skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you were able to pass Amazon you could have passed Facebook or Apple

I don't know, I failed Facebook several times and never got an interview at Apple. Getting an interview at most companies isn't that hard, but with Amazon on the resume I'm out of the game for companies like top trading firms and Stripe, Airbnb etc. I think I simply don't have the intelligence to do so. I'm sure some people have the ability to get offers after doing thousands of leetcode problems but I've never met them - everyone I know that's successful has only done a handful and passed their interviews without any trouble.

I've put in the work, but I've gotten nothing out of it. It's hard not to be discouraged by that.
My reading of the paper at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170211015... is that it's all about trying to identify the vague issues and various metrics in Graeber's analysis and make them more quantifiable.

The analysis in Graber's book uses surveys, so there too we can wonder how honest the answers are. The paper points out:

> Graeber (2018: xxii) states that his theory has ‘been overwhelmingly confirmed by statistical research’. This statistical research consists of a YouGov poll of UK workers (YouGov, 2015) and a similar one by human resource firm Schouten & Nelissen of Dutch workers (Graeber, 2018: 6). Graeber (2018: 10) argues that, as it is not possible to calculate social value, we must take the workers’ ‘word for it’ because ‘it’s safe to assume the worker knows best’ as to how useful their job actually is. ... The YouGov survey found that 37% of UK workers say their job does not make a meaningful contribution to the world, while the Schouten & Nelissen survey finds that 40% of Dutch workers do not experience their job as meaningful.

So if we follow Graeber's analysis, then we must trust the survey more than we wonder how honest they were.

The paper says Graeber states "US office workers spent 46% of their time dealing with emails, administrative tasks, interruptions for non-essential tasks and in wasteful meetings" and asserts that that's a BS job, and says 'second-order BS jobs' ar part of the BS job category.

The paper then points out "these calculations violate the methodological principle that workers are best placed to judge the social value of their work. Reporting that one deals with emails, administrative tasks, interruptions for non-essential tasks and wasteful meetings is not the same as saying these tasks are pointless, unnecessary or pernicious."

And the paper says of the YouGov survey: "the YouGov survey item is loaded in that it sets a very high bar for non-BS jobs. Clearly, saying your job does not make a meaningful contribution to the world is not the same as saying one’s job is completely pointless, unnecessary or pernicious, as it could quite conceivably be felt to be useful to one’s nation, community, neighbourhood, customers or family."

Graeber also makes predictions about how there should be different levels of BS work in different fields, and predicts that the number of BS jobs is increases, and predicts "student loans force graduates into BS jobs in order to pay back their debts."

"Despite the weak empirical support marshalled by Graeber (2018) in its favour, his BS jobs theory has been taken seriously by academics, journalists and policymakers. It therefore deserves rigorous empirical testing and below we outline how we propose to do so."
Even though HTTP DEFLATE saves ~20 bytes compared to GZIP, it itself is a wart because of some vendor misunderstandings. HTTP DEFLATE is actually DEFLATE data wrapped in a zlib container, not raw DEFLATE. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression#Problems_prev... ; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3932117/handling-http-co...
My question has a very specific purpose. I'm asking you to back up the following claim that YOU made.

"That's not really what I was getting at, what I was getting at is that creating an environment where people refuse to use proper pronouns or provide even basic accommodation for trans kids is going to make them more interested in medically transitioning, not less."

I don't know whether that statement is correct. But my strong suspicion is that it is the opposite of the truth. That the more we encourage the idea of transitioning, the more interest we create in all forms of transitioning.

Moving on, you ask:

"Do you care if your kid has regrets about the decisions they end up making about their body once they reach adulthood? Or do you care whether your kid is trans? Because those two concerns are completely orthogonal to each other."

The answer is that I care whether my kid will come to have regrets. I don't actually care whether they are trans. I care about whether they are happy.

It is my belief that medical interventions in teenage years are likely to work out poorly for future happiness. I wish I could say that this is an informed belief, but after attempting to inform myself I concluded that good information is not actually available. Still, since that is my belief, I believe that increased odds of a medical intervention implies increased odds of a bad outcome.
A coffee “cup” in the US is typically four ounces, or half of a standard cup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)#Coffee_cup
Evidence-Based Interventions
"Beyond a reasonable doubt" isn't even the only standard of proof in a courtroom! That's only for criminal cases.
Crypto is ‘the future of finance’: Why Gen Z is ditching traditional investments
Not that I believe these click garantueed UFO stories, but the other day I was trying to take a pic of butterflies literally 3 feet away and I barely got anything more than a smudge.

Just saying quite hard taking pics of moving objects even though cameras are quite good...
Yea, identity politics may very well end up going down in history as a social engineering failure of the left based in a misunderstanding of ethics and science.

Similar to how the Capitol Riots could be construed as a social engineering failure of conservative political forces.
Yep. The ATM in my office's lobby (which used to be a bank headquarters, ironically) has a little speaker and you can hear it do the PPP handshake when it connects.
Is it too much if they responded by asking you to use the pronouns real-her, xx-hers, & born-she for her?

Or would it be an implicit acceptance of the presumptions implied?

Would that not matter since it's their identity?
Jacksfilms did that once.
Unfortunately it looks like the exact opposite is occurring: https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-government-an...

The regularity of ransomware has apparently made the expense “ordinary” therefore now tax deductible. Shrug.
Raising 50m seed round for API for GPT-X multimodal
Hello, I am currently building an API and website (apiagi.com) to host and fine-tune GPT-X models of various architectures, with the goal of hosting a trillion parameter model by the end of this year. I am hoping to raise as close to 50m for the seed round. Am hoping to connect with any investors that may be on here. I have already gotten some interest from a medium article I sent out today by VCs at Accel, Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), Atomics Ventures, August Capital, Balderton Capital, Battery Ventures, Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Draper Fischer Jurvetson, The Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Google Ventures (GV), Greylock, IDG Ventures, Insight Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Matrix Partners, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Polaris Ventures, Foundation Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Maveron, MenloVC, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), RHO, RRE, Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures (USV), Venrock, Redpoint Ventures, Morgenthaler.

I just announced today but am hopeful that tomorrow I will have some more interest that leads to a seed round. Feel free to email at info@apiagi.com if interested in participating in the seed round.

The website is not yet functional as the API to power such models bigger than 13b are prohibitively expensive.

To read more about Pi: https://apiagi.medium.com/gpt-4-46188fd22a9c
They go through the entire ip address range scanning specific ports.
Right. There's definitely a time and place to be casual. As a support person, you're your customer's 911 dispatcher.

Please don't make light of their issues. People want to be treated seriously when they're having a problem.

You can't tell people they're entitled for disliking how you're treating them in a serious situation, and call it empathy in the next breath.
The Freikorps were not a useful force for conflict with peer states. The long-lead-time rearmament that Germany started early was gearing up industry and producing equipment. The Weimar efforts at deniable weapons development was nowhere near the open military work of Britain or France.
You're not wrong. The quality of discourse is atrocious even by culture-war standards.

And I do think the culture war is basically to blame here. The lab leak proponents dialed up their rhetoric to 11, early on, without evidence. And the agenda (it can't be described as a "hidden" agenda) includes anti-China posturing as well as a strong undercurrent of undermining the credibility of science and scientists.

I empathize with people in the science community wanting to push back, but Daszak probably crossed ethical lines by covertly organizing the Lancet letter and by not declaring conflicts of interest (he's revised his CoI disclosures, which might be taken as an admission of getting them wrong earlier). It's also legitimate to question whether the science community is too trusting of Chinese scientists.

I do strongly support a real investigation, and am cautiously optimistic we can come to understand the origins. But the actual science story is pretty boring ("we still don't know") compared with all the intrigue. And public discussion is basically worthless, 99% of what's said is trivially derived from "where do you get your propaganda."

I don't have answers to any of this, but appreciate you bringing it up in this way.
"XXXXXXFTHISGUYXXXXXXX" is right lol
So sideloading apps is fine as long as you pay an additional tax of $100. Got it.
Along with dynamic rendering mentioned in other comments, vector data is sparse, so bandwidth is basically zero past a certain (surprisingly low) zoom. Raster tiles are a dense data structure, so you need to bake tiles to the maximum allowed zoom and clients need to download them. High zoom tiles also have higher entropy so you end up with a huge volume of images with low cache hit rates. It’s expensive for the provider and slow for bandwidth constrained mobile users.
They do a monthly scan, with additional spot checks available on-demand:

https://help.shodan.io/the-basics/on-demand-scanning
Aren't a majority of the TERFs specifically 2nd wave Feminists who who do not like the idea of 'passing' as a female being reinforced. This as because they spent their lives fighting so that women did not have to abide by social norms enforced on them. From their POV, since gender is social, a trans-gender person reinforcing the need for transition to enjoy social aspects of being a woman is actively hostile to their goal of making social norms around gender be deemphasized.

The criticisms of transgenderism by TERFs have being a Feminist (in this case 2nd wave) at its very core. Removing it loses a lot of nuance of their specific criticisms.
I believe selective enforcement is a core part of policing in the US. No police agency has enough resources to go after everybody who breaks the law, so they make examples of high profile defendants to deter others.
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Valuable in what sense?

It is interesting to watch dogs being treated like humans, almost like children and that sense of care does not extend to very human neighbours.

I don't get it. Probably because its a cultural thing. Anecdotally, where I am from a dog is a dog and will never get more attention than a person. It's not allowed in the house because that's where people live and if you feel lonely you call up a friend or sibling - not cuddle a dog.

One might get the impression that some cultures place more value in a dog than a person, which is bizzare since it is just an animal.
"At any party I've been to, I've never had success with women by just waiting in the corner for them to find me."

You're missing my point here. I'm saying hang out with groups of people and you will eventually talk with a girl and get to know one that you like. You may have to talk to 100 girls, but just be natural about it-- girls sense when you are faking it with some PUA stuff.

"What I'm saying is the apps provide a much easier, more available way for men to do the pursuit work. That's why I think men swarm to them in greater numbers than women."

Sure, but all the men in this thread are complaining that it's super focused on the pictures -- swipe left / swipe right -- and some are claiming only 2% of the men get a benefit from actually using the apps. So using the app is like a delusion. Just a more efficient way to not get a date.

So I am saying go talk to girls you want to meet in real life. Cut out the swiping.

"Now, if you're the kind of guy that sorta just shows up and suddenly women are handing you their phone number, congrats. You do not have the challenges the rest of us plebs have to deal with."

You know, they say that to get what you want, you have to know what is available first. I do well with women, but with women that would go for me. I'm not going to get the number from that 9/10 who has a beach bod and wants a guy with a muscle car. But what I have learned is that if a girl is single and might be into you, its worth saying hello in real life, or making a joke about how long the lineup is at the grocery, or it doesn't even matter what.

Just creating an opportunity. 100 times ot won't work. But 101th is what you're looking for.

Or move to another country. An American will be considered exotic and new in France, Germany, Asia, etc...on that basis alone you can meet girls.
What kind of database auth did you have? Wouldn't they have had to access config files or related in order to obtain your passwords, usernames, etc?
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Do you feel the same way about race?
Study here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.28.21257993v...
The article doesn't say there is no video evidence. Seems like at least two separate helicopters saw and pursued it. The FBI have enough evidence to describe its size. They may have video they aren't sharing. Odd thing to make up.
Well just have to agree to disagree, but I’ll refer you to the empirical evidence cited by myself and other commenters that ultimately supports my original assertion.
Yep, there's a museum there that'll take you on a bus tour of the boneyard (or at least, it did like 15 years ago or so when I was there).

You can see a bunch of (I think) B-52's with their tails chopped off. Iirc, they did that to comply with arms reduction treaties with what was the Soviet Union. They left them out in the desert like that so that spy satellites (and now Google maps) can spot them and verify that, yes, those planes were really destroyed.
Hey man, I respect that. I also understand your frustration. Reproduction is difficult. I'm going through it right now with a paper that has no code attached. You bet I'm pulling out my hair. I just think taking your frustration out on this paper is not the right vector. Please continue to call out papers that aren't reproducible. Please continue to push forward higher standards. But also recognize where we are and where we've come from. And most importantly, pick your battles. The passion is right, and I agree with the spirit of what you wrote, just not the direction.

And I'm not trying to say you suck. But you said you've been studying the subject for only 2 years. So I am going to check you. It's easy to grow an ego, but it often isn't useful. Sucking at something is the first step to being somewhat good at something. And you're clearly past the step of "sucking" but not to the step of "wizard." I don't know where you are between there tbh. But I do understand the frustration haha. That is normal.

Side note: usually it is good practice to note that you edited comments. It was rather confusing to look back and see something different.
Why are young and inexperienced people doing something stupid? Because they're young and inexperienced (and stupid).

>This includes digital coins and blockchains, like bitcoin and ethereum; meme coins, like dogecoin; NFTs, or nonfungible tokens; and DeFi, or decentralized finance.

All non-productive assets. This won't end well.
The risk here is a lot lower, it’s not really gambling. In this situation, you’re in the same position as everyone else in the country. It’s that fact that means you can more easily slip by without being caught. Not only that but it’s arguable that even people still working were financially impacted by the pandemic, and they could reduce or stop paying rent. A lot of people had pay cuts, or lived with roommates, it’s not hard to justify it. You might not think your stretching the truth or you may think if your the only roommate paying rent that it doesn’t matter at that point.

Back to your example of shoplifting: If it’s a riot and looting is happening, then even people who normally wouldn’t steal or commit often join in. It’s mob mentality. “If everyone is doing it, why can’t I?”
Something I hold as a truism about humans is that most individuals are good and honourable, but collate these good people into a large group and the result is generally terrible and untrustworthy. I don't see any reason why that wouldn't also apply to people in law enforcement.
This is one reason why most of my services are inaccessible from the public internet by design (on private subnets). Live and learn.
The FDA defines it as 8 in this context.
> all we can do is develop and refine systems of guiding people to experience and understand these things themselves

That’s really well put. Thanks for sharing your insight.
Newblur was one of the big alternatives and go-to options when Google Reader shut down their RSS reader. It's a great service.
And, with the push against objective metrics for entering, the castes get ever more solid.
Assuming paying ransoms were illegal[0], arranging for another party to pay it (commit an illegal act) would be an act of conspiracy.

[0] already being signaled: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-treasury-cyber-idUSKBN26M...
There's no need to get defensive, I'm just trying to help because you said you didn't understand why your kid was being unreasonable, and what the line was in trying to support them. I'm sure you have their best interests at heart. Feel free to ignore me fully, I'm just some idiot on the internet.

> However I'm pretty confident that I'm not actually transphobic.

I don't know where you got it from, but the rhetoric you're using in this thread is extremely common in transphobic spaces, for what it's worth. Describing this as an ideology, claiming most girls end up desisting, that transition will "backfire" in most cases, and so on. Trans people recognize this language as coded transphobia, and an attempt to delegitimize them. These claims more or less originate from transphobes and dubious science, which is why I recommended WPATH, which clarifies the many different paths people take in dealing with dysphoria.
That data can be explained by many things. For an obvious example, perhaps the mental health impacts of COVID-19 hit girls harder than boys.
The education system’s admission criteria is heavily correlated with the hiring criteria, even without taking the prestige of their degrees into the account.
Oh good, now I don’t feel so bad.
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For some reason I cannot recall, a friend of mine had me read a bunch of proper radfem terf blogs back in like, 2010. I remember being impressed with the coherence of their worldview, even if it, uh, was not flattering.

Men were all inherently bad, penis-in-vagina sex was inherently rape, lesbians were good, trans-women were infiltrators and trans-men deserters.
You're mixing up vitamins. Meat doesn't contain any vitamin C; it's one of the few vitamins we need that you can't get from meat. And you can eat all the vitamin C you want. It's vitamin A that you have to be careful to avoid overdosing on, particularly from the livers of omnivores and carnivores.
Then wasn't Graeber analysis also flawed as it's based on asking people directly if their job has a 'meaningful contribution to the world', which is a high bar given that a job may 'quite conceivably be felt to be useful to one’s nation, community, neighbourhood, customers or family.'? (Quotes from the paper at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170211015... .)

> Very few people will self challenge themselves, especially if their livelihood depends on it.

Yes. Though the paper points out it can go the other way: "However, these results are sufficient to cast serious doubts on Graeber’s claim that we can take employees’ descriptions of their jobs being useless at face value. Taking inspiration from Marx’s writings on alienation, we suggest, rather, that the meaning of work is socially constructed in the workplace, and poor management and toxic workplace environments can blind employees doing valuable jobs from their true contribution."
That’s not how evidence works, my friend.
At this price point you are barely paying for the IPv4 address. It will be an OpenVZ container.

I had a $15/yr VPS with BuyVM.net for many years and would absolutely recommend them at this price point, except that they have shut down this offering and switched to KVM (it's for the best). Ramnode.com are honest enough and still offer the "192MB SVZ" plan for $15/yr.

I would rather scrape by on the GCS/AWS/Heroku free tier, Netlify / GH pages, ...rather than going back to OpenVZ. Better to pay just a few dollars more for a proper KVM VPS.
Don't forget about the rape allegations.
Curious this got downvoted so quickly, maybe your "hacker" is among us now!

Have you contacted the relevant authorities?
It's not perfect, but you can put counts of points in each cluster (maybe you have count = 5, A_count = 2, B_count = 3 which means that this particular cluster has 5 points total, 2 of which are A and 3 of which there are B). Then you can filter based on these attributes.

The obvious downside of this is that the cluster positions aren't accurate because they're based on points that are supposed to be hidden, but it's fast and doesn't require recalculating.
Sounds like there's an easy solution to that. Just don't allow ransom payments to be tax deductible.
The James demore event is another data point here. His "misogynist manifesto" basically said that google should implement policies that make the workplace better for everyone not just women or whatever minority. I believe one suggestion was to be more flexible with work hours and work from home. This policy helps everyone but has the biggest impact on mother's.
If you're that pessimistic about your front-end code becoming obsolete, I'd strongly suggest looking into ClojureScript with https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent and (if you need SPA levels of coordinated state) https://github.com/day8/re-frame

The up-front costs are certainly higher in terms of the learning curve for the average dev, but it sure beats rewriting the whole thing every few years. reagent dates back to 2013 and has been mostly unscathed by the JS ecosystem churn. I'm under the impression that some (JS-based) React devs catch on to reagent pretty quickly, so the up-front costs might not even be that high.

Fantastic article, by the way!