skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The sort of ironic footnote in drawing a comparison to the Microsoft case is that while bundling IE with Windows killed Netscape's commercial prospects and it was certainly done with malice aforethought, it was also fundamentally the right call.

It's also worth noting this was never actually ruled to be illegal. The appeals court remanded the question back to the district court for further analysis under the rule of reason, but that never actually happened as the case was eventually settled. Under the rule of reason, Microsoft would have been able to argue that it had legitimate justification for bundling a browser with Windows, and then it would have been up to the DOJ to argue that the anticompetitive effect of the bundling outweighed the justification given. I think Microsoft would have had a relatively strong argument there, as an operating system that shipped without a web browser (or media player, for that matter) would have been, in fact, less useful to the consumer.
Be careful with your cherry picked stats. Countries don't measure infant mortality the same way.

Not to mention Estonia's lower infant mortality doesn't actually disprove my comment.
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It is true there have never been any enduring communist governments. Any that formed are taken over internally and operated as authoritarian states, China, North Korea and others where there is no vote at all, just press releases of huge votes in favor of the guys in power.
I'm not sure how this sort of article finds itself being published by Nature. I mean, it includes surprisingly wrong assertions such as the following:

> In the United States, 50-year instability spikes occurred around 1870, 1920 and 1970, so another could be due around 2020.

I mean, any freshman who started taking a class in probability understands that that's not how return periods work. At all.
I'll be special-ordering MacBook Air as my next laptop, because the work only provides MacBook Pro, and MacBook Pro is not available with a professional (physical) keyboard -- only with Touch Bar.

I really hope they release an Apple Silicon MacBook still without Touch Bar.
If only they made vaccines that way.
If you ever talked to one of the self proclaimed 'AI experts,' you know why.
You are conflating 'targetting = harm' with the more broad concern of 'private information in private hands = harm'.

It's a huge stretch to say 'targetted ads disrupt elections'.

What if we could to 'perfect targetting' without invasion of privacy? Well, the 'Evil Russians' would still be able to try to use ads.

They are completely separate issues.

'The Russians' FYI mostly use FB pages, Reddit pages and fake groups to generate outrage, not just ads.

There isn't really specific harm to individuals by FB having this information. It 'feels' creepy, but it's really not a material issue. It's something we would rather not have, obviously, and there are elements of privacy we definitely don't want to give up (ie intimate moments haard by Alexa), but in general not something that's bad.
Masks aren't evidence based medicine. There isn't enough research. There are no randomized trials on cloth masks that are running.

If evidence based medicine isn't an advantage then it's down to luck?
Sec.. Let me just slice up, dissect, and pin this frog's guts neatly and artistically outside it's dead body.

Now, you were saying something about weird and creepy? There's nothing creepy and weird about eugenics, fascism, nor meritocracy. Eugenics was widely accepted well before the "not-see" perversion as a way to better humanity.

You know what's really creepy? Stories and thier Storytellers. Facts/Truth, never creepy. Stories, always creepy.
Yeah, native apps are basically a black box in terms of what data gets “sent home.” At least with blockers such as uBlock Origin, scripts/requests directly from known tracking domains are denied.
Why call it 'natural selection' then. That's just 'selection'.
Mask wearing seems unlikely to be genetic. If it was genetic, there might be slight evolutionary pressure favouring those genes. I think the pressure would be slight as people of reproductive age are very likely to recover from the virus.
This is everywhere, though. In spite of the reverence for Parisian living in this thread, it limits how high buildings can go, resulting in pricier housing because "muh skyline".
This reminds me of Blackboard and its competitor (I forget the name of it) in higher education: students hate it. Professors hate it. It's brutally hard to use. Professors can't easily adopt an alternative (as they can with by choosing Google Docs or Dropbox).
I'm not sure how this sort of article finds itself being published by Nature. I mean, it includes surprisingly wrong assertions such as the following:

> In the United States, 50-year instability spikes occurred around 1870, 1920 and 1970, so another could be due around 2020.

I mean, any freshman who started taking a class in probability understands that that's not how return periods work. At all. Yes, it's only an opinion piece with half a dozen articles, but if it's fundamentally questionable then why pass it off as a reference?
Reminds me of the AAA gaming industry. Jim Sterling made some great and insightful videos about it.
> I can't help but contrast this with the upgrade from Ruby 1.8 to 1.9.

One difference is that upgrading Ruby from 1.8 to 1.9 brought a significant performance increase, whereas going from Python 2.x to early 3.x, performance actually got worse.

AFAICT this was mostly caused by the removal of the machine-word-sized integer type - in Python 3, even 1+1 is calculated using arbitrary-precision integers.

Python 2 => 3 had lots of other problems as well - ultimately they changed just enough to break everyone’s code, but not enough to make upgrading worthwhile.
If you wait too long, it won't be cool anymore.
and quickly become painful to write once you’re familiar with the function call

JavaScript's more recent structuring/desctructuring arguments has made this pretty seamless as long as you name your variables well.

For the most part switching from ordered to named is just func(arg1, arg2, arg3) is just foo({arg1, arg2, arg3})

You may need to rename or pass in the params on the call but it's generally pretty nice. As an above comment says about Clojure - as soon as I need a third argument in a function I switch from ordered to named and its pretty painless.
Covid mostly is not killing people of reproductive age. So mostly no.

Anti-maskers are killing their parents, not themselves.
I always wondered why Tony Soprano didn’t have surveillance cameras everywhere. His most clever opsec was “stand by this loud machine when talking“.
Why does ANYONE believe this bullshit narrative anymore?

You are ALREADY "dramatically unlikely" to get it. You don't know ANYONE who died of covid 19. You know someone who suffered because of these idiotic claims like "quarantining healthy people is good", and now the imaginary claim of "face-diapers are good".

People need to grow a spine and start giving a collective "fuck off" to these assholes who get paid off taxpayer money and don't have to suffer the economic consequences of the evil/stupid policies these blatant lying "studies" are pushing.

You got conned. Push back, or lose everything.
Vaccines are usually dead or mostly-dead or otherwise-modified things. It's not just low counts of live viruses.
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The developer got frustrated and gave up. I did that a lot. After I worked on improving my EQ, I get frustrated/angry and give up less often. Therefore I think getting frustrated/angry and giving up is a sign of poor EQ. This is based on my personal experience.

Important life decisions (like cancelling a project) are better made based on deep personal values, not as reactions to emotions.
why even bring that up? whats the benefit?
Smaller groceries means more selection, not less, because each store can specialize instead of needing to suit the average expectation of everybody in a 5 mile radius.

I live in one of America's few dense cities, and there are three stores I visit often, one Kroger chain with the selection you'd expect, one latin grocery, and one asian grocery where I can get all kinds of stuff that most people in the suburbs who shop at walmart and safeway have never heard of, all within a 10 minute walk.
True, but that's not that common. And few people enjoy them so much as to live in the city for that reason alone.
> And you clearly don’t understand the Microsoft case, where it had 90% of the operating system market.

Once again, the government does not require a literal monopoly for behavior to be anti-competitive. 50% of a market in the US could absolutely be enough to count as significant market power.

The situations are pretty similar, because your argument about 90% is not what the courts care about. The courts care about market power, not necessarily a literal monopoly.

> Judges do make terrible rulings all the time

I mean, if you don't care about the courts system or the law, then I don't know what to tell you. Your opinion on it doesn't particularly matter, because the courts are the ones in charge of this, and the courts are the ones who make the decision here.

> Like the Apple e-books case

Well, too bad for Apple. The law is the law, and the court system is the court system.

Personally, I only talk about what the courts do. I don't really care about someone's opinion if the courts disagree with them. Because the courts and the judges are the ones that make the decision here. They decide.

And everything that I have said is within this context of what courts and judges have done in the past.
Perhaps GP is not aware of how vaccines work. You should seriously answer the question.

But yes, that is how vaccines work more or less. Though I believe the virus in the vaccine is either dead or incapacitated in some way.
Just for context, neither of two of the most common food borne bacteria (E. Coli O157:H7 and Salmonella) are killed by typical freezer or refrigerator temperatures.
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Sure, I mean the nazis were embracing their shared arayan heritage.

Choosing some innate quality you can't change as a focus of your politics is inherently divisive, the fact that it is empowering to some sub groups misses the point.
Intellectual honesty?
I asked the (at the time) SOTA author to replace its BERT implementation with XLnet. He accepted and won 0.5% of accuracy on constituency parsing
https://github.com/sebastianruder/NLP-progress/blob/master/e... which is actually a huge, it means 5% less errors.

Which tasks remain to be tried? Most actually but an obvious one would be coreference resolution
https://github.com/sebastianruder/NLP-progress/blob/master/e...
What am I losing by wearing a mask?
Cool, does it include a small dial to put the clocks back when they manage to let their TLS certificates run out the 4th time?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_vaccine
Ah, you can contribute just by doing something for the project you're interested in. None of the development is centrally organized.

There's plenty of stuff to do. I can give you a bunch of hints if you're a kernel dev. :)
> My main argument -- which I think is being lost here -- is that Ocaml isn't IDE unfriendly, and especially not so unfriendly that an entirely new language is needed just so that FP and IDEs can happily coexist.

Right, and I guess my counterargument would be that, yes it is, and you don't need to resort to logic to see it - just do a little googling about its poor adoption.
> tech-savvy users may prefer a self-hosted version

Not necessarily. I'd hate to self host stuff. It's a maintenance burden, time wasted getting stuff to work with all of its complexities, and once that's done you need to make sure it keeps working, that bills keep being paid, and you're responsible for drive failures, backups, missing a bill, etc... And that's despite my software and sysadmin experience.

I don't think it has anything to do with "tech-savvy". Hosted is just the better option in almost all cases, especially at individual or small-medium scale.

I actually think the converse to the typical self-hosted statement is true: only a small number of tech-savvy users like to self-host. They just happen to be a vocal minority.
The US intel community engaged in industrial espionage against Brazil's Petrobras. A third world country.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-bra...
Literally none of them.
As I understand it, it's always better to be infected with few viruses than with many.

Think of it like this: I you get infected with 10 instead of 1.000.000 of a virus that grows x10 each day, your immune system has 5 extra days to fight it.

[Disclaimer: I'm a random software guy who reads a lot, not in any way a virus expert]
Probably the biggest part of a lot of projects is cleaning up and normalizing the data (just like it was with data warehousing last century). A lot of high power data scientists don't want to hear that--especially if they're research-y.
It actually serves as a nice contrast in some ways. Compare the article’s description of the experience of going through the classes with the takeaways from a sample of the wiki entries.

The real benefit of having true experts teach something is all the tacit knowledge you get from hearing how they think about and approach their craft, not the explicit instructions they might give.
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Those who don't wear mask should also get exposed to "low levels" of viruses but just abit further away than the mask wearers for the same exposure dose. Maybe people with mask are less likely to have bad health habits? E.g. people who dont put the seatbelt on also are worse drivers.
Both theory and empirical evidence. Mask wearing at least has the former: catching your own aerosols so you don't get other people sick so easily.

The best is remedies that have both. But don't think evidence without good theory is fine. I'm not sure it's even that much better than theory without good evidence.
Doesn't have to be genetic, it can also be memetic.
Thanks for the link! Paper seems to go out of its way to indicate that it is just lower in urine, not absent.
The hamster study shows only very minor difference between high and low viral load with Sars-CoV2.

The paper that the headline is based on does not really support the headline.

Other links are not specific to COVID.
Here's some evidence for the proposition that masks mitigate droplet-based respiratory transmission to varying degrees: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/07/sci...
Not giving more ammunition to the anti-mask crowd by knowingly spreading misinformation?
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Understandable, and yet, you did not read. The page I linked says, openly,

> Dropping religious beliefs is only a first step towards freeing ourselves from eternalism.

And continues to explain how your beliefs, about how there are definite meanings and purposes to life, are illusions. The next page [0] states it clearly too:

> We cling to the idea that there must be a cosmic plan because we fear that without one everything would be meaningless. But this is mistaken; which means that most ideas about meaningfulness and meaninglessness are mistaken. Fortunately, life is meaningful without any cosmic plan or ultimate source of meaning.

If you like arete, you could also stand to read Pirsig. He was very concerned with ethics and values.

Finally, to directly critique your metaphysics, please first consider this phrase you wrote:

> Everything matters, because we feel everything, and thus it matters to us.

And then consider Russell's teapot [1]. Does Russell's teapot matter, floating out there around the rings of Saturn? Can we feel it? A bit of consideration will show that, while everything is connected to everything, not everything affects everything else equally. We are, in fact, far more sensitive to things which are close to us.

[0] https://meaningness.com/no-cosmic-plan

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
The company I work for is a large health care company. I started in robotic automation about a year ago. The company said its next three huge initiatives would be:

1) AI
2) Machine Learning
3) Robotic Process Automation

They felt RPA would help them stay more competitive since there are tons of smaller health care companies who are moving faster and innovating faster because they're not buying up companies and having to integrate all their technology at a sloth's pace. They thought RPA would be a way to mitigate these issues.

18 months later and the one manager, director and VP in my org has all but said they don't care about RPA, all their money is going into ML and AI. Even though in all the presentations I've seen them put on, its all blue skies and BS about "IF we had this, we COULD do this." Nothing concrete at all about how the plan to use ML to increase profit margins or reduce overhead.

Right now, our team is basically an afterthought in the company and I'm already starting to interview elsewhere with the knowledge at some point, they're going to kill my team and cut everybody loose.
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If in fact it's still very likely you can get severe Covid while wearing a mask, then sending the message that "wearing a mask will almost certainly prevent severe Covid" will likely lead people to engage in riskier situations with their masks. For instance, it could be that going to a nightclub while wearing a mask is still pretty risky. Telling people that wearing a mask eliminates risk would likely send more mask-wearing people to said nightclubs.

Of course, if wearing a mask was in fact extremely effective at stopping severe Covid, then one could make the argument that it's now worth doing these higher risk activities.
> but the assertions aren't fully backed by the researched it links to.

To say the least...

The article links to https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768396 to support, "Most infectious disease researchers and epidemiologists believe that the coronavirus is mostly spread by airborne droplets".

However, the linked study concludes, "
All told, current understanding about SARS-CoV-2 transmission is still limited. There are no perfect experimental data proving or disproving droplet vs aerosol-based transmission of SARS-CoV-2."
I couldn't get it to work properly in Lynx.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
> But Android allows side-loading and hence cannot reject apps. So, consumers can get all the apps they want (insofar as they exist) by buying Android devices.

Google is removing the ability to side-load apps for anybody but developers who have developer mode on.

Not only that, but side-loaded apps can't automatically upgrade, install in the background or install alongside other applications at the same time. Third party app store can't implement these features, either.

At best, Apple and Google have a duopoly on mobile application publishing and distribution, and they engage in anti-competitive behavior in that market and adjacent ones.

Besides, your argument is a red herring. From the FTC[1]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power. Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
> In an outbreak on an Australian cruise ship called the Greg Mortimer in late March, the passengers were all given surgical masks and the staff was given N95 masks after the first case of Covid-19 was identified. Mask usage was apparently very high, and even though 128 of the 217 passengers and staff eventually tested positive for the coronavirus, 81% of the infected people remained asymptomatic.

Does anyone know what the baseline to compare with is? What was the rate of symptoms in Diamond Princess?
Oh boy that's not a good idea. I have a trash bin that opens automatically just like the author's post. I really realy love it. But the lid doubles as a fan when it opens and closes so it fans out the ordors. You'd want that amount of fanning minimized.
Intellect is fundamentally incompatible with honesty.
> The proposed solution by Keli is to be inspired by the Smalltalk-style message syntax

But that doesn't actually solve the problem.

"Hello world".replace("Hello","Bye") // works fine
but
somesequence join: "," // still doesn't work
// unless every $Sequence implements join explictly
In men's restrooms, you are almost certainly getting urine on you from the previous person to use the urinal. I'd be curious to see studies that quantify this.
> It is not, on the whole, that difficult a problem to actually land an aircraft autonomously.

Sure, if you have ILS and it's operational.

Large aircraft will not rely on GPS.

It's a far more difficult problem to integrate such aircraft among the existing traffic. You are underestimating the effort of autonomous flight gate to gate.
Reference please. This is definitely not my experience.
In the long run, it's worse to make overstating claims because it undermines trust in the original message. The main criticism of conspiracy theorists (pick you brand) is that they do not follow the evidence trail. If you want to be on "the right side", you need to ensure your claims are better backed up, otherwise its just two sides making stuff up until one person gives up.

As with OP, I support wearing masks and do so all the time if needed (not American though, so it doesn't have the political bent here it does in the states).
There isn't a situation where you must do this. Don't do this.

Quick heuristic: if you have a clickable link and I can't open it in a new tab, you should be using a button instead.
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Austin is usually dry. Did you drive to Florida?