skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's generally accepted that unionizing retail staff and other short-tenured labor (i.e., workers don't stay at the job for long periods of time) is very difficult.

When I worked jobs with similar functions, the idea of expending effort organizing and agitating when I planned on being gone after a year would have been ludicrous. Unionizing is generally a short-term loss for workers under the hope for a long term gain.

As for whether or not the union can hold if scabs can be brought in...not generally. They can unionize, but their main source of power (withholding labor) is greatly muted. Even industrial unions, where time to productivity is probably higher, generally have to discourage (even at times to the point of violence) scabs during periods of heavy labor militancy.
> Sell both applications and wholesale data at the same time

Bloomberg comes to mind since they offer wholesale access to data in addition to all the terminal functions.
It is if you're a lactuca sativa trying to get into Harvard Business School

Full article no paywall: https://archive.ph/kJg8S
I was reaching on the mapping of numbers to letters to be honest. If I were designing a system to track and corelate everything I'd take it into account since it's still in use, but yeah that was a definite stretch in this case.

But I am pretty sure this was just a proximity match. When you're dealing with the quantity of telemetry the big players deal with, you're talking billions of people in real-time all day long, then how do you figure out what's relevant and what isn't?

Physical proximity is important. You don't have to swap contacts with someone for your telemetry to connect you with them. I mean you were right next to someone who was right next to them, out of billions of people you're relevant, so no one needs to share contact details. The manufacturer of the phone knows your geolocation. Your telecom company knows your geolocation. If you have bluetooth or wifi switched on and you're already fingerprinted, then every chain store knows your geolocation. If you use a credit card or eftpos card anywhere, the products you purchase are combined into your profile, etc etc.

That and you already had them in your contact list (even though you were surprised they were, you're not saying they weren't, I have people in my contact list from 15 years ago I only spoke with one time...), they already know that you've bumped into this contact before in the past, and boost the recommendation because you shared the contact and the geospatial relevance in a short period of time.

Like I'm pretty cynical and suspicious at the best of times, but once I started to realise the above, all my "oh shit they're listening" moments kind of dissolved because I could trace all of them back to being in the same room as someone who had met a person, or had been actively searching a related topic in the past few days.

Yeah it's still spooky, it's the reason I run a pi-hole, and got myself off most social media.

Also I noticed this thread got flagged. Not sure exactly why but I think it's because this same subject has come up a few times. I do think people need to better understand how network analysis can reveal spooky shit about our behaviours, like our devices don't need to be literally listening to our words in order for corporations and governments to know exactly who we are or what we're about. There's tons of different signals we all send out each day that fingerprint exactly who we are, who we're related to, and what we care about, they don't need realtime voice processing.
Ah yes. Unlike the rest of the human body, the brain is the one organ independent of genetics and untouched by evolution.

> The idea of a biological hierarchy of intelligence arose alongside the first theories of human evolution. It never goes away when discredited, just changes forms. In 1810, a year after the publication of the first modern evolutionary theory, two German doctors, Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, inaugurated the science of phrenology

I see the usual trickery is on display in this article. Knowing that saying intelligence is totally independent of genes would sound too ridiculous even in 2022 (as proven by the absence of cats with human-level intellect), they add a poison pill to it by calling it "hierarchy of intelligence", and then proceed to nitpick at this strawman they constructed, probably by arguing that, since intelligence isn't one-dimensional, and different people are better at different tasks, you can't strictly sort humans from less to more intelligent. Therefore anything goes.

Then it predictably proceeds to dig up phrenology (no article on genes and intelligence is complete without triumphantly debunking that), as if there has been no progress the last two centuries. May as well use alchemy and geocentrism to debunk chemistry and astronomy.

Anyway, I don't know about "hierarchy", but intelligence being linked to biology is anything but discredited: Early twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%,[6] with some recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

Oh but that's IQ, which is an imperfect measure, therefore anything goes... if one is determined to remain ignorant, no proof is good enough, and its smallest drawback turns into proof of the opposite - no link between genes and intelligence.
Something doesn't add up in your story. You ended buying a machine that was 350$ over your stated max budget. I am also not sure what you include in "user replaceable components" but Macbooks are, from experience, generally harder to service than PCs. Maybe you just wanted a Mac and were looking for reasons to indulge yourself?
There are ways to reduce this issue but yeah you are right. For example, you could require people to be staking X for Y period of time in order to vote. You could have a voting system that picks voters in advance so you can't suddenly generate accounts before the vote you want to abuse is called. You could analyse accounts and not allow 'fake looking' accounts much in the same way you can spot fakes on Twitter. In fact I'm currently building such a tool for NFT collections to try help people avoid ones with dodgy buyer behaviours.

Also as the other user posted, gas fees would cripple you on Ethereum. Pretty sure I spent $50 sending some money somewhere earlier.
Right because money launderers prefer a permanent public record of all their TXs?

Seriously I don't get the money laundering angle on chains.

Maybe in early days it was assumed chain analysis would be difficult, these days many contractors specialize in on-chain analytics and governments are investing in this too (as they should).

In fact I would LOVE to see traditional banks settlements as public record, y'know for all that money laundering that never happens on their books ;)
NordVPN (Tesonet) has another business doing the same thing. They sell the IP addresses/bandwidth of their NordVPN customers to anyone who needs bulk mobile or residential IP addresses. That's right, installing their VPN software adds your IP address to a pool that NordVPN then resells. Xfinity/Comcast sort of pioneered this with their wifi routers that automatically expose an isolated wifi network called 'xfinity' (IIRC) whether you agree or not.
Or materials that look grimy/grubby from use and wear (e.g. Thinkpad touchpads). My go-to has been to run Windows (best OS) on Mac laptops (best hardware), but with M1, it looks like this will no longer be an option. Hoping for some magic cross-architecture emulation.
TLS fingerprinting is one of the ways minority browsers and OS setups get unfairly excluded. I have an intense hatred of Cloudflare for popularising that. Yes, there are ways around it, but I still don't think I should have to fight to use the user-agent I want.
I see multiple listings on amazon for attiny85 boards: https://www.amazon.com/AiTrip-Digispark-Kickstarter-Attiny85...
That is Agile of the noumenal realm. You will never meet it, just as you will never sit upon the Platonic ideal of a chair. Agile, if one deals with it, is Agile-in-the-wild. Compare the original teachings of a religious leader with what you find in the followers.

Ah, but you could say, "That's not Agile's fault that people don't live up to it," but in a sense, it is, because Agile did not bother to anticipate that people would fall off of the path. Agile has no orthodoxy. Agile does not suggest punishment for bringing up deadlines. This has allowed people to pick-and-choose.
Been using an HP Envy for the past 4 years. Works great and has a lot of the craftmanship that I think is lacking with a lot of other laptop models. Only downside is the touchpad is too small, but they remedied that with their latest model.
I'm curious about the space repetition algorithm you've used. Is it based on SM-2 like Anki, a ML solution or something else.

Other than that, I've played around with the site a bit and it delivers what it promises upon. Though the UI is a bit simplistic in a few places.
Intuit has been spending billions to lobby for complicated tax filing process and against the government primarily filling out your forms for you based on data they should already have on hand from mandatory reporting. That's why people hate them so much.
BSD.ude
I think the author was saying the 30 minute debate is a problem when deciding between 1 and 2. 30 minute debate over a "100" might be worthwhile, as long as you're doing it as part of refinement and not during planning.
I realized that later after my comment went into negative point territory, but couldn't edit it. I apologize for attacking the character of RMS because I don't know him. What I am reacting against is being told I am wrong for running proprietary software, no matter who says it.
All nato countries fought in iraq I think.
Who are you to tell a company what they can sell. If they want to sell the raw data so people can do whatever they want with it, then sound reasonable. If they also want to sell data with some analysis already applied so that other people can buy that data because they don't have in-house for it and just want pretty pictures to put in the deck, then why not sell that too?

You don't always have to order the biggie fries and drink, you can just order the standard meal.
> I believe GPT-3 is already above average human level at cognitive tasks that fit in a 4000 token window.

How can you possibly make a claim like this without like 80 links justifying it? The claim is fuzzy and absurd, my least favorite combo
When there is so much overhead in process, the process is a waste of time.

Management needs to skill up.
And honestly it should just be TurboTax but paid for by the government like every other public-private partnership in other industries. Boom now the incentives are aligned.
I fully agree with you, that it is important to keep your day job separate from the rest of your life and be able to detach yourself from work.

However, I believe strongly that you can only have a happy life if you love what you do in your day job too. 9-to-5 are too many hours to be miserable and wait for end of your work day[*]. Also you spend a lot of time with your colleagues. Life is short, don't waste that time.

I'm German, by the way, and I'm not sure how well my attitude fits the cliche;-)

[*] Don't you have a nicer word for the end of your work day in English? In German it is called "Feierabend", where "Feier" comes from fire but means celebration and "abend" is evening. So we have a party evening every day. What an apt word.*
I suppose you can maintain secure remote access if you run a very minimal wireguard server on a low power device similar to a raspberry pi running on a updated/patched distro. You can still keep 99% of your gear running in the back without updates. This way the amount of update churn can be minimized.
Yes, but it’s specifically using data you published to harm you. Compare Blind, which is engineered to not be attributable in this way.
I also wasn't. Quite depressing laws they had, I think:

6. If a man violates the right of another and deflowers the virgin wife of a young man, they shall kill that male.
7. If the wife of a man followed after another man and he slept with her, they shall slay that woman, but that male shall be set free.
... and slaves of course ...

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu#Surviving_law... )

Has it been like that for 4000+ years (at some places) :-(

> pictures of the Ziggurat are really impressive

Yes :-)
Cool, thank you!

Your +1 and kudos have been passed along.
In that case I mentioned part of it was a math problem (being able to prove that if I cut this corner it causes less than ε error) and the other part understanding how to do the computation with mechanical sympathy.

When it comes to ML/AI things often the work just starts when a "data scientist" develops a model, often a lot of engineering goes into making the model fast and reliable.

I worked on an neural network powered search engine for patents that came out just before GPUs were popular for neural networks. Somebody hard-coded the math to train and do inference on the network in SIMD instructions. If we wanted to change anything about the network, error function, training procedure, etc. we would have had to do assembly programming.

It's terrible tedious work, and, worse than that, if you get the math slightly wrong you get a system that seems to train a network, it just trains the network slowly and poorly.

Thank God I never had to change the network but if I did I probably would have lied to my boss and wrote an automatic differentiator and compiler to SIMD instructions because it probably wouldn't have taken much longer than a few rounds of doing it by hand and developing exhaustive test suites to know I did it right.
>When it is under a european cathedral it is a tomb to be respected.

*was, *was

>When it is under a african pyramid it is an archaeological site to be dug up and collected.

*was, *was

>That is not a new attitude, rather a very old one.

They are explicitly saying it now because that attitude has been changing.
I would characterize large SV corps as deeply integrated members of the establishment in 2022, whose roles in it are ever growing. However, is it not equally plausible that these companies are activist, and this is an act of activism? And can a company be both, or is that paradoxical?
I think if you have a bet like that it’d make more sense to buy a sector ETF.
I'm glad they don't. I much prefer the mobile layout, even on desktop.
As a society, we've been dealing with the problem of contractual errors for centuries. Even the best drafters make mistakes, and those errors have had to be remedied -- often through litigation -- to effectuate the parties' actual intent. Our courts have even voided fully-agreed contracts between parties to further the public interest.

I also can't help but wonder whether these sorts of activities would be prohibited conduct under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(4), as the elements seem to be met:

"[Whoever] knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value" - where "authorized access" is liberally construed to mean the intent of the author of the mechanism in question.
Due to lobbying from primarily Intuit and others, no, the IRS cannot legally file for you.
From the linked article:

> Kaspersky Endpoint Security's technology will not authorize any HIDs unless the user inputs a code using a HID already authorized to do so.
And if you can't update your blog or can't pay for it because you lost your memory? The low tech solutions can't be beat, especially if you expect others to help you pick up the pieces with minimial technical sophistication.
serious question (ianal): If I write down some information, at what point does that information have copyright protection? Do I have to claim it with Ⓒ?
You’re right in your second point, at least. Whatever you develop out of the thoughts of Agile won’t be called Agile. It is its own thing, with whatever new name you decide to give it.
I find Marvel movies in particular are better if I watch them somewhere I can use my phone or chat with people whenever I like. They're worse in the theater where I don't have anything to do but pay attention the entire time. They don't really reward close watching and the not-very-good nearly-all-CG action sequences tend to bore me at times.
Sequoia Capital India pledges to take proactive steps amid fraud allegations
On the Magic of Deep Learning
If what you're trying to argue here is that the Second Amendment does not _obligate_ states to pass militia laws, I would have to agree, although that doesn't seem to me to be a point of controversy. Otherwise, this is beginning to feel like Calvinball.

It is clear from your own sources that the Framers would have considered state legislation to be an appropriate vehicle to attain the goal of a "well-regulated militia". The original question here is whether the Constitution's usage of "regulate" or "regulated" differs in any meaningful way from the modern understanding of those words, and you have convincingly demonstrated that it does not.
Same story here. I was a ThinkPad user and bought my first Mac when the M1 was released. It just felt dumb to get anything else even when compared on paper.

I'm happy with my purchase but I'm still not a fan of Apple and their philosophy in any way. If there was a real competitor to the M1, I would switch in a heartbeat.
If that’s an Intel one you’re getting, I can understand it. However the M1 ones are a completely different computer. I am shocked at how good they are.
As other have said (A) there are plenty of countermeasures you can take, but also (B) you are frustrated that you are providing something free to the public and then annoyed at the "wrong" customers are using your product and costing you money. I'm sorry, but this is a failure of your business model.

If we were to analogize this to a non-internet example:
(1) A company throws a free concert/event and believes they will make money by alcohol sales.
(2) A bunch of sober/non-drinking folks attend the concert but only drink water
(3) Company blames the concert attendees for "taking advantage" of them when they really just had poor company policies and a bad business model.

Put things behind authentication and authorization. Add a paywall. Implement DDOS and detection and banning approaches for scrapers. Etc etc.

But don't make something public and then get mad at THE PUBLIC for using it. Behind that machine is a person, who happens to be a member of the public.
"I gave my data to Linkedin and now scrapers are reading it from the public web". Be mad at Linkedin before you are mad at the scraper.
Note that if you do this and then change your mind, you can't delete your FreeTaxUSA account. You have to manually delete everything you've uploaded and replace your personal information with nonsense:

https://www.freetaxusa.com/help/display_faq.jsp?delete-accou...
> I respect anyone willing to fight for their beliefs

So do I, but I disagree with moral judgement and shame being used as a weapon in that fight. I look forward to the day when RMS and his acolytes make a more convincing case and provide an alternative system that would allow us to inspect all source code, which I think is a goal to strive for.
It's job security for accounting folks alright. Just like web advertising keeps all of you programming critters employed.
> It just doesn't seem rational to me to label any drastic changes as filthy communism and just.. Move on

Because they don't want to move anywhere or change anything; they will say no to everything because the current system benefits them.
> student loans…

I am talking about criminal fraud, the kind that send you to jail. Either you are being disengineous and are equating crime with questionable investment strategies.

Or you believe that the US government is complicit in defrauding an entire generation? I mean the latter could be a good argument for cancelling student debt.
I have passed your +1 along. Thank you for putting your money where your mouth is.

However, I worry that the reason they haven't done it is because of lack of time. They spend a lot of time on finding and stopping fraud. If they didn't need to do that, I'm sure it would get done faster.
Or at least, that they aren't an extension of the Russian government.
Extremely important, I forgot that.

I think we should ask for hardware to remain beautiful in use. Look around you: Except for things made out of wood, metal, paper, glass or ceramic, most things will fail that test.
Pretty sure that running "top -b >/var/log/whatever" in background would catch the culprit(s) of originally reported "spikes".
What seems to actually work is to identify the bots and instead of giving up your hand by blocking them, to quietly poison the data. Critically, it needs to be subtle enough that it's not immediately obvious the data is manipulated. It should look like a plausible response, only with some random changes.
The Cloud part is at https://youtu.be/BVjP6RVFjPg?t=2196

The leadup where he talks about what other tech companies do and how that violates BlackMagic Designs culture is pretty important. Software subscriptions and tracking users are big no-nos for their culture.
Yes, atop is great for this! There's also "sar" (system activity report) which can do similar things. Both are quite helpful.
Fan of https://zombo.com/ myself.
> But from the perspective of analyzing LTV and its implications, how would that be written into the tax code formula?

I think the way it would work is the government would have to pay LVT on land it owns, and people would have to decide whether the LVT would be worth more than the current use through elections. Sure, NYC could probably get $10 billion or so a year (who knows maybe its $100 billion) if they sold off central park while under this taxation scheme. I think hardly anyone would want that though, and NYC would just continue to pay itself the LVT instead of collecting the money from citizens that bought the park land. By the way this is a gross oversimplification since the LVT collected from the properties surrounding the park, and probably all of Manhattan if not NYC, would be drastically lowered if the park was developed.

> pushes for highrise development everywhere else (if that's the goal)?

I don't think this is the goal. The goal is efficient land use. That might mean high rise development instead of empty lots. It might mean national parks that people cherish. It might mean a great big park in the middle of manhattan. What matters is that the question "is this land being used optimally?" is being considered.
3.1 came out a year before C.
(Nexe maintainer here) The project I made before maintaining nexe did this (sort of, from the browser) https://calebboyd.github.io/xbin/
Thanks for the perspective, Glen. I've often heard this referred to as the "long tail" problem for satellite imagery providers. The area under the curve is enormous, but any one algorithm only serves an extremely niche audience.

Another analogy I use a lot: satellite imagery is like salt. The dish can have lots of ingredients (in a military context: HUMINT, OSINT, SIGINT, etc.) And the satellite imagery can make the whole dish. But you never want to consume it in isolation, that would be disgusting.
Never. "Mere listings" of data (like the phone book) are not copyrightable.

But also anything you write which is copyrightable is copyright immediately. You can register the work w/ the copyright office for some extra perks but it's not strictly necessary.
>> May I ask what stack you employ to meet these goals?

Nothing fancy :-) Ansible + Jenkins pipelines

>> these piles of "executable yaml" never appear to be up to the task of complex deployment

Agreed, there's an untapped market here - somewhere between your enterprise GitOps model like i'm alluding to (usually heavily integrated with Kubernetes) but repackaged for smaller scale use.