skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The older I get the more I see very real parallels between maladies of the human brain and maladies of human society.

The way I see it, all this weird and baseless moral panic you've identified tends to resemble clinical depression in an individual. People through their own analysis abstract out what they perceive to be problems, then they market and promote their perceived problems to others and all the hope and despair that comes from learning to perceive those things as problems. Next thing you know, society starts looking like it is clinically depressed and you get people spouting viewpoints like "this is the worst time ever to raise children".

In a similar vein, the experience of schizophrenia seems to parallel the authoritative information "dilemma" known as "fake news" that we're struggling with as a society. Fake news is now pervasive on both the left and the right either in the form of outright lies at worst to deliberate omission of counterbalancing information to serve and agenda. I'm reminded of this Quora question where people with schizophrenia describe what it's like to be schizophrenic:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-have-schizophrenia-...
If this comes to pass, I'm all for it. If we could take the demand we saw for oil, and put it into demand for high-speed Internet, we could see completely new, blue ocean markets.

Imagine a surgeon being able to control a robotic surgery tool from the comforts of his/her home, where you have to have extremely low-latency or guaranteed low-latency networks. Or imagine mecheng offices running simulation jobs in the cloud or an on-premises instead of each having a workstation, and being able to cluster that compute together. All these have been possible to some degree with existing technology, but now we have a paradigm shift and market acceptance that unlocks new business possibilities.
The results are exactly what I would expect and hope to get.
Not to mention they just had an IPO on their state oil company and raised a shot load of money.
You can also do "plain shirt", but the repo is making a message about the smartness of our search engines.
> If you are afraid to associate a decision with your reputation then somebody will make the decision for you. It is better to make a wrong decision early than to put that decision off to a future time. A wrong decision in the short term results in learning that can result in corrective decisions that would otherwise be absent.

While I agree with everything else you said, I can't disagree with this more.

If someone else is more qualified or better able to make a more informed decision than you are, then let them! Why worry about whether it was you or someone else who made the decision, when the real focus should be on maximizing the right decisions.

Furthermore, how do you know that a wrong decision early is better than putting a decision off until a future time? While I can think of some cases where this is true, I can also think of a LOT of cases where this is absolutely untrue. Some wrong decisions can be very damaging and irreversible. There are also many decisions that don't affect anyone adversely the later they're made up until some ultimate deadline (like turning in homework when you're younger, or filing applications for an RFQ, or many other similar things); the only reason to finalize decisions for these kinds of things earlier than necessary is to ease your own cognitive overhead rather than actually being better for anyone else.

The hard part about making decisions often isn't just the decision itself, but also in understanding the risks and trade-offs of making a potentially wrong decision now, versus making a better informed decision at a later time, and deciding which is the better approach for any given decision that needs to be made.
Right on, thanks for sharing your knowledge on this!
Hi Andrew, I saw your VB FB AR article from 2017 and checked out Pair3D. Can you comment on Bosch's approach vs Intel Vaunt (now defunct)?
Interesting! I have had St. Clair's and would put it in the middle as a very good butter but not one that I'd go to the ends of the earth for. I like Clover a lot but my wife finds it, like Kerrygold, verging on fishy. My favorite butter of all time is from another Northern California restaurant, Manresa. Vividly yellow, clearly unpasteurized, aggressively grassy. The downside of course is that unpasteurized butter is not the safest food and probably has a shelf life of two days, so it's not like a commercial butter, no matter how perfectly produced, could taste the same.

I'm not sure these sorts of head-to-head taste tests reveal that much about how enjoyable a butter is at table. One of my favorite seafood restaurants is a small chain in Paris, Le Bar à Huitres (pretty funny to me that it's literally Oyster Bar, kind of like a steakhouse called "Steakhouse"). They have these absurd seafood platters laden with delicacies that I had never heard of like sea snails, but the sides are really interesting. Mignonette and lemon (obligatory), but also a tiny can of rillettes (?), a piece of baguette, and Bordier butter. The butter was really wasted in the context of the seafood, in my opinion.

If you like butter, one I see pretty often is just labeled "German butter". Lightly cultured and salted, very tasty. I wish I could get beurre d'Isigny on the regular, but I'm not making a special trip into the city.
> At the moment it is getting taken from me. I can see it in my accounting. So don't tell me it isn't when it very clearly is.

I didn't say that. Read the sentence again. It is not only taken from you. Sure, you pay taxes, but the government is also getting deeper and deeper into debt, because your taxes aren't enough. Who is going to pay for that? Well, you, as long as your alive, then your children, if you have any. Or maybe you'll be poorer through inflation. You need to look beyond taxes and start looking at debt. Taxation is (politically) hard, debt is easy.

> I am not saying it should be fair, I am saying that in principle it is wrong....

It's only wrong because it is unfair. Same difference.

> This does however require you to read up on things, and take responsibility and think ahead.

Oh sure. Most likely, you'll be wiped out easy as soon as some minor crisis shows up at the door. There's a major recession unfolding right now, perhaps it hasn't hit you yet. You'll lose all your money, your pension, and then you'll wish you had your protected salary at some "too big to fail" company, or maybe some government desk job. You can barely afford real estate, so the risk you are taking is in no proportion to the reward. I wish it'd be different, but I didn't make the rules.

> The reality is that some people will have to work jobs they don't like. I've done it. That still isn't exploitation, it is called life mate.

Dude, you're from the UK, your worst case scenario is being on unemployment benefits. You effectively have a social safety net, you can just stop pontificating about the people who don't have one. If your options are "be out on the street" or "work 60hrs in a dead-end job for the rest of your life", it's a little bit different.

> No you must understand we have to end collusion between Government and Business. UBI will make people more dependant on Government. Once that is ended, if the job is uneconomical and there is no corporatism the problem will resolve itself as eventually businesses will have to innovate their processes if they want to stay competitive.

The whole argument to keep these companies alive is to protect jobs. If we have it your way, a lot of people will be unemployed. Maybe in the UK that's not such a big deal, but only because there is a welfare system.

Just admit that your idea of good politics is putting people out in the street and let them figure it all out. Apart from that, we're probably on the same page.
Learn you some Google-foo.
Don't say what it isn't. Say what it is.
"shirt solid color"
A real pity. Users can check out https://nextdns.io for a feature-complete alternative. I've had a great experience with them.
Growing up with it doesn't always make it tolerable.

My parents never made ghee (they're ethnic tamils from Malaysia), but good lord frying fish, or making fermented shrimp paste...yuck.
I've never once met a person who would otherwise go hungry if they didn't get dividends, have you?

What you really mean is those "normal people" would have to sell their third car or maybe rent out their summer home without that dividend, which is just fine by me.
"SS blood group tattoos (German: Blutgruppentätowierung) were worn by members of the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany during World War II to identify the individual's blood type. [...] It was a small black ink tattoo located on the underside of the left arm, [...] placed roughly 20 cm (8 inches) above the elbow."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_blood_group_tattoo

I have no idea whether it's popular with modern neo-nazis.
Carmack on Lisp / Scheme / Racket / VrScript
The point of this isn't asking how to apply boolean search operators, it's showing that the largest AI-focused companies in the world absolutely suck at NLP.
Just wanted to chime in and say never is a big word in tech, VR/AR might be good enough in 1-2 decades to provide 99% of the benefit of a shared office environment.

That said, I can really relate to the challenge of keeping personal and professional separate when working from home... I keep thinking of setting up a separate room or taking a laptop outside but it is painful giving up comfortable the multi-monitor setup on my main workstation.
Autistic girls have higher levels of androgens circulating in their blood
That was what put me off about that book too. I was really excited to learn about his math, but the continuous hard sell combined with attacking traditional statistical methods (which still have a lot of use) was pretty off putting. I will probably pick it back up, but it was not a great way to hook readers or bring them around to your way of thinking.
> I haven't found many machines built on those. It's a shame.

The 4900HS just came out, so I assume we'll be seeing more of them! (LTT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqG31V4qtA)
Currency issuers are not revenue constrained.
For a nation with a fiat currency, the ability to spend is distinct from the need to tax.
Probably not surprising that most people don’t know, but negative keyword search works on all these platforms:

shirt -stripes
> I think at many large enterprises getting paid in stock is standard for even junior line-worker hires. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, etc. People a few years into their career are often paid a majority in stock.

Maybe at FAANG companies (whose FTE workers tend to be very well off) and some other companies with a startup lineage, but I highly doubt this is very widespread.

I, for one, would frankly refuse a compensation package that was majority stock, unless the salary was already good. It'd be too much like those Enron employees who filled their 401ks with Enron stock -- too many eggs in one basket.

If someone who's otherwise well-compensated complains about missing out on dividends on their stock, I have the world's smallest violin here, ready to play a song for them.
Worse it isn't 1000 bushes at your home it is at some transfer point several states away. If you are lucky it is an elevator that sends you a bill for storage and can unload them. If you are unlucky you need to get a truck (with a driver) there on short notice to get it out of there.
Infection Fatality Rate – A Critical Missing Piece for Managing Covid-19
... but you don't have a barrel to put it in, do you?
David Reich's "Who We Are And How We Got Here: ancient DNA and the new science of human past" covers it a bit, but only for the first couple of chapters. It's focused on genetics as well, and is a little technical but he looks at migration patterns of ancient human beings as a way to figure out where they lived and how they interacted with other human sub-species. Still a good read though!
The '-' operator stopped working for me with Google a while back. Not sure why, it's fairly frustrating.
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery
That’s obviously not the point here.
Google-Fu == working around machine learning limitations which is the point of this post.
These kinds of maps always end up far less enlightening than I'd hoped. Maybe because of noise from counties with low populations? Like, "Oh, there's elevated levels in Finney County, Kansas. Hmm."

Anyway I find this map a lot more useful, which lets you filter by population, show counts per capita, and limit counts to the last 7 days:

https://rchern.github.io/covid-19/
This is expected, not wanted though, I would expect some semantic analysis translated into "shirt -stripes", but what you really mean is "solid color shirt". This is a tough one but surely something that can be tackled with research
You'll also see the economy in the fourth largest city in the US - Houston - collapse. It's not just the large energy companies here, but the entire ecosystem of companies that support the energy industry here.
No. By what mechanism would a commodity price be elastic?
Companies exists to:

1. Produce products, especially essential ones.

2. Give people work, so that they can afford products.
Especially essential ones.

Everything else is just (potentially useful) junk capitalism added on top of it. So even if the concept
of dividends would be forbidden many thinks would still go on like before, companies would still exist and make sense. Just the stock marked would probably be gone. Maybe that wouldn't be so bad IMHO.
It's not on the EU list of tax havens, so it's not a haven in the eyes of Denmark's aid programs.
When you search for “shirt without stripes” you expect and hope to get shirts and t-shirts with stripes?
> Neither does getting money without labour mean that a UBI is wrong in principle.

Yes it is. Because they are taking wealth from people who do work. Everyone sidesteps this and tries to justify it as being virtuous by citing things that are post rationalisations.

It will also make people more dependent on the government which gives more power to politicians (those who will want to be elected will simply promise to increase the UBI) and we go further down the road to tyranny.
Corrective lenses to abate the resultant myopia. But you already knew that, so can you maybe elaborate to make your point in a more intellectually nourishing way?
> you'll do what your boss asks unless it's illegal or immoral.

As an employee your primary obligation is not to your boss, but to the owners of the company.

If your boss is ordering you to do something that is detrimental to the company, you should fix the situation. But not necessarily follow the orders of your boss.

This is a very common misconception, imo.
Ha!

I know the chorus well, but not much past that.

Thanks :)
Nice to imagine, but the speed of light is too slow for a lot of low latency applications. After you allow the infrastructure some latency. A dedicated line might work, but without the network that is expensive.
What industry are you in that people aren't adopting web apps? At my work we use a ton of web-apps. Chrome-books offer nothing but web apps and they're doing pretty well these days.
I'd go as far as saying "AI" is only as good as someone has taken the time to program the use case.
Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing
> Why would too little be an issue?

I assume because if you don't add enough you don't get the benefits and it's just a waste of money.
1. Many businesses are closed at the moment due to lockdowns

2. During a recession, people will save that money and not spend it
The debian of cars would totally be a crown victoria.
It would be really nice if the search engines would automatically apply the "-" when it sees the work "without".
When they said first come first serve on Thursday 4/2 with the opening on Friday 4/3, we spent most of the day getting our paperwork done for the submission on that Thursday. Including copies of a whole year of payroll and all the other backup material. We had our paperwork in to Texas Bank and Trust that Friday morning. They worked on the SBA side and sent an email to us on Saturday that the SBA had changed the terms from .5% to 1% interest rate with some other changes about contractors and such and updated the signoff sheet. On early Monday we signed the loan agreement with those changes and by 4:30 p.m. they said we had been approved by the SBA. Then on Thursday 4/9 the money showed up in our bank account. I want to publicly acknowledge the outstanding work the Texas Bank and Trust team performed to get our relief money. For 2 weeks we sent everyone home fully paid. We are slowly ramping up but everyone is being paid their full salaries / 40 hours for the whole time they are at home self quarantining. This is how the program was supposed to work.
Related: https://www.google.com/search?q=mountains+without+women+in+a...
There's a small, but fairly informative Wikipedia article for the brothers at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_brothers
We have had color schemes on Cryptowatch (https://cryptowat.ch) for years, and since a year ago we even let users create custom color schemes within the web app [1]

We use CSS variables for this. The stylesheet doesn't have any hard-coded colors, it only references a set of several variables and many blends of these variables. This way, you can let a user adjust a variable using a color picker and the entire website adjusts dynamically as they do it. It also lets you render any color scheme properly in your SSR (unlike the approach in this article).

[1] https://guides.cryptowat.ch/real-time-charting-interface/cus...
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> But now all that buffer is exhausted

Is it full? I recall that the stimulus bill originally included a provision to buy more oil for the strategic reserves, but that the measure got removed by the Democrats. (Both sides are capable of making mistakes...)

We should be buying right now.
Because most companies want to exist longer than two years.
I strongly doubt it. The corporate tax provisions are stricter than most developed economies. All indexes I've seen have Denmark pretty far down tax haven friendliness. Genuinely curious on your source.
> Unions, people.

Yes. If Google knew, say, 25% of its highly-skilled engineering workforce would strike in the face of unethical business practices, Google would not engage in unethical business practices. Tech companies are assholes because we allow them to be.

There are also companies who happen to make money doing something more-or-less good - for example life-saving medical devices, and even a company like Roland, which makes music equipment. I think those things contribute to a meaningful life, and are a good place to land if you're jumping ship.
John T. Reed's analysis of Robert T. Kiyosaki's book Rich Dad, Poor Dad (2015)
The other people pumping are coordinating... against you, not with you.
Produce electricity from solar mega-structures
The C2 bare metal offer is based on the Atom C2000 series, which has the AVR54 errata. They are based on in-house custom hardware [1] and are no longer manufactured. The switching fabric used in this offering only supports stateless firewalls, creating a huge issue of feature parity between offerings. The switch fabric is part of the hardware design, so it is impossible to replace it with something that would support dynamic firewalls.

The ARM64 offering is based on ThunderX servers from Gigabyte / Cavium. These servers were plagued by kernel panics from the first kernels provided by Cavium and firmware bugs that had never been fully resolved before the servers went into production. They were also plagued by consumer-grade 1TB SSDs that were constantly crapping the bed and losing customer data (unlike the other 1.92TB enterprise SSDs installed, which were robust).

Offer C1 is also based on custom hardware [2] and faces the same situation as offer C2. If you are an existing C1 customer, I would take a backup and consider alternatives.

I don't find it very surprising that they announced the withdrawal of these offers, you can check their GitHub repositories to see years of neglect to these products: operating system images rarely updated [3], and major usability issues have never been solved [4].

(Throwaway account to protect sources)

[1] https://blog.scaleway.com/2016/c2-insanely-affordable-x64-se...

[2] https://blog.scaleway.com/2015/from-online-labs-to-scaleway/

[3] https://github.com/scaleway/image-fedora/issues/34

[4] https://github.com/scaleway/image-ubuntu/issues/87
> The government should take a small ownership stake in companies that receive that kind of money.

I'm only familiar with US law, not Danish so question for you here.

Under US law, when a company closes (bankruptcy, acquired, etc), the common shareholders are last in line for payments after debt holders and preferred shareholders. Does Danish law have a similar provision?

If so, wouldn't being a debtor be a stronger position? Especially since the governments get to set repayment terms.
That's why everyone wants to know why that one did!
The point that the author is making, in a very understated way, is that all three companies have PR websites that breathlessly describe their advanced AI capabilities, yet they cannot understand a very simple query that young children can.
You clearly haven't got a clue, but why do you bother so much?
You sound as paranoid as iamadamdev.

Again I'm NOT magnolia1234(-new) ...

He worked on the original repo first and wanted to speed up development, but got blocked in the end and started his own mirror (which got suspended).

Concerning misinformation:
- Clean as in no Google Analytics (on Chrome).
- Firefox add-on also has limited permissions release, but then custom sites don't work.

Goodluck with your fud-activities somewhere else.
> why do we try to get the women/children/handicap out of an accident first when who should survive is the fittest?

This is pretty much the problem of why evolution encourages altruism, why there are eusocial animals (ants, bees, naked mole rats) and things like that.

You're missing 2 things:

1. "fittest" isn't very obvious. It probably comes down to something like a statistical ability to have offspring that survive. With that orientation, saving women/children/etc first makes sense: more offspring survive, especially for K-strategy species like humans. We humans are accustomed to making moral judgements about survival, but experts seem pretty sure that "fittest" doesn't include morality. Just as a side note, "fittest" may not exist as a long term thing. Climates change, continents move, volcanism happens. "Fittest" might mean something on a short term, but probably doesn't exist long term.

2. What nature wants to propagate isn't terribly obvious. It's chromosomes. Why do you help your children? They carry half of your chromosomes. Why do you help your parents? Same reason? Your sibligs? On average you've got maybe 50% of your chromosomes in common. See https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/05/05/brothers/ for a pithy way of saying this.

Propagation of chromosomes pretty much explains colonies of ants: because of the way sexual determination works in ants and bees, the worker ants are more closely related than mammal siblings are. This article has a decent explanation: https://www.antkeepers.com/facts/ant-colony/why-do-ants-live...
A few years back (in around 2012) I attended an NLP talk.

The theme of this talk was how they did a study that showed prepositions and articles do have meaning. A big deal was made out of the results.

I think things like this happens when people consider engineering approximations such as bag of words to be the truth over time.
I’m not so sure.

What about a search query for “Doctors without Borders“ or “Men Without Hats“?

Surely interpreting “without“ as the negative operator would ruin those searches.