skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It makes me wonder what the narrative against him would be

I think the question is what the narrative for him is. His views probably most closely resemble what the Niskanen-Center dubbed 'liberaltarian' a few years ago and that doesn't have much of a constituency.

This sort of slightly wonkish, business man, tech bro hybrid will find some voters among the kind of young male demographic you find here or on reddit but otherwise his political campaigns were stillborn. Conservatives don't support liberal social politics and expansion of government spending, Liberals aren't going to support the Milton Friedman-esque UBI ideas and individualistic free-market attitude.
The problem is if a country leader/government thinks that is worth ending civilization because there is something kind of afterlife that is better.. you hear the argument made about Iran. Not sure if I agree. But MAD breaks down if on side does not care about surving. Which makes nukes really scary..
How exactly did they screw him? Yang was always a longshot in a super-crowded field. And 2020 wasn't the greatest cycle to swoop in as an outsider/business person with no political experience.
The first removed posts were videos of him visiting cities that were in lockdown, gathering crowds and asking people to deobey the state law and leave their houses.

He didn't believe covid was real back them.
More broadly that the worry about the device being locked IMO is the issue of consent. I, personally, don't consent to being filmed by what amounts to facebook in a public space and then especially not to having that data being input to a ML system and analyzed. I understand that the way the law works now, if I am in a public space, I can be filmed. But that law was not written when this particular problem - ie persistently capture everything which is going on in the real world, and store it forever, with analysis, was in view. Panopticon.
My post here is incorrect. The average was hospitalizations per day rather than per week.

That moves vaccinated hospitalization rates to around 1 in 12 of all hospitalizations which is a huge difference.

That is still a shocking number for a vaccine and you would be hard-pressed to find a vaccine that worked so poorly that not only do so many catch the disease, but so many others still require hospitalization.
I live in slovenia... for many cases, it is impossible to even translate stuff directly into our language, because we don't only have singular and plural, we also have "dual" (for two of something). We also have a lot of irregular stuff, where we count beers:

- eno pivo (one beer)

- dve pivi (two beers)

- tri piva (three beers)

- štiri piva (four beers)

- pet piv (five (or more) beers)

How the hell do you put this into strings.xml?!
Honestly most of what I've learned in category theory is just terminology. 2 Dozen flash cards would really take all the mystery away
I think the author agrees with you. From the same blog: https://tonsky.me/blog/skija/
Not that it comes up in conversation often, but people get the idea and it's less far-fetched than it used to sound.
Ireland was a net exporter of food during the potato famine, from appeals to laissez-faire capitalism.
> Wait, a functor is just a pure unary function? And an endofunctor is just one of those where the argument type and return type are the same?

No. I don't know why the article talks about ordinary functions on values as if they're functors. They're not (or at least, not in a nontrivial way; you could come up with a silly, useless way in which they are, but that's not what anyone's talking about). Sorry, but it's the article that's misleading you here.

Roughly speaking, in the programming context, a functor is a generic type with a map operation. E.g., arrays; you can map a function over an array by applying it to each element.

Since there's only one category in play here, these functors are endofunctors of that category; one doesn't normally say "endofunctor" in this context since it doesn't convey any additional information. (As opposed to "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors", where you want to specify that, because that statement is true beyond just the programming context.)
I do this with Nix. You just tell it what applications to put into the image and it will copy just the image and its dependencies.

https://gitlab.com/kevincox/feed-test/-/blob/1a09590e98608ed...

This is a trivial example but even that will pull in libc and some TZ data if required. I've also used this to package up more complex dependencies with data files and lots of native libraries such as the mumble server.
Yang is underestimating the network effect of the two parties.

I thought running for mayor of NY City was kind of odd. His lack of experience really showed after his initial name ID advantage faded away.

I feel like he is fighting for relevancy but it's approaching it from a wrong angle.

I do understand he is feeling betrayed a bit by the party. He was probably promised (or hinted at) some kind of a position with the Biden admin.

Then he had that disastrous loss as a mayor. I'm not sure starting a third party is really a right move for him.

He is interesting (was authentic) as a candidate, but quite honesty doesn't have a real national name ID or charisma to pull together a successful third party.

At this point, the only person who can reasonably start a third party is probably Donald Trump (not saying he is going to). My point is you need a huge national popular backing.

Yang doesn't have that. If anything he is going to destroy the possibility of having a real competitive third party in our country.

So, yeah another misstep (IMHO) by Yang.
> Liberals aren't going to support the Milton Friedman-esque UBI ideas.

Isn't that a liberal idea??
> Wait, a functor is just a pure unary function?

And guess what another name for a unary functions is... 'monadic'.
That's not what the article said though. They say that the compromised devices had these characteristics among others:

* Port 2000 open

* Port 5678 open

* SOCKS proxy on port 80 (maybe)

Most likely most of the visitors to your website won't have those ports open and exposed to the Internet. That is a really easy way to filter traffic based on the network fingerprint. Especially when you're under attack it's a great way to reduce a majority of the impact without requiring any AI/ ML - just filter traffic from IPs that have TCP port 5678 open. That same technique was also used to identify Mirai bots and it worked well.
Language changes over time: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/beg-the-questi...
If our goal is to democratize Russia and China, that is, change their political systems to conform more closely with our democratic one, is that not tantamount to a declaration of ideological war by us?
The blueray 4k they released for Dr Strangelove looks amazing. Highly recommend watching it.
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>>> This is scientific garbage (the proposals are absolutely not supported by any experimental data)

>> Which proposals are you referring to exactly?

> All of its interpretations of QBist "Core Position" on the wikipedia page.

You're making very broad claims here. Whether you find QBism plausible or not, it's certainly not "scientific garbage" and also fully compatible with experimental data (as is any other interpretation of QM).

> However, nothing of what they propose is required to explain what we observe, experimentally.

So you would say that orthodox views of quantum mechanics (Copenhagen, shut up & calculate, many worlds (as it's becoming increasingly popular)) explain what we observe?

> More generally, no "interpretation" of QM is required to apply the theory in generalizable, predictive ways, so all this work isn't really helping us move science or engineering forward.

I disagree, once again. Have you actually deeply looked into the issues with QM? Many of them are linked to questions that come up in quantum gravity, so I would argue that getting QM right would be a very good first step in making scientific progress.
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This comment is just delightful to read.

Thanks for saving us from potential frustrations and for reminding us that helping others can be simply an act of kindness without a monetization scheme attached.

> probably a mistake

I hope you won't ever end up thinking that. :)
Pardon the comment noise, but I can't help but highlight that "Fifth Force of Nature" is an excellent name for a band.
Yes, I meant "If the US gives nukes to Taiwan" of course (previously wrote China here).
>In a hard money/cryptocurrency environment, the BTC plutocrats would decide when to go to war, and with whom, since no lending or spending would be possible without their assent.

Yes I recall the great Swiss Civil War of the 1990s, when the holders of the gold backed Francs fought for spoils of each canton. Perhaps our Polish friend can chime in on the horrors of the refugees he saw.

>no lending or spending would be possible without their assent

Lending and spending shouldn't be possible without the assent from those which the money comes. Involuntarily spending someone else's money is also known as theft.

You are indicting the greater system you think Bitcoin represents (which resembles sort of monarchy or feudalism). You ignore that this system has been overcome even with those transacting in hard currencies. This reads of fear mongering or some desire to emulate Nostradamus.
And for those of us who struggle with rote memorization, it's a huge artificial barrier.

Though in my experience even the "flash cards" are hard to find on the internet.
A comparison might be the BMW M5, which does it in about the same time.

Looking forward to seeing what it can do with better tyres and some extra downforce.
Your answer and the one from
another commenter mention distribution.

In this spirit, is there any legal issue with downloading perf and libbfd separately, compiling it, and running using it for yourself only? I assume not?

What about using it then as a tool within your company? That might be seen as distribution, and thus not allowed?
I mean, are there any other production electric cars that could come close? It seems unsurprising that a tesla would beat things like the Nissan Leaf and other competitors.
It wasn't that he coined the term, but that he recognized an important phenomenon and published a description of it before anyone else, which later came to inform major decisions about the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Naming that phenomenon was just a byproduct of recognizing and writing about it, and I mention it only because it implies all of the above.

And his vaxx beliefs aren't relevant to research he did prior to the COVID outbreak, but if you have a specific critique of that research I'd be interested to hear it.
I could see a Trump party on the right, a Yang party on the left, and a third party right down the middle full of disenfranchised moderates from both sides of the aisle
Roman slavery is one of the most romanticised things on the internet. The number of slaves who could buy their way free was miniscule. Most slaves were worked to death on the farms and mines, and had about a 5-year life expectancy after capture. Sure, life was better for a handful of slaves, particularly well-educated Greek slaves, but for most slaves life was brutal and short.

People seem obsessed with declaring the US south as having some sort of so-much-worse slavery, but they view the past with pretty rose-coloured glasses. 'But it's not racism!' is a meaningless moral alteration to the act of raiding other lands, dragging people back to your lands, and working them to death in under a decade.

As for Roman opinions on racism, no, they weren't racists in the sense of the modern term, but they were still intensely bigoted and committed more than a few genocides. Our friend Jules came home bragging of killing a million Gauls and enslaving a million more and got social cachet for that. They didn't see Gauls as a difference 'race' (that's a modern construct) but they definitely saw them as an outgroup that needed to be dominated.
>Should it be legal to use hidden cameras to record images of people without their knowledge?

Probably not but many of us live in the surveillance states. Businesses and governments already have lots of hidden and visible video cameras everywhere, I don't see why citizens shouldn't be granted the same liberties to invade others privacy instead of having double standards.
Cloroquine and ivemerctin used to be a suggested treatment on the official government website.

Nowadays they are saying "the site was hacked" -- the content wasn't suppose to be publicly available.
Printing money in effect fills the pocket of the feds without doing the dirty work of sending the IRS after them.
Somebody downvoted you. HN mods if you care about quality of the forum, people who downvote must be accountable. The above listed site is one of the best resource that I can think for anti-aging.
A Gallup poll from August found that 29% of Americans identified as Democrats, 28% identified as Republican, and 40% as Independent.
[https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx]

So, more people consider themselves independent than members of either party.

If Andrew Yang can create the "Independent Party", perhaps they would get the most votes.
>their contents is magic'd out of nowhere through fractional reserve banking

Could you ELI5 what is the connection between fractional reserve banking and creating money?

Does the following mean that all banks can create infinity money out of zero deposits?

"As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

Also, a direct to consumer crypto dollar sounds exactly like giving individuals accounts at the Fed, the same type of account banks currently have. Except more crypto-ey.

Why, if the Fed has refused to let people bank with it directly, would they change their mind?

Someone actually thought recently of opening a bank that would literally stash all deposits at the Fed, and the Fed didn't like that, presumably because they feel it would undermine the regular banks.
They sure kept trying that for football.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2001)

And it sure went nowhere.
There is a demo video on twitter: https://twitter.com/facebookai/status/1435733478516133892
All the Republican Party needs is for DJT to die of natural causes, so that candidates can quibble over who is the true inheritor of his mantle. Eight years after that the name of Trump will be invoked as a meaningless benediction the way that Reagan is used now.
Yes, I’m aware that nonsense can be introduced into our lexicon by a sufficiently large population of people misusing meaningful phrases.
> Absolutely nothing, that's what.

Hundreds of thousands were massacred by the Viet Cong after the US left, and hundreds of thousands more died in the ensuing refugee crisis.
As someone who's built an unofficial Clubhouse Android app[1] with reverse-engineered API in 1.5 days right when Clubhouse was hyped the most, I only have one thing to say: lol, 10 weeks.

[1] https://github.com/grishka/Houseclub
The very fact that the GPL v3 is incompatible with v2 indicates that v2 has something the v3 takes away, no matter how well-meaning that was.
This is the case with every party when it doesn't have the presidency. The Democrats spent the Bush years as the Party of Clinton and the Trump years as the Party of Obama. The head of the party (e.g. their last President) continues to set the party tone & agenda until the party wins the White House again.
> The Biden administration proposes closing the tax gap by empowering the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to more aggressively pursue unpaid taxes, at a cost of $80bn and in the process helping fund the president’s ambitious domestic economic agenda.

How in the world does it cost $80B to step up IRS enforcement efforts? That's 80,000 IRS agents at $100k/agent (which is probably more than they make). Or let's say 60,000 agents, plus a budget of $20B to find them office space and fund their expenses, to the tune of $300k per agent.

Do I just not get the scale of this work? It feels like to me that this work could be tackled pretty effectively with a few thousand agents, maybe 10,000 at the most. Am I missing something here?

Sure, if that $80B gets us all $600B in lost tax revenue (or even just the $160B missing from the 1%), I will definitely agree it's money well spent, but it still seems that it's more money than is necessary to spend.
Sigh. I really shouldn't have included a quote in my comment and instead only linked to the full text.

That text is exactly an argument against infinite economic growth – and it carries out said argument by looking at energy consumption (which necessarily grows with economic activity).
No. I see this guy mentioned all the time and he wasn't simply standing there. He was invading people's personal space, responding to them in antisocial ways, lightly following them, and in some cases trespassing. He's a total creep, triggering people's fear response, and people would likely react in a similar way if he didn't have a camera.

Much of the time he was absolutely not simply standing in a corner stationary, which is what security cameras do.
A bonus is that you can build out server features a LOT faster when you only have a single app to worry about: you can couple your client and server implementations, and know by just testing on your one client that you haven’t broken it with a server change.

And when you do break things, it’s relatively easy (especially on iPhone where most users upgrade apps quickly) to fix the client, wait for the next release, then remove the unwanted server feature.

Once you have two or more client implementations, you have to keep track of a lot more things, your QA checklist grows, and you therefore need to move more carefully for server upgrades.
> He was quashed in the debates in lieu of ratings

What does this mean? I know what the words mean, but can't catch your meaning.
Allowance must be made for those with natural immunity.
This is not an argument by authority. There is strong evidence of significant Delta variant transmission by vaccinated people.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effective...

https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387
OK, that’s nice.

How do you get on the ballot in every single state for the Presidency?

Are you going to run competitive House and Senate races in every single state?

What’s your plan of action for getting the debate committees to allow a third-party into the debates if polling isn’t good enough?
Here's actual satire which, like all good satire, is grounded in truth: https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/09/a-covid-19-vaccine-fract...
GarnetVM was written by people with access to the source code of the OS. Not quite as hard :)
Friedman did support it, though: https://medium.com/basic-income/why-milton-friedman-supporte...
> a functor is just a pure unary function?

No, although a pure unary function could be viewed as a functor, the other direction doesn't hold.

The common FP definition of a functor is anything that supports a notion of `map` (subject to the restriction that `map`ping the identity function does nothing, this is why a Functor is slightly more than just a Mappable). This is not a unary function although map takes a unary function as an argument.

The more general mathematical definition is a mapping between categories. Categories are sufficiently general that you can view almost anything as a category, which is why a unary function can be thought of as a functor (because a functor can be a mapping between categories that happen to be sets).

But a functor is both more general than a unary function and, in a certain sense, preserves more structure than a function, since it must preserve the structure of the underlying categories whereas functions generally only care about sets.
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Language evolves, as the wiki article you linked describes. Your prescriptivist nit-picking doesn't contribute to the discussion.

From the HN guidelines:

- Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
- Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
- Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
Americans love to consider themselves independent, but that doesn't mean they all have the same political beliefs or even that they are moderate; for the most part, "independent" means that they will vote mostly for one party but like to occasionally vote for individual candidates that they personally like, regardless of party.
Ha ha - agree - yeah it is definitely left, but I shouldn’t have used the word “hard”.

Anyway, no-one seems to comment that the Grauniad seems to lack balance in its articles on the US. Or perhaps it is just the bias of what gets commented on on HN.
Those requirements are for seriously lethal or damaging diseases that weren’t going away. COVID-19 has reached its last major peak in late August.
So, you pay more money so that you'll pay more time so that you consume less. How does that benefit you? Or are you saying, we should add a tax to glasses so people don't treat them like garbage?
Youtube still shows dates for "Premieres on..." in MM/DD/YY, regardless of the locale. Internationalisation and localisation are such hard problems that even the big FAANG companies fail at it.
His posts wasn't removed. They were hidden behind a disclaimer, like NSFW content.
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expertise in one domain doesn't transfer to another
and Bertrand Russell is the Pope
> Not sure why you are being downvoted. During the communist revolution (in the 40s), the previous government was overthrown and escaped to Taiwan.

Incorrect. The previous government of China (the Beiyang government) was overthrown by a collaboration between the CPC and the KMT (Which was led by Chiang Kai-shek).

The CPC and the KMT then had a war, which the KMT lost - and fled to Taiwan.

As a bonus, the KMT then proceeded to carry out the White Terror - 38 years of one-party rule, repression and martial law, which ostensibly purged Taiwan's of suspected or alleged communists.
word soup
Mullvad is definitely the ones I'd trust the most.
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We'll need to reconcile the need for a disguising mask for privacy with anti-mask laws here in the US

No Face Halloween Mirror Mask / Anonymous Disguise

https://www.thegreenhead.com/2014/10/no-face-halloween-mirro...

Anti-Mask Laws

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1169/anti-mask-...
That may well be a reasonable explanation, but I don't know enough about it to be able to tell.
(20-something doing the same)

What's stopping you?
The closest I’ve come to understanding monads is the Wikipedia page on them (in the functional programming context, there’s also a separate monad page in the context of category theory specifically which is a lot more jargon heavy)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(functional_programmin...
You don't need to win to influence the agenda for the better.
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