skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its been 1.5 decades since the patriot act of the same rehashed tropes and fear mongering. Most citizens accept the high level surveillance for high level hackers and criminals. The fear of ‘they’re going to track Joe Schmoe to a strip club and ruin his family life’ hasn’t come close to materializing. Call us when it does. Until then, the dialog between elite tech bubbles like hn or slashdot of 15 years ago and the rest of the country won’t be productive.
I both agree with you and agree with your parent.

Yes, the chances of retaliation from your manager is not insignificant.

However, the experience with a good manager is always fantastic. If I don't trust my manager enough to give him negative feedback, I don't want to stay in the team. Giving negative feedback is one of the few reliable ways to discover if you have a good manager. I'd rather know than not know.

Source: Also been there and done that (and paid the price, but it was worth it).

The worst thing, though, is to put up with it. I tried it and it didn't end well either, which put me on the path of "Well if it's going to suck, it's better to be vocal than not."
Unless the IFR of covid is shown to be significantly higher than other common diseases that we accept and don't fight by locking down cities, it doesn't seem that any major, world-shattering intervention is needed.

Please wash your hands for 20 seconds though, and don't come to the office if you're sick.
MS and Google already have various government cloud deployments. Amazon just squatted on the "GovCloud" name.

And Congress can always pass a law to limit prices, and the Executive can easily win an antitrust case if the vendor gouges them.
> I’ve started to suspect the “I got nothing to hide” attitude that many privacy advocates criticize is at some level a defense mechanism for the realization that you’re completely owned and completely powerless.

Based on what? Why is it so hard for everyone to believe that the regular public, who haven't spent much time thinking about the complex implications of the eroding of privacy, just doesn't care that much? If they think about it at all, they calculate that is extremely unlikely it will ever negatively impact them.

Whether they're right or wrong, that's what they think. Now what makes you think they're actually being driven by some kind of defense mechanism?
As a thought experiment ask yourself why should it be easier to buy or sell fractional ownership of a company than a house or a car? Does that not incentivize not taking responsibility for the long term prospects of a company or understanding its business? What is the proper role of owners? What is the purpose of public trading? Is liquidity and efficiency an end unto its own?
But zero is well.... a zero.... If you don't want to mess with arduino/esp*, but want a price point and size in that range, with full linux support, to connect a thingy to another thingy (eg sensor to web/mqtt), and don't care about additional power use, you take a rpi0. I don't think it was ever meant as a "normal computer" or a "server" (as we use normal-sized RPis for).
Actually somewhat interesting is The New C Standard: An Economic and Cultural Commentary - http://www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/cbook.html
And Gordon Lish invented Raymond Carver.
You might have some advantages, but you have 10x more blind-spots.

What you believe about Tesla evaluation based on Self Driving might not matter because even if they miss that timeline, maybe they execute on their scaling or batteries or whatever.

A huge company has many, many different things going and different analysts think different things matter far more.

So you would need a whole group of these 'experts' working together evaluating each aspect.

Now even worse is that expert don't just have hard time predicting the future, but are actually the worst at doing it in many ways. Tesla and electric cars being a perfect example. The amount of car insider that believed electric cars were absolutely not viable as a buissness was tiny.

Even worse is that even if assume you know that some technology X will not hold up to the companies claims, their should maybe still go up based on competitors. I don't believe that Tesla can do Self Driving in the time-frame they claim, but the news about the competitors is even more worrying.

Literally everything is connected in extremely complex way that no experts can understand. The temptation for smart people and expert to think they can is a deceit.
There are no innocents caught up in any of this, for decades. Its the boogeyman for powering through criminal rights.
Calico - longevity research
I so wish you were right but this is very much not correct.
> Another sticking point in this interpretation is Traister’s incomprehensible approach to writing functions that take a variable number of arguments. He does this by passing an arbitrary number of arguments to a function (the first being the number of arguments) and accessing them using offsets from the address of the first argument.

This is one of those things that works by accident for some compilers for some platforms, but because it works for the developer, they think it's a brilliant idea.

From what I remember, and I'm taxing my memory here, some of the early Turbo compilers did lay out arguments in this fashion, for DOS, when all optimisations were disabled. Most of the time.

I do recall seeing similar layouts in some of the programs I played around with at the time, and thinking it was a genius idea. For context, I was about seven or eight years old.
You can download a free high quality ebook of his entire short story corpus at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anton-chekhov/short-fictio...

Warning, it's very long! But, many of the stories are incredible. Constance Garnett is a very capable Chekhov translator, and her Chekhov translations were praised by writers including Hemingway.
Wealth taxes are common in Europe. But not in Africa.
I agree with your overall point, and even the broad case in which we should not take data as superceding rational non-quantitative examination of the world. However,

>If there are no scientific studies about something, it's OK to rely on intuition and stories

This really depends on what the stakes are, and it doesn't tell us much about whose intuition or whose stories to believe. For example, I'd be pretty annoyed if I were thrown in jail for writing a pornographic story if the law were to decide that there isn't sufficient data (or the data isn't convincing to them) and so they go with the intuition that it'll cause some horrific outcome if someone were to read it. Similarly, there are some pretty strong philosophical arguments against the role of intuition overall, especially in our lawmaking and moral capacities.

We can stretch it further; most people have the intuition that there are meaningful moral facts. Yet, moral nihilism is a position often taken seriously in philosophy, even if only in certain contexts. Empirical data on the matter is merely informative at best. Should we make laws on the presumption that moral nihilism is true, or that it is false?
Good news is that stopping the contract means less growth in the Federal government's incursion into our lives
I suspect it’s highly team-culture and org dependent, to be fair.

A friend in the American Southwest expresses just as you do: meetings have declined, “walk ups” have all but stopped and he’s more productive ever. My org? Literally the opposite in every listed factor.

In fact we had a meeting today as a functional team* about how we plan to put up some guardrails just for ourselves so we can get some shit done.

I am at least thankful to the Holy compiler our Director was on the zoom and has completely bought in and offered support because he sees the pain and agrees it’s a problem.

———

* it’s not as ironic as it sounds, this was our usual Friday afternoon “have beers and just vent about the week over zoom” meeting. It’s quite healthy for the six of us as a lot of good outcomes have resulted from the calls during COVID from a comraderie standpoint And have a Director who will go to bat where he can.
You're right, they call them choppas. As in

"Get to the choppa!"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_intellectual_p...

It's a logic or semiconductor layout design for a component (e.g. a processor core, or a peripheral like a UART, DMA controller, etc.). "IP" for hardware is roughly analogous to "source code" for software.
> Amazon already has GovCloud and C2S. If they also got JEDI, they would have complete lock in / monopoly for all of the federal government's cloud services.

GovCloud isn't a contract, it's a region certified to meet FedRAMP-HIGH and other federal data requirements (and is available to non-federal-government customers that need that, as well as federal government.) Microsoft has an equivalent (Azure Government), and it's public regions are FedRAMP-HIGH certified. GCP also has FedRAMP-HIGH certification in many of their public regions but doesn't seem to have anything directly comparable to AWS GovCloud or Azure Government currently.

So, no, JEDI wouldn't give AWS a monopoly either on federal government cloud or cloud for people dealing with federal mandates like FedRAMP.
Views are Important here if you do prospecting on LinkedIn
That's right. At minimum there should be Bonferroni correction to adjust for the number of (implicit) hypothesis tests being executed. If we pursue this methodology with a significance level of p = 0.05 and test 20 independent signals against some financial metric, we can expect to find one of them to exhibit correlation simply by chance. Considering the OP tested 32 technical indicators against the dependent variable, this likely happened.
I suspect they’re referring to how some blockchains (eg ethereum) are using sharing and lightning to scale
His conclusion is sound while yours is not. Korean is not a dialect of Chinese, which seems to be your implication. Neither is it a "branch" of a tree of which Chinese is the trunk. In linguistic terms it is called a "language isolate". In the past, linguists tended to group Korean and Japanese together; I believe largely for political reasons they have been separated--but that's another topic.

Korean uses many Chinese loan words (in the same way that English uses Greek loan words) but the sentence structure, pronunciation and grammar are totally different. You would not say English is a dialect or branch of Greek for the same reason.

I speak both Korean, Japanese and am currently studying Chinese. Korean does not sound like Mandarin at all because it is not a tonal language. It does sound similar to Mongolian and Manchurian. That is not surprising because the roots of Koreans (and probably their current language) come from the area north of Korea near Manchuria.
An engineer should be willing to tell his boss "No, because I would go to jail" If the manager insists anyway, the engineer should be obliged to refuse, even if that costs them their job.

Of course management should also be held accountable, but until engineers are forced to have some skin in the game they will continue to be as pliable as wet noodles.

Consider this: who better to blow the whistle on management than an engineer who knows they've been given an illegal order?
Clojure’s just a Java library, friend.
I do love Chekhov’s stories, but many years of humanities education has left me pretty jaded about “X invented the modern Y” claims. It’s a lazy formula and relies on the complete slipperiness of the term “modern” (oh and “invented” is kinda vague too).

Examples, based on ones I’ve heard:
“Shakespeare invented the modern self”
“Napoleon invented the modern state”
“Newton invented modern science” (Or was it Galileo?)
“Picasso invented modern painting”

Note that these examples span about 1600-1900. Perhaps we should just engage with the work on its own terms.
> who then use that data to coerce you into buying products and services that you might never have purchased if left to your own devices.

That’s not what coercion means.

coerce: persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats

Don’t cheapen the word by misusing it.
Bad cops are going to be bad cops regardless of the tools you give them. That isn't to say privacy is not a problem, just that I don't think privacy is the primary problem in your example.
> I'd love to hear a plausible explanation for 150 searches of the COVID-19 database per day in community with just over 100K residents and a police force of around 320 employees for the purposes of genuine police work.

A dashboard that refreshes every 10 minutes.

I’d love to hear a plausible explanation for what malicious thing they could do with that data.
The modern Korean writing system (hangul) is unrelated to Chinese.

Also, it's quite common for languages to be written in scripts originally developed for completely unrelated languages. Maltese is related to Arabic but written in the Latin (English) alphabet, Mongolian uses Cyrillic (Russian), Thai/Lao/Khmer derive from South Indian scripts, etc.
Your manager is not your employer it’s an important distinction. Your manager is someone who can get you what you want(more money) at no personal cost to him/her self. Moreover having someone loyal in higher positions is benifical to the manager as well.
Sorry, it’s not clear if this is meant in sarcasm—- maybe I’m misinterpreting, but how exactly is legislation passed if not by majority vote?
Ok, for all of you out there who think this is so illegal... you’re confusing immoral vs illegal. Anyone who buys large amounts of a financial instrument is knowingly influencing the market price. Some folks on here have mentioned Berkshire Hathaway, who is notably trying to NOT inflate prices while buying; the mere knowledge that they are tends to send prices higher. What SoftBank did is probably wrong, but it’s not illegal. The markers are a casino, it’s all betting prices go one way or the other. SoftBank doubled down on their purchases through options, which is legal. The point up for debate is intent, if they intended to manipulate prices, they are criminals. But when has anyone ever proved intent alone? That’s not an avenue to enforce market regulations, that just leads to thought police. What we all need to accept, is that no matter what financial transaction rules are in place, someone, somewhere will find a way to manipulate them to their advantage without overtly breaking them. It has always been this way, and always will. The smart win, and the fools are quickly parted from their money. Stop bitching, and stop buying Tesla at a 1200 PE. Xoxo xoxo - me
If that the correlation is better between how much that manager likes you and who you are related to
If you believe this is true in practice, I've got a bridge to sell you.
I honestly thought that this article was satire until I reached the end & found no punchline. This is a fast way to turn any codebase into a mess of unreadable action-at-a-distance nonsense. I don't have any beef with objects or classes, but it's appalling how some people will use them to obfuscate clear code by splitting an if statement over several files.
How to Create a Solidarity Enterprise: Unit I
Agreed.

For those interested in time series analysis I just finished a small project with the help of Introduction to Time Series Forecasting with Python by Jason Brownlee.

The relevant section is 24.4 Rolling Forecast ARIMA Model.
That is so cool. I love serendipitous stuff like this.
oh, I scrolled through these and saw so many I've used, so many years ago... nostalgia.
> The key problem with their analysis is that they don't do a proper train-test split.

Yes, that's bad. But the enterprise is doomed even earlier than that: the author is using a naive regression technique on timeseries data. Stock price data is typically log-normally distributed and non-stationary. If the author is not going to use a robust timeseries technique like ARIMA, they need to transform and constrain the data to account for non-stationarity. Otherwise it's trivial to find superfluous correlations which appear to show a strong linear relationship between some fundamental financial metric and some other technical indicator, because both may have a temporal component (e.g. stocks tend to go up over time, and a lot of technical indicators have some implicit component which also increase or decrease with time).

This is also why it's important to have a strong fundamental thesis to explain what's going on.
He then went back to work at AWS, same place he worked before his detour into government writing an AWS-biased RF.P
>He did this by having each account have its own blockchain, rather than using one blockchain for all transactions. The result is Nano transactions take under 1 second (fully confirmed) and there is no fee for transactions. It's also scalable with 1465 confirmations per second (aka transactions) reached on the test net the other day.

What are the trade-offs being made by using this rather than a blockchain? I'd imagine the consistency guarantees would be lower?

>There is no mining involved, so Nano is environmentally friend and voting is done using a system called ORV (open representative voting) which is similar to delegated proof of stake, but doesn't require actually staking and risking coins.

If there's no staking/risk involved, what's the disincentive for bad actors to fork the chain? The whole point of staking (and putting coins at risk) is to disincentivize that from happening.
DKIM is not solving the wrong problem, DKIM is solving an underlying problem.

The suggestions to use reputation, accounts etc are still fine and good, but step 0 is to check whether that guy on the other side is who he says he is - and that's where DKIM comes in.
Populous II was one of the first video games I remember loving wholeheartedly.

Molyneux rolled big dice and often lost. When he won, though, he won big.
The CPI does include rent. And if you check the listings, you won’t find that the money supply multiplying has led to prices multiplying. It seems like it’s just supporting current prices. If prices do start to rise too quickly they can gradually pull back that support.
Absolutely agree it’s a partnership where both succeed together. If things are working well my manager is busting his but to promote me and I’m busting mine to make him look good so he can get his promotion.
A bit of a tangent, but even if hashing was hypothetically equivalent to encryption, wouldn't it still be good practice for organizations to encourage users to change their passwords after a data breach?

A good hashing algorithm today could be useless down the road if computation becomes orders of magnitudes faster, or RSA becomes trivial to reverse, etc. Similar to how MD5 was initially designed as a cryptographic hash function, but isn't considered one today.

I think the idea "Well my password was encrypted, so why should I have to change it?" seems a bit silly.
Also the music was great
OK, dumb questions - the H202 is entering the combustion chamber at what pressure? below chamber pressure,with a valve, like a pulsejet? or is there a turbopump somewhere? and what powers it? I'm guessing centripetal force once the rotors are spinning helps (but isn't there a potential evil feedback loop hiding in there somewhere?)
That's not really true anymore.

Device Tree and other things help with this, although you do still require certain BLOB's to access the GPU and other features.
I was replying to lehi’s comment about food pre-Columbian exchange. I’m not disparaging the author of this cookbook.
S/MIME is excellent.

I know its currently more suitable for an organization than individuals, but, I think with a bit of glue it would work fantastically at internet-scale.
> People incorrectly assume inflation means "the price of everything goes up".

Because they've spent a few generations making sure people don't understand the difference between price inflation and monetary inflation by using the two interchangeably.

This whole sub-thread is a perfect example, "the Fed has been printing money like there's no tomorrow but, look, there's only 0.44% inflation".
Are you suggesting I am not taking it seriously, while also saying "Sure I can" when it comes to ignoring nuclear waste storage issues? Waste amounts are "tiny", and "bury it in a hole somewhere", ignoring time and cost components. Hard to take you seriously.
I don't think you can expect anyone in the startup scene to support a plan which forces founders to give up equity.

His objection wasn't about taxation as a concept, it was about a wealth tax on stock assets, which definitionally requires founders to give up control of their company as they liquidate shares to pay taxes.

Not really sure how you extrapolate "there's more wealth to be created that's outside the scope of what the wealth advisors..." from that. His opinion is that it would sabatoge the wealth-creation mechanism he knows and has built.
> If you browse search results for other books by Traister you’ll find a lot of questionable sounding titles ... [snip] ... Cave Exploring (1983)

Yikes, that could kill somebody if he takes the same approach... otoh it looks like he was a scuba instructor?

https://trackbill.com/bill/virginia-house-resolution-92-comm...
By major corporate press releases?
Generally, it's a dumpster fire.

In any rational world, execs would be basing their OKRs on something similar to https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/business-of-saas#the-fundame.... Instead it's a trickle up process whereby people tell execs what they want to work on, then the execs group those into OKRs. Also the OKRs appear to only have one level, despite being an org with a thousand people. And finally, the system uses the internal wiki to track, rather than integrating with the project/issue backlog tool.

Annual reviews are even worse. People fish for peer reviews that paint the rosiest picture. They only happen once a year and if something bad is going to happen to you, I recommend it happen directly after reviews, and absolutely never right before them, the recency bias is huge.
Ask HN: Current State of Swift for TensorFlow
Hey HN!

I've looked online but see conflicting sources.

Does anyone have insight into the current state of the project? What are the most up-to-date resources on the API?
And it is and it will will work in his favor
May I ask why you find that unusual?

EDIT: I don't know what country you are in.
In IMG's defense, the way that their drivers and firmware are micro optimized for the specific IP core version and use case by the host software was one of their competitive advantages. It's one of the reasons why their cores were some of the fastest and most efficient for the years that they still had plenty of capital rolling in to support that model.

You'd expect that kind of thing to be brittle when you don't have source access, but the drivers themselves were remarkably clean when I spent some time reversing them. It's just a shame that they're so afraid of open source too, because the above really compounds that pain.
All the finger pointing sound sensational, but the stocks are not going up because they are hype companies like in the dotcom, these are best of the crop companies. I would say they are adding in a bit of sensationalism to get people excited. I wonder which side of the trades they are on?
This is known as circumstantial evidence and I think part of what scares the shit out of people is seeing posts like yours arguing that purely circumstantial evidence should be used in this way.

Imagine being the unibombers neighbor and getting arrested for the crimes because you searched for the same things he did.
Yes, presumably Uncle Sam cares less about making a sound loan in the first place. It is also able to create money out of thin air—in other words, (symbolically) infinite resources.

Getting paid upfront, instead of years later after tons of paperwork, can only accelerate the process.
It's a phishing strategy to get the user to install a malware version of the client that sends their coins to somewhere else. Nothing crazy interesting. Just comes to show thieves will keep up with tech