jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Dead on. I found myself cringing at your suggestion that pg has said something ridiculous, and I like to think I'm less affected by status than most.
Anyone know Venetian Snares' business model?

I don't believe he has such a thing.
The global currency post market turnover is ~1.4 trillion according to the BIS, note this includes many currency pairs that dont involve USD; a trillon a day is an upper bound on the daily USD market.

China effectively traded around 0.2 trillion USD for yuan and kept the USD last quarter, the impact is not that big.

More generally looking at the volume transacted does not tell you much about the depth of the market; you need to look at the order book for that. Looking at the bitcoin market there are several lots of over 25k sitting within 20 cents on each side of the bid-ask, this means it is extremely likely one could carry out a directional 100k trade with relatively small market impact if spread out over a few days.
Drop it in your .bashrc and just type "psg foo"
A few Python versions, too (two projects that call themselves pyhaml).
You didn't pay very close attention in physics class did you?

Millimeter wavelength electromagnetic waves are still radiation as much as any other wavelength.
I have no issue with how the OS handles SD cards. But the way it is exposed in some of the hardware is a HUGE mistake.

With that said, MS probably needs to fix this issue at the OS level (and new HW needs to not expose the SD card). Give users the ability to "eject" SD cards, and make them usable in other devices (although of course losing all data).
It's great that these scientists have came out and said publicly that colonizing other planets requires adventuresome people who are willing to take some risks.
Yeah, there's also the tricky bit for the TSA that it's a particularly nasty felony to interfere with a Congressman's duties.
indeed. back in May 2009, as a freshman congressman, Jason led an unexpected bipartisan outcry in the House that got the machines defunded. the vote happened right before final session of the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference (which was in DC that year) where we had been talking -- and tweeting! -- about this all week.

it really isn't a partisan issue.
That's absolutely correct. I think too many people have a misconception of what haml is good for.

Personally, I use haml for all my rails view layouts. Anything more complicated than a wrapper div gets rendered in a separate .erb partial. This makes it very easy to shuffle around different parts of the layout when needed.
Ah, but he didn't say they were the first. The fact that others have used this template only reinforces his point IMO.
If you're looking for extreme gropings, I'd say Ramrod's backroom in Boston is about as good as it gets. Just sayin.
No they won't, because bitcoin isn't a Ponzi scheme or a scam. If you think bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, then I suggest you don't know what a Ponzi scheme actually is and you're using the term inappropriately.
Is there not a way to synthesize gold, like how diamonds can be synthesized (obviously a different process.) I searched around, and I guess there isn't a good process for this, yet.

Also, how much could NASA really be spending on gold, anyway? They're already spending billions on the rest of their space program.
That's not a CSV file, it's tab separated (I think, I haven't actually checked whether those are tabs), you will need to have the right extension for the contained data for it to work.
Bear in mind, Britain has been in steady decline for about 100 years now (in terms of its geopolitical standing). So there isn't much in store for being patriotic.

In Russia patriotism was big during the Soviet years, then dived during the breakup of USSR and has been making a comeback now. So basically patriotism tends to be there when people actually have something (or are made) to feel good about - a positive vector, if you will.
If you construct the machinery of censorship, it will be misused for bad things that never even crossed your mind.
I hold Sony primarily responsible for the release of private data, due to their ignoring basic security practices. Why are health records stored on Sony Pictures servers along with everything else? Why were data silos and graduated access not in place? I never see any of these corporate officers held to account for their decisions to not spend resources for security. The only people I have any measure of sympathy for are the rank-and-file employees caught in the middle of decisions made by well-compensated executives who never have to face the consequences of their disregard for anything other than themselves and their own compensation.

I have to take issue with "norms" for intelligence services as well. These are groups with no morals or ethics, what makes you think they would ever adhere to any sort of "norm." These are criminals and criminals do not adhere to norms imposed from anyone other than themselves.
> [...] I wonder why Clojure wouldn't be — and it could probably be as compact, if not terser.

Because Clojure is a goo language, that question depends mostly on the libraries available for Clojure.

(Whereas some other languages are worse at gluing, so libraries will only help you so far.)
Yes, those two facts about zero/empty cases (and so many more) are definitely related, and this class of facts is one of my favourites! Usually, if you're dealing with something algebraic in flavour (which is a very vague concept, sorry), there will be a sensible way to define the zero/empty case. This is often a good test of whether you have a uniform concept that works for all n without corner cases.

It almost irritates me when I read a book or a paper and they say that the zero/empty case is "by convention". I almost want to yell, "no! it's because that's how you make the definition uniform!"

Addition is usually defined as a binary operation, a+b, but really it should be defined as an n-ary operation; associativity tells us that doing "two layers" of addition should boil down to doing a single layer of addition on the concatenated list of operands. That forces 0-ary addition to be zero, which can always be added to the list of operands without affecting the result.

Something similar happens with empty products (which explains the factorial), empty spans, etc. In all cases, the trick is to figure out, what is the equivalent of associativity? What "syntactic" operations on the inputs (for example, concatenating a list of lists of operands) correspond to operations on the outputs (you can get the total sum by first computing partial sums)?

A fun puzzle, if you enjoy this kind of thing: what's the determinant of the 0x0 matrix (over your favourite field or ring)? For all (square) sizes, the determinant of the zero matrix is zero, but the determinant of the identity matrix is one, and the 0x0 matrix is kind of both. So which pattern should win? Which one is stronger? I know my own answer ;)
1. Study what the product needs.

2. Know exactly who can do what and get them to do it

3. Convince the execs you have a plan and prove it with improving numbers.
I agree, it is framed as a problem with Left thought, but all movements have their sacred cows and dogma. Except I don't think nuanced criticism of Trump economic policy is going to result in anything more than being called a soy boy -- they are insensitive to criticism like that.

In contrast, academia has long and twisty schemes of thought. But previously if you were 'wrong' you just didn't get any grant money or significant publications and pretty soon you had to leave (if you didn't have tenure, but even if you did you could lose students, lab/office space, favourite subjects).

Now, having divergent opinions can result in something akin to bees ejecting an intruder from the hive. I don't believe that this particular case is representative though; far more often it seems like nothing is done.
Worse than.
You sound like a really angry person. What do you do on your breaks? And you really think checking emails is useless? Honestly, if the OP is checking his emails on his breaks, he actually sounds like he's being productive. OP also clearly said he looked at cat gifs to clear his head. If you cannot understand the need for a programmer to clear their head from time to time, then you are not a programmer and if you did manage programmers, you were awful at it.
Are you not paying attention? Trigger warnings are how you can have public debate without triggering people.
Develop once, run everywhere was obviously not meant to be applied to backend code but to the client part. But besides that asynchronous IO is (usually) an OS-level feature and there is really no need to surface these features with JavaScript, many other languages could and can do this as well.
I wonder how you get off that list? If you have a large customer exposure, a high expectation of service in a chaotic world, and folks only notice you when you fail, what other rating could they have?
I could see going from a private office to, say, a well-designed cubicle, but I definitely think for a lot of folks the transition to an open floor plan could be incredibly disruptive.

I suppose it depends on the personality. Generally, though, with private offices, well-designed communal areas, and huddle rooms (plus larger conference rooms), it's hard to see how an open floor plan has any advantages other than supposed cost cutting. The crux of the issue, I think, is that it requires a rather special type of personality to be really productive in a more chaotic open floor plan, whereas it requires a much less special type of personality to be really productive when one has the option of retiring to an office.

Really, what's most important to me is that one has the option of retiring to a private space when the extra concentration is needed. If one were to sit in an open space by default, but always was guaranteed a small private space when needed, I wouldn't see many issues. But I've seen very few open office plans that can legitimately offer that sort of dynamic. Headphones do not constitute a private space -- they're more of a bandaid.
blaze is nothing remotely like the wall of cruft that maven forces you to climb for everything you do. I would describe it as "almost entirely unlike maven".
Imagine if Microsoft got a third of the revenue from Turbotax, Photoshop, AutoCAD, World of Warcraft, etc.
What kills me is the Honda I had back in the late 90s (a 1991 CRX HF) that got nearly 50mpg. Why can't they do that kind of fuel efficiency nowadays? Even the "Smart" Fortwo doesn't come close[1], and it's much smaller and lighter. I don't understand how we've gone backwards in fuel efficiency when we've made so many advances in other areas of automotive innovation.

[1] http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=7474&id...

And yes, comparing a 25 year old Honda to a one year old Kei car is a bit apples and oranges, so here's the CRX HF's spiritual successor, which surprisingly gets about the same MPG as the diminutive "Smart" car despite being a hybrid:

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=7474&id...
Technically, NeXT was partially open-source, and they maintained Darwin for awhile, but it's pretty much dead now.

Edit: More recently, they killed off OpenNI about a year after buying PrimeSense
Diesel is more expensive than gas.
Until / unless there is a way to actually put a cap on billing (not just a notification), it's something I'll stay away from when I can.
With SQL, I started out using an ORM at my first internship and I've been using an ORM ever since. Over time, I've grown to dislike ORMs for anything more than anything trivial (a simple select statement with a handful of 'WHERE' clauses, an insert, or a delete). Most ORMs try to generalize the behavior between various RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, MS SQL, etc.) and end up being exceptionally leaky abstractions.

When combined with tools that create a schema from code (which are in of themselves quite leaky), the resulting schema is frequently atrocious and lacking in both safety and speed.
Oh help, you can't be serious that he uses those on purpose.
There were people who made entire careers being experts in Cisco. And Windows. And Solaris. And RedHat.

Heck, you can still make a career on being an expert in IBM 360.

It's pretty common to go deep on a particular vendor's technology and make a career of that.
I don't have any problem with cloud hosting, as long as there's portability. I wouldn't want to design my architecture to be completely specific to one hosting provider.
The reason they are loved is the major social impact Philips had on the Eindhoven region, mostly positive. You could walk up to Mr Frits during carnival, ask for a job for your husband and he could start the next week, ask any older Eindhovenaar about it. They were considered to be a great company to work for: they took care of houses (one of the Eindhoven suburbs is called Philips town as it was literally built by them for their employees), and the bylaws made maximum employment a top priority (heck, it’s still mentioned in the latest CAO). The local football club was founded by Philips for their employees, the first player in the field was a 4-year-old Mr. Frits.

From the perspective of Eindhoven, they sure were a net gain. For the rest of the world, they sure are in a lot of cartels. But the tens of thousands of people working for Philips-related companies won’t care (ASML, NXP, Signify, Etos, FEI, TP Vision, are just some examples of the Philips legacy that is still felt all across the Eindhoven region)l
Yes, I think that is interesting, but not enough for me to get over the oppression narrative. Furthermore, I am skeptical that there is anything there at all, I can't image that the energy I waste the few times a week I go to Amazon to be anything but a rounding error on my overall energy expenditure.
Tesla has really only ever turned a profit through financial engineering, which is why it's never consistent. Tesla still has a long, long way to go before they don't need to keep raising capital to stay alive.

> expect to start having losses consistently

This is a very rosy view of Tesla. Tesla has always had losses consistently and will continue to do so for years. They are $13 billion in debt with only $4 billion cash, and a not insignificant amount of their cash is from full self-driving preorders they are still obligated to fulfill.

My money is still on Tesla going bankrupt.
Obviously this is not funny. It's pretty hard to deal with gmail, today they deliver it into inbox, tomorrow into spam :(
In fact, invitation for me went to spam, but personal email not :(
Well, you can write that code that tries to decide, or you can let GCC emit that code for you: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FunctionMultiVersioning

All you need to do is figure out what's the best version of that function to write for that target, and let GCC do the rest of the heavy lifting.
I also have great hope for the psychedelic research that is starting to happen again. Anecdotally, I have highly improved focus control when under the influence of low doses of LSD or mushrooms (I prefer mushrooms because they feel more "organic", if that makes sense). I am preparing to begin a regular mushroom microdosing regimen, because that focus control does fade in-between experiences when I take 1g weekly. I'm not after the reality-altering properties of psychedelics (except the very rare use of DMT for a "kickstart", as the last big trip I had with that gave me six months of focus control and ADHD mitigation). I plan to take a quarter gram every other day.
"Family as the main instrument of cost control" - now that is bleak :D
Depends where you are. That’s not going to happen at Big N size environments.
From what I've seen, tax loopholes exist mainly because of incompetence.

The Section 482-7 regs were written by the IRS to control how intellectual property is shifted offshore. The valuation methods outlined in the article were questionable. I read the regs multiple times to understand them and made an Excel valuation model to follow their rules.

Don't think the IRS realized they created terrible, ridiculous theoretical models. Don't think it was intentional either. Just a few people that didn't understand the implications and congress that signed the code into law without being able to understand it. Tax code for valuing IP is highly complex.

The US government writes terrible tax code in my opinion, mainly because they're just not very good. They're not as good as top private sector tax lawyers.

I empathize with the "You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them. If you don't like the laws you've created, by all means, change them" sentiment. Multinational corporations have to comply with tax laws from multiple countries that are arbitrary and complex.
Just as you can use an Android device without ever seeing a single Google ad.

However Apple's media strategy is a big part of their iDevice push. Simply selling you a piece of hardware is only a small part of their plans for you.
Here is a little screenshot, which in my opinion does a lot for understanding what it is.

http://grab.by/grabs/fd40f157cef16b5028333e3bf9dc3923.png

The VPN is a probably a rare thing, but to tech people when you say private network, without context it is easy not to think social.
Where have you been the past fifty years?
What makes it relevant is that it's still interesting and people might not have caught it the first time it was around.
Pennsylvania had 200,000 more votes than voters. What do you mean no evidence? Still no good explanation.

Since this is probably going to get flagged, like my previous post. This is what was entered into the record, during the objections yesterday in the joint session of congress. I stayed up watching it. So I'm not making this up.
You are an apple tablet owner I guess as android tablets are not supported as linked device :(
Over time, if the cost of creating a new thing for a company is maintaining it forever, a lot less new things will get made.
Imagine being the guy that got obsessively interested in bitcoin when only a few people were mining it.
Stress is definitely higher with public transport. THe challenge is that time is the constraint. Parents need to drop off their kids and be in their office by a certain time and do the reverse in the evenings. If you are proposing public transport as the solution, then that eats time thereby creating stress as everyone worries to reach their destinations quickly.

You can be frustrated by the comment but please try to grow empathy for parents. Raising kids takes a lot out of you. You are juggling n number of things and time becomes a major constraint. So unless everything (home, school, office) is nearby within walking distance, the number of viable solutions beyond cars go dwindle down significantly.
Not like they couldn't have done that before now.
This assumes it was incompetence and not done intentionally.

My understanding is neither company is owning this data set and there is an assumption that it is a third company that has either legally or illegally obtained the data and is using it for their own services.

Another option is that the data was exfiltrated by a loose group of people who wanted this to be freely available on a random ip. Know the ip, get sick access to a trove of PII. No logins, no accounts, no trace.

Welcome to the early 90s internet.
Post Office travel cards are not anonymous. They have to be activated and photo id is required to buy them over the counter [1].

[1] https://www.postoffice.co.uk/travel-money/card
I think this is correct. The bad news is we are creating systems which minimise the number of geniuses entering each field.

In the past, science was an eccentric hobby, not particularly valued and certainly not a viable career option. Today it's all of these things - like becoming a doctor. Telling your mother you want to be a scientist is far better than saying you want to be a musician. A hundred years ago that wouldn't have been the case.

The consequence of this is that these fields are filled up with careerists - people who are socially driven rather than curiosity driven. I think this might go some way to explaining the slowdown in scientific progress, because people chase low-risk 'hot' fields to advance their careers, rather than splashing about in the unfashionable backwaters of science for the sheer enjoyment of it.
>So take a standard car which is $40.000 without taxes.

Is that really the median car sold in Denmark? I'm doubtful.
What I meant was for eg applying deep neural networks on large data sets for eg can give you a few percentage points improvements on systems implemented without them.

At scale it makes a big difference.
SMS was originally set to pass service messages between phone equipment. The internet was originally used for military communication.

The original purpose should not be the lens to look through for judging something once it’s out, in particular after 10 years where people found countless other uses of it.
My point was that cutting edge ML can add a bit more on top of what data literacy can achieve. At scale that’s worth a lot.
Shareholders are known for optimizing for short-term liquidity or value gain, because even if some shareholders have a long-term view, shorter-term holders can buy in and force their views.

However, in many cases this is in direct conflict with much larger value growth that requires a longer investment term. Or in conflict with valuing greater long-term stability over a quick short-term gain.
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> I had just as many issues with the Dell XPS, where even basic video games would become unplayable after 15 minutes due to CPU throttling down to 0.8 Ghz.

Serious Q: Have laptops ever been decent for gaming?

I don't game much, but I think the form factor would seriously crush thermal capacity.

I have a 15" MBP and it's fine for most dev work save Node and Typescript occasionally cause the fans to spin up for extended periods of time. Getting rid of VSCode in favor of more memory/ CPU friendly editors helped a bunch.

Does your work involve a lot of 3D or graphics?
In 2000, "your hardware sucks" didn't really hold water. The N64 was a cut-down SGI machine -- it had texture filtering, a Z-buffer, and perspective correct texturing. Things the PlayStation didn't have, because in the mid-90s the state of the art in Japanese 3D hardware was to modify sprite blitter chips to do 3D with affine transforms. Nintendo contracted with the American SGI to get SGI tech into the N64, a savvy move. The PlayStation had more polys on the screen at once, but they looked worse. And they had a CD-ROM, which let them undercut Nintendo on the price of games.

But the N64 didn't suck. Neither did the Gamecube, which was superior in capability to Sony's sixth-gen offering (though not Microsoft's).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company

is different than

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News

which is not available on any terrestrial OTA channels
It’s a putsch because the intent was to disrupt or prevent the certification of the next president, literally the formal approval of the transfer of power. This is not a bunch of yahoos upset with a governor about coronavirus restrictions.
The video where he says "You're special! We love you!" to his followers as they actively besiege the U.S. Capitol and ransack congressional offices. That good enough?
IANAL, but I think you'll run into SEC issues with a setup like this.

Take a look at Reg D, 504

http://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/qasbsec.htm
Imagine an evaluation system based on this principle. It would be simple cost minus benefit, without regard to technical merit or project milestones or other silly process-based evaluation. This is the opposite of most companies. Generally promotions have to do with the size/cost of an employee’s piece of a project, not the benefit. Managers would be fighting to reduce their team sizes. I don’t know how you would back-propagate value though.