skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given that the biggest factor affecting income is parental class

This isn't actually true; it's one possible explanation that seems OK under cursory examination of the evidence, and it's compatible with American university social "science" dogma, but it falls apart under careful inspection. The overwhelmingly more likely (but incompatible with field political dogma) explanation is that income is most strongly mediated by intelligence, which is mostly genetically heritable. This is why people tend to have similar incomes to their parents. (This persists through adoption; try to explain that as a socially mediated effect.)

Now, that said, this has nothing to do with the fact that people who would most benefit from welfare schemes are the least likely to be efficient capital allocators. We can make the observation that they are not allocating efficiently independently from asking why they are not allocating efficiently.

> Putting $1m into a 50-50 chance that will produce $10m of value if it works out but leave you destitute if it doesn't is a positive for society, but irrational at an individual level

The market already efficiently addresses situations like this which actually exist, using schemes like business loans and outside investment. There is no way in hell some financial knob the government can blindly turn would do as good a job at performing this function as banks and investors who are actually making a conscious decision and putting their own money on the line. In other words, for every marginal good bet this scheme enables, it's going to enable 1000 marginal stupid bets.

> (e.g. rich families/friends) tend to be more entrepreneurial

You've made the same (understandable) inversion of causality as before. In reality, the latter tends to drive the former. Obviously the causality is bidirectional to some degree, but I think people tend to vastly underweight the primary direction.

I agree that society could do a better job enabling outsized performers without means to get access to capital, but we already do a pretty good job and there is no way that some simple welfare system would do a better job than the intentional systems we have now.

> Organised society has always meant some level of support for those on the bottom.

This may or may not be true (I'm not much of a historian), but I do know that "some level of support" doesn't mean "far-reaching government welfare infrastructure". It can mean churches, waqfs, and so on.
not as good. margin has high borrow fees and path dependency. options are better but still has a lot of fees, slippage, and needs to be adjusted to target appropriate delta. a 3x fund would make it so much easier and cheaper.
> They would net fare worse under a more efficient scheme.

If I were such a person, I would prefer UBI cash to welfare with strings.

Are you saying you'd prefer to receive benefits in-kind as e.g. housing assistance instead of cash?

Don't conflate "more economically efficient" with "gives recipients less".
I trust Nassim Taleb's "Lindy" concept more than any new tool in this space. It works because it has worked very well for most things for a long time and I don't need any other explanation.

(My best guess is that -- content management systems inherently suck, and that Wordpress is one of the few successful ones precisely because it did not set out to be a content management system.)
Brown is just dark orange

https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU
It's bad to keep countering complaints about 2008 as if the balance sheet is all that matters. The ethical complaints aren't about the money, but about the incentives and disincentives for certain behaviour, and the constant preferential treatment for a certain class of people above others. The cited reason for buying the bank debt instead of the home owner debt was "moral hazard", which actually applies to them both, but you don't need to guess which group was exempt from that consideration.
Mostly an addition to monopoly profits. If their profit margins weren't so ridiculously large, the previous attempts at becoming a foundry may have succeeded, and they would have put more effort into being the fab for Apple's silicon. It will be very interesting to see where Intel stands in 2030.
It reduces trust … in a good way. Whenever a machine says “well if just have to trust this other component”, security is reduced.

Apple rarely has to “just trust” a part of its stack.
Why is CGNAT an issue ? Enterprise here doesn't mean on-prem public facing hosting. It just means rich entity that can afford $500/month per account. It could be anything ranging from a government office to a small business. You just need the ability to connect to your actual servers in AWS or wherever and transfer at acceptable rates and latency.
Prismic's "slices" might be what you're looking for if you want out-of-the-box functionality and hosting.

If you're wanting a bit more flexibility from a code-perspective (and you don't mind TypeScript), I've found Payload CMS to be a great option to build out a page builder as you've described using their "blocks".
Doesn't look like it's open source: https://forum.plasmic.app/t/any-plans-for-self-hosted-plasmi... "We don’t currently have plans for a self-hosted solution"
No. I've been living outside the US since 2014 and just noticed it recently as I was back using driving directions. Seems to be at least once a trip, once an hour. Only ever uses large chain restaurants / banks as landmarks. Doesn't happen at all in Japan (yet).
Debord was vehemently against a return to some mythical "Golden Age" and explicitly criticizes Fascism as such a return:

> Its [fascisms] strength is how it presents itself truthfully as a violent resurrection of mythic origins—to claim the past as a “Golden Age” and a return to the successes of this golden past. It demands participation in a community held together by mythical archaic pseudo-values: race, blood, and the leader. Fascism is a cult of the archaic fitted out by modern technology

https://unredacted-word.pub/spectacle/#section-103

Debord wants to move beyond a period where time is made up of clock-segmented moments of equally valuable commodities to a time determined by the creation of events and situations of our own making, with our own values and meanings inscribed into those successive moments.
Or staying late at a party and speaking with the last few people to leave, really opening up to them.

The way life turned out though, I'm not in touch with any of those people anymore. The idea of >"You get tired, you say goodbye to the people still staying out, you go home, drink water, and go to bed." sounds amazing, because I have energy to do personally rewarding things the next day without feeling wiped out and hungover.
Which raises the question of why it was so easy to demonstrate it failing at CES.
Looks like Strapi has paid only features. Are these significant to most sites?

https://strapi.io/pricing-self-hosted
"Free...Up to 3 default roles"

https://strapi.io/blog/introducing-strapi-enterprise-edition...

Sanity.io doesn't seem to be fully open source:
https://github.com/sanity-io/sanity/issues/978

"You can only run the Studio connected to the Sanity hosted backend. There is no option for connecting the Studio to another backend."
So far these applications seem pretty innocuous, but for things like gesture & other control systems, can mmWave be jammed or spoofed?
> TAPBE

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Public, fully autonomous taxis in SF is big news regardless. Hard to imagine it not being extensively discussed here.
I think the comparison comes from the fact that humans infer a 3D map from stereo vision whereas LiDAR to some extent gives you the ground truth 3D map. You’re right that it falls apart pretty quickly though.
Jesus wept, that's asinine.

Edit: Oughta start taking bets on how long until this makes its way into Waze, and then how long until Google prevents us from turning Waze's voice nav off.
I think the judge just got it wrong, and maybe have just been pissed a 19 year old was fighting a ticket in his court.

Seems like an absurd reading of that language to me.
The other reason is that they want to repackage your app for different target systems. Right now they are stripping assets and native libraries, but I hear they are going to start precompiling dex and shipping OAT directly in the APK.

I wonder if there's an internal fight between the Tools and Play teams, because all of this should be possible via the Gradle plugin, but understandably the Play team probably wouldn't see high adoption of APK splits if it required configuration via the morass of crap that is Gradle.
I would title this "How to switch from being violated a hundred times a day to being violated fifty times a day."

We have so many better browsers to choose from such as Brave and Firefox.

We would like to thank Microsoft for sponsoring this article.
DAI is collateralized by crypto. A lot of it is USDC.

The problem with unstable collateral is that it unwinds in market downturns, making the stable coin less useful when most needed
Is it meaningful for you if I store petabytes of hentai on my disks?
So now that we know, does it still apply?

https://www.ft.com/content/529eb4e6-796a-4e81-8064-5967bbe3b...
I am very confident that the modal welfare voter would prefer the current system, which was specifically designed to buy their vote, to any system which appeals to utilitarian-minded technocrats and costs within a factor of 2 of the current system.
You don't need to identify a face; you can identify people by Gait. If you can resolve something as big as a leg you've got enough, as long as you have it over 10 seconds or so.
I'll have more opportunity to pursue my dreams... Dammit, what were my dreams again?
Nice work on this and on the demo video as well! The keyboard shortcuts and visual interactions look polished. This is essentially how I think about my todos, too.
> It was an expensive bandaid to try to stabilize a bad situation. It wasn't _trying_ to give more to the poor.

I think the poor were the only ones feeling the instability, so I don't see how that logic tracks.
Other people on here have no experience with high energy lasers. Thermal shock will burn right through the metal foil or polish. We're not talking about a toy laser pointer.
Black marker really helps to tone down blue LEDs btw.
What's the name of the nonprofit? I'd be interested in learning more! Email is in my profile
I didn't know chrome offer multiple profiles. I wouldn't even know how to use them. Do you mean signing in with different google accounts?

For firefox, you would type it in the run box under windows from the start menu.

Whatever plugins or bookmarks or changes to the toolbar will help me tell this isn't my profile. If I haven't customized why would I care this isn't my profile.

If I am an average user am I using this feature?
Perhaps so. I’m just skeptical that the viewed would accept such VR-pass through style goggles even if the viewer finds them innocuous.
A bit tangential, but just in case you like the taste of beer, but you don't necessarily think beer is good for your health, you might enjoy hops tea. I'm enjoying some as we speak: a mix of hops tea and regular black tea, served with ice and lemon juice. Zero alcohol, zero sugar.
Using E.164 international phone number formatting works. E.g. +14155551212.
I tend to agree. Companies don't seem to switch to being good once they go evil.

I would love it if someone could share a counterexample. I want it to be true that companies don't just turn evil but can become better too.
Without justification.

Look, well-minding paternalistic peeps are behind the current system of "you can only buy some kinds of food with SNAP" and "you must spend this particular money with only certain providers of housing!" It's not the benefit recipient demanding that they be restricted in how they spend their benefits.

Less strings on the money is A) cheaper, and B) nicer for the recipient. I have no doubt that if you offered any poor person the choice between $600 in cash each month and $600 of section 8 credits, they'd take the former.

But, you know, you might deal with someone spending it all on crack (which is why we currently restrict the usage of funds). At least it'll be economically efficient, instead of them selling their SNAP card for crack for 50 cents on the dollar, like is the current outcome.
We've recently done a large blog series on experimentation. https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-a-culture-of-learning-39...

Kinda covers everything and links out to posts that cover the software engineering in more detail and papers that cover the math in more detail.
Cruise acqui-hired voyage, which was basically working towards this. I don't think they've done anything with it since though.
Many years ago, I used the f2c fortran to c translator. It worked, but produced godawful code. I removed about 75% of the c to get usable code.
US threatens Russia with an unprecedented chip blockade
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U.S. airline group warns 5G interference issues could linger for years
If the company you use has a presence in their small portion of the Earth's surface, then they probably have some say so.
I'm curious about that too, but don't forget you can talk to your banker directly without going through a random commenter on the internet. :)

I'm pretty sure my bank won't do that though, since I'm currently mainly using an online-only bank.
Andy Warhol, Clay Christensen, and Vitalik Buterin Walk into a Bar
Looks like Prismic and Payload CMS aren't open source?

https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/master/license.md - "Payload is free to download and install—and free to use for Personal Purposes. We are passionate about Payload, and we hope that you will enjoy it, too. A valid license is required to utilize Payload as detailed below"

https://prismic.io/faq/product - "Proprietary, not open source"
I'm curious too. But I would suggest that the U.S. has very deep pockets and can throw a lot of money at a problem. That doesn't mean it was a "smart" response by the U.S.
I’m guessing most of those summer cabins host at least two people. So maybe 5%.
An introduction to type programming in TypeScript
Root access because I want to run a media player? No thanks!
this is such a cool idea. i am interested.
> Germany sent their best generals to the east and they knew they had no hope but to delay the inevitable, and no alternative but to listen to Hitler. They continued to fight because to deny Hitler's madness often meant less than favorable outcomes for these commanders

That's not entirely true, though. Modern WW2 historiography acknowledges that this vision of WW2, that "Hitler was mad and his generals were afraid to contradict him", is mostly the version the surviving German generals gave in their self-serving memories, as a way to save face and paint themselves as more useful to the West during the Cold War.

More recent assessments contradict this version and show many German generals were enthusiastic about war with the Soviet Union, they fully expected to win, and in many cases goaded Hitler into making fatal mistakes he himself wasn't as sure about (an example: Operation Citadel, the battle of Kursk). The ones who knew the enterprise was doomed? The logistics guys, who did the calculations and predicted when the Wehrmacht would overextend itself and run out of supplies -- not the generals!

Professor Jonathan House, an American military historian specializing on WW2's Eastern Front, has a whole lecture about this, available on YouTube.
Agreed...one of my favorite books. Don't use snobol4 too often these days but the book is a unique read. Same with the Spitbol manual by Catspaw.
It goes with the same.. for baking soda you need some acid to start production of CO2.

If you having a sour-acidic ingredient like "vinegar" or Orange juice, the reaction starts at once even before you can put it in the oven.

If you want to start the reaction after some time and at an higher temperature, there is no way to do it without an agent. It breaks apart to acid at certain temperature. The agents used are 99% of times phosphates -> phosphorus.
The baking powder free of phosphorus is quite of a seldom taste imo
I often wish that Google's slogan was "Do Good" instead of "Do No Evil". It's easy to gloss over that "not".
Nope plenty of land in USA (and some other developing nations.) , where slow phone lines or not even that is an option.

Maybe you have an ISP and want a backup, or maybe you have limited bandwidth and want more, etc.

This thing is also mobile. Maybe you are touring show/band/tradeshows and sometimes venue provided internet is crap and want a backup.

Or maybe you are youtube/regular TV show inspired by mythbusters , that needs to go to desert/exotic locale to test/blow something up.

And even where there is an options its sometimes really bad and expensive.

This probably won't set world on fire, but I see it quite useful to number of companies.
Would that be significantly more complex than just setting up a random website, and making an account with the services enabled billed to themselves?
Great Steve Blank post about this called The Elves Leave Middle Earth.

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
This post has been around for almost 10 years now: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=grammarly.com.

But I guess if they're still updating this post (it mentions November 2020) then they must still be using Common Lisp.
Check US Mobile. I haven't used them, but I've noticed when shopping for cheap plans that they let you build a plan that's really cheap if you don't need much.
I just wish they can bring back the official VPN add-on, which is removed after the beta test, no idea why.
You as well. You make good observations about some of the possible higher-order upsides of UBI that are easy to gloss over. I think both of us are at the very least approaching this on a sound ontological basis, even if there's a lot of room for quantitative uncertainty.
Has “American” gone out of style?
tl;dr is that the technology is very very different than a phone camera. So it's not the same as an IR photo. E.g. Google Pixel 4 has a radar chip AND IR dot projector+camera for face unlock. Presumably, if you could do face identification with Pixel 4's radar sensor only they would not have needed the IR tech.

Disclaimer: Work at Google, but not on Pixel 4.
If you want Node in your browser, stackblitz has a super fast implementation. I think it's NodeJS compiled to Wasm but with V8 replaced by browser's native JS engine:

https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
Why can’t it be both? The previous administration was malevolently incompetent, as opposed to the current one that is simply incompetent.
Australia did the same.

Because we are almost all vaccinated (95% of eligible adults) there haven't been so many deaths compared to other countries, but still more than Australia has seen so far.
Oh, it's even more interesting than that!

From Wikipedia [1]:

> Following Google's corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took "Do the right thing" as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct.[1][2][3][4][5] The original motto was retained in Google's code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. In April 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct's preface and retained in its last sentence.[6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
>I also want to add this is a good example of why marketing should probably just be using tools like Insta, Twitter, FB etc to get their message out. Now if you actually have a good company blog w/ good resources than that's different but I think that's more the exception than the norm.

Would you be willing to elaborate this position? I disagree that only being on social media is sufficient for marketing a service/product/organization.

Social media channels can be used to link content to a website, where there is far more control over how the information is presented (e.g. with embedded documents, testimonials, contact forms, and more pictures that can't be added as easily to sical media). You also have more control over the content on your website, on the low but real chance that you lose control of your company's social media accounts due to an unexpected reason.
I wish I was able to use the downvote button
Cruise is a ride service - they don't sell cars. So the actual question is: How much does it cost to pay an Uber driver over the lifetime of a car?
Ask HN: How can I get Google to fix their reported geolocation of my IP address?
I was in a Central American country for a week in January. After returning to the US, Google products like Search and YouTube are flagging my IP address as from this Central American country. This is happening for every device in my home, across multiple Google Accounts regardless of owner/account/OS:

- Android (phones and an Nvidia Shield)

- iOS

- MacOS

- Linux

Unfortunately this is preventing my wife and I from accessing YouTube content that is geo-locked and we are getting search results in Spanish (plus a bunch of other unexpected behavior with Google services).

I've contacted YouTube Premium support and Google One support, neither could figure this out and suggested I "ask the community".

My best guess: my US IP address was flagged as from this Central American county while I was abroad because I had to VPN back to this IP address while traveling. On mobile, if I disconnect from my wireless network and use 5G/LTE, everything "just works"; I can access US YouTube content and search results are in English + the correct geo.

Based on the suggestion from Google support, I posted this information to the Community help site[0] hoping that someone will be able to help. Additionally I’ve used this Google form[1] to “Report IP Problems”, but this can supposedly take more than a month. Given how one way this form feels, my confidence with it is relatively low.

Has anyone ever encountered this before? Any suggestions? How can I get Google to mark my IP address as "from the US"? Unfortunately I feel like I’m in some weird Kafkaesque nightmare.

A few things to note: MaxMind / GeoIP lookups have always correctly identified my IP address as "from the US", this seems to be limited to just Google services. I have a static IP from my ISP and I would prefer to avoid getting a new IP from my ISP. I also don’t want to have some other unlucky customer get this cursed faux Central American IP address. However, if neither Google nor HN can figure this out, I’ll contact my ISP and request a new IP.

[0] https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/148526373

[1] https://support.google.com/websearch/workflow/9308722

edit: formatting
I'm building my own solution because nothing like this existed to my knowledge.

https://imgur.com/a/qY6GQSj

It currently supports webpages, pdfs, personal notes, images and twitter.
Well, the comment you replied to was talking about AGI.
You can easily get locked in to some theme builder or UI toolkit. half the WP folks I know swear by X (genesis theme, etc) and will just rewrite everything in theme X if they take over a project. You're not 'locked in' to WP, you're 'locked in' to themes and plugins.
I think it’s totally fair to criticize the response and suggest it could have been better, I meant it more in terms of the people complaining never seem to entertain the counterfactual of how bad things could have ended up with no/poor fiscal response.