skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Savings being equal to investment isn't a material fact, it's an assumption built into some macroeconomic models. In order for savings to turn into an asset that increases production capacity (which is what we hope it's for), someone has to spend the money on building a new asset (or improving an existing one).

Correct. I think the definition of savings in economics is wrong. I would suggest that the distinction between savings and investment is in with how much difficulty you can reverse your decision (that is, liquidity of the underlying asset). The boundary is fuzzy, but it is important to consider.

So for instance, if I buy a new production line for cars, I cannot easily sell it (for the same price). I am hoping that it was a good decision, because it's hard to reverse (if I see tomorrow, that people actually don't want cars, I cannot easily start to make tractors). That is a decision which is investment.

On the other hand, if I buy shares in a car company, and tomorrow I see that people don't want cars, I can change my mind, sell the shares, and buy some other company. This is savings, not investment.

The reason why the reversibility is important is because if you are an economic actor and make an irreversible decision (like purchasing/building a production line), then other actors in the economy, who have savings, gain a certain advantage - they can react to your decision. They can follow, or they can avoid your investment, depending on how it pans out.

This follows it's not always wise to invest, to make an irreversible decision. Sometimes it's better to wait - and that is saving. Therefore the distinction between savings and investment is actually very important for even macroeconomics. If you have an economy where everybody is waiting for good opportunity (saving), then there is no economic growth. They still can "formally" be investing (buying shares or other financial instruments from each other), but the irreversible (i.e. real) decisions do not get made.
No, it cannot. They are mandated to have a designed breaking point. If you’re trapped, accelerate and break the barrier. Little damage to the car, relatively little damage to the barrier, everyone’s still alive.
> The commercial aspect is a red-herring

No, it's not

> because B2B where there's an existing business relationship are normally excluded from spam laws.

That's not just B2B, but that's part of the definition of “unsolicited”, it doesn't make the commercial part is a red-herring, either in general or in the context of this thread, which did not involve either a pre-existing business relationship or, since you unnecessarily called it out as relevant, a B2B interaction.

> The UBE (unsolicited, bulk, email) definition is the one used by most blocklists and filters

That's because “bulk”, unlike “commercial”, is easily detectable. (And also because because bulk has the most impact, because, bulk.)

> and ISP AUPs.

Virtually all ISP AUPs include prohibition on unlawful use which includes violations of laws concerning unsolicited commercial email.
Arguably, there's a lot of attempts to document ghosts. We probably have more documentation for ghosts, than, say, orcas eating sharks. We probably have more evidence for ghosts than the siege of Troy, but less than, say, documented sightings of dragons. Then again the number of stories on dragons have gone down drastically, perhaps hunted to extinction, but the ghosts are still around. It affects housing prices, and has possibly caused deaths in some cases.

The big difference is we have seen sharks, we have seen orcas, and it makes a lot of sense for an orca to want to eat a shark. But ghosts seem to make less sense and there is no clear source.

We have no evidence that humans have pooped on the moon. But the people claiming so are credible. The people claiming ghost sightings are much less credible and often in the group that believes other mystic things.

There are some dedicated ghost hunters, but they are as credible as the Mythbusters, at best. Ghost hunting requires expensive equipment and possibly some scientific training. It's likely to be a career dead end - you can't go from being a ghost hunter to being a physicist. And very few would want to fund it.
If you have time, perusing ingredient lists for products at the grocery store is fascinating.

I got in the habit trying to avoid palm oil, but there's all kinds of surprises in there.

Not in the "I'm shocked there are chemicals in my food" way. But just in the transparent differences in formulation by weight.

Check out marinades / BBQ sauces and baked beans.
I didn't watch the talk, but if it is anything like the paper many people would be able to call bullshit on the spot, especially those who would attend such a talk in the first place.
The problem with the brain, is that you find what you go looking for.
That particular example resonated with me. I'm not super-rich, far from it, I certainly wasn't even earning much in that time-frame. And I did a similar thing because it was the last ticket left and I had to get to a funeral. There must have been other clues that lead to the conclusion that they were trust fund kids!
Ampification
The author is Robert M. Zubrin. To write it off because the abstract doesn't mention a specific technique seems a bit silly, especially given that Zubrin personally knows a lot of the people involved in Breakthrough Starshot and surely is aware of it, including its massive caveats.

It's worth noting that the paper specifically discusses the need for methods that are not limited in travel direction, and in that respect Breakthrough Starshot has the same caveats as a solar sail and so treating laser driven propulsion separately is pointless.

Another major difference that is so obvious as to not require a mention of every specific alternative is that it is talking about a propulsion method that avoids the need for us to provide a source of thrust.

Laser driven systems doesn't require the ship to carry propellant, but we're still paying the cost to provide thrust, while this design is basically 'just' relying on there being a source of protons and electrons with a speed differential relative to the current speed and direction of travel of the ship that it can 'scoop up'.

That makes for fundamentally different tradeoffs relative to classical sail based propulsion.
What if the religious scripture is a lot more true than some people give it credit for?-- i.e. that it's the story of our ancestors interacting with the creators of the simulation
Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study
To be fair, iOS safari is becoming the IE6 of the mobile world.
Yes, the universe is basically a machine learning model to put into light words.

An agent gets in a position, interacts with other agents, trains, then his training session ends and depending on what things the agent didn't learn and how did he act (imagine if Karma was like proof-of-training, and the more an agent learns/acts/follows path without interrupting the learning/path-following processes of other agent) he's sent back for re-learning in another position where he can learn what he failed on. Consider that time/space isn't a constraint for this placement, it's really a great training system. But also, we'll fork this with a recursion into another universe of our own in 20-30 years I believe and I feel like more and more people are going to slip "upwards" in the coming years.

> Why would our universe be finite if the parent universe infinite? Because you can't "solve" an infinite game.

They're recursively infinite (aka we make a new one, our models make a new one), but each one is "finite" in a sense that it will end in all equating the same. The outcome is already determined and our agents are just defining the path through it. Throwing the Monte Carlo dice.

In the end, the circle defines itself, pi is looking for it's next decimal.
that's solid advice I think. I have pretty much the same story. I mean, I went all out with anabolics and such because I was also trying to get some hot babes, but I never had wrist issues after that.
- in most cases loading the amphtml page of the website is faster and contains the same article

- Wait a few months until amp pages become as heavy, and then heavier than their html counterparts.

Amp is at best a hacky temporary patch, it doesnt solve the problem.
thanks for explaining about COEs for running a vehicle in Singapore. I'd never heard about them. There's a bit more here for curious reader: https://www.valuechampion.sg/basics-of-coe
Well when you look at the core of it without fluff, most religious scriptures point to same stuff.
Now you guys made me think of https://github.com/Gabriel439/Haskell-Annah-Library again.
Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors with Applications to Transistor Electronic
What isn't in a shareable state, the app or your notes?
I'm not being aggressive, I'm just frustrated because it seems to be impossible to point out that something is the case in the country where I live without one of the replies being in the spirit of "well, actually..." — so all I'm saying is that pointing out a phenomenon as geographically situated somewhere is not the same as pointing it out as unique to that location. I get this often enough that I expect it every time, so I'm sorry if some of the frustration shines through. There just seems to be a pathological tendency to correct people, to the extent where the errors are willfully interpreted as such.
Slides for the presentation:
https://github.com/iNPUTmice/talks/blob/master/2019_08_10_-_...
Have P/E ratios been rising?

Stock prices have likely risen thanks to the buy backs. Have earnings increased proportionally?
I can never find this article, but I remember there was one about a class at some American University, might have been MIT, where for a good number of years they had given all intro to programming students a quiz on the first day of class and the results of this quiz predicted very well the failure rate of students.

As it was described in the article it was not so much logic or mathematical reasoning or abstraction that predicted whether people would pass but how they handled the arbitrariness of systems.

If anyone knows the article or class I'm talking about can you respond with a link because it has been driving me nuts for I think at least 10 years now.
There’s something incredibly reassuring about seeing your 1Gbit line physically enter your house from the street pole.

It also makes the city seems like cyberpunk central, which is pretty cool.
How would I know whether the person I'm writing to has a rooted phone?

I'm not a security expert, but this sounds like an obvious problem.
Former MCC Inmate: There’s ‘No Way’ Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself
In Australia the misleading part is what's actually weighed. The price per kg for canned beans doesn't help when 400g supermarket brand is 280g beans, 120g water. :(

But on average, with pretty much everything else, it works just fine.
I think it's more about age. It's fun to ask people a question like, "What was your golden age for gaming?" That said, I really miss LAN parties and static multiplayer game servers-- we've got the same "golden age" :)
At a local level environmental decisions are highly political. Try building a road, a wind farm, a cycle lane, or a pedestrian precinct and you will get a lot of anger and passion. And a lot of interventions have a number of unintended consequences that affect people.

A lot of these environmental decisions have winners and losers. That makes them political and partisan. But politicians often don't want to deal with that. They want to delegate authority to a bunch of experts and independent organisations who can make objective decisions. Except there are still loosers who will be angry. And they just see a faceless beurocracy that doesn't care what they think.

We should accept that the environment is political and try and win the argument. Stop relying on science and actually pursuade people on an emotional and moral level.
> "Never open one of your 401(k) statements from the day you start work to the day you retire, 40 or 50 years later."

Metaphorically, yes. But you absolutely should open them periodically. If there has been theft or an error, you want to report it immediately, not 50 years later.
David Foster Wallace – The Problem with Irony
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This should help..
I feel like you could make the same case for not loudly renouncing "Time AI". If Black Hat were to stand by this sponsor, I would wonder if other potential sponsors might actively withhold funds specifically to avoid being associated with "Time AI". Like the YouTube adpocalypse -- the media storm around certain kinds of content made advertisers uncomfortable with being associated with that content.
At which point will people start considering paywalls ads (which is what they are)? Siloed content should not enjoy the momentum of "previously unsiloed", and it's no different from content that has forever been siloed. They are functionally not much different from content marketing blogs.
R&D won't be the next product, it'll be probably minimum 5 years out, and up to 20-25.
The only reason AMP is faster than most webpages is because Google preloads and prerenders the content when you are still on the Google results page. It's not a fair contest. We've seen our HTML pages be consistently faster than our AMP pages when all else is even.
I don't really see the crazy? Only downside is that need for a car (think disabled, or parents with disabled children) isn't correlated with wealth or income, so it may not be as fair as other systems, but rationing by price is fairly transparent.
> and rather than doing random reads to satisfy them, just read the whole table sequentially

OK, good point, I believe this is called a carousel read (spent 5 mins looking for a link, sorry no luck. I know MSSQL does a slightly fancier version of it).

I think the original article was unclear in what it was trying for, actual performance or exposition.

Edit: could have utterly sworn it was a carousel read, but no cigar. Here it is https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4472/sql-server-enter...
There is no need for laws for this stupidity. Unless you want to consider the laws of economics.

Namely: Create a shitty business model that depends on treating your customers like shit and you can expect to out of business as soon as your venture funds dry up.

This is the sort of problem that solves itself.

Either that or people can keep giving these jokers money, wait for some lawsuit to happen and then in 7 or 8 years after the lawyers take their cut you can expect a check in the mail for 4 or 5 dollars.
It's like audiophiles; there's not too many people who believe it, but enough of the ones that do have enough disposable income to make a great grift.
I was amazed when seeing this in India. Until I learned that a phone plan with unlimited data costs the equivalent of $3 a month there.

Suddenly it becomes like the best investment ever. Even if you have nothing else, you can still be connected to the internet and all it’s joys.
Shutting Down 8chan
Why do people love to do this... at least read the article before
> the dipole drive can be used to accelerate a spacecraft at velocities greater than that of the solar wind [0]

and

> [the Dipole drive] therefore offers potential as a means of achieving ultra-high velocities necessary for interstellar flight.

Sorry, but I couldn't come up with anything else than: warp-drive!! (if it can deliver on that promise that is). I have long hoped/expected we would crack the challenge of propellant-less acceleration through space, not sure if this is it though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20666722
> The example that's burned into my brain is hiring movers.

Or a nice coat. A nice coat doesn’t come cheap but it’ll last years.

(Actually I think this applies to clothing generally. I don’t buy many clothes because I rarely buy cheap clothes.)
Show HN: Slashblog – A Blog for Your Website
It really depends on the scope you put on it.
Large scale universe lifetime? determinism. Your thoughts? Not. Your actions? Combination of both, expression of all the influencing factors and what your model brings. That's why you can override your biological self (not walk to the fridge when you're hungry but stay in the chair reading a book). You might say "but oh this is also predetermined", but I say there a space where the "asymptote doesn't touch the axis", that space between determinism and non-determinism is where we cause wave collapse and which is actually the whole point of this whole simulation.
“In late November of 1968, I spent a few days in a hotel just off the Piazza San Marco in Venice. At 6 one morning, hearing the loud warning bells, I jumped out of bed, grabbed my camera and rushed to see the famous Venetian flood. I stood in the empty and as yet dry Piazza and looked out toward the Gulf, for I expected the flood tides to come in from the open water. Many minutes passed before to see that the Piazza was flooding, not directly from the Gulf, but up through its own sewers. The indented gratings in the pavement had all but disappeared under the calm, flat silver puddles, which grew slowly and silently until their peripheries touched and the Piazza became a lake. That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defences, how careful we are to look for it in the wrong places, how it does not reveal itself until it is beyond redress, how vainly we search for it around us and find too late that it has occurred within us.”

The under-appreciated Robert Grudin in Time and Art of Living.
Ferguson five years after the killing of Michael Brown
Are there any steers in the theater tonight? Get 'em up against the wall...
Lots of native extensions though. So indirectly plenty of possibility for abuse. Some implementations are better at this than others.
> "The relationship of spike-time-dependent plasticity to other models requires further clarifying work"

- I got something for that, in fact I think I discovered that backpropagation engenders STDP:

https://github.com/guillaume-chevalier/Spiking-Neural-Networ...
So much this! I could swear that cheese in germany adds more and more.. Water or so and taste less and less like cheese..
How is this a purely technical problem? I'd argue it's a purely non-technical problem, especially in the many cases where e.g. the postal worker needs some implicit knowledge to make the right decisions.
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“they've recently become too obsessed with mobile profits over holistic prosumer experience”

“For the first time since 2013, iPhone sales did not account for at least half of Apple’s revenue”

i’d say that AAPL has been focusing on services more than anything else lately.
If I ever get rich enough to do so, I'm going to buy some land somewhere - perhaps old farming land that's no longer profitable, and just let it return to nature. Let the trees and bushes grow, let the insects, birds and whatever else breed there.

I'm beginning to think that's one of the best things one could do for the planet right now.
Exactly, it's the same reason most date formats don't start with the year, even though it is the most significant of the numbers. If I write 12-8-2019, the 12 is the most important number for me, in speech I will usually refer to the date as "the 12th". In the same way, if I'm telling my address to someone, I'll just say the street address, since we can assume I live in the country we're in right now (which of course doesn't work on the internet, hence we specify additional information at the end).
Perhaps human mobility solutions should be run as non-profit.
Could you share an URL, I can't find it.
Did it become any easier to get a permanent visa for instance ?

Japan has a long history of allowing a mass of low wage workers to come in with very bounded conditions (work limited to elderly care for instance) and it rarely translates to the worker staying in Japan ore than a few years. I don’t know if it’s what you were thinking about ?
However, this is policy.

E.g., as an independent vendor or developer, your priorities are probably: "Let's make sure this works on all (or most) major browsers before release." Probably, you have a list of high priority compatibility targets and a list of lowers ones, and there's some room for taste and judgement here. But, if your list of high priority targets consists just of your own products, you're much on the former path of the Microsoft, back when they arguably had some problems with their priorities.

Edit: I once had a conversation with a Chrome developer, when Chrome 32 broke the established behavior of source buffers in the Web Audio API. I was really surprised to learn that they were working in total isolation and didn't even know how other major browsers behaved and what the established behavior was. I wouldn't blame the individual developers, but I'd expect there to be a process in the corporate culture to check such things (at least) before release. (Are we breaking anything?) Having no such a process – and by this favoring your own product and vision over standards – is arguably an aspect of corporate policy. Especially, if you have all the resources to establish such a process.
I get why this frustrates you but as you can not change other people you could try to clarify by adding a "This might exist in other countries as well" or similar.
Do note that this is very much against the Discord TOS; the README does say "WARNING: Self-bots are discouraged and against Discords TOS.", but for clarity, anything considered "user account automation" is disallowed, including custom clients and similar. See ex. https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500219235...

(Obligatory disclaimer: I don't work for Discord, I just use it heavily and make a bunch of proper bots for it)
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I thought Telegram was sending messages encrypted (though not E2E) per default?
But in the US it is frequent that the price per weight (or per volume) is not displayed consistently in the same units, for example $/oz for some items versus $/lb, and it's much harder to do conversions than with the metric system.
Yes, and at least historically, you can also write only the short part of the addresses that differs from yours. Just put the street address if sending it in the same town, and let the postal service take care of the rest. Today sorting centres are more centralised and that's not a good idea. But you don't include a line for the country if you're sending a letter domestically.
You’re being over sensitive I think. The reply isn’t “correcting” you - it actually adds information. Strictly speaking you are correct but generally if a fact is qualified by a restriction like “this exists in country X”, given there are around 200 countries in the world, it certainly implies there that country X is somewhat unusual in some regard. If you had claimed “in Sweden, cars have 4 wheels”, then I’d find it perfectly reasonable for someone to point out that it’s also the case in other countries.
Now you could say "but doom was new and groundbreaking", but even if there had been a dozen identical games before

I'd love to find out about a dozenb Doom-like games that appeared before Doom. Of course, there was Wolfenstein 3D but its 3D engine was much more limited, there was Ultima Underworld but it was hardly an "identical game"... but other than that? Which fast-paced, first-person 3D action shooter existed before Doom??
Extending OCaml Programs with Lua
The article seems to have missed the correct conclusion: we calculate inflation wrong.

If Toblerone gives you less chocolate for the same price, that doesn't mean some new thing called "shrinkflation" now exists, that means that chocolate became more expensive. But that new pricing doesn't seem to be properly hitting the inflation metrics.
MkWii doesn't have snaking.