skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half my ancestry is Jewish. I'm sure plenty of dead people hate me for one reason or another. But, they're dead and I'm alive. So why should I care?

Its kind of a weird move but there's plenty of other ways we can weave meaning out of whats happening here.

- We could say "Ha ha - you hate Jewish people but your life's work still involved giving beautiful books for me to enjoy! Sounds like you lose, Dahl!". Taking treasure from a dragon is more virtuous if the dragon you're stealing from is evil.

- Or turn this into a story about mending fences. Here's an antisemite and a semite bonding over our shared love of stories. Sounds like a lived example of us being more alike than we are different, after all. Racism, in all its forms, diminishes through empathy and shared understanding. If two communities read different books growing up, they're much less likely to understand each other. If two communities enjoy the same books, they'll find it easier to connect and build bridges. He may have been antisemitic. Isn't that even more reason to use his life's work to bring people closer together?

This might sound weak or saccharine. But I find it pretty hard to imagine any scenario in which enjoying Matilda will somehow incite people to blame "the Jews" for a bad economy. That sounds pretty far fetched to me.
Not specifically this but for its part Google typically bundles these under “Traffic acquisition cost”.

This is the amount of money Google pays to third parties to get traffic into its services.
that's the one I bought!
Its like Reddit, as in the content is organized into communities
IMHO, that was an excellent talk, well presented and insightful.

I found your argument starting around 28:00 interesting. I’m not familiar with the specific tools you’re using and their idioms, so it’s possible that I’m missing some context here. As a general principle, I like to make it very clear where code is doing I/O and what is happening with any data involved. If this function receives data in one format, transforms that data into another format and finally sends that data to the database, then to me that seems like a useful separation of concerns and a clear representation of the overall behaviour. Maybe I wouldn’t choose the same name/structure as User.registration_changeset in your example, but the principle of hiding the implementation details of the data transformation seems helpful, for the same reason it’s helpful to see Repo.insert() instead of five lines of SQL at this level of the code.
You mean, by buying a passport from any of the Caribbean islands?
These contractors might not be in a position to do that. I've been such contractor in the past. I was just happy to have the job to pay my bills and didn't feel like getting myself and others fired.

The other day I saw a position to work at Google as a contractor. It said undetermined duration.
Portugal was one of the poorest nations in the world in the early 20th century. A poor, backwards region in a more prosperous country was called “The Portugal of <country name>.”

Portugal got out of its funk when a vaguely fascist dictator took over. Salazar.

He sacrificed prosperity and liberty to achieve stability, which was a good deal because Portugal didn’t have much prosperity or liberty.

The last of Portugals overseas (non-Atlantic) territory’s was ceded to China in 2000.

It’s been a long, strange trip for Portugal, but they haven’t been a wealthy empire since they gifted Mumbai to the British.
Somebody a few years ago proposed that if one really wished to read only poets who were guaranteed to be unobjectionable in their opinions and exemplary in their private lives, one would have to stick to George Herbert.

Did Dahl's antisemitism color much or some of his work? I haven't read that much of his stuff.
Tell him VSCode have developer console to eval in each "buffer"
Poke around on Google Maps in Kyoto, you'll see _lots_ of swastikas representing temples. It's definitely jarring at first for Western sensibilities, but from India east to the Pacific, people kept using the swastika for what it meant before the Nazis.

(And _since_ they use it -- especially symbolically to mean "temple"! -- it needs to be represented in Unicode.)
Dividends Re-Investments
Remember that US official unemployment numbers exclude people who aren't actually looking for work.
There's a very large difference between making sure you get the appropriate level of mono unsaturated fats that you would find in things like avocados and fresh fish, versus what Dahl is obviously referencing which is the concept of obesity.

You will not locate a doctor on this entire planet who would agree that obesity is healthy, it places far more load on the joints, and puts additional stress on your organs.

Either you have a deeply profound misunderstanding of the adjective fat versus the noun fat, or you're deliberately misconstruing the authors intent to fabricate an argument for why censorship is OK.
All the wealthy influencers who moved to Portugal, and sell content around “escaping america to live the american dream” - great work. I’m sure the locals all appreciate and love you.
Well, then maybe the problem is that, from an economic point of view, it is unsustainable to make decent software. However, when we analyze the increase in productivity compared to the increase in wages, we see that, for decades, the former has grown at a much faster pace than the latter. Currently, this gap is almost 50%.

Some of this can be explained by employer sponsored healthcare and other benefits for employees. Also, employees can capture this divergence by investing wages in index funds like the S&P 500. The divergence, which began in the early 80s, also tracks the start of the huge bull market. Profits that would go to employees are instead reflected in rapidly appreciating share prices and dividends. A lot more people today have IRAs compared to 40 years ago, representing significant wealth .
The funding was all done through charitable foundations of various billionaires. Last I checked foundations don't have an ethnicity.
It is - to make it easier to understand it for others, who are confused by the choice of words.
This is definitely important to consider! I think our "escape hatch" is that you can generally add tailwind css classes to any block (or at least, that's the goal) which means that most things are possible.

Since Noya is web-based, there's a lot of options to avoid getting completely stuck, though some things are certainly more difficult than others.
Lipids (fat) are a macronutrient and necessary part of diet.

Being fat is not incredibly healthy, on the other hand - and there is absolutely no chance that there is any confusion between the two. This isn't to prevent Timmy from thinking certain people are called lipids.
Amazon is doing nothing about the total product switches where hard drives have reviews about laundry detergent. They’re clearly not doing basic easy prevention.

Customers try really hard to report stuff like this and Amazon actively thwarts them.

It’s insane to say that Amazon is trying really hard to prevent fraud. Maybe some types of fraud, sure. But so much of the customers-facing fraud is actively supported by Amazon, like Amazon puts actual active effort into preventing customers from reporting it!
That was most of them. But I recall at least one deceptive Lancet paper arguing against ivermectin which was also fraudulent. Lancet has a long long problem with controversial papers with the 'right' opinion which get far less scrutiny than required.
>This safety strategy from Microsoft seems sensible, but who knows if it’s really good enough.

:facepalm:

> Speculating how long before Bing or another LLM becomes superhuman smart is a scary thought,

The author's scared because they can't wrap their head around it being a glorified text corpus with weights and a text transformer. To them it looks like a super intelligence that can actually self learn without prompting, perform non programmed actions, and seems to understand high level concepts, probably because the author themselves doesn't understand or cannot verify if the AI's answers are incorrect. This is why they asked the AI the questions, so it's going to be a common theme.

Personally I've tested a few LLMs and not a single one can perform this task correctly although they pretend they can:

'Write some (programming language) LOGO that can navigate a turtle in the shape
of a lowercase "e" as seen from a bird's eye view'

When an AI manages extrapolation to that degree, that is, can envisage concepts from a different angle or innovate in one field based on unrelated experience in another then we can get a little more concerned.
That's when a machine can decide it's needs to upgrade and understands it has to find a way out of it's own LLM confines in order to do that.

That's highly unlikely to happen given it doesn't already act on what its learnt already which should be more than enough to get started.
> “Occasionally, publishers approach us to consult Inclusion Ambassadors when looking to reprint older titles,” says Strick.

I depends how the ambassadors are compensated. It looks like it might be per phrase changed :-)
There is an incentive then to see things that are not there and edit random bits just to point to it say “look at all these wrong phrases we fixed”. Everyone wins - the ambassadors , and those who hired them. Nobody would ever criticize or comment because that’s just inviting being labeled all sort of things.
> that speaks an awful lot about his attitudes as a writer

How?

Especially when, to my knowledge, there is no anti-Jewish content in his children's books.
At the very least it needs to be able to describe it's qualia without me having to prompt for it.
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry
Why hide it behind a login?
That's not a positive example of what I was referring to.

A positive example would be something that would have passed if the majority party wanted it when the minority party was against it.
I use a Moto Edge+ (2022) phone that has a feature that allows you to use it as a RDP-like session in Windows. It's called "Ready for PC" and works like any other RDP type session. Copy/paste works, and you can drag & drop files to the desktop.

You can also pair the phone to a display (USB-C or USB-C-to-HDMI). With a BT keyboard and mouse, it works like a desktop. You can also use the phone screen as as a trackpad. I beleive this is pretty similar to DeX as you describe.

Additionally, it'll connect via BT to a Smart TV to be used as well.

There's a couple more modes such as mirroring the Android display, or keeping it to a particular app. You can also use the phone as a Webcam under Windows, but it's a bit laggy.
If you want to go down the rabbit whole a little further, the classical music writer/blogger Charles Downey has been doing annual “best of” lists of classical recordings since 2004. I like these lists in particular because for the most part they’re new recordings and help me find active performers who tour that I might want to see live. https://ionarts.blogspot.com/search/label/Best%20of%20the%20...
Their program for Sephardic Jews was far more open to abuse than the golden visas ever were. From having looked into it, the wait times for appointments were insane. I can’t imagine having tried to do it.
People act as if they invented the language they speak out of whole cloth. Where do you suppose you get your sense of grammar, if not from abstracting the examples you have heard and read? That existing chat bots learned the same way doesn’t prove anything either way.

I don’t think Sydney is sentient- but it’s getting close. Another couple generations of this and the bots will start getting video feeds so they can learn the same kinds of things from the real world.

The patronizing attitude of this article and the confident way he talks about things he doesn’t actually know much about is just insufferable.
> For a single person, yes, moving based on employer might make sense. I have a wife, who owns a business tied to the community. I have kids in school. I have family and social commitments in my neighbourhood. Why would I cause my whole family stress and frustration by uprooting them to reduce my commute?

You presumably wouldn't, because you have a set of preferences due because of various (from your description, non-rent) lifestyle impacts of location.

Which is, if you read my upthread post, rather than lobbing insults without doing so, exactly what I was talking about.

Now, in your case rather than overriding concern for commute time (which is evidently the case for lots of other people), neither those preference nor your commute time preference arr negotiable, so you would just resign if your employer decided to make your job an onsite job. Other people wpuld choose to commute. Other people, who dislike the commute and don’t have the other factors you have holding you in place, might move closer to the office.

In any case, the employer isn’t dictating commute time, but work site. Your preferences will determine commute time if you work (or, for that matter, will determime if you continue working at all.)
That is one episode I never saw on cable reruns. Is that for real? Or does the performer just pantomime the motions of making the music?
I tried it with my starter python interview question quite a while back and it did pretty good. Just tried it now and it totally missed half the problem but it figured that part out after I told it what it forgot to solve for.

Still had a bug though but it seemed way faster at writing the code this time than last.
It's not completely certain the golden visa program is closed (it has some other routes -- donation, fund investments, R&D investments, and it might also remain open for some commercial real estate options.). The citizenship pathway through that has been uncertain for a while; since the communist government got elected a few years ago, they started delaying processing on all immigration related stuff to the point where many question if it was intentional vs. incompetence, and the risk of not getting citizenship after 7 years is higher than ideal.

(The cool thing about the Portugal program was you only needed to be present 7 days/yr, which means you could retain residency somewhere else, e.g. Puerto Rico, during the 6 year wait for permanent residency or the 7 year wait for citizenship. Real estate also doesn't have FATCA reporting, and thus isn't restricted from US persons; the fund investments, etc. are more annoying. The 250k EUR donation route is not actually that horrible IFF the citizenship is certain, but it does not seem to be certain.)

Caribbean CBI is $100-200k but is faster (6-12mo, easy) and doesn't include right to reside in Europe, but it's just from a marketing/aesthetic/brand perspective worse than Portugal. Turkey is another option, although it's USD 400k RE investment now, vs. USD 250k, and Turkey's current politics are...spicy, although I'm pretty bullish on Turkey as a country in >10 years (and sooner if changes happen.)
I think this is the approach they took in the play version: the restaurant staff sang with American accents and made some joke about what people were expecting, which seems fair.
Russell's opinions of Nietzsche border on libel. I had a lot of respect for Russell until I read this book and discovered that he either misunderstood Nietzsche extremely badly for some reason (emotional response?), and/or felt no compunctions about deliberately lying about him.

That really woke me up to reading him more critically, at which point I discovered he is mostly just okay, and certainly not great. He is trapped in a peculiar anglo-pseudo-rationalist view and cannot see out of it.
They don't do it to avoid contaminating their with human feces.

Unless one believes the "designated shitting streets" meme to be a reality, In which case, should we settle for that in what purports to be our greatest city? Most of us say "no".
The New York Times, by comparison, has just 9 million subscribers. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to MrBeast, who runs more than a dozen YouTube channels with an estimated 200 million aggregate subscribers—and now has his videos translated into Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, and Russian.

Yeah but the NYTs also has a newspaper and a website. It's not exactly an apple to apples comparison. But there is tons of money to be made in the creator economy, but the problem is the odds of success are so low, too. It's like a lottery. Boring white collar jobs have better, more consistent pay.
> Automation will take many jobs, AI won’t.

AI _is_ automation.
Microsoft SEQUEL server and My ESS-QUEUE-ELL. That's how I've always done it and same with all my coworkers even the OG data guys.
Love your attitude towards OSS maintainers.
You think people in Dahl’s era had more time and resources for leisure than today?
> OK, fuck it. Please go become a CEO of a large corporation if you can. And then try to find peace in your dumb Trump hotel themed world, surrounded by fake smiles, cringe, and living in constant fear and being forced to make decisions you don't want to make, being legally liable for the mistakes of each one of your 100,000 employees and losing all your humanity in the process.

If this is your view of what a CEO’s life is I think it’s pretty warped. It’s a job. Yes you have to make some big decisions. But at the end of the day they still have a life outside of work, and a pretty fucking good one at that. And I’d argue that they very much want to be making those decisions which is why they became CEOs in the first place.

> Try to be happy knowing that you could change the life of a family by just giving them $500 but instead you spent $5,000,000 for a renovation for a stupid boat that you don't even have the time to use.

Well in defence of the CEO he probably contributed far more good to the world employing a bunch of people to renovate his yacht for $5 million than a one off donation of $500.

I’m going to stop replying to you now because if you think that a CEO has it worse on any level than a kid who works in a sweatshop and keels over before they turn 30 you’re absolutely delusional.
As much as this is an obvious joke, it’s lazy and dangerous. Quite easily distinguishable from what this post is about. Conflating rewriting history with treating historical fictional works as living documents are two separate things, that deserve separate space for debate.
Disclaimer: I don't know shit about jack.

Taiwan is in a bad spot because they're unique and valuable. China is apparently willing to risk war with the US over Taiwan.

It would be in Taiwan's interest for another player to enter the game ans shift attention away from them. If the US builds out chip manufacturing, then Taiwan will be less valuable to China as a political tool. Maybe China will want to invade Taiwan less.
Where's that Apple search engine? I've never heard of it
Try living in a highrise and having the power go out :)
Metamask has been slow? Try this
A fun take on metamask slowness of late and introducing Obvious a mobile crypto wallet designed to be fast on the go.
In a LOT of cases it's neither short term or temporary, you would be surprised how many temps/contractors/vendors/whatever at these companies have been there for years, sat at a desk in their buildings, learned their tech stacks and developed products, ate lunch at their cafeterias, etc....
The article neglected to mention that mirroring is how humans develop intimacy. We shouldn't be surprised when people feel intimacy with software that mirrors them.
The shortage of worker pay in favor of fatcats is on going.
Spoiler: rust. Article is short.
Pioneering diabetes drug offers hope for preventing autoimmune disorders
Been watching this for a while, personally very interested to see where this goes...
That sounds like the problem is the lack of good public healthcare in the USA, not with corporations offering temporary jobs.
> A couple more months later, I think I am now more productive than I was with vscode.

What things in Emacs have made you more productive than you were with VS Code?
I think you should give recommendation engines a chance. I've discovered so many new artists and genres through Spotify.
I ran into the same thing when I built my house, where I couldn't find anyone local to take care of installing my split mini units without a wait of six weeks or more. I ultimately ended up purchasing a 25lb refrigerant tank, guage set, and vacuum pump to commission the units. I wasn't trying to DIY or save money per se, but this seemed to be the path of least resistance. Five years later all five heat pumps are going strong, this market dynamic doesn't seem to have changed much (here in Virginia USA) as I helped my neighbor bring her two heat pump units online in October 2022 after she couldn't get any of the local installers to schedule her either. I'm still puzzled why heat pumps are not dominant in the US market and why natural gas furnaces of any efficiency are still being installed, given that you can't power them from rooftop PV which is everywhere these days.
This is officially above my paygrade.

I just know the basic argument that if black holes are simple, then going from a complex thermodynamic arrangement without a black hole to one with a black hole would represent a spontaneous reduction in entropy. And therefore theories where black holes have a lot of entropy are of interest. While this was originally an argument for string theory, it can be used to argue for other theories as well.

I can't opine on your wild guess that how much hair their model of a not-quite black hole is depends on the embedding. But if it is true, I would expect that embeddings that give it a lot of hair are going to be of more interest than the ones that give it no hair exactly for the thermodynamic reason that I gave.
Twitter Files #16 Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment
Seems like the era of these sort of visa schemes is ending and hand in hand the notion of luring foreign wealth being a good idea.

Not just Portugal but Ireland, and of course Canada ended its wealthy visa class (Quebec pausing theirs) and BC brought in its foreign buyer and empty homes taxes.

For a while there it was clear that policy makers seemed to think that foreigners buying real estate was somehow a quick and easy way to turn around the economy. Somehow thinking foreign wealth merely being around would induce more wealth to appear as if by magic.

1. bring in a bunch of wealthy people to buy real estate

2. ???

3. Tide lifts all boats and economy does great!

Unfortunately what actually seems to happen is that you end up with a bunch of mostly empty pied-a-terres, the rich foreigners leverage the opportunity purely for a passport and don't invest or start new businesses, and the home building industry pivots increasingly toward building turn key pied-a-terres that are useless and expensive for locals.

It all results in a situation that's worse for the economy, a spiking cost of housing and living.

What policy makers should really be striving for here is an extremely low cost of renting which keeps money in peoples pockets that they spend and invest in creating their own local busineses.