skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It baffles me that people think their conversations about soup, traffic and The Bachelor are worthy of protection.
I really don't remember this one. Granted I was young then but Lenin being a mushroom is something I would have remembered.

It was a time when commercial advertisements, tabloids, rumors like that were starting to become popular and people who haven't dealt to seen those things before were really fooled into believing them.

They were used to government propaganda and were inoculated and skeptical against that alright. Lenin being a mushroom, or the story about scientists who drilled the deepest borehole and hit hell and a creature with red eyes popped out of there. Or aliens landing. Or anyone remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Kashpirovsky? people were glued to their TV waiting for their diseases to be cured.

There was also other more insidious propaganda from years before manufactured by KGB. It had a department devoted to planting fake stories in western media to undermine credibility of Western countries. One evil one they created was that AIDS was created by the American scientists to kill black people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_INFEKTION
Poetry of World War II
I think it's such crap. Who care's if they stole or broke something under the radar?
The last sentence says it all. Its not that there is no market for GE's type of skills, its that there are competitors from other places. That includes people located in the primary growth market footprint, of Asia. So GE would be competing with European and North american salary and cost models, against people every bit as good (and they are) but from a different cost model, and even if you equalize for that the asian suppliers can deliver onsite for less, because they are constructing locally.

Look outside Asia. Who is investing in Africa? yep. China. They build roads, rail lines, power networks, in return for the coltan.

GE as an IPR company doesn't need the same number of people as GE as a build-and-ship company. GE will continue to exist as a bespoke engineering design entity. Maybe GE is becoming ARUP?
Except don't most crypto currencies have transaction fees as well? Ones which can be far, far more than credit card ones (See: Valve dropping BTC from Steam).
Uhm, towards a highly efficient system? Why do I need to pay the same premium as someone who eats fast food 3 times a day and downs 4 gallons of Coke and smokes in between?
For people already used to org-mode + curl (or any CLI tool), I highly recommend using those together when exploring an API (granted, this involves throwing simplicity out the window)

:PROPERTIES:
:header-args: shell :var PASSWORD=not :var USERNAME=narb :var AUTH_URL="nova.example.com:5000/v2.0/tokens"
:END:
...
#+NAME: get-openstack-token
#+BEGIN_SRC shell :cache yes :results verbatim
export DATA='{
"auth" : {
"tenantName": "'"$TENANT_NAME"'",
"passwordCredentials": {
"username": "'"$USERNAME"'",
"password": "'"$PASSWORD"'"
}
}
}'
curl -s $AUTH_URL \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data "$DATA" | jq -r ".access.token.id"
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS[be67...]: get-openstack-token
: deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef

...
#+BEGIN_SRC shell :var AUTH_TOKEN=get-openstack-token
curl -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN: $AUTH_TOKEN"
...

Not to discount tools such as postman / insomnia or other built-in editor tools like restclient-mode, they are all fantastic tools

Some quick reasons why I found this works best for me:

* Org-mode is already great as a dedicated note-taking tool

* This is immediately compatible with existing CLI examples or output from tools that offer 'export as cURL' -- this is especially useful if I want to reverse engineer an api request by browser is making

* Easy to export to an html/wiki document for immediate consumption by others with working CLI examples

* Composable with other CLI tools like jq and xmllint

* Plain-text files are easy to version control
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A lot of people are eventually going to lose a lot of money I predict.
I'm still skeptical about super-human-intelligence AI too. But we can't stop this and need to think about how we can live with them peacefully.
I mean they should at least say how much the creator will receive, and how much he won't (patreon fees + credit card fees, I don't care about the details).
I was on the New Direction VLCD. 3 shakes (mocha only -- the rest were awful, but even months after stopping the diet, I still love the mocha) per day, 200 calories each. It's expensive as hell and only available via medical providers, but it worked exceptionally well. I saw my doctor every two weeks for a check-up and did monthly blood work to ensure that everything was still going well; there's a not insignificant risk of gallstones and other risks with such severe weight loss.

Overall, I went from somewhere over 400lbs (my scale wouldn't go above that) to 280lbs in around 9 months; my wife went from 258 to 198lbs in the same time. After she became pregnant, we fell off the bandwagon and both regained a decent amount (I'm around 330lbs now) but plan to start back on New Direction as soon as she gives birth, any day now.

I don't know if it would reverse diabetes for anyone but me -- there'd need to be more done to study this, for sure -- but I can absolutely say it saved my life. I frankly can't wait to get back on this diet.
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American culture. No long term planning or commitment. People are disposable. Following the latest fad, always.
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Can you be more specific about "noticeable performance hit"? A whole lot of work has been done to avoid "noticeable performance hit", so I would be curious about a reproducible case for this to find out the cause.
I am not sure I get how the risk is limited with a future. If the price goes to $1m when you traded at $16,000, you will have to make a $984,000 margin call payment (+margin).
This paper suggests that increasing vitamin D intake from 800 IU/d to 2000 IU/d doesn't increase the risk of falling over and fracturing a bone.

I wouldn't call that especially relevant, and it's definitely not an opposing view.
People who have funds on both the Futures exchange and normal Bitcoin exchanges can arbitrage for free profit.

This could create some 'tail-wags-dog' behavior, but at this point it is anyone's guess how this will play out.
Not to demean him, but Subutai also had massive technical advantages with his mongol horse archers. He pretty much did everything else well though, not just tactics but strategies including psychological intimidation, adoption of opponents technologies, and just plain smart strategic thinking.
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> Because a mammal cannot be a plant.

But mushrooms aren't plants.
If you've ever stuck your head up high enough, and invited the ire of the big boys, you would know that this dude is preaching the gospel.
Edit: Oops. I misread you the first time. Maybe my comment is no longer relevant.

But you chose to accept that job. The actor on TV isn't being treated unfairly because he/she has to lie and say they're a detective, or whatever. I don't see why the model is being mistreated because her role is software company employee.

If anyone is being mistreated by the lie, it's the person being lied to, who is, you know, being lied to. That said, this is a balance between having a fun party, and possibly feeling dumb when it turns out the girl you thought you were flirting with is actually a model hired to entertain you. I think it's up to those companies, the employees, and the models, to strike the right balance.
So if the blockchain evolved such that it took 2 or 3 hours for a transaction to clear, and cost, say, $5,000 then during the same 2-hour block Goldman could let A sell 50,000,000 pretend bitcoins to B, B could sell 25,000,000 pretend bitcoins to C, and 25,000,000 pretend bitcoins to D, then the price could move up (or down) and A could buy back 25,000,000 from C and 25,000,000 from D, so that A, B, C, and D have the same number of virtual bitcoins that they started with - but the exchange could have resulted in a transfer of net actual dollars between A, B, C, and D - without incurring up to 50 million * $5,000 = $250 billion in transaction fees?

Where even though this net transfer happened, all of A, B, C, and D think that it was fair and what they wanted? (I call them "pretend bitcoins" because they don't need to be reflected in the blockchain - the transaction of 25 million pretend bitcoins in motion aren't reflected in the blockchain.)

feel free to correct me if I'm very wrong.
> Run like hell, even though it means abandoning your giant flatscreen TV

In this analogy, a steady diet of disaster shows has already convinced you that running like hell is pie-in-the-sky thinking and quite impractical, so anything you hope to do has to be prefaced with the acknowledgement that you can only manage a slow walk, and even then you can only expect to move a maximum of 15 meters.
The Toyota Way is, as I understand it, much more closely related to Plan-Do-Check-Act, empirical, metrics-based approaches in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other optimize-a-figure-of-merit methods (a lot of which are anchored in approaches championed by W. Edwards Deming and other contemporary advocates of empirical/statistical process control.)

Agile philosophy is loosely similar in that it has a “do what works without dogma” core, but has much weaker focus on actual concrete measurements and empirical validation, which is one reason why despite its fundamental (in the Manifesto) opposition to canned, one-size-fits-all process that isn't adapted to the particular context, it devolves into a lot of that—without a cultural value of empirical measurement of outcomes, social proof and “this is the way to do it because this is what other people who succeeded were using”, or “this is the way to do it because it comes from <authority figure> who makes <abstract argument> and/or gave <subjectively appealing presentation>” become the bases available to make decisions on how to implement the vague ideals of the Manifesto. And also why it can be particularly hard to sell to an organization that does believe in changing process based on a specific, testable hypothesis about improvement in a key measure.
My bad, thank you. As expected, I pay a bunch more under both these plans.
Another one, from the Australian 60 minutes.

http://skepdic.com/carlos.html

"'Carlos' was the name of a 2,000-year-old spirit allegedly channeled by José Alvarez when he toured Australia in 1988."

The hoaxing presenter (Richard Carleton) did not even tell his co-hosts and they were pretty mad at him.
The approximation is particularly good for sin(x) because the next term in the Taylor series, f''(0) * x^2 / 2, happens to be 0. So the error is O(x^3) rather than the more common O(x^2).
Yeah, true. Though there are definitely parts of the development process that are recurring. E.g. processes for code review, testing, etc. These are the areas the article focuses on as well. Since ultimately the software is developed by this design process, improving this design process _should_ lead to better software as well (whatever way you define better).

For the actual design of individual pieces of software, I wonder if something like Toyota Product Development System is a better fit.
It's definitely true to some extent. People with mineral deficiencies sometimes start eating eat rocks and dirt.
This is really clean, how did you do this?
He said he didn't believe in it and wouldn't allow his traders to trade it (i.e. to make a market). But passing client orders is a different matter.
Concerning togas, Wikipedia says: "it was hard to put on, uncomfortable and challenging to wear correctly, and never truly popular. When circumstances allowed, those otherwise entitled or obliged to wear it opted for more comfortable, casual garments. It gradually fell out of use, firstly among citizens of the lower class, then those of the middle class. Eventually, it was worn only by the highest classes for ceremonial occasions, and by the 5th century AD, it had been replaced as official costume by the more practical pallium and paenula."

And "It was considered formal wear, and was generally reserved for citizens."

One story suggests that even patricians, no longer in office, did not wear togas all the time:

"Various anecdotes in Livy's history of Rome reflect the toga's symbolic value. In one, the patrician hero Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, retired from public life and clad (presumably) in tunic or loincloth, is ploughing his field when emissaries of the Senate arrive, and ask him to put on his toga. His wife fetches it and he puts it on. Then he is told that he has been appointed dictator. He promptly heads for Rome.[34] Donning the toga transforms Cincinnatus from rustic, sweaty ploughman – though a gentleman nevertheless, of impeccable stock and reputation – into Rome's leading politician, eager to serve his country; a top-quality Roman."

By comparison, the entry for "tunic" says: "The name derives from the Latin tunica, the basic garment worn by both men and women in Ancient Rome, which in turn was based on earlier Greek garments that covered people around their waist." The Greek garment was called a chiton.

You may also be interested in a sarong, or related clothing like a dhoti, lungi, mundu, or lava-lava. Some of the pictures from those pages shows men who are chubby around the middle.
Well, sure - but CA and NY also have very high income levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per...

We have a progressive tax system, so rich states should be paying more than they receive in federal funds.

The more relevant question is how do the Atlantic's charts look once you correct for income levels? Given that CA's returns are barely less than 1, I suspect that CA is in a situation where the tax deduction is effectively allowing the federal government to subsidize the state.
I think this is more psychologically jarring than financially jarring. It's like if Amazon turned around and said, we're making Prime free, but it's a flat 25 cents for your previously free delivery. Doesn't sound a lot, but that's a psychological barrier that'll pop up every time when you're about to order something.

Consumers really love knowing up front what they're committing to pay. Adding extra charges on is not going to help at all with adoption.
Because that's just a merkle tree.
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Banks have the advantage that if they see a huge spike in their outbound inter-bank transfers they can suspend traffic while they investigate it, and then if necessary call up the recieving bank(s) and issue a freeze on those funds. There's already established relationships and agreements for these things.

With a cryptocurrency there's nobody to call, you have to convince 50% + 1 of the mining pool to undo any major breach - which is almost certainly never going to happen.
In baseball, WAA is a measurement of wins above the average player and is actually a far better measurement for Hall of Fame worthiness. Even better is a variant, peak WAA, is a mathematical measure of how far above average players a player reached.

WAA helps you compare between those with long careers that weren't great players and those who were truly great players who had short careers. The author needs a WAA for this comparison, not WAR.
I made some "fun" investments during college: CHS Electronics[1], and Met@box[2]. In CHS Electronics I was actually up 100% at some point and entered a sell order, but changed my mind and cancelled it. Hours later the stock tanked and ultimately became worthless.

With Met@box, I was actually 99% sure that it was a scam, but I thought I could "ride the wave" and sell before it would collapse. Valuable lessons were learned.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHS_Electronics

[2]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabox
With programs like ExaGears (https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/exagear-desktop-... and https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-server/) and given a Linux environment, ARMv8 could be very powerful to replace x86 (not yet x86_64 since it's patented). You can even run Wine in the VM in near real-time. I wonder if ExaGears could be open sourced one day so we could see what magic it does to make it so fast.
No, it's simple misunderstanding of randomness. Black swans are unpredicatable unmodelable events.

"Resulting" just means misjudging well-modeledrandom events. It's thinking that if you win a small prize on a lottery ticket, that buying the ticket was a good choice _because you won_. While in reality, it was more likely that you'd lose.
Mining bitcoin without specialized hardware is far from profitable (you'll pay 10x+ in electricity what you would buying directly from an exchange).

Altcoins may be profitable, or at least closer to market rates.

Doing work for a company that pays employees in Bitcoin is probably the most straightforward way.

You're going to have to either invest time or money, nobody is giving away free Bitcoins anymore. Some altcoins have giveaways, but I don't think the ones handing out stuff for free are likely to appreciate much.
they both use a tree search, though it's a different tree search algorithm.
I have never been a fan of theories that give agency to superhuman phenomena.

In Sapiens, the author argues that wheat enslaved humanity into producing more of it.

Sure it's an interesting way to think about this, but it's not what is happening. People grow wheat because it has a lot of nutriments and can be kept in grains, and can be harvested twice a year.

Similarly you look at your phone because you find it useful not because it enslaved you into doing it.

Sure you lose some things when you have the worlds knowledge at your fingertips, but you win a lot too. When you had to look up the GDP of France in a book, it was harder to have fact-based arguments...

Anyway, I think General AI can become a very bad thing, but we shouldn't confuse it with "phones are controlling our lives" cause that simply isn't true.
If you're trying to replace VB6, the only UI framework to consider on .NET would be WinForms, anyway. Which is obsolete, but still supported.

I don't see how Delphi + VCL is any easier than C# + WinForms, especially given that the latter is a GC language.
Interesting find.
It is nice, could do with some better support for smaller screens. I enjoyed that the authors names shifted position when updating the page. Nice touch.
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AFAIK this is a simulation, not real quantum machines.
The problem is that _every_ _single_ _program_ has to have its configuration files rewritten to take nix or guix into account, and every sysadmin has to know how to use the new nix or guix way.
What's impressive compared to patreon (and the latest policy change) is that they take absolutely no fees. The only fees are transaction fees, totally transparents.

They are financed only with their liberapay account, where you can pledge money.
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> That makes an assumption that there aren't limits on intelligence regimes and that you can just recursively improve intelligence without much friction.

No it doesn't. AI just needs to get smarter than humans for it to be dangerous to us. The costs C and C' the parent comment described can include an upper bound on the cost of the self-improvement needed to achieve each respective goal.
What does IPR, ARUP, and coltan mean?
You are right, on re-reading the intent is clear.

In my haste, I read that as "there is nothing stopping them from being pro-consumer, so there is no reason to assume that the judgements favour the businesses" for some reason.
> However, as one bulks up around the middle as they mature, pants have difficulty staying up and fitting right. Tightening one's belt to compensate is not comfortable. Suspenders may solve some of that

The trick is to pull the pants up high enough that the belly itself holds them up. I do this with my pajamas but I'm unfortunately not old enough to pull of this look in public. The stereo type of old man having there pants pulled up to their armpits has a practical origin.
This looks useful, thanks!
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You need to see this discussions

"Decentralized credit rating on the Blockchain"
https://us.teamblind.com/article/decentralized-credit-rating...
$0 or $150K

If it survives another 10 years, will probably reach parity with value of all global gold holdings. This would put price per coin at somewhere around $150K.

There is a real (but decreasing with time) chance that Bitcoin will fall to near $0 - from extreme regulatory pressure, a security flaw in core protocol, or a clearly superior cryptocurrency taking market share.

Will be very interesting to see what happens if it breaks above $150K. At that point, the bubble starts to be 'nation-state' sized, and has the potential to cause a global recession as it sucks value out of other asset classes. Seems implausible, but never say never with Bitcoin. For the past 5 years I've been saying "Someday bitcoin might hit $10K!", and it arrived much sooner than I expected.
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The banking industry is many many orders of magnitude more than Bitcoin. It's extremely unlikely.
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If you’re talking about the 1% they aren’t worried. The banks may have regulations, but most banks are owned by the Rothschild family. They can invest however they want since they are individuals.
So a box with a unlocked padlock on it?
Not married to the syntax, just wanted to highlight the absence of this syntax form. The syntax used was mainly meant to mirror the existing Rust pattern syntax.

As for partial matching, other languages give warnings or errors if a pattern doesn't cover all cases.
> Fortunately for 1) (I think) it currently takes 2^512 (?) operations to break the private/public algorithm which is unfeasible to brute-force on normal hardware but a QC brings it down to 2^128

Where have you got that info? Quantum computers can break ECDSA in polynomial function of 512.

> the blockchain could be changed overnight to use a new keying algorithm.

How?
Yeah I'm not going to give my email for something that's an idea. Just put up the list of books.
There are numerous NewSpace companies with that as their business plan.
I suppose I should clarify, I would consider a basic AST the sane choice when talking about creating toy compilers as a learning experience - as opposed to creating a compiler that just reads in text and spits out assembly without any real intermediate representation. Which, there are legitimate compilers that do that (And as you mentioned, older compilers tended to work this way as well), but for learning I don't really think you get nearly as much out of doing it that way.

That said, if you want to do something more advanced or use or use something better then a basic AST, I agree go for it. But if you're actually writing the compiler for a project that isn't just a toy or as a learning experience, you're almost definitely better off just building a frontend on an existing platform like LLVM.