skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Don't like how shitty people can be? I don't care" - that is how this kind of comment reads. But let's move on.

No, I think I'll respond to that. It's not that I don't _care_, but it's naive at best to expect anything else. Besides, if your license allows it, they're not really taking advantage are they? Change your license.

>Everyone can use and modify it, but if a large company with a market cap above $100m or a company wholly funded or owned by such company decides to utilize this project as a for-profit service, then said large company must hire me at for no less than $175,000 in 2020 value.

Seems incredibly difficult to implement logistically, and most companies will probably just say "screw it" as they all hope to be valued at > 100M some day. Just enforce a per-basis license negotiation for commercial use or disallow it entirely. What happens if a company goes from a cap of 99M -> 101M -> 98M (etc etc). Just seems wrought with obvious problems.
I remember reading about a study from long ago where they asked people their opinions on smoking and then had some start a smoking habit. Afterwards, the opinion on smoking was much more positive for those who had started smoking. Nicotine's addictiveness explains the continued habit, but the opinion change came from our fluid preferences and post-hoc rationalizations.
They're partnerships because they're usually legally required to be partnerships as a matter of liability concerns. (Most countries now allow professional firms to be professional LPs, LLPs, or PCs, limiting the financial liability of partners for the debts of other partners but not those resulting from their own malpractice.)
Just spitballing, but public companies could pay a small tax in lieu of paying an auditing firm, and the auditing could be done by government-employed accountants who are beholden to the public interest. Of course this would never happen because it would destroy the politically-powerful auditing firms.
Why the world's passports look different
Another exception: they eat their s’s in Andalusia (ma o meno).
Absolutely.

I used to be a pretty picky eater and wouldn't eat things because I thought I didn't like them. This didn't change until I started to intentionally try things that were new, or that I thought I didn't like. Turns out, a lot of stuff is really good, and me not liking them was based in lack of experience, not in my actual taste!
unenforceable, of course.

what they can and do do, though, is refuse to certify the parentage. and other breeders, with which you would want to breed for purpose of heritage, will refuse you.
While it is true that English is mutable across time and non-standardized across cultures, for an individual learning English as their first language, they are learning a snapshot of it that is--from their perspective--immutable and standardized.

The article's argument is the lack of consistency, not standardization. Unless you are arguing that children--in whom dyslexia first manifests--are being exposed to the vast diversity of English across time and space, then there can be no doubt that mutability and lack of unified culture contributes nothing to dyslexia.
Great! Where's the announcement on https://twitter.com/nim_lang so I can retweet it?
it doesn't work for me...

echo "looks safe to me!"...
Thanks for maintaining PouchDB, it's an amazing library!

But true, if our customers wouldn't pay for our app and we'd have had to resort to ads instead, offline first wouldn't have been been a priority, perhaps not an option at all.
Every third phrase in the article is inscrutable, and understanding it requires that I click through and read a 2,000-word Scott Alexander post. So I’m going to go out on a limb and offer a hypothesis to answer the post’s main question: rationalists are prevented from being successful in normal endeavors because they’re too busy trading weird in-group language and parsing encyclopediae of inefficiently-organized exposition transmitted via blog post.
I think my tinnitus is caused by my microbiome. When I eat poorly (sweets, sugar, junk food, refined carbs, etc), I suspect that some bad bacteria multiply too much in my gut and they create some toxins that cause me tinnitus. When I eat more salads (vegetables, green leaves), lots of fiber, my tinnitus dissapears completely.
There is indeed a citation about this higher up in the thread.
> It’s therefore possible for people who learn to read and write in Chinese or Japanese to have no idea they have dyslexia until they later begin to learn English and are forced into reading and writing in a totally different way.

This is particularly interesting because the argument is that English reveals more dyslexia because it is irregularly phonetic -- but the Chinese characters used in Chinese and Japanese aren't phonetic at all. But they're still made of components (including radicals) arranged in horizontal and vertical orders.

I would have assumed that dyslexia would be just as much of a problem regarding the ordering of components within characters. Anyone have any idea why it's apparently not? Or is the article wrong?
There's more to life than trying to improve the human condition. People value different things, and it's very possible he will proudly look back on his time spent on CircleUp.

Put another way, not everyone wants to do the same things you do.
Imo there needs to be an official policy from aws on thes kinds of issues. Taking a free product and monetizing it on this scale morally requires some compensation for the original creator(s).
I'm the poster of that. Regarding evidence, I copied bits from the HN guidelines, said that downvotes are OK if I know why cos they bring benefit, then got silently downvoted. Is that not evidence enough? BTW I can't downvote myself. It was an honestly made critique and suffered from exactly what I protested against.

If I was wrong, your response does not elucidate why, in fact let me quote bits back to you "soft conspiracy" ... "very little evidence"[0] ... "a vague sense of wrongness"

Well maybe but your post has less substance than mine.

[0] you didn't ask for any BTW
On the other hand, I've effectively added a year of free time to my life by eating as fast as physically possible all the time.
Pure antisocial crime is way down. Rape, murder, serious assault. Minor economic crimes less so.

When I worked south of market I'd see drunk art school students walking down seedy alleys at 2am. Past drug dealers, homeless men, and crazy people. Nothing ever happened to them. But leave a pack on the passenger seat of your car at two in the afternoon.

At least in the Bay Area I've noticed that a lot of property both private and public have been fixed up over the last 30 years. Used to drive through Oakland in the 90's and most of the houses were run down and now they aren't.
It's painful to contrast FDR's thoughts on finance with what we heard last night:

> "Okay, first of all, let me answer. What they did is illegal, number one. Also, the numbers are all wrong, with the numbers they released. And just so you understand, when you have a lot of real estate, I have real estate, you know a lot of it. Okay? Right down the road, Doral, big stuff, great stuff. When I decided to run, I’m very underlevered, fortunately, but I’m very underlevered. I have a very, very small percentage of debt compared. In fact, some of it, I did as favors to institutions that wanted to loan me money. $400 million compared to the assets that I have, all of these great properties all over the world, and frankly, The Bank of America building in San Francisco. I don’t love what’s happening to San Francisco. 1290 Avenue of the Americas, one of the biggest office buildings."

[1] https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/HJCYu2w66p28wT2...
Especially considering several of the actual vaccine candidates were developed in low single digit months, it's the evaluation production and testing that's taking most of the time.
The sibling comment pointed out how that Monsanto lawsuit is mischaracterized. But focusing on that lawsuit misses the bigger point - they don't need to sue when they can drive farmers that don't buy from them to bankruptcy because their patented seeds enable slightly better margins.

Doing any other kind of farming will simply become unviable.
More along the lines of "I live in the real world". I can be empathetic to the situation and think the author essentially set themselves up for something like this all at the same time.
Declarative binary format parsing engine Kaitai Struct releases v0.9
Few things I learnt so far:

1. Managers need to be human & kind.

2. Shielding their team from crap (as someone mentioned already)

3. Don't pitch one team member vs another - this is toxic. Instead nurture their strength. Our competitors are outside the team, not inside

4. Cheer lead/Sponsor for the team outside. Genuinely back your team.

5. Always expect your team members are smarter than you - give them that trust. Thank them for things they teach you.

6. Managing is more like parenting college kids (not toddlers/middle schoolers). You want them to survive worst and replace you if needed. So you too can grow. But avoid micro managing.

7. Learn to have tough conversations - This could be for their/team's improvement.
Can't remember where I read it, but the idea was that using existing vaccine tech to knock out pretty much any virus is a major financial undertaking. Now multiply that by 100x, or however many common-cold-causing viruses exist.

Keyword being existing. Future advances may change the landscape significantly, and not just for colds. For that, we need a stable society, competent governance, and investment in foundational science.
The Race to Recreate Breast Milk Without the Breast
In the US, the PCAOB. It publishes an annual report scoring all of the biggest public accounting firms.
You mean the initial labeling happens (without loss of generality) such that the baby has always chosen A? That's not the swapping I was discussing.

I meant this bit:

> After the baby is shown the first two toys, they are placed under boxes and secretly swapped. Despite originally having chosen B, the baby instead gets to interact with A.

If the baby actually tracks the swapping (probably unlikely), then I think it's not the case that they "originally [chose] B" - unless (quite possible) I am misunderstanding something, which is why I seek clarification.
There's more to it than you're giving him credit for.

You call it erratic. Others see it as eccentric. And, that draws eyeballs.
For anyone who is saying "your license allows it":

These licenses were created pre-cloud era when on-premise was a thing and "Intranet" was a word. I grew fond of open source from high-school days as a kid in India because I felt the power that everyone is sharing their best creations for me to learn from. The spirit of open source, at least to me dates back to 1998.

Things have changed, a few providers host everything for every business. Do you feel open source would have taken same approach if started now?
I would be curious to see a study on how it impacts patients before they go to the hospital. Specifically, if they test positive, they start treatment within days of their result.
You might want to read what you link: Because the insolation function is the same for the northern and southern hemispheres, i.e., S˜(φ,ε)=S˜(−φ,−ε), annual solar insolation is the same for corresponding latitudes in each hemisphere.
> Pope Clement VII was so influential that King Henry VIII had to leave the church and invent in Anglicanism just to escape.

This is so amazingly reductive I can't take anything else in the post seriously.
This is dependent on what you consider to be the purpose of a dictionary, to me there are two slightly different options:

1) A dictionary is a representation of agreed upon words and their meaning (as in scrabble).

2) A dictionary is a list of how you are likely to encounter a word being used. (as in urban dictionary)

with the latter a dictionary is a tool to help you better understand word/uses that can be unclear, with the former a dictionary provides justification for your choices of wording (the dictionary defines this word so and so, therefore my usage was correct).

In my opinion dictionaries are trying to be 2) but people use them as 1). It is how we get definition of "Literally: not literally, figuratively"; "literally" does not mean "not literally" it is simply used very often like that for emphasis.
It isn't ignorance or lack of curiosity. It's called American Exceptionalism: in that America (the USA) is exceptional and the rules of other countries don't apply to it. This can be used for both good reasons (perseverance when others failed) and bad ones (the "that will never work here" argument).
A Highly Biased Review of C# Changes from v1.0 to v9.0
> and Chinese (or Mandarin I guess) in the east.

Surely Mandarin is not making much leeway into India, Korea, Japan, or most other countries in the east.
We already do this. The expensive auditors exist to wrangle the complex organization of multinationals into a digestible form so that they can be pushed through the compliance processes of the government employed accountants more efficiently.
Shipped using Mailchimp’s free plan without writing any code
While true in principle... those kinds of causes tend to have pretty clear cause-effect (or at least strong time correlations), and get rolled back. New call patterns / major load changes are generally pretty obvious and at least coarsely traceable if you have monitoring anywhere.
Not sure if it helps someone, but I like to use the following intermediate formula to explain it:
"A implies B" is equivalent to "B or (not A)" (either B is true and then A can be true or false, or B is false but then A cannot be true since it would entail that B is true as well).

"B or (not A)" is equivalent to "(not A) or B" and to "(not A) or (not (not B))", you can then apply the previous reasoning to realize it's also equivalent to "(not B) implies (not A)".

Not sure if my twisted way of thinking about it helps anyone though... furthermore it requires to have clearly in mind the distinction between "or" and "xor", the later being sadly closer to the vernacular use of "or"...
After one baby chooses, all the babies will choose it and fight over it.

Seems like odd behavior...
Funny story when I was in the UK two people born and brought up in the country came to my desk talking about a third person. I honestly thought they were speaking about two different people. While I was totally confused they seems to perfectly at peace pronouncing same name so differently. It was a classic Shawn vs Sean moment[1]. This feels weird personally because in my mother language Hindi this is nearly impossible. Each alphabet have a distinct sound. You just pronounce a word in 2 different manners.

[1] https://youtu.be/69UlVQpYwUE?t=85
Detroit was the Silicon Valley of its day (roughly from 1900 to 1960 or 1970). Center of the tech universe. Cranking out modern wonders on a seemingly weekly basis. Awash in cash.

Look at it now. Things go on as before, until suddenly they can't.
> configuration galley

What does this mean?
Hollywood is not a monopoly. There are thriving movie industries in other countries and even with the US (see NY and Georgia, for example). Hollywood is simply the biggest and most successful of the movie industry centers.

There is also an entire system of independent film studios and theaters in the US.
Euler's Formula: A Complete Guide
What if a book can change your politics or religious beliefs?
Heather Meeker, a great legal mind in the open source world, helped create this license: https://commonsclause.com/

You might consider whether it serves your intended goals.
The rest of us have decided that only you are the gene zombie.
I think you're conflating avant-garde with world class.

Take restaurants for example - super easy to start a new inventive restaurant in Detroit (low rent, low labor costs, etc.), but it's nearly impossible to make a $500/head prix-fixe work there (and that is, for better of worse, the type of food that causes people to flock now-a-days). Even Portland sees most of it's 'starving artist' chefs decamp to NY / SF / LA once they gain a national brand.
That is something completely different and foundational research of a whole branch of psychology (or rather, a paradigm), namely Behaviorism.

I cannot see how these two studies relate to each other except both having "random" and "behavior" in the description...
I’m not sure what the complaint is actually. It seems like the author just wants recognition. I’m not sure why he would want to expect anything other than what he specified in his project.

I pointed out that the minimum is to be expected because I’ve seen it mentioned a few times that’s all they did. Like the expectation is that they should have done more.

It’s a company forking a project, I would expect nothing else. It would be notable if he got a T-shirt or something.
The hardware design effort aside: one article to demonstrate why the ARM ecosystem is such a garbage fire. UEFI, anyone?
Rationalists tend to be irrational people who need help.

No doubt there are some good thinkers in the sphere, but I don't know why you'd correlate rationalists with 'success'
I feel taxi drivers, truck drivers, deserve jobs.

It seems to be popular to want to automate all the "working class" jobs though.
Criticism of the English language aside, what alternative are you proposing? What would you like the "independent-liberal" Indian state do, to remove the disadvantage?

Just seems to me like English is not in the top 10 list of reasons why India might be "doomed to poverty for atleast a century".

धोबी का कुत्ता घर का या घाट का नहीं, धोबी का है|
That's true, but wanting acknowledgement in some specific way is pretty frivolous compared to wanting changes made to be available under the same license so the fork doesn't maintain an incompatibility/add-on advantage that can't be fixed.

Whether the GPL is good enough for that depends on whether end users are recipients of binaries and therefore would be entitled to the source under GPL.
My dad is a music tutor, piano and guitar.

He does two different "tracks" according to what the student wants: (1) learn currently popular songs or (2) learn didactic music in the classical tradition (e.g. Czerny). In either track he's really teaching music theory: most popular music will be I-IV-V; jazzy music with turnarounds do ii-V-I tricks, etc. He doesn't teach an instrument, he teaches music.
I don't understand the fascination with Microsoft Teams, it doesn't work.

Sound simply doesn't work in the app, full stop. You need to use the web version, in Chrome, because nothing else works... Well Edge maybe, who knows. There is apparently no way to get sound working in the Mac client, meaning that it might as well not exist.
Research confirming "what grandma always knew" is still very valuable research.
I think this is a strong indication that dyslexia is associated with the more analytical parts of text processing. The Chinese characters are likely processed in a more synthetic, whole-image kind of way.
people not following the standard does not remove value from a standard.

For centuries people wrote in Latin in Europe not because it was anyone natural language, but because of the reach it would grant[1].

[1] and because in many cases local languages were less sophisticated and inadequate to philosophy/poetry.
If this can be reverse engineered and made into an rpi zero or something... I would be all over that.

Also, I really hate reading about tinnitus because it just reminds my brain to stop ignoring that ringing sound...
I'd suggest that we figure out what our algos are measuring, first.

Given how new this field is, and how many different disciplines are looking at it, we need a common set to work on. "Online Harms", was the broadest set of terms I found. (UK Gov - https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/online-harms-whi...)

Here is count of categories in transparency reports for 3 firms (full list at the end):

* Online harms paper: 24/22 harms

* Facebook, 10 harms (1)

* Twitter 12 (2)

* Reddit 8 (3)

Here's a paper from May 2020, which focused on hate speech detection using SA. The intro lays out the case for clearer, more compatible categories:

"the lack of clear definitions of key categories is a critical issue. The authors argue that
researchers use different, sometimes theoretically ambiguous or misleading terms for equivalent categories."

https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.838/

Which brings us to the problem of secrecy in tech firms.

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What we know about how the firms work, is based on leaks and people who break NDAs. Reasons range from:

1) It's a trade secret
2) An open list means attackers will use new words
3) It exposes their approach to criticism.

To whatever. Researchers are likely recreating the wheel. The question is whether the information on the "public square" needs to be released and made open.

This punts the question on regulating algos, to after we figure out what algos are working on in the first place.

After that, maybe you can start talking about algorithms which curate, ban, promote, profile anything that humans do.

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(1) FB harms: Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity, Bullying and Harassment, Child Nudity and Sexual Exploitation of Children, Dangerous Organizations: Terrorism and Organized Hate, Fake Accounts, Hate Speech, Regulated Goods: Drugs and Firearms, Spam, Suicide and Self-Injury, Violent and Graphic Con

(2) Twitter harms: Hateful conduct, Abuse/harassment, Sensitive media, Promoting suicide or self-harm, Violence, Illegal or certain regulated goods or services, Non-consensual nudity, Private information, Impersonation, Child sexual exploitation, Civic integrity, Terrorism/violent extremism

(3) Harassment, Minor Sexualization, Violent Content, Involuntary Porn, Controlled Goods, Private Information, Impersonation, Ban Evasion
US sanctions Russian agent for 2020 election interference efforts
This is one of the very few small UI toolkits that seem to properly implement screen reader accessibility. I''m positively surprised.
We're tackling evolving online threats
I think this is a fair counterpoint, but the counter-counterpoint would be that decreased housing prices are just one of an array of benefits that increasing housing supply would bring about.
I think this is called "cognitive dissonance".

They've had people rate various prizes by desirability. Then the person receives a prize of lesser desirability. Later, when asked again the person will rate the item they received higher. It is reasoned that the person's psyche would rather increase the desirability of what they did receive rather than accept that they received something that "sucks".
How not to break your software-defined radio
FWIW I've had significantly better performance using the web interface, pretty much at all times. And as a bonus, you can open the same slack instances in multiple tabs and copy/paste/crosslink with relative ease.

It's still a hog of course, but it's broadly better.
You forget that not all conspiracy theories are equal. A democracy could survive hundreds of bullshit conspiracy theories for decades, but suppress the next COINTELPRO and your democracy may be dead in five years.
That's what the GPL is intended to prevent.
“It’s always day one at Amazon” is their motto meaning they’ll hustle and squeeze out as much profit as possible without a thought of contributing back if it doesn’t increase their bottom line.