skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the timeline and synchronous crash, it seems to be a reaction to the Indian and Saudi ban.

I pray for a crash, because I would love some cheap coins.

Hopefully there will be blood in the streets soon, and that will be time to buy the dip!
I don't know why you are downvoted -- there isn't enough management of our resources happening. State and national park services are stretched thin due to ongoing fires they don't have the time or resources to do controlled burns or clear land (they want to, they are just limited). Our forests are too dense and turn into tindersticks with one or two years of drought.
Right?

They could be. And having a beer or two with govt people will reveal these kinds of desires and ideas.

I have had those chats in the past. Got involved in a legislative effort and was given a sort of insiders view, tour.

What gets in the way, the number one thing, is money. Not lack of it so much as priorities and ripple effects.

Fixing the signs is a net public good. The ripple effect might be revenue targets going down, and the priority being that revenue being made from inane parking tickets all make for a bit of a mess.

The number two is people forgetting or ignoring who works for who and why. There are lots of little fiefdoms, all closely guarded. Barriers where there really should be collaboration.

And on that note, collaboration can be expensive. Sure, we can step out of your way on this, but about that school levy...
So many PDFs......
>They are eating more than just salt..the fat and carbohydrates in the chips. But yes, people will eat saltier foods more often if they are lacking in salt. There is literally a craving.

Well, yeah, I won't argue with that. I've experienced it myself during intense hangovers. But how do you get from that to "Salt really only tastes good when you need salt"? I love the taste of salt. I would never eat french fries that had no salt on them. Nor would I consider making a margarita without rimming the glass with salt.
How to fire up a steam locomotive (2017)
> However, guardianship or consevatorship (when the person is over 18,) imparts a fiduciary duty on the person/organization to provide for the needs of their ward. So the ability of Mayo to “financially benefit” could be subject to debate.

No, it's not: the ability of conservators/guardians to benefit financially from that relationship is well-known, and is the reason why a legal fiduciary duty exists. The existence of that duty doesn't remove the ability, it just provides a basis for corrective action if it is improperly exploited.
The people that gave credit in these risky situations are making record profits and their dubious banking practices have made them the subject of a royal commission.

Sure they’ve been theoretically ‘punished’ for lending too much by making a little bit less profit but it sure doesn’t seem like much of a corrective action to me.
What is the legal quirk here? What was the oversight?

My PR company makes these counterinuitive clickbait articles about my products too, its great I just can't tell if I am supposed to be perceiving something or just enjoying the entertainment.
What are you talking about? If you're a Windows user you're already in the privacy armageddon. And if the telemetry, which by the way can't be turned off, wasn't bad enough they're also operating a search engine and ad business that tracks people. And let's not forget that they also do a lot of business in China so they're also sharing their users data with the government. Microsoft has you covered with the anti-privacy trifecta.

As for the Windows 10 telemetry, during a Windows 10 install these are all of the things that are turned on by default.

Personalization

1. Personalize your speech, inkling input and typing by sending contacts and calendar details, along with other associated input data to Microsoft.

2. Send typing and input data to Microsoft to improve the recognition and suggestion platform.

3. Let apps use your advertising ID for experience across apps.

4. Let Skype (if installed) help you connect with friends in your address book and verify your mobile number. SMS and data charges may apply.

Location

1. Turn on Find My Device and let Windows and apps request your location, including location history and send Microsoft and trusted partners location data to improve location services.

Connectivity and error reporting

1. Automatically connect to suggested open hotspots. Not all networks are secure.

2. Automatically connect to networks shared by your contacts.

3. Automatically connect to hotspots temporarily to see if paid Wi-Fi services are available.

4. Send full error and diagnostic information to Microsoft.

Browser, protection, and update

1. User SmartScreen online services to help protect against malicious content and downloads in sites loaded by Windows browsers and Store apps.

2. User page prediction to improve reading, speed up browsing, and make your overall experience better in Windows browsers. Your browsing data will be sent to Microsoft.

3. Get updates from and send update to others PCs on the Internet to speed up app and Windows update downloads.
I have no idea what this is doing, but it sure looks interesting.
> Yeah, people keep saying China is a house of cards

No they don't, that is completely a red herring.

> I'm envious of all the new things they're building with all their 'fake' growth.

We could have HSR also if we were willing to pay for it...if we thought it made sense to our economic growth. And the Chinese have taken out a lot of debt to pay for it, it wasn't free, and the only profitable line ATM is the one between Beijing and Shanghai. HSR might work out in the future, HSR might lead to economic growth, but these are bets like anything else.

I've taken HSR between Beijing and almost Guangzhou (my wife's hometown doesn't have an airport but has an HSR station). It was fairly empty much of the way during the 6 hour or so trip.
In the US, there's a ton of variation between states.

Related reading: http://realworlddivorce.com
There is nowhere in the world that power lines are put underground unless there is a reason they can't go above ground: dense urban area, unable to secure a right-of-way, crossing another piece of linear infrastructure like a highway, etc.. It's way more expensive to go underground, it causes technical challenges at high voltage necessitating additional, expensive infrastructure like capacitor banks and point-on-wave energization control and it's harder and more costly to inspect, test and maintain. Insulated power cables are subject to third-party intrusion (technical jargon for people digging and hitting them), water and contaminant ingress, and it's hard to determine their condition without taking them out of service and using specialized equipment for testing. Even then, it's very hard to pinpoint the exact location of degradation and you have to dig to access it. Splicing them requires very highly trained workers and if the work isn't done right it fails in the middle of the night 5 years later.

There is more underground distribution (medium voltage) in Europe because cities are denser and older and there's less space for overhead lines. Transmission (high voltage) is still 99% above ground.

I'm a power systems engineer and I have no idea what 'rest of the world' you're talking about. The first choice for cost, reliability and ease of maintenance is always overhead.
Were they doing put options? Didn't Reagan put us into a recession?
To be fair, this is very person-specific, and this distinction of preferred learning methods is a common topic in pedagogy. Some folks, myself included, are auditory learners, and will tend to retain more from a spoken lecture than a reading assignment. Some folks just can't retain audio as well as reading something, or need to take notes to retain (even if the notes are not consulted again).

This is why being a good teacher requires not just presenting the data in a good way for your learning modality of choice, but for all of them.
Ah, so this is why Amazon is evidently making a big hiring push for people with Top Secret clearances, right? https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/landing_pages/AWSClearedVets
I've always been intrigued by, but never delved deeply enough into the depths of the more mathematical sides of programming. I've always wondered is there a good mathematical representation of an algorithm that is useful for algebraic manipulation? For example:

Take an ugly equation like: x^2 + 3x+y+2+(−x)^2 = 3+(−x)^2 . It can be transformed to either (x+1)(x+2)-3 = y or y=−x^2−3x+1 fairly cleanly and usefully with just a few algebraic theorems. I remove redundancy among other things.

Can I take "bubble sort" work my way in steps to produce a "quick sort" or a "merge sort"? Sure you could prove they produce identical results but it doesn't feel like you're bridging that gap. Maybe this is too vague a question.
As another Australian, can confirm. This year's tax return was as easy as logging into MyGov, verifying my contact details, confirming that the wage payments report from my employer was accurate, entering a previously-calculated number into the "capital gains" field, and pressing "submit". Took less than 10 minutes.

The only non-trivial bits are things like capital gains, work expenses, donations, but these are all things that you should be tracking in a spreadsheet as they occur through the year, and you'll have a number at the bottom of that spreadsheet that you can just copy over to your return (like I did with my capital gains, for example).

Even as a contractor in the past (keep in mind, in Australia, a contractor is a sole proprietor business), filing my return was as easy as copying income/expense totals from my invoice/receipt tracking spreadsheets into the return, adding any new depreciating assets to the list (that persists on their servers and gets recalculated each year) and submitting.

I don't have any interest accounts or private health insurance, but these would be some of the other things that get automatically pre-filled. And it's been this way for well over a decade now.
> Go is still one of the most difficult and counter intuitive build systems ever devised.

I'm currently working on building all the coreclr/corefx repos for .NET Core. Their build system is incredibly convoluted.
You gotta trace the money, though. I don't think ML is all hype, but if you only look one level deep you can get some silly conclusions. For example, just because Nvidia can sell these things does not mean the purchaser will ultimately recoup their value, but even if they do the clients of that business might not recoup their costs. At the end of the day, a lot of people are investing huge amounts of money into ML, but it is hugely possible that this is in part due to expectations that won't actually be met in the end.
Yes, but you also must account for the 3 pounds of blueberries I will eat whilst u-picking.
It is China's position that they never invaded Tibet. The Yuan dynasty invaded and conquered Tibet, but they don't count since they were Mongolians. It is weird logic to be sure, but there it is.

Otherwise Tibet was supposed to be Chinese territory afterwards even if the Chinese dynasties following the Yuan didn't actively govern it and mostly left them to their own devices.
Truth.

My city has a thing called a target area. The idea being to spiff a region up, and rotate them to keep the city vital and livable overall.

They send a facillitator, who gathers interested people. Some projects get identified and everyone does their part. The people in need of city resources or people get an introduction and help navigating things.

Everyone else plays a role. Labor, outside (not city budget) fundraising, planning, feed the people, organizing, whatever.

My group used it's few years well. Traffic flow changes, a small park made from abandoned property, refurbish the school play areas and equipment.

It took a bit of time and some sweat, but not too much.

And I can drive through today and see that net good.

Some of the people I worked with did exactly what you just said, and for basic, make it better, reasons.
‘‘No one has yet been able to explain
under any theory why the crocodiles and turtles
survived and the dinosaurs did not.’’

Sure they have. Crocodiles are cold-blooded; they are known to be able to estivate for months without food, waiting for better conditions. Birds and contemporary mammals are small; they can hide, and survive on small scraps. Dinosaurs were both big and warm blooded; the resulting metabolic demand is fatal in hard times.

Not saying the authors aren't right about being able to find shelter against heat pulse also being a factor, of course. But it's not the only explanation.
Yeah, same for the Netherlands, but in many other 'civilized' world (Asia / south EU) there is a lot above ground generally. Cities are usually better than outside, but it's definitely not uncommon in big cities either.
Thank you for the feedback. I generally don't post, so this helps me learn the rules & etiquette.
The presence of a cycle and its periodicity or predictability are not remotely the same thing.
I've been working on the problem of speaker diarization in the wild for better part of this year. Would love to have a chat with you to see if our diarization utility can help you guys out. Here is the link: https://www.deepaffects.com/apis

My email is in my profile.
Just for a data point:

So I went to fast.com and it’s showing 150/73 using WiFi. Speedtest is showing 249/66. I am on the second floor. When I am right next to my router, speedtest maxes out at 371/354 wirelessly to the closest server.

Dslreports is 319/94.

This is on my iPhone 8 Plus. Usually my iPad is a little faster.
Based on historical data, how accurate would it be to say that a recession happens every 7-10 years? What percent of recessions(for some definition of recession) follow this pattern? Are there different patterns for different kinds of economic/political environments? Does anyone know of a good analysis that a layman could understand?
>banking is the oldest profession.

I hope you're not serious about that.
That was me as well. I’m a free software zealot, so it took me a long time to switch to iPhone. Eventually the amount of fiddling with Android permissions to keep some sense of privacy while still retaining some utility became too burdensome. The last straw was when an update disabled the pedometer feature I’d been using on my treadmill unless I enabled location so they could “help me map my routes”. I’m pretty sure I know where my treadmill is at all times, and entirely sure I don’t need Google to help.

Since then I’ve switched to Firefox or Safari and stopped using any Google things except YouTube. I was surprised at how easy it was to get this far.
photons do have momentum...
Datacenters in the same AZ are much closer than 150 miles, right?
A lot of us aren't even on track when it comes to saving for just normal life.
HGT is consistent with a dependency graph of life:
http://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/viewArt...
Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime [video]
Fax isn't encrypted. If you wiretap the line, you can just read off any faxes. Email can be sent over TLS, and the email itself can be encrypted with PGP.

However, superficially, fax is more secure because there are no stored copies (maybe depending on the machine?). There's the original, and the copy that gets printed out on the other end. If you were to fax over a script for a movie, there wouldn't be a copy sitting on a disk on the receiving end, there would only be a printout. That's what Ridley Scott is alluding to in that video.
Here's a good article that goes in detail on this, written in January before the top.

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2018/01/future-u-s-equ...
When Security Compromises Security – The Caesars/Defcon debacle
Nebraska set to become first US state to use fentanyl in execution
Future U.S. Equity Returns: A Best-Case Upper Limit [Jan 2018]
No you can't really, not that this has much to do with Curry-Howard.

Bubble sort and Quicksort only resemble each other in so much as the result is sorted. All of the other steps are completely different, meaning the abstract shapes of the intermediate computations are very different.
Move, you could find a tech job in many other cities that don't have ridiculous rental prices. Whats the point of living in an awesome city like Seattle if you can't afford to do anything? If you had a place here in Minneapolis you could live in a nice neighborhood and save anywhere from $600 to $1000 a month just on rent based on the average Seattle metro rents. That doesn't even factor in other cost savings from not being in an extremely expensive metro area. That would be more then enough money to have fun and save.
At a certain point, it's going to cost less to cover every sun facing surface in ultra low cost photovoltaics, and have on site battery storage, than to maintain, replace and repair last mile power lines and middle-mile + long distance high voltage lines. Imagine eliminating all of the salary and benefit costs for thousands of linemen, bucket trucks, insurance, consumables, transformers, substations, not to mention the cost of poles and lines themselves.

If PV panels were $0.10/watt and Powerwall-like batteries were 1/5th of the cost they are now, per kWh stored, I can totally see a future where suburban density homes have no power grid connections at all.
I don’t know how to say this any more plainly: anyone who predicts such things is 100% full of shit. It’s a random process. Anyone able to predict this with a significant degree of certainty would quickly become a multi-trillionaire. Insanely huge financial institutions employing thousands of PhDs were not able to predict the last big one and many of them would have collapsed without government’s help. What makes you think anyone has the foggiest clue as to the timing and severity of the next black swan event?
Recent post? Large personal blog on “more effective language learning system”
I read a site, 2 days ago, about someone's long-refined language learning system. It's the kind of thing I would have found linked from hn posts, comments, or a source to an article.

The writing read as stream of consciousness, fairly unedited, but extensive. The author seems frustrated by the slowness and waste of "traditional" language learning courses.

The author wrote extensively about techniques for fast, deep immersion, including reading translations side-by-side.

The site was text-only and fairly ugly, mid-to-dark tone grey-brown background. It looked like html written in some early html editor, with just a few text styling options applied for rhetorical effect.

I wanted to read more about techniques mentioned, because the author's ideas seemed worth trying or reading more about.

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I'm trying to re-find a site that I recently came across. It's the kind of thing I would have discovered by a link from this site (or linked from an article posted to hn).

I have searched hn.algolia.com, for and recent cronology of posts via hckrnews.com, but turn up nothing.
Without a doubt, but as it stands now, it's part of the total compensation package that is offered to service members and should be accounted as such.
Yes, but if they're not sanitizing inputs, they might not have set permissions wisely either.
Alas, there's nothing at https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/new.
In New Zealand, you can send practically any legal documents via email. I don't think you even need to have them signed, being sent from your email address counts as signing them. It makes sense really, forging a signature is actually trivial for most legal documents. Nobody ever looks very hard. It would be harder to access my email account and send an email than it would be to forge my signature.
From Go's 1.0 compatibility guarantee[0]:

> It is intended that programs written to the Go 1 specification will continue to compile and run correctly, unchanged, over the lifetime of that specification. [...] Go programs that work today should continue to work even as future "point" releases of Go 1 arise (Go 1.1, Go 1.2, etc.).

I've found this to be upheld in practice, especially so for the standard library. I have yet to come across a case where I was concerned with which "version" of the standard library some project was written against. Are you perhaps talking about non-stdlib packages?

[0]: https://golang.org/doc/go1compat
does it have generics yet? yes I'm sure someone will call me a troll.
I could be misinterpreting people, but I think there are people who haven't quite thought it through this much.
Absolutely agree here. Something like 80% of how we communicate is not in spoken word, it is tone of voice, facial expressions and body movement.

Make sure to ask broad questions and ask why a lot. If you get awkward silence you are normally on the right track. Be patient and wait out the silence, people love talking about themselves.

Pro tip, keep asking why until you get to emotional needs. Let's say you strike on a pain point, don't stop there, so what if it means that it takes twice as long to enter an order. Why does it matter that it takes so long? What would they rather be doing? Why? Does it mean that they can't go home early and pick the kids up from school? Does it mean that the boss will think that they are slow? Does it mean that as a business owner they can't spend their time on more important things?

The more you understand and build empathy with your people, the more you understand the problems they have and the more likely you are to come up with the best solution.
Here's a picture with some labels:
http://breaknes.com/files/6502/6502.jpg

The Y register is WAY smaller than even I expected. It's a tiny vertical strip on the lower left. And the PLA entries are on top, and a couple entries would again be tiny.

Any savings due to omitting Y would be miniscule.

The more I examine it in detail, the more it becomes clear that it's just a bug that got datasheeted.
This is great. I wonder if using this data patterns could be found showing when and where tickets are written. Would be interesting to know when and how often certain areas are checked for illegal parking, if such a pattern exists.
The US has a million troops, only around ~40,000 are deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and Syria[0]. The majority of the military are deployed elsewhere, serving either as a deterrent (such as those in South Korea) or help with nation building, foreign aid, and peacekeeping (ex. anti-piracy, protecting trade routes). There are those who are unfortunate enough to be sent by politicians to the war zone at one point of their career. And when that happens, you may not agree with the politics but it is still part of your duty to follow. There is no room in the military for going against commands, else it would render the organization ineffective.

Every country needs a military and whether you think that they are heroes or not, these are still people making a necessary sacrifice. Someone has to do it.

Oftentimes, the media likes to only show the wartime aspect of the military, making people think that those who join the military are there because they want to kill. Nothing could be any further from the truth.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-deployments-may-...
everyone votes in the interest of their future selves, no one votes in the interest of their past selves.
Can we do crowdfunding to get that started again?
so upvote him. God forbid someone makes a good joke and someone else enjoys it.
Related to your last question, I was always puzzled by the following: when is a program an implementation of an (abstract) algorithm?

For example, can a program decide, given a sorting function implemented in language X, and an algorithm Y, whether or not the sorting function is an implementation of algorithm Y?
Part of the question is how to represent algorithms (is "formal" pseudo-code the best way?)

Also, can you decide whether or not two functions written in different programming languages are implementations of the same algorithm?