skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is a great point.

And I agree with musk's general point on finance. I did my M.S. in finance, I work (somewhat) in the industry still. It's a ridiculous amount of smart people basically wasting everyone's time to magically make money.

Nothing of any real value is being done.. After these many years I don't find value in people spending SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY into "making more money out of money". That's all it is. We can talk all day about making efficient portfolios and all this bullshit.. Sure there is some value, but 99% of it is utter bullshit that is solely designed to make the rich richer. And not even just the super rich- it is even to keep the upper middle class above the "rest".

/disillusioned person related to finance
> Hotel check-ins now consist of wiping down all the surfaces and light switches in the room with antibacterial wipes.

I assume they mean something else. We are dealing with a virus. Alcohol and bleach wipes ftw.
Thanks for the correction. That's an easy mistake to make here! I've done it myself.
There is a push towards this and some companies offering 3rd party systems to do ML based detection of cheaters.

The basic checks trivially are easy to put in to place (kills past weapon range, warping, impossible movements etc) although someone has to do the grunt work (and make sure the checks are not invalidated by certain gameplay features).

Once you get in to things like head-shot rates it gets trickier to differentiate players with amazing hand-eye co-ordination and cheaters. The line is really really thin. Add in internet latency spikes and it gets even harder.

Some cheaters will use things like aim-bots to nudge their mouse inputs and give an advantage that is difficult to see even when watching them live on stream. Others will blatantly cheat, get detected and kicked within a few minutes (after ruining some people's experience), create a new account and repeat, multiple times an hour.
Full line comparison would probably use memcmp that bails out on first non matching character while field-splitting overhead might be significant.
That would explain why in our current system the conservative faction is more like this than the liberal faction. But what I was getting at is the reason that the conservative faction is essentially singular. In a less broken system, there could be multiple conservative factions and multiple liberal factions without the sub-factions feeling needing to choose whether to band together on every single issue or be irrelevant.

They could dynamically band together on a per-issue basis and have more reasoned discussions focusing on those issues instead of making sure to pronounce “shibboleth” correctly.
What price did the world exact from the because of the 1918 or Mexico for the swine flu pandemics? Ok, so we only discovered for sure that the 1918 flu came from the US recently, but swine flu we knew right away.

Also, China has paid an enormous price for this. Do you think that Chinese administrators are looking at what happened and saying, "golly, we got off lightly here, no need to make any changes".

Also: claiming that someone has to pay a price for doing something without having in mind a realistic mechanism for making them pay is not reactionary, just dumb.
Having an opinion about my opinion is a violation of the NAP.
Warning: funny license: https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose/blo...
Thanks for the reply Chenxi! Indeed, sounds very promising indeed. Are you still active in the Pioneer community, even post program? And also, do you know why is it mandatory to establish a U.S legal entity if you are based in Europe?

Have a great weekend!
> The days of carefree travel are long gone.

I feel like that exited back in 2011.
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I think a cure for COVID-19 would be 10,000x more valuable than reactjs.
Vaccines are unlikely to work or be scalable, though that won't stop companies from trying. More practically, repurposing widely available low-cost therapeutics, combined with early treatment, have proven effective in many cases. When not detected and treated early, expensive drugs may be necessary for treatment.
When the vast majority of ultra-successful companies engage in undesirable practices, we must accept that those practices experience evolutionary positive selection. They are advantageous in the current environment. This is a structural problem, rather than a problem with any specific company.

More distressingly, this means that any work at a funky, independent, ethical company is merely laying the foundation for future unethicality, like Y2K Google.

The industry is known for contempt of the law, tax evasion, and oppression of the poor and minorities because this is what our society is known for.

Fantasies of personal power abound as we engage in cultural wars with our fellow citizens on personally important, but nationally and structurally irrelevant topics. We feel strongly about gender/animal/gun/vaccination/religious rights and engage in passionate debates and demonstrations as wealth, power, and freedom is gradually and inexorably stolen from all of us.
Yitang Zhang didn't need money to burn. Neither did Linus Torvalds.
Viruses can survive in the "permafrost", because they are frozen. Pretty sure no virus can survive for a 100 years buried in ground at normal temperatures!
Even the physical controls are becoming more complicated. A 2018 Traverse has about 20 buttons, with no tactile clue as to which one you’re touching. I get that it’s got more options than my last car, a 2012 Impreza, but that could be operated pretty well without looking at it. Just three knobs (temperature, Dan speed, and vent choice) and three buttons (AC, defrost, and recirculation)—once you remember what it looks like, you can feel your way around pretty easily.
Where did you get the 6 month figure from? It's true we really don't know how things will pan out long term, but we know that there are lot's of possibilities that all work out to something that's not awful in the long term.

For example, we already produce and distribute an annual vaccine on the scale of billions (the flu). The flu also has tampering effectiveness on a pretty short time scale. The flu vaccine is also not 100% effective. And despite all of those short comings, we're able to mitigate flu into something that people literally use as the low bar for infectious diseases in terms of spread and severity.

I think you're right that the vaccine is unlikely to let us eradicate coronavirus, but it'll let us get back to a new normal - one that isn't fundamentally different from our old normal (at least from a health perspective - who knows what happens at a societal or policy level).
The “IDW” is really just a name for a handful of folks who were attacked by outrage mobs for misrepresentations of their intellectual curiosity. It’s barely a coherent entity, and most certainly not authoritarian. What an odd charge.

And who wouldn’t talk to people willing to listen?
I do plan to read a serious Stalin book.

Currently reading the Mao book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679746323/
> with vague things like a count goes up with 5's or down with 10's

That is not vague at all and shows you how simple card counting is. Pair that with a blackjack strategy card which is based on the odds of winning certain hands and its easy to tell how a deck that has a higher proportion of 10's is better for the player.

https://wizardofodds.com/blackjack/images/bj_4d_s17.gif
I got a 404, so I did a quick Google search. This seems to be the article in question —> https://onezero.medium.com/the-case-for-stanislaw-lem-one-of...

I am excited to read it. I just finished reading Solaris for the first time, and it was mind-changing. I highly recommend it to any of you who haven’t read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)
I agree with you on that. The money is to be made telling stories about it vs doing it. Which is why I think the article is complete fiction. But the math behind counting is sound and it is indeed profitable if done right.

https://github.com/seblau/BlackJack-Simulator is an example of this. The house advantage of blackjack is under 1% for good games (for example 0.33% at Mohegan Sun). So to beat it you just need overcome that which IS possible by counting. But you can see if you play with that sim, decreasing penetration, bet spread and amount really starts to eat into your numbers.

But with the mitigation strategies listed like low penetration, heat gained by betting big, or wild swings in bet amount, and finally no mid-shoe entry it is not possible now to do it and make good money.

https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/card-counting/high-... Michael Shackleford is an expert on gambling analysis and is employed by gaming companies to check out their games. He has loads of detailed information and statistics on his site about every casino game.

But yes. Mathematically possible, and possible in the distant past when casinos didn't know. Pretty much impossible now due to casinos detecting it easily. Not because it isn't mathematically possible.
The fact that the Amazon executives are extraordinarily well paid seems to contradict that claim. Besides, saying there is “some point” at which the tax is too much is the same as saying “they don’t have infinite money.” Of course; no company does. Amazon has a limit to what it can pay in taxes, but the point is it’s nowhere near $0.
I think flight attendants is probably a job that should be for people that have had CV and have recovered already. I can't imagine anyone doing that job without becoming infected.
I just searched "sds hand sanitizer" to get some random data sheets. All of the first ten I looked at were mostly ethanol. Two of them also included ~5% isopropyl.

I think the author here might be confusing different quality grades of alcohol with different chemical types of alcohol.
Hi Azeem, thanks! What progress where you able to make in terms of product and market validation during the program? May I ask if you are based in the U.S or abroad? If so, was the process of establishing a U.S subsidiary complex? Thanks!
It means a word virus has found a new carrier of semantic dilution.
Most of the time “normal” is whatever arrangement was put into place just outside of living memory. Cars are “normal” now, but they’re actually pretty new.

Occasionally “normal” changes faster than it takes for the whole set of humans to change over, this seems like one of those times.
They apparently have paid a price in lives that's but a fraction of the price many European countries and the United States have each paid.
Their system of government has led to this pandemic. That's why a price needs to be paid
Little Richard’s induction of Otis Redding into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is one of the best inductions ever.

It’s a mess, in a good way. It’s unorganized. Richard talks more about himself, but it works and it’s pure Rock and Roll. RIP. He was a pioneer.

Seriously, watch the first minute. It’s beautiful.
https://youtu.be/YUvHBirr1PI
I think finance plays a tremendously important support role in creating new wealth. But it's kind of promoted itself to a primary role and you can see that in all the creative ways money is made.
CUDA-only :(
> you should pay attention to what Elon Musk does and has done, and not so much towards what he says

Hmm... I hear this argument about Trump from his supporters too.
It may well be. I looked it up on wikipedia now, assuming you're talking about "Non-agression principle". I'm not sure I understand. Anyway, have a nice day.
> I'm sorry, but I don't want to live in societies where people are made pariahs if they make such mistakes.

I agree with this statement, but I think it's a sentiment that is in tension with everything else you've said so far. I don't believe Damore has said that he thought his memo or its contents were a "mistake." He has totally failed to engage with the critiques of his position and has instead focused on critiquing the responses of others.

The essential aspect of allowing people to recover from mistakes is that person meaningfully engaging with what they did wrong (which does not have to be a blanket apology). An excellent example of engaging with wrongdoing (even serious wrongdoing) can be found in Dan Harmon's apology for his behavior towards a coworker[1]. The person who's made a mistake must identify what they think the mistake was!

Does having people yell at you make this harder? Of course it does. People still have a right to complain about the things they find upsetting. Damore himself was complaining about something that upset him when he wrote his memo. You've spent a good amount of space pointing out (correctly, I think) that Google is still obligated to do "the right thing" even though Damore complained[2]. I think if you want to hold Google to account, it's equally fair to ask for accountability from Damore (with the understanding that Damore, being a single human, may struggle a little more to act perfectly than a giant corporation).

[1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/674/get-a-spine/act-one-5
[2] Personally, I think Google did do the right thing.
You can get an idea of how scandalous Little Richard was if you look up the original lyrics to Tutti Frutti, "Loose Booty."
VS Code extensions that make me fall in love with programming each day
What happened in 2011?
> Coronaviruses don't tend to produce strong, long-lasting immunity

Sure they do. But the immunity lasts a few years instead of a lifetime.
It seems like you're judging Damore for being willing to share his considered and evidenced based beliefs with other people, because you don't like the ideology of those other people. That strikes me as a very anti-intellectual and anti-philosophical position.
Thanks for the reply Rocauc! Where you please with the gamification approach? As I read some negative feedback online regarding the transparency of the voting process. Thanks, Chris
He was clueless, insofar as he made the mistake of trusting a giant corporation to be a good steward of a political space.
They expressly asked him to share his opinion about an extremely divisive, almost third-rail topic. You're just saying that his statement ended up being divisive as well, but that's tautological. It's simply not possible to be "politically neutral" about such a topic and say anything worthwhile.
I agree that this is a flaw with advice from elders and one that one should keep in mind. I disagree that this is a unique flaw of advice from professors and more just a flaw with advice?

Those who have more experience are going to be more distanced from your exact circumstances, as a function of having more experience. Advice can be useful nonetheless.
I suspect it may have been inspired by Virginia Satir’s change model, specifically the “new status quo” at its end
At the level of fidelity of the demo, it's not yet a product.

The demo is very promising, though.
There is a cultural piece to this as well. For example in many Asian countries (particularly in Hong Kong), engineers are often confused with technicians or construction workers, which are generally not valued by the society. This perception has an impact to future generation when picking career choice.

Basically, anyone can call him/herself an engineer and they generally don’t have any engineering knowledge, training, or ethics. It’s unfortunate how devalued the engineer title has become.
It’s 10-20x deadlier than the flu for all age groups, including young people. It’s just many many times worse for elderly people.
When work disappears: Manufacturing decline and the falling market  (2019)
If you could find a working flight attendant who is still susceptible to COVID-19, I’d be astounded. Crazy times.
Show me Motion 5 and FCPX for Windows and I'll gladly switch.
I'm the same age as Musk so I can offer some perspective.

Musk's first love is/was physics and he intended to work on electric cars at the get-go. However, at the time (and as I can attest to) the Internet was JUST starting to boom - like a gold rush. There were millions of problems to solve and businesses to start. At the time we was at Stanford and there, more than any other place, this fact was the most obvious. He knew he could / should capitalize on the current opportunity -- and he did.

After he cashed out with PayPal, instead of doing the easy path of doing another Internet startup, he returned to his priorities. He's been trying to create the environment in his orgs, and the rest of the valley, for workers and investors to pursue the same type of opportunities / risks.
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Of course, a lot of that subsidy will come from more urban areas. Which I'm mostly fine with but I imagine a lot of people here are probably not.
It mentions "long-endurance unmanned aircraft", which I assume use orders of magnitude less power than most aircraft.
> I am assuming people would want to see benefits in being infected before they're going to volunteer.

Counterpoint: I would volunteer for this today if it was an option.
Evolution seems to be gaining traction in some ultra right wing circles, albeit in support of other distasteful ideas...
Next step: output to a deep-fake synthesizer instead of SVG. Jump from animation to cinema.
I think it’s fine to have the usual view, “this box is full of water”.

But you might also think, “this eyebrow is hairs with not too much space between.”, or “this box is hydrogen and oxygen without too much space between.”

An eyebrow is hairs with a certain spatial density and distance (space) from the eyes. Water is hydrogen and oxygen with relatively less space between than say water vapor.

If I think of space as a magnitude, all the math and forces still work out, but there is “room” for other stuff.
Pretty sure they meant 2001, as in 9/11.
Decisions about resources make no sense except in the context of trying to achieve some effect. Political issues are almost always implicitly about how things "ought" to be; the resource decisions are in service of those goals.
> Pretty sure no virus can survive for a 100 years buried in ground at normal temperatures!

I want to agree with you, although usually when we say things like that about viruses a few years later we find a class that can.
I think a lot of that has to do with Ruby not having real modules and everything being global.
It's awkwardly worded...I had to re-read the article a few times. They prohibited the use of "fuel grade ethanol" that hasn't yet met the higher standards of ethanol meant for hand sanitizer. And they are making exceptions on a case-by-case basis where the manufacturer can show they meet those higher standards.
On the other hand, "hey this preprint!!" isn't exactly useful right now either.

There's a balance.
yeah no. a lot of people can do this. i don’t know why you think google is special but it’s not. maybe you can share so that i can understand your angle
Mine is firstname@firstname-lastname.domain, never had that problem. Plenty of email addresses require spelling out the part before the @ anyway, spelling the part after it out too poses no fundamental challenge to anyone I interacted with (who asked for my email address, that is).
You're technically correct, still is not unreasonable to argue that accusing google of quote "Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate" might have a net effect of caste a shadow over certain groups being competent enough or being "diversity hires".
most companies don't have to say anything like that. the absence of active encouragement is usually enough. the "default" is not to discuss sensitive topics over company email.
The great thing about claims like these is you can fact-check them.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2603/vix-volatility-index-histor...

Here it appears that volatility went up, up, up for 2008 - then died back down to pre-crash levels with occasional spikes. I don't see volatility going much below what it was before the crash. You can see a similar pattern in 2020.

> After the first huge volumes of sales, trading would die down because no one had faith in the economy and the stock market.

I would honestly be shocked if this was a real thing - if a ton of people stopped trading, it would cause other people to trade on the inefficiencies that creates.
This raises an important question...

Just because something is public does not give you to use the personal data for a new use without the data subjects consent. Posting up a celebrities signature could be against the GDPR...
Thanks for the links, however I think the misrepresentation of information here is women have higher rates of neuroticism, but is that true within sample present at Google? Not every possible women is more neurotic than every possible man.

Additionally, dealing with discrimination can lead to self-esteem issues, which are tied to neuroticism.
It’s probably an artifact of aging, but one of the more beneficial things I’ve done in the past half decade is switch from online games to single player or coop.

The peaks of online games are very high; when you get a team that’s cooperative and communicative it can be great. But the expected outcome is much much lower, especially when trolls and cheaters show up.

Single player games let me enjoy the experience without it being ruined by anything other than my relatively low skill level at the game in question. Also, I can buy games that are older and play them on weaker hardware to significantly reduce my cost of ownership, since there’s no penalty for playing single player games later.
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How does Aylien legally and reliably scrape/gather so many news outlets to power it's NLP systems?
AFAIK it is not legal to scrape then sell services built on scraped data (at the minimum you might get a frivolous lawsuit that costs you money). And it is clear that not all these outlets have API access.
And if China gets a secondary wave of infection from negligence in the USA? Then what? The Treasury is going is going to cut China a cheque?
The Guardian had a very interesting series on literacy in the UK. There was a paragraph about a teacher,who asked each kid to bring one book from home. One girl brought an Argos catalog.When explained by the teacher that it's not a book,the girl told the teacher that this was the only one she could find at home. These kids have no chances if the parents are like this and most likely is the biggest hurdle as opposed to the lack ofWifi or any other issue.
Forgive my ignorance but why is tracking the play of the deck not a legitimate strategy?
This is a strawman argument, but I will assume you made it in good faith given how widely Damore's claims have been misrepresented.

From what I recall in the memo, I'm pretty sure he never said that women were less effective at their tech jobs (fortunately, because there isn't any evidence remotely suggesting that !)

What he did is that, when Google asked for feedback on their mandatory diversity training, he challenged the prevailing view being taught in these classes about why less women get into tech than men (basically: not because of inherent lack of interest but because of societal pressure)

He pointed out that the latest science on "interesting in things vs people" disagrees, and he supported his argument with citations.

In a company that prides itself on making data-based decisions, starting a discussion in this way with a reasonable argument (even if later refuted) ideally shouldn't be a firing offense.

Now, was it politically, humanly, emotionally smart for him to say things in this way without consideration for their impact on coworkers ?

Of course not. But still, I can't help feeling somewhat sympathetic to someone with child-like naiveté who spoke the uncomfortable scientific truth (or at least, a very reasonable theory) that adults don't want to hear.
> given that you believe that SGX hasn’t been compromised yet

Who the hell would believe that?
Here is a graph of law school enrollment. I think it increased a small amount after 2015.

https://data.lawschooltransparency.com/enrollment/all/