skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inner activation function (AF) of neurons is inherently nonlinear; it has to be in order to solve any problem that is not linearly decomposable (which is basically all of the interesting problems). Often the AF nonlinearity shows up as a thresholding operation following a linear weighted sum, but that's not the only mechanism.

And yet neurons are not "pure" binary thresholders the way logic gates are because you can't take the derivative of a binary function, and you can only do backpropagation on differentiable functions. The compromise neurons make is a "smoothed threshold" or sigmoidal curve which is differentiable but still very nonlinear.
I don't think I understand the viewpoint that an industry is evil because people involved in it do bad things.

If the output of the industry makes the world worse, then it makes sense to me to consider calling it an evil industry. Like, I have doubts about ad-tech, whether it benefits society.

But if on the other hand, it's just that an industry is lucrative and attracts evil people, I don't see that evil as accruing to the industry.

Mining stones and making pretty jewelry doesn't, that I can see, have any inherent component of injustice. I mean, there are diamonds mined in Canada; are they tainted somehow?
> But this again looks not doing enough homework.

It seems naive to read a tweet with a little information about someone completing suicide, and then assume that if they had known (more) about bankruptcy they would not have done it.

There are other things that we can't read out of the tweet that are really important in these situations, like access to social support.
As they say: you owe the bank $100, it's your problem. If you owe the bank $100mil, it's the bank's problem.
And which one of them has a better track record pushing out security fixes, especially for older software?

Containers are a security nightmare because developers tend to have a release-and-forget mindset. Packagers are the ones doing the thankless work of constantly tracking issues, backporting fixes, dealing with dependency issues, etc. Take the packagers out of the equation and the result will be entirely predictable--much more stale software sitting on the hard drives of oblivious users, just as we see with containers.
It seems like that would very quickly become much more expensive than just renting a car.
Exactly the kind of comment I expected to see at the top when I clicked on these comments, really. HN loves to assume that everyone is a perfectly rational person who has infinite time to read and comprehend all minutae before doing anything, and anyone who fails to do this clearly had whatever happens to them coming.
Jest snapshot testing considered harmful
here we go again. This is like one of these "more people are killed by their washing mashines than by terrorism" takes.
Perhaps we could all seed your torrent?
I mean, I assume he lost significantly more than all his possessions
> Most users are probably better off with DoH. It protects transport better.

Thanks. Why it protects transport better?
If you read down into the Twitter thread, it seems like the -$700k net balance ("debt") may have simply been a display "error" within Robinhood's system:

"The unfortunate thing is there are certain situations where RH will show this kind of amount due, but it is an anomaly for 24 to 48 hours as things process when selling calls and puts. Uneducated traders think they actually owe these amounts which is not close to accurate[.]"

That explanation would make more sense; I don't see how Robinhood could allow inexperienced traders such amounts of unsecured margin and survive as a business.
How exactly? Even that whole tweet thread is placing blame on Robinhood who offers worse and less margin/leverage than normal brokers?

If there is energy to direct, it has more to do with people that don't have a self preservation instinct and deciding whether we actually want to add one back to them. Very different than misattributing disdain towards the action they ascribed to their suicide.

It is pretty tone deaf to get this mixed up.
A torrent could share the load perhaps
There is not an equal probability of a day trader making 700k and losing 700k trading options.

Market makers won’t demonize day trading—the “new blood” are their best marks.
It sounds like some buzzword speak. Most things that are heralded as ML are nothing but data science idiots from python schools applying some basic math transformations and overselling them.
Young folks: remember, don't trade options.
So if there are warning signs you're okay with allowing someone with no income to leverage to the tune of $700K?

I think this is the basis for the accusation of tone-deafness.
Size of impact is orthogonal to quality of impact, people who chase social stats seem to forget this fact.
The backing ethical stance is that EVERYONE should be protected, from everything.

But there's a practical problem applying this to student loans -- nobody who needs student loans will come out of college with meaningful assets. No house, maybe no car, no income. If you could discharge student loans in bankruptcy... there's absolutely no reason to not do it immediately upon graduation. Everyone would do declare BK and clear their debts, for good reason.

So nobody would ever give a student loan. Also for good reason.

So BK doesn't apply to student loans. Obviously there are other fixes here (government paid tuition, income based repayment, online classes, whatever), but the naive fix ("allow students to discharge loans") would not get us to a better-functioning outcome.

(unless your position is that burning the system down is a better outcome than status quo, which is a position, but it's then dishonest to argue that discharging loans is a "quick fix")
I am not going to argue that...but I am questioning the notion that we still need to restrain suspects in something archaic and badly designed handcuffs.

What are going to be the non lethal means of questioning, restraining and holding etc..(I don’t know the exact terms for what they do now..).

If there is no need for an arresting officer or a police officer to even approach a suspect, then we are eliminating the chances of something bad happening right at the beginning. Perhaps a lot of procedural accidents can be avoided.

This is not to say that racism would be eliminated or reduced. But if it does exist As a reason for arrest, it doesn’t have to be lethal and take a life.
It's an oldschool txt pager caputre. They are unencrypted over the air.

This data is not new[1], and it does originally source from wikileaks. It starts before the first aircraft impact[2].

There is a link in my profile that covers the same timeframe.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100911151142/http://911dataset...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160405052531/http://911encyclo...
Mods didn't touch this post, or see it, until I turned the flags off just now.
There is also an open source rule based integrator that I came across.

https://rulebasedintegration.org/
This is exactly right.

This story just got a lot more tragic... He maybe lost $10k. Maybe nothing at all.

Hell, he might have made money, but the RH UI just showed him this abysmal number.

Or there's more to this story. I would be interested in knowing how long the issue had been going on, and if RH support had been contacted.
> If you steal from someone for years without being caught

Wait, what? Who said anything about stealing? Publishers might try to argue piracy but CDL doesn't seem to fit that either on account of the DRM.

Honestly I'm not at all clear what a cohesive argument against CDL would look like. Given the first sale doctrine it wouldn't even surprise me if some of the current ebook pricing practices were actually illegal.
>he'd be celebrated as a hero who beat the market at such a young age

He'd be a lucky fool in my book.

This sort of trading is gambling, pure and simple. Winning doesn't retroactively make it a good decision to play.
> If you don't care about user control, why would you be using Linux at all?

I mean, that isn't what I said necessarily.

I use Linux because Windows is bloated, slow garbage and OSx is crippled, locked-down Linux with a UI I'm none too fond of.

I'm not a power-user. I run Ubuntu with i3, that's about the depths of my linux-wizardry.

> When you hit a bug in a flatpak or snap, what are you going to do?

Install the apt repo or build from source I suppose?
I would hug someone if I could have a playable Vigilante 8 experience. Explosions are black squares. The menu does weird things. Many other smaller bugs.

I played that game so much as a teen. It's possible the PS version is more playable but it would feel off playing the wrong version.
I wish removing the ego was as simple as pulling a linguistic trick of dropping the "I" in a sentence or saying just dont think of the I.
I don't torrent, and it's silly to violate copyright on something they're literally offering for free...

Bear in mind that while they're letting you download it for free, Springer doesn't permit redistribution.
That remains unclear. Similar to q/k4/kdb, it's optimized for fin-tech database work; that is, operations on very long columns. Apl (esp. dyalog) and j have proper multidimensional arrays, which means that e.g. matrix ops are practical/easier. They also have better tacit programming support.
If the quoted $700k loss was a glitch, is robinhood in any way liable here?
Tissue rejuvenation by exchanging old blood plasma with saline-albumin
Because otherwise nobody would offer student loans.
Or, you know, you could just not drive drunk, fall asleep in the middle of a fast food restaurant's drive through lane, and then fail a sobriety test, start a fight, steal a weapon (while drunk) and try to use that very same weapon in anger, whatever it opportunistically happens to be.

Keeping in mind that you didn't plan on having that weapon, and were it the case that you had been left to go about your business, whatever judgement aided you in picking fights is the same judgement you'd be using to drive your car out on public roads, in traffic, yes, the car you drunkenly passed out in, while parked at a drive through.

Drunk driving leads to death sentences in it's own way.
Same here. It disappeared after the first 24 hours for me and I didn't feel any hunger for the next 2 days, which was really weird. I didn't feel any tiredness or cognitive impairment (this is difficult to prove though, lol) either.
Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge
Since student loans come right at the start of everyone's adult life, it would be very common to strategically declare bankruptcy upon graduation, writing off good credit in your mid 20s in exchange for free education.

That's my understanding of why student loans have to stick with you.
Out with the Old Blood (Tissue Rejuvenation with Saline-Albumin)
Excellent post and a great start to the discussion.

The comment by "Enopoletus Harding" is racist and idiotic.

EDIT: Wow - what the fuck is wrong with HN readers?
People "made" 700k for him to lose it, less fees.

Because speculative trading is a zero sum game, it creates no wealth. And no, this isn't wheat farmers hedging bad weather.
Robinhood is such an ironic name for the app.

The elephant in the room is, the people who Robinhood is supposedly letting buy into a vast money fountain that is the stock market already had a way to get in.

The fees that other brokorages were charging shouldn't have mattered if these people were investing in the only responsible way for someone who doesn't know what they're doing... and that's buying into an index fund and leaving it for several years.

By it's very nature, the people who end up in Robinhood, who wouldn't be able to get "into" other brokrages, are the kinds of people who get eaten up whole by the rest of the market.

It's the rich stealing even more from the poor, while giving them the illusion they're all sitting at the same table eating the same meal.
-

If Robinhood was really about doing what it claims to do, the app would have 3 tickers, QQQ, SPY, and DIA.

And when you put money in, it'd warn you that you should be ready to leave that money there for at least 5 years.

It sure as hell wouldn't have options trading.
The government could trivially shut down the internet.

They could easily raid the ICANN and IANA offices in playa vista and shut down global DNS in about an hour if they wanted. It's just a single floor, you could probably do it with 2 police officers.

The chains that bind them from doing so are those of public accountability.

A diligent public strangles the powers of a revanchist government.

Again I agree with you there are regrettable policies that should be addressed. Governance offers us that mechanism. That's why it's preferable as an institution in deciding public policy.

I'd rather have our imperfect government with their awful War on Drugs running the show than say Beyer, who marketed heroin to kids for mild ailments, or Purdue pharma which peddled opioids, you know, as late as last year, or the huxster Elizabeth Holmes or the price gouging Martin Shkreli or RJ Reynolds or any other profit seeking unaccountable entity.

Replacing the FDA with say a board of Shkreli, Holmes and Purdue? Yeah, I'm sure that'd go just great.
It's not even a hypothetical. Peterson just completely misrepresented the law and actual lawyers have said that all of his claims were nonsense.
I bet having to publicly explain real credit card interest rates, or the components of food, or conflicts of interest for top corporate officers, can be against some powerful interests.

But I suppose this such cases are some of the few cases where regulations (not even necessarily state-imposed) really work in the public interest.
Why are there so few Black through-hikers on the Appalachian Trail?
The world has moved on since those days, the software development world won't revert to what is was like then, it would instead change in different ways if copyright goes away.
> Currently implemented for Objective-C, Swift, and Java programs

Are Uber's Android apps written in Java? I would have thought they would be Kotlin.
Please don't drag the rest of the world in it,

this student loan construction is certainly the current state of the USA
To give a bit perspective: in many countries there are mostly no warning signs and barriers on highways. Sometimes a few trees, the occasional speed limit sign and warning of steep slopes. Only on places where accidents are so common they add barriers to prevent cars going into oncoming lanes, but that doesn’t prevent accidents from happening.

It’s tragic that the 20yo died, many sites warn that trading is risky. What they shouldn’t allow is to trade with more money than you can prove to possess.
I had a $200,000 bill on AWS last week. I made a support query and got it removed.

I could have written a suicide note, but then I didn't. It actually never crossed my mind. It was so inconsequential that I was prepared to just move my static website off of that S3 bucket into another AWS account bucket, and remove my credit card which prompts Amazon to just terminate the account. If it went to actual collections I would have been ready to discharge it and deal with the consequences of not being able to get airlines miles on a premium credit card for a few years.

In 2020, this is considered tone deaf.
Play Donkey.bas
Thanks for finding the timestamp/quote! That is what I was talking about, I specifically remembered the "riding a dragon" part. I do see it included in the article now too.
> But Apple can chew gum and walk at the same time.

I don't know, look how long it took for Apple to finally replace the damn keyboards.
That is not correct. Trained B cells are predominantly stored in lymph nodes. You also don’t gain host immunity by marrow transfer.
Presumably the debt would get sold to debt collectors for pennies on the dollar and they would try to get what they can, perhaps settling for some fraction of the amount. Bankruptcy would probably make it all go away.
Are those checks actually needed?

"2.2 % 2 === 1" works just as well, so why is the isInteger check needed? Why is the isSafeInteger check needed? And "a % 2" is already NaN (and thus false), although an explicit error is arguably better than silently eating it.
The US has a long history of not being “moral actors” when it comes to the rights and freedoms of racial and religious minorities and non straight people. Having a government that caters to the majority is fine if you are in the majority.

We just saw the government stripping rights of transexuals with regards to health care. What would they do if they had more access to data? If you were a Muslim America would you trust the government in its current state to have more access to your data?
In case you aren't aware of it, FOSSjobs is a site where companies post jobs for working on open source. There is also a list of resources, which contains a list of a bunch of open source companies and other ways to get paid to work on open source.

https://www.fossjobs.net/
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
Yeah, I think fees and externalities mean that speculation is a negative-sum game. I used to work for financial traders, but I quit that industry because I decided it was, however lucrative, a net societal negative.
> It might be the case that organic farms treat animals better than factory farms. But the reason factory farms exist is because the demand for meat is so high that non-factory farms simply wouldn't be able to meet it without using vastly more land and resources than we have available.

I understand this question, but its made from the premise that it could deliver the goods during the pandemic; where in reality, it didn't. So mamy stores had shortages, and processing plants were shut down due to COVID related deaths and those that did deliver were in such short supply that stores had restrictions on how many a person could buy in one visit, further driving the argument that it didn't work.

It also negates why Farmers are seeing all time high sales for their products [1].

> So we can talk about customers should buy from "humane" farms and what not, but that has to be paired with a massive reduction in meat consumption for it to be possible. Society can't just keep eating the amount of meat they do, and at the same time only buy from "humane" farms.

I'll agree, N and S America consumes way too much meat than the rest of the World by a large margin, its unfathomable to me now, but when I first moved to Europe I was the same way. I was farming, so 12+ hours of labour a day, and by the end of the day my body was crying out for animal fat and protein and would suffer if it didn't as that was how I was raised most of my Life to eat: 2:1 protein to carb ratio, 1:1 meat to vegetable.

It took a lot of work, but that is no longer the case and my health is way better for it; I now rely on a more plant fat based diet (olive oil, coconut) with animals based proteins being only eaten 2-3 times a week and carbs (rice, bread, potatoes) and vegetables to fill the gaps. I eat a lot more eggs and hemp based protein, but those are sustainable and renewable sources.

I also mainly made my meals from the 'scraps' from working in restaurants as a chef over the years and I really only eat once a day, so in total it was a net negative footprint. I also fed a lot of younger people in FOH that way, too. I still have a freezer full of salmon and tuna in my freezer as there was so much of it.

There is also this analysis on Tyson that I thought was a really good read [2].

1: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/farmers-are-selli...

2: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/analysis-tyson-foo...
The question isn’t whether they’d work for free, it’s whether they’d work if it was impossible to generate revenue through enforceable copyrights. We know that even under these conditions, some authors would work for free, others would be paid by companies that benefit from their work other than through the sale of licensed copies, and still others would be paid by patrons and governments. It’s impossible to say whether the loss of all new works that don’t fall into these categories would outweigh the gain of all existing creative works becoming available for unlimited free use, but we can be pretty confident that there would still be more new creative works (perhaps of lower average quality) than any person could consume in a lifetime.
If I'm not mistaken Elements of Statistical Learning and all other books by the authors are already available for free on their website

https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/pub.htm
The efficient market hypothesis says otherwise. If it was easier to lose money (ignoring trading costs and spreads) than it was to make money, I could easily beat the market by doing the opposite of the average joe loser.
My 1 year old has no preconception that running across the highway is dangerous, she'd do it in an instant if I let her. We'll spend the next decade teaching her that kind of stuff:

- the oven doesn't look dangerous, but it's hot

- this water looks like the other one, but it's boiling and will hurt

- a car can drive across the street and run over you

- the electric outlet looks passive but it'll electrocute you

Aside for very primal fears, people aren't born with a plethora of "things to know are dangerous in the modern world". So I'm not surprised that a 20yo would end up not knowing that there's a risk and that it's "obvious".
For the record, I don't agree with the status quo. I think student loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy. Other replies have brought many good points. I have one more to add:

There is one important difference between student loan and other loans. If your mortgage gets foreclosed, you lose your house. Your car loan, you lose the vehicle. Margin, you lose your stocks and investments and the collateral. In all these cases, when you cannot pay back the loan, the lender takes away your right to continue enjoying any benefits from the loan. You cannot not repay your mortgage but keep the house free and clear. Thus there is a strong incentive not to default on these loans.

This is fundamentally different from student loans. If you do not repay your student loans, the bank cannot wipe the knowledge you gained from your brain and sever the contacts you made in university. You will continue enjoying all the benefits of the education. Thus there would be a strong incentive to declare bankruptcy as soon as you graduate (because you have little to no assets to lose) if this were an option.
Is there an easy way to tell the version of an encpass.sh if all you have is the script?

Say I was checking my encpass.sh files on a bunch of different nodes and wanted to make sure they were all based on the current master version - would I have to sha256 them and compare?
So you're arguing that there's been a massive pent up demand for alt right content that has gone unmet until now? I'm not buying it. People are very easily influenced by what you put in front of them. Until recently there were some moderating influences on what that was.
The US government has treated people outside the US a lot worse than it's treated its own citizens, in the last 100 years, yet anti-US government people in the US don't seem to talk about that. You don't get invaded, saturation bombed, napalmed, droned etc. Or your democracy replaced with military dictators given a load of weapons and torture training.

Still, why corporations are internally so much better by nature than governments, in that world-view, I don't see.
This is super unfortunate, really sorry to hear about it

Robinhood, is like any tool, and can be used in a positive or negative way.

I've been telling my friends using Robinhood to check out https://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/03933...

Commission free ETFs and blue chip stocks are great ways to start building wealth (especially for novice traders who are not interested in specific tax advantages). Everyone should really read the book before trading