skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not really sure what this has to do with bayesian vs. frequentists?

the bayesian theorem is a mathematical fact. It's true if we just accept some basic axioms. Bayesian/Frequentist divide is also pretty independent from the problem, since it's purely math-based? We are not estimating something...In fact, an easy solution to the monty-hall problem is to just apply the base theorem and calculate the probabilities.
I'd like to see some documentation that rich people hoard cash. Note that money stuffed into a checking account is still invested - the bank loans it out to people who spend it.

Even so, I seriously doubt wealthy people have non-trivial amounts of money in checking accounts, because the interest paid on them is nearly non-existent. Wealthy people know how to manage their money, and investing it in 0% checking accounts, stuffing it in mattresses, or burying it in tin cans are all terrible investments.

Drug dealers wind up with large blocks of cash because they have difficulties laundering it so they can invest it. The idea that anyone else has pallets of cash in their basements is sheer nonsense.
Honest question: once a kid is old enough to have mastered/outgrown Legos, why not get them using real tools? I loved using Legos late into my childhood, but in retrospect as I got older it was probably closer to art than building. Art is of course fine, and art overlaps with building sometimes, but they are different.
This is a good idea. How can we get it done?
What is that principle?

I'm a fan of CC, and I see how it is valuable to people, but what is the core principle involved with not being paid for your work?

Honest question. Creative Commons is a wonderful thing. I'm just wondering what you mean by stating that you have a principled reason for releasing everything under CC.
There were plenty of groundbreaking physics results between Newton and Einstein.
Intel 8th Gen 'Bean Canyon' NUCs with Coffee Lake-U Iris Plus Revealed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17435071
Economics is inheritantly political. To not talk about politics in an economy class is to deny reality.
> Cement is the second-most consumed material in the world, after water.

This is repeated in the article but it doesn't sound right to me. Concrete is mostly stone and sand, with cement only making up 10-20% of the mixture. So both of those should be consumed more than cement is.
If freedom and democracy were universal values then they would have shown up in some of the earliest cultures, which they did not. You also wouldn't get large groups of people who don't think democracy is a good idea, and yet we have China.

Universal values are closer to, don't have sex with your mother or don't eat people and we still have notable exceptions for those
Nice video, thanks for sharing this.
People debate whether or not global warming is happening (or whether its man made). Does that mean the field behind global warming research a pseudoscience (by your definition)?
We don't limit credit issuance by banks, it's unconstrained.

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-inter...

> The fact that banks technically face no limits to instantaneously increasing the stocks of loans and deposits does not, of course, mean that they do not face other limits to doing so. But the most important limit, especially during the boom periods of financial cycles when all banks simultaneously decide to lend more, is their own assessment of the implications of new lending for their profitability and solvency. By contrast, and contrary to the deposit multiplier view of banking, the availability of central bank reserves does not constitute a limit to lending and deposit creation.
Thats pretty funny, because sr engineers at big tech are making close to $400k!

Rents and prices have disconnected about 2 years ago. Rents are flat or slightly down while housing prices have kept on going up.
The problem is because it's rentier activity it's wealth appropriation rather than wealth creation.

When wealth is created everyone is richer.

When wealth is appropriated for every winner there is a loser - zero sum game.
> clearly rape isn't such a big evolutionary disadvantage that no species exist with this trait.

If different species (with different evolutionary strategies) also have different moralities, would this not be a strong hint towards morality being based on evolution?
What's old is new again.

When the next demographic buys their first homes, they, too, are likely to want to live in the neighborhood into which they bought, and not into one with an increasing population density.
OK, but the OP's point was that academia is not simply some free-floating institution avoiding usefulness. Because some sorting algorithms were developed outside of a university doesn't contradict that.

Also both von Neumann and Hoare worked as professors. Von Neumann was a polymath and published plenty of academic papers. Hoare is still a professor. Are you implying that their work in academia had no value in developing those algorithms?
It's pretty much the justification for granting corporations limited liability, that the benefits of increased investment outweigh the harms of the limited liability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism

The words Communism and Marxism are quite meaningless without context after mid 20th century.

Granted, I am not a historian and most people who called themselves Marxists or Communists in the mid 20th century might have defended Stalinism.
well if you cant see any difference it probably mean you know very little about the institutions of one or both countries.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is another hoax. If it genuinely was Nakamoto they would not provide such detailed family information. There cannot be many publishing companies, even small ones, created by a woman, we would assume 50 years ago if it was his grandmother. Then we are looking for one with a daughter who is an author and narrow down from there based on whether they had children of a relevant age.
I think the that the virulent all-or-nothing Bayesian vs. frequentist debates are really more from earlier decades. These days most people are open to using techniques from both camps and are more interested in solving problems than being philosophically "pure".
Culture is important, but history and context are very important too. For example, it explains well why the US thrived economy post-WWII almost immediately while it took time for European nations to catch up.

Moreover, it sounds like there's a jump in logic in your post. Immigrants don't export their culture usually, they mostly adopt the new country's culture for the most part. Certain things are retained but people who've never immigrated before don't realize how much moving to another place changes you.
How to have difficult conversations: Introduce complexity
Your argument - that increased population causes the support infrastructure to buckle - is 100% false. If supporting a growing population was an insurmountable obstacle, then no city would ever grow. We know how to handle growth, this is a solved problem.
I do work in tech, and while that kind of comp exists, it's the exception and not the rule. There was a posting today here on HN about a database of salaries that more or less directly contradicts your assertion here.

Oh and your entire comment is based on the premise that tech isn't in a bubble (hint: it is).
Depends on the site. This page's source is still fairly readable.
I want to agree with you, but I don't think this is true. The average building height in Paris is 6 stories. People in my SF neighborhood cause a ruckus over 3 story buildings because they're too tall.
They were until about 2 years ago in SF.

You can chart the price / rental increases based on the marginal high earner. You have 1 'tech' salary rent levels and 2 'tech' salary rent levels.
Also remember these cars are built with KERS/DRS:

"During braking, a generator at the front axle converts the car’s kinetic energy into electrical energy. In the split exhaust system, one turbine drives the turbocharger while another converts surplus energy into electrical energy. The braking energy contributes 60 per cent, with the remaining 40 per cent coming from exhaust gas. The recuperated electrical energy is stored temporarily in a lithium-ion battery and feeds an electric motor on demand. “On demand” means: the driver wants to accelerate and calls up the energy at the press of a button. In accordance with the latest regulation changes, the power from the combustion engine is just under 368 kW (500 HP), and the output from the electric motor is well over 294 kW (400 HP)."
There was a time when search engines were a thing, and it seems they still are
Is there an actual historical example of this? Most civil wars throughout history aren't due to immigrants, it's usually due to geographical and cultural divides that have long existed in a country.
if they knew a crisis is coming, and they can see a way to profit off it, then that is what is going to happen.
No, humans have not evolved in hundreds of thousands of years, well beyond the beginning of recorded history.
> Well the fact is that most people drink alcohol

Most people drink alcohol =/= people are forced to drink alcohol. You've moved the goalpost.

> minimum age of 22-23 and proper education

Teens keep finding ways to drink and smoke, even though there are laws about selling to 18-21 year olds. The laws make it slightly harder, but in no way make it impossible.

> I would allow... I believe people should be allowed to control their life.

These two things are not compatible.
I'd be curious the real reasons for this, because the reasons listed in this press release sound like marketing-speak.
>But allowing more, denser housing to be built is one of the easiest, least burdensome solutions placed on the taxpayer.

I hear this argument many times but what I don't hear is how the city will get the additional revenue needed to service this new density?
An increase in the population requires more fire, police, swerer, water, roads, public transportation and schools. But a city can tax companies and collect sales tax.
I'm forced to work, but nobody's forcing me to work 9-5 every weekday.

it beats subsistence farming (tilling fields is hard work) or hunting for my food though
Interesting fact: there is actually a global sand shortage (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/sand-shortage-...)
If the concern is leaks, defense contractors like Galois might be able to get DARPA to change that policy. My idea would be a split between stuff that will definitely be FOSS and stuff that might be sensitive. Like Compartmented Mode Workstations or with Qubes, they could even isolate them in VM’s whose border color, labels, and firewall policies reflect the difference. The sensitive one would be used in a new, custom project or derivative that pulls in the open one. Whereas, the security policy wouldn’t led sensitive stuff interact with the Internet at all.

Quite a few products on the market for this on top of free stuff like Qubes or Muen. One can also use multiple boxes with KVM switch if worried about breaks. Anyone with DARPA or Defense experience think this proposal has a good chance of working?
Highly unlikely and looks like a creative fiction writing exercise. Author did some homework (looked at the Bitcoin prototype, Trammell & Dai emails, and forum analyses) but not enough, and makes some pretty glaring omissions: where's the goldbug aspect? Why was he so interested in online poker? Why does the PDF author claim to have not known of Usenet timestamping initially, when reading the Trammell emails shows he clearly was familiar with Usenet before it came up? Why the lame excuse 'my writing style has changed' (much for the worse, as well) for why it sounds nothing like Satoshi? Why the casual mention of AS without mentioning that the sum total use of AS would have been a boatload of money for a 20yo, especially one also supposedly paying for a bunch of servers doing CPU-mining for years? Why the antiquated C++ coding style especially if he is supposedly super young? Why use AWS, which is hardly very anonymous? And he's switched wordprocessing software too? etc.

(A lazy exercise too. At least the 'Satoshi Nakamoto' from last year went to the trouble of providing 'draft' whitepaper and sample source code, rather than a rambling 20-page memoir which hasn't been spellchecked.)
Note that this is not the CA/Browser Forum, the usual industry association you hear about. The CA Security Council is a group of a small number of old-guard CAs, which has been notable recently for pushing a distinction between (automatic) domain validation, organizational validation, and Extended Validation, mostly as a response to Let's Encrypt. The "London Protocol" appears to be a proposal for formalizing the distinction between DV and OV + EV: https://casecurity.org/2018/06/27/the-london-protocol/

If you look at this previous paper they (Entrust + Comodo) published, they're proposing that OV and EV certificates get padlocks and DV ones don't: https://casecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Incidence-... Or, in other words, you can't get a padlock from Let's Encrypt and you'll have to pay them for a padlock.

Compare with Google's plan at
https://blog.chromium.org/2018/05/evolving-chromes-security-... which just drops the padlock for everyone, treats plaintext HTTP as affirmatively insecure, and stops pretending that paying money to a CA means that you're a morally upright website.

A CA leaving the CASC seems like a good thing for the world.
Eh, you don't need to dismiss the impact of colonialism or have any notion of inherent racial qualities to think this is true. Having strong, consistent institutions and relatively low levels of corruption (or at the very least, concentrated and generally legal corruption) is a per se advantage of operating in a developed economy. If you don't have experience with the other side of things, you probably don't have a clear sense of just how gummed up the works can get with nonsense.
And D3 had 6.3m in its first week.

But since RoS is an expansion, rather than a sequel, it's fair to ask whether that's apples to oranges. I don't actually know.
Stripe just cut off Bitchute, so distributed platforms are facing some clear hostility from Silicon Valley insiders.
Property tax.
Not about licensing but someone on Reddit looked at Flickr's privacy policy and wasn't impressed; https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8v3v64/smugmug_bou...
I'm not aware of concrete stats, but anecdotally the porn industry suffers from extremely low margins caused by, among other things, incredibly pervasive content theft, horrifically low conversion rates, high rates of fraud, high rates of chargebacks, a lot of amateur producers happy to give their content away for free, etc.

Porn consumption is pretty common, but "nobody pays for porn" is a punchline for a reason.
I dont recall transpilers but SAFEcode and Softbound+CETS aim to make C memory safe with compiler transformations. The first was used on an OS, too.
...property tax?
Responding to both of your comments here:

It seems to me that generally we agree. But I want to clarify one bit: I don't advocate a monocultural/monolingual life. English is my L2, I also have an L3, and more a coming. My main argument was that if something required preservation efforts, it's by definition moribund. In deciding whether or not to try to revive a thing that needs preservation (including the environment, cultures, languages, traditions, etc.), I think that we should take a pragmatic approach: preserving the ecosystem is useful to us, so do it. Preserving a language with a 100 or so speakers with other means than making recordings, analysing it etc., e.g. trying to teach it to kids or adults, is basically impractical, and generally useless. Same with a culture that is detrimental to life in every way. If we think it's interesting, we can document it. But we should help the actual people out of primitive life.

The "emptiness of modern life" is nothing more than a poetical, romantic little sorrow in comparison to being killed for being a twin, or for being born to the wrong mother, or for being slightly disabled. I'm more than 100% sure that a starving kid in Africa or most of these tribespeople would take the "emptines of modern life" over whatever they have without giving it a second thought.
>why not just bring in 350 million Chinese

I don't think 350 million humans can just "come in" anywhere. I don't think it is logistically possible.

BTW, this isn't just an observation for observation sake. The magnitude of actual immigration that occurs is FAR lower than the current existing population because there are just physical limits to how many people can fit into a single plot of land. It makes arguments like the one you make far too abstract to be relevant to real life.
> It's awesome that the dataset is offered with a CC-0 license: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/data, does anyone know if it includes the answers from the survey?

I'm downloading it now, I'll have an answer in a half hour. Does anyone know if there is a torrent for it?
That’s rough... I think I’d actually prefer kibble!
Mining the Sky
That's a big part of it. Another big, enduring part is that Taiwan is living proof that Chinese culture and democracy mix perfectly well (something the CCP tries to deny) and a living body of culturally Chinese people who have experience with democratic governance. In other words, it's a big looming legitimacy boulder sitting above the CCP's head -- they fear every day that it will break off and fall.
OK, sure, but it's always local to you, unless you choose otherwise. Or get pwned. And yes, I get that the Bitcoin etc exist out there in the P2P blockchain, and that wallets just manipulate it. But the point is that some third party can't take your Bitcoin etc, unless they learn your keys.
you succinctly described what bothers me about reading the economist.
Rice: 3535 kcal/67g protein for £0.45

Lentils: 3530 kcal/258g protein for £1.75

Together they form a complete mix of all the important protein subtypes. Mix 9:1 because lentils have a lot more protein and rice is a lot cheaper. Scale down intake to match calorie requirements. @2500 kcal/day: £0.29 rice, £0.125 lentils.

Vegetables: 5 portions for £0.45

(Government recommends 5 portions per day for healthy diet).

Total: £0.855 per day for recommend daily male calorie consumption. £0.76 for women.

$1.13 for men. $1.00 for women. Close enough.
I was actually thinking of the Top Gear review of the R34 Skyline, which shows a 2-axis G-meter (so basically the same thing). Not sure if this was ever standard equipment, though, since I can't find reference to it elsewhere.

Source: https://youtu.be/oAp1CXnAqGs?t=50s
> Crypto currencies is a solution to this problem and not just in porn.

By which you mean, the solution for the high rate of people initiating chargebacks is to just use a payment method which won't let them? I think the underlying problem is that people want to make chargebacks, not that Visa lets them. And if I'm right, then you'd expect to see customers refusing to switch, since from there point of view this isn't the solution to a problem, it's taking a solution away from them.

> We have still only a few customers using them though, so it's not a success yet.

Not a surprise, really, is it?
"The ideals in question prominently featured faith in the power of reason. Aron’s discrimination showed itself in his recognition that reason’s power is always limited."

That's the key point. There have been two competing traditions in Western philosophy, going back to the Greeks. They have to do with the various finitudes that humans experience, such as ignorance, death, and suffering.

According to one view, these are illusions and not only is human understanding potential infinite, but so are all the other types of finitude that interconnect with it. Perhaps the most famous proponent of this view is Plato.

The other view, perhaps first made clear by Aristotle, is that human beings and human existence, while they can be improved in important ways, can never be made perfect because our ability to understand the world and act in it are always limited.

In the modern era, Marx thought we could abolish most or all finitudes, and have a utopia. Some liberals also think something like this, but the Anglo-American political tradition is more on the Aristotelian side, as was Aron.
The problem of outliers not being able to fully maximize their earnings under collective bargaining is a substantially smaller issue than everyone being underpaid without collective bargaining.
There's also https://unsplash.com/ which is a great project
I use YouTrack, which retains a lot of the power of Jira, but I find nicer, especially multi project planning ( ie it makes it easier for planning when you have people spread across multiple projects )

It's not without its warts though.
My wife and I just made 4 pizzas on this last night. It is great but the edges around the pizza were golden brown and not that bubbly crispy crust you get in pizzerias. I am convinced now more than ever that the dough is the critical procedural element we were getting wrong. She used a 1 hour dough where even the pizza steel recommends a 72 hour one. Needless to say, she has one in the proofer for Wednesday night.
> I would like to contribute to a series of non-monetized open source apps. Its possible that many truly free apps exist and I just cannot find them.

This is the biggest gripe I have with the (android) app store's search engine: You can't filter by license, by ads and other... I really like the filtering done by both sourceforge[0], alternativeto[1] and similar in this regard.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/

[1] https://alternativeto.net/
All very true. I'd just naively assume that the risk of some very negative PR isn't worth it when you can largely mitigate it by providing just a few weeks notice. Clearly, they didn't see it this way.
I think much of what people are objecting to is that, by virtue of its position as an _invite only_ paid service, it provides insight to only the employer party of a two-player game.

It is apparently purpose-built to allow only the employers to arbitrage that extra insight into hiring patterns.
That's very important in cooking in general, but is definitely not the most important part of baking pizza. Heat transfer is a lot more important, that's why different cooking surfaces (e.g. stone vs. steel) can yield dramatically different pizzas, even at the same temperature. You're going to get a maillard reaction no matter what.

https://slice.seriouseats.com/2012/09/the-pizza-lab-the-baki...
People a few hours away can have different cultures and languages, but you think people literally months away from each other will somehow be more united? Why? How much in common will a third gen asteroid miner who can die if his environmental controls so much as hiccup have in common with someone living in a functioning biosphere? A coal miner and s Wall Street banker already see each other as practically from different species, just wait until they more or less are.
It's fortunate: you'd be up the creek without a paddle now otherwise.
When I first solved it I selected B but when I sat down to type it down I spotted 3-4 and thought that was the one I had gone with originally.

But in the solution they motivate the specific selection of B by stating that in the provided lists of pairs, the pairings are all with the greater number first.

Hence actually what I typed above is incorrect and the correct answer is B.

Sorry about that :(