skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for pointing this out.

At the moment, if you’re choosing by the category, you’ll always receive 5-7 results so that you can select the most fitting one. Also, AI is generating “on the spot” and doesn’t have pre-made templates that would be presented every time (what makes the generated text unique) - so if the generated text doesn’t meet your requirements, you can generate again and again to get new, different results.

Obviously, AI-generated text cannot replace a human writer. Its purpose is more of providing a guide than generating a ready to use the content. It helps to understand how to put everything together, what topics to use. The user only needs to edit the result, so it fits their needs.

As well, our team is working on training the AI writer tool to get better and more accurate results.
Serves in tennis don't go directly down the line, they go cross court. Returning players will often be standing behind the baseline. Additionally balls start ~2.5-3m above the ground, bounce and then come up again. The total distance traveled is probably closer to ~27m.

The air resistance slowing the ball down is significant - combined with the energy the ball loses bouncing, the ball has lost more than half of its initial velocity by the time it gets to the returning player.

I found these speed guns stats on a tennis forum for the ball speed at different points:

Speed after being hit: 126mph

Speed before hitting court: 89mph

Speed after hitting court: 67mph

Speed at returner's baseline: 58mph

Even after doing the calculations correctly, there still isn't a lot of time for reactions, but it is more plausible than your initial analysis suggests. (Your units also seem off - should be seconds not milli-seconds).
I disagree. I think parent post has a similar view to Johann Hari, who also emphasizes solutions to mental health problems on the level of community.

I would say what it means that medical intervention should be used only as a last resort (or quick) measure.
I was without a phone from Autumn of 2015 until the Winter of 2017, when I got my first smartphone. I used to keep regular habits, going to certain cafes weekly on certain days, so that if anyone wanted to find me they knew where I'd be.

Do note that I didn't have a professional life at the time which made this much simpler.
And to add, Randomly out of my mind :

- Owning a flat and rent it to a thrid party. Many fees on it are deductible.

- Investing in medium/small-sized companies.

- Making property/housing more energy efficient.

- Invest in accommodations for disabled/elderly/etc.

- Fees for the studies of your kids.

- Support/Invest in art / creative related enterprise.

- And many other that need to be checked.

That is not exceptional. Many European countries have similar taxes credit schemes.
The name, profile pic, etc. is less relevant than the social graph itself. State actors already have phone number <-> name mappings at least about their own residents. If you are just curious about who's visa applications to deny because according to data collected by your IMSI-catcher many of their contacts have participated in an anti-government protest, then the name etc. isn't really relevant.
No one’s preventing properly designed and carefully run clinical trialS of COVID-19 treatments using HCQ. What doctors shouldn’t do is administer potentially life threatening drugs to sick patients based on rumor and speculation without any consideration. Such doctors are basically running badly designed, unsanctioned, unsafe experiments on people who’s ability to consent to the experimentation is compromised in any one of a number of ways, like being sedated and on a ventilator. Institutional review boards exist for a reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board
The example in the article is a typical function where I would expect inlining. Overly shy seems almost like an understatement.
Bob, PML's Second “Primary” Coordinate Measuring Machine (2016)
It was acquired quite early on by Google, but the original Google Earth/Maps project which had been developed by Keyhole had received money from In-Q-Tel, described on the wikipedia page as:

> It invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability.

I've said it before, it still puzzles me how come the Russians let the Google StreetView car do its thing on the streets of Moscow and other big Russian cities, the Chinese were smarter than that.
I think you're being a bit harsh toward the article here. I think it's well supported that just like physical health (e.g. being overweight), maybe even more so, it's near impossible to help someone with mental health issues that doesn't want to be helped. That's not to say that others can't affect you or that you don't have a responsibility to care about and protect the mental health of those you interact with. But it needs to start and end with each person themselves. Yes, there are network effects, but each person needs to acknowledge the problem themselves before they can become a part of the solution, both toward themselves and others - and this article helps people do that by highlighting the issue.
Your expectations are neither unreasonable, nor reasonable, without the context and environment of the business and market it operates in.

For some products, companies and their markets, the expectation from the users/customers could be so low that the mere existence of the product can be quite disruptive.

In fact, (most) startups exist to pursue an idea of disruption.

As the product, company, market and customers evolve, the expectations begin shifting.

This leads to an inevitable choice across a spectrum from leaving things as they are to rewriting entire stacks.

If the leadership can do a good job hiring the right people to both navigate the chaos and know how to get to a better place, things would then evolve, in whatever pace that can be allowed by the business, given calculated risks on engineering practices or lack thereof.

The key here is the "right people", rather than just "more people".

Based on the information shared, you sound like you are the right person to lead an engineering quality and reliability initiative.

Although, I do assume that you may not be the right person because you are failing to cope with the current chaos.

That being said, the mere fact that you're seeking counsel here tells me you are willing to manage this. I think that's a great start.

At this point, I belive there are two (and possibly more) things you can do:

- Talk to the key people in leadership to understand how they perceive the current situation and whether they are willing, if not even intent on, improving the status quo.

- Ask yourself for how long more you can navigate the chaos and whether that takes away from your mental and even physical well being.

Perhaps shifting your perspective and being intentional about it can help. This could even be the best thing that happened to you. Fast forward a few years, you'll perhaps have become an engineering leader who has had the opportunity to have experienced a huge paradigm shift and worked on solving its challenges.
These smaller countryside settlements are precious and wonderful to me. Our towns and especially cities are rapidly losing their individual character with the influence of globalised media, mass immigration and an increasingly commodified and vapid consumerist culture. Please don't will the destruction of the few small pockets of distinctively English heritage we have left.
Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients
Could this not be because of lack of said transport links on an East-West Axis?

I can't help but feel that if the trains had dedicated business carriages with reliable internet access, nobody would be all that fussed to get to London 20 to 30 minutes quicker

edit:

I don't mean First Class. I mean something like an all tables carriage or even just a fold down tables that can easily accommodate a 17" laptop (even if not many people have them, the space is what I'm after)
Actually the article right at the beginning asks the reader not to equivocate mental health with mental illness and heath, or rather wholistic well-being, is actually almost entirely the proactive responsibility of the individual. The basic starting point is fitness which applies to mental health conditioning just as it does to physical exercise.

To be fair to your point though the article does say we should shift our thinking on mental health to the same perceptions granted towards physical health. That should mean the mental health evaluation equivalent of a physical every four years. That is absolutely beneficial to everybody because even perfectly healthy people get regular physicals even when they are perfectly healthy.
Yours and my sense of humor obviously differ, but when I observe the fun people have every year when someone stumbles over the Scottish Trunk Road Gritter Tracker (1), I think that witless joke names serve as a quite good way to have folks relate to their public infrastructure. That said, let me have a quick look where Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney ended up parking for summer.

(1) http://scotgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?...
Are you including social contributions of employer and employee in your 20% tax rate?

Because these are definitively taxes that should be included.

If yes, I am really curious to know how this is possible
On the other hand, Aldi Nord now successfully runs SAP HANA/Retail. The at the same time attempted (and internally highly fought against) move from decentral to central organization is probably what killed Lidl's SAP project.
I've seen the company violate so many of it's own policies over the years and it's supposed to be one of the top 20 best places to work (Computer World list) . I just wouldn't trust or believe any any company at this point.
My bet would be focusing on things like a common interface for Object Storage (everyone is making their products S3 and DynamoDB protocol compatible already) plus a common interface for cloud API operations (creating / managing infrastructure). Those would go a long way. Then you can think about how compatible more niche services like the various message queues etc can be made.
Nonsense. Source?

Well defined 2D pattern stretched across as 3D surface would be easier to circumvent than a generic non-stretching mask.

Beyond that, thermal & inferred imaging of particular covered faces have easily been able to identify an individual.

Lastly, as I mentioned in my other comment, identifying a person is easily done via number of methods.

Please refrain from “presumably” comments, they help no one.
Leslie Valiant has done some interesting work on quantifying the efficiency of the brain from the viewpoint of computer science, see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9hRRh76QEA and the book Circuits of the Mind.
Yeah, CD/DVD media degrades over time, often on the time span of a decade they become unreadable. They are a bad choice for long term storage.
interesting that the ARM processor cmae out fastest in at least three of the benchmarks. I knew ARM was good, but to beat Xeons and EPYC is fantastic.
Zone files are available for lots of TLDs, once you've got the data you can analyse it:

https://czds.icann.org/
For those who read the comments to decide if they'd consider to read the article, this is a set of history texts with the topic:

"Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers."

There are some interesting details about the management practices, but also banking and monetary policies in the texts written by Mehrsa Baradaran, also featured on the page:

"The Limits of Banking Regulation"

"Fiat Currency and the Civil War"

"Cotton and the Global Market"

and by Tiya Miles:

"How Slavery Made Wall Street"

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The title is also shortened from already shortened "American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation." The title visible on the page is "In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation."
> I don't know of any infrastructure projects of reasonable size in Wales or the South West

One of Europe's largest construction sites is currently in Somerset - Hinkley Point C.
"western" as opposed to what? Isn't scientific medicine practiced in Japan? Or Australia? Russia?

It's a very odd use of the world "western"...
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My concern with smaller screens is that naive zooming out would make conversation too small to be readable.

Perhaps some aspects could be borrowed from mapping apps—one-handed zoom, gradually simplifying conversation as it’s zoomed out, and highlighting which participant is looking at which area of the conversation.

I sense an exciting new approach to communication…
Yes, one should avoid that. I mean there are a few problems with focussing on justice (you might disagree of course):

- justice cannot be achieved. Look at the courtrooms (which is actually there to serve justice), but is the verdict really justice? So persuing justice can make you cynical
- for the example of social justice, you could approach it by thinking it is just (or solves the justice problem) to take away the wealth of the rich. Does this improve the social condition of the unfortunate? Also this can make you radical and bitter.
- Also if you go for justice, you might start to see a lot of things as 'unfair' this is a negative feeling

Generally I believe a mindset of helping others/nature by planning to improving things is better (for the cause itself and for oneself) than trying to fight perceived injustices.
>You'd think people would learn.

Learn what? The link just goes into a long bit of semantics stemming from the author's personal dislike of how other people use "untranslatable" as a word. There's nothing to "learn" from it, because it's a nothingburger.

Meanwhile, most if not all language teaching that goes on today still does treat translation as bijection. Students are constantly asked to remember "the word for X in language Y". While that might be a good-enough approximation, it also majorly encourages the idea that that's how translation itself works - so people might be forgiven trying to set the record straight by pointing out that many words are "untranslatable" that way.
well, it depends on how that protection is implemented. sure, if the government is blocking certain deals then it better be sure that those are actually a bad deals. i agree with you on the downside of that

but the government doesn't need to know that something is a bad deal if instead it provides for ways to revert the deal once it's discovered to be bad.

for example in the EU any online purchase can be reverted within 14 days without requiring any explanation, because it is assumed that bad deals may not become aparent until after the purchase.
Please make a specific and substantive point. Worthwhile discussions do not follow from vague and shallow dismissals.
I could well be wrong but this was never one of the touted benefits of HS2 when it was being (mis?)sold to the British public, which makes me very suspicious.

Furthermore, I would guess that the post coronavirus emphasis on remote work would make it less important, only time will tell.
While on the subject of old games, does anyone have access to a working version of "Vogon Poetry"? This was a shoot-em-up game bundled with Sidekick Plus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1988/03/21/s...
Anything where information and/or buttons need to be presented to the user, really. Text-based interfaces tend to support a high density of either without loss of overview.

Part of this might be, as I allude to in my original comment, the lack of other visual structures that otherwise might distract from the content. Another part might be that humans are pretty darn good at interpreting text.
I started out with that view too. Now, after many years of using Clojure, I have come to love the JVM: so many of the libraries it comes with have become critical pieces of my daily workflow.
That's what the article does though. And there are experiments trying to simulate parts of brains but we realize that it's extremely hard to do that and we are very far away from simulating even a mouse brain.
The problem with European software plays is a monetary problem. EU capital is much more expensive than US capital (ultimately due to the latter's status as the 'world reserve' currency due to the enforced petro-dollar regime).

This is why Europe's IT sector is much more focused on B2B servuces/bespoke developments (low risk business models) and hardware/infrastructure (historic manufacturing/telecoms legacy).

in terms of software products/B2C/SaaS high risk/hit businessmodels the US can relax and cherrypick from the European R&D knowing they can buy out any local player due to cheaper money.

The EU has in the past always declared IT and the Knowledge Economy as 'strategic', but has never protected the sector from US appropriation.
Exploring the nature of anomalous psychedelic experiences
Python 3 Module of the Week – PyMOTW 3
I agree. I think its very widely known that our ANN’s are only very rough approximations of how the brain actually works, I think the people who say its a computer implementation of the brain are either laypeople who don’t know much about machine learning or the brain, are people marketing the hype for personal gain or people without neuroscience knowledge who have bought into the hype.

I also recently heard an argument for why our ANN models won’t spontaneously become sentient: human brains don’t learn from just observation, but also interaction. A young child doesn’t learn abouthow blocks are stacked by looking at images of stacked boxes, they learn through experimentation, by stacking boxes and seeinghow their actions affect the world around them. For an AI, that means we either need to also work on robotics so the AI can interact with its environment, not just sense it, or we need to simulate an interactive virtual environment. Some people are working on this and making great strides, but your average toy ANN won’t exhibit human intelligence in isolation, in my opinion.

Combine those two things and we’re still quite a ways away from human-like intelligence or implementing a human (or animal)-like brain.
Some of the backlash could be a bit justified, but the various 'green' groups campaigning against it are strangely silent about the Silvertown Tunnel or the £27bn road-building programme...
I remember reading one example of this in an interview with the Swedish translator of the Harry Potter books. At some point a grandmother (I believe Neville's) is mentioned. In Swedish, it is impossible (at least while sounding remotely natural) to say "grandmother" without specifying whether it's the maternal or paternal grandmother. The translator had to just guess, and ended up being wrong when more context was given in a later book.
Heat-trapping carbon dioxide in air hits new record high
Imagine if we put the blame on wild animals for their behavioural adaptations after we destroyed their natural environments.

Imagine if we simply observed obesity as "what happens to x% of the human population after y years of exposure to this environment".

Imagine if we observed the growing disconnect between intelligence and critical thinking ability as a function of changes in the information ecology.
Same here. Go is now my daily driver and main language, and I'm perfectly satisfied with it. Quite the opposite of expecting more, I'm very fearful on what may change or be added in go-2 (which is actually a reason why I'm currently learning C, just in case).
Has anyone here successfully convinced their non-techie friends to switch to Signal? How have you done it? I've been trying on and off with my closest friends, but no luck.
> I think human skin is largely a solved problem.

Can you post an example? All the fake skin I’ve seen is still marching into the uncanny valley (video at least)
> Could this not be because of lack of said transport links on an East-West Axis?

The majority of the nation's key institutions are in London. How does improving an East-West axis improve access to them, or encourage them to move?

> I can't help but feel that if the trains had dedicated business carriages with reliable internet access

There are dedicated business carriages on London trains. The internet isn't fantastic but it's fine. But I'd rather not be on the train long enough to need it.
[1] suggests that part of the problem is that Lidl's business processes were non-standard, and Lidl decided, rather than change their processes to match what SAP's solution supported, to instead customise SAP's solution to support their non-standard processes – and that was the point at which the project came undone, the SAP customisations couldn't scale to high turnover (but surely vanilla/uncustomised SAP Retail would not have had this problem)

Lidl's non-standard processes may well be a big part of their business success. But maybe that was a sign they shouldn't have gone with an off-the-shelf solution like SAP, and should have stuck with their legacy in-house system, or tried to build a custom next generation in-house system. And their experience isn't necessarily transferable to another business whose processes might be more standard, or who might have more flexibility to alter their processes to meet the needs of an off-the-shelf solution. And if they'd gone for some other off-the-shelf solution instead of SAP (such as Oracle or Infor), they might have had just as many problems – the more customisation heavy an ERP implementation project is, the greater the risk of failure.

[1] https://www.henricodolfing.com/2020/05/case-study-lidl-sap-d...
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Need to lose those disgusting shower tiles though.
Spot on: telling people to "sleep better" is good advice - in isolation.

Telling people to do that when they are struggling with big social problems (unemployment, poor access to education, discrimination...) or already existing mental issues is very harsh.