skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$5 USD is probably too low, depending on the length of the season; $2 USD / disc probably covers manufacturing and distribution (for Blu-Ray; DVD manufacturing maybe $1 USD), but you need something to pay for the talent too.
Ask HN: How do you pronounce 'dogecoin'?
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My point is the courts decide what's bad. That's why the fact mother Jones won in court in the end is significant here.
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New theory. Those are clearly the car lights of a Winnebago.

Or maybe a careful plan for a hunt trip lasting for two whole days. Who knows?.
> will overshadow the principle at stake

If we take a step back what is the key principle at stake here?

I think the key principle is privacy.

Should we allow a media company to ruin a persons reputation and career by violating his privacy in direct violation of a court order?

The real concern for me is that you need to find a supportive billionaire to be able to put a stop to it.

If the media turns on me tomorrow and invades my privacy I don't have a billionaire friend to turn to.
This doesn't happen - if banks had the power to multiply money by 10, we would have hyperinflation.
Stellar, considering she spearheaded the warrantless wiretap program.
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Thanks Jared! I wrote this while still irritated which explains the choice language. I'm glad it didn't stop you from reading!
Did I understood it correclty that nobody drove this 4300 miles but instead it's just a proposal? I'm somewhat disappointed ;-)
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Good thing you don't get a say in the matter.
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First, good for you. Second, if the transfer of wealth from employers with 300k+ jobs to the public does not lead them to change their practices, than even better for you. Go get the money. But, for the vast majority of people and employers, your special case is irrelevant.

There exists a very inefficient, unbalanced social practice. Needs a regulatory nudge. Simple law. California goes first. The world follows. Onwards.
Companies can't tell the difference, get bad candidates and are then afraid to fire them, even in "at will" states.

Companies think this rigamarole will separate good candidates from bad candidates.
Those two are connected - in particular, issues related to aging are a huge money sink, so just improving healthspan without improving lifespan would not only make a difference to people, but also free up resources in healthcare.
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Those are not supernovae, which brighten and fade over a span of weeks. (The energy input of core-collapse supernovae is the radioactive decay of Nickel-56 (half life 6 days) and Cobalt-56 (77 days).)

Edit: those may have been Iridium flares that you saw.
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Locally developing Kubernetes services (without waiting for a deploy)
Oh yeah, I'm all for it. Just noticing.
EBITA is a common way of demonstrating that a company has figured out a viable business model: it tries to show that, given the assets it has acquired and the expenditures it has made and is in the process of paying off, the company makes money.
What Bezos did to WaPo is despicable and became a pattern for aggrieved billionaires.
I thought the fact that he buys and injects blood from teenagers to (possibly) extend his own pathetic life would have proven that much by now. Someone said something about it being easier to pass camels through eyes of needles than for rich men to go to heaven.
I wrote a Chinese-Postman solver, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/supermitch/Chinese-Postman

It "absolutely" solve the network, so at the moment couldn't solve a network even remotely that big, but it's a fun little project.
What if functions are first class? Then imagine a function gets passed in as an argument and called. You won't know what function you're calling until runtime.
NULL is an interesting case. I'm not sure how Linux handles it but in some OSes there is a page table entry for virtual address 0 for just this reason. You have to assume that bugs will access it. I'm wondering about pages that are outside of your allocated address space.
> Do keep in mind, of course, that not all Chinese people are the same.

That's a snarky comment.

Obviously not everyone raised in a given country holds identical views, but there are real differences in cultures and beliefs between countries (especially those with centrally managed media).
> Personally, I'm concerned

Your "personal" concern is an extremely common opinion in a major debate that has been going on for years. There is even a documentary to support it.
Not that type of garbage collection.
This binary interpretation of the Dunning-Kruger effect leads to wild exaggeration.

The most skilled people were only off by like 10%. The effect is just that people seem to think the curve goes from 0.5 to 0.85 instead of 0.0 to 1.0 but otherwise fit themselves in the same rank-ordered buckets within that.
here's the article, for scientific purposes:

https://file.io/41t2Gv
I agree this is an issue, but just because some people can't afford to defend themselves doesn't make what Thiel did wrong. You'll note Gawker was fully able to fund their defense.

If Thiel had did this against a smaller site that gave up without having its day in court that would be a different matter.
That's not what being a "member of a protected class" means, silly.
None of this establishes that there aren't other reasons for wanting a high-paying job besides attractiveness (e.g., not wanting to be dependent on finding a spouse with a high-paying job).

Also, this would imply that gay (non-bi) or asexual men, who are not seeking women as partners, would be found in high-status/high-pay positions at rates more comparable to (all) women than to straight men. This seems like a pretty straightforward hypothesis - do we have the data to test it?
How else do you think Drew Houston was convinced that this design was the right step for them?

I'd also like to point out that not all redesigns go as planned, but iteratively eventually 'get' there.

See: Android's honeycomb and later Ice Cream Sandwich redesigns before they settled on Material Design.

One of the few apps to have gotten design different and right, at the first time of asking, have been, IMHO, WhatsApp, Stripe, and AirBnb.
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Well, not all the terms I used were negative :) my point was, I have zero context giving me an ability to consider what a conservative chinese foreign national would look like, value wise.

For instance, I consider myself a technological conservative—I tend to not believe in the inherent good of technological investment. I would not describe myself as “a conservative”. It is a word generally only useful in a one dimensional context.
Orion as an asterism is obvious, as is Ursa Major and various other formations. A "constellation" with a specific name and history is a different thing entirely.
just because someone put in a bid, it doesn't mean that the owner of the assets have to sell to the highest bid. In this case, why does the owner have to sell to Thiel just because he has the highest bid?
I agree, and if they were required to move, it would take more than the 3 month batch to prepare items for movement. Why not just leave in their location?
Eh, so I would like to add I lean towards social democracy. And I admit I have a bias view. When I think of pro-business, I think of corporations valuing profit over people, of government valuing control over personal freedom, and of people who assume money can solve all their problems.
Voltaire's apocryphal quote comes to mind: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Liberties aren't etched away by attacking the just users first. They are etched away by attacking those users most Good People disapprove of.
Right, but from the article:

> They filed the suit in Bonneville County, Idaho, and asked for damages of up to $74,999—exactly $1 under the amount at which the lawsuit could have been removed to federal court. That ensured the case would be decided by jurors from the community where his company is the biggest employer and the sponsor of everything from the minor league ballpark to the Fourth of July fireworks.

The court system is not immune to problems.

> Since then, Mother Jones and our insurance company have had to spend at least $2.5 million defending ourselves. That’s money we can’t get back, since Idaho doesn’t have an anti-SLAPP statute that might open the door for recovering attorney’s fees in a case like this.

VanderSloot did not need to win against Mother Jones, he just needed to bankrupt them. And he nearly did. That this particular attempt failed does not mean the principle is not a dangerous one. In many ways the court decision is secondary to the enormous costs of defending yourself legally.
See? This! This would make the job search process a lil' less opaque.
Agreed, will get working on that.
So, IOTA?
same here, I haven't explored all nooks and crannies of the "data science map", but all the ml/dl I deployed were a success. I still feel like a major imposter though.
Thank you for the vote of confidence, but I'm a decent developer, not a $300k salary developer.
> I also don't see why how a single billionaire funding a lawsuit is that different than thousands of us funding a lawsuit by the EFF. If money = speech than those are both protected by the 1st amendment.

There is a difference. It's a microcosm of the difference between a god-king and an elected president.
article is not correct and has been refuted officially by the government.
Serious question: how so? I was really worried when I heard he had bought WaPo, however it seems like he hasn't touched the editorial side at all. I haven't seen a change. However, the business and tech sides have improved, which is good news.
Whose reputation and career was ruined?
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/la...

"for their empirical analysis of asset prices"

Laureate Schiller is the author of the article.
Edit: My post was prior to the parent edit, and now is largely unnecessary. Keeping for posterity, I suppose!

I must be misunderstanding Paul's post.

Isn't it specifically preventing any sort of prediction?

"Naturally, protecting an indirect branch means that no prediction can occur. This is intentional, as we are “isolating” the prediction above to prevent its abuse."

Of course, you can then go and manually add direct branch hints, as is noted in the post, but unless I'm misunderstanding things, there's not an obvious reason why these branches predict perfectly.

Not that it means performance is impacted in a significant way, since that same section also says
"Microbenchmarking on Intel x86 architectures shows that our converted sequences are within cycles of an native indirect branch (with branch prediction hardware explicitly disabled)."

(which also confuses this issue - how is it predicting perfectly if prediction hardware is disabled?)
So now we can have true sexual assault in VR. I wonder what safeguards will be created by developers to mitigate that. I wonder what legal ramifications there will be for touching someone without consent, if any, and what kind of exposure to liability developers will have.
I'm not sure how it benefits society at large ... but I can tell you, anecdotically, how it benefits me.

1. It keeps me aware, especially in domains where I'm a beginner, of how it can affect my self-evaluation of performance.

2. It helps me when teaching beginners; I may need to help them realize where they lay in performance; if you don't know you suck, chances are you won't improve.

3. I've 'counseled' many people who are in the upper-middle of performance, when they don't realize how good they are :) this has helped them go for more challenging jobs etc
> As opposed to Ripple, where the trust is heavily biased towards the starter membership list, making it more centralized than one would want.

It’s biased because of a technical issue (consensus must be reached). How does the Stellar protocol solve this technical issue?
I agree it is odd given that how highly academically educated he himself is.

However, Thiel Fellowship (tell kids to skip college) doesn't benefit Thiel except for publicity in his name: the $100K is a grant. Thiel or the organization does not own any stake in the companies they fund.
I think ethics are somewhat overrated in this situation. But more importantly it sounds like your app/whatever is dead in the water. If it’s not good enough to convince people to invest more - and investing just to burn money on marketing sounds like a terrible idea - then it’s not going to survive. I mean let’s be honest if you have rich Middle Eastern contacts and they won’t put money in, it’s a dog. Just cut loose and don’t waste more time on it.
This is a very good answer.

I suspect too that HFTs do not buy and hold simply because the cost of holding must be very high for an HFT, e.g., transaction fees may be higher when you mean to hold, and anyways, whatever you're holding is burning a hole in your pocket, much like cash does for an investor -- it represents a missed opportunity.

I also don't see how offers/bids that no one wants to take exploit anything. If they are unreasonable then they are noise that a) can be filtered, b) costs the HFT something. If they are reasonable then they may end up in an actual trade (improving liquidity). Either way they help price discovery!
> For those employees that did exercise their underwater options, one small silver lining is they can write those losses off on future tax returns.

Note this only applies to NQSOs not ISOs - since the gain in the ISO case is taxes as AMT; the loss can only be carried as an AMT loss and applied only if/when you are actually subject to the AMT.
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No Thiel got to choose what qualifies for a court to hear. The court decided what qualifies as "something bad." There's a big difference. It does kinda suck the amount of money it takes to bring something to court, but that's the world we live in. You still have to win the case.
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right, riding the Tesla keyword is so 2010, they should have gone with MLsuit.io or blockchainSuit.io. Okay it felt good to write, go ahead and downvote me you mofos
User andersonfreitas posted the reference for a supporting article with a much larger and international cohort.

See below for the ref and a link to the article.
It seems like a safer way to dabble would be to set IPFS up on a VPS hosted somewhere with more favorable laws (OVH, e.g.) - though I suppose you might run into bandwidth limits.
I fail to see how offer can be too good to refuse. I don’t use google services, because it’s evil. Period. No matter what’s the offer.

And could you elaborate on hidden cost to others? All I see right now is thousands if not millions workplaces created thanks to Amazon, hundreds businesses having a relatively cheap marketplace to sell their goods, which in turn creates workplaces, millions of kids in their third world countries having their chance to leave the farm and go and try to build a skill, billion of people went out of poverty in last 30 years, all of it just because Bezos and others like him managed to make that offer “too good to refuse”.

This line with Bezos didn’t do all of the job himself is really a slippery slope, blink of an eye and you’re sending kulaks to Siberia with their families. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/

I also fail to see why it’s Bezos’s problem that nobody wants to hire those people for bigger salaries. At least he’s giving them something. Would they be better off without Amazon existence? Or are they better off because it’s existence?
Totally aside from the whole gawker thing this tactic looks a lot like one commonly used by publishers in gamedev to get IP/game on the cheap.

1. Sign contract with game company that all IP/source reverts to publisher on bankruptcy.

2. Start denying milestone payments 3/4 through development(highest burn rate) for frivolous reasons.

3. Dev runs out of money, bankruptcy.

4. Publisher offers to re-hire team at reduced rate + no royalties since they're all now unemployed to complete the game.

5. Profit (for the publisher).
Because lucid dreaming is messing with it.
That is a good point, but as I mentioned, this is only the start of the conversation. Implicit bias is an easy thing to measure, but it has predictive issues in non-test situations. However, as it is always in science, it is the flawed experiment that led to better experiments (I am picking up the "popsci" stars, for this conversation to be rigorous we have to include actual meta studies, but you will have to contact the professionals for that):

- the John/Jennifer study http://www.yalescientific.org/2013/02/john-vs-jennifer-a-bat...

- the chairs study http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.465...

- the police shooting armed people in VR study http://www.washington.edu/news/2003/07/08/blacks-more-likely...

- the general idea of "stereotype threat" (which becomes unrelated, not as much of an offshoot)

I am not expecting you to spend the time to vet every single of those links (and admittedly I used google, so some of the links might be overly editorialized), however I do believe these are good resources to consider for inclusion in your intellectual toolkit when you have the time.
Why? If you run on your own hardware how would this impact you?
Looks like you added a line to clarify, or I missed it on first reading:

> Consciousness will turn out to be a functional process

Here's where I disagree. In order to know what kind of physical structure produces consciousness, you need to know what consciousness is, and we have no way of doing that. You can define some arbitrary criteria, say, having the ability to make metatools, but that is meaningless in this context, "conscious" will just be another word for "can make metatools".

In an effort to clarify, let me ask you this: why do you care what is and is not conscious?
I don't believe anything in the VR space until it starts to be demoed. Too much vaperware and marketing BS.
It appears to avoid putting actuators in sensitive areas.
> Protectionist is a good way of describing it. The general strategy in China is to handicap foreign corporations sufficiently so that domestic competitors can establish a foothold in the market before the network effects of foreign companies become stifling to new entrants.

They also dangle the carrot of access to their market in front of Western companies in order to encourage up-front technology and skill transfer. In the end, it's only to benefit their domestic companies as the western ones are eventually hobbled and shut out.
It is reactionary because it is not meaningful; it is just a reaction.
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However, you're only taxed on RSUs if they are actually released to you.

It's possible to have RSU awards that vest without them being released to the employee. This means that (unlike exercised options) you can't sell them on the secondary market, but it also means that you aren't liable for taxes on an illiquid asset.
Sounds like a good reason to have a federal anti-SLAPP law.

Also, if they only wanted 75k in damages why didn't MJ agree to pay that and save themselves 2.5 million?
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Regulators should audit regardless. It's not like we should want lower volumes just to make it easier on auditors. We can't exactly go back to 1920s tickers so as to have lower volumes...
I pronounce it with a long o and soft g. "D-oh-je-coin"
> Billionaires being able to destroy the media

We should all have the power to fight back against a corrupt privacy invading media.

Unfortunately, at the moment it seems only billionaires can fight back.
Huh, the Samsungs people around me have had have had FM receivers for years. Did they disable them and then enable them again?
Absolutely.

My wife is an amazing and talented baker. But... any number of bakeries are better at rolling out a quality consistent product at scale.

Ditto with datacenters.
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The interview process would certainly change as a result, so who knows if one could interview full time sustainably.

But I don't think it's a special case. Good software developers are by nature great at hacking systems and plenty of them would find it more profitable to keep interviewing rather than work a regular job.

If it does need a regulatory nudge, paying people to interview is the most naive way to do this.
Valid points, but they raise the initial hurdle. I run a dead simple and cheap (<200EUR) NAS at home for 5 years, just connected to the internet with DynDNS and masqueraded tcp ports http and ssh from my local internet uplink. I made regular backups to a USB hard drive. It was cheap, fast at home and usable from remote. Using only 20W, it was also reasonable cheap, roughly 40 EUR/year of energy costs, so over 5 years the system costed 6 EUR/month. For this I did not only get lot's of storage but also a reasonable computer to host arbitrary services on.

Today, you would probably classify this as indiweb or decentralized. I would just call it DiyO and always prefer it against some subscription.
It has one major feature that causes the hate, it's a centralised crypto. All the transactions have to go via ripple.
I agree that your point has merit. It's difficult to work out where the middle ground is, or whether "billionaires get to choose who sees their day in court" is better or worse than "poor people don't get their day in court" (they feel similar).

At the least, it would be good if those funding these cases had to make that fact public - Thiel only admitted that he was funding Hogan's case after journalists uncovered it. If he was campaigning on the side of truth and righteousness I can't see any reason why he wouldn't say as much (like the ACLU does).
s/Chinese/US agencies/
untog ended their up-thread comment with a pre-emptive answer to exactly this sentiment:

>> Personally, I'm concerned that the individual factors of this case (i.e. Gawker being Gawker) will overshadow the principle at stake, which feels a lot more important than a gossip site.

Thiel isn't on trial in this thread, but our justice system perhaps is.