skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting aside the Quebec bashing comments in this thread. Here is a TLDR of what I said when it came out:

1. There is less information on that website than Google Maps, it is pretty much useless right now. I am convinced the investigators of the project are sincere, but they are disconnected from reality (Alexandre Taillefer is a failure as a business man, but he has friends in high places)

2. They spend 300k$ on this project which is made by an non-profit. This is nowhere near enough to pretend you want to compete with Amazon. This is due to incompetence of bureaucrats in the government who have no clue how to build a software project.

3. What they could have done is a partnership with Shopify since they already built all the functionalities (search, payment, shipping, etc.) and create a real platform that looks and feel like 2020 not 1995.... But its the Not Invented Here syndrome that stroke again.

4. What people want is speed of delivery and low cost of shipping. I am simplify not waiting a week for my package to arrive via a shitty service like UPS where I need to be home to receive it. I am also proposing the government subsidies the shipping cost for small retailers to make it more appealing to buy from them.

5. Another idea I had would be to create a competing product to Amazon prime which would combine a subscription to tou.tv, free shipping on this Amazon-like website and an audio streaming service for Quebec music, I am 100% sure it would be a hit.

In summary, we have to stop the "magical" thinking that if we create a broken website in bootstrap that feels like its 1995 all over again we are going to save local businesses and make people shop in local stores. We have to build something that is modern and appeal to customers. But considering the people they have on board, I doubt it will ever happen...
For me maintaining interest requires a bit of perspective and context to pick routes of action leading to positive feedback loops of curiosity. If steps 2-99 of the route are boring even if executed in an order of my choice, I try to avoid step 1.
Oddly enough sometimes this makes games more enjoyable. The dissonance adds on another layer of storytelling, even if it's not intended by the authors. A fun persona to assume is Covert Sympathizer (combine this with a "pacifist" run). Or play as a morally bankrupt character - walk a mile in the enemy's shoes, and try to understand your character's motivations and backstory. It's fun. For all their faults, some Bethesda (fallout) and BioWare (first 2 mass effects for sure, haven't played 3) titles are great for this.

Of course, this tends to only work if the game's story is actually compelling and the gameplay flexible enough. An overactive imagination helps too :)
in this case, should'nt the root cause (bullying and bad school environment) be addressed?

if this was in a completely different sector, where a small more powerful subset uses strength, we would use terminology such as 'anti-competitive practices', 'coercion' etc.

I don't have a solution, but strongly feel that addressing the root cause prevents the child from being victimized in the first place, rather than acknowledging his reality and providing the crutches that help him get to a levelling field in the real world.
There are many groups out there dedicated to spreading their ideals and ideas as well. Religions, paleo diets, and fringe political ideas are shoved at you everywhere you go as well without any monetary transactions involved with advertising, let alone the single party ones like business signage. I am afraid advertising isn't unique in those objections.
A big component of this is that building codes aren’t really enforced for the construction of single-family housing in Japan. Even if you wanted to buy a used home, you run the risk that shoddy construction could put you at serious danger in the event of the country’s not-so-infrequent natural disasters. This is one reason why most people tear down and rebuild.
blogs take a long time to write -- if expertise is a product that consumers use to judge new information, a blog may be too slow

long-form would be interesting if it were a pull-based model (N followers of some expert want their opinion on some piece of information)

public follower networks are also valuable -- the signal value of one expert following another is non-zero
A few different things help everything work:

1) Compartmentalizing of biological functions. Its why a cell is a fundamental unit of life, and why organelles enable more complex life. Things are physically in closer proximity and in higher concentrations where needed.

2) Multienzyme complexes. Multiple reactions in a pathway have their catalysts physically colocated to allow efficient passing of intermediate compounds from one step to the next.

https://www.tuscany-diet.net/2019/08/16/multienzyme-complexe...

3) Random chance. Stuff jiggles around and bumps into other stuff. Up until a point, higher temperature mean more bumping around meaning these reactions happen faster, and the more opportunities you can have for these components fly together in the right orientation, the more life stuff can happen more quicky. There's a reason the bread dough that apparently everyone is making now will rise faster after yeast is added if the dough is left at room temp versus allowed to do a cold rinse in the fridge. There are just less opportunities for things to fly together the right way at a lower temperature.

3a) For the ultra complex protein binding to the DNA, how those often work in reality is that they bind sort of randomly and scan along the dna for a bit until they find what they're looking or fall off. Other proteins sometimes interact with other proteins that are bound to the DNA first which act as recruiters telling the protein where to land.
For what it's worth, I had to make this decision recently and decided to use Publii, which is a gui-based CMS for static sites. I hook it into Netlify, and then I can edit content on my computer and push it to the web with one button. And, since the Publii client lives on my machine, there's no admin portal exposed to the internet.
Hawking Radiation. I know just enough to know that the story of "anti-particle of virtual pairs happens to always fall in the hole" is a Lie Told To Children, but the explanations seem to go straight from there to rather dense math and I've never wrapped my head around it.
So Facebook's privacy policy? Disinformation?
It includes Python, clang and other utils.
Contract tracing is a disaster. I’ve secured a forensic RF shielding bag for my phone. I refuse to participate
Some open-source projects have companies behind them - e.g. I am the founder of RudderStack, an open-source segment.

We have thought about this quite a bit. The way to address this is to make offering your OSS as-a-service from day-1. Initially, you are small and AWS won't care. Once you become big, you should be able to compete with AWS on the service offering - afterall you know your code best.

The problem arises when the OSS vendors had a different business model (open-source, on-prem support only) and AWS is able to completely own the as-a-service market.
>When Apple refused to budge there was no alternative but to change course, said a senior government source.

Shutting down every Apple office in the EU seems like a pretty good idea, oh and confiscating all Apple products, designs and patents..... Look, let's be positive and assume that the reason Germany backed down is because actually Apple's approach is better and they were convined by the explanations of why a centralised approach is wrong. Becuase the other explanation - that European countries are scared of Apple doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
I'm pretty sure there's room for smaller verticals these days. It's been demonstrated many times that if you have the best front-end to the problem space, and you add some services on top, everything under it can be totally commodified but you'll still get customers.

From there the strategy would depend on whether you want to stay small or not: To get bigger, you'd start going deeper into the open stack to scale things up and provide a wider array of services. If you stay small, your organization will necessarily be more focused on interfaces and compatibility while maintaining that top-end UX. In both instances there are plays for open source, but with different characters; the big company will tend to code-dump an enterprise toolchain, the small one will primarily be a contributor to a foundation project or open some of their internal interfaces.
I'm not sure thats a point the author is trying to make. To which example are you refering?
Would you say it's accurate to say LIGO is a big interferometer measuring changes in lengths of the arms due to gravitational waves, with some extra analysis to figure why it still works even though the light waves get stretched? Or is OP correct that such an explanation means I "don't have even a slight understanding of how it works" and a correct explanation must "involve higher spatial dimensions (not time)?"
I found that Steve Gibson’s description was both more technical and still very simple to follow, for those interested:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3DZ3St3QRw

Starts at about 1:19.
You should check out PBS Space Time (on youtube), there are several episodes explaining this in different ways.
Termux is awesome. Using it even made me order a foldable Bluetooth keyboard, so i always have a dev environment in my pocket.
the difference is the basis that is chosen. Fourier use sin and cos as a basis (or equivalently complex exponentials). You can choose other bases and get wavelets, or hermite functions, or any other particular independent functions.

Weights on neural networks don't have to be independent functions.

Independence gives you a set of mathematical guarantees that insure you fully cover the space you're representing. For example that given a 2 dimensional space, X and Y are pointing in different directions. If they pointed in the same direction you could not fully decompose all vectors on the plane into two coefficients of X and Y.
If someone comes to you and says "we need to hire more people to do my job so I can move into a leadership role" say "sure, if you take a pay cut," or "no"

If you are making a lot of money and one of your employees has performed well, and never asked you to hire more people to do their job, give them a God damn raise
Not that I know of as this is hard to study. What we have is a lot of case studies that transmission can occur in much less time than this including cases where there was no contact between the parties.

The best write up on this I have seen on this topic has been in Quillette [0]. I know Quillette gets attacked here from those on the left, but they do cover a wide range of topics (not all articles I agree with). They are pro-science and generally provide good references.

0. https://quillette.com/2020/04/23/covid-19-superspreader-even...
Carbon dating works because the level of carbon 14 in an organism is relatively constant while it is alive. This is because carbon 14 is created in the atmosphere not the sun.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
> In my opinion, it would have been a lot more effective to give money directly to people, then let them figure out where and how they need to spend it to get through the crisis. Businesses would then adapt accordingly to survive, or fail if they couldn't. But at least then most people would be ok.

I'm in agreement with you for financial crises in general (with caveats), but this doesn't apply here. The usual ability of individual spenders to direct their money to the businesses that they'd like to sustain is limited, because the nature of the pandemic response has caused an oddly-shaped crater in consumer demand. As a simple example: deferring teeth cleaning for a couple of months is an extremely rational decision right now, but under your plan, every dentist in the country would go out of business. I don't think this implies that dentists are non-essential, in the same way that sharp drops in airline and public transit usage don't render those services inessential.

Like a chemical compound, a lot of the value of a business is contained not in the capital or human capital per se, but in the connections between its constituent parts: a business is nothing more than a structure that produces utility for the landlord, the business owner, the employees, the suppliers, the customers, etc. If you suddenly bring that machine to a hard stop, all of those actors get hurt (the employees often most of all).

The GP comment is obviously correct that businesses are not entities whose welfare we need to focus on maximizing as a terminal goal. But they are critical structures through which the welfare of pretty much every citizen is maximized, not just business owners. In the same way that sustaining police departments or hospitals isn't motivated at saving those institutions per se, but at sustaining the value they produce for citizens, sustaining businesses is part of how we sustain the welfare of every citizen.

This is why the SBA/PPP are so valuable: they provide relief for those who would otherwise be laid-off, but do so in the form of salaries from a business that otherwise would have gone under. Not only are individual citizens able to keep paying their bills, but they're able to retain their relationship with their employer (losing a job has far more costs than just the foregone salary). And obviously this is in conjunction with things like the expansion in unemployment benefits, so that those who have been laid off and are unconnected to a business have a safety net as well.
> So while I’m by no means a fan of the erosion of privacy that this government has done previously, the proposed safeguards would be effective and not just empty words (at least legally speaking).

Currently, they are empty words, legally speaking.

The legal text that contains the safeguards is here [0]. It doesn't have most of the safeguards that Hunt announced. They're a pipedream.

For example, the minister said that even in the event of a crime, the data could not be used. However, two parts combine that show actually, they can.

Firstly, possession rather than ownership, controls who can upload data:

> A person must not upload COVID app data from a mobile telecommunications device to the National COVIDSafe Data Store except with the consent of the person who has possession or control of the device.

Secondly, whilst there are controls around who can use that data once it has been uploaded, once it is transferred somewhere for that purpose, there are no restrictions around who can access it once it is outside the data store.

[0] https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2020L00480/Html/Text
> In other words power + volume up means the key to unlock your phone is in your head, not at the end of your finger or your face.

That's not relevant to the specific request that was linked here (and that's why I think Google was right to close it, this is for one very specific use case and one very specific mechanism of solving it that may or may not actually work):

"In my country (Russia, if you interested) policy try to force political activist unlock their smartphones for collect more evidence. They use tortures and threats of tortures for this. If you you can`t unlock because it wiped they don`t have motivation to use tortures."

That is, the phone already doesn't have biometric auth, and the police will (allegedly) happily torture you until you reveal the unlock PIN.
The craziest postal delivery I ever saw was a letter sent to a person on a different continent, addressed only with a bang path.
No. This will happen, but the real third wave is open source going out of the clouds and into Kubernetes.

I actually expect Kubernetes to start offering the AWS services as CRD/operators, and not the other way around.

cloud is dead.
You're not looking at the examples closely enough, if that's your takeaway. I assure you they are much weirder than forgetting to specify an ORDER BY clause and expecting sorted output.
I have not read it myself but the answer can probably be found in the book "The Science of Interstellar" [1]

Kip Thorne, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, worked as the science advisor for Interstellar so the hollywood bs is pretty good!

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Interstellar-Kip-Thorne/dp/03...
Prompt, by Panic Software, the authors of Transmit and Coda. They even managed to get rid of disconnections while in the background, admittedly in a hacky way using location services.
I hope this helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPKj0YnKANw
> Then why be against it? Why not say “look, we enacted 90% top marginal rate and it hasn’t helped at all?”

Can you expand on this? Why would you want to put a policy on the books, dealing with its side effects without achieving its objective? You're saying this as if it's obvious; to me, it's anything but.
So people rebuild houses just in case for a not-so-frequent natural disaster? Or are there other reasons too?
If you remove the no-derivatives clause it becomes legal for people to translate them into other languages.
> because they don’t want to increase the manufacturing of test kits for political reasons

This is the first time I've heard this. Could you expand on what you think these political reasons are?
The mathematics of training a neural network. I understand how they work once trained, but that you can train them almost seems too good to be true.
I like Stoicism and have read many books on topic. Stoicism provides me with mental tricks to think more positively and be more resilient. However, there are some presuppositions that underlie the philosophy that must be take on faith. “Lead a virtuous life,” for one. But why? What’s the difference if I do not live virtuously? As an Atheist I suppose I do look for these answers in part because I have not accepted the answers from religion. Perhaps Stoicism never claimed to provide a deeper meaning to life, and if one goes in without that expectation one will likely be less prone to disappointment.
Once you start working weekends for a release it usually will become the norm. You can deal with this by putting a price tag on overwork, e.g. two times salary on weekends or comp time. Don’t give away things for free.
> “humans weren't designed, they were selected for...”

unless i’m mistaking your intent, “evolved” might be the better phrasing if you’re objecting to the agency implied by “designed”, as “selected for” also implies similar (super-)agency.
What is a poison pill and why have so many companies adopted them recently?
Covid-19 contact tracing app due in 2 weeks for New Zealand
"the money’s in touring, performance, etc."

Not any more. Sadly.
For non-free software proponents there is Nonguix and various other repos.
You’re saying almost certainly, but you’re demonstrably making a lot of assumptions. For instance studies of the effect recessions have on mortality rates vary wildly, from having a positive effect (like the Great Depression), to having a hugely negative effect (Brazil 2012-2016). There’s other obvious confounding factors in this approach too. What is the impact on mortality rate in moving primary care to Tele-conferencing? The pandemic had prioritized Covid care, and stretched medical resources. What impact has that had on the mortality rate of non-Covid conditions? The answers to those questions are not obvious, and have not been rigorously studied. Even if you could answer them, that approach would imply redefining the Covid-19 death toll from being “deaths caused by Covid-19” to “deaths which may not have otherwise happened, during that particular period, if not for Covid-19”.
If you remember your linear algebra basics, you could easily pick up QM --- the parts that deal with finite size systems. Here is an excerpt from my book I posted a while back in another thread, and refreshed today since you asked: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSLA_quantum_cha...

As for the multiverse, I don't know enough to talk about it. I just know it's one of the possible interpretations of quantum mechanics. Note that the various interpretations are generally considered more philosophy than science, and have no (or very little) practical implications. I would suggest ignoring all analogies and not looking too deeply for interpretations, and instead focus on basic concepts like "What is a quantum state?" and "How do I compute measurement outcomes?" which are super well understood and the same under all interpretations.

You can think of the various interpretations of QM as different software methodologies, scrum, agile, waterfall, etc. just stuff people like talk about endlessly, but ultimately irrelevant to the code that will run in the end.
The creepiness is actually appealing to me but to each their own. I disagree that it's some type of moral abdication wish fulfillment if that's what you meant. Morals are inherently emotional on some level though so without emotions of course you're going to get some amoral robots.

But I'm honestly not talking about Star Wars droids who are regarded as just intelligent enough to be useful but still expendable.

I'm talking about AI which are so much more intelligent than humans being placed in human suits and outwitting humans by convincing them they feel something they do not.

That's not to say that they don't actually have emotions. They might, as is the case in Westworld. But the emotions they show humans are entirely "perfect acting" used to achieve a goal.

In Ex Machina that goal winds up being surprisingly mundane, which I really loved.
There are some differences. DP-3T proposes two different systems, one with linkable tokens and the other without linkable tokens. The first system is similar to Apple-Google in the sense that your tokens for a day are derived from a key which is uploaded to a central distribution server when you test positive. In the second system the tokens are not linkable and they propose the use of a Cuckoo Filter to reduce the space complexity. A Cuckoo Filter is a probabilistic data structure that can tell you if an item is not or might be in a set. As a result there are some false positives.

DP-3T also explains how records are uploaded to a central server and the interactions with health-care providers. Apple-Google omit this part and focus on proximity data collection.

Edit: Formatting + I wrote a survey paper on a few of the distributed protocols and how they defend against linkage attacks (de-anonymization): https://github.com/robertTheHub/ContactTracingSurvey/blob/ma...
I'm wondering how the application protects against people running malicious clients works? If the point of this app is to broadcast identifiable information into the public domain, what is stopping others from snooping this information and creating their own tracing DB?
Nothing was wrong with it. It works fine, but I need, basically, a GUI or something simple that non-programmers/non-technical people can use.

I guess I need to wrap my code with something easy. I was trying to avoid reinventing the wheel, but, so far, I haven't found a wheel.
Lisp Legends: “Split-p soup?”
I had an aha moment with quantum computers a few months ago when reading an article that explained it as probability distributions. I don't think I have the complete understanding in my mind anymore and I wish I had saved the article, but looking into how quantum computers essentially serve as probability distribution crunching machines might help with your understanding.