skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you afford buying Apple stock and hope to make $500 a month with the stock is already so high?

Why do you bring up the straw man of buying individual stocks? Trying to get clever about picking stocks and when to buy/sell is directly contrary to the course's advice. Nobody but you seems to be recommending a non-diversified approach here, and you seem to hold some strange ideas as to the historic performance of various asset classes.
By "let them get away with it", do you mean handed them your money in exchange for goods? This isn't their fault....just saying.
Currently, most [EDIT: many] people's share of the GDP is (mostly) their income from labor. Y Combinator / Sam Altman worries that increasing automation will make many people's job obsolete; merely lowering taxes on the salary of a McDonald's worker won't help if said worker will soon be unemployable.

(Whether this will actually happen is a separate topic; but there's a reason why Sam Altman doesn't just propose your tax-the-rich scheme.)
I just tested it and it works with icecat mobile but not Androids default browser. Which browser are you using?

Also, I haven't optimized for mobile with regards to "arrow keys" not being a thing on the cell phone. I'll probably have to add arrow buttons that are visible only on the cell phone or something. Perhaps a swipe...
Most computers have a fan that blows the discarded bits out of the CPU. Some of them are built fanless though so the bits just radiate away...
The drawback of taxing wealth is that it distorts markets, it discourages saving.

EDIT: Can't comment ("You're posting too fast, blah blah blah"). Here are some replies to the comments bellow:

> It's encouraging people to make their money be productive instead of stashing it under a mattress.

When you have money in the bank, you're effectively lending most of it to other people. Your money is "productive", which is encouraged by the interest.

> Everything distorts markets. The question is how to distort markets into providing the best outcome.

Neutral tax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_tax) doesn't. But of course, market distortion is not the only or primary factor in policy decision-making.
>We've seen what happens (Trump, Brexit, etc.) when large sections of society retreat to personalised echo chambers.

I can't tell if you're talking about pro-{Trump,Brexit} or anti-{Trump,Brexit} supporters. I think there was some significant part of Trump's moderate voterbase composed of people turned off by the purity tests of the progressives and echo chambers like those manifested in /r/politics.
NEAT paper link I post a lot on HN: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf

Looks like like a "not a GA we promise" on hyper-parameter selection (which is cool if unnecessarily obtuse)
>If courses can make you wealthy, we won't be having this conversation?

Oh well, I think people will agree that following the advice in courses in reputable universities, perhaps, makes people wealthy more frequently than following advice that people disagree with on HN.
> if we don’t take a radical step toward a fair, inclusive system, we will not be the leading country in the world for much longer. This would harm all Americans more than most realize.

It would help most of the other 96% of humans, though. Nationalism is fucking disgusting.
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They had great error-reporting features. If your kernel crashed, you'd know it if you were anywhere within 100 yards of it because the software-controlled fans would spin up to full blast.
Why should they? Corporations are licensed sociopaths. That's by design, it's not a bug, we get a lot of value out of the regulated sociopathy.

If you're against regulation yet expect companies to work towards the higher social good regardless of profit motive, prepare to be disappointed on both counts.
Maybe the question is: who will employ the people in these areas where employment is low and the level of poverty is high? And what will those employers be doing that generates enough income to employ these people?

Your comment hints that the government (federal or state) will be the employer and the work will involve public works of some kind. So far, neither have been interested in actually doing these kinds of projects despite the need. Maintaining such project is also a concern: in an area where the income of the population is tied directly to public works projects, what happens when these projects come to an end and the population returns to unemployment?

The current regime explicitly excludes those who do not have income. Whenever we talk about helping people in poverty in the US, we inevitably circle back to tax breaks. If these people have little or no income to begin with, in what way will tax breaks help? If so many decisions are going to be made based on "the market deciding", how will they participate without enough income? If we look at broadband access in these areas, we'll see vendors complaining that there's no point in rolling out service if no one can afford it.

Basic income will allow these people to participate in the market and, hopefully, in their local economy. They will decided what projects deserve funding based on the way they spend their money.
I can't tell you how happy it makes me that both methods for estimating weight lost in a day work out to be almost exactly the same.
I'd love to be able to microdonate to individual pieces of content on not just The Guardian but across the web.
Trees don't sink into the ground because (a) a tree's root system is as large in the ground as it stands out of the ground and (b) the pressure of the weight of the tree is distributed across the (large) surface area of that root system.

Trees aren't light, by any stretch of the imagination. That solid mass is mostly water. Try lifting up a 1' or 2' section of a tree trunk that's 1-2' in diameter sometime.
Similarly, I'd pay for a publication that brought me news I was interested in and covered both sides of every debate, instead of obviously catering to one side or the other constantly. They'd have to cover each side well, obviously.
I highly recommend a meal tracker app for anyone who's looking to lose. I avoided it for ages. I didn't want to be "one of those people". I felt like I ate fairly well and was working hard enough, I shouldn't have to stoop to that level.

I started bike commuting over 3 months ago now, but my weight was only increasing, and I was pretty sure my diet was the same as ever -- healthy breakfast, fairly healthy lunch, healthy dinner -- mostly homemade, rarely eat out, etc. My only real "sin" was drinking, but it didn't seem to matter if I drank every night or cut back to weekends only (which I had when I started biking, working out more, and again seeing no real benefit).

So I finally broke down and started using one a few weeks ago and it's made all the difference in the world. The biggest advantage is the immediate metrics. I HATED the idea that I could work my ass off for a week or three and see my weight go up, or down, and really have no idea what was happening on a day to day basis. By tracking my meals (plus workouts and commuting between Strava and Apple Health sync), I can immediately see if I'm ahead or behind. It's the feedback I had been craving for years. Where I thought the point of one of these apps was to try to learn what's healthy to eat and to be calorically restrictive (which was unappealing.. again, I don't want to be "that guy"), it's really the realtime data that's useful.

In my particular case, I've learned I actually eat amazingly well for the most part, and it's very easy to run huge caloric deficits during the week. Without even trying I was seeing a deficit of perhaps 1500kcal/day (during the week). What was killing me was beer (on weekends, but then again, 3/7 days is almost half the days of the week) and the occasional big consumption day. You know, have a big breakfast on the weekend, a big lunch, some drinks, and pretty soon 1 day could almost kill a whole week's progress. The tracking has given me the ability to say actually, yeah, one more beer really WILL push me over the edge from a deficit to a gain. I don't really need that 3rd bagel. And so on. And given that I tend to consume more on weekends, and typically I only got a single short run in one weekend day, those weekends were just killing my progress.

On the other hand, it's made me mind snacking a bit less -- the deficits I run during the week are so big that a couple fun size bag of Skittles (we just ran out of halloween candy at work) make almost no difference in my daily progress.

I'm just starting out with it, but again, the realtime feedback has made me realize how much EASIER it's going to be than I ever expected. When I felt I had nothing left to easily cut or change, I actually found the solutions were far easier than I realized, and it's helped me to quantify things that I knew were bad but didn't really appreciate the magnitude of.

And because I no longer have to just "do my best" or a month and hope it shows up on the scale, there's no more disappointment/discouragement.
In the spirit of fiat lux would have been interesting to rope in the recent Rstional Vaccines shenanigans.
Still no word on removing ME?

Is that battle completely lost? Is nobody asking Intel for non-backdoored hardware?
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Finally someone addressed digi_owl's point that it wasn't about making it easy but that Amazon didn't clearly state the number would be recorded and saved in a database.

Most other non-Amazon shopping carts have checkboxes like "Store this credit card for future purchases" but I imagine we could make better payment solutions by pushing all risk to a QR code (instead of NF) + Apple/Android Pay + payment agreement button on the phone.
As soon as you input and use it once, it is recorded roughly forever. There is nothing to be gained from typing it every time.
"We understand flight - we can observe birds in nature, to see how flight works. The notion that aircraft capable of supersonic speeds are possible is fanciful."
>You're arguing that it's not an exponential that doesn't continue to the right indefinitely.

Kalminer's post neither assumes that nor claims it to be so.

The argument is not that an exponential growth is impossible, it is that it cannot be assumed from what we currently know, because we don't know how the problem of bootstrapping intelligence scales. In fact, the idea that exponential growth would occur over any period of time, let alone indefinitely, is speculative - which is not a claim that it is impossible.
Here's my feedback:

100M people died of socialism in the 20th century. Can we just STOP with this madness please?
A friend of mine was sick of her job and planning to quit. She's a journalist with a college degree. Her plan was to get a job at Starbucks until she could figure out what to do next.

As I see it, this is the LAST thing you should do in a situation like that. Though it's counterintuitive, service jobs can be very difficult to attain, because almost anyone is qualified to do it. IE, she thought that working at Starbucks would be easy. I'd argue the opposite: it's hard, because so many people are competing for low-end jobs.

My recommendation to her was to figure out how to do something where the demand is high and the supply is low.

My first job paid $3.35/hr, and some of the hardest jobs I've ever had paid minimum wage.
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> I think proper hormone regulation is far more sustainable than the calorie restrictions necessary to offset out-of-whack hormones.

Sure. As long as you have time to work out. Or you don't get hurt. Or you can afford to go to a place to work out (much of the US isn't even walkable).
Many top corporate executives in Norway & Sweden will evade this by "living" in Switzerland for >183 days a year.
Then why would ad-supported work instead, under the same readers?

If you can pay the bills with ads, but not your readers directly, you probably aren't providing enough value.
Titles tend to be a bit hyperbolic, I'd imagine the content of the book is a bit better.
This is one laborious read. We all know how Peter Thiel built his SV empire but there is nothing in the article which suggests the title in question. There are some tidbits under section VII. And that is the whole story about. This lines sums everything up (and probably much better title than current title):

> And in Silicon Valley, Review alumni have built an infrastructure that spans many billions of dollars in both company market value and personal wealth.
Sure there are boundaries. But the limit of these boundaries may be way above what humans are doing. Computers, unlike humans aren't limited to the domain of the physical. An AI may well be able to meaningfully organize (read: hack) all of the worlds computers because it can self-replicate, increase computing power, communicate very complex information very fast, etc. We're limited by the output of fingers and vocal chords, by the size of our brains, by imprecise and slow memory formation and recall, by the input we can get from mostly eyes and ears, computers aren't.

An AI may well be able to reach consensus on millions of hypotheses per second.
More than $4.5T in bonds bought in multiple policy regimes over years and have been halted for sometime but we can't use that as a benchmark? I suspect it has something to do with not aligning with your narrative.

How about Japan pre GFC since they started QE in March 2001[1] meanwhile CPI in japan since 2001 has remained near 0[2]. Is 17 years enough data points? Which QE regime that resulted in any meaningful inflation or wage growth would you like to discuss? I'm afraid any I'd bring up from G7 sovereigns would be marginalized due to your credentials.

Buying bonds does not help out anyone other than the rich. Artificially reducing interest rates makes borrowing easier which companies take advantage of[3] to buy back stock[4] which adds buying pressure to risk assets. Fewer shares to buy[5] helps the "E" in the P/E through financial engineering.

Who buys those corporate bonds for the juicy yield (besides the ECB & BOE)? Hedge funds & those who have disposable income that can be allocated to risky assets via pensions & mutual funds. Not part-time workers or FTE's that live pay check to paycheck which most do[6].

QE doesn't primarily benefit the rich, it ONLY benefits the rich.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#Japan_befo... (see its citations)
[2] http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/japan/historic-infla...
[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSAMRIAONCUS
[4] https://www.yardeni.com/pub/buybackdiv.pdf
[5] https://www.yardeni.com/pub/sharesos.pdf
[6] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...
I just checked and if you include the Power Usage of the Apple Cinema Display, my machine idles at just over 180W

It's a pity, because it runs quite well - always has. I have 10.4.11 and 10.5.8 on there and favor Tiger.

I have been trying to sell it, but obviously nobody wants it. On the other hand, i still have Ableton Live 7 and Logic installed with all my plugins, GB's of Samples and loops on it and I am having a hard time letting go the ability to open my old tracks...I know I will never need to, but I think I'll always keep it for that reason.
>I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual share of the US GDP.

This is an odd way to phrase it. GDP is a measurement of consumption (which is taxed), investment (which isn't taxed until it gains), government expenditure (which is often the action of sharing wealth itself), and net exports (which actually does make sense to share). I think that you want to make more of a direct correlation between a country's wealth and its citizens' wealth, but this is not a great framework for it. I don't know what is, but you should talk with some economists to dive further into this thought.

In general, I'd criticize this for being too vague. The topic you're trying to conquer could maybe be genuinely addressed by Richard Rorty doing a very well funded 5 year research and philosophical study. An investment manager just writing a few words about what is going on in his gut doesn't really do it for me, especially when so much is hand wavy and imprecise, and what is specified (some benchmark to GDP) doesn't really make sense.
Lets just kill ourselves then, why wait til tomorrow to Make The World A Better Place
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Not worth it. If you excercise hard for an hour daily you can triple your rate of breathing during that hour. So you get 26 instead of 24 hours of usual fat burning.

Not much of a difference. Skipping some food can do much more.
I get it that Peter Norvig is a very smart programmer. But can someone explain to me - like a farmer to his cow - how do these resources differ from typical programming challenges found on the web ?

How will these make me a better programmer ? Is each designed to teach a different programming concept or technique ? Are they useful in fields lower than machine learning or AI ?

What's the benefit of a program that detects palindromes ?
> It's extremely rare to live on 25k for your entire life.

Not where I'm from or from what I've seen.

And my point is that you can't save that amount of money on that sort of salary.
Something very similar was tried in Russia after the fall of communism, as voucher privatization. The vouchers were immediately bought up at a discount and concentrated wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs.

A similar dynamic led to massive pyramid schemes in Albania, which badly eroded public trust in government.

A common thread in Altman's proposals for a better world are their ahistorical presentation, as if no one had ever tried experiments like universal basic income, voucher privatization, planned cities, or the other pet ideas he has backed. If YC wants to experiment with social transformation, it's behind time they hired some adults who know sociology and history, and can put some guard rails around these ideas before they're backed with serious money.
Because the problem with weight loss is not losing weight, it's losing weight while staying productive / not feeling like shit.

And that is more complicated than 'eat less, move more'.
It's pretty difficult to double that number. Can you really double your metabolism without ill effect? Or without massively changing your lifestyle?

The normal expectation is maybe 10-25% change. Any more than than would require things likes 8 hours of exercise per day.
The personal cost it would be for me (time from family) to continue to grow Code Sponsor on the side is not an option. I love open source and want to see it be sustainable for developers, however, I can't do so anymore at the expense of my family.
In what sense is it "American equity"? This seems like an idea that superficially makes sense, but really doesn't.
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This was not a serious Anandtech review! It was funny and full of hyperbole. From our nice position 14 years later it is amazing how much power draw we had to tolerate back then.

To me it read like an affectionate piece, not a harsh critique.

That case was a beauty.
Lithium Ion batteries are generally charged using a two step process of constant current then constant voltage.
https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/techzone/2012/nov/consta...
If 80% is the set point to switch over from constant-current to constant-voltage, then yes, the charge rate will drop continuously until it reaches full charge.
I'm not a fan of Milo either, but the article just reeks of slacktivism. It's just a angry rant that doesn't offer anything new.
Why did Thiel not just bring a lawsuit himself if he was truly being defamed? I don't see the how he is justified in hiding behind someone else's lawsuit. Seems cowardly to me; not a crime but speaks to his character.
The same on Linux...? One can dream.
That justice is not blind to personal wealth is a travesty, not something to celebrate.
So? Are we assuming these things are 100% off consistently? If what you care claiming is true, there should be wide swaths of people on bodybuilding forums raising hell about how inaccurate nutrition labels are. But for anyone counting calories, it seems to work just fine.
Staines is a piece of work but very well connected. Conspiracies, yes, but not conspiracy theories. He's as establishment as a libertarian blogger could hope to be in the UK.
I'm not sure to whom or what you are responding.

The book I linked to is a couple hundred pages long, explores moral and practical issues, and has almost 20 pages of notes and citations. Far from attempting to "kill the discussion", which is in fact what your blithe comment is attempting, it explores the topic of inequality in a uniquely deep way.
I get your frustration but the answer is less money.
There's a lot of talk about various services being vulnerable to dns leak tests or not. Which I think is slightly funny, since you're WAY more likely to suffer data leaks via the innumerable ways your browser can do it.

For what it's worth though, a modern openvpn configuration can beat it handily. An example of a service that passes with flying colors is ProtonVPN, which I just checked last night since they've got a crazy discount going right now.
I would argue that people without money lack power and are pretty much excluded from the political system. They often live in areas where the state level policies are making it difficult to vote (shorter voting hours, fewer polling places, more documentation requirements). Giving them income provides them the ability to become more involved.
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I did similar a few years ago. Dropped from 172lbs (78kg) to 139lbs (63kg) in 5 1/2 months. Near 21% weight reduction in body weight, just by counting calories and walking (granted, quite a bit). There definitely isn't a "wall" you encounter when losing weight. I tracked everything I ate (often to the gram) and it felt like little more than basic arithmetic.

Had a friend take notice, so he took it up himself. Dropped the best part of 60lbs (27kg) over the course of the year. Very different diet, but again tracked everything he ate (again, often to the gram) and lifted weights instead of walking. He was baffled with how simple it ended up being, but was pleased with himself nonetheless.
"Well I guess that I implicitly expect opinionated front page HN content to come from someone whose opinion is more informed than mine."

Maybe not. But he is more informed on this subject than the average HN reader. Or was HN created just for you?