skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why you need to prove that it creates negative effects to say that there is a better option. Is UBI better than nothing? Probably quite a lot. Better than a JG? No, I don't think so.

This story very much demonstrates that giving people jobs helping the community rather than just money is a better option. They were both productive and happier. So much so that they didn't want to stop.

I'm sure the nature of the job probably had something to do with it. If these jobs were in call centers for debt collectors they probably would have quit en masse and been happy about it.
I tried it, but that doesn't work either...
It's really just all speculation, and doesn't fit the facts very well. If two people are in the same room and only one has symptoms, it is unlikely to be microwaves. Also, the brain imaging study just found differences in grey/white matter compared to controls, but that tends to vary quite a lot in the general population, and isn't evidence of brain damage.

Overall, FND seems to be the most plausible explanation at the moment.
I really think it would be good for America to enact some sort of electoral reform to allow for more than two parties to have a reasonable chance at influence. It really seems to distort your politics that everything is binary.
> Imagine having to use Facebook to access any money - not just Diems.

I don't think this can happen in practice. For any such system to work at all, the vast majority of the entire society needs to be using it and be satisfied with it, and then there'll always be cash anyway for which there can't be access control enforced by any one entity.
What kind of app is it?

Quite a few products that are essentially free make their money by commercial licensing (or support licensing).

Another method I can think of is by including desirable premium features that essentially "subsidize" the free version.

Since it is a desktop app, I'd steer clear away from advertising. I personally think Microsoft has self-sabotaged their Start menu by putting ads on it. I completely ignore the screen and never use it because I don't have the patience to determine what elements are actually apps I have, and which are apps they're trying to hoist on me.
So, when you are actually using it, then your privacy is revealed ( since you'll use that "anonymous" ledger to convert to USD/Eur).

Every cloud application for doing this literally requires you to send your ID to them.
Hey, I can't zoom in or out on the website... The font always stays at the same huge size. Using Firefox on Windows
What fascinated me about Bitcoin in the first place was the idea of having money as a first class citizen on the net. Well, we know this didn’t really became reality.

Today, we still can’t easily and frictionless send money to a website. Just think about what this means for online journalism.

That you mention “checks” suggests that you are a person living in the US. I can tell you that even as a European, I often hit a paywall where I couldn’t even pay if I were willing to go through the hassle of paying by credit card.

PayPal helps a bit but having one centralized service means there is no real competition.
Some of the features are genuinely useful. The screen recording stuff built-in is fast, high quality, and easy to use. I have OBS set up and know how to use it but I usually use Shadowplay instead
I just hate hotels so much... I find them expensive, dirty, impersonal (I can remember all the airbnbs I’ve been, and I always felt like I lived in the city for real while in an Airbnb, I can’t remember a single hotel room I’ve been to besides the marina bay sands in singapore)

I much prefer staying at a real place. It’s not Airbnb that I like, it’s the concept. The last place I booked was actually through VRBO.
In many cases it is true, but the one legitimate use case is helping out in countries where monetary freedom is restricted. When the state forbids you to sell a currency that's permanently losing value due to unchecked inflation, being able to work for any appreciating coin or even a stablecoin is benefitial to society.
Hey! I just went through the exact same thing for https://Sunboxlabs.com - shareasale et al have high up-fronts or monthlies and their own integration cost. I know people are gonna tell me it’s not worth half a day of engineering/debugging, but this is what I did for a roll-your-own affiliate mvp: write a ten line script to check the search params and set them as local storage or cookie. On checkout pass that cookie through to PayPal. Done!

Obviously I’m not getting the exposure of shareasale, impact, etc from being on their platform, but I can still sign up for them once I’ve validated that affiliate works for high ticket item hardware.
I think that's it, I'm afraid. The one I have on my system has a copyright date of 2004, I don't think it's been updated recently.

But it still works just fine, despite being old.
Which is implying there can be nothing wrong with any company and it's always the employee's fault when it doesn't work out.
And yet, as the OP mentioned, there is simply no evidence. Many other professional doctors have pointed this out.
Time to achieving a precision is the best metric (and the only relevant metric) for training, everything else is flawed.
Personally I consider it a yellow flag when hiring. It could be a sign that they are likely to hop to the next thing and not worth investing in, or it could just be that they are looking for the right place to settle in. I will generally ask about their experiences and what they are looking for to try to discern which camp they may be in.

As with all hiring though, this is far from perfect.
A suitcase full of cash is much more difficult to transport risk-free compared to bitcoin.
Pseudonymity is not the same as anonymity. Coin tracing companies exist because of this. Unless the currency itself has numerous privacy mitigations built in (a la Monero), it's only going to keep casual observers from knowing. I compare most cryptocurrencies' observability to common household locks. They aren't keeping real thieves out. They just keep honest people honest.
Of course:

Droplists are from namejet, domain cleaning is done by checking against zone-files from ICANN (that's why I don't currently check .tv and .cc domains as there are no zone-files by ICANN provided for them. As they are country specific, I would have to build custom solutions for them, which I don't want for a proof of concept).
> The core feature of any cryptocurrency is "money w/o state regulation", but when you're talking about selling it for any major currency (Dollars, Euros, Sterling, Yen, RMB) guess what, you're regulated.

Depends on the regulation type we're talking about. Yes, state may require KYC, AML, and taxes, but in case of bitcoin they can't regulate the inflation.
As a former recruiter of 6 years... Most companies do not care. If you can do the job and pass their interview process they will make you an offer. I very rarely had anyone look down on "job hoppers" and if they did it would be when someone had 4-7 six month stints in a row. Normally those people would just say those were contract gigs and then the company wouldnt care.
Can you be a little more specific about the artificially broken products and lock-in effects are you referring to?

For artificially broken, I was more thinking of products like Windows 10, where anything below Enterprise/Education is IMNSHO unsuitable for professional use for well-documented reasons around forced updates and reboots, mandatory phoning home, etc. However, to get the best of Office, you typically also need to be on Windows, as other platforms are either unsupported or very much second tier.

For lock-in effects, I'm partly talking about the commercial terms for accessing the serious products particularly for smaller businesses, partly about tactics like the various poorly documented and sometimes changing file formats Microsoft has relied on over the years to try to force upgrades, and partly about the push to use ever more of Microsoft's online services. Microsoft relies heavily on trying to get you onto its platforms, and particularly these days the establishing subscription-y enterprise-y relationships even if you're a small business that never needed that kind of relationship with MS before, and then using various technical barriers to make it hard to get off the ride.
Plus literally zero action has been taken about the same cladding on similar buildings in the 2.5 years since this happened...
Did you read that?

> If you're writing a program that only has to do something very simple, like number crunching or bit manipulation, you may as well use a less abstract language, especially since it may be slightly faster.

In your opinion, what percentage of web applications do you think are non-trivial?

And for what it’s worth, nobody chooses PHP because of the language. That’s not the selling point. The selling point is the development paradigm/runtime. It’s dead simple.

I recently started a small web project using the SAFE stack:

https://safe-stack.github.io/docs/quickstart/

I urge you to follow that QuickStart yourself (it only takes a minute or two).

Assuming you were actually able to build the project, now, look at your project structure. How many directories do you have (11)? How many files (15510)? Think about how much knowledge is required to understand what’s going on (if you’ve never touched F# you are probably lost).

What does this QuickStart app do? It is, I kid you not, a “Todo list”!

I could write an almost exact clone of this app using PHP in exactly 1 file. No configuration scripts. No build suite. No 3rd-party packages. No CLI commands. Just 1 PHP file. Thats why people choose PHP.
Not really, and that is precisely one of the point for crypto advocates. To be used as "virtual" (just non physical) cash, easier to manage.
I had a manager tell me that Blockchain was a better choice for our enterprise transactional data management. Since then, I've refrained from all technical discussion.
But that isn't a cost of the preprocessor. It's the cost of definitions (and declarations in some cases) living somewhere other than the compilation unit in which they are used.

Even with a "module" system as handwaved in TFA, there's still the possibility that you (or someone else) changed a "module". C++ makes it almost impossible to decide if the change requires recompilation (without effectively doing the compilation to decide).
This is extremely significant to simplifying spreadsheets.
I’ve heard it’s easier to travel conspicuously and less risky than traveling with suitcases of cash.
Chang'e-5 completes China's first docking in lunar orbit
After docking, it will head for Earth soon and then
"Similar to the way a stone can skip over water, the return capsule will sprint into the atmosphere and then ascend again out of it, in order to reduce its speed to first cosmic velocity, which is around 8 kilometers per second, before landing safely at its designated site. "
Pretty nifty... is this the first time such a technique is used to re-enter the atmosphere i wonder. Never heard of it before
Hey, also posted it above, but here again:

Droplists are from namejet, domain cleaning is done by checking against zone-files from ICANN (that's why I don't currently check .tv and .cc domains as there are no zone-files by ICANN provided for them. As they are country specific, I would have to build custom solutions for them, which I don't want for a proof of concept).
No, but only if your suitcase will only open if unlocked by a cryptographically secure key and no one can open it through other methods. They can't steal the suitcase itself either. And you can instantly teleport the contents of your suitcase to an equivalent suitcase held by any other individual on the planet. And third parties can't arbitrarily devalue the contents of your suitcase by printing more of it.
You're talking about a commodity, not a currency. No one walks around with gold nuggets (or jugs of milk, or bales of wheat) in their pocket because our economy doesn't use the barter system.

The difference between cryptocurrencies and other commodities is that other commodities have intrinsic worth. You can drink milk, you can eat wheat. You can't do anything with cryptocurrency, it's just a long, meaningless number.
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Payment processors also won't touch sci-hub. What do you think of that?

Secondary question: When is a slippery slope a fallacy and when is it not? There's lots of things we consider it good to ban because allowing it is a slippery slope, like when the administration justified using torture in exigent situations.
"A year ago, if anyone in the petroleum business had suggested that the moment of Peak Oil had already passed, they would have been laughed right off the drilling rig.
Then 2020 happened. ... Humanity's thirst for oil may never again return to prior levels."

That's not what peak oil means. Peak oil is exactly the opposite: when demand for cheap oil outstrips supply.

In this article they're talking about there being more supply than demand: exactly the opposite of peak oil.

But, yeah, I guess if they redefine peak oil to mean what they want it to mean, they have a point.

Update:

I've thought about it some more, and I realized that what they describe is peak oil. It's not that the definition of peak oil has changed, but what counts as "cheap" has changed.

So there are really two ways to achieve peak oil.

The first way is for the definition of "cheap oil" to stay the same, but the supply of oil at that price level to permanently drop below the demand for oil at that price level.

The second way is for the definition of "cheap oil" to drop while supply at the previous price level stays the same.

The fact that "cheap oil" may be redefined shows that "peak oil" is a flexible concept, not something etched in stone.

When the price at which oil seems "cheap" rises, then the supply could still be there, and when that price falls then it's no surprise there's not as much of it any more.

Or maybe I'm confused again? What do you think?
Performance in games typically doesn't have much correspondence with how good a GPU will be at compute. Rendering games, videos, etc is largely constrained by things like memory bandwidth, culling, image decoding and blending - all stuff typically done with special-purpose hardware that won't be very useful for compute or neural nets. Sometimes games or media have complex shaders that are entirely limited by compute, but it's not terribly common.

Apple's dedicated ML hardware is probably quite good, but we don't have any way to know how good without doing math on die size + power draw and running benchmarks.
They don't follow the hashtags. The hashtags push the post to others who do and the post generates likes which causes it to be shown to more people.

If you get 100 likes on someone on LinkedIn you will have a massive amount of recruiters see it.
People are just as free to follow diverse viewpoints on social media but for many people that’s not the point. They want that bubble and are determine to avoid it. That doesn’t change with the choice of forum.

Similarly, there’s not that big difference on “policing” - the social media companies enforce very basic terms of service but most people use web hosts with relatively similar terms. The major difference is the discovery mechanism (and the fact checking applied to certain politicians’ accounts which aren’t banned on public interest grounds) which is closer to how search engines avoid sending links to certain sites with bad reputations. A lot of what Twitter/Facebook block will also be dropped by Google or many free web hosts. You can definitely get away with more but I don’t see much reason to believe that it’s a major difference rather than minor variations depending on which companies and content you’re talking about.
The attacks also happened in China, Russia, and elsewhere. It started in Cuba, but isn’t limited to a particular geometry. It does seem to be limited to US agents and people in their immediate vicinity.
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Having read the paper (https://gofile.io/d/WfcxoF), I can't take the idea that Google wanted to suppress it seriously (as the article argues).

In the paper, another paper is summarized describing the environmental costs of training large models. It is then argued that global warming will disproportionately affect marginalized people. This constitutes "environmental racism" because the main beneficiaries of these models are rich white people whereas the people bearing the costs are poor people who live near the equator. In my mind, this is two-points-make-a-line thinking.

The rest of the paper is more interesting. It argues that machine learning is conservative in that it "reinforces hegemonic language". I think this is true. Models are trained using data, data is what exists rather than what we would like to exist. If you're unhappy with what exists (as Gebru is, terribly), this represents a problem. Two of her solutions are "curating" data (censoring data) and "working with panels of experiential experts through the Diverse Voices methodology" (constituting powerful groups made up of her ideological allies). I think these solutions are dead-ends. It seems to me that we have to make peace with the conservatism inherent in these models (and maybe all models).

The paper also argues (I think rightly) that problems will materialize "should humans encounter seemingly coherent language model output and take it for the words of some person or organization who have accountability for what is said". In other words, we grant other humans responsibility for what they say and do but what about models that can mimic humans very accurately? A similar problem exists today when a Google or Youtube account is erroneously locked by some algorithm. There's a sense that, really, no one is responsible for this outcome because an algorithm did it. Even if the owner manages to get his account restored, there's no clear way to assign responsibility for the mistake. Perhaps this problem will become even worse if we start to see algorithms powered by models that are near-indistinguishable from people.

Anyway, the paper doesn't seem controversial to me. It seems clear that Gebru's strident tone and personal style were the cause of her firing/resignation. Jeff Dean's claim that the paper was rejected for not citing other papers may be false. The truth seems much simpler: based on her own public communications, Gebru felt she was the subject of "harassment" and "dehumanization" but those grievances seem to be hyperbole, and the personal injury that she felt became an excuse for her to treat her coworkers poorly. In other words, she didn't drop her twitter persona at work.
Just posting false information isn't. If you actually went through with conning someone into giving you a job or some other material benefit based on false information, it would be.
Store of value is the use case.
Even if those hurdles could be crossed, there's the hurdle of actually converting the unbanked to use their service. Unbanked people are unbanked because it's not profitable for local banks to convert them to customers, generally because they live in cash economies and don't have very much of it, and WU/Moneygram or the hawala service is difficult to beat on the last mile of remittances. M-PESA filled some gaps because it used a existing network of mobile phone stores and people's confidence in the value of their dumbphone credit in local currency. All rely heavily on shops in villages to attract and serve customers.

But Diem doesn't have any advantages over any of these entities: it's a foreign foundation with no local infrastructure to help people spend their cash and no local knowledge talking about immutable ledgers and cash equivalent reserves, as if the reason the unbanked were unbanked is because the local banks don't write whitepapers rather than because exchanging cash in developing world villages is a very expensive problem to solve relative to the size of the transactions they unbanked might like to make
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Add features that cost money, but don't make the app unusable for those who aren't paying.
> Q: Is this fundamentally different to having a suitcase full of cash?

Yes, government can't print bitcoin. If you store cash - in the long term you will lose buying power. If bitcoin gets adopted as a store of value - nobody will be able to print it at will.
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Linus’s thesis contradicts this.

The original Linux was not only extremely PC-centric, it wallowed in features available on PC's and was totally unconcerned with most portability issues other than at a user level. The original Intel 80386 architecture that Linux was written for is perhaps the example of current CISC design, and has high-level support for features other current CPU's would not even dream about implementing (see for example [CG87]). Linux did not even try to avoid using the x86 features available to those early versions — quite the opposite. Linux started out as a project to find out exactly what you could do with the CPU, and as such it used just about every feature of the CPU you could find ranging from using segments for inter-process protection to hardware assisted process switching.

However, the initial unportable approach was a case of an unportable implementation rather than an inherently unportable design. The goal of being compatible with other UNIX's resulted in a system that had portable interfaces despite the implementation details. That portable design essentially made Linux itself reasonably portable.

The first Linux that was based on a architecture different from the Intel 80386 was the port of Linux to the Motorola 680x0 family that actually got started rather early in the development of Linux. However, the original Linux/68k project was not really concerned with portability, but rather with making Linux run on 68k-based Amiga and Atari computers.

...

While the Linux/68k project was in itself a huge step forward, the real portability work began when the author was offered an Alpha system by Digital in the hope of making Linux work on the new Alpha architecture. Very early it became clear that in order to be able to maintain both the stable Intel-based platform and support a new and in some respects radically different platform the kernel really needed some major re-engineering to make it fundamentally more portable. The issues and the end result is what is described in this paper.
Why would it be good to free currency from government regulation? This is something I often see crypto advocates blow right past as if it's self explanatory, but I don't think it is.

I like that the currency I use is managed by my government. Why should I want to switch?
I don't get the physics of how it could possibly be a microwave weapon.

Microwaves (mostly) just heat things up. Even the area denial "giant microwave generator" on a truck weapons simply make you feel like you're burning up. How could they possibly find a frequency or modulation that

A) Only affects the brain

B) Isn't stopped by exterior walls

C) Doesn't cause heating effects on the rest of the body (and everything else around you, or at least between you and the source of the radiation)

D) Isn't incredibly obvious when it's sitting around. Either this would have to be fairly high power, i.e. physically large, or it would have a high gain antenna (also large). If the power is low, it'd have to be close to the victim, like in the same room. The other problem is how do you hide the antenna? It can't sit in a van because the metal exterior would attenuate it.
What’s the value in reselling an ID? And don’t you want a platform to have a bit more control than say craigslist in order to avoid scams?
From such a futuristic point of view, I guess you are right. However, it will likely take a few decades until your wish is granted and everything has been rewritten language X. Calling all interfaces your OS gives you legacy is pretty far stretched man :-)