skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often wondered whether the first super-intelligent AI that gets created, if it somehow manages to be both under government control and not put to strictly military uses, might be tasked with modelling the economy and deciding on the "correct" set of economic policies.

Extending the scope of AI decision-making outside of the realm of economics seems much harder, though, as there's much less training data for questions like how to educate students in a pandemic, or whether to loosen planning rules for building wind turbines.

I suspect that before AI becomes capable of providing good answers to those questions, it will already have changed the world beyond recognition, and probably not in a good way. The best we can hope for is mass unemployment and a UBI, which will also make all economic models obsolete too.
If you want to get into digital electronics and computer building, here is a really good series on building your own 8-bit computer.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...
Extrapolating from singular circumstances is worse than generalizing from the most common.
I make Erp software with WPF. Yes you can still earn money doing that.
This is my 3rd (or is it 4th?) year of developing and selling Label LIVE, an electron app for designing and printing labels. Originally it only worked with USB thermal printers, but over the last few years it's grown into a multi-function image-rendering pipeline that integrates data import (via spreadsheet, CSV or API) with barcodes, text, image output. My app revenue eclipsed my iOS/NodeJS consulting in 2021 and I hope to double revenue in 2022. Read more at https://label.live/features.

The tech stack for this app is really interesting (to me at least, natch). Lots of native node modules that need finesse on both macOS and Windows. I don't yet support Linux because out of thousands of users, only 2 people have emailed about Linux support (probably both from HN!).

I really love building Electron apps. It's a total joy bringing something (albeit "inefficiently" wrt memory and "native" qualities) like this to market for a niche that's otherwise a dumpster fire of old and clunky 1980s-era Windows-only software.

As for licensing, Label LIVE is licensed per computer. I wrote a custom license implementation leveraging JWT. The JWT is signed by my license server and the app verifies the signature and that the contents match the "fingerprint" of the computer being licensed, expiration, etc.
I love this question, the answer is obviously no. The value of the US dollar is determined by the credit of the issuer, its rate of exchange in conjunction with the value of labor. Just like all fiat. Yes, if any of these fluctuate the "value" of the dollar goes up or down but it still has a value that isn't just the paper its printed on.
So yes it’s a footgun but it makes some sense. Most people wouldn’t really complain about true not being equivalent to “true” or 100 not keeping it “100”. People just aren’t used to yes/no being reserved words. Ruby’s klass is a funny workaround to this.

enable_feature: yes

Is totally natural. Nobody reads the spec though. If you’re outputting YAML documents with string builders you’re headed for ruin no matter what. You don’t need Dhall, you need yaml.dump which handles the types too.
Your metaphor is poor. Imagine 2000 vehicles travelling at 25000 km/h across your location ocassionally from seemingly random directions.

Orbital period is ~90 minutes, and the surface area of the planet is ~510 million km2, so they would only occasionally pass you closely. The Doppler effect would prevent you hearing the horn, but the sonic booms would be rather noticeable (the speed of sound is 1080 km/h).
If tomorrow you decided to go and raise $100k from an angel (or if you received a $100k small business grant) to pay off your credit card debt and replenish some of your savings, I wouldn't immediately kick you out of the "bootstrapped founder" community.

I see your point though. There is "pure 100% bootstrapped" and "mostly bootstrapped, but not completely". IMO it's a spectrum. Just like the term "startup" - it's a spectrum, no binary definition.
Clearly the solution for the fallen is eternal banishment
The reason apple have made it really easy to know if one's about is precisely to avoid the stalking issue.

That's a deliberate design feature which actually removes some of the utility as a covert device to keep hold of your own stuff.
This guy [0] made a detailed good case that ivermectin shows positive results only in studies done in parts of the world where intestinal worms are very common, likely because intestinal worms and their interactions with the microbiome cause known problems for the immune system, including when it needs to fight a covid infection.

So if you have intestinal worms, the data supports that idea that ivermectin helps with covid infections, also. If you don't have worms it doesn't.

Maybe this is too nuanced for the mainstream media.

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https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
Understood. It happens.
Is 2022 the year of the rugpull? First legacy G Suite accounts, now this. What next?
... in which case paying per month makes no sense.
From https://bluedollar.net:

> Blue Dollar AKA Dolar Blue or unofficial dollar is parallel dollar rate of USD in Argentina. This is the cost of buying and selling a physical dollar bill in a cueva, or clandestine financial house in Buenos Aires. This is the best price you’ll get if you are buying or selling physical bills, and the transaction is done with no involvement of any government-sanctioned or licensed entity (like a bank).

What does exchanging physical dollar bills in Argentina have to do with remittances, or crypto? Many countries have informal or black markets for exchanging currencies, separate from the official exchange rates. That is not the same as remittances unless you are sending envelopes of dollars to someone in Argentina. My comment responds to the claim "Crypto is clearly the easiest way to do international payments right now," which simply isn't true, not even to Argentina.
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Actually it's gotten even more similar since this snapshot, now they use the yellow highlight in the top ribbon as well.
And yet countries like Vietnam have pulled exactly that off. If we have $1.7T for the f-35 fighter, we have the money to give everyone 100 Mb or better internet, it's just a matter of priority. I'm a satisfied Starlink customer but only because there are no other viable alternatives currently where I live.

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/07/07/watchdog-group-fi...

Since the comparison to Vietnam is triggering some people, let's add some hard numbers and really get the downvotes going.

Vietnam's GDP is $271B, The US is $21T or ~77x higher with ~3.4x as many people living in a space ~30x bigger than Vietnam. And yet we still cannot deliver cellphone reception and broadband on par with Vietnam. Wonder why? Also wonder why this is such a triggering statement to make but I guess some things will just remain a mystery. And won't you do your part to bring this post to -10? We can do this together.
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Oh you didnt insult me. I just wanted to share theses facts with you. You 're welcome. Let the yemen people be in peace a soon as possible.
How would we even know if someone has pulled this off again with an entirely different motive and hasn't been discovered as a hack?
What’s happening with voter suppression in the US today is contrary to that. Many people are petty and callous. It’s reality. They literally want everyone they don’t like to leave.
THIS is the way.

It is a step forward in transparency (even though 90% of danes probably don't understand a thing of what was published) which is something no one I know is opposed to.

Hope this sets a precedent for other countries to follow!
I'm German, I live in Germany, and I too hate this behaviour. I rarely want out of date badly translated variations of the original US topics.
I think single level is not enough for the best guess. There is a maximum depth ( 6 guesses ). So strategy should consider also this limit.
Heat your torso and the arms and hands will get better circulation and feel warmer as well.
They keep the process parameters within the optimal zone. That is considerably more complicated than it sounds. They also work on incremental improvements.
There are a lot of people who never read any part of any Bible, have no interest in the Middle East and never want to visit there, who might not necessarily understand why criticism of Israel's military is considered automatically racist. Can someone explain that? Because the article doesn't really connect those dots for me. And the article doesn't really make any sense unless you already had that opinion.
High school students generally can take classes at universities

Guy fails high school math, but yes, have him ditch school, drive his mom's car to a university and audit college calculus.
You nailed it!!
Pretty sure they were implying we never got the how they were hacked.

It seemed very unlikely to be credential stuffing or other common things. It seemed more like a rogue inside person or back office hack.
There's so much technobabble in the readme. What would be a TL;DR for a complete layperson, not familiar with web3?
The reviews are in: AMD’s mining-averse RX 6500 XT also isn’t great at gaming
We sell a desktop app with an involvement in dev and support of about 0.25-0.50 FTE, with revenues in the range of $50K/month although it was launched 9 years ago and the first year was only about $2K/month. The server side is just one Windows 4GB server for user signups, billing and license validation. One good thing of desktop apps is that the server side is so cheap, you are basically selling IP.

It has this features:

* B2B in a niche market (TAM < 100K-200K users)

* Some viral component so you do not have to spend money on ads for growth.

* Sold as a subscription and only as a subscription. Don't innovate with licensing focus on product, this is important. When users have fewer buying options, they decide faster. That's why Steve Jobs reduced 50 Mac models to just 3.

* When the subscription ends, the application must stop working. This is also very important. You want your entire user base to be able to install the last version. You do not want to support older versions, you only want to support one.

* Has to have a very generous trial so that users have time to find use cases with your product. Better a trial based in actual usage instead of exploding trial base in calendar days. You want your users to actually use your product and depend on it.
I think you guys are somewhat missing what makes a comment like that one shallow. It's the lack of specific relevant information.

I wouldn't call your comment here shallow, for example. It's still generic overall—not a good thing in an HN context—but it makes up for that with specific information about, e.g. wasps and worms.
Selling agents are incentivized downward, because in reality, agents are incentivized to churn.

Agent commission is just shy of 6%. And that's for both the selling and buying agent. So they each get around 3%. For all the work you could be doing maximizing a house's selling price to get another $1k or $2k, you could be closing another house and getting another $10k.
> You can think that, and you were right, but it was a justifiable perspective in the absence of better data.

A weakly justifiable perspective that was away from the consensus view at the time and caused harm (probably reduced compliance with the reasonable measures, in addition to all the secondary harms).

I had cops threaten to give me a massive ticket for standing in the middle of a field with a telescope by myself. Said cops were 100% of my human contact outside my household in March. This probably wasn't our best enforcement bet.

> there is strong evidence that Omicron is contageous enough through close proximity even outdoors for short periods of time

I don't buy this. I'm in a test-100%-weekly environment and this happening any more than rarely isn't compatible with our observations.

> The original COVID variants weren't that contagious, but if they were equally threatening and as infectious as Omicron, it would have been a completely correct policy.

We already had a decent estimate of R0 as 2.0-3.5 even in dense environs, and consensus was already forming around a 2.4 "best guess". We also knew that indoor was the vast majority of that 2.4.
I guess I phrased that poorly. Yes, there was some discussion about how it could have been worse. However I wanted that discussion to be more than us shrugging our shoulders and saying "we dodged a bullet". There was no real discussion either about standards in the tech industry or political discussions regarding legislative changes in order prevent that worse version from happening in the future. We didn't seem to learn anything from it.
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The only reason this is a thing is because of our habit of building cheap buildings that aren't insulated well.

In modern times it is more than possible to build well-insulated buildings that can be heated affordably to reasonable indoor temperatures everywhere in the living space.

Almost nobody does this.
I also have the $99 / year Microsoft 365. This gives you 5 people, 1Tb of space each, email, calendar, etc. $99 per year. Not per person per year. Just per year.

Sadly there are too many things I have tied to Google that I am not sure if I can make that switch to Microsoft. But it is getting more and more tempting.
I very much wanted to hear about this and damn :-(
Video playback must be hardware accelerated by now and be super efficient. Another worry was about low power sleep modes and waking up, and looks like it is not solved too. I might have to suck it up and buy the Mac for my needs after all. I have my trusty Linux desktop for all my big compute needs. I was hoping to make the mobile machine also run Linux, but the specific needs there (crisp display, nice battery life, Linux friendliness) seems to be an elusive goal.
> I hope they do skin first, I’m tired of looking like a wrinkle.

Imagine inventing a cream that actually makes skin look younger, and then realizing people have tried to sell that (without delivering) for a century so no one will believe you.
It's not about what can be, it's about what actually is.

People who are not antisemitic typically say "but you can criticize Israel", and they are right, and they don't understand.

The trouble is that in the real world people who criticize Israel and not antisemitic are vanishingly rare.

It's like "black lives matter", people are not not racist find it very racist and respond "all lives matter", and they don't get it. People who experience racism, explain "black lives matter" doesn't imply anything about other people.

In the real world you almost never find people who criticize Israel who are not also antisemitic.

For example, in this very thread "level1" tries to criticize Israel with a factually false accusation, checking his post history finds him singling out Jews. This is pretty typical.
to me it looks like a programmable text editor
What an incredibly rude thing to say to another person.
Competitive advantage says that in the vast majority of cases you should do more or less what you're doing now, perhaps adjust your behaviour to optimise for compensation, and spend/donate money to have more biologists work on this. This is very general advice for anyone with a cause that they would like to get done without regard to who does it.
Dev here, happy to answer any questions.

Also, I am contemplating to write up the (rendering) tech behind it. Anyone here who would be interested in that.
There's so much technobabble in the readme. What would be a ELI5 for a complete layperson, not familiar with crypto or web3?
Research: Entrepreneurship Can Revitalize Local Communities [Detroit]
I have in-laws in the Columbus area and have visited there several times.

You might be able to pay us to live there, but it would have to be 'retire after a year' kind of money. It has all the charm of a strip mall.
I think the author of this tool is totally missing the point of the print/sign/scan legal hoop that one sometimes has to jump through. The law sometimes requires certain documents to be "in writing" and there is, unfortunately, a legal tradition tied to this that "in writing" means "physically on paper", which many lawmakers and bureaucrats unfortunately haven't managed to properly transition into the digital age.

However something that is quite a separate matter is the question of whether one needs to actually be in possession of that piece of paper. A scan of an original serves as proof that the original exists. ...and this is usually all that anyone requires for practical intents and purposes.

But: You're not supposed to do print/sign/scan, and then just throw away the original. You're kind of supposed to keep it in case you're ever asked by a court to produce it. The document partially loses its forensic value if no original can be produced.
Google Legacy G Suite – Class Action Investigation – Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP

https://chimicles.com/google-legacy-g-suite-class-action-inv...
You don't think availability of internet around the world isn't compensation?
Consider the possibility that students can fail a class in school for reasons other than not understanding the subject.

I failed (got an F grade) in high school math for two years, because of bad teachers and chaotic classrooms. Eventually I just stopped going to class, guaranteeing a failing grade regardless of whether I understood math. At the same time I got through two years of math classes (trig and calculus) at a nearby university. I did that on advice from my high school counselor, who then gave me math credit because she understood the difference between high school grades and learning.
U.S. Senate Panel Approves Antitrust Bill That Would Allow Sideloading
Do you have an alternative iconography for language selection? It undoubtedly makes the UX better, especially with many languages
Even comparing two pointers can expose potentially divergent uarch semantics. Should that be disallowed at compile time?
Aren't emojis supposed to replace words, kind of like abbreviations? What's the point of having a word and an emoji that mean the same thing right next to each other? I would never write, "want a hamburger :hamburger:?" Instead, I would just write, "want a :hamburger:?" This just seems like the worst of both worlds.

EDIT: HN doesn't seem to support emojis. Changed to a markdown like format instead.
I think "This title is misleading" is a pretty worthwhile thing to mention.
Can anyone else read that white text on a light grey background?
The world aint that bad my friend, just a little crazy atm - it'll get better. Hang in there. If you're on this website, you're one of the lucky few that has their needs taken care of and an ability to traverse up Maslow's pyramid.

Besides, shit is just getting interesting. Strap in.
Where does someone put a coal fired power plant when it's at the end of its life?
As an electron developer I used NodeJS to implement a custom licensing system on top of JWT. My app "registers" a computer (fingerprint) with the server. The server can grant licenses where it signs a JWT with a secret key, and the client can verify using the public key. The client will enable features based on the JWT payload. Again... it's crackable, but it's serviceable and I make my software affordable through either a one-time license ($147) or a monthly subscription ($14.99/month).

I try my best to make it "worth it" to purchase the app. Label LIVE is a super- boring business label printer app so it takes a "special" person to 1) need the app and then 2) decide that they'd save more money by cracking it than just paying for it. If I 10x my pricing (as my competition does), then I would fully expect users would find it worthwhile to crack and distribute.
Buy with the local Apple store/local reseller in the country you're looking at. Doing it 'globally' isn't going to work since you're hitting the person you're sending it to with VAT/GST/Import duties. That's in addition to power brick/keyboard, etc.

If you can't, still a better alternative is to fund/reimburse the purchase.
Not commenting on work habits or company expectations, but I found “companies don’t reward morality” a funny statement: I would argue that morality is almost by definition something that doesn’t get rewarded. One is moral simply because they think it is right, not because it gets them something or because doing the opposite would get them punished.
Let's not forget about better open source development tools too.
> No, the figures flanking Roosevelt are not meant to represent his guides on an Amazon expedition.

What is your basis for saying this? q1w2 gave their basis for saying that it was about the Amazon expedition; what is your basis for saying that it isn't? Just "no it's not" doesn't work well as a refutation of an argument that had more than that.
Disagree, examples in the blog are poo. English comes from... England... why shouldn't be represented with an English flag? Spainish comes from... Spain... why shouldn't be represented with a Spanish flag? There are Spanish speakers in literally every country in the world, what is the solution?

The Hindi argument is not good, Hindi is the _official_ language of India. I work with people from various parts of India and they can all communicate with each other because thry all speak Hindu/English (usually a mixture in conversation), even if their main language is Malayalam.

There are issues with flags = languages (e.g. "Welsh": "Gaelic" for instance, or Switzerland (which one?), but for English/Spanish examples, they are not good ones to use

And to end this, just because there is a website for your issues doesn't mean it's correct. There is nothing preventing someone from making a website called flagsarelanguages.com and having poo counter points to the original websites poo arguments. Appeal to authority nonsense.
Foundation is about rigorously specifying the general Laws of Locality for Actor systems that CHERI implements.
I don't want to say so, but...so? At Intel scale, they're able to buy carbon offsets or - gasp! - install their own solar/wind in their properties. The municipal and state governments are I'm sure bending over backwards to get the plants and infrastructure investment, a permit to run whatever solar/wind/renewable they want is probably chump change for them.
I'd look into giving each employee a budget to purchase the necessary equipment locally. What does your device provisioning entail?
Is the JVM made to be isolated like WASM is?
Exactly, If I wanted to be operating of the level where I am worrying about registers and stack smashing and such I would just drop down assembly directly. You use C because it has an in-theory abstract machine that I can target and avoid needing to use assembly.
awesome, I wasn't able to find it
Or maybe some people simply disagree with Israel's settlement policies. Automatically assuming that criticism of Israel is antisemitic seems just as productive as assuming that criticism of China is sinophobic.
The people you work with (in person) is to a significant extent a function of where you live, though, and what the team is allowed to attempt is even more so.
Maybe there are a hundred smart and innovative fluorine chemists in your state, but 30 of them are assholes, 20 retired, 40 already have jobs too good to hire them away from, and the other 10 aren't allowed to do any lab work because of NIMBYs or because your legislature associates chemistry primarily with Breaking Bad. (That's a big problem in California today, but it wasn't 50 years ago.)
Do you have any examples of activist investors who actually wanted to do harm to a company? I’m incredulous. What a waste of time and money. I usually hear about ones who think they can turn it around.