jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Retail banks take risks with their money

Huh? No! They are taking risks with YOUR money. When they lend on a mortgage, or make a corporate loan to a business they're doing that with YOUR deposits. This is how a savings account pays interest. They take your money, lend it at some interest rate and pay you a slightly lesser one. If the bank goes bust it's YOUR money which is lost: and this is why in most countries there are Federal Deposit Guarantees (i.e the govt will cover you up to some level if a retail bank goes bust)

Ironically this is precisely the OPPOSITE of the IB business model. They are NOT taking risks with your money: they fund in the money and debt markets, i.e they borrow the money to fund their activities.
thankfully, there are those of us who draw their conclusions from a pool other than that determined by hugh3. bitcoin is a very interesting experiment, and there are plenty of other valid reasons for learning about it or using it, than an insipid interest to become part of a "scheme".
Actually I think it might work the other way.

At the moment Netflix can't get licenses to stream the vast majority of movies. But if this business model works and is legal then Netflix can say "Hey look, your fancy new movie is going to get streamed over the internet anyway, you might as well license it to us".

I imagine the studios make more money on average getting fifteen cents per watch from Netflix than selling a physical DVD to these other guys and letting them play it until it wears out.

So this business might encourage a shift that works out to everybody's advantage: the consumer, the studios, and the existing dominant player Netflix. Everybody's advantage, that is, except for this guy, who finds himself driven out of business as soon as Netflix starts streaming every title in their library.
I'm grateful for the awesome community that HN is :)
Why is it especially appropriate today?
I'm thankful for my parents who gave me a computer when I was like 6 and supported my learning throughout the years.

I believe this was a very smart move. It's one of the main reasons I'm having fun doing my work today, without any money issues.
HP still uses oracle financial internally. Let's see them ditch that...
I am thankful for my fingers.

Last week I was just about to enter a hotel. A teen exited from the heavy and large revolving door, and being a teen, he made sure the doors were spinning really fast when he left. When I was entering, I tried to stop it: I put my hand on one of the doors and tried to pull back.

Big mistake.

I realized the door was too heavy and still spinning rather rapidly. By the time I left my hand, the door was a centimeter away from finally entering the outside frame. I pulled away my hand just in time, but the shear weight of such a door coupled with the speed would have wiped out my fingers (there is no space between the door and the outside frame). I wouldn't know what would have happened.

In another instance, somebody closed a steal door (not common in North America) against my fingers. I went straight to the hospital as I couldn't move my fingers, but luckily everything was alright after a few hours. But a revolving door is a different story. It doesn't stop.
I'm equally wondering!

Edit: I wasn't aware of ThanksGiving. I'm not thankful for the downvotes, though.
no real point in calling it a YC reject, since they were rejected for a completely different idea
37 hours total, averaged over all full time teachers. Sorry, should have been more clear. This includes work done at home (e.g., grading).

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf

You might have done more work, but you were above average.
"I say give them some money for basic food and shelter and..." == start thinking

"start their own business so they can learn to be self sufficient" == learn to fish
The mindset that is against government healthcare is one based on a clear conception of natural rights theory. It recognizes the validity of negative rights and the complete contradiction that is positive rights. Though most aren't against providing healthcare through non-coercive means such as private charity.
Would like to buy a banner spot for our hoodie site, because well, stoner's love hoodies.
Bit off-topic, are you ted unangst from openbsd?
It really seems like it is time to scuttle youtube. I'm serious, they keep trying the whole "it's not us, it's your isp" bs to explain why their service is all janky and glitchy even though other services work perfectly fine, and they keep pulling all kinds of bullshit moves, while also not really being all that great of a service and UI if we are honest with ourselves. Google has been mucking around with YouTube and its UI for basically a decade now without any real significant improvements. Things are even more fractured and disparate than before, the suggestions are just plain shit, and the content is akin to finding a needle in a pile of expended hypodermic needles.

I am really kind of bored with youtube for many reasons. I think it's time for the artist community, and others, for that matter, to find new outlets.
Good to know. For context, as an American, I've definitely seen Pozidriv screws before (without knowing that they were a distinct screw type from Phillips), but there's also plenty of Phillips screws here too. I'm not sure offhand which is more common here.
Utterly ridiculous; shills be shilling all up in this tread.
"8:00pm - Freedom! I usually spend some time in the evenings catching up on email" - I guess Google managers have a slightly different view of freedom from work than I do.
Hey, sorry about that comment, I went off on a bit of a rant and wasn't even really responding to things you actually put in your comment.

Anyway, hopefully your PSA helps some other programmer consider the consequences of open sourcing their code.
This should be interesting.
I transfused this blood before it was cool...
But it wasn't the right thing. That bureaucracy would have saved the world billions upon billions of useless HTTP GET requests that just return 404s. It was relatively minor to him only because he only thought about it on a small scale. But when you're talking about the web, you have to take the full scale into account.

And no, it's not really a crisis-level issue. The modern web is full of hundreds of little annoyances, it's pretty much the nature of the game. But I felt it was on-topic all the same.

But yeah, complaining about it here certainly isn't going to change anything; and I'll agree that the story behind it was interesting to hear even if I despise the result of it.
Except for the great comments here already I could add that tips like this (https://ivypanda.com/blog/how-to-improve-memory/) are really helpful ;)
TL;DR

"The government is considering releasing water in small quantities at a time into the Pacific off Fukushima Prefecture over a period of about 30 years, after diluting the concentration of tritium to about one-fortieth of the maximum set out by national standards."
That stability is the physics interpretation of the word stability, where stability could be measured in hours, minutes or even seconds rather than on a timescale where those elements would be present in measurable quantities billions of years later.
"specific domain/application knowledge", in addition to, passion with deep understanding of project plans (vision) and objectives.
I found this presentation[0] by a farmer talking about growing soil to be super interesting. He touches on promoting beneficial fungi as one part of it. He claims that with all the relatively easy techniques he, and other like minded farmers do, that they get high calories per acre than some conventional farmers.

[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9yPjoh9YJMk
All I'm questioning is the quality of the news coverage. Thanks for adding details, no thanks for assuming I'm an idiot. And if we have three other vaccines that are all known to be more effective, why should anyone bother with the one that causes blood clots?
At this point, I honestly mistrust that kind of source and treat it as no more than a rumor someone heard.
> assuming you don't want to put a lot of boxes in the middle of your living room?

Assuming. If you're a poor person with a place to live, you don't assume; you put the box.

Where I live, we have nothing like the popularity storage rental has in the US so I can't extrapolate, but I'd guess that it's something that lets you declutter your living space if you can afford it, thereby reinforcing the original point.
part of the problem with that market is that there are very few true console exclusives left and that trend seems to only be going one way. sony made sure to have their mark all over death stranding and it's still gonna be on pc in a few months.
Pretty much (co-author here). You can approach the book as a developer with little or no background in ML.

The purpose is exactly to get developers up to speed so that they can start perusing the already excellent online docs.

Hope you like it :-)
Tesla pedestrian collision warning is dangerously ineffective. It passes some tests with flying colors and completely fails other pedestrian safety tests.

Plays into the inconsistent nature of autopilot.
As long as it's got cameras like the Audi e-tron, why not?
It's possible to do what you describe with existing open-source/open-hardware U2F security keys, as they let you define the master secret from which the per-site private elliptic keys are generated. I haven't personally tried it, though.

But for security you should still have at least two U2F security keys using different master secrets (if you lose one security key, you can deactivate it without deactivating the other).
What about Eta Carinae?
I am capable of running something like AlgoVPN, but more importantly I'm interested in having disguising traffic: getting "lost in the crowd". In your view, what is the best to accomplish that?
GitLab B.V. CEO here. The proposed diff is interesting and I love the way they explained the idea. During the development of GitLab (over 10.000 commits) we never experienced the problem that was mentioned. Maybe it is because our codebase contains many tests. One related idea that a GitLab user proposed is not testing the feature branch but testing the merge of the feature branch into master. This would require retesting of all feature branches on every commit to master. We're open to proposals to add this to GitLab CI. But so far we didn't experience this problem frequently.
There's a lot of ranting here and it's hard to work through.

Since I predict almost everyone is going to come down on the pro-OOP side or change the subject to FP in order to show their professional credentials (and because they don't know any better), I'd like to note that some of this complaint about OOP marketing, though it sounds cranky, is strictly justified by the extreme amount of OOP hype that surrounded Java and before it, Smalltalk. And it is not just cranks who observed this (for example, there is the famous quote by Dijkstra).

However awesome Smalltalk was, many of the ideas now identified as "OOP" (like modularity and reusability) preceded Smalltalk by some time, and did not spring fully formed from Alan Kay's thigh. But all these individual things had to be presented as one big revolutionary change because it just isn't good marketing to talk about lots of incremental evolutions from a baseline set in the 60s.

Apart from the merits or demerits of OOP itself there's a meta-point here, which is that we can't get anywhere discussing sweeping methodological topics like this unless we break down language features or practices and present solid arguments for them individually. Too often discussion gets reduced to a slogan like "OOP allows reuse" or "typesafe programs can't go wrong" and then practice is enforced across entire companies without real reasons - just a lot of hand-waving, shaming and appeals to experience and authority which eventually harden into dogma. So in practice, almost nobody understands why we do things the way we do and dissent is dismissed without consideration. This is a terrible way to explore and validate ideas.
Well, yes. But those who insist that deflation is terrible are hardly going to agree that the depression was made worse by all the ham fisted attempts to fix it.
That is not necessarily true. The test results (e.g. travis, but you can use for instance Jenkins for your Github repository) shown next to the merge button are the result of a merge between the pull request branch and the branch you want to merge into. That's why when you do an ls-remote, you will see something like:

c3ca093c99495d0ddbb3197c14e0cdf514266392	refs/pull/2/head
0f5993828108bd2960713dc34a9ac7bef6dbc653	refs/pull/2/merge

one is the head of the pull request, the other is the result of the merge that you will end up with. Though I'm not sure Github will trigger another build when the target branch moves.
I would throw bup[1] into the competition too. One pro over zbackup is the easier retrieval of single files. Bup uses the same rolling checksum method for dedupliation inspired by rsync but it uses git pack files to store the data. Some git functionalities are reimplemented to work with large number of files and large files.

[1] https://github.com/bup/bup

edit: One huge con is that you can't prune old backup data. It's really early in development but it looks promising.
patch Tuesday it's one of the best thing of Microsoft. It's predictable so so it's possible to schedule the patching in advance. The patch isn't something magic that appear in the system, large organization need to be sure the patch isn't interfering with their other processes.
- No memory management

- No pointers

- No cache

- No branch predictor

- No interrupts

- No endianness

- No alignment

What exactly are we teaching students to program? It's certainly not a computer.
Slightly off topic, but my friends and I still host LAN parties. They are still amazing
Yes. But let's look ahead. What do we after that? How we help rebuild the economy?
I am not sure if this will ever get better. E.g. Intel GPUs that were perfectly fine for quite a while, now have regular hangs with Linux 5.3 and 5.4 [1]. Since Linux 5.4 is an LTS version, various distributions have already switched to it. I had to downgrade to Linux 4.19 on one of my machines, because my GPU locked up ever 1-2 days.

Nonsense like this make Linux difficult to use on a laptop that you have to carry around and get real work done.

[1] https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_Kernel_5.5_Will_Not_Fix_The_F...
this is all self inflicted, we could go back to business today if we wanted to, unlike in the depression, many banks went down along with their account holders.

That's not to say we wont get there if we do nothing. If we are really going to do this grand experiment, we need a big stimulus to offset it. especially for small businesses. So many restaurant and bar owners will not be able to handle this. Unlike Jim Cramer who says 'we dont need to help the rich', many of restaurants and bar owners have no other source of income and lots of debt, thus will become insolvent fast and there will be no jobs to go back to if we do nothing.
1. the Serbian military was engaged in ethnic cleansing in Kosovo

2. NATO attempted to use solely air power to stop them

3. Whilst the NATO air campaign was underway incidents of ethnic cleansing increased, not decreased

4. When NATO changed strategy and deployed land forces Serbia withdrew immediately, ending the Ethnic cleansing.

5. Not only did the air campaign fail at its stated goal of stopping ethnic cleansing it also had a miniscule rate of enemy assets destroyed making it a double failure.
Could you elaborate? Some quick Googling didn't turn up anything.
This I have wondered many times even since a kid but even now I think I would have had a hard time asking the question right.

Thanks!
Facebook's business model is to "move fast" (to outmaneuvre the competition) and "break things" (to disrupt the incumbents). It's clearly intended as a desirable imperative.
Thank you Stavros, take my money now! LOL.
It's very difficult with a touchpad unless one is left handed. Keys on the right, aim on the left: bad for the 90% of us. I should look for my mouse. I know I have one somewhere.
Does this also mean older devices are forced into obsolescence? Since this is minsdk and not maxsdk it sounds like it, but there's still many apps that run on my 2018 device with Android 7 (and even 2012 device with 4.4) so that can't really be.
> That a lot of parents who cannot work from home, like say cashiers or construction workers who still have to go out, do not even really know right now how to manage their kids.

And further confusing the issue, many other parents / families who are forced to stay home do know how to interact with their children productively, and those children have a much better time of it.
Does anyone know if research on this effect has been done in relation to sleep apnea test clinics?
I don't know, the UI is good. I like the "Ice Cream Sandwich" look, honestly. I wonder if the time of an open-source project is best served by re-doing the UI just to keep up with trends.
The English idiom for this is "I'd rather be hanged for a sheep than a lamb."

That is to say, if the punishment for any kind of crime is death, no matter how serious or how trivial, you might as well go ahead and commit the much more serious one and try and cover that up instead.

Either way you're fucked, so why not go all in?
Most C/C++ projects do compile if you use a 6 month old compiler.
I don't think the claim is that this is an untapped source of cheap labor. More that it's a (potential) source of inspiration, direction, contacts, knowledge. High school students have spent their entire lives inside the education system, taught by people who have also spent their entire lives inside the education system. They might benefit from perspectives on what's possible outside the wall, besides those they get from their parents.
Props to Flickr for the change, and a shout out to the woman who brought the issue to their attention, librarian Jessamyn West:
https://medium.com/message/why-spacex-s-photos-are-now-publi...

Jessamyn also invented the warrant canary. She is rad.
There's probably a causal relationship between the effects you describe. Because the Fed sees prices as deflating in Idaho or Detroit (flyover country is a large portion of the aggregate stats), they pump more money into the economy. They pump more money in by dealing with financial firms in NYC, who then invest that money in VC firms in Silicon Valley, who fund startups because that seems to be where most of the money congeals. As a result, prices rise dramatically in NYC and the Bay Area, but very little of the money actually gets to the Midwest, South, or Mountain states.

"Helicopter" Ben Bernanke was roundly mocked for his comment that the Fed should just throw money out of helicopters, but that would probably be both more equitable and yield faster, more easily controlled effects on the economy.
If I can go to a company and get more nodes than I need for a given DC, I don't care if they are "the same scale as AWS".
there is also this discussion on github https://github.com/Pinoccio/js-stk500/issues/7#issuecomment-...
That's probably true, but at least in my school, the greatest increases had been in the last few years. When I graduated in 2008, 2009 tuition was increasing something along the lines of 7.4% Probably the majority of that 14 years it went up relatively slowly and has gone up much more lately.
Marketing. Buying IP to protect future growth.
> Say you're doing weekly data processing that always needs to be Sun - Sat

Shouldn't that be Mon-Sun? The Sun-Sat week we are currently in is majority 2014, but the Mon-Sun week that started today is majority 2015.
I am not a trained fabricator nor a certified welder but I’m starting a turbo manifold for a non-turbo car and I’m trying to avoid learned mistakes from other DIYers. We’ll see how it goes, luckily I get to work from home this week.
Also documented at the bottom of this: http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-as-LRU-cache.html
This is as well-argued a case for illusionism as I can imagine. And it shows how hopeless the case is. The argument is, in a nutshell, “Consciousness seems to imply a soul, but there’s really nothing but brain; therefore consciousness is nothing but brain.” It attempts to resolve the hard problem by ignoring the elements that make it hard. Something inside each of us is experiencing our perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories. Nothing suggests that matter produces experience. Therefore the ability to experience truly is mysterious. If some part of consciousness is illusion, who or what is being duped by the illusion?
I'm sure hospitals can arrange credit. It's one of the industries that will not be in a recession.

And again, nothing to belittle PG, but $1M is nothing.
> Also historically plagues allow for great upward social mobility which is kick-start for the economy.

This certainly happened with Europe in the Black Death. I would argue, however, that the present is not a good analogy.

My knowledge of history is a bit sketchy, but from what I understand -- prior to the Black Death, times were rough for ordinary working people. Subsistence farming, in particular, was stretched to its limit; for many peasants, not all that much separated them from starvation.

The Black Death caused a truly massive number of fatalities. Afterwards, when the same total amount of natural resources were available, people had breathing room and the economy was able to expand.

Covid-19, while terrible, is not forecasted to be nearly as bad as the Black Death. The fatality rate is expected to possibly reach 1%, most of that concentrated among the elderly. Although this would be a catastrophe, it doesn't seem likely to have the same direct economic impact. The main economic impact is probably going to come from what is happening now -- bars, restaurants, concert halls, hotels, and such all being shuttered. Especially if this needs to be maintained for a long time.

Moreover, economics are different. So much capital now is concentrated among very big businesses. They'll be fine, especially since there is talk of bailing them out (e.g. airlines in the US). I doubt they'll change all that much, unless coerced by a radical change in public policy. But meanwhile, a lot of small businesses will go under. New ones will start, but I'm afraid (for example) that independent coffee shops will go out of business and that Starbucks will take their place.

I very much hope I'm wrong.
A is the A register, first letter of the alphabet.

Under 16 bits, it has a high and low part, AL and AH. The 16 bit whole got called AX, because X gets used a lot as a wild card.

EAX is extended (to 32 bits) AX.
what sort of devices are you thinking about? Pocket fusion reactors and other sorts of plasma bottling tech?
The supplies and reagents you need are all readily available on the web. For basic supplies like pipettes and tubes, one of my favorite sources is http://www.bio-world.com . You'll also need a taq polymerase and primers - both of which tons of companies sell online, just search Google and look at the ads. Some companies will only ship these reagents to commercial addresses, but there's more than enough that will ship to residential.

We'll try to get more info on the site in the days to come.