage and we are about to get to the real stuff again.
Kleine-Levin Syndrome: Why the rare 'Sleeping Beauty' illness is no fairytale
I work at a Haskell shop, and the overuse 'boolean blindness' issue has come up. The common understanding is that booleans are fine to use when the problem calls for it, just don't don't be afraid to use a more expressive data structure if that could make the code concise or understandable.

I think the real "boolean blindless" is something that happens in beginners, who don't yet understand that ADTs can be a rich modeling language, and instead use (Bool, Bool, Bool, Bool) when some combination of product and sum types is better.
AMP is Europe's in to break up Google
If you measure "doing well in life" by money and power, yes.

If you measure by being a decent and content person, I'd have to say no.
@outworlder Can you please speak more about this, in what capabilities can be possible within our lifetimes? What sort of frivolous tasks do you mean?
This is really neat! I love how it looks, and the selection of styles.

A couple of times, using Style #2, it generated a bunch of loops at the end:

Text: "The quick brown fox, etc"
Image: https://pasteboard.co/Jn0O17a.png

Still - nifty, and fun to play with. Makes me want to find an application / excuse to use it :)
This is the only sane solution.
> a tax on wealth tends to encourage wealth flight, tax evasion, etc

A tax on income tends to encourage inequality, tax-advantaged income schemes, tax evasion, etc. Also, you didn't actually refute the parent poster's point that property tax is a subset of wealth tax.
You could if you built a multistory apartment complex.
Six years in this case. Not too shabby really.
The forest metaphor implies that people with wealth get it by taking it away from someone else. That isn't the case. Bezos' wealth, for example, comes from the fact that he owns ~13% of Amazon, the company he founded. He didn't steal those shares from someone else. They were created out of nothing when he started the company. They only became valuable because it turned out that the company did things that many people found very useful.

You aren't going to "prune away" shares from Bezos and have more wealth magically filter onto the masses from the heavens. Wealth doesn't stream in from some outside source and some greedy people just grab more of it than others. People make it themselves. Making it harder for people to do so is going to result in less wealth, not more.
Is there any evidence for that assertion ? I mean you take any European country such as Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, and even France. Where taxes are remarkably high, and definitely far fewer billionaires per capita. Europe has better health outcomes, better income equality, and extremely low poverty rate compared to the US. [1]
[1] https://data.oecd.org/netherlands.htm
Remembering Don Arabian, the ‘Mad Genius’ Behind NASA’s Apollo Engineering Team
I think this might be a bit premature. For the bulk of these tools (pandas/numpy/tensorflow/torch), most of their users have probably been using them for 3-5 years max.

A universal API standard is a nice idea, but I don't know that the ecosystem has been around long enough to justify this effort.

Given the asynchronous nature of consortiums though, maybe this exactly the right time to start talking about this.

Will be watching closely either way.
> if no one has a job, will that technology appear by magic?

Yes, the same magic that makes everything worthwhile appear.

Ask any mother what her job title was when she made a baby appear and proceeded to care for it.
Cryogenic rejuvenation coffins to use the lost transport time in the most efficient way and allow for maximum packing density!
If you spend 4-5 hours a night coding on personal projects you probably have both a pretty strong self image of yourself as a developer and probably people who know you see you that way as well. Same goes for if you read for 4-5 hours a night, gamed, worked out, cooked, swam, whatever. Reader, gamer, bodybuilder, amateur chef, swimmer, etc. If you consistently do something for 4-5 hours a night it's generally a big part of who you are.

TV stands alone where people do it 4-5 hours a night and its not considered being super in to that thing. People in the tv watching category don't see it as choosing to do a thing. It's just part of what you do. Sleep, work, then tv. Repeat. They don't identify as a tv watcher any more than they do as a sleeper.
Are you talking about "up to $3k/year" carryover? How is that any significant?
5) pack more people into the house and split rent
Indeed foreclosures are the lowest in 15 years because “as the federal government has banned lenders from pursuing most delinquent loans until at least the end of August 2020” [1]

[1] https://www.worldpropertyjournal.com/real-estate-news/united...
Generally as a nation builds wealth its birthrate slows. We cannot allow a state to control it though as the issue becomes how do you control population size, who gets to have kids and who gets to decide. This is pretty much the be all and end all of government power. Do we force sterilize people? Force abortions? If we fine them then the rich have as many kids as they want. Government mandated population control cannot be the answer.
4 posts this week.... we get it.
The Anti-Capitalist Software License