skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dirty secret is that shipping is a rarely profitable industry, so the "owners are too cheap" aspect is really the owners trying to go out of business as slowly as possible, hoping that times will improve in the future: if the shipping company goes out of business, it cares not one bit for the maintenance state of its fleet.

So what do you do if you're a country that doesn't want this to happen? Well, we tried regulating how international shippers operate, and it turns out that it's expensive to do that. So we ended up with flags of convenience.

It'd be easy to think that you could say "well, you need to be well-maintained, etc., etc., in order to dock at and use our country's ports" -- but that doesn't work either. There's no global inspection regime to make sure the ship is in good repair when it leaves the last port (and it can break down on the passage so that the only place it can be repaired to move again is at the same port you'd like to prevent it from using).

You also can't be too heavy-handed about the whole thing, because shipping is pretty essential to the operation of industrialized countries, and if too many shippers were to be driven out of business the result might likely be worse than the current status quo.
where to i submit the issue to have it reposted to substack?
Do you have an example/reference of the type of work you are thinking about ?
So maybe it’s not really about the hardware after all, but the software?

e.g. Linux vs Windows on the same computer.
> Even Bill Maher agrees.

Bill Maher is a shallow elite contrarian, not a progressive that it would make sense to say “Even” about when he agrees with criticism of something perceived to be on the left.
Lots of local and regional governments in Europe encourage people to not use the toilet or the sink as a trash can. The wastewater is usually treated before arriving to rivers and other places, so the cleanest is the water, the easiest is to treat it.
Hmm, I really love the recent UI redesign. I've also been using Firefox for at least 15 years and every time they change it, it's been enjoyable for me.
>There is general knowledge about the world for humans to know that there isn’t a giant human in the sky no matter how good the face looks.

Is there? Humans used to think the gods were literally watching them from the sky and the constellations were actual creatures sent into the night. So this seems learned behavior from data rather than some inherent part of human thinking.

>Train it with as many images as you want and as long as a good enough face shows up, the model is going to have a positive match.

So will a human if something is close enough to a face. A shadow at night for example might look just like a human face. Children will often think there's a monster in the room or under their bed.
I've found that GTD apps, TODOs, and even simple task lists, are rarely effective for me.

That does not mean they aren't effective. The Japanese corporation for which I worked, lived by them, and they were very effective.

But for me, I seldom need more than a couple of reminders on sticky notes, on my desk.
Web APIs – MDN
Could you expand on this? I don't get it.
Thanks for sharing.

When you started your business did you have another job and build your own business on the side? Or were you able to jump straight in?
This sounds teleological. I can find plenty of things to do, many probably more personally fulfilling as well as societally beneficial, than flipping burgers would be.
There are some blind areas. You are not counting people that weren't tested, or, people in different categories that were exposed but didn't got the disease, or people that got the disease previously, but it was asymptomatic or with mild enough symptoms to be noticed.

If 100 unvaccinated people (that really didn't got the vaccine) get exposed in the same way than 100 vaccinated people, the numbers that will get infected would be the same?
That would be interesting to know. A less-than-gruntled employee? Some sort of third-party audit? A hack or leak?
That example was addressing whether it's legal/forgivable to drive without a physical license in your possession in the US. In my experience, it is, and also there's not an issue with insurance because you are legally licensed to drive.

As for the example of the fraudulent license holder, yes, the officer would probably be able to tell, which is what I've been saying this whole time - one would not want to present the old or the new license to the police.

Sure, an illegal license holder presumably either doesn't care or isn't prepared to deal with an auto accident, in which they would have to pretend to be the person on the license and it would go on that other person's record.
I think what he said still mostly applies to landlords. Maybe even more so as real estate enjoys several tax and policy advantages that other investments don't.

Yes I get that economic rent seeking is huge and things like patent trolls financial lobbyists are problems but his comment fits traditional landlords best.
> You'd expect them to be clustered around that value symmetrically, right?

I'm not sure. This is a safe assumption if you don't know anything about anything, but I bet it's possible to construct or simulate scenarios where the hypothesis is "true" and where you also see the distribution of effect sizes shown here.
Any long tool with a flat end is a prybar, some just happen to be able to screw screws as well!

In all seriousness, most enormous flathead screwdrivers are intentionally designed to work as a prying tool. Now, do that with an insulated screwdriver and you might as well prepare yourself for the cable whipping from your senior.
ML seems to be an ok term to me? It's the "intelligence" part in AI that needs a disclaimer.
Been there and done that. Ended up as a game dev with zero social skills when it came to relationships. I was deeply unhappy about that situation.

It wasn't until years later I (somehow) managed to form a relationship with someone - who is now my wife and mother of my child - that I'm far, far happier. From my experience, VR and Second Life et al are not the answer. Getting out there and experiencing life reaps far more benefits.

> aren't quite happy with their identity,

I found the best thing to do is find like-minded people IRL.
Especially when that $5 million dollar house is actually a 750 sq ft condo with no backyard.
I expect lockdowns to come back neither in the US nor in the UK, but hope for them to come back in both places.
The EU is a big place. Was this France or Bulgaria?
> English started as old German (Angols and Saxons brought it over). Then the Norman invasion added a bunch of French words. … Over time we have added some Latin and Greek

Aren’t you leaving out the much earlier Roman conquest? And didn't Latin already have a big influence on the Germanic languages even before the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Great Britain?
> I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ‘machine learning’ field that leads to a general AI

> I share the skepticism towards any progress towards 'general AI' - I don't think that we're remotely close or even on the right path in any way.

This isn't how science works though. Quoting the wikipedia page for Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...):

"Kuhn challenged the then prevailing view of progress in science in which scientific progress was viewed as "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of conceptual continuity where there is cumulative progress, which Kuhn referred to as periods of "normal science", were interrupted by periods of revolutionary science."

I think this is the accepted model in the philosophy of science since the 1970s. That's why I find this argument about AI so strange, especially when it comes from respected science writers.

The idea that accumulated progress along the current path is insufficient for a breakthrough like AGI is almost obviously true. Your second point is important here. Most researchers aren't concerned with AGI because incremental ML and AI research is interesting and useful in its own right.

We can't predict when the next paradigm shift in AI will occur. So it's a bit absurd to be optimistic or skeptical. When that shift happens we don't know if it will catapult us straight to AGI or be another stepping stone on a potentially infinite series of breakthroughs that never reaches AGI. To think of it any other way is contrary to what we know about how science works. I find it odd how much ink is being spent on this question by journalists.
The longer the possible time frame in which a particular document will one day become important again, the more important it is to hedge your bets against technology.

Considering long term (insurance claims, long term cap gains) record keeping, a database is part of the problem. I'm going to spend more time keeping software up to date, maintaining a database, than just having individual PDF, png, jpg, DjVu files that are well named and organized in directories.

And even though I've got a lot of complaints about PDF, I pick PDF just because it's likely to be the path of least resistance when selling a house, and I need all my closing and home improvement receipts to prove cost basis. Or experience a fire. PDF/A might be a better choice, but I'm pretty sure in this time frame a regular PDF will still be viewable.
Have you tried TimescaleDB? I also had quite good results with Redshift.
If they serve dishes, doesn't the sound of forks and knives hitting the plates when people eat, get annoying while watching a movie? Or is it all the kind of food Americans eat with their hands?
> like showing up on time and sober, and following basic instructions

Poor people are not stupid, or unambitious, and have the same addiction rates as the rich. Of course, rich addicts go to rehab, and poor addicts are imprisoned.

When they try to work their way up at places like Walmart, and get fucked over again and again even when they are taking time off to serve in the military[1], they recognize that the system is rigged and there is no point in pretending otherwise.

There is not a single state where working full time at one minimum wage job is enough to pay for an apartment. [2] That's why more than 5 million people work more than one job. They are trying to beat the system. They want an education and a career. But our society does not provide a realistic path for them to achieve any of those goals.

[1] https://www.militarytimes.com/pay-benefits/2021/01/05/walmar...

[2] http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/2012-OOR.pdf
The reduced standing (and compensation) of Finance post-2008 has something to do with it.
As was the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.
FBI is just "the police", so it's very normal and happens all the time that police experts from one country are invited to help investigate crime in another country.
I’ll Stan Alamo til the day I die. Even took my family there immediately after I got married ha!

Here is why Alamo has set the bar high for being more than a “movie theater”, in no particular order:
1. Their programming AKA the movies they choose to show is highly curated. You’ll have your standard summer blockbusters, a weird Wednesday film (usually a cult classic from the past generations), screenings with Q&A after the film with directors, actors, etc. As a movie goer I engage a ton with their marketing to look out for these events, because yes, I would absolutely love to see Uncut Gems and have the Safdie brothers and Adam Sandler talk about their experience. Those are more rare but just another opportunity to create a long lasting memory of a film, even if it sucked.

2. The pre-programming is custom, curated and so clever, it makes me ALWAYS want to get there earlier. For most movies they find similar footage or clips that have intertwining themes to the main film (early footage of actors in the movie, etc). It’s usually on the funnier side of things.

3. The no bs talking and phones policy is amazing. It’s enforced and if you want to experiment being a rat, you can even alert servers of guests that are breaking the rules without fear of retaliation. Finally a place to enjoy the film without most distractions.

4. It’s nice to plan a dinner and a movie and have it be all in one place. While the food is fine and not completely mind blowing, it’s good for a movie night and the popcorn is fantastic. Also +1 the queso as well. Alcohol selection is great and you can basically order whatever you want and will likely be able to make it (cocktail-wise).

5. When it existed, the Alamo season pass was amazing. $30 bucks a month, a movie a day and you select your seat ahead of time (you select your seat regardless of the pass, but still). I hope it comes back!

Some downsides:
1. You sometimes will smell food that might not be your favorite. Your a veggie that doesn’t like the smell of a burger, sorry, you likely are gonna have all the food smells.

2. Servers darting around the theatre for a lot of the movie. They are usually pretty sneaky but you get some Paperboy PTSD of enemies coming out in your peripheral vision.

3. YMMV with each Alamo. Pre-pandemic some were franchises and some were corporate. The corporate ones were so much better and the franchises just seemed to be poorly run across the board.

So many other things they hit out of the park, screenings for families and folks with autism (you can talk, etc) as well as screenings for parents with young kids (more talking and likely some more crying). Lots of accessibility screenings for the deaf and blind. The list goes on…

If The restructure for Alamo works out, you’ll be seeing more and more of the old guard changing things to align more like Alamo, and that definitely will be a good thing for the film industry. Just my 2¢
It was on a checklist. Statement issued, check marked, day's work done.
No, my point is that if two systems show very similar classes of errors but at different thresholds with one trained on significantly more data than the more likely conclusion is that there isn't enough data in the other.
The floating point: Rounding error in timing devices
Excellent. One problem in my mind that I don't see discussed enough -- and also not in your other post -- is that there is a large divide between those who use the technology (the cops in this case) and those who supply it, and there is no accountability in any of the two groups when something goes wrong. Like you write in your other post, "the system works (according to an objective function which maximizes arrests.)", and that is as far as the engineer goes. On the other hand, the cop picks up the technology and blindly applies it. To make any improvement to the system would require both groups to work together, but as far as I know, that is not happening. A recent example can be found in the adventures of Clearview AI. So from that perspective, I do think that the engineers (and the cops, and everybody else) are out to lunch, each doing their own work in a bubble and not paying enough attention to (or caring about) the side effects of the applications of this technology.

Also, the lack of thought and accountability that I mention above I think is fairly general from my experience, even outside of policing. That is why I don't generally agree with the lunch statement. Guys are having a hell of a party as far as I can tell -- at the expense of horror stories suffered by the victims of these systems.
All high achievement types are like this, because high achievement[a] requires selfishness. Compare the law firm partner who works until midnight everyday while his wife and children languish at home, with the priest who volunteers at the food kitchen and adopts orphans. Both add some value to society, arguably, but one of them lives in a mansion and one in subsidized housing. Highly prosocial behavior is not always incentivized in American society[a]. This gives us benefits like iPhones and Amazon Prime, and detriments like homelessness and deaths of despair.

[a] In a material sense, excluding moral and ethical achievements. "Mad Men"-style success, not Buddha-style success.

[b] Although Americans on average are extraordinarily charitable in terms of dollars donated
A friend from Romania was astonished that Canadians threw a fit over a politician having $16 orange juice because of this.
With C-Sections there’s a good chance that like bulldogs, human beings are freed to have as big a brain as possible, so maybe we’ll see an increase in brain sizes in the next thousand years for human beings.

Where a hundred years ago the mother an infant with a giant cranium would have just died, now the pregnancy can be viable.
"iPhone shouldn't allow 3rd party keyboards. It's secure and just works."

Then they added support for custom keyboards, and everything still works.

"iPhone shouldn't allow changing the default email app. It's secure and just works."

Then they started allowing you to change the email app, and everything still works.

"iPhone shouldn't allow widgets on the home screen. It's secure and just works."

Then they added widgets, and everything still works.

Same with changing app icons, adblock extensions, dark mode, and so many other user-requested customizations. Every time they have made the phone more open, overall user experience has become better, not worse.

People continue to say the same thing about browsers, locked app store etc., but one they they will open up as well and – guess what – iPhone will benefit from of it.
Play button fixed. Will work on the url. Thanks!
Unfortunately not. Or, any chance for that was lost when she had a stroke.
> How about hollywood starts making GOOD content again?

Well I'm expecting a new surge of great movies coming out after everyone's vaccinated. Looking forward to the 2021 version of Dune, although I don't think that was spurred on because of the pandemic (maybe I'm wrong?). Expect some epic movies to come out in the next few years.
It's true that the phonetic linkage in English is loose, but it still requires massively less memorization than Hanzi.
Generally speaking they commit serious crimes before they complete the naturalization process.
A workstation. Any professional one.
This comes across as one of those talking points where an employer exploits a worker under the guise they are almost doing them a favor. (See: NCAA athletes or unpaid interns).

I think this take is a caricature of low wage employees. It’s kinda similar to the talk I occasionally hear about the enlisted ranks in the military. “That’s just for losers and dropouts” or to that effect.

My experience is that those low wage jobs can just as easily be filled with every segment of the spectrum from incredibly smart and competent to those who struggle with basic life tasks. The commonality seems to be they were all disadvantaged in some way. Maybe it was a strained family life or disability or sick relative but the necessity of them taking the job couldn’t be boiled down to something as simple as they couldn’t get their shit together
I’m not a fan of Graeber’s debt model for currency (i.e. the IOU). I prefer Aristotle’s nomisma and Szabo’s work on top of it [1].

[1] https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
I agree with you, since I use it for the same reasons. But it will be easier for the general user to switch if it has a superior UX. Clearly ad-blocking is not enough for everyone else.
Another view on the whole Quantum Computers idea:

"The Argument Against Quantum Computer"

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gil-kalais-argument-against-q...
LYNX Whiteboard does pressure and with the 7.4 release later this year it will add an ink bleed effect. The question is if your hardware supports pressure data.

Disclosure, I work on the project.

https://www.lynxcloud.app
Let's be honest - since the removal of XUL addons, all my add-ons have been working just fine. Let's stop repeating this ... thing - it's long lost its relevance and nowadays it's just a falsehood.
> Murray is also the first person to be jailed in Britain for contempt of court in half a century

That is not true.
It tells me we need a higher minimum wage. No individual can raise prices without losing competitiveness, but clearly higher prices would fix some of these serious issues. A higher minimum wage would prevent the “they’ll just go next door” issue.
A lot of it is hand-food, yeah, which I'd never thought about but it makes sense. Most of the dishes are also made of some sort of plastic-composite instead of ceramic or metal, which probably helps. In either case I haven't really noticed the noise; I'm more likely to notice someone loudly chomping popcorn a couple seats over than forks clanging on dishes, which, what can you do. Another thing that helps is almost nobody orders boxed candy because you can get much better desserts, so you never hear M&M's and such rattling around. Glasses are also open-top, so there's no straw squeaking either.
> It's not the bitterness that causes one to be not hired, its not being hired that causes bitterness.

That's a pretty absolutist statement. Is it not possible that both are sometimes present, and lead to a downward spiral of poor attitude and unemployablility?
In case anyone is curious, here's how I solved the CSV split thing. Again, my SQL skills are limited, but it did the job for me.

with recursive lst (subidx, elm, input_str) as (
( -- initial row
select nullif(charindex(',', input_str), 0) as subidx, coalesce(substr(input_str, 1, subidx-1), input_str) as elm, input_col as input_str
from (select 'abc, d, ef, ghj' as input_col) x -- replace subquery with something useful
)
union all
( -- recursive
select nullif(charindex(',', substr(input_str, subidx+1)), 0)+subidx as next_subidx, substr(input_str, subidx+1, coalesce(next_subidx-1-subidx, length(input_str))) as next_elm, input_str as next_input_str
from lst
where subidx < length(input_str)
)
)
select trim(elm) from lst
Teams is electron, so you're still in the browser and an abstraction from the hardware.
I've thought of this when thinking about bringing recently extinct creatures back from extinction via cloning.

Take New Zealand or Hawai'i and try to bring back an animal that humans caused to go extinct. Like the Haast's eagle.

The eagle only went extinct around 1400, but did so because the Maori hunted the moa to extinction. So bring the eagle back you need to bring the moa back. To bring the moa back you'll need moa habitat, which have been radically changed and are in short supply.

More broadly, it shows a central problem with humans who want X but don't want to dedicate the work or resources for X. Take the current issues in restaurants in America. American consumers want cheap and well prepared food, but aren't willing to pay very much for it. So, and entire industry matured using exploitive employment practices and keeping wages below the cost of living let alone a living wage. The business can't pay enough and make a profit with the price consumers are willing to pay.

So yeah, we want pandas and gorillas and the buffalo to roam, but often aren't willing to pay the bill needed to do so.
I walked down through the financial district of London on a Tuesday morning recently and I did not see one single office worker sat at a desk in any office I passed. Just empty buildings with lights on and bored receptionists sat at front desks.
We are not "simple machines" we are the result of 3.7 billion years of evolution. We are the most complex known thing in the universe. We are far more complicated than anything we can hope to make in the forseeable future, if ever.
Jokes are funny...
Why not just either (1) let the person posting the image choose how to crop it, or (2) scale the image down instead of cropping it?
Ask HN: Any experiences with Freelance Visa programs across the world?
or basically, possibilities for changing countries without becoming an employee.
This will feed conspiracy theorists for decades to come.