skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a defining feature of chan culture that anything sourced from a chan is poisoned by nature of it coming from a chan, as chans can willingly change the context surrounding some content.

It used to be the other way around -- content originating on chans would be repeated and posted elsewhere on the internet, and the content itself usually had nothing to do specifically with chan culture. As media began progressively segregating chan culture from the rest of the internet, content from chans signified that the poster was also a user of chans. As the image of chans have evolved from being a place where you can post whatever you want (within legal limits) to being somehow a bastion of a minority political ideology, so too has the content shifted from being relatable by most everyone who uses the internet to being reviled because of it's ties to the sites.

I would not be surprised if a news article came out postulating that Richard Stallman had now become a symbol of the "alt-right"
Well at least their management does something, REITs look like cushy ticket clippers to me (from the outside).
Does this source tree include the old Win32 version? Have they open sourced that, if not?
Agreed, I have an intel embedded thingamabob and it works fine. I wonder if there's a software rendering option in FF that will make it work?
Very importantly, it also means that a corporation's assets are separate from those of its owners, so if you own a piece of a company and it gets sued, you don't lose your own home and assets if the company loses.
Haha, thanks for pointing that out.
I've watched literally every video of Grant, and am familiar with the source of the name - but for some reason I always mix it up. In my head I just say "3B1B", which I think is where I confuse myself.
>This is why charisma tends to beat substance even when the audience really ought to know better.

Exactly, and this is why the Democrats keep losing elections. They just can't wrap their heads around this simple fact that you stated here. They keep thinking that if they pick candidates who can go on at length about policy, that voters will love this and not care about charisma, so they pick the most uncharismatic candidates they can find. Obama proved the DNC wrong when he "stole" the nomination from Hillary in the 2008 primaries, and showed that a candidate with a lot of charisma was what was needed to win the election.
Wework disclosed in this S-1 that the vast majority of its members are small organizations or a handful of seats purchased by “enterprises.” In the event of an economic downturn I wouldn’t think WeWork could reasonably expect to collect on its membership fees no matter its contracts - their small clients will go out of business or otherwise just stop paying. WeWork is still on the hook for its contractual lease obligations, with lease terms averaging 15 years by its disclosures and between $2.3-$2.4bn of contractual obligations per year in upcoming years.

I don’t see this going well.
I Declare To-Do List Bankruptcy (and You Should Too)
Here's a monthly Mixcloud show featuring tech trance, psy tech, prog, full on, etc. Usually ranges from 138-145 bpm.

I have a few developer friends who enjoy listening to it while working. I've also heard it's good music to listen to while driving. (:

https://www.mixcloud.com/palanesesummer/
Everybody (sane) is hedged. So while nobody per se pays the spot price, the spot price affects the parameters of the hedging contracts, PPA's, and whatnot.
I imagine it should still slightly alter the appearance of the water. Check out "Eulerian Video Magnification" for more.
Anyone know of good guides on making this kind of music? I've tried looking into it and there are just so many options and esoteric knowledge of synths and software required that's it seems hard to get started. I've bought several MIDI keyboards that all turned out to be junk and tried several DAWs that were very unintuitive, I'd like to know the best way for a beginner to get into it
27% return over 14 years with dividends reinvested (1.86% annualized)[1]. Although when we calculate it with inflation its -7% and -0.5% annualized.

Not exactly a compelling argument since you could've made a risk-free return via savings accounts (Wealthfront currently has 2.3%, which I'm sure has been higher in the past).

[1] Nov 1999 one year prior to crash, to Nov 2012
https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/
Haha, well you can get payed for it, but you won't be payed well.

It's hard to give an easy answer for that.

But let's step back a little: I played around with Julia several years ago. I don't know when exactly, probably in 2015 (?). Back then I thought of it as a faster python for science. Many things I would use python for back then I could have done in Julia too. Others I couldn't though, because the eco system was still too small. And while Julia was somewhat faster for the things I tried, it wasn't amazingly faster.
My interest in the language dropped sometime after that. But still, I felt like it was a language targeted specifically to scientists.
Many things I wanted from my analysis framework however were outside that bubble I felt. I didn't simply want to write a faster "analysis script".
I do realize however, that the language has evolved a lot and I'm happy it's finding acceptance!

Fortran on the other hand, I never really considered. I suppose modern Fortran is a pretty good language though.

So why did I choose Nim then?
It gave me:
- the ability to produce standalone binaries I could just put on any data acquisition pc without a hassle (well ok, be careful about old glibcs)
- it's fast, and I felt right at home syntax wise coming from python
- the community is amazing. The first time I entered Nim's IRC channel I noticed Araq, the creator of the language, answering random people's questions! In general the community allows for a super quick feedback loop to learn the language
- it's a pretty concise language. The whole manual can be read in less than a day
- having written some Clojure, I loved the idea of a powerful macro system
- after seeing mratsim's arraymancer library [1] I was happy to 1) have a numpy substitute and 2) thought if one person could write such a great library in O(1 year) it must be a pretty awesome language to work with :)
- being able to trivially wrap any C code around is super helpful
- a pretty strong type system! No more annoying implicit conversions from any type to a bool, error prone implicit int <-> float conversions etc.

I probably forgot many points, but well. The truth is of course, many languages could have worked for me, but the time I spent with Nim in the beginning was just super pleasant.

[1] https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer
80% renewables is cake – let the extremists argue over the rest
Cognitive Mapping in User Research
More than 90% of contributions to Linux now are from developers sponsored by corporations: https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel.
A second whistleblower working at Google comes forward to warn of search bias
Says every arrogant trader ever, right before their killer strategy took a big shit on them.

Anyone beating the market year after year is trading on insider information. Prove me wrong.

As far as your boast of "being up 33% this year" some Vanguard funds are up 23, 24, 25% and those are no-brainer buy and hold mutual funds. So regardless if your additional ~10%, you aren't going to win this race in one year and you are discussing "unrealized gains" which are simply not real.

If you're trading on margin, I hope you can handle the leverage on the downside because I watched A LOT of people lose not only all their money in '08 and '09 but also their homes, marriages, etc.
That's the point: the dangers of these pseudo-price controls are irrelevant to whether the goods are health related. Do you believe that it's great when Walmart does this for aspirin, but horrible when they do it for lawnmowers?
Me neither! :)
Are any fellow psyhackers attending Dreamtime in sept?
" As computers continue to permeate every aspect of our lives, society, and critical infrastructure, it is much more important to ensure that they are secure from everybody -- even at the cost of law enforcement access­ -- than it is to allow access at the cost of security."

This.

I love that Schneier weighed in on this.
Bystander effect: Famous psychology result could be completely wrong
Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update
Creative input vs. output: a balancing act
Park everything in a monkey market fund, and on the first up day of the recession, start buying everything.
Startups innovating with sustainable packaging solutions
Oil prices are lower and the euro is looking good as a second reserve currency.
> core parts of the banking system were suspect, nobody knew who they could trust

Serious question - how has that changed? It looks to me like since about 2009 banks have been trying very hard to get back to the same shenanigans they were pulling before 2008, and are mostly succeeding. They were given the message that, "Hey - you're too big to fail. Uncle Sam's got your back, and there will be no consequences for the people at the top. Do whatever you need to do!"
Maybe his coin? The real estate markets crashed. Now, I don't want to blame the real estate markets, because I always made a lot of money in bad markets. I love bad markets. You can do very well in a bad market
Houston does just that. Streets in Houston are lined with live oak, providing shade to much of the street.
Where did you see that insinuation? Can you point me to the place where you saw the conclusion about socialism? I feel like you are reading way too much into it. Why attribute something the authors didn't intend?
Do rising prices spur the construction of more homes in Denmark?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l15PDRSTn7s
fair point, even though to me collapse would be way more than this situation, but that's semantics
Bank interest rates are 0 and negative, so people can't leave their money in the bank. They either have to spend it, driving up house prices or invest in the market to get better return. With bank rates being so low, folks are paranoid and with all their nest eggs in the market, they pay more attention to it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-06/how-th...
Sorry, I meant more like day traders and volatile stocks. Especially younger people, who can now become day traders and even trade options with ease. Investment plans are different in the idea that the money is in there for an extended amount of time, and usually just stays invested.
What Is Yield Curve Control?
The way I've seen this handled in the UK (a while ago, but I think some ISPs still do it) is to have caps at certain times (either by having a limit or throttling bulk P2P downloads), but then allow unlimited downloads at other times, especially overnight
https://amehta.github.io/posts/
Experimentation in tech/programming!

Also, plan to soon start photoblogging about my travels.
Does anyone remember when Skype wasn't a hot mess of wiretaps and centralized servers? At this point I'd trust Telegram and their wacky homegrown encryption more than Skype.
Houston is as humid as it gets though.
Developing a skill should have a payoff. When someone does not perceive as great a reward in social interactions, the motivation to develop their social skills is less.

If social skills were on a tech tree, introverts would put points into the "polite disengagement" branch first, while extroverts are still putting their early points into "bonus friend slot" and "multiple-participant schedule coordination" and such.

Some people might just recruit an extrovert for their sole friend slot, drop a single point on "Irish Exit", let the friend set up all the social events, and just vanish whenever they're done. That's a perfectly reasonable social skills build, up until the extrovert reaches their friend cap and drops the introvert into the acquaintance pool, to free up a slot for someone with better synergy bonuses.

And this is the sort of thinking that tends to drive off people who don't view (or don't want to view) the universe as a simulation that could be hackable with a better understanding of the data structures, and who don't want to have nerdy, speculative-fiction conversations about whether "deflect blame for loud fart" is a skill or a perk.
Texas is actually the largest producer of wind power, by far.

https://i.redd.it/zug13sa7e1521.jpg

But lags in solar.
Is it not a sure thing? Time and time again, the US government has been willing to sacrifice the value of the dollar to pump up the value of equities. Maybe the share price of certain companies decline, but the voters of the US have a vested interest in keeping equity prices high (401k, pension fund investments, etc).

On top of that, the number of companies has been getting smaller and smaller, and the companies left are getting bigger and bigger. If anything, there is more systemic risk than before, and hence even more incentive for bailouts.

As far as I can tell, the day the US stops bailing out equities, I imagine it will be in a weakened state where the USD no longer has reserve currency status, and there might be bigger problems to worry about than a recession. Until then, total stock market ETFs should do at least as well as inflation.
A parallel recession in China, for example.
Awesome. Outside of a few strange political situations like HK/Singapore we probably don't actually need to build structures higher than 12-18 stories as well - most examples I can think of are vanity projects.

It strikes me that there might not be a replacement for concrete in other forms of building though - what about dams, bridges, etc?
Medium – Isomorphic social media web application
That's my understanding as well, but it's a pretty insulting suggestion. Why is a business's privacy more important than my own?
if p, then q is not equivalent with if q, then p. However this follows: if ~q, then ~p. It's not raining, it must not be my birthday.
That’s why most of my comment was regarding commercial transit costs.

AWS is what bandwidth costs look like when it’s a profit center.

I would certainly expect residential lines, with the extreme overhead of operating the service, to be priced closer to AWS rates than to baseline commercial transit rates.
As stated, this is simply fallacious - "Supporting some regulation means you must support all regulation."
> Amazon even owns one such store, Whole Foods.

The quality at Whole Foods has gone down fast since Amazon took over.
For those who are confused (as I was until a bit ago), this is for writing firmware.
Kopeks and rubles are most likely.
Great opportunity for Google to let go of these types of people. They made their signatures public which was not very smart in the first place. You dont like what the company does, find a new job.

> We refuse to be complicit. It is unconscionable that Google, or any other tech company, would support agencies engaged in caging and torturing vulnerable people.

Are these people really that ignorant and clueless? This is not what is happening. Just because AOC or MSM says something does not mean it is fact. Obama had far worse conditions that Trump does today. Where were these hypocrites?

How many of those that signed are American's?
Why has the anthropocene become another technocratic toolv?
Not interested unless they've defied physics and made it silent.
The article on sugar production is one example that I'd agree upon with OP.
Their operating expenses + depreciation seems to consistently be equal to their revenue, before the pre-opening expenses, sales and marketing expenses, and new market development expenses.

Investing in growth at a loss makes sense for such a rapidly growing company, but can they make the unit economics work to turn a profit (after covering general and administrative costs as well) when they need to? They do claim to be offering the ability to house employees at less than half the market rate for traditional leases + operations, so I guess they'd be able to raise prices to a more sustainable level when required, assuming those numbers are accurate.

As put off as I am by this whole company's branding and vibe, they do seem to have built a major business and likely have a substantial lead in the space due to brand recognition and operational experience.
That last stat is totally useless - I'd much rather get 75% of my the advertised speed on my unlimited 75Mbit/$20 connection than 100% of my capped 20Mbit/$40 connection.

The report you link to is unfortunately also woefully outdated, it's from 2014 using data from 2011.
Makes you wonder why Beatmania and games of that ilk don't have a version of the game for the full keyboard. And when you've mastered that 'level', you've actually learned the notes (maybe not much more, but it's something!) for a real piano piece.
Nine hours a day of staring at a computer screen and typing something from time to time pays every other job about 1/10th what programmers make.

Not advocating a race to the bottom, but...

(Go ahead, you can fill in the rest.)
I'm grossed out by the sexual analogies he applies to curiosity. I feel MeToo'd after reading it. ;(
Really? So three abstract concepts actually had a footrace?

Or is it merely analogous to the concept of a footrace, as might be indicated by a word such as 'like'?
Patreon Has Become a Lifeline for Creators of Weird, Alternative Games
I’m no fan of the President, but Paul Krugman’s rants have gone from heated to just bizarre at this point. Shows that even Noble laureate’s aren’t immune from going off the rails.
Would it have been wrong to call King George III mad?
> eBay is better

...for what? It's a miserable place to look for stuff, miserable to pay for, miserable to remediate conflict. If you're lucky you'll get what you pay for with no hassle. I can't imagine ever buying a commodity on ebay that I could get from another online retailer.

I can't imagine being out here expecting large internet stores to give a shit about my problems. That ship sailed a long time ago--buy local or accept the shittiness.
You can find quite a lot here https://www.lynda.com/Ableton-Live-training-tutorials/139-0....
The link is for Ableton, but you can find the courses for other DAWs there.

I started with Ableton a few years ago, because it is widely used for electronic music production. Also, my employer provided 50% discount on Ableton products :)

I’d like to also recommend this book https://www.amazon.de/Dance-Music-Manual-Rick-Snoman/dp/0415... if you are interested in theory.
I'd like to see rational numbers much more used in computers instead of floating point. Not just for improved representability of widespread numbers such as 1/3. Also what the article hints towards: accuracy of pi in half-precision 16-bit floating point is around 1/(2^11) ~ 0.0005, while 355/113 is more precise 1/(113^2) ~ 0.00008 and the fraction is still possible to be stored in 16-bit.
Mathematically speaking, Pi can’t be “simplified”, but I’m personally curious what ratio is Pi to the highest precision necessary to calculate anything tangible (the circumference of the universe to the Plank length). Practically speaking one could say that is the simplification of Pi.
> "If you wanted to understand the brutality of American capitalism..."

Stopped reading there. Not sure American capitalism is some evil brutal thing to oppose in the first place. And we could have capitalism without having slavery.
That's not how option valuation works. They're worth the difference of their strike price to the price of the underlying intrinsically. So if his strike is $110 (which it's not for reasons others have pointed out - he was issued options on common stock), he gets the appreciation of the stock after IPO once he exercises. If the stock plummets after IPO, his options will expire worthless. Though they are probably LEAPs, and it's weird to denominate options per-share like that. Normally contracts are for 100 shares and it always confuses me the way companies award options.
Which would indicate that US will have a massive amount of leverage to renegotiate trade
What exactly is wrong with this comment for the kind of downvotes?

At personal level, I find adventure one of the most level headed and dispassionate commentators esp. about Finance/Business/Geopolitics.

The whole China treasure holdings argument is at the best paper tiger. The argument is debunked by every respectable finance commentator.
Also note that Doc Marten's are reasonably priced compared to many Vegan shoe/boot leather alternatives that are socially acceptable.

If you have $500 to spend on boots, it's probably easy enough to find whatever you want. If you have $100-$200, doc martens pull away quickly for the vegan crowd.
Is that necessarily the case?

I as a home owner would be interested for a remortgage to stick in the stock market (or even a risk free investment). Not really a poor person option though.

This would presumably just inflate the/a housing bubble, which doesn't seem like it would inherently help poor people, you cant really liquidate the asset as you need to live in it. Second homes on the other hand....
This is just a way of amazon moving the carrying costs of merchandise off of its balance books and on to someone else's, without the complexity of a floor lease. It mostly sounds like a win-win.
Measuring the ionisation fraction in a jet from a protostar
So your argument that China has been engaging in free trade with the US up to this point and we have no valid concerns?
I don't believe in the ideologies of the time, call me a doubting thomas that the human race is actually intelligent. I know too much about how human beings and corporations actually function to believe in free market mythology.

See here for if you want more acedemic take:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

There are all sorts of things wrong in reality with how capitalism actually functions. The reality is most people are too irrational and too stupid for any market to function as a "market". The videogame "market" is a perfect example. For the first 20-30 years of PC game history, we were getting good software for a fair price. Then the masses got internet and shit went sideways.

AKA people started buying software they didn't own, nor control, giving super powers to corporations to extort them and engage in all sorts of abusive practices and raise prices astronically because the internet now gave them access to people with addictive tendencies and impulse control problems 24/7 and in order to gather the worlds evolutionary unlucky regarding gambling addiction all games now have microtransactions.

I watched my hobby be destroyed, my software robbed and my os infested with dishonest code because stupid got internet. Before the internet Microsoft and game companies had no incentive undermine software ownership because it was impossible to do so.

The market for videogames today is a market for lemons, a total shit show of broken games, stolen games, etc. Because a rational game buyer would never buy a piece of software that a corporation controlled.
This perspective really bothers me— I’m sure I’m not the only one. It seems to presume that the current state of affairs, where the police lack some ability to access some of the evidence which is in principle available, is a novel situation demanding of a novel response.

But, like, it’s not like the original ratifiers of the Bill of Rights didn’t understand what they were doing. They _knew_ that by outlawing common law enforcement practices like arbitrary searches and coerced confessions, they would be giving up some of their ability to “punish” certain types of “criminals”. They got that it meant they couldn’t listen in on a man’s conversation with God. That’s the deal they struck to try to form a country governed by laws, not by men.

It really seems like it’s not such a new situation, after all; we just have new values.