skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's worth arguing about when this threshold was exactly crossed. The point, and it's a good point, is that every time this threshold is crossed, it puts some weird kind of new restriction or constraint on us. And this isn't a kind of scientific complexity like how biology is and always has been too complex for us to understand. This is the things that you and I use and rely on being too complex to understand.

There is a famous talk by Milton Friedman forty years ago about nobody knowing how to make a standard pencil anymore. The red rubber tip, the yellow paint, the graphite, that little metal brace. Most of us could probably re-create most of it, but nobody could create the whole thing by themselves. (edit: apparently the pencil point (ha ha) was famously made by others going back to at least 1958.)

In my mind there's a (pretty weak) analogy to the gold standard for money, or having an alternative when negotiating. With the gold standard, if somebody offers you one bitcoin (or equivalently X gold) for your widget, and you know how you value your widget and how you value gold, it's easy to decide whether or not to sell (weak analogy, full of holes, I know). Or if someone is offering to pay you some wage, but you could go back to the family farm and just make more food for yourself than that wage would buy you, then there is some kind of grounding of that wage in terms of concrete do-it-yourself alternatives.

The more the things that we rely on and depend on (like the Internet) are so complex that the only alternative is whatever else happens to be furnished by "the market," the more of life turns into sort of a Keynesian beauty contest in a bad way, without a concrete grounding, and only a "what you think other people think that other people think that..." equilibrium instead.

Not that the alternative is any better. I like my computer and my Internet and my prescription glasses and my ballpoint pen. It sucks that I'm practically required to have them, but I really do like them.
Eagerly awaiting an invite here in NW Oregon, seemingly just on the border of the beta zone. Last night I white-knuckled through a big presentation, hoping my over-the-cap LTE wouldn’t get throttled. It mostly worked out. Our traditional sat is expensive, capped, and the latency isn’t usable for video conferencing. For our family, the trade offs are worth it. But for rural areas, this is really exciting. Can’t come soon enough.
This is literally the only useful thing voice assistance does in my life.
For those uninitiated, PEBKAC = problem exists between keyboard and chair, aka user error.
Here's one breakdown of it showing 88% of revenue from ads [2017]: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-5-tech-giants-make-bi...

I'd like to see one for operating income, though, because I know AWS has a higher operating income than Amazon's Retail arm, even though Retail has a much higher revenue.
What moral questions are you comfortable using the actions of hyenas to justify?
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I do not want the vaccine, but it might be mandatory here in Eastern Europe. My family member was tested positive, and I lived with him, we were under quarantine. No symptoms, ever! I do not want to the vaccine, damn it.
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FZF + ripgrep is really killer for me. I don't even bother organizing my notes anymore, I just throw everything markdown files in a flat directory and then I have a script that uses FZF + ripgrep to search through it when I need it. I search by "last modified first" so unless I'm digging for something very old the results are instant. Code snippets, finances, TODO lists, cake recipes... It's all in there.

I use the same system in Vim to browse source code. It's very powerful, very fast, works with any language and requires zero configuration.
"The failure we’re talking about is an organizational failure."

As much as I despise Microsoft, this is more of an industry and even a societal failure.

Taking a look at the exploitative, surveillance society we've built, it's clear that ethics are just not very important in tech, nor in business as a whole.

Many of HN's readers who are now wagging their fingers at MS are probably working at companies that also spy on their users, and they either look the other way as long as they get a nice fat paycheck, don't think about it at all, or excuse it in some way.

Privacy-violating sites and software don't build themselves, and there's no shortage of them in today's internet.
Pakistan's adult literacy rate[1] is about 60%. China's[2] is about 95%. Pakistan is in trouble if it needs to replace American tech entirely.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/572781/literacy-rate-in-...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/278568/illiteracy-rate-i...
Seems like mostly a non issue, even if their model is correct. If you have a 10% chance of the vaccine being ineffective for an individual, then the vaccine is still about 85% effective for that population, which is more than enough to pull the R values well below 1.
Incredibly important that we have this record as a democracy
I think it can be, I know a few other potentially successful examples like CockroachDB and ZeroTier. The BSL license makes the entire project basically FOSS for you and me, but not for the big sharks. Which I guess is much better for the world compared to open-core and of course proprietary SaaS.
Yes, it is a standard Play Store / Google Services on Fairphone. However, it comes with a very small amount of applications pre-installed. I was really surprised when I turned it on for the first time.
Exactly. It's rare that a jokey reply is good. What do you expect?
Totally agree and I'm no expert but was thinking likewise in the architecture. They clearly put some thought into the package, it's got to be the most sophisticated bit of commodity RF kit ever sold.
I have made another comment on this page and this is indeed a problem barring specific cases where you have a "simulator" and you want to learn something applicable to some "aggregate of simulations". For ex. learning a Reinforcement Learning policy for tic-tac-toe is fine, because you can build a tic-tac-toe play simulator and you want a universal policy.

The problem goes beyond testing: your training might (1) be deprived of information your original data had, e.g., among a 1000 features, the key to the classification of interest might be one feature; how does your generator know to not distort this potentially at the cost of distorting the other 999 features? (2) might latch onto the assumptions made by the data generator, e.g., for a continuous valued feature, your model might bias itself towards the distribution moments that the generator assumed.

I am not sure generating good fake data is a problem different from good density determination. And in some cases, you might need to specify what parts of the original distribution you don't want the generator to mess with: consider an NLP dataset where your model must rely on sentence structure. Generating the right bag-of-words features might not help here: sequence matters. Or if you wanted to use contextual embeddings; sequence matters then too.

Even if you did manage to generate a "distributionally-compatible" version of the data, for cases where you perform some kind of data enrichment at a later stage, you could run into problems. For ex: if the original data has zipcodes that you wanted to mask, and your data generator substitutes them with arbitrary strings, then at a later point you cannot introduce a feature that measures the proximity of two locations.
Just having sats at an inclination is not enough. It is a numbers game. How many are visible at any one moment, and their slant ranges, at a particular spot dictates available bandwidth. Also: the number of hops to the nearest downlink station. This is a massive structure of sat and ground installations. What we are seeing now is a system that goes just north enough to cover london, leaving much of the north un/underserved.
Siri does that too. For some reason its always 14/40 for me. The number of times I've gotten shockingly early timers for the drier...
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I hadn't thought of that - very clever!
This one is the one that makes you very sick, are they really going to risk death for less perceived risk?
Up until the mid 18th century it was at least possible for a wealthy person to learn pretty much everything known in Western civilization. That would include physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, engineering, architecture, agriculture, astronomy, medicine, theology, philosophy, history, etc. Obviously not every last detail but a lifetime of study would allow for learning at least the key points of every major field. Of course even then very few people actually did it, and now we're way past that point.
Can you point me at documentation for the fault tolerance of the system? A huge issue for streaming systems (and largely unsolved AFAIK) is being able to guarantee that counts aren't duplicated when things fail. How does Materialize handle the relevant failure scenarios in order to prevent inaccurate counts/sums/etc?
So if I understand correctly, you're worried that every little piece of freedom lost, is lost forever.
I can understand the sentiment, and I even agree to that.

That said, context is important. I'm not sure this is the right way of thinking in this specific case.

Problem is: that there's no way to control the virus. In other words, the law of big numbers throws a wrench in the health system... a small percentage of a very big number (like the people currently living in the US) is still a very big number. Many people getting ill together, is not good anyway you look at it.

Also, keep in mind that health and money are directly related: an ill population is a poor population. That's why people happily pay taxes for healthcare in many countries.

With a vaccine the situation should hopefully be more in control, but the basic modus operandi was to avoid people getting in touch too much (lockdowns, distancing etc.).

Lockdowns were a hasty solution to a sudden emergency... it worked, but can't be enforced forever. Still, there is a reason why a policy is enforced. As I said, context is important.

The solutions (basically just wear a mask and dont' be too close) are easy to follow and not so disruptive. Still, I have the feeling many people do not reject the policy per se, but the enforcement itself. This is not an honest reponse.
> It would be great if Apple and Google had a setting to disable 2G and 3G at the very least.

I don't know if its a Google, Samsung, or AT&T feature, but my Android has a default-off setting to enable 2G service. Nothing on 3G though.
NOTE: ripgrep already has --pre. (No pre-built indexing, of course.)
Some interesting remarks to put in context before judging this MIT claim as true or false:

- Racial bias in medical research is real and methods for increasing fairness are urgently needed in clinical trials

- We don't know for sure how racial bias was balanced on most phase 3 trials, because most research protocols were not disclosed to the science community

- Since efficacy was measured by the sub population in the phase 3 trials who got infected, we can perhaps have other confounding factors who can affect more, or less, some ethnicities (for example, someone can raise the hypothesis that some cultures are more prone to use masks and keep distancing, reducing inherent risks, and that can be true)

- Sample sizes for the phase 3 studies so far very small (perhaps enough to assess minimal efficacy?) for ANY race/ethnicity. We hope that with the increase of the vaccinated population we can have a more precise estimate

- We are talking about 95% inside a confidence interval which is still uncertain lower/higher boundaries, given the small sample

- It is very dangerous to claim any statistical conclusion with small sample sizes

- Almost all "advanced machine learning AI methods" fail miserably. And they fail even worse with small datasets (which is the case). Examples are the handful of "covid pollsters" we got since the beginning of 2020, trying to guess how many people would die, or get infected.

- About vaccine efficacy in asians - we should monitor phase 3 results of CoronaVac (the chinese vaccine) trials (which are in course in China, Brazil and other countries), so we can account for these biases. I heard these results are coming in the next few weeks
In any game information asymmetry creates an advantage, so I don't know how you remove incentive to secure information or break its security.
I'm 99% certain the person you're replying to is kidding. I thought it was funny
The vast majority of people under 50 who catch CoV2 recovery completely with minimal symptoms. There is a trade-off and people need to be able to evaluate those risk and make those decision individually.
Man, I'd love a bag of fresh morels right about now. I used to live where they were common, but no longer do. Nothing better than fresh mushrooms.
Except that most people don't want to use Apple products, they're fine on Windows.
The Signal Path is no joke. EE's will say "RF is voodoo" and looking at HF to Wifi, you think it's a little bit hyperbolic. Then TSP goes and dissects some 80GHz monster and you realize that you know absolutely nothing about electronics and you should have stuck to software.

I'm excited to hear he's getting a crack at this and I can't wait for that video to drop.
I am not even fine with no jQuery :) I like it, it's easier than js sometimes.
That sounds like fun. I think the very limited per-passenger space would prevent enough useful movement for many VR games, though. Interacting with the stewardess would also be challenging without adding outward facing cameras.
what would the correct command be on windows?
They must be, but they are running things pretty close to the bone.

They had a home sensor platform that seemed cheap ($5!) and reliable, but Reddit forums are full of complaints that a low battery bricks the sensors.

Wyze will send you a replacement, but can’t engineer a fix on the fly, apparently.
See also "Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM?":

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49906/why-is-freebs...

GPL3 is more restrictive than GPL2, which in turn is more restrictive than BSD/MIT, in the name of allowing other freedoms for end-users.
Playstation vs. Xbox forget everything buy a gaming PC
Don’t want to be left out get a gaming laptop instead
> Government censorship is significantly more impactful than what companies can do.

Maybe in the past. But not today. Pakistan is what 200 million people? FB has 2.2 billion people using its services. By any stretch of the imagination, I'd say the largest companies in the world are geopolitically stronger than the government of pakistan regardless of their nuclear weapons.

> One makes the rules. The others operate within

Except who buys the rules? The people with the money.

> It’s best not to equate the two.

Actually it is. Especially when large corporations can "buy" laws.

> Regardless, as a westerner, I feel sorry for the people of Pakistan.

That's rather patronizing. And as an american, I feel sorry for you and whereever you are too ashamed to say you are from. I love people that hide behind "westerner".
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Agree. My above post was poorly worded.
"England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box."

-The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, George Orwell, 1941.
I tried the same and got frustrated. So I said “Siri shut up you piece of garbage” and she added “shut up you piece of garbage” to my grocery list for me. Very helpful.

Also Siri is constantly having problems knowing if I’m talking to my watch or my iPhone, even if my phone is in my pocket.
That really depends on what perspective you are coming from. For the Hacker News set? Yeah, okay.
My definition, it’s not a bait and switch because they weren’t deceptive and you were never sold anything. Could be better communicated? Sure. But deceptive? No.
> Have you seen the data that most MDM or network monitoring software can provide about employees?

No. I have not, not really. I would like to understand more about this, however.

I've asked about this but the "stock answer" is always along the lines of "The company owns the equipment, therefore they can do anything they want."

That stock answer leaves out a WHOLE LOT OF DETAIL about exactly what info is collected, how it's processed and some guidance about what's "normal" vs "extraordinary". Presumably it's possible for them to do "a lot", but no one who really knows is willing to explain this in a way that's useful. This would make a very interesting essay or in-depth investigative journalism article, I just don't understand why no one has done that, all writing about this just seems to boil down to the very boring "the computer equipment belongs to your employer" analysis.

I suspect that the vast majority of organizations do very little with this kind of surveillance power, but then, there's no way I can really know because either people stay silent about it or they have no idea.
Another similar project is https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir
Isn't this pretty similar to what Dremio does?
I don't think HN hates humour, but I personally don't like humour that doesn't add anything extra to the conversation. The current pattern I have noticed a lot goes like this:

> Topic: Service X just launched

> Comment: LOL I just read X as Y, and was imagining Z as a far-fetched consequence

Sometimes the commenter doesn't even imagine a Z and just explains a brief moment of confusion instead.

Versus a more concrete example of something I enjoyed recently:

> Topic: I wish there was an unstable AWS region to test the resiliency of my app

> Comment: They have one already, it's called us-east-1.

That wasn't hated (as I saw it) or even necessarily off-topic.
I find institutionally-forced diversity measures (whether by states like CA or organizations like NASDAQ) to be unacceptable simply because these diversity measures are racist and sexist and *-ist by requiring hiring based on various identities rather than merit. Such policies are also arbitrary, since the identities we recognize are arbitrary - we don't, for example, recognize identity groups based on location (different cities or states) - should "rural" be considered a minority identity that qualifies? Why not require every company to have a rural board member since one of the biggest divisions is our society is rural versus urban?

Furthermore, NASDAQ is once again quoting misleading statistics to support their misguided measure:

> In its proposal, Nasdaq cited a report from the Carlyle Group investment company, which found that companies it invested in that have at least two diverse board members have nearly 12% more earnings growth per year than the average of companies that lack diversity.

This is similar to the famous oft-quoted McKinsey diversity study, where it was noted that more-diverse companies perform better. In truth, the actual study's authors mentioned that the study is not causal - that is, increased diversity of these arbitrary minority groups is not a proven cause of success. Nor is it causal here. It's more likely that successful companies often grow into large companies and naturally tend towards representation that reflects their broader society as a result. It is also the case that large companies are often the target of activist pressure to carry diversity initiatives, which then skews who is hired and promoted away from a natural merit-based process.
Great description there. 'in the realm of small things'. Reminds me of this Jung quote:

"makes me think of the rabbi who asked how it could be that God often showed himself to people in the olden days whereas nowadays nobody ever sees him. The rabbi replied: "Nowadays there is no longer anybody who can bow low enough."
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Don't particularly care for any of these. "fill-in-the-blank" notations don't really work for operators. You can drop the exponents and write x^y = z as y ln x = ln z, and then everything commutes and is solved nicely. Same idea (until you get to complex numbers, maybe).

With multiplication, xy = z is solved by y = z/x or x = z/y, which works becuase of the commutativity. If it wasn't commutative, though, you would need to use left- and right- division: x = z/y but y = x\z (I guess), implying y = (x^-1) z.

In the same vein, x^y = z has the radical symbol as a specialized notation to invert it on one side: x = √^y z, which we can parse as a non-commutative operator that acts like f(z) = z^(1/y). But it helps that the raising to a power has an inverse operation that is _also_ raising to a power (x^y)^(1/y) = x. Whereas 'being raised to a power' doesn't have an inverse operation that is also 'being raised to a power'.

The other problem is that when you apply a logarithm operator to a term, powers switch to being multiplied. They 'change domains' in a sense. So it's not possible to do anything to the 'x' in x^y on its own, because that would result in f(x)^y which is still exponentiating by y. You need the 'y' to 'move' into the main line of the equation, out of the exponent.

I think a good way to model this would be to imagine allowing x^y = z shifting so that the 'y' is the main line of the equation, becoming something like 1_x y = 1_z. 1_x and 1_z would ideally have the subscript on the left side, to avoid confusion with other uses of subscripts, and to look like a shifted version of x^1 and z^1. These are literally log x and log z in some base, but they're just numbers, so you can solve the equation as y = 1_z/1_x. Then you have identities like x^1_x = e, so x^(1_z/1_x) = e^(1_z) = z. I think you just do away with the notation log_x z entirely; it's too odd compared to everything else.

So basically I propose y = 1_z/1_x, but I don't think you can reconcile this with the square root notation at all, as they're too different. But it does, at least, keep things consistent with using a division operation for the inverse, akin to x = z^(1/y).
I don‘t know if you are joking, but this is clearly sarcasm.
In my head they are building the set of Free Guy and testing cars in it.
From what I can understand from their official dashboard, the answer is no: https://stats.rsk.co

RSK MainNet launched about 3 years ago. Currently, most blocks have no transactions, with 0 gas spent.
Until they couldn't, because their Stripe account was being rate-limited, for presumably entirely non-technical reasons
The same as any other combination of numbers. It's just harder to wrap your head around.
I really like this point of view, but it is important to point out that the bar for happiness in life and relationships (as a proxy for "reproduction) is way below our aspirations. You aren't really trying to be like Instagram influenceres because of your "selfish gene". Your "selfish gene" would do better directing you toward fundamentalist communities where reproductive rates are higher.

No, you are being influenced by media, which convinces you that things are a proxy for happiness and good relationships. It's the materialism that fuels our economic progress so I am not against it. But if you think you are in a rat race for money and success, it's because of human nature, not genetic survival.
Exactly the same as for any other sequence of numbers.