skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COVID should have helped them a lot: plenty of big, well made films suddenly needed a way to get in front of people that wasn't a movie theatre and they went with Netflix. (The Mitchells vs The Machines, for instance). Unfortunately, I think they've made two mistakes: what should be landmark content is just kind of muddled in there with pointless documentaries, shows that were immediately cancelled, and old second rate sitcoms; and they're way too aggressive with the Netflix branding, which has a poor reputation. It's over-saturated to the point that I can't imagine someone having a favourable impression when they see that extra Netflix logo on a piece of content. Ambivalent, at best. Just think if they used that kind of space for human curation, or to emphasize the excellent creators that are represented on their platform instead.
It’s a bit of a non-issue really. Once you’ve worked with the non-overloaded version for a while you quickly get used to it. The overloaded version is also superficially simple but loses information. For example, multiply versus multiplyScalar versus applyQuaternion on a vector which might all be represented by overloads of the multiply operator.
It is. Also really heavy because it used a lead acid battery. It was also wired in such a way that if the battery died it wouldn't turn on anymore unlike modern laptops that can run off the AC adapter directly. My parents threw theirs out because of that.
Time for all member states to at least contribute their fair share maybe?
and why do you assume that somehow in this equation there will be enough jobs with a living wage to accomidate the entire population?
Most dysfunctional places are also not producing much of value . I’ve been at many shitty companies and there was nothing to learn other than the leadership had some personality disorders
What’s hard to understand is why I should work even harder making money so that you don’t have to.
So labour costs would go up, things get more expensive, and there are still no incentives to be civil because that cost is spread amongst all customers.
Ah yes you're correct I didn't consider that meaning of the word! Thanks for the clarification. I'll leave my comment as-is though to avoid confusion.
It works if you aren't rigid about your mental representations. Pull an inverse wittgenstein on the intuitions. Instead of stool, chair, recliner all being instances of the general category "chair" -- sea urchin, cube, dodecahedron are all partially accurate descriptions of the specific 10D cube.
We’ve become obsessed with statistical probabilities
Getting to keep your job at Oracle seems to have been the real punishment here.
https://archive.ph/rDV9U
"People bitch when the FDA says “no” and then turn around and bitch when the FDA says “yes”."

that's true for most preventative professions. You get either criticized if you spend money and nothing happens or you get criticized when something happens. People have trouble with risks that may or may not materialize.
Sorry, didn’t mean to do that. I was honestly self-mocking in how it needs to be done how I did it, obviously the innovation allows so many more ways to play.

Another friend’s wife buys the more complicated sets and admits they’re actually for her, not for her kids. All good, they’ll grow into it :)
I do wonder whether UBI will be feasible once the US loses its ability to print trillions of dollars.

Whether it’s China or Crypto, it seems like the reign of the PetroDollar is coming to an end, and with it the easy access to money printing.

Also any debates on UBI typically start with a country-centric view (US in this case), but what will be the implications for the rest of Earth citizens who live in countries without UBI?
> the rich are getting richer faster than the rest of us

Isn’t that just a restatement if the rather mundane concept of compound interest?

If savings account A has $100 and account B has $1mil, does it go without saying that account B will grow far faster?

I never understood why compound interest should be seen as a negative. What is the counter proposal?
I went to work for google for a while, and “don’t be evil” is nowhere in any onboarding documents, or anywhere else I encountered while working there.
Oh that has on-hover tips, that's really cool
Seems you got further than I did. I scrolled through and decided “there be dragons” and left it at that.

There’s an audience for everything but I am not the audience for everything.
It's not a machine learning issue. A human would make the same translation. The issue is that the match should be run in the original language, not translated to English at all.
>but with rents capped to a share of income. This way, the government would have an incentive to make the system more efficient and to make more and better public housing, as the money would go back to the government budget and they would be able to lower taxes as a result.

Can you explain this a bit more? What would be their sources of income other than rents? I am not able to follow your efficiency argument.
I'm not actually a romance novel enthusiast, I'm just parodying the article. From my point of view the article is a complaint about how Frank Miller, an author who specializes in writing edgy grimdark superhero comics for teenage boys, doesn't write the kind of character that might appeal to a 20-30 something feminist.
That picture isn't of mine. Mine is a dummy round to test and calibrate the auto loader.
> You mean for the machine's labour - progressively more and more as more and more is automated

How do you propose to finance UBI? All proposals that I've seen assume middle class to pay (for example, "everyone pays percentage of their income and then everyone gets fixed amount of money at the end of the period"), not nebulous machine-automation overlords.

> A concept missed by most is that the buying power of "$1,000"/month grows exponentially as more and more gets automated.

I don't observe housing getting exponentially cheaper "as more and more gets automated". In fact, I believe landlords would capture non-trivial amount of any potential UBI program.
I wasn’t aware of it.
I think there are a lot of people who think the FDA should not get in the way of business. this makes it very hard for them to do their job objectively.
It's Verizon's choice not to compensate someone fairly to deal with all the abusive folks that call up customer support - and to have company policies that force people to turn to CS out of desperation. I think it's perfectly fair for people to refuse to work phones for minimum wage and I think it's also perfectly fair for you, who probably pays hundreds of dollars a month to this company for the services that might run them tens of dollars to offer on a technical level - to expect the company to divert more of their profits to actually providing a good customer experience.

In some businesses the margins are so tight that increased CS costs will put them under - the answer for those businesses is, unfortunately, to go under. However, everyone that's left should be held to a reasonable standard - maybe companies will start levying "Abusive customer" charges on especially painful support calls and piss off a small portion of their customer base while keeping the vast majority happy and well served - maybe they'll just up their charges across the board (or cut the costs into their profits) - that's up to them. What's up to you is the choice to cease being a customer[1] you can chose to discontinue your services with them - and if they have difficulties closing your account or continue to charge you erroneously for services... then you can reverse charges and report the behavior to whatever passes for a better business bureau in your neck of the woods.

Dealing with crap CS is a cost that companies are currently levying on customers because they can - but you can refuse to play their game.

1. Unless you're living in a service monopoly in which case - shake your fists at the heavens, bend over, and consider moving to some country with sane anti-monopoly laws.
I put my monkey in a cage.

I went around and logged the things I happen to be doing in a spreadsheet for three weeks.

Assuming those are mostly the things I'll be doing going forward I've categorized them into action-cards. Those have groupings by space (home, out, job) and time (night, noon, morning).

One card is titled BURN. If you play that card you can do whatever for 25 minutes, but you can't play two in a row. I set a timer.

Then I have to choose a card to play, from the things I actually do.

Set a timer. When that's up choose a card again.

There is a card called SLEEP, it has a checklist. Similarly EAT/COOK has both instructions and time limits.

I ended up with more than 15 but less than 30 cards. And the single point of failure is in set-timer to choose card loop. This goes away after about 20 days where it becomes a habit.

There was another point of failure, but now there is a CALLS card that is limited to two times a day, and the phone is otherwise offline. Battery life is 5x.

Contentness is 1.0

Try it.
OK fine, but "dysfunctional places" just automatically and glibly equals "the government?" Dysfunctional places, "i.e." the government? Assuming the best, probably she just means "the one dysfunctional government agency I worked in and have been blogging about forever." I have to actively & intentionally reach for that explanation because otherwise it just rubs me the wrong way I guess, because of its resemblance to, among other things, a sloppy extrapolation/generalization by a young person who should endeavor to vacate my domesticated blade-leafed-plant-dominated steppe-biome reserve; a boring old joke along the lines of "I learned all my bullshit-detection skills from working with dishonest people, i.e. lawyers." ("Oh thanks a lot!" says every honest lawyer); or a tired talking-point of the hypocritical and unhinged faux-libertarian radical "government bad! always!" right.

The secret to maintaining a vital mental landscape is to resist the temptation to think the whole world conforms to what you've seen so far in your short-ass life. Be content to "know" a lot less, and probably say less as a result. Ice Cube once rapped something about "shut my M.F. mouth if I don't know" and that seems like a pretty good policy, though if everyone did it, there would be a lot fewer blog posts in the world, unfortunately (or fortunately?)
The title of the press release is "New CDC Study: Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection". That is false. The first paragraph of the release says "These data further indicate that COVID-19 vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity alone". That is false.
It never shipped obviously, but back in the day there were a lot of rumors of Apple developing a feature that let you take your home folder and apps with you on your iPod, with any Mac you plug it into making your user account available without even rebooting. So it seems that they saw that use case and almost acted on it.
> I think that this would require being the same user as the process you're trying to read.

IIRC, this was not always the case. But fair enough, this might not be a relevant issue for any modern system.
For a starters, its not Bitcoin fault that someone did not have last will, or did not include the keys or their crypto in the last will.

Second, when some large heist in the past happened on the chain, the largest exchanges announced they won't exchange proceeds from these addresses. It may still not be impossible to withdraw into fiat, but certainly it was harder. Eventually, there will be more regulation from US and other countries' bodies, some of it will benefit crypto holders, some inconvenience them some more.

One example could be of a Government Body that oversees crypto fraud. If you had some coin stolen and you are able to prove they were yours and are unable to communicate with the party who took your coins, these assets can go into some form of public "coins on red notice list", where government puts them there, and exchanges can see the addresses and know not to accept or exchange these assets. If someone tries to, exchange can show them a notice information, instead of completing transaction. Another list government can maintain is "public call notice" (I'm just making these names up) similar to how public hearings are made. In this scenario, government can call up on an owner of some specific questionable coins to explain transactions behind. If no owner comes up in 30 days, these coins could be again put on "red notice" list.

The bottom line is, since exchanges are regulated by governments, the governments will surely regulate even more. Ultimately because everything is transparent on a block chain, certain coins can become "dirty" just like money becomes tainted, and exchange or even possession of these coins can be made unlawful.
Just looked at Obsidian - seems interesting and the graph connection seems neat but also a bit shiny object like. Do you find it particularly useful?
You've made claims up and down this thread that amount to "trust me" or "look it up". None of these are simple factual matters like "What is the capital of Egypt?". There are numerous studies about basic income, all driven by different assumptions and biases. No one knows exactly which one you're referring to when you say "look it up". It's impossible to have a detailed discussion when everyone isn't evaluating the same information.

If you can tell us the % of bureaucratic overhead that's consumed by the US welfare system, then please do so. Otherwise you can simply say nothing.
This is exactly the point I try to make but to no avail. I don't understand why it's so hard for most people to see that you can still have a curated app store even if there's an option buried in the menu to allow power users to subscribe to additional stores, or sideload, etc.

If there's any Apple people who think that would be bad, I'd love to hear about it. So far it's been nearly impossible to get an answer on that. At that point the argument usually changes to "just get an Android if that's what you want" or "nobody but you cares about that" or "if you want to sideload just pay the annual developer fee" or "Apple's curation is a lot better than Google's" (which is an entirely different argument I would point out).
> But no work on UBI have ever provided a solution how they deal with "living".

UBI would be a major part of the solution, because it would enable people to move to lower cost-of-living areas where their UBI payment would go a lot further. Today this sort of mobility is heavily impeded by the need to be around meaningful job opportunities and all sorts of government services provided in-kind. With UBI, the job opportunities would spring up where people reside and not vice-versa.
no.

two steps above the abandoned version, before the web threads attempt, works quite nicely.
I really question the Netflix strategy. When they started streaming, they had something very unique —- a large streaming user base and the technology to deliver them videos. They could have built a big platform business where everyone funneled their content through there and Netflix took a cut off the top.

Instead they licensed the content outright giving the studios the incentive to compete, now everyone has the technology to deliver streaming video and Netflix is competing on content where there have been tons of incumbents for 100 years.
Fried eels would be too palatable
I've experimented a lot with that and honestly I always prefer adding salt at the end.

Italians will tell you that it's blasphemous not to put salt to cook your pasta, but there's honestly 0 differences (I suggest trying both ways and seeing that for yourself). What makes a real difference when you cook pasta is cooking it in stock though.

I've also noticed that a lot of salty/garlic-y concentrated products (that are probably already cooked, think Asian pastes) will conserve their taste well when cooked with. I'm still wondering why.
My main problem with list comprehensions is that, compared to a chaining map and friends (Ruby, Rust), I have to rewrite my expression more often away from list comprehensions as my code evolves or when I need to debug it. So I start to feel like "whats the point?".

(Python programmer for around 15 years)
I would like to see "negative income tax" (a la Milton Friedman) make a comeback in these experiments.

It's like minimum wage except the government funds the difference, and unlike UBI you still have to work to earn it, which seems to be a prevailing concern ITT.
>If you own literally all of the stock in Tesla... how could the stock crash? There's no stock being traded for its value to change.

The price will plummet in the sense that nobody would bid to buy it for anywhere as much as they would before the event.
Instant Neural Graphics Primitives: Fast NeRF and More
Google making a competing product is not the problem.

The problem is when google uses its monopoly presence in other parts of the industry to artificially penalize the product they’re competing with.
In lower dimensional projections the inner sphere will be so big that it overlaps with the smaller spheres. So much so that it intersects with the enclosing cube too. It will not develop the weird spike protein things like in the illustration in any projection.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/archipelago.asp (also talks about Island)
As a Canadian - I can comment that Tim Hortons has notoriously terrible baked goods. You might grab a breakfast sandwich there (and a lot of people are weirdly enamored with their coffee) but they can't even compete when it comes to baked goods in most metro areas - they're a coffee shop and we have much better alternatives for baked goods. The cost to them for cutting bakers was to gradually lose their position as a purveyor of donuts in Canada.
"Yes", to a great degree. But if you had the kind of power to decisively crush all the NIMBY, rent-seeking, etc., etc. interest groups that you'd face over the housing problem...then you'd already be somewhere between "absolute dictator" and God-Emperor. So "fix everything else" wouldn't be all that much of a challenge anyway.
I didn't tell his boss. I did tell my boss, in an e-mail with evidence. We both had a little chat with the dev where we made it clear that if this happened under slightly different circumstances (if he was trying to access data/systems he wasn't supposed to, if it was one of the HIPAA accounts, etc) he'd not only be shitcanned, he'd be facing serious legal consequences. We were satisfied by his reaction and didn't push it further.

I was actually fired early in my career as a contractor when an over-zealous security big-wig decided to go over my boss's boss's head. I had punched a hole in the firewall to look at Reddit, and because I also had a lot of access, this meant I wasn't trustworthy and had to go. People (like me) make stupid mistakes; we should give them a second chance.
So funny, off topic story with Verizon. I ported my number from them years ago. Which ended me up in the same exact situation. I couldn’t log in or anything. So I sent them $800 just to make sure I covered my early termination fees since I couldn’t log in to see a bill and I had paperless billing on. Fast forward 6 months later and I get a call from their debt collections for $600. I asked where the $800 went. They didn’t know but I owed them money. I disputed it on my credit report and it vanished. Another six months and I get a call again, almost same conversation but at the end of it, they sent me a check for almost $200. It was great. I’m never doing business with them again though.
All the meanings of the phrase “fake news”
DynamoDB is a key value store so forces you into an up-front waterfall design model where you can't easily evolve your schemas. This has massively weakened the scenarios where it can be used but there's a survivor bias where if that's all you need you're really dealing with a simple use case that's easy to encapsulate and reason about
> involves getting berated by customers

One reason retail workers passively endure being berated by customers is that they are fearful of losing their job. UBI would reduce that fear and increase worker power.
I liked Dark Knight Returns quite a bit and I've read it a few times but every time I get to the part with the woman with swastikas tattooed on her boobs I can't help but wonder what the point of that was.

Strikes Back was bad. Then Holy Terror came out and it was a xenophobic caricature. Since then I haven't had much interest in anything he's done. I did see a comment from him that seems to indicate he's walked back some of his extremist views but I've moved on.
>It is just going a bit slow right now.

Ahh yes, as the AI marketing department always says, we're 99% of the way there, it's just that the last 1% is the hardest!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-17/waymo-s-s...
> This kind of incompetence makes me seriously doubt that Google is doing anything to more substantially review apps for deeper security issues, either statically or at runtime.

I actually know the team that does security vuln automation for Google Play. They've found millions of vulns in apps over the years. One of the challenges they face is precisely this sort of headline: how do you use static analysis to find vulns and ensure that you don't inundate users with false positives, forcing them down the admittedly limited support channels.

> The solution, I think, is obvious: Google needs a "zone defense" with the play store, a much larger (and expensive) staff, to do in-depth app reviews and be a stable, stateful relationship with the developer over time. This person would, in fact, become a 3rd party "expert" on a small set of apks and their contents, with a "feel" for what is changing over time, with the core mission of protecting users from malice, but working with devs, as a human being.

This sort of exists. Google pays external hackers who find vulns in popular apps via a rewards program. These don't need to be Google's apps. There may be other systems for top partners or specific kinds of apps (the org is big) but I'm not aware of anything personally.

Expanding beyond a small subset of apps is challenging. Not only are there millions of apps, each app contains tens, hundreds, or even thousands of individual apks. The staff needed to have a concierge for each app would be absolutely freaking enormous, perhaps even larger than the number of people on the planet who actually have deep security expertise on the Android platform.
false, https://www.yahoo.com/now/crypto-daily-movers-shakers-july-0...

> July 15, 2021

> Bitcoin, BTC to USD, fell by 2.84% on Thursday. Reversing a 0.29% gain from Wednesday, Bitcoin ended the day at $31,890.0.
Pretty much no one today builds software with the intention that it doesn't need support. In fact, the entire hybrid-FOSS ecosystem is perversely incentivised towards exactly the opposite. It won't be as hard as people think it will be when we stop cramming features and GUI changes in to appease some manufactured need to sell the new version.
I learned Cocoa in 2002 on Mac OS X 10.1 and Project Builder (the NeXT IDE that was Xcode’s predecessor).

I remember reading a brand new O’Reilly book called “Building Cocoa Applications”. It was written by two ex-NeXT devs and was quite helpful in understanding the system.

Apple’s own documentation and sample code was good back then. The API was much smaller, so I read the reference for every Cocoa class.

Apple provided a fully functional demo app called Sketch which showed important architectural patterns like undo/redo. When developing my first Cocoa app, I’d basically go see how Sketch.app implemented something and copied the approach.

(Incidentally, I’m convinced that the well-known Sketch drawing app is basically a case of somebody looking at Apple’s Sketch.app sample code and thinking “couldn’t we just sell this.”)

Some years earlier I had tried to learn Win32. It’s hard to overstate just how fun and easy and powerful Cocoa felt in comparison.