skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article makes the common and facile error of assuming that Hispanics cannot be white. My South American relatives, and millions of U.S. immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries, would disagree. Hispanic/Latino are cultural and linguistic terms, and the people referred to belong to all races: white, black, indigenous, Asian, and mixtures of these.
The first sentence of the article is that it's about "People who are fully vaccinated against Covid yet catch the virus". If the vaccines don't lower P(transmission|infection) but do lower P(infection), then they lower P(infection & transmission) (because that's the product of those two).
The Command and Control system for the Metropolitan Police (London, UK) is the baggage handling system from Heathrow Airport in the 1970s, with 'Luggage' renamed to 'Police Car' (or something similar).
You're ignoring monthly access fees. T-Mobiles least expensive plan for a single phone is $60/month.

You can get a cell/SMS plan (no data) for less, but then you're relying on public wifi for internet access (and none at home, unless you buy a wired connection).
We’re engineers, so “I work on a product that has to handle lots of users” entails pride.
Have you just described what went on in China?

It was an equal system. But you've just missed out the bit on what options are available to those that are a bit more equal and what happens to those that violate the rule.
> Members of Congress (and their staff) should either simply be held to the already existing rules on insider trading. They should not be able to act upon material non public information.

This is the law, and has been since 2012 [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
The reason one does not see freely rotating bodies such as wheels or propellers in nature comes down to perhaps the most fundamental aspect of biological systems: they're alive. Because they're alive, resources need to be supplied to them and waste needs to be removed. Propagating nutrients across a freely rotating interface can be an intractable problem, and this is not even considering the question of _how_ one could induce free and unbounded rotation in a biological joint. Think of how muscles work, with discrete attachment points and it becomes clear that free rotation isn't possible with muscles. The only method of inducing rotation I can come up with off the top of my head is some sort of turbine design, with rotation being driven by fluid flow.

The notable exception to the absence of free rotation in nature is the flagellum, which solves the nutrient supply issue by being so small and self-contained that it doesn't need nutrients, just the presence of an ion concentration gradient.
Any funds allocated to crypto law enforcement should be allocated to punishing tax cheats first
Melania Trump launches NFT platform
Because personal experience for the last 8 and 5 years leaves me no other choice. Especially concerning k8s, it's simply not believab6 that someone could not use it for modern computing architectures.
I'm not really sure, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Enhanced_Forward_Presence they don't have a permanent presence there, but I assume there should still be some fluctuating number of American soldiers in Lithuania due to some temporary reasons of the time.
I wonder how much the public would save by "letting go" of you and I?
salaries havent gone up because they've opted to decline the increase for themselves.

no one is denying they should be paid for their work we're wish to deny them the right to fuck over working americans to line their pockets.

they can easily pass a bill to fund lodgings for congress critters in DC if they wanted. it'd certainly be cheaper for americans than this corruption.
It's affected by Covid like the poor parts of Africa are: there are like ten other, more basic things to worry about before you ever get to Covid.
I'm curious, when you say "This kind of understanding won’t work with an AI", do you mean currently, or in principle, even in the future?

note: children's brains come pre-loaded with so much stuff when we are born (we are not "blank slates").
While you're not wrong about the complaint for the price and the age of the device.

The iPhone 6s is still receiving update, though it may not be long for this world, the iPhone 7 and 8 are still one and two years newer than said 6s - as such would likely receive updates a year and two years additional. That would put the iPhone 8 End-of-Life at 2024. That's 2 years out, and the 6s hasn't even finished receiving updates, so closer to 3 years out.
Well to be fair GTA 1 was released in the late 1990s, where as Lemmings was released in the early 1990s. So his two largest hits were in the same decade.
Exactly. I once did a 3-day, 150-mile, solo bike trip. My first day I thought a lot about how magical bicycles were. The next day my mind turned to how much that was really due to roads. The last day what I was really amazed by is the social systems that create and maintain systems of roads.

Without humanity's unique ability for cooperation toward long-term goals, the main use of a wheel would be a wheelbarrow.
Use a trusted exchange if you are worried about that. Holding crypto in a wallet is the equivalent of keeping cash in your wallet.

No bank in the world will care if someone steals your wallet.
Probably too early to ask, but how do you like the iPhone 7?

I wonder how well it works when updated to the highest iOS version available for it.
Next.js is extremely limited compared to Rails, so you're still not comparing apples to apples. Add to next.js a librarydatabase access, background jobs, csrf and related security stuff, migrations, server side caching of data, *validation*, email sending, email receiving, testing, and I could spend an entire day listing things Rails gives you that Next.js won't give you. Web development is not just rendering html, unless you're building just landing pages, there's a lot more going on.
Stop flapping your gums around.
Then you know it will be worthwhile
Pick apart is what they’re doing.

The systems I’ve worked in immediately abstract strings, shapes in images, etc, into the mathematical shape and gaps between edges.

If you dig into an arbitrary array in a variety of places, the fields contains coordinates, not “Hi Mom, kids are ok, blah blah”.

It’s measuring the white space in a thing, where everything but the feature you’re currently interested in is white space; what’s between the features I want?

Then comparing that to results of other data structures that had the same white space measuring applied.

Does it not do what you said you do you not want to believe it?

I think the issue is the companies being incredibly disingenuous about how this all works.

At the root is elementary information theory: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486240614

Formal language is 5,000 years old. Human intuition for quantitative assessment of hunger, warmth, supply stocks, tool building, etc is much older. IMO human language is noise obscuring obviousness. It’s the desktop metaphor of cognition. “Please internalize my language versus observe for yourself.”
Maybe I'm missing something, but there's something that I don't get about DeFi.

My understanding of the idea is this:

1) Using distributed code, the operation of which is assured by code on a blockchain based system like Ethereum, lending and investment can happen without the intermediation of banks and capital markets gate keepers. The savings from cutting these layers out can be shared between the supply and demand side of capital.

2) On a temporary basis only, some element of the rewards of contributing external capital, computational power, or other resources to a particular pool of capital are "extra" on top of the core capital allocation function of the pool. These can be structured in various ways but essentially the idea is to bootstrap money into the pools through a reward system that declines over time.

3) If the core proposition, that there is gain to be had from the disintermediation, is true, then at some point pools reach a sort of "ignition" point where the pool exists for that purpose only and the temporary bonuses are no longer required. This would mean that despite structural similarities, these are not Ponzi schemes since there is an eventual state reached were a real function is being performed. Some people will stop contributing to a pool as the rewards taper, but that won't matter because most of the money is now in there to be lent out for profit.

4) If that core proposition is not true, then they are Ponzi schemes because all the growth is coming from the rewards.

My problem with (1) is that these are already relatively low margin activities so how can there be enough disintermediation to go at once you account for the default and scam risk on the side of the borrower? It isn't the case that capital is expensive right now, tech investors are giving it away like its going out of fashion, headline borrowing rates are incredibly low, PE is going crazy buying everything. It's also striking to me that the promoters of these DeFi schemes spend so much time on bringing in new lenders but very little seems to be done on the borrower side. Surely if you're building a sustainable capital allocation business, you need a pool of borrowers? Ideally one in a business where they can provide substantial collateral for their loan, support high returns, but somehow can't access other forms of finance (but not because their business is illegal). That would seem to be a rare commodity so I'm surprised not to see pools fighting over access to these borrowers.
I think it is similar in this sense: those users are in a funnel as long as they visit regularly. Not everybody who walks into a store buys something, but if the store is busy that’s a good sign.
If you have the keys no lawyers needed.
Is it reasonable to request lawmakers to not trade stocks simply because they are in a position to affect stocks? If we do disallow lawmakers from trading, won't that act as a disincentive to some possibly good politicians who also happen to be using the market?

Currently members already have to report their positions in advance so it's very unlikely any congress member is actively trying to manipulate the market for their own benefit (it seems like in that case you'd just quit congress and be a successful business person?)
It's incredible how stupidly powerful the rational part of the human brain is. It has this unlimited capacity to get lost in details.

"What does it mean for AI to Understand?" - we keep arguing over definitions and moving the goal posts to make it seem we are an step closer to reaching AI.

When my first AI coworker will read the on-boarding docs and start solving Jira issues I will have no doubt we have done it. That simple.

Does anybody believe that an entity that would actually develop AI would start selling it? They would keep it for themselves and literally take over the world! Complete domination of the digital realm is one of easiest things an AI could do - I believe a lot easier than driving a car. And that alone would make them God.

When the first true AI will be born we will simply live the experience. Imagine being there when we learned to control fire. Would you argue over the definition of it? The size, flame color, temperature and so on? Something that great can not be denied by such small details.

LE: what happened to the Touring test? We forgot about it or does ordering things from Amazon when we command smartphone assistants to turn down the lights actually fools us?
I don't believe it is possible during the natural development of a free country to get back to having lots of children.

You can do things like ban childhood vacinations so lots of children die, but that isn't exactly going to make you very popular.
I wish the US had some of the options for male sterilization/contraception that are available in India. I've asked my doctor for years about some of the options available in other countries and am always given a blank stare of ignorance.
Apparently I didn't make it clear enough that I wholeheartedly agree
Pelosi in particular is pretty gross. Seeing her officiate the wedding of a Getty, the godfather of the governor, who used to be married to Trump Jr's girlfriend, in SF city hall, while 10000 guys are shivering in tents on the sidewalks outside, was disgusting. I honestly do not understand why the people in SF who consider themselves radical socialists haven't burned down her mansion. It doesn't make sense that they will torch a Google bus but never go after their actual oppressors.

If this scene won't make you sharpen your guillotine, what would?
https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/20211109306320/ivy-getty...
> Normal individual transactions are secure.

For a very narrow definition. You still need a way to get Bob's wallet address, and to secure your own wallet. Just look around and you'll see plenty of experts failing to do that correctly.

> The "rug pulls" you see are from contracts written maliciously.

And the contracts, being from DeFi land, are immune from chargebacks or legal prosecution. Regular old fraud, made exponentially more damaging because of cryptocurrencies.
check this one out too, there is a general topic of biomechanics regarding molecular motors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_motor
I always get a little confused when people quote Oren. He hasn't been involved in meaningful work in AI in decades despite leading a large, well-funded group.

But boy howdy can be give talks that sound good to lay people.
Interesting - I never knew that was the purpose of Reddit gold. I feel like a donation drive with direct acknowledgement that it would keep the site private and free of external financial interests would have provoked me to donate.

I thought Reddit gold was just some meaningless emoji thing.
Yeah fairplay, it's actually a trend in recent years for typeface launches to have little marketing one off sites rather than have everything buried in catalog pages etc I suppose, demo on a larger/sharable scale etc.
The reliability has grown a lot better than it used to be.
The logic is that the article is an ad for the featured company. "Why do we use propellers?" is just the hook.
>I have an L2 and it works amazingly well when there are exactly two clearly marked lines. It's not that hard to understand when I can and can't rely on the car to drive itself.

If you mean Tesla you should always pay attention, you are responsible even if the road is perfect, there is a non zero chance the car can swing and kill some innocent person because you are alpha testing.
RTD lot on the train line into DIA (Denver)
I think "rug pulls" is not defined well.

One example of a "rug pull" is that the team provided liquidity to the AMM liquidity pool, and then removed it, leaving people with no where to trade the token. Its honestly hard for me to call that a scam, although I understand the community expectation being undermined.

First: the SEC exacerbates this reality. Tokens that don't want to be considered a security have to consider NOT providing an expectation of liquidity. The team has to avoid expectations of providing secondary market liquidity just to stay out of the crosshairs of the SEC. And even in SEC registered land, If you look at the "risk factors" section of public equities, they frequently say "there may be no market for these securities, a secondary market may never form, there is no guarantee that it will always be there", which is true in all markets!

Second: with the advent of AMMs, ANYONE can provide assets into the liquidity pool. (even the acronym of AMM don't tell you much about what this is, its just a different model of exchange that is very popular). So even if token traders had been relying on the team under an unspoken symbiosis of the team providing liquidity, the token traders now can do it themselves. This is also very common. The token traders typically follow incentives to actually do it, but they CAN without those incentives.

Third: Token traders are the community and can take over any project to try to make their investment more profitable, it just requires more risk. It happens, but the times it doesn't happen the token traders just stop engaging with the project as well.

How can this be distinguished from other "rug pulls"? I don't think it is possible.
There are definitely ponzi schemes in defi, but I'm not sure celsius is one just because they pay what seem on face to be impossible rates. Gemini, which is regulated and based out of NYC, offers 8% on GUSD, their USD stablecoin. My understanding is returns on this come from a huge demand for crypto lending from institutions participating in the "basis trade", and a limited supply of USD lending available to them for it due to custodianship and regulator issues with cryptocurrencies. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-27/crypto-sh...
> I predict these issues will cause bigger problems than population expansion ever did.

I think that unfettered population growth would have caused massive issues -- you could say that global warming is one of its legacies. But there will be a whole host of new issues as we face this new challenge of moving towards sustainable fertility.

I suspect we will see a lot of government intervention with incentives towards larger families (increases bonuses as you have more children) and starting families earlier (rather than delaying to to their 30s.)
I don’t see any source there. Was is open source or just beer-free?
And yet AAPLs market valuation has taken off while TSMC has been flat at best.
As someone who used Firefox and has Windows 11, how is it going to affect me? My links open in Firefox only (and the only time I open links is either from WhatsApp or occasionally some link in a doc file or PDF I am reading). It works fine for me so far.
The flipside of that is that the effective capital markets we have depend on a level of trust which could easily be eroded. There were weeks this year where I saw advertisements all over London for DeFi products and cryptocurrency trading portals. I don't think the majority of people putting money in there had any idea whatsoever what they were doing.
two years ago I was hired to work on a fairly medium company, they were rewriting their front end for the third time, using a new framework (previous two were deprecated). I offer to create our own component based framework but they dismissed me, soon I was off to a better job anyways. They should be on their 4th front end refactoring by now...
Need a smartphone? Maybe not. Need an internet connection? Probably.

A smartphone just happens to be the easiest way to get phone/SMS & internet. As noted elsewhere, a massive number of Americans (and people worldwide) use their phone as their only means of internet access.
CNAME target should be allowed to contain a dash '-'
(2019)

Any reason for the share?
A successful timing attack against /dev/urandom would be a major bug that you could expect to be highly prioritised by the Linux team.

That is, for most people it is well outside the attack surface that they need to care about.
No, you’re not a “free-market”, you’re state-sponsored capitalism. It’s all the rage lately.
Lots of confusion in this thread. Members of Congress cannot legally trade on insider information, and haven’t been able to since 2012 [1].

The law was amended in 2013 to limit public disclosure by some tens of thousands of senior government officials. But it did not remove the non-public information trading restrictions from anyone. And it retained the full force of the STOCK Act for members of Congress.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
The repeated asking for donations is a bit much, I agree. I do still donate to Wikipedia though as I find it is an amazing resource to have available.
Why can't someone invent a system to raise and lower a propeller or Outboard to follow the contour of the waterbed lessening the need and expense of channels?
You're describing a "distributed filesystem with client-side whole-file caching". The Andrew File System (AFSv2) did this back in the 1990s.

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/dist-afs.pdf

FWIW, complexity is introduced when the server is unavailable and the client-side caches need to be synced with the remote.

Sshfs, NFS, and SMB are substantially easier to set up and live with, so you're not fighting conflict resolutions inherent in multi-primary repositories.
As with most amazing space-related things, Anton Petrov has a wonderful video talking about TON 618, using Universe Sandbox (which is quite fun to play in!) to demonstrate its size in comparison to our solar system. It helps, to an extent, to visualize just how large it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn9Xuema8q4
I actually haven't seen it. I need to. At first I didn't want to know too much about go strategy or how other programmers have attacked the problem because I wanted a sort of naive untainted view of things. Which was easy for me, because I'm not much of a go player. Now I'm pretty much roped in to what I'm doing, so I should watch that documentary. I'm playing around. The AlphaGo devs are the real deal.
i don't agree at all

i think it will rather be in non-javascript technologies with strong existing hypermedia infrastructure again, like rails, django, etc

the front-end component model is anti-RESTful and is really a mechanism for handling the complexity of the current client-server approach, it becomes significantly less important as hypermedia is re-embraced
HN crowd instantly jumps to some claims with zero doubt. And instantly doubt others.

I don't even think it is about self interest or other such motivation.
Hmm. Makes a good story, but it sounds a bit apocryphal. What kind of new employee unplugs anything in a server room without significant vetting? Perhaps they hired an idiot, but most new employees wouldn't be that aggressive.
Evidently, a lot of people would like to have financial freedom and accept the costs of outsourcing some portion of child rearing.
The U.S. also takes it seriously when whistle blowers and journalists leak a story that tells the opposite. Torturing Chelsea Manning and going after Julian Assange for example.

The million excess deaths from the wars is very realistic and plausible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
Yes. I buy used cars from private owners.
It's much easier to simply ban suicide.
Kind of like Docker, you mean?
Most people don't really use propellers all that often
Here is an idea: make the rotating part dead (like mollusk shell), and use muscles to push a paddle to add impulse to rotation, like pedaling a bicycle. Should be doable.
THIS!

I've worked many years with Django (doing old style MVC), then moved to do all the SPA stuff (worked with React mostly and some Vue). Now I'm back to MVC using Laravel and Livewire and it is simply awesome. If the decision is on me, I'm not going back. Laravel is awesome, and current day PHP is not 10 years ago's PHP the same current day JavaScript is not 10 years ago's JavaScript
This is my favorite story about crypto fraud protection:

The Winklevosses came up with an elaborate system to store and secure their own private keys. They cut up printouts of their private keys into pieces and then distributed them in envelopes to safe deposit boxes around the country, so if one envelope were stolen the thief would not have the entire key.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winkle...
Any time one dares to defend Pascal's "with" statement, a shitstorm starts...
Exactly, understanding something requires holding a model (or several) of the thing in the mind and be able to work with that model to some extent. That’s why we dont see statistical tricks as understanding - as soon as trivial errors show that operation in those models is not feasible, we reject it. And that’s why winograd works: it establishes a simmetry that requires a base semantic model outside of the provided text.