skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying, but 99% of those working in AI aren't even trying to create AGI. They're working on narrow AI, and they're perfectly willing to acknowledge that.

Even the SOTA reinforcement learning folks know that they are working in limited (albeit progressively expanding) niches.
> presumably by official means

After I saw what is happening regarding the coronavirus, this scares me.
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I really dislike gatekeeping on people calling themselves engineers. There’s a very narrow case for certification for some civil engineering work. Other than that I think it’s important to remember engineering started as a heroic endeavor to build technology to lift people out of the struggles of the 19th century with applied science. You’re an engineer if you choose to apply science to make the world better.
That’s actually an interesting reply to the parent because, according to his book, his work was not rigorous and all needed to be redone.

https://www.quora.com/Did-Elon-Musk-write-any-code-at-X-or-Z...
You had a very limited coronavirus outbreak it seems. Does Norway have the same vitamin D supplementation policies? Their outbreak was similar in size to Finland’s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Finland

Edit: Interestingly, the source pdf notes the nordic countries have higher D3 levels than Mediterranean countries. And speculates this may help explain lower incidence up north.

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The researchers around Petre Cristian Ilie have tested the number of Covid-19 deaths per 1 million inhabitants against the vitamin D level in 20 European countries and come to the following conclusion:
The mean vitamin D level in the countries studied (mean 22.4 ng/ml, StDev ±4.24) correlates strictly with the number of Covid-19 infected per million population (mean 295.95, StDev ±298.73, p=0.004) and with mortality (mean 5.96, StDev 15.13, p<0.00001)
The death rates in Spain and Italy are much higher than in Scandinavia. The researchers explain this with the statistically significant higher vitamin D level among the inhabitants of the Nordic countries:
The study shows that in older people, the average blood vitamin D level in Spain is 10.4 ng/ml, in Italy, 11.2 ng/ml, while in the Scandinavian countries it is 18 ng/ml.
The northerners obviously do have the better vitamin D levels, although the sun is not as intense there as in the south. This could either be because they are more active outdoors or because they get more vitamin D from food, e.g. fish, or both. Fat sea fish contains a lot of vitamin D. And southerners tend to spend their midday hours in the shade or indoors. Shadow, window glass and a longer way through the atmosphere (morning/evening, autumn/spring) reduce UVB radiation much more than UVA.
What is unethical to you? Is it the competition that is bad or is using technology to compete the bad thing?
Hi Kevin, I just emailed you. The "careers" address seems to be incorrect (the domain part has an extra "n"). I corrected that and got another error from googlemail. I also sent it to your address, and got no errors so maybe that one got through. I'm from Mendoza, Argentina. In case you didn't receive my email, please contact me (sbayeta at hotmail dot com). Thanks
Yep, that's because concurrent stack processing (https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376) hasn't been merged yet, nor has the changes to the VM's internal references. Both of those are coming within a year. Until then, there's still significant work done by the GC at safepoints.
It depends on what you mean by "science."

Science has become so political and subject to hype and fads, at least in biomedicine, that everyone should be deeply skeptical of every claim that is made. That doesn't mean that you should distrust everything completely, just that critical skepticism should be the norm.

If by "science" you mean that "rigorous, logical empirical study" should be part of the decision-making, yes, I agree.

If by "science" you mean that the statements of scientists with prestigious academic appointments should be given priority over other considerations, I say no. Outsider criticism should be welcome, and I think nonscientific considerations are sometimes required.

One of the reasons society is in the mess it is in (at least in the US) is because of a failure to realize that certain segments, like the biomedical-scientific community, are just as driven by human failures as any other.
You don't actually know that using masks cut it down, you're just assuming it.

You're also assuming the Chinese numbers are reliable, etc etc. I mean there are just so many ways to slice it. Suffice it to say, COVID happened in China despite widespread mask wearing. If you want to prove masks work it'd take a much more rigorous analysis than cherry-picking countries and attributing their numbers to masks, that's my point.
If you are trying to use it to treat mild depression specifically, a placebo effect is great! Placebo effects get a bad rap. If something improves your subjective quality of life that should be considered a win, especially for depression.

Honestly the best thing vitamin D has going for it is being super inexpensive and safe. Because of that you can supplement vitamin D for almost any reason and expect to see at worst a very small cost (someone up thread said 3 cents a day, which seems in the ball park) and at best a significant subjective benefit (even if it's from a placebo effect).
What ratio of death does justify simple public action?

(You've dismissed doing something easy to reduce the number of people impacted by a disease that you believe kills 1 in 2000 infected by it)
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Instagram is gonna be constantly surprised and reeling from successive announcements.
Can you provide a link to some of that research, I'm not familiar with it, but am interested in reading it.

Edit: I think solar/wind prices are artificially low because they exist in a system with peaker plants. When you remove the peaker plants the solar/wind utilities have to internalize the cost of storage, which is currently being externalized on natural gas peaker plants.
Democracy has never really relied on people being well-informed. The "wisdom of crowds" incorporates a lot of ignorance. It just assumes that ignorance is random, while informed opinion will tend to have a bias in favor of reality. If 49% of the people make a random guess one way, and 49% of people make a random guess the other way, then 2% of people who actually know something will put the best-informed answer over the top.

So democracy is robust against ordinary ignorance. It's just not robust against deliberately-induced ignorance[1]. The nudge towards reality is easily overwhelmed by a thumb on the scale of the wrong answer.

Ignorance has never been really random, but the press of misinformation is more widespread than ever. As is the press of information, but when people don't know which to choose, misinformation is often more attractive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
Firefox is especially bad in download UX. The “something is downloading” animation isn’t noticeable enough, causing me to click on download links multiple times and wondering why it didn’t work.
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beautifully made!
Yes, the idea that Verge is in some way a better source for this is a funny one.
If we start now, that will start to make a difference in a couple of decades. What do we do until then?
How I yearn. http://kvak.io/?n=bpf2o1s1jn1u0
What you think of the price is up to you but know that the lead actress came out in support of the Hong Kong police[0][1]

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49373276
[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/mulan-actress-hk-prote...
> 31 raptor engines

That'll be something to see haha N1
> It's also got corn syrup. Would that cause any problems for this application?

Over time, the server would expand to be 4U rather than 2U
I don't intend to make money out of this. A happy little side project that's easy to maintain and improve over time.
>> well-informed public has always been the foundation of our democracy

I'd say maybe a well-informed electorate. Until very recently, the majority of "the public" wasn't allowed to vote and so had very limited input into "our democracy".
It makes sense though - if California only had a single prison and it was built inside of a volcano then we'd object to folks not receiving capital sentences being sent there since there's probably be all sorts of chances that the prisoner die during incarceration. The prisons we have weren't designed for Covid, they aren't safe and while those people are criminals they are people. They did ill but weren't judged worthy of losing their lives and, I'd wager, some people look really closely at their behavior to figure out if they're going to be an immediate societal risk before deferring their sentence.
Abuse, self-harm and suicidal ideation in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic
Great work on the Deta website! Small typo in 'Add a database to you project today', but I loved the illustrations and the copy - quick and easy to understand with good differentiation.

I'll definitely be giving it a try in my next project.
Don't. There's nothing they can do about it. The CCP will disappear them if they try. Don't put them at risk by even talking to them about it.

This is a problem to be handled at the diplomatic level between govts, by govts concerned about human rights abuses using various forms economic and diplomatic leverage and pressure to effect change. You can pressure your own govt to do that if want.
We're not thrilled about the 17+ requirement either and are evaluating our options there. Thanks! - Ben, 1Password
I suppose we're referring to different kinds of testing. Manual QA, etc, on prod sure.

But if you're building client software artifacts, to unit test or integration test involves building different software in a different configuration, with different software and running it in a test harness. To facilitate unit testing or integration testing client software you:

- Build with a lower optimization level (-O0 usually) so that the generated code bares even a passing resemblance to what you actually wrote and your debugger can follow along.

- Generate debug info.

- Avoid stripping symbols.

- Enable logging.

- Build and link your tests code into a library artifact.

- Run it in a test harness.

That's not testing what you ship. It's testing something pretty close, obviously, but does not bear any semblance to a deterministic build.
This is really great, thanks :)

`fmap _ (Leaf v) = Leaf (f v)` right? (s/v/f v)

I'm also curious about "the compiler is more than happy to do it for us" - is that in the form of `deriving Functor`? I have never seen stock before!

Lastly, does `processFunctor` exist in the standard library? Seems powerful but unsure why I would personally have to write it with each project.
Because the job requires a master's degree.

Or alternatively, why hire a local when you can get someone with a master's degree for the same price?
'Rational self interest' is a fairly widely known economic principle. Everyone acts in their own rational self interest, including infants, cats, and horseflies. Infants, cats, and horseflies are certainly not logicians, but when they want something, they will generally take the steps necessary to try to achieve it.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-macroeconomics/chapter/...

A great way to think about this is voting. If we were all acting logically, everyone would vote, because in theory, we'd all be better off. But because of the principle of rational self interest, many or most people don't vote because the cost of researching candidates and policies and going to the effort of voting is very often higher than the benefit (a 1 in 100,000,000 chance of influencing the outcome of the election)
If you are a developer, I encourage you to create a test case that reproduces the issue reliably and then profile Firefox in that test case. If you feel a bit apprehensive about doing so, it is worth mentioning that profiling Firefox is not terribly hard and you can share the profile with Firefox developers.
30.9% of Sleepers Report an Increase in Sleep Disturbance During Covid Pandemic
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The closest thing to a USB hub I've got is one of my external drives for my Mac Mini has a built in USB hub so I can plug stuff into that as well as directly into the computer. The last time I worried about such things was back when desktop computers only had one or two USB ports. Plus, in a DoD situation, I'd imagine that having your own USB hub plugged into a DoD computer would be the kind of thing that could put your job at risk. A friend who teaches at the Naval War College often laments the unusability of DoD IT because of the level of locking down, but any "Why don't you do X?" suggestions have a response of "I'd get fired."

The safeguard doesn't need to be perfect, it just has to be good enough.
Cable boxes do not typically have bidirectional connections. The cable head end doesn't know about channel changes. Don't think of cable TV like web streaming.

Cable systems don't often re-encode streams they receive from upstream sources. The video from upstream is already compressed so the elementary streams are remuxed into the cable system's channel plan. The cable head end doesn't receive raw video and encode it in real-time. Even local OTA stations just get remuxed rather than re-encoded.

Sending some out of order I-frame every time a channel was changed means every stream has to be decoded in real-time at the head end in case someone flips a channel. Cable is a shared medium so every channel flip by every user on a node will to be sent to everyone.

Even IPTV isn't a bidirectional signal. It uses IP multicast and the tuners just change their multicast address to change stations. The stream is the same MPEG transport stream as the QAM signal but sent as IP packets. The head end still doesn't decode every station to send bespoke I-frames in the event someone flips the channel.
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It was not. If the code suggests that, then it's just because I'm not a very good developer. All basic HTML/CSS/JS + Firebase.
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This is the correct answer. Thanks! - Ben, 1Password
Hrmm. Surely the vast majority of testing happens on non-release builds, despite the fact that release builds may also be tested. Unit tests are generally fastbuild artifacts that are linked with many objects that are not in the release, including the test's main function and the test cases themselves. Integration tests and end-to-end tests often run with NDEBUG undefined and with things like sanitizers and checked allocators. I would say that hardly anyone runs unit tests on release build artifacts just because it takes forever to produce them.
It means your product is hunted, so you can join in as the maker and share it. The more people upvote it, the more visibility it gets on the front page of producthunt. It was a really popular startup launching ground before, now it's just meh, but can still get some nice leads :)
Very true.

That said, sometimes they're basic skills. In one job a few back, I did a lot of resume-reading and phone screening. I used basic questions. A solid 50% of screenees failed FizzBuzz.

Now, it's absolutely possible that many of these were just nerves. Not everyone handled interview tension well! But it strains credulity for me to accept that being nervous makes half of software engineers forget how to do a loop, conditional, and modulo.
it seems the objection is to unearned affiliate revenue (for any purchases at amazon for some period just for visiting wirecutter), not earned affiliate revenue (by clicking on a product you intend to buy), which is consistent and fair.
Slightly less convenient, but if you don't have access to a printer you could always just write the codes down.
My european bachelor's degree (three years in the Czech Republic) literally says "software engineering" on it. We also use the czech equivalent "inženýr" (Ing.) as the name for the master's degree.
Thank you for that link. It gave me a good chuckle. I work for a lab that analyses air samples. H2S is indeed interesting stuff.
RStudio.cloud is now generally available
Cable boxes aren't bidirectional in the way you seem to think.
It's also cool to try throat singing and watch the overtones change https://photos.app.goo.gl/DZxXKw6sKmxTJ9Wn9
They could use Zoom for meeting participants, and a separate video streaming service for viewers.
I hope we get to see judgments. This is potentially a big deal for consumer rights.
You're just not looking hard enough. The video used in this post has exactly 1 frame where the fireball is clearly visible [1]. I'm guessing the sheer scale just threw you off.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/Nvb7lWJ.png
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it used to be called "private cloud", wasn't it?
This is the kind of content I've only ever seen previously in TDWTF (which is entirely this sort of content...)

https://thedailywtf.com/
What Q2 fundraising data tells us about the rest of 2020
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Chrome has autoscroll here, on Windows.

What platform do you use?
What's the amount of Vitamin D supplementation? This is common in the States, but I wonder if Norway is higher.
Stopping in the roadway is itself an unsafe condition and you are certainly going to get rear ended, if not cause a massive pile up, particularly when visibility is poor.
SpaceX needs $kg to orbit to be much lower for their Mars plans to be possible. It is planning on their starship and superheavy rocket combo to bring down current launch costs by a factor of around 100 in the long term. A factor of two improvement in costs is not interesting to them.
> In an ideal world, your two datacenters would be managed by different companies, so you would avoid any one company's global routing failure

I can't understand this. I think transferring servers would be the the least of problems. Its the transferring of database and maintaining consistent version of databases in both the locations. Moving the snapshots after every X minutes doesn't maintain consistency. I would like to read about any company that is able to do this, as honestly it sounds really hard to me. Is there any writeup of IBM thing you mentioned?
I’ll wager that he’s never driven a locomotive even once
That's what all of the courts I've seen do. They stream the Zoom meeting via YouTube.
Nice, the effect reminds me of Powder Game (https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/)
Not necessarily. But the way some of the mods act is.
At least they recently added the animation back.

It was nearly invisible for quite a long period.
It’s relatively small compared to similar incidents-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nucle...
Remote work does mean longer days – and more meetings
What do you think of this guys? I my personal experience it does feels like it.
Wait until they have a chance to actually use and explore it.
My experience is questions tend to start before I have looked at much.
It's not a mistake in the short-term, but in the long-term it'll hurt growth. New users will find Instagram confusing and why signup and download an app for 3 different things when you only want one of them?
In 1931 the Coca-Cola Company began placing Coca-Cola ads in popular magazines. Archie Lee, the D'Arcy Advertising Agency executive working with The Coca-Cola Company, wanted the campaign to show a wholesome Santa who was both realistic and symbolic. So Coca-Cola commissioned Michigan-born illustrator Haddon Sundblom to develop advertising images using Santa Claus.

For inspiration, Sundblom turned to Clement Clark Moore's 1822 poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (commonly called "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"). Moore's description of St. Nick led to an image of a warm, friendly, pleasantly plump and human Santa. (And even though it's often said that Santa wears a red coat because red is the color of Coca-Cola, Santa appeared in a red coat before Sundblom painted him.)

In the beginning, Sundblom painted the image of Santa using a live model — his friend Lou Prentiss, a retired salesman. When Prentiss passed away, Sundblom used himself as a model, painting while looking into a mirror.
No, I'm saying you re-run your automated unit tests on the release build because there's no reason not to.

If you have test failures in opt/stripped mode, they're more annoying to debug yes, but wouldn't you want to know?

Another way of putting this is that when you

> - Build and link your tests code into a library artifact.

You build and link the same object files that will be built into the release binary artifact, deterministically.

> - Enable logging.

I, uhh, usually do this in my released software too.
Most important question not asked or answered: Is it pronounced Lua-you or Lu-au?
Scientists Say Lithium Should Be Added to Drinking Water to Prevent Suicides
Could also be same as I said but very long press to spray cleaner.
That tweet of Elon regarding April and Covid did not age well.
That is indeed a big part of it. - Ben, 1Password
So they are implementing their own N language runtimes? That sounds like trouble waiting to happen. How do they have the man power to support N languages as a single company?

(edit)

Apparently they shell out to other language runtimes. So my original question about needing N runtimes available still applies. I'm not interested in supporting N runtimes for my IaC, TF seems good enough. Put Cuelang on top of that and you have a much better system. There are people already doing this.

As a Pulumi employee, what is your response to the N runtime problem and sharing of modules in an org?
Huh, never thought about the math like that. It makes a lot of sense, thanks for sharing.

P.S. Before the age of social media, was there not the same level of risk of induced ignorance through traditional media campaigns and propaganda? If not, why not?
The court is already public, no spying necessary.
Half the people writing articles about these apps have never actually used them.
As a note, that doesn't mean 50% of engineers lack the skill. Those lacking skills will interview the most so for any position the distribution will be biased towards them. For example, if 10% of people on the market lack skills but they interview at 9 times as many places (failing at each) then each company will see 50% of applicants lacking skills.
Not at all. The point is that someone the CEO of a technical organization can give themselves credit for the work done by the (actual) engineers working for them.

In regards to Steve Jobs specifically, Steve Wozniak said, "Steve didn't ever code... He wasn't an engineer and he didn't do any original design, but he was technical enough to alter and change and add to other designs." (emphasis mine)

Probably not how you would describe someone who honestly came by 200+ patents.

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-never-wrote-compu...
VA becomes first US state to debut Covid-19 tracing app using Apple/Google API
The numbers are definitely going to rise as they dig deeper into the rubble and as some people die because of the overwhelmed hospitals.