skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The business owner can close up and file for unemployment if that pays more than they’d make paying prevailing wages.
I agree that this sort of "conspiracy theory" is a "hypothesis involving conspriacy" and not "paranoid magical thinking".

ie., we are talking about something a small number of people could plausibly do for the sake of covering up known crimes. It doesn't involve god-like levels of planning, forthought, coordination -- and the "theory" expresses nothing implausible about local corruption.

I dont think we should downvote contributions that merely suppose covering up known crimes, at this very minor scale. Rather, perhaps, downvotes are owed to the more paranoid "maybe the whole world is a lie" type.
What Philadelphia Reveals About America’s Homicide Surge
Yes, but the odds of that are quite low for the overwhelming majority of us.
Disney still has more money to milk from its Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar IP.
RSS Client 2.0: Generate your own static PWA
But how else can you sleep at night knowing about that one cron job or whatever… ;)
Yes. It is the very best open source engine. Which is easy, since it is the only one ;)
Fentanyl deaths soaring in Texas, officials aren't taking key steps to stop them
It does hurt to see Bulgaria mentioned in this context.
If you don't opt in to the crowdfunding, it's called "mass theft".
Won't be much of a war if Bezos can't get Blue Origin working. They can't operate at 5% of the speed of SpaceX or even 100% of the speed of SpaceX. They have to operate faster than SpaceX because SpaceX is in the lead.
Could you elaborate on how you are strengthening labor unions and reducing wage theft of gig worker? Both of those things are very much of interest to me, but I'm struggling a bit to connect the dots precisely.
They don't. All animals with lacrimal glands cry in response to irritation or physical contact of the eye though. These tears are known as "reflex tears."
Slow and steady wins the race. I'm not counting them out, Bezos is so immensely wealthy that if he wants Blue Origin to succeed then it will succeed.
>You sure about that? Society has MASSIVELY benefited from von Neumann's work. If the cost of that was a few people's hurt feelings at his inability to interact with them a way that doesn't hurt their feelings it was a small price to pay.

The flawed premise implicit in this is that he (or even someone else) wouldn't have produced all the same things while being cordial. More importantly the even greater flaw is the assumption that he wouldn't have produced even more if he'd been easier to work with
I'm afraid there's nothing special about a machine attaining consciousness. Many of the approaches to the hard problem would happily work with conscious machines. This may not be a question for science at all.
I think the issue is not with the training step but with the validation step. The only way to build enough trust is to carefully run a prospective clinical trial, and before that you probably need enough retrospective evidence to get some sort of FDA approval.

These processes take a lot of time and it’s not surprising that a year and a half after COVID-19 became widespread in the US, we still don’t have a fully validated model.
Twitter purchased and killed Nuzzel in May. It was great before that.
Gosh that's a terribly bad design of a website.
Slow and steady wins the race against fast and transient, not, as SpaceX has been, fast and persistent.
Why can't they cooperate instead of compete?

It's not like they don't already have all the money they'd ever need or could use, and wouldn't the world be better off if they worked together than against each other?
After 20 Years of Wars, America Is More Alienated from Its Military Than Ever
Free, but also online: https://ocr.space/searchablepdf

It comes with an API, so you can integrate it with your workflow.
Will you also commit to buying a Big Mac and Fries between 12:00 and 1:00pm on Tuesday two weeks hence?

Also, I used to manage a McDonalds. Paying a bonus to have people come in on short notice to cover no-shows, sick calls, or unexpected business volume was not uncommon.
Following it to the letter would be a sign of cargo culting.
Yep, no housing shortage, just millennials who "don't want to meet the market price"!

/s
To be frank, you used the "deductible" as a lie, to make people believe it's for the wheelchair and insurance is evil. In fact, the annual deductible is part of every health insurance policy and has nothing to do with the wheelchair. Btw, you're pretty darn lucky to have such a low deductible, especially for a married couple (or family).

P.s.: insurance companies are pretty evil, but that's another story
In fact the claim the paper makes is that no model has been sufficiently clinically validated.

Problem is: how do you get enough buy in from clinicians to run a clinical trial with YOUR model, when there are hundreds of crappy models out there? It takes a lot of time to run these studies for this reason to start with and then depending on the size of the clinical trial, it takes time for the trial to run it’s course.
2011, not 2001?
And with bowels 300% more irritable!
Yeah and letting ICE run wild was supposed to make labor more scarce and more valuable.

Thank immigration hawks for the wage inflation they promised.
> People with older phones (which is many) wouldn't be able to use it at all.

Caniuse.com does not agree with this assertion.
There are several people who have documented builds of epoxy granite mills. Much bigger than what you described generally, but still garage machines. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIuvJtM342E7p2nEpwTGbDw and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCssIc2lLpX1nIHkymAzEptw are two of my favourites.
Set up a fake okcupid profile a couple years ago. Set “Woman interested in Women”. The inbox was still overflowing with messages from men.
One of my favorite Sigmund Freud quotes, From a letter to his fiancé:

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are forward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
Wod, running Erlang/Elixir in the browser would be super awesome.
ABBY is still very good, but for some languages other tools are meanwhile better or at least much cheaper/free: Google Cloud OCR, Amazon Textract, Azure OCR, OCR.space
I would think that if we know the SQL-queries we need we could pre-perform them and store the results into simple indexed tables. The web-app would then need to just ask for the data at a given index-value. No SQL needed on the browser. Could this work? Pre-executing SQL.
Thanks for the info!

I have to admit I was pretty discouraged and rage-deleted the code that made me give up, so I don't have it at hand any more.

I also am really early in the process in learning about Rust, and dove in very deep by trying to use warp to write a web application.

I'm usually the type to dive in by copy-pasting examples and modifying them to my needs, and I just hit a brick wall of compile errors here that discouraged me from continuing.

When I gather the patience to continue, I will keep in mind what you said.
I feel like this comment is too negative about OSS. My ideal job would sponsor as much open source code as possible. Given the focus on civic and public service in these threads, I think public code is a very natural fit.
For people in London only, though. At the cost of the rest of the country.
I was definitely spoiled by movies when I was growing up. Because of industry circumstances, 1999 was a very good year for movies. I can't think of recent movies that would be considered this generation's "Fight Club," "The Matrix," or "Office Space." On the plus side, there's currently a plethora of adequately entertaining movies for long-haul flights.

Some reading on 1999:
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a23803/1999-mov...
What do you mean by fly-by-wire controls? Just manual jogging with CNC controls or do you mean something more specific?
See also: William James was experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1882

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/05/the-nit...

When I was a lad, the common wisdom was that cocaine was not addictive. This was also later said about nitrous oxide. I found out to my great ruin that both can be highly addictive to certain people. Sounds to me like Freud wasn't an addict.
I always assumed just from how people used the terms that available without imports = “core language” and available via import without installing external packages = “standard library”
Couple harassed by eBay execs tell their story for the first time
You're blaming freedom to do things without the state interfering, when the real criminal in the story is the state. Do you work for the Italian criminal justice system?
My main point was that you seemed to be criticizing materialism for not yet having a solid answer for "how", which is the same issue any alternative theory has.
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That's true, the potential is higher with TV I think think though. Story telling is a skill that anyone can screw up independent of the medium
The honey fungus in Oregon is between 2,400 and 8,650 years old, and it also happens to be the world's largest organism, spanning 2,400 acres (965 hectares).[1]

[1] - https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-worlds-la...
Trailers can be parsed by invoking the function using something along the lines of ParseHttpMessage((struct HttpMessage){.t = kHttpStateName}, p, n) where you just tell the parser to skip the first-line states. Charset isn't a nightmare either. Headers are ISO-8601-1 so you just say {0300 | c >> 6, 0200 | c & 077} to turn them into UTF-8. It's not difficult. It might be if you want to support MIME. But this is HTTP we're talking about. It was made to be simple! We're talking Internet engineering on the lowest difficulty setting. Implement a TCP or SIP stack if you want hard.
Isn't that a manager? Why a scrum master, contacting a person doesn't seem to be a scrum master job, rather a manager job
I came to say something similar. I understand the impulse to complain that it is an argument from absence of evidence, but the statistical reasoning behind these kind of arguments is sound. The real question, I guess, is whether the conclusion is justified, given the found effect sizes and distribution of results.

OTOH, this meta-analysis was published, showing a negative result ...

Based on the blog post, I'm most concerned about the focus on murder rather than violence more generally.
Obligatory "Your brain is not a computer"[1] reference.

[1] https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
Covid non-compliers....

If you are going to force vaccinate the entire planet with an experimental vaccine, against people's will, you bet that people will not comply. They shouldn't.

Go read r/CovidVaccinated for hundreds, if not thousands of people who has extreme side effects from that vaccine.

We have no information about the long term effects of it either. Could be infertility, could be cancer, anything. Will take years to find out.

Us non-compliers will wait.
I honestly agree in part with a lot of your sentiment. But the truth is, I can do both. I can work hard at my day job to, as you say, "do real work", while at the same time standing up for my beliefs.

Just because there are protesters you disagree with doesn't make protest itself a bad thing. I fear the larger issue is that there aren't enough mixed groups of protesting individuals to spark real discussions. But what do I know, I'm still trying to get more involved...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48H34ukFe8g
Using CloudFlare DNS / WARP I am never able to pass the captcha on archive.is
1960s Herbert Simmons predicts "Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do."

1993 - Vernor Vinge predicts super-intelligent AIs 'within 30 years'.

2011 ray Kurzweil predicts the singularity (enabled by super-intelligent AIs) will occur by 2045, 34 years after the prediction was made.

So until his revised timeline for 2029 the distance into the future before we achieve strong AI and hence the singularity was, according to it's most optimistic proponents, receding by more than 1 year per year.

I wonder what it was that lead him to revise his timeline so aggressively. I think all of those predictions were unfounded, until we have a solid concept for an architecture and a plan for implementing it an informed timeline isn't possible.
Yeah I studied UML during uni. It took a long time to 'click' and when it did I learned some useful concepts from it. Only then did OOP really make sense.

However it's way too laborious using it for everything and it becomes a burden when things get complicated. For simple things it just doesn't really help because they're simple anyway.

As a learning tool I think it was great. In production? Well I use it every day. The book props up my keyboard on my desk which happens to be 2cm too low :)
Story doesn't say how the fines compare to the revenue of these companies, but on the surface they don't seem very punitive.
That may indeed be a more useful distinction to draw here. In it, Node could be said to provide a "standard library" (although not actually standardized, and I'm not sure how much it overlaps with eg Deno), while padStart and such would be core language features inasmuch as a compliant JS implementation is guaranteed to include them.

edit: It is not, however, an accurate distinction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28021135
Doesn't that confirm what I said? That's, in Biden counties, 46.7% of people are vaccinated and in Trump counties, 35% of people are vaccinated.

Those numbers are vaccination rates in red vs. blue counties where the blue counties have higher rates than the red counties.

That interpretation is supported by the way the article is framing the data in the conclusion.

> Although there has been an overall significant slow-down in COVID-19 vaccination rates in the U.S., these findings show a widening divide of communities at risk for COVID-19 along partisan lines. A key component of any effort to boost vaccination rates among Republicans will be...
These companies are run by billionaire sociopath narcissists who live to crush and dominate the competition and who want all of the glory (and money) for themselves.
So it's not useful because it wouldn't benefit the bay area?

In fact, it's from places all over the world, significantly poorer places, where the money would stretch even further.

You're making it sound even worse.
Or lobby successfully enough to criminalize their competition.

With the weight of Amazon on their side, I wouldn't rule that path out.
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What makes you think that?

I was just throwing an idea out there. I'm not convinced of anything.
That is essentially the law in Norway - the work schedule need to be posted minimum two weeks in advance - and extra shifts should generally be considered overtime. Unfortunately it's probably one of the regulations that are most frequently broken.

Norwegian link:
https://www.arbeidstilsynet.no/regelverk/lover/arbeidsmiljol...
I love that now that you encounter a position that I've held and expressed consistently for long enough that it could legally vote if it was a person, and which has been quite common on the Left for at least as long, you act like its a sudden change.

I get that he opposes some things sacred to the Right, and that to people on the Right that makes him Left, but...
THX probably specifies a stat like RT60 reverb time, or EQ matching the target curve, or prominence of early reflections, and the tables (big flat reflective surfaces) probably threw off that metric.
Bad tools should be replaced with improved ones.

The problem with C is the two generations of standard committee members have stubbornly shirked their duty to fix these problems.
You and every living organism around you, was hammered out by the same evolutionary process.
That's a nice idea (short-notice bonus). 30 years ago, no one had cell phones, so even trying to get ahold of someone on 'short notice' wasn't really possible. But it would have been a nice gesture to balance out the times we'd send people home early.
Well in most cases losing one of two incomes in the household costs a lot more. In the US, anyway, it is a lot more common to have a stay-at-home mom in the upper incomes; the working class is mostly every-adult-must-get-a-job (or two or three). Occasionally there are grandparents available, but in some cases they're in another town, and in some cases they are deceased. Summer "camps" are definitely not a rich thing (in the US, anyway).
Welcome to the last 10 years
There's good reason to be skeptical of AI as it is. Here's a couple of reasons

Racial bias in facial recognition: "Error rates up to 34% higher on dark-skinned women than for lighter-skinned males. "Default camera settings are often not optimized to capture darker skin tones, resulting in lower-quality database images of Black Americans" https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-discriminatio...

Chicago’s “Heat List” predicts arrests, doesn’t protect people or deter crime: https://mathbabe.org/2016/08/18/chicagos-heat-list-predicts-...
Yeah, it's highly workload dependent. I've used restrict in anger to accelerate particle systems and we saw a significant speed boost.

Even a 5% speed increase is nothing to discount give that it's "free" once they have LLVM handling it correctly. I agree with the conclusion that if you have to manage the aliasing manually it's very limited in scenarios where you would want to deploy that given the failure modes of getting it wrong.
echo "Alarmingly, the non-compliant group were more likely than the compliant group to […] exercise their right to freedom" >> ~/zeitgeist.txt
Agreed, I'm a mech engineer by education. Saw the writing on the wall half way through my degree and learnt how to code in my spare time. I'm an SWE now, it has literally changed the course of my life, had I stuck with engineering my household would not have an income worthy enough to pay for basic needs + internet. Some of my friends from university are still unemployed, it's so bad that I know someone with a MSc in Engineering working in a mall as a salesman.
Blue Origin makes Bezos look like a sad little boy that wants to fit in with he big boys but fails miserably. BO feels like a cheap SpaceX knock-off. His ride over the Karman line (which they tried to point out as the border to to space so bad on their channels) really convinced me of that. Bezos lacks a vision for space, it's just a hobby for him and he fails at executing the Amazon playbook there.
Manhattan judge rejects 'server test' for internet copyright infringement
It will be interesting to see if this is pursued rather than settled. Worth keeping an eye on because the 2nd and 9th circuit are the major players in copyright.
Because there's no ego benefit there.

That's all these companies exist for.
What I mean to say is that the author subscribes to a theory of consciousness "strong reductionism" which redefines it to mean "things we can observe", in as much as it states that it solves for all thing which 'need to be explained'.
This is not unusual. Something like ISO9001 Quality Management is literally a checklist of pleasant aspirations which leaves companies to define the details for themselves.

So as long as you define what "leadership" or "customer satisfaction" (and the rest) mean to you, and you have a vaguely plausible but not necessarily effective process that ticks each of the boxes, you have a quality management process. And you can apply for - and will probably get - formal quality management certification.

In reality you can have zero actual leadership or customer satisfaction. But you have a process - so OK.
In my experience marketing people are very good at marketing themselves. :-)
yeah I'm over fetching indeed :') A/B testing sucks, they should've let me know it was an experiment, I had high hopes
> The opposite is also often true.

I think it is very admirable for a company to pay profit sharing, and at the very least pay bonuses for good work. But that is because I am an employee :)

I just don't think profit sharing is realistic in the majority of situations for many reasons, and people over value their own worth. There's like a bias, if I generate multiple of millions for a company, then I must be highly skilled. That may be the case but sometimes it is the business itself which provides the environmental factors for that to be possible.
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I am on the same page.

To talk about the models some more...

There's this big mass of models. And it's got all kinds of sections. Special sections that we learn about in school. Special sections called "science". Sections that we invent ourselves. Sections that we inherit from our parents, religion, etc. It's partially biological. Partially cultural. A massive library of models, mostly inherited.

You move in relationship with the mass in different ways.

You can create new models. That's what basic science is. Extending the edge of the mass. Naming the nameless.

You can operate freely from the mass. Creating your own models or maybe operating model-less. Artists, mystics, weirdos.

You can operate completely within the mass. Never really contending with unmodelled reality. The map and territory become one. Like in a videogame. I think that's the most popular way.
> my range tree is just a slightly modified b-tree. But usually when people talk about b-trees they mean a BTreeMap. Thats not what I'm doing here. Instead of storing keys, each internal node of the b-tree stores the total number of characters (recursively) in that item's children. So we can look up any item in the document by character position, or insert or delete anywhere in the document in log(n) time.

Cool! This is essentially the same idea I implemented in 2012; I call it the AList or A-List data structure: http://core.loyc.net/collections/alists-part1

Ever since I made it, I've been looking for a good application for it. I guess this is it! I mean, I knew A-List was a good data structure for text editing, but most applications can use a Gap Buffer which is much simpler. But when it comes to concurrent editing, you've got multiple editing points so a Gap Buffer is suddenly much less attractive.

> Honestly I'm shocked and a little suspicious of how little ram Yjs uses in this test.

It's good, but still it uses ~30x as much RAM as plain string edits. Not surprisingly, you got 3x better memory usage by using A-List and a more efficient language (Rust in this case, but C# and C/C++ can also do well.)

There is a great article about a CRDT concept called "Causal Trees[1]. I wonder how it compares to flat-list-based CRDTs (it's been too long since I researched this).

By the way, Microsoft has a new set of libraries for concurrent editing called Fluid Framework[2]. I'm told it's a "generalized data structure" that was inspired by Causal Trees but with a unique and intention-preserving editing scheme. I found out about it after they decided to use my fast-cloning-copy-on-write B+Tree for TypeScript[3]... they sent me a pull request for diffing versions of B+ trees, but I haven't yet looked into the architecture of their concurrent data type.

[1] http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/

[2] https://fluidframework.com/

[3] https://www.npmjs.com/package/sorted-btree
A really well done published study showed gray matter shrinkage in people with COVID-19. I assume, and hope, that they'll do a follow up to see if they recover. I am genuinely curious whether we might see a bump in some kind of problems (depression, suicide, crime, etc.). Seeing how the US 2019-2020's politics has gone ...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...
It's usually government types (DoD, FDA) pushing for this stuff, and lots of it. The thinking appears to be, "The more the paperwork, the better the product".