skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, what's confusing is that algebra usually uses matrices to describe linear functions from n-dimensional to m-dimensional vector spaces. Matrix has n rows, m columns, you give it an n-dim vector and after matrix multiplication you get back an m-dim vector.

The author uses a matrix quite differently. You give it two integer coordinates i and j and it gives you the value at position (i, j) back. That's a valid use, but not quite what you'd expect in a math-oriented article.
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Wait, how does this work? I'm really rusty, what would the f, A and b correspond to here?
>Any of the recipients who opened the attachment would have installed malware capable of monitoring and controlling their computers.

What kind of attachment? These articles tend to concentrate on trivia while omitting the actual attack.
Just to point out, it seems like the author themselves submitted the story to HN. Still I agree with your reasoning, but I think slight clickbaity titles do get clicks which is why we keep seeing them.
[I think psychologists have](https://alifeofproductivity.com/how-to-experience-flow-magic...)

Basically, those that are more "brainy" need a higher level of mental stimulation in order to not be bored. Being given too much mental stimulation relative to your intelligence/skills results in anxiety. The sweet spot is somewhere in between and we seek this sweet spot (or at least stumble upon it and remain sticky to it).

People then sort themselves over time into these buckets s/t (generally), the brainy people end up doing brainy things, and the not-so-brainy people do less-brainy things. Reversing of roles would be mutually detrimental to both parties.
That article references the American Office. The above comment references the British Office.
I love this. I used back in 2015 and did many courses but didn't finish.
Sure, but does it happen right next to a world renowned Ebola virus research center?
Unfortunately, a theoretical embedding doesn't always accomplish the

work of Double Negation Elimination in practice.
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The real motive behind most of these kind of articles: "...loose talk about a lab leak elevates tensions between China and the United States, undermining the collaborative research we need to understand this pandemic and prevent the next one."

Translation: "please shut up about this, it doesn't matter now and we need to get China calmed down, and this talk is making them defensive and therefore uncooperative." The rest of the article is mostly just FUD to try to provide a plausible excuse for ignoring the obvious fact that China is covering up, so that raises the possibility that there is a mistake for them to cover up.

I would prefer the truth to be brought out. But, I have to admit, it may be that the "let's just pretend we don't realize they screwed up" policy is in fact the wiser one.
Unless you're a cryptographer, don't even think about rolling your own crypto (I'm not one, I did, and I'm ashamed of myself).
Thanks for the encouragement! I agree, its absolutely important to plan for it, not only for yourself, but for family and friends. This is one of the keys to it being a successful time off.
I am of the slight suspicion that I might not want to get back to being permanent anymore like you. If you did move to freelance, may I ask how you handle health insurance for you and family? Or are you not in the US? :)
That’s the trouble with the lead-poisoning theory, it’s one of those things where you can describe all the issues as the net result of poison.

The rise of the church always interests me in this story. As I understand it, Christianity was a kind of rebellious liberalizing movement which the state ultimately tried to coopt (Constantine). It’s pre-state adoption was a movement away from more brutal practices, such as crucifixion. Eventually it developed into a competing power structure.
Generally I agree, but this time I took this more as an interesting thought.
Well, I think the Indian Citizens should decide if their Elected Government has sinister policies or not, and what remedies they have under the democratic processes & constitution. I am not big fan of Modi or pro any political party, but he did not come to power by force. He was elected with a great majority and mandate under what is touted as world's largest democracy.

Coming back to my argument, Twitter should follow land of the law and if not should cease Indian operations. I'd love to hear your counter argument to this.
India under BJP/Modi right now is as much a "democracy" as Victor Orban's Hungary (in name only):

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/india
A better (by which I mean more accurate) framing is that HIV is a very difficult virus.

It hides inside the immune system itself! It writes itself into your DNA! Diabolical stuff when you think about it.
the only two improvements I wanted were joycons that don't suck ass (3/4 of my joycon thumbsticks are messed up, and I don't even play the console that much), and a newer, less terrible eShop, in that order. maybe some kind of form factor update, like the DS lite was compared to the original DS. I don't care about 4k output from "underpowered, by current console standards" hardware.

this announcement is only disappointing because while the Switch is obviously a hybrid handheld/TV console, Nintendo has a great history of making hardware updates to their handheld lines that make them better in various ways (not just performance!).
Perhaps say something positive too? People have worked hours on end, built stuff and presented it "hacker peers" and this the best and only comment you could come up with?

For someone that has done a couple of Show HNs [1][2] I would assume you know better.

People plan for their submissions and look forward to reading the comments. You can and should do better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10799830
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9840990
The armed anti-lockdown protests were handled far more peacefully than any BLM protest that happened.
> He wasn't black, he wasn't woman, why violate the history?

Because it's acting. Maybe women are just trying to have some fun playing men, given that historically in the West, women were always played by men (or boys). Cross-gender and cross-race acting is nothing new. Have you ever seen a play? Are you upset whenever Othello is played by a white person?
You seem to be suggesting that Audacity records mouse movements and is a keylogger. Do you have any evidence for that? Telemetry is used to understand how software is being used in order to inform ongoing design. Spyware is used to make money from user data. For instance, a website is not spyware--even if it records what links people click.

"In software, telemetry is used to gather data on the use and performance of applications and application components, e.g. how often certain features are used, measurements of start-up time and processing time, hardware, application crashes, and general usage statistics and/or user behavior. In some cases, very detailed data is reported like individual window metrics, counts of used features, and individual function timings."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry
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I understood what the person was saying, I just didn't agree with it.
Two comments stood out to me in browsing as needlessly rude and angsty, and it turns out they were both yours. Are you commenting for effect or just to vent?
No, I was aware that the commenter was on my side. I just suggested an alternative reply to the invalid argument.
For creativity software, there's a fine line between "what keyboard shortcuts do I press" and "can the sequence of what I'm typing be captured and recreated, and used to target me or steal my work."

Muse Group could have laid down very specific ground rules: telemetry will always be opt-in, you'll be able to audit exactly what is sent, it will never contain low-level keystroke information, it will be anonymized before being saved into our database and be impossible to associate with a cloud user login. That would be the opposite of spyware! But they didn't set these ground rules, and now they have this entire uprising on their hands. I'd like to give them the opportunity to do right and learn from this experience. But they also need a wake-up call that they need to work to earn back the community's trust.
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I am not educated on this matter, but I have to ask for your clarification. Would that not be just a pre-emptive lookup? Akin to keeping a cache of "results" per input token that are essentially memorized and regurgitated?

Sounds like there is still a db lookup, just not at runtime and instead at build time of the NN. Can you clarify this please?
Linux can be compiled with LLVM (clang), and the current rust code strongly prefers that you do so. It's possible to do gcc + rustc, but it's less supported, and if you pass the wrong gcc flags I believe it just won't work.
Sure, but as discussed the Garden Hermit gets a stipend or other support from the land owner, possibly in exchange for some kind of service. I could go buy nigh-useless land in Wyoming for a pittance, but there's a reason it's a pittance: it's probably unusable for agriculture, has little or no access to potable water, has no reasonable access to any infrastructure of any kind, etc. Basically, a much much more difficult living situation than the one being described by the article.
Same story as one I shared 4 years ago. Seems to be the best tactic! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031932

Edit: don’t want to sound accusatory
> There's a distinct difference; software with telemetry gathers how you use that particular application

That is spyware. How I use an application should not be anyone's business. It's a hop-skip-and-a-jump to learn private information from how software is used.

For example: do you hover your mouse over an icon? Do you let it linger for a unique amount of time? Do you have a particular writing style? Do you have a particular time between each keystroke? When you crash the application do you just re-open it or go do something different? Do you exit the application cleanly or do you power off the computer? Do you use the application without a license? Does your computer clock magically change? Does your computer location move? Do you travel between cities a lot, or even countries? Do you interact with the application in one location but leave it in the background in another location? Do you talk while the application is in use? Do your eyes follow your cursor? Are your eyes looking at the application while you're using it? Do you talk about other products while using the application?

ALL of this is private information. Telemetry is just a hop-skip-and-a-jump to data mining.
How do you conclude that?!
I'm so happy to see a Mighty Boosh reference here, one of the best shows ever created!
It's the common way to solve a linear system in octave, matlab and julia.

You have an invertible square matrix A, a vector b of the same dimension, and you want to find a vector x such that "A*x=b". Then you write "x=A\b", which is like "x=A^(-1)*b" but does not get to compute the full inverse matrix (which is useless).
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I dont mean the technology, it obviously works as evidenced by prototypes 20 years ago. I mean the concept and energy generation/storage, it doesnt make sense as soon as you take more than cursory glance. Hydrogen embrittlement, electrolysis energy loss, ranges, it all falls apart.
Switzerland has had just under 11,000 people die, NZ 26 (twenty-six).

Not to mention, NZ had complete lockdown for all of two months. The rest of the time peoples daily lives were unchanged. No masks (generally), concerts with 10,000+ people no problem. Summer holidays etc etc.
I've been trying to get into mycology as a hobby. I think it's awesome that you're working in this space. I did want to say, however, that covid is not over. I'm not sure who told you that but they're wrong.
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"Psychohistory" has a better ring to it than "cliodynamics", IMHO.
I think its important to step back and reassess how the bleak picture that is often painted differs from the reality of day to day life. One of the reasons it was difficult to convince people to take effective action like social distancing and quarantine is because even at its worst (in the US), most people didn't get sick, and very few that did experienced severe disease. For the majority of people, beyond the restrictions to day to day life, Covid didn't seem that different from a flu season in terms of the burden of the disease. Ironically, I personally have been pretty cautious in my interactions over the course of the pandemic, and as a result 2020 was the longest stretch of health my family has ever had.

None of this is to say that the pandemic is no big deal, or that it was handled well. But the point is that between mainstream media and social media, the picture, not just of the pandemic, but for any given topic, is always taken to the extreme. Every new bit of information is evidence of the apocalypse, the collapse of society, and the impending extinction of the human race. Enemies are everywhere. Nothing can be trusted. You are always being taken advantage of. The dystopia is now. You can't even google symptoms for an illness, without, as my doctor puts it "discover that your stubbed toe is actually terminal cancer and you have six months to live".

The reality is that there are definitely things worth being concerned about both as a society and individually, but very rarely does it live up to the "hype". I've found that the more I unplug and spend that time and energy engaging in my day to day life, the less bleak the world seems, and the happier I am.
I agree with your logic here, but ideally Intel and AMD have to follow the same rules and find cause to terminate their employees OR pay out severance based on duration of service.

You might follow this up by saying that this decreases global competitiveness as well, and you’re absolutely right.

When say for example HiSilicon’s employees work 12hrs a day 6 days a week and live in bunks on company property it would certainly be hard for Intel/AMD to compete. We then start getting into issues of worker rights being baked into international trade agreements.

When do we collectively agree to stop the race to the bottom ? Or do we just accept that labour has no value and humans are expendable?

I think most of the problems with this issue are rooted in the fact that capital is becoming increasingly more profitable than labour. It reminds me of “Capital In the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty.
> You seem to be suggesting that Audacity records mouse movements and is a keylogger. Do you have any evidence for that?

I would encourage you to re-read my post, if that is how you took it.
Twitter don't do any of the things you're claiming. I don't know why you think they do.
Your first sentence contains the kind of abusive language which has no place on this platform. Don't do that here.
Related to the paperclip maximiser [1]:

> Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
Working on a proposal to shore up opt-out feature so the stdlib can use them without fear, rather than the stop-gap ad-hoc CFG tokens the PR used temporarily.
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Today the mini languages torch is most prominently carried by Racket. The most accessible ease-in to this I've come across is Matthew Flatt's 'Creating Languages in Racket' https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2068896
Wow. That's extreme. Decaf supposedly has way less than 1/20 of the caffeine of regular coffee. Maybe you are sensitive to other substances that coffee contains on top of your sensitivity to caffeine?

Things we ingest have many weird organic substances which we don't pay much attention to because they don't noticeably harm nearly all people. But there's no guarantee they will not somewhat harm anybody.

Nothing we eat or drink was perfectly designed for human consumption. We just kind of get away with it.
This is absolutely hysterical. For me, the best parts are the song and the explainer video that uses cats and a stuffed shark. I've been reading through all of the new ecosystem and all the tweets about certifications and experience required for job positions and laughing my rear off.
Long Covid is ill defined, not especially common (~5-15% depending on the study), usually not that serious, and correlated with the intensity of the disease (so it will be lessened with vaccines avoiding hospitalization).
https://archive.is/MbFXo
Let me know when you have a new release and I'll try it out some more!

Scaffoldly+Knotend:

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Yes, the only major application that feels like it's GUI is on-par is Firefox. I've often wondered why GUI devs don't appear to be interested in OSS. It seems to me that it's more likely that there's something in OSS projects that is hostile to quality UI design. Application developers grew attached to the crappy UI that they designed, so they won't accept improvements to that area because they're too different.

LibreOffice vs Microsoft Office discussions invariably prompts someone to mention how much they hate the ribbon interface, usually by mentioning how bad the ribbon from Office 2008 was, as if it hasn't improved at all in the intervening 13 years. I think time has proven that that the ribbon really is a far better interface than the traditional button icons and text menus for office applications. But there are people who still adamantly refuse to accept that just like there were adamant diehards for DOS-based WordPerfect.
Being a responsible journalist today requires a certain amount of digital savvy especially if you’re covering controversial topics. Not victim blaming or anything but stuff like this is why journalists try to use secure messaging apps (well at least those they think are secure). I wonder if this is something that should be taught in school…
It's formal verification of an abstract machine as opposed to running code. The problem is that formal methods as a field doesn't yet have a rich enough vocabulary to distinguish between its flavors. I use "code verification" and "design verification", which is a little more specific, but has its own issues.

Is TLA+ a sandwich?
The code is under review.

> The ICD-10 code U09.9 Post COVID-19 condition code is not currently available in the United States and is under review by the U.S. ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee. In the meantime, CDC recommends the following ICD-10-CM code be used for post-COVID conditions: B94.8 Sequelae of other specified infectious and parasitic diseases

Anyways, it's not uncommon to get what a disease is wrong the first time. The CDC also initially referred to HIV as GRID (gay-related immune deficiency).
> Also, you might moan about cloud lock-in, but collaboratively editing documents in Office 365 is a vast improvement over emailing documents around and clumsy manual version management[0]. I would never go back.

This is not a good argument against cloud lock-in. All of that could be done and still allow perpetual local use.
Canada has their own issues, their government effectively lost its mind last year.

Maybe forcing everyone to take planes to enter the country will make the northern shore prime real estate though. Maybe they're behaving rationally and just have a very long term goal.