skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR; A time traveller, named Besso, came back to push Einstein to formulate his theory General Relativity earlier than he would have done on his own. This accelerated the technological growth of humanity over the next two centuries to such a degree that they were ready for the alien invasion in the year 2122.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Libraries scanning old books and applying a new copyright on them (which shouldn't be possible, scans are not a creative act) is a common issue.
Leasehold https://leasehold.io/ is an alternative which uses a deflationary blockchain cryptocurrency to distribute profits to token holders.

It distributes profits via a token buyback (and burn) mechanism which maximizes the reward for long-term token holders. When the buyback comes at the end of each month, you can sell tokens back to Leasehold Holdings on one of the exchanges and cash out or you can hold your tokens and instead benefit from capital appreciation of those tokens. Capital appreciation is guaranteed (in the long run) since each buyback reduces the remaining total circulating supply of tokens (in a cryptographically verifiable way).

Also, Leasehold plans to become a multi-company blockchain project to benefit from network effects.

Our community also runs a decentralized exchange so that anyone can trade the Leasehold token against a mainstream cryptocurrency (Lisk) https://ldex.trading/ - The DEX code is fully open source so anyone can launch their own decentralized market to trade the Leasehold token against any other compatible token.
> BigBlueButton [...] doesn't use Jitst and WebRTC, but it doesn't include any document editing.

With a few others, I struggled through setting up a "distributed" (i.e. not all on a single machine) BBB deployment early in the pandemic, back when the documentation and community explosion hadn't quite happened. Such a deployment is nonstandard and you're left to your own devices to make it work, albeit with some decent architectural documentation so that you can work out which component needs to run where.

BBB does rely on WebRTC exclusively for its media. The so-called 'HTML5' client is in-browser. There is a Flash-based client that's officially deprecated, and they're slowly stripping out support for it.

There is also some optional Etherpad integration, so that you can collaborate on in-meeting notes that are made available afterwards.

BBB's biggest problem right now is that the Debian packaging, which is the only official way of deploying the software, is not open source. It's also really messy -- some stuff goes into /usr/local, some into /opt, with a fair deal of leftover crud that isn't used any more like the Flash client.

This is an unintentional situation, but the maintainers have deprioritised making the software truly "open source" (IMO) in favour of bugfixes and features.

I don't think this situation meets the GPL it's licensed under, regardless of whether you would qualify this as "open source" or not.
Strangely omits Obama's first 4 years. I wonder why that is.
somehow I’ve completely cured my bing eating habit. But unfortunately I’m not sure which change did it. Here are some of my best guesses?

Fixing my vitamin d deficiency

Multiple day fasts every few weeks

Probiotics

Sleeping better and getting enough sleep

Not having any time alone to be bored
This is not a statement few people agree with...
Well to be honest, I really like the open-source approach that they have decided on for the development of the standard. You can follow the development of it's reference implementation on the Github repo of the project: https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip
Does this really happen?
Outline's version: https://outline.com/bLuVKB
The only charitable understanding of this program is that Apple has no actual table connecting software to hashes, but that they could use the information to understand outbreaks of botnets/spyware that they could then help inform ISPs/global law enforcement to help stop.

Is this even reasonable?
I'm a developer and haven't had a desktop in 15 years or so. It's been a mix of Thinkpads (IBM then Lenovo) and MBPs.

I'm guessing very few developers need the extra power a desktop offers over a high-end laptop.
I wonder if there's buyer-side liability. If you purchase a property which then incurs vast costs due to a technicality in the deeds (example would be a duty to maintain something), who pays?
Open Source Design – community of designers and devs for open design processes
> There has never been a better time for freedom of speech.

In the West, or at least the USA, I would say the 1990s and 2000s were better for free speech, and very recently there has been a relative curbing of free speech. In surveys, a majority of Americans say they are afraid to share some of their political views.

Still better than almost all of human history before that, but I would say we are no longer at the peak of freedom of speech.
RISC-V is the best example of open hardware, but it also has a lot to do with the software. Take the GPU space, for example - NVIDIA has closed source blobs, but AMD has open source drivers which makes it easier to tinker with.
> Unfortunately the U.S. has done a really good job at convincing it’s citizens that there is freedom of the press in their country even though time and time again we’ve seen the mass media in the U.S. severely comprised by corporate interests and/or politics.

I think the trick isn't in making people believe the press is free - the trick is in misleading people about what it means.

The press is mostly free in the US, meaning the government isn't going to explicitly censor or micromanage it. By the same token, the press is also free to do whatever it wants - like, optimize for profits, like a good private sector entity does. Some good ways for an ad-funded news publisher to optimize profits are:

- writing things that get people to read/watch the content (and thus, ads), regardless of whether these things are true, accurate, or appropriate in a civilized society;

- getting paid for delivering more ads, e.g. as sponsored (officially or not) content;

- ensuring ongoing access to freshest news by not burning the sources, particularly government or corporate ones, by e.g. publishing things said sources don't want to see published

This way, a fully free press walks into censorship and bias anyway, of its own volition[0].

Freedom of press is important, but I think we talk too much about ideas and principles, and too little about actual system dynamics in play.

--

[0] - Well, as much volition as you can have in a highly competitive industry, where if you don't sacrifice your values, your competitor will, and then you'll run out of money and die.
BigBlueButton is largely led by Blindside Networks -- they also oversee the holding of the BigBlueButton trademark, logomark, etc.

Blindside's commercial element is to to consult on educational deployment of the software (which is its intended use).
I'm much more a believer in diet is 90% of the results these days, I just need to tinker until I find one that I can stick to more easily.

And definitely agree about the athlete diets--I was skinny all my life until I stopped playing sports 3-4 times a week. Oh, I also met my wonderful friend called beer, which certainly didn't help. Good luck with your own journey!
I have seen the same, but came away with a different conclusion.

Shoddy architecture and even a bad product can be compensated by marketing, hype or a good sales team, while the most pristine architecture and codebase will not help you at all without any customers.

We technologists often focus on the technical aspects, but in many domains they are the least important part for a startup.
France risks US anger with vow to impose new 'digital tax' on online companies
There are some paid open source design jobs here (amongst unpaid ones):

https://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/
I mean, the iMac Pro came out in 2017 and there isn't much sign of anything trickling down to the standard iMac. Rumour is that the ARM Mac Pro will be significantly smaller than the Intel one - it'll be interesting to see how (or if) they support discrete GPUs.
> It wasn't that long ago that you could be fired for mentioning that you are not christian at the office christmas party.

Citation needed.

ACLU would be all over that, religion is a protected class.
Dr Tedros: Vaccine will not end pandemic, lockdowns and survellence to continue
>or that there should be a class of housing that isn't treated like an asset

No need to talk in hypotheticals, this was once the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_K...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1980
Yes, it only checks when you're online
To give even better explanation, it is about abstracting banking and technology functionality into technology and enabling any brand or merchant to integrate innovative financial services into their offerings and customer experiences
Thanks for the feedback, I'm always playing around with different styles to see what people enjoy more or less. Replies like this go a huge way in helping me fine-tune. Thanks for reading--and good luck with the pizza battles.
Thanks :), will take a look at these
There are plenty of great OSS that looks great but they are often backed or owned by a real company and not just a community project. Gitlab, Firefox, VLC, Blender, VScode or BBB, Jitsi Meet for videoconference...
> slight obsession in the open source community to use only using open source tools

While true in some aspects, it's not true in others. Most of todays "modern" open source ecosystem live within GitHub which is not open source, using services for development and infrastructure that is also not open source. While many developers local tools tend to be open source, the rest of the infrastructure we use tend to not be open source. Even many of the biggest package registries for open source are not open source themselves.

I'm not saying 100% of the open source community leverages these services, but a lot sure do.

I agree with your top most point the most though, there is no clear path for designers to actually contribute. And if there is, it's a pipeline of "come up with requires -> design -> code", whereas contributors are not as excited about the last point if someone else did the steps before. Hence we see more code contributions than design ones.
> In France, income tax is computed from taxpayers' individual returns, using an algorithm that is authored, designed and maintained by the French Public Finances Directorate (DGFiP). This algorithm relies on a legacy custom language and compiler originally designed in 1990, which unlike French wine, did not age well with time.

This interesting. When it comes to legacy code we think of COBOL and FORTRAN most of the time, but probably there is a huge amount of even more exotic code out there that does its duty day in day out.
I forgot where I read it but a cool rule of thumb is aim for foods with 1 calorie per gram or less and you’ll naturally lose weight.

Good luck finding many foods like that or enjoying them though.
Well... No one is stopping you from pulling the Beowulf maneuver. I.e., duct-taping a couple together. Via UART/USB/I2C/Ethernet.

It isn't as sexy or prone to looking cool, but technically it is possible. I'm actually planning on trying to tinker a traditionally networked cluster that I?m going to evolve to an attempt at an SSI'd cluster.

That's really all what most Integrated Circuits are going to mowadays. Just take a few ALU's, clock circuits, register files, Memory, some caches, a few MMU's, connect it all with buses, fab x gang bustahs and you've got a new system. The toughest part seems to be getting someone to be frank with you and just giving you an accurate datasheet/not screwing you with locked down firmware and rent extractiom arramgements.
To be clear, when you say efficient, you mean percentage of profit (value produced/costs) is lower in aggregate than if that same patch of land were part of a much larger farm. I submit this definition of efficiency ignores the distribution of those profits, which currently support a group of people owning the fruit of their labor - as opposed to those people being locked into dead-end wage labor jobs working at a much larger farm, while the real profits flow to a single entity.

When people talk about the hollowing out of the middle class, this is exactly what they mean. Capitalism is very efficient at producing wealth but extremely inefficient in distributing it.
> He or she is senior and respected because experience is valued.

Medicine is not the field we should be modeling our value of experience on. If you've been there 1 year longer, your opinion is more valued. Not because you're more knowledgeable, but because you happened to have graduated residency one year sooner. Medicine is about as far away from meritocracy as you can get while still somewhat feigning support for it.

Should we be trusting the experienced folks that say mainframes are fine and editing the DOM directly with jQuery is good enough? I mean zipping up binaries and dropping them on a share is just as good as GitHub, right?

Ageism is an excuse for being uncompromising and unwilling to accept that someone younger than you might have a good idea or know something you don't.
It's hard to see how rent can be disconnected from the property value because if the achievable rent for a property skyrockets that will pull the property's value up.

If rent goes up faster than wages, which cannot go on forever, it means an imbalance between supply and demand. The best way to address this is to rebalance supply with demand, not to be tempted to control prices or whatnot that do not resolve the root cause.

It must also be accepted that the most sought-after areas will be the most expensive and probably out of the reach of many.

Edit: So much for mature discussions, I see...
Connecticut towns by ethnic diversity and school ranking data
But we could if absolutely necessary. They'll have to do it on Mars, for instance.
Any monocrop or one sufficiently subsidized is my guess. I grow a lot of food for myself and my family on less than an acre using hand tools. I don't focus on single crop because that would yeild a feast-or-famon phenomenon.

Grow what grows well in your context and locality, part time. Additionally, a focus on perennials will significantly chop the work hours needed to just reaping the harvest.

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Laptop user, I also have 3 screens. I do use the MBP's keyboard, but never felt like that cost me productivity. I use a normal mouse as well. The only reason I can think of the need a desktop is the extra CPU/GPU capacity you can get.
A similar behavior happens in the game ROM dumping community, owners of very rare or sometimes unique arcade boards often refuse to release ROM dumps, or do so only in a small group of individuals. They would lose nothing if they released it but I guess they take pleasure in knowing they have the exclusivity of a specific thing in the World.
What happens to the costs of ownership? e.g. service charge, boiler repairs etc?
IBM Planning 10k Job Cuts in Europe Ahead of Unit Sale
"I don't understand why Weight Watchers even exists. Just cut out the sugar, move around, and eat more plants. "

Too many people are still in thrall of the calories in - calories out principle.

It seems to appeal especially to nerds, the idea of reducing something as complex as metabolism into a simple accounting trick is just too attractive, and so is the idea that only "unused, extra energy" gets converted to body fat and that everything is question of raw willpower.

It is not so simple, if you live in a state of chronic hyperinsulinemia, you won't be able to mobilize stored fat, it is just biochemically impossible, adipose cells just will not release any stored fat if insulin is high. Of course, then you start to be hungry, then you eat some 'extra' calories even though you have ample fat reserves.

But the core of the problem isn't willpower. It is inability of the human body to burn its own fat for consumption if insulin levels are chronically high.

Of course, that leads to weight gain. And one of the main culprits is sugar. Excessive amounts of sugar will mess with your insulin secretion and sensitivity.
> Maybe true in glorious future where the industrialized farm can support increased biodiversity

While it certainly reduces on-farm biodiversity, higher yields also let us leave more land completely un-farmed. For example I think maybe 10% of France has returned to forest in the last 40 years, and more since 1900, but I can't seem to find a great link...
The answer to all of your questions: because of shitty programmers and/or PMs.
You're correct that they do not choose who can be a doctor.

You're incorrect in that they are the primary force and loudest voice restricting the number of residency slots in the US. You cannot practice medicine without matching into a residency program, whether you have an MD/DO or not.
> that would be very hard to achieve without some serious market manipulation.

Note that the housing market's already heavily manipulated, in an effort to keep the Ponzi scheme going a bit longer (e.g. Help to Buy, etc.)
That exact quote is in the paper.
I played many hours with AI Dungeon's GPT-3 based "Dungeon" model, instructing it to write sci-fi fan-fics. Its output never ceased to amaze me. It's junk by the standard of high literature, obviously. Yet, when you consider the number of bad fan-fics in existence, I'd say GPT-3 probably ranks high in a relative comparison, at least two order-of-magnitude better than my creativity (since its training data already included a huge collections of fictions, including web fan-fics and numerous text adventure games, and the job of GPT-3 is mixing and rewriting them, it shouldn't be a surprise).

I'm never a fan of the "AI" hype, but GPT-3 decidedly changed my mind. If I can be attracted to read, for hours, the meaningless stories generated by a mindless language model in an experimental stage - still, with a quality arguably outperforms many unskilled humans, I'd say I'm convinced that there are lots of promising applications of machine learning (for better or worse), even if it's only capable of feeding low-quality content to the people. 1984 got it right.
A bit tangential, but the article contains a nice gem of pattern matching in C.

nc =
(p < p0) ? 0
: (p < p0 + p1) ? 1
: 2;
> That's it. It's simple.

It is, but it's really REALLY not. I'd bet that most everyone knows what they should be eating and doing to lose weight / be healthy. It's probably obvious to most adults. Some people just have conditions where they can NOT lose weight. And then there's the rest of us. We know it's that simple. We know we should not eat a bag of Doritos for dinner. We know a pint of ice cream is not a snack. But it's what our bodies crave, and fighting that takes energy and focus. And today we had a bad day at work. Today when we got home we had to fight with the kids to do homework. This weekend there's a big party and we're not ready. Next week there's a huge project due at work. Are we going fight the urge to eat a bag of cheese balls before bed? Nope, we just don't have the energy. We'll start next week, when there's not so much going on.

As simple as it seems to you, it's not at all simple for many MANY people. They need help, and they need support. And that's why Weight Watchers exists. Losing weight is somehow simultaneously very easy and nearly impossibly hard for most of us.
> ...but the blocks can be circumvented by sufficiently motivated individuals.

As I understand it, using a VPN to get past the firewall is a crime for Chinese nationals. And the govt is constantly blocking them anyway as they find them.
It comes from not wanting to share their wealth with those who have less, and helps maintain or increase their standard of living.

I know business owners that will vote for lower taxes as a single issue. They could not care less that their own nieces and nephews were being screwed by the labor laws their “low tax” politicians were supporting.

What is most important is enhancing the relative position of themselves and their children in society.
Funny, because first I used this form and then changed it to use 'However' because well, that'd be claiming us Homo Sapiens are known to have two hands, which is problematic and no sane economist would say so.
> Currently, however, this promotes large-scale monoculture. Which is inherently harmful on almost every level, including the ability to keep the cost of food down and and the supply up.

It's hard to reconcile this point with the strong trends over the last century of more monoculture, more production, and much lower prices.
So Chinese people can watch foreign news, if they are willing to break Chinese law?
Another instance is a spate of recent 1-star reviews on Amazons with comments like "Great product, works as described and value for money, but I'm giving it 1 star because it's made in China". Seems to me Amazon is letting this slide because that's where the wind is blowing now.
A useful comparison from 5 minutes of googling:

In 2017, the top 20 car companies produced 76m vehicles [1]. There "may be as many as 2000 car companies globally".[2] This page (admittedly it seems to have been "hacked by Javanese team") says total vehicle production was about 96m.[3]

So, 1% of motor companies produce 80% of the world's cars.

Is there a reason one statistic should alarm us more than the other? Is food production different from motor car production? Should we think of farms as factories?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manufacturers_by_motor...

[2] https://www.topspeed.com/cars/makes/

[3] http://www.oica.net/category/production-statistics/2017-stat...
>The same people who almost universally use a Mac?

* in very specific places and conditions.

Actual numbers from every single credible survey puts macs at a grand maximum of 25%.
> Just cut out the sugar,

This massively depends on how much sugar your diet have. I mean, plenty of us have issue with eating too much bacon.
There's definitely lots of low effort options for farming. Look at permaculture farming for example, key ideas behind it involve no-tilling, sculpting the landscape with various shapes like berms, which create microclimates, arranging rows of trees to retain moisture, etc. There's a lot of ways to make the land work for you, but can take a few years to get it to a highly productive state.
> has "the market" shown any serious signal that it cares about privacy?

Depends on what you consider a serious signal of care. If 'voting with you wallet' is the measure, increasing levels of income inequality, stagnant wages, weakening employee rights through the gig-economy, etc. are effectively taking away that choice, as most market participants cannot afford to make the choice.

Also, what is the paid alternative to Apple or Google photos that allows me to have the same end user experience, without giving up my privacy? "the market" doesn't even have such an offer that I can see. The closest I can find (and that's through here) is photostructure.com, and even that's lacking all the local-ML-foo that makes Apple/Google photos a compelling option over anything else.

> Take Samsung putting ads on their "smart" TV's UI and screenshotting what people are watching for profiling, that's been known for a while now.

Known by who? I'd wager a year's salary that >50% of Samsung TV owners (and bump that number up to >75% of Samsung TV users) do not know this is happening.
How do big farms cope with situations where their equipment is needed in multiple different places at the exact same time?
I love that this gets some love.
I found it odd that the website is in itself not very pretty (like... that kind of goes against the main selling point of the community).
I agree, and I'm impressed with the result quality - I expect that this approach is viable for creating something like a verbalisation layer for an AGI process.