skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how does it reduce inequality ? Isn't it just money and nothing else is solved ? Why wasnt the recipient rich in the first place ? Aren't there factors in his initial state that 500$ a month won't fix and we risk having him mis-spend it just like he mispent everything else he earned up to now, ending in a state where everything is 500$ more expensive and he's still poor and others are still rich, shifted by 500$ ?

You're a union representing factory workers, wont it be tempting to demand a 500$ raise for everyone ? And then all prices of the output of the factory would be shifted up in price to compensate ?

If we look at what the american experiment did with their 1000$ cheque signed by Trump, didnt it do exactly that ? Isnt it true that the value of 500$ today depends on how hard it is to get in the first place, and if it's much easier, it becomes much less valuable ?
they consider Ukrainians not to be a real nation/ethnicity but mislead/confused russians. Hence they don't deserve their own state and should be re-educated to be a proper russians
Screenshotting an image will easily destroy resolution. It’s not a good way if you are making a document intended to be printed
The Democratic reports have better visuals but the Republicans use clearer language.
The government regulations that were in place in 1970, combined with the tech from that time, makes most western style reactors, even from back then, incredibly safe.

More recent tech makes it even easier to achieve safety, which would have made it even cheaper, had it not been for the excessive regulations (and other forms of red tape) that have been added since then.
Not so much chaff as a point that the thing itself is so outdated our very language has had time to radically change.
Read this: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health-g...
Are those two sentences somehow connected or related?
I dislike most mono fonts, but I found a monospace version of Atkinson Hyperlegible a while back and was using it until the author made a new monospace font they call Unolexic[1]; I've been using it since. They also have done posts comparing different parts of different fonts[2], making quasi-monospace fonts[3], etc., which are fascinating to read.

1: http://thedarnedestthing.com/unolexic

2: http://thedarnedestthing.com/monolexic%20timeline

3: http://thedarnedestthing.com/quasimono
At least four Google AI researchers have joined OpenAI
Alas, that's the slippery slope that's led us here. In a conversation, all opinions have value.
> with no clear direction

Keep in mind that some of the most common _types_ of creative minds in tech will always work best without an idea of a clear direction.

IMO that's also part of what tech needs in order to be its best--a strong sense of connection with concepts of the unknown. Unknown direction, unknown status even. Definitely unknown solutions to problems that are becoming-known.

In such a state, "what direction are we going" isn't necessarily a helpful way of thinking about things. The question usually hints at the asker's way of thinking. Existential? Directional? Open? Focused? Etc.

Growth in general is change, and change is stress. Destruction can be a byproduct, but doesn't have to be.

I believe we are reaching the point where we integrate that kind of thinking more consciously. The resulting wording includes ideas like "deconstructing" which is a broad hint that new approaches are here.
> and he wants you to add a new certificate authority... no explanation of how the 'cheating' works.

I mean it should be pretty obvious why this is being done for this general type of attack - if you have the necessary level of expertise where it is safe to use a tool like this.
Odd. I had visited the Columbia page¹ first, so it may be an anti-hotlinking measure.

¹ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/ssec.html
I am familiar with those, and he apologized, nevertheless here is my take (from an ex-avid listener of his podcast):

It is nearly impossible for a human being to talk about open topics for more than 10 years without saying upsetting things.

Peace!
> My vote is we stay the fuck out of trapping wild bats looking for viruses in the first place.

That's not the issue here. The issue is there's a fucking NIH funded lab that was doing (and still is) doing gain-of-function research on bat viruses (and other viruses I take it). And that the outbreak did happen, by sheer coincidence and out of all the place in the world, very near that lab.

And that the dude who got the funding happens to be the authority that was consulted at first to know about the origin of the virus.
Note: this was a genuine question, with genuine interest in the answer. Why the downvotes?
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> Analysis of player win/loss ratios clearly shows that all players win roughly 50% of games, regardless of their "skill". That's not an eSport. That's a slot machine.

> The average win rate for a brand new player is 56%. The average win rate for the best players is 53%.

Uh, that also could mean really fantastic player matching. A good match would be one in which it's unclear who would win. If the skew is too great then new players get discouraged (lose all the time) and/or skilled players get bored (they win 99% of the time) .
If I knew every person had a guaranteed income, I would have a lot of business ideas that would be radically more feasible. It would be much easier to borrow against a portion of one's future income and secure capital.
Instead, my guess is that they are optimizing the system for maximum ad revenue--and that the products only have to be good enough so users won't switch to Bing, etc.
It is my personal preference. I couldn't care less how others license their own code. My issue is with people like those who came into this thread to complain about the license of a project they've contributed nothing to, and paint anyone who disagrees as a paid shill. If they want a rust-based copyleft coreutils, nobody is stopping them from building it.
Newer fobs, sure. But as this article demonstrates, it is very expensive and inconvenient to backport security improvements to millions of vehicles.
Go be miserable and humorless, see if I care.
Again, it's not for 99% of people who have just cropped out the expanse of the sky to focus on the sunflower, it's for journalists and whistleblowers who normally be not familiar with the pitfalls of the technology that they're using. That's it, no-one is forcing you to use the built-in cropping tool if you don't care that someone might see what the whole picture is but it is a valuable information for someone blowing the whistle in cases like child abuses at certain subcontractors of a well-known car factory.
The term you wanna look up is Localization
Is competitive gaming winrate much different though? I always thought that in games such as league of legends players tend to have winrate close to 50%, and good players with slightly higher winrate end up in higher ranks by playing many games. Of course winrate is much higher when they are in lower ranks than their skill level, but they'll end up playing most of their games in their corresponding rank anyway in the long term
Were those based on pre-agreed criteria, or the result of widespread societal upheaval?
Ahhh, maybe those are conflated so irreversibly in their head it’s hard to imagine one without the other.

Seems ideal though, anonymous wealth :)
vMotion doesn't need L2 at all, this is a flat out lie.
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Managers of distributed teams: would you like more “mini” updates?
Context: the good managers/leaders among us aren't micromanagers and likely don't want (or like) to keep checking in or asking for status.

However, sometimes I wish for a sort of stream of work updates throughout the day and week to keep up to date with all the goings on in my team(s) and across teams.

Like bite sized snacks.

This isn't a need to micro manage so much as it is about "being in the loop" on all the things. Examples would include any time someone on the team starts working on or accomplishes something, makes key decisions about something, meets with a partner or customer, releases a certain feature etc. But could be anything work related. Could it be too much info? May be.

I'm curious if any of you wish for something like this too.
Going through this class now, and I can attest that it is in fact tough as hell. However, I already feel as if it will be the most rewarding learning experience in the entire program.
>Calling taxation "stealing" is an incredibly unserious position.

Yeah, taxation is obviously a protection racket, not theft.
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> I actually think Tyler's being a bit appealing, at first, is an important part of the movie.

Absolutely agreed. On a surface level, especially in the beginning, Tyler is this good looking guy who does what he wants in the face of the world, and is pretty appealing and charismatic. To make people understand the point, you need to make them relate to the situation in a good way. Having a cool and a charismatic guy who is pissed at the world in similar ways to you is a really great hook.

The concerns of people who fell for project mayhem were indeed valid in the real world at the time (and imo still are), such as heavily increasing consumerism, apathy due to a lack of direction, etc., which made it very relatable. I don't know how common it is among people empirically, but I definitely had a brief moment in life when I felt the whole "everything is a copy of a copy of a copy". And I would not be surprised to find out that this is actually very common.

Those things are something that resonates with a ton of people in real life, but majority of people have much healthier ways of acting on those feelings, compared to how people in the fight club acted on them. However, many definitely fantasized about acting out in "edgy" ways in response, and the movie just used those fantasies to illustrate where the satirized logical conclusion leads.
As the other reply said, yeah, don't just add black.

An art teacher would tell you to paint from real life and look into the shadows and try to perceive the colors that are there. Paint those. Don't treat it as a chemistry problem.

But if you're wondering why Maxfield Parrish painted orange rocks with indigo shadows it's because in the absence of direct light (in the shadows) ambient light will fill in. And the sky, as an example, is a giant blue ambient light reflector, the grass a giant green one.
To the best of my knowledge these studies are rather controversial: they may be false positives, and there isn't enough corroborating evidence. It's certainly a possibility – I don't expect we'll ever establish the exact timeline of the spread for sure.
> it's simply not possible to isolate people well enough. (There are documented cases of it spreading through walls

that's... dramatic. It's an airborne virus that spread throughout a very badly constructed and poorly ventilated building that was literally filled with infected people.

The virus spreads easily, but it's far from impossible to keep it from spreading, as evidenced by the many people who have never caught it. There are a lot of variables that determines if someone gets sick after exposure. Someone can be in the same household with a person who has it and still never get sick. Containment is challenging, but not impossible, and it's probably not coming through the walls to get you.

Take sensible steps, and you've got a pretty good shot at avoiding getting infected as long as you aren't locked in a shitty hotel filled with holes and gaps in the walls where there are infected people all around you.
I get the same frustration when I start an article and it tells me something like “The sunlight was kissing the ripening crop”.

The only time I’ve found it useful is good gonzo journalism where the mental scene is important context. E.g. Hunter S. Thompson drug stories or stories of mystical experiences. In these articles a focus on subjective experience is necessary. For articles about things, it’s just a waste of words.
I’m a busy person. I made this really rushed. I’ve put the source code up on GitHub now though.
You wanna do PIM? There's no BUM on a p2p link.
That can't be right? Canned foods last a long time. MREs do as well. Pasta/Rice?
This reminds me of something similar from the guy who implemented AVIF in Firefox. He gives a talk about the implementation [1] where he talks about the CLAP privacy problem. Basically the spec adds a field that allows for cropping of the image, but the binary file would still contain the original. This would lead users to believe some image data was deleted when it really wasn't. I always thought he spent a lot of time and effort to restrict clap for little gain, but now I'm starting to think it was worth his effort.

[1]: https://youtu.be/BUkRlfkv2D8?t=2199

And the related GitHub issue: https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av1-avif/issues/188
Even though I am of the right, I like this idea. I think it's a way of helping people have control of their money and as a way to see the benefits of earning money and the freedom it provides, in contrast to heavily restricted govt. programs
> which comes as a result of having to find solutions to the world's largest population which nobody else has to deal with

The population of China was about 1.412 billion, quite similar to the population of India at 1.408 billion so not really an accurate statement that nobody else has issues of population scale to deal with.
Get used to people having different opinions than you - it will help you greatly in life.
My anecdotal experience with competitive games has been that the top ~15% of players generally have a winrate >50%, with the top 1-5% usually clearing 55%, especially where some skill-indicative metric is used to do matchmaking.

The fact that winrate is 50% across the board implies that they are somehow fixing matches, or (as the author states) simply banning their most skilled players.
Multicast works across subnets with PIM
Napster was right to bet on music being accessible online but oh wait
From the article: “ To see that all these equations of motion are physically possible solutions, it's helpful to use the time reversibility of Newtonian mechanics. It is possible to roll a ball up the dome in such a way that it reaches the apex in finite time and with zero energy, and stops there. By time-reversal, it is a valid solution for the ball to rest at the top for a while and then roll down in any one direction. However, the same argument applied to the usual kinds of domes (e.g., a hemisphere) fails, because a ball launched with just the right energy to reach the top and stay there would actually take infinite time to do so.”
If you found my comments belittling, then you should consider if you have a personal attachment to the idea that taxation is theft. If I thought 2+2=5, and someone called me out as wrong, I wouldn't take personal offense to it.

If you seriously think taxation is theft, I think the best I can offer is to think about how do you define ownership? Before you have theft, you must have ownership.
The concept of having a slot machine in my pocket sets off so many mental alarm bells that it’s incomprehensible to me that people would gamble on what looks like Bejeweled.
Invest your $500 in the stock market.. now you have assets. People choose to buy rapidly depreciating discretionary goods instead of investing.
Good job, they definitely look shady as hell. Did you consider doing responsible disclosure and doing a write-up after? Aren't you worried about any retaliation? I'm pretty sure this type of company has a decent amount of money to spend on legal cases..
Bad headline. It doesn’t run on microcontrollers or zephyr. They just use zephyr for the RTOS on the embedded controller that runs the keyboard, usb-pd, and mouse. Previously a homegrown RTOS was used
> A 2019 report by European labor unions expressed worry that unconditional cash assistance to create a universal income floor in a developed economy might render targeted social services obsolete, ending government functions that ensure equitable health care, child care and educational services.

See, if true, this is the reason small-government people should really support a UBI. It's not about whether the government spends money, it's how much they spend and what we get in return. If a UBI reduces the overall size of government, while capably replacing these social services, it should appeal to the wide, middle band of Americans that cuts across both parties.

Framing this — as the article does — as a referendum on whether you like "big government" or not is unnecessary. Who likes big government for its own sake? I only know people who want the government to be optimally sized to do its job. After that it's just a question of how you define those terms: optimal, do, and its job. But few would argue that a government shouldn't use the most effective solution for the jobs we agree it should do.
Podcast experience on desktop is absolutely miserable. I just want a list of the most recent unplayed episodes in chronological order, is that too much to ask? Like jeez, it sounds like the most basic feature imaginable that should be part of an MvP for crying out loud.

Only reason I still use it is because it's easier to cast to my google nest minis than Apple Podcasts.
If it were just a conspiracy theory, someone would have gone through the claims in the book "Viral" by Matt Ridley and Alina Chan and debunked its arguments one by one. Matt Ridley is a journalist who wrote numerous books about scientific topics (one about the genome in 1999). Alina Chan is a biologist who works at Harvard and MIT. When people say "trust the science", or "trust the scientists", why should we trust Peter Daszak, with his obvious conflicts of interests, over Alina Chan?
Come on, seriously. Show your source. I've got a Pew chart here that says 53% say they "pay the right amount" in taxes, while another 4% say they pay less than their fair share.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/10/5-facts-on-...

You're saying that half the population don't just say "more than my fair share", but that they view it as literal theft.
Decade or more ago, Apple flagged they were heading to in-housing the profits in VLSI when they cut ARM out of the deal behind the chips for the iPod. Nobody should be surprised if somebody with big money in TSMC sees Apple (who buy a lot of their product) as a better investment. (they kept the IPR tie-in within limits but stopped using them to be the foundry and started adding their own FPGA and the like to arm cores. So it was functionally diluting)

TSMC are going to be exposed to high risk re-building in the USA (making VLSI plants is very very expensive and yield can be many years in the hunting), and have bottlenecks (water access) in Taiwan as well as the war risk. Maybe Berkshire sees them as a dropping value shere for a bit. I doubt they won't return, maybe later on when TSMC shares are better value? Berkshire is a hold company, not a trade-at-a-rate-of-knots company.

I'm not sure why Berkshire thinks banks are a bad bet: they have made bank (sorry) this last downturn, and will continue to. A lot of profit in them yet, and with interest rates going high, people will be flocking to them for income generating products like annuities. Maybe I misunderstand the risk here but I would think a bank is a better bet right now than listed property trusts.

If I am not mistaken, Berkshire is huge in re-insurance and in general goods and services. If they move out of the insurance market and cite global warming risk, thats the signal everyone needs to see that its a real risk, not some fancy.

Is Berkshire invested in the dutch chip-making tool maker side of things? Thats got to be the shovel-seller in the goldrush.

[edit: I am hazy on exactly what is the role between Apple, ARM-UK holdings, Wolfson, TSMC and their history of chip design so please don't beat me up if you know ARM was never the foundry. The point was, Apple used UK VLSI designs, secured designs, and then moved into the territory to internalise profit. exactly what they did I don't know but I do know they marginalised work that was done for them]
So to spell out the abbreviation, BD means “Business Development” then?
I'm not even sure the article is self-consistent. It seems to argue early on that shadows don't climb walls from the floor, only to insist later that they do. I must have not read the article closely enough.
Guaranteed income is a form of stability, which changes the outlook of recipients far more radically than a one-time transfer. People are more likely to make plans that increase their productivity in the future, such as fixing vehicles, going back to school, or leaving under-employed situations. The price fixing you describe already happens as much as possible, that's what drives inflation. UBI lets people walk away from bad jobs and re-distributes agency so that nobody is trapped.
Since we are agenda posting, it also calls into question whether diversity really is a positive after all. All the east asian monoethnic nations long surpassed diverse India despite having similar experiences with colonialism
Not a citizen, but there's a lot of countries that you can incorporate without being a citizen, for tax purposes. liechtenstein for example. So taxation is indeed a competitive sphere (but it's only for the rich, not for the those of working wage).
I'm not sure how this is a strawman. My point is simply that just because a large number of people believe something, it does automatically make it a serious position.
I didn't say "this solution is easier", simply said someone might find a use case for it. Ya'll are dismissive of something neat with a number of use-cases (I only tossed out just one use case that popped into my head, based on actual experience on a million dollar SAN, that is still supported (and sold!) to this day).
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On average, yes. However, this is a dishonest comparison imo.

Skill-based matchmaking aims to find a “good” matchup for you by putting you up against an opponent of a similar skill level. Over time you land at 50% due to this, but if you improve you’ll face better opponents and have more complex games.

Skillz is just fake randomness designed to keep you from making money, and you have no control over this.

I guess the birds eye view appears the same, but it’s not really the same concept.
I like to add that I'm personally incredibly thankful to the Government for creating the earth we live on, the sun, the moon and all the stars.
Absolutely. Growing up in the Netherlands, I would bike everywhere. At my height, I would be biking 90-120km per week. From commuting to work, to the gym on the other end of town and some trips .. whenever. Now I am in Asia, there are people biking here, but not me. Suddenly all the trips I take, even the shortest ones are by car. Because screw cars.
Not at all. This affects everyone

Kevin in accounting might be making a document for work and might take a screenshot of his entire desktop to put in an onboarding document, intending to crop it. He could have a password in Notepad off to the side
I worked for a billion dollar company prior to running my own.

>> Try doing that x100,000, every month. It gets annoying fast

We didn't. Accounting did. Our company had a reimbursements-only policy, no corp cards. It was great, especially those of us who flew a lot and banked tons of airline, hotel, and credit card points.

The other stuff, sure. Doubling the price? I don't buy it. Are large corps really stopping people from buying Copilot on their own and using the personal license, BTW? Definitely not.