skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This happens in software, you are limited in what you can create and do by what concepts you can easily express

Because the computer isn't really thinking. It's just mechanically following what the language says. So of course what you can do is limited by what the language can express, because that's all there is.

Human minds don't seem to be the same. They can have ideas without necessarily needing to start with language to build the idea on.

For one thing, we've all experienced having a thought but being unable to think of the word for it. Despite being unable to articulate it, you can look in the dictionary at possible words and tell from their definitions whether they match.

You could say that this is just our brains thinking in terms of that word without being able to recall its concrete form. (The essential meaning of a word and the spelling/sound of it might be handled separately by the brain.) Maybe that's why sometimes, but it's also possible to have a thought and not know that there is a word for it. You might tell a friend about someone who has an annoying habit of rigidly following and enforcing the rules even when that serves no constructive purpose, and your friend might tell you that's called being legalistic.

Still, you could argue that's still language-based thought because all you did was compose together several pieces of language ("rigidly following", "constructive purpose", etc.), and that your new vocabulary word is really just a shorthand for that composition. Maybe that is true for some words, but it can't be true for all of them. If words can only be introduced by reference to language, then there's no way language could have formed in the first place. There must have been a first word.

Another approach is a thought experiment: does a feral child (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child) have thoughts? If a human grows up with no exposure to language, that will have profound effects on them, but I don't think those effects go as far as making it impossible to have thoughts.

Having said all that, do I think that language heavily influences thinking? Definitely. For one thing, exposure (and non-exposure) to certain ideas has a big influence on thinking. Words convey ideas, and when you learn a word, you learn its idea. It may also be true that ideas are easier to think about (internally) if they have a corresponding word. And it's certainly easier to discuss ideas if there are words for them, so those ideas will be discussed more often.
Thanks! There are a ton of other things you can do, but I find once you start moving into that territory, you're in power user space, and if a normal person can't get google docs to work, they're likely to throw the baby out with the basket haha.
How would we eradicate a virus that has animal hosts? If the prevailing origin hypothesis is correct then the virus is presumably still circulating among horseshoe bats.
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They need to control the content at least in a rudimentary way, they would be swamped by waves of commercial spam otherwise.

Ofc, once you can remove classic Viagra ads, you established your ability to control content to some degree. From that point on, you cannot really assert that you are a common carrier.

You could assert your allegiance to the 1st amendment, though.
They are not "thinking about it a bit", their earlier work was concerned with precisely identifying the species and gender of the mosquito.

I believe this system can very accurately ID and neutralize an exact specie of a mosquito.
I wonder what it would have been like if both sides acted like a court case and not like actors in a made for television special.
Hardening or softening metal (e.g. to make less easily marred tools, knives) is how I got there, not sure of non-metal-working uses.

I suppose though if you can get it to hold cooler temps too, then it's just an oven, could use for reflowing solder, testing performance of something at higher temperatures, warming bagels..
> Complacency is Cancer

You lost me immediately.

If you can make $200k without becoming a worshipped CTO after year three, yet you’re comfortable and happy with your life, you aren’t doing anything wrong.

Author, you really need to develop some empathy for people with different lifestyles than yours. Instead you call it cancer, which is both offensive and just not true.
Apple doesn’t get a pass when it comes to health and safety regulations.
I was a varsity fencer, though nowhere near as good as some of the people listed in this article.

I have met numerous parents over the years who got their kids into fencing because it would look good for college. There is a stereotype of the SAT prep book next to a fencing bag.

Most of these kids quit fencing as soon as they start college. A few stick with the university team, but quit as soon as they graduate. It is rare to find someone who continues fencing at the age of 22 and isn't trying to make the Olympic team. (Which is ironic because fencing is an individual sport that can be done the rest of someone's life.)

Like the article states, there are very few fencing spots available, primarily because there are very few universities that are serious about it. Anytime a parent asks me what the chances are their kid gets a scholarship, I always ask, "What's your kid's world ranking?" From plenty of first-hand observation: if a kid isn't in the top 100 of the world, that kid isn't going to be recruited. (A walk-on spot will still be available for people who want to fence, but forget about getting a phone call from a coach.)
Because then they get stuck defending scoundrels, and it's untenable. The ACLU has (had?) the guts to defend a nazi's right to free speech, a profit seeking corp is less likely.

So they get pushed into this position where they're stuck at the border of acceptable where half the people think they're censoring and half think it's only right.
Correct, the overhead is minimal - it basically just makes the float->int conversion use a fixed set of rounding and clamping modes, irrespective of what the current mode flags are set to.

The problem is JS's double->int conversion was effectively defined as "what wintel does by default", so on arm, ppc, etc you need a follow on branch that checks for the clamping requirements and corrects the result value to what x86 does.

Honestly it would not surprise me if the perf gains are due to removing the branch rather than the instruction itself.
They're not optimistic for the North Atlantic. Those aren't favorable routes for cruisers because of weather and predominant wind direction. But if you have a massive vessel like this, the North Atlantic is a great route and a lot shorter.
If you have Pandoc installed, you can get just the rendering/reading with something like

pandoc -i file.md | w3m -T text/html
I played around with "Find My" last night... similar to Location Sharing, it seems to allow me to look at the location of all devices connected with my account as long as they are online. But that's not necessarily what I want. Before I can access someone else's location, I want to inform them that I'd like to know where they are and give them a couple of minutes to respond. That's the key missing feature here...or am I the one missing something?
But lets be clear, Cambridge Analytica's proposed models did not work.

Speaking as a data scientist with a background in psychology and social media advertising, using the Big 5 traits and likes is pretty useless for prediction of anything except the Big 5 traits.

Additionally, targeted advertising and small audiences rarely work well together, which is why almost all FB advertising guides tell you to make your audiences as broad as possible (if 1/1000 people convert, the model needs 20-50 conversions per week to keep going, then micro-targeting won't work).

All of the data science stuff from CA was mostly a distraction from what SCL actually did, which was video politicians in compromising positions and blackmail them.
It's just unbelievable ... how people KNOW about situations that they weren't in and don't ask any questions. But since you brought it up I can tell you about my accuracy in Excel:

- The process involved 2 people checking my work before it was sent to payroll. And we did catch and correct mistakes. We were able to trace back where and how the mistakes were make, and build in ways to prevent or flag future mistakes.

- The job was necessary because of all the garbage in the database. Excel's data-checking and data-cleansing and flexibility was superior to the database.

- After 1 year all of my work was audited. For several dozen sales people, there was ONE person I wasn't 100% accurate with. And that one was off by 0.5%. SUCCESS!

- If we'd gone with the report coming out of the database, things would have been such a confused mess.
Also bitwarden is doing something similar!

FWIW, I get the impression that they want to charge money soon. Keybase never really wanted to bother with that and the implicit SLAs that come with it? Charging money is a great way to actually guarantee it will be around for a while longer than your typical ad or VC funded 'free' service.

I feel like the major problem with E2EE cloud services is getting apps to adopt it. For example, I like bear editor, but I don't like their encryption model. I like standard notes & inkdrop's E2EE encryption models, but I don't like them as editors that much since a bunch of their energy is probably being consumed by encryption stuff. It feels like the engineers who make good UIs have a hard time doing well on the security standpoint and the ones who bother to make things secure have a hard time dealing with making good UIs.

I want something that the bear's of the world will adopt and then they don't have to think about E2EE anymore.
Psychological Safety
How can there be an iOS app? I read that Apple doesn’t allow GPL apps in their store.
The steam marketplace also has algorithmic traders (despite being against TOS to automate marketplace interactions). I found myself in a position where there was only one other listing for a limited time discontinued item that I had bought a few of. I bought the other one so I could set the market price (gouging sure but there wasn't any demand so still risky). Another one was listed within 15 minutes. I bought that one too, steam only reveals to you who the seller is after a purchase (and it was the same seller).

I wasn't convinced it was a bot and not just someone paying close attention to their steam account until I realized they would under-list me every 5 minutes or so. Since there was no activity on that item, and no buy orders, I experimented by listing my item lower and lower, and they kept undercutting me, down to a floor. Their floor ended up being pretty low (around an 85% loss on what they originally bought at), and after I bought at the floor they then re-listed another for double that, before slowly declining again to under-cut me. For an item with no demand, I decided not to try to slowly buy out their entire inventory at the algo's floor.

I found other items that bot was also trading (after I bought them) and discovered that they also change their listing prices based on where people have buy orders set (a good indicator of some demand / market value), so their floor is higher on an item with any demand at all.
True that, but if a system of this sort is not used, I think in reality it would not be the case that nothing would be used, but rather that very broad-spectrum insecticides get used. That's what happens now. So even a somewhat-targeted method would be a big improvement over what happens now.
I empathize, but I'm also curious -- does it change anything for you that many bird species are themselves carnivorous?
This graph shows overwhelming financial support of big tech employees for Democrats:

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/31/18039528/tech-employees-polit...
Then there's the counter-argument that within reason having a low level of infectious diseases hanging around isn't such a bad thing. It trains our immune systems, preparing them for more serious attacks. I honestly don't know how good an idea that is, but it seems plausible and Ive heard it from medical professionals.

At the medical science level, we absolutely do investigate common cold pathogens and others, and have developed a battery of techniques, all of which were very rapidly brought to bear on Covid-19.

Where I think we do need to do a lot better is in international co-operation and co-ordination. In the USA the CDC needs competent leadership again, they need their seat back at the US national Security Council and they need their international outreach budget back. Europe needs to develop their own equivalent to the CDC that's well funded and effective.

The WHO also needs thoroughly upgrading. I think given the way national governments have ensured the WHO stays a political football, they actually overall do a lot of good. A lot of nations are thoroughly reliant on them for advice and technical assistance, but clearly their chronic dependence on the good will of nation states has severely compromised their ability to act as an independent and effective organisation. They need more funding and more independence, not bullying by China and the USA to serve domestic agendas.
Sorry but you’re spreading misinformation in this post. Beyond the fact that your interpretation doesn’t follow from the evidence you’ve provided, as pointed out by the neighbor post, you’ve misstated what CrowdTangle is measuring.

All of the top 10 links shared on FB in a week typically consists of NPR/NYT/TMZ etc. Recently the left leaning website MoveOn was in the top 3 (source: https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1310314212078620680?s=21).

Shapiro or Bongino are never near the top 10 in terms of link engagement - the metric they do well on is sum total page engagement. Which makes sense - anecdotally, most of me and my left leaning millennial peers are getting our online political engagement from Twitter and Instagram. AOC is a sensation on Insta, Bongino is not.

I see you’re relying on Kevin Roose for your information - unfortunately he’s an absolute spigot of misinformation. I made the same mistake in the past, until I took a deeper look into these issues, and found most of what he says to be totally wrong. I hope you, and others, will reconsider taking him at face value in the future.
> I think you misunderstand. Your parent is saying that after logging into his normal bank, he is taken through two or three third party banking providers that have their own domain names and web user interfaces - just to perform some core action related to paying his mortgage

Actually i think it's slightly different (in my specific example). It looks and feels just like you describe, but i get the impression that it's all the same bank. For some reason the application operates on multiple domains.

My old credit union was the same way. I'd log into `someCU.com` and be forwarded to `secure.CUentry.com` or w/e (i forget the specifics). Both domains were the same CU entity, i imagine, but the pattern we should be telling the "average person" to look for is to always find `foo.com` in the address. If you're not connected to `foo.com` then it's evil. However when sites forward you to likely safe but alternate domains entirely we erode this trust in fixed domain names.

Next time a user clicks on an email to `scamCU.com` and don't think anything of it, since `someCU.com` already has multiple domain names.

But yea, you hit the nail on the head with the root problem. It's gross.
It depends how the vendor presents and handles it. I'm not aware how RS promises look.

However, for example, the hetzner cloud has an explicit choice between triple-redundant ceph-based storage for VMs, or hypervisor local SSD storage. That's good and explicit. I can make an informed choice about speed or durability.
Finance department meeting:

MBA1: So we've figured out that we make a lot of money from people just being too lazy to delete a server.

CFO: Great, how do we make it even harder to delete a server?

MBA2: We could remove the delete button.....

MBA1: I don't think that's a very good idea

CFO: Then how will they delete servers?

MBA2: Fax us!

CFO: Brilliant, I'll tell an engineer to develop the web code.
How does one take advantage of a "no questions asked" return policy? It's literally intended to give a customer confidence in the product they're buying as they can return it for _any_ reason. My assumption is that they overestimated their own product and saw far more returns than they had anticipated.
A case could be made for any usage as you are testing if it will withstand your life style.
Perhaps we should add - once a device has been modified or repaired, the manufacturer is indemnified against all consequences relating to its use.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810868
In one axis, and I don't think they were capable of doing it at the time suggested.
That's not a comparable question. Peer-to-peer bandwidth requirements for a single user increases linearly with the number of participants while a client-server model is essentially flat regardless of the number of participants.
Maybe that fact is telling in itself. No one is preventing anyone from making r/RealFord, I assume.
I thought about those but I don’t think I’ve seen those abbreviations used to introduce the books, only once a discussion is already started about them.

The CSP abbreviation I gave is also a bit of a stretch. Most people who use it probably mean it for the concepts, not the book itself.
> I mean, there’s no way to look at tens of thousands of deaths and declare it to be a good thing.

Yes, there is. It was called the Russian WWII front where the Russians sent to the meat grinder by the tens of thousands held back the German army until winter and supply issues decimated them. It is a viable strategy to deal with a lack of equipment.

Whether or on it is acceptable to say on HN is another story.
Not that I think there aren't governments and other organizations willing to do that, but it has been proven time and again that chemical explosives (e.g. gunpowder) is just hard to beat for killing efficiency. In other words, anyone willing to do that, would probably be willing to just shoot them with a bullet or drop a bomb on them, and that would always be cheaper.
How is it a bad thing if a company doesn't want to waste training on an employee that could leave next year? If anything the opposite is a red flag, since you would be working somewhere where you are just a replaceable "robot".
Tesla doesn’t have a PR team and their Berlin factory was recently shutdown because they forgot to pay their water bill. And now this policy is apparently pulled with no notification? What is going on with the management there?
Yet there is no indication that that is the basis on which the story was initially slowed, and no indication that they apply that consistently.
You’re telling people to look at the data, by linking to his Twitter profile which shows around 12,600 tweets? Why don’t you try searching his mentions to get an idea of how many tweet questions he (nevermind Tesla) gets in a single day that go unanswered?
Who on earth thinks Mother Jones is a far left propaganda outfit?
Covid Deaths
Strong typing and static typing - yes please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_biology
The one used on national UK TV for example and as I said it would be a fork, you don't want to force people to change, though something like Esperanto would cause less outrage then forking english it seems.
You are getting downvoted because logically (and evidently) they could be doing both.
There have been studies, and I know this also anecdotally from native speakers, that e.g. "business English", at least in non-English countries, becomes its own, more restrictive variant of English because of the high percentage of non-native speakers. I know that some such native speakers have said that they feel their English got worse after living abroad for a while.

Of course, overall, this is a very slow process. People don't stop applying the rules or simplify vocabulary over night or even within the span of a couple of years, but there is growing evidence in general that the more speakers a language has, the more it tends to simplify structurally, e.g. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181274
A well researched article with sources and citations.

Please share this article everywhere.

> In March, Chinese state media began describing the strategy of “herd immunity”—allowing the coronavirus to spread among the young and healthy—as a violation of “human rights,” an Orwellian formulation given that lockdowns are essentially a blanket suspension of rights.

> Initially, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also opted for herd immunity. But on March 13, suspicious accounts began storming his Twitter feed and likening his plan to genocide. This language almost never appears in Johnson’s feed before March 12, and several of the accounts were hardly active before then. Britain locked down on March 23.
> Use NixOS, and at least you are standing atop the tower of Babel and able to see all the parties that don't communicate.

I haven't used NixOS but this sounds intriguing. Could you explain in a little more detail how it helps with this?
To understand RISC, ignore the acronym it stands for, instead just think fixed-instruction, load-store architecture. That's what RISC really means today.

No variable-length instructions. No arithmetic instructions that can take memory operands, shift them, and update their address at the same time.
That's interesting, thanks. First study I've seen with more than a handful of participants, doing something other than self-reporting of symptoms.

That said, it's notable that:

* They don't have a control group (makes it impossible to know what the baseline rate of these symptoms is in the population).

* They don't measure the various criteria for "organ impairment" before the participants caught covid (makes it impossible to know if the people who were found to be abnormal were abnormal before catching the virus -- there are a fair number of smokers and obese people in this sample, so this isn't an idle concern).

* They find a fairly strong association with hospitalization (i.e. the people who are sickest, end up having the most lingering symptoms).

* The people who were sickest tended to have the most pre-existing risk factors for the same outcomes being measured by the study (i.e. there's a hidden correlate).

Because of these limitations, you can't really draw any broad conclusions from this study. In general, I'd say that it shows that older / obese / unhealthy people are more likely to have both severe Covid, as well as concomitant symptoms of severe Covid.
I didn’t, but you don’t know me. Your original statement still holds.
Shredding Hard and Soft Balls with the Shredder Machine
We do, but there are still times when a double -> int conversion is necessary, this is true in every other language as well.

The real problem is that JS inherited the x86 behavior, so everyone has to match that. The default ARM behavior is different. All this instruction does is perform a standard fpu operation, but instead of passing the current mode flags to the fpu, it passes a fixed set irrespective of the current processor mode.

As far as I can tell, any performance win comes from removing the branches after the ToInt conversion that are normally used to match x86 behavior.
While I'm not against the lockdowns for covid, following this line of logic would justify a lockdown 100% of the time due to influenza, which is also a fatal disease spread by respiratory droplets. The hard question is where to draw the line.