skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If “everyone benefits” then it should be no problem to negotiate a deal. The problem is that Facebook disproportionately benefits and doesn’t want to negotiate a solution that also has the content providers benefitting.

You have to remember that Facebook is not just linking the content, they are pulling the entire thing into their walled garden, reducing the value of the content producers adds and increasing the value of their own adds.
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I am not. I am saying some of us can't even invite friends over.
This is purely a response, Twitter and other platforms have riled up countries like Australia too and India. Either Twitter-like platforms fragment across countries or they have to change and obey orders. They can choose not to, but then they will lose millions if not a billion people. Economics will always play a part.
The link estimates the surface of the panels to be 30m2. Since the panels are 3.1m wide the length would be 9.6 meters. But even at 30 meters it would be very very hard to engineer a system that can keep a laser beam aligned on a moving target with sub microradian precision. I'd guess Starlink laser are more divergent to make hitting the target easier. Keeps the exit pupil a manageable size too (narrower beams need bigger optics).
Because moaning about clickbait is really boring, often correlated with people being surprised because they didn't read the article first, and once again not very useful if you read the article.
I tried drawing a "boat", i.e. U-shape in the air region. But somehow water went in.
https://www.facebook.com/FISIUK75/videos/1136660920139534/
Microsoft did fire Caspar Bowden though.
Acclimatisation is real. I've noticed a trend in the UK over the past 20 years or so. Previously many people, like my parents, used the central heating minimally. It would come on in the morning just to take the edge off in the winter. But that was pretty much it. Nowadays people are trying to keep their house the exact same temperature year round. That means it's warm in the winter and (if you have ac) cold in the summer. But people never acclimatise to the outside temperature as a result. So outside always feels way colder than it really should, or way hotter.

This winter I've reduced my study temperature (where I work every day) from 21 degrees to 19 degrees. It didn't take that long to acclimatise and now I'm not only saving money, I'm more closely acclimatised to the outside temperature.

I think ideally we wouldn't use thermostats, but instead use a system that adjusts inside temperature some percentage towards the ideal. So in winter when it's 0 degrees outside it's 17 degrees inside, and in summer when it's 30 degrees outside it's 25 degrees inside. Just think of the savings and how much nicer it will be to go outside when you're acclimatised.
completely agree with you let hope something show up, maybe also you should take a look on that https://elm-lang.org
If I remember correctly, most of the crawlers consider iframe as a separate window and not as backlinks.
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A physically random process isn’t needed for probabilities to make sense.

Further, suppose a computer agent knew that it would soon have 6 copies of itself (including current state) would be spun up, each in a different vm, and for each vm, a different simulated environment, but that the current copy of itself would also continue running.
While each of the simulated environments differ from each-other and the true/outer environment, they don’t differ in a way that can quickly be detected.
Different actions in the simulated environments and the “real”/original environment, would have different effects in the original environment, effects which the agent cares about.

In order to best produce outcomes in accordance with what the agent cares about, how should the agent act?
I think it makes sense for the agent to act as if there is a 1/7 chance that it is in the original environment, and a 6/7 chance it is in one of the 6 simulated environments.
How could it be otherwise?
Suppose the original, and each of the vm copies, is given a choice between two options, X or Y, where if it chooses X, then if it is the original, then it gets +m utility of benefit in the original environment , but if it is one of the copies in a vm, instead it gets -n utility of benefit in it cares about in the original environment. If it chooses Y, then there is no change in the reward.

The combination of values of m and n which combine to result in it making sense for to choose X, are exactly those such that would make it make sense assuming it has a 1/7 chance of being the original and 6/7 chance of being in a vm.

That being said, I don’t think we are in a simulation. I just don’t think that the concept of “assigning a probability other than 0,1 or 1/2 to being in a simulation” is always unreasonable in all conceivable circumstances.
I just happen to think that it is highly unlikely for us.
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> You could periodically increase the block size

It's unclear if that would solve the problem. If BTC becomes a global store of value (which it seems to be in the process of), the avg. transaction value goes up and with it the fees that can potentially be paid. The block size cap ensures that there is a fee market if there's enough demand for transactions, so that not everyone simply pays the minimum fee. If you increase the cap this market might disappear and leave miners with _less_ income.

> The cap of 21 million bitcoin isn't a fundamental unit, it can be changed if a majority of the mining pool decides to.

No.

1. It is one of _the_ fundamental selling points of BTC.
2. A miner majority isn't sufficient to force such changes, the mined blocks would simply be invalid for any validating client. So you need to get users on board too.

I think the solution will be L2/L3 transactions for payments and L1 transactions for settlement and large transfers, so that each L1 (=on the blockchain) transaction has enough economic value to afford high fees.
IANAL but I wonder, would this be a reckless thing to do without encrypting the data first?

In any case, I would not do this in any form unless my lawyer said it was a good idea first.

But I would also not post a poorly worded rant, with strange footnotes, trashing my employer, on my employer's own document-hosting service, and publicize it on Twitter as soon as I suspect I'm in trouble, so what do I know.

[Edit:] I mean reckless because the email could theoretically be intercepted in transit.
iirc, SPARK has proof capabilities that outstrip the memory-safety guarantees of Rust. basically design by contract, where you can check loop invariants and statically verify complex preconditions and postconditions.

I suppose the workflow would be to flesh out and check the abstract design in something like Coq or (maybe) TLAPS, generate a refinement into the SPARK code contracts, then implement the functions. Since the toolchains are verified there shouldn't be much surface area for bugs left.
Depends on your use case. I've written quite a few backends that didn't use a database and there are a number of cases for the pure HTTP benchmark. Pass through proxies with injected behaviour, in memory key-value data storage APIs, memory mapped files, etc. IMO not every shop offloads the state to its DB. Once you add the database you are really testing the DB driver - and that adds a lot more variance to the test. Maybe its just the DB driver for that particular DB?

A fast "Hello World" benchmark implies that the HTTP/transport layers of the framework are very fast. That's your base and the lower bound to your best performance potential. As a real world example if .NET ASP NET Core has the best request/response benchmark and its better than say nginx (a popular reverse proxy) it might be better to have all your gateways using a reverse proxy implemented with that as its base instead. Over your whole network depending on your scale that could be a big cost and latency saving measure. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft or it's community have started writing one.
Savarkar had faults, but his "Hindu Atheist" ideology was compelling and pretty progressive IMO. But today's RSS/BJP is not that, with all that Mandir politics, moreover they are as much or more corrupt than INC and just using nationalism as a bait to attract uninformed voters. And because of the fierce nationalist narrative (which often turns anti-progress and anti-science), they have got many blind followers who will defend their horrible-est of policies.
IANAL, but that's what "discovery" is for.
From both a practical and ethical point of view, I find it more than acceptable to retain copies of email correspondence one is participating in, and to share that correspondence with one's legal representation. The alternative puts too much power in corporate hands.
> They wanted this employee gone. Why?

Speculation? Because she was good friends with Gebru, and was continuing the (internal) drama that they wanted stopped. Assuming that Jeff Dean actually took the right decision in firing Gebru (I tend to believe so) - Google really can't blink here; they'd be at the mercy of vocal employees if they did. It's basically a cancer-like situation, you either cut it all & apply radiotherapy (however unpleasant), or it will overwhelm & kill you.
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What systems and instruments do you use to set goals / priorities? For example, do you use OKRs?
How do you define key results?
How do you plan and manage your time?
What instruments do you use to stay productive?
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What is even more true is that the children often pick up behaviour from adults, especially at home and in abuse relationships. So it doesn't matter how much propaganda about bullying is spewed forth in school, when the real raising of children happen in other places.

For adults, bullying, injustice, unfairness and exclusion is just standard, normal behaviour, especially at top leadership.
> And, most importantly, as any economist will tell you, taxing something doesn't just bring in revenue, it decreases whatever you tax.

Paying for something leads to that thing gaining value and the producer having incentives to produce more and higher quality products.

The idea that Facebook paying the news providers that deliver content to its add network would suddenly lead to news providers stopping to produce content is just plain silly.
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We switched to Skyr and now all other yogurts taste disgustingly sweet to me. I've been cutting sugar way back and even a regular Boba tea was grossly sweet now. I'm taking it to mean this is working!
The clear trend from hunter gatherer to modern society is a dramatically declining murder rate.

The murder rate has declined by about 50x thanks to modern society.

This is what I mean when I say that these actions are human nature. Only because of the state Leviathan and modern cultural zeitgeist have we been able to change this behavior from very common (in some cases more likely than not) to rare.

What's the murder rate of the Moriori? Is it less than 5 per 100k per year?

If modern society were to disintegrate, the murder rate should increase by 50x roughly as we trend back to our raw nature without these artificial attenuating forces.
Yeah, built-in TURN/etc. in Prosody is unlikely to happen. We believe in modularity, smaller footprint, separation of concerns and the "do one thing" philosophy. Coturn is a decent battle-tested TURN server and works just fine :)

Rather than trying to reimplement stuff that other projects have done quite nicely, we're focusing on trying to grow the community, network and ecosystem with projects like easy onboarding[1] and Snikket[2].

[1]: https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/
[2]: https://snikket.org/
If I'm understanding this correctly, koreader will let me read epubs on an Amazon Kindle. Am I right to be excited?
This is from your previous comment: Very small minority would participate in murder, stealing, or rape, even if we created no disincentive for them.

I have seen articles that say that if you ask a room full of women if they have been raped, you may get as much as half the hands go up. If you ask them if they ever said "no" to sex and ended up having sex anyway, up to 90 percent of the hands go up.

In most countries, the definition of rape hinges on the detail of consent and is presumed to be only something a man can do to a woman (though some laws are being updated). If you accept that forcible sodomy by a man against another man is also rape, prison rapes are quite common.

Human trafficking exists and every single instance of sexual intercourse with someone being trafficked against their will is typically referred to in articles on the topic as rape.

Then there is statutory rape, where someone is deemed to be too young to reasonably give their consent, so it doesn't count if she said "yes" to it.

Then there is date rape, which typically involves alcohol, a culture clash between people with different expectations for what would happen and tragic misunderstanding. Sometimes the guys will tell you that they didn't think they forced her. It's news to them that she felt forced into sex when someone shows up to accuse them of rape and drag them in front of a college review board or charge them with a crime.

A lot of people think rape is about physical violence. It's not. Most rapes don't involve beating the hell out of the victim.

It's a complicated topic, but rape is far from uncommon.

I don't know where you get your ideas about human nature from but they don't seem to fit with anything I know about human nature and I'm some idiot with pie-in-the-sky ideals prone to assuming people are just going to be nice because that's just the right thing to do and that, sadly, is often not the case. At all.
> I'm not trying to prove she "voluntarily quit" vs was "discharged" via California law. I'm arguing that Google used resigned in a way that wasn't a lie, and referencing California law to show how it uses the word resignation, and is therefore a reasonable use of the word.

You can't first claim that you're not using California law in your argument, then immediately cliam that your arguement is based in California law.

Particularly when I explained how your undertanding of California law is mistaken, and doubly so when the crux of your misunderstanding is what a resignation consists of.

> ... California law says that conditional resignations count as resignations, as well as accelerating resignations(depending on pay) ...

_If_ it was a resignation in the first place, which requires the employee to set the end date. That is not this situation.
Actually, we're in a world where Windows 3.0 "lost", if such a win/lose designation is meaningful. What Windows people use today isn't any form of DOS+Windows at all. It's Windows NT.

Windows NT is not mentioned in the main article. But you'll find it touched upon, in somewhat erroneous fashion, in one of the pictured trade press articles. Ironically, this highlights the shaky nature of the information provided to the trade press and what the public knew, that the article alludes to. It wasn't OS/2 3.0, and it never had OS/2 2.0 support, nor even full OS/2 1.x support.
It seems Timrit is upset that someone got fired via personal communication channels. Well, when you're locked out of the corporate one for security violations. That's what is going to happen.
Okay, this is wonderful, but there's an obvious, nagging question that hasn't been addressed--what happens if they run the simulation ahead of present time? We know they have fine-grain control over the speed of the simulation. There's no actual obstacle to running it forward ... except the feedback loop gets very weird. I want to read that story.
I have friends who followed a workshop with him and had good results.

He also claims to have studies that support his method. I don't know if that's true, but I would look there more than the shows he's been on. If he wants to reach larger audiences, he will surely accept any invite.
They run on the idea that players like to customize their characters beyond what's available in game and need the additional QoL account upgrades beside what comes by default on the account. Guild Wars 2 runs on similar idea but unlike PoE it's B2P but at the same time it comes with very generous F2P version; there are of course still F2P limitations - set to keep away shady people and to convince players to purchase the game.

I'm playing both and in comparison to majority of MMOs around both offers something I'd describe as fair microtransactions.
A framework that you can stay high level if you want and optimise when the rare but exceptional case arises on a particular route without splitting the process/resorting to C++ interop (with its own performance issues), or the risk of needing to rewrite due to performance to me is the big selling point. In a previous life I got some significant latency benefits by doing just that. I think its probably only gotten better with .NET 5.
https://gitlab.denx.de/Xenomai/xenomai/-/wikis/home
Now you need to upgrade. Your HTTP request handling takes like maybe 2s at most bring up a new instance and drain the old one. But you have one daily cron job that takes eight hours, and another that only takes 1s but needs to run hourly.

Now you need to upgrade to a new version, which requires an incompatible DB migration affecting the request handling and the hourly job. The long job started at 2PM. How do you do the upgrade, without someone needing to stay late?

(If it's e.g. PHP this gets even worse due to lazy package loading, you don't need a DB migration just a changed import path.)

I'm not a fan of microservices, especially the ridiculous factoring I see in lambda-style approaches today. But one of our biggest PITAs was a "horizontally scalable monolith" that after 7 years has accrued so so many responsibilities it's either impossible to find a time slot for an upgrade with zero/low downtime, or we have to plan & develop dealing with shared storage where half may upgrade one day and half the next - all the operational overhead of SOA without the benefits.
Jumping from a legal definition to the Oxford English Dictionary's definition doesn't look great for your argument.

"Well sure, but if we use another definition about this legal situation that has no basis in the applicable law then Google wasn't lying" doesn't really hold a lot of water.

To be a resignation she needed to set the final date of employment. She did not, so it was not a resignation. Google knows this fact very well and therefore lied to the press about the circumstances.

You even use the phrase "Gebru firing" in your first post in this particular thread.
The article is a blurry overworded FUD, because fear get more clicks (yes, I clicked too), and Bloomberg probably pays/evaluates by length. There's no clear issue mentioned with corp contributions, just what-if-something-maybe stuff.
Actually, adults are much worse than the children. They just hide it in plain sight and through various psychopathic systems.
Indeed. From my communication with Dropbox support:

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Katie, Feb 5, 8:56 AM PST:
Hi Alexander,

Thank you for contacting Dropbox. My name is Katie, and I will be helping you today.

It appears that your links are disabled because you may be hosting malware from your account and this is against the terms of service.

Can you please remove all malware from your account or your account will be disabled. Any further violations of the terms of service will result in the immediate deletion of your account with no warning.

The file that needs to be removed from your Dropbox is: old-stuff.rar

Once this has been addressed I would be happy to assist you further!

Thank you.

Regards,
Katie
The Dropbox Team
Even more importantly: wool still insulates really well when wet.
> . But what you're saying is that because we have a replication crisis all prior data about basically everything is moot.

That was not my intention. My intention was to say that a single study might not be good enough as a refutation. BTW one of the largest proponents of re-checking studies that were once considered reliable is a medical doctor, John Ioannidis. It is not just soft science that suffers from the problem.

Given that we are really short on money (and, with regard to ideas, always will be - it is cheaper to produce ideas than to test them even cursorily, much less thoroughly), every proposed mechanism will have large downsides. I do not have a proposal.
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I'm pretty confident the crux of the issue is "We expected to be treated better in this department than what we have had to tolerate elsewhere due to sexism, racism, etc."

And I think they expected that based on "This is the Ethical AI department. We are trying to make the world a better place. You do that by walking the walk first, not just researching how AI works."

That's what I think. It's not something I can prove. For various reasons, I'm not really wanting to debate it. I tossed it out there because some folks know I post as openly female here (and HN skews rather strongly male) and some folks know I have studied social stuff and sometimes people find my take on certain subjects of value or at least food for thought.
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I agree, however last time I checked Servo was not that stable.
If you're interested in participating in a "beta" release of that, we have a newsletter: https://mindsdb.com/newsletter/ where I'm 99% sure it will be announced, and in case you don't get a code ping me and I'll send you one :)

But the timeline for when to release this is still inexact, since ideally I want the "beta" to be as stable as possible, as to not have to get people to migrate to a different version later.

Also, if you have the time to share your usecase in like 3-4 paragraphs please do, either here or email me, because we design this with users in mind at the end of the day.
There's Open Book open source e-ink reader. Not sure how usable it is. https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

The next model is planned to use the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1356125145681846276