skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't README.md the default view? If so, I'd assume you can include as much info about that project as you like in there.
On strategies and why they often fail
And real estate prices didn't get crushed in 2008?
You don't have to pray. In elixir/erlang the motto is let it fail. If it fails, it crashes, and you have supervisors that are nearly free, and your service will resume itself noncatastrophically. You're generally free to code the happy path.
Pox diseases seem to kill more or less alike, and here is what's known about Smallpox:

In fatal cases of ordinary smallpox, death usually occurs between the tenth and sixteenth days of the illness. The cause of death from smallpox is not clear, but the infection is now known to involve multiple organs. Circulating immune complexes, overwhelming viremia, or an uncontrolled immune response may be contributing factors.[20] In early hemorrhagic smallpox, death occurs suddenly about six days after the fever develops. Cause of death in hemorrhagic cases involved heart failure, sometimes accompanied by pulmonary edema. In late hemorrhagic cases, high and sustained viremia, severe platelet loss and poor immune response were often cited as causes of death.[24] In flat smallpox modes of death are similar to those in burns, with loss of fluid, protein and electrolytes beyond the capacity of the body to replace or acquire, and fulminating sepsis.[48]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

In particular this caught my attention, ...overwhelming viremia, or an uncontrolled immune response may be contributing factors... What that probably means is at some point the virus amplifies freely in infected tissues, and may precipitate an extreme feedback loop such as a cytokine storm. That would certainly explain the rapid fatalities suffered by the hemorrhagic form.

That mode of death, extreme viral reproduction and immune cascade leading to death is also seen in Hemorrhagic Fevers, and other classically devastating infections.
My experience has been that you have to pay extra for a dumb TV right now, likely because of issues of scale. My last TV was an NEC E-series Commercial Display. Aside from not being encumbered by any smart-features, it has a serial port on it, to make automation even easier.

But I could have saved a lot of money by going with a conventional Smart TV, and it would have been easier to shop for it. Commercial displays aren't hanging on the wall at your local Best Buy, although they might be hanging on the wall at your local bar, restaurant, bank, etc.
I don't think that's cynical at all. If you're going to spend a ton of money on something, you'd better have analyzed it more closely than has the general public.
Two things to add:

- A £500 daily rate is very attainable when you work as a contractor in London. a £105k salary for the same type of work - not so much... I would argue that most people don't really have a choice and they HAVE to become contractors to get that kind of money.

- Nobody is forcing you to take ALL the money on your company account and pay it to yourself as a dividend. You can leave most of it there, or even invest it on the company's behalf. You have the power to decide when you want to pay the taxes on this money, and this can be very valuable. And there are other (perfectly legal) practices that can keep you in the lower tax bracket. If your accountant did not explain these to you then it's probably time to look for a better one :)
Depends on which average. In the case of very large wealth inequality the mean is going to make the picture a lot rosier than the median. I’d posit the average person cares more about the median than the mean as well.
Or the argument can be made that the world is moving away from poverty at the back of 1%ers. The point being that 1% is getting richer than the average person of their own country, by lifting the poorest person of a poor country upwards.

The only loser here is the middle class of rich countries, not middle or poor class of poor countries.
And also it is GNU/Linux
Do you feel the growing inequality was necessary for the growth to occur? If that growth slows down or stops, will you continue to be better than your counterpart thirty years ago?
Real python has helped me pick up python and flask.
I go their book bundle when it was 35$ or so and still look up the books when I need something.

If you are looking for a book - Two scoops of Django is very good.
Humanity seems to disagree, almost universally.
> Don't blame the creator for the actions of the licensee.

The creator had the option to choose a license that could have prevented this exact situation. The fact that he didn't, and is perfectly happy with Intel's usage (since he helped them) seems like enough reason to assign blame.
What is a "tax haven" country? You realise that the USA has states that act as significant tax havens in some situations, do you? Is Ireland a "tax haven" because it has low corp tax rates? The EU certainly thinks so but the Irish disagree.
Paywall bypass: https://outline.com/bYxycH
If all 401ks went up 100x, then inflation would cause the price of all goods to go up 100x, and you would need to go back to work
not really. Value based strategies tend to get hurt pretty bad during the tail end of bull markets when euphoria starts to set in, and increases tend to be due to P/E expansion and rosy predictions for the future rather than current performance, and tend to do very well after downturns and things get oversold.
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I really dislike the effects that globalization and growing inequality has had on rural America in particular, but I'm not sure that _global_ poverty would be improving at the rate that it has been without globalization. Much of impoverished eastern Asia has been growing economically because manufacturing jobs have been shipped there from the richest areas in the world. Without that massive injection of capital into those areas, it would have been incredibly tough, if not impossible to get the momentum required to generate such growth.
And the horrible excuse that SQL was too complex to be exposed to web developers, so we now have SQL emulation libraries on top of IndexedDB that is implemented with SQLite. Oh yeah!
Sure, but it's totally possible to just sit on the sofa and watch it rather than type in your wifi password and connect it to the internet.

AS long as you just use it as a dumb screen, physically disconnected from the network, it'll keep doing it's job for year and years.

My TV is a Smart TV. I've never use that part of it. In fact, it came with a second remote control for managing the Smart features and I've never even put batteries in it let alone given the panel network access.

It's been happily humming along in dumb mode for about 4 years I think. Just plug a cheap accessory of your choice in (Fire TV, Chromecast, Roku, self built HTPC etc) and enjoy!
Why should any company pay taxes on profit?

I think that corporate taxes shouldn't exist _at all_ as they are merely an abstraction over sales taxes, income taxes, or capital gains taxes.
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Pipfile and Pipenv: the future of Python dependencies management
Sort of both, but probably you'd classify it as a holding company. They definitely have a lot of stuff they just sit on holding style (e.g. riot games and dozens of others), and their name is literally tencent holding or something like that. But on the other hand they've got a lot of stuff built up like qq and wechat.
If you hand money being saved to several people, those Y people are going to spend the money they just got. Thus, moving it into the taxed economy.
Short paragraphs on major concepts, graphs/visuals. I'm sure there's a common formula for developing good summaries.
I can't fight every battle in the world. And it's not ignorance. I'm aware of some dubious practices, but almost everything has this duality. I'm sure you have some electronics made by low wage Chinese workers. Do you fight that battle? My statement is more about being a happy person than ignorance. And in my view, if you are happy, you are productive and creative, which is good for society and the people in your life. We must ignore many injustices and negativity in the world, because everything in our lives are riddled with it. Thus, I'm aware of my selective attention, and I do so because I wish to be the best person I can be for myself and my community.

Does this mean Facebook gets a free pass? Of course not. These are valid concerns. But if I'm not going to act on something, I'm not gonna give it attention. Again, I'm not saying these issues should just go away and people should shut up. I'm saying pick your battles and win them, don't battle everything and win nothing.
It would be nice if he expanded on the "valuable lesson" he learned so it didn't feel like handwringing to save face.
Thankfully 50,000 likes on Facebook is cheaper than the object at the store. (Only somewhat kidding. Don't buy your kids Facebook Likes.)
Or, in this case, somebody lit their car on fire on purpose, and it burned all the cars of the same model.
Do you still shop in brick and mortar stores? Other than food (groceries and restaurants) and sometimes clothing, I haven't shopped in a brick and mortar store in so long that I can't even remember when was the last time. It's just so easy to buy things online, even small one off purchases. The other day I needed some AAA batteries so I just hopped on Amazon and ordered them and they showed up a day later. I probably could have used Prime Now to get them within hours if I really needed them right then. That is so much simpler than traveling to a store and back to pick up anything. I'm really not sure how most brick and mortar stores will stay in business.
The 'Retail jobs growth by state' chart in this article (approx 2/3 down the page) is lovely: one square line chart for each US state, positioned roughly according to geography, all equal in size.

I find it very easy to grok compared to choropleth maps and similar charts that attempt to stay true to geography.

Unlike other non-map presentations of US state data, this layout preserves ability to spot regional similarities visually.

Is there a name for this kind of chart layout?
Professional designers don't care about anything other than the latest Mac hardware. This has been true since the 1990s.
The govt isnt lying - if they were the economy would lose altitude and correct at a much lower level - thered be no reason to keep faith in any of the govt numbers, and we would have moved much closer to banana republic status.

If the govt wanted to lie, they would have put up better numbers - meaning a larger gap between money demonitized and money received.
All fonts in the Google Fonts directory are open source.
> What annoys me the most is that, as a small company, I can't evade from my country tax system. I pay the taxes. All of them, at full rate.

I am not even annoyed by that. I am an immigrant into Canada. We sort of made a deal: you let me into a place where I can live a safe and free life and I will pay my taxes leading to that. I stand by that deal. I had a company in Gibraltar (which, by the way, was completely legal, I am a citizen of the EU and I exercised my right to establish a company wherever I in the EU pleased) which I closed down and moved my affairs into Canada and I am a proud Canadian taxpayer (and now even a citizen but that came much later).

But gosh. I am a very small fish here. I only make a few hundred thousands a year. Could we please implement a system where I report my earnings (not my profits), slap a flat tax on it and that's it? No bookkeepers. No complexity. No exceptions. Just a friendly, flat small business tax.
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I buy a house, get a house and a mortgage. My wealth is net 0. One house owned. One house-value owed.

Need to consider temporal dimension: a house is owned because I'm already converting my future income into a house.

There's a difference between "net $0 now because I'm borrowing from my substantial cumulative future creation of wealth" vs "net $0 now because I'm not productive and won't be".
Yes, this is a valid concern. Certainly, we should be doing more to highlight how the technology works and whether the kind of threats we imagine (remote takeover) are real.
Why do you think I would ever defend Apple in any way, shape, or form?
What's the "Pull request" tab doing there if the repo is supposed to be archived?

I'd actually want to disable PRs without making the repo read only.
Think about the people who live paycheck to paycheck, without any savings whatsoever (i.e., most people).

They don't have a spare $1500.
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I think the synthesis is the hope that the market replacements for these stores is less terrible. The big displacer in the last few years has really been Amazon, who I think offers a better shopping experience than most overpriced specialty stores. Many of these stores only held firm in the market due to having an information advantage over the consumers, as well as the convenience of providing items that are similar in kind (ie toys at toys r us). The effects of a post online shopping and price comparison world are still being shaked out.
That's pretty ridiculous. Inline quoting permits folks to trim the replied-to text to only the relevant portion. There's no need for each email to carry with it a complete record of the conversation up to the point that it was written.

If you don't agree, keep on reading.

hota_mazi writes:

> The fact that Gmail hides the quoted portion actually encourages people to use top posting more.

> Which is a great thing.

> I know, not a popular opinion here, but top posting saves a lot of time in catching up with long email chains.

> If you don't agree, pick an old style mailing-list like a Linux kernel discussion, choose a discussion with 20+ emails in and read it from top to bottom. You'll quickly realize how exhausting inline quoting is.

> lozf writes:

>> Gmail also had a big hand in the reduction of top posting, by hiding the quoted message by default (click the little '...' icon to see it).

>> This means that replies in-line, or below quoted text are instantly hidden and then you get complaints from the technically challenged who insist the email you sent was blank.

>> I tried to educate and fight back for a long time, but too many important things were lost to those who insist on writing right where the cursor appears instead of taking a moment to position it thoughtfully, and alas the rest is history.

>> Spivak writes:

>>> Top posting only won in places where everyone uses Outlook. Mailing lists still use quoted style.

>>> js2 writes:

>>>> We have lost this battle, but keep fighting the good fight. We've also lost to top-posting and JavaScript.

>>>> Sir_Cmpwn writes:

>>>>> Maybe the answer is to return to sending plaintext emails? HTML emails are an abomanation. Rather than extend them, just ditch them.
This is the only April first post I could find: https://www.archlinux.org/news/the-canterbury-project/

Which isn't related
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Latency is still a factor. For any reasonably popular page with cloudflare in front of it, static files will be at the local edge. Requesting websites hosted in US-West from Europe is ~200ms latency, responses from the cloudflare edge here (London) usually have 20-30ms (TTFB). That can be a big difference, esp if you have spotty reception. If your users are all over the world this becomes even more important.
I've got One Weird Trick that Facebook hates, to keep nude pictures of myself off the Internet. You're never going to believe it. Ready for it? It's two easy steps:

1. Don't make nude pictures of yourself or let someone else make one.

If you manage to screw up step #1, then:

2. Don't let other people have those nude pictures or upload them to the Internet.

That's it! Can you believe that this has actually worked for me for a good 20+ years so far? I know it seems too good to be true, but trust me it totally works. I should blog about it.
Good. related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15419619
Reddit's co-founders populated the content themselves. This has been mentioned in interviews with both Huffman and Ohanian and can usually be found in write-ups about "Growth hacking."
This is how I interpreted it.
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You don't think occupancy rates and per-tenant income levels go down during a massive recession? You can hold onto the REIT just like you can hold onto the apartment building.
Are you suggesting that we should tax the poor? Wouldn't that just make it more difficult for them to pay off debts and collect the capital required to escape poverty?
> It’s possible for a record with a smaller id to be present after one with a higher id, but only in the case of a double-send.

Doesn't this constraint only hold true if the XADDs to redis are completed synchronously?
> Auto-populating content (fake users) and generating the illusion of activity

The other owner of a project of ours once suggested doing this. I rejected that because of ethical reasons. I also told that could mean legal trouble. Was I completely naive/wrong?
I thought just the opposite - not histrionic, definitely has the chops, understood the implications of the license he chose and did not try to cry foul later.

He's actually done more for open source than almost anyone, now we have the temerity to say he hasn't done enough in the way we'd like?

That reeks of entitlement mentality from people who don't actually produce things of value, but have infinite electrons to criticize a giant in the field.
I feel like this is a bad trade... let me break every website I visit, so I don't have to download Font Awesome and Material Icons?

Why would you do that to yourself? What's the benefit? A couple KB?
Even better than bringing all corporate taxes down to the lowest rate; force tax havens to bring the lowest rate up to something reasonable. A global economy demands global rule of law. Then, yes, market forces can be used to direct corporate citizenship (and therefore employment+tax revenue) to where it is needed (assuming sufficiently far-sighted governance to realize the global equivalent of Ohio needing more federal assistance than California, and also robustness to regulatory capture).

Your race to the bottom would only ensure that governments eventually cede all power to multinational corporations. Then, we're back to feudalism, only global this time.
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Also, LINQ as realized in C# and VB. Crucially, `SelectMany` is just monadic bind.
Well as you can see with the poor OPSEC, the offshore incorporation industry is ripe for disruption.

Although I've never had any of my entities "leaked", as if they were secret anyway, these leaks are mana from heaven as these are client lists you can POACH and offer better services for cheaper.

I've been using OTONOMOS for some time for incorporation and offshore entity management, which stores some client signatures on a blockchain, but behind the scenes they still defer to more antiquated registrars.

The costs of forming offshore entities are perpetuated by the expensive lawyers, registered agents and incompetent government representatives in these tiny jurisdictions. (For what its worth, even most United States are pretty incompetent at these administrative processes. Really only a few financial centers and a few exceptions have it all streamlined.)

These are scale problems primarily.

Also, American citizens should note that it isn't as simple as making a HOLDING company to avoid US taxes, unless you were just going to try to be NON-compliant and not tell anyone which will be a losing battle. There is a way, but it isn't simple.

For American citizens, offshore company's primary benefit are:

- protect trade secrets or initiate transactions without showing your hand to the market

- to deter creditors (as long as they aren't the US Government) as it raises the bar for them to find those assets and sue it and get a judgement and collect on that judgement

- segregated assets. Some jurisdictions offer entity structures which are very immature in the United States or haven't caught on yet. The Series LLC exists in a handful of US states but may lack case law, Segregated Portfolio Companies exist in other places like the British Virgin Islands and may have more case law or better statutory conditions.

- deal with more international clientele. Many times there are parallel US laws specifically for offshore clientele. For investors its the difference between Reg D and Reg S, I had one other example but I forgot it.
it looks like 'the periodic table of US retail jobs growth'
I read Disrupted by Dan Lyons over the summer. It's by no means an objective piece, but I don't think that Lyon's negative opinions of the VC-tech scene are undeserved. Also, he is an exceptionally talented narrator.
What the market is doing isn't really relevant to a market neutral strategy, and that is almost surely what they are running. The goal is to make money consistently, whether market is up or down.
I'm curious what benefits would be evident while using a font that also combines icons in its character space. I can only imagine slight drawbacks.
Exactly.

It seems we are expected to celebrate this plunder
Part of the Udemy course Huffman was offering he said this [1] And honestly, it doesn't bother me all that much. I see it like an engine needing a big spray of gasoline and a spark before it can run. Just because it didn't start with pistons running doesn't mean it's a bad engine. I see it more as faking it till they made it, and it worked. They were their own biggest fans.

[1]: https://youtu.be/zmeDzx4SUME?t=30s
Ask HN: How to learn mathematics from scratch
Hey, I pretty much flunked math in high school, and now that I am passionate by machine learning and it's appliances, I would love to learn the basics, I already have experience in web development, but I figured out I need more math knowledge to get started building programs that work.
Any help? Suggestions? Thank you.
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Follow up question. How often do sites get their start by "stealing" content from others?
It may be simply a game of words, but if taken literally, then the point is still missed. There is no “update”. These three could be named 5.s, 5.e and 5.i respectively. For setfenv, _ENV and integer experiments. No “justs”, please, this poisons Lua image in a wrong way.

Python 3 was meant to solve a problem (among other features ofc). 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 are engineerng experiments, there is no “problem” that LJ has in respect to these two, nor the other way round.
Maybe...? It is certainly the case that many non-smart TVs are focused on the signage industry. They might be brighter and more saturated than a conventional TV. They might be less capable of displaying smooth motion. On the other hand, they're built to be somewhat more sturdy and with more professional features. They have additional mounting features, serial port controls, and the build quality to run 24/7.

I'm using an NEC E-series 55" commercial display as my TV and gaming monitor. It's not a great TV, but it is solid and it's way better than the one it replaced.
Tesla announces acquisition of a factory automation company based in Minnesota
It's going to be an interesting inflection point when gas stations start closing. It's easy to setup a charging station at home, but if the nearest gas station is 30 miles away that's a different story.
> When I see something that my friend has found on facebook and I share it, I always acknowledge them for finding it.
That's suggesting Intel should say, "We're using Minix in our chips - h/t Joe Random who posted about it on Facebook"

The courtesy they owe is to Andrew S. Tanenbaum, the /creator/ of the work they are using, not to some individual who happened to blog about it.
Have you visited the website for Berkshire Hathaway?
Not Times New Roman but maybe the system font? Has the advantage that your website looks more "native" on many mobile devices.