skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantum Immortality. Basically, if you keep splitting and you make an assumption like "My perception of the world is relative to me", then when a split causes you to die you don't really split - because you must ignore branches where you don't exist.

So then your view always follows the branching path where you live and you should expect to live 1M years from now. If there is only one world you shouldn't expect that.
Dear God, that movie was awful.
Does the magnitude of the field wave drop at some fixed shape (like an exponential)?

Is the wavelength fixed? Is it in meters?

Is it the field of a proton made up of multiple frequencies/modes?

Is a proton’s influence on fields extend to all space or is there a point (within the hubble sphere) at which a proton does not influence fields at all?
I stand corrected except that your quote doesn't seem to be from the law as it was passed.

Looks like the final changes to the code exempt doctors, insurance brokers, securities brokers, and sales people under certain conditions. Far less of a carve-out than I was expecting.
>"The US public does not want this, though"

Could you share some data that supports this? Polls I have seen show that a majority of Americans support expanded health care coverage.[1][2][3] There is some division howwever on whether that is best done via Medicare For All or a regular single payer system.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/03/most-contin...

[2] https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer...

[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/13/more-americ...
What do mean by score? Do you mean HN karma?
"Random Walk Down Wall Street" is somewhat outdated and a lot of the evidence from behavioural finance doesn't really support its central thesis. It's more dogma than anything.
Obama is the equivalent of a SWE candidate that only studies Leetcode and interviewing tactics.

People thought everything else (e.g. the substance of the job) would be on the level of his oratory skills, but it turned out he was just some guy that knew how to get votes.
If NCAA exits CA because CA bans the NCAA's behavior, where is the discrimination?
That, and being caught between the superpowers of the post war era.
I mean those are all costs you should factor in but don't have to pay or are somewhat opaque (eg: depreciation). Drivers can go without health care and gamble on the insurance rider. Then the only paid costs are vehicle maintenance.
Okay, let’s do the math buddy. Let’s assume the null hypothesis (the market) has a mean return of 10% and vol of 10%. RenTec’s Medallion Fund has made 80% annualized return before fees in the last 20 years. Assuming the market is a random walk (it’s not), the chance of RenTec making >50% (I don’t think they’ve ever made less than that in 20 years) every year for 20 years is...

3.486 x 10^(-91)

The actual probability is a lot smaller btw.

Why do people keep posting this tired argument over and over? It’s not true. There’s no evidence that it is true. The math strongly suggests (see above) that you can beat the market.
Knowledge of a bank account number is sufficient to attempt to debit it. Whether it will appear to succeed or not depends on the bank and a variety of factors. Regardless of whether it initially successes, it is (very) reversible.

There’s a lot of technical nuance here which I’d ordinarily geek out on but don’t quite have the time to today.
Two axioms for small investors:
1. You can’t make money by day trading.
2. Technical analysis is bunk.
I have seen very many cars with both Uber and Lyft stickers on their windshield, is that still going to be allowed under the new regime?
> The fact that we observe interference patterns shows that the wavefunctions are real.

well, not quite - remember that what we actually observe for a given particular event is something that looks like particle that is localized in space.

If you're referring to the double slit experiment, the interference pattern emerges as a property of the whole collection of individual photon strikes. Yes, you need to use the wavefunction to calculate where the photon is likely to land, but each individual photon strike appears to us on the target as a single localized photon.

Whether wavefunctions are "real" is a tricky question, but just the presence in interference patterns doesn't get us to answer that question yet.
They got arrested because $120k was deposited incorrectly and they spent it. Once the bank called them, they continued spending it.

If the couple had left it in their account and returned it when asked, there would not have been an issue.
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This is another reason individual day traders lose - it's a zero sum game and in liquid markets you are competing against outfits like RenTec.
Very nicely written!!! Awesome illustrations. It is a fascinating read of GUI architectures as author goes on connecting all the disconnected dots of the history!!!
I honestly couldn't read past the third paragraph. Yawn.
A few years ago, the IRS came after Boris Johnson, then the mayor of London, now the PM, for taxes on the gain from the sale of his house in London. He was born in NYC, you see, making him an American citizen. He ended up paying the tax and renouncing his US citizenship.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/02/15/savvy-lon...
It's not clear to me how 2FA would help against a phishing attack. Is there something I'm missing?

My understanding is that 2FA helps protect against weak passwords and password leaks. That's it. If you give me your password via a phished site, then you'll also just as readily give me your 2FA code. Then I can log into your account and turn off 2FA, generate new login codes, or just keep the login session running indefinitely.

How does 2FA help prevent any of that?
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Your words do nothing to counter the argument of the comment you were replying to. The fact that the vast majority of the documents leaked were completely unrelated to domestic surveillance is as strong an indicator as we can get that he was specifically trying to damage the NSA, and any claims otherwise are PR.
And that's better than even Google's own devices. Old Nexus models don't get patches any more.
Welcome to 1999 :-) Or China 2010 or so. It almost feels like there are people who look at these events, figure out who made the money, and then work to recreate them in a new environment where they can be in the position to make all the money.

My experience from the dot com day trading frenzy was that there were three kinds of investors;

Those that had no clue and just followed a bunch of investment "tip" sources and did what ever was the investment of the day (these people were essentially gamblers, and like gamblers were up one day and down the next, only to eventually bottom out).

Then there were the folks who had read up on how the markets worked, maybe taken a finance class or two, and read a bunch of Morningstar reports on various funds and their strategies and tried to create some sort of meta strategy that was a mix of the funds they found impressive. These people had good days and bad days and over the course of a couple of years basically matched the S&P500 or other widely diversified stock indexes in gains. What I learned from them is that if the market in general is up 9% and you're up 10% you are only doing slightly better than the market, even though you feel like "hey I'm getting 10% a year, I'll double my money in 7 years!"

Then there were the very serious folks, these folks read annual reports and 10-Q statements and prospectuses. They kept a databases of people who were executives, board members, and advisors of different companies. They consumed four or five different regional news streams (usually London, Tokyo, New York, Chicago, and Washington) They kept indexes and stock price histories in their own databases and mapped current events to stock motion. They broadly characterized every stock they watched closely by who managed the entity, what markets it was most effected by, and least effected by, and what government policies could help or hurt it. I'm sure if they could afford a Bloomberg Terminal subscription they had one of those too. They did well for themselves but they invested 80 hours a week into doing well.

Not surprisingly there are lots of people in the first group, fewer in the second, and fewer still in the hard core group. I personally see myself in the second group, and over the years my own portfolio has done slightly better than the market.

A unique strategy one person I knew took during the dot com bubble was to convert gains into "things" on a regular basis. At one time he had about a dozen different Porsche sports cars, two houses, and some acreage in the Livermore valley that he rented out as a vineyard. He did pretty well selling that stuff to recover losses from the crash.
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Seems odd that every picture of Edward Snowden shows one of the nose pads on his glasses missing.
> Isn't financial services ike the posterboy of the British economy?

pre-brexit it was, anyway :) Moving forward remains to be seen...
This is true for every physical object though. You cannot tell me with perfect certainty the width of a ball of tungsten, because the edges aren’t actually rigidly defined. In fact: it doesn’t really have an “edge” the way you might think of it geometrically. Just a boundary across which forces start interacting with each other.
I think the administration screwed up massively in more ways than one.

- They conducted illegal, and most likely ineffective surveillance. I mean, if they have as huge watchlists as it is claimed, they can't reasonably watch very closely.

- A subcontractor named Snowden, managed to leak a lot of secret stuff. And while it is the most memorable instance, it is not the first serious leak.

- They failed at damage control. The couldn't cover up, discredit, etc... While there is a debate on whether Snowden is a hero or a traitor, no one seem to question the truth of the leaks themselves.

- They couldn't catch Snowden, or found a way to get him to come back home. He is now with the Russians.

Being a believer in the Hanlon's razor, my hypothesis is that the NSA has become a bloated administration. Focused more on their budget and jobs than national security. Massive surveillance is just a way to keep them busy. Snowden's leaks and their aftermath actually tell two things: the extent of surveillance, and incompetence.
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Progress gets made by people imitating what other people do and then modifying it. If this gets labeled as cultural appropriation then we should just stop any kind of progress. I am sure Keaton got his inspiration from predecessors so he is probably an appropriator too.
The benefits of using googles internal tools isn’t what this paper is mainly about though. They do benefit from it but much more of the paper is explaining how extremely careful caching and having a deep control over the file format allows them to do things insanely fast.

Reading from colossus is only done if it misses the data cache and the data cache has a 90% hit rate. So in effect they’re getting in memory speeds instead of needing to always hit storage.

Otherwise there wouldnt be too much of a difference versus dremel.
This is clickbait and does not belong on the front page of HN. The author says he scraped public profile URLs and names. When you make your profile on social websites public, then you have chosen to...make them public. He then claims he has emails from LinkedIn, but those emails are from an old data breach, and he even admits that the emails are limited to those found in a 2012 data breach.

Finally, the title of this article says he did this for “fun and profit”. By the author’s own admission, the “profit” part is missing here. He claims the company “...went out of business without getting funding”.

So in other words, he has access to the main LinkedIn website, found a link to a database from an old data breach, and used to work for a now defunct company. None of that translates to “Harvesting LinkedIn data for fun and profit”.
Yikes! Placing alcohol and tools on the battery like that makes me nervous!
Sorry, typo on my end :-)
An example I’ve used to some effect is payment systems. How we pay for stuff has changed tremendously, and more and more business is done through Venmo/Cash/Apple Pay/NFC/etc. But that transition needed some major infrastructure: first direct transfers through payment systems (eg debit/credit cards) then electronic payment systems. I see transit similarly, and electric cars are like credit cards - a technology that enables a transition.
Question is also, why would people speed read fiction? To pretend that they are well read and can boast thousands of books finished? I read fiction for fun, when the book is good I don't want to finish it too fast.

For technical books, I agree it is possible to skim rather quickly through stuff that I already know with speed reading approach.
The crux of the interpretation is what constitutes an hour of work.

Once the ride starts with a paying client in the car, the hourly earnings are easily above minimum wage.

But what about the time spent logged into the app waiting for a ride? If you take a standpoint that's friendly to Uber, that is not billable time - the driver could potentially be working in other capacity (including doing gigs for direct and indirect competitors, like Lyft, Postmates, TaskRabbit, etc.) If you take a standpoint that's employee-friendly, this is similar to a store register clerk being by the register with no customers in the store - they're still present to perform their duties when necessary and therefore must be compensated.
So, you'd rather drive without a guaranteed minimum wage, possibility for unemployment benefits, or health care benefits? I fail to see how that leaves the driver in a better position.
I drive Lyft and Uber in the SF Bay Area. I'm a retired computer programmer and I need to supplement my income to have spending money. I'm on MediCal which is a great health insurance program and easy to get on if you are low income. I'm actually making really good money driving. When I am smart about knowing when and where to be I can make a too much money even working part time, by which I mean I will disqualify myself for MediCal. After all expenses including auto depreciation (I paid 6000 for a nice little transport car) I make a profit. Now I doubt Lyft or Uber would hire me because of my age. So it goes.
Just throw a bunch of veggies in the microwave, add beans and some sauce, and done no need to eat processed insects.

This idea that eating whole food plant based is hard and time consuming is a myth. Almost every veggie cooks unattended in the microwave in about 10 minutes, potatoes included.
Well Claude Shannon and Ed Thorpe did figure out how to beat roullette. And BlackJack. And then Thorpe figured out Black Scholes and made a killing in the markets trading warrents.

See my above comment about how statistics does not bear out your fooled by randomness theory.
This concept also suggests that brexit is a colossally stupid idea, yet here we are...
Actually most interpretations have the same explanations for the Born rule, it's just that people who study many worlds are more inclined to consider them. People who believe in Copenhagen don't care about this stuff.

For a recent high-quality example: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09348-x
Not directly on topic, but I'm very interested in getting started in audio development. Any good suggestions for resources for someone with a strong math and programming background?
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Do you understand that 'studies' are not necessarily reality? I know the "I fucking love science" crowd has replaced priests with professors, but professors, their data and their logic are also highly fallible.

How about you go ahead and mock up a probability model about how a company like Jump Trading can make 100s of market neutral bets every day for ten years, and end up being lucky to make money on 95% of those days. The probability of that happening due to randomness around a 50% probability on each trade is probably lower than 1 in the number of atoms in the universe.
The Fog of War video game idiom predates both Silent Hill, and every platform it runs on.

I'm not really sure we should be touting the sexism in bust size as bug or feature here. It's mostly just sickening.

Deep Blue making a random move doesn't sound like a bug to me. Certainly not in the usual sense. It seems like a fairly reasonable choice, if no better one is presented.
The reality is closer to:

We have a lot of observational evidence that the equations are very accurate.

But when we put all the mass we know about into the equations, the result of the equation doesn't match our observations.

Since we have a lot of evidence that the equations are very accurate, then it's more likely that there's more mass we haven't accounted for.

(at least for dark matter)
Was gonna say, I remember that being a Gmail Labs feature for a while. I opted in the first time I noticed it in the labs, and I feel like it took a long while to reach the public.
Even as a non-cinemaphile, this channel, and the post-mortem essay, had resonated with me. Both are excellent, both provide far more than insights into a century of cinema, although if that's all that you take from it it's more than worth the time.

I'd commented on the postmortem essay shortly after it was published with some additional thoughts of relevance to my own (very non-cinematic) work:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7hgb24/brillia...

(I'd also submitted the same link, a minute after smacktoward did, full credit to them it's a very worthwhile submission.)
Overdraft fees: depends on your bank’s policies. Many low sophistication bank users will eat fees in this case and not attempt to get them reversed or not successfully convince T1/T2 CSRs to push the button for them.

Words which are close to magic here: “The bank assessed this fee incident to an overdraft caused by an EFT which was subsequently reversed under Regulation E. Will the bank waive this fee for me?” (If you are less in a Dangerous Professional mood or don’t have a hobby interest in banking regulation, my next best suggestion is “Can the bank waive this fee since I’m a good customer?” hear no “I would be disappointed if we can’t fix this, because I have been a loyal customer for years. What can we do here?”
Non-locality is practically axiomatic if you understand Bell's Inequalities, and doesn't require true FTL signalling.

MWI doesn't really solve either the locality or the FTL problem. If you're going to believe in MWI you have to explain how an entire universe appears instantaneously, identical in every way to another universe, except for one almost insignificant difference in exactly one quantum interaction.

That's a rather larger and more serious signalling and information transfer problem than the much smaller-scale non-locality required to explain entanglement.
I'd say a Fairphone is better supported than a Nexus (no experience with Oneplus). For example, the Nexus 5 is no longer supported, even by lineage (https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/hammerhead/), although they do say:

> A build guide is available for developers that would like to make private builds, or even restart official support.

Edit: I should add that although I've already ordered my Fairphone 3 I've not had a chance to actually test it out yet. If anyone is interested I can post a 25 EUR discount referral link?
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> and people entered their own data in the interest of propagating it

To humans, not machines. No one joined LinkedIn to be marketed to by random jabroni's or to be added to a CRM for BS intro emails that don't have opt out links despite being automated.
Does that apply to any property that isn't yours?
Much discussion on this topic relies on popular sentiment and media reporting. The redacted and declassified Congressional report should be considered a primary source and contradicts many common beliefs about Mr. Snowden:
https://www.congress.gov/114/crpt/hrpt891/CRPT-114hrpt891.pd...

The Executive Summary provides a good overview.

In contrast to the Amazon book page that claims he helped "build" the system, it appears he was primarily a system administrator responsible for tasks such as patching and file transfers.
I just clicked that link and all of the projections were aimed up, even if slowed. Current projections still put 11.8 B people by 2100.
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Twitter is the service that accounts are being stolen from. There exists a trivial solution to the problem (stop allowing people to reset accounts via only SMS verification).

As a user, I'm at risk because Twitter is refusing to implement that trivial protection.

I don't care who's fault it is, but it is very much Twitter's problem.
In addition to what the others said, stock trading fees often don't scale with the cost of these stocks. If you're investing with low amounts, these static fees eat up a lot of any potential gains of day trading
We insisted that our bank provide positive pay for ACH. If you are a business you should consider this if you hold large balances. It works very well. Only authorized ACH entities up to authorized limits can debit (or I can set it to notify and someone has to approve each one).
No phone really did Face ID or Touch ID right before iPhone, and multi-touch was basically nonexistent before Apple popularized it.
I personally learned mostly from experiments in Labview.
The Smith book is excellent.
Why do you think my comment was aimed at Americans? The EU has the exact same situation.
The parent post explicitly says they don't have a problem with 3rd parties storing personal information hoovered up from LinkedIn.

The GDPR is very relevant here - restrictions around the storage and processing of personal information is the whole point of it.

While this might seem like a grey area (given the information is public), the GDPR is actually very clear here - you cannot store and process PI without the consent of those individuals.
This seems very obvious.

Machines are taught from flat images. How can they be expected to create 3D from this?

Humans learn from binocular vision, and from multiple angles as we move around an object, making it a lot easier to get an idea of its shape.

My daughter aged 18 months could already recognise abstract signs like the mother and baby or disabled sign just from knowing the real object. Which must say something about the way she stored the representations of them.
> There's a strong argument to be made that the US government did more harm to US citizens during the Cold War than the Soviets ever did. I'd be open to hearing evidence that the NSA was an exception, but you certainly haven't presented any.

What harm do you claim the NSA did to Americans in that time? Their mandate is foreign surveillance, and while citizens do get caught in their net (especially with foreign contacts), it's not their focus.

I can think of a couple, but they seem relatively limited?

a) Surveillance revealing domestic crimes that were prosecuted through parallel construction.

b) American businesses benefiting from NSA intelligence gathering, through politicians passing along information.
Correct - I've heard that's why Doom had so many double doors and sharp corners, to shorten the size / depth / view angle of what would need to be rendered.
Completely agree with you on #2 as well - I'd go further, it sounds like an excuse you make when you wanted to do something but knew it wasn't normally justifiable. If that account is true, it's sad as well as plain sexist.
Yep, due to non-uniform density it's much more complicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth#Depth includes a graphic that shows how it varies.