skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't even come close to the power of (not even particularly) modern collaborative filtering algorithms.

CF doesn't need to assume that A talks to B well and B talks to C well implies A talks to C well- rather, it typically tries to learn an embedding for A, B, C that predicts their interactions effectively.

In the simplest form, this could be applying SVD or nonnegative matrix factorization to the user interaction matrix, truncating to get a low-rank symmetric approximation. More advanced forms would try to predict the interaction as some function of the two user embeddings, possibly even a neural network.

This only shows that a particular feature based on 2-chains of interactions isn't useful, whereas the standard approaches I described can try to infer information across any number of connections, and don't necessarily assume that 2-chains as described are indicative of a particular result.
Covid 90-day rolling impact by partisanship
I took the reply to mean that from the outside the sheer number of Nuget packages looks encouraging, but the situation from the inside is different. Although it reads a bit ambiguous.

dotnet ecosystem is.. I think it's coming along, but there are some quality gaps in certain areas that are odd compared to say Python or Golang. dotnet is MS baby so you would think there may be official SSH and WinRM libraries? Not so fast. There is a community SSH lib now that is looking good is has been active, but nothing from MS as far as I can tell. WinRM? I THINK the powershell project has this functionality inside it but it's nothing official that's published separately.

I'm planning on starting an OSS project using dotnet in the fall that is very system oriented so libraries like these are important to me. Also keeping an eye on asp dotnet, blazor, and etc.. Been lurking dotnet for over a decade.
I read the journal "Accidents in North American Mountaineering". I'm not a mountaineer much, but most of it applies to hiking. I don't read it to speculate on anything. I read it to learn from other peoples' mistakes.

A family went hiking and ended up dead. They made a mistake. So if I go hiking again, how can I avoid that particular mistake?
I'm neither a researcher or doctor, but I've seen numerous articles that describe this. Anecdotally, I've had multiple people (acquaintances and family) suffer from neurological effects.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32696341/
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Current-Research/Coronavirus-and-N...
I get this with a new tab / window

Your browser generates the fingerprint 133e933dd1dfea90 (from Cluster #8), which is seen in 17.13% of connections, making it ranked #2 by popularity.

And this after a reload:

Your browser generates the fingerprint 833fb25fb38a093b (from Cluster #8), which is seen in 4.11% of connections, making it ranked #5 by popularity.

macOS safari
WHO seeks 'best minds' to probe new pathogens that jump from animals to humans
Reasoning from First Principles: The Dumbest Thing Smart People Do (2019)
I'd say another major reason for the polio vaccine's success is the whole world took it. Substitute mumps, measles, rubella, smallpox, whatever you'd like. Anyway you totally missed the point about global cooperation. We know masks, social distancing, and vaccination with enough cooperation could end the pandemic, but no, people just won't cooperate.
Didn't even wait to see how the vaccine holds up and interact with the virus through a fall/winter season. Wow.
IANAL but you don't need to relicense your program to GPL just to use a GPL library. You can relicense to something that is compatible with GPL, like say the MIT license. Then the combined form has to be distributed under GPL terms. But when you one day replace the library with something not under GPL, you can distribute combined forms of those under MIT.
You can also just string it out, and on the first day you are due in court say "ok here it is". You dont need to pay a lawyer anything, the company just has to prove that it is really committed to getting this info. To go as far as having a court date set and lawyers ready to turn up. Personally I would arrive at court to ensure they sent some actual lawyers and then if I couldn't argue my point happily hand it over at no expense to myself other than taking a day off to attend court.
Yes, hence the reference to private HMO databases. CDC VSD (Vaccine Safety Datalink) is not public, sometimes we get data snapshots when CDC is investigating specific adverse events, like blood clots, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27464528. There are people with access to both VAERS and VSD for trend signals, including doctors with private data from seeing patients.
Well it’s have to be both like any normal refund. Hopefully the % of refunds is small as it would be on way ebay or Amazon sales.
My guess is money.

Facebook has such a MASSIVE user base. And people are getting accounts stolen a LOT, from either social engineering or password reuse.

But there's also a ton of people knowingly breaking rules, getting banned, and then trying to cry that their account was hacked.

Trying to differentiate between someone's account being taken over and abused versus someone just simply being abusive and lying about it to support costs a lot of time, and time is money. And with the scale of Facebook, that adds up to a LOT of money. You have to train a large staff to understand social engineering and be able to tell the difference between someone who actually can't figure out how to log in, versus a jealous ex who is trying to social engineer their way into someone else's account.

It's a lot cheaper to just let the bans stick, even if it loses a few customers.
I think the original point of GPL was to incentivise companies/developers to contribute changes back to GPL licensed project. What is clear is that, minus a few exceptions, most large open source engaged companies avoid GPL because of the risk of compliance [1]. And many authors that originally licensed their projects as GPL see this and regret their choice [2][3]. This is why there is a trend away from copyleft licenses [4].

[1] https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#restrict...

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/478361/

[3] https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1412271091393994754...

[4] https://opensource.com/article/17/2/decline-gpl
Is anyone else bothered by that font? The paragraphs feel really stretched out horizontally, and the headings seem one step removed from Comic Sans.
> You own a piece of the home you are staying in, not a deed to a piece of a resort.

Which piece do you own? Is it like I own the roof, but someone else owns the roof, and a different person owns the floor?
How’s it any relevant?
We are working to add floodproofing infrastructure to Aquarium Station
Andrew Gelman – Bayes, statistics, and reproducibility [video]
> there are billions of dollars of economic incentives for suppression of early treatment, because vaccines are still under EUA that could be questioned by the availability of therapeutics with decades of safety data

Conspiracy theory. Rather old and naive, I should add.

Zero Hedge is a cesspool of pseudo-science when it comes to COVID. The best data source can be twisted into complete nonsense when folks have political agendas - so namedropping JHU in that context is just empty rhetoric.

Well, maybe it's not "empty" rhetoric, since clearly some naive folks are persuaded by it.
It wasn't supposed to be a gotcha. Coerced work is bad, especially so if the work is damaging to the worker. My point is that this isn't specific to sex work. Products produced by workers under wage slavery can be avoided using supply chain management, while promoting ethical labor practices that permit workers security and independence. A tradeoff exists between reducing risk of nonconsenting work while enabling consenting work.

Similarly, policies are available that can enable safe and consensual sex work. Supposedly "well intentioned" policies that reduce workers' social and financial support system are moves in the wrong direction: abuse is enabled by isolation and marginalization.
True but that hasn't really changed compared to before.
You must not be a DC Comics fan? It's often useful to the plot for the protagonist to be separated completely from normal concerns (and support systems). In our crowded modern world, the hero's journey can't really be into the wild. Of course we'd all like less hackneyed plots, but it's not a perfect world...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkAndTroubledP...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeceasedParentsA...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeAsBackstory
, poisoned our water supply, burned our crops and delivered a plague unto our houses!

"He did?"

No, but are we just gonna wait around until Zuckerberg does?
I agree with a lot of her points - but pushing that cost onto the employee (if the understanding is that BYOD just means the employee with be buying a new device) goes against a lot of labour standards around tool usage. Employers are expected to generally provide employees with the tools they need to get the job done - this is one of the big separations between FTEs and contractors.
> if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain

The context of your quote is especially apt for a discussion of (structure as a defense against) addiction, since it's about a man who was, in the understanding of the day, "possessed by a demon", and who was cured.

Now -- this is sort of an aside -- I'll admit that my first reaction to

> this isn't a huge problem in my life, since [Bible quote about how, with faith, anything is possible]

was negative, because it felt like how my mental caricature of an Evangelical (note acceptable prejudice) would brag ("look how much faith I have"). As was my reaction to

> Why should I limit my potential [...]? Why are the lives of the unaccomplished masses more important than my own?

which had more ego than... my culture teaches to put out there.

But, to look for the important point, it was that if someone were to really go all in on Christianity (in the "radical" sense), instead of just keeping it at arm's length and looking for some wisdom here and there (my approach -- and borrowing not just from Christianity), then they'd start with faith, not the thing I'm calling structure, because -- the idea goes -- all the good deeds, all the behaviors, and so on, stem from faith; if you really believe, the rest will follow.

Or, using "Law" as a synonym for "structure", there is Galatians 3:23-26, which seems very on-the-nose:

23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

(So as not to just quote scripture out of context, I will note that there is much more subtext here: Galatians 3 is in large part about whether Christianity is going to be catholic (open to all), or more narrowly Jewish. I feel it builds to the climax of Galatians 3:28, which answers that: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.")

Anyway, long story short, I think I see your point, which -- unless I have just projected a whole ton of additional meanings -- would be to emphasize Faith.

(That, I'm afraid, may be beyond me.)
If you're wondering what percentage "majority" refers to:

> over the last decade, until 2019, the percentage of American adults who agreed with this statement increased from 40% to 54%

If you're curious how that stacks up against other countries, see this[0].

Honestly I'm surprised, I was expecting numbers to be higher.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution...
This is kind of cool. Probably a pretty reasonable thing to use if you need arbitrary code decoding on a web page without having to worry about explicit browser support :)
yes ... that's what I hope and expect would be the outcome if this was enforced on Facebook. They will try to claim that the social features are essential to the platform and therefore cannot be disabled but it would not hold up based on current Oculus ecosystem.
Everything old is new again. Phone chatrooms were like this in the 80s.
> The Iranian Government is trying to destabilize the Middle East including threatening the world with an nuclear program

No, that's Israel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
Google makes a point in their ads for the chromebook that you need a Google account to login, which my brain immediately translates into "could be randomly bricked at any time".

It's possible that's not true, but there's such an endless stream of these stories, that that's the attitude you have to take.
Its also based on what is not getting used to increase fitness gets repurposed.

Causing illness in the host after it has finished spreading has no evolutionary advantage.

So those traits are less likely to make it to the next epoch.
Classic case of trying to use technology to fix a regulatory issue. You can’t use technology to fix the fact that Roblox wants to extract value from its creators twice. Either they’d create a crypto currency with the same exploitive structure, or you’d have to fight to legally force them to pay out fairly using whatever crypto they settle on. And by the time you’ve done the latter, you could’ve just forced them to pay in USD.
Why are we buying this account-linked physical shit. Just pretend the headsets are not a viable product to purchase if they can be remotely bricked by a company you have no leverage over. Get a competitor product or go without.
I've had heart problems to the point that I can't do any exercise more vigorous than walking without getting heart pain severe enough to make me stop immediately, and often suffering from extreme fatigue in the days afterwards. I was previously a reasonably fit 28 year old who regularly danced, occasionally went to the gym etc.

It's nothing like depression. The symptoms are very much physical.
BB10's implementation of this was the best... you couldn't even copy paste between the work space and the personal space.

Completely separated environment which allowed your work to just terminate the work environment remotely if you no longer needed access to it. You could even wipe the phone's work space when going through customs and remotely restore it from the BES Server.
Definitely a stretch but the linked studies are worth a read anyway.

I've only (cursorily) read [1] but it suggests combining different approaches for targeting immune response rather than the same approach across the populous. The risk would be assuming high levels of protection given how likely the virus is of escaping a single target through evolution. I guess that does pose a risk if people treat the current vaccines as a means to return to normal. My guess is variations on "the vaccines aren't very effective" are the biggest and most credible concerns people have though not a good reason to not receive them.
Skip all that and cut to "a neural network." Presto.

I wish I understood this simplicity when I first got into ML. I was always annoyed with claims like "a NN will solve your problems." Oh really?

Yeah. Really.

You can learn the theory later. Sure, applying SVD or nonnegative matrix factorization to the user interaction matrix, truncating to get a low-rank symmetric approximation makes sense now. (I have to pause and think about it for a little bit, but I do indeed understand each part.)

The cool thing was, I didn't need to. The theory helps inform my future ML training runs. But I was able to get most of the magic without knowing a damn thing.

Literally just throw Pytorch at the problem and screw around until it starts giving results. You'll be amazed and shocked and delighted how far that gets you. (And all the professional mathematicians and statisticians will be disgusted, but who cares?)
The Vaccine Scientist Spreading Vaccine Misinformation
> Your browser doesn't support SharedArrayBuffer, thus ffmpeg.wasm cannot execute. Please use latest version of Chromium or any other browser supports SharedArrayBuffer

Sad face
Does the r. in front of everyone's name stand for Robot?

This is cool. If you follow /r/wsb, you know half the damn sub has the idea to create this site once a week. But you actually did it. Great work.
The real problem is, who wants to integrate/use something Google may shut down tomorrow, and, google is famous for no customer support.

Paypal is known for support issues, but Google?! That's a whole other level of support pain ..

I can just imagine my account blocked, thousands there, and... what? A wall of canned support answers, no recourse, misery.

This is Google.
Maintaining something at google is basically career suicide.
Is there a better analysis of cross-region variations in Delta cases and deaths in India, which identifies non-Ivermectin factors for the difference in outcomes?
Do you at least use their API or data dump?

http://www.discogs.com/developers/
http://data.discogs.com/
Because for the life of them, Google can’t seem to create a single messaging system that works well.

If they could simply make ONE system that works as a standalone product, has a decent API available to internal developers and external. That would be a start. But no. They have to make it part of something else. Always. And they always miss the target on usability.
Do you use a smartphone?
IIRC it didn't just have no release notes, it explicitly claimed not to contain security patches.

Although I may be misremembering or may have been misled by an ambiguous message. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222 lists it as being a security update but "This update has no published CVE entries." (emphasis mine) implying some nasty but embargoed security issue.
Well, that means nothing if only white dudes use Github.

The only twitter account I find worth voluntarily stepping into that pool, is this though:

https://twitter.com/desiraethinking

Of course linked to many others sharing similar opinions and free-thinking spirit, as opposed to political identity and bigotry.
It’s long time that we eliminate the employee and contractor distinction for worker protections. Even if these kids don’t rate for benefits, they should still have the same protections that a full time employee has around being paid on time in cash.
Dumpster diving is a thing.

In almost all cases, someone is entering what you hand wrote into a system; and then they discard the paper copy.

If they shred it that's great, but dumpster diving at medical offices has made the news many many times.
Locked Out of Acorns, Users Fear Something Squirrely Is Afoot
Interesting that asm is opening the door for stuff like this. For compiled node modules with bindings, how does asm compare to binaries? i.e. compiling to asm instead of targeting a particular architecture. Seems like it could be a little neater.
> figure out the exact rate at which the content of frame N leads them to continue watching at frame N + n.

I really hope they're not.

Between my habit of leaving youtube playing in the background with the sound off before randomly coming back and closing the tab, and my toddler figuring out touch interfaces for the first time on their app, they're not going to get anything actually actionable...
Having built them, I have nothing to prove to a bunch of goofs on here :)
Reminder of why –login is needed when using su to become another user
I'm sorry. Every time I hear the term, I forget what the conversation was about and can only think about how to destroy our enemies who are spreading counterproductive, unverifiable, unfalsifiable, anti-consensus rumors to suckers.
Begs the question- is it nice?
Is there? Have the actual black people, with opinions representative of black population in general, suggested to eliminate master-slave metaphor from use, or are you just assuming it for them? The article is literally asking to stop doing this.
>The same argument could be made about IT

The military is probably a better analogy. Well paid with few skills required to enter. High risk of permanent injury. Generally not reviled with paternalistic and degrading thoughts about those who choose to do it.
As usual, anytime Elon say anything a army of expert come out overstating what he actually said and saying what a gigantic moron he is.

Where did they claim they will make a better product next year then Boston Dynamics? I am pretty sure they didn't say that.

What they actually said is that they have a lot of technology that might be useful for such a robot so they will try to build one.

That its, they are just gone try to make a prototype, and then likely version 2,3,4 and so on.

People act like what they said is 'We are gone do I, Robot next year'.
Yeah smartphones are unfortunate since with COVID now you have to have one to check in in my country, but the second test is reputation. I’ve not heard of apple or android bricking a phone like this but FB/Google account bans and limitations are common.

I guess we can’t be purist anymore but being pragmatic is still possible and you can divert funds away from FB this way to a company that cares about the headsets they sell and the user experience
> Your definition of conspiracy theory is simply wrong. You're not talking about conspiracy theories, you're talking about the cliché of a "conspiracy theory".

Ah, a prescriptivist, I see. Regardless of what you think is the "correct" meaning of conspiracy theory, it's in widespread use with a different meaning, what you call a "cliche". Whether you accept this or not doesn't make this usage less real; it just might make your conversations with other people harder.

PS: I speak Spanish and regardless of what Wikipedia says, the common usage of "teoría conspirativa" is the same as what you describe as a cliché.
It's impossible to have a discussion if you insist on mischaracterizing sanctions.
Hanging by a Thread
Oh wow, thanks for the heads up! Re-evaluating our gestures in general is on our todo list. If only humans had more fingers to work with haha!
> I can't know without a genetic test.

How did people know someone was Black prior to genetic testing? It sounds like you'd answer that you'd trace their ancestry, but how would you know if their parents are Black? The answer is that people from Europe decided that people who looked like they were from sub-Saharan Africa were Black. Being Black in the US is not just your genetics or ancestry, there are also social and legal definitions. People would go to court to challenge their legal race because race wasn't defined based on a genetic test.

Also, Chinese and German are not races, they are ethnicities. If your family moves from Italy to Germany, your family is probably ethnically Italian but will likely become German over time.
Maybe this isn't ideal for the homepage

> Okay Retards, I will make this long because apparently you Apes seem to like long posts, even when a YOLO opportunity like this

But what do I know, I'm just a triggered liberal.

Edit: I understand how they use the "r" word on WSB as it's been in the mainstream news for a year. I'm saying that it reflects poorly on a business, signaling that it failed due diligence, on there homepage of all places.