skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was certainly the case when I lived in Thailand, as I could read (the numbers aren't difficult and you get a lot of practice) and often anything with a published price up front would be different read in English than in Thai.
Site crashing on Android Chrome.
Ask HN: Do you consider Hacker News to be a positive/useful use of your time?
I've been trying to spend less time on time wasting stuff. Not necessarily to work more or be more productive, but to only spend time consuming quality content or necessary stuff.
So I've blocked about a few websites on my computer(from social medias, to forums, clickbaity news sites...)

So instead of wasting a few hours of my time between reddit memes, pointless flamewars, and stupid articles about made up issues, I spend them between hackernews and linkedin.

But is that really better or just an equally addictive illusion?
Isn't this just a facebook for techbros?(me included)

After years of browsing HN daily, did you reap some benefits out of it?

What's your take on this?
Something conveniently ignored is that the maid probably had the room, food and basic necessities included in the deal (and possibly the nurse?). It's absolutely not the same paying X for all expenses vs paying X PLUS all expenses.

We like to demonize the past, and sure it was rough but let's not try to make it look even worse than it was.
Thanks a lot, that's really kind. It's great to feel my struggle with is backed by thousands of years of other people struggling with it. And your comment helps me feel interested to read more into it! Thank you! :)
To add to the other replies, most journals allow you to post a preprint to arxiv or your personal site as long as you don’t use their final layout, typesetting, and branding
I tried to read the article but it does not have a perfectly good cookie reject button.
> The multiplier doesn't serve the same purpose as the multiplicand

Yes, that's true. But this seems to me like another argument against classifying concatenation as multiplication because if "A concat B" makes sense, then "B concat A" necessarily makes sense as well (notwithstanding that they produce different results).
Sounds like there are some interesting stories behind this advice ...
Inflation isn't a limit on UBI either...
EEVblog - LED Panel Lighting Switching Noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty_sxMxUWeU at 3 minutes

LED lights RF interference fix, for education only Paul k8IO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUgCM6cCUj0
In Machine Learning the top journal JMLR is also completely free and open access. Nature tried to introduce a machine learning journal but it is being boycotted by many researchers.
MacLisp had an extended dot notation similar to this for hunks:

https://www.maclisp.info/pitmanual/hunks.html
Honestly, the whole question and set up seems like complete fiction.

What computer scientist is working on life saving image processing on medical imaging equipment where everything is open source except for some proprietary drivers. These kind of equipment are leased, not even owned.

If the so called "lecturers" were actually physicians they wouldn't care about software licensing as the hardware itself is dramatically expensive. And the entire thing is proprietary.
And why would the lecturers get "increasingly irritated". Its not like RMS is actually preventing them from using equipment. He is just giving a talk. Folks typically ask one question and sit down. Or meet privately later.

I simply can't come up with any conceivable scenario where saving someone's life us critically dependent on some proprietary graphics driver. Its downright hilarious.

What medical equipment is using a 60 layer deep NN to save lives?! These images are scanned manually by qualified physicians. And the OP claims this happened 8 years ago! You dont actually need a graphics driver to analyze image files. CPUs are good enough. Graphics drivers were not even widely used for Deep NN inference 8 years ago.

I asked the OP for details about this "talk" and ge hasn't responded.

This is a cock n bull story OP constructed because he knows linux is forced to use nvidia blobs for its graphics driver. Completely insane story, however.

This tale is taller than Mt Everest.
That is not a universal statement[0]. They may get lower priority in many cases, but MELD[1] or a similar model is used to determine who gets priority for liver transplant.

[0] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/destigmatizing...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_for_End-Stage_Liver_Dise...
At a firm level, sure. In aggregate that only works as long as aggregate demand for products and services rises faster than the output per unit of labour.
> Many people feel entitled to human service, above and beyond, and they feel that such jobs are beneath them ( "burger flipping"), hence their reluctance to do it themselves.

Your comment is a bit rude.

One reason I personally refuse to use these screens or the self-checkout line is to make sure the people working these jobs will still have a job...

> constant attention from a waiter in a restaurant

After being ignored in french restaurants (please, someone, anyone, give me water! please!!), I can only love and praise the professionalism of our waiters!

> some very weird ( for me) things expected

It's called good service. Something I was really not expecting in Europe, and something that, as expected, was not delivered :)
Only the minimum legally required (for them to not immediately die). After which they are shown the door.
I'm vaccinated myself and basically I have the same opinion as you. But David Bennett also actively chose to stab someone seven times in 1988 - "only" leaving him paralyzed, but probably with the intent to kill him? Ok, he probably served time for that and it was a long time ago, so judicially you can consider him rehabilitated. My argument was that once you refuse to treat (former) criminals, that's a slippery slope. And apparently I was right, since some here seem to consider people who choose not to get vaccinated worse that violent criminals...
Yep, $11k is a term’s worth of stipend when I was a PhD student.
>a convenient, low overhead, way to move many small amounts of money to pay for Internet usage.

AKA digital currency. For this we can simply use a digital currency (crypto or otherwise). NFT is irrelevant here, an extra unnecessary complication when the same thing could have done with the ETH chain it's already based on, or a new side-chain or many other methods.
What Is Imaginary Time?
> Some of you mention dislikes help you decide what to watch,” said YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. “But dislikes were never shown to people on the homepage, search results, up next screen, where users were most likely to choose a video

Well I click the video and back out as soon as I see dislikes approachung likes in quantity.

Was that really so hard to come up with for said CEO?
> With UBI, gainful employment will be an elite luxury only accessible to those with existing wealth.

Gainful employment is when the product of your labor is worth (much) more than you are willing to sell your labor for. If you’re not rich and you want to become rich working for Google at $200K a year is clearly superior to a UBI of $40K a year. Even with an arithmetically impossible UBI[1] like that there are still many people who would like to be rich, but just middle class.

[1]US average household income per capita is under $60K.
How about the millions of people who are just above the poverty line but can't afford private health/dental?
If it takes that many people to keep these ramshackle contraption boondoggles from being built, that is money well spent.

Most usually, if construction starts, they cost billions of dollars before they are cancelled. They never give back any of the money afterward.
This might also be a small town to major city thing, but I have about as many channels OTA now as we had with pre-satellite basic cable twenty plus years ago.
Well this has been a surprising explosion of positivity here on this thread. Some of these comments, look at you, thank you!

That's interesting. And I don't know much about that, but your comment is going to help me look into that, when it's time for me to do so: consequentialists, retributivists, and utilitarianism. Thank you :)

It's an interesting, seemingly two valid perspectives that are in contradiction. Thank you! :)
I don't think it matters what any of us (HN) want or think is best.

The generation born after social media began their socialization and individuation journey in life on snapchat/tiktok/instagram. This generation doesn't give a shit about google.

I think the "web" is dying, paradigm of using a browser to access websites is almost gone by comparison to a decade ago. The internet is mobile-centric. All this metaverse shit is trying to get ahead of the platform curve. The success there depends on if it gets traction with 16-24 year olds.
I would prefer to be a medival king. Easy access to having sex with the most beautiful woman in the world, beheading people I don't like, fixing laws I don't agree with, having people willing to do anything to please me etc. Lots of perks!
I will try to listen to this soon but don't have the time at the moment.
To what do attribute the ability to be reinfected if not "wearing off"? Am I using the wrong terminology? I think you are implying antibodies may wane but t-cells should provide fairly long term immunity?

These are an older article so not sure if there is something more recent. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/reinfe...
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/about-...

It was also my understanding that recovery from one varient does not necessarily provide protection from a different varient. And also infection is not cut and dried and influenced buy duration, viral load and many variables.
This doesn't belong on HN. It's too political and doesn't add anything constructive.

Can we get insightful items about coronavirus genetic bifurcation, drift velocity, and future pandemic probability estimates? Net negative carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) solutions that scale with cost? Throw me a frick'n bone, people. :prayer hands emoji:
I get what you're going for, but this simply isn't comparable. I pretty much can't walk into the same store and purchase the same item but be quoted a different price than anyone else.

There are rich areas and poor areas, touristy areas and off-the-beaten-path areas. But in US retail you won't find sellers discriminate based solely on the look of the customer in 99% of cases.
Keto worked for the two people I know who tried it, one of whom had been trying other weight loss diets for 10 years without success
I see it with headless/gui-less Ubuntu K8s hosts; looks like from fwupd
Yes it was supposed to be temporary, but the policy still remained official until after his death.

(Did he really say just 6 months?? That doesn't sound right. But anyway it would have only been a prediction -- which failed.)

"Joseph Stalin abandoned the NEP in 1928 with the Great Break."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Break_(USSR)
I have made friends, interviewed for jobs, connected up with a few people in person afterward, helped others find jobs, learned all sorts of fascinating facts for whenever I am forced to make idle small talk, found ways to sleep better, learned why my past company had a doomed model, gotten all sorts of free tech goodies, discovered tools to make work easier, and had some great debates.

I tend to have a lot of meetings in my life anyway where my presence is required, but little else, so that is where a lot of my HN time comes from.
> we'd only be able to offer real "edge compute" to a small number of big enterprises with deep pockets, rather than at prices affordable to everyone

What a nice way to formulate the tradeoffs between cost and security. When Workers came out with huge headlines about performance and cost I was very disappointed to find out there was no special technical wizardry behind that but just conscious trade-offs in disregard to customer data security. Workers simply skip all the sandboxing steps other providers take to implement a multi-tenant application runtime in a secure manner. So far the mitigations in place seem to make the possibility of Cloudflare customers getting bitten by a V8 vulnerability unlikely instead of impossible.

Sure, the platform has interesting ideas and I'm looking forward to try it out as a full-stack serverless platform. I just cannot foresee running anything serious on it before they come up with a more convincing security story.
This is true, but King Charles was still right to declare the latin is sus.
I've had similar experiences.

I vocalize a lot (in my head) during the development process, and I've noticed that when I have to engage with another person during this time I start vocalizing audibly, which is where the problems start. The other person gets confused because I'm speaking the snippets and half-ideas that are passing through my mind at the moment (and the internal jargon I've developed over the decades), and it degenerates into long sequences of explaining my every move, most of which would have been quickly dismissed internally had I not had to stop to explain them.

Or they misunderstand the path I'm taking for something else that won't work and interrupt me, and then I have to stop to explain first that it's not what they think (which is hard), and then explain the path I'm actually going down (harder), and why I think it's a good idea (hardest). It's like having a backseat driver, and just as infuriating.

Every interruption shatters parts of the intricate glass tendrils that comprise the complex model in my mind, and then I have to rebuild them again before I can continue thinking. The creative process gets completely disrupted and there's zero chance of flow. This is fine if I'm teaching someone since the material is well known and there's no creativity required. But during actual work it's a productivity black hole. Death by a thousand cuts.
> Simply turn on “showdead” in your profile to see the deplatformed.

You have to jump through an extra hoop to see them at all, and you can't interact with them.
The article and headline asserts that economists view robots and automation as a threat to jobs. They don’t.

The conventional wisdom from most economists (defined as professors of Econ at major Universities) is the opposite, that automation leads to more jobs. This article is based on a strawman.
>I calculated that at a minimum the world economy needs to increase five-fold for global poverty to substantially decline. This is in a scenario in which the world would also achieve a massive reduction in inequality: inequality between all the world’s countries would disappear entirely in this scenario. It should therefore be seen as a calculation of the minimum necessary growth for an end of poverty.

A five-fold increase of the global economy is certainly not easy to achieve, but it is also not impossible – it is what the world has achieved in the last 5 decades, and the climate researchers of the IPCC expect even more growth for this century in their ‘Sustainability Scenario’, the scenario in which the world is most successful in avoiding climate change.

I'm interpreting this to mean that my generation has a chance to see the end of poverty in 50 years. This is incredible!
I don't think you have any clue on what life is like as a homeless poor person or a person in jail in the US.
While you’re partially right that chronic homelessness is related to drug abuse, most of them are mentally ill. Unfortunately due to legal changes in the 1980’s, you can no longer help the mentally ill unless they provide consent. The end result is they stay homeless, while the other 80% of the homeless end up recovering in less than a year.
having income 25x that of the working class

A live-in maid would have their accommodation, food and bills provided, which would be reflected in a lower wage. The UK average wage at the time was closer to £100 a year for a woman (£200 for a man).

The equivalent today would be like someone earning 7 * the UK minimum wage, which would be about £120,000 a year (US$160,000).
Lilith Wittmann keeps doing cool stuff. She recently rose to national prominence when she exposed massive basic flaws in a campaign app by the former government party and they reacted as incompetently as possible.
> because if "A concat B" makes sense, then "B concat A" necessarily makes sense as well

Except it makes perfect sense. B concat A gives you B followed by A, as opposed to A followed by B. They produce different results, but they make perfect sense. Nobody claimed multiplicative operations cannot make sense if you swap the operands. The claim was they don't have to.

Like I said, in addition, not only do they make sense, but they give you the same result. Here they clearly don't. Therefore, it makes no sense to suggest concatenation is more similar to addition than multiplication.
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Losing control of your email/google/social media accounts and reputation (eg scams made in your name, blackmail, etc) is a comparable risk to most people. Banks are experienced at handling fraud and you're also legally shielded from bank fraud in many jurisdictions.

(though banks are also clueless in other respects, outlawing devices with lineageos but allowing devices with out of date vendor OS)
Yes, we have many studies for that.
Considering a person's criminal record is not the same as considering their moral character.
I just turn off JS on NYT. It won't show the pictures though.
Seems there is a huge business opportunity just mailing things like Apple products from Oregon, where you don't pay sales tax, straight to india to be sold far below their market rates for that same product.
Contrasting the tiny fanless AppleTV boxes with the comically over-sized messes that are the most recent console generation, these products are a galaxy apart.
I’m talking about comparing 1br’s to 1br’s.

Japan tearing down building after 20-30 years is, as far as I’ve seen, greatly exaggerated. You see apartment complexes all over the place obviously older than that.
I would assume that chart is for the US or Western/Developed world. Maybe a more easier explanation for the phenomenon is: everything that can be oursourced/built in lower cost regions are getting cheaper (not many toys, cloths or to a certain degree, cars, are still built in the US), while services, by nature, are not able to be out-sourced. With limited supply and more demand, cost of services would definitely go up.
100% ethanol is generally made by a molecular sieve and it does not require any sort of poison. I have drank it before, and it is very strong of course, but no more dangerous than everclear. If there is any poisonous chemical other than ethanol in it, it is by definition not 100% ethanol. You can actually trivially make your own by purchasing molecular sieve material online. Of course I would never do that besides distilling is illegal :)

Fun fact though: it’s not 100% ethanol for long after you open the bottle because it will absorb water from the air until you hit the azeotropic limit.
Consider focusing on some fundamentals like: exercising, cold showers, eating reasonably healthy (avoid insulin spikes). Also consider some kind of social or recreation activity that helps make you feel recharged.
Easy solution for small creator harassment:
Disable likes if under 50k subscribers! Obviously not perfect but much better than the current system.
That not being the case is the system that got the housekeeper her job though. It's probable that she knows that "not paying the foreigner tax on food" is part of the value she brings, and that overly messing with that system could put her out a job.
it's a thing in left litterature. this role is called "comprador" and it has very negative connotation (for obvious reasons if you think about it from the native perspective)
Might I suggest a co-op, nonprofit journal publisher run for the benefit of multiple institutions that give access at near overall amortized cost and free access to individuals. Corporate greed in healthcare, utilities, government, and academia are Swords of Damocles waiting to happen.
How did I run that code again? Tools to help recall
I'm curious to hear from YouTube users who (used to) consider the dislike count before watching a video. I can't recall if it ever majorly factored into my watch habits. I usually only noticed it in cases when users were likely being harassed (crazy ratios), or if a creator strayed from what their audience expected (anything less than crazy). On a post dislike platform, I'd expect that lowered view counts would serve as an indicator of low quality content, or audience dissatisfaction.
>doesn't want war and neither does Russia

You are factually correct. Russia doesnt want war, they just want Ukraine territory.
You are just reiterating the fact that concatenation is not commutative, to which I will reiterate my earlier response: If multiplication can be sometimes commutative and sometimes non-commutative (and it can, and it is) then why cannot addition be sometimes commutative and sometimes non-commutative?
Well yeah, but compare to Asimov or Banks and their super-advanced mega-civilizations of trillions of people.

Martian is cool and IMHO it is a scifi, but there are significant differences.
Most of the issues you are discussing are architectual issus. Architecture is not just how the house looks. An architecture also decides on the floor plan, staircases etc. Also, houses are not a good anology for software. So I caution against drawing any conclusions from your perception on how houses are constructed and the building industry in general.
Thanks!

I've always intended to announce going live at Hacker News and still plan to. But this OP and thread raise issues so close to my project that here I took the opportunity to outline my work and to ask for reactions. These days I'm gathering initial data, but there is some time to adjust some of the work. Maybe even more important, from the reactions here I can try to refine how I present this project to the public, e.g., so that the public or at least the intended users can understand how this project can help them and for me better to understand this project as others will see it.

This project has been delayed by unpredictable external events independent of the project -- the project work has been fast, fun, and easy while handling the external events has been a pain from the head down to the feet.

HN is likely the world's best collection, concentration of people to make perceptive reactions.
Yep! My wife is a postdoc at Stanford and has become completely disillusioned by the whole thing, pretty sad to see after so many years of loving it!
Some want vengeance in place of justice.
I don’t get what tidal wave of angry finger pointing you are talking about. All I see is curious people discussing the topic in a civilized manner.
> A month ago it dialed 911 when I was trying to restart, and I had to apologize to the operator.

Yup, I had mine do that too. The UI was frozen so I couldn’t hang up. I had to hold the power button and power cycle. They called back, and I apologized profusely.
I've been both. I don't think you have any idea.
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Young people: No, obviously.

Old people: Yes, obviously.
> If multiplication can be sometimes commutative and sometimes non-commutative (and it can, and it is) then why cannot addition be sometimes commutative and sometimes non-commutative?

To which I reiterate my response: because addition in plain English is frequently (if not always?) commutative, whereas multiplication in plain English is frequently NOT commutative (even though it sometimes can be).
OP of the article here. The content here is hosted in a little app meant to experiment with an alternative kind of commenting model where all comments are pull requests. I don't know how well it works.

Feedback welcome.
It may not refresh automatically before they revoke. I had luck manually renewing which is largely automated but not entirely.