skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deflation reduces the velocity of money (why spend something now when you can spend less for the same thing later). This creates a negative feedback cycle which reduces economic activity and worse it increases inequality.

This happens because the poor continue to transact hand to mouth and are unable to save while the wealthy accreted value on their idle cash. Invested cash creates economic activity. The cash in your mattress does not. The opposite is true in a deflationary environment.

Debt in an inflationary environment benefits the debtor, as the loans are denominated in the dollars at the time of loan issuance. To the extent that the economy grows faster than your debt load you do not in fact ever have to pay it off.
An easy way to detect cheaters is to look at overall accuracy
as some aggregate metric of deviation from 'optimal' (as per the engine(s) used). This could just be a average of squares of centipawns lost per move, or classifying moves like how chess.com does (brilliant/best/excellent/good/inaccuracy/mistake/blunder/missed-win) and then looking at average distributions from this.
This is likely because linear regression meets most widely accepted definitions of machine learning. [0][1] It is simple and very effective when learning in linear space.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html
your shoe rubber is going to be a totally different makeup than car tires. I'm not a rubber chemist so I can't say which is worse. Running in car tires would be like running in hard soled work boots. Also I'm betting that < 1% of the population runs as much as you, whereas > 1% of the population has a car or ridses in motorized vehicles using rubber tires.
Obie (obierisk.com) is hiring talented, passionate Software Engineers
Or put another way, culture isn't separate from strategy, but rather the type of culture you have must be part of your strategy, or it will undermine it. If your strategy is to spit out tons of different ideas and productize the best, maybe a culture of "move fast and break things" makes sense. If you have a strategy of "ensure both regulators and customers trust we manage money effectively" maybe a culture of risk-aversion makes more sense. The "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" is really a shortcut for that fact that rapid business-change is a reality for all businesses now, not just startups, so a culture that supports innovation and creativity will trump others given time. But that needs to be integrated into other cultural values as part of the strategy and environment that will allow it flourish.
Your first ellipsis spans a sentence-ending period, which distorts my meaning. The first sentence stands alone, while the second sentence introduces an additive point. I think hard work is valuable both intrinsically (the point being made in the first sentence), and in service to future outcomes (the point being made in the second sentence). If in other comments I made it seem like I think it is only intrinsically valuable, that was a lack of clarity.
There has been a Zotero mobile app in the worka for awhile. The API is brilliant, if you’re an iOS user you can use Shortcuts to build with it.
I agree. Cross-compiling is just awful in general, unless someone works really hard to put together a really high-quality cross-compilation toolchain which includes compiling, deployment, and remote debugging. That's what you get with the iOS and Android toolchains. But it just isn't there with Linux (or Windows) in general. There's a whole lot of work that's gone into the iOS and Android toolchains. It's easy to overlook that.
The law is upheld by the people. If you damage the health of nearly an entire national via vaccine, no one will care to stay true to the letter of the law when it comes time for your retribution.

Same thing with the Nazis. Nuremberg was a kangaroo court but people stop caring about due process when you ruin the lives of everyone in their country.
> Pls, it is quite natural for humans to care about notion of fairness.

Yes, but should we give up things we enjoy because the possibility for unfairness in that thing exists?

We may never know whether someone is using a chess engine assistant, but by observing what we can, their moves and game records, we can objectively argue that the match is fair. Statistically speaking, you have about a 50% chance to win. Is that unfair?
Made me look up current GrapheneOS take on MicroG; https://grapheneos.org/#never-google-services says they're

> developing support for installing microG as a regular app without any special privileges. This will allow users to choose to use a partial reimplementation of Play services in a specific profile. We won't be supporting arbitrary signature spoofing by microG or any other app since it seriously compromises the OS security model.
"Javascript is required".

Right...
My parents grew up before television, and for their early years, they had no electricity at home. and not even any radio to listen to. Their accent was midwestern USA, easy for most people to understand and I got my accent from them.

While young, I would occasionally hear people from the Deep South and have some difficulty with their accents, but by the time I had gotten through college everyone’s accent seemed to have moderated. I believe that thirty years of having widely watched TV programs largely homogenized the pronunciation of US English.
I'm surprised this wasn't thought of from the very beginning. Must be the Big Battery Lobby.
Huh? I wasn't judging you at all, just insulting Apple's historical behavior, how they look at profit.
This is also why he emphasized self-selection by paying generous (for service sector) severance bonuses and encouraged people to take it early on if they didn't think they were a fit.
I am adding this to my trello board right now
In my experience, python dependency management + library installations + code sharing is way easier than the following:

C#, C++ (Conan) and Java, Linux(apt, yum, etc) and most certainly JS/TS.

What is so hard about "installing code, packages" in python for you?
Is there an upper limit to the number of classes you can train it to detect?
In other words, your package manager should be perfect and bug free 5 years ago.

There are zero package managers from any environment for which these requirements are met.
AlphaFold was used to analyze proteins in SARS-CoV-2 (https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/2020-03-05_crick-scientists-sup...). Does anyone know what impact that has had?

This is really an amazing moment.
> there's somewhat of an implicit expectation of the uniform format of SV-stylee startup landing pages and JS libraries: snappy big letter bullet list of selling points, 5-line code examples and a big fat get started button...

Oh I absolutely do not wish the main take-away from my comments to be that your website should be that! Apologies if that was what it felt like

My point is that even when you do not want to give people what they expect (and you have good reasons for not doing so, as you sum up here), you still need to meet them where their expectations are and lead them out of it. Because that's the best way to make sure that they find their way to where you are coming from and where you want them to end up too.
They would know Monkey Island used VGA and 256 colors - not possible to do the artwork on Amiga.

The Amiga had 4,096 colors at 368x482 out of the box. VGA is limited to 320x200 at 256 colors.
That one looks like an issue with the debian package trying to alter paths and blowing things up.

There's definitely recurring issues with distributions trying to handle python dependencies, which doesn't match how python handles dependencies.
A marriage of equals does not work. If every decision has to get a consensus it leads to ample opportunity for deep resentment, stress and a lower quality of life overall. One parter must be the dominant one.
Two people can work and live together without getting married
> I don’t understand this absolutist viewpoint that the human bureaucracy is the ONLY thing that you need to protect you from bad software. There are multiple root causes, and the bad software is one of them.

There are multiple intermediate causes, and all of them are the responsibility of the human bureaucracy—including, to the extent it contributes, the selection, use, and failure to correct bad software—and all of them stem from one root cause, to wit, that the bureaucracy faces insufficient consequences for it's failures and thus lacks motivation to do it's job well.

Now, were the analysis being performed on behalf of the bureaucracy because they had decided to do their job, rather than being part of a discussion outside of them, the causes which are intermediate from a global perspective would be root causes, sure. Context matters.
You can share a whole database for collaboration, I have been doing this for years.
First, this has been around for a long time. So it has nothing to do with the topic at hand which is recently less people getting married.

Second, you are nuts if you think this has ANY significant impact on people getting married.

Third, you can file married filed separately.. so while I'm not up on all the details of that, you can probably avoid the simple impacts it might have.

Anyway, that is an extremely crazy weak argument.
Or perhaps they just value different things than you? Assuming that the only reason someone might enjoy a product is because of marketing trickery is pretty elitist.
Would be great to prevent sharing lethal genes with virus researchers who pursue Gain of Function.

Gain of Function is evil and should be banned everywhere.
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I would agree with the low barrier to switch. At my last company, we switched 3 times within a year. Away from Slack, then to Stride, and back to Slack (due to stride being discontinued). The point being that it wasn't too difficult to switch. We didn't suffer from "lock-in" or anything.
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20 PRINT TAB(H)"HELLO":PRINT TAB(W)"WORLD":GOTO10
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The loss of EITC affects low incomes.

The mortgage deduction affects anyone with a "large" mortgage, but at current housing prices "large" is becoming the norm.
Yes, and I've documented this now:

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs/blob/main/doc/dwarfs.md#settin...
We changed the URL from https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/9177 to the first link that the main comment there (https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/9177#issuecomment-735830828) is pointing HN readers to. I presume that's the most informative one.
IMO cyberpunk was maybe just too early. I think brain implants, gene editing, AI and other technologies are going to happen, and these technologies will redefine what it means to be human. We will be at risk of losing our humanity, of losing meaning, just as cyberpunk predicted. It's just... It's already been 40 years since cyberpunk started, and it might be another 40 years until those technological and human challenges really materialize. In the meantime, other important societal challenges are surfacing due to increased computerization and networking.
Ironically I suspect most people in the group you are judging to be quick to anger would assume #3 about you/your group/“city people”.
what on earth are you talking about? time is made up of seconds, minutes, hours... etc. reducing wait time increases productivity. The larger and more complex a project becomes, the more these delays compound. A sub $1k laptop with the the computational power of a workstation that costs many times that, and isn't portable is an absolute game changer in many areas. If I worked for National Geographic or the New York times as a photographer and needed to preprocess several thousand images or 4/8k footage from the field so I could make print deadlines, 3 hours vs overnight means everthing.And more importantly, the amount of power consumed by the cycles is far from trivial. An x86 mobile workstation can't even complete certain render tasks on a single charge that the macbook air can do on less than a quarter of a battery charge.

As for compile times, believe it or not, lots of projects are written in something other than highly optimized C code and compile time is a real pain point. You don't always have a choice of what language or dependencies you work with.

Just because there is an alternative way to do something, or a way that takes longer doesn't mean its viable. Performance improvements matter, a lot. Power consumption improvements matter, a lot.
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It’s FOSS, they don’t have deliverables so I doubt that is their motivation.
This article is a little old as the Nanobag 4.0 is currently in production. It met someone with one of these and they loved it so I'm considering buying but wanted to post here to see if others had opinions.
I've actually had no problems - older macbook pro (2012?) only issue was the retina console fonts were really tiny. I used ubuntu and arch.
That's true for the established wealthy (and generally white) population but the US is bolstered by strong birth rates in minority populations and among recent immigrants so it has a much healthier demographic future than somewhere like Japan.
In physical terms, I probably would not count it.

However if I were doing emulation, I would have to count it because it is a register case that has to be addressed. Just like the D register has to be dealt with on a 6809.

My own personal way to resolve this has always been to determine whether or not a given register specification, that can be addressed somehow, brings new information not contain in any other register specification, to the table.

Fact is, CPU designers do all kinds of crazy things with registers. They overlap, they may be indirect, like not directly addressable, but still there as consideration for the programmer.

Think about something like the REP instruction found on some CPUs. There's a little circuit it keeps track of account, and some rules, and account may be a register that may or may not be directly addressable any other way.

My general take on this article is, "wow, that's a lot of registers!"

We can all quibble about what the quantity of a lot is, and it's all good fun, and I don't think it means anything really.
Ok, but then at best the argument is whataboutism -- it's ok to waste more energy because we already waste a lot?

The reality is that Bitcoin already objectively uses a lot of energy by design, and the problem will only get worse if its price goes up.
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But DeepMind could be used to find errors in the training set.

Let’s say you have 100000 proteins in the training set. Now remove #1 and train on 99999, and then check that it still predicts the same protein result for #1 as the experimental result.

Or remove from training whole sets of proteins by particular teams to find systematic errors made by teams?
None of the social ills you identify are a function of fiat currency which is intentionally a temporary, lossy store of value. You take your fiat and you invest it and nothing you say below the first paragraph matters.

Savings are meant to be assets not currency, whether that’s stock, bonds, real estate - whatever. Even a savings account collateralizes loans. You’re not supposed to save cash. Whoever told you that has misled you. You’re supposed to keep a small stockpile to see you through a rainy few months. No more.

The issue is that people don’t have money, and they don’t have wealth. This is strictly a social problem. This is not true in all countries but it certainly is true in the US which has a worse wealth and income distribution than your average banana republic. However there’s zero political will to change it. By anyone, on either side of the political spectrum (with the possible exception of the centre-left Bernie Sanders). Social policy is the only and I do mean only way to make real meaningful progress here.

Replacing one inflationary currency with a worse distribution than a banana republic, with a different deflationary currency with a worse distribution than a banana republic changes nothing.
Except Pai did that because of US cellular companies lobbying him... he's giving that spectrum to 5Ghz wifi so that automakers are FORCED to use cellular providers.

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1109637413744/2020.11.06%20DOT%...

https://ih.advfn.com/stock-market/stock-news/83766758/welcom...

This isn't a good thing... this is Pai once again siding with private profit over public good. The fact the spectrum is going to the public 5Ghz spectrum is just to prevent outrage from the general public.
You get inline images and other things with RES https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

I can't imagine using the website without it. Sadly, it's not available on Safari.
It is a higher-order concern. Ethics trumps culture and strategy. It certainly seems plausible the "good ole boys club" style of corporate management can be be effective. Diverse voices have benefits, especially in not being blinded to many aspects of the market, but nevertheless homogeneity has some efficiencies. Yet, it is just plain wrong in most cases, independent of relevant benefits.
On the subject of cheating, I have a little different angle.

I am not a great chess player, somewhere below 1500 I'd guess. But I do enjoy playing with other not-very-good players. I am better enough than my children to never lose to them so far. But I would like them to enjoy the game. It doesn't seem very fun if you don't have some reasonable chance to win occasionally.

This creates a situation where I have an incentive to cheat very creatively so that my child has to work for it and doesn't detect the reverse-cheat that allowed them to win.
To be fair, I'm not sure that they are "simplistic" in the sense that, e.g., writing a neural network to recognise cat pictures is now simplistic. I don't know how many people have Deepmind levels of expertise in ML, or could implement what they have done, but I doubt it is many, and they are thinly spread amongst many interesting problems.
How long will it take the new FCC chairman to reverse Pai's policies such as his take on Net Neutrality? Can the new chairman just come in on day one and overturn everything?
Same here, I’ll try later from PC, it’s a nice idea.
Agreed. It's a stupid buzz word used by the attention seekers. Nobody nap shames.
I sure hope this happens, so many companies hand out macs to new employees without asking, would be nice to be able to use linux instead
There was a suggestion that people with autoimmune conditions were more likely to get "long COVID".
That seems merely like a way of perpetuating unfairness.

I don't know the story, but it sounds like the teacher was in a position of power and someone said she was being unfair. Retorting "life is unfair" when you, yourself, are the agent causing unfairness simply inflicts needless pain. For what -- to teach the lesson that life is unfair?

As a parent, I try to parent my kids fairly. I try not to show favoritism. I try to recall which kid had the last cookie most recently. Obviously the kids sometimes don't agree with me and claim I am being unfair, but by valuing fairness at the very least I am trying, and modeling for them a world where they value fairness in turn.

(Of course, note, people may value different things. Fairness is its own category in the moral foundations theory[1], and some people rank it as less important than, say, authority or purity.)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory
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You can of course share for syncing, but real-time collaboration like Google Docs, or Apple's Notes?

I believe Devon has zero support for conflict resolution. It can only overwrite or duplicate on conflict.
There is also a "Mancomb" character in TSOMI: https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Mancomb_Seepgood
Way more welfare programs are available for single women than married women.
I wrote an "anything-regressor" in SymPy, where you provide an equation (like y=mx+b) and a dataset of x's and y's, and it solves for constants to get a line of best fit. Super simple to implement and worked for any equation (quartic, logistic, etc) and any dimension of input variables.

Eventual goal was trying to implement something like XGBoost, but by applying successive regression equations to the residuals instead of successive decision trees. E.g. figure out that a sin wave best fits the initial data, and then a linear best explains the remaining difference.

Worked pretty well on toy data sets, but was much too slow to scale to anything real. Still think the idea has promise for producing human interpretable ML models.
> Are there any cases where ML performed decently but then hit a ceiling while expert systems kept improving?

Yes, this describes entire history of AI including several boom-bust cycles. In particular the 80's come to mind. Yes the practitioners think that there's no technical barriers stopping them from eating the world, but that's exactly what people thought about other so-called revolutionary advances.

Although to be pedantic, "expert systems" is the technology behind AI boom of the 80's. At the time people were saying expert systems can't be as good as existing algorithms (including what we would now call "machine learning" techniques), then suddenly the expert systems were better and there was rampant speculation real AI was around the corner. Then they plateaued.

We appear to be at the tail end of the maximum hype part of the boom-bust cycle. Thinking that the rapid gains being made by the current deep learning approaches will soon hit a wall is a reasonable outside-view prediction to make: nearly every time we've had a similarly transformative technology in the AI space and elsewhere, hitting the wall is exactly what happened. The onus would be on practitioners to show that this time really is different.
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The microbot site has quite a few demos which were also published as tweets. Looks awesome!
I think the divergence in where we're attacking this thread comes from this line:

> The biggest hurdle for kids to work hard at is school

You are focusing on school-work, and that is not the primary thing I'm thinking of. I think there are lots of other kinds of hard work kids can, and ideally should be given the opportunity to, practice. Things like sports and music and community participation and outdoor activities (for instance, backpacking/camping and rock climbing are things that are popular where I live and require hard work) and other non-school activities along these lines that require effort. Even something like getting really good at a difficult video game requires hard work. Watching TV and YouTube videos and such doesn't.

As is obvious from this thread, I don't have much expertise in what kinds of things are particularly hard with ADHD, but I suspect there are some kinds of hard work which are compatible and can be encouraged, and I'm definitely not focused solely, or even primarily, on school.

Edit: By the way, I have really appreciated your comments and patience in this thread. I certainly hope I haven't implied I don't think ADHD is "100% real".
Isn't SoCal equally expensive?
I admit to being frustrated by the SymPy documentation. It does an adequate job of explaining "what" (i.e. the mechanics of each function or class), but I cannot read it to get an idea of the "how" or "why" questions, of how to best use SymPy to accomplish my goals.

I feel like there's a missing manual somewhere.