skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes this analogy would work if every brain became a cancerous growth that realigned laws and basic pathways to serve the survival and growth of the brain, but this is not the case, the brain in the body has a maximum size (proportionality) and also serves the rest of the body. Not only the brain's satisfaction, but the skin, the gut, the sense organs all rely on the brain however the brain serves them primarily before serving "itself"
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It's fairly obvious that speculation doesn't produce social value; and, if you take money to be a proxy for social value, which I think is a good idea, speculation is equivalent to printing money. It's a very pure the-rich-get-richer type of scheme. I dabble in retail trading fairly often, because I sometimes feel like if I have to produce capital, I might as well just "print it", so this is as much a criticisim of myself as of anyone else.
If for some reason you are unaware of the existence of OpenCV, just click "About" to get to a nice summary of what it's all about.
Additional one which I found very fun to dick around with: a symbolic calculator capable of doing simple differentiation and integration.
This is the good old fallacy of not looking at long enough time horizon and estimating information content in recent variance in addition to not setting up a robust strategy.

Usually taking off robustness for small short term profit is not worth it.

The usual thing is if the maximum observed variance vastly exceeds any current trend, you definitely should not gamble in this way as the volatility is high. Complete but easy calculation would allow him that the assumption he made is baseless. (Take a peek at variability in 70s, current blip is way below that.)

As for "black swan" events and general risk bounds, he probably did not gamble with money he couldn't afford to lose. That's not necessarily true for his clients though.

Bankruptcy with limited liability is a valid exit strategy and any investor should be aware of that risk strategy.
You don't need arbitrary precision, use a spigot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Spigot_algorithms
I still assume there are wire transfers of money involved, even if its between the enterprises. The whole point of this activity is criminal profit. There is absolutely no way to anonymously cash out that in 2018 unless transferring out to offshore havens. And often even then, if the US govt throws its weight.
It isn't JITed, I think you are thinking of byte code compilation.
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Ask HN: Recent sci-fi recommendations
Any good sci-fi movie or book recommendations that have come out recently?

I tend more towards cyberpunk and "hard" sci-fi. I love "Blade Runner", "Primer", "2001", "Neuromancer", and almost anything by Philip K. Dick, for what it's worth. But really anything that's a good story and thought provoking would be good.
+1 Fantastic course.
Airborne lead from leaded fuels used for two generations were far worse.
Creating something genuinely new can be really tricky if you are learning at the same time.

I.e. look at the TodoMVC as the comparison benchmark for various frontend frameworks.
>the lack of a reason

then be scared of life itself
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Ask HN: What would you add (remove) to a language you're working with daily?
please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't

:'<,'>s/_b/B/

work in this case?
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Don't think GRBs are all that worrisome, by comparison.

It has recently been calculated that there is a 50-percent chance that a GRB-induced mass extinction on Earth has occurred in the past 500 million years. This abstract: ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2506 )
links to a PDF of the entire paper.

So the probability in a human lifetime is magnitudes less than a supervolcano event or big asteroid impact.

According to ( https://phys.org337426962/pdf.pdf ): "The researchers don't believe a GRB striking the Earth could penetrate the atmosphere, but do believe one could destroy the ozone layer".

We started to do that to ourselves more than once, not long ago. We are by far the highest-probability danger to Earth life. Chlorofluorocarbons: check. Nuclear weapons: check.

Back to less-likely (inhuman) radiation sources: In the late 8th century, tree rings in the northern hemisphere 'recorded' a one-year atmospheric increase of 1% in carbon-14 ... 20 times normal. Cause: 'an extremely intense burst of high-energy radiation'.

Cause unknown, but could have been ... a coronal mass ejection (the Sun).

( https://www.nature.com/news/mysterious-radiation-burst-recor... )
I'd expect such a trivial operation to be done client-side in JavaScript and not need to ask a server to do it for them.
To be unconcerned, you need to be very optimistic and have a very strong believe (99% or higher probability) that no AI to be invented in the next four or five decades can deal with novel situations (which we didn’t anticipate beforehand).
When people pay you 1.2 million for influence essentially its a problem if you are also the nation's top lawyer.

Most of us aren't able to accept any money where it might impact our decisions on the job.
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Well, enlighten us then. What is the right way according to you? In case of my example: what is a better way than getting things done in a few hours, with no bugs whatsoever, with all functionality needed, and just working? I'm actually truly curious as to what would be better and more right.
I had the luck to get a 90% off lifetime subscription code off HN years ago. Literally one of the best things I ever did for my career development.

When I was a junior developer who had no idea about software engineering, I found the focus mode just dumped me into that deep pit of focus where it's just you and what you're working with in a space in your head. This allowed me to get into the legacy spaghetti and actually do what I was supposed to be doing.

I still use it to this day (meditation this morning, work soon), and they recently added a 'drone' focus track that (for me) is to white noise what white noise is to someone tapping you in the shoulder and asking if you got the email they just sent.

I recommend actually trialing it for a month and seeing if you can get into it, because if you can it's so useful.
> so it went into a Docker container for the added security benefits

Which are? Last I heard containers (with baked-in dependencies) were generally considered very bad for security because the dependencies never get updated.
The answer is honestly that it depends. If the investors asked the right questions, but the answers were fudged/ deliberately incomplete, then perhaps you have something to pursue. But, if you are not asking the right questions, or you do not further evaluate answers to ascertain their correctness and completeness, then you slacked at some point, and then the answer is that perhaps you are liable for your losses.
Because the Tcl community is 10+ years behind everyone, and that's still their goto code hosting site.
In Germany we increased the requirements for trading. You have to read stuff
and sign off otherwise the bank will not allow you to buy certain products.

We have that in the US too. While ordinary "retail" investors can buy stocks and
bonds (which they can do in Germany too, I presume), most of the "exotic"
products that people complain about are restricted to "accredited" investors. In
order to be an accredited investor in the US, you have to be one of the
following:

- a bank, insurance company, registered investment company, business
development company, or small business investment company

- an employee benefit plan, within the meaning of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act, if a bank, insurance company or registered investment
adviser makes the investment decisions, or if the plan has total assets in
excess of 5,000,000 dollars

- a charitable organization, corporation, or partnership with assets
exceeding 5,000,000 dollars

- a director, general officer, or partner of the company selling the
securities

- a business in which all the equity owners are accredited investors

- a natural person who has individual net worth or joint net worth with the
person's spouse that exceeds 1,000,000 dollars at the time of purchase or
has assets under management of 1,000,000 dollars or above, excluding the
value of the individual's primary residence

- a natural person with income exceeding 200,000 dollars per year in each of
the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding 300,000
dollars per year in those years and a reasonable expectation of the same
income level for the current year

- a trust with assets in excess of 5,000,000 dollars not formed to acquire
the securities offered whose purchases a sophisticated person makes

So as you can see, there are already quite stringent requirements for trading
most "exotic" derivatives in the US. You either have to be a millionaire, have
the backing of an institution, have government certification or all of the above
in order to trade things like mortgage-backed securities and government bonds.

I have zero ethical qualms about winning when I know that the other people I'm
competing against are millionaires, have institutional backing, have government
approval or all of the above.
That's a fantastic idea actually, thanks so much!
Spooky interaction at a distance shenanigans entanglement?
To be fair, the vast majority of Democrats aren't leftists, so that doesn't actually say much about the compatibility of Christianity and leftism.
This is intellectually lazy its a clear case of corruption.
At the scale of the brain we do.
> $5 for a group of neurons which will make cat sit...

What do you mean by this? As in, cats have demonstrably had electrodes or similar used to persuade them to sit?
I say again; Don't be rude.

Especially don't be mean about other people's environments for the sake of being mean about their environments. Which is what you just did.
> I think it's important to appreciate such nuances.

I think this is complete nonsense. Where you see nuances I see direct conflict of interest. There are no pragmatic approaches to be made here, because they would simply not be beneficial in any case but for involved parties.

Strong condemnation and punishment of corruptions is very viable to drive up the price. For every little penny.

The more outgoing form of cynism is taking it up the... and fighting corruption isn't some inquisition to the next revolution. That is a strawman.
Just wait until you realize what VPNs are mostly used for...
I can think of a few arguments, albeit with gaping holes, as to how money is a good proxy for social value, but would you mind expanding on that a little?

Also, I am curious as to what you mean when you refer to retail trading as printing money. Don't know anything about it (why I'm curious), but from what I have heard about trading in general, it seems to have some reasonable level of risk.
What's numpy?
I've been considering QubesOS for my next laptop (won't do it on desktop yet; still like my gaming too much). My old netbook is dying, and I'm considering something more powerful to do coding on. However, given that the lead of Qubes just left, I'm wondering what the future of the project is going to look like.
Like vimgolf[1]?

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> I honestly think the finance industry could be half the size it is with no real harm to the rest of the economy.

With technology it should have shrunk by a couple of orders of magnitude. You don't need a room full of old men in green visors cranking away at adding machines to get anything done anymore. Instead technology has only made it bigger.
I have to admit, I was not expecting to have been underestimating the intensity of a gamma ray burst.

> even with a supernova strength source

In my defence, my reference power source was "supermassive black hole falling into another supermassive black hole" (probably due to having heard either GRBs in general or one specific one attributed to the collapse of a quasar).
Lol, with so many legitimate H-1Bs getting denied, I doubt USCIS will approve these visas.

Right now, US is bleeding talent either by losing H-1Bs (especially ones that are educated in the US) and future university students.

Guess what this mass of population would do in their countries in the years ahead?
what I find interesting is that for most of my life, Moore's law was... as real as gravity; It seemed like any problem you had, wait a few years and you could just brute force it.

The future really did look limitless.

Now, moore's law has slowed down. Hell, I've got a 7 year old laptop next to me, and it still works for games. I mean, in the '90s, a 7 year old computer would be a museum piece.

I mean, for big AI advances now, we're more and more dependent on software.

Really, though, I think this seems to be how most tech works. There are periods of rapid innovation where it looks like you are going to the moon. Like, even spaceflight. In the years from 1944-1969 we went from the first practical rocket that could lob a bomb across the channel (without much accuracy, as i understand it) to actually putting human beings on the fucking moon. The literal moon. I mean, 1961-1969 might be even more amazing; vostock 1; the USSR sent Gagarin into outer space, and the US decided they needed to one-up them; so the US went to the moon.

Aand... we kinda stopped after that. I mean, we sent out some probes and some robots, but like manned space flight has kinda petered out... and I still can't take a rocket if I want to go visit my buddies on the antipode and I don't want to spend all day in an airplane. Like, I can't buy a flight to Australia in under 12 hours for love or money, which probably is about what I'd say if it were 1969. (on the other hand, I can get said flight- round trip- for rather less than a day's pay for an Engineer, which is amazing, if you ask me.)

And a lot of that is physics. Like, in most technologies, there's areas where progress is slow and hard and areas where once you break through some hard part, it becomes easy to advance... for a while. but that easy streak never lasts forever. Not because people are dumber or smarter, but because exponential progressions, in nature, rarely stay exponential very long.

I guess I'm expressing doubt about the 'hard takeoff' just 'cause it seems to me like there is probably limits to how smart you can make a brain the same way that there are limits to how small you can make features on a silicon wafer.

I'm not saying you won't be able to make a machine that is way smarter than me (or even way smarter than any human) - I'm just saying there are almost certainly limits.
> He was part of a non-profit advocacy group

“Part of” doesn't really capture his status as the sole paid employee.

> Seems he ran around doing radio interviews, not making profits.

The $1.2 million isn't the contribution to the entity that paid expenses and his salary, it's his salary from the entity. So it very much seems like he was running around doing radio interviews and making (rather large) profits.
It of makes a lot of sense to do that. One thing I appreciate with running server side stuff in containers is just how easy it is. Instead of installing mysql, having to worry about setting that up, creating a mysql user, etc. I just run it with a one liner and it runs. And when I stop it, I can cleanup the containers and volumes and it is gone. No surprise that this has become the norm for server side deployments.

It seems that that could be a nice thing to have with basically any kind of software package on the desktop as well. In a way that is the attraction of having browser based software: you just go to a particular website to run a web app. No installation needed. No need to worry about updates. Just run it.

I actually get the architectural purity that drove this person to do this. Why settle for less? Why accept all the kludges, legacy cruft, stupid hacks, and ugliness that we accept as normal? As, she's demonstrated, there's no good reason.
>If you encountered a cheetah in pre-industrial times (and survived the meeting)

I'm not aware of any confirmed report of a cheetah killing a human. They're cautious animals who are highly unlike to approach a human, more so than the other big cats. Most cheetah attacks involved captive cheetahs (and the humans survived).
The FCPA is an impressive piece of legislation and a credit to the USA. Do most other countries have equivalent laws I wonder?
I used to work for G-Research. You do not want to work for G-Research.

PdP personally verbally abused me. I'm not the only one, he is a truly unlikeable person and has a very short temper.

I've witnessed him break up conversations because he thought some useful nugget might spread from one person to another, even when neither person had anything to do with alpha generation.

I've met people who told me they have literally no friends at work because they are afraid to speak to people.

Nobody I worked with, including the main guys who know how things work, are happy. I interviewed several of them at other firms, and they all describe a toxic environment. Even guys who are owed millions in deferred pay simply come in and are miserable there, mostly because they don't know whether they'll actually get paid or PdP will make up some excuse to pay them less.

You won't learn anything there either. The strategies are... not particularly interesting. You'd have come across the same stuff at any firm. The paranoia also serves to make people think they are unique little quant butterflies who are the only ones to discover factor investing. Interviews with people leaving the firm suggest returns are quite mediocre. Also your skills will atrophy there, it's not good for you to work under constant suspicion.

In addition anything that's decent ends up in a private fund that only an inner circle are allowed to invest in.

If you're in the quant recruitment pool in London, you will undoubtedly have been suggested G-Research as your next job. It's a bit of a goldmine for the recruitment agents, who nearly all have them as clients. Many of them will admit to you why that is.

I have no doubts that the guy in the article is entirely innocent. He's a smart guy. You don't get on the podium at Cambridge Maths without being quite good. He would understand, much like anyone in quant, that it's not the code itself that is valuable. It's the process of understanding it that is valuable. Having the code might save you some time, but obviously it's not worth the hassle to try to copy it when you know how paranoid management is. There's no doubt everything you do on the company systems is secured and logged.

And why is he being sued? He's being bullied by a wealthy bully who may soon be the PM's brother-in-law.
It's made by Google which boasts about its 15y experience on containers?
Hello!

Looking at the spec, it appears to differ from RSS/Atom in very small ways (besides being in a different data format). It would be pretty trivial to build in support for this.

It's difficult to find usage stats since searching for "json feed" unfortunately gives a whole lot of unrelated things!

I think if I can find a paying client that wants it, I will build this in. Wanna be the first? ;)
TBH this is not my experience with Gmail. Some mails randomly get classed as spam for unknow reasons while many are missclassified ("promotion" whereas it was a direct message and "primary" for a lot of stupid promotional stuff").

And legit important mails ending in spam (mostly billing) is a huge problem for many companies I know. On the other side you can spam without issue and end up in the primary box when you switch servers and providers frequently enough and target a small amount of people (under 100 000).
Is there a library available where a person could use this algorithm for text-to-speech? What is necessary to generate the input features for this algorithm?
>It’s only recently that I’ve started accepting responsibility for that.

I can understand someone not wanting to work for, say, a firearm company if they didn't like what guns did. But what you're describing is more akin to someone in a steel mill feeling bad because some particular alloy they worked on was used in a pipe bomb. The connection is so tenuous as to be nonexistent.

I do hope you are speaking to a therapist about this.

(Completely serious, I see one regularly for my own reasons, and it's been a great help over the years. Yes, it frequently does take many tries before you find someone you click with. It's worth it.)
Good luck :)
> this isn't stealing from the poor.

It depends on how you look at things I guess.

For instance, when trading in commodities like grain, and deploying a strategy to push the price up over a long time period (whether or not it's a single entity doing so or all traders in unison), people somewhere in the world aren't able to buy that grain and go hungry.

Same with all the foodstuffs. But what about other stuff, metals? What happens if you drive those prices up? Well, again, somewhere in the world some poor chap now cannot afford the metal roof sheet that goes on top of his shed, and he'll sleep under the stars.

I think most if not all finance trading negatively impacts the people that are too poor to even dream about finance trading. When there's a buck to be made in finance, there's always a sucker paying for it. Somewhere along the line that sucker becomes someone who isn't even in the whole financial trading circus, and he'll in the end foot the bill. It must be this way, because the financial industry itself doesn't produce or increase the value of things, it just manipulates the price tags.
> I'm not referring to this guy specifically.

But all your posts are arguing against people who are talking about “this guy specifically”.

At best, you are missing the point badly.
It looks like it isn't as user friendly as Minio and it doesn't provide an S3-compatible API like Minio but it looks to be more scalable and less opinionated than Minio (which for example forces the authors' replication preferences on you by hard coding them).
"All MIT men carry batteries for emergencies."

Sounds about right.

"One night, they ran into another group of pranksters from Brown University"

Harvard, destined to be the butt of everyone's jokes.
As long as those T&Cs have a "no" button which still lets me drive the car (which most interpretations of the GDPR not made by surveillance companies themselves seem to require) I'm happy.
Not sure if it fits those categories, but I'm enjoying the Destroyermen series at the moment.
I think the idea is, that when it is obvious that all information from unverified sources is false, then people will start to rely on the (cryptographically) signed, accredited sources when they want the 'real deal', and not let themselves to be misled when these signatures are missing. Some level of white noise is needed (enough to enounter multiple versions of the fake news) for people to recognize the value of checking the signature.

But maybe the white noise mechanism is not needed. There may currently be enough erosion of trust by 'black' noise to give platform builders the incentive to add the authenticity methods to their products and see widespread adoption of their use.
That sort of misses the point of comparing different editors. :)