skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what about people who are renting? Will they get a 300k cheque from government since people with mortgages are getting paid off? Or will renters get totally screwed over?
The contention is that the “correct” views can be openly discussed.
From abstract of a paper that is being referred to :

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877782110...

> Background: There is continuing public and scientific interest in the possibility that exposure to radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF) from mobile telephones or other wireless devices and applications might increase the risk of certain cancers or other diseases. The interest is amplified by the rapid world-wide penetration of such technologies. The evidence from epidemiological studies published to date have not been consistent and, in particular, further studies are required to identify whether longer term (well beyond 10 years) RF exposure might pose some health risk...

> Conclusions: A prospective cohort study conducted with appropriate diligence and a sufficient sample size, overcomes many of the shortcomings of previous studies. Its major advantages are exposure assessment prior to the diagnosis of disease, the prospective collection of objective exposure information, long-term follow-up of multiple health outcomes, and the flexibility to investigate future changes in technologies or new research questions.

So basically people are worried, but there isn't any evidence found that supports the theory that there is an issue.

And the study?

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/46/3/775/3038111

A total non-conclusion that talks about how to conduct a study. Oh, and people who use phones a lot might get fat. Implementing regulations or guidelines with a complete lack of supporting evidence looks to me like a complete waste of money.
I miss Brendan Eich.
There's perception for sure but crime rates are quite something else in US versus Australia or Japan.
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The author dumped a lot more than $2,000 into IOTA.

They mention buying 26,000MI at $0.85, which would be a $22,100 investment. Just 5,600MI was worth $28,000 at $5/MI.

Why anyone would put that amount into a cryptocurrency they don't find trustworthy is beyond me.
The fact that FF users are so critical is a positive feature of the community in my opinion. It's the only thing putting the breaks on Mozilla's campaign to turn FF into a clone of Chrome.
Wow, you were very quick at turning correlations into causations there. Canada also has a very low crime rate but has a very multicultural society, same thing with Singapore.

Rethoric like that could also get your case into trouble. By your logic, their monoculturalism, aversion to immigration and high work ethics created a decade of poor economic growth and deflation.

I should add that I took public transportation around Gothenburg all the time from 10 years old. Is Sweden a monocultural country with high aversion to immigration and good work ethics?
Hopefully you get the site back up soon! It is down for me at this time.
This is incorrect.

"prime numbers would be too easy to find" -- they're already really easy to find. Factoring large semiprimes is currently hard. Primality testing and finding primes for RSA keys is very easy. If the RH was proven true, it wouldn't speed that up in any practical way either.

As an experiment, assume the Riemann Hypothesis. Does that make factoring easier? No. Do we have any currently known methods of weakening RSA if the RH was true? No.

For some actual consequences of the RH:
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/17209/consequences-of-the...
Yes it’s a terrible and immoral idea. It basically means giving people with mortgages free houses. What about people who are renting? I wonder how they would feel if other people except them were given free houses from the government.

It also means rewarding fiscal irresponsibility as people who took 90-100% mortgages on big houses and could barely afford repayments are going to be rewarded while fiscally responsible people who were renting and maybe saving for a deposit down the line get nothing.
I do exactly this; my build system does its builds for most platforms inside docker containers. (I haven't figured out how to do OSX builds inside a docker container yet, but I'll figure it out eventually!)

One of my targets is SteamOS (i.e.: Linux with a particular set of pre-installed shared libraries), and the preferred build environment to target that is inside a chroot. So my SteamOS builds get built inside a chroot inside a docker container. And that was surprisingly tricky to get working! There are some gotchas to overcome around how chroots handle symbolic links inside a docker container. But I've got it all working now. :)

The big benefit is that host-OS-upgrades-for-security-purposes no longer upgrade my build's toolchain as a side-effect, potentially breaking or changing the performance of my build artifacts; it's fine to keep running ancient software inside that docker container that's just going to be wiped out in 10 minutes and never gets directly connected to the Internet anyway. And the docker image can be copied around to wherever I need it, if I need extra build workers or whatever. Once you've got the thing set up once, it's fantastic for scaling up your build server if you eventually want to do that.
This is very sad news.

I loved seeing Heinz Wolff on TV as a child for two reasons.

First, like Johnny Ball, it was great to see a quirky, odd shaped personality on TV instead of the usual slick drama school, artsy or journalist types.

For a nerdy kid like me Heinz was a wonderfully fun roll model.

Second, Heinz was German. In a country where sections of the media* still go on about the Second World War at every political dealing with modern Germany, Heinz was a well known “nice German”.

People like Heinz Wolff, Bauhaus and Kraftwerk made me a deutschophile. The irony that he came to England from Germany as a Jewish refugee is not lost on me.

*(My family lost my grandfather and two others fighting but it’s ridiculous how the tabloids still blame current generations of Germans for the past whilst pushing their own dodgy agendas).
There's a big difference between ideas that weaken minorities, and ideas that weaken majorities, because you get blowback for different reasons. When you attack minorities the people that get upset with you, are people that are worried that weakening an already weak group is a bad thing. When you attack majorities however, you get blowback from the people that are afraid to lose their power.

I agree that there are problems with not allowing people to express all kinds of ideas, but there's a big difference in the two types above: You should be more careful when attacking the already weak, for their position is already brittle.
I see kids alone in the subway in Berlin all the time. Berlin is a high-immigrant diverse city with low work and high party ethics.

It seems to me that this is more a function of having a somewhat reliable public transport network.
When I explored Berlin myself as a kid, all I had to remember was the color of the subway and the stop
I had to get off to return home. When I got lost anywhere in the city, all I had to do was find the next subway station, look at the plan and I’d find my way.
"Lightest vim config, have fun" _deconstructing it_.

- Autocommands are not assigned to one or more self-clearing group.

- Everything here assumes Linux and bash; this is utterly stupid.

- Lines 26-28 demonstrate a dramatic lack of understanding for something meant to be used by others.

- Recursive mappings used instead of non-recursive ones for no reason.

- WTF with line 34?

- Line 36-48 are almost certainly there for reasons very specific to the author. They are useless for others.

- Mixed short and full option names.

- Line 69 may work for the author but it may not work for others.

- Line 75 is useless.

- Line 83 may work for the author but it may not work for others.

- Lines 96-182… Oh nice! Crappy useless plugins _AND_ a plugin manager! The very definition of "light".
I agree that from a purely Bayesian perspective, we should almost certainly have larger 'belief updates' from people who are closer or have first-hand experience about a given topic (and I certainly found GP's post both insightful and interesting).

What I'm worried about though is the risk of going past 'we should listen to person from group X when they talk about group X's experience', to the the much stronger claim that 'for all persons P outside of group X, P have nothing valid to say about group X'.

That would be to confuse ends for means, and to discard the attempt to find universal truths and merely settle for truths that are relative to a person's group identities.
Which is why monocultural, immigration-averse and hard-working China has such a safe and trusting society... or does it? (Spoiler: Nope, far from it.)
The error in the law would be if selling some speakers once is okay, but opening a hi-fi store is punishable with jail time.

If we agree that consuming drugs is fine, then why are we simultaneously trying to put dealers and distributors in jail? What’s the point?
> One of our main goals as a parent is to create independent kids who can function alone in the world - we don't want them still living in the basement at 30

FYI this is a cultural thing. Not every culture's parents kicks out their children when they turn 18. So if it doesn't work out this way for whatever reason, don't view it as right or wrong unless you feel it's wrong to go against the culture (which also isn't inherently wrong either).
Let's be fair, the author did do more research than 95% of other investors before buying...
there should be no coverage of any crimes if that were true.
the justice system would know better, after all. It's not anybody's business to just randomly think or even mentally judge another person.

This theory falls apart with us being a society, however. We need to evaluate, think and talk about it because that's how we can grow as a society.

It's neither easy nor quick though, I expect this discussion to continue for the foreseeable future.
"Dynamic" or "static" isn't a binary value. A dynamic language that allows some static typing is less dynamic than a language that doesn't allow that.
Oh we didn't kick them out, they left when they wanted to go, and have come back at times when it has made sense (after college for a while to save money for example).
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Last year I bought an SD Card that turned out to be fake. There wasn't a straightforward return option for this item so I sent them an e-mail with a title "I this eBay? Because you go to eBay to buy fake SD Cards". Got a refund but I'm not going to buy anything from Amazon that is known to have this problem.

I just checked the item, still sold with solid 4.5 stars and occasional 1star reviews with pictures documenting that they also got a fake one.
Indeed. Rest us nice for some cases but quite complex in rules. Especially if you use HATEOAS.

These days I always recommend GRPC over protobuf for inter services communication.
> The German giant was kept in the dark about the true owners of suspicious FBME accounts whose transactions it was authorizing – despite requirements for correspondent banks to perform additional checks when signs of money laundering arise.

Yeah. Sure.

> Deutsche showered FBME with “Processing Excellence” awards for at least four straight years before the bank was named as a “primary money laundering concern” by the US government.

Yep. Clearly there was a lot of money to be made.

> Deutsche has faced questions over why it lent Trump more than $600 million at a time when other Wall Street banks had frozen him out. The bank was reportedly subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is apparently investigating the US president’s finances alongside his campaign’s contacts with Russia.

Hmm...
True but he’s still playing with fire. No one knows when the bull market will dry up but lots of people will end up losing money.
American culture is the ultra-contradiction of both expecting kids to be independent at 18 (or 22 with well-to-do families) AND kids not being able to develop that independence at all growing up.

EDIT: The expectation of independence at 18 is not just between parents and the kid, but sometimes the kid's older SO, or society, or some other people who constantly repeat "once you're 18 you can do what you want", except they have no idea how to do it responsibly.
How did you write that without realizing how oxymoronic it is? Were you trying to be an example of: "people who have deep bias against people for intrinsic things"?

Besides your suggestion that prejudice doesn't exist in the north (lol), you're writing from the Pacific Northwest, one of the least diverse places in the country. Oregon is 83% white; Texas hasn't been that white since 1970, currently 45% non-Hispanic white. Washington state is 72% non-Hispanic. We deal with a diverse culture every day, most of us aren't racist and ignorant.

Why did you say that?
Bankers aren't the cause of the financial crisis. Societies have always had a scapegoat to conveniently break societal tensions, previously with physical sacrifices, and presently with sacrificing the money of scapegoated individuals.

It's unlikely that a single sector of economy could suddenly cause a widespread collapse, especially without unrecoverable failure. A more cogent explanation is the behavior of the Federal Reserve. Similar to the Great Depression, the growth rate of the M3 was reduced by around 10 percent during the peaks of the recessions.

Reading: https://iea.org.uk/blog/a-monetarist-explanation-of-the-grea...
because you installed and ran it without my consent

I didn't install and run anything on your computer. I don't work for Mozilla.

And you installed a piece of open-source software whose source code you could have audited at any time, but you chose not to. You delegated the auditing to someone else, and now you're upset at what they chose to do with the power you gave them. You're free to complain that you don't like what they did, and not to trust them in the future, but you don't get to say that you had no chance to give input or to see what would run. You had plenty of opportunities for that and did not do it.
Citation needed.

Are you going to argue that there is more racism in a Texas company than a California company? You are really going to have to prove that.

Have you ever actually lived in a city such as Houston? One of the most diverse cities in the country.

Look how segregated Silicon Valley is. Cupertino and Saratoga Schools are —- about 80% Asian and 2% black. How is that possible given that racism is a “completely unacceptable” idea in California? Those schools are reflecting the employment of the region. Since those are expensive areas, only people with wel paying tech jobs can live there and yet the diversity is pretty much the opposite of the US as a whole.

Perhaps Silicon Valley needs to be called out — far more than those “racists in the south.”
Well as someone over 45 I can say if I get less than 6 hours I'm functioning on half my normal IQ. Engineering requires deep concentration for me that means 8 hours sleep if I want to perform as aggressively as my juniors.
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The post mentions the psychology today article but I’d like to say it’s actually a pretty okay article:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201...

(Author should disclose if he owns IOTA however)
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That's pretty incredible, considering that f91w has such a small body.
Unless you are on the left, then in SV it’s perfectly acceptable.
This is a fantastic HN thread to scroll to the very bottom, and see which opinions have been greyed-out from heavy downvote bombardments. Highly recommended.
Nov 27, same guy :

https://medium.com/@abarisser/sell-your-bitcoins-right-now-e...

> you should sell your crypto holdings, particularly Bitcoin, right away, even if you are long-term bullish on the crypto space.
Hence that is why by in wages per hours they are properly much lower, something that GDP or GDP per Capita dont measure, of course long working hours has absolutely nothing to do with productivity.

Another reason why I believe there should be some government regulation, or little regulation but worker union.
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How children lost the right to roam in four generations - highly related article and previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13547089

From the comments there it seems that it's not about (perceived) risks at all, it's more about peer pressure. If no other parents in your group would let their kids go about on their own, you surely won't want to be the only one.
Because then people will say - he is an outsider so his opinion is FUD or maybe he is jealous because he missed out the rally to $5 and trying to tank the price.

There is no winning this debate in cryptocurrency, is it? Damned if you buy and damned if you don't.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940674
It isn't political debate that it is the issue, it is the absolute assumption that everyone agrees with the standard SV dogma, so people say political things all the time, with no intent to debate, because they are just the accepted truth. A subtle example would be trashing "flyover" states. There is no intent to debate whether people from Texas are rednecks, but people feel free to say it.
Noob here - what do you mean by distributional shift?
Why weaken anyone? It isn’t zero sum. The free market has nothing to do with minorities or majorities: people don’t care about the race of a person selling them bread — they just want the cheapest bread at the highest quality.
As I understand it, the problem with IOTA is that — in order to execute an attack — attackers just need to verify more transactions than all honest participants combined.

So, in other words, honest participants have no incentive to verify more transactions than required (because they don’t profit from it) while attackers have an incentive to verify more transactions, in order to successfully double spend.
I hope this incident makes people realize what a farce the Web has become given the incentives for Web browsers and sites. And we're working hard to make the Web even more complicated, so it's becoming impossible to develop a new browser from scratch.
> Why anyone would put that amount into a cryptocurrency they don't find trustworthy is beyond me.

The richer you are, the more likely you'll consider 5k small change. Same reason why the big bet poker tables have non-experts sitting there.
It’s not a misconception. Firefox could be sold, the problem is that nobody would buy it. Opera tried to sell a browser, people stuck with the cost-free alternatives. People would rather use chrome than pay for FF.
Profit they make from extra sales due to fake reviews? Why do you assume fake reviews are bad for Amazon bottom line?
I was responding to your statement:

For example, if you approach the US government through a solicitation with really any half-reasonable suggestion for processing enormous amounts of data, and you'll get a contract.

Your subsequent comment proves my point: it isn't that easy.

As it happens, we are well qualified, and we've won a number as well. My point is that your original statement is completely wrong (and ironically it appears you agree).
Diversity of thought will always trump any other type of diversity.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05468 was an interesting paper that came out recently.

It showed that large CNN models which have far greater capacity than the data they are shown (and could have memorized it) still tend to learn very good generalizable minima.

See proposition 1:

(i) For any model class F whose model complexity is
large enough to memorize any dataset and which
includes f∗ possibly at an arbitrarily sharp minimum,
there exists (A, Sm) such that the generalization
gap is at most epsilon, and

(ii) For any dataset Sm, there exist arbitrarily unstable
and arbitrarily non-robust algorithms A such
that the generalization gap of f_A(Sm)
is at most epsilon.
Actually, I believe that there is a better case for civilian ownership of tanks, ordinance, and heavy/automatic weaponry than there is for handguns. According to a study by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 86% of gun crimes involved a handgun, even though there are roughly equal numbers of rifles, handguns, and shotguns in the US.

Meanwhile, there's a tanker militia not far from where I live that practices regularly, and doesn't really bother anyone.

I'm fairly certain that there have been no tank related homicides in living memory, and the only two tank related crimes I can find news reports of involve a tank being taken from an army base for a joyride, and Killdozer, which injured no one (discounting the operator committing suicide), and was home-made anyways.

The thing about crime is that criminals instinctively want to hide what they're doing. Handguns are about a million times easier to hide than a rifle, or even a sawn-off shotgun. Having this bulky, visible weapon hanging off of your back is an automatic deterrent to crime.
We need to make a clear distinction here between crime rates in general and crimes where a child is involved and the perpetrator(s) and strangers.

As far as I'm aware the biggest dangers to children are their cohabitating relatives followed closely by non-resident family and friends.

The solution to this issue for me was to move away from the big city I was in to a much smaller one, where the kids next door and a few houses down play in the street and my neighbors talk to me.
https://www.theboxotruth.com/the-box-o-truth-1-the-original-...

Handguns are handguns. Rifles are rifles.
I'd say income - even marijuana is expensive, not to mention the strong drugs - and the availability of decent booze for cheap.
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There is, however, a cost.

Japans’s criminal justice system has a conviction rate in excess of 99%. Over 95% of those arrested sign confessions. The system has been attacked by organisations like Amnesty International. There is, as I understand it, a pervasive view that all crime is committed by foreigners, which contributes to pervasive xenophobia. This compounds the issues of an aging and eventually shrinking population. The high work ethic also comes with its problems, like the number of deaths from overwork, and high rates of suicide and alcoholism.

Crime in Japan is obviously low, and I’ve never felt safer anywhere in the world. But it’s too easy to just look at the surface like that; in reality, it’s complicated.
Wonderful. The end result was totally unexpectedly beautiful! The "spoken word" part (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=w5IERp2OdJs) makes it really feel like a proper track.
>> Remorseful ones, if any, may have chosen not to participate.

> Conceivable, but then why were most of the murderers she interviewed remorseful?

Maybe it's easier to become convicted accidental murderer than convicted accidental rapist?

Most people who killed didn't really want to do that. Maybe that's not the case for rapist.
Yes. Actually, as far as you do not consume them publicly or carry them with aim of distributing them (what is called "personal use"), they are not illegal.

I think we are at a good middle spot. There are some problems in both end of the society spectrum but as far as I know deaths by overdose are not as large as they used to be.
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My S.O. thinks that transgender thought poses a threat to feminist aims and should not be acceptable to society, and has some really good arguments. I'm starting to be convinced, but I really can't discuss it with anyone else.

edit: goodnight as its getting late.