skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand this correctly, your clients are people like lenders (e.g someone who lends money to Uber drivers who want to buy a car) who need assurances about the their customer's status, e.g whether they truly were an Uber driver for the last 2 years.

So with your system the driver will supply you with their Uber credentials, and you will log into Ubers system on their behalf, extract key information such as the number of rides they have done, and pass that info back to your client. Like open banking as you say.

I hope I have that right, I initially thought that an API for payroll meant that you offered a service that paid people and handled taxes in Latin America. (Just my worldview since we are in the HR business). However I now understand that you are in fact an API to extract data from any number of payroll systems.

Just thought I would share that with you as I found it initially confusing, but that's probably on me, and your messaging may well be perfectly on target.

Good luck going forward and I hope for your success.
Another angle is that junk tends to be more caloric, so even if kids actually did eat their fruits and veggies, even say with 21 of those meals, they'd still only make up a comparatively small portion of all the calories in their diets. But given that they're full of other nutrients (and esp. fiber) I don't think that's so bad.
What if they're thinking "zero" but just don't have the word for it. I.e. what if this is just a linguistic deficit?

Please err on the side of me understanding your question well.
I think you are mistaking the strategy that works for you with the only viable strategy. The article calls out that this is a strategy that can work in some places, and it clearly can -- if evictions are fast enough and they aren't a large fraction of tenants.
I encourage you to keep at it a bit more. Lots of folks are put off by the initial "more rational than thou" style of the main character, but what's not immediately apparent is that the book is partially a critique of this kind of thinking

What's more, since this is a well written story, there are good reasons why the character is so off-putting (to some) at the start. It is definitely NOT a case of the author espousing some limited view of elite rationalists as unemotional arrogant know-it-alls.

All the main characters do reveal rich emotional lives as the story progresses.

It's well worth the read.
(I've read every book discussed in this thread, and HPMoR is my definite favorite.)
I can see this being very useful for the managers, if the engineers reliably add the labels. In your experience, how do you overcome the problem of "laziness" where the engineers skip over the labeling step?
Interesting blog article, but it seems to represent the supply chain before the Mainz facility went into operation?

I read somewhere* that original materials and the process that is being used by Croda is from a small Austrian company:

https://www.polymun.com/liposomes/reference-projects/

Maybe they have also licensed their process elsewhere?

*found it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-one-leading-coronavirus-vacc...
OpenAI was founded in 2015. In 2015 Google was AI and AI was Google. There was legitimate concern that one American corporation was going to dominate AI. OpenAI was created to challenge that dominance and let "AI benefit all of humanity".

In the meantime China and Chinese companies have catched up. Turns out the fear that one company and one country dominating AI was overblown.

Maybe the OpenAI founders feel that the original goal has been fulfilled because AI is no longer dominated by the US and Google.
If I have a bank vault that can only be opened by one key, an attacker comes to my house, steals the key, opens the bank vault, and takes everything valuable inside, I think that it would count as stealing in every sense of the word, regardless of the correct behavior of the bank vault in only opening for the right key.

I know there's a fun semantic debate about smart contracts hacks, but at the moment this theft does not appear to be in that category.
Benefits of Sexual Reproduction as an Algorithm
You don't have to pay your debts now, but the downside is your credit rating takes a dive yet loans are still made everyday.
"the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"

you would pay your debts because even if debt jubilees were possible you don't know when it will happen and can't predict it with any degree of accuracy and it's not worth the trouble that would be caused by being wrong
Bevy's creator / lead developer here. Feel free to ask me anything!
Just another symptom of the broader issue: at scale, real estate is either an investment or it actually houses people.

It cannot be both.

Unfortunately, the engine driving this thing (the whole country) is real estate as an investment.
But isn't it pretty likely that most of their users will be more tech savvy regardless of who they aim towards, just due to most Linux distros having to be seeked out instead of coming preinstalled and therefore mostly being used by the more technically inclined people?

To that end, why not just go with Firefox, which would appease the more technical users, would be closer to what most other distros out there are doing and would also have a higher chance of it being familiar software to all users?

I think that for the most part custom browsers are only good when you want to include something functional, yet minimal in your distro and want to save space or something like that.

Edit: admittedly, an argument could also be made about having software look and feel consistent with the rest of the OS, where such a solution could be better than off the shelf browsers, at least without heavy modifications.
We're getting there - we just call it inflation, so that instead of cancelling debt all at once we basically just cancel it slowly over an extended period of time.
The "language models don't really understand anything" corner is getting smaller and smaller. In the last few months we've seen pretty definitive evidence that transformers can recombine concepts ([1], [2]) and do simple logical inference using contextual information ([3], "make the score font color visible"). I see no reason that this technology couldn't smoothly scale into human-level intelligence, yet lots of people seem to think it'll require a step change or is impossible.

That being said, robust systematic generalization is still a hard problem. But "achieve symbol grounding through tons of multimodal data" is looking more and more like the answer.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
[2] https://distill.pub/2021/multimodal-neurons/
[3] https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/
Serious question. Do you have to use a GUI? Windows RDP is more polished because generally the only way to interact with a server is through a GUI. Even powershell didn't move the needle that much.

On Linux, interaction is overwhelmingly through SSH. Or a client/server app.

Of course, the canonical answer to that is remote Xorg. It needs a high performance connection and X running on both sides, but it works. And the most Windows-like answer is VNC.
There's a huge difference between things like global CO2 emissions, and this single fire which is probably a tiny insignificant fraction of that.
This is a big update for a relatively small community distro. Kudos to the team.

A summary of some of the cooler features:

Performance: General performance improvements on all hardware resulting from optimizing for Pinebook Pro and Raspberry Pi - namely, reducing and asynchronizing inter-process communication between desktop components, removing unused code, and reducing disk I/O.

Firmware: Linux Vendor Firmware Service now built-in, enabling firmware updates from within the OS.

Flatpak: all-in on flatpak, all AppCenter apps are flatpaks, as well as some Elementary apps like Web.

Portals: apps must explicitly request permission to get access to files or interact with other apps. Can tweak these permissions in System Settings.

Mail: The Mail app now sandboxes html emails.

Multi-Touch: Extended from supporting just desktop to various apps now too.

Multi-Tasking: Better hot corners + new window and workspace controls.

CalDav: Tasks and Calendar now designed around the CalDav format, making importing and sharing of tasks and calendar items with other CalDav apps easier.

Dark Theme: system-wide, applies to GTK apps too.

Terminal: smart-paste protection extended from sudo pastes to multi-line pastes.

More OEM/Vendor friendly:

- Installer is simplified and streamlined - network connectivity, user account creation, and updates moved out of the installer and into the installed OS. Better for vendors & OEMs.

- Startup is intentionally non-Elementary-branded, better enabling OEM/Vendor branded startup splash screen — "we don’t need to constantly advertise your operating system to you".

There's a separate blog post on hardware-specific improvements here: https://blog.elementary.io/hardware-improvements-coming-to-e...
twice a year?

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

There have been multiple incidents longer than an hour just in the last few months this year.

It's worse in some ways than, say, 5 years ago, because... GH offers more services. And more people end up relying on those, so, there's more than can go wrong. And when it does, it usually has a bigger impact.

Some client projects have tied everything to GH/Actions/CI/deploy/etc. When there's any issue with GH, something is affected. Other clients have more distributed services (bitbucket/gh/gitlab/etc), which is ... sometimes less convenient, but usually means something is still up and functioning even if something else is interrupted.
We should probably assume that people commute via car unless noted otherwise, since it is by far the most common method.
Amazing! Nice one thinking of that.
If you don't have someone that understands the generated code, you'll be kinda screwed. Most of my work isn't writing a function to do X. It's reading and understanding all the surrounding code and architecture and then knowing that I need a function to do X. Writing the actual function isn't usually much of a challenge. I get the feeling that this tool will just encourage write-only code that ultimately no one understands. Will all of the generated code follow a consistent style? Will it know to use the framework you built or will it just reinvent everything it needs for each problem you give it? I already see tons of code that people copy and paste without really understanding it, and a lot of the time they're just adding complexity by solving non-problems. This just automates that process. I can see it being useful in certain narrow cases, but the potential for misuse is huge.
No, because it's easy to refuel here on earth and there's no easy way to refuel a helicopter on Mars.
U can't just deposit 500 million and then cash out into greenbacks. Coinjoin does not work that well for so much. Even the biggest mixers only processed a fraction of that. Major alarm bells would be going off for even just a tiny fraction of that if someone even tried to deposit that much legit crypto
> people who need advanced math need more probability theory and statistics than calculus

Isn't calculus a pre-requisite for probability theory and statistics though?
Seems like the title I shared was updated by the author later -- as you'd see in the browser tab display title (btw, I'd just shared this via the HN bookmarklet which picks the original title at the time of writing.

On a separate note, the current title isn't a clickbait by any means. iOS 15 will scan iMessage photos for children under 13.
https://www.treehugger.com/americas-tire-mountains-percent-a...

Excuse the source, but it seems factually correct. It's a problem that was solved 30+ years ago in relatively high-functioning countries.
Select quote from the source research article[1]:

"Stationary energy is one of the largest contributors to GHG emissions of cities, which includes emissions from the fuel combustion and electricity use in residential and institutional buildings, commercial buildings, and industrial buildings in the study. Nearly half of the 109 cities had stationary energy emissions that represented more than 70% of their total GHG emissions, and more than 80% of the cities had stationary energy emissions that represented over 50% of total emissions; therefore, most of these cities can achieve significant GHG reduction progress only if this portion of energy emissions can be well-controlled."

[1] - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2021.69638...
> Should there be checks and balances on the use of linear regression analysis and other statistical techniques?

That rhetorical question actually argues against your point: even in academic contexts, statistics can be used (intentionally or otherwise) to argue incorrect/misleading points, which is why reputable institutions have peer reviews/boards as a level of validation for papers.

The point I was making was more on general content moderation in response to user-generated content, which is required for every service that does so for legal reasons at minimum, as they're the ones who will get blamed if something goes wrong.
I see it too, and the answer seems to be that if we just socialism hard enough, everything will work out alright. This time, this time it will work.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. -Wayne Gretzky"
-Michael Scott

If you want a leadership position the first step is to make it known to your manager. While a good manager (particularly in a growth company) will be constantly on the look out for potential new leaders, you can't wait around and just hope to be noticed.

Making your career objectives known to your manager allows them to have a conversation with you regarding your aspirations, their assessment of your skill set/aptitude (and how to flex/hone them), and what opportunities are available in the company. It will also allow you to determine whether a future is possible at the current company (is your manager supportive, dismissive??) or if you are better off finding a new position somewhere else.
Poppy the AV
I wish i was exaggerating.

In primary school the older brother of a classmate has broken into a newsstand and has stolen a few porn magazines. My teacher beat him every day for a week as to serve as an example to everyone (yes he beat the little brother). He hit him around his temples so as to not leave marks and would lift him from the floor pulling by the hair. To this day i wont forget this.

Also as recently as few years ago there has been an uproar in romania as to how many parents beat their children for various reasons including poor school performance. You know, “bataia e rupta din cer”.

This happens in poor areas of romania such south or east provinces as much as in the north west.

“got jobs at X” - exactly. Excellence in romania’s education system means obedience. At the top it produces great workers. Not that working at google is not cool or getting a phd is not useful but romania needs more than that.

And while a small sample praises romania’s education system, and great maths, Romania suffers from roughly 50% functionally illiterate pupils. Just because a small sample gets good results in olympiads, frankly contests that mainly poor countries compete in, it doesnt mean the system is great. Quite the opposite.
Friend from Bulgaria was telling me about the annual recruits for the required conscription into the army. Most were illiterate peasants. There ancestors had been illiterate since time immemorial.
And with this, they are still better than bitbucket
I have used eOS at the past and while from a superficial quick look it looks like a copy of macOS, also having used macOS for a long time i can easily say that it is far from a copy. For all intents and purposes it is doing its own thing.
But what if it wasn't clearly labeled? I did my MSc thesis on fake reviews and discussed the phenomena known as "covert marketing" a bit. e.g. a guy you're talking to in a bar at some point steers the conversation to the excellent beer he is drinking and heavily recommends it to you. Good enough actors will be very convincing. "Influencers" are a somewhat more ethical alternative that takes advantage of humans' lemming-like nature.

I mean, quite a lot of people truly believe Hilary Clinton is the mastermind behind a DNC run pedophile ring. Yes, she is a problem, but that theory is completely schizophrenic. A NPC masquerading as a real person who spouts positive talking points about Tucker Carlson's respect for Hungary is quite reasonable compared to that and it will suck some people in.

So all it takes is some right wing developers for a not-entirely-just-a-game like Second Life or Minecraft to introduce a bug that allows certain instances of NPC to be unlabeled... or a mod to a game that drives a NPC... and an equivalent to GPT-3 funded by the Kochs or the Mercers...

Very hypothetical, very hand waving. But it is possible. So I can see the PR and legal departments flat out stopping this idea.
Might help to clarify if you mean for people or corporations.
Absolutely - total trash statement. Landlords want tenants who a) stay, b) don't damage unit, c) pay rent on time. THAT is a guaranteed money maker. The overhead of flipping a unit in landlord time is high. You've got eviction, cleanout, repair costs, showing costs, lost rent, landlord / management co time etc etc.

In CA you can only keep portion of deposit used for repairs, you can't use it to cover all your other overhead costs on a flip. So you are guaranteed to lose money on the flip relative to renting it.

All the gravy comes when you can keep that tenant, keep unit in good shape with little work.

The big money is going to be to the folks who are successful with actively screening tenants. I know a landlord, basically upmarket, everyone I think kept paying the entire pandemic. Now that is gravy (she refinanced a ton of the properties down to rock bottom rates, got bailout money for prop mgmt staff, and is collecting rents) - that's pure goldmine
Poppy and the City – Cruise
It's insane to me that they're charging anything for their store; that split is actually insane
I'd say that Apple's big innovation was a user interaction method that made their device intuitive to use.

>Chris DeSalvo’s reaction to the iPhone was immediate and visceral. “As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over.’”

“What we had suddenly looked just so . . . nineties,” DeSalvo said. “It’s just one of those things that are obvious when you see it.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d...
> because of pay, perks, and because it looks good on your CV.

That's what makes them exciting.
Chrome doesn't, apparently.
A relevant quote by the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins that always sticks with me regarding the humanity of animals, (paraphrased):

> The attitude that animals are basically humans seems much healthier than the converse.

From his book https://www.prickly-paradigm.com/titles/the-western-illusion...
‘This is an unvaccinated house’: Landlord evicting tenant over vaccinated guests
> some cultures assume humans must be fundamentally different - it’s not a universal notion.

Are you referring to hunter gatherers doing a mystical bear or eagle dance? Reincarnation as an ant? in those cases, it is belief in a non-corporeal spirit-being that underpins the other belief. Do you believe in non-corporeal spirit-beings, and if you do, aren't you more mystified by people who don't believe in them; or vice versa?

Otherwise, I'm skeptical and would love citations?
that’s not a solid assumption.

if they can pursue their own interests freely and if those interests they pursue align with the majority or the totality it does not negate their decentralized nature.
I reckon they would for the same reason people do those things even though bankruptcy exists.

Not paying your debts has consequences, even if the _may_ be forgiven.

Likewise lending for interest is still profitable, even if it carries risk.
If you ignore that the whole goal of this was to prevent evicting people during a novel virus pandemic that killed over 600,000 Americans, sure, it might be "worse". Something like 20 million people lost their jobs in March/April/May of 2020 - arguing that it would have been "better" for them to lose their houses too is beyond parody.

Edit rather than replying to 5 people saying the same dumb thing:

Sure, some people got assistance, many people even did, but when something like 1/4 of Americans have less than $5k in savings and the government stimulus payments took several months to reach bank accounts (more if you hadn't filed in prior years) -- maybe, just maybe further interventions were important to keep people off the street and out of communal housing?
If it is all at once, and if the numbers overshadow current supply/demand numbers, will supply and demand both jump in lockstep leading to a lateral shuffle? If that’s true, I would guess it’s just a net negative for everyone involved (landlords would be better off trying to keep current tenants rather than renting to an equivalent tenant likely at the same rate).
Non-paywalled: https://archive.vn/IvEKy
They are also probably the most popular chain to suffer multiple successful 51% attacks. I have no idea how they're still worth anything at all, but then again I have no idea why any cryptocurrency is.
That depends: https://xkcd.com/1205/

A one-time setup is perfectly OK to take a few days, especially if afterwards you have a documented process that allows you to modify and improve the result.
code is law until core devs lose money.
Just gratulating and thanking you for the inspiring work.
Malware bytes blocked that site for me; reportedly due to a trojan
> This is an odd claim —- based on the neural network experiment (which showed that gradient descent applied to object detection problems naturally results in the development of “counting” signals),
That's chump change. In fact it's less than the taxes they owe.
Glad you’re thinking about all of this. I personally can’t imagine getting a useful response in 3 minutes to a one sentence question. I suspect it’s either going to be generic advice not tailored to me, or an answer that I could have just looked up.

That said, connecting these sorts of mentors for longer form feedback/input, or perhaps customised talks for companies, that could be really impactful and you’ll have a good platform on which to build those.
I believe they're referring to amanaplanacanal who appears to be describing Gnosticism, which was rejected as a heresy early in the Church's history.
Sure, but you'd be encouraged to make sure you had long-standing, slow-paying debts at all times or you'd be missing out on free money. I'd be taking out a few 30 year mortgages if this were a thing and probably borrowing against equity in my home to dump back into the market on some lower risk items.

If you can service reasonably cheap debt and still live decently you may as well take it because a "debt jubilee" is like a lottery win if you happen to hit one in your lifetime, and I'm assuming you'd have them more frequently than that?

My best guess: debt would be dramatically more expensive as lenders would have to factor it into the price, and home affordability for young people would drop even lower than it is today if this were a thing. Debt jubilees would seem to actually entrench the current upper and middle classes.
yeah a bag of cheezits is ~200 calories. An orange is ~50 calories.

So if you ate one of each youd have 80% of calories from ultraprocessed food.
There is no such thing as a “green” electricity supplier in practice. It’s the same power plants connected to the same grid. Unused solar power isn’t going to be wasted in favor of gas turbines.