skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is more because a grad degree is a unnecessary expense for an American who wants an industry job, so the only Americans who go for grad degrees are people who want to be in academia. A masters contains a lot of repeated information from a bachelors, and many masters programs from "reputable" schools are now diploma mills that prey on international students willingness to pay large amounts of money an American degree.
I have no idea how to take this comment. What does that have to do with psychedelics or really anything related to the topic at all.
I sincerely disagree with your somewhat puritanical definition of drug seeking. If someone seeks marijuana to relieve their misery, it's "arbitrary drug seeking behaviour" but if it's blood thinners, then you're just... not looking for drugs to provide a cure? That makes no sense.

I certainly do seek out blood thinners, antidepressants, antibiotics, ect, if I am suffering from illnesses that they provide relief for. Nobody seeks out drugs "arbitrarily" whatsoever. You seem to think that people who use narcotics to address their pain aren't worthy of a medical definition that is reserved for people who obtain their medication from a pharma company.

It's plain cognitive dissonance.
It was fun!! connect to other people around the world
The cost was a local phone call, but it wasn't cheap.
The barrier was to the phone call doesn't fall :)

The experience was like browsing the TV Teletext (google it)
Typical right clicker mentality /s
Completely agree, I’d much rather lose at least 6.2% (if not 20%) in totally legitimate fiat currency inflation than see 200% returns on crypto as a result of that money printing.

QE definitely isn’t wash trading.
I meant that it is built-in to the language and supported in syntax.

Something like Go's channels.
Niantic CEO Says Metaverse Offers Chance to Get Tech Right
One thing we know almost for sure is that Quantum Computers would be exponentially faster than classical computers can be at simulating quantum mechanics.

Basically, with all known algorithms, a classical computer needs exponential time to simulate a quantum computer.

This is not yet a proven fact (P != BQP), and given the history of P!=NP, is not likely to be proven too soon.

There are also a few algorithms of more general interest, such as faster than O(n) search, surprisingly (Grover's algorithm, which has a high probability of finding the input that produces a given output of a given function after O(sqrt n) steps).
I've not been able to wrap my head around this issue. What is the thinking behind the desire to even sex ratios in various profession? Why are some professions receiving more attention than others when it comes to evening sex ratios. Is a perfect world when every construction site, hospital, and dreary programming job (lets be honest most of them aren't fun) has an even mix of the sexes? What is the benefit? Can someone explain this in logical, non-political, terms. Surely there's some benefit to individuals or society but I can't figure out what that might be. I don't want my daughters sucked into dangerous oil field work prone to boom and bust cycles. Why would that be ideal?

Help an autist out here.
Jelly roll bellies are a factor in healthy living and disease survival. Western media seems to diligently ignore voluntary lifestyle choices which are linked to excess mortality in the western countries.
> persistent utility (addiction)

That's... not a good definition of persistent utility.

My pantry has quite a lot of persistent utility, but I'm reasonably sure I'm not addicted to it.

Edit:

>Didn't want to say anything about parent,

I apologize for my misreading.

>just pointing out that mentioned platform itself lack addictiveness to be considered a good (successful) social network.

I think that depends on the definition of successful. I quite like the idea of calm technology. I think it's possible to have a non-addictive social network which lets you socialize without feeling compelled to use it.

It wouldn't be for everyone, but wouldn't be for no one.

>Or is this one of the "feel good, we all should be using it" kind of stuff, where people force themselves to use it, because it's "right thing to do", but it feels more like a chore than joy, something like gym.

I don't think so. And it's possible to have something that is both - exercise, writing, sometimes reading fall into that category for me. Many things worth doing are not easy but far more rewarding and worthwhile in the long run.
The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality
Read Getting Things Done and learn about Inbox Zero. You may not end up using these methods, but just learning how they work will really help you figure out what works best for you. Pro tip: they actually work.

Hone your skills. Remember to take some time to learn things, even if it's just a new Vim command or something.

Be nice to people. People who like you may propel your career in unexpected ways. This happened to me. Help people learn and grow. Don't try to compete with people in your team.

Communicate. Learn how to do it if you have trouble. There are a lot of people with brilliant technical skills that don't end up having great careers because they can't communicate.

Work 8 hours per day. Learn how to focus on those 8 hours and actually be productive. Don't work more than that, try not to work less than that. It's all you'll ever need to be above the curve.
Course: http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/

Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOSH4v6133s...

The TA lecturer is superb.
How critical is "critical"?

Colo is justified solely on physical security, compliance, and/or uptime these days.

There are no net cost savings, as you would own the ongoing maintenance and upkeep.

The major IaaS players run very efficiently. The monthly bill is only the tip of iceberg. There's far more involved beneath the surface.
I don't think many people are defending the myth, most just seem to critisize bad arguments. Just because something is not supported by facts does not make all counter arguments automatically valid.
Designing a Programming Language
To Argue Effectively at Work, You Need a Counterweight
> collision with Venus

It’s a reasonable concern! …if you’ve installed a Silmaril on your ship.
If I'm being honest I know the guy is full of shit. I'm making an honest attempt at being civil about it.
I think the solution is to find an analogy that doesn't hinge on using a person with a disability.
I know, hence why I said “addressed directly”, which 16 bit segments (like the major Windows portion living in vm86) couldn’t do, but they could still access it through windows (lowercase w, and no pun intended). EMS and XMS essentially did what you describe for example.
That's not true, the gas fees which are the largest part still go to the miners.
That makes it sound like technical debt is a financial matter, that it's reasonable to bargain about. It isn't - it's crappy code that is a pain to work with, that will make devs quit, and will cause bugs.

I've worked on a project with 200 devs, and one year of rushed history. The entire project was technical debt, which was never "paid off". When I said it needed refactoring, I was told to refactor it myself. After two weeks' work, my effort failed, I got dinged, and my reputation suffered.

We didn't have CI, or a test-suite, not even a decent RCS. I didn't have a chance. I should have kept my mouth shut.
I would say there are four important use cases of Crypto so far.

1) NFTs - digital ownership

2) DAO - organizations without having to setup an LLC that allow voting etc

3) Accounting for low trust societies (supply chain management, etc)

4) Value store for very high inflation currencies, or states with severe problems
I wish I had recommendations. I just know that the folks I've talked to with Viking appliances (and to some extent, SubZero) didn't do much to impress me with tales of reliability. I am far from the first to complain that there's no real middle-ground. It used to be "good, better, and best", and that was exactly the schtick Sears used. Now it's more like "disposable, and over-priced-and-not-much-more-reliable". "Better" (old Kenmore and the like) just up and disappeared, and the high-end (in the case of appliances, anyway) looks to be a pretty face plastered on the same disposable internals, it's just easier to get parts.
Best practices for error catching and handling
I found out after the fact that I was reluctantly hired, only with great stress because I was a white
male of unspecified sexuality.

They complained several times about being forced to hire me because they were in desperate need of a qualified individual.

They were in deep technical trouble from over a dozen incompetent ones with one or more the “correct” checkboxes.

I cleaned up the mess they had made. Then promptly quit. Biggest bunch of bigots I ever met.

Female boss was extremely sexist and made it her mission to put me in my place. Owners thought this was great.
I don’t know about computational costs but in Tezos the transaction cost is something like 0.50$ atm.

NFTs are definitely in a proof of concept stage, but I 100% expect them to improve dramatically in the next 12-24 months. People are working on solutions for virtually every problem that’s been thought of - fakes, rights managements etc.

And they have already gained widespread adoption in the art world. As far as art goes NFTs are now fully adopted. NFTs are the first blockchain win. I expect gaming to be next.
Je Ne Sais Quoi – Falcons over the Horizon
I don't think feeling openness is extremely esoteric. One of the five basic personality traits is Open-Mindedness. It allows us to accept data with less bias, prediction, and judgment. It allows us to refresh our browsers, clear our cache, and garbage collect our minds. Open-Mindedness is a wonderful trait that everyone should cultivate.
I use https://cmcsnipe.com/honeypot to check for scams, easily detects if a token is a honeypot.
- Don't setup your own for this. Go with a SAAS since email delivery is a hard problem and not worth building your own

- I use a combination of sendgrid, mandrill (mailchimp) and sparkpost. All 3 are decent. Sendgrid is easiest to start with since it doesn't require domain validation but I prefer Mandrill since it shows much better logs including the actual body of the email. Problem with mandrill is that it got acquired by mailchimp and now requires a mailchimp subscription. Next is Sparkpost which I highly recommend. Sendgrid works but can have delivery issues especially if not using dedicated IP. AWS SES is not bad to be honest but considering it is AWS, there may be a bit of learning curve compared to say Sendgrid.
The difference is: (a) if I don't trust "computers" it absolutely can because I can use deposit box, and (b) the government guarantees that it is via FDIC insurance plus a long list of legal alternatives if it suddenly isn't there.

Crypto has neither (a) nor (b); it is specifically designed to not have (a), and I don't see it having a (b) any time soon since regulation is anathema.

I see your point. Both are ledgers. So in that way crypto and bank accounts are similar. But bank accounts can become cash. Crypto cannot. Now the argument shifts to "what is cash" but a different kind of ledger. We can argue why one is trusted more than the other, and perhaps 100 years from now crypto might be as safe as US dollars or Euros. But today there is a big, bit difference between a crypto wallet and a bank account. I find it especially confusing that many crypto advocates typically lament going off the gold standard, which makes my head hurt...

Now that I argue this... i'm confused. Dammit, Beavis.
This details the situation well, have noticed lots of posts on the topic but this one hit it home to me.
Crypto investors lose out on chance to buy U.S. Constitution copy
Crypto is a ponzi scheme that everyone is in on. Introduce a new coin, sell it for a trillionth of a penny, and hope enough people buy it that you can cash out for a billionth of a penny.
Sine you're more comfortable talking about anecdotes, I find mild psychedelic experiences quite benign.
Google better be on the hero redemption path. This seems like a good move and could be using Google's powers for good?
Well, I'm gonna let the personal attack part pass. Here's what I think about your points:

[1] So we agree that the practice exists, though we may disagree on whether it's moral or not.

[2] You are right in that it is in part cultural, but the effect of affirmative action also exists. (I think you would agree, otherwise, why not dismantle it and avoid the resentment that it brings about?) Also, culture is not autogenous.

[3] Again, you are right in that you can sue anyone for anything if you have the money. But I think the claims in the lawsuit have merit (although the process is probably legal). Do you believe the diversity trackers they mentioned do not exist?

[4] You have never seen someone use a footnote to share their anecdotes? :-)
I have used sniper software such as https://cmcsnipe.com/ and the ease of use of web3 has allowed automated trading to be taken to the next level. Not surprised that so much fake volume exists when it is so easy to create.
> How does Coinbase self-regulate wash trading?

Coinbase follows KYC laws. That prevents one person from opening two accounts and trading between them.
NFTs are like a combat mech the size of the Solar System.

Someone can use it to have a really ironclad DRM implementation, guarding the art you saved and to make sure only its approved owner can view it (mimicking the tyranny of physical scarcity of meatspace for cyberspace goods).

The reason you saved it and can view it is that nobody's doing that yet. And because there are way easier and cheaper ways to implement DRM than Solar System-sized mechs, nobody probably ever will use NFTs for that. : p
Nah they want low cost warm bodies in seats that are compliant and used to terrible management practices.
> People need to be paid to do the work, so they can eat and pay rent.

Yes, this is the part about reshaping society I was talking about. Artists do contribute value to the world and need a way to be supported, but the way we support them should not be to burn the gift of post-scarcity.

> We dont actually live in a post scarcity star trek world.

When it comes to information we really, really do. I have every single game ever made for every console generation from 1978 through 2002. This cost me next to nothing, because we live in the information age.

> So we find a way that people can be paid yet the information and content can remain free to everyone

We already have several mechanisms for that. I don't see how NFTs bring anything new to the table other than providing speculation-based scams to flourish, which doesn't really benefit the artists in any way.

> Sure thats a social/cultural status game with a side of speculation, but in turn we have art that is permeating culture rapidly.

I wasn't aware that there was a problem with this. Indeed, the non-scarcity of information has allowed art and culture to proliferate at ludicrous speed. We've seen someone's fanfiction become a big budget film series (with some IP changes), someone's basement-developed game became so big a company bought him out for billions of dollars, and a korean TV series become a smash hit in the west.

I'm open to having my opinion changed, but I don't see any problems things like NFTs actually solve better than any existing system other than being great for scams.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29277129
That’s “uniform”, not “flat”.
I like deadlines. I like when I'm held to them. I like it that there is pressure to work faster.

What I don't like is someone who doesn't know how to code can make empty promises and then I'm the one who has to be held responsible for their unrealistic deadline. When there are bugs, I'm also the one who gets blamed. Fortunately I haven't had to deal with this much in my career, but the few times I have, it is really tiresome that you have to wait until there is a crisis before you find out if your supervisor truly has your backs or not.
Sam Harris states that, when it comes to self discovery, meditation is like a sail boat slowly heading towards mental clarity. In contrast, psychedelics are like strapping yourself to a rocket and hoping you see clarity and change your mind along the wild, dangerous ride.
"no one cares"

Ah, that's the key issue.

As long as whoever is doing it is continuing, it's still alive. The key lesson of the Internet, learned from the punks, is reified in Rule 34: You're Not The Only One. There are an infinite number of long tails.

Can you make infinitely scalable money at it? If that's the only thing that concerns you, no. Go away. Every community is better off without you.

If you love it, can you make some money at it? Maybe, but you're likely to love it less if it becomes your livelihood.
While an interesting concept, I think it would be much more meaningful to actually write the letter. Make something physical of yourself and send to someone you care about. It's really fun. I love snail mail
> According to CoinMarketCap, the distribution of institutional investors is primarily correlated
with the exchange volume than its regulatory status. We also find no significant difference regarding
the volume and distribution of transactions on regulated exchanges compared to unregulated
exchanges around the time they became regulated. For example, Coinbase received Bitlicense in
2017. But there is no exodus of traders. If anything, its volume grew significantly.

Does anyone have any thoughts on why or how this is the case? I'm having trouble wrapping my head around how there is no departure if fraudulent trading is so rampant pre-regulation. I suppose it's worth noting that this largely seems to be speculation on their part anyway. Their data sample is comprised of only roughly one quarter of 2019. Meanwhile, Coinbase received their bitlicense in 2017. It's unclear to me how they can even be sure of the claim they're making at all. I wish they had included a citation here.

The paragraphs following appeal to Benford's law and Power law to explain away any concerns, but it's also unclear to me how it's directly applicable. The premises seem sound, but the conclusion doesn't seem all that cogent to me.
All of my mentioned languages have it built-in to the language (though arguably, c++’s solution is “only a lib”)
How is it possible that there are unregulated exchanges still?

This seems like a regulation failure.
Benford's Law is a pretty established method of detecting fraud in forensic accounting.
> I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.

I'm willing to bet you do :)
What makes you think it was inadvertent?
So you admit all NFTs are just bragging rights,
That is FUCKING STUPID.
I think that's because the article/study doesn't provide alot of information and only reaffirms the previous study outcomes.

"There was no evidence of discrimination against women in male-dominated professions or in mixed-gender professions, but the researchers did find evidence of discrimination against men in female-dominated professions."

"female applicants had a 52.17 percent relative advantage"

"This study only captures discrimination at the initial stages of the hiring process at entry level jobs in Sweden"

>no one has yet offered the hypothesis that the purported discrimination against men could be explained by men being objectively less suitable to work in female-dominated professions than women. Perhaps men have less "emotional iq" than women or something?

No such thing could have happened even if that's the case, from the study: "the group belonging of the fictitious applicants is experimentally manipulated, most commonly by randomizing the applicant’s name."
"Correspondence tests can naturally only measure discrimination at the initial stage of the hiring process and may understate the true extent of hiring discrimination if it occurs at later stages of the process."
I like to wear a houdie at work.
> Why not go to the "other, other obvious" solution, which is results-based payments?

There is a story about doctors in ancient China who are paid by their clients only so long as the client is healthy. When they fall sick, the doctor is not paid again until the patient is healthy again. Then the goal is not a cure for a disease but the prevention of disease.

I don't know if any such thing ever really happened but it seems like it might be worth exploring even if only to illuminate the various possibilities.
They're not open at night. They take egregious fees, often up to 20% on the exchange rate. You can't send more than $2,500 online. And who wants to stand in line, fill out paperwork, or walk around with large sums of cash? If that exploitative company is the best example you've got, I rest my case.
Probably CDC asked Google to not show testing centers for the same reason that “people might misuse this information”.
Rationalization is the press secretary of... crypto fads. (I think that's how that saying goes.)
Ok. Given that the initial article posted was about race, it doesn't really seem like a shoe-horning.

I think I took your agreement that anyone identifying as "anti-racist" is a professional victim as suggesting that we should refrain from discussing race.
Where is your evidence that they drove people completely insane? I'm not doubting there are serious potential side effects, but the description "completely drive you insane" is a bit vague to me.
> A negotiation ensues

... and then the estimate is no longer an estimate, it's the outcome of a negotiation.

> Are you sure? That seems like a lot.

"No, I'm not sure, boss; it's an estimate."
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>Can someone explain this in logical, non-political, terms.

Probably not, because it's ultimately a political phenomenon. In left-leaning circles it's popular to deny that there can be significant statistical differences between demographics for any reason other than discrimination. Based on that logic they view all unequal gender ratios as problems that need to be solved.
If you're just testing pieces of code in isolation, then you're either writing lots of tests or making assumptions about the kinds of input that your function could reasonably receive or return. If you're testing end-to-end, you're either writing lots of (much more expensive) tests or you're missing corner cases. I don't think that's problematic per se. Testing is just a bit of a mismatch for the problems that type systems solve.
Unless the destination of the electricity is also next to the local collection network the pipeline can be simpler. It's certainly not going to be a worse idea.
> If they breach the walls and actually enter the interior of the castle, they have already lost and no staircase design can save them.

That's assuming that the castle has fallen by assault. If the attacker was an assassin who had gained access to the castle through subterfuge or a disgruntled worker then interior defences may have conceivably been useful.
Even if their webcam was pointed at a black wall in a dark room?
It just seems foolish to generalise about something that existed for a long time in different guises.
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Hobbits is a software platform for analyzing, processing, and visualizing bits
> less expensive than the colocated hardware and the three additional people required to provide support and ensure service levels

i often hear people comparing cloud vs colo but not including more traditional dedicated hardware rental - seems to me this should be pretty similar, maintenance wise to cloud since H/W is handled by the vendor (just need to monitor hardware faults in addition to OS/app layer & notify DC on issues)