skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think your example disproves Glass' statement. Surely students are in the beginner phases and their work does not represent their full potential. Glass' statement seems to say forgive students (and yourself for being one) instead of writing them off as hopeless.
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I mean, art is art right? That one dude can sell 4 minutes something seconds of silence as a great exploration of the meaning of silence, this seems perfectly reasonable. And it did actually have some merit as a demonstration of how silly best selling amazon book is as an accomplishment, so, checks out?
From my perspective, thoughts are the sensory experience of 'my mind moving'. Similar to arm movements - when you move your arm, where does the motion come from?

I'm reminded of a time in my childhood when I realized that I could consciously direct my eyes without turning my head. I was struck with wonder at the time, having not known such a thing was possible, because nobody told me. I still remember it vividly by the impact it had on me. The more I converse on this topic, the more I see people considering the mind as I had considered my eyes prior to my childhood realization.

The point I'm trying to get to is that I believe the dichotomy of mind and the body is a false one. I think the abstraction level of 'mind' is different from the level of 'body'. It should rather be 'mind' and 'arm' and 'eye' (and etc.).

The command of these in concert is somewhere outside of my perception, or so deep inside of it that I am blinded by its normality. Calling something we can't perceive by the name of something we can, I think, is magical thinking and folly. Why are my thoughts this way? Because my Mind. Why do planets orbit stars? Because Science. Why are we alive? Because we have élan vital.

Looking at it this way, the impossibility of controlling thoughts is lifted. When thoughts are solely something that happen to you, the very notion of controlling them except indirectly is incoherent. But re-framed, I can train my mind as I would train skill or form in body.

I know that I can't play the cello with any skill, as I am now. If I try, it will grate on the listener and cause more displeasure than pleasure. It's not an inherent failing of mine, simply that I haven't devoted the requisite time and energy to train myself in it. But it does define me, at least in part.

Would that skillful thinking was perceived the same as skillful cello playing. Instead, educational institutions must suffice to verify that you have the tools (in the form of knowledge, or acquired frameworks), but say little of skill achieved. Imagine a 4 year cello playing course in which a passing grade is earned if you but present a cello at the end.

I think that if this concept is fully integrated, outcomes would be better. If the mind is viewed as an intangible thing that blasts thoughts in your general direction, from where can it be improved? I know my body can be improved, by strenuous exercise. I know my skill at cello can be improved, if I simply practice. But my mind? If I'm hamstrung by its conception as a pure source, I'll forever stay at whatever minimal level is required to survive. And that's a tragedy.

This went a little off into conjecture-land, but I think I'll leave it for the time being.

tldr: imo minds are limbs, not monitors
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night: "You are what you pretend to be"

Nobody knows what you think or what you intend. Only what you do and what you say. On the flip side, you should judge people on their actions and not their hidden intentions.
I think the "clean look" is not aesthetic. It is like a white canvas that has just been purchased from an art supply store but has not been painted on yet.
Sure, that's reasonable. Your original comment sounded more like, "Why do people even care?" but I'm totally onboard with the idea that actually implementing something like that is very problematic.

From the customer point of view, though, "How do I know it's really them?" is a reasonable question because they don't really understand the implications of the answers.
I think the $900 is just for the z software. For zPDT you need to provide your own hardware/cloud instance, and pay for the emulation software on top of that. That came in around $2.5k/year IIRC.
Re: Ad/marketing attribution, that's not necessary correct. If the data point that gets sent back to Facebook is a GUID type string that matches the GUID that got generated when you first clicked the Facebook ad for the app and doesn't include data about you specifically, I believe that's fine. I don't myself have up-to-date information what data Facebook receives via its SDK but I suspect it is GPDR compliant through such methods.

GPDR specifically allows for anonymized/aggregated data on app usage or marketing feedback: https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/
Does anyone have an article link instead of video/twitter on what happened/background? I'm not Australian so don't have the context on what this app is/how hard the government is pushing it/who made it etc, but would like to read up on it. Thanks.
Happened in Ecuador.
Wonder if it relays all of that imaging data back to datacenter. Getting that data early would be wicked valuable.
Every expert started out as a beginner.
Most businesses are not Netflix, where most of the work is done by their OpenConnect CDN appliances serving video content outside of cloud providers.
> so there was until now no way to even automate+scale scraping of "authentic" profile-pictures from some art-hosting website

There's a few furry-oriented art websites, so this part has actually been really easy for like two decades.
Contentment vs. Ambition
Ambition feels like not being okay with where you are. Contentment feels like settling - because you know you could improve. How do you know when to do which?
We use on-prem GPU nodes for training deep learning models. Our group estimated the cost vs. cloud and it was significantly cheaper to go on-prem. I can't speak to security-wise and whatever-wise though :)
Really nice ! Love the commitments you make.

I use DataGrip and haven't found anything that was better than that at what it does.

Yours is really neat. Saved queries are great.
I have an SP3, getting close to five years now. Battery life still decent, no bulge (knocks wood), and it still works well. I rarely use the pen, and only occasionally use tablet mode for reading. The lack of repairability in the Surface line, combined with my rare use of the tablet mode, have me looking more at light laptops when the time comes, possibly even the Surface Laptop (good to see that's improved repairability a bit). I get that getting a slim package requires tradeoffs, but complete lack of repairability is a step too much for my liking.
I use Quickbooks Self Employed and would love to migrate, but absolutely require three of their features before I can:

- Automatically pull transactions from credit cards and banks.

- Allow me to manually and automatically tag transactions as business and personal and which tax deduction category it belongs to (rent, apps/software, computers, utilities, etc)

- Estimates my quarterly federal tax payments based on income and transaction deductions.

Any support for those features?
I mentioned in another comment that I use VPS and not cloud services. I think of cloud as the auto-scaling infrastructure with dynamic pricing. I think of VPS as just sharing a dedicated machine with others, so each one gets a few cores and shares other resources. The implementation of VPSs nowdays is probably more similar to cloud services, where your own space might be moved around to another physical machine without any downtime.
I just use intellij for the same purpose. Today alone, I made changes in Kotlin, Typescript, Java, JS, Groovy, and Python. All in a single project, in Intellij. I do use and appreciate vscode, sometimes, but the experience is nowhere near as good as Intellij for me.

That said, being able to change/edit PRs in github with vscode will be awesome. Will negate the need to check out out a branch locally for a ton of cases.
Anything with massive storage and massive compute that doesn't need low latency is a great fit. I still host ~300TiB and ~250 cores at home because the cloud cost would be astronomical. Edit: This is for personal stuff related to internet-wide scan data and domain tracking. See https://github.com/hdm/inetdata
Are you an engineer? How is your time divided between building (i.e. coding) and deciding what to build (meetings, gathering requirements, understanding the problem, etc.)? First we will automate sooner or later. The latter will be rather more difficult.
Sure. I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion that trucks undercontribute to road maintenance costs. I just don't think those numbers are sufficient to prove it.
There is also another possibility. If you kill of the weak, the remaining strong will show better health outcomes.
And if you are a drug company, you can tout that as proof of the success of the treatment.

And I suspect that is exactly what is happening with some of these medical treatments. They take out the weakest patients (with for example chemo therapy) and the remaining stronger ones will do better. But really its a statistical effect.

Same way you can improve test scores in a class, by getting rid of students with low IQ and work ethic. All of sudden, the average test taking ability will go up.
This is kind of a big caveat (“Netflix is in the cloud but almost none of the work is done there”), and something I have to mention to non tech decision makers when they say “but Netflix!”. I even have a slide for presentations just for this (“You Are Not Netflix”).
An Update on UMG Watermarks – Matt Montag
Security... not against hacker but against provider's government.

I worked for some french or european companies, with IPs and sensitive informations, and US business competitors. By the US law, US companies may have to let the US gov spy on their customers (even non US, even on non US location), so this may be a problem for strategic sectors, like defense for example.

In that case, sensitive informations is required to be hosted in country by a company of the country, under the country law.

Of course, it's not against "cloud" in general... only against US cloud providers (and chinese, and...)
>If the software developer didn't get anything off you they wouldn't make the software available to you in the first place.

A lot of software these days don't offer a way for casual users (read: not enterprise/small business) to pay for it. It's "free" or nothing.
I'm slightly surprised all the screenshots are based on MacOS and that Microsoft didn't require them to look like Windows 10.
What did the assistance look like? Was it primarily advice?
Nice design. If you could diagram schemas like dbeaver I'd try it out!
no, but maybe his parents setup the car to accommodate...
Thank you! Glad that it's useful for someone. I am collecting data from different resources and automate the job.
NixOS is available, not sure what other distros offer that it doesn't.
Cars are NOT more expensive, especially not after you factor in the obscene cost of fuel in the EU.

Healthcare is free at the vast majority of tech companies in the US.
Okay, I guess I have to explain some things here.

> Not that bold, since it is how most diseases/viruses work (with a few exceptions like HIV, and there's no reason to assume covid-19 is an exception)

This is objectively wrong and I'll lead into why in the next point.

> Yes, chickenpox is one-and-done. Once you've had it, you (basically) can't get it again.

Chickenpox is not one-and-done. If you catch chickenpox, the virus remains latent and can manifest itself as Shingles.

And to explain a bit of history here: I'm not talking about a second wave of the current strain. I'm talking about a deadlier strain. That was what my reference was to earlier flu pandemics and I highly suggest you do a bit of reading on that. The Spanish flu had mutated to a far deadlier version during the second wave and spread all over the world.

For all the comparisons people make with the flu virus, people seem to ignore that viruses can come and go in waves. The flu did not 'end', it mutates every season and the reason why we're able to keep it under control is because of widespread vaccination preventing it from growing exponentially. You claim that's how most diseases work, but that's not how the flu works. The danger of letting the coronavirus run rampant is severely understated by our complete inability to control it right now.
> I am happy to put myself in harm's way if

It’s not all about you. You are putting other people in harms way.
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Oh good lord, that's just filthy.

But man would it be hilarious to grill someone during an interview about this. "Oh wow! You're coding even on holidays! How about we do a quick look at your commits and you can tell us about your progress on some of these projects?"
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Sounds like he actually is a brilliant teacher. Keep in mind he has probably taught several hundred other students since teaching you, which is well above Dunbar's number. He might have had a similar impact on many of them, and he probably invested a lot of time, thought, and energy into his teaching for that to happen. Maybe he just doesn't have a good memory for former students.
Visual Studio Online (before the recent renaming as Azure DevOps) was at first, and for years, a Team Fondation server in the cloud an associated service. Naming, renaming, re-renaming is always quite an issue with Microsoft products.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Yes but the quote is to be told to beginners, none of whom have yet to “actually fight their way through their creative difficulties.”
Focus on the theorem and its proof, not the name of the theorem.

My background in mathematics and there is an unhealthy adulation of genius. Granted, praise of genius is warranted, but it becomes too much.

One symptom of this is that almost every theorem is named for whoever discovered it. Gauss this or Euler that. Shannon this or Nyquist that. What can happen is you begin to think of mathematics in terms of making a mark and having something named after you, and not actually about the objective beautiful reality of the mathematics before you. The mathematics is greater than the discoverer--it certainly isn't owned by them!

Or to put it another way: Focus on the joy of the task at hand, not on the hope of adulation from the task well finished.

It is a good way to reduce anxiety.
Don't mind me. I'm just going to come into your house and record what commercials you are watching. I'm not spyware I'm just _merely_ wanting to know about my marketing budget.

Analogy may not be perfect but it takes serious mental gymnastics to fail to see this as spyware, in my opinion.
99% of the work is done on the cloud. What comes off of those colo servers is literally just bits streaming from disk to network. There is no transformation or anything. No authentication, no user accounts, no database. Nothing.

Just static files served efficiently.
A Blender script to procedurally generate 3D spaceships from a random seed.
The statement "There is no way to prevent this sort of transmission" while linking CDC data that shows changes in the trend of transmission over time are at odds to me.

There are most definitely ways to reduce spread.

>The focus should be on finding a cure, not changing social norms or shaming people.

There is no cure yet, thus changing habits and social norms is our only chance at reducing this problem outside experts who are working on the problem directly.

I don't know whether or not labeling parents as villains has anything to do with what needs to be done to label and reduce spread; but I dare say that the attitude of "Nothing to be done, let's give up due to the fact that the virus is prevalent." is in fact the dangerous opinion for society at large.

>... and you need to be downvoted.

The call to arms for down-voting a comment you disagree is a tactic that I personally feel is cheap and a disgusting misuse of the karma/discourse system that is in place.
> matches the GUID that got generated when you first clicked the Facebook ad

Knowing Facebook, that GUID would surely be bound to the user, still leaking to Facebook that the user is now using the app.

An ad campaign ID (same for all ads of this format in this campaign) sent to the app developer (which can then aggregate them on their side and send the daily aggregated data to Facebook) would be better.
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For presentational sites, I use PHP + HTML + CSS + JS. I still use PHP because it allows for cheap hosting, easy templating (can import files in other files), no compilation step, files can be edited directly on the server if necessarily and I can add at any point any extra functionality that even requires server-side processing or a database. I add CloudFlare on top with "cache everything" cache level, so the site is fast and server usage low.
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> Can you provide evidence that every antibody test used in all of the studies above are as inaccurate as you claim? Your 1-word opinion on each of them is useless.

To my knowledge, there are basically no reliable antibody tests, which is the problem. Some are more reliable, but most are terrible, and there are very few places that publish exactly which test they use have, from my reading, used unreliable tests.

The point, which you seem to keep ignoring is that seroprevalence tests aren't reliable. So citing a bunch of them doesn't convince me. You're just citing something which I've already explained isn't reliable.

> https://www.livescience.com/covid19-coronavirus-tests-false-....

So let's assume this is true. My understanding is that PCR tests have gotten a bit better since February when that paper was published, but it sets a decent lower bound.

Let's assume the test has a 30% false-negative rate, and a .05% false-positive rate. If 1% of people are infected, and you test everyone, you'll find that (.01 * .70) + (.99 * .0005) = .75% of the population will test positive.

What about 10% of the population? (.1 * .70) + (.9 * .0005) = 7% of the population is infected according to the test. Given that PCR tests are reporting ~1% of the population is infected, we can expect that no more than 2% of the population is infected. And that assumes an incredibly good false-positive rate.

If instead the PCR test has a more reasonable false-positive rate of half a percent, and we assume an underlying 1.5% infection rate, then with a 30% false negative rate, then P(FP|N) > P(FN|P), or in other words, your test would overestimate the true infection rate (to be 1.54%, precisely).

That is to say, when the underlying infection rate is relatively low, false-positives are much more impactful than false negatives, because there are many more chances to be a false positive. This is the base rate fallacy in action.

So the upshot? Even assuming a better than real world[0] false-positive rate of the PCR tests, and a likely worse than real world false-negative rate, the PCR tests show that the true infection rate is still far below what serological tests show.

[0]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v... suggests that PCR tests have a false-positive rate of ~4%, on average.
Look at the first sentence of Glass’s statement. It is meant to be told to beginners to encourage them. He’s telling beginners that because you’re trying you must have good taste (which is clearly not true) so stick with it.
That isn’t at all how it works much of the time. A lot of people rent their basements out because they can’t afford not to. And what do you think happens to the tenant when the landlord fails, regardless of circumstances, and loses their property? If you help the landlord in these extenuating circumstances, both landlord and tenant may keep their homes. If you favor the tenant at the expense of the landlord then both are likely to end up homeless, which makes no sense.
huh, the last sentence of my post got dropped; put it back now.

No, they're not mantras.

The easy answer is that rhythmicity of language is just fundamentally compelling to our minds at a very basic level, and poems are a way that we can bend and twist and revel in and celebrate with language that gets that.

There's often a "oh, you clever ... " satisfaction as a reader when the poet picks _just_ the perfect word to rhyme off and you're left almost gasping with ... something indescribable ... at how _right_ it was. It's a thing of beauty.

In translation, Hafiz: "... the Beloved / has just made such a fantastic move// that the saint is now continually/ tripping over Joy// and bursting out in laughter/ and saying "I Surrender!""

Watching someone, often someone long dead from a time and a place I can't even imagine, working within an often highly constrained form to produce something that still packs a punch -- something that can still reach out and wrench something loose inside your head, something that can communicate things that are probably ineffable -- when it happens to you, you'll know.
Safari takes this seriously and now blocks all third party cookies by default.
It's so true. I started mentoring a robotics team and I doubt I'll remember most of the kids. But wow it's so soul filling to watch them learn.
Somewhat useful if someone not want to see news though. However, this reminds me lobster, so same service already existed. You can give it a check.
There's really no solid that can handle thermal plasma. We're talking 10,000K to 100,000K temperatures here.
Because you mentioned blogging, I also needed to add a blog to my landing page, so I create a tiny blogging platform that displays markdown posts: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog
The cost of compliance is directly proportional to the amount of personal data you're processing.

GDPR compliance is usually expensive because people ignore Art. 5.1.(c):

Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed (‘data minimisation’)

If you choose to collect personal data, you're responsible for handling it with due care. If you don't want that responsibility, don't collect the data. If your business model is predicated on doing shady things with personal data, find a different business model.
It wouldn't be surprising if some Smart TVs are already doing this.
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That's just the in-order top comments I'm seeing right now. (please do read and upvote them / others too, they're widely varying in their details and are interesting)

The answer's the same as it has always been. Cloud is more expensive, unless you're small enough to not pay for a sysadmin, or need to swing between truly extreme scale differences. And a few exceptions for other reasons.
Makes sense. Maybe we'll see a fusion plasma thruster before the power/energy storage shrunk enough to make this viable as is (in the atmosphere and gravity of Earth at least).