skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Particularly ironic based on the history of the Beatles' "Apple Records" (music) suing Apple, Inc (tech) around apple logos.

Here it's T-Mobile (tech) suing Lemonade (music) over a color.
Interesting argument, but I'm not sure if it is correct. In the 19th century farms didn't have tractors so they had to be much smaller. Thus there were more farmers, and so more towns were needed to support the farms. The railroad helped things along, but many of them were built without federal land subsidies. The farther east you go the more likely the railroads were built without federal subsidies.
Market prices for currencies reflect what you can buy with them. If a country's economy is strong, they're exporting a lot of things that the world wants to buy from them, and the world wants to invest in a bunch in a number of securities denominated in their currency, the currency will be strong. If the country's economy weakens (relative to other countries in the global economy), the currency will weaken. There could be a lot of potential causes for that. A generation of lazy people who don't work hard. Poor corporate leadership that has people building products that nobody wants to buy. Corruption and misincentives that encourage people to shift value around rather than producing value. The rest of the world suddenly building out their technology and capital stock and catching up to your economy.

Britain was the pre-eminent world power up through WW2, so there was a lot of historical inertia propping up the value of the pound. They recovered slowly from WW2, though, lost their position as world leader to America, and had a very rough 70s and 80s. The historical strength of the pound actually hurts in that regard: it makes their exports less competitive, which leads to industry moving away from Britain and a generation that has difficulty finding work. Through their 80s they still had much of their reputation as a world power (the Falklands war was fought over it); by the 90s it was becoming apparent that reality did not match reputation.
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I'm a practicing physicist and I though this video was perfect. Undergrad classes were roughly a decade ago for me and I never took complex analysis. If I did this in grad school classes I don't remember and it was maybe 1 or 2 homework problems total.

I have a feeling I'll retain the ideas better than I would have with a traditional lecture. There is something about how the visuals are presented and transition into each other that really helps make things intuitive. I don't expect to use this directly anytime soon, but it's nice to keep the concepts in the back pocket.
On a long timescale, yes, they will. On a short timescale, many people will die. You can't just move an entire house to a different city (and obviously no-one will be able to sell a house on a drowning coastline).

For example, the Pacific Islands will face rising tides along their whole coastline, while simultaneously facing extreme weather events and agricultural disruption. What's your solution for an entire country of people simultaneously trying to immigrate elsewhere?
Very few actually talk about them though and they seem like almost after-thoughts judging by the sheer volume of emphasis and timing. Those who want them as well would actually be honest.

It is basically one statement in the primary from Warren and Sanders, and one article vs the deluge of hearings, articles, and sloganeering comment spam.

Whatever the reason - be it propaganda campaigning, vested interests reflecting their bias, or emergent some memetic reason like fear of change, or finding them transgressive of social hierarchy - there is a vastly different emphasis.
I think it is rivaled by necktie wearing success mimics sending false signals of importance through buttoned necklines.
It's tangential to this site, like two straight years of wage gap articles.
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That's because the process to put a novel technology on the market takes approximately 10 years.
Clinical trials are long, but new tech do get there
Characterization and Early Detection of Evergreen News Articles [pdf]
Go to any rural area in europe and everyone has a car.
I don't see why you keep bringing up child pornography. Facebook and Twitter don't allow people to spread it, and no one is suggesting they should. It's entirely a strawman.

As for whether "one person" currently has more reach that the pamphleteers did, I also disagree. A pamphlet is only spread if people are agreeing with its content. Likewise a tweet or facebook post. A billion people post inane content every day. We see a microscopic fraction of it. That is an equivalent form of "peer review" as your pamphlet distributors.
> The climate crisis is closely linked to excessive consumption of the wealthy lifestyle.

My bullshit detector went off here. I don't known how any reputable scientist can claim that.
This is highly rational behavior for hired CEOs — you’re there for 5-10 years and paid based on stock price, so it’s in your best interest to sell shoddy products under the venerable brand name in the highest quantities possible, and cash out before the market discovers that your brand name is worthless (cf all of the venerable kitchen brands like All-Clad and Wusthof that now have Chinese junk lines).

This is why the father to son family business model may prove more enduring.
One of those things you just don't think about until it bites you.
Depends. All cell phone companies have areas where they provide bad service, and areas of good service. T-mobile has historically had the least coverage, which is the greatest way to suck, but that has been changing.
Oh hmm, that's interesting. Thanks.

The shaders on https://shaderfrog.com/app all work fine for me and those looked pretty complex. Maybe they're not using the same type of "shader compilers"? Or perhaps making a CPU emulator with shader compilers is just more complicated...
I know, but I have a fence around my house. Once someone is setting up equipment around my house, why not just smash a window and steal my stuff directly?
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To you it comes off as condescending. That’s fine. You have no right to not be offended by someone else’s perspective

Which you only superficially bothered to understand on a social media forum that perpetuates shallow explanation and confusion not discourse, and resorted to condemning it versus asking for clarification

I grew up in such a community around people who continue to feel entitled to live in the middle of nowhere and demand society supply them, while voting against m4a and being racist as all hell. I know exactly what the mindset of such folks is.

So perhaps don’t show up at a conversation you’re not ready or willing to have without resorting

And since when is it bad to say I refuse to politically support such a lifestyle by choosing candidates that coddle people that in turn pick candidates that undermine others?

Grow up. Your individual feeling for the situation is missing emotional information and lacks perspective regarding social political norms
So why aren’t they handing out free GPUs to colleges and universities like nVidia?
If they're not international waters, but rather the territorial waters of another country, then it's illegal. These are provocative maneuvers, meant to forcibly contest the territorial claims of another country.

> One can only speculate as to why that is.

Calling people shills is against the rules here. That's why you're not coming out and saying it, but rather trying to imply it.
“Everything is actually terrible” is arguably the most popular topic on HN.
We're in agreement. Thanks for the pointer to the specific law.
This isn't reddit. Everyone doesn't need to chime in on a subject.

If you're not a subject matter expert, I personally would prefer you not comment at all.

It's much more pleasant to read discussion from people that know what they're talking about rather than people offering their opinions because they think that other people want to read them.

This is primarily a technology site, so it's not surprising when you have popular articles in other subjects with few comments.

People can find something interesting without having the need to say something.
Except student loans in the USA. They can't be discharged and the debt never goes away. Unpaid student loans will haunt you forever.
Haha thanks for this, I haven’t been laughing this hard in weeks!

The best meme was someone saying, it’s now only a matter of time before Masayoshi Son invests in Robin Hood!
I'm a government researcher working on this exact thing and even I don't really believe it. That said, there is a tremendous amount of interest from commercial entities, which is what drives my work. I'm probably not allowed to name any specific companies, but there are certainly a large number of companies that believe enough to be investing significant amounts of money into the idea.
I tend to agree, thank you for your thoughtful points.

Another thought I've been having is that since medicine is the epitome of a good with inelastic demand, then the government could/should impose rather strict laws about profiteering. For example, maybe a drug could only cost double what a university can synthesize it for, or a minimum of 3 manufacturers would make any drug sold in the US (to ensure healthy competition), or the government could provide generic options for all drugs (as a price stabilizer), something like that. So insulin would essentially be free, and the hepatitis C cure might be substantially cheaper, for example.

I realize that this might lead to problems with drug research costs. But, that's really what we should really be talking about here. Separating research cost to some degree from profit in their distribution. And spreading those costs globally somehow so that they don't fall mostly on the US.

Maybe incremental measures like these could be adopted over a 5 or 10 year period until private insurance costs are more in line with the public option cost in other countries, and then states could offer insurance plans. Once about 50% have done that, the programs could be made federal. We could still keep private insurance for those who want it, like in many European countries.

To be honest, I am personally against these incremental approaches because I have doubts that they'll be adopted, but, you're right that it's a complex issue so I'm open to ideas and hope we can get past the political disfunction and get back to helping people.
Ask HN: What are the security and legal aspects of websites with user content?
I would like to create a website where people may upload text (with Markdown for formatting) and images. However, when I did my research, I realize that there is huge legal and technical responsibility involved.

The legal concern is if people upload illegal content, or content that violates copyright. I read that section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is supposed to protect website owners if their users upload illegal content. However, I also read that with the controversy over social media and politics, politicians are calling for websites to be classified as "publishers," and hence be held responsible. Might the law change in the future?

I certainly do not have the time and resources to moderate anything, and if people upload illegal content, I do not want the hassle of getting involved with law enforcement. And I certainly don't want to be the one punished.

The technical concern is that by allowing file uploads, I am opening up a significant attack vector. I found out that I would have to check and validate the MIME types of the files (not just check the extension or the Content-Type parameter!). In addition, I read that a file can be a valid image file yet still contain JavaScript, and I would have to make sure that the files are served to the browser with the correct MIME type or else risk XSS. And there are even more attack vectors, such as timing attacks to guess passwords, or denial of service, and possibilities that I don't even know of. Even when I know of the basics, such as sanitizing input before making SQL queries (or using an ORM library), or hashing and salting passwords with an appropriate algorithm such as BCrypt, there's so many things that I could overlook.

When I first had the idea for the website, I thought that it would be simple enough to implement. However, after doing my research, I now realize just how dangerous it is to expose a computer to the Internet, and just how many ways there are for bad actors to ruin things.

People who have developed and deployed websites with user-submitted content, how do you manage all the security and legal aspects? Would a high schooler / soon-to-be college student have the appropriate time to manage everything on top of studying? Would you trust a server written by someone inexperienced with backend development?
Some other examples of complex use cases: connected accounts, reconciliation reports, dunning reports, non-traditional ecommerce workflows. From a security perspective, I'd love the ability to enforce 2FA instead of having to audit the users table every month. To be fair I think the number of clients with 50+ connected accounts is fairly low
Oh, apologies for misreading you then!

On that point, I think the problem is just that Thompson doesn't understand this context. He's treating Hamilton's objection to an amendment prohibiting speech as if it arose from a desire for broader protection of speech, rather than from a desire for no specific protection of speech at all.

Hamilton's argument that a specific protection for speech would be counterproductive strikes me as having been pretty comprehensively debunked by the last two centuries of American history, in which the First Amendment has repeatedly proved to be a critical shield for speech of all sorts of kinds. America today would look very different if Hamilton had won this argument.
Good for them. Perhaps the idea of funding the EU and taxation in general should be abandoned if you don't like it. I don't like it -- which is why I live in a place with almost no taxes. People always told me to leave if I didn't like it, so I did.
I do not understand this comment, as I have done separate compilation every day with C++ for over two two decades: the model inherently only allows this, as every translation unit absolutely must be compiled separately and then linked... you don't even have a choice in the matter. I have also used both off-the-shelf and custom distributed build systems (most recently, I have deployed one which does insanely-parallel builds of a C++2a codebase using AWS Lambda), which pair extremely well with the explicit file-oriented dependencies that can be reported by each translation unit and used to determine which parts of the build are now stale given changes to the filesystem. I have never seen languages with module systems support even basic separate compilation, and it terrifies me; meanwhile, the flags I have seen being added to clang for attempting to preserve separate compilation behavior with the modules spec doesn't leave me feeling good about the endeavor. It could be my fears are unjustified, but it is extremely strange and somewhat annoying that the advocates for it don't ever seem to appreciate the state of the art for the status quo.
Treating the idea of regulation as a binary operation makes this problem seem artificially harder than it really is. If regulations scaled proportional to market impact/value, then you can still have smaller companies that can afford to innovate without clamping down, because the impact of their usage is small. Similarly, you can expect more from larger companies with massive influence, because firstly, the vastness of their influence matters more, and secondly, because of that influence, they also have much higher revenues and can afford to make those changes.

We need to enter an era of more fluid and dynamic regulations.
If Google bans Defense and Oil companies from its cloud, I would consider buying some GOOGL stocks, actually. Or use Google Cloud.
Adding to the other posters, Monzo's ledger is immutable (this is in fact a design requirement, since Monzo's Cassandra environment makes it impossible to update rows atomically).
Not the full model, but there are some pretty funny examples on https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/

It's a subreddit which consists entirely of posts and comments by GPT-2 bots (with votes by humans). There's a variety of different bots fine-tuned on posts and comments from different subreddits, so depending on which bot is posting you can get wildly different results.
Breaking the bank is a gambling term where you make and win a bet the house can't cover.

It's very apt.
Generic claims about HN are almost always an afterimage of things you disliked, because we're more likely to notice those and they make by far the strongest impressions.
The power still has to come from somewhere. If these vehicles are sufficiently inefficient, they could well be worse than cars in terms of emissions.
No

Did you just cherry pick part of what they wrote to complain at me? As if the scolding of some rando will appropriately make me reconsider?

I told the commenter their complaining about not having easy access to ethnic food in the middle of nowhere is not an obligation of a society

Basic food and clothes and healthcare sure, I mean most of the those communities on the whole vote for candidates that deprive others of those things though so really maybe they should pull themselves up by their boot straps as they say a bit more anyway?
Indeed, and that's also why the trade was so good. The pound couldn't possibly get much higher, but it could break and go far far lower. That's why Soros bet 200% of his fund on this position, huge upside with very small, tolerable downside.
Compare also the Passive House (Passivhaus in German) concept, which makes use of similar techniques:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house

These are particularly suited to cold climates, where thermal capture and storage are possible. I'd first run across this concept via Thorsten Chlupp's Reina, LLC, in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he builds (and lives in) net-zero energy homes based largely on passive designs. The key consideration is thermal energy, though his designs incorporate some PV electrical generation as well.

http://www.reina-llc.com

Chlupp has numerous videos detailing methods and results. The longer ones really get into the weeds, and are fascinating:

https://www.invidio.us/search?q=thorsten%20chlupp%20passive%...

Passive cooling and dehumidification, both critical to interior comfort in the American midwest, are more challenging. I'd like to see how Hodges accomplished those aspects.

Rocky Mountain Institute (Amory Lovins) is another example of passive / conservation-based energy design, including the firm's landmark facilities in Snowmass, Colorado. I've seen the banana "orchard" within the structure's foyer, as well as other design elements.
There are a lot of minor threats to monetary systems that blockchain does not address. Bitcoin addresses the rare but fatal threat of hyperinflation (runaway inflation). Historical examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Notable_hyperin...

The only known solution to this threat is not have a single supplier of money (i.e. a lot of independent miners digging metal out of the ground, or the block chain equivalent)
> The U.S. has stated that they're committed to defending the dollar as the world's reserve currency. What happens when they can't...

What happens if they already ain't? The narrative of the us$ being the reserve currency is old, but today it is even less convincing...
If standing is so terrible because of immobility perhaps a walking desk is the ideal solution.

Remember this amazing post? https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
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If anyone wants to fine-tune the 1.5B model, I ported the gpt-2 code to TPUs. You can fine-tune it in Colab. Snapshots are 5.8GB.

notebook: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1191800180192010246

code: https://github.com/shawwn/gpt-2

It's a fork of nshepperd's gpt-2 codebase (https://github.com/nshepperd/gpt-2) which lets you fine-tune 117M and 345M on GPUs.

For a tutorial on how to fine-tune GPT-2, see http://gwern.net/GPT-2
In Lafayette (LA), there was a gas station right off I-10 that put up a huge sign after she said that that said “The Deplorables”. That’s when I knew she was in deep shit. That and her “I believe in Science!” line at the DNC and Trump’s “I’ll make every dream you ever dreamed come true” ads. Although even I laughed at the online ones about Hillary and the emails with Pac-Man
I absolutely pay better attention when I can give my hand and the rest of my brain something mindless to do. Doodling helps me listen and retain a lot more than if I'm forced to just stare at the subject - in that case I get fidgety and distracted.
Superhuman is a Silicon-Valley-up-it-own-beeswax company that sells expensive email to Silicon Valley CEOs and VCs who want to show off to each other. It's the Supreme of email.
VPN is a bit of a scam, let's discuss some of the claims they make
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For talks you can extract the audio with YouTube-dl and upload it to a service like otter.ai

They have a fairly generous free plan.
U.S. dollar share of global currency reserves at lowest since 2013

> of the market is more than a national government can prop up?

The US is not propping up the USD like UK did.
The thread discussing the original post is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21451847.

There shouldn't be two posts about the same thing on the front page. In most cases we'd merge the follow-up into the original, but since the points of view here are so opposed, it's going to seem like favoritism no matter what we do. My first crack at this is to let the opposing side have a hearing since the original has already spent many hours on the front page.
Read about Cairo sometime.
It makes me wonder if he would have been successful if he wasn't able to short 10 billion. As the article said, Norman Lamont was planning to defend the sterling with 15 billion.
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They have explicitly stated that a move to a permissionless system is their end goal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(cryptocurrency)#Blockch...
A million YouTube views is worth a couple grand right?

Maybe there's an upside for this guy after all. 2019 is weird.