skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem with your idea (which is conceptually valid) is that you can buy and sell on Predictit well before the closure of the "market/event". So many people who agreed with a politician or idea (that some event would happen) would still sell early (at 90c/1$) because they could use those funds in other markets.

Worse still - you have people who would pump & dump the market - pushing the contra position (Trump wins 2020) and post comments showing showing holdings supporting contra, and then dump after it gains a significant share. I've heard of some predictit users doing this same operation 5x or more on a single market (an iconic example: Iowa Dem Primary 2020).

So it's all speculation.
>The argument is circular: if animals make it, it's part of Gaia else it's 'unnatural'. Animals didn't make plastics, so they're 'unnatural'.

Er, this is your argument, not mine. Mine is: "if animals make it, and it is unmade (or remade, or recycled, or broken down [0]) by something else, then this is 'natural'." Plastics nor PFAS meet that standard. Those matter types stay static. The animals called 'humans' make plenty of other stuff that can't be adapted by microbes and fungus and rot that keep things from the natural world participating.

>By definition I guess, not by any real difference between them and bone or termite mounds or dinosaur bones or geodes...you know, things that can last for millennia

But this is the real pièce de stràwman: the objects under discussion have expanded from things that animals build, to natural features that don't chemically interact with the environment. Of course fucking bones and geodes aren't the same as nonbiodegradable plastics or PFAS -- not only are they contained physically by virtue of their properties, but they are also regularly destroyed by the various systems of Earth, like UV light or multicellular life, or the same geological processes that create them, respectively.

Every example provided in the parent is, and has been, a part of the world for so long that they're not disruptive to other systems, or at least are physically contained.

>I don't applaud plastics entering the environment carelessly

Should they be introduced more thoughtfully? The point is that the system is unfamiliar with it. It can't be broken down and reused by something new.

[0] Plastics 'break down' into smaller plastics. I don't think that quite counts.
Most transhumanists I know are interested in biological immortality, mind uploading, hive minds, etc. VR does nothing for that.
Not the person you replied to, but Hotel California’s Hell Freezes Over version is generally very well regarded in mastering.

If I’m not mistaken one of those A/B/X test websites also tested that, and while I was using a very simple pair of headphones, the difference was noticeable.
I’m saying that the EFF are skilled lawyers who won a major case, and they should not be deprived of credit for that accomplishment.
Well this analogy leaves out Twitter censorship, which makes Twitter unlikeable.
What law are you talking about? The first amendment? It doesn't apply to private actors. Not only does it not apply to nongovernmental entities, it SHOULD NOT apply to them. To do so would be government compelled speach.
Not sure why it's autoscrolling. I haven't seen that issue before and also the play feature is disabled on mobile. Which phone and os do you have? I'll try to reproduce the issue.
05.08.2022 the Silly Home Release – Model Mania
Sure. But in that case I think a modal makes more sense. A page with a complex canvas that has state ideally should be the last page in the SPA navigation. Nothing should be able to "go back" to that page. What you describe is more a way to "go forward" to that page, since you're essentially reloading the canvas (which is fine but adds overhead in terms of state and response time)
Right. One is what the C standard says, and the other is what the ABI standard says. Maybe I’m missing something here.

Obviously, when someone says “type X is size Y on architecture Z”, they’re not talking about the C standard, they’re talking about some particular ABI.
The structure that side/disc limitations impose is part of the listening experience, to me - I like having to take a moment to consider the sub-narrative of the side as a whole before moving on. Even when streaming I’ll often look up the vinyl track listings to get a sense of the artist’s intended schema.
Betting on PredictIt has been a side-hobby of mine for the last 5 years, in which time I turned my fun $10 deposit into (just) over $1000. For me, it's a satisfying way of interacting with the news, motivating clear-headedness and accuracy over simplicity and filter bubbles.

The talk about "rational markets" in this thread is well-meaning, but I think it could better targeted toward BetFair and other uncapped foreign markets. PredictIt has a cap of $850 from any individual in any market, which means almost no market is dominated by "sharps" exploiting differences between prices and reality. Sure, PredictIt's prices are often more accurate than the average person's guess, but they still exhibit a lot of small and predictable biases:

- "Yes" positions are more popular

- Pro-Republican positions are more popular

- Cheap, improbable positions are more popular

- Positions confirming simple ideas are more popular

- Positions traders wish were true are more popular

- Things being discussed on the news are treated as more contentious than they are

Ultimately, almost all of my 100x growth just boiled down to finding these biases and maximizing my expected log(return) with them in mind.

I do believe PredictIt was good for discourse. Though it may have ultimately affected a small number of views, the "put-up-or-shut-up" mentality is much closer to the scientific method than media and its tendency to navel-gaze. The domain of PredictIt markets was small, but I often imagine a world which creates this kind of ecosystem for a broader array of scientific fields.

For me, though, this is the end of the line. The 2020 races (with Georgia runoffs) risk being unresolved by the 2/15 deadline, and it's impossible to predict what PredictIt will do then, much less if markets will properly price that in. It's been a fun run, and I'm glad it lasted as long as it did.
If there are too many bot activities, user may completely turn off notifications and reduce the usage.
As a full-stack web engineer who's ended up being competent with Yocto, I think a major factor is which companies need embedded Linux or proper microcontroller embedded work.

They're not you VC, SASS, zero marginal cost software first company. They're hardware manufacturers with physical product margins. The embedded project I work on only ships on a few thousand units/year, and it's only a small component of the overall system.

I think within that group of companies, the comp for embedded vs "software" isn't significantly different. "Software" just has FANG/VC backed salary inflation making the averages look crazy.
> almost chain of evidence

It is, and was a chain of evidence for me. One that saved my arse.

Type up your reports and spreadsheets, but raw data should always be kept in a proper hardbound paper lab notebook.... one that references the filenames of your typed up electronic data.
We are probably pretty much in agreement. It looks like they’ve got something to hide and they’re hiding it with delay tactics, among others.

They aren’t alone in failing to uphold FOIA laws, but they’re important in a key way: once the standard is forged, hardware will be built, certified, deployed, and required for certain activities. Delay is an attack that is especially pernicious in this exact FOIA case given the NIST standardization process timeline.

As a side note, the NIST FOIA people seem incompetent for reasons other than delay.
the hardware is pointless when it runs on windows, a crap OS, I'm still waiting patiently for linux on mobile, let alone foldable linux
This is a new help page, and so it is just a first step in more transparency on this issue. That said, what you're referencing in the page applies extremely rarely, currently to less than 0.1% of news websites, and it is expected to stay that way. So, you are unlikely to regularly encounter this ranking signal. And even then it's impact is relatively small, only a few slots on average -- from the page, "impacted sites are not moved so far down in the results that they are effectively removed."
You think that smallpox, plague, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases were major killers of pre-technological hunter-gatherers? I don't think that's correct.

But you're certainly right about the problems with child mortality, maternal mortality, birth control, and infected cuts. I think it's not a given whether or not these are necessarily deal-breakers (personally I think the maternal-mortality-plus-birth-control combo is the most horrifying, but YMMV), but they're certainly very huge problems. Very huge problems.

But I am not so sure you're right about problems with the justice. Again, GP didn't talk about the wonders of 15th-C England or 3rd-C Rome (never mind the really bad eras), they talked about pre-technological hunter-gatherer societies. Since "justice" is just a fiction we've come up with to try to match our evolved intuitions, my guess is that we'd be happier with the justice of that era than we are with the justice of the present era (and I agree that the present-day first-world situation is much better than pretty much all of the alternatives in the last 10,000 years). But you made a particular claim here, that "everything we know about criminal justice tells us that small insular groups of people are actually terrible at justice", and so maybe you have some references you'd care to share that could help me understand how right you are. I'd appreciate that.

Personally, I, too, am a pretty big fan of printed books and (the output of) looms. (I mean, I'm actually a big fan of LCDs, too, but I think that's a less obvious win.) But I think that your final paragraph is basically begging the question. My understanding is that existing hunter-gatherers (the very very few of them that there are) are actually happier.
Until 4 months ago, I was leading a team responsible for a cross platform desktop app with 20 million daily users, most of them on Windows. I used Windows daily and found/reported numerous bugs to Microsoft. I would never have made it my primary development environment, but I had some people on my team who liked it for that.

I think your uninformed ad hominem attacks are really impolite by the way.
"Like so many others after 9/11, I felt spiritually and existentially lost. It’s hard to believe now, but I was a regular churchgoer at the time."

Ah, the will to believe. In something. Anything. The believer crowd is usually not the group that makes it work. Today's "metaverse" enthusiasts and actual metaverse implementers have quite limited overlap.
Depends on the music. 320k mp3 is actually pretty good.

Anyway in this case I want a studio promising that their records were pressed from a high quality master to actually use a high quality master. It doesn’t matter if I can’t distinguish it.

Just because a Camry can also transport my ass from a to b does not mean the Porsche dealership gets to sell me one over another car I specifically wanted.
Oh god, the thought of Copilot contributed code ending up in medical applications is terrifying…
This is also how I got into Nix! I just used a 'normal' Nix install with a fake chroot (pivot_root/proot) environment, though, so I didn't have to build from source and I got to leverage the binary caching. There were some quirks, but overall it worked well.
Are you by chance in North America? I suspect this is a much more common edge case in Europe where you have a bunch of countries within close proximity to each other.
Human rights are a nice thing, but they are not a natural thing. What we grant to each other, we could (and might) grant to inorganic minds we may one day create.
Except this is not a house. It’s a public company. And a lot of people own a piece of that company. And a lot of them were unhappy about how Twitter’s leadership was running things.

I honestly don’t care, I’m not on either side. But this was not a house sale, and Musk wasn’t a crazy dude approaching a home owner. He had a lot of support from shareholders since day 1.
That's not what the contract says. The $1B breakup was only if bank financing fell through, which it did and has not. The banks are still bound by their commitment letters to provide the required financing, and it doesn't look too plausible they could back out of those contracts.

Levine covered it well here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-09/elon-s...
> Don't worry, the crisis will not last long. Audiophiles will find a way to get over it and buy some better cables that would have revealed they were using a Digital source all along.

You don’t need to attack any person or community - especially given that rich people buying expensive stuff is hardly hurting others directly. Please make good faith arguments.
Yeah, you’re probably right.
Basically couldn’t disagree more. The swipe up makes it faster to switch between programs and saves space for the screen. I guess I just don’t have much sympathy for old people. Everyone in family, including the 90 year olds figure out the new gestures easily enough.
No it doesn't say that, it says that if his third party funding falls through then he's on the hook for a billion dollars instead of buying the company.

There's nothing in the contract about a billion dollars fee for any other reason of the sale not going through.

Of course, a judge could choose to take that number as the amount to punish with, but it's not a price Musk can just choose to pay to get out of the deal.
> It helped elevate Tesla to the meme stock stratosphere even more than they already were. His Twitter antics turned a 200 billion dollar company into a trillion dollar one

Zoom out! Everybody loved GagnamStyle and Baby Shark too, but they are not getting on radio and people would be indifferent to the disappearence of the artist who made those songs.

MarketCap is a flawed measure for tons of reasons (in my opinion FCF is king) but if you want to use such flawed measure then time spent in the S&P500 would be a meaningful way to go about it.

Tesla has been in the SP500 for how long? 1.5 years?

If JPMorgan went bankrupt tomorrow you'd see people literally in the streets crying (for a whole bunch of reasons both at the macro and micro level) much like when Michael Jackson died. If Tesla went bankrupt tomorrow it would be like if PSY of GagnamStyle fame died, a bunch of hardcore devote followers would mourn but the world would move on pretty quickly.
In many ways Italy is two countries put together. Northern Italy is a lot more like France or Germany.
I don't know if there's any rigorous mathematical work yet on multiple black-hole space times.
The Republic of China is or was the official name. The mainlander terrorists overthrew the legitimate government and that government fled to Taiwan. Some revisionism of history now has mainland China the "legitimate" China all due to Tricky Dicky visiting in 1972. The government of mainland China if full of contradictions.
Ugh, no app for iOS. They do have a beta for Android.

https://proton.me/blog/calendar-free-web-android

Looks like they support shared calendars:

https://proton.me/support/share-calendar
All of this is just a theatrical farce by business guys. The market went down, Elon doesn't want to pay, Twitter has a pretty good negotiating position, the parties will settle out of court for $3-5 billion.
Yes in software we don't even have to worry about trying to get the magic smoke back into the chip (very difficult).
> Almost nothing has ever been recorded and released using only DSD.

I don’t understand; I was talking about an album without DSD. Why are you referring to albums produced with only DSD?
That is not a backout clause but protection against the deal not getting necessary approval.
Transparency is good, and, as Bernstein's attorneys will ably establish, not optional.
It also could have stopped the Gods from smiting us all, but there's no evidence that it has.

This article[1] is a good start at realizing the costs outweigh the benefits. There's little or no evidence of good caused, but plenty of evidence of harms caused.

[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/top-5-claims-defenders...
I've went through just about every app and I'm back to pencil and journals.

I do use apple notes for just about everything when I have my phone and no pencil/journal nearby.

I think most note taking systems being pushed by "productivity gurus" is compelling at first but then comes a realization that's not how we actually think.

There's merit to things like "building a second brain", but I think it has to start with analog notes.
well google did not outright reject, they said, it's not complete and the final should wait until the methods are implemented and used in practice (like most stuff is done nowadays)
> What exactly here makes any compiler/interpreter distinction important?

In my book, a compiler is an algorithm that (if implemented correctly) terminates for every input. An interpreter (of a Turing-complete language) will obviously occasionally not terminate. This distinction is very important when composing software.

Your distinction has the flaw that you assume that "execution" happens only once, while it is perfectly reasonable for an interpreted program to yield another program.
I quite like that phrasing (in your second sentence); did you come up with it yourself, or did you catch it somewhere?
Desktops maybe. Vintage mobile CPUs often were quite anemic though.
I imagine the argument is whether the method Twitter used, and was seemingly acceptable by SEC, is ethically, morally, or logically a reasonable measure.

E.g. Can they 100% say that there are less than 5% bot accounts, or is that 5% number being pulled out of their ass - and saying "less than 20% of accounts are bots" would hold as much water? That is therefore then a misrepresentation, fraud IMHO - and stockholders should be suing not only Twitter but also the SEC.
I think Twitter is in a tough spot when it comes to deciding how to handle hate speech and harassment.

In many ways they are like Amnesty International in that no matter which human rights issue they report on, there will be a contingent that says, well everything else you says is true, but the stuff you said about me is completely wrong and you've loss all credibility.

It is a hard spot to be in trying to be neutral in a world of actors who only want the other side criticized or censored and never themselves.

I am glade I do not have such a role. I wouldn't be able to take the constant flak from all directions for actions or inaction.
Starting on page 154 a now-familiar new product is introduced, and compared to Lisp as such:

> Returning to the LISP theme of our current issue, Visi- Calc is an example of a tree-oriented parallel data struc- turing problem for which LISP is a most appropriate lan- guage of expression. Due to a lack of availability of LISP as a software development tool for personal computing hardware, its authors did not use LISP. They also had to make a number of compromises and tradeoffs as a result of the small size (eg: 16 K to 48 K bytes) of the main memory of personal computers. But they did use many of the tree concepts of artificial intelligence research. This provides us with the ultimate example of the relevance of LISP-like languages and approaches to personal computing: one of the most generally useful new user software tools for small machines, Visi-Calc, tackles just the sort of problem for which LISP is an appropriate tool of expression.
(Meta) I was hoping HN would stay civil and while it mostly is, I’d like to remind that what people do in their homes for themselves isn’t really something worth circle jerking over. If you like expensive gear and find a difference, great. If you don’t find a difference, that’s also fine. Please don’t bother attacking either group for their (relatively) harmless views.
Mind uploading and hive minds are perfect examples of what I mention in my last paragraph (which I edited after posting, and you may not have seen before replying); my concerns are more than relevant there.
talk about a missed opportunity without examples. did I miss them somewhere?
Kable (YC W22) Is Hiring Founding Engineers in the US
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> "I don't have a problem with targeted ads, they're more relevant and good!"

They don't care because they don't understand. It's not about 'ads'. the data they give up will increasingly be used against them in ways that matter greatly (like how much they pay for something vs their neighbor, or if they do or don't get offered a job) and in even the most mundane aspects of their life (like how long they wait on hold). If an occasional ad were the true cost they were paying for the fun they're having it wouldn't matter, but that's not the case. They'll be paying over and over for the rest of their lives as the data that's been collected is used against them by everyone who can leverage it for their own advantage.
Even in the best scenario possible, these things are going to happen. All code is flawed in some fashion. Unless we plan on keeping these augmentations completely offline, they can and WILL be exploited by hackers.

I think that companies are capable of making secure systems when they have the right incentives. The Xbox One, launched 9 years ago, has never had its security broken such that it could play copied games. That's even though customers have physical access to the hardware and ample incentives to hack it. Microsoft prioritized security because it's directly aligned with the money the ecosystem makes from game sales. Implants don't need to run all the complicated software a modern game console does (which includes a web browser and video players as well as actual games), so they could have a much smaller software attack surface in the first place.
I wonder if there's some real-world "resonance" we're ignoring.

I could imagine an accurate statement like "the converted signal out of the DAC never diverges more than 0.005% from the original input", but could some aspects of that .005% produce some outsized weight when fed through a real audio system? I could imagine circuits that "rang" if given something that looks a little too square-wavey or hitting non-linear spots on the speaker's response curve differently.

It would be interesting to do some sort of A/B/C/D testing-- analog and digital, on two different audio systems, for example, to see if some systems are more subject to that.
"Free" ad driven content has always been crap. I still remember local "newspapers" distributed for free a couple of decades ago covered with local ads. Some smaller cities still have them. With content, as everything else, you get what you pay.
I get it. I still like having the option to skip it if I'm being lazy.
Container queries should've been in the headline. Finally we can build responsive components without media queries, when other browsers catch up, of course.
> Very generally, Java is one of those things. CPU performance is really, really good for non-rosetta workloads.

Single-threaded (or "lightly threaded") absolutely. But if we're saying "desktop-comparable" and "heavy workloads" I'm gonna assume a multi-core workload and go throw things like the 5950X or 12900K into the ring at a minimum, and the 5995WX at the extreme. M1 ultra starts at $4k after all, it's absolutely fair to include Xeon-W & Threadripper Pros against that. M1's big cores punch above their weight, but they still can't make up that much of a core count deficit.