skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone argues that zombie firms are successful.
Agree your point. But I think Microsoft doesn’t belong to this group. I never read an auto ban story from Microsoft. And my experience is that you can talk to a human customer service from Microsoft.
Thank you for writing this; far too much entitlement, far too much blame shifting in the parent comment.

Ultimately problems with your code, including deps it pulls in, are your problem, no one else's. Code appropriately.
If I understand correctly from the twitter thread (I haven't read the linked
technical report) the author and a collaborator found that DALL-E generated some
gibberish in an image that showed two men talking, one holding two ... cabbages?
They fed (some of) the gibberish back to DALL-E and it generated images of
birds, pecking at things.

Conclusion: the gibberish is the expression for birds eating things in DALL-E's
secret language.

But, wait. Why is the same gibberish in the first image, that has the two men
and the cabbages(?), but no birds?

Explanation: the two men are clearly talking about birds:

>> We then feed the words: "Apoploe vesrreaitars" and we get birds. It seems
that the farmers are talking about birds, messing with their vegetables!

With apologies to my two compatriots, but that is circular thinking to make my
head spin. I'm reminded of nothing else as much as the scene in the Knights of
the Round Table where the wise Sir Bedivere explains why witches are made of
wood:

https://youtu.be/zrzMhU_4m-g
> Far too many people are scared of arbitration

That's a mischaracterization about the problem with arbitration. People are not scared of it. People are not afraid. It's shameful that you use language like this accuse the people of being afraid and scared. You can't claim to be an attorney and then say you didn't understand the meaning behind the words you chose to use.

Consumer arbitration is corruption. People correctly understand that when one side is paying money to the judge, that the system is corrupt. It's about buying the judge, the court room, and the whole system.

The problems with consumer arbitration are well documented. Being scared is not one of those problems. People are angry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_arbitration
That is not a competitive differentiator.
There are a lot of channels of communication, but a lot of it is driven by the drummer. Had fun irritating the band director in high school sometimes by pushing silly tempos getting everyone to follow a few drummers, you get the sense of how much you can push and then everybody just follows you.
Are you then writing only for people who've read those books? If so, HN seems like a poor choice of forum.

I think, however, that you are redirecting because you aren't in fact able to explain how it would help Labour to spread crazy rumors about the Green Party. The Greens have a single MP. To a first approximation, no-one cares about any scandal involving the Greens – even if the scandal is true. If anything, it would make more sense for Labour to attack the Greens than it would for the Tories, as very few voters vacillate between the Tories and the Greens.
Notes on “The Laws of Trading”
Yes, user you replied to is the author The Cuckoo's Egg according to this comment by the same user, which includes an explanation of how the book came to be:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387116

Here’s the wiki for those unfamiliar with it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
You can celebrate and promote leisure only to the degree that it allows you survive. In tropical areas where food is plentiful year-round, there tends to be more leisure. In harsh climates that require hard work and careful planning to avoid starvation, there is less.

The protestant work ethic has led to the most successful economy on earth. Other economies competing for the title work just as hard. There is an ongoing competitive/evolutionary process of culture and ideas, and "work hard" is winning.

> the circumstances are still degrading

Why do you say that? What is degrading about destitution, exactly? I'm not sure those who live it, and especially those who choose it, would agree that they exist in a degraded state. I don't think degradation exists in nature, it is a condition imposed by one group of people on another. Destitution however is encountered frequently in the natural world, and in itself does not imply a moral condition.
So let me get this straight. You are soliciting engagement and don’t even have the financials worked out?
I meant “this GPT-2 model has a flaw you as the user can’t fix because you can’t change the model”. Of course you could train it differently from the start and maybe it’d get better.

Btw, GPT-3 has the same issue, just tried it. (This is cherry picked; I used the Q&A example, removed the line about replying Unknown to trick questions, and tried ~5 prompts.)

-

I am a highly intelligent question answering bot. If you ask me a question that is rooted in truth, I will give you the answer.

Q: What species are the Baltimore Orioles?
A: The Baltimore Orioles are a species of bird.
Maybe some people require a translation for this project:

It's free money to do cool shit.
Games have had mechanics like this for a long time though

Diablo 2 for instance, you could use in-game gold to buy Unidentified Items, which when Identified could turn out to be a lot of things. Arguably the same as a loot box mechanic.

The thing that makes Loot Boxes insidious to me isn't just the RNG, or the "purchase", it's the real world money part.

Also, in the instance of Diablo 2 (and many other games), I wouldn't call the Gold earned in-game a "Digital Currency". It's a game currency sure, but I think a game currency needs some way to be expressed as in real world dollars to be considered "Digital Currency"

My example for that is Destiny 2. There is the game currency "glimmer". Then there is the digital currency you can earn through playing "bright dust". Then the premium digital currency you purchase with money "silver". Silver and Bright dust can purchase the same items, so there's more or less a conversion rate between Bright Dust and Real Money even though you can't actually convert it into real money.

So, defining digital currency this way allows Diablo 2 to skirt past the digital currency problem, but it's still "RNG rewards that are earned through playing the game"

The real money blurring line of loot boxes is terrible of course, but the real problems I have are the enforced scarcity, and the fanfare when you open them.

Game devs use all sorts of time gating tricks to make sure you can only earn so many loot boxes through gameplay in a period of time, so if you want more faster you are encouraged to buy with real money. They make sure to give a big reveal when you open a loot box to really sell the idea that opening it is exciting and fun, making you want to do it more.

It's just overall an extremely exploitative and miserable practice. I hate loot boxes.
We will never work with crypto because we care about our investors and don't intend on defrauding them.

There are plenty of small retail investing companies that deal with small account sizes. Acorns, Robinhood, etc. come to mind. Over time, I'd hope that our average account size would be in the 10K+ range, but depending on CAC, small dollar would be fine.

Our innovation here is investment UX. The realized return might be a point or two north or south of 8% depending on the risk profile we go with - not far off course for the industry. Our current accredited investors get about 10%, but that's with tax equity incentives we might not be able to pass to retail investors.

We will be 100% transparent about our pricing model.
“Probably kosher” is kind of my point. Are you offering to indemnify them?
A 100x increase in yield at 10x increase in cost equates to a drop in cost of farming food of 90%.
> Student loans are cheaper than cheap, they are government subsidized and not even close to their appropriate cost.

Interest rates on government-subsidized college loans aren't that cheap. Undergraduate loans are the cheapest. They were particularly cheap in the early 2010s and during the COVID pandemic. But over the past 20 years the rate has been ~4-5%, and generally greater than mortgage rates.[1][2][3] Subsidized graduate loans are in 6-7% territory (even 8+%), and always have been. Unsurprisingly, AFAIU the latter constitute a substantially disproportionate share of student debt--including, especially, debt that people are unable to climb out of due to compounding--relative to the number of students.

[1] https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/interest-r...
[2] https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-interest-rate
[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partial schematic [video]
Not feeling old yet??

It's time for the Millennials to start scheduling their colonoscopies.

Welcome to old age!
You are very close to truth.

In reality, analog precision is not scaled.

Really easy achieve 8-10 bits, even 12 bits, but 16 bits or more are hard.

For example, now manufacturers use large matrices with lot of spare parts, and before put chip in case, it's precision measured and cut metal seals, so made very precise parameters.

So in reality, modern analog chips ARE one time programmable analog, but one time analog programming is cheap enough but rewritable are inadequate expensive.
> I think that you have really misunderstood me. I believe in a social safety net, but a modest one. I also think that a modest universal basic income would be better than what we have now since people can also work and get a combined income.

My comment isn't addressed at you as a person (whom I have no way of evaluating), but at the general appeals for "equality of opportunity vs outcome", which seem largely blind to systemic and structural inequalities that actively negate equality of opportunity today. Your (or my) personal efforts are sort of negligible to those larger issues.

> Also, re: unfairness to African Americans in the housing market: absolutely true. I don’t know what I can do about that right now.

That's the point. If the massive injustices whose effects echo through generations aren't addressed, then the marginal and even well-intentioned efforts will have limited effect.

It took something the size of the New Deal to restructure American society in the aftermath of inequities of the Gilded Age and the Great Depression, and I doubt anything short of that type of effort will change the picture today.

In the worst case, we could we end up with a society that relies on charity for its safety net (which at scale often comes with social/cultural/religious conditions attached). I also realize that for many that is a desired outcome, not something to be avoided.

If we do a UBI but then strip other public supports for low and no-income people, it would likely do more harm than good, as there is no politically feasible UBI that is going to provide an acceptable minimum standard of living that includes healthcare, public safety, housing, and education for everyone, regardless of race or ethnicity.

If people are struggling to stay housed and fed - which will likely happen if their benefits are stripped in favor of a UBI - they aren't suddenly going to pursue personal (and national) productivity-increasing self-improvement as proponents of that approach posit. They are going to figure out how to just survive another day, hurting others in their own community if necessary, which is often the case already today.
Cloudflare is by no means a "non-huge company" - don't they route/cdn like 1/4 of the entire internet?

going with cloudflare is a choice towards centralization.
Interesting. I was expecting something similar to my daily driver, which is Remind - https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

I think I still prefer Remind's approach for now; it keeps the ability to have a plaintext viewable thing, but Remind also appears more scriptable and exportable; e.g. I make mine both give me reminders in my Terminal, and I can also make it print out a regular "human-ready" calendar.
Yeah that page needs a smaller maximum width and less whitespace

It looks way too wide and spaced out on a regular desktop monitor
I really wanted to take you seriously but that's impossible if you won't answer any fo these simple questions. This is a real bad look that does not inspire confidence.
I don't think so. OpenDoc was a document sharing service in classic Mac OS, similar in some ways to Microsoft's OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) but somewhat more advanced. Back then, some folks thought that applications were going to become more like components that interacted with each other to make a kind of "super-application", but the use case ended up being just dropping an Excel spreadsheet in Word.

Newton had lots of ways to share information between applications running on NewtonOS, but designed to fit the much smaller memory footprint of the device.

I believe the only things the Newton and OpenDoc had in common were that Steve Jobs killed both of them as cost-cutting measures.
Definition of 'whataboutism': "One law for me, another law for thee"
The handwriting recognition was running on the CPU so it got much better when they jumped from the 20 mhz ARM on the MP 1x0 to the 162 mhz StrongARM on the later models.
I use my iPad (and I pencil or whatever it’s called) for reading technical books, legal documents, tech documentation etc. then I write notes, thoughts, todos, questions all over it, it’s extremely useful for summarizing a boring document, then going back any pulling out the important bits

I also use my iPad for dissecting sheet music in a similar way

One day I hope to stick it on my wall and have a max headroom type avatar that greets me and turns on my roomba etc. until then value I get out of the above ^^ is worth the silly price tag

Oh and I also read comic books on it
Your perception of “expensive” might be different than mine and many folks managing photo production workflows. If I have a dozen artists who are not as productive on a less costly package, handicapped by poor automation scripting of a low cost alternative, or are less productive due to training time requirements on a new package for even half a week, those low cost alternatives have zero value to me over a more expensive, better, and de facto standard.

I’ll admit it’s value was greater when print publishing was still a thing, but those magazine and newspaper companies that transitioned to digital didn’t necessarily go out and buy all new tools to replace effective tools that already existed, already had a trained base, and already had robust digital asset workflows in place.
The belief that students are capable of learning is universally accepted in education. To the extent that Dweck's ideas are testable and worth publicising, they're already embedded in every school.

Dweck's growth mindset is just another Brain Gym [1] - it's shaky pseudoscience building on top of a couple of inoffensive claims that can't be refuted (and shouldn't be), using them to push unsupported assertions and expensive training on schools.

Industry's lack of focus on training is deplorable, but it's a separate problem. Growth mindset is already the kind of thing that recruiters and internal L&D love - it looks good on a slide, but it involves no practical improvement. Corporate L&D needs fixing, but more pseudoscience isn't the answer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Gym_International
No matter how much people say it, online learning is a vastly inferior product to in person teaching.
And I was honest about how I felt given how you structured it.

It does have a lot of bearing actually. While I am a native speaker, my spelling skills are atrocious as everything is a sequence of sounds in my head more so than a sequence of letters. To get around my spelling issues I frequently use homophones to find the correct spelling of a word which uses soundex or similar algorithms to find the correct word along with character mappings between the two languages.

Regardless, I believe I have proved the hypothesis to not be true.
You're saying that because most zoonotic viral transmission don't come from wet markets, fixing wet markets should not be done.

And that because some people cross the boarder illegally, boarder controls that keep out the vast majority of people should not be implemented.

The problem with your reasoning is that it doesn't acknowledge that preventing some zoonotic viral transmission is better than preventing none.

And reducing the number or rate of infected people entering an uninfected population is better than no reduction.
/Start

Subroutine: auto-detect use of 'Woke'; start flush opinion routine.

Set recurring reminder note to user - don't ever get this intellectually cringe.

/End
(explaining the joke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_of_translation )
And the surrealist list of artificial obstacles and requisites unrelated with the job, (but copy-pasted since middle ages by inertia in each job offer) will alienate your desired target
It’s just the opposite. Apple became successful after Jobs came back because he killed all of the “innovations” and started focusing on products that the market cared about.

Sure QuickDraw GX, OpenDoc, PowerTalk, etc. might have been “innovative”. But they weren’t what consumers wanted.

The iMac on the other hand especially running pre-OS X was technically crap at the time. But it saved Apple.

I think this clip when Jobs killed OpenDoc explains it all.

https://donhopkins.medium.com/focusing-is-about-saying-no-st...
If we are talking about original arduino uno, as in https://www.pololu.com/product/2191, then cable should not matter - the converter is on the board, the cable is dumb.

The knock-off often use ch340 chip (which is super annoying as it has no serial number of any sort), but even that chip can be pretty fast if placed on the well designed PCB - I regularly upload 1MB firmware files to esp8266 at 230400 using that chip.
Good. If more countries would be as strict on this there might be less pay-to-win games around
(fwiw - I'm ex-Opera, not Mozilla.)
> The recruiting individuals thing is basically an admission that this team does not have access to that kind of backing.

I would assume they plan to finance the large installations and then pay off the financing by re-selling the projects to retail investors in increments mapping to approximately 1 panel.

In theory they'd only need to keep enough working capital to fund installations until PTO (power turn on) at which point they could "sell" them to retail investors and turn over the capital for the next install.

In practice I'd be worried about what happens if (or when) the company goes out of business. Does my initial investment disappear and someone else now owns the solar installation?

This feels like an offer to become an investor in a risky solar install without any of the actual rights that come from being an investor in a solar install. If the company fails for whatever reason, your solar install goes to the company's investors and you get nothing.

A much better structure would be to operate as a solar holding and operations company and allow people to invest in the company (eventually publicly traded). This lets the investors keep actual ownership of the company and panels, not just some notional ownership on their platform that disappears the moment anything changes.

The way it's proposed here, they're breaking the traditional investment ownership chain and replacing it with some IOUs on the platform. What you really want is to own shares of the company that owns the solar installs, otherwise you get nothing and have no claim as a creditor when the business stops working.
> viola

Oh, the irony...
> I know people who would still go after companies purely on principle, but that is a tiresome way to live.

One click to sue would be great. Class-action lawsuits are on the right track but they scale on behalf of courts and companies, not consumers.
It would have been a crash prone buggy piece of shit like it was on every other platform?
Yeah. CF and kin provide a lot of advantages for cheap, but they are also big consolidations of infrastructure. There are more companies than ever before that can carelessly ruin your day, and they all have more customers than they can handle, and none of them want to staff a support team.

You can burn a lot of productivity trying to make everything completely fail-safe. Building stuff out of today's technology requires deciding which companies you're willing to gamble on and accepting that eventually the odds will catch you.
> investing in a hypothetical public utility that intends to make all its electricity from solar panels?

Is this something I can do as a retail investor? What sort of minimum investment is needed?
I haven't found a wholistic integration testing framework where you can effortlessly mock out upstreams as running services, so that you don't have to ham-fist integration testing code into your app or rely on actual, live upstreams which are probably prone to breakage anyway.
I don't really understand where you're coming from here. In the hypothetical situation you describe where the person is exclusively relying on this grid-tied vehicle for all their transportation needs as well, I'm inclined to say they made a poor choice.

A lot of Americans have multiple vehicles, it's those I expect to most exploit this option. Driving a giant pickup truck for all your needs isn't particularly pleasant, it's kind of an ideal vehicle to leave grid-tied most the time until you need to haul something big/heavy/filthy.
Dodd Frank legislation outlawed those contract terms in 2011.

http://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/new-rules-ele...
What is your discipline and country? That sounds like some ridiculously narrow minded thinking on the part of the funders.
He wasn't as bad as some, and it was common to oppose homosexual marriage in 2008. Still sad that he didn't back down even when the tide turned.

As leader of a supposedly community driven project and corp one would hope he'd reconsider the rights of marginalized groups.
How about run redis-benchmark and compare the numbers?
Sounds like a pretty bad policy if that inhibits your ability to respond to critical security flaws in your package.
They should have said it was to save the planet.
I'd love to know why Fork is so much faster than every other git GUI client I've used.
I think you proved SkeuomorphicBee's point. You are oblivious to the fact that you got f-ed over. You are talking past the argument thinking people won't notice that your feel good blog post is about how you think you won, but actually got screwed and are oh-so happy about it.

Bizarre.
Putin is too angry to lose the war.

The problem when poking a bear is that eventually he pokes back, and he doesn't stop till he decides it's enough.
The biggest benefit is arguably that codes that are designed for "telefork" and perhaps remote threads can also be scaled down to a single shared-memory machine, and run way more efficiently than if they had been coded using the MPI approach. Whilst you don't really add much of any overhead when running in a cluster, assuming that the codes are designed properly.
edit: oops, wasn’t talking to me but will leave the below unedited for posterity (and to show my posterior).

again, that’s a logical leap that i was careful not to make. small-time investing can have positive externalities on an economic system; industrial, mechanized investing, not so much. if we didn’t try to turn everything related to money into a get-rich-quick gambling scheme instead of the (imperfect) accounting mechanism it was originated to be, we’d be much better off, pensions and 401(k)’s included.
Isn't fork more of a continuation?

/pedantic