skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The better question is, would you read anything else? What happens when we can just dial up the story we want? What happens when these models combine the skillfulness of a human writer with the command of facts, theories, behaviors, and lore of computer records?

Imagine. You could feed it all of Tolkien's writings and tell it to give you an epic saga of novels set in the First Age of Middle Earth. You could tweak a parameter and instantly get a version of your favorite novel that proceeds with a different main character or a different choice and have it be indistinguishable from a version written by the original author and one hundred percent consistent with events and previous plots.

I'm not too ashamed to say that if memory-erasure technology existed I'd be sorely tempted to experience my favorite media for the first time over and other. Creative AI is the looming spectre of that danger, as it becomes more and more skilled at giving us the best, we will grow intolerant of anything less.
Top-down decrees aren't normally proceeded by "heads up", that would be counter-productive
he had over 10 retweets and tweets the same day after this call. And did not use those tweets to thank his old team, just more "apple bad" stuff as if nothing had changed.

Color me skeptical.
That's an interesting way of putting it -- "the house itself pays the taxes". I guess you mean the solution I favor, which is to allow the property owner to defer some of the tax until the property is sold. I suggest that Prop. 13 in California, for example, should have limited not the growth rate of the tax, but the growth rate of the amount that actually had to be paid in a given year. The balance would be covered by a lien due at sale.
everyone's a critic
What's interesting about Georgism is that he seems to nail the problem, and the proposed solution might work, but it's also an approximate equivalent to doing something else.

Heavily incentivizing new construction.

Because that's what LVT would do. If you pay the same, high, tax no matter what then you might as well build skyscrapers until rents fall below the construction cost.

At which point the "land value" would trend asymptotically to zero because rents would equal construction costs and the value of the land is only what you can collect from it as rent.

It kind of implies that LVT wouldn't generate a lot of revenue if it was implemented faithfully, because land values would crash and with it the "tax base."

But in that environment you don't need that much tax revenue. How much social assistance is necessary if an apartment is $100/month and overall cost of living is correspondingly lower because all local businesses are paying similar rents and it's that much easier to start a small business?

Which implies that you could get to the same, good, place by heavily incentivizing construction/densification on its own, and in general doing everything possible to reduce market rate rents.

Though "stop taxing the building component of real property" is perhaps still a necessary component of that, at which point the argument is maybe only over whether LVT should be the tax we use instead of property tax vs. the tax we use to the exclusion of all others.
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suspicious squints

Perhaps this bit is key as you could cross reference the two:

> Furthermore, having an alternative bootstrap automation tool allows people to have greater trust in the bootstrap procedure.

Interesting thought exercise.

Edit: Avoid this subject unless you want to be nerd sniped and spiral into paranoia.
It’s not. It’s a spin on property taxes favored by people on the internet and some libertarians.

Instead of taxing your property based in market value, you tax it based on what your neighbors value is. It’s basically a scheme to transfer wealth in a arbitrary and confusing way.

IMO it gets traction here because California has an outsized influence on HN for obvious reasons and California’s tax regime is bizarre and unjust. On the flip side, the economic influence of that tax policy makes it very obvious to some people that unjust tax policy can make you rich.
Matt Damon grew potatoes on Mars using poop. Is that realistic?
No, it had BSD, ATT, and OSF on it. And I remember someone fishing in a stream with a net. It was also a Unitech poster in a similar style to the OP one.

Actually I stand corrected, it was Unix Feuds and there was also a UniX Views, another comment here posted pictures of both. I might actually have all three.
Yes, one must also include some powerball tickets and horse racing bets for a truly well balanced portfolio.
Remember this video?

https://youtu.be/nCgQDjiotG0

Chrome was seriously fast when it launched. It made everything else seem a decade old.
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I actually have no idea how good the search results from other search engines were in 2004-2006. I was exclusively google by then and I'm willing to admit it's entirely plausible it's competitors had similar results.

But in 2001-2002, I remember Google having a significantly better search experience. And it was massively better than all it's competitors from the 90s.

A large factor were the snippets, which gave you a decent indication if the result was relevant before even clicking. Before the other search engines copied that feature, they would just show the contents of the meta description tag.

It also seemed to index a much wider range of sites and ranked them better.
> Is it OK to feel loyalty for a nation, then?

Einstein had some rather famous words on the topic in (his 1931 essay, Mein Weltbild)[https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37851/did-einst...]:

> “He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
I'll look into it! Do you happen to have a ton of playlists? I've come across problems where users have too many playlists and so gathering all the songs leads to Spotify API errors eventually. I just released a temporary fix that fixes that problem but need more time for a better solution.
Computer generated text have tens of millions of people they can put out of a job, manipulate into emotions, phish for scams, etc. without needing to produce text like James Joyce.
Polyglot Assembly – assembly code that runs on multiple architectures
This is arguably still an accessibility concern because there's no easy way to make the text readable. Perhaps hovering over it could make it show in black? I've tried highlighting it, but that doesn't work very well because my highlight color is light blue by default (I think I could change it but wouldn't do so just for this purpose).
See my above comment! Thanks for letting me know
You're welcome! Glad you liked it.
Or (C) you don't have a crystal ball that tells you when to get out before the inevitable collapse.
> - Had a conservative senior employee go off about politics on the call discussing the new no politics policy.

Ironically it seems that, contra to the narrative existing in the minds of quite a few HN posters, it was the Brietbart quoting, "white people are the real victims of racism" guy who had spend over a decade being unable to shut up about politics in the workplace.
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America has laws (zoning) that almost require a car. Thus people drive and then more car centric areas are built which requires more driving and more cars. It is a loop that reinforces itself. Most Americans do not have a choice of car ownership since it is effectively required because of lack of other options. You say that it is preferable, but that is difficult to say since car ownership is so subsidized and prioritized.
I’m aware. But not fully of all contexts.

Why did SoftBank sell far less? Why would a behemoth well run company like Microsoft fare the same as Yahoo vs Alibaba?

In parallel, why has Naspers never faced this issue?
Coalition calls on Biden to form disinformation task force
Which part exactly? The bit about 2-7 players?
I don't think that's how open source works, in practice. A project like this tends to gravitate around a single leader of some sort: I can think of several examples. That leader might very well be impolite or opinionated but they deliver a single communicable vision and other contributors tend to be neither able to, nor welcome to supplant that.

I read all the way through, looking for the answer to the posted question, since VCV Rack interests me. Latest I heard about Andrew and VCV Rack, he'd got mad at Apple's M1 processors (presumably because he makes heavy use of Intel assembly code?) and shows no interest in developing for 'em.

If Rack stumbles, I think it'll more likely be due to some personal animus of that nature, rather than the fact of Andrew being a big meanie. The role of a leader in a project of this type is to be, if not a big meanie, then at least a big definer of what the project is and isn't.

This will always alienate some people. Does that matter? Depends on what they're being alienated about. I don't think VCV Rack is the right place for Aria, and I think she's wise to step away. Can't say as I agree with all of her points but then I'm not her so I don't have to.
If it continues to be a problem you can unselect "In Created Playlists" when you are creating the game.
Some thoughts:

The degree of inbreeding depression, should itself be a function of the mating patterns. After a long period of inbreeding the genetics themselves may start to develop robustness against it. For instance genes that are only beneficial in heterozygotes would be pruned out. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease#Genetics

Inbreeding in humans is pretty political, as incest has been used traditionally to keep wealth in the extended family. Inter-marriage on the other hand has been used to form alliances.
>Is this just a generational thing?

No, it's a class thing. Among unionised labour work has always been a political battlefield. What's new is that you know have a politically activist group of people within upper middle class white collar jobs who, traditionally were conservative in temperament because they were materially well off.

Professionals whose values do not align with their management have figured out that they actually have influence, and the top 1-10% have noticed that they can actually press the top 0.1% if they want to.
Agreed.

Interesting nonetheless. I keep waiting for someone to make one of these with BPM sync and the capability to jump to pre-set cue points in response to MIDI or OSC control messages.

I even wrote one like that in multithreaded C some years back - it leaked memory like a sieve, but it was tons of fun to do breakbeat juggling in it. (When I last revisited that, it didn't compile anymore and I couldn't even read the code.)

All in all it's always nice to see devs honing their skills with multimedia stuff instead of bureaucratic CRUD types of things.
Hmm maybe I'll do that for next April Fools day!
And also the building itself and the increased concrete ground cover massively contributes to flooding
I mean that’s the story if all goes well. But these things tend to have unintended consequences.

Your comments about eradicating this so-called pest sound similar to the arguments for mass fumigation of DDT. “This harmless solution will eliminate pests that plague humans.” But then it turned out collapsing ecosystems was bad and it also nearly drove the Peregrine Falcon to extinction because it would accumulate in their bodies and damaged their eggs.

So sure. Assuming we know all the possible downsides the happy story makes sense. But we keep finding out that we don’t know all the downsides in advance.

In nature, everything is connected. We have a long history of thinking simple technological solutions will solve our problems, and especially in nature that kind of thinking has led to environmental disaster time and time again.
The market was not valuing Yahoo fairly for most of its life as Yahoo for the company name after this.

So when Yahoo’s remains changed to Altaba after selling that $4.5B Yahoo namesake and Yahoo Japan for $4B+ soon after, it was still a nearly $40B market cap company. Almost all of it being 16% of Alibaba.
I am totally willing to do away with third-party contact managers if it means preventing this malarkey.
That's surprising forbes has an article like that. It's one of the only sites I've opened on a modern iphone that made it uncomfortably hot.
Hmm. I think we may be parsing that last sentence differently. I read "making it easier for Democrats and Republicans to live side by side [by addressing public policy issues], President Biden might [cause trust to be restored]."

Do you read: "President Biden [should] restore some our trust in one another, [thereby] making is easier for Democrats and Republicans to live side by side."?
I remember reading about this when Zika was new and my wife was pregnant. I’m excited about it and hope the science of it proves out with proper due diligence.

Social distancing and use of masks certainly won’t aid with mosquito spread diseases. Furthermore, widespread use of pesticides is devastating to desirable insects, particularly bees. Having a tool to control the mosquito population that doesn’t directly impact other insects would certainly be a win in my book.
A funny part in the wikipedia article:

> Among insects, so-called killer bees were accidentally created during an attempt to breed a strain of bees that would both produce more honey and be better adapted to tropical conditions. It was done by crossing a European honey bee and an African bee.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)
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Visualizing complexity (Ernst Haeckel's illustrations via neural style transfer)
But those rules are specific to California? I'm confused why people seem to be suggesting that a land value tax is the only possible solution, when an alternative would be to just make taxes in that state work the same as elsewhere.
This might have been the most important meeting in Basecamp's history, so it just feels odd that the co founder was apparently so sick he couldn't sit at his desk for an hour or two. Or even just during the initial introductions before he turned his camera off.

Maybe he was that sick, but I would be kind of pissed if I were one of the employees. The power dynamic is weird, because if a regular employee were sick they would definitely feel the pressure to show up at a desk, on camera, if they were trying to make their case in this meeting.
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Try the Neo Smartpen or Remarkable Tablet. They both let you write and share that. They also both let you present. Those presentations feel magical to do over Zoom.
The design does work very well with a password manager though.
very good point, edited...
Yes. What Prop. 13 has done is taken all the tax money that would go to fund local services, and instead given it to former property owners. From a cash flow perspective, there's no difference between paying a large mortgage and small property tax, or a smaller mortgage and larger property tax that total to around the same amount. But the difference to the local economy is that the tax money would stay in it, while the mortgage payment effectively funds a large payout to the previous owner, who then most likely takes the money out of local circulation.
Are there places that leave email open to former employees? Seems like standard practice and the link doesn't say anything about email. What is the story there?
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I'm a relatively new synth/modular enthusiast so I can't comment on the author's take on VCV (I use Wren, a quite interesting software modular in its own right), but I have to say their ideas for Séanceur sound rad!
This is great news! Finally, the US is using a solution common to the rest of the developed world. Did someone on this thread honestly say inter-species procreation? Has HN become Nextdoor?
Holy cow Google Fonts is a great way to say "go away" to people on slow internet connections. Please don't use it. Because you can't predict the metrics for the font until it loads it means you either:

a) have the page jump around 30-60 seconds after the page loads (when the reader is probably half way through it)
or

b) leave the page blank for the 30-60 seconds it takes for the font to load, if it finishes loading at all.
It's not "work" in the meaning you understand work. You're reading a fourth or fifth party translation of the actual tradition, with the terminology dumbed down to the level that makes it accessible to the layman. It's like reading quantum mechanics book and laughing about how stupid those physicists are thinking quarks have colors and flavors. I mean, do they really imagine they could taste a quark? Surely doesn't make any sense!

> I'd like to point out that it doesn't make any sense to me

It wouldn't. At least until you actually learn the framework and understand the terminology and the rules of it. And it's not supposed to make sense you you anyway - it's not made for you.
Wallace asked President Trump whether he was willing to denounce “white supremacists and militia groups,” and Trump answered, "Sure, I'm willing to do that,"

Not sure how any sane person can claim that isn't denouncing white supremacy but hey don't let facts get in the way of your narrative.
Someone can admit there is a spectrum of rationality without valuing either end especially. You can argue that they should, but in the example of Alex Jones; how many who despise him vocally do so because they disagree, and would be happy to see the guy agree with them suddenly, for any reason or none?

It'd be validating and "see we were right all along!" for the anti-fans.
Even with a raised round, the units that you are denominating the calculation is months. Months of life before your company dies (you can’t raise debt if you can’t raise equity, simplistically).

Depending on your risk appetite, family factors and time in life, it seems perfectly reasonable to signal a better value alignment. He/she could take a (let’s say gigantic) equity stake in a pre-seed entity and low cash, in which case it’s be an extremely expensive employee with no sensitivity around the round or stage of company.

Also, and sorry for belaboring this, but having a round starts the “clock”; personally that pressure to do X or raise Y or sell/IPO is not a feature but a bug, and for others that common goal orientation and team alignment might be really valued.

Just guessing :)