jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks, almost exactly what I was looking for.
So the tradeoff appears to be that the the quicker I want to settle a transaction, the more expensive it is.
> Trying to frame it as "they modelled it wrong" is nonsense.

It's not that. It's that when the system you model responds to the existence of your model, it becomes anti-inductive. It's no longer like weather, but is now like the stock market[0]. Your model suddenly can't predict the system anymore[2], it can at best determine its operating envelope by estimating the degree to which the system can react to the existence of the model.

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[0] - I use the term anti-inductive per LessWrong nomenclature[1], but I've also been reading "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari, and there he uses terms "first order chaotic" for systems like weather, and "second order chaotic" for systems like the stock market.

[1] - Introduced in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h24JGbmweNpWZfBkM/markets-ar....

[2] - I think it becomes uncomputable in Turing sense, but I'm not smart enough to reduce this to the Halting Problem.
Thanks, would be curious to get your thoughts given your experience in this problem space.

Since we lean DIY / prosumer, our thought is to provide options to the user. Around rebalancing, we're exploring a few options: calendar rebalancing, constant-proportion rebalancing, and rebalancing with only new contributions. Then, analytics to make it clear what is a short vs long-term holding.

Right now we're non custodial, we link to existing brokers. We are looking to become a register broker dealer in the next few months. The fractional-heavy model makes it such that it's better for us to vertically integrate.
Greeted with login screen on "Try Me"
Twitter loves politics: rage keeps you addicted and coming back. It keeps you on the app longer = more ads.
But you're really just trading one trusted party for another, right? Now you don't need to trust your ISP (as much), but you do need to trust the certificate authorities.
If Bitcoin is the same as gold, then we don't really need Bitcoin. But its point is being different. So you can't handwave away concerns based on it being exactly the same.

I'm not saying Bitcoin isn't perfect; nothing is. My point is that Bitcoin has not demonstrated any significant value certainly not in excess of its costs and harms, and it's had plenty of time. Bitcoin and Android are basically the same age. Bitcoin is still at best a niche, probably a shrinking one. Android is coming up on 3 billion users worldwide, providing clear daily value.
The title really needs changing, since it's a lie, according to the top-rated comment.
If work means mechanical work (which was once important!) then machines must be well over 99% now.

More generally, the only sensible answer is probably to divide labor productivity today with that of pre-industrial labor. Which amounts to approximately the ratio of GDPs. Which means about 500/50_000 (USD, very roughly). Which again leads to the conclusion that machines & automation are doing about 99% of the work, right now.

We don't have mass unemployment because all the people no longer working with their muscles have found other jobs, providing things other than food, which their ancestors simply didn't have. Like hospitals, HVAC, websites, and food stamp programs.

BTW both China and fast food are massively automated/mechanized. The price difference between McDonalds and having a personal chef cook you a similar burger is the degree to which machines have been used instead of human hands. The fact that none of them look like C-3PO is irrelevant.
Einstein's inputs were a bunch of scattered theories about electromagnetism and thermodynamics -- particularly, Maxwell's equations for the electromagnetic field, and the empirical description of the photoelectric effect, and Planck's description of blackbody radiation.

His outputs were deducing models that elegantly explained these phenomena: that a constant speed of light in all reference frames, as unintuitive as that is, would lead to the equations of relativity, and that energy being transmitted only in discrete quanta would lead to the photoelectric effect and blackbody radiation effects that were observed by others.

This was largely not a feat of producing theories on data. It was coming up with a simpler explanation for phenomena which had already been known, but for which existing explanations were far too complex.

The amazing part is that he did this four times in one year (1905): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_papers
site is a prototype, but the newsletter part works. design will come later, just working out the kinks and will add archives soon.
Allegedly, using a GPGPU to mine bitcoins is still modestly profitable, though a CPU is probably too slow for its earnings to cover the power to run it.
Yes the video is too long. It was just an interim for the beta. Once we get out of beta we'll have a better video that is much shorter.

The color of the background for now stays. Still studying data in regards to the usage of side menu.

Thx for taking the time to give us some feedback.
My point is that Apple isn't suing just because Samsung chose to use a home screen filled with icons.

From the article:

"It’s no coincidence that Samsung’s latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging." an Apple representative told Mobilized.

And from the WSJ article about the same topic:

Alan Fisch, an attorney with Kaye Scholer LLP in Washington D.C., said, "By sheer volume alone, this is a substantial assertion of intellectual property rights."
I'd love to have something similar for browser history on a given tab.
This is not a problem for me. I can write a `.jl` file and call it from the command-line with imports in that file. The problem is compile-times, since every run is first run when running a script.
Yes, I agree: a lot of code is indeed half-baked! But good papers tend to have better-than-average code, and ~100% of the time, the code is in Python, not some other language.
Thanks a lot for the input. To be honest, I haven't asked for the work. Because it kind of sucks. However, I have done a lot of POC'S, explored competitor products, proposed new ideas etc. They dont value it.
s/But in late June of last year, when I approached Mr. Siskind to discuss the blog, it vanished./But in late June of last year, when I doxxed Mr. Siskind, it vanished./ FTFY

I love the diffusion of responsibility via the passive voice. Oh it "just disappeared."

I hope big tech buries the NYT.
These are standard for a (graduate) course of real analysis — see for instance section 2.3 and exercises after it in Folland, "Real analysis".

The reason they are not usually covered in calculus is, to justify such differentiation, one needs the notions of Lebesgue integral and measure. The Riemann integral from calculus courses is just not robust enough. Of course, if the function inside the integral is nice enough, nothing bad happens, and the differentiation is valid.
Does there need to be a replacement? It's my understanding that it's always been this way in for example the UK; they have well-regarded newspapers pushing out strong reporting (as the NYT continues to do), but there's no expectation that the papers won't be biased. In many ways, it could be healthier for a society to not have outlets that everyone uncritically trusts.
I like Julia a lot, and I think it's the best option for ML research, but isn't there a big advantage to Swift or similar languages when it comes to production deployments on mobiles? The distribution of compiled binaries in Julia seems a bit kludgy and less reliable than with a statically compiled language like Swift.
Yeah. It's not that I don't believe those people, it's just that I don't think they should act like it's a real option for everybody.
Tesla is already losing to the competition. See Europe where it is no longer the top selling EV company. This is probably the biggest difference between Tesla and Amazon. Namely, that Tesla isn't able create any kind of network effect to keep competitors out.
Health insurance premiums are deductible for self-employed people (and 2%+ S-corp shareholders): https://www.irs.gov/publications/p535#en_US_2019_publink1000...
5.25" floppy disks are more likely to suffer physical damage at this point in history than a 3.5" disk. This would also contribute to the supply-demand curve biasing to 3.5" (on top of the ubiquity argument)

3.5" have a more durable design - the hard plastic, the spring loaded shield and, most importantly, the center disk that rested on the enclosure housing that prevented the magnetic medium from sagging.

When 5.25" disks are stored on end, they sag over time causing them to physically be unreadable. You have to store them flat. 3.5" are (mostly) resistant to this sag and therefore will be more likely to survive long term.
Then don't forget about the federated XMPP which is probably more popular than Matrix.
> "people who want serious exercise equipment to focus on exercise"

I don't think that's Peloton's moat at all. For that there are much better alternatives. This is for casual gym goers.
> corporate ownership of the economy directed by government dictate

Your "explanation" contains a contradiction, so you're not off to a great start here. If the economy or corporations are directed by government dictate, they don't really own anything in a meaningful sense. In this arrangement they are more like managers than owners. If you disagree, ask yourself if any corporation really has another option other to comply if one of their decisions is countermanded by the state.

There is a reason it is named after the Fasces, a symbol of authority borne by a Lictor through the streets of Rome ahead of Tribunes and other officials with authority (okay, granted that this term and symbolism is decidedly Italian, fascism will always feature symbols distinct to each nation). The essence of fascism is power. A fascist believes this power comes from unity (another reason the Fasces is a chosen symbol, as it contains a bundle of sticks that when bound together cannot be easily broken) and so the subordination of the individual and every institution to state power is the cornerstone of their policy.

You seem to misrepresent the primacy of economics in fascist ideology, perhaps confusing this with Syndicalism, which Mussolini was involved with early in his political career. Fascism is something else. While it incorporates the subordination of the economy to the state, above this it values ethics of action, a willingness to commit violence against its enemies, courage, and obedience to authority. It is inherently anti-democratic, authoritarian and totalitarian. It will not tolerate internal rivals or dissent. It always features a leader who rules as dictator and to my knowledge has never succeeded in a stable transfer of power once that leader dies.

It has often been linked to the Romantic period as so much of fascist ideology is based on emotion, feeling, symbolic mysticism, and the irrational. It's politics can be seen as a reaction to the ultra-rational basis from which Communism claims to descend.
Source of what? If it's the PDF, sure, but the post is the reporters' summary.

(For future reference

Posted link as of comment: https://ninjalab.io/a-side-journey-to-titan/

First-party PDF: https://ninjalab.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a_side_journe...)
I can confirm my mother has no idea what these ticks mean. She can't make the difference between WhatsApp and iMessage either. At the time I left, I told her so and she kept wondering why I was not getting some of her messages (the ones she was sending on WhatsApp, that is).
MWh is what you'd want.
China is currently the conservative foe of choice and Russia the ally of choice. We'll likely see this flip now that centrists are taking power since they were all-in on Russia as a foe over the past few years. Russian intelligence doesn't necessarily have to be a part of the picture, though we've certainly had cases of politicians taking foreign money.

It's hard to say how much of it is motivated by racism, though it's certainly a part of it. When pols call COVID-19 "the China virus" and talk about making them pay for it there's obviously a grudge there.
> Also, I find it annoying that you can't message someone on WhatsApp without adding them to contacts.

You can, if you're both part of a group chat together. Tap on their number and a pop up comes up allowing you to message said person.

Also agree with the opinions expressed even with similar experience to yourself (no Facebook or messenger apps installed, WhatsApp contacts don't appear as suggestions on FB website).
India's female labor participation rate is 20%. In China, it's 60%. Smartphones can help bridge that gap a bit but real progress will probably come from creating safe, well-paying jobs.
Yup that's a good recommendation. I've read it and some of the AI Safety work that a small portion of the AI community is working on. At the moment there seems no reason to believe that we can solve this.
I would probably use Apple Maps more if I could download maps for offline use as I can with Google Maps.
I'm afraid Google will lock me out of my account if I use anything like this?
It’s entirely determined by the gametes. Males produce sperm, females produce eggs.
Maybe "Zeitgeist" would be a reasonable fit?
Today I learned that getline is technically part of POSIX now. Does anyone know which libcs implement it, in addition to glibc?
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Same for LinkedIn
Forgot to greet everyone...so, Hi, everyone!

Also, what else frustrates you whilst you're working online?
By the way,is there a solution for windows or linux that would take SQL like queries and allows one to search among files in a computer. Something like :

SELECT All *.jpg as image FROM /myfolder/** where image.creationDate > yesterday and image.size < 100 and image.filename LIKE TRIP% ;

Then either display the result in a window or as text.

Something that would combine find,grep+pipes into something more "userfriendly".
Brian Krebs is a master of publicity, often a little predictable though.
How about 500 mil yearly to create an OS from scratch? Is that laughable too?

The level of complexity to create a modern web browser, specially one that has in-house engines like Firefox, is comparable to a modern OS.
Yes. I officially launched the book at the end of January. I delayed doing a HN launch until I was sure people enjoyed the book and I knew there would be some interest.

The unfortunate truth is that book writing is a low margin game and you shouldn't do it for the money. Development or actual data science is far more profitable.

But there are many other intangibles :)
> What's Biden's position on this issue?

"Different cultural norms." Nothing to see here, please move along.
Mizrahi does not refer to 2nd generation immigrants [1]; it refers to descendants of local Jewish populations in the Middle East. While the Wikipedia demographics link you posted is technically accurate (the best kind of accurate), it doesn't correctly capture Mizrahi Jews, because Mizrahi means native to the Middle East, not specifically to the region called "Palestine," the modern borders of which were defined by the British after WWI. Those borders also include much, much more than just the "Palestine" you're referring to — it includes all of Jordan and part of Syria.

Prior to the British occupation, the entire region was part of the Ottoman Empire and had been for hundreds of years; the modern borders and boundaries of various countries were largely invented during the 20th century after the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Allied Powers. When Israel was founded, most Mizrahi Jews moved to Israel due to extreme persecution in the Muslim-majority countries, which were mostly also all new countries carved up from the remains of the Ottoman Empire. Prior to the borders of the 20th century, these Jews were citizens of the Ottoman Empire just like everyone else in the region, and were native to the Middle East. (The Ottoman empire did have provinces, but they don't match the British borders or the post-British borders.)

Mizrahi Jews make up 3.2 million of Israel's Jewish inhabitants [1]. Israel's total Jewish population is 6.7 million [2], so they're about half.

Edit: Since this is frequently a contentious topic, I want to reiterate that I do not support the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians. Israel's treatment of Palestinians is terrible. This post is meant to counter anti-Semitism, not criticism of Israel. In most of my posts in this thread I have also criticized Israel for its treatment of Palestinians. The fact that many Jews are native to the Middle East does not justify depriving Palestinians of land or self-determination. However, I think it's useful in these discussions to not rely on anti-Semitic tropes e.g. the idea that Jews are non-natives and of Jewish replacement. Jews are in fact natives of the Middle East and have been so longer than anyone else (well, ethnic Lebanese people actually give Jews a run for their money, but those are the two longest-dwelling ethnic groups in the region).

Edit 2: Since it looks like you're getting downvoted — FYI I didn't downvote you and I think your question was legitimate and wasn't ill-intentioned.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews

2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Jews
I have this idea for a technology that kills us really really slowly by heating up the planet. The slowness of it is the key, because even when we finally do notice that it's killing us, we keep using it.
I knew someone - a co-workers sibling - who lost a baby that got stuck between couch cushions while sleeping. And they told everyone it was SIDS. I don't know if the cause of death was actually recorded as SIDS, though.
not even drones?
It seems like you're not able to opt out until the feature has been installed and is running which is a bit frustrating. I had a similar issue recently with Heroku not allowing me to delete my account without accepting their new terms of service.
That is how it works, see Federal Sentencing Guidelines Section 5K1.1:
http://www.ussc.gov/guidelines-manual/2011/2011-5k11

I don't think that is the case with Dotcom at this point.
Exactly. Looking at high level stats one would imagine FBI are just so great at preventing terrorism. Look at all these foiled bridge explosions.

Except if you look a bit deeper you start seeing a different picture. Infiltrating mosques, preying on the weaker and feeble-minded.

If it weren't tragic and depressing it would be quite funny actually because of this bit:

> Yet, far from succeeding, Monteilh eventually so unnerved Orange County's Muslim community that that they got a restraining order against him. In an ironic twist, they also reported Monteilh to the FBI: unaware he was in fact working undercover for the agency.

He was such a dickhead that basically he got himself reported back to the FBI.
Sounds like when I was doing contract work for the air force
> We cant beat the speed of light on our fibre network.

Speed of light in what? We can absolutely be faster than fibre optics, which are quite slow relatively speaking (2/3rds that of light in a vacuum).
Dialectical materialism isn’t in conflict with spirituality. It doesn’t deny that humans are spiritual creatures. It is in conflict with metaphysical idealism. If that’s what you’re trying to say then I agree, but I’m simply making the point that metaphysical idealism does not represent the sum total of human spirituality throughout history. Marx no more denies that humans are spiritual creatures than Taoism does, e.g. He certainly never says that all human meaning is reducible to domination and metabolic function.
I'm well aware of this. That's what makes it useless for making policy decisions, just like my ground-level hygrometer is useless for telling me if its raining... But my bucket isn't.

The fact that communities open up -> communities get another wave of COVID keeps playing out over and over again leads me to believe that neither #1 or #2 are likely to be favourable to us.
>Remember the photocopier that worked by OCR and would occasionally mis-transcribe numbers?

For those who don't remember: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...
Come to think of it, it seems to be the case in at least some Indian languages (ie, "wedding" & "marriage" are referred to by the same term). I can't think of a distinct native term for "marriage" as an entity or a state of being - the closest I can come up with is akin to "married" as a past tense verb.
You have to take into consideration a lot when thinking about Brazil.
- the midia and the president are of two different gangs
- data gathering in Brazil is a joke, the true numbers can be double the ones reported for more or less.
The thing is, 3/2 hybrid is the worst type of compromise - it still forces you to live close enough to the office to commute and it forces the company to maintain offices as well. It doesn't really provide the major benefit of WFH or from having people there.

(Having said that, being able to skip days and stay at home when you feel like it should be the default.)
It's interesting, I read this and had the opposite conclusion -- people are still writing racy code using Rust.

I mean, it's great that you can write threaded code with more confidence, but it seems the conclusion here is that Rust gives you more confidence but not absolute confidence and you still need the normal stable of runtime detection tooling. The second fix[1] in particular resembles the bad pattern of "sprinkle atomics it until it works" you see in non-Rust languages.

(If this comment raises your hackles, please read the "no true Scotsman[2]" fallacy before responding.)

[1]: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/044f8b594c71
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
The one person who almost got into an area where they really didn't want people was shot dead. This guy's acting like the rioters breached a SCIF or something. The Capitol building is (was, normally) open to the public.
Misleading title.. the real title is "With iPad Apple Will Claim 12 Percent of PC Market in 2011" That is iPad+Mac would be 12% of the market.

Sigh... What happened to "never change titles" guideline
If I could ask -- I saw a LoRA circuit mentioned in the schematics... what is that used for?
" To capture the large portion of the galaxy seen here — over 40 000 light-years across — Hubble took 411 images which have been assembled into a mosaic image."

"The image featured here has 69 536 x 22 230 pixels and is a cropped version of the full uncropped image which has 3.9 billion pixels and covers a length of almost 60 000 light years."

Here is a link from the article that would help appreciate how detailed full resolutions is: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/

I was blown away in particular by sheer luminescence difference between galactic core and edge of the galaxy. Imagine the brightness of night sky in galactic core. That reminded me of the paper that estimated number of GRB's that would hit a planet based on where it was located - galactic core is not a hospitable place.
Ehh, I could put together a thing that could display several million dots at 60 fps in unity in a few minutes.

(a recent example of some dots I moved)
https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1378056437105049603

Not saying DragonRuby isn't the bees knees, I've never used it but appreciate alternatives existing.

Despite that, sprites are the wrong facility for drawing that many dots in unity.
With more and more people meeting and mating using computer dating, will this selection factor have an evolutionary impact?