skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China/Xi cut their definition of 'poverty' in half:

To make this claim, the Chinese government uses a poverty line of about $2.25 a day, in 2011 prices and adjusting for purchasing power. The World Bank believes ...For upper-middle-income countries like China, it reckons that a reasonable poverty line is $5.50 a day.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2021/01/25...

China is also into forced relocation, forced labor, etc.

This information, to me, makes the China-automation evidence largely irrelevant in this discussion.

And, small but not insignificant point, a lot of our labor also went south to Mexico, not overseas. Not sure what the percentages are.
LEMMiNO has a nice 18 minutes documentary and summary on Cicada 3301: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI

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Some "internet lore" off the top of my head:

* Body builders try to figure out how many days are in a week, summary dramatised here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4

* Time Cube: https://timecube.2enp.com/

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EDIT: speaking of SilvaGunner, I've never heard this name before, I found two mentions of it on two unrelated YouTube videos in the past 3 hours. Incredible. Baader–Meinhof strikes again.
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Great ideas, thanks! Especially getting marketing content is good, I believe
> When the iPhone first launched I never would have imagined how locked down it is now.

When the iPhone first launched, it had no App Store at all. Apple came out a few months later and said "hey, just write web apps." And when they did open an App Store, it was even more restricted and limited in capability than what we have now. Was there seriously anything about the iPhone at any point in its history that made you think "boy, this is gonna be as open as all get out any day now?"

> Why do you hate freedom?

As much as find "I love the fact that Apple restricts my choices! Woo!" annoying, this kind of self-righteous and insulting rhetoric is not an improvement. Being willing to accept the limitations of iOS does not mean someone "hates freedom". Come on.
You can't even take a train from Baltimore to DC for less than $10, which is only an hour drive between two travel hubs.
Is uber cheaper or more expensive?
Store your environment variables and secrets in Git safely. Based on google/zx
Amazon is the company that gives cops direct access to all the Ring video cameras scattered across the country right?
An interesting price point. Some relevant comparisons are (at highway speed):

- $8/hr in gas for compact gasoline cars (30 MPG, $4/gallon)

- $2.25/hr in electricity for electric cars (0.25 kWh/mile, $0.15/kWh)

- $12/hr in depreciation ($40k car lasting 200k miles)

- $32/hr is the IRS-approved reimbursement rate, supposed to cover fuel, maintenance, depreciation
Data Scientists can provide PMs with data and analysis to make better-informed product decisions. Then you can get into more detail, such as DS building tooling/dashboards/models for PMs/stakeholders to self-serve and save time for everyone.

Yes, there's some overlap with a Data Analyst position, but there's enough day-to-day work to differentiate.
I’d refuse to pay that on principal, I already own the car.
What if you want to go to an obscure trailhead? What taxi or driver would be willing to drive out 2 hours? Getting picked up, what driver-for-hire will come out 2 hours to pick you up?
I was hoping for full pics of the dino but got a picture of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II
>”...in their cars...”

That’s key. It’s their cars and they want to charge them seven bucks an hour?

Yes, some people will be happy to sit back and sleep and pay that, but not Joe and Jill Six-Pack.
FWIW, Harlem is a neighborhood in Manhattan, and depending on where you start from elsewhere in Manhattan it's ~5-20 minutes.
It can do both. They seem to use the product's name ("move-shoot-move") to refer to a mode which both tracks the stars and moves independently, creating a panning timelapse.
Apple Gave Zoom Access to Special API for Camera During Split View Multitasking
The quotes at the end are excellent, they emphasize that your Microsofts and Googles of the world are going to try to throw their weight around to force the Internet to work the way works best for their business, rather than accepting a political reality, that the Internet is a communications medium, and laws are going to affect it differently in different countries, just as they do today for phone, mail, and any other medium.
100 percent agree, but honestly I couldn't make sense of the examples I looked at. It was probably just me tho.
I think this is the correct analysis in many ways, but I am very fond of the Minsky view that we are all agents dealing with cash-flow.

The other side of cash flow is income, and I'd be very interested to see if income has kept under this analysis too...
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I really hate the word "debunk".

The word derives from "de" and "bunk" -- an older word effectively meaning "bullshit". In other words, to "debunk" a claim means "to remove all the bullshit" from the claim.

If a claim or argument is indeed, for all intents, a "bullshit argument", then it is quite fair to "debunk" it. But this isn't how most people use the word.

Most people seem to say "debunk" as a means of saying "refuted", or worse, "rebutted".

Just because an argument can be refuted doesn't mean it was a bullshit argument. Quite often an argument is perfectly valid, and only fails when the premises fail to be 'proven' conclusively. Not to mention that more often than not, 'proven conclusively' is a highly subjective notion to begin with.

To say an argument was "debunked" is effectively a very rude way of dismissing / diminishing the person making the argument as being full of bullshit, when in fact their argument may have been a perfectly valid one, and possibly quite sound even, and may even have been useful in furthering the conversation.
I wouldn't be able to renew the grant because it limits personal assets to 7.500€ (Bafög), which would be exceeded by having the equity stake in the company.
Again with buying a product and having to pay extra to rent/lease capabilities already baked in? Is there some parallel here to the right to repair arguments with John Deere?
The same reason 2 year olds get into Disney World for free.

Facebook is inserting its brand into children’s lives early and it’s further cementing their relationship with the parents. This obviously has a monetary value.
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I suspect there are few real-world examples where "you could just say X" actually works... but in this case the story is that a random "weed dealer" killed not a random person, but a specific person known to the "weed purchaser"?

Who would believe that story?
I think that either style interface has its place and can co-exist with the other. For example, in a car, I would prefer to have physical controls for audio and anything mechanical (ie HVAC, wipers, ON/OFF,etc). However, when it comes to preferential attributes, vehicle/user/passenger related settings or diagnostic data/feedback, I would much rather prefer the touchscreen. This goes for things like instrument panel, monitoring tire pressure, situational awareness (sensors/cams), lights on/off settings, etc.
If I bought a $30,000 Tesla with dogecoin in January I would have been out 21 million dollars today.

It's like Elon said on SNL: Dogecoin is hustle.

Just replace "dogecoin" with "cryptocurrency."
Just interested how the vaccinations were done where you got it, small/big city, who administered it etc...
My friends and I were having this exact same discussion a few weeks ago: where did all the pink haired femenazis of the past go?
It was a while ago, a game engine, it just feels bad, maybe i misused the language, but that is a sign things aren't intuitive

Some people love typing code like they'd write books, i don't, i like to be concise and to go straight to the point

And it's not just as(i32) intToFloat(f32) floatToInt(i32), and then between i8 i32 i64, and then bitwise operations, and then slices, and then C strings etc etc etc, lot of visual bloat
Maybe it's just a system where remote workers can drive the car for you! Might almost be feasible.
Who is subsidizing the $7.25/hr driver? That amount isn't enough to include health coverage, and is barely enough to cover necessities.

Edit: just realized what a crazy world I live in when I unthinkingly categorize health coverage as something other than a necessity.
That’s suspiciously like remote driver from 3rd world salary with added commission.
I always pay significantly more than $8.50 for trips that are significantly less than an hour. I think $8.50/hour sounds incredibly cheap, like "wholesale" cheap considering the cost of fuel.
So, even self driving AI will demand more than the federal minimum wage?
Too high or too low is the wrong question. Is this a business-model we should entertain is a better question.
Nice! What a cool project. Looking forward to the future of this organization.
It's at least double that now. Rental cars may be triple.
The urban legends may have an expiry date, but "tuturuu~" is timeless.
If they do this, self driving will shoot itself in the foot. No one's paying for a robot to do this for _slightly less than minimum wage in most states_.
Interesting. I didn't realize there was a product/company with that name. Shoot-move-shoot is a common saying in motion controlled photography, and that was what I described.

I love the age we're in where anybody with a little know how can cheaply/affordably build something that was only available to the very well funded before. Each one of these are attempting the same thing, but trying to avoid the pain points each dev has seen from other products.
Self driving cars will never be as cheap as a train... Why would you compare the two?
Wouldn't this go against some ISPs TOS about reselling or sharing a connection?
Sounds like you have to own the car so too high.

If I don't have to own the car and could just call it like an Uber, this would be a great price.
Yep. The Bitcoin Blockchain is a permanent historical ledger. As time passes and info about who transacted what becomes public, the cost of identifying a transaction decreases. (Assuming Bitcoin is still around) we should assume that over time, the cost to unmask any given btc txn to asymptotically approach $0.

Even if you escape the statute of limitations, there is a good chance your grandchildren will be able to see what you did with Bitcoin by just looking it up on a public website in half a century.
Yeah, it was rushed writing on my part. Basically there's an OOM difference in the credibility between things published with a backing git repo and those where just the artifacts are published.
I'd be a bit irked by the subscription style / pay extra for the thing I already bought ... the idea they could just turn it off if I don't pay? model here.
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The surgical team has limited size because of physical constraints - the software team does not have such a strict size limit. But we have seen that bigger teams get very very slow so we want small teams - so we look for ways to make the team smaller. It is useful to copy ideas from one domain to another one - it is called advanced analog field. For example the ABS system in breaks was developed for aircraft - but later someone observed that it would also be useful in cars even though they don't have the same operating constraints. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/books/DI/Chapter10.pdf
Costs more than a minimum wage worker makes in the USA.
Well, yet another needless subscription service. There will come a point where we own nothing and rent everything. If your income stops, so does everything else. Some of us im sure could manage the cashflow, and benefit from it, but for most it'll be subsistence in disguise.
The enemy of my enemy is my ally and the power structures in both media and government both fear populism.

Details are not irrelevant, but the general trend is that the powers that be in both media and government have come under threat recently from external populists enabled by mass market tech platforms. Career politicians fear getting ousted by upstarts who know how to wield twitter. Career talking heads (excuse me "analysts") fear getting ousted by upstart talking heads on YouTube. They're now allied with each other in the fight against the unwashed masses.
Amazon's just keeping up with the Jones. I.e. when I updated Win10 recently it very un-helpfully installed some new videoconferencing app that can't easily be removed. The only helpful advice from MS is how to hide the app from the taskbar so you no longer notice its there. Such BS!!
I'm sure this has been asked on HN before, but is there something intrinsic to complex systems and the need for a reset? That is, as a given system gets more complex in design and purpose, is it inevitable that beyond a certain point of complexity, some kind of a power reset is needed to get things to work correctly? Any interesting writings on the subject?

Towards the extreme ends of the spectrum of complexity, humans need sleep. On the other end, my pocket calculator likely doesn't need to be switched off and on to ensure that numbers add correctly. I guess complex operating systems sit closer to humans than a calculator on this "spectrum". I do remember reading that the space shuttle's computer systems were close to perfect in design, but they're not operated as frequently as a 787.
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Well, the Cadillac of that category might be the Breville Smart Oven Air. In which case you might be missing out on a lot.

Having said that, there are sometimes cases where the cheap item does the job perfectly well, and for you, the cheap toaster might be that.
Amazon still has two day shipping? Could have fooled me. It is usually 3-4 days minimum, but usually more. "In stock" wiper blade, ordered yesterday but won't arrive until Monday. Probably won't even "ship" until Sunday.
Right to repair is not supported by this business model, so its disuse is a foregone conclusion.
How does prosecution prove the payment was connected to the hitman and not the weed?

Seems like they'd need to seize the hitman's digital communications, at which point the jig is probably already up.
I believe that was SCP-055
Given the distances involved, here's lightspeed travel from the sun: https://digg.com/video/light-speed-solar-system-travel
The missing part, not that we have a way to estimate, is cost of labor to drive the car. People don't usually factor it in but self-driving offers the ability to sleep, listen to music, work, have conversation or whatever during the driving time. People seem to value their time at wildly different rates but it's not $0/hour.
> Might you or anyone else have any links or literature on what this hack is or how it works?

Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, volume 2, chapter 2.2.1 "REX Prefixes". I understand that there was literally no place in either opcode or ModR/M byte to squeeze in another bit, but still.

As for control registers: we now have 9 "control registers", CR0 through CR8, and 4 of them are still reserved which kinda makes this whole "reserved" business seem pointless. And then, of course, there are MSRs, loads and loads of MSRs. In fact, there are so many of them that we now have a whole separate volume 4 of Intel SDM that is dedicated exclusively to them and is about 300 pages long. No doubt it will be 400 pages in the near future. Honestly, writing about this stuff feels like quoting from the "See Figure 1" doc.
>In 2020, nearly 1 million problematic new apps, and an additional nearly 1 million app updates, were rejected or removed for a range of reasons like those.

As of 2021, the total Apps on iOS App Store is ~2 Million. And Apple rejected 1 million problematic new apps in 2020 alone.

Ever since the Qualcomm case, I only pay attention to actual evidence and deposition in court. Literally every thing Apple
( Tim Cook ) said in the public was either lying by omission or purposely bending the truth for their benefits. And before anyone jumps in about Steve Jobs being the same, the two are very very different.

So I think those numbers needs to be taken with some healthy dose of cynicism.
that's true. I clarified.
> speel check

This has to be intentional.
I agree completely. Panic have, to be blunt, screwed me over about four times with various pieces of software over the last decade on both iOS and Mac, and Omni are not exactly much better. As cool and shiny as a lot of their software looks, I cannot trust them enough to buy the thing when I know that they will abandon support at the drop of a hat.
This is a good list... for one type of data scientist - the type that has heavy involvement in product and business decisions.

Other data scientists are basically software developers with a very specific domain, a third kind focus a lot more on research and many data science jobs are some blend of all of these things. My point is that the author mentions in the intro how data science is very broad and then continues to focus on what's only a subset of all data science jobs.

With that in mind, the list is actually spot on - it's just good to know that it isn't relevant to many data science jobs.
Too high. There are car sharing companies renting as low as $6 an hour in a normal market.
Too high for me too. I’d consider the marginal utility of their self driving more at a price like that. The motor industry is in a interesting place with more of them considering subscriptions for feature unlocks. I think it’s a good thing if it means they can invest more to create better software. I don’t agree with it however and if i buy a car i want to know i own the car and won’t need a subscription to operate features. For example My Mercedes Me subscription lapsed a year or two ago i can’t be bothered to renew it… the features are just not that useful. Considering that many of the Mercedes Me features are free on a Tesla.
N44/45.
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How do you know? Did you work at Amazon at the time? What's with this reflexively hostile posting style?

Tons of people also say Musk is a massive fraud who takes credit for others' work and is simply a cutthroat businessman like Edison without any technical expertise. Your posts sound the same. http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html

Bezos and Musk are, in my opinion, clearly very good at both technology and business.
Perfect - this is exactly what I want vs paying $15K.

Running errands, no need to it. But I drive to clients and other longer trips, this is game changing if I could go full hands off and work during that time.

Uber runs about $100/hr I think - so if I could use my own car and not have to take uber (I often take uber precisely so I can work) then it's perfect. If price is 1/10th of the the marginal cost even better.
I believe CEO pay is the wrong tree to bark up, instead providing a UBI to everyone so they don't need to work, and if people do decide to work then companies will have to compensate everyone competitively vs. other company compensation - and some CEOs may emerge where instead of taking $100million a year, redistribute more of that back into the workforce; this metric can be gamed of course in that compensation can instead be gained in stock.
The title should be corrected - "VW Will _Rent_ You (...)".
Regardless the price, I prefer to own things, so I am not a target customer.
That doesn't even seem apples and oranges, though.

Today, if I want point-to-point, custom flexible timing and start/destination locations, with reasonable privacy and comfort, it'll cost me a lot more than either $2 or $8.5.

For example, a taxi from my home to airport is ~45min and typically costs me $75-$90CAD.

In Ottawa, a taxi trip from hotel to work is ~5-8min and is $11CAD.

So $8.5 for an hour is literally an order of magnitude less than what I'm currently paying.

But after going through the article I still don't 100% get what's the actual model - $8.50 total ad-hoc cost (essentially renting a service)? Or, as it appears, some implicit baseline hardware cost / traditional purcahse (buy a $xx,xxx.99 vehicle), in which case a subscription-based additional hourly cost would only serve to peeve me off?
About enough to pay the wage of a remote-control driver located in a developing country
@wayoutthere In sociology racialization/ethnicization is ascribing ethnic or racial identities to a relationship, social practice, or group that did not identify itself as such.

You will find lots of groups of people who aren't happy about being categorized then defended or attacked by people who are 'speaking for them'.

The obvious current example is the overwhelmingly white US #BLM movement. If you go to a California black neighborhood and talk to people they are v suspicious of BLM's motives. Another new one is the latest acronym #AANHPI (Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander).

I don't enjoy being categorized, pigeon holed and criticized like any other sane person but we appear to be in the midst of a mania for people speaking on behalf of others to push their own agendas.

I heard Tulsi Gabbard (an'#AANHPI POC') use the term racialization of everything recently and think she is sensible and spot on with her one love messaging and pointing out the endless divisions currently being created in societies.

Regarding slavery, I'm sure you're aware there are more slaves in Africa now than there were in the brief era when european and US maritime merchants bought slaves off slavers along with other 'products'? The current specious rewriting of history to imply slavery was invented by colonial white people is so far off base it is a huge danger to society and ignores today's realities. It is also a powerful tool for feeding racialization paranoias.
It's definitely not "just kid stuff" if it gives that impression. There's some seriously talented writers out there that can really grab your imagination.

I recall one "tale" that about a time when SCP failed to secure everything all at once, and a normal guy is detailing the world basically falling apart as long as he can.

In the right hands a lot of these stories could make magnificent movies, but that's a long shot.
I mean Uber costs $100 an hour in NY so thats a huge bargain?
Wrong concept, fundamentally.

"We must extract as much value from every minute of a person's life, in recurring fees!" is the sort of thinking that means I won't "engage with a product." Even if I end up using an objectively worse solution that isn't trying to put a timer on everything in my life and bill for it.

This, and every other modern way of trying to charge for features like this, continues down the path of "Sure, you might hold the title to the equipment, but it's still the manufacturers, and you will use it at their pleasure or not at all." It's more and more true in cars, it's exceedingly true in new farm equipment, and it's nonsense, in all forms.

Sell me a feature I can use as I choose, or don't bother. I don't want an always-on cellular OTA VPN link to the mothership to validate my credit card before engaging cloud-learning-based 5G self driving. I'd like a car I can use to get around, on my terms, with the tracking I choose (I choose none).

Practically speaking, though, since self driving doesn't exist outside some very limited cases, probably won't exist in a generally useful form for a decade or longer, and probably won't handle things I do on a regular basis (passing a tractor on a rural two lane), it's like asking me what I'd be willing to pay for fusion power. Make it work first, then ask.
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That sounds very accurate. Thanks for your efforts, and I bet you actually had a bigger long term impact than you realized. In my past experience with big orgs, it takes people like you to get the ball rolling, and eventually it does pick up momentum, just takes a long long time (not sure what the best way to forecast timeframes is).
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