skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Chinese are still bent on dominance and interested in various conquests.

What evidence do you have for that, as opposed to this alternative hypothesis:

1. The Chinese have a bit of a thing about uninvited guests. C.f. world history from the industrial revolution until 1975, or go back a bit further to that Ghengis ratbag.

2. If any ininvited guests turn up in China in the next 30 years, they are, objectively, very likely to be Americans. Because a) who else can? b) go ask the Koreans, Vietnamese, Afghans, Iraqis, Phillipinos, pause for breath, Nicaraguans, Yemenis, Iranians, Indonesians, Somalians, Cambodians, ..., whose army it usually is that turns up in someone else's country.

3. Pfaffing around in their local seas is relatively cheap for the Chinese, and it provokes Americans to burn lots of money in order to "maintain primacy". Meanwhile, the Chinese get to save their money and build submarines.

> At least until China democratizes

Because, of course, external threats from the world hegemon are just the kind of setting where people have always been willing to give more open and democratic ways of life a try.
I feel like I understood 30% of what he said. Any chance at a quick refresher?
>Except such stories are meaningless because they are random in nature. Unlike in the Icarus story, air gets colder with altitude so does that suddenly reverse the meaning of the story?

Obviously not, because the meaning of story lies in how things work in the context of the story.

Only if the general point (devoid of storytelling flourishes) was invalid it would invalidate the story as a cautionary tale.

But the general point still holds as general advice: "Avoid extremes" [1].

[1] https://thetaoofwealth.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/lessons-for-...
An interesting technicality from the post and paper is that the measure of causal information (mutual information between the initial and final state) bears some resemblence to the Lyapunov exponent as it is used to measure whether a system is on the edge of chaos. When the exponent is 1 (IIRC) the system does not diverge exponentially when the initial conditions are changed slightly and the system is said to be on the edge of chaos and to have good generalization ability. Anywhere else and the system is either damped or chaotic and you don't expect "interesting" stuff to happen there, such as higher-order "causal" effects. (seriously though, why are people so obsessed with causality when it's clear that there is almost never one "causal" description. let it go!)
I'm skeptical. Like "faked results" skeptical. Crime witness studies show that most humans can't reproduce another human face that accurately. So-so when the face is at least of the same race, but when of a different race it's a coin flip as to whether they can even recognize it. (That said, I've only heard this on various TV shows, never seen actual research, so the presumption could be wrong). How can primates do so much better with an entirely different species? Or, not even primates, but some AI going through primate neural signals?
I don't think it's the Palestinians in this case, but you are right all foreign relations ought to be examined.
There's definitely value in cryptocurrencies, in the sense of significant promise of being useful for new types of financial instruments and transactions. This does not preclude the possibility of there being a crypto bubble, i.e. demand/excitement causing the price of the currency to rise far far above its current level of usefulness.

The ultimate usefulness of cryptocurrencies is determined by things that may take years or decades to figure out a way to do: everything from 'is it a good store of value' to 'can I shop with it on Amazon?' to 'can I use it to issue equity for my startup?' This gradual growth in usefulness does not really match the tendency of coins to double in price in very short periods of time, so the question is whether the temporary bubbles and disappointments are severe enough to disrupt the gradual growth in base value. This is no different from real estate bubbles potentially making things painful for people who just want to buy a house to live in it.
Open Source and volunteer projects help, if one has time to complete them. If one has to work multiple low-wage jobs to make ends meet, ignoring other burdens, then their options are more limited.
That is literally how my financing of the LEAF went with NMAC (Nissan finance arm). There was an ~$1000 incentive from NMAC iff I financed through them at 0% for 36, 48, or 60 months.

Uh, OK. I checked the paperwork carefully and it was mathematically as-stated.
It's not even enabled in several major distributions. Yes some people do use them. Most don't...it was broken for several releases.
Transmeta CPUs used a VLIW architecture with a software layer that decoded x86 instructions into VLIW instructions. The software worked a bit like a JIT where optimizations would be applied to frequently running code.

I would credit them for pushing Intel (and AMD) to optimize for power savings rather than raw speed, because Intel started making significant perf/W improvements.

Transmeta processors were (I believe) the first x86 processors to automatically vary voltage and clock speed multiple times per second. In fact, I wrote a small utility that would display the current clock speed on your taskbar in a graph because it changed so rapidly.
I read that as something that bolstered the case that it was a willful violation and not accidental, not that it was a required condition for considering it to be a contract.
> Wow, really? The internet is very very broken.

It works fine for me. I view the pseudo-anonymous nature of the Internet as a feature, not a bug.

I think we agree fundamentally that attempting to ban or restrict math is ridiculous. For the sake of discussion - what specifically about the current structure of the Internet is broken? You allude to accountability, but it's fairly easy for law enforcement to track someone down (in the "not-using-7-proxies" case - and even then, just repeat step 1 below):

* Subpoena a site for IP records

* Subpoena their ISP for subscriber information

Now, whether that person is actually located somewhere actionable is another question - but that's a geopolitical problem, not an Internet problem. The first point - sure, maybe a site doesn't keep IP logs. Are you saying it should be mandatory to track the source of posts? (Should it be mandatory for physical establishments to log the biometrics of visitors? If the answer to these questions is different, why?)

How would your proposal for tying Internet access to physical identity (e.g. drivers' licenses) impact access for those in developing nations? There are already a lot of hoops for them to jump through to get online.

Edit: I didn't downvote, by the way - I do still believe in the HN ethos of only downvoting spam/meme posts. People should have a chance to read both sides of a discussion.
Hey. I am a big fan of Node mailer. I was looking for a mailer over npm and Node mailer was pretty much it. I just finished listening to a good podcast I think you may benefit from. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/016-mike-perham-of-side...
I really doubt the US can maintain it's current status in the long term, I don't even think it can be maintained in the short term. Sure China won't be invading US mainland anytime soon, probably never, but they will be dominating the south china sea within the next couple of decades.

The US hegemony was largely a result of a world devastated by WW2, it was never and should never have been seen as a permanent position.
Urban Dreams: India builds a city from scratch
The remark on the Aharonov post-selection is weird coming from Aaronson's usual hard adherence to known physics - postselection is relevant in the quantum world only. For Aaronson to twist it into an argument of cosmology seems markedly out of character.
Well if they have enough food/can survive for 39 days for a resupply then great.
What should we do?

We should man up (metaphorically speaking) and accept that a few attacks from violent nutcases every so often are the price of living in a free society.
Then you should be trivially able to provide a simple explanation of why, or a reference to something that rebuts it.
This article from 538 argues that almost 3/4 of the rise in tuition is accounted for by a drop in state support.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m...
First, it's not what I want, it's what I perceive – only my opinion.

Why a blockchain for social network? To really control my data and my online persona. It doesn't have to be a public blockchain, can be private and shared to my friends, if I wanted to.

I agree with you, that in poor countries the infrastructure is not prepared yet, but the world wasn't prepared also when the Internet was on dippers, this is just the beginning, I believe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (Not all users see flag links; there's a small karma threshold.)
It's just a micro-framework so it's useful if you often use Django but end up replacing all sorts of bits and pieces of it anyway. In a case like that you can be better off just using Flask.
It's not, but Linux is immune to Wannacry and a lot of the other _actual_ garbage that's out there because they don't target Linux desktop users. It would probably be pretty trivial to come up with a Wannacry-like bit of malware that was equally (or more?) effective on a Linux desktop, but the market for doing so isn't very lucrative.
> I keep hearing the meme that low-cost college is the cause of college expense

I think you've misunderstood what you're hearing: low cost college by definition can't be the cause of high cost college.

The claim is that high availability of funds/liquidity for college is what pushes up prices,since there are more dollars available to chase a supply that hasn't kept pace[1].

> college is free in many countries where they are doing quite well. So I question the facile opinions I keep hearing.

This doesn't really make any sense. Colleges that are provided for free are a lot less dependent on markets to determine prices: they treat them like a more or less generic public good (where college choice is determined by quality of student more than ability to pay).

[1] strictly speaking, the supply hasn't been that constrained, but since college is largely perceived as a positional good, this affects all but the bottom rung for-profit colleges.
Actively Tracking Online News Articles Over Time
Agreed, that is more or less the approach I have taken with Solvent...it has a familiar IDE environment with the additional visual layer on top of it.
I thought google has a head start with self driving cars. Do they? Has GM caught up?
My employer (EE) won't hire you as an engineer without a degree, period. There is no reason not to as the BS seems to be as common as the high school degree.

In my department, not without an MS, though there is one guy working on it part time. You also need to be self driven and ambitious.

There seems to be a glut now of pHD, probably due to the shitty economy over the last several years. Might as well just stay in school.
>The real answer is to cut what's funded by the government

Guaranteed downvotes
better safe than sorry, as I'm sure you know ;)
Are quantum computers really a threat? If there was some massive takeover by quantum computers, wouldn't the network operators notice, pause and fork?
I would not risk this though, the failure rate of most new crypto is close to 80% to 90%. Litecoin and Ethereum are the outliers, not the most common cases.
It is, of course, a joke. He's doing a reductio ad absurdem at the end of a tightly argued post about information theory.

It's the advantage of doing a blog post rather than a paper, I suppose.
I mentioned the man hours to build and maintain. That should have been an area for progress. It wasn't.
However moving to Germany for a few years and getting a free top quality University degree is even better. And yes it is free for non-German students.
Amber Rudd shuts down my speech about arms sales to Saudi Arabia
دعاء+2017+اكتر+من+50+صور+دعاء+رائع+صور+أدعية+اسلامية+جميلة
Cool! Any particular reason why you'd shuffle like that, as opposed to using a circular buffer? With IndexOffset, you've almost got a circular buffer going already.
Employers generally look for prior experience. You don't need a degree. A degree hardly matters, except as a baseline, often taken into consideration for internships.

When interviewing for a job, be prepared to talk about work you have previously completed. Any work is sufficient, whether it was for a previous job, an open source or volunteer project, or any significant projects you've completed for school.
> a good portion of scholarships go to star athletes instead.

That's simply not true. There are vastly more academic scholarships available than athletic scholarships. Athletic scholarships are regulated and limited to ensure that all schools can compete on even ground for student athletes. Even if you have an athlete who is a star student on academic scholarships it counts against the schools athletic limits.

Aside from academic performance based funding, there is also plenty of needs based funding in the US. We have a set of standard forms that everybody who wants financial aid fills out, and a determination is made based on their personal and family financial situation as to how much financial aid they qualify for - which can come in the form of funding directly from the institution, federal and state grants, and in subsidized or guaranteed loans. It stops there for most people, but it doesn't have to. You don't _have_ to get loans, you can seek out independent scholarships, grants, and other means of financial assistance. There's something for everyone - for people who live in urban areas, for people who live in rural areas, for people with certain ethnic backgrounds, for people who represent a particular struggle or ideal, etc. etc. etc. A lot of those scholarships don't amount to much individually - $500 here, $1500 there, but even $25 is $25 that you don't have to borrow.

There are frequently less expensive housing options, dining options, book options, etc. that can be taken advantage of. There are frequently options for students to earn money while in school.

I don't know about german students, but I do know that Sweden has "free college" as well, and their students generally come out of school with just as much or more debt than students in the US.
>I'm just trying to hold civil discussion, what's the problem here?

I think that the main problem is that you are trying to spread your own learned delusion by ridiculing a sovereign country decisions to have an army that can keep reasonable deterrence against its potential aggressors (you know, if it works against Russia over the sea, it might work against US over the ocean).
Only you can answer. But to me sounds like a prettyy bad idea.

Doing business with any family member is generally not a good idea.

Not to mention leaving a high-paying industry to go into some random thing you don't know anything about.
Makes sense for a $100,000+ Ferrari... I mean Tesla.
Can someone who thinks Uber's pricing is unethical or bad please explain their reasoning?

Why would the scenario without surge pricing be preferable to you?

The result without surge pricing would be a much longer queue. Queues typically lead to a poor allocation of resources. Surge pricing causes people with other transportation options, or less need, to seek alternatives. People with acute transportation needs are then more likely to get rides.
WebSphere vs. JBoss vs. WebLogic vs. Tomcat
Engineering Empathy
I have put some thought into the possibility of implementing this requirement "client side". In other words I wanted to think through what would be needed to implement this for myself.

I think an access point with the ability to proxy requests with tls termination support could be used to decrypt/encrypt all traffic inbound and outbound.

This has two problems. First this would not allow visibility into messages where the encrypted payload was itself encrypted. Second this would only be as trustworthy as the hardware, drivers and operating system. In other words, unless you have the ability to build the hardware yourself or knew a trustworthy manufacture you could never be 100% that you are aware of all collected data.

This also addresses less than half of the issue. To know when your data is being used the best way would be to catalog, index and correlate all known information about the business in question including all official filings, mergers, acquisitions and any trustworthy news reports or blog posts. This information could be mined for possible disclosures of your information. This algorithm would of course have to be recursive to provide insight after the data leaves the hands of the original collectors.

Now comes the fun part, information is gathered about us in multiple ways including tax filings, credit card purchases, facial recognition within photos (which you may only be in the background).

All of that leads me to believe that this is not something which can be done alone.

What I believe we need is a law which would guarantee us the right to receive notifications when data concerning us has been collected, used or sold.

As far as a regularatory body, that would be nice and could be used as a trusted third party to collect all the information which should be reported to individuals, this could lead to a web portal which aggregates all disclosures for us. This however is not necessarily needed in the short-term, I believe if such a law was passed we could rely on whistle-blowers to report transgressions. The important thing would be to establish the right, we can worry about enforcement at a later point.
The medium is the message
XPath and a tree transformation? Works well.
They have a lot to prove to investors
It's not though. There are ~75 24-year windows you can use between 1913 and today. I suspect you will find similar results with almost all of those windows. Obviously past performance is not an indicator of the future, but 75 data points is a pretty decent amount of data.
There is a massive body of existing literature (the kind that's published in peer reviewed journals) examining the returns to education. A lot of that research, maybe most of it, suggests that going to college is a very, very good idea financially.

PLEASE, before you let a blog post dictate your position on this issue--and certainly before you recommend to an impressionable 17-18 year old that they not go to college--take the time to properly educate yourself.
The primary thing universities offer for jobseekers is a demonstration to an employer that a person probably learned contemporary skills in the field of their degree. They also offer licenses to join oligopolies.

They are of course not the fastest way to learn. Learning quickly is a secondary or even tertiary goal. If you want to learn something the fastest, you gotta teach yourself or use a tutor.
The thing that really resonated for me in this article was the point that for most of us, the performance of select() or accept() really doesn't matter, because any time spent there is easily dwarfed by application logic, database lookups, queries to other services, etc.

You only really need to care about this if you're working on something mainly concerned with the connections themselves, like HAProxy.
Generally, open source projects or volunteer work. Unfortunately, taking time to do unpaid work can be a burden for those working low-wage jobs, or who otherwise exist near or below the poverty line.
note, the title is "GM wants to"..

There's nothing in the article that others haven't already done.
everything should be public, especially Government secrets...
What's the benefit? If your tooling already requires lossless round-trips to and from text, why invent a funky storage format that doesn't interoperate and can't be fixed with a text editor when it all blows up? You already have a perfect serialisation of the AST, in a format every other tool understands - that is, source code.

(And heaven forbid you should want to make a checkpoint commit that doesn't parse...)
Because sometimes there is, and when you know you can control or at least predict the process. Sometimes this makes you mad dosh.
I think it really depends on the task. We are just hijacking the brain machinery to do jobs it is not evolved to deal with. If we can find some highly evolved / optimized brain function which reflects the structure of the new job, the brain can process it much more efficiently.

Text might be good for programming because, most of the programming are sequential, text is sequential, and text processing is highly optimized in the brain because language. But in fact, we also use a bit of visual programming (indentation, paragraphs) in text to reflect part of the program structure that are not sequential.

If the program is completely non-sequential, visual tools which reflects the structure of the program are going to be much better than text. For example, if you are designing a electronic circuit, you draw a circuit diagram. Describing a electronic circuit purely in text is not going to be very helpful.
I see your point and agree that this isn't necessarily a problem for developers that commit and push code really frequently (as we all know we should). From my experience, though, it isn't uncommon for developers to keep code in their working tree, on their local machine for days or longer before pushing it to a remote repo. I've seen multiple people lose a significant amount of work because they fall victim to the idea that "it won't happen to me", and I've typically seen their diligence with committing/pushing improve temporarily until the memory of their disaster fades. If you can successfully change habits to use Git more effectively to reduce this risk, then I think that is certainly a good alternative. I wonder if an inexpensive insurance policy wouldn't be better for many, though, especially since it could backup the working directory far more frequently than even the most careful Git users. Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate the response!
Jitterdämmerung: Advantages of JITs less than promised (2015)
Good point, I liked the work he's criticizing so I think I'm currently primed to take the post too seriously
Very few colleges will leave with student loan debt an order of magnitude greater than $20k.

That's about the sticker price for 4 years at Harvard. But 70% of their students receive financial aid.

Average student loan debt is around $30k. Very few people have $200k student loan debts.

>And if you got a degree that led to a $45k

Considering that the vast majority of student loans are public loans, and public loans all qualify for income based repayment, I'd say yes.

>It's no longer easy to say "going to college" is always a worthwhile investment. It is highly contingent on future earning potential with the degree and how much it costs.

Again since public student loans all qualify for income based repayment, there is almost no scenario where it isn't worth it to go to a state school. Income based repayment plans are very generous:

10% of your discretionary income (income after 150% of the Federal poverty level), and cancellation after 20 years of payments.
Not necessarily. Some articles of this sort are so skew to reason that they defy refutation by virtue of how far out of bounds they are.
I'm open to believing you, but would love some references on this!