skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding item 10 in that list, I learned plenty of Laplace transforms, partial fraction expansions, stability, phase planes, etc. It's the core of control systems theory. It was just not taught in differential equations class. The DE class was a bag of useless tricks. All the other EE classes were very useful tricks of how not to directly solving DEs.

Going to drink a beer now for Oliver Heaviside. The invention of the Laplace transform is one of the greatest contributions to engineering.
Part of the issue seems to be that in America people simply don't understand inequality. I've had a fair amount of conversations with coworkers that simply didn't 'get' being poor or living in poverty because they never had that experience. At the same time they had a strong belief that they earned everything and that we live in a meritocracy.

As you said it essentially comes down to 'they should've made better choices and got a better career path!' while having everything handed to them at birth. It's the sort of thing that really made it apparent how different my upbringing was from my coworkers because I experienced that sort of deep poverty.
I have never experienced a crash in windows 10 either, I think OS's matured enough and unless there's a major hardware issue going on stability is a solved problem.
"Basic income, basic housing, basic food, basic education, basic healthcare?"

I am open minded about UBI, etc.

However, it has occurred to me recently that we already have a decent experimental result with regard to:

"Basic income, basic housing, basic food, basic education, basic healthcare"

Poor white people in the rural United States have all of those things. Even the poorest of them have basic food, housing and education that we might consider "first world".

I notice that they aren't following their passions and climbing up to the peak of mazlows hierarchy.

Instead, the lack of self-determination and "purpose" causes a despair that drives them to substance abuse.

(apologies for the cascading UBI debate, below...)
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Nope! I'm with you, noise and interruptions are totally fatal. Things other people think are fine drive me crazy, or worse, are exciting and interesting and ooh shiny look at the time, it's 9pm already. If I didn't work on the internet, I would turn off the internet while I was trying to focus :)
Yes, of course! Been there! But a lot of stuff will be easier once/if they pull it off.

Pop culture insists on a very silly perception of the non-coastal parts of the country. There's still a lot of opportunity elsewhere -- at drastically lower costs of living.

Moving isn't easy, but everything else in their lives will be easier once they do. One impediment to this, as I see it, is that the culture is telling them the opposite of this. And that's actively harmful to their long-term prospects.
They're slapping flat elements onto a UI with a conventional layout. Of course usability will suffer. Flat signifiers rely on positional context and a well-defined set of familiar views/layouts.
For another view, I'm a mac user, but prefer to use all those tools via a linux VM, either local, remote server or from a VPS. Also, not everyone doing development in macos uses homebrew.
This is why the institutional racism is so important. Shooting innocent people is difficult if one hasn't already alienated himself from those people. If he has, it's easier.
I read the article and see no sign that it says boats are less important than this app.

I'm also mystified why you might think that it could be a secret that something called a "navy" would have boats.

Now this IS a shitty article in that it's mostly repeating things said by Zello's CEO, perhaps you could try criticizing that?
If you use Windows 10 daily there's hardly any extra resource usage. It usually happens with systems that people turn on once in a while.
I think the failure has more to do with leaders who believe in curses than actual curses.
Im no expert on Austrian school, but what little I read is that they have an organic view of economics, and that anything that deviates the natural flow will be corrected eventually. If the money is too cheap, it will eventually become really expensive to correct itself, and Apple might be preparing for that. Or it might be causing it.

To be fair, Austrian school of economics is more occultism than anything else in the field, while Chicago School Economics (Milton Friedman&co) have more accepted models and economic ideas. The 'neoliberal' model as far as I understand can't really explain corporate cash hoarding. The situation today is very unique: historically cheapness of money could easily provoke inflation, which would promptly push any cash hoarder to spend.

If the U.S. had a small spike in inflation the whole thing could change quickly.
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Sure but if we're going to live in the land of inheritance then we need to toss the ideas that "anybody can make it" or "I earned this."

>I don't want to live in a world where "I farm this land, just as my father, his father, and his father for 5 generations has done." is not possible.

Why not? A man works hard to support himself but allowing four generations of free-riders seems like a pretty bad idea. It strikes me as a sort of neo-monarchism. In the past we had royalty blessed by god and passed through blood and now we have the economic elite blessed by capital and passed through blood.
It's a bit muddier with technology workers, though. Engineers do invest in their employers, by specializing in the relevant tech stack. To the extent that the employer uses a marketable and generally useful tech stack, that's not saying much, but if you specialize in some legacy garbage processes and systems it could be a net negative on your career prospects. Likewise if your employer wants you to repeat the same year of experience over and over without any realistic advancement prospects.

The risk being that you are a proficient line employee for BigCo maintaining their systems written in BigCoLang and then you have a hard time getting a similarly paying gig after you're laid off. And nobody else uses BigCoLang.

Sure, we can argue that talented engineers can retrain, but I don't see many weak senior engineer candidates being offered junior engineering positions so they can bone up on a new tech stack. Typically they just say "technically weak" or "not a good fit" and interview the next candidate.
> I suspect if the takeover hadn't happened, the FOSS systems landscape would look a whole lot different.

Sun was in bad financial situation at that point, there is a high chance all these engineers would be laid off 8 years earlier if takeover hadn't happened.
No worries! I'm just glad we cleared up the confusion. :)
Ask HN: What was PG's quote regarding judging value of something?
I can recall that PG has written something on how to value a painting in one of his essay. It went something like:

..I want to make sure I am not biased when judging the value of a painting. Would I still consider worth its price if it was biting dust and being sold by a roadside vendor...

My memory is fuzzy so this could be a highly inaccurate phrasing. I am not even sure if painting is what he was talking about. Does anyone know in which essay he wrote it?
When intelligence is literally the trait which enables development of science and technology, who in their right mind would not spend money on children of intelligent adultst with a 50% success rate? Dont you realize someone on the high end of the IQ curve would be exponentially more beneficial to society if given resources? How much have a couple hundred visionaries shaped our daily lives?

Why dont we spend more federal funds on gifted children? We watch the trainwreck that is our school system as we fail to match pupils in other countries at senior high school level. The issue is, again, not taxation, on the contrary, we are not spending enough where it counts because of the greed of the entitled.
That's exactly what I'm saying, and I'm not sure why people in this thread are misunderstanding it.
If you're using bash you don't need single quotes:

rg -g*.l foo
Asia is a continent; the biggest, and probably most diverse, continent in the world. Hong Kong was within Asia last time I checked, therefore your assertion that nobody in Asia uses WhatsApp is incorrect.
To add to your point, it's also not linear -- maybe the first 100 MS employees are responsible for half the value and the next ~100,000 are responsible for the other half.
>Things I have done for Aeternity

If this really was implemented entirely by one person, they have no moat.

>Instead the anonymous owner of Aeternity is deciding how the money is spent.

Yeah, that's how capitalism works. The person with the capital owns you. And now, I look into my crystal ball... I see the anonymous owner is going to sue you for running off with his intellectual property and starting a competitor with it.

Never heard of Aeternity, but this isn't going to end well for the author.
I think the concept of a meritocracy requires someone to decide what is meritocratic and all goes to hell from there.

Its like saying that you are going to base justice on "protecting good people and punishing bad people".

I can be swayed otherwise if I was shown what a meritocratic system would look like, but most of the times I heard that word it was as a criticism of laissez-fair capitalism that would rarely claim to be meritocratic.
Whilst the luck element is true, I think people place to much emphasis on it, in reality, pretty much every person that "got lucky" had been working hard at whatever it was they "got lucky" in for a while. It's just exposure, I guess if I was making a bad analogy, it's kinda like spreading the board with chips on a roulette table, yeah you got lucky, but you set yourself up for it. Same applies in life. The difference between the winners and losers (All IMO) is that the "losers" only laid down one or two, the "winners" spread the board.
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. I'm not saying getting promoted. I'm saying getting better at being a janitor, or rotating between different properties, or learning to do a little light maintenance, or operate a lift or clean windows, or anything to break up the 100% identical routine.

If you're a contracted employee, there's zero investment in you as an employee. You come in, do the task, and leave.
Very nice explanation of why you can't usually use features selected in ML models for inference tasks on pg 10-12(96-98).
Right. I'm saying there's no opportunity, not that there should be a requirement. I'm saying that we're trapping poor people in a world where they are totally powerless and that is fundamentally evil.
I guess this tutorial will really help Test Automation Engineers
Also:

"If Aeternity is going to use the technology invented, and they wont pay me to make their software secure, then my only way to get paid is by selling zero-day exploits for people who want to attack Aeternity."
If you use vagrant or docker, the idea is to match the deployment server, which is probably Linux. So you'll be installing (using the OS package manager - something like apt or nix) whichever version is installed for your server OS.
Why the author doesn't call out widely for assistance even if physically threatened/assaulted, but choosing to avoid all confrontations instead?
California makes adding new housing illegal.
> Sublicenses

I'm sure this could be the case but I'm not convinced that their license to the content would be so specific as to require the delivery of the content video/audio together, or must be played in the foreground. Especially since it would require all of the content be relicensed every time they change their policies. And especially since YT themselves can ignore these rules.

Also, we all know that the CFAA is both bullshit and makes basically everything illegal. It has no place in any discussion like this.

> What changes is that as users, we're forced to let invasive technologies into our lives in order to consume content.

Sure, but you've just traded invasive technologies for invasive legal requirements. But your world is basically the case right now and we have DRM and plenty of ad blocking circumvention measures so I'm not convinced it would help.
nodenv is so much better than nvm https://github.com/nodenv/nodenv
The problem is that the distributed script(s), if the rely on external modules, will have to guess if those modules are available, rather than just bringing them with the script like other language dependency managers provide.

For example, with Ruby's gems or Node's npm, if I install a command line package, external modules (native C extensions) will be installed as well.
I thought you were saying that growth or mobility was inherently impossible for a janitor. Maybe because you describe being a janitor for 40 years as a mistake rather than as a failure of the system. Anyway, if you meant it the other way around then consider my reply some extra support for the idea.
Windows 8 was a pretty big blunder to recover from. And it left many people with an unease to upgrade.

Also, Windows 7 was just really an incredible operating system. When something is that good, it's really hard to move on.

Me though, I'm enjoying 10 quite nicely.
Ah thanks, I've always looked for a way to sum up this distinction and you've captured it perfectly (particularly "learning programming using x".. I think a lot of books called "Learning X" should be called that instead).

Is there any recommended material for learning Python as a second or third language?
I keep hearing the free upgrade to Windows 10 is over, but I have no problem downloading the latest ISO, installing and activating it.
It seems as if the author might possibly own the IP here, having not been paid, nor contracted away copyright and other interests AFAICT.
Should of never written that one sentence, that is at the very least a plain as day admission and now he will hold any blame for any exploits used against Aeternity, whether involved or not.
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Yes. If you follow the link at the top of the page to the explanation post[1], it says at the bottom:

> Veles visualizations were inspired by Christopher Domas’ talk from Derbycon 2012.

> Check out the video of his presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk.

[1]: https://codisec.com/binary-visualization-explained/
Did I read this correctly, he was physically assaulted? Can he not press for criminal charges?

What's also interesting is I was approached by Aeternity at the end of June to join their team. Wonder if the timing coincided wtih the author's troubles
It's ironic to see a company chief that relentlessly offshores jobs and routes profits through multiple offshore tax havens (some, twice) proselytize about "values".
I'm saying why would you extend a massive loan to someone who is broke, has no credit, and can immediately discharge the debt. They could and many of them would immediately discharge the entire balance of the loan upon graduation by declaring bankruptcy.

They don't offer 40k+ loans to people with no credit at any rate.
I find Everything is complemented by AstroGrep. These are the two tools I use most often.
It also seems like they were trying to abuse/repurpose OS level functionality (the power button). I imagine that was difficult on Android, and the article completely fails to acknowledge that this is actually impossible on iOS.
Why would you extend a massive loan to someone who is broke, has no credit, and can immediately discharge the debt. They could and many of them would immediately discharge the entire balance of the loan upon graduation by declaring bankruptcy.

They don't offer standard 40k+ loans to people with no credit at any rate.

Also even if they did offer that the interest rate would be insane because you are dealing with so many defaults. That would not really make the situation better.
Taxes might or might not destroy wealth, but government surely does.
That was my thought. If anything, I would advise him not to sell 0-days out of spite and take the CEO to court.
You've asserted several times in this thread that there are devastating consequences to the estate tax but never explain what those might be. Care to enlighten?
The irony. He rants about the unethical behavior of his associates and then clearly states that he will himself engage in unethical behavior. The only thing this rant proves is that the ICO space is over run by ethically challenged scammers much like the Bitcoin ASIC space was 3 years ago.
> I meant what I said in the /government/ providing a market baseline.

This is not a single payer system. I don't understand what you are saying.
Disengenuous:

not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.

synonyms: insincere · dishonest · untruthful · false · deceitful · duplicitous · lying · mendacious · hypocritical

That is a personal attack.

The shortage of affordable housing is very much real. It is not something I am making up. And, yes, every American city should have housing that single people with entry level jobs can afford without an hour long commute or three roommates. We did historically. We tore a lot of it down in the 60s and 70s when it wasn't really needed, then never rebuilt it when the need for such came back, in essence.
Linux 4.13 support for TLS record layer in kernel space
I've heard first-hand accounts of hospitals running XP as recently as a few months ago.
Perhaps it was reported. He didn't specify either way, possibly for good reason.
Have barely scanned these articles, but even if I agreed that tax collection is what gives currency most of their circulatory value, thats no reason to have taxes, let alone making them higher.
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And Milton Friedman after both of those
> as long as the Government doesn't bail out

After 2008, this is not an assumption that can be made.
> that he did something to me that both scared and injured me. I no longer feel safe working with this person. I am walking with a limp a week later.

OP is happy to spill some pretty high-level corporate beans, but not detail a physical assault... I don't really know what to take from this article in all honesty. I feel there's a lot being left unmentioned.
this is actually titled "I’m too stupid for AsyncIO"

and its about NOT understanding AsyncIO.
> That seems wrong. I should be able to run normal Python code as async, right?

No, that is not the case.
To better understand this you should look at an async library, like https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp
Look at what it actually calls all the way down under the hood.

If it were as simple as adding `asyncio.sleep(0)`, then that library seems as though it would have been much easier to write. :P

Just look at the code you posted at the end, it actually runs faster synchronously, without `asyncio.sleep(0)`.
The sleep is what happens async, not the print statements, therefore, all you're doing is introducing delay.

Similarly, the Django ORM DB calls you make in the other examples are all still happening synchronously. However, you're just adding a delay that causes them to get picked off in an inconsistent order.
The question would be why is she living/working there at all.
As someone who grew up a poor white person in the rural United States, what the heck are you talking about?
The problem is that there's no one to choose. First past the post prevents voting for your favorite and party control prevents populist candidates. Trump broke past but Bernie didn't despite his popularity. Gerrymandering and voter restrictions disenfranchise and secret $ flows from corporations to astroturf campaigns. We exist in a mirage of democratic control, vote reform is necessary.
I just use open graph tags on websites, which are more useful, lightweight and makes the link presentable and customisable when shared around Facebook. There's no downside to open graph tags.

Website 'Like' buttons on the other hand, are useless, tacky, cheap and chunky. Nobody cares how many likes your webpage has. The number means nothing because your website might be one month old with '2k likes', or two years old with '500 likes'. Makes zero difference to any visitor what that number is. It's not any measure of performance or anything.

This is what I tried telling the project managers at my previous work, but of course such advice fell on deaf ears, and in went the FB crap.
I appreciate other opinions which is why HN is so much better place than Facebook. Yeah I trashed it, it was bad for me. And I have a feeling it is for many others the same. And you might be right that I'm just a cynical jaded ass, I won't rule that out either.

However I think opinions can be dissenting, and even incendiary like mine often are and still contribute to or spark meaningful discussion.

And this is a difference in opinion I'm fine with. If I wanted everyone to agree with me I would adopt a vastly different writing style.
Since the demand for housing assistance often exceeds the limited resources available to HUD and the local housing agencies, long waiting periods are common. In fact, a PHA may close its waiting list when it has more families on the list than can be assisted in the near future.

https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/topics/housing_cho...
Dang that doesn't sound true at all. Smith arguing for unionization?

Also by classical economics, you cant afford to give less than living wage because then you would kill the people that work for it.
"Also, the Randian superman does not exist and is a juvenile fantasy."

I am not a follower or a fan of Ayn Rand but I really don't see any other category within which to place:

Steve Jobs, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elon Musk ... perhaps even Donald Trump ? George Lucas ?

They seem to fit the archetype ...
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Surprised to see Paris Hilton promoting it wasn't one reason

https://twitter.com/ParisHilton/status/904456098035286016
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I honestly do not know.
He points to a graduate student who had to pick up Python for some task and wanted to learn both the language and the tools necessary for that task. I can throw another anecdote into the ring and mention a web data mining course I'm taking right now where a lot of students are having to pick up Python along side both scikit-learn and scrapy.
Recently got my tech license, it wasn't that difficult. In an emergency it's permissable to use cheap radios that do not confirm to GMRS/FRS rules on those frequencies.
Huh? These blockchain people talk like penny stock boiler room folks.
Maybe the fact that she's a single mom with 4 kids is a factor too. I think a janitor with a single dependent would have a more acceptable standard of living.
Start a new company and exploit somebody else while earning all the big bucks and credit, that's how capitalism works.
>If someone powerful spends their time "empowering" you, it means you had none in the first place.

Is that not reasonable? The 'inherent power of self-determination' is pretty weak all things considered. Governments exist to help 'empower' in the myriad of ways that can undermine self-determination.
Can you share any details on what dev tools you plan on accessing via your Mac connecting to Ubuntu?
New camera can see through human body
Carbon apparently worked fine on it

Really? I never knew that. Care to elaborate?
Here's another book recommendation for handling adult ADHD.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01C3CKQYM/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...

I got lucky and made some money in spite of my undiagnosed case. But my ignorance allowed me to make some bad life choices when it came to choosing the wrong spouse, and now we're divorced with 2 kids.
https://watsi.org/faq#how-does-watsi-handle-patient-privacy

"how do you handle privacy?" "yes"