skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, but didn’t we send those retired people checks?

By the way this is another reason why UBI is good in a crisis. It creates a floor for people to buy food etc. while we suspend rent payments and mortgages for a few months. And with no disincentive to work like we have now.

Anyway... so who do the retired people need to pay when everything is on pause? Social Security and Medicare cover a lot of the basics. If they have investments yielding enough for them to live on, then they have savings that they can use 0.5% of in three months.

Not to mention, the stock market is down, we can pause bond yields for the retirees for a few months also. The only thing I wouldn’t pause is sovereign debt, since we can print money to service it and confidence in that is paramount.

(Another reason why McConnell’s stance on letting states go bankrupt is dangerous. I would have liked to see states and cities have the ability to issue their own complementary currencies.)
> For almost the entirety of human history, 12 was old enough to get a job and look after a family.

And a lot of those kids ended badly, exploited and literally had no future. The people who could afford it, did not had their 12 years old working in factories nor being responsible for "looking after a family".

In good times in family farms, the kids contributed to work basically from 5 years old (and yes, 5 years old had higher incidents rates then they have now). But they were not treated as adults at 12 at all.
I wish I lived in a less light-polluted area. Was out in the country a few months ago and the view was amazing.

If you have the opportunity avail yourself of it.
I'm thinking we're at the living life vicariously through an avatar/online persona portion of that narrative, I just read that people who are suffering from loneliness have taken to Virtual dating on Animal crossing:

https://www.polygon.com/2020/4/15/21220911/animal-crossing-d...

I think that Second Life showed it's potential, and now this has solidified it as a viable alternative to something like Tinder--which was always incredibly odd to me.

Which is so weird, because I've encountered the complete opposite; now that more people have so much free time most people want to engage in way more small talk randomly with me.

And despite what anyone tries to tell me, simulated dating is a waste of time to me; half of the thrill from interacting with potential partners is from the social cues and the innate responses/reactions you get from them when flirting and such. I'm unlikely to ever get that butterfly feeling from an emoji or heart icon emitted from an Animal crossing character. I've had my share of long distance relationships and even those are a strain on one's psyche an enough to warrant appreciating a maybe less appealing, but more readily tangible partner.

What this has also taught me is how sad loneliness becomes, especially in old age, and the things some people will do/pay for just to escape its pitfalls. Some people's relationships in my inner circle seem like the worst of all possible outcomes to me, but the alternative of living alone when your kids are grown up and out of the house must be incredibly empty if you're divorced and away from all of them and all you had was work to keep you distracted from it all. I need to learn from their lessons for what lies ahead and apply it to my own Life.

But personally, this is making me miss my analog Life even more; I want to go outdoors in Nature and go for an aimless stroll, or freely sunbathe while I surf at the beach and then go to restaurants and clubs at night and meet more new people. I just had my first experience with an online meetup, aside from the novelty of talking to people in voice with strangers rather than text on telegram chat groups, it had no real appeal to me and I'm unlikely to wake up so early for it next time.

Robots are for replacing the need for Human drudgery into more time for leisure, passion projects and hobbies for us, not supplanting Life itself. So if they can do that form of 'take over' than I'm all for it and it cannot come soon enough. I just hope we have the good sense as a species to adapt to that transition with sensible infrastructure in place to support it.
https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html massively helps. Sure, some things you have to build for yourself and that may take some time, but a surprising amount of stuff has been done already and you just need to flip one of these options to activate it.
Sabre like the Travel Company? They are really really big so you might hinder your organic reach using that name
America Shouldn’t Have to Play by New York Rules
Because whenever somebody asked for:

* 24/7 presence, the reply was "you can do that with a bouncer"

* backlog, the reply was "you can do that with a bouncer"

* full text search, the reply was "that's up to the client implementation"

* file sharing, the reply was "it's already possible with XDCC"

and so on and so forth.

Basically, it's not that Slack is great, it's because IRC as a whole just refused to adapt to what users actually wanted/needed.
I wish this got upvoted, it is very interesting.
Why do you say that hyperman1 "want[s] to make it taboo"? I don't see that at all. I think he[1] is just saying: the article says Feynman was sexist, but I haven't seen evidence of that and find it hard to believe.

For what it's worth, I think it's clear that Feynman was, at the very least, what-we-nowadays-tend-to-call-sexist. That is, he saw women as sex objects and talked about them as sex objects, and so far as I can tell saw nothing wrong or improper about doing that. See, e.g., That Chapter of "Surely you're joking...", a bit of which is quoted in the article. (The article's decontextualization makes it look worse than it actually is, but it's still not great.) It's harder to tell whether he was sexist in the narrower sense of thinking that women are generally e.g. intellectually inferior to men. I'm pretty sure he wasn't sexist in the even narrower sense of thinking that women simply can't do the things that traditionally used to be men's jobs.

[1] Making a guess on the basis of username.
No one wants to go on a wild-goose chase for research that you seem to think is credible but won’t even bother posting for discussion
I would say that it’s more due to the data showing that if you’re not in the top quintile of income/wealth (maybe even top decile), then you’re going to fall further and further behind in the income/wealth gap, and probably also handicapping your descendants chances of being in the portion of society who has increasing wealth/income/security.

So the pressure is there because the pressure is actually there in real life. Who can afford to take chances when a medical bill can ruin your family’s chances at having a stable future?
Given that amd has the lead in power consumption per performance, is it now the cpu of choice in the datacenter?
Off the top of my head, coding boot camps
> the battery, despite only being 1500mAh, does a very good job lasting me the day (though I certainly expect it won't continue to do so)

Once _Settings - Battery_ indicates you need a new one, the $59 (or equivalent) that Apple charges is well worth it. You will also likely notice a performance increase as well!
As an approximation, one could just say three duoquinquagintacentillinonagintacentillion
Ok then I misread what you were trying to say. I wish Bill 101 wasn't abused (like the Italian restaurant scandal thing). Sadly, as with most laws, people will always find a way to twist it...
Will Coronavirus Accelerate the Exodus from Blue States?
Is there anythng that prevents https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases from being updated concerning focal?
Isn't "one hundred thousand factorial" a more useful conversion? Would your conversion ever find utility?

Aside, this is why French style punctuation with a space before ? or ! is superior.
Until everyone on Earth is satisfied with their quality of life. Growth doesn't necessarily mean doing more, sometimes you can achieve growth by doing less. This will become a bigger focus in future.
Well, sure, anything that's unfamiliar to you is hard to fix. For me it would be exactly the other way around, because I'm quite familiar with NixOS and mostly unfamiliar with Debian.
The recent freedom of press report [1] certainly does not help in building trust, no matter how many western institutions have a presence there.

[1] https://rsf.org/en/ranking
Marginally, and not really when perf/$ is taken into account...
The separate volume is still required. As far as I understand if you use an encrypted volume, it does not mount early enough in the login process and you have resort to more hacks to make it work.

Ideally the Nix store would be in some non-root location. But that requires a completely new binary cache among other things (since /nix store paths are hardcoded in binaries, scripts, etc).

Also making /nix a symlink doesn't really work in some cases, since realpath reports the actual path and that may break builds/applications.

It used to work so nicely out of the box :(, but I can also understand why Apple wants to enforce read-only system volumes, since it blocks nastier rootkits, etc.
The Blender open source project was started entirely from voluntary donations, and it gets very sizeable contributions to this day. The same applies to many other major projects. Even development of the Linux kernel itself and closely-related projects is largely funded via voluntary contributions to the Linux Foundation.
It’s been down forever, no one gives a shit except for the randoms here.

You’re not even following my point that it’s rebelliousness that brings innovation, not trying to impress random strangers like you
Startup Idea Giveaway for decentralization
Uber for horses

️ Problem: people in the countryside feel forced to use their car because of the long distances between points of interest.
Cycling is not always adapted. They can use horse but not everybody want / have the place to take care of a horse.

Solution: You raise and take care of a group of horses in your field and rent them to people of your village / town. Horses can be rented for other things than travel: agriculture, relocation...
Correct. That's the crucial difference to Worms; similarities include destructible terrain, similar (large) choice of weapons and importance of ninja rope to move around.
The problem: the cost of "loss of life quality" thanks to increasing store blight cannot be reasonably quantified. You only notice it when it gets obvious, and then it is mostly too late to do anything.
Be careful with that; during disconnection of the magnetic part, the pins carrying 20 V on the cable can make momentary connections with other pins on the portion of the connector remaining in the machine; if this happens, the port may never work again (for charging, or for anything else).

The risk is probably not worth it.
I noticed Rotten.com died a few years ago; I enjoyed the snark as a kid, so I found a mirror on Github and rehosted (and have been cleaning up all its internal broken links and other problems ever since...) it at https://www.gwern.net/docs/rotten.com/library/index.html
>Complaining about popular new things in threads about them is a trend I find irritating

It's a little too late for that. Complaining in a vague way across several comments and then not elaborating further is, I think, definitely more rude than making some concrete complaint (like the original comment's complaint about learning something new)
Twitter Kills Off SMS, Deletes SMS Followers, with No Prior Warning
Of course they do. I’m sure a lot of them feel the same way I do.

I mean they’re not even falling in love. What kind of life is that?
Show HN: Lite – A lightweight text editor written in Lua
Another vote for the Lead Hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis
Decided to try this out.

The instructions are mostly up-to-date, main thing that has changed seems to be that the multiple inboxes option is now under Settings->Inbox->Inbox type->Multiple Inboxes
Because Slack allows you to paste memes, and thus get the tiny dopamine hit.
It certainly is in terms of power, performance, and cost, but Intel's reputation for rock-solid reliability and a decade of optimization for its architectures, not to mention the established software/support ecosystem, means AMD has a very long haul ahead of it.
I'd be amazed if a company put "around $1M" for anything that was "over $1M" !
POWER goes with SMT4 for Linux and SMT8 for workloads under PowerVM. zSeries don't use SMT for zOS workloads, but enable it with Linux.
Wow, how things have change from when I was a teen in HS in the early 90s. I was a 'responsible' one because I had a job. Few people thought about 'getting in' (IIRC the valedictorian went to the AF academy), but otherwise we all just wanted to graduate and go to one of the 2 big state schools or the local college. I was smart enough, i.e. paid attention in class, that I never had to study (that caught up with me in college). Weekends were spent hanging out at the beach and trying to find someone to buy us beer. Parties were common and there were the occasional fist fights, but nothing too serious. It was definitely a simpler time.

I think the documentation of a persons entire life from birth has removed the opportunity for kids to make mistakes and learn while they are young. It's unfortunate because I did a lot of dumb things as a kid, and while none of it was too serious, I was able to learn lessons without having it necessarily follow me around the rest of my life. Now they are all just entertaining stories.
I've only read two chapters. Seems interesting, although erratic. You can tell the author has a lot of energy. I don't want to read much more, however. Because I've got RSI. I love memory augmentation ideally. But notebooks are a non starter for me. Perhaps I really ought to try memory palaces.
Okay. In fact, anyone can do that by restoring a device in Recovery mode.
> I don't think advertising alternatives is a particularly nice thing to do in a thread about any given piece of free software

I don't think throwing unsubstantiated claims around is a particularly nice thing to do. I don't mind you having these opinions. But if you're not ready to properly argue them, it's probably better to just abstain from the discussion entirely. That's how I handle my own opinions as well.
twitter.com/ProfFeynman
> Finland has mandatory military service for males.

How is that kind of institutionalized sexism still legal?
I suspect that too, the death rates in Istanbul are higher than usual and people are asking questions.

That said, it's no different than what's happening some other western countries. There are reports about the UK numbers being higher too, essentially the idea is that some deaths are not reported as COVID-19 deaths if it happens out of hospital or pre-testing.

People are not dying en masse. The mortality is increased and maybe the real numbers are %50 more than the official numbers but even then it's much better than most places.
Would love to read more, you have a source(s)?
This is correct. Most other countries are undercounting Covid-19 deaths significantly because they are only counting confirmed cases.

The problem becomes obvious when the total death numbers for the last few months are compared to the historical average.

See for example this NYT analysis, which shows that Belgium's numbers line up with the actual increase in death rate, not the more-or-less made up numbers from most other countries: https://www.nytimes.com./interactive/2020/04/21/world/corona...
This is fascinating. Do you have a link for where we can read more about the data?
In the reference frame comoving with the planet the probe leaves with exactly as much energy as it arrived (modulo aerobraking and such). In the reference frame of the solar system's center of mass, the planet will have transferred an imperceptible fraction of its orbital energy to or from the probe.
Totally agree that it's a great piece. I'm surprised that it wasn't picked up here.
Perl does a reasonable job of it in around 250 lines: https://github.com/neilb/Lingua-EN-Numbers/blob/master/lib/L...
It's because everyone wanted a proprietary chat system, whose single client EXE for Windows chews 400+ megs of RAM.
Let’s not forget that this is all taking place in an environment where wages are going down, the environment is getting worse- this generation is likely to make less money and have a much more difficult life than, say, the boomers. There is no stability anywhere, no guarantees of anything. Once upon a time you could skip college and still get a union job at a mill or something that would allow you to buy a house and support a family comfortably. That’s gone now. That has to be part of it.

I often hear boomers complain that kids aren’t taking enough personal responsibility or that they’re entitled and it just makes me crazy. They are growing up in a much harder world than the one the boomers faced and it’s not their fault at all.
How I Got into Games, Part 1: Echo Bazaar
Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices (2019)
thank you for the kind words :)
More like nobody bothered to make a decent product that could do all the nice things slack is doing.

(although, that's not technically true since irccloud does all the things you just mentioned)
I think that could work potentially as a rejection sampling, but you also have the risk that it will simply find some small discriminative detail and be unusefully good at the classification; that's why you do it in a loop as a GAN, but as you mention, GANs work really badly on sequences, still, so...

If you wanted to improve my ABC-MIDI GPT-2, the most straightforward ways would be to do data cleaning (I'm sure there's tens of thousands of awful MIDI files which should be removed! data cleaning with RNNs or GPT-2 or GANs always makes a large difference) and increase the model size (the fact that loss bottomed at 0.20, which is still quite bad, suggests that MIDI is hard enough that GPT-2 is struggling). More interesting would be to use Reformer or another long-range Transformer and try to operate directly on a more raw representation, like the the piano roll representation of MIDI. I think GPT-2 makes a lot of syntax errors which cripple outputs when a 'voice' goes silent, and a piano roll representation would be a lot more robust (at the cost of being like 10x larger).
Often people take notes because it actually helps memorise and pay attention what's being said, without any intention to read the notes at all afterwards.
XML feed for bulk Job Posts
Clojure: What Is It About?
Looks really nice! :D

I wish it supported arm64 on Windows or at least win32 32-bits so that I could run it on a Surface Pro X.
Who would be the "Feynman(s)" of our time?
I spent a lot of time setting up Nix and NixOS to replicate my current dotfile environment on Debian I've spent years developing and which I can deploy on a new machine with a one liner. I really like Nix and found their DSL fairly easy to pick up, I didn't keep it for my desktop, workstation, or servers though for a few reasons.

1) Package availability: this is by far the largest reason. I frequently need to use software or specific versions that are just not available and while I did create some packages myself it is just too much work when I need to get something done.

2) Language Documentation.

3) I still need to use cargo and pip anyway.

4) Even when packages were available they often lacked the configuration options I needed and I would have to fork and edit them anyway.

I do think Nix is a lot better than current systems though.
You’re assuming I went to the doctor regularly, not just when I had an issue to present.
Any ideas how to market my products?
Maybe initially. Eventually, no. We don't destroy other people's cars for the most part.
I am certainly not an expert but I have a couple of questions

Seasonal influenza is an acute respiratory infection caused by influenza viruses which circulate in all parts of the world.

Did they just take the average of all these different viruses? Surely they don't all mutate at the same time.

There is many times more instances of seasonal flu (currently) than covid. Surely the chance to mutate is per instance and therefore you need to take that into account when working out mutation rates.

I don't see either of these points addressed in the article but again I'm not an expert so maybe there's good reason. If anyone could help with these questions I'd appreciate it greatly!

Edit : typo
It might actually reflect your own prejudice a bit that you're interpreting it that way. Speaking as a rainbow myself over here, it's...not unlikely? Throw a bunch of teenagers or young adults in support groups together with the subtext that they all have the same sexual orientation with no chance of being shamed for making advances for what's effectively the first time in most of their lives, and it doesn't take a fortune teller to figure out what's probably going to be happening in greater rates for those kids.

And there's definitely evidence that lower academic investment is correlated with higher sexual activity; I've been up for dozens of hours now so forgive me for not throwing some papers in your direction, but they shouldn't be hard to find.

I don't think it's healthy for anyone to really analyze this stuff for any demographic, but acting like what he said was so awful was really out of line, and pretty clearly breaking HN's guidelines.
Doctors are all over Instagram, Twitter and so on. There would have been doctors telling things. The medical professionals in Turkey are well paid, they have very strong jobs security, they have influential societies that are quite hostile to the government.

They are overworked and are under the risk of antisocial patients but Silencing a doctor in Turkey is not as easy as silencing a journo. They are well educated, well paid and well organized. It is very unlikely that a doctor would participate in a cover-up in fear of politicians.
That's pretty interesting, do you have any link to read a bit more about all this ? I'm having a hard time finding relevant links on google
Yes, everywhere is also counting the deaths outside hospital. But Belgium is reporting those numbers every day, while Italy and France and the UK and some other countries are not.
While they may be scientists by training, predicting earthquakes is an application and not science itself.

Like don't be wrong about that. Similar to how you should not be wrong about planes falling out of the sky, bridges collapsing, or medicines killing all the patients.
Wow, what a stunningly negative article.

Yes, coronavirus is bad. But humans are remarkably resilient. We'll get past it. We will survive, and the world economy will rebound. I bet on a positive future, not a negative one.
Would be cool if Microsoft gave more shits about privacy.

Edit: This would be cool if I trusted Microsoft to properly handle privacy.
The psychology of color. Here’s how colors affect your mood and emotions
MySQL Sharding at Quora
Ansible could theoretically be made to work with NixOS by having it manipulate the /etc/nixos/configuration.nix instead of touching files and starting services directly. But you're still going to run into so many incompatibilities between NixOS and other Linuxes (esp. because of the different filesystem layout) that it's probably not a path worth pursuing. It's always a recipe for disaster to have two configuration management systems competing for power on one system, and NixOS very much is a configuration management system.