skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because I get frustrated with people. I feel like they refuse to even attempt to understand.

Many people do refuse to understand. My parents & grandparents do that about anything computer related at all, not to mention math. Lots of people, especially guitar players, avoid learning music notation. Most people gloss over anything in a foreign or technical vocabulary.

I agree with you, and I get frustrated too, and I like to dig into mathy stuff, and I also find myself glossing over things and refusing to "get it" only to discover later it wasn't that hard.

So: does it help to get frustrated? Aside from expressing incredulity, what can you do to help someone more easily understand, or get motivated to understand?

It seems like for at least a subset of people, calling it "easy" and making pictures really truly does help them understand it, and/or spend the time being willing to understand it. What's wrong with that?

> I think it may even be cultural.

It might. I'd buy that Asian students get more math and have a slightly lower aversion in general. But I also know older Asians that refuse to learn simple computer concepts exactly the same way my parents do, so on that anecdata alone, I'd speculate that refusing to learn things that seem foreign or technical is part of the human condition. I'd even guess that this is an evolutionary advantage, that our brains actively avoid hard to understand things because it uses too many of our limited cognitive resources.
I have NEVER seen a good explanation of how 'Obedience' is EVER an 'admirable' quality. If you can't think for yourself and make rational decisions, you have much bigger problems than not 'respecting authority'. Any authority that is incapable of demonstrating the rationale behind their directives is a fool and should be treated as such, with the utmost disrespect.
Part Soldering Iron, Part Hand-Held Oscilloscope
I fear the book may not have as insightful an analysis of numbers stations that radio enthusiasts may hope for. I hope I am wrong and please correct me if so, but the book preview [1] looks like a coffee table book of photographs and spectrograms with little to no text.

[1]. http://www.lewisbush.com/shadow-of-the-state-book/
The reason are having problems finding info is that most people don't use java clients these days other than android.

You could try teavm.org or gwtproject.org if you really have your heart set on a java client, but I think most people would probably write the client in javascript, probably using react or vue.

If you just want to push the changed data, that sounds like one of the open source operational transform libs on github might be worth looking into.
At the end of the day, Anthony is rich and we're not.
At least at the major companies I have worked at (n=3), GPL is to be avoided, if at all possible. LGPL, to a lesser extent. The general impression I received was that it was cancerous.
Nano is still my goto if I want to edit a config file really quickly.
I can't wait until large firms, or very rich people start throwing a lot of money at mining and start co-opting cryptocurrencies
> Personally my gold standard is the original Looney Toons…

I find Looney Toons extremely racist and stereotypical. Though I grew up on it, I wouldn’t expose kids to it.
> So, for example, a family would go to their local technology artisan to put together a smart home system tailored specifically to their needs.

I am a software developer and consultant and you do not figure how insanely expensive I am - when your family comes through the doors of my artisanal soldering boutique and demands a custom built home automation system, I would suggest them to invest the money in a long, long vacation with the whole family instead.
Why Do You Need to Know Package Coupling Fundamentals?
I get the feeling that it's more satisfying when it's on your own keyboard, but it's definitely annoying on another person's.
You think they aren't? Mining is a multi billion dollar industry.
The New Yorker also insists on typographical affectations such as coöperate and reëlect. Most publications have a "house style." The New Yorker's is particularly eccentric, and I think they like it that way.
Eh, I don't really know where to start to explain how wrong this is.

The crypto market is still niche. There are stocks that make 100-1000% performance. But the stock market is "saturated" for representing assets, equities and companies. So its growth is limited.
Nobody “calling me out” has provided any evidence, so I’m not sure what you’ve been reading, but OK:

https://my.paragon-re.com/Docs/General/SixtyFortyImages/Hous...

By my math, that’s 769 legal units removed or merged between 2012 and 2015.

AKA, it happens all the time. So let’s talk about your definition of “lies”...
You mean the web site that didn't have any non-public data, and was actually not in active use for 3 years? I agree that was sloppy, but the site didn't have the level of security requirements that one of the main sites or their internal network had. Do you put a $100 lock on a $5 bike?

And how was this "allow[ing] unauthorized people to make spurious changes"? No data was changed in the breach.
I think you mean NYC media ;)
Meanwhile, people said stuff like this before 2000 about all sorts of individual stocks.
Love your edit - rare to see that sort of honest self-criticism. On reddit it takes the form of '[deleted]' which I think is far lest honest than a retraction.
Diligence and selflessness are admirable. Obedience is, at best, sometimes necessary, and at worst a source of atrocities. (You might be thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intent_(military)#Common_inten.... The desire to establish—and function under—common intent, whether through consensus or authoritative credence, is an admirable quality in a person. But that is not the same thing as obedience.)
> Yes, we did live in a corporate-totalitarian dystopia in the 40s to 70s.

I understand people like to interpret things through that lens now but like seeing Tolkien's work as an allegory for industrialization or the atomic bombs, it seems to me to be mostly post-hoc revisionism to do so. Reading the Wikipedia page of the author, I don't see any evidence of a "corporate-totalitarian dystopia" which would inform his stories.

So you're going to have to define "corporate-totalitarian dystopia" in a way that even makes sense in that context.
https://i.imgur.com/pA3Yfa9.jpg
Diligence and selflessness, I agree, but obedience is something to be earned by the person giving orders, not a trait to be expected in the receiver.
Why+Townhall+Meetings+Are+A+Complete+Waste+of+Your+Time+-+freedomfortheoppressed
In San Francisco it absolutely means that.

There's often a weird negotiation/ battle that goes on between developers and the city over what percent of units in a new building ate affordable vs market rate. It has nothing to do with them being small or Spartan or anything like that, and everything to do with income requirements and rent caps put on them
I think it's not used like that in regards to SF because no one is proposing plans that would make that possible without government rent control.
I hope they keep the ability to hire tasks other than furniture assembly! I use Taskrabbit at least every week. They are our operations team!
I'm referring to his comment about starting a cult. He is right of course that finding gullible people to follow you is easy. Just say some obvious things like "don't spend all your money, save and invest!" and the sheep will flock. Maybe you gave him no money, but you spent your time and attention.
Here is a twist on this to think about.

Careers are made or broken on whether you get to be an idea person or an implementer.

If you're an idea person you get the lion's share of the credit for anything that goes right, and can always blame your failures on the implementor. Plus ideas are easier to come up with than implementations.

If you're an implementor you work hard, and then don't get much of the credit. But without implementors you simply don't have a product.
I agree with:

> The crypto market is still niche. There are stocks that make 100-1000% performance. But the stock market is "saturated" for representing assets, equities and companies. So its growth is limited.

so I do not see how my post was wrong. These are the numbers. With such numbers, it would be foolish to discard the crypto market as "too volatile" and stick with stocks.

There are crypto coins that did way better than Strat, but there was not enough volume to make a decent profit. Even Doge did 260%. The only "loser" is STEEM with a 80% ROI.
Thomas Sowell is brilliant at highlighting the unexpected nature of many parts of economics as well as the countless government policies initiated in the name of helping the poor or lower class that end up either doing little to help or, more often, ultimately helping the upper-middle class and above the most.

He helped me grow beyond a cliche idealistic libertarian worldview into something much more practical and based in real world policy.

I highly recommend his 'Wealth, Poverty and Politics': https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Poverty-Politics-Thomas-Sowell...

Or for something more lightweight see his book 'Basic Economics': https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465... --- Despite it's name it's not an economics 101 guide, it basically a teaching-through-example guide by listing policy after policy that were implemented in the realworld, for ex:

- rent control in NYC/Toronto in the 1970s which severely reduced access to affordable housing, disincentivized building maintenance, incentivized arson, and gave countless upper/middle class residents cheap rent for beautiful properties

- various industry licensing pushed by market incumbents not protecting consumers, such as interior designers requiring 4yr bachelors degree to choose the colorscheme of an apartment

- etc, etc

He digs into their good intentions but unintentional self-defeating side-effects. Many of which have countless analogies to today (see Uber vs Black cabs in London).

After reading it I'm hardly surprised Japan's economy has stagnated, to the point where it's almost so obvious it saddens me. They are one of the worst proponents of the type of heavy handed economic-intervention he critiques.
See also: An interactive floating point visualization: https://evanw.github.io/float-toy/
> Yeah, IIRC it really stopped ticking (until you write a valid value at which point it would resume).

Ah, okay then. Good to know I can't accidentally thousands of dedicated servers :P (ie, via NTP MITM, writing to hw RTC...)

> Note that it doesn't stop reporting the time in this condition it will just give you back all the garbage fields that you wrote before.

I don't know why I didn't remember this last night: Linux uses the RTC as a poor-man's NVRAM that will persist across a reboot. Provides <24 bits of data to work with (yay! ...not). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend, useful info in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e34bac726d27056081d02...

> So an interesting thing happens when the system tries to transform that into a UTC wall clock basis and it usually ends up with a really wild interpretation of the date (decades/centuries off, similar to the problem described in TFA).

Right.
Most people discussing it on the internet do not actually live in SF. This here is the internet. I just checked. I am not in San Francisco and I am talking about it.
It's not just authoritarian. It's classiest. Sir Topham Hatt inherited the job. In episode 610, Hatt is unavailable and one of the engines, Hiro, tries to run the railroad in his absence. This is considered grossly improper.
I use the same process but start with 7)

Have you used craft sync? There’s another tool to sync but forgot the name.
What's unclear about it?

And/or what do you propose that fits what Yahoo! did (or should have been doing) at any point in its life? Alternatively, provide a clear mission statement than encompasses what any large company with lots of products does -- GE, IBM, Google, etc.
One leap too many?
Why would the US care? At this point, the situation is an anchor around our neck. Talks behind our backs are unlikely to happen due to SK's deep distrust of China, whose fault it is that Korean war ended in stalemate (after US intervention), as well as SK's deep military integration with the US.

The Kim dynasty has shown zero inclination to give up power, which would make such a concept a nonstarter. If DPRK could be solved by all parties other than the Kim regime (say, by decapitation of the regime and containment of the resultant chaos), it would be a done deal. Everyone's been hoping the regime would collapse before becoming a credible nuclear threat, but that hasn't happened and the temperature keeps rising.

I think we ultimately will live to see this play out. I have to assume it's being negotiated even now, because it will be require unprecedented coordination to defuse NK without massive civilian deaths in Seoul or a refugee crisis in Manchuria.

As far as I know, China does not want NK territory. The last thing they need is an extremely insular ethnic group to integrate. They want containment of NK and less US presence in Asia. They also want Taiwan, but I think a much diminished US presence on the peninsula would be more than enough for them.
I own a quadra Mac ivory (I did just partially want to gloat). Genera is definitely worth the hype. The "present as" system in clim is amazing. Another thing is the cool app icon that is a combination of the famous cons cell but with cdr pointing to an Apple icon! I will hopefully be making some more videos of it shortly. One thing I discovered alread is there was a genera HyperCard API - Imagine the world we could have had!

I did ask the fellow from genera about disaster recovery (failed or borked hdd) and he said as I am a license holder he can send me cds or send the hdd and have him image it. The full source for genera is part of the image so tons of interactive docs and source to explore!
ConfigMgr at 25
Vue and node
Repealing Prop 13 is a transitional measure to a full land value tax, collecting all rents on the unimproved value of land. Then you've really got it solved.
All Strat?
Are battery recycling programs near you not feasible? Our local Home Depot and Best Buy stores will take back rechargeable batteries for recycling for free.
Aw, so there's some local client you run that you use to do the cryptographic bits, and the web client is just used to display results and let you navigate things?
The New Yorker turned into Pat Robertson and the 700 Club so quickly I didn't even notice. Robertson divined the nefarious gay-agenda purpose of Teletubbies and now Ms. Tolentino discovers the totalitarianism that is Thomas & Friends. One can only imagine the undisguised communism of Barney & Friends (caring means sharing!) awaiting discovery or the Satanic influences of Lyrick/HIT (owners and distributors of Barney & Friends, Thomas & Friends, Bob the Builder, and a metric shitload of other child-oriented programming) given that the Veggie Tales owners bailed on a distribution agreement with them due to a lack of trust in Lyrick/HIT continuing to support the "Christian values" of that franchise.

Joseph McCarthy could not be reached for comment at this time, although George Orwell was heard to mumble "1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a guide."
Doesn't assuming that demand is exogenous ensure that their model will return the result that they want? It seems that how exogenous demand is is the central question in the housing debate; if SF is so desirable that building more luxury apartments just brings in new rich people, then this model is useless.

(I think, and hope, that it's not. But I think the author danced around the central question by building this model.)
Schwab has the lowest cost index funds ETFs: https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/investing/accounts_prod...

Additionally, Fidelity offers index funds at a lower cost than Vanguard: https://www.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/investing-ideas/index-...
Agreed, and there probably will be a year where nearly all coins tank. It would be foolish to invest all your profits back into the market, year after year.

But should this stop you (or any investment firm) to seriously look at the profit potential here? What do you get for correctly calling the bubble in 3 years? Nothing.
Apply for PhD? Have you completed your BSc?
Chicago has had two locations for like a decade now.
https://my.paragon-re.com/Docs/General/SixtyFortyImages/Hous...

Lots of legal housing has been demolished or merged over the past five years. It happens all the time, you just don’t hear about it on pro-development blogs.

I have no particular problem with development, but Sonja Trauss is not an objective commentator, and this “simulation” is little more than opinion dressed up as data.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/stratis/
Delimiter has inexpensive storage VPS plans: https://www.delimiter.com/storage-vps/
What did you do the previous 2 times?
Continents are made of light rock floating over heavy rocks. So they are floating, like ice cubes in a glass full of jelly. But continents are not floating over water.

In this case, the light rocks are no vey tick, so the thin layer of water that we call ocean can cover them. I like this image: https://goo.gl/images/aqCBJL
> The government-run portion of Medicare underperforms the private payers in cost, medical outcomes, and patient satisfaction (the three primary axes on which success is measured).

Would you be willing to cede that this is likely because their patient base grows constantly and yet their funding is cut at every turn? I'm not saying it's their only issue, but constantly being drained of resources while getting additional work to do makes it somewhat incredible that they operate as well as they do.
Two things you miss:

1/ Student loans are not dischargeable in bankrupty.

2/ Today, the government IS the lender.

The government has created a system of incentives (even before the student loan industry was nationalized) that encourages lending large amounts of money to anybody by eliminating the risk on the part of student loan lenders.

People can basically never get out of the debt, so you can lend arbitrary sums of money to Feminist Dance Theory majors and other sorts of poor-ROI nonsense.

"Predatory loans" is a misnomer. Predatory government is far more accurate.
This is partly why I wrote what I did about it being a self-inflicted problem: most engineers simply don't take that initiative, and many of the ones that do are thinking of features for resume driven development more than for the company's health. They're too busy arguing about whether Rust is our savior or how dumb blub programmers are, etc.
hehe I guess it is (speedy gonzalez, el gringo pussy cat-o, that short dad from the 3 bears that slaps his wife and kid around), but it's so damn charming at the same time. I guess now we have Rick & Morty so we've got a new wave of irreverent cartoon to enjoy
Hiya sudosteph, thank you for this post.

This type of conversation needs to occur more. The 'Not All Men' rebuttal and counter-rebuttal offers absolutely no benefit to anyone but more often than not, on any medium I would have seen that posted here instead of your written piece.

I understand your perspective seattle_spring, truthfully I find myself in your place more often than not. But I find my self at ends with my own personal beliefs and alliances. For the purpose of discussing this topic at greater length I'll be focusing on why this conversation needs to occur in a similar thought process shown here.

I find your argument seattle_spring, to be similar in tone to the Not All Men rebuttal. Though your reasons, experiences and feelings for how you perceive this piece on Emotional Labour is not vilified, you have your reasons for feeling how you do. I also empathise the personal struggles you're going through (I've seen first hand the struggles of supporting those in the medical field). But I believe your argument is misplaced and steph above me articulates this well. Let me unpack this.

When the Not All Men brigade reared their heads on Reddit in response to the women only screenings of Wonder Woman (WW), there was a lack of conversation on both sides of the fence from both the brigade and the Feminist allies of the WW screenings.

I personally found the WW screenings distasteful and if I was asked my opinion on it, I'd discuss this. But I was neither inflamed nor agitated by the screenings. There's other topics that deserve our attention (as a feminist allied man) that deserved more of my energy than these female only viewings of WW.

What am I, as a men, really being deprived of by these WW screenings at a tangible level? It really has no direct consequence to me. Though from a perspective or trying to find and build unity between sexes I thought it was counter productive. Anyway, I digress.

However. The same men who were the most public around these discussions around why he was _so_ offended and vilified by these women only screenings. Where was their horror, disapproval, loud and defensive counter argument when the rights of his sisters, daughters or wives rights to sexual reproductive health, taken away from them by a group of older white men less than 6 months prior? Where was _their_ rage and hostility then? Why were they quiet?

Therein lies the meat of the conversation.

It's not _just_ that these Not All Men are defensive about protecting their image about what they perceive to be a gross generalisation. It's that the Not All Men brigade are ignorant and blind to their hypocritical contradiction, where they care _more_ about their offense to these WW screenings and it's triviality, and yet are so very quiet while America's women's sexual rights were taken from them.

I feel sudo_steph, you did well to both show empathy to seattle_spring and his own battles, whilst still offering him the perspective that as a man, we can still be disadvantaged by the same cultural and societal forces that disadvantage most women. So again, thank you.
The problem of resolving a set of dependencies is actually NP complete. One can reduce the SATISFIABILITY problem to it. Russ Cox provides a good introduction to the problem [1,2]

What's challenging about dependency resolution is handling the versioning constraints. For example, you may state that your project is dependent on the following packages {"A:1.0", "B:[2.0,)", "C:3.2"}. Resolving a dependency is simply selecting one version of each package. At first glance this is easy. However, you need to consider the transitive dependencies of each package. Meaning, A:1.0 will have set of dependencies you need to resolve. Then B:2.0, B:2.1, etc will have their own set of dependencies. In some cases you may find that there is simply no means to resolve the dependencies.

For example, if A:1.0 depended on C:2.1, there would be no way to resolve your transitive dependency graph.

Currently, most package managers use a heuristic based backtracking approach. However, there has been a recent push to using SAT solvers. It's a fascinating and messy area.

[1] https://research.swtch.com/version-sat

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13167446
China is very interested in a peaceful region. They have demonstrated very little interest in belligerence outside their claimed territory and a great deal of interest in stable export markets that give them trade advantages.
The advantage of Nano is that it is written in C, has zero required dependencies other than libc, and the compiled binary is 200 kilobytes. This makes it possible to include it in the base system, even on very tiny distros.
Share the plan online.
Have a good write up on how to build it.
Make youtube videos.
Make it free for all.
I think the example values at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minifloat are most useful for intuitively understanding how floating point works --- especially the "all values" table, which shows how the numbers are spaced by 1s, then 2s, then 4s, etc. meaning the same number of values can represent a larger range of magnitudes, but sacrificing precision in the process.
Agreed! Another vote for that book!