skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realize all that has a huge IF you are a native english speaker, right?

the glob stuff is a case of power vs convenience. but you can do very similar with bash [] or {} syntax.

not being apologist, but I like unix approach of blurring the lines of a computer user and programmer. It makes everyone up their game both ways. Users being more demanding, and code being more accessible.
I've wanted something like this for barcodes. My company depends on our users to enter in a 16 digit barcode correctly. It would be great if the 16 digit barcode can somehow be bi-directionally translated into a sentence (grammatically correct sentence would be even better). While this will probably take the user more keystrokes to type out, it should reduce entry errors.
> Both markets were very open by any measure.

By the measure of 4 million slaves in the South, it was not free market. Slavery is the opposite of free markets.
IF you're worth way more than you're getting paid, negotiations should be super easy. This is probably a terrible analogy, but think of working like mining diamonds and the employer like selling cut stones. If you mine huge diamonds with fairly regular frequency asking to get paid more is a no brainer for you and the company.
We're off in the weeds now.

The point here is that there was no agreement about this... or even knowledge about the collection of data. There was unilateral action on the part of Google/ Facebook to secretly create data collection points all over our lives.

The person I replied to suggested we volunteered this information to Google. Which is almost entirely untrue. Most people Google and Facebook track have zero knowledge they are being tracked.
For what it's worth, I also wondered if this was a reaction to tech companies going fully remote and canceling their office lease. Especially because we just had another article about how remote work is hurting small businesses 2 days ago, which started with the incredibly flawed assumption that people would stop going to local restaurants if they didn't accidentally walk past them on the way home from the office.

And yes, offices are big business. And yes, they'll surely try lobbying and PR.

Plus, the Atlantic has a history of "native advertising"
https://www.adweek.com/digital/after-scientology-debacle-atl...

I'd give it a 50% chance that this das paid for by real estate and a 50% chance that the author just wants to virtue signal by mixing in these seemingly less related topics.
NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere (2017)
I should point out that the article you linked to is a different article by CPU Shack. The reason why two articles on the Nanoprocessor came out in a short time is that the chip's developer recently gave the masks and documents to CPU Shack, who wrote about it. Then I got the mask scans, so I wrote about the details of the chip.

So you should read the CPU Shack article too, since it covers different aspects of the Nanoprocessor: http://www.cpushack.com/2020/08/09/the-forgotten-ones-hp-nan...
The bush family has a history of being politicians all the way back to the late 1800s
Conscious Consumerism, Toilet Paper, Words
Only if my company was in the business of breaking new ground, i.e. scientific discovery or innovative engineering. That's why the likes of Alphabet and Facebook have research divisions (including for things rather far afield from their core money-making products): to give execs and talent a greater sense of purpose and to create/develop important stuff.
1400 Bitcoins Stolen
Understanding the Disconnect Between Consumers and the Stock Market
I’m not sure what OTM has to do with anything and theta is certainly not the driver here most of the time (except at expiry when theta decay drives hedging).

This is gamma. Pure and simple. The double edged sword of convexity.
> And the index funds followed right along. Perhaps index funds, by blindly following market trends, amplify bad actors' ability to distort the market.

Well of course index funds follow market trends. How is that at all surprising? They are literally index funds.
I like to keep people guessing by alternating between ironic understatement and hyperbole. Too much BBC perhaps.

I know in low rpm devices, especially with radial forces (wheels) a bearing or race can start to go without destroying the whole assembly. To the point that bicyclists can bring in a wheel that's so far gone that the labor to fix it is twice the cost of a new wheel (I can fix this or we can get you a new pair of wheels for the same price, installed). How long do you have between the first chip and game over on a rotor?

Some how, even though "LAND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE" is in all caps, I doubt it entirely captures the urgency. If anything involved with keeping the blades attached fails, sounds like a case of any other plans you had are over and you need to be on the ground RFN while it's still a choice.
I hope that you would agree that if you sneak into a movie theater to sit in a near-empty auditorium for a 2pm Tuesday matinee, then it's something very, very different from theft?

Like, people can argue if it's as bad as theft or not as bad than theft (I would definitely argue that it's substantially less bad than theft, but I know that some people would disagree), but no matter what, such an action is not theft, it's something else.
Credit to danvayn for finding. Noticed that they messed up the link so I'm resubmitting.
Would love a source on buffets disclosure rules.
Can you phrase the question "Did Bill Gates cause COVID-19" in such a way that a non trivial proportion of respondents saying "yes" seems reasonable?
I moved from Feedly to Newsblur when Feedly started charging.
If you believe:

- Continued urbanization is essential to growth as we know it

- Non-urban voters are less attuned to what cities need to grow

Then regardless of political ideology, our disticts + FPTP method of growing makes non-negligible growth of the real economy very difficult.
The life of sound effects is a strange thing, with its own semi-commercial ecosystem. Read about The Wilheim Scream (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream) for a glimpse into how they move from one production to another.
> Also, the volume of non-retail trades is low which amplifies larger trades.

Source? I thought most volume was non-retail.
Funny, today one of my coworkers was talking about how she used IDL at one of her previous jobs, and later I happened to see this comment. Neat coincidence :)
That all depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
"He picked two hundred and eighty-four people who made their living “commenting or offering advice on political and economic trends,” and he started asking them to assess the probability that various things would or would not come to pass, both in the areas of the world in which they specialized and in areas about which they were not expert"

This is a little different from what I was suggesting. Predicting the future is an inherently difficult task for experts and I'll give you that.

Rather I'm suggesting that experts set a valuation based on known facts about the company and the state of the industry.

Here's an example. I work in the self driving industry. I always knew based on state of the art tech that Tesla couldn't possibly meet their aggressive timelines of full self driving. I think it's realistic one day, but not on the timeline they claimed a couple years ago. However, the reality is that the public is duped into thinking they'll be on time, and so what happens? I have to base my investment based on what the public thinks of Tesla, rather than what I think of Tesla.

Here's another example. Uber car crashes. NVIDIA stock crashes the next day because the public thought it had something to do with NVIDIA GPUs. I, and all other ML experts should have been able to call this out and freeze the price of NVDA and say "we have it on good authority that NVDA did not do anything to cause that car crash".

The current way the markets work shifts the paradigm from "invest in what you believe in" (which I is the way the world should work) to "invest in what you don't believe in but what everyone else is fooled into believing in".

I mean, the incentive structure is such that I've even bought stocks in many companies I hate, and sold or put stocks in companies I believe in from my scientific background on first principles. Somehow that isn't the way things should work.
When I was 16 I beta-tested Black & White at Lionhead Studios, and met Peter Molyneux and his team. They were my heroes at the time, as I dreamt of one day being a game developer. I stayed by myself in a B&B, testing the game all day, reading my coding books and copies of EDGE magazine :)

I remember Peter telling his team that if the game went well he'd take the whole team (around 40 people, IIRC) on a big yacht. It was all very exciting!

Peter came and chatted with me and the other tests (most of who were about 10, and friends of the kids of the other developers), and asked about my interest in programming. I told him I'd been working on a snakes like game, and he said he'd love to look at the code, which sadly I didn't have (no laptops back in those days, and I didn't bring a floppy).

I never ended up becoming a game developer. I discovered web development, and startups, and never looked back :)
Justin Frankel, the Winamp developer who sold to AOL and later made Gnutella, the original p2p file sharing phenom .. has this AMA website and he still replies in hours if you ask him something. https://www.askjf.com/index.php
> since politicians have control of the money supply.

But politicians don't have control of the money supply...
Very good point. Even today, MSFT has such control over the hardware world, if you want to run Windows 7 on a Z490 mainboard, you're SOL. The latest mainboards force you to run the latest Windows 10. Fortunately, they all run your favorite OSS os'.
> we already have one alternative implementation that's good enough to compile the compiler

That's really interesting! Can you link it?
That was terrible advice until, well, yesterday. It's been a straight line rocket ship to the moon. Each and every gain porn post would have been a solid entry until yesterday.
Did Satoshi Predict Pooled Mining, Big Farms and ASICs?

https://webonanza.com/2015/10/02/did-satoshi-predict-pooled-...
Offshoring is not a new concept, and everyone knows it doesn’t work. How come offshoring hasn’t eaten my lunch yet?
Too late to edit, I now see I failed at high-school physics.

Trivially, a helicopter in a hover is producing the same lift force as a helicopter flying forward (with zero vertical speed).

Being stuck in a downdraught means the hovering helicopter must use more power to generate the same amount of lift force.
By tech i assume we mean IT, which requires very little capital to start a business or learn about.

And student loans have no accessability requirements in the US.
Thought.

Old school. If you needed another team member HR and the Boss would hire one. And you'd have to work with them. If the company thought they weren't hiring enough women and blacks they'd just hire some women and blacks.

New way, we only hire from the top schools and programs. And we allow members of the team to act as gate keepers over vague things like 'cultural fit'. Over time your team becomes composed entirely of upper class whites and a few model minorities.
> who’s writing we consume

Maybe it’ll be an improvement
Great post !
I have an interesting professional and personal relationship with the boss - he secured me a contract with one of his clients so not only do we have a 9-5 together, but also work for the same client in the afternoon. Personally we're fairly close and like to talk about deep, risky topics you'd normally reserve for close friends although we only get together maybe once a month.

I sometimes wonder if professional distancing/shyness varies by region in the USA and the world - mine seems to lack all professional distance compared to my coastal peers. Someone I know worked in Brazil and they seem to go the extreme end of shunning distance with professional peers - traveling long distances to go their subordinates' weddings and such.
That was awesome , thank you
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Almost certainly not. A few things immediately stood out to me when I looked at the original Bitcoin whitepaper:

1. No clear security definition, making it hard to know what counts as a successful attack against the system he proposed. Moreover, Bitcoin requires the honest parties to do more work than the attacker, which would appear backwards to most cryptographers and further complicates efforts to precisely define the security goal.

2. No mention of the mountain of previous research on cryptographic payments. He makes claims that "all" previous systems require an intermediary for each transaction, which is not true (see: offline+transferable ecash does not, but this is not mentioned anywhere). This is not just a stylistic issue; the whitepaper has a bibliography, it simply failed to mention anything that a cryptographer would have considered related work. When Satoshi announced his idea to the cryptography mailing list a great deal of confusion ensued because the cryptographers on the list were familiar with the previous research and assumed this was in some way related.

3. Specifying algorithms and data structures with C++ code without giving higher level descriptions. This makes it hard to analyze the system because of the various ambiguities of C++ and the unnecessary and often confusing syntax. I would also add the various, entirely arbitrary constants chosen for the system, which seem to have just been chosen at random (given the lack of formal analysis it is unlikely that these are fundamental to security). This is not how cryptographers typically communicate their designs.

I would say Satoshi was an enthusiast/hobbyist who had a passing knowledge of a few cryptographic constructions he read about in books or forums. At best his formal education on the topic was likely an undergrad level course, probably taught by someone whose expertise was applied security rather than cryptography; it is more likely that he had no formal education in cryptography at all.
Or given that a photo of a piece of paper is hard to interpret too, possibly the literature could include an actual piece of test strip to compare... possibly an untreated one, unless that changes how it looks.
Sorry, I hope this is available to you: https://www.reproduction-gallery.com/oil-painting/1461912597...
It's a conspiracy theory, so even education doesn't always help. Kary Mullis is one example of someone who was smart enough to win a Nobel prize for his work on PCR... but unfortunately later fell into the conspiracy theory rabbit hole for HIV, climate change, etc.

I have read that anxiety issues [1], as well as a personality spectrum called "schizotypy" [2] which in itself can be linked to severe anxiety issues at the heavier end of the spectrum, [3] is linked to the ability to believe conspiracy theories [4]. My guess is that the wide spread of conspiracy theories related material (which COVID-19 has amplified to considerably) boils down to some combination of mental health and other social and/or economic anxieties, and the conspiracy theories really won't go away until some of these anxieties are addressed.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-drawn-to-c...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypy
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypal_personality_disord...
[4] https://www.psypost.org/2017/10/study-links-facets-schizotyp...
tl;dr - Kings were like mob bosses, and ruled on their whim. Replacing them with Paliaments meant that one could not rule on whim but were forced to come to equilibriums (nash?) between many capos - and as they could not trust each other they had to develop bureaucrats to monitor and report and trust on their behalf.

In short design by committee might be bad but rule by committee helps.

The role of a merchant-friendly parliament is associated with British success in the 1700+ centuries - from hands-off rule of colonies that then can stand alone, to courts that were less under the capricous whim of rulers than many. It all seemed to have helped.

So I kind of disagree with the premise - a parliament based market and human rights friendly nation could have been successful at almost any point post 1500. All it took was to wrench power away from the monarch...
Why did I read this as Nutella
I've lately been getting segmentation faults for not casting math with diff signs, so pretty much anything can cause it.
I was under the impression that it was the power draw alone that decided when the fan kicked in. But it makes sense that the temperature also matters.

Based on that info and that the system will draw about 430W for CPU+GPU, it seems that the fanless Seasonic TX-700 is better suited.

It is quite expensive, but as someone who really hate unnecessary noise, it looks like a good choice.

Changing all the existing cables to a new PSU sucks though :p
A rising stock market almost always leads to a drop in implied volatility. A falling stock market leads to an increase in implied volatility. The spot VIX is inversely correlated with the S&P.

I mean just look at the spot VIX. It hit 38 at the peak of the crashing yesterday, and settled around 30 today. [1] 0.3 delta option premium on S&P 500 index futures (/ES) is up 50% from a few days ago.

[1] https://www.investing.com/indices/volatility-s-p-500
Their brains hooked to Neurolink, no less
The issue is with the individual elements, which get pushed to the list, popped off the list, moved around, pushed to a different list, etc.

The other issue is since there is no generic notion of a destructor, it isn't possible to write generic functions that destroy elements. If you call, say, replace_range on a list of strings, it will leak the replaced strings.
> Amtrak is owned by the US government.

Irrelevant. The actual railroads are private, and Amtrak gets shafted. Look at the state of US passenger railways, and compare them to trains in France or Spain. All countries with successful passenger rail have them public.

You will find find same pattern for all examples given.
HR people in the UK use 'performance management' as a euphemism for a kind of legal constructive dismissal.

1) Their attitude stinks but nothing specific that can be picked up in a disciplinary on its own

2) They have been in the job for a few years, and their old manager never recorded the behaviour problems

3) Their role is not redundant

So to get them out you meet regularly, set short term goals, and be really picky about not meeting them. The whole thing is designed to make the staff miserable so they leave or get sacked for missing the goals, whilst building up a substantial volume of paperwork supporting a legal defence at tribunal.

Or less cynically it allows the staff to understand what is expected of them, so they perform better. This never works IMHO
I own about half a dozen pairs of gloves. All fit well, according to their function. It really isn’t that hard.

Plenty of outdoor brands make excellent gloves. Yes, they might come with silly logos and ridiculous colours. But they keep your hands warm.
organizing unions against your employer is not free speech. Mojang was on social media and got blacklisted (cancel culture), completely different.
as a manager, i have this exact rapport w/my small team: we're all super friendly, but definitely not friends. i'd invite them all to a BBQ at my place in a heartbeat!

outside of my current job, i'm still friends w/some old managers and reports... we're all geographically distributed so it's hard to keep in touch w/everyone. :)
Thanks for this comment. Can you please share more details on how the process is structured at your company?
up to a certain point it does. but not when the gains become too steep. Imagine if the S&P 500 was to go up 100% in a single day. now the range of potential price movement has been increased dramatically, so instead of the annual volatility parameter being around .15 or so for option pricing formulas, it is a much higher value, hence higher implied volatility.
I'm not sure why implementing pepper (alongside, or even instead of, salt) is so rare. It's arguably much easier to implement than salt, and protects against both attacks described here.

The only caveat is that your database isn't coupled tightly with your application code, so your pepper remains secret even if your DB is breached (which is usually the case).
I've pointed this out for the women in tech debate. Probably 3 of the 30 or so CS students were women here.

So the question becomes why do blacks and women want tech jobs without becoming qualified for said tech jobs? or do they even want tech jobs in the first place? is it just someone else who wants them to have tech jobs?
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Mobify
> I would bootstrap it by seizing a small, resource rich area

That's probably a prerequisite, but the issue is, there is virtually 0 unclaimed land on Earth. You need to find some ways to avoid having larger nations stiffle you during the early days. So your options would be:

1. Use a remote island nobody cares about (or create an island in the middle of the ocean). There was an idea to create such a nation for media piracy reasons, I can't remember the name. An outlandish project where they'd buy an island, declare themselves a new nation and have very lax IP laws.

2. Find a political power void. Good candidates are places with little rule of the law and/or weak governments. Ideally a place where there is no well organised force maintaining peace. War-torn areas might seem to fit the bill, but are probably to volatile to work.

3. Go off-planet, if space colonisation becomes a thing during our lifetime.

Also, when it comes to creating a new nation, the CHAZ in Seattle is a great example in what _not_ to do. CHAZ was never going to work, but execution was so bad the problem basically took care of itself with virtually no involvement from the US govt.
Bitcoin is economics.

Proof-of-Work relies on miners investing and competing. Miners that continually invest generally win - and those that do not, die. The stronger the system, the harder for Bitcoin enemies to subvert/takeover the system.

In 2008, miners used CPU's, several years later miners moved to GPU's, several years later miners moved to ASICs, and recently miners moved to data centers.
Show HN: Evolution of VR Headsets
Wow, how very unusual.
> Uber car crashes. NVIDIA stock crashes the next day because the public thought it had something to do with NVIDIA GPUs. I, and all other ML experts should have been able to call this out and freeze the price of NVDA and say "we have it on good authority that NVDA did not do anything to cause that car crash".

See, but you don't actually know that's why the price of nvidia fell, nor do you know that it is an irrational reason for the nvidia stock to fall. Just because you work in the industry doesn't make you an expert on pricing.

There's lots of problems with this idea (it's incoherent wrt supply&demand, why should people closely affiliated with an industry be the one's setting prices, prices should reflect future expectations not current valuations).

> Predicting the future is an inherently difficult task for experts and I'll give you that.

But that's exactly what prices do. Why would I buy any stock at all unless I'm making a forward prediction about what is happening?
It was only tested on 40 people so far . . . stated in the Lancet paper.

Typical Russian skip the important stuff . . .
Promising hardware, though this isn't looking like comparable hardware even to the Raspberry Pi Zero. Only has a quad-core 64-bit RISC-V (RV64GC) processor at 500+ MHz. RAM size not specified. If it was priced in the $5-15 range it would be more or less practical, but higher than that I'd be buying it solely for the architecture novelty.
Lang Lang Releases ‘The Goldberg Variations’