skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think that's partly my fault, I didn't go into enough detail.

If I applied for a job/contract in Poland for instance, I'm not going to stamp my foot and throw a tantrum because they won't pay me SF rates. I'd expect them to offer me Polish rates. I also wouldn't expect them to pay me NW England rates (which are likely much higher).
Me too! I started working on a proof of concept for this but lost steam https://github.com/timwis/dataface
Maybe someone here knows the answer but doesn't the 'herd immunity' theory assume we build a long term immunity to the disease in question after being infected? What happens if COVID turns out to be like the influenza virus and constantly mutates or like ebola where our immunity is temporary?
That's appealing - certainly more promising than naively reducing consciousness to fan-in/fan-out, as in OP.

But it's also quite hand-wavey, because RNNs have no real hooks for self-reflection.

You can strap a meta-RNN across a working RNN, and if you're lucky it may start to recognise features in the operation of the working RNN. But are your features really sentient self-symbols, or are they just mechanically derived by-products - like reflection in a computer language, taken up a level?

You need at least one extra level of feedback to do anything interesting with this, and it's really not obvious how that feedback would work.

It's even less obvious if this will give you "genuine" experiential self-awareness, or just a poor and dumbed-down emulation of it.
> I'm interested to know what the majority of the Windows machines are used for.

Willing to bet it's SQL Server and Azure AD
Typo. I think you meant haveibeenpwned.com.
Due to people getting infected, dying and public recommendations, Sweden and other places lower R by behaving as in lockdown, even when partially they still get hit hard twice. Don't see this paper adress change of behaviour after "Italy".
The majority of people in the UK have not been exposed, even potentially. Therefore, this is not a traditional quarantine, by the standard definition. Prior to the lockdown, quarantine was already in effect for foreign travellers and so on. This is a novel policy. Some definitions below.

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From the Cambridge English Dictionary:

lockdown noun [ C or U ] mainly US UK /ˈlɒk.daʊn/ US /ˈlɑːk.daʊn/ a situation in which people are not allowed to enter or leave a building or area freely because of an emergency.

From the Oxford dictionary:

quarantine noun /ˈkwɔrənˌtin/ , /ˈkwɑrənˌtin/ [uncountable] a period of time when an animal or a person that has or may have a disease is kept away from others in order to prevent the disease from spreading

From the American CDC:

"Isolation" separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick.

"Quarantine" separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.
India's packed trains ready to roll again despite rising coronavirus cases
I meant that a lot of the top talent in Canada is already working in the US. There's a skill gap between top talent in the US and top talent in Canada.
> Isn't the E.U. the only union and non-country to have a singular currency?

I guess there is also, at least, the good ol' african "Franc CFA"
I work for a company based in a major west coast city from a non-major city in the southeast.
My employer has different buckets it puts cities in and then limits your base pay based on those buckets.
Even with that limitation, my compensation is much higher than what I would make at a local company but not the rate I would get in a 'premium' market.

The most impactful benefit for me is I get to work on $big_city problems with $big_city talent. $Small_town problems and the $small_town talent are mind-numbing and deeply frustrating to work with
As a sysadmin, I support way more Windows servers than I'd like, mostly because they run some .NET CMS (Content Management System in this case): Umbraco, Kentico, SiteCore etc.

Most mind-blowing use case of a Windows server I've encountered was a server running nothing but nginx.
The problem is that I've seen the pay difference be far larger than that. I worked in the midwest and people getting paid $100k moved to the bay area for $300k+
Yeah, I am in the same boat - I have boatloads of unutilized bandwidth and storage space that I would love to contribute to a worthy cause like archive.org.

Ideally, I would like to be able to point at some RSS feed of torrents of relevant archive.org collections (whatever the curators believe popular enough to benefit from peer-to-peer distribution). I could then set a torrent client to donwload and seed everything on this feed.
I was in need of this recently, and found that an ImageMagick one-liner can do the job quite nicely: https://gist.github.com/andyrbell/25c8632e15d17c83a54602f6ac...
The innovator's dilemma

Systemantics

A farewell to entropy

The nature of technology - what it is and how it evolves

On being wrong
> If the bleach didn`t cure them, herd immunity will...

Herd immunity isn't about curing anything, what? Don't just insult people. Make a coherent argument.
I have a pretty good understanding of how the Fed and Treasury work together to implement both fiscal and monetary policy in the USA. Recent events have shown that the MMT claim that we can model them as a single entity has been observably proved beyond all doubt. However, my knowledge of the operational, rather than theoretical, realities of the Eurozone is threadbare at best. In my conceptual model the member states have theoretically given up monetary sovereignty, but in reality it appears that at least some are still able to browbeat the ECB into funding their deficits. I'd love it if someone who has a deep understanding of how monetary and fiscal policy are coordinated in the Eurozone could chime in, but I expect the answer is rather long since every member state has somewhat different circumstances.
You nailed it! I never bought the "family" argument. Fully agree with you. Work is work. We are not family.
I don't get it when I see people let go, writing extensive blog posts on how awesome the company "family" was yada yada. They let people go .. it means that they are only "family" for as long as it is beneficial for them. Real families don't work that way.

So for younger folks out there. Don't drink the cool-aid and don't buy into all these family/social bs. Always think about your interests first. And be ready to move on when your work is no longer beneficial for you.
https://github.com/openseadragon/openseadragon for anyone interested in how this was implemented
Not only that but pretty much everything on Windows Server is exposed to PowerShell and has been for some time.
The GP already replied, but I wanted to also make the point that it's possible they live somewhere where active heating and cooling are rarely used.
Sorry, I'm not entirely sure what you're asking?
Yeah it's huge. My industry is 95% .NET. Lot of [LARGECO] use Outlook, which means the entire Office stack is dragged into use, which makes LDAP the logical choice, and Windows management of it, and then the rest of the tooling because why not...
Our old office was across the street from a crematorium and we had a public wi-fi named "xxxxxx Family Funeral Home" with a landing page with a link to a (fake) crematorium web control panel, complete with a fake live view of the cremation (it was actually just looped gif) You could adjust the temperature, the speed of the exhaust fans, etc.

Anyway, we have Windows servers running in Azure because we do a lot of GPGPU work, and the NVIDIA/CUDA drivers work best in Windows.
> people you just happen to be around and interact with through the normal course of life

My experience in the military supports this argument. I have a few life long friends through this experience. Some of which I disliked initially.

Although, I do agree with the spirit of GP 's argument. You don't have to be in the office to be social and you get so much of your time back it's hard to justify the time cost if the value proposition is small talk.
F1s expire pretty quickly, you should now this.
I added some extra details and nuance if you're interested.

Very unfortunate to see you imply I'm presenting the facts about the UK because of my political leaning and why my contribution to the discussion must thereby be biased, and limited. I don't despise the government at all, I don't live in the UK and frankly prior to the Covid-19 crisis I'd probably have picked the UK (including its government) to come out of this crisis best. But the facts turned out different.
Your freedoms are not unlimited. Just as you have no right to unlimited freedom of speech by shouting fire in a crowded theater, you have no right to unlimited freedom of association by visiting your grandma in a nursing home during a pandemic and killing scores of people.

>Shutting down the global economy

This implies that the global economy would not have taken a hit had we not enforced more stringent quarantine policies. Do you really think that people were going to be flying, eating out at restaurants, or going to their local movie theater or mall while their local community is dropping like flies around them?

>hundreds of millions of people experiencing food insecurity

Citation needed. And, by the way, this is not an argument against quarantine policies, this is an argument for better social services from the government.

>It will result in an enormous cost in terms of deaths, morbidity, and impaired mental well-being, for people in the UK and around the world.

Citation needed. Are you going to just continue to throw around unsubstantiated claims?
UK rail worker dies of Covid-19 after being spat at while on duty
If that's the case, look for a new job. The current one is FUBAR.
100%. Not only does strengthening social bonds with your coworkers make work more enjoyable it also makes the work product better. People that have the mentality like they're just a robot cranking out work units do worse work and they make their teammates worse. In many teams a moderately skilled engineer with very high social IQ is worth a lot more than another technically talented engineer with poor social IQ.
Bait: cryptocurrencies should be allowed just like wildcatting, a "legitimate business".

Switch: securities regulation is unjust.
Thank you Twitter. I will send my resume for your consideration.

Love it how the next 10 years will turn out.
Is the output of what you'd normally write to these boot drives significant enough to impact the network? I'm surprised you can't just stream it elsewhere to consolidate the cost.
Can you please not take HN threads further into flamewar and/or do the ideological battle thing here?

(Btw, I appreciate that your comments have improved away from this direction in general.)
All places I've worked that have multiple locations adjust salary both up and down when employees move to different markets. It's all about the prevailing rate for labor where you are located, and not some measurement of the "value you provide".
AutoHotKey scripts gets me some pretty insane lee-sin ward-hops so yeah its a pretty awesome tool.

You can mess with league of legends folks a lot with it actually. You can use it to spam 5 pings around someone instantly. You can spam emotes with it. You can write messages quickly in chat.
Magic Keyboard and the iPad Pro: Looking for Battery Life Answers
"Debt" and "bullshit jobs", both by David Graeber.

The first book really tears apart several of the "foundations" of economics. For instance, the creation of money as portrayed by Adam Smith? It's a myth, and no single place like he described ever existed.

Bullshit jobs is about the myriad bullshit managerial jobs we have and how we really shouldn't have them. It's capitalism, it's supposed to be efficient and yet, when he published a piece about bullshit jobs in an obscure anarchist magazine in 2013, it made so much impact The Economist wrote a response!
I wanted to add: If you live in SF and make $150k/yr and are able to put away 10% on investments that's $15k/yr. If you work somewhere else and take a move and make $75k/yr and are able to invest 20%, you haven't made a financial change. But a pay cut that big likely means you're somewhere that has less going on, less access to food, less for different types of activities, lower quality schools (that are funded less because property tax is lower), lower quality hospitals (big cities can afford all the fancy equipment and big time doctors), etc.

So to be honest, moving to a cheaper area with the exact same COL might not be better because of other factors involved.
Creating a computer science canon: a course of “classic” readings in computer s [pdf]
Ventilator Bursts into Flames and Kills Five Covid-19 Patients in Russia
> if we can get a greater percentage of return on GDP than the yield on the treasury note. In this case, the government is getting free money.

Can you explain this?

GDP is the total aggregate of all receipts in the economy. The government typically only gets a percentage of this in revenues.
Geographic locationa affects far more than just latency. Even though you may have a 100 Mbps link on both client and server , only 10 Mbps might make it across the Atlantic Ocean. Connections between countries/ISPs are not unlimited in capacity!
A recipe is just a directed acyclic graph
Immigration reform was not a quagmire the Obama administration was going to delve into

So, you acknowledge that it's a "quagmire", not a benefit.

The Democrats had the legislation all done and ready to go in the previous Congress, when it was just a tool to bludgeon Bush with rather than accomplish anything (otherwise, they could have brought the exact same bill back in the 111th). But that bill failed because 14 Democrats opposed it at cloture; it never even made it to Bush's desk:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/senate-bill/134...

They could have just brought back the exact same legislation. It could have traversed the process and been passed within weeks... had they ever actually wanted it to become law.

Their leadership isn't stupid. They know that a broad-based amnesty would be a long term economic disaster, and they acknowledged that even before the post-2010 recovery demonstrated that even upbeat economic periods won't provide real employment for the unskilled anymore (the "gig economy").
They were exposed to C02 levels 10x higher than what you'd be exposed to even in a poorly ventilated conference room. It's likely that this mitigates any biological differences.

Nothing is certain, but that study combined with the fact that submariners have been operating for months at at time with C02 levels up to 5,000ppm and no one has ever noticed a problem says that studies showing a severe impact at 1,500ppm are probably wrong.
Agreed. Also, contrast the judicial system.
And, interestingly enough, Codota just acquired TabNine a few months ago :)
To OP:

the server is down.
Does Kite's VSCode extension work with Github Codespaces?

You can now install vscode-server on a remote machine and connect to it over ssh from your local vscode or even from vscode in the browser (using Visual Studio CodeSpaces or the upcoming Github Codespaces)

Will Kite work with this??

Github CodeSpaces annoucement a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092904
What are all these websites that prevent pasting? I noticed a few people are using tools to get around these.
Or an IPFS transfer/mirror mechanism built into archive.org.
socketing stuff will help abstract it, but Unix sockets are simply better out of the box

Can you elaborate? Do you mean performance? Because the on the C level both use (apart from some minor differences, which aren't enough to call one 'simply better' than the other) the same berkeley socket API.
I should have figured the machines with a Linux option would be the higher end ones for developers, makes sense from a lot of perspectives. Just didn't really look.
> am I missing something?

Telegram sold boatloads of these to American institutional investors.
It's not a good random sample, but they were exposed to C02 levels 10x higher than what you'd be exposed to even in a poorly ventilated conference room.
I'd be curious to see if you have any evidence at all to suggest that the average engineer outside of SF is more competent than the average engineer in SF.

The simpler explanation is simply that Bay Area companies have more money to spend. There is a lot of evidence to suggest this, including the fact that Bay Area headquartered companies pay more in their remote offices compared to other companies.
> You don't watch someone's dreams from brain imaging.

First, while that's true now, there is no guarantee that it will always be true as technology advances.

Second, neural activity is the physical basis for conscious experience, which, to a physicalist like me, means it is conscious experience, when the neural activity has the right properties (according to IIT, those properties are what "integrated information" is trying to capture). So I don't accept the distinction you are making between "the conscious experience itself" and neural activity.
I think you have things the wrong way around. If you are able to pass the interview bar for a selective company that pays market rate in a tier-1 tech city, then yes, you get to move. But, if you don't, you won't get the job whether you move there or not.
I thought github had hooks for this kind of thing now? I remember it caught a private key I tried to push to a similar django repo (not for a prod site or anything), and that was about 2 years ago
There is also a difference between a company/management and your peers. There's no such thing as a corporate entity being your friend. Having a boss as your friend... maybe isn't impossible, but is definitely complicated. But it's entirely possible to develop real friendships with peers, even as a group. The differentiator is whether that narrative is pushed from above, or whether it's something that naturally develops from the ground up.
I'm not sure I understand why this is the case, is there some advantage Azure has for hosting Linux that the many other providers don't have?
If by unique you mean in the vast minority, yes, if the only one, then no. Bay Area isn’t really walkable as it’s really vast. Mostly just San Francisco.
Freedom for the SQL-Lambda: JIT-Compiling User-Injected Functions in PostgreSQL [pdf]
ABTraceTogether
> is it ethical to pay a person less based purely on where they live?

It's not just rent/mortgage price differences, there are also different laws regarding taxation, healthcare and retirement.

On the other hand you can't offer someone in the Bay Area a Eastern Europe level salary. Nobody would come, but you can offer a slightly higher than average salary in E.E. and they would definitely come. It's just that a global company needs to hire in both regions to be competitive.
I wonder if that's why people seem to have gotten less intelligent over the past few years (IQ scores seem to confirm this). I thought it was because of social media but maybe high CO2 is to blame.

I would never have thought that the movie Idiocracy would become reality; it seemed so ridiculously far-fetched at the time... Even with its 500 year timeframe... Now it looks like it may actually happen for real in only a few hundred years.

I wonder if I watched that movie again today if it would come across more as a drama than a comedy.
I'm nitpicking but my point is that a DAG doesn't let you run anything. It might represent something, though, such as a bunch of tasks and a "must be executed before" relation. It's sloppy, imprecise use of language.
Sure it can.

Journalists have a very bizarre understanding of how FOIA requests work. It's not like some government worker can just pull files from a computer server while they're at home. It frequently involves digging into boxes (actual, physical boxes) of documents in the office, interacting with other employees in other departments covered by the request, and a fair amount of review in closed quarters on government facilities since many of the documents can't be removed from the office until they're reviewed.

And the time spent responding to an FOIA request is time not spent doing their normal job (except for the rare agencies which have the budget to have a dedicated FOIA responder).
> Companies lobbied for freedoms and the public agreed with it...They're working within the freedoms that we allowed them.

This is the part of the argument I'm contesting. I'm not convinced that the public went along with it because companies put forth a well reasoned argument. It's not that we agreed to it, more so that they rigged the system in their favor, despite the opinions of the people.

I think if you poll most Americans, they wouldn't agree that Wal Mart can pay minimum wage and also have employees on food stamps. Or that CEOs should get paid x50 the average worker salary. Or that Amazon should be able to fire employees for trying to unionize. Or that coal mines can dump toxic waste in rivers.

There's actually a huge list of things companies do that are against what many Americans believe, and yet they still get their way. That's my point. The power balance is truly in the favor of the corporate elite. I'm really not sure how much we're letting them do anything, and how much they're just rigging the system the way they want it.
Slightly different, but there is now an VSCode extension to use draw.io directly in the editor.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hediet.v...

If you don't know draw.io, it's an free diagram software that not only has an XML format to save them, but can also be used to save it as a PNG that EMBEDS said XML, so you can edit it again, but display it like a regular image.
Usually when we talk about ownership we talk about who makes decision and who gets the profits. The profits from the Fed go to the treasury, and the head of the federal reserve,who is appointed by the president.

So for all intents and purposes the government owns the Fed.
I downvoted because it's the sort of flippant comment that comes up in every self-driving car discussion, and
there's lots more compelling reasons that google might want to spin off waymo that a fear of bad PR when a car kills somebody. (mostly because that's how the Google X projects have always worked)

Of course a waymo car will kill somebody at some point. Everybody knows it's going to happen, and there's no way google/alphabet hasn't essentially priced in that risk. If they were afraid of killing people, they wouldn't have gotten into cars in the first place.
> It's pretty hard to argue that there's EVER been market based capitalism

In the United States? No, Article 1 of the Constitution makes it clear that we don't do pure capitalism here.
Given how COVID-19 situation is playing out in the world, I would say the cognitive impairment has already started.
You visited HN 1,240 times in the last month.

We recommend that you just park it in a corner of your screen and turn on an auto-reload tool.
3x bull equity portfolios are not a good comparison, because their volatility is much much much higher. They are strictly worse portfolios, which take on great risk.

My point about bonds is that they take __less__ risk and still make more money.
The concern is in the appropriation of the term 'hacker'.

He's not putting anything or anyone down, he's saying that this is hacking, and MBA posts of acronym soup aren't.

I think his implied conclusion is probably wrong-ish (both are arguably right for HN, even if I vastly prefer this), but he's right in that this is hacking.
Humans generate art by selection. There's no reason you couldn't have an art ecosystem where AIs do all the generation, humans do the selection, and that's how it bootstraps. AI Dungeon 2 and 15.ai are already taking steps to close the loop by using human interactions to score outputs and train on them ("preference learning").