skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct. I’m talking mainly about low Earth orbit satellites. There are some LEO weather satellites or concepts - Tomorrow.io is a notable one.
- Paris any foggy night.
- Manhattan 03:00 in heavy snow.
- Suburban USA Xmas light battle.
- Cannaregio and Castello in Venezia.
- Bavarian countryside and villages.
- Chicago River architectural boat tour at sunset.
I prefer 'redditor'.
Jack RE: why didn't you do anything about Twitter board dysfunction?
I didn't read it as "never use abstraction". Consistently the most difficult code for me to work with (enterprise development, business use cases etc...) has come from excess abstraction and having the business context hidden behind layers of terminology used in academic settings and not the current business context. Mental mapping required for every class and method name to why the business would be interested in this code being ran.
I can see where you are coming from but there is a simpler approach. You wife should be paid for every hour of overtime. If she is not, then, she should only work her paid hours.

When something breaks (and it will) as long as she has made the problem known with management in a traceable and deliberate way. It will be fixed only then (sadly this is how humanity is).

Cheers

Edit: speeling
Nixery – Docker images on the fly with Nix
At this point, I know a non-negligible number of middle- and working-class adults who don't have a general-purpose computer in their household, purely because they don't need one. I've never thought to ask how they were doing their taxes; presumably they are outsourcing it, going to a library, or doing it on their phones.
They have a demo video showing a helicopter catching a booster dropped from a second helicopter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3CWGDhkmbs

(from https://www.rocketlabusa.com/launch/electron/ )

The parachuting booster falls at 10 meters per second from 6000 meters, so they've got a pretty tight window.

The helicopter has a ceiling of 4300 meters and can cover about 3 km a minute, so you've got a couple minutes after the chute deploys to get to the closest safe distance when the booster is still above the helicopter and then about 5 minutes to catch it once the helicopter is above it.
In the case of Mao and Stalin? That would be the idol of Ideological purity. It is presented as the one true ideal variant of humanistic utilitarianism, and conveniently because they are the glorious leader through whom it is to be enacted, they are basically the prophet of this god. It is an impersonal god, a "force" or natural economic/social principle whose pseudo-personhood emerges from collective humanity. It uses its adherents to oppress outsiders for resisting. It holds itself together by using its adherents to watch and keep each other in line. It callously punishes insiders to demonstrate that this god doesn't need any of the individual humans it supposedly serves, since they are so much like animals in the first place.

Materialist don't get to make a smug escape from the stigma of "killing in the name of god". Anything you place at the top of your value hierarchy is, for all intents and purposes, your god.

It's a little on the cheesy side but I think this clip from They Live illustrates simply the idolatrous place capital can take in our day-to-day lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8WttFoF3Og
I would disagree. Often leaps occur when two or three people with their heads in a problem just loosely bounce ideas around.
Interesting take on the multiplayer ELO scoring. Another approach I've seen is to essentially treat an n-player game as an (n 2) set of two-player games, so, in the case where A>B>C>D, we have A wins three games (vs B, C and D), B wins two games (plus her loss against A), C wins one game (Plus losses against A and B) and D loses three games. The advantage of this over the model described in the article is that it more gracefully handles cases where there are what the author called multi-player zaps. In that instance, where say D is eliminated first and B and C simultaneously, A beats B, C and D still, but B and C are treated as being a tie¹ and both beat D.

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1. A tie is not a strictly neutral event in many ELO scoring systems: usually it means that the higher-ranked player loses some ELO while the lower-ranked player gains some, just not as much as in a straight victory.

For team-based play (like with Spades), on Board Game Arena, they treat the partners as having tied which is, I think, incorrect. A better approach is probably to treat it as a match between two players where each team's ELO is the mean of their individual member's averages. The tie approach means that a strong player is penalized for having a weaker partner.
An implementation takes a thousand ideas refined and fitted together to solve a hundred problems.
If the book had anything compelling it would already be news.

It’s an interesting and fun subject, but I expect the book is as full of facts as this article.
Great list! I add Excel VBA.
I think the idea isn't about whether you would Want or Need freedom/control/ownership of your device; it's about the value of that freedom when an application depends on a closed upstream service versus if all the functionality is captured by the app running locally.

I personally think that its important to have that control and freedom for its own sake, but I understand the sentiment that "if my data is getting shipped off Anyways to some unfree system then why bother? I can't make the same guarantees around privacy and security as I can with a fully libre application"
Context? Different Christian religions and people have varying ways of reconciling the two. I (raised Catholic) was taught essentially that with Jesus's death, the old rules went out the window; all that goofy shit God used to command the Israelites to do didn't need to happen anymore because Jesus's death made up for it. So the Old Testament isn't super relevant outside of providing the context for the New Testament.
It's such a great auto pilot but you're on the hook if anything ever goes wrong seems contradictory
Chrome pops up and asks you if you want to launch a new chrome instance with that Google profile.
Holy cow... The rat scene was real! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFFpMqs9kbI
It's still a pretty founder-friendly market. If you get an offer from a16z, or anyone else:

1) it doesn't hurt to negotiate. Worst case they stand firm.

2) if you get a $1m offer from a16z, chances are you will be able to get competitive offers from other firms too. So it's more about whether you like the partner you're talking to, whether you want to work with a16z or another fund, etc

(source: I'm a VC)
I wonder what Clay Shirky thinks about blockchains and cryptocurrency.
It was made huge by those 6 corporations. Not one person with a camera and a YouTube channel.
Thanks, without your constructive comment I would've never known that I was asking a dumb question.
Not really the topic but the area around the Salton Sea is one of the wildest things I’ve ever seen. It literally looks like an apocalyptic wasteland.

There’s ruined, half buried buildings near the shores. Tons of abandoned structures. Also the air was so acrid it was burning my eyes and nose the entire time.

Absolutely surreal. Wouldn’t be out of place in a Fallout game.
Is it so difficult to imagine that we might write laws to prevent corporations from vacuuming up our data and selling it to be used against us?

Again, I am pro-scraping. I see the benefits. But I don’t think this is a situation in which we have to accept all or nothing.
This.

Coming from a country where the government offers a decent and free tax software, I really hate being hostage to TurboTax and their dark patterns.

But honestly, the situation could be a lot worse if it were provided by the government, given the current tax code. To start with, we'd likely have the federal government + every state having different opinions on how to implement their version of the tax code, and spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars with consultants and developers (vide health.gov [1]) to implement their own flavors.

On the taxpayer side, you'd have to deal with at least two systems when doing your taxes, but potentially more if you lived in multiple states. In the best case scenario, some data would be portable between them (but likely not all, given the complexity and number of edge cases). In the worst, you'd have to enter the data manually in multiple systems, making it a nightmare to keep systems in sync. In this alternate universe, TurboTax doesn't look that bad anymore.

The only way to solve this cleanly would be through a full reform of the tax code, including a drastic standardization and simplification across federal + states. But it's unlikely to happen anytime soon, and, not surprisingly, Intuit will be always lobbying heavily against it.

Now, if government were to embrace a public-private partnership like you suggested, we can make meaningful progress faster. Create a white-label version that is offered for free to 140M taxpayers, align incentives on simplifying the tax code, and get the 3P ecosystem to develop advanced versions for more sophisticated users, businesses, etc to create extra incentives to continue improving the sw.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/obamaca...
>Conversely, where in atheism does it say to love your neighbor as yourself or anything similar?

Nowhere. Why would it? We must have different definitions of atheism. It's merely the absence of belief in the existence of deities. It's not some kind of complete life philosophy.
I cannot really accept a MacBook because it's a rental product where Apple has complete control over your machine.

Used a Dell XPS for a while, it's a fairly good experience with Linux (Ubuntu and Manjaro), but the build quality is pretty bad. Once it fell backwards from a coffee table and shorted the main board from the hit. I had to resolder a few SMD parts, was not fun. I also hit the corner or the "metal" lid which cracked and bent from an impact what wouldn't even scratch a MacBook. Needless to say, Dell's support was not helpful.

Now I've got a new 2022 ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16, and so far the experience is much better. It's a sturdy machine, without any Dell's creaking and bending, the keyboard is much better as well. ASUS Linux community at https://asus-linux.org/ is helpful and most of the features worked either out of the box, or with reasonable amount of tinkering. The price for it here in Shanghai is also reasonable, 12700h w/ nvidia 3060, 2T SSD, and 40GB DDR5 RAM is ~US$2250.
>Once the "new order" has it's cybernetic governance machine, who do you think will be the first to get a visit?

In the Kornbluth novel Not This August (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_This_August>), the first thing the Soviets and Chinese do after conquering the United States is shoot the fifth columnists who had aided them by sabotaging the American war effort.
I compared prices of houses in Morocco vs America. And for same prices, American homes were WAY better, in all ranges of prices.

But I would totally lose an argument if I tried to argue that the same salary goes a longer way in America, everything is cheaper there, except if you average out the quality of life.

People are simply accustomed today on a better quality of living, it is not only the square footage, everything else is more expensive. At the same time I won't call it a non-issue, if that's what society is demanding, then there is something wrong, you can't easily unplug and live in 1987. We live in a society sadly :(
> Despite the differences between the various Abrahamic faiths, we have far similar values with each other than with atheists.

The space of values within the Abrahamic faiths (which are more than Jews, Muslims, and Christians, though those are the largest groups), or even within any one of those three large Abrahamic faiths, is not significantly narrower than the space of values within all of humanity.

Personally, I find that many of the people farthest from me in values are not only within the big Abrahamic tent with me, but also within the smaller tent of Western Christianity with me.

(And I find that us vs. them appeals with “us” being Christianity, “Judeo-Christianity“, or Abrahamic religion [almost always intended to exclusively refer to the big 3], is a pretty good sign that someone is on that other side.)
So Elo scores used to be used to track players until 5-10 years ago. And I think you can still view your score if you view your profile details in Magic Online.

Back then they were trying to identify the best magic players in the world. I think it started at 1600.

In the mid 90s it was hard to get locally sanctioned games so I manually tracked games in my college town and used it as my first blog ever to post the scores of local players for a year or so. I wish the site was archived but I never kept a copy when I went to work and abandoned the site. I remember going through the formula to calculate the score and I couldn’t get it to work in excel or javascript so I manually calculated it out on paper for a few dozen games a week. I think back about how much time I could have saved if I just had a little more programming skills.
Though from my understanding, there is far less of them, they're harder to do, and easier to solve.

And even if it's the same amount, having a sandbox that's harder to escape, holding everything else equal, seems like a win for end-users.

Flash's demise, while it caused me no end of grief back in the day as it was the bulk of my income, was a good thing in the end.
TBH I'm surprised iMessage hasn't been reverse engineered more--it's a very popular app yet it seems like the only thing backing Apple's claim that it's secure and end-to-end encrypted is "trust me"
Wasn't my intent to suggest your comment had. Re-reading, I may have unfairly levered it into something more partisan than it seemed as well. Harder to maintain charity in Canada lately.
> If a particular box is not there, you can generally assume it was blank.

The tax code is just sufficiently complex enough that I don't feel safe making that assumption. You're probably right, but "probably" is too low a bar here.

> Brokerages tend to produced a condensed 1099-B to save space: it would be very cumbersome parsing hundreds of pages of a full-IRS-layout 1099-B.

… but like, isn't that the problem? If nobody uses the standardized form because it's too cumbersome … simplify the tax code.

Or standardize the data format and stop using PDF & human toil as a data transfer layer/format.

> It's definitely possible to have tax software summarize

Certainly it is possible. I was responding to the comment that it happens in practice, at least for the largest such software.
Google Wallet may be making a return
Microsoft is reportedly looking to bring ads to free-to-play Xbox games
I flag it every time, but it doesn't help.
Brief View of Coffee – Part 2
I don't know why I would think that their belief in human-like animals in the forest is any more credible than North Americans who think Bigfoot is real.
$RELIGIONS have the group, they state AND the $GOD get people motivated. They can promise the hereafter.
What you’re saying is explicitly false about the a16z START program, which says its applications are always open on a rolling basis.

Also, as much help as a program like YC can be, if you ‘wait’ between sessions, rather than keep making as much progress as you can, you may not be what they’re looking for. (Longtime YC observers will also know that for good applicants, they sometimes act outside the normal deadlines/cycles.)

Are you using your creativity, & skill in arguing, to convince yourself things are harder than they are?
At one time I wanted to try and independently measure decks and players. I modeled much of the game and created a rudimentary AI to play the decks. My goal was to be able to compare decks to tell you which one was "better". As I went, I thought of cool ways to compare play strategies too. It was a really fun project but in the end I succumbed - the model was getting more and more sophisticated but it was still far from complete. it's in my graveyard of cool projects that I got to 50-70% complete.
Pixel 6 owners say their phones are automatically rejecting some incoming calls
This year I had my taxes done by a CPA rather than by TurboTax as I had in previous years, and I'm so glad I did. There was no deceptive upselling. I never got confused and had to go hunting around on the internet for the meaning of some obscure question. I got to keep more of my money than I expected, and I plan to do the same thing again next year.
> processing power; networking

Could the device not simply get the host to do these things for it, by e.g. rootkit-ing the server’s BMC? A “hardware virus”, per se.
Can't you just bookmark the "Manage Your Deliveries" page?
“If you think for a minute, is it not the case that every dictator in the world has a bill of rights, every banana republic, every republic has a bill of rights?”

- Antonin Scalia

A constitution without the ecosystem and institutions to carry it out is meaningless paper. Institutions without a constitution, but with a long history of case law can be just.

Governments are systems but people aren't computers and laws aren't source code.
> How can they source potable fresh water for lithium extraction

Why would they use potable (AKA drinking) water for lithium extraction from the brine? Nothing in the described extraction process involves potable water.
Other Catholics disagree with your interpretation: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/did-jesus-r...
She is the national manager for a services group with a contract to a charitable group that performs lots of essential and good works in the community through the whole country.

She is the only one with permissions across all the apps that allow the monthly accounts to be settled, the way the systems have worked out.

Upper management is in chaos right now because the ultimate group owners have worked out a bunch of them are dicks and the broom is going thru at the higher levels.

She has asked for a minion, who looks like they will arrive, the three year contract does not support this extra person, but the business is prepared to fund them.

It started out as 4-5 hours a month, then there were system issues etc etc etc.

I have worked contract all my working life and very militant on no pay no work, but this is just one of those situations.

Bright point is she can work any where this an internet connection and to provide some counterpoise to the situation she is currently doing a WFH holiday on a tropical island for a few weeks. But if I can automate this one onerous task she will be back square or better.
> Sources familiar with the matter told Insider that one of the ways ads may show up in these games could be as digitally rendered billboards in car racing games.

Glad to read this part — if Microsoft enforces rules on how ads can be displayed like this, it would provide a good balance between supporting developers and providing an unobtrusive user experience.
Singapore: Economic Prosperity Through Innovative Land Policy
I would not say that. Facebook, Microsoft and Google release plenty of useful models. EleutherAI have released 6 billion and 20 billion parameter language models. Huggingface has been training a 176B model [1].

The issue isn't a lack of models or data, it's that larger models are impossible to train without paying hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. The hardware requirements for simply running the models already prices it out of reach for most.

These models are rather powerful but the immediate future is one of accessing them by cloud services. GeForce GTX 1080 Ti was 5 years ago, since then memory has roughly doubled in consumer GPUs. To run the highest end models on single GPUs, HW will need to 20x to 70x in memory at the same time as serious gains in flops/Joule.

I suppose improvements in CPU parallelism and RAM speeds will also go a long way towards making such models runnable on reasonable consumer hardware, albeit at slower speeds.

[1] https://huggingface.co/bigscience/tr11-176B-ml-logs
The top voted question (tied with one about the new battery performance) on the Tesla Q&A is

,,How does Tesla plan to secure raw materials required to scale to extreme size?''

I'm quite interested in the answer as well (which we'll get on APRIL 20, 2022 4:30 PM CDT)

https://app.saytechnologies.com/tesla-2022-q1
Try searching for "last glacial maximum" and keywords such as "coastline" "sea level", etc.

This is a collection of plausible renderings:

https://pammack.sites.clemson.edu/lec392/earley2.html

Channel Islands off the coast of present-day Santa Barbara, CA.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-northern-Channel-Isl...
I don't know if mobile tax apps do this, but if they did I can totally imagine mobile being far easier for most people: Use your phone's camera to take a picture of your W-2, use OCR to extract the data & confirm with the user, ask the user a few questions for things not on the W-2, autofill the 1040.
Are you using the built-in macOS VNC server is Screens Connect (the service)?
How? 10 thousand years ago, I doubt our civilization signature is distinguishable. So unless they have FTL probe, we are still a harmless water/oxigen ball to them.
In a similar vein:

> > * Prefers to spend time with their family or hobbies (e.g. train for that marathon) rather than working on a side project in Github.

Ha! I've encountered people whose lives revolved around running. They often fly to marathons on weekends. They'd spend mornings or evenings getting treatments from physical therapists, or cross-training with personal trainers. They spent lots of money and were in pain a lot of the time.

Nobody was forcing them to do this. They weren't ever going to run fast enough to become rich or famous. They did want to beat their previous times and/or run more marathons than last year. They enjoyed a sense of community with fellow runners.

Should these people receive corresponding advice about 1x marathoning? Maybe...
Of course they should support the society that supported them. I do not see why sv companies should not help western worlds fight against Russian aggression.
> With MTG, you have a huge effect from the quality of the deck. Unless you have each player play with each deck, there's no way to de-convolute the quality of the deck vs the quality of the player. And if you did have that data, Elo couldn't leverage it -- you'd need a more sophisticated model to account for that statistical effect.

How well a player chooses their deck is one of the factors that determines how good a player is. You can say the same thing about the other games: I'd probably have a better rating in chess if I didn't only play somewhat unsound gambits, and I'd definitely have a better rating in Starcraft if I didn't only do 2port wraith in TvZ.