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>But there's a very large amount of people focused entirely on aims that are very, very distant from actually making human lives genuinely better.

I can't speak to each and every person working on ML, but I thought I would share a fun use case I ran across the other day.

There is a business in some foreign country that is similar to Uber Eats: customer goes to an app, browses for food from various restaurants, orders, it gets delivered.

The business was using ML to help the restaurants: the restaurants upload a pic of the dishes, a title, and a description (usually all from an existing menu). The business would parse the description to guess at what was in the dish. Scan the picture to guess at the quantity of food (entre, side, desert, etc). Compare ingredients against publicly available nutrition info. Now the end consumer can do things like: search for gluten free, vegetarian, pork free, <300 calories, desert, etc.

Almost all of this was "possible" before, but it would have required enormous effort from the restaurants inputting the data or customers reading each item. Now it is "easy", and it actually helps the end customers - and the restaurants.
What makes it so huge in your opinion? PayPal and Venmo and the like already make this very easy, internationally there are some challenges, but it’s not technical limitations so much as legal/compliance which doesn’t go away with blockchain.
Copyright should expire 20 years after the work is created. Shorter and the author will not be able to monetize, longer and society is held hostage by rent seekers.

Patents should just be abolished altogether. Ideas are worthless, execution is everything.
In the UK they are sub-2% if your loan/value ratio is decent (i.e. under 70%).
The 'what makes science work' is stored in the scientists.

They learn by reading the literature, but also by communicating, and by an active process of testing their own understanding and resolving gaps and inconsistencies. Even when a self-taught genius like Ramanujan comes along, they benefit from being brought into the community.

The question of how one would determine the state of the art in a field has an answer, but at present it would be indistinguishable from training a scientist, rather than running a clever software tool that could synthesize from the literature.
My apartment building is > 100 years old. Fifteen stories, upper Manhattan, steel framed.
It will remain a very useful medium of exchange? Are you saying that today it is a very useful medium of exchange? Are you using it that way?
They call it a con because it involves instilling "confidence" in others.

High sale prices are one way to inspire confidence in others.

Whether that person thinks the sale price is a legitimate indication of value, or they think at least someone else down the line will believe that, is not always clear. Because of the nature of crypto anonymity, there's always at least some percent chance any given sale is a legitimate transaction between two unique and non-colluding parties, and vice versa.
Also CS, my interpretation of "what makes science work" is a little different and I would argue that - despite a lot of foundations and techniques being shared in research papers - this field more than any other is constraining the free circulation and application of knowledge.

The equivalent to those biomedical industry players are the big tech who develop closed source and push the edge in some area. They will publish but that does not mean you can replicate any of it.

Software is also fragmented, crippled by IP lawsuits, patent trolls and so on. This does inhibit ability of society to benefit from software since it depends on the private sector to sort things out. The PhDs go and build businesses to "make the science work" in that sense.

The ideal of detached pursuit of knowledge is not a complete fiction (despite the hyperbole), but it does remain an ideal that can only be approximated.
The fault is still the bank's. The bank is responsible, and charges for, checking the numbers. They allowed themselves to lose money and were rewarded for it.
> If these returns were true then institutional investors would use them. But they do seem like they should have collapsed years ago.

After trying to raise money for arb strategies with higher returns than Celsius all year I'm really tired of hearing this.
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Jeremy Fielding has a video series showing how he built an 6 motor Industrial Robot Arm from scratch. Includes welding and machining aluminum, electrical wiring and programming the controls for the motors.

Definitely worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4njCTv7IRbyf3XfhUcp_...
Thank you, Thomas! I really admire all that you have done with Cilium.
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Dracula creator here...

I have a few thoughts on why this is such a popular theme:

1. Decentralized Contributors: every theme is maintained by a different person. There's no single point of failure when it comes to software maintainability.

2. Centralized Discoverability: most themes are scattered and disorganized. The cool thing about Dracula is that you can find everything in one place.

3. Transparency: on the website, you can see the number of views for each theme, who are the people behind them, how much sales were made. Everything is open, and that creates trust.

4. Constraints: Dracula is only available in dark mode, despite having TONS of requests to have a light theme as well. People complain about constraints (think of Twitter's 140 character limit), but constraints make good products.

5. Consistency: not only in terms of colors, but in terms of effort. The first Dracula theme was created in 2013, and the project has kept evolving since then.

6. Portability: developers want an environment that feels uniform. There's a real cost associated with context switch, so having a theme available for 227 apps across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS is very important.

7. Branding: why make something boring when you can make it fun? The name, the logo, the icons, the visual aesthetics - it
all counts.

8. Personal: the origin story described on the About page is extremely personal. For years I was afraid of making it public on the internet. Now I know that when you make yourself vulnerable, people feel connected.
Because the coins might have been obtained in an illegal way.
It's better than trading pre-paid phone credit plans!
Yes, you can easily find examples of bad stuff done by companies. But they're ultimately beholden to laws and regulations which, in the long arc of history, do actually serve the interests of society. That authority is important. And it's totally absent from decentralized systems. If a con man tricks me with a smart contract that drains all of my wealth, I have no recourse. That's a catastrophic outcome, and a fundamental problem with the whole enterprise.
What an absolute giant. The design of the NES made possible the games that revived the entire industry we know and love. There's no telling what gaming would look like for the past 35 years without his work. Godspeed sir.
Thank you. I likewise am not making an argument for or against any specific thing but instead ask out of curiosity as the constitution is a thing from which much complexity has evolved.

I can see the similarity to Claiborne and the differences since in the case of Claiborne:

* there was a specific petition (of which I'm not aware in the case of the Israel boycott, but may exist)

* the boycott's target was a domestic entity as opposed to a foreign nation, which seems to go around traditional prohibitions against individuals conducting foreign policy
>the government just assigns the ownership to someone who will

...and physically evicts the previous tenant.
While the grounding incident is shameful, your description of Morales' political situation bares no resemblance to reality whatsoever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales#2019_election_cont...

He was term limited out and nearly triggered a revolution by choosing to ignore the constitution. His argument was "term limits are a human rights violation according to the American Convention on Human Rights". If a president tried to do that here in the US, the streets would run with blood, and rightfully so.
I think you are also requiring a lot of things outside your control go according to what you expect, but not accepting on what they truly are. Almost all things you wrote sounds to me like those pesky #firstworldproblems and yeah, it makes sense that you question some things as you become more senior and have bigger leverage, but it sounds to me as if you want to question everything at the same time, why things aren't just in the best way for you, when you see that you clearly don't have leverage for that, as you can't find a position for you.

You don't have a right to work for certain companies. People hire you to work for them, if they need you. Maybe it isn't about luck, but actually accepting that it is a dreadful process and you need to focus on what is important in order to get that job. If you aren't willing to do those things, no job for you.

It might help if you would take some therapy. I see a lot of emotion on your sentences, like "shitty challenge", "fit fit fit", stupid keywords and so on. It reads mostly as a rant from a frustrated person that can't fit in not because the circumstance doesn't like you, but rather the opposite, you just dislike IT and all the processes involved in recruitment and is not willing to work on getting better and getting through that. Therapy can help you.
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Very nice, a man of culture
An useful thing with UEFI PXE booting is that

a) recent versions support HTTPS paths for bootfiles

b) iPXE.efi creates virtual ramdisk to which it can download files and execute them in UEFI environment - this can be UEFI shell or other tools that can run under UEFI. Unfortunately this ramdisk isn't available once UEFI Boot Services are stopped (i.e. past bootloader stage).
Quite unusual for that era in corporate Japan he switched from Sharp to Nintendo. Sarariman of that era were lifers.
I use 20px font size in Hacker News - Zenburn Dark (by incrediblygood [1]) to make usable, the default fontsize and the bright colorscheme is fatiguing to my eyes.

[1] https://userstyles.org/styles/97106/hacker-news-zenburn-dark
In that case, housing should be better quality? Because higher quality construction would increase a price insignificantly because it's the land that bring up costs.

That's why I think that this is just an excuse for a low quality, cheap work.
That particular example seems to be a horrible misapplication of an ImmutableMap. That's not a map, that's just a record of values. (Well the 'board' member is a collection, but you get what I'm saying.)

I'm not surprised you saw huge speed up... I mean the original is looking up record fields by their name at runtime. That's bound to be extremely slow because it's basically impenetrable to the JIT optimizer.

In this case doing it the "immutable way" would be to create a data object, freeze it, instead only creating copies (themselves frozen) with individual fields changes as appropriate.

I do wonder how it would have performed if you'd removed the outer 'sx', 'sy', 'board' map layer and kept the 'board' as an ImmutableList (or whatever).
Assume you want to HODL crypto forever (you DCA x% of your salary into it) but need to pay for a temporary expense.

You're not selling the coins, you're pawning them.

Also you wouldn't have to pay capital gains tax in countries that require that on crypto sales.
Yes, you can find a new Afghan Afghani, Indian Rupee, Turkish Lyra, or Chinese Yuan to borrow and buy USD with.
Ha! They blocked me on twitter a few months ago when i pointed out it was a ponzi!

Glad to see im not the only noticing this crap
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+1 for the extension. Been using it since forever on Firefox and Brave.

Link: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
Amazing rewrite of history. Mortgage lenders knew it was bad debt but gave out money anyway, hedge funds that repackaged those mortgages knew it was bad debt but tried to aggregate lots of bad debt into somehow becoming "good debt", credit rating agencies gave these packaged bad debt gold star ratings knowing all along that it was bad debt, but really it's all the people's fault.

Nope, nobody along the chain had any responsibility for enforcing any kind of professional standards. I mean, it's not like we have systems in place to check things like "lying".
My guess is you want to HODL and let your "assets" appreciate in value, but need liquidity. I can't really imagine why you'd trust any company in the crypto space with long-term storage of your assets.
Why is that?

Don’t you basically just need to stop collecting any data that is not put up there by the user itself? At least with regards to gdpr.

I am in the process of starting a forum so I am quite curious to know if I am wrong in this?
It would be tough to get any adoption at larger than a small handful of people scale, and most of that already happens over private chat platforms.

I help curate networks for my fraternity (US, college for those of you not familiar with it). Many of us are in the same or related career fields, and there’s a few hobbies that are common to find in the group (sports, music, etc). These are people who, for the most part, genuinely enjoy spending time with each other, meeting up a few times a year as at larger events like our colleges homecoming and our founders day. Many spouses are close friends too and people who live near each other often hang out together, kids play sports on same teams, etc.

But even with those things going for us, it is damn hard to curate any sort of social space with continued interaction. People have become accustomed to things being so niche, that groups with wide-ranging topics are dead. If people want to talk guitars, they’ll do that on a subreddit, or find the Facebook group for their cars. People self-select into hyper-specified conversation groups. I have been unsuccessful in finding a way to successfully foster wider, continuous conversation in a group setting.

The closest I’ve seen to that is in larger family text threads where aunts/cousins/etc will occasionally share pics of what they’re doing or share that they got a promotion at work or something. It seems rare outside of a family dynamic.

I hope the OP, or someone figures out a good way to build community that isn’t just laser focused on a specific thing, or built around a cult of personality, but I fear that’s more or less human nature, at least in current US culture.
How will it catch on where client certificates and OpenID didn't?
Hard to understand for the end user, barely regulated, as an international multi billion dollar company what more do you need? Except for even less regulation, but that is a given.
> At least in vehicle infotainment systems, we test 911 functionality EXTENSIVELY. It's a major part of call testing, because dialing 911 overrides all sorts of lockouts and exercises code paths that aren't otherwise well-covered by testing.

When I worked at Motorola doing mobile infrastructure, you couldn't even merge your code into a release candidate branch unless it was tested against emergency calls, for all the reasons you listed (plus more).

We used giant attenuators screwed on to the antenna plugs because everything had to be running at full power to ensure that it was as life-like as possible. Every once in a while, though, someone didn't screw the attenuator on tight enough and the emergency call would be picked up on the real mobile network and the fire department would show up in our parking lot.
A better parallel might be drawn to "Walking Horse" events, where the training for gait used to be despicably harsh in some circumstances.

People use this shit safely, so it should be possible to apply it to livestock safely; but then there's rule parsing about how far one can go.

They should add more events. Botox will deal with a wrinkle but you can't fake a ballet event. Poetry readings are probably not a great idea.
Yes, this is all good news for US equity markets.
Relevant read:

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Tl;dr
Through subtle mechanisms, gov can promote preferred media outlets by giving them better/direct/scoops informations - resulting in better sales - resulting in better deals for ads - resulting in bigger profits.

In turn, people in those media outlets are incentivised to shush descending voices/opinions by 'promoting' those into sport section or horoscope section.

Its self selecting and self correcting mechanism.
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I don't use dracula, I use alacritty's defaults, but I have the same issue in neovim for tooltips
Agreed this is a huge exaggeration. You can buy a studio in midtown Manhattan for $300k or a 2 bedroom in Boston for $500k.
I look at it like the lottery or casinos. I'm not a gambler exceptthe occasionalpoker game with friends, and I abhor casinos, but they make billions(?) Of dollars. Everyone has got Crypto figured out! They've read all the reports, and keep up with the graphs and this time! This time!

The funny thing is, I clicked on a few articles about NFT's and the metaverse because I was interested in the programming behind it and now my morning feed is filled with articles about "How to invest in crypto!", "We can tell you how to beat th crypto market!", "Check out these super looking graphs of crypto prices!".
I am not exactly knowledgeable about airplane safety, but I feel like safety checklists are something that could be, and probably are, handled by a machine more efficiently?

I would guess that there are probably enough things on there that are constantly monitored theses days so the plane could just give you a big green "all systems nominal" light?

Maybe I am just naive :-)
Art is a really weird market in general. The problem with NFT is that people are buying it as an investment rather than a work of art with its own merit of which appreciation might be one benefit.

There's likely no museum backstop for most NFTs. (By which I mean that rich people buy art, sell it amongst themselves/have inflated art appraisals to raise the price, and donate to museums and claim as a tax writeoff.) See https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-irs2mar02-story.html

NFT as a concept will live - I can see them as placed alongside offline art as an online component that doubles as proof of ownership and lineage, and in the long run could be a major anti-counterfitting strategy.
The following is not so much an attempt at arguing with the poster but to correct falsehoods and blatant misrepresentations in their post.

> I do believe he is considered a journalist but he's in prison for multiple reasons.

Right now he’s only in prison due to the extradition trial. The reason he isn’t out on bail is because he skipped bail in the past.

> Sweden went to the extent that it's rape if you don't have written consent for sex. They also removed all the intent/threats/violence as being part of it as well. Effectively they made sex illegal.

This is an incredibly absurd recount of Swedish law. It’s evident you do not know much about it. Swedish law defines rape as sex without consent. This definition was passed in 2018. The accusations against Assange were made in 2010. The conviction rates do not reflect your assumption that sex itself is deemed illegal in Sweden. The charges against Assange were also dropped.

By the way, one accusation against him was that he penetrated a woman without a condom while she was sleeping. That is considered rape in most countries around the world. So even if we were to take your incorrect description of Sweden’s rape laws seriously they wouldn’t fit the bill here.

> It is afterall the democrat email servers assange leaked. Biden's going all in for sure.

The US case against Assanges originated in the Obama era. However his administration decided to not go forward with it. It was Trump’s administration who decided to make the extradition request. Assange was forced out of the Ecuadorian embassy during Trump’s tenure. So this had nothing to do with DNC leaks, nor was this a Democrat endeavor.

Whatever one thinks of Assange or his work with Wikileaks, the way he is being treated by the US and the UK is entirely absurd and does not show any signs of fair trial at this point. News outlets in the US have done a poor job at holding the government accountable here. If Assange does get extradited and convicted it will break journalism in the United States fundamentally.
>And I got told in no uncertain terms what is the gist of this article: The value lies in the molecular and clinical data. In 2021 I would add digital pathology / imaging data.

I feel like you are trying to tell me something REALLY valuable, but I don't quite understand it. Can you please elaborate?
If I need to move money between countries, it certainly is by far the easiest. Traveling in India trying to get my friend money has been an awful headache. With cryptocurrency, it's quite simple
With the passing of Uemura, and Near (aka Byuu) earlier this year, the SNES has truly become an artifact of history.
Early 30s here. Possibly to your point and completely anecdotally, I generally have a much harder time learning via text than I do from a more kinetic learning environment or watching a video... but I wish it was the other way around. All of the benefits described above for why text is better I totally agree and I get generally frustrated trying to find the relevant part of the video but for whatever reason seeing the thing I am trying to learn visually demonstrated is immensely more powerful that reading it.

I actually have a pet hypothesis that it has something to do with imagination. I'd be curious if anyone has studied the effects of visual media on imagination and how it impacts kids ability to take written content and understanding it versus the same with visual content. I have a suspicion that before the prevalence of visual media it was even more critical to have an active imagination to be able to synthesis written content and that we've lost a bit of that in younger generations as we've moved toward a reliance on visual learning. I have nothing to back any of this up of course just something i've thought about when reflecting on myself.