skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, this feels like it's "cheating" because it's using an approach which is basically the reverse of the process by which the game's visual output is generated, but on the other hand, the approach of separating foreground entities from the background and predicting movement is very similar to how biological vision systems work.

It's possible to be generally intelligent without having any visual sense, so this approach may not help to develop General AI, but it could still be useful for many machine learning tasks.
Please add a few hints on how it could be made more balanced, what is missing, etc.

Most of us readers haven't been to a kibbutz.
Multiple From: fields are allowed by https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.2 as long as a Sender: is also included.
Menu design is a great candidate for psychology experiments. It's easy to do A/B testing by giving different menus to different tables at the same time. The end goal is money spent or items sold, which is a simple number you'll always know exactly.

However, you have to be careful to not overreach in inferring why people do things:

>“The dollar sign is a pain point that reminds the diner that they are spending money,” says Allen. “By just using the figure, or even better, writing it out in words, it can reduce that pain.”

This sounds like a rationalization. It could be true. But if I were a menu designer, I wouldn't try to use it to predict anything beyond including currency symbols.
Tax avoidance should be punished, that's all.

Oh, and in my country, it is punished, it's just that the team which must find about the culprit are totally under staffed, what-a-surprise.
Honestly, I don't see this as a problem any more. Litfic is as much a genre as SF, and just as an SF novel isn't going to win the Booker, a litfic novel isn't going to win the Hugo or Nebula. Yes, the Booker judges believe that their preferred genre is intrinsically superior to all the others, but nobody else needs to pay any attention to them if they don't want to.

Twenty or thirty years ago it was different, because the channels for discovery and discussion were so impoverished for anything remotely niche, but that hasn't been the case for a while now.
Why do you want access to other people's riches?
Amazon lights up Sidewalk, its wireless IoT network
alright, gl
yeah but with buzz marketing you can catch the fat cutsomer and avoid antitrust oversee
The Mac has behaved like that since the classic days. This is the platform that invented overlapping windows. They aren't supposed to be maximized, as it's almost always a waste of screen real estate.

You're just used to other platforms.
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"Elite"? You mean kleptocratic oligarchy, right? Or robber plutocracy, maybe?
Except Walden was either satire or hypocrisy. Thoreau was rich through inheritance. Emerson lent him the cabin and land. It was only a 20-minute walk from his mother’s house, where he went for dinner every night.
Isn’t the latency for two cups in parallel shorter than the latency for two cups serially?

Seems like a too simplistic analogy to me.
Just replying to encourage you. I think this is a great idea.
Mediterranean diet typically refers to a diet put together by a cardiologist for his patients suffering from heart disease. It really is only loosely related to what people eat in areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea
Facebook has violated their own privacy policy many times, faced legal penalties and settled with the FCC for their violations, then violated their settlement agreements with additional data breaches.

He isn’t more sensitized to privacy issues, so much as he can afford to spend the time and money required to protect himself...most people, like the majority of his users responsible for him having that kind of wealth, don’t have the luxury.
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YouTube does their own thing with ContentID, which most copyright holders use :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27072092
Classic case of regulatory capture: https://theintercept.com/2019/11/04/pge-bailout-bankruptcy-l...
Unlike 99.999% of posters who praise free Soviet perks, I really lived in USSR in 80s, and can say life was quite hard. Things like healthcare were indeed free. They were also close to useless due to crumbling equipment, impossibility to get sufficient up-to-date information from outside of SU for continuous education of MDs (did anyone mention free education?), constant "defitsit" of medicines (actually it was almost total, everything was hard to buy starting from toilet paper).

If to speak specifically about computers we weren't forbidden from having PCs indeed, but it was almost impossible to buy one for many reasons, already mentioned defitsit being probably the most important, but also let's not forget the SU was lagging behind the West technologically, and had troubles fulfilling much more basic demands than computers. Most privately-owned computer hardware were self-made in 80s in USSR, and - I'm not kidding - you had at times to deal with very shadowy guys to buy necessary electronic parts. It's definitely easier to buy cocaine in today's US.

As for original research in the USSR it was buried by central-planned socialist system which never sufficiently rewards risk-taking (and there's no riskless innovations) so no matter how cool is your idea in theory it was always easier for everyone - from engineers to gov't ministers - to just copy Western examples (USSR didn't pay royalties anyway). Exceptions were only in military field, and in situations when USSR's industry was simply unable to copy.
Ok, I'll bite. Let's see a citation for your absurd claims.
So what would be a single reason for person with $100MM of wealth to give $25MM away to wasteful, corruptive government?

What kind of benefits the person is gaining by buying $25MM worth of taxes?

I thought so too.

Give that person a chance to reinvest these money into local economy, growing productive businesses instead of slapping the "filthy rich" label and suddenly there is a lots of capital are used for everyone's benefits instead of escaping.
I dunno. When I was a kid, they would freak me out...
Blueberries are actually quite common in the Mediterranean area, but you are right about salmon.
The journal’s press release: https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/53c636fb/do-people-a...

The actual paper: https://elifesciences.org/articles/57849
Facebook Will Limit Your WhatsApp Features for Not Accepting Privacy Policy
Citations for any of this?

I have noticed nothing "pejorative" in the language used in the document. I'd be more pejorative myself. The individuals with accounts are described clinically - "high net worth individuals". The ethics of using the leaked data is examined.

The situation that individuals with these accounts may be committing crimes is also described dispassionately. It is a fact that these accounts are often used for the crime of tax evasion. Do you want to dispute this fact? Or do you want language that tries avoid any mention of this likelihood? That would be less "pejorative" I suppose.

Edit: OK, the Mel Brooks quote is an exception to the generally clinical language. But by that point the author has made their case and should get at least a little cookie.
Well, yeah.

The point is to sacrifice convenience to support local stores.

You want to do the right thing AND you want it to be more convenient? Sounds like you're just looking for convenience.
Explain like I’m a first year CS major?
Funny thing it was. I consider the current apple to have started with Jobs at NeXT. From Nextstep through to snow leopard they were fantastic and getting better every release.

Not so much now, they've found a cash cow and seem to be entranced by it.
Isn't that the case for every company ?
Why would a company do something in the interest of the consumer if it was not in their interest ?
Competition is what's supposed to take care of this
Yep, I did this for my mom one time. I was treating at a fancy restaurant, and I didn't want her picking based on price, so I had them removed.
> I think this is just poor modeling. SQL is just fine for the work you're talking about.

I'm as big a booster of good old SQL as anyone, but there's a lot to be said for more targeted time series solutions when it comes to sensors.

I'm working on a platform for monitoring water water tank levels. It slices Grafana and influxdb horizontally to share the resources between multiple users and multiple tanks.

The productivity of such a stack is high, when it comes to getting beautifully rendered, interactive graphs of e.g stacked water levels. And with influxdb flux language, you can write joins that join data from the time series database and the rdbms (for more reference data, like the names and calibration data of individual tanks).

Yes you can do anything with SQL but there's a reason for the presence of dedicated time series databases.
Yes that's the case Christian was making (implicitly).

Another case could be that (1) maybe there isn't only one right way to implement such a feature, and (2) pulling the implementation down into the component layer leaves no space for experimentation or choice between different potential implementations, and (3) given the enormous pain of making any modifications in the GTK component layer (as this issue clearly demonstrates) I can sympathize with a dev that uses the component in their app shying away from the prospect of running every single idea through such a painful interaction every time they want to experiment with something. One might argue that there's a better api somewhere between "exposing raw block selection functions" and "fully-baked selection feature" that covers most needs and still provides desired flexibility, but (4) you don't find such an ideal api by theorizing from first principles, you have to derive it from experience and nobody can get such experience unless the lower-level api is available in the first place.
Archive link: http://archive.today/2021.05.08-195117/https://www.nytimes.c...
How depressing that people on HN of all places think of Dogecoin trading before starting a business.

If that is really your perspective, why live in the US?
It uses a code generator but that seems to be concatenating some constants together to allow for prettier organization and reuse between encoding and decoding. The core of what it has to match against to handle escapes isn't very complicated.
I wholeheartedly endorse the idea of kibbutz. It's a patch of peaceful communist living which you can walk into, and, most importantly, walk out of. A great demo of the upsides and the downsides of it.

I mean, between consenting adults, anything.
I haven't yet met an American that won't give me a weird look when I say I eat the same for dinner every day, tea and bread.
> You know this and everyone knows this.

False consensus fallacy
Art of Computer Animation (1988)
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Why does one person need $1bn?

If we can ensure that no single individual has to live below the poverty line then I'm less worried about individuals who attain huge stores of wealth.
Isn't this trivially true for any online game though? I played Counter Strike for quite some time with the same group of people. And looking back, It's not like I disliked Counter Strike. But I would have never even played closed to the amount of hours if I didn't have that group of people.
> aren't rich yet

This is the real reason the ultra-wealthy aren't taxed. People think that they are obviously going to become rich any day now, and they won't want to pay high taxes when it inevitability happens. Some strange, shared delusion of the middle class.
Tsoding – Recreational Programming
... in China ...

{{citation-needed}}
It is. As far as I know, rustc just exposes LLVM’s LTO functionality, without performing any Rust-specific optimizations at link time. So you get the same optimizations as you would with LTO in Clang (C compiler), and indeed you can do cross-language LTO between the two.

Also, even without LTO, LLVM can perform the same ABI optimizations on functions that are local to a single translation unit and not exported to other ones. In Rust that means a function not exported across crate boundaries. In C that means a `static` function.
Wow!! Very cool!!
I find even the larger businesses have much poorer shopping experiences than Amazon. I wanted to buy a book last year. I found it on a major, non-amazon bookseller's website. However, no "Look-inside", not even a description, no reviews, no real information about it aside from the title and [very short] description. I ended up going to Amazon to find all this info and having a look at the "Look inside" first few pages, and then buying it from the other retailer. It worked, but not exactly great, people going to a competitor's website to research the product.

It sucks, because I want to support businesses other than Amazon and the like, ones that pay corporation tax and don't abuse their market position, but the other stores really have to raise their game. For better or worse, Amazon has definitely been a game-changer in retail and it's not enough to trade like it's the year 2000 any more. You have to be innovative and see software as a way to improve your offering.
Apple was the gold standard for software for most of the first 35 years (excepting a few years after 1995) of its existence. Apple used to hold a reputation for building the best software in the industry.

On a side note, sometimes getting older feels like being in a Twilight Zone episode. Like I woke up and, for some reason everyone is calling records and 45s 'vinyls'.

Or I mention 'Cary Grant' and people just stare at me blankly because his memory has been erased from existence.

This Apple comment is one of those moments: it feels like yesterday Apple's talent for software was common knowledge, and suddenly today I'm in a parallel universe where Apple has always created buggy garbage.
I don't use these shitty GUI apps anymore ;)

alias x='noglob calc-raw'

calc-raw () {

python3 -c "from math import *; print($*)"

}
So enhancement of punishment and enforcement to allow government to redistribute wealth from some citizens to the government?

I think we’ve seen this before… usually ends in democide…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide
When majority is agrees on something it doesn't make this automatically the right thing.

Especially if this is a majority of non-productive, lazy individuals unwilling to get educated, work and prefer to live by selling their votes for printed money of government grants.
> look at KPMG, Deloitte and PwC annual reports on the offshore industry

I'll add that to my reading list alongside the 'climate change' reports written by the global petrochemical industry, and the reports written by hedge-fund traders on what really happened in the 2008 financial crisis.
I also drink Mount Hagen as my midgrade instant coffee-- I tried several varieties a while back and decided it's my favorite of them. It's not mind-blowing "wow I can't believe it's instant" like the Sightglass, but it's very good.
In most of the US, “pictures of food on the menu” is associated with low-end but highly marketed national chains that serve large amounts of unexceptional food - Applebees, Cheesecake Factory, etc.
You're mistaking tax avoidance with tax evasion.
Probably. But you’d need two burners and two pots. Not exactly equivalent.
Ex-CSO (16y) of Pfizer gives his scientific view on vaccines, lockdown [video]
I had the same thought. The answer is actually in the text, took a while to find it:

"Forust’s 3D printed parts support a wide variety of wood grains at launch, including rosewood, ash, zebrano, ebony, and mahogany. The parts also support a range of wood stains such as natural, oak, ash, and walnut."

Yeah it seems it's just painted. So now you can't even trust wood anymore. Very tacky.
That's why i'm against high taxes.

We get a bunch of random political parties, promising to "tax the rich" and stuff, we get new laws... and what happens?

- The poor already pay very little tax - no change there

- The rich avoid the tax by doing shady stuff (who remembers the panama papers.. or this.. or many other stories like these)

- I, the middle class engineer get fucked by the taxes, and I get fucked hard, and not in fun way.
Meat is not "very regular" in the modern mediterranean diet. This site ranks countries by meat consumption (overall and not per capita and given with reservations because I don't know where the data comes from, but still):

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/meat-cons...

Ranking of the three countries whose cuisines inspired the mediterranean diet, according to the site:

Italy 24

Spain 31

Greece 87

This ranking doesn't say anything about what kinds of meat are consumed and this is culturally determined also. For instance, counting per-capita consumption, Greeks, Spanish and Italians eat more pigmeat than other kinds of meat:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-consumpti...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-consumpti...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-consumpti...

And all three countries raise relatively few cattle (with Greece having less than a million):

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cattle-livestock-count-he...

I'm bringing this up because, to my knowledge, the traditional diet in Greece, while predominantly lacto- ovo- pescaterian also included cured pigmeats as a common food item, while lamb was eaten only rarely, at religious feasts (particularly Easter Sunday and the religious feast of a town's patron saint) and cattle were raised primarily for dairy. Similar in Italy and Spain.

So the "Mediterranean diet" as it is understood today is only "inspired" by the dietary habis of the traditional diets of Italians, Spanish and Greeks. In truth, these people traditionally consumed meat in larger quantities than assumed by the modern "Mediterranean diet". Accordingly, the amount of meat that modern Italians, Spanish and Greeks eat has not changed as much, from their historical past, than is suggested by comparison with the modern "Mediterranean diet".

That said, those three peoples are still far behind other developed countries in their consumption of meat today, especially beef and particularly so Greece.

You're right about refined flour. In Italy, Spain and Greece, bread is always on the table and it is mainly white bread. Pies like spanakopita and pasticcio are also today made mainly with refined flour. Sugar is also much more widely used today, as is salt, compared to the past, because of higher availability overall.
Who needs a TV?

Who needs more than one pair of shoes?

Who determines what other people need?

Maybe we should forget we are adults and have a governing body tell us why we need so we don’t have to think about it?
i agree with you that a community where people can afford to live and work is good, but the work needs to actually be productive. if a retail store's only value is unrelated to their retail business, then i think it's fair to call them only aesthetic.

paying people to work in shops that are worse in every way than the alternative except for being local is not productive. no real value is being created. it's a make-work scheme, and paying those workers to not work would be more efficient.
>An author’s intent doesn’t change what an author actually said

This is an odd view of communication. It works for whole stories, e.g. you can decouple Heinlein from his books and claim that The Moon is a Harsh Mistress primarily says something other than Heinlein actually had in mind, artistically speaking, but it's a very odd stance for single words. Communication is two-way, it has everything to do with both the speaker and listener. Words don't have any meaning except for what the speaker and listener assign to them. There is no "what the author actually said", there is only what they intended to say (and how it was interpreted).

In the role of listener/reader, your whole job is to figure out what the author intended. Otherwise I'm not sure we agree on what reading even is.
That's what it is, but since the shape can be anything, it does open up new possibilities. Must be amazingly expensive compared to mdf though.
An inspiring story, but the writer makes a thought-provoking point:

"Winning state chess tournaments is not a scalable solution to child homelessness."

It's a pity that needs to be highlighted, but it's a reminder of how complicated the problem of homelessness is.
(2017). Past thread here, from when the article was originally written: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15830623
If you loved Tales Of Earthsea, you _must_ read the last book in the Earthsea Cycle: The Other Winds. It takes a very introspective approach to the notion of mortality and immortality, which ties in with the importance to the _names_ of humans, dragons, animals, and other objects. It's phenomenal, to say the least.
Instead of chasing the person with $1Bn, wouldn't it be more productive to learn from that person and educate others how to earn good money and live a good, productive lifestyle?

Otherwise many are under the impression that looting and robbing is a way to go.
Local boy makes good (I am from both Nigeria and Long Island).
Water is absolutely no practical barrier to population growth in California.

It's a fake issue, made up to disguise a classic NIMBYist fear of changing "the character" of California.

Which, I've been to Yosemite recently, so I get that. But the ship sailed long ago.

California does have unsustainable agricultural practices. Alfalfa growing for feedlot cattle is the big one, eliminate that and Cali can in fact expand on her comparative advantage in growing fruits, nuts, and specialty crops like asparagus and artichoke.

But this is completely unrelated to residential use of water, which is a) a rounding error next to agriculture and b) provisioned through a largely orthogonal system of reservoirs and, yes, aqueducts, which agriculture simply isn't competing with. Expanding that system and stewarding the available water better wouldn't take away from agriculture, which is fed by rivers and aquifers.

Again, the big offender is alfalfa. Rice, irrigated from canals off the Delta, is an irrelevant distraction to agricultural sustainability, let alone residential growth.

California's system of water rights is ancient and corrupt, and isn't serving the state well. But "pricing ag water like residential water" is a nonsensical way of solving that problem, it's just not the same water. Actually auctioning available water, and setting hard limits on aquifer withdrawal, is both necessary and quite sufficient.
>for whatever reason

The vast majority of the population does not know what a communication protocol is. They know whatsapp is a messaging app, their friends are on it, and they can use it to reach them.

If you speak in a language they understand, such as "there are approaches that enable different apps to talk to each other, so you only need 1 instead of a handful", they might get interested.

Another protocol will not help if you don't have an app and a network of users that can compete with whatsapp. As far as I know, whatsapp implements just that for IMs exactly (whisper protocol made by signal) and its still a walled garden.