skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought of "trickle down economics" as an overly-rosy way of saying that we'll "grow our way out of the hole". Nevermind the 'conservatives' will never stop digging, will never cut spending, even occasionally spinning up another entitlement of their own, and only occasionally toss their people a bone by slowing existing programs' growth rate.

I don't think Reagan thought of government size as being a problem since he grew it massively. I think he did rebel against bureaucracies and waste/fraud/abuse, at least rhetorically. Ultimately, the guy was a deal-maker, and he'd happily grow the government (with military at the forefront) if he could get his stimulative tax cuts.

> Though I love throwing Reagan into the face of today's "Conservatives" they really would HATE Reagan today and his liberal ways.

He was as liberal as JFK was, which is to say Reagan was your classic "govt can do some good here"-liberal. Today's true "liberals" are cultural marxists, which ultimately makes them toxic, hence their precipitous decline recently. If the libs could drop the culture war stuff and focus on labor issues and positive right-sized governing, they'd shoot back to popularity. Nothing will improve while power comes chiefly from dividing people and the hatred continues to flow.

Reagan was a moral man and he was a good orator, making him a fine spokesman for America and raising our stock worldwide. That he could reassure and comfort people was the best part about him; the rest of Reagan was muddled goods and bads.
I went back and read it again, though I had found it a waste of time the first time through. I think the third paragraph is more clear: "We just don’t know those forces well enough to even name them"

I feel like he's straining too hard to make the analogy with physics, which doesn't seem very beneficial. Spoken as a fan of both physics and software, the analogy with physics just doesn't seem to offer much additional perspective on the target field (software).

Civil engineering seems like a better analogy (constructed artifacts involving engineering tradeoffs that must work in a complex environment), or biology (evolving systems responding to selection effects in complex, evolving environments).
Similar to this, a few years back my then-roommates and I created a fake restaurant at our apartment, named after the nickname we gave to our kitchen. It was meant to be our own inside joke and we gave it a couple reviews ourselves.

The 4.5 star review caused us to get some walkup traffic, at which point we thought it was too real and canceled the experiment, although the page is still live if you link to it through our review history.

The best was a group of young 20 somethings who showed up and were really good-natured about the joke, so we invited them up for a beer and they dropped us a 5-star review.
Looks like the end of Nicehash, how much did you lose?
None of the people I know are in massive debt, therefore I have trouble believing that anybody is in massive debt.

Does that sound like a reasonable assertion?
Thanks for the analysis.

There's a project currently that emulates AlphaGo Zero using distributed computing / crowdsourcing: https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero . You can run it on the browser too and it will submit the games after: https://ntt123.github.io/leela-zero/

Hope such a project will be available soon for the chess variant.

Or maybe Deepmind will release this as a SaaS product?
You are right on neither point. Education is neither necessary nor sufficient to keep people from desperate situations. And taking a payday loan often makes the situation better. Always in the short term, sometimes in the long.

Expecting somebody to let their family starve or become homeless rather than taking a payday loan is ridiculous.
Yes, I was heading in that direction, while having misgivings about using terms like area. The advantage is that its a familiar term, the disadvantage is that its really not the same physics (if there is one to be found). Thanks for the links
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Thank you for your accurate answer!
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"We should close the barn door after the horse is a county away" is not a useful, meaningful, or insightful point. So why make it?

And, worse, it's wrong besides. Plenty of well-educated people screw up. Plenty of well-educated people are suckered by scams of all types, even people who literally do know better. Life is complicated, it comes at you fast, and one mistake, when you are not so fortunate as to have the kind of (tech) jobs that let you make mistakes, can be profoundly destructive.

See my post elsewhere in this thread for more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15863152
Mecklenburg County hacked, $23K ransom demanded
Look up "data science" positions wide range of applications and needs depending on the company
White matter is the deep part of the brain. Microwaves wouldn't penetrate more than a couple cm.

Personally I think something much more benign is probably the answer. Maybe someone introduced drugs into their food/water? Sometimes a noise is just a noise.
It makes Canadian dairy products rather expensive. Helping businesses collude to drive up prices and increase profits really should not be the role of government. Cartels are good for their members, but not for the rest of society.

See also, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-comme...
I think if you ever get to the point where you feel like you have to threaten to sue in order to get something fixed, you should probably just visit your local small claims clerk or civil lawsuits lawyer and actually do it.

The other thing that might work is social media shaming. Calling ordinary customer service reps has become increasingly useless over the last 40 years.
> Vlc version 4 is now shipping with the ability to cast to a chromecast, without any proprietary library.

VLC actually uses a proprietary library for it, but doesn’t ship it.

Specifically, VLC asks the OS to activate the secondary display, which leads Android to redirect this request to Google Play Services.

This feature does not work on Amazon Kindles, Replicant, LineageOS, CopperheadOS, or any other non-Google Android distributions.

Also, for full Chromecast support, you need to use
'com.google.android.gms:play-services-cast:8.3.+' – which, obviously, is proprietary.
Survivorship Bias.

I like Mr Mustache but in one interview he relieved to have made all his wealth by buying numerous properties in Las Vegas during the crisis.

Edit: I think it's here
https://www.madfientist.com/mr-money-mustache-interview/
Actually, for a person who considers themselves a good Christian ("he takes pride in being a more responsible person than his parents—paying his bills on time, going to church on Sunday, and taking care of those close to him") that threat is kind of hypocritical.

The truly correct outcome would have all the stolen money back to the victims (together with their wasted time and moral damage), and safeguards placed to make sure this never happens again. Ruining someone's life would serve no purpose in that direction.

EDIT: Since people have trouble understanding my point: it's not justice (morally or legally) to ruin someone's life. This guy isn't a hero for making a threat. He's a hero for making a change which would actually help other people.
I believe Google started this specific fight by not allowing devices on Amazon's fork of Android to have support for controlling a Chromecast. Even if they used Google's fork, they would be required to include various competing Google apps.
Seems like a horrible submarine article. "Oh look! Uber did $Thing! Get in on it now or miss out like a loser!"

Like, honestly? This is it? Uber, the "behemoth" who failed to crush the taxi industry as promised, is now somehow going to "disrupt" not just the restaurant industry, but also the credit game? Let's not forget that they actually need to start making money. Are VCs going to subsidize peoples' credit purchases now, too? Why not have them subsidize my housing as well? Why stop at ride sharing and food?! Uber all the things, right? Shame that Uber forgets that it is not and never will be Amazon.

Gonna file this one under "total horseshit"
Creating "ghost restaurants" != Bankrupting some restaurants

This article is mostly fluff and contradictions (and credit card advertising). However, it does alert to the predatory information collecting / hoarding and value of that information to the restaurant industry, however speculatively those alerts are
Seems like an opportunity to setup a one-man non-profit, crowdfund it, and have him spend the rest of his life working on something he clearly has a passion for. I imagine many netizens would chip in a few $...
Thanks for the reply. I’ll probably take a look at Dash.
Thoughts like these are what have really reduced my will to live.

If I had made a simple decision back then there's a good chance I'd never have to waste my life working again. I could have been freed by now, to live a life dedicated to whatever I wanted to do, whenever I wanted to do it.
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Sure, but the situation is already dire. What's the difference if it gets worse in three weeks? It might get worse in three weeks anyways, and at least if you take the predatory loan you'll have some money to keep the electricity on for another few days. The loan won't improve your situation, but not taking the loan sure as hell isn't going to improve it either.
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The NSA is allegedly the biggest employer of mathematicians in the US, and possibly the world -- which is troubling, considering how ethically questionable their work is.
To clarify you disagree with “an unpunished and unrepentant paedophile at the age of 30 should not be elected to office” and you actually just said that they are _improved morally your eyes by the experience_.

Just blows my mind. I can’t believe I’m on the internet arguing with such ignorant garbage.

You need to get a reality check and meet some victims mate, because that opinion is _objectively_ disgusting.
Visual Studio can now debug in prod with minimal impact
I don't see them presenting it in a negative, just a fact, and one not understood in rural areas.

If you believe in wealth distribution, then richer coastal or urban areas should help out their brethren in the rural areas and spread the money around. It's when those rural brethren then attack the better off coastal / urban folks as stealing their money that things become problematic.
If you actually want an interface and a remote, the Fire TV is typically a much better value than competing Android TV products.
No, you just armchair quarterbacked a "why don't you just" solution.
The NSA. (Really. Some of the largest employers of mathematicians.)
If you are certain it will collapse you can make a lot of money shorting it. If you are 100% sure, there is no downside.
> By the site's calculations, each Bitcoin transaction consumes 250kWh, enough to power homes for nine days.

Holy &$*%
Federal watchdog agencies and underfunded, understaffed, and overworked.

The people need replacing are the nitwits that have long since been purchased by the companies they are supposed to be protecting us from.
Hellish dystopia would at least be interesting, TBH. The current situation is pathetic. The way we're building our infrastructure is showing our worst side as a species. The capacity to screw others to get a little ahead. The total disinterest in how much aggregate damage one is causing for often very little personal gain. This is sickening to watch, and in fact it's also the same aspects that give rise to dystopian scenarios in real life.
Why the fuck do we need electronic voting.

I post this on every thread involving electronic voting and nobody has yet successfully responded.

Paper is secure by default.
Did you mean "physical replication"? Logical replication corresponds to MySQL's model, I think, whereas WAL streaming is just copying over the changed bytes as they get written to the WAL on the master database.

I like Postgres's physical replication for its straightforwardness. It's pretty easy to tell if your replica is up to date unless something really weird is going on. (undetected data corruption?).

That said, PostgreSQL doesn't really make replication appear easy, so I can understand people thinking that even a basic master-slave setup is difficult (In my experience its behaviour is much easier to understand than with MySQL). However, MySQL is ahead in multi-master user friendliness, and setting up eg. a simple galera cluster is pretty easy.

Whether an "easy" multi-master galera set up is actually production-quality is another matter entirely, but it is not difficult to get up and running.
John Oliver covered predatory lending in an episode of Last Week Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDylgzybWAw
This appears to be an issue for farmers worldwide. In India the same logic is used with "access to pesticide" substituted for "access to guns" [1].

[1] http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd16/PF/presentations/far...
Yes, a lot of this can be mismanagement at a state level. If you don't like what you're getting on a state or federal level, vote, campaign, cause a ruckus, etc.
Here's a relevant section from Deepmind's paper:

> We also measured the head-to-head performance of AlphaZero against each baseline player. Settings were chosen to correspond with computer chess tournament conditions: each player was allowed 1 minute per move, resignation was enabled for all players (-900 centipawns for 10 consecutive moves for Stockfish and Elmo, 5% winrate for AlphaZero). Pondering was disabled for all players.
The only reason misinformation can thrive in the first place is because people choose to believe what other people say, rather than slowly, but steadily, acquiring the relevant knowledge, until they can judge by themselves.

If people either a) didn’t show interest in something they don’t understand, or b) acquired the necessary level of knowledge to judge — by themselves — the validity of some concept, misinformation would be unable to survive.
Why won't the FTC pursue jail time? I think Andrew is right in not stopping, this guy perpetrated a huge fraud, just telling him to pay back money he'll never have isn't enough, he should be behind bars.
Google will be buying up the 127.x.x.x ip range before you know it /sarcasm
Yes, exactly. Be wary of staying too long - then you may not have much to (publicly) show for years of work.
Sounds like crickets you typically hear in Cuba.
HPC companies hire many mathematicians. I work with several PhDs in applied mathematics.

Another area is finance, as you mentioned. I interviewed at several hedge funds and investment banks after my undergraduate degree (in physics and mathematics).

Of course, it's not hard to go into CS for a masters or PhD which opens up many other options as well. This was more what I did.

Almost all these positions require you to be capable of both whiteboard work, along with programming. So be sure you can develop software.
It would be, although it can still be pretty weird. Damage can obviously occur far below "cooking" temperature, and it would happen below the surface- in the fattier part of the brain.

However you'd expect damage to the eyes first, since they have virtually no blood flow and are extremely vulnerable to heating. I think its way more likely that drugs are the cause of any negative effects, and while sound might have been involved it's probably related to something else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861294
They also don't use pure randomness. They very finely tune the way the drops come out. If there's a card you don't have (or that you don't have much of), there's a MUCH higher chance of finding it than a card you've maxed out, or that is at similar level to the rest of your cards.
Cozy/informal incentives may be even more sinister. At least monetary payments have a hope of being tracked or spotted by someone. A wink-and-a-nod that in the future you'll get some juicy scoop or could land a cushy job somewhere else through a mutual contact if you run some story is pretty hard to spot.
Yep, there is only me and company doesn't want to hire a new dev so hardware is the cheapest way to speed things up now and it'll still be there when we are finished.
Looking closer at the mission to "encode all Netflix video", a less idealized version involves people at Netflix and outside it, who have signed contracts with deadlines and monetary incentives and everyone wants to go first, but how many are willing to put their money where their mouth is, so to speak.

It's expensive to operate thousands of instances in AWS, so I presume there's also a relentless push internally to drive down costs.

Thanks for the link to Cook, that's fascinating. The fact that it plugs into Mesos seems quite useful!
Doesn't solve the contention issue by itself, but a reduction in maintenance costs (million mile warranty) and running costs make the shared coop model more tenable. Sorry I wasn't clear in my original post!
>safeguards placed to make sure this never happens again

Safeguards are great but there should be a penalty for bypassing them, we need to take people who commit crimes like this and throw them in prison.
Not the OP, but here are a few MIPS boards I'm familiar with in the under-$100 range.

Microchip makes a couple low-end MIPS boards:

http://www.microchipdirect.com/product/search/all/DM320103

http://www.microchipdirect.com/product/search/all/DM320004-2

When you outgrow those, you can move up to the Creator Ci20 from Imagination:
https://www.mouser.com/search/ProductDetail.aspx?R=0virtualk...
tl;dr - Google bought the .dev gTLD, specified it for internal use, and pushed changes in Chrome to require HTTPS.

Is that monopolistic behaviour?
The previous posts are presumably referring to the Amazon Dash Button: https://www.amazon.com/Dash-Buttons/b?ie=UTF8&node=106678980...
Internal combustion engines are more important than just cars. They enabled powered flight. They enabled heavy construction and mining machinery. They enabled plenty of other high-impact things in our lives. And at the very least, they don't stink as much - towns eventually drowning in horse manure was a real fear in the times just before the first automobile.

That said, we're now on the verge of switching most of ICE uses into electricity, which can be made more renewable than horses. We'll be good, if we can make the transition.
Maybe you should read some books about Cuba, the USSR, their leaders, and the twentieth century Communist movement.
Yeah, that's kind of bullshit. They send their kids to public schools and maybe public universities later, drive on public roads, use water, electricity, etc. They also have a place where they buy seed, animals, neighbors they attend church with, etc. Not to mention the markets they need to sell to.

There is some level of self-sustainment but it's a myth how 'independent' people really are.

They might be detached from the federal side of things but they still also have to interact at a state level.
I don't think subsidizing rural living a bad thing, but I do think rural people thinking "I don't get anything from the government, why should I pay taxes" is a bad thing.
>My teenage children often leave lights on in the basement of my home. "Alexa, turn off the basement lights".

I feel that this solution is in every respect markedly inferior to "Kids, turn off the basement lights." You spend more money, your house is bugged, and your kids don't learn.
You said proof of work is ABOUT ordering transactions. I was trying to say that it's not. It's used for other things: namely as a way to determine the next miner, like leader election in consensus protocols. It also adds a lot of computation on top of the transactions to show that the miner is heavily invested in the ecosystem and thus serves as an economic incentive. It has almost NOTHING to do with ordering transactions. Transactions are ordered by the blockchain, and everyone has to verify them anyway.
That's one possible theory about an event that happened in the 1890's.
Human growth is slowing and soon we'll have a population decline, topping out at 10 billion or so.
It's not really clear to me. As a paying fastmail customer, can someone still contact your support and get the recovery email address changed?
Machine learning is actually quite math-lite in comparison to "math" like PhD math. Most masters/PhD math stuff just isn't required or used in the discipline at all. You can get away with undergraduate analysis for pretty much all of it. But it builds off of undergraduate math. So in that sense, you're not really looking for a position for "mathematicans", rather a position for "data scientist" or "quantitative ...", where if you take a field and stick quantitative in front there's a subfield for it. If you search those terms you'll likely find things more in line with what you're looking for.

As for places to look, there's lots of stuff going on in the web and general computing sectors which are now making use of machine learning tools and hiring teams of data scientists. There's also quantitative biology (pharmacology), climate science, etc. disciplines, but many of them want applicants who have a PhD.

If things don't seem "mathy" enough, it's because a lot of the true math jobs and research requires a graduate degree in a math-related field. Doesn't need to be a Math/Applied Math PhD, but even CS, Physics, Climatology, Systems Biology, etc. programs set you up for a math-based career. Without trying to be demeaning, math is a very vertical discipline and the issue is that undergraduate math is really just the basic competences and most of the interesting stuff comes after, which is why many things require a lot more than a BS.
There's an actual recording of signals inducted in wires - either from soundwaves moving a magnet in a field (sound picked up by a mic), or inducted by in the wires by electromagnetic radiation, surely?

I agree it might be unlikely that one signal might induce sound in a human that sounds like the sound a recorder might record - but I don't know. I just know that it's trivial for radiation to fool sound equipment (eg: cell phone signal too close to a speaker/mic/amplifier).

However, if this is a sophisticated weapon, there might be two signals: high power that target humans, lower power that target recording equipment?
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Generally the problem with shorting is that the shorts are time limited - because it is a derivative bet, not a proper loan.

And following Keynes the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
From [1] (also note that video of this testimony is there):

> BACKGROUND:

> In September 2016, prior to the 2016 elections, the IT Subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Cybersecurity of Voting Machines”.

> In January 2017, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson designated election infrastructure as “critical infrastructure” with the intent of offering assistance to state and local election officials.
On September 22, 2017, DHS notified 21 states of Russian government hackers’ attempt to breach state systems during the 2016 election. Two weeks later, DHS announced the creation of an election security task force to enhance coordination with state and local election officials.

> On September 8, 2017, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s election supervisors directed counties to end the use of touchscreen voting machines before November’s elections, citing the devices posed unacceptable digital risks.

[1] https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/cybersecurity-voting-mac...
https://app.enviar.io/link/5d7ab6e0
This. Nothing like a lawsuit to get a company to actually respond; even if they win it, the cost of sending someone to address it is almost guaranteed to be more than if they just settled the issue.
> It's good to be ambitious, this is just stupid.

Welcome to late stage capitalism.
> 3x better?

Yes, and more, with the possible exception of schools (it's hit and miss here, same as anywhere).