skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, minus the on the fly part, i guess. I thought it might be semi automatic by trying to skip actually understanding spoken words but counting syllables or similar to detect accurate timing. I don't know what the workflow usually looks like for this kind of task but this one presented here doesn't look too dumb to me. even without burning them into the video.
So (effectively) if they don't share their data, they're lying?
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A thing I really wish would catch on is people actually leaving their windows open to get proper ventilation of their living spaces.

Air purifiers seems like a great idea, but if the outside is the safest place in terms of the virus, bringing the outside in to you seems like a no-brainer.

In general, I'd say outdoor air beats indoor air probably 99 times out of 100.
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Vague?

First of all, we can omit anything dealing with real sexual harassment, abuse, or obvious discrimination by people in power; although I think the social witch hunt phenomenon of things like #metoo is problematic, I'm not going to defend any of the people caught up in that kind of thing. So I think it's fair to exclude people like Lawrence Krauss, Louis CK, and definitely people like Harvey Weinstein.

That leaves us with people cancelled for ideological reasons because of things they've said or written, because that ideology is felt to have a chilling effect on anyone interacting with them.

James Watson: cancelled

Tim Hunt: cancelled for sexist joke

Lawrence Summers: cancelled

Bret Weinstein: cancelled (from Evergreen, at least)

Erika Christakis: quasi-cancelled (left Yale voluntarily a year after the Halloween incident).

J. K. Rowling: ongoing attempted cancellation[1] due to being a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF), despite the fact that she didn't seem to be exclusionary at all, and definitely nothing at all like Camille Paglia who is more definitively a TERF.

Among numerous others. Including that PR rep who was fired within the span of her plane trip to Africa after making a racial joke about HIV on her personal twitter account.

That's to say nothing of people who would be cancelled if today's culture were transported back in time. Starting with William Shockley, and extending to a large number of notable historical figures.

[1] For some tweets and later elaborated on in a blog post, all detailed here: https://www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk... . Basically, her crime seems to be an attempt to frame her experience and sexuality around her biological gender.
> debt is the fastest way for a new business to go underwater. Starting a business is hard enough, and when you have debt hanging over you, it makes it so much harder to survive because business is cyclic - you have bad quarters and good quarters, and debt will inflate a bad quarter and put a damper on the good quarters.

Meanwhile in startups:

https://www.lightercapital.com/blog/startups-turn-to-non-dil...
More likely is a liquid fuel generated in a net zero carbon way.
i keep buying them new/old stock for $100 on ebay.. they last a year or more -- just a little slow sometimes. i have one more in my desk drawer and i might upgrade after that one.
The Lyme vaccine: a cautionary tale
thanks for continuing to tease out the nuance. nearly all coverage and discussion of covid is an exercise in frustration, one way or the other.

the unrealistic desire for riskless, surefire mitigations had led us exactly into the ping-ponging uncertainty that such longing tries so strenuously to avoid. it's wreaking havoc on our social and economic lives, let alone politically.

taking into account what we know so far, the best bang-for-buck rule is still "distance (inside), and when you can't, mask.", not shutdown, or mask outside and all the time, or never mask or distance, or business as usual, or wipe down surfaces incessantly, or reconfigure every hvac system.

the simplicity of that one rule belies a lot of understanding packed into it, unfortunately, leading to an unnecessary yearning for more. there isn't more that we ordinary folks can do than that. that's not to say don't be cognizant of the progress we're making, but does suggest we need to stop fretting while we wait for more effective treatments, herd immunity, and/or a vaccine.
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It doesn’t absolve the times if they did indeed make an error, but I’d like to point out that pg isn’t exactly a bastion of accuracy and rational argument himself: see https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/how-to-pretend-that-y... from the same publication as the OP. The criticisms leveled against pg in this article apply to pretty much all of his social commentary and writings, and its really a shame so many people in the is community buy into his crap and have a sort of blind allegiance to him just because of his wealth and status.
> + socialism == great loss of liberty

Is it a firm rule that this always has to be the case? Do people in, say, Finland have less liberty than people in the US?
"Home" security? ADT has cameras, door sensors, medical alerting "pendandts" etc. installed in many more places than private homes. This deal seems more about sensors and new streams of incoming data for Google.
I'm very happy that using views no longer forces allocations. I like that I can choose both performant _and_ safe, rather than being forced to make a choice.

Kudos to everyone who contributed to yet another great release!
If the "colorful" language was short for "pusillanimous", then it wasn't colorful at all. Just brief.

;)
Only if you write the entire universe; you're going to want to call functions that accept references, and then you're stuck.

> (Try to contain your horror! :-) )

Ha! Nah, no horror there. It is interesting to think about, for sure.
There seem to be some mixing of hierarchies and authority here, but even anarchists aren't as dogmatically opposed to all kinds of authority that you seem to imply?

"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult the architect or the engineer For such special knowledge I apply to such a "savant." But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the "savant" to impose his authority on me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure."

Mikhail Bakunin
That one was a physical hypothesis, not a mathematical abstraction.
To paraphrase Hosea 8:7 -- so the wind, reap the whirlwind. They'll get theirs soon enough.
I only login to Google in a dedicated Firefox Container, and yes I'm getting really sick of ReCaptcha. It's amazingly user hostile at this point, and I suppose that it doesn't help that I need two or three attempts at this point to "pass" its challenges, because its machine learning algorithm and I disagree on what constitutes a "street sign" or something dumb like that. It's making me want to avoid websites that use ReCaptcha challenges altogether.
I think the “how do I figure out what the heck really happened” part is something most historians care about quite deeply and is an important part of historiography.

Looking at the veracity of previously recorded history is part of historiography as well.

I think skepticism of recorded history is healthy in general. Historians would probably agree.
No one can be an expert on everything. That is true for journalists too. Unless a reporter has a very narrow beat, they are going to be forced to report on topics in which they are not fully knowledgeable. This often results in misunderstandings or downright falsities, but on large they generally get it right. We should certainly hold journalistic organizations and reporters to a high standard of accuracy, but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water because they make an occasional mistake.
It seems difficult to understand what caused the spike. I didn't even know bars were open. It seems hard to believe opening the bars was the primary cause.

It also seems amazing that despite the nighttime protests/riots in Portland, that there's basically no cases there.

LA seems mostly the same the last 4-months except early on. There's now 100s of people on the street on the weekend eating outside like it's Europe. I've unfortunately been outside everyday since the pandemic started.
I don’t read the Guardian, but Vox has a significant bias. I wouldn’t call them trustworthy.
I'm often not a fan of regulation, but I wholeheartedly agree with you.

It actually may be that deregulation could also work, as with many things we've found the worst of all worlds where there's just enough regulation to keep out any real competition and not enough to actually protect anyone other than a few lobbied interests. But deregulation would be a much riskier approach, whereas there is a pretty clear, minimally invasive path forward for regulation to solve a lot of these issues.

In addition to the things you suggest, I also think more regulation around what kinds of recurring bills should and should not be considered debt, and stricter rules around things being sent to collections. Right now, if e.g. you have a $30 utility bill for a partial month of service on your previous residence, the provider can send it to collections without really making any reasonable effort contact you. There are also predatory recurring bills that can be incredibly difficult to cancel and that turn into debt if you forget about them. At a bare minimum, physical mail shouldn't be sufficient notification that an account is past due, creditors should have to make some kind of reasonable effort to contact you that is consistent with modern social mores. There are lots of rules that could be put in place to better protect consumers from accidentally having their credit ruined. I really don't believe that a young person being a little bit careless, or not understanding the intricacies of the credit system and what is at stake, has anything to do with whether they are capable of making payments on a major purchase like a home years later.
Okay, well that can be your startup's idea, meanwhile Autodesk will keep chugging along with CAD.
Data centers are much easier to turn carbon neutral though. "Just" switch out the electricity provider. Flying with something other than jet fuel is more of an existential risk to the industry.
Science relies on this, yes.

Academia, not so much
And not even at the same time:

> Australia (September 10), Canada (September 10), France (September 10), Germany, India (October), Ireland, Italy, Japan (August 20), Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and United States.

Ten years after the first Nexus, Google still doesn't know how to sell hardware.
China has already validated it's approach to foreign firms. The US has realized that China isn't going to change it's approach, and is instead emulating it. If China won't let foreign firms into their country, then it's only fair that the US doesn't let Chinese firms into the US market.

I doubt this will change the US's status as a safe market (at least for countries other than China). The US and China are geopolitical rivals. The US is making no indication to do the same to Japanese, Korean, or European companies.

The fragmentation of sovereign internet spaces, too, began with China blocking a large number of foreign sites. They even coined the term "internet sovereignty" [1]. It's also being advanced by countries writing legislation that seeks to govern the conduct of foreign sites. E.g. GDPR and the subsequent rise of blocking EU IPs.

1. https://thediplomat.com/2014/06/chinas-sovereign-internet/
Ask HN: TS separate from JS would be awesome; why's no one working on it?
For example, TypeScript has this is significant limitation [1]. It's been open for close to six years. I suspect the difficulty of implementing it is in part due to having to maintain the proper relationship of TypeScript to JavaScript.

It would seem that a version, or fork, of TypeScript that is NOT a superset of JavaScript (but can compile to JavaScript, and probably web-assembly) would be a much cleaner. powerfully expressive language.

I bet that would be a _very_ popular language. We could have higher-kinded types; the module/import system could be cleaned up a lot; we could have a proper standard library, decimal and integer types, be able to use JSX natively, and so on. It would probably also be less complex to implement than TS as it exists now. So why isn't Microsoft and any other group working on this?

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1213

Edit: title shortened
Wow. Good point about customer service. I forgot about that.

I can't think of a faster or more effective way for Google to destroy the public's trust in it than to inflict its customer service practices on the masses.
> be prepared to code like we used to program in C++ 30 years ago in regards of eco-system, IDE support and wealth of existing libraries.

That's a bit of an extreme statement that needs some significant qualifications. This might be true if you are pushing for Rust or Go in one of the domains you mentioned, like professional game development. It would be fairly absurd for a studio to seriously try to switch to Rust in some of these areas.

That said, if you're largely working on greenfield projects that don't rely on an existing C++ ecosystem, the situation almost gets inverted. For instance, C++ still doesn't have any kind of standardized package manager in 2020. There are a thousand little paper cuts in C++ that are hard to justify if you don't have to interface with an existing ecosystem or target a specialized environment that only it is well-suited for.
>Well, we weren't talking about desktop, were we?

It is implied. To be accurate, it started being implied when mac os has been brought into discussion.
We even saw it here on HN with the Apple 30% debacle. Misinformation isn't always maliciously sown, but the mechanism of its spread is the same either way.
> furthermore, nyt are mostly shills for their advertisers.

Your Medium post does not prove your claim. That's not how newspapers work. There is a wall between advertising and news at the big national papers (less so at local ones sometimes).

Newspapers like horse races. That's why they report on politics the way they do. Tesla's consistent lead in EV doesn't get them readers. But that's not the kind of venality you're falsely accusing them of.
> "Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know."

While likely accurate, this thinking is likely not conducive to UX innovation.
Why Does Donald Trump Still Have a Base?
Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Eh, content-less posts reach the front page daily. They're quickly pruned. Might as well enjoy the thread while it lasts.

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Is the interesting part of the atomic bomb story really what sex organs the victims possessed?
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Looks like this one has edges that are easy to grip. Samsung phones should take note ;)
A rocky transition from a temporary UBI to normalcy is better than thousands upon thousands of small businesses permanently closing across the country.
https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/02/09/upside-dow...

He was wrong and/or misleading about everything he said in this article. Maybe you should apply the same suspicion to someone like Sowell instead.
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I think this is the core political question of our age, myself.
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Why so optimistic?
When he was after Huawei was it elections or pandemic?
> The same metaphysical view you're describing also enabled utopian totalitarian visions like Nazism and Communism.

Leninism and it's descendants are totalitarian, Communism (even Marxism) more generally is not, but, sure, you can certainly make the case that scientific rationality has some connection to Marxism and thus an indirect effect on Leninism. OTOH, scientific rationality and the proven results are also the explicit basis for the widespread Western rejection of Leninism and it's descendants (and explictly cited as such by wide segments of the Right, including those who generalize that rejection to Communism generally, which the left might argue is an overgeneralization, but even in that argument there is a broad consensus that there are actual material facts that one can draw conclusions about from material evidence which transcends ideology when approached correctly.)

OTOH, Nazism was not based on scientific rationality, except as a reaction against it, and in fact both Italian Fascism and Naziism were explicitly based on the exact Nietzschean view that you advance (both the idea and explicitly crediting it to Nietzche).

> Postmodernism hinges on whether or not there is an objective set of values. Conservatives believe there is (the Bible, natural law, God, etc) whereas Postmodernists believe there isn't.

That may be a difference between your particular worldview and postmodernism, but large number of other conservatives criticize the “postmodern left” not merely for rejecting objective values which you claim is the difference between Conservatism and Postmodernism, but for rejecting objective facts and viewing facts as constructs which depend on ideology—the position you take on the nature of facts is one explicitly rejected and criticized (and attributed as a failing of the left) by most mainstream conservative thinkers, though I will agree that the factions of the Right who adhere to it are at what is, at least, a recent local maximum of prominence.