skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, we're a half century into the drug war and it's obviously not working.

You know... despite what is commonly claimed, Prohibition worked great. During Prohibition cirrhosis was down, deaths from liver disease were down, and deaths due to drunkeness was down. The only thing not working was people wanted to get drunk.

Given that no one here today has lived in a world where drugs available today are legal, how can we honestly claim that what we're doing is 100% ineffective and merits scrapping it? Few people here in favor of decriminalization are contending with the possibility that the situation we have today is better than what it would be were drugs decriminalized. Since no one's ever seen drugs being decriminalized, I don't understand how this claim is made with such confidence.

And no.. Switzerland and Portugal are not comparable because what is being proposed here (and implemented in states like Oregon) are nothing like those countries.
> The best treatment is public policy which does not encourage drug use in the first place, or at least, tries to minimize its use.

I don't have the exact numbers, but in practice you're talking about public policy which destroys a hundred lives to save one.
Netflix’s anti-password sharing experiment in Peru leaves users confused
Yeah, whenever I see young people driving brand new BMWs my first thought is always "I know that I make more money than you, and I could never afford that car". I truly do not understand who can actually afford a $1k car payment who isn't a millionaire.
Wholeheartedly agree, but with an important caveat - Google is no longer fighting for the best interest of it's users, it's fighting for the best interests of it's advertisers. How useful the results are is now secondary to "how much can this search be monetized". The former was important in the early days when Google needed to be competitive on search.
I am an immigrant in NA. It's an extremely materialistic culture. Before coming to NA I've heard the phrase 'NA is a culture of excess'. After living here for few years I've realized what the culture of excess means. Exercising restraint is not in DNA of NA culture. The whole culture is just me-me-me and what more I can consume.
They also start at $1049 and go up to $2049 without the functional expansions. I have a $150 Chromebook that has 70% of the features and more ports, and an $850 M1 MacBook Air that outperforms the top end Framework.

I don't see why someone would spend $1000 for a laptop, then spend as much as an entire laptop to swap a single component that provides less utility than another laptop at the same or lower price.

If Framework had a killer warranty or even a buy-back / trade in option in their marketplace, I would reconsider, but any upgrade leftovers aren't useful to other Framework owners barring hardware failures, which shouldn't be a barrier because they are marketed as being repairable.

As it stands, they've just externalized the costs of responsibility in an attempt to create a market for premium modularity.
When prices go up consumers substitute. Offshore labor is cheap. Why would consumers pay extra for domestic products instead of just buying cheap imported ones?
What did you move to after Okta?
Americans surely spend a very disproportionate amount of income on housing, transportation, and healthcare compared to the rest of the world.
Is this sarcasm? Please tell me it is.
I was confused, so I checked: this is not related in any way to the Infrastructure as Code tool.
When was the last time search operators actually mattered on Google?
> I was more thinking about the colloquial meaning of an AI of human-like intelligence.

Then it sounds like we’re violently agreeing — I appreciate you clarifying.

I try to avoid that mindset, because it’s possible that AI will become intelligent in a way unlike our own psychology, which is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history.

My own view is that AI aren’t human-like, but are “intelligent” somewhere between insects and dogs. (At present.)

> If a neural network doesn't know the answer, more thinking won't result in one.

I think reinforcement learning contradicts that, but current AIs don’t use that ability dynamically. But GAN cycles and adversarial training for, eg, go suggest that AIs given time to contemplate a problem can self-improve. (That is, we haven’t implemented it… but there’s also no fundamental roadblock.)
What you're saying about masks isn't true. Unless they're N95 or similar masks, people with masks on were doing more to protect others than themselves. Cloth masks don't really impede the virus from floating in, but they do massively reduce how far expelled aerosols fly.
> I could go as a consultant and charge half of that to setup vaultwarden integrated with their AD for maybe 2 lazy days

That's a very simplistic view of how it works in even a medium sized real company. Google SSO is already available for many external services you might use which is a lot easier to integrate than doing and maintaining something yourself. Especially because if there's an issue it's blocking everyone in the company at the same time. It makes sense to outsource that if it's not your core business.
I mean, I lived paycheck to paycheck last month after some unexpected large bills (May was a hell of a month!) but that was only because I didn't want to raid savings.

I don't have sympathy for folks making as much as we do who are "broke" or up to their ears in debt. If they're fortunate and privileged enough to get to our positions, they only brought it on themselves.
He also said in a tweet about it that employees who don't like it can "pretend to work somewhere else". I guess he can pretend he has any senior engineers left as well.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1531867103854317568

That being said, as much as I'm not a fan of this at all, it is good to see that the execs are included (or at least the email was sent to them, so I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt). Often the people at the top who are pushing for these policies don't apply the same to themselves.
Anyone know of anything similar for CGRAs?
There's nothing to debate, when all you wrote was a list of everything you personally didn't care about.

We can talk about facts, effect of things on larger population, etc. I'm not gonna start a debate on you as an individual.
I started reducing meat for health reasons, then cut back even more after reading Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation. While I don't condone animal cruelty, I was even more affected by the human suffering involved in producing American meat at industrial scale.

Like many, I'm not an absolutist, and still use things like bacon essentially as a seasoning.

If you're considering this, I think you should consider it like any lifestyle intervention: every little bit helps towards your goal, and you need to find a way to make it sustainable and enjoyable, and not a chore you have to continue for the rest of your life.
Using the example from the article, buying a house in Orange County California is a luxury good:

1. Colloquially: they're rare, expensive, and highly prized

2. Economically: demand for them increases as income increases
I would love to meet this person who wants to try meth, believes laws against possession of meth are unjust, and yet still follows them.
According to the factory workers, it's terrifying. He's known for walking around the factory rage firing employees at random. I think they'd prefer he be anywhere else.

> "Employees knew about such rampages. Sometimes Musk would terminate people; other times he would simply intimidate them. One manager had a name for these outbursts—Elon’s rage firings—and had forbidden subordinates from walking too close to Musk’s desk at the Gigafactory out of concern that a chance encounter, an unexpected question answered incorrectly, might endanger a career."

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-life-inside-giga...

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-reportedly-terrifi...
I wouldn't go as far as to say half the country is as crazy as Alex Jones. That's a bit of a stretch.
I haven’t looked around a lot, but does anyone know what Inigo’s video production process & tools are? He’s got a lot of shots in the video I’m not sure how I’d make, and I’ve love to know how much custom software he’s writing just for the video making.

I’ve tried painting with maths as he likes calling it, on ShaderToy… for many hundreds of hours. It’s always more difficult both technically and artistically to get the image in my head to show up on screen. Sometimes I wonder if I need to allow things to happen more organically, to try things and run with whatever works, but I rarely work that way. Maybe sticking too closely to something I have in mind in advance makes me aim for unrealistic looks that SDFs aren’t good at. Or maybe I’m just not trying hard enough. I don’t know. Inigo makes it looks easy though.

Another thing that’s really fun to do is deconstruct his shaders piece by piece, or unpaint the character. It’s very enlightening in a different way than his construction videos. I’ve done this for the shader in the video here, as well as a few of his other shaders, and I always learn things. It always strikes me how close to the edge of the illusion his shaders are, how well they play to the camera and how quickly they look bad with tiny changes. It’s a master class in efficiency of design.
Agreed 100%. Essentially no employees (and nearly no founders outside of your unicorns) have anti-dilution protections against future investment.
I guess I do by their definition although it doesn't matter short/medium term since I have decent savings. And medium/long term the bonuses and equity increase that savings.
How many of them would not be making $250k if they moved away from the HCOL area? Rents in NYC have been through the roof. Even with wages up due to the great resignation, it hasn't kept up with housing. Spending 50%+ of your post tax high pay check on housing has become the norm.

You could live far away from the city and spend 3-4 hours commuting every time you wanted to enjoy the city life or your employer asked you to come in. Or you could move away and risk getting fired or "salary adjusted"

The article kind of ignores the fact the high salary is directly tied to office location. You can save more by moving away from HCOL areas, but you most likely won't be part of the $250k article anymore
Reminds me of those stories about broke athletes.

Some of them are quite tragic- they're preyed on by their entire family and birth village.
PageRank performs fairly poorly on the web as a whole these days, because the nature of linking has changed since 1998. If you constrain it to the parts of the web that is still basically hypertext documents, it's as good as ever.

That's largely what I've been doing with my search engine.
I would say I am close to paycheck to paycheck. I have a savings but it is more an emergency fund and I am unable to currently grow it. I also make a very good salary. Enough that I feel like shit complaining knowing that many will never even be close.

Now I could sit down and say, ok I will go out less, cut Netflix, some games, etc. but in reality that stuff will add up to at most maybe $300 a month if I am very aggressive.

My key issues are rent (which went up $500 a month this year) and the $1500 I am paying towards medical debt. And that is paying the minimum. Then student loans which I stupidly put off these last couple years.

I also currently live alone. I am planning on moving in with my partner later this year but that is only going to help so much.

The reality is my options are slim. Maybe I could get a roommate but I shouldn’t have too making as much as I do and at the point in my life I am at.

I am very fearful for an emergency, job loss, etc. But people tell me I should be more frugal or I buy too much. When the vast majority of my money is spoken for for the next 5 years (debt) and rent. Before I even make that money.
I'm an avid Notion user, so I wanted to build something to help me be more productive. My first thought was to create a simple inline canvas to draw using a /draw command, to annotate my pages, only to realize that Notion does not allow you to create custom commands.

So instead I decided to do a bit of a workaround to implement custom commands into Notion (through an extension), and created a couple of them to draw and record your camera and audio. I also made a bit of a SDK to interact with Notion so anyone can create their own plugins with ease, and made the code open source.
Indeed, I'm an atheist who absolutely loves biology. I adore all the millions upon millions of tiny and huge complex machines that Evolution just spits left and right merely by being a very old, very brutal, and very stupid simulation running for 4 billion years straight on a massive, inefficiently-powered distributed processor.

And I can never shake the unconscious feeling that all this is purposeful, the idea that all this came by literally throwing shit at a wall and only allowing what sticks to reproduce warps my mind into unnatural contortions. The sheer amount of order that life is, the sheer regularity and unity of purpose it represents amidst the soup of dead that is the universe. It's... unsettling?

Which is why I personally think the typical "Science^TM" way of argument against traditional religions misguided. Typical religons already make the task of refuting them a thousand time easier by assuming a benevolent creator, which a universe like ours, with a big fat Problem Of Evil slapped on its forehead, automatically refutes for you.

But the deeper question is whether there is/are Creator(s) at all: ordered, possibly-intellignet (but most definitely not moral by _any_ human standards) entities, which spewed this universe in some manner that can be approximated as purposeful (or even, perhaps, as a by-product of doing a completely unrelated activity, like they created our universe on accident while,or as a result of, doing another activity useful to them, like accidental pregnancies to us humans). This is a far more muddled and interesting question and "Science" emites much more mixed signals than straight answers.
I think a more charitable read would be to say that businesses have a strong incentive to increase profits and for many businesses, worker compensation is often a big expense, so they are very motivated to drive that down, regardless of whether their workers can make it on their compensation. That's why we have minimum wage laws, child labor laws, worker's compensation, etc. Even today, businesses would and do pay $0/hr if they can get away with it. Not every business, but enough to count.

Whereas workers have a strong incentive to both make a living wage and to keep the business profitable so they can continue to enjoy that wage.

I think the best move forward is to have more worker co-ops, so that the board is more in line with the interests of the workers vs. an owner who may not even be active in the management of the company.

I would also take issue about developer salaries being hyperinflated. Software companies are not losing money paying developers and then making it up in other areas of the business. Revenue per employee at Facebook was around $1.5 million per employee. The ridiculous thing about software is not only is it really, really scalable unlike any other profession's work product, it can and does continue to make money even if you don't put any more work into it. Look at Gumroad that basically stopped development but keeps on trucking.
My litmus test for translation services is to see if the ambiguity between "turkey" (the bird) and "Turkey" (the country) manifests itself. Many European languages have two separate words for the two concepts that can't possibly be confused, so I think this is a good unit test.

My Dutch test sentence is: "de kalkoen bezoekt Turkije" (the bird visits the country). Most of them get it wrong for most European languages:

google -> german: "die türkei besucht die türkei"

bing -> swedish: "kalkonen besöker kalkon"

deepl -> hungarian: "a pulyka meglátogatja a pulykát"

translate.com -> french: "la dinde visite la dinde"

lingvanex.com -> spanish: "el pavo visita pavo"

Only one gets it right:

systran.net -> french: "La dinde visite la Turquie"
Cool, would be greater if it doesn't obfuscate selected text, so one can show part of text and not the other.
> The only limits on the gold supply are technological ones

Right, there's nothing special about it besides the technical limitations. But what's the alternative? With fiat you still have those technical limitations (someone could create indistinguishable counterfeit money and dump it on the market). But there's also the political risk. Someone can get power at the Fed and decide to double the money supply over night. In fact, this has happened time and time again with many fiat currencies so its not exactly an unfounded risk. That's why the precious metal standard is lower risk for arbitrary manipulation
I really liked how TomTom's voice navigation was a lot more "vocal"/directive than Google, and for me that was a real benefit (maybe its niche, but they were at least differentiated there) but then some years ago (when they changed to a subscription service AFAIR) they changed the software and it was no longer "easier" to navigate with than Google (who had lots of other benefits incl. being free). Wonder if they have some sort of niche benefits as a navigation device now? Offline maps was good but Google's had that for a long time too.. Also, isn't Google and Apple Maps location tracking much more accurate in cities than TomTom devices because they don't just use GPS but also use cell tower triangulation as well as nearby wifi hotspot detection? And do people know (from their annual report) how much revenue comes from devices vs. licensing maps? (I'm sure device sales are close to non-existent compared to licensing deals)
Great idea. I wonder how that would have played out in court. Any lawyers around?
that's why the mission switched to "stockpile stewardship" some time ago - we have to maintain the reliability of the existing fleet since we don't build many new ones.
I like this! I worked on a passion project during the early weeks of covid / lockdown called Choose My Smoothie. Didn't continue working on it for long but always wondered where else I could take it - this would have been a nice addition.
I think what you're being told is that your personal dismissal of Facebook as useful for isolated caregivers (like such disingenuously reductive language as calling an entire community around, say, cancer, or sobriety, a "group chat") is more reflective of your own personal preferences, rather than any actual evidence being provided to you by the people being affected.

indeed, it's easy to dismiss a use case that you don't personally have, given a sufficient lack of empathy

>It's also fascinating to hear the words people use when FB has become so deeply ingrained in a culture's social fabric.

yep, fascinating and true. we'll have to come up with a good alternative if we want that to change
I think they used radix sort, which is also pretty cool
I was bullied, too, but I didn't shoot up my school because my parents knew better than to keep firearms in the house. It also helped that my parents gave me free rein to fight back, school rules be damned, as long as I didn't throw the first punch or hurt bystanders.
It would be interesting to see data on which companies have the best recruitment (most applicants for similar roles). My hunch is Tesla beats most others.
Rabies is also a health issue, yet that doesn't mean we let rabid people out on the streets to terrorize others. The government is also responsible for the reasonable safety of the public, and psychotic people (regardless of the cause) shouldn't be given free passes to be out in public.
Part of the point of making more money is to not think about cost. And then you learn how endless our desires are.
> Put differently, if you took an ant or cat or chimpanzee and made it compute more data infinitely faster, you wouldn’t get AGI.

Citation needed.

> They can take on board any explanation and use it for creative thought instantly. They do not need to be trained in the sense that neural nets do.

This is patently false: I can explain a math topic people can’t immediately apply — and require substantial training (ie, repeated exposure to examples of that data) to get it correct… if they ever learn it at all. Anyone with a background in tutoring has experienced this claim being false.

> Creating new ideas, making and using explanations, and critiquing our own thoughts is what makes humans special.

Current AI has approaches for all of these.
A derivative of it (co-written by Larry Yaeger, who worked on the Newton) actually was incorporated into OS X, called Inkwell. You could make it appear as an input area by plugging in a graphics tablet. It was removed in OS X 10.15. The current macOS/iOS handwriting recognition tech is unrelated.
I don't understand how you're comparing the two.

You think the results were better in 2006, but the corpus was also different.
I'm convinced that 90% of the people who rail against CSV for "not being a real format" are the ones that got burned by Excel. It has always shocked me how terrible Excel is at handling CSV given the sheer number of people who have this use case.

The crazy part is that it wouldn't be all that hard to handle it properly. Excel could examine each column and apply a uniform transform on each column instead of applying transforms on a cell by cell basis. They could even put in real effort and let the user choose the format for each column as part of the import process. You know, like being able to specify "text" for columns like SSNs or Credit cards that you aren't going to do math on anyway.
I didn't know it was required.

I'll shoot them an email and ask, and start thinking of a different name. In the case of Gitea [0], there doesn't seem to have been any response.

Thanks for bringing this up. Though I wonder how well can "Software Freedom Conservancy" claim "GitSomething" is not allowed when there are clearly so so many projects doing it. Eg - Gitolite / Gittea. Trademarks are only so good as long as they are enforced.

[0] - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4175
Proof of work to rank pages? That sounds like the worst idea I’ve ever heard. I’m no fan of Google injecting ads into the top spots of their results but at least you can get to the “real” results by just scrolling down. With this paradigm, every link becomes paid “ad”, and the ranking is completely dominated by companies and individuals with big pockets, not any objective or even subjective measure of the quality. And they’re all ads paid for by wasting energy.
Bud, you misspelled "persecution".
Most directly, if the search results were perfect you would never need to click on an ad.

The most evil thing Google is doing now is pushing brands to buy ads on their own name so that they appear above the organic #1 search result. It's like the time Facebook decided it wouldn't send messages to followers who like you unless you paid up.
Easier said than done.

We rely on all kinds of industry-specific applications that only support username/password (and SMS OTP if we're lucky). After that, there are a bunch of services that do offer SSO but only if you pay stupid money. For example, we spend about $100/month on Twilio but their SSO plan starts at $15k/month.
> My search results were a lot better in 2006 when, I assume, they didn't have all these ML pipelines...

That's like an old person complaining that their body felt a lot better back in 2006 when, I assume, they didn't have to use their walker and glasses all the time...