skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the money is just moving for trading/speculation purposes, from one exchange to another, or from exchange to wallet and vice versa. And there is a lot of trading going on, so I don't know if looking at it in relative terms makes that much sense.

They are two separate use cases, and so far not that many people are using cryptocurrencies for payments. Even if the payments use case were to grow, I believe that the trading/speculation would grow even more, so the payments use case will keep being a small percentage, at least for the short and medium term.
The most charitable interpretation is that Trump thought it was originally a rally in defense of the Robert E. Lee statue and was hijacked for neo-Nazi purposes.

I guess you could make the argument that not wanting a statue of Robert E Lee removed inherently makes you a neo-Nazi, but I don't think that necessarily follows.
Plenty of older folks still have student loans. Also, you could argue that family medical benefits are the same thing.
The percentage loss from the peak of a bubble is not a terribly useful measurement. The peak is very short lived.

The BTC price early November 2017 was around the same as early Feb 2018(then it bounced up again for another two months). Losing 80% is quite significant, but to get those losses you have to buy in during the height of the bubble. People do so, in bubbles of all kinds, not just crypto, and that is a fact that I don't rightly understand.

I'm not sure what a good measurement would be. possibly some amalgam of 1 week, 1 month and 3 month averages.
In some companies, e.g. quantitative hedge funds, PhDs are a selling point by the company. If you have two equal hedge funds to invest in, you would probably put your money into one with more prestigious university Ph.D. quants.

Edit: Or startup pitching, M&A or even some sales - basically our deck team slide is "X PhDs, Y ex-Googlers".
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Maybe you mean the legitimacy of majoritarian rule? And even more, representative majoritarian rule.

Democracy is the idea that people should have a say in how their own lives are run, the exact mechanism could be many things.
I think this is bad news for Facebook, the tech industry, and America as a whole. This kind of activity is going to prompt an enormous backlash from the right. And the right-wingers aren't going to make fine distinctions between the good tech companies and the bad ones.

Censorship may be a necessary evil, but if so, it must be done by duly elected or appointed government officials. FB and other tech platforms should build APIs that allow government officials to make the relevant decisions about when a piece of content is unacceptable. That is a principled and nonpartisan strategy that will allow the tech companies to focus on what they're good at - technology innovation - and avoid what they're bad at - politics and public relations.
> In reality all rent control really does is redistribute some the spoils of rising land values from certain owners to certain renters.

No, rent control also redistributes the burden of rising rental costs from people who have rent control to people who don't, and tends to make that burden larger than it would be otherwise.

> If you really want to incentivize home building you need to disincentivize land hoarding. That means repealing prop 13 or implementing LVT.

On this, we agree. And we can't just simply throw rent control in the trash overnight and expect everything to work out. It needs to happen in concert with other initiatives that increase the housing stock, and be phased out over time, with targeted help to more vulnerable people.

But I don't expect any of this to happen, at least not until things get to people-are-rioting-in-the-streets levels.
> If they could move to the corresponding inner suburb on the other side, and pay the same rent, that would be a substantial saving for them, at no cost to anyone else.

Why do you assume they would want to? I don't want to move every time I switch to a job in a different part of town.
I have absolutely no idea how you got that from my comment.
> a) No they aren't.

Indeed they are! Or at least there's no difference meaningful enough in their political ideologies to draw a distinction. Obviously I'm not saying they're a member of a political group originating in 1930s Germany, but when someone calls someone else a "Nazi" colloquially, that's not what they mean either.

> b) Even if they were, you have no way of knowing how this rule will be applied.

So we shouldn't have rules because they can be misapplied?

> Would you consider the Charlottesville incident "mainstream", or common enough (and manifest in some form on Facebook) that Facebook must police user-posted content on its site?

Yes? Or what of Christchurch? Or the Quebec City mosque shooting? Or the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting? These incidents (and the literal dozens more like them) received tons of mainstream news coverage and the perpetrators 100% subscribed to white nationalist views, exactly the kind which Facebook seeks to deplatform. They believe that by removing these people from their site they might reduce incidents of these shootings. Do you think they're wrong?

What amount of violence needs to happen connected to one ideology for Facebook to ban said ideology? Facebook has banned child pornography, doxxing, and pro-ISIS content from their platform too. How much of that has to be posted before a ban is justified?

You can not like that Facebook can make decisions like this, but it is entirely their right to choose what to platform. If you don't like it, you can make your own platform. That it doesn't have the audience Facebook does is your problem, not Facebook's.
>If I could give Turing Award for someone in the field who has not received it yet, I would give it to Vladimir Vapnik.

So would I, but I don't think that will happen. He's is pretty much an antithesis to everything Deep Learning is about. Theory-first over trial-and-error, math over intuition, small datasets over big data, advances in understanding vs advances in results.

I haven't seen a single discussion of his paper on combining classifiers[1] anywhere on the web.

[1] - http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume17/16-137/16-137.pdf
I initially misread the headline and thought that the Machine Learning Research Institute had made progress in deobfuscating AI decision processes for human scrutiny.
"Lokomotywa z ogłoszenia" :)
You can't login (on Android at least) without receiving a text message with a verification code.
But the percentage of people who do decreases with age.
My concern isn't that I don't trust Keybase to not be malicious, it's that I don't trust their packaging to not conflict with other packages. Debian has a very strict packaging process and it effectively guarantees a stable system, but installing packages that don't follow the standards that their packagers have could cause problems on upgrades.

I don't know enough about Linux to verify that the Keybase package does everything right; I delegate that to the Debian packagers and don't install anything as root unless it's from the Debian package repositories. Any software that I need that isn't in the distro is installed to a folder inside my home folder, where it might conflict with other custom installed software, but at least it won't break the entire system.
Oh sure, I'm not expressing judgement.

Given a volunteer military, and remembering their advertising in high school, they probably want people to feel as cool as possible joining up too.
WireGuard works well for basic site-to-site VPNs. It has limitations regarding multicast traffic and link up/down detection which can make more complex networks actually more difficult to support than using IPsec.
Thanks for the Jevons Paradox mention, as that was going to be my comment.

If you want to reduce paperwork (or nearly any other activity or consumption), you need to increase its costs (or decrease its benefits), not reduce them through efficiency improvements. Preferably on the party imposing it.
Not what you asked for, nor is it ready to use, but Aquameta may be interesting to you considering your high-level goal: https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta.
But isn't that the point? We should be getting better at building software over time. Sometimes that means restarting.
With the exception of the kernel-specific code, we're actually pushing more and more of our stuff as MIT/Apache2 licensed. If there's a project we haven't done that to yet that's not permissively licensed, just email team at wireguard dot com or ask on the mailing list. wireguard-go, for example, is MIT.
> My mentor long ago likened these people to Eloi and the IT grunts to Morlocks. I cannot say I disagree.

Everyone is the hero of their own story. It sounds like your mentor is arrogant, and could use more intellectual humility.
If you can play a perfect game you need about $300k bankroll to earn about $60k/year on the tournament circuit. It just isn't the same any more, all the real players know the theory AND can read people.
Ask HN: Tips for finding entry level ML jobs (in Seattle)?
I'm going to be moving to Seattle, and have been working for a startup with focus on ML applied to heavy-industry/utilities, for the past year.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem viable (nor legal - I will be on a P4 visa) to continue employment with them remotely.

For that reason, I'm currently looking for opportunities in Seattle, that would want to hire an entry level ML engineer AND sponsor a work visa.

Any tips? Do you think I'm very hindered by the visa requirement?
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There's no objective, consistent way to define a "significant market" for highly differentiated products. What market is Facebook in? Is it all web sites? All mobile apps? All media? All social media? All communication tools? Those categories are totally subjective and arbitrary.
A monoid is (realisable as) the set of morphisms of a category with one object ….
Looking back on Almost Live, its local humor is an unintentional treasure of what Seattle was like in the 90's.
This is true, that the First Amendment only refers to government action. But its underlying spirit is often taken to be that no entity with power should seek to use it to suppress free discourse.
It should give you latency that you'd expect from a wired connection.
Trading is a great place for physics PhDs because there is way more upside and the rigor gained during your studies adapts well to studying the markets.

Also depending on what level of magnification you use to observe the markets: they are just random. Maybe there is some consistent process that works today on some subset of the market given a certain forward-looking horizon.

Then, that opportunity disappears at some other time in the future. Its ephemeral and fleeting... and this is probably where the daily challenge comes in.
Professional poker players are actually classified as athletes.
1) i presume youre talking about the consent decree and mou dating from ~2011. Which spd has been in full conpliance with. And IIRC this is the last year of “sustainment” monitoring.

2) thats SPD abiding by prosecutor enforcement priorities. Go ask the king county DA why they dismissed 1500 misdemeanors last year, why they wont prosecute theft or vandalism, or why illegal firearm possession is book and release.
MongoDB ($30 to $130 in last 12 months), Elastic, Netflix, Amazon
The only named advisor for MobileCoin is the founder of Signal. "Work" is not the only conflict of interest in the world, and you're dodging by consistently talking about it.

We know you don't work for Signal. We also know that you very obviously have a close professional relationship (at the very least) with its founder.
That's not how accounting works.
You may want to do more research into the whole Basque thing. It definitely is a culture with a language and identity and whatnot. And I'm pretty sure most Basques wouldn't accept non-white person as truly Basque in a cultural sense.
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There's a great video by Jon Bois in his "Pretty Good" series about poker tournaments and he touches on the subject of internet poker too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUZ2SrSxsA
Morally, FB is completely right.

They only become wrong by running down your slippery slope. They're not banning Christian speech, or Republican speech, or whatever.

The existence of a slippery slope does not demonstrate that everything that could reach the slippery slope is de facto immoral.
So now facebook is explicitly editorializing content, are they now exempt from safe harbor provisions and legally responsible for illegal content published on the platform?
Wireguard focuses on being a better vpn where better is vaguely defined as using modern crypto in a way that is hard to get wrong. As a result, it is a lot simpler with far fewer bells and whistles. This means it tends to be orders of magnitude faster than an equivalent usage of say openvpn (I measured 15mbps vs 52mbps awhile back with openvpn and wireguard respectively).

What you want is a slightly different albeit very important problem to solve reliably.
Facebook already does ban a lot of extremist content, including pro-ISIS content. This protects both Westerners and Muslims.

Leaving that aside, banning white nationalism does not prevent Facebook from banning other content it considers extremist in the future, regardless of what you see happening any time soon.
If the views can't expressed, then they can't be refuted either. Banning this sort of content from Facebook will only foster a sense of persecution in white nationalists, which will likely strengthen their movement overall, while isolating them further from contrary opinions.

John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" is essential reading for those who wish to silence speech they find offensive, especially corporations which may or may not have the right to regulate content on their all-but-universal, essential-to-modern-life platforms.

In the meantime we should all ask ourselves how we can move forward to a world where no single Facebook-like entity has so much say over the ability of Americans to freely assemble, speak, and publish in the modern world.
The Go implementation is fine. I don't think you have much to worry about.

But we're pretty frequently running into limitations and fighting with the runtime; we've submitted quite a few random patches to it. I think Rust is probably a better-suited language for a high performance and relatively secure WireGuard implementation. Hence, we'd really like to have a strong first-party Rust implementation for the project.
Only anectodal (from my own experience), but prior to Spotify being widespread, a friend and I used to make maybe £10/month from sales of our (totally unpromoted, just for fun) trance that we make.

Since streaming became the norm, we've not made that amount in over 2 years. We get streams, but the amount you get is miniscule compared to a single sale.
I think this is a fantastic definition of what tensors are for mathematicians, but I think it is likely to be not very helpful for someone whose perspective is:

> Tensors... what the heck are those? Like matrices, but _more_ complicated, you say? Thanks, but I'll stick with my basic monoids over here. :-)

If matrices are the limit of your tolerance for complication, bilinear maps probably aren't intuitive tools for you.
That seems reasonable. Let them set up their own website. What's that? No one wants to be a hosting provider for a bunch of neonazis? Well, they better go and set up their own hosting provider.

And before you know it, you need to build an iron mine because no one wants to sell you steel for the basic infrastructure of the town you were forced to build because no one was willing to let you enter their store to even buy groceries!

At what industrial level is it okay and not okay to exclude someone from that?

Censorship isn't an 'answer'. Don't ask me what the answer is, though. I leave that to smarter minds.
What an absolute farce. It’s laughable how archaic these processes still are. Might be inclined to think it was almost intentional to push through the legislation that best serves the small number of already-wealthy lobbying entities.
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Her effective federal income tax rate on $250,000 is 23.6%.

Someone correct me if my figures are wrong, her total tax rate all-in (based on NYC), appears to be closer to 41%.

$1m gets you to ~48%. $10m gets you to ~56%.
> What do you think would happen if these "private companies" with such deep hooks into our communication infrastructure suddenly decided to remove all data associated to the Republican Party? For that matter, the Democratic Party?

They wouldn't do that, because there would be justified public outcry. Luckily, as moral agents, we humans are capable of differentiating "general political party" from "white nationalists", and can target the latter and not the former.
Wow I think the video caller is a young Jenna Elfman.
Those identity categories are not all equivalent. Wanting to live among only "white" people is not a coherent or rational preference. It can really only be grounded in racism.
And yet, all of the routers are not audited, and I presume you believe in the security of some applications that use them. In other words, the trusted base of the system does not depend on all of the components in the system (you start with the assumption that any closed components are hostile). The keybase servers are exactly the same.

The answer is that they do have things to hide: anti-spam/anti-scam systems, for example. The question is if they are hiding something that matters for security. You can determine this by auditing only the client.

Sure, open source software is great, and has many uses. In this case, it has no use in ensuring that keybase is secure. Somehow, you don't have to trust a great many components in the secure software you use on a daily basis, and yet you have to trust keybase's servers because.. reasons? And somehow this trust is important even though you'd still be blindly trusting that they're running what you hope.

I won't argue that some people would benefit from the server being open source, but to argue that open sourcing it has anything to do with security is just inane and FUD.
Can you source the Trump story? In the Atlantic [1], it looks like Trump asks NASA if they can do it by the end of his first term with unlimited budget, so that's 4 years instead of 10 years. (10 years is still very short for a manned Mars mission.)

NASA is an enormous entity with many different branches, and each aerospace mission must be planned and funded carefully. Upper management at NASA must also consider the politics of a situation; what would happen to NASA if they agreed to such an offer and failed to deliver results?

This seems like it was a political move by Trump that allowed him to look good by making a risky request. If NASA says "yes" and gets to Mars, Trump wins. If NASA says "yes" and fails to get to Mars, Trump says "I gave the money and you didn't do your part". If NASA says "no", Trump says "I offered them the money but they didn't take it".

[1] - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/trump-ma...
Also after 5 years on the GC you will get naturalized and can get a GC to your parents really quick.
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Thank you for your your detailed response! It would be really nice to have this information in the official documentation.
Thanks updated! (33m0s is the story I was referring to)
It surprised me when I heard about it too. I had an opportunity to ride in a private rail car for a few hours [1] (http://boston.conman.org/2015/08/05.4) and that spoiled me for life. Alas, I can't afford to travel that way.

[1] My friend rented the private car at cost from a friend of his for a family trip from Miami to Chicago and back. It was not cheap, but it was a rolling hotel (porter and chef, four bedrooms (one for crew), bathrooms, lounge, dining room and kitchen).
"If FB decides to ban bigots, or YouTube wants to kick anti-vaxxers off their site, so be it"

Would you take a similar stance if Facebook banned LGBT content or YouTube kicked atheist videos off their site? I am not saying you wouldn't, but both your examples seem to be a bit one sided.
You don't have to prove anything but if you do have a negative or positive opinion to share optimally your original comment would indicate that you are willing and able to discuss the matter.

Making a drive by comment and the copping out isn't much of a contribution to the conversation.

Furthermore look at this comment.

> I admire your restraint, you stopped short of calling me a nazi at least.

Some time in your life you should try actually try being an asshole instead of playing one on tv. It would be more honest and satisfying and people that aren't thin skinned can take a little civil disagreement.

All things suck to some degree. You might have an interesting perspective to share on situations where clojure sucks but you wouldn't know it because you are happy to stir up discussion but disinterested in any actual substantial disagreement. Guess that is done then.
Python, Ruby and Common Lisp were designed for the JVM?
Nothing wrong with deplatforming.
It’s a little of both, and like most debates with that answer, it’s not a particularly interesting question.

Some PhD-holders were self-motivated before. Others learned it at school. Still others were motivated, but unfocused, and had to become
disciplined.

Everyone who has a strong opinion on the topic is, by definition, extrapolating from limited data. Moreover, even if every single PhD learned nothing in school, it’s still a useful signal if it enriches the pool of candidates who are self-motivated and independent.
"Looking at the age group breakdowns from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, there are more borrowers under 30 years of age than there are in any other age bracket." https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-student-loan-debt#age
Ask HN: Converting Music into Numbers/Letters?
The sheet music style is too clunky. I need a way to convert sheet music into numbers or letters. I am trying to create AI to compose music and am looking alternatives for sheet music style notation.
well no one held a gun to your head and made you login to Facebook. All censorship is wrong and the reason this country has become a spoiled crybaby filled cesspool of offended snowflakes. The supreme court has also ruled that there is no such thing as hate speech! Get over someone else's words you shallow bitch baby!
My god, you reminded me of a childhoold dream of mine.
Oddly enough it's a good way to learn both. Or at least putting cash on the line gives you the incentive to do so.

Another game I like recommending is Fluxx. It teaches you how to lose. The game is very chaotic and there are things that can happen which cause you to just lose. Or just win. There is some amount of skill involved, but you can be forced in a situation where you cause someone else to win randomly. You learn to divorce your efforts from the immediate results and to accept loss and move on. Partly because the games are pretty quick.
Yeah, Managed C++ and C++/CLI don't exist.
Most "Salesforce" devs arent employed by Salesforce inc. The devs that customize the platform are usually consultants or employed by the businesses using the platform.