skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rise of private equity siphoning off all gains before they dump it on the public, is breaking the public markets and skimming from all investors.

The idea of public markets was trusted investments and the ability to gain with early companies. Now those gains go to the early private investors, then they shine that turd after the growth is tapped to sucker the public market longs into giving them more runway. Usually once the growth is tapped out they now dump it on the public markets.

But the system still works a bit, public markets and SEC requirements expose fraud and overvaluations.

When the whole of America revolves around the public markets, and so many forces out there trying to break them like private equity shovel companies, naked short selling, short and distort via large hedge funds, planned volatility and more. I wonder when the public markets will break, because that is when America breaks as well. You'd think the SEC would step in more. They are a bit on short and distort [1] and did on naked short selling after the Great Recession (3 day after the Sept 15th cliff) [2]. All of those forces are back with a vengeance.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-190

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-204.htm
Your spouse can homeschool if you make that much.
Yes, from up here in Canada it is astounding to me how much the question "where did you go to college?" means to Americans. During socializing, during hiring, in professional life.

We have universities that are 'better' (for some definition) in various disciplines; but generally a degree from any university is considered good.

And it by no means determines or describes your class position in the same way it does just a couple hours south of me.
Estonian police to offer first-time speeders timeout instead of fines
>your food comes from the rural US and you should keep that in mind before being flippant about their fate

My food comes from the supermarket, get your facts straight.
This image is fake?
El Capitan in 40B Pixels
Aren't negative interest rates deflationary by design?
When an entity already in debt borrows money at negative interest rates the debt will keep shrinking, thus destroying monetary supply.
I absolutely would. One of the best things we can do for poor people - and for the economy as a whole - is getting them physical access to better jobs. If people are trapped in an economically dead area the few grand it would take to support them moving to a more vibrant area is a pittance, especially compared to the cost of bringing jobs and services to rural areas.

I'm absolutely opposed to forcing people to move, but if they want to I have no problem spending a bit to help them.

(For reference I tend libertarian-ish)
We know what it means, but it’s still hard to distinguish at a glance what is quoted and what is not. It works in (plaintext) email because emails are traditionally word-wrapped and “>” is inserted at the start of each line – not once at the start of an arbitrarily long paragraph. And even then, email clients often color quoted blocks to further visually distinguish them.
It varies; they tend to follow to the keys on the early IBM dedicated keyboards with APL keys, styled like this: https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/Business/products/us_r...

Nars2000 on Windows has its own application-specific key combos, with Alt+Key for the "lowercase" one and Alt+Shift+Key for the "uppercase" one.

Dyalog APL, one of the popular commercial ones on Windows, installs a Windows system-wide input method which uses Ctrl+Key and Ctrl+shift+key; you can switch to it in any program.

TryAPL.org uses a preceeding backtick so `w becomes omega, and there's a JavaScript bookmarklet which can add that to any text input on any browser page, here: https://abrudz.github.io/lb/apl

(No idea what people are doing on *nix keyboard entry).
> Yeah, fuck that. I'm not giving up on any of it. Now what? What are you gonna do about it?

Tax.
There's nothing wrong with making text posts to HN as long as they're interesting.
I'm guessing that the issues have something to do with the management structure.

If your CEO is delusional, it's usually possible to reign him or her in... From what I understand, Neumann had some special votes that basically allowed him to fire the board at any point.

I imagine that anyone with a pragmatic mindset willing to ask "wait, but the numbers are..." was pushed out of the picture either explicitly or implicitly by the power imbalance.
From what I've heard and seen of this man:
He hires people who are fantastically smart -- literally best I've ever met in many cases. He pays them astronomically -- not just in finance, but also in his medical research thing, and he is committed to giving them the resources necessary to succeed. He thinks somewhat unconventionally -- that academia and business are too slow, and that a small number of super-talented people can be very very successful.

He's not known for blowing money ostentatiously -- never heard of his yacht/plane/private island/museum wing. Presumably he wants his kids to get the best education possible and to meet the most interesting people that they can, but I'm sure that he has absolutely no desire to give them enough money so that they can turn into the kind of billionaire brats that he detests.
Borges loves exploring these extremes. He also looks at the concepts of singularity and infinity with regard to language in "Undr" and "The Library of Babel," respectively.

In "Undr," the poetry of a society evolves over time to be just a single word that contains all of the meaning and feeling of the poetry that had previously existed in the culture. In this sense, the word is a singularity of meaning that encompasses everything that it aims to. It is superior to less compact representations.

In "The Library of Babel," there is a (near) endless library full of 410-page books that contain every permutation of a standard set of letters on a standard page layout. Despite the glut of information, these books contain every truth of the universe (that could fit inside of one of these 410-page books). They also, however, simultaneously contain every possible version of untruth...

I'm glad I opened this thread. I haven't read the Aleph or the Zahir, but I certainly will now. So much love for his short stories.
Obamacare set rules that require large scale-out to be affordable, especially billing and electronic medical records. This is why so many smaller practices, even in large cities, had no choice but to be absorbed by local hospitals or merge with competitors; they couldn't afford that cost of regulation on their own.

This also means that in areas lacking a certain critical mass of patients, practicing medicine won't make financial sense.
Oh nice find! This is going to be an interesting listen.

Sounds like from the intro blurb that this was potentially recorded in June 2017 and this is a replay of that episode Sep 2 2018.
After this and this [1] I must say I'm in favor of DoH.

I know for sure every major application/game on every device/platform will also hijack DNS queries with their own DoH client and redirect them to their own DNS resolver.

I know for sure that by the time OS implementations are here every application will already have their DoH client built-in up and running for so long nobody will no care anymore.

I know IPSs are just being lazy. I know they will bypass DoH in a couple of months by filtering IPs or deep package inspection or something else.

But is good to see them pissed of once in a while.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20358300
No. It submits the response using AJAX and stays in the website that embeds the form.
I saw the author's name (MG Sieg) and thought it was MG Siegler (TechCrunch, now at Google Ventures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._G._Siegler). MG Siegler was born just a few months after this article was published in 1981, so unless he was publishing in-utero, it was a different person.
What I've observed, very very anecdotally, is that Peloton buyers become emotionally invested, and it turns out that they don't use the thing much, but resist strongly the idea of selling it at a huge loss and admitting defeat. Because buyers tend to have quite a bit of disposable income, it takes a long time to drift down to a market-clearing price.
its disappointing that medical education is reserved for the best and brightest that unsurprisingly want to live in nice places. I have a friend that would love to be a rural doctor but didn't have the grades. They would have probably been smart enough to pass and be a great doctor, but the profession would rather have the highest academic scores.
I don't understand why that is supposed to be a "new understanding". I think it was the understanding all along (or at least most of the time).

Isn't even the famous moth that changed color in the early days of the industrial evolution an example? I think it carries both genes (for black and white expression), and they get triggered depending on the environment during development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution

I could be wrong about the moth, but certainly, genes that are only expressed depending on environment are common knowledge.
Very cool idea.

It's not clear where you're using ML from the site - URLs seem chronological, not ranked on "relevance/importance" and I can't see any relevance/importance indicators.

I'm curious to hear some more detail on how you're encoding your visual diff model?

BTW I ran into 2 issues:
1. You can't zoom out on your image diff slider
2. I got this error when I returned to the site after closing it:
{"crossDomain" : true, "method" : "GET", "url" : "https : //api.fluxguard.com/publi c/site/7f646558-f754-447a -b627-9b5202c8a1f2/page?l imit=10&publicAccount=cam paignmonitor"} Please contact us if this is error is happening frequently for you.
>Any interface that requires full body movement is going to be too draining to use all day

I didn't say the ideal solution should take more effort than a touch screen. In fact, it will take less. Touching and dragging glass takes enormous effort compared to holding a stress ball and twitching your fingers in certain ways to control a computer. The ideal physical interface converts muscle power to "information control" with maximum efficiency.

>people are able to use them one handed for hours on end

Yes, to produce work they could have done in 10 minutes with a keyboard/mouse.
Do you know how coveted any tenured faculty position is? Anywhere, let alone at Harvard?

Harvard could dectuple the number of faculty positions, and still turn away a dozen promising qualified academics for every position it fills.

I didn't go to Harvard, but I did attend a comparable fancy lad finishing school. The notion that there's any sort of magic compared to, say, Texas A&M doesn't hold up to scrutiny. The real difference is that the reputational capital of an Ivy League school. Which means that a bunch of impressive people will bend over backwards to become associated with the school.

Which in turn makes the institution itself prestigious. Which then attracts the next-generation of impressive people. Like a social status perpetual motion machine.
For all the downsides of a touchscreen phone, people are able to use them one handed for hours on end.

But do they achieve more in all of those hours than they could have achieved in only minutes with better input devices and more powerful software?
I think people have a lot of negative emotions towards tariffs because they were implemented by Trump, but I think de-globalizing with a minimally-coersive market solution is a great way to incentivize local production and reduce shipping emissions.
I did drilling :) worked fine if I recall correctly.
You had to spin fast, so it does not crack open the case. Memories indeed...
Because in addition to room/board/tuition, those at military academies are also paid a salary. It's above and beyond cost of schooling, and goes directly to the students instead of to defray education costs. I think that's the "direct" part of "no direct pay".
There is also tensorboardX:

https://github.com/lanpa/tensorboardX
>What I don't understand is how do things get this far down the road before a good old fashioned sanity check happens?

Willing dupes. It's a one-step jackpot if you can handwave all that stuff away, or if it never comes up in the first place.
> As for Adam N, I have to think some part of him knew that it was a bullshit valuation

But that's always the goal: get someone to pay you for somethig more than you think it is worth. And, conversely, they always want to buy it for less than it's really worth. Each side is hoping the other side’s value assessment is BS.
What are the specific requirements? Perhaps there's another way to reduce costs.
Even athletes from sports without any professional outlook at all are hurt by it. I knew people who were on the women's swimming team with zero post-college prospects who couldn't hang out with friends because they weren't allowed to have a part time job to have spending money.

Yeah, the scholarship meant they could go to school, but it wouldn't have anyone (or their "amateurism") if they'd been allowed to work enough to afford a trip to the movie theater once in a while.
Well sure but why would they pay 10x as much as it’s worth? Remember they have already invested $10.5Bn. So they would be paying a grand total of $20.5Bn and what would be their exit strategy from that?
Consulting as a Service.
For sure a lot of people are gonna pass those AWS certifications now.
I don't think you could write a scraper to find the jobs in a couple hours and I don't think it would take a couple hours to reach out to these companies for a partnership. So how do you find the jobs?
I studied for and completed a PhD. I am quite sure it has opened doors for me, allowing me to access more interesting/enjoyable and arguably better paid work. I'm glad I did it.

However, based on what you say I would not recommend you do the same. If you hate the process you may not finish - it's a long and at times demoralising journey, even if you normally enjoy the process. If you don't like reading papers then you may not enjoy the jobs you'll get when you graduate. There are probably better ways to get interesting jobs, for example with an early stage start-up which can't afford to hire someone with a top PhD.
Option 3 is definitely the path of least resistance in terms of long term consequences.

That said, I fully expect the NCAA to aggressively threaten Option 1, then back down when it becomes clear that they'll just lose out on all the revenue of that new league/competing governing body, which would have no trouble growing as schools that don't make a ton via the NCAA system looking for a recruiting edge race to join (a funny subplot for anyone who follows this sort of thing: how fast would SMU race to join a governing body that lets players sell their endorsement?). Then, they'll settle on Option 2, which allows them to do nothing and blame others for the fallout, despite it being the worst of the 3 options for all non-NCAA bureaucracy stakeholders.
> I don't understand how sending your child to those institutions is worth $37 million. Wouldn't it make more sense to give it to them directly, or as funding for one of their ventures?

$37 million on a net worth of $7.3 billion is barely a rounding error.
Coding Machines by Lawrence Kesteloot: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/

Lovecraft meets Trusting Trust.
You absolutely can hire more top talent.
That's not true.[1] After expenses, the "take-home" is minuscule, but they are still salaried members of the armed services.

1 - https://www.usna.edu/Admissions/Student-Life/General-Informa...
I'm not claiming everyone who lives in sprawl does it because they want to, but these people then turn around and support measures that reinforce that, like any regulation that makes driving more safe. You're right though about NIMBY's, but that's why I said "middle and upper middle," as in people who do have a choice and some latitude in their choices. Even if no individual is the source of demand (which is true), in aggregate their demand reinforces the system.
I remember being told this was actually a myth. The manufacturers claimed this to be the case, but the problem was that different systems' drives actually used different sides of the disk, so the disk manufacturers had to verify both sides anyway.
Gamifying a SaaS Product
Just google college athletic divisions.

The g5 and p5 are media constructs (not official) designations to help with ratings and assign teams to various invitational competitions like the college football playoffs.
Is USC's football program wildly profitable? The Washington Post published a great investigative piece in 2015 showing how most big football programs are in the red: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/runni...
It's certainly possible to recognise hand motions (see e.g. Leap Motion), but I think hand motion recognition is pretty hard to use effectively without haptic feedback telling you what you're touching and where. Ideally actuated like [1] but for your whole hand, not just a stylus. I don't think technology is anywhere near that. The device in [1] pushes back against you, physically stopping you from moving through virtual objects.

[1] https://www.3dsystems.com/haptics-devices/touch
are your motivations external rather than internal? do you want money, prestige, or recognition from others and that's why you want to be like this? because if so, forget about it. not worth the friction that will come alongside.

i've found a good barometer is to imagine what you would be doing if you had unlimited material wealth, so don't need to earn a paycheck for yourself or others. what are you doing with that time? if that's not tech related, i'd recommend not trying to force it.

if it /is/ tech focused, and you work in tech, then there are some issues preventing you from aligning what motivates you from what you're doing. reflect on that, and what you need to do to align those. in my experience this isn't a 2 hour thing, it's like a 2 month thing.
Sure people will ask questions but there is a non-zero possibility that it is above board. That is all I’m saying.
A lot of the time their goal is to make time pass faster, which is not something you can speed up.
How much of the food is from massive corporate farms, versus independent farmers though, I wonder
Most people aren't 'producing work' when they are on their phone... they are consuming work.
Async-Await Hits Beta
The only way I've found to protect against SIM Swap is to use Google voice for my SMS. Google has good two factor authentication and, since it has no telephone customer service, is hardened to PII based social engineering, or at least you can't SIM Swap somebody with just a name and an SSN.
Kotlin is a very tame language choice, in what I assume is a very Java heavy organization. Peers should be accountable for learning new languages and following the implementers rule.
Helped if the first graduate not only made an absolute fortune, translated a well-known work of classics, and became President...
Overall, sports drain money from the universities; they don't provide it.

About half of D1 football and men's basketball programs do make money, but even at those schools, the athletics program as a whole is still a money loser.
Okay, so your argument for not making nuclear safe is that coal kills a lot of people? Nice one, that's about as sound of an argument as killing somebody and then saying the military kills more people so what's the big deal.
No, they want Netflix to offer all the content that has been produced so they can watch anything that exists, more like Spotify/Apple Music/Google Music/etc.
The article is a presentation of what the researchers in genetics and development have learned. Perhaps it would be good if you responded to that.
jkeuhlen covered it.

Students at the military academies are both on full scholarship (tuition and board paid by the taxpayers) and salaried. After required [non-academic] expenses (uniforms, laundry, etc) the "take home" is tiny. But, that doesn't negate the fact that they are salaried employees of the US government.

And, just to be clear, I'm in no way arguing students at the service academies are over-paid, or shouldn't be paid, or anything like that. I'm just curious if they have an explicit exemption from the NCAA, or if the NCAA isn't following it's own rules.
> A language can't be "faster than C".

Why not?
For instance, with current hardware, the good use of SIMD is critical. If you can't write vectorized code in (standard) C while you can do it in another Language, that would be a "faster" language.
Same for other language features that enable faster code: Compile-time computations, better memory model with different pointer aliasing semantic, ...
> This is also the last major release of multi-backend Keras. Going forward, we recommend that users consider switching their Keras code to tf.keras in TensorFlow 2.0

https://github.com/keras-team/keras/releases/tag/2.3.0
To me athletes should be able to go pro (NBA, NFL) straight when they're in high school. College is a waste of time for these guys. Problem solved.
Absolutely. That and maybe also "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security" (Kevin Mitnick)
> I don't disagree with that; what's your point, though? Are you trying to run with the association that "socialism=bad"?

> I'm writing you from fairly-darn-Socialist (and fairly-darn-functional) Norway, so I'm not picking up.

Socialism is bad, but Norway is not socialist. Norway is a market economy with a large welfare state. https://www.heritage.org/index/country/norway. The two things are completely different.

Nearly all the countries that call themselves "democratic socialist" are in fact capitalist, with strong welfare states. Some, like Denmark and Sweden, and to a lesser extent Norway, are among the freest markets in the world. The lynchpin of the "Nordic model" is not socialism, but free markets that generate a large surplus, which is then taxed to provide a strong welfare system. Countries like Sweden have high taxes on individuals, even as they aggressively pursue deregulation and cut corporate taxes.

The Nordic model is a strong contrast from the "New Deal" which was strongly anti-market. It was built on government regulation of the economy, price controls, nationalization of industries, etc. It was an economy where the government decided how much it should cost for a flight from New York to LA. The ends might have been similar to Nordic social democracy (higher social welfare), but the means were wholly different.

Climate justice folks are advocating a return to the New Deal, not a turn to Nordic market-oriented welfare states.

The "Green New Deal" is by its terms about a government takeover of the economy: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aocs-top-aide-admits-green-...

> It goes on to say that “a new national social, industrial and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal”

See also: https://demandclimatejustice.org

> In mitigation and adaptation (“maladaptation”) such as offsets and carbon trading, marketbased approaches to forests (REDD) and agriculture (“Climate Smart”), soil and water, large-scale geo-engineering, and techno-fixes, nuclear energy, mega hydro dams, agro-fuels, “clean” coal, GMOs, the waste to energy incineration industry, large-scale “re-modeling”;

Also: https://www.peoplesdemands.org (referenced from the Global Climate Strike website)

> 5. Facilitate and support non-market approaches to climate action.

> we must take immediate action, including policies for stopping all new fossil fuel projects, drastically scaling up finance and technology transfer from rich countries to the global South, and eliminating dangerous distractions like carbon market schemes.

> to reject false solutions like carbon markets, bioenergy and techno-fixes
I found this article quite fascinating. I had no idea how much the researchers have learned about genetics and development, and the general picture that has developed.