skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... their arguments stem from asking you to ignore certain facts and have faith, usually in the holy whitepaper.

As the scriptures of the great Satoshi Nakamoto [1] foretold, the bankers are coming to steal our net worth through inflation. Therefore, help me move my narcotics proceeds overseas.

[1] (Satoshi is likely the international narcotics and arms trafficking, real-life, super-racist Bond-esque villain Paul "Solotshi" Calder Le Roux: https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-inte...)
All Literature departments in the western world.

Seriously, though: First half is pretty conventional assertion, the second half is taking it into pretty hyperbolic territory. Even if it’s right. “Shakespeare” (the works, and allowing for controversies over authorship and attribution) is still worth talking about if you just stuck to the first half of the sentence.
As a person who recalls every bite and gains weight at one meal a day with no snacking at all, this is not helpful. I'm still looking for advice on why I'm being told to count my food intake in a lisp discussion.
> Jira isn't inherently a better or worse tool than most others out there.

I'm not sure I can fully agree with this based on my experience.

When you talk about Jira being set up poorly, it makes me think about how workflows, permissions, project structures, etc are configured. This is definitely a pain point for me and I'm sure someone like yourself could bring a lot of improvements in this area. I fully buy that Jira is extremely powerful in this regard and it is possibly my orgs's fault for why it sucks so bad right now.

However, there are some other issues that I imagine are not so easily correctable. These pain points are mostly related to how the product integrates with other software - how slow it is, how cumbersome and nonintuitive the UI is, and how absolutely god awful the content editors are - particularly the wysiwyg editor in confluence (seriously bad!).

Maybe I'm off base here, so feel free to correct me. I'm sure you've had more experience with these products than I. However, I have used a lot of alternatives and from the point of view of a simple user, the Atlassian experience is not on par.
7 Reasons to Not Hire a Data Scientist
Quality is implied within the feature/scope grouping. Its always a three leg stool trade off for balance. Changing your quality output is just reducing or adding to scope requirements.

Budget = Resuorces / Time = Time / Scope = Quality
Money wise, everyone I know who wasn’t doing too well before the pandemic, is now totally broke.

One of my acquaintances, hasn’t paid rent last month, and frequents food banks now. The promised relief checks have yet to arrive too.

The job market post pandemic looks like it will be pretty rough, so the longer this goes on without relief the more debt people will incur.

I am personally not against continuing the lockdown, even though it’s deeply emotionally draining, but the government needs to consistently provide money for people to live, or else simple desperation is going to become a wide spread problem.
Out of curiosity: what do you think of the attempts to create something better than emails for communication? Maybe easier to host without getting harassed by big corps anti-spam systems. Maybe with cryptography being easier and less error prone to use.

What do you think of something like Matrix?
>... food supply chain gets disrupted.

Food supply chain disruption is known thing because populations without herd immunity that congregate together, if one person in that herd becomes ill, the disease will rocket through the population. It's happening already. It's really easy for Trump to sign papers to force a company to produce food. Trump can't sign papers to make individuals healthy enough to work or make individuals unafraid to congregate for work purposes.
It also gives a path to nuclear power and weapons for counties with no uranium deposits.
Thanks for the tips.

I wasn't aware of what an accessible colour scheme is, a bit of searching and clicking led me to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines guidelines [1]. Now I know to search for something like "WCAG colour scheme" there seem to be many more resources that are a bit less dry.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
If you consider all the trade-offs (performance / simplicity / security / etc), and you need to create robust RPC services, whether microservices or outward facing API frontends - Go (to me at least) will be the best choice considering all aspects (C++ may be faster but harder to write/debug in, Java more widely adopted but a nightmare in every other aspect, Python easier but slower and less stable, etc etc).

Think about successful tools use Go - they would have been a nightmare in some aspect in most other languages. Can you imagine Kubernetes in Java? Docker in Python? It shines where it shines for a reason.
Clearly the fact that ICANN board withheld consent is evidence that all the protesting and hoopla from the people opposed to the transfer of the .org domain was completely pointless.

/sarcasm
You make it sound like they're in some kind of risky and unpredictable business not conducive to long-term planning.
Why is that guaranteed? If a lot of companies that are using AWS experience declining business activity or even complete shutdown due to the recession, why couldn't AWS's revenues decline?
If you haven't heard of Clojure, you probably haven't listened to a Rich Hickey talk. They're worth it even if you don't use Clojure. "The Value of Values" and "Simple Made Easy" in particular.
You realize for recaptcha to work best you are supposed to use it on all forms and actions and background of pages?

"reCAPTCHA works best when it has the most context about interactions with your site, which comes from seeing both legitimate and abusive behavior. For this reason, we recommend including reCAPTCHA verification on forms or actions as well as in the background of pages for analytics."

When you say reCaptcha doesn't capture user data are you lying? Have you actually implemented any of this and tried to fight fraud. I ask because you and the original author are making a lot of big claims and ill intent assumptions that literally ANYONE dealing with large scale fraud attempts would see through immediately.

Seriously, everyone else is sticking all sorts of beacons on websites for this - that's currently how it is being done.
They don’t actually do credit checks, but for some reason, they all have boilerplate language to make you sign your rights away and allow them to anyway. It’s frustrating. I always question them on those, and ask what specifically they will be checking.

It usually even has language saying they can contact your neighbors to ask about your character, so I pick that out and say “Waitaminute, you want to talk to my neighbors? That seems a little invasive. What is going on here?” That’s when I get their response in writing about what they are really going to check.
Lots of research done on this by Bryan Caplan (Princeton) [1], the TLDR is return on a degree is mostly signaling.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education

P.S. Signaling is very profitable for the individual benefitting from the signaling, it just isn't good for society.
I took a course on Applied Bayesian Statistics taught by David Draper in grad school and we covered Bayesian Data Analysis (Gelman et Al.) http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ and Probability Theory and tbe Logic of Science by Ed Jaynes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521592712/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apa_i_v3...

The former is a much recommended book since it's very comprehensive and builds everything from the ground up and was the basis for the entire course. The latter is a beast of it's own and we simply covered what was effectively the first chapter as part of the course.
The solutions are hard, because they are social and political, not purely technical.

I’m simply serving as a reminder that they’re important despite being hard, and that we should not be dissuaded by their difficulty: the danger is real.

> I do find it a bit insulting that you just seem to assume that this problem has never been tackled before.

Please try to assume good faith before you assume bad faith.
Local also and very sensitive to overwrought cringy videos, and I don't find his presentation offputting. He's quick enough, genuine and to the point that the little jokes (parrot milk) are easy enough to ignore if you don't like them.
Uranium enrichment to a suitable level is a seriously involved industrial process that requires thousands of supersonic centrifuges to do at scale. This is not something that flies under the radar easily. It's also very energy intensive to run those centrifuges, so it's difficult to conceal.
Thanks very much for this link. I am constantly looking for new ways to search, and this is a great tool for my tricky searches.
The recipe is indeed not bad, but one thing that trips people up with Indian cooking is that store brought garam masala is pretty terrible. Using garam masala from the supermarket isn’t any different from using a jar of curry paste from the supermarket. Aside from the issue of quality, it goes stale, and when that happens the more subtle flavors fade first. Leaving you with something that is essentially cardamom powder, which can easily overpower a dish. For anybody that wants to get into Indian cooking, I’d suggest they always make their own masala mix at home, because it’s not difficult and the differences are pretty significant.
> The wart where ; is required before } and not ) doesn't help.

Also the spaces are required between the {} and commands in Bash which is another brainclunk to deal with.
This author has no business writing on this subject if she can't even get the basic terminology correct. There's a difference between a mask and a respirator. To over simplify, one deflects and one filters. Masks don't have valves, respirators (sometimes) do.

A valved n95 respirator is essentially acting as a respirator (filter) while inhaling, and as a mask (deflector) while exhaling.

Calling valved respirators half useless implies that masks are wholly useless.

Neither surgical masks or cotton/other homemade masks (or valved respirators) are designed to filter exhaled breath; in fact, most of the air goes around surgical masks, but droplets hit and stick to the mask based on the same principles of bugs hitting a windshield.

And that's all they're designed to do- retain/deflect droplets/particles expelled by the wearer. Valved respirators still do this. Even the tiny gap in the open valve usually is filtered, just not to n95 levels.

Of course all of this presumes the user is using the PPE correctly in the first place. If you don't know the difference between a mask and a respirator, I can almost guarantee you're using yours wrong.
If I understand you correctly, this means that Moldbug's proposed solution - a return to authoritarianism - won't actually change anything.
I think that would probably make urbit a lot more genuinely useful.
I searched but couldn't find any info - why do they need a custom kernel? What changes do they make and why don't they upstream them?
Going based on numbers from Wikipedia, U-235 is good for 83.14 TJ/kg, but that isotope only has a natural abundance of 0.72%. So 3 micrograms of uranium in the natural proportions would get you around 1800 J ignoring any contribution from other isotopes (ie. you're not using a breeder reactor). That means your uranium extraction method needs to be very energy efficient indeed.
Subscribers aren't really a merit on YT anymore. It's all about AVG views on high cadence content.
That sounds so intrusive. It wouldn’t be amiss, once hired and enough trust has been built, to try to get HR to drop that practice.

Companies generally aren’t monsters! They don’t want to break the law, they are risk averse and don’t want to be sued, and want to attract good people. Most worth their salt would be receptive to some constructive criticism about how invasive it is to have unsolicited interrogations from a third party.
I am sure that ICANN is hoping the matter is just dropped now.
100% savings == $0

How do you save 122%?
ICANN is incorporated in California, has their headquarters there, and does significant business. Any of the three would be sufficient, but the incorporation was called out.
Maryland called in National Guard to defend coronavirus tests against seizure
Seems like both Stripe and website author are misusing the browser feature.

Seems like core problem is lack of storage API that can only be accessed from JS that's executes from same domain?

Edit: Seems localStorage does isolate per domain, but I am not sure whether it's for page itself or for external JS too.
here is the api you want. I use this to auto schedule my todos from a plain text file to my calendar

https://developers.google.com/calendar/v3/reference/freebusy...
I was going to ask how you speed up pygments so much, but apparently the answer is "actually, some stuff is cached".
If their goal is to never gain enough momentum to make this more than a toy project, then that makes sense.

Personally it annoys the fuck out of me.
What is your interest of the topic? There’s things you are passionate about and then there’s things you have to do to get to what your passionate about.
OTOH, the absolute numbers matter. If it's $1,000K/yr for AWS, that's $100K/yr for Oracle. That could be a deciding factor - $900M difference

OTOH, if you are getting 90% off the list on both, you're talking $100M vs $10M. That's enough where features, SLA, QoS, matters more ($90M).
Didn't they bring in a new management team from the for-profit world who talked up expanding into major new roles? If your leaders have a mindset shaped by puffing up stock prices every quarter you tend to be interested in big, sweeping changes even if they don't make much sense long-term.
Maybe it declined for other reasons, but my impression was that the Lisp world was very splintered. I certainly can't think of any other example of a set of quite similar languages that's anywhere near as large.

The Xerox Dandelion and friends was a thing to behold. If you ever got to touch one, you never forgot it.

In my school, implementing a basic Lisp interpreter was part of a required class in the CS curriculum. (If it's not still, everywhere, well, then for shame.)

Yeah, production is something else entirely. By "easy", I mean that dozens if not hundreds of people were tempted to write their own slightly better Lisp. Many of those did reach a production-ish level. But then what? There was no flag to rally around--just lots and lots of niche systems.

I'm not sure. I think if the community had rallied around Common Lisp or Scheme, or maybe just those two, it might have ruled the world. It just didn't happen.

And I'm miserably sad about that. What do we have now? Elisp is great, but I can't build production on emacs. I'll look at Clojure, but I'm dubious. Python is kind of lispy, but has had its own destructive schism. And C++ marches on--somewhere buried in there is a mildly functional lisp, using the worst of all possible syntaxes.
How does the vetting for debt like that work?

Can a company refuse to hire me unless I divulge my private financial details? If I forge a spreadsheet of my accounts, how would they know it wasn’t real?
Interesting. I think there are more factors at play here. Learning a new language has a definite "cognitive cost". One issue is the perception of banality/drudgery i.e. lack of excitement/motivation involved in learning a language which is not too different (computation modelwise) from what you already know. As an example, having worked with C/C++ for a long time i just cannot summon the motivation to learn Python/JS etc. They are "boring". The constant comparison of features/syntactic sugar soon becomes tiresome. And subconsciously you feel that the effort/payoff ratio is not worth it until external circumstances force a change (eg. a new project requiring the language).

I think it is better to be fluent in one or two languages so that you can focus on the problem without bothering about other incidental complexities. The only time where the effort in learning a new language is worth it is when you learn a new model of computation/thinking that expands your mind (eg. Erlang, Haskell, Mozart/Oz)
My Personal Brand Audit: April 2020
‘ICANN received the letter last week, and is fully cooperating with the Attorney General's request for information. ICANN is subject to regulation by the CA-AGO, which is responsible for supervising charitable organizations in California. ICANN is a California public benefit, nonprofit corporation. ICANN and PIR have agreements in place regarding PIR's operation of the .ORG registry and other registries (PIR Registry Agreements).’

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2020-01-30-en
Nvidia runs very well under Arch and Manjaro. Install the proprietary drivers and let Conda handle CUDA. It's as close to anything Just Working with Nvidia drivers for neural nets that I've found.
It's not all that similar to AWS Lambdas in concept or in execution. Those are stateless; to a very good first approximation, they're just a single-route web server with all the boilerplate abstracted away, and that starts up a fresh instance to handle each request and is shut down again immediately after.

What 'sillysaurusx describes is much more similar to what, in Scheme and elsewhere but these days mainly there, is called "continuation-passing style". It's a way of pausing a partially completed computation indefinitely by wrapping it up in a function that closes over the state of the computation when you create it, and calling that function later to pick up from where you left off when you're ready to proceed again.

I suppose you could maybe do that with an AWS Lambda, but because the technique relies strongly on the runtime instance staying around until the computation finishes, it would probably get expensive. Lambdas aren't priced to stay running, after all.

As a side note, it's worth mentioning that the "AWS Lambda" product, which whatever its virtues isn't actually a lambda, derives its name from the lambda calculus, where I believe the concept of anonymous first-class functions originates. I don't recommend reading about the lambda calculus itself unless you're up for a lot of very heavy theory, but it's worth knowing that, especially in the Lisp world and realms adjacent, you'll often see the term 'lambda' used in a sense which has nothing to do with the AWS product, but rather refers to a form of abstraction that relies on defining functions which retain access to the variable ("lexical") scopes in which they were created, even when called from outside those scopes. Javascript functions have this property, which is why they're capable of expressing the technique 'sillysaurusx describes, and it gives them a lot of other useful capabilities as well.
Terence Tao's answer here fascinates me, even though I only partially understand his response.

> For instance, one can view a high-dimensional vector space as a state space for a system with many degrees of freedom. A megapixel image, for instance, is a point in a million-dimensional vector space; by varying the image, one can explore the space, and various subsets of this space correspond to various classes of images.

I don't understand this. How is he thinking of a 2D data structure as a n-dim vector space? The only way I can think of mapping n-dims to 2d is maybe taking two n-dimensional vectors and visualizing the 2D plane between them, or projecting n-dimensions onto 2D space...

> For instance, the fact that most of the mass of a unit ball in high dimensions lurks near the boundary of the ball can be interpreted as a manifestation of the law of large numbers, using the interpretation of a high-dimensional vector space as the state space for a large number of trials of a random variable.

I think this came up recently in another hnews thread. The way I interpret this statement is that you can interpret the probability of events occurring in a portion/segment of a n-dimensional space as permutations of those segmented events in each dimension:

1/k^n
where:
k = number of segments
n = number of dimensions

So for example, if you have a 1D line, and you want to find the probability of ending up in a third of the line, the formula is:
1/3^1 = 0.333

If we think extend this to a plane, and look at the probability of ending up in the third of 2 dimensions:

1/3^2 = 1/9

Would be curious if someone has another interpretation.
I thought the numbers from wikipedia looked a little shaky, maybe. I couldn't find those specific numbers in the reference UN PDF.

Google says soil concentration of Uranium is like 3ppm. But, if you do the math, 668 x 1200 x 1000 x (1/1000000) = 802g for every ppm. 3ppm Uranium would be 2.4kg by this number.

Lead is at like 15-40ppm (https://ag.umass.edu/soil-plant-nutrient-testing-laboratory/... ), so between 12 and 32 kg of lead in everyone's back yard?
Article from 2017. Also not very informative IMHO about how this process actually works
Actually some of the others are just objectively better. Like local authorities which can adapt rules to local conditions and give people the option to exit and go somewhere else if the local rules are sufficiently outside what they find reasonable.

It's like asking whether you'd prefer your landlord to have a national monopoly on land. (No.)
I think you're right to suggest the actual income from PIR was predictable. But it was also unusual. Deriving so much money from a single place imperils tax status as a 501(c) I am told. perhaps this wasn't a problem for them. (I've never been aware of the board and its finance decisions)

I was led to believe moving to a trust with oversight of a fund is different, and more beneficial as a perpetuating entity. And, Org and PIR relates to the status of Verisign and COM and also places ISOC in a relationship with ICANN which I suspect was irksome, because in so many other senses ISOC felt it was not subject to ICANN direction but actually one of the peer-set.

If I had been on the board, and a well structured proposal had been put to me to do this, I truly don't know what I would have said. My instinct is: this should be discussed publicly and we should get community consensus, but I could imagine other pressures/tensions emerged.
There is no mention of frequency stability in the disadvantages section. Do you have any response to the main point of my comment?

I was referring to the same thing you were with "spinning metal". At the top of this thread, you said "great big spinning metal shafts".
From the guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

The upvoting and discussion suggest this article falls within the HN zone, even if it's a bit different to the norm (which is all the better to keep things fresh).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Does this also happen with Android One phones?
As long as it’s not on-premise, it’s not a Jira alternative.
ISOC is also over other important things including ietf.

Instead of moving .org. There need to be some accountiblty and/or leadership change inside of ISOC
An instance of you.
Hillarious! Had me in splits.
A start-up is just any company that's founded, usually with aspirations, and what I'm saying is that, technically, you can throw anyone you want on your cap table at formation [note]. I'm not saying it's typical or common, just that it's fundamentally possible. Same with founder compensation.

Bitcoin as a "passive investment" is such a lame comparison because it does, literally, nothing, just like hanging onto some beanie babies. Beanie babies, but much more wasteful.

[note] Anyone who's an employee or an accredited investor.