skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saw an article recently stating

* bottom 80% of the men all compete for 20% of the women who actually respond to them

* the other 80% of the women only respond to the top 20% of the men
> they're so risk-averse to upgrading that some of their systems are still XP.

I'd say that's risk ignorant rather than risk adverse. I hope those XP systems are tightly locked away with no network access of any kind, but I doubt they are.
I'm finding Table 2 hard to interpret. What are the "delta correct" numbers?
I heard an ad on the radio for Dash coin while I was driving through rural Idaho (drove down for the eclipse).

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dash/

https://www.dash.org/
>Official Twitter Account for LydianCoin Pte Ltd., First A.I. Big Data Marketing Cloud for BlockChain

This has to be satire...
I am totally driven by laziness. The only useful things I ever did with computers were about making less work for me or people I liked. The rest was just pissing about. I never judged myself about it and have never understood why it's such a big deal. Get into a job the purpose of which is to reduce work, and then whine about too much work pressure? Anyone reading this is probably one of the .1 percent most privileged people who ever lived in all the history of the planet. Where did these evaluative norms come from? (Yer, it's kinda obv.)

Stumbling across some philosophy stuff about "thick concepts" led me to the answer I wanted.
Surely that title is backwards. I really doubt there is any ML methods that are inspired or based on econometric approaches, but there is no doubt that there exist econometric problems which can be approached using machine learning.
I worked at Google while he was there. It was common knowledge that he did about nothing while there. He wrote a document detailing why Google's development practices were broken, and left in under a (if I remember) year. Again, if I remember, he filed no bugs, committed no code, and wrote no design documents.
So, what's stopping you? Get there first and do it right!

That's the only way anything will ever be done different.

I'd rather see someone with your present attitude do this than 'one of the pricks to make millions in the tech industry'. The trick will be to maintain that attitude in light of future developments. You can count on me to remind you if you ever deviate from the true path ;)
Lot of this is that Amazon has a physical nexus in most states or wants to. (And the situation with affiliates is murky.) So not much point in resisting at this point at their scale. Almost no other company collects sales tax for out-of-state sales where they don't have a physical retail location although buyers are theoretically on the hook for reporting it during tax season.
Netbeans is my favourite IDE =)
I'm not sure which animation you're talking about, but you can turn off a lot of superfluous animation by going into Settings / Ease of Access / Other options / turn off the "Play animations in Windows". This also turns off the Start menu animation and the wacky cursor animation in Word and Excel. Set my other (lengthy) comment for related tips.
Think of it as a coming of age of sorts. Software is now so important to the functioning of the world that we can no longer pretend our actions are without consequences or that we as an industry can exempt ourselves from the results of malpractice.

Just like you're free to build a hut in your backyard you are not free to construct a home and then to sell it if it is not up to code. That makes pretty good sense to me.
endure..
If you ever need advice, commiseration, or just to vent, hit me up, email in my profile here. That goes for anyone reading this, as well.
I am trying...

Wanna help make Municipal Government a Good Thing (TM) -- then join me.

Ill reach out to you to see how you might want to do a Tech-Talk to the city of [East-Bay-city] Where I am cloudifying-them shortly...
It's easier for a company to maintain fewer versions of software that serve the same functional purpose.
Well, my mother can use watsapp, she could not use skype even with patient handholding.
I'm sorry, but if you "need" a family to stay sane, that is a sign of an underlying problem, and instead of running from it you should tackle it.
I'm still on windows 7, and frankly at most I can anticipate upgrading to windows 8.1.

Windows 10 is a complete non-starter until microsoft provides:

- A way to COMPLETELY disable and remove the Cortana/Search system.
- A way to COMPLETELY disable (and keep disabled) all the telemetry.
- A way only EVER install updates manually.

It's not too well known, but you can uninstall the entire search/indexing system from windows 7. It's in the "turn windows features on and off" dialog in "Programs and Features". I've never had the W7 search actually be helpful, and the complete lack of documentation on it doesn't really help. Turning it off entirely at least prevents the indexing service from using all my CPU at random times.

The "Everything" search utility from Void Tools is basically exactly what I want from the filesystem search tool.

I've looked at the W10 LTSB variant, and it's a hell of a lot more attractive then the normal variant.
If the system we're talking about existed, someone would have created a more robust implementation.
There's also the high risk of marriage ending in divorce and losing half (or more) of your financial assets when the relationship falls apart. That has been keeping a lot of men from marrying, which is another factor that drives some portion of them to avoid marriage by design.
Apple paid the City of Waukee a $100m bribe to influence their vote to abate $188m in property tax. The County/State were robbed in broad daylight.

Imagine going to your city council, and pitching them a 50% bribe in return for a 71% abatement. You or I would be going to jail.
Yeah its crazy, all these average single girls thinking they are better than the average single guys, until they hit mid to late twenties. Then they "settle" for someone they deemed undesirable for the previous few years.
What do you mean by "cursed"?
Note that none of the reasons you listed for the medallion system was "for getting paying customers efficiently from A to B". They're all secondary objectives that have little to do with serving the customer. If it was not the government, medallion system could be called a protection racket. That's why Uber succeeded.
Forks of OpenSSL. After Heartbleed, dozens of forks were made. One I think is really promising is LibreSSL which is managed by the same people who work on OpenBSD.
My experience has been that ISPs are downright dishonest about it. AT&T and Verizon have both lied to me about how their locked down crummy routers are superior, which isn't true.
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Not OP, but I have an idea of what they're getting at.

Another word for savings is "deferred consumption". If I earned 1000 dollars this month, and spent 700, I have 300 in savings, or, put another way, I deferred consuming 300 of those dollars.

Now, 300 in a checking account doesn't do anyone any good but me, but if I took half of that money and invested it w/the bank at a 7%/year interest rate, I'd be investing $150/month, and once I started getting that return back, I'd be getting $160.50 back.

What that does for the bank is gives it capitol to loan out to businesses.

If someone went to the bank and got a loan of $150, with a promise of paying it back at 9% in a year, they'd borrow that $150, pay the bank back $163.50 in a year, and the bank would pay me, the original creator of those funds, $160.50. They'd get a profit of $3.00, which is the difference between loaning that money out at 9%, and paying me back at 7%.

If the bank couldn't create money out of thin air, and doesn't fraudulently loan out customer's deposits, the only way to obtain a loan would be if someone else deferred consumption.

Obviously, banks can create money out of thin air (by loaning out funds on deposit), and when they do so, they don't have to give the money back with any interest, so they do. They can loan out $150 at 5% (cheaper than anyone else, perhaps!) and they can keep all of the profit, or $7.50. (more than twice the earlier profit of a non-fraudulent loan.)

I suspect OP subscribes to a more "savings-based economic growth" theory, in contrast to a "consumption-based economic growth" theory.

I obviously am an advocate of the savings-based approach vs. consumption-based approach.

That said, the banks + federal oversight encourage money to be created out of thin air, which makes it easy to spend money, and makes it impossible to incentivize deferred consumption. So, everyone spends money, no limits on it, and we all get to ride the waves between economic booms and economic crashes.

The crash is an inevitable response to the boom, and any policy that wants to have booms without crashes is a logical fallacy.

I hope this helps a bit! I can gather some more sources if you're curious, but the basic gist is in accordance to the Austrian school of economics. Read more on that, and you'll encounter much better explanations than mine!

:wave:
> They could have built a whole platform on top of WhatsApp

What if it failed?

A bird in the hand is worth more than 2 in the bush.
Why do you believe this? I think they are. They provide a nice example of using logic and axioms. I don't think one will be able to have a proof based course other than geometry before calculus. Students just aren't mathematically mature enough for that.
> It seems to make the "newbie unicode error" of assuming that strings "have" an encoding

You imply that there is some universal "string" definition, when there is no such thing.

Literally, "string" just means sequence. Beyond that, it depends on the context.

* C++ std::string is a sequence of char (aka byte, defined to be 8+ bits).

* Swift string is a sequence of Unicode graphemes.

* Ruby String is a sequence of bytes/octects, with an attached (and mutable) encoding.

* Python 2 str is a sequence of bytes/octets

* Python 3 str is a sequence of Unicode code points

* ECMAScript string (and Java java.lang.String) is a sequence of UTF-16 code units.

Moreover, the entire idea of "Strings are an array of integer unicode code points" is confined to Unicode. It doesn't say anything about other character sets, e.g. ASCII, ISO 8859-1, or Windows-1252. (Though AFAIK Unicode is a superset of those particular three.)

So...I think you can safely say "Unicode strings are sequences of Unicode code points."
Two rules of online dating: 1. be attractive and 2. don't be unattractive.
I'm on Windows 10, but if I go to "Windows Ease of Access" folder on the Start menu, the On-Screen Keyboard is listed.

(That's a common tool that you didn't list by name -- it's one I use.)
Please link to pdf?
This makes total sense. I remember learning the ideas of calculus for the first time and thinking "wow, that makes sense" and also realizing how incomplete my picture of the world was without that coherent thought framework.

And I love that article. She really captures the damage that my early math education did (which I've been working the last year to overcome).

"Unfortunately a lot of what little children are offered is simple but hard—primitive ideas that are hard for humans to implement,” because they readily tax the limits of working memory, attention, precision and other cognitive functions. Examples of activities that fall into the “simple but hard” quadrant: Building a trench with a spoon... or memorizing multiplication tables as individual facts rather than patterns."
The man who donated the sperm was heterozygous, which would mean about half the sperm would contain the mutant. You can also see this in their figure 2:

>"Sequencing of 83 individual blastomeres collected from 19 control embryos revealed that 9 (47.4%) were homozygous wild type (MYBPC3WT/WT) and 10 (52.6%) were heterozygous, carrying the wild-type maternal and mutant paternal alleles (MYBPC3WT/ΔGAGT) (Fig. 2a and Supplementary Table 2). This distribution was expected and confirms that the heterozygous patient sperm sample contained equal numbers of wild-type and mutant spermatozoa with similar motility and fertilization efficiency."
> ...crush you anyway with requirements like ISO-<somethingStartingWith9> before you can make a project on github public.

And good luck knowing what the actual requirements of that standard are; PDFs of ISO standards cost hundreds of dollars.
By that measure, most proofs seen in early undergraduate years are also not real (e.g. the proofs given for the fundamental theorem of calculus). The impression one gets from GP is that they needed to see some proofs in high school. If they had taken geometry with me in Mr. Schardt's class they would have gotten their fill...
Anyone run Solaris on recent projects? Why? There are other options. Very curious.
I agree with this sentiment. I made the decision a few years ago to try and automate away the little things.

And I am surprised how often I actually use little things like adjusting the lighting, finding my phone or keys, or even raising and lowering blinds.

Just yelling, "Alexa, turn off all the lights" as I walk out the door, or "Alexa, set the house temperature to 72" as I lay down for bed has really cut out a lot of fastidious things that by themselves doesn't matter much, but added up use a surprising amount of time.

Saying, "why would I want something to do x or y?" Sounds just like people I remember back in the 90s that said, why would I want email when I can just call? And then, why would I use text messaging when I can just email...
It's a genuinely great analogy though, and your particular version is excellent. There's a reason similar sayings have echoed through history.

"Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them,
I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not,
shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."

Matthew 7:24-27 KJV
I didn't see a maths major in your background but I'm surprised you seem to dance around how important back-propagation is, and how different it is from what you could find in nature.

The major advances are the implementation details, and I think many would consider the network topology research constrained not by our imagination but by our implementations.
There are a quite a few now. The barrier to entry for natural language processing has been lowered to a point where there has been a proliferation of chat-bots attempting to replace people. These AI models are learned by scanning the corpus of FAQ's and customer service training materials for a specific company.

So far, in my experience... they don't work all that well. Although to be fair, it might be entirely psychological. When you're speaking with a human, you feel as if there is a possibility for improved understanding. When you're talking to a robot which doesn't understand you, that's a pretty hard barrier.
It's real.
Wouldn't that only be the case if there is a huge disparity in wealth and income between spouses? If professionals marry other professionals, similar to how doctors mostly marry other doctors, that shouldn't be a problem.
What made you come of Windows Phone now Windows Mobile when it has always been fairly lacking in the app department?

Try getting an old Nexus or Google Picel they have worked okay for me but funny enough I still use my iPhone as my main work phone and barely use the Android Nexus.
That may be true, but recognize that just as in income, the quintiles are fluid. My wife (presumably) places me in the top 20% by her fitness function, while someone seeking GQ models for December's shoot wouldn't put me in the top 50%.
I really like what you said, and feel the same. I wish more people felt the same way.
Shouldn't...unless there are kids in the picture.
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More like `from a computational point of view.' Analytically, integration is much more difficult and richer than differentiation!
Information theory will hopefully give us deeper insight into the why. If we derive QM from information theory it might come at it from another angle and provide different insights. I had read about people trying this in the past, but not for a while...maybe it proved fruitless or uninteresting.
In all my 34 years so far, I've never had the desire to have my fridge conditioned in baking soda. Sometimes I feel like manufacturers really just introduce stuff to make life more complicated (and sell supplies regularly), then afterwards come up with an IoT solution for a problem that I shouldn't have had in the first place.
> Update: 4 of 535 members of Congress have computer science degrees.

But how many of the remaining 531 know how computers work?
Sadly I can't really give you any advice other than to introspect carefully and try to work out what works for you.

There are tons of videos about learning to learn and I've watched a few. Their message is as obvious as it is vague.

1. Set concrete learnig goals. Keep those goals small and reasonable.

2. Reinforce your learning with practical work.

3. Pace yourself. Take a week off every 3 or whatever works. If you burn out you'll lose more time. Similarly, learning is an expensive activity and if you're not well you can't do it effectively, so think about your health.
I would roll my own. I'm totally confident I can do it better than the OpenSSL team. Of course, I would see what I could do with GnuTLS, first.

In practice, OpenSSL should not be considered secure. At best it can be considered as a way to stop script kiddies.
Fair enough, but just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting using the words 'reuse' or 'recycle', only to be inspired by them to use the 're-' prefix.

The current logo certainly seems inspired by common recycling icons.

At the same time your first point seems to me to apply to the current name.
Thank you. I'll definitely check it out.
Does anyone do serious work on Windows 10? How do you guys deal with the forced updates (that use up all CPU and disk I/O resources), forced reboots, etc?

It seems whenever I turn on my Windows 10 machine, there's a service using all the resources.
I just installed a Ubiquity Unifi Security Gateway and AP behind my Uverse modem and turned everything off including the radios. Thank God. I'm sure I could still be MITM so running all traffic to a VPN now.
Only numerically? Analytically, differentiation is much easier and integrals are tough or impossible, unless I'm missing something.
There is real advantage to increasing the number of prospective partners, IMO, whether you subscribe to the rigorous application of the "secretary problem" or not. Even if you don't, I think broader exposure to and sense of the size of your realistic dating pool is helpful.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/16/when-...
I wouldn't be so quick to judge. It's pure research, and String Theory has pioneered a lot of new ideas that have successfully cross-pollinated into other fields. Even the LHC employs String Theorists with good reason.

Seems a mistake to write it off as "not delivering" simply because it hasn't given us exactly what we originally expected.

On a more social level, a focus on "delivering" and "impact" in pure science seems like it can be taken to the point of shooting ourselves in the foot. Think of all the discoveries from pure exploratory research that we recognized as useful only after the fact.
Dating on the cheap isn't hard at all. The problem is dealing with a potential partner that expects to be treated is the problem.

That being said I've had women friends of mine loose their mind when they hear that I don't pay for the girl on dates I go on.
I just returned my EdgeRouter for a USG. I had no idea this was possible. Damn.
A Texas congregation dries out its church, then cries and sings about the water
Ask not how much customers are willing to pay for it, ask instead how much data collection companies are willing to pay for customer data.
They most certainly are real proofs. However, they are a different _kind_ of proof if you mistakenly believe that only algebra can yield proofs. Provided you have the algebraic rules for the type of geometry you are working with, any geometric proof can be expressed as algebraic proof and vice versa, but the trick is to appreciate that depending on what needs to be proven, one can represent in a single step what the other takes many tedious pages of step upon step upon step. And that goes both ways of course.
Japan's birth/death rate is fairly bad, but at least their fertility rate is increasing again since 2005 after steady decline. Given the current path they look on their way to restoring a healthy birth/death ratio within a few decades.

Meanwhile the US birth rate doesn't seem to be tanking from online dating[1]. There has been some decline since 2005, but it seems to be bottoming out and is still well above 1975-1980 levels. In the grand scheme of things that's just normal fluctuation [2]. Of course 1.85 is still way too low to be self-sustaining, but Tinder doesn't seem to be the problem.

The EU fertility rate seems similarly unimpressed by the advent of online dating (being above the levels of 2000, but still uncomfortably close to those of Japan) [3].

If there's an apocalypse, it's the one caused by wide availability of the birth control pill. That really upset out demographic pyramids. Online dating meanwhile doesn't seem to have any measurable impact so far.

1:https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...

2: http://www.prb.org/images12/us-fertility-figure1.gif

3: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
Uverse is a residential DSL service offered by AT&T in the US.
> order to reap M&A tax benefits while squeezing the engineers.

This is true also of companies that are taken over by private equity firms, although that is probably common knowledge by now. e.g. every single one in my team at Rackspace has left for a different role (all at different companies, all at different times) after being acquired by PE firm.

Sometimes I wonder how the engineers can't see this coming. Sure there are cost savings to be made by streamlining product offerings, cutting the "recreational budget" etc (i.e. money for office parties). But the biggest cost center for tech companies are its employees (probably that and real estate).
At my job in our division we use Slack, anyone outside uses company email to get a hold of us. I'm of course speaking of work. Out in the real world with friends and family, everyone has Facebook, so it's as easy as that. I can also just text / call them. I think Discord is probably the best way to create "Group chats" everyone can just join without even having an account, and you can use voice chat or text. I've never had issues making a new Discord and linking someone to one, they always just join and it rarely dies out.
It very much depends how it is taught. When I took it, it was very focused on using only the building blocks you were given. Step one: apply theorem 1.2b; step two: apply theorem 1.4a; etc. It was barely more than a search through the space of operations given. The statements proven felt trivial and the proofs needlessly convoluted and rigid.

Whereas in calculus and algebra and analysis and number theory, the proofs often had different paths to prove them or different constructions/descriptions and the things we proved felt substantial.
> consider the 2+ billion people worldwide without access to payment networks

Why is a blockchain a good solution for this problem? Operators like M-Pesa have made digital payments mainstream in underbanked Kenya, without any crypto. Seems like the hard problems involve cash-to-bit conversion, building up a network of users, and building trust. None of these are fixed by Bitcoin.