skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 2% annual debasement rate of modern state currencies would have been a massive crisis in the era of metals. Imagine a king putting 2% less silver in the coin, year over year. We're just used to it.

But leave that aside, you said you like government-managed currency and I believe you. Venezuelans don't. The way I see it, what's stopping the EUR and USD from going down that spiral is momentum, rather than some law of nature.

I'm not convince the issuing schedule for BTC is ideal either. Grin, to pick a cybercoin which has some interesting technical innovations, issues one coin per minute, forever, and since coins are lost, this might be better.

But I like the idea of a transnational currency, where no one government is in a position to change the rate of issue, and I think Bitcoin has real potential as a refuge for value to flee to, in the event that the increasingly reckless experiments which Western governments and their central banks are making with their currencies come back to bite us.

Don't think it would spell the end of sovereign currencies, either. It would force them to be more honest, though, and that would be a good thing.
If a site doesn't add enough value for you you aren't going to put up with it.

There are certain news sites like Forbes that are so annoying that I don't deal with it.

The point is LinkedIn is in a category where you "need" it but don't necessarily want it, and that dynamic allows them to do very annoying things.

Sure a lot of websites can try to hold you hostage but, again, the question is whether they even offer something you need enough to deal with it.
So somehow they do not have the ability to tease out malicious radiation from just background noise, and yet we are to believe this is some kind of high intensity targeted attack?
No, not necessarily. The objective functions used to train neural networks are generally non-convex (the nets themselves being non-convex as well), but are traditionally trained using stochastic gradient descent (and its variants).
The other point that could go along with this is that often, based on constraints like cost and time, most people can develop a more stable solution using tools they know vs tools that are new to them. It takes time and often working through a lot of mistakes to come to grips with a new technology. Sometimes it's better to use what you/team understands assuming it's still the right fit for the problem. That goes beyond tech industry as well.
Sure, and unbreakable crypto is notoriously difficult to make. I wouldn't expect a situation like that to come up in a real-world problem.
[just to be clear here, I am the author of the Xena project blog and my current research is in formalising number theory; before formalisation I was working in Scholze's area.]

Scholze's first application of the theory of perfectoid spaces was to prove weight-monodromy in many new cases (but not in all cases) -- this was his first breakthrough result really. Fun fact: in the first version of the post which he
sent me, this weight-monodromy confession was not there. He then slept on it and sent a second version a day later, and it was only when I was converting the LaTeX into Wordpress format that I noticed that he had added this extra line. I quite agree that it is very rare for people, especially of his stature, to publically admit to errors, especially ones which never made it into print. Of course we will be working on this challenge in Lean, and we are currently optimistic, but who knows. It is certainly true that in the study group we had on the work at Imperial earlier this year, we did not work through the technical proof which Scholze is now challenging the formalization community to check. This is really Scholze's point I guess: once you have a Fields Medal it's very easy for other people to say "well this is a bit technical but let's face it, it's probably fine" (this is exactly what we did, for example). Voevodsky made similar comments around a decade ago -- and he managed to get false arguments published, perhaps partly because of his own Fields Medal. Scholze is flagging an explicit argument in his work which he believes needs to be carefully analysed, and I have seen with my own eyes that the academic system we have right now might not actually do it carefully enough. What is not at all clear, right now at least, is whether computer proof verification systems are up to the task. I think it will be interesting to see how this develops.
They sort of already had this with the old style pre-VBA Excel macros.
Distinguish between straight research and scientific opinion?
compared with all the crime and scams done with fiat currencies
WildDuck – No spof scalable and API driven email server
So are you saying that if you set a target for someone to reach, if he doesn't reach it in exactly the way that you predicted he would, he didn't actually reach the target?
PNAS is a well respected, high impact journal.
Impact factors aren't everything, but:

2019 Impact Factor: 9.41

There is no nice way to say this, but your comment is ignorant. I can’t imagine anyone who has published anywhere making this comment
Awesome article about requesting information from data brokers until they reached the spying apps.

I was expecting some app disassembly but still found the article very informing. The article would probably not be possible to write without the power of GDPR.
Cutting the nr of LOC in half, while at the same time getting even more type safety, seems like a pretty big win for any Java project, Android or not.
It's very hard to take a suitcase full of cash across a border.

Depends on the border.

As long as you declare the cash to the authorities, there are many borders you can cross with great flipping wads of cash. Some industries operate mostly on cash (restaurants, for example), and "suitcases full of cash" isn't just for mobsters and movie villains.
Snow tires are not banned there, studded tires are.
I also discovered this a few days before the event. Great stuff! Following it live was really cool. Special shoutout to `andrea with "Your Code as a Crime Scene/Analyze code quality through Emacs"
yet infinitely easier to spend.
> Paypal canceled people just because they were thought criminals.

No, PayPal cancelled Gab because a verified, active user murdered 11 people and injured 6 others in a synagogue shooting. The same user constantly posted neo-Nazi and anti-semitic hate speech.

"Thought-crime" is a bit too charitable for a neo-Nazi murderer, don't you think?

Before you argue that Gab did nothing wrong — 100% they did. They gave the shooter a platform and credibility for ideas that should have died with WWII.
In Rust, the library format also includes a pre-compiled version of the generics needed, and so when the compiler includes the library, it can monomorphize from there.
Why Designers Should Be Embedded into Product Teams and What That Even Means
To say the least those employees are misguided. Gebru was hired to research AI, yes she spent all her time being an activist. A pretty lousy one too. Case in point: 1. Her paper's claim on CO2 emission was not scientific in any way (projecting 100% of utilization of hundreds of desktop GPUs, really? Looking at emission without looking at how much would be saved or what other benefits are, really?). 2. Her paper claims that lacking support of all languages in BERT marginalizes minorities, which was similar to how Trofim Lysenko politicizing and moralizing biological science in Soviet. 3. See the quote blow. If this is not activism, I don't know what is. The only remaining questions are, why would Google AI hire her in the first place, and why should she work in a research org? Note it's perfectly for her to work in Google or any other company so choose the companies. I just thought people do real research in a research org.

"Citation: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...
Sample comment:

Another ex-colleague here. I was not going to participate in the discussions but your post made me realize objective truth should come out. I do believe she actually thinks she is making the world a better place but in reality any interaction with her has been incredibly stressful having to carefully weigh every move made in her presence. When this blows over her departure will be a net positive for the morale of the company.

To give a concrete example of what it is like to work with her I will describe something that has not come to light until now. When GPT-3 came out a discussion thread was started in the brain papers group. Timnit was one of the first to respond with some of her thoughts. Almost immediately a very high profile figure has also also responded with his thoughts. He is not Lecun or Dean but he is close. What followed for the rest of the thread was Timnit blasting privileged white men for ignoring the voice of a black woman. Nevermind that it was painfully clear they were writing their responses at the same time. Message after message she would blast both the high profile figure and anyone who so much as implied it could have been a misunderstanding. In the end everyone just bent over backwards apologizing to her and the thread was abandoned along with the whole brain papers group which was relatively active up to that point. She has effectively robbed thousands of colleagues of insights into their seniors thought process just because she didn't immediately get attention.

The thread is still up there so any googler can see it for themselves and verify I am telling the truth."
Shared speculation is pretty powerful.
Yeah, but both hyperinflation and hyperdeflation have occurred with Bitcoin.

At least with fiat currency, you have a central bank that can TRY to take steps to fix those conditions.
I'm not talking about whether you individually choose to ignore the bad parts. I'm saying that LinkedIn takes advantage of your need to be on their site whether you actually want to or not to introduce some very annoying features that they know will not churn you because, again, you "need" to be on it.

The fact that certain individuals are more deft at ignoring or blocking or turning off the annoying parts of the service does not change the dynamic at all.
- Yes, but a significant portion of that is coming from renewables / excess generation. Additionally, work is constantly being done to improve the energy efficiency of crypto.

- Climate change is real, but I think it would need to be much worse than it is in order to justify halting human progress. In fact, continued human progress is our best bet for halting climate change.

- False dichotomy.
Nature and Science. Ha. If "good" journals stopped with Science and Nature, I wouldn't have published anything yet. Lots of solid science won't even get considered at those journals.
Yes, the UK police caution is "You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence."

Adverse inferences can be made in court.
Probably fairer to say she was severed because the fruits of her research are irreconcilable with the company's peaceful enjoyment of its core business model. The sudden commitment to research practices (as documented elsewhere in this thread) being a fig leaf for that less comfortable truth.
> [..] no one can open it through other methods

... other than https://xkcd.com/538/ ?
so again, which countries?
Yeah OBS is less buggy and more reliable, but it tanks my FPS much more than nVidia. And FPS is king when you're gaming.
>People who use linkedin regularly either have an inflated self ego or are desperate to find work.

Or people who use bots to automate their networking efforts...
Good site, the following post shows a step by step minification of a program and how to make effects with colour cycling.
Any spectrum analyzer with a tracking generator (TG) could be used to find one. Sweep the spectrum with the TG off, save the waveform as a reference. Then turn the TG on, measure the return strength, watch for where it jumps above the reference. I've got a device capable of this as a hobbyist (Siglent SSA3021X-TG). Such bugs are undetectable by cheap equipment, but we've known about them for decades and any competent counterintelligence team will be able to spend the extra 2-3 thousand dollars for a good detector. It's chump change.
That still happens. And everyone that gets approached by someone else for a domain name wants $10,000, at least, everyone.

Outside of that market, the main pervasive idea in the collective conscious is that people need a .com, which also died 10-15 years ago.

Making money on the internet does not require that.

If you need "organic traffic" from a search engine or people typing your domain name in, your idea isn't one of the kind of ideas that make you any convenient amount of money. It just makes some youtube marketing guru some clicks, and some passive income course seller some money, because you'll definitely be coming back to those once whatever outdated SEO becomes clear that its not working.

You can host entire businesses on a github hosting page. yoursubdomain.github.io

You can host entire businesses on a mailchimp mailing list shared around as a direct link

The reality is that your actual users will never be typing your domain name in. They will click and tap on it from social media and chat rooms. Your no name publication with a garbage domain name created yesterday can influence politics, we've seen that clear as day for half of a decade. You can absolutely sell ads on that stuff, or take hundreds of thousands to millions in payments directly from political action committees and NGOs.

So, sure, do all sorts of domain name hacks using obscure TLDs, have fun with the branding, don't worry about the dot com, its just a "nice to have".
I bet they also get more money. Come on.
> If the EPS (expanded polystyrene) is covered by fiberglass insulation and/or drywall, it will last sufficiently long for you to escape from a fire.

No. EPS offgasses badly when heated. It also assumes that your coverage is 100% in drywall.

If you have fibreglass, then you are sunk. Rockwool/mineralwool then you are much better.
Mass hysteria strikes me as even more plausible if you consider that some of the people reporting symptoms are American intelligence agents who could be participating in a disinformation campaign to give a pretext to act against Cuba.
Their use of language is so ham fisted it's comical.
Having some inflation is important, though, to prime the economy for growth. Low level, consistent, inflation is a good thing.
i cant say here, but enjoy.

its possible such a site could be used to generate a fake of some sort, but i admire it...
The essay makes it fairly clear to me. There is a constant churn of fads in the tech world. Usually they are beneficial for some specific use cases, but get hyped up beyond all belief until everyone wants to use the new tech without questioning whether they should or not. If there aren't ton's of articles about how great a new tech is then it's probably "boring". Think of it more in terms of fashion than interesting.
If I'm understanding correctly, it doesn't just set the kernel after seeing the data, but also after training the entire model, because the path kernel can't be defined without the optimization process to define the path.

I can't tell if this paper is a useful insight or not.
That still counts as using the key to open it :)
I have to say this just reads like any other robotic startup founder advice column that we get here. Dime a dozen. Every person who goes down this path has to make decisions like the ones described. Read the YC library, it's full of "how tos".

I think the more interesting lessons and questions are (which they are not incentivized to have you think about):

-- Decide early on who's going to control your path: you, the product, or the money? Many figure out too late who's in control.

-- Are you willing to hand over the keys if some day you discover you're not the right person to lead? What will you do if you find out this isn't what you signed up for?

-- What are you not willing to do in pursuit of growth?

-- Are you willing to walk away from a lot of money today, for something deeper tomorrow?

-- Who do you want to be, and what does this company do for you in your life?

I myself generally hate that things have to become "people stories", but in my experience, these are far more fundamental questions that you will have to confront when you talk to your team, the VCs, the investors, more so than anything about how to manage a feature roadmap or the perennially boring, "when to hire a CMO", etc.
I do the exact same thing. For me I think it has to do with the fact that when I am going through everything I'm confronted by how long it would take to read everything I have saved previously, so I'm much more in the mind to get rid of stuff to make the overall readjng time manageable.
I merely scanned the first ‘graph and got to that term before looking up and bookmarking the post I mentioned! Next time I’ll martial more focus and finish what’s in front of me first.
https://www.upstreamdata.ca/post/natural-gas-venting-how-bit...

An eco friendly Cryptocurrency mining use case is that gives electricity generation a baseline price regardless of where it is generated.
Being able to pay your taxes with it gives it some more worth than just numbers.
Docker's Second Death
Oh silly me, of course. I thought perhaps $ denoted the end of a filename and the start of the contents in Zip. I don't know much about that format.
By advancing vapid imagination only to take the whole thing back at the end (writing paraphrasing OK that dystopian future won't happen) ... Coindesk tries to ... oh, never mind I can't pretend: OP's link is a giant waste of time, another too political emotion saber rattling rag. Move-on.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25322051
In the 1970s, secretaries wrote their own extensions to Emacs in Lisp. They were only ever told they were "customizing" the editor, not programming it!

(This was Multics Emacs, a predecessor to GNU Emacs.)
This is the literally fatal flaw in this variety of thinking.
"That, not exploiting people, is the defining quality of people who become billionaires from starting companies."

This is one of the sentences in the essay that most reveals Graham's reductionism. A person can become a billionaire without any desire to exploit someone and still the conditions resulting from the success of their organization can, and often do, result in exploitation. Even a brief study of organizational behavior reveals that all organizations do damage, some more than others. We don't need to keep defending organizations. They can handle their own defense. Individuals, on the other hand, are far more vulnerable.
Interesting! Do you have a source?
Some angel investors are in it for the short term - flippers so to speak. I have seen them give bad advice to new founders. And since they control the money the bad advice is followed in spite of good counsel otherwise.
Well, and though the author shows an approximate equivalence, which helps us understand a class of models better, it's not obvious that it's preferable to use SVMs of the type described. In particular, it seems like often it would be preferable to deal with model weights (even if they are mathematically a "superposition" of datapoints) than to ship around and revisit the whole dataset.
> So are you saying that if you set a target for someone to reach

No

> "Peak oil is the year when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which it is expected to enter terminal decline."

The maximum rate possible, was not reached. There has been a voluntary reduction in rate. This is not in dispute.

The graph suggests a terminal decline in demand, for which you could say there is some form of an expectation (for the most optimistic? viewer), but the prefix condition was not met. Peak oil is not an statement about economics, but about practical conditions that have an economic effect. Re-interpretations withstanding, as mentioned, history has an inherent possibility of increased production in the future which also fails both conditions.

There is no coherent interpretation that fits, at this time.
> Censors have shown an utter and complete lack of evidence that censorship reduces violence whatsoever

That's because the scale and untracked nature of such noncensored sites make their impact difficult to quantify. We know that social contagions exist, but we don't know the extent to which they affect people.

School shootings are far, far more common than they used to be. They started to really rise around the same time that sites like 4chan glorified the shooters and discussed the issue like it was a game. They spoke of becoming an hero(sic), talked of getting a high score, and made memes of their dead bodies.

The world tends to loathe extremes. We know that extreme censorship causes social issues. Why wouldn't complete non-censorship combined with anonymity cause issues too?
SVMs are solved via convex optimization methods which have taken more time to get on the GPU train.

On the other hand there are GPU accelerated SVM training such as: https://github.com/Xtra-Computing/thundersvm

A github or Google search will reveal other GPU accelerated SVM training.
Accountable to a government body with opaque motives and capture over its citizens. Crypto has inspectable source code and miners and coin holders can jump ship if shenanigans are perceived
We have services which run a "notebook as a service" so it's not too far fetched to think of Microsoft doing this with Excel spreadsheets. I bet it would take the business world by storm and would be a good move.
If you ever try to cross any border custom with more than a certain amount of gold, you'd realize that it's more regulated than you think it is.
I'd argue none of the above apply to Diem actually. I'm definitely referring to traditional, actual blockchains
I agree with the argument that it doesn’t make sense for the United States. Other countries using USD already don’t have control over monetary policy.
The way to reason about this is: If a customer had a huge business, what key would they shard by? Then choose that as the sharding key for all customers.
Agree on the high prices, don't agree that "Energiewende" was necessarily bad for the poorest Germans, exactly because it's a "comfy welfare state". Society decided it was worth the cost and they're paying it.

Just want to point out that, if I'm not mistaken, at that point only heating was covered by welfare but not electricity. In case anyone assumed it should have been covered by welfare and ppl somehow still got cut off.

The point was that high energy prices do not necessarily mean that more people are without power or that the poor are necessarily worse off - like everything it's a broader societal issue.

Btw, I do agree on the disadvantage for energy intensive industries. Industry power prices there are ~3x US prices afaict.
since they announced coming in writing, you have the paperwork to get an injunction against them. get a lawyer and good luck!
Remember the last time Google tried to make the algorithm less biased only after some egregious cases of comparing Africans to gorillas have been found.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go...

At least Google did better last time ngl
Las Vegas also has a shitton of electric waste, how about we start suddenly going green with that? How is it that people only care about green earth when the target is the smallest slice of the pie?
Yes it supports JavaScript functions that can be called in the formula bar.

However Google sheets is nowhere the install base of excel, so this is a really big deal