skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s exceedingly unlikely to be this kind of conspiracy and far more likely someone from the same IP address looked up related information.
Yes I know I gave talks on the topic for some time.
> prefers-color-scheme: dark

How do I convince my browser (firefox, typically) to set this? Is there a way to toggle it on and off?
What happens to their services if they can’t procure hardware?
Maybe this is a dumb question, but what do you mean by "run corrections based on the number of simulations they run"?
Ah, you know, hustlin' after that eudaimonia.

Would you recommended any texts on stoicism (other than the classic trio of Enchiridion/Meditations/Seneca's letters)?
I'm sure there's a lot of actual data sharing going on, but I also wonder how often these are just the Baader-Meinhof effect (noticing recently mentioned things everywhere).

Today I made an insta post about sand that resembled dunes at the beach, mentioning a camel in the description. Less than 5 minutes later I saw the camel logo at the beach bathroom, on someone's discarded cigarettes.

Here it's obvious that there is no connection. But if I had instead randomly seen a camel cigarette ad online at that point in time, I might have seriously wondered if it's because I mentioned it in the post.
Tangential, but QuoteInvestigator is a great website, and quite entertaining. Many famous quotes are not from the people they're usually attributed to.

Examples:

"I Have Never Killed Any One, But I Have Read Some Obituary Notices with Great Satisfaction" (Darrow, not Twain, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/05/darrow-obituary/)

"When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?" (maybe not Keynes, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/)

"A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes" (neither Twain nor Churchill, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/)

"Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid" (not Einstein... https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/)

"I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" (not Voltaire, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/)
Supply and demand. Everyone wants to do cutting edge research but nobody wants to pay for it. People who know how to get it paid for hold all the cards and can therefore get away with anything.
Just a friendly reminder that the current communist regime in mainland China is not legitimate - the republic of China (currently in Taiwan) is the original member of both the League of Nations and the UN, and has actually transitioned to a stable, transparent, and prosperous democracy, and should be in charge of all of China.
"We must become the pitiless censors of ourselves." – Alain Badiou
No, this one's built from scratch in Go and based off LevelDB/RocksDB. They support Postgres wire protocol, but not based off any Postgres code.
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> all our western countries

Even Poland of Warsaw pack joined NATO. I wonder if western means the same thing to people.

It has evolved to mean North America and European democracies ?
And Apple spends billions a year to design and create the manufacturing equipment that Foxconn uses.
They do keep promises, otherwise they never get voted for again. I am able to describe the systems that exist, but I am not willing. If the majority of the Chinese like their system, good for them. And if the majority in the US or EU honestly decide they want it, too, I can live with that. People lived and thrived in the USSR, after all. But I would prefer not to.
I watched a lecture by an MIT database professor who recommends that the top 10 schools only allow up to 3 papers on CVs for junior faculty applications and 10 for tenure applications.

He thinks this will be enough to start a culture shift towards quality over quantity, which could go some way towards addressing the fraud and collusion ring issues by removing the incentive for these behaviors.
I saw something similar in an academic's blogged advice ten or fifteen ago: "At graduate level, you should cultivate [peers and a concentration] such that your intellectual correspondence is publishable."

I took that as plausible enough at the time to mention the advice once to a graduate student in philosophy. I did not take it at the time as immediately translatable into a [simply translated?] phrase I have heard since: "friendship corruption."

There are some video lectures from a writing consultant employed at UChicago. He accepts that concentrations within fields are to some extent self-defined in the academic game -- in only slightly more generous terms. IIRC his strategic advice for those failing to publish is: learn to frame your abstracts as respecting but advancing the discussion. Perhaps in small enough niches ingratiate yourself would need to be mentioned? Or show that you will play by being selectively generous with citations??

Citations. The academic version of SEO and currency more valuable than money? (Recall where page rank came from.) One kind of power behind institution-sanctioned monsters?
If Australia was smart, it wouldn't "take on" China period. Seems to be a losing proposition for Australia anyway you look at it seeing as Australia has somewhat less than 2% of China's population.
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Brooklyn, Jamaica, got it.

Even if you write Brooklyn USA, there are 22 places called Brooklyn in the USA.

So now your search term is "Pizza in Brooklyn, NY, USA".

And now you want to search for the cost of a taxi... "Taxi prices in Brooklyn, NY, USA".

And now you want to know who won the baseball... "Who won the baseball, in USA". (Baseball means other things in other countries)

It's a staggering number of queries where the location changes the interpretation of what you're looking for, which changes the results.
‘Doubled down’ on what?

I’m curious if you think any of his statements are untrue?
Thats not how science works.

1. First you make a hypothesis.

2. Then you gather data.

If people arent allowed to make hypotheses or gather data around hypotheses, we can't do the scientific method.
It's the same evasive maneuvers that are used on Reddit.

I would kindly suggest you stop wasting your time engaging them in their corp. troll techniques.

If you have additional questions hopefully other members can answer them here.
John Taylor Gatto was an award-winning public school teacher who argued roughly that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto
China wins regardless. Seriously who else does Australia have to sell its natural resources to? India? Not anytime soon.
Odd even
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Indefinitely does not mean forever, it just means without a specified end date.
No tenure, no exploratory science and no moonshot. Newton was a dangerous asshole. Would you exchange differential calculus for squeaky-clean academia? I don't think so ...
This is provably false on every level. Android and iOS deliver plenty of telemetries to Google and Apple. Apps do plenty of surveillance as well.
GPG?
According to this research conducted by the Harvard Kennedy School, the vast majority of people in China do like their system: https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/understanding-ccp-resil...
The problem was that that wasn't a suggestion made in good faith, with the primary goal of finding out what happened or how to prevent future mistakes. The goal from the beginning was to put the blame on someone, to scapegoat. It wasn't a call for investigation: it was a demand for an investigation — a demand to grant international investigators with the equivalent of weapons inspection powers. It's treating China as a dog rather than an equal. Also consider the greater context: hostilities against China had been building up for a number of years. The call for an investigation was just the last drop for China in a long list of grievances which China previously communicated, but nobody acknowledged.

I'm in favor of an investigation to really find out what happened and how to prevent future incidents, instead of all the political games that are happening right now.

Sources:

We targeted China before they targeted us: https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/we-targeted-them-...

Australia’s exporters should be furious at the foreign agents destroying their best market: https://citizensparty.org.au/media-releases/australias-expor...

Lessons on how not to do it: Australia and China (in Dutch): http://www.blogaap.nl/blog/3420/Lessen-van-hoe-het-niet-moet...
Same, but for books I've switched to my local bookstore. Mainly because I would like to continue having a local bookstore. Now that I don't have Prime anymore, cost and speed are about the same.

I've been meaning to check out alternative ebook vendors too. Anybody have something they like on Android?
Name Sans, So Far
There is a difference between the shape of a thing and the specific instance of the thing. To explore the operation of code at an edge case you need to create an instance of the thing that represents that edge case.
There were multiple theories of various levels of conspiracy thinking.

The 'deliberately released bioweapon' stance was niche by niche standards. It had a vocal base, and some initial inertia in January due to the HK protests. But the 'accidental lab leak' hypothesis always made more sense.

It was the weakest version of the argument, and the existence of that bathwater in need of being tossed hardly necessitated defenestrating the clean baby lying next to the tub.
If this was a widespread practice, don’t you think we'd have found hard evidence by now? That’s an awful lot of audio data to constantly process or upload, and as locked down as some modern devices are, we still have wireshark, iOS jailbreaks, and rooted Android phones. And, we have security researchers and other curious hacker-types who are constantly probing for stuff.
Note that iMessage only became a thing in the US ‘pay to receive SMS’ market. It’s mostly irrelevant in the rest of the world. Yet they have that same lead outside the US.
It's amazing how few people believe they are affected by ads. You must wonder why it's the most lucrative business in the world?

I'm sure I've also read somewhere that those most affected by ads are those who believe they are not affected by them.
It is for me. I am quite conscientious and I expect others to do their jobs at least as per the prescription, if not scrupulously. "New" means "new" to me, no exceptions.

As a matter of fact, I would go to great lengths in order to return or replace the coffee scale if that happened to me. It places my mind at peace to have things exactly as I expect them to be.
> So, if I'm 30, they'll estimate ~50 years of revenue going forward from me and use this as LTV?

No. If you're 30, they might (or might not) group you with other 30 year olds, if that's important, and run this model against you all as a group. But you don't punch in "he has 50 years left to live" in the model. The model doesn't know any of that, it just knows your transaction history, and it works better when the population of histories are more similar than dissimilar. Though it's also very effective when run against a large population too.
This is a super simplified and somewhat wrong interpretation of trade dynamics. Surpluses are important because 1) sustained surpluses imply structural reasons, and in this case, China's consistent upgrade in industrial production chains as it uses the funds it has acquired to invest in improving technology and human resources. 2) sustained deficits are often correlated with domestic employment moving away from manufacturing and into services, as well as a bigger share of income by corporations who are able to offshore their production, leading to greater inequality. 3) The dollar will not maintain its purchasing power forever, if its manufacturing, R&D and military dominance are perceived to be eroded. Many countries are moving away from sole reliance on dollars as the only reserve as we speak, including China. The amount of US dollar assets China has divested over the years is staggering.
For me, I endeavored to contribute to the realization of biological immortality, so that no one in the future has to suffer what I did.
care to enlighten us?
I have designed some satellite microwave PA, and the thermal ranges were -20C to +70C, but yes, not even an industrial temperature range.

The biggest issue is getting heat out, though my module was on a cold plate and I doubt it was ever cycled to those ranges.

The concern was keeping output power and current within spec over those ranges; getting enough output power (within distortion specs) at hot, and keeping the current under spec at cold (so as not to trip a breaker).
From all those addons and mods I've seen for this page, this is really the best one. Thank you.

I have one minor issue though: the top bar (with new threads past etc.) is white with the text almost white too. Makes it unreadable. I'm not sure if this is somehow my fault or if it comes from the addon: https://i.imgur.com/DPEn3b6.jpeg

I have dark mode on.
The great New York subway map debate of 1978
>> The motivation behind it is very simple: eye-watering salaries in the field.

For a very broad meaning of "in the field". Academic salaries are kind of meh. The eye-watering salaries you mean are paid by large technology companies and I don't think those hire you on the merit of your publications, only. For example, allegedly google and facebook et al hire drop-outs from PhD programmes in highly rated institutions etc. so people who haven't yet had the chance to change the face of AI with their research, if I may be so bold.
How would you like me to respond? I have not declared any argument whataboutism. I am only interested in sources from governments which guarantees and exercises a free press.

You cannot write a piece of paper in bad faith and declare it legitimate if you are the only source of legitimacy.
Or there could just be a glut of savings in China.

We get "real stuff." China gets money some of which is re-invested in China some of which comes back to America/Canada as loans, real estate investment, etc, which in part drives American asset price inflation and also enables our government to cut us "stimulus checks" to buy more real stuff from China...see the picture...China produces we buy...

Here is a suggestion. Read the "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith. It is still true. The long term prosperity of a nation is not based on how cheaply it can borrow money. Rather it is based on its comparative advantage in producing "real stuff." While China is investing in moving up the manufacturing value chain, the USA is taking increasing debt and experiencing rising asset values out of line with increasing real production.
This model has been applied to every field; all those “family run businesses” like the mafia, the American news industry, Harvard.
AI Will Feed Us
If you’re a manager and not technical you’re not going to understand what your people are doing, you’re only going to understand what they tell you.

Also, you’re going to be manipulated and hoodwinked by the managers around you who are technical.

Lastly, the engineers you’re managing are going to laugh at you behind your back.

I’ve seen all of this happen before.
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I don't really consider it a good thing. I think VPNs should be the default for everyone. But yes, it means that ad networks aren't surreptitiously listening to your spoken conversations. They are just doing the most brain-dead obvious correlations.
For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect and more generally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
I think that enough anecdotes do add up to data. Hard evidence? Until a corporate Snowden comes along we may never know, just as we suspected similar things about government surveillance but had no hard evidence until Snowden surfaced.
Some devices have physical kill switches for cameras and mics. Whether or not the eavesdropping theory is true, such devices can help you deal with your immediate worries.
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This makes me curious of how the gradual change from gas- to charging stations will affect these places. I could see clusters of charging stations gathering in the same place and causing a resurgence of shopping centers, maybe even malls, in those areas.
Supporting the ML Reproducibility Challenge
Hey, HN! I'm one of the creators of DAGsHub(https://dagshub.com). As some of you might know, there's an ML Reproducibility Challenge(https://paperswithcode.com/rc2020) happening now, organized by Papers with Code, with some of the leading ML conferences. If you haven't heard about it, or didn't consider joining, I think that it provides an awesome opportunity for a number of reasons:

- It's a chance to work on SOTA research, with a clearly defined goal – I personally took part in the last round of the challenge and it was a lot of fun and very challenging (I learned a lot from the other participants).
- You can create a cool project for your portfolio.
- You'll be helping to advance the field by making sure that research results are replicable.

I personally care a lot about ML reproducibility, and making machine learning projects easily reproducible is one of the reasons we started DAGsHub in the first place.

We've decided to support the challenge, by providing participants $500 per paper reproduced, to help cover compute costs and incentivize participation, as well as provide our platform and support from our team and community for the challenge.

This is not a challenge we started, and other organizations are supporting it as well, but we thought this might encourage more people to take part, and think that everyone would benefit.

You can read the full guidelines here: https://dagshub.com/pages/reproducibility-challenge

Would love to answer any questions you might have.
Oh I see they also made one with a real keyboard as recently as last year (thinkbook plus), wonder if the eink can be drawn via software directly (instead of using it as a regular display and let the driver guess how to optimize draw calls).
Indeed, the blatant subtext of whataboutist arguments is that these things are ok, they're fine, they're normal and justifiable or should be, and here's a reason why.
The submersion of (historical) buildings/villages is all about "how much they are valued?/how much does it cost to save them?" and "are we ready to spend that klnd of money?".

The latter example is a different thing, it is "health" related, just like the norms amd Laws about houses, specifying the the minimal requirements to be able to call a house "habitable", or suitable for humans to live in, that evolved during the years and nowadays are in Italy among - believe - the strictest ones, see this old post of mine that lists some of the base requirements:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21178607

at least compared to some other EU countries.
I don’t think the Pooh censorship was Xi’s doing, and the apparatus would have done some similar proactive censoring for the previous president as well.

Xi crossed into dictator territory when he was able to declare himself president for life. Otherwise, we’d be talking about his successor by now.
I think you’re right that is the core of the model. Good customers always get treated better than Joe Rando.

But Amazon has more information and uses that too. They know loss rates by zip code or by block by carrier.

Usually items I order for them that are higher shrink risk don’t go through their Amazon distribution network and come UPS or USPS. Anecdotally, I’ve noticed those returns are easier — they probably dump cost on the 3rd party shipper.
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Any idea if it works for tinnitus?
Sounds interesting, but please let me take a look before forcing me to sign up
I can’t relate to people that have never had a problem with Amazon. Years back I had a string of 3 or 4 purchases that I would hear nothing about, until they would just refund me one day without ever sending the item. I also bought an air conditioner right before a heat wave and they just never shipped it. (I live in a west coast city, not a place that’s hard to ship to.) I was done after that.

Amazon just isn’t worth dealing with. You can buy it from someone else.
I've got a question for anybody who works in ad/marketing tech - is what Robert is describing something that you've worked on/with and seen successful results? If so did you build it that way intentionally? Like, I totally understand that it's possible, but has anybody intentionally built something that tracks or correlates peoples location so they can group them with similar interests and sell them similar products?

To me, the stupidest simplest solution is probably the most likely - some naive marketing analyst probably just grouped all traffic coming from the same IP address into the same bucket and blasted ads to them based on recent Amazon purchases at the same IP address.
How common do you think your view on "the real problem" is amongst your peers on the mainland? From my view in HK, it's

a) hard to see many agreeing with your view, and
b) also very difficult to form an accurate picture
So you're incentivizing being racist on the internet to make it harder to fire somebody.
Leaving academic social psychology for industry data science
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I realize why they avoid showing comparisons to reference points for size. 4.2” is absolutely tiny and useless unless you're holding it right in front of you.

WaveShare sells up to 13'' color e-paper displays. Go big or go home. The rest can be supplied by an ESP32 or a RPI, there's no need to invent (expensive) hot water here.
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I despised how data sets and code were considered a gold-mine and researchers would often refuse to release them lest they give up a serious paper publishing advantage for their group. More often than not, i found code full of serious errors and completely lacking basic test cases and sanity. Sometimes the data sets were much larger than the subset chosen for publication.
I'm in the UK. House price inflation nationwide has been running at 7-8% a year for 20 years and price:income ratios are at all-time highs.

The mortgage rates on 5% down are like 3.5% and the mortgage rates on 20-25% down are like 1.5%, so effectively your monthly mortgage payment could get 50% higher with a 5% deposit.
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Novelty is in the job description though. I think the problem, especially in AI/ML is the obsession with "State of the Art" algorithms. This can be gamed by making claims with numerical "experiments". If an idea had to stand on its own, and be interesting even if it may not make a better pattern-recognition product, most of them probably wouldn't make it. Indeed that's essentially the requirements presented by reviewers and editors: "prove we should read about this otherwise-uninteresting method by giving numerical test results where it wins".