skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can find me economists that have predicted economic activities/results with any level of accuracy (e.g., greater than 50% even), then I will find you ~10 times as many prominent economists who have predicted the opposite. Economists probably predict things accurately at a rate lower than throwing a 20 sided die into the air and guessing which number will be facing up when it lands.

Does that matter? Well, if they can’t predict things with any degree of accuracy based on the data given, this must mean that they don’t understand the ends that are achieved by the means that generated the data, doesn’t it?

If economists don’t understand the outcomes that result from the inputs, then they shouldn’t be trusted to advise on the inputs?

TBH, why do we even care what “economists” think at all, given the above? Economists are no better, from an objective value perspective, then tarot readers. Economics, as a study / practice, has been corrupted by the followers of Keynes, and by the worship of monetarism, and, as a result, fails to provide any value to the economy, let alone to society as a whole.

Business leaders. Business leaders provide value to the economy by staking their own success on being able providing enough value to turn a profit. Business leaders make predictions, and when they fail they don’t make money (they probably lose a lot of money). If their predictions come true, they become rich. Economists just sit on the sidelines, watching and squawking like railbirds, and postcasting things to boost their ego, staking nothing but the time it takes to type out 280 characters of their precious wisdom.
Phase one of US-China trade deal to repeal certain tariffs
How do you read Lacan or Deleuze and think those thoughts?

"it's about the "mirror stage", except my body without organs didn't reterritorialize enough for me. Such a Westphalian cartography of thought is telelogical and causes Freud's solar anuses to explode from my nose."

Is this a Deleuze or Lacan quote? No, but you'd be hard pressed to prove it isn't because you can ctrl-F through any word or phrase I used above and find the exact line where they begin their charade. The worst part about them is that now people think that Freud's bullshit was right. No the Oedipus complex doesn't exist.

The additional context of knowing why DnG or Lacan are critiquing Freud doesn't help when you realize that every intellectual link in that chain is bankrupt. Worse yet, they abjectly failed to treat any psychiatric patients and themselves literally went crazy. Deleuze killed himself. Althusser killed his wife. All of them hurt future psychiatry with their nonsense.

And don't get me started on lacans bullshit math symbols.
The Twitch player is written in WASM, but I don't think we're a W3C member.
A more formal approach to the surprising implications of modeling work as a queue: https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/04/29/applying-the-universal-s...
There is a startup exemption for investments that happened below $50 million valuation, that he might qualify for.
Lots of AI & robotics companies, as well as FANG + Msft like companies opening offices here.
No, they'd have to get a cert for your domain name. Which they can't, because they cannot prove they own your domain name.

All they are doing if pointing to your IPv6 address, anyone can do that, that is why DNS TXT validation if needed in the first place.
There are 2 different ways Copyright-Owners can interact with Content Creators via Youtube:

1. manually file copyright strikes. If a Content creator has 3 of these at once, their entire channel gets taken offline. The dispute resolution mechanism leaves the video in whatever state the copyright owner chose (for possibly 2 months), and they get to keep the revenue from the dispute period, even if they lose (its possible that youtube has changed this).

2. ContentID. Copyright-Owners just give Youtube a copy of your copyrighted works, and tell it if you'd like videos containing your content to be left alone, monetized for your adsense account, or have the video taken down until the offending content is removed. This can be manual, or automatic. Contesting these is basically impossible (its possible that youtube has changed this).
NASA Asteroid Hunter Chooses Landing Site on Boulder-Strewn Space Rock
i wonder what are the security implications. how many new vulnerabilities will be uncovered, machines infected, and viruses implemented in wasm.

the concept of wasm doesn't really fly with zero-trust internet
Extracting Drinking Water Out of Thin Air Is Darpa's Latest Research Program
I’m not a big believer in MPT as correlations are unstable, but a simple rule of thumb would be anything over 10% as having significant exposure. With some big tech, there’s some diversification due to different business segments, ex: Amazon ecom/AWS vs recent IPOs where the stock might function more like an option.
It looks like at some point in last 7 hours CNN closed lite.cnn.io. Now it shows a single "Main story": "Please update to the latest version of the CNN app".
European Space Telescope to Launch New Era of Exoplanet Science
Yes! We're working on Cost-of-living (CoL) comparisons and adjustments. We've just finished extensively normalizing our data (which we used for this report). The next steps are better analysis over it including things like CoL.
There are so many reasons why the web would be awful with granular prefs (and I say this as someone who has wanted it for JS in particular). First off, it depends on how you define your block/allow list.

Are they run-time prefs that can be toggled? There is UI/UX overhead, and related attack surface.

If they are run-time prefs, are they loaded when the browser is run, or on each page load/content type load? Do you have to maintain a list of prefs by domain? etc, etc, etc.

If they are compile time, then is it even worth doing for dramatic increase in complexity trying to support users with unusual configuration (e.g. THAT user that decides that preffing off JSON support is a good idea.)

How granular do you allow user prefs on this, and how do you account for the fact that a user may pref off an api/feature that you use as a part of exploit mitigation?

Do you want to log entries that are pref'd off so that users know what is making their favorite app fail?

What are the abuse cases for pref'd features?

How much attack surface is introduced by allowing pref'ing of features?

Does doing this actually contribute to usability on the web, or will it simply lead to a proliferation of "Please ensure that all features are pref'd on" pages, similar to the Javascript pages you often see when browsing without javascript.
‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace
I'm very interested in this space. I had an idea about 3 years ago for what appears to basically be Nebula (which I just found today based on another comment in this thread). My idea was basically:

* Creators are curated and are seeded from existing Youtube channels. Curation happens on the creator level where illegal content means removal of the channel.

* No advertising so latitude for monetization of brand-unfriendly content.

* User pay a monthly subscription fee.

* Money is divided amongst creators based on watch time.

Some ideas I had that I don't see represented:

* Users have the opportunity to pay more per month and can elect to spend this money in a discretionary way, like a "tip". This isn't shared based on watch time but by direct action from the user towards creators they want to show appreciation above and beyond.

* Creators can elect some of their content as "free" content, e.g. introductory videos, videos older than 3 months, etc. in order to attract and grow an audience. This free content does not contribute to their "watch-time" that comprises their share of subscription revenue but it can attract discretionary tips.

A couple of points:

* Anyone who scoffs at the idea of the discretionary monthly "tip" idea has not watched the flood of donations to Twitch streamers. However, some kind of feedback would be required in a similar way to TTS shoutouts - I'm not sure on this. We tend to focus on the majority who say "I would never pay $Y for anything!" while ignoring the whales that would happily pay $Y * 100 given the right incentives. If you've worked in free-to-play games then you know the revenue potential of whales. If you remove the ceiling of what people can pay, some people will pay above your wildest expectations just because they can.

* I worked in video distribution and I was closely involved in managing costs. Most people cannot believe the costs involved in delivering video. Linus mentioned terabytes of data but that is the tip of the iceberg for popular content. Costs can ramp up to $100k/month for even modest audience sizes when storage and delivery are considered. That doesn't include server costs to run the multiple back-end and front-end services needed, nor the salaries of engineers and devops to keep it up. I was unable to find a way to make the $$ work without serious up-front investment. This isn't a space you can bootstrap on free tiers of cloud services.

Ultimately the real "whales" are businesses. I don't believe any subscriber funded effort can ever attract the kind of spend that massive advertising budgets can leverage. That means that platforms funded by advertising will always have a war-chest to snipe the best content creators. Think how Mix payed for Ninja and Shroud. Even if a content creator gets popular on one of these subscriber-supported platforms there will always be an advertising platform ready with cash-in-hand to steal them away.

Despite some pessimism, I am actually very bullish on this idea and I truly hope the idea succeeds!
Whatever the case, it’s bit of odd bedfellows when extreme conservatives and some people on the left see the bi-metallic standard as something to go back to.

What’s the case for it?
You're right, but people tend to have strong priors one way of the other, often unconsciously. This is one of those classic cases where people with strong, divergent priors will disagree more strongly after seeing the same evidence. So if you want to convince people you'll have to try harder than most to find common ground.
I don't think there are that many situations where it is actually productive to prevent user from selecting and copying text even if it's just part of the UI. To focus on your example, copying user interface text might be useful for users who are not sufficiently proficient in the language that the app/website is written in and would like to copy the text into something like Google Translate. This is especially a problem with many mobile apps that prevent selecting text.
And maybe over promoted and/or inconsistent. It's said

- The results were discovered "surprisingly", but later that they were "long theorized".

- "Heat is usually conducted in a solid through the vibrations of atoms or molecules, or so-called phonons—but in a vacuum, there is no physical medium". Heat is usually conducted in a solid? I haven't heard it defined like that before.

- Their discovery "opens up unprecedented opportunities for thermal management". The style sounds a little too promotional for scientists doing basic research.

- Saying you can now "shout" in a vacuum with no qualifying words? Don't see how it's not a purely hyperbolic statement.

- Referring to his PhD defense 25 years ago having no forethought of these by himself or his professors?

Is that because quantum mechanics wasn't being taught 25 years ago or because they simply were not thinking deeply about that particular topic at the time?

After Wheeler discussed quantum foam in the 50's how many years was it before others in the field could at least imagine the possibility of results like this?
Criticism of CNN going to biased reporting began a decade or so ago when they started falling way behind in market share compared to Fox News and MSNBC.

Unfortunately being objective doesn't give a rapid fan base.

Not sure if there was a delay before it bled over to their website, I'm only aware of comments about the cable station.

It is unfortunate that unbiased boring news just doesn't sell.

The best college class I ever took (most useful?) was a logic class where we went through political speeches and disassembled them into logical statements. We learned how to strip away bias to see the underlying arguments.

My favorite test question in that class was a political speech that, when reduced down to logical statements literally equated to null. The speech went around in so many circles that, quite literally, everything said in it was unsaid at some later point in the speech and absolutely nothing was promised by the end.

I've been rather cynical of politicians ever since. Also I ended up being super sensitive to loaded phrases and propaganda. Once you've been trained in spotting it, it becomes obvious how prevalent purposeful bias is in our media.
Seems to me it would be hard to get insurance on such. If something goes wrong, it could blind somebody, burn their face, etc.
As a non-economist: Is there really any practical difference by now?
Mitochondria are the 'canary in the coal mine' for cellular stress
Wouldn't the labor/effort cost to run and terminate Ethernet vs. 120v wiring be significantly higher?

My perspective is just that of someone who's run a bit of both at an amateur level through my house, and finds terminating stupid-simple 120v wiring much, much easier than ethernet.
Insane and grotesque!

Think of all the CPU cycles on all hardware (clients + network devices) and energy used just to fetch web "content" these days.

Might as well return to just burning coal at home to keep warm, thinking of the net effect on the environment.

It's absolutely stupid.
HTML isn't legacy cruft, it's an essential part of the web that will never go away. If you want to ship an app with no HTML, then use a different platform.
Oh dear god Jesus Mary Joseph and all the saint NO.

This is too slow and too rigid. Scanning won't work in the real world. There's no immediate feedback from the surface.

You'll want something with whiskers and you'll want something on a semi-flexible armature. That industrial arm is terrifying.

Test it on a wriggling child.
Is it because say unemployment has proven to be a strange concept these days with "underemployment" being a larger concern?

Perhaps they were simply predicting the wrong thing / things that don't seem as relevant.
What would the value of this be? Why does it even matter? I am struggling to decide if this is even valuable.
Pretty much all the big tech companies have a presence here.

From what I can remember, Microsoft (Azure Storage), Amazon (ML Alexa Teams), Google, Uber (ATG), Argo AI, Aurora, Facebook (Oculus), Duolingo, and Apple are all have offices in the city.

In the suburbs I think Netapp and Oracle have offices.
I remember something like that being posted too; I think this is it? https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
> if any website can load a javascript that loads wasm code that does whatever

Any website can already do that with asm.js. WASM does not change the security model of browsers.
Paraphrased meme I saw on social media yesterday: Hipster mad that publication used a picture of him to show that all hipsters look alike eventually realizes that it was not a picture of him.
https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer

Note that the figures are in US Dollars. In next few months we'll be adding better currency support.
How to separate the winners from the losers in cloud-software stocks for 2020
Can you elaborate? I would think the sandbox nature of wasm would be a better fit than other models, and presumably no worse than JavaScript?
Looks like they're including RSUs for private companies as equivalent to cash, which dramatically skews the data.

For private companies, RSUs aren't liquid, and ISOs actually cost money to exercise, so they arguably have negative value. Treating them as cash-equivalent makes these rankings very misleading.
When I lived in the bay area I always said the biggest hikes in cost of living were the rent (obviously) and the haircuts (surprisingly!)
The long vertical slot you could come in contact with is neutral. The bottom peg is ground. The top right vertical strip is hot but it also has recessed connectors and is smaller than the usb c connector.

I'd be impressed if you could cause a short on purpose with significant force let alone fumbling in the dark.
Of all the negative signals Uber sends, this is the one the market is going to take issue with?
It is in beta stage right now. On Friday they launched a "Beta Squadron" T-Shirt over at LTT Store (https://www.lttstore.com/) to go with it.
Even light alcohol consumption linked to higher cancer risk in Japan
Why these planes remain specialists equipment and not widely adopted by the logistics industry? Are they very inefficient?
One of the great things about bjj and judo, is that they are symmetric arts. That is, both participants have the same objective. This leads to a lot of intensity / realism within the rules of engagement.

This is also a downside, as some people get very caught up in winning.

By contrast an art like aikido is assymetric meaning that the participants have different roles and goals. You have an attacker, whose goal is to attack with energy and then fall safely. You have a responder whose objective is to avoid getting hurt by the initial attack and then to execute a technique. People work up to realism in a stepwise way that requires a great deal of pushing yourself psychologically. An upside of this approach is that there are relatively few partner-inflicted injuries.

Of course a downside is that realism, which is effortless in judo or bjj, takes a long time to achieve in aikido. It’s not uncommon to find dojos that never push toward intensity or realism—which is a (valid) reason aikido is frequently criticized by practitioners of other arts.

Both approaches are valid, and most marital arts are “effective” with respect to their own threat model. It’s mostly a question of whether you want an art where your Monkey Brain is called on to temper your competitive Lizard Brain (judo, bjj). Or, do you want an art where your Monkey Brain has to incrementally push your Lizard Brain to do things it is scared to let you do (aikido).

In my experience, the latter kind of art seems to yield fewer injuries at the expense of faster progress. At the right dojo, both will provide a positive social environment and as much fitness as you desire.
It is actually smaller than the Airbus Beluga

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_aircraft
I'm not a subscriber so I can't read the article but I have a personal hypothesis about this. Developed economies have begun to enter a post scarcity state. Daily goods like food and household items are not responding to inflation because they are no longer scarce. The combination of economies of scale, automation and cheap foreign labor have brought many goods to this point.

Meanwhile, things which are still governed by scarcity, medicine, property, education are skyrocketing in price. In part because those are more opaque markets with some bad incentives but also in some part ecause people can devote much greater percentage of their income to these things.

What it really looks like to me is these economies are straddling a the line between acarcity and non-scaecity. I'm no economist though.
No, the Gold Standard effectively died when convertibility of paper currency into gold was suspended, starting with the Gold Reserve Act of 30 January 1934 and subsequently elsewhere.

The post-WWII Bretton Woods regimen of “gold standard without domestic convertibility” definitely falls short of meeting the gold standard for gold standards: absent any audit of extant gold reserves, the price of gold (dictated by a purely hypothetical estimation of availability) served as a fixed exchange-rate (and thus implicitly fixed relative real rate of risk-free interest) and not as a true gold standard.

To say that Nixon dictated the end of the Gold Standard is as myopic as to suggest that the surgeon who removes the organs from a brain-dead patient is guilty of murder.
I wish they had benchmarked the arm instances on AWS, I'd like to see a 3rd party validate AWS's claims about performance.
There's been fads bigger than Bitcoin that no one remembers anymore.

The true test of Bitcoin is longevity.
OK = Acknowledged or agreed.
OK? = Request for acknowledgement or agreement.

Anything else is reading too much into it. If I send someone an email explaining something and I get an, "OK" back, then I assume they've read it (or will read it) and I'll hear more from them if they have more to share.

When speaking in person, the "OK" itself almost completely superfluous as it's merely a vehicle for inflection and other social cues which carry the real meaning, as you noted.

> I'll just go with the sentences that attempt to preclude ambiguity.

And that's what I'd do 99% of the time, but I was specifically pointing to discussion around "OK"
Mrs Frisby has no idea what you're talking about. :D

Jenner, however, is an engineer like the rest of us.
Automated Postgres Explain Visualization and Insights
Scrubbing carbon dioxide from smokestacks for cleaner industrial emissions
Say this has been productized and I now have a seven-year-old washing machine equipped with this.

How do I know that the acoustic standing wave is still activating, and separating the microplastics?
People with disabilities and accessibility issues (blind, low vision, limited or poor motor function, etc) all have friends and family.

These users buy gifts for their friends and families. Sometimes they even buy groceries for themselves.

That makes these users your potential customers.

Traversing the web for them is already remarkably difficult, but they do it to buy things for their loved ones.

When they traverse the web they do so using a multitude of tools including specialised screen readers or keyboard and mouse controllers.

Do you know what these users do when they come across your super-aesthetic futuristic website and you hijack the selection functionality for their screen reader? They just bounce to another site or service where selection works.

If your site sells something but has been designed for aesthetics only (hijacking the scroll function, removing indicators of selection, disabling right-click functionality etc) you are excluding almost anyone over 50 (that suffers from low vision) and EVERYONE with accessibility requirements. Don't do it.

Amazing design is being able to make something aesthetically gorgeous, while also meeting or exceeding as much of the WCAG guidelines as possible.

WCAG Guidelines
https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/

Source: We're an accessibility accredited and audited design agency.
Particularly for foreign investors, having a direct family connection to a US celebrity is a huuuge deal. Also she runs a $250 million consumer direct brand so I'm sure they were thinking all kinds of GOOP cross products and promotions in the WeWork locales etc.

https://fortune.com/2018/03/30/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-series-c...
Says the person who wants people to load a ridiculously heavy web page that needs a few billion CPU cycles to run Javascript, all to load a tiny image...
Are people leaving Medium for another blog site?
I don't think the masses are going to pay for a Medium account. Curious how people are getting around this.
Maybe that's restriction for LetsEncrypt (I haven't used it myself) but certificates aren't restricted to 2nd level.
If you don't want cruft, don't make a browser-based app?
Letsencrypt won't issue certificates to IP addresses - but will to domain names (including those assigned by dynamic DNS providers, but most dynamic DNS providers need manual sign-up with username and password)

Of course, has-a.name will be rate-limited to 50 certificate a week by Letsencrypt until they get themselves onto the public suffix list. And whether it's a good idea to bypass LE's no-certs-for-ip-addresses policy is another matter...