skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear what you're saying, but I'm still not sure that consciousness over a decision is what determines whether it was done of free will. Conscious or not, it was your brain making that decision. Not someone else telling your brain what to think.

Your brain thought about it, considered the options, made a decision, and then informed your consciousness of it. That doesn't undermine the idea of free will, it just changes how we think about consciousness.
HN is a great place. Half the country voted for Trump but not a single one of them can show up here. Really makes you think.
Toxoplasmosis is known to promote risky behavior in infected people.
I can't vote, but i can drive. Is it legal to drop someone else's ballot to the local election office? I'll drop it for people who can't go.
I don’t know why you think overtime is continuing to be authorized when there are multiple reports of it being eliminated, including the release of the internal memo explicitly eliminating extra and late delivery trips, and directing staff to leave undelivered mail on the floor.

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2020/07/usps-warns...
I pay premium for their hardware cause I want to use their software. yet even after I bought it - I somehow dont own it. Im not renting iphone - they have no business telling me which apps to install. market share should be irrelevant in this argument - this is my devise.
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It's not a theoretical concern. Take toxoplasmosis, which affects nearly half the human population and has measurable effects on human behavior.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526142/
Tell me, how is admitting a student to university because of his/her race, or mandating having a female board member, going to decrease the mortgage rate offered to a black family in Cleveland?

The problem with your approach (where it inevitably goes) is that it can justify doing anything and seeks to make people distort their lives, no matter how unrelated or poorly-correlated it is. There's no limit.

Go out there and help fix the mortgage rates. Go and address the concrete, specific problems. Don't go and create symbols for people to follow -- they rarely work the way you think they do.
What kind of toxic VOCs do these indoor units leak out?
Just installed a Carrier (40MAQB12B1 / 38MAQB12R1) mini-split in the shed, which I had spray-foam insulated (and then I installed drywall) beforehand. This for the work-at-home thing which we're doing for at least another 6 months...

The difference between the loud portable unit and the blessed silence and efficiency of the mini-split is chalk and cheese. There really is no comparison.

The mini-split cools the shed down to 72, where I have to increase the temperature to stay comfortable, in about 4 minutes. It's even silent outside, and these units will provide 12k BTU of heating or cooling, so it'll be useful in winter too.
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The concern for the GOP isn’t that democrats favor voting by mail, it’s that the GOP has worked hard to make it as hard as possible to vote in person in targeted (eg non Republican) communities.

Widespread vote from mail defeats that as it means that their selective polling closures, and arbitrary barriers to voting in person, go away
Q and Qanon are both names for the same entity. In imageboard culture* it's common to append -anon, -fag, or a Japanese honorific to the name a user gives (or to give them a name containing one of those suffixes.)

*: I would say 4chan isn't a good example of imageboard culture after the eternal September that followed Project Chanology, but apparently they kept that aspect of their culture.
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There's very interesting research into this question. This video is easily digestible.
https://youtu.be/wfYbgdo8e-8
Maybe I live in a totally different universe, but it's really hard for me to consider a software product that grossed $100k to be a "mediocre success."
From my perspective tons of advertisers stopped spending in late Feb/March across multiple channels, not only Facebook. This was necessary for advertisers to re-evaluate how they would allocate their budget and change their messaging. Things are back in full force now.

I get the feeling that some companies were just posturing with the Facebook boycott, and planned on decreasing their ad spending regardless.
> I mean, they wouldn't be dictators if everyone agreed with them, no?

A dictator's enemies are deplatformed and powerless. They are certainly not allowed to sit in top courts.
It's not just the US at risk here. I feel like nobody here pays attention to what China does. Look at all the tensions between China and... Literally nearly every country around them. This isn't a US-only problem.
There is no other proprietary operating system platform that makes it nearly impossible for users to get software from third party sources, even apple's their own desktop OS does not restrict the user to an app store or repository. There are plenty of high quality apps "published all over the place" on those platforms. If the claimed benefits of the app store are so apparent then let the consumer decide that. The fee being high would not be a problem if they didn't arbitrarily disallow third party app vendors.
You mean the trump appointed anti-usps sycophant? That is significantly invested in private usps competitors right?

:-/
That's exactly why people try to find shortcuts instead of solving the underlying problem. Nothing will change because of those shortcuts.
Would be interested what all successful managers have in common. I guess everyone has his secret sauce but what is it all have in common
> A better fit to Tom Riddle's horcrux would simply be a lossy compression copy of the file.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my memory is that a horcrux is literally a piece of your original, whole soul. So, if you create one horcrux (as seems to have been the standard practice prior to Tom Riddle), you continue living from then on with only half a soul. Voldemort's capacity for evil came partly from having only 1/7 of a soul in his body.

So I actually think the name kind of fits. Where it loses me a bit is that you can recreate the original file without all of the Horcruxes. Simply splitting the bytes into separate files would be closer IMO.
I haven't measured this yet, but I question whether SMT would actually introduce any meaningful jitter into the timing loop. If my event is off by 10-100 nanoseconds, I probably don't care that much.

I am not actually sure how precise this approach could be in theory, so if the noise floor could be low enough for it to matter, then it's certainly a factor for some applications.

If we prove that SMT has a certain bounded impact, then it may be possible to say that for a certain range of applications you get a 2x feasibility bump because you can leave SMT enabled.
http://archive.is/IxoCo
I find it so interesting that you select for that, because that example tells you virtually nothing about the person that isn't generically applicable to a large number of candidates.

Especially those with 13 years experience. Delivering 30 projects is the only item that stood out for me, but everyone with a few years can make that claim depending on what they choose to call a project.

The number of languages listed is laughably small for a 13 year candidate, but I guess they have picked out the ones they think you want to see.

From that resume, I cannot tell even one thing that the person is particularly good at, or any qualities they could bring to the company that would set them apart - other than their decision to write a short resume and avoid telling you much about themselves.
You are correct the problem is that they are now allowed to set prices, but incorrect in that USPS is not required to prefund 75 years of pension and medical benefits. It is required to save for accrued benefits. Which is how it should be. If you purchased, today, a $2,000 annuity starting when you are 65, wouldn’t you want the insurance company to start saving for it now?

https://www.cnbc.com/2011/10/24/the-truth-about-the-post-off...

> Although accounting rules require the postal service to calculate future liabilities, including those for projected future employees, the law only requires pre-funding of obligations to actual current and past employees.
Yes, the goal of surveillance is already being advanced in many ways under the existing structure of the USPS.
It doesn't seem like facts, it seems like opinions, but that's ok too. For instance...

> "I know what's required for human dignity..."

This is a personal value statement, different people have different ideas of what dignity means. There are likely some universals but there's a huge amount of variance too.
In Republican states there are many laws in place to make helping people vote extraordinarily challenging.
I agree. plus, isnt it the case for Mac? you can install apps from other places.
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The community has the vibe of sedate unix greybeards, rather than hypebeasts.
> run in a browser with identical experience.

That would enable secret chats on desktop, so I am in.
While you can bring your own servers most of the time you rent those servers from them. You do this so that you can get fast turnaround on warranty replacements or repairs. You can use on-site hardware support and you get a lot of other benefits. When you think about it it's a lot like AWS except AWS offers those benefits even better than the old school places.

You can have your own servers but it's at the cost of slower turn around on hardware issues.
you mean that OSX users are cracking apps a lot? or they get scammed all the time? IMO the OSX security feels more sane for me, you let power users to decide if they want to allow apps to do "dangerous" things and you give the option for users to run stuff they downloaded or they wrote.
As partly a philosophical exercise, and partly as hyperlocal "no really, you are here so you have access", I added Apache with DAV and Etherpad to a DNS+DHCP "sled": https://github.com/m3047/pangolin

The irony that Etherpad is written in Node is not lost on me.
Thanks. I did read it. I'm just having a tough week.
I was okay when I had the proper keyboard in front of me, but I still stumble with reflexively using the correct keys for shortcuts when I'm remote controlling one from the other.

I've found it very difficult to use Ctrl+C to copy from Windows and then Cmd+V to paste on Mac OS without pretty frequently using the wrong modifier key.
Whatever the true cost is, the argument is spurious: Apple is not forced to provide this service at cost (or with a “reasonable” markup), they can charge in any case what they want.

Telegram should rather make a convincing argument why Apple should be considered a monopolist, which is not clear to me given the overall <30% market share of Apple in the phone market.
This sounds like heaven. I have kids now tho.
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This is a great point. That makes a lot of sense.
That’s like saying genocide is ok because we need to decrease our population. They are mutual exclusive motivations.
Why and when do you think it will end?

Did you see how quickly the networks were upgraded? Within weeks around my way... So, infrastructure was upgraded quickly.

You are probably aware of what's going on in Australia - where lockdowns are returning, with certain tower blocks in Melbourne locked in, and the army making house to house calls.
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i'm a bit worried this will be a pretty deep rabbit hole in terms of unpaid support issues. since i'm not a python dev nor am familiar with Jupyter, this will likely occupy too much of my time.

if someone more familiar is willing to contribute an integration, i'd be happy to review it and answer questions.

it may help to use https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py as a starting point, then gut the relevent parts.
I don’t see it tbh, seems like a straw man argument
If the work and stress is spread out over two or three years. It's likely that the time spent could easily be outweighed by many other jobs/projects,
I voted by mail in Seattle for years and never had an issue or even heard of one. The ballot goes in a tamper-evident envelope, sealed within the mailing envelope. You also get online tracking to know your ballot was received and processed.
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That’s a little too paranoid. Specially now that we know surface transmissions are just anedoctal.
Voting and going to the grocery store are pretty different in multiple ways.

For one thing, we give people exactly one day for in-person voting, and they don't get the day off from work - so they probably have a total of maybe 5 non-work hours available to them during which polling places are open, they go to one, stand in line with thousands of other people, then walk into a crowded place, interact up close with polling staff, and then interact up close with polling equipment. The polling equipment is not frequently sterilized (if at all), the polling staff might not have protective gear, and the polling places are cramped and poorly ventilated. It doesn't matter how many people need to vote there - 100k? 1k? same difference - you've all got to do it today, and in these specific hours.

Sounds really safe!

In comparison, you can go to the grocery store whenever is best for you (as long as they're open - and many are open 24 hours any day of the week), there are lots of locations to choose from, and if you go during off-peak hours the aisles are relatively empty and you have enough space to social distance from the other people in the store. At this point, the staff typically have masks+gloves and there's often hand sanitizer and cough shields. Some grocery stores explicitly limit the # of people inside at any given time.
Mandarin has even less morphology than English[1], so to some extent, working on Mandarin would not "fix" some of the issues of NLP models often performing poorly on morphology-rich languages.

But it's possible that focusing more on Mandarin would still lead to improvements in other areas, because the two languages are otherwise quite different (I wonder how well speech recognition works for tonal languages, for example?).

[1] Possibly not without reason: there is some indication that languages spoken by a large number of speakers tend to become structurally simpler, while very small isolated languages can often develop surprising complexity.
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I guess I'm coming more from the perspective of someone who's played with a whole lot of different things and is starting to realize the personal value (for me) of targeting my efforts better. I tried to be clear that I'm not saying it's a bad idea for everyone, but that at this point in my life it's counterproductive. There are other ways I can get the same benefits micro-scale agriculture provides with much greater potential rewards attached.
Our math teacher, a former engineer, once brought his slide rule to class when we were in grade 9. He posed a problem and raced us to the solution, slide rule vs. calculators. He beat us all...
I did read your comment, where you pointed out that companies can challenge the nondisclosure provision. It doesn't say anything about challenging the order itself.

Edit: Also, regarding companies/citizens/foreigners, this is the NSA program under which it collects data from American companies and promises to only use it to spy on foreigners: "PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies ... U.S. government officials have ... defended the program, asserting that it cannot be used on domestic targets without a warrant"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
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Yes and no. It has a government granted monopoly on relatively inexpensive but relatively fast letter delivery. I can certainly send a letter overnight by FedEx if I want to but it will cost a lot more and FedEx can't leave the envelope in the mailbox almost everyone has.

I do tend to think the USPS should be allowed to increase their rates to sustainable levels. Individuals are not nearly as dependent on being able to regularly send letters across the country for well under a dollar as they once were.
The article implies tens of millions being per month. $10m/500 people = $20k/person/month. That's a reasonable price estimate for a staff that big (considering tens could mean multiples more)
I can’t believe arguing that ACTUALLY FUNDING pension liabilities is a horrible thing - this is how every government pension should be funded! You should be screaming about how nearly every state and federal government pension is ridiculously underfunded!
Trouble is there are too many who won't try. And brexit was anything but grass roots, it was led by the top. There was also a lot of passion there to be led, for better or worse.

> Anyone campaigning for say, digital rights against government surveillance could get cancelled by the media very quickly.

Oh come on, get cancelled by the media? They might be lazy at times but the media doesn't 'cancel' stuff.
Show HN: Tempomat, a CI monitor for your desktop
Hey! A lot of new CIs are supported since the last time I posted here on hackernews, I bet some of you will be interested to give it a go!

https://tempomat.dev
Trump campaign came to court QAnon, identified by FBI as a violent threat
Given equal technology, private services can only be cheaper if they exploit their workers harder, after all they have to make a profit so the difference has to come from somewhere. They could potentially offer better service by addressing certain niches that a broader service would be less suited to address, which partially explains UPS, FedEx, DHL etc.

Privatizing government services is a money grab nearly 100% of the time.
People have a lot of good reasons not to turn on their cameras, though.

If you live in a small house or apartment, there are often going to be other people in the background who likely do not want to be on camera.

It is one thing if people choose to work from home; you can have a reasonable expectation that they should have a proper work setup at their house.

That is not what is happening now.
Yeah I guess the game equivalent to my tool would be one that helps people build faster with Unity or Unreal. Like I do with React, better to latch on to a tech that already has huge mindshare.

> Hit-driven markets that attract large numbers of non-serious dabblers are extremely difficult to sell tools profitably.

If I'm understanding correctly, do you mean it's easy to overestimate the size of the market? That makes sense to me. And there's certainly an upper-limit to how much dabblers are willing to pay. Still, for a solo founder that can sometimes be more than enough. I can think of a few tools like mine doing over $10k/month.
Scroll down to "An avalanche of low-quality research?".
They should, actually.
If they want to set prices themselves then let them, but remove their monopoly on letters. Repeal the private express statutes. That seems quite fair.
You need a web browser. I take my Kindle on the road with me (or at least, I did) and you can't sign into hotel wifi without a web browser anymore.
But when you bought it, you knew of those restrictions, right?

A fully unrestricted phone might have cost more (because it is not cross subsidized by App Store profit), so it is unfair to demand full functionality at the subsidized price.
I've been curious for awhile and have failed to find references to how quickly the body clears toxoplasma gondii; I have read on and off about the vaccine work there, and it seems that once you've been infected re-infection does not occur.

It's surprisingly hard to find papers on clearance, but also hard to find papers on long term effects vs. effects while actively infected.
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Thanks, it would be great. I am curious to know why do they have CC license and not public domain?
For sure. I agree with you. And I'd say maybe music education - kids learning how to play an instrument, etc - is one area of focus. However I don't think it's supporting the arts that's sticking point when it comes to America managing it's limited resources ; )
Could it be that the loudest and angriest twitter scolds actually represent ~0.0001% of the population and shouldn’t be immediately kowtowed to by our academic, cultural, and business leaders?
Why not both?

Most research directions ... are useless, don't pan out, don't have the tools to actually achieve anything yet, won't ever get finance for necessary tooling, ... and fail. Useless is the least bad of these. Nevertheless, papers on these are important for a lot of reasons. And one in hundred research directions succeeds. And then there's tons of "refinement" papers.

First reason: you won't know which is which until you try. Second: researchers learn a lot even when exploring things that won't work (in fact this is often done as exercise). Third: these allow institutions, infrastructure, ... to exist, to be ready when there is something that does pan out.
>Suppose you were right, and a private service could outcompete USPS. Why haven't they already?

They're prohibited by law from competing in regular mail delivery.
It depends on what commitments you made to your users. It could be as simple as just abandoning the project or it could be something more elaborate like handing it over to someone else.
Only if your NLP models actually decompose words. Simpler ones don't.

But while it's technically true that English also has compounds, it just writed them apart, it is also the case that German (don't know about Dutch) uses compounds, and especially long compounds with more than two nouns, a lot more than English, where you might more often use a whole sentence.
It's literally the only fiscally responsible government pension. It's weird how political it's become, yet it should be the example to follow.
However Tesla was prohibited from marketing it as a self-driving mechanism. So they can’t be directly compared.
It's illegal to compete with USPS on normal letter delivery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes
Repressurisation hardware has to exist anyway to have restartability (it takes 15 minutes to switch to high pressure feed, 15 seconds to low pressure feed). Do you know which component has inhibition affected? SW only? Blown fuse? Something different? Certainly not a jettisoned part, because this vehicle is planned to be reused after minor refurbishment.

PS re repressurisation failures: If it becomes absolutely necessary, a procedure could well be devised to operate the larger thrusters at a lower flow rate, albeit with a diminished efficiency and thrust.
Well, dissent is protected by the Brazilian Constitution. Death threats and threats to democracy itself are not.

At some point you need to trust the set of institutions in place, otherwise you can’t apply any kind of regulation effectively.