skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understood it correctly, the risk of "exhaustion" was one of th drivers of the strategy here in Sweden. Apart from the fact that ordering a lockdown would have been impossible. Yes, the possibility was explored, but it was found to be without legal support.

There is much I don't agree with concerning our handling of Covid-19, far from all having to with the actual strategy, which I find questionable this far mostly based on the lack of any discernable scientific consensus regarding a strategy touted as scientifically sound.

I however do agree that considering an exhaustion/psychological adaption scenario, is something you have to do in a situation like this.

One strategy I've seen referred to as effective is essentially periodically altering the level of lockdown, but the high virulence in conjunction with the long latencies in the feedback looks seems to make it really hard to employ for Covid-19, as the necessary period still seems to be on the order of months.
Perhaps this means some Saudi-funded University centers will be exposed and cancelled.
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Ask HN: Just got promoted. What must be done?
Just got promoted. 360 degree feedback from my team and other stakeholders came positive they said. My boss thinks I deserve this.

Feel bad, I feel really bad. Why do I make this much money?

My dad drives trucks for countless hours each day, makes each month what I make in 2 days. Oh God, I am ashamed.

I maybe work 4 hours a day, the rest I just walk, because I can't take this anymore.

Millions losing their jobs, parents struggling.

I feel conflicted. Grew up dirt poor, graduated, found a job. But I got lucky, I was just lucky.

What separates me and millions who live from paycheck to paycheck?

Can't sleep. The more I feel bad, the more I make money. Oh the irony, the paradox.
What to write down when you’re reading to learn
The constitutional requirement is for “limited times”, and current law is not.
Face masks won't stop gait recognition. Biometrics are a hard thing to escape
There’s an unpopular option: herd immunity.

NYC is 1/3rd to 1/4th there. Would you trade 3-4x the deaths to get it over with, completely? It’s not an easy decision. It’s hard to say yes.

But what if it’s Q4 2021 and there is still no vaccine?
> Far from it. It's quite likely going to be over 5 years if not a decade before it would be possible to run a pure-HTTP3 service without risking connectivity problems

There won't be a pure HTTP/3 service anyway. HTTP/3 requires negotiation. It is announced from a previous HTTP/1.1 or /2 request using a "Alt-Svc" header. Typical clients will not try to connect using HTTP/3 directly
"I feel like I'm missing something when it still seems like huge number of Covid cases are from nursing homes."

There's been terrible mismanagement of this in nursing homes in a couple of states in particular. That was completely avoidable.

In most states, nursing homes have done well.

The military and prisons have accounted for some cases, but not all that many. There's been plenty of community spread in some places.

Since there's (apparently) no treatment and no vaccine, herd immunity is the only workable outcome. We've flattened the curve, let's continue to take reasonable, easy precautions and ride this thing out.
Yikes - just compared the latest map with the one in January - what a difference!
Couldn’t you generate fake support for issues on social media with this?
To me this also works the other way around. If am overly critical to others' work, my own work suffers. Only realized this now, thanks.
Totally, it's outline vs "inverted" look (colored text and outline and solid color with white font) and has little to do with 3D.

The other examples are just... different.

One is links styled vs blending in.

The barnes + nobles would be nice for the buttons but they also removed shading and the caused visual hierarchy in the menu on the left.

Herz I can get behind apart from the inactive tab style
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological battle. Nothing good, new, or interesting comes of it.

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>>Kind of funny to observe the (sometimes very large) gap between what they post and what I know they used to do in their day jobs

And hence the saying "Nobody is a prophet in their own land".
We launched Vitri, a Chrome extension that transforms websites into communities
I compared this to my mental map of population density and one region really stood out, the Indo-Gangetic plain. It has higher than normal pollution but nothing compared to what would be expected from the population density.
> we Dutch like to think our country isn't very corrupt but somehow we just don't seem to notice when our ex ministers get cushy jobs at the bigcos they helped to deregulate.

I don't think that's necessarily an indication of corruption. Being a minister (or other high-level official) gives you a lot of fairly unique experience and knowledge that could be quite valuable to a corporation.

Of course it absolutely can be corruption, I just don't think that ministers moving to industry can be taken as evidence on its own.
That's 81 request per second on average.

Shouldn't anybody doing such thing be liable, and be sued for negligence and required to pay damages?

That sounds like a lot of bandwidth (and server stress).
I don't know a lot about this topic but I had an introduction class where we also covered FPGAs. The prof offering the class though is really sufficient in this topic and has developed this tool: https://github.com/esa-tu-darmstadt/tapasco/blob/master/READ...
As you are saying it seems like just a science toy project but he was quite convinced that it already works pretty good and good enough for fourth-semesters to work with it.
The tool itself is a high level c++ tool-chain to develop for FPGAs.
You should definitely check it out :)

Then there's also Bluespec Verilog which has been open sourced not too long ago. It is way more abstract than Verilog or system Verilog and in comparison to them it's a pleasure to write in. But it's definitely not as high-level as C++.
Exactly.

- Deescalation training

- Defunding (extreme)

- Demilitarizing the police

- Community outreach

- Reduce over-policing

etc.

These are the things that have been talked about and pushed for the past decade (well, in some circles decades, but nationally it's a conversation that comes and goes, but has stayed at the top the past decade or so).
Hi zumachase,

There are a few testimonials on the website, but there are plenty of other proof points we can't attribute. Off the top of my head, here are a few that stand out:

1.) A latent LDAP server issue that would have taken down a mission-critical SaaS app at a Fortune 500 enterprise SW company. Detected and showed root-cause indicators.

2.) Two production bugs that were degrading service for a subset of users for weeks in a multi-billion-$ B2B SaaS company's production deployment. Detected and showed root-cause indicators.

3.) Multiple backend bugs degrading service in a $1B e-commerce company's production deployment. Detected and showed root-cause indicators.

4.) All OpenEBS issues that had been observed YTD in real customer deployments, replicated using Litmus by MayaData. Detected and showed root-cause indicators.

5.) Here's an unsolicited quote a devops consultant from the UK posted in our community 4 months ago:

"The data has started coming through and has picked up all the incidents I deliberately caused and a couple of other that I didn't know about.
This setup so cuts through the noise of logs to the heart of the matter that it would not be over stating the case to say that this is the future of Observability.
Brilliant!"
"Quantum" matter you say? Do tell ···
Only for a small part of the English-speaking community though.
That's a great point and another reason why it usually doesn't make sense to take privacy to an extreme. At the end of the day, privacy is a matter of private interest against (debatable) public good.

It's nice for an individual to be able to start from a clean slate. It's not so great for society at large when such people abuse the system to do harm to others.
> But how to guarantee that nobody hacks in and figures out how to change a few bytes in one paper that is 10years old?

Mostly you should stop worrying about this. Other people have explained various countermeasures that could be used, which are very cheap, but mostly nobody cares.

And already today, without anybody altering anything, it is very common for papers to use misleading citations. You take a paper that found some clowns like cake, you write "Almost all clowns like cake" and you cite that paper. It's possible a reviewer will notice and push back, but very likely you will get published even though you've stretched that citation beyond breaking point. Why "hack in" to change the paper when you can just distort what it said and get away with it?
Uber Open-Sources Neuropod –A Library to Run Deep Learning Models Using Multiple
Hey Gwern, big fan of your GPT2 work. I notice I'm surprised to hear you say you struggle daily to fix broken links to the Elsevier catalog at ScienceDirect, because the links are used by libraries all over the world & they don't have the same feedback. Would you have a few examples available for me to send to the folks responsible?
The brain uses minimum effort to look for key information in text
what is the difference between zero-shot learning in text and AGI? not saying there isn't one, but can you state what it is?you can express any intent in text (unlike other media). to solve zero-shot in text is equivalent to the model responding to all intents.

many people have different definitions for AGI though. for me it clicked when i realized that text has this universality property of capturing any intent.
> It is considered a bit lame to try.

I believe this is the real thesis of the article. Why it is okay to be successful is that you no longer need to try - or if you believe talent is innate that some people never had to try. Struggling to get better, being bad, and improving all reek of “trying.”
At this point I guess ML developers should just stop working on anything related to face recognition...
Heh, this one is only for casual reading if you are already well-versed in the material. (This is a weird book - the author tends to dwell on simple things and then to rush through complex topics. Not recommended for an uninitiated. His later book, Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy, is more accessible but is primarily focused on discussing physics.)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-windows-10s-windows-fe...

Hmm.
Aereo lost their case because they received a signal, decoded it, saved the video to a hard drive, and then streamed the video from the hard drive to the customer. Their business model clearly depended on them offering DVR capabilities to customers, deduping videos, etc. - why else save the videos to disk and then stream from disk?

If they simply streamed the undecoded TV signals to their customers, they would have been fine. The Supreme Court decision constantly compared the Aereo service to previously litigated cases involving "antenna on top of hill really far from house as a service" (deemed to be legal).
That is one absolutely beautiful website.
KDE's June 2020 Apps Update
In the zip file, see the files toolbox/DEM/spm_COVID*

What follows is my understanding.

> what exactly is the brain doing?

This is outside my area of expertise, but it is updating brain states (whatever that turns out to mean, neural mass activity, individual neural activity), and parameters, likely candidates being neurotransmitters. The mechanism has been proposed to be message passing among hierarchical regions of the cortex.

> Where exactly is the brain minimising 'free energy'?

It is a global effect, but whenever a state or parameter are updated (again whatever those are found to be) the free energy decreases. If these turn out to be localized then that would be the (context dependent) "where".

> Can I have a testable prediction please?

The one I am most interested in is, since generative models are the core of active inference, if active inference is true then we should expect to be able to identify such models and setup conditions under which they update according to the FEP, including actions.

This is a difficult task and I suspect it will be shown in a simple biological system like C-elegans first. My own interest is in cyber-physical systems.

> If read literally, the core intuition is also false because people regularly and deliberately expose themselves to surprise, e.g. gambling, watching sports. Now there are various ad-hoc fixes to save free-energy-minimisation, but then which of them many conflicting ad-hoc fixes?

This is the dark-room argument, which as you suggest has been beat to death. I admit to not understanding what the problem is. If a system has an internal model that keeps it from exploring then it would die (of starvation). What states are surprising is all about the priors (that are designed by evolution presumably) and experience. I think it is also important to be clear that surprise is used in a very technical statistical sense.
Tends to be ignored but the process of extracting a profit has costs. Both internal costs and external costs. Sometimes the external costs imposed exceed the profit extracted by a large amount.
One question:

Where is the systematic evidence that this product actually works? What's the general false positive and false negative rates in standard setup? Did you construct various failed environments and measure the quality of the reports? For this sort of thing I would expect a simulation of at least 10-20 failure environments with detailed false positive/false negative rate measurements. Right now you have a lot of cherry picked examples without any sort of systematic setup (in particular, you don't seem to talk about false positives anywhere).
Please don't do ideological flamewar on HN.

Also, the objection downthread about you posting repetitively is not without a point. Please don't do that; it's bad for curious conversation, and it lowers the signal/noise ratio of the thread.

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Well you work in a remarkably status free place or, possibly, you're one of the privileged ones and might not even know it!
The Correctors: Meet the editors of early modern book publishing
Of course, you can only opt-out if you're a citizen of California, Illinois, the EU, UK, or Switzerland. Absurd.
I've found psychedelics most enjoyable when at home without other people around. After a good night's sleep, in a controlled environment, having prepared for it (best if it's done as a celebration of some major accomplishment like finishing an academic year in college).

I have done psychedelics with friends, at raves (in nature), at Burning Man, and walking around NYC (each had some scary moments). Would not advise doing that until you've had enough experiences in calm surroundings several times.
Why? Assuming we have a non-corrupt police force it is a great tool for finding criminals with warrants
New photos show HS2's southern tunnel portal
This is the reason I won't consider most of their laptops. I understand they use an oem and the oem doesn't give a shit about design, usability, ergonomics, or practicality. That's why it's like this. Most laptop vendors simply don't give a fuck about design or quality. Making unusable laptops is the norm. You can't expect to have a reasonable explanation of something no one has given a second's thought to. This is why people like Apple although they have adopted mostly the same stance nowadays.
Coronavirus really hammered China's economic activity, and northern Italy as well.
If subgradients are enough (-1 is correct subgradient at 0 in your example) then there are valid approaches for AD subgradient, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08530
Well that was a particularly shockingly thoughtful read. Thanks for posting.

I’m actually lost for words.
> But surely the fact that they are married to this other person is a bit stronger evidence that they cares for them, than a slightly off wording?

No one's saying they don't really care about their partner. It's possible to be put off and derisive of that language without judging whether they truly care.

> And further, it's completely absurd to hear this objection from Hacker News, where the most common viewpoint seems to be "if it makes money then it must be ethical". If this is really dehumanizing, then isn't the bigger problem that most people are totally okay with dehumanizing language in a business context? Is the objection here that he doesn't stand to turn a profit?

I mean, yeah. That part of Hacker News is pretty appalling. We _should_ be angry about dehumanizing language in a business context.
What are you reading/watching? Are there any self-contained material on this topic?
> A lot of people forget that the G in GTK stands for Gimp

Source? It's always stood for Gnome Toolkit. You must be confusing this with the GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) that's between the library layer and the display server. The GDK is part of the toolkit.
Derp! Yeah I guess that's still reasonable for a few dozen donors to pick up. I hope the data survives for posterity.
Via Reddit:

-sunnydaze-

i called Sampson Co just now, and Deputy Snow told me they promoted the officer

[this is where i would post their phone number if the rules didn't tell me not to]
Can someone explain to me how Xrdp is so much simpler to use than VNC? I setup a new CentOS workstation the other day and ended up trying to follow long tutorials with config files and services. I gave up, installed the Xrdp package and seconds later I had a remote session going.
The answer with all trade-offs is which is worse. I suspect that one is worse than the other.
Maybe that is the point - I guess it means that the "main" version is about to change.
CSS Media Rule in JavaScript
This! Also all those invites on vaccuumed addressbooks made me furious.
I was very disappointed that Lynda.com was bought by linkedin
I don't know what other people are experiencing, but I've saw an initial enthusiasm for Zoom happy hours and family diners and play dates that gradually faded.

Socialization is easy when you see people at work or schools or clubs. A casual "Hey do you want to come over this weekend?" can be throw out without a lot of pressure on either side.

Socialization is hard when you have to put yourself out there blindly, send invitations, and risk rejection. Most people aren't good at it and I think a lot of those people are settling into a life where it's so easy to sit on the couch and watch Netflix that nothing else seems worth the effort.
Well, you're skipping over the fact that a great deal of US government debt is held by the social security administration, which basically makes it an accounting trick, one that would be illegal if done by a private company (and for good reason).
Can’t wait for this to come out!!
Lovely! Thank you to all contributors. I use your software.
What bugs me about Pixelmator is that they will not take your money unless you buy the product through the Mac app store, and that means that if you want to run it on older hardware or an older version of MacOS you're SOL.

Contrast with Affinity, which supports lots of older versions of MacOS and will happily take your money on their own website. Affinity is the clear winner in this contest for me.
Added to my Erlang resources gist. Amazing how many languages are now available for the BEAM.

https://gist.github.com/macintux/6349828#alternative-languag...
If you're serious about privacy, use cash.

And know that actively trying to hide the sources and flows of money can be a crime, even if you're not doing anything criminal with the money.
fucking racist.
> You're asking police officers to get shot.

Technically, police officers are the ones applying for the no-knock warrants which get other police officers shot. And police officers are the ones who pushed for more use of no-knock (something like 10x increase from 30 years ago) because they think it improves their safety (more likely it just allows them to prosecute warrants faster than waiting for the door and risking the suspect destroying evidence before opening the door).
Just saying: if weed's effects didn't work for you, no reason to assume that psychedelics are not an option. They're different things.
Really? I felt that what happened to Aaron was a tragic injustice on many levels (from the fact that he was charged at all to the number of charges they threw at him), but for some reason I had always thought that it was fairly well-known that that was his intent.

I have no idea where I got that impression from, but I do recall reading several articles about him, as well as his blog around that time. It's possible I just internalized others' assumptions about his behavior, but it certainly seemed like an in-character thing for him to to.
> sitting on the technological equivalent of a mountain of gold. What would you do?

Greed is not justified. I get that people are weak, selfish, they can't stop themselves. Some feel sympathy because they've been weak too. "Maybe it's justified," they like to think. "Everybody lies." But seriously, those who care so much about money and power they can't do things in a civilized respectable way: they are not yet an adult and must be hard barred from the upper tiers of capitalism until they learn that life does not revolve around them.

I blame them for being shitty, and blame everyone around them for letting it happen.
Welp, apparently we aren’t shifting away from toxic publishing mechanisms any time soon.
Highly recommended: https://jeremykun.com/2013/04/03/homology-theory-a-primer/
See: The myth we love new ideas - people resist change, including progress from https://scottberkun.com/2013/ten-myths-of-innnovation/

> We are a conservative species: try something as simple as standing, rather than sitting, in your next group meeting. How accepting were your peers? Conformity is deep in our biology. While talking about creativity is very popular, actually being creative puts your social status at risk. All great ideas were rejected, often for years or decades, yet we bury this in our history (see Myth #1 & #2). The history of breakthroughs is a tale of persistence against rejection. Much of what makes a successful innovator is their ability to persuade and convince conservative people of the merits of their ideas, a very different skill from creativity itself. Your problem is likely not your ideas, but your skills for pitching ideas to others. Ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. The bigger the idea, the harder the persuasion challenge.
I enjoyed this documentary on the topic:

SMOG WARS - Polish Air Pollution Documentary
(Full International Version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs70ewSdEjE
FWIW, you can get 10Gbps for $50/month in Switzerland [0] and Sweden [1].

[0]: https://fiber.salt.ch/en

[1]: https://bahnhof.se/
Ex-DEA public affairs chief pleads guilty to brazen scam
I think the word “abolish” is unfortunate because it’s inaccurate.

To most people “abolish” means “it shall exist no longer” rather than “we’ll replace current police departments with reformed police departments along with possibly some budgetary changes”

It’s a bit of sloganeering as currently constructed, though admittedly the police need reforming and retraining especially deescallation with regard to mentally imbalanced, people as well as people who’re high and such.
GTK was originally designed and used in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) as a replacement of the Motif toolkit;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK