skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey HN, after some time working on something, I feel pretty exited sharing this.

What I'm trying to solve is reducing the time and effort wasted looking for some data (tasks dashboard, products tools, etc...) but instead getting the information you need without ever think where you save it.

I think it doesn't matter where you save your content/data I just want to get the "dashboard", I don't care if the place is saved is jira, trello, whatever.
The only protection is the PBGC, which is woefully underfunded, and could not even handle the recent multi employer pension fund failures. They just got bailed out again Mar 2021 in the American Rescue Plan legislation:

https://www.pbgc.gov/american-rescue-plan-act-of-2021

The real bailout is the backstop the federal government provides on asset prices at the expense of purchasing power of the currency.

I understand that you are not arguing for DB pensions. I am just trying to make it clear that US society has moved past DB pensions because we now have an explicit promise of bailouts at the expense of the dollar, and if we are going to do that, then cut out all the actuary and investment fund fees, and just drop it in social security or target date funds.
It gets really humid and can even get uncomfortable, while at the same time using more energy than a drier as you fight evaporative cooling.
i find that hilarious. as a linux person, the first place to get a bug fixed in steam+wine would be proton and not the company producing the game. the contributors will fix the game for everyone and the company will have people coming for more because of generosity of volunteers and yet they want to impose anti-cheat as the gospel
for sure they are going to work for FSB
https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/ua/pdf/US/en/synchro...

Look through the disclosures and agreements you signed on account opening and find out which banks PayPal is using for your account. The linked one above is for a deposit account at Synchrony Bank.
Yes, the cost of having real agents is the main reason for chat bots to exist.

The bot is like a buffer: you can deflect simple issues; capture information for the agent; show feedback about the wait time and agent availability.

Badly implemented bot AI is not the only issue. To give a good CX, companies need to invest in giving the agents the right tools. It’s extremely frustrating when the canned responses fail and there isn’t anybody to answer or when you have to repeat all the info (because the agent cannot see your chat with the bot).
Interestingly it is the base M1 that is still the most interesting device, lower cost, lower heat, good single core performance, capable of most tasks, and reasonable graphics for a lower power device.
Other fast laptops are all about the heat and the fan noise (my tiny work laptop is the loudest device in my room)
A number of times I have got off the train with a laptop almost on fire in my bag, because windows failed to notice the laptop lid was closed.
Ill be getting the M1 laptop next time I need one.
On the employee end, I think it’s obviously fine to leave for somewhere else for more money/better perks/whatever.

For companies, certainly some do value retention and this is obvious from things that can be observed (eg the turnover rate) and incentive structures (ie being willing to pay to avoid attrition).

So I think it isn’t true that no companies value attrition. Even Amazon which usually have a reputation as a bad place to work as an engineer seem to do things to reduce attrition (an alternative way of looking at their ‘weight vesting schedule towards later years’ is that they are trying to encourage people to stay for longer, rather than that they are trying to save money on a high turnover rate).

It feels to me that a lot of it is cultural. For example, lots of people in senior positions may believe that a certain level of attrition (or ‘unregretted attrition’) is good because it is like an easy way of firing people. But regretted attrition can be a lot worse than not having so much I regretted attrition. I say it’s cultural because opinions in management could change—certainly other countries can be different—just like other aspects of company management have changed over time too.

I think another aspect is that if your company is growing very quickly, like many of today’s big tech companies did, then most people will be recent hires and it is perhaps hard to have a culture that values or takes advantage of people with a lot of internal experience.
Right, the fact that there's significant correlation between schizophrenia and cannabis use is well known, but I not aware that there's any decent evidence for or against causation. Schizophrenics have generally higher rates of substance use/abuse so a higher rate of cannabis use is not not odd, per se.
> Is UN supposed to enforce treaties?

No. It’s supposed to “enforce” treaties signed under its auspices, but even that requires SC approval, which any member can veto.
TypeScript: How Type Guards Can Help You Get Rid of 'as'
People seem to forget that even if this happens, even the GOP will splinter and some point. When that happens, it'll be right back to split elections.
The "t" in "Latin" is just a glottal stop for me. Using [t] sounds vaguely British to my ears.

Same goes for other words that end in "t" + unstressed "en," e.g. "fatten," "batten."
Should I be concerned that you don't believe me? You've mentioned that a couple of times. I guess I'm not clear on what value you are trying to add to the discussion.
Awesome, thanks for sharing! You are looking for "deta watch" ;)
NATO bases appeared at Russia's borders way before any invasion happened. In fact, all NATO furtherance's were done at the time when Russia was in its weakest state, democratic and still trying to play nice to the West.
Rewriting my toy blockchain in Rust
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> Good, US has been spending unfair share and has been the nanny of the world.

Unfair share? Based on what? The spending is directly correlated to USA's interests, there is no nanny-ing or "good will" going on, it's a matter of purely international interests. Looking at this with the patronising "unfair share" is a bit preposterous.

I'd say it's pretty unfair to a lot of countries being forced under the sphere of influence of the US to be continuously subjugated, through foreign policy or direct meddling in internal affairs, like the whole of Latin America. That is really fucking unfair.
Isn't it worse for everyone if the paper but not the code is published and somebody doesn't find the error?

The world suffers for acting off of untrue information, and eventually the author suffers for having been wrong all this time.
Chatbots Don't Have to Be Dumb: An intro to open-domain Q&A models
Ah, to use an ancient device, be genuinely happy you won't waste time with video games only to eventually install some games that do run smoothly on this ancient CPU. I too have this experience
No it is accurate. Vaccinated people are spreading and getting covid. Or are the masks for vaccinated folks just show?
Using number of patents as a measure makes this whole premise dubious.
You keep framing this as either democracy dies or it’s a nonissue.

Personally I think a mob massacre of political leaders is bad on its own. Ymmv.
That makes me wonder how much of "bad chatbot" implementations are just poorly designed dialog trees? It seems like a domain-specific chatbot could be really good, if designed properly, but it's probably as much of an art as it is a science and most implementations probably don't go deep enough.
> If I don't want to see porn/politics/bots/cussing/sport/K-pop… then I want to be able to choose that, not the platform.

This would certainly be a welcome feature, but it doesn't really solve the problem.

Suppose you want to see adult content, politics and cussing but you don't want to see bots. Nobody wants to see bots. Then their broken algorithm calls someone a bot who is not. Well, they're blocked from everyone, because nobody wants to see bots. That's the same as the status quo.

The problem is that there is a trade off between false positives and false negatives. If they tune the thing to get rid of 100% of actual bots, it's going to false positive 98% of real humans. But if they do anything less than this, there will be actual bots and people will give them a hard time about it.

And not just people, the government. The current government has explicitly stated that they want them to censor more stuff. And the current government is pursuing an antitrust case against them. So their incentive is to turn up the false positives and screw over whoever that happens to screw over in order to appease them.

The argument has been made that this is actually a First Amendment violation because of the state action: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1363175977531150338
What current devices would come closest do you think?

Maybe a Surface? Or rather something like the new foldables?
This has been happening to folks for ages. I'm looking forward to understanding why Paypal thinks it can steal from it's customers without facing repercussions. I wouldn't do anything serious with Paypal for this exact reason.
I've heard it said both ways on the news today, but I'm leaning towards R-Evil.
We don't support Go on Micros yet. Not enough demand atm but we love Go and plan to support it once we have the capacity.
Right, he still has access to his Google account, but he can't use YouTube from that account. In fact, he can't create a new account and login to YouTube from any of his devices. His only access to YouTube at this point seems to be through non-logged in access.
hey! I AM BHARGAV, you took my job you SOB.
This is a common misconception, but you are actually talking about "replicability" which is "writing and then running new software based on the description of a computational model or method provided in the original publication, and obtaining results that are similar enough" [1]. Reproducibility instead refers to running the same code on the same data to get the same results [2].

[1] Rougier et al., "Sustainable computational science: the ReScience initiative" https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04393

[2] Plesser, "Reproducibility vs. Replicability: A Brief History of a Confused Terminology" https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2017.00076
Snacks typically make me feel drowsy or lose concentration. I will typical eat gum if I need something.
In theory f-strings could act as the format_args! macro, not the format! macro. While the latter produces a String, the former produces a std::fmt::Arguments, and does not need to allocate memory (it lives in core).
To prevent fanboys finding it on search flocking. You can't criticise Mus*k on the internet, people will find you abd be very aggressive and annoying.
Why not?

https://princecharlescinema.com/PrinceCharlesCinema.dll/What...
The thing is that tobacco deaths are usually from several years of use. I don't think most of the dead people who died from tobacco have begin smoking this last two years meanwhile covid killing is quite faster.
Kids were ostracizing each other from groups for dumb reasons long before phones or social media were ever invented, and they will continue to do so long after we move onto the next thing. There will always be some arbitrary way to define an ingroup and an outgroup, the fact that kids are brutal enough to exclude someone because of something as pointless as their text bubbles' color illustrates the futility of trying to avoid this fate by appeasement. At some point people just have to have that uncomfortable conversation with their child where they explain friends who abandon you at a drop of a hat aren't friends.
For those wondering if anyone is going to be extradited, they won't be. Under Russian law, a Russian citizen cannot be extradited to another country. As long as these people are Russian citizens they will remain in Russia.
what are people's main gripes with the cloud native landscape?
You're not arguing with them, but with everyone else in the room. Now the conspiracy nut would just say "but they do try to silence us" and he would be right.
2nd (3rd?) the recommendation on the book
The front page says "Unlimited storage" for the NoSQL solution; yet the terms mention a hard limit of 10 GB. Is there a typo?
They're referring to watching Lord of The Rings in cinemas, since it's over 20 years old. Though if you have weekly LOTR showings in cinemas I'd strongly consider moving to France ;p

We also have unlimited cards here, they're tied to each movie chain. So if you have the AMC unlimited thing it only works at AMC owned theaters etc. It's a great deal. I canceled mine in early 2020 for obvious reasons though.
"governments need to step in" was a pretty big leap to begin with
You know who can stop this?

You.

The only reason Hollywood has power is because you buy DVDs and go to movies.

If you stopped, Hollywood would go broke.

Quibbling about Intel or legislation is pointless. Just don't buy their product and you'll bring them to their knees.

"Ultra HD Blu-ray" ... There is so much marketing BS in that phrase. The brain washing goes deep. Pick up a book. Get a hobby. Go outside. Put down the passive entertainment. Send a real message if you don't like all this DRM shit. You don't NEED to park your ass on a couch and be entertained.
I see oddity of article in comparing America to Portugal, France, Soviet, and Britain as well. The unique and original system of Democracy and Repbulicanism that have continuously forced politicians to innovate further protects America from collapsing, unlike China and its virtual dictatorship.
We did quite extensive digging into the ToS and there was nothing explicitly forbidden about what he had done and they refused to point to any rule he had violated in particular. If they've updated it, it must have been in the last 4-5 months.
I don't believe it... it's really him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHpG135ge7Y !
Many people in the populace would have supported it, look at how many now even today deny that it was a riot aimed at disrupting the peaceful transition of power of the government.

If they didn't do a good enough job at it, it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
If we consider "theory" for "sciences" that can actually measure outcomes, one could argue that they should be possible to formulate as a mathematical model, somehow.

For instance, kinetic energy can be given by:
E_k = (gamma - 1) * mc^2 (technically, this is just one part of SR, and the fact that is consistent with the rest of SR is a benefit beyond simply the accuracy)

Another "theory" predicting cancer (or some other outcome) could be on the form:
P=logistic(sum(beta_i * x_i)), where x_i are identifiable risk factors.

The latter would be the theory presumed in logistic regression, and is usually a gross oversimplification, but still very usable. Arguably, this is the same situation that we have with Newtonian kinetic energy (E_k=mv^2/2), which is also known to be a simplification.

I think the above direction extends naturally to Neural Networks, where the core assumption (linearity of logit(P) in X) is replaced by some given NN topology. In fact, logistic regression is just an example of (a very simple) such network.

In other words, the topology of the network (possibly even abstracted to a set of networks) becomes the new "Theory".

If we define "Theory" that way, I would argue that when comparing two such "Theories", and assuming equal explanatory power, the one that requires less computational power (or similarly, fewer parameters) is the better one.

As the technology matures, I expect Machine Learning / Neural Networks to be able to re-descover most of the theories where Science seems to be 100% accurate (like General Relativity), and to be able to "learn" the specific solution that minimizes the number of parameters. That solution may indeed by identical to Einstein's formulation.

In cases where our best theories are quite poor approximations (ie predicing cancer), machine learning models would be more complex/have many more parameters. I don't think that is a problem, as if we think we have a better understanding with current theories, we are simply fooling ourselves.
> quantum physics: the biggest waste of time since philosophy

Sure. After all, natural sciences from physics to biology used to be called natural philosophy until not so long ago.
Maybe they got Spanish "J" confused with Spanish "H?"

There are some cases like "halar" / "jalar" but I don't think I've seen the name "Hosé" before. :-)
Good answer to people who ask what is the point of crypto...
complex, too much content/options for end users to decipher... e.g., "hellscape"
The narrative is that the rules will change so that your 2026 scenario doesn't happen.

That's why the voting rights bill is Biden's main 2022 agenda item.
> and yet, those developments seem to have had little effect on the geopolitical situation

I beg to differ. Two years ago the Saudis and the Russians got in a bad spat where the Russians decided they wanted to bankrupt US natural gas producers and the Saudis decided to bankrupt the Russians
I would agree with many others here who say publish it. In some fields there is an additional question of where to host it, lest your paper's impact outlast the lifetime of your current GitHub repo or whatever. There are good solutions out there. Assuming you are at a university it's worth having a chat with a librarian.
Uhh so what?

You’re also very unlikely to die from the flu.

We’re going to have a brave new world soon, where the cities will build walls and not let anyone in and will live in their little prison apartments, getting everything shipped to them, and those outside will just be living their lives, hanging out with friends, having babies, and then they will die.

Survival is not the goal. Living is.
What is your argument that encouraging attrition would cause these people to leave rather than the employees you might value more? That is, why wouldn’t doing things that lead to higher attrition lead to having a all the people you want leaving and the people you don’t want continuing to stay because e.g. it is harder for them to go elsewhere.
WebTorrent + RarBg is where things are at now. Hopefully we will see more and more descentralized or anonymous search databases with Tor, Freenet, IPFS or similar technology to finally end the "Piracy Wars".
Check Bitlbee, you'll have IRC proxies for everything. Twitter, Slack, Telegram, anythiing Pidgin supports with the -purple build.

For music, mocp, and links+/dillo make a good combo.

Youtube-dl+ytfzf+mpv with a config setting up the youtube-dl format for 420p = heaven.

In ~/.config/mpv/config:

ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?420]+bestaudio/best

For the rest, Fluxbox+rox+lxappeanrance+nm-applet+xpdf. Ted and Gnumeric as a micro office-suite. Or Siag, if you don't need Unicode.

On Chromium, it has a --light switch.
This scenario you present isn't exclusive to Linux or Mac though. I have seen this play out a number of times where a friend in my group finds a game and convinces us all to play it together; the difference is we are all on Windows. This is also exactly why companies target streamers so much, because it's just what you describe at a larger scale (and it's safe to say most streamers are running Windows).
The term "chatbot" is problematic, as it potentially conflates a couple of different types of systems that superficially may look very similar.

Dialog systems: Dialog systems, in a narrowly confined domain, can solve a task, help solve a task, or provide information to enable humans to solve a task quicker. Flight booking systems are typical examples, where the system asks a couple of questions and the user answers them, and users may also ask questions.
Gradually a set of slots (DEPATURE-FROM, ARRIVAL-AT etc.) are filled and then a booking transaction can be initiated. Will work for flights but not good for asking it out-of-domain questions.

Statistical or neural language models: BERT, GPT-3 and other muppets are models of language that can predict likely next word/sentence etc. - which is useful for many tasks but is NOT equivalent to a "chatbot". It may be abused as one for fun, but there is no formal meaning representation used and no answer logic applied. Think of this as a simple auto-complete - so this is not a source of wisdom to ask about safety of stair cases or any other serious topic like that.
(These models are VERY useful ingredients of modern NLP applications, but they are the bricks rather than the house.)

Interactive CRM Forms: Web/Slack "bots" or Typeform survey are sometimes fun, sometimes useful but can never claim to "understand" anything. They are ways to capture some data interactively, often to eventually feed the data to a human for review.

Question answering systems: Answer retrieval is the task of automatically finding a phrase or sentence in a body of, say, a million documents which answers a given question. They are next-level search engines intended to supercede keyword based search sytems. Deployed Web searche engines like Google already have limited answering capabilities - but only for a select small number of question types. "Open domain Q&A" is the task of permitting question answering by machine without limiting the domain, and since 1998 US NIST have been organizing annual bake-offs for international research teams, which has helped advance the state of the art a lot (e.g. https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec16/t16_proceedings.html).

Reading comprehension systems: These systems take a piece of text as input as well as a question, and then they attempt to answer a question about the text. Tests used to assess human students (remedial testing) can nowadays be passed reasonably well.
Who planted the pipe bombs? Do you have proof that it was the rioters? If so please give the evidence to the FBI.
It's difficult to imagine Trump as "a more lucid version" of anyone? One would expect Rep. Paul could talk more intelligently than Pres. Trump on pretty much any topic, with the possible exception of USA corporate bankruptcy law.

With respect to the substance of your comment, sure, Trump talked a good game about stopping the stupid wars. He just never got around to actually doing that.
You probably can't do this with google (rhasspy on the other hand...), but what is really needed is every-time someone tries something that doesn't work they go program the response that would have been correct.

I think speech recognition is good enough for this, but what is left is making a complex tree. See the 20 questions game where because so many people have put in new answers it now can guess almost everything after just a few questions. This is not easy and it takes a lot of effort to figure out where things didn't work and fix it so it will for the next person. At least some of those things you fix will never be asked again, but you need to do it.

Part of the above is speech recognition needs to expose a confidence and if it thinks it knows ask useful questions about what you mean. (they already do in some cases)
Still 22mln metric tons we could do without.
Aha, I'm not crazy!

Early on in the pandemic, I commented to a friend that I thought that most people looked more attractive wearing a mask. She laughed at the sentence itself (it's definitely a comical thing to say), but then refuted my assertion, saying that she didn't find it to be true.

Now it seems like I'm not the only one. Perhaps it's because peoples' mouths are a bit weird?

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Or, perhaps it's because mouths are hidden, and most people don't smile a lot in public. Remember that thread a few days ago about that student taking hidden photographs in the 1980's, and how a bunch of HNers commented that wow, people sure smiled more back then[1]? Maybe it isn't the case that faces are more intrinsically attractive with masks, but just that they hide the frowns (or blank stares at phones, I don't know) that one would see otherwise.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29862179
The question is: What happens with the whole amount of money seized by FSB?