skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTC encourages figuring out the price of power which is an environmental goal because if that power produces greenhouse gases a carbon tax should apply. The loophole is the same loophole that allows some nations to keep pumping gas house gases without paying for the environmental cost.

BTC isn't bad for the environment carbon poluting energy is. Energy from non-carbon freeing sources makes bitcoin a greencoin. We need to fix where we get energy from and price it accordingly. BTC exposes this.
I would, but:

1. I feel a 45% cut to YouTube is too big. Compare that to Patreon, which takes 5%. Granted YouTube offers a lot more for their cut, but the difference feels too big, especially given point 2 below.

2. YouTube is extremely untransparent about revenue sharing, so it feels like I'm paying Google, not the creators.

So give me more transparency and take a smaller cut, and I'll be happy to disable my ad blocker and start paying membership.
> Creating money is effectively a tax on savings.

No, it’s much more than that. For example, by creating money, and using it to buy bonds, you can push down the rate of interest. This has nothing to do with taxes. It’s an interference with market coordination, because interest rates play a central part in this.

For example, let’s say you have a business worth one billion dollars, and you earn 50 million dollars in profit per year (a 5% yield per annum). By setting the Federal Funds rate at 6%, the government can make it profitable to sell this business and deposit the proceeds in a bank account, hereby earning one percentage point more in yearly returns.

The government shouldn’t have the power to halt economic activity in this manner, because it amounts to central planning, ie. communism. Which has been proven to be a disaster.
It's possibly a reference to internal I/O bandwidth on shared machines hosting VPSs, i.e. plotting is very I/O intensive so other virtual machines running on the same host will suffer.
I don't know what IRC you were using, but it isn't the IRC I knew.

I would regularly change my IRC nick. For a period, I went by "cassandra" (Greek mythology, and no I'm not Michael Burry) and would get endlessly harassed and involuntarily flirted with.

Worst was forgetting the nick thing and having someone strike up a genuine-seeming conversation only to turn around and ask for risque photos, once they ineptly believed they had established enough "rapport" to do so.
Good updates for accessibility.
Yes.

As a physician, I wish more folks appreciated that “disability” is a property of the relationship between a person and their environment, and can emerge (or disappear) based on changes in that persons capability as well as changes in their environment.

For an obvious example: a patient with reversible heart failure can’t walk without severe shortness of breath today, but they can in three months. Today they need disabled parking; three months from now they do not.
Talking Chip with Ampere Computing CEO Renee James
If you know a programming language, stuff like Wolfram (or doing it in Python/R) can really help.

Stats suffers quite heavily from having to introduce some ideas, most importantly distributions, which can be tricky to intuit at first. Running through some examples with Wolfram (there is a free version which you can in Jupyter) or using the stats package from scipy in Python was very helpful to me personally.
> Books that give propose and meaning back to life?

Ride The Tiger by Julius Evola.

Unlike most of these suggestions this book will actually give you purpose and meaning in life, but you will be vilified for even mentioning it. That's how you know it's good.
Right, but it's still modified. There is no single source of truth.
You can't be serious with that link? That entire subreddit was run by one person who clearly had a mental health disorder. I remember that person very well.

edit: I'm not arguing every single point here because a lot of them aren't even relevant anymore, and frankly I just don't care enough to go through them with you. I'm not trying to win an argument. The information is freely available for all to see and people can do their own due diligence
At some point, you have to decide to either;

1) talk about what you like, even if other people don’t connect well (be yourself at work?)
2) only like things other people connect with (seems limiting, but probably good for the social interactions)
3) pretend to like things others do and don’t talk about what you like (pretty much the definition of the conversationalist, but doing that all the time seems fake and probably unhealthy mentally for too long?)
4) never talk about anything controversial at all - aka the big Corp, how’s the weather answer.

You can’t be authentic AND make everyone happy. Literally impossible. If someone is alienated by someone talking about who they are, whose responsibility is that anyway?

I certainly wasn’t wealthy when I was growing up (or frankly had anything but hand me downs 90% of the time), but I still found ways to get out and do stuff I liked - salvaged old computers, went exploring in the desert, etc. it often meant not really connecting with mainstream folks (who were more interested in sports or the like), and I found it pretty alienating trying to have ‘small talk’ with 99% of the folks around me frankly.

Learning how to connect with them was a skill it took a lot of time and effort to hone - it would not have helped them or me to think they had a duty to not be who there were or care about anything but what they cared about IMO. Anymore than me any my stuff.
Well they had failed to pay “$10k+”, so it seems likely that $30k wouldn’t work.
This feature doesn't preclude Google putting ads on the RSS reader page. All Google has to do is put an algorithm on the feed and they've made it a Twitter or Medium competitor.
Indeed. It should be common knowledge that shared platforms work because the company can make assumptions about load patterns and provision resources accordingly. Some might call that fair use, others overprovisioning.

Mining crypto under such a cost structure would force other users subsidize your buttcoins. Personally I wouldn't feel too happy about such an income transfer.

> transfer the costs to the customers (for example for excessive IO, energy consumption,...)

That would be fair, but enabling it might have costs beyond the plain consumed resources: io/cpu/etc schedulers that take the exceptional loads into account and mitigate performance impacts, metering and other business overhead, productisation, investments into all that, etc.
Makes me think of being in the Army. This was actually a problem we solved pretty well, using nothing other than hand-written paper receipts and property records. It was solved by doing hand physical counts every single time you moved anything or opened a room or box or vehicle, and holding whoever signed for the number on the receipt the value of the missing items if anything was missing.

Granted, there was a limit to what you could be held responsible for. I was responsible for breaking the main gun on an Abrams tank once and the sticker value was a bit over $120,000, but luckily they could only charge me a single paycheck.
Let's shift this one level up:

Simple. Bitcoin is an asset that is not used as currency but provides the holder with certain desired benefits and the asset can be liquidated if needed. Skepticoin is similar in that it provides a financial vehicle that possesses certain properties. I'm not saying it should be thought of as digital bitcoin but that it's like bitcoin, it provides value not only in its price tag but in some inherent property that provides value to the user.
That's pretty egregious, yeah. To be as fair as possible, the author did say "describe", not "understand", but that's small consolation.

Perhaps more materially, HN is obviously(^) not the intended audience for this article! We get a hint of this early on, when the author talks about axioms that contradict LEM -- the phrase "of course" stands out pretty starkly.

(^) Oh no, I did it too!
Order in online extremism can be muddled by nudging collective chemistry
Asking for an image analysis algorithm to both read and understand jokes might be expecting a bit much...
My guess is that they aren’t comfortable shipping any localization unless they can make it perfect, and they don’t have that yet.
Agreed, I typically disable push on most apps because they are regularly worthless and not helpful.
They didn't say they don't have a premium option. They said that for users buying Premium is the right thing to do if you don't want ads.
It's a lot easier to cripple graphics cards than it is to do anything political
Interesting contrast to the general sentiment about another major IE milestone: http://www.ie6death.com/
tether as absolved of all charges, and is under continuous monitoring and audit by NY AG - who would love to jail to advance their careers. Imagine how impressive "jailed 100 BILLION dollar fraudsters" sounds on the resume.

Nope, not a fraud.

Print, lol. They are just a prime money market fund, setup exactly the same way the funds your parents kept in their 401k.

Surprise, commercial banks that lend to you, like mortgage or car lease are actually creating money out of thin air. Unlike tether which is fully backed.
The word is the Lindy effect.
> How much would it cost the Indian government to develop detailed coaching videos by IIT professors and upload it for free to YouTube?

I realize this is entirely tangential to the thrust of this sub-thread, but I don't think the government really should be encouraging coaching (with some caveats). The goal of the JEE is to identify the top 1% of applicants, or more accurately the top n number of candidates. In 10 years the JEE might have to pick the top 0.5% of applicants as the population grows and the seats do not. Making the JEE more equitable doesn't change that - more seats aren't created to meet demand. The difficulty of the JEE has to scale & adapt to the level of the students who appear in the exam. Yes, coaching classes can teach tricks that exploit weak patterns within the JEE. I would much rather see the JEE continually redesigned to be resistant to coaching in general.
Signing Git Commits – Three Ways
DSL is highly susceptible to issues with the physical connection. Somewhere in your neighborhood or apartment building is a stack of splitters and you can greatly improve your service if you can convince a technician to put your connection at the top. Customers at the bottom just have chronic signal noise and speed issues as their everyday experience and it isn't a solvable problem.
"I have no idea what you would use such a thing for."

Presenting graph-structured data in a way that the graph has sufficient restrictions on it to be representable usefully in a UI.

In some sense all data structures are just restrictions on graph data structures. So why not just use graphs directly more often? Because the full freedom of graphs can result in a lot of situations that are pathological for both algorithms and UIs, such as graphs that mostly have one node connected to one node, except suddenly there's a node with 1,000,000 connections, which raises obvious UI issues.

To the extent this is not used today, it's probably because in the end it's still too general and has been outcompeted by all the other UI widgets we have that take more advantage of all the menagerie of local structures we have identified. It turns out that we are generally willing to do the work to create specialized representations for those things. We do lose some generality, but, again, we seem willing to do the work to specialize, so it all mostly works out. Only a very few people are out there working with data with so little such specialized support that they are reduced to working with raw graphs directly, and they already mostly have no choice but to learn to deal with the graphs directly and would be as frustrated trying to jam them into this structure as they would any other structure that restricts graphs.
Trying to avoid illogical things isn't in itself logical. Not accounting for people acting irrationally isn't rational.

Your argument from logical principle presupposes that vaccinated people wearing masks is 100% useless. I don't think that's right, eg. wearing a mask isn't 100% useless for protecting yourself, vaccination doesn't provide 100% certainty that you aren't carrying/spreading the virus, and even wearing masks purely performatively may induce unvaccinated people to wear masks. You may be correct in discounting that because of statistical arguments and low probabilities, but at that point you are making some sort of risk/benefit judgement call and not a purely logic-driven conclusion.
Well, note that significant information was lost in the transition from Latin to Ventrisian syllables (arma -> ama; wirum -> wiru; Troiae -> toroia; primus -> pirimu; ab -> ap; oris -> ori), and even more was hallucinated in the transition from Ventris to Greek (ama -> halmai; kano -> kainoos; etc. etc.).

The point being made is that the standard for interpreting Greek from Linear B is so low that any set of symbols at all can be validly interpreted as a coherent Greek sentence.

As long as 75% of the words are viewed as proper nouns, of course.
Original title was too long:

> Hidden order across online extremist movements can be disrupted by nudging collective chemistry
I think the whole point of it being central is that it's not verified by everyone. "Everyone" doesn't have the force of law without getting into politics, but that "central" body does.

It doesn't make a difference if 51% of my neighbors think the house belongs to me, it matters who is going to get removed for trespassing. That's the problem people have with blockchain, it doesn't matter what the blockchain says, because the blockchain can't enforce anything. If the blockchain could mindlessly enforce anything, I would own your house if I stole the private key. If you need a 3rd party to be able to make a judgement call and unwind legal situations, then the power resides in them, making the blockchain just a database with extra steps. You can make a database open and "verifiable" by anyone (like property tax records) without a blockchain.
This would be illegal within the EU. And I also doubt that many companies are sharing customer data, not because of privacy reasons but for business reasons.
What is the cloth around his neck?
I'm not sure how well it would work for code. You'd have to set it up for each language right?
Nassim Taleb and Stephen Pinker are two very interesting, intelligent, and utterly arrogant thinkers who completely deserve each other.
That's what the one star reviews are for. (I read "unexceptional" to mean "neither exceptionally good nor exceptionally bad").
>To be creative, scientists need libraries and laboratories and the company of other scientists; certainly a quiet and untroubled life is a help

This is contradicted by Richard Hamming in his lecture on creativity. He points out a famous, tranquil, well-equipped environment, viz. the Institute for Advanced Study, where only very few breakthroughs have been made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTybZvds0U
1) I wonder if it's a cost-benefit analysis regarding relative market sizes?

2) I'm genuinely curious which countries you perceive as having been "ignored" -- I find 39 different .lproj folders in the /System/Library/CoreServices/Resources folder. (Of course that's on macOS and not the iPhone.)
Did anyone else on reading the headline picture Cary Elwes asking "An archery contest?"
Smartphone App Predicts Vineyard Yields
I don’t work for hetzner, you would need to ask them.

If you’re asking philosophically: the answer is exactly the same. The line is wherever they say it is, it’s their hardware.
> They do so much paperwork and analysis to ensure no nickel is misspent.

Lol. They aren't making sure a nickel is misspent, they are making sure all of their allotted money is spent. If a government organization doesn't spend all of their money one fiscal year, they won't get as much the next year. In government organizations, growing their budgets is their main goal, it seems.
He's always succeeded (never failed) at not finishing his coding work because he didn't know things. Probably not what was meant.
I thought the same for a long time about Antifragile and the oft overlooked Skin in the Game. Both books are now on my yearly reading list. Reading those two along with Fooled by Randomness and to an extent the Black Swan has made me infinitely less foolish and perhaps wiser.

The ideas in Antifragile are to me an good application of the bets to make in life and love. Skin in the game is to evaluate the bets (actions) of others. Doctor prescribing statins...hmmm...what are his incentives around the upsides/downsides of it?

Fooled by Randomness is a prescription of how to evaluate systemic performance (or failure). Black swans is eh...just about black swans or how outlier events in power law distributions can fool us by not showing up for a long time and then ...watch out.

Nassim can appear to be overly verbose but his books defy summarization. I recommend reading them but given my own experience can empathize by the contra opinions.
How does this tie in with other popular initiatives, ie. right to repair? "A vendor is well within their rights to artificially limit repairs to increase margins. That’s just a fact of doing business. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Want a repairable phone? Buy it from some other vendor."
He’s far from the only person to spot that idea, though. My favourite take is from a different author:

"""An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop."""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Prob...
I disagree, "Sharing lessons..." would mean "here is an educational resource that we have created, as teachers, for an audience of students". I think "Lessons learned..." is closer to what you mean to suggest, and "Learnings..." is more concise (this is from Twitter, after all).
Let me guess, you're over 40?

The following Douglas Adams quote sums it up perfectly: Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

NFTs were invented in 2017. So if you're over 40, it is against the natural order of things.

But the idea of limited edition signed original has long been a thing in the art world. Given the fact that offline signed original prints have maintained long-term value, I see no reason why online versions with more provable provenance would not as well.
relaxing drives on the interstate should be fine -- but if you negligently damage the car by driving 500 miles at high speed with the parking break on, then you are wasting.
To be clear I don’t mine crypto.

That said I think your view is short sighted.

“Crap” may turn out to be useful. Have you noticed the US debt ceiling?
That's not an argument against their points

Edit reply: you actually don't have any argument, I guess then why post? Ad hominem isn't very useful nor informative, especially without any citations
I mean, the days are long gone when pulseaudio was buggy as hell. It is quite stable for years now, so much that now there is another unifying audio stack: pipewire. It will still require pulseaudio for most software (it provides a stub for it), and it is very early release but I’ve been using it with only occasional bugs.
Some context: They dont mention it directly but I think this refers back to this thread last september

https://twitter.com/colinmadland/status/1307111816250748933

(Note the thread displays differently now because Twitter have changed their cropping algorithm)

Originally @colinmadland was trying to post examples of how Zoom virtual background had removed his black colleagues head, however when he posted the side-by-side images (with heads) on Twitter, twitter always cropped out his colleague and just showed him, even if he horizontally swapped the image. So, while trying to talk about an apparently racist algorithm in Zoom, he was scuppered by an apparently racist algorithim in Twitter.

It was widely covered in the press at the time https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/21/twitter-a...
I don't even try to summarize Taleb anymore. I used to try, then I kept hearing Taleb's voice in my head calling me an imbecile.
I think one better way to handle commissions for home sales is to have no commission for the first $x of the price. X being a price that it would be very easy to sell at, a price low enough that the property would just immediately sell without much effort because it is too low. Then apply a much larger commission percentage to the amount it sells for above that "easy sale" price. That way, the seller and the agent actually have more closely aligned incentives and thus motivation for the agent to try and get that last $5k, or whatever.
50% of actual usage. We had no integration between NOC and sales, so we had no clue about subscribed throughput. Also, network topology -- e.g. redundant paths -- made the mapping between customers and network pretty tricky.

I'm talking here about access network and core network, not last mile.
No, that's only one example. Or rather a simple pattern for how to spot some antifragility in the wild (has it been around for a long time? well then it's likely antifragile).

Consider a portfolio of out of the money options, with some short closer to the money options to "collect premium". This is how Taleb made good amount of his money while trading options back in the day (I personally call such setups "a Taleb trade"). He himself describes it as "trades that make little money on small moves, lose medium amounts on medium moves, win a lot on big moves". But this has absolutely nothing to do with Lindy.

A Lindy "trade" would be something like hoarding gold. It's been around for sooooooo long.
To be fair, SUVs are widely criticized for that reason, too.

https://www.wired.com/story/suvs-are-worse-for-the-climate-t...

"SUVs are the second-biggest cause of the rise in global carbon dioxide emissions during the past decade. Only the power sector is a bigger contributor."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/...

"If SUV drivers were a nation, they would rank seventh in the world for carbon emissions"
If you are wiring all 1826 cells in parallel, that means you need 1826 battery controllers to achieve reasonable life and reliability. Plus the hassle and cost of using bus bars instead of wires. And it means that the battery module output is 3.6V at an insane amperage and needs a massive transformer for a reasonable voltage.
Putting Carbon Back in the Ground
That's untrue. There are type-systems and type-checkers which can check for correctness, as specified by a mathematical formula. This is proof assistants such as Coq[1] work. For example, take a look at fiat-crypto [2], a project that generates code that is correct by mathematical proof, and is now deployed in Chrome. Another famous example is the CompCert [3] compiler, a C compiler along with a correctness proof that the compiler generates assembly which correctly simulates the C semantics.

These are based on powerful types as "dependent types" which can encode mathematics and programs in the same programming language, and allow the mathematics to "talk about" the program. The mathematical underpinning is the Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence.

[1] https://coq.inria.fr/
[2] https://github.com/mit-plv/fiat-crypto
[3] https://compcert.org/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...
What's stopping you from taking a picture of a painting and hanging the painting in your house?

There's nothing stopping you, but your print is worthless and the original is valuable.

The fact that the NFTs use the ETH blockchain makes it decentralized. A single authority issuing NFTs would be centralized.
Getting some real 1999 vibes here