skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Absolutely not.

You would absolutely not want to learn the opinions of the fire crews about if he was helpful or not?
If you are drinking caffeinated drinks, stop. I'm caffeine sensitive and it really makes a difference once I abstain from it, as an experiment. Give it a try.
Heel veel succes met het leren van Nederlands!
Private universities can be subject to free speech rules: states could mandate them, and if they take federal grants or otherwise do business with the federal government they could be subject to additional rules. See https://campusfreespeechguide.pen.org/the-law/the-basics/
Not the OP but that's what will most probably happen in case of a USA vs China conflict, the writing is on the wall, just look at what the reaction to anything Russia-related has been in the West during this latest war.
He owns a radio communications company/WISP http://sm-email.com/about.html

He's not just some yokel with a radio trying to help out

This is definitely a case of "this is your livelihood, you should have known better, please take this more seriously" type of thing

If he doesn't take the rules seriously enough to not broadcast on restricted bands, can he be trusted to respect the rules for his WISP?
Both China and the USSR conducted mass collectivation, land reform, commune models among other things to move away from capitalism to a communist model of public ownership. They even killed dissidents, violently oppressed public protests and starved their own people in the attempt.

And it was a massive failure.

It's a "no true Scotsman" fallacy because as long as attempts at moving to a communism model fail, supporters will just say "that wasn't true communism" ignoring the fact that if you can't actually create a functioning communist system that's indicative of failure of the model itself.
I think leaving en masse from a lecture/speech that you ideologically disagree with is likely one of the few permissible forms of protest in a university context.
This has nothing to do with the "www" subdomain. I assure you that the unix "host" tool is not trying to guess subdomains if the lookup fails:

$ host "ai."
ai has address 209.59.119.34
ai mail is handled by 10 mail.offshore.ai.
There is no solution. Software is isomorphic to theorem proving (Curry-Howard). Trying to get rid of complexity in software would be like trying to get rid of complexity in math in general. Yes you can often find a simpler proof for some theorem, but that depends on the theorem, on the problem.

Just because you can discover a simpler proof for something doesn't mean you can discover a simpler, less complex proof to anything else. And didn't Godel prove that some things can't be proven at all. That would mean some programs can't be written.

Still, mathematicians don't give up, they do their best. And so do programmers.
Because it’s not necessarily in their best interest. Everything is a negotiation tactic on both sides. Does Twitter want Musk to buy them? Maybe, or maybe not. Less than 2 months ago it was actively trying to prevent it. Now it’s trying to force it to happen?

Four months ago, Musk wanted to destroy Twitter by starting a competitor. Two months ago he wanted to buy it, now he wants to back out of the deal.

Seems to me a dance is taking place.
He should have hedged then. If markets have gone up, he would've reaped the benefits and Twitter wouldn't be able to back out.
It's been speculated. What if there's nothing to read between the lines here and he's just saying what he thinks?
In the real world all exponentials are sigmoids eventually, so what we actually get is is a recession with a drastic reallocation of resources (creative destruction).
I suspect we have different governments. I don't see mine doing anything remotely like that.

I come from a place that still has toll booths so that toll booth workers can keep their jobs.

I have to take off my shoes before I can get on an airplane so that my government feels safer.

I personally compute my government taxes, which only occasionally (if ever) get verified. That's how we fund the country.

If I routinely saw the government creating new technology that improved the lives of citizens, I suspect I would share your opinion.

It would be interesting to map "places interested in crypto" against "places that have low trust in their government" and what kind of overlap there is.

The way I see technology in the US: First, the nerds get excited and start forming groups about it. Then, the business people figure out how to monetize it. Eventually, the government gets sold an overpriced enterprise solution. Then we do it all over again.
Heard a varient at Berkeley from a professor of Applied Math, which you would probably no longer hear.

Generic airline, specifically Polish people were asked to move to the left side of the plane. Because "Poles in the right half plane cause instability."

(As for application in economics, economist Steve Keen, for one, explicitly models time delays and dynamics, with results worth learning from, AFAIK.)
> Twitter's entire business model, and existing revenue stream, is people paying them to show content/ads to other humans.

That's the biggest part of twitters business, but they do have additional revenue streams. However, the other revenue streams are also highly dependent on their status as "a place where people say things and people look at things"
I went down this rabbit hole in grad and my opinion is that Control Theory is good for writing academic papers, but has few applications besides the classical ones (mostly in mechanics).

Techniques often need very strong assumptions about the systems being modeled, which severely limits their usefulness.

In fact, CT is sort of the antitheses of the currently most hyped way of modeling systems: Machine Learning.
The fallacy in the article is trying to compare price of phone versus price of food.

The two are so different that it makes no sense to put them in the same comparison.

One should compare phones within the category of other phones. Compare food with other foods.
https://archive.ph/2022.06.10-051656/https://blog.stablegain...
Occom's Razor says he's just saying what he thinks when asked questions, which given his behavior on Twitter is entirely normal.
This kind of thing is why people see federal regulation as important and necessary. We all know how dangerous and time sensitive fighting wild fires can be and a civilian inserting themselves into the communication channels used to coordinate field operations is totally unacceptable.
Seems pretty clear that they are replying to the 'if he was helpful'...
A public university is restricted by the first amendment. That doesn't mean they can never have speech limitations, but political speech is very heavily protected.

Cornell is a private university, but it does receive significant government money and some of it's underling colleges are state funded. If it was acting in a way as to obviously disrespect the first amendment, that funding could be revoked.
It is literally how mattress and sofa companies sell their products at such inflated prices.
What he said was he wants to renegotiate the price or leave the deal. So, it's less "reading between the lines" and more "reading what he wrote"
>and kept breaking them during a critical firefighting operation even after being told to stop, multiple times.

You are just making things up. This isn't in the article or the FCC document.

It says he was told to stop on the 2nd day, and does not mention any transmissions afterwards.

Why do you feel the need to insert your fictional narrative into the discussion?
It’s certainly better than many alternatives; however, universities are not meant to be places of ideological dogmatism; a better response to a lecture you disagree with is an open, rational debate/discussion.
You're right. But I also said in the following paragraphs which means the same thing:

> Most companies will stick to "if it ain't broke don't fix it" unless we offer them 10x solutions

It should also work if people undermine 1x solution to 0.1x solution. If there are a lot of bad hires at the company level, which they can't finish ordinary tasks other than LeetCode problems and keep screwing things - the team leads and managers will start to complain and eventually propagate to the top level.
It seems that there is a level of eternal embarrassment the media, doubters, etc have felt since when they failed to stop the Trump presidency in 2016.

They made sure that they covered and did anything they could to stop him getting re-elected in 2020 which after losing lead to Jan 6th. Even after the acquittal, he is yet again still talked about running once again and did not run into another war.

I would have expected the media, and editors to have ignored him by now, but the fact they are finding it difficult to do so tells us that they are taking his possiblity of re-election seriously such that they know he could do it again.

Indeed, its not failure at all.
I still like plonk.
The weight imbalance from everybody rushing to the right made the plane unstable.
Ok this is classic hyperbole, but to pretend like 0 Chinese students are uses by the CCP, just like I'm sure the CIA has done similar tactics before would be naive.
I hope I will be able to change your mind!
I may have been inaccurate but you are wrong.

We buy sometimes electricity from France on the EEX because it's cheap. Not because we lac electricity. We actually sell more than we buy and that never changed.

France has to sell cheap because they can't shut down their rotting fleet. They HAVE to produce and they HAVE to sell. Even when the price is low. This is just another reason why the company running this hilarious "business" is bankrupt.

Germany has long ago replaced what nuclear has produced.

The only thing we HAVE to buy is gas because we need it for heating. Something nuclear can't replace since we don't even have 5% electrical heating in this country.
I would consider knowing when things are 'good enough' is a core skill in software engineering too. There's always time to take another swing at it later. Nothings perfect
This is very well explained, but there should be a simpler name for this effect than right-half-plane zeros if the author wants to spread the concept beyond control theory.
He's said the deal was off unless he's convinced by Twitter's bot numbers [1], which isn't a condition of the deal, so, yeah basically he's said he doesn't want to buy.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526465624326782976
From TFA:

> Many Stablegains users — including bartenders, postal workers and general contractors — feel they were misled by Stablegains’ marketing, which stressed the safety, ease and promise of decentralized finance, or “DeFi” for short.

From the bottom of Stablegains website:

> There is a range of safeguards in place to help secure your deposits, however holding and depositing stablecoins with Stablegains and third party lending platforms still carries significant risk. Please carefully read our Terms of Use and Risk disclosures[1] in our Learning Center before making a deposit. Any deposit with Stablegains and third party lending platforms is entirely your responsibility. You understand that your principal is at risk.

1. https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402680696...

From Overview of risks:

> As Stablegains is not a traditional US bank, the funds are not secured by the FDIC. While we aim to make every effort to understand and mitigate everything that can possibly go wrong, there is still a non-zero risk you can lose your deposit. Our advice is to diversify and never invest all of your savings in a single place.

Who the heck invests their life savings, all of it, in this kind of scheme?

> “I felt, ‘Wow, they have a lot of confidence by richer, smarter people than me,'” Insall said. “It sounds like a no-brainer.”

Ugh. What a terribly expensive lesson to learn. :-(
To me it felt like they happened in tandem.
Ok, so they are just making up an answer and speaking on behalf of the fire crew.
No. First, most compilers actually abandon SSA by the time they begin register allocation through phi elimination, and once you do this you have given up that property. Beyond that, coloring a perfect graph (an SSA graph) can be done in quadratic time, but coloring is not the most interesting part of the process, since you almost always have to insert spills which modifies the interference graph. Register allocation is more than just coloring. On top of that, most ISAs have complications like specific registers needing to be pinned for specific operations, or register aliasing on x86-64, that make things hairier.

In practice, theoretical optimality matters far less than the actual heuristics you use (e.g. avoid spills inside of a loop.)
I really don't see how you can use the word "some" here -- tribalism is ingrained at us. See: Racism, the Halocaust (prejudice against Jews), Nationalism, any set of kids on a playground.
Yes, I know it's a SO question, but since I can't find it elsewhere, and I can't bother to go to StackOverflow and create a new account, so now I am asking.
Let's be real, I fully expect for almost EVERY nation to be doing this - but it doesn't make a ban based on race alone any less of a terrible idea.
There apparently are some efforts toward that:

https://github.com/awesome-vacuum/awesome-vacuum
https://librervac.org/
Owning the content and the platform is valuable for both individuals and companies. I wouldn't want my data or content to be taken hostage and me having to rent the access on it.
This is false. He declined his right to do any further due diligence based on what facts that presented in the SEC filings. If those facts turn out to be untrue, shareholders can sue Twitter.
Children in a Maya Village Do Chores (2018)
Not really, there are plenty that are sinusoids which are just complex exponentials.

The real trouble with sigmoids is when the saturation point is beyond physically meaningful quantities of the system. See the tacoma narrows bridge collapse.
I tried it. It just won't show up in Itunes. I tried with a Macbook and a Windows laptop.
1. Given Jack's level of support for Elon, does anyone think he doesn't already know _exactly_ where the skeletons are buried?

2. It seems entirely unreasonable to assume that Elon doesn't want to own Twitter, or that he tried to buy it on a lark and changed his mind. If your premise is that Elon did want to own Twitter a few weeks ago and doesn't want to own Twitter now you should rethink your opinion.
The point is about inconsistency.

You can say "x = 1 if expr else 2", but you cannot say "x = 1 if expr". You do a two line

if expr:

x = 1

You cannot say "x = 1 if expr else return".

[1] is a list with one item, 1.

{1} is a set with one item, 1.

(1) is a number, 1, with pointless parenthesis. Perhaps you mean (1,), a tuple containing only one value.

Or how about mutable default values in function paramters? That makes a lot of sense...

I don't need to keep offering examples. You can search the internet and find many places where people list the warts, inconsistencies, and misfeatures of Python.
The less they produce, the higher is the cost of each kWh. But they are already not competitive at 100%.
Most of Green's article goes through, except for the answer to the 'climate change' objection (Objection 1). Which is, of course, the most important, and without it, the article as a whole also fails to convince.

The problem is in this passage (mine the emphasis):

> But the question we should be asking is not whether to be angry about the power consumption of proof-of-work mining. We should be trying to figure out the right path out of this mess. And more concretely, whether there’s a path forward which is more likely to produce *a good outcome* than what is already happening in the industry — namely, that projects are rapidly deploying cleaner technologies to replace proof-of-work.

1. What is a "good outcome?" A good outcome for whom? A great outcome for most species, and most h.sapiens, would be an outright ban, because of the risk spread.

Think actuarially:

There is always the possibility the crypto industry trends cleaner, but legacy chains will be around for yonks, and bluechip crypto is unlikely to ever move off PoW. This means that, yes, while there is a possibility the industry might trend clean, this is an emormously polite way of saying that the downside risk is both severe and likely.

Put another way: if you were selling planet insurance, and you found out they had a lot of PoW crypto going on but were thinking about maybe one day kicking the habit, you'd probably either charge them a fortune or tell them to take a hike, right? Think actuarially.

There is also a suggestion that banning mining (or crypto transactions) might just move the action to other jurisdictions. This suggestion seems strained: for while a coordinated international treaty or ban might make time to confect, it's certainly not impossible. Powerful nations might, say, weave a crypto-ban requirement into multilateral trade agreements, like we already do for intellectual property.

A ban on crypto mining would likely be even easier to implement and spread, as most nation-states correctly view crypto as a threat to their command&control. I mean, look at Ecuador.

Finally, banning crypto would also be something nation-states could take back to their populations as proof of progress on climate change. And they'd even be right.

As harsh as it is for a supporter of crypto (and former industry wonk and former whole-coiner) to say this, I'm sincerely beginning to think that the lasting value of this whole Blockchain Thing has been the thought it has provoked. I, for one, would never have had to think so deeply about the nature of value and currency.

But you know what? These days, I stick to fiat.
I've been maintaining a list here for a few years: https://captnemo.in/tld-a-record/

(Automatically updated, but Travis broke this a while ago). There's some older diffs on my blog[1] if you search for "A Record")

[1]: https://captnemo.in/archive.html
If I wanted to get into woodworking while living in an apartment in a city, any recommendations on books, places to look, or videos on how to get started? I've been looking for a hobby to take myself out of the whole digital grind and find some type of stress releasing, but challenging hobby
I am still using it. I was shocked to see an update come in a while ago because I noticed the same thing.

It could use improvements but it is surprisingly stable and bug free. I get the impression the developer treats it as passive income/side project.
What do you expect people to do? Abroad in a nation and culture which is quite hostile and dismissive of your own, most people would tend to be standoffish about anything that could be perceived as a slight against their home. American culture is and has been extremely biased against China, and not always with proper justification. Did anyone really expect to win over Chinese students with a harsh, aggressive, and, frankly, hypocritical, foreign policy stance interspersed with large amounts of good old-fashioned "dey tuk a jubs!" racism?
Actually, isn't a bank an escrow agent? As in, historically it was a banks jobs to escrow your money. Then to act as an escrow agent for transactions/etc.
There's a bunch of TLDs with A records, even Google used to point .dev to 127.0.0.53 for a while.
>The fire operations section chief instructed Frawley to cease operations on the frequency and returned to his post.

They thought he was so helpful they told him to stop.
Sure, it's manageable. I mean, trivially, Twitter manages it and Elon is worth more than Twitter, so clearly he can afford to process the data. They question is how long will it take, and how much money will he spend reproducing the analysis done by the company he's about to buy.
> How can a savings account generate 15% interest? Through the miracle of DeFi.

Yes, let me invest in miracles.
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stablegains

"Stablegains makes earning with DeFi simple and safe for consumers and businesses alike."

Crypto is a cesspool. Ethical businesses shouldn't be promoting it, particularly as "simple and safe".
Maybe, I think he doesn't want to buy at all. With TSLA down almost 50% since he proposed to buy it based on loans against his stocks it would be very expensive for him at any price now.

But I mean who knows, your guess is as good as mine. I think it was an impulse buy and now he has regrets.
Correct. We know nukes are not economically viable. They get less so with every passing day. Starting any new ones under the present circumstances would be extremely stupid, as no one would pay for power from it at a price it could offer.
>I'll bite! Why does it have to be crypto currency?

It doesn't. It could just be some secure, open cryptographic payment system like Digicash or GNU Taler, but financial institutions refuse to implement those types of systems because they benefit from the vendor-lock-in, surveilance, insecurity, and ambiguity of the existing system.

>Why couldn't I load ten dollars credit into YouTube, in exchange for 1000 credits - one of which I'd use for every video I watch? Google has my card on file already

Because that requires you to set up a pre-existing buisness relationship with every service you interact with. "Works great" for big companies like youtube, netflix, not so much for news websites, blogs, forums, etc. that rely on surveilance and easily blockable ads. The friction associated with that is what makes the current system uncompetitive. You couldn't just do a microtransaction with a random self-hosted website- there's too much risk on both sides: they could steal your identity, you could hit them with chargebacks, etc.

>I'm pretty sure some startups have already attempted a micropayment content gate. You pay them 5 bucks, they portion out the money to the content creators every month based on the articles you choose to read.

I would congratulate them on reinventing paypal. Watch as they re-invent vendor lock-in and hike up the fees once they gain signifigant market share. The purpose of cryptocurrency is to eliminate these middlemen so users can exchange peer to peer using FOSS, and we are not beholden to the whims of a single company like Patreon.

>Other than an immediate payment (in the case where you're not running it yourself), why does it need cryptocurrency?

It doesn't need to be cryptocurrency. It needs to be secure, private, cheap, reliable and competitive. All things which the current payment systems are not, and will never be so long as they are run by rent-seeking intermediaries like SWIFT, PayPal, Apple, Google, etc.
I've heard this said many times but it doesn't align with my own observations of Tesla and SpaceX's success. Is there any evidence that Tesla vehicle sales and SpaceX launch services are driven by Musk's personality?

SpaceX's success is easy to explain: they could do the same task as competitors for a substantially lower price.

As for Tesla's market success, I think that's predominantly driven by the product itself. They won countless car of the year awards. Customer satisfaction levels at near-unprecedented levels. Record-breaking 0-60 times provide an angle for gushing media coverage. And a decade of having no competitors in the market subset of desirable EVs. I've personally never heard anyone mention Elon when describing why they're interested in—or purchased—a Tesla vehcile.
The greatest sin of undergraduate engineering education is sequestering signals and systems into electrical engineering curricula. I understand why it's done that way (I even had to fight to take the course early, sidestepping some prereqs for reasons).

But it's really so foundational to understanding concepts of stability, resonance, information/energy flow (from the conceptual perspective), and the simple analytical tools for building a solid conceptual base. It takes a semester to hammer home that step response matters, positive feedback bad, negative feedback usually good, and topologies are useful.