skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a fairly complex situation. Most people just don’t realise all the encroaching police state laws even exist (I refer to the real ones Federally, not the temporary State-Government health orders that some people have tried to blow out of proportion).

We have very little media diversity. The few billionaires who own the few outlets enjoy the continuing tax cuts, random free grants, advertising spend, etc. from the conservative Government, so run what some critics have called a ‘protection racket for the Liberal National Party’. Almost nothing about any of the mass surveillance laws then really gets into the media, and if something is mentioned, it’s mostly presented in light of the Government’s line on it.

The times any of this does get into the news is if there is any opposition from the Opposition party (Labor), who theoretically could get the numbers to block laws in the Senate by one vote. If it looks like they might not allow the Government to sweep them through, the Government then does what we call ‘wedging’ the Labor party. This is where they say “Labor wants the terrorists to win” or “Labor is voting in the interests of paedophiles”, and the media amplifies that narrative.

Unfortunately it works because nobody knows what the laws are about (even though human rights groups, law groups, civil society groups, often even the Government’s own security legislation review committee have raised serious flaws, tried to get them out in the open but are ignored by the media).

The Government also makes a mockery of any due process - sometimes having a public consultation period but ignoring it when basically every submission is negative and it’s clear nobody actually wants the laws (it’s just a box ticking exercise - if people bring it up later, they will seriously claim “but we consulted the public and experts” even though they ignored all of them). Some of these laws they have pushed through both Houses of Parliament in one or two days, with basically no debate.

It’s a truly atrocious situation. There is an election coming up, but with most of the media enthusiastically running the protection racket and pushing basically just lies about politics, and only fairly actively politically informed people knowing what’s actually going on (that’s a small proportion of the population - the conservative party relies on that a lot), things may not improve.
I would also note the N-series was one of the first tractors with a 3-point hitch that worked reasonably safely.
Once enough force has been deployed, oppression and complacency look similar from the outside.
Arguably it gets worse. At $10mil you're on their radar and get a lot more rejections.
> I was responding to a comment about making money from ads, but a similar line of thought works for banking services, I think.

It depends on what level the ads are being cut. But sure, that can be different.

> As far as what's "right"... Damn if I know.

I stand pretty firmly on "everyone deserves access to utilities".

Maybe with a throttle at a certain level if they're abusing the utility itself.

So charging more to big water users is usually fine, refusing to deal at all is rarely fine.

The point at which someone is acting so badly they need to be removed from utilities, where fines aren't even enough, is the point where they should be going to prison. And then they should have access restored upon release.

And sending money in a simple electronic way should be a utility in the US.
The numerous 500 server error screens are a bug smoking gun.
> From the outside looking in

This perspective is not useful. You have to put yourself into the shoes of an abroad student, and then you will understand why the majority of them chooses to return home after getting the degree. Attraction factors are generally more important than the detraction factors you enumerated (overcrowding isn't even an objective one): these people want to be with their network of family and acquaintances, be part of a culture and speak the language they understand, and exploit their new knowledge to become wealthy without additional hurdles.
I think people like Ford, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, are the exception that proves the rule. It is astronomically rare for a CEO to be that involved at a micro-level and be successful.
Would be interested to see your sources for the occurrence of harassment, beating and arrest.
It's hard to re-create your following when the new platform goes out of its way to exclude you during its launch (Reels was launched in India days after tiktok was banned), heavily promoting upper caste creators. It's sort of like CEOs who got where they were because of their social networks from private schools and prestigious colleges - and seed money from daddy.

> But rather than court the same creators who had driven the Chinese company’s success, Facebook, Reels’ owner, kick-started its launch campaign by courting a set of influencers from upper-class backgrounds, including Komal Pandey, Kusha Kapila, and Ammy Virk: “A catalog of aspiring lifestyle [examples] for middle-class and upper-middle-class Indians,” was how Dr. Rahul Advani, a research fellow at the University College London, described the launch to Rest of World.

Facebook didn't know about popular tiktokers like the Mahtos, didn't care, or knew full well and specifically wanted to cater "rich lifestyle" content because it's better for selling ads, especially ads for expensive, high-profit-margin stuff.
Any idea if they’ll release an API similar to GPT-3?

It’s great that larger and larger models are trained but without enabling access to the trained models developers are left out from the progress…
Not a bad name or reason. Thanks for sharing.
That would be better than my current situation. Everyone genuinely believes that I'm very intelligent because of the way I talk about my hobbies, the details I know, and the variety of hobbies I have. This leads them to believe that I'm really intelligent, but just not engaged or something.

In reality I don't think I'm that intelligent, maybe the upper half of the normal range, if that. It's just that you don't meet many people in finance IT who are also into culturing mushrooms, beekeeping, creating Android apps, etc.
It's not just the demographics: https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/78138 .
While its a tragedy so many people have died from COVID, 150k people is 0.10% of the workforce.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat08.htm

150 / 147,795 = 0.001014
I'm sick of "but Elon Musk does X." Yes, the guy's exceptional. That literally means not representative, outside the normal rule or distribution. So like a black swan, you can point to him and say "proof X is possible" but you can't point to him and say "proof X is normal"—you've got to wait for "half of Fortune 500 CEOs do X."

(Nothing personal colordrops, I've just seen this take a lot lately.)
The Rx system of synthetics has both sides happy: big pharma and the cartels
What surprises me more than the fact that these systems are buggy and can put you in impossible situations is that people continue to accept them. Because no matter how dire things get as soon as it works again it's all forgiven and forgotten until the next near (hopefully) disaster strikes.
For all the claims of worker shortages, it still feels like every online application and personality quiz I fill out goes directly in to the /dev/null
That carries the assumption that my life is some high value object, yet there are 8 billion of us and I'm not more important than the next.
It's my impression that these quarantine facilities are not currently being used for persons infected with COVID in the US. The comparison seems a little disingenuous...
Everyone's first words at the reveal were "is this a yoke?".
And why would they do that? They themselves also need advanced chips, which they can't get when the west boycotts supplies. In the end, such actions are doubled-edged swords, nobody benefits.

I find all this decoupling rhetoric/fear very weird and contradictory. On the one hand people say we should decouple from China, on the other hand we fear decoupling from China and we get furious when they initiate decoupling (see Australian trade). In the mean time actual Chinese officials keep saying that a trade war benefits nobody and keep calling for rational decision making.
Way to Find a Random Point in a Circle –| Video
Not my video, but I think it is very interesting!
It can be a bit of a double edged sword, especially in startups.

I've been on the leadership side of this where you suddenly realize it's vitally important to your growth that you can give away the things you're doing day to day - unblocking people when they get stuck has a higher ROI than doing it yourself even if you'd do it better/faster because it scales more.

But I saw this very differently at an early stage company where our being successful led to people being hired to do all the interesting areas I had been growing into - if someone has Legos anxiety it may very well be because they've realized that this growth is not going to work well for them.
What a bunch of blather.

The article quotes: "As time went on, Bluetooth latency in the Android world improved significantly by 2021." Erm, no. You've presented no evidence along those lines.

If you go back to the original source, that is NOT what the graph claims. The original graphs are only about wired audio latency.

In addition, iPhone Bluetooth latency is not good either.

The problem, though, is mostly the Bluetooth specification and the fact that we codec the hell out of stuff to preserve power and wireless bandwidth.

Yes, the Android audio stack still is inferior to iPhone. But that has very little to due with Bluetooth.

And, to be fair, mostly no one cares as long as latency is consistent. When watching a video, for example, iPhones simply delay the video to match the added audio latency.
What's the perplexity?
Sure but the labor shortage doesn't have one single cause, it's a bunch of stuff piling up on top of each other.
One of my favorites:
https://tcrf.net/StarCraft
Any idea if they’ll release an API similar to GPT-3?
It’s great that larger and larger models are trained but without enabling access to the trained models developers are left out from the progress…
I believe this is partially due to end of the "pixel perfect" era by introducing Retina displays. They did well both until iOS6 but they had limited variant of dpi for their devices. Now they have vary dpi iOS/iPadOS devices like Android.
For certain definitions of "monoculture". Even Han culture between different regions can be very different.
The article expanded on the headline.
Interesting you would bring up China as it is the number one famous example of an empire stagnating for thousands of years.

The Roman Empire is well known to have made all of it's huge technological advancements in the beginning when they were a smaller, anti elitist, working class society with an emphasis on property rights and freedom. Later it became the gigantic, corruption ridden empire of upper class orgies that it was famous for.

All the wealth of scientific progress in Europe happened in the 18 hundreds after the french revolution invented the concept of Nationalism / freedom / and international trade and competition. These values disappeared from Europe in the 20th century, but were kept alive and well in the USA over that time period. Since then just about every single advancement and scientific discovery of any value has taken place in the USA. Just about everything you own was invented in America (your mass produced vehicle, internet -- no it wasn't invented at CERN -- optical fibers, almost all of your medicine, your computer techonology, your lcd screen ...everything), meanwhile nothing gets created in Europe anymore.
If the company ignores their own policies repeatedly to my detriment, then I fail to see how I'm the obstacle. Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result is insanity - I've simply been conditioned to expect the company to screw me over.
"Well, if the cops are your threat actor, then don't use biometrics! Instead, just sit in jail..."

- Troy Hunt, notable Australian Security dude
Issue #21: Trade Idea – Short CNH
It looks extremely like Discord. If you've opened Discord / seen what Discord looks like, it's very 1 to 1 on it.
And yet we heard the same thing last December.

Things aren't going back to normal, when Australia opens up regardless of vaccination status thousands of people will die if they are lucky and tens of thousands if they are not.

The vaccines have been a huge disappointment with constant goal post moving the only way to keep people from noticing.
Thanks for explaining, I’ve always wondered why so many people seem to use boom boxes on bikes.

I wonder if there’s some happy medium - some noise that the bike could make periodically that’s less annoying than blaring music, but also doesn’t require you to actively initiate it.
For example, here is another design with it's own unique advantages and disadvantages, built using many shared components: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/MicroTrac_v17.10
That might explain why so many people learning a novel programming language start, but nearly never finish, writing a book or tutorial about it.

For example, there are far more incomplete Common Lisp tutorials than there are working / fleshed out code examples on GitHub. The endless unfinished tutorials and "books" are suspiciously similar, and nearly always give up at the same not-yet-practical level.

The same goes for other technical subjects. Raspberry Pi is another area where you can find different versions of nearly the exact same incomplete tutorials everywhere.
JPMorgan's Dimon blasts Bitcoin as 'worthless', due for regulation
The C4 Rice Project
Jeremy Clarkson did more for farmers in one series than Countryfile in 30 years
In Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and British/Australian/NZ English, LEGO is an uncountable noun like "rice" or "sand". The Danish LEGO company used to advocate this usage by printing the following on their sets:

"Dear Parents and Children

LEGO® is a brand name that is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely appreciate your help in keeping it special by referring to our bricks as "LEGO Bricks or Toys" and not just "LEGOS". By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand that stands for quality the world over." [1]

So the singular form is clearly the manufacturer's intention, but "Legos" is widely used in North America and is just one of those words that grates if you haven't grown up with it. For whatever reason I have the same reaction when the Poms say "kit" instead of "equipment".

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10839/what-is-th...
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/new-essay-and-t... seems to be the newsletter in question; I am not subscribed despite fitting the demographics on a number of axes.
Oh, I've tried - multiple times. The people/companies that make the rules don't have to follow them. If you repeatedly beat a dog, do you expect it to be friendly or do you expect it to cower in the corner hoping it doesn't get beaten again?
You can defeat jamming in a fairly unsophisticated way by using an antenna that can only receive signals from a specific direction (i.e straight up), while everything else is filtered out. If the jammer is to the side or below you it wouldn’t do much good. The problem is for GPS to work you need to be able to see a few of the sats and some will be closer to the horizon.
To anyone not from Australia or not across this, currently federal law enforcement can hack online accounts, remove, add, or modify data. They still need a warrant but can hack accounts in advance of a warrant, provided they have "reasonable suspicion" that the person they are hacking is committing a crime. There is also no recourse if the warrant is denied and they have already hacked the accounts of the person in suspicion.

Having read The Gulag Archipelago, I am worried what will become of Australia in coming decades. While I am in opposition to how the current government operates, they're only part of the problem because the Identify and Disrupt bill flew through the senate in a day with support from both major parties. Not even taking into account that the suggested amendments to the bill to remove the broad clauses were ignored and the bill was passed anyway.
How will the Australian state's vaccination targets be met without maintaining the restrictions which are used to coerce people into getting vaccinated? Things might be somewhat relaxed by December just because it's summer in Australia, but I have a hard time seeing you go the way of "just live with it like the flu" like Denmark or Singapore over the long term.
it wasn't the sales of the newspaper itself that got Hearst rich, but the sale of space within the paper for advertisements. same as it ever was
There are stats in "stats items" / "stats slabs". Last access time for most recent eviction per slab class, etc. (see doc/protocol.txt from the tarball).

"watch evictions" command will also show a stream of details for items being evicted.
Sure. You're not going to say that means there's a shortage of chefs though, or lobby for policies that undermine the labor force's negotiating position with the aim to cut their wages until you can afford one.
I guess it depends on how much you need "right now".

It doesn't take crazy amounts of effort to set up app servers, a load balancer, a database, and S3-compatible storage somewhere else.

If you had one person working on that two days a month you could keep a warm fallback system ready to go. That takes some effort to keep a map of what your cloud services are actually doing, which is a good idea anyway.
There's also a YT channel about concrete run by a concrete-engineering academic, Tyler Ley: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrvfiHNDS_QI-FgKQSmTITQ .
I've just returned to Australia after 15 years living all around the world, and I find it all fascinating and I have a bit of perspective on this.

The Australian media have a very strong influence on people's lives - they daily create some uproar or other that people get addicted to, wound up about, and then forget. Two weeks ago it was the nuclear sub deal with USA (and dropping France), then it was some state leader resigning, then it was how Covid was badly handled, then it was... You get the idea.

Anyway, what the media doesn't do is report on things the government doesn't want them to, like all the new surveillance laws being passed. Or when they do, it's very much labelled as "in your best interest" and "think of the children" and all that. Even if there is a 10 second mention of how this might be stepping on our privacy, there are quickly a line of experts saying that is not the case and that is clearly wrong.

I watched a random segment about people protesting covid restrictions and they dropped the nugget "using encrypted communication apps on their phone to coordinate". My Dad immediately jumped to the conclusion that encrypted communications the police can't read is obviously a bad thing. So the Australian media works hand-in-hand with the government to keep everyone distracted, and to paint a very one-sided picture.

It was fascinating to watch the whole "Facebook and Google must pay Rupert Murdoch money every time anyone posts a link to one of his news sites" play out from abroad, then come here and see what Australians know about it. The Australian law literally says Google and FB have to give money to Rupert Murdoch, but Australians think it's about getting FB and Google to pay their fair share of taxes. I've talked to dozens of people who say things like "That money will help build schools and hospitals, Facebook can certainly afford it." (which is utterly untrue)

I find the majority here are severely misinformed, because the media inside the country is very controlled (And of course Australian don't know that, and get offended if I try to point that out or discuss it)
Well, if we're going to go there, it should be pointed out that there's lot more people who were not working, who added to aggregate demand but contributed no labor.
Covid, like 9/11 is a Trojan horse being used to turn seemingly sane people into fanatics who will support any measure to defeat the enemy.

Watching people I used to respect become hateful shells of their former selves has been extremely unpleasant.
This exists for mid-century tractors as well; eg Steiner sells new parts for old tractors.
Here you go dude:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/21/victo...
I haven't read that one. But what I know about mindset is that it can help you frame your experience, and that can maybe even be leveraged into behavior changes that can help someone. But it won't help change restrictions imposed by others.
Parameters have been sufficient to memorize the training data for a while now. The fact that neural networks still generalize in this setting is a big mystery that is under active investigation.
I wish people would stop saying this. It's pedantic and doesn't reflect what's happening. There are 5 million fewer people working today than before the pandemic. It's an actual shortage.
Every single attempt at protesting against this tyranny has resulted in an overwhelming display of force by the police.
If people are even slightly non-compliant when approached they are violently thrown on the ground and sat on.
Depends on the tribe / band. Some are much better than others. In the US, you can generally see it with the casino profits (well, except for states like North Dakota where the state compact doesn't allow direct payments).
Inverting the web.

Imagine web technologies that are inherently private, no third parties or servers, and yet more social than current social networks.

The goal of such a technology is to be divisive. Separate the population that wants to broadcast or silently lurk from those that wish to share and engage.
What about all of the non-brick-shaped pieces like trees and people? Better to just call them Legos since it’s more appropriate.
Canada's only been marginally better. There's evidently a latent authoritarianism in the Anglosphere that has been activated by covid. The weird thing is that it literally seems to be in inverse proposition to how bad the epidemic actually is in a place. Australia, almost no cases, makes the GDR look like a libertarian paradise. US, way more heavily affected, mostly already moved on. And its certainly not causal. The Australian repression of its citizens had all been reactionary, its not like it's actually changed the net outcome.
Ironically, Australians are currently not even permitted to leave the country!
If labor’s bargaining power is indeed sufficient to significantly raise wages, it will be interesting to see if higher wages eliminate large swaths of low margin industries, and price surviving businesses in those industries out of reach of most people. For example, restaurants are only accessible to lower-middle class and up patrons because of how underpaid their employees are. Pay them an actual living wage, and restaurant dining will become prohibitively expensive for most people. As a result, there will be far fewer restaurants and therefore far fewer (but much better compensated) restaurant employees.
Men who spent 29 days lost at sea say it was a nice break from the pandemic
Australia spent 300 billion in one year on the covid response, and what do we have to show for it?
I've been wondering about this. Why is commerical real estate so expensive? Would that not suggest that there is a high demand by companies to operate somewhere? Or is it similar to other real estate, where giant corporate interests see value in controlling a scarce asset
Does the repo block installer to sideload ad-like software?