skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Keynes was not merely wrong about the German ability to pay

So the Germans were able to pay? I don't pretend to be a historian, yet I've never heard the idea that Germany could pay.

BTW, the Odd Lots had a show [1] about the book recently

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2020-07-12/studying-key...
vouching for zim too
I think we're close to the point where this sort of attitude becomes a form of theology.
GPT-3 responds to your comments in this thread
Sorry all, this isn't going to work, because the HN account I created is too rate limited in responses. I've now been waiting 43 minutes to be allowed to make the next reply.

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I'm not cherry-picking responses, posting the first thing that it says.

Still trying to improve the prompt. Here's my current one, but it seems to get confused that the comments and replies should be distinct and not part of an ongoing thread: https://pastebin.com/DKEuZSrP
Another excellent source is language subreddit subscriber numbers. Go to https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/wiki/faq#wiki_what_lang...

Mind you the numbers for each language get out of date very quickly. Visit the actual subreddit to see the true numbers.

As far as I'm concerned Tiobe is at odds with everybody else and should be regarded as junk.
I'm not sure, my PhD advisor also uses "quoted words" very frequently in her writing. In GPT-3's defense, she is a prolific writer :)
Array Functions and the Rule of Least Power
Check out Sendy: https://sendy.co
I don't know of any good sources. But my understanding is that there are very few "Methuselah bonds" by which it is meant instruments that have lifespans of 50 years or more. So anybody with a profit motive has no advantage for putting money into something that would have a longer term focus. This explains to me why, for example, banks are still loaning money for buildings on Miami Beach. I would love to understand the dynamics better. It seems to me that only governments can be planning for longer terms. China, maybe?
Obviously not. You've moved the goalpost from 'many' to 'most', which do not mean nor imply the same thing.
They also create dangerous levels of sound for children and other people who’s ears are close to them when in use.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918665/
Shutdown is not a good strategy:

https://unherd.com/thepost/oxford-epidemiologists-suppressio...
Org chart is as important as the flow chart
Thanks for clearing that up for me. When I saw that the Aldi copy of a Mars bar is called Titan[1], I idly wondered if they were continuing a theme of celestial objects or Greco-Roman deities.

I had been leaning more towards the celestial object them due to the existence of Galaxy chocolate[2] and Milky Way bars[3]. On the other hand, Snickers bars [4] were called Marathon bars when I was growing up and this could have been a reference to the classical Greek battle (the Wikipedia page doesn’t say where this name comes from but I’d guess that it’s intended to imply that the bar will provide you with enough energy to a long distance).

[1] https://external-preview.redd.it/w9bXzLbNqBFPIEnkI8H73sV5D8n...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_(chocolate)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way_(chocolate_bar)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickers
Atoav above described this culture in Viennese coffee houses where "you get one coffee and stay for hours."

I have seen this environment at a small university town where I used to live. You overhear all sorts of interesting conversations ranging from the middle school kids who walk there after school to professors researching antibiotic resistance.
Wow, you've described my situation almost exactly. Where my garden is now was nothing but hardpan and rocks. It's taken quite a bit of work over four years to "terraform" the area back to life.

I've done a mix of techniques, but at the end of the day I've just found that the more organic material you can bring in, the better. I'm still looking for that silver bullet, though-- Something that can be deployed inexpensively at scale. I'm particularly excited to experiment with fracking daikon this winter (https://www.restorationseeds.com/products/fracking-forage-ra...).

Anyway, it's validating to know that someone else has independently arrived at the same conclusions as me :)
African or Asian?
Couldn't agree more. Of course you use your product and do service quality measurements. What you don't do is toss "untested" code at your customers (possible exception here is hotfixes), which is what the meme means. Bad post written by someone either intentionally misinterpreting the meaning or dangerously unqualified to understand it.
The press pushing an agenda for either side and not remaining an impartial observer is a huge part of the problem, not only with Brexit.

I'm not sure if in former times the press was just as opinionated and noone noticed. But now, people notice that the press isn't impartial and therefore just do not trust even the rare instances of impartial facts being presented.
This is the single worst aspect of Rust. Can this be fixed in say in a 2021 or later edition?
I started using Linux in 1993 and cpio was barely used then.
Thanks for the link. Actually, I think the downvotes were somewhat deserved. I wasn't careful enough to set the proper tone of my critique.

In any case, I just wanted to point out here on HN we value those who back up their claims with good data.

You did this. So, thanks.
Martian
Oh got it. Makes sense. I typically did the whole end in which means there is some getting above the cut end
Why not pay them more instead of indoctrinating them?
After graduating I went backpacking round the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean with a Welsh friend - I’m English.

Everywhere we went people would say “Ah, you are English!” to us and he’d explain that no actually he was Welsh, and they’d look at him as though he was crazy or winding them up. It drove him up the wall.
What do you think of domain investing?
I own some cisco stock. I have to use webex at work. I suspect a significant percentage of cisco’s shareholders are in the same boat.

I want them to fire the management chain that was involved in the zoom debacle, and also fire the people that hired / promoted that management chain.
This is my experience as well. One way to put it is that people that tend to demand more also demand lower prices.
I would classify this as using an in-band signal rather than an out of band signal. Twitter used to have this same problems ages ago. I don’t remember the details but it was something like DMs being standard twitter messages with “/dm” at the beginning.
First of all why the strawman? I was responding to a post that claimed there were no argument against.

You can't compare the entire US with a country. The EU have had roughly as many deaths as the US per capita. That's the correct comparison. Some countries like some states did well other didn't some areas in states did well others didn't.

To claim that the tactics are working for NYC is absurd. NYC have had the highest amount of dead, we are still mostly on lockdown here and very few things are open.

I have had two melanomas and so I get checked 4-6 times a year. So far I have been tested in january and not since.

I am not sure what data you are talking about and I am pretty sure this aint over yet.

Furthermore I would challenge you to find single country who would do lockdowns again if this happened.

They locked down because they were unprepared (it's their job to be prepared) not because it was the right thing to do.
It's not union's business to interfere with Law.
Check out https://Kontxt.io. It’s like Pocket, Genius, and Reddit combined. There’s personal features for note taking, organization, and permission based sharing, and social features to discover the best parts of the web.
> One thing I didn't know initially is that IQ tests are normalized so the mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 10.

No, the standard deviation is 15 IQ points, not 10. 130 puts you in the top 2%. I know this because my kid scored in the < 0.02%.

On the other hand, IQ tests are highly correlated to how much you prepare for them, which is why rich families score higher. There was a tutor on Reddit for private schools admissions who said she had never had a student who didn’t surpass the entrance qualifications for a standardized test. It’s very easily gameable.
You're describing the gamer stereotype. Any objective definition of gamer is merely "one who plays games." If you step away from pop culture depictions of the stereotype and look at some real world data (for instance, percentage of American homes with a gaming device, which has been above 50% for years), I think you'll find that most gamers don't fit the gamer stereotype.
The best note taking app is vim.
> Why don't we have 'smell experience' for visual data and a 'visual experience' for smell data?

Many people do. It's called synesthesia.

But usually vectors which have different meaning are not mixed together. While you can describe sound using a vector and you can describe a picture using a vector, adding these vectors makes no sense, it's not useful. So we just don't have pathways which mix data of different kinds. Except that sometimes there's mixing on some level, so one can talk about a blue sound and red word, for example.

> There is absolutely no evidence that a NN neuron (or set of them) that can detect a certain trait such as loudness also has subjective experience.

Not true. If we observe a correlation between a human interpretation of a signal and ANN neuron, then we can say that this neuron _represents_ the quality a person can talk about. That is, there's a correspondence between a neuron and experience human has. One implies another, so they must represent the same thing.

> You're essentially saying that you can solve in a single paragraph and using only knowledge that a CS undergrad might have (!) a problem that professional philosophers have grappled with for decades.

I do. What I'm saying is that professional philosophers specialize on creating various fictional concepts which do not exist in the real world and describe various problems with these stuff. So the thing is, there's no real problem with qualia -- it's a fictional concept.

Suppose I tell you that I've been working on a problem of relating foobla to brantoblaze for decades. If I cannot describe what things things correspond to real world, it's a fictional problem which exists only within my brain. It cannot be solved, but also, doesn't need to be solved.

Another example: Philosophers have been thinking about a nature of language for decades. Wittgenstein came up with revolutionary idea that language is used to communicate useful information between individuals. Any CS undergrad can design a system and a language which communicates useful information between instances of the system: he doesn't need decades of philosophical thought because he already understands concepts such as 'state' and 'information', which are sufficient.

> Do you really think that is more likely than you simply not understanding the problem?

It's far more likely that philosophers do not understand signal processing, vector spaces, ANNs and so on.
I saw Sendy and the product seems solid, although a little dated. I wonder if a more modern, hosted competitor to Sendy would be appealing to enough users.

I especially like their non-subscription based pricing model. I would opt for something on the lines of per-campaign pricing.
Just reading this and the parent post it is still amazing to me how much effort we expend to attempt to force a sale/advertise. We’re even calling it “pay to acquire users”, you don’t earn your users anymore, you buy them. Entire, very wealthy, industries exist around this one concept that users don’t want but businesses just love. Ranting yes, but interesting still.
the global note-taking management software market is estimated to reach $1.35 billion by 2026

That’s an interesting indicator. Would anyone happen to know what report the author is sourcing or have a link? I’m curious to read more of these numbers in full.
Is iCloud a backup or a coordination mechanism? If someone steals an iDevice and starts nuking notes or deleting videos, are they not gone?
Take all jobs seriously, for you never know how they may become of benefit to you.

And Mr. King added:
"What do you think of domain investing? I see an answer, but as to your question of whether gwern.net's configuration pertinent to that matter; perhaps Susan B. Anthony had it right after all...
You don't have to replace your handwritten text. It's searchable even as ink. Can't say I've ever used the ink to text feature.
I hear Italy is an enlightened political paradise with ample job creation and flawless social structures. No wonder you are so enlightened to make these entirely rational remarks

Can you list what interaction you've had with the "class system" in the UK? Is the media in your home country any different? What about the media is "corrupt"?
Another read is that it’s just a hook to get into a meaningful subject - observability can be considered part of the test process. The inflammatory title gets clicks!

The author’s product is based on folks accepting this premise and seeking tools to do better.

I do think the setup to get to the substance is a bit long and indirect - but it’s not a given, especially at series B/C startups that folks think about production monitoring as part of the QA process so I do like to see more pieces on that.
If the prompt doesn't falter, it's due to fallible design. Imagine, NY Times running 4chan as a bot!
Keynes' contention about the German ability to pay was and remains controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economic_Consequences_of_t...
Mark supposedly said, according to Engels: "if they are Marxists, then I am not a Marxist", referring to the French socialist movement and his son-in-law, which he thought of as not radical enough, not as a rebuttal of his ideas or because "he saw his ideas being put into a something bordering a religious teaching". Be accurate.
I remember I used some notes-cli tool to export notes from Notes.app into txt or markdown files

Maybe it was this
https://github.com/xwmx/notes-app-cli
I feel you over-play the economic discussion, at least insofar as it was at the forefront.

While economic "freedom" was pushed by the official campaign, however, you can't deny the widespread publicity of the Nazi-esque "Breaking Point" poster. Anecdotally, I saw people pushing to vote Brexit to stop "the scum of Eastern Europe" from coming here and taxi drivers who voted Brexit to "kick the P*s out" (ethnic slur for Pakistani citizens).

The people airing these views weren't hardcore nationalists but regular working class people. Economic circumstances certainly made these voices louder (as hardship always causes populations to turn on "the other"), I will agree there.
Again, you wrong there too.*

> * Comparison is not correct and not related to Soviet Union story, because in Soviet Union person nation was documented in passport. This was not just social identification.
Need your help I start awesome-nostar to collect useful starless repos
> Why aren't our interpretations of red and blue switched (so that we interpret red visual data as a blue visual experience and blue visual data as a red visual experience)?

What would that even mean? Is it based on some underlying assumption, that we have some hardwired, a priori subjective experience of red and blue colors and later we only associate these with perceptions of blood, roses, ripe apples and sky, water accordingly?

That might be just an illusion and our color perception is learned, so blue is just the color of sky and water, and nothing more.

> Why don't we have 'smell experience' for visual data and a 'visual experience' for smell data?
Some people do (synesthesia), but generally lack of such experience mixes can be explained by different part of the brain getting different inputs, and impossibility of e.g. auditory stimulus to generate the same response as seeing red color would do.
Elixir is the only language that really blew my mind in its capabilities while still using a readable and fairly easy syntax.

Everything is just thinking in terms of message passing between lightweight processes
Taco Bill is pretty popular in Australia.
Bitcoin Price Chart Shows That 9K USD Deadlock May End Next Week
This assumes we developers have a choice. It goes down like this, product team says “we need to track”, dev says “but these people have asked not to be tracked”, product says “i don’t care, do it anyway” which leaves the developer with a choice, stick to their morals, quit their job and maybe go hungry, or write the code and keep eating. If people want developers to stand up for these types of things then we need protection too
> The state of the art before modern neural networks was [Eliza]

To be fair, I think Alice and other pattern-based chatbots where already much better then that.
I have seen them confused for people in IRC chats more than 10 years ago.

Still, it seems to me the older issue of "lack of context" is still there even if the current results are very impressive.

I would be curious to see what happens if asking to change the tone ("could you answer more briefly/tersely/verbosely/whatever?").
The main feature for note taking should be it’s simplicity. I am just writing down a list. All I need is a place to keep referring to and may be search them. The problem comes when they try to cram too much functionality in it. If I wanted more functionality there are other apps like pages and numbers already available. I would just start there. It’s understandable though, Every company wants to hoard all the enterprise functionality
The way Zim organises the notes really makes sense to me. I know you could do what Zim does manually and use built in Linux tools to accomplish most if not all its features but it's nice to have it all in one package.
It's easy to remember something when it has logical structure to you. A King's Indian chess opening line I can rattle off from memory: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1 Nd7 10.Nd3 f5 11.Bd2 Nf6 12.f3 f4 13.c5 g5 etc. Every move in this sequence makes sense. White is playing on the queenside with the c5 break, and black is gaining space on the kingside.
Ouch. Sounds like they’re using a general-purpose, not domain-specific, dictionary for their translations. That might suffice for an initial private proof-of-concept, but not for a public audience.

Imagine translating a medical or legal textbook without knowing the proper professional medical/legal terminology. Those target audiences will tear it a new one, and quite right too.

+1 for authors need to do their homework better.
I see the title has been modified post hoc to include a year.. but it's wrong. It should actually be 1997...
I would like more info on that too.
At some point this is a feature not a bug. If big companies could innovate then new companies would immediately be crushed every time they started to get any traction by the resources of the behemoths in the marketplace. Given the social and economic forces driving ever-increasing consolidation of wealth at the top, I'll take whatever counter-balancing forces I can get.
It's a tradeoff of convenience vs. security. If someone steals my iPhone they would first have to get into it. Assuming they can do that, I'd have much bigger problems than my notes being tampered with.

Additionally, iOS devices can be locked remotely.
> In science you have to control for things to make sure effects can not be just a temporary effect.

The duration doesn't have anything to do with whether something is scientific. It has to do with a statistical correlation of cause and effect.
I think Daniel Hannan was honest in his beliefs. He's posted a few times on Twitter about disagreeing with a lot of the rhetoric.

His problem is that he's hopelessly naive and I don't think he realises that he's being used as the "nice guy" of Brexit.
> From an academic standpoint, writing is part of the thinking process. If you haven't written it down, you haven't fully thought it through.

I 100% agree. I noticed a giant shift in tasks when I made one client write tickets instead of making phone calls. Writing it down forces you to think it through.

And I agree about software development as well, yes. Though I think it's even rare to have somebody describe all the features they want unless it's an experienced software developer who basically writes a textual representation of the application.

But for most PMs (that I've worked with at least), they have vague ideas about what they want, and bringing them into focus is a back and forth with developers and designers. I don't see them getting anywhere with an NLP automaton, but maybe with an Eliza-style system: "Give me a big yellow button saying 'Sign up'" - "Why do you want a big yellow button saying 'Sign up'?" - "You're right, that's too on the nose... give me a link saying 'Sign up'"...
Please let it be a gun shaped lighter.
It seems like it's going to be a bit of a challenge for teachers grading homework essays to establish authorship. But on the other hand I think it could make a good high school English exercise for students to have to distinguish human from machine authors.
Hi, sorry I missed this - I seemed to misunderstand the question. There's a simple fix that I guess I might now make an extension either today or tomorrow depending when I have free time.

Here's how you could do it on your own, this is for the google cloud docs reference https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/apis.

Note you have to allow pages to set their own fonts in firefox if you use this option

0. Open up your console in dev-tools (F12).

1. Load Jquery (Give it a second, let the script load)

var jq = document.createElement('script');
jq.src = "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js";
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(jq);

2. See all the font-families the page is using

fontSets = new Set();
$('*').each( function() {
fontSets.add( $(this).css("font-family"))
});
console.log(fontSets)

for google cloud docs this reveals:

Set(7) [
"Roboto, Noto Sans, Noto Sans JP, Noto Sans KR, Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Sans Thai, Noto Sans Hebrew, Noto Sans Bengali, sans-serif",
"\"Material Icons\"",
"Google Sans, Noto Sans, Noto Sans JP, Noto Sans KR, Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Sans Thai, Noto Sans Hebrew, Noto Sans Bengali, sans-serif",
"Roboto, RobotoDraft, Arial, sans-serif",
"Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif",
"Google Sans, Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif",
"Material Icons"]

3. Make an educated guess, I guess its probably Material Icons that OpenDyslexic is messing up, so lets update all the font-families that don't contain Material Icons

$('*').each( function() {
if ( $(this).css("font-family").indexOf("Material Icons") === -1)
$(this).css("font-family",`OpenDyslexic, ${$(this).css("font-family")}`);
});
If all you need is to uniformly reduce a number into a given range, there is a division-free approach:

lemire.me/blog/2016/06/27/a-fast-alternative-to-the-modulo-reduction/%3famp
How was the market size calculated? Where was sourced from?
Let's wait and find out after the next 5 sigma event.
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State of Digital Contact Tracing in the United States (2020)
Fixed how? Implicit modules or something else?
Odd little bit of trivia: we don't know what Hooke looked like. Few images of him were ever made and none survive.
GTP has nothing near the devastating power of nuclear weapon...
The gold standard for scientific trials is named after a professor named Harry Gold.

And the Johari window is named after two guys named Joe and Harry.
Yes, they are trained over time, just as this model has been.
The author apparently didn’t get the sarcasm in the "I test in prod" meme.