jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Eh? The Federal funds rate has been at 0.25% since 2008, if it were to go any lower we'd be in negative interest rate territory. The fed has only just started scaling back their asset repurchase program (aka 'QE' for 'quantitative easing'), but just like the previous 3 times (in ~5 years) it supposedly wanted to stop 'printing money', another round of QE is just one big stock market correction or housing market crash away. All the FED did to 'improve the economy' through its actions is drive up the stock market, create opportunities for malinvestments (e.g. the shale oil industry that is now about to collapse because of lower oil prices), and drive other central banks around the world to do the same to avoid their currencies decoupling too much from the value of the dollar. Things don't look too bad right now because most of the rest of the world (except Japan) is basically about a year behind the curve compared to the US, and we the next powder keg hasn't exploded yet, but the fuse has been lit, and it's just a matter of time until Bernanke will have to eat his words and all the asset bubbles the Fed created under his supervision explode in the faces of all these retirees he was supposedly so concerned about...

Just to be clear, I'm not saying Bernanke had easy and/or painless other policy options, or that central banks would even have the ability to fix the global economy and monetary system by the way. Just that a piece like this is a more or less meaningless bedtime story.
It's -- astoundingly -- worse than you think it is.
that should be very easy, since STM is mostly a project that is independent of the interpreter (e.g. you can use it in hippyvm or pyrolog). Good project as a start of contribution ;-)
>And I tend to down vote when I see commentary like this, because regardless of what else you have to say, this type of commentary is what hurts conversation.

What absurd nonsense. If we are having a rational discussion we only care about what he has to say, not how he says it.

Leave the doublethink and doublespeak for the politicians, it doesn't belong here.
Did anyone see Elon updated his Twitter avatar to Dr Evil? Nice to see he still has a sense of humor =)
Second comment, probably deserving its own discussion: if you're familiar with Shakespeare (or Google) once you solve about half the puzzle, the full answer is trivial to guess Wheel-of-Fortune style - and kind of robs you of having to puzzle out the rest of the regular expressions.
Every modem has a finite number of channels it can bond. Up and down are different. Also the CMTS (the device the cable modem connects to) limits the number of bonds per source modem.

A piece of coax has a finite amount of bandwidth it can carry. As modulation schemes get better (QAM256) you can do more with less.

To say DOCCIS 3 is limitless is not taking into consideration the hardware and frequency constraints. The more frequency you allocate to Internet the less is available for other programming (TV).
I have, but I'm having hard time creating projects that uses (or rather justify using) the higher-level JS programming paradigm.
1. People tend to write their opinion under threads that bother them.

2. HN is not a single instance but consits out of many individuals.

=> The "opposing reactions" are expectable.
Gerrit is using Git as a NoSql database. All the users, projects, reviews, ... are stored in Git repositories[1].

One of the main advantage of this approach is that replication becomes trivial, it's just a matter of running `git fetch` on all the repositories.

The main disadvantage is that NodeDB only has one implementation (Java), and no CLI to play with it.

[1]: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/note-db...
Yep, when I clicked the link it didn't load anything.
Information Technology is technology that involves information manipulation and storage. Development and software engineering are subsets of IT, infrastructure maintenance is another.
I was first thinking about the I'm a p.c..-advertisement campaign, but GNOME has never done such a thing, as far as I know, and enjoys similar levels of loyalty, and they are often compared as well in terms of visual design choices.
From the article: "You can mail a single postcard and it will only cost you $0.70 all-in, no strings attached." That appears to be the cost penalty for sending postcards from an API. Less than half of that is postage.

There's still a direct mail industry, but it's all about getting the big discounts available if you send in bulk and pre-sort everything. It's a form of spam; most of it is discarded.

Worse, people who still pay any attention to paper mail are likely to send you back a reply on paper or call you. Now you need a mail room, a data entry operation, and a call center.
IE7 has had very little usage outside of enterprise for a few years now. If you're screwed by your job, sorry. Maybe all those well-paid people can come up with an upgrade plan.
Yeah you're right this is kind of the archetypical "framework vs not" or "framework vs library" debate.

And I agree there's nuance to that conversation.

IMO, PHP codebases most err on the side of "reinventing the wheel" because PHP has since its inception just sort of worked, i.e. mirroring directory structure, spitting out HTML verbatim etc. So the framework luddites tend to be over-represented with PHP projects. Hence my opinion here.
Indeed. The only way to make sure that politics are not corrupt is to make sure that we never elect a person of dubious morals or intellect. Right now, that's basically all we ever elect. If there's a person in power interested in misappropriating or exploiting that power for self-interest over the general interest, he will probably find a way to do so eventually.

This is why it's relevant when a politician has had an affair; if he is unwilling to uphold the most solemn covenants he makes in his lifetime, to the people to whom is the closest, and upon whom the negative impact of his actions will hit the hardest, why do we have any idea that he will be willing to uphold his covenant to perform in the general interest or uphold the Constitution when his covenant is with an amorphous, anonymous mass of "The People"?
Azingo, 280 North, 4Home, now ZumoDrive. I wonder what Motorola thinks they are up to?
> That is entirely a matter of opinion.

It isn't entirely a matter of opinion, is it? When you use map to do your mapping, aren't you are stating your intent in the language of the profession? The name of the function, after all, is "map," and isn't this term's meaning rather firmly established in mathematics and computer science? So, the idea of calling a map a map has some precedent that we can use to justify the practice, doesn't it?

Now, if your audience has no notion of what a mapping is, then, yes, there's a level of semantic intent that you're not going to be able to communicate to them. (At least until they learn the concept; it's common, worth learning, and not hard to grasp.) But that doesn't mean that you should refuse to call an important concept by its established name.

Concepts, after all, earn their names for a reason. If a concept has one, it's probably best to use it.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm actually looking into doing something like that right now.
Funny, looks like there's already some competition out there...
http://www.kijijiforms.com
Quora is more like ask.com's old q&a site where they basically scrape yahoo answers for new questions and filter them. The difference is that quora has real people/voluntiar who is technically writing answers of those yahoo answers questions for quora and old ask.com used to use dumb serp results. They are printing money now
Thanks!

Check and checkmate are normal because it's just way too hard to checkmate the king with dual threats.

I can't beat Alpha Beta 3 yet either. If anyone starts beating 4 I'll put some effort into optimizing the search so it can go deeper. Going 10 ply deep is pretty standard for a chess engine, so it's pretty embarrassing for humanity that nobody is beating the 3-ply setting. I think this game actually favors computers over humans more than regular chess does.
FYI: I don't think Apple or Amazon offer free lunches, and Netflix served inedible Jillbee sandwiches when I was there.
What if you were to build a simple AR app? For example, imagine Instagram opens up directly to the AR filters. The action would simply be swiping left and right to try different AR filters. Would this be too complex?
Yeah maybe if it looks like a bomb, but if it looks like a bottle of water they are pouring or throwing it out.
For me KDE has offered the best Wayland experience. It's easy to switch between X or Wayland.
FYI recreation.gov also has an API: https://ridb.recreation.gov/

Edit: the National Park Service also has its own API: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/api-documentation.htm
Any good bots or services you would recommend?
With the advent of the app stores on mobile phones, I think it is possible to generate revenue (and profits too) by creating apps. Someone who is a game developer can build a business writing games for all the mobile platforms. If your business is not writing (and selling) games, I think you need to partner up with different players to increase the value of your service.

I think the app stores are letting us developers test our little apps without a business in the foreseeable future, which I think is great. If the app is a success then we can think of building a business around it.
When I read Spolsky's story to me the "where from" and "where to" parts didn't really mean anything.

For me its about someone smart enough to realize they are running in place and brave enough to do something about it. So many people get stuck in a rut and let it rule their life instead of the other way around. Ashton made the move.

Anecdotally, I've spent pretty much my whole life living between SF and Palo Alto, and realized about 2 years ago that I had to do something different so I quit my good job at a large software company to branch out on my own. Took a huge pay cut the first year, but I couldn't be happier. Getting stuck can happen anywhere.
You could have a section of the site devoted to those sorts of discussions.
Here's a useful comparative demo that makes this a little easier to differentiate:
http://alexsexton.com/inheritance/demo/
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2010/01/court_rulin...
I like the way the documentation is written -- two columns, with the code on the right and the documentation for that section of code on the left. Very easy to read, and perfectly suited for a short piece of code like this.

http://kolber.github.com/audiojs/docs/
As JavaScript becomes increasingly ubiquitious thanks to budding frameworks like node.js, the lisp->javascript compilers start to look more interesting. Parenscript [1], Scriptjure [2] and Scheme2Js [3] are the respective projects for Common Lisp, Clojure and Scheme, and they're all relatively mature.

More recently, Jacob Rothstein started Sibilant [4], which I've been collaborating on [5]. The main difference in approach is that we're trying to design a new lisp dialect optimized for the task of writing JavaScript, rather than compiling from an existing lisp dialect that wasn't designed with this purpose in mind. Since it's such a young project, I wouldn't recommend it for production environments now, but you should keep an eye on it if you're interested in this sort of thing.

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[1] http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/

[2] http://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/scheme2js/

[3] https://github.com/arohner/scriptjure

[4] https://github.com/jbr/sibilant

[5] https://github.com/evanrmurphy/sibilant
You can consider it apples to oranges, but this is the math consumers are doing.
Exactly. None of Facebook's products are irreplaceable. If Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus disappeared, even disappeared overnight, there would be a brief period of confusion where everyone scrambled to find alternatives, they would find these alternatives, and then... life would just go on. We might all be better off, particularly if everyone switched over to more open-web, accessible technologies. If the early studies are right, we might even see a general improvement in public happiness and mental health without Facebook and Instagram.
Let’s be real, the only companies paying Apple 30% are the pay to win games selling loot boxes. That’s where most of the profit in the App Store comes from. It came out during the Epic trial.

Software companies like MS, Adobe and most of the streaming services don’t even allow you to pay for access through the App Store.

Anyone selling physical good if they are using any sort of Apple payment, they are using Apple Pay and paying standard credit card processing fees like Uber.

As far as Tap to Pay, they are charging the standard merchant amount that all other payment facilitators charge.

As far as “owning your customer”, I don’t want every Tom, Dick and Harry to have my personal information. I use “Hide My Email” whenever possible. Owning your customer also means jumping through hoops to cancel (see NYT).
I don't see it as rent seeking since there are production costs to these classes but $40 is way too high. $2 is more like it.
But what someone does outside of work and not involving coworkers is, by definition, not a part of the workplace environment.

Treating everything about a person as within scope for personal concern is one of the things that really strongly turns people against each other. It shouldn't matter what someone believes or does on their own time, whether it's a right-leaning company with a gay employee, or a left-leaning company with a right-leaning employee.
There is nothing useful or healing about it. You can do that to a single person, not to a half of your country.
Literally on https://www.dictionary.com/browse/couple, the page you linked:

> idioms for couple

a couple of, more than two, but not many, of; a small number of; a few:

It will take a couple of days for the package to get there.

A dinner party, whether for a couple of old friends or eight new acquaintances, takes nearly the same amount of effort.

And some more dictionaries that agree:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/couple

> an indefinite small number: few a couple of days ago

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...

> couple (of somebody/something) a small number of people or things: We went there a couple of years ago.*
> Who decided that Freedom of Speech _only_ applies to government suppression

Which freedom of speech are you referring to? Because if you're thinking of the first amendment, then the people who decided that are the ones who wrote it, and it's pretty clear in the text.
Is there a word or expression for this idea of not relying on big corporations for one's cyber presence, communications and other such tools?

I thought about info-independence, but I'm sure someone smarter than I already coined something better by now.

I know it is (always?) open source, but not everything open source liberates one from the cloud giants. So there's something there that needs a name, I think.
> It's brand new, however, to wield the power to literally cut off your political enemies from more than half of the population with a single click of the mouse.

Indeed. The remedy here is to enforce anti-trust laws.
>The fact is nobody who wrote the constitution thought we'd get to a point where there was such a dominant private speech player.

I'm quite certain that's not true. Papers in the 1700s had just as much dominance in speech as social media does today.

https://csac.history.wisc.edu/document-collections/themes-of...

I think HN has a gross overestimation of twitter's influence. There are 7.9 Billion people on the planet, and 185 million daily active twitter users. I can't say I've ever once gotten my news from twitter and don't plan on ever starting. In my social circle I've got exactly 2 people who use twitter daily.
I was in charge of ensuring the TLS 1.2 compliance of hundreds of old sites in my organization. 2 weeks ago I was well on track to have it finished in time. Now I'm tasked to just keep up essential systems that are straining under the work from home onslaught, with two suddenly homeschooled kids needing my support

I'm also so overstressed and worried that can only sleep on Xanax and have an asthma flare-up that looks like covid19 symptoms at times, adding to the anxiety.

This will be a good and needed change, but it can wait.
If you have any ethnic food stores near by, try them. They tend to have cheap dry goods, with high food value. Although you may not be so familiar with everything, some initiative helps.

Also, keep your eyes open for unobvious cheap food - people panic buy the food they know e.g. in NZ: wheat flour, pasta, tinned tomatoes. But while there was no flour, there were still dried beans and other products that have more food value on shelves that were still great value per $.
This thought might comfort you, but if the only lesson we learn from this is “because Trump”, the next pandemic will be just as bad. Our regulatory agencies, our culture, our economic systems, all deserve consideration in the post mortem.
Not to mention, there isn't that much heat to speak of. At 2200℃, it should have about as much heat energy vs. ambient as a cup of 80℃ coffee, while being poorly conductive.

You could probably set something on fire, but not just anything.
The variance for muscle density is considerably smaller than the variance in shoe size.

https://itis.swiss/virtual-population/tissue-properties/data...

In this case the average alone is representative of the population without any additional qualifications.

Please don’t drink and drive.
In both links the Trump administration tried to cut the funding but Congress funded it anyway. Can't say that instills confidence in health leadership.

That said, calling the situation a hoax was beyond redemption.
This title should be changed. The user is clearly on a mission to defame Brave. The title does not match the GitHub post.

This post here by JamesTheHacker is slander at best.
On the one hand, you’re right jefftk has been cordial. On the other.. where does that argument stop holding water? Just because someone is polite about their views doesn’t really justify them any more or less.

I appreciate your engagement in this, Jeff, but I’ve read the post and I agree that it’s rather light in its evaluation of the negative value of ads.

Anyway I guess it’s getting too far off track at this point. Thanks for at least engaging in the conversation, unlike basically everyone. I would love to chat further in private if you have the time. my contact is in my profile.
This can tease out transfer entropy but still isn't identifying causal factors.

A common issue you find would be confounding. Then, because you haven't identified the latent connection, you may try to increase level A to have effect on output B, and be disappointed.

This is basically Judea Pearls Book of Why's main hypothesis, that E(Y|X) != E(Y|do(X)), where do(X) is when we modify X somehow.
Googler, opinions are my own.

Direct link to the docs: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/aut...

Google has a tool by the same name (autopilot) internally that does close to the same thing. There was a paper published on it 10 months ago talked about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980467
And because the English language news sources are allowed to publish such things before the government approves them.
PHP has its uses. Stateless request/response model with shared nothing can act as a kind of immutability. Facebook scaled for the first couple of years with just PHP 4 functions, arrays and templated HTML. The Ajax came later.
This right here.

We're in a huge bull run for an emerging asset class with little institutional support. Since no can ever perfectly predict when the herd is going to start to stampede, it's not at all surprising that the exchanges have been overwhelmed by support requests.
I can't fight the feeling that this is all circling back to the application server stuff that was popular for a time. And, really, I can't tell when those went so wrong. :(
Chaos theory absolutely, unequivocally prevents such models from making detailed long-term predictions. But that doesn't mean the models are worthless; they can still make detailed short-term predictions and gross long-term predictions.

Ed Lorenz was a weather modeler; he invented chaos theory to explain the long-term failure of his models. But weather models and climate models are nevertheless useful today if we're aware of their limitations.
I like your power/chaos analogy and it seems healthy to me to invite both centralization and decentralization at the same time or a flux between the two. If power and chaos always kept one another in check they'd create a symbiosis that would benefit everyone
In addition, any node_modules can read your .ssh folder (on windows).
From the TA: The maximum number of pods per node is 32, as opposed to 110 on standard GKE.

This is sad.. I don't understand why providers do it. It makes it very expensive to run small staging clusters. There is some reference on the current state here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1yhkuBJBY2iO2Ax5F...
For large transactions like buying a Tesla does it matter that the fees is $30. I wouldn’t use it for buying a coffee of course. But for high value products. Why not.
Not that they don't have standards--I'm sure they're very careful not to release anything that would reveal private information about specific, identifiable users.

Other than that, yeah. Those guys pretty much do statistics for the lulz. I would not be surprised at all if wzdd turns out to have been correct...
You are right about 1 anyway.

I would love to see how the sex is distributed over fields where you are likely to earn at least 50% more than those who don't have a similar degree.

I don't really count a degree in communication or womens studies as a college degree at the same level as math, biology or medicine.
I passed on about 4 gigs that came my way from the site that was built around the spread sheet hnhackers.com and am in talks with another member who has an interesting idea that found me on that site.
(I'm asking seriously about you reading it, not being snarky, about that bit.)
High speed trading is only relevant to the competition between market makers and other short term speculators. It has no effect on long term speculators/hedgers/etc.

If you want to trade right now, you will pay a few cents/share for the privilege (this is the spread). If my company was fastest, we sit at the top of the order queue, and we will receive those few cents/share. If GS was faster, they get the pennies. Either way, you trade right now. And if I decide to cut in line by offering a better price, you trade right now for less.
I'm interested in info on this retreat. Is there anything available online? Does the retreat have a name?
Looks like it's available for ~$200 as well. That's still pretty pricey, but I bet the $2,500 is due to some weird pricing arbitrage or something, you see that with used books fairly regularly on Amazon.
"Bigger images" go both ways - you can find yourself held to standards and prey to expectations that you don't want.

I've seen this a lot in hobby industries - guys working out of a tiny rented space in a office park find themselves wondering why their customers think they're a big company with a lot of money. This is inevitably due to their trying to look "professional", which tends to be a mingling of actual professionalism and aping the promotional styles of larger companies.