skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'm pretty worried about data corruption. I have been planning to compare all the databases. Thanks for the link- I'll check it out tomorrow.
My sown owns XPS 15 (2019) and had just one issue (no hibernation on "lid close" event), which was fixed (although it wasn't simple).

Build quality is amazing, keyboard is great, screen is awesome (4k, hdr, touch).

It has the exact amount of ports my son needs, it can run games and it's weight is good to take it to the school.
100% this that's why Indians are leaving india and be CEOs for Microsoft and Google I'm just telling you like it is... it's not our business to fix others really...
Testing everyone won't "give us our lives back" but it will make billions or trillions of dollars for unscrupulous corporations that promise us salvation from Covid-19 if we use their product(s).

Testing everyone won't do anything useful b/c there is no Covid-19 vaccine or "cure" available and we will not be able to do tracking. But again it will make beaucoup $$ for medical charlatans.

For each person one of two things will happen:

1) They will be exposed to Covid-19 and survive or

2) They will be exposed to Covid-19 and die.

Most people are unlikely to die from Covid-19 but can only "get their lives back" by catching the virus and surviving. Once they do then they will have happy normal lives. The small percentage of people likely to die from Covid-19 should "shelter in place" and pray for a vaccine. [I suggest prayer b/c of the sad state of science at this time and the way in which prayer seems to calm some people. I'm not much of a prayer person myself, but ask me about it later when I'm in front of the firing squad.]

We should re-open schools and businesses, let people make their own choices and provide assistance to those who must remain sheltered instead of trying to buoy up the entire frigging economy with dollars. That would "give us our lives back"!

Again, people at risk should "shelter in place", e.g., teachers at hi risk should stay away from schools, children should stay away from elderly persons at risk, etc.
It's quite hard to back up a paper book.
> I don't really understand how you define "argue" such that you can completely avoid it while still admitting differences of opinion...

I am not rconti, but for me there is a big difference as well between arguing and talking about a difference in opinion. Arguing for me is "fighting", being confrontative and aggressive, blaming and letting off steam. The other thing then would be a calm, collaborative and resolution-oriented talk about an issue. I personally had relationships with both kinds but can not really pin down why one relationship resulted in arguing and all others did not.
As somebody young and fit, I am not really scared of dying if I catch covid, but losing my taste or getting my lungs scarred (especially since my respiratory system is not that great to begin with) is definitely preoccupying.
i can and it's culture and mindset to change takes generations decades maybe centuries, no time for that go Elon...
When you look at the demographic curve of fatalities it's similar to the flu: it's not deadly to the young and healthy, but it is to the old and sick.

When you look at overall mortality it's not similar to the flu. It's worse. Covid is a bigger killer, with a major reason being the lack of population resistance, vaccination, treatment protocols etc.

I think most discussion misses this point, it is similar in some ways and not in others.

In my view a rational and evidence-based approach would have focused on protecting vulnerable populations from day one. Such policies received little emphasis. Instead, we panicked and implemented measures that destroyed the jobs of healthy people who were living paycheck to paycheck. It's hard to imagine a worse response than one that fails to focus on the core problem and injures millions in the process.
I have a two year old. So far I haven't used that phrase but I think I will add it to my bag'o'tricks.

So far what has worked is spending time trying to explain. He looks at me quietly, you can see his cogs whirring and - while he has not much comprehension of my reasoning - he goes along with it because:

- whatever Dad is saying must be important because he is putting effort into it.

- if I do it he'll shut up and I can go back to fun...
My concern is, if we don't know what understanding is, how do we know it's not becoming a god of the gaps? Playing Go and writing poetry were canonical examples of things AI couldn't do without true understanding, right up until we wrote AIs that could do them.
Florida as a whole enacted mask recommendations in late June.

Miami Dade county enacted a mandatory mask mandate on July 2nd: https://www.miamidade.gov/global/initiatives/coronavirus/eme...

Palm Beach county enacted a mandatory mask mandate on June 25th: https://discover.pbcgov.org/PDF/COVID19/PBC-EO-12.pdf

Hillsborough county enacted a mandatory mask mandate on June 22nd (if I'm reading it right): https://web.archive.org/web/20200706143937/https://www.hills...

Broward county enacted a mandatory mask mandate on July 8th: https://www.broward.org/CoronaVirus/Documents/EmergencyOrder...

Orange county enacted a mandatory mask mandate on June 20th: https://www.orangecountyfl.net/portals/0/library/Emergency-S...

Pinellas county enacted a mandatory mask mandate on June 24th: https://covid19.pinellascounty.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/0...

In just this list, we're up to mask mandates that cover counties that account for 10 million people, 47% of Florida's population, and accounting for the densest population centers. A number of additional counties also enacted mask mandates, but it got a bit tedious listing them all out.

In other words, in the June-July period, mask mandates were enacted for a majority of the population of Florida.

In another comment, I critiqued this piece as being a shallow analysis. Your comment here is an example of that.
As you advance in any career, jobs become more and more
similar. There is a huge difference between a janitor, a
dentist and a marketer, but the manager overseeing the
janitors, dentists and marketers have a lot more in common.
The VPs in charge of the managers of janitors, dentists and
marketers have even more in common.

This is the kind of thought process that leads to incompetent leadership of technical people, by non-technical ones, with disastrous consequences.
I think it would fail pretty hard for new research. Frequency of updates in a fast changing environment are not conducive to reaching the best conclusion. This is because our brains latch on to a conclusion at a specific point in time, and it's very difficult to change our minds after more evidence comes in.

Not to mention that a lot of harm can be done during the time it takes to figure out the truth.
Not to say that any dumb person lacks consciousness, but you might be surprised how many cognitive scientists think not everyone is “conscious.” There could be zombie/automatons living all around us.
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Something the article hints at but should be looked at are concrete examples of minimum wage removing entire job sectors.

For instance, almost all low skilled manufacturing and textile jobs have left the US for mainly Asian countries as a direct result of minimum wage. It's not like those companies want to pay shipping costs of getting products across the globe, but the minimum wage makes it more profitable to do so.

Another example is automated grocery store scanners. Grocery stores lose a ton of money from people gaming the system of automated checkout machines. But even with those losess, it's still profitable for a grocery store to install a machine than hire a worker.

Without a minimum wage, those jobs would still exist in the US and provide an opportunity for low skilled workers to enter the job market.
This is what annoys me so much about the current protests in the US. These delicate flowers rioting and blocking traffic and destroying buildings/statues don't have any idea how good they have in the United States. And these children want to tear it all down? Entitled brats who have never faced real adversity in their short lives.
Corporate debt often looks like what you're describing. The principle is rarely called and the loan can be extended virtually forever (unless the bank decides you're too risky).

There are certainly other ways a school could run its endowment, sure. In fact, the way things are usually done is perhaps far from optimal.

But you don't want to that guy who gets fired because you did some crazy stuff. These institutions are perversely risk adverse, and the investment through consensus model makes it hard to do anything different.
> Data transfer from the bat to broadcasters for on-time analysis requires transfer speed equals to speed of light.

Oh dear this author does not seem to understand a few things.
Hyundai and Genesis have been doing this with their vehicles. They offer a 3 year complimetary connected service program, which includes terms that allow mining of car telemetry and GPS data, which is then sold to data broker VeriRisk, who resells to insurance and other industry.

All this only screws the driver over and most people simply do not know this is happening.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hyundai-motor-ameri...
> it's not yet clear whether infection with the COVID-19 virus even makes a person immune to future infection.

If you don't become immune after getting the virus, how would you become so after vaccination? My understanding is that vaccines have a weaker version or a portion of the virus inside them, and your body needs to make antibodies. But if that doesn't happen?
That's because their mental model of AI is not good enough. Apparently humans don't really 'understand AI', the irony.

By the way, causal reasoning is not the product of just one human, it is based on experiments, observations and careful model building by the whole human society over long spans of time.

We didn't understand even basic things such as infections and the role of hygiene until recently. What does that say about our causal reasoning powers? That we were stupid?

We know how COVID spreads and many people are still exposing themselves without care, sometimes causing their own demise or somebody else's. Why isn't causal reasoning working for us all the time?

I think humans can only do causal reasoning when they have a very good model of the thing they are trying to understand. Causal intelligence is not in our brains naturally, it depends on having access to specific models.
Just like the flu. Here is a nice paper that goes through all the cardiac, neurological, renal and other organ complications of influenza.[1]

[1]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/irv.12470
To be honest I struggle with causal reasoning myself. I can intuit on some level that one thing causes another, and that in the process of causing the "other" the "thing" itself is reflexively brought about. This leaves me stuck in a place trying to make sense of things infinitely far apart in space and time all influencing each other instantaneously.
While factually correct, I think both articles fail to paint the broader picture. Which began earlier with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%E2%80%93Baghdad_railway and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93German_allianc... threatening the interests of "ze British" :)
Preprints.
I'll disagree, for my dog at least. It is fun to watch the gears turn in his head, sometimes I see the conclusion he'll get to before he gets there. And sometimes, since I know him so well, I know where his 'dog logic' will take him with his flawed world view. It makes a kind of internal sense, when you don't see the big picture. It's fun and made me realise how far AI is from even replicating a dog's language-less thought process.

It also makes me think of alien species who might view us the same way.

It has a practical side too, our guy usually slinks off to the couch for naptime after dinner but a few months back he walked to the office and just stood in the doorway staring at us. We could instantly tell by his expression that something was wrong. He turned out to have a grass seed lodged in his armpit (Which the vet did not find! I had to remove it myself the next day).

It is fun to just watch him sleep and dream, though.
Google has a functional monopoly on online advertising, so you’re options for online advertising are google and Facebook, or ad companies that primarily have scams. Seriously it’s just google, Facebook, and then things like taboola, and the most popular sites on the web are 100% google ads only.

Apple’s alternative to google ads is essentially no online advertising.
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> There could be zombie/automatons living all around us.

So now we have 'consciousness of the gaps'. It's an ever retreating concept, as AI advances what we call consciousness recedes into these gaps. Now we're discussing about how some humans are not really 'conscious', what next? Maybe in the end the only remaining 'conscious' people will be philosophers who don't believe in AI.
I totally agree. I think the complaints are valid, but to be honest it seems petty. There are ways around it like you suggested. Having stuff like this really helps to solve process problems like not keeping a changelog up to date or incorrect version bumps, that can be a pain to manage across engineers. I think it’s important to consider that it helps the team as a whole.
We moved in the early days. Today, we are fairly advanced with regards to our understanding of the internals of Elasticsearch - data nodes, master nodes, indexing, shards, replication strategy and query performance. In hindsight, it would be fair to say that we have been extremely happy with our choice given our limited understanding of running a production scale Elasticsearch cluster 6 months back. With Amazon Elasticsearch we were able to start small, move fast, learn on the go, and fine-tune our cluster for production workloads without having to understand every single aspect of managing and scaling a production scale Elasticsearch cluster.

More details here - https://www.akshaysurve.com/2018/01/what-we-like-about-amazo...
I would have assumed that double-clicking is functionally equivalent to selecting “Open” from the context menu.

At least in Vista it was a separate command “Run as administrator”...
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I recall reading about Searle's Chinese Room argument in Daniel Dennett's "Consciousness Explained" about 25 years ago. Maybe the exposition there was more complete than the version given in this article, but the argument of this article is terrible.

The author says that the English speaker who simply manipulates symbols and follows rules will never get the joke written in Chinese, even if the people external to the room understand it and think it was produced by an intelligence that understands the joke.

But that contains the assumption that the human is the consciousness in that arrangement, when in fact the human is just the energy source which drives the hardware. One might as well say that computers can never create a 3D drawing because its power supply doesn't understand arithmetic.
If anyone asks you to do this, please make renting a Blueberry a condition of your participation.
This is a problem I work on, but from a different angle.

Run a company that does security sandboxes of a type that you can deploy internally to see what kind of attacks are happening and potentially collect useful telemetry out of the attacker actions.

Users definitely want all the telemetry they can get, but also want to completely negate any risk of "accidental bad stuff happening." It's a tricky-to-balance equation, but also a fun and challenging problem to work on.
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My musical taste is pretty underdeveloped and surface-level and that is why it is not bound by any particular genre. I can barely differentiate genres, to be honest. But from what I have noticed my preferences gravitate towards electronic music. I can share my favorite albums if that'll help you: Abyss (Chelsea Wolfe), Dummy (Portishead), Ones and Sixes (Low), Ege Bamyasi (Can), Mystere (La Femme), Sirens (Nicolas Jaar), Big Fish Theory (Vince Staples), My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye), Awaken, My Love! (Childish Gambino), Soft Animals (Sofi Tukker), Modal Soul (Nujabes), Your Queen Is a Reptile (Sons of Kemet).
The server chips tend to be sold with a lower base clock than the consumer equivalents. If you underclock your consumer CPU to whatever the server equivalent currently is, you aren't going to see much throttling under any workloads. But you're also going to be the guy that has a 2.2GHz processor when all your friends claim to have a 5GHz processor.

In my experience, the limiting factor tends to be power delivery. I had a 6950x that I overclocked and I could get it to consistently hard crash just by starting an AVX task. My filesystems did not appreciate that! (I eventually spent a ton of time debugging why that happened, and it was just that the power supply couldn't keep the 12V rail at 12V. Turns out that Intel knows what sort of equipment is out on the market, and designed their chips accordingly. I did upgrade the power supply (1200W Corsair -> 850W Seasonic Prime) and got stable AVX without downclocking. But the whole experience killed overclocking for me. It just isn't worth the certainty that your computer will crash for no good reason at random times.)
> School is like starting life with a 12-year jail sentence in which bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know

Sounds like it is more about learning to keep your head down and this award winning teacher is very aware of that
Short Google Stock. Chrome gonna to face death. I guarantee this.
HN was never really about this kind of hacking as far as I can tell. Mostly about hackers in the broader "creative problem solving" sense.
Not to be rude, but if you can't work that out you shouldn't be working on this. I'm sure the author would take a pull request, but but it really sounds like you are nitpicking.

Figures like precision and recall are often expressed either as 66% or 0.66. Confusion really isn't that big a problem.
And from the same report:

"However, these masks would provide the wearers little protection from microorganisms from others persons who are infected with respiratory diseases. As a result, we would not recommend the use of homemade face masks as a method of reducing transmission of infection from aerosols."
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For better or worse, we ended up creating our own workflow engine at my company. Unfortunately, everyone who ends up using it hates it. We've also run into the problem where the entire process of producing our end product is encoded in the workflow. Downstream steps depends on earlier steps etc. If any part of the process changes, managing this data becomes tough.

Additionally, we have software engineers writing these workflows. Ideally we would have tooling so that those who know the process can write these things. The difficulty we have had though is making it easy to join/match up earlier parts of the process with later steps. We do this now by keeping a lot of data in the workflow and by occasionally persisting data in other places. Software engineers, not the process people, are the ones who understand the data model and how to munge everything together.

Have others dealt with this issue?
Well. This is how you make 2 trillion dollars right? Make tightly controlled marketplace where you are the king and tax the shit out of it.

Like it or not, America’s founders didn’t bow to the European kings, but now we have new tech emperors that we must bow to.
> This sentence is just wrong. First of all a rational actor will not intentionally pay a worker the value of their production; you get no profit.

The textbooks are talking about economic profit, not absolute profit.

In very in-precise terms, it’s the expected profit for the given amount of risk, which to massively oversimplify can be represented by beta.
Why are these clusters going away?
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OK, read. I still don't see anything but, well, a lot of "this should" and "here's why". Maybe I'm missing something, but where is the for-profit motive for banks to lend, for absolutely no return?

Further, where is the pressure to pay back debt, if there is no interest. When not just run up the debt forever? Just use the banks to create more and more cash, forever? And who cares about the effect on other parts of the economy.

What bothers me with things like this, is they are all band-aids. And not even thought out, as far as I can tell, with how the rest of the economy is going to have to function. To change. To be modified, to fit the new.

I'm OK with change. I don't mind a new system. I see the coming issues with increased automation, agree something will have to be done, but just slapping a patch here and there isn't feasible at times.

You have to remodel the whole, to fit the new.

All I can see here, is "let's just change this", and "who cares what happens elsewhere".

Yet, why would I, as a banker, lend to the government at all? For no profit? And with no ability to force repayment, and no pressure on the government (interest payments) to repay, or even stop borrowing more?
The link is to Google Translate. Google Translate is known for having translation errors (but it's still good for a machine translation).
We call it Hangry.

Assuredly the word came from somewhere else, we lay no claim to it.
You remember the end time pretty clearly but are you sure about the start time? My kindergarten had 2 groups - a morning group and an afternoon group, so a 4pm pickup time could have just meant you were in the afternoon group.
When I say "no family is perfect", I mean just that: exactly 100% of families are "not perfect" in how we raise our kids. But I don't mean abuse; I mean we all make mundane mistakes in how we handle situations rather than being like the grown-ups on Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, maybe that we plunk the kids down in front of the TV sometimes when we should spend more quality time with them, etc.

Keeping kids safe from child abuse is a pretty low bar and most families meet it. According to one stat I found [1], at least 1% of kids are abused every year. That's horrible and would be even worse if not for mandated reporters, but it doesn't mean that schools provide security for kids and families don't.

[1] https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/nationa...
GP or the author of the article? I understand what the article meant (it was a school exam btw), I just didn't know if it was being presented as a sad story or an "uplifting news". It's impossible to tell from the translation.
What’s ultimately really sad beyond the current implications are the future implications of corrupting data. Scientists who want to study this are going to have less reliable data to use, and therefore we may be less prepared for the next pandemic than we could have been.
Thanks for the pointer to Gwern's writeup of timestamping. I have mentioned the idea on a number of occasions as a reasonable way to guard against investigator misconduct around tampering with data files and now have an excellent review article to point to!
This is untrue. It takes the position that any conservative party, is the same party as its predecessor. See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24219888
There is no point in including services that are already directly mapped to a Kubernetes resource. EC2 instances are nodes, EBS/EFS can be mounted as volumes etc. This project adds Custom Resource Definitions for the rest.

What I really want is RDS/Aurora though.
What? You'd just run your phase 1 (safety) in parallel with phase 2/3 (efficacy)?

So basically dose tens of thousands of people before you even know it's safe?