skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crypto portfolio optimization with Python and Tensorflow
They should be replicable despite a lot of that, if they aren't then then the original study is garbage.
Interest on federal debt owned by the US private sector is fiscal stimulus, because it is net expansive for private balance sheets. Likewise, when the federal reserve holds treasuries and remits the interest back to the treasury it’s draining reserves from the economy.

While out of control high interest rates have serious drawbacks, there are definitely solid arguments that rewarding savers with a higher safe return than the current 0.5-2% available now will benefit the people.
James Hamilton of AWS

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/

Jordan Mechner's journals about making Prince of Persia

http://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/

WARNING: You may find yourself staying up all night to page through one of them in entirety. I did.
Ask HN: How would you design an enterprise (B2B) user permissioning system?
It seems that most enterprise applications I've worked with have very different approaches, and I'm wondering if there are best practice/time-tested architectures or resources. Thank you!
Somewhere in the multiverse, all software is developed with the care that biotech requires, and there's much less of it, but people don't have to put up with crap.
This is a very good point. Thank you.
That's just equal footing, I say.
Congrats Josh!
I always found it ironic that the controls on my CPAP machine have bright blue back-lighting - and no obvious way to adjust it. It would light up the whole bedroom if I didn't put an old hand towel over it.

OTOH, our clock-radio has a nice, warm and dim orange display.
Create a Linear Regression model with Tensorflow and use it in an Android app
What about algae-based solutions?

I'm curious where the phosphorus and mineral losses come into play. Is it not totally feasible to repurpose the waste products of fuel production back into fertilizers?
This is the key insight. The equation GDP = C + I + G + (X – M) makes it clear that as G grows relative to the other factors, the private sector has less control over the economy.
In modern Chinese and Japanese, the first Chinese character for the word "bank"（银行）means "silver".
Building a Custom Machine Learning Model on Android with TensorFlow Lite
I'll let current googlers comment on that. That's how it worked 3 years ago when I was there. You could also let Borg learn how much a job is going to use, but no serious service that I'm aware of used this for anything in Prod.
Not that I can recall.
For those who haven't heard of Joe Duffy's error model post (like me):

http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/
Moving slowly enough for whom to step off? The 90 year old lady with a walker? The toddler? Stephen Hawking in his wheelchair?

How slow is it going to accommodate every single person's movement capacity? How small is the gradient between each belt to allow them to move between belts? How wide does this whole thing end up needing to be?
> although pointless and impractical

I disagree. Consider computational biology papers – you should be able to show me code that takes the raw data and turns it into your results. Peer review is a sort of global, public code review in this case. There is a lot of value (education, validation, propagation, sharing, etc), and it's completely practical. Sadly, we (as a field) are nowhere near that, IMO.
Quite fun.
What is this "reunification" you speak of? Taiwan has never been part of the PRC. Before its current state, it was part of Japan. You could go back to the peak of the Qing Dynasty, but clearly that isn't a nation that currently exists.

It's like talking about "reunifying" Austria with Germany based on the previous borders of the Holy Roman Empire which once contained both.
Yet I get ads for something I bought weeks ago, I get ads saying "sign up for Facebook" even though I'm logged in on the very same phone, and Facebook's "advertising profile" is completely backwards for my political views. When I accidentally click a certain type of YouTube video my recommend fills up with that type of video even if I watched it for 5 seconds. Same with Amazon recommended.

In my experience, "personalized recommendations" are universally trash
I don’t get the downvotes, there is some truth here. I even skimmed a doctoral thesis supposed to be in the field of linguistics where the author declared her work was also made as an activist. Too many papers made by too many "academics" are straight made up ideological essays with no grounding in reality nor in science.
Depends on what you mean by "ads". I stopped using FB since April but still use WhatsApp because my contacts use it. In the last 2 weeks, I've been getting email spam notifications to check what these WhatsApp contacts are doing on FB. i.e. FB has been sending me notifications about people who are both on FB and on WhatsApp, and only those with whom I message on WhatsApp on a regular basis. The likelihood of this being entirely coincidental is probably close to 0.
how do you know that those two groups aren't collaborating for the same result? Or biased in the same direction of the result?

you don't. You either add a 3rd party (4th... 5th...6th... Xth)or accept the conclusion. If you add a third party how do you know they are trust worthy: infinite regression.
To be pedantic, equal footing here would be about GPU resources needed to interpret the images. The point I mentioned was about the GPU resources needed to render them to the screen in the first place.
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that may be true now but I think its fair to say that the fear is it will lead to banking data being sucked into the FB ecosystem followed by any number of scary scenarios.

if your argument is 'oh you dont have to use it', that doesn't works either because they can offer you a slight service/rate discount depending upon the desperateness of you situation. remember FB already has access to a lot of your data through FB/whatsapp/insta & pretty pervasive tracking everywhere. they are rapidly achieving monopoly status in many communication forms so some panic is warranted when they go after your banking or healthcare data.

let me paint a picture not too implausible for you. you walk into a hospital, as it stands today there is no way you can find out the costs of services you are gonna consume without having to go through the complicated dance of billing/negotiation/copays etc. Now say there is a tie-up between FB/Banks/Insurance companies (and hospitals because why the heck not). they can track you, find exactly how much money you have & what your cash flow looks like. you have to be incredibly naive to think they will not use this information to create some kind of 'adaptive pricing' to squeeze every last penny out of you before they let you go. now let take this a step further, how about FB turning into a kind of payday lender for your unpaid hospital bills? All you need is one in-elastically priced service to monetize the shit out of that.

this is just one example that took me 2 minutes to think, it can get WAY worse!

the bigger issue that (IMO) bothers people deeply but they are often dont articulate is tech used to be about building bridges but now tech is basically trying to turn everything into a toll-booth.
I generally like Microsoft, but their official support channels are pretty terrible. Just go looking for something in the MSDN forums - a large percentage of the posts from "Microsoft" people are telling the customers/developers that they posted in the wrong forum (often incorrectly), or suggesting some inane thing that the original post already specified and then closing the thread. GitHub issues are slightly better, although if you get off the beaten path of the new hotness, responses get very thin.

You're much better off trying to find some backchannels via MVPs on Twitter or through blogs, or figure out the developers or evangelists that give talks on this kind of stuff and contact them directly.
High-performance framework for native DOM.
Thanks! I found an audio version/adaptation, will listen later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAlagNId3fw
As the article notes, anywhere doesn't really mean anywhere. :-)

Movies Anywhere movies will show up within Microsoft's Movies & TV apps, even if they were bought on competing platforms. At least, so long as you live in the US, because "anywhere" does not actually mean "anywhere."
Minimalist Library for CoNLL-U
Critical decline of earthworms due to modern farming practices
The cheap ones are just as good.
Update from Facebook that sounds more reasonable. Seems like the journalists kinda bungled this one.

"Facebook says it doesn’t plan to build a system to let US customers review their checking accounts; the company also claims it’s not seeking access to credit card usage data; Facebook suggests it’s interested in offering transaction alert tools and other services via Messenger; the firm already provides similar features in many other countries"

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/facebook-banking/
Historically sailors were actually quite bad swimmers. The thinking was that any man who fell overboard was basically dead anyway, as the ship was unlikely to be able to turn around and get him before he drifted away (sailing boats aren't exactly precision vessels). All swimming enabled a man to do was prolong his suffering, treading water in the middle of the open ocean for a few days before dying of exposure.

More-over, much of British naval strength was press ganged and an inability to swim meant once aboard the men were easier for officers to control. They were stuck there, and couldn't jump ship and swim to shore to escape their bondage.
Clearances can take time and become burdensome if it's an absolute requirement. When I was in school one of my teachers said his dad's company had to repair air conditioning equipment at a special forces training base, and what he described was similar (except this is prior to cellphones, so no electronics destruction). The alternative is costly and time intensive security clearances for every conceivable profession and to share it across the country. It makes sense for janitors and common forms of maintenance, but for less common things this is a viable workaround.
Adjust your 30% for the CoL increase ;)

Also, many would rather be slightly worse off economically and live under a slightly less authoritarian (in the dictionary sense of the word) and paternalistic government/society than the reverse.

I've lived in all three of the states in question here. It's not just the guns and the fireworks. It's really hard to explain without using imprecise and loaded words (specifically "socialist" and "individualist") or making sweeping generalizations but there's just something about society in NH and ME that's much more permissive of basically whatever an individual wants to do and nicer to people whereas in MA everyone expects everyone to step in line and act however the "right" way to act is. This difference seems to be reflected in all levels of government (government is of course made up of individuals who have personal beliefs and biases). It's also hard to over-state how much nicer people are in the rural parts of NH and ME than they are in MA.

I'd also say that the government in MA gets in everyone's way whereas in NH and ME it stays out of people's way. When I spend over an hour on public transit in MA daily and the regulars I ride with are always complaining about government (state and local). They're complaining about "the MBTA did bad thing W", "some other department did bad thing X", "the state cops are covering for their buddies doing bad thing Y", we pay all these taxes and they can't even get Z done"
That stuff is just not even a consideration in NH and ME. Then the government isn't a source of problems for people in those states. It probably sounds like I'm over-focusing but it really creeps into every aspect of your life.

And FWIW the economic argument isn't gonna resonate with me. I'm probably gonna take a huge pay cut in a few years to move to one of those places and I have in-laws who moved from MA to upstate VT because "being poor sucks less in BFE Vermont than it does in southeast MA." (I'm paraphrasing).

A lot of this is the difference between urban and rural and not the states in themselves but northern New England is much more rural than southern New England and it shows at the state level so it's effectively differences between states because you can't get the NH experience by moving somewhere rural in MA (lol, tried that).

I guess if you just want to live in a typical apartment, work a typical job, live in a typical house, pursue typical and unobtrusive hobbies, raise a typical middle of the road family, etc MA is fine but if you're gonna deviate from the norms you'll get whacked hard by society there (tall nail gets the hammer, or so the phrase goes) and would probably be better off in NH. For example, the fact that the free-staters, specifically the more extreme ones in Keene who sometimes don't register their vehicles and generally thumb their nose at authority at every opportunity continue to exist (and not behind bars) shows how tolerant NH is.

I know I'm going on a rant here but this is an internet comment, not a medium post.
FCC does nothing that citizens need or want done. For it to be shuttered would harm only those who have invested billions in the fake "assets" that FCC invented and must constantly police.

It isn't the 1930s anymore. Modern radio technology could enable a much more complete utilization of spectrum. FCC's primary mission at this time is to delay that happy day as long as possible. "Happy" because with true competition, the consumer would forget that net neutrality was ever anything a government agency needed to enforce. Don't like how your WISP is handling your traffic? Just switch to one of the other 25 WISPs in your area.

It's true that if FCC were eliminated to the general benefit of the nation, curious citizens would wonder what else could be eliminated. Should we feel sorry for any organization unable to justify its own purpose and actions?
Thanks for the reply.

Fair points.

We’re not talking about xenotransplantation of living tissues though.

Still, there would probably be a non-zero chance of xenoinfection from non-human non-cellular scaffold use in bioengineered organs.

You’re probably right that if this were to become a use case for non-human parts the source probably wouldn’t be regular far animals.
Taking a Tour of PostgreSQL with Jonathan Katz
I don't write research papers, so I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but I assume it's not as easy to just "make shit up" as you are implying here. There's a peer review process, there are lots of people working in the lab that make it difficult to keep a large conspiracy secret, there are serious penalties if you are caught fabricating results, etc.
I work in entertainment and security was moving in the direction of leaving your phone outside the building and using a isolated browser with no copy/paste. I was happy to switch jobs before I was required to do any of that. Those kinds of precautions were taken for specific, shorter projects, but I wasn't interested in doing that full time.

Not sure if it's apocryphal, but I heard a company in Seattle (Starbucks?) had a policy of no visible tattoos. At some point there wasn't enough people to hire and they overturned the policy.

I can see it playing out both ways.
10 Lessons on Starting a Software Business
> The CABforum BRs define, de facto, the rules/requirements for being a CA: https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements-documents/

Note that there have been several ballots which have been won by the CAs against the browsers, after which the browsers have turned around, shrugged, and just enforced the new requirements for their root stores without them becoming CAB BRs.

Most obviously this applies to Google and Apple requiring all newly issued certificates to be CT qualified.
This is why I prefer direct democracy and polling about policies to voting for representatives.

Actual statistical sampling can be applied instead of a bunch of crap, gerrymandering and lobbying.
“The web server is down”

No it’s not, it up and running. See that error page?
Emacs really hurts my hands. Maybe evil mode is for me? I like lisp and want to learn emacs, but vim seems more elegant when you don't need to write anything yourself.
Thank you for bringing this up, it is another reason we need mutable data structures in the decentralized web - for social reasons, not just technological.

In another thread, I also mention that immutability creates algorithmic complexity that makes it difficult to scale: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17693920
I just bought a Fitbit Alta HR and it cannot be turned off. Letting the battery run out is all you can do, and presumably the battery life is on the longer side.
When I deploy to Amazon ECS the upper limit of the resource geometry of my service is checked and if it exceeds that upper limit available of the underlying cluster, it refuses to deploy. I understand k8s has similar features. It reads like Azure doesn't have their k8s configured correctly.
I'm hoping that addons will spring up due to the renewed development efforts. As it is, I'm just using Nextcloud (Calendar & Contacts) alongside Rainloop for mail.
Kubernetes cluster support in docker for mac
> All this stuff is supposed to be in the paper, the paper is not a press release.

Welcome to the real world. Science doesn't work like it was described in your 7th grade science class.
I'm not sure great fund managers exist at all. I'm sure you can find a few emphatically bad ones, I guess.

For whatever rare managers who do well over long periods of time, why isn't that knowledge transferable? I can think of two possibilities:

1. They have had an incredible run of luck. When you have process with randomness baked in, and thousands of managers, someone is expected to beat the average 10 years in a row.

2. A well cultivated network of insider information, or other nefarious means. Madoff claims to have started his Ponzi scheme in the early 90's, and it took multiple decades for that to be uncovered. Similarly, Cornblum and Grmovsek took 14 years to be discovered.
SoftBank Is Starting to Look a Lot Like a Private Equity Firm
The comments weren't votes. Beyond the general idea that lying is wrong and the FCC shouldn't have lied, which is a big deal, the entire "a majority of real comments were in support of NN" is entirely irrelevant to the decision. Popularity doesn't make something correct or true.
Its not about perfection, its about taking the simple, common sense, and time-tested precautions that gave us the technological marvels we enjoy today.

But of course the more independent, even adversarial, the two groups are the better. Like in this story it mentions the "critics" of this project claim other labs (their friends?) have already replicated these studies, apparently using the super secret protocol they couldn't explain to this group.

I'd compare it to using sms 2FA. Is it perfect, no. But it is far, far better than no 2FA at all. And there's nothing stopping you from putting your banking app on the same phone you use for 2FA.
I have a soft spot for the aquatic ape hypothesis, even if it is rather ludicrous it’s just so entertaining.
More generally I should be able to choose to run an interruptible workload that I know to leak memory. I should expect that if I don’t, one of my coworkers will, and the node will stay up. Not leaving enough RAM for the node’s core resources is a mistake, but far from the worst thing in the world.
This isn't helpful. People questioning this is a good thing. We can't just throw our hands in the air and go "welp, shit's fucked, no point in trying to fix it".
I had a similar eyeroll but I was wrong.

It's not a polyhedron.

Polygedrons have planar faces. The scutoids here have curved faces on one of "pentagonal" the "walls". The 5 points for that wall aren't nessecarily coplanar.

An interesting property of that face is that it compliments another scutoid. See either YouTube link elsewhere.

From Wikipedia:

Scutoids are not necessarily convex, and lateral faces are not necessarily planar, so several scutoids can pack together to fill all the space between the two parallel surfaces.
> there are plenty of jobs that require things like phones going into a drawer before a shift starts

It honestly frustrates me that so many of my friends and family can't fathom this. They're all on their phones 24/7 and can't seem to handle the fact that my job requires me to (from their perspective) ignore them for eight-to-ten hours a day.

Hell, back before mobiles it wasn't a problem to only call someone after hours, otherwise you'd get an answering machine.
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You want evil-mode.
The team value function is just a hyperparameter that describes how greedy the individual agents are. At the start of training the team spirit is 0 and the bots are only rewarded for their own actions. This encourages them to learn basic micro skills, like last hitting. As training progresses the team spirit is increased. When it finally reaches 1, the bots value a reward for a teammate as highly as a reward for themselves.

The actual source of the "communication" is not the team spirit parameter, but the basic fact that the bots have been trained together and they receive the same inputs when making decisions. Unlike humans, who have a limited focus to their attention, the bots can look at the whole map at once. They don't need to communicate because the already "know" what their allies will do when given the same input.
This is what always puzzled me about the Google-Alphabet strategy, specifically the idea of having all the assets under a single share ticker (GOOGL).

The more services you put under one banner, the more the stink of one disaster is going to linger, and hinder adoption of the successes.

To me, a far simpler proposition would be a new brand & share issuance for each new sub-company (eg. Waymo), with existing Alphabet shareholders getting pro-rata shares in the new company.
With no FCC to hold back use of modern radio technology, we could all choose from among dozens of WISPs. Net neutrality would be table stakes from most of those, because actual competition. The FCC does nothing in the WiFi space, and that space is flourishing. If they did nothing over the entire spectrum, the entire spectrum would flourish (eventually).
It's very easy to get around those questions. Facebook is great at it. There is usually a customer-friendly reason, which is the one they answer with publicly. For example, "we collect your information to serve you content that you like". But the real reason is, "We collect your information, because your information can be sold in many ways, indirectly and directly, to make us money".

Both are arguably true. But for a publicly traded company, the "Why" must always come back to the bottom line. The ultimate goal is to build value for shareholders. Any answer that doesn't include some reference to the bottom line is utter BS.
Can you explain to me what you use Prolog for and why you chose it over something more popular? What are the pros/cons in your mind?

Everytime I get started, I eventually stop when I realize I'm not an alien named Spock :). In all seriousness, it is very challenging to me, so kudos to you. My bucket list has Forth, APL, Lisp, Smalltalk, and Prolog on it.
I use Plex for this; https://www.plex.tv/
It would probably encode the audio/video better since it's made for it.
Now even YouPorn has banned Alex Jones, but he’s still on Twitter
I think you're underestimating how constrained the radio spectrum actually is. There's not enough room for 25 WISPs.
But it can be approximated.

Repeatable experiments. Done by machines, properly accounted ingredients and so on. Physics does it. It should be perfectly doable with cell cultures too. Mice are of course a lot harder. But if we wouldn't wait decades to replicate, but could simply get in touch with the originators - and so do a collaborative effort in establishing the parameters.