skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
damn i guess all the megacorps decided to announce today
A camera controlled by the government department isn't going to protect the ballot box from malfeasance on the part of the government department.

At some point you need to trust someone. I think it's reasonable to trust a government department with no history of questionable conduct.
Do you personally own any crypto?
I recall folks on HN and else where claim static websites don't need https.
Sadly our marketing tests show that when we say our product uses ML we get far less engagement than when we say AI. I don't know that net-conversion is better with AI but ML sure doesn't capture people's imagination. Sigh.

Btw, reminds me of the old joke that goes something like this:
AI for marketing, ML for recruiting, Regression for design, multiplication for implementation.
Well, I'm an indie Dev and I do care, I find advertising and cookie notices really annoyining and I can afford the 40 something euros a year it costs me. I don't need to track everything.
Japanese take from the European patent office and American patents. 90% of products coming out of Japan the core of the product has origins in the houses of the western patent houses.
A bunch of 4chan kids signing a reactionary letter vs hundreds of respected names in the FOSS community.

One of these groups has a negative impact on society as a whole, the other are hundreds of respected people working for free or reduced pay to create FOSS software.
The "exorbitant privilege"? You mean the exorbitant privilege to create government debt to cancel out a savings glut? I've never understood this argument. I always heard how the USA is "riding" or "abusing" the US to achieve some nefarious goal when from my perspective it was always the inverse.

Since I lacked the necessary knowledge I tried to think about how the effects work from first principles and I always came to the same conclusion. When it helps it does nothing and when it hurts the downsides are grave and a strong economy is necessary to just be able to counteract the effects of the exorbitant burden. This is compared to the misguided idea that the dollar having the global reserve "status" as some benefit that helps the USA.

Global reserve status is basically equivalent to a partial currency union similar to the eurozone. There are two potential effects. Either your currency becomes stronger than the average currency in the currency union or your currency becomes weaker. Germany is "riding" the effect of a weaker euro to export goods and thus creates a savings glut in the nations it is exporting goods to. The reserve situation is that your currency becomes stronger than it should be. You get nations like Greece or Spain that are struggling with debt because additional savings can only exist if there is a debt somewhere to balance savings and investments.

Once I started reading up on the downsides [0] of having your currency be a major global reserve currency it pretty much confirmed everything and it made the situation completely hopeless. There are no good answers here. The hands of the USA are tied and the situation is pretty dire.

The USA obviously has a stronger currency than it would usually have. This means importing products from overseas becomes the obvious choice and domestic consumption is avoided. The weak demand causes unemployment and now you are at the ultimate economic dilemma. Do you create government debt to create investments for the savings glut or do you let people become unemployed so that domestic savings go down to make room for foreign savings? The only choice is to just do endless deficit spending thanks to the "exorbitant privilege". It's not really a choice.

[0] https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/56856
Dislikes are not meant to be constructive. They're meant to warn others that a video may not be worth watching.

I'm not sure why you're expecting your viewers to be your reviewers.
This is certainly true when I want to sit down and repair something. There are other times when I just want to see what's involved and how complicated something will be first, maybe have dinner at the same time. This sort of higher level overview is where I find youtube fits in well, same for programming related videos.

I wish there were more hybrid approaches, video with the accompanying wall of text.
> It’s clear that there was intense lobbying by Apple and Google, but then the bill was only put forward after similarly intense lobbying by CAF [Coalition for App Fairness, the industry group composed of Epic, Tinder parent company Match Group, and Spotify]. Cobb said that the bill won’t be heard again in the current session, which ends next month. In reality, it’s likely gone for good.

As an Arizonan I'd rather my state's legislative process wasn't being used as a battleground between a bunch of giant companies who don't care about any of the people who live here.

So good riddance to bad legislation, written by one special interest lobbying group, pushed by some yahoo law maker who was bought in the first place, and opposed by some other special interest lobbying group.
As someone who's worked only remotely for several years, this makes sense. I know many will disagree with this assertion but in my estimation in-person collaboration is far better than online-only.

I think the best balance is at least a couple days per week in the office and the rest remote.
This is the correct answer to me. How coincidental, just as White House videos mostly receive dislikes.
Used an old late 80s/early 90s 16-channel Yamaha mixer that had a spring reverb. We used to take it on the road for live mixing. If it got bumped just right, any channel with the reverb through an open send would make the most horrifying noise. After the first time, your hands would immediately reach for the send knob to kill it, but it would take minutes for the spring to settle down again.
That's quite speculative, considering how open offices are terrible for productivity but the companies still require it. Most likely it's just management bias.
YouTube was a free speech platform only as long as it took to establish dominance. Now it's just another corporate megaphone with an inconvenient independent creator problem they are slowly solving by making it an intolerable place to have dissenting opinions.

Can't question the election, can't question coronavirus. Big Google decides what is acceptable and keeps the rules and process vague, inscrutable, and opaque so they can selectively enforce them.
> as usual, attributing taxed funds to the government, attributing discoveries/development to that funding and assuming it would otherwise not exist,

We credit Newton, but we don't claim that without Newton we wouldn't have force equals mass time acceleration, the law of gravity, what he did with optics, etc.

We credit Einstein for the photo electric effect, Brownian motion as evidence for rapidly moving molecules, special relativity, and general relativity, but we don't claim that without Einstein we would not have those results. Actually, the transformation between coordinate systems in special relativity was from before Einstein, and Poincare had a shot at doing general relativity.

It goes on this way: Generally we credit the first or most successful, etc. without saying that otherwise we wouldn't have the results.

Or, we are grateful for the results when we get them, know that we've got them, and are not at all sure that we would get the results soon from other sources later.

Point: It is appropriate to credit the US military for the 11 examples I gave.

But for more, some of those military projects were big bucks efforts, and non-military funding sources would have been tough to find. So for those projects, we would have to have waited longer and might still be waiting.

For more, the Internet with TCP/IP was not nearly the first digital communications network or even the first nationwide network. E.g., for a nationwide network, IBM had SNA (Systems Network Architecture) and used it to connect all the airports to a central reservation computer. But compared with TCP/IP, SNA was clumsy -- no way could it do much of what TCP/IP is doing now.

> misinformation, meaningless platitutdes, and logical falacies.

Examples?
looks promising, however cannot add courses by myself (I wish there were no need for that if all courses be there), also select some courses that points to edx and the link were broken %( bad 1st impression
Seems like an opportunity to create a browser extension to have crowd sourced upvote/downvotes kind of like Reddit masstagger. Wonder if there is a way to ensure that upvote/downvotes are not tampered with on the server side.
Death to Lifetime Plans
Economies and Empires Are Artificial General Intelligences
The historical incidents of deflation are insignificant and very few. The incidents of hyperinflation are common, and incidents of high inflation are guaranteed with fiat currencies with very few exceptions.
The Types of Tweets
Airbyte was a pivot from a 1st product. And we had a hard time raising with the 1st product.
So vision / product / market opportunity are also really important.
Let's not fool ourselves here. The disklike-horde storming critical but good quality videos because they don't like the message was just as normal as overhyped videos with crap quality. Those systems are broken and this doesn't change much. It just hides which horde likes the vid at the moment.
okay well then go fuck yourself you censoring shithead
I think, in order to spend engineer time on something this tiny, there would need to be a really strong strategic justification. Big tech generally doesn't want their product teams doing something that only affects a few of their users.
So is it for programmers or is it for mathematicians?
did everyone starting leaving the hell hole known as Mountain View?
What does "accelerating" mean?
I mean, could it be anything other than speculative when I opened with "I'm guessing"?
What's today's equivalent of the "Dragon book"? I guess it should cover new stuff such as JIT compilation, concurrent garbage collection, optimizations that are part of LLVM, and modern type systems.
Thank you for this. I am serious. I wish you would put this on a blog somewhere and not let this gem die in de depths of H... HN.
They hate us. The little guy. No criticism allowed
Yes, if I am trying to fix my dishwasher and I see a video with a high dislike ratio I will move on because at best it's probably a time waster and at worst dangerous.

My options now would be to spend a minute or two watching it or reading the comments (engagement!), which may not exist on some niche videos you run across for things like this. This adds up when browsing. Don't forget creators can disable comments too.
Again, more anecdote than science but juggling with slightly weighted balls works for me. It's also a fantastic activity to fit into my pomodoro five minutes as it gets me out of the chair and moving around to retrieve the juggling balls from under my desk.
Exactly - in a deflationary world debt would be far less common. There would be much wider and typical use of equity, and innovations around equity to make it as common as debt is today.
I give 2 years before comments are entirely gone...

It seems that all types of user-interaction is getting prohibited...
If you want to have a look at our GitHub repo, here it is: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte
Proof of work is just the mechanism to determine social consensus.
I'm not outraged - I'm amused. The ultimate admission the only way they can spread their messaging is through force, not honest competition of ideas. How superior.

Nothing proves you have a worthy argument better than outright hiding from dissent.

Again, they don't care if you stay on the platform. If they did, they wouldn't touch it. The disagreement buttons were added in the first place because they increase and maintain engagement. After a few decades it's now all the sudden a problem?

Ha! The real problem is their desired narratives are being soundly rejected and it's embarrassing. So here we are.
I feel like I need to out myself for promotions and to be more visible
I hate companies where the unspoken rule is that leadership roles, promotions, access to high-priority projects, and visibility...are increasingly gated on fulfilling HR's checklist of who is underrepresented in tech.

Nobody at my current job knows I'm two of the LGBTQ letters - and I would not have it any other way. It's a private matter and has to remain a private matter for me for safety reasons and because I just don't want anyone at work knowing. Yet because I look like a "regular dude" and consequently fall into a stereotype about men in tech, I'll not advance as quickly as people who do meet those checkmarks. I'm basically always talked TO about being an ally or saying more about allyship and diversity and inclusion. I shouldn't need to out myself to get away from this constant lecturing.

Why should I have to out myself? Does anyone else here know what I'm talking about? I don't want to ever talk about being LGBTQ at work, yet I can't help but feel and notice that my trajectory is artificially limited because I don't participate in these conversations. I'm an ally to all people regardless of their identity, of course, but I hate the performative aspects of tech culture these days.

I fucking hate it. What companies can you recommend where promotions and leadership and highly-desired projects are based solely on performance and track record? Where it truly doesn't matter what you look like or who you are, and you are rewarded based on performance and how you improve teams?
Extraverts want introverts in the office and don't care what pain that causes them.
"Couple days per week in the office" kind of defeats the whole point of going remote in the first place.
It's also why they weaponize "wokeism". They can virtue signal around changing the "master" branch to "main", and then pat themselves on the back and show their leftist employees they're on their side all while working directly with DoD, ICE, etc.
Epic, Benchmark, others invest $100M to build the Core “multiverse”
So you are arguing with me that US is not the most developed country in the world or that it is not developed at all?

"Most commonly, the criteria for evaluating the degree of economic development are gross domestic product (GDP)."

US has the most highest GDP in the world but of course there are other 99 economic metrics and criteria where US is not first but looking at productivity and innovation they are number 1.

"By 1890 the United States had overtaken the British Empire as the world's most productive economy." From my link.
.. combined with the idea that there's much of an alternative. If the content creators I like are there...
After spending more than a year remote, full remote is difficult ( not impossible ) . Most of us have settled on 3 days at home, 2 days at work, so we can socialize, make new connections or just simply have lunch.

Going back to in office 100% is a thing of the past unless you are a team that has to be there - making hardware etc.

For ex I cant imagine the Pixel team working 100% remote.
This here is the problem. Gold does use a lot of CO2 yes (heavy equipment construction and operation), but that's not even the worst thing. Mining literally is poisoning water, and destroying very large ecosystems. And carbon tax won't stop that. And 90% of gold is speculative (if you include jewelry).
You see this very frequently in DIY how-to videos. There's usually about ~30-60 seconds of very helpful instructional content, buried somewhere towards the end of an 11 minute video of rambling and common knowledge. I suspect largely because the monetization gets better if your video is longer than 10 mins...
Explained in the article:

> Cambridge-based Arm uses intellectual property originating from both the US and of non-US origin, a staff member told Yicai Global at the Arm Vision Day.
Some existing discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/mh8ebs/econ...
Why isn't there a question about manufactured performance groups not being composers? There are manufactured performance groups that are composers and they look just like Blackpink. An example of such a group is GI-DLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66oFXdf0KU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3szNvgQxHo
It is interesting how YouTube seems to maintain the mainstream video moat. The only competitors that make any inroads are in sub-niches, like Twitch.
Your skin "dries out" because soap removes the natural oils of your skin. The solution is to replace the oils. Coconut oil or olive oil are good choices. A few drops on your still-wet hands, then spread it around by rubbing your hands together; your skin being slightly wet helps spread the oil evenly. The oil will be completely absorbed within a few minutes, so don't worry about having oily hands.
Let's hope it's an early April 1st joke...
Big tech and independent shops clash over 'right to repair'
YC does play an important role to get connections to VCs but at the end of the day, "YC" is a signal for VCs, not a criteria.

VCs spend time looking at the team, the past achievements, the product and most importantly the existing users. They also try to invest in industries that they know about.

In our case the team experience was important. We had solved the problem internally at other companies (and the scars that come with it!).

In one of John's response, he mentioned that we've been talking to many VCs. The reason was that we were looking to talk to the ones who understand deeply the problem and the market we're addressing. No matter how good your product or deck is, if you're pitching a calendar app to a VC who is specialized in deep tech, you probably won't get them on your cap table.
I also pay for tarkov-market :D

It is almost a must if you're a casual player. It is too hard to keep up with the barters, flea market rates and even just the quests and items for quests.
I agree with your assessment that donations do not work.
Now let me solve your problem: Instead of running into the tragedy of the commons by asking your userbase collectively to donate 1k, you can announce that you will start working on v2 now and let users pay to prioritize individual feature requests in each new release. Start with a small release adding only a feature that you want but nobody else requested to prove that the project is active again. Create scarcity by only doing 1 release / timeframe and only include the feature with the most money pledged. Hope for a bidding war.
https://www.playerauctions.com/eve-isk/

That website appears to me to be very much like an exchange for trading EVE online ISK for USD.

The average rate seems to be between $42-$45 for 5000 ISK.

It seems to be a time based currency where its value is based on a player's willingness to spend time grinding.
Dislike button is a viable instrument of social pressure. About a year ago popular Russian rapper appeared in a government-funded propaganda-like video. After 1MM dislikes he addressed the public, said he was unaware of the real purpose of video and apologized. The video was eventually taken down.
Of course it's backed by social consensus. Money is a social construct, not sure why you're trying to move the goalposts
How about the Korean and Vietnam wars? Iraq? Afghanistan? Maybe they weren't officially declared wars like WW1/2 but if sending troops to a country to fight doesn't constitute wars I don't know what does.
For some people, yes. For others, no.

I've been 'remote' for... 12 years now, but do travel to offices sometimes, and do enjoy being able to do some face to face time with folks, even sometimes for multiple days or weeks at a stretch. The core matter is who decides when I need to be in an office. If it's me or mostly me, it's great. If it's solely at the discretion of others, that's where problems often are (regardless of whether it's full time or not).
Downvotes have been weirdly wonky and aggressive all over the internet for, say, a year or so.

Maybe we could work harder on the root causes and worry less about people "kicking the dog" all over the internet because life simply isn't working across the entire planet for various reasons.

/Random thought from a random internet stranger
Cultural Knowledge Explains Humanity's Ecological Success
You're trolling, right? Just want to make sure, because you never know nowadays.
I stopped using youtube regularly a while back. It's still good for how-to videos, and niche searches. Useless for current events.
Even if the median or 90%ile review is quite quick, the slow ones are where all the pain is.

Sure, you can split out 9 little cleanups and typo fixes while working on a larger change, but it's still days to get the main change approved.
Last time it was yuzu, now it is dekopon. I don't think this is going to be a big thing in the states. Americans didn't want a $3 lemon. They probably won't care for this either.
I reached $2K MRR on a side project after iterating on it for a year
During my senior year in college, I wanted to build a social discovery app that helped me find the most compatible people possible to pair me up on video chats with. I envisioned using grandiose AI at the time, but settled for a simpler ranking algo.

After a long, long tread. I've finally hit $2k in MRR. I use firestore w/a serverless set-up, and the app scales up nicely. My profit margins are over 99.9% (aside from the 15% cut Apple is taking from me).

Used SwiftUI to build the entire app. I hope to make more video chatting apps like this, but man was it a TON of work by myself. I had help from one designer with logos but that's about it.

It was especially hard for me to balance iterating on this with my day job (I only really had time on weekends).

I hope it lasts for a few years and I can bank $100K from it. That'd be pretty cool
[Disclosure: I'm an IBMer - not involved with this work]

With regard to exploitation, IBM research has done some interesting work in the form of an open source "Adversarial Robustness Toolbox" [0]. "The open source Adversarial Robustness Toolbox provides tools that enable developers and researchers to evaluate and defend machine learning models and applications against the adversarial threats of evasion, poisoning, extraction, and inference."

It's fascinating to think through how to design the 2nd and 3rd order side-effects using targeted data poisoning to achieve a specific outcome. Interestingly, poisoning could be to force a specific outcome for a one-time gain (e.g. feed data in a way to ultimately trigger an action that elicits some gain/harm) or to alter the outcomes over a longer time horizon (e.g. Teach the bot to behave in a socially unacceptable way)

[0] https://art360.mybluemix.net/
> I'm perfectly happy to be called a curmudgeon or such with regards to my preferences for text and images over video, and there may be part of it that's true - but I've weighed video versus the alternatives, and outside entertainment (which there's certainly some value in), I find video coming up wanting.

I agree with your preference for books, but I am going to add a caveat: the quality of books varies considerably, with a good video being better than a mediocre book.

That was not much of a problem when I lived in a big city. It was easy to walk into a bookstore or library to pick out something of value. Living in a small city limits the options. Buying online means buying sight unseen. In the worse case, ratings can be misleading. In the best case, recommendations are likely coming from someone with different needs. YouTube avoids the problem since there is no financial risk involved in making a choice, and decent quality content isn't too hard to find.

(To give you an idea of what I mean: I live in a city of half a million people. The public library system's most advanced text on electronics is an old edition of the ARRL Handbook. The rest are projects books directed towards amateurs. Book sellers aren't much better since few want to stock technical titles. University libraries offer much better books, yet they are nearly impossible to borrow during the academic session.)