skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a huge Chinese room type parser with a bunch of heuristics bolted on probably provides much better bang for the buck than trying to implement actual NLP (in every possible language, or even just in English). So that's probably what nearly everybody is doing.
U.S. Oil Prices Plunge into Negative Territory
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"More competition" - but the company still has just a finite amount of time to evaluate candidates.

I've been on the hiring side - if you want a very senior engineer and want to vet them properly, there's nothing fast about the process.

You have access to a million senior engineers but who cares if you only have two engineers on your side that are qualified enough to interview them and those engineers are still expected to ship code, do code reviews, alongside doing interviews?

If you can deliver a fantastic interview where you code on demand, talk architecture tradeoffs intelligently, the leverage still belongs to you as the engineer.

Regardless of the number of candidates.
Why take gold bars on airplanes when you can hire accountants to create shell companies with foreign bank accounts?
FWIW: In the 2020.1 updates that have been rolled out in the last week the SSH support is now much better.

But serious question though: what workflow do you have that remote code editing is necessary?
> world-class rock climbing, mountaineering, and hiking under an hour's drive from downtown,

Seems like you could have all of that without living in downtown...
This is one of the best maps I have seen yet if you switch it to "Hospital Referral Region". It is a much more accurate picture of the medical system vs a map that shows three counties that might all be served by the same major hospital.
I'm fairly confused - that would be an absolutely massive breakthrough that several companies worth billions are looking for. What's the downside?
Niantic’s AR Harry Potter game has a cute solution to Covid-19 self-quarantines
Ditto here. My wife's PC, for example, is now running OpenSUSE full time. She used to dual boot with Windows 10, primarily for games, but she would spend most of her computing time using Windows just because of the game inconvenience. Now pretty much everything she plays 'just works' with Proton, and she has no need for Windows.
I recently installed the "Key Promoter X" plugin, which tells me the keyboard shortcuts for things I do frequently with the mouse. Pretty handy.
There are regulations covering storing enormous quantities of oil, including certification of the holding tanks etc.

For example, any container over 55 gallons is subject to EPA regulation and counts towards the total permitted site quantity. Storing more than 1,320 gallons above ground requires the site to have an approved SPCC (Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures) plan.

You can store 42,000 gallons below ground but that requires excavation, permits etc.

Basically: it's difficult to do on short notice.

Further reading: https://www.epa.gov/ust/aboveground-storage-tanks
> described that these domain names were all purchased by a single entity

That definitely isn't all of them, because a lot of them resolve to actual sites.
Presumably, prospective Walmart employees are well aware that they aren't well off people, and that getting public assistance would be of substantial benefit to them. I don't think they'd find it an issue in the same way that they would for example an employer where a bunch of people lose their hands in accidents.
Most companies are guilty of underutilizing the troves of data sitting at their fingertips. How much faster could we react to a global situation like the coronavirus if we had access to all of that data and were able to interact with it quickly?
The thing is it's not that hard to write cross-platform games. Compatibility layers like SDL2 make it easy to target a platform agnostic system interface. Vulkan enables high performance graphics on most platforms.
Theoretically, they could do a lot of things, but plenty of those would get them in hot water from a regulatory standpoint.

Also, don't underestimate the adversaries. Ranking well on Google means earning a lot of money. So much so, that I'd argue the SEO-people are making significantly more money than Google loses by having spammy SERPs. They will happily throw money at the problem and work around the filters. I don't think you can really select for quality by statistical measures. Google tried and massively threw "trust" at traditional media companies and "brands". The SEO-people responded by simply paying the media companies to host their content, and now they rank top 3, pay less than they did by buying links previously, and never get penalties.
From that link:

"So that’s a lot of technical details, but what does it all mean for you? Well, by applying BERT models to both ranking and featured snippets in Search, we’re able to do a much better job helping you find useful information. In fact, when it comes to ranking results, BERT will help Search better understand one in 10 searches in the U.S. in English, and we’ll bring this to more languages and locales over time.

"Particularly for longer, more conversational queries, or searches where prepositions like “for” and “to” matter a lot to the meaning, Search will be able to understand the context of the words in your query. You can search in a way that feels natural for you.

...

"No matter what you’re looking for, or what language you speak, we hope you’re able to let go of some of your keyword-ese and search in a way that feels natural for you. But you’ll still stump Google from time to time. Even with BERT, we don’t always get it right. If you search for “what state is south of Nebraska,” BERT’s best guess is a community called “South Nebraska.” (If you've got a feeling it's not in Kansas, you're right.)

"Language understanding remains an ongoing challenge, and it keeps us motivated to continue to improve Search. We’re always getting better and working to find the meaning in-- and most helpful information for-- every query you send our way."
Just because they've implemented something that helps in a certain area doesn't mean they'll always get it right.

I think you'd struggle to find anywhere Google claims to "understand everything", making your assertion a strawman.

Literally in the article you're quoting from Google:

> But you’ll still stump Google from time to time. Even with BERT, we don’t always get it right. If you search for “what state is south of Nebraska,” BERT’s best guess is a community called “South Nebraska.” (If you've got a feeling it's not in Kansas, you're right.)
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You can move to the country like me, but you'll give up:
* steady cellular signal
* internet competition
* cuisine diversity of restaurants
* tech meetups

But you gain:
* cheap land
* neighbors with skills beyond typing
* cheaper labor pool for assistance you might need (electrician, plumber, private pilot training, etc, etc)
There is a little bit more to an oil tank than just steel walls. You need proper foundations, fire prevention systems, disaster plans, probably get hooked up to the pipeline network, etc etc etc. Even if it were quick, the amount of oil being pumped up is massive and you need more than a few tanks to store it all. Finally, tanks are long term infrastructure and it might not be profitable to build out storage too much just in the hope of catching once-in-a-lifetime negative pricing events.
Well there’s the “past” button but you still have to click first. Maybe the “past” button could also list the number of previous submissions and the max number of comments of any submission (and/or max score)?
No, this is the first time since oil futures began trading in 1983.
It's not as simple as NLP. The shirts them selves have to labelled as having stripes or not. If striped is not a attribute of the shirt, it doesn't matter of the NLP can parse the meaning of striped.
Sure thing, and they are not the only one. And it is good thing. Star Citizen for example is a very big one, who will use vulkan (so probably around 2030+, when the game is finally somewhat finish ...)

But my criticism to the comment above was about "just create a standard" for the linux world, as it is something trivial to do. But yes, with vulkan there now exists a standard for graphics, that can compete with DirectX again. (even though linux-foundations are not really involved directly in the Vulkan standard)

But games are more about the graphic layer, because with OpenGL there was a graphic standard before, yet still allmost no one bothered to port to linux.
That changed, for various reasons. (mainly Valve and Android, I think). Also it helps, that unity for example can target linux, and their editor also now runs on it (but I don't know, how well).
From a science perspective, why does ethanol become sticky? Whiskey doesn't get sticky when it gets old...
> I’m pretty sure the next generation of Apple phones (iPhone 12?) will be 5G compatible... that’s more a matter of timing
...

agree with your reasoning, not your conclusion.

I don't think there will be material 5G buildout by the end of 2020 (even before the Covid-19 crisis I didn't believe that). So unless there's an important market with significant 5G buildout (not sure anybody really has "significant" and certainly none of the important markets do) they'll continue to wait.

This is especially true as current 5G devices have larger physical size and abysmal battery life. Apple can't fix that problem on their own; part of the problem is build out and part of it will need to be solved through the experiences of the radio chip vendors and their current customers.

Compare this, say, to WiFi 6 which Apple already deploys in their 2019 iphone 11 and 2020 ipads. hat is a little ahead of the curve (chip sets are OK but there's little deployment yet). Wifi base station deployment will trickle out and until then there's no negative cost for Apple's users (i.e. no effect on battery nor size).
Are there any installation/usage docs?
This is pointless overcomplicating. I might agree if the example would be slightly more interesting, but "without stripes" isn't even "absence of <stripes>", it is essentially a colour/pattern and can be easily attributed to a range of things exactly the same way "green" can be. Google translate correctly associates much more dubious and abstract concepts than that, and does it with statistical methods, i.e. associating word combinations with a location in a vector space. The fact all major search engines fail to do it here is just shameful. Especially Amazon, where it is pretty much a primary search function.
Not for a great number of people.
'Alien comet' visitor has weird composition
When you think of intelligence, you think of the human kind. As we create different things that have some of the properties we usually identify as "intelligence", but lack others that were completely correlated until that time, we need to create better words that can express the new situation.

It's perfectly ok to prefer the qualifier to go the other way around, keep intelligence general and change the name of the specialized form. But that's just not how our language evolved.
This I think is still the wildest story out of this entire ordeal.
"New York's brutal humidity in the summer. "

Dude, either I have been away too long from NYC or you have not lived in hot humid places.
Uber accuses Levandowski of fraud, refuses to pay $179M Google judgment
* World-class rock climbing, mountaineering, and hiking less than an hour's drive from downtown

* I moved here from Canada, the weather really isn't that bad; it's been a beautiful spring here while all my Canadian friends are still dealing with snow

* Seattle has a huge number of sakura and so the city has beautiful pink cherry blossom clouds everywhere for the entire month of April

* The entire environment is so incredibly lush & green; it's called the Emerald City for a reason!

* The food is quite good, actually

It's funny that the thing you think Seattle has going for it - low taxes - directly contributes to the issue of homelessness and half of your complaints.
I don't either, and that's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying that the arguments made in one fell to immediate scrutiny, wanting to affect policy likely shows why though.

In stats there's a smell test, arguments made without numbers.
What's a fair wage for low skilled labor in an industry where small businesses almost universally pay minimum wage?
I think that generally works these days. When GPU passthrough first became possible, there were widespread issues with GPUs that could not be easily reset and reinitialized after VM shutdown, and GPU drivers don't like taking control of hardware that's been left in an indeterminate state.
How many companies from those late applications get accepted every batch?
You're right, the "just about every" is unproveable. But you can't win the argument that nausea and vomiting isn't a concern by saying that the use of "just about every discussion" is wrong, and if you've decided to focus on that aspect you've now switched the topic. I doubt very much the original author intended that to be a scientific fact, and more of a expression of its prevalence. Where some see accuracy others see pedantry and an attempt to exclude an otherwise point simply because of inaccurate language. Also, I didn't attempt to defend the "every", but instead re-frame the claim in more balanced terms, which proves that, at least for some, it's a concern.
Is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve full yet? If it isn't the Federal Government should buy up these negative contracts and take delivery.
We shipped actual palettes of cash to Iraq that disappeared with no oversight. This isn't Iraq but the same human forces are in play here.
Still know a heck of a lot of people using it. Even know one researcher using it for a new project.

It will be decades before the final Python 2 program goes offline.
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That sounds promising. On a side note, today I've tried Nicotin for the first time. I've heard that it helps people with ADHD and as this has been on my mind for a couple of months by now, I figured that this might be an easy way to check myself. Your post was the last push and I have a shop right next to my door.

Well, it seemed to work. Maybe placebo, but I'd say that I had high concentration burst in 30-45 minutes intervals (after inhaling). I kind of forgot that I've taken it a couple of minutes in, because I was so focused on the code. I heard that Nicotin works as neuroenhancer in general, so nothing is proven. But no matter why, it seemed to help.

I really don't want to get addicted to Nicotin, so I'll see how I can find a doctor to verify/falsify this.

Thanks again!
Modern Paradox games (see Stellaris and Crusaders Kings 2) do support cross-platform multiplayer^. Maybe you are confusing them with Civilization V/VI, which did launch without cross-platform support and it is broken periodically due to the Linux/Mac version lagging behind the Windows one after each major update.

^ Aside from the regular out-of-sync issues they suffer sporadically, no matter the platform.
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Yeah, but then you lack all the benefits of the city. Downtown isn't a nice place to live, also.
Nope, all they could do there would be to group people together based on their "search behavior graph". The problem of finding BS sites is in itself a "shirt without stripes"-level hard problem. That's why being able to rely on user curation is (was?) so important for Google. People didn't curate the internet at first for money, they did it because they were interested in the subject for which they were curating their web ring.
> companies actively campaign against legislature which increases wages, so it's not that they are just ignoring the welfare of their workers they actively push against it.

That's not true in the case we're discussing though. Walmart often campaigns for increases to the minimum wage, because they know it will hurt their competition.
I mean if everything bad about one country gets deleted, but this treatment is not given to other countries, I would call that a problem. Not saying that’s where HN is at at all.
Well yeast already produces alcohol!
Don't forget the pallets of cash to Iran!
Worth noting that there's not some Law of the Universe that says corporations SHOULDN'T represent the workers. In the United States, we've made political decisions that they shouldn't, and should instead only represent shareholders.

But other countries have decided differently. And there are calls, for example, to have workers represent 40% of many corporate boards.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/10/18/warren-workers-co...
The title is misleading. The FBI and DHS are seizing shipments of PPE.

> Before we could send the funds by wire transfer, two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrived, showed their badges, and started questioning me. No, this shipment was not headed for resale or the black market. The agents checked my credentials, and I tried to convince them that the shipment of PPE was bound for hospitals. After receiving my assurances and hearing about our health system’s urgent needs, the agents let the boxes of equipment be released and loaded into the trucks.

Turns out there is a black market for PPE right now. The FBI should be investigating odd sales, like the one described in the article. Some of them will be black market dealing taking PPE away from hospitals that need it.

This is the part that bothers me...

> But I was soon shocked to learn that the Department of Homeland Security was still considering redirecting our PPE. Only some quick calls leading to intervention by our congressional representative prevented its seizure.

So, after they showed it was for a hospital and the FBI (who investigates federal crimes like black market deals) was satisfied. The the DoH wants to step in and redirect until a congressional rep steps in. That's the odd part to me.
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In these strange times I'm seeing more people question our current setup (Capitalism/Democracy) and wonder about how we should make it better when we eventually re-open.
With that in mind, I'm seeing more and more "Socialism/Communism = bad" posts all across the internet.

Even the videos posted yesterday of nurses in Denver blocking protesters showed a lady screaming "If you want communism, go to China!!"
But nothing happened there? I don't get why "nothing" needs a Wikipedia article.
> California has a much lower death rate despite having cities with a population density in the same magnitude as NYC

New York is denser than any city in California.

"New York is far more crowded than any other major city in the United States. It has 28,000 residents per square mile, while San Francisco, the next most jammed city, has 17,000, according to data from the U.S. Census Bur"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-...
Saying that suburbs and exurbs are "completely unsustainable" is a massive exaggeration.
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Taxpayers are effectively subsidizing Walmart's employee costs. As a taxpayer, I'm not very happy about that.
Well, that was exactly the question!
Do you have a source on this? I don't see anything in the news.
Yes, you have points, but they break down here:

“Shirt -stripes” is unambiguous to a system, yet the first result on Amazon(.ca) is a striped shirt, and the 3rd is sweatpants.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22909229
Many companies build/execute code on cloud desktops.
Is that actually true for you? I just tried it (logged out, and with adblock) and everything on the page seems relevant.
Latest theory is high correlation with air pollution. NOx and tiny dust particles. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...

This would explain the extraordinary high death rates in Lombardy, Spain, Styria, Wuhan,... compared to other regions with worse ICU situation and more seniors.
I think it's fairly obvious there was a giant blood war between the neanderthal and homo sapiens early on. And a mass extinction of neanderthals. Simply because they were different. If anyone has more information about it, I'd love to hear more.
It's been used as a comparison with some photos of the nurses counter-protesting the stay-at-home protests on some social media sites.

I'm not suggesting they are comparable, just that one evoked images of the other. Might be why it's being posted?
Ah, nice. I didn't realize DDNS-like client apps can be used to maintain DNS client profile info with a regularly updating IP address. Cool!
So quarentine for 2 years?

Say what it is.
Makes me wonder, does YC still have any Reddit equity?
Walmart sells Vudu to Fandango as it exits streaming market
Not at all convinced a "tiny mismatch" would be disastrous. Magnitude differences, sure.

> Dogs can take in visual information at least 25 percent faster than humans

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/small-animals-liv...
I do research on speech recognition and machine learning, i.e. I run lots of TF code, on lots of big data, and it runs for a long time (days, weeks). All the data, user files, everything in our lab is accessible via NFS, and every node in the cluster has the same FS. From the outside, I only have SSH access.

I want to work on code which runs there in the cluster.

I could have a local Git checkout of the code (partly). But sometimes it's a lot of trial and error, and it would be quite annoying to keep extra care that my local Git checkout gets synchronized with the copy in the cluster. Sometimes it might also have other files as dependencies which are simply only there in the cluster - or it would be extremely complicated to replicated all the same locally, and keep it all in sync. Even if PyCharm could help on the syncing part, it would still not be perfect, and would be annoying.

VS Code Remote SSH is basically perfect and exactly like I want it. The only problem is that I still prefer PyCharm.
The May contract was still selling at $22 as of last Tuesday. I don't know much about oil markets but my base assumption would be that we would do this whole thing over again in 30 days unless something significant happens in consumption or production? When do the output cuts begin?
Is Microsoft Flight Simulator running on Linux? It used to be the gold standard for "PC compatibility" early in the PC era.
Why would I pay attention to anything Asian tourists do?
The negative price has to do with the short delivery date, and the lack of storage at the (landlocked) delivery point. June 2020 WTI is still over $20/barrel.

If anyone had storage to bring online in the next few weeks, in Cushing, Oklahoma, they'd make a killing. At this point, they're going to need to ship it to a port, to get on a tanker.
If equal-value employees are happy to work for 30% less in NYC than those in Des Moines, why wouldn't an employer prefer that?

You go ahead and keep holding out for your extra 30-50%. I'm very happy to fill that spot. It's not like they pay Des Moines employees $3/hour. Six figures goes a long way out here on the lake.
This is one the most important jobs of product managers, if you have them: building out a backlog of shovel-ready high ROI work aggregated from customer requests, user analytics, and strategic engineering efforts.

If PM is doing their job well, engineers can build and ship multiple times within a sprint without significant delays waiting to gather feedback.
Perhaps the idea is to inform policy decisions, both government and personal. If I know the R0 is 10, I'm probably not going to leave my house. Otoh if it's 2 then with an N95 mask I'd think about grocery shopping.
Realistically do most people even have separate webcams at home?

I know I don't, but there's at least 5 smartphones somewhere in the house. Harnessing those cameras via wifi is pretty useful.
NYS has 18,776 deaths as of today’s count.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/