skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It sounds to me what you really want is for someone to alleviate your discomfort by shoveling off the riff-raff so that you can enjoy your bike ride, rather than having to address the systemic issues, which might impact your net worth.

I am not seeing anything in the grandparent that suggests they are not willing to pay for cleaner streets and better housing and homeless services through taxes to a well managed city.
I should have said "supposed shoddiness".

My point was not that the welfare state is shoddy but that, if you support the welfare state, mistakes like this should bother you more, not less.
The competition requires enough revealing about the methodology for other teams to replicate it so open implementations are going to be available for sure.

It also looks like they came up with a brand new jiggling algorithm which is probably just V1 now, this really changes things in a significant way!
> In hardware, software and now Covid vaccines, I try to avoid being an 'early adopter'. I wait til the bugs are ironed out.

This isn't the same getting an Apple Silicone Mac though. There's almost no downside to waiting for next year's laptops. With the vaccine, on the other hand, you need to evaluate the potential risk of getting the vaccine vs the potential dangers of not getting it (both for you and everyone you interact with).
> If you get and cash a stimulus check you don't deserve, you'll need to pay it back on your return next year.

Not if you're not American and overseas?

I mean, if some random country sends me free money I don't think I have any obligation to return it, and I don't think the US is particularly special.
I moved to Southern California, the others moved to:
Tahoe(Nevada side), Southern California, Cincinnati Ohio, South of the bay area. Bend OR, Scottsdale Arizona, Springdale South Carolina
Over Half of U.S. Young Adults Now Live with Their Parents
Plastic degradation is a thing already in naturally occurring bacteria that evolved a PETase: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6278/1196/tab-fig...
It depends heavily on where in the city you are. There are parts of SF that definitely makes me very uncomfortable (I've lived in Hong Kong and know my way around NYC) but SF is kind of interesting in it almost feels like a collection of small cities. Union Square is very, very different from Sea Cliff and because SF is relatively small physically, it doesn't take long to go from one part to another. I think people who live here tend to get used to seeing these things and also know to avoid spending too much time in some parts of the city.
Services actually hover in the 60% gross margin, vs 30% for hardware. But they sell so much hardware that the overall profits are still 80% from that.

Source: https://sec.report/Document/0000320193-19-000119/
I thoroughly enjoy Stjepan Tomic's channel "Hanging pawns" (on YouTube) for more detailed analyses than Agadmator. Videos are long but excellent and (i find it an advantage that) he doesn't go with the latest hypes around chess only (i.c. Queen's Gambit tv show)
Whether Congress could want to do something or not is irrelevant to the civil servant. Unless they're directed to make those preparations (and not just plans for the event, but actually start implementing which costs a lot more), they won't.

The distinction I'm making: A plan may take 1-4 weeks to form with 1-10 participants. They could tell you exactly what's needed in order to implement a stimulus check program like this safely and accurately. But the implementation is going to take weeks or months more work and 10-1000 participants to effect it.

The planning is "cheap" and done as a matter of course. That covers things like disaster recover and conops. But it doesn't, on its own, actually create a final "product". Only the plan for what to do when an emergency or directive comes down the pipe.

The implementation is expensive. And they need authority to execute it. If they're not funded for it, they aren't going to do it.
I posted this in the other thread from today that briefly hit the front page:

Bitcoin is a social phenomena - no government or company backs it. The only reason it has value is if people value it. Bitcoin promoters have convinced people it's a store of value, like gold except digital. As the Cult of Bitcoin spreads, it doesn't take that many new enthusiasts to push the price up, as unlike literally all other commodities on earth, the supply of bitcoin is truly constrained and there cannot be anymore made in response to demand above the normal rate of inflation.

This time, big money, institutions, and the very rich are coming in addition to the widespread purchase by retail. The price is going to rise a lot.
In order to produce a personalized anti-cancer RNA vaccine, you need to

a) do a biopsy of the tumor and some healthy tissue, which is fairly cheap,

b) do genetic analysis of those samples to find the differences. This used to be prohibitively expensive, but now is fairly cheap too, the price went down six (!) orders of magnitude since 2000,

c) ask specialized software to find the optimal protein set to express. This software can be used for all the patients around, so cost of development will be split among them,

d) synthetize the correct messenger RNA and embed it in lipid nanoparticles. Not cheap, but not prohibitively expensive either, this is basically a biological equivalent of a printing job,

e) check the resulting drug and send it to the clinic where the patient is treated.

This all together is a much more straightforward and automatized process than extracting tumor-invading lymphocytes from a patient and babying them in vitro with a lot of attention from human scientists and use of fairly expensive reagents. The price tag for this process per se should be at least two orders of magnitude lower.

Then you must add the original development and testing costs, amortized equipment cost and profit. This is where the total price tag may balloon.
> Assuming that top down legislation will not have some unforeseen interaction that drives terrible outcomes is the fallacy of big government, it just consistently fails at it, I've seen it so many times over my life time that it's farcical.

Hmmm... Ok... I think get it now! Regulations are always bad and never good. Wow, it's so simple. Thank you for this valuable and insightful information.
Yeah, why aren't people out celebrating that DOW hit 30k or so?

Maybe because all those metrics have almost no correlation how a below median income household operates.
Elberling...is among those who believe the city was being overrun by people who arrived for one reason.

“The motivation got to this get-rich-quick attitude,” he said. “And that isn’t what our city is about."

It's what your city has been about for over 170 years. Your fucking football team is named for this very idea.[0][1]

Now, that's not to say I'm not sympathetic. Even in the less-expensive Seattle area I wonder where my hair dresser is supposed to live (I know where she lives: nowhere near Redmond). I'm trying to think of anyone I know that lives within the boundaries of "Eastside" (...of Seattle) that doesn't work in software and isn't married to same. I came up with one person: a psychologist. IOW, I have drifted from my modest roots and now only know high-income people. That's fine, I guess, but boy howdy, I'll bet I've grown far more out-of-touch and more bubbled than I'd like to think.

But I see a lot of what I perceive to be jealousy amongst the noble concern for those less well off. Are you blocking those "new, expensive condos" because of concern for the poor or because you don't think wealthy people should have a place to live in SF? (Okay, fine, they can consume all of the cheap housing, and...oh, this has been rehashed ad nauseam.) I don't even have a snappy question for those that block corporate busses, y'all are just "doing something" for the sake of doing so (and the 'gram points, I imagine). But mostly I see a lot of "I was here first" attitude, like that counts for something. As if one gets to define "what our city is about", even if one gets it horribly wrong from the start.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_49ers

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush#Forty-nin...
The two people mentioned in the article still have ties to the US because they receive social security payments.
The courage to shed – to founders, employees, customers and investors
And collectible cards (baseball, basketball, football, pokemon, magic the gathering, etc). The card market exploded upward during the pandemic. (existing asset bubbles from low rates + $1,200 onto the fire + people stuck inside = huge shot of demand from buyers of cards; it wouldn't do much in the million dollar art world, however most cards are obviously more in the affordable range as it pertains to a $1,200 injection).

The stock (CLCT) for the largest card grading service went up 200% over the past year, after hardly moving the prior four or five years.
Square outperformed Bitcoin by a wide margin trough to peak in 2020. Tesla vastly outperformed. Tesla is up 15X since the summer of 2019.
You know what I mean by "processed food". I do not mean kimchi and saurkraut. Just eat a fucking vegetable man. It's not science. Stop trying to make everything so complicated for the sake of your mental masturbation.
Yep, in this example the weights are compiled into the app and inference is done locally on the iPhone processor.
>"Given SF has been extremely heavy handed with the lockdowns"

To great effect, mind you. SF County has the lowest rate of new cases per 100k of any major city in the country by a pretty significant margin [0].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c...
> It's literally not; sexual harassment is a civil, not criminal, offense.

That's why I included the judicial system.

> But employers have legal liability for sexual harassment, which only gets more severe as it continues and they fail to act, whether or not there is a crime involved.

It happening is required to be based on a suite or investigation.
Again, a company isn't equipped to proceed with such an investigation on it's own.
Black Friday store shopping falls 52% during pandemic as e-commerce sales surge
My favorites:

Larry Niven - The Jigsaw Man

Larry Niven - The Fourth Profession

Issac Asimov - The Last Question
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20
My unstated assumption was that whatever self-expression you put out there, would be at least possible to appreciate by an audience of adult humans.

I understand and believe that children should be allowed to self-express, but quite frankly, nobody is interested in hearing what the child has to say because it's mostly awkward in execution and repetitive. The relatives and perhaps people who work with children professionally will care, but the general public won't unless it's particularly funny, poignant, or whatever.
The issue I have with their response is that they argue that it's disabled because it has no API key. I think that's not a real solution because that can change at any time. A request sent is a request sent, relying on the server to block it is the opposite of what TOR initially stood for.

I witnessed at least the Leanplum SDK taking action, and I thought I broke the App tbh. After a restart of the phone and clearing all caches via the Settings App I could verify that it happened a second time.

But I have no idea whether it was a "chrome://" Page with an externally included JS - or triggered by the underlying SDK directly. In Firefox pre-quantum (pre fenix 9.5), the Extensions Page included Google Analytics for a while, so I was assuming that my installation process of uBlock Origin and uMatrix triggered it somehow down the line.

I decided to roll back to TOR 9.5 after it happened the second time on the same day and now I'm building my own Browser (Tholian Stealth) anyways... so I didn't decide to investigate further than a casual look at the codebase where LeanPlum still seems to be littered all over the place. [1]

[1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=l...
You might look into drama coaches that give elocution lessons. I imagine that the skills are fairly similar.

I used to do a bit of drama and choir and I found the warmup exercises to be helpful for enunciation and such. A brief warmup before a meeting might be a good idea too. The major downside is that it looks and sounds ridiculous, but it will limber up the muscles in your mouth and face.
Sunshine Comes Out to “Manage the Mundane”
> How hard could it possibly be, in 2020, to setup a secure, cross-verified, system for taxpayers to update their information online?

Pretty difficult. People don't want to update, don't have access to computers, some are here living and working and aren't citizens or are undocumented, some people don't trust the government or don't want the government tracking them anymore than they already do. You name it.

Even if you didn't have these systematic issues, it's a political football. Can't ask the wrong questions on the census b/c politics, for example. How would you even know that every American eligible got a check if you can't even get a count of every American?
Oh good grief. I assume you purchase groceries in person, at least occasionally?
Open Framework G'MIC now available for Photoshop (8bf): 500 Filters Free to Use
I remember a guy who boasted putting his entire life savings into Bitcoin during a crypto meetup. I wonder how he's doing.
My thought as well. I wonder what the world will look like in 20 years because of this.

I'm willing to bet it will be staggeringly different than what most people are expecting.
Do you have a reference for that? IIRC binary wheels have been supported for ages and not just in 20+ (which was released this year).
but how would this affect day to day life, though? Not how long you think it will.
Did we?
Bitcoin is a Bitfinex and Tether phenomenon. Since the Tether article was posted a few weeks ago another $2B fake dollars have been generated and used to buy Bitcoin. This absolutely and completely dwarfs the pennies Square and PayPal threw into the wishing well.
What is a Digital Object? [pdf]
Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25247338 (500 comments); https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1333126001161773056
You absolutely did not pay the attention while reading. At age 15 indeed the association diminishes to almost zero; the original experiment never claimed otherwise. The original claim was that association is strong at early childhood; nonetheless it is pretty stupid to believe that a marshmallow is a sufficient reward for 15 years old person.
Seattle also has international shipping, multiple Universities, and, at least for now, Boeing. Being a software town rounds out the demographics, instead of dominating them.

A lot of midwestern towns have faded away because they were single industry towns. I can sympathize with people who don't want their city to be beholden to one group of people, who might disappear at any moment, after having extracted what they want from the city.
Not the OP, but of those two, I certainly agree textualism is more "honest". I don't see how you could ever divine a singular true intent behind a compromise of hundreds of divergent minds.
"people are allowed to be wrong and/or ignorant because that’s what most of us are on most topics"

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
It what now? It treats people like adults? Adults need to have their "hurt feelings" protected through a code of conduct? That's one of the most childish/naive things I've read.
Young People Are the Big Losers of the Covid-19 Crisis
Development always focuses on the top of the market and there is nothing wrong with that. New houses are better and cost more. Their creation depresses the price of older houses. It is exactly analogous to the car market. You can't lower the price of used cars by outlawing new cars.
Unboxing the Raspberry Pi 400
It's odd to me how some studies say that above 70k income there's not much difference to happiness.

I've definitely got happier, more hopeful and more confident in myself as I've started to make enough to see that there's a possible way for me to escape this routine and still have decades of life left to live where I can spend time on whatever I want while still having youthful energy.

And I do feel like focusing on getting to that point as early as possible should be my main goal right now. The more money I make in present the more I can invest to achieve that point even earlier (as money makes money) as opposed to being half in, half out.
Reported to work on "Affinity Photo" as well.
One young lady I knew worked on neural algos recognition of X-ray images.

They always had single digit, bizarre artifacts, where the program can't sometimes recognise the very data it was trained on with most minute differences.

Other artifact was that the most "stereotypical cases" were least reliably recognised, and they hot a lot of flak for screwed up live demos, where a radiologist put a very, very obvious tumor shot onto the scanner, and it didn't work without a half an hour of wiggling the film, and a camera.

The "bruteforce" solution may well be always, 80-85% off, but off consistently, and always. NN algo so far beat them, but fail with double digit frequencies on "artifacts" which they themselves can't do anything about.

How well it deals with the later, is what I believe will measure its real world usefullness.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down to make way for the Biden administration
Yes, that is exactly my point. The core of QM consists of very few bits.
There are a handful of free tools you can use. We have write-ups of most of them in the "Labeling Your Images Yourself" section here: https://blog.roboflow.com/object-detection/

Roboflow (our startup) can import the annotation files from all of those tools and convert them to Create ML's format for you.
I mean, credit where credit is due. Google employs some of the greatest names in artificial intelligence and the DeepMind team had a huge chunk of them working on this problem. While the resources may have been available, I don’t think any other single institution had the level of brain power.
I had my fair share of uncheatable open book exams, calculators allowed back in college. One I had on Calculus (or was it Linear Algebra?) was way harder than a comparable closed book exam. You really needed to know the subject to pass vs just memorizing a couple of formulas and plugging them in the right place.

Another professor devised an exam that used your student ID as a variable of the first question, and subsequent questions used the previous answers as inputs. Impossible to cheat.
This is my view exactly. I've been telling people I know who are trying to ride the crypto train that BTC has no fundamentals, by which I mean exactly that "the only reason it has value is if people value it."

Think about it: the way BTC is created is basically by expending energy to solve some contrived math problem. So what? Who should ever care at all that someone, at sometime in the past, happened to be running a computer that hit on the solution of a silly math problem? It gets even more absurd when you consider that mining pools became a thing, so that even if your particular computer hits on the solution, you didn't actually do all the work that goes into the so-called "proof of work." (Yes, I know, in this scenario, the new BTC is split among the pool members, but, that doesn't really matter very much.)

So, basically, BTC is the recording of the fact that someone, somewhere contributed to the solution of a math problem. Why should that have value at all, over and above the inherent value in solving said problem, which is essentially nil in this case? Well, it shouldn't. And, yet, it does, for the reason you've noted.

Although I hesitate to call BTC "money," there is an actual form of money that also has value for the same reason, is a true digital currency, which has a durable and distributed transaction record, and is much easier to manipulate for the purpose of managing an economy based on it. That would be the USD, and other such fiat currencies. And, the USD fundamentally is just the recording of the fact that a bank somewhere has managed to create $9 by turning $1 in reserve into $10 in loans out into the economy at large (or, whatever the ratio exactly is -- I forget.)

In other words, if you accept that BTC is a currency at all, it's little more than a worse version of the world's de facto reserve fiat currency, with the added bonus of generally not being able to transact using it, along with extreme volatility relative to the USD, which one actually can transact with.

That's not to say I don't wish I had bought some BTC back when I first heard of it and it was trading at under $1. Had I gambled even $500 on it back then, I would have somewhere in the neighborhood of $9M now, and, essentially be set for life. But, I was a poor graduate student who already realized most of what I previously mentioned and decided that I'd rather pay rent for a couple of months in the dorms than buy an expensive lottery ticket.
Is there a similar story for Threepwood?

His name is Guybrush Threepwood after all...
Oh me too, thats been my favorite part. Everyone has their own theory about the future of bitcoin, but those that are certain of said future always give me a good chuckle.
Marooned at Work
From what I can gather, Google bought Deepmind for 500 million USD in 2014, they have outstanding debt to its parent company as of 2019 of 1.3 billion USD.

And they had income around 100 million in 2019 but it's all against Google, so looks like a 2 billion +/- 0.5 operation so far, and who knows if they pay for compute.

Other articles place the runrate at 500 million per year in 2019.

Which means 500 million * 6 years = 3 bn + 0.5 purchase price. = 3.5 bn.
So somewhere in the 2.5 - 3.5 billion range its seems likely as total cost so far.

Nevertheless doesn't seem out of reach for a multinational.
>The problem isn't how it was handled ex-post. The problem is how there was essentially zero infrastructure or preparation in place for this type of fast-disbursement of stimulus.

Isn't there? The Fed (and monetary economists) always talk about how much easier it would be to stimulate with a "helicopter drop"[0], wouldn't they already know how to pull that off?

Even if it were done by Congress rather than the Fed, the Fed's process could still be the delivery mechanism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_money
The problem isn’t knowing every service in detail. It is knowing the “what” and not necessarily the “how”.

But the attitude that a cloud provider is just a bunch of VMs leads to crap like hosting everything on VMs, reinventing the wheel etc.

You wouldn’t hire a database admin with no database experience and expect them to learn on the fly. Why hire someone with no experience with your cloud provider and hope they would learn on the fly?

Any technology/service/language has footguns and best practices that you only learn from experience.
Or like a particular Texas gun club, in Planetary.

https://artbyarion.blogspot.com/2017/07/planetary-18-warren-...
Most banks are even wary on having emigrated Americans as customers, as that is also a lot of headaches. (One of few countries where one still in theory have to tax even when no longer living there)
If you want the government to be capable of something you need to spend money on that capacity. Having efficient systems in place come with a real cost, so simply saying their less than perfect isn’t enough you need to justify the waste vs what it would have taken to avoid it.