skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but this was a study conducted by the American Psychological Association, an organization that has literally nothing to do with the medical practices you spoke about.
That's a tough question because the answer depends in part on what your job and background are, where you live, etc. but I don't think so. I'm generally inclined not to make decisions based on what might happen (because so much is just unknown) and instead proceed based on how things are now.
Show HN: I Made a Twitch Plays AI Dungeon
Inspired by all the GTP-3 talk and after playing AI Dungeon, I wanted to try building a community experience. I have no intention of gaining anything financially from this.

Anyone with a Twitch account can post suggestions into the chat, and then also vote. The prompt with most votes gets sent to the dungeon.

I'm planning to show the stories in real-time. At the moment some of them are available in https://aidungeonstories.vercel.app/

but unfortunately if you join midgame you will just miss the beginning.

I might take the stream down at points if I need to make changes. Currently, it's streaming from my PC and the status panel (where user submitted suggestions appear) is on localhost.

I'm using Selenium for sending the commands from Twitch chat. The status panel is a simple page controlled by the same script that controls the screen. The status page shows input using socket.io and jQuery, because I thought it would be really simple (now might re-do it with Vue).

If you want to come play together, I'll be around for at least few hours, but if everything works well I'll just leave the stream up (it should work without supervision).

Todo: Add realtime page where people can read the current story

I appreciate if you have any suggestions or ideas!
It's crazy to say "Everything the protestors are doing has probably set us back a decade." There have been literally millions of American citizens marching peacefully for change, and a very small number of bad actors.

There is no way you are informed or serious about what is going on if you are willing to make such broadly derogatory comments about one of the largest civil right movements in history.

And worse, taking the bad actions of a few, and using it to broadly discredit the valid actions of the many, is a textbook tactic for discrimination and maintaining the status quo. Who do you think you are helping by doing that?
They also ask the publisher to stop reprimanding journalists for writing about errors published in Opinion. Sounds like a bunch of whiner opinion authors who don't like being called on their bullshit opinions and somehow have the political capital within the WSJ to get them to retaliate on their behalf. It's unethical for management to go along with this.
On that topic, it also doesn't change my mind if you have a bot send a template email or you have a human blindly fill in and send a template email.
Can you elaborate on this?

I am unsure if you are saying not watching the news makes him an NPC, or if the people who just parrot the news are the NPCs.

I am leaning toward the latter, but based on your wording and the wording of the parent post, that's not what I initially expected.
The End of $600 Unemployment Benefits Will Hit Millions of Households
Python Weekly – Issue 459
996 in the west. I think many people who operate their own service businesses already run like this. At least over here, immigrants are heavily represented there.
Any feedback is highly appreciated! :)
China Is Harvesting the DNA of Its People. Is This the Future of Policing?
Yes because I'm sure this attorney's work revolves around hiering CEOs and management positions. Point being that a tiny fraction of the people being brought here are not going to be employers and buissness owners. Most people are just taking jobs from Americans.
> And the fact it's even being discussed as a serious possibility that the current acting president would do that should raise so many alarm bells about how democratic the US really is ... it's not even funny.

That was discussed with the same seriousness by the other side with Obama stepping down. Complete load of tosh.

If the electoral college fails to elect Trump as president when it meets at the end of the year, the secret service and/or army will remove Trump and Pence from the White House at noon on Jan 20th, revoking their security clearences. That will be done by force if necessary, and the winner of the EC will take the presidency.

If the EC fails to meet before Jan 20th for whatever reason (including elections being unable to be held etc), Then at noon on Jan 20th both Trump and Pence are removed and (baring a change in the makeup of the House), Nancy Pelosi will be sworn in as President.

The idea of a military coup in a country so enamoured by its constitution is fantastical.
> They are English words, and implicit vs. explicit goals really isn’t all that hard to understand.

The problem isn't that they are hard to understand, the problem is that they have nothing to do with what anyone was talking about. When someone says, "Persevering in goals can alleviate negative feelings", saying "Explicit goals can distract from implicit goals" isn't a response, it's a non-sequitur.

> Being skeptical and negative and doubtful isn’t a hallmark of intelligence, mind you.

Being skeptical and doubtful are definitely hallmarks of intelligence. The alternative to skepticism is blind faith. The alternative to doubt is unjustified confidence.

In the rest of your post you've decided to attack me personally, to which my only response is going to be: you're accusing me of ad hominem attacks?
> You can find almost anyone opinion imaginable out there with a brief Google search and forums on which to argue every side of it with.

And you can quickly get someone fired or their business boycotted or doxxed or swatted if they express an opinion you don't like.
Everything in the voting system has changed. Citizen's United, the voting rights act was neutered, gerrymandering is constitutional now in many states...
The free speech argument confuses me. Isn't giving an unequivocal right to self expression essentially saying that people have a right to be Nazis? That they have a right to spout genocidal ideas in public spaces?

There exist things such as "harmful ideas", one of those is the belief that genocide will make life better.

The usual retort is that they should be debated in the 'battlefield of ideas' or whatever. But all these debates do is give them air and room to convince onlookers of their ideas. I don't believe that 'debating' something someone believes is at all a productive measure. The only way we can get rid of these people is by denying their ideas room.

In other words, there is no room for debating the idea that genocide is bad. It's not something that should be debated. People have a right to existence. It's not a fire that should be given 'oxygen', or whatever else you want to call it.

(There's a good video on why debating isn't necessarily an effective tactic here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcHPmVxtFw8)
71% of Millenials worry they may never afford home ownership
The idea of a lump of labor is one of the oldest fallacies, and is a mark of a very small, closed mind that is unable to consider higher-order effects.
Russia's GRU Hackers Hit US Government and Energy Targets
End of $600 Unemployment Bonus Could Push Millions Past the Brink
For fossil fuel companies, bankruptcy is a bailout
This is super common when there are important tasks that get little visibility unless failed. From an individual perspective it’s almost always better to let the failure occur blame someone else for the failure and sweep in to save the day than to do minimal prevention to keep failure from occurring.

This is almost always a result of an institution failing to reward folks for doing routine maintenance tasks and only providing incentives for new stuff.
> As an autocrat, your top priority is to compensate those who keep you in power, which requires wealth extraction from the productive

That cost is insignificant when the ruling nomenclature is a relatively small portion of the population and when basic workers rights are not respected. Especially in manufacturing stuff on a pipeline in huge quantities, a totalitarian system can be much more effective output-wise, at the cost of disregarding any environmental and human condition externalities.
I don’t know that we can attribute doxing or death threats to “cancel culture”. It’s certainly unjustified outrage. However, it does beg the question what exactly “being cancelled” means.
The so-called cancel culture is not new, and the people complaining about it were generally fine with its presence (along with the presence of systemic injustice) as long as it wasn't pointed in their general direction.

I would take the plea for "less injustice and oppression all around" as more honest if it actually came before it started being a sort of perceived threat to the person complaining, and if they actually complained about the other types of injustice as well.

As far as I can see, most of the complaints about cancel culture have nothing to do with any other type of cancelling nor injustice, they're just people afraid that other people are now able to criticize them in ways much less important or impactful than said other people always had to contend with.

The expectation I have is that if the new wave of cancel culture -- often directed at people denying or perceived as reinforcing systemic issues -- were to stop, the "cancelled" would be content to stay in place, and calls for systemic changes would be far easier to ignore.
Windows path handling is a horrid mess. It basically takes your input and tries to turn it into a valid NT file path, that also includes handling special device names like COM1. At some point this was limited to 256 chars, so you had to input a valid NT path yourself if you wanted it longer, however I think Microsoft removed that limit a few years ago.
Yes, one word to say — JAVA.

It's pretty much, the one and only thing that keeps enterprisey software maintainance people occupied.

Thought, the Java is finally on decline on the backend. Android is pulling Java devs from enterprise, and cheaper to use languages displace Java there.
Trump has refused to say that he would accept the results of the election, constantly saying he "will see".

This is absolutely not something Obama has done and claiming the situations are similar is blind and absurd.

Removing the president by force does not help the stated case by the way.
A worthy mention imo, Machine learning pocket reference by Matt Harrison: a tiny book packed with a ton of fundamental concepts and great examples.
US stock markets no longer need the economy
>I don't understand the naming here.

You mean "Mail for Good"? I think it's because they are focusing on non-profits.
Generally, for extensions, new evidence and arguments aren't required (although we still usually provide what's readily available such as new press). That being said, although still the exception, more and more USCIS is issuing RFEs on O-1 extensions.
I'm sure IBM and other companies get a non trivial amount of checks with a lot of zeros each year for supporting legacy applications/systems/etc with barely any work involved on their part besides maybe running Make again once in a while.

And to be fair, some companies are not even wrong because rewriting is still more expensive than just paying for maintenance.
If "this market" means supercomputers (as 'Cthulhu_ was talking about), then TPUs are certainly not perfectly positioned to capture this market, since they are only capable of doing bfloat16 arithmetic with high performance, and AFAIK incapable of fp64 at all. That means a HPL score of zero.

TPUs will probably dominate AI training, but not so much supercomputing.
It's on his profile.
At the risk of breaking the rule on talking about votes, this comment would probably be more welcome if it dealt with a specific situation. Right now, it seems like a coy lead into a "gotcha."
Accusations from the US and UK that Russia tested anti-satellite weaponry
I believe that this can be obtained from Hacker News.
The Lightness of Being a Couch Potato May Work to Keep Us Fat
The Best Countries to Raise a Family in 2020
> It means that some people who don't have goals, but do have depression, may remedy it by getting goals. But not everyone.

It really doesn't show this at all, you are misreading the study because the author of the article misrepresents it. Very few correlation studies turn into causation studies. Even when we have entire subfields dedicated to it. See amyloid beta.

Other possibilities "goals are protective against anxiety and depression but not changeable" "other factors increase goal driven behavior and protect against anxiety and depression" "goal driven behavior is protective but not curative of anxiety and depression" "goal driven behavior increases likelihood that individual gets treated for anxiety or depression"

Any of which would mean that increasing goal driven behavior would not help with anxiety or depression.
You described pretty much exactly what happened to me. And I felt like crap. Nevertheless I still applied to YC afterwards.

It sucks how people in power sometimes are assholes and we put up with them, probably just because of their power.
Death of a Salesman's Doctrine: A Critical Look at Trademark Use (1985)
It seems to me, despite the issues we're seeing with their offerings, that society gained a lot of value from what those lucky few were able to do. It is an unacknowledged reality worth thinking about, but I hope the discussion centers around how more people can be afforded the opportunity to fail.
According to the Hipergator Website:
https://www.rc.ufl.edu/access/account-request/

To be eligible for an account on HiPerGator, you must be on an education or research project that has as one of its Principal or Co-Principal investigators a faculty or staff member at the University of Florida.

I'm also a UF alumni (undergrad & grad EE), and IIRC back in my day high performance computing was a grad class. I never took it, but it wouldn't surprise me if for the grad class there would be labs on the super computer where students can get limited access.
So, it's not related to whether a comment is grayed out, but to how deep it is and how recently it was posted. That's helpful to know. Thanks!
who gets to decide which ideas or not debatable?
This rings true for my experience as well. And it also highlights the waste that occurs when a successful team finishes delivering and is immediately dispersed to the four winds, something that happens all too often.
Maybe it is because I'm older, but whenever I see this advice to build a fake landing page and see if people sign up... I recall that selling vaporware was reviled in the 90s, but somehow now it is considered a wise business tool. It still feels scammy to me. If you have a market in mind, but don't have people in that market to talk to directly to validate your idea, you are aiming at the wrong market. Otherwise all these techniques prove is that you can collect emails, not that those emails will actually become paying customers.
A Yelp study finds that 55% of business closures are closed for good
I believe there are procedures/checklists for placing aircraft in and out of storage which are different than those used for normal operation, because the conditions are different. It is my understanding that this directive is an additional check that would be performed during the typical storage procedures.
Don't upset the budding entrepreneurs on HN, their grasp of computers is fantastic but don't expect them to have ever seen a paper on social theory. Your comment is right on the money!
One of life's absolute truths:

"You don't learn when you're the one doing the talking."

I cringe when I hear someone talking about a fancy over-designed email. Where the content is all about the brand and close to zero empathy for the receiver. It's 2020, yes?
Perhaps an odd question from someone who only just found out that feeler gauges exist - do they periodically calibrate or confirm the measurements of the gauges? If someone is sticking the same gauge into tight spaces all day wouldn't it wear down, even slightly, and alter the reliability of the measurement?
What’s more ominous in France is the decline of journalists-owned newspapers.

> In a way it’s better in the Hungarian case because things are really obvious so it may trigger people to take action for a change.

That sounds dangerously naïve. I know gloom and self-hate is de rigueur in a broad part of the French population, but going from “also, France is bad” to “actually, maybe Hungary’s better” on a piece about the death of a democracy is a bit much.
I think maybe you shouldn't have stopped reading at the first paragraph, as your comment is a non sequitur if you read beyond the small bit you commented.
I have been working on F-1 OPT for the last 16 months or so at a startup and they recently applied for my H1B. We haven't heard back from USCIS yet on whether it was approved but, given Trump's recent ruling on H1B visas, I have no idea if that will happen at all now. As I understand, the process of being approved isn't affected, it's just the process of getting the actual visa itself at an embassy? And given my existing status, it's not clear that I am affected by the suspension. Either way, I still have about 18 months of OPT left, so I am assuming that I would be safe to come and go on my F-1 visa even if the H1B is suspended. If I were approved, I believe I could collect the visa in the future once the suspension has ended. Is this a reasonable assessment of how this works or am I way off the mark?

There are a number of people I know in similar situations and no one seems to have a straight answer about what our status is.
Thank you, will drop you a mail
I'm a Canadian Citizen going to the University of Waterloo. My next co-op work term is Winter 2021 (Jan-April). Would it be possible for me to work for a US company for that term? I've done the J-1 process twice before and that worked great in 2019, not sure about now given the visa suspension and COVID. Would appreciate any ideas here.

- Could I still get a J-1 for Winter 2021?
- Are there any other avenues for Canadians to work for a US company (possibly remotely) without a visa (if visas are still suspended)?
The problem I have with violence is that there will always be people who are caught in the crossfire. Violence begets violence and you have to be prepared to lay down arms at some point or you will always be at war. My fear is mainly that when people resort to violence, the same people who hide out in the peaceful groups come out of the woodwork, and they take advantage of the situation to their own ends.

Violence is ugly, and it's hard to control, especially when it's group-on-group violence. It's surprisingly easy for the oppressed to become the oppressor when the smoke settles. If you have a way to avoid that, then go right ahead.
There is the idea of job guarantee as an automatic stabilizer too.

The government grants a job to anyone that wants to work at a minimum wage salary. When unemployment grow, the government automatically expend more in the economy because more people access to the job guarantee.

When the economy recovers the private sector take workers away from the job guarantee through paying a little more than the minimum wage (or the same and better conditions) and the government spending is reduced.

It's both an inflation and an unemployment stabilizer. UBI doesn't have those properties.
AFAIK that Junta was removed almost 40+ years ago. It's effect is lesser than something that happened relatively recently.

Meanwhile, by refusing to help Greece with its debt, not only did EU increased the debt, but inadvertently legitimized the right option, by saying there will be no debt canceling (which was left position at the time).
Seconding this comment. Based on experience in hiring data scientists and comparing notes with many others that hire data scientists, the most frequent gaps in knowledge are (1) statistics specifically and scientific computing in general and (2) disciplined software engineering.

People good at (1) and bad at (2) write "PhD code" that may or may not be right but you can't tell because it's too disorganized. People good at (2) but bad at (1) get fine-ish looking numbers out of their good looking code but you can't tell whether it's right because they may have ignored or misunderstood fundamental assumptions and correctness of the underlying methods.

There are also seemingly tens of thousands of people on the market who have little experience in either but have adapted projects from examples online into their Github potfolio and put all of the relevant terms into their resume anyway.

I think most aspiring data scientists would be better served going with more introductory texts and really understanding them. Maybe Blitzstein and Hwang's "Introduction to Probability" and then McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" or Wasserman's "All of Statistics" for people who need more stats.

I'm not even sure what to recommend for developing good software judgment and habits. There doesn't seem to be a shortcut for that. Maybe "Fluent Python" or "Effective Python" for Python people? No idea for the R ecosystem.
Now we all wonder if this is actually the same blanket ...

I propose to add some markings to these products to explore how often Amazon will try to sell the same non-product.
In general, you're right of course.

The article in question used a lagged design, using temporally prior markers to predict later change. This is not fully causal, but it's not fully correlative either. In the field, it's consider to provide preliminary causal evidence. Still needs additional research to be sure.
Relevant: https://poets.org/poem/calf-path
Is Notion one of YC companies?
Thats my first though after seeing this.
The cost of compensating the “selectorate” is actually more related to regime organization (i.e. military dictatorship vs. rigged elections) than to work conditions.

This cost can be extremely high, as the autocrat has to pay off enough people to ensure that rivals cannot achieve an advantage.
> Some of the questions are quite poorly worded, and I'm highly suspicious about one question with non-integral boundaries on a probability distribution defined over the integers.

Yup. It sounds like they were assuming that you would use some specific simplifying approximation.
On similar shops operating in close proximity - it makes sense to cluster in order to maximise the number of customers you have access to.

Imagine two ice-cream vendors on the beach, selling identical ice-creams for the same price.

Since number of sales are a function of how far people have to walk to your stand (and price etc), you want to make sure you are as close to as many people as possible.

If your competitor is closer to them, they will go there instead, so you either need to be very far away or right next to the competitor. If a person could visit either of your stands, the competitor can 'steal' them by simply moving their stand closer to yours, so that the customer previously in the middle is now closer to them.

A discussion on the general case is here [0].

This principle obviously doesn't extend flawlessly to the real world, but is a significant contributor to, for example, the clustering of car dealerships today.

[0] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/583157/ice-cream-ve...
UNIX V7 has been ported to x86 hardware if you like simple, broken code.
Radar, wind speed and direction, water speed, depth, water temp, and I also have their forward scanning sonar transducer.
They are not self-sustaining, and self-sustaining colonies are what is entailed in the justification of colonizing Mars to provide a backup for Earth.
How much of a legal trouble am I in if my company shuttered its physical office because of the pandemic? My H1B visa is tied to that address. The company still has another office in another state.