skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The claim of the paper is that you can derive an appropriate rational solution for each problem using a single technique.

Can you derive a rational solution for this problem using that technique?

"An investor must choose how much to consume and must allocate his wealth between stocks and a risk-free asset"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merton%27s_portfolio_problem

In the problems that EE has actually solved the solution is known and is derived using similar arguments.

Note that EUT has two main uses, descriptive (how do people behave?) and normative (what should you do in this situation?). Descriptive: you try to find empirically a utility function that describes people's preferences when facing decisions.

Normative: you look at the problem (whether it's portfolio selection or deciding where to construct a dam), make assumptions about the probabilities of outcomes and their desirability and calculate what is the prefer solution that you should take.

Optimizing long-term growth because it's the defining property of a multiplicative process is not a new idea. The logarithmic utility function is derived for this problem using those arguments even in undergraduate textbooks. It's discussed for example in pages 232-234 of
http://dl.rasabourse.com/Books/Finance%20and%20Financial%20M... (I don't necessarily agree with everything said there, it's just an example.)

Empricically, though, people don't quite behave as growth-optimizers. They would be leveraged to be invested 200% in equities to have the optimal portfolio.

> EE does not require the problem to have an infinite number of periods

Ok. But then the infinite repetion where the time-average is justified by the ability of the agent to experience every possible outcome infinite times is just a mental construct without any relation to physical reality. Which is fine for me, mind you.

Still, that doesn't explain how this is correct:

"With EE you recover different behaviours depending on the structure of the problem, both the reward structure and the temporal structure (e.g. number of periods)"

In the question of whether you take that bet, you get the same answer whether you play once, or ten times, or one million. (Or course the same is true when you analyse the problem using logarithmic utility, because it's mathematically equivalent to growth optimization in a multiplicative process).
You are completely allowed to criticise if you have arguments for it, calling whole nations lazy is, at minimum, a ignorant reductionism. Also, it feeds into this weird narrative of "hard-working East" vs "lazy West" nations, the same reversed argument used by xenophobes and racists on the West against the inclusion of the East in the EU, I really dislike this type of argument as it's not constructive and completely shallow, just feeding into a hateful narrative.

How much would you like to be called one of the numerous Eastern European stereotypes?

You didn't get rewarded simply by working hard, go check Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, etc.) and see how fucking hard the people there work, which, unlike in the EU, doesn't have support from the US, the country that extracts most of the value and productivity from these nations.

There are a lot of geopolitical and economical factors for the rise of the East in Europe, one of these factors is exactly by being included in the EU and participating on the free market with richer nations, that propped up the economy of the bloc as a whole... Stop feeding into this bullshit narrative, it's dangerous.
Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but there is a crucial way in which the "DNA as source code" analogy breaks down: Even with an unknown language, you still knows basically how the computer itself works.

A better analogy is an unknown, minimized language, running on unknown hardware, whose chips run unknown and self-modifying microcode such that the same source code may not even produce the same results.
I'm sure that many competent devs don't know what little-endian means and probably wouldn't have any idea of what "register windowing of the stack"

These days "bare metal programming" means writing raw HTML yourself in a text editor, no CSS, no JS.
Thats really interesting. How did you put that together?

I've always liked this sort of thing. Would love to know how you did it
Fantastic blog post! Thanks for sharing.

I always find fairly positive accounts of graduate school to be quite interesting. Without a doubt, you can always find someone in the comments (if it's something posted in a format such as this) with a chip on their shoulder from their own graduate school experience (or lack thereof). Also I find it interesting to think about places similar in impact to Xerox PARC, which people usually admire after everything unfolds and becomes a part of history. A good chunk of people from today would probably avoid a place like PARC back then in order to opt for a more stable or known job.
b-ok / z-library has numerous copies of ISO documents I need to be familiar with as a hacker, including 8601 from the subject discussion.
Hey Micro-SaaS people, I created this doc to make it easier for any non marketing person to nail their messaging.

As all of you know, if you can't clearly present your product to your prospects, they will not buy.

Just go over each step and by the end you should have a clearer view of how to explain what your Micro-SaaS does.

Hope it helps :D

Dan
How to build x86 (and others) Docker images on an M1 Mac
That's what Purism did with Librem 5. Wifi and cellular modem are both removable.
> There might be a small fee involved, but it should only exist to cover administrative costs of distributing the information.

Laws should be freely (as in free beer) available. Laws should not be tucked away behind a paywall or behind "case law" or behind "international standards" that the layperson can't access without a fee. No fees. That's what taxes are for.
Well, I'm not exactly white or American, so your comment is somewhat cringe-inducing.

That said as a X (ethnicity), straight, cisgender, male, I can say I have been mocked in jest, insulted in anger, etc for all those things in the workplace, and did the same to others in rounds. Both in 100% uniform teams, and in mixed teams.

Welcome to the real world.
Run Raspbian on macOS Catalina using QEMU for building ARM-based images
How to deal with bullshitters? [384BC]
Such phones exist: Librem 5 and Pinephone.
> a line by line explanation of what you need to do, why, and what possible solutions there are.

That's where expensive consultants who already have interpreted the standards are paid to explain to you. It's a bit of a "cartel" imho.
It's short for cross-assembly phage. It keeps showing up in metagenomic studies (especially when doing cross-assembly of the metagenome), but it's mostly uncharacterized (or at least was, a handful of years back. Not sure about now). So the name implies that we can detect its presence and gets its genome with genetic analysis, but have very little idea of what it actually is or does.
> Honest question: is it simply the fact you can't use a Gecko engine on iOS that makes it useless to you?

No plugins/add-ons effectively.
It's time for us to find a new source of analogies. Why is it always cars?

Regardless, cars increasingly feature the same sort of profit maximising nonsense: subscription-based services, problems that can only be solved by authorised dealerships, systems that can disable the car remotely, planned obsolescence etc.

There is an equivalent demand for Just A Car from people who don't want to fall into this trap.
Exactly. And they will use whatever attribute they think of.
Fun initiative! http://youtube.com/tedbjorling
KaiOS is sponsored in part by Google, and includes Google software. I know because I have the yellow banana phone (Nokia clone). I bought that with exactly the expectation that it's free of trackers and so on, but no. Apps on KaiOS cannot be uninstalled.
Entirely agree - left to right reading direction, the last thing you want to do is submit the form.

Having it on the left, imo, people might look there first but continue to scan to see what the other control is.
When you finish reading a sentence of text in a paragraph, you certainly have the last word of it stick out, how is this different?
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCccpgposh4.
> and even doing simple reparation tasks like replacing a battery is a nightmare these days

I went ahead and bought a SM-T575 tablet a couple weeks ago. The only tablet I could find in the 8-inch range that had a somewhat decent CPU/GPU, a camera with light, NFC and a replaceable battery - while still being waterproof. And it's not made out of hard plastic that will shatter at the first fall. For all that joy however, it was a fucking PITA to root it and I only succeeded because of a helpful soul messaging me on Reddit of all places.

Seems like the only place one can find stuff supposed to live longer lives is in the expensive Enterprise section of manufacturers for a hefty premium - similar to "smart TVs" where the only "dumb TVs" available are "digital signage" type. And that's not good. We need regulation in this space, and fast.
It is ongoingly stunning to me given all Google's BS that Android has no backup option which will get my apps, their data and the state of my home screen back exactly the way I left it if my phone is destroyed.

I run a custom honescreen: it's just another Android app! And yet everytime I have to set that back up again manually.
I'm sure I can reduce the code size of the codebase I inherited by half if I go ham on it, but it's 150K LOC of poorly written JS and PHP (like, really poorly, I could provide The Daily Wtf with a dozen articles I'm sure) and I'd rather spend my time on the rebuild.

Of course, my manager is telling me to keep adding features to the old codebase. Sigh.
Not completely, but to a large extent: https://puri.sm/learn/software-freedom-in-perspective/
Expensive? Depends on where you are looking. I am writing this from 10 year old 4-core AthlonII (pre-PSP) PC. These is surplus of these widely available for pennies. Will do everything I need except 4K video (might be solvable by GPU upgrade). I only regret I have not built Phenom system with ECC memory.

I am worried more about software. I'd like to have a compatible privacy-oriented browser with governance that puts quality and transparency first.
It's really a shame, I would claim that the Windows Phone UI in may ways where better than anything on Android and iOS.

Even if Microsoft created a Android launcher or fork, it wouldn't really help, because the apps are still free to do whatever they want.
I agree with this take so much.

It's because with documentaries, the target audience is someone who is expecting to get some semblance of truth from the thing. But the issue is that given two documentaries, A and B, if A is more narratively/cinematically/etc titillating, it will get produced over B. Which means that the cost function of engagement will drive a documentary right up to the constraint of "not lying" as it can possibly go.

If you really care about accuracy, don't watch documentaries. And please if you are one of my friends stop recommending that I watch them to get informed about something.
Even if it id, is that an acceptable mechanism for users to take backups of their mobile phone?
This is why in so many problem domains, especially outside technical problems for IT people, proprietary software is the only option, or the only complete option. The best way to ensure people pay close attention to those last areas of fit and finish, and make sure they get attention from people with the different sets of skills needed to do a good job in all of those areas, is to pay them. That means you need a really solid revenue stream, and initially need enough capital up front to get the project going.

I know, there are open source business models which work for some companies and that's true but generally in the sorts of technical problems for IT people. Compared to the IT industry as a whole those are edge cases. They seem more important to us embedded in the IT industry, but compared to the overall multi-trillion dollar global IT industry they're peanuts.
You nailed it. An increasing proportion of laymen distrust technology. They know they're being spied on and losing control over their devices.

People used to dislike computers because they're complicated (they still do), but now they dislike computers because they're actively user-hostile.
Dark Ambience feels a bit like George Michael's 'OLDER' to me, or at least reminds me of it strongly. Nice work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
Yup and they totally exist and are in no way a fever dream of special forces cosplayers.
There is so much wrong with this article... Where to begin...
Money systems are being rebuilt – who’s in control? Web monetization can help
Pretty much noone should be using any of the authenticator apps.

Get Keepass2Android, and it'll track TOTPs just fine. Throw Syncthing on their and you can securely get those to any device you own without involving Google.
During WWII, German prisoners, and anybody else drafted into service for Germany and captured, were killed or sent to the Gulags. During and after the war, anyone who had been taken prisoner and returned to Soviet custody were considered deserters, and shot or sent to the Gulags. Civilians in places first overrun by German and then Soviet forces were considered collaborators and commonly killed or sent to the Gulags. The choice which often depended on availability of transportation.

Gulag terms were often only a few years because the lifespan of prisoners at many sites was short, particularly gold mines.

So, not just prisons or labor camps. It is hard to imagine how 81% or 87% could be identified as ordinary criminals in the absence of any semblance of due process. A tortured confession is not a verdict.

All that said, I welcome injections of nuance.
I kind of agree; I've never looked in a file's history to see if something had been solved previously. I don't recall looking in history more than a week back to restore some deleted code either. In practice, I just rewrite code instead, also with the mindset that I'm a better programmer today than I was yesterday, and that in my head at least, writing that bit of code is trivial.

But overall, if commented code ends up in version control, it probably could have been removed.
I didn't fully understand the implications. Why is there so much focus on privacy protection? Isn't by far the biggest application of this technology in security? (Presumably, ensuring that no one steals money out of my bank account is much more important than hiding my porn preferences from the advertisers.)
Our current problem with obesity and metabolic disease is an uncanny repeat of yesterday's problem with smoking and lung cancer.

Once again, there are powerful commercial interests that fight tooth and nail against any step in the right direction and try to hijack any institutions that should keep them in check. Once again, there are important people who protect their ego by denial of the problem. Once again, pathological behavior has become the societal norm and it will take generations to return back to health.

Our descendants will pity us for our folly, while engaging in something comparably stupid.
There are still people who develop software in traditional projects?

As software can easily changed according to changing business needs, software is never really done. So, it's unnecessary to put it in a project.

While you do a factory building project and decide a point at which you are done, you wouldn't do a car manufacturing project.

Software development is more similar to building cars than to building factories. So instead of projects it is better to think of assembly lines (sprints, kanban boards, etc) and throughput (e.g. burndown). The question is how many business changes come in every week and how many can you solve every week.

Measuring and viewing things the right way then also shows how successful you actually are as a development team.

PS: If your company isn't working like this yet, you might consider getting some external help quickly. This is the standard for quite some time now, but admittedly it's hard to find out what the standard is if you rarely get new people added to your team.
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Because you need plugins on a mobile browser?
Your music is so awesome. What flute do you use exactly?
I produce metalcore loaded with synth / beats:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1KSqbxUwye5HzsZzILWnQ6?si=kh...
I've always felt it a bit weird that iPhones quickly became the norm for all designers I've worked with, them hailing it as a so great to use. While I'm stuck not knowing how to find stuff, it's always hidden behind some undiscoverable swipe gesture. The home button used to have 10+ or so different functions based on context. They way you touched the screen (click, long press, 3d touch or whatnot) mattered.

Do normal users know all this? Or do they just only use the 10% easy functionality of the phone and is happy with that? Maybe articles like "17 Things You Didn't Know Your iPhone's Home Button Could Do" is a sign usability has been sacrificed in order to have a clean&neat design.
> I don't understand how they can expect it not to result in illegal hiring behavior

Of course they expect it to result in illegal hiring behavior. They just also expect to always get away with it, because some technically illegal things are nonetheless tolerated by society.
That title might be misleading; the doc is just about generating transactions without the sender and recipient needing to engage in an interactive protocol. It doesn't address double spending.
Are you perhaps thinking of the CANVAS exploit kit that was leaked from Immunity?

If so, I agree this is a good example, although how 'in the wild' a red team exploit kit can be considered to be is perhaps up for debate.
Yes and as you pointed out, there is much more metadata being generated and collected nowadays. It would be prohibitively difficult not to leave a trace nowadays.

I'm thinking of cellphone tracking, automated plate reading, good old surveillance cameras, bank transactions, and whatever your computers are collecting unless you actively fight to stop them.
Please do begin somewhere, if there really is something factually wrong.
What is the memory usage like on this compared to existing dense solvers?
+1 for the classic Sherlock Holmes-style title. Unfortunately, unlike the original, the mystery is not solved by the end of the story - nor is it likely that they will find a single culprit...

However, the top illustration for the article is not really well chosen, because it shows "spawning-phase" salmon, which always look (and are) unhealthy, because they are genetically programmed to die off after spawning. To quote Wikipedia:

> Highly elevated cortisol levels mediate the post-spawning death of semelparous Oncorhynchus Pacific salmon by causing tissue degeneration, suppressing the immune system, and impairing various homeostatic mechanisms. After swimming for such a long distance, salmon expend all of their energy on reproduction. One of the key factors in salmon rapid senescence is that these fish do not feed during reproduction so body weight is extremely reduced.
> I agree that privacy is a problem - and yes it is a first world problem.

Where a right for privacy really matters is not in the part of the world where your google searches are used to pick an etsy ad, but where typing the wrong thing against the wrong person could land you in jail, or at the morgue.
I made a list for linguistics here: https://gkayaalp.com/blog/20200319_lingpreprints.html

Some of them are general social sciences tho.
That happens on mobile with my fat fingers but not on desktop.
Compared to the absolute monarchy they rebelled against, it certainly did have some nobility. But I wonder if they were aware that their words pointed a lot further than they themselves were going.

The big irony of the founding of the US is that the guy who believed it was "self-evident that all men are created equal", owned men as slaves. It's important to continue in the direction they pointed, and not stop simply at the point where they ended up in their time.
> and, if I want to go to a bar, there's a risk I won't be allowed to pay.

Are there situations where paying without a smartphone is not practically possible? In the Netherlands people sometimes pay with smartphones, but these use the same infrastructure as the ubiquitous debit cards, so it is not an issue here. (Cash on the other hand…)
Out of a variety of reasons: no.

1) You don't want to risk dumping a mounted filesystem because of inconsistencies

2) Good luck getting the right device - in the end it's devicemapper all the way down with a lot of layers (ecryptfs, sdcardfs, bind mounts, ...) stacked between your shell and the device.

3) Unrooted phones don't allow access to raw Unix devices

4) You can't restore these backups anywhere if your phone (like almost all, I think it's a Netflix requirement) uses hardware key storage - simply because the key is in the secure element of your phone. Rooting a Samsung phone kills the HSM and switches over to software key management though.

5) Assuming encryption keys don't get in your way, you can only restore the dump on exactly the same model and firmware of device you have, because every manufacturer does stuff slightly different.
> a more satisfying theory would be able to derive the behaviours from the problem itself

See my other comment about prescriptive vs. descriptive. You can postulate some utility and derive the theoretical behaviour. You can observe some behaviour and try to infer the utility that would be consistent with it (assuming that the behaviour is rational, for some definition of rationality).

EE can only do the former. Facing the same problem, people is not allowed to have different preferences. EE prescribes what rational behaviour is.

EUT and EE are not incompatible. When solving an optimization problem EUT can use the same arguments that EE does to find the utility function to use. I don't think these results are new, but even if they were they wouldn't invalidate EUT.

The point is that in the "prescriptive" setting the EUT framework can be used with whatever utility function makes sense for the problem. The basic theory doesn't tell you either what's the utility of inundating a valley to build a dam, or the utility of a floods if you don't. When you use EUT to find a solution to a problem you have to think about the problem.
If you look at driving patterns in developing nations it’s not the same as in America.

Driving data is cultural data, not some inviolable aspect of the physical world.

There is nothing that stops the behaviors in, say India, from happening in America. Which means everything from stray cows on the road (farm escapee) or people driving in the wrong lane.

This is also before we get to things like thieves who work in gangs during heavy traffic.

Non standard human behavior will become more needed if you start reducing the more common cases where humans screw up.

Side note - I don’t look forward to the moment in this conversation where government decides what patch firms must put out, or begins asking for access to control car behavior during emergencies - the last of which is a fair ask.
I don’t see the problem here. Do we want bigots to feel free to spew their hatred unopposed?
> goes against most existing theories on flow and productivity

There's no contradiction; the whole premise is that those are measuring the wrong thing, that the cost of misalignment and building useless things dominates those concerns. That matches my experience.

> Let's not count our chickens before they hatch.

Look, if you've got some magic way to make things work then great. But an hour at the start, thirty minutes each week, and an hour at the end, is absolutely no substitute for having someone in your daily standup; I've done both (or pretty close to it) and it's night and day.
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