skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pointing to the fact that some people were skeptical doesn't mean anything. There's immediate (and ongoing) skepticism that this entire damn pandemic is a hoax, FFS.

As with any expert group, the medical community defaulted to going with what they know. In the context of virology, in the overwhelming majority of real-world cases, diseases spread symptomatically. SARS-CoV-19 is genuinely a novel threat in the scale of its transmissivity while asymptomatic and while there was certainly evidence of this early on, it takes non-zero time for this component to be studied, verified, and understood.

You can't (or at least shouldn't) base public policy on reports that haven't yet been corroborated by data and experimental evidence. And being validated after-the-fact doesn't (or at least shouldn't) reflect poorly on decisions made before we had hard data of this virus spreading in a novel fashion.
Yeah, I guess it's like email. Sure, it's not great that in practice there's only a small number of providers and that it's really hard/scary to run your own, but it's still lightyears better than it being a single company's proprietary messaging system.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN. You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and we ban that sort of account.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Can someone answer a question for a layman:

Is the number of parameters to be read as the indicator of how "advanced" the training has gotten, or the accuracy of the output? As in, this dataset/training has gotten to the point that it understands the 160 billionth small exception to the general rules of how language should be interpreted, or constructed, to be considered believable?

Sometimes (as a layman) I look at this and think instead, wow, how slow these ML algorithms must be that they need 160 billion parameters to predict correctly.

Is it one of these statements?
The vast majority of instances are one man shows where the admin also has root access to the server the instance is running on. Aside from that I don't think there's anything on the Mastodon webapp itself that lets you post as a user. It's mostly limited to blocking/hiding instances and users.
So, corporate bigwhig types who don't understand technology?
You Heard Guffawing, but It Had Nothing to Do with You: 3 Steps to Beating
Why would there need to be a massive near-extinction event? Maybe we're talking past each-other. What I mean by "reverse IA point" is a point Y in the future such that every human in 2020 is either an ancestor of every human in Y or of no human in Y.

As an over-simplified example, imagine starting this generation, everyone produces exactly 2 kids, so the total population remains static forever. In 1 generation, you'll have 2 kids, in 2 generations, you'll have 4 grandkids, ..., in 33 generations, you'll have over 7 billion grand^32kids, i.e., everyone on earth will be your descendant. Of course that's inaccurate because the growth will slow when your descendants start marrying your other descendants. But the point is, when you think of it this way, it would actually be a miracle for a reverse IA point not to exist (if we don't go extinct or colonize space).

In fact, the main innovation in Rohde et al wasn't to come up with a simplistic model like the above example, but rather to factor in real things like the isolation of different continents/tiny islands for long stretches of time. With modern air travel, populations should tend to mix more, not less, and that should encourage a reverse IA point.
One of the greats! It's amazing how well "Good PM/Bad PM" has aged. =)
> It wouldn't really be ethical to do so with an unproven vaccine (and it was proven, this trial wouldn't be necessary).

That is a thing that people do sometimes:

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

There has been a debate about also doing it with COVID-19:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Proposed_chal...
It's my understanding that phase 1 trials of this sort are designed simply to show that the potential vaccine generates a response in the recipient and doesn't causes any significant adverse effect. Phase 2 & 3 are where the the potential efficacy of the virus and the issues you raise are explored.
Yes you are correct, that is an example except for this part

>If there is any replacement within that time, the same law, formulated differently, is passed

Which is not accurate. Actually the new laws are substantially different, in the case of the ground tax this is also very obvious.
At least locally Kcups from Kurig are much more common - 100% plastic. I always thought of the nespresso ones with the recycling bags as more enviro friendly.

But I also thought Apple with its long support lifetimes for products and good resale values was probably better for environment than the android junk with uncertain supply chains, but HN regularly has stories trashing apple has terrible for environment and never says anything about android so who knows.
I guess not by itself, but you can control it externally in the command line. You would have to write a daemon monitoring the folder yourself.

https://github.com/NerdyPepper/dijo/wiki/Auto-Habits
Partially covered under others but as someone who has worked with PMs as an engineer: be a power user. If you are working on a technical product you should be an expert end user of the product. You don’t necessarily need to know how the entire product works under the hood, but if you don’t understand the product well enough to be an expert you’re probably not going to make good product decisions
Never heard of ngrok, thanks for this pointer. Sounds like a magic tool :)

Will look into releaseapp.io
Interesting. So according to this definition, Google doesn't have a monopoly in the market of Search engines since there is also Bing[1].

What is the word for it then? Highly-dominant player?

Edit: looks like I'm not alone to have this definition for a monopoly[2].

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23900128
How about this?

"I can trust Gmail to have backups. I know almost nothing about the corporate-provided mail service on which my administrator created my account, and I'm kinda locked there."
> At the heart of this is a dilemma which the West has not faced before: how to cope with a technology superpower whose values are fundamentally opposed to our own,” in the words of Robert Hannigan, a former boss of GCHQ, the British signals-intelligence agency.

I think that making this about "values" is a superficial reason given for public consumption, but it is not the key and actual profound reason. Frankly sometimes the fact that China has the regime that it has is actually simply convenient to sell containment measures.

Whatever happens to the political regime in Beijing, China won't be part of the West and it won't be aligned with the West. It is a non-Western superpower, so beyond 'values' this is a different culture and civilisation, that will seek to further its own interests in the same way as every power does.

That, to me, is the profound issue and one that the West has not faced for hundreds of years.

Considering the size of China, it is unrealistic to hope to keep it down. Whatever the West does can delay China's rise and/or make things turn more aggressive but one day the old Western world order will have to make space for China. This obviously does not mean to bend over, but it should mean accepting that the world changes and coming to a global understanding.

Hitting Huawei is a delaying tactic, nothing more. It will also probably push China into developing a more independent supply chain so it's not even clear whether it won't actually end up backfiring.

What Germany does will be interesting because I think that they are the one European country with the most to lose if China retaliates.
Sure, that's why github backed up everything in the Arctic now.

But C and Java will remain longer than anything else, for good and for bad.
Ok, but please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
Magic links sound like they have several pitfalls (the potential for security incidents like Twitter are beeping here) and require significant changes on our end to use this platform
Ask HN: Minimum Viable Sales Docs?
What agreements and forms are needed to close a sale for an on-prem solution after offering a demo (in the US)? Order Form? EULA? Purchase and Sales agreement? License?

What would a normal full set of these look like with the normal sales flow to a single department at an enterprise business business? Is there anything else to have ready?
For a canceled hotel reservation, probably Service Not Provided.
> Although this virus has killed many, the risk factor for it is nowhere near high enough to warrant an emergency vaccine.

I strongly disagree with this sentiment. In the ideal world we would have both a treatment and a vaccine, but a vaccine is much preferable: even if it grants immunity for only a year it still allows for better logistics than a treatment. A treatment is also an unknown cost while the cost of producing a vaccine is fairly well know. Also there are loads of people who are at high risk and cannot survive COVID if they got it. Herd immunity and actual immunity from a vaccine is their only option for staying alive. Lastly, your comment makes it sound like steps are being skipped here. They are not. This vaccine along with others is undergoing the same three phase study approach as any other candidate for any other virus. The difference is that sometimes phase 1 and 2 are combined which puts the people in those trials at risk, but based on your comment I don’t see that as being one of your concerns (based on the part about how well yeah a lot of people died but it doesn’t warrant an emergency vaccine). It does not cause risk to anyone else and for successful phase 1 & 2 trials you can assume the vaccine is safe for the populations tested in phase 3. Once all three are cleared, the vaccine is just as safe as any other.

I know to a lot of people it may feel like corners are being cut but I have seen zero evidence for that. We are saving time by doing things like combining phase 1 & 2, expediting review and paperwork by prioritizing these candidates over other drugs, and in this particular case by manufacturing the vaccine while it’s still in trials, gambling that it will actually work. So far the Oxford vaccine looks to be the most promising of all so I would say it’s a good gamble, but then again only a small portion of that $1.2b is mine (coming from US tax dollars and AstraZenica coffers).

A true emergency vaccine is the only one that’s currently approved for use: it’s been approved as an experimental vaccine by the Chinese military for use by the military for one year. That particular vaccine doesn’t have phase 2 or 3 results actually published and the preliminary data from phase 2 doesn’t look as good as the Oxford one. That is the kind of thing I would personally hold off on, but not something that’s gone through all three phases and been independently reviewed.
I think people will change their minds as this gets more adoption, or if they don't tools to track price changes over time & notify will become more popular and price-sensitive people will buy when their ideal price target is reached.

On a separate note, I assume from the post and the copy on the landing page (that I see) that this tool doesn't help you price discriminate on an individual basis but instead changes the price across a cohort of n segments (A/B/C...) in a round-robin way, doing this is very different from predicting someone's preferences and real-time adjusting the price to a predicted max they would pay. I think people would be right to get really pissed at that, but this seems to just figure out what aggregate pricing should be based on demand (or am I wrong about this OP?)
I enjoyed the analogy to gardening. Made me think of the terrific principles portrayed in the book The timeless way of building.
GitLab does it for links to deleted repos!
problem i have with PMs as an engineer is that very often they are both clueless about domain knowledge and about technology (or the state of the system they are working with). this is a very horrendous situation to be in both as PM and as an engineer working with a PM.

>5. Decisions, and what you prioritize, need evidence

This. In my experience PMs' features are driven by not evidence but "lets try this stuff out" and "hypothesis" causing a ball of mud on the engineering side to ship stuff fast to impress the stakeholders.

I don't generalise and I also have seen PMs to be brilliant - but is more an exception than the rule - some PMs I've worked with they had very strong analytical skills, engineering knowledge and domain knowledge + skin in the game - if a feature has turned out to be crap they have the guts to kill it
What I find really shocking is the abundant use of CF on piracy websites of all things. Not the serious ones of course, SciHub and library genesis are mirrored differently.

But a lot of small torrent websites and such simply won't load without JS and specifically CF code. It's pretty crazy. Luckily I don't use any of those bEcAuSe IlLeGaL but still, I find it really depressing, especially when webtorrent, IPFS etc are available, and frankly many of those pages will never have to bear a load that makes CF a requirement.
Ballon d'Or will not be awarded in 2020 because of coronavirus
As someone who uses Mastodon semi-regularly, I can tell you that the majority of active users are not on the large instances. Most active users are on extremely small instances moderated by single individuals, and most instances are actually extremely short lived. It's common to get DMs from accounts saying that they've migrated from foo.social to bar.social every once in a while. Most people also have alts on multiple instances. My theory is that the largest instances are only large because they are the instances that have been around for the longest, and therefore have had time to accumulate a large amount of inactive accounts.
I outsourced the following from my wife:

- Vergílio Ferreira
- Miguel Torga
- Gonçalo M Tavares
- Eugénio de Andrade (poetry)
- Sophia de Mello Breyner (poetry)
In theory, people of note would have their own instances which are run and provided by their employers.
U.S. Army Soldiers trains to take down drones
From this page, it sounds like they are mostly looking for people who are likely to encounter the virus, and are in high risk groups:

("For some of the antibody studies, you will not need to reach out to a site because the study staff will come to the nursing home or assisted living facility."):

https://www.coronaviruspreventionnetwork.org/what-to-expect-...
This is why I decided to switch majors to CS after starting out as a CE major. Even at a college with a solid CE program known for landing CE's at Apple, Google etc it became pretty clear to me that my CS friends were really good at CS and my EE friends were really good at EE and I was well... okay enough at both but interviews for internships both on the EE and CS sides weren't consistently solid.

Per your question, although I hate leetcode - it's likely a good place to start polishing or establishing some new fundamentals in the language of your choice. I wouldn't worry too much about building a portfolio and as others have mentioned - you'll have an easier time breaking in as a PM.
When did the WHO say that? I’m not disagreeing, just have not seen them talk about it like this.
Just look at favorite posts in my profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=fsflover
Great to have a name for the problem.
ok!!!!
It is slightly different than a regular Phase 1 study because there's a control arm. I suspect they want to use the data as a complement to the Phase 2/3 results in the unfortunate case the volounteers end up positive for the virus.
The primitives aren't the same for video codecs as they are for something like flash. Even the transforms you can do are fairly limited. AV1, for example, is partially complex because it allows for some scaling transforms as part of the codec.

The problem is that you could have those concepts in a video codec, but then you'd be in some sort of weird hybrid world. A general encoder would almost certainly never use most of those transforms and primitives. Meanwhile, the decoder would need to understand both to properly render anything. I'd imagine you'd frequently run into cases where the decoder fails simply because whoever wrote it didn't want to be bothered supporting the full set of features for the steam (since encoders don't employ that full feature set).

Then there is the whole danger of having a turing complete video stream format. Last thing you'd want is for someone to publish a bitcoin miner on a youtube video :)
I read all of your provided links, but I'm not convinced they support what you claim about dog memories.
Short term is greedy optimization. You get stuck in a local minimum, which may - and often is - be a very bad one, compared to other minima you could reach if you had a more long-term approach.

Short term in terms of certain private equity groups getting involved = company gets strip-mined for all its worth and its empty husk is discarded.
> If you run a multi-cloud architecture, you either can't use managed services, or have to build abstraction layers on top of them (and only use the features that exist in both cloud providers' versions of the managed service).

And this is, of course, why they do everything they can do discourage it. Because if you do that, not only are you not reliant on them for availability, you can switch more of your business to the other provider(s) based on current pricing, and they do not want that big time.
its not about caching or handling normal traffic. its about ddos protection. sites like that are frequent targets.
That's B-PIPE. You can get Bloomberg Market Data Feed via that. It's also a pre-built solution. You are not exactly connecting to your own computer/terminal
No, but teenage now. The French press does not really take much time. Night before going to bed setup kettle and grinder. Get up and go to the kitchen, hit the button on the kettle, hit grind. Dump coffee in press. Water is done in 4 minutes. Pour on coffee, stir. Go grab a shower or the like, come back and press down and pour.
Where is this data stored? The Wiki completely glosses over this subject, and I cannot tell from the code where it might save anything to (to be fair, I have never written in rust).
I assume the parent poster takes issue with the definition of “subsidy” in the paper, which is probably better called “unpriced externalities” in the context. (It’s still IMO a subsidy, but it’s not what we intuitively think of as such, and thus the data point is rather misleading when quoted in the press.)
I feel eInk’s marketing strategy has really held the technology back. They seem to want to force the technology into a few well-defined verticals that they came up with themselves instead of letting an army of smaller companies innovate rapidly.

They were founded in 1997, so their earliest patents have probably expired. I wonder when the clones will arrive. Maybe they’ll have a better marketing and sales strategy.
Well clearly it's not a straight copy of that.
I think a human being irrational isn't the same as a slime mould. The latter doesn't have the ability to be rational in the first place, it's merely doing what it does.
If you are interested in a Web or Mobile (PWA) version: https://github.com/kissgyorgy/every-day-calendar
Sorry, but that doesn't sound very reasonable at all. I'm also not sure what
you mean by "arithmetical structure" to be honest.

In any case, I think you're applying an overly permissive criterion for
learning "generic rules of arithmetic". It's clear from the paper linked above
that GPT-3 is extremely limited in its ability to return correct results given
arithmetic operations as input. The only task that it performs with 100%
accuracy is two-digit addition. It cannot even perform two-digit subtraction
with perfect accuracy and it's all downhill from there.

Furthermore, like I say division is conspicuously absent from the set of
tested tasks reported in the paper, as are any operations with five digits or
more [EDIT: sorry, that's "operations with more than five digits"- my bad.]. Going again by my heuristic from an earlier comment, that researchers
publish positive results and avoid publishing negative results, this tells us
that GPT-3 can't perform any division at all with any accuracy and it can't
perform any arithmetic operations with five digits with any accuracy [EDIT: again, that's "more than five digits". Apologies].

That is hardly the hallmark of a system that has "learned generic rules of
arithmetic". It is far more likely that GPT-3 has learned to reproduce results
that it has seen during training. Even more so since, as I say in my comment
above, it is much better at operations that are likely to be found more often
in a natural language corpus.
Wattpad data breach exposes account info for millions of users
> But what business does a foreign company have drawing precious resources from a US desert to offset a lack of resources halfway around the globe?

Surprisingly nativist rhetoric coming from the Guardian.
Because it takes years, and even longer to ramp up the capacity fo medical and nursing schools to staff all of them. Because having ICU beds doesn’t prevent deaths, only reduce them, so a large percentage of the population will still die. Because a vaccine is cheaper and better.
> Duplicate IDs shouldn't happen unless you have a bug.

One of the benefits of UUIDs is that you don't have to check for duplicate IDs since the chance of generating the same UUID twice is effectively 0. If you use a system with less randomness then you do have to implement a duplicate check. Which isn't practical when you're working at large scale.
> but the customer service is incredible. If it breaks or doesn’t do something you need, the company is willing to fix it or build it.

At $20k+ per annum cost I wouldn't expect anything less. That said we Europeans have been asking for non American date format support for years but it's a won't fix. So I guess the fee still isn't large enough.

A big complaint I have is why can't I keep the data I download off the terminal for an exchange if I'm already paying the exchange fees in addition to bloomberg's annual fee? It's like renting data. Also it makes it difficult to switch to a competing product.

Another mild annoyance is the left field approach their reps have about the tech that is visible when they make their regular visits to your office. Your company might have invested in developing data screens ,(outside of Bloomberg) and some months later those views mysteriously become available as new functionality for all users. It's even worse if you use their API; eg, you might write a private back-testing indicator specific to your market and within a day or two it appears in their public indicator list.
Because of what was mentioned way up in the original question: The capsules not being precisely arranged means that they can't be individually addressable. Meaning that you can't use the trick that non-epaper screens typically use where each "pixel" is actually a tightly packed cluster of individual red, green and blue sources that are individually controlled.

So instead, each cell is capable of displaying any color, and they've got a more complicated refresh mechanism that they use to "write" to them.

And the upshot of that is listed in the specifications from the linked page: The refresh time on this display is 15 seconds. Which is far, far away from where it would need to be in order to be a practical option for color e-readers.
C11 Support Added to MSVC's Roadmap
> Apart from the 2008 boom/crash

Only if you decided to sell then. If you did nothing, you'd have been fine.