skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's silly. Generally its helpful in most headlines about [any large org] to substitute [Public Schools] and see if someone would bother to bat an eye at the headline.

> 911 calls from [Public Schools] show emotional distress and suicide threats

Nobody would care. (Maybe partly because people are already resigned to public schools being CAFOs, though)

189 calls over a 5 year period across 46 different facilities for Amazon. For schools in NYC its like, 300 a year per school iirc? (for behavior problems, not for physical health emergencies)
>I think they replace those filters with ones of their own making, and while thus leading to a different schema than sober exposure to regular life, they do not necessarily lead to a "better" one.

Yes, partially along this line of thought I have consciously decided to not take any psychedelic drugs at all (or drugs other than coffee really). I am quite happy with my status quo, and taking psychedelic drugs may pull me out of it. I do realize that psychedelics do dissolve the ego, but I find having an ego is quite helpful in life in that most of my main accomplishments thus far have been by me standing up for myself and taking a shot in the dark. And I couldn't have done so without an ego.
Goodreads. I wish there was something as robust that wasn't so social media-oriented but it works for what I need: a recommendation engine, reviews and scores, and a flexible way to catalog my books.
I'm not sure that's the case. I work somewhere that has seen a very high turnover in contractors, paid a decent amount above market averages. It's because project assignments are poorly defined, bureaucratically controlled, and by the time the initial term is up (usually 3 months) the contractor is fed up and has some other work already lined up.
Exactly, which makes "free will" a semantic nonsense term. Understanding that neither determinism nor in-determinism of the universe show anything about popular conception of free will (libertarian sense) allows one to exit a semantic misconception.
Doesn't appear to be very accurate.

https://boat.algorithm.city/analyzer/?&f=N*lg(N)*lg(lg(N))

"The Big Theta of N * lg(N) * lg(lg(N)) is O(n * lg(n))"
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This algorithm is useful for picking parking spaces at shopping centers.
Just passing on this podcast for anyone interesting

http://www.econtalk.org/michael-pollan-on-psychedelic-drugs-...

It's certainly got me curious but I have no idea where to get a "guided" experience.
Do you see capping at 100x returns as reducing profit motives? As in, a dastaradly profiteerer would be attracted to a possible 1000x investment but scoff at the mere 100x return?
Alternate hypothesis: We want the problem to be the porn, otherwise the issue is societal. And that's terrifying because we would have no tools to investigate or understand the problem (let alone fix it).

If stopping porn treats the symptoms though: phew, we can all sleep at night knowing that there is nothing wrong with the way society collectively rears children (through parents, school, "SFW" media) that leads to anything less than healthy sexual relationships.
How do those people even expect their problem to get resolved? If I got a death threat from a potential client, I would immediately call the police and refuse to come onsite.
None of those bosses that treated you like shit were the richest man in the world.
Here's a more specific take in that vein. It's an interesting way of thinking about the topic, even if it doesn't convince you of anything: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/02/hes_just_not_that_in...
What's the rate of suicide calls to 911 in the general population? If it's around 0.1%, I wouldn't be surprised... Most people hit that point at least once in their lifetime.
At this point you may as well write it longhand, "X is much larger than Y". Since promoting anything less than maximally accurate beliefs is an act of sabotage on your fellow human beings, you have to ask yourself why are you using a pie chart - because it's not to provide value for users.
Ask HN: What is the best place to do a Masters with a focus on ML/DL?
That sounds like the delusion of most start-up founders in the world.

Which one of these mission statements is Alphabet's for-profit Deepmind and which one is the "limited-profit" OpenAI?

"Our motivation in all we do is to maximise the positive and transformative impact of AI. We believe that AI should ultimately belong to the world, in order to benefit the many and not the few, and we’ll continue to research, publish and implement our work to that end."

"[Our] mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."
Every single hotel that caters corporate clients in the USA still uses fax. We don't get reservations through fax, but that is the best way to get credit card authorization. A lot of corporate booking systems are automated to send out Fax for credit card authorization after they book the room online.

Also, it's much better for our Front desk staff, as they don't have to constantly check the email. There is only 1 fax number, and anyone can send out the fax and whoever is working at the front desk gets a printed copy without doing anything.

I really wish there is a modern alternative to FAX.

Edit: What I mean by a modern alternative to Fax is that the sender can send high-resolution color documents without going through multiple steps. Scan documents to a computer, convert to PDF, Send an email with an attachment, Check email periodically, Print Email.

I have converted most of our documents to digital forms, and sync to all computers. Yet all my employees rather copy documents as they think its much faster and convenient. They will make 100s of copies of the document.

We accept all documents through email or fax. Last week we received an email with a one-page contract that was broken into 4 images. We asked to send it again and they rescanned and send it again the same way. I used a word to print 4 images into one page and call it a day.
> Natural soap

Soap occurs in nature?
One of the more remarkable results in 21st human genetics was that the top two PCs of a genotype matrix captures geography to an amazing degree [1]. This is the PCA of a N x M matrix where you measure M genetic markers in N people in a relatively homogenous population (Europeans in the paper above).

1.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2735096/
I find the lack of anti-aliasing disturbing.
To be fair, it would be more like 40% of cars failing after 50,000 miles instead of 150,000
How does that affect the incentives and motivations of investors? It doesn't matter how much value you create in the long run, investors will want returns, not safe AI.
How are they exploiting anyone? Are they forcing people to work there against their will?
Your phrasing "loving care" brought to mind a relevant poem:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/weeke...
And if you don't you'll be forced to open a DC office and bid on pentagon contracts.
Sure, but if one of them is more easily controllable maybe more research in the direction would provide some low hanging fruits.
A Ghana office would be presumably to recruit Africans, not African Americans. There is a difference :)
I dunno if I'd be long $ESTC at this point. Elastic took $162 million in venture funding before IPOing. In the last year their Operating Income was -$43 million. A lot of that is sales/marketing related, but at some point they need to make a profit. This open distro is certainly not going to help.

As someone who's worked at many big corps on Elasticsearch installs, I've been worried about them pushing away from OSS for some time. Many big corps want some of these "Enterprise" grade features Open Distro is offering, and if Elastic doesn't already have a foothold in them, I wager they'll be using this instead of paying.

As an aside, how come people still think these Open Source/Core commercial businesses are viable? We've seen time and again that once commercialization occurs, the OSS stuff goes right out the window. (RedHat, Docker, MongoDB, Sentry etc)
I misinterpreted your comment. Apologies for my disproportional rude tone.

I'm all for freedom of choice as long as it doesn't impact the collective. And To add to your point, imagine if sugar-rich and fast-food packagings were photos of sickly-looking obese people and insulin injections. Also imagine if fast-food was prohibited from being advertised. That's what some govs do with tobacco. As you said, allowing one but no the other is indeed a moral debate.
I am still waiting that benefit to provide the missing OpenGL and hardware video acceleration features that were never ported from fxglr.
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You can enable tabbed mode for a split (or the entire screen) in i3/Sway with a single keypress-- it produces the same effect as what you describe, just automated.

edit: You can also use something like rofi to fuzzy search for windows and quickly jump to them, instead of alt+tabbing.
Florida Gators are water puppies. Australian salties will hunt humans down even if you are on a beach or within their sight. There is close to zero percent chance of survival even if you as much get closer to the river to drink some water. Some of the crocs fight great white sharks.

The Aussie crocs are a nightmare and are one of the few predators to actively hunt and kill humans.
>Free Will would have to be some other special category of events that is neither determined not random. We don't have a word or phrase to describe what these events would be like other than "Free Will." However, lacking the vocabulary and math to describe it does not make it non-existent.

That is not even non-existent, more like a misconception which one comes out of by thoroughly examining what "feels" correct. Like Wittgenstein said one of the jobs of philosophy is to free us out of semantic knots. I see free will such a knot arising due to our conception of a separate self from the causality, leading us to project a conception of freedom which makes no sense when examined upon.
*when that takes effect
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"technologies": ["Javascript", "Rails", "React", "React Native", "Django", "AWS", "UX/UI", "Adobe Creative Suite", "Sketch"],
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I've worked a number of warehouse jobs, including at Amazon, I didn't find them particularly stressful and I'd say from a physical standpoint they ranged from moderate to maybe slightly higher at the worst. Amazon I would describe as better than most similar lines of work in terms of pay and overall environment.

I don't doubt that there are problematic Amazon locations out there but I never experienced any of the really negative stories I read online despite moving between different locations and building types.
Retraining is one of the options when an industrial sector shrinks. Suggesting a growing industry like software development as an option doesn't deserve a "punishment" unless it was spiteful in some way. Mocking journalists, or anyone else, who has lost their job is the toxic part of this.
There are no gaps in the default configuration regardless. You would have to manually specify them. However, the i3-gaps fork contains more features than just gaps themselves.
I can't wait for their follow up article:

"Are eggs making young women fertile".
When did we became so creative to choose title for our blog posts. I liked it more old days when title was merely the shortest explanation of what you are going to read.
> No, the idea is that you don't set hard deadlines for the team - they're pointless.

I think the issue stems more from the prevalent confusion between deadlines and milestones in part of the IT world.

I used to work on ship command system. The ship would be stopped for maintenance for a couple of months and available for installation and qualification only during this set period of time. Anything not ready for this window would not be delivered. That's an actual deadline which the project had to meet.

As a project manager, it was my job to keep track of my team milestones to ensure we would be ready for the deadline and find solution when we had issues. It's not only about overtime by the way. You might need a temporary increase of the size of the team, access to external resources, time with an expert or a scope adjustement. Sometimes it's just impossible to meet the deadline and you just want to know as soon as possible to reschedule at minimum cost.

You do need to make an estimate in order to plan your milestones but you also need to commit or you will never know if you are on the right course.
How does it compare to something like Pootle (https://github.com/translate/pootle)?
> Unless the state has absolute monopoly on primary care providers/General practitioners

Yes, that is what single-payer means. There is no parallel payment. You pay for basic service through taxes. You pay for better service through private. Private insurers like BUPA can only extend healthcare options. They don't replace it.
> Couldn’t you just hook up a light sensor, temperature sensor, etc and take the last few decimal places of the reading for a random number

Heat-entropy is of course one of the best and truest sources of random number generation. But a temperature sensor is far more complicated than what you actually need.

All resistors vary their resistance by temperature. This is called Johnson Nyquist noise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Nyquist_noise). Effectively, every resistor you have on the board is generating white noise.

The question is how to cleanly separate the white noise out, amplify it to measurable levels, and then how to feed that into a computer. Various "white noise generators" trace their true entropy to heat noise (ex: Intel's RDRAND assembly instruction has an oscillator which likely varies due to circuit-level heat noise).

I bet that the voltage across any 10 MOhm resistor would be very noisy, and that could probably be a source of noise for any hardware generator design. The issue with MOhm level resistors is that you start to vary the resistance with physical interaction (a human is in the single-digit MOhm region: so if a human touches the circuit board, the circuit may drop its resistance down to 5MOhms or less, which could affect your circuit design very severely).
Exactly, there are no real takeaways from this article, especially since there are real applications* to the problem so it is worth exploring, even if the original example was flawed.

He spend most of the time debating the exemplification without ever challenging the solution, but the example is just there to entertain the casual reader, the interesting part is the math behind.

*You're on a road trip and want to refuel ok the cheapest pump in range, that satisfied the uncertainties of the original problem plus the given constraints.
"Structured job" apparently means "job," though. Frankly, anyone who doesn't have a so-called "structured job" or any obligations to anyone else entitled to demand some of their time is probably rich enough already that they don't need "productivity advice."
(slightly tangential) Have you checked out what Rimvydas Krasauskas has been working on?

https://klevas.mif.vu.lt/~rimask/old/pdf/unifying_theory.pdf
> Maybe too many people are trying to find all their meaning in life through their work.

Funny, someone at work just shared this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/583441/
Is there something about the mystical nature of AGI that attracts sketchiness and flim-flammery? I remember the "Singularity Institute for Artificial General Intelligence" trying to pull similar scams a decade ago.
That's simply an option, because the devs recognize that not everything adheres well to a tiling workflow. It's not intended to be the primary mode of operation. I personally almost never use floating mode.
Is he any more content with his life, though?
If it was me I'd report it to the police before management.
I think in Greece there are similar cases in small islands eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_Ro
Code when you are inspired
No one has to "not be a dick" but the world is better when you try for the goal.

What the blog is saying is "If you build an open source tool and people put their time and effort to using it, closing more and more of the toolset to paid add-ons isn't cool".

AWS just said "Hey, we can build those ourselves and give back to the community". They volunteered and made it happen.
David Mackler is for me the Edward Snowden of the psychotherapy, he burned out as hell of it and dedicates his youtube channel to tell it and teaches how therapy works these days "How to Be a Successful BAD THERAPIST" is great, also talks a lot about childhood traumas and other interesting topics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVuGPT6QBEc
For me, even with very few windows open (but more than 2) a tiling window manager is superior because of the keyboard-driven directional navigation (Super+[hjkl]) instead of the unidirectional Cmd+Tab.
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Why the Limited Partnership at all? What can the nonprofit "Inc" do through the for-profit "LP" shell that it could not do in its own right?
Will investing be open to all accredited investors or just a handpicked selection? Opening a crowdsourced investment opportunity would be in line with your vision to democratize the use of AI. The more people that have a non-operational ownership stake in Open AI the better.
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I doubt they really do. Even 10x profit cap would be questionable in regards to this "not being a profit incentive".
This is neat but I wonder if companies would just build this themselves instead?
You can pick one sentence out of my comment and tear it apart, or actually read and understand the whole thing. Your choice.

Managing servers is something no startup should be doing. Period. If you can SSH into it, you're wasting time on infrastructure that could be spent finding product-market fit. The number of servers isn't the relevant points; its the fact that he's using ANY servers.
> However, it does demonstrate that the link between merit and outcome is tenuous and indirect at best.

I don't care if the link is weak or strong, I just want to be able to choose whether I want to be surrounded (or even managed) by useless people at work. The author complains meritocracy causes selfishness and at the same time claims there's little reason to believe meritocracy actually directly and personally benefits the person with according to their merits. Which is it, then?

And if I know the link between my merits and benefits is tenuous at best but still prefer meritocracy, how does that make me selfish?

The article looks completely wrong, I don't buy any of its arguments against meritocracy.
You might be able to ask for 10x your current rate, and get more business because now you look and sound like you can do the project. You'll also have less work overall since you don't have to do 10 times as much work to make the same amount of money.

It's why oracle can charge tens of thousands of dollars for software that might run 30 dollars a month from another company.
Hmm. It seems to me, but I'm not sure so please correct me, that a top VC is someone to whom others mostly come as supplicants, and hence can demand scheduling on his convenience rather than theirs.
Another former Tesla security manager says the company spied on employees
Except yes it is, because all these software apps are built on prior “real technology” and would be impossible without it. The flow of capital just doesn’t reflect that (and it’s not clear it should).
Y2K was not a hoax! It was the rare case of all the rhetoric making people do the necessary planning work.
It's more likely that the type of people working in Amazon warehouses have less access to resources (friends, therapists, etc), so 911 is the only place to call.

Which is a much bigger issue than just Amazon.
Yes I think they can be used to heal with the --force args, a friend of mine broke an addiction to porn&fapping by having a realization while high on cannabis, he wasn't a regular user, read about set-and-setting looking to seat and stare himself in the mirror, the realization that was like watching his life passing in one second, helped to make him comprehend how much energy he was wasting, energy that might be used to be a better husband and father. No more porn have been seen since years... the fap is made... but by the hands of his wife.
Yes please! Thank you
Well, in the case of something like dating, I'm not so sure.

If in your first serious relationship you find yourself saying, "I really love this person. They're fantastic. I don't want to give them up." Conventional wisdom would probably say, "Well, don't give them up then."
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Alt-tab works fine as "go back to last window", but that could just be a specific shortcut.

Using it to cycle through a pile of apps shown as icons or screenshots is terrible UX, IMHO.
You're not mentally handicapped, you're just in harmony with yourself which is amazing and very rare. :)

I would advise your wife to try volunteering (for whatever cause she finds important) if she hasn't already.
I've started volunteering at a local NGO after switching careers and it's easily my favorite time of the month, gives me lots of energy and peace of mind, wish I could do it more often.
Imagine a future where faxes are a private alternative form of communication. Image machines specifically designed to send encrypted data using phone lines. Maybe there is room innovation there, fax 2.0 is encrypted private alternative form of communication when all others have been exhausted.

Maybe we can attach a typewriter to them as well so you can get all your private communication needs in one package. I know hipsters will be all over this.

Heck we could even use shortwave radio to transmit these: http://hamfax.sourceforge.net/
Discussions around the negative effects of pornography are infected with insufferable religious moralizing. Nevertheless there is some really interesting and concerning evidence that porn is a uniquely addictive behavior. A striking pop-sci illustration is at [1]. The source cited for this graphic is pretty dodgy, but there's plenty of research out there that supports the same conclusions. I like [2] for summaries and links to studies.

1 - https://visual.ly/community/infographic/health/porn-effects-...

2 - https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articl...
In my opinion, you can exploit people even if they willfully do something for you. For example, in some poor nations people do work that is very harmful, they do it to survive. People put up with amazons policies because they need the job to survive.

What if Amazon kills all the local business and becomes the only employer of people from few villages? They can exploit and use the same logic that you describe.
Derp: I revisited the page today and the graphic is a tidy part of the header now. It's still 2,838px × 2,789px though... I dunno if it was my browser or what; I was seeing the picture scaled to the width of the window which resulted in full-screen forehead. Scrolling up was like a Terry Gilliam cartoon.