skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it works under some circumstances, for a limited time:

Imagine you have some fixed costs per user and some fixed revenue per user. Revenue is less than costs, so in theory, you should make a loss each month.

However, imagine you find a way to have costs lag a month behind revenue: A user pays their fee on first of month n, costs occur on first of month n+1. Then as long as you keep acquiring new users, you can "run away from your costs" by paying your gap with the "extra fees" of new users.

Of course this is completely unsustainable and basically a ponzi-scheme - but I imagine there will be temptation to do this, as long as there is sufficient growth...
Clickbait is simply the new normal. I hate it, but it's simply the case. You see it on news articles, YouTube video titles, and everything else where money and views are intertwined.

And why is it done? Because it has been proven to work. They make more money with clickbait titles.

Personally, it's simply a windmill I'm no longer willing to tilt against.

And it appears that nothing was purposefully omitted from the article itself, so I'm definitely not willing to tilt against this.
Ahh yes, this is exactly what the BLM protestors asked for.
Testing has been on a rather steady increase and was truly awful in April. I know multiple people who had mild symptoms and couldn't get tested in April. We simply can't assume those case numbers from April are anywhere close to accurate. In all likelihood we had a huge case spike in April and we just don't have the test results to prove it. The April peak in new cases is therefore dampened to make it look like we had 3 months of roughly similar new case numbers when in actuality we had 3 months of declining cases. This is generally backed up by the percentage of positive tests[1] which saw a huge drop from April to the beginning of June before starting to increase again in late June. That spike isn't far enough in the past for the lagging death total to start increasing yet. Odds are the daily death increase is right around the corner.

TL;DR - The new cases plot is not predictive of the new death plot because cases are a function of new tests while deaths happen regardless of testing.

[1] - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states
That’s a complete misunderstanding of what’s going on. Fire also self replicates and also requires very specific conditions to continue. But, it’s less obvious for people or fire that CO2, heat, and ash / human fesis are the largest outputs of the open systems rather than more humans/fire.
A Zettelkasten-style system is just a bunch of files in a single folder, with lots of links between them.

What makes these kinds of notes work is the purpose they are written for, and the links. Two people can have the exact same notes, but link and tag them completely differently, because each of them will have different goals and purposes.
Thanks for the link. You’re right that Forer effect material was written by humans, but the point is more that there is a failure mode in our thinking that can be exploited - mostly intentionally by “psychics”, unintentionally by automated text generators.

Just something I was mulling over, though, not to take away from the obvious progress here.
> x is a variable. y is equal to two plus x. if x is two, what is y?

Alternative answer: "y is a variable".
They filled it. I applied and followed up with the recruiter who contacted me initially and they said it was closed.
The middle-ground between two arbitrary positions is the truth.
For example the optimal society is in the middle of fascism and monarchy...NOT!
Console #7: Let's Make a Teeny Tiny Compiler, Part 2
If you ask people if they want to be tracked, almost all will say no. If you ask if they'd rather be tracked or pay $X/month in exchange for a service, most will choose the tracking.
Holy shit! All of this was widely reported in the news at the time. All of it. You must have been living under a god damn rock.
After many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit
Maybe it has something to do with Botswana's lifting of their ban on elephant hunting, apparently because "The number and high levels of human-elephant conflict and the consequent impact on livelihoods was increasing."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48374880

They subsequently auctioned off permits to hunt elephants.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51413420
“Boring” business you've ever seen that makes a crap ton of money?
I love this course. It has better production than other courses that I've taken and Pascal is super passionate and fun (dresses like Indiana Jones to make a point about knapsacks); much more engaging than Norvig. The course is hard though, he's not kidding about needing 20 or so hours per week.
I don't remember (desktop) Safari force installing a new version, opening full-screen undismissable popups, or setting itself as my default PDF viewer. But ok, sure, Apple bad too!

Great discussion!
OpenLayers supports rotation, Leaflet does not -- a considerable difference in implementation burden.

https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/issues/268

https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/rotation.html

This is a critical point for anyone selecting an API to build on top of with their own ambitious new web app idea.
> Machine learning is genuinely over-hyped. It’s very often statistics masquerading as something more grandiose. Its most ardent supporters are incredibly annoying, easily hated techbros

This sort of fashionable disparagement of a group of people to signal that you’re not part of the “bad group of tech bro’s” is so trashy. Why are these random people you easily hate? Who are they? Why take glee in shared hatred?

I’ve worked as a sr DS at FAANG for 4 years. I’ve recently worked through Casella Berger, because I wasn’t comfortable being one of those DS who didn’t know math stats. But before I did work through it, I worked with people from PhD stat programs who were so ineffective. Despite knowing so much more stats than me, they would freeze up and fail everytime they had to deal with any sort of software system or IDE. It was so weird to me that my ability to use a regression, even before I knew the theory, was more valuable than their ability to use a regression to its full power, simply because I could fight the intense battle to take that idea and put it into reliable production code.

But generally I hate hate this war between DS and stats. It’s so stupid. Maybe not their first year, but eventually any DS who wants to be a master of their craft ought to learn math/theoretical stats. And some don’t want to be a master of their craft, and instead want to go into management or whatever, and that’s fine.
Wikipedia's Co-Founder wrote a blog about a month ago detailing biases in Wikipedia articles: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
how can this amount of video footage be backed up?
On android you can tap and hold the spacebar to slide the cursor around.

I'd love to have a phone case with a flip down physical keyboard and a dot like on a ThinkPad. Think, old school game boy.

For the rest of my problems,we just need better integration and customization. My last two phones have pop out drawers pinned to the sides. This can be taken much further to provide instant access to the clip tray, contacts,messages,emails, bookmarks, calender, password manager, and on and on. But no. I get notifications from the top, which has the customizability of a closed source terminal. From the bottom I have a barebones task bar. And I can pin 5apps to a pinned button that I can dock up and down either side. Can't even change its color tough. My current phone is leagues more powerful than my first smart phone, but my first was more usable and customizable.
I think it's pretty disingenuous to compare a disease to a war between major powers.

Russia isn't going to invade Germany if Germany stomps on Coronavirus because Coronavirus kills a duke. Nobody is on the side of the virus. Unlike retaking Eastern France, progress eradicating Coronavirus does not have to necessarily be over other people's dead bodies. Nearly all of humanity wants to see this disease gone. The circumstances are very, very different.
It's a pity because Joplin has pretty much the perfect feature set for me. I can't tell you much about the sync issue I had as I didn't find a solution (I also didn't spend too much time on it). Btw. I initially migrated from zim and the migration was super easy!!! What I can tell you is that Joplin suddenly didn't show any notes anymore because of a sync issue. In the source folder I saw some files still there but the notes of the previous week were all gone. I would have appreciated to have the option to tell Joplin that I don't care about sync and want my local Joplin files to be the primary ones - or something like that.

I then bought a 5 year plan of Standard notes which is not as user friendly as Joplin (in my opinion) but has some cool features (like the spreadsheet extension which is awesome). However, as mentioned, without being able to just paste images it's more or less useless for preparing blog posts or something like that. You need to use "fileSafe" I guess but for this you need Dropbox etc.. Other features missing in Standard Notes are simple drag & drop of folders and context menu...
Trueface Visionbox
Self hosted computer vision APIs.
Unlike HN readers, most employees do not have admin on their work computer, and for good reason. Doesn't mean they should suffer 'bossware' and most certainly not without informed and explicit consent.
The cases motivated by ignorance of etymology and the conflation of homonyms are most frustrating. Such as the already gender-neutral version of the word “man”, which existed back when the sexes were referred to as weremen and women.
Who is paying for a CT scan on corpses? People are still getting multi-thousand dollar bills for a nasal swab.
Aside from the fact that nobody is trying to use that name for anything, you shifted from "not go well" to "obviously harm" quite quickly. Whether it is one or the other makes all the difference.
Taxation is slavery because it is forced ultimately at gunpoint. The government basically claims ownership of a significant part of (the fruits of) your labor. You cannot refuse, which makes you their slave, having to do what they dictate. A 'citizen' is essentially another word for property of the state, i.e. a slave. In the future they'll probably also object to the use of that word like they do for master/slave, not realizing the names change but the result stays the same.
>The way the animals appear to be dying - many dropping on their faces - and sightings of other elephants walking in circles points to something potentially attacking their neurological systems

This line was extremely sad and discomforting to read. I'm no expert in wildlife but I saw they mentioned in another article about anthrax occurring naturally in the ground in parts of Botswana and has been known to kill wildlife in large numbers but this one rules it out. Hope the true cause of death is not only discovered early but also acted upon to prevent further damage.
Back in May, Botswana's government ruled out poaching as a reason - noting the tusks had not been removed, according to Phys.org.

There are other things which point to something other than poaching.

"It is only elephants that are dying and nothing else," Dr McCann said. "If it was cyanide used by poachers, you would expect to see other deaths."
Dr McCann has also tentatively ruled out natural anthrax poisoning, which killed at least 100 elephants in Botswana last year.

But they have been unable to rule out either poisoning or disease. The way the animals appear to be dying - many dropping on their faces - and sightings of other elephants walking in circles points to something potentially attacking their neurological systems, Dr McCann said.

- TFA
On what basis do you stake your claim?
> Back in May, Botswana's government ruled out poaching as a reason - noting the tusks had not been removed, according to Phys.org.

If the problem was permitted hunting... it wouldn't be a mystery.
Hey dang, have y’all ever analyzed the voting patterns of newly-registered accounts? Sometimes when rage-bait like this pops immediately to the top of the front page it frankly reeks of coordinated inauthentic activity.
The number of mass animal deaths seems to be greatly increasing in over the last two decades:

- Half of all Saiga antelopes (120k) died over a month, 2015 [1]

- Recent unexplained dog deaths in Norway, 2019 [2]

- The ongoing white nose syndrome epidemic that's ravaging bat populations in North America [3]

- Gray whales beaching themselves all along US West Coast, 2019 [4]

- Ongoing, mass die-off of about 30% of frog and other amphibian species in the New World caused by a fungus [5]

Not to mention the commonly noted large decline in insect populations and colony collapse disorder in bees.

It seems that the proximate causes for these events are varied, but the sheer pace, magnitude, and number of affected species should hint that this is ultimately caused by downstream impacts of rapid changes in the environment precipitated by climate change.

One factor that I'm betting will eventually be implicated in many animal die-offs are biotoxins created by algae and molds. Many algaes and mold species are capable of creating toxins, but are normally non-toxic. However, under environmental stress and disruption, they can quickly produce a wide variety of nasty toxins. These biotoxins tend to target the nervous system, the immune system, and cell metabolism.

For example, seafood harvesting has been stopped with increasing frequency in Northern California in the last decade due to high domoic acid levels [6]. Many lakes were closed in the Bay Area due to cyanotoxins potentially poisoning dogs and people.

> The way the animals appear to be dying - many dropping on their faces - and sightings of other elephants walking in circles points to something potentially attacking their neurological systems, Dr McCann said.

Top photo on the article looks like a lake undergoing an algal bloom, so potentially elephants are dying from ingested neurotoxins.

Unfortunately for us, harmful algae blooms seem to be increasing in frequency [7] and potentially affecting human health.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiga_antelope#2015%E2%80%9320...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49627463

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-nose_syndrome#Cause

[4] https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chytridiomycosis

[6] https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/project/frequently-asked-questio...

[7] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Judith_ONeil/publicatio...
IMO, the person seems to be racist and prejudiced. Like:

>“Being the only Black person out in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of white people talking about noosing things is unsettling,”

What does she think her colleagues are? If they are _that evil_ why does she work with them?
Some of the problems with the A380 come from the wing design: it has an unusually narrow wing for its weight (out of a desire to remain within the 80m box), along with the shaping of the wing being optimised for a heavier, long A380-900 that never came to market. An unusually large proportion of the drag comes from the wing on the A380.

It's worthwhile looking at where Airbus proposed to improve the A380:

* Densifying the main deck (going to 11-across in economy, still with 18" wide seats). This _alone_ in a typical configuration gives a 9% fuel-per-passenger gain.

* They looked at new engines (derived from the A350, for example) which would provide a 5% fuel burn gain.

* Minor wing modifications (new winglets and slightly reduced wing twist) which would provide a 4% fuel burn gain.

* Longer maintenance intervals (so the aircraft spends more time in the air earning money rather).

Other differences include that it holds much less freight in its belly than a 777 (a much larger proportion of its hold is consumed with passenger luggage), so you lose freight revenue.

It's also worthwhile pointing out that engines are some of the most expensive parts to maintain on an aircraft, so by doubling the number of engines on an aircraft you make a very significant increase on maintenance costs.

At the same time, you have the 777X lengthening the 777 (and increasing capacity) while reducing fuel-burn per seat, a much more versatile aircraft (an A380 will never be profitable on the major of 777X routes!), and more fleet commonality.
Discussed yesterday, 35 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23707920

This comment is particularly relevant:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708416
The entire idea of "transtrenders" is a made up one designed to perpetuate oppressive gender roles and work against solidarity within the trans community. The fact that she takes it seriously is pretty goddamn founded, as far as evidence goes.
Here's an interesting paper on the topic. It seems that only some NN architectures are turing complete: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.03429.pdf

To the essence of what I think the original question is asking: It seems possible (due to the turing completeness of some NN architectures) that a language model could learn a sub-network that was a turing complete computational framework + problem solver and then use that to solve problems in natural language. But it also seems highly unlikely that it would actually play out that way.

The linked paper has a nice summary of attempts to build neural nets that learn algorithms. It seems this more direct approach would be likely to yield a result faster than waiting for such a capability to emerge in GPT-12 or something.

Of course most ML models execute from within a turing complete programming language/execution environment anyway. If we want to solve math problems, it might be easier to train a model to translate natural language into a more formal definition (afaik this is still very hard) and then hand off the formal definition of the problem to an automated theorem prover. After all, being turing complete doesn't make all problems solvable or tractable from a run time / memory perspective and that's probably the bigger bottleneck when it comes to solving hard math problems.
Unspoken in all of this is that one would think that history started in 1777 and didn't happen anywhere but America.

The world has a long and difficult history, and we could do this ad nauseum.

Everyone has a right to feel unsettled, but that doesn't mean that everyone else doesn't have a right to use common language.

Slavery has existed for thousands of years in every form, in every place on the planet, and it's touched everyone in one way or another.

Confederate statues are one thing, common language is another.

" The names, she says, “make visible the values and priorities and beliefs of an institution.”"

This is Orwellian: "He who controls the present, controls the past, he who controls the past controls the future."

Abraham Lincoln, by any reasonable definition, was a White Supremacist, and so was George Washington. Good look fighting over that.

This is not a 'dangling thread', it's the entire sweater - and it will be used by totalitarian advocates to shape the future in their own image.
> meanwhile ignore the thousands of people literally massing in the streets spreading Covid in Democrat-run states...

Those protests were in open air, with a very large majority wearing masks, with people constantly moving about so if you did come near an infected person you probably weren't near them long enough to get an infectious dose.

Also, in some of the cities officials did heavy testing of people at the protests or after they attended. In Minneapolis they got 1.8% positive among 3200 people they tested at the protest, and 1% among 8500 people who sought tests afterwards citing attending the protests as their reason for concern. Seattle had less than 1% positive among the 3000 protestors it tested. Boston had 1.1% among the ~1300 it tested.

As mentioned above, when you encounter an infected person in passing in an open air event with both of you wearing masks, you probably won't get an infectious dose. And with only 1-2% of the people at that event infected, you probably won't encounter enough of them to get an accumulated infectious dose either.

Yes, it is better not to have these protests during a pandemic...but at least they held the protests in places that minimized the risk and the attendees took steps to protect themselves.

Contrast this to groups that are holding their mass gatherings indoors in places where attendees will be relatively static for hours, where most attendees will not take any protective steps, and where they are discouraging even social distancing.

Also, many of the attendees will have not been taking any protective steps in the days or weeks before, so I'd expect the percentage infected going into the event to be higher than it was for the people going into the protests.

The big difference between these events and the protests is that in the later case the organizers recognized the risk and tried to limit it. They may have underestimated the risk of overestimated the effectiveness of their mitigations (although so far the numbers look like they were probably right), but if so that's a quantitative error not a qualitative one.

Those indoor, don't move around, don't mitigate the risk events, are not even trying to mitigate the risk. They are making a qualitative error.
You must be real fun
That's not a good way to deal with this. If you leave, the next guy will have the same shitty spying going on. Plus, nothing stops your next gig from spying on you as well. Until you've quit so many times that no employer is interested anymore. Better to tackle the problem at the root. No spying unless specifically defined how.
I assume this is meant in good faith. And it’s a good question.

We need to be mindful that these people didn’t live in a social/cultural vacuum, and neither do we.
I think I read about it here first:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...

There are further links in the post.
IMO there is a lot of intellectual dishonesty among many self professed free market enthusiasts. For example, a dogged insistence that externalities don't actually exist, or wait they could exist but in practice never will, or maybe they do exist but will never be large, actually it doesn't matter, the important thing is that we don't do anything about them.

I wanted to call myself libertarian-minded for a while but the practice just doesn't seem to match the fundamental principals.
Pretty much. They're on alert 24/7 anyway, and training is mostly to get a specific number of hours. There are likely cases where an intercept adds to monthly flight hours, but it's not a big impact overall.
Great idea! Decades ago, we would do this when selling lists of (voluntary) subscribers. We would seed the lists with our own secret monitoring names and addresses in order to track the use and misuse of the lists. It's a shame that these simple things need to get reinvented constantly. Sometimes, people see differences when they should see similarities.
It's so interesting to see the how organically the next method of belittling anti racist actions has come to life spreading like a meme.

How are scientists going to stop police brutality?
At least let the people complain about changes like this. If we can't prevent it...
"Being the only Black person out in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of white people talking about noosing things is unsettling."

She probably does not realize it, but that's a terrible thing to say, and she does so on the sole merit of their skin color. This is racial prejudice in its very essence.
In the neighborhood next to the freeway.
Hm. Are you sure? I thought "home before the leaves fall" was a legit quote (modulo translation). And the German war plans had to predicated on a quick and victorious war, because in the beginning they were not in a position to fight a long one.
Why do you think a request from BLM protesters is necessary to legitimize this action?
Can I still _hang_ my coat?