skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the topic of internal speech, I've recently developed a weird quirk, if you can call it that. Basically I'll hear fragments of speech in an internal voice distinctly different from my own, about random things that have nothing to do with anything I was thinking or doing. And sometimes, rarely, the fragments will contain information that I wasn't consciously aware of.

For a while I actually thought I was hearing other people's thoughts, but since then I've come to understand our conscious minds as being a collection of multiple subconscious entities that communicate with each other and from which our sense of integrated consciousness arises. And somehow, parts of my brain that don't normally handle verbalization got internal speech privileges. That's what it feels like at least.
So how do you think about something that you can't describe to someone else? There are many things I can deeply understand, but turning that understanding into natural language takes considerable effort.

Are people with internal monologues incapable of understanding things they can't verbalize? Or is it that their brain just instantly verbalizes thoughts after the thoughts have already been formed? The latter seems a bit more likely to me, but I imagine it must be very lossy at times. (That is, the verbal monologue is merely a summary of the thought.) I often have thoughts that take only an instant, but would take many sentences to verbalize.
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When you’re not distracted or tired, have great visibility, and there are no hazards or unexpected behavior by other road users. This is true far less frequently than people believe.
Right. And $7,400? Try $30,000! That's what the starting property tax is on a $2.5MM house in Sunnyvale is today.

That's what people moving into Sunnyvale California in 2020 are paying.

https://homeguides.sfgate.com/calculate-california-property-...
Why hasn't someone built an email system that only accepts signed payloads?

Email would only be allowed into my inbox if it was signed. Then, layer 2, it would only allow signed emails from senders whom I've accepted their public key.

A separate tab would show me all incoming request to accepts public keys (request to send email)

Now to opt-in to a marketing email I first accept their public key. To opt-out I delete their public key. Their email now goes to /dev/null.

Senders wouldn't have to re-implement unsub/subscribe, spammers would be /dev/nulled, and we could later add encryption on top of signing as a requirement.
Thanks for your comments. I have been using TF just about since the first public version and it is what I am used to. I have been thinking of switching to PyTorch, and I think I will take the plunge and tackle the PyTorch learning curve.
The cost for a merchant to handle credit cards is whatever the credit card companies can get away with.

The actual cost of handling card payments is very, very low these days, but merchants are stuck paying the higher price, because there's effectively no competition in the space. To avoid having obscene profits, the cc companies give back a lot of the extra money to the consumers in the form of cashbacks and rewards, and then consumers stupidly feel grateful for being fleeced.

In an ideal world, merchants would pay only the actual cost for handling card payments, only pay for the tech itself, and the fraud risk. Naturally, such a pricing would be a fixed per-transaction-fee, because the actual cost is the same for each transaction.

In the same ideal world, the credit risk of credit cards have to be managed through the interest rate and credit worthiness management. It's completely outrageous that credit card processing fees should in any way, shape or form cover the risk side or the fraud side of the business. That's not the merchant's problem.

That would be fair. That wouldn't be gameable. Some countries did exactly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dankort
http://n-gate.com/fosdem/ has the article too.
Google has much more of a non-CA and non-US engineering presence than Apple.
That is just a painfully awkward inspector. I don't know why Halloway isn't aware of the prior art. I thought he had some experience with Common Lisp...
California, at least Bay Area in particular, has a slightly different problem that is keeping people stuck here.

People can’t live here without both husband and wife working full time. Now to move to a different city or state, both husband and wife needs a job there or the new salary + cost of living must equal the other person quitting their job. That is just a difficult mental model to get over. It will happen, but only at the breaking point
Pretty much any case requiring non-trivial evaluation of evidence is unsuited for a jury trial. Outsourcing the adjudication of justice to a dozen random people is stupidity on a par with deciding complex policy issues by popular referendum. There's a reason the non-Anglo-American developed world doesn't do it this way.
It's not zero-sum. It can change the velocity of circulation money, which impacts economic activity in predictable ways.
I'll bite.

The argument is that what is really meant when "[insert particular group] lives matter" is stated, is something like "we all agree [insert groups in general] lives matter, but [insert particular group] lives don't seem to matter as much (i.e. the general group moral axiom is not held up for this particular group)."

That gloss is not the same exact gloss that the Reddit commenter makes, however, this has to be what was meant. How else to interpret the point about an implied 'too'?

The primary problem with the argument is pretty simple (as the commenter makes it clear what their assumptions are). Namely, a non-trivial number of people don't believe that any particular group is being snubbed in the way that a speaker of the gloss above would assert. Since there is a pretty solid correlation between people who believe that and those who re-assert the general group moral axiom, such speakers are likely doing something more than simply ignoring or passing over the implied too from speakers of the gloss above. I won't wade into all the possible meanings/uses that speakers might have for any of the above types of statements. The range is very wide. Some are likely making the relevant statement because they want to signal which group they are with, etc etc.

The Reddit commenter clears up a good a bit of the confusion for people who already agree that a particular group is being snubbed. Perhaps that was what the person who asked the question wanted resolved. If they wanted it resolved tout court, though, then the argument presented isn't satisfactory.
I was blown away this morning when I fired up maps. I use maps for traffic data for my commute. The UI improvements are great and I love that there's geometry now for just about everything. Looking forward to discovering new features as I use it more.
Yeah mushrooms will do this. It's not a bad thing to be able to quiet your mind. It's nice to have an internal monologue but once you've had that silence it's good to learn how to bring it back when you need it. Mushrooms helped show me what it was like quiet so I could do it myself without them.
The fifth natural language I learnt any conversation in was BSL (British Sign Language)[1]. Later, doing further language training, when I was trying to recall words (particularly in German) I would recall instead a sign. Not an image in my mind of making the sign, but a feeling that if I let them my arms/hands/fingers/face would make a sign.

Can you imagine writing through an interpreter without any audio/vocal use at all, as a BSL user could?

Without using a word, can you think what your favourite vegetable that isn't a carrot is? Like, can you call it to mind without using the word?

[1] Kinda, fwiw I just know smatterings of lots of languages.
Wait does Apple maps not having cycling directions??? Only just realised that.
It'd be nice to have the same pytorch abstractions but in a more statically typed language than pytorch.
I don't get your excitement. How is this different from using 8xGPU box? If you use eight Quadro 8000 cards you have access to 384GB of memory to train your models.
This doesn't get me out of my bubble.

I'm a huge fan of cheesy synthwave and would have never known had Trevor Something - Death Dream not been a freeleech pick on w.cd years ago.

Curation + association is the key.
> So in 3.8, they kept code that had deprecation warnings so that they
could be compatible with 2.7. They'd like to now drop that code and be
3.9-only compatible, but they don't have enough time to do that because
they couldn't start that work as long as they were supporting 2.7.

> So the dilemma is essentially how hard we push users to abandon 2.7 -- how much tax we incur on them for keeping its support.

Its fascinating to see how the details of Python 2.7 EOL are still being figured out, and nuisance of the decision are still being debated.
ITT:

> Too poor to make stove out of bricks

> Goes spend full day per week to go an check on their bitcoin transactions

Uh, are you sure you have a grounded understanding of what rural poverty means?
I think almost entirely in images, usually moving and relating to each other in 3D space.

There are words mixed in, but when they come up they are usually just single words or a phrases which are attributes of something I'm thinking of, or an action I should take.

Sometimes I think more in words, but that's usually when something is really unclear to me or if I am obsessing over something.

I think that years of training myself not to obsess over things probably reduced my internal monologue almost to the point that it would be good to have a bit more of it sometimes.
The Washington Post sure bungled its Kobe Bryant tweet controversy
For more $ and better bitrates they have Amazon Music HD which is higher fidelity than Spotify offerings.
Why would they need to be able to put it into words in an inner monologue in order to form the thought?

The fact that it is possible to translate sentences into different languages should make it clear that the information content is not the same as the manner in which it is linguistically encoded. One simply... forms the thought. And then encodes it into speech for the purposes of telling other people about it later, and separately.
I think you're overthinking this. Candidates shouldn't be judged on their approach nearly as much as they are judged on how they arrive there, and arriving at the correct answer should count for more than enough to disregard any oddities getting there.

Nobody's going to let you have 15 minutes undisturbed without also going to extreme lengths to ensure you aren't cheating.
Sorry I should have clarified, I was previously on their pay-per-use model with 10k included.

Yes, it is nice they are still providing a pay as you go model, but it is frustrating to have another plan change and increase my cost.
JavaScript does a lot more implicit coercions in bad ways than Python does.
FBI probes use of Israeli firm's spyware in corporate and government hacks
It depends a lot on the app your building. If you are a startup, it definitely is much easier to build a monolith and focus on the product features. Micro-Services may not have that much upfront cost of building but as your product grows it requires lot of engineering effort and budget to maintain it. You can have an engineering team of 20 people maintaining a monolith which can serve few million customers. The same product broken into micro-services will require 4-5 teams of 8 people. It is much easier to hire for a single skillset and grow the team.
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The rates for Chinese provinces except for Hubei seem inconsistent with 20-56% mortality too. The ten provinces outside Hubei that have the most confirmed infections are:

* Zhejiang: 428 confirmed; 0 deaths; 4 recovered

* Guangdong: 354 confirmed; 0 deaths; 10 recovered

* Henan: 278 confirmed; 2 deaths; 2 recovered

* Hunan: 277 confirmed; 0 deaths; 2 recovered

* Anhui: 200 confirmed; 0 deaths; 2 recovered

* Chongqing: 182 confirmed; 0 deaths; 1 recovered

* Jiangxi: 162 confirmed; 0 deaths; 5 recovered

* Shandong; 158 confirmed; 0 deaths; 1 recovered

* Sichuan: 142 confirmed; 1 deaths; 1 recovered

* Jiangsu; 129 confirmed; 0 deaths; 1 recovered

Although there's a clearly a lag between confirmed cases and death, there's likely to be less lag in outcomes between patients who recover and patients who die.

On this admittedly small sample, we get 29 recovered and 3 deaths, or about a 10% death rate. That's still pretty high, but it's nowhere near the 20-56% death rate.

If people go from being infected to dying more quickly than they go from being infected to being declared to have recovered, then that would lower the rate. The recovered rate seems to have been increasing faster than the death rate in the last couple of days, which might indicate this is the case. In addition, these cases obviously only include patients who present with symptoms. If some people are asymptomatic, that would also lower the death rate.
I wish I knew how to switch on this power. As it stands, I seem to be pretty good at grasping the abstract “shape” of problems, in a way that short-circuits words, but I can’t flow forth with conversation or write believable dialogue to save my life. My thoughts are entirely fuzzy.

Sometimes when I’m very sleepy, I can simulate friends and relatives talking to an uncanny degree, but not at any other time.
What he might be getting at, that others have certainly discussed, is that things like "crash only software!" are not winning marketing slogans when trying to sell a piece of technology to higher-ups in your company.
Does having an internal monologue make someone more introverted or is there no correlation at all?
Same here. I never knew that "Intrusive thoughts" were a thing, and that they were a mostly normal thing. Mine don't seem like such a big deal now.
>When you buy a property, you still pay taxes on whatever your purchase price is.

And again every year after that, including whatever increase your taxing authority may legally apply, usually the maximum allowed by law unless you actively fight it.

Texas has no state income tax and property taxes are (so they tell me) quite high as a result. My property tax is $7k+ each year. Not onerous because I have a full time job, but many of the retirees and landlords in my area did find it onerous enough to sell. Bad for renters because a lot of reasonably priced rental properly was lost, good for the city because a house like mine was torn down and 5-7 condos or townhomes took their place. Now the city is looking at easily 8 or 9 times the tax revenue for a single lot like mine since these new homes also appraise higher than mine.

If anything prop 13 represents one extreme and Texas the other. It would be nice if we could meet somewhere in the middle.
Interesting, about how old are you? Distinct voices that make orders or comments is symptomatic of schizophrenia, which typically is onset from late teens to mid twenties.
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I get really annoyed with people who twitter about crap old people say (example old Clint Eastwood). Have always believed they’re just losing control over their internal monologues, because you just -know- a lot of people think that way sometimes but aren’t bad people.

On layers, it’s like there is a second contrarian thread that pops up during controversial topics. Like some safety or auditing function.
This is a biased, but honest observation that I'd like to share. I've been working for a big corp for about 5 years now. I was born in a SE Asian country and came to the US for college. I have worked with a lot of India-born people.

As a fellow foreigner and as an Asian, I can tell that more often than not Indian people are bolder and more aggressive in asking for what they want (e.g., one of my Indian colleague asked for salary raise and the permission to go back to India in December for a month every year as part of his negotiation when he applied and got offer from another company; what he told me was simple, "It's my responsibility to ask. It's my boss' task to refuse or accept.") On top of that, some (not everyone; some are meek/introvert like myself). Because of their boldness, Indian people seem to be more successful at making themselves more visible, which is very important in corporate culture to get ahead. On top of that, some of them are pretty clever at courting favor of their superiors and/or playing office politics. I have seen quite a few of my peers/acquaintances from India who climbed corporate ladder pretty fast, so I'm not surprised they are doing well in terms of representation in C-level roles.
Actually I think individuals suffer so that less SPAM gets through. The SPAM is flowing regardless.
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-act...
Everything about SQL is a holdover from ancient programming languages. From crappy 'natural sounding' syntax constructs ("SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ...") to outright inconsistencies ("INSERT INTO table (column1, column2) VALUES (1, 2)" vs "UPDATE table SET column1=1, column2=2").

It's a damn shame that the NoSQL movement turned out to just be NoRelational. RDBMS's could use a non-terrible query language.
Even most high end housing ends up getting occupied. This takes high income / wealthy people out of the market for existing housing stock, helping reduce market prices for existing housing.
My company (MailChannels) sends email on behalf of more domains than any other transactional email provider (see https://trends.builtwith.com/mx/transactional-email/traffic/...) because our customer base is hosting companies rather than individual senders. The whole transactional space has matured in the past year with SendGrid's acquisition by Twilio and Mailgun passing through a couple of different private equity portfolios. Mailgun is simply trying to make a profit; removal of the generous free tiers had to happen eventually.

In their S-1, SendGrid disclosed that it earned about 73% gross margins, spending roughly $18M in cost-of-goods-sold to earn $52M in revenue (six months ending June 30, 2017). Around that time, we estimate that they were sending roughly 30 billion messages a month, suggesting that they were spending $18M to send 30 billion messages - that's about $0.60 for every thousand messages.

If SendGrid's costs are universal in the industry, then that 10,000-message free tier, therefore, is costing Mailgun perhaps as much as $0.60 x 10 = $6.00 a month. If you have thousands of free accounts, the cost adds up rapidly on the P&L statement. I could be off by an order of magnitude about the sending cost, but you get the point.
Ask HN: Is there anything we can do at our level to help fight coronavirus?
This might be a long shot but is there anything we programmers/tech-savvy people can do at some level to help fight coronavirus?

I’m thinking about crowdsourced labelled data that have been used in some research recently, or model training maybe.

Broad enquiry
Their problem was that other engineers didn’t actually use the novel tech the brothers invented in their airplanes. The basic idea of putting an engine with a propeller on a winged vehicle was not novel, it had been tried many times before. It was simply a matter of power to weight ratios and aerodynamics knowledge crossing the right threshold.

Their key innovation was wing warping for control, but the industry rapidly switched to flaps and ailerons, leaving the brothers’ main innovation behind. Their aerodynamic concepts were advanced, but again others pushed beyond their concepts very quickly.

So their technical innovations were brilliant, but not used extensively by later engineers.
> I remember using some car’s built-in GPS once and it wanted me to take every freeway exit and get right back on after. Because it decided that saves time/distance.

It feels like cheating to the other drivers who didn’t take the “short cut” and leads to delays all around due to the extra merging going on. (exhibit A: I-85N vs. I-285 in Atlanta, aka Spaghetti Junction)
I worked at Northrop Grumman a decade ago on a contract that was missing it's deadlines. It was pretty choatic, and management was not very good (every new thing became a #1 priority). To try to get things done we were allowed to work as much overtime as possible. They even had white board showing who had worked the most hours (the top several people people worked over 2000 extra hours during a 12 month period). I almost burned out during this time period (though that's a different story). I didn't get the impression that there was an incentive to fail, quiet the opposite. People were genuinely worried about the reputation of the company. However, that was just my perspective as a ground level grunt. I don't know what was going on at the higher levels.
>> So a retired person should be forced to move from his little 3 bedroom house because some Googler decided the house next door was worth $3.5MM and his property tax goes up to $75,000/year? That's pure evil.

Nope. A retired person should have the CHOICE to pocket the $3.5MM the Googler is ready to pay for his house in Palo Alto and buy an even fancier house in Livermore knowing that his property taxes is not going to substantially change much.

But with the present system instead, another Googler, let say the food service employee, will never be able to pay the mortgage for a one room apartment PLUS exorbitant "nub" real state taxes. At least the retired guy has a large amount of equity in the house and choices.
It is very misleading of you to post aggregate statistics when people who have owned property a long time pay very different property taxes from people who have not, as I stated in my earlier post.
It's not always a lack of funding or will (though that's not helping). Burns can only be done when it's safe to do so. There are fewer safe days in recent years.

An additional worry is that northern and southern fire seasons will overlap, leading to a global strain on shared resources.
These days it's a big plus not to be the white male candidate.
You seem to imply that the program is distributing resources more equitably or fairly (according to some definition) than their initial distribution. Can you explain that? The money is taken from tax-payers, and most of the jobs created in the US are presumably tax-payers. But we also know that the companies with these defense contracts are making profit, which means it's not purely money being distributed to workers. There are presumably executives and investors making huge amounts of money from tax-payers.

If the money is just being taken from tax-payers and then distributed to a much smaller group of tax-payers, including some of it making a very small number of people very rich, I would need to see a lot of evidence to convince me that it's beneficial to society in the way that the term "jobs program" makes it sound.
Yes, it's called evolution. But since this is hn, here're a few articles/papers on the subject.

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/071201_adenov...

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2014/11/26/141333911...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639916/pdf/896...

http://hedrick.ucsd.edu/BICD136/PDF-links/Galvani-Epid-evol....
> No, they're not, because while externalities and other forms of misaligned incentives are departures from the norm in free markets, they are the norm in governments.

How do you figure? A totally free market results in monopolies, which are rife with externalities that exist for the purpose of maintaining the monopoly. Government is the body responsible for balancing and managing those negative factors against the desirable results being produced.
At least for me, part of the internal monologue is internal visualization too. Those things you don't understand but you "see" how it should work.