skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The opposite of this is 'Gold repatriation'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_repatriation

Chavez was the one I remember who got his gold back onto Venezualian soil:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-15900885
Start out simple. Get Learning LaTeX by Griffiths and Higham. It's a short book that gives you the basics to get started and enough experience to start understanding how to do more advanced things.
Yes. You wouldn't need to worry about breaking it down to individual letters, though. Not necessarily. You would need pages and pages of writing from the individuals.
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You mean bitcoin ETF?
My company does managed Postgres on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean and UpCloud - https://aiven.io/postgresql. Compose offers managed Postgres (https://www.compose.com/postgresql), as does ElephantSQL (https://www.elephantsql.com/). Database Labs is one more provider (https://www.databaselabs.io/).

Google recently added beta version of Postgres to Cloud SQL as well (https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/). Of course, AWS RDS and Heroku have been on the market for some time.

I'd claim managed Postgres market is in a pretty good shape.
You're supposed to act like you're figuring it out in real time during the interview. They're "seeing how you think". When really you're just trying to recall.
I don't have a source but I did it when I worked in HFT & it wasn't novel.
The problem is a lot can change if we going to give China nearly a century for political change.

A lot of countries today are starting to look not to Western democracies as examples/role models of success but to China. Even in existing democracies, it is not surprising that the recent populist/nationalist movements arguing for isolationism, economic-nationalism, increased government control stem out of a world where China is the shining beacon of consistent 5%+ economic growth.

By the time China should change, they might have already reshaped the world such that they don't need to change.
I have a Windows laptop because there's a few key pieces of software that I use that's Windows only.

There's some interesting iPad Pro software that I think will be useful, so I'm probably going to buy one of those.

The software I use has always dictated the hardware I buy.
It is AI, it is just that not everything called AI is really interesting anymore. This should have attracted interest in the 80's.
It seems like a decent list of recommendations to me.

If you follow all recommendations you're way ahead of the curve compared to what I've seen, but I've mostly seen small IT shops.

I do recall passworded ZIPs being easy to crack, that might be better replaced with a PGP-based alternative.
Hey Simone. Awesome story! I actually ended up working at AWS too (S3).

I'd love to get in touch with you. My email is reggylong at gmail.com
Agreed, some teams at amazon are hire/fire fast. Not all but some. Keep going to interviews, even if you are only mildly interested. Keep your skills sharp. Enjoy the interviews. Make sure the companies pay for everything.
The HP Elite x3 has a fingerprint reader (also an iris scanner, like the 950 and 950 XL)
I dunno.

I do know people with panic disorder (and the associated agoraphobia) and social phobia who live on a "Non24" calendar (they might call you at 2am in the morning but not be awake at 3pm.) Depression, anxiety, drug use all compliate the equation, but it's hard to believe that this phenomenon is all that different from hikkiomori.

Many cultures take pride in an imagined exceptionalism and Japan is one of the leaders in that. It serves their ideology to believe that they have a disease that others don't.

I also have the impression that many people have subclinical agoraphobic or social phobic disorders. For instance, my dad was high functioning in many ways but he absolutely refused to go to any kind of retail space, including the store my mom worked at.

Social phobia has a strong association with bullying; some people survive bullying pretty well, but it has a devastating effect on many. Behind the misogyny of the tech culture you might find deep anger about how many smart people were shut out socially in high school. Some people find a pillar of stability that helps them get through it, but the experience of being in a hostile crowd can damage you profoundly.
AFAIK MAME's accuracy leaves a lot to be desired with respect to anything involving analog signal paths. For example, the sound system used in the Sente SAC-1 hardware is based on the CEM3394 chip, also seen in several pro synths of the era. The emulation does play sound, but last I checked, there wasn't any filter emulation, so it poorly represents the audio of those games.

Edit: And I wouldn't expect the situation to change soon. Accurate analog emulation is something commercial VST plugin makers have been working on for years, and they've come "close enough for most people", but the time spent on algorithm development and optimizing CPU usage is quite high.
Always enjoyed services from sharelatex, they made a lot of stuff easier.

A looks like a nice tutorial.
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> How did you only get six Chromebooks for the price of four iPads?

By avoiding the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel ones that might not stand up to a classroom environment?

The Asus Chromebook Flip C302 and Samsung Chromebook Plus are $449, for example.
Actually she did turn to me after I had been complaining about my cultural equivalent (that is, the quality of American coffee) in the car yesterday and say "darling we are both terrible snobs". So I think you are right. We're picky, we have selective high expectations, and we're not afraid to grumble when those expectations aren't met.

What's the difference between a snob and a connoisseur? You should taste the terrible coffee I make myself.
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Why are x86/64 processors used for most high performance applications then?

Well, you should start from this and then work backwards because it's just an empirical fact that x86_64 is fast and that RISC isn't. There are many reasons for that, none of them fair, but in the end, it's still just a fact.

Yes, RISC-V is simple+elegant. If that's what you want, great. True, RISC-V is open source. If that's what you need, awesome. Now weigh those qualitative features against the cold hard $1B/year that Intel invests in making the mess that is x86 run fast. Add to that the billions that ARM+Samsung+NVidia+Apple+... spend on making ARM fast. It's not a fair fight. It really isn't.

But know this. If RISC had anything tangible, any fundamental advantage, then we'd be living in a RISC world by now and we aren't (Patterson+Ditzel was 37 years ago). If you want to think worse is better, sure. Whatever. If you want to call ARMv8 MIPS-ish, that's your constitutional right.

Skylake is a superscalar, speculative, out-of-order, renaming, hyperthreaded multicore beast. You may program it in x86 but those instructions get translated+cached as μops, very wide microinstructions.

BTW, anyone who thinks that μops are actually RISC under the hood severely needs to re-read The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer and then say, Inside Nehalem [1] or Micro-operation cache: A power aware frontend for variable instruction length ISA [2]; microprogramming (vertical+horizontal) predates RISC by decades [3]. These μops are wide, 150+ bits. Ain't nothing reduced about that.

In 2017, believing in RISC is only slightly more acceptable than believing in Mill. Moreover, I say this as someone who went to Berkeley and read Patterson+Ditzel in 252. I should preach the religion.

[1] http://www.realworldtech.com/nehalem/

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ronny_Ronen/publication...

[3] https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/uprog.html
Well, he took a detour in writing TAOCP to invent TeX, because he felt other typesetting solutions were inadequate. So not surprising he uses plain TeX still. Most people prefer LaTeX becase plain TeX is rather more primitive -- for the same reason most people would choose C or a higher level language over assembly language for programming.
You'll have a hard time starting a company or anything without consulting a lawyer or legal service in Germany. And you won't be taken seriously e.g. by banks etc. Fortunately, cost for legal advice on this matter is significantly less than in the US, AFAIK. Plus, you have the bonus of being able to do business in 27+ countries with marginal or no extra effort.
How did Go, a language designed from scratch by top people with unlimited funding, end up as such a muddle?
If you do not need to agree to a license before you use a piece of software, then EULAs would be invalid.

As they should be according to 17 USC 117: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117

The standard dodge is that it refers to the "owner of a copy", while EULAs claim that you do not own a copy and are only "licensing" it. Which is BS in my opinion, but regardless the GPL specifically doesn't make that claim, so you don't need to accept anything to run GPL software.
This does not make sense, you always need to quantify the price of something in some unit to compare it to itself in the past. BTC, USD, SDR, Kg of Gold, you choose.
Not in AArch64 IIRC.
I like the question:

Why should I trust this vendor specifically with my specific data?

Then again, I don't see cause to trust any businesses by default. Perhaps I'm missing something.
> Two other commenters noted that competition is forced by law in the last mile of networks in Europe.

He also points out that this is because the infrastructure was originally built by state-owned monopolies.

Also, as I pointed out in another thread, the internet situation in the other big diverse European countries isn't better than in the U.S.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14212569. I've been paying $70/month for 150 symmetric in D.C. Doesn't look like my options would be better in London: https://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband-pa.... It seems like I'd pay somewhat less for half the speed down (and just ~20 mbps up because the last mile is DSL). Situation doesn't seem much better in Germany: https://www.reddit.com/r/berlin/comments/2sgi7z/whats_the_st....
I didn't really mean to disagree. (Although I know that's usually the default assumption!) A lot of people don't realize that VHS had real advantages besides just adoption, and I mostly just wanted to elaborate on that a bit.
While I understand that language changes over time, this new usage of neoliberalism is weird for anyone with a traditional understanding of the term.

I hold the view that neoliberalism is basically GOP-style capitalism where markets are deregulated and everything is privatized.

I've encountered a number of times recently where people appeared to be using neoliberalism as a stand-in for liberalism, which to me is exactly backwards.

Edit for clarification: I agree with your understanding of neoliberalism, and your assessment that Rowling's left-wing politics are basically the opposite of neoliberalism.
If your PW hashing function is wicked fast, you need to increase the work factor. The whole idea of a paw hash is to be comparatively slow, because that's one property that makes it harder to crack. Otherwise we could all go back to salted md5
The Game was great, though. My favorite movie by far.
You'll find similar attitudes in utilities, manufacturing, resource extraction, government.
I've never studied for an interview but I don't see any correlation between being able to smash the technical tests and getting hired.

In fact I think that often scoring 100% on the technical has hurt me because they believed my ability outscopes the role they're hiring for. (though they won't hire me for a senior role because I'm too young, eurgh.)

EDIT: In fact I think the best correlated factor has been applying for jobs where I'm apparently not qualified enough, the companies that decide to interview me anyway are:

- Willing to assess me not $YEAR - $GRADUATED

- Struggling for candidates
Bluntly said:

The gold of the central banks is not for saving the asses of the common folk but for saving the ass of the government and to have at least the tiniest sliver of hope of being able to somehow rebuild an economy after the whole failing state business is over and done with.
Interesting list, thanks for posting. I'm curious about the rationale of several points on this list. Why shouldn't you use an Android phone but at the same time Chromebooks are recommended? I'm also surprised about uninstalling any antivirus products except for Windows Defender. I understand some companies are moving to CrowdStrike/Carbon Black, but what about individual users or smaller companies.

Also, is there a similar list for small companies focused on remote working?
What you describe is definitely "an issue" -- I know people like this in the US.

This is not the issue that hikikomori is representing.

FWIW, I don't think that this is actually unique to Japan -- I just think that it has become easier to document in Japan because so many folks in Japan are starting to think that being a hiki is a good idea, and there is societal infrastructure there to support it.
I'm just trying to inspire online conversations about my actual technology, at the moment. I really don't need to go anywhere special. I'm extremely outgoing. I'm pretty well known where I live. I've recently had an article written about me (those kinds of feature stories about interesting characters) in a local newspaper, and random people have been coming up to me and talking to me.

My main issue is trying to fully connect my two parallel worlds of extreme tech innovation and all of the crazy things that I'm known for.

I think I can make a fairly good argument that people should start helping me out here, after nearly 5 years of solo work. The technology is that good.

It was honestly a little link-baity of me to use the word addiction in the title, sorry.
> Neural nets are honestly best suited to a ZISC type architecture... In any case, specialized deep learning chips should be on their way.

Google's TPU architecture is CISC type instead of ZISC type: https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/05/first-depth-look-goo...
I feel like lainchan.org is related, you can often find these kinds of discussions there. Site was recently reset so it looks a bit empty.

The community publishes a magazine (lainzine), but I have personally not read it yet. If you want to do this kind of stuff just for fun and don't mind a smaller audience, you could look into that.
I spent 13 years writing the core trading system for many of the well known exchanges. We used open source wherever possible because the software tended to be more reliable. That said, clients usually got to request the database and we used Sybase a lot. I have been using Postgres for the last eight years since. every day of the week and I really like it but the planner is quite a bit worse than Oracle, SQL Server's. The postgres planner is still way way better than MySQL's. It still has correlated subqueries explode into cartesian joins. Mysql is great as a data store but it's more of a replacement for noSQL than an advanced query engine.
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While yes fMRI lacks temporal resolution, the spatial resolution is way better compared to EEG. You also have the benefit of 3D spatial data while EEG only provides 2D data from the scalp. If temporal resolution is important, MEG can be used and has better spatial resolution than EEG.

Generally, EEG's benefit is that it's cheaper (either in terms of data collection or for showing your method has the potential to be commoditized).
The fundamentals don't change. Merge sort in Cobol is the same as in assembly. The rest is window dressing.
> Video	Yamaha V9990 Video Display Processor

Aren't these somewhat rare? I don't think they were used in much besides a handful of late MSX add-on video cards.
Here is an editor from a couple of years ago that lets you check your LaTeX:

http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php

More:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9986430
I used jsonb as an ersatz EAV store for settings etc until my product iterations, or at least the data model underneath, began to stabilise. Great way to get started without getting bogged down in DBA or problematic migrations.

Now the product's data model is mostly settled I am flipping over to regular fields, array types, and higher normal forms.

Being able to do all this without changing DB backend has been a real boon, far less time bogged down in ops = far more time to create customer value.
Since when is it a buyer's market?
Microhousing doesn't sound like much of a good thing, if I'm honest. It pushes a lot of functionality normally fulfilled by a house (such as entertainment, eating, work, storage, etc.) onto the city at large - you live in the city, and just sleep in the house. If the city isn't prepared to support such externalities, there's going to be a lot of chaos.

2,000+ families living around Bellevue (a suburb of Seattle, not even Seattle proper) doesn't sound great to me. Seattle isn't known for being a great place to spend your day in the park... Seems to me more like a scam to sell more homes at the cost of the city.
There exists equivalent artists today, but they are in new styles that may not suit the tastes of someone who grew up listening to 60's music and hasn't kept up with the evolution of music over the years.

Just like in the 60's, there's a lot of mainstream music now that will be considered foundational to cultural trends 50 years from now. However, they will be unappealing to people idolizing the music of 50 years past. They may not think much of modern hip hop or electronic music, or things like Radiohead or Kanye West, but those things will be regarded the same way we regard legends of decades past.
most of the "adapted" stuff just tastes bland.

I don't think anyone could accuse for example American Italian food of being a "bland" copy of the original. Italian food tends to be more subtle in flavour and with more focus on accentuating a single ingredient. American Italian is much bigger bolder flavors often mixing several strong flavours. You can argue that it's simplistic, boring and perhaps even unrefined if you're in that sort of mood, but hardly bland.

I actually do expect it to be made according to the One Italian Way

Except I've had fair amount of pizza in Italy and there is no One Italian Way.
Transitioning to working full-time has made me realize how much more freedom I had with my time as a college student.
That being said, you don't need to spend too much time studying for interviews (~30 minutes a day for a few months is more than sufficient).
Sure, but there's nothing stopping the same dynamic from playing out in China (or the current U.S, for that matter). What happens if the economic elites in Shanghai or Shenzhen decide that their interests have diverged from Beijing and that they'd be better off with self-governance? Their economic engines are fueled as much by Western multinational investment as by Beijing, anyway.
> I think there's still room to argue the ISPs made use of public infrastructure to lay lines.

By and large they pay rent to use those rights of way (poles and conduits). Besides that, consider Google Fiber. Fiber cities have agreed to e.g. provide land for hosting things like Fiber huts. Does that give the municipalities unlimited rights to the rest of the Fiber infrastructure in perpetuity? Whatever rights of way phone and cable companies have, they got decades ago in return for building telephone and cable TV networks, which they already did.
And what do you do? Would you like me to marginalize it too? Any job could be marginalized in the way you just did.
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Could not get it to work on Chrome 57 (MacOS). Works on Safari.
You're right, but the window dressing is the platforms we use to build production software. Other people responding to this comment seem to think that the CS fundamentals aren't worth getting good at. I think both the CS fundamentals and modern frameworks are both worth knowing well.
This is strictly for those in college with the TIME to study and interview. I'm a year out of a top-10 college; just signed a new job offer recently. Let's just say that difference is day and night. College is very much a cushion for your job search process. Grown ups have to deal with the emotions of failing startups, working over time to push through deals/compliance issues. Try having the stress of a family and dependents, yikes...
How do W^X restrictions affect something like this? I assume there must be a way to work around it given the prolificacy of JITing VMs, but interested in the details. The last time I was fiddling with machine code in memory was before W^X was a thing.
I don't really agree. What is labelled a "CISC instruction set" here would more usually just be called a control interface. But maybe I'm missing some sort of context here. (Contrasting it with "ZISC" for marketing purposes?)
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Anybody else despise the look of many of these ligatures? One of the worst is the design of the ampersand.
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As others in this thread have said already, the GPL is written such that it does not need to be accepted in order to use the software.

> If you do not need to agree to a license before you use a piece of software, then EULAs would be invalid.

I believe the GPL was written the way it was, in order to remove any concern that it might not be enforceable. If someday the courts decide EULAs aren't enforceable, the GPL would still stand.

Of course, the GPL also relies on standard copyright law forbidding modification and distribution without express permission, so if the courts ever change that then the GPL is in trouble since it's not an EULA. But that seems pretty unlikely.
I spent the weekend researching Ethereum and speculating on why people are investing in Ethereum (as opposed to other altcoins). I've come to the conclusion that there are two major reasons:

1) Momentum. Ethereum is (by many measures) the top performing alt coin. It's the most likely to be accepted on random websites, companies are investing in it and it looks like it has interesting potential.
People see that and jump on, hoping the momentum will continue.

2) Stability. Crypto-nerds like you and me look at DAO and shake our heads, "reverting transactions goes against the whole concept". But to investors it looks like stability, which is attractive to them. There is now the implication that the developers will step in and fix any major mistakes. It's not just ill-defined smart contracts, theoretically the developers could intervene in cases of stolen ETH from wallets of major exchanges, or anything really which could threaten the stability of the currency as a whole.
> He also points out that this is because the infrastructure was originally built by state-owned monopolies.

Yup. Doesn't mean competition can't happen another way.

> Also, as I pointed out in another thread, the internet situation in the other big diverse European countries isn't better than in the U.S.

Why limit the comparison to Europe? Also, why focus on situations where quality is the same or worse? No country is identical anyway, so we know apples to apples isn't really happening. And, to see it done somewhere successfully is to know it's possible. Good quality and competition can be found in parts Asia, Europe, and the US.

I'm confident we can figure out how to increase competition among ISPs in the US so we do not have walled gardens shoved down our throats. I don't know that I have the right solutions in mind but I would like to discuss possibilities and see lawmakers attempt various negotiations with data providers.
Because you probably didn't read the whole TeXbook and come up with a set of useful personal macros.