skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nintendo is the one that bothers me the most. Their website defaults to your local language and if you switch they throw up a huge overlay warning that your language doesn't match your location and wouldn't you rather switch back?
Sorry, can't decide if it was a scamming attempt or it was a legit request?
I have read Sussane's book and it's really good.
Look at which two types of factories/plants you are equating, as if it's not apples to oranges. Tesla factory versus meat packing plant. And then look at what adjective you used at the start of your post. I could be forgiven for thinking your introductory sentence is meant to apply to the rest of your comment.
Taking Advantage of Auto-Vectorization in Rust
Hi, I'm the developer behind Taaalk. I built Taaalk because I feel there is a lot of hidden knowledge that current online social formats make it difficult to access. My hope is back and forth discussions change this.

If you feel like you know something/someone worth being interviewed about/discussing, please write to me (email on my profile page). I'll either discuss it with you myself, or match you up with someone suitable.
No. But if you host on CS in order to make advances towards women, that is creepy behavior and not what the site is intended for. If you want to get laid, use Tinder etc. instead.
I'm all for international students but when you say they are a net positive, are they competing with US students for admission slots? If they are, that would seem to put pressure on prices US students have to pay as well as make admission that much harder.
Oil prices hit one-month highs on output cuts, demand signs
I agree! I assumed not to trust anyone with all the greedy pods they can schedule.

The example you are describing is probably not super common but I will try to rephrase my blogpost so that it reflects this comment:)
in AI terms, hyper optimized = overfitting, which is a known problem due to lack of data. Hopefully they will perform better in the next pandemic.
I hear you. Maybe I'm just weary of people, having lived in a city my entire adult life and yet forming few lasting bonds, that I have to wonder about the reward/cost ratio of couch surfing.

What are the chances of hosting somebody you don't like? What are the chances of showing up to someone's couch and feeling yikes?

I imagine the odds are reduced if the people using the service are largely of a similar ilk. Similar ilk works well if the service is carefully grown over time via careful word of mouth. People tend to behave much better if you know each other through a mutual friend or acquaintance. If the service grows big enough, that invisible bond of a small community will be gone and I imagine that invisible bond is what the original poster was so fond of.

It's like that house party example - if enough people show up, that delicate balance of meeting new people by being introduced through a mutual friend and having the time to make a connection with a stranger is broken and you end up 'networking' instead of connecting, as is the case with most tech meet-ups I've attended :)
Those "principles of liberty" are aimed at protecting the American citizen from her government, not from corporations.

If it was the government doing "authoritarian" things, then that is potentially actionable under US laws. Otherwise, Big Tech is not breaking any laws or violating anyone's rights. Google/Facebook are just websites doing what website owners do. They decide what pages to publish.

Unfortunately most HN commenters do not understand that distinction. No doubt many HN readers do, but most readers are not also commenters.

Perhaps Google/Facebook should be run by the US government. At least then users would have some rights they could enforce. Government could not get away with doing what Google/Facebook do.

If the politicians are bought out and regulators are staffed by ex-employees then there is one other way to modify corporate behaviour. Trial lawyers. Death by a thousand cuts. All we need is one good law that gives internet users some rights to sue Google/Facebook for the creepy way they do "business" and I think we would start to see change. Imagine the things that could be uncovered in discovery. It would all be laid bare.

Big Tech is doing what a government only wishes it could do. Consitutional law protects citizens from government, not corporations. In the US, coporations have nearly as many rights as people if not more. The constutional law protects them from governement, too.
I don't mean to be rude, but it's getting a bit tiresome to read all the armchair psychologist opinions that read like they're commenting on some celebrities in a trash TV show. Whatever controversial thing Elon Musk does, it will always trigger a bunch of such gossipy posts in social media and unfortunately also on HN. They don't add anything to the public debate, because someone's gut feelings about someone else's character just aren't interesting and I've yet to see a qualified and reputable psychologist form his professional opinion based on a subject's Tweet. If you are truly concerned about him, you'll find more reasonable causes in his choice of partners. People take Twitter way too seriously...
Jay's Visual Intro to AI (video focusing on business applications)
I partially felt the same, but you also go into negotiations with a lot more knowledge about life cost. Kids cost money. Daycare costs money. A car costs money. And you suddenly realize that your paycheck needs to cover a lot more than what it had to before. I felt much more comfortable asking for a higher salary, just because I knew I had a family to feed and not just me.
There might be a deeper reason these articles are being ignored.
There is a world outside USA also ;)

And you don't need money to travel.
> has a death rate of about 1%

We don't know what the actual death rate is, we need more antibody studies to figure that out.

> "how old will they die anyways?"

I didn't say that, you did.

> These are actual people, with families, friends and close people.

Yes, and hundreds of millions of people with families, friends and loved ones are suffering in many ways because of the lockdown. I don't know how many depressions, foreclosures, broken marriages and boarded up small businesses one saved life is worth, but there's a tradeoff being made.

FWIW, I am staying home. I get my groceries delivered and leave the house about once or twice a week. I try to distance myself from people on the sidewalk, etc.
> Middle-class in developed countries, and largely specific to the United States

From what I've seen, it's a phenomena in most of the Western World, and not just in the States. But you are right, of course, and as I mentioned there are more people who are living under decent conditions now than 500 years ago and that applies world-wide. I have no doubt that we'll keep going in that direction for some time yet.

However, as save_ferris pointed out above, the groups that don't stand to gain from this won't care. They will be forced into a lifestyle that might not be terrible and which will be far better than their ancestors had 200 years ago, but which they cannot opt out from and which will still be far worse than their parents had.

But, considering the pandemic and the amount of war-mongering going on at the moment, I guess we should all consider ourselves lucky if we don't have to pay our food with bottle caps in 20 years...
I've been browsing the likes of people on Twitter. It works like this: find one person you think is interesting or does interesting work, and go to the 'likes' section of their profile. Scroll through their likes until you find something else that's interesting. Click through to that person's profile, and repeat. You can find some really cool stuff doing this, especially if you happen upon someone with similar taste. It's a great way to surface content without waiting for the algorithm to serve it up to you.
I think I want to explore something related to morality - what is the end game of humans? If the end game is to fallback on tribal instincts and identity, then we are easily equiped to assure mutual destruction. If the end game is to keep inventing bigger, better, faster, cheaper things and climb on the technology ladder enabled by the machinery of competition, then there has to be fairness built into the rulebook. One can't come in an tear pages off that benefit their own and lead demise of the other - all players notice the one who is not playing by the rulebook, not just the immediate opponent in the arena. One need not go too far to find it in the fabric of the human spirit (and even some monkeys), from market economy to PubG servers, people expect fairness and equal opportunity.
> Works fairly reliably in supermarkets

No it doesn’t.

Not just because they can be badly calibrated, but also because the range of weight they have to deal with must make it hard to manage any sane range.

The only SCO I’ve seen doing a decent job at dealing with weight use a binary check (“was there any product at all added to the to total weight of the basket ?”) and they still miss products like lollipops or anything too light to pass the range.

Sure much more reliable system could be built, especially at Amazon’s engineering scale. But so far supermarkets are mediocre at best at this game.
> Same goes for Isaac Newton. He’s practically been elevated to godhood for his contributions to calculus and physics.

The way British write confuses many people. "Newton is the greatest of the greatest", "Shakespeare is the mos prolific writer that ever lived", ""... British writers love hyperbole. The fact that the writing style aligns with national pride helps to create a positive feedback of "grandiose writing".

That does not mean that there is ill intent. The target consumers of the writing are the British readers themselves, and almost all societies have a good self esteem. The fact that globally we communicate in English has tip the balance towards sharing American and British views of the world over the rest and created an over hype of some charismatic national myths.
Hi HN,

This is the first video in a series where I gently explain AI/ML with an emphasis on applications rather than the math/stats/algorithms. It's meant for the general public, but I hope it helps the practitioners understand more about where the business applications are so they can optimize their careers or startups and specialize in domains that could benefit their careers.

It's also the first video on my channel. I hope to later create videos touching on other topics in my blog (https://jalammar.github.io/), like the Illustrated Transformers, BERT, Word2vec, and others.

I hope you enjoy it. All feedback is welcome!
You mean the tuition that has increased in order to keep pace with administrator salaries?
I had trouble accomplishing simple things like setting the maximum message size. You have to:
1. Either increase the default max message size on the broker, or set it on the specific topic(s) involved.
2. Set the max message size at every producer.
3. Set the max batch size at every consumer, which has some interaction with a message count (if I'm remembering correctly).

Because we increased the allowed message size, I wanted to make sure that disk space was freed after a given interval. This was super opaque to get working. I don't remember the specific config keys, but there was about 4 parameters involved, and 3 had no effect if the 4th wasn't set properly. They all used sligtly different naming conventions, so didn't appear in context in the documentation.

Still, I agree that defaults are usually the way to go with Apache stuff. If you find yourself turning a lot of knobs to stabilize something, there's probably a design issue.
the vast majority of the non instructional staff are not what many of us would consider to be "administrators".

Stanford has a bureaucracy so big that it has its own campus, in Redwood City. 35 acres, 2700 staff, a gym, a pool, a bus line, an auditorium, and an art collection. That's only Phase I. It's growing.

This campus has no students. No professors. No labs. It's all support staff.

Stanford has only 2,276 faculty.

[1] https://redwoodcity.stanford.edu/about/departments
I think Goldman’s total assets is around the same as those companies combined. Tech has nothing on Finance. The new masters are the old masters.

Combine Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, UBS, etc and see the number you come up with. Tech is child’s play in comparison.
Three things:
- YES, you are 100% right
- Keepass has a Ctrl+V mode, which pretends to type into username / password fields char by char. maybe this feature can give you peace of mind
- Still, you are right, the website shouldn't make assumptions on how you handle passwords
This will work for one semester. The next semester everyone will know about it, and keep their outsources on staff till after grades are given.
The Problem Isn't the 'Merit,' It's the 'Ocracy' (2019)
Honestly that's the worst way to look at it. In the grand scheme of things kids are way more important than any career. Obviously kids drag your career down but ask yourself: what are you going to leave behind after you die? Will you be yet another inheritance the government gets after you die? Yet another dead SSN? Or will you leave behind something far more valuable than a mere product like 2+ living beings continuing your bloodline and thus making the world better,safer and one step closer to the future? You are a mere spec a mere nothing compared to earth... 1 out of 8 billion... You can't live forever, you can't bribe death, you can't even delay the inevitable by a lot - the best you could do is on average 10 years in pain and misery... When you are old and sick who will be there to hand you a glass of water? Who will wipe your * when you can't... Who will defend you against bad people when you are too old? Your money devalues with each day, the clock is ticking, every second passes never to be seen again you are one second closer to death and you can't bring your money to the afterlife... Kids will outlast you... Money is worth as much as people say it does.
Two things that don't fit:

1) Even if electrons have consciousness, why should it be linked to our consciousness?

2) Why is decision making the essence of consciousness?

The Schroedinger equation is just a model, not reality. There doesn't even have to be an undecided state in reality. But even if the universe is conscious and decides in every moment, that doesn't explain our consciousness. If everything is conscious, in an ever increasing density why don't we have several consciousnesses in our head? Why is our stomach not conscious?

And even if we are not free to make decisions, we could still be conscious in the same way that we watch sporting events without intervening. Actually I would argue that we never decide. We always 'choose' the most preferred option that deterministically depends on our state of mind. And yet, we are conscious.
No, it was Cambridge Analytica using the old FB social graph API ("Open Graph") to build a network of people that they could make predictions on.

The app "This is your digital life" let people do a psychological profile linked to their FB profile. The Open Graph API then gave Cambridge Analytica to (some of) their friend's data as well,

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/facebook-cambridge-analytica...

https://medium.com/tow-center/the-graph-api-key-points-in-th...

https://about.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access/
You can choose whether to work or not. There are other options. The state isn't sending you into a line of fire or anywhere for that matter. And the state didn't make your job 3x more dangerous; the virus might have done that, possibly, depending on the job. Lots of things make life more dangerous. Some of those things are not controllable even by governments or employers. I guess I'm feeding a troll here though, sigh.
I couldn't agree more. When I began to use the internet to read, learn and communicate with people, I eventually found the anglophone community to be bigger and wiser. Also, any content would have its counterpart written in English, which was more detailed and better at explaining the concept. So, now a big chunk of the concepts I know I've learned by reading works written in English. One of the consequences is that every time I need to search for something, I'm not going to write the query in my native language. In this regard, Google wants to be helpful in advance and will rank up results written in my native language, which isn't helpful at all since I'll take longer to understand something written in the former, specially if it's something complex. I switched to DuckDuckGo.

Also, now many documentation websites will try to serve their content based on your location. I'm always clicking around.
Mostly experimental drugs and their histories. Given the pandemic, I'm reading a bit about drugs like Remsdevir. Bloomberg put out this great longform article [1] on how Gilead had the foresight to actually ramp up Remsdevir production when the inital reports broke out of Wuhan.

Also, historically how drugs went through clinical trials, experimentation, production etc. The anti-HIV drug AZT is well documented, and there's a great article here [2] by TIME if you're interested.

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-gilead-remdesivir-co...

[2] - https://time.com/4705809/first-aids-drug-azt/
Watch out for triangle joins in SQL
This started as Bill Gates' personal hobby business.
I did a writeup about this 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14175238 ... I thought "ok, that's it! Things will change now! done and done!" well ok, alright, I only fantasized it...
Pretty much, yes. But the situation is even more messed up here in Europe and I am especially happy that I'm not a native German speaker.

It would cause a bunch of other problems, of course, but it would be nice if we could just have a bunch of languages with an EU flag next to them. At least from an UI perspective. :D
Yes, if you look up ownership statistics for slaves they indeed followed a power law, to the point where the majority of southern whites did not own a slave but felt having the option of owning one was worth starting a civil war over.

It also used to apply for numbers of wives before Christianity killed that particular power law.

Applying descriptive social statistics as prescriptive policy is idiocy.
What keeps you from using Firefox, if you don't mind my asking?
> though he is polite about it, he paints a damning portrait of how the "winners" of the meritocratic gauntlet end up using in their victory: they work in one of six industries (consulting, law, finance, tech, medicine, or academia) in one of five places (Boston, New York City, Washington DC, the Bay Area, or Los Angeles). The remarkable thing about these numbers (and Yang provides lots of them) is that four of the six industries (consulting, law, finance, and academia) are easily described as parasitic or predatory, secondary adornments to the actual business of human activity on the Earth. We have not only engineered a system that trades wealth and honor for an incredibly narrow range of human attributes; once the trade is made, we ship the winners off to careers that provide only marginal benefit to country writ large. ("But it'd be worse if they're doing bad stuff efficiently!," Liam whispers).
> Big Tech is not breaking any laws or violating anyone's rights.

Perhaps in a legal sense, but most people criticizing Big Tech policies aren't debating what is or isn't legal under current laws, but rather what should or should not be legal. Current laws give monopolies and corporations an enormous amount of freedom and leniency, and perhaps a certain degree of power and societal importance should entail greater restraints.
Show HN: Performance Comparisons of Common Operations on iPhone
Your statement is contradicted by this page here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

Which says there been three coronavirus related teen+preteen deaths with no underlying conditions (all of which were teens IIRC) in NYC and another 6 with underlying conditions.

Do you have a more reliable source?

Also, 1 in 1000 is close to the estimated infection fatality rate for the general population (estimated between 0.1% and 0.5% normally) and kids are supposed to be a couple of orders of magnitude less at risk than the population average. So your numbers all seem utter nonesense to me.

I've never even heard of a preteen death of covid.
The problem is most users doesn't even know that you can set language preferences at the browser level.
So, in a sense, everything is connected to everything else? What do you call that, hmm? ;)

This is an existential and observational query, not about industrial optimizations (ie. what works). What works is killing us!
Once you take this path, you can make up anything that you like. There's no way to test it. Except, I suppose, based on how you feel about it, how well societies work whose members believe it, and so on.
What is this internal resistance theory in China?
Are you prepared on the basis of a student not successfully making the change to fail that student and/or expel them from their university? Sure you can invite them in for an interview, but what happens if the student just denies any accusations.

I am also skeptical you could find appropriate trivial changes to request. Students, and particularly beginner students, may write very unconventional code that may not be as easily modified as a well-thought-out solution.
Absolutely agreed. The language of the browser is the only thing that should matter. I constantly have issues with this as I want to browse everything in English, my operating system is in English, my browser is in English, but because I have my region set to Polish in the operating system(to get things like comma as a decimal point for numbers and sensible date format) but of course websites assume that I want to see websites in Polish thanks to this region. Just like....stop doing that.
Meanwhile, door dash never asked for the restaurant to participate in the "promotion," so screw them... They are offering to deliver boxes of dough at deathly inflated prices, with no other agreements with the restaurant. How is taking advantage of that "service" fraud?
And it doesn't really seem exactly dispensable if you are using it for housing
This is so true and so irritating.

The problem with "appropriate translations" is that a fair number of them is horrible and broken. Sometimes they're plain wrong. It's not about small companies; but giants like Microsoft also gets this wrong -- for example, Polish localization of Visual Studio development tools is often not understandable for a native speaker of Poland, also sometimes it's plain wrong because it lists options that aren't there now, maybe there were used at some point in the past. This is the reason why I consciously select English as my main Internet language, and the language of my OS, because I don't really want to be annoyed with poor quality translations.

I just wish Internet pages would just use my browser's setting and stop trying to be intelligent, because it only produces problems and nothing more.
This also applies to currencies. I'd rather have a popup modal that tells me I can choose another currency later. By default leave it set to USD.
That's a big if and a big when.

Unlike Apple, Microsoft is dead serious on maintaining compatibility with minimal hassle.
What do you mean? I don't think we're talking about language preference, simply about...language of the browser itself.
Google is the absolute worst with this. I have to remember to put ?hl=en to the end of every URL for every product they own.
Those services are not whats making a smartphone "smart".