skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue is that the virtual assistant is there to assist, not replace an assistant.

I have an admin. I can text, call, talk, email her and say “let’s get bob, mary and finance on the phone at 4” and she’ll move stuff around to make sure that happens. I can also delegate complex administrative tasks that need to be done in my name.

When I’m at the dentist, I usually do a “hey Siri” to book it as it saves time. At home, “hey Siri turn on the lights” is helpful. It’s magic, but not the same.

The tech companies try to frame this stuff “bigger”, but in doing so they create an unreasonable expectation. Google home, Siri, Alexa are amazing, but we bitch and moan about them as a result.
Recognizing masks is the hard part, indeed. But it can be done semi-decently by just analyzing tags (#wearamask or whatever).

The rest is easy, it could even be done completely on-device if you have a recent high end chipset. That's how powerful phones are nowadays.

Tbf, it is easier to just run your own server, and pre-program everything for yourself, a truly personalized experience.

Though Google could easily do it for the millions of people using Android. I really wish they allowed custom modules or something for their Assistant, the voice recognition is unmatched.
The high-risk population introduces statistical complications evaluating the results - were bad outcomes caused by the treatment under investigation or by the preexisting conditions?
This is very true and undeserving of the downvotes. A vaccine can work globally, but it is not at all guaranteed.

This is because the distribution of certain alleles, fundamental for the immune system, is heavily biased geographically [1].

[1]: http://pypop.org/popdata/
Meanwhile Google trains their systems on 3 million hours of Youtube audio gaining 30% better accuracy:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12096

It improves much faster than you might think.
That will never stand up in court.
The Future of PyMC3, Or: Theano Is Dead, Long Live Theano
Link Previews in Chat Apps Pose Security and Privacy Risks to Users
Did Ancient Rome use lead styli?
The FDA has made 42 new drug approvals in 2020: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/new-drugs-fda-cders-new-molecular-...

Certainly some of those are new uses for existing drugs, but drug trials ain't cheap either.
Just because this thread is dealing with user interaction in general, I do know there are also foot pedals people use as modifiers or input actions along the lines of what you're saying.
> How do you explain then, that asian-americans (on average) outearn whites, have a higher SAT score and are less likly to be in prison? They have been impacted by racist policies too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

It's ridiculous to say that Asian Americans have experienced anything near the racism that black people have in the United States. I don't think they should even be included in the conversion when talking about racism. The racism they experience is mostly prejudice-type racism, not systemic.

> the growing number of fatherless homes that correlate with many factors influence positive outcome.

Well yeah, that's another systemic problem, that's partially caused by fathers being in prison and such.

> You want black people to get out of this cycle? Dont be a criminal, comply with police, educate yourself, help others do the same. But somehow this is called "acting white".

I don't follow your logic. If it's so easy for black people to get out of the cycle, why don't they? Why is it that so many black people are in the cycle vs. white people? Are you saying that black people are inherently worse?
To avoid wrist pain, I have started dictating quite a lot as a way to enter large amounts of text into my laptop and phone. It's really very good, especially on android. Aside from the relatively large downside of it being noisy, I like it almost as much as I did typing.
At least for consumers, you can install Windows 10, never give it a license key, and it will run forever with almost no restrictions. (IIRC you're blocked from changing your wallpaper, there's an occasional nag prompt, but that's it.)
We are currently on path to surpass 4-5C increases globally by 2100. And it's an exponential growth; who knows when it might taper off. I certainly don't expect it will just stop increasing when we hit that, although maybe it will.

Also, 50 million years ago the temperature was that warm but it also happens to be around the time when an impact of a large asteroid caused one of the greatest extinction events in the history of the planet[1]. Not sure if that's relevant to the temperature aspect or not. Just throwing it out there.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_extinctio...
You did not mention whether you will be using it as dev machine or something else.

In case dev, get Dell XPS Ubuntu. Latitudes with Ubuntu are even better (used one for 4 years).

Bought the MacBook Pro, due to all the hype. It already made me visit Mac service centre twice. One day it just refused to boot. Motherboard replaced. Second time due to battery swelling issue whole Touchpad, Keyboard and battery replaced. Regretting it now. Only useful if you are developing apps for iPhone/macOS.
Well, to extend the GUI/console metaphor, it means that at some point soon, we'll all be using NLP because it's dramatically more user-friendly for the vast majority of people.
As soon as you see them for what they are it makes perfect sense. They're basically a proxy to google search with extra dumb features on top. Every single feature that isn't google search has been hard coded (map directions, setup alarms, &c.), as soon as you get out of the hard coded cases it's blatantly obvious these things are anything but "smart"

imho they're just used to give google/amazon a few more data points for their graphs
All press is good press, I'm sure the number of people who simply know Kazakhstan exists has gone up exponentially. That's a chance of tourism or investment greater than 0.
Parsing Algorithms
Are they testing for side effects in all three stages? I thought the first two trials were for safety and the third was for efficacy. Is that incorrect?
You're right, and researchers are aware of this:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/03/placebos-arent-needed-ch...

Also, there is a very strong risk, given the global situation, that the longer placebo-controlled trials go on, the less reliable the data will be, because control-group subjects will ignore the rules of the study and go get vaccinated as soon as it's broadly available just in case. So even just looking at data quality and excluding other considerations, placebos have major risks that probably outweigh the benefits of administering them for months or years like a usual vaccine trial would.
How do you say "00's"? Does Alexa say it the same way?
> Just today, PayPal terminated the account of one of them

PayPal terminated thier account because they run a digital currency and could not satisfy PayPal's KYC inquiries. This is nothing new.

> The Nazi website Daily Stormer was deplatformed by their domain registrar, their payments platform, and basically everyone else

So what? How do you think things should be different? I am personally ok with companies coordinating to shut out Nazis, tens of millions of people died to deafeat them and it seems perfectly reasonable to me to say "you know what, I don't want to do businesses with nazis". I understand the fear of a slippery-slope, but keep in mind that the slippery slope argument is generally regarded as a fallacy, and I see no evidence to suggest that this is actually a widespread problem, with the example of the dailystormer and like two others constantly reused to emphasize your point. If there is enough demand for Nazi website hosting, someone will fill the market need, same as with porn and other things some people don't like.

> Why should the owners of an arbitrarily popular restaurant lose their right to exclude Negroes?

What are you talking about? Racial discrimination is illegal in the U.S regardless of how popular your restaurant is. Also, refusing to serve food to black people isn't the same thing as refusing to display nazi ideas on your website.
Absolutely, but you could start with reasonable assumptions and refine from there. Just the percentage of individual humans wearing a mask. Recent = past week. Start somewhere. Give me an answer first, or ASK for clarification instead of "Sorry, I couldn't understand your query."

I understand it's a hard problem, but with current software capabilities and given Google's compute infrastructure I honestly think some of these things are well within the realm of what a team of several hundred Google engineers can do.

I'm not asking it to write Shakespeare, I'm asking it to crunch data with a sentence that could reasonably easily be parsed into a graph and be turned into a MapReduce query. I thought they were good at that stuff.

Context? I know it's hard, but I thought Google has been working on that. I'm very much adjusting my expectations to what I think Google should be able to accomplish in a decade. I expect some basic context capability now, at the very least these data-crunching type use cases.
> If you'd started to programm something that you like + would make you money you'd be back programming in no time rather than pivoting to otherstuff.

Yes, sadly those almost seem mutually exclusive.
Vaccines are far from big money.
Looks super interesting - would love if the homepage had some kind of demo/screenshot built in. I'd rather not have to click any buttons to see what I'm getting myself into here
And after he was sued by Robert Murray for the above episode, the follow up episode [1] won an Emmy award [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN8bJb8biZU

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72nd_Primetime_Emmy_Awards#Pro...
There are a lot of companies that brag about their last victory, rather than their current one. It’s not so much disinformation as minimally actionable information.
Agreed, the error rate before I just give up on something is pretty low.

The real frustration is when it fails on tasks I swear it has done before easily.

Like 'ok google' ends up googling ... the ok google command word for word sometimes. 'ok google set timer 10 minutes'

As soon as I have to babysit an assistant like that I'd rather just make sure the clock is on my home screen so I set a timer.
Haha... What is California culture in digital form? I remember being 16 and posting this rant but substituting "USA" for "California". Gotta make sure everyone knows my group is the best!
The other day, I wanted it to open an app and start recording when I say "Hey Google, take a voice note"... but no dice :/
I'd like to get a smaller ARM based device and go client/server

I'd like to be more client-server these days too, using whatever device is convenient at the time but storing my data centrally so all my devices can access it, it's all systematically secured and backed up, I can also access it remotely via VPN, etc.

The key thing, though, is that I want it to be my server, not someone else's that I don't control and have to keep paying for.
What is it with CBP and the jacked up sense of rules don’t apply to us?

Last I checked they were not special ops doing off the books assassination mission deep behind enemy lines.
You might have visited different seminars than the ones this thread was originally about, or you might just experience them differently given that you appear to be a staunch believer in white privilege & the post-modern theory of racism.

Religious rituals seem totally normal to the initiated and strange and cult-ish to others.
Deaths are not an entirely useful measure to see how the pandemic is progressing because they are a lagging indicator.

Positive test rates measure what was happening about a week ago. Hospital admissions reflect activity a week or two before that, and deaths often get reported a month or more after the events that caused people to get infected.

You have to look at all the data to get an idea of what is happening.
I visited Kazakhstan for the first time in 2007 when Borat jokes were very much in the air. On one hand, Borat has nothing to do with the real Kazakhstan. On the other hand, without the film maybe I wouldn’t have decided to go through Kazakhstan while traveling overland between Europe and Asia, and then I wouldn’t have discovered the real Kazakhstan with its authentic culture that has made me visit the country again several times since. Several other backpackers I have met in Central Asia told me the same. Borat maybe has done more good than harm.
This work?

https://outline.com/rEAstN
Great! Just emailed you
Borat made some very racist and inaccurate remarks about country (Kazakhstan) who did nothing to deserve such humiliation. As a foreigner I did not appreciate the crass of the movie at the time, but I understand completely why there is so much backlash against it. Calling something “satire” doesn’t give you a free license to be rude, especially towards other cultures who don’t share your form of self degrading humor that sometimes us in the West laugh and enjoy.

Source: My partner is Kazakh.
My thoughts in treating the vulnerable first wasn't because I thought the vulnerable would then be able to go back out to work, but because the vulnerable would be relatively safe the people with no pre-exisiting conditions wouldn't have to stay home to stop the spread.
Progress does seem very slow since I could first talk to an Android phone - which was at least 10 years ago. I'm using iPhones now but even simple things such as "show me pictures of a Boeing 737" or "call the Home Depot on 1st Avenue in Amarillo" only have about a 50% success rate - enough that unless my hands are actively busy, I'd rather just type it.
>>>But you need to provide some very strong evidence "they [the left] do not believe non-leftists should be allowed to exist."

At least one very recent example:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/12/keith-olber...
Alphabet trialing solar-paneled, robotic buggies to inspect farm crops
At least something good happened in 2020.
Or it will change everyone’s impression that google is the only option.

I used a distro that made yahoo default in Firefox. It’s fine. I’ll end up switching to google eventually but haven’t been arsed to do it yet.
Depending on your employment terms, I would argue that the daily hour of 'indenpendent study' should be billed. (after all, it's in you employers benefit that you keep up and continue learning, isn't it?)
You can draw the definition as widely as you like: not even the ACLU says that censorship carried out by private citizens is illegal or that the right response to it is more laws.
So many strawmen! Dang maybe you’re just burnt out or something, because you’re not replying to anything I said.

I would never and didn’t at all ask for privilege. I set out suggestions to avoid majoritarianism, systemically. One - make flags “cost”, for less brigades. Two, make vouches cost more, but also have more weight, as vouching can protect a minority view.

I never said disallow flags on articles “like that”? I’m not even a big fan of Taibbi, I’m just a bit disgusted by people who would flag away things they just don’t like politically. It’s a problem, but my guess is it suits your politics and your bosses, so it’s not very pressing.

What’s Orwellian is that you can’t seem to grapple with anything I’m saying and instead or twisting it all to totally different arguments, while using quite creative yet generic words to hide behind authority. Read your initial reply: The reason you give for why it’s valid to dismiss an article on simple suggestions to fix flagging was... “it was flagged”, it was “Metadrama”, and it would (in your psychic wisdom) lead to a “generic hodgepodge” discussion. Could literally apply to any HN submission about the site itself, and in this reply you seem to had misread it as some beg for privilege for myself or something weird like that.

I’ve also been on HN for over a decade. I’ve seen a ton of controversies, I never waded in really. I’ve held my tongue for years on the suppression one, it’s been obvious for years. I’ve seen many claiming it went downhill. In fact at my first job a decade ago I remember multiple co-workers warning me how it’s gone downhill. I know it’s always been that way.

But the reasons it was going downhill before and now are categorically different. Before it was due to incessant flame wars, bad faith pedantry, lack of openness to new ideas (but within discussion).

Now - it’s literal flag brigading.

To be honest, this happened near the election last time. People lose sanity, and then they see abuse of power as “popular” and therefore justified, and then after the election the tide will naturally turn and you’ll forget the problem for a bit.

Censorship, majority rule, there aren’t the same as the critiques I’ve seen many many times over the years. Before it was about quality of discussion, now it’s about banning discussion entirely.
Wine is only a syscall translation layer. It's not an implementation of Windows.
Probably, they get more ad revenue from:

- you doing a manual search, and being tracked/targeted
- them displaying ads as a result
- them displaying contextual, higher paying ads

I've noticed that some things over the years, many things in fact, have been removed from Google Maps. I hypothesize that the entire reason is, these things reduce profit.

For example, you used to be able to pause Google Maps. You can't now, and therefore, if you have 'history' off, you have to stop, and manually re-start your destination by typing it in.

Well, history profits them.

And pausing is not the best, because then, you're not active 100% of the trip. Having you active lets them determine all sorts of things, like traffic patterns, where you go, who you're near, and so on.

There are lots of little things like this, which seem to be gone from earlier versions of Maps. Again, I presume, all to make more $.

Which is logical, and fine, but it gets a bit tiresome and sad at times.
Hey! That's an awesome piece of feedback! Give me 10m :) I'll get it done!
> Amazon isn’t going to arrest and deport me.

They may however take away some people's livelihood capriciously and without due process.
It’s true that these numbers do matter when it comes to _implementing_ these laws, my argument is that it isn’t a useful barometer for the quality of the ideas.

In your example, 60% of people didn’t support gay marriage in 2005. I would argue that gay marriage didn’t become a “better” idea between 2005 and 2015. It was always a good idea that provided tangible benefits to gay people, public opinion didn’t just reflect this.

This is sort of aimed at other comments in this discussion, which seemed to be lamenting that the “polarizing” ideas were being pushed in people. I don’t really care if something like, say, a “bathroom bill” is considered a polarizing culture war issue or how many people support it. It has an effect on me and the other trans people in my life, and I don’t feel any inclination to compromise on my position
> while the other two are being done runtime.

On a common PHP setup (with OpCache today, any predecessor in the past) this happens only once on startup, thus is neglectible. (Java's VM and JIT are faster, no doubt, but where the translation happens matters only a little ... especially since Java does optimisations and JITting on the VM at run time only as well)
I thought the ending of Borat 2 in which Kazakhstan transforms itself (if only superficially) was a nod to some of the original responses I had read back in the day from Kazakhstani politicians and makes the satire of Americans much clearer than the first movie.
Can you speak towards what you self-studied to get to an undergraduate understanding of mathematics and what resources, or books you used in the process? I’m also interested in the resources you used or recommend for learning category theory.
People who know they've been vaccinated will behave more recklessly than people who haven't been vaccinated. You need to have a control group, in order to assess the efficacy (and safety) of the vaccine. If the control group is wearing masks and socially distancing, but the vaccinated group is going partying at bars and clubs every night, then comparisons of how often each group gets infected won't have much meaning.

It's only unethical to withhold the vaccine if you know that it's safe and effective. The whole point of the study is to figure out if that's the case. It's possible for vaccine candidates to be ineffective, or even harmful (e.g., antibody-dependent enhancement).
It has immutability, no null pointers, and error types. It has escape hatches available for everything, but unnecessary use of these should be caught in code review, so I don't think it's a big deal. Not sure what correctness features OCaml could add beyond those, but then again I've never programmed in OCaml, only Scala, so I might be wrong.
> Pay for hosting.

And what's to stop whichever company is hosting me from dropping hosting at the first whiff of a Twitter mob?

> How would this be possible in a capitalist country?

So you are saying free speech on the internet is incompatible with a capitalist economy?
How they get the data is not really as important as what they're doing with it -- that's what makes it an issue requiring a transparent legal analysis.
Last I checked this was only applicable to residential service. If you pay for their business solution you can do whatever you want.
Uhhh...this is how being the CEO works. You're paid the big bucks but you're also responsible for an entire company.
> instead of the usual one seller against multiple buyers

I'm intrigued by the progression of the subthread from "it's weird for GitLab to do this on the employee side when nobody does it on the customer side" to "it's weird for GitLab to do this on the employee side when everybody does it on the customer side".
As someone who worked near that industry, he was just another one of the original boys’ club breaking the CWA since its inception.
> the inline keyword is also available in C (since C99)

but it doesn't work the same way.

> If you put all the implementation code into inline code, this code is parsed over and over again in each source file

That's true. Good header-only C++ libraries provide "forward" headers, which you can use if you don't need the full definition.

But the best thing is to only write C++ header-only libraries if there is a technical reason (e.g. heavy templated code).

> "STB-style single file libraries" don't suffer from this problem.

That's right, but I also don't see the benefit. To me, telling the user to add a #define to some random source file feels incredibly hacky. On a technical level, it's the same as asking the user to #include a ".c" file.

Why not put the implementation in a single ".c" file, which the user can add to their project? I honestly don't understand this...
I still boycott BP, to this day. But I am probably a minority. In some areas in Florida, they purchased most gas stations after the spill happened, so it is sometime not easy to avoid them.
The fish rots from the head, so they say. Amazing to see how open contempt of the Legislative branch just trickles down.
Tools like JSDom are pretty nice for this, but I've found that most web scraping involves a lot of low level manipulation of strings and lists – stripping/formatting/concatenating/ranges/etc, and I find JS to have much worse ergonomics for this than languages like Python and Ruby. I actually find the ergonomics of this most comparable to Swift, the difference being that with Swift you get a ton of safety and speed for that trade-off.

If your whole stack is JS and you need a little bit of web scraping, this makes sense. If you're starting a new scraping project from scratch, I think you'll get far further, faster, with Python or Ruby.