skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The really worrying thing to me is our inability to accept that we (as in humankind) are rather rubbish at running complex systems.

A good analogy is to think of the economy as a still lake. If you throw a rock into it, you know that it will create concentric circles of waves. You throw a second rock and you know that its waves will interfere with the first. But now the waves create oscillating patterns and now they hit the irregular shore and pretty much immediately you have the usual chaotic pattern of waves all over the lake.

It's the same deal with the economy. We can predict the first order, maybe the second order consequences of our actions. But again and again we're faced with a highly dynamic system with an almost infinite set of variables and we seem continuously surprised when things get out of hand.

To me, a federal reserve system that insures banks from bank runs makes sense. This sort of FED that we have now that tries to control the overall economy is - to me - at least as hopeless as centralized 5-year plans under communism.
optimum*
are you shocked
I mean it in the dictionary definition of the term: a person advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas. I'm aware there are conservative billionaires. I don't think that negates my view that you're more likely to see long term progress on many issues through private funding. US government budgets swing wildly every few years depending on what ideology is in power. By design, that's a conservative force (in the traditional sense). My government is simply not designed to do a lot of the things we sometimes want it to do, like cure malaria.
A large fraction? Making $100B the first 100 days of the war, overall, with it slowly decreasing, yet new channels are opening up straight to India and China? People haven't thought this through all the way.

Two days ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61785111
> the loss of appetite

I've been strict keto now for over five years. Prior to that I was clinically obese for decades. I tried lots of different dieting approaches and most of them "worked" to lose weight to some extent. The issue was I would always regain the weight because I couldn't maintain the diet due to the constant hunger and sense of deprivation. While all diets, including keto, ultimately "work" through calorie reduction. The unique aspect of keto for me was it was the only approach that allowed me to reduce calories without hunger or deprivation.

N=1 and individual metabolisms and preferences are different, so I don't try to extrapolate my results to everyone. All I can say is that after struggling for so long with so many other approaches, keto worked for me so fast, so easily and so well - it does feel almost like a hack.
Good question - I definitely noticed not a ton of activity on that specific site
> you really have a right to free association if you have to file a report if you pay someone $600 to do something for you?

> I'm not suggesting it's necessary to pay any person you associate with.

So you agree the right to free association is orthogonal to the idea of hiring people to do a paid job then, right? In which case, how is having labor hiring laws a violation of free association, when you agree you can still freely associate with people? In which case, arguing "free association" in terms of arguing that labor hiring laws being unjust isn't really a valid argument then, huh?

Like, I can go down to a park with a group of friends and not have to tell the government about it. I can attend a church and practice and not have to tell the government about it. I can have a dinner party at my home with my friends and not have to tell the government about it. I can freely associate with whoever I want, that's not a crime.

I can't hire a bunch of people who are not legally allowed to work in this country, as currently the government wants to disincentive unrestricted immigration and have made this action of paying people for labor they deem improper illegal. This is an immigration policy, not a free association policy. FWIW, I'm one to argue we should relax some hiring practices and reduce barriers to immigration in many ways, but this really isn't a "free association" kind of issue.
The NHTSA categorized the systems as level 2 and levels 3-5. You can read their rationale in the report.
Python Lazy Imports with Cinder
You can try baking your own cookies, biscuits and dry stuff like that. It's one of the really easy things to bake, they're durable, you can make them exactly to your preferences, add fiber etc. And if you want to geek out tuning the recipes and stuff, there is a lot of potential for that.
The brackets are indexed to C-CPI as of 2018
also, SRv6 in my opinion, is just a mess of security holes [0] and reinventing the same architecture over and over again while it is far more cumbersome to implement in hardware compared to simple MPLS LSP lookups.[1]

[0] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/v6ops/GbWiie-bjQ_Bp1JK...
[1] https://packetpushers.net/srx6-snake-oil-or-salvation/
New Machine Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng Is Now Available on Coursera
Semi-relates: Why don't universities offer online undergraduate programs? It's frustrating. I enrolled myself back to finish my bachelor's degree and my school offers very few or no online options for the classes I need.
This does not affect existing debt in any way only newly issued debt.
distance per fuel quantity ~~ efficiency

fuel quantity per distance ~~ inefficiency or cost
I wonder what the correlation is between people who think this is a good idea, and people who feel anxious and lonely. Not saying this is the only cause, but if you make decisions like this you'll end up isolating yourself from some pretty great support networks. Isolation and separateness is not a great long term environment for mental health.
it is 75 and so far stocks are up
I have had similar conversations with people regarding LLMs like GPT-3. Many people say "it doesn't really understand anything, it's just finding patterns in language", to which I respond, "So? That's how you learned everything you ever read in a book." If a system can combine data to synthesize new and accurate information, it has some level of real understanding, regardless of how it got to that new synthesis.

Also, this may be the first time I've seen Enochian just thrown into the middle of some mundane text :D
That's just drones serving the role of forward-observer though.

The underlying tactic of someone, or something, out in the field, issuing radio messages back to home-base to coordinate artillery has been around since WW2, maybe earlier. Drones represent an evolution to the forward-observer paradigm, not a revolution.

In WW2, those were paratroopers, commandos, or other scouts who were performing those forward-observer duties while hiding inside of a treeline.

Sure, they were Morse code messages over a radio powered by a 20lb lead-acid battery pack with terrible encryption, but the fundamental tactic hasn't changed (especially because said forward-observer team would rarely be spotted... since they aren't firing their guns they're really hard to find)
At first sight it is a great setup. And yet to take the argument to the extreme and considering unregistered work, at first it seems a good deal for workers, less paperwork and less taxes etc. But it only works until workers try to make use of their rights, get sick or similar, then it can turn out to be really bad.

I think overall it's fixing the right problem (complex paperwork, privacy issues) but not in a sustainable way.
CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City
Ironically when I was a postdoc in Australia, where you get paid on the same (good) payscale as other academics (you could even be promoted to professor level on a non permanent "postdoc" position), industry managers (from collaborators) always complained about the high salaries, which made it less attractive for people to move to industry.

Since I moved to Sweden I see much more issues trying to recruit postdocs. We still get reasonable number of applicants, but they are very low quality. We have been hiring PhD instead, who are much better generally (most of the postdoc applicants for positions where we looked for both, wouldn't have made the cut amongst the PhDs).

I blame that on several factors,

1. We are in a research area where our PhDs can go to industry earning 6 figures (at least in the US) so many opportunities for them if they look around

2. An increasing percentage of funding comes from competitive grants, so there are lots of postdoc positions. So even if applicants want to stay in academia if they are good they can be very picky.

3. A more general frustration with funding processes and universities continuously increasing academic workload, which academics are more open about. So PhDs see the downsides of sticking around more clearly.

I should say that I agree with the article that all this is good because it might be the only way things will change
In almost all situations, a high school student being dropped off by parents in a fancy car did nothing to help the parents earn the fancy car. In fact, generally kids at that stage are a net negative on parents finances.
How does that work in practice, though? Do most websites (etc.) support enrolling more than one token?
How much is that, exactly?
An article from 17 years ago reflects the PoV at that time, not today. The AMA has had different positions based on what they thought was best at the that time.
Not OP, but Pop OS is a great Ubuntu derivative.
One of the most popular mods in skyrim makes it so your character now has to regularly eat, drink, wear warm clothing, stay dry, get decent sleep, etc. I never got the appeal. There's an argument that the game is realistic played this way, but its still a game. You press a button to go to sleep and the camera fades for five seconds. That's not exactly adding realism or making the game more satisfying or challenging really, that's adding mundane stuff to the list of chores you now have to do to mess around in game.

Clearly there is an appeal for doing these tasks somehow for some people. I think it can get a little bit unhealthy if it becomes a means to escape the real life RPG you should be focusing on. I was a little bit in this state back when runescape was more popular 15 years ago or so. I would spend hours clicking around diligently gathering and preparing crafting materials in game, while I neglected very basic tasks around the home. Maybe people need to figure out how to turn laundry and dishes into a quest with checkpoints and lore and xp to get them as motivated as they are to do virtual chores.
Unlike socialism, capitalism actually seems to fare better when under a siege mentality. The 50s to 70s was a period of strong growth and right-wing support for worker-friendly policies which made the lives of the ordinary person better, not least because of fear that poor working class conditions would lead to communist uprisings in Western Europe.
Excert from the email about the differences between the previous course.

>The Machine Learning Specialization is designed to be accessible for first-time learners and includes:

>An expanded list of topics that focus on the most important machine learning concepts (such as modern deep learning algorithms, and decision trees) and tools (such as TensorFlow)

>Assignments and lectures built using Python -- the programming language of choice for machine learning developers

>New ungraded code notebooks with sample code and interactive graphs to help you visualize what an algorithm is doing and make it easier to complete programming exercises

>A practical advice section on applying machine learning which has been updated significantly based on emerging best practices from the last decade
please show where trickle down economics ever worked, anywhere.
This is amazing. Good product? Any update on pricing? I am trying to build a saas product that offers one serverless db per tenant.
Fascinating. Note that a low-dose daily doxycycline is an effective and common malarial prophylactic as well, with a different (I'd argue less severe) side effect profile than Lariam/Mefloquine.
It would surprise me greatly, because I'd go "hey! I'm over 1000 years old!"
Online programs may not be accredited by national credentialing bodies. Many STEM degrees require lab courses that can't be performed online. And non-STEM programs are based around the seminar (classroom discussion) model, where on-site attendance is always superior to a Zoom meeting.

Forcing students to live on-premises also makes universities money through student housing and amenities. Universities have concerns that opening their programs to online instruction would lead to an exodus from the campus. You could have 70% of a 20,000 strong student body attend online, and all the expensive real estate of the campus would mostly be a waste of money.
> it's been >70 years of nuclear power and there still does not exist a long term storage facility in the world

It's bizarre how anti-nuclear activists point at problems caused by anti-nuclear activism and ask, like Eric Andre, "how could nuclear power do this?"
Raising taxes to take money out of the system. With that you have control over who the pain hits.

Some specific areas that are getting hit hard like housing have specific problems that need to be fixed, like zoning.
> unless the tax brackets are adjusted

Most IRS brackets and thresholds are tax adjusted [1][2]. Tax brackets certainly are, as is the personal standard deduction.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-provides-tax-inflation-adju...

[2] https://thehill.com/policy/finance/580961-irs-announces-infl...
If it doesn't have to carry people, it can carry much less armor, which makes it more maneuverable; it might carry so much less mass that it doesn't need tracks to handle rough terrain. If it's light and nimble enough it doesn't need a turret to point the main weapon.

Is a remote-controlled dune buggy with a low-recoil rifle a tank?
I'm also interested.

If I'm running a company that has to do business with ordinary people, I want to avoid hiring someone who vocally and publicly espouses radical political views that many people would react to negatively. Even if they are "pseudonymous", since it could still become known later on that they are associated with the company.

Different people define "fascism" so differently that being "antifascist" could mean anything from protesting against the KKK, to actively working to bring down the capitalist world order (which happens to be the framework in which most companies have to operate.)

If I have radical political views, that's the part of my life that I'm keeping pseudonymous.
Pixel perfect existed in an era where almost everyone had 800x600 screens. Today it's about adapting to many different screen sizes and devices. So when people say pixel perfect today they're 20+ years too late. :P
How much is China spending on R&D
But if someone robs you then you have both zero money and less merch due to sales that day. I'm guessing a lot of places will err on the side of caution rather than some income.
Japan absolutely doesn't need a sexual revolution. While the Japanese live under a mantra of not trying to disturb one another (which is the opposite of what you want for dating), a sexual revolution has not fixed the problem for other countries by any stretch of the imagination. Most developed countries follow similar trends.

The problem is seeing relationships as too much effort for what's gained. That's only going to be fixed by sweetening the deal of entering a relationship and making it easier to enter a relationship. And unlike what's assumed, sexually liberating people does not guarantee things will become easier.
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meanwhile in the SP world, most core networks can support IPV6 quite trivially because it is either just another payload that is labelled and put into an MPLS environment, or when we need connectivity for our own nodes, it is quite trivial to achieve. (especially if you run BGP or IS-IS as an IGP).
Monadic Parser Combinators in Haskell
I have mixed feelings on tech stocks. I feel like the general competence has gone down, and that makes them vulnerable.

Google is a shitshow right now. I don't think they can do B2B. Chrome Extensions. GSuite Free. Google Workspace App security audits. I can list of dozens of other disruptions like that. No one trusts them. At the same time, cost structure is astronomical; employee count has grown exponentially, to match revenues, with little to show for it.

Amazon is a cesspool of knock-offs, scams, and rip-offs.

Facebook's reputation is in the toilet right now and internal incentives are completely misaligned.

Microsoft is, oddly enough, doing the best of the bunch. They recovered from their evil hay day in the nineties, their incompetent '00s, and seem to be doing okay.

I think the move to degooglify will spiral. I think an Aliexpress might take down Amazon within the next decade or two. And Facebook might be Myspaced.
Sheesh, and I thought the commute from Stansted to the city was rough.
Only because the comment I originally replied to started it billionaires should not exist at all.
Yes - they're lobbying now to reverse caps they themselves[1] helped put into place, and like I said, have also limited primary care availability by lobbying against the ability of NPs and PAs to provided basic medical care. It's a complete bunch of talk until they get change done.

By the way, that expansion of 15000 residency positions barely puts a dent in the number of doctors we are lacking[2]. But yeah, a press release from 3 years ago really absolves them of guilt for sure.

[1]: http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9708/24/doctor.glut/
[2]: https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/04/13/were-short-on-healt....
Big Tech begs Congress to pass $52bn chip subsidies bill
Same. I don't know any of these men and have never known any either. Sometimes I've wondered why some guys get some gals but then I talk to the women and they're like, "Oh, he's actually very physically attractive." So just because I couldn't see it doesn't mean the women didn't.

At no point have I heard multiple women say they are falling head over heels for a man due to his personality alone. Almost always - the man is physically attractive to them as well.
First I considered that 2.3l/100km is pretty great. But when actually scaling it to full car with 4 persons in it doesn't feel that special anymore about 9.1 l/100km. Which really isn't anything to write home about even in larger sedans.
Wow I had Lyme Disease a few weeks ago, it was INTENSE. The antibiotics they give you make you puke every day too. Or they did for me at least.
Not RHEL; https://microos.opensuse.org/
4 years ago, when I started my current job. Up to that point, I had been using Notepad++ for all my web development "IDE" needs. A coworker introduced me to VSCode, and I will never, ever go back, because why would I be that masochistic?
The second reason why keto is easy is because it produces "results" very quickly. Your scale will drop rapidly in just a few days. You haven't actually lost that amount of fat, you've lost a bunch of water in your cells, but the scale still tells you that the number went down. And the number changing for the better is what can help us keep at it.

This is also a "hack" to get into clothes that are a little too tight way faster. Your body basically shrinks a little.
The US House of Reps is nothing compared to the UK House of Commons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAM-YW-6vdU
Money !== speech, but money is essential to speech. I can say things, but if people can't hear me, because I can't spend the money to get that speech out, does it really matter?

The other thing I hear a lot is: corporations aren't people! But they're made of people. I want the EFF and ACLU and SAF and Humane Society to be able to advocate on my behalf. That's why I give them money.
The administration did not cut production. Covid did. The oil industry is dragging their feet.
At issue here is the fact that what physicists need to conduct experiments is not more data, but different data. To study higher energy levels, more energetic particles are needed. Generating more particles at similar energy levels and producing more data is not without value, and has been the work of the last few years at the LHC, but is considered unlikely to turn up surprises since it’s data about particles at a similar energy level to previous runs.
I'm frustrated too. My university has gone back to in-people and it forces me to drop 2 out of the 4 courses I registered, plus one of the kept course forces me to take a couple of hours off every week.
> …which in turn stops the trickle down economics…

It ever started?
> But in spite of an excellent CV, with the caveat that I had no affiliations with top schools and was not part of any in-group--I did not know how important both would be for an academic career, I though my many well-cited publications and clear and long-term research plans would have been enough.

Even those are not enough. I had all of those (great undergrad and grad school pedigree, postdoc with a novel laureate, publications...) You need to have a final boss who will go to bat for you, unfortunately the Nobel laureate was 84 and more into playing slots at the Indian casino/fucking around in the lab than he was in advocating for my career.
If you need a machine the size of a small country to observe an effect, chances are that effect is not going to have many practical applications. If it did, it would have shown up at the much smaller scale of those applications.
Have you asked for a raise?
We were net exporters during covid under the last admin.

This is the policy the current admin enacted that cut our production:

https://www.csis.org/analysis/biden-makes-sweeping-changes-o...

Please point to something that supports your theory that "covid did it" and oil companies are "dragging their feet".

- edit, at my post limit -

@vel0city: Banning new leases two years ago hurt our production output. Banning new subscribers and preventing renewals would hurt your revenue, why would you think it wouldn't apply here?

It seems you're trying to rationalize away the obvious change in policy and its effects because of some reason unknown to me.

Would you support retracting this policy decision since in your mind it has little effect and in my mind it's the leading cause of our loss of net export status?

@deeg: the article says offshore leases may not show declines for 10 years as the leases are longer, but onshore could "conceivably show up faster".

Your point seems to be this policy hasn't hit us fully yet? Are you for it? How confident are you that it didn't cause the loss of our net export status?
There's many ways to measure market share and when you look at monetizable users, Apple platforms have an outsized amount of big spenders compares to Android or web platforms. As I already said, this gives them considerable influence in what does and doesn't get adopted by developers. This is the opposite of how you claim it works.

We're going to have to agree to disagree because your argument you've made twice now without adaptation is a bit absurd. If Safari doesn't implement it it must not be important? I am now conscious of my original comment being inexplicably downvoted and I'm worried I might be banging my head against Apple fanboys instead of having a discussion about corporate influence over web standards. There is considerable evidence for this and I've given it in this thread.
How is my sharing my experience not an anecdote?

>a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

>keto is so effect [for me] that it feels like a hack [to me].

This is literally an anecdote.
Ridiculous that the Fed doesn't just raise 200bp and be done. They could have done this six months ago (call it 250bp then) if they truly believe that the level of interest rates will have a material effect on the inflation rate.

The piece meal, drip drip increases just raises uncertainty for consumers and businesses while ensuring they are "behind the curve"