skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But she can buy lottery tickets without understanding that her odds of a profit are worse than jumping on an ICO? Seems hypocritical to me.

I'm no expert about legal matters. I'd appreciate if someone else can chime in here. But I found this with a brief search:

"To be an accredited investor, a person must have an annual income exceeding $200,000, or $300,000 for joint income, for the last two years with expectation of earning the same or higher income in the current year."

Let's say you're smart but poor. So, even after doing your research, you have to be richer to get richer? Again, seems hypocritical and feels like it does less to protect people.

Now, let's say the SEC develops a test for an accredited investor status. How is the SEC supposed to test that you can assess good business ideas/risk efficiently? Some of the smartest people took bets that seems insanely risky and were considered stupid. I don't think there's a test able to judge this.

As an aside: It would be cool if hacker news could let you attach a flair to your profile for an area of expertise, and then you could request input from people with a specific flair who are also commenting on a thread.
It'd be hilarious due to some universal physics that cannot be understood, the asteroid slams into Earth due to the interference
Flipping the Script on Climate Action
"The thing that I just cannot stop wondering is, why, knowing the perks of industry, advisers still treated us like this."

You can drop "knowing the perks of industry". There's no excuse for doing that under any circumstances, even if there is no industry alternative. I see this in many fields where grad students work in labs and are funded by grants. I wish universities would clean it up. There's simply no excuse for it. There's nothing about being in grad school that makes this behavior okay.
"Not necessarily". The following comment was a very useful qualification.

For reference, I was a philosophy major, and at no point would I have considered myself qualified to opine on the quality of current philosophy. Similarly, a close friend who was a physics major has now completed a postdoc in a subfield and still hesitates to make sweeping statements about the state of "physics."

And lest anyone is left with the wrong impression, criminologists are not running much of anything in the administration of criminal justice in the United States.
Tanner’s blog (Scholar’s Stage) has been mentioned a few times on HN over the years but this is the first time I’ve noticed one of the postings. I’ve become a big fan of Tanner’s writing and I encourage anyone interested in geopolitics in general and China’s relationship with the West in particular to read this blog!
anyone in Toronto seeing the naming of this and picture of a dog was probably thrown for a loop because of Sidewalk Labs.....(Alphabet/Google)
I believe they're referring to the reversal of the Flynn effect[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
Ha, I used to do the same as a child when I took part in the yearly charity run. I had to ask everyone in the street to contribute either a fixed amount or an amount per lap - so I made sure to get my parents to sign up for a (relatively high) per round amount as my first sign-ups, then hope the next ones to take part would do the same.
Enough Is Enough by Peak Design – Field Notes
This isn't just an issue about fabricating a research paper, it also represents an enormous failure of the peer review process. 2 or 3 reviewers is common, and yet none of them pushed back on any of the issues presented here. And yet when others took a look the issues became apparent. It's hard not to come away from this with the idea that the system is broken. I also don't understand why some level of sharing anonymous data isn't a requirement for all research. If replication is a cornerstone of scientific research, the very first piece of replication should be obtaining the same results from the same set of data.
Climate Neutral Certified
> So what to do with that?

Negative feedback is the only form of valueable feedback. If you want to make your software better you should listen to negative feedback. Of course negative feedback often comes with emotional baggage but you should be above that kind of thing. The right strategy is actually to ignore positive feedback (because it is mostly worthless) and ask the people that give you negative feedback for more specifics and to be more precise about what they don't like.
Still worthwhile in my opinion! But full disclosure, I happen to be working on ray tracing problems.

Writing them is still really fun, it’s no less useful today for learning things than it was 20 years ago. You can get amazing pictures with not very much code, and the algorithms are really satisfying to understand & implement.

There are also still tons of low hanging fruit. You’d think the easy problems would be mined out by now, but they’re not. New developments are actively happening with intersection primitives, color handling, sampling, direct lighting, shadowing, the list goes on. If you want to do research, you don’t have to dive that deep to find something unsolved that is solveable.

For an oblique cone intersection, I don’t know the right answer, but the oblique cone is a skew transform of a regular cone, right? You might be able to use a regular cone intersector, but pre-transform the ray by the inverse skew transform?

This resource is fantastic for finding intersection building blocks and code examples: http://www.realtimerendering.com/intersections.html
I'd be OK with just part of their email or something, or only first or last name (but never both, or switched). It should only be 1 bit of information that if it looks off it would alert someone that the link has been compromised.

On the other hand I feel like Google Docs does the same thing.
IIRC (struggling to find a source), Thomas Lipton was the guy who formalized the tea-leaf grading process for Western Europe. The "legend" goes that back in the day, all of the imported tea would be dumped onto the floor of a particular room. The first round of tea producers would come and extract the full, unbroken tea leaves for top-shelf tea. The next round of producers would extract the broken leaves for mid-grade tea. On and on.

Finally, what was left would be the tea leaves that had been so crushed, broken, or pulverized that they were little more than a tea dust. This is what Lipton would then sweep up to make Lipton tea.

Which is to say, Lipton knew what he was doing. He went for the cheapest stuff possible. And that's what you get.
> Vovnenko first came onto my radar after his alter ego Fly published a blog entry that led with an image of my bloodied, severed head and included my credit report, copies of identification documents, pictures of our front door, information about family members, and so on.
As am I.

Plenty of legitimate voices advocating for public good, let's say as an example, get swept up in these attempts to better centralize and manage information.

That's not a good thing.
This seems to have the same function and purpose as Rosetta Code, although styled somewhat differently.
Sarcasm or not...these alleged "baby bottles" date to well after the end of the paleolithic era.

It would be like a future civilization digging up a modern plastic baby bottle and saying that will really piss of the then current practitioners of a paleo diet.
3x to 4x depending on col. Grad student stipends are only 30k, sometimes lower

ML isn't much higher paid than standard engineering, but new PhDs from top schools who would've been competitive faculty applicants tend to get jobs at top paying firms and enter toward the top of the non-executive ranks.
But to expect continuous growth in a finite system is naif, even accounting for optimization and reuse. As an example, a mass of x humans will still need x*1500 calories a day at least; the bigger x, the bigger the strain on the planet.
I think the main issue here is the public face they try to maintain (we're a changed company, tech bro' dude culture is now erradicated, we take security very seriously, etc ad nauseum) with what they are really pulling off in the back end.

Namely the exact same shit that they always did.

Do they still charge $1 "security" surcharge, which Uber actually just pocketed?
- "I managed to strip 60kg off my race car"

- "Wow, how did you manage that??"

- "I just emptied the gas tank!"
Why Edward Snowden thinks U.S. Congress will support the whistleblower
Reminds me of my alma matter, South Harmon Institute of Technology.
Types of Project Risks
The problem will be solved very soon, the new Chromium based Edge has an IE mode.
Wasn’t Shanghai famous for getting really good PISA scores, that being the richest city in China?
The field doesn't look great. But in most corners there is serious concern, e.g., http://grumpy.skardhamar.no/2019/09/25/the-former-flagship-j...

From that post: "I do not have any solutions to the systemic problems here, but improvements should be easy. Criminology as a field has to improve in terms of making data available with full documentation and reproducible code. That would make errors detectable sooner."

Anyone not agreeing with this needs the boot.
Same: in 1981 our SAT "prep" was literally two sentences one morning: 1 - there will be little bubbles you need to fill in and you must use a pencil and 2 - some statistical strategy concerning guessing. Everybody took the test only once; I don't remember any efforts to game the system.

But that in itself points out the advantage: the test was basically designed to reflect the level of instruction my school already gave. If you don't get that from your school (or believed you don't) you would have resorted to additional study and the like.

Likewise back then there weren't "AP" classes and the like: if you wanted to take the AP test you could but there were no special arrangements at my school.

I don't know how much things might have changed: my kid's SAT prep in 2017 was simply to purchase the book but not open it. On the other hand there's a whole apparatus of AP infrastructure with special "AP" classes, different scoring for those classes(!!) etc. AN enormous kabuki of infrastructure that as far as I can tell signifies nothing.
Microsoft bans CCleaner from its support forums
Siri will likely always be a weak point for Apple. By trying to charge almost as much for its earbuds as Apple though, I don’t see Amazon having tremendous success. Brand, device interoperability, battery life matter much more IMO than voice activated AI.
Man alive, all I want is a folder that syncs. That's all. I understand that Dropbox is a business and blah blah blah ...

so what are my alternatives if I literally only want:

- a folder that syncs on my devices

- the ability to share a folder with others

- cross-platform
> Does anyone here actually use voice control commands in public...

I often wonder about this too. I intentionally avoid any voice commands in public as I find them distracting - even awkward as you mention. Talking to a computer as a means of input to me still feels strange, although I understand the many uses (cooking instructions with messy hands for example). I would feel really awkward asking Alexa to perform a task while waiting in a line at the bank though. I recently purchased a Google Home mainly for music in the kitchen while cooking and I still find it difficult to talk to it.

On a side note, with the growing popularity of the Alexa devices, I wonder if we are going to start seeing the "Alexa, <do something>" commands affecting other devices to the point of ruining these devices all together. Imagine sitting in a coffee shop making a command and several other people have these devices (in close proximity). I know TV shows/commercials/radios have already set off these devices in the past.
> Around 130 international banks, all present at the UN climate change summit in New York, have committed themselves to decrease their support and investments in the oil and gas sector...

Edit: If you want an action you can take then change your pension fund to an ethical one that doesn't invest in companies that do harm.
I'm willing to bet that IF this happens it'll amount to a lot of companies just including something like this on every page:

<?PHP echo(file_get_contents("http://google.com/nefarious_crap.html")); ?>
It sounds like there is no free lunch, so he paid for the lunch and it tasted just fine.
> Let's assume for simplicity that the radius of the Earth is 5000 km, and the black hole is moving at 1000 km/s.

You are assuming the stuff near the surface is being pulled up, but the stuff under that isn't being pulled up, so rocks are 'flying away from the earth and towards the black hole'. In reality the only net force you can 'feel' from gravity is due to tidal forces, so this would have an effect more like 'squeezing' the earth and the energy would be spread throughout the entire interior. For an earth-mass black hole, however, the difference in acceleration between something 1000km away and something 2000km away is still stupidly high (about 30g), so your assumption is correct!

But generally, this is my point. A slow moving black hole is going to rip the earth apart, a fast moving black hole is 'less dangerous' because it just punches a hole and keeps going, with almost no interaction with the earth, even though that is counter-intuitive. Yes, things would get pulled away from the surface of the earth, but they would only feel that pull upward for a very, very short amount of time, not long enough to be substantial. A small black hole, say the mass of a meteor or something, might go through the earth and not even be noticed, it's far less dangerous than a meteor of the same mass would have been.

A fast moving black hole isn't 'nearby' very long, it would go from far away to far away in microseconds.

However, as the mass gets large enough, the dynamical friction on the black hole is so large that it leaves behind significant kinetic energy by melting a hole through the earth, no matter how fast it is going. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_friction

If you neglect dynamical friction, as far as I know an earth mass black hole could potentially go right through the earth and we wouldn't have to worry so much, but it depends on the specific path it takes since it could still disrupt the Earth's orbit.
Just read the tweet. It's not just any user. It's everyone on the internet.
Tactical Investment Algorithms
In this case it is useful to carefully read what I have said and to take stock of the definitions. "Illegal hate speech" is currently defined as inciting violence or hatred against specific people based on some characteristics. In the larger context which I have mentioned, there is a correspondence between various EU multi-national and national governmental agencies, hundreds of NGOs and "The IT Companies"(Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, etc..) that establishes more specifically how these rules are implemented in the context of "hate".
Is your biodegradable tea bag biodegradable? (2011)
I personally am really pessimistic -- cynical, even -- and you kinda don't want to hear my answer. I admire people who are trying and feel it's worth trying to understand their tactics and strategy. Of necessity that means non-rational arguments to appeal to non-rational people, so that means there might be a rationale to be learned.

As I said, I doubt it. But it's just as well that somebody is trying, if that's how they wish to spend their time.
I don't think it's the porn. I think there are underlying issues that you haven't mentioned and might not even be aware of. My suggestion is that you start by not buying into the addiction narrative. Instead of telling yourself you're "addicted to porn", tell yourself that you're using porn as a coping mechanism, and that this is counterproductive.

I'd also suggest seeing a therapist who uses cognitive-behavioral therapy and other evidence-based methods, if you can afford to do so or have decent health insurance.

Whatever you do, avoid twelve-step programs. There's almost no evidence for their efficacy, and the success rate is no more than %10.
That's surprising. I went there recently, and you aren't permitted to bring any electronic devices whatsoever - you have to leave them in a locker and then take a ~30 minute bus ride to the telescope.

They're also very strict about checking: you have to go through two different x-ray machines to check you didn't sneak any electronics through.
Given their leaked transcripts wherein their editor states their one purpose was to takedown Trump, they're clearly a propaganda outlet.

It is very much a pot / kettle situation.
Generally correct; however also wrong in this specific instance. The article also clearly limits scope to Europe, specifically modern-day Bavaria. And therefore uses the specific and appropriate terms "Neolithic", "Bronze Age", and "Iron Age". As Wikipedia calls out [0]:

"The terms "Neolithic" and "Bronze Age" are culture-specific and are mostly limited to cultures of the Old World."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_prehistory#H...
> couldn't find original blog post

When match.com bought them a number of posts about the inner workings, along with any posts that were critical of paid dating sites, were quickly taken down, and they took some effort to chase down exact copies hosted elsewhere and demand they be taken down too.
Cool project.

I'm a bit reluctant to trust the quality of this, however.

The first example I looked up was "Format date YYYY-MM-DD" in Python, which wanted me to use "isoformat()", which produces something else.

It was easy to correct, but I'd like to see a more "democratic" approach to getting correct examples, not just taking the latest one as fact.

edit: Sorry, more precise critique of the usage of "isoformat" would be "which _might_ produce something else" (it depends on the resolution of info in the date object).
It seems weird to initiate something as radical as a total political realignment of your country on the basis of a 2% win margin, particularly when you don't actually have a concrete plan for how you're doing it (and when no majority of the pro-Brexit voters seem to support the actual plans that have been proposed.) The total failure of your politicians to complete this project after several free and democratic parliamentary elections seems to me to be a reflection of that fact, rather than some kind of weasel.

>If Remain had won by a similar small margin, do you think we would have been using those words to acknowledge some moral failure of our victory?

Not really -- preserving your existing trade relationships doesn't seem like the kind of thing that requires an overwhelming majority.
The Shanghai results are quite controversial, not only in terms of accuracy but whether they might skew Chinese results significantly.

Not being in the field (and not really caring much about it TBH) I don't know how to evaluate the controversy or even its legitimacy.
> You've calculated that a year of energy consumption is equivalent to the kinetic energy of the atmosphere moving at 14m/s.

> This says nothing about how energy flows through the system, which is what will determine the impact on wind speeds.

shrug

I'm not gonna teach you guys high school physics. You can look up E = (1/2)mv^2 in any Physics textbook or your favorite search engine.

Before you disagree further, try calculating this yourself. Look up how to calculate the final speed of an object from kinetic energy. Make sure you plug energy units (i.e. joules) into E and power units (i.e. watts) into P. This isn't hard math, and the necessary equations are all over the internet.
The Earth has already swept it's region of the solar system clean with prior collisions causing the mass extinctions.

There are not an infinite amount of asteroids, and in large time frames you can reduce their numbers. Therefore, we have a large hit once a century. Large, but largely inconsequential (The Earth is empty. Try this: Pick random coordinates and look them up on a map. Repeat. How long before you end up w/ 10 km of an inhabited area?)

Theories are infinite, funds are not. This is an ineffective solution (we can only deflect small and well predicted orbits) to an unlikely problem: mass extinction from asteroids hasn't happened in a very long time (millions of years) -> Bayesian inference -> very low probability of occurring soon. It will happen. But in a millions years

Compare that with the plethora of reasons we might die out in the next 10, 20, or 100 years.
Even if some people stop having kids to help the environment, billions of people will continue to have kids either because they dont know, believe, or care about the implication. No one is advocating "drop the population to 10M."
I was assuming you were driving the car, as that’s what you said.

I inferred you were on a public road. If you weren’t then I apologise.
A sprinkle of Clojure for the command line
Uber is rotten to the core, support their competitors and ostracize their employees.
There are easy statistical methods to still get useable data from something like this. Average is just the average.
China Slips in Its Rush to Embrace Electric Vehicles
I really don't understand, especially given the risk of being found out, why someone would go through all of the trouble to fabricate research like this. With a little extra effort it should be possible to produce legitimate research. Heck, even if you're results are negative you can write the research and say "Results here showed no significant difference on the question of X. However there is a need for further research, and these results simply represent the first step along that path" blah blah blah. It's really not that hard!
And yet multiple elections later you seem unable to deliver the results. Is this because your parliamentary elections are less democratic than your referendum?
The physics of irony :)
> How you attract the men to your platform is up to you...

Women. Period. If you have women, then men will come. And they'll jump through absolutely every hoop and hurdle to do so.
I gave this advice to my local Subway, which was open at 7am for breakfast but everything else in their little strip-mall opened later. The place looked deserted, and I was often the only customer.

"Park in front in the morning, then move to the back before lunch, it'll make the place look busy"

From that week forward, there were often other customers when I stopped in for breakfast. Manager said breakfast business had easily doubled. I got a bunch of free subs out of that deal. ;)
This looks really cool. I worry that apple will push a system update that breaks AltStore in some way - it seems fragile. That said, I think iOS sorely needs competition in app stores. There are open source apps that aren't available through Apple's store because they violate some guidelines (thinking of Kodi formerly XBMC, "true" Firefox based on gecko, not webkit). But that's just what I want out of it.

On a side note, I wonder what state apple's app store is in with regards to antitrust. It seems like a no-brainer that the app store is monopolistic given that Microsoft couldn't get away with bundling internet explorer with Windows. Maybe AltStore will be Apple's ticket out of some future lawsuit.
Would be great for the hoards of "self taught" programmers out there, who bluntly refuse to understand patterns (design or programming).
3 keys to unlocking a healthy goal setting
>Activism is threatening value destruction for all, not only the environment.

how can you draw a distinction. destroying your environment is destroying yourself. does existing not have value?
Maybe something like a self-hosted NextCloud/OwnCloud? Although integration into the operating systems is not as good as with Dropbox, I completely switched to a self-hosted NextCloud and everything works fine without bloat.
No, being abused by someone is not valuable and even very mature, confident people find it hard to handle emotionally. Negative feedback is helpful if presented politely or neutrally. Otherwise the form destroys the value of the content. (And by the way, positive feedback can be very valuable as well.)