skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My fear is that we're approaching an "algorithm-free" movement: the word "algorithm" being turned into a taboo which will be more fuel for the growing anti-intellectual movements.

That said, there are some bad algorithmics being applied in our world. I like the things mentioned in this article. The ones boosting unpopular / unseen content seem cool. These aren't algorithm-free; they're algorithms to discourage bubbles.

The one that simply refuses to crosslink content is curious -- it's the only one that might be described as algorithm-free, as it's simply not providing the next thing to watch. This is the opposite of the others, it requires you to find content through your bubble and might simply piggyback other social sites.
Internet disruption hits Belarus on election day
what business? His networth has been flat-ish compared to Bezos. Maybe someone else needs to be a bit more charitable.
Here is what comes out: "The history of our universe is a sequence of random events. Each event is the result of a very small probability, and the events are independent of each other. The probability that any particular event will happen is very small. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice in a row is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen three times in a row is even smaller. And so on."
I'm kind of surprised to see Google brought back the + operator. I remember they prominently changed its meaning when they made it the @ of Google+, and I never bothered to check again after it died.
The mall industry is going down with the fashion industry.

Fashion will make a comeback, but not until the epidemic is so over that bars, nightclubs, restaurants, and entertainment venues can reopen fully. That's a long way off in the US.
Agreed.

In fact small chores which were a hassle when coming home after a 10-hour long (or longer) day of commuting+work+break+work+commuting can become a welcomed break, for they are actually a break from work, a tiny bit of manual work inside the stream of intellectual work.

> I can spend 20 minutes getting dinner for the family prepped and cooking and easily make it up later

Furthermore, for some parts, you needn't even make it up, because after a bit of preparation, you can go back to work while some stuff will gently cook alone for 1 or 2 hours in the kitchen.
https://archive.is/vDYqU
The plus operator in the page appears to be binary rather than unary. I've never used it. Is that affected as well? (Though I'm confused why AND is necessary. Isn't it implied normally?)
This will just be like anti virus. Peole will start to train their algos to fool the current algo that is is being used. We will be a never ending fight.
Well, for starters he seems quite in favour of a Western Great Firewall except this one will be used for Good(TM).

And although the current US government is pretty bad, Microsoft should buy their own social media platform which is being otherwise kneecapped for political reasons.

The remark about the Congress was cringey. Haha, let's laugh with the convicted monopolist about the good ol days.
That’s exactly what it is though. It’s a status signal even if it doesn’t seem that way.
Your friendly reminder from Alan Kay that 'computing is pop culture'.

https://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wi...

(...off to scroll YouTube's infinite list of tech reviews..)
Seems to me the 'lots of vehicles' communication can be solved using a mesh network with the vehicles as nodes. The trend is in that direction already and can serve a pre-delivery function.
This is also gpt-3 output based on the abstract as if explaining to an eight grader:
The theory of everything (TOE) is a mathematical formula that can predict everything that will happen in the future. It is a theory of everything, so it can predict what will happen to the universe, and to us. We assume that the TOE is simple enough for us to understand, but we don't know for sure.
They did it in quite general terms, and practically omitted all the details that a significant part of the Pizzagate was built on.
Read the whole thread. It was a reply to:

> So...people need to just slap something over their two air exchanging orifices on their faces before leaving the house and contribute to the our greater health.

My point is that if the mask is inefficient it could be counterproductive due to fidgeting. See sibling comment about fleece masks that hopefully makes a better case since you can't agree the slightest that anyone would ever fidget with their mask.

Regardless, I don't agree that it's a banality considering the ECDC lists it as an important caveat when using face masks:

> There is a risk that improper removal of the face mask, handling of a contaminated face mask or an increased tendency to touch the face while wearing a face mask by healthy persons might actually increase the risk of transmission.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COV...
Couldn't agree more.

High end fashion is woefully overpriced items that predominantly largely priced on their brand rather their functionality and material. While yes, you could make the same argument with technology, I can at least get a lot of value out of premium I've paid for Apple products like my seven year old MacBook Pro or five year old iPhone.

And after working briefly in the fashion industry as a developer, I found a lot more people involved in the field to be incredibly snobby and superficial, as in literally judging people by their looks which shouldn't be surprising given that is what the industry is about.
A much cheaper set:

$13 single mode 10G SFP transceiver set [quite uncertain what they are now... maybe something not quite ethernet compatible]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33040961103.html

2x $20 DLink 10G SFP [a much more certainly standard compatible]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32847226618.html

$50 1km G657A2 bend resistant single mode cable: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33045053714.html

$20 20x gel LC connectors: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32810983763.html

$15 20x gel splices: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000183799694.html
Flocking: A JavaScript audio synthesis framework
SMT, SAT, etc are absolutely AI. In fact, Machine Learning is just another field inside AI (albeit a famous and successful one).
As someone that got his PhD doing his research in "classical" AI, it's surprising that nowadays most people think that AI is just machine learning.
Facebook has announced that they want to move to end-to-end encryption for messaging, similar to Whatsapp. This would mean that any moderation being done would have to happen on the device. But a company that's promising end-to-end encryption presumably wouldn't do that.

That's kind of the point; switching to end-to-end encryption means the company is (supposedly) getting out of the moderation business, at least for these messages.

The kind of thing to worry about is social media's role in encouraging mob violence, massacres, and genocide. I assume Bill Gates is taking a global perspective on this.
It looked like crap on my phone, too. Reader mode ftw
> https://www.flightgear.org/info/fgmembers-statement/

Good drama which show deep misinterpretation of GNU GPL terms by official FlightGear team.
> It is amazing how I manage to rationalize sitting in traffic for that amount of time every day to myself.

I may be weird, but I enjoyed my commute prior to COVID. I purposely avoided the Interstate Highway, even though it would have saved me 10 minutes, in favor of backroads that have less traffic. Then during my commute, I listen to Audiobooks.

I kind of felt that this was my personal time just for me to listen to the books I liked. At work and home, there are always people clamoring for my time and attention, but my commute was just me time.

In addition, I have a vehicle with stop and go, automatic cruise control, so even a traffic jamb is not all that stressful.
At first I was thinking that there was a lot of unlikely stunt piloting going on. Then the bird legs came out for the landing.

I don't know if he was the smartest programmer who ever lived, but he certainly was one of the more dedicated and interesting ones.
Interesting post. Author seems to want to remain anonymous, which is not an unreasonable impulse these days. The argumentative style -- if you can call it that -- is quite nuanced.

I suspect the author is a youngish person who works in math or science, is liberal but has not embraced the more extreme tenets now popular among progressives. Probably born in the West but with parents from the Middle East.
You'll get better answers if you mention which language you're going to learn :)

Good luck!
> Jeans are good example of this. It's cheap and practical clothing that lasts a long time.

Mainstream jeans brands seem astronomically expensive to me.
They're using HVDC technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Yeah sorry I was a little vague, but my only previous experience is from getting a couple coding apps and playing around with those for like an hour and a half...
Not to say batteries aren’t crucial, but you are comparing apples and oranges.

That battery is only used for a very small peak / corner case and at least when I looked at the numbers last year hadn’t yet paid for its cost, despite some breathless claims. I do expect it to pay off though.

The entire demand for a battery like that for a country like Australia is probably one unit. And it’s no accident that it was installed in south Australia, not one of the more densely settled states.

It was a good PR stunt, but doesn’t really teach anything special.
They create a new company, different name, same purpose, steal tech
I posted this before you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098560
As long as you have a 4 year university degree you can apply for and get sponsorship from a company if they are willing to do the paperwork for a work visa, and just renew as required.

Knowing Japanese helps a lot, but some tech companies hire English speakers - possibly because most of the employees are foreigners anyways.

You can apply directly to companies if you can manage to track down their career pages (and read it if no English version), no prior connections required. However, it’ll be hit or miss as to whether they will sponsor you, and a big question mark if American during this COVID crisis.
"crowning human achievements" and "understandable to the general public" aren't, I believe, correlated in any way
Honestly I like some aspects of the fashion industry -- shoes, hats, even shirts or collar shirts all have some personality you can showcase who you are and give yourself an identity (I think that's what makes fashion kinda interesting).

However, pants? It's not really that different. I could care less lol
Not strange at all once you consider how the press operates:

- Bill Gates: 10 million clicks, $$$

- Joe Schmoe, MD, PhD: 0 clicks, no $$$
How can they possibly come a those conclusions when we’re still in the epidemic
What is it you are searching for that the results are useless?
It's a super gray area i agree, and people can become obsessed with "patterns".

I personally find it interesting like i find the Snowden revelations interesting, or the Wikileaks implications or geopolitics in general.

I started majoring in history before going into tech so i don't personally find any of these "conspiracies" fringe or stupid seen in a historical context of for example US intelligence organisations throughout the 20's century - obviously non organic campaigns like qAnon is something completely different but this info is from classic journalism.

But i can see that those top-down campaigns has really turned people away from even the slightest deviation of the "official narrative" now, so well, qAnon and other psyops really are working - there is only the mainstream, and the idiots left.
Really? I would have identified "angle brackets" as ⟨⟩.
Do you believe that Taiwan somehow knew ahead of time that there was going to be a pandemic this year? How do you believe they knew that?
Yup!

When you ask how someone became a manager (especially if they are bad), a lot of it was luck. I'm not discounting that the worked hard to earn it, but a lot of people work hard but are unlucky. I count myself in the unlucky pile.
Who Uses Forth?
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: AZ-900 Hot&New
As Gates touches on, trust in public health infrastructure is important to maintain, because when this crisis is over there will still be other diseases which need to be addressed. If people hold public health agencies to unfair standards, seeing them as simply incompetent for problems which are fundamentally hard to address, the inevitable and very dangerous conclusion will be they can't be trusted to handle things like tuberculosis or HIV.
Most coops aren't able to make use of the funding due to competing regulations getting in the way. My local coop has been sending us updates every few months on the situation and they're just getting ignored. Their recent emails have taken a more cynical tone that the government was doing more than playing lip service.
There should be a law, sequels should come within 2-3 years. Cartoons were way better, so many episodes. Cartoon to movies taking too much time. Now Matrix it's long time for a sequel.
yes, it is fashion. But it has a far slower pace of change then the fashion industry.
Formal attire for males got out of style a couple of decades ago, but besides the suit (and tie) mostly dying, most people still wear shirts to work.
BTW. There exsited over hundred start-up EV manufactures (who received investment) in China since around 2014. About 40 of them still exist as of today with the top 5 claiming over 90% of the market share (that does not include traditional car makers expanding their business). It is the most fiercest competition you could ever see and a powerhouse of innovation. Those information should be easily available to you had you know any VC person following this track.

Even if the author is presumably a 'sucessful businessman' by any definition. Ask how many of those failed ventures have a 'sucessful businessman' as their leader.
Doing some "related:" queries returns some interesting results that look human-curated and out-of-date. related:google.com shows results for Yahoo, Bing, AOL Search, and HotBot (which used to be a search engine, but the brand is now for a VPN provider).
Google still good for coding related searches
> I always wonder a little about the family wealth of people that write things like this. Most of the people I know who left high paying jobs come from wealthy families and they’re already basically working for fun.

Seriously, these replies that turn securing a future for you and your family into some kind of avarice anti-virtue are ridiculous.
> You've just been worked up into a frenzy by the media and don't realize it

Really? Please enlighten me. Which information have I consumed that supports your claim?
Thanks, I had looked it up to check the latin (not that I'm an expert, far from it) but it certainly looks more "conversational" than the English translation
In residential places in Europe I‘ve seen this mostly in old buildings where the walls are stone/brick underneath, so I am assuming it would be hard to put the cables inside walls?

Also, this was always inside, not on the outside walls, plus the cables were laid in tubes fixed to the wall and painted over, so well enough protected, probably.

Did you see issues with decay with this sort of installation even inside an appartment?
> As people stop having kids, our economy will begin to depend on immigration. We need to make America the easy choice.

How exactly do we benefit from other people occupying our old territory after we've died out?
The actual elephant in the room - nobody even talks about, unlike this article, is the effectively privatization of what used to be calle psychology,neuro-sciences, you name it. If you have all the data, and you have a private database to query it- your defacto privatized a whole field of academia, which is cut off from the most valuable thing to have.

Data.

You could write simulations, displaying the outcome of each of your actions on a psychological acurate model of a society. And you would be defacto invisible with your knowledge, forever in the blindspot of us mamals.
There are many other people interviewed about Covid and other public health issues. But until recently almost all of the experts were essentially unknown to the general population. Gates is simply a very widely known name, and due to the Gates Foundation actually somewhat relevant to the topic.

I could very well be that his interviews attract far more attention than interviews with experts, but you can't really compensate for that kind of name recognition.
Compare to DESERTEC, a plan to send power from North African solar farms under the Mediterranean to Europe with huge DC cables. They’ve been at it a while and I haven’t seen any signed of progress in a decade.

It’s possible AU+SG May have more organizational success. Only two players, both OECD countries. But the technical hurdles remain immense.

https://www.desertec.org/
Indeed very wealthy unelected elites shaping public policy should leave a sour taste in all of our mouths.
Dunno, I've been touch typing since forever and i actually prefer the dedicated keys. Bending my left hand to press ctrl+a looks like more stress to me than moving the right to home/end.

In conclusion, it's basically what you're used to :)

The one thing that baffles me is why Apple won't add the shortcuts for full keyboards into the OS by default. It's not like they're unaware of their existence.
Vinod Khosla Chats with Katie Rae at Tough Tech Summit 2019
I play Flightgear on a ThinkPad T420 a couple times a week and get 30-60fps. It's just a matter of adjusting rendering settings. The feeling of flight doesn't change much. Keyboard flight controls work fine too...

Not sure if that's a modern PC in your mind, but it's not exactly a speed demon. :-)
It would be interesting to see those huge tesla batteries on a large ship,(like a retired oil supertanker) charging at one point, and discharging at the destination. Leave enough to power the ship back home, and just have several of them. Probably not as efficient as power lines, but could go to multiple destinations.
(Photos) Use of Masks During the Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918
> You may underestimate the time and effort that can be involved in in-wall cabling in a retrofit situation.

I totally hear you. I’ve done a lot myself, most recently on Saturday.

It’s hours and hours per run. I’ve used many weekends doing this and it sounds like you have too (and it seems you have considerably more sophisticated tools!), but the alternative is looking at cables that run along the walls.

I ran into a new one recently - the nogs (dwangs to some) being angled to give a herringbone pattern. A complete nightmare for retrofitting.
Okay. I was reading too much into the last line and interpreted your comment as separating the work/personal parts of the day.
That's because the country loosened the restrictions. It worked, and should've been kept. Sadly the leadership here is populist too, which worked at first (the popular thing in Europe was to restrict) but then didn't (the popular thing became to open up). If they listened to our experts instead of being populists, we wouldn't have opened up and the cases would go to zero, as it nearly did a few months ago.

Source: am Czech.
late-term abortion
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098560

Also an editorialized title.
>One way that this can happen is by eating refined (simple) carbs - aka sugars.

Refined carbs are complex carbs not simple sugars. Fructose in fruit is a simple sugar, sucrose (table sugar) is a simple sugar. Bread, pasta and anything containing wheat is a complex refined carb. There are refined sugars however like high fructose corn syrup which btw doesn't have the same composition as normal fructose, hence the deleterious effects. Refined carbs cause insulin problems more than fructose from fruit, that's why you never feel bad after eating fruit but you can get a food coma after eating too much pasta. The reason is because your body releases the insulin before the complex carbs are fully broken down lowering your blood sugar to below normal levels. With fructose because it is so bioavailable your insulin and blood sugar spike at the same time, in sync, resulting in normal blood sugar levels and a stable mood and energy level. When you start eating cake is where you get into trouble because it contains, guess what... refined carbs in the form of flour. That's why you feel just as bad after eating a lot of bread as a lot of cake despite one having a lot more sucrose. Sucrose is fairly similar to fructose. It's the not sucrose that's the problem, it's the complex carbs.

>Not sure what an anecdotal observation of people on a weird diet proves.

These people pride themselves on eating 3000+ calories a day and are dangerously skinny. What I'm saying is you can't get fat eating just fruit. These people are also incredibly unhealthy and I wouldn't recommend anyone eats like that but I think it does prove the point that the sugar in fruit is not the same as normal sugar.
I find driving my car quite enjoyable and my commute became much more fun when I started taking the backroads to the office.
To be fair, and you even bringing it up, apple products is to some degree the fashion equivalent in tech. I recently had to buy a MacOs compatible hardware for the first time in years, and I had really no idea how large the difference has become. Apple products truly are "way of life", more than anything tangible. And when choosing to upgrade components, I really couldn't believe it. It was more than twice the comparable value. In some cases 8 times. In what other industry are people willing to pay at least more than twice, for the same hardware?
I am getting pretty tired of sweatpants but regular pants feel uncomfortable while working from home. Does anybody know some pants that are reasonably comfortable but still a little stylish?
I think more specifically, the question is - what information is given away on TikTok that, if used by the CCP, presents a national security risk to the US?
Expensive if you need to be competitive with higher volume.

Old fusion splicers can be inexpensive. Tradeoff is they take longer to to do alignment and are much heavier than modern splicers.

I got a FSM-30S for sub $3k on eBay years ago. $350 for calibration. I see listings now for under $500. Paid for itself very quickly vs. hiring out as a little ISP. Wasn't hard to learn from YouTube videos and material from Fiber Optic Association.
Edit: disregard; the title on this one was the subtitle of the post, which is fine
I can't understand the 'microchip in vaccines' issue. You mean to tell me that my iPhone can't last a full day on a battery charge, however we have microscopic tech capable of tracking location data and relaying it somewhere and doesn't need charging once injected into the body?

I'll take my microchip in space grey please.
Okay thanks!
Indistractibility – One Engineer's Experiences
Gates was born wealthy and connected and is now one of the richest humans on the planet, and owns or controls multiple corporate media companies (his foundation funds UK media company the guardian 'global development', the UK BBC 'world service trust as european based examples, Conde Nast in the US (Wired etc) are effectively Gates PR mouthpieces).
As an oligarch he can pronounce as a 'philanthropist' on global
public policy direction with little or no media pushback or investigation into his affairs. He follows in the footsteps of Carnegie, Mellon and other powerful monopoly business titans in the era of Davos globalists and is the consummate big league globalist.
Didn't know you changed links for such old posts