skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In defense of e-readers, I can carry an Infinite Jest sized book to the store with me in my pocket and start reading it while my SO is trying on clothes. I can download a new book from the library without having to check which branch has the copy I'm looking for and going there. I can preview a book without looking up which store near me has it, driving to the book store, and finding a place to sit to start reading through the first chapters. The battery life is fairly long as well so charging is usually not an issue. I still have several copies of physical books and still go to the library or the book store on occasion, but the experience of reading on an e-reader is superior in my opinion. The text size can be adjusted to my preference. I can read in low lighting without needing the light to be just right. I grew up reading in bed and now I don't have to lay on my side to make sure the paper is facing the light or deal with the annoyance of being too early or late into the book to where the pages aren't supportive of my hand. With physical books, thin or slippery paper can be an annoyance, but the e-reader is always the same size and experience. Of course, I didn't used to think about such things, I just read away, but once I got started on the e-reader, it's hard to go back. The one exception is a textbook or books where you need to flip back and forth a lot.
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> Christy Marx isn't as well known, but her Conquest of Camelot and Conquest of the Longbow games are held in pretty high regard by those who have played them

You can find her photo (in archer costume with an actual bow) in the hintbook to Conquests of the Longbow. GOG version has it. She also talks about making of the game there.
On the other hand, at least some of us would give an arm or a leg to be able to do work as impactful and useful as doctors.
There is value in keeping negative attention away. There is also value in attracting attention to technical needs. If you need someone in another part of the org to do something technical to make your life easier (or even unblock the project), it's difficult to get the job done without a technical manager. You can usually get the job done with a non-technical manager who can listen and delegate well to a good technical leader, though. The problem is that a non-technical manager won't necessarily know who is a good technical leader and who is just a loud engineer.
Tons? In my entire career I haven't found one of those.
I imagine if you looked at the 5 years leading up to 2000, the nasdaq would have some astronomical annualized returns. However, it’s too specific an index and too narrow a time range to draw any meaningful conclusions about the kind of total market returns an investor can expect over the next several decades.
That's interesting. I don't think half siblings should be considered a representative random sample though. It may simply be that babies adopted away were more likely to be from low IQ fathers.

The ncbi link seems to support my hypothesis, maybe I'm missing something.
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> But they very clearly do. A huge proportion of their income comes from government sources (Medicare/Medicaid/VA)

Hospitals lose money on Medicare and Medicaid patients on the margin. They have to overcharge private insurers to make up the difference.

It's so bad that Medicare has not one but multiple programs to compensate hospitals that don't see enough private patients to make up the difference, because otherwise they wouldn't be able to sustain themselves on Medicare reimbursement rates.

I don't know why you're even mentioning the VA; it's not relevant here at all.
Chrome “pull to refresh” hits Dev channel
If you _liked_ that, then you'll love James Burke's Connections TV series [1] and books of the same title [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)#Conten...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(science_historian...
That's true, but I think you look at my example you'll see that it's not that extreme. There's a 1-to-1 correspondence between each function call in Exhibit B and each semantic element in Exhibit A. Such a correspondence doesn't exist between most programming languages and assembly, let alone lambda calculus.
Used to use 6 languages in the course of a day, in the before times, before JavaScript took over.
It's not 12% return on the market. The 12% figure refers to "return on equity". That is, how fast a company can grow its equity. Buffet being a very long-term investor who often buys controlling chunks of business, can reasonably equate this to a sort of return his investment. If you're a regular retail investor, you can't. How fast a business is compounding their equity doesn't necessarily get reflected in the value of the stock that you bought.

> With bonds yielding only 3 or 4%, the right to reinvest automatically a portion of the equity coupon at 12% was of enormous value. Note that investors could not just invest their own money and get that 12% return. Stock prices in this period ranged far above book value, and investors were prevented by the premium prices they had to pay from directly extracting out of the underlying corporate universe whatever rate that universe was earning.

Historical returns of stocks in the equity market are around 6-10% depend on time period considered.
What problems has the fed caused since the 1980's? Prices are stable, employment is good.
Well this is that paradoxical requirement about intolerance of intolerance being a requirement for a tolerant society.
I don't think we should do anything. As a front-end guy myself, it's silly to have to add a bunch of code to check for all the nonsensical browser extensions that could break my page. If a user wants to use a broken extension, please be my guest, but don't think I'm going to go out of my way (and increase my bundle size) to warn you that you've got your footgun locked and loaded.

Hell, there are already enough problems with working around naive ad blockers (images being blocked because they have their dimensions listed in the file name, `class="ad"` being hard blocked, etc). At least those extensions are popular enough to matter and break fairly infrequently.
I am chinese.So sad for this news.we don’t need a king!
> Passwords are a form of access control. I repeat: a strong password cannot be brute forced for billions of years. Even with technological advancements, most strong passwords are well over what’s required to literally be safe for a lifetime.

The topic was never about brute forcing, that’s irrelevant.

It’s always about exfiltrated passwords, certificates or session tokens.

You usually have additional authentication requirements so that changing the password requires more than just the password, but an attacker that exfiltrates the password can still read everything.

For example, an attacker that obtains my onlinebanking password will be able to read all transactions, but not make changes. In this way, the password acts identical to a session token – an attacker exfiltrating a session token will get the same access.

The goal is to reduce this ability – changing the password as often as the offline session token ensures that if an attacker had such read access, as is possible with many services, this access will not continue forever.

With your suggestion, of using an identical password for decades, a potential attacker has for decades read access to the bank account. This is undesirable.

Yes, preventing exfiltration would be better, but exfiltrating session tokens and passwords is identical in terms of attack surface, and as result, they should be protected identically.
Germany seems to operate under the Greek proverb, “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never sit in.” I’m quite envious of them as a culture (being American).
Would it be possible to use amp just for your landing pages from google, and take advantage of instant loading, and then, from within the amp served page, surreptitiously move to you own preload accelerated site ?
Economists usually say that with constant predictable inflation money is "neutral" meaning that the interest rates adjust to offset any higher cost so that businesses shouldn't be affected by inflation (except for a bit of "menu cost", that is the overhead cost of having to update price lists more often.

Low inflation has huge potential downsides in that fiat money can't have negative nominal return while it is quite normal for private investment returns to go negative sometimes (thermodynamics says that things, including stores of value, tend to degrade with time unless you put work and energy into them).

This is the famous zero lower bound problem. It means that when private market rates go negative, people transfer their savings to cash, the world switches from producing real stuff and building real businesses to people hoarding intrinsically worthless pieces of paper (pieces of paper that might not be able to buy that much in the future because production will have gone down.

On top of this, if you keep interest rates above market rates and inflation too low for a long enough time, that is if you keep rates high at 0% when they should be at -3%, market pressure will build for an uncontrolled inflation rebound when all the cash hoarded on the sidelines start flowing in an economy with lowered production. It is much easier to keep inflation stable if you keep it high enough so that the investment market can always clear and never hits the zero lower bound.
> Although I think everywhere has people in management that don’t understand how problem solving works

Fixed that for you. This isn't exclusive to programming.
Anyone know how you'd debug a quantum algorithm? It doesn't look like it would be possible to step through the code in a debugger.
> Does a "real interest rate" per your definition actually exist? Googling the term returns an inflation-adjusted interest rate.

> In theory if we didn't have central banks this might be possible. However, central banks "print" money to adjust short-term interest rates that are a lever for influencing demand for money. It seems unlikely that it is possible to decouple supply from demand in the real world.

With gold standard, central banks could not directly print money. It was abandoned by the US about 40 years ago, and by Europe, even earlier (because world wars).
The motive appears to be money and power. Al Gore's net worth went from 1.7M to 300M in 15 years. Looking back at Inconvenient Truth it make one unproven claim that CO2 was accelerating warming and the rest was entirely appeal to emotion.

He made $30M from selling Apple shares, he got in 2003. I call that "the power of having been VPOTUS" and nothing more. He also sold Current TV for $500M.

I think you want to see what you want to see, and no comment here will turn you away from that.
Remembering the days of very polluting cars and leaded gas, etc, its great to not have to deal with that. Definitely a win.

But, you have to consider the cost and possible implications of any change, or you're actually more likely to make the situation worse, or end up wasting a lot of time/money/lives.
My Kindle 3 broke about a couple months ago. I've had it for nearly 4-5 years, worked like a champ, I had a protective case on it with an external LED light you could extend off of it to read at night. I got used to using purely tactile buttons when reading.

So I had to buy a new kindle. I looked into the Oasis, and the kindle paper white, and the voyager. I ended up going with the kindle paper white for $80, despite the fact it doesn't have tactile buttons

I actually prefer the kindle paper white. I actually find that pressing a tactile button on every page is kind of tiring with my old Amazon Kindle 3. Swiping back and forth is much easier if you do it constantly, and doesn't really take long to get used too
Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) [pdf]
'The Prisoner' microcomputer game
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The 12% figure doesn't refer to return on stocks, they refer to company's return on requity. Just because a company is compounding their equity at that rate it doesn't mean your investment in that company's stock will get that return: it depends on the market conditions when you bought and sold.

> With bonds yielding only 3 or 4%, the right to reinvest automatically a portion of the equity coupon at 12% was of enormous value. Note that investors could not just invest their own money and get that 12% return. Stock prices in this period ranged far above book value, and investors were prevented by the premium prices they had to pay from directly extracting out of the underlying corporate universe whatever rate that universe was earning.

EDIT: And adding to the above (i.e. it's "return on equity" that was 12% not, "equity returns"), here's a report from Goldman Sachs in 2012 where they estimate the return on equity of the S&P 500 to be around 15.5%. So it seems that at least when it comes to ROE it's not really different times.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/07/26/sp-500-retur...
Somewhat related: How to tie your shoes TED talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes#...
This are quite unspecific criticisms. IQ is very well researched and widely supported, as are twin studies.
At best, I think this could only be a solution for an individual. Perhaps I'm simply lacking imagination here, but the U.S. adopting some alternative to materialism is one of the last things in the world I can picture.
> A big chunk of the Amazon price should be considered as providing flexibility in the future.

A recent place I worked at didn't understand this. They were going to the cloud as a strategic move because they didn't want to run a data center any more. Their computing needs were stable and predictable - no "Black Friday" sales that needed triple the servers for a short part of the year. They were going to end up paying far more for the total computing cost than if they had just kept buying blade servers and VMWare licenses.
Mass shooting and terrorist atacks are still extremely rare events, very much like plane crashes, compared to the many other ways one could get killed or injured.
How about "Senior Pascal Developer". Does that make sense?

Professional: "a person who is expert at his or her work". Are you an expert with every language?

> people who have been paid to write the same language for years but don't have senior in their title

Are they experts with the language / framework / tools?
For Dropbox, it probably doesn't even matter that there was a cost savings to moving from AWS. There is strategic value in not taking a critical dependency on a potential competitor, and Amazon is an obvious potential competitor in the for consumer and small business online file storage.

Using AWS meant that Amazon had IP logs for Dropbox's users. It had detailed information about Dropbox's business velocity. It had the ability to shape the customer experience of Dropbox's customers. In short, it made sense for Dropbox to move off of AWS for the same reasons that it makes sense for obvious Amazon competitors like Home Depot and Target not to build on AWS. However, unlike Home Depot or Target, the other major cloud providers, Google & Microsoft are also potential competitors in the file storage service market.
i don’t need a king! it’s a bad news. i am a chinese.
I transitioned over from hardware design long ago. We had a similar concept where the circuit would work, but only when an oscilloscope probe is attached at the right place..
This is just a rant.

The author apologizes for speaking in unqualified absolutes, but does so constantly.

Even if the author is right, this article reads as pretty childish.
Peaceful power transitions are great for stability.
That only says something about maths, not about humans. For comparison, you could say that the number of literary masterpieces has been increased at what looks to be random intervals for the last 2 or 3 millennia, with no continuous progress in sight (i.e. the Spanish language has not had a new Cervantes for 400 years, the same applies to Skakespeare and the English language or to Dante and Italian). But this being an website mostly addressed to people who focus on technical stuff I expect a reply like “literature doesn’t count, it’s just words”.
More of the same would be keeping the term limit, this signals a regression to the worst tendencies in humanity, eroding the laws that are designed to prevent them. Even if Xi is a stable leader for the next 30 years, will the next leader to take advantage of the removal of term limits be the same?
>Once you’re coordinating groups of people you need a manager to keep them working together towards a common goal.

No, you need someone to coordinate them. It does not need to be your manager. Plenty of matrix and matrix like organizations which have split the two.

Managers just need to enforce who that person is and resolve people (not product or business) disputes.
> Can I trust it to work?
> It is alpha-level software, so of course not.

Humility is a beautiful virtue to see.
All I want out of a physician is an expert consultant. I have goals for where I want my health to be, and I could use advice on how to get there that doesn't require me to spend so much time separating the wheat from the chaff of google results. This could be handled over email most of the time. But most doctors I've met don't seem to see themselves in this role. They seem to think their job is to take measurements and tell me how far out of spec I am. Worse yet, most of them believe they are infallible. Its fine if you're making educated guesses doc, just don't act so damn confident about them and dismiss the negative results.

Maybe I've had bad luck in doctors. It's not like I get a choice in them, the way the US system works. Three times in my life I have had severe chronic problems that were ultimately solved by my own inexpert research and experimentation or by the inexpert observations of a casual observer. These days I only bother to go to a doctor after I have a good suspicion of what's wrong already, like if I broke a bone or something.
"Professionals have standards"
Yes, 100% agree!

I've seen such a thing, taken to an extreme where lazy, underskilled developers were running the show; overcomplicating, underdelivering, yet showered with praise -- and it's horrible to witness. A word of warning for anyone entering such a world: you will not change this environment and any attempts to do so will trigger an immune system response. The developers and clueless managers will circle the wagons in defense of the existing culture.

Lesson learned: don't interfere with "resume-driven development" organizations.

I suggest the following interview question: "Tell me about the technical capability of your management chain."
Adaptive metalens ‘can change its focus in real time, just like the human eye’
I've had similar experiences -- a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Both non-technical managers and technical managers who entered management after reaching the top of the technical ladder, are better than semi-technical managers.
From Wikipedia:

"A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified professional activity."
Do the --profile-directory / --user-data-dir flags help here?
"The moving average is the most common filter in DSP, mainly because it is the easiest digital
filter to understand and use. In spite of its simplicity, the moving average filter is optimal for
a common task: reducing random noise while retaining a sharp step response. This makes it the
premier filter for time domain encoded signals. However, the moving average is the worst filter
for frequency domain encoded signals, with little ability to separate one band of frequencies from
another."

It definitely depends on your domain, but moving average/median can be extremely effective. (Or terrible, if mis-applied).

http://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/dsp-b...
Hmm isn't that just like a swear jar? You don't get rid of the swears or the trivializing but rather you just replace the particular words being used for the trivializing.

So what's the benefit?
A few red families control much of china’s wealth and political power now. It is quickly changing into a more traditional dictatorship.
It's a spot on essay on the kind of the original Nazi movement (and others since), but not applicable to the modern Trump situation.

First, because the Nazi analogy is far-fetched -- from the Wall, to the travel ban, to throwing out immigrants, and on to war, he is continuing more or less the same policies as Obama. Who didn't do that great on institutional racism either (remember "black lives matter"? The hurt that caused this and the killer cop business had continued as usual under his watch. Same for things like surveillance, hawkish attacks in foreign policy, etc. Heck, even Obamacare was "inspired" from Mitt Romney -- and nothing like e.g. British or Canadian healthcare).

But even more so, because while the Nazi party was THE establishment, Trump is a small anomaly, with most of the establishment figures (all "good society" and the prestigious press) against him. You can't build a career on being for Trump today (you'll regret very soon), whereas you could for being pro Nazi in the thirties. And many of the author's analogies are based on those aspects.
Seems unaware of what pays his salary.
So your definition of "isolated issue" is an extremely rare event and not an event that isn't part of a larger pattern?
He sold Current TV to the Saudis mind you which he got a lot of criticism for and haven't really been able to respond to without it feeling a little weird given his stance on fossil fuel.

Everyone sees what they want to see but once you dig into it you realize that there is more to the story than just being VPOTUS here.
Complete novice to full-time product designer in 1-2 years
> Eg even with seven billion people we’ve never seen someone with a 500 iq.

For two reasons. First of all IQ is defined as a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and a sd15. So by definition only 0.1% of the population can have an IQ of above 145 and this fraction is rapidly diminishing with additional standard deviations.

Secondl: the definition matches reality reasonably well because intelligence is a polygenetic trait and many small factors add up to a normal distribution.[0]
It is statistically unlikely that natural processes will yield an IQ500 human. You would have to engineer one. Which leads us back to the AGI concern.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
My understanding of the importance of OODA Loops influenced my approach to data analysis and the tools I build to analyze data. My goal is always to build fast and flexible tools. This allows me to explore the data quickly from many different angles.

Boyd's key insight isn't that we should use OODA loops to make decisions. His genius is that OODA loops should exist, and you should set yourself up to go through the loop as quickly as possible and as many times as possible. This means designing tools or systems that can quickly go through that process. The end result is a more agile and adaptable person or organization.

I read this book years ago and it changed my life. Great understanding of the man and his life.

The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
https://www.amazon.com/Mind-War-John-American-Security/dp/15...
I was recently trying to find a solution like this after discovering that my car cannot have an aftermarket radio or hud install without ensuing a whole world of pain. The alternative I landed on though was this:

https://www.autopi.io/hardware-dongle
Mugabe was deposed a few months ago. Although, before then, he was the poster child for "why independence leaders need to learn to give up power."
This is my first time blogging in a while.

I'd love to hear your reactions. What would you do differently? What do you disagree with? I'd love to chat about it!