skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By charging $500,000 per dose? You think there are 100k people who would pay that?

Also, if this was a cause the billionaires believed in, they could just give $500,000 to vaccination efforts and also give up their spot in line. Nothing stopping them from just being charitable without expecting anything in exchange.
I expect that the solution to that problem is to directly address it via zoning or price controls, not indirectly by raising the minimum wage
> Payment for order flow is still kosher in many circumstances; there's no clear duty to go to the people offering it and demand price improvement instead. But what you definitely can’t do is accept a worse deal (or stop trying to find better deals) in order to protect your payment for order flow revenue stream.

This seems like a distinction without a difference. If you accept any payment for order flow you're always implicitly rejecting a hypothetical alternate arrangement where you agree to give up all PFOF in exchange for better price improvement.
Anything big (like an airliner) isn't allowed to rely on radio altimeter alone for terrain avoidance for many years now. They're GPS augmented. Whenever it is confident where it is (which will be always or almost always) the plane is deciding whether it could hit something by continuing to move apparently forward and alerting the pilots about that.

When you hear "Obstacle Obstacle" announced in Sully, that's not a radio altimeter detecting the bridge, the computer has concluded that the plane's motion is uncomfortably close to the bridge tower based on GPS and a database of tall things you might fly a plane into (and thus it knows this is an "Obstacle" whereas a mountain is "Terrain").

In that movie there's not a damn thing they can do beyond avoiding the bridge itself, because they don't have any thrust - but ordinarily pilots should near instinctively try to ascend immediately for any of this group of warnings. The training is specific that this is not the time for diagnostics, if you aren't already absolutely sure why the computer thinks you're about to hit something you must assume the computer is correct and climb at best rate. This routinely saves lives when pilots become confused about where they are.
Long List lol
1. Medicine is an ancient tower of hacks upon hacks.

2. Many people have areas of interest outside of their profession.
> by everyone agreeing on a canonical first commit

Make git-insert-empty-root a standard.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/14729121
> How should I decide between a project that is interesting and not explained from a project that is not intended for me?

You first try rocksdb/lmdb, learn it all, break things, hit limitations, and lower your standards enough to search for other things, that don't have comprehensive documentation but just a small readme/paper and checking the code.

Don't expect to build a better Postgresql on the first try.
Shake-up of EPA lead-pipe regulations fails older cities
The SEC appears to disagree with you, and given that they're the experts, I'm going with them. Robinhood ended up with at least tens of millions of dollars of customer money that they shouldn't have, and were covering it up with lies.
I published several papers while working at Google on Chrome. There is a publication review process that at that time was not onerous at all. In fact, all of my publication submissions were reviewed post facto and basically rubber-stamped. All, with the exception of one, our publication on Spectre, which was carefully vetted to not disclose any sensitive information about further vulnerabilities or violate NDAs with partners. So my experience for publishing at Google, admittedly in a non-controversial area of Programming Languages, was positive.

That said, the corporate culture is bending authoritarian and Orwellian. The new changes are just an further evolution in that arc. This is part of the reason I left in 2019.
I always had this issue but never thought about looking it up on the CRA side of things. Thanks for the drop of knowledge!
This whole saga is such a PR “own goal” by Google. The vast majority of corporate research labs just don’t fund research doubting their own ethics in the first place. Company leadership should choose an ethical stance and defend it. It’s an abdication of responsibility to say, well the ethics are an open question, we’re going to fund some research into it. And now Google is being punished for their abdication of responsibility. If they had simply established a corporate policy that said, we believe facial recognition is good when XYZ conditions are met, and defended it, they wouldn’t be in this situation.
>> Do not use Django for ANY client facing static site rendering.

why?
Video Games of the 21st Century
We Got 75% More Ecommerce Orders in a Single A/B Test for This Major Brand
Yeah I already have a passphrase for my desktop, but for mobile I'm on GrapheneOS and it asks my password frequently enough that I don't want something too painful to enter.
It's not just you, I've literally never listened to a podcast on Spotify but they're front and center on the Home page for me too. I wish there was a way to turn them off, I'm just not interested in podcasts.
Until a member of society (you?) is somehow screwed over by an Exec of one of these too-big-to-fail companies....
It was already gambling. There was already nothing special about it. There is nothing special about you or your intelligence. It's not complicated to figure that electric cars might become popular or that delta isn't really going to dissolve. Stop crying about lower barriers of entry to your racket.
For me it was Asking Alexandria, which fit pretty well as they have mostly dark songs.
> BNF and Department of Health (England) don't describe addiction to loperamide, but do describe its use as an adjunctive treatment for people trying to come off opioids, which suggests it's not that problematic

As someone who suffers from IBS and takes loperamide regularly, while its not necessarily an addiction, I see forums of people (especially on /r/ibs) saying that it causes a dependency. I saw posts where people kept upping the dose until it got to a point where it doesnt work anymore and you would have to increasingly take larger amounts to have the same effect. Heck some take as many as 3 after every meal. I cant imagine doing that.

I try to avoid doing this and luckily I can get away with one every few days but I dread the day I have to be in that situation.

One thing I noticed is that - it gives me incredible mental boost a day after taking it. It just makes me feel normal and that to me is a 'boost'.
When have trillion dollar companies not been authoritarian in protecting and furthering their own corporate interests?
the accusation of classism is sort of a harsh take here. I would never buy a steak from outback for the simple reason that I can buy a nicer cut from my butcher for <$20 and probably do a better job cooking it on my cheap cast iron skillet. on the rare occasion that I go out for steak, I spend as much as it costs to buy something I couldn't reasonably do at home. with steak, that's a lot of money.
> It only avoids getting you high because it doesn't get into the brain.

People do get high on immodium [0]. With huge doses, but still.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2018/01/31/fda-cr...
Honestly it’s all I’m watching anymore during lockdown.

I’ve exhausted Netflix and Amazon Prime. I honestly use it so much I’d love like a Reroll button to show me completely fresh algorithm picks.

Yeah they’re toxic whatever don’t care, they’re excellent. Alcohol is bad for me too but I’m not gonna stop doing that either.
Yeah you're right to an extent. But in the past you could hit a point where one DB could not handle the traffic. There's tons of businesses out there doing one DB instance per customer because of this.

With Cockroach and TiDB you can host unlimited traffic on the same db as long as you're careful about queries. I guess you could with Mongo or whatever too if you're okay with data corruption
Tried loads of TB docks (as well as USB3 ones) and gave up. They all have annoying quirks. I finally settled with a Razer Core Chroma, with Ethernet and USB. My MBP16 is finally silent with external displays, and the offloading really helps during video calls.
Apparently, these providers had the same owner and were actively advertising their services on “cybercrime forums,” which I didn’t realize were common or advertised on
Ask HN: It's almost 2021, what social media platforms do you still use?
In the last few years, I have consumed news/content mostly via Social media, and I keep noticing the redundancy and narrowed recommendations of (FB, Twitter) algorithmic timelines. Since I didn't want to use other apps to consume news, I initially tried to manually personalize my timelines. After several attempts, FB remains a black box, without easy ways to adjust/influence the "algorithmic" timeline. I started using Lists on Twitter and manually explore new content. I have tried to hack a tool to diversify the content, and have better success with reddit/twitter APIs, FB has strict API. To my surprise, I had better results using RSS feeds + script to cluster content -> slack summaries periodically, (Old) RSS feeds helped to passively monitor good content.

It's almost 2021, what social media platforms do you still use?. Is it just me, or do you notice such problems with algorithmic timelines.

As a user, I just want to have a better algorithmic timelines, with no harmful personalization that cage us in our filter bubble.

As a (ML) developer, I want to have a better API/system that can enable me to customize or deploy my recommendation/news trending models; why do we still need to use one "recommendation model for every user on social platform" that is unknown for end user, I believe user/community should have flexibility to deploy their own recsys models.
It is the name of a Rust web framework, but this is referring to a Wordpress plugin.

(Also, the Rust Rocket is not primarily focused on perf, but developer ergonomics.)
US Vietnam POWs
Pizza in Korea is completely different from Pizza from the west. Fried chicken is not.
I primarily use YouTube on my AppleTV, and man, the UI is awful. The recommendations change every time the home screen comes up, and there's no easy way to flag things. So if I see 3 recommendations I need to watch, I have to try to remember what they were before I watch one, because when I finish with the first video, the others will be gone.

Netflix is even worse (and they all seem to suffer from this to some degree). When I start it, it's an ad for some random thing. To find what I was watching last I have to either remember whether that miniseries is considered a movie or a TV show or what.. or, I can scroll down to Home, and "continue watching.." will be buried 3 rows deep and 2 columns over. So incredibly strange and unintuitive.

I guess they want their algos to be drive more engagement rather than just take you back to what you almost certainly opened the app to watch?
I admire the motivation here to offer a boilerplate to the community using these tools, but it feels like a lot of this has been solved by the Baas providers like AWS Amplify, Azure Static Web Apps, Firebase, etc.

These services all support your choice of front-end and back-end programming language. All these providers also allow hooks into features like security, database, apis, ci/cd, and so on. You would be in a serverless architecture also which provides scalability and keeps costs low up front. Not trying to discredit the author here, which is admirable in the intent, but feels like it's trying to solve for something that several other solutions exist for unless I'm missing something critical.
Shere Hite explained how women orgasm – and was hated for it
I do remember 1986. Ubiquitous queues and ration stamps for petrol, meat, sugar, chocolate, etc. Teacher telling us to report if parents say bad things about people on TV. Oranges once a year for Christmas from Cuba. Lego Technics set worth several salaries after my father smuggled half a car of crystal glassware to East Germany. Hardly any good memories.
Excellent! Even one other sane person is a huge help. If you can find an area to make even a small demonstrable improvement, hopefully you'll be given more room to try for bigger ones. It might be easier to endure if you think of it as preparing to swoop in with a solution at the next crisis.
You have to fine tune the recommendations yourself, by manually removing and choosing the option "I don't like the video".

It works surprisingly well, and well worth the effort.
> I don't see much difference to my Firefox setup with AdNauseam (uBlock Origin)

AdNauseam is not uBlock Origin, you can not use AdNauseam's results to judge uBlock Origin.
Didn't expect it will play a music for me haha, had to pick up my earphones.
Anyway it was hilarious.

- Your spotify was anime-slow-dance bad,

On "You listen to these tracks too much:" part, well that is because they are on the top of the playlist. I usually start my Spotify day by just playing the playlist (Liked Songs) so it goes
just play the music on whats on top and go down to the first song I fav'ed.

- You are 2% basic. Oh wow The Contes and Crown Jewels! Your taste is so obscure that's so cool I bet you're super interesting..

This one got me :) I really like "The Contes" and "Crown Jewels"

- You're stuck in the early 2010s.

Hmm... Kinda not accurate.
Does it know when the track was originally released to make accurate one? Like there was an album on my list that it was originally released on 1998-2004 but was released on Spotify earlier this year 2020.

"fuck marry kill.. fast" was fun but got off took me a while to figure it out, I quickly clicked "fuck" and "marry" on SCANDAL (why not right? haha) and thought the A.I. is dead, later I figured out that I need to choose on others too.
"oder" is "or" in German, so I think they meant "backlight or hw acceleration".

I own a more recent Dell XPS 13, and the keyboard backlight support is indeed buggy - it needs a configuration patch to prevent it from turning on on logon.

Not sure what's exactly the hw acceleration. If they refer to the Intel integrated GPUs, the configuration is pretty much standard; up to 18.04 the only thing I needed to configure was the VSync (this was the same also for other laptops), but with 20.04, I didn't need anymore.
Yes, but it still doesn't magically give you 1gbps full duplex across 10 devices. On the other hand, you probably don't need that.

See my other comment for more pointers on this.

I'm guessing that as we transition to wifi 6 aps and clients - we're likely to get "good" enough networking from wifi for many (most?) applications.

But I still expect eg: backing up 10 desktops in an office to a NAS will be a much better fit for wired network, than wireless - especially if done in parallel with other day-to-day traffic.
Calling this AI.. I had a few friends run it and it turns out it's just madlibs. Fun regardless.
I miss Rdio- I got a free subscription back in 2013 courtesy of an employer and it had amazing auto-play features- always good new exciting music.

Spotify by comparison is a crime against good taste.
Charlie Munger too. The Berkshire annual shareholder meeting is the "state of the union" for investors.
When an graduate school advisor provides feedback on a paper, the goal is to improve the quality of the paper. The peer review process also has the same goal in mind: produce a better paper.

According to this Reuters article, Google's new process happens after peer review and Google's other processes have completed.

"The “sensitive topics” process adds a round of scrutiny to Google’s standard review of papers for pitfalls such as disclosing of trade secrets, eight current and former employees said."

Instead of publishing the paper, Google will now review the paper with an eye to negative impact the paper may have on existing Google product (or lobbying efforts, etc.) Google isn't doing this to improve the quality of the paper, they are doing it to protect their business interests.

"For some projects, Google officials have intervened in later stages. A senior Google manager reviewing a study on content recommendation technology shortly before publication this summer told authors to “take great care to strike a positive tone,” according to internal correspondence read to Reuters."

I think this is very different from the advising process in graduate school.

Preventing people from disclosing trade secrets seem fair to me. Preventing valid research simply because it may negatively impact business strikes me as less reasonable.

"Four staff researchers, including senior scientist Margaret Mitchell, said they believe Google is starting to interfere with crucial studies of potential technology harms."
The first one isn't criticizing the lack of ability to set default pull behavior, it's criticizing that if you try to set an alias overriding a built-in command, it fails silently, instead of giving any indication that your alias doesn't work.

Basically all the criticisms in Git Koans still apply.
> Aside from outright coercion, marketing is not violence

> Fraud and violence should be regulated

Fraud is just "fraud" because a law says so, otherwise it would just be a entity taking advantage of some other entity (that has a disparity of information about what is going on). It's not violence either, so I'm surprised you would want fraud to be regulated.

I was going to respond further but I think we are in agreement that in the ideal world there would be less regulation. In the real world regulation not always works and has side effects.

Some people still think that that imperfect solution is better than letting corporations do whatever they want, and that yes education is good, but (in my opinion) it's not only long term "solution", it might not be enough against psychology.
The policy existed, management just assumed that they would implicitly understand that they shouldn’t work on research that will knee-cap Google.

Of course, they also hired unhinged woke employees so it’s no surprised they’re reaping the seeds they sowed
Not sure why anyone would use btrfs over zfs. And that's coming from someone who used to use old XFS in an unreliable power environment.
I expect there will be plenty of vaccine to around pretty soon.

There are five more manufacturers which were funded by operation warp seed and are various stages of development.

There is also the Chinese vaccine SinoVac, which has stated there will be capacity to manufacture 600 million doses a year by the end of 2020, with another 350 million doses/yr in Indonesia and Brazil.
Unlike the founders that went to Stanford MIT, or who are ex-Apple/Google/FB etc. Headlines are short, and you have to get a lot done with as few words as possible. NASA is strongly associated with "smart engineering and problem solving" - good branding for a course like this.
Was KFC behind the steel monoliths?

The video suggests it, and the logo looks like three monoliths.
The legacy of ‘green revolution’.
Random but I highly recommend the new "mapping" type roombas. Best thing I bought all year.
You think that being able to favorite, skip, and dislike songs is worse UX than the radio, which just plays endlessly, whether you want to listen to that song (or annoying DJ) or commercial or not? I mean, sure, you can change the station, but, best case scenario, you get a song you want, 3/4 of the way through.
You can on YouTube. You can finally ban channels from your recommendations and tell it now to show you things like that anymore with the submenu by the video thumb.
As for pageload, next.js is 30% slower than vanilla website. No ecommerce bussiness should ever alow this(my personal opinion).

Take a look at my top comment of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25342767 for more details.
Rust: Building a CRUD REST API
I've been using jq for several years but still can't write anything more complex than simple XPath without going to manual and googling.

Babashka[1] with Cheshire[2] aliased as json solves this to me, the code is longer but no need for googling anymore:

USERX='{"name":"duchess","city":"Toronto","orders":[{"id":"x","qty":10},{"id":"y","qty":15}]}'

echo $USERX | jq '.orders[]|select(.qty>10)'
{
"id": "y",
"qty": 15
}

echo $USERX | bb -i -o '(-> *input* first (json/decode true) (->> :orders (filter #(> (:qty %) 10))))'
{:id y, :qty 15}

[1]: https://github.com/borkdude/babashka
[2]: https://github.com/dakrone/cheshire
Article is just incorrect: few years ago, YT realized that optimizing for watch time decreases engagement, which is obviously most critical for life-time profits, and switched to optimizing for life-time engagement. I.e. watch less today, but return tomorrow. It’s very tricky ML problem, so by now YT ML is probably the most advanced in the world in this area.

PS. Trigger for investigation was the event named “boobacalipse” - when recommender recommended videos with boobs on the first page for couple days.
Depends on the definition of "good". The question's assumption is that it's "good for the viewer/user". YouTube isn't necessarily focused on that definition of good.
The key difference is that MIT had someone with decision making authority admit it to it on the record, i.e. Joi Ito, whereas Harvard did not. This is precisely what gave the whole Epstein debacle some fresh oxygen. In fact it may have been what tipped mostly vague conspiracy theories into a critical mass of undeniable reality.

Although there definitely were numerous folks at Harvard also doing dubious things they simply closed ranks and didn’t say anything substantial. They almost certainly are less straightforward than the MediaLab crowd, after all they have far more to lose since it was done directly under the school administration and not a semi-autonomous entity.

Doesn’t that seem like a very strong incentive for certain folks to do something to MIT? At the very least to discourage anyone at Harvard from getting funny ideas in their old age, and to encourage in the future immediate responses like Harvard and discourage another Ito when something like this happens again.

Because there probably are even more damaging things under wraps than the worst fantasies Epstein had, as another commenter alluded to with strange accounting anomalies of Defense research money in the several hundred million range, i.e that a significant percentage of the money going to MIT from the DoD was shady. If you extrapolate that to a nationwide scale, that’s a lot of billions going who knows where.
It's also reasonably good at context sensitivity, so when I'm playing a backing track for my guitar 90% of the recommendations are for other backing tracks, with the rest being decent song and music theory channel recommendations rather than whatever else I've been looking at this week.

The flip side is, I somehow appear to have accidentally clicked subscribe on some insane Trumpist 'news' channel I probably stumbled on via a forum link, and it very quickly took over the push notifications on my phone. That might be subscribe functionality working as intended, but it took more effort to identify the source of nonsense spam and unsubscribe from it...
Why do programmers read about medicine?
This has seemed inevitable for several years now. They've coasted on developing and publishing mostly just Bond films and a few reboots/belated sequels to other properties, but beyond that they've operated more as an IP holding company than an active production studio.

It was almost a shame to see, given MGM/UA's age and original strengths.

Supposedly, Walt Disney always had a giant love/hate relationship with MGM and tried to buy them or merge with them several times in his lifetime (if for no other reason than that he was extremely vexed that they got the rights to Oz before him). The modern Disney company probably isn't as worried about buying MGM as Walt was, but it would be wild "revenge" for Walt if Disney ended up ultimately buying them.