skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know of an ML language that's widely used in scientific computing? Julia was made to compete with R, Python, C++ and Fortran, combing high-performance with ease of use and general computing.
I also did a lot of other projects. Like building engines or houses or planning cities or doing a movie.

Only in software you have the luxury to do it alone or in a pair. In architecture it sometimes works, in movies rarely (but such things do exist, like Shane Carruth), in engineering very rarely. In architecture or movies we call that phenomenon, many cooks don't make good meals. Or planning by committee. Never give up your project to a committee. Eg. Guido or Larry made a huge mistake.

Compared to those other fields and comparing the results you see excellency mostly with projects made by the fewest amount of people.

In SW its trivial to see. All projects managed by a big team are barely successful and more look like managed towards destruction. All managed still by a good founder do look great. Genetic arguments rarely count here.
Wow! That is eye opening. Thanks for the share on that one.
Did you ever look at Japan? Still not back to the all time high decades ago.
I know a guy who is in a very similar situation, although he's been holding out since about '15. IMO, what looks smart is doing the thing that has the correct risk/reward tradeoff, even if you happen to lose the bet.
Speaking from experience with them, they seem to think the 2nd amendment must necessarily be respected by the very government they think is allowing them the guns to threaten said government with in the first place. That's the cognitive hole I'm pointing to - if they stockpile weapons to eventually potentially overthrow the US government, they must do so knowing that it will be illegal to do so regardless - the 2nd amendment won't protect them in that case, and is thus practically useless for what they think it's useful for.

AKA, the life of a militiaman that intends to use weapons to overthrow the USA is, to the USA, the life of a terrorist/rebel/enemy of the state. It's not a constitutionally protected state of existence.
I wonder how related or not-related this is to static attraction (eg: bending a water stream by placing your finger near the stream from a running tap.)

Also, his 90 degree illustration immediately brought to mind the "3-D Loser" hand gesture we learned in school to remember the direction of positive / negative electrical flow. Googling that brought me to http://montessorimuddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Right... and quite satisfactorily also connected it to the Lorentz Force with this version of the illustration: http://montessorimuddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Right...
I'm of the opinion that if we suppress it, it doesn't go away. When it comes back, it's much harder to control.

I also firmly believe that everyone has biases and inclinations that are morally wrong. The sooner we learn how to deal with the "good guys" unfair biases, the sooner we can figure out how to deal with the "bad guys" too.
The yield curve is built into all assets - that's how you discount future stock earnings to derive present value. An inversion roughly means that the curve was wrong, i.e. the market was overly optimistic about how low the interest rates are going to be.

> Campbell R. Harvey's 1986 dissertation[4] showed that an inverted yield curve accurately forecasts U.S. recessions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_curve
>48k is less than the median income in the US

Yet nearly half of workers in the United States earn less than $30,000[1] (people earning less than $30,000 accounts for 48.06% of the population[2]) and 1% of the country makes more than 250k a year[2]. Four states have a median HOUSEHOLD income under 48k[3].

The vast majority of people on HN seem to think that everyone is drawing a 6 figure software dev salary, federal minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. 13 years into my job and I'm one of the best paid people in my position and I'm around 36k now I think, new hires make considerably less than that at a fortune 500 company with 425k employees.

[1] https://howmuch.net/articles/how-much-americans-make-in-wage...

[2] https://wallethacks.com/average-median-income-in-america/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
Games are not the issue, social media is the issue. As Joe Rogan said: "This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem." https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/295534798716407808?lang=...
Calling it virtue signaling is a cheap way to dismiss something.

Virtue signaling is when a person trumpets their moral stance without a willingness to make any significant investment in it. This guy investing 10,000 hours into the project disqualifies it from that moniker.
I guess you could say that free speech has limits that are acceptable.

You know you can't yell fire in a crowded room and not get litigation and charges brought against you.

So, maybe 8chan just ran past the fine line of hate speech vs encouraging acts of hate. I.e you can be racist but you cannot encourage acts of extremism.

If 8Chan was a breeding ground for Islamic Extremists would people be okay with still existing?
Sure, except a whole of stocks don't pay dividends.

Mr. Money Mustache, while entertaining, is making a living telling other people how to FIRE. It's a sham, in other words. It's the same thing as those "get rich quick" books that the author wrote to literally do that.
Voxility GmbH? Did they really move 8chan to Germany, a country with very restricted speech?
Companies should just use bogofilter and not submission blocking on contact forms if they're annoyed about receiving spam all the time. That and then just go through the detected spam once in a while (once per week perhaps).

Basically the same they'd do with e-mail.

Several times I was prevented from complaining about something to a company that didn't have a public e-mail address, but only a contact form with captcha, just because that day, google decided they'll fail all my recaptcha attempts, and tell me "sorry we think your computer is sending automated queries" and wouldn't even allow me to try any futher.

It really doesn't help if I'm in a negative midnset about the company already. I've completely stopped using shipping companies that put tracking info behind recpatcha, for the same reason, although that's a different thing from contact forms and a bit harder to manage. But contact forms should not be blocked with recaptcha.

Outright blocking communication is a poor taste. Accept all communication and use automated mechanisms to filter through it on your side.

BTW, this is even worse for users that block re-captcha via adblocker or something, because you often lose the entire text you were about to send. So the next attempt you're even angrier.
> I know everyone says how good Rust's documentation is but I tried learning Rust with The Rust Book and found it frustrating: too long and wordy on the easy bits and without useful insight on the hard bits. I ended up buying Programming Rust by Jim Blandy [0] on a recommendation from HN comments and found it must easier to learn from. I'm already familiar with several other languages, which that book assumes, so your milage may vary.

> [0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Rust-Jim-Blandy/dp/1491....

Thanks for tip, the Rust Book is working well for me so far but it's good to know of other good options.
Creativity looks for questions before worrying about answers
The collab link below let's you use a gpu for free on Google cloud
Hi there,

We are not hyping, we're blogging about our fundraising success while working on our new release which will include a series of benchmarks which we'll be happy to share with all the details, obviously including source code and hardware setup.

Until then, feel free to get in touch with us if you have any specific questions or need help with performance analysis!
They're staunchly anti-union, anti-worker, and pro-corporation by vote. I think those workers are seeing the result of their votes.
I'm still waiting for a new platform to take the world by storm: The freedom of Gab, with sane content filtering options to make it look as tame as reddit so by default users don't see all the fringe crap, but lets them if they really want, right to the legal edge.
Do not listen to these people who constantly tell you to “just invest now, it’ll average out, etc”. Go with your gut. Cash is a position. Know when and how to use it to your advantage.
When will the same rules apply to other big companies. FB has never been taken down, and they have been streamig some questionable things. I know its a bit, but look at them. Im just struggeling with the feeling. I have only visisted 8chan a while a go to get a taste whats going on and its like all the other "free" boards, no moderators and it becomes a mess.
If so what's the point in trying if you're going to expend a large amount of effort for relatively little gains. It would surely be better to accept that such forums will always exist but at least make it more difficult for people to accidentally stumble across this stuff.
Many of these workers are from the prison industrial complex. Pay is non-existent or abysmally low, AFAIK.
> but putting the entire concept on blast with erroneous history that can be corrected with about 60 seconds on Wikipedia doesn’t help the article at all.

Nor does an entirely fallacious premise. ReCAPTCAH v3 is entirely transparent and non invasive to users. In fact it’s retroactive to help the site admin figure out what to do with the score:

https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3
on the contrary, the sexual selections of females reward "toxic" behavior (confident, dominant, selfish, disagreeable), and punish guys who are socially inept toxic little worms (needy, people-pleasing, over-intellectual, "safe").
Who reproduced, the guy capable of killing multiple potential rapists? Or the guy that let's his wife get taken cause he just couldn't engage in violence cause it's 'wrong and bad and toxic'
All Weather works just as good as 60/40 (in the sense of returns) with way way less volatility. See my backtest link. It's also known as the risk parity portfolio.

100% stocks, while usually performing better, is not suitable for most investors. And yes that probably means you reading this comment. They will not be able to hold in times like 2008, they will sell instead of buying more.

As "The Intelligent Investor" puts it: "Look into the mirror. That is the biggest risk you have - yourself.".

I know I can't stomach 100% stocks (even 75% is very very scary) so I will probably never do that.
> Governments are not going to ban banks from treating BTC transactions as cash advances

Courts typically will look at the bank's rationale for charging customers higher fees arbitrarily.

You are heavily focused on the semantical debate about "cash advance" and not the consequences of categorizing this way.

A court might say "sure call them that, just don't charge customers higher a cash advance fee and higher interest", the bank will consider that irreconcilable and change the categorization anyway. Nobody will address the specific difference you wanted to debate about.
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> I have seriously had conversations with some people who believe that we are _less_ free here in Australia that them in the US because we do not have the right to bear arms.

You seem to be conflating "freedom" with "safety". Often they're correlated, but in this case they conflict.
I agree with your math, but I disagree with your conclusions. The difference may look small but it compounds very quickly. If you make 1000 controls of individuals from population B, the likelihood that you never make a bust is 61%. If you make 1000 controls of population A, the likelihood you never make a bust is only 5%. If you are a policeman, clearly you are going to opt for population A if you want to make a bust.

In this case he was sentenced to a suspended fine of €1,000 and to damages of €9,000 to various pressure groups.

I agree with your position on the moral implications of racial profiling and I am not advocating it. But whether one supports racial profiling or not, merely discussing the merits should not constitute an offense, I think this is clearly violating free speech. And if we cannot disagree publicly with existing laws, why do we even bother having a parliament to change those laws?
More precisely: There's no especially valuable work to be done at that moment, so go relax and save your effort for the valuable work that will be there later.
Very interesting! I've always thought that it was interesting that the hash and the download would often be hosted on the same server.

I was wondering though, would a distributed ledger make sense as an alternative to a set of public logs operated by multiple organizations?
If you were planning on buying more chickens tomorrow, you might be inclined to wait instead if the price is falling. Especially if the cost of hens relative to eggs is near an all-time high.
The already radicalised don't go away, but de-platforming does help.

Sure, there are some alternatives that are harder to restrict and monitor, like if all the radicals move to private Telegram groups or the dark web or something.

However all the vulnerable people at risk of being radicalised are less likely to be radicalised if they're using a similar forum to 8chan but without all the white supremacist and other hateful memes and "jokes", that obviously have radicalised a lot of people. Even if most people just scroll past them.
> But if you can just hail an Uber or Lyft, but the Uber or Lyft is really cheap because it doesn't require a human driver, then getting to and from the rail station becomes a non-issue.

We're a long ways away from self driving cars being really cheap. That self driving Uber network would need a lot of capital investment that they initially were able to avoid because they piggybacked on drivers already having to own cars anyway.
I’m sorry, it seems I misread what you wrote. That doesn’t contradict what I wrote.

Yes, if the money created is in the end kept in the system as a deposit it enables new loans (but it is not necessarily so if the money goes to someone that uses it to cancel a loan of their own, for example).

And due to the fractional reserve requirement the quantity of money cannot be increased without limit by commercial banks. That’s just a mathematical reality, notwithstanding the fact that it’s not usually a binding constraint.
I think a critical ingredient for him was that he was motivated to get the exam passed. Otherwise new terms (unknown, not heard before, so scary and opaque) would overwhelm and attention would be lost.

How you did that introduction is very important. Every time you tell something new, it better be really small - or explained quickly and well, so the concept would stick before brain would get tired.

Thank you for listing your points.
Yeah bureaucracy and regulations is one of the reasons things suck here. Extending the network is ridiculously costly with all the planning, approvements required, the city having a say, some wavie complaining they get headaches, an old dude thinking the tower looks ugly, paying the construction company and finally having that thing certified after it's been built.
I’ve had a blog for about a decade now - I wanted to host it myself rather than use some blogging infrastructure, since I was afraid that blogging infrastructures would become evil in the future (see: Medium). I also wanted a comment section, but as soon as I turned it on, I got hundreds of spam messages every. single. day. I shut it down and started working on adding captcha support. My custom captcha solution did pretty much nothing to slow down the spammers, and I realized how much time and effort I was going to have to spend developing and maintaining it… I decided to hand the reins over to the fine folks at Google, instead. If they want to recoup their costs by having visitors on my site spend a few seconds training self-driving cars, that’s a trade-off that’s worth it. It’s also worth noting that the article doesn’t actually point out anything that’s particularly evil - just points out the potential for some evil in the unspecified future. Although I agree that the best time to tackle evil is now rather than later, I also don’t see any alternative for recaptcha, so I’m going to continue to use it and hope for the best.
I’m hereby inventing a new rule called Chesterton’s Wild Boar fence, the essence of which is people who don’t have gardens, or don’t hang out at night, would always complain about wild boar fences, as they lack any awareness of the beast and its damage, or they downright believe its mere existence is a myth.
> I'll look at curious languages/implementations

Evan Miller felt Rakudo/MoarVM fit that niche. [1]

P6 automatically converts an ordinary P6 function call into a documented cli program. [2]

Cro, a distributed system framework, is a P6 showcase. [3]

[1] https://www.evanmiller.org/why-im-learning-perl-6.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D16wa-gnFwE

[3] https://cro.services/
I work closely with applied semantic reasoning, deep learning and other related technologies. I am not an AI expert, or at least I try to dodge that title - I make stuff, and sometimes AI is among the tools I use when doing that.

Ray Kurzweil is an expert though, and 2045 is his estimate of when the Singularity will happen. The Singularity involves a lot of stuff, but basically is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) applied to human cognition. This will likely happen very quickly after AGI is developed. I think current politics may have pushed that out a bit to 2050-2055, but otherwise I think Kurzweil's prediction is spot on.

Kurweil's book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

A dissenting opinion: https://pando.com/2014/02/03/the-singularity-is-not-near/
The biotech startup world has changed a ton in the last 7 years. However, the biotech startup world is a completely different one than the tech startup world, and the tech press doesn't really talk much about biotech startups that aren't AI/ML related or funded by traditional tech VCs.

$17B was invested in biopharma startups in 2018 [0]. Less than 10% of that came from traditional "tech" VCs. Most of these companies are traditional drug development companies pursuing new ways to treat cancer, rare disease, autoimmune disease and neurodegenerative disease. If you're interested in learning more about these companies, i maintain a database of recently funded biotech startups with some stats on what type of companies get funded [6]

10 years ago, a biotech startup was basically an external R&D program for big pharma. If there was an asset or area of biology that was interesting but too risky for pharma, a VC would start a company to develop that asset until the big risks were taken out, and then big pharma would buy the company. The VC would hire big pharma managers and scientists to run the program, which makes sense as it is basically a carve out of a big pharma program

Today, startups are much more ambitious. They are developing powerful platforms that can support real companies, not just flipping assets to pharma. They are increasingly exploring new types of drugs: gene therapy, cell therapy, microbiome therapy, synthetic biology platforms. Pharma has no expertise in these areas, so some startups could build very valuable independent companies here. Many startups are now commercializing products on their own, which was unheard of 10 years ago.

Some of these companies are working on amazing science. There is so much exciting stuff happening in biology and bioengineering. The tech press focuses more on stuff like AI/ML, which is definitely interesting, but IMO that stuff is probably like the fourth or fifth coolest thing happening in biotech right now. When you read about AI/ML in traditional biotech press, most of the articles are about why it won't work. People are much more excited about other stuff

If you are interested in learning more about the biotech startup world, you can check out Endpoints News [1], FierceBiotech [2], and STAT [3]. These are some of the more popular startup news sources in biotech

I wrote a few articles about the "old" biotech startup model [4] and how that model is changing and will change in the future [5] if you're interested in more on what's changing now in biotech

[0] https://www.baybridgebio.com/1h2019_report

[1] https://endpts.com/

[2] https://www.fiercebiotech.com/

[3] https://www.statnews.com/

[4] https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/young_founders_2.html

[5] https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/young_founders_3.html

[6] https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/recently_funded_biotech_st...
A GUI for viewing dataframes is not too bad an addition, though pandas is a very scope-creepy project. Soon it will be able to send email.
Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in Viral Memo
Low-Level Optimizations for the Haiku Operating System
> I'm of the opinion that if we suppress it, it doesn't go away. When it comes back, it's much harder to control.

The available evidence says the opposite is true.

http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf

The way to deal with the "bad guys" is for private businesses to not give them a platform to spew their hate from. And it's up to us to pressure these private businesses to do that.
We are happy to get new feature requests on github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph!

SPARQL is something we're considering but we haven't heard much interest from any of our customers so it's not very high up on our roadmap.

I'd love to chat with you to figure out how adding this could help your use case though. You can reach me at francesc@dgraph.io.

Cheers!
This is why Facebook host their own servers... well not the only reason, but you could easily make the argument that Facebook is an "Internet hate forum" and should be shut down for failing to police their site.
I really enjoy these articles about how software is eating or will eat health care. At least in the US the things technology can solve are generally either trivial and have already been solved (usually terribly, like EHR, but solved nonetheless) or really hard (e.g. diagnosing conditions and researching cures). The "Phase II" this person refers to exists because of political problems, not because they simply haven't had the attention of the "super geniuses" in the Bay Area. The arrogance in the software sector about the depth and breadth of its reach is staggering.

I work in health tech in the Bay Area and have for a long time now. The problems in this industry are generally because of human behavior and politics. It's going to take a lot more than software, and something entirely different from it, to solve them.
I've been approached a few times by Amazon recruiters, I reply back with my salary and profit share demands and that usually shuts them up.

I guess that they must have some luck picking up junior developers from Europe, or maybe people who like the idea of living in the US or Canada for a few years so are willing to take the cut.
Hey Matt. Nice work with osdev.org, I'll be checking it out. Allow me to offer my point of view on your question.

I initially started out this blog to improve my writing skills; I don't have any tracking, ads, analytics. I don't know (and don't care, tbh) if and how many people read it. It allows me to write down things I've learned, really cement that knowledge, and it's also hella fun!

Many people that I know, which maintain their own blog are on the same page. Writing in public also allows other interesting people to offer their opinions, and start a conversation. This is the best thing I've got from it, helpful comments, criticism, and different viewpoints from strangers!
>ReCAPTCAH v3 is entirely transparent and non invasive to users

Except when you don't opt into google tracking you by blocking third party scripts, in which case your life still gets to be hell.