skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeesh, thanks for sharing all this. I would eagerly read that blog post!

I've gotten really into Ableton this past year and I've been curious whether I should get into Max for Live. Being a programmer and looking at their marketing materials, it seemed like it should tap into the right parts of my brain. But seeing your comment now ... maybe not the right move. Especially because I'm not looking to accomplish anything special, I just want a sandbox to play with digital audio concepts.
Okay, now factor in that breakthrough infections are more common in the elderly, can still kill (though rarely), and are more likely to happen the more COVID is circulating in the community, which is then a function of the vaccination rate. My vaccinated grandmother is being put at risk by unvaccinated folks in her town. There's no "independent" risk.
The guy actually poked needles in his eyes because he was curious about how eyes worked.
You could make a spinning color-wheel circle that the player places their mouse into whose x & y coordinates on click are multiplied by the hex value of the color that happens to be under the mouse pointer on click to generate the seed for the random number generator or you could just make a button that says, "Click here when you feel lucky". No one would be able to tell the difference.
Not end, but cut in half, right?
Virtually nobody is at higher risk from vaccination than the disease.
That is not, in any way whatsoever, what I meant. I'm apparently inarticulate, but I like to think I'm not an asshole.
First time I went to China (1991), we visited a department store where we were checked out by someone with a cash register and abacus on their table. They ignored the calculator on the register, and only used its cash drawer while summing our purchases with the abacus.
100% exempt does feel high to me.

I think my main problem w/ the tax proposals is that they are big, bold changes.

If anyone wants to increases taxes even 1%, I want there to be a big fight about it. Serious demands in to budget efficiency and transparency. If it passes, I want to know there is scrutiny over the taking of my dollars.

Passing a 10% increase swiftly and suddenly is like a punch to the gut, and we all know the tax code and laws around equity are totally moronic. "We only tax if you make over $x!" doesn't account for the fact that many folks get all of their many years of equity... at once, in one tax year. Why is that counted as income for 1 year, and then boom, up to 65% tax?

Overall, taxes over 50% feel unethical too -- imagine if a mob boss goes to a retail store and demands half the profits. Why does anyone -- mob or Government -- deserve more than half of what you make? To hit 55% tax rate in California after this, you only need to make like $250k total. It's a good amount, sure, but if you compare cost of living... it's still hard to live on. You can still barely afford a crappy house. So you get this situation where "life is hard" AND the government is taking home more of your money than you do.
The hackers in this case released a statement giving their exact reasons for doing this, though, and it was hacked precisely because it hosts badspeech. So it's not a random hack, they did this specifically to give information out to activists.

I wonder if the media outlets will continue with their policies of not reporting on hacked info or not?
You are correct. This is the largest overreach I have ever seen: if you work for any company we can control by sniffing around government agencies to find a regulation we can leverage, we will make sure you can't even have a job unless you take a particular vaccine. When you overreach in this way, you would at least want to carve out every reasonable exception you could, to not unnecessarily hurt lives, right? For instance

- If you have a positive antibody test, you're exempt.
- If you work from home, you're exempt.
etc.

But they don't. I won't make your conclusions for you, but they are obvious.
That allegation is made so often a lot of people just tune it out. How am I supposed to know who's actually a neo nazi and who just annoyed the wrong liar?
Note there’s some subtlety to this example. That employee would have had to have exercised the options aand held the stock for five years at least. Which they have apparently but I don’t know how common that is.

This is mostly going to affect not employees, but individual angels.
> If lots of people independently choose to take the risk and they're not harming anyone else, why shouldn't they be allowed to?

There just isn't a way to ensure the "not harming anyone else" with a highly transmissible virus like this, even if we were to somehow convince hospitals to assume the legal and ethical risks of denying treatment to COVID patients when they have room to preserve hospital capacity, and even if that solution didn't expose healthcare workers to unnecessary risks, you would still be exposing other populations to risk who cannot get the vaccine or for whom the vaccine wasn't effective.
macOS Broke Python (2018)
I think you're agreeing with me.
I have an idea: if you go unmasked in public you deserve a pie in the face. I don't give a fuck if you're vaccinated. Masks or GTFO.
I think the current wave is going to drift Northwards as the weather turns colder and people spend more time socializing inside.
This doesn't address the dynamic vs static typing issue you brought up, but for the rest, you may be interested in exploring guix.

Guix is essentially a reimplementation of nix packaging system using a pre-existing language - guile scheme.

Some may react adversely to them using a lisp (
well, enlightenment is not for all ... 
), but leaving that aside, guix has continued to evolve in slightly different ways to nix, but still the core (and the guarantees it provides) remains essentially the same
I heard about it yesterday but only the release on Twitter, I haven't seen the torrent.

It will be interesting to see which media outlets report on it after so many adopted a policy of not reporting on hacked info.
> Japanese land use regulation is light touch. At its most restrictive, it allows buildings three floors high that use up the entirety of their parcel of land. This means both that Japan’s superstar cities grow far more densely than American cities, and also that they absorb far more of the country’s population. The urban environment this produces is akin to the traditional urbanism of pre-bicycle, -train and -car cities around the world: with narrow streets, finely grained, that are highly walkable. Of course, modern Japanese cities are not quite so tightly knit, and there is space for cars, bicycles and transit. But streets are extremely narrow, parking is expensive, major roads are tolled, and pedestrians mostly have priority over other road users.

#include <pointless_japan_comparison.h>

Sure; Japanese city zoning is nice and all. But Japan has a shrinking population and is fairly hard to immigrate to. If you don't look and act Japanese, you're forever a foreigner in Japan. The language is hard to learn, especially to full literacy.

You can still get a cheap fully detached house in Japan, because Japan is resistant to massive immigration.

The article mentions how housing cost has climbed in forty years, yet for all the mentions of the word population throughout the text, it completely neglects to mention how the world population has doubled in that time.

The world population has doubled, and everyone wants to live in the developed countries. That translates to pressure on housing.

> There are 23.7 million residents in North America’s biggest metropolitan area, New York City, and these people are spread over 34,500 square kilometres. Only a small part of this is dense enough to sustain walking, cycling, and transit. By contrast, Tokyo metro area has a far larger population, with 38.1 million people, but they are four times more densely populated, across only 8,500 square kilometres.

These figures smell funny. The 34,500 square kilometers is not "New York City"; it is the size of something called the "New York–Newark, NY–NJ–CT–PA Combined Statistical Area". Whereas 8500 km^2 is some sort of urban landmass figure. The Greater Tokyo Area is actually 14,000 km^2. It includes a lot of sprawling single-family dwellings, and vast tracts of farmland and plenty of wilderness; it's not elbow-to-elbow populated!

It's fairly transparent what stunt the article authors pulled here. They opened these two Wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Tokyo_Area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area

and pulled the smallest square km figure they could find in the one, together with the largest one from the other.
Lakehouse seems like an evolution of Hadoop to add better SQL and transactions + reasonable performance on large datasets. ("Reasonable" = not dog slow like Hive.) Reading this article as well as the survey Armbrust, Ghodsi et al. paper [0] you might easily forget that a large fraction of new data warehouse use cases get real-time data from event streams like Kafka, not S3 or HDFS. They also require stable response in small numbers of milliseconds for the more demanding use cases.

So Lakehouse is not really an evolution of data warehouses or at least new ones like ClickHouse and Druid. SQL data warehouses are highly optimized for analytic query speed. Think columnar storage, high compression, vectorized query, materialized views, etc. They also couple well with event streams. You can't get high performance without optimized storage and very tight integration of parts.

I have massive respect for Ali and Matei but there's no way Lakehouse will replace this.

[0] http://cidrdb.org/cidr2021/papers/cidr2021_paper17.pdf

Edit: replaced "original" with "survey".
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considering that this doesnt work for more than start ups and small businesses it makes sense, specially considering a lot of those start ups just vanish before anyone can cash in.
it's ok I'm sure their friends will show them soon enough
I have illiquid equity this would apply to, from time at a startup as an early employee.
I cannot, but I don't understand why the question is asked. I'm not a convolutional neural network. And recognition of my mother's voice isn't going to have impact on, say, medical treatment for people of a particular race, or who gets a loan granted to them, or whether an autonomous vehicle successfully recognizes a person crossing the street, or whether a drone's auto targeting system decides that this blob of sensory input is a civilian sedan or a tank, or any number of other situations where the consequences of not understanding how a decision was made are that people are placing their fates in the hands of unaccountable machinery.

One of the points of building these systems is to do better than human-driven.
Eh I know how to make this not affect my clients

I just cant see any point in talking about it anymore, as opposed to letting ICIJ or ProPublica figure it out three decades from now in an irrelevant leak, at least irrelevant in 2060.
Crucial factor: building housing does not change the population. Population growth comes from people having children, not from physical structures.

If your "solution" is to stop building housing, you have absolutely no solution, you just want to make people suffer.

The real solution is already happening: give women control over their bodies, economic control over their own futures, give women education and ensure that women have political power in society. That along with industrialization is how to stop population growth in its tracks.

Additionally, different types of housing have vastly different environmental impacts. Detached housing with yards is environmentally disastrous, particularly when in the woods, for people that take part in normal society. Multiunit housing takes far less materials, water, heating/cooling, and as importantly it allows loving with less transportation requirements, greatly enhancing quality of life while using less energy.

I think I've spelled out my solution to this fairy well. If yours is anything other than "make people homeless" i would love to hear it, or if you have any defense of your non-solution to ever increasing population, I'd love to hear it.
I am curious -- if you contact CVS and say 'I lost my card', would they give you a new one? Or some other info?
iOS15's new security strategy has made Apple madly boycotted
'Concerned Citizen'at Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Trial Turns Out to Be Family
Could you elaborate a bit on this? Not arguing, genuinely interested ...
I mean, If git's been around for ages by now, and this doesn't exist for even json + xml already and robustly, there must be some sort of problem?
VAERS reports can (and should) be done for any death following vaccination, whether or not anyone thinks that death was vaccine-related. There's no evidence that the "13k+ COVID-19 vaccine related deaths" are anything of the sort; VEARS is simply not the sort of scientific study that can provide that sort of evidence. VEARS can throw up red flags for safety halts and further study (as happened with the Johnson and Johnson vaccine), but that's it. It's definitely, definitely not some gotcha data-point for you to wave around to attack the vaccines as unsafe.
Post enough comments that go against the narrative and nature themselves will put out hit pieces.

Now can someone do one where we write Einstein out of history, since many scientists over many centuries used physics before him?
They used md5 as a password hash with no salt. The only ones that deserve jail time is those developers.
How about as a matter of fairness? When I made my small angel investments, I thought the QSBS would apply to me. Revoking that for investments already made seems a bit unfair as the tax advantage was locked in by competitors who saw payoffs sooner.
The same report says that early results indicate that a single dose of the mRNA vaccines provides a 35-50% reduction in transmissions. Given that the second shot dramatically improves the results, we can assume that number will improve. Those are fuzzy numbers whoever, as it is difficult to measure. The prevention of infections is 55-70%
It came across as “stop complaining because xyz has it worse”
So nothing noteworthy it appears. Im wondering when they will finally drop the number on the iPhone. At a certain point it is going to start sounding ridiculous. “Announcing the iPhone 23” just sounds lazy.
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Big fash, ok, little fash bad. Gotcha.
Having no margin of error on these SKU's would be terminally dumb, but having tight error bars isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Being able to sell bad batches of product takes some of the sting out of failure, and past a certain point you're just enabling people to cut corners or ignore fixable problems. Having a tolerance of 1 bad core means if I think I have a process improvement that will reduce double faults but costs money to research and develop, aren't I more likely to get that funding?
I'd rather persuade - it's better long term if people get the shot voluntarily. We've just hit a point where it seems more more persuasion is possible.

Or am I wrong? What could possibly persuade the current holdouts?
The example of V'ger comes to mind.
> electrical delivery system for the cars and trucks that use it, so they can recharge their batteries without even stopping.

> and we can pair the electrified road sections with cheap solar power

I don't know. More cars on the road in general is just a bad idea IMO. Traffic, noise, accidents, parking lots, Fast and the Furious movies...

Alternatively we can use a system of transport that can carry a whole neighbourhood in one go, is electrified and can be built underground like a billionaire suggested we do for cars. It can be automated and sorta self driving too, can hit 180km/h without too much of a fuss. And we've been building them for almost 200 years.

Wouldn't that make more sense?
One thing I want to point out is that when I first read "do one thing", I thought I knew what they were saying and I didn't. It took a long time for me to finally grasp that message.

One of the ways I finally learned that was after learning async/await in C#. Every beginner to async methods dread in fear once they realize the "zombification" of the Task<T> return type, where if you call an async function 6 layers deep into your program you need to change the return type all the way up the stack. Almost always now I call the async function at the very top layer. If I need some value or list I compute that list or value and return that all the way up then make the async call at the top based on it.

I learned to split my functions into two types, pure functions and impure functions. Async functions are an example of an impure function. The only thing those functions are allowed to do is their impure thing. Make a web call, push a value into a database, whatever. The pure functions are where you actually do your computations and transformations.

If you have a pure function that has a bug and you need to change it, because it's a pure function it is inherently testable. Just run it and see. If you're not sure, it's trivial to create a new function with the bugfix and only call that function from the places that you are sure of. But then try to make sure.
Question I still have after reading the article: what's the rationale for the tax break in the first place? Why does it exist and why was it 100%? This seems to be very important information when discussing changes to a tax law, but is not in the article or any of the comments I've read so far.
This is why I like games with an execution element as well as a decision-making element. If the execution is challenging, you get dynamism and unpredictability for free, without taking anything out of the player's hands.
Some OrangePi models come to mind. Also, some of the beefier Odroid models.
The page explains this with a small note: "Race/Ethnicity data were available for 64% receiving at least one dose and 69.1% of people fully vaccinated". So increasing the numbers by about 50% to account for that makes it look more reasonable.

Regardless, if we're nitpicking data quality surely a random nbc news poll doesn't exactly pass muster either.
YEAH, as others have said, there is no verification of VAERS. Anyone can submit.
New Founder. New Startup. New Experience
I suppose I should be more up-front about "yes, I am rather influenced by the LessWrong/AlignmentForum views on AI risk". Also, it sounds like I may be over-estimating how commonly held some of their views are?

(Though, I generally consider the chances of AGI actually ever being developed, to be much lower than they do, but for primarily religious reasons (as a reason that it wouldn't, not couldn't, happen), and am interested in their work.)

My impression of the people on AlignmentForum wasn't that they were confident that "just scale up neural nets and use the right training procedure" couldn't work, but yes that there is a qualitative difference between what we have, and something which is as general-purpose as a human (not necessarily as competent, but capable of reasoning about the world and it being embedded in it, etc.).

Personally, I find it hard to imagine that there could not be a qualitative difference in at least the training procedure. But also, (while it might not be the most efficient way to achieve it, even by many orders of magnitude, or it could be, idk) I find it hard to imagine that it would be impossible for a neural net, with the appropriate architecture and training procedure, to form one.
(At the least in a trivial sense of "you can represent whatever known computation you want with something that could at least somewhat-reasonably be called a neural net")

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Regarding that history of Goertzel's views and such, that is interesting, thank you!

Yes, I suppose falling in with the LW/Miri/AlignmentForum camp and Goertzel, I would agree that gpt3 isn't a general intelligence. I've been perhaps so mired in that background that I, find it hard to imagine disagreeing with that, so perhaps I need to seek out some other views?

So, I guess maybe I need to better understand the views of researchers at deepmind and facebook, etc.

I'm aware that DeepMind had their paper about training agents in diverse environments, which I thought was cool.
This to me, and things like it, would seem to me to be qualitatively different (in e.g. how it is trained) than e.g. gpt3 , even though both are neural nets.
Can you elaborate? Are you talking about splitting it up among spouse & trusts or something else? Seems like clients would still be impacted since the tax exemption is still being dropped from 100% to 50%.
*all of the people who switched to Android _in protest of Apple's new CSAM system_
> Crucial factor: building housing does not change the population. Population growth comes from people having children, not from physical structures.

Look up induced demand.

People think our roads are too crowded, so they build even more roads. Then the roads are more clear, so people drive more. So the roads get more crowded and we build more roads...

I'm only having one child, partly because of the cost. If we burn down more of the planet to make it cheaper to have a second child, people will do that. Then people will complain it's too expensive so we need to burn down more of the planet to make it cheaper again. Then people will have three children because it's cheap...

Burn, burn, burn.
I wonder if sales will be as successful as usual for this new device. I feel that we’re starting to really hit peak phone, where the only things to improve over time are minor components the average consumer doesn’t really care too much about.

I wonder if we’ll ever see a MacBook-like refresh cycle for iPhone’s. Still the year-on-yeah without the number, but a 3-5 year full refresh cycle.
> The ones who hacked Epik are just as bad as the 'neo-nazis' and 'white supremacists' you speak of.

You don’t see a moral difference between people who hacked a company’s customer list, and people who want to very literally murder my family and me? Those sound the same to you?
TFA is essentially saying orgs should have a framework that enables their staff to work smarter not harder, and that the org's ROI is not a coder's problem to solve.
> and the only reason any of us know about them is because they've worked so hard to attract unsavory customers

No. Epik is (also) known for providing good prices for (medium sized) domain owners (and everybody else who just wanted to transfer their domains for a fair price.):
https://www.namepros.com/threads/epik-com-promo-deals-and-ha...
> imagine if a mob boss goes to a retail store and demands half the profits. Why does anyone -- mob or Government -- deserve more than half of what you make?

I work and create wealth, and some heirs swoop in and grab that created wealth for themselves in the form of quarterly dividends. Sounds like exactly what you are describing. The parasitic expropriation of my surplus labor time by an aristocracy of heirs.
That works well until people realize you’re lying and then stop believing anything you say moving forward.

That’s pretty much the opposite of results-driven.
Science as Attire
The vaccine doesn't keep you from catching and spreading the virus.
Just over 40x multiple on a company that is growing more than 100% YoY, and has a roadmap to continue to enter new markets.
Have you seen their presentation tool? I don't think I'd ever go back to google docs or powerpoint. They'll continue to execute and grow revenue.

Or why don't you look at the market cap of Adobe at 10x Canva, but not growing like Canva is.

Let's not be flippant about companies that are doing well. I remember people hating on Mel (Canva CEO) when they hit $300M valuation...don't they look foolish now.
> This is mostly going to affect not employees, but individual angels.

Not sure why you would think this, early stage employee's (ignoring co-founders) are going to have a much larger stake in the business than most angels.