skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The unkind speech I see is people in the comments sections on various websites mostly.

"Media" may include social media.

But yeah, there's definitely a global climate of people not really feeling spiffy in general, with few happy places left to escape to.
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A core tenet of this article is that a quarter of COVID-19-related deaths may not be reported as such. This appears to be determined by comparing this year’s death rates to previous years.

This logic seems faulty. During the first wave, there were an awful lot of concerns from medical professionals that case rates for other serious, life-threatening issues dropped dramatically, presumably because people were avoiding ERs and the medical system in general. I recall heart attacks being an especially serious concern. (Intuitively, trauma rates also dropped, but heart attacks aren’t as dependent on people getting out of their houses.) That presumably led conditions that might normally be treatable to become even more deadly. At this time, this seemed to be a widespread concern, although it’s fallen by the wayside lately.

We also have other issues that surely impact death rates: people are out of work; some are ending up on the streets. 2020 has been a stressful year, to say the least. It’s reasonable to assume that these circumstances cost lives.

I would still blame COVID-19 for these deaths, but I would not say that these cases were SARS-CoV-2-positive. That leaves us with the question: what portion of the excess deaths this year were a direct result of someone contracting SARS-CoV-2? How do we actually determine with even an iota of accuracy how many people have contracted SARS-CoV-2 at some point?

PSA: Unlike the rest of this comment, this is an opinion. I’ve heard an awful lot of arguments against getting tested. “By the time you’re positive, it’s too late.” “You should just stay home; that’s the lowest-risk option.” “Negative results give people a false sense of safety.” You’re an HN reader; you’re pretty smart, right? We need data. The more data we have, the better. If you’re in a position to get tested, even if you have no symptoms, you should do so. In the grand scheme of things, does your individual test matter? Probably not, especially if you’re negative. But neither does an individual vote, and we still do that.
Why would this put the meme to rest?
Dang this is next level personal automation here

I haven't even set up a webscraper alert for a ps5
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25390941
Login and click cancel account and read the language. I’m sure it’s because of some of their intertwined or niche services and not everything but is very real.

You can cancel your credit card, but I imagine big Amazon and Co shops/sells their collections to the best on paper deal debt collectors (aka, truly the scummiest and worst ones).

If you have ever been pursued for unpaid debt like this, despite consumer legal protections, it is years of Hell, legal threats/letters, calls, and other gray intimidation. All while wondering if your credit score will just be nuked over night.

Source: Victim of identity fraud
> And out them, only Apple, and Qcom are hardware makers, and both have dropped the ball on AV1.

Dropped the ball implies that they made a mistake. Are you sure it wasn't premeditated?
Hardware decoding is nothing more than a nice to have on desktops. On mobile, it’s mandatory. HEVC is the only format you can be assured will work there.
"The one vital thing is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
So, Lenovo, who was not party to the standard definition, is looking for a free ride on properly disclosed IP by claiming that the undisclosed IP makes the properly disclosed IP unenforceable.

Suck it up and pay, Lenovo.
It’s impossible to give a rational answer for this question.

There aren’t any general OKRs or KPIs for software engineers (or most roles in a business) because there’s no business where the raw work product of an individual is an indicator or result in and of itself, barring maybe primary or secondary production industry.

The business has objectives and the individuals in the business work towards achieving them.

Key results depend entirely upon the objectives of the business.

As far as KPIs go, a SWE in a 10-man startup might be evaluated based on getting the damn MVP out the door, while the same SWE in a 100-man startup may be evaluated based on the automation they implement which increases the speed at which their 20-person team can ship.

OKRs and KPIs are tools you can use as a manager to focus and direct the efforts of your team in the right direction. They’re not really an evaluation tool in and of themselves.
Yes. The police have had a long history of chalking up death in impoverished black neighborhoods to “gang violence” and closing investigations. Topically, Chapelle had a famous stand up bit about it.
Speculating but I wager they sell smaller collections in bulk to debt collectors at discount to try and collect vs running in house
Thanks - typo: fixed.
> It's a bigger social error to seem naive in most European countries than it is in America, and this may be one of subtler reasons startups are less commmon there. Founder culture is completely at odds with sophisticated cynicism.

I have a high opinion of pg, but mocking an entire continent for non-earnestness because it doesn't make as much money as the US (because they have more startups because, supposedly, the Americans are less cynical than the Europeans) is borderline cynic (and I say that as a cynic myself).

Money, and judging almost everything through the prism of money, is one of the most cynical things we do have right now in our society, and as such I appreciate more a "Greed is good discourse" because it shows its cynicism in plain view and does not try to hide it behind a veil of good intentions, like texts as this one do.
Not OP, but to be honest there isn't much at all that suggests significant steps have been made towards AGI. GPT-3 isn't AGI, it's the opposite of AGI.

To be really frank, I doubt AGI is more than a teleological narrative.
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Twain wrote of this:

I was glad to be able to answer promptly. "I don't know!" I said.
I think they are implying that public domain works are attacked globally because a company thinks they own it in one country. Take Happy Birthday, for example: in the UK it is considered a traditional song and is therefore public domain, but in the US there are no such protections against copyright and therefore Time Warner thinks they own it.
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I agree in principle, but sometimes it’s hard.

I pay a significant amount of money for MLB streaming, only to have many games blacked out. Due to various factors, I cannot legally get access to those games.
>I initially was told to not do MDMA more than every 4 months maximum.

Does that mean you are now doing it more frequently than every 4 months? If so, how often are you taking it?
But biased police judgement doesn’t...
From what I can tell, the affected project did have a GCP budget.

If you're talking about something pausing service, maybe call it a billing cap for clarity.
As noted in sibling, the booster shots are to "remind" your immune system that an infectious bug is out there.

If COVID begins to mutate in ways that make the vaccine (and anti-bodies it causes) less effective, we would be in a situation like the flu - annual vaccines based on that year's strain (which takes some guesswork). The disease is then called endemic.

But, there is currently no indication COVID will become endemic. It might. It might not. We don't know, but current knowledge tends to indicate it won't.
I agree, it's present in comment sections as well, and probably a lot of other places too unfortunately.

I think the best explanation I can offer for how advertising does it in my view is the manifesto I wrote for the website's homepage: https://kindspeech.org/

tldr: creating a desire or a need for people, which is what advertising usually attempt to do, implies that they are lacking in some way. That's not a good feeling. And it's often simply false or vastly exaggerated. Imo, making people feel bad in order to sell is unkind.
What, besides DNS, is preventing the migration to IPv6? Is it old technology still in use? My house is completely IPv6 and not intentionally so.
Many years ago, I did volunteer work in a homeless shelter. One day, I ended up babysitting a homeless woman's son while she went for a medical appointment because the minister's wife that had casually and completely insincerely told her "Call me anytime if you need anything!" had told her "Not my problem" when she tried to take her up on that offer.

Nice-sounding but random words don't make for kindness. Thoughtful handling of things makes for kindness.

I wish it were easier than that. I just haven't found that it is.
What alternatives are there for pyenv besides conda?
SDI doesn’t have the built in encryption so you’ll never see it on something that supports playback.
From what I gather, there are some anti-abuse filters that can sometimes affect otherwise good accounts. When this happens, the best thing to do is vouch for the comments you think are good and contact the mods using the Contact link in the footer.
Is this available on GitHub?
Origin story: what do we know now about where coronavirus came from?
That’s the thing that is so bizarre about VPNs. That’s a big company — why do people trust them?
You realize how liable to abuse the idea of “truth” is in a tyrannical regime? Or even just fallible and misguided people?

Like, eugenicists in the 1920s would have a whole host of horrid “truths” they thought were scientifically supported at the time. Imagine the hurdles opposition would have in trying to voice their “factual truth.”
I could get into the philosophical aspects of your "kindspeech" drive, but I rather ask about trust.
Why should I trust you?
Who are you?
Where are you located?
What are your plans with all the collected information from where your "kindspeech" tags are embedded?

Your domain registration information is mostly blank (not private). Unusual, as registrars are required to collect proper information. This brings you, and the registrar you use into question.

This does not build any confidence in me to embedded links to your site.
Aren't these technically plugins for emacs that are shipped with the editor? Org-mode is a plugin for emacs too right?
Sadly patents are mostly used to protect a _discovery_ rather than _invention_. Who finds something first gets the cake and so on. For example when I was playing with digital synthesis, it felt natural for me to modulate the phase within the grain of sample and then I learned it has been patented by Casio. Then recently I read about so called TMT technology, where company essentially patented adding tolerance to components when simulating circuits... I mean d'oh? If you want to do realistic simulation, that's one of the things to take into account, but now that it is patented, good luck. This whole thing needs to be scrapped.
This is great work! Every few years I would come back to reading about these ciphers, hoping that I could find a way to crack them. I realize this did not direclty give them clues, but I'm hopeful to see any new connections that might come of these (some other analysis)
Once in my 20s I hung out with some young teenagers at a summer camp for reasons. One night we were talking and one girl started asking questions and the rest of the group sneered at her "not knowing". She ignored them and kept asking because I was earnest and knowledgeable. Five minutes turned to an hour and I think everyone in that group learned (or at least heard) more about the origins of the universe, stellar evolution, evolution, chemistry, physics, etc, than they had learned in school up to that point.

I sometimes wonder what happened to those people. I suspect the girl who asked questions ended up way more knowledgeable than the other 10 combined.
More evidence that automated systems like this should not be used.
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I wrote about this a few months ago https://www.gitclear.com/five_best_engineering_kpis_and_how_...

Most KPIs stop working when they become a target but there are a few that resist it.
The reward is that if you are successful, you get to interoperate with other people. That is the value that is unlocked, and it is a pretty huge value.

The problem with patents and standards is that people are trying to charge for that value (the value of the network effects), and not the value of the technology. The big ideas of video compression are mostly more than 30 years old now, but the new patents are mostly on slight tweaks or additions (or things like header flags and other nonsense). No one would pay money for them except for the fact that they are part of the standard.
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This was my thought as well.

What other kinds of businesses or services let you run up a bill of tens of thousands of dollars and then say, "Ok, you made a mistake, you can take it back"?

Any educated guesses on what this compute might actually cost Google?

I assume they're able to do this because the fixed costs have mostly been paid for already and the marginal cost of the electricity, system wear, and bandwidth are negligible, but I'm not sure.
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> in the US there are no such protections against copyright and therefore Time Warner thinks they own it.

I don't think even they think that anymore:

> On June 28, 2016, the final settlement was officially granted and the court declared that the song was in the public domain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#Copyrigh...
In the US, you don't need permission. You DO have to pay a fee (royalties; pretty sure nothing upfront). It's a compulsory license.
Hi guys,

This project takes your baseball pitching clips and automatically generates the overlay. A fine-tuned Yolov4 model is used to get the location of the ball. Then, I implemented SORT tracking algorithm to keep track of each individual ball. Lastly, I will apply some image registration techniques to deal with slight camera shift on each clip.

I'm still trying to improve it! Feel free to follow this project, also checkout the Todo list.

The idea came from this incredible overlay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUbAAurrnwU&ab_channel=YuTub...
Qualcomm is no supporter of AV1 so they shouldn't have been included in that list. That being said, there's plenty of other hardware makers and licensors in the Alliance.
> paulgraham.com

Oh. All I know to expect from seeing that is a weird kind of popularity, agreement and participation you don't see for other blogs posted on HN, sometimes with the other half-or-so of comments being annoyed with Paul Graham.

Does HN covertly promote all links to that blog or is there something more substantial to it?
He also points out that AF2 has a large team of 18 coauthors, which is something very rarely seen in academia, where teams are almost always small.

In physics, we routinely have author lists of hundreds to thousands of authors on the big experiments. When resources are pooled to make a measurement, author lists can be huge.

University groups can absolutely compete with teams from industry, especially in consortia. The big difference I see between industry and academia in this context at the moment is that academics have to submit a grant proposal and compete for 6-12 months with scientists nationwide for $1M in compute-credits, whereas someone inside a company looking to flex its ML muscles may be able to requisition the same with an email.
Yes I still have some :). Please email me your address at esc [@] uzy.me. No need to pay, I can post them anywhere in the world I bought a lot of all kind of stamps at the same time I ordered the stickers a few years back ^^.

I will post them whenever I can which may be in January as I'm not spending my lockdown time at my own place where the stickers are.

For your off-topic question: I've been seen wearing a colander from time to time, but I don't have pictures of it. I'm not a Pastafarian however, as I do not especially like religions of any kind :D.
Qualcomm has slightly better standing since they make the modems. “Your phone isn’t a phone without our IP” is a little easier to argue than “your phone isn’t a phone without our video playback”.
In the US you don’t need to get the copyright holder's permission to record cover songs, you need to pay for a mechanical license. In the case of live performances you don’t need to get permission directly. The venue is the one that pays royalties to a handful of groups that have agreements with thousands of artists.
I'm very curious about the development of WinNova and it's unique windows resource format, Rez. My understanding is that it went through two porting companies is that true? And any idea which one developed Rez? Was it a standard tool for porting mac games, or something that was developed just for Nova?
https://kindspeech.org/

Their website somewhat defines it.

I feel it leans into advertising being about convincing one what one has is bad, not good enough or embarrasing, such that a product is bought. I think I agree that could be considered covert unkind speech in media and advertising. The barrage of things telling people they aren't good enough or preying on insecurities would have detremental effects. Personally, I enjoy the kind-spirited effort behind this, I'll be putting this in the header of my running notes .md file.
ebay eg https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057...
You are confusing a difference of opinion on the style of output opposed to the functional operation. IPv6 works very well.
Absolutely this. I believe researchers themselves don't actually know how exactly the article system works. The best understanding we have involves handwavy things like "cognitive framing", "semantic maps" etc, and nothing clear enough to actually teach English learners.
#1 reason why I have never, and never plan to (while it remains this way), use GCP/AWS etc while it would be on my personal bank card.

Instead I use DigitalOcean where you have droplet limits that you can set, and the ability the pre-pay if you pay by PayPal, and never enter my bank card.

If anyone from DO (or another provider) is reading this, any chance of pre-payment from bank cards? After reading enough of these articles, this could really swing a cloud provider choice for a small company. (Pre-paid gift vouchers would be cool as well, give someone $10 to spend for Christmas).
I think your question has been answered to some extent. As I understand it, there is wide spread usage of WeChat apps. Users of WeChat use the platform for many tasks other than text messaging. In, essence, WeChat is just a spruced up CLI.
Comparing the US to Sweden it seems to other way around to me. Americans assume that all of government and all companies are evil. If that isn't absolute cynicism I don't know what is. (Plus it enables evil since it is expected so there is little anger.)

Plus the whole thing with Americans being hopelessly naive against religion, the one area they should absolutely be cynical and/or uninterested like Swedes.
Bought them because I thought I'd get physical cards. Oops.
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The reproducible part is that they can consistently fold proteins - which they can.

The fact that they're not telling anybody else how they did it stops it from being public science, but doesn't stop it from being science.
Forget DNS. Use an overlay with content routing. Hierarchies suck.

It's extremely hyperbolic to call an ugly syntax a bad "design". But IMO it would have been much nicer if they just reused '.' as in IPv4. ':' seemingly came out of their pie in the sky desire to replace MACs.

Speaking of MACs, every time every time I see some cheap trash gizmo come with its own MAC I'm surprised there isn't address space pressure. I guess that's due to having 16 more bits as well as being non-aggregable.
My perception is that one drawback of earnestness is that it often comes off as just being boring. The most earnest people I know are not popular. The most popular people I know are more like twinkle-in-the-eye-kind-of-BS-but-not-pathological-liars.

I don't mean to say "grr, why aren't nerds more popular!". I mean more that this specific kind of earnestness seems to preclude the playing of certain conversational games that most people seem to enjoy. Earnestness, for example, is pretty far away from my conception of "playful" or "flirty" or even "fun".
I thought Cloudflare does not charge per Gb bandwidth but a fixed fee/month?
I'm not telling children are getting COVID-19, but schools haven't opened in several countries due to COVID-19 unfortunately replies have glossed over that.
Propaganda is being used on us. Give up your freedom or else!
Hey WaitWaitWha, that's great feedback. You mentioned domain registration information and I can certainly edit that. I could also add information to the website where I explain who I am, say with my name and picture. Would that help? Are there other things I could do to increase your trust?

One thing I've done but isn't really advertised is open source the backend: https://github.com/kindspeech/api
Agreed. At this point in 2020, this much text for this elementary of a morality problem is a waste. I was really hoping for something more earth shattering than how humans have a hard time finding the bounds between themselves and others.
Why did the mods delete a comment about the SMC (System Management Controller)? What is this place becoming? Are we pushing anti repair FUD now?
The other posters are right, we're not going to be able to give you general OKRs that work everywhere. It's important that your goals ladder up into your companies goals.

I just wrote a piece on how to break down corporate goals into something that's meaningful for you and your team [1]. If you're having a hard time figuring out what your goals should be it might be that your company's goals are too broad and need to be broken down more.

[1] https://blog.harterrt.com/cascading_metrics.html
This is a fair point, though. Just because you're the producer doesn't mean you're the owner. Book authors often go to publishing houses to get their book published, in which case the author has little control over their work. Also, commissioned works are usually copyright to the commissioner or other employer, that's why Doctor Who is copyright to the BBC, not Steven Moffat.
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Not yet. Will come in tomorrow’s update!
I find this funny. I'll bite. Paul Graham created Hacker News. And is a founder of Y Combinator.
He writes well and is part of the in group. Of course he is super wrong about certain crucial details often which can be frustrating.
The article is from October & he’s been streaming again on Twitch for a while.

Not news.
Update - this was a helpful post with a list of some of the most-subscribed-to newsletters, but it's still pretty anecdotal: https://newslettercrew.com/the-most-popular-paid-subscriptio...
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