skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latest Mac OS has a Status Menu bar icon that gives you play/pause for all playing items, including specific browser tabs.
As a researcher, I'm not sure why you didn't have a preprint copies as all other authors I have met did.
Media mix modeling is well-intentioned but in reality a huge overpromise and highly profitable way for data scientists to snow/fleece their advertiser clients.

(More detail.. it's a bit like the Fed's inflation data: when you can manipulate the constants at will, introduce fake data as proxy for missing data, etc.. the ways and means to force a desired result are endless)
Maybe because "organizing society" according to some grand central plan isn't actually a very effective strategy.
A closer model is a Control Flow Graph (CFG): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-flow_graph
Care to name any sites? I've always managed to find workarounds for everything I've wanted to follow. Most websites want to be indexed by search engines, and googlebot doesn't do javascript. So sometimes a forged user agent is all you need. Occasionally, finding the actual json file and parsing the info you need out of it does the job. etc.
> Any philosophy that just asserted that the Universe has meaning was a non-starter, for me.

> Humans create meaning in the face of an uncaring, indifferent Void.

I hope you realize that your assertion, which asserts a complete lack of meaning, is just as strong as the philosophies that assert meaning. To me, both are non-starters.

To make progress one has to question the framing of the problem, which is actually what most of the continental philosophy enlightenment onwards was about.

Maybe meaning already requires consciousness that looks out at the world, so it would be a contradiction to claim the things in themselves has meaning. (subjective)

Or maybe there is meaning in things themselves, but there is an intelligibility problem and we can't have a sufficiently comprehensive representation of it internally. (objective). Think it as the model file not fitting a single machine.

Or maybe meaning is a process that requires both the conscious looker and a meaning in things themselves, and is dynamically loaded. (neither subjective nor objective). It can still be constrained by cognitive capacity or intelligibility, but maybe we're doing a pretty good job at it nonetheless because we are able to conform to reality in an adaptive manner, and survive better than any other species with our modeling. Also we have been coming up with technologies to beef us up on the intelligibility and capacity fronts; like invention of literacy!

So maybe existential depression is a mere stuckness in a local minima of this meaning making process between the conscious looker and objective reality, in no small part thanks to our current philosophical and other institutions really sucking at training us on the dynamic loading process. Nor we have the supporting education to leverage the collective intelligence of the best of the humanity (remember, we've invented literacy, but what is the use if we don't read the most important stuff on this matter?). Without these constraints addressed, "there is definitely no meaning" sounds to me like giving up on looking for one's keys because they are tired and don't feel like they have made any progress. I am not saying there are definitely keys either, but it is a worthy endeavor to try getting better at looking for it at least.
> I can stake coins, unstake them, and then spend the coins. Now I've got a free license to mine blocks without risk of slashing

Except you won't because you'll have to wait so long to be able to use the old coins that you'll miss the window of opportunity. Also, it doesn't matter because you need > 50% of the actively minting coins in order to succeed anyway. And if you had that, you don't need to worry about being slashed at all.
> Narcissist sociopath. I'm a huge fan of dry humor (and British) so should be able to read sarcasm or dry humor but he just annoys me. Putting "as a millioaire" in video titles is the most crass thing I've seen.

You would describe someone as a narcissistic sociopath from the basis of your web psychoanalysis?
Layers of a Design System
As someone who used to work at Gusto:
Two separate opt-ins are required - one from the employer for adding Truework to their account, one from the employee to share the information for every request.
Not crypto, not your money.
Did you see the work being done on CIRCT? https://github.com/llvm/circt

I remember one of the reasons you did not want to use firrtl was that its compiler is implemented in Scala and thus hard to integrate into other projexts. CIRCT will solve that problem by providing a firrtl compiler implemented in C++. Other languages like Verilog/VHDL and new high level languages for HLS-like designs are also on the todo list.
Thanks. I'd love to know more about it
I think this was meant to be taken as a joke, or someone got a hold of the Twitter account by mistake.
The initiative is apparently to introduce “basic incomes”, plural, which is presumably determined based on local economic circumstances. Not sure how that reduces “regional disparities” and achieves “territorial cohesion”, though.
The previous discussion of that article on HN seemed to point to those numbers being totally unsuported. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25262834

Obviously I would love those perf-per-watt numbers to be correct, but it doesn't seem like they have shown it yet.
The trouble with using a hammer is that you'll need to break the flash chips themselves. Breaking just the board isn't enough if the contents are not encrypted. The chips are easy for an adversary to identify, but difficult for an average consumer.

I have no idea what a magnet is supposed to do to flash chips, though. I thought that only affects magnetic media like hard drives.
In a writeup on WeChat https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MAkxKZ1eS4UwBkvgD91Xng , Prof. Bao Yungang mentioned that one reason for starting the project was that they felt the barrier of contributing to Berkeley's BOOM https://boom-core.org/ was too high, pointing out that only 8 people contributed more than 100 lines.

So at least they're aware of the problem, although that doesn't guarantee that they'll fare better in terms of attracting outside contributions.
No reason why the UBI needs to be a flat universal rate rather than adjusted based off local economic factors.
Exactly, this is one of the main reasons to use crypto in the first place.
Labor laws, entitlements, taxes, and other public policy are “organizing society”, and based on quality of life metrics most of Europe is crushing it. Sounds effective to me. I am an American living in a third world country in a first world suit, so I am admittedly biased.
That's a good approach honestly.

I tend to just check for an @ and call it a day, validate it by emailing it and giving them a link to click if I need them to.

It's really the only way to ensure it's a valid and active address. People just don't want to build it.
Would be amusing if it became a shibboleth to the extent that adding it to your resume in a clearly joking way would help you get an interview.
I'm not saying the math is insignificant. It's just that, if you agree in principle that a significant part of coding is making the code legible to other people, the question still remains -- why is math usually a required part of a CS degree, but you never hear CS degrees require training of technical(?) writing skills?
> Once the software is written, there should be no more cost.

You'd need to include a Secure Enclave chip or something like it in each device. That adds cost. I've worked with IOT hardware vendors before. They will argue with you over 128K of RAM because of the cost. Every extra chip, every ounce of weight hurts their profitability at scale.

> A simpler approach is, before recycling electronics, a couple blows with a hammer on the circuit board ought to take care of it.

But then you can't reuse it. The whole point is to resell it to avoid e-waste.

> It's why I was always amused by people worrying that an electron microscope could retrieve data from a hard disk drive rewritten 6 times. Yah, nobody's going to do that.

The NSA would do that to a recovered Russian or Chinese hard drive.
That's a very good question. On the surface, the idea seems to be helping people write code faster - but as you observe, properly auditing generated code is more work than actually writing it from scratch.

Best I can think of in terms of real value delivered, is helping people with first drafts, breaking through the "staring at an empty page" problem. But even with this, I feel it's too risky compared to doing a StackOverflow search, where you can at least see some explanations, discussions, and other relevant context.

It's definitely an interesting vision demonstrator - despite not being quite there, it lets us see that a tool like this that actually worked well (in terms of generating correct, explainable, license-respecting code) would be very useful.
This all sounds extremely cool. What is the base espresso machine you are building this on top of? Do you have a blog where you document your process?
An example of the problem is that in the UK those below 13yo cannot give consent to telemetry.
Audacity is used in their public schooling system.
Newer versions of Audacity will not be usable by those students anymore.

Roughly.
UBI is supposed to be a baseline guarantee, so it would be quite OK to size it for the cheapest, least developed areas in the EU free-movement area. This should be coupled with very low or non-existent taxation of entry-level wages, so this "low" UBI would still be a meaningful subsidy even in the wealthiest areas of the EU.
I don't understand how you can compare someone being lit on fire to someone being fined for not returning a tray or someone carrying a knife in public.
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It's not uncommon for Owners to be pissed off by their own cheaper-now decisions. The Owner and the Contractor spend all day on site talking about how stupid the Designers were...which is easy because all their mistakes are right there on paper.

Anyway, the Owner's underlings are the Owner if they have the authority to approve changes.

And if you saw the Owner pissed off, then it is not unlikely that they are the sort of person who blames others for their errors.

As for the distribution of the money, everyone probably got some except the Design team...it's the sort of change that the Owner and Contractor collaborate on despite the professional opinions of the Design team. And so the Design team can wash its hands of responsibility since they did not get paid for the extra work of changing the design (which is why the design documents differ from the asbuilts).

Or to put it another way, with any substantial size building everyone was sitting around the table when the option was discussed and the Design team walked the site prior to approving the Contractor's pay requests for plumbing labor and materials.

There are lots and lots of checks and balances in even below average construction projects. Swapping PVC for copper throughout is not the sort of thing that goes under the radar.
> I don't assume that planning an economy would require solving NP-hard problems to outperform the market because I am certain that the market itself cannot solve them efficiently.

That sounds to me like an ideological position, which is fine of course.

But the question arises, if solving distribution problems requires a participant to solve NP hard problems as you've said (I'd appreciate a link to that paper whenever you can get around to it, I seriously do want to read it and am not just shouting "source", same goes for the distributed planning in anarchist planned economies we were discussing in another thread) then how would that not be true for a machine? Either the problem is NP hard or it isn't, regardless of what entity is trying to solve it.
How would that work in practice? Wouldn't people just move to the higher UBI areas?
> Depression is basically self obsession.

While there's something to this claim for common and mild forms of "depression", it's far too trivial a soundbite to truly capture what's going on with depression. If it were true, then volunteering at a soup kitchen or something equally selfless would quickly cure depression, no matter how treatment-resistant. It's simply not the case.
All the major platforms ban anyone who presents a right-leaning viewpoint, including the former President.

Google is even blocking emails from gettr.
I can choose between 50/10, 500/100 and 1000/200. Some providers stop at 1000/50, though.
100% on consultants! esp. for advisory after funding, great way to both get steady bursts VP level help, and potentially, mutual trialing before bringing them on full-time ("director of X"s getting ready to go VP, ...)

re:specialists, i think the near-term + ultimate answer is "both". my reasoning was lacking an initial unicorn advisor, an experienced startup person should be in a better position to help identify the gaps, e.g., whether needing an insider, and if so, what kind of one in particular, how to find, how to vet, etc. In contrast, most insiders, unless they've actually started their own product company, are like the blind men and the elephant, and don't realize how tiny of a view they have. as a concrete example, if doing something like gov contracts, world of diffs between say an ex-general, an ex-agency-cto, an ex-procurement officer, an ex fed vp sales, etc., and each may be individually brilliant + connected to diff networks + appropriate for helping diff co's.

a wonderful thing is for most smart people, "the first meeting is free", so not hard to get great advice from prospective people on this stuff!
perhaps the corporate religion worships and values wealth. similar to the Ferengi in Star Trek.
To me rationality is a pretty important normativity, not that I am after it for power.

But since you seem to precisely know what I think, exactly how powerful should I feel about it?
I did not read this proposal, but if it is meant to pass as an EU directive, it will then require the member states to ratify it as an actual law, following the general principles contained in the directive. So for example, if the EU directive that passes says "The amount of the UBI has to be between 50% and 80% the average salary", the countries can set a number that way, which can be revised or not in the future, etc. That's how it usually works, for example PSD2, about payment services, had general ideas that obviously member states implemented differently in the details.

In theory, if a member state implements a directive in a way that is not faithful, it might risk a fine from the EU, but member states generally do not care much about it, I am not even sure if all of the fines that have been issued in the past have been paid...
How to manually add existing certificates to the Fastlane match
I eagerly checked it out and then realized that they pay model is Subscription - the latest plague of the internet. There are very few things where subscription is appropriate and this is not one of them.
How would children not be taking a risk against their will being forced to have a vaccine linked to acute myocarditis? (Pfizer)

Public health is not an excuse to force things on people against their will. No one is hurt by continuing with mask culture, and until a child cohort study of sufficient size is completed, with no red flags we should continue to wait and see as the numbers roll in.

I have no desire to see the mistakes of Thalidomide repeated. Do not fuck around recklessly with biology. It is more complex and unintuitive than your wildest imaginings. Given the Yolo approach applied with recent questionable approvals, FDA has some quality work to do.
Solid took what in theory everyone knew would be the best approach to UI tree manipulation and composition, and made the theory come true: reactive fine-grained updates.

The concept isn't new. For example, fine-grained reactivity existed in old frameworks like Knockout.js, in Qt before web frameworks, in alternative frameworks like Aurelia, and even in Mobx with React.

But Solid finally makes the concept have it's theoretical potential fully realized.

Definitely worth checking out!

I also wrote an article that has some additional reasons to love Solid that aren't listed in the above release article:

https://dev.to/trusktr/a-few-reasons-why-i-love-solid-js-403...
Ok, I can agree with that.
I tried a lot of "Music for programming" but found out I'm not a fan at all.

My favorite music for programming is the soundtrack from the video game Stellaris[0]. It has the "Interstellar" vibe but less dramatic and more tranquil, making it perfect for programming IMO.

[0] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyH4vonV9j1vPfAgU6wUZ_7A5...
So they just don't consent to it? The telemetry certainly isn't mandatory; it isn't even enabled by default from what I can tell.
Probably sprintf(), but same idea, I’d assume. Accidentally passing the user provided string (the SSID) as the first parameter (format string). Too bad Apple’s release notes aren’t descriptive enough. We’ll probably just get “a maliciously crafted network SSID could cause issues requiring a full reset to fix”.
> It's time to eradicate bitcoin.

The real problem is the Bitcoin <-> Fiat exchange. Eradicate the exchanges, that will return Bitcoin to its roots, where it was supposed to replace cash, not transfer it. You want Bitcoin? You don't buy them with USDs, but provide some product/service and accept Bitcoin as payment.

Yes, criminals will get increasingly creative, starting a game of cat and mouse, but in the end it will be too much effort compared to traditional cash bags and money laundering.

Bonus: the value of BitCoin would be unlinked from the value of USD, it would become a parallel economy.
The higher UBI areas would also be higher cost of living areas so in the right setup there would be little incentive to move just for UBI benefits.
Isn't that what GPL allows, and is what the AGPL is for if you don't want people to take your code and host it as an online service?
How large companies can manufacture profits to permit dividend payments
Wow, that's quite a strawman/bait-and-switch from the article; thanks for highlighting it.

If Copilot is just a machine -- a glorified typewriter -- then the machine's operator is responsible for its output.

Or does the author seriously want to claim that any code added via Copilot to a proprietary codebase would not be proprietary as well? If that were true, Copilot's userbase is going to be...limited.
This is from the early days of modern operational security. This would be far more difficult today. If only the bomb makers had talked to the ketchup people at Heinz. Rumor has it that Heinz regularly purchases extra ingredients, disposing of the extra bits on site, so that nobody can infer their secret recipes by counting what goes into the factory. Given the security budget for protecting nukes, it should have been simple to double-order both lithium and thorium.
I just tried it, and it's great! Thank you.
If you want to feel like a 1337 hax0r while coding, try out the Bourne movie soundtracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx4Gb5TK0qw
Everything humans build is accused of being an "aesthetic nightmare". Houses, roads, farms, feed lots, cities, etc. This is not a good argument against building important infrastructure.
That is a fetus brought to term, between an embryo and a fetus there is a lot of conceptual space. This premature fetuses are basically fully formed creatures but small, we have no idea how to do the first part.

Also again: we're doing this looking at a working plan, it's different from guessing how one for an extinct animal may look like.
Agile in it's original form - yes. Many everyday biz versions of agile et al - No.

Fundamentally, dev is something to negotiate with, cooperatively, versus commanding "do what I say"-style. Many businesses are unable or unwilling to do away with this top-down hierarchy, hence agile will never succeed there.

The agile they practise instead is "Agile, but without actually relinquishing top-down control".

TBH, I think what we are really missing is for the development team to be a contract team (ala Accenture) that can implement agile via official mediums e.g. pushback via contractually negotiation, backlog prioritisation via contract pricing ("we can do that, but this is what it'll cost").
But that is complicated and expensive.

Could you elaborate? I'm not an expert in this area:

What makes this so complicated? As a non-expert in any moderate cryptography, it seems like it should be straightforward?

When you say expensive, do you mean computationally, dev time, or specialized hardware?

To to whoever answers for helping my curiosity.
But you got in!
If you really want to rebut his comment, tell us how it would work ( including where the money would come from ). Your comment is as lazy.
That is a little confusing, "World Organization" seems to be a pet rescue charity?

I'm trying to figure out what the guy's interest is, how he is doing this research, and why academically-affiliated researchers are working with him (because that's potentially a positive sign for legitimacy). Apparently he previously authored a study saying that the MMR vaccine could keep people safe from covid: https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mBio.02628-20

The Daily Beast of all places has a pretty negative article which as a bit of a profile of him: https://www.thedailybeast.com/beware-this-covid-19-vaccine-s...

I don't know enough about this field to know if any of the journals involved are reputable.
> For the example of proof of work the assumption is that every human can own and dedicate about the same amount of computing power.

I'm not aware of anybody proposing that bitcoin would be a democratic protocol. There were other proposals that were intended to be democratic, but this was explicitly rejected for bitcoin. You might say that bitcoin was intended to be computationally secure against democracy itself.

> Everyone else now trusts the miners on the basis of aligned incentives

Not really. It's on the basis of cost. Let's say you want to reverse a transaction. First you have to have >50% of the network hash power, which means you need to procure >100% of the current hash rate. That would take at least 2 years and $10B. But let's say you bought 300% of the network hash rate, so you own 75% of it. Great. Now you're two years behind, and at 75% it will take you 4 years for your fork to catch up, so 6 years total. Congratulations, now you've caught up and have the longest chain. Oops, nobody cares; only the main chain coins can be traded for coins, cash, goods, or services. You just spent a huge amount of money to prove that there is no such thing as a 51% attack on a UTXO blockchain.

BTW, not so for a stateful blockchain like ETH/ETC. 51% can take control immediately. The difference is that verification on a stateful blockchain doesn't require proof of origin, just consistency with state. A 51% attacker can easily manipulate the state if they maintain control long enough, just by broadcasting their chosen state to any incumbents. Sure, they could do full verification, but, nobody does that. Most full nodes take a while just to sync from the snapshots, never mind genesis.
Staking takes a few clicks, mining require physical setup, maintenance, rent, buy, to me that’s orders of magnitude more steps than staking.
> I prefer to be a test subject to a virus rather than get a safe vaccine, even though the virus has been proven to be worse than the vaccine in 99.999% of cases.

Big logic time. Between the people who question everything and the others who believe science is a religion I would hope most people find a middle ground