skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a legal background opens up a lot of opportunities in government-related areas. These simply aren't as easily available to other professions. If you'd like to hold a position of power, doing law is probably the best bet.
You have no rational basis for that 3 - 5 year estimate. That's just picking numbers out of the air.
It would be awesome if it came preloaded with a design.

option+e load the design chooser.

How do I pan/zoom the design surface?

How do I hide the node graph so I can see the thing being rendered?
> If the congress were operating with an MMT view of the world, they could have injected money into beneficial social program without handwringing over deficits

Avoiding bank runs and the collapse of financial institutions is a pretty massive social benefit, even if it does turn into "bailing out wall street" memes.

> This isn't what MMT says to do, it keeps taxation as a control parameter, it just wouldn't be singularly obsessed about the budget deficit.

The whole premise over MMT as compared to standard government revenue streams is to reduce or substantially eliminate dependency on taxation by having the government print the money it needs. As pointed out earlier, if MMT simply refers to any amount of increase in the money supply then governments already have been practicing MMT for decades.

Again, simply look at what the proponents of MMT are promising. Universal service and government provided jobs for everyone that wants one. Peel off the veneer of the whole premise of inflation vs. taxation and it's really just a means of trying to let the government spend way more money by obfuscating revenue streams.
Just because something hasn’t worked doesn’t mean that it is a good idea for science to get into politics. Once science is seen as just a wing of one political side then it is doomed.

There is no evidence that more emotion will help get the political support required to do anything. Using emotion just enable your opponent to more easily block out your message.

I do agree that we need to change approaches. We aren’t going to win by fighting the fossil fuel owners head on (they are too rich and powerful), but by buying them out. Let’s stop with efforts that effectively steal their assets (i.e. forcing them to keep the carbon in the ground) and start by buying the carbon off them at market rates and then leaving it in the ground.
Define "standard."

As far as I understand, non-standard or non-x86 aren't really mainstream. Windows for ARM-like devices is nowhere close to being ready for prime time.
" It's literally not designed to be a source of truth."

The info top-right is presented as factual not as 'search results'.
This might also be the reason individual and small-group learning is more effective - there's less CO2.
VA Wants to Use DeepMind's AI to Prevent Kidney Disease
ML was covered in my 1972 AI course at MIT.
This is just semantics. When people say that we need "tolerance," they don't typically mean that we should start to tolerate the intolerable; only that we should question whether or not our own definition of "intolerable" is perhaps too restrictive.

Here are a couple of MLK quotes... these clearly indicate a desire for tolerance, together with a desire for change:

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’ It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.”

Further, one can be tolerant and still desire (and work for) change. The world is not so black and white.
This might be completely unrelated, but let's give it a shot:

I've noticed that sometimes after spending extended periods of time (in the magnitude of hours) in very close proximity with a significant other (e.g. cuddling, kissing, etc.), I feel groggy, dizzy, and have brain fog/difficulty focusing.

Could this be related to CO2 levels? I've been feeling it today and was wondering if it is hormone related, but CO2 could be an interesting explanation as well - I have noticed my breathing tends to slow down during these times as well.

I've never heard anyone else describe this so if you have any similar experiences, please share so I don't feel so alone with this.
The prices were about the same as my local grocery store -- in some cases higher. But I found a live cockroach in one of the boxes they shipped me and it freaked me out too much to continue.
This story perfectly illustrates the deep-seated bias which is fatally imbuing this “analysis”.

The initial account was nothing less than a setup. The derisive referral to boys in “MAGA hats”, the utter speculation about what a boy was feeling to fit a narrative in direct conflict with the boys own statement, the over-generalizing “they were all doing tomahawk chops”, and on and on. This is a tortured attempt at ass-covering.

Most glaringly, failing to directly call out the utter lies told by Phillips (a professional protestor and agitator) to the press, which entirely discredits him, the adult in this situation, who was in fact an instigator.

The NYT followup piece [1] on this incident was actually significantly more fair. But it still doesn’t excuse getting it wrong the first time.

What’s beautiful is anyone can watch the full uncut zoomed out videos and see for themselves. This second-hand “analysis” is toxic to the truth, which is just a click on YouTube away.

Compare and contrast the TalkingPointsMemo piece with this one [2] — which I don’t know anything about that site, but the author seems to be a lot more clear headed about what seems to have happened. What I read there was someone describing what they learned from watching the full 1 hour 40 minute video showing what really happened. [3]

In short it’s been an absolute banner week for “Fake News” and you would certainly hope this would provoke some soul searching from the so-called journalists responsible for this.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/nathan-phillips-coving...

[2] - https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-nathan...

[3] - https://youtu.be/3-pFMZaw5f0
It is if it's factually correct
I am seriously interested in understanding why a lot of people have no issue accepting the idea of humans evolving from simple immaterial matter into biological beings and all the way up to our current reality but have a hard time believing that can be done via computers.

You just described AI in the 90's: Artifical Life, subsumption architecture, evolutionary algorithms. Theoretically we should be able to evolve intelligence but the search space is impossibly high and we don't understand why life is evolvable. Even if we did evolve an AI through a simulation of evolution - there's a small chance we would understand it.
Absolutely true, if not maintained.

The only reason this isn't the case in Linux/MacOS most likely is simply due to the lack of crapware targeting these platforms though (because the reward profile significantly favors targeting Windows more).

You can see this in action with Android vs iOS too (no flamewar here folks). Android tends to get bogged down quite easily if active maintenance isn't done due to the proliferation of nefarious background workers.
That's long, not int. Approximately nobody has 64 bit int.
When you just look at companies that fail, it ends up looking a lot like systematic fraud.

Also, it was not really single family home owners that defaulted in mass. Investors, even those with prime credit ratings, were much more likely to default than non-investors when prices fell.[8][9][10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis

People talk about subrime morgages as if they meant poor people. However, largely it was people buying up large numbers of homes and then strategically defaulting that caused the real damage.
Start by assuming that not all women who are friendly towards you "want you." That default assumption seems to be ingrained in some (by no means all) men and that is what gets them in trouble.

If you start with the default assumption that women who are friendly are ... just being friendly then misunderstandings are far fewer. Most men who approach you are just being friendly rather than coming on to you. Do you require men to reassure you that they are not coming on to you as well? Most women are not into every man they interact with. It's not their job to convince you otherwise. It's your job not to assume.
It's the answer to your stupid assertion.
It's a very dry patch of grass waiting to be lit by something like a set of defaults in Asia which sets of a minor panic elsewhere.
This comment doesn't correspond with the content of the blog post. It relates to Google's algorithms; one's personal choice of search engine does not change the fact that the results Google shows are ultimately seen by more eyes than anything else.
You should read this:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mnS2WYLCGJP2kQkRn/absence-of...
This is one of those bits of common wisdom that falls into the "it's more complicated than that" territory. Zoning laws are a contributing factor, but they are far from the only factor -- and it's a stretch to say that they're the deciding factor. Zoning is an issue. Rent control is an issue. Basic supply and demand is a huge issue that arguably outstrips regulatory roadblocks. Regional geography is also much more of an issue than people sometimes think.

Housing prices here are likely to stabilize, but they're not going to start seriously declining unless the job market starts declining, too.
Risk has already come off - I am seeing it in private equity. If you run a startup and burn cash, have your plan B ready to go when the shit hits the fan.

https://www.slideshare.net/eldon/sequoia-capital-on-startups...
There’s nothing preventing someone from trademarking a common word. Apple, for example. In fact multiple orgs can trademark the same word in different fields. In Apples case they were sued by “Apple Corp” the Beatles publishing arm and we’re okay (for the most part - they paid 80k initially) until they started making larger forays into the music space and suddenly they had to pay 24M for use of the name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
This comment does not correspond with the content of the article. The blog writer is discussing the way that Google's algorithms are faulty, presenting false information quite high in search results. This has little to nothing to do with customer service; this is about the ethics and responsibility of algorithms that present information to vast numbers of people.
if you have "some projects" using haskell and common lisp
tell them just like that,

" -and I have some projects in Haskell and Lisp (also in Java)"

generally a salient approach, such as I have examined what you do here and i believe i have "these skills" that would be valuable to you.

"and i also have these other skills that may or may not be of use but im letting you know, for the point of transparency"
Given that Google is one of the, if not the single most important window to all internet content I don't think that is an acceptable status quo or a sufficient explanation.

Surely if we use search engines most of us try to obtain relevant and factual information about the world, instead of trying to get some tautological answer out of the engine.

The comparison here to journalism is apt. Technically, journalists could simply declare everything to be the mere invention of the journalist's mind, but we don't think that's acceptable for a lot of good reasons.
He doesn't have a wikipedia page as far as I can tell. It's also not his job to correct Google's source information, if that is even where they get their information from in this case (which doesn't seem to be the case).
The most interesting question addressed in the article, for me, is why so many people create “me too” businesses that clearly have no significant expansion prospects.

It’s also fun to contemplate that Schumpeter figured this business strategy stuff out more than 100 years ago.
Why do people always forget the 4.3T in Quantitative easing....
Is your machinery in danger of breaking down due to needing manufacturing clean?
“Infinite horizontal scalability”. Yeah, no. There’s coordination overhead for adding more nodes. It needs to have an upper bound. It may be a high upper bound, but infinite is straight up impossible.

It may seem trivial, but claims like that are why I prefer CockroachDB when it comes to NewSQL systems. They’re at least very upfront with its compromises and areas needing improvement.

I’ve never see anything from Pingcap explaining the compromises that the DB makes. A “when should you not use this” type overview, and to me those are the most important things when deciding on a technology.

It may be good technology, but it’s marketed like modern day snake oil.
how is it actively misleading?
No, it has never happened to me before (and, I expect, will probably not happen again).
Not the parent, but cold temperatures in the face/throat increase mucus production to protect your membranes, and excess mucus in the respiratory system will need be coughed up.

Of course it varies greatly depending on the person, temperature, state of immune system, humidity, etc.

But it's just the opposite of hot tea helping you cough less.
PLEASE YES THIS.

Honestly it feels like a fantasy though
For example, if you're GM and a lot of cars aren't selling you can shut down factories, repatriate assets, do stock buybacks, increase automation and more. If you're a person whose major asset is a house if you can't sell the house for enough to catch up on your debts or get a way better job. What can you do.
Only about 15% of the deficit is from the tax cuts, the rest is over-spending.
I think I know what you are getting at. You may have something like dyscalculia[1], but I'm not a doctor.

There are several mental models used for picturing numbers. I think the most popular is the number line [2]. Common Core uses this in a clever way. I've never found it useful personally.

I suspect some people might see numbers as purely symbolic and perform purely symbolic operations. When the symbol 2 and the symbol 3 have the operation 'add' applied, it yields the symbol 5. Or something.

I think I mostly visualize the numbers as a quantity of solid objects. So I think of 3 as 3 things. This has limitations. I can break objects apart but how do you visualize 3.767? So some of it is intuitive.

There is evidence that the human mind can only encode exact quantities up to four [3], after that they use an estimate. [4]
So maybe your situation is the norm. What I mean is, sometimes it can feel like everyone else has 'got it' and you're the one lacking, when in reality everyone is just as bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_line
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_individuation_system
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_number_system
Not sure why there's such a hang up on prevalent vs modern. Yes, sms is prevalent. That doesn't make it modern.
I think of observability as a triad:

- logging (ex tools: Splunk, Sumologic, LogDNA)

- metrics (Prometheus, datadog, Grafana)

- tracing (lightstep, new relic, zipkin)

As mentioned above, observability is the data collected about a system.
Uber special investigation unit stressed out and at risk, internal report finds
Well, sure, we can play the chicken-and-egg game and posit that if they'd never defaulted, the house of cards would've remained standing.

But, that's the not the predominant issue for many reasons, some of which are embedded directly in your statements. For example:

>rated on the assumption that the borrower's default rates were consistent with historical default rates

Why would they be rated as such if the viability of the underlying mortgages was not, in aggregate, consistent with those that produced the historical rates?

That alone tells the story.

The derivatives drove the outsized lending which ballooned the number of riskier subprime mortgages in the first place. Then, the many layers of leverage just exacerbated the problem.

At the end of the day, increases in subprime loan defaults could have been weathered. The derivatives were responsible for turning a containable downturn into a full-blown crisis.
Sure it does. General awareness of google's increasing tendency to engineer language will result in people not trusting it... possibly to the point where this person wouldnt bother to write about it.
What I'm supposed to suggest is more applicable to relatively more complex and B2B applications but:

As a backend engineer, what you create is basically the core of the product. Data structures and relations you define will be the limitations of your product.

Coming up with intuitive and good data structures for a complex application can actually be a very challenging task and as a backend engineer most of my time is not spent on writing js or sql, but on product design and specs, so I can create something that is stable and scalable, yet not too rigid, considering that iteration is part of the process and everything you create might be subject to change, specially in startup environments.
I can see a world with the means to escape natural death be one of social, cultural and technological stagnation.

Just living longer doesn't mean that humans become any wiser on average. There will maybe be some benefits of longer-lasting first-hand experience of historical events (pushing the 'historical horizon' to more than 100 years) but to me it's like switching from a simulated annealing method (or stochastic gradient descent) to a simple local gradient descent in terms of getting society/culture/technology to adapt and find anything better than the status quo.

Worst case, such a technology serves to create an almost eternal ruling class. Best case, it results in societies with either two classes of people (those who may extend their lives longer and those who may not) or societies that tightly regulate who may have children.

Getting rid of suffering and cancer is one thing, getting rid of natural death carries a rat-tail of consequences.
The difference is that everybody knows that leveraged loans are risky. The mortgage crisis wasn't triggered by the fact that complex mortgage backed securities were risky, but by the fact that people thought they were pretty much risk free and were blindsided.
> split the day between teaching and learning (probably alternating by hour)

In peer instruction[1], the lecturer asks a question, students each commit to an answer (eg using clickers, or held-up cards), then turn to discuss the question with peers, and then do another commit. In computer-supported peer instruction, when students turn to discuss the question with peers, an app tells each student which of their neighboring students to talk with, based on the students' recent clicker answers, to maximize productive discussion.

So for the future, perhaps we could do better than dividing teaching from learning by hour or day or year; better than partitioning teachers from learners by grade. Perhaps instead imagine dynamic minute-by-minute formation and dissolution of variously-sized groups for optimized and personalized learning.

AI: "Hmm, student A's puzzlement will soon exceed their frustration target profile, and student B just figured it out and is enthused, and student A-B pairings have a history of going well in this situation... message: 'A,B: I suggest you pair'".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_instruction
Extra $38/m, and because the heat is targeted we can leave the unoccupied areas colder.

Certainly not an efficient way to heat the house, but the main concern is oxygen and not generating co2 with the furnace, then air filtration (SLC nasty air), then humidity, then food, THEN heating.

edit: we vent the tents directly at our beds
Virtual Reality Lets You Escape the World. Augmented Reality Improves It
Ask HN: Why haven't you implemented AI in your software yet?
AI can perform a number of tasks more efficiently and accurately than a person. So why haven't you done it yet? (I am curious about barriers for companies to implement ML)
Clearly the reasonable thing to do is stop trying to be infinitely inclusive.
You're saying the same thing. If the underlying lone is precipitated by blatantly or coerced false income information then that was the problem. CDOs are simply derivatives that derived their value from those miss rated loans. So yes it was poor people, but it was also the people way to willing to give those people loans at rates way larger than they should of for financial instruments.
Very interesting to hear that. I guess I am not surprised. I felt that my basic opinion was there, but an opinion of theirs had been layered on top, in a very politically-oriented way. I don't know if this was conscious or not.
Ohhh, so close. Scooters are not "discarded matter", nor is it "rubbish". You really should look up the definitions of words before you use them. You should also read up on descriptive grammar. It's pretty obvious that Bird scooters don't meet those definitions as commonly used. So not only do you not understand the literal definitions, you also seemingly lack social awareness on how people communicate.

Here's a tip: When you have to try and quote literal definitions to make a point, and then get it wrong, you're over simplifying and being dumb. Nuance isn't a vice. Embrace understanding on multiple levels. See the differences and let your mind explore them.

Check.
Seeing as how the author was indeed born in Israel, I figured at first that it was unreasonable to complain, since like or or not he was probably an Israeli citizen.

However, looking into Israeli citizenship law, I learned that Israel does not have birthright citizenship. So he was not automatically a citizen despite being born there. Had his parents been Israelis (and that doesn't appear to be the case), he would be Israeli.

It's true that he's likely eligible to claim Israeli citizenship through the law of return. But being eligible for Israeli citizenship isn't the same as having it.

So I do understand the annoyance. It's not just a technicality--he actually doesn't have Israeli citizenship. Google's algorithm appears to assume all countries practice birthright citizenship like the US (when many, probably most, do not).
i doubt it. there are still a lot of serious research problems that need to be solved before any kind of DAO can actually be considered a useful program.

i am quite excited to see how Ethereum grows now that their gas token has dropped so much in value. i still think it was stupid of the Ethereum Foundation to do an ICO with gas, but if making contracts expensive to run is part of the plan, who am i to judge?