skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sad that people don't want to hear this. He's like Trump in how much he lies and misleads people. But people want to be lied to.
I recommend selling options a month out, way out of the money, in either direction. This way it doesn’t really matter. February 19th $1000 calls are selling for $18 a share today. That’s easy money.
That whole album. I can listen to it on repeat and never bore. I don't think I've ever managed to sit through a whole album by anybody but DOOM, and here he is, looping to no end.
Yeah thinking about it! It was time consuming. Also I’m thinking the market this time around will be more mature than last time but don’t know, watching it.
I imagine high density data storage devices could be worth it, especially in a scenario of a colonized galaxy with a lot of background noise.
The greatest human invention is the ability to participate in a massive distributed consensus algorithm ("the zeitgeist"). Humanity as a whole understands things that no single human does.
I always try to get those clauses removed, but I'm not always successful.

One time a company I worked for used some of my personal code in their product, with my permission. When they merged with another company, the lawyers tried to take ownership of it.

I pointed out that my contract was different to the standard contract and they had no claim. They then came back saying that I had to assume any liability they might face for using it. I demurred and said they were free to remove my code if they had any concerns. They kept the code.

What I learned from this is that even if you trust the people and the organisation you work with, you have to protect your work. The lawyers were just doing their job in the merger.
Under what basis? If we take the theory that nintendo's IP includes such things, that's an argument that people shouldnt be able to use those elements in a competing game. However making a cheat cartridge is not like that. Copyright is after all about restricting the right to make copies. Its not a catchall monopoly that allows the owner to dictate how to use the product that has been sold to them. Companies sometimes try with EULAs, which is different from intellectual property, but im unclear how enforcible they are, and they seem even less enforcible against the third party selling the cheat device who wouldn't even be a party to the eula.

Maybe you could argue their moral right to the artistic integrity of the work was violated, but that seems like it would be a rather uphill battle. In a modern context if DRM was involved, maybe the anticircumvention would come into play.

IANAL
This is certainly a neat project, and an accomplishment in its own right.

> The Arduino IDE usually requires a physical board, which can be cumbersome.

But this is the part that makes me a bit uncomfortable. One reason I got into Arduinos a few years ago was that I felt I was getting entirely detached from interacting with any physical aspects of engineering, and learning that, however clumsily (including occasionally burning my fingertips or destroying an unfortunate LED or capacitor) was an interesting part of electronics.

I feel that taking the whole experience virtual is sort of missing the point (Like teaching driving instructions classes in GTA ;-), and as a software engineer, I constantly tried to resist the inner urge to pull every project back into a software direction (No, the project does not need to run an OS, or run on a GHz clocked CPU, or need a ton of storage…).
It was totally seen, Tesla's stock simply wasn't that irrational at the time. Tesla's Feb-March drop was almost twice as big as the rest of the stock market drop. Tesla's stock is up nearly 900% since that low point. I don't think there is any reason to doubt bryanlarsen's point.
I'm not demeaning anybody. Apparently I'm never allowed to tell these stories because it's never appropriate at any time, ever. But they're real and they happen, and I have more. That is also a reality, but people don't want to hear it.

My underlying point was that it's too broad to say that you'll be negatively discriminated against for setting strict boundaries. Some (more progressive) places will let you get away with more based on your ethnicity or gender.
happy new year from Taiwan. I hope the world get in a better shape this year
Perhaps, but landslide wins in U.K. general elections often involve significantly less than half the electorate voting for the winning party, and general elections come with all the baggage of the party manifestos and Red/Blue/etc. tribalism.

OTOH, there was a referendum on changing the voting system (which was also rejected).
I don't know the details of their relationship but that would not be a standard or default US will.

Afaik spouses come first, then children, then parents, then siblings, on and out.
>it’s cyclists trying to go when there isn’t any traffic going.

Bingo, the safest time to cross on a bike is when there aren’t any moving vehicles in the intersection, and your senses tell you there aren’t going to be any more, regardless of the color of the light. Apparently I’m that asshat and will continue to be as long as I’m sharing the roads with large steel blocks. I also advocate for anyone else cycling in the US to be an asshat too, because I don’t want them to die.

I drive too, but I seriously don’t get why people care about bicyclists running a red, what’s going to happen? You have a much better ability to hear and see on a bike. You can’t accelerate anything like a car. It’s safer for everybody for them get away from the cars at the light.

The last thing I want to do is accelerate alongside a bunch of high powered steel blocks with flesh bags at the controls.
You're right, I was misusing the terminology here.
There are lots of updates to the Linux source code yet there's still quite a bit based on work done in the 80s
that's just a normal bank with more steps. why even use bitcoin infrastructure when credit cards and digital banking is much easier/faster in this case?
"Your favourite rappers favourite rapper" is the best description I ever heard of him.

I love that video where mos def is just reciting DOOM lyrics like a kid in a candy store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBIvIDnnv8
> thereby making taxpayers (residents, visitors, and their counter-parties) subject to its currency?

It does not make them subject to inflation, no.

If you hold entirely cryptocurrency, you are not subject to the inflation of holding the currency. Instead, you can simply convert to that currency, only when you need to pay taxes.

This avoids the inflation, in the same way that hold stock in a company, and not holding any dollars, avoids you from being subject to inflation.
I think this comes down to what you think biases are and what you think should be optimised.

Consider the gender imbalance in tech jobs. Let's say that is because more men pursue tech degrees than women and this is because the field is already male dominated and women don't have female role models.

A hiring algorithm will optimise for the best candidate for the job. If we assume men are as good as women, the gender ratio will be skewed simply because the underlying population has a skew. However, we, as a society, may want to overweight women candidates even at a cost of choosing a slightly less fitting candidate because, in the long term, this will provide female role models and convince more women to join tech (there are reasons why this may be desirable, but it does have to be argued for).

Under this view, the algorithm is biased because it's optimising for the wrong thing - it is assigning no extra value to choosing a female candidate even if we, as a society, think there is value.

This is a thorny issue, though, as I've made some assumptions above and plenty of people will disagree with them, on various grounds. Still, I think this is a useful way if thinking about biases.

Also, viewed like a problem of figuring out the correct function to optimise, this suggests fixing this problem via slow and heavy handed law making (e.g. a blanket rule enforcing hiring gender ratios) is probably the wrong way to do this.

By the way, hiring committees can also be thought of as algorithms and at least part of their biases can be explained when viewed as them optimising for the wrong thing.
The price of a Swiss watch means nothing if they don't sell them in quantity. If you build an app that costs $500k to only one user that is still less income than if you sell the app at $5 with 1 million users. That's how it is relevant.
They restrict what manufacturers can legally provide, reducing the availability of dangerous drones.

They also mean that a drone which is blatantly unsafe can now be legally confiscated.

Lastly they provide extra options for punishment when someone is injured because the regulations were ignored. Though an increase in punishment doesn't have much impact on the incidents of a crime, it does have some.

Some people get away with murder, so lets not make it a crime as these laws just give you a false sense of control! <- It's a silly argument.
My favorite rapper's favorite rapper.
RubyGems Bitcoin Stealing Malware Postmortem
Until Elon Musk tweets that he's thinking of taking X public through an ESG SPAC and rolling out an update that will have idle Tesla vehicles mine Bitcoin.

He does this during market hours and the stock doubles within two sessions.

He, of course, faces zero consequences for this, even if it turns out to be 100% fraudulent.

Enjoy your bankruptcy.
สวัสดีปีใหม่! Can't wait to see what the community is up to in 2021!
Greenwald has continued to cover both US political parties critically. In an era of hyper-partisanship, anyone not choosing a tribe and remaining loyal to it is treated as a pariah by those who do, but it's the latter group who have lost their credibility.
The weakest link of any non-fiat currency is that the point of transforming fiat to cryptocurrency becomes. This makes it almost impossible for it to achieve its manifesto of being an alternative.

Many in the industry conveniently overlook over the fact that the government can just ban you from wiring money to anyone selling cryptocurrency on a whim.

It is my theory that cryptocurrency is being actively allowed because of its political, counter-intelligence value.

Imagine if you invited all the bad people in your country and tricked them into using a currency they all believed to be infallable and anonymous. You simply ignore the middle level dealers or criminals and able to keep track of potential state level actors utilizing criminal networks to subvert your country.
Seems simple to me - test new algorithms and remove controversial variables. If they are better predictors then use that algorithm. Until then, accurate algorithms should be used - whether they determine that Republicans or race X are more likely to do y.

Don’t get me wrong - You have a duty to get the best models possible, and you should try variables that generalize at higher levels - income instead of race) for example and always be testing.

I heard a story about a particular parole board trying to use an algorithm to predict recidivism rates. It often predicted one race more likely to do so. There is some argument that each case should be looked at individually. I agree. But should we avoid addressing the issue if the algorithm is explainable and a good predictor? Instead we should use it to help lower reoffender rates NOT by denying parole but perhaps assigning additional resources to those more likely to offend once we have already granted parole.
I will kiss you if this works.
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The thought that WeWork will ever recover is comical. I’d be surprised if they are alive by summer.
Except the last part didn't actually happen: their plan to sell stock was cancelled after the SEC told them off.

https://fortune.com/2020/06/17/hertz-stock-suspended-offerin...
Were you working for the USDS though? My understanding is that when they're brought in, red tape doesn't have to be cut so much as it jumps out of their way in advance of their arrival. Basically a "special forces" digital intervention team with situational authority over the normal obstructionist BS.
Tesla isn’t doing a recall is the point. They have to be sued instead.

Disclosure: I’ve joined the suspension class action in the US.
I can’t stand many of Murakami’s books, but Norwegian Wood and South of the Border, West of the Sun are really excellent.
Did you actually try applying? I think they are looking for candidness and some distance between you & the chronic. If you say you used to smoke, but quit two years ago and don’t miss it at all, that’s different than wearing a 420BlazeIt t-shirt to the interview and saying you haven’t smoked in almost an hour.
Would it be undervalued though? If all other car manufacturers went bankrupt today, would $700 be undervalued for Tesla?

As far as I can tell we passed that point long ago. Tesla is now valued as if it's going to also take Uber and the taxi market, as well as the trucking industry... In its entirety.
Yes, you're right! That was my mistake.
Tesla's rise this year is obviously extreme, but it also traded sideways from 2013-2018. Over a decade AMZN is up 25x, TSLA 150x
comparing GDP to market cap is also a very irrelevant kind of comparison. Just because the use the same dimension (like dollar) doesn't mean they are directly comparable.
The only sensible comment here
Let's hope that we continue to make some good progress on social issues after this f-ing pandemic. Cheers to all you people who keep this place going. HN helps me during work and my free time :)
Yeh for sure, but it's an overkill. It's like reading quantum mechanics to understand Newtonian mechanics. If you want to get a feel of bayesian ml here is an easier book, "Regression and Other Stories" https://avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/
Yes it does change that. If you can sell something for $29K you're not bag holding...
“Software” is an uncountable, mass noun. Stop adding an indefinite article
you have a lot to learn about computers if you're still dishing out the "it works on my machine so it's not a problem" excuse
While the actual algorithm isn't open, that ranking is affected by user and mod action is a FAQ:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> How are stories ranked?

> The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.

> Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action.

As for the topic, downvoting has been hashed and rehashed numerous times. You can search the archives (see the search link in the footer for previous discussions) to familiarize yourself with what's been discussed before.
Happy New Year...
Did they also test student athletes that didn't have covid-19? How many of the non infected people has the same kind of problems?
In numbers, not in revenue. The Swiss watch industry is still far larger as a business.
You guys, those are curvature propulsion trails, leaving behind dark zones of collapsed space-time. It's the Trisolaran fleet!
And, Developers absolutely should not be excluded entirely from deciding what is 'priority'. People at the cutting edge should have input.
“Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted”
> My point was that the government has control of the internet, and thereby all activity on the internet.

And yet, here we are, living in a world where such controls are pretty difficult to enact and simply aren't happening.

Even in places where there are government controls over the internet, such controls are apparently not even close to perfect, on many many people are successfully able to get around them.

So, the evidence shows, that despite any argument that you are making about how governments might control the internet and stop anyone from ever doing anything at all that they don't like, that is simply not happening right now to such a perfect degree that you suggest should happen, even in currently authoritarian countries.

> We're talking about Venezuela, which has had extreme economic damages caused by a government trying to maintain control over its population

And yet, despite all of that, it doesn't really seem to be enacting extreme/perfect control over the internet, despite many motivations to do so, that have nothing to do with crypto.

> The comment we're replying to said that Bitcoin is valuable in transactions with Venezuelan counter-parties because of Venezuela's government's damage to the domestic economy.

Ok, and Venezuela isn't at all successfully preventing this damage. They aren't doing that. So the evidence shows that, for some reason, Venezuela is unable or unwilling to put extreme controls on crypto, do the the consequences or difficulty of doing so.

Any hypothetical, or arguments that you can possibly think of, as for why Venezuela should put extreme controls on crypto or the internet, needs to deal with the fact that Venezuela simply isn't doing that right now, likely for a good reason. Because it is very difficult to do that.
> ultimately a "scalable" cryptocurrency would be doing things exactly the same way as a credit card processor

That seems to be true of Bitcoin, but several others are working hard on scaling. The one I'm most familiar with is Ethereum, where:

- Zkrollups store transactions on-chain in a highly compressed format without loss of security. For simple value transfers, a zkrollup system in production now can handle up to 9000 per second, if the network isn't doing anything else.

- Data sharding, coming in about a year, multiplies that by 64X initially. Rollups have minimal reliance on computation on chain, so just scaling the data is enough.

- Replacing merkle trees with more efficient data witnesses like polynomial commitments could multiply data capacity by another factor of ten.

= All of this is subject to quadratic scaling. As individual nodes get more powerful, it multiplies both the capacity of individual shards and the number of shards.

Of course several chains are doing away with mining, and several others have fixed the anonymity issue.
Apple was definitely one of the earlier backers of ARM through Acorn back in the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_RISC...
I have a hard time understanding how radio emissions can be visualised like that. The sensors are ground based, the emissions are detected on earth from a point source which given the distances are effectively parallel. Or is it a visualization of a circular cloud of point sources, in which case the detector resolution must be fantastic.
"They" print more every day. In the US, I think the economic stimulus has been a success this year. Trump should have spent his campaign talking about all the efforts to boost unemployment insurance benefits. He might have fared a bit better in the election.
Sorry, I was off by one decimal place.

http://info.omax.com/precision

Average of ±0.003" (±0.08 mm) and up to 0.001” (±25 µ)

About the same as a laser cutter.

You set it to cut very slowly and it angles the head to account for motion and material deformation (you need to program the type of material).
Uber without drivers is a very different business. You get clown numbers if you try to model the profits if Tesla can make 20M cars / year
It sounds nice, like Pacifica, but I expect it's not gonna happen because of nationalism.
HN jumped the shark (to be too much like reddit) around the holidays of 2020. In a few months I'll have to start looking for the next good discussion place.
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Lineage B.1.1.7 in England
RIP. One of the best to ever do it.
Not a good forum in which to ask the question. Like asking the NYT editorial staff a while back whether online news was ever going to take off...
His SADEVILLIAN album is great.

See: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RZSY9lO0S-I
Sure, but this is not the case with state governments. My point may have been diluted by including the federal government.
It's interesting how the background of a lot of stories in the world have something to do with land rights. It's definitely not a common narrative from which to tell the stories, but astute historians certain keep land rights and disputes as a starting point...
Why Do We Dream? A New Theory
Huh? If I mod my own single player game to change things or use hacks to cheat there’s no way whatsoever I’m violating copyright any more than if I decided to intentionally scratch my records. Buying pre-made mods and patches that don’t bundle copyrighted assets should spiritually be no different. Outside of exceptional cases the rule is that if I can do it myself I can pay someone to do it for me.

With multiplayer games cheating is definitely a TOS violation but again not copyright infringement.
I'm not a fan of the "people can't be trusted with international law" thing. I mean, I also hate Brexit, but I hate policy laundering too. And international agreements are really good at just that, because they aren't democratically accessible. Ironically, the EU tried to solve this problem: it had a parliament with democratic elections that actually made decisions about the kinds of international treaties EU member states would adopt. However, most international law doesn't work that way. Instead, all of the sides negotiate in private and some negotiated agreement comes out the other end that local legislative bodies only get a final yay-or-nay vote on.

Fun fact: this is actually how we got the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. This is commonly derided as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, but the actual legislative history is that the EU had already negotiated and passed identical term lengths five years prior. They also added a reciprocality clause, granting the same term lengths in the EU to any country that also extended terms in their own jurisdiction. This is a ratchet: there's no mechanism for an American or European to object to longer terms, aside from unilateral withdrawl that will disadvantage the first-moving party. In practice, the US agreed to longer terms, because what else are they going to do? Let France or Germany have more protection for their films than the US has?

(DMCA Section 1201 happened in a similar manner, but replace the EU with the WTO. The US wouldn't pass anti-circumvention laws first, so they snuck it into TRIPS, and then used that to force the DMCA into being. The beauty of international law is that you always can find another institution to launder policy through. If there was no TRIPS, then maybe they could have bundled it into NAFTA.)

People don't like it when they object to something, and their elected representatives try and shut down their concerns. That makes them feel disenfranchised. Brexit was the inevitable result of politicians doing unpopular things and using the EU as an excuse for it. Eventually, someone was going to say "why don't we just not have international agreements"? Bonus points if you are actually one of those politicians looking to get out of, say, an upcoming tax agreement. Cause the problem (anti-democratic ratcheting), sell the solution (economic isolationism)!
Yes, thank you, everyone. Feeling a bit shell shocked, it was a tough year and then just tonight heard my parents were exposed despite many precautions. But through it all this place has been a delight and a resource as always. Whatever the tradeoffs, I'm deeply grateful to live in a time when such groups of people spanning experiences and the globe can come together. Thanks to the mods and everyone who puts their contributions, time and thoughts into HN and the amazing projects that come up here.