skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are in the business of selling domains.

Domains that are taken but in demand typically sell for higher than what the default price is.

> It's much more likely that 10,000 other people had the same idea to get something as popular as 'dnd.quest'

According to the post the registration happened 30 seconds to 1 minute after the poster searched for the domain on the registrar. That is quite a coincidence.
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>Which is nice on paper but is functionally worthless for virtually all shareholders unless AMZN pays a dividend, no? The only way to generate wealth from AMZN right now is to give it to someone else for more money than you paid for it. If you bought AMZN 20 years ago for retirement, you'd still be waiting for that asset to produce anything on its own. For fun, compare that to the East India companies which paid up to double digit dividends from year one.

Of course when an investor buys single stocks he is taking on the risk that the company has to survive until it pays out dividends or does stock buybacks. However, literally everyone knows and understands that risk. Everyone has heard about companies going bankrupt. This is why you are supposed to have a portfolio of a variety of stocks. Employees who receive stock compensation want to avoid the risk that their employer will disappear and they lose their job and the stocks both at the same time.

But if we assume that Amazon is not paying out dividends right now because it is still growing (I don't know, haven't checked since I consider Amazon to be an awful company) then it would grow its ability to pay out dividends in the future. There will be one day in the future that Amazon will stop growing and then be forced to just pay out the profits. If it turns out that the margins at the end are super thin and it can't pay enough dividends to justify its market cap then the value of the stock will simply go down because investors sell their stock and look for companies with growth potential. This will happen until the value of the stock is low enough that the valuation of the company is entirely based on dividends.

>pure speculation on an asset which currently does not produce anything on its own -- and has no guarantee that it ever will.

This is an undesirable property of the stock market, at least if you were to ask the central bank or government or me. With Bitcoin, this is actually considered desirable because there is nothing to it other than speculation.
Yes, yes they can. Felons are second-class citizens in the US.
Most of the vegetarians/vegans I know have a pretty shitty diet - lots of highly processed grains (bread, pasta, and other fillers), sweets, desserts, sugary drinks (and other "regular" products with added sugars), and otherwise not too diverse of a diet.

Don't know if that's a representative sample of vegetarian/vegan population, but it's not unlikely the case. Hence, the link between the veg* diet and cancer is not hard to imagine.

The main issue with (a lot of) these research papers, other than having bad data to begin with, is the lack of control for other parameters: what exactly do those surveyed meat-eaters and vegetarians eat, and what their lifestyle choices are (e.g., vegetarians are generally more health-conscious, so they often exercise, don't smoke/drink as much, etc.).
>Doesn't this require an exchange to provide external information

or a donation address, or a cooperative counterparty when you buy/sell something (think darknet market that got radided, or a payment processor that sells its transaction information).
It did not stop Stalin and his Red Terror.
This will further marginalize AI ethics and can only be seen as a good thing.

NPR did yet another piece on the topic last weekend and interviewed an AI ethics expert. When, once again, I’m being told that the reason a system has a hard time identifying the features of black faces is systemic racism, and doesn’t even mention the optic and sensor issues, I think the field needs a reboot.
IMHO, if jQuery adds support for the virtual DOM, it will be more attractive
Did you miss the memo about the climate emergency?
Liberals seem to have a view that it's impossible they're anything like the troglodytes on the other side: uneducated, superstitious, gullible.

But it's clear that this strain of thought on the left, book-burning without fire - is a mirror image of the crazy Midwestern Christian fundamentalist mom that thinks that satan is lurking in Harry Potter, rock music and video games and TV.

Wokeness is a fundamentalist religion.
Having been teaching programming I can see an immediate problem with it, whilst it works great as a starter tying it too hard in the mind will require more un-doing when it comes to more advanced concepts where it isn't an appropriate level.

On the other hand knowing the relation is a good hint at how to explain exponentiation.

In the end teachers should be aware of what will be needed at higher grades to use tools such as it as a starting point but not ingrain it too much and try to push students onto thinking of multiplication as it's own functional primitive once they get the hang of basic tables and start moving on to long multiplication.
Did I miss the /s tag? This cheerleading needs to calm down a bit, I'm not sure this bashathon should be used to tighten our own wools. Different systems can both be bad.

Let's relax with flexing our elite 'Western accountability'. It's all talk.
> Do you have any evidence to support this claim?

Seems they have request logs and publish the aggregate statistics. There's no indication of tracking otherwise.

> Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure. Aggregate usage numbers track how popular font families are, and are published on our analytics page. We use data from Google’s web crawler to detect which websites use Google fonts. This data is published and accessible in the Google Fonts BigQuery database.

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_...
Another way to say it is that 2cm * 3cm is shorthand for (2)(1cm)(i) * (3)(1cm)(j). We are complecting 3 semantics: measure and unit (which compose a module, in vector terms) and “meaning” (dimension, in vector terms).

This is why in high school physics you are taught to always write down the units of each number: typing them helps avoid a big amount of errors.

Note that “typing” and “vector terms” are not essential, just helps me express it with the HN crowd easily.
Absolutely! When miners are priced out they will be. If you can make a profit mining bitcoin, you’ll have already _arbitraged_ the pricing discrepancies in energy prices and made a boatload of money by now doing it.

And once you get priced out, you are operating at a loss. Then you turn the miners off, sell ‘em to the next person willing to gamble vs. doing their homework.

Re read that first paragraph real closely. I personally used to have a blog teaching people how to mine bitcoin on Ubuntu 10.04... until I didn’t anymore.

Now, whether anyone likes it or not: Bitcoin has both value and utility until at least 2040, block rewards incentivize mining for 20 more years (19, whoops) if we read the white paper.

Two thousand and forty. Every 10 mins, new block. Chain, new block. Huge billion dollar economy of SHA256 miners custom built for proof of work. That money to pay for all of that is coming from somewhere. Mark my words, proof of work doesn’t crash overnight. It wasn’t built built in a day either.

AFTER that, there’s 100 years of “will bitcoin live” because of minimal to NO block rewards.

These papers are so old and the subject matter is still misunderstood, it’s nice to see people learning and stuff but HN gah, just omagersh
I don't think that foreign institution can have meaningful effect in saving language. They can record its usage, vocabulary and grammar for the sake of future generations of linguists, philologists and maybe archaeologists, but can't stop it from extinction.
First sentence on Wikipedia[1]:

> In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm (/ˈælɡərɪðəm/ (About this soundlisten)) is a finite sequence of well-defined, computer-implementable instructions, typically to solve a class of problems or to perform a computation.

Newton's method is finite too. You perform finitely many iterations. It doesn't calculate roots. It calculates their approximations.

[1]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm>
Is this needed to make a claim?

If I say that someone stole the Declaration of Independence, then I would only need to provide evidence it was stolen, not evidence that shows some particular person stole it.

In this case, evidence of illegal shorts is what one would need to provide to back their claim, not evidence that a specific firm engaged in illegal shorts.
Does the Robinhood TOS not require arbitration to settle disputes with users?
Wow, “can’t work”. That might be the strongest signs of cognitive dissonance I’ve ever seen.

Trivial logic disproves your statement and in 10-20 years it will be proven empirically through disruption from the market (including mini-Apple splinter groups that do exactly what you say is impossible).

SJ’s (awesome, to be admired) reality distortion field was strong and its effects clearly still linger, as evidenced by your leaps here.

Apple is decidedly less innovative than it was in decades past (make sure you don’t misread that as “not innovative”) and others will take the mantle in due time. It’ll just be faster, better for the economy, and better for individual citizens if Apple isn’t allowed to exert undue influence against competitors via monopoly/oligopoly tactics along the way.

Side note: funny enough, your sort of reverence for the status quo is a huge factor in keeping large companies unaware of looming disruption. But nearly every exec that could act on it has a personal time horizon that preserves their legacy and makes it the next guy's problem. This phenomenon, while frustrating to experience on the inside, is one of the most heartening aspects of the situation for would-be competition to take hold.
Purchased tech from Cliqz accordinng to El Reg[0]

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brave_buys_a_search_e...
I’m proud of the Times for publishing this fine appreciation of the great novel, especially in the context of their continuing slide into cowardice. But I was surprised to see its title set in quotes, not only in the headline but throughout the text. I had assumed that the Times had gotten a handle on basic typographic conventions by now.
> They are monarchy

A parliamentary constitutional monarchy, just like Canada. And why would it matter in the first place?

> with well established old-money elite and their own currency

Canada doesn't have these things?

> staying outside of NATO

How does military alliance memberships matter when discussion house prices in two peaceful, stable democracies who are unlikely to be in defensive wars any time soon?

> I can easily travel to Sweden (not exactly now though) but not buy real estate there that easy at all.

OK. What does it matter? The approximately 500 M EU/EEA citizens can. That makes Sweden very much not "hermetic".
By the time it’s in your go.mod, the malicious software has already been downloaded and installed on your machine, though. Damage may already have been done at that point.
I keep hearing this sentiment but it's simply not true. They are already using graphene in consumer battery tech and with the recent invention of the "flash graphene" manufacturing process, production is going to ramp up significantly.
RENAME is a command in Oracle SQL. I see in the documentation that PL/SQL gives it as a "keyword", not as a "reserved word". This means, I gather that you can name a subprogram as RENAME, though Oracle recommends against it. You could not, on the other hand name a subprogram INSERT, unless you double-quoted it--which, again, Oracle recommends against.
The last sentence here makes no sense - this is Google RESEARCH we’re talking about, and the issue is around the suppression of research, the sneaky modification of the papers by lawyers and then doubling down on the ensuing shitshow of recriminations, dirty-laundry-airing and anger of 2700 employees by firing people. Including the founder of the AI ethics unit.

What’s their top priority?

Optics? Or better AI? People doing research are not automatically critics, but it is their literal job in this area to ask the hard, hard questions, this is not Harry and Megan go Oprah, this is technology with far-reaching consequences.
That's an incredibly long time, and there's no reason to assume our technology can't get better in that time (if we are around). Another solution is to move spaceship Earth:
https://dwheeler.com/essays/move-spaceship-earth.html
Not the OP, but I fill 32GB pretty decently when I run my work’s customer facing web stack, database server, ancillary services, and a couple search engine instances. Prior to moving to locally hosted containers my main memory gripe was Electron. I much prefer having all of my development localized though. It’s a lot closer to the good parts of when I wrote “shrink wrapped” desktop software.
In which case the layout may survive, but I expect the "labels" that appear when the icon font fails will be cropped to their first couple of letters or so: not a great fallback in terms of helping the user understand what they're meant to be.
I think ICANN is wrong IMO
Equinix prepping to unleash 128-core Ampere Arm silicon in its 'Metal' cloud
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PipeWire has worked very well for me both as a drop-in replacement for PulseAudio and to enable screen sharing on Wayland.
- You are basically paying people to shit on your own products. Makes no sense.

They aren't really researching ethics. This is what i think is going on there. recycling an old comment.

{ AI Ethical research can never be an accurate representation of the majority of humanity - or even the majority of its users! If it can it is not sustainable for any long period of time.

What about far more stable principles, such as murder and racism, you ask?

They are prone to being overplayed or downplayed, are state executions murder, or justice? What if the victim/ hangman happens to be black? Why should it matter? Just ignore some issues? That's misleading by omission.

It would be better to just admit "yes, we at Giant Tech know our ethics are bs, but we had to put something down or our machines won't work. Maybe we are not ready for advanced ai. Maybe there's a limit on what programmers can do. Yea. We know. turns out computers DO have limits. We'll have to find other ways to make money."

"But why should we say that!" cry all the executives when this speech is proposed to them.

"because it's true, and if we don't act now the company is screwed. And our clients will also get screwed" is the answer of the timid executive who first suggested this.

"how will the truth help us?" respond all the execs in unison.

"if we can keep up the lie for long enough, we shall all long be millionaires and retired before it implodes! We shall long be out of danger! who cares if some people lose money?"

"Yes, but don't you feel bad for all the shareholders? And how can we possibly fool people for decades to come that our ai isn't bs?" Responds the poor executive weakly.

"By creating a fake team and telling everyone they are ethics researchers" they say. "Really they are just pawns to help us earn more money. Fish get eaten by bigger fish you know?"

"can you just help me change a few lines on my press statement?" Asks the first executive.}
Google is by far the most privacy respecting data company on earth. Between this, not using Gmail, not operating in China for ethical reasons, it's not clear what more people could want. Don't use it if it doesn't work for you, but it's clearly being handled thoughtfully.
The numbers are there. If you're looking for a digested summary from the USDA itself, here is an old 2002 analysis of the 1997 farm census. With industrial farm consolidation continuing since then I can't imagine it's improved. Key point here is the value of sales.

"Of the 1,315,051 farms with livestock, 18 percent (237,821 farms) were farms with confined livestock types (i.e., farms with 4 or more animal units of any combination of fattened cattle, milk cows, swine, chickens and turkeys, or appeared to be raising veal or heifers in confinement). These 237,821 farms accounted for $79 billion in gross livestock sales, which was 80 percent of gross livestock sales for all farms."

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/?cid=nrcs14...
As I understand it the sun has another 4.5 billion or so years of life remaining but the earth has only another billion years or so of being habitable. That's interesting. Complex life first appeared on earth about 2.5 billion years or so ago and has 1 billion more years to go for a total span of 3.5 billion years. In earth's projected 9 billion year lifespan it will only have been habitable for 3.5 billion years, or 39% of that time. A technologically advanced civilization will have only existed for 1 billion years - or 11% of that time (that's assuming of course some form of advanced civilization continues on earth for another billion years).

Those are interesting numbers to consider when searching for extraterrestrial life in other planetary systems: 39% of planetary lifespan had advanced life, 11% of planetary lifespan had technologically advanced civilization.
Multiplication is a shorthand for 'repeated addition'. Much like power is short hand for 'repeated multiplication'. Even with imaginary numbers. You can create an in infinite series of additions that looks a lot like the imaginary number.

The argument they are making is kind of strange. But not 'wrong' per se. If you mix 2 types of number systems you get a different number system out of it. It is a similar argument I make about fractions. It is basically physically impossible to have a fraction of some things. If I have a car and divide it in half. I no longer have a car. I have two of something else. They are clearly not a car because they can not act like a car anymore.
John Robbins (would-be heir to the Baskin & Robbins empire) wrote a book examining the social, exercise and diet cultures of four of the known longest-living cohesive groups of people in the world. These were/are isolated or otherwise somehow physically-bounded societies who regularly have members living healthy lives at over 100 years of age (for example, no cancer, no degraded eyesight etc), and in a much higher proportion than is normally expected.

He was curious as to whether these groups of people, known to live a long time and even be healthy in their old age, had anything in common.

And they did.

They all exercised a lot.

They all had very strong social and community connections.

The all ate a mostly-vegan diet, punctuated with small amounts of animal product (in quantities varying from a portion every few weeks, to a few times a week but for only a couple of months of the year - for seasonal reasons).

He attempted to also prove, that taking any one of the above three commonalities away, was enough to invalid the results.

It's an interesting book, for sure.

Unfortunately, it has the terrible, baity title of: "Healthy At 100", and an even worse sub-title I won't repeat. But other than that mis-step (possibly at the hands of a publishing company), it's a good, well-referenced read.
Actually, it's the opposite. The economy keeps getting more productive and this has to be countered with inflation to keep prices stable and reward further productivity growth.
Mars surface looks pretty much like Earth surface :)
It definitely makes Apple's decision to never allow generics seem wise in retrospect.
Don't you think that is quite the disproportionate response? "No tolerance" simply means that bad behaviour will not be ignored, that is to say that there will be consequences.
Yup, exactly. This is also the stance taken in the book Lingua Franca:

> Ethics in AI should not be so convoluted as to require a separate profession; ethics should be distributed across an organization, flowing through and between individuals so that conversations of design naturally arrive at ethical questions. More crucially, everyone should have the tools to speak up and suggest improvements, so that no one person or set of people hold the keys to building ethical technology.

https://linguafranca.polytopal.ai/handbook/agency
Why can’t you estimate the power consumption of the whole network and divide it by the number of transactions per second?
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>But you shouldn’t be able to coordinate “short attacks” or use other tactics.

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1qdq0y5b79rzb...
To clarify, People incorrectly assumed that because the short interest to float percentage was over 100%, the hedge funds had to be naked shorting. This is not true at all: because of how short selling works, there can be more than one short sale tied to a single share.

Seller A borrows a share, sells it to buyer B. Buyer B then leases the share to Seller C, who then short sells it. This is not a naked short, but a plain ol' short sale.

A naked short would be where Seller A doesn't own a share, but sells one to Buyer B anyway, with a contract stipulating the time the seller must buy and deliver the share. With the exception of market makers, this is illegal but ridiculously easy to detect, since Seller A's sales exceed the number of shares purchased. There is zero evidence any of the hedge funds were short selling.
“Keeping the internet open and accessible for everyone requires all of us to do more to protect privacy — and that means an end to not only third-party cookies, but also any technology used for tracking individual people as they browse the web.”
> former co-worker with a personal grudge

That explains a lot, and shame on ArsTechnica for enabling that person's petty revenge.

Anyone, including a CTO, can make mistakes and introduce accidental vulnerabilities. It's not productive nor healthy as a culture to blame someone for being imperfect.

The best thing to do, as a company, is to learn from such a mistake, and improve processes to catch and fix it earlier, before it gets released.

It's disappointing to see Ars participate in a low-ball personal attack, calling out a "rookie coding mistake". They're encouraging a toxic mindset.
I think this overstates what this single study can say about the effects of a vegetarian diet. The NHS did create a page about that study due to the media attention it got, and they conclude:

> Despite the media headlines, the results from this Austrian cross sectional survey provide no proof that vegetarians are in poorer health than meat eaters.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200427104728/https://www.nhs.u...
You waited 5 years to teach programming to your 5 year old?
I think the point was that Bill Gates is believed to be in favor of hyperprocessed meat alternatives & has invested in some. (I don't know the details here - I'm guessing many of his detractors don't know them either.)

I'm not sure whether Wellcome has a similar real or perceived conflict of interest. I did think it was interesting that they showed a lower instance of Afib and varicose veins across the meat eaters...
There are plenty of good substitutes for chicken that are rich in protein, some even complete proteins. Flavor them however you like. Tofu, tempeh, seitan, chickpeas, portabella mushroom, quinoa, lentils, just to name a few. And then there's the actual chicken analogues like Morningstar and Beyond Chicken, which are pretty good and realistic. I am completely satisfied with any of these and some veggies on the side, even without added carbs, although I do love me some carbs too. (Background: have been vegetarian for 15 years.)