skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call that code easy to read, and that's coming as someone who has actually at some point learned enough MDL to actually know the syntax rather than have to reverse engineer it on the spot. There's a couple of reasons why that code is rough to read today:

- It's doing very complicated operations that operate on mutable global data, and structuring it as huge and deeply nested functions rather than splitting the operations up to smaller chunks with meaningful names. But you'd see exactly the same kind of thing in non-Lisp source code of that era; it's just different sensibilities.

- The code is incredibly heavy on conditionals. Which makes sense given the problem domain: parsing a pseudo-natural language. But MDL is a language where the conditionals kind of suck. COND is basically unreadable in any Lisp, you'd very rarely see people use it today. In CL you'd have more readable options like IF, WHEN and UNLESS. In MDL the only option is misusing short-circuiting AND/OR as a poor man's IF. Which they do in places, which doesn't help readability either.

- The use of angle brackets makes everything look like a sea of less-/greater -than comparisons. At least I just can't help it. It's especially bad when combined with the array indexing syntax.
I agree that hardening infrastructure against attacks (not just EMPs) is important. But that is only one of two requests made in the article. The other one is about shooting down a satellite owned & operated by another nation, an unprecedented request that - if executed - could be seen as an act of war. (Imagine if NK destroys a US satellite...)
There will be 10 billion people on Earth. Growing food for them needs a tiny area in highly developed countries via industrial farming. But what would that 10bn people do then?
Nature doesn't have a "proper" wage. The temporary moat of other countries being destroyed by ww2 and less efficient travel and lack of computers meant labor supply was constructed. The situation has now changed so there is more supply of labor (similar to when women came into the work force). You can't fight supply and demand, the people with lower quality of life (in developing countries) will work for less than the richer ones, so their product is cheaper, and in the marketplace people will buy cheaper products (as evident in our situation today).
Stop deleting/resubmitting/astroturfing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=eul.im
The woman is a hero, as far as I am concerned.

Also note that at least one researcher in researchgate chose to mail their paper to me when I asked, once I found it wasn't available on sci-hub. This was extremely nice of them and made my day.

As a student I love this decade for finally having access to such a vast repository of knowledge that wasn't available to me in the previous years. I am also thankful for the researchers whose work I am accessing now.
Are you seriously asking what productive work people can do other than farming?
Coming from the southern part of Europe, here in the UK groceries (save for Whole Foods 5pounds a bite..) are almost always tasteless.
Except for the apricots at the Turkish deli down the street. I don't know where he gets them from, they are the best apricots I've ever had by far =)
Well. After they've already taken in 400k they could continue to take in money at about 40k per year. If you want to know why people are willing to work for 40k a year, there are lots of people you could ask in our society.
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I don't think of it as insanity so much as a kindness -- they're generously signaling up front that they consider their content less valuable than their font choices.

This helps me value the content accordingly.
It's simple enough that I worry a bit about unqualified people offering it as a service.
Then perhaps you'll want to refrain from making anti train construction arguments that are now out of date. We're quite behind because of them.
Oh yeah, Cuba definitely regressed because of the US embargoes. What's the excuse of every other communist country in the world again?
People really need to specify a geographical context for discussions of Uber; I've no doubt that wyager and coldtea are both reporting their experiences, but taxis are necessarily a very local service. Clearly some cities just have really bad taxis.
I really do wish more fiction was like HPMoR. I think it would work out great in a school setting.
> Being complacent and saying it's fine, I am only 25, no wait 26, no wait 27 until you are 40 isn't going to help either.

I don't think I read it that way. There are many reasons why someone was not able to or capable of doing something at age 25; finances, experience, whatever. Maybe you just didn't discover the thing you were passionate enough to follow. Maybe you had to care for an ailing family member for 10-15 years, should they not still not follow their own path?

The age at which you discover passion is irrespective of deciding to follow it. And you act like 40 is the end of the road, when in fact for many 40 is just the beginning of when they are financially secure enough to strike out on their own.

People should stop focusing so much on age, and if there was any good message in this article, that's it. Forget about what you haven't done, stop comparing yourself to others, and follow your own path.
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Capital gains tax in the US is lower than income from labor, but it is also worth considering the effects of inflation on the investments. Your 4% return is not really a 4% increase in wealth, you need to also take out the 1.7% your investment lost that year to inflation. In real terms, you wealth only increased 2.3%.

If you want to tax wealth gains as ordinary income there should be an acknowledgment of inflation. In practice you end up with roughly the same amount of money going to taxes and a much more complicated system. In this example it would raise the investment income tax revenue by 33%, not the 233% difference in tax rates. But the index fund 4% and the 1.7% inflation were pulled out of orifices and our predictive capabilities are so reflected.
We have, in fact, a dedicated form of local government for water management [1], and:

> These regional water authorities are among the oldest forms of local government in the Netherlands, some of them having been founded in the 13th century.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_board_(Netherlands)
Same. Hired 12 developers so far with this method and I made only one mistake, others are all great developers.
For decades, statistical experts have explained, again and again, to coaches and players that there is no such thing as a player with the 'hot hand'. The coaches and players have mostly ignored such advice, believing that their lifetime of following the sport matters more than researchers dipping into the field for a study or two.

And eventually, of course, it turned out that the statisticians are probably wrong, and the "hot hand" is real (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baseballs-hot-hand-is-r...). Perhaps the child authors think they know more about how children and stories interact than the researchers, because they've got a lot more experience with the topic.
Read Plato, Kant and Keynes. Possibly write new plays, enjoy wine and explore space?
To add to your point about economies of scale, Indian farmers are a reliable political bloc. Turning a million unproductive farmers into 10,000 highly-productive ones is, from a political perspective, disastrous if you rely on that bloc. It's a similar phenomenon to public union political capture in certain American cities.
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You See Sneakers, I See Tulips.
Nothing. Evoultion came about randomly, not by intent, so it has no goal.
Italian tomatoes are just better to an extent that's almost magical.
Never freeing is common practice in embedded systems where you should be pre-allocating all data (after worst-case analysis). This removes any possibility of fragmentation issues, etc. Many coding standards forbid dynamic allocation for embedded & real-time systems also for safety & reliability reasons.

It is not unusual to have allocate-only heaps for exactly these reasons.
Nuclear power plants run critical systems on mostly analog and sometimes pld devices (much easier to formally verify). They also generally don't care about date-time and have rigorous testing/verification. Nuclear PP are not something to worry about for a 2038 bug. It's the industries that don't employ traditional engineering practices that are worrisome.
I'm seriously asking what productive work can billions of people from underdeveloped and unstable countries do. Without access to lucrative markets, too.
For starters you could just swap the tax rates: make income tax of 15% and capital gains tax of 35%.
The vast majority of x86 ISA is no longer patent-encumbered. This article assumes full emulation of every current, patent-encumbered x86 instruction so that no applications would need to be recompliled. Do we know that's the approach, yet? Also many instructions are designed to be replacements for combinations of earlier (no longer patent-encumbered) instructions so; expanding them again wouldn't usually be illegal.
Limited liability might protect you in contract disputes, but you'll remain liable for your torts, which is where the real black swan liability in running a company hides.
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That’s been there for 5+ years?
Tesla was digging ditches for competitors at 27. Was digging ditches a waste of his talent? Yes. Would he have been capable of giving his name to a car company without that experience? How would we know?

(In comparison, fellow eccentric Howard Hughes had his entire public career - aviation records, hit movies, plane designs, business moves, social life, by the same age Musk is now).
The greatest advice I got from someone was to never compare yourself to someone's highlighted reel. That changed my life.
There's a lot of that in a lot of old manufacturing and port cities in the Northeast. There's a lot of demand for nice gentrified downtowns with nice restaurants, housing, etc. But my observation with a lot of these smaller cities is that much of the gentrification is in a fairly small area and much of the rest of the city is the rundown urban decay it's been for a long time.
True but in fairness NextBSD was only ever a technology demo / proof of concept.
Taxes are what give fiat currencies their value. No taxes, no fiat currency. If you don't believe me, consider why the US dollar has value at your local store and the Monopoly dollar doesn't.
A former manager at Target became a millionaire by shorting volatility
Value can be defined as how much people are willing to pay for it. Based on that, some webapps are worth more.
Even a person with mimimal education and access to some resources can contribute to society (ugh, and the economy) in so many amazing ways, but it is fair to be worried that the first generation (and more) in the places with exploding population will probably lack those initial resources. As always, it is not about the availability, rather the distribution (of opportunities and resources).
All used deliberate scarcity, a large number of product editions, and rapid product cycles to create a collectors market and ultimately create the impression of value. It is also debatable in each case how organic the growth in desirability of each has been, and how much of this has been engineered by the companies themselves
One of the big advantages of children's literature is that it can portray things too dark for adult literature.
And probably you don't know the best... have you ever try a "cuore di bue"?
I think the problem with this approach is you're actually selecting for a related skill that might have little to do with whether the candidate will be successful. Some people are very good at doing the work but don't perform well under "social" pressure, while others may be very good at dissecting a small thing in the interview context and yet be unable to follow through on a large, complex task. The company I work for solves that issue by combining front-end interviews with a homework project of reasonable scope, followed by a paid work-along day. It takes more time and investment than running through some coding exercises on the phone, but results in a more cohesive team because we know before we hire not only whether someone can do the work, but also whether they can do the work with us.
Ahistorical. Revisit 20th century Central and South America. This is a silly thread and one I'm not eager to perpetuate, but I can't not take this bait.
Today, sure, but there's no assurance that this will be true in the future. If more compiler-friendly extensions are added to C++ to help it generate tighter, more nimble machine code because it's given more leeway in optimizations, then the C++ code could be substantially smaller. C doesn't seem as interested in adopting some of the C++ paradigms that could make optimization better, tools like formalized iterators and such.

There's been various attempts at pre-compiling the headers over the years, but the results have always been, for various reasons, less than perfect.
In Germany the tomatoes from Holland are called 'Wasserbomben'.
Almost right. I would say that telling yourself you're behind, and telling yourself you're right where you're intended to be, are both flavors of the same thing, which is telling yourself a story about the truth. You don't need the story, you only need the bare minimalist truth itself. You did what you did. You didn't do what you didn't do. Now pick another thing and do it. When it's done you can tackle the next one.
> Calling capabilities are only supported on Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.

Feels like I'm back in time a decade. I don't understand why other browsers are not supported: are they using non-standard features? I can't imagine what those would be. WebRTC is supported by every browser nowadays.
I quit Facebook in 2008 and restarted using it last year. I use it defensively more or less once a week. I must say it's fun to play with it's patterns and rewarding when he welcomes you with "good morning" when it's night :)

But you realise how much he knows about you and how much discipline you need to escape it's algorithms. For example I click on random profiles and wait for them to request my friendship (supposedly because fb suggested me to them for friendship). But sometimes I must resist clicking on really interesting people because I'm afraid fb would know too much about me.

It's even more difficult when scrolling. If I stop scrolling on something it thinks I'm interested in the same kind of content. Sometimes I slip. Fortunately I'm "friend" with very few real friends. Most of my "friends" are random people. So my timeline consists of random things that are more or less interesting depending on my mood.
> you can hit probably 98% of wealth by just taxing the calculated value of owned land and buildings (which is already being appraised for property taxes in most states)

Henry George proposed this in the 1800's [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Facebook is just dumb fun for me, a time waster when I'm waiting in line, and I like seeing the pics my friends put up. Some of my friends are pretty good at aggregating funny memes.

Am I not a programmer now?
Your argument hinges on the erroneous belief that more investment is always better. But in order to create value, investment capital needs sound investment opportunities with positive expected ROIs. If there is too much capital and not enough opportunities, supply and demand dynamics cause the ROIs to start to drop until investing becomes value destructive. That's when the market for investment starts to resemble a Ponzi scheme.
Oh wow I had not realized that was him. That was pretty bad, what they were doing was outright dishonest. I wouldn't trust them with a dime of my money.
The problem, by and large, is that C++ is heavily dependent on header files to implement the Standard Library. It's largely templated, which means there's no way to make a pre-compiled version, the code generated varies wildly depending on the types involved.

C has relatively simple header files, they usually contain structs, function signatures, and a bunch of macros. They're easy to parse and apply by comparison, plus don't tend to be as deeply nested.

If C++ ever adopts the Pascal-style "module" extensions that have been kicking around in various proposals compile times could shrink by several orders of magnitude.
Just remember: the FDA is also the organization that keeps homeopathy from marketing itself as legitimate cure to every disease out there.

For every potentially legitimate treatment held back, a hundred illegitimate - if not harmful - treatments are also stopped. I won't claim this excuses the costs and time associated with getting FDA approval, but it's one more thing to consider when judging them.
This is some bad advice because there are people who will "Fucking sue [you]".

If you want to learn about how a professional deals with contracts, payments, and contracting I'd say to check out "Fuck you. Pay me" [0] that gives a reasoned explanation of negotiations, what to expect, and reasonable ways to react/behave.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
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The GTK bindings it uses are pretty low level overall -- e.g. dealing with ManagedPtr's and whatnot. You could probably make it nicer and easier to read, at least, if you spent some time wrapping a few of those UI bindings with a couple data types and helpers, made it a little nicer, etc.

Overall there's going to be some unavoidable "setup gunk" though. You could make some of the code nicer, but the application is pretty small. For such a small little thing, I think abstracting away any further might end up in too much fluff, anyway.
It's not just the tomatoes. Everything in the UK supermarket is quite bad. It's a cultural thing I suppose.
If you have good function names, you do not need comment.
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It will probably improve as time goes by.
The problem with tomatoes is that if you pick them ripe they are fragile. So if they are picked ripe, it makes it more difficult to ship them.

And then this gets exacerbated when the varieties are selected for shipping and shelf life rather than flavor.
> a C++ class is like a C struct that can contain function pointers.

No, it's not. Calling an ordinary class member function in C++ has exactly the same overhead as calling a function in C. Even virtual functions in C++ are not the same as putting function pointers in a C struct (they live in a separate data structure called the vtable).

> the protection mechanisms and the class heirarchy

All C++ protection mechanisms occur at compile time and have no runtime overhead. Non-virtual inheritance hierarchies have the same overhead as C struct composition (because under the covers the memory layout is the same).
Only on iOS. Doesn't have the same impact as WhatsApp.
Makes me wonder how much of this could be replicated and what it would yield in states (Florida) with amazing sunshine and access to fresh water and cheap power.
Customer service tends to be terrible in the consumer space. Most consumer goods and services good customer service doesn't improve profits because "consumer" usually implies commodity economics.

On top of that, a lot of customer service calls boil down to wasteage. People call because they want something for free or a reduced price. With a commodity, there's no need to build loyalty for products that are primarily sold based on initial cost.

The quintessential commodified consumer product is Google search. Chatbots would be a step up. But that is not the direction customer service is heading...working in a bookstore now requires following a script for pitching savings cards and magazine subscriptions, not selling books.
He basically says he doesn't like it. You have to be pretty trigger-happy to be offended.
Please understand some of the details about _HOW_ WhatsApp did what they did.

Focusing on reach (ubiquity is an innovation). Focusing on operational efficiency (a low-cost tech company is an innovation).

The apocryphal stories about WhatsApp in support of the two above points are:

1) Supporting J2ME clients (ie: dumb-phones) ... connecting "poor people" in dumb-phone countries w/ "rich people" in smart-phone countries (for $0.99 app).

$0.99 / user * 25% of your userbase isn't enough revenue for most companies to be successful.

2) Be operationally efficient, reliable, and lean. How? By running like 10 erlang servers (targeting peak message transmission RATES, not all-time storage of messages or number of users)

This allowed them to _SCALE_ revenue because they're basically dividing by zero (Income v. Expenses) if they're extremely lean on number of employees, maintenance, and operations costs.

Therefore: it compares extremely well to Juicero as a counter-example.
Have a friend of yours on LinkedIn report you as dead. I'm not joking, and this does work. Write something about how it hurts to look at your profile since you've passed, and to please take it down.
You are right. I am learning from their mistakes and trying to bild a better one, I need good testers and collaborations to build a future tool. I thought this platform will provide me good suggestions and probably good collaborations.

Thank you for your suggestions. I'll keep what you said in mind.
>"In the happy path with a single process ..."

What is meant by "the happy path"? I've seen this reference a couple of time now but have not found a clear explanation.
Does anyone remember the movie Demolition Man(1993) and the scene where someone calls into the police department, and the human picks up the phone and says: "Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the emergency line of the San Angeles Police Department. If you'd prefer an automated response, press 1 now."

At the time, they were making fun of automated phone trees and the joke was that they would get so good people would prefer them in the future.

I think many people already think that day is here. How many folks prefer to use an online form or chat instead of a phone call? Most of those systems are just automation with a human checking their work.

Soon the human will be out of the loop.
ah I see. Thanks for elaborating.

I get the point you're making, and in general I would agree. However, in this case ("uber for x") the term is so prevalent in tech/start up culture that I find it hard to believe it's the best way to describe every single product it's getting slapped on.

To me it would be the same as labelling every single new fast food chain as "The McDonalds of clam cakes" or "The McDonalds of pizza".
I think there is a difference here. With Tulips, all the buyers were people intending to sell at a higher price. Initially, yes people bought them for the product itself. But it came to point where all the buyers were just interested in reselling them. They were buying for price appreciation and not the product itself.

With sneakers it's different because the prices paid are by people interested in the product itself. In that sense this is more like comic books or baseball cards. And these things can keep their high prices indefinitely.
We are still struggling to get away from dependence on monsoons for our farming, forget actually moving away from dependence on soil or other resources. Also, some of this is self-inflected because of our insistence on farmers owning land. By trying to force socialism at the level of property ownership in a capitalist market, we are making ourselves poorer.
But yes, of course: I make the choices of not working with incompetent idiots
and not being one. You're free to choose differently.

By the way, get some English language course before any more Node.js classes.
Your language level really shows.
This should be fixed with the latest update (v1.1.0), do you confirm?