skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see what's wrong with having internet trash bins. At least the trash is in a know location, it doesn't spill everywhere.

You're presenting a false dichotomy. The options aren't (1) whack-a-mole or (2) trash-binning. The options are (1) whack-a-mole or (2) whack-a-mole with trash-binning. When you remove the trash bin, you stymie the discourse.
Wow looks nice!
The argument in the paper has nothing to do with cardinality.

Review my comment a few steps above about Big-O. The reasoning there shows the real numbers, despite having cardinality of the continuum, are inadequate for measuring even the following countable set of Big-O complexity classes: O(2^n) together with O(n),O(n^2),...,O(n^i),...

Is there something special about intelligence that implies we only need to consider RL-environments with real-valued rewards, and not, say, big-O-complexity-class rewards? Maybe there is. But if there is, the proof will have to be nontrivial---at a bare minimum, it should make some reference to what the reals are (e.g., the unique complete ordered field). This would be quite world-shattering, to real analysts if to no-one else. But none of the RL literature seems to make any reference to what the reals actually are, instead just taking it for granted that the reals are a magical number system as flexible as anybody could ever want. (Other authors essentially pointed this out before I did; see footnote 10 in my paper.)
Great tool, looking forward to the new dimension this will add to parties and music shows in the future!
The left-wing bias of Wikipedia
>The electoral college is designed (from the start) to prevent the larger, more populous states from dominating the country. Seems to be working as designed. And doing a good job as a system.

Only if one prefers that the election always be decided by a margin of votes in a few rural swing states, rendering most voting irrelevant.

A system where all of the votes in all of the states mattered would be infinitely preferable.
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The con is that this can create a form of credentialism. As the number of PhDs rises, some roles which previously required bachelors move to PhD - creating artificial barriers to forward advancement.

Would these positions have existed as experienced Bachelor's positions before? would companies have directly trained industrial researchers?
Quibi is shutting down after raising $1.75B in April
> After Satya took over he embraced opensource

Yeah, no. article from 2012 https://www.wired.com/2012/01/meet-bill-gates/ . Adoption may have accelerated under Nadella, but this was the direction the company was headed.

>He allowed Linux into Azure, which is bold.

Azure was supporting Linux VMs in 2012.

>He killed the Windows division, which is very bold.

You say bold, I say stupid. Windows is still a big chunk of earnings and all that Nadella/Panos have managed to do is piss off long-standing customers by producing a half-assed Windows 10 version every six months.

>He made Office free for devices with small screens

Again, 2012 is when Office mobile was launched.

>He opensourced .NET and other products such as VSCode and TypeScript.

I hate to keep harping on 2012, but yeah, Typescript was announced in 2012 as well.

I'm not going to Fisk every line of your points. There seems to be some sort of blind hatred for Ballmer on HN such that it makes people think there was a magic wand waved by Nadella to suddenly spread enlightenment throughout Microsoft.

The fact of the matter is that Microsoft was already changing.
> “...the point that much of elite schools is about chasing status.”

it’s important to note that everyone is chasing status, and that status is (highly) multidimensional, so we can all have it along different dimensions. i’d go so far as to posit that status has more degrees of freedom than the number of people. it isn’t zero-sum by any means. “high-status schools” is just one of those dimensions, perhaps one that’s more visible than others.
I have an (unsolicited) suggestion:

Allow for user groups where people can actively share songs with one group or another. From there the ranking begins. Upvotes/downvotes work, but the Facebook style of choosing a "type of like" is much more useful in the long run.

Trying to rank songs without any context is almost impossible. You'll just end up with one particular style that is popular for the entire site.
That's like $300 worth of materials at least.
I like to think of myself as a car enthusiast, despite not owning one (sold it before covid). Whenever I see any rare, odd, old, or just plain weird car, I get really excited. I'd love to see one of these on the road, but I don't think I'd go out of my way.
IBM and Pfizer claim AI can predict Alzheimer’s onset with 71% accuracy
Introduction to Cartesian Frames
This is one of the best books ever written. Its English is water and its stories are food. It is more than a window into the 18th century—when you read it you are actually there, and you can come back to it forever because the intellectual and human space it opens is timeless. It is also a deep source of wisdom—not the wisdom of the meditation cushion, but of the public house and the coffee house and the art of conversation. It is embodied and social. You can open it at almost any page and, as long as you're willing to give attention to a different way of thinking and speaking, with its seemingly endless sentences, you will be pulled into its flow.

I've changed the article title to the book title because it deserves more than 2020-level clickbait and moralizing.
Not quite. The EC (along with the 3/5 compromise) was designed to protect the interests of slave-holding states, while also avoiding direct election of the president (ie, the people were too stupid to elect directly).

And now, instead of tyranny of the majority, we have tyranny of the minority. Due to capping the number of members of the House, those small-population states have disparate impact on federal issues.
I'd love to have a passive income so that I can worry less about my expenses while having a regular 9-5 job that I already have.

Sounds like a stereotype to me; many people would love to have passive income for many different reasons I'm sure.
> Why? If the other option is a party that you hate even more, your vote isn't "wasted", it's going towards making the government less bad.

Except they picked an option that is a party they like. They have multiple other options.

As has been pointed out by plenty of people: If you subscribe to the "vote was wasted" mentality, at least be consistent. Your vote is wasted any time you don't live in a swing state. I've lived in extreme blue and extreme red states, and who I voted for really had no consequence at all.
I didn't realize they generate that much money. When you put it in those terms, he looks even better. In any case, I think the guy has done a pretty good job.
Good arguments? It was won in the same manner that the first motorway built in GB happened to be between Oxford and London (in that order).
The DOJ consent decree was toothless and a non-issue.

The one that hurt Microsoft was the EU decrees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission may remind you of that.

That said, the one thing Ballmer did right is that he took on the difficult problem of locking down Microsoft products on a security front. This was a hard and thankless task, but absolutely necessary in the long run.
I admit that it does "work", to some extent, but I thought I'd also post a contrasting opinion and observation:

there are also people (like me) for whom arbitrary structure is a complete turn off. If I feel manipulated or like there are arbitrary restrictions or peculiar structure to things that I can't justify, what you're liable to get is disengagement, leaving, etc. From a survivorship bias point of view, you might find that the kind of people who stick around and show a positive effect are those who react and apply themselves positively to structure + externally set goals + feedback.

That positive bump might be because the entire set of people who leave your little experiment or disengage as a result. I suggest this was/is one of the reasons I have problems with formal education environments, much modern game design, and an general dislike of bundles and sets in products.

Again, that's not to say it can't work for your use case and temperament, but be aware you're also likely going to turn some people off, and they'll tune/ opt out altogether if that's any concern to you...
WhatsApp broadcasts act a little differently than Telegram channels; they end up as normal messages in a 1-on-1 chat with each recipient (with a megaphone icon next to it), so it's not something you can join or even have as a separate section.

WhatsApp groups can be set to act like channels, however, by changing permissions to allow just group admins to send messages.
Google blocked all my websites without prior notice
That is true, but B-factors are mostly shown in a ribbon, cartoon, or "putty" (e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/B-factor-diagram-of-prot...) representation, not as ball-and-sticks.
The OP repeated a claim being made by the large gig companies without providing any references or actual data. If anything is lowering the level of discourse here it is parroting a politically-loaded factual claim ("Up to 70% of drivers are like me and ... would like you to vote yes on Prop 22 if you are in California.") without citing any independently verifiable data to support it.

Asking how we can know the OP is not a shill just seemed like a less long-winded way to make that point. It was late.
I honestly don’t think she is qualified to speak on the priorities of a discipline she has never been involved in. They will do and prioritise what they think is reasonable based on fierce internal discussions and consensus building. I personally was never taken by the prospect of working on a huge project like the various experiments at LHC or any of the successors. If you defund HEP these people won’t magically go work on something else together. A large pool of people will simply stop doing physics and dissipate. Let them do what they want, it has worked out pretty well so far. There is plenty of other research that is well funded and competing for talent and attention. Why give up on something where Europe has clear worldwide leadership.
> But it's inherently impossible to know how prevalent that phenomenon is.

There was a lot of analysis after the 2016 election cycle about the "shy Trump voter" hypothesis, and it really didn't hold up, and continues to not hold up with under the data available from this election cycle. It is completely unreasonable to postulate that the effect would be drastically bigger this year, after four years of Trump actually being in power and normalizing his status.
I didn't realize there was that connotation.

If that is the case, funemployed would be the more appropriate term.

To me sabbatical meant, taking time off to focus on oneself or ones own pursuits, however I didn't realize there was a work or growth related connotation to the word.
Researchers Discover a Second 'Key' That Makes the New Coronavirus So Infectious
How are they dangerous?
Not necessarily. There are several paths where a Biden win could be called early on election night. For example, Texas has a large fraction of early voting and a small fraction of mail ballots. So the chance that Texas can be called early is quite high. And if Texas gets called for Biden, then the networks will call the entire country for Biden.
There's various versions of this anecdote/experiment. There was also a photography class experiment that has made the rounds: https://jamesclear.com/repetitions
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=get-woke...
I find it hard to believe his tenure was such hot garbage and he just saved his best stuff to hand off to Satya.
> AFAICT the polls had a systemic error AND the 538 models included the possibility of a systemic error.

Well, 538 model took into account historical evidence that election differences from polling averages between states are strongly correlated rather than independent; arguably, that's an effect that exists in part because such deviations are in part due to systemic errors (though the particular systemic errors may differ from cycle to cycle) in the polling, rather than pure sampling error.
So this is a minimalist front-end for YT and Twitch meaning there are no comments, related videos, sidebars, or anything for that matter. All you get is a video embed and basic search functionality. A full list of features are listed here: https://layluh.com/features

Its my first web dev project so I went with a simple tech stack: NodeJS on a cheap VPS.

Appreciate any comments, feedback, and criticisms. Thanks!
People have used electron diffraction using cryo-em scopes to do sub-angstrom resolution. For example, my colleague Jose Rodridguez published this a few years ago.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-017-0018-0
For another perspective, I skip async/await and prefer promises ;)
What about a startup enthusiast who's started my-hot-startup.com. No revenue yet but might be the next big thing. What's that worth? $0? $10bn? That sort of thing could get messy.
I won't trust Nginx until I can understand its source code. It has to be one of the largest most complex mostly undocumented, uncommented pieces of code in common use. There could be demons in there and no one would know.
The term is interesting. In some circles it seems to have a message of "yes the economy sucks but I'm not worried about being unemployed because I'm in a stable enough situation for some amount of runway/indefinitely, so please don't stress yourself by worrying about me."

It's a privileged term to use in some ways because of the so very many in dire financial situations right now. But among friends or family or certain situations, it has its uses.
cilk in dependencies, should search "rust cilk"

https://github.com/maekawatoshiki/cilk
The down side is your peer community then has to sift through an enormous amount of mediocrity...this idea of quantity leading to quality is beneficial for the creator's development, but as seen say in electronic music today. There is a proliferation of mediocre music in such abundance no one would ever be able to listen to it all. Sure it'll lead to eventual gems as skills increase but will we ever find them in the mountainous waves of creation being churned out in increasing amounts? As far as coding should developers produce more and more code for the public as a learning tool for themselves or wait and develop adequate skills that don't require extra work to fix later?
I recently switched from Foxit to PDF-XChange and I'm enjoying it so far https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
The biggest problems we face, are social, not technological
See the parent directory of the repo linked in the OP: https://github.com/maekawatoshiki/cilk
We're still locked into a single vendor! Let's make it hybrid-cloud behind a service mesh and add an on-premises OpenFaaS instance.
Typically spend that is tied to an anticipated incremental revenue is easier to approve ("this $20k investment will be worth it if we only get one $50k booking out of it"). That's also why salesperson variable comp tied to sales is easier to approve at higher figures- if a salesperson is driving multiple $M worth of sales, it's easy to justify a salary in the high 6 figures.
How we scale Live streaming for millions of viewers simultaneously
Microsoft share holders will vote on election of directors. Guess who’s on the list... bit of a coincidence.
This kind of thinking is what makes capitalism so gross
His cancer was the least deadly of the cancers and with treatment he would have lived much longer. My mom had stage one pancreatic cancer 4 years ago and she is still alive today and cancer free for over four years. So it is possible.
Fair enough. Let me restate my concern in less fraught terms:

> "Up to 70% of drivers are like me and ... would like you to vote yes on Prop 22 if you are in California."

This is a claim that has been widely promulgated by the big gig-economy companies in a wide-ranging PR campaign. Do you have any actual independently-verifiable data to support it, or are you just blindly repeating it to advance a political agenda that you just happen to support?
Happy Endings Could Mess Up Your Brain's Decision-Making, Study Says
The way you are trying to dissect bits and pieces of this and not the point itself is proof enough of your bias here. You are literally splitting sentences in half and debating them separately. Really, you are even trying to debate an undisputed point of “bad” and go on to explain how wrong that is and that it is republicans “poorly chosen..etc.” Again that partisan politics has nothing to do with the point. What are are arguing is already obvious because republicans are losing and thus yes obviously they had a bad strategy. If a football team lost a game literally everyone could say they had a bad strategy or the other team has a good. The problem and point of what we are saying is what RESULTS from that occurring not a discussion on how it occurred.
I cannot attest to the contents of the discord server, however the website is available at http://www.iceagefarmer.com/. Additionally, I think it is newsworthy due to having not seen a discord server shut down for misinformation previously.
Exactly.

There are obviously famous exceptions - like the structure of DNA revealing key functional aspects.

But for the most part it's like claiming photography is the key to understanding how animals really behave.

Single pictures in isolation are typically not very helpful in understand the biology.

Even the promise of having a structure and therefore being able to calculate physio-chemical properties has been much harder and slower than the hype.
I'm not too knowledgable about tenure, but is it the case that when you hit the retirement criteria they kick you out? If not, some people may already be eligible and were still working because they enjoy it and may leave due to changing conditions (yes, some like the new conditions).

I agree that people will probably tough it out if they're close to retirement targets.
The non-profits I know do things like raise money for the poor or indigent. The principals get paid a very basic rate. How many programmers could that $2m employ? How many folks could be hired to bridge the digital divide? I can think of many, many ways to spend that $2m besides making some exec richer.

It seems like Mozilla is getting a huge check from Google, paying fancy salaries to some insiders, and then not paying taxes. In my mind, the word "non-profit" means an organization run with more than profit in mind. But maybe you just think it's a clever word for "lucky folks who don't pay taxes."
> Folks in the status professions (banking, law,..) often tell me they want to become an entrepreneur. I always tell them, you wont do it. They attended the right school, joined the right firm, attained that corner office. As a founder they would give up all that, and their family and friends will tell them that they've made a massive mistake, for years, while it appears that nothing is happening.

> Then they sheepishly admit that this is true.

That might be less about agreement and more about politely getting the guy who's being deliberately discouraging to shut up.
There was need for all of the “legacy” ports when the iMac was introduced. The idea of getting rid of ports and standardizing on one when it became technically possible didn’t start under Cook.
Maybe calling it a BS degree is too harsh. But I have a major problem with programs that exist just to milk money, cost a fortune ($90K for like 15 months in some schools), and almost everyone who is enrolling in these programs do it for the wrong reasons (i.e., not for the knowledge but for the prestige and networking; but I don't blame them, it's part of the system and they are just following the rules). They are also much less competitive than many people think. Getting into an MBA at Harvard is 100 times easier than let's say Math. It's not as bad as their executive programs, those are really BS and I always laugh when people put it on their resume cause they think the name Harvard would help them.
FWIW yarn v2 isn't affiliated with Facebook. The lead maintainer is a Datadog employee, but the project isn't at the mercy of any company.
Another solution with potentially a clearer path: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

What's really annoying is how close we came to abolishing the electoral college, that 3 segregationists were able to halt almost univeral consensus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_abolition_am...
The book: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Samuel-Johnson-Penguin-Classics/...
Did you try out pnpm, by chance? I’ve read a few good things, but it doesn’t seem to get mentioned all that often. So I’m curious what people with larger projects think about it.

https://pnpm.js.org/
This is actually one of those cases where the 'Voltage as Pressure' analogy works well for a laymans explanation; with a lower voltage, the electons might not get pushed through quickly enough (Due to variations in manufacturing of the gates)
Working at a fortune 500 company it feels like the tools that we have for planning alone is almost as long as that list. I'm exaggerating some but this is totally a small list compared to what it could be. The amount of SAAS tools that you want seems to scale pretty linearly with organizational complexity.
I don't think hospitals or colleges are without criticism either. I think it's positively criminal for universities to charge outrageous tuition, saddle another generation with impossible debt, and then pay their execs multi-million dollar salaries. It's just as wrong for them to abuse the system too.
> it's so ironic that people would have fallen prey to a disease that is so easily mitigated.

I wonder what diseases we have that are easily counteracted... if we only knew the secret.

we've learned about asbestos and cigarettes, but I'll bet there are a bunch of direct cancer causing things that are still unknown.

Even early covid-19 awareness seemed to be about ventilators and hand-sanitizer. Now its more masks and vitamin D.
What are you talking about? As a percentage of GDP, federal taxes have been the same since the 1940s. But real GDP per capita has increased, so real taxes per capita have increased.

And before the 1940s, federal taxes were dramatically lower.
Santander bank has settled at least 20 million in bonds directly on Ethereum (shorturl.at/lnFNV)

The applications you're talking about require infrastructure first. That's like criticizing devs in the 90s that an app like Netflix doesn't exist yet. Hmm I wonder why Netflix wasn't viable in the 1990s.

As for a simple "primitive" use case, I have a lot of my cash savings in DAI and I get 4% interest on it. There are a multitude of other use cases, if you care to look.

But you don't care, because it's obvious you think it's all just a scam, so there's no point even discussing any of this with you.
>Ads is one thing, but GDPR request showed they log every action related to the account.

People praise Spotify for how good their recommendations are, where do you think they get data for things like that?
Man this was great. Thank you!