skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution to not being "worried that our ID may get stolen" is penalize companies who report false information to credit bureaus and penalize credit bureaus that give out false information. You don't care if someone impersonates you to a lender and a bank or mattress store loses money to a fraudster. You care that the company that lost the money can erroneously report that you defaulted on a loan to the credit bureaus and then the credit bureaus mark down your credit worthiness. This affects your cost on loans, ability to rent an apartment, get a job, etc. The "Fair Credit Act of 1970" gave credit bureaus immunity from liability from reporting false information as long as they don't to it on purpose and in exchange they have to give people access to the reports and fix errors (very hard to do in practice).

People were rightfully worried in recently emerging computer age that these credit agencies would have secret dossiers on everyone. At least this law let people look at them and in theory correct them.

It probably time to revisit that 50 year old act. I'm not sure how much lenders even use the standard scores anymore. Many calculate their own scores and probably include all sorts of info that we would be mad about them using if we knew what it was.
It's really simple to those of us who do any work at all with authentication. If you share it with anyone, it's not a secret.
The waste majority of the event was not him talking.
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I think anyone from the outside can see that Google has no central vision for is auxiliary products and as such, all of these products “boil” out of the company and evaporate into nothing.
Pumping groundwater can cause subsidence
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/scie...
The best traders don’t share their edge.
Perhaps not, but the UK has already made mask wearing non-mandatory.
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I would say unequivocally and unironically, yes! The end result is more competition, lower prices, and more options for the end consumer. Sure the raw idea of this mechanism is a little naive and could be refined, but the outcomes you paint sound totally reasonable to me... think of this as a creative way to apply a new kind of tax to the criminally undertaxed big tech behemoths like Amazon and Google.
I’d say it depends on what the counter is for. If it’s used to bill the user per pageview, then it’s user-visibly not an idempotent action, so no. If it’s used to estimate site speed, then the user doesn’t care, so yes. (In fact, analytics is the example I see most often under “non-idempotent stuff it’s OK to do on a GET”.) If it’s used to display a counter in the site footer, then you might wish the user cared for your bragging, but they probably don’t, so yes with a disapproving glance in your general direction.
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Yes, which is why the least skilled developers maintain the products, which is why they eventually get canned. This is not inevitable in software —- it is specific to Google. At business software companies, for example, maintenance is not career suicide, so you have very senior engineers who work on improving the engineering systems to detect and fix bugs, leading to a more effective long term software maintenance capability.
This is the dialect of /r/wallstreetbets. Apes strong together and all that jazz. To call someone a retard is a term of endearment, or a (not so) secret handshake.

(fellow gambling degenerate)
This may be for the purpose of ensuring the email address itself is deliverable. You don't want someone to sign up with random garbage, then try sending notifications, newsletters, etc. to it- I believe doing so can affect domain reputation.

For this use-case, it seems like even an automated link click would be a good signal of a deliverable email address.
This. Payroll taxes incentivize lower wages and encourage alternative compensation.
This is very similar to how government programs influenced market incentives that gave rise to employer sponsored health insurance: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...

Instead of vilifying employers who are (in most cases) just responding to market incentives, we should be advocating for lower payroll taxes.
So, no presumption against the founders here, but what happens if Ancana folds in a few years? Each property’s trust still exists and everyone still owns their shares but they need to find a new manager for the trust? I have pretty much no knowledge of that industry - are there other companies ready to take over management of the property and allocation of dates in a situation like that?
You don’t think that claiming this is a non-issue (or mole hill) requires unjustifiably generalizing your good experience at your one company?
I guarantee nobody thinks you are an annoyance if you aren't specifically trying to annoy them. Self confidence takes a long time to develop, but it's worth investing that time. Exercise, diet, mental health therapy, taking small and increasing steps in terms of social risks, dating if that interests you, finding hobbies that require you interact with other people... It's years of work but it may be what life is all about.
Others trying to "fix you", are excellent ways of preventing you from "fitting in" though.
From my perspective, it's not someone else's responsibility to risk their lives and come rescue me as a hiker if I fuck up.

Do not rescue.
Citizen Lab finds Apple's China censorship process bleeds into Hong Kong Taiwan
why did they put it in the trunk when all other car dealers fix it and give ? And why do you see 80% of Tesla'a on the road without the front number plates ? Also if you put the number plate it may not reach their advertised 0-100 mile in 3.x seconds ?
It seems that one of the arguments the author is making is that that an employee’s cost of living isn’t what’s in play but the competitiveness of the employee’s compensation at that location. That your buying power is more in SF than in London, because a good amount of people just as talented in London would take a lower pay cut compared to SF, for example.

That seems to make sense, but I wonder why the opposite isn’t just as likely to happen, more employees ask for more, if companies paid more for remote workers
^ It's worth underscoring here that nocebo symptoms are absolutely real symptoms, they just aren't caused by the thing you think they're caused by!

It's not unreasonable to suspect that the nocebo effect is responsible for at least a very large portion of "long COVID" cases, particularly as many associated symptoms, such as brain fog, are very hard to test for!
It has been Linux desktop year for at least 15 years now.

The state of Linux Desktop has actually being getting worse, not better.

From a top with Ubuntu in the first 5 years, to the sad state we see now.
That's just the sort of thing that an evil alien robot would say.
I am lonely, and I overeat and lose sleep too.
I think that's why a lot of companies quickly embraced diversity initiatives. They are basically free. don't threaten the power structure and give a lot of good PR.
That's the joke. It's been the 'Year of The Linux Desktop!' at least since my senior year of high school, which was all the way back in 2002.
Eating more plant foods may lower heart disease risk in young adults older women
Actually its one of those problems where it is worth not skipping. I have seen people applying neural networks to transform embeddings before doing a final dot-product where it could be proven (and indeed was confirmed in practice) that all of that was equivalent to a direct embedding.

Furthermore, SVD type of algorithm are orders of magnitude faster than NN to train (which is why they become used to train word embeddings, see Glove).
By that tack we should just drink gasoline since it has about 31,000 calories per gallon. It’s a very efficient source of calories.
If it’s so I can access my own data then yes is should be able to.

Google isn’t remotely comparable, and I believe Amazon has APIs for their store fronts / merchants (still can’t access reviews you leave)
> That’s why they’re working so hard to create a new standard kilogram

That's done, for now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...
Not needing to park or have a car at all would be even better, you'd just get an extra $500/month cash. ($200 + whatever gas and other bs the car costs)
Getting ready to write her woke book about bad capitalism ruining her life on a 6 figures salary and becoming a public attorney.

I'm sure it's not because of the money, it's purely a political motivation. That's what she wants to do in her life.

I understand it, I also take all the chances I have to bash the government, out of pure hatred.
It's all coming true...

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
The cited papers are definitely legitimate and interesting, even though they do not support the point the commenter wished to make. It's too bad that HN flagging means the OC can't be seen at all. Most content which deserves harsh criticism does not necessarily deserve full censorship, which can easily backfire.

We do need diversified defenses, but we shouldn't forget that our natural immunity is ultimately the line of defense that actually fights the virus. Vaccines just help it develop some particular tools against the spike protein. As of yet, I don't know any reason to believe that this prevents the immune system from forming more comprehensive and diverse defenses. On the contrary, the immune response is so complex and multifaceted that the vaccine-induced antibodies can only play a small role, albeit critical in the early stages of infection.
Exactly. This is the #1 problem I have with the implementation: I want to set up public-key authentication as the only option on openssh ("Remote Login").
My Spidey-Sense is telling me that the person in the article may not be telling the whole truth.
On the other hand, the skill measured by those kind of tests (which I agree are good and not “hackable”) is of very limited value for a lot of students who just need to get by with the basics intuitions.
In lots of smaller towns, lots of decent houses are priced at 3x an okay annual salary.

Interest rates have less impact on that price than houses that are priced at 10x annual salaries.
> and you concluded I assumed bad faith.

You accused me of "playing games". How else should I have interpreted that?

> I could write a lengthy explanation, but as I said: You're not offering anything to the conversation.

You're assuming bad faith again.
So how will rent reductions, that these companies can achieve with a less office based workforce, be split amongst the employees who work from home?

Or are they just going to ignore the reduction in operating costs and focus on how remote employees are saving money on commuting?
Can an owner sell to anyone they like or do the other owners have a say in this?

I co-own a building and one of the partners is looking to sell his share. I have first right to purchase and a majority vote is needed to approve a new owner, so the rest of us can collectively block a purchaser we don’t like.
OpenBSD adapted DRM and KMS.
Nice tool. Reminds me a bit of amiunique.org, which provides similar browser diversity and fingerprinting details.
I don't see how it's supposed to follow that because calories-in are calories-out that it's easy to change calories-in. What it says is that it's not magical, it's just difficult. If one keeps denying the source of the weight, they have no hope of ever changing it in a direction they prefer.

That, in the mouth of some super-aggressive willpower, self-help, libertarian, laissez faire entrepreneur type, of course becomes an attack on weakness, but everything out of their mouths is going to stink of social darwinism. But I think it contains hope - it's not a curse or a punishment, it's a physical process.
For businesses like McDonalds, the choice is pay people more now or promise to give them something in the future if they remember to do it and followthrough will all the hoops. Most people won't follow through on the promise of college or training or whatever so all it costs them is the money to print up the sign.
I am not mischaracterizing anything. There were no individual sanctions enacted against Ahmad Haghighi yet he individually was punished by the US sanctions.
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> And less code means less chance for bugs.

The OpenBSD bug on Xenocara which allowed root needed more code, not less.

So this is the case with pledge(4) and unveil(4), you need (a little) more code in onder to sandbox setuff properly.

NT4 was much more complex than W98SE, yet NT4/w2k was much better on multitasking (by a huge margin). I've seen w98se crawl even with a Pentium 4 and 512MB of RAM with just 3 IE windows open back in the day, while 2k flied.
I heard this a long time ago but if I recall correctly, the Diablo 2 devs had a way to find cheaters and used match making to put them in games with one another. If a similar strategy was applied here...
Really love this style of thinking. Tool building done well can have such a huge impact on everyone around you; especially if it’s easy to build good tools.

We’ve been building something with this in mind; to try to make it way easier to focus on the important parts of tooling, and abstract away all the annoying boilerplate. You might be interested in checking it out at https://ab.bot. We’re in the current YC batch and had a Launch HN a few weeks ago.

I wrote about our love of toolmaking here: https://blog.ab.bot/archive/2021/07/15/tools-for-inside-the-... :)
If a NN is equivalent to $sophisticated_algorithm, that's a positive, not a negative. It means you can blindly let the NN do your thinking for you, and come out ahead.

You're wrong about training times. You can get great results from far less than 117M params. My tiniest music model (similar to https://soundcloud.com/theshawwn/sets/ai-generated-videogame... but not the same one) was around 2M params. Trained it a couple days on my laptop's old CPU. Worked fine.

I think people love to exaggerate their own importance, and in the importance of theory. There's a certain myth of The Smart Hero, where intelligence alone is the decisive factor that saves a project.

Nope. It's determination. Bet on determination every time. And determined people can get very, very far with NNs.
> Wouldn't it be nice to write shell scripts with objects and data structures?

IMO no, it wouldn't. The simplicity and flexibility of plain text piping beats out the more structured approaches. Sort of reminiscent of how HTTP ate the lunch of most all other RPC protocols (eg. CORBA) even though it wasn't even designed to be an RPC.
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Coming from HPC and HEP. No the UNIX shell it's not foreign to academia. It's the bread and butter of research at scale and has been since the mainframe...

With that in mind I'll confess to not having read the rest of the article because really, that's so far from a correct point as to render discussion mute.
14M ton of carbon offset forest is burning in California
Great retort BTW. I will be using the "... not eliminating the only one we currently have" line in future. Im worried that any concerns people have result in them being lumped in with conspiracy theorists/misinformants (?) but it seems irrational and dangerous to deter people from receiving some protection if the risks are more effectiveness and longevity rather than side-effects. My most lingering concern is simply that such a large number of people receiving the same few new vaccines seems like a gamble that we will all be forced to participate in. That's life though..freedom isn't always a given.
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How does using these embeddings (of sequences of interactional partners) compare with using embeddings of words/tokens?
If you’re a corporate admin you can whitelist kernel extensions via MDM, maybe that would help?

https://support.apple.com/guide/mdm/kernel-extension-policy-...
The thesis that corruption is a root of other higher profile problems is a reasonable one, and the suggestions for combating it also make sense.

Even without considering the global links in corruption, though, we can ask "Why do countries stay corrupt, given that nearly everyone would prefer less corruption?" and there are answers that still readily available: Firstly, there is seemingly a game-theoretic drive towards being corrupt if you see others succeeding through corruption; and secondly, corruption succeeds as long as there is the political will for it to continue.

So in some sense, the problem of corruption can be reduced to the problem of electing non-corrupt leaders. This has important implications in terms of valuing electoral systems that truly represent the wishes of the population (and don't, for example, devolve into a "lesser of two evils" political gridlock), and it confirms the simple observation that in a country which is a dictatorship, the dictator will engineer the system of corruption around themselves, but it also hints at a problem where corruption is so endemic in a society that all voters accept that their politicians will be as corrupt as them, especially if they've been let down in the past.

For this latter problem, though, I can't help wondering if a valid strategy would be for a political candidate to say "Vote for me and I will be extremely corrupt, enriching myself and my family at the country's expense, but I will also root out all corruption among office holders lower than the national parliament/congress." (This strategy is reminiscent of one used famously and successfully on a British game show[0]). So police and doctors and mayors would all be fully investigated for corruption (based on an anonymous tip-off system, and undercover sting operations) meaning the average person's experience of corruption would be greatly reduced. It would then be a job of a future leader (or a later term) to remove the deliberate loophole and make the laws apply even to the highest offices.

There are a few potential problems I can see with this system, but I think they can be mitigated. Firstly, there is no guarantee that the candidate suggesting this approach will actually implement it if elected, but there is a financial incentive to prevent untaxed bribes so that the candidate has more tax revenue to embezzle for themselves. Next, it is possible that a candidate might want low level corruption so that all potential challengers are equally tainted and can't campaign on the basis of their own integrity; however that requires a lot of speculative long-term thinking that most corrupt leaders aren't particularly good at. Finally, there is a risk that an anti-corruption campaign is merely used as a smokescreen for arresting political enemies, so there would have to be safeguards built into the program, such as requiring video evidence and randomly chosen juries.

[0] https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2014/09/30/split-or-steal...
A 10% turnover rate in 4 months is pretty high, though I don’t know their baseline.
That's just better perforanmance on parallel tasks, not by raw capacity.

My point stands.
Jinwang would make more sense (pun on the name of the character who makes the hotdog/not hotdog classifier in Silicon Valley which the gp is referencing)
I don't think a google tv is the best way forward in terms of privacy.
You're describing mere exposure, which is quite unlikely to progress to an actual infection (a positive test result) among the vaccinated.
I think you have responded to a large amount of evidence of past bigtech transgressions with a blanket dismissal. You provided no evidence really, just some conjecture and text.

I never said there was a blanket conspiracy, I just used the term BigTech. If a group of companies operate out of the same coastal geography, and enforce a particular type of hegemony on the rest of us, there is no need for any type of conspiracy to occur. As BigTech are competitors, that would not make sense anyways. They are more likely to collaborate together on financial matters, anti-poaching, or bid rigging ad auctions, or, preference for each other's products in exchange for favors.

https://www.wired.com/story/texas-accuses-google-facebook-il...

> The US could repeal Section 230 tomorrow and social media would collapse.

The US is very divided on Section 230 and in the face of a narrow majority, where the political enemy is experiencing censorship, is not likely to take action. Although the house may flip shortly, divided government will make change even more unlikely. As soon as the victims of the censorship change to extend into more of the anti-establishment figures on the Left also, such as Tulsi Gabbard, then that too will change.

> Take a look at the recent controversy over OnlyFans. An entity more powerful than governments wouldn't be at the mercy of a payment processor, since governments, at least, can define the laws under which payment processors operate.

OnlyFans is not BigTech, it is a site mainly offering a large amount of pornographic content that was on the receiving end of an article from the NYTimes by Nicholas Kristoff, aka, BigMedia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...

Nicholas Kristoff is considered an establishment media figure, of the ruling Authoritarian Elite. Whether he has a D or an R after his name matters little, because he is establishment.

> So we're left with your triggered logorrhea in this comment,

I think you need to be a little more diplomatic on HN.
The idea is very good but they f..ed up the language with a lot of weird quirks. Also, the naming convention with "Get-" first doesn't scale. Auto complete is basically useless when thousands of cmdlets start with "get".

And Powershell is super slow when you deal with a lot of data to the point of being unusable.

Two years ago I worked on a project where we used Powershell a lot. It worked OK but I think next time around I would use Python.