skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your argument would have more power if music weren't freely available on the radio.

It used to be common practice for governments to tax owners of radios (and TV sets later on). So music certainly hasn't always been freely available on the radio.

That being said, if you're sending EM waves through my property, why the hell shouldn't I be allowed tp copy them?
When I was in college (2004) the school I went to had an interdisciplinary major called Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). It has a "thematic concentration" called "Choices and Behavior" that was very popular. Many, many students majored in PPE so I don't mean to comment on literally all of the people who chose it, however, amongst my circle of friends the ones who chose "Choices and Behavior" chose it because in their minds there was something cool about the idea of using psychology to manipulate people. I don't think they had anything nefarious in mind but they were definitely attracted to the magical language used to describe the practical applications of the things they would learn. It actually felt somewhat similar to the way my software developer friends talk about machine learning today.
I tried to do something similar a while ago (for eng hiring specifically). It turned out that the number of grammatical errors and typos mattered way more than anything else on a resume.

http://blog.alinelerner.com/lessons-from-a-years-worth-of-hi...

That aside, what sucks is that attempts to automate resume scoring rarely look at harder-to-quantify features and focus on low-hanging fruit like keyword occurrences... though in my experience it's such a low-signal document for engineering hiring that the whole thing is a fool's errand.
Stimulate is the wrong word here. To avoid harming small businesses regulations usually need to exclude them completely or at least don't put the same regulatory burden on them. But with all that lobbying and regulatory capture harming small businesses is the whole point of regulations.
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This may be hyperventilation [1], which is too little CO2 in the blood, not too much O2. Symptoms include dizziness and loss of consciousness.

I discovered this in 7th grade by doing about 30 seconds of rapid breathing followed by holding my breath. Reliably passed out in 5-10 seconds, regained consciousness in <15 seconds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperventilation
The thing is, people want a way to measure and control the amount of memory that a process uses or is likely to use. Resident memory is one way to measure actually used memory, but from the man 3 vlimit, RLIMIT_RSS is only available on linux 2.4.x, x < 30; which nobody in their right mind is still running. So we have RLIMIT_AS which limits virtual memory, or we have the default policy of hope the OOM killer kills the right thing when you run out of ram.

That you have to keep fighting this battle is an indication that people's needs (or desires) aren't being well met.
In the Salem witch trials the accused were executed. This was a job application, not a criminal trial, and the worst thing that would happen to him is not getting a promotion. Even in a civil trial the burden of proof is just more likely than not. In a job application, it's "do I think I can get a better candidate or is this one good enough?" I've been on interview teams where someone got the thumbs down because they were qualified but a few of the interviewers thought they were kind of an annoying windbag. If Kavenaugh gave that performance at my workplace he'd get the boot at round one...."yup, that's it, just a quick chat. HR will get back to you."
Perhaps it’s facile to say it’s to economics understading what placebo is to medicine.
Yep, I agree a skewed dataset is not good for the task of correcting an unequal distribution and is likely to maintain or even increase it.
> stream a shitty version on YouTube

Is that considered piracy? YouTube quality is fine for most people (i.e. they either don't care, or don't have gear that's good enough to really hear the difference).
"How competitive is capitalsim anyway? What's the best measure for it?"

I look at stuff like this among a group of suppliers:

1. What suppliers offer in terms of product, capabilities, etc should be going up.

2. If comparing two versions of something in No 1 overtime, then...

2.1. Quality/reliability/security should go up over time.

2.2. Price should go down.

3. Customer service should improve over time given it's an easy differentiator.

4. Convenience of any aspect of the business should go up over time. Low-hassle in general.

You'll find in monopolies or cartelized oligopolies that these are all bad or move super slowly in a way that keeps everyone high margin. In highly competitive industries, things move fast with many players having low margin.
But this is a problem of magnitude. What would you think of your baby's pediatrician if he/she starting pushing his/her unproven ideas as good practices that should be followed by the medical community and writing about pushing against the objections when someone objects them?
Replacing mathematically provable cryptographic assurances with a human fallible cabal of BPs hardly seems like an advancement.

In any case, Bitshares TPS was less due to DPoS and owed more to the limitations of what tx were supported.

Ethereum chose to support greater contract flexibility which turned out to be what the community of users wanted more, at least then.

We've yet to see a real solution to the problem of having to tradeoff performance for decentralization (while keeping security.)
I had some rumors going around, can anyone confirm? If this is real, we're all fucked.
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This, as opposed to all the holy virgins elsewhere in the tech industry that did not, say, stifle 2 decades worth of search engine innovation with their patents, patent novel compression techniques belonging to others, completely wipe out a rich and varied mobile telephone industry by coupling a bunch of open source code alongside JAVA to access to the only search engine worth its salt and easy access to third party applications, ...

I'm just picking on Google here, but you could make a list like this for any large tech company, which is my point. But somehow this always comes up in the context of Microsoft, as if somehow they are are particularly more evil than just about anyone else.
>>Here we have simulated characters that learn to adapt motions to irregular terrain, where the original video clips were recorded from actors on flat ground.

That simulation looks quite good, though I'm struck that it has apparently not learned the simplest trick to success, launching your flip off of a higher point and landing lower
Researchers now building 3D map of the genome
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It's extremely easy to turn off VSCode telemetry, it's just a setting https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...
No, I want, in my address space, to say to the kernel "when you decide what bit of my memory map to return from mmap and friends, don't use these addresses.". That shouldn't cost anything, except storing the blocks I want reserving.

This is surprisingly hard to do in user space. You can tell mmap where to put allocations, but not where not to put them. Also it's hard to control what your Libc's malloc will do.
Much of behavioral economics is based on a very shaky foundation of psychology.

For instance, the priming experiments cannot be reproduced.

> This result confirms Kahneman’s prediction that priming research is a train wreck and readers of his book “Thinking Fast and Slow” should not consider the presented studies as scientific evidence that subtle cues in their environment can have strong effects on their behavior outside their awareness.

https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...
Nationals (or people of family origin!) of belligerent countries were interned on both sides. They were also at risk of violence. Third country neutral nationals were generally left alone subject to wartime travel restrictions, unless they were also Jewish.
Control question for if you're making a certain intellectual mistake.

The data set will also have skewed heavily against people named "David". Probably only ~1% of the successful applicants.

Would you also expect the machine to be biased against candidates named David?
I can imagine the music industry response as I type...
"Arrrr(gh)!"
Anyone else using http://hckrnews.com/ ?
I'd describe people with PhDs in atmospheric science who have published papers on climate change or other climate modeling as experts. These people largely disagree with Lindzen.
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> A lot of economics seems to assume that the actors are equally rational beings but in the real world that's just not the case. Behavioral economics seems to bring actual human experience into economics.

This is a huge misconception. Economics doesn't assume that actors are perfectly rational actors, any more than physics assumes that interactions always take place inside a frictionless vacuum. It's just one model that's used as a starting point to understand mechanical interactions.
Words in English change their meaning based on usage in popular culture.

Ever since the last of the "real" pirates was hanged, the pirate has become a fictional archetype from the Age of Sail. The pirate is now a form of self-governing rebel against authority, an era-appropriate gangster with a heart ranging from black as coal to something far short of a heart of gold--gilded brass, at best. They make great anti-heroes. They cheat, but the game was already rigged.

Contrast with navies and marine corps that also attack ships and kill people, but do so under the aegis of state-sanctioned legitimacy. And they have a strict, authoritarian command hierarchy, rather than the freewheeling pirate charters that only invested absolute authority in the captain during the heat of combat.

It certainly doesn't help that the libertarian crowd with fantasies of living statelessly (unflagged vessels) in international waters (seasteading) would be considered by the law of the sea to be legally indistinguishable from pirates.

Your pleas are therefore likely to go unheeded, because "pirate" is indeed a loaded term, but it isn't loaded with a powder charge and 9-inch iron ball, not by a long shot. Pirates are now the proto-punks, the anti-authoritarian rebels of the sea. They are the ultimate self-interested libertarians, looting those who are plundering the new world colonies and shipping the silver back home to the king.

As media distributors have colonized the new world of artists that work in recordings that can be duplicated endlessly with little effort, the new pirates rebel against their copyrights and plunder the ships filled with gold, bound for Wall Street and City of London. The metaphor is just too apt.
I recall seeing one, once, but I think it was just someone's college senior project. It looked very compelling.
Please point to any company that does anything out of the goodness of its heart. Companies don't have hearts, they have employees and shareholders that need to be kept happy and paid.
On FreeBSD there's MAP_GUARD.

From the documentation:

> Instead of a mapping, create a guard of the specified size. Guards allow a process to create reservations in its address space, which can	later be replaced by actual mappings. mmap will not create mappings in the address range of a guard unless the request specifies MAP_FIXED. Guards can be destroyed with munmap(2). Any memory access by a thread to the guarded range results in the delivery of a SIGSEGV signal to that thread.

So it seems like a good fit for your use case, but I've never used this.
People don't really care and just repeat the narrative. "Musician has to eat, too, right?" Most conservative people around me don't really care about IP right. Heck, they don't even understand them at all! I've seen them repeatedly pirating images from Google or copying their music using ripping tools while still advocating for copyright.
I've had a similar experience when submitting a patch for an open source Google product.

Jumped through their hoops, was met with denial and skepticism of a problem hundreds of people were reporting, that is until one of the skeptical project members independently cited a standard that I had cited in my pull request. We go back and forth for two weeks to refine the pull request, where I am doing all of the revisions. Eventually they're given approval and I assume all is well.

About three months went by, their product is still broken so I check on the pull request and it appears that the relevant people tested and approved of my patch... but they wanted a test suite written for it. They expected me to write and submit tests for their broken product after spending a month of my free on their project.

I was left with feeling as though Google employees should just do their jobs if they want their products to work, as I'm not wasting any more of my time by doing work for them for free.

This is a sharp contrast with other projects I've contributed to, where the response has been "Thanks for pointing out a problem with our project, let's do everything we can to fix it" instead of an uphill battle that was my experience with Google.
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I just wrote an email to info@enoughproject.org to point the fact that this situation is heading towards dangerously close levels to a genocide. I suggest people here do the same to raise more awareness.

I was surprised to see what's happening with the Uighurs doesn't put China on their watchlist despite criterias being fulfilled:
http://endgenocide.org/whos-at-risk/

Contact email taken from:
http://endgenocide.org/who-we-are/contact-us/
How does cytoolz performance compare with toolz under PyPy?
Last place I worked at had to invest in additional resources to hire several females because the office was mostly male and applicants were overwhelmingly male. We did eventually find a few great female applicants, but it took a lot of work and a lot of time dedicated specifically to that goal.

There does not exist some magical undiscovered pool of talented female engineers that are being turned away by biased recruiters. It's hard enough to find any sort of talented engineers regardless of other factors. Shit, it's not uncommon to recruit from other countries and cover relocation costs these days.
This is basically how cryptography works (one way functions).
This entire thread itself is pretty meta :)
> "No bias" means that gender is irrelevant

False. If we're talking about the technical statistical definition, bias means systematic deviation from the underlying truth in the data -- see this article by Chris Stucchio with some images for clarification:

https://jacobitemag.com/2017/08/29/a-i-bias-doesnt-mean-what...

"In statistics, a “bias” is defined as a statistical predictor which makes errors that all have the same direction. A separate term — “variance” — is used to describe errors without any particular direction.

It’s important to distinguish bias (making errors with a common direction) from variance which is simply inaccuracy with no particular direction."
> I have yet to see them actually open source anything that I would consider special.

It looks like they have open sourced a number of .NET components:
CoreFX - Core foundational libraries, CoreCLR - runtime, Roslyn - compiler.

As well as PowerShell, VS Code, Typescript, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Blazor, F#, Z3 Theorem Prover, etc.

And that's from just the first few pages of their Open Source page: https://opensource.microsoft.com/
Rust has a static “garbage collector”
I'm guessing "off-topic"[1]

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's funny how the volume model for the dog predicts an empty space for the shoulders, which the dog doesn't have. A hiccup of creating it from a trained model of hairstyles, I suppose.
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It's vital to have a "safe space" channel where people can ask questions without judgement, or worries about looking bad to management or people who have some say in their promotions, bonus, project assignments, etc.

Also important for "Widget X might be broken folks, do we have a problem?" triaging without inviting premature noise, especially given some such concerns will be false positives.
To grossly oversimply:

- Yes, it is a monolithic application architecture. There are distinct frameworks (e.g. GUIs, DBs, distributed compute, pubsub, lazily evaluated graph, reactive graphs, etc) designed to be used together in a unified way based on a global object store.

- A 150 person platform dev team writes these core frameworks and dev tools and runs the SDLC infra.

- Then the several thousand developers in business teams build applications for their particular needs.

- When the platform team sees businesses building their own solutions to a common need, it will productionize that as a new core framework for all business to use.

- In Python terms, there is a relative small number of core classes, and very many application-specific subclasses.
That probably does play a part but it's a different level than what we're talking about. Its more narrowly about whether people's current interests are being allowed.
It's my nearest tech scene and I get involved when I can.

I live in Paisley (town 20 minute train ride away) but that's the opposite of a tech scene.
The classic example would be food companies requiring the use of a commercial kitchen for selling food to the general public. There are a lot of fledgling businesses that have been shut down immediately because they cannot build capital while they are still in their cottage stage. While it is perfectly fine to invite my neighbors over and cook for them, it immediately crosses the line when I want to sell to them. I think it would be smarter to have progressive laws based on the number of servings instead of immediate high barriers to entry. So you still need to use a commercial kitchen, but only once you serve more than say 5,000 customers per annum. I think most people would believe that this is reasonable. There are countless industries that I think should have similar cottage exceptions.
"has been summarily handled"

Where does it state the number of applicants, male vs female?
Go back to the 1980s or so and a lot of economists may have recognized that their assumptions didn't really hold in a some cases but the orthodoxy was still that underlying theory was fundamentally economically rational [in the sense of assuming, for example, that people maximize expected value] in nature. What behavioral economics has done is started to provide intellectual foundations for observed behavior that isn't explained by traditional economic models.

Richard Thaler's Misbehaving is a good read on how this developed. I had Thaler as a professor for a couple of classes in the early 80s and I found some of the insights from early-on behavioral economics some of the more useful things I learned in my MBA.
True, but "Walking distance" is a nebulous measurement at best. How far can you walk? I walk 1.5 miles to my grocery store. Most of my neighbors say that is not within walking distance, but clearly that is a personal judgement, because I do it. And if we are talking about what changes we can make to our lives, expanding your perspective on "walking distance" is not a bad place to start.
The post I replied to is making false equivalence comparisons. There's nothing subtle about the issue being circumvented.
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184830
> Not everyone is a paid shill

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.
Does this include data collected from activity on Windows 10 endpoints? Previously, this could only be disabled on Windows 10 Enterprise. Can all on-device data collection and telemetry be disabled on Windows 10 Pro or Home, including "Customer Improvement" data collection, crash logs, keystrokes, screen grabs?
It’s probably time to learn Chinese
It doesn't take long to recognize and avoid that type of video. But man, a single click on one of those videos will take you down a rabbit hole so fast.
Then you will have big players like Uber that abuse subcontractors who are small businesses.

Perhaps the model of "run a business" is wrong altogether?
Or maybe a simple check... Margin cap.
Capping margins is liable to not harm efficiency at all but might instead freeze out some sectors from the market... Hard choices.
> The reason sneaking into a sports stadium is wrong is not because it deprives the stadium owner of the $0.01 marginal cost of an additional person being present. It's because it deprives them of the opportunity to sell a ticket for $100.

The argument is that pirates wouldn't have bought the song, so it's not depriving the artist of any revenue. The pirate either doesn't have the song or they pirate it. Buying it is not one of their options.

The stadium owner would never see the $100 because the person couldn't afford to purchase the ticket. So, it's not lost revenue to them. However, if someone sneaks in, now you're costing the owner money.

That's why I'm saying the in-person analogy doesn't fit.
Um... not immediately. I have heard it several times, but I can't cite a source.

We'd need a graph of carbon emissions by nation, over time. I'm sure the data is out there, but I'm not sure where...
No one wants to be cheated. Everyone wants to be sold to. That's because everyone has problems they can't solve on their own.

"I don't want to be sold to, because I think I'm being cheated" becomes "If I'm not being cheated, then selling to me is okay". Or to put it more abstractly, "Selling bad because yuck" becomes "If yum, then selling good".

It comes back to the win-win, to mutually beneficial relationships. I disagree that there is "zero structural incentive" to consider the needs of the customer. In most cases, there's plenty of structural incentive. If your business depends on repeat customers, not considering their needs costs you their business. If your business depends on references and reputation, then not considering your customer's needs costs both the current customer and future customers.
Exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
How do you define irrelevant? I consume useful information very frequently.
Exactly. When did the process go from "Find the best America has to offer" to "shove this questionable guy through because we're tired of looking"?
Electric cars tend to put out less CO2 compared to gasoline cars only if you drive them for more than 5 years and don't replace the battery.

https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/11/Cl...

And yes, 12 years is nothing. Countries could start replacing all cars with electric ones for free right now, CO2 would just go higher and higher.

The answer to this environmental catastrophe is not manufacturing new cars. If we would have stopped buying and using cars 40 years ago...

https://mayerhillman.com/transport/key-publications/
Yes, because any system that allows corporate entities to amass significant wealth will see those entities using that power to create and capture regulation for their own benefit. Unless a counter mechanism to mass media and bribing politicians can be created, the general public and their governmental power will inevitably be neutered by wealthy interests. Regulatory capture and monopolies are features of capitalism, not bugs.