skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>However, the school of thought's aversion to econometrics makes their policy advice self-limiting compared to mainstream/mainline economic theory.

This I agree with, I do think there is tremendous value in using statistics as a way of analysing trends and reinforcing theoretical arguments with empirical data. I'd disagree strongly on the point that Austrian theory is not ignored by mainstream economists though as it seems like many of the underlying assumptions that justifies the Federal Reserve are rather flimsy when examined critically from an a priori Austrian perspective.

>As for your specific points, that the large central financial institutions are, according to Austrian theory, causing recessions, even Austrian RBC doesn't completely agree.[1] Economic busts will happen with or without central banks -- being able to bail out key financial platforms is a good thing if it prevents the unnecessary misery of millions or billions. As every economics student should learn in the second half of economics 101, the free market does not always perfectly allocate resources, either immediately or over time (see discussions on externalities).

Thanks for pointing this out, maybe I wasn't too clear in my post. I elaborate a bit more on this in a comment below, but didn't touch on the neccessity of having an institution able to bail out financial platforms during economic downturns.

I do think that this boils down to the question if we can ethically and legally justify fractional-reserve banking, as bailouts would not be necessary if banks were mandated to keep a 100% reserve on demand deposits. I'm personally a bit split on this issue and so are many other Austrians, with purists adhereing to the Rothbardian view that only full-reserve banking is ethically defensible while others prefer leaving it to the free market to decide. I believe that in the latter case private insurance companies would be more than suitable to provide services to bail out banks who overextend credit, and would also serve as a natural check on said overextension as an insurance company would not be willing to take the risk to insure an irresponsible bank with a tendency to not make careful judgements.

If anything, having a central institution that will bail out banks regardless of what happens is far more dangerous as it introduces a significant moral hazard whereby banks can take significant amount of risk (within applicable regulations, Basel III made it a bit more difficult after 2008) and know that they will be bailed out regardless of what happens. I can't say that this leads to a more stable economy than it would were we to have a full-reserve banking regime, or even a free market where banks choose their own reserve ratios.
Yeah, I have the deepest respect for the people who do a lot of AI. I took Ng's online course and know that I don't know a ton but I'm more a "learn the basics, read papers after that" kind of person so I just started trying to replicate papers after that a bit.

Now my problem is mostly that I just don't have the energy to scour the research journals and books to put together datasets worth training with (for heterogeneous catalyst performance). Same as everyone I guess. The algorithms don't seem that bad, albeit obviously I want to run it past some friends that do it before claiming anything since I know I'll do it badly and just not know, so maybe in a perfect world it's just a matter of needing more data.

I honestly think it will work because I with a human brain can look at trends in catalyst manufacturing methods and composition and guess at least reasonably locally what changes will do. The parameter space is just too big between atomic composition, preparation methods, support acidity, surface area, etc etc etc. I think honestly a computer could do it because it feels like a problem of fitting the data in my head enough to model it beyond super locally.

But every time I try to improve a catalyst I succeed, which I think says more about how poorly optimized we are today than it says about my cleverness -- literally almost any random change is likely one that is a variable no one has tried yet. It's an awesomely open feeling field, and more exciting now that biomolecules are getting thrown into the mix from fermentation facilities.
Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: Facilitator
wow, a legal DOS.
"Lying to the public to maintain a marketable position" is incredibly vague. If I tell people my software is great and easy to use, but it's actually hard to use, can Massachusetts sue me for that? Can I sue Samsung for saying they sell the best phones if I think iPhones are actually the best phones?
What if each opposing party watches the box and a few other choke points for casting ones vote?

I mean, we’re only talking twice a year events!
Iirc it was kind of like a templating language first. Imagine writing a cgi-bin c application and becoming tired of writing out HTML with printf statements.
People using terms like "individual contributor" are usually losers who cannot program but like to take over existing projects.

Also, if you are so great then why did you leave your hypothetical tech lead roles at previous companies?
Direct link to the video has better quality and right aspect ratio.

Mp4
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Even Higher quality wmv
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Since when was it a human right to tell other people where they're allowed to live?
The Return of 'Write Less, Do More'
Block on GM rice has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness
In the case of non-execs, they are often insisted on by investors. They are seasoned board members to keep the execs in order, that kind of thing. They have little operational interest in the company, and instead bring 'corporate governance'. They have a part to play in managing the board, not the company. They make investors feel better about investing in a company run by some technology upstart with no track record. In the UK they would probably be senior (perhaps semi-retired) auditors or corporate lawyers. They may also be people with a track record in that industry, designed to open doors.

Institutional investors tend to be pretty conservative, and these are their sort of people.
Sure.. as long as you pay your back taxes.
Sure, that seems like a much more reasonable basis for this discussion.

There has been very strong consensus at MIT for decades that he's not a decent human being and he himself tries to take down people who are doing altruistic things but dare to host their volunteer signup form on Google Forms. I genuinely don't know what the argument for reinstating his MIT position is.

The internal politics of GNU have been awful for decades too, largely due to RMS, and I know plenty of free software folks (including a few folks formerly associated with FSF - i.e., true believers in the cause that RMS managed to deconvert) who think his leadership is ineffective, harmful, or both. So, if there's a claim that he's a good leader for the FSF and for GNU, that seems like something we can have a direct, factual debate on.

"RMS didn't make the statements about Epstein that the media claimed he said, therefore he's a qualified and effective leader of the free software movement" is fallacious. "The media attacked him unfairly, so he needs his old job back to get back at them regardless of his fitness for the job" isn't justice, just revenge.
We obviously need AI regular expressions. /s
Already posted there - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21359450
Oh, whether or not it's accidental depends on the domain, and Rust is designed for domains where such detailed control over resources could well be said to be essential, but it is nonetheless complexity, even if it is entirely inferred, as the compiler would block uses that don't comply with a very specific contract that is all about specific code generation. Even here the need to say that the call is "async" is not required from the algorithmic point of view, and in languages with a different philosophy and access to a JIT -- like, say, Java -- this is an implementation detail that could be worked out by the compiler entirely on a use-site basis (i.e. the same function could be "async" or not depending on how it's used in a particular callsite, not how it's defined).

But there's definitely a very big tradeoff -- in both approaches -- between fine-grained control over resources and "non-algorithmic complexity" if you'd like to call it that.
We can change the laws. We just need enough people to
make a fuss about it.

This is a major misstep by Disney, because it the crosses over to the older generation.

Best to spread the word.
In many places you can be arrested and/or deported for saying the wrong thing, being seen at the wrong place.

Basically you are arguing that cultural organizations should support the police state.
I'm commenting on a thread about how unreliable climate models are. What are you on about?
Citations, please.
Agreed, the streets are dangerous for bicyclists. Is the train and walking serviceable for your commute?
You burn massive amounts of oil by being alive. Here you are, using a computer, using electricity, inside of a structure, eating food grown with artificial fertilisers and machinery, wearing clothes that were manufactured out of oil and then transported with oil.

Unless you are living naked in a forest, foraging for food, and shivering for warmth, and have done so since birth, you’re as hypocritical as those you would accuse.
It does actually. It says it grows faster than anything in the hierarchy.
I think the link for tmate should be https://tmate.io/
Another adult stem cell breakthrough
Should cigarette companies have been punished for knowing their products kill and then misleading the public?

Oil kills via air pollution. Oil companies hid this information.

Do corporations get to willingly and maliciously lie to people?
5-7 years
I find an interesting parallel with the current discussion around American business being unduly influenced by China's massive buying power, where even though it's perfectly legal, businesses are so scared of being locked out of China's market that they refrain from any criticism of the government there.

That's a negative side, but a positive side could be feeling great pressure to adhere to the (higher) regulatory standards of other countries. Boeing's capture of the FAA thus becomes a moot point because better regulators will still need their own standards met.
Yes, the impact of the actions of individuals are miniscule compared to that of industry, but I still believe changes in the culture of consumption stand to provide substantial benefits. If everyone is a bit more conscious of the impact of their actions, we'd, for one, likely make considerable strides in the field of green tech.

It's for that reason why I may be more supportive than others of i.e., recycling programs and reducing use of plastic bags. At least the existence of which gets people thinking of what happens to their waste.
It’s ludicrous to suggest that if the entirety of what the oil industry was doing to hide the truth had been revealed it wouldn’t have changed minds.

They were actively advertising as if this could on forever, with no problems! You don’t see how “oh wait we’ve been hiding scientific evidence that’s not true” wouldn’t be of material impact?

We’ve all become paid shills of industry. Explicitly defending the indefensible because implicitly we’re addicted to our emotional models of “how reality functions.”

But society doesn’t owe us that and literally tears down its own history all the time. It’s moving on and removing the profit motive of this industry for a good reason.

Get over it.
I like Todoist. A friend recently leant me a book called “Getting Things Done,” and what I got most out of it was using my todo lists better. I have several todo lists for things like house, study, and “I’ll get to this one day, but it’s not urgent.” I use Todoist to review what I want to do, then I press a little button to mark them for today, then I just work off today’s list. It lets me make long todo lists so it’s off my mind, but then being able to move things to today easily makes me not get overwhelmed when I look at what I have to do.
And precisely!
That writing tool is going to spawn a whole generation of neck injuries.
WebObjects starting at version 5 was 100% java so it could run on any system running a Java VM, including Mac OS X.
When Apple was selling Xserve then many Apple on
Une services like iTunes, .Mac (ancestor of iCloud), Apple Online Store were running on WebObjects and Xserve thus on OS X server.
Motorists rush to fill their gas tanks in Martinez, Calif., on Sept. 21, 1973.

During two separate oil crises in the 1970s, Americans from coast to coast faced persistent gas shortages as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, flexed its muscles and disrupted oil supplies.

In 1973 and again in 1979, drivers frequently faced around-the-block lines when they tried to fill up.

Drivers would go to stations before dawn or late at night, hoping to avoid the lines.

Odd-even rationing was introduced — meaning that if the last digit on your license plate was odd, you could get gas only on odd-numbered days. New Jersey and New York have just reintroduced the system.

Back in the '70s, some gas stations took to posting flags — green if they had gas, yellow if rationing was in effect and red if they were out of gas.

-NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2012/11/10/16479229...
Google Tasks & Keep for personal todos. They are simple, have Gmail integration and a standalone mobile apps.

Asana for business/project todos, gives you more structure and collaboration.
Beam Suntory owns Laphroaig, Bowmore, Ardmore and Auchentoshan.
great link.

Though it seems to estimate 1.5 - 2C ONLY IF CO2 emissions reach net zero by 2055. Take a look at graph (c) and guess how likely that would be. (Not likely at all). Sad times.
Your experiment is definitely fun and interesting but has pretty annoying side effects, like dumping dozens of entries in the browser history and making the back button unusable. Some people don’t mind, others do.
Who cares about this strawman "many places". We're talking about the US. Again: Why is it important to allow this illegal alien to stay in the country?
How do you use social media in connection with webshop?
I recently read almost exactly this talking point earlier today, about Exxon’s lies.

Almost word for word.

1) that’s weird.
2) we make trade off choices all of the time, it’s what society does. However, when one side argues that the trade offs don’t exist, or lie about them, that’s deeply immoral, especially when it is such a pervasive, existential threat.

“If you work this job I have for you in my mine, I know for a fact you’ll get mesothelioma, I won’t tell you, and in fact fight tooth and nail to convince you and everyone else that it’s perfectly safe. But now that you have mesothelioma, why don’t you think about the salary we paid you? How it supported your whole life? Maybe have a bit of perspective, huh?”
> * It doesn't matter where the CO2 is released, only that it's released.

This is the key point. The global economy grows at its own rate, and so we would have produced roughly the same amount of carbon even without China, the distribution would have just been different because similar amounts of manufacturing would have just happened elsewhere.

So even without being able to predict the rise of China, the scientists could have roughly predicted the carbon concentration.
I've actually not heard his use of the term. Can you provide a reference to see the context?
And how would those be identified by a facial recognition system? I don't see your point here.
There needs to be an end to copyright on this historical material. If I was going to be very generous, I'd make copyright have a maximum of 50 years. Twenty is probably more reasonable.

It's ridiculous that Steamboat Willie is always going to be the cutoff between public domain and oblivion in dusty forgotten copyright hell.
A big enough fine and multiple law suits... Maybe even a class action multi state/ multinational law suit could end their company and probably many like them who did the same thing.

Exxon has received billions in tax subsidies. I'd be happy to see the federal government sue to get every subsidy dime back, and any dismantle their entire company.
not for diagrams but we are gonna use katex.org to support math formulas in the next release
Read Friedman and Schwartz' Monetary History of the United States. The Great Depression was so severe because the money supply contracted so suddenly, which led to the largest deflation in US history. Mainstream economists worry about deflation because in the 30s it nearly doomed the entire system.

The single largest quarter of growth in US history was the first quarter of FDR's first term, when he stopped the money supply from contracting further with the bank holiday and stopped defending the gold standard.

It is amazing to me that we live in an era with tiny amounts of inflation despite large central bank interventions, and yet Austrians still presume to claim that their theory is vindicated. Prominent Austrians claimed we would have runaway inflation after QE, and it just didn't happen. There are no set of facts that will ever cause Austrians to admit their theory is wrong.
Where do you live, Neverland?

Of course it should be a human right to freely travel, in a political utopia. Guess where we don't live? We don't live somewhere called no place.

If wishes (moral and otherwise) were horses, we'd drown in horse shit.
>by seeking more efficient redistribution of those resources given individual preferences.

Whats the difference between the wealthy and the rich? ---Freedom

Whats the difference between the rich and the poor? ---Nothing

Its hard to know if they're talking about AI or the economy when they start using words like manipulation, distortion, smoke-n-mirrors and illusion.
Fair point. Although in my defense I don't come to HN looking for or to start ideological fights :)
Talk with the lead. Share your concerns, as a member of the team, about how the team's needs are not being met. Be specific. In this situation, you did or didn't do something, and it had this effect.
Why is semver expected? Isn't it well known to be a flawed practice yet?
Architect here.

I use computer hardware everyday. Does this allow me to give relevant opinions on what are the best processes to build it? Some folks are thinking about it for decades.

Architectural rendering is overrated, it only exists as a way to sell the project to clumsy end users, investors and city planners. The same house but with a different sky, flying ducks, evergreen trees, people dancing and ferraris will look an order of magnitude better. The time wasted on this could be used to better the house itself. Don't forget also that what seems clearly an anachronism is not: 10 years ago computer hardware and software were not nearly there for the "3d revolution" you are asking for.
But there's a big difference between being your friend and friendly.
UPS already tried doing this a few years ago in Brooklyn,[1] but not Manhattan apparently.

I was subjected to this a few years ago.

Instead of being greeted at the end of the day with my shiny new $300 phone, they left it in a pile on the filthy floor of a local bodega three blocks away. Then, after finding it, I have to wait in line and have my ID scanned and sign for it. And I paid for overnight shipping but if I don't rush home, I have to wait until the next day.

My neighbor hated it more than I did. So, she started "stealing" her packages from the bodega. It turns out that if you don't sign for the package, they return it to the sender after a week and you get a full refund. So you can easily double dip by not signing for it and also getting a refund. And the local business is responsible for package being lost.

After two months, the local bodega stopped hosting packages, presumably because they were having to eat the cost of losing packages. Since there were no other businesses nearby willing to do this, UPS was forced to resume delivering to our building.

While this is an effective way for people to shut this kind of thing down, I'm sure it must be illegal. At least if you get caught, it is fairly deniable, since the package has your name on it. But it is probably illegal to interfere with a package being delivered.

Please do not do this. You are stealing from the merchant.

[1]: https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/e-commerce/b2c-delivery-s...
The US Constitution allows companies (and anyone else) to make recommendations as to the salaries of government employees. No law needed to "allow" them to.
Yeah, shocked to see someone being questioned by Congress so willing to own up to what happened. I don't think business ethics courses back then covered "avoid the apocalypse" and it seems subsequent CEOs went to the same business school.
I was this guy years ago in a waterfall style shop. We were a SQLServer c# all MS vertical and we did just this.

All stored procedures, table definitions, etc were checked in. There was a whole release process and QA to bundle the right versions of things into deployables which I did. It didn’t work flawlessly but it worked and when it failed it was straightforward enough that figure out why was easy.
80% of river plastic pollution entering the oceans stem from 1000 rivers
I have worked in a team which maintained and improved a legacy piece of software generating a few hundred million euros of yearly revenue. Not technically a website but a critical backend piece of a very popular one. The application was written in Java and PostgreSQL, which leveraged stored procedures heavily. This was a _major pain_ for us.

While the separation of concerns was sometimes quite easy to understand between the business logic in the Java code and the business logic in the sprocs, there were times when it was an impossible, tangled mess. Debugging this thing was _hard_ and every deployment was fragile and hard to deal with.

There are of course many reasons as to why this particular piece of software evolved as it did. I can only say that if you plan to move any parts of the business logic to stored procedures, make sure that you have a good reason to do so and clear architectural patterns and rules to communicate and follow.
The strange part is that even if all climate change scientists are completely wrong, what do we really stand to lose by switching to renewable sources and just polluting less?

If you could replace a coal guzzling, smoke spilling power plant with a silent solar panel field, why wouldn't you?
Why is it so important for you to kick them out?
Overall this reflects a bias in the dataset that the "algorithm" was trained on, i.e. in the decisions humans made (be it the doctors, insurers, or the general context, since this is based on predict future cost of care, etc.). This reminds me of another example in a recruitment "algorithm" at Amazon that was shut off for bias against women[0].

That this was found in the "algorithm" means a) that it was checked for biases, which is already somewhat of a good news, and b) that it can probably be fixed, or at the very least tested.

This is just my opinion, but I think generally speaking this is good. Even though detecting and fixing those biases might not be straight forward, I like to think it's probably orders of magnitude simpler than fixing these biases in humans.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
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