skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. "no bias is eliminated at first place, since the algorithm is still man made" -

This is a straw man. if specific criteria are being automatically evaluated bias is most certainly reduced (if not eliminated).

2. "especially if the input relies on computer vision" - evaluation criteria can be infinitely improved upon

3. "neither you or I have read the code" -
I highlighted transparency concerns in my original comment

4. Unavoidable, unintentional implementation flaws (bugs) are expected but so are fixes and continuous improvements.

I would certainly trust an algorithm to make a decision about my employment over an unpredictable, flawed, and (often times) incompetent human management
There's actually a small Spanish company, Zero 2 Infinity, pursuing that seriously for small satellite launch and I was sort of surprised not to see them mentioned in the article. As other replies mention, you don't save much in terms of overall energy by launching form higher up. However, there are three big pluses to launching from high up in the atmosphere.

First, rocket engines are more efficient when they run in a vacuum than when they run at sea level. With SpaceX's Merlin rockets one running at sea level has an ISP of 282 but a vacuum optimized Merlin running in space has an ISP of 348 giving it almost a quarter more impulse for the same fuel expenditure.

Second, you don't waste fuel fighting drag as you work your way up through the atmosphere. That can easily be 100s of m/s of delta-v wasted.

Finally, launching higher up means saving weight on the rocket structures. You can make your rocket more nearly spherical and save weight on tank area. You can use a lighter tank structure since air resistance forces aren't an issue. And you can light your stages in parallel rather than series because they don't have to be stacked on top of each other or be optimized for different pressures.

https://www.zero2infinity.space/
An open source replacement for Android just can't put in the same level of effort as the entire Android ecosystem does, so LineageOS is at a fundamental disadvantage.

If I am going to go with a different OS than Android, I'll get a Librem so I'm paying the company that made the hardware AND software, with incentives aligned for me to be a supported, acknowledged user.
Hi do you have any book/video talking about skaters in data center? I checked Youtube and only found one for switch board. Thanks!
To be fair illegal is not the same as immoral. For example, cryptocurrencies can also be used to transfer money out of financial system controlled by oppressive regime which is largely a positive use. The problem is that "oppressive regime" is a matter of opinion and therefore these transfers are indistinguishable from tax evasion and other financial crimes. Techno-libertarians see that as a feature, I think most of the rest of us see that as a bug. There is no economic or technical solution there. It is almost exclusively an issue of personal politics.
It appears that the molecules on the page are generated with a machine learning algorithm trained on a small organic molecules dataset that is heavily biased towards cyclic, particular nitrogen heterocyclic, structures (I only sampled about 40 of them, so it could also have just been my luck).

The model seems to have learnt chemistry pretty well because, as many have already pointed out, most of the molecules generated do actually exist (or are extremely likely accessible if they haven't already been documented). Even the ones with strange bond angles have otherwise perfectly normal number of bonds. The only time where I get molecules that cannot possibly exist are those with overlapping atoms that just defy known physics.

Addendum: it is worth noting that the model might actually have been trained with data that contain bond lengths, or even spatial information if no post-generation geometry optimisation is performed before a molecule is rendered.
If you use TSX don't apply the update. If you never used TSX it doesn't matter.
If you work at the same company on the same product don’t you both have the same end goal?
You are aware that the vast majority of financial market trading is run by algorithms that govern not advise vast amounts of capital in an irreversible way.

Sometime these algorithms break or are exploited. Often in spectacular disasters. Knight lost half a billion dollars in 30 seconds. Nobody reversed though, even though it was clear error.

If you have a 401k I guarantee you that a significant amount of your money was traded by an algorithm that if broken would have lost everything. If the question is whether people would ever trust capital to irreversible algorithms, the answer is they already do. It’s called the stock market.
Happy to reinstate you but we need you to pick a different username first!

I've restored your recent comments which are fine for HN but I don't want to unban you without renaming the account because then I'll forget that we still need to do that.
I do have type 1 diabetes, and I lived on R/L for over a decade. The point being made here is

> The high price of tier 1 insulins is killing people

Is (more or less) a lie. While

> The high price of tier 1 insulins is making people's lives considerably worse and their diabetes harder to manage.

Is (more or less) true.

When you try to push for change and use, as part of your argument, a lie, you sabotage yourself. People can point at what you're saying and, ignoring the validity of what you're trying to achieve, say "you're lying". That's bad.

The truth is that there are good reasons why tier 1 insulins should not cost as much as they do, not by a long shot. And destroying your own progress towards changing things is counter productive. Just don't do it.
First one I pulled up I recognized as actually existing. Seems like they need a blacklist of real chemicals?
I had no idea about this, thanks!

It's surprisingly hard to set up good images in a hand-coded-in-vim website. You're supposed to include multiple image sizes and set up the code for loading each in HTML. So what could have been simply adding an <img> tag now turns into a chore involving ImageMagick.
That sounds irrelevant to my point that MCOs do not make a lot of profit.
Hear, hear!

Now we just need HN to follow suit.

There’s nothing wrong with editorializing comment sections. Not every comment section on the web needs to encourage voices from every side in the name of free speech.

I think websites perhaps should start to create “comment section covenant” that outline how subjects are handled. Ie

No ad hominem

No misinformation

No conspiracies

All comments failing will be deleted

Etc etc
>Literally every day you trust your life, privacy and money to algorithms that make decisions without human intervention. The financial system trades trillions of dollars in automated systems that make split-second decisions in a way that precludes human supervision.

... but when that stuff goes wrong, which it does, we don't just say "geez that's too bad, the code is the code".

Look at the 2010 flash crash: something like 20,000 trades were broken after discussion between FINRA and the exchanges based on how far they were from the reference price.

Similarly, I don't end up eating the entire loss if my bank's anti-fraud system mistakenly approves a transaction on a stolen credit card, because I have 60 days from the statement date to report the problem under the FCBA.

The point is that in most cases where physics is not involved (e.g. flight control systems), the real-time behavior of the systems is backstopped by processes to deal with exceptions in a slower, more considered way.
As an introvert myself, I found the book “Quiet” by Susan Cain to be an excellent read on the differences, strengths, and weaknesses of introverts vs extroverts.
It's not a hypothesis though, there's nothing that we can test in it. As presented, it's an assertion that has zero evidence to support it. That's the part I was hoping to get some actual clarification and precision on. When discussing machine learning, bias is a term that has a quantifiable definition in it's different contexts....boring doesn't. It's just FUD to snipe this kind of work with some kind of 'bias' fear without any additional evidence or thought.
How cheap is the cheap option?

I found some references for "old" versions that claim price increase from $17 in 1997 to $138 today, another from $21 to $255.

Going by inflation only those would be around $30-40.

I don't know how much a typical diabetic needs per month (I imagine it varies) but I could see that being a problem for a lot of people if that is, say a monthly supply.
There's one restriction you should do, trim spaces from the start and end of a password (or any input field, for that matter, unless there's a good reason not to). People copy/pasting from emails or Word documents are good at accidentally picking up spaces.
Do people who had SafeDollar have control over their own money? Did the people whose money got locked in the DAO because of a software bug have control over their own money?

> How about if I transact only in crypto (Monolith card), now every purchase I make is via crypto

Do you in fact do this?

> nothing different to using a bank card with US dollars backing it

There certainly is if you read Monolith's fine print, and it's wildly disingenuous to pretend otherwise:

The Monolith account and Visa Debit Card are electronic money products which are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme or the Deposit Insurance System of the Republic of Lithuania. The funds will be safeguarded by Contis Financial Services Ltd or UAB „Finansinės paslaugos „Contis“. For any disputes, the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Bank of Lithuania consumers disputes resolutions institution are available.
Well maybe it’s time to start protesting?

What always amazes me is how much this is tolerated in the “Land of the free”. At what point do Americans stand up for democratic principles?

This pathetic “we can’t do anything” attitude will be how democracy dies.

If my electoral district was gerrymandered or corporate donations through PACs we’re allowed in Canada I would be planning protests instead of typing this. Our system is far from perfect, but I have a hard time imagining a scenario in which the public here would passively accept many of the things we can see to the South.

Why is there so much apathy towards these issues?

Shouldn’t the fairness of the democratic system in the US be the #1 issue for both Democrats and Republicans?
> I think you're missing the fact that Windows does offer a lot on the home front. Games and stuff like HTPC are just better on Windows.

Well, yes, if you have any software that is must-have and it's only available for (or best on) one OS, that'll be what you choose.

Incidentally, I'd not put Windows at the top of my list for HTPC. Probably 3rd or 4th under Linux and Android (if I didn't want to pay anything for the OS and wanted more of an appliance, or if I were using anything short of a quite beefy computer—Win10 is high overhead and uses tons of disk) and macOS (if I wanted a desktop experience on the TV and for most advanced media stuff to probably Just Work without having to mess with config files—old Mac Minis are great for this), unless I was also trying to PC-game on a TV.
100% this. Maybe I've missed something in their documentation, but it's been incredibly frustrating getting their ads to not kill performance
How is that different from M-Pesa or Venmo? The difference is that no one has shown up yet in that particular location to set those up, but someone did come set up Bitcoin infra in El Salvador.

Still, the ease of spending crypto in El Salvador, great as it is, does not prove it's safe and that everyone won't get hacked and robbed.
Men and Women are having fewer babies because they're ground in the rat-race blender...
The crypto movement in South America is growing explicitly because people are increasingly not trusting their banks and government to protect their fiat. I've never heard of Zelle and not everyone has access to a clandestine US account, while anyone can buy open a crypto wallet and get some DAI.
The story goes that when Masienda's Oaxacan corn reaches the taco griddle at an upscale Mexican restaurant, the aroma makes the Mexican staff tear up with childhood memories.

The upscale restaurant was making tortillas before. One variable changed: the corn source.

I cook from all over the world. When can I beat a Michelin restaurant? It's like chess; you've got to go with what pieces are in positions you can exploit.

Tortillas freshly griddled from masa freshly ground from nixtamal made from Masienda corn is like having a queen in the center of the board. I'm focused on Mexican for this reason, and this reason alone. You must be doing it wrong?
You can get a smooth product from a food processor if you are willing to do it in small batches, very slowly (I take around 5 minutes to process 1 cup of nixtamal in my 11-cup food processor, with pauses to scrape it down). I can do that without adding too much water (and in fact I have to add more water after I'm done processing).

I also bought from Masienda; they are indeed great!
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The difference is you can't use dollars to do digital transactions. Good luck with sending a suitcase full of cash to SatoshiDice. Even better luck getting a suitcase back.

The only value add for crypto right now is that it's pseudoanonymous and you can use it for black market transactions. Other than that why not just use Venmo or CashApp?
I had a mathematics teacher in high school who had a line about the Romans: "The biggest impact the Romans had on mathematics was killing Archimedes."

The biggest impact Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, had on the technology community is killing Near and so many others by standing behind these sites. This is the principle for which he stands.
Amiga may have had some overlapping windows within a screen but it also had multiple screens with significantly restricted arrangement options, if memory serves me right.
> They are more responsible for the extreme cost of healthcare in the US than any other political faction

I await the explanation of your model revealing the drivers of healthcare costs and connecting them to predominately Dem responsibility with baited breath, nigh weeping for hope of policy-capable leftists in the meanwhile.

> Mandatory insurance

You know that's how socialized insurance works at one level or another, right?

> COBRA payouts

Is this a mantra or a point?

> Did you know Gretchen Whitmer’s dad was the CEO of BlueCross?

This is definitely not a point.

> the party of the health industrial complex.

As long as we consider approach healthcare primarily as an industry, yeah, there's going to be industrial interests tangled up with it. Should we do it some other way? Maybe. In which party do you think that conversation is even possible?
> There are incredibly talented musicians out there that can’t even afford rent and genius mathematicians are rarely seen purchasing a yacht.

Sorry, but anecdotes are really problematic (i.e. useless) when evaluating correlation between variables.

Research puts IQ - income correlation to around 0.4, if my memory serves.
Or where you do the equivalent of stuffing cash under your mattress by hiding the password to your cryptowallet inside a safe, or using one of the various incantations of writing your password on a post-it note.

Sure, the vast potential of reward justifies the added risk. But I'm also not in the US, I'm not rabidly anti-government, and I don't want to store my money under my floorboards. Good, old-fashioned, regulated banks serve a valuable purpose.
The backstop needs to be humans.

The rest of the world doesn't want to lose millions due to an exceptional condition in a contract that wasn't apparent on audit.

That isn't how the law works, and that's a good thing.

When it comes to contract disputes you ultimately wind up before a human with hopefully decades of experience trained by a system with centuries of experience which can deploy some level of nuance.

Which is not how geeks think the legal system works. Or if they do understand it works that way they feel that it is flawed. That isn't a flaw, that's a feature.

Sometimes it goes wrong. But if you're ever the beneficiary of a judge going "yeah that contract term was always bullshit. you think you're clever, but i wasn't born yesterday. nullified." then you'll appreciate it.
Ok, I've unbanned your account. Please stick to the guidelines in the future and all should be fine :)
I generally run Windows Server. It's got less "stickiness" and bloat in general. I assume that the 2022 version won't require the user of a MSFT login.
People have been making that type of money at Apple before the pandemic, so nothing has changed.

Also, Apple is making everyone return to the office 3x per week. So much for the Rise of the Introverts...
> but less policing has resulted in a much higher murder rate in 2020 and 2021 than in prior years.

It's a very bold claim that the rise in murders is directly a result of "less policing". Can you provide any evidence to support that?
This is one reason cash is being phased out in many countries. It took me most of a week to deposit money on my account -- the bank literally would not take my money! They told me to find a machine, and they were either out of order, removed, or did not take cash.

Well, that's the noble explanation. Another consequence is they can now have an electronic record of every single purchase almost every citizen makes.
First impressions:

* It's free and open source!

* It has examples in R

* It makes heavy use of simulation, which I feel is a very good way to teach statistics. For most non-mathematical folks, this approach is much more intuitive than formal methods.

* It is an introductory book. I'd expect modern statistics to contain multilevel (mixed) regression models and perhaps bayesian approaches, but that's left for other books. Fair enough.
Have you directly compared the live version against that in the AMP Cache?

The idea that PSI preloads the page before starting the test doesn't make much sense at all, and doesn't mesh with my own experiences (in the same space).
> If you are working a w2 job and paying taxes and paying your mortgage / auto loan...

You forgot to add "and live in a stable country with a stable currency and relatively functional contract/justice system".
Lisp isn't necessarily just CL or Scheme. Further, if I recall correctly, ML started out as a lisp that later adopted infix syntax.
They've posted a post-mortem
https://safedollar.medium.com/safedollar-post-mortem-analysi...
Synthetic benchmarking with actual end-user network conditions, or actual end-user browser+hardware combinations is in my opinion functionally impossible. (And you've excluded real world telemetry as an option). Just how do would you fairly benchmark Safari on iPhone performance on billions of web pages?
All parts in a system have a probability of failure. A bug in a well-engineered system is only a problem when a long series of things simultaneously go wrong. Tree Notation (2D languages), can be used at all layers, from microcode to assembly to system langs to interpreted langs to user facing high level langs. It's simplicity will decrease the probability of failure at each layer of the stack, causing a huge improvement in total reliability of systems. It even works great with paper! Easy to make fallbacks for when the network goes down.
I think "reigning supreme" is about more than units … I think of "mindshare" and per-unit value.

20 years ago, if you asked people "what does a computer look like?" they thought of Windows, and they were excited about it. Today, it's Apple.

It's the classic "what devices 16 year olds are asking their parents for?" survey, which hovers around like 90% pro-Apple. That's a future dollar, and one that will very likely go to Apple (unless they trip over themselves / get too high on their supply).

Also! Apple undoubtedly gets the most value-per-unit … App store sales ($138/user/year! [1]), iCloud subs, branded accessories, line-extension stuff (homePod, Apple TV, etc.). So while they may not dominate in unit percentage, they probably get like 80% of the total revenue* in the space.

* kneejerk based on prior revenue breakdowns + gut feeling alone
[1] https://sensortower.com/blog/revenue-per-iphone-2020
Anyway, I'm currently planning on moving to a different area, maybe a city not so large, I think removing some of the option anxiety and transportation sprawl might help.
I’m making an assumption here that “crypto” means “crypto coin” and, perhaps further, any form of blockchain based, consensus maintained, public ledger.

I don’t understand this “crypto is good for doing crime” narrative.

When I’m doing crime, I strongly prefer there to be no record of the transaction. The closer I can get to an assurance there is no permanent record of the transaction, the safer I feel in deviating from the law.

Conducting any illegal business in a permanent public ledger is a non-starter for me. Even with a public ledger that ”guarantees” privacy, I’m staking my freedom on the underlying cryptography not being broken before the statute of limitations for my crime passes.

I’d go as far as reversing this narrative. Crime moving to a permanent public ledger strikes me as any regulating body’s dream.
First company I quit in my professional engineering career was over this. Not precisely this, but same concept. My constructive cynical take is this: If a company is spending money on this kind of stickiness, they aren't spending it on features users want and need. Which opens the doors for competitors to do just that. Their artificial moat will provide them some protection, but against a long term onslaught of "lock in" vs "features people want", the latter will eventually win. That company I quit has taken a long time to die, but its demise is of no surprise, because they lost focus on the thing that made them successful to begin with.
You're absolutely right that UX should have precedence for equal info. There's a reason why I like going to the slickly-made Verge instead of every other site for routine news like what was announced at a particular company's event. That, and I like their short summary videos.
> Without a system like YT currently has, it would get absolutely sued into oblivion by rightful copyright complaints.

That's false, the DMCA's safe harbor provision for content hosts has a mechanism in place for handling this.
Look at the Health insurance stock after Obamacare was passed - they all sky rocketed.
Many of those taken in some of these elaborate scams, are security EXPERTS. Assuming that Joe T Dillhole is going to be better at securing their bag than security experts is a stretch.
I use SyncThing [0] to sync my anki databases between a laptop, desktop and a raspberry pi. Fingers crossed nothing has gone wrong yet, apart from problems such as using incompatible versions on the same db.

[0] https://syncthing.net
My experience in the past has been the opposite. People who communicated face to face were less likely to scream at each other than people who communicated by text.

Video helps with that in remote work, but it's still not everything, and introverts tend to shy away from that as well.

During Covid, I think a lot of people are also feeling stressed in weird new ways, and so there's a lot of empathy for whatever people are going through right now. Without it, I think tempers would flare quicker.
The sites requiring a phone number are also now excluding VoIP known numbers such as Google Voice.

Problem. I don't have any other type of number. So while I added my older GV number to my Steam account, I can't update my number to my newer GV number because Valve won't accept non-LL or Cellular numbers for 2FA. So I have to keep a number I've changed from everywhere else... or not have a number on my account anymore.
In some parts of geography and history, freedom of speech did exist, including freedom of vile disagreeable speech, like the example you gave. The place used to be USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...