skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that too. But FB and Google skimming from that shrinking revenue is certainly not helping matters.
Yes!!!! This is excellent tool engineering, choosing the right target and setting a high but attainable target which fundamentally drives the design. I love the idea that `mold` "competes" with `cat`. That right there is genius framing of the problem.
Paul Krugman, I believe, talked about the risk of being blacklisted if one attacks the US monetary system and central bank. I expect there is some truth to his observations about pissing off the money printers.
> I personally think a lot of established macroeconomics is bullshit. There's just no mechanism to verify many of the hypotheses

Modern academic (and central bank) macroeconomics is literally all about taking macroeconomic models to data. Period. Attend any macro seminar in the field at any university and that’s what you’ll see. In particular: it is directly about “verifying the mechanisms.”

Your complaint is perhaps somewhat ignorant of the way macroeconomics is actually practiced.

Source: an academic economist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxmox_Backup_Server yes, it does data deduplication :) zuper!
I really enjoyed how alien your phrasing seems. I understand it and I don't at the same time. It takes some time to realise that the order of words is non-standard and some filler words are missing. A very pleasant dissonance.
Not "profit". "Paper profit". Very, very different thing, especially when it comes to Bitcoin.

Plus, the price tanked since this article was written.
So when bullies bully people for eating tofu, they being especially stupid because tofu is the one form of soy that isn't "anti-masculine"?
If you haven't sold then you haven't made a profit.
This article tantalises with the last word of its headline, "undervalued", but never rises to the challenge that word screams out.

After an entertaining George Carlin introduction, the section "r/Value" says boldy and starkly "$6 billion? That’s it?"

Sounds like $6 billion is just chump change compared to the real value of Reddit, right? I can't wait to read more...

If you make it to the last section, "r/GalaxyBrain", you come face to face with "The Galaxy Brain moves to take it to the next level"

Are you ready to go to the next level? Here it is:

"Reddit should make it easy for subreddits to pay-gate their community, sell merchandise (physical and digital), and post jobs."

That's it?

Did I miss something?
I am always amazed that some countries allow electricity for heating.

Here it is mostly geothermal, solar, gas or oil (the last two being phased out). There are also a lot of cities with distant heating, for example, here, the garbage factory heat the whole city while burning the garbages.

But well, if you can mine crypto while heating, good I guess, even if there might be better ways to use compute power.
That’s because we measure inflation stupidly, IMO. If there would otherwise be, say 6% price decrease, but central bankers inflate the supply of money to 1% price increase, then they say we had 1% inflation when in reality there was 7% inflation.
You have a very short-sighted view of .Net development. I’d take whatever .Net tech over anything Java. With Mono, .Net, .Net Core, and Unity’s IL2CPP .Net and C# start to appeal to a broad audience.
Dairy Made from Grass in a Fermentor
Developer Experience: How to Define Good Documentation?
I wonder how many supply stops he had to make and how this was funded. I doubt a pair of boots would last a fraction of this walk.
Oils are dietary fats though?
For really small subreddits that don't have much activity, you can access the most recent comments directly by tagging on /comments to the subreddit url, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/firewater/comments/
A.I. that writes stand-up comedy
What were the things you did? Did it improve testosterone levels too? If that is the mechanism, could you raise sperm count with artificial testosterone? Or would that be counterproductive?
My Thoughts on Hiring and Retention
I’ve got an anti-tiger rock to sell you…

“Something changed, therefore this must be the reason” is a fallacy if there isn’t additional supporting evidence.
I guess with that same mindset Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg aren't probably the worlds richest as they have their money locked up in assets etc. Only drug lords should count on the list of the richest as they are the only ones holding money in actual cash (together with assets etc).
But this is false as well. Bert was a great breakthrough in NLP in late 2018. IMO bigger breakthrough than AlphaGo, but less media friendly. It has freaking 16 000 citations and it's used all across industry.
Yes, there have been numerous studies showing that the radio frequencies (radiation) used by cell phones and wifi are correlated (maybe causative, but not 100% sure) to reduced sperm count and quality. This is especially true when you have your phone in your pocket or your laptop on your lap.

Stuff like wifi and cellphones were not a thing in the past. There just weren't many consumer RF products a generation or two ago - phones had cords, there was no wifi or even internet, no bluetooth headphones or refrigerators, etc. Most of the RF radiation was produced by commerical or government sources (plus some ham radio), such as FM, AM, and military communications. This generally meant that you were far away from the source, which means they where mostly using different wavelengths and the power you recieved was lower (you quadruple power loss when doubling distance). Now days, you have multiple cell phones in your home, wifi at home and work (work can really blast you with all the access points they seem to over-install), bluetooth and a cell card in many new cars, and IoT devices seemingly everywhere.

Not to mention it seems we have more commercial exposure too. We have GPS, satellite TV, StarLink, cell towers, etc all vying for 100% coverage. However, I didn't look up the wavelengths, so these might not be an issue, or might cause some other kind of issue. I guess I'm just saying it should be no surprise that sperm count and quality is decreasing if we know that certain RF is linked to it and we are increasing that RF exposure.
Yet it still gets grouped in as "heterodox."
TSLA briefly rallied after announcing a BTC purchase and since then its down 14%
I regard it as “Old Faithful”.
> "It’s unclear if Tesla has sold any of the bitcoin yet."
Exactly - especially given that BTC is -13% today.
You don't get wet in a car.
It looks like your stance has a name: https://www.lesswasteworld.com/blog-1/2019/4/24/low-impact-e...

reducitarian: reducing proportion of non vegetarian meals without complete elimination

Some strategies for achieving this include meatless Mondays, weekday vegetarian meals or sticking to vegetarian meals at home.
I believe you, but just for the sake of it: What AI research has had business value from Google in the last years that you could sell?
Watching history download in real time.
Can climate change be solved by crunching more numbers?
I'm guessing it was coming from a place of frustration, but as an impartial observer I found your response just as condescending. They should add 'a bullet-list of critiques' to the article.
There are many types of tofu, only some of which are fermented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu#Varieties
It is not about locked up on asset, it is about locked up on volatile asset vs stable asset.
No. The market only cares about Ford's debt in so much as (1) Fords debt service reduces free cash flow and (1) it threatens a potential bankruptcy that could wipe out equity in the worst case. Sure, cancelling the debt would eliminate the debt service and significantly increase Ford's free cash flow, its market cap should increase, but only if doing so was free.
from TFA:

My house is heated (and cooled) with a central ventilation system powered by a heat pump.
Not enough. Need to see it go down 20-30% more. The BTC pump craze needs to die down so my diamond hands can buy it from the weak hands.
Many stocks dropped 5 - 10% too.
Using an electric heat pump is very efficient, usually better than heating directly by burning gas. In many high efficiency houses, the leftover demand not satisfied by the heat pump is more easily satisfied by a small amount of electric resistance heating - and you get a double win if you don't have to run gas to your house at all, saving both the monthly gas connection fee, simplifying internal plumbing, and improving safety.)

Using electric resistance heating alone is usually bad, as you say.
That's where a lot of people get confused on "wealth". A majority of the top 100 richest folks dont have that liquid. Sure, they can borrow against their assets, but that does change their wealth status in some ways. Musk doesn't have 185b in bills that he can go make it rain at a strip club. In some sense, the whole stock wealth count is weird since as you offload your stock at a large volume, you tank the value. Dropping your wealth even more.

Paper profit, accounting wealth, assetable value, and whatever else its called gets weird when you think about it in practical terms.
This article is correct about underspecification, but completely dodges the argument on language and understanding, drawing the hackneyed, shallow distinction between "pattern matching" and "understanding".

How do you define understand? People just use the word "understand" to fill in for the magic stuff that they say humans can do but machines can't. They also sometimes use "symbolic reasoning" that way, but the best work on machine understanding and symbolic reason is done by DeepMind:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.03406.pdf

The examples in the original article are about truth, not understanding, mainly because we don't have anything approaching a formal definition of 'understanding'. But, if anyone does, it is probably the deep learning community, where conferences in the last 3-4 years have had hundreds of papers working carefully to examine what is the nature and structure of the knowledge encoded in these kind of systems.
The title wording seems a bit weird, but I suspect it's because most vaccines need 2 doses

So 100 doses per 100 people may mean 100% of people with the first dose, or some combination of people with 0, 1 or 2 doses
The Dangerous Art of Mixed Monetary Metaphor
It's the other way around. According to the article, 77% of soy production goes to animal feed.
Australia: Oldest rock art is 17,300-year-old kangaroo
I am betting on the Web, for several reasons.

First, it's accessibility. If I write half-decent HTML, I'm covering Android, iOS, GNU, Windows, Mac, text-mode, audio-mode, noJSers, non-humans, and many other users and scenarios, including ones I can't even think of. All in one shot.

Also, developing for Android and iOS seems like a huge pain in the ass in comparison to developing for Web. Also, there is the red tape of the app stores and the real possibility of instantaneous (and irremediable) shutdown at the whim of some moderator.
Crossing the Nullarbor on foot must have been insane. I did the same route but with camping gear and a car in the 90ies, and had the time of my life. The scale of the distances between points on the map are not comprehensible (to a kid from Europe at least). I wanted to do a day trip to Monkey Mia right after getting off the plane and started planning out my journey from Perth. I didn't believe (understand) that there is often nothing between 2 points on the map. A map entry would often just be a literal petrol station (that is also a pub and a shop and a farm) and nothing else. I had to learn the hard way that when they say "there's f*k all there mate" that they really mean it.

I guess the reason for him cutting short the Kimberley's and Northern tip of Queensland, was that it must have been inaccessible or too dangerous back then. Anyway it seems like travelers have already been advised 100 years ago to stay clear of these places.

There is an Ed Stafford "Marooned" episode where he tries to survive in the Kimberley's. (much endorse).

edit: If you have visited Australia (or plan to go) don't miss out on Bill Bryson's "Down Under" (must read if you like travel literature that is also hilarious) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Under_(book)
In France, the electricity is mostly nuclear. Heating with electricity is not a problem.
Why? Assuming a sufficiently liquid asset, not selling is identical to selling and re-buying for the same amount.
I assumed that this characterization in this context meant "less capable to protect Earth/environment/humanity", which is not too controversial given the inverse correlation between average education level and birthrates
They better fucking release the model & weights of OCR from Firebase MLKit for Android & also make MLKit available for JS runtimes.
I had that problem before I started using fountain pens. Now I can write pages at a time in my diary like it's nothing. The Pilot Metropolitan is a really good pen and you can get one for $20, maybe it's worth a try!
Though for a company it is still a taxable gain!
This is actually a very reasonable complaint about the estimates of their wealth, it's unlikely that they could convert a significant portion of their stock into dollars at the current price...

1 share might be equivalent to 100 dollars, 1 billion shares is unlikely to be equivalent to 100 billion dollars.
Ah the other link. So they can expect no problem with certification, why they don't do it?
Right. If you use solar panels you are definitely better off. The question is whether you are or not and for the time being most places still don’t use renewable energy sources.
Alright. 99.999% of us are replaceable.
How recruiters screen resume? What software do they use?
I think OP is hinting at a vasectomy.
People use JSON For configuration files? What a PITA. Use a tool suited to the job, eg, TOML.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOML

Not that there's anything wrong with adding comments and commas to JSON. Call it JSONv2, keep the .json extension and let people bump around upgrading for a bit. It's hardly much of a change but has significant benefits, even outside the config file use. For instance it can sometimes be useful to annotate raw data, and it'd be nice to have that built in. Certainly the commas is a no-brainer.
There’s a lot of absolutism in this thread, but there are so many incremental things we can change.

First, we should put a price on carbon given the clear negative externalities. Animal agriculture — when you actually factor in everything like transportation, chemical fertilizer production, and land-use change — is a big driver of climate change. [1] Put a price on carbon, and consumption will go down.

Organic, while not a panacea, at least reduces the petrochemical component — so it’s an easy first step you can take.

For the animals that are still grown, switch to sustainable farming practices like agroforestry, which consists of a mosaic of trees and grasslands. And wherever possible, we should reforest land. We should pay countries with forests not to cut them down.

Research is being done on breeding perennial versions of our popular annual staples. The perennials have much deeper roots, storing tons of carbon. And less tillage means less carbon being put into the atmosphere.

Aquaculture and fishing can be made more sustainable as well — though it’s an area I’m less familiar with.

Finally, support local farms. If we are going to eat more plants and vegetables, it would have a big impact to get them from places closer to home. Monocultures are the big culprit — if we support local farms growing a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, it’s better for our health and the health of the planet as well. Consider a “victory garden” at home. It may only provide you some herbs and tomatoes, but you’ll feel good doing it and learn more about — and become more invested in — food grown with care.

I became mostly vegan for personal reasons about five years ago. It was a struggle for about two weeks. I’m not dogmatic about it, nor do I think people should be shamed into it. But I did become much healthier. I actually gained muscle and lost fat (with exercise). (Again, I’m not trying to brainwash anyone into doing it — and I’m a data point of one.) But if that’s not for you, maybe my list above contains some element that you’d be in support of.

Rather than taking an all-or-nothing approach, or shaming people, we can make incremental steps and before you know it we’ll be in a much more sustainable position.

1: For years, agriculture has been misrepresented as a small slice of the emissions pie. But this is because it’s typically measured solely by things like tractor fuel and tillage. These estimates ignore petrochemical fertilizer production, trucking, etc. These things are typically listed as separate categories - but our food production system is deeply tied to all aspects of our energy economy.
This is only true for ASIC miners, ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) are pieces of hardware designed to do very specific things - e.g. mining crypto currencies. When these cards become obsolete or aren't profitable anymore, trashing them is almost the only thing you can do.

On the other side, GPUs, even if they are not profitable anymore to crypto currency miners, can still be used afterwards or sold back.
Food? Water? Unless he was close to civilization at all times and just stopped into taverns to eat.
WaveNet is one example:

"Google Assistant adds 9 new AI-generated voices": https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/18/google-assistant-gains-9-...

Data center cooling is another one:

"How Google is Using AI for Data Center Cooling": https://www.bmc.com/blogs/data-center-cooling/
Actually old nobility specifically not included on "richest" lists.
In the article body they use the more accurate term "paper profit".
Several years back, I decided to get a masters degree in teaching. I am white. One of the required courses was how to teach students who were neither white nor from a Euro-centric culture. It was both a challenging and transformative experience, based on essay writing. I think that telling people to be “less white” is probably silly and ineffective. Asking people to write about how they will work to support non-white or culturally different co-workers would make more sense to me based on my experience.
No, that's not at all what bondarchuk said. bondarchuk hinted that if you don't have the cash from selling something, you can't count that as making a profit, as you haven't actually taken any profit.

Why would it matter if it's volatile or stable?
It's not a counterpoint because no one says crack and whiskyt are required for pregnancy. It's a supporting point that sperm can develop without any particular specialized diet.
First you populate the gallery with the recovered orientation of each face, so the gallery can be segmented by pose, and then the laborious process of humans evaluating the accuracy via generation of a ROC Curve for the gallery. Which can be segmented by face orientation to show the accuracy as orientation varies. People generally hate calculating these because it requires a human to evaluate the FR matches, and mental fatigue set in very quickly.
Bitcoin is down ~20% since this article was published, 2 days ago.
G2, Capterra or TrustPilot
Hello guys, recently we sold our product as an LTD and after generation money, we decided that we can also invest in review platform portals such us G2 Capterra, TrustPilot, Reapon and they are really many. We think we can grow our startup in that way as well. Right now we have a free account and even with that, we are getting good traffic especially from G2 and Capterra.
Wanted to know if there are any people who have tried their premium account as it's not that cheap. We want to play for the long term and would love to see your experience with these companies. If there are any other companies, we can talk about them as well, even if it's your company.
(Word is some "whale" [big holder] got the correction going by selling off some 150M+ at 58K, cashing out ...

I do not think valuations are in doubt - as much as they've ever been, at least ...)
Somehow I can never take somebody seriously who says "this is the best". How can you know it is the best book? Have you literally read all of them and can thus compare them? If not, how can you be sure? Is there even such a thing as a best book? Different people have different backgrounds, learn in different ways, like different things. Why would there not be multiple "best" books?

Reminds me of a guy I once met, who told me that "this is the best bakery in the city" (>1.5e6 inhabitants). Interestingly, the city's best bakery was just around the corner of his appartment. Once he moved to a different appartment in 10min walking distance, he never went back to the best bakery. He found out that the bakeries closer to his new appartment were at least equally good...
Why Was SolarWinds So Vulnerable to a Hack?
I wonder if a country could produce bitcoin miners that convert electricity to heat and use that heat for their industry while also getting to control trillions in bitcoin once they cross 50% of mining capacity.

Most likely bitcoin would loose all value then as the value is basically product of trust in the bitcoin network, but still an interesting idea for a state-sponsored attack.
I think Amazon does the same with a datacenter and powers a refuge
I'm not sure. I want to believe in that kind of perseverance and exploration, but to give a glimpse of the "Aidan" here's an excerpt for the end part of the book:

"Little is known about Aidan de Brune following the conclusion of his walk. We catch a glimpse here and there. On 28 March 1933 an article by de Brune appeared in the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser as one of a series of articles about Australian novelists. The article was about de Brune himself, in which he outlined his life. It was mostly fictitious. As we know, de Brune was actually Herbert Charles Cull and he did few, if any, of the things mentioned in the article." .. so if he's known to embellish or fabricate details...?
Here's something interesting to think about.

Did you ever hear of a canary in a coal mine? The miners would take birds in with them to alert them to dangers gasses. If there were dangerous gasses he bird would typically die before the miners did. This is because the bird has very high performance lungs so that they can supply enough oxygen to beat their wings quickly.

You basically can't own a bird in an appartment and cook with teflon cookware or run the self clean setting on the oven (they are teflon coated inside) because the fumes will kill them.
2 bubbles supporting each other.
The reference claim is that Tesla has made a $1 billion profit, emphasis on profit. You only generate a profit in that context if you've sold.

If you'd like a proof on how this works in action, let your gain in a stock (or Bitcoin) evaporate, sell your position at break-even, and then demand to be paid your former unrealized 'profit,' see what happens.

What does any of that have to do with Gates or Bezos holding stock in a company?
There are also rumors that Deltec has been hacked, which is the bank Tether supposedly uses to "back" the Tether stablecoin. Supposedly there is one dollar for each tether, but its looking more and more like that is not the case.

https://www.coindesk.com/nyag-tether-bitfinex-loan-documents...

https://twitter.com/deltecleaks

I have not fact checked the leaks.

EDIT: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

NYAG taking action against Bitfinex/Tether!
I’ll agree. As a somewhat terrible ocational player, some people can build way to fast and they aren’t fun to play against.

Fortunately I play squads and that can even the score against these architects..
it’s fun, a little silly and they keep iterating on the game to keep it from going stale .