skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Generally we prefer to find a _global_ minimum of the error function because then we can expect the resulting approximator to generalise better to data that was not available during training.

Sorry to nitpick, but is this true? We are doing optimization here and a global minimum is just a better solution than a non-global minimum. Is there a connection to generalisation here?
My mother is German and I lived in Germany for nearly four years (as an adult, not counting the time I was there as a child, too young to really remember it).

Dismissive snark isn't really how you are supposed to be commenting on HN, no matter how much you may think I sound like a loon.
Advanced dynamic programming in semiring and hypergraph frameworks (2008) [pdf]
"Money can't buy happiness, but you can distract yourself with consuming luxury goods" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

These types of quotes tire me (and ones like it, "have you ever seen anyone sad on a Jet ski?"). They ignore the very real human condition of yearning for meaning from existence. Pretending like this can be solved with symbols of status and consumption is misguided.
Seems like they are RELUs lately :/
Still no traffic lights? "Turn right in 1.2 miles" will never be as easy to follow as "turn right at the third light" (or "turn right at the McDonalds").
The concern is that we might end up in a state where COVID restrictions are considered so obvious that they're not even a matter of electoral self-interest; where abolishing COVID restrictions sounds as extreme as abolishing taxes or abolishing the military. Many people say they don't want the restrictions gone until COVID is eradicated, and I believe they're telling the truth.
There are government organized protests literally chanting for the deaths of Americans.

Here is one such instance from the recent past: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-embassy/iranians...
> Political ideology is OK but not religious ideology?
Right. Religious ideology is without a doubt is exploitation. Political ideology that does not involve religion is probably coming out of good intentions.

> Being a 2nd in command is OK but not a national leader?
The point is he is not after power and did not try to become 2nd in command either. He left the minister position he had given after the war and left to another country to start a revolution where he was killed. So looking all these facts he actions must be coming from the noble intentions.
if you could wave a magic wand and create a system for deciding labour allocation: Let's keep it simple: You must harry potter sorting hat people into, some salaries in the real world in parentheses: instagram influencer, video game tester, poet laureate, astrophysicist, molecular biologist (~35k USD), code monkey (~80-200k USD), oil rig worker (~80k USD+), road paver, garbage collector (~70-100k USD+), lyft driver (~40k USD -- though I made 50k doing that), and farmer (< ~20k USD)... How would you do it, and how "free" would it be, and what is your operational definition of "free"?
> Are we talking about the D'Arcy Concession? I ask because none of what you are describing is found in the text of that agreement.

The agreement was re-negotiated in 1933, according to terms that the grandparent pointed out. At this point I have to wonder if you are being disingenuous on purpose. The rest of your comment is a moral appeal making a case for why D'Arcy "deserved" the profits. You have to pick a lane, are you arguing on the basis of who "deserves" a countries natural resources, or from the point of view of adherence to contracts and agreements?
Probably something like, get the kids dressed before the first nanny shows up at 8am...
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Can you locate for the audience where the poster you are responding to said anything to the effect of "employees can be prosecuted/sued for accepting sub-minimum wage"? I read his/her post a few times and do not see where that was stated. On the contrary, I see where he or she said that certain _jobs_ were illegal. Your point about who gets prosecuted or sued comes across as a total non-sequitur, at least to this reader! A very anti-charitable one at that with an aftertaste of moral grandstanding.
Being both male and white, I have little or no standing to talk about this area, but I will say this. I thought the Black Panther movie was awesome in many ways, but one really stood out to me. And that was how there was one character (Shuri) who was a young black female, who was one of the heroes of the story, and was a hero based on her intellect. I can't help but imagine that there were many young women, and young black women in particular, in the audiences, who were really inspired by Shuri. Especially when you consider how many movies and TV shows you see where any young black female character is either an abused victim, a prostitute, or just the girlfriend of the gang leader, or some other stereotype with mostly negative connotations.
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You also have to choose the right forums for problem-solving. Sometimes 1230 am is not the right time for an in-depth discussion of how it makes you feel when your partner buys food for himself when he’s on his way to see you. You can bring it up but you should allow your partner to table it if they can’t handle it.
> We got a big LG 'smart' TV a year or so ago, and we use it for exactly four things: youtube, netflix, xbox and (primarily) to watch content I put on USB sticks.

Are you okay with the content you watch, and the filenames on the USB sticks being sent back to LG? https://grahamcluley.com/lg-smart-tv-can-spy/
Because no one owes you nothing by their unalienable right to be in charge of their own life, and you only get what you deserve by your actions. That's the fundamental moral principle of fairness. If your actions oriented towards creation then you get to hold your earnings by the right of your productive work. If your actions oriented towards extorting the value from those who create it, you deserve to be ostracized.
How would you propose to keep a 5 year old from doing anything except for shadowing their every move all day long? Would that work?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-embassy/iranians...

Just do a google search there are many many instances.
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ByteDance and their investors are going to get a nice cash infusion on their way to world domination outside the US and Oracle will promptly kill it like they did Sun.

US Zoomers will move to the next big thing.
In economics this is called a barrier to entry. Industries with lower barriers of entry are more competitive (see: restaurants) and have lower margins. Industries high high barriers to entry tend to gravitate towards monopolies. For industries with the highest barriers to entry (like tap water) markets don't work and we have to use heavy handed regulation to avoid letting the industry completely screw over the populace (see: water barons).

Of course it is pretty weird to think of a social network as a utility.
There's just not that much power available for regen. I've done a lot of dicking around with E-scooters. Even at their low speeds with lots of stop and go, regen is less than 10%.

It's only used because dumping excess energy back to batteries is cheaper than including brake hardware. The math may work out the same for EV's. Regen just to decrease the cost of brakes rather than increase range significantly. In the e-scooter world, the cheap ones use regen and more expensive models have traditional disc brakes.

Air resistance burns a ton of energy at any speeds over 20mph.
Back-breaking farm work is done largely by humans who are present in the country illegally.
Here's a crazy idea. Maybe 5 years old is too young for formal education to begin with.
I think this is a tough concept. It looks kind of fun, but I don't think I'd believe people will pay $200 up front and then $120/year to play this game. My big concern is that you're not clear on where this falls between an exercise service and a fun video game.

* Multiplayer boxing is fun, but it's not going to be that much different than wii boxing or whatever VR equivalents are out there now. It's definitely not a noteworthy exercise tool.

* peloton sells a lifestyle w/ live classes. You're selling a video game. I think it's misleading yourselves to think about this as a subscription product because I don't think you'll be able to do much in the way of interesting content over time. You're much closer to ring fit adventure. Your main competitors, if released right now would be Fitness Boxing on the Switch and BoxVR. I don't know these games, but they turned up on a quick google. Reading through some of the other comments of people who are optimistic about this concept, they don't seem to know about these titles either, which is probably cause for concern.

* Making it a fantasy story based game is fun... but now you're locking in your target market to people who like those kinds of things and decisively not doing an "exercise" or "hardcore" aesthetic. I'm concerned that's not a big overlap with people who want to pay for an exercise service. Ring Fit adventure is kind of close to this and it sold 4 million units, so its not a BAD decision, but its a stark contrast to all of the value props that something like peloton pushes

* you say gesture recognition. I think a lot of people are expecting hand tracking and will be disappointed. I'm concerned you added spells because there's just not enough variety on the punches.

* doesn't look like you have any people with game dev experience on the team.

* kickboxing is a fun stretch goal but realistically I see nothing but difficulty in implementing that.

* I think it will be difficult to make a boxing game that people want to play every day for a long time. You said hundreds of enemies in your video. I think that's highly unlikely to happen. That's a huge huge challenge for any game dev shop. Judging from the clips, I don't think you really know how the game works. That is, how the player chooses what actions to take, and what creates the difficulty. Off the top of my head, the ways you can make a boxing game are puzzles / patterns (punch out), rhythm, ring fit-just-do-reps-and-follow-prompts style, and then something dynamic like wii boxing. Which of those can you choose and make a game that is compelling enough to play every day? Wii boxing sounds enticing but its really quite difficult to make a substantial game out of this. BoxVR and Fitness Boxing are rhythm games from the look of it.
Online tax filing is free for everyone under the median income. Private toll roads may or may not be "more" common but they are certainly rare. Average internet speeds are twice Australia's. https://www.fastmetrics.com/internet-connection-speed-by-cou...
> If everyone is only buying and holding (except when they retire), then the market can’t really go down. Or can it?

If a recession is bad enough that people have to liquidate investments to pay the bills, investment mentality is irrelevant. As it happens, in this particular recession, office workers who may have money in the market are generally not doing too bad because they can continue to work remote.

> (except when they retire)

In theory, if the amount of dollars being liquidated through retirees is greater than the amount of dollars being invested by workers (when the entire boomer generation has retired), this could imply that markets go down.
>the flu does not overwhelm hospitals

yes it does https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

flu may not kill as much as covid or spread as fast as covid but still thousand of people die every year, so somehow that is acceptable without lockdown ?
Especially if you can admit that it’s a real problem and that you’re taking it seriously.
> Your chain of causality is actually completely wrong. At 15 dollars an hour only a few companies can hire unskilled workers. At 1 dollar an hour many people can pay workers that amount, so there is more competition out there for wages.

That theory is good if there's a surplus of job offers, something that doesn't happen outside of very specific sectors.

Moreover, your argument assumes that changing jobs is easy and risk-free, when in reality it's not, specially for unskilled workers.

> Minimum wage jobs should not be expected to be a long term viable career choice.

Why not? Of course it's not the optimal career choice, but why wouldn't one be able to live off a full-time job?

> Minimum wage jobs are a way for people to get their first experience, and then move one once they have gained valuable skills.

Yeah, the "serving fast food" skill that is so demanded in the current job market.

> workers need to be able to get paid 15 dollars an hour without needing to relocate or learn new skills

If you don't get paid a livable wage, you can't save for moving and/or changing jobs, and it will be far harder to pay and/or have time for further education.

Non-livable wages just lock people into poverty. When the alternative is losing your house, or your healthcare, or starving, people will be forced to make non-optimal long-term decisions because it's their only option.
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There are some very deeply informed people who realize that essentially what you are describing and what has also been done all around the world, was also done to the USA a long time ago now.

People latch onto the most obvious examples where the USA (or soviet union for that matter) just blatantly installed and backed blatant puppet leaders, but reality is that these types of things are not only not new, but the far more sophisticated and advanced forms of puppet systems have also been installed in many advanced countries, including Germany and Italy.

You have to understand, the ruling class/aristocracy, those who wield power, wield it with abandon and the assumption that their power protect them through offense as well as defense. It is, e.g., how our ruling class/aristocracy also not only inconsequentially just invades and takes over Syrian oil and violates sovereignty, but also that no one else in the "international community" anywhere says anything about it, regardless of how self-righteous they are.
Sia released a new version of their product called Skynet[1] which provides exactly the functionality of IPFS+Filecoin today. Part of Skynet is a group of SDKs[2] which you can use to integrate skynet storage as part of your application. I believe that they are even adding the ability for developers to get kickbacks if they build on Sia[3].

If you do want something like Dropbox that is built on Sia, there is Filebase[4].

I am not associated with Sia at all. I've just been following their twitter for a while.

[1]: https://siasky.net/

[2]: https://nebulouslabs.github.io/skynet-docs/#introduction

[3]: https://twitter.com/SiaTechHQ/status/1291441690008592384

[4]: https://docs.filebase.com/
The BBC article is also less than 1/4 of the size, for those not enthused about reading news in short-story form.
> nor do we type text on a character-cell terminal

Yes we do. Command line interfaces are as popular as ever and all terminal emulators rely on a fixed-width fonts.
Some up to date news regarding T-cells and their implications suggest this in fact could be a thing with some of the harder hit states. Apparently T-cells will "remember" an infection after a person is exposed to and recovers from covid-19[1]. This is a huge development as it suggests that neutralizing antibodies are not the only defense against a reinfection of covid-19(and these antibodies only last a few months) whereas T-cell memory of infections lasts years.

Also, there are some signs that other cornavirus family of viruses(common colds, not covid-19) could trigger a memory with these t cells, this is a possibility why some have extreme cases and others show no signs of sickness[2]. Couple these points with data showing 40% of people who contract the virus are asymptomatic[3] this leads to the idea that alot more people have had the virus than what is reported, which in this case is a good thing as its closer to herd immunity(if all the above is found to be true).

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/long-term-coronavirus-immuni...

[2] - https://www.livescience.com/common-cold-coronaviruses-t-cell...

[3] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08/08/asymptomati...
Just because we don't have textual substitution doesn't mean we don't have macros. We have a lot of macros!

(It took me a while to write back to you because I am busy writing bare-metal embedded Rust, btw. Including using some macros!)
This was so bad at one point that I changed my git aliases to include '--no-verify'.

I like to push all my commits up so I can pull them back on a different machine or get early feedback. I'll typically rebase at the end with a proper commit message and explanation for each logical change.
Yes, this is what I was meaning, thank you.
Just to add to the other comments of honey as a "folk remedy" for cough and sore throat: there's a Chinese version of it too that's based on honey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nin_Jiom_Pei_Pa_Koa

It's interesting that multiple cultures have the same remedy. Be curious to see if it was independently discovered or disseminated through trade.
You can also buy sugar free pastries. You can also add extra sugar when you bake your pastries.

I don't understand how this invalidates my point that sugar is sugar. That there is no difference between sugar in commercial goods, and sugar you add when you bake at home.
because the stuff they get for existing has to come from someone else.
As a computational biologist I have gained sufficient expertise in both computation and biology to know that most of the magic AI biomed stuff proposed by people who have expertise in only one of these areas is utter nonsense.

Two PhDs that don't speak the same language isn't a great solution, but one PhD who is a jack-of-both-trades isn't the only alternative either. I feel like I've done well with alternating collaborations with biologists who don't have a computational focus, and quantitative methods folks who don't necessarily have a focus in genomics (what we work on).
I drive both ICE cars and electric cars and there is something about ICE engines in cars : they are very unresponsive compared to electric engines. They are fine at high RPMs, but you don't want to and shouldn't drive at high RPM. They have things such as turbo lag or really shitty torque curves. The gearboxes do not help as well. It's weird to wait half a second to get full power when you are used to the instant torque.

You should test drive a random eletric car and a random ICE car.
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That's partly because Russia didn't do anything much - and nothing compared to toppling a government.

The democratic party latched on that story to exlain their failure, using as an excuse the same kind of internet ops the US (and tons of others) do all the time all over the world, and which in Russia's case were insignificant anyway...

As if the US is some poor little country manipulated by the mighty Russia...
What bit about it surprises you? Honey is a natural antibacterial (it never goes off - archaeologists have been known to get kicks out of tasting ancient roman honey) it also is also nice and sticky which helps coat the treatment area, protecting it from further irritation.

Nature is full of wonders (like the tensile strength of spiders web)
I think you missed my point. We evaluate people differently on their backgrounds already.

A 10 year old will be judged and rewarded in a favorable way compared to a 30 year old programmer. My example was to highlight the bias that people already acknowledge as fair. Poverty is a handicap in similar fashion. When we acknowledge the former in age should be judged more leniently and with grater praise, we refer to the statistical odds of a 10 year old being as good as a 30 year old and other 10 year olds.

That's the reality. You are refusing to accept it by removing the background of people in your hypothetical world. Fairness is not based on outcome.

Someone who never had access to computers, internet, mentors, etc would be judged differently compared to someone who always did. At least I would.
It drives up their mobile metrics, and they can track you better and show you more ads via the app.
I am a couch potato who is eating and lazing myself towards an early death... but I've played VR games and found myself only noticing how exhausted I was when the game ended, as opposed to exercise, where I hate what I'm doing when I start and it only gets worse from there.

VR might be the mindhack that dramatically improves public health.
> how do you expect an almost toddler to react when forced to sit in front of a screen?

Toddlers love sitting in front of a screen when Sesame Street is on. I guess we'll find out how educational SS actually is.
I just reread what I wrote and I think maybe I wasn’t very clear.

There’s electricity at every single gas station in the US. Why can’t we pull into any gas station in the US and charge an electric car? Even now that electric cars are gaining market share and becoming more common.

Someone has to build, supply, and hook up high power charging systems. You can’t just fly your $5 million eJet into any airport in the US and run a 100’ extension cord into the FBO. If that’s the plan, you certainly can’t hope to leave the same day. It will take at least 3 days for your 1 MWh eJet to finish charging.

We’re in the pre-Tesla days of electric aircraft. There’s a few players working on the aircraft and they’re getting close. However, until a ‘Tesla’ comes along where they also install charging infrastructure at the airports their customers are planning on using, we’re not going to see a commercially viable electric aircraft.
Sorry! I wanted to focus on the technical thing, rather than promoting it.

OpenTimestamps is a free, open-source, standard for creating timestamps using (mainly) Bitcoin as the root of trust. The calendar server system makes this efficient, using merkle trees to aggregate an unlimited number of timestamp requests into a single Bitcoin transaction, allowing it to be free to use, funded by donations.

https://opentimestamps.org/
The real question is why does everyone use bootstrap, when twitter is also constantly saying the app works better on mobile than the webpage.
You’ll notice a common thing in all cold remedies (tea, hot honey tea, hot lemon tea, hot honey and lemon, hot chicken soup, hot broth, etc): they are all hot liquids that you consume over a few minutes (instead of a pill that you just swallow). The secret is the hot liquid melts the mucus and opens up your airways.

Plain hot water works just as well as any other remedy, and doesn’t have any extra sugar or caffeine that you might not want.
Yes I was born in 92 and it was all day when I went.
Feel free to shoot me an email directly at first if I can help with any onboarding related questions.
"It's lonely at the top in whatever you do"
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210991
A lot of these get baked into boilerplate legal agreements companies end up signing when partnering with other companies or dealing with compliance/certifications/auditors. It can cost a lot in lawyer time to go back and forth renegotiating and redlining contracts to get all these addressed (and it may not even be an option if you're a smaller business). And this is even if people impacted or implementing the requirements are even involved and suitably motivated to pushback.