skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: the hidden costs of real estate - yes, this all has to be taken into consideration when you run the numbers. But it works in the opposite direction, too. You can add some upgrades, or even a car port or storage unit, and increase the value and cash flow of your asset.

I'm not looking at it as an either/or thing though, I'll still stay in the market just not 100%. Part of the reason I'm diversifying is because the market has been very good to me and I want to pull some of that profit off the table. In any event, I'm going to begin looking for the user named realestategod so you two can have a chat :)
> "Low calibre" that's somehow supercharging our economy.

You might want to take a look at what ”cum hoc ergo propter hoc” means.

> An amazing example of the Dunning Kruger effect.

That’s... not how the Dunning Kruger effect works.
That isn't checks and balances. That's partisan bullshit.
Obama did a similar thing when Trump started to become a potential winner.
1 hour is 50 miles in my part of NY.
Query Monkey
I get to spend 90% collecting, cleaning and tagging data.
I blame writing classes in high school. Expositions are useless. Get to the point.
Redis and Open Source – The PR Perspective
That was obvious 15 years ago. It didn't matter to them then either. What mattered was the test of time. The model failed so badly, Mann himself could no longer support it. I just thought you'd like to know that Mann quietly disavowed the model, since nobody has been allowed to add that to the wikipedia page. Nuclear shills are still trying to convince everyone that CO2 is more dangerous than radioactive waste. Nothing changes with them.
What does "speculative" and "unconvincing" mean, in the context of a mathematical theory?

What do you find hand-wavy or circular about it?

Can you specify which absurd implications you're referring to?

Not trying to argue, just genuinely curious.
I use Org for software development whenever I can, which is currently everyday.

Usually, new code starts in cells with some Org-managed context (e.g. a Jupyter kernel in a remote container with some DB/service access). This is done using the :session code cell keyword, which works per subtree. Managing remote sessions like this generally keeps me away from terminals.

Surrounding the cell are various mini-dashboards with useful docs / links / commands for that part of the project. Since Org supports embedding elisp and shell commands in clickable links [1], these mini-dashboards can be made very quickly.

Org lets me edit the code using the proper Emacs mode for its language, while pulling dynamic completion / docs from the Jupyter kernel. Just like Jupyter notebooks, I can view rich outputs from the cells in-line. I can then name the outputs and make them inputs to other cells, including ones in different languages / kernels. AFAIK that's an Org-only trick.

Most code eventually finds it's way to normal source files (see Org's "tangle" feature). This feels more natural than moving code from notebooks since, again, the cell editing mode is the same as the one for source files.

Org's tree-manipulation capabilities + support for multiple sessions means that (so far) I've only ever needed 1 Org file per project. I track this in git, which is simple since Org is just plain-text. To share with non-Org users, I usually export to ipynb [2] or, for static docs, HTML [3].

[1]: https://orgmode.org/manual/External-links.html
[2]: https://github.com/jkitchin/ox-ipynb
[3]: https://github.com/fniessen/org-html-themes
Why is it impossible for a landlord to own property outright? And if some landlords own property outright, how can other landlords avoid competing? People don't get to arbitrarily set their prices at cost plus profit etc.
Sometimes the phenomenon is annoying; like when you think you are having an interesting discussion on an Internet forum/social network and when you actually write something longer than 1 sentence which you are passionate about and thought about longer than 1 second, you notice that people only respond the start of the first line and end of the last line. Which makes everyone sound stupid including you who thought was actually having a good convo.
I did exactly the same thing! I couldn't believe it that my boss was okay with it!
It is also against the military code of conduct to accept parole or favors from the enemy. [0]

[0]: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/readings/code_of_conduct...
Fun fact, Obama appointed an 'Asian Carp Czar' to figure out how to prevent the Asian Carp from destroying the Great Lakes.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/10/07/130404545...
This topic has been discussed at length on HN and has been the topic of many flame wars.

If you're genuinely curious for an answer, in the United States it's absolutely the case that you are legally

> obligated to throw out the conclusion

when it comes to many of the things you mentioned (e.g., you can't consider race, or often gender and sexual orientation depending on the state, when you evaluate a loan/employment application).

The reason for those laws is that, historically, overtly and openly racist people used the loan application process to discriminate in housing.

Asking to be able to use any accurate statistical model for any application is an inherently political request, because bad actors in the past have attempted to exclude people based upon skin color. We can't make that discrimination legal whenever someone can dream up a plausible mathematical model justifying an ultimately racial intent.

The real point of my post is that a discussion on this topic devolves into a flame war unless everyone agrees that we can't turn p-hacking into a legally justifiable way of allowing racial discrimination in important social processes like housing loan or employment applications.
Big data may conclude that the data shows black people are more likely to commit crimes, but it doesn’t tell you the why, which may be that black people are systematically opressed, more likely to come from a poorer background, discriminated upon so as to reduce their options in life. The AI, based on statistics can tell you the effects, but not the causes.

So if i were to go and beat up every person named John, and then machine learning takes a crack at it and tells us that people named John are more likely to get injured, we may end up discriminating against Johns without realizing it was I who just have a thing against people named John. If this happens in a system and creates a feedback loop, It can lead to something becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy when it need not have been.

Based on a naive conclusion the solution may be to deny health coverage to people named John, but obviously the real solution is to put me in jail.
If I recall correctly, that momentum was lost by the end of the Arthur Anderson case, which was immediately after Enron.
Which fusion technology do you think is most promising, if all the sociopolitical problems could be overcome? How much would it cost to make it happen?
If 90% of your rent is interest, why can't someone who's paid off their mortgage rent to you for 90% less?
This effort is to be applauded. Kudos to NEC and especially NextCloud; I wish them both luck!
Why is Debian testing lagging behind with uploading newer kernels? There is already 4.18.4 upstream release, and Debian unstable / testing still don't have any options past release candidate from experimental.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux
The models and AI have reached self-licking-ice-cream-cone status. All of the work in that area is focused on analyzing the models rather than what is being modeled.
Is part of the benefit to these that the risk can be more accurately calculated and insured against?
exactly. Optimising queries becomes really a critical part of the job when you make complex JOINS on millions of records. Just getting the data can take a huge amount of time before you can even consider models.
Good news for Japan if this gets developed successfully. We have a ton of nuclear reactors on some of the most seismically active land on the planet - only a matter of time for another Fukushima.
Why not push the burden back onto the companies providing the goods in packages? If Walmart (or it's suppliers) had to prepay for the handling of the waste the products they sell come in you'd probably see a significant reduction in packaging.
Backyard Brains
McCain himself points that out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg

I remember him for that one but also for advocating the permanent military presence, like South Korea, going forward in Iraq. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf7HYoh9YMM

I'm somewhat surprised that HN seems to have such a hardon for the man, and every negative comment is being downvoted / flagged. I remember pretty clearly how Obama-obsessed the tech world was in 2008, and even Family Guy did a "we're not saying he's a nazi but nazis support him" routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRHL5QlwA-g What happened to make the HN crowd change their opinion (did McCain fight back against software patents at some point despite being a self-admitted computer illiterate?), or was it always glowing and the subject just didn't come up?
The fact they are part of the problem existing today is only logical. They are there and we have problems.
Sometimes it's good to lay on the counter social pressure (e.g. "Joe, by staying til 11pm you're making the rest of us look bad. It's not healthy for you and it's not good for us.").
Kinetic energy increases at the square of velocity - so a 4400 lb car, accelerating from 64 MPH to 65 uses 7.25 KW, while going from stopped (0 MPH) to about 7 MPH uses slightly more, 7.75 KW.

It takes additional energy to add energy to a system that already has some energy. For example, recharging a partially-full battery from 70% to 90% will take more energy (or time) than charging from 5% to 25%.

At 65 MPH, it takes my Camry Hybrid over a second to absorb 1 MPH and reduce to 64 MPH, with only regenerative braking. At 35, it can absorb several MPH per second. Like a Tesla, the regenerative braking is always slowing the car down, but unlike a Tesla, it only regenerates at 5%-10% until the brake pedal is pressed, which is reflected by the "tachometer" dipping down into the blue CHG section.
Steve Ballmer’s Interview Question
Regardless of the data used, not knowing the why does not invalidate a strong correlation at all. If you stopped at doing thing only when you know the why there would no progress in science, because there are always new WHYs you uncover as you go.
He hired Eric Holder, who seemed to have significantly changed during his time at Covington and Burlington.

Holder wanted fines, not prison.
Eventually the “Second Amendment People” are going to do what the “Chickenshit Club” refuses to.
Because it says living in a 12 ft by 12 ft apartment is almost inhumane? Take 5 medium steps, that as much as you can walk in your "home" before hitting the wall.
Can a statement like Goodstein's theorem (which is about finite objects) be proven by finitist mathematics? It cannot be proven by Peano arithmetic, which is bi-interpretable with ZFC with the axiom of infinity replaced by its negation [1], or any weaker theory.

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/315399/how-does-zfc...
Prosecutors need to be given percentages of the judgments they win for the U.S. government against corporations.

It doesn't even have to be a big percentage, and it ends the revolving door. Let our prosecutors make a fortune by ending criminal corporate behavior. As long as it's decided by a jury, they still won't waste their time with sketchy cases.

If they retire early, so be it - there will be hundreds of people eager to fill the vacant positions.
We shall drop any concept of middle-class and lets get back to slave-master society already then. I'm almost sure we'll have more people contributing to making the world a better a place then.
Do you get angry at people who have to file for bankruptcy?
Whatever you are using in your stack for data access / search probably has some associated capabilities that support data analysis, and hence data science. I would start there.
I know that some people claim we could but it is often because they do not look at every angle, especially economics, and scalability. Global scale endeavors tend to be complex and require long timelines.
Satoshi is dead – Long live Satoshi – Team leader comes out
An Example Microcoded CPU (2010)
The SEC will have a great opportunity with Elon Musk.
The Problem with ‘Hey Guys’
Joe Biden is another ignominious, sold-out prick. He will be remembered in history mostly for being complicit in a lot of death and misery, and for his creepy interactions with children that are well documented on video.
"Money can't buy happiness but it solves 95% of the problems that make you unhappy." ~ GSElevator
That article is repeating a falsehood that's been widely refuted. The surveys that article is likely mentioning do not ask individuals if they could pay for an expense using just their savings, but rather how would they pay for an unexpected expense. Some clickbait sites then take facts like, let's say, only 31% choose 'from savings' to create fake news along the lines of '69% of Americans do not have the savings to cover a $xxx expense'.

It's completely fake. I, for instance, would also not answer 'from savings' -- probably preferring to reduce expenses, since I try to avoid touching my savings.
After ~30 years of using a keyboard, I've never learned to type properly, though I guess I'm somewhat fast (or fast enough). Admittedly, I'd be way faster on QWERTY vs DVORAK if I were to try one of those.
of course its hard. Just like its hard a new language thats is far from your native tongue. But we should not be scared of learning something difficult, because the returns are well worth the investment. There is only so much you can do in Excel and if you want to advance your career you need to move past it even if you have no programming background. Additionally, its never been easier than in 2018 to find free resources to learn. The only things you need are awareness, time, and will.
This all comes down to time. Time > Money.
... and for a few years too, damn. Welp, guess I'll never use them again. Thank you!
I switched from QWERTY to Dvorak about 15 years ago. I used to type ~80 WPM on QWERTY. For the first few weeks on Dvorak, I was typing at a tedious ~10 WPM. Only after about two months did my speed get up to a respectable pace (probably 60+ WPM). Nowadays I can do 120 WPM on Dvorak. The retraining was well worth it for me, because I work many hours at the computer, and my fingers move a lot less when typing English text on Dvorak.

As for switching back and forth, I can still use QWERTY, but it feels awkward like "dancing with two left feet". I stumble, pause, make mistakes, and correct them. But numerically speaking, I still type 60+ WPM on QWERTY when I need to, despite the discomfort. More details in https://www.nayuki.io/page/i-type-in-dvorak
Isn't worth what? Effort?
Radiolab is incredibly hard to listen to with all the random noises and things they sprinkle into each episode. Contrast this with This American Life and its a world of difference.
I agree with this, so many problems can be fixed with proper incentive structures.
Dumb question: is Splunk implemented with Hive?
I'm pretty sure Bush and Cheney were hurting during the Enron scandal, then all that hurt basically disappeared after 9/11. At that point, if there was anything else to be heard about Enron, it wasn't going to be front page anymore.
Bold quote from about 50% down the page:

"The causal effect of quitting a job is estimated to be a gain of 5.2 happiness points out of 10, and breaking up as a gain of 2.7 out of 10!"

I believe that's on a scale of 1 to 10 (or 0 to 10?) someone rated going from a 3 to an 8 (on average) based on quitting a job they were /considering/ quitting. I will note that they probably did have other opportunities lined up; quitting a job and becoming unemployed without benefits strikes me as a most probably unhappy circumstance.

Similarly the relation change ended up netting 2-3 "points" of difference for a relationship. So 5 became 7 or 8.

Edit (not for formatting):

I didn't check the details on the statistics, so I don't know how LIKELY a positive outcome vs negative outcome was from those changes. It's possible that there's a split where a subset was VERY happy with the change and some were ambivalent/unhappy as a result.
TAL tends to deal with a more specific topic or story compared to Radiolab, which deals with an idea that has many smaller bits. The editing reflects this. I find it fine to listen to.
1/2 roommates and private bath vs a dozen roommates and a closet...and we're talking about staying in SF here.

If I wanted to save money, I'd accept a half hour commute and get a room near a Bart station for half the cost.

This article is a total lie, unless these people are really bottom of the barrel idiots.
Amazing link; thanks for the rabbit hole!
For what it’s worth, I had one of those make the front page a couple of months ago. I did a big background explanation lead in (that several people commented wasn’t necessary) mainly because I wanted to establish a bit of a “right to have an opinion” on the subject.

Might not have been necessary but I felt like I needed to do it.
I think of OLS as just one type of machine learning.

OLS is great for many types of problem.

For others, other techniques massively outperform them in some way (e.g. CNNs for classifying camera images or spectrograms of audio data).

Even where OLS performs well, it seems other techniques can frequently do better.
That came across as such cynical sensationalism, too. Unless there's more to it than revealed by this excerpt, it's not like he'd lose his job for revealing a terrible secret, or anything, it would simply be holding him to account for the professional lapse of violating his confidentiality agreement.
@pmoriarty: Speaking speculatively, swiping on Dvorak might be harder for the machine to recognize because more common English letters are on the home row instead of separated like QWERTY.

@GatorD42: I hear a decent proportion of people who complain or fear that keyboard shortcuts won't work well in Dvorak. But in my own experience, I have no problems whatsoever (even common keys like Ctrl+C/V/X/Z/W/A/S/T). One caveat though, is that many shortcuts are on the right side and prefer using Right Ctrl - but some machines like the entire Microsoft Surface tablet/laptop series omit Right Ctrl which makes keyboard shortcuts absolutely infuriating.
Taleb has often been accused of lacking rigor in his arguments. He does write well, though.
I didn't get the impression he was arguing, just trying to bring clarity.
ETL.
I typed 130-150 WPM with 160-170 WPM bursts on QWERTY, the layout I grew up typing for most of my life.

I switched from QWERTY to Dvorak over the course of 8~ months and attained 120~ WPM with no discernible difference in comfort. I then switched from Dvorak to Colemak over the course of 3~ months. I was back to 130-150 WPM but lacked any ability to "burst" at faster speeds for short periods of time. I felt slightly more comfort typing in Colemak than I did QWERTY/Dvorak but it interrupted workflow too much and I ended up switching back to QWERTY. After my experiences, I firmly believe any significant benefits people get from switching keyboard layouts isn't from switching keyboard layouts, but rather, from learning how to type properly. This goes for comfort, speed, and accuracy. I know of very, very few people who I would define as "excellent" typists (>120WPM) claiming any benefit from switching layouts.

Switching back and forth for Colemak/QWERTY is easy for me, I struggle with Dvorak as I am out of practice ("use it or lose it").

Learn to Stenotype if you truly want speed [0]. If you switch keyboard layouts it should only be because you never really "learned how to type" or if you feel slight comfort gains are worth breaking existing workflows over.

On Mobile I use a QWERTY layout for English and flick input for Japanese.

E: Also I believe there are studies that "micro-movements" are more harmful in the long term, causing more RSI. So Colemak's smaller, more comfortable movements may have been long-term harmful. I can't find these studies but I faintly remember reading about this. If anyone has any proof one way or the other I'd love to see it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype
In a world where it's taken for granted that, say, countable additivity over measurable sets will work work out fine, and is felt to be a different beast than arbitrary use of a separation schema plus a set of all sets, sure. But it took early 20th-century mathematical logicians decades of exploration to get to a point where there was confidence that people doing the former thing could get by mostly "naively", without being in danger of doing the latter thing. (See e.g. Galileo's paradox.)

Modern pure mathematicians benefit from being able to conduct most of their reasoning on the lower footsteps of the von Neumann hierarchy (V_{omega + k} for small k), where they get access to higher-order tools like function spaces and topologies, countability as a fruitful property to impose and work with, and a playground where most of the disparate branches of mathematical research can be brought together without worrying about bindings between underlying frameworks. None of these things require a deep knowledge of the metamath of ZF to work with, but they'd all make many 19th-century mathematicians nervous.

Note also that the most frequently used tools of naive set theory today (e.g. unions/intersections, separations/replacements, powersets, cartesian products/relations/functions, a few notable infinite sets) roughy mirror ZF. That shouldn't seem like an accident. Having working mathematicians trained to think and organize their work in these constructs keeps them around those lower footsteps.
Suggestion for anyone in this bracket and unmarried: once a year, rent a massive coastal villa in a South American country on the cheap ($1.5-3k/week) either alone or with 1-2 cool (emphasize cool) friends. I'll let your imagination run wild as to what follows. Now up that a bit as your imagination wasn't wild enough. Have fun, be safe.

ProTip: Use VRBO or other vacation rental sites rather than airbnb.
And that, in short, is why I prefer really freakin' old languages for doing real work.
If you do image processing:

10% collecting, 90% "analyzing" it to fit our bullshit models.
22k is an average. There are many people whose debts are significantly more.
> NN Taleb’s books

Quite the opposite. He expands one single argument ad nauseum into each of his books.

It's exasperating.
Yep. If anyone is here because they're curious about the FFT, you'd do better to start with a DFT implementation (identical to FFT, just a slower algo), most of which are tiny enough to fit on a postcard. C source code behind popular Python FFT versions are elsewhere on GitHub (ie: try Numpy or Scipy repo)
Just because one cant make a nuclear bomb from the material does not mean it cannot be weaponised.. Anything radioactive that can be spread into the food chain is an issue.
We have plenty of laws borne out of outrage and a desire to punish the guilty. They usually create even worse outcomes: look no farther than seizure laws created during the War on Drugs for a perfect example.

Law enforcement can take any asset you have based on an allegation of criminality: not against you but the item itself! You get to prove the innocence of the item in court if you hope to reclaim it.

Of course those abusing that law know very well that the defense is far dearer than the item itself, resulting in your abandoning any claim to the item and net profit to law enforcement.

Now you want to reward prosecution with more perverse incentives? We used to say the power to tax was the power to destroy. These days the power to prosecute is the same, and sort of like I look at every piece of code with the idea "How will the cyber security red team abuse this?" we need to look at any potential law for abuse by over zealous prosecution.