skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least there’s a choice with capitalism. Not to mention that we can consume foreign media if we wish. With socialism there’s only one choice and power is much more concentrated. Like capitalism, socialism isn’t immune to corruption. The difference is the much greater concentration of power in one place for socialism which exacerbates the problem of corruption.

I don’t deny that we’re either experiencing or about to experience late stage capitalism, but socialism tends to hit the late stage much faster as we’ve seen in the 20th century.
We tend to be born with more-or-less the same potential.

But only some of us had two experienced elders of the species, who loved us above all else, dedicated to shepherding and building the foundations of our lives - intelligently setting every standard and expectation - during our formative childhood and young-adult years.

The effect is immense.
> making the code-reading part of your brain fluent in this sort of code [...] lots of patience

I've not seen attempts to aid learning of basic skills for reading diverse coding styles. The space is large, from "eyeball abstraction" over "code is 90% repetition and boilerplate", to APLish "DO Repeat Yourself! At every callsite! With variations! ... each is like 4 characters", to terse lambda "code is documentation for humans, and only secondarily executable", to ... . There are skills involved with reading each style. And non-obvious tradeoffs to use. But even within individual styles, aid seems more "write and read a lot of code, and you'll eventually get the hang of it", and less "here, let me break down for you what I'm doing, what skills I'm using, when I read this". Perhaps there's some "live coding^H^H^He reading" on yt? Or how about an interviewer pair-reads code with a language expert?

While linters trending increasingly strict, towards canonical representation, raises hope for the old dream of AST-based coding, it does crush an axis of expressive power, for better and worse.

Hmm, I wonder if one could generate an ML training corpus to answer "explain what this bit of code here is doing and why"? Or perhaps, "create a minimum-ink compressed summary of these files"? Or even aspire to "rewrite this Java code in the style of APL"? :P (Ha - further down this page, ChatGPT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34053932 )
Why aren't financial reparations part of the solution needed?

The linked-to article at https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-netherlands-slavery-mar... says things like:

> “Slavery was a terrible period, and degrading acts were committed,” he said as he called for financial reparations to be spent on education, health and other public benefits. “We remained poor.”

> Irma Hoever, a 73-year-old retired civil servant who lives in the capital, Paramaribo, said that the Dutch “do not understand what they have done to us.”

> “They still enjoy what their ancestors did to this day. We still suffer. Reparations are needed,” she said.

and:

> Activists in the Dutch Caribbean territory of St. Maarten have rejected the anticipated apology and demanded reparations, too.

Why do you know better than they do?
Any potential trusted third party is corruptible whereas the type of "block chaining" that is used can be quickly verified as correct by anyone.
The author of the article underestimates the capabilities of the modern OLAP DBMS. The old beliefs are becoming less and less relevant.

> When to use a data warehouse
> Data warehouses are good for OLAP (online analytical processing) workloads such as the following:

> A small number of users, each of which may execute heavy analytics workloads

Not necessarily. ClickHouse is being used for user-facing analytics where every query can take in the order of 10 ms while supporting many concurrent queries.

> Downtime is permitted – generally not used as the one-and-only operational system

Not necessarily. ClickHouse is being used for HA setups replicated across multiple regions when the service has to survive the outage of a whole region.
> What if 100 mil users want to move?

Then supply and demand will dictate that people will start paying for accounts, and that will be a good thing.
There shouldn’t need to be any external incentive aside from it being the firefighters job.

There seems to be a lot of people on this site that think life is fair.

Is it fair that you paid for firefighting and your neighbor didn’t but still had their house saved during a fire?

Arguably no, but that is completely irrelevant as it is still in the greater public interest for the fire to be put out.

There’s a certain childish aspect about caring about fairness in these types of situations as opposed to what is right and moral.
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I'm not sure what is imaginary here.

You believe you've done a thing in contravention of your government's laws. Perhaps you've done it and will not be caught. Perhaps you've done it and they haven't gotten around to asking you politely not to do this. Some crypto currency obviously leaves a paper trail for all to see; some states it doesn't and perhaps doesn't, but perhaps does.

Autonomy to break a law and not get immediately punished for it isn't really freedom from that law.

To clarify -- breaking a law is not imaginary. Maybe you've broken the law and haven't immediately faced any repercussion, but that doesn't mean that bypassing money laundering controls renders those money laundering controls or punishments for breaking the controls imaginary.

(edited to add the clarification)
That's really deviating from the nature of the "cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob" question. If the OP has that kind of requirement, he won't get good answers.
What i find the most interesting is the zeroconf option [0].

For example you can set up your spotifyd daemon on a raspberry and have it always connected to speakers.

Now when someone is in your local network they can choose your spotifyd daemon and play spotify over the speakers without connecting to the speakers directly via bluetooth etc.

[0] https://spotifyd.github.io/spotifyd/config/File.html (after the configuration file example)
Sounds like a fascinating paper - would like to read that, or at least more of the sources.
This might be the use of the VPN tells them to identify VPN users and get their "real" location. Lots of people may be using VPNs from Mexico. So when they see a user that has used VPN, they discard their fake IP address data and use the one they suspect is true.
What is the advantage to using this RFC instead of just having a server that writes to (or reads from) a serial port?
> When Spotify was young they were extremely developer and ecosystem friendly. It gets progressively worse and worse over time.

This is somewhat tangential, but I feel like this happens often, as internal power and culture shifts away from being developer-driven to consumer- or manager-driven.

This doesn't happen for every company, thankfully.
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I disagree with what you're saying here.

> The input prompts to GPT-3 and friends are not "training examples". Training examples are labelled instances of a concept to be learned- that's PAC-Learning. LLM prompts are not examples, and they're not used in training.

In the PAC learning setting, these are training examples because you use the labels to select a function, in this case the conditional output given the few shot examples.

Whether or not you actually update any weights has nothing to do with "few shot learning" and never has. In the PAC setting there are no weights, just model functions that depend on the training data.

EDIT: The reason you didn't hear people refer to the inputs of HMMs as "training examples" is because HMMs are very poor few-shot learners. That's why GPT-3 is interesting, because it is a good few-shot learner.

You could use an HMM as a few shot learner, but computing the results is expensive and the results are not good for most tasks.
The question I want to ask is: how did Roomba-recorded photos end up in a major publication on the Internet?

And the sequence seems to be:

1. iRobot hires people to use special development versions of the Roomba in their homes to collect training data. These are clearly labeled, and the participants are informed that the images are being sent to iRobot for training. This seems fine - if you want to exchange some degree of privacy for money, that should be your right as long as you're clearly informed about it.

2. A contractor posts some of these photos to a private Facebook group used by other contractors on the project. This is obviously bad, but at the same time, it's limited in scope to people who would have had access to these photos or similar ones.

3. The MIT Technology Review gets a hold of these images and decides to publish them on the Internet for everyone to see, just to get more clicks on their article. This feels like the most egregious privacy violation in the sequence.
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The only thing it’s ever “too late” for that I’m aware of is becoming an elite level professional athlete in some sports, or un-assisted pregnancy & childbirth (note the specificity there). Pretty much anything else is just a matter of deciding to do it. Good luck!
> How many of these are there going to be?

They're really killing their golden goose by trying to launch all these streaming services rather than agreeing to some sort of profit-sharing agreement with Netflix like they were doing when it first came out. These movies have no value to anybody if nobody's paying to watch them and if every studio hides them behind yet another $10/month streaming service that nobody is signing up for, they're going to go bankrupt. Streaming is how we consume entertainment now, and that's not changing - but every movie studio launching their own streaming service would be like every movie studio lanuching their own video rental company in the 90's.
Which will then need to federate to most other instances, causing an unmanagable load?
If you haven’t already, I strongly recommend to read „Becoming Steve Jobs“, too.

Isaacson‘s book isn’t “wrong” per se, but it makes the wrong point, imho. There really have been two Steve Jobs it seems (but crucially, NOT in a Jekyll & Hyde way!), and Isaacson didn’t get that.
Do you think Trump and Sam Bankman-Fried took your advice? I need a pool of people to flip burgers and take orders and those people better not take cookies from the jar. For everyone else, it's called creating shareholder value. Your advice makes for great burger flippers.
cron-jobs.org is pretty good.

I built a cron job utility service with Pipedream workflows because I needed some additional features like sending email report and hooking up to a cronjob monitor like cronitor or healthchecks.
Has he ever stated anywhere that his long term vision is a "general computing platform"? Because mega-apps are not that. There has been zero building happening or even hinted at towards his everything app vision while he is wrecking everything at Twitter.
Their user hostile approach to Better Call Saul just shows why they just don't get streaming. I cancelled them almost immediately when I realized I couldn't watch Better Call Saul episodes that had already aired earlier in the season.
A simple delta between frames wouldn't perform well if there was any camera movement: you'd pay for every edge twice.

Instead of working with a delta, conditionally using previous frame as prediction source could work (e.g. if pixel A was closer to previous frame's A than to current frame's B, predict from previous frame's X). Or you could signal prediction source explicitly per block or with RLE. Ideally you'd do motion compensation, but doing that precisely enough for a lossless compressor is more than 100 lines.
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Not sure about China, but I’ve encountered local restaurants boasting broth that has continuously been cooked for decades in both Thailand and in Philippines.
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Nah it was most likely the dressing-down he received in Qatar at the WC final.
>The whole point of testing is to put them in hypothetical situations and grade their progress with purpose of being aware of their development so we can improve it. Another thing we do is selecting the particularly good ones for further advanced training.

You're missing the point. Why are we making them achieve progress on something that is being trivialized by AI? Let them use AI as a complementary tool and test them on something that requires measurable human skill. If this is difficult it's a sign that perhaps you're not teaching anything valuable.
Wonder if it is possible to use fiverr to cheat ?

(seems like it, I would be very surprised if it is not used for many years, already)
How is loneliness fixed by putting on goggles? Why wasn’t it solved by phones?
I already read Slade House, Cloud Atlas, number9dream and Ghostwritten. I'm REALLY looking forward to all the others! :)
He's not really trying to strawman anyone, he's either a nut or a troll.
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This reminds me of my childhood in India where my grandma and mom will "fry" everything whole and it used to be delicious. Little but chopped onion, cilantro and lemon makes it even yummier.

I said fried for lack of better word but the way it gets done is - just stir and toss them with hot sand in a wide mouth clay pot. When it is done, just use a sieve to separate sand and the grain.

It is pretty wholesome snack. Cooked wheat, corn, rice, chickpeas. U name it.

EDIT - Here is a video of it https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8xW3gFxN34c
Where are people testing just rote memorization? At least 20 years ago when I was in lower school, most of what we did had only a very small memorization component. The SAT, ACT, SAT subject exams, etc only barely rely on memorization, and many questions have no memorization component at all. It’s why 4th graders can get top-percentile scores on some of these.

You need both memorization and applied reasoning to be taught in school. Without something to apply reasoning to you can’t really reason about anything. And without applied reasoning, memorization is pretty useless.
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Various internet service providers are delivering it.

Comcast is probably the only one making and delivering media.
> @realDonaldTrump · Jan 6, 2021 I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. […]

“Remain peaceful” at 2:38pm Eastern, well into the violence, and while he was being urged to tell people to stop the violence. (Which, again, he had incited.) [0]

> @realDonaldTrump · Jan 6, 2021 Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!

Again, “Stay peaceful” at 3:18pm Eastern, as the violent insurrection he had incited continued, after insurrectionists had overwhelmed police outside of the Speakers Lobby were lawmakers and staff were sheltering, and almost simultaneously with the breach of the Speaker’s Lobby in which Ashli Babbit was shot.

By that point, even if they hadn’t been there at his instigation, Trump was at best grossly derelict in his duties by not issuing the insurrectionists a proclamation to disperse.

> Evidence that he wanted a peaceful protest with no violence.

No, those are evidence that once the violence was well under way and it was clear that most of the principal targets had evaded the mob, and that the mob would fail to pressure the Congress (either under the VP or a different presiding officer) to act in accord with his wishes, he wished to be seen as opposed to the violence that up to that point he had been inciting (his tweet that enraged the mob against Pence–unlike the ones that serve his post-Jan. 6 propaganda narrative, since deleted–having been issued at 2:24pm Eastern.)

[0] see the timeline here for a fairly accessible tick/tock of the day’s events: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/1069977469/a-timeline-of-how-...
Serious question: if a community is so small as to be just your friends, why not start a Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord group? Free, fully managed, content preserved, well established.
It's time to go find a nice juicy head of lettuce I think.
I had to stop using Netflix because they cracked down hard on password sharing, although it was only my family. I ended up without access to Netflix and reducing my familys plan to the middle tier as they don't need 4k or 4 screen if it's just going to be my mom and my dad.

When we had the middle plan back in 2015 or so we genuinely struggled as 2 screens at the same time was very restrictive, after that, changing to 4 screens solved most problems. But now my family was being logged out because I was in a different household. It's alright, it's their decision. But I'm not going to pay for a 4 screen plan when it's just myself and I'm definitely not watching in 720p. I would consider getting Netflix again if they had a 1 screen 4k plan.
This is an interesting point of view.

I always viewed grades as a way of establishing intellectual hierarchy, which probably wasn't the most healthy way to look at them; a way of deciding where amongst my peers I stacked up. In University, we had class ranks.

Those with the best grades and thus highest rank would be given the best opportunities for wage-slave class work. Eventually people hit University and split up according to passion, goals as well as grades. Of course, there were exceptions; entrepreneurs were the folks that buck the system and don't need grades to succeed. In a sense, the grades were exchanged for food stamps and toys, only later in life. The winners drove the lambos and the losers are still living in their parents' basements.
Having a normal, working financial system isn't really a global or historical norm. Very arguably we're on an isolated island of relative economic calm in both time and space, and that we should not assume these conditions will just continue forever.
Lying on financial disclosures is a criminal offense, but difficult to enforce. FTA:

> Material omissions or misrepresentations on personal financial disclosures are considered a federal crime under the False Statements Act, which carries a maximum penalty of $250,000 and five years in prison. But the bar for these cases is high, given that the statute requires violations to be “knowing and willful.”

Note that this does not apply to things like lying about college or previous employers, only to financial disclosures.

House of Representatives ethics penalties may also apply. FTA:

> The House of Representatives has several internal mechanisms for investigating ethics violations, issuing civil or administrative penalties when it does. Those bodies tend to act largely in egregious cases, particularly if the behavior took place before the member was inaugurated.
Have you considered moving to a big city, even if it’s not in the US, which I know is your preference? It won’t fix all your problems but having more opportunities professionally and romantically might change your outlook somewhat. You’re in the prime years to catch all the people exiting their first marriage, but not if you’re in a town with a dozen people in it.

I also fall into patterns of depression even though I’m married and doing fine professionally. I know someone here said that therapy is a very “American answer” but the fact is that for most of us the depression comes first and the reasons come later. You very well could get everything you want and be worse off because now you have no answer for why you feel the way you do. At least now you have some goals to work towards.
You can't claim to be in the "bodily autonomy" camp and believe in compelling actual living people to use their bodies to carry a fetus to term.
Another? We're already in a solar boom -- annual deployment went from 135GW to 223GW from 2021 to 2022.
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Thanks for the heads up, dang. I'll take it elsewhere.
The community burned me in the end - fortunately a little committee took over my libraries when I left in a rage at some of its truly insufferable vindictive self appointed leaders. I think this comes and goes and the main body of users is tirelessly helpful.

But the rest of this is nonsense. The compiler is a flat out miracle, a monument to human understanding, and produces unbelievably fast programs given the weird and wonderful abstract material one hands to it.
I can wholeheartedly recommend it. Grave's Claudius series is also great!
Valetudo [0] supports local only operation of various supported robot vacuums.

Even apart from the privacy stuff, the fast local web interface and open standards integration support (mqtt, homeassistant etc) are brilliant.

0: http://valetudo.cloud/
I fully admit to being hyperbolic.

Where I live, in a rural area of a red state with a lot of wealth disparity, giving free medical care to anybody absolutely is seen as "socialized medicine". (Of course, there'll be a healthy dose of divisive racial and class politics mixed in to the argument, too.) The reasons behind that opinion are absolutely motivated by lack of understanding, but there are strong political beliefs there as well.

I'd like to see substantive discussion about how the US healthcare "system" really works. This is a detail that a lot of people don't know about or understand. I think the idea that "we already don't let people who can't pay just die" has a good moral argument behind it.
That sounds like an empty argument to me. Besides that the only use I see so far for crypto is speculation (with fiat currencies) if you disagree with the government never ever trade these assets with fiat currencies that are backed by governments.

Do the deals between your crypto things that are not controlled by governments and taxations and leave the rest of us and our economies alone.
I guess the problem is that monopolies naturally form in a completely unrestricted market. So to make Adam Smith's free market, some kind of restrictions are required. But a lot of people think a "free market" is one with few restrictions.

Either way what we really have is capture of the government by a wealthy elite, and what they try to use the government for is to socialize risks and privatize profits. Whatever pure theories there are out there and no matter how much sense they make, the practical effects of private wealth concentration is elite control of the government.
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If two rival businesses are transacting with each other, and they don’t really trust each other fully, which one hosts the database?

Whoever hosts the database is in a position to manipulate data to the disadvantage of the other. Which entity gives in and gives up that power to the other? Why should either party agree to take on that sort of counterparty risk when they don’t have to?

Also, what instances of non-immutable blockchains are you referring to? Blockchains by definition are immutable post-finality.
This has never been the dichotomy; but now that you mention it -- actually, yeah. I'd rather spend thousands of dollars on CDs (in that environment where shopping for them was like it used to be) than iTunes (etc., which I've tried but never found worth continually paying for)
Are there some books that you can recommend?
> Yes. Trademark not copyright. My mistake.

That is your most minor mistake. The much larger one is that you are claiming that the law supports the trademark policy you link to. It doesn't. Everyone remains free to use a trademark belonging to wordpress in order to refer to wordpress.

You are not free to use any such mark - the WordPress Foundation would be on very solid ground in telling you to stop using their graphical logo. But they can't stop you from using "WordPress" in the name of your for-profit company, which you'll note is quite explicitly contrary to their stated policy.