skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 0. People are primarily self serving and will likely not use the money as proponents intent

This is an assumption, rooted in the belief that people are poor because they are lazy, and it is wrong. There are numerous studies which disprove this assumption and I have yet to see a study which supports it.

> 1. If you give everyone a basic monthly income, what’s stopping everyone else who provides services (i.e. housing) from just increasing prices by however much the income is, thus negating the free money in the first place.

While a UBI would raise the median income within an economy, if it was funded out of income tax then it would be neutral with respect to the mean available income, which is more what prices respond to.

> What would make more sense are price controls to bring down costs, like housing and utilities.

That's a really terrible idea. Free-market competition is better. Public ownership and provision of services is also better. Price controls on private markets, however, is genuinely the the worst of all worlds. It also does nothing whatsoever to help people at the bottom of the economic ladder, who don't have access to money at all.
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>The cellulose acetate fibers used as the predominant filter material do not readily biodegrade because of the acetyl groups on the cellulose backbone which in itself can quickly be degraded by various microorganisms employing cellulases.[23] A normal life span of a discarded filter is thought to be up to 15 years.[24]
Even up here in Canada, there are people the government hires to keep the population of our national animal down, which apparently involves going up to them and pulling their heads off (very easy because of their thin necks). Because the alternative is, yes, you can't use any grass area for 5 months out of the year.
Chrome on Windows 10 gave me this error (and no, Google is not blocked on my ISP):

"The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified."
Ok, I would call that blur, but I don't want to argue semantics. Anyway, that makes my original point moot as I misunderstood what you where looking for.
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> If you really think that big blocks solve anything, then by all means just use Bcash - though of course Bcash itself is melting down into separate forks as we speak..

Try to look beyond all the censored /r/bitcoin propaganda - bitcoin cash and other cryptocurrencies scale fine with increased blocksizes.

Bitcoin cash is not melting down in separate forks at all. The increased blocksize obviously works without problems and has nothing to do with forking in the first place.

There was never a reason to restrict the blocksize of btc except to sell a complicated and unnecessary promise of a solution to a non-problem. Everyone outside of the /r/bitcoin censorship and propaganda bubble can see this.
It is 64 hyper-parameters, not variables, which is a huge amount.

Stopping rules are also a requirement of tuning. Can't just have a while True:. If an objective function doesn't improve after 100 (or any #), there needs to be logic to stop the trials since this system is apparently serving all of Alphabet.
Or, draw just ahead of it. I think that is a matter of perspective.

The idea being to have the graphics there for the display device to render them. Once it has done that, they are no longer needed, until next frame.

Doing that actually needs only a small buffer, but is timing intense, also compute and write demanding.

If one has a sprite capability, and or a larger, or full frame buffer, just write from the top down, starting at the beginning of blank from the previous frame.

Drawing behind works simplest assuming a full frame buffer, so the new follows the old once the display has pushed those pixels to eyeballs.

Another scheme, used in DEFENDER and ROBOTRON, among many others, is to divide the screen into top and bottom regions. Or more, depending.

Render into the one the display is not using. This is more coarse, but can be less complex to arrange.

The timing depends. If one is working scanline by scanline, yeah. Need accurate timing.

When working with screen regions, or just a blanking period, the requirement is relaxed. Really, all you need is to understand the speed of the object draw engine and a quick sort to insure the initial part of the frame is drawn in time for the display.

Screen regions also work well when the renderer cannot get a full frame drawn every display frame. There, a priority system will draw what is needed, delay that which is not.

I enjoy doing ths kind of programming. A full double buffer is a luxury :D
Why I have an idea about receipe optimisation as a service ?
Long term benadryl use is not healthy.

After several years of melatonin use, I developed an irregular heart rhythm I could hear/feel, and you could see on an echocardiogram. It dissipated within a week of stopping.
Based on their simulations, they are estimating a much better power / performance ratio than existing superscalar designs.

However, starting up an entirely new computer architecture isn't easy. They want to retain control of their company, so they aren't accepting tons of VC money. Progress is slow.
I agree, but have to point out that non-smokers not liking disgusting smells has never stopped smokers before.
This was apparently limited to victoria england. Most hunter gather cultures slept one block at night and then napped in the afternoon, according to matthew walker.
Before I go to a new city, town or any location, I like to review a map. I don't like to be lost.
Funny, I thought living with a 25 hour day was a nearly universal desire for people under 40. Certainly most of my close friends in my teens and 20s would regularly discuss that this would make our lives better.

Once I experienced the pain of needing to wake up for a small child, I was forced out of my historical sleep pattern. Fortunately I, like my parents, need less and less sleep as I get older, so 24 hours with an early rising child is more tolerable now than when I initially experienced it.
It's not some random commenter that assumed the cronotype though, it's scientists.

So, you can take it with them.

Or you could an outlier, but it's not like this flexibility you mention is statistically true for most people. What has been studied is statistically true.
Tech leadership is extremely hard. You either get at one extreme the MBA trained to think producing sugared beverages is equivalent to producing software, and at the other the formerly great coder that couldn't metamorphose himself to be able to manage people. Having all the required qualities is extremely rare.
When you compile regularly you don't, mainly because you're more interested in ensuring your code isn't broken and you have no intention to ship the binaries to anyone.
Isn't he claiming the opposite? (But I don't have the book to dig into the sources):

This brief descent from high-degree wakefulness to low-level alert­ness reflects an innate drive to be asleep and napping in the afternoon, and not working. It appears to be a normal part of the daily rhythm of life.
I think technically it might still work (i.e. you could read/write to it without errors?), but the integrity of the data it is storing would be questionable.
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I keep hearing that the constitution doesn't apply at the border, but it seems too incredible to believe.

To the question, "Do you know anyone that is a terrorist?" I would have to answer, "Probably" or at least, "I don't know." I could not truthfully answer, "No." Neither could just about anybody.

It seems pretty clear to me that it would be improper to detain somebody because their phone was too clean and they do not know if they know anybody who is a terrorist.

Can anybody point to actual case law that supports the claim that such persons are not protected by the constitution? There is a lot of scaremongering in this area, but I haven't seen any actual case law. Of course, I haven't paid much attention either. But the only cases I have seen have been decided in favor of the citizen.

I'm pretty sure there is a limit to how long a Highway Patrol officer can keep me on the side of the road without an arrest or a ticket. I know there is a limit to how long I can be detained by police without being charged. There must be a time limit to how long CBP can take to ask me 800 questions. Or rather, how long they could detain me while I answer 0 questions and repeatedly ask for an attorney.

I am glad there are people willing to spend the time to hold them accountable when it would be easier to just move on and try to forget the whole thing.
Yes, I sleep during the day quite often. I currently work for myself, it's never been an issue for other people I've worked for.
If I recall, the spices were an intentional choice of a kind of pathological input to the optimizer, and iirc it did what you might expect (minimize the amount of cayenne to the smallest in the acceptable range).
Nowhere in the comment you replied to was it suggested that it would be achieved by undemocratic means. Ironically, in your comment you imply that democracy consists of lawmaking by whoever has more money.
Yes, exactly. The slowness of the bubble sort "leaks" the fact that it's a bad/naive implementation of sorting.
I have a coworker like that. We have flexible hours, so it's not too bad for him, though we do have core hours where we expect people to be available for meetings, etc. Luckily for him, his boss is pretty laid back about such things, and we can also often video conference in from home. So worst-case he gets up for a meeting, calls in, then goes back to sleep. But others like you definitely exist!
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Here you go:

https://www.blog.google/technology/research/makings-smart-co...
My problem was two fold:

* My eyesight was a bit poor, got glasses for the first time
* Snored a lot, got a mouth guard as a sleeping aide

On top of that going through a period with vitamine suppliment really boosted me. My take from is if you don't wake up when the sunrise (if you went to bed in ok fashion) and feel somewhat rested, start to look at your sleeping behaviour/daily stress.
What does the seller do with it, then? There has to be some sort of sequestration program, possibly involving landfills - but a mass of cigarette butts is likely to produce runoff that's toxic to plants and insects, at the very least, if not to everything in its path. So, if you have a multiple-stream recycling program, you probably need to add a stream to that specifically for butts; if you have a single-stream program, I hope your sorters are getting hazard pay already, and if they aren't then they sure should be now. And you still have the sequestration problem from here - all you've accomplished is to make it minimally possible to implement that. And all of this costs, and everything downstream of it will cost, too.

Cheaper and simpler just to ban cigarettes entirely. And I realize that's neither simple nor cheap! But it's not the worst idea I've ever heard, either. Even back when I smoked every day, I wasn't entirely against it; now that I smoke only when drunk, I favor it considerably more. Yeah, it sucks to go cold turkey, but nicotine isn't like ethanol; quitting cold turkey makes you miserable for a while, but it's not going to kill anyone.
Agreed but they also say "We’ll be adding to this list in the next couple weeks." So time will tell.
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Ouch, fair enough.
Yes, but I couldn't find where Matthew Walker says that.
I'm not really trying to be snarky, just point out the difference in approach. Research is in fact documentation - of what others have done.

Papers that are entirely surveys or comparisons of different approaches can be excellent and would make good citations in any practical work.
do you have a list of things that are really in need of redesign ?
We sometimes hire mid/jr-level FE developers, which means we get _lots_ of bootcamp applicants.

It feels like the main goal of the bootcamp is to produce portfolios/resumes that make you indistinguishable on paper from developers that learned any other way.

Not necessarily bad, but the quality difference among bootcamp grads (from the same program!) is crazy. Some people understand the fundamentals of what they learned and continue to learn and expand their skills, but some are just copy/pasting code and debugging by typing random character combinations until something works. Both got through the bootcamp with identical group-project portfolios and class assignment personal websites and resumes.

We've recently started sending an at-home coding challenge to all jr. FE applicants, just to cut down on amount of time wasted if we bring them in and they don't know anything. This has worked okay so far.

I'm generally very cognizant of wasting peoples time, so I don't want to do this as a general rule for more experienced candidates. But for junior/first-job candidates, I'm not sure it should be as offensive. Do any of y'all see a reasonable distinction here?
Every smoker I have ever known throws their used butts in the street, so I don't think it's inaccurate.
Heavy investment in sales, marketing, and litigation relative to R&D.
Yes, I did acknowledge the possibility of long tail costs being higher. A case of money being owed should be relatively simple to substantiate, and if the amount is that well defined, then I'd think attorney's fees would be awarded when the other side didn't accept your offer to take $20k and insisted on litigation. But obviously many types of contracts would love to write "you cannot sue us for any reason whatsoever", and yet this is not allowed - even though it would make a lot of sense for many things like no-economic-consideration software licenses (rather than that whole NO WARRANTY rigmarole).

The main problem, as I focused on, is malinterpretation.

My example had to be very unsubtle to be understood, which is the norm in software land. But yes my contrived example would not pass the smell test in legal land and would thus be easily contested. So now we get to argue about the epsilon. Directly from the article you linked:

> Crucially, these grounds do not include substantive review of the award for "mere" errors of law or fact. As a result, "judicial review of arbitration decisions is among the narrowest known to the law."

It seems like one would likely have to show an overt conspiracy with the arbitrator or other gross arbitrary behavior to contest a decision. Given how much corruption is based on cooperative wink-wink, and that the contract drafter/arbitrator purchaser is likely to be the repeat customer, it's a bad setup.

Also directly from that article:

> Before the enactment of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and its Florida counterpart, the Florida Arbitration Code (FAC), courts were generally hostile to arbitration, viewing it as "an attempt to oust courts of [their] lawful jurisdiction."

So yes, it seems that the courts even agree with me. Then the arbitration industry got the ear of lawmakers, who proceeded to undermine the courts.

Don't get me wrong - philosophically I would very much like to reduce court costs and lawyer overhead. Stripping away the right to sue through contracts of adhesion is not the way to go about that though.
You saw the combustion equivalent of being bit by a shark and struck by lightening at the same time. Except in exceptional circumstances where the wood is highly flammable (like very dry and probably a little bit rotted wood that's at 150F+ from sitting in the sun), something like a cigarette butt or a lit match is not enough to catch lumber on fire without some other easier to ignite material in between as a stepping stone.
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I hate that project. It's completely gross to poison crows by training them to do something that we could train humans to do - with the exact same incentive system.
String girdling Earth
The idea is that things you would normally get from an OS are now libraries that are compiled into your application. If you want a scheduled, you compile it in. If you want a TCP stack, you compile it in.
That's a desperately uncharitable comment to make. The project is open source, perhaps you could throw a few pull requests his way to assist in making it mobile friendly, or y'know fork:

https://github.com/ivailop7/IvoTetris
Jeff Bezos believes people shouldn’t do jobs software can do
What cars still have ashtrays? I haven't seen one since 1990s models. I have several cars 2002 - 2004 and none of them have an ashtray, or a lighter.
What causes the deep relief of having made a full uninterrupted 7-9h sleep ?

I don't mind split nights but I'm still into the usual belief.
>By this logic though, aren't all abstractions leaky in the end?

Almost all. the question is just one of degree. The fact that they are almost all leaky is why you should be hesitant to abstract away in the first place. The effort you think you are saving may be taken up later when the leaky details bite you. "I'll use this game engine instead of raw vulkan" -> "oh no I can't render all my widgets fast enough on mobile" or "I'll use this easy UI library" -> "oh no I can't actually do a list of text boxes that is scrollable with this"
That's an over-generalization and concluding from it that LN will fulfil all of its promises is characteristic of the kind of blinders-on thinking within the Bitcoin Core community right now.

Skeptics have thus far been proven right that LN doesn't work as a full substitute for on-chain transactions, and its advocates have continually had to push back the promised date of a usable product.

Big blocks in an age of 30 Mb/s internet connections can and will work. 3,000 tps on-chain was the original scaling plan for Bitcoin. Fortunately, Bitcoin (Cash) carries on that plan.
I think that in the context that he meant, 64 variables = 64 hyperparameters because it was about benchmark problems solved in black-box settings. In other words, it is not about the common misconception of comparing #hyperparameters and #variables on some ML model, where the latter can be in 10^7.
Price that into the items. If it's not worthwhile for the store to carry them at the going price, the store is free to raise the price or drop the product. Generally the store is doing some work to sell its products in exchange for making some money. What's the problem?
I think one of the problems with this idea (which I do find really interesting) is that this type of legislation encourages people the smoke more responsibly rather than encourage people not to smoke, which is what most legislation aims to do in regards to cigarettes. Most likely the thing that would be passed would be a $0.20 tax per butt to pay for clean up and incentivize people to stop smoking.
Current cigarettes have additives in the paper so that they go out easily themselves.
I think the point is you can rip the kernel components out, and the (non-Dtrace using dev) user doesn't notice. Whereas removing a filesystem driver leaves users without their data.
>> We did not complete the final step ... for privacy reasons

But they did read a ton of email they knew was private? Censoring it for public consumption doesn't change the fact that they accessed it.

Anybody doing this kind of thing in Australia should be familiar with the 'Cybercrime Act 2001' model. In NSW it is implemented in Part 6 of the Crimes Act 1900, and other states also mirror the Cth legislation with various modifications. Some of these (eg Criminal Code 1995 (Cth) s 478.1 / Crimes Act 1900 s 308H) are absolute liability offences, so it is not necessary to prove anything about your intent. Read the definitions in, eg, Criminal Code 1995 s 476.1 for how broad they go ('guided or unguided electromagnetic energy').

The federal offences have to be within the constitutional limits on Cth legislative power, so they 'only' apply to Cth computers/data or when 'the access to, or modification of, the restricted data is caused by means of a carriage service', i.e. The Internet. So they can usually be applied.

These provisions are extremely broad, so there's a lot resting on prosecutorial discretion. Nobody can say for sure whether these things breach the act, but there are plenty of ways to interpret the provisions and cast the actions within them. For example, they might have impaired the electronic communication to or from a computer per s 477.3, and it's not like they were asking anyone first. Also 'here are some private emails we received' is just so plausibly within 'unauthorised access to restricted data'. Probably talk to a lawyer before hitting the big Publish button on Medium Dot Com, and maybe refrain from actually deliberately receiving people's emails, especially when everyone already knows that email compromise = everything and there's nothing to prove.

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018C00298/Html/Volu...

http://www6.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb/au/legis/nsw/conso...
sorry but this is as absurd as saying don’t let line cutters into traffic. yes, “we”
should band together to end the practice, but the fact that “everyone else” is going to do it means it will continue.

rather than address the call to action to candidates, how about asking folks to refuse to give a coding test?
considering people aren't making bottles/cans to game beverage container deposit programs, I don't think it's going to be that big of an issue.
The prediction-market aspect is fascinating; they asked a group of experts to predict which would and wouldn't replicate, and while we don't see the experiment-level results, the overall average was apparently very close.

Is this common in modern replication studies? Do the results of the prediction-market ever get announced/published prior to the replication results themselves?
> In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

At this level, it really reads like archaic English spelling before things were really standardized.
Are those real stats or guess?
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These are not the vizier cookies.
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Well, yes. This is known as the "race to sleep" and is probably the single most common power saving strategy for modern chips.

It's true that switching power scales with the square of voltage (P=V^2Cf), but that's not really a problem for the race to sleep as switching power even with V as low as you can get it is going to be orders of magnitude higher than your static power.
Did you follow-up with the denials and ask them why they didn't pick your resume?
Bah, this part of the thread is stuck in the weeds debating definitions; my real point is in my initial comment.
Scientists 'fix' bacterial tree of life
This is a useful datapoint, but I feel the author could learn a thing or two from the backblaze disk report. It looks like there are a few use cases that cause high wear on SSDs. I dont see a lot of concrete numbers here. To me, it is more useful to say something like: these ssds will last 2 years given that their sustained write throughput is X GB/sec on average.

From the SSD torture tests Ive seen, it is many petabytes of data that the average SSD must write before getting anywhere near "weared out".
Came here to say this. Honestly, the shows over folks. We are truly in the Anthropocene moving to a Blade Runner trash world. We've caught up with end-of-days sci-fi.