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The Weimar Republic didn't have a contracting money supply in that period

There is a bar on personal projects. Period. Period.

Either you're misunderstanding logic, law or society. If Karparthy fails he runs a real risk of having his life very closely examined. The rules are different for different people.

I do machine learning medical work for the coronavirus. I work at near optimal as humanly possible. Occasional hackernews is one of my few indulgences.

His job affects peoples lives. He certainly is human. I'm not criticising his project. I'm not saying he can't have personal hobbies. And I'm not the one that decides the bar.

I'm saying that there is a bar and it's higher when lives depend on it.

There is a long list of activities that people could do in their personal time that would be considered inappropriate. What is done outside of work is relevant. It can form part of a character assessment which can have political and legal ramifications.

If Tesla ends up with a dangerous product then it becomes very relevant.

That certainly depends on how much time off and what was done in that time.

Society has given Kaparty et al a lot of latitude to take liberties with other peoples lives. In my view this creates an obligation to do the best job humanly possible.

If they’re giving up on autopilot then fine. But if people’s lives are riding on the quality of the work then I think it sets a high bar for personal projects.

I’m no fan of ham fisted normalization.... but I think the bigger issue is the fairness aspect of thresholding based on class sizes.

I think it should be possible to create ‘virtual classes’ above the threshold by combining smaller like classes together.

Such a model would be fairly ham fisted.

Maintain 3 gigs simultaneously and drop the lowest paid one on occasion. Or devote fewer hours to it. Negotiation becomes, “sorry I can’t do more hours for you, someone else is paying me more for my time.” This will also mean you don’t have to worry about who gets what cut, just your cut. It means only doing part time and keeping a float of 40-60hour weeks.

I always wonder how much of the reduction in cleaning of glass can be attributed to better aerodynamics and better glass.

But it’s not poison it’s a virus. You’re less likely to catch it but if you catch it you get a complete dose.

The one thing I liked about MS was that it didn’t have a successful social media asset. This allowed it to stay generally apolitical and out of the fray.

This will be the beginning of the end of MS. (As opposed to the middle of the end of a very drawn out decline.)

I’m sure they see it as another Skype. The US govt subsidizing an acquisition to get access to data.

TikTok optimizes hard for popularity which involves many unpleasant choices in their algorithm. MS will feel compelled to ‘fix’ this both for a perceived social good but also for the benefit of the US government who is no doubt subsidizing this.

MS will become a target for lobbying by interest groups and the US government to a degree it has never dealt with and I don’t think MS can handle it. This is not the same as criticism for being a monopoly or making crappy software.

The best case scenario will be they screw with the algorithm early enough and bad enough that people leave en mass.

These are the same people who couldn’t leave Skype alone.

I wonder if it’s inevitable that we will get denial of entry based facial recognition systems. It’s legally difficult to stop people from leaving the store whereas it’ll be much easier to prevent them from entering.

If someone shoplifts then they get banned from the chain, or a network of chains. This would be an alternative to police involvement. Restitution could be done proportionality and privately.

Of course there will be issues with it but I’m sure it could be cheaper to figure this out than the alternative loss prevention solutions.

If rich people sold the assets they wouldn’t have them anymore. The mechanism is more that rich have access to lower interest rates. The proportional difference of interest rates between the rich and poor increases as the risk free interest rate decrease.

Repeated Bernoulli trials give rise to Gaussian distributions which is where the e exponential comes from.

This an assumption and an approximation and is not necessarily a good fit. Pulling from actual probabilities would generally perform better.

The rest is massaging to better fit the different objectives.

I wonder if people are paying more in a patron or only fans way. Supporting it as an attack on their least favorite blue check mark.

Also, I wonder if more of the value of the blackmail could captured with an auction mechanic; as in donate to X for public release or donate to Y to keep it private at a certain time the account with the most money wins. This mechanic could be manipulated behind the scenes for even more money.

Demographics explains most of differences. Ghettoes, density, and culture seems to explain the rest.

My group of hard core ML friends went fully private. I don’t even pay attention to the public ML discourse (except on HN.) I think a big part of it is a low barrier to an international culture and academia which can be toxic in their own ways.

The media tells us who to care about and by how much. I find the whole thing very irrational and very isolating.

I’m quasi American and I have always hated the people who worked in those towers. The primary business of financialization is to rob the masses of their wealth / pensions. They are a well dressed and well behaved parasitical class.

Osama Bin Laden’s stated intention was to drag the US in to a quagmire and the US obliged.

Despite what MMT people may believe, the US will now have to get used to being a much poorer country. That adjustment will not be easy.

Why was this flagged/dead? It seemed pretty solid to me.

That is rough. I was unaware of the heavy import taxes. But they’re the ones buying so they should pay the tax, expecting me to sell internationally tax inclusive was weird, and possibly a miscommunication with an intermediary, or someone was trying to pull a trick. I think my competitor must have done some transfer pricing with a local branch.

I understand the rational for protectionism and at the same time worry about the future it will lead to. The ability to buy just about anything from just about anywhere was one of the things I really liked about the US.

Brazil is a corrupt highly taxed basket case. I know plenty of people who left.

The govt there tried to buy some software from me and then tried to tax the international sale by %40 after the price was agreed. I added the tax on top and they pulled out.

I have a unofficial free for Latin America donation program for different software because of all the end users from there who can’t afford it. They write to me explaining their situation.

I think a distinction should be made, if at all possible, between capitalism and corporatism. Brazil is pro-corporatist and anti—capitalist. This is common in Latin America with its crazy wealth distribution.

Images got bigger... it’s not that it’s too expensive it’s just way more expensive that good enough alternatives. There are other reasons too but that’s a surprising one

It’s too compute intensive

As a data scientist with access to large amounts of private messages between individuals I can assure you that women are capable of participating in puerility.

I second the mono space for code suggestion. I guess my brain is wired to see when characters are offset slightly as wrong. It’s a bit unsettling.

Think about how sad it must be for Ray Ozzie. He really tried.

I wonder if it’s My Little Pony related

It is weird to me to see people treating the 6ft like a hard barrier rather than a probabilistic guideline.

Checking out the bugs, it’s hilarious. You’d think it’s simple enough to get right. Crash on copying value, a bug waiting on triage for three months. Not exactly an endorsement

That would involve selling shares at a low price after buying them at a high price. This would make management look stupid.