winstonsmith
Re:Show HN: GPT Joke Writer
on Thursday January 26, 2023 @10:38AM (#34533038)
It gave me the punchline "We'll be back after a word from our sponsors."
Re:To Ruby from Python
on Saturday July 16, 2022 @09:38AM (#32117940)
My frustration is that you can't pass foo as an argument to another function.
Re:To Ruby from Python
on Saturday July 16, 2022 @07:52AM (#32117170)
>[In Ruby] There is good support for functional programming with first-class functions, anonymous functions, and closures.
This seems like a blatantly false claim to me since as a Python programmer forced to use Ruby for Sketchup, I have been frustrated by the lack of first-class functions in Ruby.
Re:Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)
on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:07AM (#27255470)
The article seems to be based on an 1850 report initiated by Patrick Brontë. It's available online:
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/sanitary-report-on-hawort...
Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell
Predicting United States Policy Outcomes with Random Forests
There Are Many Ways to Map Election Results. We’ve Tried Most of Them. (2016)
Re:Firefox 65.0 released
on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @11:34AM (#19027639)
My experience has been very positive. I recently noticed that Firefox had become slightly slow to recover my session at start-up. I investigated and found I had over 1800 tabs open. With a few hundred tabs open start-up is amazingly fast. I never even think about performance otherwise because it has ceased to be an issue.
Re:Benzodiazepines: Our Other Prescription Drug Problem
on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:37AM (#17808259)
The Ashton Manual is good resource, but the state of the art taper method as far as I know is the liquid titration (via suspension, not solution) micro-taper. See, e.g., https://www.google.com/search?q=benzobuddies+micro+taper+liq... .
U.S. Secretly Negotiated with Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents
Opinion: Valuation, liquidity price, and stability of cryptocurrencies
Re:Not just bad health IT, but spectacularly bad health IT
on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:12AM (#16239231)
Oops. I have linked the original here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239176 .
Apparently I can't delete this post.
Is the Marital Status of a 5 Year Old Child Important?
Not just bad health IT, but spectacularly bad health IT
Collective hallucination and inefficient markets: The Railway Mania of the 1840s [pdf]
Some Google Docs users are being locked out of their files (updated)
How learning to share cakes could help stop unfair US elections
A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes
Re:Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches
on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:07AM (#15218591)
When the creation and representation of crappy products entails fraud or other crimes the result would actually include criminal prosecutions by the DOJ (in a world where the DOJ weren't captured by party A's industry). Tying the two scandals together is the influence of the finance industry on regulation and enforcement through the revolving door, in both cases to the same law firm representing financial institutions.
Re:Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches
on Sunday September 10, 2017 @08:22PM (#15215026)
I'll take a wild guess that he is alleging that Eric Holder's failure to prosecute any of the CEOs of the financial institutions that played a critical role in the financial crisis (by, e.g., making loans to people without incomes, packaging the loans into mortgage backed securities, and passing the resulting time bombs off to other parties) was appreciated by his former and future colleagues at Covington and Burling and their clients in the finance industry. That Eric Holder was very aware of that appreciation and anticipated that he would be rewarded for it.
Category 5 Irma the 5th Strongest Atlantic Hurricane on Record
The mismeasure of ape social cognition
New Pneumonia in Chinese Hospitals Is Drug-Resistant, Deadly and Contagious
“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders
Re:TIO: Try it online
on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:57PM (#14780100)
I really look forward to using this. It would be a great help to mobile users if uneeded options, e.g., 'header', could be made to disappear to save screen real estate.
Re:Why regulators should focus on bankers’ incentives
on Saturday April 08, 2017 @10:12AM (#14066986)
Eg., AIG. The "magic" is that insurers can also be crooked, have CEOs with perverse incentives and effective immunity from prosecution, and be favored with bailouts.
Re:Why regulators should focus on bankers’ incentives
on Saturday April 08, 2017 @09:33AM (#14066807)
> If the insurance is correctly priced then the banks that don't pass the cost of risk on to customers should be able to compete nicely against the ones that try to.
This theory breaks down if you distinguish between banker and bank as per the article.
In the short term, the crooked banker with insurance can out-compete the honest uninsured banker by making high risk loans, not caring if the loans are paid back. In the short term the crooked banker can accumulate tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and happily retire when in the long term the loans fail and the bank goes bankrupt.
The honest banker has to explain to his share holders etc. why crooked banker's bank is growing so much faster than his bank. His borrowers have to compete for houses against borrowers from crooked bank who can borrow more and therefor pay more for houses. His "under-performing" bank may become an acquisition target of crooked bank.
The requisites for this dynamic are the absence of fear of criminal prosecution and perverse incentives via excessive CEO compensation.
Re:Golden powers are nearly integers
on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:23AM (#13939470)
>To show what we want, we must prove the stronger condition that F(n)φ - F(n+1) → 0.
Noting that {F(n+1)/F(n)} is the sequence of convergents of the continued fraction expansion of φ, your stronger condition follows from Theorem 5 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction .