skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically the entire field of modern day economics does not take the labor theory of value, in the way that Marx means it.

Yeah but that's true for EVERY theory of value contemporaneous to Marx.

Saying "economics reject the LTV" is in my mind a bit like saying that physicists reject Newtonian mechanics. It's both true but also severely under-estimates the significant influence of Newton on modern physics.

>> to give more nuanced analyses

> It is not a matter of something being "nuanced" or not. It is instead that the vast majority of modern day economists do not take Marxian economics seriously at all.

I gave one specific example: management schools still draw from labor theories of value to explain competitive pressure and price discovery in the service sector. There are hundreds of other examples like this.
I worked on an embedded linux project years ago and perl or python would not work/fit. But tcl would and did.
Santas scrooged after bizarre vaccine deal goes south
Microsoft documented some of what they do at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/itshowcase/protecting-high-r....
Watched the talk. The Muvee/MuSE journey must have been fun.
More than anything, the problem with these assistants is it’s still socially awkward to talk to a computer.

I can imagine people using it exponentially more when you no longer get weird looks when you say “Ok google” or whatever in a supermarket.
Is this the same CRM app which was using key loggers inside the application? I see they are using these keyloggers on the main page. I don't even want to try the registration process.

Edit: Keyloggers which send your data to a third party service.
Not sure what are you implying, this isn't true India plays by WTO and international rules [1]. It uses provisions enshrined in the bilateral treaty and also the rules of global trade. India still today do not support evergreening of patent's by incremental changes. It only grant patents to original innovations.

If you need more information about it probably read the 1970 patent act [2], in India which started those specific innovations in pharmaceutical formulations and made medicines affordable not just for India, but for most of Africa and many developing countries.

[1] https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds50_e....

[2] http://ipindia.nic.in/writereaddata/Portal/IPOAct/1_31_1_pat...
This website is frustrating to use.
I've been distraught at the same thing. I had a few playlists that I grew over time, and it's annoying to go back and see gaps of "[Deleted video]" where your favorites used to be. I'm curious to know if you've found a solution for this.

Personally I've started locally saving anything I think I would want to watch or reference again. When favoriting something or saving it to a playlist, I download it too. I started off with using youtube-dl on the command line and have experimented with the "Import from YouTube" function on Peertube but ended up with a tiny cobbled-together video platform, importer (youtube-dl wrapper), and Firefox extension. I think the next step will be easily saving non-video things - probably recording WARCs?
>I'm guessing intimidating police by reminding them of the laws they're supposed to uphold works a lot less well for young black kids.

Undoubtedly, but there is a power in knowing what and how to say something. I've been arrested and had to sit with three other unrelated individuals for a while, as we waited to be processed. We were all white but I really felt the treatment I received was significantly better than my two fellow arrestees and that was entirely down to not sounding...well, like an idiot. Even asking to read the Police "Codes of Practice" - which is offered automatically - was met with unease (and slight embarrassment) because it's apparently rare for people to say yes to that and they didn't have it to hand immediately.

You can call this a class benefit but I certainly wasn't dressed in a middle class manner (which is possibly why I was stopped initially) and my accent is fairly typical for South East London.
You mean a really long time since something will inevitably destroy or erase the computer system you and your backups run on. And The heat death of the universe awaits anything that somehow survives that long into the future. There is no such thing as indestructibility, and there are no perpetual motion machines.
Are Asian Americans the Last Undecided Voters?
Without saying what specifically, there are risk factors in the family.
> He says that "Pinboard has more than 350K commits and is 20GB in size when cloned fully." I'm not clear though, exactly what "cloned fully" means in context of the unoptimized/optimized situation.

It probably means including all commits.

It looks like they were successfully only pulling the last 50 commits, but they were doing that for each of 2500 branches. Now they are pulling only the most recent 50 commits for one branch.
For those questioning this, see [1] for a decent list by state. The median doctor makes less than a FAANG employee, and that's after many more years of debt-fueled education and residency.

[1] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-Ph...
I wonder if the traditional political media people have been forced to jump on social media to chase the advertising dollars that they used to recieve pre 2016?
Although only a fraction of the profits made historically by traditional political media earned through advertising, I would imagine there is a buck or two to be earned through hyper partisan articles and affiliate linking.
I just thought of a clearer way to say this.

Creativity is about what can I do. Legal caution is about what can't I do.
The train between Chicago and Detroit is nice, which is why it is frequently sold out. You had bad luck that day, maybe you’ll get the chance to try again some time in the future.

Ignoring the “metro” train stations, there are 4 major train stations in downtown Chicago. People are pretty helpful, but if you don’t specify which station you need to get to you are going to get pointed in a lot of different directions. Now you know which station you need, so it would be a lot easier next time.

The Greyhound station... well, unfortunately there are a lot of naïve people out there that get paid $50 or something to carry an “extra” suitcase to Chicago “for a friend” who will pick it up. The cops are always there because they know how it all works.
A Radical Proposal for Dealing with Trump Supporters After Biden Wins
Why would you spend 40hrs a week in a meaningless job for 30yrs when you wouldn't have to? That's 61k hours of your life milling about in someone else's dream factory.

The compartmentalization strategy is disastifying like polytheism.

I'm more curious why you failed or discovered it wasnt for you to become a minister?

Insulating one's life against risk is natural and we all have that instinct to grind out a simple life.

Why do you value identity so much? There's a big world out there without grasping at wind.
I can't tell what exactly you think the senate did or didn't do, that broke the constitution.

You believe the senate is constitutionally compelled to give advice on supreme court nominations? Does every senator have to give it, or is it okay if only a few do so? Did none of the Democrat senators give any advice? Did the Republican "Wait until after the election" not count as advice? As far as I know, many words were shared between the interested parties - surely some of them could have been legally interpreted as "advice"?

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> Same situation, different outcomes, and funny how both satisfy the demands of the Constitution.

Well yes. If the constitution requires the senate's consent on candidates, then obviously both giving and withholding consent is allowed - what you call "Same situation, different outcomes".

Of course the Republicans where hypocritical in their justification of their actions, but I fail to see how the constitution was broken.
I would be really interested in such an experiment - testing whether cookies or other foods boost retention of material or test scores. Maybe feeding the brain some sugar or dulling any hunger pains is a net benefit for having some simple snacks during lectures.
Couldn't agree more about how annoying it is that Nordic countries are always described as super exceptional.

Even allemansrätten is almost always described in very inaccurate and exaggerated terms, as if you could pitch a tent on some monopoly hat wearing rich person's lawn and there's nothing they can do about it. Just no, that's not how it works.

Take it from someone who grew up in Sweden but left as soon as I could - I hate to burst your bubble, but Nordic countries aren't heaven on earth now and never have been. I also have many, many non-Nordic friends who realized their dreams of moving there, only to leave after a year or two because reality didn't align with their nonsensical, wildly inaccurate ideas about what life there should be like.
I'm eating an oatmeal raisin cookie as I read your comment. Fear not that you are alone in think oatmeal raisin cookies are equivalent, if not better, than chocolate chip cookies.
They are using a 3rd party keylogging service on the front-page. Most of these services also use them in the app itself, which isn't what the keyloggers were designed for. I'm at the point now that when I see these tools being used on the front-page I won't even bother with a trial.
> To be frank, the site looks a lot better but it went from 4 decades dated to 1 decade dated.

Not all of us view the last decade of web "design" as an improvement. There's a lot of poorly-functioning crap on websites in 2020 that frankly doesn't even look pretty.
I'm Canadian and when I was a child in the '80s, we absolutely just hopped on our bikes and wandered around without parental supervision.

I don't know how accurate it is, but there's this idea that child abductions and various other dangers (falling in an old well) in the late '80s, early '90s made parents more wary of letting their kids roam.
> How could you upload just your brain and be the same person? Need your whole body, surely?. This overlaps with Transporter problem from Star Trek and the Prestige, it's not you who lives in there, just a copy.

Does it matter of the substrate is replaced a bit at a time or all at once? If so, why? If not, how is the “transporter problem” any different than what every person goes through all the time?
We have similar situation and incentives for eg poisoning a few jars in a food factory. (And I have read of some rare cases where that was actually a problem.)

What keeps that from being too much of a concern? What similar factors apply in the data breach ransom scenario? What's different?

(Just for clarification: if a bad actor poisons a few jars, the producer in question is probably not legally responsible; but they still face a significant cost in lower sales. So blackmail is just as possible.)
I haven't implemented this extensively, but there are sometimes problems with setting this up in a corporate environment where there's a need to do things in a uniform way.

- Often if you use a central database such as Active Directory for your internal users, you may need to set up your OAuth endpoint (say, an AWS Cognito User Pool) and then have an AD admin allow that user pool to be a relying party. This means there is some lag time to setting this up, and that it isn't done with automation. So if you have an application you want to spin up a custom domain with a temporary user pool, test something, and then destroy it later, it's probably not going to work without some custom workarounds. No need for this with a traditional VPN.

- If you have 50 different apps, with 50 different URLs, you're going to need to do the above 50 times. Also have 50 staging and dev portals? Same deal. Now try managing changes to all of those at once. The manual steps, plus all the integration with all the product teams, now means this whole thing is becoming burdensome. This is a lot more work than just "use this VPN client and whitelist these CIDRs".

- If you're working for one of those weird companies that loves to do split-horizon DNS with lots of custom internal-only domains, guess what? Probably not gonna work without a VPN.

- Onboarding can be complicated. You now need to help your users manage their accounts, such as password resets, being a part of different domains, using a supported device, MFA registration, troubleshooting internet connections, using a supported CLI tool for non-web-interface APIs, etc. Versus just saying "are you connected to the VPN?".

- A VPN allows a central network team to manage access control across the entire network (or wherever that network team manages networks). BeyondCorp needs to be managed for all of your products by one team, or you may end up with an uneven and difficult process of supporting users across teams. A lot of companies (maybe most) are just not set up to allow independent product teams to manage internal user access. Even then, authorization maybe, not probably not both AuthN + Z.

- If you have a single domain serving multiple apps in multiple URLs requiring different authorization, things can get more complex.

Ultimately I think most of the protocols used for BeyondCorp today have too many drawbacks to say we could all drop our VPNs in support of it. We'll probably need at least another generation of protocols and management workflows in order for it to become the new norm.
It sounds like you're saying all of the midwest is like that, which it definitely is not. Madison, where I live, is highly liberal, church is definitely not core to the social fabric, and we have a passionate soccer community (point being: hardly as limited as made out to be).
You’re digital copy might not be conscious, if consciousness isn’t something we figure out how to simulate. It’s speculation at this point that a simulated mind would be conscious. We simply don’t know that to be true.
How valuable can your time be if you spend it writing comments like this on HN?
Is that why a lot of cabs used to drive fast... but take the long circuitous route?
Japanese websites that not intended to PR (like this) is fine or great, but most PR sites sucks (for instance, see Rakuten that's full of chaos). Japanese engineers likes SV's PR site style.
Fair enough, however it wasn't clear to me from your comment that you believed they were being mistreated because they were black. Had that been more explicit, I would have understood the inclusion of race at that part.
Hrm... no details on if you're self-employed. Grew up in SE Michigan. I visit now and then, but have no major reason to move back. This on its own probably wouldn't be enough, but... having to demonstrate I work for another company vs just being self-employed seems a bit short sighted. Is the goal to get people to move there? Or are they trying to achieve something more?
I'm not joking, and I'm not referring to his unified field theory either (although I certainly think it's interesting). In the first 35 minutes of that podcast, he shares some of his ideas on why our institutions have collapsed.

This interview with Lex Fridman is a bit more accessible, and it expands on that stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE
I grew up going freely by myself most of the time, since I was 6/7 - even going to school (in ex-communist Bulgaria). Then in 1999 came to the US (Los Angeles), and start seeing the difference. But my first boss, who introduced me well to the society told me it wasn't so. He was growing up in the Valley (San Fernando) and going biking to school every day for miles. Also if you check the 80s movies - E.T., Goonies, and even now Stranger Things showing how it used to be - kids really used to roam the streets with bikes (same was in Bulgaria too - most of our kids movies were about parents going to the beach in the Summer, and kids in groups strolling around). Or my favourite kids' show - Verano Azul (spanish, and very popular in Bulgaria back in the days) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verano_azul - same thing - something changed much much later...
When the Hourly Fare rate is noted as 30 + max(0, Speed - 12) that's missing the 2.50 multipler right? Really it should be Hourly Rate = 30 + (2.50 * max(0, Speed - 12)).

Or if you prefer Lispy stuff :)

(+ 30 (* 2.5 (max (0 (- speed 12)))))

This then means if you drive at 22mph for 1 hour, you earn 30 + (2.50 * max(0, 10)) or $55 which you also get from 2.50 * 22

Is this just discounting the constant multiplier since it applies to everything and can be pulled out?
Sounds like government work
Then court packing is perfectly okay, you say?

Not everything that is allowed to be done, has to our even should be done. The judicial system needs to be perceived as impartial as their decision are to be respected by all sides regardless of majorities.
And that is not guaranteed simply by the letter of the word.
Facebook could have chosen not pursue algorithm-based advertising as a business model.

I think this is hugely presumptuous. Is there an alternative model they could have used? Are there companies using such alternative models?

It's hardly persecution to insist that American businesses stop doing gross harm to the American people.

Agreed, but it's very much not clear what the harm is. To say that it's algorithm-based advertising is not at all convincing to me, but maybe there's a good argument for that being the case that I haven't seen? What convinced you?

lots of people still use these platforms and they will continue to do so for the foreseeable future

Yes, but I think you underestimate end users. The shift away from supernormal stimuli of all kinds will be slow and arduous, but for whatever reason I have faith that we will do it. We're successfully doing it with smoking, and making good progress on the sugar + sedentary lifestyle front as well with all sorts of niche diets and fitness regimines popping up.

Although it's still super early, I see the beginnings of a move away from this particular brand of virality based social media as well. Examples would be: the popularity of long form lecture series on youtube + online classes (masterclass is fluffy, but also points in this direction), the evolution of shared blocklists on twitter and other similar methods of "bubbling" (including the rise and rise of reddit, as well as discord), the trend of non-toxic, long-lived anonymous accounts on twitter, etc. etc.

Also, and maybe I'm just being unimaginative, but what kinds of market rules would make sense here?
> In an era of fakes and deepfakes, we need tools like youtube-dl more than ever.

I've been working on deepfake detection for the past two years. I use pytube3 and youtube-dl to scrape hours and hours of footage, not just youtube, but cspan, news sites, anything I can get my hands on. I have ~100 hours pulled so far, at multiple encoding rates.

Facebook recently changed their API and now the best I can scrape easily is 240p. That's insufficient to detect the artifacts the models need to train on. I can only pull 1/3rd of cspan videos I can watch through the viewer because again, api changes. It's a constant cat and mouse.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that if I don't have those wonderful folks out there keeping these tools and test suites up-to-date, this project is massively disadvantaged.

I don't have any public release assets at the moment, but you can read about Siwei Lyu and Hany Farid, who are leading the charge in deepfake detection.

http://www.cs.albany.edu/~lsw/

https://futurism.com/expert-online-disinfo-covid-black-lives...
I'm not the one who asked, but I wanted to thank you for this write up. I find it very helpful and I want to apply a similar approach to exercise. These types of comments are a big part of why I come to HN.
Yes, but India's nominal GDP is half that of California; in fact India's GDP per-capita is lower than just about every country in ASEAN and East Asia. The entire country's GDP is similar to that of the Tokyo metropolitan area. The socio-economic indicators are actually more aligned with impoverished African nations.

These are clear indicators of state failure.
I think this is really the distinction that matters to me. If access to footage was available only to trustworthy parties; that is, people the person with the camera personally knows and trusts, then I'm more or less ok with this sort of thing. The person who owns the camera should own the footage and should have to -- on a case by case basis -- decide who gets access to it.

But I'm really not comfortable with corporate entities mining their consumer devices for data to voluntarily give to the police. Incentivizing customers to give blanket permission to share all this data is unconscionable. It's especially telling that the normal path would require the police to get a judge to sign off on a warrant to get at this data.

It's funny... in another post thread people are talking about a petition to have Microsoft withdraw their membership from the RIAA (in the wake of the youtube-dl takedown fiasco). Why aren't people banding together to demand that Amazon terminate their Ring camera relationship with police?
> maybe you could get sympathy for low-IQ black people

Is that what you think affirmative action is? Wow.
WTF Does Accenture Do?
"This was not a DMCA 512 notice."

It is remarkable how few people commenting on the web are noticing that.

A notice under section 512 needs to identify both the material infringed and the infringing material.

The letter identifies some works that may be infringed, e.g., VEVO videos listed in youtube-dl's documentation.

However it does not identify the location of any infringing material, e.g., an unauthorised copy of a VEVO video.

It cannot be a valid DMCA 512 notice.

The letter instead refers to section 1201 which includes a prohibition against enabling circumvention of copyright protections.

The argument is that youtube-dl violates that prohibition.

Online debate about the applicability of the DMCA in this case should focus on section 1201 not 512.

For example, is youtube-dl "primarily designed for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected [by copyright]" Do most YouTube video URLs use enciphered signatures. Not IME. Does the rolling cipher "control access" to YouTube videos, or does it just control downloading. Etc.

1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems

(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.

(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that-

(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or

(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.