skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is called "regression towards the mean" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean). If someone is at a particular extreme, and the trait is hereditary in less than 100% (biologically or cultural), it is likely that their offsprings will be less extreme.

On the contrary - I find it sad that more intelligent and more accomplished people have fewer offsprings on average than others. While the process is not surprising socially, either there is no hereditary factors in intellectual abilities at all (which does not hold water), or step by step, we decline. Let's hope that technological augments to our mental capabilities develop faster than the biological process.

Once I compared the trajectory to "Idiocracy" (from 2006). Yet, a friend said it is an optimistic movie - since they still choose the smartest person as their president.
There is no such thing in crypto.
As stated above, these are completely optional and only used for contact discovery (and password resets in the case of e-mail).

Edit: Though I believe that matrix.org requires an e-mail address nowadays. But most homeservers don't.
I do not know to be honest. I have been disenchanted with mmos so long I have not thought about them much.

Ask me again and I may have an answer for you.
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If they'd rather do those things then you shouldn't have to force them, right? Then it isn't slavery, just a matter of perverse incentives.
I agree with a lot of this, but I think it misses an important argument for why it's worth learning programming fundamentals: the eternal nature of it.

Think about it, in our fast phased industry, few things have the property that you can learn it today and it will remain useful and up to date until you retire. Programming fundamentals are one of those things. Why would you avoid learning something that will be useful your whole career.

With how much time we spend learnings new frameworks, APIs, and programming languages that rarely have the same staying power, learning some fundamentals is a no brainer.
Ah yes, I think they were called AP(Action Points) or something. But you rarely felt them as a player aside from long journeys and really strong attacks that are balanced out by having more limited uses.

I think it makes more sense to have at least one unlimited attack, though. It's hard to logically justify it otherwise.
Or middle class, so you didn't have pressures from the home forcing you to quit high school.
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Seems like the chat just died, I cannot reconnect anymore.

HN hug of love?
Don't look at the percentage. Look at the PROFIT.
One thing that stuck out to me was how a lack of certain skills or knowledge played into keeping them poor in this position.

If they'd known the salaries of other people they could have negotiated for more pay up front. Even once they knew they were the lowest paid person they weren't comfortable bringing it up and trying to negotiate for more. They lacked the confidence or people skills to ask for mentorship from the people they worked with. None of this is helped by the fact that being broke takes brain power just to get by so you can't apply that effort and energy into improving your situation.

Many of us are lucky enough to have someone in our lives who could teach us these things. Is there a way we can make sure this kind of knowledge is passed on more equitably to help reduce intergenerational wealth gaps?
I'm a bit of a cryptocurrency newbie, but I know enough about it to know that centralized exchanges are not what cryptocurrency is really about. It's more about spending with cryptocurrency (in a decentralized way) instead of exchanging some fiat for it, and vice versa, no? It's a bit of chicken and egg problem I suppose (If I want Bitcoin I need some fiat to get it in some cases), unless I acquire Bitcoin via some other method (like stealing/mining it)?

Edit: Also: Since most people need USD to get Bitcoin (or other coins), doesn't that mean all cryptocurrencies are inherently gold-backed and rely on the value-store of gold? (Excuse my naive question. Again; I'm a newbie).
"Using the centralized identity server is entirely opt-in"

So there are no channels on Matrix that require you to identify yourself before you can join?
Pretty sure the person you're responding was to suggesting that your argument is missing the forest for the trees. That privatized prisons is a lesser evil when considering all the evils wrought upon those imprisoned be they in a public or private prison.
Take a look at the top 100 charts at any random time of day. They’re almost all carbon copies of the BTC chart.
I expect this post won't garner the same attention here. I wonder why that might be.
I'm interested in the fact that, given all the shadiness about ownership etc with Freenode, there is not a single name of a real person anywhere on the site that I can find. Indeed, there is only a reference to ownership by "a non-profit association in Sweden."

I don't know enough about Freenode. Is it normal for the staff of such a project to be secret? (Or, at least, secret if you haven't been following the previous history of Freenode?)
The government is an institution and they lost money. Entire banks were nationalised in a single night.
Neat! I’m sold on that feature. Thanks.
I think it's all the people jumping ship from freenode rather than HN.
Or the one I did : same principle as SDS but cleaner, faster code.

https://github.com/alcover/stricks

Sorry for the plug but I'm depressed by its lack of success..
For our projects, we were looking for a resource that summarizes the most important concepts for computer vision and focuses on the knowledge only, which is relevant for the practical implementation of the concepts. It shouldn't explain every theoretical deviation for a hyper-parameter but rather provide intuition on how to set it and what happens when you change it.

We didn't find what we're looking for, so we started to create it on our own. We spent hours reading through great blog posts, forums and just asking our senior ML engineers. I'm proud to share the first version of our wiki with you today. I hope for some of you it'll be as useful as it is for us.

We're just getting started with the wiki, so don't expect it's 100% complete yet. But we'll keep expanding it over the upcoming weeks, and if you'd like to contribute to this handbook for visionAI in production, please reach out to me! We're happy about anyone interested to help.

Also, if you spot any mistakes or have feedback, please also let us know!

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"Hunchly automatically collects, documents, and annotates every web page you visit."
Because there are no fundamentals.
I think the author's point about stealing has more to do with the way low-wage workers are assumed to be criminals by their employers, and have to deal with various invasive security measures their employer requires.
To all the decentralized exchanges where poor fools have their money locked up to be sniped.
This could be the event that sees an alternative to Synapse (Matrix server) pushed over the finish line by new contributors.
Not fully up on the controversy, but I suspect because it implied the "freenode IRC network" is something that can be "owned" - when it's more complicated than that. (A company can be owned, legally, sure, but an ongoing-set-of-relationships, & mostly-volunteer processes, is usually something more than property with neat property-title.)
FYI, “mentally r______d” is a slur. “Intellectually disabled” is more respectful.

Edit: why the downvotes? I'm pointing this out in good faith.
Could you explain what point you're trying to make?
Sounds like the VC business model!
"The Road to Wigan Pier" had a great bit about this, which hits the nail on the head based on my experience being working class:

The basis of their diet, therefore, is white bread and margarine, corned beef, sugared tea and potatoes—an appalling diet. Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored and miserable, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit 'tasty'. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let's have three pennorth of chips! Run out and buy us a twopenny ice-cream! Put the kettle on and we'll all have a nice cup of tea! That is how your mind works when you are at the PAC level. White bread-and-marg. and sugared tea don't nourish you to any extent, but they are nicer (at least most people think so) than brown bread-and-dripping and cold water. Unemployment is an endless misery that has got to be constantly palliated, and especially with tea, the Englishman's opium. A cup of tea or even an aspirin is much better as a temporary stimulant than a crust of brown bread.

So yeah quite irrational, but it is comforting.
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Alternative theory: USDT is actually down by 40% but the current peg is artificially supported by restricting trades (with USD).
No, she's saying people perceive the poor as being dishonest and prone to thievery and therefore treat them as a group in a manner reflecting that.

To be poor in America is to be lesser, not quite human, really. And our society is built from the top down to kindle that as early as possible, and to reinforce it at every stage of life.
Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like
oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter
to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it
would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do
such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on
brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less
money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A
millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an
unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of
the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say
when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don't want to
eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit 'tasty'. There is
always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let's have three pennorth
of chips! Run out and buy us a twopenny ice-cream! Put the kettle on and
we'll all have a nice cup of tea! That is how your mind works when you are
at the P.A.C. level. White bread-and-marg and sugared tea don't nourish you
to any extent, but they are nicer (at least most people think so) than
brown bread-and-dripping and cold water. Unemployment is an endless misery
that has got to be constantly palliated, and especially with tea, the
English-man's opium. A cup of tea or even an aspirin is much better as a
temporary stimulant than a crust of brown bread.
Yeah maybe true :)
The last year has shown pretty clearly that for presented content, video works pretty well. Heck, it maybe even works better along with live chat than in person. (And, to be honest, for big events I would often watch live streamed keynotes rather than crowding into a conference center with 5,000 of my closest friends anyway.)

But everything else about virtual conferences has completely sucked and anyone running events is aggressively trying to get back to in-person. (With a hybrid component for presentations.)
I haven’t traded in crypto so please take it with a grain of salt.

If someone is selling BTC for USD then someone is doing the same in the other direction. From Gameshop saga we do know that USD takes time to travel between different parties, in this case from buyer to coin base and then from coin base to seller. Unless USD payment is instantaneous there will be some form of T + 1 isn’t it? What am I missing here?
It's down right now
It earns about $6-10US/day, off surplus solar during the day and about 50c of grid electricity through the night.
I have a low-grade hobby of scanning around in Google Maps looking for old airfields in the UK. Pretty easy to spot when you know what patterns to look for, even when they've been ploughed under and are a wheat field now.
It was 1992 and I was a high school senior. My teacher got me a job at the local DPW in the electical department. I was to work in the warehouse under a guy named Al who was an old timer and lost his hand in a forklift accident 30 years prior. My job was to clean the warehouse, and when I was done Al told me to 'go hide somewhere' which I did, at the top of the shelves 20' in the air, which I had also cleaned.
This got boring and so I wandered into the main office where people were huddled over a computer. They were doing a mail-merge with quick basic to inform customers that their power would be out, and it wasn't working.
I looked over their shoulders and it was exactly what I had been doing to send out mailings to companies for free stuff as I had read in Radio-Electonics magazine.
I fix the problem, and the Chief Engineer said 'come with me' and takes me to the (air conditioned!) sub-station and into an even colder computer room where they had just setup the SCADA system to control the towns breakers and monitor the power.
Nobody knew how to program it, so he pointed to a 3' pile of manuals and said this was my new job. By the end of the summer we saved the town millions by siphoning power from the local college at peak power demand. I still hung out with Al, and helped him in the mornings. The linesmen still made fun of me, even more so when I accidentally turned off half the towns power for 15 minutes.
To be fair, IRC hasn't had an accurate RFC in decades. https://modern.ircdocs.horse/ is the closest to accurate client<->server protocol documentation, but is fully outside the IETF process.
Nice try, but Coinbase is one of the most, if not THE most tightly regulated exchange out there. [0]

[0] https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/privacy-and-security/o...
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I think that very few people are actually paying with cryptocurrency right now. As long as it's as volatile as today (and in the case of BTC, transactions are so expensive and slow), it's mostly speculation about which system may be used in the future.
Shaaaaady.

The NYGA report on Tether is due today. Tether is completely insolvent, and once the rug is pulled, all of the exchanges are going to realize that all of their "stable" reserves are worthless and they can't pay out what they're storing for customers, and the price will tumble all the way down as there's a run on the pseudo-banks that can't payout.

Or not, what do I know.
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Crypto is an... interesting market. The vast majority of trades are done by bots. Some external event causes BTC to swing and bots key off that, magnifying the effect. When it’s a REALLY big event like today and people are trying to cash out, the effect feeds on itself.
Bridge your IRC community to Matrix today for the best of both worlds.
The labor should be billed out at minimum wage. The convicts should be required to pay taxes on it, pay some token amount as rehab to the system, etc.

Threads like this always bring out the "OMG private prisons are immoral and explain everything about the US justice system" crowd. Turns out 8.1% of prisoners in the US are in private prisons. Maybe we want that to be 0%, but let's not pretend that it's a serious contribution to the way we run the justice system here. We've gotten exactly the system we voted for, repeatedly.
Incompleteness in foundations is not exactly analogous to your game.

The proposition MyTheoremsAreEnumerable is true but unprovable.

Adding MyTheoremsAreEnumerable to a foundational theory

makes the theory inconsistent.
they should also stop that
I guess my theory of bank run on bitcoin is about to be tested.
No, it's an overtly positive promotion of the winner for the year; hence, Gandhi 1930, Churchill 1940, Eisenhower 44 , George H Bush in 04 etc..
I've gone the other direction. The company has screwed me over enough that I know life is shitty and all the stuff teachers and parents tell you growing up is a lie. The confidence didn't help me anyways (due to politics) as I'm 9 years in and only a midlevel dev, even though I've worked in roles above my current one (senior dev, tech lead, ASC). Most of the people in the office talk about fancy expensive things. If you don't participate in that lifestyle, there's little connection.
The only other implicit criticism toward her coworkers was ignoring and not greeting the cleaning staff. For the most part, her coworkers come across as privileged, rather than mean or otherwise morally deficient.
This is the first IRC drama I'm hearing about. There is more drama in issue trackers of random GitHub projects that surface once a month on HN. I don't know where this perception of IRC comes from. Such a comment shows up under every link commenting on the matter. But it's still just one case.
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Looks like it got pretty owned tbf
I recommend to look at the tether trading volume. If too many people are requesting their dollars at the same time, tether will go bankrupt and with it the bulk of the 'value' of the crypto empire.

(hard to get a site that is up and has a good chart for that rn..)
For me, leetcoding people is basically asshole behavior, on the part of the company. The whole idea of "let's have a tournment where we have candidates grind on arbitrary problems for months as a part of preparation, mhwahaha (evil laughter)" sounds like something out of Donald Trump's playbook. No wonder it tends to select for (often, money-driven) assholes who see it as par for the course, while many mature and reasonable people are put off by it and never even bother to apply.
The implementations might be bloated (js heavy, etc), and the non bloated implementations written in C++ or Rust or so don't have the full feature set yet, but is it really the protocol to blame?

In which way does the protocol make no sense for chat? IRC is extremely complicated as well and a giant pile of hacks.
She states that she was made to feel unwelcome at the gym.
However, building a business is a different problem from doing research. When one accepts VC funding, the funding comes with the expectation that it will lead to a high-growth business. This is fine when you have an idea that has the potential to “take off” from a business standpoint.

However, there are many research problems where there is no obvious or immediate business application. The aim of such research is different from the aim of investors. This requires a different funding source, one that is willing to embrace the risks that come with research and is willing to do work solely for the advancement of science, with productization being a nice side effect rather than an expectation.

Of course, obtaining such funding is not easy. Part of what makes modern academia such a rat race is because of how competitive it is to procure research funding from funding agencies such as the NSF (disclaimer: this is a US point of view; I’m not very familiar with the situation abroad). My advisor works hard applying for grants, and sometimes they get rejected. I’d love a Genius Grant ($125,000 a year for five years with no strings attached) to work on whatever research I want without any pressures from the funding agency or from managers, but there are only so few awarded per year.

There is also the matter of research freedom in the sense of being free from the pressures of short term thinking and "publish or perish" mentality. I am reminded of Alan Kay's observations (http://worrydream.com/2017-12-30-alan/) about short-term research. I'm also reminded of what the discoverer of the electron, J.J. Thompson, once said in a 1916 speech that resonates with me whenever I think about research:

"If you pay a man a salary for doing research, he and you will want to have something to point to at the end of the year to show that the money has not been wasted. In promising work of the highest class, however, results do not come in this regular fashion, in fact years may pass without any tangible result being obtained, and the position of the paid worker would be very embarrassing and he would naturally take to work on a lower, or at any rate a different plane where he could be sure of getting year by year tangible results which would justify his salary. The position is this: You want one kind of research, but, if you pay a man to do it, it will drive him to research of a different kind. The only thing to do is to pay him for doing something else and give him enough leisure to do research for the love of it."

For me, my dream is to start and grow a non-research lifestyle business that pays the bills, so that way I can spend the rest of my time on research, which is what I'm passionate about.