skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Regarding “expressing subject (or agent) with verb conjugation”: this should just translate straightforwardly to an implied subject.

Yes you can express any set as a tree (in fact as many possible trees) but if different possible tree representations of that set are equally as valid - then the tree structure isn't really there, it's just an arbitrary interpretation imposed on the data.

If a sentence A B C can be reordered to any permutation, and some parts can be dropped without changing the meaning - then what lets you decide that the proper representation is this tree:

.
/ \
A .
/ \
B C

and not this:

.
/ \
. C
/ \
A B

And if any of these is as valid as any other - why insist that the underlying structure is even a tree?

Another hint that these kinds of interpretations are wrong is that most succesfull NLP software typically uses word vectors which ignore the tree-like structure and just treats the data as unordered set :)

To understand a sentence it is more important to know all the words in it, than to know how they are nested. Even for analytical languages like English :)
I use brave it seems to work great
None of this is accurate. Keep in mind that he's talking about something he doesn't know.
I'd much prefer something like this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4383146/

Color and psychological functioning: a review of theoretical and empirical work
Well, that would function as a seed round. And having a breakthrough would mean it’s proprietary. Aka you didn’t buy it at the hobby store. If you have a prototype demonstrating a breakthrough that’s enough imo. I can only recall Oculus from kickstarter and it has been fairly successful
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> I'm criticizing the false equivalency you made of taking someone through a rule-of-law process and treating them fairly in adjudicating whether a crime was committed, vs. execution in political retaliation

Dude if you can't see that the Meng process was 100% political chess moves then I am not sure what more I can say. Yes it's "rule of law" - "laws" passed specifically to facilitate this chess game. By the USA. You keep on accusing me of all sorts of apologetics and false equivalency and bad faith but that is just not true. I guess I can only give my personal word on that. I am a dispassionate outside observer for all of this shit and have no dog in this race.

Your point about the high conviction rate in China is naive. This is an asian thing. Police in China (and elsewhere in Asia) talk out cases before making an arrest, trying to solve problems extrajudicially. It's not comparable to the West. When they do charge someone, it's because they are absolutely certain - Japan's is also 99%. That does not mean the system is corrupt. It is a different approach.

> they could just as face execution

Let us make a bet, you and I, as to whether Mr Airsoft is executed. $1000 says no. You in?
I don’t think I ever meant “there will be an imminent ice age” rather “normal ice age cycles will stop with current CO2 levels.”

https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-why-we-wont-be...
Can substitute airplanes[0] and computer games/graphics[1], though if we have to be that pedantic I found a couple names[2] in the history of satellites section of wikipedia that don't seem to have formal education beyond a military technical school.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#Early_career_a...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack#Early_life

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Poto%C4%8Dnik
I presume you are referring to this sort of thing: http://grotto11.com/blog/slash.html?+1039831658

It is perfectly within spec to send data on a half-closed TCP connection, from the other end. That is exactly what the shutdown(SD_SEND) socket call is for. It signals the stack to send a FIN so that the other side can send data but knows to not expect more.

They were probably implementing a version of HTTP 1.1 (before it became a formalized standard) that did not break existing clients (or servers) but speeded up theirs.

BTW, I find it hard to believe IIS was sending more data after sending a FIN. Let's just say I worked in the vicinity of the Windows networking org in those days.

I know it's not a popular history to believe among the SV crowd, but Microsoft in those days would bend over backwards for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors, or companies that wrote software for Windows) if they just whispered "your products are using undocumented APIs that I don't have access to". Regardless of whether that claim was true or not, they would work overtime to dispel the notion.

The were just getting put under the anti-trust microscope, with a consent decree signed in 1994 and a bigger suit was obviously coming soon.

Of course, when google does something similar with QUIC/SPDY, it's the second coming of Christ. Definitely not a way to boost their browser/core business.

edit:typos
If it is voting contest then I am afraid we will end up with reality shows like Kardashian pretending to be working on idea.

Maybe requirement should be voting on projects have to be anonymous. Public cannot know projects owner completion of funding rounds
I have several friends who have had their cats stolen in Oakland in the last year. Hondas and Toyotas mostly. One friend had his cat stolen from his Prius three times in one year. He's sold the Prius now.
> but I'd still want a source on that

Why don't you commence a formal inquiry, analyze the complete discussion history, acquire a sworn statement from Centril and report your findings here?

It seems weird to get so hung up on the word inspired... but I'm looking forward to the report!
I agree. The article is generally lacking demographic data. Are younger, better educated, more productive people moving from red to blue districts? Is the share of the population living in the red districts shrinking? There are a lot of open questions.
That is the convention for the US. These pillar footings are commonplace for decks. Which is what this structure essentially is: a deck platform with an expensive tent.
Some more information on the subject:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-18/china-e-c...

https://bitterwinter.org/bans-on-shipment-of-goods-imposed-t...
i have this unpopular opinion that a lot of design advice - like much of psychology - is a bunch of p-hacked pseudo-science.

i've had to sit through enough corporate branding meetings with agencies to select adjectives that describe companies and mission statements. the aura of importance is palpable. invariably, every company ends up with some form of "trustworthy reliable innovative and customer-focused.", but it takes 5 meetings and 4 c-levels to arrive at the exact ordering. i just bring the popcorn now.

> (round shapes are more trustworthy & straight sharp edges are more striking)

so they have proven that round shaped designs result in what? better lifetime value? higher customer retention or aquisition?

the adjectives assigned to colors are hilarious

> Yellow – Happy, Friendly, Warning

so, both friendly and warning. or is that a typo and they meant Warming? and the CAT logo is there - a heavy industrial equipment mfg? yes, the CAT color is appropriate because it matches a yellow construction sign. and most of the crap that mcdonalds produces is some shade of deep fried yellow-orange. they're appropriate colors but imo have questionable connections with warmth/friendliness.

most of this advice is dubious at best. it's like the apt statement about advertising spend, "half of it is wasted, i just don't know which half"

/rant
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It should come down to a measurable function
I don't pretend to know the numbers, but my guess is that Survivorship Bias might account for that to a substantial amount. I just can't imagine that there are people with glass bowls that good to make consistent alpha over the long term.
We have similar system in Russia. The votes are counted after closing the polling stations, and the result table is signed by election commitee members and signed copies are given to candidates' representatives and observers. Later the results for every polling station are published on the Internet. Also we have cameras that stream the video on the Internet in real time.

Of course this system still allows falsifications. But it is still better than any electronic system because the violations are easily noticeable.
Unnecessary article piggybacking on Jenkins, unless Gitlab fears something.
You’d be surprised how much of medicine is not evidence-based but rather eminence-based.

A lot of current practices have been found to have no evidence to back them up and are still prevalent in the medical industry
Everyone can’t have access to capital. It’s a scarce resource. The study of economics is literally the study of the allocation of resources. If you distributed wealth completely equally across the world. It would take long before the world looks exactly as it does now. Some people make bad decisions and would lose it. Others would have it stolen. Others would be frugal and accumulate, and other would be bold and become extremely rich. Once that happens, do we strip it all away again and start over? Life isn’t a Monopoly game where we get to reset the board each time someone loses.
I see no relation between them and at $30B a year, that’s $10/m per American or smth, so... no?
Known as giants and titans. Even better they still have the look of the old, old school early 20th century £1 notes and fivers.
You might think can I not just remove my last name?, the answer is no you can not!

I'm not the author of the blogpost, but I'm very excited I managed to find a hack for this. If someone now can explain me why this works I'd be interested to hear! - Have a nice day HN
If you have a fixed rate loan, inflation is amazing. It is like free money.

Inflation: bails out debtors, punishes savers

Deflation: punishes debtors, rewards savers
Sell a lot low, deliver less late
It's sad that there is an extremely interesting documentary that could be done about Bill Gates, but all we get is his propaganda.

Gates is turning into a Soros like figure, and there are all sorts of interesting and controversial wrinkles in the story of the man.

Even just looking at the story of Gates's influence at Vox would be interesting, without even trying to make hay of his relationship with Stephen Pinker.

Anyway, Citations Needed did a couple episodes (45 & 46) on Gates that are a good introduction.

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so...
I think this is the kind of thing that you just need to go out and do yourself, at least for the first 5- 10 sponsors.

First, have a clear idea of what you are offering (you can look around at other blogs in the same space and even reach out to them to see what they are offering/charging).

Display ads? Paragraphs in a email newsletter? Links on your sidebar? Job listings? Sponsored blog post?

Then, what will it cost? How long does the agreement run for? Is it exclusive? What happens if two companies in the same market want to sponsor you?

Then, what is the value? How many people visit/read your site each month? What kind of engagement can the sponsor expect? (You'll have a better idea of this after a few times, but I can warn you in my experience you'll get far less engagement than you expect.)

You seem to have a list of ethical companies you'd like to be associated with. If you don't, build that list.

Then see who you know at those companies (LinkedIn). If you don't know anyone, see if you have any 2nd degree connections and ask for an intro.

Then present your offering and your cost to these connections. If you are priced right in the market, you'll sell some sponsorships.
What is unethical about cold-emailing a company? A business is not a person. Conducting business requires open communication, or else no one would ever make money.
The only two extensions I used - AdGuard and Feeder are not working anymore.
That is precisely why it is (potentially) lucrative, too. It’s an awfully tall fence.
9 low GINI states, Utah through Minnesota all have two senators from the same party. There are 6 Ds and 12 Rs.

18 high GINI states, New York down to Arkansas (Alabama excepted) also all have two senators from the same party. There are 16 Ds and 20 Rs.

States with a split Senate delegation tend to be in the middle of the GINI range. States with senators from the same party tend to be at the ends of the GINI range, and at both ends there is only a slight preference for Republicans given that Republicans were in the overall majority.

The average GINI for Democratic Senators is 0.4677, and 0.4619 for Republicans.
> users didn't say a thing

Maybe most users are simply not aware of this? As a Safari user, I did notice that Adblock wasn't working so well lately. I didn't know it has to do with Apple, I just assumed that I had to wait for the next update.
Just use 1Blocker. It works fine. Extensions are battery killers.
Yep, but, as soon as you exit very simple phrases subject/action/object, the approach may become complex to apply in practice, a couple (known) latin (tricky) examples (JFYI):

mala mala mala sunt bona

Soli soli soli
> We've been waiting for the housing bubble to pop a while, but how long must we wait? The longer we do the worse it'll be.

As someone who moved to London far too long ago and has expected some miraculous drop in house prices every time the economy catches a sniffle - stop waiting. It'll never happen. I mean, it may do, but to all practical degrees, house prices will creep upwards forever.

There's no 'right time' to get on the ladder, other than when you can actually afford.

Now all I hope is that I get out of London before I get too bitter about not having simply bit the bullet a decade or so ago.
> Especially in this era of “name your company after a really common daily-use word for maximum confusion and ungoogleability!”.

Don’t forget maximizing the ability to trademark the simple, common daily word and go after anyone using a variant of it when you’re big enough to do so.
It’s nice as I said, but it didn’t impact anything, and most likely never will. Even if the whole internet switched to that, there’s no x10 improvement in anything interesting. Unless you think airplanes are as good as owning your data and not having a few big entities owning the major services (which btw, you’d still have, because the oracle problem is basically impossible to efficiently solve).
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Namedropping ANSI and ISO to back your side in a technical argument, haha, never change HN... or maybe do just a little...
Because Apple doing this transition in a much better way. First they introduce some better system (for ex: content blockers), waiting for it to be successful from user perspective, then replacing old system with this new accepted one.
And how is that enforced? Are we going to arrest people that choose to spend the money developing some far fetched idea at a cantina in Cabo?
Because content blockers are fine for the majority of users, IMO. Of course there will be power users who are buggered, but things like Wipr on iOS and macOS work just fine for blocking ads.

I switched to Wipr on my devices and ads are still blocked, for basic ad blocking it gets the job done easily and quickly.

I also did not join in the Chrome bashing as I personally prefer the "security" of content blockers vs. extensions. (Tho, I trust my goto extension uBlock Origin just fine.)
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Does pihole block Facebook ads on Facebook.com, google ads on YouTube.com?
Both of those problems are well worn and can scale to as many cores as we can put in a single computer.

Whether it is a navier-stokes grid/image fluid simulation, arbitrary points in space that work off of nearest neighbors or a combination of both (by rasterizing into a grid and using that to move the particles), there are many straightforward ways to use lots of CPUs.

Fork join parallelism is a start. Sorting particles into a kd-tree is done by recursively partitioning and the partitions can be distributed amount cores. The sorting structure can be read but not written by as many cores as you want, and thus their neighbors can be searched and found by all cores at once.
For the many regulations in American society, there is usually a dead body buried underneath, possibly many dead bodies, including those of women and children, etc.

For each and every one, someone suffered terribly or died.
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Aren't negative interest rates equivalent to inflation? Both lower the value of savings.

2% inflation and 1% interest rate on savings is the same as 0% inflation and -1% interest rate.

Even getting a -1% mortgage creates inflation, because who sells houses can ask somewhat higher prices and buyers will be able to pay them.
Which west? The one that has legal corruption under name of lobbying? Or the west which has internally, without the need of pescy public's say, elected chair of governance?
You usually can make a prototype of literally anything with less than $10K. Education on the internet is free. And the internet itself is free at any Starbucks.
> people have to spend decades paying back loans and being vulnerable to a drop in house prices

So what if your housing price drops? If you are in for the long term, just ride it out. The risk in a long term loan isn't fluctuating prices, it is income stability. People don't lose homes because their home value drops, they lose them because they lose their jobs and can't afford to make payments.
> Nothing tells people what's going on at a glance better than a bunch of boxes and arrows.

Data structures?
Why is the occupation recorded in the list?
Hahaha, wow! That’s just about the most awful thing I’ve ever heard. If you ever find yourself sitting across a table from an interviewer, I would definitely recommend not including this little tidbit in the conversation.
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Just under $40k, with salvage materials and every cost saving i could scrape up. Place has been assessed 2x - 3x higher and I've been told "If it was a more normal structure it could be worth twice that"... Most people don't want houses with industrial flooring and 900 sqft loft rooms; thats why I had to build :)
>the lines between vision, bullsh*t, and fraud are pretty narrow. I can’t wrap my head around what’s gone on here. Something is wrong. Something stinks.

I had a similar thought a few weeks back. If they're willing to cavalierly expose this craziness in the S1, what else is going on there that we don't know about.
Humor them or talk about something different.
As much as I want to use Firefox more, it doesn't "just work", unlike Chrome.

Every other update it destroys my containers and I have to recreate them. Or it will just stop responding to keyboard input after an update. I have to go in and disable all add-ons, restart and enable them. I get it, add-ons are hard.

I'm just afraid that if I start syncing my bookmarks etc that I do with Chrome, Firefox will destroy them someday and I'll be left spending half a day recovering.

I do want to use it more, but I also need it to just work every time.
Oh I agree, it absolutely is the way to go! If you haven't heard of it, take a look at the Giving What We Can pledge [0].

But most people aren't like you and me. I've had conversations about this with many others, and the most prevalent attitude is the one I described: ask them to buy the more expensive, environmentally friendly product, and they'll decline; ask them whether they would support a law that would require all products to be environmentally friendly, and they'll enthusiastically agree.

If that's how people work, then that's how we have to make policy.
I will give to you toddler picture / teething books. But for every other item on that list “there is an app for that.” Atlases for example don’t compare to google maps.

As to price, Tablets are already going below 50$. Once you start talking about multiple books electronics quickly became cheaper.

PS: Coloring apps can be printed out, which does not save on paper but still develops fine motor skills.
I’m equally shocked by the fact that people value so much fictional piece of papers that are mostly borderline scams. I would exclude from that list only a handful of unis such as oxbridge, mit, Harvard and Stanford
That's the big takeaway I wish more people understood. Health is broken not because of fat cats making obscene profits (although there are a few), but because we're fundamentally doing it wrong.

Its not one guy digging a ditch and charging too much. Its that for every 6 people digging, 5 are racing behind them filling it back in and all of them are charging us for the "service".
I like your question. No answers. Just some thoughts:

For point no2: What created those mathematical laws? Why do they exist? (I realize this isn't your question. I'm just posing it for myself)

And if those laws were to describe all probabilities, and so necessarily capture the point the universe came to exist. Can we also say this explanation is not meaningful because it is equally describing every other probability?

For point no1: I think any argument that explains even its axioms just based on its own axioms would have to feel tautalogical (Which I think is your concern mentioned with point no1). But equally I'm not sure that it is possible to explain the fundamental WHY of the universe just from our experience of the universe. Either we push the unexplained element elsewhere, or we must sound tautalogical

Is that correct?

Eastern beliefs can escape these two points by saying the universe creates itself in a loop. Which still sounds tautalogical

I try to breifly pose some alternatives here [0] that others have had. But I am very simplistic and directly give an opinion, so apologies for that in advance!!

[0] https://tse.gratis/Creative_Snails
I have only read the abstract of this paper so far. But the idea of minimal graphs representing the dynamics of a system goes back (at least) to the work of Jim Crutchfield [http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/] in the '80s.
Yes but he implied that the employer-insured need to pay for both non-employer-insured and uninsured. If his 2/3rd figure is correct we can say it's about 23% in the former and 10% in the latter, but he just says 2/3rd needs to pay for 1/3rd.

If the 23% are already paying, why do they need a subsidy from someone else's employer? I guess there is an affordability issue and rising costs ... but this is true for everyone, even those who mask it by going through their employer.
> Also deflation is the number 1 enemy of central banks and the economy in general.

I've always thought this was a weird claim, put this simply. Consumer electronics and computers have been deflationary for ever: You can always get a better TV, phone, or computer for less money if you are willing to wait for a year. Yet people can't stop buying them. Because they want them enough. Deflation should only hurt businesses producing stuff that customers aren't really interested in.

> businesses that can't go bankrupt (because you can't miss interest payments if there's no interest)

I would expect that on business loans you don't just pay interest, you are also expected to regularly pay back actual fractions of the principal. But I admit that I don't know how this works.

> The poor can't get significant credit so they are forced to finance the "stuff" that the rich own by renting it from them.

I've never understood this angle either. Buying stuff doesn't make stuff appear out of thin air. Buying stuff means buying stuff from the people who already have it, which for valuable things like housing is already the rich. The difference between buying an apartment and renting it is whether I give the rich person 30 years' worth of rent right now in a lump some or slowly over time. I don't see how I "win" against the rich person by giving them my money earlier.