skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"...Windows 1.0 was received poorly by critics. Critics felt Windows 1.0 did not meet their expectations. In particular, they felt that Windows 1.0 put too much emphasis on mouse input at a time when mouse use was not yet widespread; not providing enough resources for new users; and for performance issues, especially on systems with lower computer hardware specifications."
Reminds me of another paper [1] on bullshitters
about which we discussed in details here.[2]

[1]: http://ftp.iza.org/dp12282.pdf

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19749130
Sounds like Home Assistant may fit your usecase well if you are willing to do some small initial configuration. https://www.home-assistant.io/
In Russia, virus lab had major incident at Sep 16 2019. Paint job caused blast and fire, so responders come in to fight fire and STOLE SOME EQUIPMENT FROM LEVEL 4 VIRUS LAB, which was caught on video here: https://youtu.be/_w7SAeNcXA8?t=63 (look at man in uniform in background).
Mixed feelings here... I love the IA but I feel people should not use them as a streaming service. Their mission is preservation, and access is obviously part of that, but I would feel bad hammering them every day for general TV watching purposes.
A one-line change to the Chrome sandbox
I know this is kind of heresy but there isn’t good fried chicken in the Bay Area and I’ve traveled the country in search of fried chicken. I can’t tell you how many times people have said “omigod you have to try so and sos” only to be disappointed over and over.

The best I’ve found in the US is Howlin Rays in LA (obviously) followed by Ms T in Chicago followed by the Gus’s chain.

In the Bay Area, KFC is still the most reliable.
> Who is this really for? I don’t see many people buying this as their only personal transportation if it only travels 100 miles on a charge and can’t take a passenger. It’s price too high and isn’t fun enough to be considered a recreational purchase.

I had a sparrow which was almost identical to this -- $13K, in Y2000 dollars, plus a bicycle and it was great. I could park it anywhere, get around town, commute to work, and pick up a few groceries on the way home.

True, my wife had a Mercedes wagon (T-Klasse) so we also had the ability to transport large objects when needed.
Write in the active voice, avoid complexity in words and sentence structure. Don't try to use complex grammar or fancy words – it's fluff. A book I highly recommend is "On Writing Well".

Most important advice is to write and write often. Give it time and you'll not only get better at writing but you'll realize that writing forces you to have clarity in thought. You'll quickly become aware that "I thought I knew X but I don't know details A, B, or C and need to go dive deeper into these."
German overall response to covid was good. From closing and restricting shops soon, to ridiculous amount of testing they were doing. There was also considerably less fit about original closing, making it politically easier to close things soon, pay for testing and then slowly reopen.

German automakers were not Covid truthers claiming it is all hoax and what not. They did negotiated and so, but fundamentally cooperated.
> Or tax anything that 10x’s productivity in any field, but at a level where it still is very motivating for an investor to make that 10x investment by letting them keep 8x of the output?

That'd only work on monopolies where the company would actually have a 1000% margin. For most things, you'll invest in some great new automation, but so will your competition. Now you've both increased productivity and if you try to cash in your 10x profits, your competitor will simply take 5x profits, massively undercut your prices and you'll be gone very soon. Productivity gains will typically lead to lower prices, that's why meat, milk etc is dirt cheap these days, if we still had food prices like in the 50ies but with today's productivity, any secret illuminati meetings of the 1% would see a lot more people arriving on tractors ;)
> Those haven't dropped 50% in the last 3 years.

Huh? The Bitcoin price on 2017-05-12 was $1686. It did hit $19345 on 2017-12-16, however.
Ask HN: Will Remote Start to Affect Tech Salaries?
As we all know many companies who never managed employees remotely are now forced to do it for months and months due to coronavirus.
Speculation has it that many companies will find out first hand productivity isn't being hurt when managing teams remotely, and they may actually reduce office space in expensive cities and become more remote friendly.
If these assumptions are correct, do you think a cascading affect can happen where Silicon Valley firms start hiring remotely outside Silicon Valley (first from cheaper U.S countries) ? But it's not necessarily going to stop there. Once you are experienced in managing someone remotely from California to Ohio, why not offshore it to Mexico or Canada?
The question of tech offshoring has been discussed a lot, but my question is whether the current situation is actually going to give it a very big push.
The U.S is just an example obviously, I can see this happening in the EU or anywhere else for that matter.
Sometimes I wonder if people keep track of internet history. For example, we have the writing how Rome and Republic of Rome was only because of Cicero otherwise we wouldn't be able to comprehend. I think the modern day Herodotus is this website right here (assuming it will survive centuries hopefully)
Depends what you want to do.

8 bit microcontrollers have the advantage that most of them are 5V devices vs 3.3V on the 32 bit ones and can also sink and source more current on their pins allowing you more flexibility to hook them up directly to USB Power or LEDs or motor drivers without conversion and from my experience are less sensitive to being bricked or inconsistent behavior from non ideal voltages applied to their pins.
+1. Since I took the OCW course, whenever I multiply a matrix and a vector or two matrices by hand, I hear his voice saying, "combinations of columns." Strang must have said those words hundreds of times in it. His lectures stick like nothing else.
BitCoin is such a big disappointment. From a global way of making micropayments it became a global multi level marketing pump and dump scheme. The true believers always told how BitCoin will be the one true saviour when shit hits the fan -- well, we are during a pandemic not seen in 100 years and BitCoin is basically irrelevant.

There is no BitCoin economy, only people watching the BTCUSD sticker price because only the real economy matters.

I'm also willing to bet the network resilience is not as high as techno folks want to believe and if some governments want it shutdown it will be pretty close to shut down and the FX rate will go towards $0.

In many ways BitCoin is not an anti-globalist or anti-anything response. It is a product that exists due to globalization. And the high prices are a result of some economic stability and prosperity that allowed the population to play with shiny things. The coming depression will put an end to such trivialities.
somewhat of a dated article (2010) but the average lifespan of those admitted to nursing homes for EoLC is actually only about six months.[1]

however, some may stay longer, but then they have to worry about their condition worsening and eventually not allowing them to do ADLs (bathing, eating, dressing) on their own. the average length of stay before disablement is close to two years [2]

1: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1532-5415....

2: https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/74/6/917/...
+1, I was very grateful to MIT OCW because when I learned Linear algebra, I could not have afforded it. Later when I got a job, I donated to OCW and I bought his book full price from his own site [1] just as a tribute to the guy.

[1] https://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/
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If you live in the UK, you can get Abbott's test from Forth: https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/18441478.first-to-mar...
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I find it hard to believe that any contemporary operating system can robustly prevent a locally executing program from tricking the average desktop user into entering the administrator password equivalent to TFA's /tmp/sudo example, not on today's average computer.

Once programs are running on the machine with the ability to put things on-screen and read keyboard input, this is a very hard problem without hardware-level SAK-like mechanisms which AFAIK no consumer devices include today.

The updated mnt reform [0] has some potential for this kind of facility with a keyboard-embedded display connected to a standalone EC and a dedicated button on the keyboard for notifying the EC without the host's involvement. This should enable an actual SAK-like mechanism, where the EC takes over the keyboard for security-sensitive actions like password entry:

> The keyboard not only works as a USB HID device, but it also has a direct UART
> cable connection to the system controller on the motherboard. By pressing the
> circle key, you can interact directly with the system controller, bypassing
> the main SoC. To give you visual feedback for this interaction, we added a
> tiny 128 x 32 pixel OLED on top of the keyboard. From here, you can check
> charger and battery cell status/health without any operating system support on
> the main SoC (even while you’re still installing an OS). The keyboard OLED and
> direct interaction mechanism has more potential future uses, like a password
> manager/wallet or notification display.

It's a non-trivial problem even with hardware assistance, without any it seems impossible.

[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform
> They're treating us like they treat the drivers

I feel even more uncomfortable reading this sentence.

Maybe I'm overreacted but feels like many historical political events like "We help them deal with <an ethnic group>. But
we didn't expect they treating us the same way after that."
Of course it is up to you what you do with your money but, they have a $17.5B endowment so there may be more needy causes if you were so inclined.
It was a good course I watched it online but I didn't understand much.
That doesn't disprove bavell's point.

Grocery stores are orders of magniutde less safe and orders of magnitude more frequented than Tesla factories. Let's be VERY conservative and propose that the factory is a mere 10× less risk than a supermarket. Let's assume that grocery stores are used by 100× more people than Tesla factory employees. That means grocery stores represent a 1,000× higher risk than Tesla's factory. And that's conservative.

But it's actually worse than that. If working at the Telsa factory reduces the frequency in which these employees must visit a supermarket (reduced use of store-bought toilet paper, reduced consumption of store-bought food) then its opening could arguably lower the overall risk profile.
The math doesn't work, because you are forgetting those that died already that if they had lived, would have been a coronavirus victim. It's survivorship bias.

For example, let's say the mean age was exactly 75 y.o., and that the coronavirus killed 100% of people 75 y.o. or older and 0% less than 75. By your logic, it would have no effect at all.

Another example, again with a 75 y.o. life expectancy, suppose it killed 100% of people 80 y.o. or over and none under. By your logic, being infected by coronavirus would add 5 years to your life expectancy.
The genetic mutations are random, the survival of a lineage based on pressures and fitness can be "directional" by the human definition.
> What happens when they silence an unpopular voice that is nevertheless true?

We're well past that, even popular voices that say true things are silenced with regularity now, e.g. this interview with Chomsky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-N3In2rLI4

Here is a reupload of it, judge for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CftLGLKvb_U

Yes, I can't even prove it's a reupload, the first link could be anything.. but that lack of transparency isn't my fault, I know what I bookmarked anyway. I cannot prove it, but I also cannot unsee "tech" pulling stunts like this and people who claim moral integrity standing on the sidelines. That they are "poorer" as a result isn't the problem, that the people who aren't doing that are poorer as a result is what matters.
I remember Neo 1973 and FreeRunner..

"Even tho it's not ready for daily driving, I think it will be in a few months" sounds like something I've heard before. Not gonna hold my breath.
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I always drop in on any Prolog recommendations and mention O'Keefe's highly idiosyncratic but wonderful "The craft of Prolog": https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/craft-prolog .
Exploiting information asymmetry and lying, like any other form of adversarial information manipulation, requires skill. And applying intelligence can be an effective way to acquire an skill.

You can also acquire bullshit skills from knowledge transfer, and you can become effective at bullshit in that way.

You can train an entire sales force using a script in order to convince customers to buy stuff they do not need, like insurance, using bullshit pretenses. While that will make a lot of people good at bullshit, that does not mean those people will become more intelligent.
They don’t care about you. Most companies aren’t going to lose their brand identity for $100
BS. The Bullshitting skill is based on CHA, not INT.
Cool with some background, thanks. I came across some John Peel Sessions for Thin Lizzy a couple of years ago, awesome material, never really took the time to figure out who this "John Peel" was.
I'll take "News headlines I did not expect" for $50, Alex.
I completely agree with you which is why i’m replying that you should read those 2 models (S2F and S2FX). Its anonymous author says the same thing as you but goes a step further trying to meaningfully quantify it. They are honest about the fact that this is just a model but nevertheless a very interesting one. If you like math i encourage you to have a proper look at it.
> There's no such thing as "unethical." Everybody has values and reasons why they do stuff.

I have values and reasons that guide my own actions. There’s a much larger space of values and reasoning that I personally don’t adhere to, but consider valid for other people to choose for themselves. Anyone acting according to values or reasoning that falls outside this space is behaving unethically in my view. Whether or not something is ethical depends both on the internal motivation of the actor and the beliefs of the observer, but it’s still a useful concept as long as the relevant people in this formulation are properly udentified.

This variation makes it a shaky basis for law, which is a somewhat blunt instrument. It will inevitably allow some acts that some people view as unethical to go unpunished by the courts, and will probably disallow some acts that some people consider morally required: There’s too much variation in the personal beliefs of the populace for there to be a frontier that neatly encompasses all the guiding principles for their personal actions and also stays within the bounds of what people consider acceptable behavior from others.
OP here. A bit of context in case your not doing ML day to day.

So everyone talks about AI, but the dirty secret of our space is that you need a lot of labeled data to train your AI on. Labeling data is a manual process and active learning is a way to use AI to speed up that manual process.

The core idea is that you let your model choose what to label next based on how "valuable" the next piece of information is. "Valuable" can be defined in many different ways, the most common is to choose data points that the model is least certain about.

ALMa is a utility that makes the engineering aspects of implementing active learning a little easier. When implementing active learning you need to keep track of what data has been labeled (what you train the model on) and what has not been labeled (what you label). The common ecosystem is very array based so this becomes an exercise in tracking offsets that is tedious and error prone. ALMa abstracts that away.

----A bit about LightTag ---

We make tools to annotate text, entities, classification and relationships. We make it particularly easy to work with larger teams of annotators, through automated workforce management and analytics (IAA, adjudication etc).

We've traditionally been on the fence about active learning because you run the risk of biasing your data to whatever model it was that your using. It's been requested often enough that we'll make it an optional feature and ALMa is a component in that pipeline.
Picked up Strang's linear algebra book recently and I'm enjoying it. I've been consistently impressed with the content of MIT books.
> just cash

This is almost always the best and most efficient way you can help a cause. You donating infrastructure means donating them extra work - they'll need to integrate and keep track of it, as well as manage a relationship with you (in particular, a risk of problems with you or your service). Meanwhile, with extra cash, they can buy what they need and what integrates well, or pay the most effective specialists they need.

It's an universal principle. Cash is the best gift, if you're gifting to help. That's why e.g. Red Cross frowns at people donating stuff - it creates a huge logistical problem for them as well as depriving them of opportunity to boost the markets in the disaster-struck area. Or why it's better for you to donate money to your local homeless shelter rather than volunteer to work in it - if you work your job for extra hours instead, and donate that money, they'll hire workers better skilled for that task.
I'm not going to claim I was the first to suggest it, but I've been expecting something like this for a long time... at least since 2015

https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/581538570038460416?s=20
Swiss somehow manage to use trains in massive numbers even if grandmothers need car assistance occasionally. You don't need to poison the atmosphere every day with a car on your commute just because your grandmother might need a pick her up for her doctors checkup (having a medical facility come to pick someone up is not an uncommon service either).

Why do some of you think that finding a wierd edge case is enough to invalidate a whole infrastructure? This isn't derivation of a mathematical proof where counter-example invalidates the hypothesis.
Ignorant American here who has never heard of Lidl/Schwarz Group before. Is there anything in their history that would show that they know how to do compute? Is their infrastructure right now really solid/better than AWS?
I had the same idea for dogs:
https://need4breed.github.io
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I've come across a bunch of startups in SV with the premise of competing with AWS.

Pretty big mountain to climb.
A friend of a friend got released from the hospital, she had covid-19 and was searching for an oxygen concentrator for her (permanent?) lung damage.

She's 29 and otherwise healthy. I'm sure we would have noticed this disease without the high mortality rate among the elderly.
In Sweden Lidl is know for being suspiciously cheap, they're even playing on it in their ads here. They had a marketing stunt where a chef started a luxury pop-up restaurant and the payoff was that it was all Lidl ingredients.

"You can cook good food EVEN though you're using Lidl stuff"

I'm not 100% sure that's what I want of a cloud provider.
Huh; I would have pegged Walmart to try this first.
"The acquisition, which completed on May 1, brings 70 cloud specialists into the wider group”.

For comparison, Amazon has 40,000 employees in AWS.
Meh, just use sci-hub and lib gen, it is a way better user experience anyway.
>ex. Steve Jobs and his fruit diet

Oh Christ don't remind me, Jesus the smell wow....
the infrastructure was paid for by tax, the rich didn't altruistically pay for it, they paid tax, tax was used to fund it..very different kettle of fish to the rich paying for infrastructure directly.
I'm really confused why they think european data protection laws are likely to be a big barrier. I think Amazon is well poised to let you choose regions for things, and unless LIDL knows something we don't, will probably be able to adapt to almost any new regulations as well or as fast as Lidl could.

I also wonder why I would trust LIDL to execute on a vital part of infrastructure for us, when they can't manage an SAP migration project...

https://www.consultancy.uk/news/18243/lidl-cancels-sap-intro...
A company doesn't have a moral responsibility for its employees. You either work for crazy ass corp X or you don't. Morality is the government's job.
They already kind of have no?

They go from archiving the web (simple websites), itself a huge feat, to archiving a bunch of videos from justin.tv as long as they have 10 views?

There's more cases of websites shutting down, and AI feeling the need to archive everything.

Do we really need it?
Historically, the process has been to break the law you consider invalid, be charged with violating the law, and then make your defense in court. Courts generally rule on situations, not laws, and dislike being asked about hypothetical situations rather than actual events.
She had many supporter, but not many academics for she was under a lot of criticism, like friedrich n. a very controversial figure
“anecdotal evidence”

That an oxymoron
I have the same visceral reaction. Is it possible the "scam mode" label is incorrect in this case? I guess you could say they scammed the VCs to donate their money to various nonprofits...

https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-receives-1...

https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/08/gnome-foundation-receives...

https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190329

Modern day Robin Hood?
Maybe the docs new devs find, focus on fancy complicated libraries, instead of simple plain html or just a bit js

Writing such "more complicated" blog posts makes one look more talented?

I don't know
Who could forget their SAP failure two years ago. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252446965/Lidl-dumps-500...
Paying People for being on-call, is this right for the culture?
> All kits can be purchased online with the samples taken in the home or workplace, before being sent away for analysis.

Is this possible for other EU countries or is the lab analysis/transport limited to UK only?
The resources Schwarz group has are quite large. Also, EU has zeigeist that they need their own massive cloud providers.

So think it as a new flavour of Boeing vs Airbus, if you will. Hopefully with not so many state subsidies.
You don't want for a cloud provider a world class service that is cheap?
I saw this today as a result of xqc playing chess on twitch and I can absolutely say this happened to me when I got really into chess last year. I would sometimes play 6 hours a day of blitz. I've curbed down playtime and it's gone away, I assume it would have even if I hadn't stopped playing so much.
I don't want to sound dismissive, but I don't think their acquisition is going to be enough for them to compete with AWS.

https://www.camao.one/de-de/referenzen

Unless they have some other cards they haven't played yet, this sounds more like a headline intended for investors rather than customers.
I doubt the headline properly captures their intent, the article itself is very light on details, but this quote might shine some light at it:

"Lidl’s parent company Schwarz Group is taking on Amazon by launching its own cloud computing service for third party retailers."

My guess would be that they are not aiming to compete with AWS per se, rather to offer infrastructure and services for online stores, which could possibly include having their own data centers for the service part.
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