skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Millionaires? I have no idea what you are talking about.
Anyway what you describe is a version of the 'repugnant conclusion' except for art [1].

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/
It's very much a global phenomenon ... Above a threshold towns get bigger below that towns depopulate ... Yet with remote work this slows however once satellite internet service becomes pervasive worldwide there will be a mad rush to move to remote locations of natural beauty ... in Columbia there is a beach with a massive snow top mountain which will be an attractive remote work hotspot
Hmm okay this is a great pointer too. I’ll look into it, thank you!
It was a dumb protest. There was absolutely zero threat to the machinery of government in any way shape or form, and anybody claiming otherwise is simply working as part of the machinery desperately trying to rid itself of an outsider.
Now imagine your problem is not smoking or drugs or alcohol but food.

Imagine you're an alcoholic who has to have half a shot of whisky everyday.

But hey, overweight people are just lazy and lack willpower.
Quite a few retail shops try this sort of rubbish now. I've given up saying 'no' and just give fake numbers and emails now.
To the extent that the individual and the marketer's interests are not aligned, the harm is borne entirely by the individual. It doesn't matter if the intention is to harm the individual; a blatant disregard for their interests accomplishes the same thing at scale. Not caring about what occurs to the individual means that systemically decisions will be made at their detriment.

Get put in a filter bubble? Have your government track you for protesting? Get on the wrong side of grey market price discrimination? Have your access to data and websites revoked?

Parties to a transaction that have no power don't come out ahead.
It seems like a tremendously difficult task to declare that a particular individual is an endling. Do you know how a zoologist would infer such a thing?
I went to a public state school for undergrad and a private Ivy for grad school. While there are diverse socioeconomic backgrounds at the latter, people with similar backgrounds as myself are definitely far and few between. The standards of living is far removed from the penny-scrounging dollar-menu-eating existence that I knew.

I'm still taken aback by the disparity in leisure activities; it seems like a lot of people here escape to some international Instagrammable getaway for a weeklong academic break, whereas back home everyone would be fine just hunkering down or maybe visiting their parents for a weekend.
No, I have not ran this by an agent, but I likely will in the future.

I especially think that buying agents have the most messed up commission structure out there.

Not only is their real incentive just to make as many deals as possible, just like a seller's agent, but they actually get a bump in commission the more you overpay for the property.
The dam you and he mentioned is Three Gorges Dam built from 1994 to 2003.

And the dam in this article, which may related with the extinction of the Chinese paddlefish, is Gezhouba Dam. It was built from 1970 to 1988.
You're right. It has nothing to do with it because you just made that up about Walgreens.
I quit smoking over 40 years ago (TL;DR: It sucked). Best decision I ever made. I don’t regret it one bit.

To this day, I sometimes smell a nearby cigarette, and it smells good to me.
It’s the same reason I utterly dislike Standard Notes. It has no local files (that’s a must for a note taking app).
Yes all of that is possible - just don’t buy into an HOA condominium arrangement.
Did the "deprogramming" came naturally over time, or did you do anything intentional to reach it?

If it's the latter, would you care to expand?
> It ruined software like Opera, and was often bundled with spyware.

Wait, I hate ads as much as the next person, but how did they ruin Opera? Opera was originally trialware-only, then for several years replaced the trial with an ad-supported version (with the full version still available for purchase), and then became entirely freeware.
I think it's partly the 'housewives' older demographic the people who spend a lot of time on the platform sharing political stuff they read.

But mostly it's the data and attention on higher quality ad space. We upload donor data and target that + lookalikes.

We can't do that with google anymore, using 3p data on a DSP is both way worse quality data but also wayyyy worse quality ads. twitter never worked for us either.
> don't know if there is any real way we can go back to the P2P paradigm without destroying NAT

I think it's time for NAT to go for residential ipv6 and the numbers I've seen show that TURN isn't required for most connections. Unfortunately universities and businesses will probably never remove NAT as there is limited incentive to do so.

I think the best we can do is have somewhat decentralized networks with limited yet trusted centralized authorities (the need for discoverability will always remain, even when using otherwise decentralized networks like SSB). This could be IPFS with bootstrap nodes for their DHT, or as I have been using to circumvent NAT when latency is unimportant, Tor directory authority to host ephemeral, local onion services.
You’re looking for a rolling release or something like flatpak, rather than an LTS.
So what happens to the half-built houses? Is it like kit cars, where there's a thriving market for other people's failed projects?
I imagine this was about exploring part of the fusion triple product. Which is very valuable as reaching the time/temp/density point for ignition is when generation even starts to become feasible. This article doesn’t say anything about density which is unfortunate. But showing proof of containing plasma at that temp for a longer amount of time than anyone else has (previous was KSTAR I think?) is an accomplishment.
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> Apparently it didn't bring enough of that, so instead he's using the feigned outrage to try to achieve the same. The charity bit is particularly weak.

Very relatable; I felt the same way about the article.

When I was a younger man, I built a website for free at the request of a distant acquaintance. I told myself I was generous; I was spending weekends slaving away on Java & Spring out of the kindness of my heart. In reality, I was hoping that acquaintance would praise me, like me, and introduce me to their exclusive social circle. When I finally understood they really did just want a website-- not me or my friendship-- I got frustrated. I immediately asked to be paid with cash, despite my previous insistence it was unnecessary.

There has to be a word for this invisible ledger that lives in our heads. The one that tracks the difference between our real investments and our imagined payoffs, that somehow wounds our pride and drive us to seek odd forms of recompense
Not a single mention of “iPad” when writing about the OS of the “your next computer is not a computer” company?

For many/most of us, iPad is not a desktop replacement.

But for the rest of the world, it seems its getting there.
Native is now broken/deteriorating because of the web/online first obsession.

I moved house last year and was on a very poor internet connection, 0.5Mbps up, 1Mbps down at best, often unreliable.

This made using my computer (Mac's) unbearable!

When I turned on the computer and it started up, apps that auto start in the task bar would phone home checking for updates or whatever and block until they timed out / got a response. The computer wasn't usable until all completed due to blocked UI.

Opening an application the same. When opening an app it'd phone home to do what ever it does while blocking everything else until complete so can continue with the startup process. The obsession with analytics in apps made latency in apps much higher as I suspect analytics where being sent from the main thread instead of best effort in a background thread pulling from an event queue.

Then there's the obsession of packaging a SPA webapp in it's own browser to run locally as a perceived native app, aka Electron. Take Teams/Slack both clunky, unresponsive user interfaces and resource hogs for what they are.
There are obviously substantive issues with the messaging - however, the piece reads like a hand-wavey bad-faith attempt at creating controversy for internet hype, for an upcoming book.

Silicon Valley is literally built on 'paying it forward'. Giving advice to others for free because that's how you got to where you are today. That's what the mentors here are doing. To feign ignorance of that, and then to wrap it up in a half-baked "bUt ItS Vc EvIL" is pretty transparent.
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After the whole Fram situation, my trust in the WMF's direction and leadership is pretty much non-existent. That told me all I need to know about their priorities and ethics.
I'm not talking about using a NN for oversampling; I'm talking about whether an NN could learn to reduce aliasing when implementing nonlinear functions without any external oversampling.

Oversampled DSP algorithms work by oversampling, performing the nonlinear processing, then filtering to remove the higher harmonics, and finally downsampling again. We do it this way because it's convenient and easy to understand and based on proven mathematics. But nothing says these steps have to be distinct.

An oversampled DSP algorithm looks like a regular DSP algorithm from the outside, perhaps with some more state and latency required for it to perform the internal oversampling. You can also imolement such an oversampled algorithm entirely at the original sample rate clock; it just means the processing needs to internally process several samples per outer loop sample.

Since neural networks excel at modeling "black boxes" as one amorphous blob that we don't understand, I wonder if a NN could learn to model such an internally oversampled algorithm fairly accurately, and what the computational complexity would be.

Since you can model the oversampling/filtering/etc steps as linear convolutions with wider internal state at the original sample rate, I'm almost certain this will work with the right NN topology. It's obvious an NN can implement oversampling.

And so my question is: could treating the combined oversampled processing as one step, and training a NN on that, potentially result in a more efficient implementation than doing it naively? Especially for heavy distortion that needs high oversampling ratios.
On and off smoker here, mostly pipes, sometimes cigars and cigarettes. I always found it easy to start and stop(for months to years at a time). 23andme shows I'm at reduced risk for nicotine addiction. I've got an addictive personality and had problems with other things, but nicotine was never one of them. I'm type 2 bipolar though, and lately I've found nicotine works really well for managing a depressive cycle. I can break a negative thought loop with a nice bowl of tobacco, gingerly inhaled.

I have to watch it though. Sometimes the depressive cycle is really just a nic-fit. Nicotine is tricky. I'm also noticing that, as I get older(46), smoking triggers what feels like prostatitis. It doesn't last more than a day, but man it's apparent that my prostate doesn't like nicotine.
All that really means is that the offspring with bad genes might die sooner, but if population growth keeps up then eventually there'll be enough variety.
One of the rare posts here where I read most of the comments, top to bottom. It’s fascinating so many of us can get so articulate and reflective about smoking.

Couldn’t smoking be considered a perverse form of breathing exercise? Not a beneficial exercise, but definitely a practice of sorts.

Modern (American) society went from taking several breaks a day for breathing to quitting this practice while getting more overweight, overworking, consuming more and more media.
Athletes refuse to talk to the media now because of the antagonizing acts by the media.
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This is making me reconsider how I do IDs. I thought the performance of sequential IDs was significantly better. So my approach was to use a standard auto-increment primary ID and then obfuscate by id * p mod m where p and m are coprime and very large. then i get back the original ID using the mod inverse. Should I just be using UUID?
Not everyone who shoplifts was "driven" to shoplift.

Some people simply decide they'd rather keep their money and the product. After you remove "law and order" that actually becomes the most rational individual decision.
So, the bar you've established is arguably the single greatest invention of the past 50 years?

Sheesh, there really is no pleasing some people.

>For the Internet I could have sent you thousands of examples of such things a few months after the first public ISP appeared. DARPAnet and the other predecessors of the Internet were immediately useful in countless ways...

As stated in the previous thread, I strongly disagree. Nerds like us found it useful, nearly everyone else found it clunky and boring [0].

Here's further context, with the benefit of hindsight:

> ... in many ways, Cliff Stoll wasn't wrong. The Internet really did suck then, and it really was a huckster's paradise. But the fatal flaw in his argument was his assumption that it was never going to get any better. [1]

Sound familiar?

I'm not equating Bitcoin with the early Internet. That's apples to oranges. I'm only disputing your emphatic (based on the previous thread) claim that the early Internet was useful or interesting to anything beyond a relatively small group of people. That was true up until the late 90's (internet "age" at that time ~ 16-17 years).

I lived through that era.... the way you're describing it sounds a lot like revisionist history to me.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv...
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/lets-talk-about-1995-newsweek-piece...
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I actually question the premise. The NYRB and LRB are alive and well afaik. I read reviews all the time in the Guardian.

At a second tier, honest customer reviews exist in kindle. Sometimes they are dreck, but you can apply critical faculties to what people say.

I agree in principle there is "less" than there used to be but there isn't "none" and I think I have bought at least three books recently purely on the strength of in-depth reviews I read online

(they were Ross King: the Bookseller of Florence, Emma Southon: A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Geraldine Brooks: Year of Wonders And, the first two which I have read, had merits and issues, and the review highlighted both as I recall)
so put a check box in the setting to let the power users take care of themselves because they ostensibly know what they are doing
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Thanks- I knew about Theranos, just had no memory of the term "Therasense". And googling the term didn't make the connection clear at fisrt sight, so I asked
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Iran Nuclear-Fuel Production Plummets After Natanz Explosion
The website for this project says:

> She also said it was a difficult decision to include a control group of people who wouldn’t receive any cash, but ultimately, the control group was deemed necessary to prove impact. “We knew that we needed the rigor, because people would be skeptical about giving people cash. We wanted that evidence base that can assuage some of people’s concerns when they want to see the hard facts,” she told me.

Why would it be a difficult decision to decide to include a control group? This does not inspire confidence in their methods. The website also says:

> We conducted the project as a Randomized Controlled Trial, which is the gold standard of scientific research and allows us to compare our supports to business as usual.

This is a very dubious statemeng. Was the experiment blinded? Do they have p-values?

If this project has an associated paper, can somebody link me to it? I cannot find one. There is one PDF on the New Leaf project website, but it doesn't go into much detail.
Rand's morality isn't universal in the sense that it's intrinsic. In Rand's moral ends are derived from empirical observations acted upon under the constraints of self-preservation and the laws of nature.
No problem, it does sound like fiction.
Also a small update, to those who are annoyed by overly draconian enforcement of the rules. This is what the legislation says in my jurisdiction.

s.17(3) of the act:
The corporation has a duty to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the owners, the occupiers of units, the lessees of the common elements and the agents and employees of the corporation comply with this Act, the declaration, the by-laws and the rules.

https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/98c19#BK96
Review: 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at slavery economics (2014)
Fwiw, I don't remember having drive problems when I used a pi zero as a small NAS. I do remember configuring the drives to never idle and spin down, though. I think I used hdparm and I definitely had a power supply that could support the drives.
that is a problem but servers are one place where there should absolutely not ever have automated updates that cannot be overridden and turn off as you are apt to break things if it isn't tested first.
Anchoring. A lot of people would otherwise only have the idea to have two, but you tell them they can only have 3, they might max out their limit.
If you believe that the place placed a bomb on your car in the Us then you probably belong in a psychiatric hospital.
They train you to be an influencer[0] in China. I have empathy for them. They're embracing modernity, not being a boring archaic Luddite for a living.

[0] https://www.dailydot.com/irl/china-influencer-school-video/
The article lacks substance, and asks the reader for suppositions. "Science" will not be able to, nor is in the realm of deducing or making morality. It's quite annoying how scientism is being pushed these days.
>Alcohol has gourmet attributes and is a good social lubricant

smoking was a good social lubricant as well. you can see that in the old Hollywood movies and in real life back when smoking was the social norm.
Cigarettes are also a good social lubricant.
I have always made a separate user with no login for network shares, be it syncthing or samba and never ran into permission problems. The samba config is pretty friendly with permission options. If anyone has ran into problems I might be able to help.
To clarify imagine a funnel. In step one 61% who try smoking become daily smokers. In step two some percentage n of those who become daily smokers become addicted to smoking.

Virtually everyone who smokes for any reasonable duration will become addicted is a statement about step two and asserting that n is somewhere near 100% based on knowing a plethora of smokers, hearing about how smoking effected them, and watching their struggles to quit and reading about the physiological effects of smoking. It isn't a very scientific analysis and I'm open to more clear numbers if you have them.
Amount of memorized English word is a quite weird metric. Quote:

>Ding said he was shocked to hear that many students at the Peking University Primary School, where his daughter studies, had already grasped more than 1,000 English words.

>“Years ago, a popular belief said that for a five-year-old kid, it’s enough for them to learn 1,500 English words if they live in America; but it’s not enough [for them to compete with their peers] if they live in the Haidian district of Beijing,” Ding said. “I thought it was a joke before. Now I realise it’s quite true.”

edit: formatting
Going to be sure to get the kids to review this 114 page pdf before their scratch lessons.
This is so, so, so similar to equity risk premium / default spreads, and even the interest rates themselves. There's no particular reason why the equity risk premium should be at 4% or 6% or 8%. But we do know that if it dips too low bad shit happens. Taleb wrote quite a bit on this topic, most clearly about the specific case of realized-vs-impled volatility gap, aka the VIX is too expensive and at the same time you can't short it to make money, you'll lose money, and yes did I say it's too expensive at the same time.

And yeah, the mentioned finance "risk factors" also generally keep going down over the decades/centuries. In a similar fashion: the markets dare to use a slightly lower number, over time nothing too bad happens, more people jump the bandwagon.

The "cost" of using higher than needed "financial risk factor" is easily in the trillions per year.
And Korea and everyone, right? The us had its racism, blocking of black pilots for most of the war, and rounding up and basically forcing the loss of businesses for Japanese Americans. It's painful to imagine my grandparents supported all those things too, cause I asked them. Imagine the after the war differences too.
I keep on thinking this is like the "washing clothes of goldrush miners in China" story, or maybe the "got rich selling shovels to miners" story: The profit is not in the influencer, its in 2nd order effect consequences, where people predate on the money flow.

Really? These people are in the entertainment business. All those 6pm eyeballs which used to be on free-to-air TV moved, and the advert money followed them down the narrowcasting rabbithole.

The usual people are looking to extract rent.
> Tellingly...the scale of animal cruelty today absolutely dwarfs that of any bygone era.

"Tellingly"? What does it tell? The scale of X (for almost all X) today absolutely dwarfs that of any bygone era. I wish when people say something is telling, they'd say what it tells them, but they usually don't. (It's like saying "Of course" or "Obviously". Rhetorically effective maybe, but doesn't help communication. They are a kind of bluff.)

> I see the modest gains in the population of vegetarians as a pyrrhic victory that would not have been possible with, perversely, the common knowledge of the current scale and scope of modern animal cruelty.

Sorry, I really tried, but can't work out what you are trying to say here. (It feels like at least a triple-layered negative.) Could you put it more simply? Seems like you're maybe saying "If more people knew the horrors of modern animal cruelty there would be less vegetarians", but that reading makes no sense to me. It's a very confusing, unclear sentence anyway.
In the long run, comparative advantage, i.e. the result of capital investment, dominates transitory exchange rate effects.
> Bitcoin is the better gold

Held up by a house of cards since it's so volatile (at least for now). Can't wait for it to become a stablecoin
They'd like a refund.
Yup, that's what Jobs always did, force the environment into his narrative.

NeXTSTEP was a great operating systems, for the time, but for most developers too expensive to build up the application base. I was at a company building a paperless system for hospitals on NeXTSTEP and it was pain because we had to build everything from scratch due to the lack of applications available.
You're going in around in circles. How is this relevant to actually transacting? How is this relevant to the world outside of cryptocoins? What does this enable that you can't get by a large Postgres instance with decent ownership?
Waiting for MMS support, my friend.
Police shouldn’t out as much time in areas with less crime.