skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ironically, you are beginning to acknowledge that it is usually an over-simplification to look for paradigm changes in single events in isolation.

What? Listen, a paradigm shift didn't occur after ww2. If it had, it would be germany and japan ruling the world. The same world order existed before and after ww2. I don't know how else to explain the same thing to you.

> That is an unconventional use of the word 'controlled', given what happened in June of 1941.

It isn't. An abusive husband controls his wife until she fights back and he doesn't. Germany's top goal in ww2 was to free itself from its dependence of soviet resources for its economy, resources, etc. Not only that, it's still a problem today. Some nations are worried that germany's growing dependence on russia today is a geopolitical security risk.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/07/19/how-depe...

> ... to the point where, in 1938, Chamberlain could claim he had secured "Peace in our time".

Yes, I saw that documentary too. What's your point?

> And yet did not respond to the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, an event that Hitler himself regarded as a great gamble, but it really was not, given the state of France.

And? I saw that documentary too. What's your point?

> To such effect that Japan expelled the US from the Philipines and was bombing Darwin, Australia, by 1942 - not to mention Pearl Harbor.

Just because Japan wanted to free itself of US control doesn't mean the US didn't control it beforehand. Ever wonder why Japan attacked the US? Because Japan was sick and tired of being our bitch. This is basic historical fact. Not only is it a historical fact then. It's still a fact now. The US is the guarantor of Japan's access to resources. We hold the levers to japan's economy.

> Of what relevance to WW2 is that? There were some significant events between 1905 and 1941. The non-response to the fate of the USS Panay and the destruction of Nanking is more emblematic of the situation pre- WW2.

It's to show the US controlled Japan prior to ww2? Remember you didn't believe the US controlled japan? Imagine winning a war and being forced to return territory to the loser by your "master". Now that's control.

This is getting ridiculous. I could tell it is going to go on forever. I'm not sure why you are so confused about the control and influence that the US had over Japan and USSR had over Germany as ww2 was mainly about japan and germany overthrowing their "masters" and setting up a new world order where they are at the top. Still not sure why you are so adamant that ww2 caused a paradigm shift of the world order. I don't know what world you live in, but I live in a western world order. My grandparents born before ww2 also lived in a western world order. This is a fact. Doesn't mean change didn't happen. Just not a systematic and transformational one implying a paradigm shift. We are simply going to have to agree to disagree. Have a nice day.
On the other hand, don’t hire who wants to understand everything first either. Sometimes a bad choice was just a bad choice, and it’s a waste of time to figure out if it was taken for a reason.
There is something distasteful about them wanting high pay and extra donations to cover an unseen expense.
We also know that the average selling price of Android is less than half that of an iPhone. Most Android phones being sold are lowend phones.

Besides that, there have been plenty of articles where they found that Android manufacturers were detecting when benchmarks were being run and cheating.
ACLU maybe?
Wait, but if you plot the total number of cases with respect to time on a log-normal scale, you're still going to get a straight line, right? So why is plotting against time a bad idea?
Ah, you are wrong (and this is often confusing to people).

If you model this game where the host chooses randomly, and might open the car door (when that hapoens the player instantly loses) , then there is no point switching.

I think the fact this does matter is the source of many people's confusion.
I expected nothing less.

Most of these international organizations are run by corrupt government officials.
Rather China's actions seem like precursor to war. Corona virus crisis may be the tipping point in Chinese influence growth as people become aware how West is becoming more and more relient on China.
Geographical and Historical Patterns in the Emergences of Novel Avian Influenza
OpenStreetMaps.
I've been using adguard's dns to block ads on my phone* because pi-hole isn't an option for me at the moment.

Also set it on a colleague's phone and he's thanked me severally for it.

* (dns.adguard.com

private DNS in network settings on android pie)
Apple's New Tool Let's You Screen Yourself for Covid-19
And you know already that Khan is going to take the same salary this year? This is just rationalization, be honest with yourself, you simply dislike the idea of Khan getting this much for himself, no matter what.
This is the reality.

The Europeans would have been just fine with working with the US against China. The problem is that the “great negotiator” thought that what would be really brilliant would be to first attack your allies, and then ask them to help you when going up against your enemy.

What seems strangely forgotten in these discussions is that the first round of tariffs the Trump administration imposed on anybody, was steel tariffs on the Europeans.

No other country in the world has absolutely any reason to trust the US, especially now that the government cannot even be trusted to act in their own selfish interests (but rather, is dependent on the whims of 1 extremely stable genius).
Yes, of course. But how big of a market is that really? I imagine the market is actually pretty small, considering a lot of rural areas have semi-workable 4G coverage, and others have small wireless p2p ISPs.

My point wasn't that it doesn't make sense whatsoever, it's just that it is going to be a niche solution. Considering the insane capex of getting the sats in space, if the market is too niche, will it be able to pay back the capex costs?
To be even more fair, RMS received hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes (MacArthur and Takeda awards just to name 2) for the work he did and as far as I can tell he plowed it all back into the FSF. I couldn't quite figure out what he was paid for his work at the FSF, but I'd be fairly surprised if it was substantially more than what he donated himself.
Fires Where They Are 'Not Supposed to Happen' in Australia's Ancient Rainforest
It’s not the log writing that’s hard; it’s the log insight extraction that is. When you compare poring over logs from multiple invocations, even with request identifiers, the tooling is worse than tooling to look over stack traces/core dumps.

A calls B, C, and D. B puts an item on a queue that eventually causes a call to C. Both B and C call D. Which D call is slow/erroring? Is it the AD, the ABD, the ABqCD, or the ACD call?
London’s rental market is being flooded by bargain Airbnb listings
If the ship is at sea (>12 NM) it can be put directly into the ocean but when it comes close to land it needs to be mashed up and disinfected. Also there are some places called special sea areas that have different rules even if you are more than 12 NM. There are different rules for less then 3 NM and between 3NM and 12NM too.

Having one system for when the ship is out at sea and switching to something else causes even more engineering problems. Even if you're not processing the waste, the vacuum sewage system would still be used to collect the waste to discharge it.

MARPOL Laws:
http://www.imo.org/en/about/conventions/listofconventions/pa...

https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commanda...

Special Sea Areas:
http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/SpecialAreasUnderM...
Deaths are hardest to hide, so I'd always go with that over the other options - but Intensive Care beds seem to be the most critical stat now.
Because Obama was tackling the Chinese in a much more effective and long term manner through the TPP.

And because 5G decision making hadnt really begun until early last year.
You are pretty smug for someone who has a hard time reading.
The stock market skyrocketed after the spanish flu ( the roaring 20s ). As a matter of fact, pandemics/epidemics have proven to be great boosts to the economy. Historians even credit the renaissance and rejuvenation of europe to the black plague. As long as a pandemic isn't followed by an invasion and genocide ( aka native americans ), the years following a pandemic should see economic growth.
Very likely Khan Academy can't help. Also your bank probably doesn't know why and neither does their fraud prevention service provider that runs some machine learning/AI system somewhere that decided to flag your transaction. At least that has been my experience in dealing with these things.
I'd say it makes more sense to lift poor countries/regions out of poverty and introduce basic sanitation/hygiene standards as well as to reduce mass animal farming and antibiotic/antiviral usage there.

Prevent stuff going bad at the root cause rather than trying to limit its effects.
Setting up a server for NLP models in production
It depends on how you are modeling the data. In a logy plot, an exponential trend y=a * exp(b * x) appears linear, and is easiest to visualize/extrapolate. In a log-log plot, a power law y=a * x^b appears linear instead.
No, if the host is acting randomly no information was revealed. It is equally likely that the car is behind your door or the other door.

The player are indifferent to switching under your scenario. Why not, I suppose?
Do you have a source for that? Asking as a person living in Germany, I never heard something like that.
Cut the wires to the camera sensor and connect them to a device that converts a video signal into fake sensor outputs. Once such devices are being sold, that's available to anyone with a steady hand and a soldering iron.
Simple? Live in the US? Go to Home Depot and buy a tomato plant: cost about $4. While you're there get a 5 gallon bucket and a bag of topsoil.

Go home, transplant the plant into the bucket of soil and water it. Put it in a place with lots of sunlight and water it periodically. You'll have tomatoes in about 3 months.

Yeah, you can start from seed, but without experience that can be tedious and it requires far more care and attention. Also, end of March is about as late as I'd want to be starting tomato seeds.
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There's something to this. Maybe you won't get the most altruistic people, but you'll absolutely get a higher quality cut of the workforce.

I've heard that the Singaporean government has a similar philosophy. Their prime minister is one of the (if not, the) highest paid PM in the world at circa SGD $2m/year.
I had portable income and the freedom to go where I wanted more or less at will.

My case doesn't prove that millions of people aren't being given a raw deal. It just indicates that gig work doesn't have to be a raw deal and it is possible to design systems that work well.

I've tried to promote that idea in the past. It didn't really catch on. Most people basically agree with you and feel that I'm some bizarro statistical outlier and not really an example of how to do this well and what we should be aiming for.

As long as the people creating startups generally agree with you, we will continue to see more gig work that craps all over the workers. I don't think it has to be that way. I don't think it should be that way. I see enormous potential for gig work to make the world a better place.

But the world is probably not going to stop being a shitty place full of shitty people just because I'm capable of envisioning something better sprouting from the muck. Most likely, such visions will continue to be crushed under the boot of those in power and continue to go nowhere fast.

Same as it ever was.

Edit2: Also I do not mean to say that the gig-econ does not offer economical sustenance or reinsertion for workers that cannot endure more classical jobs but they're the great minority in these kind of jobs but that is just my own opinion and read on the market

I've seen data that suggests that up to 60 percent of people are at least moderately handicapped. Most downplay it and don't want to wear the label "handicapped" or "disabled."

Such people benefit enormously from having more control over their lives, such as when, where and how much they work. This is one of the things rich people tend to have more of than poor people and I think it has substantial impacts on health, productivity and quality of life.

But it's like 4:30 am where I am and I hope to sleep soon, so I don't care to drone on at great length about this topic, though I no doubt could.
The graph doesn't make much sense without a bit of explanation. (It certainly didn't to me, anyway.) The minutephysics video linked to from cptroot's comment, and also here [1] for your convenience, does a great job of that.

In short, you're right it's not surprising that the lines are log-log linear for uncontrolled growth of the virus, and that it's similar for lot of countries. What's interesting is the few (so far) cases where it drops below that log-log linear line, which indicates a containment strategy that's starting to work.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XLXg4fYsc
You’re not writing code, you’re solving problems
Google is using AI to design chips that will accelerate AI
Funny typo in their statement: "AI is pretending to fix a nonexistent problem."
> Imagine, just imagine a society, where doing non-profit could be a valid career option without a disadvantage in the income department. The horror.

I don't feel like I should have to explain this, but the difference between a non-profit and a profit driven corporation is that:

1) The NPO is likely doing some kind of activity for the greater good, which means that the more money you take out for administration and profit, the less good you can do.

2) The Corporation is likely doing some kind of profit-driven activity for the primary benefit of increasing the value of the company. Corporations generate profit by their very nature since their purpose is not primarily to solve (profit-wise) unattractive problems or to perform charitable work: the purpose is primarily to generate profit.

Anyone that understands the difference between these two should be able to draw the conclusion that:

1) If an NPO is burdened by excessive expenses, such as administrative cost, it will have less money to spend against the objective of "greater good".

2) If a Corporation is burdened by excessive expenses, such as bonuses, salaries or is otherwise mismanaged financially, this only affects the corporations capability of making a profit.

It should be plain to see that the complaint against NPO salaries is not equivalent to a complaint of a for-profit corporate counterpart.

Since I was immediately downvoted I'd also like to add that this logic also applies to questioning public expenses. Taxes are allegedly levied to supply common services and serve the "common good", would you also argue that politicians should be salaried on par with profit driven corporations, in the name of ensuring competence of public officials, even if that means less common good can be taken out from your taxes?
That's all well and good until you start asking for extra donations during a pandemic that will be followed by a major recession. If you are going to do that, you should probably make a gesture as well. CEOs of various companies have been cutting their pay as a gesture for the duration of the pandemic.
Artificial Intelligence can be used to fight fake news
Of course Obama would have been successful.

For one thing, when he required the Europeans to increase their NATO contributions he did it quietly, without publicly insulting them, and got them to commit to increase it over a period of a decade, which is reasonable. Unlike stand he never threatened America’s commitment to NATO itself.

For another, his first major international economic action wasn’t dropping steel tariffs on his Europeans allies.

And finally, he worked with his European allies to build an effective deal with Iran, that gave Europeans something they wanted and reduced the threat of additional war in the Middle East, whole building an effective counter balance to the Saudis, instead of flippantly and unilaterally tearing it apart causing European allies unnecessary political, military, and economic headaches.
Great work! One suggestion: please make blocklists configurable.
> Don't get me wrong, China's attacks on free speech and persecution of muslims is a terrible terrible thing, but I get the feeling that they are managing the outbreak and the economy far more effectively than their western counterparts.

Of course it's "effective" to shut off an entire city, patrolling the streets and arresting everyone with an elevated temperature, putting them into detainment camps with no protection from each other whatsoever.

And that's without fudging the numbers.

What would've been even more effective: Not lying about the outbreak, not suppressing information for two months, not downplaying the risk and keeping everything running as usual, just to save face. Until shit hits the fan, at which point local government becomes the scapegoat.

Seriously, if you want to look at effective management, look at Hong Kong, Singapore or South Korea, but even that was only possible because they had procedures in place due to the earlier SARS outbreak.

Mainland China has started this, has completely mismanaged the initial outbreak, and now blames it on foreigners.

In Europe, you can see a clear pattern between liberalism and authoritarianism: Those countries that espouse liberal virtues, that didn't want to instate border controls, that were wary of taking away people's freedoms - those were hit harder. Authoritarians, on the other hand, have been strengthened.

Recognize the trade-off.
Yes, fresh water is a valuable commodity at sea; on U.S. Navy ships, water-flushed toilets are flushed with sea water, not fresh — or at least that's the way it used to be, and I can't imagine it'd be different today. (Source: Three years' sea duty as an engineering officer in the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, CVN-65.)

EDIT: See https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=103122 for a 2017 press release describing how the Reactor Department produces fresh water aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (a Nimitz-class carrier, i.e., an old design). TL;DR: It's done with giant evaporators, that is, distilling units.

Fun fact: At sea, one of the big uses of fresh water aboard a carrier is the repeated washing down of the aircraft to reduce corrosion from the salt air.
Is that a question? I think I pretty plainly stated that the answer to that question is yes.
What are these charts intended to show? The relative differences seem broadly the same, going back years.

Is the idea that if all Android phones were magically 2x faster, some type of app architecture would magically become usable?
What do you think his salary should be that you'd feel comfortable to make a donation?
Even if that approach was to work, it takes a long time.

Ireland joined in 1973, but didn't really become "rich" like the rest of Western Europe till the turn of the millenium.
Can't believe official numbers from governments, can't trust journalists to provide accurate accounts (either because of bias or lack of access)...

How did we reach here? This just sucks
I agree. From a technical perspective this is very exciting; all of a sudden there is an open field on all these fundamental building blocks.

But for an American strategic perspective I think it would have made more sense to keep the Chinese dependent on American operating systems and Taiwan produced chips.
A large number of citizens think that it makes sense for a certain set of nations to work together in many arenas. For decades, Western Europe and North America worked together to both regions’ mutual benefit.

Trump has torn that apart, which has basically hurt both sides to China’s benefit which appears as a far less capricious partner.
And also some of the Nazi laws in Germany. So what? Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.

In the meantime he implemented racial laws in 1938 and dragged us into war alongside Germany. For both of those things (among others) the fascist regime is responsible for the death of millions of Italians (not to count people in Albania Ethiopia and Eritrea or in the allied armies), yet you choose to repeat this propaganda which is also in many cases factually incorrect: most of the "good things Fascism did" were actually started a couple of decades early.
Health insurance is probably going to be fine, because there will be lots of government money flowing into healthcare to drop prices (free tests etc). And total hospital bed capacity hasn't majorly increased (as in: nowhere near 2x), so the total cost they can incur per month isn't significantly higher. May even be slightly lower per patient because most complex treatments have been put on-hold.

Life insurance may also be profiting depending on the structure of the portfolio. Differs a bit per market but some common products pay a monthly amount from let's say 65 until death. A virus might decrease life expectancy of that group from 81 to 77 or something, a 25% drop in required payouts. On the other hand they're often heavily invested in the financial markets which took a big hit. So could go both ways.
Awesome! Well kudos I’ll share it on my Twitter
Some economists show in the paper linked below that being not for profit can be seen as a commitment for quality since you have removed from the company the incentives to exploit your consumers.

Abstract :

Entrepreneurs who start new firms may choose not-for-profit status as a means of committing to soft incentives. Such incentives protect donors, volunteers, consumers and employees from ex post expropriation of profits by the entrepreneur.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/shleifer/publications/not-profit...
> accurate reporting and backfill are not related.

I strongly disagree. If you are unable to backfill data then report accuracy will be affected during multiple scenarios, including migrations from other products, unplanned downtime etc. Not having backfill is accepting that reports will suffer as soon as historical data is inaccurate and basically saying that you don't care.