skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is when extreme risk becomes outright fraud.

So if any random startup with some guy/gal with some positive track record claims that they'll do X ... let's say Magic Leap claims they'll paint black, or Openwater claims they'll read minds without invasive surgery just with IR light and an ungodly amount of CT-like singal processing for image reconstruction (founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, who has pretty extensive "moonshot creds" by creating the Pixel Qi display, which I knew nothing about until recently), etc.

At what point this becomes fraud? Well, of course we know the moment the founder/employees/interested-parties start faking things that are not true. Yes, sure, but when does simply painting a rosy picture becomes Theranos-level scam? After all Theranos' founder convinced seemingly competent people when she was 19 old about something truly risky. How? Her father was a vice president at Enron. Also she had Stanford's name next to her. (She got Channing Robertson, her ex-advisor and dean of School of Engineering at Stanford, to back her idea in or before 2005.)

And all is well as long as the founder is truthful, even if he/she is extremely biased. (As in we'll make this work by next week. And next week they say they'll make it work next week. Repeat a thousand times. No problem, because being a maximally biased estimator is not in itself being untruthful. Even if it's an extreme sign of metacognitive defects.) The problem starts when the founder claims that something works in such and such way, but that's not actually the case.

I think even the very murky territory of not disclosing previous failures can be simply signs of bias. (As in I'm not telling you about how we fucked up the last twenty iterations of our magical product, because I think the tests were very bad, and you'd get a very unfair impression of our marvelous idea, so I'll just say we're working on it, and let you decide solely based on that.) Of course if you agree to report progress, you agree to keeping lab notes, but then you destroy them or purposefully stop writing notes, that's bad.

I don't know anything about Nikola, other than that they are pushing hydrogen fuel cells and battery powered vehicles, plus building their own water-splitter network along key routes.
That's only scratching the surface.

There are any number of terms that other investors and financiers can have that fundamentally change your own.

Participating preferences, option deals (i.e. if xyz happens, they get abc options in which case, they are not allocated yet, but are in a way 'pending'), option pools for other employees are often not counted in the % ownership, convertible debt, special cases, ratchet/anti-dilution clauses.

Effectively - you have to see every single contract the company has with other investors, financiers and executives to actually calculate the real value and risk.
This is a slight tangent to the article, but in the hope HN readers will find this as fascinating as I have recently...

There's a three-way battle developing between AlphaZero (as described in the article, courtesy of DeepMind), LCZero[5] (derived from LeelaZero[1] -- an open source interpretation of the same principles as AZ), and Stockfish[2] (a long-standing open source chess engine that has recently begun including neural network support).

The 'Top Chess Engine Championship'[3] seems to be a good way to follow the latest news; they also stream matches live on their website[4] (it is quite an information-dense site).

You can play against an up-to-date implementation of Stockfish in your browser -- no registration or signup required -- at https://lichess.org

[1] - https://zero.sjeng.org/

[2] - https://stockfishchess.org/

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Chess_Engine_Championship

[4] - https://tcec-chess.com/

[5] - https://www.lczero.org/

Edit: correct LeelaZero -> LCZero
> TV channels and radio stations will just broadcast a breaking news thing.

Many young people don't even own a radio or TV any more, and even more own one but don't use it regularly.

> Websites will have notices

That assumes that a) the Internet is still up everywhere (by the way, same problem with the apps crap) and b) that people are 24/7 surfing on news websites.

> I'm entirely unclear why you'd need an emergency broadcast system? Or place so much emphasis on its importance?

To announce there is something going on and people to have a look at the TV/radio for more information. That's all.

> And why would having one that worked over AM or even FM be worth anything? People don't buy those radios any more. What difference does it make?

AM radios are incredibly cheap to build - all you need is a loop, a tunable capacitor, a diode, a fixed capacitor and an earphone. When I was a kid I had one as a "build it yourself" kit for children. FM radios are more complex but are literally everywhere - many cellphones have them, virtually every car built after the early 50s, kitchen appliances, bathroom radios, classic radios... DAB/DAB+ radios are relatively new, in fact they are only required to be present in cars after end of this year. And in contrast to AM/FM it is almost impossible to build one out of basic components yourself.

> What you're describing sounds like a massive white elephant that was probably worthless even in the cold war. A proverbial safety blanket.

There's more need than just a war for an EBS. Stuff like "the power plant nearby is leaking radioactive gas", "the industrial plants are on fire, close your windows", "there's an earthquake predicted, cover yourself", "flooding immanent" or "active terrorist case with a shooter on the run, stay indoors" is some things that I can easily imagine.
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Cell broadcast is not foreseen to be used in Germany. And my guess is that this „Warntag“ was introduced to prove that the German approach to notify its citizens in these situations (smartphone app, sirens, radio and tv broadcasts) is sufficient and nothing else has to be done to fulfill the upcoming EU-Alert standard that has to be implemented by the member states by 2022.
The incompetence of the responsible agencies is ridiculous. Curious to see what the outcome of this will be and if there is any improvement next year.
Please don't use the code tags for quoting. It makes it very hard to read on mobile and in case it's a longer sentence the overflow is non-obvious on a bigger screen too.
Gene Wolfe (the SF author) helped develop the machine to make them.

> I was in the engineering development division, and asked to develop mass production equipment to make these chips. And we divided the task into the dough making/dough rolling portion, which was done by Len Hooper, and the cooking portion, which was done by me, and then the pickoff and salting portion, which was done by someone else, and then the can filling/can sealing portion which was done by a man who was almost driven insane by the program. Because he would develop a machine, and he would have it almost ready to go, and they would say "Oh, instead of 300 cans a minute, make it 500 cans a minute." And so he would have to throw out a bunch of stuff, and develop the new machine, and when he got that one about ready, they'd say "make it 700 cans a minute." And they almost put him in a mental hospital. He took his job very seriously and he just about flipped out.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090916170648/http://home.roadr...
LMGTFY!

https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-town-didnt-want-to-be-a-rad...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-environment-i...

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry...

https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2008-09-20-year-long...

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2004-10-30/scotland-expos...

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/un-atomic-agency-probing-del...

https://apnews.com/ba820f02074247fc8486b63b7c87d6cb/russias-...

https://www.upi.com/Energy-News/2008/09/08/Nuclear-waste-sca...

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-23...

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/02/oregons-response...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste_dumping_by_the_%27...

and tons more
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A is one area for which there seems to be some very rough standards, if you visit Angel List you might see job offers with % equity listed, and it's usually in % terms not number of options.

1% would be quite a lot for an employee. Once the team is past the founders plus a few more, the only people getting more than 1% would be key executives.
> mainstream of the presstitutes catering

Jeez. No need to resort to far-right vocabulary!

As for the rest of your point, I'm sure you remember "die Antwort auf diese Frage könnte die Bevölkerung verunsichern"...
I'm sad that I clicked on this article and the parent one and neither had a basic line graph showing the trend. It would answer so many questions I have about whether on is trending up etc
Talk to a doctor - self-medication is a risky endeavour, especially where mental health is concerned.
I can relate. But doing so also means you tend to only pay attention to more extreme examples, and you can start to doubt the severity of your own situation (at least that was/is the case for me).
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The same article was discussed yesterday with 101 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24430145
That's right, I found it: https://docs.cupy.dev/en/stable/tutorial/kernel.html#kernel-...
It's really a wonderful thing when once you understand the data the rest of the code becomes obvious.
> but they panic over a nuclear power station

I don't think anyone panics over a nuclear power station that's working. What people are afraid of is a Fukushima / Chernobyl in their backyard and the non-existing long term storage options that are more sophisticated than burying it in the holes.
What is measured, improves!
This is going off-topic fast...

An exclusive solar and wind power grid is not more economical viable than an exclusive nuclear power grid, as is daily proven be the absent of such grids being developed. A power grid that combines solar, wind and fossil fuels are more economical viable than a power grid made by nuclear plants, and thus this combination is today out competing nuclear by a wide margin. Grid scale storage technology may in the future make solar, wind and storage a more economical viable solution than nuclear but no such power grid exist to date.

The economic viability of any energy source is depending on how the composition of the energy grid. Economic comparison between two sources is generally meaningless without the context of the grid, especially supply and demand.
It's increasingly looking like in ten years C# will contain F# as a subset, so pattern matching is certainly not going away.
Gene transplantation across species does occur in nature (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfers). Apparently our genome contains traces of viral DNA, and species of bacteria can swap genes using plasmids.
Depression has well-defined symptoms. A couple of questions from a professional can really reveal it. There is a survey even, which can you fill out and shows if you are likely to suffer from it.
If you feel like trying out something quite similar to magit via a code plugin you can have a look at edamagit, it tries to be magit but in vscode. I have used both magit and edamagit, and edamgit does the job for most features I use on a day to day basis(the most important one for me is staging/un-staging/discarding hunks in a easy way), but is is noticeably slower then magit in emacs. See https://github.com/kahole/edamagit
Here is a condensed, blog-post version, based on that Robert Sapolsky's lecture. https://www.scienceme.com/the-biology-of-depression.php
Lack of sleep and stress can also manifest as flu-like symptoms for me. Finding a working sleep-wake rhythm has been really difficult since working at home full-time. I love the freedom of fully being able to schedule my work hours, but it also means that I now have full control and responsibility over the rest of my daily schedule, and maintaining a healthy schedule takes more effort than I'd have expected.

What really helped me is to go out and exercise in the morning, rather than lounge inside until I start work. I have more clarity during the day, which means I feel less compelled to work late to make up for my self-perceived lack of focus during the work day. And less work in the evening also means I fall asleep more easily, which has really been an issue for me in the past few months.

YMMV, of course.
> Fukushima killed 0 people. The evacuation has 2,000 deaths attributed to it.

Why do you think that distinction is important? It's like saying that bikes don't kill people, only the hard surfaces you fall on when you crash do.
good Idea, I will add a gitGub ribbon to the site at top, or maybe something nicer, I have to ask our designer to see what she thinks
"The fastest way to wealth is through equity."

"The fastest way to wealth is a lottery ticket"

It's reasonable to indicate big wealth only comes with the leverage of equity, but it has to be put in the context of the risks involved, and especially the opportunity cost of forgoing a lower salary otherwise.
I've heard the variation "What receives attention, grows".
Not all attention yields positive results though, focusing on e.g. anxious feelings might increase the relative importance of those feelings.
I actually expect computers to do much better on a game with a lot of randomness, since it then becomes statistics.

Genres that would be difficult:
- any game based on recognizing images (the first example that pops in my mind is codenames)

- social deduction like werewolf
What's the downside of these TLD's? I love the idea of a site's tld referencing what the site is about.
>Sad to see this type of response; the CEO has a lot to learn from this situation about security for users and how to deal with security researchers.

This happens when you use twitter and mix your company with your personal matters, you take it personal because your "baby" has a flaw, and not your product.

Also, to all the future CEO's, STOP using twitter for anything else then professional matters. You probably don't want to emulate Mr. Trump. Talk about your product, your visions and the cool stuff you achieve with your team. Not about you or the shit you read on others twitter accounts, don't politicize your product but put a vision behind it.
Analysis of the 2006 match by a CS professor:

https://cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/Elista2006.htm...
These are the three mottos which I like the most.

- If you want to succeed increase the failure rate.

- When you stop learning, you stop growing.

- Don't Stop, Don't give up Keep Trying.
I assure you that drawish games are only boring on the part of the spectators, not on the part of the players. People often struggle epically to catch that half-point, it doesn't feel boring at all when playing from the inside. There are many records of epic draws between titans where both sides played incredibly accurately - see Alekhine - Reti or Korchnoi - Topalov off the top of my mind.

And as I said, people rarely if ever prepare openings 'dozens of moves' deep at all but the absolute top level play.

At this point you have to choose if you want chess to cater to competitive chess players (who are mostly content with the rules as they are) or amateur spectators and organizes (who want to see blood).
I used to be a performing musician myself for many years and I have a formal musical education. The answer to your question depends on the type of music and activity. It takes a lot of time (much more than the famous 10'000 hours) to learn these enormous skills as e.g. a classical pianist and to be able to perform a classical work with the virtuosity and endurance that is expected today. If you don't start as a child, you lack the time until you reach professional age. Moreover, children can learn many things more easily than adults. In pop music it's completely different; you can be successful there without mastering your instrument, if you look good and have a good stage presence - or another characteristic that just happens to be important to a large audience. A young audience is naturally more likely to be attracted by young idols. A big portion of luck is needed in any case.
Neither has Bremen, or a lot of other cities. Justifications seem to be that sirens are not suitable to alert only certain districts, and that a siren going off is not enough to communicate what exactly is happening.
Pretty flimsy I think, because a siren as a trigger for people to get informed via radio or TV is the most resilient way to get information to everyone if something really bad happens.
No advanced chess engine is using a hard-coded value for pieces. It's not like all Stockfish does is tally up the pieces and summing their value.
Really that's just another kind of material determinism? I don't see the lottery aspect in your family line. In your individual makeup of genes maybe.

If you weren't born to one set of parents, you don't randomly start in a different set of parents, as far as I can see.

So the fastest way to wealth is to be the result of a long family tree spanning back to the prototypical creatures?
> I think, as op also insinuates, it is all about acceptance.

I second this. From my experience you have to START WITH ACCEPTING the status quo and honestly looking at it without judging or being ashamed. It helps me to tell myself: "This is not terrible. I am alive. I have a job. My body is still working OK."

From there FOCUS ON THE DELTA: What can I do today that will bring me into a slightly better position tomorrow.

Avoid thinking about the past ("I ate too much today.", "I did not exercise all week."). This is done. No way to change it.

Don't set high expectations. You only need to know where you want to be, and that you are going into the right direction. It does not matter much if you arrive there in one week or in five years.
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It's the other way around. FICA tops out at $135k. Past that your wages are taxed at only 1.45% (for medicare) more than any other non-capital-gains income.
Public defenders are paid for by the government.
There's Arimaa [0], designed by an AI researcher with the goal of favoring humans over AI. However on 2015 AI has overtaken humans in Arimaa.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa
FYI: How Stanford University handles that now is that they have a new subdivision on campus, and chosen professors are given title to a nice house. When they move later, they are given the assessed profit of any rise in house value over the years.

This was necessary because house prices in Palo Alto are in the $2+ million range, which is not affordable to profs, and prevents them from the normal housing ladder investment seen in the rest of the USA.

A lot of the profs use bicycles to ride the mile or so to class.
Do you have any references (i.e. quantative statistics) for how much of a problem storage is?

It'd be really useful to understand how large a gap exists there - it's not something I'd claim to know about at all.
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This reminded me of Karnaugh Maps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map
I think this (alleged) Orson Welles quote says it best:
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

(Information on the quote's provenance, for those who might be interested: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/24/art-limit/)
Randomness is not an issue. AI can already play poker at superhuman levels.

At this point, I'd say that AI can't really play collaborative games well, like Diplomacy. They also struggle in continuous games.
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There might be a neat way to work around these laws...

Make all the data, including the financial data public. But make sure the people you want to see the data can access it first.

Arrange the data in the air so every error recovery block is mixed with financial and non-financial data.

Send the non-financial data out of band, and ahead of time, to your paying customers.

Now when a data block starts being transmitted, the paying customers can combine the non-financial data with the transmitted block (for example with xor) and decide to extract the data they want after just some proportion of the block has been transmitted.

The public have to wait till the end of the block to decode the data, by which time the data isnt valuable anymore.
> we will use a private organisation who provides a service linking approximate names to websites

You are describing Google. Lots of people already type in 'yahoo' or 'paypal' and then click the first link than type the URL.
Nothing. They are just young people who make fun of others.
Hehe, in my travels I haven't found a good moniker for them, as many people would call "co.uk" a TLD. Maybe the T can stand for "toppish".
Only social games that require you to amuse your fellow participants, like Apples to Apples and the like. Even then, they'll beat people with poor social skills.

Role playing games.

Random dice games, like Yahtzee, are trivial to write programs to play "prefectly" ... it's just stats and your program will avoid both wishful thinking and pattern matching traps humans fall into.
Webpages run faster in Firefox, that's why.
Really great overview, there are so many pieces of gear that are very hard for a layman to understand. Their descriptons can be self-referential. I've been getting into audio / synthesizers a bit and it is such a hard world to get your head around!

It's remarkable how hard it is to get audio into a computer compared to how simple one imagines it should be. Understanding audio interfaces, mixers, power levels (mic/line/instrument), cable types (TS, TRS, 3.5mm) is not rocket science but it's a bit shocking when you see how hard it is to record anything besides your computer's built-in microphone.

And then there's the whole world of MIDI. It's at once an amazing standard and a confusing dinosaur (more the former) which is, again, shockingly hard to get started with as a n00b. When I started out I assumed I just needed a cable with USB A on one end and MIDI on the other end ... hah!

All that said: this stuff is really fun and it gets cheaper every day (although your wish list also gets bigger ever day). Companies like Behringer get a lot of flak for being cheap but they have made it so so so much cheaper for the casual person to get the hardware they need to try things.
I think you could easily get past a megabyte with auto-generated parser code. That would be stuff like lex, yacc, bison, antlr, flex, etc.

Anything with a big switch would qualify too, such as an emulator.
Agree 100%. Integrate hosting via iCloud. Blogs and personal websites are our best hope for the web in a world dominated by social media.
It seems odd that extinction rebellion need to do crazy stunts like glue themselves to tube trains to get in the papers, yet someone who leaves and says its unreasonable to abandon fossil fuels gets featured across multiple publications.
I would venture a guess that on the surface, it's about its verbosity and the pyramids of doom you can get when editing.

On a deeper level, I think they might be frustrated with the ability to develop custom formats (XSDs) which effectively make XML not one format, but a gazillion formats.
In mid-90s Microsoft attempted the same in the US as counterattack against the web but it was already too late. Blackbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(online_platform)
Dogs can reliably count to the number of treats they usually get at once.
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