skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There was no misunderstanding, the message was "don't wear a mask unless you're sick, masks don't help the wearer they only help

I've heard lots of people say that was the message, but it wasn't the one I heard and it's not the one I find in any of the documented statements from public health officials.
I wonder if they have s-1 confidentiality filed and they are in quiet period.
Why not? Israel did just that, they offered double the US price for their doses + full access to the medical data.

They vaccinated half their population whilst the EU is stuck making a surprised Pikachu face.
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Oh yes. I'm sure that a population that can't follow simple recommendations to wear a damn mask will listen to the CDC when it says to stop eating Big Macs.

And if you would like to become educated on the government's role in fighting obesity, and its recommendations, you can go to https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/strategies/index.html
It just means not enough resources were spent trying to understand these phenomena. Because most of the time these things do not return something useful to people at large and science is - in principle - meant to benefit humans in general.

I'd like to clear up the following:

These phenomena are understood indirectly through other physical laws, psychology, etc. In other words: "magick" or the occult (in general) being real is very unlikely. There haven't been many studies about it because this is considered taboo and because - like I said earlier - of fundamental physical laws etc would make it highly unlikely.

Another data point about this subject would be The Amazing Randi (who, unfortunately, recently passed away). A gentleman whose life work IMHO is unmatched. There's a lot of videos of and about him on YouTube. Check him out.
Big deal. So does the three-year-old Walmart laptop I keep in my garage.

I find the reaction to the M1 pretty funny. People are impressed by the silliest things.
There is no undue air of cynicism. No fundamental assumptions have been broken. Odds are overwhelming that everything will once again happen as it has thousands of times before.

A very risky play from a hedge fund has resulted in people who don't know what they're doing convincing more people who don't know what they're doing that there is a clear ally (other retail investors who are getting back at The Man) and a clear enemy (evil hedge funds that have robbed the American people), and that what they're doing is some sort of justice and not just an extreme market correction. They've attached emotions to these trades, and when the time inevitably comes that they have to become The Man to stand with The Man against The Man, a very small percentage will realize what needs to be done to trade another day, while the rest are going to learn how little say they actually had in this incident. WSB (or at least what it was before this) has had a lot of laughs at the expense of the latter group -- "it literally can't go tits up!" is trotted out whenever somebody finds out that they're not in control.

Active retail investment requires a fatalistic view of the market. This is hard to swallow when you think of going short as "bad" or squeezing out a hedge fund as "good."
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Wow haha, only on HN would I read a sea peoples joke. Did you also watch that informative YouTube lecture [0] or did you find out about them elsewhere?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4
AFAIK it is common in dense cities with good economy, where usually someone has no means to care for the baby (due to tight schedule and lack of caretaker) and the cost of living and rent is high.
I'm saying that WSB true believers and Qanon nuts sound similar and use similar logic.
This is a common reaction to people who haven't followed Gamestop for a while. Cohen and RC Ventures bought in a while ago and have been pushing for the company to pivot out of the brick-and-mortar focus. This is why 'people who have a financial interest' are talking this way. Everyone involved recognized this would be an expensive proposition. Then the short sellers showed up.
I get the nostalgic pull but it looks horrible compared to a clean nicely themed terminal.

The other example you replied too looks so much better.
but Moooom, my brother was also kicking the puppy, why am I the one being punished, so unfair!!1
Interesting, but would it matter if the model can learn the non-linearity?
Robots got their name 100 years ago today
I would like you to show me where this free market is, because it certainly isn't NYSE. The minute anything unexpected happens we're hit with trading halts, brokers riding the line of insolvency, SEC investigations, and congressional freakouts.
In general it does fix it, although a low-bitrate video or incorrectly encoded video can also introduce contouring/banding.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/V...

> Additionally, in saturated portions of the image (that is, where colors are pure and intense, such as a bright, pure red [rgba(255, 0, 0, 1)]), color depths below 10 bits per component (10-bit color) allow banding, where gradients cannot be represented without visible stepping of the colors.

Info on banding: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/V...
First statement on threatened compulsory redundancies (Leicester University)
You pointed out a niche where internet ads apparently worked well (though isn’t some of that just survivorship bias?)

I found the eBay data interesting because AI had assumed that they would have a fairly sophisticated online operation, and yet neither the branded nor non-brand ads really helped (for the latter, removing ads led to -40% on clicks, but -2% on sales).

I can’t imagine that the neighborhood pizza place is really doing a top-notch job on ad attribution; it seems a heck of a lot more likely that they throw a few ads up because everyone else does too.
That's interesting and I never knew that. I have a stainless steel liquid measuring cup, originally my mom's, from Sweden. Probably dates to the 1960s if not older. It's graduated in ml and pints. But its pints are a few ounces larger than US pints. I wonder if it's some other pint scale? I have always just assumed that they got the conversion factor wrong.

Edit: after reading your link, it appears to me that it is graduated in imperial pints, not US pints.
EU have really shown themselves up here. Big time.

Really terrible timing to make a decision like this, too - makes it so much worse.
> The University of Leicester plans to make all its pure mathematical researchers redundant. They tried something similar in 2016 and backed down after a storm of protest from all round the world.

https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1355184163020804099

https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/proposed-changes-universi...
That link is to a screenshot of a routine promoter for a CNBC show. I mean, I guess it's possible that this was done because CNBC took a kickback from Melvin to put paid content out on its twitter feed, but that would be a huge, huge scandal if so, much larger than the story of Melvin failing would be. CNBC may be business journalism but they're still selling journalism under the NBC brand.

They don't do that, basically. This is a conspiracy theory.
B would result in more law suits faster, this way apple can claim "its the customers decision". Right now, people complain about apple making decisions for them. And, fwiw, i know people who actually opt-in to tracking (no idea why...)
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, that is how antitrust has been treated in US law, yes. But the law, including this definition of antitrust, is socially constructed, which means it can be changed.
Europeans and Australians [0] don't have to imagine. I can literally do a bank transfer to an email address.

[0] non-exhaustive list
It did, it just wasn't ambitious enough. There were separate grants, but the preorders were only enough to cover the entire population if multiple vaccines were approved.

I guess it is possible that production was scaled up as fast as possible, but it seems that there was a lack of imagination in the planning process (setting low goals, not anticipating far enough ahead, etc).
While shorts were really high, GME also consistently had insane failure to deliver rates and was regularly on the threshold securities list.
I don't think many realize the seriousness of the situation. If the asteroid is just a rock, nothing happens, everything is just fine, we can continue to be the apex predator of Sol system.

But if anybody is wrong and oumuamua was in fact an alien device looking for us (intelligent life), almost certainly it has found us. What happens next is entirely out of human hands, unless we can realize that event.

Maybe is nothing more than some kind of probe or long range satellite, but it could be a scout ship, or an early warning sensor, and we're just in course to meet the rest of the hardware from where oumuamua came from.

Is really rational just plainly deny the chance of that rock being pure luck of not having found a big fleet of some interestellar things and having to figure out if they are friendly or not as they approach the planet?

Probably the space force and the whole stuff many countries are sending to all the solar system since 2018 are just a coincidence, or may be other people is also worried about what happens next if oumuamua was not just a weird rock.
They agreed to a contract much later than the UK, and the UK is the main supplier.

The EU is acting like it has first call because of its size as a bloc.

Sorry, that's not how it works. Not forgetting they broke the Good Friday agreement to try and force the point.
There's also leverage/margin (i.e. borrowing to buy stocks). With higher volatility, investors might be less willing to use leverage, resulting in less total demand, which results in lower prices.

When stocks drop, excess income and capitol drops, reducing demand in the wider market. Companies come under pressure to cut costs, and end up doing layoffs. This further lowers demand, resulting in a feedback loop.

This is all described by Minsky's financial instability-hypothesis. And Steve Keen has built fully dynamic mathematical models that exhibit the process.
Now that GameStonk is a $25 billion company, how long until they buy Steam or EA or somebody? If GME is distribution, then Steam seems like a logical acquisition.
Does anyone know how the ranking algorithm on this site works?

If not, I'm going to block it from my network. I don't care for another opaque algorithm controlling my information. It's not like I'd miss out on much intelligent discussion...
Altruism would be one reason?

Individuals buying now are more likely to get screwed. On a self-interested side, they could be wanting as few retail investors to lose as possible to minimize the calls for new regulations
WSL and VSCode have brought my machine pretty much to parity with developing on a macbook.

I'm sure there's more specialized cases where it's not up to par, but for the average use case, it's quite good!
An interesting application is the target of a feature set configuration that returns a specific desired output activation value (eg 50/50 for two of classes). I do not know if tensorflow has an automation for this task available, perhaps could be a fun followup project for the author.
I find it kind of sad how desperate people get for certain outcomes, in this case proof of extraterrestrial life.

Of course we have limited observations of this object. But that doesn't prove anything. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

But here's where the desperation comes in: false equivalence. Like we have limited observations so you can't prove it ISN'T an artifact of alien life. Like the outcomes of it being artificial and natural in origin are treated as equal.

It just seems like the worst application and misunderstanding of the anthropic principle ever.

No evidence that it's artificial doesn't mean it's natural. It just means there's no evidence of it being artificial. But absent any evidence, natural origin is the most likely explanation.
I bought a bit of AMC. If WSB makes it pop to a multiple of where I entered, I'll cash out. Otherwise I'll hold through the recovery. Suspect there is enough pint-up demand for people to get out more post-COVID to boost the stock enough for me to exit higher in year or so anyway.
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They will be be getting partially funded from the UK government solely on the virtue of the manufacturing centers being in the UK.
I've played quite a bit of both. Satisfactory is beautiful to look at, and you can tell it's a labor of love for the developers. But there are so many bugs compared to Factorio, even compared to Factorio early on in development. Part of the problem is that Factorio sets the bar incredibly high in terms of developmental rigor, but if I were to recommend one over the other, Factorio would get the nod from me.
In general, no, brokers being unwilling or unable to help facilitate a trade is a legitimate market factor. There's no fundamental right to have people trade with you.

It's would of course be a different story if the broker's unwillingness came from their participation in a price manipulation scheme. I don't think that's really plausible here, although I suppose I wouldn't rule it out given the crazy dumb things Robinhood has done in the past.
The issue was between Robinhood and DTCC, and couldn't be resolved by having customers' settled cash because of the rules that forbid using the customers cash as collateral. Though it might have worked if it just slowed down buys enough.
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Its not actually about Amazon. The point is just that Apple limitations will help "self contained" data holders like amazon because they don't need the tracking data that apple is limiting.

Amazon is just a simpler target to explain the small-biz impact than "facebook with its marketplace and shopify integration and existing data sources and abilities and pending future products they've announced"
Some had faith in the new mRNA technology, while others preferred to rely on more time-tested methods.

Sometimes articles hide a great deal in one seemingly innocuous sentence. From what I've learned from Europeans, there's only one vaccine candidate of that nature the EU considered, a Sanofi Pasteur/GlaxoSmithKline combo, the former providing the infamous spike protein, the latter an adjuvant. Everyone expected this to work like the Novavax version of roughly the same thing that's just reported good U.K. trial results, but Sanofi/GSK's didn't provide a good enough response in the elderly. They were expected to fulfill up to half of the EU's requirements, but they're restarting with a new Phase I trial next month or so, and they might have something ready by the end of 2021.

So if all that is correct, the EU ended up with a very big hole in their plans and not enough redundancy. By comparison only because I'm in the USA and familiar with our efforts, 5 big bets were made with more than a billion dollars each in up front R&D money. Moderna and now Novavax are looking very good, AZ/Oxford and one dose of Johnson and Johnson's is looking OK, with a two dose study in progress for the latter that might show increased efficacy, and only Sanofi/GSK failed in a really major way.
Unless all those users faked their screenshots, it would seem that Robinhood is lying.
I guess this is cool, but maybe they should focus on actually making Windows Terminal into a usable terminal emulator first. I've found so many bugs with it and it still doesn't even have a GUI for its settings.
ESP32-S2 has both WiFi and USB. It's essentially (the classic) ESP32 cut to a single core, 320KB RAM, and with Bluetooth removed; however it does include USB.

There's also ESP32-S3 which is dual core, with more RAM, USB, and Bluetooth, but I'm not sure any boards are available yet.

All of that not to be confused with ESP32-C3 which is a single-core RISC-V without USB.

And yes, their naming is confusing.

edit: Adafruit has some boards with ESP32-S2. If you get a random board from elsewhere, there are good chances it will come with a USB-to-serial chip, which you don't want if you need to use native USB. So check.
It's hypocritical to only now be concerned with "scummy tactics" when the little people found a way to turn them on the big money. No one seemed to really care until hedge funds started losing billions due to a situation they created.
ITT: Ad-tech people, talking up their own book.
So, I'll admit to being a Luddite on the whole HDR thing, but I suppose it's worth figuring out in the case it becomes commonplace and not another fad like 3D TV.

How does HDR affect colors in software? For example, on a 10-bit display - does my "legacy" website showing #FFF, show a true brightest-white color, or would I need to use a special definition to achieve it? Unfortunate, as I'm sure the hex value for a 10-bit 3-tuple is not quite as "perfect" as #000000-#FFFFFF. e.g. like `color: rgbhdr(#0x3FF3FF3FF)`

If I use a non-HDR-aware color-picker app (or take a screenshot), and pick HDR content versus normal content, is there a translation layer that scales down the value to RGB? Or does it clamp and "overexpose"?

It's a whole new world. I googled "HDR in CSS" and got this[0] which is not quite "stubborn programmer who thinks this is a gimmick" friendly...

Anyone have a good resource that explains how one would use HDR colors in practice? And ideally one that touches on considerations like the interactions between HDR-aware and non-HDR-aware applications.

[0]: https://w3c.github.io/ColorWeb-CG/
This holds true, even when the system assures you that it is immutable. I recall when a hacker noticed a vulnerability in some Ethereum smart contracts and used it to "steal" ETHs, the transactions were swiftly reversed and the whole concept of "the code is the contract" was thrown out of the window in the process.

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/50-million-hack-just-showed-da...
No, that's wrong. The contractual dispute is between AZ and the EU.

The UK and AZ already had an agreement in place, with the UK taking main place manufacturing the product.

AZ signed a contract with EU way afterwards. That is the one which would be breached, and the center of the dispute.
because the volume is so high that it was a multiple of the total shares in existence yesterday.

im simplyfing but RH could have had to put up to 300m - 1B collateral just to cover the gamestop trades. (they can't use their customers money for this)
> Facebook appears not to have attempted this yet on Android, where it would be technically possible, though it would likely require sideloading.

Facebook went above and beyond that - they effectively commissioned HTC to build a Facebook phone[1], which thankfully flopped

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First
In highschool I made what I thought was a shit-tier space invaders out of printing to console one character at a time.

Rather than keep a frame buffer of characaters, I was scanning and modifying specific "pixel" characters as needed for performance like game of life but home-brew for my character-based space invader type enemies.

The game had a major memory leak by the time I got to presenting but that served as a perfect timer for the next player to get a turn. We didn't demo any other games once we got to it.

After class, I was not happy how many times it crashed but somebody corrected me - it was the only actual video game anyone made. Most were card games or guessing games.

Lost the source code because my floppy disk somehow got corrupted on the way home from the last day of school.
You could probably make it happen with any graphics hardware, but it might be slow with some.
8 bit per channel is already enough to avoid banding. However, if you are editing content with 8 bits per channel its pretty easy to reach a situation when mixing colors or applying numerous effects will create banding. So ideally you convert to a much higher bit per channel or floating point. Then perform all editing in that that higher precision format and then once you have applied everything to the channel finally convert it back to 8 bit.

TLDR; If you display something and thats it, 8 bits is enough (generally). Start feeding it through mathematical functions you need more precision otherwise error compounds.
One of my very first jobs I worked to test VGA cards. They were 4mb and 8mb. Yes you read that right, that is "m" as in megabytes. My setup was a 25 megahertz open case motherboard, a few of these. It was part of the last quality control station and I would pop each vga card into the PCI slot and boot it up.

I would basically run a macro which cycle through the resolutions from b/w, 4 colors, 16, 256, ... and up to a million or so. I think there is a name for this, but basically watching a prism of rainbow colors. At a million+ the color tones are very smooth and you don't see an outline.

I could not imagine I would be able to differentiate a billion colors from its previous factor. At that point, I would stamp it and it goes off to shipping for packaging, and to the customers.
I've never seen such an anti EU reaction both domestically (UK) and internationally.

You try and imply the BBC has been pro brexit - but seriously, this is by far the most hostile the liberal UK media has been to the EU in a long time.
I expect dang does, since he runs the site.
On the other hand, I'd love to be able to stay far away from the rest of society on a ship along with other uninfecteds until the pandemic is over.
It's funny for me as to why that information isn't easily obtainable or verified, the state is vague. It affect (retail) investors and their decision making for their stock, so why it isn't transparent?

Retail investors are playing the game with handicap, because lack of verified information.
True HDR needs local dimming, so very few monitors outside of mini leds, oleds, and reference displays have large amounts local dimming, but it is coming to consumer displays.
Another telling of this story + more stories: https://junto.investments/short-squeezes-and-market-corners/
Very high speed compared to Solar System objects perhaps, but I expect it would still take an enormous amount of time to reach another star.
Conspiracy theory: This entire GME squeeze was orchestrated by one/many of Robinhood’s competitors who spotted this weakness and knew exactly how to leverage the masses to exploit it and drive RH out of business.
Appreciate the feedback!

We're still figuring out the right price. We've also heard from folks that we are undercharging.