jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No it doesn't. The relevant market is trivial compared to the size of the global financial system. The entire Bitcoin market could evaporate today and cause barely a ripple.

Lehman had significant assets in the fiat currency of the largest economy in the world, a fiat currency that also forms significant portions of the cash reserves of other major economies. This is to say nothing of the interconnected investments and chain reactions this caused, since it wasn't just about the amount of money lost but whose money.
Some Google searches that will get you surveillance footage....

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There are many more. What's going to stop the police, or anyone for that matter, from using those?
I don't agree that gamers are cheap as a group. Most gamers I know not only own several consoles and a graphics card that cost more than many peoples computers, they also happily buy $60+ games on the day of release several times a month. If you try to tell them that by waiting 6 month they can get the same games for half the price, they'll look at you as if that was the stupidest thing they've heard in their entire life.
Agree. It's interesting to compare the remote worker debate with the open office configuration debate- they seem like different degrees of the same problem.

I find it interesting that I myself am all for remote workers, but have had nothing but horrible experiences with workplaces where everyone has their own office. Pondering this a bit I think it's because every workplace I've been in with individual offices (Microsoft and others) also seemed to be very old school in terms of communication software.
Not everything Sun made was big iron; even their small soldiers (Netra, SunBlade etc) used many of the same technologies (Open Boot PROM, etc.) that made their big-iron great. And their hardware and software documentation was second to none.

A network of good boxes is still better than a network of IBM BIOS-booting junk with weak telemetry, non-ECC RAM, and hastily engineered I/O controllers.
I didn't do the coursera course but her book [A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science](http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra-e...) change my way of thinking when it comes to learning, which I had read it sooner.
Can it be legal to sell a commercial DDoS tool ? Or can it be sold in the grab of security testing tool ?
Register your bike. https://bikeindex.org

We've successfully recovered thousands of bikes (three in the past two days!). We've made it easy to id stolen bikes, and more difficult to sell stolen bikes - which makes ultimately bike theft less appealing.

GPS trackers are great - but unfortunately, they have yet to meet these vital requirements: easy to charge, difficult to remove, waterproof, cheap enough to put on everyone's bikes.
The word "rape" didn't even remotely cross my mind until you mentioned it here. The name actually reminded me of a rapier, a kind of weapon.
What exactly then is the point of humanity? To sit around and consume bread and circuses?

Isn't this immensely dysgenic, where the productive members of society labour all day to produce goods and services for the unproductive, who will use their ample spare time to reproduce and vote for an expansion of UBI?

What need is there to even behave decently and civilly, when all of your needs and income are taken care of by the State? Why study or work hard as a child when your future (I will be a UBI recipient, as is my father, as was my father before him) is already established?

If we wish to help the working classes of the West, then we need simply eliminate all unskilled immigration and refugee programs. Demand for workers will rise and pressure on infrastructure, Government services, agriculture and housing will decrease - boosting quality of life without UBI.

The other major factor of poverty is of women having children out of wedlock. We should stop incentivizing single-motherhood, and offer universal access to family planning including further development of vasalgel.
Whoops, sloppy generalization on my part. You're completely right of course, thanks! I've been focusing on deep learning a lot lately, to the point where AI has become an alias for those exciting new GPU-heavy techniques.
Florida has both Sarasota County Area Transit and Space Coast Area Transport. Both are SCAT.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scat

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scat
Similarly down this path I found Factor. A different approach but supports backtracking. https://factorcode.org/
The problem might be "Hispanic or Latino" row, which is 16.4%. On (US or state) government forms that's usually a different question from race. See the second image here: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/18/census-cons...
It is really not clear to me from that wiki article you posted that Sanford's view has been refuted. I took a look at Kimura's paper, and it seems the wiki author either didn't read it or didn't understand Kimura's argument.

"Sanford also misuses Kimura's mutation distribution; Kimura excludes beneficial mutations because they would have too large an effect, not an insignificant one."

This makes it sound as if Sanford is excluding beneficial mutations because otherwise they would disprove his 'genetic entropy' thesis since they are very beneficial and outweigh the amassing of negative mutations.

However, from what I can understand of the original paper, Kimura actually excludes beneficial mutations from his model because they do not match the empirical data, and thus must be much less beneficial or common than his model requires. Here's the cite from his paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC383841/

From the abstract:

"The situation becomes quite different if slightly advantageous mutations occur at a constant rate independent of environmental conditions. In this case, the evolutionary rate can become enormously higher in a species with a very large population size than in a species with a small population size, contrary to the observed pattern of evolution at the molecular level."

From the beginning:
"Note that in this formulation, we disregard beneficial mutants, and restrict our consideration only to deleterious and neutral mutations. Admittedly, this is an oversimplification, but as I shall show later, a model assuming that beneficial mutations also arise at a constant rate independent of environmental changes leads to unrealistic results."

And near the end of the article:

"To make our analysis complete, let us investigate how the evolutionary rate is influenced by assuming that a certain fraction of mutations are advantageous....This means the rate of evolution can become enormously high in very large populations, kg being directly proportional to Ne, contrary to actual observations."

Kimura is saying that beneficial mutations do not follow his model, because they must be much less common than his model requires, so he excludes beneficial mutations. This sounds to me consistent with what Sanford is saying, unless I am misunderstanding something. If you come to a different understanding of Kimura, please let me know.

At any rate, it is not intellectually dishonest for scholars to disagree. There is no requirement that scholars must agree with the status quo. In fact, that's anti thetical to the entire scientific project. Intellectual dishonesty consists of things like knowingly making logically fallacious arguments and falsifying evidence, none of which it is obvious, at least to me from the wiki article you posted, that Sanford is doing. So it is unclear to me why he should not be regarded as an intellectually honest YEC, and have his views respected as such. I am happy to be convinced otherwise.
The Solar Cycle is great, but even fewer people have read Peace. I think is a genuine mid-century American literary masterpiece that should be discussed (favorably) alongside with Cheever, Updike, Sherwood Anderson, and Don Delillo. It's his ultimate puzzle box of a book, but incredibly rewarding.
Is this the same study involving the open source browser plugin that Facebook were up in arms about?
Hundreds of thousands of lives in exchange for compulsory surveillance seems like a pretty bad deal in a world with 6 billion people.
>> We believe that WebAssembly will be a crucial component for the future of software execution and containerization (not only inside the browser but also outside).

Why? I don't get that or maybe miss some crucial parts or maybe it's just a too enthusiastic statement. I understand the security issues of running external code. Those security issues can be reduced with a sandboxed environment like a WA runtime.

On the server side the vast majority of the industry is running their own code. There are already many options like lambda-functions, hosted container environments, hosted VMs or of course running your own. So why take this extra step? Running plain binaries of your code is easier, faster and more reliable. Building, distributing and running a Go service is actually one of the easiest parts in the whole development and operations chain. Same is true for Rust or .NET Core. Even with Java where you need a runtime I don't see how a WA runtime solves a problem at all when running your own code.

I see great potential where you need to run untrusted code. Customer plugins for some edge server. But that is really a niche in terms of overall market.
Use dash/s/f/ . seq is fine too but dash is pretty much clojure port.
That sounds like a bug in either XWayland/X or chromium rather than atom directly. Does the same happen with other electron/chromium apps?
To oversimplify, think of a human population as an information system, and ask

- where is the state kept, and

- where is the state mutated?

There is some state kept in objects like books and buildings and databases.

But the individual human brains are the greatness/shame of the nation.

There is a cognitive crutch "The American People" that is frequently leaned on, but the large the population symbolically aggregated for the assertion, the less meaningful it seems.

Hence my disagreement when someone says:

> I have very little doubt that countries are like their own people.

It gets really hard to make any point stick at scale.
It depends on how important the project is, obviously.
I've done something similar with my "yet another dashboard" project [1]. I'm developing it in public from day 1.

[1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/docs/
As an introduction introduction I guess this is OK. However there are two major limitations:

1: The feature extraction ends with mean-summarizing across the entire audio clip - leaving no temporal information. This only works well for simple tasks. At least mentioning something about analysis windows and temporal modelling would be good, as the natural next step. Be it LSTM/GRU on the MFCC, or CNN on mel-spectrogram.

2: The folds of the Urbansound8k dataset are not respected in the evaluation. In Urbansound8k different folds contains clips extracted from the same original audio files, usually very close in time. So mixing the folds for the testset means it is no longer entirely "unseen data". The model very likely exploits this data leakage, as the reported accuracy is above SOTA (for no data-augmentation) - unreasonable given the low fidelity feature representation.
At least mentioning this limitation and that the performance number they give cannot be compared with other methods, would be prudent.

When I commented similarly on r/machinelearning the authors acknowledged these weaknesses, but did not update the article to reflect it.
Try being in charge of a telcom billing system run for pressure :-) its day 22 in the month and it still not done, this was some POS we inherited from Dialcom

But I do know some one who single handled rescued a big snafu on a quarterly run for British telecom, your talking about hundreds on millions
Post like this are fine (unless you repost and repost and repost it). But I think a post with more technical information may get more traction here.

How does the sensor work? Can you give more info?

Does it detect movement? Is it confused by movement in the street that is visible though a window? Is it confused by a dog? What if I'm sitting in a big sofa that hides me from the sensor? Does it work when I'm sleeping?

Does it detect heat? Is it confused by sunlight? A fireplace?

Does it detect sound? Is it confused by a TV?

Does it detect phones? What about children?

There are like a million of technical problem that can be a nice subject of a technical blog post. (Include some photos and graphics.) Even the failed approach can make nice blog post.

One problem with heat is that you need some time to reach a nice room temperature (it's not like light that can change instantly). How do you solve that? Let's say the kitchen when it is not cooking time, can I have a setup to have a intermediate temperature there?

What about the bill reduction angle? This is a subject where money and environment go in the same direction.
I would guess it's part of some kind of early-warning system. The pressure and density of fluids in a well is extremely variable moment to moment, and knowing when a well is about to 'kick' makes it possible to prevent an awful lot of problems.
I'm against location based pay. But I'm not sure your argument is a good one against it.

Just about all benefits offered by employers, from maternity leave to health care, function as allowances for particular purposes. They pay a variable amount based on the varying needs of a workforce.

One could even relabel the location-based-pay as a "rent supplement". If everyone get the same pay but those paying crazy high rents get extra to ameliorate this, it sound better.

Which still isn't saying I like this idea. I don't think pay should be able to be easily translated to benefits and I think only things that are unalterably unequal, like health care and maternity leave, should be doled out as benefits.

But I don't think one can make the argument that "allowance" type pay is inherently offensive. I mean, one allowance thing that's totally reasonable is when employees have to go to conferences for a work and the employer gives them an allowance for the incidental expenses they're incur.
Good timing considering that Khan Academy will be taking their MCAT prep offline later this year. [1]

Apparently another org will be hosting them through the end of 2021.

1: https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat
In fact they have a separate colorisation feature for B&W pics. It turns people white (with a pink hue), and there isn't a setting to let it know that the subject isn't white.
Apple customers generate a large chunk of the content there is to see in Facebook products, so losing them would diminish engagement across all remaining platforms. If competitors can capitalize on the opportunity, that could very well trigger a death spiral that would destroy Facebook within mere months, whereas Apple could weather that easily.

Few things could flat out annihilate Facebook, but punching a large hole in their network is probably one of them.
The context didn't require any opinion either way - just a list of contentious issues.

There are already plenty threads here and on the net discussing abortion - you are just stating your own beliefs without any justification, or attempt to address the crux of the topic.
> not better than Saudi Arabia

> Obama-era drone killings

The drone killings are not good, but in no way equivalent to the ills of SA. The murder of a journalist isn't the same as the murder of a wanted violent criminal.
> > it either is undefined or isn't.

> Values are never undefined.

I am referring to the JS concept of the singleton `undefined`, not an abstract idea of definedness.

Overall I see where you're coming from, but scrambling Haskell and TypeScript syntax is severely impacting legibility.

End of the day Haskell and TS have very different use cases, one is a research language exploring the reaches of type theory, the other is type system bolted onto a dynamic language doing the best it can. Sure there are some concepts that it can't express, but that's entirely missing the point.
You sound like a high priest of Bitcoin lol... “1000+ year journey”
Having to work to survive is far more depressing than knowing I'm free to do as I please. Death by ennui is a straw man and anyone living near subsistence levels will tell you as much.
Wouldn't the same be true with any other browser's incognito? What does this have to do with Chrome? The irony is that to do what these people ask for (Analytics somehow not tracking you in incognito), they would have to actually add in a way for Analytics to detect you are in incognito.
Copyright 1998-2018. There's a story right there.
If you want that smoke a joint haha
> It does connect to google's servers for pretty much everything [1]

Have you actually looked at that code? It's for domain fronting[0], so nothing shady, and it's only used when you're in Egypt, UAE, Oman, Qatar, or Iran. Have a look at

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/d74e9f74103...

vs

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/d74e9f74103...

and, finally,

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/d74e9f74103...

> you can look for these constants in the codebase and you'll find lots of things that would worry any netsec person, including the key backup related stuff

I just ran a recursive grep on the entire repository and the file you referred to is effectively the only place where a google.com URL shows up in the code (apart from two or three more instances which are not suspicious, either).

Maybe I'm missing something, so feel free to prove me wrong, but right now my impression is that you're spreading FUD for no good reason.

[0]: https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/
That's what https://yunohost.org/ is doing
ding ding. We also need to invest in proper public transit
I think it's great that people are publishing their home server setups.

At the same time, the scary sounding warnings of "You're at risk if you put your trust in another company to hold your data!!" ring really hollow to me. I mean, does this person keep all of his money under his mattress, or does he put it in a bank (though I guess he could keep it all in crypto...)? Does he buy insurance, or again just keep a mountain of backup cash in a safe somewhere?

At the end of the day our entire economy is built around being able to trust other companies, and the systems in place to safeguard that trust. "I'll do it all myself" is essentially the process you see in third world countries where the systems are too fragile or corrupt to support that trust.
You can host nearly anything you want here for a modest fee: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

No one owes you free hosting or access to their audience platform. If you take free shit from someone, expect to be at their mercy. It's really not that complicated or dystopian.
Don't put the blame on them. There are plenty of reasons why it might suck: having to drive the car (and pay for it) to get to work, which also adds to the stress. Taking the train (depending on where you live) might also be uncomfortable: risk of dirt, disease, smell, and risk of assault when commuting home after working late. Cycling late at night might also increase the risk of accidents.
Apple’s guidelines for whether or not you need to join MFi: https://mfi.apple.com/en/faqs.html

To build on this for other than personal use, you would either need to purchase Find My microchips from someone who is in the MFi program, or you would need to join the program yourself if you intend to produce your own microchip implementation of Find My.

For personal use, Apple truly doesn’t care.
>They are driven by a throw things at the wall and see what sticks strategy rather than some deeper vision for the world.

You've really hit the nail on the head for me there. The people I really respect are the people who can look at idea a and say "that's failing because it's a bad idea" and look at idea b and say "that's a good idea, but we need to work harder at it". Google (from the outside) appears to say "These are all ideas, and they failed, kill them". There's no understanding or insight into the world, there's only 'experiments', which is as good as throwing a random number generator at an authentication system.
varint style encoding is also arbitrary precision (although protobuf doesn't support arbitrary precision) It is trivial to get 7 bits per byte and you can do even better for large values by encoding the length upfront (this also makes decoding faster).
This would be more similar to the IRS sending you a filled out 1040 along with a note:

> We have provided a pre-filled 1040 based on your W-2s, Form 1099s, 1098s etc. We have made the following assumptions while preparing:
> your marriage filing status remains unchanged since last year,
> your dependents remain unchanged since last year,
> you have no income beyond that reported to us,
> you do not qualify for any deductions/ credits beyond those indicated in forms we have received.
>
> If all of the above assumptions are correct, you may sign the enclosed form and return it. Otherwise, you may use the provided pre-filled numbers and worksheets as a starting point, and make the necessary changes.

In the above scenario, one can very clearly see the amount of tax one paid, and the amount of income, as both are clearly indicated on the "postcard"-sized main 1040 form (which is a good joke as basically everybody will have one or more additional forms they need to attach to it.)
> There is not a single "practice" that just happens to be some bad guy opposing FLOSS because he hates your freedoms.

And once again, that's something I never said, nor inferred. I won't continue to have a discussion with someone who insists on twisting words and making up shit to chase an ever-changing point of view. I stand by what I actually said: 100% Free and Open Source software is a noble ideal and a powerful tool in the fight for digital freedoms, but in reality it's difficult (but not impossible) to achieve such a state. No matter what, we must continue to strive for that goal.
I wonder what the solution is.

With so many people encased with their own filter bubble, and and an increasing number unwilling to consider other points of view rationally (i.e. objectively, without judgment, and without jumping to take offense), I only see the situation growing more and more polarized over time.

The article would have been improved by reducing the sniping at "white people" and recognizing that this is a broad, human issue. People tend to cluster in groups that have similarities. In some cases, the similarities are along interests (bitcoin geeks, Alabama football boosters) and in other cases the similarities are along ethnic, religious or cultural lines. It's not something that white people are doing to others - it's a human tendency.
The heat rejection can't be done at ambient temperature, the heat exchanger would have to be infinite in size.

Though raising the heat exhaust to say 40 C only slightly changes the efficiency, from 70% to 68%.
It has an increased barrier to entry to sort out those capable of reading it -- namely, being familiar with web slideshows and knowing to press the right arrow...
In general government regulation should prevent negative externalities, not restrict entry to certain occupations in order to keep wages high for those occupations.

The issues you cite (healthcare, transportation, telecommunications, energy, etc) all involve externalities or market failures. Low wages are not an eternality or a market failure.

Issues of redistribution are best dealt with by taxation [1]. Why does a person who earns a low income deserve more of a break, just because they happen to be a taxi driver?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorems_of_welfare...