skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Until you want do something completely distributed that requires trust.

And then a trustless system helps... how exactly?

Oh, it doesn't, because you'll have to recreate all the trust institutions of the non-blockchain world. And, look, all blockchain "solutions" are busy doing exactly that.
Customer service!
It’s a good question. I’d guess a combination of the expense of operating all three, obtaining the banking license and surviving US Treasury Dep’t scrutiny and pressure.

In 2021 it’s probably much easier and cheaper to accept cryptocurrency and let the user figure out how to move the money from their bank account to their wallet(s).
Food does naturally appear in nature.

In fact, we survived the vast majority of our millenia of existence eating food that we found growing or wandering about.

It's _weird_ that we've created a situation where this is no longer the case, due to overpopulation, pollution, etc.
The story that Epstein killed himself and it just happened that nobody was watching and the camera was broken is completely implausible. Something is suspicious there.

That doesn't prove any particular course of events did happen, though. In the meantime the next excitement will be Prince Andrew.

The stated person was just the first hit for a republican actually convicted of child sex offences.
The same people that wanted to host in the first place. When I was really into Couchsurfing, my girlfriend and I searched for apartments that made it easy to host, the same way that people seek ways to host via AirBnB.

I enjoyed hearing stories from travelers, and showing them around town.
Non D or R here: I'm the prisoner.

I'm losing.

You all suck.

Abolish First Past the Post.
> There are hundrets of new words invented around a common frame of reality in the last year. Everybody uses these words that nobody would understand nor use <=2019.

For example?
At 400Gb/s, how long would it take to read through the entire catalogue?
"Favor composition over inheritence" is like "Favor pipelining over currying".
How much data ends up being served from RAM? I had the impression that it was negligible and that the page cache was mostly used for file metadata and infrequently accessed data.
That's fair. I was waffling about using stronger language, "pdf isn't postscript", but didn't get there. It would have been more correct.
But by the time it was made, bombs hadn’t looked like that for a century; it doesn’t in itself explain the persistence.
The problem with financial literacy is that it is mostly gained by experience, at which point it may be too late.
I once recommended a switch and router upgrade to allow for more, new WAPs for an office that was increasingly becoming dependent on laptops and video conferencing. I went with brand new kit, like just released earlier in the year because I'd heard good things about the traffic shaping, etc.

Well, the printers wouldn't pair with the new APs, certain laptops with fruit logos would intermittently drop connection, and so on.

I probably will never use that brand again, even though they escalated and promised patches quickly - within 6 hours they had found the issue and we're working on fixing it, but the damage to my reputation was already done.

Since then I've always demanded to be able to test any new idea/kit/service for at least a week or two just to see if I can break it.
War and Peace. Tolstoy is just... dense.
PenPot 1.8.0 Alpha
I don't see why it's "absolute overkill" or even "for now"? It seems reasonable for Netflix to want to optimize that pipeline and minimize the amount of hardware they need to deploy, especially for dense areas? Top quality video from Netflix can be 2MB/s, so back-of-the-envelope that's only 20k streams. I'd expect needing that capacity on any random evening in Logan Square (a Chicago neighborhood).
> That’s cool

Not really:)
I am not sure what's 'Big Tech' but yea, artists are getting replaced. It is now easy for small companies to use deepfake to create interesting marketing ads. A company I know used their own employee to create some ads and then used deepfake to replace her face with Mona Lisa's. They are considering it for replacing faces with those of different ethnicities for different countries. There are models that will create a realistic voice just given a script. And of course models like GPT-3 can create a reasonable script. Nothing Oscar winning or close but enough for a lot of companies to drastically reduce their marketing related budgets.
Links to Berkshire Hathaway's letters to shareholders from 1977 through 2020 are available at, https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
> "Why isn't the 5 dollar African made shoe adding enough value to be a player in a more expensive market?"

that's too underspecified to provide a good answer in this context. perhaps it's poor market fit, lack of cheap logistics, or merely racism. or something else entirely, it's hard to say.

> "Are we sure the market has settled for $50 or is made in America worth and extra $10/15 dollars?"

the $50 was assumed/asserted to make the discussion simpler. of course in a real market you'll have a variety of price-quality tradeoffs to choose from, which is the market trying to capture all the surplus value it can. for sure, some folks will pay extra for an american label.

> "The supply chain with additional transportation and others costs would push the price to $20 per hour in China compared to $30 an hour. A tariff of $10 on imports would equalize the price. Would that push the market price to $60 for the shoes from China and would that push the American price to $75? Or would the Chinese shoes sell still sell for $50 forcing profit down or would they need to drop to $40 to set the market lower?"

in the short term, the market price wouldn't be swayed by mere changes in costs (including tariffs). raising prices changes consumer behavior (i.e., price elasticity), which dampens the ability of the firm to make such unilateral changes. perhaps through advertising/lobbying/public relations, shoe companies can change the perception on what a fair market price is for their shoes (and thereby raise prices without negative affects on sales), but that's a different effect beyond simply costs changing. longer term, market participants may drop out due to unprofitability, which would change supply, and as a result change the market price through the lack of lower-priced alternatives.

you sell shoes at the highest price the market will bear (actually a range, given price discrimination techniques), and then adjust the 4 P's in response. the market price is dynamic and part of the function of marketing is keeping tabs on it.
Missing one of my absolute favorites: Kenshi.
> For example, recently psychologists discovered a simple way to test for creativity. The simple test is to come up with a list of 10 words as different as possible from each other. The simple test is to come up with a list of 10 words as different as possible from each other. After posting my word combinations and their scores people were replying with theirs, and then of course eventually GPT-3’s results were posted. According to the test, GPT-3 is far more creative than the average person, scoring in the 85-95th percentile. If you like, take that test and see if you can beat the machine.

So could a line of Python.

random.choices(words_in_english, k = 10)

This isn't really testing creativity, but more the size of the list of concepts you can keep in your head at once and then select from.

I can see how that correlates with creativity in humans, but for a machine, it is just leveraging its ability to store and process far more data.

EDIT:

I tested this. Maybe there is some confounding factor in my implementation, but random.choice seems to consistently beat most people too, around 90-95%.

Site used: https://www.datcreativity.com/task?

Repo of code: https://github.com/MattGaiser/CreativeWordChoice/tree/master...

I just grabbed a random list of nouns, narrowed it by the params specified, and fed them in as required. You may need more than 10 as it rejects some, but in that case I just re-ran it and put in the first nouns to come up.
I can see that scenario yes. I like that aspect of UBI, provide choice to take on those laborious unfulfilling jobs. Looking forward to see a country implementing it, we could the all quit speculating about the outcomes.
You want more money than UBI offers? You get a job on top of it.
Peertube is interesting tech, and YouTube's de facto monopoly on video hosting is less than ideal. Especially considering that it's owned by the world's largest attention harvesting operation.
> Abolish First Past the Post

I'm not even in the same prison, I'm a Brit, and I strongly agree with this. I actually get to vote in a non-FPTP election as well and, surprise surprise, it produces much better results.
You need to actually clear the payment with the payer/drawer's bank eventually. This means either having a direct relationship with all of the banks your customers might foreseeable use, or using a clearinghouse with pre-established relationships. One of the functions served by the payment networks (actually the merchant processors under their agreements with the acquirers I believe, it gets confusing in the details) is managing relationships with clearinghouses such as FedACH. These clearinghouses are hesitant to allow access to parties other than established financial institutions because of the risk involved, and they are likely to judge "starting our own payment network for adult content" as very high risk for a variety of reasons.

It is conceptually possible for an adult entertainment website to sidestep the payment processors by clearing directly through ACH or an EFT network or something, but this is high risk for the bank offering the service (ODFI) and so access to ACH clearing is generally more difficult to obtain than merchant banking. Banks are not really any more willing to work with adult entertainment than credit card networks, and some of the material problems that make credit card networks hesitant (unusually high levels of chargebacks and use of stolen card information) are even bigger problems for ACH/EFT/etc. which are "less reversible" than credit card payments.

The ease of processing credit cards today is sort of a newer invention - you used to have to fill out an application and usually meet with a banker for an interview to get approval to open a merchant account, because the bank that offers the account is taking on risk on your behalf. Newer processors like Square and Stripe have gotten rid of these requirements, but presumably incur more expense and use more automation in managing the risk than conventional banks (as a result they often charge higher fees than a merchant account at a good low-cost commercial bank).

A somewhat related example was the Federal Reserve's decision several years ago to not grant a master account to a Colorado-based credit union formed specifically for the cannabis industry---if memory serves, the primary concern the FRB identified was that the low diversification of such a financial institution would make it especially fragile in response to economic or regulatory changes, creating a very high risk of the credit union going insolvent if there was some shift in the cannabis industry. I imagine an FRB would raise the same concern in relation to adult entertainment, which is also in a complex and often unclear regulatory environment due to the history of US obscenity laws, the often cash-based nature of the industry, and much of the industry being overseas.
This is a very slanted headline. These people aren't servants, they're employees and friends. Many of them enjoy the connection to famous and powerful people. Not all of them are masked. If you're looking for some kind of AOC scandal, you're reaching pretty hard here.
The how and the why are what separates the garden variety codemonkey from the staff/principal levels.
Personal finance is such a huge, profitable niche for YouTube. So much content, a lot of it machine-generated or paid. It's like an elite college in same way that there is an instructor for every student but rather a content writer or card offer for every viewer.
Trailers and video games sounds preferable to any type of "customer is always right" retail job. Retail jobs are abusive and cause depression. They are not viable careers. I too would live on the poverty line before returning to that life.
If you asked me, I’d say that the most probable cause is that people in Faroe Islands have less opportunity to get Education and build a Career, which makes childbearing more attractive in relative terms, as opportunity cost is lower. For the same reason, policies that in the west make it easier to have Education and Career, like subsidized daycare, end up depressing the fertility even further, contrary to expectations.
> (I notice a few comments describing this syntax as less readable. My first thought was that these comments were sarcastic/trolling, but I've concluded that they're serious – but written by programmers who think very differently than I do!)

I think you have to take into account familiarity here. Rust uses "fn" for functions, which is really short (the same as := really), but it's easy to see how it's the short version of "function". On the other hand, := is assignment in some languages (usually Pascal descendants), and is used for "definition" in BDNF. That makes it hard to map it to "function".
Are there any 128-bit core done yet in FPGA?
Automatic, implicit currying is the Haskell feature that most surprised me with how much I like having it. It makes taking apart and composing functions so much nicer, by making a very common case for partial application syntactically and mentally cheap.

Trying to use currying in languages where it isn't built in makes no sense to me. It doesn't seem to compare well against doing the obvious partial application with a lambda. And it doesn't play well with variadic functions, default arguments, etc. (I have ideas for automatic currying of record types that I hope to explore in a toy language at some point, but that only does so much.)
If you want PeerTube to become popular, make it easier for people to upload videos. At the moment it's too confusing and complicated; no content creator cares what "instance" means and they never will. No one who creates an account and finds that "uploads are not allowed on this instance" or encounters some similar problem is going to waste any more time trying to use it. If you leave it the way it is now, it's always just gonna be by nerds for nerds. And more people are going to be enslaved by Big Brother who controls YouTube. So please make it accessible to normal people.
Is there anywhere that info about the adblocking and email masking has been published? The idea of this browser looks amazing. I hope it has good support for adding vim style keyboard shortcuts via extension or otherwise.
try explaining that to your spouse.
Exactly. So much politics is done by swearword association; "elite", "marxist", "fascist", "corporate", etc. Just stick the label on some non-specified group of bad people.
‘Dune’ Counts over $8M in First Two Days at International Box Office
Artists will never be replaced, although looking at the trends of modern graphic design, I doubt a computer can do any worse.
The detail of the paper, rather than the headline,
actually undercuts most of the traditional conspiracy theories. The views of the 90th percentile "elite" are highly correlated with those of the median voter, and largely uncorrelated with business lobby groups.

Paper is at:
https://sci-hub.tf/10.1017/s1537592714001595

Another quirk is that it appears even supermajorities often don't get their way (the graphs show that if 80-90% of the elite favour a policy, it is enacted a little under half the time. Which is better than the probability if 80-90% of the median voters favour it, but still means they usually don't get their way...)

The headline finding is their model which essentially suggests that the median voter doesn't have much influence except where their views align with wealthier people and/or interest groups, but the thing is, they usually do align with one or other and none of the groups actually get their way that often!

It'd also be interesting to see the findings disaggregated by administration and by policy area. It is not difficult to imagine that some of the most consistent disagreements between the median American and the elite American regards issues like upper tax brackets (which elites pay and median Americans don't). To what extent politicians are seeking the favour of 90th percentile Americans when they (sometimes) don't raise upper income tax brackets even when the average American supports it and to what extent they are simply pleasing themselves and following their preferred economic theory are open questions. Disaggregation would also help evaluate other theories, like one of American's political parties being aligned with the elite, or the reverse causation hypothesis where in a political environment where proposed change often fails, the 90th percentile American is [incidentally] happier with the status quo.
But why though? At my desktop workstation both of my monitors are exactly the same brand and model (and sequential serial numbers, if I have a choice) and that's exactly what I would want regardless of my OS.

Why would anyone not prefer this over a mixed set up? The only reason I see to use a mixed set up is if you're forced to use a laptop. Personally I don't optimize for working in meetings and planes though and my life is just simple and straightforward. I keep just 1 cheapo laptop around for that stuff.

With that said, XFCE handles mixed DPI/scaling just fine for me.
Fire subs can be useful. r/fatfire, /r/financialindependence/

"Put it in index funds and do not touch it unless you need the money for an emergency", is as good of advice I have seen and will put you ahead of most people. Of course, there is more to it than that, such as the type of fund, the type of account, age, expenses, and other stuff.
Sadly, Java and Spring are basically a package deal these days. Enterprise shops are likely to run on Spring.
Kind of amazing how little the interface has changed over the last 70(!) years.
These things, like user accounts, more auth methods, flexible endpoints, IP pools, ..., should be integrated in a product in a secure manner. What wireguard does is the irresponsible lazy approach of leaving everything up to the VPN providers and webinterface-monkeys. Who will surely mess up a lot of the upper layers that provide all the necessary "comfort" features. After which the wireguard crowd will wash their hands with the Jobsian "you are holding it wrong".
These numbers are to some extent distortions brought about by Sweden having different ways of associating deaths with COVID-19. If you look at overall numbers the Netherlands has similar accounting and similar results. It is also true that if you look along borders such as between Sweden and Norway there is little difference along them. The bulk of cases in Sweden were in very specific communities, in particular immigrants in urban areas and old people in care homes, so the result of this focus on averages per nation ends up being distorted.
...and Germans.
That’s a negative sum view of the situation (if the creator takes more, the buyer takes less).

Consider the positive sum view: the creator is encouraged to do activities (marketing? Community management?) to drive the price of the sold items higher and resold more frequently.
This brings memories of Camino in the Mac space and K-Meleon in Windows.
And to add some more nuance to point 4: there were a LOT of people who could have retired years ago, but chose not to for various reasons. This was their reason. I've seen estimates as high as 2M extra people in the US have just flat out retired due to covid (some left under their own volition, some not - but few of them are coming back). This isn't just old people either - early retirees are a sizeable contingent here.
Which is what someone working for big brother would say, of course.
The point about "karensdag" isn't quite true as the max compensation for it is significantly lower than 80% of your salary (afaik it's 810 SEK for that day).
To me, it’s a lot more fun to look at the work that human artists are doing with AI than to get worried about them being “replaced.” https://pitchfork.com/news/holly-herndons-ai-deepfake-twin-h...
> but now things are better - radio silence. Why?

Because it’s expected in a highly vaccinated population.
Sure, and photography for the most part really did replace painting, or at least its societal purpose... family portraits are done with photos, as is most other visual documentation.

The art world didn't end when photography came along. But it did change. It won't end when AI-driven creations come along. It may change. The creative process and the resulting works have been changing based on technology for centuries. The printing press changed art. The industrial revolution changed art. 3d printing changed art. CNC machines changed art. People will always find new ways to be creative with new technology. New art forms will arise. Old art forms will still be around, and people will find uses for all of the above.
I’m a software engineer and fortunately don’t need to clean bathrooms to feed myself. But to your GP’s point I would for $1 MM per bathroom.

While I’m using hyperbole, what it shows is that, there is some non-exploitative wage for cleaning bathrooms and while it might be “too high” for the current business that need clean bathrooms, supply and demand “should” figure out the rest.
Surprising sexism aside, I think the broader point here is that focusing on specifically the women is kind of weird and unnecessary. The issue isn't that men and women are being treated equally, the issue is that both parents are expected to work.

If women drop out of the workforce, are employers suddenly going to start doubling salaries so household income will stay the same? If not, then this isn't really a problem with gender roles, it doesn't seem.

It sounds to me like the thread of logic you're following is:

- Women have started working more, so child care is harder

- Child care costs went up during the pandemic, so more workers of all genders are staying home to care for their children directly

- Therefore, there's a labor shortage.

Well, the obvious conclusion from that thread of logic is that employers apparently need women to work in order for the economy to keep functioning, and if they stop working and stop sending their kids to daycare then there'll be a labor shortage.

If you don't have a plan to fix that problem, then complaining about gender roles seems kind of useless. If you're worried about the direction of childcare and you think more women should be in that role, then shouldn't you be happy that more people are staying home now to take care of their kids, and that this is forcing the market to adjust salaries to meet the new numbers of available workers?

You can't both have your cake and eat it, you can't be upset that women aren't staying home to look after their kids and upset that there are fewer available workers to hire once parents start staying home to watch their kids.
Nothing is more 90s than huge bulky monitors and screensavers
This is not uncommon. The term you are looking for is nominal dimension.
Memory is much more correlated with creativity than one would think.
Population density is meaningful only locally... so a country such as australia can have very low population density nationally, but a high one in one of the large cities.

Population densities of both Jerusalem and Stockholm are high enough for covid to spread fast, and forrests and deserts are empty enough to make it hard for covid to spread. Averageas are meaningless here, because even statisticians can drown in a river with average depth of 0.5m.