skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Theories have enormous effect on reality. Coase Theorem^ dictated how radio spectrum was managed in the US, with disastrous results. Monetarism dictates most decisions made by central banks. Unionisation and later union-busting were very closely tied to social science theories. "Romer theory" had profound influence on world bank and UN policies.

All of these rose to prominence in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, which is my point. Our institutions are stuck there and haven't been able to break out of them even though most of the theory has refined or invalidated many of these claims based on the empirical evidence and natural experiments we now have.

The most recent one you cited, the Endogenous Growth theory, is actually the one that has been most open to adaptation and criticism. And this is largely because the organizations to whom it is most germane--like the World Bank and the IMF--are largely staffed by economists and social scientists rather than the career bureaucrats and political/industry flacks that the rest of the government is. But even then, it has lots of trouble being reflected in US government policy (agencies like State/USAID) because of that same issue I mentioned.

> No need to rethink theories just because they predict falsities. No problem if the updated parameter values imply a reality that is obviously false.

I don't know where you're getting this from. Basically every 101 level Econ textbook mentions this exact thing and how it led to having to seriously reconsider how much agency workers have in actually deciding their labor/leisure mix. Behavioral and Welfare Economists are particularly interested in this question.
Remember in linear algebra how you spent most of the time learning about eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and particularly how to "diagonalize" a matrix `A` into `A=PDP^-1`? Doing this makes `A` easier to work with, so problems that include `A` are often easier to solve if you replace `A` with `PDP^-1`.

The laplace transform is the same thing, but instead of matrices, it works on derivatives. Equations involving `d/dt` are often made easier to work with by instead using `s`.

Longer answer:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-purpose-of-Laplace-transfo...
how is this different from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.08240.pdf

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When I tell people I don't like tracking the defense of all this nonsense is "People prefer getting relevant adverts". The campaign to normalize this is so good I often here consumers repeating it.

But the inherent assumption is that the data is only used for benign ad targeting and ignores the possibility that the data will end up in the wrong hands like it has here. The response seems to be "{{ad tech company}} has some of the best developers in the world and they want to protect that data!". Except leaks like this are inevitable. So long as tracking is a thing, data will leak, and hostile actors will abuse it.
This is an area I know enough to be dangerous in, so would love to learn more if anyone has resources.

From my understanding a 501(c)(4) is a social welfare organization that can engage in political activity as long as it isn't its primary purpose. I didn't want to risk us breaking that restriction.

The IRS pages, FEC pages, and wikipedia is where I spent most of my time studying these orgs:
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/other-non-profits/...
When you see Citi 'headquarted' in Sioux Falls you know something is up. ND, SD, NV, AZ, UT, FL, TX--one seldom gets a warm and fuzzy feeling of reassurance from these business addresses.
> Liberty means liberty for all, especially those whom you intensely disagree with.

Correct, and said people have the liberty to create their own websites.

Freedom of speech also means freedom from compelled speech. Removing section 230 means all sites have to be like 4chan - devoid of moderation and hosting the content of genuine Nazis and the like.

While it's fair to point out that moderation may be biased, forcing sites to remove moderation for fear of being held liable for content users post is not a positive change.

Note that the groups pushing the removal of section 230 are some of social media's biggest competitors (namely traditional media). This is a calculated move. Remove section 230 and social media becomes a cesspool. This pushes users out of social media and back in front of cable news and newspapers.
Surely the optimist would take this question to assume that someone is interested in expanding their math knowledge and might not have an issue getting exposed to more math.

I think your answer is akin to telling a french tourist that they shouldn't try and learn basic conversational french because they could never hope to understand the complexity of the complete language.
I'm just speculating, but probably declining birth rates as economies develop.
Yes. Just because you bought a game on Steam doesn't mean you have to purchase all additional content through them as well. Steam installs full-fledged applications directly in the OS, not locked down sandboxed apps like on iOS.
It sounds so convoluted. Like providing service for customers is not enough. Applications is the reason people use Windows.

Paying customers may be product too.
Trust Your Customers
GP’s comment isn’t referring to the tools given to volunteer moderators. They are referring (and strictly so) to the tools that end-users can use to moderate what they themselves want to see.
Certainly not their fault. What's wrong is that it's possible to get the majority of traffic by developing for a single browser. They should not be sustainable doing that. It should be the case that in order to have sustainable levels of traffic they should develop for the standard. It should be the case that the cut is not 30% but rather 70% or more when compared to developing according to the standard.
Glossing over 10 years of tens of thousands of people's work, things like Titan Rain (1, 2) led to a lot of thinking about monitoring your production environment with things like the istio sidecar system.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netwitness

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Carpenter
>3) HN is 3 years ahead of mainstream, but 10 years behind the edge

I think you're using a weird definition of 'edge' here to mean "things that nobody else knows about" rather than the cutting edge of the industry/academia.

Academic publications occasionally float across the front page here that have only been public for a few days. That's pretty much the 'edge' of industry-wide knowledge.

If you want to include things that aren't public, that's super vague and sort of pointless.
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That's a good example, but I've seen a good few people streaming (usually people who aren't primarily known as streamers and have dipped in their toe during the pandemic) and now and again start doing something on their computer without changing scene from the full screen webcam. A public voting system to change scene could allow a person's audience to choose the right scene.

Obviously needs guards to make certain scenes ineligible for voting (e.g., anything showing the full desktop) so people can't attempt to see anything sensitive, but allowing certain scenes (e.g., those capturing games) could be quite useful.
If any story shows the utter untrustworthiness of (the vast majority of) the media and government authorities, it's Wirecard. This will probably be further reinforced by a relative lack of serious consequences for everyone involved.
Bank of England considering negative interest rates
leave sending station above ground. send down hot ice melting probe (no drilling) attached to long cable.
Yes, that's the entire point of Section 230. Should those protections be removed, most of these sites would increase their moderation, and remove anything potentially libelous. A huge chilling effect on speech.

There is an ongoing effort to upend those protections and bifurcate the internet into locked-down, heavily-moderated walled-garden sites, and sites that have no moderation at all. The motivations behind this movement range from malice (wanting the internet to become an unproductive wasteland) to political revenge (their favorite user got banned from Twitter and they want to lash out). I suppose "misunderstanding" of what S230 actually does is another motivation, but at this point if someone is still making an argument against it from that perspective, they're not arguing in good faith.

The result of removing S230 protections is not "the internet becomes a wonderful place where all 'political opinions' can be expressed equally," the result is "all Internet sites become 4chan or Nickelodeon, pick one."
I hate to beat a dead horse, but we do have a right to free speech.

The issue on encryption should be addressed by 4th amendment protections.

We don't have to frogs in a pot of water. There is enough tech to give us enormous reach to a broad audience. This debate does not have to happen in some basement in congress with lobbyists hidden away from the public.
My parents bought a used Disklavier in the 90s that had mostly just been furniture, since floppy disks went obsolete.

A few years ago, my dad found a Bluetooth adaptor for it, but the process of streaming songs to it was a convoluted mess that involved downloading MIDIs, putting them in Dropbox, opening them on an iPad in a different app, etc.

I was home for the holidays that week, so I threw together a Chrome extension that streams songs with WebMIDI:

https://github.com/appsforartists/midicast

Super fun project. Far from perfect, but it's neat to programmatically control a musical instrument.

Gave me a chance to try the Cycle architecture too, which works really well for a Chrome extension. Chrome extensions are all about message passing between various contexts. Cycle's reactive model abstracts all that away, so you don't have to think about which piece is running where - you just describe how data gets transformed as it flows through the system.
Getting online answers absolutely correct and above nitpick could be a full-time job. From a historical development perspective, the post is interesting and factually describes the roots of Android. There's probably much more to the story though.
There was a Sci-Fi TV show about this called Salvation [0] which I thought was a decent show, but YMMV (reviews are quite polarized).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation_(TV_series)
It's pretty easy to do yourself:

- https://github.com/nt1m/convert-crx-to-xpi

- https://www.ghacks.net/2016/05/23/install-google-chrome-exte...

- https://shinglyu.com/web/2017/08/07/porting-chrome-extension...

- https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/porting-...
No they don't. Twitter cannot be sued for something someone tweets that is false or defamatory about someone else. That individual tweeter is responsible. Unlike Fox or CNN who are responsible for what their reporters and commentators say. If Twitter ventures against the spirit of 230 protection, which was designed to protect neutral platforms like a utility, then they deserve to lose it. It's not about who produces a segment, Twitter is clearly the publisher and distributor. 230 was designed to protect free speech not to allow unlimited corporate intervention into speech.
That was amazing "AI" for the 1990s. It would play never-ending bebop solos that were pretty legit. The author must have been a well-versed musician and programmed in the standard licks from the jazz vocabulary.
Well, since everyone seems to be saying they're not a fan, I'll just add that I think it's great. Then again, I'm familiar with linear algebra, error functions, etc so maybe the writer is writing for a specific type of reader with a specific background. In spite of being familiar with the material, I still quite enjoy reading how other people explain these things.
It looks like they allow "vise blocks not intended for use with assault weapons"

So a top level reading would indicate they don't allow ak47 vise blocks either.
The schedule is live now. https://conf.nim-lang.org/
Hey! CTO here. First, thanks.

We used a custom design by our great designer, meaning the rest of the landing page is CSS and HTML.

We used a few css libs, for the sake of helping us making it responsive, but that is all.
Unfortunately, I agree with this view of the report. The report does do a mid-depth technical dive and raises the sort of things a security analyst would certainly look to verify, and I will use it as a base for other app analysis - but it conflates hypothetical risks with vulnerabilities. I am dealing with these precise technical issues around de-identification and encryption in a professional context right now. The paper uses nested and linked parenthetical observations and comments without resolving them to evidence, and it reads like a rant. The issue of not being able to rebuild a working app from the provided source code is indeed cause for suspicion, but it needs deeper analysis. The criticism that somehow key derivation is not encryption reads like the author was reaching out of their depth.

A security analysis needs to be more than just an uncharitable read of an architecture that shows it has exposure to scandal or discredit. These apps are going to have issues around data access, custody and control and a lot of others, but the analysis of them needs to be stronger.
> they fact checked his tweet.

They're now "fact checking" obvious satire. That's not merely moderation, but applying a false context that changes the meaning of the tweet.
It's one thing to say that a particular evolutionary step is a zillion-to-one fluke and another to say that the possibility of any fluke leading to more complex life is of similar probability.

Maybe there are or will be found to be more weird hybrids in nature? I vaguely recall reading something about how someone found a hint that brain cell communication may have mechanisms that resemble viruses (and/or prions).

If you don't see eukaryotes as inevitable, then what about brains? Social insects? What about human civilization? Biotechnology? I don't think it contributes a lot to declare they are inevitable, but I don't see why eukaryotes would be a singular example of increasing organization that's different from all the others. Zooming out, it seems like a lot of random events merge into an exponential curve.
I'm founder of the Go+ project. And thanks for your attention. We run this project very seriously. It will be released weekly until version 1.0 is released.
This mission is starting to sound really expensive
I mean, the good he does in his later years is far disproportionate to the harm he did before, so that's how it should work right? No one's all good or all bad, you take the bad with the good. In the case of Bill Gates I would hope for a lot more like him which is what I hope people will one day say of me...
The US Coal Industry Is Declining Irreversibly
"Being made of gold indicates that it was at least not an every day tool."

Because of fragility or because costs of the material? Gold is one of the earliest metals used. I don't know out of my head what alloys (1000 BCE!) they could have used to create sub-milimeter wall thickness (0.6mm!). If they had been able to do this out of iron, it would be dust by now. Remember from Chemistry class? Gold does not react easily.
DangerOS exist. But Android does not base on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Hiptop#Software
>These racial discrepancies could be due to a variety of reasons, but it is likely that founders from underrepresented minorities are simply not granted the same amount of opportunities and experiences, specifically when it comes to funding.

This is effectively the assumption behind the modern day inequality movement and it is absolutely unproven. You can't just choose to believe what is convenient for your movement. When you have no hard evidence that the root cause is actually discrimination, you're just justifying your own racist power grab. I cannot believe that anti-white and anti-male discrimination has become so normalized in modern western society.

When does it stop? I've yet to see a single mention of a magical target demographic ratio where we go back to race-blind practices...and considering white men as an isolated demographic are a minority, when enough of corporate HR adopts such explicitly racist hiring practices, straight white men become marginalized. Its arguably happening already.
> What an inestimable boon it would be, if in every branch of literature there were only a few books, but those excellent! This can never happen, as long as money is to be made by writing.

Well, we're making progress towards reducing if not eliminating profit through authorship.
Browser fingerprinting means you can more or less be identified regardless of your IP address. Since tracking is more or less tied to the browser should you not use the VPN in some instance the browser fingerprint remains the same. So all the Facebook/Google tracking will be able to determine who you are after you change your IP.
Wow, no way this could be politically motivated conclusions based on falsified data, that never happens in so-called social sciences.

Like a good apparatchik, this guy is providing pseudo-scientific ammo to the elites to repress anyone who disagrees with their agenda.
The healing power of Black art
When I open Steam, 100% of the time I get a popup advert for whatever promotion they have on?
What notation was used in an interview/puzzle that you weren't familiar with?
It's a double standard if Joe Sixpack can sign up for an account and claim the moon is hollow and made of cheese without it getting flagged

Maybe if Twitter decided all verified accounts will be subject to fact-checking?
It is not because they fact checked his tweet. This was in the works for quite some time before the fact checking.

This was a few days before: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/23/21268433/president-trump-...

And this was from last year: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/15/18626785/white-house-trum...
There would be at least two ways to do it, neither of which are likely realistic to something google scale. One would be to cache results, so that any search searched before could be retrieved. This is limited in that you cant make new searches on old data, and possibly stores private information that shouldnt be accessible to others.

The other way would be to have the index and algorithm versioned, where you can target any instance of the algorithm against any version of the data.
There's some theory that pornography is a primary driver of historical progress. Art, technology etc. I can't remember what it's called.

It is hard to deny all the pioneering work done by pornography. Arguably, the oldest known motif is "venus of willendorf" figurines, contemporary with this site (and that dick pic). One is the oldest known ceramic artifacts. Others represent pioneering examples of carving techniques.

Many narrations of the european renaissance think advancements in statuary and painting techniques to have been the vanguard to renaissance science, philosophy and such. Many were erotic, like michelangelo's david.

The first widespread commercial uses of photography and cinema were pronographic. Some of the earliest ecommerce was porn. They pioneered large scale streaming video.

Currently, porn is a driver of VR tech. I will grant that gaming is the primary driver, another perennial pioneer of tech/media. But... If you want to watch VR films... there aren't any. A handful of non-porn films exist, but they're basically demos. There are a handful of music videos too, but very few. Porn though... Porn already has a full VR inventory!

Without dick pics, we would have never had writing.
Btw, for those asking via text - this isn't automated for now, every question goes to a human!
The wide range of data the article hints at and the guesses at connecting data to users suggests that this data is probably full of inaccuracies. That is one of the really scary things - companies are making decision about me based on outright wrong data.

This can be brutal for applications like credit worthiness, but I'm still worried about mistakes in data used for more mundane decisions like who to offer a discount to or which passenger to bump to business class.
You’re free to make an argument that they should be liable, but they are not actually liable under the law as it exists today.
Chemistry places limits on what is possible. Water is a common and powerful catalyst, it is unlike any life can exits without it just because so many useful reactions happen only in water. (this discounts other catalysts mostly because they are not as common as water). Carbon forms long chains with single or double bonds (also triple bonds but they tend to be unstable) in ways that no other atom will. Note too that water and carbon are extremely common, so even if something else is possible you are then playing the odds that it is common enough.

I'm sure a real chemists can place other limits on what is possible.
I get

Microsoft windows app store

on my Google.
I always enjoy a good faith discussion, but if you aren't going to respond to what I actually wrote there's no need to continue this. I _know_ the functionality I mentioned can be shipped without a framework. I _have_ shipped web apps without a framework. I've personally found the overhead of designing and enforcing an ad hoc framework to be not worth the effort.
Rstionalwiki is an extraordinary low-quality information source. It's just arbitrary people's personal opinions about other people.
> Single Issues are a huge facet of American politics and are used by both sides to divide people who have more in-common with each other than the groups in charge.

Because the shared values are dressed up in completely different narratives. I find talking to my conservative friend, he shares all of the concerns about problems with the justice system and inequality, but when I roll it together as "racism" he vehemently objects.

We're told the other side sees things dramatically differently, though. Or that the want to kill babies.
The easiest way to settle this argument is to just run ARM Linux apps on Android via Termux + Proot: https://github.com/adi1090x/termux-desktop

While one can quibble over whether Android "is" Linux, it's inaccurate to say that it "isn’t based on Linux" given how close their underlying systems are.
Ive checked out ages ago, and even before that Apple Park must have occupied most of his last decade. Meanwhile the butterfly keyboard is rumored to return next week so maybe we should start blaming the executives who actually run the company?

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/12/arm-based-macs-12-inch-...
Go+ is planed to support jupyter and nteract.
None of those sites are left-leaning
I've heard of OpenPower, but PowerOpen? I guess SysV since we're referring to Linux (though I'm not sure that the kernel strictly adheres to SysV).
The problem posed in the slaughterbots video wasn't the technology itself being inherently dangerous (although that was a considerable factor), but instead it focused on what happens when it gets compromised or otherwise falls into the wrong hands. The small, mass producible nature of the slaughterbots made it very easy for this to happen, and was the worst case scenario for fully autonomous weapons in general.

That said, I think we are right to be concerned about these "suicide drones", because they are a lot smaller than the fixed wing drones with the missiles, and as such would be harder to detect. I'm picturing these things dropping out of the back of a small aeroplane, one by one, nearly invisible to radar as they fall and land themselves in waiting for troops on the ground to collect them. Alternatively, they fall from the aeroplane and take flight to a GPS location of some small, but bombable fixture like a radio mast or portacabin.
This is such a weird comment.

Android isn't based on Linux, it just runs on top of it.

This feels like serious hair-splitting here. It definitely treads the fine line of "What is an OS".

It's worth mentioning that the author of the Quora answer is a retired member of the NetBSD foundation which may play into his perception of the situation.