skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd recommend reading Bryan Caplan's The Case Against Education.

He argues that getting a high quality education is a good investment on average, but mostly not because it actually makes you better at anything, rather explicitly because it acts as a socioeconomic filter and subsequent signal.

Evidence for this:

- In college you learn things roughly linearly, taking in roughly the same amount of information each semester. There is a large effect on average income if you get a degree. If you go for seven semesters and then leave without a degree, there's no significant effect on earnings over having never gone at all. Surely you must have learned something while you were there, and if that information was valuable, it should have affected your earnings somehow.

- If you test people on the information they learned in school they don't test much better on it than people that never took it, indicating both that they don't use it and don't have that skill anymore, despite still cashing in on the degree somehow in the way of earnings.

- In scenarios where an education system has all at once added or subtracted a year from a degree program for everyone, the subsequent effect on degree holders was an order of magnitude smaller on the percent change in earnings of the degree receivers than it was on the percent change on time learning. (~2% change in earnings / 25% change in time in school)

Basically, it seems that the labor market has to filter down resumes per application to a high-demand job somehow, and that we have very few actual high quality signals to do so, so we lean on signals for academic pedigree. This results in people with academic pedigree being disproportionately successful, which reinforces the impression that academic pedigree is a signal for someone who will be successful, and is further reinforced by biases towards hiring people like them.

It might actually be that scaling our existing education system isn't very useful, and would just force the labor market to pick another, maybe even less meritocratic, signal to filter candidates on. If that's true, we might be better off targeting the problem of finding better signals for the labor market to filter on.

It definitely has an ideological bent, but if you get past that the arguments are actually pretty compelling, and at least to me (as someone who works with the education system) look like the strongest arguments for the role education plays in our economic system.
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No not the same way for stock markets. It's not a statistical certainty that you will lose money like gambling in a casino is, and millions if not billions of people depend on the markets in order to invest for retirement. There are people who are certified stock brokers and certified financial advisors who have a legal fiduciary duty to maximize returns and minimize risk on their client's behalf.
I'd guess that you'd get a token that gets added as an `Authorization: bearer <token>` header in practice for most implementations. The specifics of the auth and token itself may vary though.

Edit:

Though having a dedicated /auth/login path that takes a JSON post with {username,passphrase,2facode,...} could be readily defined where any of the above parameters are optional. The response being a token that's used as the previously mentioned authorization header.
I like using the Netlify CMS because:

- I don't need to think about filenames

- It gives me a nice preview

- I can edit markdown as either plain text or rich text, and switch between them with a toggle

- (Most important) I don't need to worry about whether I've properly filled in the 'frontmatter' section at the top of the file

The format of the frontmatter is indicated to Netlify CMS by the existence of a simple config file in your repo. So it should be easy to give it a try if you want:

https://github.com/alxshelepenok/gatsby-starter-lumen/blob/m...
I think the idea is that you're powering traditional combustion engines with a fuel generated with green power. It may be more wasteful of that green electricity than a new EV charging from the grid would be but you didn't have to build and buy a new thing and it's kind of fine to waste renewable energy if the economics works out because it's renewable.

So it's effectively a way to convert your ICE car into a zero-emission EV by using that fuel.
It seems like this hedge fund was run by people who didn't understand finance in the first place. This is how many quant funds work:

1.You develop an alpha factor that you believe is associated with out performance.

2. You control risk factors such as beta, volatility, Fama French 3 factor, etc.

3. Now you create a neutral L/S portfolio that only has exposure to your alpha factor while also negating the risk factors like beta and volatility.

4. Backtest it, run a paper portfolio for awhile, etc.

5. Combine your new alpha factor with a bunch of other factors that you have already developed. The idea being that layering these alpha factors on top of each other will negate some of the noise inherent to each factor.

6. Make money and cycle out and in alpha factors for as long as they work/don't work.

It seems like this "hedge fund" was solely trading based on sentiment without creating a L/S market neutral portfolio or layering on any other factors. This is a very bad idea. The quote from the guy who made the software is pretty damning:

"The signals we have been provided have a strong scientific foundation. I think we did a pretty decent job. I know I can detect sentiment. I’m not a trader."

This is a big red flag. A lot of AI/ML people have this arrogance that trading is easy and that you don't need any financial knowledge to make money. Maybe that was true in the 1980's, but at this point, it requires an incredible level of expertise to generate and implement profitable quant trading strategies.

But all of this is off-topic, to get to the point: the Bloomberg article is garbage click-bait. You sue the General Partners, and I don't think anyone is confused about this.
Have you ever dropped a quarter in one of those machines that drop a random toy as a kid? It's exactly the same. You push the button and hope to see rainbows appear, and when they do, it's fun. No, doing it for hours would not be fun (and would be horribly expensive. These transactions can easily run 20 bucks per "pull"). You do a few in a row every now and then.

The fun part (and what distinguish the good gacha games from the bad ones) is how much fun you can have with what you get. Some feel like the transactions and the gambling is the end goal. You play to get currency to get random stuff. Boring.
> why extract from the air when you can just put a device on the smokestack of an existing coal or natural gas plant?

So you have spare available energy you can use to run the converter, and you also have a demand for energy that you're satisfying using a hydrocarbon powered generator. Why not reduce your hydrocarbon use in the first place, by substituting in the energy you were going to use in the converter? That seems to me to be an awful lot more efficient.

IMHO this technology really comes into it's own when you have available spare renewable energy, and want to find a way to store it in a dense, portable and easily reusable form. I think it's best thought of as a competitor to battery storage, but with the added benefit of extracting atmospheric CO2.
Infinity Fabric / HyperTransport is generally lower level and lower latency than PCIe. It's aimed more for use as a front-side bus than a peripheral interconnect. A better analogue would be Intel's QuickPath Interconnect.
Reads like that, but, if you've seen it (or haven't) how else would you describe the concept?
> Question:

We can tell it’s a question, from the question mark at the end.
At first I thought the title meant that Riot "walked them out" ie fired them and walked them out of the building on the spot.
You sue whoever misrepresented the robot's capabilities to you. There's nothing wrong with making a robot that's bad at trading. There is something wrong with pretending it's not bad at trading when you're selling it.
You'd have to periodically update the time zone, if people started moving. Large part of the population moving from the country to cities may very well move the population center around.

So the centroid may be a more future-proof version, as it hopefully doesn't move much.
An ablative shield will would help protect a missile from a laser burning through it but it won't protect form the shock wave caused by the rapid heating of the missile surface. I'm not actually sure which of those is the important mechanism in this case.

But more importantly I'm not sure how you can have one and still have a missile guidance system on board, and also they tend to be pretty heavy.
Robocalls seem to be mostly an American problem. I live in Netherland, and I don't think I've ever had a robocall. Marketers, salespeople, pollsters, salespeople pretending to be pollsters, yes, all of those, but all of them real people at least.

Most of the spam calls are from energy companies selling energy to small businesses, because I'm registered as a business. Maybe I should get a separate phone number that goes straight to voicemail for my CoC registration.

But other than that, our do-not-call regulation seems to be working quite well. Maybe the US should copy it.
It may not always pass. Sometimes you get DPDR and you’re trapped in an endless hell from which few escape. Be careful out there.
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In recent times, this verbosity has been accompanied by the (to me) insane decision in some JS prettifier plugins (opinionated even) of effectively putting one word per line. Now every if condition spans 4 lines on average. Delightful!
Semi-OT, one of my favourite pre-plastics engineering solutions. How do you hold 5 million cubic feet of hydrogen gas in an era before synthetic polymers?

Oxgut. Hand-glued.

"Engineer Guy" Bill Hammack's knowledge is captivating and his enthusiasm infectious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixxXhZVFXxQ

https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/airlines/a16637939/b...
What if that person didn't fully understand how the robot worked? The best your could hope for is negligence
> don't understand the downvoting

You’re doing that ‘I am very smart and have found an obvious flaw sitting here that none of the professional missile engineers thought of’ thing. Makes a lot of people cringe.
You might consider that your needs are not representative of the overall Windows population. For example, one reason some of these key combinations are important is for accessibility.
How do you figure that 'White Communities' have become more affluent while minority communities are less so? There are plenty of examples of institutional racism, such as redlining, that have resulted in these divides and have/have not communities
Pedantry: "Whom to sue", not "Who to sue".

(Pedantic tl;dr: I refuse to put the punctuation inside the quotes. I consider that an outright bug in English and it needs to be stamped out by rebellion.)
Actually C programmers frequently use dynamic dispatch - even in the Linux Kernel for example. They just like to be explicit about it.
In a sense they are right. Modernness in the sense that it is a well understood format and not a DSL with non-trivial semantics and parsing.
There is a Mahjong variant that I found when I put Mint on my mother's computer. Both of my parents are now addicted to it.
This was 2007. Is this used in production these days? If not, what else is used instead?
Think of it as going to a fancy restaurant. When you eat a fancy steak, it lasts a few minutes, maybe a few hours if you consider the whole experience, but at the end it goes in the toilet. But you had some enjoyment (well, unless you're vegan). You'd also get enjoyment from a much cheaper burger, too, but sometimes it's fun to do something different, even if the money is lost and you're left with nothing.

It works like that, except you usually still have something for a long time, even though it's digital.
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As to the interconnect question. They usually use InfiniBand but Cray uses their proprietary interconnect tech.
I'd tend to assume that the airflow a fighter has to work with would help a lot with managing the heat it deals with.
What is "the index?"

The S&P 500? The FTSE 250? The Nikkei? The Russell 2000? The Russel 3000? The risk-free rate? LIBOR?

When you make statements like this, they mean nothing at all.

Let's say you're talking about the S&P 500. Many hedge funds have been beating it for 20 years or more.

But let's say you had 2 Billion dollars. What would you do with it? Are you telling me you would put it all in one index fund? Maybe you would put it in a couple, maybe you would put it in some bonds? Well guess what, you just made an active management decision! You decided what index, or what bonds, or whatever.

There is no such thing as passive management.
In case someone from RH is reading this: “Get the Study” links to https://www.redhat.com/en/page-not-found
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Yes, you can think very hard and set up the weights by hand, or by an automatic "compiler" that transforms your desired algorithm into a deep net.
> It's not a statistical certainty that you will lose money like gambling in a casino is

But it is a very real possibility as the recent financial crisis shows. Everyone who is unable to stomach a total loss of his investment in one basket should not do so, and it is double dumb to invest in unproven automation like this.
$200-$300/hr? Everything I’ve ever seen on freelance sites comes close to $100/hr
Wait, so you keep all of your money in cash? Because that's... a terrible idea.
Here are the actual release notes (which don't seem to be linked anywhere from this marketing page):

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
Taking this idea more seriously than intended: is this practical? I've heard of CPU clusters being used for network distributed realtime raytracing. Is there a DirectX / OpenGL API implementation for this?
We're already seeing companies shirk responsibility of their automated processes. The censorship by social media is a prime example. When somebody complains that Twitter shadowbanned them, Twitter will point the finger at the algorithm and say they couldn't help it, it's not what it looks like, it's just the algorithm.

For the time being, they often go back and give posts and accounts a manual second review, and often reverse the decision. For now, that keeps the general conversation around this issue from going too far. But it can't last.
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Wrote this comment a while ago for anyone wondering about this:

Just installed it in a VM, changes that jumped out at me:

• No Python (that you should develop against) installed out of the box. There's a /usr/libexec/platform-python (3.6) that yum (dnf) runs against, and then python2/python3 packages you can optionally install if you want to run python scripts.

• Kernel 4.18

• No more ntpd, chrony only

• /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts is a ghost town, save for a lonely ifcfg file for my network adapter. No more /etc/init.d/network, so /etc/init.d is finally cleaned out. It looks like static routes still go in route-<adapter> and you ifdown/ifup to pull those in (it calls nmcli).

• Pretty colors when running dmesg!
Concurrency in Rust is extremely easy, because it safe by design. Just import rayon crate and change iter() to par_iter() [1]. Compiler will point out to problems, e.g. it will not allow to send a type, which cannot be used concurrently, until it will be wrapped by Arc (atomic reference counter).

[1]: https://docs.rs/rayon/1.0.3/rayon/
That second conclusion really doesn't follow - asset inflation is but one abuse or side effect of loans. Debts save larger expenses and consequences of not having the capital available. Even if less was available for buyers doesn't mean prices would drop - mass production depends upon large upfront prices for much lower per unit production costs - and even things which aren't scaleable like houses depend upon manufacturered commodities.
Li Kin-Kan is what is called "dumb money."
I worked at McDonald's for a while, and taking food was a fireable offence. I'd get a discount though, but honestly eating the food I'd been stewing in for hours wasn't a great proposition, so mostly just a practical way to eat something if I hadn't brought anything from home.
Which money? I live in Munich, how in earth am I supposed to save anything for retirement with the exploding rents?
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The info I have on the unfortunate death of the developer was word-of-mouth from people close to the industry when I was working on a project in the domain.

The code and data files are all here, enjoy :)

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Paymen...
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I'm not really sure what the point would be? Getting a hunk of metal moving quickly towards the target is most of what a missile does. In a conflict where airframes are a limited resource I don't see why it would make sense to waste payload on decoys when you could just load up more missiles.
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IMO the coolest thing about Summit/Sierra is that the GPUs and CPUs have a fully coherent single address space with all memory available to the GPUs by default, meaning that your stack- and malloc-allocated variables can be used directly from the GPUs.

I wonder if that will be the case on Frontier.
If you're curious:

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/10/guide-automatic-security-...

https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/07/chronicle-will-make-you-q...

I've written a lot about the design and utility of append-only cryptographic ledgers for this use case.

Mozilla has their own implementation based on Certificate Transparency: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency

Filippo Valsorda is working on bringing something similar to the Go ecosystem, based on a Trillian personality.

There's a lot of work going on, there's just not a marketing team behind these efforts, so you only ever hear about blockchains and ICOs.
I talk about morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. Those are solar concepts and need not be related to the clock.

Edit: originally said they need to be related which is opposite of my intent
I found the arguments convincing, and will be moving towards OT in general. From outside it feels like OT is generally closer to how I tend to think.
It makes a lot of sense that OS-stuff points to a seperate Python interpreter, don't you think? I like this approach.
>including Pewdiepie

Didn't he pay third worlders money to hold up signs saying "death to all jews" ? Isn't that what the Nazis tried to do, somewhat successfully? The media is supposed to like him for things like that or what?
Sorry, I 'don't use iOS. I have an Android-Tablet.

But short search says "Manga Storm CBR" is according to your demand. Search for cbr, which is the common fileformat for comic-archives. You can also widen the search and search for comic-apps or reader-apps in general. Manga seems to be often a bit to specific in those cases.
They probably meant the last line of the post you linked.

> So good luck with your replacement command shell. I hope you figure out how to run batch files.

Yep, seems passive aggressive
I think you have reversed the cause and effect. People before us lived far closer to the brink of destruction, and endured actual hardships, which I think made them less anxious.

Our current anxious, no-risk state makes us much more prone to fatalism, and nihilism, making the environment the perfect end of days thing to feed that anxiety.
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One could argue that 20 years ago there was little to no reputation (good or bad) for most open-source software, and that made using open-source software much more dangerous : it was more difficult to separate the good apples from the bad ones.

Therefore his criticism made sense at the time.

While open-source code and open-source maintainers are critical parts of the ecosystem, I think open source users are underrated. If nobody shared their experience about how a piece of open-source software is actually behaving once you put it to use in production, open-source software would have much less value than it currently has.
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Having just gone through an evaluation for platforms just like Nextjournal, there are a lot of companies that make similar claims, but very few that deliver in reality.

In the end, the only one we found that delivered on the promises of reproducibility and managing the entire data science life cycle end to end, facilitating collaboration, and getting stuff done was Domino Datalab[1].

Can you compare and contrast Nextjournal to DD? Better yet, do you feel you're competing in the same areas or are you really more focused just on reproducibility? Even if you're not now, it feels like eventually, all these types of products seem to converge to this state eventually just by nature of the sales process and promising more and more features to customers.

Regardless, it looks really solid, so best of luck!

[1]: https://www.dominodatalab.com/
So I do BI/analytics at a big company with a team of 6 people, here is my take. We need something like this aimed at business analysts with little to no coding experience and we need it to be priced in the $100-300 per year, not more. Such tool would compete with the MS Office package and would be great. Most of the stuff is available in various open source packages, it would be about putting all together in 1 easy desktop install, adding a nice gui interface on top of various functions (like ipywidgets but more high level). For instance, we could totally add a basic gui on top of altair to do some basic charting, that basic charting is 80% of business needs when it comes to explorative analysis.
It’s not just rides, but also matching drivers with riders, geofence lookups, etc. it’s not a CRUD app.
If they didn't fully understand how it worked, but fraudulently represented that they did, they'd be on the hook. It all hinges on what he was promised when he bought it. If they had a good disclaimer, then he might be out of luck.
It doesn't support my AMD card, which was doing perfectly fine with fxgl, and DX11 on the Windows side.
It's not, pretty much all decks stick to the minimum required number because the more cards in your deck the less likely you are to see any particular card you want or need. To that end where they're available in the format many decks will run 'fetch lands' which search the deck for a particular type of land in order to thin out the remaining deck.
In the case I was thinking of, Skylake-X, the HEDT line, that wasn't entirely true. I was looking mostly at something like Broadwell-E vs Skylake-X, where the difference is huge:

Core i7-6950X - $1,700 at launch in 05-2016: 10 × 256 KiB of L2, with 25 MiB of L3.
Core i9-7960X - $1,700 at launch in 09-2017: 16 x 1024 KiB of L2, with 22 MiB of L3.
I'm glad it's not possible to Sue in my country. Saves a lot of silly nonsense and has people a bit more responsible about their actions instead of doing random shit and sueing willy nilly when the shit hits the fan
> Well, that's a bit like asking "what's with the obsessive emphasis on programming computers, after all they're just objects that compute?"

Indeed! Most of the time computers are computing, not being programmed. Yet most of the time, neural networks are being trained instead of computing.

That was exactly my point.
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