skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa. So I knew the name Peter Ruckman sounded familiar... this guy was the son of Peter Sturges Ruckman who founded the Pensacola Bible Baptist Institute and held some very hard line (and controversial) cult-like views about the Bible.

Specifically he held that the King James Version was very special and let’s just say that he had many followers and that they are especially tough cats to deal with.

That might provide some additional context...
std::array has its size fixed at compile time, so there's no reason for you to do have to do bounds checking…
But puritanism's remains are responsible for many of the opinions critical of the paper's conclusions. Just ask a few wealthy persons about this paper or others like it: they are usually fiercely critical and have bought completely into ideas that support their "blessed" position in society.
Exactly! Well over 90 percent of new generation coming online is renewables, and the cost decline of renewables shows no signs of stopping [1].

Fancy real time viz: https://www.electricitymap.org/

[1] https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/16/1689559...
@dang: Article title is now "may save them," not "will save them."
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> you are not entitled to receive service from GitHub

Are you "entitled" to a job in your field? Plenty of employers now require you to work on GitHub.

> both of these liberties will be infringed by most governments if you attempt to remove yourself from their jurisdiction

What? If I attempt to move out of a city, the city government is not going to arrest me, in most countries. (There are some exceptions like China, but even there it's not the town government that does the arresing if someone tries to move.)

Seriously, not interacting with GitHub is a larger imposition for many people than not living in some particular city.
you're repeating yourself
It'd be possible, but you can buy index funds on Robinhood already.

Other services that are built around long term investing provide additional features like automatic rebalancing and dividend reinvesting. An API could allow you to emulate those as well, but at that point, it seems like you might as well just use a robo-advisor instead of building your own on top of an API.
I don’t think anyone is saying blockchain tech is “tulip bulbs”. The concern is Bitcoin (an instance of blockchain tech), et al., are not all the proponents claim them to be.

I’m convinced the blockchain is here to stay. Bitcoin? Not so much.
Does it support more than one brain? I can't tell.

The ultimate that I've found so far is Flying Logic (flyinglogic.com).

- directed acyclic graph structure

- boolean logic (both AND and OR) and truth-value tracking

- multiple documents

- automatic layout (like graphviz/dot)

- python import/export api

Flying Logic is nice but it's expensive and non-collaborative.

I'm not sure what exists that is a next step up from that. Maybe owl/rdf stuff?

I generally think this entire field is basically sort of addled, and we're just waiting for software to catch up to brains. Our brains aren't hierarchical, they're graph-based. But since our physical world is hierarchical, there's this impedance mismatch and most of our software (todo lists, outliners, mindmaps) makes the wrong call by forcing us into tree-based structures.

Try representing a recipe's instructions accurately in something like OmniOutliner, OmniFocus, or org-mode. Meaning, where blocking steps accurately block their dependencies. You can't do it. But you can with a DAG.

As another example, you can't even represent a simple argument in anything less than a DAG. It's like a compiler.

1. Socrates is a man (axiom)

2. All men are mortal (axiom)

3. Socrates is mortal (1, 2)

4. All mortals will die (axiom)

5. All mortals must eat (axiom)

6. Socrates will die (3, 4)

7. Socrates must eat (3, 5)

You can't represent those dependencies in an outline, nor in most mind-mapping apps (since most of them don't allow a child to have multiple parents).

Gantt charts can represent those relationships, but if you only care about the graph structure and the dependency relationships, why be saddled with a huge project management application? And, most of them can't handle OR relationships anyway.

Graphviz/dot is decades old and isn't collaborative. But at least it's DAG with good layout.

Free-form "just draw any edge to any node!" apps aren't all that great either, not without automatic layout, not without respecting any logical relationships indicated by the edges.
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You have any kids? Maybe recognize that killing your own kids is hard to rationalize for people that do?

I do get your point, but my comment wasn't flippant. I mulled on it a bit, and tried to put myself in his shoes. I didn't find much there.

I'm honestly not trying to be smug. I have close relatives with issues like schizophrenia, manic depression, etc. So, I'm not completely uninformed. But there is a line where things aren't fixable.
No idea, sorry :-( I don't use any of those features, I just trade. I don't even use bill payment on my regular checking account.
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Get things done. That is all.
I thought the sounds were identified as Cicadas?
Start on page 34 of this:

http://www.datasheetspdf.com/datasheet/download.php?id=73999...

The combo chip itself probably has multiple SDRs internally so that e.g. you can use GPS and WiFi/BT simultaneously, but they can be connected externally to the same antenna through a diplexer.
Their own ETFs - yes. But still a fee to buy other ETFs that aren't their own.
I agree. I understand and have programmed in Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure. And yes I fully understand macros. I even implemented Lisp style languages just for fun (using C++ and Haskell). But I never wanted to use it for production code.
While useful to some I think advanced RE are like mixing in Perl or playing code golf with production code. They tend to make code harder to read.

My preference in such cases is for multiple separated or longer REs (which can be at least split in the surrounding code) and each part named or heavily commented. Of course it's always worthwhile to consider non-RE solutions if the problem can be broken down enough.

EDIT: Fixed typo
Python. I'm an "infrequent" programmer, and I find the syntax sticks with me between projects, which is a huge time-saver. It's also the cleanest, most readable language I've ever programmed in, though I realize that's an extremely personal preference. Like brownbat, I have a bias for keywords over symbols. I'm also a huge fan of "explicit over implicit" and "there should be one right way to do it," which is why I favor Python over Ruby. The biggest win, though, as I've gotten more experienced with the language, is the ease and simplicity of "pythonic" programming--using iterators, generators and list comprehensions, favoring built-in data types (dictionaries, tuples and sets) over custom classes, and so on. My Python programs tend to be much, much shorter than what I'd write in C++ or C#, easier to read and quicker to write. Win, win, win for my purposes as I mostly don't care about speed ...
Employees starting soon better hope there's a board meeting before the fundraise :0
fair point. I was considering the case of a single user.
> If you want security, why invest in anything other than the government?

Because you make more money in index funds with comparable security?

Bonds used to be the principal way to save and invest in the past when interest rates were much higher. Its honestly a bit of a shame that as a society loaning money to the government is such a poor investment - it more reflects on the failings of the state if there is literally nothing profitable they can do with money to justify a competitive return. States can do pretty much anything a company can and more, and in a perfect world would be the best managers of capital. Thats where concepts like single payer healthcare come from, after all.

And add to that that not everyone wants to be a capitalist. Index funds are specialization of labor - let the teachers teach and the doctors save lives while their money is invested and managed by people who are good at tracking markets.

That being said, financial advisory in general is adjacent to such prestigious professions as televangelists and online poker in my mind - the most successful in the business have almost no correlation with actually sane analytical expertise and more to do with who can advertise the best. Fundamentally it is all making educated guesses, and until shit hits the fan people flock to whoever boasts the most rather than whoever is nuanced and rational, at least until after a stock crashes or a market tanks.
No they are not. They just bred with the dominant sub-saharan African species. I am a member of one of the non-dead hybrid species having approximately 2.5% Homo neanderthalensis ancestry.
Vanguard has no robo advisor. There is a human advisor involved
That's literally a contradiction. Look up what NBBO actually means.
This is why I said WTF when they tried to introduce us to lisp in CS61A... I thought why would anyone want to program in this. Years later and I am now thinking how wrong I was!
dark matter is irrelevant. The speed law is empirical (whether or not you explain it with dark matter) and the first poster points out that the constant edge rotational rate falls out from that, and geometry.
If that's your attitude, you should only buy corporate bonds and IPO's.
> We're on the verge of a mass species extinction event

No, we're really not. Climate change due to carbon emission is real, but we'll reduce our carbon emission "in time" to avoid extinction level increases and/or adapt to the environment more drastically if we miss that target.
They are trying to lock down the grid. It's just easier said then done, obviously.
Lisp seems to be optimum for team sizes of one. Maybe two or three if they are very "world view" compatible or have a dominant "alpha" dog. But using it for large scale development?
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The same as literally any other brokerage.
The best telephone systems I've been on did two things:

1. Tell you the estimated waiting time so you can decide for yourself if it is worth it,

2. and offer to leave a message to call you back at a time you want instead of waiting.
Elixir - 20 years of solid engineering design choices, battle tested to scale, with a nice new rails-like lick of paint.
Am curious if it is legal to fund security research to find flaws in a competitors product. If so then going forward this might become a tool used by hardware / software companies to go after their competition.
Fair enough, but there have been a lot of disparaging words said toward blockchains as well until recently.
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Okay, I'll agree that you didn't say taxation is theft if you will agree that I didn't say that roads are a justification for higher taxes.

The context of my comment about roads that you jumped on was that I was responding to a poster who was saying taxation is theft.
I think the ideal cash management setup is to get a rewards checking account without a debit card usage requirement (harder than it sounds to find), direct deposit your paychecks into that, have a 1-2 month cash buffer there, and invest the extra through ACH pulls out of that. If your portfolio is large, having a month of expenses earning 1.75% or whatever risk-free is likely a small improvement. If your portfolio is large, the lower return on a small portion doesn't matter. If you portfolio is not large, you should have a larger cash position to de-risk your overall life.

You might also be able to mail checks written against a brokerage account with that option enabled, but mailing checks sounds like a pain. I know that Vanguard's brokerage account allows both check writing (with a $250 minimum) and direct deposit, but that doesn't quite do enough for running your life out of one account.

>whenever I make a purchase or bill payment from it

FWIW, if you have access to credit cards, you should pretty much always use a credit card rather than a debit card.
Jesus fucking christ what kind of question is that?
Washington Mutual, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, General Motors, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac are all good examples of why you should avoid individual stocks, even if they are "blue chip".
Code generation is brilliant. Remember that a compiler is a code generator. Using your own code generator allows you to declare what you want at a high level and then generate bug free code that implements it. It is like having a super fast automatic programmer at your side making you super productive.
Dividend reinvestment for ETFs happens at the brokerage level, not at the fund level. You can see this because some brokers don't support reinvestment in the same ETFs.
Wind and solar need tons and tons of land to power our energy needs, and the developing world will need more and more power to escape poverty. Solar panels on every house might be sufficient, but it's far more expensive and consumes far more area than nuclear. We need cheap and abundant nuclear power to bring our carbon emissions down without wasting tons of acreage (something like an area the size of the US to power the world, per Steven Pinker) on power generation.
It's a completely meaningless and plain stupid argument though. There's no reason to believe human consciousness is special and that "understanding" Chinese is at all related to it. One can speculate that the perception of consciousness is simply the product of some form of introspective sensory system and internally-directed actions, of which the former ironically clearly doesn't quite work when it comes to language (or it wouldn't be as much of a reverse-engineering exercise). Nothing really stops you from throwing that into your system and having it consciously understand chinese, assuming it already maintains state.

You can however make a fairly solid argument that a CNN alone (as used in image/object recognition) is fundamentally incapable of dealing with images (but maybe not language), on the assumption that it can be faithfully described as Satan's boolean satisfiability problem, then by virtue of complexity theory it can only be solved in constant time with a sufficiently massive lookup table (which there wouldn't be enough atoms in the universe to store). Microsoft are actually dealing with this in their system by repeatedly applying the network and revisioning the text.

Regardless though, accurate NLP is going to come down to managing to codify how humans deals with objects, concepts and actions, because that's what the languages encode; GOFAI wasn't really too off (and the original effort was doomed from the start by the state of hardware and linguistics). Consider how distinguishing objects as masculine-feminine-neuter and animate-inanimate(-human) is universal (but doesn't necessarily affect the grammar), and that the latter is based purely on how complex/incomprehensible the behaviour of something is (unlike grammatical gender which seems to be fairly arbitrary). Of course that's arguable, but you can see animacy appear in english word choices (unrelated to anthromorphic metaphors) and in how "animate" objects tend to be referred to as having intent. You could try and figure all this out the wrong way around using statistical brute force and copious amounts of text, but that's pretty roundabout isn't it?

(Also, the assumption that an objects animacy is determined by predictability offers a pretty concise explanation of why the idea of human consciousness being produced by simpl(er) interacting systems often fails to compute so spectacularily, why most programmers appear to be immune to that, and also why the illusion that image recognition CNNs perform their intended function is so strong (regardless of how useful they are, the failures make it blatant that they're only looking at texture and low-level features, and are extremely sensitive to noise, which is the opposite of what anyone intended))
What's with the ad hominem?

The authors themselves admit that their design and hypothetical weapon cannot account for the actual symptoms.

Edit: when my kids finally convince me to get a dog for the family, I'll name it Truth, Facts, or Parmenides.
Did AMD pull off a next level PR move here? I run a threadripper on my home box that holds keys that need to stay private. Is there anything I can do to mitigate venerability or should I start a painful key rotation process and keep them only on my MBP until a patch is out?
actually a lot of people are saying that, mostly non-technical who have very little analogue for understanding why distributed consensus algorithms could have merit. I've been presented that analogy by several friends and my father, for instance.
I love them and I think I'm great with them. (Though I'm probably not as great at them as a bunch of you reading this comment)
I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't be completely legal? Unless there's some sort of ToS violation, however it'd be interesting to see how that would stand up to legal scrutiny. There are however clear ethical considerations surrounding disclosure which is really interesting in this case.
Blockchain-based elections seemed inevitable but I never saw it coming from a national election proxy-ballot first. I thought maybe stockholders at an AGM for a blue-chip company would be the first large-scale example.
This is why we need a government imposed carbon tax to price in the externality of carbon emissions. Then we can let the free market loose to do its thing without the perverse incentives that encourage carbon-emitting energy sources today.
Some things don't change, even when old mottos are updated. (Mossad previous motto: "For by stratagems you wage war." (Proverbs 24:6) or as translated into a book partly titled on the subject, "by way of deception, you wage war."

But then, this isn't exactly hidden in the case of CTS Labs.
http://www.cts-labs.com/management-team

3 out of 4.
Macros/Code Generation used correctly is exactly the opposite of what you are saying. Macros/Code Generation used correctly forces you to figure out at a much higher level what it is you want to achieve. And declare it in a formal computer readable way.
But what is his background? Canada is not a melting pot and many keep strong ties cultural backgrounds.
"Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier, is 'the bible', covering the motivation behind the invention of many of modern algorithms, as well as most of the maths.

"The Code Book" by Simon Singh is an enjoyable read regarding the historical aspects of codes, ciphers and cryptography. I don't know how this compares with other books on the same subject, but I found it interesting and informative.

It's not in the same league as Applied Crypto though — totally different kinda thing: The Code Book is something you could gift for xmas, whereas Applied Crypto is a hard core coder reference book.
I don’t think I’ve seen any of that, just a sense of weariness and disgust with their applications in cryptocurrency. I think that the raw excitement over blockchain tech has been damped from the initial fire, given the issues around scalability, but it still seems to enjoy a lot of respect. The problem is usually that like AI, “blockchain” just gets slapped onto a lot of dogs in an attempt to get money.

I wouldn’t confuse that with rejection of the blockchain tech, just the cynical implementations that have mostly emerged.
Multiple spelling errors in the first sentence of your homepage doesn’t inspire confidence. I realize it has nothing to do with code quality, but it has everything to do with perception of code and product quality.
I wonder what would happen if we allowed everyone paying taxes to dedicate a small percentage to a field they feel is important and underpaid, e.g. by choosing a category like education, road infrastructure, social services, military... for planning reasons this could be done a year in advance.

Would that make people feel more agency and ownership in their nation? Or would it produce (small) chaos?
This comes up in every thread, but it's not realistic. It takes a decade and a billion dollars (at least) to build new nuclear power plants. It's not happening, at least not in the time frame we need to keep global warming below 4C (2C is a pipe dream at this point). [1]

It would only take 0.6 percent of total US land mass covered in solar to power the entire country (about 100 miles by 100 miles). The batteries to back that energy production would only be about 1 square mile. That doesn't take into account residential rooftop solar already producing. Nor wind turbine parks in the middle of nowhere that contribute to farmer and rancher incomes. Offshore wind can be sited anywhere along the costs outside of shipping lanes, far enough off in the distance to not be seen but close enough to keep transmission costs reasonable. We are awash in clean, renewable energy.

To your point about the developing world, India is aggressively deploying solar, and is 4 years ahead of its solar capacity targets.

Solar and wind are ramping on curves somewhere between linear and exponential. They can be turned up in months, not years. They can be sited almost anywhere. They are what is going to win the day.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/has-us-nuclear-powe...
Actually, we are in the middle of a mass extinction event:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Since this was just a proof of concept, I'd love to see the blockchain results compared to the actual results.
We do need active investors, but the average person shouldn't be one if his or her goal is long term wealth generation. That doesn't mean maximizing security. It means maximizing the expected risk-adjusted rate of return.
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30,000 presidential pardons and commutations??? How typical is that of a presidency? that sounds totally unheard of to me.

A cursory glance on the internet suggests this is an order of magnitude above the sum of all other presidential pardons combined... I gather that these are all likely hucksters and whitecollar fraudsters.

I wonder what legacy 45 will have on the United States.
Just a note to anybody who wants to try their free tier, they add a tapatalk-like message in every e-mail you send ('this email was sent via protonmail' or something in that nature), unless you pay.

It's not like the e-mail receivers couldn't already see the host, but I was unaware of that when I was registering an account, so I'm calling that a dark pattern.

At least it was easy to self-delete it afterwards.
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Reasonably so. Charging it may take hours, so the line will get as hot as it's going to get.
by 'blockchain-based' they mean, a normal election happened with traditional voting, and then some of the vote counters uploaded the tally of the votes they counted to a private blockchain