skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your second paragraph refutes your first. Productivity is an input to the supply of competition, so it does more than create a ceiling, it also serves as an upward force on the floor.

Do business leaders lobby to reduce public sector wages and benefits? That's not something I've heard before. In any case, whether or not there is competition from the government, if there is a gap between productivity and wages, then there are profits to be had by private companies willing to do the arbitrage. In the case of such a gap, the government doesn't really matter unless they are paying above the productivity rate.
So you're doing the "haha I was only pretending to be stupid" routine for political points? Nice.
Lost Horizon
Is this new lake house going to have its own pool too?

We need to go a little bit deeper. I can sense that we are just a few steps away from circling all the way back around to fancy terminology for "Postgresql installed on a big server".
I enjoy the game.

But I also think that reducing the variance significantly would help the game severely. I fully disagree with the forum post here.

There's room for luck in strategy games. But I'm not sure if some units (see the Lancer) have a role in this game aside from forcing the player to hit the "restart from last save" button over and over. When the luck-engine is unavoidable (due to high movement), you simply can't "plan" around it. Your best plan is the restart from save button if you get unlucky.

A good game shouldn't have situations like that, where the best strategy is just hoping for the best and rolling with the luck.
Nice 2FA 2nd factor, quick spoken messages ("tell wife on my way"), Apple Pay (killer app - much easier than phone or wallet), Strava/workouts, plays music/audible on AirPods or BT headset, opens my garage, can lookup calendar without opening phone or PC.
> Just like lambda syntax makes it much easier and readable to write small functions, the pipe operator make it much easier and readable to write chains.

succinct =/= more readable.

Readability here is really in the eye of the beholder...

It's certainly quicker to type, but that's not a good argument enough to make such a drastic change in javascript.
For decades, we gave young children aspirin, before eventually connecting it to Reye syndrome. Indeed, children are not just small adults.
oh don't worry - someone will Nixify it at some point. Maybe even me!
Fastest Growing Jobs in the Next Decade
> Also, the watch presumably can't tell how fast the ball is served, which depends on the racquet speed and whether you make good contact with the ball.

I think I disagree here. It should be possible to build a model that infers things like racquet speed and where the ball made contact with the racquet based on accelerometer data. At the end of the day you have an arm attached to a racket moving at some speed, that impacts a ball that is relatively not moving.

A straightforward model could calculate the lost momentum in the arm + racquet, assume the ball's mass, and work backwards to the ball's velocity from there. I'm assuming there is more ML magic behind Apple's implementation though.
Please tell us a concrete plan on how to "protect children" (a moral appeal) from porn. Name one set of rules that would satisfy your legal appetite.
I don't know if there's any truth to this, but I heard that there were also issues that could arise more easily with electrically conductive thermal paste and that there was essentially fraud going on where lower end SKUs were being passed off as higher end units. That being said, that seems like something that would only affect the consumer used market.
> Private banks create a good chunk of the new money that goes into circulation by issuing loans.

Even this is misleading private banks do not "create" money. They add to the supply but do not create. For every loan credit there is an equal loan debit. The total amount of money, the sum of all credits and debits, is the exact same.
I’ve also found that journaling without prompts is much more sustainable for me. Now, for the second year, I’m doing daily morning pages of at least 750 words. It takes me about 30 minutes of free-flow writing. I can write whatever comes, and if nothing comes, I write that. It’s helped me to become much more self-aware about what’s going on in my mind and also mostly solved my fear of starting from a blank page.

Initially, I used https://750words.com/ which helped to create a routine. But now I'm using obsidian daily notes with a word counter plugin.
Are the points written in a readable format anywhere?
Unvaccinated Covid patients cost the U.S. health system billions of dollars
The pipe operator/function is useful and appropriate when all you are doing is stringing along some data through a series of transformations and where introducing a named variable would be more confusing and take away from the context of what is actually important.

Methods are nice but suffer from the fact that adding a custom method to a new object is more involved and dangerous than just creating a new function. However, "f(g(h(x)))" is not very readable (at least for English speakers) since while we read left to right, the invocation order is right to left. "x | h | g | f" is arguably more readable since the evaluation order follows reading order (plus you don't have to deal with so many parenthesis).

I want to reemphasize though that introducing a variable is often better practice and that the pipe operator only makes sense when there is no suitable variable name.
I mean, far more simply, are you saying that Milley and other military members were planning a coup because the actions they took to deny the president his right to launch missles were not legal?

That's how I read what you said: that Milley, etc, were trying to execute a coup by removing Trump's nuclear powers.

And that's not how I interpret the situation, based on my understanding of the roles and responsibilities of defense officials in the US military and government.

So I asked you to clarify.
Just drop them on a wireless charger every 2 or 3 days - why plug AirPods in?
Another downside to wearing at night and charging during the day - automatic updates don't happen automatically.
You are essentially right. That's why I switched my focus from UX only to UI and front-end implementation.

Fighting for 20 years to educate programmers and investors on the importance of Human Centered Design and Function over Form approach, is hard. And I and everybody in the Design Industry have failed miserably.

Now when every startup has a boilerplate, templates and libraries in hand and "that's enough".

Designers (or I may say - Decorators) are "thousands a dime", they are racing themselves to the bottom of the pit. But I am cool with it. After all SaaS design software is here to collect and label enough data for big Neural Model to emerge and remove design from the picture.
So your dream will come true, and you will be next in line of removal from production pipeline.

Having programmers as permanent staff when you need the same CRUD paradigm is unnecessary, and you can hire as a consultants when you're making a new product/feature but never otherwise.
Amazon's Palm Reader Launches at First Non-Amazon Venue
https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/
Your numbers are incorrect. The ~40,000,000 number represents cases confirmed through administered tests. The true number is probably somewhere closer to ~150,000,000[0]. Your comment is based on an incorrect assumption.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd... (the estimates here do not account for infections before February 2020 or after May 2021, which means all early infections as well as the "delta surge" are unaccounted for).
When you look at a Ramda-based JS code base, all there is to look at is function calls. Such code eschews most statements.

Piping is a common operation, though, and having dedicated syntax makes the code more readable. For those code bases that use curried, unary functions, the F# proposal is perfect (this is the original motivation behind the operator).

The hack-style pipe syntax that has been chosen is much worse in that regard, which is disappointing for the very folks that requested its addition.
I think most people who disregarded COVID had made their choice before these lies came to light - it just provided justification for them later on. The small town my family's in in the South's COVID response consisted of closing Wal-Mart for a couple of days in March. Most of the people there had made their choice about how they were going to respond to COVID before the mask discourse happened.

But a lot of these people (perhaps justifiably) already viewed media and public officials as perfectly willing to lie to them or ignore their concerns - this extends beyond the pandemic itself and is part of a broader trend of mutual distrust.
That might be a solution to you as an (i suspect) rational adult.
But the article is about teens, who might have a number of reasons why they wouldn't "just quit".. peer pressure and so on.
That in turn "starts" the addiction or problem. When they do become rational adults they are so immersed in and interconnected on that platform that losing it would still be a very difficult decision.
Why are many of the IT jobs not on the list?
Do any of the results change if instead of picking a quite high margin in postholes, you pick something more reasonable? What if it takes 15 years to pay off the hole digging machine, not 6 months?
The vaccines are cheap (government paid about $20 per dose to buy them in mass quantities), safe, and effective, and in plentiful supply (at least in developed countries). Even if natural immunity provides some protection, better to just get everyone vaccinated to maximize the protection, because it would cost more to determine that someone has effective antibodies than to just give them the shot. The only reason people are resisting this is because there has been an antivax propaganda campaign.
> I was tested 2 weeks ago for antibodies, my results were a “76” (I assume percentage?).

It does not mean percentage. The fact that we cannot directly relate antibody levels to immunological protection is one of the reasons we can't [yet?] use antibody tests to "count" as immunity.
The sequencer I'm working on, https://ossia.io, has a plug-in API which allows that. But no interesting "meta-creation" plug-ins so far for it ^^' at some point I'd like to provide primitive composition-like tools like some of the OpenMusic objects for instance, and there has been work towards e.g. segmenting a sound file with audio improvisation algorithms by an intern.
stop embarrassing yourself.
I have to ask: If it wasn't for the freedom to share information, as is given by the Constitution, why'd you pick Epik? Their prices aren't particularly good, they don't really advertise themselves as having any features other registrars don't have, and don't really seem to have a lot going for them. They aren't even acknowledging the fact that they got hacked:

https://twitter.com/robmonster/status/1437543353357328389

It sucks what happened to you, but the only thing Epik sold themselves with is the same freedom that these people are utilizing.
The M1 is neat but it's not worth it for me. I hate everything about OS X. BSD command-line tools, a slow-as-most-glaciers Terminal.app, constant nagging about some menial task I need to perform for the computer. Nope, nope, nope. ("But if you just screw around with it for 20 years, then it will be just perfect." I already spent 20 years screwing around with Linux, so that cost is sunk. Sorry.)

I really don't like doing "computery" stuff on more than one machine, and I already have a 32 core desktop workstation for normal work. That will never go away, which means the laptop can't be at all "computery". I want to touch an app with my finger and have the app start up. Every time, no matter what. (And to be fair, the iPad Pro absolutely delivers on that.) To me, a laptop will always be the second fiddle, something I use once a month or so. I find that if I don't screw around with my computer for a month, everything has stopped working -- but with a tablet, it just turns on and all is well. So you just throw the thing into your backpack for a trip, then when you get to the airport it turns on and 4G connects to the cell network, and everything is great. You have a computer, not computer problems.

(Other laptops I've used in the past... Surface Pro 4. Left it turned on on my desk, went to get it ready for a trip... BAM brand new version of Windows and everything was broken. I didn't take it on the trip and just used my phone to browse the Internet at night. Chromebook Pixel: basically no problems, but just as limited as an iPad. Various Linux laptops: honestly, most of my vacation memories involve wpa_supplicant.conf, and a lot of problems 10 minutes before whatever conference talk I was giving. Not sure if conference WiFi or Linux bugs, but it wasn't pleasant.)
>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01935-7#ref-CR2
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927578/
“The analysis estimates that the preventable costs of treating unvaccinated patients in the hospitals total $3.7 billion in August, almost twice the estimates for June and July combined. The total preventable costs for those three months now stand at an estimated $5.7 billion.”

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/unvaccinated-covid...
Standalone Max is available for $10 / month.[0] And the similar Pure Data is open source.[1]

[0] https://cycling74.com/shop

[1] https://puredata.info
GitBook produces very nice-looking documentation. It is a hosted service (SaaS) - free for open source projects. The paid option is for commercial projects.

There have examples of documentation from different companies on their website.

https://www.gitbook.com/
Vaccines are only helping the rise of variants.
> but "huge" means "more than you can store"

Really? Where's it coming from?
Some context on Goertzel that wouldn't show up in the wiki article. Goertzel's belief is/was that one couldn't achieve general / human-levels intelligence by scaling up regular old neural network ideas. He, and some others, believed that while traditional AI techniques were good within confined use cases, writing an intelligence that could apply itself to problem domains far outside of its training set required an explicitly different set of algorithms at the general/meta level.

E.g. I imagine that Goertzel would say that GPT-3 isn't a general intelligence. It's the human engineer that made GPT-3, or which builds applications applying GPT-3 to different domains that is the general intelligence. Yes GPT-3 is generally applicable, but who does the hard work of actually figuring out how to apply it to new setups? THAT is general intelligence, in Goertzel's view.

Back to the timeline, in 2002 Goertzel wanted to focus not on machine learning, which the field of AI was and still is mostly focused on, but rather designing "something" which (in current day terms) knew how to adapt meta-parameters to a particular training data set, and knew how to transfer/apply trained networks to new problem domains. An artificial AI engineer, as it were.

So Goertzel coined/repurposed the term Artificial General Intelligence to mean not just a human-level AI, but rather a meta-AI program that was able to create, on its own, new human-level narrow AI using more traditional techniques. They created a AGI conference to gather researchers interested in these ideas: http://agi-conference.org

Generally speaking AI researchers who believe that scaling up traditional neural-network architectures is sufficient to create a general/human-level intelligence don't use the term AGI. The kind of folks who go to the AGI conference and study large-architecture AIs aiming for an explicit human-level, meta cognition engine do use the term AGI, and use it a lot. LessWrong folks may not hang around AGI conferences, but they do fall in the latter group. The MIRI institute was traditionally fully devoted to studying AGI architectures of their own trade-secret design, not narrow AI techniques (although that has changed a bit with Paul Christiano's work).

So if you use AGI without qualification, my prior is that you're hailing from the latter camp of AGI meta-architecture researchers or the LessWrong-influenced existential risk crowd. In either case it is worth pointing out that you are getting a tinted view of AI risk that is different from what, say, researchers at DeepMind or Facebook largely believe.
I don't know where that turn of phrase comes from, but I imagine it's synonymous with 'walking around in circles'.
To own significantly less, or to own a smaller proportion of the whole?
On the newest iPhone 13 for example these are the video formats supported: "Video formats supported: HEVC, H.264, MPEG‑4 Part 2, and Motion JPEG"

If your video is not one of these formats, you're going to be using software decoding which will be done on the CPU and will drain battery more as a consequence.

So that means no .MKV decoding in hardware.
A. I reject on principle the reasoning that X must undergo unnecessary medical procedure to lower hypothetical odds of Y being afflicted by some negative outcome. STOP SCAPEGOATING.

B. Consider that the 'cases ratio' is tainted because of faulty CDC guidance. If you test more aggressively conditioned on vaccination status, you are going to get biased ratios. At this point anything but sampling studies is pretty much worthless in assessing how prevalent breakthrough infections are. We've got to thank CDC for that.

> Five days earlier, I had gone to a house party in Montgomery County. There were 15 adults there, all of us fully vaccinated. The next day, our host started to feel sick. The day after that, she tested positive for COVID-19. [...] At this point, 11 of the 15 have tested positive for COVID."

If the vaccines reduce breakthrough infections at 1 : 7 rate, an outbreak incident where 11 : 15 get infected has a probability of about 1 : 1,000,000,000. Rather unlikely, perhaps something else is at play:

> The official Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guideline stated that, since I was fully vaccinated, I didn’t need to do anything different unless I started developing symptoms. I’m an epidemiologist at a major medical research university, which has a dedicated COVID exposure hotline for staff. I called it, and workers said I didn’t need to do anything.

> The CDC announced in May that it was only going to collect data on breakthrough infections that led to hospitalization or death, which are fortunately rare. But that means that outbreaks like ours will fly under the radar.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0804-bre...

Edit: Especially if the ratios do not match ratios calculated in other countries where delta case reduction is around 1 : 2.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
They're doing far more when fingerprinting browsers than looking at the User-Agent.
> This will give Apple insight spatially how you move and interact in your home, compared to other devices and each other. Lots of insights to be gleaned.

True, but the explicitly do not collect any of that data, so it’s useless to “Apple” as a whole.
I was always curious before I heard of this today what would happen if you concentrated more and more light into a ultra fine point. It makes sense that at some point particles would begin to emerge as photons appear to have various electromagnetic properties and also carry a small amount of kinetic force (solar sail principle)
Cognitive load does not justify imposing potentially involuntary medical treatments on people, particularly not onto people for whom the benefit is likely of very little marginal value.

The cognitive load could be built into the "vaccine card" anyway - I have a driver's license with a couple of extra checkboxes showing that I need corrective lenses and am authorized to drive a motorcycle, but most people need only be concerned that the card itself exists.
would be nice to reverse-charge from phone to watch - is this possible?
I had Covid Original Flavor(tm). My case was considered "mild"--I "only" had a 103 fever for 2 1/2 weeks and my stamina was shot.

I also got vaccinated later. I had about a 24 hour reaction each time.

I wanted to make sure my body latched onto the spike protein. Immune systems latch onto all manner of things--sometimes relevant, sometimes not relevant, sometimes actively harmful.

This is an important point. Your body's reaction to natural Covid is far more unpredictable than to the vaccine. That may give you a more robust immune response--or that may give you something related to an autoimmune disorder.

As a comparison, I had a much worse reaction to Shingrix (the shingles vaccine) which hit me hard for about 4 days and I could barely move the arm that got the shot.

Your mileage may vary.
> productivity has anything to do with salary.

It's not complicated and it's clearly a weak strawman. Productivity (almost universally) is tied to profit via efficiency. This is known to be astronomical at scale, which is what drives automation.

> Low skill jobs and physical labor jobs actually require less and less skills as automation improves.

I'm not sure there's anything to suggest this. Regulations (primarily about safety, information containment, etc) continue to be additive. There's a certain amount of sophistication necessary just to survive in most urban areas.
The PopSocket MagSafe wallet is crazy strong - I can fling my phone around by the PopSocket without fear….
Yes exactly, but I think the trouble is that it's too popular to say 'people learn by immersion, not by grammar and tables, immersion is how we learnt our first language after all'; when actually, some people do prefer (or at least benefit from additionally) such rigid grammarian teaching.

I've learnt so much more from studying conjugation/declension tables on Wiktionary than I have from trying to converse with fluent/native speakers, who can't explain to me why or tell me how to spell it (sounding/typing it in the English alphabet).
Around $320/hr then (less the discount you'd have to take for tying up your capital over that timespan).

Not a bad deal for many people, and you can make proportionately more on this per hour basis if you are able to contribute more capital to begin with.
If they can make this tech viable, DOD will buy it as an ASAT weapons capability with essentially a blank check. Debris removal is a fantasy veneer slapped on to space weapons development for investors.
Vaccination greatly reduces transmission.
> Only 412 people age 17 or younger in the US have died from covid.

How many avoided death because they had good health care?

One of my pet peeves about this pandemic is how death metrics keep being pushed around, as if it was not a big deal.

If this pandemic had hit before we had modern health care facilities, it would have been comparable to the great pandemics in history.

Besides, what happened to the children that didn't die? What sort of issues this could cause that may affect their development? We don't know, so we should play it safe.

> from the vaccine

There isn't just one vaccine. There are several. If one is potentially causing issues, use another.

Also, what about heart problems from Covid-19, even among those not hospitalized?

I can't read your paywalled article, but I've found another link. The 'heart problems' are myocarditis, which in most cases is mild and _resolves_ by itself.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...