skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AA is controversial not only for it's religious content, but also because it's empirically both far less effective than it claims and less effective than alternatives. See, e.g, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irr...
You're correct that the nominal rate is much higher than the effective rate for most US corporations.

This is especially true for tech companies, which have R&D tax credits and are able to shift much of their income offshore because their profits are based largely on intangibles (which can be moved by signing some contracts, as opposed to factories or restaurants, which are geographically fixed).
> A backdoor can persist in open source tools just as easily as it can persist in proprietary ones

Just as easily? Citation needed. Especially when we are talking about a simple security device that can ship a tiny, well written, well documented codebase.

> teams which make open source tools are frequently smaller and underfunded for secure feature engineering when compared to teams which develop closed source tools

This is besides the point. The same code, developed by the same team, can be released, or simply made publicly auditable.
Or simply statistical modelling. I think there are methodological differences though. To me ML seems like a massive p-value fishing operation.
Corporate dividends are actually taxed twice. Once as profit to the corporation, and a second time as "income" to the recipient. Note that these two words are different. (Not applicable to S corps.)
Could be a bit off-topic here and I hope that my tone is not extremely negative, but why is there a constant "Why we/i/should are/am/should insert possible negation insert a random action and why should you" trend in the professional blogs (not saying this author does the why should you part)? Titles are getting hideous and repetitive. I sincerely hope that this tone could be changed to something more meaningful/technical/constructive rather than listing things why you are or you are not doing something (while this author definitely goes into detail).

I definitely endorse freedom of speech and thought, but unless one is a vetted expert in the matter, one should avoid making these blog posts. I'm not the best chef in the world and I do things a certain way, but I do not go around the world telling people that they should do it my way.
What you're saying is absolutely nothing new. There's a lot of FUD and confusion in this thread (no surprise) but this has been apparent from the very beginning. "A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy" [1] makes the essential nature of cryptoeconomics very clear. In short: (a) all currencies are social phenomena (b) all the fancy math does is replace the "men with guns" that protect physical currencies -- that is, currencies must be economically defensible and (c) what actually gives real-world currencies their value is the presence of a tax authority who creates the currency and then demands it back at some later point [2]. PoS creates an absolute demand for the currency; it is nothing more than a formalization of currency power.

> So, aside from being a geeky toy and new market for gambling, where has cryptocurrency actually succeeded?

A better question is -- why are there so many currencies to begin with? Why isn't there a single currency that everybody uses?

Once you understand the answer to this question the value of cryptocurrencies become clear. You said it yourself: currency is inherently a contextual and social value construct. Different communities have different values. Communities that develop currency power will always triumph over communities that don't because they can collaborate more effectively. Currencies don't "succeed," communities succeed -- and they do this partly by leveraging currency power. The answer to your question is right in front of you but you just don't want to see it: the cryptocurrency development communities themselves are already wildly successful and have demonstrated the ability to raise enormous funds and collaborate effectively.

[1] https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/a-proof-of-stake-design-p...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boHE_dR159k
I didn't say anything negative about him or his debating style. I'm just saying I'm not so surprised he chose UofA. Tons of east coast aging hippies fall in love with the desert, get a mansion in the foothills, then only come down into the city for the university dressed like they're on a fucking safari.
well one thing that's happened for me is that I have maybe an hour to work on things a night, therefore I can only be creative in my chosen field, but creativity as a general rule for me happens most when exploring the new, less exploration of the new less creation.

The other thing is that while I might have great ideas I only have an hour a night to work on them, therefore I will not be implementing them and the end result is if someone would be trying to analyze my creative output now as opposed to my youth when I had more time they would say ah, there has been a precipitous drop in Bryan's creativity.
they will have finished booting out all of the US users by the time Coinbase enables BCH trading.
What patents regarding React exist and which of these are held by Facebook?
Sadly, I exchanged my BCH for BTC before this occurred. I missed out on those 2x gains! (Of course, these are all coins I mined years ago, so it's free money anyway.)
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the changes for each new release of IntelliJ IDEA gets smaller each year

there's a reason they moved to a subscription model
I agree. Those examples have nothing to do with learning a new template syntax, it's simply the API of React.Component.

Granted, there is still some syntax you need to learn for JSX, but it's very little. If you already know HTML's syntax, the only new things I can think of are the curly braces for using JS expressions as prop values (you also need to know what a JS expression is, lest you try to use an if statement), and spread attributes.
Won't the added emissions from all transmitters amount to something more easily detectable? How much does the Sun emit in the same frequencies?
What a legendary find! And 18,000 feet deep has to be near record. Titanic two miles below to put it in perspective.

And what a mission. Highest ultra top secret. With the eventual outcomes of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the unconditional surrender of Japanese forces. U.S. Navy treating it as a "sunken war grave." Echoes of Henry V's St Crispin's Day Speech and it's lines:

"From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd"

And also the inspiration for the best ten pages in screen writing history ;)

The Indianapolis Speech By Robert Shaw In Jaws (1975)

https://neilchughes.com/2013/03/10/the-indianapolis-speech-b...
Everytime the discussion of React vs. VueJS comes out, there are always people that make the argument that you can make React do everything VueJS can.

Of course you can, these are open sourced projects and you can modify and add packages to do just about anything you want it to do.

However, when presented with an option that is designed from the ground up to work exactly the way you like it, why not use it?

I can install a dozen different packages along with React so that I can get it set up exactly how I want, or I can just use VueJS whose creator's philosophy are more inline with my own and is designed exactly how I like my front-end.
Do we confuse efficiency engineers (purpose, work, routing, training, outcomes) with inefficiency engineers(distraction, entertainment, inputs)? I cut some teeth on early laser printed govt report generation where every page has a minutes-to-read constraint for decision makers. That is efficiency.

Couchsurfing And Meetup make in-person local group formation and related discussions possible. DC here is a town where people talk for money, but many communities of Americans are very shy about meeting any strangers.

Masses of people burdened by kids and long commutes or old age mostly seek distraction. Those are yesterday's TV ad audiences ordering more pizza cheese.

I ignore my phone. Some nerdier people have "auditory agoraphobia" and tune in to music, podcasts or books on tape in lieu of chewing cud. I think that is good compared to listening to Howard Stern in a car.

Other people are just remarkably bored. I bothered to spend a few weeks asking people what they were they doing on their phones outside offices. I was surprised to learn how most women I asked were constantly catalog shopping. I was surprised because I use Amazon like preppies used LL Bean to avoid wasting time in retail shopping. Visually obsessed shoppers are problems few will pay engineers to solve.
Its bizarre because I bought something from the PlayStation store on my PS4 and it took DAYS to download.

The strange part of the story is that it took so long to download that the next day I went and bought the game (Battlefield 4) from the shop and brought it back home and installed it and started playing it, all whilst the original purchase from the PlayStation store was still downloading.

I ask Sony if they would refund the game that I bought from the PlayStation store given that I had gone and bought it elsewhere from a physical store during the download and they said "no".

So I never want to buy from the PlayStation store again.

Why would Sony not care about this above just about everything else?
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There's a significant difference between the social consensus you use to pick Bitcoin and the social consensus that you use to resolve a proof of stake fork. With Bitcoin, you choose it once and then it's stable forever.

With Etherum's social consensus, you have to re-choose your platform every time someone creates an alternate history. It's an ongoing process which can cause a lot of confusion and disruption in the future. It's a lot worse than a system you can be confident will not change once you have gotten set up.

The value of Bitcoin is that it is very difficult to manipulate. In this, we have already seen it succeed repeatedly. The inflation is the same, legacy nodes all still work, nobody has ever invalidated addresses or taken money they didn't have the keys to.

Yes, with bitcoin you lose your money if someone can find you and decides to hit you with a wrench repeatedly, and then somehow they get away without conviction of assault. In PayPal, you can lose access to your account simply because some low salary moderator flagged your account as violating their restrictive terms of service.

Just because bitcoin hasn't solved the problem entirely doesn't mean that it's not a big step forward. It's a big step forward!
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If you only look at Vue and React, you can see that there is an increase in Vue's share on the weekends.

That may not be a true leading indicator of adoption, but it is hard to argue it isn't an indicator of increased interest.
Making a scene in public is considered to be immature here, so most of the time people ignore "deviant" behavior on the subway. Making someone (especially the kind of person who watches porn on a train) lose face by shaming then is likely to make that person very, very angry.
>I've wondered a lot about the relationship between creative output and age in terms of musicians. Across all genres, it seems that many talented musicians lose their ability to compose or take part in creative works as they get older

There are too many counter-examples in classical, blues and whatever for this to be true.

Sting was never in it for the pure love of music in the way someone like Miles Davis, or BB King, or Tom Waits and Elvis Costello for that matter, he got distracted by the jet set lifestyle (Bob Gedolf is an ever worse example of that).
That's what I thought when Bitcoin crashed from $30 to $17 in 2011. I wrote "There's no revenue model here. All growth comes only from new investors. This is a bubble in its pure form."

What I didn't see was that the use case of getting money out of China was enough to propel Bitcoin to thousands of dollars. When that started, it looked like the People's Bank of China was going to ease up on exchange controls and crack down on Bitcoin. The PBC did neither.

"The mountains are high and the Emperor is far away."
> Using a local DNS resolver instead of Google DNS helped my PS4 speeds.

that's not a surprise, as when using Google DNS the CDN has much less information about you to try and route you to a good choice of CDN endpoint. will be variable based on where the google DNS endpoint is and you are [plus the connectivity of a given CDN to both of those places]

More information about that here including "EDNS Client Submit" a solution they deployed to send a partial client IP to the server but only for specific CDNs they have set it up with:
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq
"I've read claims that Google Public DNS can slow down certain multimedia applications or websites. Are these true?"
> What would the adaptation for Hacker News or Reddit look like? For one thing, probably a controlled release of all new content in batches, so we get trained out of refreshing them all the time.

This is exactly what I do.

I wrote a system that reads from multiple RSS feeds and screen scrapes non-rss sources into RSS feeds. Every article goes through some basic tagging before being indexed in a personal Elasticsearch instance and archived on-disk (my "personal Google").

Every morning I get an email with content filtered based on tags, prioritized based on my interests and upvotes (where applicable), and coarsely aggregated by theme (mostly for politics). I limit myself to 30 minutes of reading for each update, forcing myself to conscientiously prioritize. I occasionally click to the HN comments, but avoid Reddit like the plague.

Actionable articles get added to OmniFocus, but only if I will take action. Informative articles get added to Evernote, but only if I will reference them in the future.

It's imperfect, but still scratches that cave-man itch to constantly check the environment for new signals - I trust my software to do so on my behalf. Funneling content into action-items and references keeps me otherwise focused on doing things instead of reading things.

(I also abandoned Facebook/Twitter/etc because their mix of news/entertainment/communication was addictive - all I need is communication)
I am not a data scientist, just a researcher in cog neuro. With multicollinearity, I'd first want to know whether these variables are meant to measure the same latent construct. If so, creating a latent factor in a SEM seems the way to go. Lassos and ridge regression I've heard of, but I know very little, except thatse methods can find use when using fmri voxel timeseries...
That's concerning, I tested further and found that if you quit the app from task switcher it clears the visited highlight.

I'll check if there's an issue filed for this tomorrow.
>Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem from the same level of thinking that created it.

Appeal to authority. Also, Einstein wasn't an epidemiologist.

>The efforts to ramp up the pressure on anti vaxxers to conform merely deepens the conflict. It does not help the matter.

This is a serious claim, do you have any evidence to support it? I'd expect countries with culture that emphasizes the collective over the individual to have much lower rates of anti vaxxers, as compared e.g. to the US.

Most of anti vaxxer material I see here in Europe is poorly translated and almost universally originally intended for the anglophone market. The 'higher end products' are written by locals, but still heavily leaning on anglophone sources.
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You presented an argument which relied on there being only the two options -- pay out a dividend, or reinvest. There aren't only two options, and zero corporate tax would not change that; a corporation could still choose to sit on a pile of cash if the corporate tax were zero, and it might well make sense to do so as a way for the investors to avoid personal tax on dividends.
Virtually all of these currencies are very vulnerable to what's called a "Sybil attack." Bitcoin is no different [1].

Of course, to economists the concept of a "Sybil attack" is nonsense. Imagine if tomorrow the US Congress voted to give every citizen a billion dollars. Would this be a Sybil attack on the US dollar? Or would it be democracy at work? There's no difference. At the end of the day the majority (of the authority) sets the rules and does literally decide what happens.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Sybil_attack
You assume both the company and the person are in the US, further dividends are not taxed as normal income so you can't say even close to 2x the income tax rate. I there are plenty of cases where even paying both you save money vs taking the same surplus as normal income.
It gets better and better if you don't quit your creative practice. Lets look at Nels Cline, the guitarist for Wilco. Now he is very successful,but for most of his life, up until he was over 50 he was a starving jazz guitarist. He never gave up his practice. For some musicians they suffer injuries or health issues that end their career. But as long as you stay healthy and limber and keep up your practice you don't start having issues until you're starting to get close to 80.
Oh god. You're describing exactly what I'm feeling. I felt that way about being in lighting design after a while. I had worked 60-80 hour weeks consistently, and towards the end I completely lost interest and felt that I can't deliver.

I swapped into software engineering and I've been pounding the pavement for almost 3 years, and I'm hitting this point. It's not like I don't love what I do... I just sometimes feel like I get stuck, and suddenly - I feel like I'm really not competent. I'm starting to worry that I just can't deliver.
My sincere congratulations. As the son of an alcoholic I am totally impressed with you being able to get out of that and turn your life around.
Is that on android and/or ios?
That’s part of the strangeness of this whole debate: nobody knows. The list of Facebook’s patents is public, but I’m not aware of anyone publicly going and doing the research to see which of them, if any, are likely to apply to React. (Possibly because of the whole treble damages thing - along with the fact that Facebook has thousands of patents to look through.) Facebook’s lawyers may or may not have done that research, but it’s in their best interest to keep things as vague as possible (at least up to the point where they actually threaten to sue someone), to avoid workarounds.
The ones that haven't been finalized by the patent office yet.

Do you really think they don't have a pending patent for some part of React? I bet they've got at least one covering virtual DOM.

And don't worry about prior art. As long as some part of it can weasel through a patent it's enough. Doesn't have to be the whole thing.
Why do you need a "really good, rigorous, and reproducible definition of Creativity"?

People know it when they see it, and instinctively know what it is even if they can't phrase it "rigorously".

Not all things have a "really good, rigorous, and reproducible definition" -- especially "family resemblance" notions. What is a game, for example? You can use all kinds of words and rules to describes the notion of "game" but you can always find counter-examples ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance ).
>Also a lot of enterprise user facing applications run on Unity/Unreal.

Do you have any examples? (Not that I don't believe you, just curious)
Working harD in the gYm buT hoW do U Having Fun with a Fit body?
It takes a lot to do environmental harm when your 3.4 miles under water. Even if the bomb pices where left it would not have been a significant environmental issue.
I'm so happy that I have about 20k of USD worth of BTC, ETH and a dozen other tokens.

Never has it been so easy to invest in new startups while cutting out the middle man.

The old VC model was disrupted about 2 months ago.
People should also watch Icarus on Netflix, which just came out. It goes into great lengths by getting serious sources on record - not anonymous - stating very clearly that drug-testing is a sham and has been for decades. Some countries more than others (Russia being the target of this documentary, but others are just like it).
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I honestly don't know. I do embedded for work, and have no problem there, maybe because it is very low-level and doesn't have a UI or run on a PC.

I have had ideas, but when I'm home and I open the IDE, I sit there a while, stare at it, and then close it.
I wonder if this is an issue with the VSCode extension rather than the RLS then; all RLS can do is provide information to the extension, so maybe the extension just isn't using the information.
It's one of the earliest things I can remember learning in my intro to programming classes in college. Those were in Java.
>Speak for yourself haha. This is a matter of trajectory. As you get older, you'll follow the trajectory you maintain. I exercise creativity more than fitness and I feel incredible hahahaha.

https://www.thehairpin.com/2017/07/men-you-dont-have-to-writ...
I wonder if the JS snippets in those attributes is syntax checked at build time or run time.
How? It's not randos, it's your actual connections. It's engineered and marketed as a replacement for FB, as the way to stay connected and engaged with your personal network, that erases what gets people depressed about with FB, that is not premised on FB's or Instagram's or whatever's modes of attention seeking.
Can this $320B Hedge Fund strategy lower Bitcoin investment risk?
Perhaps OpenBSD should consider randomizing the per-process stack canary value upon fork().
It is not an appeal to authority. It is citing my source.

I don't know what your beef is with me. As far as I can tell, both my comments make the same point: That pro vaxxers are just as extremist and close minded as anti vaxxers.

There are lots of people who have bad reactions to vaccines, who take some vaccines but not others, etc. who are not ideologues on the subject. The medical community has processes for dealing with the reality that some people react badly to vaccines and judgement calls need to be made. Pro vaxxers act like this is not a reality. Both camps are very all or nothing.
>average people are not creatives

You'd be surprised. Creative people -- writers, painters, musicians, etc, can be some of the most boring and/or average people in all other aspects of life that you've met.
Onboarding green devs into anything more than a simple Vue app is a lot more complex than a React app of similar complexity, from my experience.

The simplicity of the nested, inception style architecture of React makes it super easy to onboard and up-ramp.
What you gain in knowing "'not eating vegetables' is a fucking stupid idea" you lose in the youthful ability to easily digest any crap you like to eat, and still be healthy and fit eating it.