skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better examples:

Both

If (b == 3):
x = f(a)
else:
x = g(a)
return x

and

if (b == 3):
x = f
else:
x = g
return x(a)

are equivalent to:

if (b == 3):
return f(a)
else:
return g(a)

In every example the function call is in the tail position semantically. In the the two cases syntactically. The loop construct is hidden.
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I don't understand. Of course the orders don't move the price because any move away from 1.00 can be quickly arbitraged away. There is going to be massive liquidity in the books around 1.00 because that is its fixed, known price. There is no discovery happening here.
Nice. Thanks.

I'm very curious about H3's lat/long => hex cell system. I'll be studying their geoToH3 function soonest. https://uber.github.io/h3/#/documentation/api-reference/inde...
The only real strategy is to totally pollute the information with false and erroneous information, while also setting up ways to prevent tracking and fingerprinting and associating. I am somewhat surprised that someone has not yet really emerged as having developed a business model around assuring privacy. It could be dedicated routers with firewalls and built in VPN that also mask device names, combined with browsers and extensions that intentionally pollute browsing history and fingerprinting data, and sends bogus queries and also allows you to set policies for cookies in a little more user friendly manner to only retain specific cookies of specific domains, etc.
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I've been paying for YouTube Red (now Premium) ever since they started it. It's very much worth it. Between Netflix and Youtube you can replace cable.

It's frustrating how people complain about ad supported models while at the same time aren't willing to pay for it. So much entitlement. There's also the option of not consuming their resources.
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If you're afflicted with clinical depression, a good step may be to talk with a licensed clinical therapist to address a medical issue. If you're not experiencing clinical depression, then exploring your current employment options and formulating new career goals might more reasonable. Good luck.
"Missed opportunity" ?

People can be stabbed in the back if they go into dark alleys without watching behind them. Let's stab a few people who go into these alleys so that everyone will be afraid to do so and we have an opportunity to prevent people being stabbed in future by making them aware.

Why would you possibly think this is a good idea? The idea is to prevent pain, not cause more pain in some bizarre attempt at making people afraid. There's enough privacy violations - we don't need to be making more of them ourselves.
Current headline listed in HN: "Airbnb could plan to IPO by late 2020"

Actual headline on TechCrunch: "Airbnb aims to be ‘ready’ to go public from June 30, 2019, creates cash bonus program for staff"

That AirBnB could be ready for an IPO in 1 year is the way important date.
"Leaked" as in, some leftist operative that works there got access to it and sent it out to further foment this idiotic resistance movement against the conservative junta that itself is overturning the "swamp" or whatever you want to call the plutocracy that the US has become. The fucking resistance ought to take a chill pill and realize that what they are resisting is a return to "by and for the people" style of government but they're too stupid to understand that and they want their handouts, so there you go.
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I see your point, but I sympathise with it less and less as time goes on. Programming languages are just tools. Software development should strive to be a proper, rational, engineering discipline.

Humans aren't robots, but one's choice of development tools is steered by real forces, both technical and business. I don't see that whim, unconstrained by such forces, has any place in the decision. Same goes for curiosity.

If it were my decision to choose a language to use in production, I'd want to go with a safe boring choice like Python/Java. Mature and stable on lots of platforms, easy to hire for, plenty of libraries and tooling.

Taking a risk is sometimes the right thing to do, but I don't see choice of programming language as being one of those times.

It's not that I don't like neat languages like Crystal - I really do - and I'm certainly not trying to put them down. I just wouldn't want to try to argue to management that using it is in the company's best interest.
I love seeing this kind of content! It's awesome seeing how using a CMS like Forestry can make Jekyll and Hugo even more powerful.
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I didn't know it was that similar. Neat idea for a language.

The 'Boo' language does the same for Python.
Still... that's a pretty high number. I doubt 4M is true, it seems a bit exaggerated. Good for him if it's true though.
I think any computer scientist naturally and naively thinks about your 'quantum progression', since it relates to a transactional rate on interactions experienced in the local proper time of a particle, as it interacts with other real/virtual particles/fields.

For example, a particle in deep space experiences faster relative time, compared to one on Earth, because it has 'fewer transactions slowing it down'. The discrete 'tick' of proper time is then one iteration of the spinning polling loop the particle executes while waiting for something to interact with.

So if existence is (or requires) computation, then ....
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Or affirms it, someone developed a defense in our part of the universe
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Sorry, what is the meaning of TTT? I did a search but could not find a definition.

Edit: got it, trillion.
My gut feeling is that it is for backup solutions and storage in the cloud, not real time applications.
This is a great idea and solves a huge headache for hackathon organizers. Dealing with taxes and a multiple university accounts was a huge hassle at Bitcamp. We eventually became a non-profit which took over a year to complete. It would have been great to be able to use a service like this instead. Though, given the size of Bitcamp compared to most hackathons, it probably still would make sense to go through the extra effort to be our own non-profit entity.
Knowing what should be forgotten requires either foreknowledge of the future or relies on inaccurate predictions based on current assumptions. Thus the less information of uncertain usefulness that is retained, the more that those assumptions dictate what will be considered useful in the future without having to rediscover things entirely. That limits adaptability. Just try to imagine how many things were invented in the past that weren't seen as useful at the time and had to be rediscovered later. How many ideas were lost in the Dark Ages, for instance, because they offended religious sensibility at the time? If there is capacity to retain information in an organized way without undue cost, it should be retained as a hedge against future uncertainty. No single generation of humans should be trusted to make such decisions without being unduly influenced by the biases of their time.
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I'm no Tether expert, but late in the article, it suggests that new Tethers are supposed to be issued if the price reaches $1.1 .

It is interesting to me that there is any substantial demand for a Tether, when $1 is always worth $1. If Tethers are actually worth $1, why not convert them to dollars and avoid the counterparty risk entirely?
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I liked this post a lot.

I liked that they are doing this with the simplest and most well-understood techniques, matrix factorization+PCA.

Though I'm sure they're also trying end-to-end extra-deep programmatic multi-media networks with new kinds of convolutional layers, fancy residual connections, an experimental batchnorm variant, etc... I'd love to see if they squeeze more juice out of that.

As we make more of these semantic meaning-spaces like word2vec, or the meaning space of "photos of airbnb rooms", I think we could use some foundational UI design work to navigate them better.
Like, now you can navigate everything on stitchfix through a small 50-d space where every component is nearly orthogonal and can kind of be interpreted ahead of time+labelled.

Is "a binary tree in the form of playing N questions" the best way to go through them, or are there other options? Should we allow navigation in more than one dimensions at a time? Could we start with a few landmark, prototypical elements in each dimension? Have the user progressively clamp down the range in components, and show a PCA of the remaining components each time? Would a 3rd dimension (with VR?) help separate more dimensions at a time, giving you 50% more dimensions to show items on?

Computers are increasingly understanding our world and so far they understand it through these meaning spaces, so I think this would be incredibly important for the future of UI design and computer interpretability.
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yes, it's true there can be overfitting going on here. Yes it's true the article isn't clear about what exactly is expected to be learned to imitate. But i believe it's very similar to how kids learn. Sometimes you get baffled to how kids interpret your actions and what you ask them.

For example, i remember an adult asked a kid to recite the alphabet backwards, and surprisingly to all, he turned his body away from us and recited the alphabet from A to Z instead of what we were expecting (ie Z to A)!!

Anyway, we cannot deny the fact that these experiments are steps toward progress. Great job!
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Hrm. Your post implies that Crystal is more mature than Nim, is that intentional? If so, what makes you think that?
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> mentally ill

Ah, and what is health? We use this term to talk about physical health (infections, disease, cancer), mental health and also habits (eating healthy, or playing video games all day isn't healthy).

This starts to get really ambiguous. You're now applying societal standards, maybe throwing a little happiness index in there ...

We don't see living alone in solitude as healthy. Yet this man claims to be find after decades, with pretty minimal human interaction. What is health? What even is his identity?

If everyone made his decisions, humanity would cease to reproduce and exist? Is that were our baseline is? Homosexuality was in the DSM as a mental health condition. We treat anorexia as a mental disorder to be treated, as we do body integrity disorder, but we support gender reassignment surgery, even though they are all forms of body dymorphism.

I ask again, what is health?
Basic point is: If 37.5 moves the price 0.0002, and 13,076.389 only moves it by half that, then the second purchase is fake (trading to yourself). In reality, it might look like there are thousands of tether being traded around, but actually there are probably only a couple real trades, and relatively low volume ones at that.

That difference can indicate that the suggestion that they are backed by USD is bullshit. For example, they are likely avoiding hitting 1.10 on purpose so they can avoid scrutiny on re-issue.
Agreed. Having a startup, YC or not, have full access to our bank accounts is not giving me warm fuzzies.

I've asked our bank to make all ACH transactions above a threshold require manual authorization to improve our risk exposure. While ACH transactions can be reversed, it wouldn't be pretty do be without funds during arbitration.
Just as medical tourism is a thing, are we going to see privacy tourism emerge as an option? Tour operators can start offering packages...

"The sights of Paris and a personal information purge from the 100 largest US collectors"
Site is experiencing choke of HN frontpage I think.

Feels like this is serious crime. If caught, any idea what would be penalty for such abuse? 20 years Feds club?
We're currently using Crystal 0.25.1 with the Kemal web framework to provide an online paycheck calculator for US based employees (it's basically a demo/tool for our SaaS based accounting, payroll and fund raising app).

Really impressed with the language so far and hope to expand its use within our organization.
Kaczynski's lack a sense of history or worse a romanticized version of it. People were less free in pre-industrial society and more controlled not less. Despite the depictions it is important to remember that nature does not give a damn about you and life is accordingly harsh because of it.
it would be interesting if someone created a "Have I Been Pwned" service for these types of leaks, does anyone know if one exists?
>The database dates back to April 2017 and was uploaded a year later to a web server, believed to be owned by the organization, with no password protection.

A hallmark of negligence right there. Hard to grasp why the protocols weren't followed in this specific instance by Texas State University (which was hosting the database) given the extreme sensitivity of the information content and adverse fallout that could result -- public exposure of personally identifiable information of thousands of law enforcement personnel across the country.

A perfect example of what happens when data security and integrity protocols are taken for granted.
Wkhtmltopdf uses webkit, and at last check, an ancient version of WebKit at that.

This uses Google Chrome headless for the actual PDF generation.
Well, that does make this less romantic, but personally that was a romanticism that I put over the situation from my own bias rather than anything in the article. That is, there are many stories with idealists that use no modern tools, but I don't see that Nagasaki made any such claims to be fully self sufficient, only that he enjoyed where he lived.
Is it? If it were really of great value, would we have allowed it to errode?
I have noise cancelling headphones(bose qc20s). They don't work well on voices. I actually ended up with tinnitus partly because of listening to noise cancelling headphones at work all day (also sinus issues at the time likely made me more susceptible). Now, I can't listen to music loud enough to drown out voices without it setting off my tinnitus).

Headphones aren't the answer.
Fiscal union is no there yet but I think is the fist thing on the EU economic agenda. Before the immigration issue the fiscal union and a EU finance minister were the main subjects. Macron supported this even during his campaign.
Square may seem less important because of Stripe. This is also a very tech-centric viewpoint, as many B&M stores use Square.
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Has anyone mapped out all of the data brokers that are active in the US, what information they collect, what their sources are?

I imagine a lot of that info is proprietary, but I'd really like to understand this industry better. It's probably a foolish hope, but I really hope there are a few main choke points that one could opt-out of. If that's not possible, I could always try to inject bad data into the system, if I know what their inputs are.
Nothing impressive, existing architectures were used, InceptionV3, Xception and InceptionResNetV2. Fine-tuning those models resulted in a slightly worse accuracy.
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Hi, I'm the author. :-) You're very right, he could be incredibly frustrating to work with. I've always thought it was strange that we have so many incredible stories about working with him, but few people tell them. Or if we do, we talk about the good things he did. I was trying to do that too because I liked him and deeply miss him, but wow could he be annoying.
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Not sure where you get all this idea of complexity from, lazy streams are used in functional languages a lot for data processing and they are not incomprehensible, also imperative languages like rust has iterators that are more used than for/while loops.
Or treating it like any other database; and just using it because its 'popular.' Those 'developers' who do that (use popular just because,) are just the people who stain the title.
There may be demand for tether to use on exchanges that don't have real $ trading but otherwise have good liquidity on lots of tokens.
Oh I didn't mean to imply that. I meant I was researching mature/mainstream languages and outside of the scope of that research, it just so happened a friend mentioned Crystal. So I looked into it.

I know absolutely nothing about Nim so I can't comment either way.
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>Edit: Just remembered that of course Hume already understood this very well. "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."

Blegh. Neuroscientifically, "the passions" are just reasoning about your bodily and mental well-being. It can be reasoning better or worse, since "perception is unconscious inference" as Helmholtz put it, but these things largely amount to the same problem being posed with respect to different datasets.
Yeah you need to be careful what kind of iteration you do. Modifying pointers is likely problematic. Iterating over a range of integers on the other hand should be easy to optimize.

In most cases, it shouldn't matter and it's much more important to think about the data accesses, due to the relative slowness of memory.
'Decent'.

- ed

I should qualify this, lest it come across as mere snark - from my meanderings on the internet and a couple of visits to 3D printing shows, the machines that seemed capable/large/demi-industrial were made from extrusions and t-slots.

Certainly, where it comes to rigid forms necessary for (none- heavy industrial) CNC and such, they are heavily used.

eg. Germany's BigRep http://c93fea60bb98e121740fc38ff31162a8.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-...
Any recommendations on an editor for crystal? I was unable to get the VSCode extension to work properly.
I've always been amazed by all that interactivity and depth that DF can provide procedurally. And the amazing behaviors the NPCs can exhibit. How do you program something like this? It just seems like there are so many interacting layers of complexity and nuance. Does anyone know any good sources on how one programs an NPC like this to interact in such a complex procedurally generated world?
Tether is more convenient (faster) than exchanging for USD. And many exchanges don't support USD/Fiat so the only way to sell tokens for a stable currency is to exchange for Tether.
Interesting, I encountered that kind of strangeness aboard a Paris-Moscow, where my phone GPS tracker pointed me earth level in Pulkovo airport (Saint-Petersburg, Russia). I estimated I was over Belarus at that time.

I never got to the why of this behavior.

I did a screenshot of that event here https://ibb.co/eCrV9y
Considering he was working in hr, he was probably doing body rental of sap consultant and make the margin on top, if you are good in headhunting is a really scalable business
Exchanges with actual USD pairings generally have low volume (Kraken, on account of its terrible engine) or few coins listed (gdax, gemini). So if you want to hedge in fiat on a higher volume exchange like bitfinex or binance and also want to trade alts, you will need tether.

The price of tether will likely never reach 1.1 unless there are solvency concerns. Any price disparity between BtC/usdt and BTC/USD has historically disappeared, so you can pseudo-arbitrage these pairs across exchanges even though they are technically not the same. Kraken's USD/USDT pair also makes this bridge easier.
I don't know that this invalidates mtgx's general point. Right now, data brokers have effectively zero liability, but we don't treat other companies dealing with dangerous or toxic materials the same way. If a company handling money or munitions left their doors wide open, we wouldn't defend their gross negligence, we'd hold them accountable.
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I'm advocating for the letting go of things. Certainly there are things that are valuable to preserve, but preservation for preservation's sake, I think, is unhealthy. Will society really benefit from preserving every geocities site, every newgrounds flash game, every scrap of poorly written slashfic? Probably not. Are there instances of each that are culturally relevant? Sure, and it might be worth keeping those around longer.
Everyone has secrets, even if you're not harmed by this data leak illustrating how harmful one could be would move people I think.

Vaccines can give you a fever but we still take them because the short term side effects are worth the long-term benefit. Leaking this type of information to the public operates under the same principle.
Heh. This is a copy/paste comment from the last dozen leaks.
Funny because the whole 'we don't spy on US people.'

And now the 'whoops, we actually did, and are deleting them now, so nobody can cry foul.'

They got their use out of them, and to make sure and current(?)/future lawsuits won't have data; just delete it.
Are compilation times still incredibly slow?

That was the deal breaker for me with crystal, toy project of maybe a few hundred lines of code taking 30+s to compile

edit: specifically a static release compile, with

shards build --no-debug --release --link-flags "-static"
They are just using Illumina sequencers so they are simply taking a loss on each test.
Okay, this is funny.

I didn't see a link or blurb about who made this and why they have such disdain for crappy, overdone website templates.
Except that's a political nonstarter in the US.
The military has a 2FA smartcard authentication system that works really well, so it's not like it's infeasible.

A number of of very different groups are very opposed to the very idea: libertarians, (some) Christians, and (many) civil rights activist being the most vocal.