skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that you're so confident that it's impossible. How were those euro debts held by Ireland reduced by 97%? I'm going to assume you're an expert so it should be pretty obvious from the absurd source data they released.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31011519/EU%20Debt%20Wri...

My guess is that the largest majority of debt is held by ECB and the banks (e.g by Greece held in Germany) who had their own debts written off (e.g. Landes banks) or held at negative yields for a decade through quantitative easing.

The implication of your statements is that a significant portion of bonds are held by individuals, and yet my knowledge of the US market in 2008 would indicate that maybe 10% are held by non-institutional players.

Real US rates were negative for years 2009-2014, but maybe the ECB didn't do that, although I remember hearing they had.
The entire information world is either a database or a cache (or communication between them), layered on top of each other over and over. Every new storage technology typically ends up being yet another layer as either database or cache (or both). This case is pretty unique in that it can actually serve to remove a layer: ram (typically a cache) is not necessary if nvs is viable at the same speeds. But in general new storage tech just adds another layer, which the software world reacts to by rushing in as if to fill a void by creating new software to take advantage of it which ends up being... another database or cache, often with similar tradeoffs to the layers of cache/database surrounding it. In the limit, I see more and more layers of cache/database until they merge into some kind of continuous data/cache field with a continuous tradeoff gradient between size and latency.
I share the same sentiment.
The state of modern mathematics exposition is well summarised IMO by "they like the logically most efficient path; that rarely coincides with the pedagogically most efficient one", to paraphrase.

I also have an anecdote similar to yours regarding Hamilton and vectors: I think it was in one of the "Analysis Infinitorum" (Euler) that I found the natural logarithm being called the "hyperbolic logarithm" (it was the English translation of course). When I was a kid I was perplexed by how everyone seemed to insist on using e as the base of their logarithms and exponentials -- why the hell? Reading Euler's treatment of the subject would have been very satisfying then.
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The CPU has internal state as well that won’t be persisted - at the very least the registers.

Would be to save them when you notice power loss.
What all these bots need are phrases/scripts that the public can feed to them.

The phrases that keep them on the line the longest get played in the pool more frequently.

Long recordings get automatically posted to youtube.

They're so internet 1.0, we need to get to 2.0!
This exists, and it's called a secretary.
> I almost wish we had a formal system of language

You mean "legalese"? The language used in law is very specific and nuanced. I enjoy how similar it is to programming, where a bug in the source language can be exploited, much how imperfections in legal documents can be used as a loophole.

I'd love to see a software system that is able to reliably output high-quality legal documents. If developed in the open, any lawyer could theoretically contribute and help avoid loopholes for everyone. In theory we could build a framework that makes it easy to write loophole-free contracts that are easy for all parties to understand.
Because, the argument in the 1970's went, is that if the EPA were to allow every state to set their own, competing standards, then the result would be a mess, requiring a different car models for each state with the worst case scenario being contradicting standards. The EPA then granted California a waiver; LA's pollution was quite bad in the 80's which likely helped California's argument.

Other states were allowed the adoption of adopting the stronger California standard or using the weaker EPA's, but the goal was to avoid a hodgepodge of different laws.
First step is to be acquainted with their previous research. Understand the direction they are taking and what their interests are. Find advisors whose work you think you can build on through your PhD. Write down what you are interested in working on and how it relates/expands/builds on your potential advisor's. Then contact them sharing just that and start having a conversation - they will surely have feedback and ideas for directions that your research could take.
If that’s the case then the app in the article isn’t displacing Outlook but instead a tiny web based fraction of it - something that should be a lot easier.
So you're mad that CA is socializing the side-effects of their regulation because you'd like to socialize the costs of your pollution?
> The diagrams above show the before and after situation, based on analysis done by students. The simulation itself took place on May 17th 2011 and involved three separate trading rounds.

> Students in the Pre-Masters Year of the ESCP Europe Masters in Management program took part in the trial run on March 22, 2011, which involved only the PIIGS countries. The key results were the following:

It's a student experiment
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That wouldn't be the issue here. The question is not whether the federal government gets to set standards at all under the Commerce Clause.

Instead, the issue here would be whether the Act of Congress that specifically governs air efficiency standards gives any quarter to this administration's laughable potential reasoning for not granting a waiver that the law dictates must be granted by the EPA Administrator to allow any state to exceed the federal standard.
Is it not practical to just saddle the dataset and compute request with a canary payload that is easily computable by the requestor?

If one can spoof the canary payload effectively, one would have broken the FHE scheme, probabilistically, right?

Unless I'm thinking about this wrong, the FH part of FHE makes this a pretty solvable problem. Is this not already fundamental to any FHE scheme?
That's an interesting idea. It seems like it would be a way for tools to flag "this function is likely to have changed in an interesting way", but changing invariants doesn't necessarily mean the function breaks semver.

For one, an invariant might be changed syntactically, without actually changing what it is asserting, reducing to exactly my example above: in its simplest form, the contract could go from in(true) to in(halts("...")).

Secondly, an contract could have been made more permissive, e.g. in(x > 1) becoming in(x > 0), or out(y > 0) becoming out(y > 1). Assuming violating a contract is regarded as a programming error (as in, it isn't considered breaking to go from failing an assertion to not failing), these are also non-breaking changes.

Lastly, changing behaviour doesn't necessarily mean changing invariants/contracts.
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- Call your phone provider, ask them to block all incoming international calls.

- Ask international callers to use an app instead.

I used to get calls every day and after doing this it stopped.
> One can imagine some combination of the primitives in which you could prove that you added here the same amount you subtracted from there, that neither total is below zero, but for which the number actually transferred is encrypted

You are exactly describing Mimblewimble.

https://github.com/ignopeverell/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.m...
Unfortunately the file with data and sources is no longer available.
Yup. This is yet another forgotten aspect of software bloat - as it continues, it makes dirt-cheap computing unfeasible, because by the time you get e.g. something like Raspberry Pi, it's already too weak to run software/websites you'll encounter daily.

I get that world isn't fair and poor people keep getting the short end of the stick, but in this case - software bloat - it's really mostly just aggregate of individual choices. So for cryin' out loud, be a little more lean with frameworks and libraries you use. Treat it as if it was charity contribution, if you have to, because in a sense, it is.
You can still get phished, and have your password be stolen. It just doesn't allow you to login in to the FIDO protected resource. Other endpoints might still work if they dont' require FIDO or you reuse the password.
> and make swap again viable

You shouldn't work in political marketing :-)
All this talk about how horrible Ambien is and how it should be banned, and yet no discussion of dosage? Ambien effects are extremely dose-sensitive. I've taken it for years to help me sleep and have never had an unpleasant experience or amnesia. That's probably because I've never taken more than 5 mg; usually 3 mg is enough.

10 mg for an average-sized adult is edging into the danger zone, and at 20 mg you'd better have somebody sober in the house to take away your car keys.

I suspect that in many cases doctors are simply prescribing doses that are too large.
It happened to my buddy who happens to be millionaire and flies every few weeks cali versus new york. Two years ago state of california sued him for non payment of taxes. It went down to literally receipts from gas station making difference proving he spent over 183 days in new york versus cali. intresting - credit card purchases were not admitted because state tried to prove he used proxy (he does) so he could be in any state when purchasing off of Amazon. He won and gov appealed Then cali went after new york asking for all the evidence of his taxes knowing new york wont comply. For over year both states fight with each other with my friend being literally non-involved. Eventually cali dropped the suit some 16 months after filing appeal.
Back in 2006, in highschool, I was investigating multilayer feed-forward NNs. I found them magical. I wrote the XOR problem etc. etc.

What always confounded me was the choice of the number and width of hidden layers. This is even now more confusing with the advent of deep and recursive networks. We need empirical work on this, that can be taught in much the same way that gravity is taught as an apple falling from a tree.

We need a determination of the entropy of a network, how to route that entropy and expolit it. Specific scenarios are not adequate.
As I replied in another comment, even C++ still compiles faster in non-template heavy code.

I can iterate faster in UWP, C++/CX projects than what it takes to compile my dummy Gtk-rs project from scratch.

The factors that affect it I guess are the incremental compiler and linker, binary libraries (which cargo doesn't support) and whatever the Pango bindings are doing during their compilation.
How is the current exceptional focus on taxes a productive policy? Taxes are investment in your (country/locality). While nobody likes the cost of investment, our lives and prosperity and everything else depends on it. And while some investments are worthwhile and some are not (just ask any VC!), to say we should minimize and avoid all investment is, of course, ridiculous. For example, nobody would suggest you minimize investment in your home unless you were leaving soon, or would advice YCombinator to minimize investment in startups unless they simple wanted to close out business now. You can't leave your country (or you must live somewhere) and it's never going out of business, you hope.

Places with low investment (and taxes) in the U.S. and around the world generally have a lower quality of life and don't produce much beyond rent-seeking industries such as fossil fuels. Is the goal to model the U.S. economy on the great successes of places like Alabama,[0] or would it be better to model it on California or New York? Almost all leading industries, as well as education, arts and other things, are in high-investment places like California, New York, Michigan (automobile industry), etc. Successful people from low-investment areas move to high-investment areas to pursue their dreams, for straightforward economic reasons: that is where resources are. Tim Cook, from Mobile Alabama, comes to mind as well as the many entrepreneurs in SV from India. Almost nobody born in SV moves to Mobile to start their business. Smart kids from California go to Berkley, not U of Alabama, because the state has invested in higher education. The smartest kids from Mobile go to Berkley too (or to other leading universities in high-investment places).

Poor countries are a simple example: They invest little out of necessity and their citizens are poorly educated and live harder and shorter lives. Under U.S. tax and investment policy, uniquely among wealthy countries life expectancy for Americans is now decreasing.

[0] My apologies to Alabamans for using their state as a simplistic example of low-investment government. Of course there is much more to Alabama than that, and it's much more complicated than a simple number or stereotype.

EDIT: some clarifications and enhancements
> In theory we could build a framework that makes it easy to write loophole-free contracts

You mean similar to how, in theory, we could build a framework that makes it easy for us all to write readable, bug-free code?

Edit: I was mostly being tongue in cheek, but I also recognize that this is about provably correct code à la Coq, etc. That'd be cool for sure. :)
Doesn't deserve the flag IMO, Tesla is an emotional topic for many people. While there certainly have been hit pieces and hack journalism throughout the companies existence, I think this one has enough meat to be worth discussing.

Like most investors, I'm long TSLA. Both index and individual shares.
> or not needed for "compelling and extraordinary conditions".

To clarify, here's the original quote:

> No such waiver shall be granted if the Administrator finds that—

> (B) such State does not need such State standards to meet compelling and extraordinary conditions

That is, the heightened state standards themselves must be justified by compelling and extraordinary conditions, in the judgement of the EPA administrator. (Your trimmed quote suggests an alternate interpretation where they'd need compelling and extraordinary reasons to reject the state standards, but it's the other way around.)

It doesn't sound hard to me for the EPA administrator to argue that there are no longer "extraordinary" conditions specific to California that justify additional regulation. Apparently, when the language was initially enacted in 1970, it was meant to refer to smog episodes in Los Angeles [1]...

[1] https://theconversation.com/why-california-gets-to-write-its...
Fortunately in software we can patch in a matter of moments.

Unfortunately bugs written in legalese tend to take years or decades to patch.
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I released an android app with 6 large buttons to control different types of sirens on emergency vehicles, been in use for a few years now.
Yes and no. When I first started getting into this stuff I was amazed at the difference good feature selection and feature engineering made and I was meticulous about it. But in many real world cases now, an expert human can’t do it as well as quickly as a DNN running on multiple K80s. It all boils down to economics in the end.
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There isn't even any exchange rate risk as both Ireland and Portugal are in the Euro.
Agreed. Almost all of his actions can easily be explained by looking at how it is benefiting old money — coal, mining, oil, sugar, cars, cable, telecom etc. He is just helping last century’s industries hold onto their power.
Sure, they can make that argument and then attempt to try to sell "climate change isn't real" in a fact-focused forum. That's not going to go too well for them.

The Administator's discretion to get out of giving a waiver that shall be granted is pretty limited.
When Congress passed the Clean Air Act they wrote an exception for California into the law. If they don't like it they should get Congress to change the law.
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This is insane. Why don't we just pay the federal government the entirety of our tax obligation and have them partition it out to the states? I'd love to spend less than half the year in any one state or be completely state-less.
Voice will only do it, when I can actually speak on my mother tongue and be understood.

Being forced to use foreign language to talk to my car system and playing accents until the system finally gets it, means I don't bother using it at all.

As for touch screens, having had a near miss with, I also avoid using them as much a possible.

I need tactile feedback.
Maybe more similar to strongly typed languages vs weakly typed languages rather than frameworks. Static types, linters, virus scanners, etc.
> You mean "legalese"?

No, more so something that could be verified using an interactive theorem prover; e.g., Coq (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq).

All lawsuits would then consist of running a computer program against the legal "code".
Every time I see posts about car touch screen interfaces, and the associated UX problems, I am reminded of this video I saw a few years ago [0].

I think it is an elegant solution (only allow ONE thing to be controlled by the touch screen at a time), however will require a lot of learning and remembering to get used to all the different gestures.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbuk3jizGM
> Engineers with a resume headline "I build monolithic kernel operating systems for fun" vs "I build microkernel operating systems for fun" will have significant hiring delta biased towards the monolithic specialists.

No, they won't.
I don't want to breathe polluted air because car companies cannot be arsed to manufacture 2 spec cars. It's their problem
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Too bad ML as a service is already largely cornered by $FANG

Wat?

Neither Facebook nor Netflix offer outsiders access to their ML platform, and you completely forgot Azure, which IMHO has the most mature offering of the big 3 in this space.
London doesn’t have the annual property taxes on held real estate that exist in the USA.

There is a one-off stamp duty at purchase time. But if you buy a property, you can hold it without further taxes.

*there is something called council tax, but it’s usually minimal, eg £2k max in many outer London boroughs, and in he case of rentals paid directly by renters.
Inspecting it shows that D3[0] and CARTO(.js)[1] are being used.

[0]: https://d3js.org/

[1]: https://carto.com/docs/carto-engine/carto-js/
The other states can either accept the federal standard or the CARB standard. The states adopt the California standard because it’s better, not because the feds are forcing them.
I am 25 now. Until 3 years ago, my dream was to become really good at computer science, move to the US and join Google. I have always had interest in ancient history so I tried to look more into Indian ancient history since I am Indian. I sincerely tried to understand the oldest scriptures which I could find which led me to commentaries & books written by people ranging from millennia old to present living and surprisingly most of them talking about the same thing ( at least the authentic ones ). I wouldn't say that I have become more religious and I am totally against any kind of belief. Currently, I would say that I have committed my life to find truth (not facts) and filtering out lies from my life, mainly through personal experiences and propelling my search by looking at pointers from others.

I will still continue to learn cool things in the domain of computer science because I enjoy doing it, but after all the reading and understanding I have done in the past three years I already feel more open and accepting to everything that comes my way, which was earlier limited to only a handful of interests.

I definitely do not have a time limit set until which I plan to work and retire and then decide to start living. I know that I am living a pretty good life and I am making it more wholesome as it comes.

My advice to a 25 year old would be to take time out, if you aren't already, to see what you have been doing and what you really want to do, irrespective of whether you see that as a passion or not, but when you get to do what you have decided to do, do it wholeheartedly so you can enjoy the act itself instead of waiting for the fruit of that action to enjoy. Happiness is not "there" and "then", it is always "here" and "now".
New York and California were not high tax states when they build the foundation of their wealth.

And taxes aren’t an investment, and neither is most government spending. Most government spending is actually diverted to connected insiders.
The Trump administration cannot have us breathing clean air, lest it impacts a fraction of some companies bottom line. What's next ? Force us to fire up some coal powered plants ?
The other states have the choice of the CARB standards or the EPA standards.
You assume I’m for open source. That’s the problem.
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> The implication of your statements is that a significant portion of bonds are held by individuals

No, mostly banks and other large institutions. The ECB only holds about 1/5 (2 trillion out of about 10 trillion).
That’s what you get with this in low light conditions: a 12MP image. If enough light is available, you get a 48MP image. Best of both worlds, so to say.
Normal MFA is the user answering a challenge. Hopefully that challenge came from the expected site, but it is up to the user to verify the authentication/authenticity of the site. If the username/password/OTP challenge came from someone actively phishing the user, the phisher can use the user's responses to create a session for its own nefarious purposes.

Verifying the authenticity of a site is something that has been demonstrated both to be nontrivial and also something that the majority of users cannot do successfully.

U2F/WebAuthn tie the identity of the requesting site into the challenge - by requiring TLS and by using the domain name that the browser requested. So if the user is being phished, the domain mismatch will result in a challenge that cannot be used for the legitimate site.
I have never lived in CA. but I have been affected by CA's usurpation of the market. Let me explain...

CA wrote extraordinarily strict rules (maybe the Feds will call them "arbitrary and capricious" ?) that unduly penalized diesel engines. As a result, great diesel engines and often the cars that go in them, that are sold in other parts of the world, are not available in the USA.

Since CA is such a large market for cars, a car maker will usually not bother to make or import a car that they can't sell in CA.

So, I am harmed by CA's standards and have no recourse - I can't vote in CA state elections because I don't live in CA.

The BMW 320d, which is sold all over EU etc. and has better performance and better fuel economy than the Toyota Prius? CA won't allow its sale because of their regulations.

Meanwhile, up to 29% of SF Bay Area smog is from China (I found different quoted numbers ranging from 20 to 29%)... which has nothing to do with cars being driven by Americans.

see https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/03/518323094...
Given the record breaking Summers and ever growing wild fires that would be a tough argument
You could make this argument about any state law. The companies that cross state lines have to eat the costs of compliance. Should we not allow state laws anymore? Or no local laws at all, since the same issue holds true for counties and cities?
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