skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of their modus operandi is to eschew data science in favor of human in the loop pattern analysis. This is born from Thiel's experience at paypal where human in the loop was much better at catching human fraud than machine learning and other automated approaches.
I think the author of that comment was saying a paper alone is typically not sufficient. A researcher should summarize their work in a written paper AND provide resources, code, media, etc.
Whole foods can't be faked. An apple is an apple. A whole chicken is a whole chicken. There are different farming techniques, pesticides etc but the less processing there is, the less opportunity for quality slippage as well. And it's up to the consumer to fill their cart with highly-processed or minimally-processed items. And like any other grocer, Walmart offers the same spectrum of options.
Lab classes should at least be performed. It feels like the professors care more about alleviating 100% of their own personal risk than the thousands of students whose educations and livelihoods are on the line. Set up some plexiglass borders, open the windows, take some other precautions, but there has to be a tradeoff at some point in my opinion.
> It saves me the trouble of thinking

So thoughtless?
Dick Durbin was totally right to torpedo that bill because it would ease the Green Card backlog for Indians but will set everyone else back by 5-10 years. Removing the per-country cap must come with increasing the overall Green Card cap. Otherwise it will just be pitting one group of immigrants against another.
The trend is your friend until the end
Happened to me twice in the past couple of weeks (minus the "being scammed" part). Once claiming to be from the CRA (Canadian's IRS), and once obvious fake impersonating the IRS on a text app. In both case, the initial message was a text-to-speech intro which claim to be followed up to an "agent"... I guess to filter out the large amount of people hanging the call.
It’s a great show, thought indeed it takes a few episodes to find its footing. If you can suspend your disbelief a little about the liberties taken for the sake of storytelling, you will find it a compelling drama.

It should be noted that it has a proper ending, it doesn’t simply come to an abrupt stop due to cancellation.
Or more typically Monte Carlo heuristics.
Britain invented the steam engine.
No, it's not ironic. And it has nothing to do with the Faulklands war. It's just an opening for people like you to pipe up in conversations where it's irrelevant and say "you know, it's ironic (even though it's not) that the US does bad things...", because you want to bring up the fact the US does bad things.

We get it. It's true. But it's a derail to insert it when it is neither ironic or relevant.
good luck buying the index in a zero interest rate policy world...see nikkei since 1990 for example performance
A lot of people on social media and in the news are complaining about businesses that took the money that didn't "need" it. It's fun to be outraged but I think there's a few things everyone should know:

- First, the forgiveness requirements, while not fully finalized, cap the amount of money a single employee can be paid and have forgiven at ~20k. It's not like people are getting 1M dollar loans they can just pocket individually. There are reporting/documentation requirements in terms of employees on payroll before and after the loan was made, and documentation required to show a history of the salary that you're asking to be forgiven. I'm sure some things will slip through the cracks, but really they did a pretty good job of shoring up loopholes in the short time period they had to devise this thing.

- Second, very high salaries are not 100% forgivable. If you're making 200k, the most you can have forgiven from the PPP loan is the equivalent of a 100k salary during the 8 or 20 week forgiveness period (again, capped at 20k max)

- Third, who's to say what the long term effects of the coronavirus are on the economy? Just because a business doesn't need the money at this moment doesn't mean they won't be wishing they took it six months from now. Should people who got the stimulus checks and didn't need them give them back too? I don't see too many people complaining about that! I still believe we haven't yet seen the true shape of the coming recession, and think there will be much small business pain ahead. Better to have given these businesses a hand now, I think.

- Fourth - you have to use the money more or less on payroll. This was actually a huge sticking point for a lot of restaurants that wanted to use the money on rent. It's not like loan recipients can buy company Ferrari's with the money - it mostly has to be given to employees in the form of payroll.

Overall the PPP was not perfect, but as far as quickly created government programs, I don't think it was that bad. Millions of small businesses got money, the vast majority of whom can actually use it to pay their middle class employees.

If we want to complain about government programs that are enriching the upper class - I think the latest Fed moves are a better place to start.
It was never about any of those things, it certainly was never about what is in the country's interest. It was always blind racism. In the very speech where trump announced his candidacy: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

This is a blanket statement about ALL mexican immigrants, and "you" refers to his entirely white base of supporters. The administration set up deliberately cruel and trauma-inducing family separations out of hatred, just as these policies are born out of hate. When backwards people talk about "illegals," they are never talking about people's legal immigration status, it's shorthand for race.
I remember in the 80's and early 90's there used to be a great shareware ecosystem with computer games. I'd really like to be able to play the game before deciding to spend $100 on it. As it is there are some games I buy that I just never get to play anyway due to time or lack of interest.
As someone who worked in defense consulting/IT contracting many moons ago, let me clue you in on a simple fact: there is an INSANE amount of money wasted on these contracts.

The project that we were working on was projected to maybe go live in ten years (when the tech would be laughably outdated), and we were the sub-sub-sub-contractor of the massive company at the top. It was nothing more than a vaporware webapp built by 22 year olds right out of college who were white/American enough to get clearance immediately, and our team got $100 million for it.

The money in these DoD contracts is truly nuts. And it never gets slashed because how politically terrible slashing defense is, and it never gets audited because too many people are making money.

So as it relates to Palantir, sure, they're scammy and unethical as all hell, but they certainly know where the bread is buttered in America. Even in a (likely) Democratic adminstration.
Knowing a little bit, but undoubtedly barely the tip of the iceberg of what they actually do, Palantir is a terrifying name.
I love these snarky novelty sites making fun of bad UI trends. As soon as the carousel started going too fast I almost rage quit the tab. Well done.
Financial Times. They offer a customizable RSS feed. Of course it’s a paid subscription newspaper, but you get what you pay for :)
In all of that nonsense, you didn't actually present any alternative interpretation of why Mill was being discussed other than the two obvious and "pessimistic" ones. Thanks for the large red herring.

Oh, and I don't work in your little corporate world where people value "constructive" feedback. I don't value it because I don't value dishonesty. Aim higher with your connection to reality.
Thanks for your resource. Never heard of Dan Tepfer or Extempore - such a great way of imagining music!

What I was planning was something simpler - much like generating sounds from a written score, but like live classical performances, the generated sound reacts to the cues of the player.

I'm not exactly familiar with Magenta, but the thing I'm currently trying to implement (at a very early stage) is Deepmind's Wave2Midi2Wave which is part of the dataset released with Magenta [1]. I'm not aware if they'd released any code as well.

[1] - https://magenta.tensorflow.org/maestro-wave2midi2wave
All the Lord of the Rings inspired startups give me the heebie jeebies. Anduril literally translates to "Flame of the West."
>Like you, I'm not a Trump supporter, but I like the points-based system. Not sure why that got so much criticism (probably simply because it came from him)

The reason was quite simple, Republicans didn't like it because it did not reduce the legal immigration numbers, and Democrats did not like it because it eliminated pretty much all the family based immigration except for spouses and children which meant people would be not be able to sponsor their parents and siblings.
It is reasonable to think a CIO may have some concrete data sources in mind that they want to integrate and build business intelligence on top of.

The language is abstract since Palantir develops bespoke applications.
What issue do you take with Thiel? I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call him evil.
I don't think high risk people should "consider the tradeoff" at all. Of course they're interested in alleviating their own personal risk...do you understand what's they're risking? Would you show up to work if you were 70, just because some students wanted to take bio?
Why wouldn't STIR/SHAKEN fix it well enough? And isn't SHAKEN designed specifically to pass authentication over SS7?

It's fine if providers trust each other as long as they only do that after verifying that the other party is trustworthy, and quickly fix it if that turns out to be a wrong assumption.
But it does. You see, these high level executives often have a goal in mind, but the best way to go about it is with this sort of ambiguity because it gives them room to inflate the expectations and plausible deniability when it goes wrong. If you look at the PowerPoint therapy know as consultant-driven product development, you will see the same language. Vague, ambiguous when documented.
People commonly complain about actual observations and dismiss them as anecdotal. Sometimes I think that is going to far, and an anecdote is in fact a datum. But it's a datum, not a universe of data.

One reason I'm more confident of statistics in some countries is not just general prejudice, but that these countries have various levels of government, and statistics are reported by the lower level divisions independently, and third parties who are not the central government can and do compile them.

So, for instance, when you read about US statistics, they may have distortions or issues, but you're not (at least my sources are not) getting them filtered through the very top of the hierarchy.

This could in principle apply to Vietnam as well, but I notice you didn't make this sort of argument, that information flows out independently from centralized control.

I also notice you say you came back in January, and yet living there for four years means you know what the situation is. That sounds odd. I used to live in Virginia, and have a relative there but that doesn't mean I have particular insight into the epidemic there.
If you have to ask, you're not their target demographic. It's pretty safe to say they are not looking for potential customers stumbling upon their website and deciding to try them out.
Deep Adaptation [pdf]
Congrats to a wonderful company.
I don’t know if hour glasses belong in there. Surely those were already mostly decorative when the first hourglass computer icons were developed. Also, I would imagine that most young people still have to occasionally interact with envelopes (government stuff, maybe paying some bills) and cylindrical dry batteries (TV remotes, home thermostats).
And Saudi government "diplomatic teams" with bone saws...
> The problem is going to be if we see a spike or get directions from the federal, state, or tribal governments late in summer.

It looks like CCCC is on a reservation, so I assume you can ignore the state entirely.
SQL Query – Percent of Git Commits in a Repo by Author Name
If you read into the D1 receptor values you will quickly conclude that deregulation causes up regulation so its correct to say they are not addictive, but dopamine receptors are some of the worst off receptors in the body for regulation ignoring Opiods and anxiety/sleep medications.
I enjoyed "The Chinese Typewriter: A History" by Thomas S. Mullaney [1]. An interesting look into the history and technology used to create typewriters that can produce almost all the Chinese (and later, Japanese) characters in various ways.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chinese-typewriter
I didn’t downvote, but just to explain what I see here: you used negative value judgements with words like “cringe” and “pretentious”, and then your question assumes that HN articles must be about technology.

It’s worth re-reading the guidelines, because the definition of what’s invited and acceptable here is (and always has been) precisely that which hackers find interesting:

“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, stories don’t get to the front page on their own. They get there when a lot of people upvote them. Since your insults are directed at the people that upvoted this, and are being read by the people that upvoted this and visited the comments section, downvotes are quite predictable. It’s perhaps a good idea to upvote the things you like, and visit those comment sections instead of complaining.
Amazon Music Will Overtake Apple as #2 in Music Streaming
This article doesn't seem to attribute the many fake personas to any particular nation-state. Weird.
Shhh.... don’t spill the secret.
It's the classic false economy you're saving vertical space, but nobody wants to scroll your carousels, or wait for it to transition. It's always easier to just scroll down the page, especially on mobile.

Apps like Instagram have a standard carousel for photo albums and people use them and can trust the functionality.

But most websites have varying implementations of carousels, with weird functionality (autoplay, transitions, no-swipe, randomized). Users get confused by each implementation and eventually just ignore them...
uber and airbnb replaced by an open sourced platform with a community driven control structure. also, a peer to peer network would destroy facebook and the like as advertisers would deal directly with the users. ie, users would get paid for their data and get paid to watch adverts if they choose.
Anecdotal but... I am considerably younger then 35, know how to interact with it, and hated this page with a passion.

I do think that sometimes a carousel can be fine for images, under the condition that it is only for images, and that those images can be found in a gallery that is easy to find.
This doesn't mean it's not duplicated on remote servers.
Presumably modeling. The following two EB-1 via criteria would be sufficient:

Evidence that you command a high salary or other significantly high remuneration in relation to others in the field

Evidence of your commercial successes in the performing arts
With my 72 year old dad I mostly notice tech related things. He's a smart guy, worked in banking and finance his whole career (so used computers pretty heavily) and was really into PCs in the 90s. He was constantly setting up and tinkering with DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, etc. as well as learning to program.

These days he is limited to the basics on his PC: email in outlook, checkbook in Quicken, basic web browsing... and he often runs into trouble with them. I'm on TeamViewer about once a month helping with something. He also has an iPhone and iPad but can just barely do the basics on them, watching him try to use them is just painful. Some of that is due to crappy modern UX, especially on the iDevices, but his ability solve tech problems and deal with unexpected situations has dropped off a cliff the last few years. Age is coming for us all...
I'd love to know a lot more details on how this was calculated.

I haven't seen anything below $10-20/GB for "actual committed data" depending on network for the US if you aren't willing to go all-in for years and submit to hard credit inquiries and associated bullshit that comes with it. Every company advertises "unlimited+++*" with insane amounts of gotchas. Ten tiers of unlimited, none of which are unlimited, all silently capped.
I think most people that grew up in the Bay Area would prefer it if there was reduced traffic and lower rent that you'd get having had less high-skilled immigration. Then California wouldn't have such a large working class exodus. Santa Clara county is 38.07% immigrant. Without that immigrant population, working-class Californians would have more disposable income after rent, faster commutes, and more free time.

The locals seem to agree -- it has been Bay Area communities' policy to hinder international and interstate migration into the area by limiting new construction, on the grounds that more people makes the community a worse place to live.
Leap in Lidar could improve safety, security of new technology
I made all of the data available and made some example Google Colab notebooks. Feel free to contribute with a PR

https://github.com/sbooeshaghi/SBA-PPP-Loan-Data
I'd adopt Rust for web before this. This is a solution nobody should desire imo.
Asked about TikTok and the CCP. If we're posting wiki

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

Along with the Great Firewall, restrictions raise concerning voices, especially among foreign companies.[11] Regarding the requirements for spot-checks and certifications, international law firms have warned that companies could be asked to provide source code, encryption, or other crucial information for review by the authorities, increasing the risk of this information being lost, passed on to local competitors, or used by the authorities themselves.[1] The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that the law could force companies transmitting data through servers in China to submit to data surveillance measures.[12]

https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en

The personal data that we collect from you will be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA").

It's not unreasonable to believe the same happens in Australia, which I doubt has a better model than the EU. Which prompts my question.

EDIT: there's no indication in the US section as to where the data may be stored, or sent

https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en#privacy-...

But they clearly say:

We may share your information with a parent, subsidiary, or other affiliate of our corporate group.

ByteDance in Beijing qualifies.
Why not? It's not full-motion video, it's literally talking heads. Talking heads are easy to push to 60fps on a relatively low bitrate.
What’s the best path to get on this gravy train?
For you, maybe.

For a Chinese company with ways around the Great Firewall, don't think so.
The extended reals can also arise directly from the definition of reals either as Cauchy sequences of rationals (as unbounded increasing sequences, etc) or Dedekind cuts (let the lower cut contain all rationals) :) for reals IIRC the main reason to exclude the extended reals is to make it a field.

However I don't think any of this matters for the point the article made. The problem is not that 1:N/0:N has "nothing sensible" to return, the problem is that if you define it in the way most mathematicians do, a lot of your proofs will be littered with (inline) lemmas showing that the result of such-and-such a division is a finite natural / finite real. This is analogous the problem brought up in the article of having proofs littered with lemmas showing that the result of such-and-such a square root was real.
Nah, Dolby excels at injecting itself where not needed. Blurays support 8-channel LPCM (uncompressed) audio, yet Dolby managed to push its proprietary junk codecs in there.
Lol. Getting July 4th fee fees or something? Need a widdle Lee Greenwood to feel better?
yes, democrats and republicans are very much alike (only their speech differs)
It's really important for everyone to understand the point of the middle of this article which can be summarized as: "dopamine is not a reward, it is the expectation of a reward".

However, this doesn't mean that one cannot be addicted to dopamine. Lab rats will submit themselves to physical harm to get more dopamine and humans given a dopamine button keep pressing it for more. This is explained in the book "The Willpower Instinct".

It's probably the case though that you would only see a psychologist like the author of this article for an addiction to a true reward chemical (like opioids). A dopamine addiction is more likely to be something like checking your phone for messages every few minutes.

The usefulness of dopamine is to provide motivation. So unfortunately the solution to a perceived dopamine problem isn't to broadly have less dopamine (then you won't want to get off the couch), but to somehow have less associated with the activity you don't want to do and more associated with the activity you do want to do.
Can you cite a self perpetuating instance of the price premium ownership? I'm shopping and I've been considering Japanese vehicles as well.
>because it would ease the Green Card backlog for Indians but will set everyone else back by 5-10 years.

Not really true. There is no special treatment for Indians in that bill. Indians will have to wait the same 5 to 10 years if they apply for a green card at the same time as others.

Even that will happen only 5 to 10 years from now, during which an immigration friendly administration could increase the green cards or give other forms of relief. It's sad to have to say this but when people from Europe, Australia etc. are waiting for a long time it'll be more palatable for Congress and the President to increase green cards compared to the current situation.

>Removing the per-country cap must come with increasing the overall Green Card cap. Otherwise it will just be pitting one group of immigrants against another

Those groups aren't equivalent though, one has been waiting for 10+ years in the green card queue while the other is expecting instant green cards based on their country of birth. The current system already pitts one group against the other and gives one the preferential treatment and disadvantages the other.

Also, the Congressional Research Service's research on the bill says that the current system makes employers prefer Indians for IT jobs since it's much harder for them to switch jobs for a very long time compared to other nationalities who might take off once they get their Green Card.
They should collect stats on how many clicked the previous slide link immediately after the slide changed (slide changes too fast).
When Argentina and the UK were fighting over the Malvinas/Falklands, Jorge Luis Borges described the situation as, "two bald men fighting over a comb."
The Herald Sun is one of Murdoch's mouthpieces.
There may be a source, but with the Sun I believe the use of the passive voice allows the editor to hide that the source of the article is the article itself, and perhaps, the article should be written as:
'This article is calling for the ban of Tik Tok which is a competitor for your attention. It may be that a ban is in the national interest, but that's not of interest to us. Our editorial policy is to provoke strong emotional reactions that drive sales and our political agenda, not critical thinking. '