skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they would possibly hunt more efficiently, using tools and having a better memory for migration routes, they would have a better memory for dangers etc.

Sure, but those reasons aren't enough. The world has to change often enough to make that 0.001% smarter brain have an actual advantage. And slow enough that there is no extinction event. Judging by what we see nowadays, 13.8 billion years don't seem enough for those odds.

Unless the intelligence increases where such big leaps, and became the strongest dominant genes, that it didn't really matter how much time passed or how the world changed?
For the matter of translation they actually aren't pretty good. DeepL outsmarted all of them (at least for the supported languages). Given the resources thrown at this problem by the different companies I would even say the results of Google, MS and such are actually quite disappointing. (And I don't think one could say "but this companies did the upfront work" as the basic ideas are something 60 years old).
Google is just re-branding the Android with shiny languages like Kotlin. There is nothing left in the framework other than cluttered components.
I think Google should design primarily for people who DON'T know a ton about crafting queries, even if it's at the expense of a much smaller number of folks who are experts.

That said, this seems like an obvious place for improvement where both groups can be made happy.
My educational background is in mathematics and physics. I think you'll find I can give disciplined, logical thinking a run for your money. Logic after all is only an adherence to predetermined axioms in a consistent fashion, not an algorithm for which axioms you should and shouldn't adopt to begin with.

Just like science cannot claim to hold an opinion on a phenomenon it has not studied, logic should have no opinion on the great sea of life that happens outside formal systems. Should I spend my time by the river or walking among the trees? There's no strictly logical general answer. You can say, "It's thunderstorming, you shouldn't be outside at all," but that presupposes that I care about surviving. If I do not share that axiom ie I want to live as the wild, and brave the storm with my body in danger, that's not strictly speaking illogical. It's just not your logic. The logic does not share the same axioms but may be perfectly consistent unto itself.
Your experience (listening to non-commercial stations on the left side of the dial while road-tripping) was memorably summarized by the Replacements in "Left of the Dial" --

https://genius.com/The-replacements-left-of-the-dial-lyrics
I'd rather stick with static web pages, thanks.
> And then, all current and future iterations of the same tired line of questioning can be answered by a simple hyperlink instead of wasting your time again.

That will totally work.
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I saw a statistic that 0.25% of NYC’s population has already died from Coronavirus (15k/6m). It seems worse there due to the density, and similarly dense cities like London are in the same boat.
I just searched google images for "cheese" and "cheese without holes" and I got roughly the same results (about 1/3 of the images had holes in both cases).
It does do smoothing, plus the ranges are very plausible for this Bayesian approach:

$ head -1 rt.csv
state,date,ML,Low_90,High_90,Low_50,High_50
$ awk -F, '$1 == "ID" { printf("%s: %.2f - %.2f\n", $2, $6, $7) }' rt.csv | tail -7
2020-04-13: 0.07 - 0.54
2020-04-14: 0.10 - 0.59
2020-04-15: 0.32 - 0.92
2020-04-16: 0.50 - 1.16
2020-04-17: 0.51 - 1.17
2020-04-18: 0.47 - 1.11
2020-04-19: 0.32 - 0.94
It illegal to both wear and not wear a face mask in New York
From what I gather from my Dad, who speaks a good amount of Ojibwemowin, the language has Nature conservation principles embedded in it.
You may be right. It's been bugging me since I posted earlier on so I fired up a VPN with an endpoint in Japan, along with a private browsing session in Firefox, to see if I got different results. As it happens the results were interesting:

- If I entered "person" I'd see a mix of images substantially similar to what I saw using google.co.uk up to and including Terry Crews, which was frankly a little weird, and otherwise mostly white

- If I entered "人", which Google Translate reliably informs me is Japanese for "person", I'd see a few white faces, but a substantial majority of Japanese people

So it seems possible that Google's trying to be smart in showing me images that reflect the ethnic makeup I might expect based on my language and location. I mean, it's doing a pretty imperfect job of it (men are overrepresented, for one) but viewed charitably it's possible that's what's going on.

Is the case for woke outrage against Google Image Search overstated? Possibly; possibly not. After these experiments I honestly don't feel like I have enough data to come to a conclusion either way, although it does seem like they may at least be trying to do a half decent job.
That’s a thing from like 2015 that was in place to to make sure that the views were real. I’ve uploaded videos that have gotten 10s if views. Really, how hard do you think it is to make a counter?
I don't want to teach myself how to talk to a machine. I want the machine to understand what I am saying.
The core of the product is a third party lib Newspaper3k. Not sure I would want to pay for the Flask wrapper.
HD Radio has some of the same disadvantages as digital TV — if you don't have a strong enough signal, it drops out.

The worse part, to me, is that it takes quite a long time for the HD signal to lock in. I had a brand new rental car last month with a brand new HD radio in it. It took upwards of ten seconds for some of the HD signals to lock in.

Radio stations (AM and FM) can improve this by going all-digital, instead of the hybrid technology almost all are running right now. But doing so not only excludes hundreds of millions of older radios, it reduces the coverage area. It's simply not worth the revenue hit, since in radio coverage area is everything.

On the plus side, I had a great Sony HD tabletop radio that I loved dearly. It had an iPod dock on top and if a song came on the radio that you liked, you'd press a button and the track information would be stored in a special playlist the iPod.

Then the next time you plugged the iPod into iTunes, it would match the information from the playlist and you could buy the song you heard on the radio from iTunes. It worked really well. I wish something like that existed for satellite radio.
You are defending the Motte here, while someone on this thread is being called a white supremacist for defending the phrase "It's okay to be white". Your example is bad anyway, because 1488 does not have any clear alternative meaning.

Take the "okay" sign for instance. It has nowhere near 100% specificity and is basically useless for declaring their alignment. It's a common hand gesture for god's sake. Yet the whole thing was made to be a huge deal as it "revealed" many prominent people were actually secretly white supremacists. And I think the actual motive lies here: making the opposition make an ass out of themselves and causing the maximum possible collateral damage, without actually doing anything. The stronger you react to innocuous things, the more reasonable the other side looks. I mean, who would want to be labeled a X supremacist just because they think it's okay to be X? By stooping down to /pol/'s level just to fight against them, you lose the reasonable people from your side.
You call them "anti-worker laws", but they are just lobbying for laws which they believe will further their interests, which is exactly what unions do on the other side. Perhaps Whole Foods should not be permitted to lobby for favorable legislation and regulation, but the same restriction should be applied to their counter-parties (the unions).
Sure, CDC/WHO misinformation. Why do you think Asian tourists are regulary wearing face masks while on vacation? Because of the SARS, MERS and H1N1 outbreaks.
Testing rates and patterns don't make as much difference as you might think. They'll dramatically affect the absolute numbers, but to a first approximation the curves will have the same shape and thus estimates of R won't be thrown off.

The bigger problem is that R varies across the population; if you're testing primarily old age care homes you'll end up estimating what R is in that community rather than estimating R in the broader (mostly untested) community.
Yes and no, there are new APIs to support the same use cases, and none are standard/cross platform. Whether they are part of DirectX formally or not is not important.
Fascinating. Is crude oil extra corrosive or is it something in the environment? Ocean salt water is highly corrosive but then what about equipment on land? Is there something that could be done to make an idled investment last longer?
A curious thing I notice in the final plotted graphs. Some of them show a continuous smooth decline, and when the trend dipped below 1, it continued to do so in a smooth fashion. Others, it dipped below 1, then bounced back up again, sometimes doing this a couple times. Assuming this is not a result from errors in the calculation or inaccuracies in the data, I wonder what the cause of this is. Was there some situational or behavioral change in those states where the trend bounced back up, vs. those ones where it continued to smoothly decline?
WTI crude oil May contracts settle at –$37.63 per barrel
Before we blame the cruise lines, the fitness clubs, the airlines, the ski resorts, the buffet restaurants ... lets remind ourselves that it is not a job for random companies to access the seriousness of potential pandemic virus. They have to, they should, rely on what the authorities say and the rules they lay out.

The health authorities are the only ones who have the full picture and a chance to assess this.

That the CDC according the article blames Carnival cruises really is not a good look.
What is an impartial source to you - someone who has no other opinions on related topics?
AM had the nice property that it worked somewhat in mountainous areas, but it didn't sound very good. It had the nice property of range.

AM can sound better, but it requires people to buy new radios, and the whole point of AM is that it's cheap.

I had a Sony AM Stereo Walkman, and if the station was broadcasting in AM Stereo, the sound was considerably better. Not FM quality, but not too far off to my ears.
FYI, this github link and rt.live are both by Kevin Systrom.
Yeah, that statistic is what I point out to people who claim that the IFR from coronavirus is actually tiny due to undiagnosed infections.
Ideally games would have native Linux versions. Practically, no one did this before Wine/Proton because the Linux market is so small and bug-prone, so the choices are Proton or no games at all.
To clarify, there was and still is an active astroturf campaign organizing thousands of people to violate recommendations by the federal government about social distancing guidelines. Then there is a guy who registered a bunch of domains and is getting doxxed. Not sure why the later has an article in Mother Jones why the former does not.
This is precisely where Bayesian stats shine: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
With WSL bringing back the spirit of a POSIX-flavored subsystem, it might be fun to see some other retro-computing subsystems such as a modern OS/2 subsystem, though I can't think of a good reason to do that other than fun.

Maybe if someone can think of a good reason to need OS/2 running on Azure it could happen. Maybe there's a bank somewhere with the OS/2 apps investment and enough money to throw at Microsoft (and IBM) somewhere to make it happen.
German notary requirements make investing hell compared to us or uk
Raising work standards and treating employees well is a good way to prevent unionization but it’s not always enough. Whole Foods does (or at least used to) treat their employees exceptionally well by grocery standards, and Costco famously does the same, but that didn’t stop some Costco stores from unionizing.
Why would you write something wrong like this in such an authoritative? Wouldn’t it be better to do 5 seconds of research instead of spreading fake news?
Consider the query, "non-glass skyscrapers", which suffers from the same problem.

What do you call a skyscraper like that if you want to refer to it? They exist, but you can't find them using that search term on Google.
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I agree that's a valid argument, probably a more sensible approach, even if it does make me a little sad :)
I thought that had been called off no?
This isn’t any surprise, we will see a swelling of growth in Westchester, Long Island, Southern Connecticut, and Northern New Jersey, especially if partial remote work stays normalised as well. I don’t see a massive exodus out of the metro area, but the suburban share will likely grow.
Union represent people, a company represents invested capital. It is not a given that these should be treated equally.
Huh, ok I just tried this out and it doesn't work as well as I was hoping. It appears that that `[[A file]]` style works on GitHub Wikis but doesn't work in the repo browser itself (e.g., from the `README.md`)? That's a major limitation to me, because one of the big benefits of my approach is I get a free web version of every local Wiki that I have on GitHub.

I'm curious if you have another solution for actually publishing a `git` repo on the web using the `[[a file]]` link style?
I've entertained the idea, but then again, if I stick around I might get a sweet deal on a condo.
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The “CS context” is very broad and diverse. In the context of teaching (which is, I think closest to what you mean), arithmetic being O(1) is primarily because it simplifies the analysis of most common algorithms. In this context, the most important thing is to identify some set of operations of interest and show how they scale to infinity. Instructors are primarily interested in ensuring students know how to do this analysis. The exact set of operations is unimportant. However, the side effect of this approach is that students walk away with weird, incorrect assumptions of how the hardware works.

In non-academic contexts where performance matters, one should almost never assume anything is O(1).
> which is based on SDL (simple directmedia layer), which is based on porting windows code.

Huh?

Building on top of SDL is probably the easiest way to make a game native on all platforms. There's nothing Windows specific about it.
I agree with what you are saying, but want to clarify the example a bit. Yalta is in fact in Crimea, I believe most people there would ask you to not call their land part of Ukraine (note: this doesn't mean I believe that annexation was a good idea). They probably don't have cruise ships there, most tourists are from Ukraine and Russia. If Russians won't be able to go to Turkey this summer (almost sure) but will be allowed to go to Crimea (we'll see how that goes…), this major part of Crimean economy might be actually in better shape than before.
Problem here is not about negation, but there is no product that's described as "shirt without stripes". Stripes and shirt will come together in a different sense, since Google cannot find whole phrase it has to find parts. For example check for "shirt without shoulders"
It doesn't just seem worse, it is worse (a lot worse), at least so far.

Sort this table by per-capita total deaths: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

And that's just by state. NYC proper is likely even worse than that would suggest.
This is not the real price of oil. It's just a long squeeze -- an unfortunate side effect of the USO ETF as its rolling its holdings into the next futures contract.

See: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-20/there-...
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-$37.63. Welcome to Thunderdome.
I've only played a bit with eComStation (recent OS/2 "distribution"), but my understanding of OS/2 is that it is a very modular system which is also how people still keep adding features to it despite using the same base since the 90s. Also it seems to be thoroughly documented.

I think both of these, combined with the fact that OS/2 is not a moving target anymore (unlike Windows), can make it much easier to make an open source OS/2 replacement by replacing its systems bit by bit. If anything, if you check eComStation (and i also guess Arca OS), it has a lot of newer parts than what was originally in OS/2 at all stages of the "stack" - from the bootloader, to graphics drivers, to UI, many of which seem to be open source.

TBH i think the main reason there haven't been already a working OS/2 replacement is that there doesn't seem to be enough of a technical know-how in the current community and there doesn't seem to be any new interest for it by people.

Haiku was pretty much in the same position, but the difference that somehow Haiku managed to get enough knowledgeable people on board despite BeOS being released on PC only a couple of years after OS/2 Warp. I guess the release of BeOS Personal for free helped spread it much further and OS/2 never had something like that.
In the aftermath of 9/11, nobody wanted to live in skyscrapers. But that fear soon faded and prices went back up.

It's probably too early to tell if this is a lasting trend.
FWIW: .2% would be the IFR for the general population. Given you stated you are not at risk, your actual chance of death would be something like .007%, or 7 deaths in 10,000
They didn't say Russia wasn't heavily dependent on oil. They said KSA was even more dependent.
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That whole post is based on a misunderstanding of what OneClickPolitics does: it manages websites, paid ads, and social media campaigns for advocacy groups. These websites look cookie-cutter because the OneClickPolitics platform auto-generates them. It's like saying that all Shopify stores look similar.

Their "OneClick Acquisition" platform delivers "on demand, organic supporters through our proprietary digital ad placement technology." They design and place digital ads to attract supporters to your campaign. If they were just hiring people to pretend to be supporters, they wouldn't need to place ads searching for them.
Yeah, that is a product for those who need it deployed and ready to use.

For devs, I open-sourced the full code.

Also, one thing to understand is that it can be quite expensive for some companies to deploy it. They might need servers, developers, testers, etc. In some cases, it is just cheaper to buy it.
Anyone with insight what we will see tomorrow when the May contract issue isn't in play?
The biggest spike in the local death rate since 9/11/01 is not "just another flu season". Though NYC's population is probably closer to 9m now.
Property prices are definitely already declining in the city, so this could be a smart move as well.
I wonder if that negative int broke a bunch of code in software around the world
They are different though - shirts with patterns (hawaiian, tie-dyed, etc) are "shirts without stripes" but they are not "solid-colored shirts".
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My point was that, for something that is fairly grey such as the coordination versus spontaneity of protesters, you're not going to get solid evidence.

Any disinterested search for truth here would involve reams of original-source facts. This is probably not the right forum for that.

FWIW I did not make the claim for which you are requesting evidence. I just don't think asking for evidence in this case will be very fruitful.
Of course somebody has compiled a list of the exceptions: https://earlyradiohistory.us/kwtrivia.htm
I'm not arguing that corporations shouldn't be allowed to lobby. Of course they should. I'm arguing that we have a corrupt system that is terribly biased in favor of corporations and against working people and that it results in terrible laws that are easily exploited... and when companies get called out for anti-worker attitudes, they then turn around and blame the very laws they helped enact!

Edit: Even though I don't want to ban lobbying, it's worth pointing out that a quick google search (with more time could find better numbers admittedly) shows how ridiculously unbalanced lobbying is. So, I mean, doing so wouldn't be good but is more radically pro-labor than basically anything that unions are asking for. Corporate lobbying: $3.42 billion. Union lobbying: Less than $50 million. So, like 70X.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/01/lobbying-spending-r...

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lobbying.php?ind=P
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This ties together a number of different datasets and makes them graphable: http://casualhacker.net/covid19/
Manslaughter for one. Passengers have died.
> “I don’t think a lot of these things were predictable,” said Alex Stamos, a former chief security officer at Facebook

After the macOS installer bug last year I predicted exactly this. I may just be a random HN commentator but my opinion of Mr Stamos is diminished greatly if he actually believes this
Well I understand deeply that there's nothing more powerful that in-person connections.

I've witnessed that multiple times when I sneaked into some "exclusive" events in silicon valley.
They may not be "games", but titles like Gone Home are still video games, they aren't about "beating" something, and they aren't simply toys either.
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Look into local blind center resources for immediate help in the transition process. The earlier you start working with the Department of Rehabilitation, the sooner resources can be made available for training, education, and tech you'll need moving forwards.

I was an animator and VFX artist and lost my vision suddenly in 2014 in the span of 30 minutes. I can no longer do that work, but started learning orientation & mobility white cane training from the Lighthouse for the Blind in San Francisco and worked with the Dept. of Rehab to figure out life moving forwards. I received training in how to use a screen reader in iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows. I learned about accessibility and dove into my background as a former QA engineer for animation software and my UX/UI experience from VFX and motion graphics and started learning development on my own time. Figured out Python using TextEdit and Terminal on my Mac, am in the process of learning JS, used Xcode to learn Swift, and I tend to code websites by hand, then share them with someone with sight to check out my CSS.

There are a lot of resources out there to help you adapt, but it will take baby steps. I highly recommend you learn braille as blind coders tend to use braille displays to quickly check through lines of code, although I primarily just use VoiceOver to listen to code line by line at a very fast speed. Braille will help you type a lot faster on your phone when you find a collaborative work experience to be inaccessible; we use Slack at work, but the desktop version is awful in terms of accessibility, so I only use the iOS app and can quickly and accurately type out very detailed messages using Apple's braille screen input.

It's all about adaptation and not being afraid to ask for help. Zoom and Google Meet work great, and Microsoft products have gotten much much better in terms of accessibility. Google Suite takes a lot of getting used to, but is doable and functional with enough practice.

If you are on Windows, Jaws and NVDA will be essential to learn, and I've heard that Visual Basic studio is very accessible. I haven't found Sublime, atom, or other text editors to be accessible on the Mac, but TextEdit and Xcode work just fine for all matter of filetypes, and of course emacsspeak and Vim work in Terminal or iTerm.

Check out the /r/Blind sub reddit, Applevis.com, and know that you'll have support. It's a huge transition but you'll make it through!