skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually a pretty good time to rethink everything. The modern school was designed when most adults were illiterate, books were expensive, and we needed to train the population to work in our factories or join the military. Schools did a good job at that.

But times are different.

1. Most adults are literate — When kids have questions about letters or words while they are teaching themselves to read they have a huge supply of adults and older children to get help from.

2. Books are so cheap to produce that we literally throw them away when we are done and the internet has provided the material for a lifetime of education for what is essentially free — And formats (like 3blue1brown animations that couldn't have been imagined a century ago).

3. We don't need to train the population to be obedient for factories or the military. Society can continue without so many people pretending to work. Let them continue to educated themselves until they discover something that benefits the rest of society.
Bitcoin is not under fully free "active" development when its technical spec is constrained by its social contract.

Besides, privacy is the important thing (no fungibility), and you will not be able to hide all that metadata anymore.
Yes, it is somehow also an awesome name for a tool.
Yes, your interpretation is correct. I don't think we're going to get into synthetic data generation in the near term, mainly due to the amount of effort required + questions about domain transfer. However, we do improve dataset quality additively by sampling the best data to label + retrain on to get the best performance.

Said another way: once you've found "I do badly on green cones," we use similarity search on the embeddings of known green cone examples to find more instances of green cones in the wild. We pick the right examples from streams of unlabeled data, then send it to labeling + add to your dataset so it does better the next time you retrain.
Man AHL also had a version that worked on top of nodes representing timeseries: https://github.com/man-group/mdf
> but I am certain that this is a calculated attempt to debase the US dollar in order to disarm the unprepared and grab power through the creation a right-libertarian techno dystopia

What makes you think this is more plausible than the Fed printing money to keep millions of people from starving/getting evicted and businesses to stay afloat amid one of the worst financial crises in history?
Do newer editions have an addendum covering Paul Johnson's own scandal?
This is just a class-action lawyer rip-off. I wish someone would make a form-mail generator to object to the lawyer fees, or to exclude from the class.
Any numpy (which uses gfortran) dependent is on that list. I suspect some could partially work by sacrificing some functionality, or maybe just run slower (disclaimer: I have no idea of numpy internals).
Researchers create tool to identify cancer-causing mutations in 98% of genome
Software suite expedites reproducible computer simulations
Yes, ACH is US-only. Other countries have similar systems but they are on-record and the banking system can withhold or deny transfers... or even tax them on behalf of your government.
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Okay, phew - I thought I might be having a stroke.
Illich wasn't against school per-se. He was against compulsory school, centralized pedagogy, and other attributes of a "modern" (ala 1970s) schooling system in Western social democracies.

He was particularly concerned with how the tenants of modernism affected developing nations (where he lived for much of his life) by pushing traditional methods into forced obsolescence in favor of ever-increasing reliance on social institutions.

His views on policy may or may not be on point (he seems most comfortable in the area of principle and theory), but the conceptual core that relates his views on education to his views on cars and medicine merits consideration.

He similarly wasn't against scientific medicine, but he thought the medical bureaucracy had outgrown its utility: that advances in specialized medicine were too expensive and served to prop up artificially unhealthy lives.

A strong line of his argument is that past a tipping point of size/power, institutions will create the needs they serve. We create these artificial environments where it's hard for most people to thrive and then we create social institutions to compensate: a social prosthetic.

The result in Illich's view is increasing passivity and helplessness: a petulant society composed of a disempowered citizenry.

The argument no-doubt merits a balancing counter-argument, but I find it compelling and it goes deeper than a simplistic dismissal of school.
Helping drug-delivering particles squeeze through a syringe
Why does recycling glass take more energy than producing it? That sounds dubious to me.
John Holt
You can earn tons of Chase points too
Machine Learning Approach Quickly Produces 50X Higher-Resolution Climate Data
Unschooling
The kind of savage who drinks Johnnie Walker.
> Well, that's always a given when you look at a culture from outside. It takes time to uncover the details and the diversity.

In this particular case, everyone is looking from "outside." Contemporary Hindus' own understandings of the religion are largely filtered through the modernist interpretations of reformers in the 19th and 20th centuries. They're somewhat divorced from the classical bardic and collegiate traditions that the various Hindu practices were originally developed through. It's not quite as divorced from the source as things like pagan reconstructionist movements trying to rebuild druidic practices, but it's not entirely an organic and internally driven process of evolution either. Western colonialism and the the disruptive Islamic conflicts that preceded it all have an impact.

The modernist reformers were mostly trying to condense Hinduism into a format that made sense to Abrahamic religions, so a lot of nuance got lost in the overall understanding of it. There are still plenty of local temples and village/caste traditions that are practiced they're not really systematized or written down for people to study and understand and they're usually ignored in discussions of the overarching concepts of what "Hinduism" is for that reason.
why a new study for obvious general knowledge? Flu virii mutate every two weeks anyway, and the next saison flu is always something different. The immunosystem is well trained to such problems, that's why antibodies are not needed for more than one saison. Next saison could be a H1N1 which is a real danger (the lower the numbers the higher the mortality rates), wonder if they will react also that hysterically as this year. Never underestimate global psychopathology.
> I have not met a single student who questioned or rejected the culture.

Both as a student myself and later as a long-term sub in a high school for a while in a poor district, I met lots of students who rejected whatever you might want to (rightly or wrongly) characterize as “the culture”, including many who adapted to what they saw as the incentives in the system while still rejecting the culture and attitudes they perceived as setting those incentives.
> can't they just block all bitcoin traffic at the ISP level?

Are you serious? That block is trivial to avoid. VPN's are used mostly for porn and that kind of things, but with BTC you have clear financial incentive to work around those blocks.
This looks amazing, and a shining example of Svelte and Tailwind. I'm really looking forward to this being open-sourced- please make it happen soon! I'll be more than willing to pay for a hosted version as long as there's always a way for me to host it myself (having the open-source self-hosting as an option). Cheers mate!
They could just ignore it, right? Or do any new rules actually require honoring robots.txt?
This is a great article. I'm going to pass it on to a friend of mine. This particular friend's life's ambition has been to build a perpetual motion / free energy device.

Now, I imagine people's immediate reaction is to sneer and grab for their nearest thermodynamics pamphlet. That was my initial inclination. Watching how _industrious_ and _persistant_ this guy has been trying over the years softened me. He's probably built 20+ prototypes. None of which have worked, but he keeps trying.

Science is about reproducibility, and as far as I'm concerned, he's performing guerrilla research of the kind for which there is no funding.

His primary motivation is providing energy to himself and his parents. He's abjectly poor, and grew up that way. His circumstances have him mostly trapped. Child support delinquency had his drivers license taken. Where he lives was given to him, and he's an hour away from the nearest city.

He's my crystalized example of infinite intelligence, limited information, meager childhood. I spent a few weeks teaching him python, and he got through all the exercises in learn-python-the-hard-way faster than I did. He refuses to believe anyone would hire a 50 year old man with no resume to do it remotely, so he hasn't tried. He might not be wrong.

Thinking through it myself, it's hard to imagine we've _exhausted_ all lanes of creativity generating and storing electricity. That one company that uses a tower of concrete blocks and a crane to store energy comes to mind as a clever, simple in hindsight ingenuity.

This article seems like a good way to get him to take a gander at impossibility proofs/arguments from a perspective compatible with his "NOBODY WILL STOP ME" levels of grit and persistence.

Frankly I want to coerce him into building a small personal steam engine. His goal is 1000W, to supplement solar panels when it's cloudy. He currently has a gas generator, but keeping it filled is onerous, even when the gas is free.
Even if they have the actual gold, they have the actual gold. If they decide not to give it to you, there needs to be enough of a functioning court system to remedy that; and even then it may take time - just because you have a legitimate claim to that gold doesn't mean a court can easily decide that you're the only one with a legitimate claim to that gold.
Because 1) of who got the money and 2) how it was spent. If they were serious about what you describe they'd provide a basic income directly to the people.
As an expectant mother, I've memorized Mutterkuchen (“Mothercake”) for placenta, Gebärmutter (“Gebären” - birth) for uterus, Gebärmutterhals (“Wombneck”) for cervix, because while my doctor uses the Latin-derivates with me (as I requested her to), the Hebammen (midwives) who teach prenatal classes and make home visits to you and your baby the first few weeks out of the hospital really don’t, and I strongly suspect hospital personnel will avoid the “advanced” vocabulary upon hearing me sound like a Texan attempting to speak German.
The thing is, "that I'll never ever code against" is context specific. The set of applications that want to be embarrassingly-serial and not utilize any massively-parallel features is shrinking (even problems traditionally solved via serial code can benefit from a parallel re-architecting, assuming the path from language to CPU architecture supports true parallelism).
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On Five Years of Biohacking
I think is a great idea because as you mentioned quality Datasets can make your model work or not at all. However this is not addressing the big elephant in the room. Which is: no matter how much you curate or clean the data, you are limited to the dataset that you have. The big answer would be, how can you get more and better datasets. I think tooling is super important, but the big difference will be, how to collect/generate/capture reliable, defendable, datasets moving forward. I think your idea is complementary to this other project: https://delegate.dev
Fair enough, but often I'm looking for a part not by manufacturer but by functionality. Skimming through all the vendor's websites to find what I'm looking for and comparing the various products is a bit of a pain.

I agree that the categorization can be a bit tricky at times, but once you're used to it it's not terrible.
my first (only) financial advisor was a manager at RadioShack for 10 years before he got the advisor job.

relatedly, i once applied as a network admin at Ed Jones. They didn't have their shit together when i showed up for the interview, and gave me the questions for the financial advisor interview instead. it was an automatic process, about 100 questions that were some variant of "how good or bad do you feel about asking your friends to buy financial products you don't understand well, and will you also please ask them to recommend you to their friends?"

i didn't get the job. and i fired the advisor.
Read Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault.
I think the most efficient solution would be to have a series of snorkel lines come down from the ceiling that terminate outside of the building, 6 feet apart.

This would allow the occupants inside to pack as closely as possible without worrying about breathing any hazardous air.
Here's how I think of Intel chip features now after years of getting burned :

1)Has the feature been in the chip for one generation?

True -> Skip this chip, (if I need to feature, that is) it'll have the feature disabled by microcode after someone realizes it may be a security or inaccuracy issue

False -> Go ahead and buy it, probably at least a 50/50 coin flip that the feature will stay stable
From the discussion here, sounds like this is Python version of K's (built in) trigger + dependency mechanism, which traces its origins to A+ and A ; A and A+ were originally developed inside Morgan Stanley by Arthur Whitney, and K was developed for a bank client IIRC, (UBS? or MS?)
Ten Predictions about the Software Development trends in the 2030s
When I started my professional career, the Software Development Eco-system was different from today. There was one programming language (C/C++/Java), one large-scale software application (Monolith), one Database (SQL), one data exchange format (XML).

Since then, the Software Development landscape has transformed rapidly in subsequent years. Especially the amount of innovation and changes that happened in the last decade is unparalleled and unprecedented.

Here are the significant changes we have witnessed in the last decade:

* DevOps
* Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
* Containerization and Virtualization
* NoSQL, NewSQL
* Cloud
* Microservices, Serverless
* Blockchain
* Deep Learning
* Data-Intensive Applications
* JavaScript-based Web Development (Angular, React, Vue)

With rapid digitalization and Industry 4.0, we will see even more dramatic changes and innovations in the Software Development industry in the coming decade. Covid-19 catastrophe will only speed up the rate of innovation in the Software Development industry. What will be the Software Development landscape in 2030 and beyond? If I go into cryogenic sleep today and wake up in 2030, how will I find the Software development eco-system?

Predicting the future is a hard job. Predicting the future of the Software Development trends in one decade is almost impossible. Here I will list the ten major Software development trends we can expect in the 2030s:

* Quantum Computing
* Cloud Computing
* Artificial Intelligence
* AI Driven Software Development
* Low Code/No Code
* Rise of the new Programming Languages
* Specialized Hardware
* Distribured SQL
* Unified Data-Intensive Applications
* Blockchain

https://towardsdatascience.com/10-predictions-about-the-software-development-trends-in-the-2030s-2fab86c5f661
I always use a lotion with little to no alcohol, because alcohol dries your skin out, and makes you look older.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.”
~ Robert Anson Heinlein
> Assuming the prediction market isn't untraceable, would this be legal?

My question is whether it's actually illegal to take this bet, since it doesn't really prove that you're the hitman.
Ask HN: Do you consider finance/trading to be an evil industry?
The sentiment that finance and hedge funds are somehow evil seems to be quite common in the startup and technology world. I sometimes see it here on HN and I've come across it a few times during my career in Silicon Valley.

People going into finance are treated as if they are selling out. I wonder where this sentiments comes from, and whether you believe this to be true or false?

I've worked for both a hedge fund and tech companies, and personally found the former quite refreshing. People in finance are honest about just wanting to make money, while I found that many in tech secretly just want to make money but publicly pretend that they want to "make the world a better place." I think that keeping up this fake persona can be quite damaging psychologically, especially for young startup founders.

What do you think?
Like I said, pretty standard! ;-)
It's not pedantic at all. If we could copy-paste food, clothes, etc. for free, theft would be very different.

Or maybe not, I can just about imagine a bunch of suits suing Jesus for multiplying bread to feed the poor because it deprived them of their baked good sales revenue.
I don't see us getting to the levels of vaccinations that would be necessary for eradication. A quarter of the people in the US think the whole thing is a ploy to implant everyone with microchips and nothing will ever convince them otherwise. Maybe some of those people will change their minds when they get it but I wouldn't count on enough to matter. We're all going to be sick and dying for decades.
While monopolies are bad, I don't see what's listed in this article as monopolies. I see a series of small businesses that are more profitable when economies of scale are utilized. So, the small businesses are being bought up by a few larger players.

When saying this is bad, what is the author optimizing for?

This market consolidation should decrease consumer prices, as long as actual monopolies are not in place and price fixing doesn't occur. At the same time the individual owners are getting buy-outs they are happy with. Seems fine to me.

What am I missing?
You know what's definitely going to be valuable in a post collapse world where people are making heavy use of bug-out bunkers stashed with food and guns? A digital currency that requires a sophisticated global computer network to function.

Ya. That makes a lot of sense.
The author has the merit of having actually read Thoreau rather than taking him for granted because of his reputation. However, am I going to get rid of Two Weeks on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers because I know that he has limitations? No.

There are only flawed authors. The question is what the author provides that one can't as readily find elsewhere. For Thoreau, the answer I think is, A fair bit.
Every second of the day is an advertisement
There isn’t much eco-friendly about cement.
No, but being "anti cars" is still extremely controversial, see for instance the "Yellow Vests" in France.
Technology Bridges the Gap to Better Sight
$100k Annually per customer on avg. Around 3 months of our customer's Data is 200GB.
Searching through Stellar's youtube channel I came across this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Z77ZWCfkc

It gives a very good idea about anchors.

Also, there is documentation here: https://www.stellar.org/learn/anchor-basics
Can you expand a bit more on conviviality, what is represents?
I have a bolt on to this conspiracy theory. How many business have reduced wages and implemented hiring freezes? It's difficult to manipulate a salary worker into shouldering more responsibility if they have choice and alternatives. Perhaps what we're watching isn't necessarily the 'winner take all' world playing out. Perhaps we're watching capital reorganize labor. The first nail in the technical revolution. The businesses that survive this crisis will be leaner and, in a likelihood, more profitable (higher margins). Also justifying higher stock prices. Hell, even a combination of both theories make sense.

The real tell will be 10/1/2020 an on-wards. That's when a lot of the governmental layoff-freezes disappear. We'll get a real sense of what industries have been seriously propped up.
I think it does apply to much of the HAM radio community. Probably not all though.

Also, their preparedness actually has paid off in past natural disasters - 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Andaman Islands tsunami, and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico all had robust HAM radio community responses.
New tool to identify cancer-causing mutations lurking in 98% of the genome
http://bash.org/?258908
My 2 cents. Vulnerability is a "side effect" of existing code. So if you consider the vulnerable code, it belongs to the owner of the rest of the program. If you write an article about it, you can cite the code and own the article. If you write an exploit, the exploit code is yours. And you can't patent the vulnerable code because it already is existing previous work.

Just like a poem can contain figures of speech like metaphors, you don't generically actually own "metaphors" but you can own an actual metaphor if it's written as part of your poem. Maybe the metaphor is too small and you cannot protect its rights, but if you are the legitimate creator, it's still your metaphor.
Printing money to get through a recession vs printing money as the primary way of funding government programs are wildly different things. The mere suggestion that U.S. officials were serious about running a deficit of a large percentage of GDP could send people fleeing U.S. dollar denominated assets, and thanks to the exchange rate effects cause a spike in inflation before the programs even started.

The thing that makes a green piece of cloth valuable is the powerful government and the massive reserve bank behind it. If a dollar bill starts to look like an IOU from an entity that has no capacity to pay, it will be valued as such.
Sleepy America: 60% of adults say they’re more tired than ever before
They didn’t just yell “privacy”. https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/:

“features we have decided to not implement in part due to fingerprinting concerns”

They don’t go into detail, likely because that is a post about tracking prevention, but I guess security is another part for some of these.

They also left the door open by saying “Some of these features may reduce fingerprintability down the road which would allow us to reconsider”.

I would guess that if Google, Microsoft or Mozilla (whichever of these wants to see these APIs implemented everywhere) gave them a call, they would be open for discussion. If not, that IMO would be the time for calling them out.
I don't use bitcoin because every method of converting fiat to btc (or vice versa) takes an absurdly high fee. It's even worse when buying stablecoins.
David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning [audio]
Ex put.io customer, I downloaded a bunch of media to consume over a flight, except their App would not let me watch already-downloaded videos offline on a plane.
I actually need a robot for replugging USB cables.
usb can be so buggy =(
Defining Raku – Vadim Belman
I have it on good authority that this actually dates back to 2003! See the schedule of Tcl'03 [0], or the index page for this document at JPL's Technical Report Server [1]

[0] https://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2003/schedule.html
[1] https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/handle/2014/7660