skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a public blockchain, you have no "holder of the records." This makes them useful for situations where you need multilateral cooperation between mutually hostile parties, e.g. people on either side of an illegal drug deal living in different countries with no treaty extradition obligations.
VB.NET has only superficial similarity with VB6. If you move from VB6 to VB.NET you have to rewrite the whole thing so you may as well go to C#.

that's the problem with the .NET front-end tools in general. They have no transition path to their previous version. VB6 to VB.NET is hard. WinForms to WPF is hard. WPF to UWP is a little better but still hard. Yes, they all still run but moving your project to the new shiny tech is very hard.
By that line of reasoning, I have a choice of whether or not to hand over my wallet when someone mugs me -- I've just decided that the tradeoff of getting a knife in my stomach is not worth whatever money is being stolen from me.

What you're proposing is an interesting philosophical argument, but not a particularly useful way to think when building a society. We're trying to limit Hobson's Choices, even if we can't completely eliminate them all the time.
I don't see the criteria for what makes the choices 'worth my time'. And, after taking a minute to scan the choices (and limited categories) available on the page, I see little evidence of what those criteria might be.

Many many offerings are vying for my attention. Picking one at random, subscribing, downloading, listening for a half-hour (in some cases 20 seconds) is very inefficient. The solution might be a qualified curation process that I understand!

E.g. any podcast that regularly begins with an ad had better be worth skipping past that part.
Could you point me to some resources to learn about the UK Demutualizations?

Did some googling and the only standout was a Needleman text from 1991. Is this relevant to what you are talking about?
I was curious about what happens to people who can't get WeChat accounts. Perhaps due to committing crimes (in the way that sex offenders may be banned from using social media) or maybe they offended WeChat in some way (in the way that people lose their Google accounts if Google so decides).

Perhaps you could even be kicked off WeChat for having a social rating that was too low.
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This is untrue. Most HR, while the companies agent first, sees harassment as a huge liability and loves to be able to take action with sufficient documentation.
Why do you think they would ever accept that? That's like saying that snake-oil salesmen will one day "accept" that their products do nothing, and so quit selling them.

Snake-oil salesmen knew what they were peddling the start; the (lack of) true efficacy of the product was never in question. That fact was just entirely irrelevant to them.
Did the people who live in those countries ask Mark Zuckerberg et al to come replace their national currencies with one which allows Mark et al to control how they’re allowed to use their money?

If so then maybe this would be an ok argument, but this is a massive change to people’s lives that’s being forced upon them without the slightest consultation, and which will almost certainly be used to control and surveil them for Facebook’s benefit.
That latter is much harder to achieve if you don't do the former.
Breaking Up with Social Media
I've never liked Fiverr since I heard about how they really screwed over voiceoverpete. For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anbBwpoI9TI
>My observation is that if you get information from only one source (or only sources of one ideology), and they repeat it over, and over, and over, you'll end up believing it - no matter how intelligent you are. Blind repetition is all that is needed. I've interacted with very smart people who mostly watch Fox News and will believe stuff that a simple Google search would debunk. Likewise for many liberals who have "interesting" beliefs regarding diet or health.

The problem is getting information from only one source.

>Finally, if you really believe government shouldn't be involved, then remove all laws that provide special protections to the press (if any exist). Examples are shield laws almost every state has. If you accept for special government privileges for journalists, you shouldn't claim no government intervention.

I never said I agreed with such laws. With shield laws they can say whatever they want quoting "sources".
Does it have a Hutch at the back?
Can cores really be merged for better single thread performance?
I suppose the market for parts of dismembered idealistic Westerners might offset the market for animal parts, if that's what you're thinking.
> There are applications which are difficult or impossible to do for customers that would be doable if amateur spectrum was reallocated for commercial uses.

Oh? Isn't this comparable to "let's start allocating class E to help IPv4 live longer"? IOW: It's just a piss in the ocean, and wouldn't help meaningfully. (and also would raise a whole bunch of problems like $millions to $billions in deployed existing equipment, and other problems mentioned elsewhere)

I'm sure it'd be great for someone to get 2m band, or 70cm band. But you (the commercial operator) wouldn't get it, would you? It'd be sold to someone and it'd be gone from amateurs and from you.

Near 70cm there's the commercial FM band that you could argue has way more than 2MHz of just slack between stations.

Or am I missing something?
It is not about solving country wide problems, rather helping individuals have a currency they can trust to store value. If your life savings go to the drain because of inflation or other factors that is a highly desirable option to have. Also, most countries with currency issues usually accept the dollar for commerce whenever they can, if not forbidden, since it is a lot more reliable than their local option.
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To quote J. Cole, "The good news is you came a long way. The bad news is you went the wrong way"
> All stablecoins are Venmo calling themselves decentralized cryptocurrencies.

Not really.

Consider an archetypal stablecoin, like Tether or Gemini Dollars. Only liquidity providers at the edge of the payment network need to actually have a relationship with the backing company, like Tether or Gemini.

That's because payment flow is actually tracked by a public, decentralized, pseudonymous blockchain.

So an archetypal stablecoin is basically equivalent to an imaginary "benevolent PayPal" that never suspends or freezes anyone's account and doesn't charge high fees or allow clawbacks; it just works.

That's a marginal improvement over the current state of the art. Maybe just barely enough to gain traction and mass adoption.

After all, it allows reasonably fast international payments to anyone, anywhere.

If Facebook Dollars are implemented in this way, it's promising.

On the other hand, if Facebook Dollars require you to use a Facebook account to send and receive, it's just a re-implementation of venmo or PayPal.
If that were true no pharma company would ever develop vaccines. Yet it is not the case.
I used to pay for Dropbox but they removed support for my file system at work. So I no longer have a use case for Dropbox.
Thanks for sharing your ideas. Will definitely make improvements on the points mentioned.
I find the mindset of this article to be mind-boggling.

The fact that open source developers aren't getting paid does not mean there is exploitation. Those developers don't have to work on FOSS. They could also work on proprietary software. The problem is that it is hard to develop a business model around developing open source software (it's also hard to develop a business around proprietary software, too).

If the current maintainer of a open-source project does not have the financial support to continue working on the project, they should put their open-source work on hold until they get their finances in order. If that software is part of a critical chain for a business, then that business should provide financial support. It is not a necessity that all current open-source projects continue to be actively maintained.
Thanks, I didn't think to look it up. I must have recalled a case where the person had such trauma and extended that to blind people in general.
> It uses collateral, lending and a careful incentive setup to maintain close to 1:1 parity with USD.

I'm highly skeptical that this actually works.
In this context (corporate), this is an HR problem. I don't think I can mute fellow employees on Teams either. But yes, Slack gets used in other contexts which really do need a block function.
What's the point of dumping a bunch of Google results here? At least half the results are about implementations of pretty traditional etatistical / econometric inference techniques. The Rudin causal inference framework requires either randomized controlled trials or for propensity score models an essentially unverifiable separate model step.

Google's CausalImpact model, despite having been featured on Google's AI blog, is a statistical/econometric model (essentially the same as https://www.jstor.org/stable/2981553). It leaves it up to the user to find and designate a set of control variables, which has to be designated by the user to be unaffected by the treatment. This is not done algorithmically, and has very little to do with RNNs, Random Forests or regression regularization.

> If you were to write a pseudocode algorithm for an econometric researcher's process of causal inference (and also their cognitive processes (as executed in a NN with a topology)), how would that read?

[1] Set up a proper RCT, that is randomly assign the treatment to different subjects
[2] Calculate the outcome diffences between the treated and untreated

For A/B testing your website, the work division between [1] and [2] might be 50-50, or at least at similar order of magnitudes.

For the questions that academic economists wrstle with, say, estimate the effect of increasing school funding / decreasing class size, the effect of shifts between tax deductions vs tax credits vs changing tax rates or bands, or of the different outcome on GDP growth and unemployment of monetary vs fiscal expansion [1] would be 99.9999% of the work, or completely impossible.

Faced with the impracticallity/impossiblility of proper experiments, academic micro-economists have typically resorted to Instrumental Variable regressions. AFAICT finding (or rather, convincing the audience that you have) a proper instrument is not very amendable to automation or data mining.

In academic macro-economics (and hence at Serious Institutions such as central banks and the IMF), the most popular approaches to building causal models in the last 3 or 4 decades have probably been
1) making a bunch of unrealistic assumpsions of the behaviour individual agents (microfoundations/DSGE models)
2) making a bunch of uninterpretable and unverifyable technical assumptions on the parameters in a generic dynamic stochastic vector process fitted to macro-aggregates (Structural VAR with "identifying restrictions")
3) manually grouping different events in different countries from different periods in history as "similar enough" to support your pet theory: lowering interest rates can lead to a) high inflation, high unemployment (USA 1970s), b) high inflation, low unemployment (Japan 1970s), b) low inflation, high unemployment (EU 2010s) c) low inflation, low unemployment (USA, Japan past 2010s)

I really don't see how a RL would help with any of this. Care to come up with something concrete?
IMO, hunting poachers should be legal, pricey, and encouraged. Sell licenses to hunt poachers, deputize them, and use the proceeds to improve protection of the wildlife.

Obviously only part of the solution, but considering that the poachers, especially of elephants & rhinos are now largely part of organized crime syndicates, totally fair.
Chrome is basically a distribution of Chromium; there are some extra bits added like DRM, but otherwise it's built straight from the Chromium tree. It's not like Android, where there's a private repo that occasionally gets thrown over the wall in the form of AOSP.
No. That was one of the main reason behind introducing multi-core architectures. It is getting harder and harder to optimize the CPU cores, neither can you keep pushing the CPU frequency. So the only option is to create multi-core processors and build multi-threaded applications.
Reminder: A fiat-pegged "stable-coin" is only as stable as the fiat underlying it. The underlying fiat of Facebook's "cryptocurrency" has many disadvantages compared to Bitcoin.
One of the most popular snacks in Iceland
is dried fish.

I'm curious, how much of this fish consumption is sustainable?
They might be using ChainLink as the oracle for sourcing price data feed.
And that's just the thing. Many, many people don't have time to shop around gathering a variety of high-quality news sources. Many will just run Fox, or CNN, or whatever as their primary news source. And that implicitly shapes their view of the world.

A large non-trivial amount of people use Fox News (and maybe some added sources that are effectively in the same sphere) as their primary and only source of information. And they definitely take it seriously. It has enough veneer of legitimacy and polish and portrays a particular, comforting world view to them.

And of course, if you just have a diet of fringe media, no matter your leanings, that will also impact your view of the world.
maybe something like "salonaya reeb?"
Maybe lifting a lot of weight, or got injured while playing in a major sporting event?
Sleep trackers can make insomnia worse
Google Integrates Cryptocurrency Project with New Blockchain Oracle
Bitcoin isn't extreme - it's very public and trackable. Monero on the otherhand isn't.
I'm surprised to see your comment being downvoted.
I wonder why.
Mac OS / iOS / tvOS / WatchOS are certainly different platforms. The iPhone and the Mac are very different products with very different use cases, so of course they are different platforms.

It's not "all-platform", but this is definitely "cross-platform".
Coming soon, mining in Messenger.
Is that three quarters of a million (i.e. 750,000) or 3 or 4 million?
I didn't realize Birds Eye had moved into the right click. I was looking for it a while ago.

However, when I now see Birds Eye, it isn't available in Sydney, and many other locations in the world. Where I did see it (San Francisco & Paris) it is just the photographs, no photogrametry, no rotation, very little zoom, etc. etc.

Am I missing something? Can you let me know what you're seeing?
Inside an AI 'brain' - what does machine learning look like?
You realize that I referenced the same article? I already addressed this. I also have never seen that journal you referenced; it does not appear to be indexed in PubMed and it's strange.

You cannot indefinitely increase tidal volume. This study was done in mice. There are established LD50s for GHB which are not far from recreational dosages. GHB causes respiratory depression. It is worse when combined with other agents like ethanol, which it often is. I already wrote that.
I did the same for my current car. I noted to the lady that I'd ticked the "don't spam me" checkbox at the bottom and she admitted that she hadn't even noticed it was there. :P
>* Timeouts rarely work. Try to respond with something which makes sense. Like if your kid throws around things, they need to clean up (with your help).

I think people use timeouts wrong. Timeouts are not for my kid, they're for me. So that I can get a handle on how I'm feeling and actually respond in a way that is appropriate, and not with anger.
[...] Another is that the industry is suffering from a major lack of qualified drivers [...] we've heard tons of stories from our drivers about poor working conditions at other companies, and people quitting after only 3-4 months. [...]

Which one is it - shortage of drivers, or poor treatment of drivers? You can't have both, look at the software engineers for an example of actual shortage.
>I don't think a may-issue license to own a firearm that uses a magazine and keep it at home passes the test established by DC v. Heller and applied to the states by McDonald v. Chicago

I am talking about a US state. I'm hoping they get a SCOTUS smack-down for the reasons you mentioned but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
> And I can assure you that however in the world you set up something backed by a fiat, its controlling government can step in and seize your collateral if and when it pleases and then you're screwed.

hmm -- the collateral in this case is ether. So, unless you feel the US govt can step in and seize all ether in the world, this statement seems unlikely to be true.
What happened to due process?
> Defending China, Fuck the Chinese govt.

> I hope the Chinese people rise up one day and figure out a better form of governance for themselves.

Besides the immature, flippant impulse to challenge authority that seems quite prevalent in the West, why should the Chinese feel compelled to pursue the path of destruction you're advocating for? The CCP, for all its imperfections, has lifted 850 million illiterate peasants out of extreme poverty in a mere few decades [1].

Their upward mobility, health and education outcomes have arguably not been better in over 150 years. It's an economic miracle never before seen in history. The trade-off was made between an authoritarian but stable and prosperous society vs balkanization and endless wars that pre-mature democracies tend to produce. Hopefully you’ll excuse them if they don’t join in your shallow diatribe.

You can insult Xi all day and say "fuck the Chinese govt" all you want but at the end of the day, it's not your opinion that matters. In general, the people of China are very happy with the progress that's being made (particularly true of the rural population who have witnessed in real-time, continuous improvements to their standard of living).

One more thing. It would be convenient if the Chinese government were some monolithic, dark and evil entity that you could shake your pitchfork at, but it’s not [2]. It is an extremely complex, dynamic, and heterogenous entity full of internal power struggles, much like every other non-trivial human organization in history. There is evidence hinting at the existence of reformist and hardline members, factions and sub-factions at every part of the ideological spectrum [3][4]. The GP’s assertion that “China's system is so complicated and so far from a heavy-handed police state.” is factually correct.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China

[2] http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/ftrebbi/research/ftx.pdf

[3] https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/clm...

[4] https://www.mironline.ca/factionalism-china-eve-19th-party-c...
This is any language in any code base. Even in Go I will need to figure out if go modules, dep, or something else is being used. In rust, does this project produce a bin or rlib? Having options isn't a bad thing.
> What possible incentive could Pfizer have to suppress something they thought could be useful?

Without seeing the results of the test it would be impossible to know.

But hypothetically the reason could be as simple as them not wanting to provide any kind of help to their competitors, no matter how small.

Their explanation that they did not release the data because it could lead to other scientists heading down another dead end path of research is just stupid.

The field of science is full of such dead ends and is exactly the scientific process that has got us to where we are now.

I would say it is more likely Pzifer did not release the data to help ensure their competitors would head down that same dead end should they try.
How does the fish cure rather than rotting with this technique?

And since it's outdoors, how are insects kept away from the meat?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_in_Brief
It's basically communist/collectivist, it's not going to be a profit producing model in the long run; those profiting are selling other services around their OSS AFAICT.

How it can help in medicine is by saving people's lives or improving their quality of life, it can't line people's pockets - indeed that goal is contrary to the aforementioned benefits.
Entity realism
I think the bigger question is why does Ben and Jerry's have a page discussing systemic racism on their website. Isn't that a few astronomical units outside the scope of their business?
Hunt poachers, then sell their organs legally at market price, and then take a cut of the profits. This way the government does not even have to pay for anything.

Of course, highly controversial idea, but if you really want to curb down poaching, it might be a good way to fight back with better incentives.
About the bus issue, I can perceive a bus coming "for free", but not whether it's my bus. I live in a big city, and it's normal for 10 or so unrelated busses to pass by.

And if someone really focuses so hard that they would not perceive a bus, would you really dismiss it as their own issue? What if it's a book rather than a phone? What if it's their child?
Wait until they find out how little the person dispensing soup in a homeless shelter is getting paid. OSS is usually like charity, you do it because you can afford to and want to and don't expect anything back from it. Some people end up full time employees in the charity sector, which is also a big industry reliant on free labor.
Jesus, I thought you were exaggerating when you said three modals, but it's actually three modals.

- one for a "champion sale" that pops up before i even started reading the article

- one once you hit the bottom of the page asking you to subscribe (again)

- one for the monthly article limit (that limit is 1)
Non-profits still need money to operate. I don't think there's anything inherently contradictory about a nonprofit using ads for funding.
'Continuation' is inaccurate - your country's historic immigration practices began with "free White persons of good character" [1], and were effectively 'whites only' until 1965 [2]. But the 'nation of immigrants' rhetoric omits this.

Those are the practices they probably benefited from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac...
Sure, and when it is deployed and everyone hates it they keep using it because no on wants to admit they built a pile of junk based on pretty pictures.

But that's not how it works with open source, because I can simply choose not to use your garbage. Do you see the difference?
What's the basis for that speculation?
Making copies and sharing used to be hard so it made sense to charge money for copies and build business models around that. Now both discovery and copies are nearly free so business models must change. With pay to release payment is collected from patrons and the results can be shared. Modern makers, producers, and business people need to accept modern reality instead of blockading about sharing being theft when it clearly is not.
> you move from VB6 to VB.NET you have to rewrite the whole thing so you may as well go to C#.

Since C# and VB.NET are essentially equivalent in capability, if you are a programmer with no .NET experience and a background in VB6 but not C/C++/Java, looking to rewrite an existing VB6 codebase for .NET, why would you go to hassle of additional unfamiliar syntax to go to C#?

> that's the problem with the .NET front-end tools in general. They have no transition path to their previous version. VB6 to VB.NET is hard.

VB6 to VB.NET is not a successive version of a .NET tool, front-end or otherwise.