skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are citing a political opinion from a newspaper to prove somehow supply and demand is not a natural law. What is next, an article in Astrology Today arguing 1 + 1 != 2.
It is stable enough? I tried it a few years back, but it felt like a beta3 or beta4 software, crashing about once per day. But maybe things improved since then.
The "experts" are saying many different things. Currently, the new situation is being analyzed, but it seems that even pervasive non-pharmaceutical interventions (masks obligatory in all closed spaces, ban on public events, etc) are still not enough to keep Rt below 1.0 and "get it under control" (see the second wave effects in Europe). Lockdowns seemed to work, but economically unsustainable. As of now, there is no clear answer about how to proceed.

And that's before the epic blame game even started. Boy, that would be interesting to watch.
The euro is already pulling ahead of the dollar, but I believe the global demand for oil (bought and sold in dollars) will prevent a Venezuelan type inflation situation from occurring. The US participates in the world economy on a level that makes it hard to imagine greenbacks devaluing against other foreign currencies in a highly disproportionate way. That said, I could be totally wrong.
The Nordic countries are still not recommending face masks
try micro. it's better than both
I mean, if you know many amazon employees who overstepped seller data access, then amazon really should do something to prevent seller data access.
thank god we can eat a ton of salt again, to be honest I was doing it the whole time
It didn't. It contracted by 9.5% in Q2, which, if repeated for four consecutive quarters, would become 32.9%.

Annualized figures might make sense in ordinary times, but these are not ordinary times.
A practical tip: try hard not to need this sort of thing, and you'd be surprised how often you can avoid it.

Before you start looking at approximate nearest neighbors, ask yourself the following:

1. Do I know all of the vectors ahead of time? (i.e. query vectors are not constructed at runtime, it's a fixed inventory of items being embedded)

2. Do I need to return an unlimited number of neighbors per query? (i.e. do you ever need more than like, a few thousand neighbors)

If the answer to both of these is "no", then you should probably just precompute the neighbors exactly on one or more GPUs. It's feasible for millions of terms, and may actually be faster than the index-building steps for many ANN algorithms. Example code: https://github.com/explosion/sense2vec/blob/master/scripts/0...

A cache of k neighbors for vectors of dimension d will be k/d the size of the original vector data, because one integer and one float both occupy 32-bits of data. So if your vectors are 300 dimensions, you can save 150 neighbors and serve the results with half the space of the original data. The responses are then instant and exact, and you'll never have problems with load management because the runtime is so cheap. Example demo: https://explosion.ai/demos/sense2vec

Again, this doesn't work for queries you have to construct on the fly, for instance it won't work if you need to construct a vector that incorporates information from the user's session or something. It only works if the process of constructing the vectors is already a batch job to e.g. embed the user's history. It also won't work well if you have to page through arbitrary amounts of history, as storing more than a few thousand neighbors per query would get impractical. Generally the similarity accuracy degrades to uselessness long before that point though (especially if you're using an approximation technique).
> our examples are contrived and just plain odd

Huh? "line-of-business software for foodservice" and "line-of-business software to do customer relations" seem like incredibly mundane examples.

> your food truck business in Flint isn't guaranteed to succeed in an UBI world because people may opt to spend their money elsewhere

Yep! So the food truck would fail not because it is in a community mired in poverty, but because it didn't make good business choices or achieve a worthwhile purpose _as judged by those whom its work impacted_.

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The core of your thesis seems to be that if given the freedom, people would turn naturally to behavior that destroys themselves and others. I'll grant thats true for up to 4% of the population, but what's stopping that 4% from silently spitting in your hamburger nowadays? You can't make a riot with 4 shitheads surrounded by 96 non-shitheads who have a sense of ownership of their community.

(But if the commercial real estate is owned by Berkshire Hathaway rather than your pewmate's uncle? Well, then fuckit. Why intervene?)

Generally, people are not total fools. They make tragic and silly choices sometimes, especially under stress. I've been to enough meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous to attest to that. But a free people left to their own devices will seek meaning and purpose by investing in relationships and churches and passion-projects. Or are you unaware of the phenomenons of people gardening and babysitting for relatives or teaching free community classes?
From my practice: when a person inspired by ideas comes to you, he is elated and does not see the need to check the market.

If he has already had setbacks or there is a skeptic in the team, then he was lucky) most likely he will somehow check the market and the niche where he wants to launch his product.
It's not the social isolation as much as it is being disconnected from your work environment. There's a very real benefit (that varies a lot on individual circumstances) to being close to the flagpole.

This discussion reminds me of Richard Hamming's anecdote about open and closed doors: http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html.
Realistically it's not possible to "just" work on something else like that.

The work is very different. The work to make a new product like this is completely different from the work to improve an existing, large, established behemoth of a project that has a large number of users. It's a software lifecycle thing, analogous to the difference between spinning up a mini startup, and working for a settled big company with tens of thousands of co-workers.

Perhaps the big product would be better if everyone worked on it, but you're talking about unpaid authors, doing what they enjoy in their free time, often for fun.

What's the reward to the unpaid author of refining the existing, established, behemoth of a solution?

They aren't going to be able to try out their own big new ideas or do any significant architectural design that way.

They aren't going to be able to take it in a new direction, because the existing tool has a lot of users so can't change that much.

They aren't guaranteed that what they want to work on, or what they want to see as features (maybe to use for themselves) would be accepted upstream.

They aren't going to be able to change anything that existing users depend on really. For example if they wanted to try a different syntax for formulas, or a different editing paradigm.

They aren't likely to end up with something they can point at when asked what they spent all their free time working on. Contributing to such a large project, if they enjoy doing it that's great, but nobody outside a small group of people will associate them personally with their bit of work - unlike an independent project, if that gets a reputation.

They also have no chance of monetising their work later, if that's what they choose to try to do in future. Or more likely, to make a commercial branch.

For some people, that kind of work on an established project like that suits them. But it's completely unsatisfying kind of work for other people. It's not reasonable to pressure them, through oblique criticism, into doing it unpaid if they wouldn't enjoy it.
It's priced in.
Coronavirus pandemic pushes U.S. economy to worst-ever contraction
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It is 2020. If you believe what you read on the internet...
Corporate trust soars during the pandemic
Then more mods will need to be hired because no one will waste a downvote on spam.

I would save mine for the next spaces vs tabs thread.
That doesn't bode well for the global economy, does it? It also makes market caps like AMZNs a little bit sketchy, IMHO a lot of money is pulled out from more "risky" investments and pushed into, maybe, less risky ones.

The thing that kind of worries me is, as soon as people can't afford their mortgages anymore we might well have a new real estate crisis on our hands. The last one tanked the global economy all by itself, now the economy is already leaking left and right.
this is why I don’t take anything at face value, especially if it’s trending on social media. I wait for the drama to blow over,and check for the actual truth later.
Ideas are not protected by copyright, but the original way an author expresses the ideas is protected. Copyright also does not protect useful articles or functional aspects of work, as opposed to their expressive aspect. See 17 U.S.C. Section 102(b).
Even if self-hosted email was easy, I don't find it to be a great idea.

I ran my own for a while using mail-in-a-box but ended up moving to fastmail because I didn't trust myself to maintain the setup. I need my email system to just work and that's likely the same for the majority of people.

(I validated that lack of trust in myself even with fastmail by not realizing for almost 3 days that I let my domain expire, thus causing emails to bounce with no way of me knowing that was happening)
They reserve the right to keep it but in practice they do not.
Not only that, but they have gotten wealthier due to government intervention in the stock market. If these resources were put into the real economy, they could have helped ordinary people far more, and had a positive greater effect on the economy. You can't have a functioning economy without demand from consumers.
Masks would work if everybody wore them
I don't want to question the numbers, but for completeness sake could you link to a source on the estimated transmission probabilities?
My main problem with vim was, that I spent deliberate effort to learn some of its shortcuts, but I need to use text editor in a console only a few times per week, like change some config file or add line to cronjob. And then one tends to forget all the shortcuts, when not using it regularly enough.
I'd happily have done that grunt work, back when I was in a lab. The work may not have been interesting but at least I could feel as if I was being useful whilst also paying the mortgage.
Instead, I've ended up writing software which is related to assisting journals in the task of getting researchers to share their data.
> The ketogenic diet is vilified in every mainstream media and most nutritional "science" publications; the headlines are rarely inline with the the actual results, but that's what people remember (Not that nutrition science is really science)

Nutrition science is real science, but unfortunately any actual nutrition science you might accidentally hear about is overwhelmed by people trying to sell a lifestyle, a book about healthy eating, or your eyeballs (to advertisers).

Ironically keto promoters are a big offender here themselves.
Does it really matter that he's a "Microsoft Engineer" or is that just thrown in there to ruffle old people's feathers?
This seems intuitive with a little prior knowledge.

When I learned how to load cargo airplanes, I was taught that you have to use dunnage to spread the weight of heavy objects across the floor of the plane to overcome specific weight limits in the floor. So if you have a 5 ton truck, you would need to use dunnage under each axle to distribute the load a bit so the whole 5 tons isn't focused on effectively 6 points the size of a sheet of paper. When adding the dunnage, we were taught to envision the weight spreading at 90 degrees from the axle centered downward in order to add the dunnage height to the total vehicle height during our load planning.

More simply, I remember when I was a kid the local barbershop was vandalized with bb guns. The holes in the windows were tiny on the point of impact, but spread at nearly 90 degrees on exit.

I am not claiming to know more than some anecdotal experiences here, and I may have drawn the wrong conclusions altogether. When I look at how force is typically distributed though, it seems to be regularly distributed in right angles.

Poetically, I like to think how this is in direct opposition to the spirals one can find everywhere in nature. Yin and yang.
That's fair. I think the solution is probably closer to emulating Idaho rather than privatizing schools, though
I recommend validating your perceived bias. Look through the archive for posts about Elon for example. You'll find people arguing HN is biased both ways. It's even more common for articles about Apple. (And it's quite funny to find in different comments on the same story)
> Instead of relying on the charity of wealthy people, good public mental healthcare, public addiction centres and social workers engaged with the homeless community are the ways forward.

Those probably don't exist with UBI, because one point of UBI is to take all the money going into those support and give it directly to the people and let them take care of themself.

In german there is a significant number of people and families who are only somewhat functional because of those external support. Without this support, they will probably end on even lower levels than now.
What politicking are you referring to?
Probably for the same reason nobody wrote

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That's reasonable, but all the things a I listed are on the standard help bar, so the learning curve is minimal.

If there's no nano available like on busybox, I'll default to vi, but I don't prefer it.
We can go on about the morality of means testing but the way that welfare has been destroyed along with the increasing amount of bureaucracy to stay on it currently has shown a worrying pattern - those who get legal representation are those most likely to claim benefits they're entitled to, not necessarily the poorest.

One of the answers to the welfare means testing trap I've seen is to extend the EITC much, much more. It turns out according to the Andy Sterns think tank that researched it that the cost of such a program would be about $1T off from what UBI would be. Furthermore, such a program would be under incredible attack from the GOP that it'd turn into the sad state of welfare today such as in MS where basically nobody receives benefits while the state collects money for it. The attempts to defeat welfare will never end and given the clown car of different issues that are constantly being eroded perhaps another solution is worth a try to divert the attention of attackers (and also slide other important protections in place as well).

I've never seen any UBI advocate think that nobody has to work and it's a pretty inflammatory and bad faith argument that UBI advocates believe such nonsense.

The reason for using a consumption tax to fuel UBI is that if the workforce drops significantly, this doesn't mean consumption drops, and if much of the revenue produced is from automation or a non-human labor produced value taxing it doesn't seem unfair because no person earned said income directly. What we're seeing in trials repeatedly across even developed countries and concentrated among existing assistance recipients is that UBI recipients don't drop out of the workforce though except for new moms and students, both groups which probably shouldn't be plowing fields and in construction because their contributions to society also are required for it to continue. This idea that people en masse would stop working with UBI is simply not true - do rich people stop working because they have passive income? Not at all
“Apple haters”, or Apple customers who have blown tens of thousands on Apple equipment over the years and have noticed their (relatively) recent focus towards maximising their revenue instead of being focused on producing good products.

I continue to use Apple products every day as my daily drivers, and can’t see that changing. Im writing this from my iPad Pro. I’m probably buying 2 new iPhones this year despite them all being too big. I haven’t bought a new MBP in a while as my 2015s meet my current needs better than the new products do.

I found the original tweet totally credible.

I feel more like an “Apple sucker” than an “Apple hater”.
54% of Americans own stocks, either directly or indirectly.

While it's true that the top 5% owns a disproportionate amount of stocks, that's just a function of the wealth distribution. If everyone in the US had half of their personal wealth in the stock market, the top 5% would still own a large % of the stock market just by virtue of what it means to be in the "top 5%" today. This fact doesn't change the fact that a stock market crash would still be devastating to the middle American that owns stocks (directly or indirectly).

In fact, when the stock market crashes, it's median stock holders that are the worst off, because the wealthiest stock owners will still largely remain millionaires even if the stock market plunged.
There's also a significant lag on many indicators because individuals and businesses have some buffers, either provided by government or their own financial elasticity.

A couple of examples: many businesses reliant on tourist seasons will not have begun to feel the pinch until very recently, and will lag behind others in showing up in the reporting for most indicators.

In the UK, the government furlough scheme means that the true picture of joblessness will only become apparent once people are removed from furlough and laid off.

It seems to me (not an economist) that Q4 will be extraordinarily difficult and it's hard to see optimism for a pan-European recovery beginning until Q2 2021.

The US is in a significantly worse position and many seem to expect states to continue with severe restrictions to simply prevent the further spread of the virus until the summer of next year, let alone beginning an economic recovery.
You are absolutely right. Github popularity != usefulness.

There's plenty of crucial work that does not lead to any github star:

- Linux distribution work, including packaging, reliability, security

- Security research: finding vulnerabilities and notifying the authors

- Configuration, tuning, benchmarking, finding bugs...
It would give more buying power to the poor. Right now Dollar Store is a niche. With an income floor, it can become a real industry and support a wider variety of goods. Eg, UBI is a market maker for subsistence goods.
What paltry amount are we discussing? The concept of UBI is that it pays a living wage, enough to feed, clothe and house someone. It might not eradicate wealth inequality but it definitely narrows the gap/reduces it.

I'm assuming you accept that the poor are getting poorer and the wealthy are getting wealthier - how do you propose to stop that without UBI?
>A stock market crash wouldn’t improve the economic situation... Many Americans have retirement and pensions tied to stocks.

Sounds like a free market isn't good for the Free Market. A crashed stock market would create opportunity for new investors to invest during this historic downturn...instead during this historic downturn the market is being artificially supported (at record high prices nonetheless) so no new investors will enter.

Free market economics asides, I could imagine the bourgeois and bourgeoise running around during the French Revolution telling the plebs how revolutions and guillotines aren't good for the economy.
@dang Seems like an accurate and fair update
Maybe they are ok with 200mil$
> And if you only occasionally need text editor on a linux server, like when you change some config file or update cronjob and nothing more, nano is perfectly adequate

That's precisely when nano is the least adequate: "sudo -e" or "crontab -e" won't pass the "-w" flag to nano, and without that flag, the automatic hard line wrapping can easily corrupt config files which depend on line breaks for their semantics (a crontab being a great example, where each line is a separate entry).
Corporate hypocrisy is really not that serious issue in the grand scheme of things, but the asking for it justification is just victim blaming.
Reverse engineering a USB device with Rust
> We are in the post-truth era indeed.

Was it really better before? The cognitive biases behind fake news are not knew. Maybe there were there from the beginning, but we are just getting better at spotting them?
The trouble is, there's no good reason to believe that it's even possible to get Covid-19 under control. The handful of success stories that everyone pointed to kept on turning out not to be: Singapore, arguably South Korea, Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam... and the press just kept on moving on to the next one without ever changing the narrative. We've never contained a respiratory disease this contagious and sneaky before; historically, they've just run through the population and efforts have been focused on minimizing the damage. Unfortunately 2016 happened and now it's an election year again, so we need the idea that all this economic damage and death and lockdowns could've been avoided if only Trump wasn't in charge in order to ensure the right candidate wins later this year.
At my old job I used to flip my lid whenever I got a ticket (from QA) without logs.

It was for this exact reason. Someone filling out a bug without collecting logs was usually missing a lot of vital information needed to diagnose and fix the bug.
I think that reflects more of a question of how to manage a transition. E.g. Barclays appears to have wanted to get rid of its investment banking office in London since before Covid anyway, for example, and even in this article, it says:

> In his latest remarks, Mr Staley appeared to cast doubt on the idea of abandoning those hubs, saying: "We also have a responsibility to places like Canary Wharf, like Manchester, like Glasgow."
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> He added: "We want our people back together, to make sure we ensure the evolution of our culture and our controls, and I think that will happen over time."

Which sounds like more of a question of how to handle the fact they're sitting on vast amounts of land in long leases in prime locations and have realised leaving offices empty without being able to point to economic benefits will lead to all the wrong kinds of attention, while realising that it will take them time to make it happen smoothly.

Also further down in the article, it points out this:

> However, not all big banks take the same view. Last week, NatWest told more than 50,000 staff in a memo that they could continue to work from home until next year.
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> The bank, then known as RBS Group, said it had been reconsidering how the bank works "in the longer term" and intended to tell staff about "future ways of working" later this year.

It's clear it will take a long time before things starts going back to normal any way, and every month these employers have to adjust to working remotely, and recover efficiency while working remotely, the incentive to go back to big offices will drop.

I also know someone who worked at UBS when they moved into their new London offices, and they'd totally ditched fixed offices for most staff and moved to hot-desking for everyone, with the intent of significantly reducing the proportion of staff in the office at any one day. That was well over a year ago. Many of these banks have been looking for ways to reduce their office footprints for years already.
State and Revolution is where I'd recommend people start for ML ;)
just mentioning his name doesn't do anything. The mod e-mail address is in the page footer if you want to reach him.
That would really date the story.