skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are you going to obtain that many digits of the golden ratio to be able to compute a final answer?
Totally enough to retire on. The majority of families live on 75K/ year or less.

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...
In reading the webpage, I must have missed the explanation for the purpose of this system. I know nothing about the domain, so the following questions are newbie.

What is the tool's intended output? Is it a discrete classification of documents (or their problem spaces) into predefined categories? What's the number of categories (and some examples)?

What's the cost of simplifying/ignoring most or all of the contextual details in each case? Wouldn't that make a small number of output classes dysfunctionally procrustean?

98.5% accuracy sounds pretty good, but how does system performance compare to the state-of-the-art alternatives that use more traditional probabilistic tag-based methods? Does it tend to fail consistently, perhaps on specific topics or complications?
It does in this case because it's the same problem in both systems.

He ascribed a problem to capitalism that is also a well-known problem of non-capitalism. The same thing happens in both places (actually worse under communism), so the blame is clearly misplaced.
Almost in the -exact- same boat, as if I could have written this comment myself. My favorite job, by far, was landscaping. Being outside all day, getting sun and exercise, and seeing your completed project were all very rewarding/valuable. I was in great shape, left work at work, and had no problem sleeping at night.
It just doesn't pay well. I find working at computers all day rather depressing, at times pointless, and I can watch my health slipping. I really wish there was some kind of middle ground.
There's no denomination or sect that actually tithes 10% on average. There was a freakonomics episode about it. There was as researcher who found that certain donominations tithe more or less but none reached 10%.
Lifestyle inflation is a very easy trap to fall into and hard to get out of.

Suddenly you feel like you have to have a fancy car, to live in a fancy neighborhood and get a $5 soy detox tea every morning and $300 a month crossfit/hot yoga/dance pilates classes or something like that
Poverty and inequality have increased sharply in the US during that period. It's wonderful that the global average is improving, but that doesn't mean you can just ignore problems affecting hundreds of millions of people.
Because front page space is the scarcest resource on HN, and there's more information in 30 distinct stories.

The natural place for follow-up links is, of course, the original thread.
IMO we should celebrate that podcasts have managed to remain an open standard for so long. All of the open standards we have, are basically a historical accident: HTTP, SMTP, etc.

It's really easy for open standards to be killed by big companies, and it's impossible to create a new, open standard and get adoption when big companies already own the space.

I will not listen to podcasts on Spotify, because Spotify cannot be allowed to own podcasts like Youtube owns video.
this comment made me lose interested, too, even my interest in the article.
And do you know of any specific chemicals that would be? Don't we have to prove that they harm you, same as nicotine?
Excellent! Enjoy :)
If they can do it, then it's great! I'm just skeptical that we will see a second iteration of this device. I hope they do succeed! I want to be able to use a device like this someday, but it's not ready for me yet. I hope you enjoy it!
Ding ding ding. In my brief foray in management consulting at a big three firm, both the company (helped by the credit card companies) sought to create a culture of excess. My colleagues were way overleveraged -- vacations weekly in Cancun, etc. This created dependence on the company, and ultimately intelligent workers who had no choice. By the time they made actual money (5-6 years), their expenses would way exceed their incomes. Thankfully, I got out and never really succumbed.
Just so we're clear: In the financial industry anyways, there's an arguably artificial but fairly hard distinction between making investment decisions and executing trades to implement those decisions. The term "algorithmic trading" has generally referred to trade execution, whereas in what you're describing there's a bot using logic to make investment decisions.

The point of all this is that algorithmic trading in the industry sense of the term is a product that banks and brokers can sell to buy side funds. "You make the decisions, and we'll handle the execution." If a large org is using algorithmic trading, there's a good chance they're paying someone to do it for them.
They’re not allowed to use GApps on any of their devices if they ship a fork on one device, I thought. That’s a massive barrier.
Gosh, that's personal. I'm going to assume you mean that you downvoted my comment.

Here, I found this after approximately 15 seconds of research

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/

"Nicotine poses several health hazards. There is an increased risk of cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal disorders. There is decreased immune response and it also poses ill impacts on the reproductive health. It affects the cell proliferation, oxidative stress, apoptosis, DNA mutation by various mechanisms which leads to cancer. It also affects the tumor proliferation and metastasis and causes resistance to chemo and radio therapeutic agents. The use of nicotine needs regulation. The sale of nicotine should be under supervision of trained medical personnel."

The ease of locating this leads me to believe it would be simple to find additional support for the idea that nicotine is not entirely benign. I am not going to take the time to do this, even though that risks a downvote on HN.
I'd like to see a real discussion among the readership of this news site about the kind of companies people want to build. Do you want to create a great place to work and grow that builds value that scales smoothly, or a unicorn that makes VCs, Private Equity, and the douchebag CEO you hired from Cisco rich and you without a job? If the answer is b, that is fine, but technical founders and employees should have their minds and eyes open about how it works.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...
I had the same issue with it playing episodes in an awkward order because I wanted it to show me the episodes in "most-recent-first" order, but I wanted it to play in the reverse order. I got around it by creating smart playlists - I have some that are each for a single show, and I have a "back catalog" playlist for a group of podcasts where I'm catching up on older episodes, and it interweaves them all together based on their chronological release dates, so that if there's news that each one discusses, they generally get played back-to-back.

I've never had a problem with it not deleting episodes, so I can't help you there.
Good point, but obviously this would be difficult to gather for a large scale study of correlations between income and happiness. If someone's done it, I'd be curious to see the results.
WeWork just made a disturbing acquisition that raises flags about worker privacy
This isn't true. OEMs have been forbidden from publishing "incompatible forks" of Android. Incompatible being: Not having Google's apps, which are required to pass the CTS. This is one of the reasons the EU levied it's record-breaking fine against Google for anticompetitive behavior. (It's likely EU MADA contracts have been revised to remove this requirement, but I wouldn't be surprised if they still enforce it elsewhere.)

F-Droid has a very tiny portion of apps, similar to as many as Purism itself will likely handle using it's own Linux-based system with an app store. Most common apps people expect require Google services on Android, as Google has let the open APIs languish and pushed everyone to use, for instance, Google Location Services, which is proprietary. Apps like Uber or Lyft, for instance, require Google. Hilariously, a lot of Microsoft's apps, such as Skype, require Google, despite being a competitor.

As long as Android's app library is primarily built on Google proprietary code, there's no point in bothering to maintain compatibility with a slow and sluggish, locked down Java-based OS.
I bought a Roku via NowTV, and used it for NowTV and sideloaded an app for local media display on our TV (music, family photos).

Roku/NowTV modified the device by connecting to it without authorisation and removing the ability to sideload.

In theory that's a breech of the UK Computer Misuse Act (similar to CFAA in USA), both in the access and separately in the modification.

In practice there's not much one can do, just never buy Sky/NowTV or Roku products ever again.

Moved to FireTV, installed the same app from the app store. Now we get Netflix instead.
I think you assume people who are living paycheck to paycheck to be people that are just don't know how to manage their finances. If so, you would be massively wrong. Most people living paycheck to paycheck are people that usually got a horrible start at life with some bad luck thrown in. Maybe raised by a single parent who couldn't give the extra attention, so they fell behind in school. Maybe people who sickly as kids. Maybe people just born into poor families with bad habits. The list is endless. Yes this sometimes create people that were never given or taught the tools of proper finance but most just got the shit end of the stick. Or they made 1 bad choice and then couldn't get out of that hole.
Assuming a 4% return, 2.5MM absolutely does yield 100k per year, forever.

Yes inflation will eat away at the value of that 100k over time, but that's less of a problem if you own your home and have something left over each year to reinvest.
Yes, the problem is there is a lack of proper hardware integration. Cameras in particular don’t work well.
1. Man is the son of an infinite source: a son of that Father not by the flesh but by
the spirit.

2. Therefore man should serve that source in spirit.

3. The life of all men has a divine origin. It alone is holy.

4. Therefore man should serve that source in the life of all men. Such is the will of
the Father.

5. The service of the will of that Father of life gives life.

6. Therefore the gratification of one's own will is not necessary for life.

7. Temporal life is food for the true life.

8. Therefore the true life is independent of time: it is in the present.

9. Time is an illusion of life; life in the past and in the future conceals from men
the true life of the present.

10.Therefore man should strive to destroy the illusion of the temporal life of the
past and future.

11.True life is life in the present, common to all men and manifesting itself in love.

12. Therefore, he who lives by love in the present, through the common life of all
men, unites with the Father, the source and foundation of life.

That's Tolstoy's distillation of Jesus' teachings from "The Gospel in Brief". I have felt the same as you in the past, but when you look closely at some of these premises, they are more philosophical in nature rather than dogmatic. As a scientifically minded person, I have seen the unity of things, like in physics, where it does seem like there are some natural principles laid down. Or like in mathematics, where it seems like eternal truths are discovered, not manufactured. You can have a spiritual interpretation of this, or you can interpret it in whatever way you'd like. What I like about Tolstoy's rendering of Christ is that he basically rejects the stupid personification of God, and claims that Jesus didn't mean it that way to begin with, that the Church actually warped the teachings into a system of control.

I don't even believe Jesus was a real person, but these principles do make sense to me (at least some of it does), maybe they will make sense to you. Or maybe it's just dogma to you.
Not so hard. It's fine if any individual tax is regressive, as long is counterbalanced by UBI or other forms of per-capita welfare support. You don't need to measure precisely, as long as you get rough estimates that people pay $Y in various sin-taxes but get $X>$Y in general welfare benefits.
Okcupid used to have a feature called my best face that did this, looks like they removed it though.
"Sizeable" as in bigger than Google? Yeah, I guess so. Otherwise, I don't think it would care or it would make changes to Gmail's interface to try to make Delta.chat pointless for their Gmail users.
> It is very unlikely that such a configuration will perform remotely as fast as a native SIMD implementation

Why? AFAICS, a "real" vector ISA is mostly a superset of a SIMD ISA. What do you think is missing?

Of course, if you want to eke out the absolute maximum performance then you need to be aware of the microarchitecture you're targeting, and a length-agnostic vector ISA like SVE or RVV don't buy you that much. But I don't see how that's worse than having to redo your code whenever the vendor introduces new HW with a new SIMD ISA.

I guess one could argue that an implementation of a vector ISA targeting, say, linear algebra, would be different than an implementation focusing on maximum short-vector performance. Say, by having a vector length >> execution width, and using tricks like vector pipelining etc. to get performance rather than focusing on minimizing short-vector latency. But, that's a question of what the implementation is optimized for rather than saying what the ISA is good for, no?
That resonates well with my conclusions that led to the Replicated Object Notation project. [1]. If the parser creates an AST tree or some number of dictionaries or some other bullshit... "now you have two problems", that's it.

I settled on a tabular-log format, which is streamed and immediately consumed most of the time, no intermediate object structures.

Then, that "text vs binary" distinction became mostly moot. The binary is slightly more efficient, but grossly less readable, so no big gain, unless at grand scale.

[1] http://replicated.cc
Sometimes people you work with, like team members or PMs, will really want to understand ML and be involved but will have a hard time grasping the concepts being discussed. I found it really helped to draw out and illustrate the different components and data flows!
YubiKey is at least supported, but only because it also functions as a pgp smartcard. You can load you pgp private keys on the yubikey and then all decryption will only be done on the Yubikey itself.
How can you have privacy concerns in a completely public space?
Maybe machine translation of legal documents should be required in order to clarify the verbiage and identify problems in the source that confound the translation, as well as human comprehension.
Beer includes free goggles.
We're planning to make a new API that gives a simple JSON version of any HN URL. Would that count?
Negative Energy States and Interstellar Travel [pdf]
Not that I have any real answers here (re: theories of everything), but I do have something to add regarding "laws".

Charle's Law states that Pressure * Volume = Temperature.

That's true and you can do a million experiments with a million balloons and liquids/gases to validate it - until you find a non-newtonian substance, try to apply it to a solid, introduce moving fluids, etc.

Charle's Law isn't a fundamental law of physics, but a consequence of the material properties and statistical outcomes of a large number of interacting molecules. Before atoms and molecules are characterized, it _does_ look like a fundamental law to an experimenter.

It doesn't seem to me that looking for "lower layers" of theoretical physics (holographics, quantum foam, strings, whathaveyou) is an infinite regress and doomed to never be a completed project. I do think that the project may reach some point where the theories fail to be scientific (read: falsifiable) because it could be possible that reaching deep enough through layers of physical abstraction can not be achieved / no physical instrument can provably be built to look deeper (as an analogy, no instrument can be built to probe the full amplitude space of a quantum state).
This is what courses are for. The instructors choose the technologies and instructional materials (books or websites or...) and present them in a meaningful order. It doesn't matter so much which technologies and materials they choose -- there are many alternatives that would work -- what matters is that experienced people make the selections and shape them into a coherent story.

If you aren't able to take a course (or don't want to) you might still be able to get some of the benefits by finding a course with a published syllabus (including assignments) and following it on your own.
I maintain my belief that this patent is either defensive or a prank played by their research team on their CEOs.
You know why 56% of MEPs voted for him, right? It wasn't because they necessarily supported him - before the elections, the major parties entered into an agreement where they'd vote for the candidate backed by whichever party got the most seats from now on and only that person, essentially meaning that party's candidate was guaranteed the job despite having a minority of less than 30%.

Again, this is nothing like how coalitions work in the UK and other democratic countries. The Prime Minister has to convince her coalition partners that her government is worth their support, generally by bringing its policies more in line with what their voters care about and giving them roles in government. As far as I know, we've never had a deal like this where two minority parties each agree to help the other gain power just for the reward of getting the same help themselves next time, wiping out the influence of all the smaller parties in the process.

The closest I've seen to this is the (failed) attempts to turn the US presidency into a popular vote by committing a majority of electors into choosing whoever wins the popular vote, though the EU shenanigans are even more of a shady end-run around the intended process than that.
It will work this time.

We don't have much choice!
People lost their spines. If your wife laughs if you want to take a hit in salary, consider a divorce, and so on.
Also because there is 0 accountability that the flag sticker is honest. Sometimes the only part that's "made in USA" is the effort of applying the sticker.
>what world are these people living in that you can't give up a job that you hate because you can't afford to live on 500-600k.

The same one where a dev making $160k can't give up a job they hate because they can't afford to take a job paying $80k.

Everything is relative. To many Americans and $80k desk job is the lap of luxury. To many devs, that pay would be insulting.
What would you call a religion?
I have fond memories when I was a teenager, loading my 80gb iPod video full of podcasts I could listen to on trips. The reason I even got into podcasts back then, was I didn't have any money to buy CDs or mp3s, but I could download as many podcasts as I wanted and it was awesome.
Announcing the Ionic React Beta
A nearly free allocation is still more expensive than being able to not allocate at all, and the nearly free allocation will also add to the GC's workload.
Here's my question I've always wanted ask re:trading. How do EMH & profitable trading (especially by institutions) coexist? I already understand EMH & 'active management'. Do trading profits consistently exceed a market benchmark like the S&P 500's return for the year? (I'm assuming so). If so- doesn't this completely disprove EMH? And if so, further- why does any institution do active management when they could just actively trade assets for profit instead? Where is really the line between active management and trading?

Sorry for the dumb questions- I have genuinely spent significant time Googling and could never find the answers, thought I'd use the opportunity to ask here. I am obviously not a market professional, just one guy with most of his assets in index funds. I can rephrase questions if necessary
This is a great point. How many high school kids doing school history reports are getting funneled into nazi indoctrination?
Why is that confusing? Local variables are, idiomatically, never capitalized in Go, so the distinction is obvious at a glance.
Having dug ditches for septic tanks for a few years I can definitely vouch for _not_ doing it. 5 years of digging ditches is awful work, and most people aren't cut out for that level of manual labor. After a week I think most programmers would happily return to their day jobs.
Sounds great. I think we'd do it for $600K each. It would be nice to have a colleague to talk to while doing the wall staring.
We are certainly not trying to keep non-technical users away. Where did you get that idea?

HN is for the intellectually curious. Many of the posts here are technical but there have always been plenty of non-technical discussions as well.
CircleCI is also a superior product, especially CircleCI 2.0. Their Docker integration is top notch, and there are lots of ways to optimize build performance.
Netflix Sets Up a Centre of Production in Toronto
Regulations across borders are ineffective, usually useless... and good luck promoting conscientious consumerism.

We need tariffs on imports from polluting countries.
I don't know about you, but I find it hard to read while cooking, jogging, eating, driving, folding laundry, doing the dishes, sweeping/mopping.
> Functions should do one thing only

Well, that's extremely good, and standard, advice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principl...
I recall ditching a relatively high-end router a year or two ago after a firmware update required me to accept that in order to use most of the advanced features supported by the router, essentially all of my household's web activity would be sent to a 3rd party data collection service. Thanks but no thanks.
Yeah but imagine that you already do and now you're explaining to your wife why you want to pull your kids out of their schools and move to the suburbs so you can take a job that pays half what you already make. I'm not saying I'm sympathetic to the guy, but I understand the situation he's in.
2020 Candidate Puts His Money on Universal Income
I'm not sure about nonstop digging of ditches, but I've done a fair deal of farm labor and construction. And absolutely love it.

I enjoy what I do, but I'd go back to it in a heart beat if there was even a chance for comparable earning potential. Hard work feels really really good at the end of the week. I think the one reason I enjoy software is because it gives you that similar high of being able to see something you've built with your own hands, that didn't exist before.
> 2.1. Choose identifiers for clarity, not brevity

This is a real problem in Go these days, people use one and two letter vars quite a bit which makes reading code you’re not familiar with practically impossible. On one project we simply switched to semi-java length like names since our customers couldn’t read the code.
I took issue with this because it's a conventional wisdom, and does a fair bit of damage.

Single-caller functions attract other callers over time, gain backwards-incompatible features, and result in regressions.