jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree with most of what you say; Reagan, smart hedge fund guys, unwinding our old banking system, etc. etc.

I agree that it's a lazy answer to blame mathematicians.

Hedge fund folks can be lazy, too. Morally lazy. Many are unwilling to employ intellectual rigor evaluating the morality of their own actions, or the actions of their industry en-masse -- inellectual rigor that they so effectively employ looking for trading opportunities.

The "I'm acting in an economically rational fashion with an invisible group of trading partners losing on the backend of my trade; this is capitalism, what's your beef?" attitude combined with willful ignorance when it comes to industry-wide ethics or morality actually does have a lot to do with what's happening in the market. The CFA Level 1 exam doesn't even have a "Duties to society/the market" concept in it. It's just not part of the industry.

Compare how hedge funds today act to JP Morgan in the early 20th century.

Hedge Funds: "We have billions of other people's money, and no market responsibility whatsoever. None. That's not what we do. What we do is arbitrage and thereby create goodness. Why do you not see the goodness we create by moving this money around in a way that makes us rich?"

JP Morgan: "Oh, shit, the economy is going down. I am sitting these MoFo head bankers down in a room until we get this fixed. And, I'll do it again in a few years if it happens again. DO NOT LEAVE THE ROOM. WE ALL MUST FIX THE MARKETS."

Being able to move the market just because 'someone else gave us leverage' does NOT remove one's own responsibility. Spreading out blame among industry partners for market crashes does not absolve one's own responsibility for participating in actions that might have made the crashes worse.*

Anyway, I encourage you to think more broadly and consider societal outcomes in your (possibly) high influence job. You mention nuance -- a more nuanced approach to your own industry's role might do you good, both career-wise and personally. As an example, your tobacco farmer analogy is specious: a poorish Virginia family weighing public health against survival is one thing, but the analogy would have us imagine these poor quant fund managers will be starving if they aren't allowed to play with their computer models and deploy billions using them -- this is the only skill they have! Society weeps. (And covets their jobs..)

Perhaps the best thing to do would be to imagine you'll have to answer to JPM in heaven someday for every trade; I wonder what complaints he might have for each of us. I may announce my WWJPMD bracelets on Zero Hedge soon; I'll keep you posted.

* I don't particularly blame hedge funds for the last few years -- that would be silly -- although it's also pretty hard to say that HFT had nothing to do with those little 'hiccups' a few weeks ago, just like it's pretty hard to say that unwinding debt leverage issues had nothing to do with the commodities death spiral in 2008.
Works both ways then. Thanks.
+1 for mate http://mate.asfusion.com -- it is so much simpler than all the other frameworks, and works right out of the box. i've used it on several projects.
Minor? Those scripted events are easily just as important as the 3d graphics. Without them it's just a fancy screensaver.
Similarly, every HN user opposing Chinese policies is a user of Chinese manufactured devices.
You don't have to file taxes in Germany except if you and your spouse are filing together or if you are self employed. Everything else is being handled by your employer.

If you want to get some of your pre-paid taxes back, you will have to file but the tax office doesn't care if you don't.
Correcting historical equity disparities such as unfair distribution of medicines is one example of the steps necessary to achieve a just world. Note that placing the term equity in quotes as you have done can be seen as implying some qualification of the concept, as though it is in doubt or not legitimate. I'd ask that you please avoid this in the future.
It is :)

I have recruited several folks to Chorus this year and they are finding it quite helpful! My husband in particular has had some really intense (in a good way) experiences. A friend just reached out to me today to tell me how much he is enjoying it, and mentioned he noticed your launch on HN, so I wanted to come put in a good word :)

Interesting pattern, the people I've referred who have gotten the most out of chorus are/were startup CEOs. I wonder if this format is particularly good for people who are comfortable in intense environments? Or maybe those who have already learned the benefits of an introspection practice? I know it helps me show up better as a leader.
hi! thanks for replying!

Well, I am sorry but I am not interested into investing. Maybe my question is badly formulated :(
Back in 1991, IIRC, missiles were smart but bombs were still dumb.

The US seems to have started using concrete bombs in 1999 (against Iraq, but not during either gulf war).

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/07/world/us-wields-defter-wea...
Yes, the built-in 110v/220v power outlets and air compressor would go a long way when your on a remote build site. I can imagine it being very popular with "handyman" contractors you hire to fix your fence or repair a porch railing.

The only other option I might add is a battery charger for hand tools. I know they can plug into the normal outlet but it seems inefficient to go from 400v --> 110v --> 12v.
Do you mean the WireGuard app?
This project is awesome, but by relying on Commonmark, you can't use this together with code blocks containing $ (meaning it doesn't work for languages like PHP and R). It's unfortunate that the Commonmark creators ignored requests to handle cases like this.
I've seen a F150 once in my life, and that's pretty much the only pickup truck I've ever seen (Bordeaux, France).
These look so so boring
That's really surprising as the beta link is on the login page: https://mail.protonmail.com/login :)
Apparently the Chinese Govt. claims to have shut-down a Binance office in Shanghai. Does anyone know if this is true? Did Binance have an office in Shanghai?

I'm trying to understand the reasoning / impact of this.

More info here:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/markets-crash-after-reports-t...
Planting more trees will reduce pressure to cut down existing forests.
You may be thinking of the Laffer curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve). Though my understanding of it is that it doesn't prescribe any singulary "point" like 40%, but just says that there is a point somewhere and that this is the relative behavior of total tax collection around it, wherever it exists.
> - my commute: I cycled into work, and the daily exercise was great

This one is not like the others, it's completely up to you to have a bike ride e.g. at lunch time around the block when you WFH.
Surely it is those people who demand to work from an office who should be worried about commanding a premium, if the employer start including the cost of providing an office, especially in a premium area.
It also can solve the problem of helping team members know what each other are doing.
If standup were only what this essay describes, it would be a waste of time, but it's a lot more than that. It's also a chance for team members to describe problems they're having and benefit from the collective experience.
I'm a big fan of morning standup, but I suppose there are good standups and bad standups.
I work in a company where without a boring meeting you are not going to get absolutely anything from anybody, even if you have a simple question. Working remotely helped a lot as we were forced to use MS Teams then information suddenly started free flowing. Meetings and walkthroughs can be recorded with everyone's permissions and the knowledge builds up. I am not looking forward at going back to the office at all! I'm even considering taking a break and then finding something remote only even with a reduced compensation.
I'm not sure this "you can't make me X" attitude is particularly helpful. The reality is that lots of people have undesirable accommodations, and whether you do or not a lot of people do and don't want to go back into the office. IMO this has to be a group conversation not an individualistic one.

Full disclosure: I don't really want to return to 100% office requirement either. I'm really excited to see other humans again - though I suspect we'll see a 2-3 day a week in-person expectation and then 2-3 day flex moving forward.
Afaik, it is extraordinary rare to pass the bar without going to Law school. That test is quite difficult.
I think Israel is kind of plateuing at around ~55% of the population vaccinated? I'm sure it will continue to increase, but the rate of increase seems to be slowing. I'm not seeing much evidence that the US will stay lower than that.
Any time I read "flat hierarchy" in a job posting I feel the urge to run. That may be true contractually, but there is _always_ a hierarchy.
No, it's much closer to classic fuzz testing, where the test is held constant and the data fed to it is varied. I've been meaning to see if I can figure out a way to use mutation testing to feed into Hypothesis, but it's on the long list of things I'll try "at some point"
To be clear I meant this paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6199) as the original paper for adversarial images. I think they did try transferring them between very different NNs:

>In addition, the specific nature of these perturbations is not a random artifact of learning: the same perturbation can cause a different network, that was trained on a different subset of the dataset, to misclassify the same input.
This is pretty neat. I actually very much like how they split up their applications into Layout, Instagram and Hyperlapse. It keeps the main app simple and it's probably easier to update / experiment that way. I also don't mind replacing these ugly / ad-banner filled apps that exists for these little Instagram tasks with official Instagram apps.
Same here -- I take the NEC every month or so and have never been asked for my ID in around 3 years.

I was once asked for my AAA card when using that discount on the regional, but even that is extremely rare.
That doesn't sound simple for the user at all. If I'm meeting locally with friends to see the game/oscars/wtv, I don't know or care about the time in the original timezone. My local TV guide / newspaper shows it in local time, and that's what everyone in the meeting cares about, so why would I set it to a completely different TZ?
I don't think you understand how parliamentary elections worked and how governments were formed in the Weimar Republic.

A critical amount of people voted for the candidates of the NSDAP (33.1% of all votes, the relative majority of the last 1932 election), who in turn formed a coalition, with Hitler als Chancellor. Formally, the president appoints the government and the chancellor, and the party resp. coalition of parties with an absolute majority of seats in parliament is who is normally appointed (and I think there is a certain legal obligation, but I'm not 100% sure on that).

The current German political system is in fact very similar to the one of the Weimar Republic (with details like certain thresholds to prevent dozens of tiny parties). Claiming Hitler was never elected is like claiming Angela Merkel was never elected.
Hiya everyone, OP here. If you reached out to us in the last 14 hours, I'm sorry to say we probably haven't gotten back to you. We didn't anticipate this many responses-- we were expecting under 10 offers, and instead we got over 100-- and our management system is still really shoddy. For example, we're still copy and pasting your email into our admin dashboard to get your signup link.

We're working on fixing/scaling things, but in the meantime I didn't want to insult everyone with an automated message, so hopefully this message can catch you before that frustrated comment! Also, we do intend to get back to everyone eventually.

Just since we're on HN, if you have any thoughts to share feel free to reach out to me directly - bh at slimetree dot com
its deeper than that. If you only knew the levels of opiate abuse in LEOs... WELL above the levels in the general population.
On the point of Germans becoming better sales/marketers - it is perhaps interesting to note that one of the most durable company taglines here in the UK is in German:

Vorsprung durch Technik
Better comments at programming.reddit, sadly: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ed2pb/yacc_is_d...
Also, the law is pretty much a tautology since it doesn't define a time scale... eventually, pretty much everything gets said.

"As an online discussion about PROGRAMMING grows longer, the probability of a discussion of traditional medicine and spiritual beliefs surrounding childbirth in ancient sub Saharan African tribes approaches 1."
WebGL should fix this problem.
Then tile two browser windows next to each other vertically. I personally recommend XMonad, but you can use any other window manager or tool to help with that.
Google to the rescue!

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=A0F...
At first I had typed a paragraph here about how you are wrong, but then I realized that I don't have any numbers on this, nor do I even know a measure on how this could be quantified. I still think you're wrong, but I can't prove it. Do you have any numbers on the amount of redistribution that happens e.g. from blue to red states in the US? If so, is there a description of the methodology used somewhere? Or does anyone else know of figures or research in this area?
thanks for the comments. i was really hoping someone would give some kind of framework to think about valuation. things like whatever makes me happy or try to get as high valuation as possible are not so instructive. i know valuation at this stage is more art than science, but i hope there's some structured way to come up within a reasonable ballpark.
Dunno if it's intended as one, but this would probably work very nicely as a honeypot for recruiters that spam resumes to every job posting on the web.

Just auto-ignore anybody who also emails the address in that posting.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do
why?

when you think about it, competent people usually think they suck and are very humble.

incompetent people are more likely to tell you how amazing they are and are so full of themselves. I think this job ad is brilliant way to attract real talent.
The only interesting job posting in years. Whether it's a joke or not they are pretty accurate in a cynically funny way.
Also related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclaimed_territory
I think Google still work with XMPP but not 100%.

https://developers.google.com/talk/open_communications

https://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-goog...
You're right, this kind of study is really hard to set up properly. However, in this instance, I'm more concerned by the quality of the analysis. It seems to be, ignoring actual data in favour of anecdotal evidence, even when they clearly aren't even correlated at a cursory glance.
I worked with both wikipedia pageview data and link data (between articles and between wikimedia projects). Both datasets are open, and huge of course, so technically possible. https://wikimedia.bringyour.com/
You sound like you're defending the reporter, but I wasn't accusing them as we just don't know.

It's still odd, so I couldn't help being curious whether Willson, his partner, or the reporter is responsible.
It is good at parsing/other compiler-related tasks. Basically anything where you are working with tree structures I think can be a good fit. It is also good as a way to learn about functional programming.
This can most clearly be seen in professional wrestling, where their alter egos are front and centre of the whole presentation.
Tractors run on gas. No more gas, no more tractors.
For me, evaluating the content and the usefulness of a video takes about the length of the video. That's a huge problem when searching for technical resources, since text can be scanned many times faster than a video.

So in the time it takes to watch a video, I could have scanned throough several documents online. Couple that with copy-able text and it seems apparent why one might avoid videos.
While this is interesting, for every Ruby app I've worked on where startup times became an issue, the culprit was trivially found with "strace" to be caused by excessive pollution of the load path to the point where pointless stat-calls totally dominates load time.
From the paper :

"Both Hume and the Austrians illuminated how money communicates trust between agents in a society. However, their analyses are somewhat limited in their relevance to the actual historical development of capitalism. Based on the assumption that all people have an intrinsic interest in participating in a monetary system, Hume and the Austrians contended that such a system therefore originates and solidifies in a harmonious process. This assumption means that all agents must have an intrinsic interest in becoming part of this new social form, with its new property system, exchange mechanisms, and money. In other words, all agents must have internalized the ethic and behavioral norms of the new commercial society.

Needless to say, the actual historical development of capitalism was much more contested and violent than what Hume and the Austrians would admit to. People's alleged self-interest in the monetary mechanism had to be coerced; a strong state with draconian laws was necessary in order to create confidence in money.
For some, money is not a cooperative
but a contested social relation. Force, fear, and death are equally important meanings attached to money. "
Ya exactly. Basically to replace daily status updates in slack or scrum or tickets or where ever.
I tried Openshift 2 briefly, but didn't adopt it partially because it was too opinionated for my taste. I am excited about Openshift 3 for its adoption of Docker containers and Kubernetes.
> Sure, it's not as bad as storing Incognito URLs in a plain DB file like Safari does

The last time I looked browsers for iOS also stored at least some incognito data and URLs in the database files.
Really? Can I ask what you're basing that on? I'm not disbelieving you, just skeptically curious :)
When you say "much smarter and more comfortable with theory", what do you mean exactly? Smarter how? Also, how are you more comfortable with theory and what does that comfort do for you? What type of role in society/IT would you say the education prepared you for? I hope you don't mind my curiosity.
Thank you! Well I'm sure the Dvorak layout is much better than the QWERTY layout, but from what I've read, Colemak makes it easier to use default shortcuts such as Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Z...

I need to be on holiday to learn the new layout though.
I can't recommend this software organizer heavily enough -

http://mylifeorganized.net/

It's minimalist and gets out of the way, but has lots of powerful features if you need them. But it stays out of your way if it doesn't. I had about 130 little tiny things to do a month ago on various lists, inboxes, etc, etc. Put them all into MLO, got it down to ~40 now. Very useful, worth trying out.
> Why is voluntary segregation a bad thing?

Because everyone who doesn't like the consequences of their decisions will blame everyone else. They might even be right, but it could/would increase conflict. Boundaries are frequently decided via violence.
Chick Corea was the unknowing instigator of rebellion from the jazz of my father and the beginning of a broader embrace of jazz.

I saw Chick twice - once in 80s and then again a few years ago.

The night of his death I was playing selected tunes to my wife, trying to explain his significance to me. She said, "Rachmaninoff... don't you hear Rachmaninoff in that?" [ I repeated the anecdote about Art Tatum. ]

Finished my set with the Miles Davis concert on the Isle of Man, the last concert before Chick left that band.

Amazing musician. Great to see so many here touched in the same way.
Nothing like this exists for any other company in tech: https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/

Just filled with stories of people that felt extremely wronged. Are there stories of people that with terrible experiences at other companies? Of course. Are there people that have had good experiences at Amazon? Absolutely.
Does anything like the above exist for any other company? Not that I can find.

That's crazy and really speaks to the difference. If you believe that Amazon is "just another tech company" in how they treat their employees, I'd probably say you're turning a bit of a blind eye.
For a short time, maybe around Swift 2/3, functional features got some focus, but the language moved in a different direction.

The only functional features I can think of are closures, map/reduce/etc., and value types.

I have a lot of criticisms about Swift but this one seems weird/outdated to me.
Yeah a lot of work has happened in the few weeks since I started looking at this!

The kernel has a slide

Oh cool must have missed that, very nice :)
Alright, thanks. I've looked at that mouse before but I'm afraid that the ball will wear out my thumb even more. Maybe it's worth a shot though, or maybe I should go for one of those Kensington trackballs that you use your whole hand with.
>you can not send emails (you can receive them).

Seems like a deal-killer to me.
Well, this may sound obvious to many but I think #1 should be "Become a regular reader of few psychological and social academic journals". I guess this alone can give you few ideas to write essays. Now my question is that, anyone know if journals of repute(related to psychological and social) can be accessed online?
The article explicitly states that this is an "ancient cycle." Apparently, there is (or will be) a significant uptick this year with a decreasing stock price.
Commonly in natural processes, a 'concentration' is a 'random walk' with two 'absorbing' states, (1) concentration 0% and (2) concentration 100%.

A state is 'absorbing' if when once reach it, then never leave it.

So, the work is talking about concentrations of proteins or their mRNA varying due to thermal 'randomness'.

Maybe in this case, a decent first-cut mathematical model of what is going on is just a discrete time, discrete state space Markov process. So here each discrete 'step' in time is one generation of a cell. The 'states' record the concentrations. So, could use, say, some of the 'nonlinearity' effects to estimate the probability of moving in one step from one state (of concentrations) to another.

But the big, 'global' issue is that the concentrations just keep changing and stop changing only at the absorbing states of 0% or 100%.

For something with more detail than this 'global' view, if have those probabilities, then can use some standard work in such Markov processes to say how fast the concentrations reach the 'absorbing' states of 0% or 100%.

The literature on Markov processes is enormous. For a start, consider:

Erhan Çinlar, 'Introduction to Stochastic Processes', ISBN 0-13-498089-1, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1975.
This is exactly how people perceive execution time. If a progress bar goes to completion and then hangs users will perceive that operation as taking longer than if a progress bar goes to, say, 70% and then jumps to completion, even if the total time of the operation is the same.

It makes sense though, people are the most impatient when they've been waiting the longest so being surprised that the operation completed faster than they were led to think it would is more welcome than having to wait longer than they thought they'd have to.