skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term has been bastardized. AI is now any app that uses if statements, so long as it's obscured to the user. So now "AGI" exists, because apparently the word "general" now means "intelligent", unlike "intelligence".

At some point in the future marketers will learn about AGI, and we'll have to make yet another term, maybe artificial general practical intelligence?
Strangely enough this is a very gendered thing, to the point where multiple women have pointed it out to me as the 'male 3-tap', and there isn't an equivalent 'purse shake' or likewise.
For those working for a company that does cost of living adjustments, look into getting a virtual mailbox from https://www.anytimemailbox.com/ and "move" to your new address in Seattle, Washington. Its a great tier-1 city which will raise your income by 30%. Washington also has no state income tax. The only downside is the weather, but since you don't actually live there you can avoid that and just get yourself a nice zoom backdrop of a rainy city.

This could actually be a great startup idea - virtual "hacker houses" located in expensive cities that people can use as virtual home bases. We will take 5% of your tier-1 income to handle all your paperwork so you can be free to live where ever you want.
Similar thing happens on Twitter. If you mute a phrase it will block organic content including the phrase from appearing in your timeline, except ads including the muted terms still appear in your timeline.

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m...
I'm significantly more concerned about what humanitarians eat, especially in today's economy.
A lot of this resonated with me. Thanks for posting it. I've been struggling in my career as a software engineer for several years now. I used to love it and didn't need any "tricks" to get myself to do the job. I have countless theories as to what happened but don't know for sure.

I certainly struggle with the dopamine hit problem. I have a little will power in the morning and then things drop off rapidly. I can force myself to do urgent things like meetings or something like fix production going down. Anything else though is very difficult to chug through. I won't let myself play video games or watch movies during work hours out of some deep seated moralistic responsibility. This doesn't help me work though. Instead, I'll let myself procrastinate on things that I find "acceptable" for people on work hours (but for far less time than what I do them). This is primarily browsing news sites and eating. I can't stock snacks in my home or my desk at work as I will just compulsively devour them if I have resistance to the task at hand. I then also like you say, feel energy drained after something like browsing the web compulsively.

It then sucks seeing other engineers in the field, with far less experience than myself, just pumping out code hour after hour. I've tried different industries, jobs and even moved cities in an effort to fix things. If I don't like programming anymore, I don't know what else I would do that pays even half as much. I've tried engineering management which is a lot more urgent timed stuff with more admin like work. I was able to force myself to do the job but not super well and I faced weekly negative feedback for mistakes I was making which would also zap my energy to perform.

I find a lot of the "tricks" posted in this thread however to be gimmicks. I know that's a bit cynical but to explain, I try them out to keep an open mind, but then within days or a week, they seem to stop working. It's as if my brain is sabotaging itself. Like it's saying -- oh that technique worked yesterday, we can't have that, so you should just not have the will power to do it today --. Makes it feel like there's a deeper underlying issue that needs solved but no amount of contemplation on this seems to help.

I like to think that the right programming role exists for me somewhere, but it's super hard to study for interviews after a day's work. I feel like I have 100 will power points a day, I spend 200 of them trying to force myself to work, and then have nothing left for when the day is done.

Sorry for the long rant but it was refreshing hearing your story and seeing that I'm not the only one with these symptoms.
Renewalable prices I am sure is what he meant .

Sun is always shining somewhere , solar is very predictable and cyclical.

Volatility is not caused by change but lack of predictability of changes . Oil production is controlled by few dictators with no transparency into their decision making . Most other markets including solar are far more distributed and rational
Your argument is logical I guess, but we are not logical creatures and I prefer to make the choice to live in a more magical/spiritual world. Why wouldn't you? We end up in the dirt either way.
Cruise companies were facing extinction either way, so they were simply waiting for international guidance from WHO so they could pass the buck.
Nice work! Also had a good experience with the Daily.co API. Thanks for sharing!
Costco doesn't care about making money on the things they sell, in general.

Costco makes more money from membership fees [1] and this is basically their stated business model. They try to sell everything at a small markup (just covering overhead) and the membership fees are basically profit.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/02/13/how-costco-actuall...

https://thehustle.co/costco-membership-economics is a good read too.
I use the free and open source NetNewsWire app, but am always looking to try other feed readers. I appreciate the fact that your app requires iOS 9 or later, and isn’t restricted to just the latest version of the OS. I’ll certainly try it out.
Indian Startup MedIoTek Says Platform Can Detect Covid Risk in 2 Minutes
Like Google, Amazon is supposed to support the - operator, but, also like Google, it's not clear whether it does anything at the moment. As others here have suggested, maybe "solid shirts"?
I think a better title would be "What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?" (that is, the title of the OP), and then leave a comment (on HN) saying "Questions like these on SO should be taught in CS-101". Just my 2¢.
Factoring in as well impact to air travel (business & leisure), cruising and the likelihood that it will take some time for certain sectors of the world (Travel and Tourism comes to mind) years to reach back to 100% of 2019 levels even in a post vaccine world.

This not factoring in the structural changes to demand like electrification, and who knows what kind of energy transition stimulus money could be deployed in the coming quarters to kick start things back.

I am thinking it is of ever increasing likelihood that the “most oil consumed in a day ever” in human history could actually behind us.
We absolutely should regulate that by increasing minimum wage. I'm all for it.
I don't play civ6, but I've managed to play quite a few Windows games on Linux with Proton, Lutris and before that with Wine.

The two most important factors for a game to run well are 1) the version of Wine/Proton you're using and 2) the version of your GPU driver you're using.

Rolling release distros like Arch are great for gaming, since you always have the last version of Wine and of your GPU driver. It's a real pain in comparison on fixed release distros like Ubuntu, especially if like me you stick with LTS releases.

By using Proton within Steam Play you at least don't have to worry much about the version of Proton; just make sure you've not forced an old release and Steam will chose the right one for you. Same when using Wine within Lutris. Your only remaining duty is to make sure you're running up-to-date GPU drivers.
Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos?
Invites are supposed to go out today.

We applied to S2020 with a COVID-19 hardware startup a while back.

Our videos show zero incremental views since our application was submitted. Just wondering if this indicates some sort of automated or manual filtering based on the text portion of the application or if you are not done and we can expect to be given a look in the next few days because you are running behind (due to, sadly enough, COVID-19 issues).

We have been working non-stop on our project, self funding all of it. We are prepared to continue even without YC support. We have formed manufacturing partnerships and have contacted hundreds of potential customers.

Just wondering about the YC process.

Thanks.

EDIT: Just to add to the story...

We are moving forward on our own and haven't been waiting for investors at all. Our project is likely to end-up in the news by the end of May (hopefully because we booked orders). We were also asked by the White House to submit technology details. So...we are moving forward, which is good.

Don't ask me what we are doing. We are going to remain stealth for as long as possible. Of course, if YC knocks on the door and we accept that will change to the degree necessary.
From the memo that generated the news story you linked:

> IV. Accidental Releases
Nothing in this temporary policy relieves any entity from the responsibility to prevent, respond to, or report accidental releases of oil, hazardous substances, hazardous chemicals, hazardous waste, and other pollutants, as required by federal law, or should be read as a willingness to exercise enforcement discretion in the wake of such a release.
I use cheap timers like these (search for the best seller with free shipping in your country) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32930941458.html

They are magnetic, start the countdown at the given time (like 25 min and they remember it), the beeper is very soft and you can't procrastinate exploring hundreds of features.
My Operating Systems professor (Tomasz Jordan Kruk, PhD) in college had an appropriate anecdote for this:

"Humans usually don't intuitively understand the word 'no'. Please imagine a non-pink elephant."
What's better about it? I didn't notice anything good.
It's a great time to own a supertanker. You can get a 300% return on investment by buying a May contract and selling a contract for August.
Proof that SELECT with GROUP BY doesn't work if your tags aren't correct.

Joking aside, it doesn't surprise me that this isn't being picked up — aren't most of these AI teams more R&D than actual public-facing? Maybe I'm just cynical though.
I have heard that LSD can cause stomach cramping with people who already are prone to stomach issues/IBS/etc. Not something I've personally experienced.
I suppose that's a base of why 'Google fu' and 'Googling skills' are such common phrases.

Knowing how the machine will interpret humans is just as important to finding your results.
It's not that they are losing money on production, the state budget is in the red with a price less than about $80/bbl

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-economy-budget/saud...
Yuzu (Switch Emulator) Progress Report March 2020
Thanks.

I agree with your metrics as lagging indicators. I am still puzzled at the growth these days after the selloff.
I worked on an ingredient parser a few years ago. This exact kind of thing made things a lot more difficult than they seemed at first.
You mean more stylish?!
Booking.com applies for European relief with substantial layoffs possible
So the - is working, contrary to the claims of several people here. The bottom line is that it is super easy to get results with shirts that don't have stripes, if you don't expect your search engine to understand English (which it would be wildly unrealistic to expect, and, besides, is not what you want).
They address this:

“ To help CMU measure results, Facebook shares a single statistic known as a weight value that doesn’t identify a person but helps correct for any sample bias, adjusting for who responds to survey invitations. Making adjustments using weights ensures that the sample more accurately reflects the characteristics of the population represented in the data. The weight for a survey respondent in the sample can be thought of as the number of people in the population that they represent based on their age, gender and state of residence.”
Will it though?

Even if we set aside the question of whether or not this is a desirable outcome, I can think of exactly one instance where it has happened. Based upon your reference to the guillotine, I assume you're thinking of the same one.

I would also note that even the French Revolution didn't exactly turn out as the instigators had wished. Instead of egalitarianism, they got "la Terreur" and decades of violence.
One of them! Internally, the structure is called "pasteboard", and the clipboard is the "general" one. The OS uses this same data structure for transferring drag-and-drop data, which is the other common GUI mechanism for ad-hoc interoperability.
Yep, the schism between IBM and Microsoft let to the two products. I preferred OS/2 and workplace shell at the time. Heck, I was using OS2 up until 2000ish. Then got sucked into the land of BSD.

I still have a vm floating around of OS/2 Warp so I could play the original Galactic Civilizations from Stardock
> My attempt in daily life to deal with this is to offer a place where my “side” is wrong to foster generosity then try to tightly circumscribe the thing we’re discussing.

This sounds quite interesting; would you be able to provide an example?
Why would you really apply NLP to a search engine though? Generally speaking a weighted keyword search is good enough 95% of the time and requires significantly less resources to perform.
ChromeOS is a great demonstration of this. A polished, solid, very good desktop experience based on Linux because a large company has a vested interest in its success.
Use the website, not the app. The app is spyware and regularly sends them your location data in the background.
Maybe you mean, "Please don't imagine a pink elephant." Imagining a non-pink elephant seems pretty easy.
Social media content creation for Startup Founders. Does it make sense?
Hi all,
I'm building a company that creates content for social media to be used as a service per Startups. Does it make sense?
> and guess what I probably wanted

How is interpreting "shirts without stripes" as "I wish to see shirts that don't have any stripes" guessing?

I would venture to say that most people (meaning your use case is in the minority) who type "shirts without stripes" want to see results showing shirts without stripes not results "containing words "shirt", "stripes" and "without".

I think what is happening here is that you know how search engines work and so you are conditioned to expect them to do what they're doing.
You can further Emacsify or customize text controls to your heart with a `DefaultKeyBinding.dict` file.

This what I've been using for ~8 years. Apple removed a few functions here and there but still plenty are available. Reference URL in the file comments.

{
/* Additional Emacs bindings:
*
* "<key combination>" = "functionName:";
*
* Key Modifiers:
* ^: ctrl
* ~: option
* $: shift
* @: command
*
* Instance Methods of "NSStandardKeyBindingResponding":
* https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsstandardkeybindingresponding
*
* Install under ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict
*
* Download directly:
* curl --create-dirs -o ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict THIS_URL
*/

"^l" = "centerSelectionInVisibleArea:";
"^/" = "undo:";
"^ " = "setMark:";

"~f" = "moveWordForward:";
"~b" = "moveWordBackward:";
"~<" = "moveToBeginningOfDocument:";
"~>" = "moveToEndOfDocument:";
"~v" = "pageUp:";
"~d" = "deleteWordForward:";
"^w" = "deleteWordBackward:";
"~/" = "complete:";
"~t" = "transposeWords:";

"^x" = {
"h" = "selectAll:";
"k" = "performClose:";
"^x" = "swapWithMark:";
"^m" = "selectToMark:";
};
}
My first assumption is [shirts -stripes]

Of the first ten hits:
Amazon: 7/10 aren't shirts (but all are stripeless)
Google: All shirts, one is checked
Bing: All shirts, all contain stripes in description.

Not exactly glowing for Amazon, clearly unsupported by Bing.
I have children, and I enjoy them. Both my wife and I have well paid jobs in the tech industry.

Having children requires sacrifices. As with any decision, there is an inevitable cost of opportunity, but what we get from caring for these loved little human beings... Is priceless!

I understand the narrative of the author. This is a narrative of an individual whose core values are "success", material accumulation as proof of it, and individual freedoms. It is true, having children will require a lot of "operation expenses", and much of the time available for "yourself" needs to be invested into your children. I respect that for some people it is not a sacrifice that they are willing to do, and I don't think people should have children because it is the next step.

But I see a problem in this narrative, and it is that it describes having children as a mistake. Again, it is a mistake for the author, but I can hardly see how it is a "universal mistake". It reminds me a bit of game theory, and the idea of "Nash's equilibrium": Players are the society as a whole, some choose to have kids, some choose not to have kids, both have a penalty, yet in the long run they both benefit from their choices (individually and mutually).

I am also concerned about empathy. Daily I realize how difficult it is for some people without children to understand my choice, and the sacrifices it requires. Yes I am happy with my choice, but lack of empathy makes it particularly difficult to avoid choices with a larger cost than it should: Should I stay with my kids when they are sick? Or go to that meeting that is (as most meetings) better done as an email ;). My kids need me, emotionally. If I am with them, I am making a world of a difference for them... and in the future for society, because they will have safe attachment!

The reality is Humanity needs people to choose to have children, not all of us, some of us. We, having children, need empathy, recognition, and help from society. I don't think science and technology are going to solve the need for childhood anytime soon.

But I understand, you don't want to have kids. Good for you! Some people will even thank you, don't succumb to the pressure to have them "because it is next", and most importantly... Please don't forget you are here because someone did the best they could to bring you to this world (and probably made some mistakes, but mostly, they just wanted the best for you).

PS: It also comes to mind "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Harari... Not so much on topic, but I like the door it opens for empathy via the understanding of different narratives, and how they are just constructs.
because google does understand that no and without are interchangeable. But, understandably, it does not correlate "shirt without stripes" as being the same thing as "solid-colored shirts." Why, because no one advertises or describes a solid-colored shirt as a shirt without stripes and no one searches that way. It's an irrelevant point, in my opinion.
it actually does work though. keywords will need to be generated whether manually, from the manufacturer, or from image analysis.
Minus before word already ruins search queries for terms that start with a dash.
What's an oil certificate? Do you mean futures?
Bailouts are there to create incentives for the future. In the future companies know they can save money by going to tax haven but potentially not get a bailout.
I read somewhere on yc website that they only look at the video if they find the application/applicants interesting enough. So there is that.
> state that have lost it's willingness/ability to seek consensus

They seek consensus. The consensus this time just happened to be different than your personal opinion. That's an indictment against egotism, not against government.
> I share your criticism, but just "Create a standard" is maybe a bit hard to do. The linux market is not really the biggest one, neither in numbers, nor in money.

I know of at least one game that's regularly in the Steam top 10 (Path of Exile) that is doing a port from DirectX to such a standard, Vulkan.

Not to support Linux, but because Vulkan is cross-platform, allowing them to reuse their code base for a mobile game, and also to be able to potentially support things such as Stadia. They also said this will lead to a mac port and may lead to a Linux port.

So there might actually be incentives already for game devs to use cross-platform tech, which could lower the barrier for Linux ports significantly and make it worthwile.
The article directly contradicts its title. They aren't "heat mapping employees" they came up with a scoring system to estimate the most likely stores to unionize.

"The scores are based on more than two dozen metrics, including racial diversity, employee loyalty, "tipline" calls, and violations recorded by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration."

Whatever they are doing to avoid employees unionizing, it isn't "heat mapping" them. It isn't even heat mapping stores. That would imply some sort of density+value combination. This is a ranking based on weighting various data points into a single score.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21127827

> They’re usually looking to discount your salary by 30-50% by some arbitrary cost of living factor.

Discount off of what? The local max in SF?

Google Does this now. Are you angry that Google isn't paying employees the same in SF and India?

Remote IS a benefit. Lack of commute. Full control over workspace. In true remote "full control" over your schedule (lunch with friends. Time shifting work at a whim. More integrated lifestyle.)

Like I said 6 months ago, please attack "physical" company comp with the same vigor as remote company comp.

(I work at GitLab, these views are my own, etc etc etc and I'm still tired of this naive hot take.)
You're joking, but perhaps you're right. It's unnatural to search in the negative -- "solid shirt" or something like that would be more likely from a human with that actual intent.

This just suggests to me that real humans haven't issued that type of search query enough for the AI to know what to do with it. Which wouldn't be so big of a problem.
Most general population surveys have suffered from heavy self-selection bias or insufficient specitivity. In the early days, yes, the Bay Area was probably missing 90% of cases.

Testing has ramped up though (it's pretty easy to get a test if your symptomatic), so I don't believe we're missing 90% of symptomatic cases [as defined by this survey] at this point (which is part of the reason that new cases/day have remained stable while hospitalization numbers are dropping). Think about it: if people take a survey that says they have covid symptoms, wouldn't they get tested?
for windows, there is also https://www.kindlian.com/
> coded slower [...] his code almost never failed in testing.

Huh. I've had this most of my career as well, especially in the latter years. I do consider this a secret power, but many of my colleagues (especially the younger ones) view it as a fault.
Apple Updating Areas Already Covered by New Maps
That was however the intent of the statement: Companies that pay dividends or make share buy-backs are more vulnerable in a crisis [compared to otherwise identical companies who build a cash buffer].

I disagree that companies that pay a dividend by definition have a buffer. If the income plummets (like in non-essential retail at the moment), they have no hypothetical dividend buffer to fall back on, that if not paid out would keep them in business.