skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't even mind tons of extra words. It just seems to be some new style (last 10 years especially) that deliberately avoids touching on the theme as long as possible. Also hard-jumping away from the theme frequently to tell other stories. It's beyond digression or elaboration IMO.
> call me a mathematical hipster (new frameworks etc.) but i could never get into axiomatic set theory. algebra is already boring by virtue of being abstract but then make it even more abstract by dropping all models!

can you elaborate here? what is a mathematical hipster, and what are “new frameworks”? and what do you mean by algebra “dropping all models”? i am confused by what these mean.

algebras are about studying various means of combination. given some set, how can we combine two things from that set to get another thing in the set? what are the structures that arise as we explore that question? i highly recommend reading the expository chapter one of pinter’s abstract algebra book.
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For most of human history, population growth was on the order of 0.04%/yr. It's been about 1.1% in recent decades, 25 times greater.

One might even say "booming".
You can't officially license an Adults Only game on most (all?) consoles, and even allowing that finding a publisher or a place to sell your X rated games would be difficult. Major retailers don't want to be known for selling those kinds of games.
This might be good advice to give to an individual, but it’s a terrible conclusion to draw society-wide. Similar to advice about the dangers of drug use, casual sex, driving without a seat belt, or the like.

At a system level, we need to consider people’s demonstrated behavior and look at the practical outcomes of various policy interventions, not decide policy based on moral judgments about whether people deserve their misery.

People are strongly pressured into taking these loans, told that they face much worse life prospects without the education than without the debt, and many of them do not have a full understanding of the risks and opportunities involved. Under the circumstances, many are going to take the loans, whether or not they hear your warning.

When they subsequently can’t pay the debt back, it doesn’t really matter for society whether they are “whining” or not. What matters is that the debts hang around their necks like anchors, preventing them from getting on with their lives, depressing their lifetime earnings, keeping them from buying houses or starting families or taking higher paying jobs, etc., and ultimately making them less capable of paying their own medical bills, supporting their own retirements, and so on.

These are large systemic problems which need to be addressed by large systemic changes, not by punishing people for supposed moral failings by forcing them into poverty.
Their second strong correlator is bicycle parking. Meaning you really have to understand the context for such correlations.
The reason politicians try to dress down is that they want to give off the impression that they can relate to the experiences of most Americans. The general idea being, "How could this person ever promote policy that benefits me, if they don't understand what it's like to be me?"

The irony is that most successful people in the world were rarely ever born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Kerry was actually one of those few candidates that I wished got their shot because his war record wasn't anything less but admirable. John Mccain's war record was far and beyond even his considering his many years being a POW.

They sacrificed so much for this country and yet the people only resonate with the candidates that seem hip nowadays.
sounds like ice nine

> Shahsavari referred to the contents as two-dimensional "ice," because the molecules freeze regardless of the temperature.
BS. European countries have prosecuted banking crime just fine.

Plus, we have Eric Holder on the record for saying he wouldn't go after bank executives because it could "hurt the economy", a reason I rank right up there with "terrorists attacked us for our freedoms."
Large numbers of nuclear weapons means total war between nuclear powers will escalate very quickly to nuclear armageddon. This (MAD) has prevented total war for generations, but has very costly tail risks that people growing up in the post-Cold War era are not likely to appreciate.
Might want to look at how that has worked at the state level. The state of Michigan has this and it has only exacerbated issues held in check because people had incentives to help people and get re-elected. Michigan now squarely gets its policies from lobbyists and special interest groups because at the end of their terms that is who will hire them.

Term limits do exist and are called elections. Every single election is a chance to vote someone out of office who hasn't done a good job. The thing that has essentially broken elections as term limits is partisan gerrymandering.
I don't think any discussion of Radiolab is complete without mentioning their episode about "Yellow Rain". I was pretty shocked at how the episode went.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/239549-yellow-rain

The episode contained significant distortions and omissions, all in the purported pursuit of truth.

https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/10/deliberate-distor...

This story made plain their lack of integrity. Since then, I've treated Radiolab for what it is- mildly interesting infotainment with unethical people at the helm.
A good prosecutor will dismiss charges when they see there is insufficient evidence of guilt.

What you propose will create the harmful incentive to always try a case. People lose years of their life, and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, when defending themselves from criminal charges. So even if the person is ultimately acquitted, they will be still be damaged from the process.

And the government wins 93% of cases brought to trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate#United_States

So anyone caught on the wrong end of a zealous prosecutor will be in big trouble.

The DoJ already creates harmful incentives by tracking how many convictions it gets, and striving to get more. That creates an institutonal culture that rewards aggressive prosecutors.
You're getting there. That $40 dollars will go to gas, food, bills, basic things that you need for life. You don't have much left to pull out for random things you didn't account for.
He was a war hawk who regularly advocated for murdering foreigners. I am sad for anyone's passing, but I don't find McCain worthy of special honor.
Its not about running the country, there are smarter people in his cabinet that will do that. It's about being an average person and recognizing the problems that the average person goes through, and hopefully solve those problems, not the ones that the elites have.
Society has been getting better, but at what cost? Human's have radically disrupted ever biosphere on Earth throughout the past 10,000 years and are almost certainly the prime driver of a current mass extinction of life on Earth. Our global society depends on healthy ecosystems, so where does it leave us when those ecosystems collapse? Every day human life might be getting better, but for how long? Can we sustain modern Western lifestyles for thousands of years? The Romans lived through hundreds of years in relative affluence where their civilization seemed unbreakable. Look at where that empire is today. 70 million years ago dinosaurs were the undisputed rulers of the planet, but where are the dinosaurs now? What's to say that ours is the civilization that lasts forever when all historical evidence is to the contrary?

The sequel Homo Deus isn't as good, and it felt like something that was written in a rush after Harari managed to break into the best-seller list.
What would the dairy do if someone broke a glass bottle - who pays for it? What if some ignoble soul starts stealing these glass bottles from customer porches to get recycling money for them?
The fact that something is mapped at all is something of an economic indicator, since OpenStreetMap mappers do the heavy lifting, are likely to be big nerds with free time / retired, and are going to map their local areas preferentially.
I don't mean that destruction of the reef doesn't matter. But I do doubt that Australia can do much to help or hurt, at this point. Perhaps reducing runoff from mining and agriculture would help. But oceanic acidification is a global issue, and it's inevitable at this point.
Not really, regardless of the state of the market, you are probably better off keeping your stock than selling it.
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I've written about this problem before as well[1] - data science seems to be defined uniquely narrowly (and confusingly) compared to other fields.

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"Data science" is the most natural name for this field. Though fields like "information science" and "political science" are broad, "data science," as it is popularly defined, is uniquely narrow. This is problematic because general fields typically serve as a roadmap for all subfields - a cursory glance at what they are and how they relate. "Data science" today does not provide this road map.

[1] https://alexpetralia.com/posts/2016/6/22/reclaiming-the-term...
Didn't agree with his politics, but the guy left a legacy. RIP and thank you for your service to our country.
I don't. If you ban custom operators, how can you find out future use cases where custom operators make a lot of sense? I am extremely distrustful of a language where certain people are more equal than others. Those elevated people could be blessed library authors, or within the core implementation or whatever, but I hate not being trusted to use my tools properly.
I think this is one of the circumstances where if he took the opportunity, it wouldn't be consider favoritism but rather of a strategic necessity considering how John Mccain's admiral father's decision making could be compromised by any risks such decisions could have towards his son's welfare.

Of course there are way more variable involved, but I think his refusal was mostly on the basis of maintaining solidarity with the other POWs. In that situation, I could imagine that one of the few things that would keep me going was knowing that the thing i was fighting for back home wasn't just a delusion.

If the other POWs saw Mccain released for on political reasons, then who is to say that the POWs loyalty to their nation wouldn't have been compromised?
I wanted to do this recently but I couldn't find a chair tall enough. I need the seat to be at around 95cm (37.4") otherwise my elbows are too low. The tallest chair I could find was 90cm (35.4").
Food exists and we have political problems, therefore food is part of the political problems we have today.
Excerpt:

"The result was 29 microcode operations including logic, arithmetic, load, and store commands — enough to start writing microcode code. The first microcode programs written helped with further discovery, naturally. But before long, they wrote microcode backdoors that triggered when a given calculation was performed, and stealthy trojans that exfiltrate data encrypted or “undetectably” through introducing faults programmatically into calculations. This means nearly undetectable malware that’s resident inside the CPU. (And you think the Intel Management Engine hacks made you paranoid!)"
They communicated it a lot differently, though.
"Money is money. It doesn't matter whether you feel paid; it matters that a buyback does in fact pay you a dividend."

The difference is a buyback only turns into money if you sell.
It's not logical though. The system being broken doesn't mean every single part of the system doesn't work, it merely means the system as a whole is broken.
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People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable for them to love that which, as an untiring Proteus, is ready at any moment to convert itself into the particular object of our fickle desires and manifold needs. Thus every other blessing can satisfy only one desire and one need; for instance, food is good only to the hungry, wine only for the healthy, medicine for the sick, a fur coat for winter, women for youth, and so on. Consequently, all these are only relatively good. Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto.
if you're serious, you might want to delete this. i think it's relatively easy to tie this account to others
Indeed, I've been successfully running my email server for the past five years and mail has no problem reaching gmail users.

I think people have just become defeatist.
It depends if the $/kWh is cost to build or price paid for the energy.

I believe the .03 figure for the solar plants was $/kW and therefore had no bearing on total energy generated.

I think you would need a solar plant that incorporated energy storage to deliver nameplate power overnight for 40 years to be making an apples to apples comparison.
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ordinary Americans also refused to defer to those possessing, as Tocqueville put it, superior talent and intelligence and these natural elites could not enjoy much share in political power as a result."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#On_major...
Or going to college for a year or two, drop out, and have no degree with $30k debt.
Is it still setting birds on fire?
The second amendment refers to the right to bear arms in reference to those arms being put to the service of the state:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Doesn't anyone in the US read the whole thing?
Ask HN: What's NH's opinion of the next big thing in tech?
What does everyone think the next big innovation that will be widely adopted be? Be sure to put your time horizon into the discussion so we can tell when you think it will occur.
I've missed the light turning green while just looking out the window (our car has no screen). As long as people are only distracted while waiting at a light I wouldn't worry too much.
I saw the movie. I had hoped it would be good, but I can't say that it was meaningful to me. The protagonist became a terrible shell of himself to have met his idol, and the idol himself was not a traditional hero, rather a matured one. I admit, I have yet to read Infinite Jest. I truly enjoyed Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, to whom David Foster Wallace was often compared, and I am glad you pointed out the author of TFA so I might read this present piece.
Nice to see some proper research and citations from an internet article these days... Fascinating article too.
HN news today: break up and get rich, you'll be happy

you guys okay?
This tool does not seem to accomplish the same thing though. What is nice about PlatformIO, it will fetch and install all tools, toolchains, libraries etc. needed to flash my device. This new tool still assumes that you will manually install the libraries/toolchains required to compile a `.ino` file.
> [student] debt

I think this (more than even perhaps the Great Recession itself) is the determining factor in the 'crisis'... And probably a socioeconomic time-bomb to boot (from [1, caveat lector]):

> [...] Both "solutions" to the higher education crisis from the conservatives and the mainstream liberal consensus are in fact not solutions at all. The right wants to give up on educating the working and poor classes after high school, whereas the liberal position has become increasingly dangerous to the economic future of the younger generation via student debt.

I'm betting the next global recession will be student-loan driven. And with serious, non-trivial sociopolitical consequences (at least in the US).

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[1] Creston Davis, "The Education Impasse in the USA". Counterpunch. August 21, 2018.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/21/the-education-impass...
|\N| = |\Z| = |\Q^2457000| != |\R| isn't wondrous to you? Nor are space-filling curves? Or unmeasurable sets and paradoxes like Banach-Tarski? You don't see beauty in the proofs of Cantor's theorem (|S| < |P(S)| for all S) or the Bernstein-Schroeder theorem (injections X -> Y and Y -> X imply |X| = |Y|)? What about the plethora of mathematical claims that are equivalent to the axiom of choice -- some of them very sought-after properties, some of them unnerving and seemingly broken? Does the status of the continuum hypothesis (and the mathematical legitimacy of, to say nothing of the resolution to, a bunch of oddball "infinitary combinatorics" problems) interest you?

What about where set theory interplays with model theory? Would it surprise you to hear that the dizzying towers of infinities that can be spoken of in ZF can be modeled by a merely countable universe? What about a computer program (albeit an impractical one) that decides whether sentences about the natural numbers with successor are true or false, whose existence is discovered by proving that large uncountable models are isomorphic?

To be clear, it's okay to be bored by this stuff. I tend to get bored pretty quickly when people start talking about systems of DEs or eigenvectors, or really much of anything that looks too much like calculus, and I'm not about to apologize for my apathy for those things. But most of the above stuff tends catch the attention of even the humanities types, who are easily deterred by most mathematical topics.

Out of curiosity, I might ask whether you're similarly bored by computability theory or complexity theory, which leverage many of the same tools as those used in set theory (mappings as preorders, diagonal arguments, etc), but add computable enumerability/uniformity/syntacticity requirements to the mix.
> Up and quitting (hopefully with notice)

Why is it considered bad form to quit without notice, but if a company lets you go without notice, it's "just business"?
Better suited to the role, more experienced,

The experiences of the elites are typically very different from that of the Average Joe. As such, they are frequently wholly unqualified to understand the needs of the people.

The people want someone capable of relating to them at least a little.
And China's debt profile is starting to resemble Japan's before the lost decade.
> There was an existing soup/noodle culture.

The article covers this. Wheat noodles and a rich broth were new.

> I think the best Ramen I've had was either down the end of the toden line or out Shinjuku

Menya Musashi and Fuunji are both generally very well regarded and about a 5-7 minute walk from the SW part of Shinjuku station.
He blames the government for increasing cost.
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It is a good story and has made impact in Africa, but there isn’t really a true need for global ride hailing services. These should be locally run, with all economic benefits going to local communities and investors.
At least in the tech world, if a company just let you go with no severance I think it would rightfully be branded a very shitty thing to do.
I mean, it seems kind of reasonable to assume that it's game over once an adversary gains physical access to the device, let alone MITMing busses inside the phone.

I was mostly concerned about what horrible things could be done via OTA updates from the carrier (or payloads designed to look like carrier OTA updates, since apparently they're rarely encryoted).
Anything radioactive that can be spread into the food chain is an issue.

or mixed with a suicide belt's "materials"
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+1; MIT (and CMU, and Berkeley) have somehow shot above the reputation of schools such as Rensselaer, Worcester Polytechnic, UIUC, Rochester, etc., all of which are solid.
A cynical view is that if someone is prosecuted, it's proof they're not that powerful.

Real power is of course to write the laws so what you're doing is not a crime to begin with. Ideally it's even subsidized by the government.
"nearly 1.3 million borrowers — were not in default, but were either severely delinquent or not paying their loans."

I wonder what "in default" means if it does not mean "severely delinquent or not paying their loans". I did not see any explanation in the article.
have you listened to a more recent episode (eg this one)? the early episodes sounded like avant-garde sound experiments but the newer ones are much closer to TAL-style editing, just more people talking. they've acknowledged this criticism at least once in an episode.
Typed racket is pretty close .

https://github.com/racket/typed-racket
> Everything else being equal, almost any life path will be enriched by extra money...

I don't think so. If you have a lot of money, there will be constant pressure upon you about ways to spend it or invest it "wisely". And you ll always will have the fear of "ruining everything". If you choose to do nothing with it, you ll be blamed for not investing it or making it grow.

Not to mention that you will have a hard time differentiating associates who are just there for a piece of the cake.
Welcome to 95% of the tech world. I don't know anyone whose been laid off and was offered even a month of severance. It appears very common in San Francisco but the rest of the world acts like most businesses
I wonder if there's a potential rationalizing effect -- unmentioned here as far as I can tell -- whereby people are simply unwilling to admit to having made a bad life decision, and are willing to lie about how happy they are after the life change to avoid this.
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Is interest included in the "$23 billion owed?" A $20k Stafford loan at 6.8% generates around $7,000 in interest over the 10 year repayment plan. That's around 38% of the principal.
default might mean x months behind, (6?) or when the lender has to take the loan off the books since it's not likely to be collected at face value.
Ask HN: Moving back into tech industry from consulting
Dear fellow hacker community. I am at the crossroads of my career. I started my Comp Sci grad career in software development for a Unix / networking consultancy until where I learnt networking and software development ‘in the trenches’ with Perl and C. Later I moved into enterprise systems doing Java EE (J2EE) and .Net.
After completing my MBA I started a generalist business consulting career where I have spent the last six years with a large global consulting firm. I have done a ton of work in financial services where my software background has enabled me to run miles around other consultants because of my ability to juggle numbers at scale. I am now about three-four years to partner in the firm and they have just reconfirmed their unequivocal backing to get me there. $ is good but work hours are long and often involves a lot of travel.
I miss working in tech and was wondering if anyone else has done the same jump back into the tech industry from a generalist consulting role? I miss having fellow geeks as my peers, I miss tinkering with technical problems and the pace of change. However I also know I am too ‘senior’ for going back into a developer role. Becoming some sort of architect would be ok, but the 9-5pm cooperate environment hours gives me the shivers. I still want to be able to feel the ‘rush’ of business development. So perhaps a start up tech role might be more appropriate.
Seniority or not, I can still be hands on and love cutting code and debugging tech problems.
Any ideas or suggestions on possible career moves?
FYI - I am Sydney based and also looking for international opportunities into Singapore, Hong Kong and other major cities.
All the more reason to visit.
After reading this article, I still have no idea.

I mean, it made it sound like data scientist is just the same as a business analyst? Is this the new computer scientist vs software engineer?
What a nice way to put things back into perspective. It would be a much better world if there were no war heros from any country whatsoever.