skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's your takeaway, then I think you need to read this thread again.

1) Nobody is saying that ads aren't profitable or that marketers are throwing money out the window because they are stupid. The discussion is about whether invasive user tracking is effective. Ads can be profitable even though user tracking is ineffective.

2) This thread also is mostly about your very weak argument. You wrote:

> Facebook has created the most sophisticated ad targeting engine the world has ever seen. You want proof? Look at their financial statements.

That's just not a good argument. Who knows, maybe Facebooks tracking really is the best thing in the world, but the fact that Facebook is raking in loads of cash on its own tells us very little about how effective their user tracking is.
It's not a UBI because you have to be unemployed. It does confirm that some people stop working if they receive "welfare" which is not very surprising.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27834324
I gave the presentation in the linked article, here's a written version of the presentation: https://emptysqua.re/blog/paxos-vs-raft/

I hope that the "Paxos vs Raft" debate can die down, now that engineers are learning TLA+ and distributed systems more thoroughly. These days we can design new protocols and prove their correctness, instead of always relying on academics. For example, at MongoDB we considered adopting the reconfiguration protocol from Raft, but instead we designed our own and checked it with TLA+. See "Design and Verification of a Logless Dynamic Reconfiguration Protocol in MongoDB Replication" for details: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11960.pdf
*> "As users see their smartphones weaponized against them, and find few real alternatives, some are expressing fears that Tech Giants are plotting an oblique coup in all but name, and positioning to usurp national governments with their own brands of cybernetic governance. They are building in control and exclusion, disinformation, private digital money and surveillance capitalism into gadgets we seem unable to step away from. I believe this threatens Western liberal democracy, fought for at such cost 80 years ago."

And with this hyperbole I stopped reading.
I’ve also run Gentoo in production. But you have to know what you’re doing more than with, say, Debian or CentOS (RIP)
Doing the money order thing is so inconvenient these days that 90% of consumers will just skip you. It's simply not practical.
> No one is ever going to convince me that the 1% have so much merit that they deserve more wealth than billions of people.

I am not trying to. I am just pointing out the fact that if you want to eliminate the top of the pyramid (the 1%) you will lose the rest of it too.

It is the exact same free-market mechanisms that allows both to exist. And you are not proposing anything better instead.
I learned and got better at meditation which helps me alleviate symptoms I used to smoke for, depression and anger.

Meanwhile, weed would irritate my throat. Also, my dreams are much more vivid and accessible now, while when I smoked I would rarely remember them at all.
Are Americans ready to buy from Ukrainian Startups? A video surveillance service
Wish I had GPT-3 to summarize this article for me.
I mean they already could immediately shut down your account for suspicious activity with no resource so really this is less mild than that.
I'm a big fan of the Rocketbook line of notebooks. You get all the benefits of paper and pen, and then you use the mobile app to scan your notes to email or DropBox or Google Drive or wherever. When the notebook is full you get a wet cloth and wipe it clean.

My only complaint is that they weren't around when I was in college.
Stretching that analogy quite a bit, I'd say Norway is more like a drug producing cartel that has gotten really rich from selling drugs to the rest of the world, but is now half-heartedly trying to stop because they've grown a conscience, but at the same time the hunger for money is so much stronger.

So they're using their riches to at least make it appear that they're really good, conscious people.
I waited on a six month long waiting list to see a pretty common type of specialist in the largest metro area in the US. Every practice and doctor I got in touch with had a similarly long waiting list, even if I paid in advance with cash. Some people will die waiting on that list.
The fact that media can so effectively influence our view of an ideal body has little to do with our awareness about photo manipulation. We know full well photos are touched up and fake. In fact we're at the point now where millions of people are so aware of it that they are routinely editing their own photos to match whatever the ideal being pushed at us in the moment is. Maybe that's "instagram face" or giant asses, hell I remember when it was heroin chic. The point is that we all know it's fake. It just doesn't matter because media tells us what to like/want regardless.
No I wouldn't. Google is not necessarily wrong here. The issue is that you cannot easily 'own' a part of the internet, despite much of our life playing out there.

In the real world, if no one wants to host you and your group, the standard answer is to acquire money and buy your own land, your own broadcasting, etc. On the internet, this is much harder for 'normal' people to do, requiring them to use services like Google.

Look, once parler was taken down, I purchased several servers off ebay, rented colocation space, and set up my own services. But I have the technical know-how to actually 'own' part of the internet without depending on anyone else. Most people can't really do this. Thus they depend on Google, et al, who are not selling them something akin to a land title, which is what people feel they ought to have, but rather a service.

The reason people got Mad at AWS for taking down parler is because to the common man's mind, when Parler pays for its "website" (because let's be honest, that's as deep as most people go), it 'owns' it, and it ought to be able to hold title to that thing in perpetuity, like land. People felt upset because they felt that amazon simply seized what they perceived to be the equivalent of land or personal property.

Of course websites are different because they require active serving by a computer, and parler was paying AWS to do that and Amazon decided not to. But that's not how people view it.

To top it off, people are scared because they don't know how to own anything on the internet. Even tech savvy people have no idea how to purchase or lease IP space, set up servers, routes, etc. It's all very confusing.
Perhaps the market for GP computing just is smaller than.. the market for magic smartphone.

We tend to think everyone needs to do computing, and understand the technology they rely. But I don't understand the magic that goes into the medicine I take. Nor do I have an understanding of how the electricity grid operates. My computer just magically gets power!

The market for commoditized computing is just bigger than general computing. That doesn't mean GP will go away.
With just one hardware profile and their own upstream repos fed from Arch they’ll probably have best of both worlds.
almost a billion people dont have reliable access to energy a large part of them dont have any at all
I think with correct context and or the correct say so this would be fine. But:

I didn't really follow Mr.Bourdain at all, but given the clarity from other people who did, and believe he would have hated this; then it's not the act of making a voice clone that's unethical it's doing it outside of the wishes, or what would be the perceived wishes of that person.

In other words this is unethical because had they gone to ask permission from the estate/whoever could make that call now that Mr.Bourdain is no longer with us they would have likely gotten a no.

It makes it particularly egregious that if these people were so interested in making this clone of his voice that they likely would have followed him closely enough to know he wouldn't have agreed to this if he were alive.

I guess you can boil my position down to without permission, explicit or implied, it's unethical and not only that, legally I'd put it under impersonation.
The more any of these companies start to filter not-illegal content,the less it becomes justified to keep them exempt from liability for the things the _do_ allow. Because at some point we are reaching that 'have your cake and eat it' point.
What would you do to combat the deliberate misinformation campaign that is weakening the US and many other countries? While propaganda and polarization are not new, the speed, reach, and aggregation are only possible with modern communication.

An early tidbit that may have been lost with deplatforming was that Euro leaders also disagreed, citing that only the state could be trusted with that power. However, the US Constitution mostly prohibits that route and it's left to private companies to make up their own minds about what content they want to host.
That's awesome. Looks like his hue is very, very close to YInMn blue, one of my favorite contemporary scientific discoveries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YInMn_Blue
`Magna Carta originated as an unsuccessful attempt to achieve peace between royalist and rebel factions in 1215`
There was a proposal to do this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usp...

It was killed for political reasons.
Positively comedic! Thanks for the funny anecdote! I can imagine the whole situation.
> But certainly prior to June 2015, there was much, much broader tolerance for racist, sexist, transphobic content on the site.

And now it has moved to other, more hidden platforms, where there is noone to write counterarguments, and sometimes (tor, freenet,...) impossible to identify someone who writes actual threats and not just "yo momma so fat..." jokes.
You are basically saying do not get upset about this because maybe it is manipulation. But if it turns out it isn't manipulation, you have successfully tamped down outrage over something that was actually deserving it?
You are absolutely right. If I ran un-encrypted file sharing or torrented something that matched a hash somewhere in some system, yes, absolutely my connection would be shut-off. While I could debate the rights and wrongs of that I take the cowards approach and just shuffle random bits of bytes backwards and forwards.
FWIW El Salvador now accepts Bitcoin as legal tender.
Why would it have to be a bland voice-over? It's an email he sent to a friend. Have the friend read it. I imagine the friend would become emotional. That's far more riveting than a computer recreation, no?
I did the same! Although mine was in the days of Photoshop, I just had to mimic it perfectly. It took me making one that said "kill whitey!" before they started asking kids who was doing it and I got ratted out. When I explained it was a quote from Black Sheep the principal kinda laughed and said "yeah.. I know... please stop?"
Fastchan
The author is wrong, that experiment doesn’t show anything about focusing. The blue channel in RGB is simply much less bright than the green, which means it has much less contrast, which means that manipulating it in various ways has less of a noticeable effect on the image as a whole. This happens to be true for blurring it, but also adjusting the contrast, inverting it, pixelating it, offsetting it, averaging it completely, whatever manipulation you can think of.
I don't want to be a jerk, but if you want to play devil's advocate, you can do the research yourself. I am comfortable believing the old "those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" adage without having a peer reviewed study on it.
Yes, I'd like to see 3 images: A) the original image before it was downscaled to 64x64, B) the 64x64 input to the upscaler, and C) the final upscaled image. So we can compare A and C
They're not trying to shut it down, they're very reluctantly doing so under public pressure. They're stuck between two backlashes.
That's cute too and I'm now convicted it should do the opposite when "dark mode" is on.
You should watch The Doors movie by Oliver Stone starring Val Kilmer. Much of the music, including vocals, was redone with Val singing. It can be quite unsettling at times
I think that's a pretty healthy reaction, pretty much all of human history took place in an environment where investing time an energy in thinking/caring about "the big picture"/"distant future" would drastically lower your chances of survival. Even today there's still plenty of people who have to worry about having something to eat tomorrow.

We're slowly getting comfortable enough about our immediate situation, leaving room to start thinking on a bigger scale. But I think it takes actual effort to say: "ok brain, I understand our immediate situation is important but I think we've got that covered enough to allow us to start caring about the less immediate problems we might face"

I'm a glass half full guy so maybe it's naive but I think we're actually doing pretty well. Climate change sucks and we're pretty slow to respond but you wouldn't expect a hunter/gatherer to be able to see the importance of fighting it. Our situation is different but the brain isn't all that different when it comes to prioritizing things to spend time/energy on. Obesity is a good example of what happens when you combine ancient instincts with modern situations.

Same thing probably goes for racism. We're advanced enough to know better and responsible for our actions but we're dealing with a brain has evolved mostly during times where trusting other tribes and survival of the fittest were Incompatible. Xenophobia had some evolutionary benefit and now we have to deal with it's existence in a vastly different situation.

Like I said, people should know better and have to be held responsible for their actions and we should never be comfortable with the slow rate of change.
Still I like to remind myself every now and then that its amazing how much progress has already been made changing things that evolution hasn't had time to value yet.

This turned out way longer than I expected but it's something I think about a lot. Hope you don't mind me using your comment to finally put some thoughts into words.
"Customer" Tanks don't get all the sweet latest tech that the host country has.

an Iraqi T72 wasn't the same as the WP ones for example.
Leaving the serious engineering difficulties involved in a solar gravitational lensing system aside, such a system doesn't necessarily help in picking up just random omnidirectional broadcasts from an ETI.

Say we had an SGL telescope positioned such to image an Earth-sized planet we know is in orbit of Alpha Centauri A. For ease of math we'll say this Earth sized planet is at a distance such the solar constant is the same as Earth. So that's a total power received from the Sun of 1.74x10^17 watts and with the Earth's mean albedo of 0.3 about 5.22x10^16 watts being reflected off into space.

We can use our SGL to image the planet around Alpha Centauri because it's reflecting 52.2 petawatts of sunlight out into space. So it takes the power of a star reflecting off a disc with a cross sectional area of 1.26x10^8 square kilometers for a proposed SGL system to detect and image a planet.

The amount of power an omnidirectional antenna can possibly emit is somewhat less than 52 petawatts. Broadcast antennas output at most a few megawatts EIRP because there's no utility in blasting out hundreds of megawatts for terrestrial transmission. Such broadcasts just aren't going to be detectable even with gravitational lensing from our Centauran neighbors.

Nor are gravitational lenses terribly useful for beacons since you need the right geometry between the sender, star, and receiver to use the lens. You could use lensing to increase the EIRP of your transmission but only at a specific target. Nobody outside the focal plane of the lensing system is going to benefit from the lens.

SGLs are a neat idea and an interesting topic but I don't think they solve many SETI problems.
Trexo Robotics (YC W19) Is Hiring Mobile and Robotics Interns
This is unfortunate. Hiding the unwanted data doesn't make the problem go away, this only reduces their incentive to address the problem.
the difference is that with computers we have ai and with modern forms of energy we have machines and knowledge previous generations couldnt even think about.
Not much info in this article. Here's a quote from Dr. Eric Topol from today: "I can't emphasize enough how well vaccines are working against Delta, especially preserving their > 90% effectiveness vs severe illness."

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1416062063558893569
> Your moral impetus isn't an important factor in trying to understand underlying dynamic of the situation.

No, but I read the implication of all this whining about business having small margins and not being able to find workers as a call to action to, well, intentionally make people's situation more desperate so they'll work shitty jobs for shitty pay so these business owners can make more money.

> Most small business owners are not particularly rich, and if you add up the risk premium they take on, they're probably not that far ahead at all, if at all.

How is this my problem? They started a business, they accepted the risk, it's their problem.
Obviously we need a third distributed consensus algorithm as a tiebreaker.
The legal system isn't great for this as it tends to listen to the one with the most expensive lawyers, especially in the US. And companies like Google have a lot of expensive lawyers.
The law where? That is part of the problem. Every piece of content would need to have hundreds of flags, one for each jurisdiction in which the content could be viewed. That may not be enough for some countries given how easy it is to fake your origin address. It's solvable but not an easy problem.
The article you cite is not supporting your view. In fact it lists many cases where Airbnb (or short term leases in general) have a significant effect on both sales and rental property supply and is pushing up prices as a result.
Is it? I can move all sorts of distances, in different directions, at all sorts of rates. It's surely harder to go certain speeds than others, and in certain directions than others. But to move 1 year in time - I only have one speed and one direction to move.
Better title: Joe Rogan talks about something he doesn’t understand to an audience who don’t want to understand on Spotify.
The Values Donut
They are ahead of the game; they've both been doing it for a while.
You may (or may not :-) find it surprising that there is a vibrant ecosystem of research and development on both defensive and offensive systems on going to this day. The IEEE used to give a talk about "Black Silicon Valley" which was not about people of color and their contributions (although that would be an awesome talk too) but about the origins of the technology focus in Silicon Valley with regard to radio and RADAR development starting in WW2 and continuing on to this day. When I first moved to Sunnyvale my neighbor worked at Lockheed and all he could tell me was that he worked with electricity :-). He said he hoped that some of the stuff he had worked on was disclosed in the future so that he could tell is kids and/or grand kids about it.

Having gone to school in LA where, at the time, ALL of the EE jobs were in the Defense sector, I specifically moved up to the Bay Area to work on cool stuff I could actually talk about with others[1].

One thing of note is that ageism is MUCH less of an issue in jobs that require security clearances. So a number of engineers who are suddenly perceived as "too old" to contribute to the latest hot startup find themselves recruited by the Raytheons and General Dynamics type companies that recognize their skills are valuable.

[1] As an new college grad [NCG] I was not yet aware of the myriad ways in which employers would use non-disclosure agreements to thwart such conversations.
Not to mention the executive branch "flagging problematic posts for Facebook".

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-administration-flagging-problem...
I remember getting a large-ish IBM storage product 10-15 years ago with a serial number of 1. They actually updated it once someone realized!
So, tangentially, I wrote this: https://git.sr.ht/~bjoli/goof-loop/ it is a scheme looping facility combining the nice things of racket's loops with foof-loop.

It is mostly written in portable syntax-rules. The official documentation documents the last "stable version", whereas the readme documents a bit of the current state. I would love to add conditional branching, but it seems prohibitively hard to do using syntax-rules while also keeping the syntax moderate.

It is pretty portable. A 10 line syntax-case macro for the hairiest bits. The code it produces is easy for the optimizer to reason about, and the guile optimizer makes the code optimal (almost?) all of the time.

Iterate was one inspiration, and so was the holy grail of scheme looping facilities: the one described in the paper "the anatomy of a loop" by Olin Shivers'. If anyone has the code, for the love of god, write me a message!

Edit: and oh, if anyone has any questions about the kind of macrobatic masochism required to write good loop, I am happy to answer them!
>A significant percentage of the U.S. population believes inarguably wrong and demonstrably dangerous things at this point

Yes. Both sides can agree that they think the other believes in falsehods. Since one person has one vote, there is effectively nothing you can do about it.
Every ban adds fuel to the conspiratorial fire. It's something akin to the Barbara Streisand effect.
If you're familiar with Rails, stick with what you know. Often that will be faster than learning a new tool. If you want to diverge and learn something new, you can deploy a full stack application using React/Next.js on the front end and MySQL/PostgreSQL on the backend is a few minutes using Vercel.

https://vercel.com/integrations/planetscale

https://vercel.com/integrations/supabase
Thanks! Are there some specific investment types you'd like to see? And/or perhaps a more general custom investment type with lots of configurable rules/controls? I'd also be curious what your thoughts are on how most things right now are bucketized into cash, taxable, tax-free growth, and tax-deferred. Would it be better to have users configure specific accounts and simulate everything separately at the account level? (trade-off there might be onboarding complexity)
The problem with the conspiracy theory is Ghislaine Maxwell would have met the same fate. It makes no sense Epstein gets wacked in jail but Maxwell outside of jail does not.
Up to a point I recall some one who worked for RAE and was on Salisbury plain and their land rover was over taken at speed by a MBT (well over the listed spec BTW)
John Varley's Eight Worlds[0] series has an alien species called the Invaders. They invaded Earth to protect cetaceans from the effects of human civilization.

The Invaders divide sentient life into three tiers - species like themselves that evolve in gas giants, cetaceans, and vermin; we're in the third category.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds
Human insulin is the insulin humans naturally produce. Analogs provide the same biologic function as insulin but are engineered to have different properties. Like they can be faster acting or stay in the blood longer. This makes it easier for diabetics to manage their blood sugar.

The GP was bemoaning that Walmart is selling the analogs for $70+ instead of the $25 they sell human insulin for.
Don't know what to tell ya; I wont be running into town to grab a pic for you. Local McDonald's is currently advertising on a big sign $17/hr with vacation time. My kid reported that another fast food shop in town is now to $20/hr. I was talking with a roofer a bit north of me two weeks ago. His starting pay is also $20/hr and he can't get anyone. Anyone. He is now down to just himself because he can't get folks.
Less paving is not changing a thing when your village is in a valley downstream of a dam that overflows from massive rain over the mountains.