skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're the one who came along, ascribing to me opinions that I don't hold, and then insulting those opinions. And then you're telling me that you think I can do better. Maybe you also should?

You went on an epic rant about how you have no patience with the existing arrangements because they were made in the past. You may call that "making your case", but it sure sounded whiny to me. And when I tell you that, you tell me that by me pointing that out, I'm whining. Pot, you may be protesting a bit much about the kettle.

As for "gathering dissent", the HN guidelines say:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

"Gathering dissent" sounds to me like a subset of "ideological battle". And my "go do it", while indeed a command (and perhaps not either clearly or kindly expressed), was saying what the guidelines are saying: Take this somewhere else.
> People with history of allergic reactions are told to not take it

Then they should not get the vaccine and be shielded by herd immunity. There are also several other illnesses which are not compatible with vaccinations but the number of those people are small. So healthy people should partake in the vaccination as for them, the risk-reward ratio is definitely worth it.
To be honest, these days I'll click the unsubscribe link in newsletters and stuff, but if they expect me to click on another small link on a website or even enter my email again I just go back and report it as spam. Spoken to some friends who do the same, and I feel that this is the only reasonable approach to take with this.
My "favorite" kind of manager:

The project is running behind. A time extension is accepted by the big-wigs. The manager quite brain-fully increases the number of tasks that need to be completed in the newly allocated timeframe.
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I think you mean the proportion is higher here, unless you mean that >90% of people who could intelligently explain ARP and IP forwarding are HN posters.
I see your point. If you're the kind of user who keeps automatic image download disabled, and rarely downloads them manually, keeping Mail Privacy Protection disabled might actually be more private. Fortunately, it isn't automatic. You'll have to enable it.

But if you do download a tracking pixel, email marketers already know you are using an Apple device. I see the Mail Privacy Protection feature as being primarily for people who want to automatically download images while sending less PII.
"'Dangerous' is contextual...if the risks of a task can be mitigated with some basic safety process, is it still dangerous? Getting into a grain bin is like rock climbing...go commando and you're playing with death, go in with the right process and gear and you'll be fine. Is it still 'dangerous' then?"

I think this is a flawed analogy.

Although I don't do much rock climbing, I do take part in some other high consequence recreational activities. I agree that some of these risks can be mitigated with equipment and safety measures and, in fact, I don't feel like I'm courting death.

The difference here is that these are activities I have tens of thousands of reps of. Further, I am regularly practicing these activities in totally safe environments. Finally, I have mental models of thousands of different routes and locations and conditions and settings upon which to draw.

Contrast this with (for instance) entering in, and working on, a grain silo. You will not have had thousands of reps of this activity. You will not have entered thousands of different grain silos. You will not have trained for decades in practice grain silos. This is a very high consequence activity that you will have very shallow mental maps of.

I think that's an important distinction.

It suggests that regardless of equipment and processes, one should enter into (high consequence activities one has shallow mental maps of) on very high alert.
This is such a silly thing to say. By that logic, our companies would be driving us to work as many hours as possible.

The fact is, most (white-collar) places just don't have enough work to consume people for 40 continuous hours.
Thanks! Great questions. Existing papers switched the class for KDDCUP99 so we followed them to have a fair comparison. We also use UNSW and DoS which are time-series based datasets. Once the encoder is trained on few normal samples and use that to initialise the memory, MemStream will be able to handle anomalous samples even if they are in majority. Retraining can also be done at a later point if required.
I've been using Paddle (and thus not worrying about VAT) for years now. They're mostly pretty good, although I use a very limited subset of their functionality, I basically just use them as a payment gateway. Their support is responsive and helpful, especially in the last year or so, and I haven't had any downtime to speak of. They don't accept all the payment methods that Stripe does, but enough for me.

There are a couple of pain points. Their invoicing is just a hot mess, if invoicing is a requirement for you I'd evaluate that very carefully. And they don't really have any sort of proper test system, which is pretty unbelievable. I do most of my testing in production using discount coupons, but 100% discount coupons can only be used with orders for a single item, so I can't test orders for 10 licences in any very useful way.

I dealt with their contract conditions by just ignoring them and crossing my fingers :-)

Still, all that said, there's nothing in this offering from Stripe that would tempt me to change. I'm also lucky in that I managed to negotiate a good rate from them when their model was switching to B2B (from Mac app sales, which the App Store killed). If you have any further questions, feel free to email me.

Edit: one other thing I like is that they use Currency Cloud to transfer funds to me, which give a much better exchange rate than a simple bank transfer and means that my local banks don't stiff me to receive a foreign transaction.
Unlikely. Marketing keeps up with its industry. As soon as Gmail introduced the smart inbox thing, their goal was immediately to make sure their messages don’t go to the promotional tab.
I don't do modern coding with "bunch of dependencies downloaded at compile time" so now I am having fears about being "like so out of touch man". Just reply and tell me I am out of touch if I am so far off base here.

If the updated library breaks your stuff then can't you just... not update?

And if you want to update to the new library for XYZ new cool stuff it does, then you are already putting in effort to utilise XYZ. In which case you can sort out the new ABC fix too.

It is extra work but it is part of having updated to the new coolness.
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How would he know? How would anyone know??
No, bonjours exists (it's simply the plural form of bonjour used as a noun) but the contexts it is used are very very infrequent so it's weird to find it in that list.
I see this as a positive side effect. Usually I understand the project now, this might not be truw for other people or even myself in the future.

Using documentation to clarify concepts as I go is certainly aomething that happens, but it is not the reason i do it.
there's no need for that when samples of the virus itself are still retained by two laboratories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_virus_retention_debat...
Not really. But then again, we mostly shop for food, which is where I noticed most of the price increases. I would say our grocery bill is now around 30% higher than it was pre-pandemic.
The attacker would start out with a targeted user's email or login to the site. A personal email address usually is usually public. Start the password recovery process. Use a botnet to try different shortened links. A rate limit on password reset for an account would help if the attacker had low probability of success before the reset link expired, but the attacker can cycle between multiple target accounts.
Rocket spaceship combo rolled out to launch pad for China's first crewed mission
Out of curiosity, how the heck are they modeling these for insurance rate purposes? Considering we're at the beginning of mass deployment.
Yep, it's all in the archive: https://getputpost.co/archive. Might be a little dated now! Hope you enjoy.
People have been downvote-happy since, roughly, the beginning of the pandemic. And I saw multiple reddits gain a lot of new members during lock down. I haven't seen numbers for HN, but I assume there has been an influx of new people here as well because, wow, is the Eternal September especially bad of late.

You are probably asking questions to which we don't have answers. Someone with medical credentials once told me "You are asking questions they don't have answers for. That's not how medical studies work." and I think people get cranky any time you ask questions the studies aren't designed to answer. For many people, it likely smacks of "You are just being a smartass." and "How dare you make the authorities look dumb!" or something like that.

4) Why do some vaccine recipients seem to develop thrombotic events?

My assumption would be that this is related to the fact that the infection itself seems to cause blood clots and my general impression is that what it does to the blood system is a significant issue and a large part of why it is deadly.

I am not a medical professional. I'm just a random internet stranger who reads and is making conversation on the internet.
In Elixir would it also mean that all assertions after the first failure don't get ran? Cause that's how it works in most other languages. The better (but maybe slower) alternative is parameterization.
I'd love to know how the rest of the world experienced the anti-societal refuseniks of Covid. In America, we've had their ticket for a long time, a persistent extremely vocal segment of society that refuses to get along, that always has very important opinions on other people's business & how to do things, that seems to have created their own social strata on being anti-societal, anti-cooperative, generally just anti-.

It's social programming. These people have been raised by their media, their politicians, their tribe, to be like this, to behave like this, to assume always it's other people, it's other forces that are responsible, that are causing problems. Their dogma is that they are good people, their wants are correct, and others are bad. This isn't "people just behave randomly". This is deliberate. This is overt & obvious, a persistent problem, a persistent anti- everyone else faction of America, that has caused a royal stink my entire life.
Work from home and productivity: evidence from personnel and analytics data [pdf]
Instead of "AI Warfare" what if we come back to reality and say machine learning driven warfare?

It is a lot of nothing. You have to conflate science fiction with reality because reality is a non-story here.

I worry we have become dangerously complacent or deluded that nuclear war is impossible. I mean if you read anything about the early 60s you almost have to conclude we just got lucky. So many chances for people to do something stupid.

Imagine if military brass in the early 60s thought the Soviets had developed science fiction "AI" the way people view "AI" today? Defcon 1 no doubt.
> As for operator overloading and language extensibility, I think most people would agree these are never really clear cut wins as they can add inordinate complexity in exchange for sometimes dubious value. It certainly makes some things look nicer (matrix and vector types for sure) but you can always use functions to get the same utility with less sugar.

Operator overloading to do what C++ did from the outset is a mistake. It looks flashy, but it buries land mines in the habits of your programmers. A programmer who is actually both shifting numbers and doing some other arithmetic operation may look at the code and wonder, "What is the precedence of these operations?" and having concluded that they don't remember, or at least, that their reviewers may not remember, though the compiler surely does, they'll add parentheses or re-factor. But if they've learned that shift is really some other operation concealed by overloading - they can be astonished when the compiler cheerfully applies that other operation with the precedence of a shift 'cos as far as the compiler is concerned that's still what it is.

But there definitely are uses (matrix addition for example) where just overloading an operator feels very sensible. I can see a strong case for == and != too if your language has that from the outset, it won't make sense to add it later.

So the trick is that a language should do this very sparingly and encourage programmers likewise, but I think that only makes it a feature to avoid entirely if you're very dedicated to having a small language, since overloading is nice but not necessary. Go maybe is in that category.
Richard Ernst – Nobel laureate whose research made MRI possible dies at 87
The embodied cognition folks believe that the embodiment of sentience affects cognition.

That is probably true to some extent. I mean, if we make an AI that has an orgasm each time it blows up something with a hellfire missile, it will probably learn to find ways to blow up more things more frequently and efficiently.

Our cognition is affected by pain, hunger, thirst, cold, heat, pleasure, smells, sounds, etc... positive and negative reinforcements.
I'm sure this is a dumb question, but are there any conceivable use cases for a gravity-based communication system?
I am not a lawyer, nor a public health legal expert but I think there is a significant legal difference between COVID and ordinary vaccine requirements because the COVID vaccines are only authorized for emergency use.

I think schools and colleges requiring vaccination are also offering accommodations (distance learning, etc.) to avoid legal fights, while if the vaccines were fully authorized they would not.
Most people prefer to be lied to by someone pleasant than have their stupidity accurately and bluntly laid bare.

That's the short of it. I've never seen a Linus rant be a personal attack. Every time, he's pointing out that someone who ought to know better is being dangerously stupid to the detriment of a great many others.

Some people take offence at this -- even if they're not the target of Linus' ire -- because they mistakenly believe that everyone has the right to be treated nicely by others irrespective of their bad behaviour.
There are a lot more people who will soon have access to genome fabrication technology (there are already companies that do this as a service) than can break into a BSL4+ laboratory and steal one of the few remaining smallpox samples.
Yes, yes, yes, yes! I've been doing 20 hour weeks (on average) for the past 1-2 years and I can say with great confidence that I finally seem to have achieved a sustainable work/life balance. And of those hours worked there has practically been zero waste.

20 hours at 100% efficiency is so much better than 40 hours at 60%, for all parties involved. Even if the latter has slightly higher overall output, when you look at it long term (health/happiness) the former wins hands down.
I'm concerned, especially in the tech community, that there is so much aggravation toward a group that wants more data before making a decision that could have long term repercussions. The CDC has a page describing past vaccine safety issues, the most recent being 2013[0]. Errors include unexpected side effects or complicates and manufacturing issues.

The treatment being offered is unlike any other mainstream protocol, has not completed the FDA approval process that every other vaccine that's given to the general population (in the US) has gone through.

Add to that counter-intuitive advice being given by medical professionals. When I was young, I had chicken pox. I was never offered the vaccine that my children have received. However, previously infected people are being urged to undergo this treatment. I could do the primary research to determine _why_ that is the case, or those urging everyone to participate can explain clearly why it's different this time.

I don't like the language chosen, which, to me, obscures the idea that what is being offered is like a yearly flu vaccine or any other dead/disabled/controlled viral vaccine. I've read that there are vaccines for SARS-CoV2 that are similar to what normally comes to mind, but they are not available in my country.

mRNA research is awesome. The technique is very cool, but beyond the theoretical best case scenario, what are the failure cases for these treatments? What if the mRNA is damaged along the way. What if there are unknown issue with the delivery mechanism.

Ultimately, I am the primary income for our family and in a not-at-risk category if I were to get infected. At this time, I've decided that is a safer position for my family. I'm hoping that as FDA approval is granted and longer term affects are well known that I'll be comfortable going forward, but at this point I am not.

I'm not anti-vax, but not keen to be an early adopter for new treatment option when I'm not at danger of what I'm being protected from. There's the additional argument about protecting those that can't be vaccinated, but I'm happy to follow other hygiene protocols that have been used in practice for much longer.

0 - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....
This seems pretty easy to mitigate. Instead of tracking opens with the pixel, make the first image loaded in the email the “tracking image” voila you now can create a unique link to track for each email.
Hey Chris, we use `dbt rpc` under the hood, which I believe supports incremental models :)
On a phone there simply isn't space to display much more than the domain name. Picking some subset of the URL to display is unavoidable, and the domain name usually going to be a better subset than the obvious other options of the start or the end of the URL. As such I see nothing wrong with it there. On desktops you do typically have enough space to show the full URL, so I dislike it showing only the domain name.
The paper presents some interesting ideas, but I think it ultimately fails to account for the fact that AGI does not mean "the ability of an agent to produce the absolute perfect solution to any problem", but rather "the ability of an agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can" (wiki for AGI, emphasis added). Taking that into account, in every example you provide I argue the human approach more closely aligns with the "limited" behavior the real-bound RL agent would demonstrate than the "perfect" approach a surreal RL agent might take.

For instance:

You argue a real-bound RL doctoring algorithm would not appropriately set "the patient dies" to `-Inf` weight, but in fact humans do not either. If we did you'd see in the case of a near-death patient absolutely every procedure, no matter how costly, experimental, dangerous, or irrelevant, would be attempted if it had even the slightest chance of increasing the likelihood of them not dying. In reality, doctors make risk-reward decisions on every patient, and will very often choose not to undertake costly, experimental, dangerous, or irrelevant procedures even if there is some documented minuscule chance of it working.

Further, you argue that a real-bound RL theorem prover or composer would not know how to stop going down an ever increasing state-chain x_0, x_1, x_2, ... even if there existed some other state y that was "better" than any of the x's. But, this too is a very human behaviour! How many brilliant mathematicians, musicians, heck even software engineers, have spent their entire careers creating further and further derivatives of a known successful work, as opposed to starting anew and creating something truly world-changing?

You also bring up a theoretical button which on every press gives you 1 point, versus a different button which gives infinite points on every power-of-two press. You argue that the real-bound RL agent would be forced to move to the 1-point-per-press button after some number of presses, but would any human really sit there pressing the button for all of eternity to eventually get the `Inf` instead of just saying "screw it I want something now"? Not to mention that the problem setup is fundamentally flawed, as within our current understanding of the universe there is no infinite supply of anything, and furthermore if there was an infinite supply of something you wouldn't have any benefit of pressing after the first press, much less waiting around for the billionth -- you'll continue to have an infinite supply. In fact, what you've done there is presumed a surreal universe by a) assuming that a button can provide an infinite supply of something, and b) assuming that having two of the infinities is better than having just one. So sure, if you're in a surreal universe, backing your RL with surreal numbers is a good idea. But we're, so far as I know, in a real universe, so backing with reals should be sufficient.

Edit: I above use "surreal" to mean both the standard concept of surreal numbers in addition to any numbering concept which allows for and distinguishes between integer multiples of infinities.
No, but it is used for Navigation in submarines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_gradiometry#Gravity_gr...
You have a printer thats no where near a wired port.
Your USB stick isnt going to work in this case.
I find it strange that an offical government body is posting a blog promoting the use of Google Analytics over link shortening tools for click tracking analytics purposes.

I understand the argument to use a secure, formatted, link shortened. I don’t understand the argument to use Google Analytics (which captures way more data than I need in most cases) as the full and final solution to all of my analytics requirements.
Backlash against 'frightening' tests on whales
> Tembexa received priority review, fast track

This is the same rating the COVID vaccines received. Either we are reacting to a real threat or preparing for perceived threat.

It is possible some variola virus variant is being produced in a lab. This would obviously pose a risk necessitating precautionary measures.
As I remember those times, they didn't go after people for simply downloading music, they were going after the people who were actively distributing music on file sharing services.

There's a much harder burden of proof for the RIAA when they sue people over simply downloading songs or albums when the user can easily make the case for fair use. I mean, how many albums, 8-tracks, cassettes and CD's did you buy of the same artist and album? I know I did it thousands of times.

The burden gets a lot easier when you can show the person was actively distributing essentially pirated music to other users - propagating what is by legal definition, illegal activity.