skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much of that profoundness is within our own heads because we know someone made it. We might imagine their intent, working back from the final representation to imagine what they might have felt creating it.

So in that regard, as long as we're honest with the viewer, I imagine your point holds; it won't ever be the same.

Yet I have to imagine that how most art is consumed these days already does away with any notion of "intent of the artist." Did the artist intend for their work to be displayed in large galleries, alongside countless other works, hundreds of years later? Who knows? We're constantly re-imagining these works by placing them in new contexts and priming viewers in different ways. However it is different when the artist is still with us.

Would cubist paintings have the same depth if the viewer was lead to believe that a computer had generated them?
Agree that heads should role, but it may very well be management decisions that brought them to this point. We don't know if engineering was resource/strategically limited (seems unlikely at a well funded startup but it may have been). Having worked places where terminations were the result of failures, it's not always the party most responsible that is let go.
Doesn't matter really, most liquidity seems to be in the closing 30-minutes anyway. [0]

[0]: https://www.ft.com/content/9e1f05b4-43e7-11e8-803a-295c97e6f...
I think that's the definition most people use, even if they don't admit it. :) "No one can get real work done on an iPad" is essentially the same statement: what they usually mean is "I can't (or don't know how to) get all of my work done on an iPad."
> it was still easier to read and pick up a few years later.

Compared to what?
Sometimes engineers are not at fault. They are well aware of technical debt and possible performance mine fields. It's the management that does not properly prioritize performance and scale work because there is no apparent "value" to the customer. Until it's too late.
Have you considered that perhaps that was a rhetorical statement uttered by some, and killing them and their political opponents and millions of others may not have been actually what they wanted?
Ask HN: Is Patreon removing the $1 contributions?
Got this text from a creator:

So, I was recently approached by Patreon and they suggested that I remove my $1 Tier because by the time Patreon take their % cut, and Payoneer/Paypal take their % cut and I pay Tax on it too, there really is nothing left.

Looks like the lowest tier will be $3. Is this a general move and will this price people out of supporting creators?
Many people, especially more recent generations, would happily choose the studio apartment downtown over living in the suburbs even if they worked from home all the time. In my remote job, I personally see the requirement to have more space for a home office as a burden rather than a benefit.
The only project at Amazon that uses Clojure is one legacy project in maintenance mode.
There are usually two sides to this.. in some organizations, people really care about their own titles.

In other organizations, especially bigger ones, "Senior" and "Principal" and other kinds of add-ons to titles come with certain perks or responsibilities. For instance, if you're a "Senior" something at a big company I've worked at, you get a slightly bigger cube near the window/outer wall. This can only go to employees, not contractors, too.

The kind view on this is that it cuts down on disputes and disagreements on who gets what, and where, and why.
I had not heard of the twitter block list - thanks for the info.

My thought on the blocker bots things in this thought process is that a few portals could spring up with the various bots listed and open discussions / comments about them will be available - and it should be a one-click to clone and rename / change.. so that people are encouraged to create new ones.

Having open source blocking and discussion with one click clone and change will hopefully create lots of transparency, and give end users for options for finer grained control -

The open discussions should have shape the various bots - something I have not figured is a process to auto-take and another bots updates and remove all instances of x and y terms.. and make Paulines-Copy-bot auto update when Pete's now block lists are added.

I too would prefer not to block people and servers and instead just hide by topics as a first line of defense.

Like mashable on fbook - I'd like to keep them in my feed, and block the stupid things they post about trump.. if I don't get a way to do this, I'll have to lose mashable completely.

I think the discussions on the bots would be educational for people as well. I myself have read articles that discuss some of the edge cases of bans for things like the ISPs in the UK and the health sites and such.. but I don't think most people see that kind of news.. and some may benefit from seeing discussion about other things that are unintentionally, or intentionally blocked.. and make decisions on the info and controversy instead of taking the one size fits most censorship each country seems to have.
Absolutely disagree with this sentiment. Avoiding recessions pushes for a change in the rules of the game allowing unhealthy practices to go on unpunished in the market. This is incredibly unhealthy in the long run.
Thanks for your reply! this is a very interesting dialogue about Wealth Concentration and Ability to Make Economic Moves. Recall Standard Oil, and how anti-trust laws were passed to try and break up this monopoly, but it was many decades too late as the damage had been thoroughly done -- wiring for oil oligarchy was set in place and could not be untangled. In these cases, is there a more elegant solution than the post-fact "since we cannot create competition, naturally or artificially, split your winnings with the government." ?

Destroying concentrations of wealth, but keeping individual humans responsible for wealth echoes the faulty assumptions of communism; if we dilute economic power too greatly by reducing concentration too much, we may be able to allocate excess funds to the creation of new competition in the domain (government-funded anti-monopols), but that simply deletes profit and deletes the profit-incentive of new industry.

"Power always comes from some abstract entity that everyone can talk about, but no one can point to."

I find a huge chasm in understanding between wealth concentrated on individual humans who have their own motivations, and concentrations of wealth in corporations or distributed decision making entities. Which are we opposed to?
markets started to know the scale of U.S. government's incompetence in handling Covid 19 now.
If I remember when I did it for the Novena, you had to include that specific dtb file for the install. That does make it a pain, as you are correct, the installation image is board/chip specific
This article subverts its own thesis. The $435 hammer was an “accounting artifact,” but the government is routinely fleeced and the DoD in particular is unable to accomplish basic accounting tasks.

My favorite paragraph:

> Conversely, said defense analyst Loren B. Thompson of the Lexington Institute, a conservative Arlington, Va., think tank, the $2 billion-per-plane figure cited by opponents of the B-2 stealth bomber includes the program's high research and development expenses--which must be spread over only 21 planes--plus spare parts, maintenance and future inflation. Said Thompson: "What would it cost me to build one more bomber? . . . $700 million."

Gee, what a steal! Only $700 million for a “stealth” “bomber” that is neither stealthy nor able to carry a significant payload.
Why would you trust it less than the American one?
I wonder why is it so hard for people to right good commit messages. At my company I've actually tried trying talking in-person to people, even write a doc explaining the benefits and how to do it, pointing people to good resources like this one: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/

And still, I can't get people to do it. I find it so valuable to look at commit messages that are written, that explains the why behind the changes in the commit but can't get people to see the same value as I do. Any tips on that? Would be really appreciated. :)
yes valid point haha. It's more fun to use a neural net :) but after many similar comments I plan on implementing a simpler approach and seeing how it compares
Everyone involved in the robosigning process should have gone to jail for fraud. Everyone at any point in the management chain who was aware that the company was obtaining a financial advantage by knowingly making false statements to a court is guilty of an offence.
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They are commonly given as a reason why it's the most vilified game out of 7.
So the proposed solution to stop them being tortured, killed and sent to the gulag was to nuke the and hundreds of millions others so they'd be dead before that could happen?
What's the number of factories not built or cars not produced because of the low price of oil?
Hi, thanks for the feedback! You are right it is a bit unusual to use at first, but the idea of this app is to give you or rather help you gain new habits, with every feature being designed for that, not just tracking it as another task in the to-do list. The current state of the app doesn't really reflect it's full potential, but the goal is to improve it over time with feedback from users and to make it a valuable tool which will help you easily gain or break habits. lvlup takes the gaming approach to developing new habits, by you taking habit quests and completing challenges, upgrading your character, having live challenges with friends and etc. on your way to achieving the habit. The ideas is to make the process an adventure.
Wonder if it's the Python stream processing system that's bottlenecking:

https://github.com/robinhood/faust
Wasn't that part of their crime, creating accounts for people without their knowledge?
It is not a problem with correction or even recession. Without one you cannot eliminate those weak and continue the rich as rich. You need some cycle. Desperately need it.
It's no feasible, we use a lot of postgres specific features. Pleroma with postgres runs fine even on Raspi 2.
So that would beg the question; are tech companies helping write the EARN IT act?
What would you prefer to call it? Machine learning?
The not going to happen isn't about the transition but about it happening suddenly.
Implementing remote: Don't replicate the in-office experience remotely
What sets financial services apart when they fail is the extreme legibility of the losses. One can argue that if say Reddit is down, they have losses, but measuring the impact in terms of dollars lost is difficult.

It's a lot easier with something like Robinhood. So, ethics aside, the level of measurable risk they have now is existential. Lawsuits will flow.
Has it gone downhill? I remember in the Microsoft era it was decent.
Machine Learning Takes on Antibiotic Resistance
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz [video]
Thanks, you're completely right! I've edited.
The markets may have "priced in" the impact of COVID-19 based on a couple of scenarios. But they may also have priced in other factors, such as the plateauing impact of US corp tax cuts, share buybacks and cheap capital.

It's likely however that those scenarios didn't attach a high weight to the probability like 20 million Italians living in a state of quarantine, or that 8,000 plus patients in China would die and industrial production levels would plummet.
It was posted before anyone else then the author commented on the github issue.
There are also forks/variations of Redis with the same API and various other features.

One option is KeyDB which has multithreading and persistence beyond RAM capacity: https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB
You mean the Koch brother.. Only one of the fuckers left :)
> For example the word const is not use anywhere in the 2k version, while Math. is used about 40 times so it becomes essentially free when compressed.

Except that the word const does seem to be used in the uncompressed version, so we don't know what happens during compression in the Closure compiler, no? Or is the 2k version pre-Closure compiler different from the uncompressed version?

Either way the only way to know is to try because asymptotically free is all well and good, but without measurement we don't know the actual behavior in practice and we are just making assumptions about how well or how badly things compress and how the mangling process works out.
Hyper-genius or lucky bastard that is recognized for survivorship bias?
But why are profit margins on new durable goods dropping?

More competition amongst dealers?

Used cars lasting longer?

Manufacturers price-gauging the dealers?
One of the arguments for real estate being a good investment is it's harder to sell.
> How do you figure? Programmers too, have a "native language"

Unless everybody is born learning a language, no we don't. Even 'The one they use the most' varies over time.

> What would be the point of communicating such an opinion to others?

An easy use case: you're in your company and you need to do a simple script for some computation. The more readable the language you use is, the more coworkers will be able to find a bug/reuse it/modify it without requiring your help.

> It's built-in to the language. You don't call Python a database because it can unpickle things.

I read more of the parent comments on that link. I didn't notice that the OP started with an unsorted dataset, you did binary search on a sorted one. I thought that it the "kdb native format" meant more database magic that just serialization.

> Excel has views. I'm not aware of any other language that has them. Do you have some examples?

--C++ has string_view at least. I think C# had also views of some sort but whenever I search 'C# list/string view' I get MVC or WPF examples about unrelated things.--

Misunderstood what a view was, IDK why I thought it was string/list views.

> To x&y is the lesser of x and y. You can see in binary this harmonises with logical

"harmonises" in the sense that it takes one of the most common programming symbols and changes it? I don't know of anyone that sees "2 & 3 = 2" and thinks "yeah this makes sense".

> Array programming languages make this obvious.

How? First, your analysis line is even more cryptic than the resulting code. And I don't think the idea "find the minimum distinguishing characteristics between the outputs" can only be born out of array programming languages. Don't get me wrong, I think it's smart, but I don't see how the language makes that obvious.

Edit: Sorry, I misunderstood what a view was.
Wow very cool tool! I didn't know about this somehow. Thanks for sharing. Cool that you've tried it on yourself.
Twitter Reaches Deal with Activist Fund That Sought CEO’s Ouster
I wouldn't expect the President to get involved after one crash. Yes, the President let the FAA get egg all over its face first, but he forced them to ground the plane. They ruined their own reputations. The President shouldn't have had to be have been involved at all.
Much less ominous, thanks! :-)
> I think the price is too low

Raise your price! I should link to a patio11 article here, probably https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric... (And I just found https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/saas-pricing )

Also, a slick UI is very important for some not technical people. How does the UI of your app compare to the "standard" app?
>Seasoned engineer: Let's use any well-tested CMS such as WordPress and install a caching front-end.

I thought that was your junior response... you update it once a month, seems like WordPress is seriously overengineered for something managed internally. Static website + a 1h ticket once a month seems much better.

You'll save in performance, security, and it over a few years, it would take you less work time than doing a full WordPress.

If it's more than once a month, now it may be more interesting to go toward a WordPress, but that would be doubtful.
> This will be blamed on COVID-19, but the problems go much deeper

This is a strong claim. Can you prove it?
I get the impression that the people running Robinhood actually don't understand how difficult it is to implement what they want to offer, both on the reliability side (outages) and on the logical side (infinite margin).
Multiple nation-state groups are hacking Microsoft Exchange servers
The 'inputs' are the random numbers. Not the training data. They don't produce a copy of an existing work, any more than a human trained on looking at faces is producing a copy and 'stealing other people's lifework' (without even paying them a cent! how dare they), unless it's so similar to serve as a substitute (among other considerations).

> A better comparison would be a monkey creating a "director's cut" of Disney's Jungle Book, interspersed with footage from National Geographic, both of which are copyrighted.

That wouldn't be a good comparison at all, because a human could very easily identify exactly which frames are literally copied from which copyrighted work. That's not 'transformative' at all. In contrast, if you look at the faces, most of them don't have even a remotely similar exemplar in the dataset (you can do nearest-neighbor lookups using features or pixels, and GAN papers often do to demonstrate that they are not just 'memorizing' - I discuss this in my FAQ section).
> It always feels like other people do though.

That's because you hear them when they are making gains, never when they are losing.
Covid-19 Biologic Therapies Reviewed
There were lay investors that reported betting on a covid related drop and profiting significantly by buying options (eg Wei Dai on LessWrong, will find direct link when I get to desktop).

[Usual caveat about reading too much into plays like this.]

Edit: Here's the thread, and sincere apologies for the flaketastic LW interface now, they don't even have a parent button and it took several seconds for the thread to render after the page loaded:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jAixPHwn5bmSLXiMZ/open-and-w...
You might have a point there. But I think a lot depends on the error of the disease estimates, and it seems clear that they could well overlap with the range of natural death rates. Dependent on how you slice and dice it.

For sure old people are at at least a year's risk.
Click it: the link target points to the post you just read. I decided to update it to the rationale given here instead of just silently removing it, so that people who use LinkedIn can read why they won't find me there.

The profile at the link's text is getting removed this week, once I migrate my contacts.
> Why are we asking for this particular contract to be cancelled?

We are asking for there to be negative consequences in general for companies who decide to operate with no moral or ethical compass. It's not about this contract: it's about sending a message to companies that collaboration with those who torture and murder is not okay, and will cost them business and retention.

Taking on customers entirely uncritically should not be without market risk. "I dunno man, I just sell hosting" is not an acceptable position.

Censorship isn't okay, but freedom of association is, and companies need incentives to exercise it to fire particular customers doing evil, and disincentives to turning a blind eye to how their products and services are being used.

To say this is just about "entities we disagree with" is to miss the point, I think. This isn't about "problematic speech", or the standard left/right claims of bias or censorship, or any other kind of the routine partisan tribal complaints you read about regularly. This is about concentration camps. Right here, in the United States.
This is also a good chart: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...

It shows global trend lines, and per-country + per-region data.

That said, nice job to OP.
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The Pro is a monstrously powered machine that costs tens of thousands of dollars and is designed for a (relatively) small audience of content creator professionals and other high-end technical users running fluidics dilutions and the demanding calculations involved in machine-learning applications.
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I really don't get that. You can have a $8000 Mac Pro that is decently configured as a general purpose workstation that will last you 5-10 years if it's well built. Yet everyone only talks about the $50000 or whatever the high end config is.
Spawn: Capture, deploy and manage ephemeral databases on-demand
> a service that no other company was ~~able~~ willing to do before

ftfy
> The point of my comment was that you need to approach this with an open mind, forgetting what you already know from other languages.

Why do I need to do that?

I'm interested in solving problems for people, especially using computers. To do that, I need to build teams and build software. I need to think about costs and benefits, about longevity and sustainability. A great deal of that thinking is driven by the world as it is, by the historical accidents that have gotten us to where we are.

If this is a recreational activity, not meant to be practical, then great. I know people who teach themselves Esperanto and Klingon, and they seem to have a good time. Extreme Ironing looks fun, too. But if it's going to have some bearing on my profession, then I'm unlikely to forget what I already know, because in practice the people I will work with already know quite a bit, and brains being what they are, they won't be forgetting it.
Well, to be fair, I said "more" not "everyone".

Also, if it were true that people could be "self-made", we'd see a more diverse selection of "self-made" people. Instead, we see races and genders that aren't doing anywhere near as well as other races and genders.
CDC web traffic increases 300% since December
> It took hundreds of hours of human review time to find a single OCR mistake from this process!

This stands out to me as improbable. Not in that the error rate could be that low, but in that they actually had humans spend hundreds of hours checking the accuracy of difficult character recognition. How did that happen?
The lucky bastards are the ones selling get rich quick schemes. The hyper-geniuses are the ones keeping their mouth shut and managing the Harvard Endowment.
That is not a relevant reply; I can say that Hitler was a cannibalistic child-eater and for how much he would deserve the insult it remains false.
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It will probably sell quite well though. And it will bring back fanless designs.
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Fanless? Wishful thinking. Check out the Raspberry Pi 4's overheating problems.

If they make an ARM Mac, it won't be fanless.
> More of a hit piece on Warren Buffet

Do you really think Buffett does not know Wells Fargo is running a huge fraud, he has been through an another type of fraud when he had invested in Solomon many years back. he knows how rotten the banking industry is.
Personally I'm impressed that you remember details of the development after this time. I usually suppress the memories of all the frustration in a few months with the help of unhinged hedonism and nonstop entertainment.
Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) – Our World in Data
it feels like cheating to call it the OCR record holder

This is how humans recognize text though. For the most part, humans don’t try to read languages we don’t understand. To deny a computer access to context is like asking a human to transcribe a language they don’t understand.