skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a sentiment rolling lately in music-making communities that EDM is past its peak, and I think it's tied to how the scene has evolved commercially, including its presence in nightclubs, as well as the ushering in of streaming media.
There is a long history of open source projects going to Apache being like sending an old racehorse 'to the farm'.
What about proof-of-space?

And of course proof-of-work isn't necessarily immune to wealth centralization either.
Probably a little too bit conspiratorial, but anyone wonder if Redhat had something to do with this? This sounds oddly like the Centos announcement recently.
I've done that and the only general news source I have left is NPR. I think I'm foolish to have all my eggs in one basket, but I can't find any other baskets that aren't broken.
> The whole point is to grow and change together, until you die.

To you. But not so for many people, i imagine. I think the rate of divorce in America would suggest otherwise. Not to say that those are all healthy individuals, but that description sounds like a very religious-centric outlook on an often secular behavior.

In this framing, i'd argue that the liability of marriage should be thought of as "until death", but still. Sometimes the person you become is not something to be accepted nor desired by your loved ones. So who is to blame?

Do you change who you are? Or does your loved one change what they love? Sometimes both are unfair questions.
Given that it seems you don’t upgrade Linux Instalaciones between major revisions - I use short names that are unique in the first character or two and code the os/version. Sure it doesn’t scale much but I don’t have many servers and ssh u<tab> gets me where I need to be.
People say that all of the time in Investment Banking and I cringe on every instance... Always such an uncomfortable mental image. Why not say "lay down the cards" or something like that?
“We changed our food product so that it looked better but now it tastes bad. Why did everyone stop buying?!? Let’s sell it overseas.“
cringe quoting ayn rand, ooof
Maybe I missed it: What happens to binary data?
These all look interesting.

But I've been trying to find one or more books on just the bones and muscle of economics. Just "what there is, and how it works," without the partisanship of any "school" of economics. The stuff just below schools; they're all arguing about the meaning of "something," and I'd like to know the something and its parts.

Anyone?

EDIT: Anything from "For Dummies" to "The Art of Computer Programming."
Really? Do you genuinely believe that - if the government were to ask its citizens "please don't hoard and markup these incredibly valuable life-saving masks which are available for everyone to buy in large quantities" - you genuinely believe that literally every american would heed that request?

I'll be happy to take your word for this if you want to confirm "yes" you actually believe this. Otherwise I will assume you don't actually believe this, you were just throwing rhetoric around.
XEmacs is pining for the fjords.
I read about this yesterday and wondered the same. Disappointing.
Competing on taxation to attract foreign investors? Sounds like a great way for average Brits to lose even more.
What's the history/provenance of ball arithmetic? Was this a new insight out of INRIA or a well known approach not previously implemented? All links seem to circle back to you and Joris van der Hoeven, and arb [in the 2018-present time line].
Doreen Traylor
Never went to Baylor
Nonetheless she can always tell
Someone knows how to properly pronounce Michele when they add that extra L.

;)

(It's better than when people think it's the Italian version of Michael. Waaay better.)
Flash Loans Are Providing Instant Cash to Crypto Speculators
The real estate scene in Berlin is very different now than it used to be. It was possible to rent a cheap place or just squat an unoccupied building, which is not possible anymore. Real estate prices have gone through the roof in the last 10 years.

I'm not sure how the new nightclub scene will look like, but I'm sure entry will cost money.
WA unemployment auditors leak social security and bank account numbers
That the main problem is not in lab model performance, but in data availability and quality. Most useful applications could be very dumb models pertaining to trivial things. But we need a solid base of quality data for that, that we absolutely do not have apart from minuscule and hyperspecialized niche domains.

The model itself does not have to be incredibly performant. It absolutely has to, on the other hand, make the clinical process of which it is part more efficient. That mainly means: "efficiently automate the most trivial tasks", currently.

That's why the urgent action to be taken pertains to policy and not to complex tech. We need policy to encourage routine automated data gathering. No data, no ML.

As a clinician, I don't effing care if your shiny new toy can give me a shitty estimate of some parameter extrapolated from some random population not including my current patient. Just getting accurate trends on vital signs would be stellar. This to say that what interests clinicians is workplace integration and not having hundreds of monitors all over the place that aren't even interconnected.
Yeah, the demo page is using a ±800ms timeout on purpose.

I chose the threshold so that even with a bad internet connection, slow browser, etc. the favicon is requested without the redirect being faster than that.

So it is definitely possible to reduce the timeout significantly but it is not useful for demonstration purposes... ~jonas
That is due to extreme levels of inequality in the US and one of the stingiest welfare systems in the whole developed world. It is not due to food prices. If that was the deciding factor then Norwegians and Japanese would be starving.

A lot of the low food prices in the US also contribute to this poverty. The low prices come at the back of people in the food industry doing long days for shitty pay. If the “solution” to people not getting food on the table was to keep pushing food prices down then one easily end up in a situation arguing against minimum wage and workers rights.

One has to look at the whole system and not just a tiny sliver of it.
Honeycrisp ftw... eating one rn while typing w/ one hand
Thanks for this. I think this is the route I’m going to take. I eventually want to move to a full SSG but need a midpoint before then. I just want my files in markdown to start with.
There was no such condescension.

I'm still not sure of what you mean by "notation only explanations". Do you have a problem with standard mathematical notation? Or with explanations that involve mathematics at all?

Can you give me an example of what you consider to be a "bad LaTeX explanation"?

For what's worth, I find your link infinitely more confusing than the few pages of Landau which cover the same topic... ;) The explanation in your link is lost among details of implementation and python syntax, whereas a clear and lucid explanation in a good textbook like Landau lets you understand the actual physics of what's going on. Of course your mileage may vary, and at any rate a few animated graphs are very valuable as a complement to aid in that understanding. This is a relatively recent tool that should be embraced more.
2 am the bars let out, however, the afters are private events and tend to be in the warehouse or events space district. These afters are like 100 people at most and have a pretty intimate vibe, you can find them on facebook groups, asking around at the club or less often through Resident Advisor.

Remember the bedrock of american social and legal culture is uptight religious british emigrants.
Ouch,

First I explicitly excluded the ground price so it should be obvious that I'm well aware of it.

Second if zoning and permitting make it more economical to build buildings which on itself are fundamentally problematic than maybe zoning and permitting needs to be changed.

Besides that the cost of construction management for one large building compared to multiple smaller buildings(1) should be larger because of additional requirements for material verification etc. due to having stricter requirements to materials and material quality which you simply don't have on smaller buildings. And sure as we can see from quite a bunch of (often by now older) sky scrapers the additional requirements where sometimes just ignored now leading to problems left and right.

EDIT: Just to be clear if you make it multiple projects instead of one it can very well be more expensive. But building multiple smaller (but not small) houses as one project using mostly the same
blueprints for all of them, using the same contractors, same workers etc. is altogether a different matter.

EDIT2: The main drawback besides things like ground cost is the cost of creating a multiple fundaments. In turn simpler fundaments can normally be build but the cost can largely vary depending on the ground you are building on (like stability of the ground, ground water level etc.).
> In Germany, we put former GDR soldiers on trial and into jail for shooting people trying to flee into Western Germany. How is this different?

Frontex does not shoot people.
Sure, you can create a sort-of logic to fit the existing naming, but it's still something you have to learn.

Imagine you were using Pandas for the first time, working through a tutorial, and you've just learned that pd.read_csv reads a csv into a dataframe.

Intuitively, what would you expect the corresponding output function to be called? I'd hazard that a vast majority of people would guess at some version of write_csv, and would experiment with either pd.write_csv, or df.write_csv.
Nick The Magician
Has poems much finer than a smidgen
The fame took his head, like a balloon of air, hot
He don't know the difference 'tween a drumroll and a rimshot
I think you can bypass wall street to IPO
This seems more or less like a straw man of people who might loosely call themselves "anti-finance". I think most people support and understand the "idea" of finance but not the implementation.

One weak point of this article is that it repeats the common pro-finance position that financiers deserve to be wealthy because they take on "risk". However, in this day and age we hardly ever let large companies suffer the consequences of a bad investment (or brazen illegal activity).

So, if we think bailouts and the like are necessary to prevent society from collapsing, recognizing the finance industry as a crucial component of our economy, what's the reason for allowing financiers to keep skimming off the top when they're allowed to burden taxpayers with all the risk?

Finance is important, and sure, moving money around is hard. But so is making things. I'd like to see people who make things and people who move money to earn income on about the same order of magnitude. I'd also like to see companies held accountable when they commit crimes.

(also--dismissing viewpoints you disagree with for being too "meta-contrarian" is bad form imo. Anyone who has criticisms of the way things are is just doing it to be cool? I'm going to call this way of arguing "meta-meta-contrarian")
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That's the point of the article: in the quest for ever greater redness, the companies dominating apple production bred out the taste completely, so now you have mush in a tough, red sack.
A famous Clerihew about Bertrand Dawson[0], the man who secretly euthanised King George V so that his imminent death would appear in the morning edition of The Times rather than "less appropriate evening journals":

Lord Dawson of Penn

Killed many men.

That's why we sing

'God Save the King'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Dawson,_1st_Viscount_...
I disagree with your assessment of the NRA. They appear to me to be first and foremost acting on the behalf of gun manufacturers and the most extreme firearms owners. If they were truly interested in standing up for responsible firearms owners they would have made a public statement about the murder of Philando Castile yet they've remained completely silent. I own firearms and enjoy hunting but the NRA is not a positive force in the US.
Monitoring and ranking Bitcoin predictions by Tradingview analysts
This site is a good indicator for the general sentiment and direction of the current state of Bitcoin/USD
J. R. R. Tolkien

His name is Low Prussian

He did not say many things

Yet misatributions remain memes.
If you can find them, Rome apples are, IMO, far superior for baking compared to Granny Smith.

[edit]

I should say this is true if you like a tooth to your baked goods. Rome apples are far more firm after being cooked than most breeds (some Jonathan crosses are similarly firm after cooking IIRC)
To me, it’s not surprising that businesses who are reluctant to pay for Office or Google Apps, are also reluctant to pay for commercial support for Libre Office.

Very few businesses stay away from proprietary software because of philosophical disagreements over licensing. Most just don’t want to spend money if they can get away with it.

Of course, we know that most businesses are not like this and do pay for perceived value. But I’m concerned that TDF are chasing a market that’s deeply reluctant to dig into its pockets.
Likewise, I had a great deal of my studies occupied by quantum mechanics, yet it's also another topic that attracts cranks and people saying nothing of substance, at an alarming rate ;)
The Cost of Undoing the Travel Ban
I assume that it's prostitution with extra steps.
Not Relevant Anymore
Basically all fruits and vegetables taste much worse (or, simply, much less) than they used to. Is this some kind of weird market failure, or is it just the only way to produce this stuff at the scale required nowadays?
It is a cold day today in February, -28C.
I was expecting to see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden on here, but he didn’t invent the Segway, just owned the company.
There are two hyperlinks in that sentence that I hoped would avoid ambiguity by citing sources, but I'll make it more explicit in the copy.
Because...Security? That's not an issue? Imagine one unintend breach and poof! customer data splattered across the (dark) web.

I can't imagine how security and privacy are of no concern. Has that been cleared by legal? Or is it laziness and/or negligence?
I've been on sites with only using NoJS, and would still receive the "Please disable your ad blocker" bullshit blockers.
It is relatively straightforward to dissolve cellulose. So adding it to epoxy does not necessary make it harder to recycle. I can speculate that with the right chemistry it can be more energy efficient to recycle the mixture compared with pure plastic.
Not sure I believe the thesis of this article: in a bankruptcy the creditors get to delve into financial details. Okay, but how does this play into the hands of the NRA's opponents? They are the last people likely to be creditors of the NRA. Not seeing the mechanism here.
> During this time, I learned that all the "donations" to tdf are used for "conferences and shit"

I am paid by TDF to onboard new contributors. I think it is going rather well, with many FOSS outsiders being lured in.

Conference expenses are a small part of the budget. A software project is much more than pure development.
Learn sales and marketing. This is the single highest leverage activity I've ever done, that's netted me some very high amounts of money.

Things like cold emailing, how to properly sell on a sales call, where to find clients, etc.
> It's financially impossible to start a family in a major metro here

This is a pernicious lie. What is impossible is maintaining a full hedonistic lifestyle with zero compromise while trying to have a family. You will have to sacrifice for them - but any good parent does anyway.

> Here I have witnessed the worst forms of racial nepotism I've ever seen. Entire teams of the same ethnicities all speaking the same language.

This is indeed a problem, but it is a problem you may not point at. QA teams seem to be particularly laden with this issue. Is this really not a thing in the states?
The sins of Lego Island 2
If you remove subsidies you got more money to spare for other things. As a general rule, and policy affecting consumer prices should look at its effect on consumers and combine such changes with other measures.

Money saved one place can be spent other places. Instead of spending it on more tax breaks for the rich it could be spent on the poor providing a net gain for them.
Hints? Only hints?

I would recommend you to watch Star Trek Picard then =)
After the bridge has fallen, there may yet be people ferrying themselves across the river. This, however, does not mean the absence of the bridge is not a notable impairment to people's movement across the water.
Queen lobbied for change in law to hide her private wealth
I honestly don't mind gun ownership and I agree about teaching it in high school. I think it should be harder to get a gun (you should need some training and safe storage etc).

Afaik, the modern NRA opposes all gun control laws basically on principle. They are also deeply in bed with the GOP. That's not appropriate or helpful as it politicises gun laws and gun owners. So I won't pretend I wouldn't like to see the organisation fall.

If the org decides to fold, it will have to surrender all its assets. So it either has no net worth or I don't see how they can just "run off" to Texas. Maybe they don't have any assets?

I think the issue is, if you can pursue the org for fraud, you can almost certainly pursue the officers for fraud. So how long until NY does that and extradite those same officers back for trial?

I hasn't actually seen this angle before but maybe that's why they're going after the org first: force the opening of the books, audit the whole thing, then you have all the evidence you need against individuals?
Good point. I added an RSS feed link to https://fredrikj.net/blog/. I just hacked together some quick code to generate it, so let me know if it doesn't work.
I highly recommend everyone go back and read the headlines (and articles) from a year ago from multiple news sources frequently. It gives great perspective on the narratives at the time with hindsight as to how those narratives changed and if the predictions made were substantiated.
That video includes a lot of whataboutisms (e.g., Christmas lights) and speculation (e.g., Bitcoin mining will fund the construction of green power plants). I wouldn't call it total nonsense though. But I suppose I might be tempted to do so if I were the founder of, oh lets say, a decentralized e-commerce platform for Christmas lights.
I was going to make the exact same comparison with the mustard seed and coconut, but looking at the numbers, it more or less tracks as being the center of the log scale between the two seeds. Palm seeds in general are exceptionally large compared to anything else, while we're at it.
Good question. Base64? I forget if I added support for that.
>Can't wait for British civil rights icons to be inspired by the words of Jeb Bush!

"When the Women's March feminist organisation tweeted "Rest in peace and power, Barbara Bush" to mark the 2018 death of the conservative political matriarch, Twitter users criticised the organisation harshly for abandoning its radical beginnings"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_in_power#cite_note-24
Thanks for this comment. I'm not a gun owner (I'm actually a limey brit) am I'm never sure how much the NRA are "crazy gun nuts" and how much they're just demonised as such.
Just something I noticed, the way that "neo" is "spelled" in the README (הϵѻ) would be pronounced /heo/, i.e. "heyo" :)
6 months at most, I think. CBD products are becoming trendy out here, but actual flower is much harder to come by, hence attempting the hemp cigarettes (hempettes?).

Maybe I'll try again this spring or summer when I get back into doing some light forestry, but I almost prefer to not mask the pain so I know I'm not making things worse.
Good to have a term for what usually happens when people try to freestyle rap.
It’s a public process, it will all be on a website somewhere.

Here:

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/37938179/National_R...

http://www.Courtlistener.com is another non-profit resource but their website appears down

Edit here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29112859/national-rifle...
>“They’re all in the bankers’ pockets” lacks explanatory power. Rich and powerful people spend most of their energy fighting other rich and powerful people, not altruistically conspiring with them. And the finance industry isn’t even that rich. Johnson & Johnson is bigger than any bank in the world, why aren’t the rich and powerful in the pocket of Big Band-Aid?

>I have an alternative explanation: Finance is the miracle glue that keeps our civilization intact. No one understands exactly how it works, so fucking with it in any way should be terrifying. People in power can see that.
...

His simplistic description of the idea that people in power recognize that finance helps maintain the power structures that give them that authority is... Frustrating.
This is not a very tightly written article. I don't think it makes that much sense, it jumbles multiple scenarios and arguments together and doesn't fully flesh out the argument anyway.

I don't disagree - full automation isn't happening anytime soon. We'll stick with partial automation, where 5 people do the work that 100 people did previously.

That said, the author used a few pretty terrible examples to illustrate his point.

The Flippy example from 2018 was an interesting choice, considering after reworking the robot it is currently in use in dozens of restaurants throughout the US and is being trialed by White Castle. Yeah, version 1.2whatever from 2018 wasn't ready yet - that happens. If the cost benefit still makes sense, the robot will be improved and version 4.5 might be the one to succeed. It's not over.

The author writes about doctors doing administrative work - that's just a misuse of the software and a failure of management - there are actually more administrative staff in hospitals than ever before, though they don't seem to do anything additional. This is not because of a failure of automation, but because of a failure to align incentives. The manager is incentivized to increase administrative staff as it enlarges their personal power within the system, and is also not incentivized to make the work of doctors easier in any way.

I think a better conversation would be about why production remained steady while workforces decreased in the midwest. Why Jack Welch's methods became popular despite long-term failures and how we can reset business and investment ethics to allow for a greater wealth distribution based on worker input. What the goals of automation are and how we can move away from employer based healthcare and understand the realities inherent in a system where "Automation...recomposes the workforce, isolating and rearranging tasks, altering job descriptions, and hollowing out middle-tier occupations."
If rugby allowed forward passes, they wouldn’t bother with backwards and lateral passes as much either.