skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I did some fun little experimentation in 2015... we simulated a sea slug which has a very simple neural circuit / observed behavior. Basically looks for food.

The hypothesis was adding a state of aggression, territoriality in nature (patrolling food), would make them appear social.

It worked! We then transferred the learned model parameters to robots for fun (and people thought they were social). Note that we left the models an option to “evolve” in several ways, they always converted to being aggressive in defending food spawn locations.

https://austingwalters.com/modeling-and-building-robotic-sea...

In any case, this makes sense. When you have complex systems and you apply a sort of pressure, models (or animals) will learn to “survive” because that’s what is passed on.
Toronto wins the right to crack down on shady Airbnb-lords
Yeah, bad libraries exist :(
Reading this, it all seems so doable. Banks must indeed be getting hacked on a daily basis, it's just that they hide it so well!
Cost cost cost. Give me an example of new build nuclear
that is even close to the cost of solar plus storage or natural gas. The only place it can happen is China, which forces through infrastructure projects that are capitally intensive.
For those curious:

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=led&sektion=4

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=morse&sektion=6
> We saw a warming of 0.8°C in 30 years

Or 0.4°C, it depends on what particular years you pick for the calculation.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

> you should lend credence to the IPCC

Note that the one saying that IPCC forecasts are completely off the mark because even the more pessimistic scenarios have proved too mild is missosoup, not me.

By the way, they also predicted the mean sea level to raise about 20cm by 2030. I think we are not even at 10cm after thirty years, sea level rise is tracking at the low end of the range they gave in 1990.
And better yet, dismissal and destruction of Assanges name in the eyes of the public. Even though the only thing he has done is tell the truth.
Well aware, but like you said,you don't need the grid because the gridless snapping generally works even better.

Compliment the team for a great app! Inventing great UX isn't trivial and you guys aced it.
Show HN: gitviahttp – Serve a Git Repository over HTTP. Written in Go
State of Automation Tools and Testing Survey [Giveaway Worth $2148]
Your potential to do what? Trade happiness for money? Because that’s how this works.

We’re totally sold on the idea that more money means a better life. More. More. Always more. Always wanting. Always lacking.

Happiness isn’t in more. It’s in everything. You just have to have the time to find it - and time is the crux.

You only live once; time is your most precious and finite commodity. Each day that passes is irrevocably gone - and as morbid as it may be, you don’t know which will be your last. I have had friends drop dead in their 20s and 30s both out of the blue, and after agonising illnesses.

If your work makes you happy, great. If your work is gently or not so gently killing you, and you are persevering for some abstract goal of “more”, you are taking a dangerous wager - your precious time against the chance of making it into the 0.0001% - the idea being that if you win, then you won’t have to work. That’s fundamentally the bet we take when we venture into a career.

There’s a shortcut. Don’t work any more than you absolutely have to to keep the lights on.

I left my business a few years ago after a decade, withered and broken, mentally and physically damaged. I do as little contracting as I can get away with to cover my living expenses, which I’ve dramatically cut by moving off grid in a cheap country. I have so much time to read, to work on projects and hobbies, to just stand and stare at the river running by.

I used to stand in the shower, weeping, and think about how I would kill myself.

Now I weep only with happiness.

Life doesn’t have to be a slog.
Wow.

Power, in all its forms -- economic, cultural, social, political -- is highly concentrated among impersonal giant corporations today.

For this kind of legal tax avoidance would be impossible without mutual understanding, collaboration, and coordination across national boundaries among many disparate groups of people, all serving their corporate masters in one way or another (as their employers, as their customers, as taxpaying entities, etc.).

Consider only how many people and organizations must be involved to make tax treaties and regulations around the world amenable to this kind of tax avoidance.

Whether this kind of concentration of power is good or bad for society, I'm not sure.

My best guess is no -- but I'm not certain. For there is also evidence that large-scale, concentrated business investment has been a force for good worldwide.[a]

--

[a] See, for example, Marc Benioff's book, "Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change" at https://www.amazon.com/Trailblazer-Business-Greatest-Platfor...
It's a bit late, isn't it
This is awesome! But so expensive. After traveling abroad in Costa Rica and Thailand, I imagine such a program could have 10-20% the cost, making it much more accessible. I wonder if such programs exist? Maybe I should start one...
Honestly, I'm down for paying taxes. It pays for my lifestyle and is propostional to my lifestyle. If I own land, that land is only valuable due to the society that land exists in. It's protected, and safe, due to public services like roads, which law enforcement, fire control folks, postal service, and ambulances drive upon. I've earned my income from a lifetime of education, starting from my public school kindergarden all the way to me state university attendance, which in of itself is only useful to attend because there are bright minds teaching what they research via government grants.

All of that costs money, and paying taxes is more or less funding my lifestyle as it is now. If you want to not pay taxes, then stop paying taxes and give up everything you purchase with them. Go subsistence farm in the woods or something, or deal with bartering instead of money (which itself is only useful because there is some regulation to keep it useful).
> "The reason for this decision is that the evidence has weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question."

I'm not sure I understand what's meant by this. Did the victims testimony change? How does evidence weaken over time?
Some users say they're getting rid of Fitbit because they don't trust Google
Haneda: Behind-the-scenes at the world's most punctual mega airport
Even worse scenario here. I had 4 accounts (a personal checking, savings, a joint checking, and a business account) at Chase. I transferred money from my savings to my checking one day to buy a car. Did a wire transfer from the checking to the dealership. The next day transferred excess funds back to my savings. To me a completely normal set of banking transactions. To some Chase fraud algorithm though it was a red flag and my primary checking was closed. But instead of notifying me there was an issue or that they were closing the account they opted to just lock me out of online banking entirely on ALL my accounts since they were all linked together with one user id.

When I called to figure out what was going on I was advised the account was closed and that a check would be mailed with remaining funds within 60-90 days. I asked about the other accounts and they are all fine and open. BUT, because the fraud closure was related to an online banking transaction I would no longer have access to online banking. Pretty much rendered the remaining accounts useless at this point. So while they didn't close all my accounts themselves, they pretty much forced my hand to close my remaining accounts.
Your mileage may vary, but regarding effective life management, I found the Mark Manson's book The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F: Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life to have more truth in than the title may say.
What great writing this was.
That doesn't seem like what it implies at all. It is saying the US uses credit cards and South Dakota can now participate (if it is saying anything at all).
Sorry in advance for the rather harsh feedback, that follows. It’s basically my unfiltered impression when I visited your site before reading your introduction comment here.

This is one of the occasions, when I love the German “every website needs a ‘Who’s responsible for this?’ page” law (a.k.a. “Impressumspflicht”). Why should I trust your specific selection of quotes and their interpretation? You even don’t trust your visitors with a “Who are we?” section. For all I know, this could be a Chinese or Russian troll factory outlet sale.

For this to work (for me, at least) you need to work _way_ more on the site’s transparency than a more or less default privacy disclaimer and an e-mail input form: Who am I, what criteria and sources are used for the quotes, how are they categorized, what do I do to prevent bias... The technology may as well be sound and state-of-the-art, but if I don’t trust the website, I won’t sign up to anything.
He should get pardoned but I don’t think it will happen and it’s for political reasons, but if Manning can get pardoned I don’t see why not pardon him (since there is even less to charge him with).
Corporations being able to book their profits wherever they find it most convenient to book them, is utterly unreasonable. They make their profits in specific markets, and should be paying their taxes there. Profits made from selling in the US should be paid in the US, profits made from selling in Germany should be paid there.

The problem is, profits are the end result of a lot of complex corporate operations across many countries. Who's to say which bit of which revenue was used to pay for which costs, while other bits are pure profit?

There is another corporate tax that is entirely linked to the market they're selling to, though: VAT. The problem is: it's only over revenue made from selling to consumers, not to other businesses, and it's always completely offloaded to those consumers, and therefore not really a corporate tax but a consumption tax.

So how about treating profits that way? In every market, you count the revenue made from selling in that market, and subtract the costs made by buying, hiring, etc in that market. The difference is the profit you made in that market, and you've got to pay your corporate tax over that amount to the tax authority in that market.

That way you can't book your profits in a country where you didn't make any revenue. And if somehow you do make your revenue in a country where you didn't make incur costs, you pay tax over the entire amount. If you don't make revenue, then tough. You could have made some tax-free revenue there.

I'm no international tax lawyer, though, so there are probably problems with this idea. I like the principle, though: they've got to pay back to the market they're profiting from, and not to a completely unrelated country that offers them tax breaks for coming there.
My guess is that’s and approximation of the U.S. companies’ foreign source income that they don’t want to be double taxed on...were the double taxation to go away there wouldn’t be a need to play this game
Yeah, but that won't be the same Alpinist. Especially given the Prospex logo, which is a bit weird because my impression of the Prospex line is that it is mostly a diver's line, whereas the Alpinist is supposed to be a climber's/mountaineer's watch.

After 4S15 was discontinued, Alpinists based on 6R15 have been produced for many years, but they are nowhere as sought after as the 4S15 version.
Memory weakens over time, and the case would've largely hinged on memory-based testimony.
>What if intel can’t deliver next year?

Agree as well, something that was in mind but didn't wrote it out in my last reply. There was of course the assumption Intel execute, which isn't something Apple can control.

At least Intel has shipped its Icelake in extremely small quantities. I actually rather hope Intel do miss their deadline so Apple has an excuses to switch to AMD or ARM.
I must say I found the "irrelevant commentary" rather entertaining, and I think it really enhances the value of the content. it's just the right amount to be fun, yet not overwhelming, keep at it!

boomshakalaka!
It's a bit odd seeing Zucman as a contributor here, considering his recent economic advice has been criticized for assuming that tax avoidance isn't a thing.
Might be interesting if you could use something like a pooled earnings fund secured and collateralized by some kind of smart contract, thereby achieving sufficient economies of scale to allow for the "non-hyperrich" to get some of these tax savings.

Someone should pitch this to the Mossack Fonseca guys.
I think it would be useful to have the latest email (or any email that you sent in the past) available somewhere on the website as well.

If it wasn't for your comment here, I wouldn't be able to see an example.

On a more personal note about the email, I'd drop the first paragraph, or make it shorter and focus on what you promised to send.

One great daily mail that I've subscribed and really enjoy to read is from the daily stoic [0]. They are quite short and to the point everytime.

[0] - https://dailystoic.com
I have some playable GUI too: https://wordsandbuttons.online/yet_another_floating_point_tu...
Thank you Tim Apple for Safari Reader Mode.
I think OP's point was that for starting developer PHP is super easy.

- edit a text file with any text editor (notepad?)
- copy file onto a server (ftp? scp? git push? -- most servers will process php)
- access it through url in browser

The example was about simplicity. OPs text file is 11 bytes long "Hello World", and is a valid PHP, it will run on a server.

This is about how easy a person with no knowledge and no special tools can start doing things.

Your example implies that developer has node installed, and expects the developer to run a server from within node, and then understand how the server handles URLs to functions. Additionally, I don't know how an early developer is expected to get this onto a server. First copy, then ssh onto server, then start the node server on server. That is a lot of steps for beginner to remember.

Additionally, as you mention, changes to file require server restarts, or building a self reload capability. I play with Flask, which has self reloading available, when developer pushes broken code Flask can just crash (self reload fails), and then developer has to start flask again. With PHP, broken code does not crash apache/nginx.

For developers that live and breathe computing knowledge running things through additional steps make sense. C/Java/C++/C# all have compilation and linker steps. Things like Grunt or Less are nothing scary for developers that ran C/C++ code through M4 preprocessors before compiling (now M4 is built into compilers).

So yes, for professionals, PHP is just a programming tool as any other.

But for beginners, PHP is awesome easy to grasp and use.
Eyewitnesses’ memories get worse, records get lost, etc. This is one of the reasons that statutes of limitations exist.
Hi, fair question!

The main reason I'm starting this newsletter is to start conversations with people about this data, which is why I want people's emails.

Right now I'm hoping people are enticed enough to put their email address to check it out. I might be wrong about that and I might add a link to the latest email on the home page in the future to see if signups improved.

I have no intention of selling those emails. My goal is to start a Saas platform based on this data. A very small number of subscribers will hopefully become clients. The rest can just enjoy the newsletter and help me get the word out if they feel like it.
So the rape allegations were in fact bogus and just an excuse to persecute him. Now he's in prison and has to fight extradition to the US. It's ridiculous how transparent and shallow this entire ruse is, and how the public just doesn't get how everyone involved here was a US puppet. Shame on Sweden, the UK and the US, honestly.
DNS and Geopolicy: Sometimes, you need to go back to basics
How are you getting those numbers?

If you're trying to maximize log wealth, someone promising an insane amount of wealth for a trivial investment is a positive value for log wealth. The amount may need to be slightly more insane than it would be if you were just maximizing wealth, but with massive numbers such as used in Pascal's mugging this is easy enough.
If I recall the evidence was always pretty weak. I don’t have time to find the news article from back then, but it was “sexual assault” because he didn’t wear a condom and at the time the woman (perhaps plural) didn’t want to really participate.

Could be wrong though...

Does anyone have some news from back then?
While I really like these blog posts for keeping things light and intuitive, they're also sprinkled with claims that go a bit too far.

> Arrays, Objects, Maps, WeakMaps, and Sets are all algebraic data types

This isn't really true on a couple levels. Algebraic Data Types are described through a small set of composition (data) or decomposition (codata) operations. Arrays, Maps, and Objects might be explainable in this way (though, really, we'd just be modeling them with ADTs). WeakMaps and Sets really cross the line though. WeakMaps, by their nature, need to appeal to something much more than just ADTs and Sets require "quotienting" to unify sets which contain the same elements in various ways. You can build the "raw stuff" from ADTs, but you won't have something that really behaves much like these types at all until you add in something extra.

The emphasis on sum types is huge, but it leaves out something critical: "JavaScript doesn’t have a lot of built-in features for sum types" is true of user-defined sum types (and related to it just not having types all together), but it has great support for a few special sum types: integers, booleans, characters! These sum types are important to talk about because it helps make clear that we already work with sum types all the time! Our basis for distinction and choice is built atop them in any language.

Finally, while products and sums get you some wonderful modeling capabilities, the place where Algebraic Data Types really shine is when you add two further capabilities: function types (exponentials) and recursion (fixpoint, which doesn't really map to high school algebra). Those are clearly built into JavaScript as well and would be great to discuss as well.
On the other hand, my 2014 15" MBP didn't come with less than 16Gb and still packs a quad-core 45w CPU, a decently fast SSD, a crazy good chassis and trackpad and a bright hi-dpi display.
I think it's still better than most of the 800-900€ 15" new laptops offered today, but it's not upgradable.

My only issue with it is the battery which will fail sooner or later, but it shouln't be too hard to remove it.
I think the idea is that taxes aren't only evaded at the level of the firm. Shareholders also evade taxes, but through "double taxation" they might still end up paying something.
Insulting robot squashed human performance
We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
So he still gets almost another full year in a UK jail. After that, where can he go?

Let's just say he's somehow successful at avoiding US extradition (unlikely), he's not going to be able to stay in the UK (unless he has dual citizenship or can somehow claim dual citizenship through a relative). He'd have to request asylum from another European nation that he can safety get to without flying.

Australia did little to help him in his situation, and it would be likely America could extradite him from there. There's a good chance it may never be safe for him to return home.
Eagle radar – US stock scanner #2020
I have had great success cleaning using a electronics vacuum. It is a type of vacuum that blows instead of sucks and uses non-conductive materials to avoid static discharge.

I got one for around 60 USD and unless the motor breaks it should last forever. There are also screen and electronic safe wet wipes for cleaning phones and other messes that a vacuum would not solve.
Indo-European Words for Two
The charge had served its purpose and the evidence was eventually going to actually be scrutinized.

It was just lawfare all along.
It's tragicomic that there's an entire industry that's grown up around arbitrage to make logistics less streamlined.

My grandfather built skyscrapers. My father built houses. I build marginally-useful webapps. Will my son build anything? Or will his future be rearranging the detritus of robots?
Thanks I'll check out that email!

The intro will be shorter from now on, that last one was still intended for a small audience who was helping me iterate on the newsletter.
The Gopher’s Adventures in GoLand – Episode #2
Thanks! The basic (default) version for the sentiment analysis is based on TextBlob library, but you can choose to activate deep learning to analyze sentiment with Google AI's BERT (trained on Twitter messages), though it is quite slow at the moment because inferences are made on a CPU and not a GPU.

The back-end is just Python/Flask and I use the free Algolia and Pushshift.io APIs to source the messages from HN and Reddit (big thanks to them!)
If you want to go down the rabbit whole - read the link below...

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-does-curre...
Loads of psilocybin and a strict daily regime containing both low-stress & high-rest did wonders for me.
Having a budget of hours for when "allowed" to crunch and burn at things even returned most of my eagernes and enjoyment within a short timeframe.
Does it mean he is free again?
As we already know, the differentiation between "foetus" vs. "unborn child" has significant political implications vis-a-vis the degree of social acceptability and legal codification of a woman's individual power and control over her own body.
I've long had a mild streak of map-geekery in me. But I never really appreciated cartography, especially computer cartography, until a couple of years ago when I was put in charge of a mapping project.

Bottom line: maps are hard!

Especially when it comes to colors. And even more so when you apply those colors across a large and diverse geographic area.

Even harder than rendering digital maps, though, is searching digital maps.

I get frustrated with Google and Apple and all the other maps like everyone else. But I never appreciated how hard these things are until I had to wrap my own brain around it.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/julian-ass...

> Assange, who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used, consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her without her knowledge.

> Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep, was in a helpless state. It is an aggravating circumstance that Assange, who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used, still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party’s sexual integrity.
"didn't really want to participate" is basically the definition of sexual assault.
No, he still has to serve 50 weeks for jumping bail in the UK.
I'd be curious if there's a tie-in with idea of Ruinous Empathy [0] to the conclusions laid out in the article.

[0] https://www.radicalcandor.com/our-approach/
It's not just the typesetting.
Yeah, but the testimony was surely recorded already some years ago? Or did they just wait.. I doubt so.
As I recall the 3DS used a lenticular lens: you see different images based on the angle to the display. Wikipedia has some more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_lens