skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all MMOs gate content in the form of linear "levels" which essentially function like a several-dozen hour tutorial until the player grinds to the point of "max level" so that they can then begin to participate in "end game" content. In EVE, player progress isn't so narrowly constrained or defined in terms of an aggregate statistic, rather, player skills can be trained automatically over time without grinding and, similar to the golden era of UO, player skills function in the game with respect to their individual utility rather than as a function of player level. This means new players can target specific skills based on how they want to play the game rather than picking the skills that facilitate the most efficient grind to max level, after which they reset all their skills and reallocate them with respect to the "real" game. Thus new players begin to experience the "real game" early on without having to grind through 30 hours of cookie-cutter content before the "real game" begins.
I like finding other Bard's Tale players in the wild. It was easier to learn how to use a hex editor to hack the game than to actually play the game...so that's what I did.
Yay!!! There were a couple of steps that took me time to debug how to make it work, so I'm ecstatic that at least one person found my steps useful!!! I don't have recent experience with Google Hangouts, so I'm curious to know whether that was a native app (does Hangouts have a macOS app?), or which browser you used (Firefox, Chrome, or…)?
Then that stuff is not for your metabolism, or too strong/too much. I can relate to that, because alcohol is usually just a downer for me, but sometimes that can be ok, especially when one does not know what a hangover is.

Regarding the weed, ONE small piece the size of a matchhead/pin-head can make me different for 2 to 3 days, turning into some overdrive mode. Even when worked into a slim cigarette with extra long 2cm filter with 6mm diameter. That is insane!

Extasy i liked very much decades ago, but abstained from it because of too much "russian roulette".

Sex i couldn't care less, my cats give me all the cuddling i need.

Exercise? I bicycle and walk all year around during all weather.

Meditation, Yoga? Don't care.

Food? Don't care that much. Like to abuse mild Sri Racha (green cap) on everything :)

edit: Ah, forgot Shrooms. Would like to have them more often! And anything else with the reputation of expanding consciousness. But again, in a safe way, without russian roulette.
You mean SARS-CoV2, that's the virus. How would they be able to detect it? Would they even know what they were looking for? Would CoV2 trigger the same tests as SARS1 (for non-PCR tests)?
I think Apple doesn’t just want to direct users to some search engine, they want it to be the best search engine. The current deal, where Google pays billions for that usage, is a pretty good partnership. Every other search engine probably would be worse at making money off that traffic and thus couldn’t afford to pay as much for it, and also would give a less premium user experience. Why would Apple rock the boat?
Computational Graphs for Backprop
Short post on using computational graphs to derive update rules for backpropagation, illustrated using a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). Questions, feedback, corrections? Do reach out! :)
I've made people go back to UO just by playing Stones. I'm not sure what's up with that song.
Here we used MoreTV+Wilma under Windows/Xawtv-Nagra under Linux.
This requires a citation. It's intuitively far easier to quarantine 1% of the population than 90+%.
I feel you, me too. I also had a relationship fall apart late last year and did quite a lot of my own social isolating at the time combined with my natural inclination to hibernate around the winter solstice because of lack of light.

My closest friends also moved away in part motivated by the situation.

I really don't remember the last time I interacted with another human who wasn't selling me food or through a computer or phone (which helps of course but is no substitute).

There are probably a lot of us out there. If it weren't for a couple of cat monsters I probably would have lost all of my marbles by now.
> ...the amount of substance becomes clearer

IMO this attitude is why formal methods based on proof assistants never took off.

That entire PL theory research community seems to think that implementation work is unimportant and not even worth a few page "tools/casestudy" workshop paper. Even a tiny four page write-up gets a "why isn't this a homework assignment" style response.

That, by itself, is I guess not terrible. But POPL proceedings for 20+ years have been littered with 2 pages of substance and 18 pages of greek-letter-masturbation. Most of those papers build insanely complex calculi to capture a simple idea that every junior engineer can understand in half a day. And this complaint always fell on deaf ears. At least, as long as the author was able to say "logical relations" or "linear types" or whatever the hell keywords y'all are applying your elimination rules on these days.

The only thing that will ever push that field forward is shitloads of working and well-explained/documented code. But hacking out some lines of ocaml/gallina (or, god forbid, Python/C++... if I have to listen to an SML acolyte complain about parallelism in Python one more time...) isn't valued as much as hacking out lines of \Gammas and \vdashes. Taking the time to explain short code examples gets you "that's a homework problem" responses. As if explaining a digestible piece of code concisely is some sort of admission of intellectual impotence. Smart people realize this quickly and either get out (if they want to have an impact on the world) or learn how to write 1+1=2 in a super complicated way (if they just want that piece of paper).

Anyways, you're right. The paper is a far cry from "formalizing a text editor in coq". But the "your implementation work doesn't deserve my time or attention" attitude is a big reason why this research community hasn't really had much impact even after several decades of outsized investment. IMO.
I like the submission form.

CPU: How long have you been using this framework?

Me Type: 1 YEAR

CPU: Must be a number greater than 0

Me Think: Mmm ok

Me Type: 525600

CPU: Thank you!
i believe there is a disconnect between “is like a computer” and “is like a computer that i can understand and program”. if you were going for the latter i agree, we are not there yet.

but it you define a computer as something that runs on some sort of code and translates input to output literally everything can be seen as a computer. the more complex something is the more impressive it is.

you should also probably update your profile description since it’s literally confirming what i am saying :)) (ie I've been: A molecular biologist that discovered that an enzyme was secretly an NPN transistor)
> I think ultimately that many of your rightful criticisms are the product of the politics of engineering companies and communities.

I don't doubt that. I would, however, like to see some people in those organizations try to enact changes, particularly those nearer the top. The business benefits of doing less unnecessary work are relatively obvious.

Separately, a lot of the attitudes towards legacy software use ought to change. Most techies regard organizations still running Windows 7 in 2020 with a mix of amusement and scorn. "Windows 7 came out X years ago, why haven't they upgraded by now?"

Well, why haven't they? Maybe because they already paid for the development of Custom Software X, and aren't particularly keen in redoing all of that work just because Microsoft decided to change things. I don't feel great about Microsoft holding security patches hostage just because more Windows 10 customers would improve their brand or some such. I understand needing to charge for said patches past a certain period, but why not continue providing it for a reasonable price, as long as their are paying customers?
That setup doesn't look like it will last until the end of the month let alone for eternity.
While true, this isn't a free get out of jail card whenever someone brings up slow compilation. OCaml's compiler is blazing fast.
I found the whole essay via Google Scholar; apologies for not including it before, but thought the original source was best.

Žižek, Slavoj. Multiculturalism, or, the cultural logic of multinational capitalism. New Left Review, 1997.

https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:58909765

http://clarkbuckner.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/www.Zizek...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23445987
Ask HN: How do you deal with abandoning a project?
I'm sure every developer has many side-projects and work projects they have spend huge amounts of time on, only to abandon for a variety of reasons. Maybe a competing project was better resourced, or the community shifted to the latest shiny thing, or maybe a decision to kill a project came down from higher ups.

When I think about the time I have poured into such projects it makes me feel like I have wasted my life. Sure there are lessons learned and experience gained, but if I could go back in time I would tell myself to never get involved in the first place.

For work projects you are making money in exchange for your services, but going unnecessarily above-and-beyond and working long hours, or spending time on weekends on side-projects and open-source that you later abandon just seems like a huge waste of time.

It never really causes complete burn-out though, it just makes me a little more cautious about diving into new projects as I get older and makes me more inclined think about the opportunity cost. But what if my greatest contributions are still yet to come and my cautiousness will prevent me from exploring them.

I usually rationalize it to myself as: you enjoyed working on it at the time, and you learned a lot.

I wonder how other people deal with the thought of having poured so much time into a project only to abandon it?
CNN had an article on "how Karen became a meme," at the end of May:

>Just look at baby name data from the Office of Social Security. Between 1951 and 1968, the name "Karen" saw its peak -- sitting pretty in the top 10 for the most popular baby name in the US.

>But in 2018, the most recent year available, "Karen" was ranked at 635th in most popular names, quite the fall from grace.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/us/karen-meme-trnd/index.html
Yes. Those restrictions were from the time we were thinking the virus is more deadly than this (1-2% IFR).

Now with more publications, data suggests an IFR of 0.1-0.6%. Which is pretty low and does not worth crashing the economy.

This does not mean vulnerable people has to pay the price no. It is trade off. We have to reopen and go back to normal, while helping vulnerable people.

Even some paper suggest far more infections than we thought.
The part you're missing is that protesters breaking the law are 100% aware of that fact and have the opportunity not to do so.

We have no idea of whether Floyd was aware of the fact that he was passing a fake $20, if indeed he even was. (I doubt I'd notice a fake $20.)

These two situations are not similar.

And if you have doubts about protesters causing serious property damage, aggravated assault, and manslaughter if not murder, I suggest you start looking at the many videos available on the web. There are a lot of truly horrible people out there, and they're having a field day right now.
I really like this idea - it also has the side effect of making all of these streams easily searchable later on.

That being said, transcription still isn't at the point where it can understand radio garble.

> because I'm going to take that group that someone over the Willing. Can you raise Lieutenant lady and having semi-open Buddhist month

> you know the carrot for you and Hudson no accident

Reminds me of the early days of Google Voice voicemail transcription.
Pandemics past and present fuel the rise of mega-corporations
Do you have a source for your R0 values? As far as I know there have been no per-state R0s released, though current estimates put ~20% at antibody positive [^1] in New York meanwhile Texas has a very low infection rate in comparison.

This likely has much more to do with relative densities than lockdown strategy. Texas is low density, and it was necessary to have looser restrictions in many areas due to distance to essentials like groceries. And indeed for Texas this seems to have been a fine call.

And Texas still has a declining rate of new cases despite continuing to reopen, and we have been in a decline for over 30 days despite bars and restaurants being open.

The complaints against mask wearing have primarily been against legal mandates. I wear a mask but I don't support fining or jailing Americans if they choose not to, especially since they are likely to be old, poor or a minority.

I don't believe anyone has been piling bodybags in the streets, though it's an excellent scaremongering claim. Remember lockdown was planned for a few weeks to flatten hospitalization rate - which it did.

[^1]:https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-numerical-language-of-covid...
This is great. Is it open source? I would love to know more about how it works. Where do you get the source data? What is required in order to add more cities?

Thanks for sharing!
It isn't up to his mentor to withdraw a paper for which he isn't the first author. It doesn't even require a retraction as it wouldn't be published yet, albeit, withdrawing is still frowned upon
Breezy guide to using Python's built-in support for logging
The guide covers 1) general language agnostic concepts relevant to logging, 2) logging APIs in Python and how to use them, and 3) good practices, gotchas, and performance considerations associated with these APIs.

Freely available online at https://coralogix.com/log-analytics-blog/python-logging-the-ultimate-guide/

Electronic copies available for purchase and donation at https://leanpub.com/logging-in-python/
The line in parent comment is:

> Officer Bob might have 31 excessive force complaints against him

A complaint is an allegation. It's not a confirmed incidence of bad behaviour.

Using Chauvin as example (17 complaints), From WAPO:

> A summary of the complaints against Chauvin posted by the department offers no information on why they were filed, and police declined to comment on the nature of the cases. Sixteen of the complaints were closed without discipline. The remaining complaint resulted in two letters of reprimand against Chauvin, according to the summary.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/29/officer-cha...
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Is it a permanent loss of taste or do your senses come back after?
A Tour of the Plague Years in New York City
Not so anecdotal: There is an Oncology professor in the UK who tested his staff of 200 and got ~10% for antibodies. A month later he expected 30%, but still got around 10% (https://unherd.com/thepost/professor-karol-sikora-fear-is-mo...)

There is a chance antibodies for this simply do not last very long, or that many people fight it off before it reaches the adaptive immune system and requires antibodies (there are many layers that have evolved in our immune systems).

There are many other viruses that don't produce long lasting immunity as well. Hepatitis B vaccines require 3 shots within a few months and even then, the take rate for it is only around 60%.
Keybase security audit by NCC Group (2019) [pdf]
I'm not so sure. That's not quite AWS's brand of "needlessly vindictive." They aim that in other directions mostly...
thanks, that was interesting. i'm still curious about why maillard reacted food is more nutritious/bioavailable, that article didn't seem to address that. the OP may have but i got exhausted scrolling
Each side would of course argue that its own methods for handling each kind of problem is superior.
They didn't take that approach with maps. Might not have been as lucrative, but could've been cheaper than developing their own, inferior maps solution.
I loved having a milkman when I lived in an area where they were available. It was a bit tricky in the summer months sometimes as I’m a late riser, but having twice weekly deliveries of basic essentials that I didn’t have to think about really reduced the number of times I needed to go shopping. Now because of covid I have to do amazon/whole foods orders to get my groceries, and it’s a massive pain. I’m mostly ordering the same things each time, but the website is slow (to add things to cart etc) and it takes me 20 min or so to order all the things. I wish I could have a repeat order of simple things and then just add on whatever else I needed.
Honestly, I think most institutions would be accommodating to your requests - particularly for mature students who have lives outside the university. Most places aren't going to kick you out if you don't turn up to the weekly seminar, but some people might frown upon it because it would be seen as not integrating. We also encourage PhD students to both give talks and to ask questions at seminars. Ultimately your PhD is not granted on the basis of your attendance to some talks.

I think the deciding factor is probably where your money is coming from. In the UK if you're paying for your tuition, you can usually demand whatever conditions you like. If you're being funded by a specific grant, that might confer some additional requirements defined by the department.

This may not be the case in your particular sub-field, but we have plenty of fully remote students and staff. I know several academics who work half the year in one institution and half in another - though usually that's due to family, not being unhappy about the weather!
It's an application of the Rule of Least Power.
Every time a cooking video mentions the Maillard reaction, mise en place, fond, or setting aside some of the starchy pasta liquid, take a drink.
Do you happen to have a source for this? Intuitively, 2% sounds like a very high number to me for what is being implied.
Seriously, what is wrong with this? It's a for-profit private org. Does this really deserve the top spot on HN? What's next? "Toyota showroom wants you buy a Corolla instead of a used VW"?
You compare it to Android as if Android dev isn't full of its own problems. Here is some Android complaints that I agree with from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438732

Android is definitely still maturing. So is iOS/macOS dev.

I guess client development isn't as easy as we told ourselves.
We are arguing over two different things. I am arguing the direct response to the virus. How the lockdowns were implemented, where and for who. I agree that the federal response was bad all over, and now it is most obvious in the lack of financial assistance to both individuals and states.

Please keep in mind also, that for states that are not in (NY, NJ, CA, MI, LA) there hasn't been a _first wave_. We need to keep that in mind before we point to states like FL and GA as having a 2nd wave. Their waves were largely curtailed by the stay-home orders in place. We need to either admit we want these orders to last until there is a vaccine, or increase our threshold for acceptable case levels.
Well, that's certainly one way to address the decline in birth rates.
I would rather not take the risk of relapse.
Not to mention the PCR tests and the antibody tests got combined into "total cases" in several data sets, mucking the numbers:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-s...
Catskills had the best roleplaying community I've ever seen. I miss it.

I also had so much fun on Siege Perilous when it was those color wars with the 4 castles. I can't believe they ever changed that.
I think there are just too many unknowns around topics like the existence of intelligent aliens, etc., to draw any firm conclusions about anything.

We don't seem to see conclusive evidence for aliens. Okay, maybe a few anomalous UFOs, but none of that stuff is anywhere near firm enough to conclude anything as significant as aliens. We have lights in the sky and funny radar blips, and those could have many explanations.

That doesn't mean there aren't any aliens. It just means if they're around they are not advertising their presence. There are many rational reasons not to do so, some altruistic and some self-interested.

An ET studying us might want to avoid contamination just like we do when landing probes on other planets. It might also fear that we'd be hostile, and looking around at how humans behave that would not be an irrational concern. If we did respond with hostility or fear, our ETs might face an awful moral conundrum: risk letting us continue developing to the point where we become a danger to other life (including them), or exterminate us preemptively. Might be best just to not make contact and avoid that situation.

What about SETI's great silence? It's pretty meaningless. Radiation diminishes with the square of distance. It would take an incredibly powerful directed radio signal to be detectable even a few light years away, and it would have to have simple modulation to have any chance of being noticed.

That means an intentional transmission, and one of incredible power. I don't remember exactly but to reach stars dozens of light years away I recall seeing numbers in the hundreds of gigawatts of radiated signal power. That would be on the order of the entire output of the USA power grid fed into a transmitter array to send e.g. Fibonacci numbers and say "yes we are here." That's unlikely for many reasons: it's expensive, a literal shot in the dark, and potentially dangerous. You don't want to get an answer in the form of a relativistic velocity impactor in a few thousand years.

Incidental radiation is just not going to be detected at any range. It's not powerful enough. Not only that but as we evolve toward more advanced and efficient technology we are abandoning powerful transmitters in favor of low power cellular systems with lots of small transmitters or mesh networks. Our transmissions are becoming quite a bit harder to detect over time. You couldn't detect an 802.11 network from the Moon, let alone another solar system.

There are just so many unknowns. Nothing firm can be said. If people want to get apocalyptic when reasoning from the Fermi paradox, it says more about their attitude than the universe.
I don't know how Apple can think they will remain competitive with Siri without building a search engine.

However, Apple are really bad at executing on cloud services of any kind. With any amount of resources there are certain things that company just cannot get right, and search is definitely one of them. I would love to know what it is organizationally that makes them so terrible at web apps and cloud services.
The idea that the "great filter", if there really is one, remains in our future seems to me to be extremely improbable. The fact is, we already have the ability, just about, to colonise space. That we haven't yet has more to do with economic reasons than technological ones, and it's entirely conceivable that we'll see substantial non-Earth settlements in our lifetime.

Now, that isn't to say we won't nuke ourselves get turn into grey goo or something before that happens, but the point is, but we're close enough to it that, even being pessimistic, there's got to be a reasonable chance we'll make it (over 0.01, say). And that's not good enough for a great filter. Any catastrophe that happens so close to the point of becoming a multi-planetary civilisation simply wouldn't catch enough species. There'd be too many who would make it through.
Nothing wrong with distrust of the CCP and their companies.
Small items are almost entirely delivered by the post office instead of UPS, and the post office is stopping by your house pretty much every day no matter what.

Contrast with you personally making a detour in your car to a physical store to buy a single small item -- that actually DOES have a fuel cost.

Unless your purchases are always along a route your travel anyways (like your commute), delivery is vastly more fuel-efficient as a general rule.