jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the very highest percentiles of the maths SAT tests is more of test for Aspbergers like single-mindedness and less of test for actually mathematical aptitude. I doubt someone in the 97th percentile is on the whole a significantly dumber or in any way a worse (potential) mathematician than someone in the 99.7th percentile, but they probably don't have the same single-minded zeal.
>The ethical necessity of addressing global human suffering

Why do lots of people seem to assume that AI will be some sort of omnibenevolent servant of humanity? Isn't it far more likely that if e.g. Google creates a superhuman intelligent AI, then it will serve the needs of Google (i.e. advertisers, whose goal is to shape your behavior in their favor)? Isn't it just the same old power politics?

Superintellect is just that. I see no general correlation between intellect and morality.
Taleb has written literally hundreds of pages on risk management and if you don't consider any of that as context, I guess you could assume he literally meant to get short some delta one treasury product. I think that's a little bit naive but whatever.

You can watch the full video here: http://2010.therussiaforum.com/news/session-video3/

You have to switch it from Russian (ру́с) to English. He says you want an "active position" where you "benefit from rise [in rates]." The video then shows Hugh Hendry, who has basically the opposite position but for European government bonds. He is short rates (so long bonds) but he has an options position which fixes his maximum loss at some known value. Hendry spells it out, but I think given Taleb's background, he probably meant something like that (but in reverse).
We also need to define who 'we' are. What proportion of the world's population needs to notice before we've noticed?

In a Singularity, I don't think we would notice the AI itself, but only its effects. Suddenly things will just get a lot easier and/or a lot worse depending on who you are and the fitness function of the underlying AI engine. (I tend to believe that a sentient, recursively self-improving AI wouldn't be able to decouple itself from the fitness function of its pre-Singularity origins)
With all the wrong in this world at the moment you want to speculate on additional imaginary evils? You need to get your priorities straight.
In sleep, your “background mind” will process all the information you have gathered. I often find that when I come back to the problem the next day the solution jumps out at me.

This happened to me so often and in such striking ways that when presented with a problem now, unless the answer is obvious, I always say I'll be sleeping on it and, no, I won't be solving it today - it's interesting how many people think this is laziness at first, and will even tell you so, but are then thankful the next day when you come up with a creative solution.
I get in between 7-8 and leave between 3-7 depending how productive I am feeling.
It's funny that DIY is seen as a "movement", like alternative lifestyle.

When you're poor, or from a poor country, DIY is the absolute default. My experience growing up in latin america during the 80's taught me only cashing out at the store after exhausting all possibilities of building/fixing something at home. People would often fix their own speakers, sound systems, TVs, clothes washer, cars, and so on - to the point the more easily serviceable brands were sought after, not the top-notch ones.
AFAIU, no existing banking transaction systems require the receiver to confirm in order to receive a funds transfer.

You can create a "multisig" DLT smart contract that requires multiple parties' signatures before the [optionally escrowed] funds are actually transferred.

EFT: Electronic Funds Transfer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_funds_transfer

As far as permissions to write to the account ledger: Check signatures are scanned. Cryptoasset keys are very long, high-entropy "passwords". US debit cards are chip+pin; it's not enough to just copy down the card number (and CVV code).

Though credit cards typically are covered by fraud protection, debit card transactions typically aren't: hopefully something will be recovered, but AFAIU debit txs might as well be as unreversible as cryptoasset transactions.

TPL: Transaction Permission Layer is one proposed system for permissions in blockchain; so that e.g. {proof of residence, receiver confirmation, accredited investor status, etc.} can be necessary for a transaction to go through.

ILP: Interledger Protocol > RFC 32 >
"Peering, Clearing and Settling" describes how ~EFT with Interledger works:
https://interledger.org/rfcs/0032-peering-clearing-settlemen...
Yes, follow-ups, there are other definitions of the word "precedent". In the discussion of a legal decision, however, the legal definition takes ... well, precedence.

Not really.

Oftentimes people get lost too much in the legalese to see the big picture of what this decisions means.
Better off compared to what?
Mesos itself is written in C++. Building Mesos will generate Java and Python bindings.
I think providing quality results is the challenge. That take certain algorithms and optimizations to do so in a timely fashion. This is where AI projects like Watson really come into play add they are all about retrieving the correct information (a difficult problem on its own) in a timely fashion.
> I define a good parent as one that is able to care for a child physically and emotionally. A sociopath, at best, will be able to put food on the table, but they will never be able to show genuine affection.

They don't have to show genuine affection. A lot of sociopaths fake it, and probably most of them do a good job of it. Perhaps faking it is even the path to a 'cure' for sociopathy.

I haven't seen any studies showing that sociopaths are more likely to raise dysfunctional children. I do suspect that they probably are more likely, but unless the correlation is very strong, and the children are very dysfunctional, I don't think it is worth it to try and 'out' sociopaths and restrict them from having children.

Based on your language ('at best, will be able to put food on the table'), I think you are overestimating the negative impact of having a sociopath for a parent compared to having, for example, a really empathic alcoholic parent.
Wrap the phone in tinfoil.
Global warming is not measured by any local high or low temperature at a given moment.
If your boss paid you via an excel spreadsheet of personal data every month I think you'd give a bit of pause on the real value of the dollar vs. personal information.

Sure you are giving them personal information that is valuable, but I don't think the datacenter power company is going to take that as a monthly payment from Facebook each month the bill is due.

You do have the right to complain, as everyone does, but since you aren't giving them actual $, they have the right to really not give a damn.
I've subcribed since the begining. I like the way the sessions are divided. I also passed the newsletter to friends I know that they would not follow HN everyday. I understand there is always some bias in any news selection but I believe Kale is doing very well!
That I can see. However, there still seems to be a lot of admiration for the guys who can pull off special effects in real life over digitally adding them later.

As far as I can tell.
Here is a summary of feedback I have been getting from first-time new moms in their late twenties with babies between 6 months and 1.5 yrs old, moms are all top 50 university grads:

i) They loved the idea - first impression: Aww cutee!! (Which is awesome!)

ii) They didn't know what to do with the main page, how to get started - they missed the big orange join now button. Drive the getting started process harder.

iii) Felt confused by so much info about apps and such in the bottom - get them in first then go into benefits. They said you could totally do away with "Why you'll love Moment Garden..." on the main page - they were sold at "Create and Share your Child's Story". Just say how it’s easy and private – sold!

iv) They thought it might be hard to maintain, tell them quickly on main page how it’s easy to keep updated with emailing. Upload a short video maybe?

v) They have already had their kids, and thought "I missed my first child's Moment Garden, so I will start with the next one I guess", if someone ever says I’ll will come back later, they are never coming back, promise! I think this is because you start with conception in your main page image, most parents don't think about this stuff till they have a baby, my suggestion is to start with first steps, so you don't alienate existing parents (many) at the cost of trying to capture future parents (few).

vi) There is totally a need! If you don't succeed it’s your own fault. So never back off! :)
Since comment scores aren't displayed anymore, I'm stuck replying 'ditto'.
Not going out like the dinosaurs?
I'd just like to say: Simpsons did it first.

July 11, 1991, episode "Blood Feud", the last episode of season 2. The scene is around the 7 minute mark. The implication is that the blood transfusion has made him feel young again.

There's actually a few references like this throughout the seasons of the simpsons.

It's honestly weird to me this wasn't tried in the early days of performing blood transfusions. I mean honestly the study wouldn't even be ethically questionable. You find patients that need routine blood transfusions and track their health over a period of time, you then administer blood transfusions from sources where you can control for the age of the blood donor.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was never even thought of because people seem all too willing to think of the body as "just a machine".

Given that we literally urinate out neurotransmitters, and that young people tend to be happier (it's actually called the happiness U-bend, in that 18-21 year olds are as happy as 70 year olds, and 50 years old is the lowest point in peoples reported happiness) so we could just be shooting people full of--quite literally--happiness. Given that severe depression can lead to myocardial infraction, I don't doubt general depression also has long term health effects. Also I don't think antidepressants would benefit, just because they generally make people "not feel" rather than "happy".
I would add Brave new world to the mixture, so there's awareness of what happens when there is surplus of cat pics and reality shows.

edit: oh, one starts to write a comment, attends the phone, and your idea is already submitted :/.
They mostly do in the USA. Two exceptions: from international to domestic or international transfer must go through customs first, so there is a bag recheck and a checkpoint after customs (but usually not in baggage claim). Otherwise, people might buy a connecting ticket who doesn’t have a baggage transfer agreement with their first airline.
It's because they have a database on the back end and you need to be able to write "SELECT * FROM [foo]" to get data.

I'd actually be really pissed if a company asked me to write a query like "count these orders by month in a single row" not because I couldn't do it but because I'm confident I'd screw up the syntax a couple of times.

I think they should ask more conceptual questions around set theory or storage structure, epsecially since they all want "SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, etc". Nobody can stay on top of all the platform specifics, but someone who knows their stuff can answer the udnerlying problems.
Try decreasing your spending? The less you spend, the less you depend on the miserable job. Being less dependent (ex. accumulating even a couple years of living expenses's worth of savings) should give a lot of breathing room re: changing jobs or even careers.

How to spend less? I personally have found this blog to be both very inspiring and practical: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/
“Endless mandates” meaning an endless number of mandates, not that individual mandates are endless.

At Microsoft the number of simple mandates like this one are numbered at least in the hundreds.
If you keep breaking the site guidelines, we're going to have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sad but true, for the obvious business reasons.

I was pleased (somewhat) 20 years ago when Java displaced C++, but now I just wish it would fade away.

Thanks for the garbage collector, Java, now retire.

This said as someone who is convinced that most of what I want to do could be done with FP vs OOP techniques, and FAR less of it.
If you don't want me thinking China's leadership has done a poor job, don't insist on a story that requires it.

I don't know if the West would succeed, but other countries have certainly dealt with terrorism problems without building giant camps and tossing much of the population inside.
Well I did my homework. When you find another language that does it in a somewhat similar fashion, I'll happily change the website. ;-) I didn't think Rust counts, but since it's constantly changing, I will have a fresh look at it.
There is already a good Simple alternative called Envel.ai I believe. Its based on the same envelope system (hence Envel..) and has a more advanced budgeting engine...
Notice how this is advocating the use of free speech? Notice the lack of violent words like "attack" "battle" "combat" "fight" etc? Do you notice just how different this is than the rhetoric employed by Trump, Guiliani, etc. recently?
Of course it's related. To do that undermines the entire point of end to end encryption. It's a strong allegation with no evidence to support it.

It would also completely invalidate their "we don't have the keys" defence to law enforcement requests.
Thanks! So are we :)
Yeah, even the gross is what, 2-3 days worth of a mid-level+ developer's salary.

All the money I've made in mobile has been for building apps for businesses doing "boring" things that were subscription based. Sounds like I make more in a week of that work than I'd make in a year doing my own apps.
"A third benefit of Type-C is that it can deliver greater amounts of power -- up to 100 watts. That means you should be able to charge something as big as a laptop via a USB cable, as well as the phones and other small devices you can charge today."

How awesome would it be to not need a dedicated power port on your laptop? In my experience with repairing laptops, that's one of the first things to break if you're keeping the thing plugged in constantly. It gets old disassembling the entire machine just to J-B Weld or solder the female end back in place. Then there's the idea that you may eventually be able to charge your other internet devices with the same cord you charge your laptop with. You get a cord with every device, so that means you'll have backups ready if your main charge cord breaks or disappears. This just seems like an all-around Good Thing.
Is it monetizing 1k+/month?
I'm sorry, and perhaps I'm missing something.

Why is it necessary to post the lawyer's address and point out that it appears to be their home too?
I disagree. The potential benefits far outweigh the vacuous 'evil' you describe above. Lets first have the technology and capability that could possibly be abused before we try stopping that tech from ever happening... So what if they have the largest amount of genomic information that humanity has ever gathered together ? And obviously they should do their best to change the fate of our history what would you have them do with it ?
I must say though. This was unnoticed for a week if I first reported this!

https://botbot.me/mozilla/rust/2015-01-07/?msg=28933399&page...
Why would LSE listing be a loss? Would capital that moves in the US markets have any problem coming to the UK one if they see a good prospect?
I stopped using it when I realized that 99% of what my "friends" were posting was total shit. The 1% interesting stuff I can get with a phone call or stuff like that.

I still have my account though, I just don't use it.
Hey, I'm one of the people behind Fiddle.md. I think your example works very well, what do you feel is missing?
Amusing that you talk about production support considering Go is by comparison a bit of a joke compared to the JVM. I can get detailed remote metrics through JMX and introspect running code with Java Agent tools like New Relic or AppDynamics.

I completely get what you mean about Go being simplistic and easier to reason than your typical J2EE app. But remember you don't have to write your Java apps that way. Unfortunately "design patterns" took off a decade ago and ended up dragging Java and many other languages into the complexity quicksand.

I hope Go learns from these lessons as it matures.
I'm fairly certain their resolver name servers are separate from their authoritative authoritative name servers.
PyPy project maintains an example interpreter to learn from.

https://bitbucket.org/pypy/example-interpreter
I saw Blue Öyster Cult in 2020. The lead singer/guitarist's mother in law had recently died, and they dedicated their performance of Fear the Reaper to her memory.
LinkedIn post?
> How long between your second vaccination and when you had Covid? I assume you had no booster.

It was 8 months since last vaxx, and I was scheduled for a booster but Covid got me first.

These booster shots don't seem to help much with Omnicron anyway, isn't Pfizer and others working on a new vaccine to target this strain?
ZFS already stores three logical copies of all metadata, regardless of copies parameter or vdev redundancy. The failures LTT experienced went way beyond what ZFS, or btrfs, could repair.

They made severe errors in judgment when setting up the system and failing to monitor and administer it. No system will ever protect against this. Not ZFS. Not btrfs.
Oh I get that bit, I just meant that was surprised they were able to find it basically immediately. It's not like my blog is high traffic.
I use HN a lot and it is very rare that it is down, and then only for a short period of time. (Not a very exact metric).

I do get an occasional no-response from firebase, but my guess is that this is really on my ISP. Again, that is also quite rare.
Bottom post. See here, which I'll quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Choosing_the_prop...

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
I've been at a state school in Indiana for the past two years, and our largest class (in the math department) is around 150 students.
Study Project Management instead of Computer Science, then you can manage teams of Computer Scientists!
I've gotten some great advice from folks who were not happy but were working like crazy to make their lives better. Your mileage may of course vary.
Congratulations to these guys for finding out something people have known for decades.
Maybe I'm missing the really innovative stuff here. The save for later is nice, but the recommendations, comments and UI aren't groundbreaking.

The reason I read a physical paper or watch the news on TV is because unlike most digital formats, I end up getting introduced to issues that aren't normally on my radar. This is the I have problem with much of the digital news where I would just click on what interests me.

With a regular newspaper, multiple articles sharing a single page, and the effort of changing a page (let's face it, it isn't like flipping through a magazine) there is enough resistance that I find myself spending a few extra seconds at least scanning the first few lines of every article on the page and sometimes I get sucked in and end up learning some amazing things.

For me, this is one thing that digital just can't do. Clicking and swiping is just too easy and too fast.
Everyone has their own syntactic preferences. And what, really, is the difference between a preference for certain colors in an IDE and a preference for a certain syntax? Why is one easily customizable and the other rigidly defined by a language? If programs in all languages were stored on file as lisp-style AST's, with comments attached to AST nodes, then programmers could view programs using their own preferred syntax, as well as formatting and colors.
Everyone should pay attention because this is an almost textbook case of a disguised "begging the question."

We shouldn't listen to the points the OP made because he read them elsewhere and they are largely baseless. Why are they largely baseless? Because he read them elsewhere and they are largely baseless.

The conclusion is assumed in the argument itself therefore the "argument" really isn't an argument at all.
Tell me about it. My boyfriend is in hospitality management, I'm in mathematics. Whereas I pull in enough to live comfortably in a single bedroom apartment downtown, he's on financial aid and living with two roommates on the outskirts.

It blew my mind when I found out.
That's awkward passive voice. How about "myusername has not listed skills"?
CashEdge supports aggregation as well: http://cashedge.com/products-financial-information.php

A PFM solution called HelloWallet uses them: http://www.hellowallet.com/2010/03/09/alldata-account-aggreg...

I can't speak to the quality or cost of the API though.

I do know (as an ex-Yodlee employee) that the Yodlee bank API, although not extremely intuitive, is very powerful and heavily used by a lot of institutions.

Will
-ex-Yodlee (04-08)
-Freelance Yodlee Consultant (now)
You can use Twilio in the UK :) you just have to a) sign up properly (with a card) and b) email them to request international calling.

IIRC (I only use them for SMS) International Outbound rates to the UK are the same as US domestic rates :)

edit: yup, http://www.twilio.com/international-calling-rates
> Multnomah County, OR is a bunch of solid black lines from throughout the country. Everyone wants to be in Portland, but the Oregon unemployment numbers are comparable to Michigan, IIRC.

Both of our recent hires moved here first, and found a job afterwards. Portland is seen as hip and comparatively inexpensive, so if you're going to be unemployed, might as well do it here.
Bb (and harmonics), if there happens to be anyone interested :)

Personally I don't mind it - it's the sound of international football.
They really do need to work on pricing. I'm not saying it needs to be cheaper, or more expensive, rather that the way it's sold is wrong. Sometimes I want to bill the customer (sub accounts?) for the time, sometimes I want to take it out of my own balance, and other times I'd rather just have a plan with overage charges.

That said, the $30 trial account thing is an amazing hook-in.
Crazy! I was thinking about this site in the shower today.
My configuration has been reliable. I suspect some hardware issue screwed up my Apache instance.

If you have had good support, that's fair enough. I haven't and complaining on a public forum was my last resort to get any attention or help. The fact that no one from prgmr has yet responded to this thread is telling. It seems that one gets such bad customer service either from really small teams or giants like Google. I am not scared to call businesses out on poor service.
That's a little too big-brotherish. I know you're analyzing my email but don't bring what you know to the forefront like that.
I'm with you. It sounds like for any application that would use Twilio extensively, it might be better to roll your own. (not that I know how exactly, but I've read here someone saying it wasn't too big of a deal)

For example, if you have an app where one user would need to be on the phone say 6 hours a day, (could see that easily for customer support or sales) it goes to over $200 a month for a single user. You can probably find products and markets where that's fine but, it's difficult when compared to the typical price range of web-apps. Unless Twilio offers better pricing if you're a heavy user…

However, for applications where calls or text messages are a nice addition and not the core, it's nice to have services like these available.