skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mentioning Marxism here is expecially comical because a central argument of Marx was that the fierce competition spurred by capitalism caused immense growth, and that this is what would eventually make socialism possible. As such he cheered capitalism on for much of the first chapter of the Communist Manifesto. E.g.:

> The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?

To Marx, socialism is the consequence of capitalism driving competitive pressure to a point where capitalism tears itself apart. As such, easing competitive pressure would be a bad sign from his point of view.
Listening and building trust: starting as I mean to go on
Giveaway Facebook Tool
If it isn't high the situation wouldn't have gotten as bad as it got. Especially with people more alert to people showing symptoms
Sprint planning is a collaboration between dev and product. If your devs aren't good at it they'll agree to far too much stuff in a sprint, or they won't spot what things are blocked, or they'll fail to report what happened in a sprint in the retrospective, which impacts everything from planning the next sprint to writing release notes to when the company can do marketing about a major release.

Hiring developers who are amazing at algorithms but terrible at everything else has huge, far-reaching consequences for everything a business does. Being a good developer is about so much more than writing good code.
Be cautious though, as rclone "sync" is based on file metadata (e.g. last modified), it does not recompute local etags to know which files need to be sync'ed.

For instance, if you "cp -a" a directory and then apply sync, it could do nothing and return success if the copied files were last modified before the ones in S3.

For our use case at work, we wanted to be _sure_ that sync always work as intended, and thus ended up recomputing etags locally and compare to the ones in S3 to know what to sync (got bitten by the issue of last modified before)
> “We hire top talent”

These phrases are mainly intended to flatter the employees, to make them grateful for being "chosen", and maybe to increase trust and confidence among them.

Choosing who to hire (once basic requirements are met), is much less important than the morale and attitudes among employees. Much better to say "top talent" than "randomly picked".

But, the hiring process is a huge factor in the perception of the identity of the employees.
His income will continue to rise but so will cries for progressive taxation on income or assets.
It's a never ending story of jealousy and wealth inequality.
> Apple/Google take 30 % of that fart, so you guess what they get at end.

Typically 15% now.
Maybe she had a free hour. That happens. I usually have a bunch of things being worked on, but from time to time the stars align in a weird way and I'm waiting for some inputs or for some long-term process to finish and may have a couple of hours where I don't have anything specific to do. I won't start anything major because I'd have to drop it soon then, but I may go read some articles, or listen to a talk, or update docs, or clean up some minor tech debt. Or maybe do some stupid stuff that needs to be done and can be done by anybody, but this time it's me. Maybe that was such a moment for her, nothing to do with skills. Even very skilled people sometimes have to do some boring work.
Google “dr loses job over Covid” to see the examples we are allowed to
So Chinese citizens have nothing to fear from an AI surveillance state then?
How big is the sqlite database you are using? Here is a similar project you might be interested in. https://datasette.io/
M1 dev setup with a virtual Linux box
> The wealthiest [Romans] were land owners taking in the profits of slave labor

Not exactly.

Crassus amassed his fortune first through conquest, and then through real estate speculation. Caesar and Pompey's fortunes were a mixture of family wealth and the spoils of war.

There was certainly a class of wealthy Romans that derived their wealth -- and Rome's food supply! -- from land worked by slaves (mostly captured in war and brought in from all over Europe). But the wealthiest were, by far, the political-military ruling class, who accrued their wealth through bribes and conquest.
That, combined with the fact that humans are capable of making individual risk assessments. A mandate was lifted, that just means the state can’t punish you for not wearing a mask, that doesn’t mean it isn’t strong recommended, or required by private businesses, or expected by other private citizens, or deemed reasonable by the private individual.

Turns out: one doesn’t have to coerce others to make good decisions, people tend to just make them of their own volition.
Well yes they do, Mr Bright, but it's still true that seeking the short-term profit seems (for many) the natural thing to do. How often do we even see people carrying the belief that companies have a legal obligation towards "shareholder value" that trumps all other concerns?
Browser fingerprinting is besides the point here. The whole reason they want to fingerprint you is to build up an advertising profile. FLoC cuts out the middleman by giving every single site you visit access to the proceeds of the cross-site tracking. It's like saying "There's too many cameras pointed at my house, so instead I'm going to start publically streaming my life 24/7".
Yes, this sounds short-sighted. They seem to be a mac user so I can only guess it might have to do with lack of expandability of the used hardware? I have two 12tb drives in my home server and 2tb offsite backup for important stuff (=photos and some documents). Scaling down photos never even crossed my mind.
She surely can’t use it if she don’t receive the validation email as I do!
Why are you only comparing to the rest of Canada? The drop also happened in the US. And in Europe. Also why aren't the curfews working anymore?

Also, I'm not sure how attributing any benefit to completely unproven NPI that the government literally admitted to putting in place because it "sounded good and it sent message" rather than based on any scientific data isn't the actual speculation here.
It is 100% not fair. If we think that ad auctions are like security markets, then this would clearly be securities fraud.

Google owning both sides is fine if the information is firewalled, and they compete on the same terms as the other exchanges. If this is not true, then from an EU perspective, this is anti-competitive. Dunno about the US, but the fact that Texas is bringing a suit suggests that they think they have a case.
Shannon is already present in the timeline.
> the majority of the apps charge in-app for every fart.

Honestly, if I find an app that I'd like to pay for, I do a quick google search to find their web app. If they have one, I pay for it there and use it on my phone.

If it's a game I actually enjoy, I might make a single in-app purchase for what I think the game is worth, usually around $5-10.
What's to prevent the people that deploy and maintain that software from modifying it slightly to exclude themselves from the cap, and diverting those sitting coins to their own accounts?
Yes, but pwa's open in a standalone browser, and everything else just opens a new tab. Ich
> The best coders can demand the highest salary.

Not really. This is one of those things that sounds correct but when you actually sit down and examine the claim not only is there sparse evidence to support it but it's not entirely clear what the claim even means.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudnMLzZjTg
Deliberate practice
Critical thinking
Time management
>Sweden has just tracked the same path as everybody else

That's very much false. You compare apples to apples to get a useable result, not apples to sour grapes. Sweden's policy have caused much much worse results compared to the countries you should compare it to: Norway, Denmark and Finland.

For example deaths per 100k citizens is 12 in Norway and 134 in Sweden. Sweden is the perfect counterexample to your point.

Nice graphs (Sweden is the yellow line that always stand out):
https://www.vg.no/spesial/corona/norden/
If you act on behalf of others, you are not entitled to make sure it benefits you above your customers. Maybe this doesn't exist in law, but it sure as hell exists in ethics.

And the data belongs to the person who generated it (so the people and sites involved), not Google (again ethically, potentially not legally).
Socialists and leftwards want to end capitalism. There’s a large spectrum of leftists that don’t want that, ie. social democracy.
SF salaries are ridiculous compared to anywhere else.
Not even Switzerland can compare.
The only places where you can earn just as much as you do in SF is consulting anywhere in the rich world or those few positions in Chinese megacities.

I am actually surprised SF did not lower salaries exactly for this because there's nowhere else to go if you want to at least keep your SF salary.
Yes, the full study explains a lot. I don’t think they can come to the conclusion that “increased nighttime sleep had no detectable effects on cognition, productivity, decision-making, or well-being” based on the data they’ve shown.

1. Their interventions increased sleep time only by increasing time in bed, not sleep efficiency. In other words, without interventions, if participants were sleeping for 5.5 hours with 8 hours in bed, after their interventions, they slept 6 hours after 8.5 hours in bed.

2. This means that the night sleep they measured post-intervention was still extremely disturbed. I doubt if it was restorative in any way.

3. The nap time at work WAS probably of much higher quality because the environment was much better.

4. A word on the interventions; I cannot figure out why they didn’t give out mosquito nets or repellant given that they correctly identified mosquitoes as a major problem (reported by 70% of participants). The best way of getting a good night’s sleep with mosquitoes around is with nets and the second best is some kind of repellant.

5. I think the real conclusion should be that sleep quality matters. Not just amount of sleep, especially if it’s disturbed.

I feel like the conclusions are slightly post facto. As in, they set out to test their interventions and didn’t end up proving them so they switched to nap time.
Any existing image dataset coupled with unsupervised methods would work pretty well for this. 10 years or so ago I worked on a similar project, we used SLIC superpixels to segment the images then spectral clustering to cut out the foreground object.
Yeah, I think everyone in the industry knew that this was likely to be shady as all f*ck. But the fact that a bunch of businesses closed shows that this caused real harm, and indeed this action by Google has definitely cost their still existing competitors ridiculous amounts of money.
Making the MNT Reform my own
A few people on HN want to use health care data from people in England. Understanding Dr Nicola Byrne's aims and concerns will be useful to help predict what policies and laws around healthcare data are going to be implemented.
For your second point: it’s not racist, but not because the US was funding it, but because it’s possible to criticize a regime and failures of a country without criticizing the ethnicity of people. The only reason racism ever gets conflated here is because people are implicitly aware of the fact that China is an ethnostate for all intents and purposes.
>I ended up reaching the conclusion that we should ban paying money for your attention

I don't think that's either possible or desirable. Attention seeking would simply take on sneakier forms that are indistinguishable from legitimate distribution of information and protected free speech.

Instead of somewhat independent ad funded publications, you would get publications that are owned by product companies (or political parties) themselves. The content they publish would be far more biased. Subscription based publications wouldn't stand a chance against those free and well funded company owned publications.

Advertising is very annoying, but I think it can be more transparent than almost any other form of influencing people.

Tracking for personalised advertising is an entirely separate issue. That's where I think a blanket ban could work.
I get what you're saying but Marxists don't bomb the homes of billionaires, or shoot them. There's no actual warfare, genuine violence is directed at the right, not the rich. They do make a show of constructing a set of gallows in front of Jeff Bezos' house but they don't actually do anything to him, and that's a big difference. I think it's because they don't have the fight-or-flight terror that drives far right-wingers to push the gas pedal of their car into crowds of protestors. They might, in a different system. But I think then the ideology would be different.

In the 70s there were genuine left-wing terrorists like the Weathermen, which might be a good comparison, but the vibe I get is that they liked violence first, and fell into a movement that gave them a justification to perform it. They didn't seem scared to me. The far left rarely seems genuinely scared, but the far right seems very scared.

The difference to me is that nowadays, left-wing threat narratives tend to exist to justify behaviour they already want to engage in, whereas right-wing threat narratives exist much more to be scary. Toward the center things are similar but the differences are quite stark at the fringes.

I don't mean this as a technical argument or anything. I could be wrong, I'm just trying to describe my instinct.

> The Great Purge

Was a genocide by people who attained power, not the fringes of society acting out for weird psychological reasons. I wouldn't really compare the motivations. Dictators are dictators, right or left, and the support they get is much more transactional. I'm also skeptical that Lenin was genuinely motivated by Marxism. I think Marxism was an excuse he could use to gain power.
Perhaps the lack of measurable benefits was because the total sleep was still well under what we believe humans need.

Also the period of improvement was merely days. Maybe benefits take longer to begin to show.
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Yes, you can see it in the temples as well, even the buddhist ones use the Hindu style with straight lines instead of the round stupas.

I think that particular stone carving was recent(ish) but might be wrong. It was a very small local wat and I think I went into it randomly while walking around - the depiction didn't felt buddhist nor hindu at all, if anything it looked masonic or automatically generated from a set of symbols.
Got it, found the bug - thanks a lot!
Sounds pretty unrealistic, what country do you live in?
"unicode on punch cards" in the Abyss, should clearly point to UTF-EBCDIC [0] and not just EBCDIC [1]. UTF-EBCDIC is probably one of the most exotic unicode formats, and I don't believe it is used much anymore, if it ever were.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC
No, because you can substitute a different manufacturer's TV for a Samsung one and vice versa.
In my opinion the existence of radical left or socialists is a testament of capitalism.
These forces exist as a regulation force on the market.
Capitalism can piggy-back on top of any governance system I think. It might even do that better in China, giving incentives elsewhere in the world to move further away from free and democratic models. In the end, if democracy can no longer satisfy capitalist greed, then it threatens to be marginalized I am afraid.
Maybe laws could forbid profiling?

So you couldn't select 18-25 recently-single white female within 50km as a target category (or whatever else you come up with).

I think GDPR may already forbid such use (without consent), though the implementation is tricky.
Now if only we could have firm studies on Vitamin D deficiency and its relationship with Covid instead of FUD about overdoses and the use of "Mendelian Randomization" for variables with a strong phenotipic variation.
Yes! It just takes practice.

I started out finding a comfortable position and relaxing with a timer set for 15 minutes. After years of practice, I now hit REM almost immediately and wake up feeling rested without a timer in 15-20 minutes.

It's easier for your body to learn if you have a specific place (e.g. a coach), time (e.g. immediately after lunch), and position (I cross my ankles and steeple my hands on my chest). These make it feel qualitatively different from night sleeping and easier to wake up naturally.

You also want to pay attention to sound and light. I use noise-cancelling headphones at work and earplugs + white noise at home. I choose a well-lit area, preferably with natural lighting, and then cover my eyes with a cloth or sleep mask. It's easier to feel refreshed when you uncover your eyes to bright sunshine, rather than waking up in a fully dark room.

Honestly, the main challenge is feeling self-conscious when napping at work. Originally I would lock myself in a shower room or go out to my car, but I'm finally self-confident enough to sleep on a public coach.
That sounds like a lot, but ads on Photopea are pretty disruptive. They take up a significant portion of the screen in an app where having enough space to see everything is a real problem.
No it can not. It just moves money to someone else which usually leads to more stable markets because thous who bet wrong lose and the other win.
You seem to think that the government's control of the money supply means its easy for them to make a profit.
> I Made A Mobile App for my Significant Other (And She Won't Use It)

There’s an app you can get to solve this problem. It’s quite similar to your app.
Not to mention the insane over engineering of a python 2.7-compatible async task stealing io loop which is slow as hell, and pitifully delivers a maximum of ~150MB/s with 30% cpu core activity. That's why anyone needing to regularly download/upload files from S3 need an additional library (s5cmd, s3pd, etc)
How about you just make housing and healthcare cheaper? I don't care if USA turns into kingdom, but right now it is just too expensive.
I think it's something you have to intuit, which means you're going to be wrong sometimes. I wouldn't hesitate on an idea because I couldn't figure it out, I would treat it more like a sniff test for whether or not you're entering a dieing market. Just an example, you're a parts manufacturer and you're deciding between R&D on ICE or Electric, you can't prove that electric motors will be the winner with any amount of data, but it's a pretty obvious intuition that targeting OEM parts contracts for ICE is not a good long game.

It can sometimes be very clear when you sit in the right part of the industry or community to have some kind of intuition on the matter. If you are in such a position you may have a fairly decent upper hand, and you could squander it if you wait for data or some Deloite report to tell you you're in a growing market.

It's also going to depend on how big your scope is. Are you looking to enter the "Toys" market or the "Specific kind of fidget spinner toy" niche? If it's just toys, then there's probably some general data to go by. If it's a specific niche you're probably going to be flying somewhat blind by necessity as there won't be any data yet.
No one really cares about this, in 3 months or less, it will be completely forgotten about and it's business as usual.
Programmers have, for the most part, been immune to the negative effects of the way capitalism applies technology. Indeed, we're responsible at times as enablers.

If I do an exercise where I pretend that one of the FANG has managed to create an AI that can program, it's easier to feel the way other people feel about technology.

Would the FANG use the AI to replace programmers? Absolutely.

And what then? I can't possibly compete with a software program. One that can work 24hrs a day. One where adding more resources to a project is spinning up another instance.

We need to stop pretending that everyone is going to be able to work themselves to success and stop making villains out of people who are on welfare.

Disclaimer: I'm not from the US. I'm already a citizen of a country with a stronger safety net (Australia). Even here though, we have a concept of "dole bludger". It really has to go.
There are ways to measure picture quality in unbiased way.

I think this put it nicely:
"However, it is important to emphasize that with calibration we use industry standards as goals. When a TV is told to reproduce a certain shade of purple, it must produce exactly this color. Nothing else. It is not up to the manufacturer to interpret or “improve”, which unfortunately is a common misconception about picture reproduction."

From:
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/focus.php?subaction=showfull&id...
The authorities/institutions are always advancing their agenda. truth/lying is irrelevant. In most cases the agenda is consistent over years so it’s hard to notice the changes. During Covid the health agency agendas pivoted so rapidly their agenda changes where more abrupt. First, they needed to keep hospitals from getting overwhelmed so they said stuff about REAL n95 masks not working so healthcare could get them. Then they needed to stop people getting Covid figured masks might work so they said wear a face covering .. it can’t hurt. And then trump conspicuously didn’t wear a mask deep into the pandemic so it became about making trump look stupid and stopping his re-election, so the justification for masks came in full force shortly after trump went around not wearing one. Had trump been one of the first people wearing a mask talking about “China flu” early on. this whole mask policy would have been flipped.
> the apps with overtly fake reviews

View the app reviews in another region. The amount of spam is significantly lower (~0%) and it's mostly people complaining.
> "Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us."

> "Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how powerful entities will use technology against us."

FTFY. Totalitarian state != capitalism.

Edit: I think this is being misunderstood. Chiang is arguing that fear of AI is really fear of how Capitalism will make use of it. But it's not just Capitalism; it's any entity powerful enough to leverage it to the detriment of the masses (for example totalitarian states). Capitalist winners are one kind of powerful entity among many.
I’ve never found Chiang’s stories to be particularly engaging and his comments here illustrate why: he doesn’t seem to understand much about technology or politics. His opinion is basically that if the entire world operated like Denmark, no one would fear technological change.

No, I’m sorry, but it’s much more complicated than that. “Technology” as a broad entity is responsible for a lot of horrible things that have nothing to do with capitalism; for example, poison gas or nuclear weapons.

Any time someone says [complex problem] would go away if only people adopted [specific political program], you can be certain they don’t understand the complexity of the issue.
China claims to be socialist in the same way that North Korea claims to be democratic.
The danger of capitalism in regards to technology is how it grants large amounts of power to a small group who own said technology. In the same way, in China there is an elite who have all the control.
Indeed. Almost every time (like now) when you think you need a random number, you actually need a low discrepancy sequence.
Wow that's a slick app for a one man band.