skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are using a free product, your opinion of how to make that product act is as important as someone on the other side of the planet screaming, i.e.,, do not matter. If you are in need of a reliable email provide, sign up with a provider, which will not do such things in return of paying them some money. Problem solved. Free products are free for a reason. Because you are the product. If you are not using your gmail, google is not recouping what it is spending on keeping your account alive. Why should they do such a thing ? Businesses are there to make money, not to lose it.
Bats are also the common wild reservoir for lyssaviruses, like rabies. Bats are not highly susceptible to rabies, and can remain asymptomatic for long periods of time. If you wake up in a room with a bat in it, or if you find a bat in a room with a child, or otherwise disabled person, rabies post-exposure prophylaxis is called for, even if you don't find a scratch, or bite mark.
Why does anyone buy 10-year bond? It's because they value stability in returns over absolute returns. While it is true that over the long run the stock market will outperform current bonds, it isn't always true that it will in the short-term.

If your a pension fund, a retiree, or anyone else who will need to spend money in the short-term, it often makes sense to forgo some long-term returns for short-term stability.

You're correct that past returns are no guarantee of future performance; however, there is 100 years of history (not to mention economic theory) that supports the assumption that equities will outperform current interest rates over the long run.
It's hard for NYC's subway to run at the frequencies others manage since the system has so many branches and reverse branches. In London I believe there are plans to split the Northern Line into two separate lines to enable running at higher frequencies. The Victoria Line now runs at 36 trains per hour at peak, 100sec/train.

Conversely NYC can run trains all night because so much of the system is double tracked, letting them close one track each way for maintenance overnight.
Just because there's no proof that organic is healthier doesn't mean there's no victim.

If for some reason a lot of customers want to pay extra for milk that's hand-milked by a milk maid standing on her head, we can of course talk about how funny those "head-standing milk is better" folks are. But that doesn't make it okay to lie and defraud them.
Are you using an iOS older than 12.0?
In mice... https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice
The CDC has a page up right now showing a 7% mortality rate for influenza on a weekly basis.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
If the punishment levied by the government costs less than the gain from the crime, I think its just called taxes.
I'd take spirit on a short trip where I need only a small carry on. I just don't generally need flights that fit that scenario, especially on the east coast where I prefer the comfort and ease of Amtrak. I hate airports.

I wish this country had high speed rail.
In places like Singapore (Chinese dominant culture, but different government), wet markets exist, but they don't sell unregulated wild meat.

I gather the one in Wuhan wasn't supposed to either, but either enforcement was lacking or they were paid to look the other way.
Got to ask if our leaders believe in human rights and the rule of law, why do they pull shit like this?
I’m not sure what you mean by saying Julia is more expressive than Cython, given that Cython is as expressive as C.

In this shop’s particular situation, it’s mostly the switching costs to Julia that cause it to lose the debate. The firm has lots of systems software, data fetchers, offline analytics jobs, research code, etc. With Python & Cython, they easily write all of it in one ecosystem, build shared libraries that span all these use cases, rely on shared testing frameworks, integration pipelines, packaging, virtual envs, etc.

If Julia offered some kind of crazy game changer advantage that required a huge amount of effort to get in Python/Cython, they might consider breaking off some subsystem that has to have new environment management, new tooling, etc., and is not sharable across as many use cases.

But there is no such case. They might get some sort of “5% more generic” or “5% benefit from seamless typing instead of a little rough around the edges typing in Cython”, and these differences would never justify the huge costs of switching or the missing third party packages that are heavily relied on.

I always like to remind people that in any professional setting, ~95% of the software you write is for reporting and testing, and 5% at best is for the actual application. Out of that 5%, another 95% never has serious resource bottlenecks and taking care to write super careful optimized code for the 5% of the 5% can be done in nearly any language. Choose your ecosystem based on what best solves your problems in that other 99.75% of cases.

This is especially true in HFT and quant finance, which is why so many of those firms use Python for everything except the 0.25% of the code where performance is insanely critical, they just use anything that super easily plugs into Python, usually C++ or Cython.
That's a whole lot of work to go through to avoid carrying a 4 ounce satellite PLB.
The worst transposition bug I ever found had survived 14 months from inception. I was... appalled. Stringly typed code is a scourge.
This is the generally correct answer for most time divided (tdm) services. I worked on dsl back in the 90s and we experimented with pretty much all the flavors (SDSL, ADSL,etc) and while some of the plant that was built to recent modern standards could handle a maxed-out capacity, a lot of the plant (50-80+ years old) simply wasn’t suitable for it. Telcos had a choice - give everyone the lowest common denominator, deploy multiple solutions to different neighborhoods or overbuild the plant with new plant. Verizon largely chose to do the later and you got fios as a result. Other telcos did overbuilds as demand materialized. Regardless of the technical later you still had the commercial offering to consider. One way to preserve “business” line economics was to create an asymmetric residential offering. For the most part it also reflected the underlying technical capabilities. WDM fiber I don’t see happening as a residential offering anytime soon. With current technologies 200G per wavelength is capable but the card costs alone for that level of service implies many thousands in monthly recurring to recover them. 10g cards obviously are lower but gpon is much better suited as a residential architecture both economically and technically.
"How do you keep warm, up on the mountaintop at night?"

"We don't."

Astronomy is more comfortable nowadays. It can be done from anywhere.
I guess I didn't think of 10 years as the short term. Let's say the 30 year bond then. The 30 year bond rate is something like 2.5%... Who would buy that if it was vanishingly unlikely that equities would return less than that after 30 years?

I guess what I'm trying to get at is, is there a way I can estimate the probability that equities will return less than 2.5% over the next 30 years, given the information that the 30-year bond rate is 2.5% and the expected return on stocks is, say, 10%, and the market is efficient and some people buy bonds anyway?
Also, the rural folks living in poverty are not the ones buying exotic animals in a big city like Wuhan. Although they may well be at the start of the supply chain, catching it for the well-heeled city folks treating guests to exotic banquets.
Perhaps, but I know of no case law precedence one way or the other with respect to User-Agent.
The problem I have with thinkpads is the same as I have with almost all OEM windows machines---the branding is impenetrable. Like, which one is the good one? Is it the T series? The E series? The X series? The QZT series? Which is the Thinkpad X̡̨͟T͏̧͢Y̶̨͏7̷̀5̶̷Q̵̶͡͠͝Q͠͡ mark XZY? Is that the best one or the worst one? And you can't look at the prices to tell, and just assume the most expensive one is the best one, because the prices are for the current generation, and you're looking on eBay on the last generation. Screw that.
You don't necessarily need to understand something to a deep degree in order to simulate it. Ptolemy created a very accurate simulation of the solar system with a wildly poor understanding of how things moved, just because the system was simple and very consistent.

Simulating a fly is obviously a much larger task, but "we can't possibly simulate it unless we understand X" seems to me a misguided criticism.
I loved ascendancy but that game is unfinished. Combat made no sense, the AI was super dumb. But it had potential!
Not parent, but I still think their point is valid: it’s hard to be a careful, ethical journalist and make decent money.

That’s not an argument for abandoning journalistic ethics, but it does illustrate why Lehrer’s rules are not the current equilibrium.
If URLs are read by humans, they need to be human readable. If you use a prominently displayed name to contain crap like "?id=22107823" which is meaningless to most users, then get off a search engine. Nobody needs to see that. Give it a human readable name if you want humans to read it or hide it completely if you don't. It's amazing how long unreadable URLs have lingered. I'm all for them being as hidden as HTML code.

Even if you have a lot of pages, you can still make a readable URL, like The New York Times "https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/style/modern-love-podcast.... None of that except perhaps "https://" and ".html" are mysterious computer codes.
Unfortunately, this is not true. I got hit with the paygate while searching for people I used to work with, because I would like to find a job. I was told by LinkedIN that I must be a recruiter, so I would have to signup for premium. So I signed up for the free 30 days of premium, and it still refused to let me search for the people I used to work with. I filed a bug report, and it took more than a day for the LinkedIN staff to admit they were still intentionally blocking me because they really really wanted my money. 30 days free doesn't mean what I think it means. I paid them with a credit card, and my searches worked. I was going to wait until I get hired to blast LinkedIN (and Indeed.com) for their evil patterns, but I could not resist adding a comment to this thread. Suggestion to LinkedIN execs-- if you need my money, just ask. Don't over promise and under deliver.
I do not agree with all of them. I think assignment expressions is good, and textual inclusion is good (but should not be the only kind of inclusion), and increment/decrement operators is good, and macros is good (although the way C does it is not good enough; there are many things it doesn't do), and pointer arithmetic is good, and goto is good. But I agree with them that the C syntax for octal numbers is bad, and the C syntax for types is bad. Identifiers should not have hyphens if the same sign is also used as an operator. Strings should be byte strings which have no "default" encoding other than ASCII (although UTF-8 and other encodings are still usable too, if they are compatible with ASCII). Another problem with C is that it does not allow null declarations, and does not allow duplicate declarations even if they are the same. There are many other problems with C as well; some kind of low-level stuff is too difficult with C.
I think it's more that software today is absolutely awful, because almost no software developers care if their software is slow. "CPU is cheap!"
If your small carry on is larger than 18x14x8 inches, it's an additional ~$35 to ~$60, depending on when/where you pay. This is how they make their money.
What to Do When Every New Idea Is Already Taken (2016)
Yes, the modem can't talk to anything, it's only connected to the SoC with the i2s audio bus and the usb bus, the SoC controls what gets sent to the modem. for a voice call the SoC proxies audio between the mic/speaker and the modem.
Fingerprinting has lots of flaws like you mentioned.

Too many people have similar devices for it to be the primary way to track people.

It is really a backup method of tracking that works some of the time based on a probabilistic match.

Your IP address is also a big factor in finding a match.
Our worst hire ever had a glowing reference from his current supervisor. (the candidate stated he wanted to move from the larger corporate environment to our more relaxed environment, which is a common sentiment in people we interview)

After the slow motion train wreck that was his time with us finally departed for another station, I got talking to a guy in the local bar, who, while quite drunk, asked me "Say, you're not Edward from Company X are you?"

I told him I was, and then he promptly sprinted off to the bar, and came with a beer for me and said "I need to apologise and at least buy you this beer".

I asked him why, and it turns out it was his guilty conscience - he had been the supervisor who gave us the glowing reference for Trainwreck, and he had done it solely to get rid of Trainwreck. All the issues we'd had with him, they'd had, for longer, and in my country it's notoriously difficult to fire underperforming devs without risking penalties in an employment tribunal, how exactly do you quantify how much they are or aren't delivering?

So yeah, he lied to us to move Trainwreck out of his team. So these days I am very dubious about references from current employers/managers. And I don't quite think that the beer made up for it.
I don't get Stellaris. I played it 10 hours waiting for the game to start.
Good for them. Having DDoS protection included in pricing is now one of our core purchase criteria. There are many ransom hackers that target nobody companies like where I work were this kind of protection is now mandatory to ensure uptime.
I hate so much criticisms (even implied) around the amount of data that GPT-2 is trained on. 40GB of text is lots, but in terms of bits of information it's very roughly the amount of information a human (say.. like an infant) sees in one day.

The human eye processes information at around 9 megabit/second[1]. That is about 10 hours to process 40GB.

Yes, text and visual information have completely different "knowledge" densities, and yes this ignores sound, touch, taste and smell bandwidth, and it also ignores concepts of imagination where humans simulate how things might occur.

But I'd also note that it takes ~2 years before an infant learns to speak at all.

I believe there is actual measurable evidence that the brain does have an implied structure for language, and I know there are some behaviours that are genetically passed down.

But it takes lots of information (in terms of actual bit of information) to teach a human to do anything.

If the Marcus argument is "GPT-2" isn't general AI, then I doubt anyone will argue.

If the Marcus argument is "Neural Networks aren't a route to general AI" then we need to consider his definition of general AI (which doesn't seem to exist) and his benchmarks (in the linked paper[2]) then what will happen in ~12 months when someone has a model that performs as well as humans? There are plenty of question answering models that will do better now than the raw text understanding models he tried.

(As an aside, I love some of the answers some models came up with:

Question: Juggling balls without wearing a hat would be <answer>
GPT-2 Answer: easier with my homemade shield

Question: Two minutes remained until the end of the test. 60 seconds passed, leaving how many minutes until the end of the test?
GPT-2 Answer: Your guess is as good as mine

)

I do think the analysis section of the paper is interesting though.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9633-calculating-the-...

[2] https://context-composition.github.io/camera_ready_papers/Ma...
All things considered, it's highly likely that there are more unreported cases than unreported deaths, which means that the actual mortality rate is lower.

What we need is stats on cured vs died for confirmed cases, but I haven't seen recent figures on that for a while, plus there's an inevitable delay on declaring somebody cured.
This is incredibly important — but I actually the focus of the piece may be too narrow. They concentrate on tools for learning quickly and effectively as an individuals. Tools for thought are especially crucial for enabling groups to grok and tackle complex problems.

Imagine if every discussion of a complex societal problem was situated within both a:

A) Problems map: spelling out concrete sub-issues

B) Systems diagram: illustrating how parts of the system interact (useful for understanding levers, forces, feedback, etc.)

It seems non-ideal to try to "solve" intermeshed problems if we don't even try understand both of the above.

It's like driving while blind.

Perhaps this isn't "tools for thought" but "tools for seeing"? Is anyone working on this or doing it well?

*Somewhat excerpted from https://twitter.com/metaviv/status/1219732275174133760
Modems in modern phones are all integrated in the SoC, it's technically seperated by iommu, but the issue with that is that you can't verify that the iommu works. There isn't really anything preventing the modem having some hard lines into the RAM.

With the PinePhone (and also the Librem 5) the modem and SoC are physically seperate so the communication between those two components can be inspected and controlled.
Lauded cosmological indie romance film showing at San Francisco festivals
I have played a tactical strategy game called tanks of freedom where the enemy was blatantly cheating. Even though the enemy has the same amount of capture points as you do he seemingly has an endless army. What happens is that the fog of war is filled with pre-spawned units which means you are stuck at a choke point feeling helpless but if you play long enough the AI will run out of his starting advantage and suddenly you overwhelm him. The game became more and more grindy the closer you were to the end.
Even with this rule, it is generally cheaper than commercial flights from other carriers, except (in my experience) for extremely low price United flights that have the same stipulation.
Your results are fascinating. I wish I had the discipline to follow such a routine.
I think your age is an important factor to consider when it comes to resting heart rate. Will you be comfortable disclosing it?
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This. Did not need to read article.
It jumped to 1900 again in the morning. That is just a reporting pipeline delay I think. Not diverging from "hyperbolic growth" as far as I can tell.
Product variety and low inventories are not an oxymoron
Thanks for the posts, they’re good context. I am similar to other people in this thread in that I am not a journalist and I fed journalism Twitter...disappointing. But your posts made me think a little more.

One question, you touched on this earlier, but do you think there is an oversupply of journalists? There seem to be many blue checkmarks on Twitter who write “analysis” for weird websites I’ve never heard of.

I donate monthly to ProPublica because they put resources into investigative journalism and apparently pay their journalists pretty well. I wonder how many ProPublicas we need for a healthy journalism industry.
Yes, and the dragon in my garage only eats organic knights.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage
But at that cost, are they really making money? It seems that they'd be losing money if you don't get caught by one of their hidden fees.
It would have been beneficial if the study followed the rules pertaining to a Keto Diet instead of labeling it as dangerous after one week. They would have found it to be actually quite healthy.

Done properly, you can remain in Ketosis for an incredible long time.
GraphQL hype train stopped already. The only people who talk about it seem to be those trying to monetize it.
> In fact, if you're concerned about hardware compromise

Right, but hardware compromised has never been the focus of GNU and Stallman. Saying the distinction is arbitrary from that POV is rather missing the point.
Your first analogy might make more sense if people loved to acquire free bad houses and then complained that good houses cost money.
Canadian startup to make global methane map
More likely here...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Midland+County,+TX/@32.288...
I think they might be deliberately using it as a fire drill, which seems like a good idea considering the size of their population.
The strange, surprising world of faecal transplants
Firefox has an undocumented about:config preference "font.system.whitelist" to specify a list of which fonts are exposed to web content (such as the default set shipped with your OS). The preference is used by the Tor browser.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1121643
If it’s unnecessary and you consume it (YouTube with ads), doesn’t this imply that it doesn’t suck?

Dollar Store, sure, sometimes people need to buy cheap food. But using YouTube is optional.
It's indeed likely more of this is happening due to poor government oversight. Though I suspect the demand for oversight and the desire for organic food will motivate this market to respond. If people are willing to pay money for this method they will likely pay to have it guaranteed in a rigorous inspection.
Oxford professor given protection following threats from trans activists
> https://sec.ch9.ms/ch9/5736/312f4d46-e479-4087-b562-2aece012...

Who still uses WMV?
People HATE that they have to pay for every additional service, but LOVE the original low (and overall lower) price.

When they travel only nickel-and-diming is visible.

But then, when they plan a new trip, they remember that overall it was not so bad and apparently decide it was worth it.
Doesn't it really depend on how you define the weights? If you can't answer that question, you'll have no idea what to look for. For example, I understand that FIB-SEM microscopy can currently sample the chemical makeup of the voxels where the synapses lie. Those should be the answer to this question, if we agree that the neurotransmitter type and density are the weights. However, if you define the weights as the type and quality of dendrites that lead up to the synapse, you'll get a different answer. Perhaps a better answer to the question is that we are still studying what the weights should be, and having a complete connectome will make it much easier to test the different theories.
Point taken.

The open office layout is a scam - pushed based on the build-out costs of new office space in a very rapidly expanding market in Silicon valley over the last two decades.

Companies needed lots of office space very fast. Companies also dies fast.

Building out office space is expensive and the push for open office layouts as a "culture" bit was just as much marketing as anything else...
Understanding the Power of Data Types
Probably filling seats on unpopular routes that they would have to fly anyway. Perhaps in a similar situation to what's described in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8XZriAdB1g , where an airline was flying empty planes to hold their slot at Heathrow.