skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the top of the paper:

"As the total value of the global financial market has vastly outgrown the value of the real economy,
financial institutions on this planet have created a web of interactions whose size and topology calls for a quantitative analysis by means of Complex Networks."

refer to Capital in the Twenty-First Century :

"The book's central thesis is that when the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the rate of economic growth (g) over the long term, the result is concentration of wealth, and this unequal distribution of wealth causes social and economic instability."

regarding models, in a conclusion of Nature paper:

"Differently from other networks, here nodes have some ability to anticipate the future, including the future structure of the network and try to take advantage of it. Although in reality such ability is much more limited than what models in mainstream economics postulate, it represents a circularity in the model that is difficult to treat with analytical or statistical tools. "

so, participants use models and apply them to change behavior, making the system harder to model (!)
Obligatory "Microsoft Did Nothing Wrong" post:

Too busy to do a long post in detail, but short version is that advertiser's acceptance of DNT was entirely dependent on people not using it. If Microsoft had left it as opt-in but the majority of consumers had turned it on, we would have seen the same result.

You can see the same principle to explain the response to iOS's privacy changes, which are not opt-in or opt-out; they force the user to make a choice. The ad industry is still furious about this.

DNT could have only worked if no one used it, and that is not a privacy outcome that is worth pursuing or advocating for. It's not Microsoft's fault that DNT went away, Microsoft was just the excuse the advertising industry needed to avoid it. I don't think that DNT was ever anything other than an excuse the industry could use to keep tracking people and avoid legislation without changing anything. Microsoft didn't take it away from you, they just pulled back the curtain and showed you the truth about it.

A privacy standard that fails as soon as it's turned on by default is almost worthless and it really shouldn't be advocated for in the first place.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26821972

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24294280

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24289186

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483149
I realize this is a bit late, but Rephial is no longer updating - http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showpost.php?p=152370&postcount...
Most activity is on the forum at oook.cz or the github releases page, though Rephial was once the official source. A new landing page is probably in the works...
Unless those lock outs are non-reversible lockouts, people will get around it. And if they find themselves doing that, they won’t even bother to turn it on next time, just like Apples Screen time.

The locks must be strict, but even that may drive people to get another phone, or just use their PC instead. People need to be taught the value of their time and realize those moments when they are actually viewing past a certain point.

Teach a person to fish.
> I'm skeptical about business plans that involve making value and then locking it away or (similarly) degrading value so you can some or all of it back to customers

Surely it must be paid for though, right? The cost of autonomous driving isn’t the hardware - simply purchasing some cameras, a radar, and a ML GPU doesn’t mean the car can drive itself- it’s the software acting on inputs in a precise way to turn the wheel or brake in certain situations. You might be paying for the hardware in the initial purchase but your car would likely be thousands more expensive if they pro-rated the cost to build self driving into the MSRP.
I've done 70mg Vyvanse followed by 50mg Adderall in the evening.

The Vyvanse way amplified aggressive and confrontational tendencies for me though. I miss having time for hobbies however.

Usually bounce between 240-270lbs.
I live in the tropics, I've gotten dengue before. Can confirm that it feels like getting run over by a bus. I actually have more fear about getting it again than I do around coronavirus.

The funny thing is that me and my roommate at the time just thought we had really bad achy flus. I think we probably should have gone to the hospital in retrospect.
I think you mean GDP growth [0], totally different from inflation [1].

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locat...
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/270338/inflation-rate-in...
You are an outlier, writing a novel from a phone keyboard (and, of course, writing a novel at all). The general public that Reddit targets does not invest the same energy in longform text from their phones. The device you see as a means to relax and focus on your novel, for most Reddit users is a more cumbersome means of expression, and moreover most of them are operating within an app that encourages inane content.
> “It angers me because people aren’t looking at the overall picture,” Butler said. “What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rich-californians-yo...
This. And I started low too. But keep in mind my situation is _not_ typical at all.

It’s a bit big to share here and it’s late but I’ll get back on this
We're in a crisis?
Study shows HCQ and zinc increased Covid-19 survival rate by almost three times
Makes me miss the Rockies
Yes, and your disagreement appears to proceed from an attempt to reason purely from first principles, with no sign of apprehending either the clear evidence that convergent evolution on proteins which prevent water from crystallizing into ice in no other case has produced anything like such genomic or proteomic similarity as in the case under discussion, or the infinitesimal probability of that happening by coincidence.

I'm not averse to the idea that I may be wrong on any of those points, but thus far I'm not seeing anything substantive to suspect I am likely to be so. These are just assertions that you're making, and while your reasoning itself is not unsound, the premises from which it follows as yet lack anything resembling substantiation, which is sorely needed given that those premises so contradict all available evidence.

...and, in response to your prior edit, this is coming from someone who has also worked in a genomics lab. Even if I hadn't, what point to claiming authority on that basis?
Thank you. Excellent little piece and yet another lesson in how bad even “gold-standard” news outlets are. It’s actually dangerous to report like this because major decisions are made off headlines like that every day.
For B2C it is mandated by law[1] §1 (1) and (2)

[1]https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pangv/BJNR105800985.html
Leaving a company you like: reflections on GoCardless
As an Indian, I would reject his MR outright. That kind of behavior is not acceptable

Also, the entitled attitude is terribly unprofessional, no matter how much "experience" you have.
Applications with artificial intelligence for home examination of moles
> And of course it is to extract more money from consumers, that's the goal of every company.

No it isn't. We don't have companies so that they can extract money from consumers. We have companies to help efficiently distribute wealth through the community to maximise the probability of social needs being filled.

If the goal was to extract money from consumers and give it to those with spare capital, there are vastly more efficient ways to do that. Why would they even bother producing valuable goods?
Superposition is easy to understand: when you are looking at a rotating wheel, it looks like it is in a superposition of Up and Down, because it rotating so fast. In quantum world, situation changes so fast and so fragile, than you cannot predict a state in a next moment of time, so it's much easier to use superposition in calculations.

For example, when somebody need to predict trajectory of a car, he will not try to predict position of car tires in the every moment of the trajectory, because it's too complex. He will just assume that tires are "rotating" (i.e. in superposition of all tire states), unless tire state is important for the calculation, e.g. when braking.

PS.

Sorry for my English.
I keep reading this. What alternative do we have today that is as open to tinker and invent on as x86 hardware that is also widespread enough that it actually makes any difference at all?
> How safe is this technology?

> It’s extremely safe. The EPA has done its due diligence and tested many of the potential side effects of this technology. The real question here is: What are the existing control mechanisms that are in place? This mosquito has been controlled using many different broad-spectrum insecticides in Florida, including pyrethroids that also kill honeybees, ladybugs, dragonflies and other insects. Pictures show aerial spraying of insecticides from airplanes over neighborhoods in Florida during the Zika virus outbreak in 2016. By comparison, Oxitec’s technology is extremely safe. It’s only going to target A. aegypti, and you’re using the mosquito to control the mosquito.

Wow, hell of a deflection. I am genuinely curious about the biotech company's perspective on the potential risks of what they're doing, and all they can say is that other methods have risks as well?
Yep remember who owns the WSJ and what their agenda is. Replace WSJ with any news outlet!
> My advice is don’t document

It's interesting to see someone come out and just give this advice, but there are a lot of teams where that really is the correct call. Well written documentation can be helpful, but your documentation is extremely unlikely to have much of an effect at all. It would be one thing if it was a lot of work for marginal improvement, but if there's ZERO impact, what's the point?

People will likely never know it exists, or read it once, get frustrated that the information is tough to parse, then give up, and go to a meeting. It's especially annoying, because in my role most of the information actually is in the docs. They want me to figure out what information is important, and just put that in the documentation. So they want me to create a greatest hits compilation remix of 5-10 other documents with just the important stuff... except you can't know what that is until you need it.
Perhaps, but that doesn't scale well.

My previous role, I served 100s of clients, each with 1000s of end-users. If those users had direct access to my development team (5 devs, 2 test engineers, 1 BA) they'd spend the entire day fielding requests and get nothing done.

So, to avoid that, you add a product management team. And an SDM, who acts an umbrella over the dev team to prevent shit raining down on them from tech support, product management, sales, etc.

I suppose that's the key - if an SDM doesn't see themselves as a shit umbrella, they aren't doing their job. That's not their only role, but from the developers' perspective, it's perhaps the most important.

Edit - the team did interact with customers via various channels, but it was more controlled than "unfiltered". We had a forum where both sides could communicate (though the BA typically did the lion's share of that work from our end). We also had periodic beta review meetings with select customers. And of course, when tech support issues got to our level, we were often on the phone, VPNed into their systems, etc. But, between the BA and I, we triaged most inbound communication, and there was zero expectation a developer would respond unless specifically asked by me or BA (though they were free to do so if they wanted - most preferred not to do so).
React 18 is here What's new?
Solar assets ‘underperforming’, modules degrading faster than expected: research
So. After 10 years in business and THOUSANDS of customer requests (I even made one myself, in-person when I met Patrick Colison at a conference) Stripe has introduced... a calculator. And you still have to do everything yourself - filing the papers and wiring money.

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick with my current payment provider that handles _everything_.

I do admire Stripe and wish I could move some day :(
Where I live food and basics have jumped from 20 to 50 percent in the last few months.

The measures just needed one year to go trough the chain.
That's often how open source works. It may not be what you want, but it's not just a pretense.
I'm pretty sure you can just go up to a pharmacy here in Costa Rica and get it for about 140$ - if you want I can confirm for you

https://www.nacion.com/ciencia/salud/vacuna-contra-el-dengue...
I don't see your point. I guess you assume inflation will also translate the higher wages so that people would be able to pay off their debt?

Inflation will lead to higher rates so you won't be able to refinance or get a cheap mortgage. This will drive home prices down which may or may not offset the increase in interest expense.

Here's credit card debt based on income. I'm guessing most of this debt is a kind of rolling balance for regular expenses. I doubt wages would be able to keep up w/ consumer prices. I don't think people think inflation will somehow get them out of their debt if they're using it for every day purchases that have now become more expensive

$290,000 and more – $12,600

$152,000 to $290,999 – $9,780

$95,00 to $151,999 – $6,990

$59,000 to $94,999 – $4,910

$35,000 to $58,999 – $4,650

Less than $34,999 – $3,830

https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/demographics/
These methods remind me of cruel methods where you tie up a drug addict to stop them from taking drugs, it may work for a while but the underlying problems will likely reel them back in.
You don't need to charge VAT unless you hit these thresholds:

https://www.avalara.com/vatlive/en/eu-vat-rules/distance-sel...

Which at the lowest end is € 35,000 per country.

Countries like the UK for example have a VAT threshold of £85,000 for businesses located inside that country.

This is one of the problems of online marketplaces - they have VAT added to them, even when the individual (small) business doesn't need to pay it.

VAT is a big compliance burden for small businesses which is why every country has revenue thresholds under which you don't need to charge it.
> They're not using C or Rust either, they're writing some kind of machine-specific stub, probably in that machine's assembly language.

But that's what's so interesting at the bottom of the rabbit hole.

Unlike the languages you've mentioned, the ones used at the bottom of the rabbithole, such as C and Rust, actually provide a mechanism to do exactly that sort of bit-banging.

let x: u64;
unsafe {
asm!("mov {}, 5", out(reg) x);
}

Isn't that nice? All the surrounding code that isn't doing bit-banging still interoperates with this just fine, so you can do your bit-banging to talk to a memory controller and then... return a freshly allocated chunk of RAM to the rest of the high level code which has whizzy generic types and whatever.

Because of Rust's safety rules we're obliged to explicitly flag that we know the compiler can't check our work. If this was serious work, we'd want to provide a comment for humans explaining why this is both necessary and safe, but in this toy example the answer is "No reason at all" so that's redundant.

In C, partly due to lack of name spacing, the mechanism is compiler-specific (of course today Rust is effectively wedded to LLVM so for now this is a difference without practical distinction). And there's no safety oversight, you're no more or less at risk when trying to make yet another linked list than when bit-banging. But otherwise it's very similar.
Haha, this is peak 2021
fat-free sugar & sugar-free lard
I don't think you should have. The HN guidelines say

>[...] use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

While it being vegan is kind of beside the point, I wouldn't say that it's misleading.
It would be nice to just look at the science without denoising the HCQ boosterism by the right (Trump was right!) and the demonization of HCQ by the left (Fauci was right!). This has really muddled the issue, but thankfully, only in the US. The rest of the world seems to be carrying on (edit: study was done in NJ).

Also, just like Vit. D, the science of disentangling the causal power of HCQ in various combos seems very hard. I think this issue will be debated for a very long time.
What Is a Good File Size for Pitch Deck Presentations?
Yeh Back in 94 I and another developer got flown up to Edinburg and delivered using RAD/DSDM in a month what a another traditional team said would take 2 years.

One of the other ideas at the times was a custom BT version of HTML - that got stamped on very had by the Labs thank god.
I'm sure people had the same things to say about computers that required the space of entire rooms in the 40s.

"That's nice but we'll never be able to scale this down any more."
Because the only way to imagine a useful comparison between these fields can be made is to be profoundly ignorant of at least one of them.
This should probably be illegal. One could argue it's beneficial for renters i.e. 'free market' but what this really is is the financial system and especially the federal reserve enabling funds to leverage themselves over the middle class.

Only so many equities they can buy, have to get out of cash, buy homes and big against other people.

It also may be another sign of inflation.
Judgement in Maya Forstater’s successful appeal [pdf]
A bit weird but there's at least an argument that there's some wear and tear associated with using the rooms and, presumably, the landlord thought that the slightly cheaper/smaller apartment--with a possible upsell--was more rentable.
It happens. Trust me. I'd still be doing it if I weren't getting increasingly pissed how Schedule 2 turns you into a second class citizen effectively in the United States.

(You can't fill across State lines anymore, and insurance puts up astronomical red tape to dispensing more than a month at a time thanks to DEA quantity limits.)
If I buy hardware, it's mine, and I'll figure out a way to take ownership of the hardware I've been sold. One way or another, every artificial limitation shimmed into in every piece of hardware goes down in flames.
There have been dormant spores found in amber over 20 million years old that have been revived.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/268/5215/1265
Magento 2 Partial Payment
If you lay all the relevant evidence at the cops feet they are going to be a lot more likely to carry though with the final step of arresting the person.
Magento 2 Partial Payment by Meetanshi lets customers make a purchase with installment payments, layaway price plans, EMIs, etc
I see two angles on this.

1. A self-driving car will need lots of experience to get good. The way to get this experience is to get it to drive as many miles as possible, thus you want to make the marginal cost zero.

2. A self-driving car needs software maintenance and possibly remote control. It needs a recurring revenue stream to pay for the first and should pay-as-you-go for the second.

Technical factors apply.

At least in the US I think any kind of cellular-based V2X communication is a pipe dream. Carriers love the idea that you'd have another expensive subscription for your car, but they aren't interested in the investment to get sufficient network coverage. (E.g. how much more has Verizon spent touting the millimeter waver 'hotspots' that have in a few cities than on actually building them out?)

Carmakers could probably afford to front you $2000 worth of hardware (video-based self-driving system) but it's unimaginable that they could afford to put a LIDAR in (costs as much the engine) and expect to get paid for it in dribs and drabs.
TSMC Reaches 60% of This Year’s Budget as Part of the US$100 Bn Plan
Abusing Sip for Cross-Site Scripting? Most Definitely
> Everything in product development these days is about connectivity. One company just came out with a new silent smoke alarm. When it detects smoke it sends you a text, tweets your friends, and posts a picture of the fire on facebook.

I must be too cynical to believe that's not a joke, but real.
Thank you, that was my first question from reading the headline.
Vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms (2018)
This idea that oil is on its way out is truly laughable. In fact, cancelling this pipeline might do far more harm than good.

Simple exercise:

- Fire-up Excel
- Model a future with 100 million electric cars
- Determine how much power (not energy) will be required to plug them in every day

Now answer a simple question: Were is this energy going to come from?

Then realize that the oil economy goes way beyond just fuel. This is a complex problem with an almost unlimited number of variables.

For example, the buttons and the cloth of the shirt you are wearing are likely made with oil byproducts. The same is the case for parts of the sewing machines, tools, computers and even the building where it was made. The machines required oil-based lubricants. The factory used other oil-based products, such as release agents and other chemicals. The people who work there, in turn, could not live or even get to work, without myriad products made from or that require oil derivatives. And then there’s the vehicles, transportation and communications systems, all of which depend on oil for materials (plastics) and fuel.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Ignoring reality does not lead to better outcomes.

Go back to power required to charge 100 million vehicles. Given our current energy infrastructure we would have to burn astronomical quantities of everything we can burn in order to support “clean” transportation. Either that or we have to start building nuclear power plants at a pace and a scale never before seen.

Not saying this pipeline saves the world. I am simply suggesting we are failing to exercise critical thinking and, because of this, tend to focus on the wrong problems.

It is far easier for politicians to sell “pipeline = evil) than to discuss the energy realities of all-electric transportation at scale.

One gets you votes. The other one gets you voted out. And that’s how we end-up on the wrong path.
Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward
Videoconferencing tooling is still awful.

Bad latency, pixelated screensharing, frequent issues with sound and video. On top of that hardware problems with bad microphone setups, cross talk, etc.

I hope that at some point someone is going to show up and take this seriously. Treat it like a medical service, or a least close to. But I'm not holding my breath. I believe it was least year that I read that John Carmack had measured the latency of his cell phone and found it to in the vicinity of 700 ms.
No, they aren’t.

That “buying an entire neighborhood in a single transaction” thing is misleading.

It was designed from the very beginning to be sold in a single transaction, much like apartment towers in the city are designed, built, and then sold.

A “normal” housing development sells individual houses one at a time, usually far in advance of the house being built. You can’t sell the whole thing at once unless you planned to do that at the very beginning of the project.
So, is this item merely about the fun email battle, or is the "Choudhary Algorithm" interesting?
Plug-in GCs like Boehm I guess.
If you had no KPIs and no meetings how did you know what to work on and what the company needed? Osmosis?