skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no modern Lapham because we don't "need" (quotes because I actually think we have a big problem here) one anymore. Lapham's role was as a representative of the learned readership at the institution. These days, we're our own representatives. It is quite trivial for me to curate a list of extremely interesting individuals who publish writing or podcasts or lectures or whatever.

Now, the reason I quoted "need" above, what I think is a huge problem with the world today, is that by democratizing production we've done the opposite with consumption. It's super difficult to access high-quality information these days unless you're already fairly well educated and have the tools to filter the noise. I don't really know what to do about this.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are some substack newsletters that make that kind of money, especially if people brought a large audience from elsewhere. I doubt many of them are covering local news which is what this sub-thread was about. Personally, I doubt I'd pay $100/year for a newsletter unless it were making me money or really delved into some niche topic of significant interest not well-covered elsewhere. But I'm glad if some people are making a living off it.
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> The "solution" people came up with to this problem was to not solve the problem, and instead solve a different problem, how to have a distributed ledger.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
I imagine the trouble there is that you often pull in a library for some smallish, but suitable subset of what it can do.
CDC study finds 78% of people hospitalized for Covid were overweight or obese
Yes, this is probably the biggest feature of FairEmail.

If your server supports IDLE, it will work well. I've got it working with 3 different backend mail servers, and I'm told by friends that it actually receives mail faster than the official Gmail Android app (which had access to Google push servers).

FairEmail will ask you to disable doze for it, but don't be concerned - it's a very power efficient solution and it doesn't impact on battery. It even works out its own back-off timers for keepalives to minimise wakes.
Nobody said anything about what is "right".

Instead, the argument is that the observable fact is that continued violence has not helped the palestinian cause.

It simply has not worked.

That's not a moral statement. It is simply the descriptive truth that violence for decades has not helped their cause, and therefore it probably won't in the future.
> As a (former) military officer I will refrain from commenting on current foreign politics. I just observe that both countries could gain a lot from the cessation of their current conflict.

It would also be nice if Lebanon accepted the international community's ruling that yes, the 2000 Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon really happened, and there is in fact no remaining occupation of Lebanese land.
or it could be both and form a vicious cycle. Never get a date => become less flirty => less likely to get a date.
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I was wondering it seems like when you get a mail app, Android ends up storing that mail address as an account in the account section of the parameters. Is there a way to avoid this ?
Evolutionists like Dawkins pose that most organisms are in fiercest competition with members of their own species. You and I compete for identical resources: mates, jobs etc.
One distinction is serving the static content on the internet, which results in a consumable API.

This is not the same as running locally.
>Those oligarchs won't be able to print more bitcoin or exclude (sanctions) their political enemies from conducting trade. Seems fairer than the current system.

Sure they would. If bitcoin continues to exist much longer, you'll likely see the larger governments define a set of rules for domestic miners, perhaps including requirements to only process transactions from registered accounts or signed by specific keys, or otherwise authenticated. Any international agreement on such a system reaching significant hash power would fork the ledger into legitimate and illegitimate versions, and generate obvious consequences
Are there any actual examples of innocuous flirting earning someone a scarlet letter? Otherwise, this kinda reads like some "men's rights" propaganda.
Does K9 not do this? I am certain it works with STARTTLS, it’s what I’m currently using.

Do you mean just straight TLS connection at the start of session?
We were just look who, among our followers had more followers on their own so we could contact them and suggest an affiliate model for them.

This information is available in their profile so we were not trying to sneak on anybody's data
Naw, even the mildest and laziest of misanthropes could find reasons to blame humanity for the pandemic and all its effects. Commitment not required.
You might enjoy this researcher's automated high scoring essay generator

> Our hypothesis was simple. If the AES machine consistently gave high scores to machine generated gibberish, we could surmise that 1) the construct being measured by the machines is not an essential component of human communication; and 2) students could be taught similar strategies to achieve high scores on computer scored writing tests by sprinkling their prose with long meaningless sentences composed of pretentious and irrelevant words.

> Our greatest surprise was how easy it was to fool all of the machines. We succeeded on our first try, demonstrating that rather than being elegant and complex manifestations of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, these engines could best be characterized as crude stupid machines.

EDIT (an example):

> We have now used the Babel Generator over twenty times to generate essays for the site, which, when submitted, receive top scores with comments such as articulates a clear and insightful position on the issue in accordance with the assigned task and sustains a well-focused, well-organized analysis, connecting ideas logically” for essays that read like this following opening paragraph:

> Careers with corroboration has not, and in all likelihood never will be compassionate, gratuitous, and disciplinary. Mankind will always proclaim noesis; many for a trope but a few on executioner. A quantity of vocation lies in the study of reality as well as the area of semantics. Why is imaginativeness so pulverous to happenstance? The reply to this query is that knowledge is vehemently and boisterously contemporary.

https://lesperelman.com/writing-assessment-robo-grading/babe...
That's a good point -- and maybe horrendous was too strong of a word. It's actually been really interesting talking to people who come from the Excel world vs the Python world first. There's a group of people we've ran into who have never used Excel before, and for them, you're right, giving them a spreadsheet interface to write formulas and manipulate their data is actually a huge disadvantage.

I think the way that Mito tries to walk the line is by making the Python code visible for the user to see what the equivalent Python looks like + easily usable in your analysis, but also completely generated for you. So hopefully, we're not introducing the confusion of pandas into your workflow.
you can use https://snyk.io/advisor/
Point taken, but I think you overreach a bit with:

>There's no fundamental reason for that enormous disparity in running time

I mean... Julia does full type inference, which it uses to present a dynamic type interface. It's not necessarily possible to statically compile a module ahead of time, because the module is designed to be generic and will generate different code if fed different types, which is how Julia attains its extraordinary composability. In other words, it's a much nicer language than C, and correspondingly much harder to compile. I'd call that a pretty fundamental reason.

Perhaps C was a poor example for me to pick. C++, maybe?

p.s. your "script" example clobbers any file named "a.out" in the current directory.
True, but also the other way around: A less advanced civilization would have much more trouble with elephants, sea urchins, bacteria, and other natural factors than with humans.
There's nothing 'huge' with this claim. It's basic knowledge.
At even $600 a GPU will last you longer than the quality of a similar gaming device like that. I guarantee the games on the console begin to look dated and lose out on features much sooner than building your rig.

If a console is $500 and lasts 3 years your $600 gpu, and overall build (mine is about $1200 new but has features that I splurged on for work and could be 300 cheaper for just gaming) will last at least double if not a little more than double that time. At least that's been my experience.

I would say looking at lifetime value building your own rig is much more cost effective and has a much higher lifetime on graphical features that are added.

As an example my 1070 that I only replaced this year and only because I felt like it was easily still getting me 80+ fps in modern games and supporting new features like DLSS.

I could have easily kept using it and been fine for a few more years with new features and updates all the time.
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As you've discovered yourself once last year, the option of using cash (without permission / knowledge of a third party) is more important than actually using it.

This is the same misleading argument as when people claim that BTC is in practice equivalent to USD as most people just keep it on exchanges (same as USD in banks). Yes, but BTC/crypto also gives you one new option, i.e. not keepign money on an exchange ("being your own bank"). You're free to take that option, or not - but it exists.
Well, lawyers are famously expensive. And time is money. So presumably a sufficiently expensive legal team will actually produce hours, and the measurement is perfectly reasonable.
That depends on how you measure the payoff.
> EE claims that, but it's a baseless claim. The growth optimization arguments used by EE can be perfectly used (and have been used) in the usual formulation of EUT.

The disagreement seems to boil down to what is considered the "usual" formulation of EUT. My understanding of the basic formulation is in accordance with that in the paper, namely that one typically assumes single-period uncertainties either explicitly or in effect (e.g. assume they are IID), and time is treated by discounting - but I admit I am no expert.

That it is possible to extend that formulation is, I think, not in doubt, but we should be able to agree that what I have described above does, implicitly, make an ergodic assumption, and thus the EE critique would apply.

You may contest my description of what the basic formulation is, and, as I suggested, lack of clarity about that does seem to be driving a lot of the discussion.

These discussions are typically made more problematic by the fact that practitioners often use more advanced methods than the basic theory, to overcome such problems whilst remaining within the same broad intellectual frame. It seems to me that the claim of EE is that the basic theory itself should be replaced because it fails to account for many important real-world phenomena, so that even the "what is the basic formulation" question would become moot.
For reference, I have 6900XT. I don't plan to ever purchase NVIDIA again.

> If their workflow has strategic advantage or a need for CUDA, they should not be on the Mac platform in the first place.

That's not all that NVIDIA is good at. You've left out the RT and ML cores which, as it turns out, are completely and utterly game-changing for 3D workflows. In the article they mention being able to "multitask while a preview is rendering." With RT and ML cores you don't wait for previews at all. It's practically realtime. Corridor Crew, who use quality tools and not brands, have a video on this.

AMD has a major blindspot in the pro 3D tools arena. I'm tempted to guess that using integrated graphics would have made no difference to their experience whatsoever.

The Xeon is 16cores. It's okay, but a waste of money. 3D workflows wouldn't be using it if they had NVIDIA.

Finally, 3D software is notorious for being available on both Mac and Windows.
Half of them are debatable and the rest is true but useless.

You gain nothing from using a system that's 12 year old over one that's 6 years old.
Also more nodes just dont add any usefulness anymore at some point, it just more not better.

Reliable is useless without comparing it to something else.
BTC had unintentional forks and many small possible double spends and all that stuff in the last 12 years. Its overall reliable, sure but at what metric. Incidents per time? incidents per Tx? Or just the fact that it didn't die in the last 12 years?
Any tool that uses passive voice as a heuristic for good versus bad writing is immediately suspect.

And any writer who uses such a tool for validation is unlikely to be a good judge of writing to begin with.
Ok, I get this, thank you.
My 2c is that something else is contributing to this problem at Google. Search advertising by far dominates revenue so that pretty much everything else is a "rounding error". So projects that aren't part of, or very tightly related to, search advertising are easy to fuck up without really any significant consequences to Google.

I mean, have millions of pissed off users when you're a startup and you're probably toast. Have millions of pissed off users at Google, and as long as they are still using Google search, and viewing webpages where Google ads are displayed, and it probably doesn't matter, at least in the short term.
With an offline wallet we can just give each other some tokens? The ledger is just to keep track of it.

This is why it will be very handy for African countries where no-one has a bank account but they do have cell-phones.
They are ignored as they've proven again and again that their words are not worth the paper that they sign, that they cannot be trusted. That they are as corrupt as an entity could be. That they are unwilling to make hard compromises ... nay ... any compromise whatsoever. Even when compromise enables them to declare "victory" and free their people from a lifetime of violence.

The conflict will continue until one side realizes that it has been utterly defeated. This hasn't happened yet. They have been defeated. They just don't want to admit it.
According to this, every single part of the world sees whiter skin color as being "better" than darker skin color. This is true since antiquity, and even in completely different places like Japan and Africa.

Well, that sucks for me as I am darker than most where I live :D but to be honest, I have very rarely felt discriminated... when I do, I actually pitty the person who is doing it, because they are clearly being an ignorant douchebag and while that may momentarily give them some kind of good feeling for displaying their supposed superiority, I can only imagine how sad they are later when they realize they have nothing to actually show for why they might be better than anyone else, on the contrary, they are just showing how stupid they are from thinking that the color of their skin (or hair, or eye color or whatever) actually makes them better somehow.

I know because I'm guilty too... why can't we see someone of a different race/color/style and just NOT start thinking they are bad for being different?!!? Given how widespread this is , I think we should stop trying to pretend we don't do it and that we can treat people equally... clearly, we can't. We need to come to terms with this and find a solution that actually works. No idea what that may be, but waiting for people to behave properly will absolutely never work, not when this behaviour is so bloody widespread in every single culture, even children as old as 2 or 3yo displaying preferences for whites.
I feel like an appropriate title would be "I used a third-party service on Instagram and got banned"
That was an early criticism but I don' think it is actually true.

See is... quite adult and without spoilers there are a couple of scenes that I was not expecting given that early criticism.

Also I highly recommend See, it is a weird concept but works pretty well.
The term "FAANG" is about prestige (originally stock growth) more than actual quality of life.
One of my most proud accomplishments was reducing the size of a driver from ~3000 lines of code to ~800. The file was 15 years old and had been modified by many people since. There were conditionals that were impossible to hit, features that had been abandoned years ago, duplicate code, and lots of comments that didn’t match the code anymore. After my changes and a few new tests, the driver had full MCDC code coverage and the code actually matched the device specification!
> That page introduces one tool after another, replacing all those external tools with the officially recommended Redux Toolkit

Perhaps. As person who's never used thunks or, really, half of those tools in conjunction with Redux, this tutorial is quite confusing.

> In the end you are left with only import { configureStore, createSlice } from '@reduxjs/toolkit'

The final code on the page is literally

import {
createSlice,
createSelector,
createAsyncThunk,
createEntityAdapter
} from '@reduxjs/toolkit'

The page doesn't really address the issue of verbosity and the flow as described in the original comment. It just hides some of it behind some facades with autogenerated accessor functions (so, even more levels of abstractions).
> As opposed to elephants or sea urchins? How can humans not be the cause humanity's biggest problems?

Dinosaurs' biggest problems was asteroids. There are plenty of externalities outside of human control, or that humans are only marginally responsible for (asteroids, gamma ray bursts, volcanic eruptions, famine due to crop diseases, pandemics, etc).
Don't forget, it is written in a purely functional language. So they are able to apply formal verification to the code. They adopted recently privacy-preserving smart contracts. They are able to adapt all the good stuff other chains are testing. Therefore some people say other blockchains are just their test net.
I desperately want to get to a point where I'm able to quickly sketch out a statistical model for making a decision, but I'm struggling mightily on where to get started that doesn't include some kind of "hide the uncertainty" shell game, such as how I feel when Bayesianism gets thrown around.

Submissions like this give me hope, that if I just read more, I'll get there, but nothing listed here feels like it's usable in a "napkin math" scenario. I just bought two of Gerd Gigerenzer's latest books, and I've already obtained some of David Sklansky's more introductory work on gambling, but I'm concerned my focus is either too theoretical or too narrowly on gambling (though I think there's a lot to learn in how a gambler assesses a bet, and how it applies to other situations).

I guess if it were easy, we'd all be doing it...
I am running ETH nodes at home, on RPis. They are even participating in the (future) consensus model through PoS.

I'm a fan of Bitcoin, and I'm not sure why the random need to criticize Ethereum here. Bitcoin has enough reasons to be useful, no need to be insecure about other projects being useful too.
Historically when they reach all time high again after a crash they still go up quite a bit (like 400% last upswing). Obviously not a huge sample size there though
"Thin out" is this another word for dying?
IMAP IDLE push support for any server that supports it, good configurability in settings for a wide range of advanced power user features, and good private-by-default settings (avoiding and blocking tracking pixels/images in emails, and stripping known tracking parameters from links you click, etc.)

Those would be my top 3 personally.
I would agree with this. In my youth experience as well, politics in relation to non profits determined if you were housed/fed.
We were checking how many followers had each of our own followers. This is available information in their profile. Only that going over 37,000 manually is not feasible
The type of coding that can be self-taught in a few months/years is exactly the type of coding that guys age<30 will be more cost-effective at. A disciplined engineer/mathematician can learn to code applications quickly and possibly at a higher level of quality than 20 year olds, but it won't matter. You will be competing against brawn and caffeine rather than brains.

If you have a background in mathematics and/or statistics, consider transitioning to data science instead.

If you have no science/engineering background, it would be tough.
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The reaction when this app was first released was that this was so complicated. But I have been trying to mitigate it all the best... I would appreciate it if you can give me a feedback after trying it out.
Are there any guidelines on how to prevent such incidents in the future where management overrules engineers /subject matter experts because of deadlines / profit etc ?

Can we learn from other professions such as doctors on how to handle these better? I believe it's very rare for a hospital administrator to over rule a doctors decision when it comes to patients health.
The fact that network and first to market effects are so strong in crypto is an indication that the market doesn't actually value things like proof-of-work or faster transactions or smaller fees. Sure, there are a small number of enthusiasts and professionals who do, but they don't make a market. Most of the people involved just want to buy a worthless asset and trade it to somebody who will pay more for that worthless asset. The bitcoin brand is the most import feature for that use case.
You're wrong. I have great respect for my country and its traditions, and would never sneer at it. I'm also not for any additional gun legislation.

But for a variety of reasons (some of them not "politically correct" by some measures, such as inner-city gang-related crime), the US has a high murder rate vis-a-vis other developed countries. It's a fact. And why wouldn't you compare a country to similar countries? Or OK, we could say, the US has a comparable murder rate to poor countries and war zones. Or compared to the median of all countries? Well, once again, much higher than the median (~3.5 vs ~5.0). Quantitatively, there's a great deal of support for saying we're "fairly violent". Not "really violent", but "fairly violent".

We were discussing sex and violence in American movies, and tieing it to real-life phenomena, so it seems like an appropriate topic.

I understand why you're disdainful of people who hate their own country, but you're picking the wrong target.
Is choice always worth the anxiety?
I am not searching down all the whitepapers for you, if you truly want to learn then you will need to dig into the myriad mathematician's white papers against Proof of Stake.

Here is one link, and you can find several more.

https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf

Now, that is a PDF, and I do not recommend blindly opening PDFs. This is by Andrew Poelstra, who is a mathematician at Blockstream.
I agree with this, with the side note that simple code is better than clever code when working with a team of people for most things. Barring performance constraints, I'd choose the code that's easier to grok/simpler even if it's more LOC.