skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In this way, the moratorium contributed to people owing more rent than they otherwise would have.

Only if for those who decided to stop paying rent when they otherwise could have continued paying it. But those people were just really misinformed given their credit is wrecked and getting another apartment will be really hard (doubly so now that landlords scared of future moratoriums will shy away from low or even lower middle income tenants).

Or maybe you meant that the moratorium allowed the normal eviction rate to accumulate?
With what's going on in China (Lehman Brothers 2.0 on steroids and cocaine, and printing press that puts US Fed to shame), and massive over-valuation of the stock market in the US now would not be a good time to buy _any_ stocks IMO. This is not financial advice: use your own brain.
Not really relevant, given that a huge fraction of the world uses bidets. Unless you're implying that a huge portion of the world is eschewing parachutes and apparently doin' OK.
You can signup to PayID and transfer in the time it takes a waitress to get to your table in around 80% of the known world. How does crypto beat that accessibility? (And it's been around since '02. The US was the last major hold out.)
Not to comment on authority but from a pandemic perspective it’s probably better to keep low income people in their apartment than the alternative. They either end up having to move in with friends, start using shelters, or have to move to other places of the country. All those situation increase the spread of the virus a lot more than… staying in your own house.

On top of society benefits, once someone becomes homeless, it’s a lot harder for them to get a job and re-integrate society / working world.
Can you link a criticism of him that is misleading?
It would almost be amiss not to mention the amazing work done by Asobo and Microsoft on Flight Simulator 2020 in this context. The whole world has come to life with such beauty as I would never have been able to imagine when I first saw Flight Simulator in the early 80s.

Mind you as children we were perfectly able to fill in the blanks. Yet, the latest version with its highly variable and dynamic weather systems, with spectacular lighting, has really hit the mark for me.

It too uses Microsoft's storage to access data impossible to contain locally in entirety, be it Azure based this time. It would be interesting to learn more about this transition, if related.
Nah, I didn't say that either.
The article points out that Amazon offers pay cash for two years the stock, whereas Google pays a mix of stock and cash. The tax difference is that that with Amazon, your stock grows unvested for two years, and when you vest, it’s growth gets taxed as ordinary income. With google stock, you can hold the vested stock for those same two years and get taxed on that growth as long term capital gains.
There isn't a "government branch". The is legislative, executive, and judicial. They are all "the government".
As a non-academic: huh?

The claim wasn't that the research was unfunded, just unfunded by DARPA.

To your second point, bad/non-evidence of essentially __everything__ is why the internet is the way it is today. You're saying "fake news is fake" which isn't really saying anything at all.
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If what's being 'built' is basically a copy/clone of something that a person or team has done before, sure.

Coordinating discovery and planning across disconnected "software tradespeople" isn't easy. In physical construction, it's usually pretty easy for contractor A to indicate that he is blocked by contractor B. "I can't drywall until the electrics are in". People wouldn't demand that the drywall be put in anyway just so they could hit some arbitrary "velocity" goal, for example. This is much harder to decipher and work around in software pieces, especially by disconnected vendors and contractors.
Perhaps because it seems overly complicated, with a lot of manual parts prone to error? You made something that is N long (scan each book) into something over 3N (photo all might not be N, but transcribe titles, pull out, open, photo, then transcribe isbn/info is 3N or more.) I got the idea from a book (24 Hour Bookstore/Ajax Penumbra) but a panorama of a room to pick up the spines would be amazing.

I don't see it here, but even accepting the need to barcode/isbn all the books, I would like a way to pull digitized or high-quality spine images for a VR library that is fed from an ISBN database of what you want it stocked with, using a query for shelving/sorting. I fear that this is a whole new project, akin to the original good cover scans, but lacking even a starting point from publisher sites.
There was also tons of government programs to help with mortgage. At least in Canada. So help was on both side.
> Millions of Americans are miserable. The internet has “gotten worse” because Americans are not ok. Near-universal internet access means that there are immiserated, lonely people spending many hours a day online. The breakdown in the social fabric, climbing "prime-age" unemployment and high rates of addiction and mental illness manifest themselves in our mutually-constructed online spaces. There is a misery that wants to make itself known--to inflict itself on the world--that social media enables. We are reaping what we've sown; the interconnectedness enabled by the internet and the gains from open communication/cooperation cannot succeed while so many are left behind.

There's an awesome idea for a sci-fi/cyberpunk/horror story in here somewhere.

Reminds me of Serial Experiments Lain.
Whether to include the degraded option by default is a policy choice that's far beyond the purview of filesystem developers, and not something that most distros can give a clear answer to, either. It boils down to a question of the end user's use cases and risk tolerance. But it seems pretty reasonable to state that a loss of redundancy should either be handled by the user, or by a piece of software sitting between the user and the filesystem itself and acting in accordance with the user's preferences. Silently continuing to operate but with less safety than the user originally requested is the kind of dangerous that should be an opt-in feature, not a default.

Moving the decision into the filesystem itself only makes sense if the filesystem is equipped to enact mitigating actions such as claiming a hot spare as the replacement device, notifying the user/sysadmin through whatever logging/reporting mechanism is actually monitored by a human, signalling applications like load balancers to stop relying on this particular machine if a healthy alternative is available, etc.

(There's also an implementation detail that can trip up users who are trying to live dangerously: you're not supposed to mount a degraded btrfs array as writable until you're prepared to fix the problem making it degraded—such as by providing the devices needed to restore redundancy, or converting it to not be a redundant array anymore.)
Yes, it may be possible to update standard of care with a robust Phase 2 RCT that convinces doctors, especially for a pilot. Phase 3 trials for a repurposed generic would be more expensive, but a new label indication would provide further incentives to update SoC because doctors and pharmacies would be less exposed to liability for prescribing off-label.
what about running out of places to store stuff? i.e. a physical place that you know well enough to store memories.
So you are saying that X is not worth it if X is crap? Who wouldn’t agree with that? What if X was implemented well and did what it was supposed to do? We use end-to-end production and it works extremely well. I have had zero production problems for years now. All issues were found by the end-to-end tests before deploying.
You're both kind of right. You need to E2E your product, and what your product is is what matters.
The article explicitly comments on this. Search for “Glassdoor” in the text.
Yeah look at Mozilla CEO milking the company when it exists instead of improving anything.

It's not that women make bad leaders. It's just that activist types often make bad leaders, because often their activism is a thin veil over their incompetence.
I read something earlier this week which makes me think Whitman wouldn't necessarily be online. From Irving Howe's "The Idea of the Modern":

"Subjectivity becomes the typical condition of the modernist outlook. In its early stages, when it does not trouble to disguise its filial dependence on the Romantic poets, modernism declares itself an inflation of the self, a transcendental and orgiastic aggrandizement of matter and event in behalf of personal vitality. In the middle stages, the self begins to recoil from externality and now devotes itself, almost as if it were the world’s body, to a minute examination of its own inner dynamics: freedom, compulsion, caprice. In the late stages, there occurs an emptying-out of the self, a revulsion from the wearisomeness of both individuality and psychological gain. (Three writers as exemplars of these stages: Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett.) Modernism thereby keeps approaching–sometimes even penetrating–the limits of solipsism, the view expressed by Gottfried Benn when he writes that 'there is no outer reality, there is only human consciousness, constantly building, modifying, rebuilding new worlds out of its own creativity.'"
> I guess “cryptocurrencies” could be replaced in this paragraph by many other things (past, present and forthcoming) that allow exchange of value and this would ring true to some or many people

Outside of the exclusions given in the original quote what kinds of things might be examples?
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I am fine with that as long as the government took over responsibility for paying the tenant’s rent. And not in a convoluted, bureaucratic mess kind of way. The payment needs to be on time and hassle free.

I know hotel owners that have people staying in the rooms for free for over a year causing damage and they cannot get rid of them.

Right now, what has happened is politicians found a way to dump the costs homeless/poor people onto select businesses/land owners rather than all taxpayers.
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I have a little long bet going that in 10 years, Peter Daszak's name will be on the same lists as the world's worst mass killers.

Imaging writing this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7159294/

and then being forced to disclose this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8215723/

4.5 million dead so far. More than Pol Pot, less than Leopold II. There's still time.
Agree. They are not testing the end-to-end contracts of how concurrent services interact. I predict it will end badly.
Nice. Tiny bug: unchecked err here: https://gist.github.com/jvns/edf78e7775fea8888685a9a2956bc47...
One thing to consider (when arguing against this stuff as you definitely should) is that there are two distinct classes of arguments against;

One is "What if it works wrong?," and yeah, as a black person seeing the current state of the tech, that's already a pretty scary one.

But probably the more important is "What if it works perfectly well and exactly as intended?" It's still an outrageously bad idea. Now, I'm actually not sure if you'll be able to ban it outright, but this is where you have to slog through the extremely important but perhaps slow-going route of "public policy."
Do you have a git page on this? This sounds impressive, above what I can do right now.
Corps own a lot of rental properties (apartment buildings), but I don't think they own a lot of single family home-style rentals yet.

The corps are the most cautious with rental background checks, and are probably suffering less from non-payment than less cautious individual landlords.
I didn't take it as an accusation, no worries. what I am wondering is, what happens to the 25% of houses that aren't owned by Blackrock? And what happens to all of the people who get evicted?
> I hate that sideloading is still somewhat of a "taboo" thing for hardware that you own.

Taboo? In what situation?
Why aren't salaries negotiations treated like auctions? Could they be?
This doesn't compute: is the claim Apple badly manages its bug-bounty because 0-days are too valuable? If that's the case, I'd expect the opposite effect: Apple would recognize how valuable the reports being sent to them by white-hats are, and would react with a sense of urgency and gratitude. As it is, Apple is behaving as if 0-days are worth very little, and not a big priority.
Mostly the latter, I think. Also just the "public perception" space (which these days, you'd think would be a pretty easy sell, given vaccine skepticism and all, but maybe not?")
Some of the highest throughput systems on earth are written in either Java or C#.

Check out the LMAX disruptor sometime. Throughput rates measured in hundreds of millions of serialized events per second are feasible in these languages if you are clever with how you do things.
She failed to revive Freescale before she left for AMD. In fact her strategy at Freescale sped up its failure, but she learned from that missteps and saved AMD.

AMD also got a huge injection of investment from the middle east. Without that money nobody can save it.

She is great, but not that great.
> Millions of Americans are miserable. The internet has “gotten worse” because Americans are not ok.

I remember when this kind of stuff used to make me feel better because I felt like it "wasn't just me". Now it makes me feel worse, because I realize that no-one will "come and save us".
I don’t think it was bravery. I think it was lack of end-to-end test engineering skills. If your tests are flaky then do what you would do with any other software: fix it! If your end-to-end tests are slow then do what you would do with any other software: optimise it! Not having proper end-to-end tests is a massive red flag.
It may matter to you. But I don't think I'd be wrong to believe that if Hunter had been Ted Cruz's son, or Trump's son, no such politeness would have been granted and it would have run till it ran out of steam due to over-exposure.

And granted, I took some license but I wasn't intent on saying there was a literal agreement by the media and fact checkers, but that's like saying there is no pricing collusion between airlines -yeah, I'm sure they are not calling each other, but they are following each other's lead so to speak and that's what media and fact checkers do.

By 90% I mean exposure -Impressions and eyeballs. How many articles, tweets, reddits, etc.
So that was complete bullshit after all - hostage taking by communist bandits.
If they were evicted and living on the streets, then they would not have accrued a rent liability for those months. So the total liability now would be less.

You could argue that the current state of large accrued rent liabilities is better than the alternative world of smaller liabilities, more homeless, more deaths, etc, but the OP is not making the inverse claim.

Further, IIRC the moratorium relied on self-reported hardship. Is it so hard to imagine that people who could have actually afforded their rent decided to game the system a bit and accrue (rather than pay) their liability? Such behavior would also cause the current liabilities to be higher.
I did not, in fact, claim that recursion is inherently slower than iteration. You are welcome to read what I did write, above.

Usually it is considered better (hint, hint) to do that before replying.
Hey, so here's something I don't understand, some people are saying that the end of the eviction moratorium will push rent prices up as from now on the landlords will demand some higher premium for future events like this.

But isn't it the case that we're about to hit a massive supply of new homes for sale and places to rent once the evictions get processed? And wouldn't such premiums be already embedded in new rents?
>In your case I wouldn't report it because I don't particularly care, but in Stossel's case, he did and they left the content up. He has a leg to stand on, if, as you said, the fact check is found by the court to actually be libel.

But it ain't libel unless and until the court says it is. Which makes your argument specious at best.

>FYI I'm pretty sure making a positive statement claiming intent to put illegal content on HN is a bannable offense,

Firstly, libel is not illegal content. It's a civil tort. And sure, I can imagine that HN might ban someone for actual illegal content (torrent links, links to child porn, etc.)

But as I understand it, the First Amendment here in the US (where HN and I are both based), there are just a very few circumstances where my speech could make me civilly liable and almost none which could make me criminally liable.

As such, you're living in a fantasy world.

As for actually libeling/defaming you, given the context of this discussion, even if I made knowingly false statements, it would likely be clear to any jury that my statements were exemplars rather than actual attempts at libel.

What's more, I don't know you. I don't know your name or anything about you.

Since I can't identify you, I have no way to determine whether anything I say about you is true or not. Should I loose a stream of invective and accusations at "betwixtthewires", it really can't be libel, since there's no way for me to do actual harm to you.

Even more, as I said, context matters. I tell you what, if you're game (and have the cash and the will to hire lawyers), I will say awful things about you here.

If you're down for it, I wish you luck with your lawsuits. Because you're gonna need it.
Ok, as another academic: this happens all the time. People use funds from one grant to subsidize other research. I've heard a colleague refer to it "as using one project to pay the bills of another project."

It's all also a moot point in that just because the grant wasn't funded from DARPA doesn't mean it wasn't funded. And if it was funded, it doesn't mean we would know who funded it.

Not trying to be conspiratorial, just trying to point out the funding on this grant or lack thereof doesn't mean anything about it happening or not happening. It just means the researchers were interested in it happening.
Why put a murderer in jail? It won't bring the victim back.
So putting these config in .htaccess which live in project folder is a technical debt, but putting all these logics in nginx master config file is not?
Reality reminds me of Serial Experiments Lain .... pretty sure we even have the 3d avatars in virtual reality
this is highly dependent on the strike price.

Though if you're an early enough employee to be getting a strike price that you can exercise without any worry (on the order of $x00) then you probably should be getting stock directly vs options anyway.
Perhaps miserable people shouldn't be pushed together in a digital space surrounded by materials designed to make them more angry.
Not really. You can get companies into bidding wars though. Went from 50k to 80k with a savvy recruiter doing the dirty work.
Capitalism doesn't work without the threat of homelessness.
It's not just a technical distinction, the executive is under much stricter rules than the congress, which is only bound by the constitution (although it can also change that, with some extra steps).

The debt ceiling is a great example. The executive cannot spend what congress hasn't authorized.
Ask your male buddies "how many dudes" they've slept with, see how gender-neutral it really is in your circles.
Having been through this meat grinder, people do please run the numbers on that "equity" you're getting. Founders make it sound like 0.1% is a windfall, but it most certainly isn't, even in the unlikely event the startup succeeds.

That said, in my estimation people go to startups to do interesting things, not for the money per se. BigCo (even a FAANG) is a depressing, high politics, low productivity morass, and a lot of people (myself included) find it difficult to tolerate it for long, in spite of the higher paycheck.

As to running the numbers, there's an excellent essay by @luu that you need to read: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
Facebook's News Feed model was trained daily in 2018. (Source: https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hpca-2018.... If you know of update please let us know.) "requiring constant retraining" is pretty accurate in this case.

Facebook trained image understanding CNN ("Lumos" in the paper) only once in many months, but this is not usual.
Not my experience at all. Having solid end-to-end tests means that I spend 99% of my time adding new features and 1% of my time fixing bugs before deploying. I haven’t had a bug in production for years because of solid end-to-end tests.
Current set of tools in explainable AI do allow deep neural nets to tell why they gave the response that they did to a certain extent.

Contact me if you want to see it applied to text based DL models, time series based DL models or Image based DL models.
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> use a member variable, call one of these functions, and then use use that variable again, there's no longer a guarantee that the variable still has the same value.

Could you expound upon this? Not sure I understand the context, but would like to. Are you assigning a value to a member variable by awaiting the return of an async method, not clear would cause you to lose the value.
Current set of tools in explainable AI do allow deep neural nets to tell why they gave the response that they did to a certain extent.
Contact me if you want to see it applied to text based DL models, time series based DL models or Image based DL models.
I have a backburner idea of a VR library room. It would be neat to have a database I could sort how I liked (for example, by fiction/non, then publication year -> but series use the AVERAGE single year for the series) That sorting is a mess on its own.

It also needs a way to pull spine images or have a computer go from bad spine pics to simplified colour-matching digital ones.

Other options - finding when you have a room with books from multiple homes (blended families, inherited), insurance, or for a "why is book 7 of the series here" massive sorting project with a good audiobook for company.
> All [motorized vehicles] should have a mechanical, unpowered, easily accessible emergency way to get the drivetrain disconnected from the wheels so the car can be moved if dead.

I'm boggled that this is not checked for in type-approvals.
I don't think this is an important point. There's no law allowing it.

If the "government" wanted something enough, they could get a supermajority together in congress and amend the constitution to make literally anything legal. But they haven't, in this case, done so.
All models are wrong. Some are useful. The problem is knowing if a specific model is useful.
I know its an unpopular opinion but for those who were hoping for a roaring 20s comeback from covid, I believe this will prove to be a huge damper.

Remember: no forgiveness means eviction and bankruptcy, which disqualify you from renting practically anywhere.
I bet you could use GPT-3 to extend the list of rules.
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In fact, I wrote none of those. I don't know what "inability to see cleaner code" even means, if anything, so I could not have made claims about it.

But I wonder, do you really believe that overflowing one's stack is, universally, not possible?
This is also a confession by the CCP that the Canadians were being held as hostages.