skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been dreaming about building stuff like this (on a much simpler scale) for a long time.

Perhaps a model that takes in past quarterly reports, commodity prices, executive performances and news regarding a company and calculates 'tones' surrounding a company.

(for example appearance of 'good performance', 'meeting targets', 'vast improvements' would possibly yield a positive tone where as 'disappointing returns', 'failed endeavours' etc would yield negative). Then gauge past price sensitivities to various tones and see if there is any way to train the machine to speculate merely on these 'tones'.
Maybe they could actually investigate claims instead of repackaging government press releases? Pretty much everyone in the world knew how bullshit all those WMD claims were except for America and it's media (and to a lesser extent, UK and Australia).

The media were essentially cheerleading the invasion and deserve their chunk of responsibility for the invasion and it's fallout.
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I'm the author of the article.

After musing on the comments here I wrote a followup about improv HSMs. These aren't tamperproof and as such are suitable for use in secure datacentres only. https://www.devever.net/~hl/improvhsm
If as the GP suggests they're making moves based on certainty of the larger fund's move, they can often be making the larger fund's gains smaller, which is counter to the interest of their customers in the larger fund.
> As long as the FDA has monopoly we have know way of knowing what there actual effects. Seems to me more people should care about stuff like that.

While we may not know exactly the actual effects of the FDA or any other governmental policy, we can have a pretty good idea. We do this via econometric analysis of countries with and without entities like the FDA. Ideally we can get time series data where a country created an FDA. We'd throw in a few control variables as well. Then we see the effects of the stuff like the FDA - and even if this isn't perfect, we'd know in general the likely effects of it.

The evidence shows that having an agency regulating drugs and food increases safety. For example, England had a massive issue with a drug which impacted their newborns. We didn't have the issue because the FDA rejected it for use.

>Even so, there is no way to prove that these MASSIV externalisiere exist
Well, actually we can prove externalities exist via various quasi-experiments and math. That's kind of what economists do in order to justify intervening in a market. There are measurable externalities in healthcare - which are at least a certain size and probably larger.

Healthcare in general is interesting because of stuff like the herd effect. If someone takes a bunch of sub-par antibiotics and the bacteria they have evolve around that pill all of society is negatively impacted. The disease is more resistant (kills more people) and society needs to pay for a new antibiotic to be researched and produced. And we don't know what these potential adverse effects are initially - what if we accidentally expose a bacteria to enough weak anti-bacterial agents that it becomes immune and kills millions of people? What if a sub-par untested drug turns all of it's users into homicidal maniacs? Or, like England, we could have years of birth defects.

The companies usually don't know the risks either - because before the FDA medical tests were usually very rushed.

So, as a society we have two options to fix these externalities.

One was listed above: charge producers/consumers of poor drugs a tax equal to the costs they impose on society. The government would then redistribute the tax to injured parties. The problem here is in pricing the externaities properly. Also, how do we know what a poor drug is without testing them? We can't, so we'd have to tax all drugs the same. As a result, if we tax too high we have fewer drugs produced and society suffers. If we tax too low then bad drugs slip in and possibly we didn't guess the cost of compensating people properly. So we don't have enough to pay the widow of a man who took a pill and then died four minutes later.

The second option is to regulate away the possibility of poor drugs as much as is plausible. Here we don't need to guess at how much money the externalities would cost. We also don't need to figure out optimal tax rates to get new drugs produced. In the case of healthcare clearly regulation is the best way to deal with possible negative risks.
Egads... They aren't "tightly closed". Just there's no way to enumerate what devices are on what IO on the chip. - Don't get me wrong, many dealers just don't broadcast what's on a fabless-fab. Doesn't mean they're closed. Go hire someone who speaks and types Mandarin and get the info about "Gongkai".

We were at this place once before, with 16 bit soundcards and ISA, for those of you that remember. In those days, we had to set IRQ and I/O so the device could communicate with the computer. And those devices had to correspond with each other. It was a hot mess, but what we had. MCA tried to fix it, with proprietary crappiness, but PCI actually won out.

In reality, ARM is too open, and has too manhy ways in which hardware can be added. That causes problems, because there's no detection routines - "detection" can crash certain chips.
Quorum won't solve consistency problems like this unless you can also guarantee a serialized reader/writer for any given piece of data. The best you can do by pinning queries to primary replicas and enforcing R + W > N is RYOW consistency, and that depends on the aforementioned serialization point.
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Oh hey, that's actually really cool. I never knew how matrix multiplication worked. Honestly, there's a lot of maths I don't necessarily understand as well as I should, but this gives me hope that I will one day be able to get that understanding.
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I'm running two external screens (one thunderbolt, one via the hdmi port) on unpatched 10.3 without any issue on my mbp... I can use the laptop display at the same time also (usually don't -- but I have to close the lid before I start X otherwise it'll stay on) ....?

Is it just your model? It;s behind my desk but it's some cheapo thunderbolt->hdmi dongle made by "neeto" apparently, works well enough..

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-2): connected

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-2): Internal TMDS

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-2): 340.0 MHz maximum pixel clock

[ 131.802] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-0): connected

[ 131.802] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-0): Internal TMDS

[ 131.802] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-0): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): Apple Color LCD (DFP-3): connected

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): Apple Color LCD (DFP-3): Internal DisplayPort

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): Apple Color LCD (DFP-3): 480.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
'Criminals' being defined as people who have been convicted by a judicial system that is full of bias.
I'm not gonna argue that financiers are curing cancer, but it sure does bother me that so many intelligent people who understand nothing about the industry have just grown to assume that it provides no value to society.
Just to be clear, you are arguing that that scantron machines are expensive and not feasible at every polling location so instead we should provide dozens of more expensive electronic voting machines at each polling location?
Shake Shack came to Tokyo this year. While the burgers and shakes were pretty good, the price was a bit high (~1800 yen) for what you get. You can get a wagyu beef burger for around the same price (~1600-2200 yen) at a place like Blacows which absolutely destroys any burger from Shake Shack.

Are the prices more reasonable in the states?
Yeah. Something along the lines of:

dply launch
... bunch of SSH log, logged into instance, see ASCII logo of DPLY like in EC2 servers..
$/home/random-user-11110101010/# AND WE ARE IN
It feels like it is 2013 all over again: https://aphyr.com/posts/294-jepsen-cassandra
As someone who has negotiated similar contracts with providers like IBM, I'm willing to bet that someone on the customer side gave into the pressure to rush the lawyers while IBM did a nice job of generating loophole-filled statements of work, and I wouldn't hold my breath for that penalty.
And there's another surprise waiting to be discovered. The execution of a LWT is not guaranteed to return applied/not-applied response [1]. It can raise a WriteTimeout exception that means "I don't know if applied". It looks like in that case it can be worked around by inserting a UUID and in case of a WriteTimeout reading the UUID using SERIAL consistency and checking if it's the inserted UUID. But generally this limitation of LWTs makes implementing some algorithms impossible, e.g. you can't implement a 100% reliable counter.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9328
>> And even then he did not hide it, but owned it and apologized.

Only after he got.
This is so true. We are training the neural networks from our own bias and cannot expect it to be fair. A supervised ML algorithm is as good as it's training data and in our current scenario the training data is almost always flawed.

Judges receiving kickbacks to throw minors into juvenile jail, racial bias in sentences, jail for marijuana, private prison etc. These are all trademarks of a broken penal system and we cannot and should not train machines based on this data.
Most US companies have security breaches all the time. However, unless a social security number, health information or credit card is accessed there are no real reporting rules. Most companies do not disclose attempted/successful cyberattacks on their networks.

Therefore, if google isn't storing large numbers of credit cards, social security numbers of health records they probably will never tell you wether or not they had their servers breached.
You're a pretty smart guy. Why not just knock out that little baby yourself?
Where I voted (Massachusetts) you voted with a paper ballot, then watched a poll worker feed it into a machine which recorded it.
You may want to try SkedPal. The Fuzzy Planning behind it works exactly as you described. http://www.skedpal.net/help/skedpal-basic-scheduling-concept...
I guess I'm old or just not hip (most likely both) but I had to google WAT (I know WTF but WAT ... never seen it).

Even now I'm still not sure but I presume WAT = what!
If you or anyone else enjoys it - ping me via email, I might have a cool job for you.
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That's a great article - it'd be interesting to know if the KKH has changed much in the intervening 17 years.
Does NVidia have a solution here that scales down? Clearly they're focused on scaling up, as that's where the money is today.

Yes, they have invested heavily in this. Everytime they talk about their "car/auto segment" (which is all the time if you listen to their investor calls) it's mostly about scale-down.
Classic conflict of interest: Boies was not only the company's counsel, he was a director and his firm was a shareholder, his partner was Theranos' general counsel. The interests of the firm were to keep Theranos operating as a going concern, keep the contract with Walgreens, stop the federal investigation (Madoff and the SEC anyone?) and keep the money flowing. His partners' ambushing a suspected whistleblower was thuggery. Theranos was a Madoff-type operation because everyone thought that a former head of NASDAQ with a blackbox split/strike conversion strategy couldn't possibly be a fraudster. Theranos had a contract with Walgreens, was approved by Medicare, was a billion dollar company--how could it possibly be a snake oil vendor? But he was and they were. Boies tried to keep the game running as long as he could and who knows, maybe he drank the Theranos Kool-Aid as well, but now it is obvious that there's no there there and Theranos is doomed.
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Worthwhile doesnt usually bring in fame or fortune, just warm fuzzy feelings.

Unfortunately my landlord does not warm fuzzy feelings as currency.

Do something for society that makes money so that you can do something for society.
Maybe, it's been ported to commodore 64:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=doom+on+commodore+64&safe...
Yeah, I've not tried going to 11x yet as I'm not sure I can be bothered trying to deal with replacing the non-geli 'bootpool' I have on 10.x.. Sounds like a tricky process.

I'll probably just rebuild it instead of trying to upgrade.
Clearly the underlying problem is total fraud and incompetence, but you paper over that with free oil money as long as it lasts ...

Chavez was able to paper over his incompetence.

Maduro can't.

So the plebes revolt.
You should probably put your email in your profile then... ;)
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As user "highd" suggested, I think you are confusing two words. I refer to Wiktionary for definitions:

Statistics: A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

Statistic: A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).

If "statistics" is the term for taking a mathematical approach to understanding data, then "machine learning" is basically an applied subset of that. But you seem to be specifically using the "a statistic" definition to describe what you think the "study of statistics" is entirely concerned with.
Yup.

You become 'more wealthy than your peers'. But in reality, it's crap for everyone. You become 'much less wealthy relative to everyone outside the country'.

Depends on what one values :)
Horror story about society without automation. However, North beat South, so it is gone.
> I believe I've done a lot of good for the world

I genuinely want to know what you think the good you did for the world is in investment/trading. I really don't believe that the amount of money the financial industry is making is commensurate with its value provided to society.
It was said before, they don't predict every word in a book. But if they see "New York" in a sentence they will bet the third word is "City".
I'm so thankful I work in an industry with high enough demand that I can have a job I love
Unfortunately linux doesn't seem to play well with the 'macbook' models keyboard(s) -- I guess that probably applies to the new pros too.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99891
Being alive. Being an American. Kids being alive and delightful. Having a Constitution, one protected by a brave, dedicated volunteer force. Health. Hacker News. The opportunity to work for Microsoft a couple decades ago. Fantastic coworkers. JavaScript, web2py, golang. Fender guitars. Owning our home and being debt free. Surviving childhood beatings.
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This seems like a stupid mistake to make for someone who has colorblindness, especially after all the troubleshooting.

I do realize that's the point of the story, but I think it's a pretty pointless post. Just like this one I suppose...

TLDR instead of reading the post: code isn't always the problem, people can be stupid.
Right when you turn on the shark jump detecting AI, would be my bet.
You have to understand that what StackOverflow gets away with in terms of hardware is not at all reflective of what other shops will be able to do.

SO can work on such a small amount of hardware because they've got people who either know the entire infrastructure from ground up, or have the skillset and interest to figure it out. Plus they have very tight coordination between the folks doing the development, and running it day to day (possibly because it's the same people).

Your average developer working on a government contract through $BIGNAMESERVICESPROVIDER is almost certainly not going to have that skillset or motivation to learn it. Even in the unlikely scenario that they did, they're not going to be in a situation where they can act on it. It'll be a case of developing to specification, throwing stuff over a wall to some sort of QA, and then throwing the result of that over to someone to run it.
The whole thing will be run by project managers who have opex budgets to meet, on infrastructure that was specified well before the thing was ever built.
Will you update your views of the American justice system if she ends up in jail?
I don't think they don't provide value - just that the value provided isn't commensurate with their payment. It's as if they extract every bit of surplus value they create, which means they produce no net value to society. It's as if they are an "employee" of Society Inc., but is paid exactly what they produced.
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I've been waiting my whole life for a computer that lacks number-centricity!
I would think they keep the fund private, and return profits annually, to keep the size of the fund limited. The strategies they employ probably cannot work as well at larger scale. Here's a rare interview with Jim Simons: http://ritholtz.com/2016/07/jim-simons-mathematician-cracked...
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1) Most of their clothes aren't polyester

2) For those that are, they use recycled plastic[1], which both reduces waste and reduces oil usage.

It doesn't seem a bad compromise to me.

[1] http://www.patagonia.com/recycled-polyester.html
Even 10^10^10... (repeat this the number of outcomes in a 50-move chess game) does not come close to Graham's number.
> I genuinely want to know what you think the good you did for the world is in investment/trading.

My job has literally been to ensure that, out of every invested dollar, more money goes to the investment and less money goes to traders and other intermediaries.

It may not sound like a big deal, but this is literally billions of dollars a year that are invested in productive industries instead of going to someone's bonus or, worse yet, just vanishing due to lack of care.

> I really don't believe that the amount of money the financial industry is making is commensurate with its value provided to society.

I don't know if it's because I'm uninformed, but I would agree with you. It's not really clear to me why investment bankers earn such huge fees. I suspect that it's because they're basically able to pay their friends with shareholders' money. I don't remember where I first heard this idea, but I can't help but think that it rings true.

My hope is that some day we'll be able to do to banking what we've done for trading.
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Looking at the code, it seems to keep the keys in a map called s_ce_keys, though there is a comment referencing b/26948053 which presumably is a bug to stop it doing that.
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Is there a reason you used the term "Mormon conspiracy"?

It detracts from the rest of your point. You hopefully wouldn't call Bernie Madoff's scheme a "Jewish conspiracy" just because the principal in that scheme was Jewish. If you had called something a Jewish conspiracy people would most likely have reacted very negatively - mostly out of the prosecution Jews have and do undergo, but also because it was very immaterial to his actions and seems bigoted prima facie.

Unless you are describing a literal conspiracy by a religion it generally sounds terrible to describe an event by members of that religion by the title of the religion.

Hatch is a morally bankrupt person, obviously. But that's on him.
Socialism is simply a philosophy that puts people before money, it has nothing to do with dictatorships or authoritarianism which this is.
> * solving Go (hard)

1. Perfect play from any game position.

2. Proof of perfect play.

#1 may be achievable with a sufficiently clever algorithm. (We may suspect it is perfect and may only later prove it.) #2 may be much much harder. Neither are suitable for brute force approaches to play or proof as some problem spaces are.
> I think you're taking a lot of flack here for implying that homosexuality, or homosexual behaviour is somehow unnatural and needed to evolve

First you dispute my use of "origin", then you dispute my use of "homosexual". Now are you saying my use of "origin of homosexuality" to explain the almost in "A almost always mates with B" implies I think homosexuality is "unnatural"? You have an overly pedantic reaction to my use of certain words if you're inferring the opinion words "unnatural" and "aberration" from my first one-line comment.
StackOverflow.
The website, not the error of course.
It is a particular form of "what" that is used when dumbstruck.
Thanks for your viewpoint from the 'sausage factory', so to speak. I am beginning to understand the enormity of trying to combine ease of use, with the effort to gather statistically valid data.
Habit is really good. Also Smashburger. Probably my favorites these days.
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Out of curiosity, why do you think we should be more lenient on old people than we are on young? Older people tend to be more connected than young ones, on average.
That would go very well with the feed from the surrounding cameras of the new Teslas. Wonder if the new chips can support the AI and Hololens like
Emacs is far older than 1995 and still eating 250Mb :)
Identical hardware limits you.
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Certainly interesting, especially as ODG partnered with BMW to bring AR to the Mini about a year ago [1] which appears to have not really gotten much commercial success. I could go into why but that's a broader conversation about AR interfaces today.

We also demoed a "see in your driveway" low poly Tesla long ago [2] which is better used for consumers to evaluate before purchase.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfvLpyHDAx4

2. https://youtu.be/9kavmNwOeF0
Is this just a function of comparative advantage?

I read the link but am not sure what it is saying beyond what seems obvious to any economics student.
A lot of horrible things are precedented. That something similar already exists is an awful argument for doing it.
Correct. Diabetics are only checking for a very narrow metric (glucose levels IIUIC), which is not very sensitive to interference from surface skin cells. That doesn't hold for most of the other things that Theranos was trying to make a test for.
Don't you have support for other types of non-national currencies like XAU (gold) and SDR (IMF special drawing right).

There are also other countries with multiple currencies. Like Zimbabwe that uses the USD and SAR as well as some others.
If it's like any other fund, it most certainly is.
I don't know if they're in Seattle, but Smashburger has a "classic" burger that's as plain as possible -- American cheese, lettuce, tomato, meat, ketchup, and mustard on a bun you can bite through.
I would say go with books on (i) heavy tailed distributions and another on (ii) stable distributions. Communities that have quickly wizened up to the deficiencies of the Gaussian assumption are (a) mathematical finance (b) statistical analysis of network packets. Following that literature might also be useful.
Flexbox is it supported by all major browsers?

How does it compare to table HTML vs. div HTML?

What are the benefits vs. div HTML & Bootstrap .. is it just the new thing to learn?
> MIT's PDF of the Minsky book was given the HN hug of death for a while.

may you please let me know which book you are referring to here ? thanks !
I'm sorry what were the inventions that the Brits gave the US that won the war? I think I might have missed something in my history class.
I'm hoping someone else already is.