skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Care to try to define it? I think this is an interesting idea and I wonder how to meaningfully distinguish between market domination that is, let’s say, “earned” fairly, and that which is obtained by exploiting network effects.
1. Not really sure I agree about "winner takes all" - Facebook bought IG, Whatsapp and dozens of other companies. That's not winning based off product superiority - it's winning based off access to financing. There are plenty of ways to stop companies from ever reaching that size - Limit M&A, limit the amount of hot money used to finance growth ahead of revenue, and impose stricter regulations on larger companies - I'm talking investigating violations and prosecuting civilly and criminally - no compliance BS.

2. I'm not going to explain the Safe Harbor provision to you. Look it up. We already have externalities - removing algorithmic feeds would take (e.g. Facebook) back to where it was in the late 2000s, where users were in control of the content they saw. The only negative externality is that Facebook and other companies would make less money of targeted ads.

3. You've never heard of a transaction tax? I find that hard to believe. Why don't you think about other times you've paid tax on a transaction, and then maybe you can come up with answers to the rest of your questions.
The remorseless prosecutorial effort that led to his suicide should be talked about far more than it is. He was a very unfortunate loss for a generation, but was also one of many who fall victim to career prosecutors that play with peoples lives.
I had a QR scanner installed for _years_ before it started (in December) giving me chrome pop-ups for spammy links. The dev is even on the app store lying saying the ads are in the app when the app is actually covertly waking itself up to open chrome.
Very thought provoking.
I couldn’t figure out which 25% is true.
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If you're my height you can for sure get to 175 with calisthenics. It'll take a while but you'll be building amazing functional strength in that time.
??? lightgreen was saying it wasn't incitement. nemosaltat, whom you replied to, was -arguing- with lightgreen. nemosaltat said that he was pretty sure it met the legal standard for incitement. Maybe he doesn't say it quite as strongly as you would like, but you can hardly call this "gaslighting".
I seriously doubt that Twitter has no system that internally flags potentially abusive or violent tweets using machine automated classifiers. This stuff is table stakes nowadays for any major service that accepts user generated data.
At HF bitrates they can use a one-time pad. The only unbreakable cipher.

A single hard drive shipped (or hand-delivered) to each transmitter location ought to last a decade.
We also need to stop calling it a “monopoly”. Every time someone brings up that word, someone says that they’re not technically a monopoly because there’s other options. We should be calling it something related to the name of the laws that would be used: anti trust. Are there any words that would be more appropriate?
That would indeed by very unnatural. Fortunately that's nothing like what the Schrödinger equation says.

The basics of quantum mechanics are:

1. Any system can be described in a linear "state space", whose basis vectors (roughly speaking) are each possible arrangement of the things being described (every thing's location).
However, all possible states include (complex) linear combinations of these. This is usually described as the "wave function", you can plug in any value for coördinates of all your things and get a number back out.

2. States in a closed system evolve according to the (time-dependent) Schrödinger equation, -i h-bar d/dt (state) = E(state). This is sometimes phrased as "energy is the generator of time translation" (note that this phrasing holds true in the Hamiltonion formulation of classical mechanics too, but with different, related meanings). Actually calculating this can be difficult, and you might need to do various tricks such as decomposing in a convenient basis.

No all-encompasing energy field binding and penetrating us needed, though the equation is non-local in the sense that it could depend on the entire world. (In fact, it's quasi-local in practice; energy is usually just a function of where things are (local), and how different that coefficient is on infinitesimally adjacent states (i.e. spacial derivatives of the wavefunction). But this does let changes propagate at any speed, including faster than light. Basic QM is not Einsteinian relativistic. It is perfectly Galilean relativistic in a very nice way though.)

3. If you measure a system, you're going to get results that are probabilistic with the probabilities proportional to the (absolute value of) the square of this wavefunction. After that, the state is reset to whay you measured, and evolution will proceed according to 2.
I just saw it boil over.
On the flip side of income, I think the inflation indicators have also diverged to the point where the mean is no longer telling the whole story.
How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay
> This is a very common fallacy I've noticed reading about "options strategies" by extreme amateurs: because the options strategy is complicated, I am smart for understanding it (at a basic level) and thus it must be a good strategy. They don't hold up to scrutiny

THIS. so much this.

I admit I fell into this trap after reading about iron condors. "I can print money now from home" I thought, "omg I am so smart creating these exotic positions".
As an option seller, what really really sucks is earning "only 20%" in a year when just holding the same stocks/indices would have yielded 80%. Basically, you can only earn the premium -- you have all the downside and a tiny portion of the upside, just consistently.
Thanks for mentioning that -> honestly I keep forgetting to ask because I work on the Cloud side.

I will see if I can find some server folks to ask around, but obviously can't promise any movement.
The wheels of justice move slow. The timelines of their cases aren’t that different and Holmes’s case is both clear-cut and amazingly complex. Aaron was arrested in Jan 2011 and died Jan 2013 before his trial started and after being offered a plea deal of 6 month in low security. His trial never started and I can’t find if it was ever scheduled when I do a google search. Holmes was arrested in June 2018 and her trial was originally scheduled for March 2021 but delayed until July. Her pre-trial hearings start in two weeks.
In looking forward to The Meg 2: Womb Cannibal
The intelligence of a neural network is in the edges. And I think partially, the same goes for social networks.

An armchair expert can know better and be more extensively read than a credentialed expert. But as people will not trust (=edge) him as much, he will still be less useful to the group.
“A $500,000 mortgage now has the same monthly payment that a $300,000 mortgage would have with 2007’s interest rates, and what a $210,000 mortgage had at mid-1990s interest rates.”

Isn’t this the elephant in the room?

I’m assuming that the cost of housing is the single largest outgoing for most people.

The low cost of debt (mortgage repayments) seems to continue to push the dollar value of homes exponentially higher so in real terms dollars are exponentially loosing value.

So even if we have more savings and our investments are in good shape the actual value in real terms is actually declining rapidly.
Can someone explain to me what positive things Newsom did for SF during his tenure as Mayor to launch him into the governorship? I honestly can't think of anything I wanted to see get better that actually did (income equality, affordable housing, homelessness, public transit, etc.).
Does anyone know if you keep giving the vaccine to the person after it fails, its effectiveness could eventually trend up to 90+%?
> This guy thinks: "Democrats attacked the capital

If he meant "antifa attacked the Capitol", that appears correct according to the videos I've seen.
Is it really a shadowban if you could vouch for them? Shadowban is when the poster sees their stuff looking normal and no-one else (modulo mods) sees it at all right?
Windows (the operating system) does the same thing. If you open your “Documents” folder from your “Quick Links” in the sidebar, going “up” takes you to your Quick Links “folder”.
Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is less than half an inch thick
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-01-12 if you want to browse the comments
Selling puts on a reputable stock is a great way to enter a position though. Anecdotally it has worked for me. But am I stupid or naive? Genuine question.
I believe we should just reinstate journalistic ethics that have been suspended.

Also ban news outlets from social media.
Consider the outsourcing of American manufacturing. Instead of 500 American middle class households buying 5000 jeans, we have 5000 global lower class households buying 50000 jeans, each pair cheaper than before due to economies of scale.

The American middle class has slid down to the level of the global middle class, and the American upper class harvests profits from the entire world outside of America's borders.
Is this for the 1st shot only before the booster is administered as if recall correctly for the other vaccines it was around 75-80% for the first shot and went to 95%+ after the 2nd shot. Even if it reaches 75-80% after the 2nd shot it is actually good enough and that was the figure most of the medical professionals were hoping and expecting before the 90-95% effective vaccines came out.
A more fundamental question would be, why would you want to create a platform for Nazis, fascists, and conspiracy theorists? You couldn't pay me enough to do this.
> Is this another way of saying "All models are wrong, but some are useful."

All models are wrong by definition. The goal of the modelling is to simplify things, makes them less complex then they are in the reality. So model is wrong. QED.

So to say "the model is wrong" is to say nothing. No new information transferred. While to say "the model is not valid" is to state that the model doesn't deliver it's promises. It is a non-null information about the model.

I mean, yes, it could be seen as an another way to say "all models are wrong, but some are useful". But I'd prefer not to say that, because I see "wrongness" to be a notion inapplicable to a model. It is ok though to apply it nevertheless to make a nice catchphrase.

> it only has truth within the bounds of it's own system, or it would break one of Godel's incompletness theorems, right?

I'd prefer not to say this either. I'm not so sure that there is no way to create The Mathematics, which would go beyond arithmetic so Godel theorems would be inapplicable to it. Godel theorems more then just a regular model, they are a model within a model modelling a model about a model. What do they say us about the reality I'm not sure. How to apply them to the reality without losing validity?
>facing a raging pandemic, vaccine distribution problems

You mean like literally every leader in the world?
We haven’t scratched the issue of how little value is added by labor in manufacturing. It is following an identical path as farming did.
Great article; thanks for the link.
"Using Maps would load many tiles images, which could overwhelm NAT of CGNAT."

Just curious, were these image resources all hosted on the same domain?
That is a very weak definition of "modern"
Any effective HIV vaccine would presumably cause false-positives to the HIV antibody tests. Recently an Australian COVID-19 vaccine candidate trial was halted due to participants developing antibodies to proteins in the vaccine that were taken from HIV genome, causing false-positive on a HIV test. [1] Such false-positives could easily be co-opted by anti-vaxxers especially in light of the the famous Soviet Union disinformation campaign "Operation INFEKTION" [2] that falsely suggested the HIV/AIDS is a man-made virus created by the United States to cause genocide of Africans. In rural Pakistan, health workers have been killed by villages who see the polio vaccine as a Western conspiracy to sterilize Muslims.

Global mandatory inoculations using a safe and effective HIV vaccine that causes false-positive results on HIV antibody tests would be a field day for anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists everywhere.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/australia-covid-19-vaccine-false...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_INFEKTION
Also, can we get a vaccine for most of the common colds??
Heh. Yeah I have no idea why everybody who isn't doing HFT hasn't decided to stop letting these guys rip them off and moved to

investor sex change

er, sorry, put the spaces in the wrong place there, I meant:

investors exchange

They basically encoded a bunch of HFT-thwarting principles into their clearing policies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investors_Exchange#Operating_p...

It's a great idea. But every time I see that name I can't keep my brain from moving the spaces around. I mean seriously what were they thinking with that name.
The US is becoming like China?

Billionaire tech magnate Jack Ma vs. Xi Jinping: who got to censor who?

<lots of American counterparts> vs. Donald Trump: same question...

Seems like the precise opposite.
Can you expand on that some more? Thanks
There is very little scrutiny of people who have initial mild flu or no long term respiratory complications. Perhaps more light will be shed in the wake of the over zealous scrutiny that comes with covid 19
The ads went away when I uninstalled it and reported it.
free speech isn't absolute

I think your making my point. Your freedom of speech doesn't entitle you to use it on the stage built by someone else.

Free markets aren't either

Again, that doesn't contradict me. It would take a fundamental adjustment to the legal framework surrounding either user licensing agreements or the definition of public utilities in order to say these companies aren't allowed to enforce their current ToS.

If you want to argue that laws should change, that's fine, but then we're talking about a slider between the definition & right to own private property on the one hand, and freedom of speech using 3rd party's property on the other hand. If you want to slide it more towards the later, you are taking away from the former, and vice versa. I don't know any formula for where that line should be drawn, only that in this particular example I believe the line drawn was acceptable.
Social media is not unique. The Capital class is basically railroad barons across the board. Whether it's oil, finance, online marketplaces, social media, airline/airline manufacturing, the prison industrial complex, etc.

Thinking that social media or tech companies are somehow novel in this way is myopic and misses the forest for the trees.
Any thoughts on whether MRNA is a good stock to buy? They seem to be killing it these days...
A web-app that doesn't log me out every time I reboot, then warn me I'm "already logged in".

And an Android app that doesn't combine the slowness of iOS and Android would be nice. To be clear - their animations (to me) drag on too long (as one might say about iOS), and UI input takes a noticeable amount of time (which is commonly found on Android apps that aren't well-written).

While this may not be helpful for anyone looking to improve the apps, that's kinda more of the same point - nobody is allowed to make a better client, as it's against the Wire ToS. This is why there's no Matrix bridge.
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“We also offer Web design, Custom graphics design”.... not the best portfolio for that?
How do you go about quantifying the sensory experience of red, then? You can observe that red light has a wavelength of 620 to 750 nm, or that we've assigned it the RGB colour code of #FF0000, but neither fact actually captures or explains the sensory experience. Even trying is a fool's errand, because sensory experiences are inherently qualitative, not quantitative.
I've had this exact issue! It appears to happen when my late 2020 16" MBP experiences high memory pressure - basically when I have three chrome windows and 40 tabs per window open.
A gaping hole in this article is the fact that >90% of the media is comprised of culture war sellers in favor of the left (not to mention all FAANG companies), and <10% in favor of the right.
Wouldn't a more straightforward explanation be that increased access to capital amongst homebuyers leads to increased demand?
Not trying to glorify the fraud in any way but I still wonder if she would have made it in an alternate universe where covid happened a year earlier. The optics for the regulators would be completely different and more akin to going after Elon right now.
So far we heard 91% (Turkey), <60% (Brazil), 78% against mild cases (Brazil), 65% (Indonesia). So... what is it really?
Get ready for a wild ride. The actions of this week are going to have cascading, emboldening effect across tech. The article shared earlier this week [1] that received attention here gives me pause and genuine concern that these actions by these companies results in greater conflict.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/22109-cycles-violence-2020.html
Why the constant "flu" comparisons? It's a different virus.
I think over the next 10 years governments, scientists, and businesses are going to be asking themselves how they can be prepared for the next pandemic. This will make governments more likely to approve a fast track for the mRNA platform, and popular support more likely to sway in favor of this.

If we had generic facilities that could produce any mRNA vaccines, and an mRNA vaccine approval process that takes 30 days then we could have had covid vaccines ready to go before March 2020, and those whole story looks very different.
> We need a new media channel, the press version of a third party, where those financial pressures to maintain audience are absent.

Like PBS? Turns out if you’re not sensationalist, and others are, you lose viewership.
How exactly is asking for my password to be hashed "reinventing password hashing and salting"? Seems like the opposite, no?

If your password is properly salted, it can't be used to guess passwords on other sites, that's the whole point of salt and hash.

The fact that RSA is being used means that your plain-text password is going to appear on their servers. Maybe it won't get cracked in the SSL layer, but it is still there.

> Are you sure this is what it's guarding against? A sophisticated application architecture might involve a load balancer decrypting and doing the initial routing, several sets of data handoffs, and then the application that needs it handling the password. Any one of them could mishandle or leak the password, but only the one at the end actually needs it in the clear.

Do you realize that if an adversary even only has read access to the SSL layer, they can just copy the cookie and steal the account that way?
Was is “just” an enthusiast forum? Or were enthusiasts discussing certain topics that could imply support for the recent events? I’m not going to trust a pro-2A website called “The Truth About Guns” to be unbiased about this topic.

Given the recent events, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s part of GoDaddy’s reasoning.
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Congress seems to be taking it somewhat personally, for some reason that I can't possibly fathom.
A push to disarm the US in the middle of a home-grown terrorist threat is a good idea. I hope more will follow.
It didn't show that. It showed 62%. 70% is a pooled result when you put the (too few) people into the calculation who got 90% efficacy, which scientists can't explain as that testing regimen was completely fucked up by Jenner and AZN (different dosage, different timing, different age group <55yr only). So it's hard to tell if it's really 90% (due to sample size) or WHY it might be more effective than the 62% number.
The approvals so far for the AZN/Oxford vaccine have been for the full-full dose regimen, which has shown to be 62% effective only.
but isn't it fun knowing pocketing premiums on a consistent basis? Like most of your trades are winners, you don't have to worry about directions much.

for me trying to determine the timing AND the price target was stressful as hell. Like every morning my heart would beat rushing downstairs to check my tendies.

in the end what screwed me was the SEC. There is just no way to predict how long a stock will be halted. I also learned that in a class action lawsuit, option traders are pretty much unable to recoup their money in a fraudulent company (although I do appreciate the SEC sending me the letters, the rule of law is taken very seriously, scammers almost always see the inside of a jail).
Yes, although there was good reason to change the way airports are policed the way they are now.
> My Mac doesn't draw any faster than the Alto I used in the 70s.

Yes it absolutely does, you just don't notice because of the increase in fidelity. What was then 640x480 pixels is now a 4K display. The total number of pixels is several orders of magnitude more, the number of colors is now 16.7 million rather than 256, and the complexity of the scene has increased where we now have anti-aliased text and alpha blending.
It shall be ー, but if we use that, we should also use rest of the kanas too.
If political views or personal bias were the deciding factor, Bezos wouldn't have let the National Enquirer continue using AWS after it tried to blackmail him with genital selfies.

The issue here is that the platforms were used in service of activity that was arguably illegal. These platforms' failure to enforce their rules consistently doesn't mean they shouldn't have enforced them in this case, it means they should have been doing a better job all along. If you want to pass laws regarding platforms like this and free speech, it should be regulations that encourage more consistency, not less moderation of content.
Launch HN: BeeCanvas – The common ground between remote teams
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So, Jake and I decided to build something to solve our own problem. What we found is that a fully functioning multi-context whiteboard can help us get aligned and work as if we're in the same space. Something quick to adopt, that would save us back and forths over threads, and be the common ground for the entire team across roles.

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Have you seen a Japanese website before?

https://www.infocubic.co.jp/en/blog/website-design/how-japan...