skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been trying to simply visualize how a front runner makes money. Now I think I understand it.

Basically, a front runner looks for orders which will move the price on an exchange. So if an exchange has the following sell orders:

0.1 BTC @ $5100

0.1 BTC @ $5110

0.1 BTC @ $5120

And someone places either a market buy for 0.3 BTC, or a limit buy for 5120+, then they would expect to get 0.3 BTC @ 5110 average price.

However, the front runner, if they can see this order is about to be placed, could theoretically buy 0.2 BTC @ $5105 average, and instantly relist them for 5120, knowing they will be immediately sold to the $5120 limit / 0.3 BTC market buy order about to be placed, in this case pocketing $15/BTC
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goim was insanely good so I guess I’ll have to check this out!
Is this a joke, ignorance or just being plain disingenuous?
The issue of Chinese money disrupting regulatory bodies and academia in Australia and New Zealand is quite severe. China has fantastic power projection with far less restraint than the US. The power projection of the US armed forces is overt in active conflict zones in the third world, but China's power projection via economic means in the first world is clearly apparent, and I think the age where this does not impact individuals directly is rapidly drawing to a close.
I had the same problem and came to the conclusion that there is no Kindle version of the Hays translation. The really frustrating part is that I already purchased a physical copy of a different translation, so when I found the physical Hays book and clicked the Format -> Kindle option it offered me the ebook for a steep discount... and it let me choose amongst many version none of which were the Hays version.
Of all the things to get angry at Google about, falling short every once in a while at solving an incredibly difficult technical challenge is just ludicrous.
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By producing an analogy between the Notre Dame Fire and the 9/11 attacks, a terrorist attack is insinuated?

So the fact check technology became the conspiracy theory generator?
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If you want the quotes added, you're going to need to fill out a 27b-6 ;)
>Finland is a good example.

No, you need to control for demographics.
> If Trump had refused to prosecute Bush officials for their crimes, he would not have gotten a pass.

That's not the right analogy though. The question is how the press would have reacted to his decision not to prosecute Obama officials. And given their reaction to his threats to do so ("lock her up" &c), my guess is that they would take it as a sign of maturity if he said, "Look, we're not in the business of trying to throw our political opponents in jail for minor crimes, because this would look like tyranny."

Which is not to say that Haspel's crimes were minor. But I do want to make it clear that it's very different to refuse to prosecute people from "the other team" vs. to give your own team a pass.
I noticed this a long time ago. Content creators were being rewarded for "daily" videos. So many of the channels I loved had videos where they came out and said "I'm going daily and, yes, the videos are going to suck until I daily upload good stuff." A few channels I watched just disappeared because of the daily upload reward/promote requirement. Algos don't work with creative works and human tastes.
Is that superstition or is there a logical basis to that strategy?
Interesting that the music prize once again only cites “art music” after Kendrick Lamar won last year.
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I trust the verified reviewers especially those that post pictures of the item. For example if I am buying a computer case and someone posts a review with the case and their system inside and they say the airflow is good and the build experience is great too then that adds a lot more weight than 100 five star reviews.
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Considering that taking action as soon as they receive a (allegedly legitimate) DMCA claim is a condition to their safe harbor status when considering copyright issue.

I heard multiple time that incorrect use of DMCA claim has been used to silent opinions, blackmail users (in the case of youtube ).
Foxconn is setting up the manufacturing. I'm sure they intend to share the techniques with themselves.
Its funny to read this today. I'm working my way through Atlas Shrugged and the utopia in the book is the opposite: pure self interest > greater good, and there is a 'for the public good' apocalypse taking place.

It seems to take a weird stance that self interest has to go hand in hand with productivity and free trade though, or else the sentiment is labeled anti-life or looting (or murder in later chapters). Its a bit of a strange argument, I'm not certain its as coherent as it is romantic.

Anyway, the book would not be nice about how it described a company that posted fake reviews.
how much do you pay for coca cola? If the price has gone up, it's probably not nearly as much as real estate has (probably more in line with what real inflation has been). And that's because real estate is a natural monopoly... luckily there's a solution, read Henry George: land value taxes.
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What you're experiencing is called dropshipping, and it's becoming popular because amateurs are seeing it as a "get rich quick scheme." There's a product called Oberlo (https://www.oberlo.com/) where you can easily browse Chinese items for sale and add them to your own Shopify store. Then you can use a free plugin to integrate Shopify with Amazon. That's why you're seeing a million of the same item, because it's tons of people browsing the same products with this same setup.
Soooo, pretty similar to the manual steps that Mozilla are complaining about in the article, then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_egoism

At this point it is philosophical either way, so you aren't going to get a citation confirming yours or his statements, but this isn't an unheard of belief.
Many do. The downside is that a heavy import tax makes whatever is being imported more expensive for local consumers to buy. In some sense this makes them poorer.

The goal is usually to encourage local firms to grow and compete, and sometimes that happens (e.g. Hyundai). But sometimes the local firms become complacent in their walled garden (e.g. Hindustan Motors).
I worked with some other outsourcing companies from other part of the world, and seen exactly this pattern: The initial team was sharp and smart, to gain stakeholder confidence, they stayed for a few months, setting up demo and prototype. Later they would slowly bring in other team members and started to withdraw themselves from the project. Eventually, those A-team was gone.

Those late-joiners had absolutely no clue on what was going on, and also didn't have the competency at all to hold the helm. Result? A much mediocre rewrite of the whole platform which never fulfilled the requirements.
A little disappointed that there is no comparison with an nvme ssd.
How would they fund their business?
You get ignored by lots of international companies that dont want to play by your silly and often unprofitable rules. Leading to a loss of choice and quality in goods and services, and a general depression of the economy over time. The softer hand moves more grain or something.
Revenge in the form of trade wars that screw everyone in the end. Exactly what the US is doing right now with all its tariffs, which are not helping US manufacturers (their stated intent) and are hurting US consumers (due to revenge tariffs).
It should also be down to the individual level so that people down the the chain of command won't have the incentive to protect the executive in fear of losing their jobs.
> It's a cultural landmark that, iirc, draws in a million tourists per year.

Heh. Try 13 million. :)
I think there is a major flaw which you are getting at.

If you take the students who performed at the 10th-25th percentile in any school in one year, on average they would do better the next year because of reversion to the mean.

The way to understand it is that the population they chose did so poorly on their test last year, it is likely that they did worse than they usually do. They are more likely to have had an off year.

For example, the NYT article mentions the girl who missed 50 days of school the previous year. It's more likely she won't miss so many days this year. That's reversion to the mean.

IMO, that throws all the results into question, as you would expect them to do better already.

In general, there are no panaceas in education. Any school which is claiming really great results pretty much never holds up. We've had decades of these articles with experts trying to figure out how to achieve better educational outcomes, and very few can be isolated. Even Bill Gates tried for a while.

Anyone who studies this stuff seriously will tell you educational outcomes are mostly based on innate talent.
Rather than wonder, why not read the tweet thread from the man who supposedly did all the work, which is linked from the Post article?

https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/111651854496183091...

TL;DR: “the repo” in question was one of multiple imaging libraries that were used, and the lines-of-code count was vastly inflated by counting machine-generated files, so the original claim was basically nonsense. In terms of Bouman’s contributions, she was the primary author of “the imaging framework that rigorously tested all three codes”, so she did play a meaningful role, as one of many different people involved in the collaboration. On the other hand, assuming the Post article’s mention of an “algorithm” is meant to refer to CHIRP, it is in error, since CHIRP was not used to create the current images:

> Data from the EHT was analysed by four separate teams to verify the findings. Two teams relied on a tried-and-true computational imaging method called CLEAN, while the other two used a newer technique called regularised maximum likelihood (RML), which had been honed by Bouman, astrophysicist Andrew Chael from Harvard (who has also been celebrated for this work), and colleagues for the needs of the black hole imaging project.

- https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.2019041...
True, and penalizing misbehavior is a big part of the solution here, but it's also true that there are practical social limits on behavior (including competitive behavior), and these can wax and wane culturally, giving rise to greater or lesser degrees of trust and good faith in commerce. ("What can I count on from people in general?")
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I misspoke and meant to say corporate tax which would be more correct. But the tax rate also effectively applies to capital gains, since the value of a company is the NPV of its future distributions.

If Apple were suddenly permanently excepted from income tax tomorrow through some bizarre legislation, its future dividends would be proportionally increased, and its market cap would (should) rise to match.

The water is muddied due to a few factors such as inflation, uncertainty around future tax rates, potential tax holidays for overseas income etc. But they're in very general terms two sides of the same coin.
that sounds like a very poor explanation unless google relies on xenophobic outlets for ground truth...
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My mistake, it was in the other article I linked to.

Her current/future employers, her colleagues, and every academic's employers and colleagues, want to know contributions. Some fields make you explicitly list them for each paper. No doubt feelings of inadequacy feed into this at some point, but it's part of the job and isn't saved for just measuring women.
TLDR: "or the final 60 seconds I thought I’d go off-piste and crank up the temperature to 180 °C"
Imagine how security and oversight is at the typical startup company with millions of users today? Probably not much different.
I love using prettier. I just hit that format button or let it format on save. No reason to waste time formatting it when something can do the styling I normally do automatically.
if you're having trouble with reading comprehension and would like to know more, go back and read it, summarize it as you understand it and then ask specifically which part is unclear to you. do you understand that?
> On the other hand, assuming the Post article’s mention of an “algorithm” is meant to refer to CHIRP, it is in error, since CHIRP was not used to create the current images.

Yeah? You wouldn't find this confusing as a lay person? Many articles said she created the algorithm. As I said, she didn't "accidentally" become the face of the image. It's due to these journalistic errors.
Well sugar is food source for the bacteria that then produces acids that then in turn produce acid that can break down your tooth enamel.

So eating something with lots sugar and not cleaning your mouth of all the remaining sugar could cause cavities. However, it's not the sugar, but the bacteria feeding off the sugar.
I am always starting from bad reviews. Ironically, very often they are the source of the information which makes me buy a product immediately.

E.g. if the book author is "arrogant", or most product problems are coming from hysterical idiots with none of them due to the manufacturer.
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They're not really secret, they're standard practice. Not all that widely known, but that's because they're geeky trivia to most people. There are multiple microwave relay networks between Chicago and NYC. It's neat stuff.

I've worked for an options market maker, chasing nanoseconds of latency improvements. If you want racks in the exchange data center, you have to pay more to be on one side of the room vs. the other, because the latency improvement for being a couple hundred feet closer actually matters.
"More fake than real"

Source?
"following orders" was specifically not an excuse, hence him being convicted.

He didn't serve additional time due to other technical issues in his prosecution.
but if you do that, you'll rank somewhere on page 4 or 5 of the listings.
> there's nothing preventing apps from storing a persistent identifier in its data.

Can't link the PDF since it's behind a login wall, but the developer agreement already prohibits this (3.3.12):

> If a user resets the Advertising Identifier, then You agree not to combine, correlate, link or otherwise associate, either directly or indirectly, the prior Advertising Identifier and any derived information with the reset Advertising Identifier.
Okay, how do I sign up for Mastodon? I went to mastodon.com, and I got a page that the domain was for sale. Are they having funding problems?

Okay, I'm not that dumb, but some users are. And I really don't know how to get started. Not that I've ever been a big social media user, but I'm enough of a hipster to want to say I was on Mastodon before it was ruined.
Or maybe (because they might have some great programmers, but that's not necessarily the same as having smart people) they are "solving" something that isn't a technical problem in the first place with code?
Chucks are there to stop a vehicle from accidentally rolling or pushed away. They aren't designed to stop an electric vehicle (that has tons of low rpm torque) from being purposefully driven off.
I see Perl 6 trending a lot around here lately. As someone who has never touched it is there some reason for excitement around it? Or is it primarily people who already use Perl often?
Some companies are currently working in applying deep learning techniques. Arterys has cardiac, lung, and liver products...
I'm pretty sure the author was referring to "gas" on the Ethereum blockchain. The more you pay, the faster your transaction completes.

More info here: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/3/what-is-meant...
Wait a second! Is this really Perl 6 he's talking about??
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Like not post them at once.
> Read all the articles about the manufacturing ecosystem around Apple factories in China, the special bonded customs zones the regional governments set up, the incentives, and workers they help recruit.

What? Where are you reading this? And why would you even believe it so readily? One quick Google search has the entire page full of news articles complaining of poor working conditions. Moreover, I highly doubt that the regional governments in China would aid in bettering the working conditions at manufacturing plants of an outside company, when they can't help their own workers out of the "996" work schedule [0].

[0] https://996.icu
The MS provided Emacs Emulation. You have to jump through some hoops to update it for 2017. It's not perfect, but it gets me close enough until I need to open in Emacs.
It was only 30 years ago that manual trading ended in London. Similar time period for the US. Other exchanges and countries lasted much longer. See Eddie Murphy's Trading Places.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37751599
> the problem is that you can put something into a wormhole, but to get it out the other end, you have to carry the encoding you get to the other end of the wormhole to decode the output.

That sounds a lot like how entangled particles can't be used to communicate faster than light.

While you can make observations immediately, you can't turn them into useful information about the other end, at least not until you get missing data which has to reach you by normal means.

Hence the focus on using entangled particles as a kind of tamper-detector or "reusable random one-time pad", rather than for transmitting information.
That did occur to me, as a possibility.

But I can't -- really can't -- imagine how any Islamic fundamentalist group could claim responsibility for this. What would be the point?

So if anyone does claim responsibility, it's ~100% sure that they're just trying to incite Islamophobia.

Edit: OK, not ~100% sure. But it's either that, or they're crazy. And yes, I suppose that it's arguable that all terrorists are crazy. I still maintain that it's an obvious possibility, however. Not at all likely, but still obvious.
I really enjoy core memory, my PDP 8's have 24K words and 32K words. There is a great process for tuning the drivers in the PDP 8 maintenance manual which results in a matched set of driver boards to a core-plane board.

I built a small 4 bit (2 x 2) using #2 iron nuts and LM293D H-bridges as the drivers. The hysteresis band of the nuts was really small so it made it pretty unreliable sadly.

Perhaps the most interesting fallout from core memory was the invention of FRAM which looks like a serial EEPROM (in 8 pin PDIPs) but are in fact small ferro-magnetic memories. Unlimited writes and all that.
At a company of 10,000, it's important to know the 100 people you'll be working closest to. I built a "memory" game as a webapp which matched the faces of 4 people on your team to a single name and a list of self-assigned skills. You click on a photo to match a name to a face, and once you guess right a new set loads. You can randomly click through your whole team and learn a lot about them in just 15 minutes or so.

The whole thing was built with read-only SQL scripts, Flask, and some JQuery.
The Fakespot chrome plugin speeds things up, and checking the ratio of good to bad.

But nothing is more important than reading the 1- and 2- star reviews, comparing them to similar products, and using judgement.
Why should DB be in a VPC? I've seen their architecture guidance recommend that, and it often gets turned into gospel in projects. I wish AWS was culturally more pro-internet. VPCs, bastion hosts, etc create more complexity and work, the cost of which could be more productively invested in other security.
Of course there has to be a way to access email- how would they troubleshoot or fulfill legal investigations?

The problem is that an attacker can follow the "legitimate" path - and such attacks should be audited and detected, which is what obviously failed here.

Makes you wonder how vulnerable less mature services are...
Huh? Google would be trying to suppress xenophobic stuff, and accidentally caught actual reporting.
> If any iPad owners are looking to try out an isomorphic layout and don't want to shell out for a Linnstrument, check out Musix Pro.

Thanks for the recommendation. You saved me from yet another developing GAS :D
Depending on their position and the law, it is possible that liability is limited so that they cannot be sued by external entities. That is, external entities can sue the companies, but only the company and shareholders and possibly the state can sue the execs.
Just get a VPN and get around the great firewall of Europe.
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Given how leaky Android security is, I wouldn’t assume that just because it arrived encrypted that the message was secure after that point.
It's strange because I had the same impression. I remember the whole migration from UDID to application advertising identifiers... I swear each app got their own IDFA token, and that it didn't persist across app installs. I guess I was mistaken also, because it only resets on manual reset or device erasure.

The APIs for this are very clear:

var advertisingIdentifier: UUID { get }

"Unlike the identifierForVendor property of the UIDevice, the same value is returned to all vendors. This identifier may change—for example, if the user erases the device—so you should not cache it."
But it is working for Samsung so well.