skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it doesn't work, we can always just go back to letting people starve.

Elderly people already get a UBI in the form of Social Security, and that's politically impossible to cut regardless of whether it's a good or bad idea.

Once you turn it on and people get used to it, you can never turn it off in a democracy.
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity folks are building a C++ based OS and they have discord access
I wouldn't constitute COVID "a tiny bit of financial stress". That list is clearly temporary cuts. Stanford "cut" all sports programs and now they are all back. Your second article states that fans just prefer to watch on TV. Thus, the schools will make it back in more lucrative TV contracts.

But your entire argument lacks the essential point that salaries will be market driven. That, already, most programs cannot pay for their athletes. That scholarships and world class facilities and coaching are more than sufficient compensation. Scholarships again being pennies on the dollar for the university. We're talking on the order of a dozen schools that are willing to pay and 100 players that will realistically get any type of meaningful compensation.
Easier to flee from a baseball bat man than a gun man.

(i'm pro-gun and open carry in the US, but this argument is poor)

BTW, the best argument for pro-gun, pro-open carry are the Black Panthers, and i think an armed marxist, anarchist or antifa movment that focus on autodefense and street occupation is the best way to fight back.
besides vision, humans also have this thing called brain, and reasoning, and instincts, and being able to tell if the object in front of them is e.g. a roof of an overturned truck vs. empty space, etc, etc.

the key word is "etc" which expands into infinite tail, which no big data training on farms of GPUs would ever help with.

Humans and other animals have an ability to understand the scene and generalize from prior experiences to infinite set of new and unexpected circumstances, the "common sense" these dumb curve-fitting models are fundamentally lacking.
> ...in Its History

So how much fraud has it committed?
Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey were literally charged with crimes, and Matt Lauer probably could be. There is no reason in theory that the criminal justice system couldn't handle the cases you brought up. Whether we need Twitter in practice to hold the justice system accountable is another can of worms, but there's a huge difference between calling out criminals that slipped through the cracks and calling out people that did random things we've now decided should be punished despite having no formal process in existence to do so.

I think people are way too impatient honestly. There will be things we will realize should be illegal, there will also be things we think we realized should be illegal but then turn out to be horribly wrong about. If people want next day enforcement there will be a lot of damage caused by these latter cases. I'd much rather a few assholes get off while we work out the proper way to enforce something (if at all).

The problem with allowing the people as a completely unmoderated mob to decide things is twofold - group dynamics make people utterly irrational, and there is little way to hold someone accountable if they falsely set off a mob. There would need to be some sort of anonymous voting function if we wanted to combat the former. For the latter, how about we introduce a formal mechanism for suing a Tweeter for slander?
He made a very good argument for vision-only, but it seems like training actually uses radar data to help calibrate vision measurements, so it seems to me there’s value in making some vehicles still contain radar (say, one out of 10) even if it’s not used for controlling the vehicle directly at drive time.

Also, the sensor resolution issue he mentioned could be addressed by using a higher resolution radar sensor.

I find the list of 221 triggers to be interesting. In principle, the NHTSA or NTSB could help contribute lists of triggers to companies to validate their training sets on.

Every time there is a fatal airliner accident, the NTSB does a safety investigation and airliners get a little bit safer each time. In the same way, each fatal accident in a vehicle with this kind of autonomy could end up being captured by these triggers, improving safety over time in a sort of mixture between expert human analysis and ML.

(Nobody does this for all regular car crashes because fatal car crashes happen every day! And you’re not going to retrain human drivers about some new edge case every day, although you can for vehicles like this.)
Gah, I keep reading this over and over and it's so straw-man infuriating. No one is saying "shut down all offices". Half of the company working from home every day of the week does not preclude the other half from working from an office. We can all actually get what we want here; let's stop pretending this is an us vs. them fight.
First step is probably to avoid 401k rip-offs. You can find details about different providers including Fidelity here: https://www.employeefiduciary.com/sample-fee-comparisons/
You might possibly be able to switch your investments from a Fidelity fund with huge fees to something with normal fees.

For your savings, M1 Finance offers 1% interest, which is better than nothing. IMHO it is a difficult time to start investing your non-retirement money because that the market has gone up a lot recently and bonds are at all times low. I wouldn't feel bad about staying out of things right now until you can learn a lot more.

I would recommend reading everything written by Lyn Alden if you want to learn about all the macro forces effecting finance.
Deliveroo Software Engineering
Anyone got any info on what working at Deliveroo is like as a software engineer?
What is a Judeo Christian, and what are their values, besides monotheism?
There are many things humans do with vision alone that machines can't. For instance see if a person standing 50 ft away is looking at you or at the house behind you.

The human vision system operates at a bitrate equivalent of well beyond 500 gigabits per second. Resorting to "humans can do it with vision alone" is only a sufficient argument if your computer vision system can match that.
What would be great to see is what's the energy balance between tesla towing another tesla at this speed.
Has your health care practitioner suggested a probiotic of lactobacillus plantarum (specifically Lp299v)? This study published in February of 2021[1] suggests it can significantly reduce symptoms when taken daily over a multi-month period. Perhaps something to discuss with the doc if you haven't.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33556972/
Is this part of the billions of dollars they say it takes to develop new drugs?
I really understand your sentiment, and I've been there for long enough myself - but once you have a somewhat decent understanding about gits internal data model, the commands that allow you to clean up pretty much any mess (reset & reflog probably being the most prominent ones) start to somewhat make sense. If you had previous exposure to anything computer-science, it very likely won't take more than a few hours until the puzzle pieces start to come together.

And it's time well-spent in my opinion; git will probably be one of the longer-lasting constants in software development.
Is the media driven by aligning with peers? Or is it driven by putting out the story that will maximize clicks/engagement?
Listen to him. He speaks jive.
Lead from leaded petrol persists in London air despite '90s ban
Maude Adams, Actress and Inventor
They most likely did this so they can extend their patent rights on the drug.

By continuing to "reframe" what the drug does, they can continue getting new patents for it almost in perpetuity.

It's a pretty common trick Big Pharma has been using these past few decades.
Guns do not shoot on their own, people shoot.
Plenty of valid reasons to be a misanthrope, in my opinion. General distrust of people can be valuable, and my experiences have reinforced it.
Lisperanto – in browser IDE for Lisp-like language
This is a toy project and this is only a beginning. The goal is to have a sandbox where you can write some functions without installing additional software.
I had a close circle of friends that were pretty anti-establishment in ~2010. We bonded over beers and whiskey, and deep discussions of the news media control of information and thought, and the lobbying power of big pharma.

Many of them don't really talk to me much anymore. I've grown more skeptical of the news media and big pharma. A few of them are silent only because they're dead after moving from recreational prescription opiates to heroin and eventual overdose. But the majority that I don't see anymore, I suspect their reasoning is that I'm too far "alt-right", or "anti-science". At least based on their social media posts before I deleted my accounts. I still don't trust big pharma any farther than I can throw a multi-billion dollar industry. And I still believe the same logic we all shared, that the news media's top shareholders and board members are not primarily interested in the free exchange of information.

I don't doubt that I've shifted positions in 10 years. Though, I feel they have somehow shifted position even more. It saddens me to have lost those close friendships. I think society is changing at a more rapid pace than it did previously. The internet and social media are likely partially to blame.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this. It's my day off and I've had a couple afternoon beers while doing chores. Probably just getting something off my mind on what was one of the few remaining rationalist websites. Though I feel like even here the tide is changing. Sad times, friends.
I interviewed and got the feeling that people were not especially happy there. When I asked what they liked about AWS, 3 said "the stock price going up"
If you work at a top-tier company, you'll meet lots of people who can get multiple offers from top-tier companies. They are bright, but usually not geniuses. And they are often a bit obsessed with puzzles :)
Yes I agree. If you’re going to use git (whether by choice or force) it is 100% worth learning the small set of commands required to undo a screwup without needing to reclone.

Recloning to me is a bit like tearing your house down and rebuilding it just because you painted your living room the wrong colour (in most cases!)
Golden handcuffs? More like golden shackles.
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It does delete whatever uncommitted changes you had.
There has also been fraud where clinical trials are held in China with questionable results. Pay for good results being the allegation.
Discovered this after having crazy side effects to eliquis.
A number of my doctors have noticed problems with it, but prescribing doctor was in full denial of problems.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/r-d/fraud-found-at-china-site-...
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You’re forgetting that those metrics are hugely important to tumblr because those metrics are hugely important to tumblr’s customers: advertisers. The reason they claim the policy change was necessary in the first place.

I don’t know what you mean by “business boy hat” - could this be a typo?
I totally agree. Do people really think a bunch of 16 year olds are going to pay attention to a class where you learn how to do your taxes or learn about the time value of money? The people who need this information the most were also 100% the last people on Earth who'd have paid attention to a class where it was taught, at least at my school. Our focus should be simplifying the way our systems are structured and protecting people from being taken advantage of by corporations who do know what they're doing.
Who owns those 31 nodes? Who gets to choose which nodes are part of the calculation?
I generally agree. The thing is, the actions you listed (like survival and power structure stuff) are actually reasons to be a misanthrope, as in having a general distrust of people.
Are you a victim of terrible API documentation?
If someone saves an image for private use, that doesn't interfere with limited public availability.

> If you enjoy an image so much that you're willing to go to the effort to get the image, why not acquire the image throuh legit method?

Do you make the same argument when people use a VHS? If you're willing to go through the effort to press the record button, you should go buy a copy for $20?
> All other encoders are basically configured by saying "I want to use this scaling factor for the quantization tables, and let's hope that the result will look OK".

crf in x264/x265 is smarter than that, but it's still a closed-form solution. That's probably easier to work with than optimizing for constant SSIM or whatever, it always takes one pass and those objective metrics are not actually very good.
So, if you have done harm to someone, are you going to prioritize helping those you have hurt move forward, or are you going to prioritize your reputation?

I don't think the mob mentality of destroying someone who has hurt others with no way out is helpful or appropriate.

But if we want to be good people who treat people right, then we realize we have hurt someone severely, we try to make it right -- even if there will be a cost to our reputations, deserved or undeserved. Even undeserved. If it's the cost of making it up to someone you have hurt severely, that's how it goes, even undeserved.

Valuing only our reputation against the mob and not the well-being of the people who we have hurt and want to try to make it up to -- is sociopathic behavior. Refusing to ever admit, even (or especially) to ourselves that we have hurt someone is sociopathic behavior.
The poor fellow at Amazon can always go to Zillow or Microsoft not really the same as deaths of despair here.
Łukasiewicz's “The Principle of Contradiction in Aristotle”
No. They are "programmed" in languages entirely unlike anything we are used to (at least for now).
As someone who has recently gotten the Pfizer vaccine, this title alone damn near made me evacuate my bowels
That’s irrelevant they give you the same amount in “signing bonus” with a 55/45/0/0 “vest”.
Before social media, it was normally considered impolite to discuss religion, politics, or other sensitive topics in the presence of people you don't know well. I think this is probably good advice on social media, though people forget it.

I don't think it's self-censorship so much as a thing humans do to maintain the fragile network of relationships that holds society together. There are all kinds of things we want to do but refrain from doing in order to be polite: is not picking your nose in public self-censorship?
The input data to an encoder is very simple since it's just pixels. It's possible to find a crash but it would be surprising to find an exploitable one.
This has to be the most NEXT-LEVEL web based painting tool I've ever seen or used...super cool and kudos to the creator!!!
> Maybe in the future clean power can be generated from pulling down mountains.

it takes a lot of power to dismantle mountains and load them onto trains. and folks get real grumpy about mining operations leveling off mountains.
I feel like dragon book focuses too much on formal math

this is great:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25386756
If anything, [GNU/Linux] would be more relevant.
This interview with Richard Kuklinski is an interesting data point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Hb2oRhrLM

There's some evidence that he didn't kill as many people as he claims, or work with the mob as he claims, but he's definitely a serial killer in any case.
>It's grounds for being, say, thrown out of a nightclub. But not fired.

In the US this broadly isn't true, employers can fire someone even if they haven't done anything illegal
Southwest Chief is the king of western Rail routes. Air conditioned car and the phenomenal almost alien beauty of the desert southwest. No reason to take it past ABQ however.
I didn't raise the topic, I consider the comments I posted as perfectly reasonable, I have not posted anything I would consider off-topic to the original post, nor have I posted "flamebait". Nor do I find anything I posted "tedious". If that's not enough, why not explicitly expand the guidelines (which are v. subjective), rather than leave it open to ad-hoc policing?

When you describe my comments as "flamebait" you are making a personal, non-subjective judgement, and are thereby justifying the very tactical downvotes I am complaining about. Now the very people flagging these questions will continue, thinking "even the mod agrees with me". Not only are you not helping, you are contributing to that.

Let me ask you this: have you ever warned (or publicly so) someone for flagging a perfectly reasonable comment? Because that's flamebait. That's what pisses people off. It's in your power as mod to curb that. Why not reverse these[0] malicious flaggings, instead of warn people like me for complaining about it?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27578904
We should be skeptical of them. Though, very few of us have the knowledge, expertise, or resources to do so effectively. Better to pool our resources and create an organization to handle that for us.

It's not a perfect system, but the general trend over time has been for it to get better. One of the great ironies here is that, the better the FDA gets at finding problems, the more people criticize it for not finding problems. It's so difficult to consistently remember the full implications of the principle that absence of evidence is not, in and of itself, evidence of absence.

This case is particularly interesting because it happened immediately before the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, which included a considerable strengthening of the US's preregistration requirements. This clamped down on a way that pharmaceutical companies game the system that the general public, and even the majority of doctors, is ill-equipped to even understand, let alone push back against.

Granted, that act didn't, I don't think, include anything specifically about off-label usage. So it's somewhat tangential to the issue in question. I'm more trying to point out the shape of the situation. It's sort of a game of 4D chess, and, if one side were to be playing it in a purely "Twitch plays Pokémon" fashion, it would be at a severe disadvantage.
Towing rope is legal in Germany, but you are only allowed to tow a car to get it out of the way and to the nearest repair opportunity after it has broken down, not for general transport - for that, it needs to be completely off the ground.
> This is either a weird rhetorical device you're using to discount opposing viewpoints (they're all just trying to "escape the reality of their own failed lives"..."they are worthless"), or some sort of Jungian projection.

This is the long winded version of "no you".

> Sexual harassment is an enormous problem in every industry. People who just want to do good work and be a part and contribute become targets for predators who objectify, diminish and harass. Culturally it became not okay and people realized they were heard and that these people could have consequences.

You think OP is guilty here, with no basis.

> A lot of people get riled up about such cases because they have faced similar situations themselves [see also how instances of racism/bigotry can become viral -- it taps into a latent anger]. It becomes cathartic and representative. A movement.

It's cathartic - exactly. It is for THEM. No one expressing their outrage truly cares about the victims - it is just porn.

> And the creeps of the world surely must have taken notice by now. The imagined Lothorios can stick to actual social events because it's pretty established that it's not a good idea at work, or anything remotely work related (including trade shows and conferences).

You think OP is guilty here, with no basis.
If I were them I would spin off the adult stuff into a sub-brand. It can be the same technology, administration, ops, everything. Seems easier than strangling the goose that lays golden eggs.
I don't believe it's passion. You could easily study history at the undergraduate level for zero cost. Nevermind reading on your own - if you just showed up on the first day of class and acted like you are a student nobody would check. You could probably just tell the professors you just wanted to listen. I can't imagine they'd say no. I think very few people do that.

I think it's not passion but just a general social pressure towards getting a college degree. On top of that, history, or the humanities, is a pretty easy degree to get. Students who like history more than their options will go there, not from passion, but a desire to get a degree at least cost.
> So, elaborate on your model of the world. Shouldn't the logistic employees already be leaving in droves since they're not getting stock? Why aren't they?

Wait, does “logistics” include warehouse, where the article mentions they had reached 150% annual turnover prepandemic? Sounds a lot like “leaving in droves”.
>Maybe in the future clean power can be generated from pulling down mountains.

With added bonus efficiencies from combusting the coal that fortuitously falls out!
Very few people possess the knowledge and expertise to judge the actions of pharma companies. Their only option is to demand transparency and trust the vetting at multiple third parties who do have the knowledge and expertise, such as FDA, CDC, WHO, NHS, or other similar organizations.
Yeah and that’s terrifying, people are crazy.
That's excellent! I'm stealing that.
I used GIT recently for tracking an SSIS package and despite many commits I still have no idea whether I should use a rebase or a reset or a hard reset. Reading the manual does not help. I just simply want to undo a mistake. Glad I am not the only one who feels dumb about this.
I would definitely cut PE.

Most of it amounts to moving around for 30 min and you get graded on wether you brought a change of clothes.

Thats not to say PE couldn't be useful. Physical fitness was never my strong suit in highschool and PE did nothing to change that.

After making a good salary in a startup, I worked with a personal trainer and learned about muscle hypertrophy, starting strength and general strategies for conditioning along with diet with particular goals. Maybe if we taught that stuff in PE, it would be worth keeping around.
I’ve also brought up the Black Panthers in this context.

Both you and the other reply are correct, it’s easier to run from the bat-man. But, as you probably know, most people can’t hit anything with their sidearms beyond 20 feet away. And you may not be able to run away. There could be a baseball bat gang. Or there could be other people who need your protection; or you could be injured or disabled.

But, more generally, I’d like to know why my argument is poor. One of the points in favor of allowing people the use of guns for self defense is that it helps the weak defend against the strong; and it helps anyone to defend against others with deadly weapons, whether firearms, bats, knives, or fists. Isn’t that so?
Jokes aside apparently people can do this while still breathing through their mouth
> Here's a better question: Why?

Profit.

There are a lot of people with USDC locked up in the contract and they might be willing to pay a share of it to unlock it.