skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Charity is very small percentage of our life. We can also internalize our signalling.

If you look at how people act in work, family and love life, signalling explains 90% of it.

Hanson became interested in signalling because his work in prediction markets. Prediction market well implemented seems to work and produce good actionable information. Companies were eager to adopt them. In practice they are catastrophe because they reveal how the choices being made are based on other things than what is said. The whole social structure in workplace is destroyed if the positions and knowledge people signal is revealed to be not true.
At least in those cases we know it's happening and we can have a look at the script if we want.
Also, the visibility is somewhat more limited in India on the basis that much of the most vulnerable population wouldn't access the healthcare system anyway and the symptoms wouldn't especially stand out in a country where regular pneumonia kills a child every couple of minutes.
To put things in perspective, Google was founded in 1998, making them 22 years old in September. The "Halloween Documents" were released in August 1998, when Microsoft was 23.

Google is indistinguishable from any other corporate giant because they now are any other corporate giant.

Did anyone seriously think an Ad company would go any other way? It's the scummiest of industries. It was always just a matter of time.

And now we've given (allowed, stood by, whatever) them ALL the data for >50% of our cellular users for the last 10+ years. I'm an Android user too. Oof.
It's time for us to give up on the dream of having good software for free. That's what this whole thread is about. It's a wake-up call for us all. We have to pay for what we value.
Hubble finds best evidence for elusive mid-sized black hole
I am not an expert but from my understanding pain are signals perceived as what we subjectively call painful when something in our body/nervous system is damaged/inflamed or a system is out of whack. It is a very useful thing, it is trying to tell us something useful so we can act on it or just be aware of it. When something is out of whack permanently something in this system is malfunctioning. Without a body it is hard to describe the concept of pain and what it may feel to an emergent system with qualia properties. The closest I could think of is some kind of distress signal or base frequency change when the said system is under stress or wrong state and is perhaps used to self correct the system to a balanced state. If something is permanently painful then it ceases to be a reliable signal.

Psychological pain or emotional pain or distress may come closer to what such a system could experience and but it could also be an emergent property of such a system but we don't fully understand how this works. If such a system has emotional capability then it should be able to experience it because pain is such a state of the emotional spectrum. No pain no joy - no oscillation/flat
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It’s true, though. The drosophila community has a long history of coming up with creative gene names.
We are all machines. The idea that one type of machine or another cannot feel "pain" is simply a rationalization for human behavior that causes harm to other organisms, like hunting and fishing and killing wasps.

Pain is a sensation that drives an animal to quickly react to injurious situations. Consider a robot made with Brooks's subsumption architecture [1]. The basal level of behavior drive of the robot is its self-preservation. That level of behavior drive can halt all the higher-order behaviors to monopolize processing and locomotion. Imagine that this behavior drive is triggered when the ambient temperature approaches a level that can damage the battery, and attempts to move the robot to the lowest-temperature zone available. That is functionally no different than what happens to a person in a house fire.

All we have done with the word "pain" is to set up an arbitrary delineation based on the hormonal/neuronal response that links our sensory apparatus to our behavioral drive.

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pd...
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Covid-19: consider cytokine storm syndromes and immunosuppression
The SEO toxic sludge has become so pervasive that I can't trust any search these days. Here's an example from just last week.

I was searching for the official AWS security certificates (namely, for ISO27001), which AWS neatly publishes on their site. Even for something that specific, the real AWS certification page was at the bottom of the first Google result page. Everything above it was from various random consulting outfits, all trying to sell their "expertise".

When search terms for a company's official security certificate are poisoned with SEO, we know the well has been thoroughly poisoned.
Gabe Newell: Competition in game stores is awesome but ugly in the short term
Are the braces around the const expressions planned to be optional in future? I'm wondering if this will work:

impl State<Color::Green> {
fn next(self) -> State<Color::Yellow> { ... }
}
There are definitely some benefits to subscriptions, but returning to the GP, it’s sort of like renting your nail gun. And your compressor. And your tool belt. And your screw driver. At some point it makes sense to own it and stop renting. Renting is very expensive.
Google image search is also not searching for a duplicate but what object the ml recognized on the picture. For image search I switched to Yandex.
https://github.com/p-org/P/wiki/PingPong-program for anyone else wondering
Nothing, at all. There is a downside: every invoice, every payment is a checkpoint where the customer can cancel.
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As I said I hope you are right. I guess we will see in a few weeks time how the rest of the USA, and places like India and sub-Saharan Africa manage.

I am not optimistic
I wonder if this synonym substitution was their use case leading to invention of word2vec.
> https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767

Thanks for this reference, hadn't seen it yet.

One important limitation - they estimate R0 based on serial interval and time course of number infected. Due to undercounting of cases this underestimates R0. Compare ICL report 13 (Flaxman et al., [0]), where based on doing the same thing using deaths, they get 3.87.

So even if the magnitude of seasonal forcing is as that paper claims, it may well not be enough to stop exponential spread in the absence of additional mitigation measures.

[0] http://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sp...
How do you “buy” open source software?
I employ one of two strategies. Either I answer with “911. What’s the location of your emergency?” or similar. If it’s a live person calling it usually gets them nice and confused. I then get to yell at them for calling an emergency line. My favorite was the guy I talked to when I pretended to be “Shepard Sharp, deputy director of the NSA”. “How did you get this unlisted number? Where are you located, we are dispatching a team to your location now.” This person seemed to believe me.

The second and more common is to simply ask for their company name, their name and employee number, and their boss’s name. By the time I get to the third question they hang up and often don’t call back again. In my state you can sue for unwanted cell phone calls and the max you can get is something like $1200/call, which I am happy to inform them of. No clue how to actually do this but if someone automates the process of filing a suit, I will split the profits :)
Yeah I don’t think this additional swipe adds much to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736608.
I believe they're intentional, to disambiguate from `mod Color { struct Green; }`, and because they can be arbitrarily complex expressions.
> But C++20 adds support for enum classes

It seems to work fine with `enum class` under C++11 ? your code works almost inchanged in g++ 4.7. I don't see anything here : https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/template_paramete... that adds specific support for that in C++20
If it is, then countries with BCG vaccination should see much lower fatality. Which, to first approximation, seems to hold, but it's too early to tell. FWIW both my wife and I have it.

See map as to who else might: http://www.bcgatlas.org/

I've read India also gives hydroxychloroquine to their frontline medical staff as a prophylaxis, which could be helping as well.

India makes a ton of pharmaceuticals, so at least they should be OK on the drugs side.

Their healthcare is piss poor otherwise, however, so drugs are probably their only hope, with a population as high, and healthcare spending as low as they've got.
You're absolutely right. We were just trying to illustrate what "Spreadsheet Hell" is like when you use Google Sheets as a big connected system.
You seem to be nurturing some stereotype of Mac users. Just check (photos of) any Silicon Valley or MIT Cafeteria to maybe calibrate your worldview.
As a consumer of software there are three MAJOR problems with the subscription model:

1) If it's for a piece of software I use on an ongoing basis the cost often rapidly eclipses what I'd have paid for standalone software, and it never stops rising.

2) There's usually some awkwardly contrived cloud tie-in, purely to enforce subscriptions, which breaks the software if your internet connection or the supplier's servers are down. This adds a completely unnecessary external dependency.

3) You're entirely at the vendor's mercy if they decide to change the software. At the very least, you're subjected to constant small breakages of your workflow, and at worst they change some major feature that you depend on and put you out of business for days or weeks until you find a workaround.

Edit: Also 4) The aforementioned awkward cloud tie-in often brings with it some gnarly privacy issues, with your sensitive files and private data being leeched off to the vendor's servers FoR YoUR ConVeNIeNcE.
I'm in Boise. It was a long and strong one. Ah… it reminded me of home.

I hope it didn't do too much damage to the old brick buildings downtown.
This is great. This is basically Airtable, but a more dummy-proof interface. I wish the landing page showed more screenshots of the admin interface, the config steps I need to go through to generate a Toga app.
I was an early supporter (and payer) for Wunderground, but now they have turned into another IBM money grab and I refuse to have anything to do with them now.
Wow great! Now s/w will not only be able to fuck up my spelling, but also my meaning!
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> Did you even look at nvidia-installer?

You're free to analyse it and publish your findings. That's not making zoom any better.
Four times as many people have already died from COVID-19

Died with SARS-CoV-2, not because of it. As far as I know died "because of" isn't tracked or published by any country. And "died with" doesn't mean much (anything?) because coronaviruses of all kinds are so frequently co-present in natural deaths of old age anyway.

For example in 2006 there was what appeared to be an outbreak of SARS in an old people's home in Canada:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/

It turned out to be false positives on the kits and the real coronavirus was a fairly ordinary strain. Nonetheless the measured death rate was 5%.

When you see things like this it becomes apparent how carefully statistics like death rate must be used (or not used). We have literally no solid data in this epidemic. Every piece of evidence, every anecdote turns out on investigation to have enormous caveats or be misleading.
Do you have evidence that heat slows contagion of this virus, or is that simply an assumption based on other viral respiratory illnesses? Brazil has ~200 deaths while the average high in Sao Paulo for March is generally around 82F.
This has already been published before . . .
It has long been the legendary case that Microsoft takes three major versions to get a usable product, then encrusts it with ornamental features until it has trouble breathing around version 7 or 8.
> (it was "make sandboxing work" in 2013 and "make dark mode work" recently)

Honestly starting to feel like the past 4 years of OS X changes have just been too much burden for the few remaining OS X software developers across the board. I recall when the Mac App Store came about a lot of developers moved their software to it, then sandboxing happened and that seemed like an absolute nightmare for most to implement, then after months of that they started to leave the App Store and then there's Gatekeeper too.

Now I'm not saying these are bad things, I definitely see the benefits but there just isn't the mass of engineering talent or money in building OS X software to justify the work required.

This has been tangible to me, 6 years ago my Mac was running all Cocoa apps apart from Creative Suite. Today all the apps I'm running are Electron apart from Textmate and Creative Suite.

The neglect of the Mac platform and the divvying up of the small Mac userbase into Mac users, iPad users and iPhone users means the future of the OS X app experience is just going to be running Javascript apps in Chrome wrappers.
I think they can only have conscious thought if you perceive something having it. How could it exist without observation if the realm of existence exists within you, who is experiencing the the truth?

Does a scribble on a stone contain something any other formation of cracks wouldn't? No, the meaning is generated within _you_, and as such sentience can only be summed as only your own process observing phenomena
The main reason why I won't buy the new MacBook Air is that it's Catalina only. Good thing my Mac Mini shipped with Mojave despite my ordering it months after the Catalina release. It's really the Windows Vista of macOS.
Smart farming and AI in precision Agriculture
Nim is not a “small language”; it’s huge in scope, both domain and range. It is well thought out, so that you don’t need to be aware of all of it to be effective, though.

It’s community is comparatively small, but it is incredibly helpful, smart and capable.
Well, if you can solve Google's deficiencies, you can become the next internet billionaire.
I agree with you, pain is a useful signal or it could be a systemic damage that wrongly sends these signals. However, when we, humans, refer to pain we clump all the unpleasant things we experience together. One such pain is the emotional /psychological pain and this type of pain is more likely to occur in such a system without a body. This is also a signal/state and is also useful to delineate it from another state. If such system is to experience joy it better know what pain is or otherwise wouldn't be able to delineate.
In Germany you only need one for more than three calendar days. Which is fair enough, if you ask me.
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Whoops. Correction: a Python list is a very bad queue.
being loyal to any organization which has an HR division is a recipe for depression. don't do that.
Hello, I'm the founder of Shotstack video editing API. I've put together this demo to show how you can use data from a spreadsheet to generate video statistics. I was in two minds to create something around such a tragedy but it does effectively highlight the the urgency when you see the numbers going up exponentially.
Congrats on launching! Have you heard of Glide: https://www.glideapps.com/? How are you thinking of differentiating yourself from them and others?
Deleting facebook is a signal. Abandoning social life altogether is a signal too.

I believe the only way to stop is to generate white noise - by sending signals so mixed that those who observe stop trusting them
It was a cruise ship converted to an ark. It was meant to stay in space for a short time, precisely because of (as one scene in the movie explained) long-term exposure leading people to grow fat and weak.
Of course... but so can any appropriately constructed control system, and so can any living organism which senses its surroundings to some degree.
Why pretend and cloud the idea, that the main reason a person has a "job" today is to accumulate capital for capital.

As long as this notion persists (which will be for many more decades I fear) power inequalities will just mean that some will suffer more (those who do not have resources in the first place).

Hey, you know, I am really sorry, but thanks for all the capital you helped us to accumulate - which we own and not you. Bye!

I imagine the most profound societal change will come from getting rid of this notion and the resulting reduction in power asymmetries.
Your username reminded me what was once my favourite clothes shop in London. Their aesthetic is a bit further from a spinning-cube-Vim than it used to be.

https://www.cyberdog.net/
There may have been someone abusing it, I can only say for sure that it wasn’t anyone I worked with on a daily basis.

I’m one of those who believes that every person, regardless of what the job is, should be well paid and well treated- how much constitutes “well” is a complicated question of course, but as a matter of principle I do find that if the people taking on all these risks is making close to minimum wage, then we are incorrectly pricing their value.
I use a greenhouse for the cold crops which are planted in March. Where I live you need to protect against frost until the end of April.
It is, from an Apple developer guidelines point of view. They have detailed docs on what situations to avoid[0] in order to elevate privaleges as safe as possible (ie: to not leave gaping holes). Granted, the best solutions they propose are not trivial to implement. Like installing a signed minimal attack surface helper that communicates over secure RPC to execute privileged functions (also don't forget to sanitise your inputs). Or having your App audited and signed so your App can access privileged Frameworks and API's (which means you have to shell out at least $100/y for a developer license for your open-source project).

All in all Apple does their best to provide the mechanisms but they are not necessary easy or trivial (w're dealing with the topic of security so what's to expect). Also with every step Apple takes to bind things down there is a public outcry that they are restricting peoples freedom in installing custom applications and pushing everyone into the Appstore ecosystem.

This of course doesn't excuse bad developer practices, but often it's the choice of doing things right or not being able to do them at all (never meeting your deadlines).

I had the pleasure of implementing one of the suggested privilege escallation systems in a pet project[1] and it was a fun puzzle for me. But I can tell you it will be a PITA if you solve this problem under pressure as (even though Apple provides some tooling to verify everything [2]) it's really hard to figure out if all moving components are setup right for everything to work and to debug any issues.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...

[1] https://github.com/aequitas/macos-menubar-wireguard/

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/SMJob... https://github.com/brenwell/SMJobBless-Demo
Geekbait
I'd honestly be completely shocked if Sketch wasn't already rewriting into webtech behind the scenes.

Think Figma took them completely by surprise, Sketch's success was built on the user experience of a cocoa app feeling much more solid and slick than antiquated Adobe software, don't think they ever expected webtech to be able to compete but obviously with the force behind it and OS X being stagnant, it did.
In a few countries it was introduced in the 1950s which would suggest that the over 70s may not have recieved the jab. And interestingly Italy has never had widespread vaccination.
It does make me feel a bit better though - sometimes I go overboard with security and spend hours making certificate validation work everywhere etc - the people actually making money skip all that and just ignore it. They typically get away with bad practices until they really get massive, as long as the software works well otherwise.

Sometimes when coding I think there is technically an obscure race condition security flaw and, from time to time, leave a TODO instead of spending those grueling hours. This weirdly makes me sleep better at night.

At any rate, "sunlight is the best disinfectant"!
5. I'm genuinely confused about this. Is the price war a war between Russia and S.A. about market share or is it a war on U.S. frackers about the prices in general? I'd take some combination of the two as a reasonable answer.
Apple didn't review or accept Zoom. It's not on the App Store.
Yeah. AMP is the intentional promotion of content whose creators care a lot about SEO over content which is more reputable, relevant and established and sometimes even with lower page weight. If they're losing a battle with spammers on mobile, it's because they gave them a loaded gun and lined up their search results in its crosshairs.
To be fair sync feature is marked as unsafe to use in production in documentation.
I picked up Borderlands 2 and its DLC on a recent Steam sale. The gameplay is just fun enough to keep me interested so far, and it runs surprisingly well on my aging laptop with integrated graphics, but by God, do I hate the dialogue and all of the NPCs. I kind of expected it knowing the insufferable Anthony Burch was the lead writer on it, but still… Damn.

Conosle-wise, I've been playing Red Dead Redemption… the first one. I don't have any of the current generation of consoles (unless you count the Wii U) so I've been playing through some older games that I missed. I'll probably give MGSV a try next.
It's hard to get this right.

Games like DotA, LoL, Minecraft, Terraria are have a high cost to get started and the first hours, days or weeks can be frustrating.

Fortnite is also hard to get really good, but it also features luck. If you hide good, you can get a second place really quick and if you're really lucky, the last two players just kill each other simultanously.
In this case, the complexity is in how you define the word 'suffering'. Is a worm suffering when it tries to escape from a heat source? Is a human infant suffering when it cries in response to a needle prick? Is a motor driver suffering when it raises a high-temperature alarm? As far as I can see they're all on the same continuum, and it's possible to find people who will answer either way to any of the above.
Would you elaborate how to do this?
If you get phonespam whisper at increasingly lower volumes, then out of the blue shout I HAVE ALREADY TOLD TO YOUR MANAGER TO BLACKLIST MY NUMBER WHAT IS YOUR SURNAME AND CUSTOMER SUPPORT ID

They usually hang up at 'blacklist'.
Well that’s a convenient tautology, then.
If you play chess on a computer, clicking on a piece will reveal it's movement option. Of course, just like when playing on a real board, moves like En passant are hardly ever explained to newcomers. In fact, none of the people I have played chess against even know that En passant is a valid move. It's kind of like the wall jumping in Metroid, just that knowing about it won't enable you to do all kinds of cool tricks.
So you understand...Thank you.
I learned plenty of lessons: make money, don't over hire, be frugal, don't bend to pressure for fancy gigs and out of control travel expenses.
Plenty of lessons for sure.
I have sympathy for Founders who will find themselves in that kind of situation. That miserable sense of failure to your people.
Good luck to all.