skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since they classed the first known outbreak of ME as mass hysteria its been constant gaslighting for sufferers for 70 odd years. Even now this article is written as if ME/CFS doesn't exist, as if doctors in the UK are completely baffled, but we know what this is and it will have the same hallmark Post Exertional Malaise but its not even mentioned in the article. The NHS doesn't recognise the international definition of the disease and continues to harm patients that show up with it every day. The Chinese after SARS didn't have issues calling it ME/CFS, around 10% of the SARs sufferers still suffer with ME/CFS to this day, they had papers calling it what it was very early on. The NHS however is going with "no clue".

We do know a lot more than we knew 2 years ago. We know the condition swells the brain in the central and front regions and that explains the memory problems, headaches and coordination issues. We know that sufferers have virus RNA in their body and in their brains, so its possible its just an ongoing infection but it also appears to be partially replicated in cells. We know that patients cells produce down to about 25% of the energy that a normal persons cells do in their mitochondria and it is at least partially to do with the Calcium ion channel being turned off with a gene switch. A sufferers plasma will shut down someone else's cell too so its probably a signal of some description in the immune system soup. What we don't know is if any of this is the root cause of the condition and there is frighteningly small amounts of research being done for a disease that can be as debilitating as MS.

We know a lot about how its not Psychological now and research is getting funded at last. But its been 70 years of "its all in your head", nothing about this condition paints doctors and researchers at all in a good light.
Add some mind control and you have great a great spying device.
One of Keynes' major contributions was to _convince_ that aggregate demand was a strong influence on economic output, and that left to its own devices the private sector would not be willing or able to perform the countercyclical spending necessary to stabilise an economy during a recession (by stabilise I specifically mean increase output back to the long run productive capacity of the economy). GDP = aggregate spending = aggregate incomes. With such a large output gap unable to be restored by the private sector, you end up in a depression. So he convinced governments to expand the federal deficit in order purchase goods & services from the private sector in sufficient quantity to kickstart economic output.

So I think to say that he simply affirmed that aggregate demand exists is underselling his contribution - he managed to convince all the important policymakers of the time that it was important enough to overturn their prior thinking about how to use fiscal (not monetary) policy in a countercyclical manner.

The scare quotes around money printing don't help progress the dialogue around the mechanics and consequences of government spending either. Today with a fiat currency system, the government can enact countercyclical fiscal policy by simply crediting private sector accounts, and increasing a balancing government liability electronically (note there are _no taxes involved in doing this_). No money is 'printed' (the term conveys unrealistic connotations), private sector demand deposits are simply increased electronically.

The increase of these demand deposits is not inflationary unless they are used to purchase goods and services in excess of what can be supplied at a constant price level. So when we find ourselves in a situation where 20% of the workforce is suddenly unemployed due to a shutdown of economic output, the government can spend to help stabilise aggregate incomes without risking inflation, because no-one is buying stuff otherwise (and as a result, no-one would be making any income).

It is certainly true that a number of economic schools of thought have tried to use his name to legitimise their ideas, and he'd likely be disappointed with a few of them.
I really wish someone bothered to hold his feet to the fire on that one. He just got to chuckle and shrug it off, and the reaction from most seems to be “lol oh that’s our Boris”
Of course it cannot make you smarter. Intelligence is innate. chess is a skill/ability in which ones proficiency may be positively correlated with IQ but in and of itself does not make you smarter. There are no exercises or activities that have been shown to actually rise IQ, unfortunately.
I’ve been wanting to try out GPT-3 while I wait for them to accept my application, but sadly https://learnfromanyone.com/ returns a Firebase “site not found” error.
By "genesis of this behavior" I meant the implementation, not the reason (spec) for the behavior.
> And the absence of serious, critical thought. Has trulia never heard of correlation vs causation?

They probably don’t teach that in data science boot camps
Kind of annoying 'hoax', though. Obviously you can publish garbage in fringe journals if you leverage pre-existing prestige and position like Sokal did. Doesn't really say anything about the social sciences.

You can also publish a lot of nonsense in certain chinese journals that optimize for quantity in quality, in whatever field you want.
>Chess is all about memorizing patterns //

Professional chess, you mean; I think that's worth mentioning.

Thar description would put me off entirely: whilst it's a game I've enjoyed and taught to several others (I've helped at a school chess club, for example). My memory is terrible - I play by analysing a tree of possible outcomes, or more casually by strategic feel (positional play) which is far less intense and still enjoyable for me.
Building DIY LED strips for fun
it seems to have been consistently underestimated by experts

Which experts do you mean?

Because from where I'm sitting, I saw a whole lot of so-called "experts" predict millions dead, drastic measures required, way worse than the flu etc.

But we ended up with graphs like this one:

https://swprs.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/uk-flu-comparison....

The sort of experts cited relentlessly by world leaders and the media have all vastly over-estimated it, not under-estimated.

To a non-expert, a rapidly spreading novel virus with unknown long-term effects would be something to be eradicated

Eradicated with what? Nobody has ever eradicated even the common cold, let alone a "novel" virus (it's not that novel).
Wow, I wonder if it would make a good bullshit detector?
Nice effort. I would like to see SSR for React run in the same way!
I find the idea interesting. Do you have data for me to study on the effects of such a political/economical system?

Would love to find out more.
Red post above the " " have a meaning too.
It‘s not getting immoral, just because you can imagine some negative applications. I can image many positive ones.

But there might be a need for regulation, it some point.

On the other hand: If there is no interaction it doesn‘t really matter. After all there are many human beings, too. It‘s not that important if something is written by one of them or by an AI. But if you‘re talking to one - then I‘d say it might matter.
Near a UK fulfilment center ca. 2031:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ2Sgd9sc0M
At least it is witty:

Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

> By posting GPT generated text we’re polluting the data for its future versions

John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack

> Was just about to say that... Old printed books will be the equivalent of the sunken ships they cut up for uncontaminated steel today.
Another americentric post, seeing the upvotes it gets. This really isn't newsworthy.

Amazon in Europe is small, having <10% of the e-commerce marketshare (compared to >50% in the US). For example, in the Netherlands people are much more likely to shop at Bol, Coolblue or Wehkamp.
I'd imagine it depends on how much attention the operators in this marketplace have been paying.

If they've believed UK Government rhetoric about how Brexit will be a smooth process that will enhance the UK's trading opportunities, this may come as a surprise.

There are (IMO) a reasonable number of UK citizens and businesses who haven't grasped the likely consequences of what's happening on 1/1/21
I had COVID end of February/early March. Thankfully I didn't need hospital treatment, in fact at the time I didn't even know it was COVID. It was only recently I got it confirmed.

However several months on I still notice the effects from it. Mostly regular fatigue and almost daily shortness of breath.

Last night I was laying in bed going to sleep and got quite panicked as it feels like I am not getting enough air in each breath. I have moment like this almost daily and it is extremely unsettling and worrying.

I am in my mid-thirties and generally quite healthy. A bit overweight but before COVID I didn't get out of breath going up the stairs. I didn't find myself needing to lie down on the sofa from exhaustion. I am still able to run but no where near as long as I could just a few months ago. Putting it bluntly it is fucking scary.

I am very fortunate that two good friends of mine are doctors (a cardiologist and her husband a microbiologist) and they have been kind enough to check on me weekly with some basic lung function tests and blood work but they are seeing these kinds of issues with many recovered COVID patients.
Exiting single market means no longer being in the single market. Who could have predicted that?

This whole thing is an embarrassing own goal
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In context of Brexit, the inevitable consequences of the UK's actions is quite often a "bombshell" to the UK. The denial is strong.
> There activities that have been shown to actually rise IQ, unfortunately

what does this sentence mean?
I don’t agree. But, there is no way that I would go through the trouble of keeping up with modern front end development and the $cool_kids framework of the day.

A front end developer is the easiest thing to contract out and have them code to spec. There is a lot of demand, but since it’s the easiest to train for, salaries have stagnated for years as their more supply.

You get the worse of both worlds. It’s harder to keep up with the changing landscape and you get paid less for your trouble.
> Why don't we have coffee houses like this today?

It's called the pub.

It is socially acceptable to shoot the shit with complete strangers at a bar, especially if you're at the bar on a stool; less so between tables where it's usually a group of friends that are gathered.

More generally: people go to these types of establishments often to meet friends, so it is generally impolite to intrude on their conversation.

Again: less so at a bar.
So you can't learn to focus better and doing so doesn't make you 'smarter'??
A huge number of healthcare systems around the world still use graded exercise therapy (and CBT) and that is known to actively hurt patients with the condition, so I don't think that is sure at all. You would have thought the basis of medicine where first do no harm might be their first instinct but it really isn't.
> Aside from the UK (which does have two major parties)

In the UK:

A small but national party was in government a few elections ago. They had multiple ministers and could influence the policy narrative.

In the previous government, the DUP, a tiny regional party had a big influence on major policies that mattered to them.

The SNP, a regional party, has wiped away the national parties and now has many seats in the national parliament, and was recently part of frustrating the main party from doing anything.

This is all possible, even with FPTP.

Imagine if a party like the Greens, or the SNP, or the LD, but in the US, controlled a few seats in the Senate or the House of Representatives - think how much power they'd become king-making between the two parties. They'd be able to insist on a couple of their key policies for the deal and be able to enact real changes.
Sorry for the late reply. I use only one. I have a dual SIM phone with a clear separation.

So I call private contacts from private SIM, business contacts from business SIM. I have Apps separated into business and private and the respective profiles are in place. Business partition (so to speak) is managed by employer. Private partition is MDMed by myself.

So I have both worlds - in one device. If my employer decides to delete the business partition. I have exactly no problem with that (we tested it and it worked like a charm - private data wasn't affected. We also tested access to private data being nil).
One year of Flutter as a web developer
On One on Ones
The Subway Beneath the US Capitol in Washington D.C. (2016)
> For example, in Brazil people should be more worried about getting Dengue fever

Huh? 700-1400+ people/day are dying of COVID in Brazil with ~200 total deaths from Dengue this year. I'm not really sure how you can equate 78k [1] deaths from COVID in Brazil so far with the ~200 [2] from Dengue.

You mentioned in your first post to look at the facts and numbers. Where are your numbers coming from?

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/

[2] http://outbreaknewstoday.com/dengue-fever-more-than-1-millio...
I see this "175B parameters" figure tossed around a lot: what does that mean? Does the model literally consist of 175 billion 32-bit floats?

(Sorry for the very basic question.)
This is not going to be fun for Ireland. Ireland doesn't have its own regional Amazon, but the UK one would have great fast shipping. I wonder if shipping from Amazon DE or FR will be more popular in the future.
> A major party actually has a chance to have a plurality.

I disagree - it's about influencing the policy narrative. It doesn't matter if you have plurality or not if you are getting things done.

The LD, the SNP, and the DUP (a tiny tiny party) all managed that recently in the UK.

A small party with large support somewhere like California could become king-makers in the US, and influence police, nominations, etc.
So stupid! The UK voted to keep Europeans from coming over here and taking our jobs and seducing our women with their sophisticated accents. There was nothing about blocking European goods and European fulfilment centres. Boris Johnson even assured us that it was going to be easy to get a "great deal" on free trade. This is not the Brexit we voted for!!
Slightly OT:

>This is why so many parents around the world are keen to get their children playing chess //

Did they study this or is it assumed. I taught my kids to play because it's fun and I hoped they'd enjoy playing.
It’ll be fine. Switzerland isn’t in the EU and doesn’t have amazon. Instead amazon ships for free from .fr,de,it and include the reduced vat etc so you don’t have anything extra to pay when receiving. Me for returns they cover the actual shipping costs back to their warehouses.
what matter are stats, and they don't lie

Sadly stats do lie, all the time, and especially in this particular event.

Just a few days ago it was discovered that Public Health England was defining a "COVID death" as literally any death of anyone who had ever been infected. Under this definition COVID is a terminal disease from which nobody ever recovers. The stats reported for COVID deaths in England have been completely corrupted and nobody seems to know how long this has been going on for. Is the UK really one of the "worst hit" countries given such statistical errors? Maybe, maybe not. Nobody actually knows.

The same problems are visible in other countries too. That's why there are so many cases of people reported as COVID deaths yet who actually clearly died of other cases. Governments suspended the usual judgement of pathologists, autopsies etc to find out 'true' cause of death and just assumes COVID+death = COVID death. The case count is even more corrupted.

At this point I don't think there are any stats that are reliable except all-cause mortality, and even then, people routinely read things into it that aren't there. For example by assuming all excess deaths must be caused by COVID. Not a valid inference.

So some newspaper has come up with some stats saying lots of people have weird, inexplicable yet vague symptoms after apparently recovering. Given how often these outlets have mis-labelled or mis-reported basic statistical data and always to the same end of creating more panic, I'm going to reserve judgement until far more analysis is done and with far more reliable evidence.
Depends on what you use at your table. My tablespoons only seem to hold 10ml, and what passes for a teaspoon in my country is less than half the size of a measuring teaspoon. This kind of inconsistency is exactly why measuring spoons have been standardized.
Great move, kudos to Micheal!
I could retire if I had a Euro or 2 every time I have heard management say that mistakes are just lessons, experiments SHOULD fail now and again, and other such platitudes. Then reward the exact opposite type of workflow.
That answer is too easy.

What does it mean to „understand it“?

How do you know how you answer a question yourself?

Presumably, what you mean is that you can stop and _reflect_ on what was asked. You‘re aware of it. And if it‘s complicated you might be able to reason and break it down.

GPT-3 certainly doesn‘t do that, but all that means it‘s not conscious.
Shopping for a Private Island in a Pandemic
The incentives are against it. Legal issues, corporate "governance", patents, IP, publish-or-perish all reward information hoarding and secretive experimentation.
It isn't assumed that IQ is a proxy go general cognitive ability, it is known that it correlates to some degree with many positive outcomes and abilities.

So you can look up how well it correlates with what things, and what it doesn't, and get an idea of what it is predictive of.

It isn't anywhere near perfect of course, you can't capture the whole of a person's cognitive ability in one number, but then it is only a "proxy" as you said.
The Evolution of Group Delusion
The surveillance software tracking child porn offenders across the globe
Apple isn’t an “Internet company”. It’s been around for over 40 years. It makes almost all of its money selling hardware and has the same challenges and long development cycles as any other manufacturer.

Also many of its most strategic acquisitions have been used to design and manufacture hardware from processors, biometric sensors, etc.

Yes I realize Apple doesn’t “manufacturer” anything. But its just a legal construct. More of a difference in degree than kind. It pours billions in its manufacturing partners.

Apple sells 300 million+ physical goods every year.
These are fantastic pictures. Wow.
I was typing on my mobile phone and was getting tired of typing out the full name, but you are correct (incidentally, it wouldn't be different in Germany).
Being on unix =/= Unix philosophy. It seems like the perceived irony is drawn from conflating the two.
>I just think the opening sentence is beautiful, it combines the concepts of male and female in a lovely, natural way ignoring today's PC-bullshit.

Honestly, I am astonished that you can be so conscious of the effect of language on thinking in the context of programming, and yet so tone-deaf when writing your copy. This is not "today's PC bullshit", it is an effort to eradicate structural sexism going back at least half a century. It is not lovely and natural to use "man" as a default for "men and women" - it rings strangely to the modern ear, and you have attracted a number of comments about it. Maybe 40 years ago taking this position would have been forgivable, but in 2020 you are very much on the wrong side of this battle.

I commend this article by Douglas Hofstadter to you. It was written in 1982: http://leeclarke.com/courses/intro/readings/Hofstadter_Chang...
Great article, I read to the end.

I faced a similar problem implemented 64/64 division on 32-bit x86. I cribbed some code off the internet and came up with this:

https://github.com/titzer/virgil/blob/2c674dbe3512da23c4a644...

This is the code that my compiler generates for a 64/64 divide when it doesn't know that the divisor is max 32 bits. It works by using the x86 64/32 div instruction. The same trick would work on x86-64 by using the 128/64 divisions.

I am not sure how good the machine code you get out of your C++ is in the end, but it's hard to beat this handwritten assembly. Of course, you can do better on x86-64 because there are more registers and you don't have to spill on to the stack.
But the enrollment criteria was being discharged from a hospital after recovery from COVID-19. It was not a random sample of infected people. None of the text leading up to the graph or any text on the graph itself makes this clear.
> I disagree that legislation and regulations are the problem

Feel free to disagree with that. I stand by my point on account of the lack of transparency (e.g. no obligation to make ancillary income public) and the legality of the "Revolving Door"-effect.

Government officials in Germany are free to leave office for private enterprise with no restrictions. Public officers have to report lobbying jobs to their former office for 5 years, but the worst that can happen if they don't is loosing their pension.

The latter is not much of a problem, though, if the new employer just pays well enough...

This leads to CFOs of DAX companies becoming government officials in the ministry of finance; public officers serving in the ministry for radiation protection who dealt with interim storage facilities to leave office for (nuclear-) energy companies, and so on.

Holding politicians to higher standards than the law is delusional. Politicians are humans, too. None of them are Jesus Christ incarnate and none of them should be either, because in a democracy they should represent The People, not some Utopian ideal.

> It boggles my mind how many politicians have such obvious conflicts of interest that manage to retain approval of their constituents.

That's because in Germany, nobody knows that there even is a conflict of interests, because politicians aren't obligated to make additional income public.

A reasonable first step would be to make that mandatory (you don't even have to disclose exact sums of money, but it helps knowing that your representative has a paid seat in some board of directors on the side).
Indeed. The Turing Test. as originally proposed, is about conversational ability, not the capacity of being infinitely cooperative in some sort of an obscure trivia test. More human answers to some of these would include ”I don’t know”, ”I don’t care”, and ”Why are you asking me these?”. It would be very interesting to see how the GPT-3 would behave if primed by the prompt text to be less cooperative.
Aristotle makes fun of the Pythagorean proposal that there might be a counter-earth orbiting on the other side of the sun, so it can never be seen. But if you think about it, that's only possible in a heliocentic worldview. Coperinicus, at least, believed that the Pythagoreans believed in heliocentrism:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/228080?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_...
If candy bars are too expensive it's the buyers fault? That's fair?
Five years ago, in between the Guyanas, also a 12 seater: My lighter gets confiscated by security, while all other passengers put their handguns and magazines into ziplock bags, which are thrown into a postbag, which ends up, open, next to the pilot, just in front of me. During take-off the pilot lights a cigarette for himself, passes me the lighter with the word "open the window, please".
You're describing a skunk works. Skunk works have to be secretive and they must be supported by the highest levels of management. Otherwise lesser employees (who are not good enough to join the skunk works) will get jealous and make it their mission in life to destroy the skunk works. Eventually one or two of them will get enough political power to make it happen, and then the skunk works is toast.
You left out the part where most items on amazon don’t ship to Switzerland. The probably only item with free shipping is books.