skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your second paragraph doesn't make any sense to me.

If I know where you are, then I already know what you meant by "yesterday". If I don't, then local time has no upside in that regard.

This is the internet. I don't make assumptions as to where people are located unless it is relevant to the topic
The issue is that we have a spiral - past successes may only be a predictor of future performance because of the privileges we endow to successful people.

No one is asking for absolute certainty, people are asking for a solid argument, so far they seem very soft. If using specific language causes an argument to be impossible then the argument itself is weak - I assure you that fuzzier topics can be discussed with more specific language, it just has to be thought out carefully.
PTE Reading Fill in the Blanks – Drag and Drop – Drop-Down
Living in a Potemkin World
I'll play!

Teth - Er

Teht:
The Phoenician letter name ṭēth may mean "spinning wheel"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teth

ER:
Abbreviation for Emergency Room

"Teth" + "ER" = Spinning dangerously out of control, putting one or more lives at risk.

How did I do?
DAI is critically dependent on USDC.

USDC recently received a Wells notice from SEC and had to amend their reserves. Still weird behaviour from them overall: they don’t disclose what their short term commercial paper is, its rating or how much of their cash equivalents it us.

Just today in the financial times Tether claimed USDC also issues USDCs backed by crypto.

And they have funny printing patterns: whenever Tether stops printing, USDC starts.
Good question! It's the stress-energy that generates curvature, and matter is just short hand for stress-energy or energy-momentum. Matter remaining at e.g. the origin of spatial coordinates (x=0, y=0, z=0, t=var) is still moving through spacetime [1]. T^{tt} encodes the flux of energy-momentum through the point along the time direction, and identifies as energy-density. Also, you get to think about if and how "remaining [at fixed] spatial coordinates" is actually meaningful in relativity.

"Don't rely on slogans" is a good General Relativity slogan.

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[1] assuming anything is moving at all; to get to that we will want to slice the block universe spacetime into space and time (and did that implicitly above), and not everyone will like how you did the slicing. Like if you wanted to make onion rings but someone has sliced up your onions with all the cuts parallel to this initial one https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/onion-... instead of this way https://www.pngkit.com/png/detail/12-121112_sliced-onion-png... You'll also want to plant values on one spacetime slice, and let dynamics evolve them slice-to-slice. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_value_formulation_(gen...

[2]
> additional curvature

Can of worms. :)
Tether is obviously not backed 1:1 by USD as previously claimed. Now the dodgy piechart informs us that it is backed mainly by corporate bonds and loans - if true I would guess mostly to related companies. A recent Bloomberg article says they have been lending Billions to Chinese property companies!
Eventually enough of the gullible fools will realise that the Emperor has no clothes, then there will be a run on Tether which will collapse its price, this will also crash the whole crypto market and people will finally realise that a random number (no matter how cleverly generated) is not worth $64k, not even $1k.
You're also making a pretty big claim about whether a universe makes noise if no dimension is around to articulate it.
I’m curious what you would do differently. Maybe the docx part could be a little more robust, but it doesn’t sound too bad as a way to meet those really specific requirements.
Exactly, $1m feels very small for someone who could get more profit if they keep their mouth shut.
Activision Blizzard reportedly fires 20 employees following harassment claims
Tether claimed their excess reserves were $160 million. So the fine is a quarter of that.
A pretty straightforward pattern here (and one that I actually just implemented with no hiccups for a non-React animation library) looks like:

import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react';
import { Controller } from 'some-animation-library';

const SomeWrapperComponent = ({ options }) => {
const elementRef = useRef(null)
const controllerRef = useRef(null)

useEffect(() => {
if (!elementRef.current) {
return () => {}
}

if (!controllerRef.current) {
controllerRef.current = new Controller(elementRef.current, options)
} else {
controllerRef.current.setOptions(options)
}

return () => {
controllerRef.current.doSomeCleanup()
}
}, [options])

return <div ref={elementRef}></div>
}
I'd love to talk about this, could you email me at the address in my profile if you're interested?
> Two is the property shared by all of the things that behave the same as the collection of things which contain all collections of things which contain all collections of things which contain nothing, with respect to a set of rules that allow you to make collections of things that contain some things and not other things, and check to see if a given collection of things contains some things or no things (and with the proviso that collections count as things that can be parts of collections of things).

That is the standard Zermelo definition. But why not the von Neumann definition (or indeed a non-set-theory definition altogther?). By your definition, and presumably, your definition of "one" I could claim that the statement "two contains one" is true. And yet by the von Neumann definition (i.e. the property shared by the collection of things which contains the collection of things that contain nothing and which contains all collections of things that contain the collection of things that contain nothing), "two contains one" is false.

And yet most mathematicians would tell you that this statement is a category error without a true or false value.

How do you distinguish between all of them? What is the truth value of "two contains one?"

All of these are hallmarks (turning category errors into sensible questions and having different answers to nonessential questions depending on the vagaries of the definition) that the definition you've provided is the definition of a numeral system, not a number itself.

And again more to the central point, how can you reconcile all of this with Godel's incompleteness theorem and the reality of natural numbers as expressed by physical machines in our universe?

> This needs some revision, but it contains the essential idea.

Right I think you're making the same appeal in your article as the one made here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X3HpE8tMXz4m4w6Rz/the-simple... which is basically the map-territory definition is "out of scope" and more a question of prediction of reality.

EDIT: I must make a modification to the "two contains one" statement to instead be "any collection that has the property called 'two' contains a collection that shares the property 'one'" since we are indeed talking about the properties rather than the collections themselves.
Fifty years ago, soda was generally sold in returnable glass bottles, which would be trucked back to the bottling plant, sanitized, and reused. But that was too inconvenient, I guess. First came thin glass disposables, and then plastic took over. At least aluminum cans (and steel, for that matter) are readily recyclable.

Coca-Cola bottles had their originating bottling plant stamped into the bottom.
A better analogy is what if your vision loss was not only clarity, but also brightness?

And once you put on your glasses everything is brighter.

You need to adjust to the change, and then slowley adapt.

Now what if putting on the glasses meant you saw far more on your peripheral vision?

This too would be a big change and a barrier to getting better.
It's only available in a few states :(

I’m only commenting on what I’ve seen. I’m sure a lot of people get through the system just fine with no issues. But this list is a compilation of many people experiencing issues receiving healthcare.
And then I'd love a watch that was a digital sundial

First, go buy an Apple Watch...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/the-beauty-of-the-apple-wa...

(It is a pretty cool watch face, and I use it a lot in the Pacific Northwest winter with its early sunset.)
Unity is used more than any other game engine in the world to release successful commercial games. If you can’t figure out how to use Unity to make commercial games then the problem is you not Unity. I have released commercial games using 3D game engines I wrote from scratch years ago before Unity existed. I would never recommend doing that today when Unity is available and so easy to use compared with having to write everything from scratch.
Whither the iOS equivalent of https://www.oldversion.com/android/

With open source software for PC, in many cases we (users of open source OS) have the choice to install any version we want. Sometimes I need to I run older Linux programs with older versions of system libraries. We can download these older versions of libraries and programs from an FTP sites or websites that provide a simple directory listing, an "Index of" page.

With pocket-sized computers called "smartphones", instead we (users of open source OS) have to contend with "app stores". The author publishes a new version and all older versisons "disappear". This lack of choice may be suitable for some users, but may not be suitable for every user, i.e., "one size fits all".
Jim Chanos: China’s “Leveraged Prosperity” Model Is Doomed
> It's a (weak) proof of ownership of such passport -- it has to be present to be read.

It had to exist to be read once at some unknown point in the past, but the government already knows it exists because they issued it. Anything more (such as "it is present now") is speculation.

Cloning static data from NFC readers is something a physical penetration testing team does. Stand near employee in coffee shop, their ID badge says "Hi I'm employee badge #123456789 for site #98765" and you clone that, then walk in later, "Hi I'm employee badge #123456789 for site #98765" says your fake badge with your picture on it. Is it better than nothing? Yes. Would I like my government to aim a bit higher than "Enough know-how to bluff your way into a mid-size corp headquarters building" ? Yes please.

> Actually maybe the don't.

The UK government will issue you one document based on records from another document so long as it's timely. For example when my photo driving license expires, I just renew it with the photo from my new passport. Some people do the opposite way around. You can't renew everything forever because your photo expires and you need to provide a new one that resembles the previous one except now you're older. But the fact they can do this means they do have those records.

Even the resemblance checking presumably means somewhere a minimum wage employee is being shown pairs of images, "Young white guy with freckles and a beard" + "Older white guy, same freckles, no beard" => OK pass unless somebody has drunk way too much ML kool aid, but that can only work if they have the records.
If we were arguing about bacon burgers then I would not argue from first principles. I would just invite you to a restaurant and show you a bacon burger.

You're right that there is no formal definition of "number" but there is a formal definition of "natural number" and "real number" and "imaginary number" and "complex number" and "rational number" and integers and quaternions and octonians, all of which are kinds of numbers even though their names don't contain the word "number"). All of those different kinds of formally defined numbers collectively are what a "number" is. If you want to call that informal, fine, but that seems to me like a pretty tiny garnish of informality on top of a mountain of formality.
Some more:

- Compliance, in the financial, legal or data sense - increases code complexity greatly, and warps the architecture of the system under its weight

- Policy engines: who's allowed and not allowed to do what, limits

That's a whole lotta scope beyond the core competency of the program that you cannot outsource.
A fun read about the collection of a curious mind. I highly recommend his video Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants - it is an astonishing display of sleight of hand melded with deft storytelling.
yep, this.
While I'm in favor of this, it makes me question somewhat the potential unintended consequences of something like this, in that it makes shipping actual hardware devices with actual software on the device even less appealing.

That is, if I provide a SaaS platform, my understanding is that even if I use all types of GPL code to run my service, as long as I don't "ship" the code for that service to end users (which is like 99% of all SaaS products when it comes to backend services), I don't need to share my code.

But if I release a hardware product and by definition I need to ship that code to end-users, then I do need to share my code. Just seems to be an incentive to make more and more stuff "subscription based" with a backend service. Though, due to other economic incentives businesses want to do that anyway, so perhaps my point is moot.
It's probably one of the most fundamental ideas of understand the world around you, how to interpret incoming information and Wikipedia removed the page. Which is because other people won't talk about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

That alone says a lot, it's an obvious idea to anyone with expertise reading the news about their own field, yet somehow science hasn't formalised it because science is broken and always has been. It's always been about intuition to move things forward.

It's rare articles on HN don't break Gell-Mann amnesia, and it's a shame the ones that are the 'opposite' can't be marked, for instance Sabine Hossenfelder's generally are good
If Tether implodes, strong risk those exchanges do too. Massive counterparty risk.
Apple's decisions foster a culture. Of all the many arbitrary rules they set up on their app store, I do wonder how many actually kept abuse at bay and why they turn a blind eye on the very obvious one.

If there's a walled garden to begin with, it's fine to criticize the way it is being run.
Zillow Pumps the Brakes on Buying Homes
The us government is rolling this out as well: https://login.gov
>...holding a fraction of deposited money as reserves...

US banks haven't had reserve requirements since March 2020.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
Isn't there two things going on here? A single sign on service, and also an identity check.

A yubico device can say "I'm still the same security key that was enrolled" but it doesn't say at enrolment "I am being used by Fred Jones of <address> with passport no 123, NiNo ABC".

GDS verify / government gateway do support 'authenticators' (typically password + totp) to provide a level of assurance that the person logging into the account is the person the account belongs to.

The "document check" is part of the identity bit. That is, how confident are we that the person creating this account / performing this action is who they say they are and can do this thing or see that information. The document check is part of their solution but other parts are supposed to layer on top of it to provide a proportionate level of assurance. e.g. a video of you holding up the passport to check that it's you using it or asking you to provide answers to details you already have like 'how much tax did you pay last year' or checking multiple documents.

> I presume the British government does own a database of the passports they issued, so this isn't news to them.

The passport office (part of the Home Office) own that database. Part of this work is basically a web service to that database for the rest of the government to use.
The biometric passport spec has support for what it calls active authentication-- this is your fairly standard challenge/response-type thing using a private key contained in the chip that can't be read or copied.

The caveat is that it's optional-- not all passports support it, and thus there are possible (depending on the reader software) downgrade attacks where a passport with active authentication could be cloned anyways if you can convince the reader not to perform the authentication step. And there are bad hardware implementations out there that don't adequately protect the private key material (leaving them susceptible to cloning anyways).
Not a lawyer. A copyright license is a written agreement not dissimilar from a contract.

However, validating the contract usually doesn't come up, because the violator needs the agreement to be valid to avoid copyright infringement.

> Because the GPL does not require any promises in return from licensees, it does not need contract enforcement in order to work. A GPL licensor doesn't say in the event of trouble "But, judge, the licensee promised me he wouldn't do what he's doing now." The licensor plaintiff says 'Judge, the defendant is redistributing my copyrighted work without permission.' The defendant can then either agree that he has no permission, in which case he loses, or assert that his permission is the GPL, in which case he must show that he is obeying its terms. A defendant cannot simultaneously assert that the GPL is valid permission for his distribution and also assert that it is not a valid copyright license, which is why defendants do not 'challenge' the GPL.

https://lwn.net/Articles/61292/

However, I believe only the copyright holder can sue for copyright infringement, so this case is instead taking that oft-skipped step of validating the contract so it can further claim SFC is a party of the contract. Infringement cases also have specific rules about damages, which can make it hard to actually get the infringer to do anything when you give the software away for free. IMO the "specific performance" seems likely to be granted if they win the case on contract grounds.

There was another recent case where they seemed to rule the GPL could be enforced as a contract, but I'm not familiar: https://www.theregister.com/2017/05/13/gnu_gpl_enforceable_c...
Long haul is practical and doable. Full door to door autonomous is unnecessary in the short term. Simply cracking the long haul nut is going to be significant.
> React is a library that should have been a framework.

React is a library that powers several different frameworks, as well as lets people use it without those frameworks. If one size fits all, answer-for-everything frameworks were the optimal solution for all problems, Angular would own the world and we wouldn't need React.
"Nikola One Electric Semi Truck in Motion." must have been the mother of all marketing lies. Technically 100% true, rotten to the core.
It was The DAO hack [1].

[1] https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao
As another person color, I agree. I am seeing open racism against white people a with small minority of people cheering all of it. They say reverse racism isn’t a thing but what they don’t get is that reverse racism is just racism.
Which topics in AI require knowing the Peano axioms?
Finding a new career is easier if you can link your education with your new desired career, and pivot there in a step wise fashion.

I would suggest looking into CS niches that you enjoy and where age would be an asset. For example, formal methods (e.g. in finance or in aerospace), automation/robotics (e.g. in biotechnology), or data engineering and modeling (e.g. in banking).
Not sure if you saw my edited comment or not. You responded 5 hours later so I don’t think I could have still edited that much later.

> no that is not right

What is incorrect about my $9B figure? I said that was the financial amount when the stock was over 2x lower. In line with your $20B figure.

You didn’t answer how he is getting 10% of the market cap in a single year. The awards are about giving him roughly 1% (1.7m or so shares) each time at a low option price. Obviously dilution will take effect. So how would or did he get 10% of the market cap in a year?

You also didn’t explain anything about the $60B of loans.

> because no-one who has this much money is actually that greedy

Is this why Elon is so upsetting? Because you believe [current] [ultra] wealthy people aren’t that greedy?

The amount of evidence that could go into how insanely greedy and “evil” things incredibly wealthy people do is innumerable. Right off the top of my head I thought of a handful of examples of completely screwed up shit ultra wealthy have done.

You brought up tax avoidance. That is the most un-unique thing that a wealthy Elon can do.

> I am a big capitalist

So I don’t see how this is a big deal especially if you’re a big capitalist in 2021. In what way has the world shown stuff like this won’t happen under the majority of the countries that are some form of capitalism.

What would you want capitalism to do to stop Elon Musk then?

I am not a big capitalist or one at all, so, again, Musk’s stuff doesn’t seem to be a big deal at all. As you said. He’s able to pull off his brand like being the common man really well. Tesla is so highly linked to him. Tesla unlike most explosions of stock values began before the pandemic.

Is there any one who isn’t some extremist or Tesla fanboy to the max who actually thought Musk would be able to meet a handful of the awards in 2020 and on? Or any one that didn’t think Tesla market cap at its current amount was remotely possible to happen in 2020 and 2021?
Tuning for them is more about slowly increasing the sound levels overtime than adjusting for understanding.

As well you may want to work with a Speech Language Pathologist.
Upon reading:

“he stole the opportunity to work with an industry pioneer from honest, hardworking, Silicon Valley companies.”

…I had to double-check this was coming from justice.gov, not a satire site or PR blog. That isn’t to say that there aren’t honest and/or hardworking SV companies, or that they weren’t wronged. It’s just never a phase I’ve seen before.
https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao
Tether has claimed their excess reserves is almost exactly $160m for more than a year. Two ways to confirm:

- Go look at the wayback machine on their transparency page

- Look at the difference in their attestations

This implies they loot the interest rate yield on their reserves
Agreed, structure editors must have interim/liminal representations that are only partially formed, or else the editing experience doesn't flow. I do think there's value in tracking the movement/mutation of AST nodes with the granularity and precision only achievable by a structure editor, so I hope someone cracks the formula.

One thing I think would be cool is if you could select a region of code and move it up/down the abstraction ladder e.g. convert an AST subtree into tokens, or all the way down to individual UTF8 characters. Then do some text manipulation on the plaintext, and finally "cook" them back together into AST nodes. The real cool trick would be to have the editor diligently track the flow of nodes/identifiers spanning the transmutation.
A good overview can be found on the Wikipedia page for Ethereum Classic. ETHC is made up of the users and miners who didn't want to "claw-back" those funds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic
Have you ever written a 3D engine from scratch used for a commercial game that needed to work on Xbox, PlayStation and PC? I have. You clearly haven’t. I would highly recommend using Unity or some other off-the-shelf game engine instead. However I do agree with your next point. People think that the 3D engine is the game. That is 100000% wrong. Top selling games often have unimpressive tech. Amazing “games” that are actually more like tech demos fail to sell.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc ?

Perhaps "What people like to blame Java for…" is how it was required to be done in Java.
Tech isn't special, the population is absolutely fungible. There are tons of people who could work in tech but don't, I know many of them.