skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not actually neutral; that's letting harmful content spread at the speed of Internet discourse. We already know, for example, that they aren't going to allow Google Docs to be used to wide-cast child pornography. They never have. It appears the only change is that they're adding new categories of misinformation to the "harmful content" list.

When you have a reach like Google, neutrality isn't an option. And their mission isn't neutrality anyway; it's "To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Dangerous misinformation coming from a google dot com domain isn't useful.
The animations are really nice. Does anyone have a guess what tool they're made with (based on font or other hints)?
We don’t think lies about the vaccine or who won the election are noble causes worth making sacrifices for.
I just wanted to say that your deprocrastination.co Chrome extension is quite good and very helpful (I am just using the free version). Your blog posts are also quite nice. Quite exciting to see these course materials, excited to delve into it!
They also receive the least benefits.

But I think it's reasonable to assume (though I'd be interested in a study on this), that over a lifetime a person will have paid for all of its unemployment benefits.

You can't be on unemployment forever, and you can't just go on it year over year, because there is a minimum amount of wage/work-hour you'll need to meet to be able to go back on unemployment if you're laid off again and have expired your allocated benefits (as I understand).

That means that any worker going on unemployment can only get so much benefits per amount of time working or wages accrued.

That's why I think over a lifetime, most people pay-back all of their benefits.
Yes, you can write down Cantor's diagonal proof. But if you're careful about it, you find that the diagonalized thing is not a real number. For example a program to list programs that can be proven (by some set of axioms) to create Cauchy sequences can be used to create a Cauchy sequence, but you can't prove that that sequence is a Cauchy sequence without running into Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
>Ingredients change; how often are you checking and updating what you know? Availability changes; what brand is #2 and #3 on your list?

Are the nutrition content for staples (eg. milk, bread, eggs, apples) likely going to change any time soon? As for the processed foods, they might change from time to time, but I doubt they undergo drastic changes that the nutrition profile is entirely different. On the off chance that it does happen, you'll likely notice it on your tongue, and can update your brain accordingly. If you do any sort of research, you'll probably start to notice such processed foods aren't healthy, so you shouldn't be buying them in the first place.

>Or the time in your day you have to prepare food may suddenly shrink; do you then have the time and spare cognitive cycles to make a good decision under stress? (You probably don't. Not, like, you specifically, but in aggregate.)

>[...]

>It is difficult for me to know these things, let alone to in all cases exert the self-control to act on them

People aren't getting diabetes because they accidentally ate mcdonalds one time. It's from bad diet over a long period of time. For that reason your objection doesn't really make sense.
Yep. My cart looks different than most people's at Walmart. Fresh food, nothing frozen outside occasional vegetables.

You can be a picture of health shopping at Walmart, just as you can be a danger to yourself shopping at whole foods.
I have to say it is a pretty neat idea.
wow you weren't kidding

> If ATLAS's configure detects that CPU throttling is enabled, it will kill itself.

http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/atlas_install/node5.html

a little dramatic but ok
These two things are vastly different:
A) All the experts agree that covid comes from a wuhan lab
B) Experts have not ruled out a lab leak

Pointing out such a difference is not being pedantic, and in fact is hugely important
Almost no one in this industry is actually making the world better. Just take the money and use that to make the world better if you can. Especially since all things considered your role at Google probably doesn’t make things better or worse either way.
Not sure about the exact answer but wanted to note:

> Doesn't the length of time you are symptomatic... affect how likely you are to transmit the virus to others?

Infected people transmit the virus for a number of days prior to when they first (or ever) show systems.

Edit: following up, I found a recent study[1] that used a pretty extensive contact tracing effort to find

> Most transmission events occurred during the pre-symptomatic phase (59.2%). SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility to infection increases with age, while transmissibility is not significantly different between age groups and between symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals.

Your likelihood to become infected does depend on your age, but once you are infected your likelihood to transmit the virus is the same as everyone else's.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21710-6
Why is conspiracy theory in quotes? It was a conspiracy theory, peddled by conspiracy theorists, and laundered into the public discourse by conservative media outlets. One of many dozen such claims about COVID-19. A broken clock is right twice a day (in this case the clock is probably still wrong).
How did we go from comparing NYC with SF to LA? None of your arguments around "good weather" applies to SF. I am struggling to see any insight in your comment that cannot be filed under "common myths people spread about homeless people."
> People are making rational and sound financial decision that benefits them personally and that is deemed a problem?

Do you apply this logic to rich people and taxation as well?
Psychogeography: A Purposeful Drift Through the City
That subsurface scattering model is not what you would use for skin, etc. It's a fairly simple approximation similar to what Unreal and Frostbite have used (use?) in the past to cheaply approximate somewhat translucent materials. It's mostly still a TODO because it's not that interesting.
I mostly agree with you, but would add that blurring the blue is affecting the sharpness of the ocean, which has little detail in that image; blurring red or green affects details on the land, which are very noticeable. One might think the cloud-ocean edges would be blurred by the blurring of blue, but the clouds are so much brighter than the ocean (red & green channels), that you can barely notice any difference.
Q&A with one of the Richest Bug Bounty hunters who made over $2M in bounties
A very weak excuse.

Yes, prevented from trading with the US. Not with every other country in the world

It's still a bankrupt island that prevents any citizen from leaving.

It's probably better than NK, I'll give you that. But that's a very low barrier.

Now, the embargo is a very good excuse for their failures. Excuse, not reason.
Also, non-powerusers will gravitate towards the simplest solution to their problem, and that will also tend to be the one that the highest number of people understand how to use.
Walmart seems fantastic for customers, bad for employees and bad for suppliers.

I wonder if every company was like this, what would happen to the world.
You don't consider being laid off "a must" ?
Hosting is at an all time low, while innovation, time and putting time to a project like this is not.
Definitely sounds like a very cool grandpa!
Filament is used at Google.
磕頭 is the Chinese word "Kowtow" basically meaning "submission" or "prostrate." Yet For some reason, the fact that the Chinese employed this method of submission on others was okay, but when we use it on the context of China forcing it on Western countries, suddenly it's "racist."

Whether I use the word the Chinese made or the use an English amalgamation of its meaning is irrelevant. There is absolutely nothing even remotely ethnocentric or bigoted in using the word. You are just an easily offended person.
How do I sell my labor to the government? As someone who has a job that pays well, I'd gladly exchange not working for the current unemployment benefits. I don't seem to have the option to do this on my own volition though.
I think it would have been a good idea to have a "cash out" option for benefits. Of course people aren't going to turn down free money. But if you could get a lump sum of 75% of the benefits you are entitled to when you accept a job, people would be more likely to go back to work.
AirPods Are a Hit with Consumers–and Counterfeiters
For each natural number k, f(k) is itself a function, and f(k)(k) means the value of that function at k.

Yes, you could basically think of it as f_{k,k} if you wanted to.

No, this is __not__ meant to be 1 - f(k) . f(k) is a function (or a sequence, if you prefer), not a particular value in {0,1}, f(k)(k) is a particular value in {0,1}.

0.5 is not in the set {0,1}, and therefore if z(k)=0.5 then z is not in {0,1}* .
"The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women’s Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain-porridge unleavened literature licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme."

Ray Bradbury
Biden Administration Announces They Will Let Facebook Run the Gulags
To nitpick the other answers its actually called Image-Based Lighting (IBL), which is a fancier PBR technique compared to traditional environment-mapping
Yes but let's not forget that Cuba still has the ability to trade. There is even some trade with the US, but IDK the circunstances (It's in their statistics office annual report).

I mean, the (economic) problem Cuba has is internal, not external. There isn't much that Cuba has to offer as value, except their geographical position and maybe some cheap labor medics.

They've got virtually free resources from Venezuela (not viable any longer) and other "allies". But even there it isn't like they trade a lot with China or Russia, to mention two examples.

They get plenty of dollars and euros through tourism (with EU companies that gladly help) yet they don't really invest it or do much productive with it.

If Cuba really tried to be self-sustainable as they claim, why they don't buy some machinery to improve their productivity, they have plenty of supliers outside US-EU.

And by the way, if you want to jump over the US embargo is not that difficult to open another company or just sell through a 3rd party and make information opaque, which is already being done right now by the way.

Cuba is just a "chapuza" as we say in spanish. A mess, with a caste of people who barely manages to justify their existance, and keep control over the population so revolts don't happen. It's just that this time they can't really have much control of the situation.

You can access onei.gob.cu to check all that. It's a bit tricky to get access from outside Cuba. I can access with my home connection but not with mobile one.
Even that's pretty generous; average monthly wage for $15/h is about $2600. So the marginal income is as low as $100 for 40 hours of work in places with the highest minimum wage. Combined with the fact that the poll sums to over 130%, a significant number of respondents had multiple reasons to turn down work, this story is a bit of a nothingburger.
I see no need to subsidize their choices. Its not shitting on them, its just not enabling them. The vast majority of type 2 diabetics have a BMI >25. It is a user preventable disease.

If for some reason they still have diabetes with a BMI <25, then subsidize it.
I wonder if that would be necessary. San Francisco is kind of a special case as a small peninsula. That puts limits on the ways it can grow. You could probably build more housing units but you'll rapidly run into limits on streets, utilities, schools, etc.

I don't know how much the issue is with the rest of Silicon Valley. There used to be a lot of undeveloped area not too far from Palo Alto.

Texas may want to avoid the wrong kind of over-dense housing, since they've got plenty of land, though there are also reasons to encourage people not to commute multiple dozens of miles per day.
The embargo effectively covers agricultural products because it bans any private institutions from funding agricultural trade. Since the great majority of trade happens with the aid of import/export banks that essentially curtails any agricultural trade.

See this US congressional report that explains it pretty well:
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R46791.pdf
Yes, but all M1s have Chobbham/Dorcester armor. Some additionally have DU (Depleted Uranium) inserts. The DU inserts are generally limited to US Army M1s.
Why can't we take the left sock from each pair?
This took me 30 seconds to find.

Blest-Hopley et al. [21] showed that both adolescent and adult cannabis users exhibited deficits compared to controls but in different brain areas, suggesting age-related risks at both developmental periods [21]. Additionally, Scott et al. [19] found small but significant effect sizes for the relationship between heavy cannabis use and cognition in both adolescents and young adults.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6394430/

I really don't know what you are trying to argue for, other than to just have your already-existing opinions validated.

You are arguing that for people that only use cannabis first as an adult, it has no negative effect? Because it is quite clear that usage as a teenager has negative IQ effects later on.
See the very low coefficients for the blue channel when converting (gamma-compressed) RGB to luma. E.g. the common Rec. 709 standard assigns only 0.0722 weight to blue.

Y' = 0.2126R' + 0.7152G' + 0.0722B'
I think there's a vacuum here in that society wants someone to intervene when Bad Things Happen, but we either can't agree who that should be or (more likely IMO) the right choice of person/organization just doesn't exist. So you end up with some people/organizations/governments stepping up to increase their power and/or protect their own interests.

I think this is why Zuckerberg and some other big players have called for laws to regulate these things, which seems counterintuitive, but then FB can pass the buck and is more likely to maintain the status quo where they're on top. But until they are more insulated from the risks, they're going to be forced to defend themselves.

Disclaimer: I too work for Google
> but it happens to other professions like personal trainers

Funny enough, this exact issue caused me to lose a personal trainer.

See, he opened a gym that competed with the gym he trained me at. Like, he was the owner and manager of that other gym. While also being an employed personal trainer at my gym. And did not hide this fact from anyone.

When the gym told him he had to quit or be fired, even he was of the "I'm surprised it took this long" perspective and understood their reasoning.
I totally get the draw here but I think it is irrational depending on your goals:

1. Having enough supplies to get through a few months of uncertainty w/o needing the outside world. This makes sense to me: natural disaster, a bigger-badder pandemic, etc.

2. Ammo, weapons, and food isn't rational to me simply because if things get so bad you need that stuff, you're screwed anyway. Nothing in your house is going to help you when the people who also need that stuff find out you have it. Any violent unrest is going to outgun you very quickly.

Ideally we all work towards a world where that isn't a fear for people. Not to be naive but there are real questions that we face regularly (e.g. at the ballot box) that have a bearing on this that is much bigger than trying to insulate yourself or your family from a broad-based slip into chaos.
It isn't a conspiracy.

It is a fact.

There are official government funding records of Fauci shipping money not just to the North Carolina lab but directly to Wuhan.

There are official government funding records of Fauci explicitly funding "gain of function" research a.k.a., bio-weapons.

Fauci needs to FUCKING HANG.

Google is hardcore fascist.
Do you live in Houston? Yes you can get a home for that in the far flung suburbs, but nowhere near the core city with the cool restaurants and museums Houston is known for. Inside the loop, if you can find houses for ~$300k those are BAD neighborhoods. You need $400k-500k just to leave active active gang violence areas. To be in good neighborhoods you need high 6 figures.

And to your second statement, there are plenty of <1000sqft homes, I'm Austin and in my zipcode they start at $600k.

Much better but not cheap. Houston's median home price is $295 Austin's in $550.
You assume they are ignorant of the Constitution, rather than assuming that they didn't understand your statement, or event that your statement was less than clear. That's at least uncharitable.
Your "easily shown" is only easily shown if you're sloppy.

If you're careful, it can't be shown at all.

As I already pointed out, if classical mathematics is consistent, then constructivism must be as well. Therefore if you think that you've found a logical flaw in constructivism, the mistake must be in your own thinking.
> Shapiro... is a cherry picked example at best.

Hardly -- look at Roose's posts about CrowdTangle.* He is in the top 10 in every report, usually multiple times. Mostly the top 10 is Shapiro, Bigino, Fox etc.

* Good collection at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/technology/facebook-data.... But if you don't like the NYT you can simply read the daily reports on twitter yourself (up to the date when FB removed access to the tool). It reports the opposite of what you claim.
I don't mean a total split personality.

From the movie "Memento": This explains it better.

Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one
person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at
the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through
the brain. Every man is broken into twenty-four-hour fractions, and
then again within those twenty-four hours. It's a daily pantomime, one
man yielding control to the next: a backstage crowded with old hacks
clamoring for their turn in the spotlight. Every week, every day. The
angry man hands the baton over to the sulking man, and in turn to the
sex addict, the introvert, the conversationalist. Every man is a mob, a
chain gang of idiots.
This is the tragedy of life. Because for a few minutes of every day,
every man becomes a genius. Moments of clarity, insight, whatever you
want to call them. The clouds part, the planets get in a neat little
line, and everything becomes obvious. I should quit smoking, maybe, or
here's how I could make a fast million, or such and such is the key to
eternal happiness. That's the miserable truth. For a few moments, the
secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick.
But then the genius, the savant, has to hand over the controls to the
next guy down the pike, most likely the guy who just wants to eat
potato chips, and insight and brilliance and salvation are all
entrusted to a moron or a hedonist or a narcoleptic.
The only way out of this mess, of course, is to take steps to ensure
that you control the idiots that you become. To take your chain gang,
hand in hand, and lead them.
The maximum benefit in Massachusetts last I checked was $1800 weekly. That was with PUA. Even Alabama was at $875 a week.
You have astigmatism. I have a similar issue with blue when not wearing my glasses. I have 20/20 vision, but my astigmatism makes it difficult to focus on certain things. A computer being a big one. Blue light blockers help, but with proper astigmatism correction I don’t need them.
Or we just get US companies to step up their security. US infra is a ridiculous soft target.
This article and its chart is sending mixed messages. I wonder if the writer and graph guy are the same person.

The poll lists a dozen reasons that 9%-14% ticked as reasons turning for down job offer. Third is benefits. Conspicuously missing is "salary too low " or "expect/hope for a better offer soon." Surely, those are also normal reasons for turning down job offers.

IDK what the true "story" is here, but regardless... this does not necessarily sound bad to me. "Hard to find employees" is much better than "hard to find jobs." They are basically opposites. If there are no jobs, employees are plentiful. If jobs are plentiful, employees are not.

Why shouldn't we want a bull market for labour? What's the next concern, "salary increases?"
Actually.

Why shouldn't you be able to make a stock trading app after hours?
Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions
This. The rules that allow them to confiscate and sell or use materials deemed to be "having been used in aid of committing a crime" means the funding is actually drastically higher than it once was.

High enough for them to buy APCs for staging public relations events.
Zerodium is known to purchase exploits on behalf of their clients.
I'm talking about the action itself, not the entity overall.
This is like watching someone (tech companies) wrap a rope around his neck while standing on a ladder. HEY HOLD MY BEER! Its all fun and games when an administration "in charge" has your back.

It's going to be 100% different the day that changes. It's almost like people forget the pendulum of leadership in the US has a well known tendency to swing.

Don't get me wrong, in principal I can get behind the idea of this but at the same time I don't think I'd feel comfortable with any actual implementation of the idea let alone the people in charge of the implementation. In my own personal view I feel like the harm done by people publishing stupid bullshit online is vastly outweighed by what amounts to government backed methods to cull publishing stupid bullshit online.

This cure is worse than the disease in my opinion.
This is great. Congrats!
But are they "not mainstream" or just "not affordable"?
Have you tried strength training? Do you use a tenting split keyboard and vertical mouse? Do you have a good chair, decent posture, and a desk at the proper height? Those things solved my RSI.
Something like a palm pilot.
Perhaps an app to add that function onto your phone, that would be that simple and easy to use. There seems to be a lot out there, but they don't seem to work that well.
Contrarian thought here: 37-year-old product manager can afford to buy a house in a top school district. Needs to sell some assets to get there, but has the assets to sell. Sounds about right. They hate parting with money. Is it proportionately different to a 37-year-old product manager for a Toledo auto parts manufacturer getting into a top school district there? There’s not capacity in top school districts for everyone who wants to be in one.

For those lower on the income scale, it all totally sucks. Not minimizing their pain.
As the article notes, about half the states have ended the expanded benefits, which means we're currently carrying out an experiment on the effect. A poll seems kind of meaningless compared to just looking at the real effect.
The government has neither the means nor desire to push the price to infinity. It normally pays starvation wages and for another 6 weeks will continue to pay a barely livable wage before returning to starvation wages.

Most the jobs they can't fill are 24 hours per week 8-12 bucks an hour slog fests for the not so princely sum of 800-1200 whereas people are getting paid 2500 in unemployment benefits NOT full time jobs paying substantially more than unemployment.

Your concerns are fanciful.
You ever lived in a condo or do you mean build condos for other people?
Oracle is extremely expensive. I've been using Postgres for a long time and you can eek quite a bit of performance out of it.