skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "if a tree falls into the forest, and no one is there to hear it" territory.

It's important to note that this version of reality is the things don't matter if we don't notice them version. We're always in that area when we're talking about memory, until evidence one way or another shows up.

Your confidence in your introspection could have create false memories in your friends. I've certainly had conversations with friends when someone thought they had first hand experience of something they were just told about and involved in a lot of conversations about. Because in a group of friends, they could have been there, they just happened to not be there that night.

My mother tells me a story about a friend of hers who lied about being raped because she came home very late (and her father was abusive, and the excuse saved her from him.) In discussions with my mother years later, it became clear to my mother that she actually now believed she was raped. Not simply despite my mother's recall of how they walked around in the streets that night trying to come up with a story to tell her father, but my mother is actually in the false rape story and helped her get away.
Why can't both exist though?

Each with their own advantage/disadvantages, and you get to choose which one to use after considering the tradeoffs.

Things I would use crypto for:

* Money transfers, particularly cross border payments. Low fees, quick confirmation from all parties.

* Any transaction that I would like to keep my privacy on (and this does not mean illegal things, btw).

Things I would never use crypto for:

* Storing wealth. For me personally it's too much of a bet, we're always one right (or wrong) math proof away from all of this becoming dust.

* Smart contracts. Anything that requires a contract between me and someone else, I'll keep using the tried and tested way of common law. I'd rather have my business backed by the Delaware Chancery Court (which has proven to be quite effective these past weeks) than by the code wrote by some random upwork contractor.
Yes that is exactly what happened Welch came in started pushing the MBA way of doing things, pushed it throughout the entire industry, talked a big game. Tons of MBA programs were focused around the "GE Way" etc. It was when the Peter Principle, people are promoted to their level of incompetence, to the Dilbert Principle, idiots are promoted directly to keep them out of the productive flow.

The MBA ruined many things, it was scientific management brought back with a catchy name. Not creative enough to be in the artists? Lacking the intellectual discipline to become a real process engineer? It's okay you can become an MBA, learn no real skills, no real information and feel superior because then you can lord yourself over the serfs that decided to go into the silly practice of actually providing goods and services, when you can "manage" the people that actually contribute.

Note this shouldn't be taken as a tirade against management, there are good leaders out there that do make things better for those they lead, but my point is that an MBA is totally independent variable to whether or not someone will be a good manager. The problem is that an MBA basically trains people to see their work/world as a video game where they play with spreadsheets, choose the right dialogue options in the tree, and assign your workers to specific tasks, and then when the reality doesn't conform everything hits the fan.
“And it ended with the guy and a lady from the budget office finally coming around with the 42 gift cards and counting them in front of me," said Kem. "$21,000 in $500 gift cards."

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, a spokesperson at the Attorney General's Office released the following statement:

“It’s shameful that this individual exploited a program that has successfully taken thousands of guns off the streets to protect our communities from gun violence. We have partnered with local police throughout the state to recover more than 3,500 guns, and one individual’s greedy behavior won’t tarnish our work to promote public safety. We have adjusted our policies to ensure that no one can exploit this program again for personal gain.”
Specifically, there is a financial reason the big companies have chosen to turn them off and destroy them at this point. It's pretty hard to have a more efficient way of using these drives when the company has decided that already-bought, already-shipped, already-installed drives in the most power efficient data centers in the world are not worth running any more.
Can you explain how this is a spy tool and how Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc. are not? I haven't really used TikTok. How does it collect data beyond the videos I've watched?
Is this also true for highly-funded, money-losing SV startups focusing on growth. Why or why not?
Still chugging along on CS6….
Fairytale Characters and Ranked Choice Voting
Does loss of value via quantitative easing count?
California pledges to cut use of the Colorado river
This is exactly how it would go down. People on this thread freaking out have no idea how the legal system works.
Fascinating. Do you mind sharing that tool you made? I'd love to possibly use it myself.
Why not simply use pricing to ration use? This is by far the best method of distributing any resource of good or service.
Because for most people involved, the tiny slice of life where you're dying is the only thing they empirically experience.
Sadly not available in my country (and many more).
I think the worst part is it reinforces this adversarial system by those survivors that go into academia. You see it in comments in these threads where folks think it was worth it as it says something about them. I don’t buy it even though I made it through despite many professorial efforts to thwart real learning through artificial difficulty and bad teaching.
It's quite straightforward to trust Physics and Chemistry that delivers verifiable product. It's another thing to trust Sociology and Medicine with a track record of deceit, hubris and strong political coupling.
I think “knocked down” or similar verbiage would communicate a more accurate image.

It might underplay the damage though, depending on your context
Without knowing what the physical space looks like I'd rather we just not arrange valuable artwork like sculptures where tourists can easily damage or even touch them. People are dumb, tourists are a even dumber subset of people, you're asking for it if you don't properly secure the artwork.

Throwing these people in prison won't make tourists smarter it'll just put them in prison at the public's expense.

And before someone comes back about how this devalues appreciation of art of whatever, I obviously mean secure the artwork to a reasonable degree. Especially in places known for MASSIVE crowds like the Vatican. God isn't exactly jumping out of his seat to protect them.
I have a similar issue when using my raspberry pi as a Steam Link client for gaming. After a while the sound starts to get choppy, and this problem gets worse and worse until sound breaks entirely. But video still works. If I kill the game and re-start the steam link client the issue resets. Feels like some kind of clock drift, but in this case it seems to be affecting the ability to decode a digital stream. It’s a very strange issue!
Web3 is basicially about federated social networks. Maybe cryptocurrency plays a role, but the idea that it takes center-stage is one peddled by people who clearly have money to make.
Feature suggestion: the system automatically tells you when you have a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_paradox situation and offers to decide the outcome based on a coin flip instead.

Only half joking there, the amount of negative results about ranked-choice voting in social choice theory is quite amazing. I'm not sure whether I'd place it on the efficiency frontier of the 'complex but has desirable properties' versus 'easy to understand but far from perfect' trade-off.
My father was at Bickershaw festival. It rained for 2 days. They where cold a d hungry, and up to their necks in mud. One guy was electrocuted, and another jumped to his death, but they carried on. My father wasn't a dead head, so waiting an hour for the band to tune-up was an unwelcome experience. Apparently, there are very few recordings from the Bickershaw festival, so when I introduced my dad to the selection of 4 hour recordings of the Dead's set from that day, well, he's found a new appreciation for the band.
https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1972/05/07/intro?source=3...

My dad used to tell me how they where all starving, and some local shopkeeper took pity on them, and sold him a wheel of cheese for tuppence. This is that shopkeeper. And the wheel of cheese. https://youtube.com/watch?v=TCEPizIV2xc

I also love Garcia's interview from that weekend. Interviewer: "Do you think there should be limitations on open air festivals, like this?" Garcia: "Well, that presupposes that I think there should be festivals". Man, that guy cracks me up. https://youtube.com/watch?v=m0vAqnq1vW0

For myself, the March 72 gig at Baltimore Civic Centre is my favourite, and the recording quality is amazing. https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1973/03/26
They can do that - but the game theory around "don't rate the candidate you don't want ..." stuff is way too complicated.

And if it is not as simple as "Bob got the most votes, Bob won" it's going to get harder and harder to explain exactly what is going on, which is going to get people annoyed and angry.

As long as the result is the same as would have come from first past the post, nobody will care.
I would love to use splunk on some of my side projects. Does anyone know of a decent alternative for non-enterprise customers?
https://developer.oculus.com/blog/unlocking-oculus-go/
I'm not defending Meta, but what constitutes anti-competitive behaviour is often hard to define and requires a court process to ultimately decide - it's not a binary state one can easily recognize having entered or exited. If it was, many kinds of legal issue wouldn't need nearly as much court time.

Until a Court process says otherwise, Meta have done nothing wrong here.
It would be an even greater shame to be stuck with first-past-the-post while we squabble over its replacement.

I vastly prefer score or approval voting over ranked-choice, but I also vastly prefer even ranked-choice over FPTP and will be voting accordingly here in Nevada. We can always adopt score or approval voting later.
> "Wisdom of the crowd" used to be one of the big selling points of the internet.

I don't think this was true until sometime in the 00s when voting systems were popularized. I don't recall anybody talking about crowd wisdom and hiveminds in the context of IRC chatrooms, mailing lists, or geocity pages. There was an understanding that whoever you were talking to might be smart or might be stupid; there was no crowd mechanism to put false trust in.
> The US Securities and Exchange Commission said the reality TV star had received $250,000 for advertising the cryptocurrency, without disclosing she had been paid to do so.

The penalty is actually more than the profit, for once? I'm honestly surprised.
I want to say why the cardinal systems (STAR/Score/Approval) are usually better than the ordinal (Ranked/RP/Schulze). It is all about ,,embedding''. More efficient embedding systems mean you can get a higher information gain. Let's look at two different elections but with the same premise.

Suppose you REALLY like both candidates A and B. Then suppose that you really dislike candidate C.

Ranked:

A > B > C (A/B position determined by flipping a coin)

Ordinal:

A:5 B:5 C:0

What's interesting here is that the first (ranked) system tells us (embeds) that our preference for A over B is the same as our preference of B over C. But in the second case we are able to tell the system that we actually like both A and B equally and that the distance to C is much larger. Ranked does not capture how we don't like C and doesn't capture that we do like B. Because of this the ranked systems frequently fail the favorite betrayer criteria (RCV fails btw). In a realistic scenario this means that in a ranked system Bernie would spoil the election for Biden (or vise verse). Although Gary Johnson wouldn't be a spoiler in either Ordinal nor Cardinal I'd argue that a weak spoiler is less of a worry than a strong spoiler.

I will also argue that Ordinal methods are far simpler to calculate and do statistical verification on. Ranked systems require a while loop where we pop an element from our array each iteration and reallocate that element's votes until there is a singular winner. Cardinal systems on the other hand are simply an sum argmax. This sum argmax can be done in parallel and also makes it far easier to verify elections with random subsets of votes (a fairly common practice btw). The simplicity of the algorithm used to tally votes is extremely important and increases the transparency of the election.

At the end of the day, the two systems are

Ranked: "Put the candidates in order of preference"

Cardinal: "Rate each candidate from 0 to 5 stars"

People are very used to both types of questions. I see several arguments saying the latter is more complicated but this clearly isn't true or we'd have to change the vast majority of surveys.

I also want to state that there are no globally optimal voting systems. Yes, there are plenty of flaws in cardinal systems. But because no global optima exists we have to instead argue that the tradeoffs are worth it. There are some objectively better systems than others though. To play fair like this I will say that I believe that the above advantages are worth the slight reduction of VSE in a 100% honest election that you'd obtain from using either RP or Schultz style elections.
The "rocketing" is due to the deal being back on, because when it closes each of your shares is worth $54. Theres no incentive to pay over that price.
They are not who is consuming the $billions.
Well, I don't agree with OP, but the Chinese government is way more involved with its companies than the US is. Here, ostensibly, there's a court and legal process - versus China, where the government has all data by default.

So, any Chinese tech company is de facto going to have all of its data accessible by the Chinese government, by default.
> by MBA sociopaths

The former VC / MBA who succeeded Jack Welch [1] is the one who discovered the cooked books and financial shenanigans. Welch was educated as a chemical engineer [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Immelt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch#Early_life_and_educ...
Not denying fossil fuel impact here, but it does not allow writing off nuclear's risks either.

One accident caused entire cities to have to be abandoned, and area of hundreds of square kilometers to be contaminated essentially forever.

Thousands and thousands of people have to maintain vigilance about their food and still develop health issues, some of which are fatal.
We made our weekly blog post about it (because it's worth talking about, IMO) and someone else posted it on HN. It blew up and we're responding to comments as necessary.

We're letting our legal counsel handle the actual details, the rest is just talking about it.
As I said, behaviour that could be unspecified rather than undefined.

This is an example of something that cannot be anything other than UB.
Why does the nationality of the tourist matter?
> Its actions like this that result in the rest of us only being able to view artifacts like these from afar, behind plexiglass.

That will not happen.
NYU’s firing of Professor Maitland Jones Jr. should frighten every American
This already exists though and is a technical solution to an economic problem. The reason the money transfer fees exist, slow confirmation, etc is there is no incentive to do so otherwise.

Crypto transfers for say USD->EUR via USD->BTC->EUR are just adding extra foreign exchange legs in the hope that the BTC holders on either end will give you a better deal.
Individually we can't get smarter all of a sudden, but as a society we can provide better platform for the smartest of us to contribute: bring (quasi)meritocracy back; do away with all these AA nonsense. Not very feasible with the political climate right now (or just American culture in general - `nerd` is such a weird insult). We can't win them on quantity, but at least we don't lose outright. And no I don't think Chinese are just smarter, they just try gigahard because you gotta compete with the other babillion Chinese peers somehow, and there's no AA to save you
Typically less than one year.

> to pay up for all that steel, copper, aluminum, and a couple of rare earth metals,

This sentence obfuscates that we're just talking about the dollar price here. Which is easily calculated

> offset the environmental impact of collecting and producing such materials?

Harder to decisively calculate but seems unlikely to be an actual issue; and trivial when compared to the opportunity cost of generating the same energy with fossil fuels.
>Stable-Diffusion is a latent diffusion model, which diffuses in a latent space instead of the original image space. Therefore, we need the loss to propagate back from the VAE's encoder

There is also an alternative way to handle this latent difference with the original paper that should also work :

Instead of working in voxel color space, you push the latent to the voxel (Aka instead of having a voxel grid of 3d rgb color, you have a voxel grid of dimlatent latents, (you can also use spherical harmonics if you want as it works just the same in nd) ).

Only the color prediction network differ, the density is kept the same.

The NERF then directly render to the latent space (so there are less rays to render) which mean you need to decode it with the VAE only for visualization purposes and not in the training loop.
Well, those busts tend to be of marble and they are not easily broken.

I was afraid they might be little terra-cotta sculptures, and that can really shatter.
In other areas GE is not doing so badly: for example, it will be the engine supplier for the joint European UAV Eurodrone. [0]

[0] https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2022/03/25/us-owne...
My lifelong experience with most NYU students is that they have more money than brains.
> THERE IS NO KNOWN WAY TO COMPILE IT.

Easy, run it through a disassembler, now you can compile it. ;)
It's interesting to see you make these claims when you know nothing about the workings of the legal system in China.
I don't understand how anecdotal experience is considered noteworthy. It always comes across as subversive advertising. Even if everyone on this site had pixel/iphone/whatever issues it wouldn't mean anything significant compared to the millions of devices sold.
>"The reason fiat money works is because at the end of the day if you run into trouble you have the legal system to make things right. And if the perpetrator of the crime doesn't listen to the legal system, there are people with guns/violence to back that up. That's why the whole system works -- because of the threat of violence."

How many people were prosecuted for the 2008 financial crisis though? Neither did the "threat of violence" nor the legal system prevent or even deter those perpetrators.
I get the arguments that Meta is forced to defend it's claim it's not being anticompetitive, but isn't part of a small business like SimulaVR's sole competitive advantage being secretive with it's plans because it doesn't have to publicly state everything it's doing?

Wouldn't this take that away from them? Is it not a simple enough point to object to the subpoena on?
This confused me at first, but there's a train station (?) in the mountain and windows, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiger#/media/File:Fenster_der_...
They're exactly the same.
The reason that cars spent 95% of their time unoccupied is because most people only need to travel during certain times - the same times for everyone. That’s really all there is to it. As a result you need capacity for peak at all times. It can’t be made more efficient except by train, bike and bus.

This is what Uber and Lyft claimed they could solve over the last 10 years and made zero progress.
I recently asked Fairvote volunteers which cities/countries they point to as RCV done “right”. All of the places I’m familiar with have poor reputations for their politics (SF, Australia) or have had problems with it (NY’s democratic primary, Alaska).

All they could come up with is statistics that more women and people of color are elected with RCV, and there is not enough evidence yet that Approval voting will do the same.
I have never got this set up, but I think a hybrid approach could be quite good; something like pytest-xdist remote SSH builders perhaps. (Maybe you can rsync the diffs in the background though, instead of when you hit the "test" button, to speed things up?)

https://pypi.org/project/pytest-xdist/#sending-tests-to-remo...

Running a local-first setup is nice for things like iteratively step-debugging your latest changes on a single test case, but being able to push the diffs to a fast remote build server (elastic cluster?) to speed up the "run all the tests" action would be nice.

I think you can do this with Clang remote builders too. I hear Bazel has this.

Is this something that anyone has experience with? It seems like it could be the best of both worlds, from a compute performance standpoint.

(As others have noted, the other big benefit of a cloud desktop is that you don't have to spend time setting up your dev environment, which is constant toil for new developers; Github mentioned this as a big contributor of friction in https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-move....)
This is also where it would be great to skip primaries, since primaries favor more extreme candidates.
This is actually not the case - RCV suffers from the "center squeeze" effect [1], in which moderates are squeezed out in the early rounds. That said, things like Approval have the opposite problem, in which moderates are given an advantage (some approval people will say this is a feature, not a bug).

For an edge case, consider an election with 3 factions: socialists, libertarians, and fascists. There is also a 4th candidate, a boring status quo moderate, running. Imagine the populace is split 1/3 between the first 3 factions as their 1st choice, but everyone selects boring status quo moderates as their 2nd choice, because everyone in the first 3 factions hates the other ideologies.

The boring status quo moderates get eliminated in round 1, and eventually 1 of the 3 extremes will win, resulting in 2/3 of the country being very angry. Not ideal.

Obviously this is just an unrealistic edge case, but it demonstrates the effect.

[1] https://electowiki.org/wiki/Center_squeeze
Ask HN: How do you share your salaries?
Do you share your salaries among your team? How do you go about it?

We're finding some pretty large pay disparities among our team and would like to compile an open sheet of salaries and bonuses. Some of our executive management has been very vocally against this and there are fears of retaliation. We'd like to be careful in how we go about this.
Two wrongs make it right?