skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cause it's very fast to find the vaccine.
Good idea! I tried the domain-fronting curl request and it works, so they seem to be indeed sniffing the SNI...
its worse.

money is going from people to utility coffers, where it stays, and it gets divvied up by CPUC salaries and utility CEOs, like loot.

then govt increases taxes because there is no money coming from people.
No, you can't. I'm in my mid 50s. I can't go back and change my decision (non-decision decision) to not have a family. I wanted one. The choices I made or the chances that came by depending on how you look at it got me where I am today. Mid 50s. I'm not going to birth kids. I'm also not likely to be able to change my career to anything that requires 10-15 years of study before I can get a good position in that career. Going forward I also need to choose things that payout so that I can afford to pay for my life once people won't keep giving me work.
I’m certain that advance can happen. Just look at Calendar invites. They certainly weren’t envisioned at the time that email, MIME, SMTP, etc were started. But calendar invitation were cleverly designed to work within email itself. I know many users who don’t even realize that when they create calendar events and invite colleagues at other companies to a meeting, that that is actually just going over email. The clients do a good job of obfuscating that fact.
Edit: est31 and parent seem right and I stand corrected.

Wrong:
I don’t think you‘re paraphrasing article 4 correctly. Both are about science/teaching exceptions. Not general exceptions.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/35373/st09134-en18.pdf pp 43
Many countries already had income support for the unemployment without the need for additional cheques.

In Australia the government handed out $600 to individuals who were on income support, and I can guarantee some of those recipients went straight out and bought a 60" television. This would naturally stimulate some sales but do absolutely nothing beneficial in the long run because the rest of us will have to pay for it eventually.
Yeah that makes sense. As they start making more money from in game ads and user tracking I suspect that subsidy may make subscriptions more profitable on publisher end as well.
My pediatrician said I can read anything to her at her current age (under 3 months).

From my research, yes, it does matter what you read to the child, but it depends on the age. For someone like my daughter's age, the interaction and pitch is more important than what's being read.
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I do this too but in private. Author is unaware of her narcissism
Right now many central banks and countries, especially the US are actually exercising a third economic philosophy: monetarism (which the federal reserve board members are historically staunch supporters of)[1].

1. https://www.clevelandfed.org/en/newsroom-and-events/speeches...
Assuming you've bound an alias to these commands to run them individually, each in their own container
Social networks are supposedly different in that the _new_ users (i.e. teenagers) are actively trying to _not_ share a platform with previous users (i.e. parents and people older than 25 in general)
if you think cars are aggressively over regulated, wait til you find out how many people with multiple DUIs still drive!
YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Hole
Kite lines can kill others nearby. There is some animosity between windsurfers and kite surfers because of this risk.
Compress_hash_displace.py
In the same sense that when you leave the house you lose control over what happens to you. But if something bad happens to a person., the right solution is not to say, "Well, you left the house, so tough luck."
Then maybe follow your manufacturers maintenance guidance and stop assuming all cars are made the same?
That shouldn't be difficult to PoC. Although, following the tangent, other vectors targeting the js engine could be.

At any rate, do you agree those issues would be unrelated to NPM scripts? I ask because my point is more like: one mitigation at a time. Otherwise, many people would do nothing because it wouldn't solve everything.
This is so great! Frankly, I believe that this kind of low-parameter-count high complexity optimization task is the least suitable kind of task for SGD. Bad local optima everywhere. But I didn't let this opinion of mine spoil the fun:

I changed Chamfer distance to unbiased Sinkhorn divergence (via GeomLoss), bumped arity to 4, moved randomness out of the training loop (with the goal of making training more stable), and added a LR scheduler.

Here's my notebook:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/154ffvEWpD7tTW_AIqTD...

This tree parameter set is quite nice and interpretable:
https://users.renyi.hu/~daniel/tmp/ifs-christmas-tree-arity-...
Started doing this a few years back - not only does it help with public speaking, but it also is a form of debugging whatever you’re talking through.

Nothing wrong with having a little external monologue.
The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs - TikTok first major platform to ban
Get a Sleepea swaddle sack. Trust me.
As Germans Seek News, YouTube Delivers Far-Right Tirades (2019)
Did Japan sent their scientific mission to investigate yet?
My TC does the same thing. All cars after 2008 will cut throttle and apply brakes if losing traction. Turning off traction control disables this system until you press the brakes which then enables passive traction control (the car will not actively brake but will cut power)

Thank Ford+Bridgestone for this
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18717168

When is Mongo ever a good fit? so I've heard stuctured logs, but they can be shoved in a dedicated RDBMS themselves, or just a file system. Unstructured data? But PG now has supports for XML or even JSON. I've heard it's also easier to administrate and scale, which I'm sure it is but then why some businesses do go back to MySQL or PG if Mongo is easier?
The Oxford vaccine saw 95-100% efficacy when measuring specifically against serious cases requiring hospitalisation or death. 60% is the efficacy for symptomatically testing positive.

You are more likely to get symptoms with the Oxford vaccine than an mRNA one, but no more likely to die or need hospital care

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-vaccine-boost-for-m...
Does it support local standalone mode? or something like personal codepen server? did not feel comfortable to keep code there with recent disruption of major cloud providers.
Absolutely agree. Especially in the aggregate.

And I still got a dog. Right before some unplanned surgeries. Now, I also totally believe the claimed personal health benefits. Can't stay in bed when the puppy needs to be walked. This dog probably saved my life.

We spend a lot of time at the dog park, so I see the cream of the dog owners. I try to not think too much about all the other dogs who aren't as lucky. I'll just start crying.
From what I read it’s a lot more complex than that. One theory is that it’s due to how the AZ vaccine is constructed. It is a neutered chimp adenovirus that cannot reproduce but is able to infect cells and cause them to produce the COVID spike protein that the immune system can detect and react to. So it is a two stage process: infect the cell, make it produce the spike protein, have the spike protein attach to another cell, and finally have the immune system respond to the spike protein. The idea is that if you inject too high a dose initially, the immune system will instead respond to the adenovirus and kill it before it can carry out its intended job here. Having a slower initial response will allow for enough COVID spike protein to be produced to develop an immunity to that.

I am absolutely not an expert on this. Just paraphrasing something I read.
I can tell you that you’re way more prepared to be a parent a decade later. Bodies be damned.
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The depression and the “Austrian” response implemented are vastly oversimplifying it. For starters the widespread tariffs and outright ban and seizure of gold should tell you this is not what an Austrian would do.
just finished my talk.
Setup was a bit more chaotic than the last years. Yet worked so far ... Impressive what the chaos collective could setup this year. hello from Tokyo :)

https://kaikunze.de/post/2020-12-27-boiling-mind/
Asking from a layman's perspective:

I've read a bit about genetic algorithms or evolutionary computation at some point. Apparently it achieves good results as it can find discrete solutions for complex, well defined problems.

Reinforcement learning is something I know even less about. But from what I gathered it is also most successful in well defined problems and systems (such as games).

So my question is: How do they relate? Is there overlap and what are the most significant conceptual differences?
Both Bitcoin and gold have experienced devaluation. This illustration seems to be analogous to the physics spherical cow - there are other factors that determine the value of gold, BTC, and dollars besides supply.

For example, if the 50 year old bought all their Bitcoin in January 2018, and sold them to buy their new house in January 2020, they would have been very, very disappointed.
One wild theory is that dogs domesticated us. I could believe that.
Click on the stream. Click on "Chat" and you will see a direct link to the IRC channel for that room.

There are also multiple IRC rooms for assemblies, workshops, discussion topics and more.

Did you actually try look into this event before being dismissive after reading the title?
Also a good point, trade offs all around to consider!

I had mine in 30 to 35 range, but if I could go back in time and had found my spouse, I think I would have opted to have them in 25 to 30 range. However, no one in my social circles has kids in their 20s and barely anyone is married by 30 so we also may have been socially isolated if we had chosen to do that.

But I try to think back to what I did in my 25 to 30 range that I thought was worth delaying starting a family and I can’t come up with anything, other than being a little bit further ahead in the rat race. But all the other rats are thinking the same thing, so who is really benefiting?
Ultima Ratio Regum 0.8 Released
Ultima Ratio Regum is a procedural rogue like made by Mark Johnson.

Main features (from the website):

- Procedural generation of potentially millions of possible NPCs in all settlements within the game.

- Several dozen different NPC types, each with their own schedules which play out alongside the player’s actions.

- Face generation with significant variation for genetics and

- Detailed conversation system, with several hundred potential lines of enquiry, and answers / detail of answers / willingness to answer determined by a range of social and personal factors, leading to millions of possible

- Procedural clothing generation for almost all possible items of clothing, differences in clothing between cultures, and also major differences in clothing between culture types (feudal, nomadic, tribal, etc), and unique clothing styles for

- A large number of general optimisations, improvements, new visuals for various things, and so forth.
Surely this isn’t an issue in the open sea, where tankers would mostly be using this.
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Astronomers detect strange radio signal coming from the closest exoplanet
He's equating Blizzard RTS with All RTS.
I think he currently works at Jane Street https://blog.janestreet.com/author/jsomers/
Wasn’t the reason this vaccine looks to work so well on asymptomatic cases simply because they bothered to test people with no symptoms while other trials didn’t?
In general? Many reasons, which are listed already.

Specifically? Do you want political organisations weaponising your preferences and interests in an attempt to manipulate your vote? Even if that means flat-out lying to you and others in an attempt to manipulate your behaviour by targeting your personal hot-button issues?

Because this has happened a number of times already, and will continue to happen on ever-larger scales until the practice is banned.
Obviously if you think digital nomad live is for you then go for it. For me I want friends and companionship. My experience is that's not what nomads get. Friends requires you to be near by and spend time when them else they drift way. Sure you can keep in touch online but you won't really be a part of their life nor them a part of yours if you're not there to share your life with them. The same goes for a long term companion unless by some luck of the draw you manage to find someone that can join your open ride lifestyle. Some people don't need that. I do which I learned the hard way.
The Flying Train, Germany, 1902
> Games such as World of Warcraft, which are considered very addictive, use several of these techniques.

I agree that games like WoW resemble skinner boxes, feature random rewards/simulated gambling, etc., but they don't seem deceptive or fraudulent in the same way that the dark patterns describe. It's more like addiction patterns designed to keep you subscribed? The social aspect also makes it stickier (and more fun) but doesn't seem sinister.

(But I think I would actually enjoy playing WoW, and it seems like it has a largely fixed monthly cost with fewer pay to win elements than gacha games. I do wonder about the time investment that is required to play an MMO though, and whether that is good for players, even if the game is fun to play.)

> Gamers' behavior can be “shaped” by making cycles (progress from one level to the next) slower and slower, designing complex tasks that are difficult to get out of (e.g. World of Warcraft), or conversely dividing them up in small chunks to avoid frustration (e.g., New Super Mario Bros.Wii).

Leveling slowdown is definitely a thing. But games including difficult tasks and breaking up challenges into chapters or chunks doesn't seem malicious. Games that challenge your brain, hand-eye coordination, etc. are often more fun because of that challenge. Fun seems more likely to happen when the difficulty curve is neither too hard nor too easy. Moreover, complex and difficult games are enjoyable to master, but can be overwhelming for the novice, so it makes sense to smooth the learning curve. Mario games (at least their console versions) seem pretty non-malicious to me.
Even if unconfirmed, I think that Nintendo might use Microkernels according to reverse engeneering finds shows their massive potential for constrained devices. Although certainly not for performance reasons.
I only took a beginner course in ML over 5 years ago, so this probably is a stupid question, but does this mean, the trained GPT-2 model encodes the source text into it's parameters somehow? Is this resilient — will it still remember it if we randomize the weights just a little tiny bit? Will it remember it if we clear a small portion of parameters?

Does the human memory work the same way?
Investors double down on stocks, pushing margin debt to record
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The Philly accent is truly something to behold.
I can't recall the researchers name, only that they had some association with NCSU, but they worked heavily with wind-propelled aquatic drones. I remember a talk they gave about waiting for wind conditions and the quirks of the control system.
Don't worry! I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of exclamation marks I see on a typical work day. It's perfectly alright, at least here in Austria.
Conversation with Bruce Schneier [video]
How to kite systems work any direction into the wind? Like anything from the beam or closer?
I find walking in small circles is even better if you have a tiled floor which can be felt tactilely underfoot. If I ever own a house, the one thing I’ll focus on is kitchen tiling with an interesting pattern.
there's also his response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_GgqTMvx-I
Maybe data scientists should team up (more?) with game programmers. They have a ton of experience in building very complex simulations.
Japan: We would like to research these whale populations for "scientific purposes".
Does it take hold purely because it’s easy to install and the company has a hyper-aggressive salesforce?
When you never need to work with two different documents at once, but need cheap scale. I once worked on a mobile game which saved player progress by uploading JSON to the server — the server never even parsed it, just saved directly to Mongo. And later retrieved it back when the player logged in.

That was the only time when I experienced a Mongo-based system which didn't suffer from any Mongo-induced problems.
I would be surprised if a kite system could get much closer than 90 degrees to the wind.
The main difference is that physical money exists as a liability on the balance sheet of the central bank. That is special however. Because - as you say - most of the money in existence is digital. However that digital money - ie. your deposit - exists as a liability of a private bank. Meaning if that bank goes bust you are only guaranteed to get back the amount that is insured (probably something like $100k in the US).
I'd be interested to know if Jess Frazelle, linked in the post still maintains her Dockerize-everything setup. I remember a few years ago her write-up on that stuff.

Would be good to hear her thoughts a few years on
Mongo used to be a good fit for some projects when JSON-in-postgres wasn't a thing. I work on both Mongo and SQL-heavy projects and I see no reason not to do everything with SQL.
It's the 5th largest economy in the world, ahead of even India, and with 2% of the population to take care of. Must be all Prop 13's fault, no waste here behind the curtain. /s
That's the May 2018 version. The final/official April 17 2019 version [0] contains a different Article 4 which is the one I referred to: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

[0]: apparently there were some mistakes in translations which required changes in some language versions, but the english version was final IIRC https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790?locale=de
Post-translational modification and subunit swapping of the NMDAr are major mechanisms of LTP. I wonder if blocking NMDAr causes the neuron to switch out the receptor proteins, effectively resetting a good portion of LTP adaptaion.
On one hand you're right, methods like Q-learning are model-free and do not necessarily encode much about state dynamics. The Q-function is a feature (function) of state and while ita may not say much about the model, it does encode the most important aspect of the model in terms of solving the task. Namely, it predicts the accumulated reward conditional on next actions actions. That makes it a somewhat narrow representation of state on its own. But, if you consider an environment that has many reward signals, and you learn Q functions for each, this ensemble of Q functions can consitute a rich representation of state. Depending on what the reward functions are, the associated Q functions may be sufficient to construct a full model. so I guess my point is that the learned quantities in RL encode key aspects of state, and when you expand beyond the single task/single reward RL setting the lines between value and model can become blurred.
>It’s an insurance policy against monetary and fiscal policy irresponsibility from central banks and governments globally.

Seems like buying into the stock market is a better insurance policy against inflation since you're tracking the actual economy
The biggest irony is that this hint contradicts the rest of the article. The author complains about central banks handing out too much money to consumers and doing helicopter money.

As far as I know no central bank gives you money to buy consumer goods, they give money to commercial banks who let you borrow money to buy real estate (an investment if you rent it out) or to your startup or existing business so that you can expand faster (also an investment). That's the end of the short list of things that the central bank does that had even a tiny chance of directly involving consumers and the vast majority of money does go into capital investments.

Finally there is QE where the central banks introduce money into capital markets directly. Again unless you are a retail investor you are not going to transfer that new money into consumer spending. The vast majority of retail investors have a small net worth which means most of the money is going to a minority of wealthy people. Those wealthy people own businesses and would rather earn even more money (capital investment again).

So, every time the author complained about the central bank following keynesian politics too much, they didn't...

If anything, there is too little keynesianism. Inflation is low because money isn't reaching consumers at all. Now that we have arrived at inflation we can put another piece of the article in perspective.

>Economists of the Austrian school understand, that the boom is the real problem and the economic crisis is the necessary and positive cleansing mechanism.

Consumer inflation is a positive cleansing mechanism, it tells you "you have to be at least this productive to break even". Companies whose returns are below inflation have to close up shop eventually. Why is that? Because there is a shortage of goods or workers and those few precious goods or workers should be used in the most efficient way. Except this isn't what is currently happening, there is an overabundance of goods and labor and therefore there is no need for any sort of economic cleansing in the name of efficiency. It's the biggest reason why austerity policy in Greece did not work as "advertised". Their unemployment rate was so high that no job or company could be considered too inefficient. Simply getting people to work is already success.

I'll take advantage of this to also talk about something unrelated to the article. Some capital owners argue that their wealth should not be taxed on inflation. Well, that would completely go against the idea of the cleansing mechanism and inflation would just be central bank money straight into the pockets of the rich (it already is to a large degree).
It depends on your personality type I guess. Personally, while I did get addicted to it I never actually enjoyed playing it and was all too eager to put it away forever as soon as I launched my first damned rocket [0].

Players who get way into Factorio see that as the beginning of the game, some 40hrs after starting in my case. If the idea of playing essentially a 40hr tutorial doesn't make you want to run away then Factorio might be for you.

I prefer Dwarf Fortress if I want to make large swaths of time disappear, personally... though I haven't played that in many years come to think of it. I guess as I approach 40 and my awareness of my own mortality increases I care less for making time disappear.

[0] I think pushing robotics much earlier in the tech tree may have made it more enjoyable for me, and there are mods for that, but I never paly a modded game until I've experienced it as it was intended and by that point I didn't want to pay more of that damned exercise in complexity-fetishism.
> patient group that experiences 90% of the severe cases,

43% of the patients going into ICUs in the UK[1] are under 60 years old.

Most of the patients going into ICUs (including the older people) needed no assistance in their day to day lives before going into ICU.
My pet hate object is dialogs offering two options: "OK" and "Not Now".