skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [STAR] helped shepherd a pilot project into existence that’s now diverting some 911 calls away from armed officers to an unassuming van manned by a Denver Health paramedic and a social worker from the Mental Health Center of Denver.

In other words, non-violent (or incidences that for sure won't involve the use of physical or deadly force) can go to somebody besides the police. It's a great idea, and I bet police officers would love this as well.

> “Policing has always been about keeping down marginalized people, from its origins, and that has included Black folks and other folks not considered ‘white’ and poor people,” Bliss said. “You cant have racial justice without economic justice.”

This is an extremely reductive and strange quote to me. If you really believe this, I suggest you do a ride-along with a police officer someday. Spend a few hours with them. You'll find out first hand what they are asked to do.
personally, I think PE works something like: it's easier to cut costs than create value, so they buy something, and cut costs like crazy. It'll work with almost anything with enough money coming in. But, I think they often cut deep enough to compromise the long term health of the company, like if you suddenly cut your food budget to almost zero by eating nothing but ramen. In the short term, it's a budget miracle. Keep it up, and you'll die from not getting the vitamins and minerals you need. Before the long term consequences are fully understood and come to pass, they sell they company back off.

I'd agree with another comment here. It doesn't even take a declining company, just one small enough to purchase (realistically, you can't buy Apple, it's just too big) with a stable amount of cash coming in. Getting the cash coming in is hard, that takes creativity and creating value, so they need that part in the bag before purchasing the company. But if you have the cash coming in, any fool can just start cutting costs.

The stable income also helps with leverage. You can use the company you're buying as security for a loan to by the same company based on the stable income. Ta-da! That's another reason they need companies with cash coming in, leverage so they can flip bigger companies.

I'm convinced any idiot with a billion dollars laying around could do it.
Wireguard doesn't support MFA so it isn't complaint to the frameworks we require (I guess Tailscale is). Tho you can make a SSH proxy with MFA if you enforce MFA via PAM (e.g. FIDO2 or TOTP are both possible).
Interacting with Non-Privacy People
This is way fancier than my project, which renders markdown (or anything pandoc can read) as a man page:

https://github.com/ashton314/marked-man
AI is an evolving technology and it's somewhat true that AI projects have a high risk of failure attached to it. Last year, many big sites predicted that major data science projects would face failure in the future. According to a report, 87% of ongoing projects will fail in delivering the desired results. What I suggest is that it is imperative to do continuous in-depth research on a particular use case and the supported models before starting working on it.

Data Science technologies are much improved and advanced now compared to 10 years ago but there is a lot more to improve when it comes to meeting end-user expectations and real-life implementation of an Enterprise AI project. AI operations and processes is one factor but there are many other reasons that lead to failure of data science projects. These include:

- Absence of comprehension about AI tools and methodology.
- Poor Data Quality
- Not opting the right tool
- Bad Strategy from top management.
- Lack of investment in employees who know data very well

We know that data science uses statistical concepts and theories that exist since ages and most of them have been successfully built by the numerical scientists from the big tech giants. What’s important for the organizations now is to understand the use case and hire the resources with the right set of skills. Many organizations are confused about the required skill set because the field of data science is new for the top management and they are just trapped by the hype created around. Most of them are naturally thinking of hiring a statistician having a PhD in statistics, which is not required most of the time. As per my experience, this is true only if the task in hand is to do research in advanced statistical models and algorithms.

With the abundant supply of the off-the-shelf modeling tools and technologies in the market, 99% of the times organizations just require a well-equipped resource who is

1) skilled in the right tool that is compatible with existing technologies.
2) have good understanding of certain statistical models and techniques.

This article has done an analysis on why major AI projects failed, and summaries it very well
https://thinkml.ai/five-biggest-failures-of-ai-projects-reas...
This kind of hand-wavey nonsense is exactly why I have no respect for what passes for rational argument in conventional economics.

Let's deconstruct these assumptions:

"Baumol and Bowen pointed out that the same number of musicians is needed to play a Beethoven string quartet today as was needed in the 19th century; the productivity of classical music performance has not increased. On the other hand, the real wages of musicians (as in all other professions) have increased greatly since the 19th century."

1. Yes, string quartets still require four people.

2. This does not mean the "productivity of classical music has not increased", because:

a. String quartets can now make recordings and also play on radio/TV/streaming services, in addition to playing live. This means much larger numbers of people can hear a performance. This translates to ad revenue, streaming income, and sales of recordings. And there is also secondary income of various kinds for various supporting industries, including other forms of media.

b. String quartets can travel much larger distances than they used to be able to, allowing them to play live music over a much wider area than was possible when the fastest mode of transport was a horse. This hugely increases the possible listener base and potential ticket sales.

c. Culturally notable string quartets are likely to play in much larger concert halls than used to be the case, with increased direct ticket income.

d. The classical music industry is far more commercialised. There are numerous festivals and concert series which bring in far more money than they did when owning a pet orchestra was an eccentric hobby for aristocrats.

e. There are far more people than there used to be in the 19th century, and the worldwide classical music audience is much larger than it used to be.

So - this is simply a bad, ignorant example. It's not just wrong, it's flagrantly, wildly, outrageously misinformed, and is based on an almost total lack of insight into an industry that is worth $146 million a year - of which around $90 million is income from streaming.

The other examples are just as ridiculous and trivially incorrect. The productivity of nurses is not defined by the time it takes to change a bandage - ask any ICU nurse - and the productivity of professors is not measured by the time it takes to mark an essay.

How is anyone supposed to take this level of argumentation seriously when there is no evidence the authors made a credible professional effort to understand the economics of their own examples?

And as an advanced exercise for economists - how much has this poor level of economic insight cost the economy?
“Couch surfing”
You think Intel designs processors around SPEC? (Hint: they don't).

ADD: It was an issue a long time ago. Benchmarks like SPEC are actually much nicer than real server workloads. For example, running stuff like SAP would utterly trash the TLB. Curiously, AMD processors can address 0.25 TB without missing in the TLB, much better than Intel.
those are super weird things to ask from C++, except the reflection. More logical pointer syntax? How is

int* -> pointer to int

and

&abc -> address of abc

and

abc->xyz -> pointer access to xyz field

and

*abc -> dereference

not as easy as it gets? 4 operators for 4 different things - whats the issue?
There have been efforts to fix this over the years, but this is indeed a problem with the way that the language was designed.
"""The unofficial flatpak distribution of the Steam client is not compatible at this time.

The flatpak solution wraps the entire Steam client, whereas Valve's approach is to wrap individual games first. Both approaches rely on the same technologies and we are looking into improving compatibility in the future."""

I'm super pleased about the sandboxing getting worked on and polished.

Flatpak Steam is working pretty great for me but I'll be happy to deal with a little weirdness as they work this out.
Curious, have you actually written production software targeting WASM? Because I have, in Rust, the language with the best toolchain for this by an order of magnitude.

Despite all that, and me being very familiar with both Rust and JS, it was a big pain. WASM will remain a niche technology for those who really need it, as it should be. No one is going to write their business CRUD in it, it would be a terrible idea.
Statistics and the Ontario Lottery Retailer Scandal [pdf]
What exactly did you take from it?
Do you also cross-compile the C standard library? How do you work out the IO? Do you also emulate a basic OS to run scripts on it?

I am interested in taking on such project :). Is it enough to emulate registers and operators?
Because those were the days that you didn't trust a website enough to enter a credit card number. If you needed to give a credit card number you called a land line phone number listed on the page that took you to their sales department (or the one guy answering the phones who also worked as sales, tech support, and customer service).
Do they not see the completely dystopian nature of this sentence? "Get your account with us in good standing before you do X"
George Orwell called and wants his copyright back.
Product Owner
Fully remote and distributed team is looking for a Product Owner to help bridge the gap between stakeholders input and the development team’s “definition of ready”.

We’re bootstrapped, profitable, and growing with no outside capital so far.

You will be in charge of managing the backlog, which roughly translates to:
-Transforming vague requirements and goals into actionable user stories or prototypes
-Chasing stakeholders to provide input
-Working with the development team
-Making sure the business priorities are reflected the backlog

What we’re looking for:
-3+ year experience in product related position
-Hands-on experience with Agile-driven development
-Previous experience working in remote team
-Wireframing skills/experience is a plus
-Analytical and problem-solving skills along with attention to detail
-Great written and verbal communication skills

What products you will be working on:
-Internal tools like CRM, call centre tool, etc.
-Customer and affiliate portal
-Various marketing sites
-… and other new project in future

To apply, fill out our short application:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G_hPO-f_ThfVPECg4M8q86YuRM93LtTUaI_yUrdnqPM/
This makes perfect sense to me as in, dispatch the EMTs and firefighters to fires and medical emergencies, dispatch the cops to incidents with an elevated risk of violence, and send unarmed specialists to everything else. And let them all back each other up as needed.

On the other hand this stuff makes no sense at all:

> “To abolish police we need serious affordable housing. We need food programs,” he said.

So people with homes and food don't commit crimes? That's contrary to my experience. And a call to abolish the police is just a call for the return of warlords, where the most belligerent and violent thugs make the rules. For all the problems we've got, that's not a step forward.
So what?

That’s a piece of legislation about cars.

It doesn’t apply to anything else, nor should it.
> This is an extremely reductive and strange quote to me. If you really believe this, I suggest you do a ride-along with a police officer someday. Spend a few hours with them. You'll find out first hand what they are asked to do.

It's possible the police behave differently when they have someone there to observe them than when they don't.
Flying in the air above the clouds and mountains is nothing like driving on a road with pure unpredictability all around you and needing to solve close to AGI in order to achieve it.
Kickstarter: P2P Open-Source Protocol Goal to Permanently End Tech Censorship?
> ...pulled up my contract and pointed out I’d agreed to a 3 week notice.

So many legal questions come to mind when reading that. Where were you working (what location)? Was it a right-to-work state? Did the contract specify a consequence for breaking that clause? Would they have had any case at all if they chose to file a suit to enforce it, or seek damages? And would they have wanted to bother?

I ask because one area where smart successful people still let themselves get bullied is when it comes to contracts. Contracts are legal documents, but they are not law - they are documentation of an agreement that might get the courts to back them. I'm not recommending just breaking contracts all the time, but there is definitely nuance to consider whenever a contract is at odds with your needs.
I think English already does fill that role.
The filesystem is the best CMS. For my static blog I just stick to a file naming format like ~/www/blog/2020-10-17-1.html and then assemble post indices with shell and variations for monthly indices. The RSS feed generation is a 100 line perl script though.

~/www/blog/ $ ./recentblogposts.pl; ls -v 2020-*.html | tac | xargs cat > blog-2020.html
I come from a country where a free speech was never really a thing, and I tell you, americans, this: you don't value it enough.

Restrictions on free speech inevitably lead to some form of censorship, and any form of censorship inevitably leads to the population being subjected to some 'official' version of 'truth'. This 'truth', however, is carefully curated to coerce the population to act in a certain way.

So when Twitter or Facebook start 'fact checking' posts, you shouldn't say 'Twitter is a private company, 1st amendment doesn't apply to it', you should grab pitchforks and put their censorship efforts to rest.
You aren't alone. My Mom went full on conspiracy with FB. She was always a little nutty, but its let her take it to a new level. I once told her "You better not make me watch you die over this (antivaxx/antidoctor)"
This is an odd decision, wouldn't be surprised if we see them walk this back. I recently purchased a Model Y - and the 7-day return policy had critical influence on my choice to purchase. It makes it clear that they want you to be happy, and that they are confident you will be.

It is also a policy that I believe helps with word-of-mouth, I specifically told friends and family about the policy and I also put 900 miles on my Model Y within the first few days to be sure there were no major issues I was unhappy with.

Regardless, the Model Y is fantastic, I can't wait for there to be more options like it available from all auto manufacturers.
"Genetically modified mosquitos are the way"

So you think a massive invasive change in the core biology of a very large animal population is clearly superior to a local solution?

Ok, then please explain why.

Personally I would much rather leave the wildlife genetics as it is and rather protect homes directly. (btw. mosquitos are annoying even if they do not carry malaria)
Whenever I see “folks” used that way a in cultural piece I’ve learned to toon out. problematic is another good one to use.
48G means single channel RAM, which slows down the GPU a lot.
I don't remember an internet ever being "unsupervised" it was more that there were thousands of independent fiefdoms run by one autocrat and his minions. If you were in agreement with the ideas of that autocrat, it felt like freedom. If you weren't, you got banned and you found a different fiefdom with rules you liked, but there were plenty to choose from. Nowadays a few megacorps run those fiefdoms so it feels like there's less freedom because there's less options.
It's so weird. My father on facebook and my father when I talk to him myself seem like very, very different people.
Doesnt really matter what language or framework you use as long as it solves your problem. You keep using the same thing until it stops being effective.

Forget about trends and focus on basics.
If Steam stops working you don't have games anymore.
> It's tempting to think that 2038 is a long way off, so who cares

It's not - it'll be here before you know it.
And what about that has anything to do with C specifically? Every useful programming language requires cause precede effect, and every architecture that allows load-store reordering has memory barrier instructions. Specifically, where would code written in C require the compiler to generate one of these instructions, where code hand-written for the process's native instruction set would not?
It can be explained if you cost things in hours rather than money.

As we improve technology fewer and fewer hours are required to create an item. But a violin concerto takes the same amount of human time.

Which then leads to the conclusion that we really exchange time when trading. Each of us only has a finite amount of time after all.
"I guess they’re going the Instagram route and moving towards app-only."

Don't even get me started on their new live-streaming service.
"The phenomenon was described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s."

I imagine streaming services were not a thing back then.

Also you make fair points in your comments but you confuse the example for the argument. Replace 'String Quartet' by 'waiter' or 'child minder' if you prefer.
A dog can have 3 or less legs.
> The idea that there should be no consequences for spewing vitriol and using lies to back it up is insane.

Is that what we have? Michael Richards seems to have seen consequences for vitriol. Tom Brokaw literally lost money due to broadcasting gross speculation.

Maybe those sorts of things should be more common?
A lot of good insights here, particularly on how Substack's network effects and incentives push authors towards a milquetoast homogeneity.

But the author's self-admitted unfamiliarity with Substack leads the article away from pointing out the true value of the platform, getting stuck instead in a thicket of contradictory takes:

> [Substack] can become a full fledged aggregator, build network effects and community, personalized content and so forth, but risk the moral purity of being one of the last ad-free algorithm-free corners of the internet [...]

> [I]t is still worth speaking the obvious truth that having someone who is not your spouse feed their thoughts to you 5-days-a-week, thoughts that they themselves have only had a day to work on, thoughts which would likely go refined or unexpressed in a publication with longer-time horizons, is probably not good for your brain. That’s not a “weekly update”, it’s a parasocial relationship, it’s the same poison you get from every other one-sided social media platform.

I can't wrap my head around the idea that Substack is both good (because it avoids many of the things that poison the well of social media) and bad (because it's social media and thus still poison). Not all social media is bad, just the forms we've invented to date. Some of the positive things I see in Substack are shaped by the same incentives that could lead to a future, better generation of social media:

Because it's missing the algorithmic distortion of social media, even with Substack acting as a forcing function towards topic-of-the-day Twitter-chasing homogeneity, it's very hard to find things in the world that let one do:

from smartfriend import mental_models

for only $10 a month! To me, it's a potential antidote to social media: not only is there the mildly pleasurable pornlike imitation of socialization, I can get trained to think like a variety of intelligent people whose social circles I otherwise wouldn't be able to break into. That's a form of digitally enhanced socialization (read: social media) I'm happy to pay for.

Even with the homogeneity on the platform today, there's still a lot of great thinkers you can watch in action. Perhaps the author of this blog is intelligent enough to come up with these mental models without watching others think. I'm not so lucky.

Tech has already given us assortative mating via online dating, and people seem to like that. But for everything else, we get trapped in filter bubbles. Substack lets me finetune my social simulacra to deliver maximum benefit.

I wish they also realized this potential themselves.
Elros
Found this on Kickstarter, interesting idea. Googled and saw another thread here, does anyone know what exactly this is? It looks sort of like a decentralized version of Patreon. Seems pretty necessary so I pledged

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1604857736/elros-p2p-social-publishing-protocol
A company policy is not dictated by the personal opinions of its employees, many companies have a series of audits and separation of control to prevent corruption and biased. I don't know that twitter does, but I don't think it is fair to say that because the employees of a company are left leaning the organization is.

I believe that twitter censorship policies are far more about optics and what is more commercially viable for the company.

You can bet the reason they didn't ban the president for the numerous policy violations is because he is driving traffic and engagement on their platform.

That isn't to say that certain employees won't overstep bounds and act on personal feelings, but that doesn't mean twitter as an organization is leaning left or right.

Corporations lean in the direction of profit, far more than moral or political leanings.
"Partner guarding seems like a lot of pointless energy expended based on insecurity"

Let's see if you feel the same way when the alimony and child support garnishment kicks in...
My first blog ran on blosxom. I think I switched to something dynamic (textpattern) partly because back then I thought it mandatory that every month and day needed its own index if you just put in the month/day in the URL and stuff like that. Seemed more elegant to do that dynamically than store redundant information.

(Textpattern was pretty great. Taught me about the weird google searches that lead people to your site.)
You can remove all speculation from your mind about what police officers do during the day by simply requesting a ride with them. If the stakes are high what do you have to lose?

You might be surprised at the types of calls they respond to. We ask police to crawl through the sewers of our society and then complain that they smell like crap.
There are lots of people who do the same.

Plus there's a huge number of people who go through a piracy 'phase'. Usually to get games when they're a teen with no cash. Most of the games they love are purchased once they've matured with a stable income.

Speaking from experience!
On steam you have to actually HAVE the item in order to list it, but if you buy one (and wait for a 7-day re-listing period), you can start an undercutting war with some bots yeah if the item has low or no demand.
The two sides of stress: distress and eustress
As with all statistical bullshitters, Taleb has smelled it back it April.
Think of the man what you want, but whenever he is putting his reputation on the line and publicly accuses someone else of statistical ignorance, he turns out to be correct.
Good shit, hope this comes out soon. After wednesdays’s censorship nonsense this seems nice.