skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Bezos would never be able to immediately realise

Why would he want to? Who tries to spend 100 billion all at the same time? Nobody wants 100 billion in cash in their bank account either.

I think you're confusing liquidity and wealth.
Fack fulltime remote work

Where can I vote to have a good quality office? With free fruit and free lunch, flexible hours and work from home when I FEEL like it

Thanks
I agree to an extent with this view, though the reality is complicated.

The wealth of the ultra-wealthy doesn't exist in bank accounts or vaults of gold, but in assets, and largely assets which have appreciated. The $13 billion dollar single-day appreciation in Bezos's wealth wasn't from someone cutting him a check, but as a result of an increase in the value of his holdings (largely Amazon, Inc., stock).

And liquidating those holdings would not result in receiving the full closing-bell price for that day --- a movement the size of Bezos's on the market would itself influence the price. (A very similar situation exists for other novel assets, notably cryptocurrencies, whose "market value" is something of a polite fiction.)

At the same time ...

... the ultra-wealthy can excercise their wealth without liquidating or spending it, largely by using it as collateral against loans or for investments in other areas. At sufficient scale, the mere threat of making a move in some direction (investing in an industry or market or backing a politician, party, or legislative initiative).

In both instances, the key point is that money doesn't behave at these scales as most people reading this are given to understand. Much as with relativistic physics and quantum mechanics, our quotidian experiences don't give us the proper intuition for these phenomena.
IPCC 2021 Report “Climate change widespread, rapid and intensifying” [pdf]
Next product experiment – a library of UX, product and market research tools
There is no fundamental "human right" to work from home.

An employer has the "right" to ask you to work from their office in exchange for money. You have the right to accept or decline their offer.
I'm learning economic concepts so some of my notions and questions end up being naive. Would appreciate if someone could clarify/answer this.

It's a fair guess that vast majority of Bezos's wealth is in Amazon equities. Which are valued as such by the participants in US equity market. A thought exercise, what would happen if he were to liquidate all of that $180+B in equities? Safe to say he will get less than $180B in cash that could he could use for charities, moonshot projects etc.,

There's also a matter of confidence. How will the markets react if the founder of Amazon were to liquidate his Amazon holdings? So it seems to me that not all of his wealth is usable. Does it mean we need better ways of gauging wealth? Especially when trying to assert things like "X% of his wealth is enough to house all homeless veterans for an year". His wealth is locked up in some form which though is valued in USD won't translate 1-1 to other forms of wealth.
Except that people don't like to quit their job and look for another one.

So your solution only works if companies fire their employees on the spot when they void non-mwtching preference. But companies don't like to fire their employees either because there are ongoing projects and "bus number" is not high enough.

Hence the struggle.
A political consultant in the 2000s specifically recommended
“climate change” [1] as a term that sounds less alarming. A more recent study suggested that “climate crisis” [2] does a better job at catching people’s attention.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.c...

[2]: https://grist.org/article/why-your-brain-doesnt-register-the...
big facts covid vaccines are also only being used for emergency use “protocol” = save humanity right now that is lol
> At what stage is this project currently?

The project is at an ideation stage. Did some research on the topic to write down the details of the project idea. Also, I have been talking to people to get feedback; and also have investigated what tech stack to use for the project.

> Where do you need help and support?

I am a software engineer. So I will be able to handle the tech side. I am looking for someone who is able to handle the non-tech side of a non-profit.
Thanks for pointing that out, I have updated my comment to provide the links from the quote, which were hyperlinks in the EFF post.

> it doesn't seem to explain what the actual link is to NCMEC

The problem I see is the focus that is put onto the CSAM database. I quote from Apples FAQ on the topic [1]:

Apple only learns about accounts that are storing collections of known
CSAM images, and only the images that match to known CSAM

and

Our process is designed to prevent that from happening. CSAM detection for iCloud Photos is
built so that the system only works with CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other
child safety organizations. This set of image hashes is based on images acquired and validated
to be CSAM by child safety organizations.

Which is already dishonest in my opinion. Here lie the main problems and my reasons to find the implementation highly problematic derived from how I personally understand things:

- Nothing would actually prevent Apple from adding different database sources. The only thing the "it's only CSAM" part hinges on is Apple choosing to only use image hashes provided by NCMEC. It's not a system built "specifically for CSAM images provided by NCMEC". It's ultimately a system to scan for arbitrary image hashes, and Apple chooses to limit those to one specific source with the promise to keep the usage limited to that.

- The second large attack vector comes from outside, what if countries decide to fuse their official CSAM databases with additional uses? Let's say Apple does actually mean it and they uphold their promise: There isn't anything Apple can do to guarantee that the scope stays limited to child abuse material since they don't have control over the sources. I find it hard to believe that certain figures are not already rubbing their hands about this in a "just think about all the possibilites" kind of way.

In short: The limited scope only rests on two promises: That Apple won't expand it and that the source won't be merged with other topics (like terrorism) in the future.

The red flag for me here is that Apple acts as if there was some technological factor that ties this system only to CSAM material.

Oh and of course the fact that the fine people at Apple think (or at least agree) that Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Open Privacy Research Center, Johns Hopkins, Harvard's Cyberlaw Clinic and more are "the screeching voices of the minority". Doesn't quite inspire confidence.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
because it is
Yes. Alas, time is of the essence. Waiting for the natural attrition of time will make the problems harder to fix. This has always been true since we started worrying about climate.
And, in theory at least, belongs to and serves the people as a whole.

Not one single solitary exclusive and extraordinarily privileged human being.
I would say rhetorically that ex post facto (am i using that right? kind of like caused by definition) taxes on the ultra wealthy that don't achieve that aren't actually taxes that target the ultra wealthy, but rather just marketing.

I think Biden has tried get ahead of that issue with his no higher taxes on 400k pledge. We'll wait to see the reality though.
I don't see why they would complement themselves, and especially why you put Matrix into the slack/discord corner: Matrix is a protocol that is not designed to a specific use case.
Genuine question. Ia rent seeker being used as a metaphor here?
FairLens unveiled: A world first in discovering and measuring data bias
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FairLens is instantly accessible and available in GitHub where Python developers can integrate FairLens into their workflow, collaborate or help develop new features.

Denis Borovikov, co-founder and chief technology officer at Synthesized, said: “The goal of FairLens is to enable data practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of their data, and to help ensure fair and ethical use of data in analysis and data science tasks.

“FairLens is a mathematical framework that we have developed as a starting point for discovering data bias. Synthesized is now calling on developers to get involved to expand ways in which bias and fairness can be tackled and potentially enhance and improve FairLens”.

Nicolai Baldin, co-founder and chief executive of Synthesized said: “Many data science models rely on biased and skewed datasets. What we have created, with FairLens, is a way to highlight the data bias so it’s easily discovered and visualised. While data bias is still a taboo subject for many companies and industries, what FairLens enables is a behind-the-scenes discovery of data bias, which can then be mitigated.”

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Synthesized’s package provides multiple metrics to measure biases across a range of protected characteristics such as age, race, sex and other groupings. With limited, poor-quality or skewed datasets; data-driven applications often fail to achieve their intended purpose as they are inherently biased.

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As someone who’s had a grand total of 3 CS courses, in which were mostly taught things I already knew, I didn’t find it at all dismissive. Remember, it says “no one becomes a good software engineer by themselves,” (emphasis added), not “you can’t learn to program well on your own. There’s a big difference.
Elle: A transactional consistency checker for black-box databases
Nothing is mentioned about anyone actually trying to access the URI. I don't think their server would have used that filepath.

I imagine the plaintiff simply assumed it was legitimate without investigation, i.e. it was a successful troll.
Press conference live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z149vLKn9d8
Leaving aside the thorny question about whether measures should be taken to block scraping tools, it's deeply concerning to me the extent to which services like Facebook and Google are embedded into the social and economic fabric of our world, yet individuals can be unpersoned by having their personal accounts banned over issues like this.
The Kaiser Schlacht succeeded in braking through. By doing so it also succeeded in out running logistics, moving troops from the highly sophisticated and fortified Hindenburg line and extending the front line by a lot. I would call it tactically successful, strategically stupid. But by then Germany had already lost, so the overall impact on the course of the war was rather limited if you ask me.
I think one of the issues here is how to do it with something like React without it being hacky. If you are working with React for instance, updating the DOM manually may seem very bad, so you must take care how to approach this without doing unnecessary calculations and re-renders.
yes that is straight facts i’m looking for anonymous on hacker news im serious im trying to see the true power of a hacker by talking to y’all and being curious
There is no Evil Incorporated®, but there are certainly moneyed interests in every major industry and countless examples of more or less directed propaganda campaigns from oil to defense contractors.

I agree with the solution though, which shouldn't rely on platform moderation whose customers are advertising and PR. The platforms won't have leverage against their own customers here.

This isn't nihilism, nihilism would be ignoring the problem. And on angle to tackle the specific problem of parties wanting to clean up the net in their purpose was the insistence on neutrality and laissez faire moderation.

I think it still is the best course but requires education like you suggested.
thanks for noting. just changed.
Not essential for large chunks of business software.

But math can open up lots of new domains for programming, and extend your abilities.

I'd argue you're pretty limited to boring software without it.
Exploding Power Supplies: Gigabyte and Newegg Dumping Unsellable Product
Ask HN: How to find companies with fewer than 'x' employees that is hiring?
There's no free lunch.
You're hypothesizing that he might want to spend 180 billion dollars in a single day?

If you don't assume that it makes no sense to assume he'd want to liquidate it all at once.

Liquidity != wealth

Illiquid wealth != unreal wealth.

It's really odd how many people seem to have been led to believe it is equivalent though... I'm curious to know where they all picked up this misconception.
Such companies will eventually shoot their own foot. What happens is this. The company use a free software. The company want additional feature. The company implement it as an internal fork while the upstream move on. Then internal fork is hopelessly outdated, no way it can be merged to the up to date branch. The company must use a decade old software and it can't compete with the competitors.

In the long term, these companies fails.
32 years earlier - Underworld filmed a similar length clip for Underneath The Radar [0] in a single cut.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVrVERNeCPE
This isn't a binary debate.

There are some people who want to live in the office, there are some people that want to work entirely remotely.

There are some people who want to work in bali or some other poor country that can be relentlessly exploited by rich westerners.

There are some people who want to work 3 days a week in the office, others only 1.

What pisses me off is there are a large number shouty types who insist on saying that remote "nomad" is the only way to work, any tech company that disagrees is a nazi or some shit.

The truth is, partially remote is the future, but unless we fundamentally change as a species, and we outsource child rearing, fully remote/nomadic work life is a pipe dream
In Bezos's case, he built a company that literally didn't even exist 27 years ago. It's gotten so huge, because globalization has gotten so effective. That's true of all tech companies: they benefit disproportionately from globalization and network effects.

As far as what to do about it? The only solution could be to break up Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. Taxation is not it. The Federal government and the Fed controls the money printer and influences how high these stock valuations are getting. They're a large part of the problem.

We can't print trillions of dollars without side effects in supply, demand and price mechanics. In this case, dollars are chasing productive growth assets as yields in bonds hit the floor and go under zero in some countries.

The growth in inequality correlates with the growth in the national debt, and monetary supply growth.
Right, 50 years ago you needed a warrant. Now with Apple’s change you don’t. That’s not progress.
Scientism. Where consensus and big money meet.
Skydiving: An adrenaline-filled, immersive rush through the atmosphere
Bleak summary from The Guardian while you wait for the full report to come back https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/09/humans-have-...
Fact sheet here: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2021/06/Fact_sheet_A...
Sorry, but you can't make up 'rights' as you go. When did remote work became a right and why? I too can make up 'rights' that I'd like to have. For instance, I'd like to to be the 21st century right for every employee to get 50% of the company profit IN ADDITION to their salary. Why? Because I think it's a right. After all, don't employees drive company profits? Shouldn't they be compensated properly? I sure would. It's very easy to claim that salary alone is not enough and only profit-sharing is fair (BTW, there are companies that work this way - and this is great). If you think that your argument is correct, turn in the other way around. Let's say you are a consumer of goods and services. You want education? Great - no more face to face learning in the lecture room. Only Zoom and video. Why? Because it's teachers right. Lawyers and doctors - no office visits, unless it's emergency. Why? They have the right to work from home too. Shopping? Online orders only man. It's the right. Would you want to live in the world that works this way? Probably not.
Open-washing seems to be more and more of a thing lately -- make an open (which is usually confused for "free") source SDK/client for your closed-source SDK, get the PR and maybe even some contributions.

That said, they've given people a nice base to replace the bit that deals with their API with some other API, not that I'd do it but it's at least possible.
Unlike English, which was modernised under the reign of known-democrats Henry V and James I?
Also factor in his capacity to raise more fund. Tomorrow if he go public with his space company, his wealth will increase
The causation may be backwards here. You need a decent enough medical system both to run clinical trials, and to detect variants.

Interesting theory though, I don't think it's true right now, but potentially there may be evidence I'm not aware of.
The first category of math topics I would call fundamental to abstraction and modeling. The second category I would call domain math, that is the application of math to a given problem that requires it.

As being merely a programmer myself I would say both are important. The first as a fundamental thinking tool and the second depending on a project.

But that’s only one part. In some of Alan Kay’s recent talks he emphasized the importance of combining math, science, engineering, art and something he calles tinkering. I think craftsmanship ought to be in there too, or maybe that is between tinkering, engineering and art?

In any case I’m not sure, whether he addresses mere programmers with these. But thinking about the possible application of these concepts to any given project or creative activity really helps.

So yes, I think mathematics is important, but it’s also just beautiful and fun. There are also many ways to learn it, from historical to visual and practical.
The economic definition is being used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

(there is debate about which activities qualify, but the gist is obvious)
>I’m not sure I’d consider a Dem wearing a MAGA hat or a hipster wearing a hillbilly shirt “ironic” because it’s not really usurping the viewers’ surface-level understanding of the message.

Irony doesn't have to be some huge usurping, tho.

Same way a joke doesn't have to be good, it can also be a mediocre or bad joke.
> It is a statement of fact, we cannot be any more certain; it is unequivocal and indisputable that humans are warming the planet.

How do you convince the deniers of this? It seems that more graphs and facts only make them deny harder
Now we’re sliding on the slippery slope.
My favorite story about copyright is that the Beatles denied NASA to put "Here comes the sun" on the Voyager golden record, because NASA didn't want to pay them royalte fees.
> there is no way you'll end up with "haze figuring" or "arbitrary timberland" translating one way from any source language into English.

Good to know; I've always wondered at the peculiarities of different translation engines, but never really dug into them, as most modern ones seem like neural network black boxes to me. I was pointing out that there are some realistic use cases for doing round trip translations. I've used this technique at a few conferences to help straighten out my hazy understanding of a complex idea in a language I spoke quite poorly. And I do agree it is bad form to use this directly in an academic paper.

> Also, they speak Spanish in Bolivia ;)

To be fair they speak Bolivian Spanish, along with many other native languages! I chose Bolivia as a random target without doing any research, so thanks for the pedantic push to go learn something new; things like this are why I do love HN!
AI software knows what people think and feel
I like that. But Chaos sounds a little bit like chance/random, throwing the burden of action away.

I can't think of a word to truly feel how life on the line huge this crisis is?

Climate Catastrophe is what I have been using. But with $ for eyeballs news pushing so many tragedies so it loses it's punch. Mad Men Don Draper has a good rant about degrading the word love.
why is this bad? there's a lot of personal / confidential info they deal with. and when they work in office, there are strict rules like no phones, no pen/pencil, etc at the work area.
Related ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113821
To be honest, there's nothing we can do. Clearly, the opposition isn't, and the smaller parties like the Greens and Reason don't hold any leverage.

I've given up trying to convince people of the government encroachments. In the end, nobody will care anyway as long as they can drink their Victory Gin.
> for the first time since castles vs. troops without cannon, defense was stronger than offense.

Huh? Castles couldn't beat troops without cannon. If you got besieged, your options were to be relieved by an external army, surrender, or lose.
Efficient or not, call center agent supply exceeds demand. There’re millions of liberal arts graduates who don’t have anywhere else to work.
Also wasn't Omni laying people off recently. I suspect all these companies are struggling.

It's interesting that Apple struggled for a long time with 3rd party software. Developers weren't interested because the volumes were too small. Now it's almost the opposite, there are plenty of customers but the market is awash with cheap or free options.
Moreover there's no 'right to work from office' either. Nor should there be. Economics doesn't work this way.
It would certainly help if the ultra wealthy and global corporations would just pay their fair share rather than use possible combination of barely-legal structures to avoid being taxed, bribe officials to create special exemptions, offload money to tax heavens and scare-monger about losing jobs whenever an actual tax increase is due.

The USA cannot even properly finance the IRS to go after the super wealthy tax cheats. Their bought-and-paid-for politicians would rather the IRS stick it to the little guys, ffs.
A performance-focused workflow based on Google tools
What is unsolved? What's the revolutionary change since Winamp or Itunes in 2003?