skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the IPO is supposed to work this way.

After the IPO, all bets are off. It's just traders, machines, and ego's trading exchanging among each other.

Once upon a time, having a share of a company always meant you were getting a share of their revenue (dividends). Now, it's primarily hoping there's a bigger fool. Which 99% of the time there is because a lot of us put money into the stock market without consciously investing (ie. 401ks)
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Now it seems the baton has passed over to EU who now want to impose their world view on eastern Europe with the carrot and stick of economic cooperation. Time will tell if their effort is equal folly.

That's not to deny China as well as Russia take opportunities to push their own visions.
Regarding lisp, he made a post about language choice here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815

I think Lisp still has an edge for larger projects and for applications where the speed of the compiled code is important. But Python has the edge (with a large number of students) when the main goal is communication, not programming per se.
In terms of programming-in-the-large, at Google and elsewhere, I think that language choice is not as important as all the other choices: if you have the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement, then many languages will work for you; if you don't have those things you're in trouble regardless of your language choice.
Thanks for the help. My German is very rusty!

And that's an interesting note about the specific ambiguity about how something is done. I think the difference in English is that a verb like "to go" is already extremely general. That is, "to go" encompasses pretty much any method of "going", and one would use a more specific verb to relay a more specific method, like "to walk" or "to drive" or "to take the train". But there's not always a general verb to fit the situation.
I still haven't found anything that can render code as nicely as a good bitmapped font on a non-HiDPI display can look. I do sometimes code on a retina MacBook Pro, and it's OK, but it's nowhere near as nice to look at as a good non-smoothed coding font on my 110 ppi desktop display.

Obviously, different people will have different tastes here.
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??? To forego college and come back later.
Compare to: Maude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_system
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It's extremely rare to live on 25k for your entire life. That's a pessimistic assumption.

My point is that even if you do make that for your entire life, you can still get by and build a secure retirement.
Sadly, while Murdock's people made the WSJ less of a quality paper, it's one of the few that still makes money, and that probably wouldn't have been the case without the changes.
There was recently an article about a study on the prevalence of hookworm in is US south[0]. It seems to me that basic income could go a long way towards resolving this issue. One of the examples cited in the article involved a trailer park where they pumped sewage into open pools. If every member of the park was getting some form of basic income, the state could require the trailer park to install a septic system and the trailer park, in turn, could charge it's renters more and put in the system.

Currently it sounds like a blood from a stone situation: no one has any money, so requiring the park to install a sanitation system would simply cause it to file bankruptcy, likely with no change of any kind.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15179440
> Every smart businessman since the stone age has tried to do the same thing.

[Citation Needed]
A Poor Man's Artificial Intelligence
Not much traditional engineering jobs going in the UK though I did see a ground Worker team leader post advertised locally for more than th developer role :-(

Btw Ground working is the PC term for Navvies
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NPR podcast episode touching this question:

https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kuow/audio/2017/11/PRIMED_Episode4_0.... (Is Amazon your guilty pleasure?)

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/557820907/prime-d
There are two orthogonal concepts that often get tied up in this topic. One is passive income. The other is full time work. Finding, validating, and building ideas for a passive income product/process can be a full time job. Along with providing customer support and improvements and growing the customer base, it probably is...and that's a good way to spend time while waiting for the next validated buildable idea.
Absolutely not. There's no such thing as individually made profits that don't rely on a ton of collective factors. It
s not stealing if it wasn't yours in the first place. It's ours.
For QPs it looks like. Mosek works really well for SDPs. However, it converts QPs to SOCPs before solving them. This slows down a lot the timings.
I'm curious what that function was? In PowerPoint especially the last time I used something that wasn't on the ribbon was years ago. What were you trying to do?
Some ways to make money on the moon.

1. Oxigen factories for Mars shuttles. Although Musk's vision for Mars makes sense as it is, it becomes much more economical if you add oxygen production on the Moon. You can manufacture the oxygen locally on Mars (via the Sebatier process), but you need some factories to do that. It's going to be much cheaper to build much larger factories on the Moon, and ship the oxygen on Low Mars Orbit. There are lots of numbers you can look at, but here's a quick comparison. The BFR second stage, planned to weigh 2100T, will be able to deliver about 170T of payload to the surface of Mars and about 980T to the surface of the Moon (almost 6 times as much). It's going to take much fewer trips to build a factory on the Moon, plus, if anything breaks, you can ship a replacement in days, rather than months or years.

2. Build solar panels on the Moon and ship them to Mars. In a few decades it will be cost competitive with building and shipping from Earth. Compared to building locally on Mars, it will probably always be cheaper.

3. Build nuclear rockets (not missiles) [1]. It's unlikely we will have the appetite to launch such rockets from the Earth in the next 50 years or so, due to the risk of breakup during launch. On the Moon however, everything above ground is continuously exposed to massive radiation (mainly from the Sun), so a nuclear fallout will not change things too much.

If we ever want to do true deep space exploration, we need to move beyond chemical rockets. The Moon can help us get there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket
>I have no doubt that we as a species today would still happily line up for this kind of awesomely stupid spectacle, most of us with our smartphones out. The difference from 1896 is we have enough regulations to prevent such a thing.

Stop being such a ConcernedMother(TM)

A good rule of thumb I like to use is replace "safety" and "terrorism" with each other and see if the argument still holds water. Most of the time it's just hoopla and people getting exited over things they don't understand or can't be bothered to reason out. It usually holds water like a net.

There's no reason you can't crash trains safely. If anything we should be doing more crazy stuff because we can plan it out more accurately today than they could back then. We can disassembly building surrounded by other buildings using explosives and air-lift robots on other planets. The reason it didn't work in 1896 but does in 2017 is because they weren't as accurate at figuring out the safe distance and the safety factors were lower back then. Run the numbers beforehand (which you couldn't do nearly as well in 1896), put the crowd a safe distance times some safety factor away and let the trains go.

>I think I'll bookmark this article for the times when people complain about how much dumber and shallower we are compared to folks from the olden days:

I'll bookmark this comment for the next time I need an example of someone killing the fun "because safety" when they really mean "because I'm too lazy to figure out how to do it safely" ;)
Wikipedia's page looks to be solid at first glance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariance
Comments are only allowed on the blog-like "comment is free" posts, which presumably they don't consider editorials part of despite them now obviously being part of the same platform technically (hence the /commentisfree/ URLs).

This isn't something specific to this editorial; it is the general rule the website works by.

(As an aside, I'd much rather Comment is Free just died, because so much of what the Guardian gets lambasted over is content posted there—and its explicit point is less editorial control over the contents. If people don't want what gets posted with less direct editorial control over content, just don't give it to them.)
Warehouses were always terrible, borderline cruel at some places. Amazon didn't invent them.
Lectures as part of course are designed to be attended after reviewing the material at least once on your own. That way you know what to look out for, and your notes will be a concise revision. Its astonishing how many students resist this fact, even when it is clearly spelled out for them.

Trying to write down everything the lecturer says is at best inefficient, and at worst a complete waste of time when you lose the thread.
For most papers, I'd say it's safe to assume the editorial staff do not make financial decisions.
Did "CMD + F" to search for "Bitcoin" and "crypto"... Your government is likely to fail, trust in numbers.
Welcome to the future, indeed! Where we do simple things in the most complicated way possible.

No more boring screen wipe, dissolve, or fade transitions from one slide to another... Now we have tumbling 3D transitions that induce vomiting to show our bullet-points and walls-of-text.

Steve Jobs was right when he said Powerpoint slides were for people who don't know what they're doing.
It's extremely rare to make only $25k/year for your entire life. Most people improve their earnings over time. Most people get married at some point.

The important point is that even under the most pessimistic assumptions people can get by AND build a secure retirement.

The "it can't be done" mentality is not justified in 2017 America.
The schools need to come up with ways to teach more material, more rigorously, in fewer years -- at least for the intelligent students with healthy upbringings. You cannot expect the school system to function as psychological counselors, remedial educators, baby-sitters, and rigorous educators all in one. Society's choice has been to take the first three and sacrifice the last one, as a result of which, students have more and more "work" imposed on them, with standards for excellence becoming steadily more inflated, without undergraduate-, postgraduate-, and professional-level outcomes improving linearly.
Sadly, it requires RTMP to push input, so the sources either need totally custom software such as OBS or Flash installed in the browser; in 2017 I was sort of hoping to see WebRTC as one of the ingestion protocols (with an API that let you just get an offer plus candidate set for a new stream and another couple APIs for setting the answer and adding candidates as they stream back).
Yeah, we've got a long list of reasons why we don't have high-speed rail. I think they're all wrong. China is just as big as the US, for example.

The next response will be something about population density. The response to that will be Spain, France, etc.

At this point (decades after we should have) I imagine it's extremely expensive to get the land for direct routes.

Our next plan is to build a hyperloop so we can taken the long way to go between major cities.

China will have close to 25,000 miles of rail in another decade. They're also increasing the speed. Should be a cost effective way to transport 1.4 billion people
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality."?
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Makes sense, if you’re already wealthy then you pick where to live based on where you want to live. Optimizing based on taxes seems cheap, I’d imagine they’d rather solve that by making more money.

Plus it’s not like US citizens have much choice, they have to pay the IRS no matter where you live in the world forever. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide haha.
I think that's an excellent view of the tradeoffs between the two.
Really down voted ever worked in properly run organisations with proper procedures ISO 9000 or BS 7570? even more so in parliamentary based orgs having to lug around 4 or 5 ring binders of paper gets old quickly
Usual advise is not to copy but for inspiration I kind of like this https://volafile.org/privacy
ironic comment from a throwaway anonymous account
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My backround in hardware and software validation is long and deep, so I clearly see the benefit of getting information about the test space that needs to be covered. Still, it seems like it ought to be possible to do some kind of automated test stimulus generation using what Alloy already does. I am imagining a machine-readable report in some format that is easy to feed into a problem-specific test generator script.

In a past life, I worked on automatic test pattern generation for sequential logic circuits. Which, if you want to tilt at windmills for little $return (1), is as good a pursuit as any. But it strikes me that this is a very similar problem. Given a description of a state space, create stimulus that covers it, sensitizing all the logic paths in a way that produces an observable result that differs from expectations.

(1) The central lesson of trying to sell test: Electronic Design Automation dollars are like western US water law, the first to divert wins. In the case of EDA, the up-front design tools get all the dollars, and there is hardly a trickle of money left by the time it reaches test phase.
Also, they can sell to "casual" gamers. Rent a character and just go. Don't pay for more than you use.
Things like Prime free delivery at that scale, fulfillment services, AWS were all innovative (even though I'm sure none of them were the first-ever.)
Making something easy is one thing. Forcing users to use the "easy" thing while risking customer funds, security and privacy is maleficent.
Most people make more than $12 an hour, which is great news! Not having kids outside of marriage is something everyone can do as well.
More readable version: https://gist.github.com/superMDguy/3d8b2cef1a41d49bc8ad6c454...
It's like Uber - UK public is supposed to take care of those people once the corporation discards them due to health or unplanned kids.

To add insult to injury the tax money would have to be spent once max robotisation hits as well. It's a loose-loose situation really.
Take the annual premium that your dad put into life insurance over those 20 years and plug it into http://www.cfiresim.com with these params:

Start 2017, end 2037

0 portfolio to start, leave the rest of the defaults.

0 spending on the right hand side.

Scroll down and plug the annual premium (not the monthly) in as "other income" from 2017 through 2037.

Hit the big green "Run Simulation" button at the top.

I'm guessing you'll see a much higher number than $500,000. I ran the simulation with a $12,000 premium and got an average $500k payout, but the premiums are probably quite a bit higher than that if he has a $500k cash value.
My application of Occam's razor agrees with you.
All of the examples that you cite are speculative in nature and to be a successful speculator you need to know when to exit. For example, personal computer companies were a great bet in the mid 90s but a terrible bet in the 2000s.

So my question to you is how will you know when it's time to sell cryptocurrencies? Is there a particular methodology that you're using?
*Psychology and psychiatry I meant to say
To be fair, it's a systemic problem with the economic system - it's always a race for more efficiency which often comes at the legal limit (or even worse) of exploitation. It's very hard to solve systemic problems through individual choices - unless that choice comes from very high up (ie; the working conditions at Etsy before it went public).

About the only bright part of Amazon at this point is that they clearly hope to eliminate these jobs entirely through automation - of course then we have the social issue to deal with of how we make sure the benefits of automation transfer to society as a whole and not just the shareholders of Amazon.
This is the kind of thing that could be tried on a small scale. Why is it being pushed at the national level?
I'm currently on an Amtrak train between Philadelphia and NYC.

Especially in leafless winter, the sheer uglyness of this swath of in-disrepair America is almost shocking.

Abandoned factories and houses. Lifeless downtowns. Trash along the tracks. Non-sweet graffiti.

Paying people to do nothing when there is so much to be done seems crazy to me. It's not like we have figured out how to solve these problems with AI or robots yet.

I could listen to an argument for paying people to participate in FDR-style public works programs. Building a bicycle lane network. Planting flowerbeds. Demolition and recycling and then re-urbanization or re-forestation of those crumbling factory grounds. And so many more things that would make this a better place to exist.
"$1,000 paid monthly ... by increasing the federal debt would grow the economy."

Borrowing money from my credit card does not increase my annual salary.
No idea what their arbitrary rules are, but I noticed a review by The Guardian of Swift's new album linked at the top of this article did have comments enabled. Both of these are obviously opinions, so I'm not sure what the difference is, besides the fact that one article (GP) was way more likely to receive backlash in the comments than the other.
Playing devil's advocate. I casually agree that AlphaGo Zero was valuable, but if we were to put the onus on you...

What theoretical innovations did AlphaGo Zero provide?
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"My own story of how I became a human robot could not have been darker. Shifts began in the gloom at 7.30am and ended at 6pm, long after the sun had gone down."

Oh, heavens. That almost sounds like a high school teacher's schedule.

"Two half-hour breaks were the only time off my feet"

Kind of like working in a supermarket?

"toiling for up to 55 hours a week"

The horror??

"[the warehouse] is so vast that just walking to the toilet could take more than five minutes"

Ok, this is actually absurd, and I would expect against some kind of regulation. If they don't have adequate facilities how can they expect efficient work, anyway?
warehouse work has never been glamorous. it is grunt work. in a digital age where throughput gets measured and people become numbers in a chart it is easy to lose track of what reasonable is. what works elsewhere may not be appropriate.

Amazon gets called out because they are the biggest not because they are the worst. Same reason large fast good gets called out but local diners get a pass. the drudgery and low pay may be the same but the name recognition is not.

On a side note, As for Wal Mart, they were called out for similar reasons but also both are called out because setting wage floors especially through the of min wage laws in the US affect government payouts for unionized contracts.
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I thought all neural networks had layers. Is this not the case?
This does not surprise me.
> You need readership in the millions to make this model viable

Not necessarily; for primarily online publications, operating costs rise roughly linearly with readership. I operate a donor-supported publication with a much smaller readership than the Guardian, yet we have stayed afloat for years via donations because our costs are much lower. It's a model that can work for practically any size of publication.
Who is Steve Hsu, and why are his statements, opinions, and speculation about the future of America notable? Or is he just summarizing the statements, opinions, and speculation of the historian in the ~30 minute video linked on the page?
If we can't expect people to be employed such that they can support themselves, then we'll need to look into alternatives like this.

When you say "wealth transfer", from whom to whom? In this case you could argue the transfer is from the federal government to individual constituents, I don't think you can follow the dollars further then that. IMHO, it'd be refreshing to see a "wealth transfer" the benefited that bulk of the population, rather than an elite few (i.e. banking bailout during the housing crisis).
It's not just about distractions. Laptops also encourage a note taking style where you simply are transcribing every word that the lecturer says. This is a less effective way to learn material, as you can go on "auto pilot" where the words flow from your ears to your fingers without you really having to synthesize any information or really understand it. Studies[1] have shown that this happens even when students are warned against doing this.

Hand-writing notes, on the other hand, encourages you to process the information you are hearing and summarize it into your own words, improving understanding and memory of the information.

Anecdotally, my entire school (the business school at UT Austin) banned laptops in all classrooms, and I think it was hugely beneficial to my understanding of the materials. In other, non-business classes that allowed laptops, I tended to have to spend a lot longer re-reading my notes and textbooks before I felt like I really understood the information.

1: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/taking-notes-by-hand-...
As I stated before: I don't care about why you don't like Milo.

What is important and what the news should be covering: Why are people taking a liking to him. (And do so in an impartial way without trying to fill the article with 80% hit-pieces) What is he saying and doing is catching a lot of attention? Why are his speeches resonating? How is he in existence? (Is his actions/his character in response to others)

> the society must be intolerant of intolerance

Intolerant towards intolerant extreme actions, yes. In an open society, you must be aware that people have different stances and prejudices. Closed societies can't tolerate the "intolerance". (I.e. Some countries you can't criticize the government)

> "pushing political stances"

Given this stance: I should be given the right to have my stances published in the paper. I operate the "Church of Not Wearing Pants" it is a religious organization, the article is about how the government should respect our religious existence by making pants illegal. Should that be published? It's as equally absurd as calling for a protest for someone you don't like.

> Unbiased journalism

I agree with you 100% neutral journalism doesn't happen. My problem is that unchecked journalism has given us an extreme selection of what is presented and the bias is injected into the news story from the author themselves.
Same here, I would write down everything I heard and everything I understood, and I would draw arrows connecting concepts. A given lecture would probably fill up like 5 pages back and front in a notebook. I rarely actually read the notes - everything got retained simply by writing them in the first place.
Gun pointed at face, "no sir, this is not a robbery! Clearly you must realize that it was not you who made that iPhone! What a laughable concept! Truly sir you must realize that it was never yours to begin with, and as such it belongs to me and these cheery fellows with whom I am redistributing your wealth. Robbery, pish posh!"