skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pretty sure that ATC is trained to sound calm. I’ve been listening to ATC recordings at the worse the emergency is the more calm the controller is. I think it is deliberate to help the pilot concentrate and not panic.
I mean, you're supposed to, and you'll get in trouble if you're caught driving without valid insurance. However, there isn't anything physically stopping people from driving irresponsibly.
HN is not mainstream but has a diverse audience. The subset commenting on any story is a self-selected group that likely has more experience in or devotion to the topic. Find a thread about math or physics and you’ll find an outsized representation of mathematicians and physicists commenting; does that indicate the site is full of mathematicians and physicists? No, they’re just self-selected to comment. Same here.
The article focuses on the small businesses serving office workers downtown, and on air travel.

Dry-cleaners, cafes, shoe repairers, gyms, beauticians, nail bars, copy centres, florists, newsagents, office supply stores, etc.

The second order effect on real estate isn't discussed. If a lot of these businesses disappear, along with a large fraction of office workers, building owners may not be able to service their costs (finance, insurance, maintenance, etc.)

I guess Wall Street will get another bail-out at that point.
US refuses to join international effort to develop Covid-19 vaccine
Why would the consciousness of one person migrate to the other?

You're really talking about (at best) a new instantiation of the identical consciousness in a new body. That's not the original consciousness moving, that's a new (identical) consciousness coming to life.

I am unconvinced a consciousness can migrate out of the body that it's in. Copies are not enough.

This is made more obvious if you consider the case that the original is not destroyed. Then the clone that comes out of the end of the transporter would be having experiences that the original can not experience. If they were really one consciousness they would have one experience from that point on, but they don't. They're two different people.

So in the first case one person dies and another person with the same body and memories is born, and in the second case the first person does not die and another person with the same body and memories is born. In both cases they are two separate people.
How would you propose they "prevent" the crime? How would you create a system whereby the political persuasions of everyone in chain of command would be inclined towards genuine prevention and not just gunning for an arrest?

How would detecting a likely crime fit into the idea of probable cause for a search?

Do you know that the algorithms detecting these "probable" criminal situations are not discriminatory? How would you know?
There is the issue of brine.

Further the ocean is a delicate and unique eco system of its own. It has its own habitat and balance and equilibrium.

Desalination doesn’t come without its costs and it’s not just about the money.

Sea steading, desalination etc are not really robust solutions. Control human population or control consumption. The planet isn’t expanding and resources are not infinite.
Maybe a lot of people have been told nebulous negative union stories repeated over and over by big business.
I find (2.) rather interesting. A parser than can parse its own grammar definitions. A language that can define itself.
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I just want to say that this is a really fascinating discussion and I want to thank you both for this. You both have really opened my eyes to both sides of this argument.
This Dec 2017 nytimes article is a relevant read: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

> France’s unions are powerful, but Mr. Probst said they did not control project staffing. Isabelle Brochard of RATP, a state-owned company that operates the Paris Metro and is coordinating the Line 14 project, estimated there were 200 total workers on the job, each earning $60 per hour. The Second Avenue subway project employed about 700 workers, many making double that (although that included health insurance).

It seems like transit bureaucracies in the US don't have the expertise to manage massive construction projects and little incentive to control costs.

I was unable to browse the link because the site is overloaded, but I'm familiar with Alon Levy and his blog. Hopefully the data makes a difference but bureaucrats often to respond that their situation is unique and not comparable to other countries.
This particular case is a textbook example of market failure - we've added actors to the market who do nothing productive, game the system and scalp profits.
The Clinton administration made a change in 1998 that cut back on student debt relief, incentivizes high university bills and has driven student debt to over $1T. That might explain the "why" part.

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/28362...
I propose each person tries to tell good people from bad people, and I encourage each corporation to do the same.

You're trying to pin on me that I was saying there should be a single authority, judging all people. I didn't say that, and I reject that view. Nazis were totalitarians that killed people.

I'm saying a company should chose who it does business with, depending on what that person is doing.

If someone wants to find another person to work with, they're welcome to try. If I agree that what they were doing is bad, then I hope they fail.
Yes - Dystopian. You're likely familiar with the dystopian trope where unchecked corporate entities supersede nation-states. I got reminded of that here.

In my ideal democracy, I do expect pushback, but I'd like for it to come from actual voters. If you believe that not only are "corporations are people (my friend)", but should be able to go mano a mano with individual politicians (not lobbying), here's a quick thought experiment: how would you feel if that sentence were from a document by TikTok Inc?
The problem comes down to a few parts. 1) The language is similar to that used by dog whistlers. 2) We have higher expectations from people on HN and expect them to be more familiar with subjects they are responding to. 3) We require good faith arguments here [0] 4) that aren't lazy 5) and can't be disproven with a simple search. ( 6) (which wasn't violated in this case) we expect people to read the article). HN has always had higher standards and expectations than other forums. I'm happy to get conversations back on track, because it is a problem we're facing a lot in society (in general), but now the conversation is derailed.

[0] There's three parts to communication. 1) The idea intended to be conveyed. 2) The words said. 3) The idea that was heard. The three things can convey three different ideas. A good faith argument means that you are trying to understand what was intended. It usually means giving the benefit of the doubt.
"Epstein-Barr virus, or EBV, is one of the most common human viruses in the world. It spreads primarily through saliva. EBV can cause infectious mononucleosis, also called mono, and other illnesses. Most people will get infected with EBV in their lifetime and will not have any symptoms. Mono caused by EBV is most common among teens and adults."

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I was hoping to see it detect loops that sum something and translate it into sigma notation but that's ambitious... Very cool, regardless - I'll be using this a lot!
I refer to it as fargate compute or ec2 compute. It’s not a cluster level thing, you can have clusters with both fargate and ec2 for your compute.
Oh yeah, totally agree about the money thing. It’s also important to have plans that can survive beyond one government. The Finnish school system is a great example of a relatively radical reform that took more than a generation to bear fruit. There’s a lot involved for sure.
If you’ve ever worked for Walmart, you’ll realize they’re #1 because they’re a monopoly, not because they’re particularly smart.
YT Music is included in YouTube premium, you don't need to switch to spotify.
A nice middle ground is Manjaro (there's a nice GUI to select your kernel). Though I'm not sure what nvidia settings Pop uses, because I still have the above issues with Manjaro. But this may again be laptop centric.
I know it’s off topic but there is no bigger cheat code in high school than knowing Latex. In no other way can you get an additional free 5% on every paper with virtually no additional time input past the initial investment.
It got me over my fear of flying because I got to learn what the pilots (and the Center) thought about the turbulence we were experiencing and how they were responding to it.

It also inspired me to write the original version of this Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_control_center

I used to prefer flying United over other airlines because they had it; now that they don't, I don't. :-(
From my experience at a German university, the administration is in reality very helpful and can be proactive once you reach out.

They won't come chase you if you evade them for anything short of criminal, fraudulent or unsafe behavior, though, and it'd surprise me to hear if that's the case in the US.
Going beyond anecdote to data shows the US transit ridership is down, but I don't think this is based on the reality of transmission possibilities.

When people get scared, they retreat from that which culture tells them to fear, which includes transit for the US. However, when you look at other places that use lots of transit, like Japan and Korea, we don't see much spread on transit. So the fear is not so much reality based. In plain contrast, churches are shown to have had many super-spread events, including in South Korea, yet people seemingly can't wait to get back to church, perhaps because it is a place that they view as intrinsically safe even though the evidence shows otherwise.

In short, humans are really bad at evaluating risk, especially in our current media environment which is has a very low Signal to noise ratio.
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The conversation grew beyond talking specifically about Bella Thorne or Onlyfans in part becomes of comments like yours from a few posts back:

>People donate thousands to streamers and models because they are [lonely].

So once again you are making generalizations about this business model and the people who participate in it because of the worst examples you can find. Maybe that means Onlyfans and other similar services need more moderation, but it doesn't mean this business model is unethical or inherently preys on the lonely.

Also AFAIA the only real difference between Onlyfans and Patreon is that one allows adult content. I am having a hard time understanding why someone would be against one and not the other unless the reason was due to some ingrained prudishness. Is there any difference between the two that I am missing?
This book is awesome! How does this compare to Introduction to Statistical Learning or Elements of Statistical Learning? Other than the addition of code?
Which is why you shouldn’t assume people are going to act in good faith. If acting in good faith was universal then we wouldn’t need any form os]f security at all. This is why you have to build systems that assume that there will be bad actors.
>This is fundamentally different than being a fan of, say, an actress like Emma Stone, or an athlete like LeBron James.

dunno about these 2 but it is not _fundamentally_ different from how many stars build and maintain their "brands" these days.

People like e.g. Jack Black have a youtube channel or at least an instagram feed and share "slices of life" (edited or not) with their fans.

That's also a parasocial relationship.
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I did make the switch to Spotify (although I don't really watch much youtube, so youtube red wasn't a blocker for me). I haven't been super thrilled with Spotify's ability not to repeat the same songs okay the course of a few days when I listen to it throughout the day while working, but I'm slowly having success getting it to give me more variety. This might just be due to me having a smaller set of music that I'm interested in listening to (classic rock, progressive rock, and some blues) compared to their average user who might be willing to listen to anything popular from the past several decades of music, including new stuff as it comes out.
Are you comparing that shit when you pulled down a menu in System 7 could bring a whole network down, with Be? Such as a good joke...
> Finally, I am willing to pay towards that cost for you - please tax me more and provide universal medical care for all. Are you voting for single payer universal healthcare? Are you vocally supporting candidates who will enact that policy? If you want me to pay for your prescription prices to be lower, I will absolutely do it via taxation and universal healthcare.

As am I.
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I don't understand why they need to raise money. Don't people constantly give them a cut of money? And most of the code is written already? How many maintenance programmers and customer support people do they need? Or is the money just so that a few people can get richer now somehow.
Fantastic point, and note that his supporters can also feed off this together (come together as a community), making it even more rewarding.
A console that can't even play red dead redemption is a tough sell.
The CPU and the whole net by holding a menu item down.
Clearly the so called office Technology company WeWork was not future ready. Nor are office real estate people.
Part of my job is to support a system that enforces ethical walls[0].

Here are some of the reasons why this niche isn't a good fit for a low margin business:

These products are complex and require extensive customization to be useful. It's common to require consulting when installing or upgrading them.

Third-party integrations are common; the product that I support integrates with at least 3 third-party services.

The service is valuable to these organizations and they are willing to pay fairly high fees for using it. Why leave money on the table?

Support costs are high due to the complexity of the customer's environment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall
...demand that students live in them freshman year

What? I've been watching movies and series made in USA for decades and didn't know that. I assumed that students living there was a way to save money or the parents wanted it. I had no idea it was required.

If it's in the same city, can students just keep living with their parents?
> No one is being punished by the system predicting that they will commit a crime.

It seems very obvious to me that any system that would send the police to my door to question me when I have not in fact committed any nor am suspected of any actual crime that has occured it is punishing me.

The inconvenience alone is a punishment. The increased probability that I will have some unrelated matter used against me is a punishment. The fact that my neighbours see law enforcement officers visiting me is a punishment.

Seems plenty problematic to me.
I think there’s research to be done around how to better improve the Liberapay experience to reach parity with Patreon, so whatever changes can be made that stoke a significant amount of migration of creators from the latter to the former are made.
Don't underestimate the role of laziness. It's much less work to just find a localized instance of something, and then report it as a phenomenon vs. doing the actual in-the-weeds journalism in order to get a widespread view of the topic.
I could see that working with a direct `sum` invocation.
Yes, morality is an opinion. "Nazis are bad." That is indeed my opinion. If I found out that Amazon was working with Nazis, I would try to pressure Amazon to stop.

What would you do? No, honestly. What would you do?

Do you think Amazon should freely and proudly work with Nazis, "because of neutrality"?

"So, like, most of the world I imagine?" No, I think there's a pretty low bar of morality that most of the world does in fact agree upon. I'm not asking for much more than that. Others might, and I might hope they lose out in the long run.

To answer your questions:

"Deciding to punch or not to punch old ladies is an important decision. I think it's commendable that Patreon is making a moral decision." Yes, it's implied that I commend Patreon because they are making the moral decision I agree with, not just that they have made a moral decision.

"How to stop old ladies from getting punched" is a political discussion. "In general, people shouldn't punch old ladies" is a moral position. "We will not work with people who advocate punching old ladies" is a moral decision I would agree with. "We will exclusively work with people who advocate punching all old ladies" is a moral decision I would disagree with.

Judging a company by their actions is a valid thing to do. It's remarkable to me that this is up for debate.

And I would judge that power company as being morally wrong, unless I agreed with them that the person they shut off was repugnant. Should PG&E provide power to the California Nazi Party? Maybe not.

If you want to make fun of me, perhaps you would enjoy this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1aGEb2R90

Yes, some people make boycott decisions that I think are bad. Some boycotts are good, though.
The US works hard to surpress labor history education. We even celebrate Labor Day in September, and as a result most Americans have never heard of the Haymarket Massacre, which is the whole reason it exists everywhere else in the world.
Catching up on comments and kind of fuzzy, but this is pretty cool :)

foldr1 (&&) ( [ (==3), (==4) ] <*> pure 3 )
Indeed, I remember being particularly impressed by iPad battery life in the early days. I would recharge maybe once a week of light usage. Now I’ve got to plug in nearly every single night.
It's hard to tell which, because the linked article is pretty interesting, too.
You should test the edge cases explicitly instead of hoping the randomization will save. If there's some bounded set of values, like an enum, then test every value instead of randomly picking things and hoping for the worst. I don't want to know eventually. I want to know now.
What your describing as regular addiction sounds a lot like any and every service anyone pays for.

You're not getting a thing as is, you pay for thing, you get thing, if you stop paying for thing it goes away.

You could slap any service in there.
I use Patreon (albeit in a pledge capacity) sparingly. Many years ago they dropped Naomi Wu[1][2][3]. This situation was particularly scary: she was making a decent chunk of her living through Patreon pledges, but because of the limited size of her audience, and marginalized position she had no recourse.

While I agree that they're not currently cancerous I do think they illustrate part of the broader problem with modern society: over-dependence on central infrastructure-like sources that are private and can change on a whim. It's great that people can make a living on Patreon, but this should be tempered by the inherent risk of being on a platform you don't control.

[1]: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wu
[3]: https://www.patreon.com/posts/18216256
Depends on the University. One I went to probably 90% of students lived off campus.

See: commuter school
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Very cool!

Does the Magenta project used here have models for musical instruments identification or can be used to create one? Does anyone have better suggestions for the identification of musical instruments from audio? I'm trying to solve the need gap -'Display musical instruments used in a song' posted on my problem validation platform[1].

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/151-display-musical-instruments...
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What? You mean police forces will be banned so individual officers will pay for access?
I think better advice would be to use random data as a supplement, rather than as a replacement for fixed-data tests.
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I've used the audio i/o hardware on mainstream notebook computers, and cheap USB audio adapters, for years, to perform audio signal analysis. This includes hardware purchased fairly recently.

The audio subsystems contain the basic DC blocking and anti-aliasing features that you'd expect, but do not seem to add any other processing unless you ask for it (e.g., equalization). At least, nothing that would be noticeable in either steady state or transient analysis.

So far as I know, apps like Skype and Zoom do their own processing.
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Youtube does provide those metrics
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