skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of corporate applications; the majority of them are obvious and the user knows what's happening (in my country at least [UK] any employee would need to be specifically told and likely have to sign something before it could be used). Monitoring isn't the issue.

The problem is spying. Enabling people to more reliably spy on others is a problem.
I guess I'm the only one...
Depends on a country. Mobile is popular as well.
>it's an answer to really inefficient food production whose water and nutrient needs aren't sustainable...

But, is it? The ingredients include oats, grapeseed oil, soy derivates, and whey. I'm sincerely having trouble seeing how this represents more efficient food production.

In fact, it would seem to be less efficient from that perspective: it still requires the resources for crops/farming, derives isolates from foods that are otherwise more whole (what happens to the rest?), then adds a degree of processing that requires still more resources.

Isn't it more efficient to just eat whole foods rather than extracts from various foods that, by definition, require energy/processing to obtain and must leave some waste in the process?

Maybe it's more convenient from the consumer's perspective, but I don't see how it solves the production problems you suggest.
Thanks for the reply. It actually happened again on another site. Just started experiencing it there. Restarted browser. No problems. shrug Thanks again.
Wow. A personal attack. Way to make a point, not.

There is this statement that about 60% of bankruptcy are from medical debt. Here is a quick over view of that number:

http://www.snopes.com/643000-bankruptcies-in-the-u-s-every-y...

So lets say it is true (it likely is) then what are the other 40% from?

The problem I have with your statements is that you make the companies out to be evil. They should know better and not lend anymore is what you are saying. However how does that work? Should that 60% that filled for the pure reason that someone got really sick not be able to get credit later? Should we have 2 classes of the ability to get credit after bankruptcy? "Okay, well it was medical so no issues. Hey looks like you spent to much but you learned you lesson this time so I guess I will give you a loan. Hey you seem to have not learned your lesson so no loan for you." This is a slippery slope. How does a company value all of this? The answer is they cannot really. There is math behind the lending and it is faceless and has to be because anything else is subjective and could be discriminatory.

This is no different then:

"Hey you should put limiters in to only let the car go the speed limit."

"Hey you had enough soda this week. No more for you."

The company that lends the money can only profile on the finances and payment history. Anything else is really out of bounds. It is not the lenders job to KNOW that you cannot control your spending and they are not EVIL because they do not do so. They are not your parents.

You are blaming the company for something that is the persons responsibility. No one is saying that there are not bad situations were bankruptcy is required. All I was saying that doing it should not be easy. There is a reason a judge is required to rule on this.
As a trained philosopher and logician, I completely understand how a Turing machine relates to Godel's Theorems, but I think you're passing the buck here.

You can make all kinds of claims:

- Either the brain is a V12 engine or it's not

- Either the brain is a perfect circle or it's not

- Either the brain is X or it's not

All these statements are trivially true, but it's not like I look at a V12 engine thinking "hmm, I wonder if it's conscious" (some pan-psychists do but that's still weird to me). Similarly, looking at the property of a formal system and jumping to consciousness makes (to me) little sense.

Besides, my knock-down argument goes something like this: I can concede that our brains are machines, but suppose I believe they are Presburger counting machines, where Godel's incompleteness does not apply. What then? There is no insight in that claim. I just think Turing machines and Godel are used as a bait and switch. Because, really, any theory of consciousness will not have anything to do with either.
Sometimes they are a help desk, because many times newer users of a framework don't know enough about how the framework was built to determine if something is a bug with the framework or a bug in their code. Some JS stuff moves so quickly that a new version is cut weekly and bugs are introduced as often / previously-working code breaks in ways the non-framework developers don't understand. In these cases, reporting the issue against the GitHub project can help them solve it, so I'd argue that it's not a bad thing to be posting error reports assuming they're actually unique issues which you're reasonably certain are something in the framework / library / whatever. I'm guessing that your point though is that it shouldn't just fill the same role as SO where less-experienced devs are posting problems with easier / more obvious solutions, but defining where that line is is very difficult.
Everybody gets $12k and everybody's taxes go up 20%. The guy making $60k doesn't notice a thing. The guy making nothing pays 20% of nothing and comes out way ahead. Bill Gates pays a few more millions.

Simpler and much more fair than an arbitrary cut off.
The purpose is not completely replace all of your meals with it. I realize some use Soylent as such but in general having one item be your sole food source is probably not the best idea. If I'm not mistaken even the packaging of Soylent state that it's not intended to replace every meal.
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Can someone recommend a good, safe, privacy-respecting 3rd party phone app for Android, preferably for Cyanogenmod or LineageOS?
If SMS can be used for account recovery (ie, 'I forgot my password' functionality) then it is probably worse.
Thanks for your wonderfully comprehensive reply. I'm very interested in PR and would love to visit sometime but I really only know what I read in the newspaper. It's great to get a first-hand perspective from a lifetime resident.
No particular order. I've mostly settled into 2,5,6,7.

I can't seem to give up 7 for 1 without hating life, even though going low-sleep sucks a ton. It'd be sweet if we could afford housekeeping to take care of 3, but oh well.

These aren't perfectly identical categories anyway, of course. You can sneak an hour or two worth of 7 in per week depending on what you do, 15 minutes here, 10 there, even if you don't make any other time for it, but doing that with 4 is nearly impossible, and the quality or benefit of any of the activities will tend to be lower that way (you definitely do a fair amount of cleaning no matter what, for instance, though maybe not enough to achieve 3).

Dedicated, significant chunks of time with all the pieces in place for the various activities are what's hard to come by, and what forces in general picking some of them over the others. You just gotta let some stuff go or you'll go insane trying to keep up with it all, and failing to do so anyway.
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#OldNews, this article is from 2016.

> What sets ALPHA apart is the genetic fuzzy tree decision system that can calculate an opponent’s movements or strategies 250 times faster than you can blink.

That's just not fair.

One more comment, can this thing (ALPHA) land an Airbus A320 on the Hudson?
I am pretty sure the sieve can be written like this in Haskell, which might be a bit short for a research paper:

sieve :: Integral a => a -> [a]
sieve l =
sieve' [2..l] []
where
sieve' (p:ns) ps =
sieve' (filter (\x -> rem x p /= 0) ns) (p : ps)
sieve' [] ps =
reverse ps
Maybe, but the science is more interesting: "The authors conclude that the prevalence of obesity is lower in cannabis users than in nonusers."

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/174/8/929/155851/Obesit...
I've been visited by the shame police it seems, and you've extrapolated such an amazing amount over saying "wow there's a lot of rich Chinese here" that I wonder if you are doing some sort of parody I'm missing.
Trading firms create value by providing liquidity.

If they can buy low and sell high, they will be buying when there are relatively fewer other buyers, and sell when there are relatively few other sellers.

This activity creates value for other people who want to trade in those circumstances.

If no value was created, there would be no value to capture.

And the prima facie evidence that they are creating value is that they are capturing value from willing market participants.

This is fundamental economics.
From reading:

Amazing that the AI was running on a Raspberry PI... I'm amusing image processing happens on a "low resolution". Also, this seems to be interesting:

"They tackled the problem using language-based control (vs. numeric based) and using what’s called a “Genetic Fuzzy Tree” (GFT) system, a subtype of what’s known as fuzzy logic algorithms.

States UC’s Cohen, “Genetic fuzzy systems have been shown to have high performance, and a problem with four or five inputs can be solved handily. However, boost that to a hundred inputs, and no computing system on planet Earth could currently solve the processing challenge involved – unless that challenge and all those inputs are broken down into a cascade of sub decisions.”

That’s where the Genetic Fuzzy Tree system and Cohen and Ernest’s years’ worth of work come in."

"The training happend on a 500$ commercially available computer"

"It uses linguistic input instead of numeric input"

Can i conclude that ( after reading the article), that the training matches "situations"/"variables" to words. Eg. The enemy is far, close. The friend is behind me/in front of me/above me and then i go up/down/do a roll.

Multiple generations later, some linguistic variables are left away, so only the necessary ones remain.

From the comments on Reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/r/CredibleDefense/comments/4q8h8z/pap... )

"This is not another opinion piece vaguely arguing how AI will "one day" replace pilots. The authors seem very cognizant of all the challenges and complexities. They clearly limit and define the scope of their work."

"This "research paper" is a commercial. The expert fighter pilot is an employee of the company and his job is to promote it."

None the less, gonna read on some Fussy Logic :p - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/artificial_intelligence/artif...

Edit: Link to previous HN discussion -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11993366
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Haskell changed way more than C++. I don't think Ada changed a lot.

Still, they are so different from each other that I don't think all that change makes much of a difference.
Do yourself a favor and lookup the history of the IEX exchange, and read flash boys. They do just this, but HFT traders still trade there and make money, just probably less of it.
No problem, here ya go: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/25934

Thanks for everything you do!
SAMBA is still too complicated. I was thinking something that didn't need to be installed.
> and is one of the favorites on academic circles.

I'd argue Python is much more prevalent with researchers than Haskell.
Congratulations.

I have been drinking Soylent 12 bottles a month. This alone has freed me up from thinking about what to eat for lunch.
Making the decision seems a lot easier to me when the monitoring software explicitly markets itself to and supports domestic abusers.
I have also encountered something similar whilst attempting to print a ticket to a major amusement park in Europe using Edge. The page the tickets were on secured by a login mechanism, and attempting to print the tickets resulted a page with an error. I had to save the PDF to the computer and print from there to get the proper output. It definitely seems like Edge re-renders or even re-requests the PDF before printing.
Feasible for a few billion people, eventually? This concept has been explored in many sci-fi shows, with the usual solution being to make a big ring and spin it in space.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my rather, er, tortured question. I had been planning ot reread the Theory of Moral Sentiments and your answer will inform my perspective.

BTW I would be most interested in reading your thesis, if you care to send me a draft - same name at gmail.
Which is kind of interesting considering many of Google's own blogs have received impressive facelifts in the last year and still, as far as I can tell, run on blogger.
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When I ran an ultramarathon (31 miles) I ate a lot of Oreos during the race. They have snack tables along the route.
nah. its on such a small time scale, i really dont think it does.
> maven of cpp

Oh dear god no. Can we please have a way more sane manager than a maven of cpp?
As of yet I have not run into an issue with my credit card company has asked me to resolve an issue so long as I had previously attempted to resolve it. I don't disagree with what AirBnB should probably provide as compensation, I'm just trying to save you from wasting time or dealing with stuff that you just don't need to be dealing with.
Does HFT only hurt "other bots"? My understanding was that HFT could take advantage of faster feeds to front-run human traders.
The question of whether our choices are free, what being free means, and what impact that has on our being held responsible for our actions is completely separate from the question of how subjective experience fits within a physical framework, assuming one ascribes to physicalism or some form of objective reality.

They're only related in terms of both being potentially part of the mind/body problem, but they are clearly separate topics. What position you take on free will need not impact your position on consciousness, at all.
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U2F is a kind of OTP, no?
Thank you. I always have a hard time getting this message across.
Love this! My least favorite part of sci-fi is that the heroes are always buzzing around in some advanced fighter aircraft. Crap, they might as well ride around on sci-fi horse and joust like knights. The era of the fighter ace is as gone as the age of horse cavalry--it would be great if the Pentagon figured this out before squandering literally $1T (not an exaggeration) on the Joint Strike Fighter.
Your biggest problem is your 2 hour commute. Move closer to work or find a job closer to your house and you'll have a huge increase in free time and energy.
The alternative is to stay on a planet where 20-40% of people don't even "believe in" evolution or taking care of the planet which their eventual descendants would need to inhabit, many times in favor of short-term capital gains. I fail to see how we're not already, as of about a hundred years ago, pretty screwed either way.
Yes. People mistakenly think it's a meritocracy. It's not.

But it is good at making the world rich.
Notably, modern JS engines _do_ pull the same tricks that GCC does, which is why they're fast.

But that's indeed a solution to a different problem, on a different computer.
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Vega brand has decent penetration in mainstream retail, including grocery stores, as well as outlets that specialize in supplements and specialty nutrition items.

I agree, though, that Soylent's unique strength is in marketing to middle-class to upper-middle class Millennials that arent seeking any particular goal other than replacing the bother of food; not through unique product features, just pure marketing focus.
HFT aren't the firms putting the markets on computers. HFTs sit between the computers and the retail traders and use that information advantage to front run.

There's no reason there needs to be a middleman here. Buyers can buy from sellers directly. In fact that's what they think they are doing, except that the HFT firms are basically adjusting the price on them underneath the sheets.

The real losers are the sellers. They put up some product at a price, someone else on the other side of town sees a slightly different price because the market only moves at the speed of light. Instead of the seller getting a little bonus, that bonus is hoovered up by the HFT guy in the middle who has a more accurate view of the market.

What service did the HFT provide? Where did this mysterious liquidity come from?

In the old days the middlemen were responsible for actually finding the guy making the sale and matching him up with the buyer. This was real work and it makes sense that people would be paid for it. Now the computer does it for you, there is no need for a middleman and no value he can offer. It's a parasitic relationship.
I have the option to take the train to work, so that gives me a solid 2 hours a day to hack on my side project.

I would have to say my time hacking on a project is more focused with kids. You have to be if you want to get things done.
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From a Wall Street point of view, a 2% drop in beer sales is a big deal. I agree that the average person would probably misinterpret this headline.
Not sure I understand why we can assume that its all trades are entirely "independent" here.

Agree with you that HFT performance is not correlated with market direction. But given the volume of trades it would imply that many of the trades are occurring on a smaller pool of equity instruments. I'd think that given liquidity constraints and competition that there's a sweet spot in terms of number of stocks that a given strategy is actually efficient on.

So not entirely sure why we consider every trade to be iid - rapid shocks (flash crash), equity specific news etc would affect a number of trades at once changing the 51% probability?

Also does anyone know if the profitability numbers include payments to be a market-maker?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14220983

The previous item was a Medium URL that redirects to the hacker noon.com page.
Valuing something is itself valuable.
I have children with communication and social issues (ASD).

My side projects have changed from web apps things to:

Learning makaton.

Making and laminating pictures (PECS) so my youngest can use them to communicate.

Attending various classes relating to ASD.

Fixing IT and Telecoms for the various local charity organisations that support us.

You just have to play the hand your delt the best you can.
I generally like HFT. I do not like front running or information advantages that have happened in the past.

Spreads these days are the lowest in history. What many people fail to realize is that before electronic market makers (I almost want to eliminate the name HFT), people sat in between these trades. It was slow, inefficient and they took a larger spread on the trade.
I think you're correct to highlight the labor force participation rate but there doesn't appear to be an upper age cutoff on these stats, which is going to skew things.

"16 years and older employed or looking for work..."

Shouldn't it be something like 16 years to 66 years old? The boomers are getting older. Or even better, 20 to 70. I'm not really worried if people are delaying entry to work because they're still full time students or stopping work after they become eligible for full Social Security benefits.
Stopped reading at "Uber of health insurance"
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> furthermore, while you may be able to more quickly "express an idea" in a dynamically typed language, your ability to precisely enumerate the idea will be less than a statically typed one.

What we need realize is not all ideas are precise. In fact, most of our ideas are vague to certain extent. They are still OK as long as the vagueness does not matter to the problem of interest or it is already constrained or implied in the context. So to efficiently express an idea, both insufficiency or over specificness are negative to expressiveness. To disclaim, I don't claim any language is the best to that regard. I believe language should be suited to the problem (as well as the experience of the team).

Since you particullarly mentioned type, I would suggest that not always a particular type is important in a idea. For example, sorting, the types of the items are not intrinsic in the idea. Having to specify the type contributes negatively to the expressiveness. However, when performance is concerned ragarding to certain specific sorting problem, types (as narrowly specific as we can) are of importance. However, we should recognize that is a different idea from the original idea of sorting. So even though in the program eventually it expresses both the algorithm for sorting as well as the types, being forced to mix ideas are negative toward expressiveness.

Haskell, its types and pureness, for example, are not always essential in a programming idea. Having to take care of these language requirement while it is non-essential, makes it less expressive (in those problem domain).
Your commute is costing you around 10K per year, just for direct costs such as car and fuel.
Then you have indirect costs such as:
-lost time which you can probably put a dollar figure on (esp if you are using some of that time for a side project that may one day have value)
Then finally there are the intangible costs:
-lower fitness, meaning more sickness, more medical bills.
-a less fullfilling relationship with your wife and kids
-stress of the commute, also contributing to poor health.

Basically you should go to your boss, if possible and ask to work from home - you could even take a 10K pay cut and it would make no difference financially.

I've worked from home for 10+ years and it's great. You should do it if at all possible.
Gentoo's installation guide is great.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installatio...

I don't use Gentoo anymore, it's been 8+ years, but I learned a lot from that distribution.
There's just a huge number of securities you can trade now. Most equities have monthly options (so e.g. about ~50 calls & puts * 6 months) and the indices have weekly now. And those are just the basic derivatives, the OTC stuff gets even crazier.
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I presume this is a part of/sponsored by/ or something related to the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative[0]? It is not mentioned in the article.

[0] https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/Initiative/3
The author explicitly chose to avoid Google because for him, the data protection was insufficient. So I'd say, yes, for privacy-conscious users, it was a bad thing.
I've got to believe that—besides what reasons people are consciously aware of—it's at least a little bit that startups, due to volatility and risk, are far more addictive environments than stable salaried bigcorp jobs are.

People will find themselves preferring "startup life", going from startup to startup, never staying past acquisition, without really knowing why; and then they'll invent all sorts of clever justifications for that. But really, they just enjoy the fact that their job is a gamble and could disappear at any moment, and will miss that and "feel bored" whenever they don't have it.

Just like some people who are "natural soldiers" find it hard to find jobs they enjoy after coming back from a war (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/68v9dv/photo...), some people who are "natural startup people" find it hard to find jobs they enjoy that aren't in startups. Because the risk/stress isn't there, and that's what they really want out of a job.
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